Please help! Can anyone ID this model?

[g-foyle]

Hi all...
been a member for a long time but never had the urge to post (just read everybody else's!)
Can anyone ID this model?
The large pic is from the back of a record sleeve.
The small pic is from the front of the sleeve, which uses the bottom half of the original pic. I suspect it is lifted from a British mag in the mid 1970s. If anyone knows who she is or where I can find the photos from this shoot, I'd be really grateful.
Cheers!

[Scarlett Johanson]

i think thats my grandmas snatch

[TallGreenToad]

i think thats my grandmas snatch

That being the case, her name would be...?

TGT

[sub006]

The upholstery looks a lot like photographer John Kirk's infamous orange/brown'white striped couch, on which Roberta Pedon and other lovelies posed. Maybe he had similar furniture like this around as it matched his taste.

But what's the device on the table? At first it looked like "paraphernalia", but now I think it might be the uncovered guts of an old school wide-tape non-cassette video recorder.

[TallGreenToad]

Erm...no, I'm pretty sure it's a LP record player, as there's a tone arm(cartridge head to the left, base mech to the right) at the bottom of the 'device'.

I vaguely recall something like this being advertized in a Hi-Fi magazine back in the - I'd say - middle 70's. During the Hi-Fi craze, there was almost a desperate race on the part of manufacturers to come up with equipment that was radically different that anyone else's.
Remember the record players that had a straight tone arm that moved across the record on a rolling bar? And the one that stood upright and played a record vertically?

I think the player in the photo was a 'nudest' model - like a Street Rod w/no hood or fenders - everything 'right out in the open'.
I'd guess the big chrome cylinder to the left was the motor, the spindle(you can see a 'spike') in the center, and the other cylinders probably padded record supports.

That's my guess anyways...I'm searching the Net for a photo to support the theory...

TGT

[TallGreenToad]

This looks like either an Avid player with the center platter removed, or another brand built along the same lines.

As to strange-looking players, I found one that looks like the Enterprise!

Found a few images of AVID players.

TGT

[sub006]

Thanks for the contributions. Once in a while it's diverting and restorative to speculate on "equipment" in glamour photos that contains no DNA.

[TallGreenToad]

Thanks for the contributions. Once in a while it's diverting and restorative to speculate on "equipment" in glamour photos that contains no DNA.

Thanks...I've always been interested in anything that moves - whether it's warm or not...

However, one should also bear in mind that my response is prompted by the fact that the model at the bottom has more interesting protrusions and fiddly bits than the model at the top! :wink:

TGT
SkinnyLover, Nein!

[charliels531]

The upholstery looks a lot like photographer John Kirk's infamous orange/brown'white striped couch, on which Roberta Pedon and other lovelies posed. Maybe he had similar furniture like this around as it matched his taste.

But what's the device on the table? At first it looked like "paraphernalia", but now I think it might be the uncovered guts of an old school wide-tape non-cassette video recorder.

Sub006, it's good to know someone else notices that stuff! But, alas, it's not the same apartment, nor even the same sofa-bed. Assuming the shiny equipment is a phonograph, it still looks too recent to be in John's apartment.