Coin Slot Magazine - #025 - 1977 - February [International Arcade Museum]
source of entertainment
Restaurants installed them, as they found
that people ate faster with music, which in return gave them a
greater volume of business.
Juke boxes at this time were very
simple, mostly resembling the upright radios.
These styles lasted
until the late nineteen thirties.
During the early forties the war haulted the production of juke boxes.
After the companies had produced war products the great demand
for them started once again.
change,
less wood
and
The styles of juke boxes began to
more plastic was used.
The juke boxes
between 1938 and 1949 are the most sought after by collectors.
However, in the late forties attitudes began to change, 45 rpm's
were introduced and the juke box began to loose its style.
longer
were
they
the
mysterious
music
machine,
the
No
glowing
bubbling display of colors that brightened up the room. The classic
juke boxes were to become a thing of the past.
The popularity of
juke boxes did not decline in the fifties, just the style of them had
changed.
phere.
They had become quite sophisticated and lacked atmos
Old juke boxes are rarely seen today in any establishments.
A few still exist in the older places, but are rapidly being replaced by
piped
in
music and discoteques with canned music.
Today the
demand for the classic old boxes by collectors is growing rapidly.
Collectors are scouting out the old establishments, small towns, and
old warehouses in hopes of finding that one box they need for their
collection.
The genera! aspects above will be dealt with in more
depth in subsequent articles.
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