Wurlitzer Tag Page
Wurlitzer Jukebox Gallery
I recently discovered this amazing online gallery of Wurlitzer Jukeboxes. There’s a Slide Show plus other nostalgic views of these mechanical marvels, including a Vintage Video, tour the Wurlitzer factory. My favorite is their listing of All Time Jukebox Hit Singles.
I just love the old Wurlitzer jukeboxes. Their neon [...]
January at the Paramount
If you’re looking for an evening of entertainment this month, The Paramount offers up a wide variety of choices. Take a look: January 12th – The Magician, 7 pm. A showing of this 1926 silent movie based on a novel by Somerset Maugham. The Paramount’s Wurlitzer organ provides accompanying music. Tickets $12. January 15th – Martin Luther King Jr.Celebration, noon. Entertainment and awards honoring local residents whose life and work has been about Breaking Barriers. Free. January 17th –
Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Midnight Classics, as far as I can tell, was an imprint of Serpent’s Tail reserved for publishing forgotten works of pulpy noir and psychedelic fiction. A number of titles were put out in the late 1990s, each boldy declaring that the book was ‘a Midnight Classic back in print’, and all written by authors long forgotten. Names like Gavin Lambert, Stewart Meyer, Rudolph Wurlitzer, and David Goodis. Another was Horace McCoy, probably the best known of the lot. McCoy’s name has already appeared
Hey, Joni!
The last time I saw richard was detroit in 68,And he told me all romantics meet the same fate somedayCynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafeYou laugh, he said you think youre immune, go look at your eyesTheyre full of moonYou like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell youAll those pretty lies, pretty liesWhen you gonna realise theyre only pretty liesOnly pretty lies, just pretty liesHe put a quarter in the wurlitzer, and he pushedThree buttons and the thing began to whirrAnd a b
Can't Miss It: Monday
Can't Miss It: Monday OH THE HORROR: Every Monday in January is a different silent movie, complete with Dennis James on The Paramount's mighty Wurlitzer organ. This time around, Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays features scary silent classics from the '20s, kicking off with tonight's showing of Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 7:00 p.m. // Paramount Theatre // 911 Pine St. // $12 EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK: Considering everyt
oh hello
Remember me? What news? Sedate new year, followed by some fun times with new and old friends. I got a new (to me) piano. Well, technically it’s a spinet. It’s an old ’30s-era (I think) Wurlitzer: It’s terribly out of tune right now, and many of the keys are sticking, due in no small part to a few jostles while moving it. Tuning may be beyond me, but I wonder what typically causes keys to “stick”. Anyone know? Is it something I can repair myself? While answering, don’t underestimate my uncan
Game Theory and the GOP
There have been numerous indications of nascent GOP obstructionism for Obama’s policies, many of them signaled by members of Republican leadership in the House and Senate. I’m sure I’m not the only one who anticipates with dread the type of foot-dragging, nit-picking, fear-mongering, game-playing and other tactics the Republicans seem to have perfected. Why, I can hear the Mighty Wurlitzer winding up as I type this. Much of Obama’s agenda, even including urgent items associated with economic
Studying photography makes me a better person
OK, an overwrought title for a post, perhaps, but in the last day or so I have been reminded (yet again) why I like working with photography so much. ...it helps you make friends! On New Year's Eve we went to hear the Champaign-Urbana Chorale at the Virginia Theater, our gloriously decrepit local vaudeville theater/movie house. After the intermission they did a singalong using the Wurlitzer organ and some of the Virginia's old glass slides to project the lyrics. Apparently they have a couple
