ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Seeburg 1000

Seeburg 1000 is a type of music playing machine that was very popular in the olden days. It was like a big cabinet that could hold lots and lots of small records with different songs on them. When you wanted to hear your favorite song, you put in a coin, and the machine would play the song for you.

But the Seeburg 1000 was really special because it could hold up to 50 records at a time! That's a lot of songs to choose from. And instead of having to flip through each record manually, the machine had fancy mechanisms that could automatically switch between records and play each song for you one after the other.

People loved the Seeburg 1000 because it was a fun way to listen to music and it could play all kinds of different songs. Even though newer machines like MP3 players have come around, some people still collect and treasure their old Seeburg 1000 machines because they hold a special place in history.