Cadillac Music

just in case any of my Bar owner friends have not seen this yet

Cleveland local, Celina won the TouchTunes $5000 National jukebox day sweepstakes! Celina will be using the prize to visit her family in Puerto Rico. She picked up the grand prize at Riverwood Cafe in Lakewood.

Cleveland family to be reunited after 16 years apart An exciting day for a local woman who won the opportunity of a lifetime, beating over 200 participants nationwide.

https://www.mcrfb.com/?p=33716
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.”

JUKE JOINTS: A TIME TO WEEP . . . AND A TIME TO MOURN . . . DECEMBER 7, 1963 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…