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redidbull

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After my parents passed I inherited my childhood home. My Son lived there for a while until he got engaged and the bought a bigger house. My Daughter now lives there and at some point will buy it. Lots to clean. Came across these gems today. Kind of car themed. Jim
 

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Jeez I remember having this huge box beating the floor in the back trying to keep 8 tracks in control. Hard to believe everything I had on them could be put in my one thumb drive in the truck!
 
Jeez I remember having this huge box beating the floor in the back trying to keep 8 tracks in control. Hard to believe everything I had on them could be put in my one thumb drive in the truck!
I know. They were the "thing" at the time. I don't think I have a player. But with the stuff I still need to go through anything is possible. A couple sites I went to said they have value but ebay disagrees. Jim
 
Cool finds!! I am a little younger but I remember having sleeves full of CDs rolling around in my backseat LOL
 
i started with 8 tracks, went to cassettes and am still stuck in cd's, love my music. kool find.
Yeah I've had all of those too but they all offered different problems over time. Remember dragging tapes? How bout hit the eject button and suddenly your lap is full of recording tape! If you're lucky when the tapes gave up, sometimes most of the tape came back out of the machine! Unless you're hanging with a kinky girlfriend, I can find no value in it CDs got better but they were still likely to get scratches and damage just like vinyl records before. I've been stoked ever since I put mp3 stuff in now. So far have not had one problem with that. I can put any of my music thru the computer transfer to a thumb drive and I can play from that in the truck. I've got more music on a thumb than I have butt enough to make a drive that far with nowadays!
 
When my wife and I got married in 1976, we bought the top of the line PC Penney Stereo receiver. It played 45 & 33 rpm records, 8 track tapes, and cassettes. It also had the 4 speaker set of 24" high "tower" speakers with 3 speakers each. That thing rocked, according to these two young kids of 19 & 20 yo.
We had a pretty big collection of both sizes of records, and a big collection of 8 tracks, but cassettes were pretty new at the time, so we had a limited supply of those. We also went to a place that had live bands every weekend. I also had a top of the line under dash 8 track player attached to a pair of ti-axle speakers on the rear window deck in my car.

Over the years the stereo was changed to reflect the times, and the recording method, until about 20 years ago. Things other then music had a higher priority. These days, neither of my 2 hot rods have any form of musical equipment in them, and my wife's car has what ever was popular in 04, the CD player part of it quit working a few years ago, so its mostly just the radio now.

I did buy a really cheap MP3 player a few years ago, but I was too cheap to get an online music download connection (not sure I'd be smart enough to figure that out anyway). I did a few (very bad) recording sessions of music, but they don't sound real good. I play them every once in a while, through cheap headphones, to remind my self how cheap I am. I seldom even listen to the radio anymore.
 
You Tube has the world's largest collection of music and music videos. That comprises much of my weekly entertainment. I gave about 2,500 vinyl LP's away a few years ago.
 

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