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I just found my Ghetto Blasters (portable cassette player) whilst clearing out the shed and bad memories came flooding back! I remember asking my mum and dad for a ghetto blaster with twin tapes for Christmas.

My face must have been a picture when I pulled it out of its box ! The whole point of my ghetto blaster was to take it with me to a breakdance party, but when I spotted the that it only had one tape deck and a PIANO, yes a PIANO on the front instead of twin decks, my world fell apart! My dad said to me "we got you a record player last year with twin decks so we reckoned you would like the PIANO instead". My breakdancing dream was over. God bless you Dad!

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  • Anonymous user
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    My grandfather had one of the very earliest ones, a Toshiba which he bought new in '78 allegedly 'for listening to the racing when he was in the bath'! I still have it and it's original box too- still looks as good as new, although the tape motor has now died and cannot be replaced due to the machine's age. Will never get rid of it though- the radio is still superb, and I rely on it to get Radio 3's superb late-night jazz slot.
  • Anonymous user
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    I used one of these to record the top 40 from Radio 1 on a Sunday evening (back then, Radio 1 only brodcast on FM on a Sunday evening; the rest of the time it was medium wave only!), and my machine had a record level control, so I could manually fade out the songs before the DJ started talking at the end, thus making my little compilations sound more "professional". Well, it was cheaper than buying pre-recorded cassettes, even if the songs were slightly shorter!
  • Yellow Watson
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    My childhood is pretty much on a cassette tape thanks to the ghetto blaster. Me and my sister used to tape our own radio shows. Very embarassing to here how squeaky our little voices were back then. Even more embarassing to hear my sister singing Transvision Vamp songs. She thought she was awesome. It was in our garage so we could listen to music and roller skate at the same time.

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