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The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation was, along with Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, is an American company, formerly a producer of stringed instruments, woodwind, brass instruments, theatre organs, fairground organ, orchestrions, electronic organs, Wurlitzer electric piano and jukeboxes....
, a top maker of jukebox
Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media....
es. The company, which originally made scale
Weighing scale

A weighing scale is a measuring instrument for measuring the weight or mass of an object. They use one of two techniques. A spring scale measures weight by the distance a spring deflects under its load....
s and pinball machines, was founded in 1927 by Coin-Op pioneer David Cullen Rockola. Starting in 1935, Rock-Ola sold more than 400,000 jukeboxes under the Rock-Ola brand name, which predated the rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 era by two decades, and is thought to have inspired the term. In 1977, The Antique Apparatus Company engineered, refined, and manufactured the first and finest "Nostalgic" Jukeboxes.






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The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation was, along with Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, is an American company, formerly a producer of stringed instruments, woodwind, brass instruments, theatre organs, fairground organ, orchestrions, electronic organs, Wurlitzer electric piano and jukeboxes....
, a top maker of jukebox
Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media....
es. The company, which originally made scale
Weighing scale

A weighing scale is a measuring instrument for measuring the weight or mass of an object. They use one of two techniques. A spring scale measures weight by the distance a spring deflects under its load....
s and pinball machines, was founded in 1927 by Coin-Op pioneer David Cullen Rockola. Starting in 1935, Rock-Ola sold more than 400,000 jukeboxes under the Rock-Ola brand name, which predated the rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 era by two decades, and is thought to have inspired the term. In 1977, The Antique Apparatus Company engineered, refined, and manufactured the first and finest "Nostalgic" Jukeboxes. The Antique Apparatus Company acquired the Rock-Ola Corporation and name in 1992.

The currently company manufactures a variety of jukeboxes for both commercial and home entertainment. Commercial jukeboxes feature touch screens, Peavey power amps and digital downloading music and ad content delivered by the AMI Network. Rock-Ola continues to manufacture Nostalgic style CD-jukeboxes and has also added state-of-the-art digital touch screen technology for the home market. The Rock-Ola line of Nostalgic Music Centers was introduced in 2006. Two new music center models, the "Mystic" and the "Q" were introduced in 2008.

Rockola was also the maker of shuffleboard tables from 1948-50. Considered by collectors the Cadillac of shuffleboards due to their Art Deco styling with curving woodwork and lots of chrome, they are highly sought after by players.

Rock-Ola also produced and published arcade video game machines in the early 1980s such as Fantasy
Fantasy (video game)

Fantasy is a 1981 in video gaming Action/Adventure Arcade game developed by Rock-Ola which, unusually, featured a only a joystick and no buttons for the player to interact with....
 with the most successful in-house game developed being Nibbler
Nibbler (video game)

Nibbler is a simple video game, and is the basis for the popular MS-DOS game, Nibbles , which is likely the reason that the very similar video game Snake is a popular game on today's mobile phones....
.

Rock-Ola was also one of the producers the M1 carbine
M1 Carbine

The M1 Carbine is a lightweight Semi-automatic firearm carbine that became a standard firearm in the Military of the United States during World War II and the Korean War, and was produced in several variants....
 for the US Military during WWII
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, making 3.7% of the 6,221,220 made.

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