Jukeboxes, Coin Machines,

Jukeboxes and some other coin machines also used radio tubes and later solid state amplifiers. They are collected items and somebody has to be found to repair such items. Also some radio collectors collect or have such coin operated machines. These are the reasons that we also care for such here.

To have a better knowledge it is necessary to know when such a coin operated machine was built. Often a good picture is missing or the knowledge who was who in the business and what they did. The magazine Billboard is really the main source by far for this. Fortunately there are some Google copies of the magazine Billboard.

Wikipedia (Mar 2012): "A billboard (also called a "hoarding" in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high traffic areas such as alongside busy roads."
For the magazine:
Billboard is an international newsweekly magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis.

They published for instance pages with a list of "New & Used Coin Machines" like this one from Billboard May 7, 1966 or here from June 4, 1966 or here from July 2, 1966. This is only a tiny fraction of information Billboard can give us. You see that each of those three lists is a bit different.

Please tell us if oyu have collected such magazines. Would you be able to scan from time to time a picture if somebody looks for it? Who is able to look up those yournals and takes some information to create models or to load up a picture?

I showed Heribert Jung one of this lists because he came up with the name "Scopitone" and he has given me them to upload here. Thanks, Heribert.

For those who want to know more about this magazine: Wikipedia (Mar 2012): "Billboard was founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by William h. Donaldson and James Hennegan."

Originally it was titled Billboard advertising. "Eventually Billboard became the paper of record for circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, vaudeville, minstrels, whale shows and other live entertainment. The magazine began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s.

With the development of the jukebox industry during the 1930s, The Billboard began publishing music charts. ... In the 1950s it introduced a section covering the television industry, including ratings charts for programs. It continued to carry news of fairs, carnivals, theme parks and other outdoor entertainments until 1961 when these departments were spun off into a new weekly magazine called Amusement Business. By this time the television coverage had also been moved to another publication.

At the start of 1961, The Billboard was renamed Billboard Music Week. The publication was now devoted almost entirely to the music industry, with some coverage of coin-operated vending and entertainment machines on its jukebox pages. The title was changed to simply Billboard at the start of 1963. In 2005, the magazine and its web sites were repositioned to provide coverage of all forms of digital and mobile entertainment.

Amusement Business prospered for a few decades, but was struggling by the beginning of the 21st Century. Shortly after then its frequency of publication was reduced to monthly, and it finally ceased publication following its May 2006 issue."

You find much more with the term Billboard magazine at Wikipedia.

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• New & Used Coin Machines, list June 4, 1966 Billboard part 1 (177 KB)
• New & Used Coin Machines, list June 4, 1966 Billboard part 2 (179 KB)

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