Robert Stumpf didn’t set out to be a jukebox collector. But back in 2000, as a recent lateral to Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, “I discovered something called eBay,” he recalls. Stumpf bought a 1948 Seeburg, nicknamed “the trashcan,” in need of repair and found a jukebox specialist in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco who knew exactly how to fix it. After that, he was hooked.
“Unlike digital technology, it’s all exposed, you can see the mechanism, the lights, the music,” he says. “Once I found a technician, it became fun, something to look forward to.”
