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All these Barcades opening is kind of like the Bubbler Jukebox

I was just thining about how all these barcades are opening in the last few years and how it's kind of changed the arcade collecting scene... basically all these businesses are opening with all the old games that have been sitting around forever.

The exact same thing happened with the famous Bubbler jukebox, they made new jukebox models every year and the Wurltizer 1015 was made in 1946. A lot of the ops liked the way the box looked so much that they saved them instead of trading them back in for money off the next years version.... It played 78's.

Flash forward to the late 50's, all these little soda shops start opening up near schools and record labels were selling 45 singles to people of the newest Rock & Roll bands and singers... Wurlitzer released an upgrade kit to turn any of their older boxes into 45 boxes (a gear to change the speed of the turntable, and adapter rings to fit around the smaller 45 records) ... so the ops drug out their older jukeboxes (many of them 1015's), updated them to play the 45's all the kids liked, and put these old-ass jukeboxes in all of these low profit soda shops they were getting access to.

So they had new jukeboxes in the bars and pool halls and old jukeboxes retrofitted with 45 players in the soda shops all the kids went to.

There were probably old men going in the Soda Shops back then saying "Aw hell, they ruined it, that damn thing won't even play 78's anymore!" just like we bitch about LCD screens :)
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