Johnny Carson Walked Into A Dying Violin Shop In Illinois 1977 — Then He Saw The Violin On The Shelf

📖 Love these stories? Get "The Front Porch Box" — 12 heartwarming stories of unexpected kindness from small-town America. Channel viewers get $5 off: https://topuzlar6.gumroad.com/l/front... ⏳ Offer ends November 3. In April 1977, an 83-year-old violin maker in Waukegan, Illinois, was about to close the shop his father opened in 1898. The bell over the door hadn't rung in eleven days. A man from a Chicago music chain wanted the building. Then a quiet stranger in a plain cap walked in off the street. He looked at the tools, the varnish, the half-finished cello… and then at a small dusty case on the high shelf that was never for sale. Inside was a half-size violin made in 1900 for a six-year-old boy named Benny Kubelsky — the boy who became Jack Benny. The stranger was Johnny Carson. And what he did next didn't save the shop with a check. It saved it with work. Subscribe for more untold stories from the Tonight Show era. #JohnnyCarson #JackBenny #TonightShow #Waukegan #ClassicHollywood #TrueStory #Violin #OldHollywood