Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #016 - 1976 - March [International Arcade Museum]
Model 500 was really the first
Wurlitzer Juke Box to use a
moving light cylinder behind the
onyx-yellow plastics
Model 600 was an economy model
for smaller locations.lt was
lighter and did not feature the
moving lights.
The era of this classic machine was ended by Seeburg with its "100l!play
jukebox, introduced in 1949. Like earlier Seeburgs, it was aesthetically un
distinguished. However, Seeburg had finally compensated for its inferior
design with a major functional breakthrough. Wurlitzer, stuck in the same 24
play groove for ten years, was caught looking at the phenominal sales records
of its post war 1015. It lost, never to regain, the dominance it had achieved
during the early 194OHs.
Jukeboxes, as art, had died.
Many early nickelodeon and player piano manufacturers successfully made
the transition ot jukeobxes including Seeburg, Mills and Rock-Ola. Others,
such as Capehart, Packard, Rowe and Aireon introduced jukeboxes in the
1930's and 1940!s. Wurlitzer, however, became the 1940!s dominant force and
has emerged today as the consensus Cadillac of that era. In today!s market,
old Wurlitzers command the highest prices.
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day's market.
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