National Jukebox Day

The first Jukebox was put to use Nov 1889. It was a coin operated version of Edison phonograph. The general public loved the music options it offered at their favorite places. It took many years before the Nickel in the Slot machine came to be known as the Jukebox. In the 1900s, people went to “juke houses” and “jook joints”.  In 1937, these Juke houses led to the name “Jukebox”. The name is derived from the slang word “Juke” which means to dance and act wildly. In 1998, the Jukebox entered the digital world when Touch Toons created a digital jukebox that can hold as many as 750 songs.