In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.
Ruble Sanderson owns phonographs, record players and other sound machines dating back to the 1880s. Sanderson turns 90 in January and has owned several honky tonks on Lower Broadway including Legend's ...