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

[Jens Hultgren]

What effectively killed the Packards, the Aireon and the Filben was the
appearance of the Seeburg M100A.

It made these nice machines look like dinosaurs, and they were soon to be no
more. Safety switch or no safety switch....Packards could've used one, too.
Wurlitzer was deep in trouble too. 1949-52 must've been lean years for
everyone except for Seeburg. AMI and Rockola survived with low cost machines
and decent market shares. With dedicated 45 rpm machines, they made a
comeback.

  Jens

On 5/5/07, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- 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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