Music Memories of St Mike's

Early this morning, I received a pleasant surprise email. Ah John (through his son-in-law Matthew) had sent us two photographs of something we had been discussing for a while.

Yes, it's the JUKEBOX.

Feast your eyes ... doesn't it bring back fond memories? How many ten cent coins had you deposited into this Rowe AMI music machine in your younger days? Even the last singles cover displayed there (Fig 2) seemed to be frozen in time, still reflecting the Beatles era of the 60s and 70s ... ha ha ha !

Fig 1

Fig 2

Now, let me show you some zooms of the actual music titles that could be chosen when the machine was eventually decommisioned.

Fig 3

Fig 4

Fig 5

Fig 6

Fig 7

Ahhhh ..... Wasn't that nostalgic?

I think selection V4 could be quite an appropriate theme song for this website.

Anyway I hear that John, Matthew & co may try to see if this machine can be restored.  Not sure if it's possible but they will look into it. Any of you guys have the engineering or electronics skills to help them out? I reckon if it is possible to be restored and displayed, it will certainly bring a retro feel to the present St Mike's ....

Juke Box Jive

I'm sure most of you remember the jukebox at the old St Mike. Hopefully we'll be able to see it again (hint, hint to someone!), and maybe one of you towkahs will even want to buy it over from John and restore it to its old condition.

In the meantime, we have this alternative for you ...

So to start playing your favourite numbers from 1976, click on THIS.

Enjoy ...