Can the traditional Juke Box survive in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a available in various types and expressions although still the regular Juke Box lasts.
Juke Box design changed from the stark plain wood boxes in the early 1930s to brilliant light displays with plastic and color liveliness of the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40’s. Alas once the USA government went into the 2nd world war, metal ore as well as plastic were required for the war campaign.
Music juke box manufacture was limited. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box boasted wooden coin slides to save on on metal alloy. It should also be noted that since the juke box mechanisms were made of metal, they weren’t built during this period, instead, an untested console was developed and the inside parts of the juke box were set into it. Since most of the internal workings were assembled handmade, many of these juke boxes had parts which never fit the right way and required refitting.
The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory juke box had glass lit panels instead of plastic. After the war, materials were available once again and there was a great growth in juke box manufacturing. The Bubbler juke box represents the look and is likely the hottest juke box styling of all time. Many of of these continued in popularity 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 “hi-tech” in appearance, distancing their look from “standard” juke box fashions 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 known as Silver Age because of the overriding chromium-plate design. With the ascension of fast food diners in the 1960’s, restaurants 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Nowadays, the restaurant juke box has been replaced by other forms of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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