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Would the Grandkids Know This One? 08.02.2025​

Hey, GrayViners!

We’re back with another round of old-school slang and fresh fun in our game: “Would the Grandkids Know This One?”

Today’s blast from the past: “Boombox”

Did this phrase ever cruise through your conversations back in the day? Drop a comment if you’ve used this phrase, heard it in a surprising place, or want to hazard a guess. Bonus points if there’s a memory (funny, nostalgic, or otherwise) with it!

Can’t wait to read your stories and see who nails it!

— Sophia

 

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Samcmillen

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Boombox is a portable radio

 

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NIBOR0

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A great big tape recorder music box

 

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Gaye18

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Boom box was a very large radio/cassette player and no my grandkids would not know what it was. I can still pictures ads with people holding them on their shoulder lol

 

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A phone partyline. You shared your phone with someone else!

 

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Portable sound system with radio and either a cassette or CD player.

 

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a portable, battery-operated radio and cassette player,

 

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What-nots

 

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Radio tape cassette you carried on your shoulder Ahhh beach party days

 

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Gayle B.

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A BOOMBOX is a large radio/cassette player. Most of the time it would be carried on a shoulder. The music would be blasted from the 2 speakers. It would be played so loudly that if you hear it you had to delay your own music or conversation until the person passed by your location to hear anything again.
This was a fine trip down memory lane.

 

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A cassette player with speakers

 

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It was a portable radio/cassette player

 

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It was our version of a portable sound system. We didn't have cell phones to download music to. We had these big boxy glorified radio/cassette tape player/CD players with big speakers that ran on batteries. We could blast our favorite tunes anytime or anywhere.