I dont know if this has been done yet.
A fun thread where you can post a pic of you with your favorite boombox "back when you had it new"
and a pic of you with the same box now with a similar pose.
Ill get it started.

THEN



NOW

thats a terrific, important post -- imho

Fantastic. Beautiful.

What a great great idea for a post of massive significance.

wow!
great pictures!

thanks for sharing!

Those are great before and after pics.

I wish I could do the same but I don't even think I have a before pic with any of my boomboxes.

Frank...that is effin' awesome !! I wish I had some old pics like that...most of mine are of a group of buddies crammed in my bedroom while I cut it up on the 100 dozens !!

That's great, Frank! I wish I had pictures like that myself...

That would be too cool. But as a military brat I could not tell you where anyone from my past is.

Great picture from the past and present. Those guys really look like a couple of punks though!!!!

great pic, you were a lucky kid to own a rising

That's a fantastic idea. The only one I have is the one I posted last year with my 80's big hair and acid washed jeans holding my Lasonic 931 I'm sure someone's saved it to catch a laugh now & then

Yeah, it has been done already.... But let us do it again!!!!!! With the new members an d Shiit, might be fun!

I cannot post any of my old pics 'cos they are in France... with my collection!!

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THAFUZZ...

Great avatar!!!!! Really nice! Would not want to be pulled over by you and get banged on the head with that Bbox!!!!!!!!!!!

Very cool pics! - dont have any like this I'm afraid...

This is so cool

I showed my wife last night and she was blown away A lot of guys do this sort of thing in the BMX hobby but it's usually just a bike (no people) and she thought it was really cool to see two old friends that still hang, get together to reenact a special moment in their lives

Way Cool Nice Work

& here I come, a week late, as usual.

Twenty years between these two photos.
Makes you think. ...not sure what of, but it makes you think.
Probably.

THEN:


I had hoped to provide a more exciting "Then" photo - but back then, cameras just weren't something that you carried around everywhere unless you were really into photography.
Anyway, I can date this photo almost to the day. It must've been taken in early November 1987 after the Public Enemy/LL Cool J/Eric B/Beastie Boys gig at Hammersmith on Nov 1st, as I got the Public Enemy sticker at that gig & cut it up to stick to the sides if the 3D7 when it was just a few short months old...

NOW:


After years of heavy use & further years of neglect, it's all restored & back to working order - pretty much. I never did get the AC in to work again (because the DC in is just fine) & try as I might, the deck couldn't pull a rotten tooth out of a dead horse's head. It's had a complete strip-down, clean-up, new belts, etc. so it's weakness probably means it needs a new motor. Never mind - on the rare occasions that I want to actually play a cassette, I have a choice of b-boxes that do a much better job, even if it was A1.

really a great example for "before and after"!

isolator -- 'made me think' --
of thanking you -- bought this model on your say-so -- great box

This is awesome TAguy! Excellent pics! I wish more of us could post up pics like yours. I still have my original boombox - but no vintage pics from back then when I first bought mine (when photos were black and white and usually showed a horse standing around in the background).

Cool you have an old pic like that. Who would have thought you'd be getting a few of the times boxes. Later in life.
very cool