![]() For decades his family-run Games Room Company imported jukeboxes for a slowly dying pub and bar trade. Photo: Sound LeisureĪlexander Walder-Smith echoes this. “We have the largest order books we’ve ever had,” says Black.Ĭhris Black, managing director of Sound Leisure, which is based in Leeds in the UK. ![]() After all, the first multi-selection coin-operated phonograph was introduced way back in 1906. ![]() “They’re amazed these things are still even being manufactured.” And yet Sound Leisure, the third-generation family business of which Black is managing director, can’t make enough jukeboxes at the moment – those colourful, playful boxes symbolic of Americana that are a seemingly anachronistic and outmoded form of record-playing. “People do tend to be pretty stunned when I tell them what we do,” says Chris Black. If the popularity of vinyl records is anything to go by, with an interest in these vintage discs increasing year on year, it's perhaps no surprise that the appeal of old-school jukeboxes is growing, too.
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