1972 Sony CF-410 Radio Cassette Advert

My Dad had one of these! Great sounding mono radio cassette, reasonably compact but solid and very heavy!

 

Awesome, love those old in some way naive ads!!

 

I like the way they are comparing a six band (probably FM MW LW and three shortwave) radio and another radio with a three band radio cassette.
If the advert is from 1976 a Radio Cassette wasn't even that innovative by then. My Mother bought a Sanyo one back in 1973 when they were.

 

In the right upper corner it reads:

(c) 1972 Sony Corp

 

Your right! I have made a bit of a mistake there! I remember my Dad getting it but perhaps it was earlier than I thought. Quite a modern unit for 1972!

 

I will take back what I said about them not being innovative.

My Mother got her 1973 Sanyo M2400FG after seeing one that a Student Teacher who was working for had received as a twenty first birthday present. It had to be bought from a specialist audio store and cost her over a weeks wages. In fact I have just checked and in 1973 the men's average wage was £40..90 and a pint or beer was 13p. Later that year the same model was in the Selfridges Christmas Catalogue at £41.95


I was about to crop this but then found the "Gifts for an Entertaining Woman" title on the next page so amusing I decided to leave it. That is naïve. Also note the Stylophone bottom centre - as played by David Bowie on Space Oddity.

 

Longman that is brilliant! Pure gold! Rolf Harris used to advertise Stylophones but maybe the less said about that the better!