Jukebox History 1999-2024
This
chapter is UNDER
CONSTRUCTION, and
any input from jukebox enthusiasts about the last of the real jukebox
manufacturers is of course appreciated.
Remember and honour the fathers
of the pay-to-play concept. In October 2023 it was hundred years since Charles
Adams-Randall died, and in November 2024 it will be hundred years since Louis
Glass died.
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October 8, 2023
Charles Adams-Randall
(☼ 1st July 1846) († 8th October 1923)
Invention of the Automatic Pariophone, London,
British patent filed 5th July 1888.
Grave
Location:
Pine Island Cemetery, Marion Road, Mattapoisett, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts.
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November 12, 2024
Louis Glass
(☼ 6th August 1845) († 12th November 1924)
First public demonstration of a coin-op phonograph,
San Francisco, 23rd November 1889.
Grave
Location:
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo
County, Garden, Section D, Lot ES-D 61,
California.
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The editor would be very
pleased to receive photos showing a bouquet at the graves.
Gert J. Almind