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... things you never heard of ...
(and also never asked for)

Rockola or Rock-ola ?

The founder, David Rockola, used to write his name without a scrap sign in the middle.
Since our great David was so fed up by his name being pronounced wrong all the time, he decided to put in the scrap sign in, when issuing the Rhythm Master jukebox in 1937.
That's the reason why (nearly) all products carry the name Rock-ola.

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Special gifts

This view master was sold by Bill Butterfield on eBay.

It showed fotographs of Bowling alleys, swimming pools and health clubs . . .

. . . and jukeboxes that would enhance the atmosphere and Rock-ola revenues as well of course!

Hit the Rock-ola bar!

Lately there's a lot of questioning about Rock-ola bar furniture

Tomszone recently spent an article on folding bars, however the bars shown there, are quite different from the examples here

This furniture was probably produced in the 1930's, alongside jukeboxes, as complementary product, during recession years

The photo's shown here were sent by various people, who had many questions regarding their bar. If the interest keeps on increasing we sure will open a seperate page on this topic.

Keep me updated, I will be pleased if you can supply me any information, like part numbers, where you found it, and what you paid for it, just in case you might own one

Model 1100 (?)

This photo was sent in by Dave and had a part number which was the lowest I received, so I guess this is this is one of the oldest models

On the bottom of this cabinet the original production leaflet was still attached:

Model 1130

This model was mentioned by David Hughes, who owns a Wheat edition. He also mentioned that the outside veneer is cracking, is there anybody who can help him?

Model 1216

November 2000 I found some pictures on eBay, so every now and then you'll find one for sale there, unfortunately, I did not record the pice then.

Model 1231

This model opens at the top and has two rows for glasses. The center "cutting board" is speckled with brown and white. The bottom two doors unlock with keys made by the Illinois lock Co., and the doors is all wood and designed engraved with rectangles and squares.
The handles are long gold colored and have gooves along the width of each handle. The back of it is engraved with "Another RMC Rock-ola Quality Product"

Sara Blanco gave me this description of her bar, which is a lime oak (# 757) edition, she's looking to contact people who own a similar folding bar

Other models

At the moment there's still a lot of pictures that need to be classified.

A couple of examples:

The model at the left was sold at eBay December 2000

January 2003 I received some pictures of Barbara Borelli of a counter top model, or something that looks like it:

Apart from these nice pictures and the information given, there's not much to say about prices and quantities produced at what time, and, perhaps even more interesting: why?

Latest news: January 2003 I heard from Jason that he had bought a Rock-ola table

So if anybody can shed some light on this matter, please E-mail me !

Next to that, from now on I will list the people that are interested in Rock-ola Furniture