Toronto police are asking for help in a very unusual theft Tuesday, June 3, 2014 when a full-sized jukebox was taken from a home in the Victoria Park Ave and Kingston Road area. It is an original Wurlitzer manufacture jukebox which weighs an estimated 300 to 400 pounds. It is approximately five feet high and two feet wide and deep. This is a very distinctive item and would have required more than one person to remove it. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500 Wurlitzer was a fabled musical instrument, organ and jukebox maker which was founded in Cincinnati in 1853 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer. It’s early 20th Century invention for playing phonograph records automatically in restaurants and bars became an established part of life for many decades and was memorialized in pop songs such as Jukebox Saturday Night.
Police seek recovery of original Wurlitzer jukebox
by •
Toronto police are asking for help in a very unusual theft Tuesday, June 3, 2014 when a full-sized jukebox was taken from a home in the Victoria Park Ave and Kingston Road area. It is an original Wurlitzer manufacture jukebox which weighs an estimated 300 to 400 pounds. It is approximately five feet high and two feet wide and deep. This is a very distinctive item and would have required more than one person to remove it. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500 Wurlitzer was a fabled musical instrument, organ and jukebox maker which was founded in Cincinnati in 1853 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer. It’s early 20th Century invention for playing phonograph records automatically in restaurants and bars became an established part of life for many decades and was memorialized in pop songs such as Jukebox Saturday Night.
