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

[dirksenj at bellsouth.net]

In 1971 I was tearing up the streets on my slightly used lime green '65 
Schwinn StingRay and playing with GI Joe. My folks wouldn't let me watch 
Night Gallery because it was on too late and I would get nightmares.

I remember a jukebox at the Pizza Hut in junior high - must have been a mid 
70's Rowe and I always thought jukes were boxy and ugly. Why would someone 
collect them? But I never saw a 40's or 50's machine until I played a 
Seeburg R at my father's company picnic. I remember arguing with some girls 
playing Barry Manilow when I wanted to hear Sweet Home Alabama. If only I 
had known about the reject switch on the back. Later on in the late 80's I 
went to a co-worker's house who had a Seeburg J and a wallbox. I thought 
that was the coolest. He led me to a Seeburg B (for $75) and I was on my 
way.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david wendell" <dwaw12 at yahoo.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Another haunted jukebox, Years Ago...


> 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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