Editor’s note: A prior version of this column was distributed by Cagle Cartoons in 2014. It sat in my parents’ dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers ...

Things are always changing and the more years pass, the more they seem to change.

Some days are just lucky ones. Such was the day I found a half-century old console stereo at an estate sale.

Remember those console stereos that could be found in living rooms of the 1950s and 1960s? They’re back.

Reed also repurposes large vintage stereo consoles with hinged lids. Remember those? “If it’s real close to death, I gut it out and put a real nice bar into it,” he says.

It sat in my parents’ dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers concealed by green fabric. It filled my childhood with a harmony and clarity we could use ...

It sat in my parents' dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers concealed by green fabric. It filled my childhood with a harmony and clarity we could use lots ...

It sat in my parents’ dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers concealed by green fabric. It filled my childhood ...

It sat in my parents' dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers concealed by green fabric. It filled my childhood with a harmony and clarity we could use lots ...

It sat in my parents’ dining room for 30 years or more: an old oak stereo console with large speakers concealed by green fabric. It filled my childhood with a ...