You Rock
by Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Title
You Rock
Artist
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography, Photopainting
Description
Yes, you may be a baby boomer but you love those oldies and you rock on!
Suggested inside card text:
...for an oldie!
Happy Birthday!
This would also be a great invitation for an oldies party!
About Jukeboxes and Rockola: A jukebox began as a record player for public places and can still be defined as a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media. "Jukebox" became a word in the United States beginning in 1940, derived from the familiar usage "juke joint", derived from the Gullah word "juke" or "joog", which meant disorderly, rowdy, or wicked. Rock-Ola was founded in 1927 by David Cullen Rockola to manufacture coin-operated entertainment machines. During the 1920s, Rockola was linked with Chicago organized crime; he escaped jail time by turning state's evidence. Mr. Rockola added the hyphen because people mispronounced his name. The name was changed to Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation in 1932. The company successfully expanded its production line through the Great Depression to include furniture. Starting in 1935, Rock-Ola sold more than 400,000 jukeboxes under the Rock-Ola brand name, which predated the rock and roll era by two decades, and is thought to have inspired the term. Rock-Ola became a prime contractor for production of the M1 carbine for the US Military during World War II. Rock-Ola also made shuffleboard tables from 1948-50. Considered by collectors the Cadillac of shuffleboards due to their Art Deco styling with curving woodwork and lots of chrome, they are highly sought after by players. In the early 1980s, Rock-Ola developed several video arcade machines. In 1977, Glenn Streeter's Antique Apparatus Company engineered, refined and made the first "Nostalgic" Jukeboxes with a modern Rowe mechanism 45 rpm and later with a Philips CD-Player. Antique Apparatus acquired the Rock-Ola Corporation and name in 1992. The company currently operates in Torrance, California manufacturing a variety of jukeboxes for both commercial and home entertainment. Rock-Ola continues to manufacture Nostalgic style CD-jukeboxes and has also added state-of-the-art digital touch screen technology for the home market. The Rock-Ola line of Nostalgic Music Centers was introduced in 2006.
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March 18th, 2016
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