Music - modern Vinyl Records

There's an upmarket furniture store called Arighi Bianchi, in Macclesfield, not somewhere we frequent, as much of their stock is very expensive, but we've bought a couple of Stressless recliners from them in the past few years.

The owner is into jukeboxes. He has four or maybe five he's had restored, scattered around the sales rooms, for "husbands to play whilst their wives choose expensive furnishing fabrics," or whatever.


Here's two of them, I photographed whilst we were there

They would change hands for "big money." I mean like at least about ten grand each.

This an AMI 200, from 1957.











A Rock-Ola Tempo from 1960

 

Digressing a bit.
I recorded the film "Queen & Country" on Film 4 last night and watched it this afternoon. It was made in 2014. It was about National Service recruits in 1952. The two lads were in a café with a couple of girls and one of them put a record on the jukebox.
It was one of these;
A Wurlitzer "One More Time." They play vinyl 45s. These machines were first manufactured in 1987.




What it could only have been if they'd bothered about the production values, was this, a Wurlitzer 1015, "Bubbler." manufactured in 1946. This played 78s.



But you couldn't buy them, unless you got it from an American airbase which was closing down, as the import restrictions wouldn't have allowed it.

I know it's trivia, but I tend to notice these things. Like in an episode of WPC 56, there was a Ditchburn Music Maker jukebox in a cafe, twelve years before that particular model was made.

 

To a certain extent, I can understand them not seeing a watch. I cant understand them not seeing the Ford Transit in Braveheart though. There was a passenger jet in one film that was set around the time of the roman empire. The title escapes me. Maybe that was Ben Hur as well?

 

In the opening shots of "Shane" where Alan Ladd is being watched by the little boy Joey, played by Brandon de Wilde, as he approaches his parent's farm, you can see cows in the distance, and the roof of a van or more likely a greyhound bus as it passes from left to right in the far distance.