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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Play Melancholy Baby

And before 8 Trax there was ...

This is a c. 1957 De Soto with a Columbia phonograph. Looks like an after market deal, but was factory installed. Had I known about this in 1958 when pop bought our Plymouth Savoy, I'd have pestered the hell out of him. I know his answer; "record will skip." It did too. What were they thinking? This picture from the Chrysler museum.

Rodger the Real King of France 9/30/2010 12:42:00 PM 12 Comments

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Jess said...: I don't think it was for listening while driving. I think it was for enhancing the mood while parking. A little wine; a little Sinatra and there was the possibility of getting lucky.; 9/30/10, 1:06 PM
Anonymous said...: I had a desk top model as a kid that basically worked the same way. You put a record in the slot and pushed a mechanical panel on the front and the record played. I think RCA made it.

One of those things I'd love to have back.

Tom Mann; 9/30/10, 1:16 PM
Anonymous said...: I remember seeing these things advertised in audio magazines in the early 80s. (25 years after this) I remember reading "anti-skip technology" and laughing.; 9/30/10, 3:28 PM
Helly said...: "What were they thinking?"

Easy to say they were thinking about parking, but no. Generally forgotten—Motorola was founded on patented technology for playing phonographs while motoring.

But that was then. Are you ordering the new iPod Nano or Touch, Rodge? I'd like both, but have to keep a low consumption profile during the no-tax-paying Obama years.; 9/30/10, 4:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Next you'll try and convince us they had push button transmissions.
Tim; 9/30/10, 4:24 PM
TimO said...: Well you COULD weight the arm down enough to keep the record from skipping.... of course you'd only get about 10 plays on the record before the needle would go through the other side of the vinyl....

;-)); 9/30/10, 4:26 PM
Anonymous said...: My first ride was a 58 Windsor, great car.

Javert; 9/30/10, 5:19 PM
Steve In Tulsa said...: I remember a Bang & Olufson turntable around 1980 that you could pick up and turn over while it was playing and it would not skip at all.; 9/30/10, 5:49 PM
Anonymous said...: There's a 57 Desoto for sale locally, pink 'n white hardtop, I fergets the model but it's all there (no record player, dang it) and it rides and drives. Some rust, but not terribly bad; otherwise a pretty straight old car. About $4000 and I....covet...it.

Unfortunately I have enough hobbies at the moment.

H

Verification word is "vesona", and that might just be the model of this old ride.; 9/30/10, 9:24 PM
Anonymous said...: If it was for "enhancing the mood while parking", it would have to be accessible from the back seat.
GrinfilledCelt; 9/30/10, 10:12 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Am I ordering the new iPod Nano or Touch? No Helly.; 9/30/10, 10:13 PM
RadRon said...: My first car was a '58 Dodge Coronet 2-door. While working at Cape Canaveral I bought a Chrysler Highway HI-FI from a co-worker. It mounted beneath the radio and played thru the radio's speakers. It was 16-2/3 RPM ( Half of a 33-1/3 LP ) It used records that were the size of a 45 RPM and had to be special ordered. But, IT DID NOT SKIP while going down the road. I later put it in my '59 Plymouth Sport Fury.

Before that, while in high school, I had a portable 45 RPM record player that used 4, I believe, "D" cell batteries. It worked great at the beach but not in a car. My buddy hit a tree while distracted trying to fix the skipping needle.

After that My first car stereo was a Lear Jet 4-Track. The predecessor to the 8-Track.; 10/1/10, 5:54 PM

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Play Melancholy Baby

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