| Summary: | Katherine Harvey interviews Don and Virginia Jones about their memories of the jukeboxes in Cape Broyle. "(00:00-05:00) Both grew up in Cape Broyle, Don’s first memory of the jukebox, getting ice cream, men playing poker games at Shannahan’s, men congregating at people’s houses; (05:00-10:00) Virginia’s first memory of the jukebox, Aiden Carey’s jukebox, sold confectionary, selling beer, drinking at the jukebox, garden parties (10:00-15:00) soup machine, snacks at the jukebox, popular songs and singers of the time (15:00-20:00) Cross Roads first jukebox, music, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, dancing, garden parties, bands at garden parties; (20:00-25:00) fights at the garden parties, step dancing at garden parties, where people learned to dance, television, music wasn't blasting (25:00-30:00) knowing everyone in the community, difference between going downtown today and jukeboxes, everyone smoked, a typical day growing up, jukeboxes brought a change in attitude (30:00-35:00) jukeboxes came from St. John’s, majorly controlled by the church, curate turning people away from the jukebox, story of brother taking the car without permission, girl getting in the car with the priest by accident (35:00-40:00) priests regulated drinking, boys drank as initiation, no drinking at jukebox, drinking at garden parties, girls didn't drink or smoke, entire community took care of children, getting ready for going out (40:00-45:00) going home with husband from the jukebox, what caused the end of the jukeboxes (45:00-50:00) change in significance of education, collapse of the fishery, paving the roads from St. John’s to Cape Broyle, people going away for work (50:00-) people leaving Cape Broyle in the 1960s, jukebox brought social change "
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