[78-L] Beach Boys 78s

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 4/18/2011 6:29, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 4/18/2011 7:06 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>> Of course. The target audience in those days listened to AM radio and
>> played 45's on little portable phonos. Dad had the big HI-Fi unit
>> downstairs and he would not allow that "crap" to play on his equipment.
>> Ask me. I was there.
>>
> I was there too, and starting in 1959 when I was 13 when I bought a
> record I ALWAYS got the stereo LP if it was available.  *I* was the one
> in my family who had the big hi-fi unit, but my sister had gotten a
> Columbia stereo portable with detachable speakers a few months before I
> got my stereo turntable for my system, and she also was buying pop
> stereo LPs rather than mono if they were available.
>
I had a cousin with one of those. The phono flipped down. We could not 
afford albums, but once in a while we could get a 45. The nicest unit I 
ever had was one of these, but in a blonde wood 60's style standup dowel 
legged case.
280659607693 Ebay

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