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Post by Ron Rich on Dec 25, 2018 14:23:36 GMT
HI All, Can anyone name any "odd-ball places" they have seen a jukebox. For some odd reason (?), my brain would not go to sleep last night and I was thinkin'--about the strangest places I have seen an operating jukebox in were several Greyhound bus terminals. I have also seen them on several different US, and Canadian, "war ships". The bus terminal units were used to play all of the announcement records (--Bus-- for--, and, points north --now boarding at gate #4---). On the ships, they were for the sailors use. Ron Rich
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Post by juke46 on Jan 2, 2019 13:20:10 GMT
In high school (downtown) Phoenix, AZ an old house suddenly opened up as a place for lunch. We started eating there mainly because it had a jukebox and lunch was less costly and not too crowded (school had 5,000+ students). I'm almost sure it was a Seeburg but whatever it was we played it a lot. It was magical, watching it handle those 45 RPM records. We found the volume control with the small key, or something in it. We undoubtedly irritated the owner (the little key, one day, disappeared!). If you have a jukebox play it loud or you might as well have a little phonograph (our philosophy, I guess)! juke46
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Post by amiman66 on Jan 7, 2019 12:55:50 GMT
I have seen a few weird places for jukeboxes such as holiday let locations including a Rowe Ami set into the back section of a Mini.
Regarding the strangest places we have sent repairs to is a Barge that traveled on the Rhine river.
Regards
Alan
Alan Hood
ami-man
UK
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Post by juke46 on Jan 7, 2019 12:58:53 GMT
Jukeboxes - It was 1972. We were watching Night Gallery. It was "The Tune In Dan's Cafe" episode. That violent episode is probably somewhere on the net these days. When Anna and I saw the jukeboxes we decided we wanted one. The next day we went looking at a few companies who sold and distributed new machines. We saw a few old wooden machines with shriveled up plastics and just really worn out looking. Ugly. Some were Wurlitzers, I thought Wurlitzer made organs! They were very low priced and only played a few 78 RPM records. No use for those things. We ended up at the AMI dealer in Phoenix, AZ.
They had a room full of used machines, all clean and nice working. They tried to sell me a Seeburg but I was too smart for them. I wasn't going to buy any machine that foolishly played a record in a vertical position. They kept telling me they were very dependable. I kind of thought, "yeah, sure they are".
I spotted this weird looking one and it did play the record flat on a turntable like it should be played. I asked to see it work and they demonstrated it. I wanted that machine even though it was so strange looking. They said it was an AMI Continental 2.
They assured me it had been "shopped out" and was ready to go. It was $150 dollars (well, it was 1972). We bought it and got a friendly lecture on don't mess with it. Don't touch it. Keep your hands off of it! They did show a few places to oil it but not too much oil.
After it was loaded by them, onto my Father-In Laws" truck which I had borrowed. I thought what a heavy monster that thing is. How will I ever unload it? I left for my swing-shift job kind of worried. When I got home the machine was sitting under the carport. Anna's Dad was a small guy who drove the "big rigs" He sometimes had to unload them. Anna said he had no problem sort of letting that monster slide down the tailgate onto the driveway. That was good!
A few days later I went back to the AMI parts department and asked to buy, order or copy a service manual for the machine. The gruff, crabby, grouchy, old guy, behind the counter laughed at me and said "you will never get a manual for that machine". Great! Now what? In a year or two Steve Loots and the Victory Glass newsletter came along and I finally found a service manual, actually, an original from an ad (I think).
It played for many years and I did give it a little oil in the places they had mentioned. I did change all the 120 VAC line cord inside the machine after a few years. The insulation was crumbling. Since then, these old music making machines have invaded and threatened to force us out of our home. No more jukeboxes, we'll keep the ones we have. We've given a couple to the Nephew who really likes them. I'd buy more but there comes a time when there isn't empty space even for a gumball machine. It seems like they weigh much more these days too, way too much for an old guy and gal in the Geritol Ghetto! Oh, we do have a few of those old wooden, 1940's Wurlitzer machines these days! They seem beautiful now.
juke46 Peoria, AZ
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Post by 1tulip2 on Mar 3, 2019 20:07:23 GMT
I just read a history story, about a jukebox on the USS Nautilus the first nuclear submarine. It was hooked to the boat,s hi-fi system. I wonder what Jukebox that was, and where that juke is now.The boat was launched in 1951. The boat is a museum and a National Historic Landmark in Groton, Conn. not far from where it was launched.
Larry (tulip2)
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Post by Ron Rich on Mar 4, 2019 0:15:38 GMT
Larry,
Somewhere in the back of my mixed up mind, I recall hearing that it was a 1950 Seeburg model B ?? May still be in the museum ??
Ron Rich
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Post by robnyc on Mar 4, 2019 0:24:54 GMT
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Post by Ron Rich on Mar 4, 2019 0:33:34 GMT
Hi Rob,
I have serviced a number of later Navy ships-- Only difference I spotted on the Hideaway cabinets, was the four turnbuckle fasteners holding the hideaway to the floor (usually inside a cabinet). Ron Rich
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Post by robnyc on Mar 4, 2019 3:10:43 GMT
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Post by Ron Rich on Mar 4, 2019 13:20:10 GMT
But Rob--they were gold plated (24k ??) Ron Rich
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