The 1980s were really the era of cassette tapes. Music-lovers, young and old, at the very least had a cassette player in their car. The luckier ones had a portable tape player or boombox that made it ...

There’s an old saying that good ideas never go out of fashion but is that strictly true? Those boombox cassette players that many of us carried around in the 1980s eventually went out of fashion. They ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...