What did you, and people you knew, call those big portable stereo cassette players?

Boom Boxes

Boom Box

Boom Box

Boom box.

Where i lived at the time of their popularity, we called them boxes. I know boom box was the official slang term.

Boom box

Boom box

boom box. some were boomier than others.

I grew up calling it a “boom box”, but I remember learning the term “ghetto blaster” as a kid and finding it funny.

Walkman

Boom box. Ghetto blaster was a phrase invented later

Both, boom box earlier in the 80s.

Porta Parties

Boom box . . . or more often, “portable cassette stereo” or “stereo” or something. When we (rarely) said “boom box” there was always a bit of tongue-in-cheek about it. “Ghetto blaster” was known, maybe sometimes used, but with a more tasteless tongue in the cheek.

Boom Box

Ghetto blaster here.

@Lightlyseared
Finally someone with the correct answer.

I knew them as ghetto blasters. It’s only later I recall people calling them boom boxes.

If I’m not mistaken, the two people who said “Ghetto blasters” are from the UK?

Boom Box.

Another vote for Boom Box.

“Ghetto blaster,” in America, sounds like a firearm.

If someone told me they were bringing a “ghetto blaster,” to my party, I would be expecting trouble.

coffins for older people are known as “Boomer Boxes”

Both boom boxes and ghetto blasters. Both in the same area.