I remember about seven years ago when I was still in the public schools getting ready to play a record for the children on the first day of school. I pulled the record out of its sleeve and was about to position it on the record player when one boy said to another "That is the biggest CD I ever saw!"
Having used records for over twenty-five years, it never dawned on me that a child might not ever have seen a record before. When I came to my new school, I searched in vain for a used record player but to no avail. They are as obsolete as the dinosaur now. I have seen a few in department stores that retail around one hundred dollars but as a kindergarten teacher, I didn't have those kinds of funds to invest. My large collection of old records sits at home gathering dust. Ah, progress!
That is cute! My hubby has a collection and one day my daughter saw them and said the same thing!!! "Those are huge CD's". I guess we are turning into antiques! Have a wonderful Thursday!
You and my hubby are kindred spirits...we have the turntable set up and he plays his 33's and 78's. Our kids and grandbaby love it.
Hugs, andrea
Is that also called a phono player or is that different? I remember my aunt had it but it doesn't work anymore, sad though that it doesn't it could already be an antique compared to the technologies now.
Great post! To the kids of today, records and record players are considered ancient. My husband still has his collection of albums and cannot part with them. I gave mine away a long time ago.
LOL!
I still remember the day one of the punks asked me what I was talking about when I told them they "sounded like a broken record". Luckily, I still had my stereo/tape/record player from high school and we could show them a record. My son said the same thing about it being a big CD!
My mother purchased a large record player at the good will, wooden cabinet, speakers on each side, it's about six foot long at $10.00. She loves it. Found my grandmother a table top one too $5.00.
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Terri,
If you are an antique, I must be a fossil!
I have such great records Andrea....must wonderful kid songs....sigh
Most of my records now are CD's...I worked so hard on collecting those kids records! I even was a master at finding the songs with the needle during circle time...talk about a DJ!
Couldn't sing a lick though-just call me 'DJ Tone Deaf'.
I knew I was getting old when the my kids asked me if I was ever chased home by a dinosaur....
sigh.
Sign of the times...
It is the same thing Mie! Thanks for sharing.
I can't bring myself to get rid of mine Choices...I keep saying I am going to transfer them to CD.....thats what I have been saying for the last three years anyway....
Lol Karen. I never thought of that phrase being out of touch for today's youth. Thanks for sharing...sheesh...I feel OLD!
Barbara,
That is too funny! Good for you for making time to transfer yours to CD. I need to get motivated to do that too!
Wow Life's A Sandcastle! What a deal!!! I wish I could stumble on a deal like that!
Compare with a CD, records are pretty big! Too funny.
That's why I worry about Amazon's Kindle. Who wants their books to become obsolete?
Good point Theresa!
My best friends husband loves to play records. He must have hundreds in perfect condition. I love to go over when he does. my hubs even gifted him his old records.
I read a story with a record player in it... the kids had no clue what it was... I had to bring one in to show them... they were amazed.
We STILL have a record player (it's a CD player, record player, radio combined). We've kept it simply because my son is so fascinated with it. We only have a handful of records from when I was a kid, and they have plenty of scratches, but he still likes them!
I have a great collection myself Ms Bibi. I wish I could find an old record player so I could use it in my classroom.
halpey1,
I wish I had a record player now. Lucky you to have one to bring in. I had so many as a kid and wish I had kept one of them.
Genny,
You smart lady you! I have tons of records....I should send you some. How old is your son?
so true..some of my best memories as a child were listening to books ON RECORD!!:)..now kids think tapes are unusual...!
Lol Debbie...isn't that the truth!
Oh - that so reminds me - I am a dialysis nurse nad one of my patients in in his 80's and lives a very simple life. One of the nurses had copied a gospel cd for some of the others and wanted to offer him one - He is VERY hard of hearing so she had to yell. "Do you have a cd player!?" Well after a good 5 minutes of yelling he decided that he didn't know what one was - so she asked him about a tape player in the same manner, but he still wasn't understanding - I had her ask about a record player - when she finally got across what she was asking - he said "Yeah seems like I had one - it is probably out in the barn." I wish I lived this simply at times.
What a sweet story Crystal! Thanks so much for sharing. I wish the same thing at times.
We dinosaurs forget that the younger ones don't know about records! Ha! My husband and I have a "bunch" of records, but no longer have a turntable to play them on. Sad! I love your blog! Welcome to blogging and thanks for stopping by mine.
Wow. I also wish I had a record player for the records that are still put up collecting dust! Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you have a great weekend!
That is too funny! Kids these days...lol.
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This is too cute! My kids were actually being super quiet and giggly the other day and I knew they were getting up to something, but I want them to bond. However, soon after they came running out with black streaks behind them. They had pulled the tape out of a cassette. I told them they weren't supposed to do that, but I couldn't help but laugh silently. It looked like so much fun!
Lol Vicki! Your kids had to investigate exactly how it worked...too funny!
oh how I miss my 45's. I still call CDs albums. There's someting nostalgic about hearing a verse get stuck on a vinyl scratch. I once stood before a junior college class to teach and realized that my college credits were older than they were. Ouch! I cannot imagine the clash of worlds with kindergarten kids!
Lol Beth,
Take it from this dinosaur...you don't want to know!