[Jukebox-list] Seeburg AYs from a friend.

[Jeremy Agema]

Hi Kyle, I am glad you and Jim struck up such a friendship, sorry it was all 
to short. 

I hope someday I will be fortunate enough to find someone locally like you 
did to share my hobby with.

Thanks for sharing your story and I wish you a quick recovery to happiness.

Jeremy Agema


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:52:53 -0700, Mechanical Music of S.F. wrote
> Some of you may remember from last year I mentioned that I'd been 
> contacted by a guy with a couple Seeburg AY160s.  He wanted help 
> building one great machine from the 2. His name was Jim Reveaux, and 
> we quickly struck up a great raport.  We even located and picked up 
> a 3rd complete AY160 nearby and picked it up. We now should have had 
> more than enough to make 2 complete jukeboxes. He began rebuilding 
> components in the best mechanical example, which unfortunately had 
> the sides of the cabinet stripped, and got it up and running.
> 
> I have just heard after an uncomfortably long silence that my friend 
> has passed away.  He had a nasty lung cancer that quickly spread. 
> The last couple times I spoke with him, he was franticly putting his 
> affairs in order and was unable to talk for long.   Eventually the 
> phone calls stopped and the e-mails, and I had been hoping that it 
> was just due to being busy with medical treatment, etc.  Our 
> friendship was new and and I didn't expect to be high on his 
> priority list, and respected his wish to be left to his tasks.
> 
> I just received and e-mail from his wife that Jim passed away 
> several months ago.  November 16th. Somehow I knew this but couldn't 
> admit it. Anyway, he was a vacuum tube and early electronics 
> genious.  He has a 4 car garage floor to ceiling with vintage 
> electronics, tubes, record players, high end early stereo and hi-
> fi.... the list goes on. His wife has finally started the task of 
> dealing with all this stuff and found a note with my contact info on 
> one of the 3 Seeburgs.  Apparently he wants me to have them.
> 
> The deal was that we would build one fantastic one (One cabinet is 
> really nice, and another has fantastic guts and glass) for him, then 
> we'd cobble together another working one with what was left for me.  
> This was going to be a lot of fun and enable me to get a cool AY on 
> my limited budget, but it's with a bitter edge I'll be picking these 
> up. Really, I'd rather not have any of them.  No jukebox in the 
> world will replace the connection I had with this offbeat ex-hippie 
> who I only knew, what seems, so briefly.
> 
> Look now to my good friend, Gregg, who wants a jukebox.  He really 
> wants something campy and vintagy to go with his pool table, and is 
> dead set against a longer 1960s-'70s console style, and a 1950s juke 
> really won't go with the room and style of the house.  His birthday 
> is in a week, and his partner has agreed to garage them while I 
> perform the surgery. This all fell into place at the right time. - I 
> have no room for 3 projects. - I have been wanting to get my friends 
> a jukebox at little or no cost, but upright viewables don't come 
> down the pike cheap very often. They've been very good to me over 
> the years and this is something I've been working on for months. - 
> The juke will remain in the family, so to speak, but I won't have to 
> see it every day.
> 
> Apology if I'm babbling on, but you're my jukebox people and my 
> friends, and I really need to vent a little about this bittersweet 
> loss.  Really there's nothing sweet about it.  This is NOT how I 
> want to aquire free jukeboxes, but I will honor my friend's wishes 
> and memory. Maybe the sweet part is that this person I really hardly 
> knew thought of me in his darkest hours. Dammit.  I'm  going to have 
> to hit 'send' in a minute because I'm here at work in tears now.
> 
> One thing I'm glad I did was tell him how much our brief friendship 
> meant to me.  He was forever giving me free tubes and advice and 
> never spoke down to me. Be sure to tell the people you love that 
> they mean something to you occasionally. You all mean someting to 
> me.  I love getting my daily e-mail at noon and look forward to it 
> every day.  So few of you I really know, but some I've interacted 
> with off list, and some I feel like I know a little bit from their 
> daily participation. You've all been really nice to me and to those 
> of us who've been willing to learn.  I consider myself a hack at 
> best, but I'm glad to be among such company and treated like a peer. 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Best to you all.
> 
> Kyle ~
> 
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