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| box of 8-track tapes for sale Goodwill - Laramie, WY September 2018 |
I played some of mine so much they literally wore out. Lots of wonderful memories of cruising down the highway with the windows open (no A/C) and singing along to the Mamas and Papas, The Carpenters, John Denver, The Beach Boys, and Buck Owens.
Somewhere in my garage are two 8-track tapes one of my students made of the musical Godspell that I directed at Wheatland High School in the mid-1970s. I don't have a player anymore, but I can't bring myself to throw the tapes away.
Yes but now cassette tapes are also antique and I have a huge amount of those.
ReplyDeleteMe too!!! I wore out my Cat Stevens 8 track.
ReplyDeleteVinyl albums, 8-tracks, and cassettes - all out of date. I sold all of my 8-tracks and the player when we moved from Iowa back to South Dakota in late 70s. But I have 2 crates of vinyl albums sitting on a shelf in my basement and a box of cassettes.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad's Lincoln Town Car came with an 8-track player. We thought we had cutting edge tech. LOL
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I remember those. And we listened to the same ones you did. The night we got engaged, someone broke into Dennis‘s car and stole all his Elvis eight tracks. What a memory!
ReplyDeleteWe also had two big boxes of albums and since we had no record player, I sold them at a garage sale for five dollars while Dennis was out of the country on business. I think it was the only time he was a little bit miffed with me, although he didn’t say much. Now that record players are coming back into fashion, those albums would probably be worth a lot of money. The Best of Bread, Elvis, Gordon Lightfoot and the list goes on and on.
Blessings, Betsy
I remember driving country roads with Creedence at full volume. Sooooooooooooo long ago.
ReplyDeleteGreat memory list-but let them go! Give them a hug and then fill the garbage bag with them!! lol
ReplyDeleteSentimental!
ReplyDeleteNo 8-tracks here, but we have a HUGE collection of vinyl!
ReplyDeleteWe skipped 8 track, too poor! Went from Vinyl to Cassette tapes:)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like we have the same tastes in music. We didn't own an 8-track player. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes. When CDs came along, I was amazed at the clarity of sound.
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