Vintage Jukeboxes

by Christopher Pearce

In 1906 the John Gabel Company produced the "Gabel Automatic Entertainer", the first coin-operated record player with an automatic changer system. From this simple wind-up mechanism with its horn speaker would spring a multi-million dollar industry, a new outlet for design creativity and a technical innovation and one of those rare and fascinating phenomena of the 20th-century life- and object which becomes an icon. Vintage Jukeboxes traces the golden years of these magic machines - the 1940's and 1950's - and uses the publicity material of the manufacturers themselves to evoke the era with a wealth of illustrations.

127 pages

Price: $25.95