Sunday, December 6, 2009
6:57 AM
Portable Record Players
The year my dad lived in Tulsa, he bought both my brother and I new record players. Bernie got a cool white one first and I really loved it so a few weeks later, I asked my dad if I could please have one as well. The next weekend, when he came home, he brought a brand new blue record player for me. I was so happy and surprised. Not only did he get me a stereo that I desperately wanted, but he even went out of his way to get one that was my favorite color. And unlike Bernie's record player, mine also included a built-in radio because, you know.....I was dad's favorite. LOLOL (Just kidding, Bernie)
Those little stereos don't look like much by today's standards but (you should be used to this part so say it with me now) BACK WHEN I WAS A KID, lol, (there you go) they were very hip. Portable record players were all the rage and we loved that we could take our music with us wherever we went. If we were going to a sleepover with a friend who had no stereo, it was no problem because we could easily just take ours. Tre chic. lol Compared to the modern-day ease of carrying 10,000 songs on a credit-card sized ipod, it was a bulky, pain-in-the-rear process but we couldn't even DREAM of such convenient technology back then so we were more than happy to lug those stereos, and a huge stack or records around with us.
My cousin got hers for Christmas one year and she loved it too much to leave it at home on Christmas Day so she brought it to our grandparent's house and we kids listened to records in my grandparent's spare bedroom all afternoon. You'd just have to know my grandparents and you'd have to know what our sweet, but quirky family Christmas Day gatherings were like in order to understand why that is a fact worth mentioning. LOL
Not exactly like the ones my brother and I had but closer than the one on the bottom. My cousin had one like that one in the bottom pic.