Long before Spotify, Victorian Londoners could drop a sixpence into a coin-operated Electrophone box at the Café Royal and hear a live theatre performance piped in over telephone wires. YouTube channel VanishedVictorians digs into this surprisingly modern-feeling piece of London music history.
Vizadz.comWhen London Streamed Live Theatre for Sixpence in 1897
Long before Spotify, Victorian Londoners could drop a sixpence into a coin-operated Electrophone box at the Café Royal and hear a live theatre performance piped in over telephone wires. YouTube channel VanishedVictorians digs into this surprisingly modern-feeling piece of London music history.
- victorian london
- music history
- electrophone
- café royal
- london
- evergreen
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