i got a great boombox back in '81 or so as a birthday gift from my pop. It was a Sanyo, AM/FM, cassette deck, with a couple of 8" (?) diameter speakers. Carried it around quite a bit too - didn't want to miss CFNY - The Spirit of Radio. Back then we called them ghetto blasters. GB's for short. I guess it wasn't that PC...
It was like this:
