The Victrola 1-2 (Nursery Model)   By Doug Boilesen, 2020 The Victrola 1-2, the Nursery Model, and renamed the "Aladdin" in December 1925, was designed for children and for parents who "are afraid to let their children use the large Victrola for fear of scratching or otherwise injuring the instrument." The Voice of the Victor described its children's themed instrument as decorated with "fascinating, colorful pictures of wooden soldiers, animals, and other quaint figures of the child world." Mother Goose is seen flying through the air and a little boy is sitting on a rock or log blowing bubbles. A pied piper is followed by a pig and Mary is stepping out from one of the bubbles followed by her lamb with a school house behind them. The original 1925 selling price of the VV 1-2 was $18.00 (the average hourly earnings for United States workers in manufacturing was 49 cents per hour in 1925). (2)   . Victor-Victrola VV 1-2 "Aladdin" (Nursery Model) c. 1925 (Courtesy the Victor-Victrola Website). .     The Nursery Model VV-1-2, The Voice of the Victor, May, 1925.   Decal on side of Victrola 1-2 Nursery Model.   The little boy blowing bubbles pictured on the Victrola Nursery Model wasn't directly connected to the popular song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" which was recorded on a Victor 10-inch record 18540 and released on March 10, 1919. But the first in the series of "Bubble Books," published by Harper Collins with its records made by Columbia, featured a little boy blowing bubbles on the book's cover and clearly related to the 1925 decorations of the Victrola 1-2 Nursery Model.   The Harper-Columbia "Book that Sings" 1917. "Bubble Books were the first book-and-record series for children." (Bubble Book No. 1 cover and Factola courtesy of Merle Sprinzen.) For a history and more details about "Bubble Books" see Merle Sprinzen's website "Little Wonder Records and Bubble Books."     LISTEN to "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Source: Library of Congress).               Phonographia