My parents had that style of furniture - their drum table even contained an actual copy of the works of Shakespeare nobody read. They also had a Magnavox stereo very similar to this one. It was MASSIVE and weighed about as much as a refrigerator.
The right side had a tuner and phonograph player, the left side was record storage. It had a remote that worked ultrasonically, blowing air through little pipes when pressed. By accident I discovered I could make it change channels by jingling coins together.
My grandmother had one of these in her living room in the 1980s. Usually it was just a massive piece of inert furniture with all sorts of grandma-standard vases, photos, etc. arranged on top. I think I saw it actually being used to play music only once in my life, on some occasion when someone wanted some tunes badly enough to move all the other stuff off so they could open it to get to the phonograph.
My parents had that style of furniture - their drum table even contained an actual copy of the works of Shakespeare nobody read. They also had a Magnavox stereo very similar to this one. It was MASSIVE and weighed about as much as a refrigerator. The right side had a tuner and phonograph player, the left side was record storage. It had a remote that worked ultrasonically, blowing air through little pipes when pressed. By accident I discovered I could make it change channels by jingling coins together.
My grandmother had one of these in her living room in the 1980s. Usually it was just a massive piece of inert furniture with all sorts of grandma-standard vases, photos, etc. arranged on top. I think I saw it actually being used to play music only once in my life, on some occasion when someone wanted some tunes badly enough to move all the other stuff off so they could open it to get to the phonograph.
LOL my wife’s grandma’s piano in our basement is like that.