[Jukebox-list] RE: Another movie jukebox-sighting

[David Breneman]

--- "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com> wrote:

> As for 1950's setting films showing a 1015, that isn't off the
> mark.  They 
> buily over 40,000 1015's, didn't they?  I'm sure many were
> converted to 45 and played in smaleer locations for 10 years.

Maybe so, but after the styling revolution Seeburg led,
those locations would be dives, not corner cafes.  I remember
seeing a prewar Symphonola in the pilots' hangout in "The
Right Stuff."  That's the kind of place I'd expect to see
such a machine in that time frame.

Ob-D'oh!-story -

A local operator in Tacoma told me he once had to pay the
local garbage dump $25 apiece in the early 50s to dump a
truck load of 1015s.  "I considered that $250 well spent -
I didn't have the room to store them.  If I'd have only
known..."



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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