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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

first electronic jukebox

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

In 1927, the Automatic Music Instrument Corporation (AMI) introduced the first electronic jukebox. Suddenly every place where people gathered — be it a roadhouse, cafĂ©, or house of ill repute — had to have its own “automatic phonograph,” as the devices were then called. During Prohibition, no self-respecting speakeasy would be without one.

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