The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106844   Message #2211719
Posted By: RangerSteve
08-Dec-07 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: jukebox memories
Subject: RE: jukebox memories
I was stationed in Norfolk, Va, in the Navy back in 1969 - 72. During that time, topless bars were legalized. Just about every bar in town had topless dancers, even the small neighborhood places. They had to, in order to compete with the bigger places. Since most of the small places barely had room for a stage for the dancers, there was never room for a band, so they relied on the juke boxes to supply music. I was just at that age where topless dancers seemed like a great idea, but I soon realized that most of the dancers should have remained topful. My friends and I would sit at a table and load the jukeboxes with undanceable tunes; The theme from "Exodus" by Edith Piaf, anything by Johnny Mathis, "Release Me" by Tom Jones, and the two standards in every Jbox - "Happy Birthday" and "The Anniversary Waltz". We had more fun watching the bartender running to change the record than watchin the dancers.