[Jukebox-list] 1950's promotional film visit to the Wurlitzerplant

[BSA]

Wow! I must have been asleep at the switch. I had no idea they had a repo
Peacock out.

Does anyone have more specific details on the box and pricing? Has anyone
actually seen one to know how well (or poorly for that matter) it stacks up
against the original Paul Fuller version?

Regards, Bruce in Canada

PS. If the excerpt is from the one building the W-1100's in the NY plant, I
always thought it was neat to imagine that one of those shown could be mine
that is now in the front room (although in much better state at that point
in time!)....

 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Ray Finch 
Date: 09/02/07 14:40:46 
To: Jukebox mailing list 
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] 1950's promotional film visit to the
Wurlitzerplant 
 
http://www.gibson.com/Products/Wurlitzer/News/ 
 
I was googling for something else and happened to bump into this. I 
thought the list might find this interesting. 
 
This film has a rather 1950's "educational film" feel to it and it is very 
"company-centric". In that respect it is almost laughable (actually I did 
laugh at a couple of parts). But it is interesting to see how incredibly 
massive the Wurlitzer plant was and the hundreds (thousands perhaps?) of 
people that were employed there. The weekly Wurlitzer payroll must have 
been huge! 
 
Wurlitzer seemed to go out of their way in the film to show "Wurlitzer 
Quality" and how extra modern the plant was and how safe and happy the 
Wurlitzer employees were. From a 1950's standpoint the plant did seem 
modern, but the employees didn't look happy or sad, they were just average 
factory workers putting in their 40 hours. It was also funny to see 
company the executives trying so hard to sound sincere while reading from 
queue cards. Anyway, I though it was interesting. 
 
 
Ray Finch 
 
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