I have no data to support this view other than my own anecdotal experience. But hey, you try to find someone to repair a 60-year-old jukebox and I’ll wager you’ll come to the same conclusion.

Dan Coulter opened Interactive Amusements last year in Newport, one of a handful of Minnesota businesses that restore antique jukeboxes.

“For me, work feels like a hobby that I enjoy,” said Mao, who also takes house calls to repair pinball machines and old jukeboxes. “I like to save these old machines; it feels good.” The ...

Just hearing him tell his story about fixing jukeboxes is already fun, but getting to see the guts of these old music machines—the vacuum tubes, the arm, the turntables—makes it even better.

Q: I have an old Wurlitzer model 1100 jukebox that was made in 1948. It had been restored when I bought it almost 40 years ago but now needs some refurbishing to return it to its full glory. Can ...

He runs a jukebox repair shop, surrounded by the same music - played on the same vinyl records by the same machines - that thrilled teenagers in the 1950s. He restores broken-down jukeboxes to ...

He paid $25 for a busted 1946 Aireon jukebox in a neighbor’s garage. He fixed it and sold it to an antique shop, which resold it for use in a Dayton’s department store.

From the outside, it looks similar to pole-sheds on other farms. But inside, tractors and combine share shed space with row upon row of antique jukeboxes, and old pinball and ...

From the outside, it looks similar to pole-sheds on other farms. But inside, tractors and combine share shed space with row upon row of antique jukeboxes, and old pinball and ...