Gran's Boombox
seb968 - 2013-10-16 14:52
This is one of the many radios my Gran had collected in her life, a Hacker Hunter. She loved music with a passion and had a radio in every room! This is a British 1960’s take on a boom box………well not really, but it is loud, and the sound quality is great, warm and crisp, with an amount of bass that would show up most 80’s vintage mini’s. I can picture her now with this, feet up, listening to radio Three.
deech - 2013-10-16 15:03
Hope you still have it Seb !!
seb968 - 2013-10-16 15:10
Thanks deech, great music and a nice thought on your part. Yes, I still have the radio and still use it. It is one of three radios that I will never part with.
smeats1976 - 2013-10-16 16:21
wow! flashback to early school days The whole class listening to BBC Radio for schools programmes on one of these old Hackers!
seb968 - 2013-10-16 16:56
wow! flashback to early school days The whole class listening to BBC Radio for schools programmes on one of these old Hackers!
Your right, schools did have them, Gran was a teacher, so there is the conection. Big powerfull sound, enough to fill a classroom! You've just jogged some memories there!
smeats1976 - 2013-10-16 17:03
yeah! also T.Vs, and dirty big top loader VCRs were all strapped to trollies, wheeled into your class room and someone posh enough to own a video recorder at home would have to show the teacher how to work it!
seb968 - 2013-10-16 17:11
Yeah, you've just described my childhood, although the VCR's didn't come along until I was about 12! And the teachers didn't have a clue how to use them and as you say it was always a posh kid who took control of the thing! Wow complete memory unlock!!
deliverance - 2013-10-17 01:33
hackers were a popular radio memory lane for sure