Jubebox Article in WSJ

[Paisley]

Opinionjournal had this article on jukeboxes.

An excerpt:

While others listen to music on an iPod, there's nothing like a jukebox. And most of the people who have seen and heard the big beauty understand why. A jukebox is something you love forever; an iPod is something you'll discard some day.

Indeed, while Apple Inc. may be one of the world's most successful companies, a generation from now both its iPod portable "media player" and iTunes music library will probably be forgotten, part of the great technological blur known as progress.

A vintage jukebox, on the other hand, will still be a work of art, a source of passion, and a powerful reminder that great American roots music--jazz, blues, doo-wop, hillbilly, R&B, rock 'n' roll--is best enjoyed on a great American sound machine. And when it comes to sound, even an Apple iPod Hi-Fi is no match for a 1953 Seeburg high-fidelity boom box with a 15-inch woofer and five-inch tweeter. Crank it up: Oh what a night; twist and shout.​

 

[Dagwood]

I can't pass a jukebox without thinking of the Fonz. AAAAYYYY.

 

[dhermann1]

My girlfriend's dad (a man with four or five live's worth of stories) has a 1960 vintage Seeburg jukebox sitting in his garage right behind his 1946 Lincoln. Both are collecting much dust.
He had nothing resembling an explanation when I asked him how he acquired it. He lent it to a theater group one, who put a nice 4 inch hole in the clear plastic front, and then threw the missing piece away, much to his extreme rage.
In spite of having no explanation for its existance, he obviously loves it with a passion.
A cool but exceedingly cumbersome collectable.

 

[Sweet Leilani]

And when it comes to sound, even an Apple iPod Hi-Fi is no match for a 1953 Seeburg high-fidelity boom box with a 15-inch woofer and five-inch tweeter. Crank it up

I would have to differ with the author there- you can't get better sound than a vintage stereo jukebox. Seeburg created the first in 1959 and it just has that sonic "presence" that modern equipment can't muster.

It also has a glow that an iPod will never have: