Comments on: Before the iPod: the Portable Stereo Cart

By: BeenJammin

BeenJammin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:20:45 +0000

I KNOW this clock/radio. My mom had one when I was a kid. It ran off electricity or batteries (took like a dozen D cells). I’ve been trying to find another without success for years.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:54:19 +0000

“Is it only me or do I see a “Stepford Wife” thing going on here”??? That cart would be cute in the garden, but I don’t remember those carts being that cute… We had them for the TVs too and after a while they would start to collapse from the weight of the TV…
How about the little yellow center disks(I’m sure they had a name?), that went into the center of our 45 records? The new generations don’t have a CLUE what they are…

By: Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:05:40 +0000

Can any of you ladies imagine cooking dressed up and in “heels”? Funny thing though, in the day of modern technology, we work “longer” hours, life is way more hectic and lifes core values have changed dramatically. Nice and refreshing to see this picture and know there were more wholesome days.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:40:46 +0000

Housewives didn’t have (time)to jog. They got enough exercise running after the kids, doing their own housework, carrying heavy wicker baskets of laundry back and forth to the clothesline, pushing the vacuum cleaner, mopping and waxing the linoleum floor …

BTW, that kitchen looks more like the one I grew up with than any of the other “50s” ones I’ve seen online so far–except our countertops were red and our linoleum was dark green.

By: Mari Adkins

Mari Adkins — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:11:32 +0000

That clock radio from the 50s, we had one of those. My grandmother’s was blue, and she kept it on the head of her bed until something like 1982. LOL I think it finally just gave up and died.

By: Car Audio King

Car Audio King — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:24:14 +0000

Wow, could you imagine showing up to the gym pulling a record player! lol. The picture is to funny, I cant wait to share it with my friends.

By: TraceyB

TraceyB — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:12:54 +0000

That stereo cart thing is too funny. Cracked me up! I hope she didn’t try to pull it around while it was playing a record.

By: Kayjay

Kayjay — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:20:29 +0000

In the 50′s I had a pink clock radio that sat in my bookcase headboard which awoke me with music every morning. It was sooo cool!

By: Class of 56

Class of 56 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:53:30 +0000

The photo was taken because the camera back then had no flash and they had to go outside to have enough light. And, DAK, the thing was NOT, I repeat, NOT a portable. All exercise had to be jumping jacks or push ups so you could stay in one place.

By: hookedonhouses

hookedonhouses — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:58:23 +0000

Irishof–that’s too funny! Reminds me of when we drove our nephews somewhere in our old car (back in the 90s) that had roll-up windows instead of automatic, and they were fascinated. “But how do you get the windows to go up and down?” They loved playing with the “crank.”

They even told their parents we had a “cool new thing” in our car and wanted to know why theirs didn’t have cranks for the windows.

I’m sure we could really blow their minds and show them some of the great big CDs we’ve got stored in the basement!