Rock and roll began in the 50s and people wanted to listen to the latest hits on a cheap, portable record player. Record players, though, were often not cheap, amounting to several months of saving, but nevertheless many people made the sacrifice.
These cool pictures that captured people with their record players in the 1950s.
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