Bahahhahaha

I think back to my adolescence and wonder if I would have survived if I had today’s social media. I feel like 20 years later there’d still be a meme with a picture of me in one of my wiser teenage moments and my child would be asking me about it.

Idk what just happened in my brain. You unlocked something I didn't know was stored there. If you don't hear from me again you know why

🤣🤣 seriously?? No one else? Ok I am old 😔 I played you on REPEAT

Why is this so true?!

My kids still still have this childhood. They knock on friends doors to ask if they can come out and play, they spend hours in the forest behind the house or down by the lake. They have to come home before dark. Its still normal in my corner of the world.

Best entertainment ever!! Miss them so much.

Haha, me too!

fact!

Ya mon

And the 4 foot tall speakers that went along with it.

Dude, I still have mine with the record player and dual cassette player and it all works.

The prestige!

Only one tape deck? Pathetic!

No double tape? What's this, some poor people stuff?

I still have it and it works!

i was not allowed to touch it.it came with a lockable cabinet with glass doors. i just sat in front of the cabinet and admired it

All the buttons and knobs and you literally used like 3; on/off, volume and maybe skip or repeat.

I had a Technics system!

You could play around with so many buttons and dials to change how the music sounded. I loved that :)

Oh no. Too many wires. And I remember talking the tape out when it popped. That sucked. Vanilla ice cassette tape was kind of like a party steamer coming out the radio and if you broke it while unwinding, it's a wrap.

And I STILL don’t know how to get the best sound and if settings should be changed with each song or what

YEEEESSSSSSS!!!

Me! Me! I had this.

JBL Voice of the Theaters that took up around 4 feet in all directions and filled the corners of wherever they are placed!

I had a stack with a vertical turntable in a glass front tower. I'm thinking it was a Toshiba. So cool in 1982. Fun watching under the influence.

Just looking at mine now. Only it doesn't have the turntable anymore - that broke and we couldn't repair it. Mine is a Technics brand....

Don't forget, the entire thing had to be encased in a cabinet with frameless glass doors with magnetic latches. Our components didn't match, though. Harman Cardon receiver/amplifier, Teac tape deck, Phillips manual turntable (atop the cabinet with its own cover), and gigantic JBL speakers. The instant your parents left, you cranked up Kashmir or Running with the Devil.

I want to know an estimation of price for a set up like this. My grandparents had it in the glass case with the glass storage shelves on either side.

Those were magnificent

This reminds me, today I was on a call with a colleague (same age as me) as asked him to bring back the walkman I leant him 2 years ago. In typing this I realise I no longer have earphones I can plug into it

I love my Technics tower. The tuner and the amp are not split into three single devices which simply means that I don't need three sockets......together with my »Quadral Phonologue« speakers it could easily kill a (party) bluetooth speaker...🙋🏽 🙉 🎚️

Ah yes, hoping the radio announcer didn't talk over the beginning/end of the song when you taped it.

These were overpirced trash. The speakers were made of pressboard, the drivers were barely rated for 20watts. They made these as a facsimile of the REAL good gear from the 60s and 70s. The rack systems in the 80s and 90s were junk. Technics was panasonic's faux prosumer brand. They used integrated amplifier chips that were prone to overheating and had terrible signal to noise specs. that whole system would maybe be worth $50 today but I promise some one will think its worth thousands.

It helped the Terminator to find Sarah Connor...

I always thought it was Booboo -TIL duh

Me! Me! I do!

My ADHD brain still does this but nobody understands me :') It also does this with any other obscure niche reference to the past it can think of.

McDonald’s has become unbearable now. I was lucky enough to go into one recently where they actually had a place to order at the counter instead of the kiosk. The employee then proceeded to come around the counter and have me give him my order while he punched it into the kiosk for me. Almost broke the whole store when I decided to pay with cash.

🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes I tell my kid to just stare out the window and make up a story in his head. I don’t think he understands but I remember spending so much time day dreaming, imagining things, completely unplugged (because, well nothing to plug), and so very calm.

Yes, and mine were also barefoot

Happened to me @ bros wedding..thought it was one of his friend's dad..nope..kid I graduated with...

I can still feel my wet ankles/calfs...

I have one of these floating around my parents house..it has pix of the world trade center from a class trip less than 3 months before they went down....

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just the perfect snack.

Fun fact: Swayze was 35 in that and Grey was 8 years younger

Such a cool actor, and his voice...ohhh !!

I'm still waiting for the flying car that folds up into a briefcase. I'm convinced that it can be done. Gyrocopters are getting close to the flying car and Transformers to the folding car. But I want them together.

Wow, hahaha