Throwback: Remember the Record Player at Anderson's?

See that thing in the 1965 advertisement in the Red Bank Register?

It's called a record player. It was this high-tech, newfangled thing that people used to listen to music. And this was a deluxe model. Yes, deluxe.

It was being sold at Anderson Record Shop (or Anderson's Music Store) for $19.95 on, where else, Broad Street — 21 Broad.

The location was very close to the spot where Jack's Music Shoppe is now. And, yes, Jack is the son of proprietor "Bev" Anderson, or John Beverly Anderson.

This featured record player came with four speeds (45, 78, 33 and 18?), two needles, a solid state transistor amplifier, an all-steel (no plastic) turntable and resonant wood cabinet. Deluxe!

That's how they listened to music back then when dinosaurs roamed the earth and technology was a bit more simplified. If you need to know what a needle is, ask your mother or grandmother. I will tell you that it was very important to the quality of the sound. And, God forbid you had scratches on your records.

Now, do you know how 45's, or the single song records (or one on each side) were played on the record player? What was the thing that went in the middle called?