Talk about surprises under the Christmas tree. If Don Orlandi Jr. has anything to say about it, a Sacramento doctor will be astonished Christmas morning when he sees the present from his son: a completely restored 1947...
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Talk about surprises under the Christmas tree. If Don Orlandi Jr. has anything to say about it, a Sacramento doctor will be astonished Christmas morning when he sees the present from his son: a completely restored 1947 Packard-Manhattan jukebox, playing tunes the way it used to. Orlandi has been working for 10 months on the jukebox, which once entertained patients in the doctor's waiting room, before a youngster put his hand in the mechanism years ago and broke it, seemingly forever. Orlandi to the rescue. He has turned a childhood penchant for taking apart his toys and putting them back together into a far-flung business, repairing and restoring all kinds of vintage toys - '40s jukeboxes, arcade games, pedal cars, Coke machines. In January he'll begin restoration of a 1950s airplane. The doctor's jukebox is one of many projects in transition. "It's the most fun I've ever had," he says. "There isn't a day I don't like to come to work." His 4,000-square-foot warehouse off Smith Ranch Road in San Rafael is full of finished projects - period radios, slot machines, a bucking bronco you can ride for a quarter - and projects still to come: the floor is covered with piles of metal parts that he will someday rebuild into a
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