Tales from the Storage Locker: Days of the Cassette

[fatrockstar]

I found this case as I was going through my extra boxes. I don't think I've opened it in ten years, and certainly not since I replaced the stereo in my car with a cd player. Carry cases like this are definitely relics now, but I remember how important they were during Cassette Days.



Not all cases were created equal, either. Some were designed in such a way that if you didn't put the case in just right it would stick out or break. My dad had an awesome hard case for his. I coveted it.

I only have one cassette player now, and it's in my kitchen. I listened to Duran Duran a few days ago and it took me back quite a ways. A mix tape took me back to my first semester at WSU. I found a homemade case sleeve that took me to the summer of '87 with my first live-in boyfriend.



What are your Cassette Days memories?

Comments

[crazy-talk23.livejournal.com]

great mix tapes, local band tapes (i still have several from my highschool ND times), homemade covers..recording the radio... sometimes the old times were so much better :)

[winifred.livejournal.com]

Recording the radio was always so frustrating -- every DJ on the planet had to talk over the intro AND the outro, so it was tough to get anything clean.

[skwairpegsback.livejournal.com]

There are some songs I can't hear today without also hearing (in my mind) the spots where the tapes would blip a little, or where the radio DJ would talk, or the beginning of the next song the radio was playing...

I love the advances we've seen in audio and video and gaming consoles... but pawing through relics and remembering the old days is just wonderful and magical to me.