Sixty years ago, this cartoon looked pretty far fetched–someone walking around with a personal stereo system, oblivious to the outside world. But it was only 13 years later that the Sony Walkman took the world by storm.  And even before that, in the 1970’s, more clunky headphone radios (usually not stereo, but often AM-FM), that looked a lot like the ones here, hit the market.

OF course today, it’s basically taken for granted that if you want to listen to music wherever you are, the device to provide it is in your pocket.

The cartoon appeared sixty years ago in the February-March 1966 issue of Radio-TV Experimenter.