Weekly Check In

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[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2012-04-27 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a reel-to-reel in the 60 and a brand new transistor radio - I was in awe of it... I knew people in the late 60s who had car radios. By the 70s I was much less in awe of the technology and had a cassette recorder and a car radio plus by the end of the 70s my car had a cassette player too.

[identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com 2012-04-27 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Cars had radios in them from the 30s on. It was an option of course, so not everybody had them. :)

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2012-04-27 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure they did - but none of the ones I knew did!!!

[identity profile] halotolerant.livejournal.com 2012-04-28 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool - thank you! So it would be reasonable for someone of Bodie and Doyle's age (not them, though) who had bought the tech in probably the late 70s and not replaced it since, but still able to get hold of the music they want compatible for playing, to have a vinyl record player probably? (sorry, the grammar in that sentence is awful!)

[identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com 2012-04-28 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yea. Vinyl was (and still is) available. There's no problem finding LPs even today. Twenty years ago they were everywhere, new, second hand, flea markets, etc. I bought vinyl until the 90s. And they're rereleasing a lot of vinyl these days. So buying any music wouldn't be much of a problem even today.

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2012-04-28 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I was the same age as Bodie and Doyle when the programme first aired and i dollowed that pattern and I still have all those ways of playing music. The only thing I haven't still got is a record player that takes 78s.