Goodbye Old Friend the Juke Box? A Brief Review Of The Past And Future Potential Of The Juke Box.
January 13th, 2008
Can the old fashioned Juke Box survive in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a here in various types and expressions although still the traditional Juke Box survives.
Juke Box styling came along from the crude wood boxes in the early 1930s to brilliant light displays with plastic and color animation in the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40’s. Alas once the United States government went into the 2nd world war, alloy as well as plastic were required for the war campaign.
Music juke box manufacture was cut back. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box sported wooden coin slides to conserve on metal. It had better also be mentioned that because the juke box mechanisms were made of metal, they weren’t manufactured during this period, instead, an untested console was developed and the internal parts of the juke box were set inside it. Since most of the mechanisms were assembled by hand, many of these juke boxes contained components which never fit the right way and involved adjustment.
The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory juke box had glass lit panels rather than plastic. After the war, materials were accessible once again and there was a great expansion in juke box construction. The Rudolf Wurlitzer “1015-Bubbler” juke box typifies the appearance and is likely the most popular juke box styling of all time. Alot 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, because of their unique visual prominence and production volume.
After the ’40s, the juke box trends in general went more three-dimensional and techy in appearance, distancing their look from traditional juke box looks such as ancient Grecian, renaissance, and Gothic architecture motifs detected in the ‘forties model juke boxes.
Music juke boxes from the forties are known as Golden Age because of the yellow catalin plastic. Music juke boxes from the fifties are called Silver Age because of the overriding chromium-plate design. With the ascension of drive in restaurants in the 1960’s, dining establishments wanted to get clients in and out fast.
Nowadays, the restaurant juke box has been replaced by other forms of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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