From yesterday's post. Again, go to You Tube and type it in. It is a neat video showing the actions the figures take.
Chicago Coins Band-Box were made from 1950-1952. Deposit a coin in the jukebox and the curtains will open and watch the animated manikin musicians play a tune by the "World's Smallest Band." It was used in conjunction with a jukebox and when a record was played, the drapes would open and then close after the record is finished.
Chicago Coins marketed it as a speaker that looks like an orchestra.
In 1985, Brad Frank, owner of Brad Frank Restorations took control of the Chicago Coin Trademark after the court ordered bankruptcy. He continued manufactiring replacement parts for the over 600 arcade machines manufactured under the Chicago Coin Trademark.
The website has a list of places you can see it in action, but unfortuantely, I wasn't able to get it to come up. I wonder if the one at the Pancake Hut in Carthage, Missouri, is being sent to him for restoration?
E-Bay had an ad for it back in the 1950s and it cost a big sum for then, $104.80.
The Fifties Store has one advertised as restored and costing 12,500 pounds.
--RoadDog
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