To those still in love with poodle skirts, sock hops and many a broken-down Wurlitzer 1015-Bubbler with its iconic yellow catalin plastic, James R. “Jim” Van de Walker was truly a jukebox hero.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There is nothing that quite evokes the postwar era of rock ’n’ roll more than the Wurlitzer 1015, which is perhaps ...

The ultimate luxury in retro-audio gear? Restored jukeboxes, which have won over fans like Tom Petty and Snoop Dogg. Just be prepared to drop $10,000. By Brooke Mazurek There are those who arrive at ...

Coin-operated machines such as the jukebox make up one of the fastest-growing interests in today’s collector market. They are being bought, restored and used for home entertainment. Collector Steve ...

For years now, jukebox fans have been playing the same song, a blues bemoaning the disappearance of those music machines once considered fixtures of every neighborhood tavern, pizza parlor or roadside ...

Bob Peltz is a busy man. Those with the ability to resurrect the dead often are. From the road, his barn looks like many you would see driving through rural Boone County, apart from a newly installed ...

Wurlitzer is one of the oldest and most respected names in the music industry. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. began in Cincinnati in 1856 and went on to worldwide recognition for its pianos, theater organs ...

Remember when you could put another dime in the jukebox and rock around the clock to your favorite song? Believe it or not, those happy days aren’t over yet. Though the dime is now more like 50 cents ...