Hi all, i just want to ask if anybody here as been collecting boxes before joining st2g?? silly question really but
As you guys know i only joined here in march, and i have been collecting for about 5/6 years now.
Before finding this place i thought i was a bit odd and thought i was the only one in the world with a crazy desire for boxes.
what im getting at is that st2g has made my obsession with boxes all the more worth while, and it,s great to converse with people from all over the world about this great hobby.
after nearly quitting this place last week, i am now glad that i did,nt because i can,t imagine collecting without st2g.
lets hope this place keeps going because without it i don,t think collecting would be the same and i would,nt have got to meet crazy people like myself, e.g RENO AKA BOOMER

same here,when i started collecting proppa in the 90s (before internet propper) that was the time when people decided to sell all there old radio's,so i was constantly on the hunt,i also thought i was alone with ghettos,my woman,and all my mates also thought i was the only one aswell,we(me and my mates) were all into them when we were kids,they all moved on to other things e.g girls,bikes,cars,beer,but i never..i did'nt see them for years,the first thing all my mates said to me was "are you still into them old ghetto blasters" ? when i said "yes i have about 20" they just could'nt beleve i was still into them,and my now ex,she also thought i was loony and just could'nt get around it,as to why i was soo obsessed,it even baffled me sometimes,all i knew was..that i've been into them since i was a young kid 1979/80,but i dont have a clue why..

i am with you ghettoman, one of my oldest sisters gave me a mono sanyo as a birthday present i think in 1979, then in 1981 i bought my second boombox, just to be stolen like 3 months later, after that i got married and boomboxes were a thing of the past, i used to see them at swapmeets or back yards but i never thought of collecting or buy another one, untill one day 22 years later in 2003 at a swapmeet i saw a magnificent sanyo c7, for 20 dollars and i went for it, and within 2 weeks i became a member here and thats how i became a boombox fan.

hey good stories guys, i know what you say about your ex G,MAN, i have done my girlfriends head in for the past five years, she does like a few and comments on some, but there has been times that she has wanted to fling em all don,t know how shes still around

I had lost interest in boomboxes after the early 80's when my family relocated back to the US from Germany. By then I had also gotten more into building up a complete component home system for myself and boxes had taken a bit of a back seat in general because many people in public (where I lived) were starting to frown upon them... The walkman had also taken over as the personal portable of choice.

We moved to a place in rural Georgia and none of my new friends were into boomboxes. Had we moved to a more metropolitan burg, things may have been different.

Then, some 25 years later after seeing a boombox on TV I got curious about boomboxes again. The internet was part of mainstream society at that point and I started seeking out info about my teenage boomer (GF-9292) and to try to figure out which model numbers my friends back in the 80's had. I found the pocketcalculator site and S2G thanks to web searches and my interest took off like mad! That "golden age" info and pics really inspired me, too.

So, I've been a "personal grail" collector since then and initially swore that my collection would never be more than five boxes. Then I changed that to a max of 10.

Now, my boombox count is up to 16 as I'm even getting them from family members who are on the lookout!

Thanks to my overwhelming love for cassettes in general, I've also added four Nakamichi home decks to my vintage equipment collection!

The great members of S2G, Boomboxery.com and tapeheads.net are the best enablers in the world!!!!

im like ghettoman my interest in boomboxes has never left me.....

My first box was an akai pj33 back in 82/83

I have always been on the lookout for bigger better boxes since the get go and have had dozens over the years but never had more than one at any given time...

skip to 2000 and one day i was looking through a girlfriends catalogue and I spotted a kaboom went to order it but it turned out it was only the 8 battery version I wanted the 10 batt version, anyway I then spotted a kaboom in one of my local shops phoned the guy up and he brought it over to my house... It was instant love and I bought her there and then for £130 brand new and she was the 10 batt version too.

One day I was with my best mate tim brouzing the internet and I sugest to him I wonder if there is any info on boomboxes on here, we looked and found the pocket calculator pages (what a strange name for a sight dedicated to ghettoblasters) I looked at the pages in AWE wanting about 10 bboxes of there, my fave at the time was the pioneer sk909 It just looked friggin amazing...

About 3 weeks later my mate joined me up at stereo2go and that was it I wanted all my personal grails back plus more. About the same time I discovered ebay the rest is history...

hey JT and RENO, those are 2 great stories thanks for taking the time to post and share them, i really enjoyed reading every bit of them

I don't know about collecting but I've always had them and at times more than one.
I got my JVC PC-11 around 83' and still own it.
When I went to college I had a Sharp 575 like the one I posted in another thread, but like an idiot I sold it for beer money. I had a mini system at the time that was providing the music in my dorm along with my car audio amp and subs that were hooked to the sub woofer output of the mini system. you can guess where the dorm parties were held!
I also had a Magnavox power player that I bought for work in a warehouse. I had it, then sold it when I quit.
Then one day while looking over my poor JVC PC, I knew it was time to give it an overhaul. Its one of the few material possesions that I have always kept with me even when times where not so good. and it had served me well for over 20 years of blasting. When I got it, it was a demo model at a store called Highland Appliance, so it didnt have the handle, back cover and a couple other accesories. It had a makeshift handle made from a towel rack and hanger wire and it was like that since the day after i got it.
So I wanted to restore it back to original complete with all the accesories and service manuals which I have done.
And thats when I ran into this site, while looking for parts. So I figured I'd pick up some of the boxes I had in the past and get ones I've always wanted thus starting my collection.

thanks for posting MZ that,s another great story which i fully enjoyed reading, funny to hear you sold your 575 for beer money as i have done the same silly thing in the past thanks for posting

i havnt read any of this thread but i guess i know what its about.... got into these things as theyre just one damn nugget of cool and i wanted more than one, S2go came about from looking on google when i got into them. around 2004.

boxes ftw.

what u talkin about andy?? this threads on about something else

awesome!

i actually hoped thats what it was, something completely different. i still havnt read it and will continue not to. i love this sort of thing!

i first saw my first blaster when i was about 6 i guess in brighton too, bunch of black kids actually dancing down west street, about 8 of the and one was carrying, what i remember to be, something similar to a sanyo m9888.

bet im way off still hahahaha!

naaah your still not postin the right stuff, not too far out thow

I still remember, posting messages, on the old pocket calculator website. Who else was here then? I remember, asking paul to get a proper site going. Paul, where are ya now lad?

i was a member of the old board richard,,i think it was around 2002/2003..my username was apb330..ahh i think it was 2003,because the 33 of the 330 was my age at the time,33,bloody hell,that was along time ago lad,i'm 41 next month...time goes no where mate..

hey were all gettin older G,MAN, were ageing from the day were born, makes you wonder what the point is i can,t believe my lad is nearly six years old, it only seems like yesterday he was a newy, y gotta try an make the most of this crap life were given

Ghettoman, litfan, i do remember that old posting board , good old days man. !!

yess,we are aging fast mate,my oldest lad is 21 in september,and i'm 41 next month..i'm starting to think about life a bit more now,i get depressed sometimes when i think about it..i loved it when i was young and hanging out with my mates and boxes on the streets and in the park..meeting girls and having fun..now i lost touch with all my old friends,and girls,what are they ? not took a box out since the early 90s..thats all well in the past now..getting old is definately not good man...life is just a blip in time then we'r gone..

Hugo,yes the old days of posting on the old board was great..time moves soo fast man...

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Originally posted by driptip:
Ghettoman, litfan, i do remember that old posting board , good old days man. !!

Same here, It's good to reunite with the old school members and the new ones. It just saddens me to see that we had to divide into two sites. Good luck to Boomboxery and may we reunite someday, somehow...

G,MAN/RETRO, very true words spoken, anyway lets all keep this great site going with as much fun and topics as poss