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Jukeboxes helped save the music industry when record sales tanked during the Great Depression and people sought inexpensive entertainment after the repeal of Prohibition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Jukeboxes were central to the swing-music youth culture of the 1930s, a period when the term “teenager” was coined.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Jukeboxes blossomed into art objects with flashing lights, push-button controls and record-playing mechanisms that were fascinating to watch.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2016

Jukeboxes could play on, too, but had to be moved out onto the sidewalk for the public to enjoy.

From Time • Nov. 1, 2011

Jukeboxes, funeral parlors, small garment firms and other marginal enterprises that have long attracted gangsters have little effect on the general economy.

From Time Magazine Archive