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

[Ron Rich]

"Rock-Ola", aka, "Antique Apparatus", was (may still be) makes the 850 repro--
  Ron Rich

John Robertson <pinball at telus.net> wrote: 
  Not out just yet, due to arrive early this fall. About the same price 
as the new Wurlitzer repro 2100 jukebox...I'll be posting updates on 
flippers.com next week.

John :-#)#

On 2-Sep-07, at 12:51 PM, BSA wrote:

> 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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