Junkin' juke
So we went for a drive through old neighborhoods a couple weeks ago-of course keeping our eyes out for "junk" on the curb. And there it was, the most marvelous old juke box just hanging out on the side of the road. But as luck would have it, we had decided to take the car that day instead of the truck. Comfort Schmomfort! We were probably 40 miles from home, so we couldn't just go grab the truck, and this thing weighed as much as an ox, so even if we had the truck, I don't think we could have gotten it in there. So there she laid and stayed.
She's just sitting there. So sad!
But some of her parts were scattered amongst the same junk pile, so we gathered them up and brought them home. I cleaned this piece up, and it is on our mantle now.
I have no idea what we are going to do with this piece but we sure weren't going to leave it there
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We also got an old light fixture from the pile. Every thing in the pile looked as if it had come out of a shed or basement-most looked to have water damage. It is so sad that someone had this tucked away somewhere and let it go to waste. Oh well no use crying over spilt milk or in this case, water damaged, torn apart, heavy as an ox, juke boxes on the side of the road.
She's just sitting there. So sad!
But some of her parts were scattered amongst the same junk pile, so we gathered them up and brought them home. I cleaned this piece up, and it is on our mantle now.
I have no idea what we are going to do with this piece but we sure weren't going to leave it there
.
We also got an old light fixture from the pile. Every thing in the pile looked as if it had come out of a shed or basement-most looked to have water damage. It is so sad that someone had this tucked away somewhere and let it go to waste. Oh well no use crying over spilt milk or in this case, water damaged, torn apart, heavy as an ox, juke boxes on the side of the road.
posted by dandyapple at 4/28/2005 07:30:00 AM
3 Comments:
there was a fad awhile back, to put a junky computer in an old arcade game box, rig the buttons and stick to the keyboard, download combo OS/vitage gamepack and viola....tons o fun.
i thought it would be cool to put an old puter in a jukebox for an mp3 player for the would be Bar. with a touch screen select. but old jukeboxes are buku bux working or not.
Too bad you couldn't get it all in, but you saved some nifty parts.
Two of the five dressers we have in our house were thrown out garbage on the street. One just had to be glued back together, though the other required my dad to practice his dovetailing skills to rebuild the drawers.
Where in Tennessee are you? I'm in Nashville.
Cool find! The parts are interesting at least. Conversation starters.
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