walkmen

Reading this article reminds me that most portable tape players were just called "walkmen", much like MP3 players are invariably called an Ipod.

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I don't run much anymore, but when I used to I would see people running with walkmen and I-pods and I would think to myself that they're missing the best part, the sounds of their footsteps on the pavement.

Losing Touch with a Good Friend 2009

January 24th, 2009 @ 1:40 PM daily agenda, music the walkmen, at bumbershoot this summer photo by josh flickr

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This cassette-generator produces custom fictional audio-cassettes from the golden age of bulky walkmen.

- Boing Boing 2006

Light, funtional, minimalistic, no fasteners, they are the ipod among the clunky '80s Aiwa walkmen of normal led lights.

Frog in the Throat: Diagnosing Your Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2008

Dan, being extra smooth as usual, said to his neighbor, "Hey, I liked that first walkmen album, but I hear they kind of sold out on this one ... going on the OC and all."

How you like me now? (Music (For Robots)) 2006

This was the bassist from the walkmen (whose name escapes me).

How you like me now? (Music (For Robots)) 2006

GERAGOS: The fact that they were joggers, the fact that they were wearing walkmen, the fact that one of these women was trained in the martial arts, and that may be an explanation for why she got away, would tend to support this.

CNN Transcript May 28, 2002 2002

And both of the signatures, if you will, of those other assaults were women who were jogging with walkmen on, which tend to support or be at least a signature, if you will, to Chandra.

CNN Transcript May 28, 2002 2002

VCRs, walkmen, headphones, and even totally commodity products like media.

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