NBC Memories 1942 - 1964
by Bill Roddy

Chapter Eleven of Twelve
Dead Air

We thought those wonderful days of the great bands would never end, but they did.... no more flirting with beautiful women dancing by... goodbye Mural Room, Peacock Court, Papagayo Room... goodbye Bal Tabarin.

The servicemen went home to cities across the Nation, went back to their pre-war jobs, married their girl friends and started families.    

One by one the hotels closed down the bandstands, turned their glamorous dinner rooms into "banquet facilities." With no live music, NBC started to play records.

As has been said many times... nothing is forever.  

Chapter Twelve: 1964, Mario Savio and the U. C. Berkeley Free Speech Movement.