Wurlitzer Jukebox: Memory Lane

A Trip Home: This is not just a "jukebox" experience, it's a "Wurlitzer" experience. Wurlitzer "park" in North Tonawanda was my playground...

My Dad Was a Wurlitzer Dealer!!!: My younger sister stated it very well earlier. I would just like to add...

My Uncle's Wurlitzer: I have always loved jukeboxes since I was young. My uncle had a Wurlitzer 1015 bubbler...

I Am Still Hunting Jukeboxes: When I came out of school, I opened an antique store and I bought a Wurlitzer jukebox to play in the store. Customers who entered the shop asked me...

Wurlitzer-North Tonawanda: My memories of Wurlitzer go back to North Tonawanda when my Grandfather, Joseph Moskal, worked for Wurlitzer. I will always remembers visits to the...

Jukebox Dreams: Ever since I can remember there were those beautiful Wurlitzer Jukeboxes in the resturant my dad took me to when I was around six years old...

Grandpa's Old Store: It was just a few days ago that I got my hands on one of two jukeboxs that my great grandfather owned in his soda shop...

Wurlitzer Temple At The Soda Fountain: When I was a toad (7 years old), in the late 1950's, I lived in Brooklyn NY and loved the Bum Dodgers. Ebbit Field was just 1/4 mile from my Brownstone home and...

Saved: Like most people who love music and good old 45's I've always wanted a jukie. Having been a mobile DJ in the 70's and 80's I had no shortage of records...

Part Of My Life: I was about 10 years old, (I am now 39) and my dad was a TV repairman. Somehow he came across an old Wurlitzer, it did not work, but...

Working on the Production Line: I worked for the Wurlitzer Company from 1943 until 1973. I weathered the layoffs, the strikes, and then the closing of the plant in North Tonawanda, N.Y...

It Can Change Your Life: Well, I was a 20-year old boy when it hit me. I just finished school and worked the summer in my dad's store. Then there was this advertisement in a local paper...

A Love of Quality: Being only 35 it seems that my generation has missed all the glories of the 50's & 60's, or so it seemed. A few friends and I decided to start a jukebox hire business and the obvious question was....

My Orange Monster in the UK: For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted a jukebox, but they were always way out of my financial reach. Then last year a friend tells me of someone with an old jukebox in a cupboard....

Jukeboxes As Art: Drop in a nickel and a forgotten song lives again. Simultaneously the source lights up like Aunt Betty on New Year's Eve....

Look What Santa Brought!: One year there was a Huge Surprise waitng for my sister and I from Santa Claus. I remember my father having a friend when I was about 7 years old who....

Just A "Thank You" For The Great Stories (Memories): Unfortunately I can't say that I own a Wurlitzer...yet! I really enjoyed the stories on this website. I am a 50's buff and...

Granpa's Tavern: Not too long ago we showed my dad a book of jukeboxes and he saw the Wurlitzer 750...

Grew Up With A Jukebox: When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, my family owned a 1960 jukebox for about 20 years....

My Dad Was A Wurlitzer Dealer!!: I am 50 years old and as far as I can remember we have had a Wurlitzer somewhere on our property...

Wanted A Wurli Since I Was A Kid!!!!: I grew up in a middle class town of Merrick L.I. in the late 50s through the 60s and my parents were musically inclined...

From 5 to 50: I was just 5 years old growing up in a small midwest rural community, when my babysitter's husband took me to the local "pool hall"...

My Grandfather's Jukebox , My Spaceship...: When I was growing up, going to my grandfather's house was always a treat. In his backroom was a Wurltizer Model 800...

Back in the 50's: We found a Wurlitzer in a local antique shop, after having it in our kitchen for six months we decided to build a custom home...

Passed down Generation to Generation: I currently own a Wurlitzer 2150 jukebox. It was given to me by my father 5 years ago...

The Barber Shop Jukebox: My first experience with a jukebox came hand in hand with my first haircut...

Growing Up In The Disco Era, But Listening To Swing!: I can still remember the sound of putting nickles in our old Wurlitzer jukebox. It spun 78's and released bubbles up the side of the machine...

Ride'm Cowboys: Our father had a model 1015 in our basement when my brother, sister and I were growing up. He had somehow rigged it so that you did not have to...

Rembering The Old Times: I am 73 years of age and the first job I had was a repair man for Wurlitzer Jukeboxes...

Electic Light Orchestra: In the late seventies I bought a couple of ELO albums and would play them for hours after school. One of the things I liked about the group was their fascinating circular logo...

My Dad's Unexpected Weekend-Trip: I must have been about 14 years old when I collected pictures and drawings of jukeboxes. One day my father called my mother and I to go on a 'weekend-trip'...

An Old Friend Out My Window: I have always loved the feel of the 50's. I am 17, and am the only one in my school that knows every Bing Crosby song by heart. Jukeboxes were always a symbol of the great 50's period...

Jeffrey And The Amazing Wurlitzer 1015: In the early 1960's my wife Shirley and I were fixing up a rec room in the basement of our home. One day a household auction bill in the local shopper listed a Wurlitzer Jukebox with some records...

Remembering Wurlitzer Model 61: It is from the Model 61 in a Minnesota Resort that I have my most profound memories. I first heard "Fats" Waller, Glen Gray, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey and many others on this machine...

Wurlitzer Man: In the town where I live we celebrate our carnival every year. For three days people dress up in all kinds of creations and have fun with each other. For years I was looking for the ultimate creation...

A Jukebox Can Hide Another One: My story started five years ago when I was a student at a university close to Paris. I was always facinated with jukeboxes and dreamt of having my own. I saw an ad in the paper...

My Beautiful Centennial: Some 10 years ago I met a man named Gerard. He had this remarkable passion for jukeboxes...

Wishes Come True: For as long as I could remember, I'd dreamed of owning a Wurlitzer Jukebox. I'd watch game shows on t.v. where contestants would win...

Remembering B4: In the early 60s I lived in Southern California and was lucky enough to be part of the surfing scene. The Beach Boys came out with a song called Fun Fun Fun about a girl and a T-Bird...

Michigan Dreamin': It was 1967. I was in high school. I spent the summer working in a Boy Scout camp in Michigan. It was my first experience being away from home and ...

There's Nothing Quite Like The Sound Of A Wurlitzer Jukebox: Finally in 1997 a dream that I had held on to since childhood finally came true when I purchased a model 1700 jukebox...

The Ultimate Machines For My 78 RPM Record Collection!: Ever since I was a kid I dreamt of coming home from school and having my very own jukebox playing...

Model 1700 Sold On Auction Sale: In Belgium, jukeboxes were part of our youth in the 60s and the 70s. Being 40 years old now, I bought a Model 1700...

Is Bing Crosby In There, Grandpa?: I can recall my grandfather (or it might have been an aunt or uncle) putting a nickel in an elaborate Wurlitzer at a Long Island restaurant...

Ye Old Classic: I remember many a party in the basement of our recreation room playing awesome 78 rpm tunes...

Basement Junk: In the early 1970s my younger brother bought this old house. Shortly after this I was visiting him, and he asked me if I was interested in a junk jukebox...

Jukebox Restoration Leads To Technical Career: I grew up with a Wurlitzer in my fathers soda shop and used to help him select singles in the 50s - they where still 78 rpm speed...

This Goes WAY Back: In the 1940s my Dad had a lunch counter in Flin Flon, Manitoba, CANADA. A model 500 (I think it was) Wurlitzer was...

Jukeboxes Make Great Babysitters: My jukebox story starts in 1973 when I was 5 years old. My Uncle Johnny collected 45s and had a Wurlitzer 1650 jukebox...

Only In My Dreams: For many years, I had dreamed of owning a jukebox. I had even started collecting 45's, hoping one day I would...

Special Delivery (By A 60's Vintage Hearse): Having grown up in the 50's, I had a great love for the music of that era as well as those magnificent machines on which that music was played. Almost forty years later...

Model 600 Rescued From Northeast Texas Bar: In 1980, while driving through a small town east of Tyler, Texas, I stopped by an antique dealer & looked at the usual junk for sale...

Everything I Ever Wanted In The World: As a kid I was always facinated with jukeboxes. When I was 12 I traded a friend of mine a small table radio for a large Zenith console radio which I put lights in...

One Man's Junk Is Another Man's Treasure: I had some friends who bought a bar. In the garage beside the bar was a lot of junk. They were going to clean the garage to make room for their motorcycles. One of the things being tossed was a jukebox...

Elvis Rattles Childs Brain on Jukebox: My Italian grandfather had a market in the 40s and 50s in which there was a jukebox. A lot of Rock and Elvis tunes were featured. I liked to shake to the...

My Model 3010: I am only 12 years old and I am already a jukebox collector, well I only have one. It's a start! It all started when I was eleven and I got the "jukebox fever"...

Wurlitzer Weathers Storm at Ray's Place: My favorite jukebox story goes back about 25 years ago. Ray's Place, our neighborhood bar, had a great old Wurlitzer jukebox. It had a really good selection of songs, and on weekends when my...

More Jukebox Stories Coming Soon...

Do you have a favorite jukebox story? Maybe you have an interesting story about the jukebox that used to be in your old favorite haunt. Perhaps it's a favorite jukebox song that brings back some great memories. Share it here with other jukebox lovers. By submitting the following form you will have the opportunity of having your jukebox experience published online in the Memory Lane section of the Wurlitzer Jukebox web site. Additionally, everyone who submits a "Memory Lane" story will be automatically entered into a monthly drawing for a Wurlitzer jukebox poster.

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	A Trip Home: This is not just a "jukebox" experience, it's a "Wurlitzer" experience. Wurlitzer "park" in North Tonawanda was my playground...
	My Dad Was a Wurlitzer Dealer!!!: My younger sister stated it very well earlier. I would just like to add...
	My Uncle's Wurlitzer: I have always loved jukeboxes since I was young. My uncle had a Wurlitzer 1015 bubbler...
	I Am Still Hunting Jukeboxes: When I came out of school, I opened an antique store and I bought a Wurlitzer jukebox to play in the store. Customers who entered the shop asked me...
	Wurlitzer-North Tonawanda: My memories of Wurlitzer go back to North Tonawanda when my Grandfather, Joseph Moskal, worked for Wurlitzer. I will always remembers visits to the...
	Jukebox Dreams: Ever since I can remember there were those beautiful Wurlitzer Jukeboxes in the resturant my dad took me to when I was around six years old...
	Grandpa's Old Store: It was just a few days ago that I got my hands on one of two jukeboxs that my great grandfather owned in his soda shop...
	Wurlitzer Temple At The Soda Fountain: When I was a toad (7 years old), in the late 1950's, I lived in Brooklyn NY and loved the Bum Dodgers. Ebbit Field was just 1/4 mile from my Brownstone home and...
	Saved: Like most people who love music and good old 45's I've always wanted a jukie. Having been a mobile DJ in the 70's and 80's I had no shortage of records...
	Part Of My Life: I was about 10 years old, (I am now 39) and my dad was a TV repairman. Somehow he came across an old Wurlitzer, it did not work, but...
	Working on the Production Line: I worked for the Wurlitzer Company from 1943 until 1973. I weathered the layoffs, the strikes, and then the closing of the plant in North Tonawanda, N.Y...
	It Can Change Your Life: Well, I was a 20-year old boy when it hit me. I just finished school and worked the summer in my dad's store. Then there was this advertisement in a local paper...
	A Love of Quality: Being only 35 it seems that my generation has missed all the glories of the 50's & 60's, or so it seemed. A few friends and I decided to start a jukebox hire business and the obvious question was....
	My Orange Monster in the UK: For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted a jukebox, but they were always way out of my financial reach. Then last year a friend tells me of someone with an old jukebox in a cupboard....
	Jukeboxes As Art: Drop in a nickel and a forgotten song lives again. Simultaneously the source lights up like Aunt Betty on New Year's Eve....
	Look What Santa Brought!: One year there was a Huge Surprise waitng for my sister and I from Santa Claus. I remember my father having a friend when I was about 7 years old who....
	Just A "Thank You" For The Great Stories (Memories): Unfortunately I can't say that I own a Wurlitzer...yet! I really enjoyed the stories on this website. I am a 50's buff and...
	Granpa's Tavern: Not too long ago we showed my dad a book of jukeboxes and he saw the Wurlitzer 750...
	Grew Up With A Jukebox: When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, my family owned a 1960 jukebox for about 20 years....
	My Dad Was A Wurlitzer Dealer!!: I am 50 years old and as far as I can remember we have had a Wurlitzer somewhere on our property...
	Wanted A Wurli Since I Was A Kid!!!!: I grew up in a middle class town of Merrick L.I. in the late 50s through the 60s and my parents were musically inclined...
	From 5 to 50: I was just 5 years old growing up in a small midwest rural community, when my babysitter's husband took me to the local "pool hall"...
	My Grandfather's Jukebox , My Spaceship...: When I was growing up, going to my grandfather's house was always a treat. In his backroom was a Wurltizer Model 800...
	Back in the 50's: We found a Wurlitzer in a local antique shop, after having it in our kitchen for six months we decided to build a custom home...
	Passed down Generation to Generation: I currently own a Wurlitzer 2150 jukebox. It was given to me by my father 5 years ago...
	The Barber Shop Jukebox: My first experience with a jukebox came hand in hand with my first haircut...
	Growing Up In The Disco Era, But Listening To Swing!: I can still remember the sound of putting nickles in our old Wurlitzer jukebox. It spun 78's and released bubbles up the side of the machine...
	Ride'm Cowboys: Our father had a model 1015 in our basement when my brother, sister and I were growing up. He had somehow rigged it so that you did not have to...
	Rembering The Old Times: I am 73 years of age and the first job I had was a repair man for Wurlitzer Jukeboxes...
	Electic Light Orchestra: In the late seventies I bought a couple of ELO albums and would play them for hours after school. One of the things I liked about the group was their fascinating circular logo...
	My Dad's Unexpected Weekend-Trip: I must have been about 14 years old when I collected pictures and drawings of jukeboxes. One day my father called my mother and I to go on a 'weekend-trip'...
	An Old Friend Out My Window: I have always loved the feel of the 50's. I am 17, and am the only one in my school that knows every Bing Crosby song by heart. Jukeboxes were always a symbol of the great 50's period...
	Jeffrey And The Amazing Wurlitzer 1015: In the early 1960's my wife Shirley and I were fixing up a rec room in the basement of our home. One day a household auction bill in the local shopper listed a Wurlitzer Jukebox with some records...
	Remembering Wurlitzer Model 61: It is from the Model 61 in a Minnesota Resort that I have my most profound memories. I first heard "Fats" Waller, Glen Gray, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey and many others on this machine...
	Wurlitzer Man: In the town where I live we celebrate our carnival every year. For three days people dress up in all kinds of creations and have fun with each other. For years I was looking for the ultimate creation...
	A Jukebox Can Hide Another One: My story started five years ago when I was a student at a university close to Paris. I was always facinated with jukeboxes and dreamt of having my own. I saw an ad in the paper...
	My Beautiful Centennial: Some 10 years ago I met a man named Gerard. He had this remarkable passion for jukeboxes...
	Wishes Come True: For as long as I could remember, I'd dreamed of owning a Wurlitzer Jukebox. I'd watch game shows on t.v. where contestants would win...
	Remembering B4: In the early 60s I lived in Southern California and was lucky enough to be part of the surfing scene. The Beach Boys came out with a song called Fun Fun Fun about a girl and a T-Bird...
	Michigan Dreamin': It was 1967. I was in high school. I spent the summer working in a Boy Scout camp in Michigan. It was my first experience being away from home and ...
	There's Nothing Quite Like The Sound Of A Wurlitzer Jukebox: Finally in 1997 a dream that I had held on to since childhood finally came true when I purchased a model 1700 jukebox...
	The Ultimate Machines For My 78 RPM Record Collection!: Ever since I was a kid I dreamt of coming home from school and having my very own jukebox playing...
	Model 1700 Sold On Auction Sale: In Belgium, jukeboxes were part of our youth in the 60s and the 70s. Being 40 years old now, I bought a Model 1700...
	Is Bing Crosby In There, Grandpa?: I can recall my grandfather (or it might have been an aunt or uncle) putting a nickel in an elaborate Wurlitzer at a Long Island restaurant...
	Ye Old Classic: I remember many a party in the basement of our recreation room playing awesome 78 rpm tunes...
	Basement Junk: In the early 1970s my younger brother bought this old house. Shortly after this I was visiting him, and he asked me if I was interested in a junk jukebox...
	Jukebox Restoration Leads To Technical Career: I grew up with a Wurlitzer in my fathers soda shop and used to help him select singles in the 50s - they where still 78 rpm speed...
	This Goes WAY Back: In the 1940s my Dad had a lunch counter in Flin Flon, Manitoba, CANADA. A model 500 (I think it was) Wurlitzer was...
	Jukeboxes Make Great Babysitters: My jukebox story starts in 1973 when I was 5 years old. My Uncle Johnny collected 45s and had a Wurlitzer 1650 jukebox...
	Only In My Dreams: For many years, I had dreamed of owning a jukebox. I had even started collecting 45's, hoping one day I would...
	Special Delivery (By A 60's Vintage Hearse): Having grown up in the 50's, I had a great love for the music of that era as well as those magnificent machines on which that music was played. Almost forty years later...
	Model 600 Rescued From Northeast Texas Bar: In 1980, while driving through a small town east of Tyler, Texas, I stopped by an antique dealer & looked at the usual junk for sale...
	Everything I Ever Wanted In The World: As a kid I was always facinated with jukeboxes. When I was 12 I traded a friend of mine a small table radio for a large Zenith console radio which I put lights in...
	One Man's Junk Is Another Man's Treasure: I had some friends who bought a bar. In the garage beside the bar was a lot of junk. They were going to clean the garage to make room for their motorcycles. One of the things being tossed was a jukebox...
	Elvis Rattles Childs Brain on Jukebox: My Italian grandfather had a market in the 40s and 50s in which there was a jukebox. A lot of Rock and Elvis tunes were featured. I liked to shake to the...
	My Model 3010: I am only 12 years old and I am already a jukebox collector, well I only have one. It's a start! It all started when I was eleven and I got the "jukebox fever"...
	Wurlitzer Weathers Storm at Ray's Place: My favorite jukebox story goes back about 25 years ago. Ray's Place, our neighborhood bar, had a great old Wurlitzer jukebox. It had a really good selection of songs, and on weekends when my...