Hidden in an alley in Northside of Pittsburgh an old boarded up Building hid a Music Box Service like no where else in the world.

Yes " Telephone Music  "was a service like no other.
You walked in a bar to the Jukebox inserted a quarter then picked up the old  phone  on top of the Juke Box  with out a dial and a lady would ask you the number of the song you wanted to hear and magically it come out of the speaker in the juke box .

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It lasted some time into the 90's when the  lady you heard on the phone  Helen Reutszel  closed her door in a boarded up building in a back alley for the last time  for a business her dad has created decades  earlier and at one time was in several city's

But stored away in the 2 story walk up was a collection of the music boxes which had the receivers  which tied to the telephone line which made them so unique and after quietly sitting for  decades in an attic a customer of mine found them and is now in the process of rescuing them.   

 Hopefully they will be lovingly restored and the story about Telephone music will go on and not lost to history

 In an interesting side note one of these juke boxes played a pivotal role in a Charlie Chan Movie 1945's "Shanghai Cobra" with Sidney Toler.

The movie can be found on Youtube at following link.  its 47 minutes into movie you will see one of the juke boxes if you fast forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgaENlDyx8

This is what one of the boxes looked like in its prime