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Coin Slot Magazine - #079 - 1981 - September [International Arcade Museum]
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MUSICAL FUN FOR EVERYONE
Bright Easter finery. A smart Easter hat Gay Easter
flowers. It's every woman's right to glow with pride in
the Easter parade. And, if s no woman's wish to go
home and spend the rest of the day in the kitchen.
There's a hint for husbands here. Take the family out
for dinner—where they have Wurlitzer Music. Your
friends will be there with their families. All of you, young
and old, will have fun talking, laughing and listening to
tunes as stimulating as your first fresh breath of spring.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, North Tonawanda,
New York***See Phonograph Section of Classified
Telephone Directory for names of Wurlitzer Dealers.
By Jim McLellan
If you ever drank a green river, or used the expres
sions lalapaloser or swell, or heard Harry Truman on
the radio, or actually sat in a room and had a conversa
tion with someone because T.V. wasn't available as yet,
then maybe you remember advertisements in Collier's,
Look, Liberty, True Confessions, and the Saturday
Evening Post depicting happy folks gathered around a
Or...
"OH BOY, THEY HAVE WURLITZER MUSIC"
jukebox.
The year was 1946, the war was over and Wurlitzer
was pitch ing their advertising to the family and general
public via magazines, billboards, swizzle sticks, nap
kins, and slogans such as "Wurlitzer is jukebox".
An ad in one of the glossies read:
AFTER THE EASTER PARADE
AMERICA'S FAVORITE NICKEL'S WORTH OF FUN
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© The International Arcade Museum
September 1981
All over America today, people in search of good
entertainment at a reasonable price are learning to
look for the Wurlitzer Sign of the Musical Note.
There you find Wurlitzer Music..24 of the latest
tunes played by the greatest bands in the land....for
only a nickel a number. Pick your favorites from a
musical menu of sweet numbers, jazz classics, hill billy
hits, waltzes, fox trots, polkas.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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