Farewell Old Friend the Juke Box? A Fond Remembrance Of The Past And Future Of The Juke Box

Can the old fashioned 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 is still here.

Juke Box design came along from the austere wood boxes in the early 1930s to bright light 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 boasted wooden coin slides to economize on metal. It had better also be noted that because the juke box mechanisms were made of alloy, they weren't built during this era, instead, an untested console was developed and the interior parts of the juke box were set into it. As most of the mechanisms were assembled handmade, many of these juke boxes had parts which never fit the right way and involved alteration.

The 1943 Wurlitzer Victory juke box had glass lit panels instead of plastic. After the war, materials were in stock once again and there was a great growth in juke box construction. The Bubbler juke box represents the look and is arguably the hottest juke box design of all time. Alot of of these lived on into the fifties in active use and are forever related 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 as a whole went more three-dimensional and techy in appearance, distancing themselves from "standard" juke box fashions such as ancient Grecian, renaissance, and Gothic architecture themes 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 called Silver Age because of the overriding chromium-plate design. With the ascension of drive in restaurants in the sixties, restaurants wanted to get clients in and out fast.

Today, the diner juke box has been replaced by other sorts of amusemententertainment media, yet when you go to a place that still has a juke box, young and old are still attracted to their almost garish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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