[Jukebox-list] Another haunted jukebox, Years Ago...

[david wendell]

Hi,

The topic made me think about a jukebox story a long
time ago.

  It was done on Night Gallery (a cousin to The
Twilight Zone) about 1971.  The title was "The Tune In
Dan's Cafe".  I have not seen it since that time, so
long ago.  It was  about a jukebox playing the same
song over and over.  It was in a cafe and a violent
love triangle existed.  As I remember the cafe burned
as the jukebox played again and again.  The song was
"If You Leave Me Tonight" by Jerry Wallace.

I told Anna, my wife, let's go buy a jukebox and we
did the very next day.  There were a lot of those old
wooden ones with shrunk and broken plastics still
around.  Who would ever want those, cannot even get
parts for them.  They seemed to be in the $35 to $150
price range.  Ugly Machines!

We settled on a shopped Continental II from the local
AMI dealer even though the sales guy kept asking "why
would you ever want one in your house"?  He kept
trying to sell me one of those seeburg things that he
claimed were trouble free.  I thought, "boy, this is a
lot of bull, they play the record on edge, got to be
problems".  The AMI was $150.00.

I took the Continental home and it played and played
for years.  Lots of other jukeboxes have passed
through our home but the Continental was a great one.

I just bought the Night Gallery episode on Ebay and
cannot wait for it to get here!

David Wendell


--- kegmaster <thomasteeter at budweiser.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Ron Rich
> <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have seen this claim before--eBay, maybeeee??
> Anyway, one should be sure to read the notice at the
> pop of the page---Ron Rich
> 
> 
> Yeppir... That's EXACTLY what came to mind when I
> saw this ad. I don't think their wording was
> intentional, but it struck a funny nerve with me.
> I'm *thinking* these people meant that it played
> UNTIL it was unplugged? But ya never know... Though
> it looked nice, it's just not my style jukebox to
> make a 6 hour round trip drive just to even look at
> it in person. :) Unless they mentioned the word
> "free"...   :)
> 
> Thomas
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