March 26, 1975, Appleton Post-Crescent
Somewhere in that window of time when the original ShopKo on Hwy 47 closed and the new one opened, this appeared. In and of itself, this advertisement proves to be a time capsule of early 1970's popular music, but at the risk of flirting with blasphemy for this part of the state, I had to chuckle at the wide selection of polka music available. Yes, polka music. And for the record, I had a Panasonic cassette tape recorder just like the one in this ad. Ah, good times.
I received the Panasonic AM/FM/UHF radio (lower right corner in the add) for Christmas in 1973 or 1974. Used to pick up strange foreign language broadcasts on the UHF band late at night. Probably the Russian spy network. Still use the radio almost daily, works pretty well.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember 8-Tracks being so much cheaper than albums. But then again I was slow to embrace change and did not buy a player until '78 of '79. Wings was my first 8-Track.
ReplyDeleteI also had that same Panasonic. It was my fishing radio and lasted well into the '90s. Heard a lot of Brewers games on that thing, and yes, very distant broadcasts at night.