Word: jukeboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRAZY CAT IS WELCOME TO CREEP DOWN TO OUR CRYPT FOR COFFEE AND CRUMPETS. Instead of the 100-odd he expected the first Sunday night, more than 500 youngsters crushed in at 15? a head. Dean Babbage was happily laying plans last week for an espresso machine, a jukebox and a volunteer jazz combo...
...Coast Co. Though ill with hepatitis, Coleman showed up at Pacific's annual meeting with 52,600 shares of stock, was elected chairman of the 63-year-old San Francisco company, which runs lumber, tanker and mining operations. Coleman plans to keep Pacific Coast separate from his Chicago jukebox and vending-machine business, but some of Pacific Coast's silver dollars may be dropped in the automatic coin machines that Coleman regards as a top growth product...
Welk, Lawrence, who has his first real jukebox hit and finds himself no longer square. See Music...
...That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...
...insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon and "pure American" funeral parlors with displays of open, polished coffins...