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There was quite a bit of discussion of these "phone music" systems in the entertainment trade press in 1946 and 1947. You'll find an article from "Billboard" discussing the opening of such a system in Kansas City here. And another discussing the setup used by a similar system in Chicago -- this latter was the direct inspiration for the sequence I mentioned earlier from the Dick Tracy comic strip.
You'll see from thes articles that the setup was likely to have been confusing to the user and somethinig of a pain in the backside to service -- certainly more so than having a hood from the local Syndicate drop by once a month to load a fresh batch of 78s into the Wurlitzer.
You'll see from thes articles that the setup was likely to have been confusing to the user and somethinig of a pain in the backside to service -- certainly more so than having a hood from the local Syndicate drop by once a month to load a fresh batch of 78s into the Wurlitzer.