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JUKEBOX: The Golden Age may<br />
be purchased from the publishers:<br />
Lancaster-Miller Publishers,<br />
3165 Adeline Street, Berkeley,<br />
CA 94703. The price of the book<br />
is $12.95 plus $1 for postage<br />
and handling for the first book<br />
and 500 for each additional<br />
book ordered.<br />
The jukebox was not just incidental<br />
to the Great Depression<br />
era, it was an integral part of it.<br />
Few young people had phonographs<br />
of their own.And if they<br />
did,they could barely afford to<br />
maintain large collections of recordings.<br />
As for radio, even in the<br />
mid-to-late '30s, not every household<br />
was equipped with a receiver.<br />
But if you had a nickel,or five<br />
friends with a penny apiece,you<br />
could "hang our at the local<br />
gathering spot and enjoy the<br />
benefit of other patrons' selections<br />
as well as your own.<br />
During Prohibition years,the<br />
speakeasy was a natural location<br />
for the jukebox,especially in the<br />
less deluxe establishments that<br />
could not afford an orchestra<br />
or band.<br />
After the repeal of Prohibition,<br />
jukeboxes were in even greater<br />
demand. Bars, saloons and beer<br />
halls—all legal gathering places<br />
now—multiplied.All such establishments<br />
knew the value of a<br />
good jukebox for livening up the<br />
atmosphere and bringing in<br />
business.
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