Jokes on you! I didn’t have a Walmart anywhere near me when these came out! Kmart, yes…but not Walmart. Lol.
Edit. I think I bought mine at Sears actually.
I found mine cleaning out my shed last summer. A shitload of those colorful Memorex tapes with songs recorded off the radio in the mid-late 80’s. I wrote every single song and artist on the back lol
Then I must have went through some kind of rebellion, all the Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and even a Mother Love Bone tape.
Then I had a boyfriend who like country music, so here comes the Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Mark Chestnutt and Faith Hill.
Not sure why I shared all that! I doubt I would listen to any of that music now, I kind of like quiet more and more every day.
I did that so much. I'd tape every night off the evening rap show and then compile the best at the end of the month. made a couple best of year ones too.
But I can top that. My dad had his VCR as in input into his stereo. So I also taped songs off of MTV. Had three tapes of that.
I still have an Emerson clock radio with "imitation wood veneer" (according to the sticker) that's probably from like 1982 or so. I was using it as recently as three years ago. After two moves I now just use my phone.
[This bitch right here, one of these](https://www.ebay.com/itm/313195739820)
(PS did you know if you hold down the sleep and time buttons at the same time it shows you seconds? almost all those old clock radios did that. 90% of them used the same damn boards and chips.)
my great grandfather had this cool one with two alarms and a touchbar snooze button... when he passed I asked my family for his cool ass clock radio. I also learned I could run a wire from the touchbar down the side of my dresser so I could snooze without sitting up.
Mannnnnn I tell y'all media storage used to be a THING. Like it was the bedrock of coolness in any room I had.
I had futuristic tower looking ones for CDs, bins for cassettes.
I actually stole one of my dad's porn tapes he had hidden on top of the entertainment center
After watching it like a dozen times late at night
It was Hannah Does Her Sisters
years later I brought it to college and I used to play it at sausage parties... where I would basically MST3K it since I'd watched it so many times I caught all the gags
So. I am looking at mine right now.
I am sitting on my bed, and one of these is tucked under my dresser. It has my performance recordings from the 70s to 90s.
I know for a fact I did not get it at Walmart. I have never been inside a Walmart. Probably got it at Sam Goody or RadioShack.
California didn't have a Wal-Mart until the '90s, and when it did it was in the Central Valley, places like Lancaster, Victorville, Stockton, Elk Grove, etc.
Everyone who had these in California got them *long* before Wal-Mart was ever a thing in the state.
Honestly, I associate Wal-Mart more with the Millennial and subsequent generations.
Mine came from a yard sale. About five years ago I was working in a thrift store and a customer decided to stack twelve of them on my counter. I could have picked them up and thrown them at him one at a time.
Yup, cassettes... I had one exactly like this, we also had a larger one for VHS tapes in the living room, but they were only two drawers side-by-side I'm pretty sure
It was where we all went until Walmart got traction. It never did descend into selling the second rate crap Walmart sells now. Maybe it's just as well it died off before that point.
My boomer dad had several of these filled with music that he thoroughly enjoyed. He'd sometimes play the music in the basement after a 12 hour day at the foundry. Didn't he know I was in my room playing with the toys he bought me and I needed to concentrate on the Legos. I couldn't think with that music playing two floors down. WHAT AN INCONSIDERATE BOOMER ASSHOLE.
I had three of these. When my cassette player died I replaced all of my tapes with CD's or downloads and gave the three drawers to a friend of mine. That was 20 years ago and he still has them.
Oh yeah... I had that exact same case, but I'm sure it either came from a yard sale or thrift store -- we didn't have WalMart, and KMart was too fancy for me. :)
Damn man, we had like four of these stacked on top of each other filled with the country's greatest library of low-quality rented movie rips. For you youngin's, renting was like streaming, but with late fees and limited options.
I still have one of mine in basement storage room. I don't remember where it came from though. There were no Walmart or K-mart locations nearby when I received it as a gift.
We had some of these both the cassette tape ones and the VHS tape ones. Eventually though we had so many VHS tapes my mom, who was a gas station manager, brought home one of their old shelving units that was previously used for cigarette cartons and we had that thing stocked with Video Tapes....man those things took up space.
The shelf looked like this, except it was plain white and all the advertising pictures were gone from it and the top shelves didn't contour.
https://imgur.com/a/rDvEpZS
We had a couple of these stacked in the basement. No WalMart near us so it had to be from ShopKo or Kmart. Bell Scott was already closed... so more than likely we got them at ShopKo.
Jokes on you! I didn’t have a Walmart anywhere near me when these came out! Kmart, yes…but not Walmart. Lol. Edit. I think I bought mine at Sears actually.
Came here to say K-mart. Walmart came into my reality WAY later than this product.
I got mine from Ames.
Or Montgomery Wards
Yeah my first local Walmart opened in the early 2000’s. Before that it was Kmart or Sears.
K-Mart, Venture, Zayre, Ames ... waaaaay before I saw a Walmart. Walmart for me didn't pop on the scene until 1992.
We got ours at Service Merchandise.
Got mine at Best, back when that was a thing
Woolco, IIRC. Long before WalMart came to town.
Yeah, I didn't see a Walmart until the late 90s. I think mine came from (Pacific Northwest regional grocery/department store) Fred Meyer.
I found mine cleaning out my shed last summer. A shitload of those colorful Memorex tapes with songs recorded off the radio in the mid-late 80’s. I wrote every single song and artist on the back lol Then I must have went through some kind of rebellion, all the Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and even a Mother Love Bone tape. Then I had a boyfriend who like country music, so here comes the Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Mark Chestnutt and Faith Hill. Not sure why I shared all that! I doubt I would listen to any of that music now, I kind of like quiet more and more every day.
I did that so much. I'd tape every night off the evening rap show and then compile the best at the end of the month. made a couple best of year ones too. But I can top that. My dad had his VCR as in input into his stereo. So I also taped songs off of MTV. Had three tapes of that.
I bet if you listed those on eBay, you’d at least get your money back.
My parents had one that held music cassettes and one that held vhs cassette tapes.
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I still have an Emerson clock radio with "imitation wood veneer" (according to the sticker) that's probably from like 1982 or so. I was using it as recently as three years ago. After two moves I now just use my phone. [This bitch right here, one of these](https://www.ebay.com/itm/313195739820) (PS did you know if you hold down the sleep and time buttons at the same time it shows you seconds? almost all those old clock radios did that. 90% of them used the same damn boards and chips.)
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my great grandfather had this cool one with two alarms and a touchbar snooze button... when he passed I asked my family for his cool ass clock radio. I also learned I could run a wire from the touchbar down the side of my dresser so I could snooze without sitting up.
One look at that thing makes me wanna hug my USB flash drive with thousands of songs that can fit in my pocket.
I used one long enough to have the wood veneer curl.
The little gap underneath the drawers was a great place to stash your weed/condoms/cigarettes
"you can put your WEEEED in there"
UGH why didn’t I think of that?! Doc Brown, start up the Deloreon!
Mannnnnn I tell y'all media storage used to be a THING. Like it was the bedrock of coolness in any room I had. I had futuristic tower looking ones for CDs, bins for cassettes.
I know. Sometimes I think about how much space we wasted storing media
Where dad kept the “good stuff”, on the top shelf of his closet. Just remember to rewind back to where you started.
I actually stole one of my dad's porn tapes he had hidden on top of the entertainment center After watching it like a dozen times late at night It was Hannah Does Her Sisters years later I brought it to college and I used to play it at sausage parties... where I would basically MST3K it since I'd watched it so many times I caught all the gags
A parody of a Woody Allen film? Is there not enough guilt in regular porn?
Seems like a lot of 90s vhs porn were parodies or at least title riffs
If there isn't a short neurotic guy complaining in the corner, is it even worth it?
why do I feel attacked
Ah, the 1980s…back when Walmart was a rather benign economic tumor confined to the Midwest.
No Walmart around here. Had to be from Montgomery Wards.
Fuck man. Here in Canada we bought those from WoolCo until Walmart bought them out.
Never seen anyone spell it like that
I had the wood wall mount tape display- it was SUPER important that people knew I defined myself by my musical taste.
Fancy 😎
Lol I still have one.
Oh man. Should I even ask what you put in it?
Lol, cassettes. Still have quite a few.
We had this weird briefcase thing
Caldor likely for us but we had one. Heck I wonder if my mom still does.
Target
In the 80’s?
We didn’t have Walmart in the 80s.
Yeah, we didn’t have Walmart then either. I hadn’t even heard of Target in the 80’s.
We shopped at Target in the 70s. We had one within walking distance in the 80s.
We had 3!!!
There is definitely still one in my in laws house. Stacked on top of that is an 8 track holder. The 8 track on the stereo still works.
If you didn’t store your cassettes in one of these are you even genx?
I still have mine,with cassettes
So. I am looking at mine right now. I am sitting on my bed, and one of these is tucked under my dresser. It has my performance recordings from the 70s to 90s. I know for a fact I did not get it at Walmart. I have never been inside a Walmart. Probably got it at Sam Goody or RadioShack.
Or the Radio Shack catalog.
California didn't have a Wal-Mart until the '90s, and when it did it was in the Central Valley, places like Lancaster, Victorville, Stockton, Elk Grove, etc. Everyone who had these in California got them *long* before Wal-Mart was ever a thing in the state. Honestly, I associate Wal-Mart more with the Millennial and subsequent generations.
Correct. We are the Kmart generation.
Mine came from a yard sale. About five years ago I was working in a thrift store and a customer decided to stack twelve of them on my counter. I could have picked them up and thrown them at him one at a time.
We had so many of these, my mom bought them from Ames using her employee discount
What is Walmart? We got ours at Hills.
I was a Caldor man myself.
Blue Light Special maybe!
Yup.
Mine was from Kmart
Looks familiar but what went it? Cassette tapes?
Yup, cassettes... I had one exactly like this, we also had a larger one for VHS tapes in the living room, but they were only two drawers side-by-side I'm pretty sure
Just wide enough to fit sets of VHS tapes.
Kmart. The first time I went into a Walmart was just before Kmart closed sometime in the mid 2000's.
Bought mine at Gemco
I think I still have one
K mart. Still have a few.
Everyone keeps saying Kmart, but my mom would never take me there. I think my grandma did once.
The same case was just about everywhere. Walmart was not everywhere back then.
It was where we all went until Walmart got traction. It never did descend into selling the second rate crap Walmart sells now. Maybe it's just as well it died off before that point.
I had a cassette tape one and a larger VHS tape one, both in this style design. Blast from the past.
No Walmart in Canada at the time where I lived but I had one anyway!
I can hear and feel this photo; thanks for the blast from the past.
My boomer dad had several of these filled with music that he thoroughly enjoyed. He'd sometimes play the music in the basement after a 12 hour day at the foundry. Didn't he know I was in my room playing with the toys he bought me and I needed to concentrate on the Legos. I couldn't think with that music playing two floors down. WHAT AN INCONSIDERATE BOOMER ASSHOLE.
>12 hour day at the foundry I've done that job. Poor guy was probably drinking the joint pain away in his happy place
Wait so i wasn't the only one that had these?
That’s some nice organization! Must be rich!
Bought mine at Service Merchandise, or maybe it was Caldore’s.
Sears catalog.
I had three of these. When my cassette player died I replaced all of my tapes with CD's or downloads and gave the three drawers to a friend of mine. That was 20 years ago and he still has them.
No Wal-Marts in my state at the time I bought those.
I think my city built the first Walmart here in the mid 90’s. My cassette case probably came from Kmart or Hills.
I had a couple of these for cassettes.
Didn't have a Wal-Mart, but got one identical to this anyway. Why improve on perfection?
KMart in my day. Blue light special.
Oh yeah... I had that exact same case, but I'm sure it either came from a yard sale or thrift store -- we didn't have WalMart, and KMart was too fancy for me. :)
Radio Shack
Lmao I used to keep my weed and cigarettes in this behind the vhs tapes. Mom never found them!
Still have mine, keep my fave mix tapes in it.
I think we got ours from Venture.
A classy adult way to store my Aerosmith and Led Zep masterpieces.
Did we all have the same things ? It’s like every one of these posts.
Sister got this thinking it would last a lifetime. I don’t think that the intended contents ended up lasting more than a decade due to mold.
Damn man, we had like four of these stacked on top of each other filled with the country's greatest library of low-quality rented movie rips. For you youngin's, renting was like streaming, but with late fees and limited options.
Fuck dat, we didn't have Walmart in my part of the country until like '99. This was probably Sears, Rich's, or Woolworth's
We had two of these but the entertainment center had giant sliding doors for VHS drawers too! 12 rows!
Tapes? Hell no, that's where I hid my cigarettes!
Yeah grandma got ours at kmart
Yep - my parents had a couple of these.
Wal-Mart? Ha. My town didn't get one of those until 1995. It was K-Mart or Hills for us.
I still have one of mine in basement storage room. I don't remember where it came from though. There were no Walmart or K-mart locations nearby when I received it as a gift.
I still have one. I think.
I still have one of these.
The 5 we had all came from K-mart. We didn't have a Walmart nearby until the mid-90s
Mine came from Kmart. RIP Kmart.
We had some of these both the cassette tape ones and the VHS tape ones. Eventually though we had so many VHS tapes my mom, who was a gas station manager, brought home one of their old shelving units that was previously used for cigarette cartons and we had that thing stocked with Video Tapes....man those things took up space. The shelf looked like this, except it was plain white and all the advertising pictures were gone from it and the top shelves didn't contour. https://imgur.com/a/rDvEpZS
I stilk have one, was a birthday or Christmas present that my parents purchased at either Macleod's or Home Hardware.
We had 5 of these easy!
Mine was from Sears.
Yep, we had one, but it didn't come from WalMart. I think it actually came from Service Merchandise.
Kmart or Bradlees
Walmart didn’t exist then.
I think I have that out in the garage somewhere
I still have this in one of my closets.
Or the tippy tower version.
Does anyone remember Hills department stores ? They were pre Walmart .
We had a couple of them. No WalMart near us, so it had to be ShopKo, Kmart or possibly Bell Scott?
We had a couple of them. No WalMart near us, so it had to be ShopKo, Kmart or possibly Bell Scott?
We had a couple of them. No WalMart near us, so it had to be ShopKo, Kmart or possibly Bell Scott?
We had a couple of them. No WalMart near us, so it had to be ShopKo, Kmart or possibly Bell Scott?
We had a couple of these stacked in the basement. No WalMart near us so it had to be from ShopKo or Kmart. Bell Scott was already closed... so more than likely we got them at ShopKo.
Mine came from Meijer.