11/22/2019
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After the JFK assassination in 1963, jukeboxes everywhere went silent.
Charles Comella of Cadillac Music Company added: “We’ve actually been out of business since Friday, the day President Kennedy was assassinated. And believe me we’d stay out of business for two more Fridays if we thought it would bring him back!
“One of our locations that stayed open the day of the burial reported that the men sitting at the bar broke down and cried. We all were crying inside. It helped us put our lives in proper perspective.”
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1963 Juke Box Play Ceases As Nation Mourns NEW YORK — Play on the nation’s 450,000 juke boxes was back to normal F…