Hey all! I've been enjoying the site since March when I joined, which is about when I started taking up collecting.
Boomboxes have been a part of my life for a long time. I think the first time I really fell in love with them was when I was in the third grade. This kid, Jason Watts, would sit right behind me on the bus with a Panasonic RX-5010, blasting "We Got the Beat" and "I love Rock'n'Roll" every morning. I wanted one so bad. Of course, back then (spring of '82), department store catalogs were where you would do your shopping at home, and I drooled over pages like this one. All summer all I could think of was getting a boombox. Christmas finally rolled around and I distinctly remember pointing out the one I wanted in the catalog, but Santa didn't get the right message and only got me a one-speaker box, a variant of the Panasonic RX-1460 without shortwave and with a black grille. It had to do, so that's what I sported for about a year and a half until I could save up enough for a stereo box.
I remember being offered 20 cents for my box once at school, that emboldened me to really step it up and save my pennies. I ended up getting an Emerson MM-815B from Target, for $149. It served me well, I took it to school (6th grade back then) most days and would set it right on my desk facing me. We had an open classroom setup where students were grouped in 5-person "islands" with our desks around the room. A couple others brought boxes but I had the nicest one in our grade.
Fast forward to about 1998, and I'm leaving a friend's house in the dead of winter and notice something peaking out of the snow along a road. Did I just see a boombox handle? I pulled over and tossed it in the car and took it home. It was a nearly mint RX-5010, the same one I drooled over on the bus years ago. I had a lot of fun listening to it until I let my brother borrow it while he worked as a roofer one summer, and the dump truck had no radio. He ran it over, nice brother huh?
So, I got out of boomboxes for some time while I focused on other radio type stuff, such as DXing, high-end audio, and of course computer/electronics hobbyist stuff. But now the bug's come to bite me again, I'm in for the long haul. I'm early on in my collecting, I've just picked up a couple RX-5110s and a 5150 to satisfy my childhood dream of owning a Pannie, and have a couple other 90s-era black ones. I also won the grand prize at my high school graduation party, a Sony CFS-W304. Piece of junk
So here I am, now with an M70 as my first decent box and enjoying it every single day, and taking it out and about when it's nice out. I'm looking forward to acquiring more mid-sizers to mix into the lineup, and am all about digging in and fixing stuff. Peace.
Boomboxes have been a part of my life for a long time. I think the first time I really fell in love with them was when I was in the third grade. This kid, Jason Watts, would sit right behind me on the bus with a Panasonic RX-5010, blasting "We Got the Beat" and "I love Rock'n'Roll" every morning. I wanted one so bad. Of course, back then (spring of '82), department store catalogs were where you would do your shopping at home, and I drooled over pages like this one. All summer all I could think of was getting a boombox. Christmas finally rolled around and I distinctly remember pointing out the one I wanted in the catalog, but Santa didn't get the right message and only got me a one-speaker box, a variant of the Panasonic RX-1460 without shortwave and with a black grille. It had to do, so that's what I sported for about a year and a half until I could save up enough for a stereo box.
I remember being offered 20 cents for my box once at school, that emboldened me to really step it up and save my pennies. I ended up getting an Emerson MM-815B from Target, for $149. It served me well, I took it to school (6th grade back then) most days and would set it right on my desk facing me. We had an open classroom setup where students were grouped in 5-person "islands" with our desks around the room. A couple others brought boxes but I had the nicest one in our grade.
Fast forward to about 1998, and I'm leaving a friend's house in the dead of winter and notice something peaking out of the snow along a road. Did I just see a boombox handle? I pulled over and tossed it in the car and took it home. It was a nearly mint RX-5010, the same one I drooled over on the bus years ago. I had a lot of fun listening to it until I let my brother borrow it while he worked as a roofer one summer, and the dump truck had no radio. He ran it over, nice brother huh?
So, I got out of boomboxes for some time while I focused on other radio type stuff, such as DXing, high-end audio, and of course computer/electronics hobbyist stuff. But now the bug's come to bite me again, I'm in for the long haul. I'm early on in my collecting, I've just picked up a couple RX-5110s and a 5150 to satisfy my childhood dream of owning a Pannie, and have a couple other 90s-era black ones. I also won the grand prize at my high school graduation party, a Sony CFS-W304. Piece of junk
So here I am, now with an M70 as my first decent box and enjoying it every single day, and taking it out and about when it's nice out. I'm looking forward to acquiring more mid-sizers to mix into the lineup, and am all about digging in and fixing stuff. Peace.
