Juke Box Passage. A Fond Remembrance Of The Past, Present And Future Of The Juke Box.
Can the venerable Juke Box survive in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a reality in various types and expressions yet still the traditional Juke Box lasts.
Juke Box styling changed from the stark wood boxes in the early 1930s to brilliant lighted displays with plastic and color animation of the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40’s. Unfortunately once the USA government entered into the 2nd world war, alloy as well as plastic were required for the war effort.
Music juke box output was limited. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box sported wooden coin slides to economize on metal. It had better also be mentioned that although the juke box mechanisms were made of metal, they weren’t manufactured during this period, instead, an new console was developed and the interior components of the juke box were positioned into it. Because most of the mechanisms were assembled handmade, many of these juke boxes contained parts which never fit the right way and needed alteration.
The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory console had glass lit panels rather than plastic. After the war, materials were in stock once again and there was a great boom in juke box construction. The Wurlitzer juke box represents the look and is likely the most popular juke box styling of all time. Many of of these continued in popularity on into the 1950’s in active use and are alternatively 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 their look, 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 due to the yellow catalin plastic. Music juke boxes of the fifties are known as Silver Age because of the overriding chromium-plate design. With the rise of fast food diners in the sixties, restaurants wanted to get clients in and out fast.
Today, the restaurant juke box has largely been replaced by other sorts of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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