Why not jukeboxes?

[Chad Hauris]

I work with a business which does jukebox repair...we have done just about all of the Wurlitzers from the 1100-3600 plus a lot of Rockolas and a few Seeburgs and Rowes. We are now working on an AMI Continental 2.

The ones I own are a Rockola 456 console style, A Seeburg LS-2 plus an early 50's Rockola model 1438 which still needs repair. At our shop we have a Rowe MM-5 and an AMI JAK-200.

At the auction where I bought my Rockola 456 there were a lot of Rockola Sybaris's and early 70's Seeburgs selling for $10.00 each. I would have bought more but I didn't have the truck or trailer at the time.

I have always liked jukeboxes...for one thing they are built to be commercial duty for constant operation and built to be repaired unlike a lot of consumer equipment.

On several of the Wurlitzers we have done an upgrade from a Cobra or ceramic cartridge to a magnetic and got a great improvement in sound quality.

[Bill Cahill]

Wish I had a juke box....
I once almost had a AMI 45 juke box that I thought was nifty. It was frozen in time, with changer in mid cycle. It was still showing original prices of 10 cents, 15 cents, and, 20 cents on the large front window.
That's the one I'd love to have, Red tone arm, and, I think it was a model 200.
Bill Cahill

[JCFitz]

Originally Posted by Bill Cahill

Wish I had a juke box....
I once almost had a AMI 45 juke box that I thought was nifty. It was frozen in time, with changer in mid cycle. It was still showing original prices of 10 cents, 15 cents, and, 20 cents on the large front window.
That's the one I'd love to have, Red tone arm, and, I think it was a model 200.
Bill Cahill

I bet it was an F or G series. I wonder did it look like a big fish tank...lol with a horn up above. The sound on those is amazing if it was. A lady fiend has the G80 and it sounds fantastic.

[Bill Cahill]

No. Not like that. It had 3 glass sides. Wood painted back.
Mechanism was painted red. Metal grill in front. Used two florescent tubes along either side of speaker grill.
Coin box was in back, I think mounted on panel openning at bottom, where you could access the amp, and, volume control.
Speaker was also there.
More, or, less, a square case with a slope shape.
Was lower in back, than front.
Just a neat machine. Entire machine moved side to side accross vertically mounted records accross the back.
Bill Cahill
Sure wish I could have gotten that neat machine.
It looked so cool.