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Author Topic: Jukeboxes Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-26-2009 03:49 AM                     I don't know how many other jukebox fans there are out there, but for some reason I decided to look at youtube to see if there were any interesting 'boxes and I found a few unique ones. Here is a jukebox mechanism I've never seen before. Quite interesting. This jukebox has the stylus mounted backwards on the tone arm. Very odd to look at for everyone used to, ummm...virtually every other record player around. I've seen jukeboxes that play the record vertically, but this one can actually play both sides and looks like some sort of 1950's science fiction robot.  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-26-2009 04:01 AM                     I have a 1954 Seeburg R I'm trying to restore. It's outside under my carport but I have the mechanism in my bedroom to protect it from the outside elememts. I think the Seeburg background music player was also used by some cinemas & the music on some of the records sound like the music on some of the drive-in intermission trailers. Also,the person who owns Ohio Seeburg Repair & it's website under the You Tube name SeeburgRepair has a collection of drive-in speakers (RCA or Projected Sound,I don't know what brand)  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-27-2009 09:32 AM                        It might be considered too common by Jukebox lovers, but the Wurlitzer 1015 is the one I'd have in my possession if the circumstances were right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLVT6o6-zGA The curves, the colors, and the bubbles... yeah, someday, I'll have one. If I were in charge of a theater chain and money were no object, when it came time to design a new theater, I would take the architect to see a Wurlitzer 1015 and say "Design me a theater around this"  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-27-2009 02:27 PM                     I had to make a choice between collecting film and having a jukebox and I chose film, but I still admire old jukes. My aunt and uncle in Wyoming have a completely original pristine Rock-O-La 1426 in their dining room. Having said that, no thread about jukeboxes would be complete without mentioning the Scopitone. Scopitone was essentially a film jukebox that pioneered the concept of the music video. Rolls of 16mm mag striped songs were loaded in and the unit had a big viewing screen on the top. I searched youtube but have yet to find anyone demonstrating the operation of one. This site links to some info about the units themselves and the available titles. http://www.scopitonearchive.com/  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 04-27-2009 02:56 PM                    http://www.brutallo.com/scopitone.html Jukebox films galore! Pre Mtv music video's. Edit: Of course you can now make your own http://www.thepcjukebox.com/home.htm  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 04-27-2009 03:01 PM                     Brad: These were really interesting and I hadnt seen them before.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-27-2009 04:06 PM                     quote: the Wurlitzer 1015 is the one I'd have in my possession if the circumstances were right: Now is a good time to bitch at these youtube idiots. Don't just leave the camera sitting on a table when videoing a jukebox. We want to see the record mechanism do its thing and then while the record is playing show off the lights and such. Idiots! Wow, the Cinebox looks a bit like Wall-E. Those old Scopitone films on Todd's link are pretty awful (but awful in sort of a good way). MP3 jukeboxes are just lame though.  |  IP: Logged Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-28-2009 03:14 PM                        The YouTube videos are pretty poor quality, here's a better one that at least gets closer to the mechanism as it is operating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQFge8HBxiU I promise, if anyone sends me one of these, I'll take the best video possible and post it! I can agree to an extent on the MP3 jukebox not being the same as a 45 or 78 rpm original, as there is something very tactile about seeing the mechanism doing its thing. Maybe that's one reason why the new "One More Time" replicas don't appeal to me as much. The tube amp would have something to do with it as well, as it would have a sound that isn't going to be the same with a contemporary solid state amp. However, the replicas still have the bubbles and lights, and that's something. I've always liked the design of that box, with the wood, the chrome, the red buttons, the lights, and the bubbles. Somebody knew what they were doing when they created that design!  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-29-2009 08:38 PM                     I found this page on American & foreign made jukeboxes. Jukebox-World Stamann Musicboxen The jukeboxes that are similar to the vertical play Seeburg jukeboxes:Jupiter/Atari/Electro-Kicker NSM Harmonie Emaphone Kolumbus Gedasa KB Discomatic-John Lennon had a KB Discomatic RCA/Victor-which uses a KB Discomatic mechanism  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-30-2009 03:21 PM                     I have a 1971 Rockola 445, currently stored at a friend's place. really pretty blue and pink and purple graphics... I might bring it back home soon, I do miss it... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-01-2009 03:42 PM                  Over the years, I have had and restored many jukes since I was 13. I currently have a pristine Seeburg "R". My favorites are: The Seeburg HF-100R ) The Seeburg L100: and the AMI "I" ...all super-cool machines. [ 05-01-2009, 04:55 PM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-02-2009 08:09 AM                        Boy, you guys bring back memories. In the '60s I built a broadcast automation system out of an old juke box and a cart machine. Worked OK, but abused records. Real Rube Goldberg system. Louis  |  IP: Logged

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