Z2301

Definitive Issue

Juke Box

Collins Cover Announcement 

JUKE BOX

Intense, vivid colors provide this hand-painted First Day Cover with the means to bring back youthful memories. To the upper left, a pair of the colorful stamps are tied to my cover with a New York City First Day cancel. Taking up the rest of the envelope is the COLLINS cachet.

A young, carefree couple dances the jitterbug as did countless others earlier in this century. The dominant feature of the cachet, however, is a full size juke box. Neon-like colors are even brighter than those on the stamps, so you can imagine the impact that this cover conveys.

Louis Glass invented the juke box which was a modification of Edison's gramophone. It was introduced at the Royal Palace Saloon in San Francisco in 1889. During the 1920's interest in the juke box increased and the Wurlitzer company started making them. In 1939 there were 225,000 juke boxes in the United States and by the end of World War II there were more than two million! That makes for a lot of dancing and listening fun.

Take a musical stroll down Memory Lane PrIrl relive the 1940'Q and 1950's Golden Age of the American Juke Box Era. Item #Z2301. $11.00.