I repaired a unit like this that had mice pooping and pee and frayed wires. This unit was a modernized version that played LP records. SEEBURG claimed that the turntable playing the albums juke-box-style was playing the records with the same accurcay and precise tracking as a turntable sitting on a desk. The amplifier and radio section was in reasonable shape. It was all of the mechanical that needed help. I even bought a video about maintaining the system and aligning. It had a Tormat system as memory for music requests and a dial-type telephone to set up a playlist for playback. The stereo speakers were in separate cabinets that fit in the massive cabinet. It took me about 8 months to get it working again. The owner fell in love with the system. His family had a separate room built to play music and dance on a weekly basis. Quite a nice system . Probably cost a pretty penny back then

Frank collected Lionel trains and had a building behind his Palm Springs home just for those trains. Thanks for this peak at a celebrities toy.

Wow. What a find! It is a mechanical computer owned by Frank Sinatra and Marie McDonald!. Treasure it!

Amazing - done entirely mechanically without any electronics. Folks back then were masters of engineering.

That's definitely cool old technolog. The Frank Sinatra Story being able to authenticate the handwriting definitely make something like this so much more special.

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I have a 1956 Motorola Hi-fi I am restoring. It is amazing how they built things back in the day. I still love tube sound.

That might be over 70 years, but dam that is high tech even today. High precision machinery.

Its so cool what they were able to accomplish with an electric motor, some solenoids and a few cams. Easy to see why the average Joe in 1948 couldn't have afforded one of these.

One of a kind it belongs in a vintage electronics museum.

An historical piece, they made so beautiful electronic things in those times. A real survivor from a fantastic era. 🎼🤩💯

A thing of beauty and craftsmaship. And what a story. Thanks.

What a wonderful story and a wonderful piece of equipment.

Why would anyone want to get rid of something so beautiful is beyond me. Truly this a piece of technological history from back in the day. This must be worth a fortune.

That is an awesome unit!!

Thank you very much for this. What a fascinating piece with a wonderful history. It's amazing to me how beautifully we used to make things. The audio hardware, cabinetry, and all other aspects of this equipment are top notch. When I see things like this and compare it to the high-tech plastic we have today, the transition is remarkable, but I feel that we're at a loss now because art and craftsmanship are missing. I own a 1948 Chrysler Windsor, and I can't ever drive that or even stand next to it, without feeling admiration for what just about all manufacturers would accomplish back then. As well as making a fine representation of their company and a presentation of beauty and craftsmanship for people to own something nice and personally experience. I think most often now, when we buy things, they lack beauty and detail. And they don't impart a statement that the manufacturer cares, and we don't really feel pride of ownership.

Wow that's beautiful. You can see the mechanical relays sparking as they're triggered. And what a piece of cultural history as well!

You have a magnificent piece of history!

That is so cool. A home juke box.Frank Sinatra wow.

What a beautiful and cool piece

Very interesting piece of history and I'm glad to see it restored to working order. It deserves to be preserved and the fact that it belonged to Sinatra is just "the icing on the cake."

Wow, it is a beautiful piece of furniture let alone it's a great player and has pedigree to Frank Sinatra. The mechanics on how these work amaze me. Craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing this with us.

A BLAST INTO THE FUTURE!!! WOW!! WAY BEYOND!! GOD BLESS ALL OF THEIR SOULS R.I.P. WAY BETTER HUMAN RACE AND SPIRIT. Thank You Sir For This Gift Of Film... What A Blessing And Treat Of Audio History.

Mike,Glad you got this beautiful machine. I saw it when it was posted on eBay many years ago and the seller had said it was Frank Sinatra’s. I do believe there is a photo of Frank sitting down on the floor next to this machine holding one of the record books out there somewhere. I don’t remember where I had seen it,but I believe it was at a friends who used to work for Seeburg back in the 50’s and 60’s and he collected tons of factory photos and literature. He passed away a long time ago unfortunately. I believe Nat King Cole also owned one.

I've had a seeburg jukebox from 1962, it had a memory build with wire and cores just like what's in the chips but full size. It retained the selection you made previously. It was cool with a powerful stereo sound. Has the same principle but with 45 ram instead. The disc itself doesn't flip sides, the tonearm change sides and the disc turns backwards instead.

I had a "Seeburg Stereo Showcase" 45 RPM jukebox from 1966. It's amazing how similar these are. This is just a scaled up jukebox to play 78s. The Select-o-Matic served Seeburg well. They also made a huge "console stereo" in the 70's that played full size LPs. Like this, only the rich and famous that had them.

WOW! What a find! The restoration is immaculate! That's a keeper. I sure hope that in the basement, right below that monster, that you've installed an extra support post for the floor. LOL That has GOT to be super heavy! I'm guessing over 400 lbs. Well over.

A real treasure, thanks for sharing .

I bet that was a very expensive item to have back then-it's fantastic, even by today's standards. Thanks for sharing it with us!

This is quality content! Thank you!!

What a beautiful jukebox We must preserve these

Sinatra or not .. an amazing Part of Old Tech History !

75 years later every single person non-chalantly carrries this device around in our pocket.

Wow wished they still had things like that

Sinatra and Bing were involved with ampex recording tape technology in its infancy just about that time. Nancy Sinatra released alot of music that she did on reel to reel. .. Nice unit,nice presentation. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Incredible! A treasure to behold!

I have always been fascinated by jukeboxes. This one is a true work of art. And what a cool history to it. I wonder how many of these machines were produced?.

What a great piece of everything except sxxx. History, engineering art,furniture, etc. what a score! Great presentation too, thanks for uploading.

My dad had a jukebox route and I have one of his jukeboxes a Seeburg DS100 and a 3W1 wallbox, A Seeburg 1000 background music unit and also a Seeburg 45 library unit. I once saw this same unit advertised for sale as Frank Sinatra's unit. I'm happy for you that you have it and it is getting good TLC. An awsome piece!!!

Great job restoring it especially the history of it very amazing. Thanks for sharing video of it.

Incredible! What a beautiful piece of machinery, and an incredible history it has. How wonderful, that it has survived, and that you have restored, and have cherished it. I am grateful there are others like us, that see the value, and beauty, and don't just toss "old" technology away. Thank you, for also, making a video to share it with others, for all-time.

Really impressive! Glad you rescued that marvel.

I don't care much about Frank Sinatra, but that thing is COOL, and what a fascinating bit of detective work. It also can't be a coincidence that when talking about Sinatra and Bing Crosby "Count Your Blessings" from "White Christmas" was playing. Well done!

Mechanical magic at its finest.

Thanks for sharing! What a great piece!

Amazing! Thanks for showing this. Anytime you get tired of it - I've got just the place for it in my living room!

FANTASTIC video, very cool piece and a wonderful story!!😎👍🐕

Looks very familiar, the german NSM jukeboxes used a nearly same mechanism but the slide scanned for contacs with voltage on them to stop at a preselected record. Although for seven inch singles, the mechanism could switch from 45 to 33 1/3 rpm depending if the seven inch had a big hole or a small at the center. After seeing this I'm convinced that they adopted this Seeburg mechanism for their purposes.

Well told, edited and simply delightful story to boot. Congrats on the wonderful find and beautiful piece of equipment, a superb combination of both art and machinery.

Man, what a beauty! even without the provenance!

Would this audio system have been terribly expensive when first marketed? I ask because I imagine that there cannot have been many sold and even fewer still available today. Your restoration is remarkable!

Gorgeous unit, couldn’t tell it is from the 40’s

That is a fantastic piece of technology.

Wow! What a work of art, then it plays so wonderfully! Thank you for sharing, as I had no idea these existed.

I think this is where Sharp got its idea from for the SC9670AV 50 + 1 CD changer stereo system.... Works entirely the exact same way....

What a great find in itself, that it had belong to 'Ol blue eyes and had his and Bing's notes in one of the record sleeves is even better. Juke boxes were amazing machines, just how they figured them out and were able to build them in such numbers, and have them be common tells what kind of people used to work in this country.

This is too sweet beyond words!

Mind blown💥

Seeburg made a smart move in buying the select-o-matic mechanism from Ed Andrews (the inventor,not the actor). It served them well for decades and gave them an edge on their competition. Not only was Seeburgs mechanism far more reliable,it was easier to service when it did need maintance and could easily hold more records than it’s competition. I think Seeburg also had some of the most beautiful designs of the 1950’s. It’s hard to find any of the M100A’s left that are still playing 78’s. Most got converted to 45rpm.

I've been reading biographies on Sinatra this year and started collecting physical copies of all his Capitol and Reprise albums. This is awesome!

Pretty amazing. As a child in the early 1970's; I remember something somewhat similar to this, lower cabinet and and old fashioned "telephone" rotary dial that played records. This was at a relatives home in Palm Beach. Doubt that it would have played 78 's, perhaps 45 RMP records. What I do recall is "dialing" in a number to play a record.

What a great video and story Blue eyes remains an iconic figure in the music world of mine Thanks for sharing

Quite a piece of equipment back when equipment doubled as furniture. Amazing craftsmanship. glad it's being preserved.

One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.

The sound of that non-RIAA preamp is amazing with those 78s.

What a beautiful machine! 👌

It's a Beautiful piece of History & Sound

I restored a similar unit made by Seeburg HSC1 that was made in the late 1960's. It played the "modern" 33 1/3 stereo LP's. It was in a storage facility that didn't protect from mice pooping and peeing on everything and munching on the wiring harness. I was able to get that monster back together. It took almost 2years. The amplifier was basically an AM-FM receiver and that needed new capacitors. The amplifier was 30w per channel and the speakers were in cabinets that could be removed from the furniture. It also used something innovative for selecting the records with what looked like a telephone dial. It could remember requested selections by the listener. Apparently these were popular at large parties. The owner had a friend who was into restoring furniture and he took care of restoring the beautiful cabinet.

Beautiful old machine in astonishing condition. I love the history behind that one you have, and it’s wonderful to see yours playing records so perfectly. The timing device confirms it was designed for commercial use generally. I worked for Muzak for 30+ years, we used to have interval timers on many commercial background music systems. Those pretty much went away by the early 70’s most were found bypassed. The standard music systems installed by us were typically left on 24 hrs, and frequently in locked cabinets to stop employees from tampering with the music.

This is great! First time I have seen or heard of this Seeburg jukebox! Great job on the restoration, it works well and sounds great. The "fidelity" of a 78 rpm record in good condition is amazing. I have a small collection of them and a couple of restored vintage machines to enjoy playing them on. I am assuming that the output tubes on the audio final amplifier are 6L6?

I have a 1948 Ampex 403 15 IPS professional tape recorder that belonged to Bing Crosby it was left at a Southern California Ampex repair station in 1960 and never picked up I purchased it from them in the early 1980s.

Lovely piece of art!

An amazing find. I would love to see what records were written in the indexes in each album, to get an idea of what they were listening to at the time. Most of us don’t have Seeburg music libraries but it could make for a fun playlist!

Still miss the days when entertainment systems were basically furniture.

Wow! This is so amazing. I wish I had one. Such a beautiful machine. A real piece of history and Americana. Plus you are a very cool, laid back human!

Happy that you shared this with us. You did a fine job restoring it. Some day it should be in a museum so more can view it.

hi I'm from Australia and I have never seen one like that but it is a lovely vintage old jukebox

The detailing on the Night/Day dial knob! WOW!

Goodness, what a wonderful music machine. Great piece of history. Wouldn't Nancy have a family picture of Frank with this audio system in the back ground?

“It’s quarter to three…” “Frank?” “Nope, Barney!”

I was born in 1964…. I love this music .

Fantastic video, thank you for the upload.

What a beautiful thing! I think I'm in love. If I owned one of those, for the first time in decades I could have all my 78s in the same room!

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Good heavens, that thing is absolutely gorgeous!!!

Beautiful machine

One hell of a machine!

Wow this is one of the most beautiful machines that I've ever seen, both mechanically and aesthetically.

A real piece of history. Great Video x

It is beautiful and what a story

Many thanks for sharing such a beautiful piece. The real show is the rear mechanism, it is just marvelous and all analog! Sounds great, enjoy! These had to be very rare and extremely costly back in the day. The Frank and Bing connection is cool.

Absolutely fascinating machine and the story of it is even more fascinating. Thanks for sharing!!

We used to make all kinds of Cool Stuff in U.S. -- Radios , T.V.'s , Reliable Cars -( That you could work on )- Appliances , Housewares , Textiles ........... A by-gone Era ...................

And I thought the Sony 300 disc CD changer I had back in the late 1990’s was a new concept! 🤣

Its beautiful.

That is absolutely amazing, what a piece of history! Cheers on such a great find!

Truly incredible machine, especially that it was owned by Frank Sinatra!!

oh my gosh. what a treasure. got to be worth millions.

How great is this jukebox... very clever that you got it all working again well done what a great achievement,👍

They definitely don't make those anymore. Great Video!

I remember when someone was trying to sell this on eBay several years ago and claimed that it once belonged to Frank Sinatra. The listing showed the handwritten titles in the record albums. I wondered why the person hadn't got the handwriting authenticated, so I figured it to be a scam. Nice unit, but the person was maybe trying to ge $10K for it. I'm glad someone took the trouble to authenticate it. Now it is worth something more than just for the equipment. Now, here's another idea. Maybe this used to belong to Bing Crosby? Afterall, Bing Crosby was the "king" of the jukeboxes. There are multiple pictures out there of Frank Sinatra's various music/entertainment rooms, including some with him in them. This Seeburg isn't shown in any of them which I've seen. Very cool.