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Old 11-08-2005, 12:20 PM
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Long ago when I worked at a TV shop in LA, I repaired the MOTHER of all boomboxes (or Ghetto Blasters as we called them)... It was a Taihan or a Kumho, I think. Kind you get new at a swapmeet. It was about 4 feet long, had 2 cassettes, 8-track, vertical phonograph, 12" B&W TV, AM-FM-Police-Aircraft-Shortwave radio, 12 or 14 D-batteries, 15" speakers, horn tweeters, and all! It was a cheaply made, heavily Plasti-Chromed piece of junk. Again; it was a boombox and not a tabletop home unit. all in one piece and designed to be carried around (by Lou Ferrigno or Arnold Schwartzenegger, LOL)... It belonged to a meter maid in West Los Angeles... Barely fit in the back of her metermaidmobile. I think it was made in the early 80s. I had a heck of a time troubleshooting it because, like most of those, it wasnt in Sams and there wasn't any factory distributor to be found.

Charles
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