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One of the earliest forms of entertainment when it comes to music and partying would have to be the Jukebox. In 1889 the first modern Jukebox was introduced in Palais Royale Salon in San Francisco. It was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph and accepted nickles to listen to your favorite hits. It was also refereed to as the nickle-in-the-slot machine and in it's first six months of operation it earned over $1000!!!

Phillips First Video Cassett Recorder

Below I have posted a Youtube video of the first Phillips Video Cassett Recorder ever. The video includes different specs about the VCR and it's truely amazing to see how our technology has improved since then. I apologize for the audio, the guy in the video is a little hard to hear.

America's National Pastime

Americans started playing the game of baseball first in the early 1800's. In the year 1845 the first modern baseball field was created by a man named Alexander Joy Cartwright. Him along with the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club created the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. The first game recorded was in 1846 when the Knickerbocker's lost to the the New York Baseball Club. Below is a link for you to click on and view a picture of the Knickerbocker team.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.19cbaseball.com/images/new-york-knickerbockers-baseball-team.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.19cbaseball.com/image-new-york-knickerbockers-baseball-team.html&h=580&w=730&sz=100&tbnid=At20iKD5ncyKYM::&tbnh=112&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnew%2Byork%2Bknickerbocker%2Bbaseball%2Bclub%2Bpicture&hl=en&usg=____gd0WWxq_nTZ_17mJOk5FsHc2E=&ei=RaypSfGQHovltgeErNn5Dw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1

Pinball Machines

The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. This game kept people busy for hours. What happened to this game it is slowly disappearing into the past. You see fewer and fewer pinball machines around today.

Early History of Radio

This is a cool website that has a lot of information about the early history of radio in the U.S.

http://earlyradiohistory.us/

Old-Computers.com

This is a cool website I found that has a listing of a lot of old models of computers. They have a description for each that includes everything you would ever want to know about old computer models. The website also includes descriptions for old video game systems and old pong games. Its pretty cool, check it out.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp?st=3

1984 Pioneer Laserdisc demo with Devo

Old video about the original Laser disc. It is a store demo video talking about how much better the laser disc is compared to VHS. They even got Ray Charles to talk about it.