Coin-operated machines that allow the user to select and play recorded music. Offshoots of nineteenth-century coin-operated player pianos, jukeboxes appeared in the 1930s, although sales took off after the war. People became mesmerized by styling details, including animated bubble tubes, revolving color columns and a revealed recordchanging mechanism that enticed customers to play their favorites on the Wurlitzer or Rockola.

Jukeboxes became ubiquitous in bars and malt shops from the 1940s to the 1960s; they remain symbols of those eras. They have reappeared in recent years due to nostalgia, although they now play CDs instead of 78s and 45s.