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Beer and Boomboxes!

Discussion in 'Chat Area' started by Mister X, Dec 23, 2017.

  1. Mister X

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    Wild Card Brewing


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    City Barrel Boombox Serenade


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    Full Circle Brewing, they have a few sours with boomboxes on the labels


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    York Beach Boombox Beer


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    Real Ale Boombox DBL IPA


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    Temperance Beer Company


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    Brews Brothers


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    Bell's! I was drinking this when he first opened, he just sold the company, I bet he made a few billion....
    It ain't easy finding Walkman and beer branding.

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    Skipping Walkman, grab before Sony goes after them!



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    following 'on the turntable' thread and feeling real Bad about myself and my lowly turntable I felt obliged to revive my fav thread of boose'n'music:
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    My fellow Australians do know how to serve the boose: this can is Huge! and Flaming Lips are as edgy as they were when I discovered them eons ago :)
     
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    Mmmm, enjoying some Lakes & Legends Salted Caramel Stout, coming in at a healthy 6.2%. These guys are local and this makes me want to go down to the brewpub and check it out. I pulled out something special to pair with the beer, the Sanyo M2450F, one of the cool military style boomboxes from the 70's and one not found on wikiboombox.com either. You know I strive to find the obscure ones Reli hasn't listed yet, that's half the fun. I didn't fire it up for the photo-shoot but it's pretty impressive, like most 70's units the radios pull in all kinds of stations. There is very little internet info on this one, it has some clips on the right side maybe for an optional microphone?


    New members, feel free to post, I'd love to see some beers from around the world or other local drinks!

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    German beer with a German box....Orion STR-900


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    Those military radio's from the 70's were everywhere here in the UK!

    It was a very short lived fad tough - All the generic machines went for the look in a huge way & they were everywhere!

    I certainly don't see many here now.........
     
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    I know I feel like I used to see a lot more, maybe they were store-brands, but they don't show up on Ebay very often. Maybe we need to start the military style radio thread! Anybody else have any of these cool models?
     
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    Like @nickeccles said they were really an early to mid 1970s thing that pre-dated stereo boomboxes.

    This Panasonic is a great example
    https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/panasonic_cougar_no7_rf_877.html
    and I completely believe the 1973 date.
    Radio Museum dates the Sanyo to 1975
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    I'm wondering if they lost their appeal at the end of the Vietnam war.
     
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    I consider them entry-level versions of the Japanese BCL Radios which had a ton of features and radio bands. As far as disappearing, I think it had more to do with cost, the nice ones looked and felt substantial but started to cheap-out towards 1979, while a boombox could be a cheap lightweight build and still be kind of nice, the nice square mono-radios had a harder time making the transition, plus they got smaller. I'm looking at my collection and I don't have any 80's mono's that were the same size. I think the two speaker design was hard to resist for most buyers in the 80's.
     

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