[Jukebox-list] Aireon jukebox for sale, S.F. Bay area

[David Breneman]

--- Jimmy Day <recordhound at verizon.net> wrote:

> Why they did not do 
> this is a mystery.  Seeburg had the same problem with their early
> model and 
> they recalled every one.  Aireon should have done the same.  The
> worst thing 
> that can happen is a machine getting a bad reputation from the
> operators.

You're talking about the Seeburg Selectophone, right?  The
difference is that at that time Seeburg was a large profitable
company that could *afford* a recall.  A lot of the little
jukebox companies that sprang up after the war were usually
continually in the red.  Just like with cars, there was a
tremendous pent up demand for jukeboxes after the war, and
just about anything with a turntable and a coin slot would
find a buyer *somewhere*.  Soon, however, the majors cranked
up production to meet demand and, with the lock they had on
the market via their distributor networks, pretty well left
the upstarts in the dust.  I'd imagine that a company like
Aireon shot its financial backing, and then some, on tooling
and production equipment, and anything like a recall would
only have hastened their demise.    Even Homer Capehart,
who invented the (then-)modern jukebox business, couldn't
crack the system he had institutionalized when he left
Wurlitzer and started producing Packard machines.


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


 
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