TIME-TUNNEL-COLLECTIONS : ALL ABOUT COLLECTABLES FROM THE 60s70s80s&90s

           OUR SITE HISTORY GOES BACK TO THE 1970'S

In 1976 after leaving school I went into retail (starting in motor accessories and DIY retailing) its quite interesting to note that very soon after starting work I became interested in items that had historical interest .......examples would be old cash registers, clocks,display cabinets......... significantly, I already had an interest in Audio and electronics as when I was at school I helped run a small pirate radio station...great fun (which unfortunately resulted in a severe dressing down and a suspension) The large motor accsessory and DIY centres I worked for sold car Audio,significant in as much as it provided a great grounding for one of my current interests and collections, 8 Track tape players and Tapes. much more about this and other collecting  passions later.

Needless to say, by the end of the 70's I already had a collection of several doz valve radio's, many records and spool tapes and so I had well and truely caught the collecting bug.......it was also at this time I bought my first computer  ( a Tandy TRS 80) now a bit of a classic in its own right in 1979 I wrote my first article about creating a club for collecting and calling it Time tunnel collections and the rest (as they say) is history.

With the advent of much more powerful computers in the late 90's and as the internet came of age what is now the great phenomenon  had started it's rise to the now undisputed Number 1 auction site and this offered an excellent avenue to purchase new items for peoples collections and to dispose of duplicate items that had been obtained over the years. Many years have passed since we opened our E-BAY account, over the years we've bought and sold some great E-BAY items.. see some of the items in example photo's below

  

now see a bit of history............1970's combo reel to reel /cassette /8 track playing music from the period

these pages have been around for a while on our old Aol hometown page and on our 'me' e-bay profile......but after talking to lots of people we decided to launch our own official website and have put various different bits of info together on this site.