Vintage Portable General Electric Record Player 

I had that same record player as a kid. I'm thinking I got it for Christmas in about 1967. It was a huge step up for a 7-year-old kid to have a record player that could do the automatic record changing. Only difference is mine was black on the outside instead of that light tan color. What a great memory seeing this.

Great find!!! GE was a great name back them and they built very good quality products back in the 70's!!!

Nice! Thanks for saving that little fellow and giving it a good home.

I wish I could be lucky enough to find a record changer that works for $15. I own a few record changers but they cost more than $15. I've been playing records on changers off an on since 1978. I love record changers and I always will.

I got one of those for Christmas when they were brand new. 1969 maybe? I still have it. Needs a new needle though and the spindle is missing. The only problem was they absolutely would NOT play a stereo record. That's probably why they changed the cartridge out. It certainly served it's purpose and I'm amazed the thing still works. It was my only record player for about 10 years.

Beautiful record player

I had the GE Wildcat phonograph in the early 70's. Worked real well.

I had a mono GE record very similar to this one from the 70's when I was age 9, and I wish I still had it, great post!!...Friends, Lloyd.

GE "Swingmate" Mono version of the Wildcat!

These are both VERY cheap and VERY reliable.

I've got one too, and the first thing I did when I bought it in mid-2001, was buy a VM 45 adaptor of this same 2 and 3/4 height, and kicked that supplied GE model right out of my sight. Then I replaced that squared off balance arm with a conventional curved-style (also a VM). The VM 45 adaptor whether the flat model or precursor round will hold and drop singles without needing the balance arm to keep them all from falling, and leave the option of the top in the stack repeat play all you want.

That is a good buy. Lucky man. A nice piece of period kit.

I had one identical to yours. It is from 1971. I had problems with it tracking when I replaced the original stylus. I finally had to resolve the problem by taping pennies on top of the tone arm over the stylus.

I got one exactly like that at an antique mall for 15 bucks. LOVE IT! I painted it black and collaged the top with I love lucy pictures (I wanted to fancy it up :D) .. I'll weep when that thing finally craps out on me.

HOLY CRAP! Been a long time since I've seen one of these...

I had a stereo version of that changer with 232 ohm 5 inch speakers but it had the same changer they had several record players those years with that changer some stereo some mono I wish I could find another one

Love these good record players

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I just bought a GE Solid St. V211G, 4 speed (orange deck, white case), should be arriving soon via eBay. My dad had one when I was a kid and it worked great. I love the turnover stylus on the arm. We'll see how/if it works with newer vinyls from today or if I need a more modern player that works better with recent releases.

I had this player as a kid about 1976.

wow...very nice. you are lucky to find one that works good. i have purchased 3 from ebay, and none of them are working though they are supposed to according to the descriptions. 1 i sent back and the other ones i'm hoping to have refurbished. i paid alot more than 15.00 also. that was a great find for you i would say.

Nice...and for $15..? Not bad.

I had one just like that one except inside base was orange. I liked it then.

I have a later model (1974) GE just like that w/ a plastic red changer. I mines at the flea market for only $5. All I did to it was changed the needle.

I've always wanted a Magnavox 400 portable

They sound pretty good w/ 78s.

These were very sexy looking record players, it's a shame the sound quality wasn't there

I bought this same exact record at the flea market for $20. All works well except it's missing the 45 stacker.

I have one similar to that i think the only differences with that is that its a different color and mine is only a 3 speed. Still really cool!

I had one like this back when they were "current production" items. It's a poor excuse for a proper phonograph, but it's still a billion times as good as the crap being sold now.

How do you use the adapter to stack 45s, I have a V638 almost identical and am trying to use the charger feature but can't get the records to stack.

I bought one of these on Ebay 7 years ago and it was in great shape. I bought it on an auction for around $200. Sadly, I've only had the unit for 2 years. It ended up being stolen and purposely destroyed by some lunatic.

Hi. Great video. I’m hoping to find one of these as well. What’s the name and second 45 you are playing (light green label)? Thanks.

Can you tell me why the turn table doesn’t spin

cool, they sell these old record players at funlan flea market in tampa

I had one of these when I was a kid. I had it for years... and somewhere along the line... it vanished.

I had one just like this when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it cost around $30 new.

When you got yours,did it have a problem during the eject function with the tonearm jumping back to the last minute of the single/lp? Mine is from between 1968 and 1974,with the orange/red section where the turntable is.

I’m a total noob. But will a player designed to use 45’s play the larger full size records? I’m looking at a 45 player but don’t know if it will play the big ones.

I need a needle for this. What needle do I buy?

can those play 12 inch records? I know, i dont know much about records

Great video and great turntable! But i don't think that beethoven's music could have any copyright...

"Variety Shop" - - is that the same as a 'thrift store(second hand)'?

Newer cartridges are smaller

I wonder if Beethoven still pursues copyright infringements (:->

My dad found one in a trailer he was working in Idek if it works lol

a flip type cartridge was truly necessary, G.E. cut to many corners when a 2mil stylus used to play both types of records. G.E .never should have continued these record players.just an insult to record playing . :((((((

Where can I get one of these as cheap as you got it? I've always wanted one like this but cant find it as cheap as you got it. :)

I have this and it has a lot of static would you know how to fix that?

LOL!!