Rock-Ola

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The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation was, along with Wurlitzer, a top maker of jukeboxes. The company, which originally made scales and pinball machines, was founded in 1927 by Coin-Op pioneer David Cullen Rockola. Starting in 1935, Rock-Ola sold more than 400,000 jukeboxes under the Rock-Ola brand name, which predated the rock and roll era by two decades, and is thought to have inspired the term. In 1977, The Antique Apparatus Company engineered, refined, and manufactured the first and finest “Nostalgic” Jukeboxes, merging with Rock-Ola in 1992. In 2008, they manufacture jukeboxes with play CDs and others which download music powered by the Ecast broadband network, a massive album-based music library. Some of the latest units feature a SyberSonic 4 channel Pre-amp and a Peavey 900 Wrms power amplifier which can be upgraded up to to 600 Watts RMS for the largest locations.

Rockola was also the maker of shuffleboard tables from 1948-50. Considered by collectors the Cadillac of shuffleboards due to their Art Deco styling with curving woodwork and lots of chrome, they are highly sought after by players.

Rock-Ola also produced and published arcade video game machines in the early 1980s.

Rock-Ola was also one of the producers the M1 carbine for the US Military during WWII, making 3.7% of the 6,221,220 made.

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