Old Boombox
Your iPod may look cool, but can you balance it on your shoulder and blast your new Jay-Z album at obnoxiously high volumes? Didn’t think so. The boombox — also known as the jambox, the ghetto blaster or the jerkface apparatus — reached its peak popularity during the 1980s, when big hair, stone-washed jeans and bad dancing enjoyed similarly unaccountable heydays. Though updated editions of the boombox may be on the market today, the era of not being able to ride in peace on a randomly selected public conveyance on a randomly selected day is, thankfully, behind us.
