Weekly Check In

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Hello Big Bangers!

It's that weekly check-in time again, so feel free to step on up and use the comments to tell us how you're doing.   Or, alternatively,  flail/cry/jump-for-joy/pour a large one (delete as applicable).   Got any questions you need answered?  Ask away!   Just want to chat about something that isn't the Pros Big Bang?  Well...we're probably OK with that too ;)

Let us know how things are going and give those cheerleaders a chance to shake their pom poms.  Go on - they really like an audience!

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Comments

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'd say cassettes in the car and records at home. Cassette tapes were first invested in the late 60s I believe but didn't get into cars until later. I had an 8 track in my early 1970s car of course. :) I doubt very few people would use reel to reel, though some hard core sound people would. In the 60s I had a portable reel to reel with little spools of tape on them but that was about it. I played records at home until the 90s! :) I still have a record player and LPs here somewhere...

I doubt you'd be "wrong" with any options. I just did a google search and it said that "boomboxes" became popular in the late 70s and on. They fell out of favour in the 90s. Too big I think!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

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.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Cars had radios in them from the 30s on. It was an option of course, so not everybody had them. :)

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they did - but none of the ones I knew did!!!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

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!)

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

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.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

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.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

When I think about it, records seem like a good option - this person probably hasn't replaced the system they bought earlier on - mid to late 70s probably. Thanks for the advice! *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Of course, we do see Doyle use his record player in DIAG and that's a later episode. You're welcome!