Chillin’ to some 60s - 80s vinyl …
Changed the room around yesterday and this has been a ‘ shelf ‘ for about 5 years since it last felt a big 10p enter its hungry mouth
Nostalgic memories may be stirred if you ever holidayed at Lyon’s caravan park Rhyl between 1978 and 1985 this was upstairs in the pool room with many small cab videos and a few pinball machines . YOU may have selected a vinyl back then ?
1985 we were out - tendered by Les Harker Bingo for two years so this juke retired to our Cheshire home 40 years ago . When we got the arcade back in 1987 I put a cd juke in on the ground floor…
It plays ok but the first few selections sounded like the music of fairground waltzers as the deck belt had hardened a bit to a slight oval and occasionally slowed to about 40 rpm from the normal 45 so added to the age memories with tea time voltage drops across the Rhyl area !!!
Some 7” on it date back to that era too ! or older 60s ? Satisfaction , Rolling Stones and Layla - Derek & Dominoes or Jean Genie by David Bowie .. good memories … perhaps some folk here have same nostalgia?
Who even remembers Van McCoy ‘The Shuffle’ ? Freda Payne ‘ Band of Gold’ ?
I regret “ sticking baby in a corner” ( dirty dancing quote) just a few plays later it sounds fantastic no crackle just like back in the late 70s when it was just 5 or 6 years old ! Sadly the glass got a bit scratched in places by the hoards of teenagers that gathered to play it and one of the seven different coloured pool tables available back then ( perils of public using the machines )
So the aim is not to allow it to become cluttered with daily/periodic junk beyond access …. Maybe give cd a rest and it’s loud too so while the neighbours are away for a few days ……….. 😜. That’s still easy access too relocated from where the Wurlitzer now sits…
Changed the room around yesterday and this has been a ‘ shelf ‘ for about 5 years since it last felt a big 10p enter its hungry mouth
Nostalgic memories may be stirred if you ever holidayed at Lyon’s caravan park Rhyl between 1978 and 1985 this was upstairs in the pool room with many small cab videos and a few pinball machines . YOU may have selected a vinyl back then ?
1985 we were out - tendered by Les Harker Bingo for two years so this juke retired to our Cheshire home 40 years ago . When we got the arcade back in 1987 I put a cd juke in on the ground floor…
It plays ok but the first few selections sounded like the music of fairground waltzers as the deck belt had hardened a bit to a slight oval and occasionally slowed to about 40 rpm from the normal 45 so added to the age memories with tea time voltage drops across the Rhyl area !!!
Some 7” on it date back to that era too ! or older 60s ? Satisfaction , Rolling Stones and Layla - Derek & Dominoes or Jean Genie by David Bowie .. good memories … perhaps some folk here have same nostalgia?
Who even remembers Van McCoy ‘The Shuffle’ ? Freda Payne ‘ Band of Gold’ ?
I regret “ sticking baby in a corner” ( dirty dancing quote) just a few plays later it sounds fantastic no crackle just like back in the late 70s when it was just 5 or 6 years old ! Sadly the glass got a bit scratched in places by the hoards of teenagers that gathered to play it and one of the seven different coloured pool tables available back then ( perils of public using the machines )
So the aim is not to allow it to become cluttered with daily/periodic junk beyond access …. Maybe give cd a rest and it’s loud too so while the neighbours are away for a few days ……….. 😜. That’s still easy access too relocated from where the Wurlitzer now sits…
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