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jukebox

[jook-boks] / ˈdʒukˌbɒks /
NOUN
music box
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A restaurant named, naturally, Bagdad Cafe, owned by a woman named Alice Lawrence, was the only place for miles with a dance floor and jukebox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Meet David Rockola, the man behind the Rock-Ola jukebox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

As Ahmed demonstrates, the film’s documentary style both reimagined the jukebox musical and captured the frenzy of mid-1960s filmmaking.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Hell’s Kitchen,” a New York story of a wunderkind discovering her gift, helped me get over my allergy to the jukebox genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Across the room, Mad Sweeney was feeding quarters into the jukebox.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

“Man, those jukeboxes were addictive,” the reader said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But he started his business in 1926 and at first it manufactured scales, not jukeboxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Dave Madore owns the arcade and jukeboxes inside the restaurant, where he was supposed to be Wednesday night to fix a jukebox that was on the fritz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

We’re talking about a furor unlike anything we’d seen since men with sledgehammers were smashing jukeboxes, trying to kill rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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