Another piece of my childhood bids adieu
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Posted on: 2010-10-24 11:26 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
My defining memory of the Walkman Era is rewinding cassettes by sticking a #2 pencil through the spindle and whirling them around by hand to save the batteries.
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Defining memory of the walkman? Similiar to yours i guess, but, instead of trying to save batteries, i was trying to save my TAPE from the hungry walkman.
Maybe i was a rough kid, but my walkmen never lasted long, and always took one of my tapes down with them.
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Man, I'm a relative young'un, but I still had a Walkman in the nineties. The only thing I had to listen to on it were a highly damaged copy of Even Worse by Weird Al Yankovic, the Beach Boys' greatest hits, and a static-y recording of the Dr. Demento Show.
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I am frankly amazed to learn that they didn't stop making Walkmans years ago.
I don't think I ever had an actual Walkman, but I had some off brand - probably a Tandy from Radio Shack or something. I also don't remember listening to it that much, because I bought more records than I did tapes, and what tapes I did buy, or friends made for me, I played on my Technics home stereo instead.
One of the biggest regrets of my late teen, early 20s years was giving my mom the OK to sell all of my albums at a yard sale. I think I had just over 100 at the time, and I never did replace most of them with CDs like I thought I would. Oh well, at least I kept her away from my comic books and Star Wars toys.
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Well, I turn 44 this year. While I know I am not the oldest on these forums, I am FAR from the youngest. The only walkman I had (like many folks) was a cheaper knock off. But these are my memories...
Holding a radio up to the recorder so I could record mix tapes,
Making little marks on the tapes themselves next to the window so I could find songs,
Wondering if that "Metal" tape would play in my recorder,
Getting the head "demagnetized" from a friend who had a SWEET reeel to reel set up,
Wishing I had the money for a reel to reel set up,
Finaly learning what Dolby was (and laughing at Jeanine in Spinal Tap),
Learning that Bass was not pronounced like the fish.
But then again when I was a kid NOBODY listened to FM radio. All the good stations were AM. Who needed stereo?
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Aiwa. Made decent electronics. I had a neat ol' little stereo system by them, but damn if I can find the thing now. All I know is that I've been unable to locate it for the last five years. >.<
My memory is listening to a techno mix tape done by a guy that I knew in college. Good stuff there. Still have that tape somewhere 'round these parts. |
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Good riddance. Every Sony Walkman I ever owned died in short order, as did the two Sony VCRs, and numerous Playstations. One less bullet in the game of Sony Roulette.
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Hah, that is awesome. I remember the nights some of my family spent listening to Dr. Demento on the radio and my brother trying to record them with those old cassette recorders. I think they came from Radio Shack, were big rectangular boxes where you plug in a microphone. Lol, I will never forget my brother getting mad at me for coming into the room and telling me to shut up so he could record the show. As a kid, I didn't get it and always thought "why doesn't he just turn it off when I start talking?"|
Originally Posted by Kelenar
Man, I'm a relative young'un, but I still had a Walkman in the nineties. The only thing I had to listen to on it were a highly damaged copy of Even Worse by Weird Al Yankovic, the Beach Boys' greatest hits, and a static-y recording of the Dr. Demento Show.
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I had bought a Sports Walkman, you know the yellow one, and that thing lasted for years. It also had auto-reverse. I can't remember the name of the store but I almost want to say it was a Best Buy, definitely no relation to today's store as far as I know. It definitely had Buy in the name. They sold all type of things such as jewelry, dishes, etc as well as electronics.
Anyone remember when the video disc players were popular for a short time. I'm talking about the magneto-discs that were in a plastic sleeve that inserted into the machine. I have original Star Wars and it still works. Unfortunately, it is only full-screen.
I used to listen to Casey Kasim's American Top 40, and try to record the songs without talking over the beginnings and end. Those were my tapes. Next year is my 35th Reunion . . . Elton John, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Aerosmith.
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