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Did people really listen to music like this during the 70s??

posted 15 years ago by cryptical70
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There is one scene in the movie where P.J. Soles' character is bopping thru school with a huge radio listening through a small earpiece in one ear. I know in the late 70s the Walkman was not yet marketed to the general public. But this seems a rather difficult way to listen to music, especially if it is in stereo. Was this the way people were actually listening to personal music back then or where there smaller and easier devices available?

[–] snagletooth 9 years ago

I don't think walking around with radios was allowed in my high school. Kinda funny cause there were numbers of rooms that had stereos that students went to to listen while they studied. The Physics classroom had a nice Nakamichi setup with Altec-Lansing 18's (I think they were 18s) that was financed by selling popcorn at school games by the physics club. Buses usually had speaker setups and the drivers would tune them to popular rock stations. But just walking around the halls.....don't recall any radios.