Ongoing History Daily: Silent records, part 1
Back in the late 1950s when there were jukeboxes everywhere, a Detroit guy named Bill Rabe came up with a
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Jukeboxes
Ongoing History Daily: Remembering jukeboxes, part 2
Last time we talked about the first jukebox installed in a saloon in San Francisco back in 1889. Eventually, amplifiers
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Ongoing History Daily: Remembering jukeboxes, part 1
There was a time when almost every restaurant, bar, bowling alley, and truck stop, had a jukebox. For a coin
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Here’s an old-school metric: The top jukebox songs of 2018
Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played
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This Guy is One of the Last Old School Jukebox Repairmen
I might not be writing this had it not been for a jukebox. Lemme explain. My first experience to a
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Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 132: The Geek Strikes Back
As this show went into production, I was suffering from severe anxiety. Somewhere in the handoff between United and Air
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2015’s Biggest Hits in Jukeboxes. Yes, Jukeboxes
The history of the jukebox–a machine in a public place that plays music in exchange for a coin or two–goes
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