Interesting Old News About Rockola .......

[painter777]

Thomas Filben was involved in the slot-machine business, with connections to the underworld.

Younger brother, William Michael Filben developed a new mechanism for phonographs able to select 30 records, which was new to the coin-op phonograph industry, and this was of course of interest to David Cullen Rockola, when he saw the mechanism able to select each record in 6 seconds at the 1938 coin machine show in Chicago. The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. then signed a license contract with William M. Filben in September 1938 stating that the Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. owned all rights to the mechanism.....

Note the early death of William Michael Filben who died in his home on the 1st May 1940 from instant coronary closure caused by overwork and worry for several years at the age of 47 years.


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Charlie-painter777

[LeagleEagle]

The company, which originally made slot machines, pinball machines, and scales was founded in 1927.
Earliest rock and roll styles started in the late 1940s and early 1950s from rhythm and blues . Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" 1954 is recognized as one of if not the first Rock & Roll hit. But it didn't really become popular until 1955.
Not trying to be a wise guy or anything, but how old are you LeagleEagle? If under 45 you were born after the hay day of Rock & Roll.

I'll be 62 next month. I guess I sort of naturally associated "rock" with jukeboxes, seem to go together naturally. But you're correct, I don't think the term rock and roll came into use until the 1950s.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I'll be 62 next month. I guess I sort of naturally associated "rock" with jukeboxes, seem to go together naturally. But you're correct, I don't think the term rock and roll came into use until the 1950s.

We are a year apart, old enough to remember Rock & Roll's hay days 1955-1964. I had an older sister, that helped too.