Boombox Archaeology

Radio Fernseh Händler 1972, so Blaupunkt did have a boombox, anybody have one? I'd love to have the Intel just for the name.





From 1973

 

Sharp VZ-3000 from 1981

 

An interesting price guide from Saturday Review (USA) from 1969 showing most? of the boomboxes available at the time.

 

The Japan Times 1977-10-23, from 1977 the AIWA TPR-855!

 

The Japan Times 1978-02-18

 

The Japan Times April 1976, AIWA is coming back to the USA!

 

The Japan Times 1981-10-14

 

AIWA TPR-635 from 1977, The Japan Times

 

AIWA Footwork Jr from 1982
The Japan Times

 

AIWA CA-7 from 1982, The Japan Times

 

Sanyo M9994K from 1978, The Japan Times

 

Sony CFS-F11 from The Japan Times, 1983

 

The Japan Times 1982

 

So this is really interesting, isn't around the time the Sharp GF-777 was released? And didn't we start seeing a million of them come from China?
From The Japan Times July 1984

 

The Japan Times 1978-05-16

General Electric had an AKA of this little wonder, it's small but feels like there's a lead brick inside of it.

 

The Japan Times 1976-12-31, a little confusing but at one time Sears had stock interest in Sanyo, no wonder Sears had so many AKA Electronics from Sanyo.

 

We've discussed in the past about some of the boomboxes made in Africa. From The Japan Times 1974.

 

AIWA CA-W2 from 1983, Big Money!
The Japan Times

 

Imagine walking past this table!
The Japan Times 1983-05-07