Seeburg - 9-28

We at the American Treasure Tour blog have spent many days talking about the lower-case treasures that adorn the walls of the Music Room at ATT, specifically the record albums and movie posters.  Today, I would like to discuss one of the companies that manufactured the nickelodeons we proudly display on the floor of the Music Room.  Specifically, I would like to introduce you to the Seeburg Company.

In 1887, Justus Seeburg took a job working in Chicago's burgeoning piano industry, prior to breaking out on his own twenty years later.  He purchased the pianos of other companies, then installed the mechanisms to automate them.  With success, he bought up the Marshall Piano Company, making his Seeburg Company completely self-sufficient.  He produced orchestrions of exceptional beauty and sound quality, continuing with great success until the market failed in 1928, just prior to the dawn of the Great Depression.  Seeburg diversified into jukeboxes, becoming famous for their "trash can" jukeboxes, and for the iconic image at the beginning of the popular television show Happy Days, which is a Seeburg jukebox.  Today, the Seeburg name exists only in memory, as the company closed its doors years ago.

Question:
The Seeburg orchestrion included in the semi-circle of nickelodeons in the ATT Music Room has two wooden statues on it.  What are their names?
a)  Strength and Beauty
b)  Valor and Prowess
c)  Bill and Betty
d)  Power and Fortitude
e)  Watt and Volt

Answer Below

Today in History
The year: 1951.  The date: September 28th.  The company: CBS.  The product:  color television.  The first color televisions were made available for purchase to the general public on this date by CBS; however, it was a very short-lived experiment because there were far too few receivers produced by manufacturers in the country to translate the signals.  Television would have appeared black-and-white regardless of your set because of this.  CBS reverted back to black-and-white sets within a month's time, and it would take a few more years before color television would grace the average American home.

Twelve years after the first attempt to introduce color television to American audiences failed, disc jockey Murray the K in New York City introduced the music of four young "moptops" to the country.  It is believed

this was the day in 1958 that the Beatles' song "She Loves You" first aired, beginning a phenomenon that would impact the course of music in this country.

Quote:
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World.  And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. -- John Lennon

Answer:  a)