Boomboxes

The show features 25 photographs of boomboxes from the 1970s and 1980s courtesy of collector Lyle Owerko. ❋ Huffington Post (2010)

This online museum offers images of boomboxes from the 1970s and '80s. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The boomboxes are the only obvious visual clues that its resident is into music, which is kind of odd. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The iPad's large form factor makes it more suitable, retro-wise, to boomboxes, DJ decks, and civilian-style turntables. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)

Cousins Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford collage beats and samples into an ebullient dance mix, delivered by beat-up boomboxes they've incorporated into their sound system. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

They look great with those boomboxes," said Levene." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The premise, established by the adventurous composer Phil Kline in 1992, is simple: Attendees gather in Washington Square Park at 7 p.m. and begin to play recordings of shimmering bell sounds, either on boomboxes provided by event organizers or, in recent years, via a free downloadable MP3. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

We know, boomboxes are designed to be portable, but they also need to sound "big," and AirPlay does that in the home without requiring totally uncool wires everywhere. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)

Joel puttered around the Las Vegas Convention Center, snapping shots of blinged out iPod boomboxes and television mounting kits for idiots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bonus: You won't throw your back out walking down the avenuewith these boomboxes, and if your music starts an impromptu dance party, you don't need to switch the anti-skate control on your record player to stop it from skipping. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)

In New Braunfels, settled by German immigrants more than a century ago, throngs of swimsuit-clad people equipped with inflatable tubes the size of truck wheels plunk them into the Comal and slowly float down like water lilies in a movable feast that can include cigarette-smoking, blaring boomboxes and dogs. ❋ Angel Gonzalez (2011)

That digital connection soon spilled over into real life: "We would all post up at various shows across town and we'd gather around our cars, bring out our boomboxes and start playing each other the beats we'd just made in the week." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bonus: You won't throw your back out walking down the avenueÂwith these boomboxes, and if your music starts an impromptu dance party, you don't need to switch the anti-skate control on your record player to stop it from skipping. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)

While all the tunes emanating from iPods (which serve as latter-day jukeboxes and boomboxes) aren't torpid, enough sanitized, sterile and soulless sounds comprise contemporary music to satisfy the strictures of a dietitian obsessed with pulmonary and cardiac concerns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Walked in] to the room all young and hip, [bust out] my [boombox], said listen to this. ❋ Hamtastic (2009)

jim- we wanna [holla], what we should do? jones- just bring a [BOOMBOX] and [gyrate]. ❋ ADYAKA (2010)

[Julian Casablancas]: A [BOOMBOX] IS NOT A [TOY]!!!!! ❋ Jesuscrush (2010)

"[I walk] in the room, hold my [boombox] high And what happened next, will [blow your mind]" ❋ Charby (2009)

Stop [boomboxing] me, okay? You had your [chance], and [you blew it]. ❋ Earl Barnes (2011)

yo i was [cruisin'] down mah block with mah [beatbox] [bumpin'] some wordodb/word. ❋ Bud Newman. (2003)

Everyone started having sex! [the music] was just too powerful... A [BOOMBOX] IS NOT A [TOY]!! ❋ Mr. Casablancas (2010)

“[Jacob], [stop] being a [boomboxer].” ❋ MaybeARealWord (2021)

[So what] are you buying [batteries] for?....my BOOMbox [of course] ❋ Ill.ring.when.im.horny (2011)

[A-]"Hey [Mat], take [a look] at this guy." M-"LOL, that has to be a boombox!" ❋ Lanky Number 1 (2005)