WURLITZER

Wurlitzer began life back in the mid 1800's when Rudolph Wurlitzer founded the company in 1856, originally importing musical instruments from his native home of Saxony... Wurlitzer built some of the world's finest cinema organs in the 1920's and. Their famous manufacturing plant in North Tonawanda (near buffalo - New York state) was acquired in 1908 where they began to produce the " Wurlitzer" cinema organs. They continued to dominate the market until the introduction of the talking movie and were well placed to capture the emerging new jukebox market... At the end of the war Wurlitzer produced probably the most famous design, Paul Fuller's Model 1015 jukebox (1946-7) it took the world by storm, spreading with the GIs, Willys jeeps and Coke Cola. The 1015 had 8 bubble tubes, changing lights and an illuminated domed top, which today is most peoples impression of a jukebox.

Primary location: United Kingdom