When my kids saw a cassette tape, for the first time Sunday night, they immediately wanted to pull out the ribbon. I explained that could only happen after I confirmed the old cassettes my parents had pulled out of storage were ones I could discard for good.
There was a purpose to keeping my Sony player afterall. Most of the stuff was crappy recordings of songs from other people’s tapes or the radio. My dad hooked my stereo up to cable years ago and I was able to record House music remixes out of Chicago. (Sorry if I lost some of you here.) The cool thing is I came across a recorded radio interview my mom did as an elementary principal to promote guest reader week. You don’t realize how much your voice changes until you hear how it sounded so many years ago.
Once I made sure a tape was not worth saving, I let Charlotte and Thomas destroy them. That was fun. Up next–transfer all my VCR tapes!
Parkersburg’s Aaron Thomas, Ed Thomas’ son, is speaking at 1pm this Sunday, April 29 @ Zion Lutheran (6 corners Waterloo). Free and open to the public.
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 46
This post was written by Tara on April 24, 2012
How fun!!! LOL My daughter found a box of records when we were rearranging things in our basement. I asked her what was in it. She gave me a funny look and said a bunch of big black CD’S. LOL I got out my record player and she was anything but impressed. She said, you had to do all that work to find your song if you didn’t want that one? Times sure change.
We have a record player/radio in our basement. My husband has a few records the girls still play. There is one of the music from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They play this from time to time. There are others they have had “dance parties” to. It’s nice when girls 10 and under are happy with the “outdated things”.
It’s kind of sad that our kids will never experience sitting out on the lawn, waiting for a favorite song to play on the radio so they can record it onto a cassette tape. Great memories!