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title: "Jammed with iconography, signage, feature logos, afunctional-bling-packed, size-matters boom boxes. Gobs of switches, buttons, levers, knobs, LED indicators, needles, transparent doors, grilles, rolling-number counters, jacks, wires, handles, all with the heft of a half dozen of the largest fuck-off batteries on the market.\n\nSomehow these grew into non-portable shelf systems, probably killed by a combination the Walkman ear-phones (visualize them in orange) and then the at-first-not-portable compact disc. \n\nmrgan:\n\nThe Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko, a photo timeline. Check out the whole gallery (Flash, sorry.)"
date: 2010-03-23 11:40:58 +00
tags: tumblr
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![mirrored image from https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzq3l9UKDN1qz50x3o1_1280.png without alt text, sorry](./467801002.png)

[](<http://www.owerko.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&a=4&p=0&at=0 >)

Jammed with iconography, signage, feature logos, afunctional-bling-packed, size-matters boom boxes. Gobs of switches, buttons, levers, knobs, LED indicators, needles, transparent doors, grilles, rolling-number counters, jacks, wires, handles, all with the heft of a half dozen of the largest fuck-off batteries on the market.

Somehow these grew into non-portable shelf systems, probably killed by a combination the Walkman ear-phones (visualize them in orange) and then the at-first-not-portable compact disc.

[mrgan](http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/467483769/the-boombox-project-by-lyle-owerko-a-photo):

> **The Boombox Project** by Lyle Owerko, a photo timeline. Check out the [whole gallery](http://www.owerko.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&a=4&p=0&at=0) (Flash, sorry.)

March 23rd, 2010 4:40am