snap snap "neat" "sweet" "petite" The Addams Family! Fun fun site. Love it M! I just listened to Howdy Doody (mom), Romper room (me), and Out of the Box (LF), so all of us. Amazing how many memories are from tv. I really am an American.

Like andie just said, many song and music I really like are often shoved aside by some asinine things memory brings back or they are triggered by something I hear on the radio. A favorite is the duet from Bizet's pearl fishers, never get tired of listening to Beethoven's ninth,how can you not like the aria nessun dorma especially when sung by Pavarotti and even the anvil chorus from Il Trovatore when you need some rousing music. Far too many more to even try to mention. But, I woke just as the radio alarm went off at 6 am and what did I hear--Little boxes on the hillside and they are made out of tickey tackey. Don't remember the name of that particular song and it was followed by another I don't know the name of. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til its gone, tear down paradise and put up a parking lot. What music to wake up to, guess I'll turn the radio to PBS.

Some concerts try to thwart ticket brokers from buying up blocks of tickets some encourage it by selling group rates. While it's illegal it's still a common practice for concert & theater ticket sellers in NY to accept "ice" an extra added on ammount of money paid to box office workers. This is prohibited in the theater I work in and you will be fired if it is discovered that you engage in this practice. Almost anyone working with shows also get allotments of what are called house seats either deeply discounted or free these are almost always great seats and quite often wind up on ticket services going for top dollar. Industry people trade in favors it's a way of life performers from some shows or their agents and publicists call other shows or concerst and tickets are bought for family members secretaries, maids, family friends. If a ticket is very hot the network of connected people buzzes with who do you know thats connected to anyone connected with such and such. It's always someones brothers, mothers cousin is a bass player who played with them when they were on their reunion tour and his agents sister needs 4 ...well if there are 20 to 30 people working just with the crew multiply that times 5 and then the publicity staff multiply it again and then the immediate family members add another 20 to 30 and the ad agency and promoters add 20 and the financial backers add 40...amazing is'nt it. If there is going to be a televized concert all of the folks connected with that are good for favors of 3 and 4 tickets each. On a regular basis I'm offered tickets for practically anything thats running in town & usually only for weeknights 9 outta 10 I turn them down.. going out becomes work after work. The last way to great seats is going to a ticket broker who can tell you where the seat will be in advance this will cost big bucks. Any other ticket broker if they are legal in your state are doing nothing more than calling the box office and placing an order for you and charging you a service fee and somtimes a steep one. Hotels here often charge their guest as much as $175 for a ticket they could have purchased themselves for $79 they often become outraged when they realize that they have'nt gotten anything special sad on 1 level business on another. The same hotel just charged you $2 for a $25 cent phone call and $6 for a cup of coffee it's how they make their living. During the recent theater strike here I was told by a woman that the hotel was trying to sell her a pair of $158 tickets for $500...the pitch was you'll never do better on your own...well you would'nt do any worse either. The new Young Frankenstein is selling premium tickets for $450.....the theaters have gotten into the act now also.

These coin processors were mechanical. If you can get to the coin mechanism, give it a good rap with the heal of your hand. At the same time, listen for any mechanical sounds like a click or, 2 pieces of metal hitting together and try it again. Also, if it has a coin return button, push it several times. The coin return could have been stuck in the open position. There are small "fingers" that sensed the coins and they could be frozen or corroded from sitting. If you can see the fingers, give them a little nudge with a finger and you may see everything swing into action. If these things work for you, then you can go a step further...use a tube of dry graphite and go through the changer and puff a small amount of graphite into any areas where there are moving parts..NEVER USE OIL and don't use WD40. The more you use the coin slots, the better the mechanism will work. Another thing you may look for on the back frame of the unit is a "house" button. This allowed the bar or other place to push the button and play a song. This would provoke customers to use the box once it quit playing and got quiet. Some of those buttons were very small so look closely. There's nothing to hurt you there so if you see something you suspect might be a small button, push it to see. Those things were pretty well camoflaged. Some of the vendors would supply tokens but there is still a button back there somewhere.