I was browseing around and ended up on Audiokarma.com and seen someone write this post. I read the description and nearly made fresh dookie in my pants. Where in the world do I find a picture of this radio? I Think I would offer my pinky because this has never been mentioned on S2G since I joined (about a year plus now). The following is a copy and pasted blurb of thse post itself.

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.

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Wow, sounds awesome!

I don't know about a 12" CRT being powered by 14D cells based on early 80s technology though.

Someone must have a pic somewhere it it exists.

Great find Petey!



Rock On.

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So this is BS?

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Originally posted by Petey Awol:
So this is BS?

what is BS ?

ah Bull**** ! ! !
yes,i think so.

if it existed, i have a feeling we would know about it by now...

Definitely brings a WOW factor upon reading but I vote for BS!!!!!

Perhaps their memory is bad. Minus the tv and phonograph, it is possible. 12/14 D cells would have likely been on the "nope" list too.

I have some info, but its not much...

I read an interview with the singer of SONIC YOUTH about a year ago, and it was said that their first touring rig was an old van with no radio, so they stopped somewhere and picked up a boombox that took 16 D sized batteries. I thought it was a joke, but it went on to say that they nearly went broke keeping that thing powered.

A drug hazed memory perhaps?

HI JLF, the manager of Sonic Youth was Thurston Moore,and he wrote a short essay about his radio, It was the Conion C100F! His article was part of my impetus for collecting...

Ha! Thats awesome! So I got the story wrong on who associated with the band told the story.

Cool! Thanks for the info... Well, no C-100F Ive ever seen took more than 10 D's!