Farewell My Friend the Juke Box. A Brief Review Of The Past And Future Potential Of The Juke Box.
Can the old fashioned Juke Box survive in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a reality in many forms and expressions yet still the traditional Juke Box lasts.
Juke Box styling came on from the stark wooden boxes in the early 1930s to brilliant lighted displays with plastic and color animation in the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40’s. Unfortunately once the United States government went into the 2nd world war, metal as well as plastic were required for the war campaign.
Music juke box manufacture was restricted. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box sported wooden coin slides to economize on metal. It had better also be noted that since the juke box mechanisms were made of metal, they weren’t manufactured during this period, instead, an new console was developed and the interior portions of the juke box were placed into it. Because most of the internal workings were built by hand, many of these juke boxes had 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 available once again and there was a great expansion in juke box manufacturing. The Rudolf Wurlitzer “1015-Bubbler” juke box typifies the appearance and is arguably the most popular juke box styling of all time. Alot of of these lived on into the fifties in active use and are alternatively associated 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 in general went more three-dimensional and “hi-tech” in appearance, distancing their look from traditional juke box fashions such as ancient Grecian, renaissance, and Gothic architecture motifs noticed 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 due to the predominant chromium-plate design. With the popularity of drive in restaurants in the 1960’s, eateries wanted to get clients in and out fast.
Nowadays, the diner juke box has been replaced by other sorts of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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