Post by juke46 on Mar 3, 2019 11:50:08 GMT
This is an original Wurlitzer jukebox advertising poster and frame (link is below to my Image Shack photo album). We found the frame in Missouri almost 40 years ago. A "jukebox picker" we knew owned it. We used our vacations to visit him and we did our own "picking", along the way. We had not even heard the word "pickers", in those old days, we called it "junkin". For years we had one of the "new" reproduction posters in the frame. A set of four different reproduction posters were available. Unfortunately those reproduction posters were a smaller size, than the originals so we made a fake frame inside of the original Wurlitzer frame. I located an original NOS poster, after a few years of searching and was fortunate enough to be able to purchase it. Now the frame and poster are finally together and complete as they should be. "Junkin for jukes" and other stuff were the best vacations ever.
The jukebox picker, in Missouri, had many machines and if it was out of the 1950's the price was $200 each for any of them. Some were really nice and some were very used and abused.
On those "junkin" trips we always were looking for a small marble soda fountain for the our home. Some candy stores had small soda fountains. We found one in Oklahoma at an antique shop. The guy kind of laughed when he found out what we were looking for. He led us out to a pile of rubble behind the store. Someone had smashed, what appeared to be a beautiful marble fountain, to pieces. The shop owner thought it was really funny but we were not so amused.
"Pickers" - When I was a little kid, before cotton picking machines came to be, we used to pick cotton, as a family, so I guess I was a picker after all.
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juke46 Peoria, Arizona
The jukebox picker, in Missouri, had many machines and if it was out of the 1950's the price was $200 each for any of them. Some were really nice and some were very used and abused.
On those "junkin" trips we always were looking for a small marble soda fountain for the our home. Some candy stores had small soda fountains. We found one in Oklahoma at an antique shop. The guy kind of laughed when he found out what we were looking for. He led us out to a pile of rubble behind the store. Someone had smashed, what appeared to be a beautiful marble fountain, to pieces. The shop owner thought it was really funny but we were not so amused.
"Pickers" - When I was a little kid, before cotton picking machines came to be, we used to pick cotton, as a family, so I guess I was a picker after all.
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juke46 Peoria, Arizona
