Looking forward to browsing and contributing to this forum as best as I can. Got into this hobby through seeing the appeal of being more disconnected from the internet as well as adding in a physical element to listening to music, similar to collecting vinyls. Thanks for having me! Blessings, Zak
Welcome to the party! Some of the best boombox collections I've ever seen are in Toronto; you're in good hands and lands!
He hasn't been on in a while but one of the last times he was staging a DJ show at a local store with some of his boomers, that would have been a lot of fun. Going by memory I think there's about five mega-collectors up there in Toronto, didn't the guy with the 15 Conion's live up there? There was also a huge prop rental company that specialized in boomboxes and Walkmans, that also did some sales. You'd have to go back through the "forum reader" for the old threads to find the places and members.
Agreed, I would have loved to have seen that show! I was able to visit the prop rental company's inventory; really great stuff. Any theories as to why there are so many more minty boomers in CA vs US, or is that just a perception? I was wondering if it had something to do with the economy at that time, like if they started to get purchased later, right as CDs were coming into fashion, and so had less use. And/or there was not the negative public sentiment against boomboxes that there was in the US for a while?
I think it had to do with the trade rate, when my hockey team went there in the early 80's, things were really cheap. They seem to have many more oddball high end portable audio then we had.
