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Interesting photo from the American Jukebox History site. I find these old Jukeboxes from the 1920s and 1930s particularly fascinating. Infact, I didn't even know they existed this early, very rare, very cool.

I have a Seeburg SC-1 "Consolette". Much later but Jukebox's in general are cool.

Also didn't know they made Jukes that early lol.

This one is interesting because it has two speakers. I'd like to know details about the amplifier driving them.

This is a 1925/26 Holcomb & Hoke jukebox that I'm hoping to finish restoring this winter. It's been apart in boxes for over 50 years. It started out life as an acoustic machine with a large square wooden horn, and then was upgraded to electric. It took a long time to finally get some pictures and documentation on how it goes back together. It uses the original acoustic tonearm modified to attach a magnetic pickup. The horn was removed and a large coiled horn of composition material was installed with a 1920's horn speaker driver for sound output.

Chuck

That's a great juke with a lot of history on it

The very early circa 1908-1915 acoustic (non-electrically amplified) "jukeboxes" are also fascinating ---

The Multiphone --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvTMoWnPb1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9zoW5wgfuE

The Regina Hexaphone --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5IH1uV_--s

The Gabel Automatic Entertainer --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAFvtCwcF0

And then there is my Mills 801 Highboy. I love looking at the carousel record changer in operation as well as looking at it lite up in a darkened room. The etched glass doors are another note to craftsmanship in the 1920-30's period. She doesn't sound to bad either...
Abe