This Factory Built America's Jukeboxes. Now It's a Brewery.

In about 1950, Wurlitzer filmed inside the North Tonawanda, New York factory where three thousand people built the jukebox you picture in every diner. We restored the film and followed the machine from timber yard to test room: the bent veneer, the hand-rubbed piano finish, the coin mechanism that filed records back one by one. Then what happened to the factory, the jobs and the name. Today there is a brewery inside the building. 0:00 50,000 jukeboxes, one factory 0:39 North Tonawanda: what the town made first 1:29 How an organ factory became a jukebox factory 2:00 How a jukebox was built: it starts as furniture 2:45 The coin mechanism that filed records 3:57 Paul Fuller and the look everyone copies 4:38 Half a million machines: the peak 5:45 What went wrong 6:49 Where the jukeboxes went 7:01 What is left of the factory today 7:46 Which jobs outlived the factory Original film: A Visit to Wurlitzer (c.1950), Prelinger Archives, public domain: https://archive.org/details/VisittoW1950 Restoration, narration, motion graphics and research: Revive Lab. Modern footage and photos licensed via Pexels. Music licensed for commercial use. Sources for every fact are in the pinned comment. Revive Lab: lost films, restored, explained. #Wurlitzer #Jukebox #History