[Jukebox-list] Re: Jukebox memories

[David Breneman]

--- Jjmscf at aol.com wrote:

> Wow. It would have been so cool to have a jukebox when I was a
> teenager.

Well, I had to get it working again.  My parents bought it from
the Tacoma Yacht Club for $35.  It had been converted to play
33-1/3 RPM LPs.  I kept it that way for a while, but a jukebox
playing LPs is so *boring* only cycling every 20 minutes or so.
And the blackhead cartridge, even with 1-mil styli, isn't
really equipped to play stereo albums.  Once I got it running
well I got a 78 gearset from Wes (I must be one of his oldest,
although hardly most lucrative, accounts  :-)  ) and switched 
it back to 78.  "Back in those days" you could still get NOS
78 styli from the Seeburg distributor in Seattle, MusicVend
Distributing.  I bought all they had in stock, three sets,
for about $5 a set.  I still have one unopened "display set."
I've had that M100-A more than half its life, and it's
definitely my favorite.

The following year I bought an AMI JAN-200 for about $150
and it became my "party jukebox" for many years, since
most of my friends weren't into music on 78s.  There's a
picture of that machine at http://tildebang.com/jukebox
incorrectly labelled as a JAL.  I gotta fix that caption.

 

David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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