2004 Rockola "Bubbler" CD Jukebox

2004 Rockola
CD Jukebox
Model "CD-8-C"
Over 3,000 Selections

After Rockola in Chicago, was purchased by Antique Apparatus of Torrance CA, the "Bubbler" model they were making, underwent a number of changes. This "C" model is the most technically advanced of them all. (The yellow components inside the cabinet reveal that).

For years these 'bubblers' have boasted outlandish power, so don't expect to sit in front of it with it cranked up all the way.

One of the most appealing features of these Rockolas is the revolving color cylinders (animation) within the top arch of the cabinet. In a low light setting, this baby looks like Las Vegas on a Saturday night.

You might enjoy the story of how we got this one. It came to us from Vegas! Although we seldom find a reason to purchase jukes from very far away, this one gave me a personal reason to trade the bright lights of LA for those of Vegas.

This older guy calls from LV and says he's downsizing and needs to sell his "bubbler" right away. His story is that he bought it new in 2007 from a billiard store and never really used. I'm thinking, "sure, that's what they all say".

I ask him to send me some photos. From them it appears to be a CD-8. Then I have him read

me the model number on the ID sticker on the back. He tells me it’s a model CD-SC. Never heard of that one. He also says he just had eye surgery and to just come up to LV and buy it. The movers were coming the next day. So I hopped in one of the delivery trucks and headed to Vegas.

As soon as I saw this unit, I knew he was telling the truth about it not ever being used. He had told me that right after he bought it, he remodeled the house to the tune of $3 mil. So it sat in storage for 2 years.

It only had 10 CDs in it and no title strips. By the time the remodel was finished the value of his home had plummeted so he's moving to a smaller place.

The juke was immaculate. Here's the catch. What he though he read, with one bad eye, on the back of the cabinet as CD-SC, was really CD-8C. You see by 2007 Bubblers were touch screen and had no typical title strip display.

He assumed that when he bought it from the billiard store in 2007 that it was the current model. It was actually a floor model from 2004. Our experience is that billiard stores tend to do that. Thus he didn't get what he thought he was paying top dollar for.

(BTW, anytime a seller can't tell you the year of a Rockola Bubbler, have him send you a photo of the sticker on the back. It shows the year. Also have him go into the computer program and take a shot of the total plays shown in the display window).

When I got it back to the shop and lit it up, we found the computer only showing 575 total plays. That's like a weekend's worth of tunes. The envelope with all the instruction manuals was un-opened as was the remote control with batteries still sealed. It was still brand new!

This beauty will light up your room and your life.

1994 AMI/Rowe "Laserstar" Jukebox

1994 AMI Rowe
Compact Disc Jukebox
Model "CD100C"
"Laserstar
Over 3,000 Selections

This AMI/Rowe model CD100C "Laserstar" jukebox plays over 3,000 selections and sounds great. This juke displays the complete cd covers, so theirs no problem reconizing your favorite artists. This is a great sounding and good looking jukebox.

1994 Rockola Model "CD-8" Jukebox

1994 Rockola
CD Jukebox
Model "CD-8"
Over 1500 Selections

A while back I get a call from a fellow who runs a very respectable company in nearby Van Nuys. He says he's got this Rockola CD-8 Bubbler jukebox that he can only remember playing one song on since he bought it some 14 years ago. I'm curious and it's only a couple of miles away.

He meets me in his warehouse and points to it over in a corner, covered in plastic wrap and strapped to a pallet. We unwrap it and lift it off the pallet. It’s beautiful, but dusty. He hands me a key that he's recently gotten from the factory in Torrance, CA.

I open it up and see that there’s still a CD in the play position. He says that must be the one he's been missing all these years. Seems he got it brand new from a local pool table store. It was on the showroom floor playing at the time. He had it delivered, played part of one CD and turned it off.

Shortly afterwards he moved into another home and placed the jukebox in the back of his warehouse never to be played again. I wasn't sure about his story, but the price was right and the unit looked great.

I got it back to the shop and covered it up. Only recently did I get a chance to examine it. The insides were as dusty as the outsides with an extremely fine silt. Then I remembered he ran a wood molding company. Thus it was wood dust.

I covered the player and hit the whole machine with the compressor. Wow! It really did look brand new. But I was still curious if the fellow had only played one CD since 1995. So I punched up the code and asked the computer how many actual CDs it had played. (Keep in mind, this reading can not be cleared). It was just over 3,000 plays. It was manufactured 11-3-94.

But if you remember this was playing in the store when he bought it. Yet 3,000 plays is nothing if you consider that people who rent jukeboxes for weekend parties put 500 plays on one in a few days. We actually rent out this model ourselves through our other company, JUKEBOXES FOR RENT ®.

So here we have a real beauty with barley any mileage on it from an era when jukebox manufacturers weren't cutting corners to save a buck. It was in it's own personal time warp waiting for me to come along and release it.

What's nice about the Rockola reproduction "Bubbler" verses the Wurlitzer "Bubbler" is that even the top section has revolving color wheels. These are glorious in the dim light of a party.

Isn't it time you had a party?

1992 NSM Model "The Performer Classic" Jukebox

1992 NSM
CD Jukebox
Model "Performer Classic"
Over 2,500 Selections

Here's a great machine if your looking for good looks and a great sounding jukebox for your place. 100 CD's played through a solid state high power amplifier into 2 bass and 2 high/mid range speakers. Over 2,500 tunes at the touch of a button. You can even control this juke from across the room with its wireless remote control unit.

All the CD's are stored in a dust free atmosphere inside the world's fastest CD changer. You can even put your own CD covers and their list of songs for people to recognize and choose their selections. You can watch this jukebox work through the big front window. Kids love to watch it work through the glass.