BOOMBOX
Higher Intention Productions owns one of the largest collections on vintage boomboxes (“ghetto blasters”) in the United States. The “ghetto blaster” is a signature piece in every Higher Intention Production. However we also rent the collection as props for motion pictures, music videos, special events & art galleries.
The Boombox.
Precisely when the term was coined we’re not sure. Department stores such as Sears and K-Mart began to use it in their marketing as early as 1983. Merriam-Webster pins it at 1981, and defines the boombox as “a large portable radio and often tape player with two attached speakers”. Initially, it became identified with a certain group of society, hence adopting epithetic nicknames, like ghetto blaster, and jam box. But as the masses began to embrace this assemblage of electronic gadgets as an indispensable form of portable entertainment, it became an icon of popular culture and we’ve yet to let go. Your hosts of “Pocket Calculator Show” endeavor here to provide a retrospective, including as many photos, facts, and accounts as we can provide, during your tour of the Vintage Boombox Museum.
