Portable Cassette Newspaper Ads!

1981, The Michigan Daily, I'm not sure why the Sony FM only radio is so much but this was when FM was just taking off and stereo was king.

 

From my stomping grounds in Michigan when I was young, Highland Appliance, Fretter Appliance and ABC Warehouse owned the cool electronics outside of the camera and specialty stores. This is from 1978, Highland always had neat ads with line drawings of stereos and they knew how to draw you in with good-better-best pricing. It was fun looking through the Sunday Paper and checking out all of the neat stuff for sale but even then this was big money.

 

More neat stuff from 1981, check out the Sanyo M8500! I never saw one back home and it was pretty inexpensive back then. Some of the bigger components didn't have model numbers, the appliance stores would have 10% discount against competitors but you needed the model number and ad to get it. Coleco Football, was it better than Mattel?

 

1983, the AIWA looks nice but I'd pass on the JVC

 

1977 Superscope CRS-152, is this the first three-piece?

 

1983 General Electric Boombox Model 36035 with those massive 8" speakers, yep I have one. It's interesting that Maxell partnered with GE for this promotion. Spring Break was a typical 80's movie that showed up on cable pretty quickly. I was more impressed by PRINCE for $12.50 in Ann Arbor. He was riding high with the 1999 album and Minnesota Bands were ultra hot, that would have been a great show but I was just a youngster at the time.

 

I wish our papers had free CDs, we never got that lucky.

A lot of these artists also wanted to get chart numbers and for a while albums given out were added. I think the chart guys changed the rules so only bought albums charted, it had something to do with big bands like Prince giving away hundreds of thousands of CDs and instantly breaking the top ten. I'm just going by memory but I remember it was an issue back in the early 2000's.

 

Found a new source of ads, from Singapore, newspapersSG! Unfortunately there is a watermark on the ads and sizing them is not possible so some are really small.

Here's some early Sanyos from 1972, they had at least four in the line up and I'm counting the top left suitcase turntable, how cool is that?

 

Sanyo Mini & Slim Models from 1980, these are really nice tiny mono boxes, highly recommended. Sanyo had some really nice models around this time before the big budget models started hitting the streets.

 

1975, this is when they started to get cool looking with VU meter and a robust military look.
The Sanyo M2430

 

From 1980 Sanyo M7700

 

Sanyo TRC 3500 from 1980

 

Sanyo Boomboxes for Christmas 1979

 

Sanyo M9970 from 1979

 

Sanyo Christmas 1976, none of these ads have pricing, in the USA we would have had list price and the deep discount!

 

Sanyo 1981 M-Z Mono Boxes, I've never seen one of these, they look nice but this was around the time quality for most manufacturers started going down. Manufacturing also started moving outside of Japan, I bet these were made in Singapore or Malaysia.

 

Sanyo C7 and a couple mini-stereos for Christmas 1981

 

Big sale 1981!