Jukebox ( Who's got one) [Archive]

Fat Hack

01-11-2004, 11:17 PM

A friend of mine bought one for her basement game room years ago at an auction house for used jukeboxes, video games, pool tables and the like. Paid like $100 for it (70s vintage...in fact, the EXACT same make and model seen in the bar Patrick Swayzee gets drunk at in the obscure 80s film "Grandview USA"!)

She keeps buying 45s at garage sales to keep the selections fresh!

Makes a great sound system for when we're shootin' pool or throwin' darts...kinda like being at a bar without the crowds, bad bands or scary restrooms!

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Donzie

01-11-2004, 11:26 PM

Here's a shot of mine in my basement diner (obviously a work in progress).
It's a '64 Wirlitzer. I bought it about a year ago for $375. (I'm still smilin'). It was full of records from the '50s and '60s. The owners had owned it for 15 yrs but had lost the key and didn't know how to open it. The selector buttons were jammed so it wouldn't play. It was an easy fix.
Yep, they're a lot of fun.

Skate Fink

01-11-2004, 11:32 PM

"ScaryLarry" is the MAN!!!

4t64rd

01-11-2004, 11:36 PM

Got 2 right now a 51 Seeburg (like in Arnold's on Happy Days)

and

A 74 AMI/Rowe consolemodel, but I built a front piece that maks it look like a Coke cooler. It's painted red and it's FOR SALE! works perfect. Anybody interested? Weighs a ton. That's not it in the picture, that's a real coke machine.

KCTA Chris

01-12-2004, 12:01 AM

Mine found me. Never thought I could find a vintage wooden box I could afford. but I'm looking at a 50's jukebox site and I see this at the bottom of the page that stands out that looks like the classic Wurlitzer. I call the guy and its Rock-ola called a 1939 Deluxe. Huh thats odd? my old Ford coupe is a 1939 Deluxe. I got a suprize bonus at work the next day, box arrived 3 weeks later. We even changed the house floorplan around the jukebox.

LEEBO

01-12-2004, 12:05 AM

A friend has told me about another one sittin on the front verandah of a un used house about a mile from my house. the guy who owns the house is abit of a nut so I've never been able to get to talk to him. may have to put the ski mask on and take a drive there late at night. I dont know what make it is, but its got a kool bubble top

LEEBO

01-12-2004, 12:10 AM

that 39 is sweeeet.

I'm about to build a new home aswell ( unfortunately its gonna be a standard lookin suburban home) unlike our lovely 20,s home we own now. The good thing is I've made sure the gamesroom is big enough for the bowsers, jukebox and my dodgem car.

lulabelle

01-12-2004, 12:10 AM

[ QUOTE ]
"ScaryLarry" is the MAN!!!

[/ QUOTE ]yep!He'll see this.

chip

01-12-2004, 02:10 AM

i've got a 1956 ami g-120, bought it for $250.00 from a guy getting ready to move, & diddn't want to move it!, looks almost mint, & works great! also came with about 400 records, all old stuff....been offered $1,800.00 for it but i like it too much.....chip

LEEBO

01-12-2004, 02:18 AM

It seems pricing for these things is all over the place. What amazes me is if you owned a jukebox full of vinyl WHY WOULD YOU SELL IT !!
This was what I told Mrs Leebo anyway, its not an item your liable to loose money on is it !!

littledeucecoupe427

01-12-2004, 04:35 AM

How about who wants one! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scarylarry

01-12-2004, 06:09 AM

Some stuff/1939 Penny Phono, Wurlitzer and the other big companys were already getting five cents a play so this didnt go over with operators.

scarylarry

01-12-2004, 06:11 AM

5' tall Rockola speaker from 1940-41 for Chris' 39 deluxe

scarylarry

01-12-2004, 06:11 AM

1948 Rockola

scarylarry

01-12-2004, 06:14 AM

1940 Wurlitzer 850 (round top) and 1941 Victory. I cant tell you much about flathead stuff, but I know this junk.

Humboldt Cat

01-12-2004, 07:12 AM

My folks have one in their game room, right between an original Star Wars pinball machine and an older pinball. Really cool thing! I'd love to get one of those booth jukes some diners still have.

Elrod

01-12-2004, 11:41 AM

Here's the 1941 Wurlitzer that I have. Got it when I was 13 or so and restored it.

Dang, cant find a picture of mine on this computer, but this one is just like the one I have. (mine has electric selector though and the one in the picture does not)

dusty

01-12-2004, 06:41 PM

Cant find the pics of the basement diner but I have a 2400 Wurlitzer. Anyone needing vinyl can call Wurco in North Tonowanda,NY in the old Wurlitzer building. They sell stuffers, singles and even cds for the late models.

HotRodJosh

01-12-2004, 07:08 PM

Here is ours: Its a 1952 AMI. There are multi-colored cylinders that rotate in the bottom and under the song list.

Boones

01-12-2004, 07:18 PM

Here is my 1961 Seeburg.. Not working currently (wont pic up the record) and I can not find anyone locally to work on it.. Its been in the family sicne about 1976. I should load it in the car and bring it to Scarry so he can get it running (been 7 yrs since it worked) since he seems to be the Jukebox guru....

Skate Fink

01-12-2004, 08:14 PM

[ QUOTE ]
1940 Wurlitzer 850 (round top) and 1941 Victory. I cant tell you much about flathead stuff, but I know this junk.

[/ QUOTE ]

......told 'ya so!

plmczy

01-12-2004, 09:01 PM

Those are kool lookin jukeboxes. I wouldn't mind finding one now that I have the room for one. My buddy has a 1957 AMI he's trying to find the top glass for it. later plmczy

Brootal

01-12-2004, 10:03 PM

Leebo - If that jukebox has a bubbletop, it could '57 AMI Continental. They are worth $$$$.

I've got a mate in Perth who is an absolute genius with jukeboxes and games machines. If you need anything, he could probably help you out a bit. Mention you're a mate of mine (he'll charge double) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

His name is Rory and you can get him on 9349 4648.

BTW, those Rockolas ROCK!

LEEBO

01-12-2004, 10:12 PM

Hey Brootal

This guy who has the bubbletop is a bit loopy but maybe I should approach him. The house its at is all overgrown with barb wire around the back garden, I stuck my head over once and its wall to wall cars including some kool stuff, there are a couple of tank fairlanes and dodge phoenix,s etc

I'll see if i can get a pic

Hotroddder

01-12-2004, 10:22 PM

!952 I believe.

Donzie

01-12-2004, 10:45 PM

I can't explain it but I really dig the early-mid '50s Seeburgs. The art deco sides, the curved glass top, and even the grilles in some were too cool.
Maybe someday I'll have one.
Something like this.

scarylarry

01-12-2004, 11:32 PM

Hotroddder, I guess you know that C should have light up pilasters with color cylinders in them on the lower front corners. Kinda like the one in Donzie's photo, but more squared off.

LEEBO

01-13-2004, 12:31 AM

Hey Scarylarry

how do you find out the age of these things, mine doesn't seem to have a date on it anywhere. I know its 70,s but I don't know how 70,s http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

QQMOON

01-13-2004, 05:29 PM

G,day guys anyone id this pair http://photo.starblvd.net/QQMOON/1-2-1.jpg http://photo.starblvd.net/QQMOON/1-2-4.jpg http://photo.starblvd.net/QQMOON/1-2-3.jpg

Elrod

01-13-2004, 05:42 PM

The one on the left is a 1947-49 Wurlitzer 1100 with some kind of cabinet conversion....

This is the original

http://www.tomh.demon.co.uk/bjo/images/fs-1100.jpg

QQMOON

01-13-2004, 05:50 PM

FaaaaaaaaaaaaRK THAT LOOKS COOL what the hell happened to mine

scarylarry

01-13-2004, 06:02 PM

QQMOON, The 45 player is a 1963 Rowe/Ami JAL. Elrod was right about the 78 machine. A conversion cabinet from Canada or Australia on a Wurlitzer 1100.I guess Australia would make sense. I have an original brochure for the conversion. If I can find it in my paper junk, I'll email you a copy.

QQMOON

01-13-2004, 07:37 PM

Thanks Larry and Elrod for the ID the Rowe plays up most of the time and the wurlitzer dont go at all I also have another wulitzer from the 60,s i think. All three machines hold alot of sentimentil value for me and i hope to get them all up and running soon
thanks
rgs Joseph

Fullblast

01-13-2004, 07:54 PM

I've had several, but never very long, someone comes over & has to have it. Haven't had one in a while, but I'm back working in the amusement ind. again so I have access to all sorts of stuff. In fact I think my boss wants to sell one of our 45 jukeboxes.

hillbillyhellcat

01-13-2004, 08:17 PM

http://www.oswego.edu/~pallen1/LPC1R.jpg

I had a '64 SeeBurg just like this one. I got it for free from an uncle, it was left in a house he bought. I had it fixed a couple of times at a place in Pittsburgh, it was half full of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and CCR and the like, and half full of my parent's disco 45s (YUCK).

We eventually moved and there was no good place to put it except for the basement, so I sold it for $350. It was kinda cool, I'd like to get another for my own place someday.

4t64rd

01-13-2004, 10:41 PM

Hotrodder, The Seeburg in my earlier post is a C100, and yes it is supposed to have plastic pilasters, ours has stainless steel pilasters, but the lights are intact behind them, the SS pilasters were an option for rough service.

Hotroddder

01-14-2004, 12:18 AM

Yeah, they were gone when we got it. It has been refinished a couple of times as well. It also has a "200" cover on the turntable that is the wrong color.....

Looks cool tho.. Plays OK, we had the amp rebuild a while back. Even came with a wall box, and a bunch of other junk....

Abomination

08-13-2007, 10:17 PM

I have a '63 Wurlitzer 2700 like this now.
http://www.kerkzuidzande.nl/2700.jpg

~Jason

Doc.

08-13-2007, 11:45 PM

I've got a '50's Seeburg Selectomatic 100. I love the way the old 45's sound. I've got a CD player in the same room and it never gets turned on.

Doc.

Abomination

08-14-2007, 01:13 AM

If you have a wall box, here's an adapter to use it to remotely select a CD in a CD changer across the room, or even to select an .MP3 file to play on a PC!

CD:
http://www.alwaysjukin.com/AlwaysFrame.asp?Display=WBadapter

PC:
http://www.alwaysjukin.com/AlwaysFrame.asp?Display=WB-PCadapter

The PC one even has a label maker as a part of the software!

~Jason

I've got a '50's Seeburg Selectomatic 100. I love the way the old 45's sound. I've got a CD player in the same room and it never gets turned on.

Doc.

TinWolf

08-14-2007, 02:25 AM

Funny to see there is more curguys into jukeboxes , for me they go hand in hand but its always the money situation . I like the early era custom cars (-36-53) and the jukeboxes back then are out of this world but soso to play music at . However I finally got hold of a 1948 1100 Wurlitzer and I couldnt be happier , cant wait to get it home !
http://public.fotki.com/TinWolf/jukeboxes-/-48-wurlitzer-1100-24sel/a62f12.html
I also have three other jukeboxes so this is clearly some kind of drug without cure , see them at :
http://public.fotki.com/TinWolf/jukeboxes-/
Wolf

rdefabri

08-14-2007, 07:57 AM

My old man has a 50's vintage Seeburg (interestingly, similar to what's at the beginning of "Happy Days") and a late 30's/early 40's vintage Wurlitzer - bubbles and all...pretty cool shit.

hotrod mike

08-14-2007, 07:58 AM

I've been buying, selling collecting and restoring antique Wurlitzers since the late 70's. Still at it even though it has slowed down a bit. The woodwork and craftsmanship of the old Wurlitzers is truly amazing. Remember, this was a piece of equipment to make money, that's all. Their life expectancy was only 5-8 years. Here we are 70 years later and they are still appreciated.
Here's a couple of mine. The first pic is of my 1941 Wurlitzer model 850. Very Art-Deco style. The peacocks on the front glass are backed with rotating polarized discs that make the individual feathers change colors. It also has "bubble tubes". I'm currently finishing restoring this one.
The other pic is a brand-new interpretation of a classic Wurlitzer model 950. Holds 100 CD's and has a state-of-the-art sound system. Colors change and it has the famous "bubble tubes". I also sell these.
I also have my first old jukebox I bought in 1976. It's a Wurlitzer Bubbler model 1015. Sorry, no pix on this computer. Fully restored. I've known lots of car guys and yep, cars and jukeboxes go hand in hand.. Mike

hotrod mike

08-14-2007, 08:01 AM

Some stuff/1939 Penny Phono, Wurlitzer and the other big companys were already getting five cents a play so this didnt go over with operators.
Larry, did you get that from the North Penn auction? It looks like the nos one I had and traded to them. Really a cool jukebox. Mike

Don Moyer

08-14-2007, 08:28 AM

Collecting is like drugs, and in my opinion, when you get a jukebox, your are in trouble! Here are mine.....Don

rodknocker

08-14-2007, 09:19 AM

www.thenightprowlers.com (http://www.thenightprowlers.com) :D

cruzr

08-14-2007, 09:53 AM

didnt want to spend what it takes to own the real deal so i bought this, it plays cd's

The Hot Rod Grille

08-14-2007, 08:09 PM

Here are pics of a couple of jukes in my garage, The Hot Rod Grille. The one in the corner is a Wurlitzer 1015-OMT "bubbler" with 45 rpm records and a remote selector (wallbox) on the soda fountain counter. The other box is a 1955 Wurlitzer Model 1800 with 45's and a wallbox on the other end of the soda fountain counter. It's cool to be sitting at the fountain sipping a root beer float and drop a dime in the wallbox selector, pick a song and see the julebox come to life across the room! I've also got a 1955 Seeburg V-200 in the other garage awaiting restoration. It's the actual box that I played as a 6 year old kid in the diner that housed my grandfather's taxi stand. It will be a labor of love to bring it back to it's former glory!

Jim Winter
The Hot Rod Grille Garage
www.wvpinball.com (http://www.wvpinball.com)

Abomination

08-15-2007, 10:14 PM

I spy a Twilight Zone pinball... That one, along with it's sister machine. Indiana Jones, are my favorites of all time...

You sir, are my hero!

~Jason

Here are pics of a couple of jukes in my garage, The Hot Rod Grille. The one in the corner is a Wurlitzer 1015-OMT "bubbler" with 45 rpm records and a remote selector (wallbox) on the soda fountain counter. The other box is a 1955 Wurlitzer Model 1800 with 45's and a wallbox on the other end of the soda fountain counter. It's cool to be sitting at the fountain sipping a root beer float and drop a dime in the wallbox selector, pick a song and see the julebox come to life across the room! I've also got a 1955 Seeburg V-200 in the other garage awaiting restoration. It's the actual box that I played as a 6 year old kid in the diner that housed my grandfather's taxi stand. It will be a labor of love to bring it back to it's former glory!

Jim Winter
The Hot Rod Grille Garage
www.wvpinball.com (http://www.wvpinball.com)

reddog14

08-16-2007, 12:06 AM

A friend of mine who lives in central Texas has I get 200 old Jukeboxes. He has about 75 restored ones in his showroom and they all play. That's his hobby. Most of them are 78's but he does have a few 45 players. It's an amazing site to walk into his dark showroom and he throws a master switch and they all light up at the same time. You have to put a nickel in them to make them play because he says it devalues the player if you defeat that. He also has a room FULL of old 78 records that he is cataloging. He also has a 59 Chavy convertible restored in the showroom and a 57 or 58 Cadillac Coupe De Ville in there too. Quite a show.

Squablow

08-16-2007, 12:28 AM

I'm a jukebox wierdo too. I have a Seeburg and a Rock-ola, both 45 machines. I've got a pinball machine too, "Star Explorer".

I bought both of my jukeboxes from a lady who was going through a divorce and was selling all of her ex-husband's shit. I'd sell one of them if someone really wanted one, I don't need two.

THESNEAKYTIKI

08-16-2007, 06:52 PM

Here is mine.

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/5100/picture032ab5.jpg

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8114/picture043gr8.jpg

OLLIN

08-16-2007, 07:15 PM

I almost bought a cool late 50's wulrlitzer? about 10 years ago. It was at this old junk yard like 3 blocks from my house just sitting outside in the elements.
I finally went and asked about it and one of the guys on the property was gonna sell it to me for $40. Im sure it didn't work but it was cool looking anyways. So I came back with the pickup truck and the guy had it on the dolly ready to go. Next thing you know, a guy with one leg came out of the main house and started swinging his cane at the other guy and the juke box fell over. I guess he was the real owner of the yard and the other guy was just one of the drifters that the owner let hang out on his property and worked for him? who knows but I just left with those 2 guys yelling at each other.. it was really wierd.
I saw the worker about a week later and he had a handfull of 50's and earlier quarters that were in the machine. they were the real silver ones too!

I really dig the mid 50's seaburgs also. I will get one someday!

montclaire

08-16-2007, 10:59 PM

Abomination

08-16-2007, 11:38 PM

Yeah, I've got a '40 Philco that I got that someone in the 70's had hacked up and put a 60's hi-fi into. The hi-fi didn't work, so I gutted it. I have another stereo, a bookshelf model that the CD changer doesn't work on anymore (kids hung from it) with a remote, etc that my TV, etc is plugged into. I've thought about transferring some of the speakers into the cabinet and cutting out another board (the original one the diap poked through was hacked... to death) and staining it to match, then putting my hacked-up, modern stereo in there. The old hole where the original on/off switch is where I could dangle or mount the infared sensor, and I even have a huge woofer to go inside.

It would clean up the living room by consealing all these components into a smaller form factor and give that old radio new life!

As for the original chassis, I wish I had one. Lots of times all they need is a good cleaning, a fuse put in, and new capacitors soldered in... well, and sometimes the wiring replaced. They say to leave the original soler in place and to solder new wires, cut to the EXACT SAME LENGTH as the ones you are replacing, and soldering them in place atop the old, then clipping the old wire out. I've always wanted to try it.

Now this jukebox is another thing altogether... it intimidates even ME sometimes...

~Jason

A little OT but in the same vein, here's a few pics of my 41 Zenith shortwave. I was lucky enough to find one in good condition, but the wiring on these is always beyond shot. I decided to install a CD player, speakers, etc. mainly because even if I rewired the original console, it would still just play modern music.

Fidget

08-17-2007, 01:03 AM

A little OT but in the same vein, here's a few pics of my 41 Zenith shortwave. I was lucky enough to find one in good condition, but the wiring on these is always beyond shot. I decided to install a CD player, speakers, etc. mainly because even if I rewired the original console, it would still just play modern music.
http://members.aol.com/gogglespaisano/zr1.jpg

A friend of mine restores old tube radios, mostly Zenith's. He got me hooked into it AGAIN! Just what I need, more junk! Anyway, he was telling me that for some reason insulation on the wiring in the war time models always turns to dust. He said they're a bitch to do since everything has to be replaced/remanufactured. He tries to stick to the 1930s radios. I bought a 1938 Zenith from him, it gets better reception than my stereo. He recently did another juke box. It was a brand I never heard of. It was just a wood stand up box that had 13 78rpm records in it. He told me that the reason you don't see many of the really old juke boxes, is that part of the pitch the sales men used to do was to let the buyer of a new juke box smash his old one with a sledge hammer, after he traded it in. The idea was to keep the competition from buying his old juke box at a second hand price.

Gee

08-17-2007, 03:18 AM

jeez leebo, you got a cadillac and a jukebox both at once?!! wtf!? ;)

mines pretty lame compared to what you guys got!
but i scored it for $50 at a garage sale about 15 years ago.
(its from the PARABADOO pub! has lots of initials carved all over it... dazza luvs shazza etc...pretty funny, gives it a bit of character)
almost works, has a couple of bits missing, will fix it up one day.
but looks cool lit up at night anyway when i have parties here.
its about a '70 model JUPITER. covered up the shitty woodgrain with leopardskin bookcovering vinyl
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/chariots/stuff%204%20sale/myjuke.jpg

Abomination

08-17-2007, 10:37 PM

That's awesome!

~Jason

gucci1958

03-01-2011, 05:10 PM

1940 Wurlitzer 850 (round top) and 1941 Victory. I cant tell you much about flathead stuff, but I know this junk.
Hello,
I seek has to buy jukebox wurlitzer year 40/41 model example 750 + 800 + 850 + 950 research also of the speakerr of year 40/41 and Wallbox, I look at your advertisement, you still have jukebox has to sell??
thank you for your answer
Domenico :)