Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #028 - 1977 - May [International Arcade Museum]
The Wurlitzer Building at
266 South Wabash Street in
Chicago was one of the
Company's first retail stores.
Wurlitzer Pipe Organ" after buying the Hope-Jones Organ Co. They
began the first motorized delivery service with an automobile deli
very wagon for the Chicago store.
Then they introduced the "Wur
litzer Student Lesson Plans" with "Pay as you go" plans. And they
became the distributor for Melville Clark Pianos.
On January 14,
1914 the founder of the Wurlitzer Company, Rudolph Wurlitzer,
died.
In 1917 the Wurlitzer factories began production of various items
for World War I.
Then in
1919 they bought the Melville Clark
Piano, Co., of DeKalb, Illinois, which became the DeKalb Division of
Wurlitzer.
When Wurlitzer bought the Simplex Phonograph Co. of Chicago in
1933, it was the beginning of a whole new line of merchandise.
In
1934 they introduced the model P-10, the first pre-selection 10-tune
jukebox.
In an effort to reorganize manufacturing operations in
1935, all
piano production is transferred and consolidated in the DeKalb Div.;
and the Wurlitzer "one-name, one-quality, one-price piano policy"
is inaugerated.
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1937 is the year:
Manufacturing booms. Production of jukeboxes
breaks all records. In 1938 a Swiss engineer named Paul Fuller went
The principle offices are moved from Cincinnati to Chicago in 1941.
The World War II caused Wurlitzer to convert 100% to war produc-
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