[Jukebox-list] 1958 United (Was: Done reading "The juke boxandme" )

[Wesley Dean]

    Jens, of all the machines you have listed, I'll take the 1436 any day. Its fun to watch sixty 78s being reversed instanously. The whole cabinet shakes. I bought one new once and never had a service call on it for years. Wes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Hultgren" <drjukebox at gmail.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] 1958 United (Was: Done reading "The juke boxandme" )


> Yes absolutely - if you have ten or more machines on a route, it is critical
> and there are other aspects of the Aireon that must've made it very
> unattractive to operate compared to a M100A. But for the jukebox lover who a
> half century later wants a 78 rpm jukebox for his game room, to be played a
> few evenings per week or probably less, keeping it running is easy.
> The same goes for the other oddballs that operators shunned - the Packards,
> the Filbens, the Wurlie 1500, the Uniteds, the Evanses,  the list goes
> on.....not so sure about the Rockola 1436 tho. Sixty 78s in a ferris wheel
> sounds like a recipe for disaster ;o)
> 
> Jens
>