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Au Revoir My Friend the Juke Box? A Fond Remembrance Of The Past And Future Of The Juke Box.

By: Jon Stratis
 

Can the traditional Juke Box last in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a reality in various types and expressions yet still the traditional Juke Box survives.

Juke Box design came on from the stark plain wood boxes in the early 1930s to bright light displays with plastic and color animation in the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40's. Alas once the USA government went into the 2nd world war, alloy as well as plastic were required for the war campaign.

Music juke box output was limited. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box sported wooden coin slides to conserve on alloy. It had better also be mentioned that because the juke box mechanisms were made of alloy, they weren't manufactured during this era, instead, an new console was developed and the interior portions of the juke box were placed into it. As most of the internal workings were built by hand, many of these juke boxes contained parts which never fit the right way and needed adjustment.

The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory console had glass illuminated panels rather than plastic. After the war, materials were in stock once again and there was a great growth in juke box construction. The Wurlitzer juke box typifies the appearance and is likely the hottest juke box styling of all time. Many of of these lived on into the 1950's in active use and are forever related with the fifties in pop music culture despite their 40s origin, as their unique visual prominence and production volume.

After the '40s, the juke box trends as a whole went more three-dimensional and "hi-tech" in appearance, distancing themselves from traditional juke box looks such as ancient Grecian, renaissance, and Gothic architecture motifs observed in the 'forties model juke boxes.

Music juke boxes of the forties are known as Golden Age because of the yellow catalin plastic. Music juke boxes of the fifties are called Silver Age due to the predominant chromium-plate design. With the rise of drive in restaurants in the 1960's, dining establishments wanted to get clients in and out quickly.

Today, the restaurant juke box has been replaced by other forms of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish styling. The juke box as a mass media device may be dying yet the nostalgia is something that may never leave us.

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