Wurlitzer 1100 Jukebox

In my opinion the Wurlitzer 1100 is the most aesthetically pleasing of all the 78rpm juke designs. It has nice compact proportions and includes some art deco references, though this may have been somewhat passé at the time. The grill area is reminiscent of the front of many 1940's American cars. The 'skydome' top (Wurlitzer's term) was said to have been inspired by the plexiglass nose section of the Boeing B17 bomber. When illuminated it is probably the most colourful of all jukeboxes. The whole facade becomes a blaze of colour with the red and yellow arch inside the dome, clear facetted pilasters revealing multi-coloured rotating cylinders and rich red lower grill. It has a novelty animated feature known as the 'encore selector' - a motorised three position rotating programme unit operated by the punter. This model came directly after the hugely successful 1015 and Wurlitzer were hoping for similar sales for the 1100 but a slight recession coupled with increased competition from other manufacturers, notably Seeburg, made it a slow seller. The 1100 was the last machine designed by Wurlitzer's legendary designer, Paul Fuller (he died soon after) and subsequent machines - models 1250, 1400 etc - by Fuller's understudy, Joe Clements, seem to have taken a retrograde step design wise.

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[wingnut049]

If you look at the record you can see that it's probably a Canadian release.

[CrisVangel]

The juke is nice but I'd have rather heard the sound it give out than a stereo, echo laden digitized version of Endless sleep (which never came out on Coral records, as seen in the video..). It was on Demon, I bright pink colored label!