Jukebox

By Chris Tella; posted November 1, 2010

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My other hobby is collecting antique jukeboxes. This one in particular is a 1953 Seeburg HF100G, the first true "High Fidelity", or multi-speaker jukebox. The model is famous for having been in Arnold's in the show "Happy Days". Jukeboxes were extremely popular in the 50's. This box alone cost $1050 at the time, which was about $500 short of a new car. This box alone had over 70,000 selections when I bought it, so figuring ten cents a song, this box made someone rich back in the day.

The other juke I have is a 1972 Rowe, which is far less desirable because it does not have a visible record playing mechanism.

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