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...year-old Brooklynite named Ben Maksik, and he built it from a hot dog stand. When he was cleaned out of the real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Miami in Flatbush | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 25, cinemactress (Tammy and the Bachelor), and Eddie Fisher, 29, wavy-haired jukebox champion (7 Believe): their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...accused of raping another 13-year-old girl at P.S. 20; six drunks who stabbed two girls in a subway station; 21 boys found with an arsenal of knives, clubs, and wire whips; a 17-year-old boy nabbed while trying to hide a hunting knife under a jukebox; three boys arrested for stealing a car; two boys accused of killing a man of 21; two other 16-year-olds charged with trying to rape a 12-year-old girl in a tenement hallway while her little brother, 7, looked helplessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors say that rock 'n' roll is still by far the most popular music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rock Is Solid | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

sabotize: destroy a machine; specifically a jukebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A SAMPLER OF McNULTY ENGLISH | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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