Juke Juice - MIA LbNA #29474 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Mar 25, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Emmett |
| County: | Gem |
| State: | Idaho |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Blackvelvetrav  |
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| Found by: | A-Bear (&J-Bear) |
| Last found: | Apr 8, 2007 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Mar 25, 2007 |
Juke Juice
Clue Difficulty: Easy
Terrain Difficulty: Grass
Number of Boxes: 1
Wheel Chair & Stroller Accessible: Yes, Grass
Dogs: Yes
Kids: Yes
Hand Carved Stamp: Yes
Ink Pads or Pens: No
10/14/2009 - Sorry - Reported as MIA. Not sure when I will be able to verify. Blackvelvetrav
The History of the Jukebox
The word Jook is an old African-American term, meaning to dance, sometimes used with sexual connotations. It has also been suggested that the Southern jute crop fields had workers who frequented low class road houses or makeshift bars, which were called juke (or Jute) joints, where these early Jukeboxes would appear. Whatever the origin, the juke joint was a spot for dancing, and the jukebox provided the music. By 1927, The Automatic Music Instrument Company created the world's first electrically amplified multi selection phonograph. With this amplification, suddenly the Jukebox could compete with a large orchestra, for the cost of a nickel. Prohibition assured the jukeboxes success, as every underground speakeasy needed music, but could not afford a live band. Tavern owners were privileged to have a jukebox, which drew in customers, and was provided by an operator at no charge.
The importance of the jukebox to Bluesmen, and the White Country and Rockabilly artists at Sun Records cannot be underestimated. Much of early radio was live concerts staged at fashionable hotels, like the ritzy Peabody Hotel's Skyway broadcasts where a young Sam Phillips started his broadcasting career.
These radio concerts were of respectable music of the day; light Classical, Swing, Jazz orchestras, or show tunes. The lower class Blues "Race music," or Rockabilly, were not held in high esteem as worthy of a radio broadcast. So Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Roosevelt Sykes, and Carl Perkins with their wild rebel music had to find another medium. Aside from the Chitlin Circuit (Black patrons and musicians), the jukebox was the only place to hear this type of music, from the late 1920's until the late 1950's. In it's heyday, the juke box provided the power to sell hundreds of records at once for artists like Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
The jukebox was color blind in a segregated world. Black patrons thought Bill Black, Carl Perkins, and Steve Cropper were Negroes singing, while White patrons, were exposed to, and accepted Black artists work, never having seen the performer in person. After the depression, jukebox sales rose dramatically, as leading manufacturers Wurlitzer, Seeburg, and Rock-Ola, devised spectacular creations of wood, metal, and phenolic resins which danced behind tubes of enchanting cellophane, Polaroid film, and plastic.
Interestingly enough the Rock-Ola name had nothing to do with Rock n' Roll. Like Seeburg, and Wurlitzer, it was the last name of the companies founder, Canadian David Rockola. During World War II from 1942 till early 1946, jukebox production was halted by the US government to conserve labor and materials for war efforts. Wurlitzer's 1946 model 1015 was the most popular of the era with more than 56,000 units shipped under the slogan "Wurlitzer Is Jukebox."
Clues & Travel Directions:
From Boise take State Street west to Highway 16. Follow Highway 16 to Emmett. Take a right on North Washington Ave. Take a right on East Main Street and look for the Gem County Park. Find the water tower and the Quality on Tap Company across the street from the park on E. Park Street and N. McKinley Ave. Locate the small white shed on the right side of the park. Park on the street next to the weird piece of pipe sticking out of the ground.
Stand against the middle of the weird piece of pipe sticking out of the ground and walking to the east count 80 steps or 40 paces to a large tree. At the bottom of this tree you will find “Juke Juice” hidden under some river rocks. This park was deserted when we visited but I am sure that it becomes quite busy on warm sunny days. Please find and re-hide with great care as to not compromise the location of the box. There is children’s play equipment and tennis courts at this park so pack a picnic and enjoy the day.
Please contact me at Blackvelvetrav@yahoo.com if the box is missing or in bad repair. Happy Hunting!
Clue Difficulty: Easy
Terrain Difficulty: Grass
Number of Boxes: 1
Wheel Chair & Stroller Accessible: Yes, Grass
Dogs: Yes
Kids: Yes
Hand Carved Stamp: Yes
Ink Pads or Pens: No
10/14/2009 - Sorry - Reported as MIA. Not sure when I will be able to verify. Blackvelvetrav
The History of the Jukebox
The word Jook is an old African-American term, meaning to dance, sometimes used with sexual connotations. It has also been suggested that the Southern jute crop fields had workers who frequented low class road houses or makeshift bars, which were called juke (or Jute) joints, where these early Jukeboxes would appear. Whatever the origin, the juke joint was a spot for dancing, and the jukebox provided the music. By 1927, The Automatic Music Instrument Company created the world's first electrically amplified multi selection phonograph. With this amplification, suddenly the Jukebox could compete with a large orchestra, for the cost of a nickel. Prohibition assured the jukeboxes success, as every underground speakeasy needed music, but could not afford a live band. Tavern owners were privileged to have a jukebox, which drew in customers, and was provided by an operator at no charge.
The importance of the jukebox to Bluesmen, and the White Country and Rockabilly artists at Sun Records cannot be underestimated. Much of early radio was live concerts staged at fashionable hotels, like the ritzy Peabody Hotel's Skyway broadcasts where a young Sam Phillips started his broadcasting career.
These radio concerts were of respectable music of the day; light Classical, Swing, Jazz orchestras, or show tunes. The lower class Blues "Race music," or Rockabilly, were not held in high esteem as worthy of a radio broadcast. So Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Roosevelt Sykes, and Carl Perkins with their wild rebel music had to find another medium. Aside from the Chitlin Circuit (Black patrons and musicians), the jukebox was the only place to hear this type of music, from the late 1920's until the late 1950's. In it's heyday, the juke box provided the power to sell hundreds of records at once for artists like Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
The jukebox was color blind in a segregated world. Black patrons thought Bill Black, Carl Perkins, and Steve Cropper were Negroes singing, while White patrons, were exposed to, and accepted Black artists work, never having seen the performer in person. After the depression, jukebox sales rose dramatically, as leading manufacturers Wurlitzer, Seeburg, and Rock-Ola, devised spectacular creations of wood, metal, and phenolic resins which danced behind tubes of enchanting cellophane, Polaroid film, and plastic.
Interestingly enough the Rock-Ola name had nothing to do with Rock n' Roll. Like Seeburg, and Wurlitzer, it was the last name of the companies founder, Canadian David Rockola. During World War II from 1942 till early 1946, jukebox production was halted by the US government to conserve labor and materials for war efforts. Wurlitzer's 1946 model 1015 was the most popular of the era with more than 56,000 units shipped under the slogan "Wurlitzer Is Jukebox."
Clues & Travel Directions:
From Boise take State Street west to Highway 16. Follow Highway 16 to Emmett. Take a right on North Washington Ave. Take a right on East Main Street and look for the Gem County Park. Find the water tower and the Quality on Tap Company across the street from the park on E. Park Street and N. McKinley Ave. Locate the small white shed on the right side of the park. Park on the street next to the weird piece of pipe sticking out of the ground.
Stand against the middle of the weird piece of pipe sticking out of the ground and walking to the east count 80 steps or 40 paces to a large tree. At the bottom of this tree you will find “Juke Juice” hidden under some river rocks. This park was deserted when we visited but I am sure that it becomes quite busy on warm sunny days. Please find and re-hide with great care as to not compromise the location of the box. There is children’s play equipment and tennis courts at this park so pack a picnic and enjoy the day.
Please contact me at Blackvelvetrav@yahoo.com if the box is missing or in bad repair. Happy Hunting!