Hi everyone. I'm an Austin, Texas based artist doing mostly nostalgic Object themes lately. This past winter at the Arizona Fine Arts Expo I do every Jan-Mar, my good friend Kevin mentioned - 'Hey you should do a Ghetto-Blaster' 
I just kinda thought 'yeh sure', but after getting back home and finishing up orders, the thought just kept coming up...
I remembered back in the mid 80's my apartment in Fort Worth was broken into and my prize possession boombox was stolen (along with a lot of other CDs & stuff). I realized that this bit of memorabilia was relevant to me and perhaps other fans. I had a pretty good visual in my head, but I 'needed' to find a picture of it to verify the make & model. After going through all my old photographs I finally just found two Polaroids (white borders from that time period. they were from my college apartment a couple years before - one showing my 'jungle-themed' bedroom, the other jute & plant-infested living room with cinder-block shelves and, lo & behold my beautiful silver music box sitting on top!
So being the anal master digital editor, I scanned the image, employed noise-reduction and sharpening to try and get a better look at it. Of course could not read anything but the features became clear enough.
After hours and hours of scouring the Internet (& of course my friend ebay), I've pretty much concluded it was a Sensor RT-1246, although the Helix HX-4631, GPX 990, and GCR-8560 are pretty close. ref: https://www.wikiboombox.com/tiki-index.php?page=Sensor+RT-1246
In the mean time I've picked up an old Panasonic 5500 and much older Zenith tube to round out the 'study'.
So, I guess my obsession extends well past my Quest to 'find my old JamBox'...
I just kinda thought 'yeh sure', but after getting back home and finishing up orders, the thought just kept coming up...I remembered back in the mid 80's my apartment in Fort Worth was broken into and my prize possession boombox was stolen (along with a lot of other CDs & stuff). I realized that this bit of memorabilia was relevant to me and perhaps other fans. I had a pretty good visual in my head, but I 'needed' to find a picture of it to verify the make & model. After going through all my old photographs I finally just found two Polaroids (white borders
from that time period. they were from my college apartment a couple years before - one showing my 'jungle-themed' bedroom, the other jute & plant-infested living room with cinder-block shelves and, lo & behold my beautiful silver music box sitting on top!So being the anal master digital editor, I scanned the image, employed noise-reduction and sharpening to try and get a better look at it. Of course could not read anything but the features became clear enough.
After hours and hours of scouring the Internet (& of course my friend ebay), I've pretty much concluded it was a Sensor RT-1246, although the Helix HX-4631, GPX 990, and GCR-8560 are pretty close. ref: https://www.wikiboombox.com/tiki-index.php?page=Sensor+RT-1246
In the mean time I've picked up an old Panasonic 5500 and much older Zenith tube to round out the 'study'.
So, I guess my obsession extends well past my Quest to 'find my old JamBox'...
