Stuff:
One of the world’s best collections of ghetto boomboxes is up for auction, and it’ll cost you $20,000 to open the bidding.
“If I just sold the top 20 they would reach $20,000, and I’ve already had interest in some of those,” he said. “But I would prefer to sell them as a collection.”
Kenton started collecting 15 years ago and admits the more he looked for them, “the more out of control it got”.
How many of you are old enough (or were “cool enough”) to have one of these beasts in the 80s? In my neighbourhood basketball court in Halifax, the winning team was the one who got to control the music so it was mandatory for you to have the biggest, most powerful ghetto blaster possible. We’d even take up a collection for batteries because the damn things sucked up D cells. Check out pictures of the collection here.
It was an oh Mickey, so fine time.
We had one we bought from Crazy Eddies in NY. I built a car adapter for (two alligator clips on a piece of lamp cord soldered to the connections on a Radio Shack car lighter adapter that clipped to the battery terminals) to make it an awesome car stereo in our 1972 puke-green Plymouth Duster.