[Jukebox-list] Re: Time for Jukebox hunting

[Jackie]

Hi J.C.
where on the eastern shore do you live, we are almost neighbors!!!
Jackie

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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Seeburg M100C is HOME!


>
> Yeah.But do you have to work Saturdays?I think it's a requirement of 
> anybody
> that serves the public on the eastern shore.Everybody flocks to  Ocean 
> City
> or the Delaware Beaches and all those vacation homes,hotel rooms,  rental 
> units
> have tvs that must be kept going so I have to work.I'd like to  know how 
> some
> coming only for the weekend get here so early on  Friday..lol.Saturday's 
> the
> day when they have yard sales,estate sales,storage  auctions etc and yes 
> even
> car shows.I think about all the records (and maybe  even jukeboxes) I miss 
> by
> having to work when all this is going on.I used to get  up real early and 
> hit
> as many yard sales as possible or slip out to the flea  market before work 
> and
> slide in a little late at work.But it got too tough to do  that.I'd be
> feeling pretty rotten after lunch and couldn't take a nap.I'm kinda  sick 
> that I saw
> an ad for an auction nearby on Saturday morning and forgot  to remind my
> friend to go.It listed box lots of 33s,45s and 78s...sigh.There was 
> another multi
> family (development) yard sale that listed records and a jukebox  nearby 
> on
> Craiglist(though that's where the Rockola I sold and the 2000 records  I 
> bought
> this winter came from and if it's the same guy it was probably an 80s 
> Rowe
> for too much money) I'd only want one dirt cheap and to resell it.They're 
> too
> ugly for me...lol.
>
> BTW.A few years ago(probably 8-10) before I really knew anything about
> jukeboxes except my Rockola a nice older widow that I keep a couple of 
> older
> console tvs going for had a Seeburg SS160 in pretty nice shape and it 
> sounded
> good.However it was continuous play like Jackie's except it was a Tormat
> machine.I didn't know so I didn't get into it.Her tvs have held up pretty 
> good  for a
> long time and I didn't hear from her for a long time(She's still got the 
> same
> 2 console tvs.I must have fixed them good.One's 26 years old.The other 
> near
> 30)until her little mini Sony stereo's Cd changer jammed up.
> Anyway the SS160 is gone replaced by a Rowe.She really likes it and it
> sounds really good  but I bet in hindsight that SS160 would have been an 
> easy
> fix.I think it looked much better.A local operater told her the SS160 
> wasn't
> worth fixing and sold her the Rowe.She always tells me "I love music.It 
> makes me
> feel good".That's exactly the way I feel.I just don't get people that 
> only
> watch tv and don't listen to music.Not a stereo(let alone a  jukebox) in 
> sight
> except for surround sound for the tv.Well most of the  general public the 
> tv is
> the main entertainment and the stereo is there for  background music or
> sometimes when they're in the mood to listen to music.I play  the jukebox 
> and
> stereo every day.I get bored very easily by the junk on tv and  turn it 
> off and
> turn on the jukebox.
> J.C.
>
>
>
> In a message dated 7/31/2006 9:15:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> etreble7 at comcast.net writes:
>
>>J.C.
>>I know what you mean about having time to work on  it.  I would love to 
>>quit
>>my job and work on Jukeboxes and my  Corvair.
>
>
>
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