“There is the sense for some that it’s rather like having a horse and cart when you could have a Ferrari,” says Chris Black, punching a few more numbers into one of his jukeboxes. “But unlike a boring ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

The jukebox celebrated it’s 100th anniversary on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1989 – and while that box of lights and sound might not have been among our top ten things to be thankful for this past ...