I bought my BBX from the original owner in 2007 (had one when I was a kid, have no idea what it was and is long gone).
Unfortunately I didn't get to meet him. Illness had taken over and this eclectic collector had passed away. His sister was supposed to sell everything off that was in his house. She had listed some snow blowers on craigslist and we made the 2hr trip to the house to check them out because we needed a blower.
This was in the dead of winter on a super cold and windy day. We arrived and were given a flashlight and directed to the basement where the snowblowers lay in pieces. These hadn't been touched in years and were very old. I told her that they just weren't what we were looking for. I thought it was going to be a wasted trip because we were already on our way out after just a minute or two.
There was no electricity on in the house and no heat! As we are walking out with the flashlight I can see that there are about 6-8 more people walking around the house picking through things. I asked the lady what was going on and she informed us about her brother passing and that everything was for sale. She told us to walk around and if we found anything we wanted to just make an offer on it.
After walking through everything I saw the Dynasty HT-959 sitting in the middle of the upstairs living room. I remember thinking "that looks cool" and "there are some buttons missing". I wanted to plug it in, but like I said, no power and no heat were in the house. I picked it up and grabbed the power cord that was sitting next to it on the floor knowing I might buy it and it probably wouldn't work.
My wife says "what are you going to do with that?" I told her I didn't know but it was neat so I was going to see how much the lady wanted for it.
On the way back downstairs I saw a trickle charger for car batteries and I grabbed that too. There was a lot of cassette tapes, receivers, speakers, and just random electronics stacked everywhere up stairs. No other boomboxes that I remember, but again, I wasn't looking for any because I didn't know how awesome this find would turn out to be.
We made it downstairs, stopped by the lady, and told here we were ready to make a deal. Mind you, I really didn't want the boombox unless the price was CHEAP, more curious to see how much she wanted. I offered her $10 for both items and she counter offered at $15.
Walked out with it giggling like a 10yr old school girl saying "what am I going to do with this thing?!"
Now 14 years later, I am still here. Made loads of friends through the forums and met a lot of weirdos too!
Here are some throwback pictures from back when I found the Dynasty. Still sits in my collection today on the blaster wall. I've rotated a lot of radios in and out of here over that time, but the blaster wall is roughly my current collection.
12-13-2007
Unfortunately I didn't get to meet him. Illness had taken over and this eclectic collector had passed away. His sister was supposed to sell everything off that was in his house. She had listed some snow blowers on craigslist and we made the 2hr trip to the house to check them out because we needed a blower.
This was in the dead of winter on a super cold and windy day. We arrived and were given a flashlight and directed to the basement where the snowblowers lay in pieces. These hadn't been touched in years and were very old. I told her that they just weren't what we were looking for. I thought it was going to be a wasted trip because we were already on our way out after just a minute or two.
There was no electricity on in the house and no heat! As we are walking out with the flashlight I can see that there are about 6-8 more people walking around the house picking through things. I asked the lady what was going on and she informed us about her brother passing and that everything was for sale. She told us to walk around and if we found anything we wanted to just make an offer on it.
After walking through everything I saw the Dynasty HT-959 sitting in the middle of the upstairs living room. I remember thinking "that looks cool" and "there are some buttons missing". I wanted to plug it in, but like I said, no power and no heat were in the house. I picked it up and grabbed the power cord that was sitting next to it on the floor knowing I might buy it and it probably wouldn't work.
My wife says "what are you going to do with that?" I told her I didn't know but it was neat so I was going to see how much the lady wanted for it.
On the way back downstairs I saw a trickle charger for car batteries and I grabbed that too. There was a lot of cassette tapes, receivers, speakers, and just random electronics stacked everywhere up stairs. No other boomboxes that I remember, but again, I wasn't looking for any because I didn't know how awesome this find would turn out to be.
We made it downstairs, stopped by the lady, and told here we were ready to make a deal. Mind you, I really didn't want the boombox unless the price was CHEAP, more curious to see how much she wanted. I offered her $10 for both items and she counter offered at $15.
Walked out with it giggling like a 10yr old school girl saying "what am I going to do with this thing?!"
Now 14 years later, I am still here. Made loads of friends through the forums and met a lot of weirdos too!
Here are some throwback pictures from back when I found the Dynasty. Still sits in my collection today on the blaster wall. I've rotated a lot of radios in and out of here over that time, but the blaster wall is roughly my current collection.
12-13-2007
