Juke Box Passage. A Brief Review Of The Past, Present And Future Of The Juke Box.
Can the venerable Juke Box last in the digital and MP3 world? The MP3 Jukebox is a available in various types and expressions yet still the traditional Juke Box survives.
Juke Box design came along from the stark wood boxes in the early 1930s to bright lighted displays with plastic and color animation in the Rudolf Wurlitzer 850 Peacock juke box of the early 40’s. Regrettably once the United States government entered into the 2nd world war, metal ore as well as plastic were required for the war effort.
Music juke box manufacture was limited. The 1943 Wurlitzer 950 juke box sported wooden coin slides to economize on metal. It should also be mentioned that although the juke box mechanisms were made of alloy, they weren’t built during this period, instead, an new console was developed and the internal components of the juke box were placed inside it. Since most of the mechanisms were assembled by hand, many of these juke boxes contained parts which never fit the right way and required alteration.
The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory juke box had glass illuminated panels rather than plastic. After the war, materials were in stock once again and there was a great expansion in juke box manufacturing. The Rudolf Wurlitzer “1015-Bubbler” juke box typifies the look and is arguably the most popular juke box design of all time. Many of of these lived on into the fifties 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 as a whole went more three-dimensional and “hi-tech” in their look, distancing their look from “standard” juke box looks such as ancient Grecian, renaissance, and Gothic architecture designs observed 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 known as Silver Age because of the predominant chromium-plate design. With the ascension of drive in restaurants in the 1960’s, dining establishments wanted to get clients in and out fast.
Today, the diner juke box has been replaced by other forms of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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