Welcome to Is This Available? by Dana and Maria, our weekly blast about something we find on Facebook Marketplace.
New York, New York
Alarm clocks. Remember? My parents had them. One was an analog tiny black cube and the other was long, low, digital and rectangular. I remember the neon green toothpaste glow of the numbers and the grated top protecting the speaker mesh like 2002 was yesterday. At one point I had one too, but with a much cooler name. The iHome. Remember?
Before alarm clocks alarm clocks were church bells, before church bells they were “knockers” (people who walked through towns banging on everyone’s doors. But how did knockers wake up…), before knockers there were roosters and cows, and before them the sun did the job.
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvppppp (fast forward to today) phones are alarms. But having a phone too close to bed is bad and the preset alarm jingles are even worse. Unrelated but at the same time, radio alarm clocks are a fun shape to add to a bedside table, can break up the daily slog with an exciting radio hit, and give one the ability to do this once in a while:
Whatever the reason is, our once roommate, fellow Capricorn, former genius contributor to the sub, Rebecca Alter, needs one, bad. Her prompt:
We’re up for the task.
Clock 1: Vintage Panasonic Flip Clock
Clock 2: Vintage Sony Clock Radio
Clock 3: Vintage pink Sharp radio alarm clock
Clock 4: Hello Kitty Projector Clock Radio
Clock 5: Sony Portable CD Tape Radio with clock
Uh oh, watch out John!
Maria’s miss of the week: after your radio alarm goes off, jump into this large foldable bath tub
Shocked at the suggestion that an alarm clock could be 'Too Salmon'. Why have 90s electronics if not to flex and display our love for the deep pink suggestions of Salmon???