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 will be hundred years since
Charles Adams-Randall died, and in November 2024 it will be hundred years since
Louis Glass died. Someone in the area ought to lay a bouquet at the graves:
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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, near lot 512,
California.
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The author of the website
would be very pleased to receive photos showing a bouquet at the graves.
Gert J. Almind