I still have a pioneer ps-1 turntable in storage along with a few boxes of albums and even some 45's and 78's.  It has the red and white push plugs so it will still hook up with anything that will accept that type of connection. Our family still had the big Stereo Console you could play all types of records on and it had the new fandangled fm dial too! I graduated in 77' and mom and dad still had it in 85' when I went to visit on leave from the air force. I don't know what ever happened to it, my parents were adopted and after mom passed, dad remarried and we lost contact.

Very interesting, I'd heard of and listened to 16 rpm records, they were made for talking or conversations, I remember them as either 78 or 33 size. I take it the ad is mid 'fifties to early sixties. Most American stuff avadable here at that time was what you guys would have thought was very basic. Chev Belairs. Ford Customlines or Galaxies, Dodge Kingway and the Plymouth equivalent, and a bit later Pontiac Laurentians and Chev Impalas. They were very expensive and difficult to obtain.

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It's 1956.  I believe that was near the end for DeSoto.

Chrysler only offered the record player for 1956 as it wasn't very popular.  It didn't work very well, the records would skip on all but the smoothest roads.

They re-introduced a better version in the early 1960s, but that, too, only lasted a short time.

"Pontiac Laurentian" reminded me that US car makers used to re-badge cars for the Canadian market- that was one of the brands.  The same car in the US was called the Catalina, I believe.  Guess they thought that the Canadian models needed their own identity or something.

They still call it "filming", although a lot of it is digital these days.

Similarly, the nice lady voice's on my car's Bluetooth hands-free tells me to say "dial" when I want to make a call, even though no cellphone has ever had a dial . . .

My first car was a 62 Chevy/4door/283/2 speed slip & slide
I found an 8 track that had a head adjustment knob, so I could tune the head to read the tape & not "dual-track"..I got a Slide In  mount & put one
in the house. Bass 48 speakers were the hot ticket in 71 or 2. With a little 12 V supply in the house I had a tape deck in the bedroom & it slipped in the car. 62 chevy had the glove box between the seats, in the dash, so, it went in there, just left the thing open,,

Was born 12/10/1971 and my wife was born 07/03/1963

I remember eight tracks, LPs, cassettes, and do ya'll remember the first digital movie disks? The size of a 33 record and you even had to turn them over to watch the second half of the movie. They obviously didn't last long but we were the kings of the neighborhood to the neighbor kids when my mother bought one. We only had three movies. Benji, Grease, and Cannonball Run, but that didn't matter.

I also remember three on the tree, four on the floor, and actually having to push and pull the door locks to lock and unlock the car from inside and actually using the key to do it from the outside. The high beam switch on the floor or more commonly known as The Brights.

Don't forget the ill-fated Beta video cassettes.

I also remember cars you could work on yourself straight from the factory without having to have a degree in computers or having to have a truckload of special electronic gadgets. A torque wrench and a set of sockets was the least you needed and you could practically rebuild the entire car.

It's time to get back to basics.

I'm selling my '08 Dakota and looking for a 70's model Ford p/u with the 300 straight 6 and standard 4 speed.  
No computers; plain & simple electrical system; enough room under the hood to actually crawl in there and sit next to the engine while working on it.