[Jukebox-list] Re: The moment you had to have a jukebox

[David Breneman]

I'm coming to this discussion late because I've started a new
job and so have been pretty busy this week.  I remember being
fascinated by jukeboxes since I was a little kid.  At that
time, in the late 60s, you'd still see machines with exposed
mechanisms doing real work on location, and I always had to
watch them work.  I've always had an aptitude for mechanical
and "high tech" things, so juke boxes were part of that.  The
music to me, as a kid, was secondary.  When I was in middle
school the local yacht club (this was a rural yacht club,
real people in real sailboats, not yuppies with white shoes
and belts talking about cruising to Cannes) had a garage sale
and one of the items was an M100-B.  I offered 50 dollars for
it (it looked like it hadn't run in quite a few years) but was
told at the end of the day that they were selling it to another
fellow who had bid $125 for it and a Baldwin upright school
piano.

Several years went by.  I'm now a Junior in high school, and
my parents bought me for Christmas (from another yacht club,
as it happens) a Seeburg M100-A.  They paid $35 for it. It
didn't run, when I got it running I discovered that it had
been converted to play LPs.  By that summer I had also bought
an AMI JAN-200 and G-200.  The JAN became my "workhorse"
party machine.  It had recently been removed from service
so was still running fine.  I think I paid $300 for it and
the G-200.  Pretty soon I discovered Jukebox Junkyard, and
a helpful guy on the phone who I would later come to know as
Wes on this mailing list sold me the 78 gear set for the
M100-A, which has been my "alpha" machine ever since.  The
JAN hasn't been used since the early 80s - it's in my garage,
and the G-200 is the one I keep powered up 24x7 in my
workshop.  I've also acquired an AMI A which still needs
the curtains and mirror, and a Seeburg 148 hideaway that I'm
hoping to start restoring after the first of the year.

All of my first three machines I've owned for more than half
their lives, beginning with the M100-A which I got in 1976,
and the two AMIs in 1977.



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


       
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