(Art Reblitz photograph of original post card)

Post card issued for Svoboda's 50th anniversary year, 1958, showing the Boyer Seeburg KT “puppet machine,“ the Link C flute piano, and a Josef Stern barrel orchestrion, superimposed on a red and white checkered tablecloth in the background.

(Photograph from the Chicago Daily News, February 15, 1958.)

Al in 1958 at age 49, cooled by a hot air fan, preparing to play a tune on an Edison phonograph.

(Photograph courtesy of Dave Ramey.)

A youthful Dave Ramey preparing some drums to be added to a nickelodeon in the mahogany room in June,1962.

(Art Reblitz Photograph.)

Peering through the back of the barroom, how could one resist entering the big hall after spotting this elegant Welte barrel orchestrion?

To its left is a Nelson-Wiggen style 8, with a Wurlitzer 103 band organ perched on top! If you run out of wall space, start stacking them.

(Art Reblitz Photograph.)

The rare North Tonawanda Musical Instruments Works “Rand” brass trumpet and band organ sat on the stage when it wasn't being used in parades.