Seniors, how much did it cost to play the jukebox in the 50's & 60's?

Question

per song or per 3 songs or 5, whatever you remember or whatever you can find out. (Please give source.)

What does it cost now? I never go anyplace anymore where there's still a jukebox. Do they still have them? (What a homebody who doesn't even know!)

Answer 1

Early 60s ... .10 cents ... I have proof.



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Answer 2

There was a jukebox at the small hangout for kids at the lake we went to when I was a kid. That was my first experience with one. The songs were 3/25¢. This would have been about 1961 or so. My cousin, who was a little older, had the best collection of 45's ever in the history of teenagers, and she used to get peeved when we would want to spend our hard earned quarters on something she already owned.



There is a jukebox at this one diner where we eat sometimes, but I've never looked at the prices, because it's all country music. It gets played a lot, though, when we're in there.

Answer 3

I remember it was 5 cent and then it went up to 10 cent and then 25 cent in the 70's and 80's and now it is either 50 cent to a dollar. Some of them used to be a dollar for 3 songs so I don't know if they still do that.

Answer 4

Three songs for a quarter! 60's



When I was in college, '80's, there was a small cafe' just off of the campus. They had a small jukebox at every table and amazingly, it was still three songs for a quarter! I've not seen any since that time.

Answer 5

In 1957 - when my husband and I were dating - a quarter played 3 songs.



While dating - went out dancing - nearly every night for 7 months and I'm sure we - must have poured a small fortune into the jukebox.



Once we married - we went out - once a year - when we got our income tax refund back. They were still in operation into the 70's.



Now - I don't know. I've been home bound for many years - but sure do wish I could go out dancing - just one more time and find out - if they still have them.



I would bet they do in most all of the dance halls. Heck - I don't even know if they still have dance halls. LOL!

DeeJay - In the USA.

Answer 6

back in the early 60's they were 10 cents or 3 for 25 cents. the coast now is 25 cents per song and the only place I have seen and used one was at johnny rockets , a fast food chain usually in malls that has the 50's 60's look.

Answer 7

A nickle in the early 50s then a dime or three for a quarter late 50s and 60s.



Are there any jukeboxes anywhere now?

Answer 8

50s Jukebox

Answer 9

I remember 3 songs for a quarter, maybe early 60's. Now, it costs $1 per song on these fancy, digital (place every song written) jukeboxes.

Answer 10

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RE:

Seniors, how much did it cost to play the jukebox in the 50's & 60's?

per song or per 3 songs or 5, whatever you remember or whatever you can find out. (Please give source.)



What does it cost now? I never go anyplace anymore where there's still a jukebox. Do they still have them? (What a homebody who doesn't even know!)

Answer 11

I remember 3 songs for .25cents in 1969 , most Chinese Confectioners had a food counter or booths where you could eat, they would have a mini selector at each booth and on the counter.You could play the Juke Box right from your seat.

Then 7-11 came along and put them all out of business.The last song I played on a Juke Box was Hush by Deep Purple.I don't think they have them anymore even in bar's.

Answer 12

WOW . . . I hadn't thought about a juke box in many years - but I instantly pictured every detail of my favorite Standard Drug booth (Cleveland OH) with the individual table selector for the Wurlitzer "bubbler" that played early 50s hits on 78 rpm records. Cherry Coke or Chocolate Phosphate. Yes, 3 songs for a quarter. And even us kids hated to see the "bubbler" finally replaced with a new box that played 45's......it had better sound, but wasn't nearly as much fun to watch. (wish I had the money and foresight to buy-up all those old "bubblers")



Glad to see so many others remember, too.

Answer 13

In the early fifties, a nickle would play a tune for you where I grew up, in rural Nebraska. I remember when it went up to ten cents, or three for a quarter, in some places, as I was in college then. I haven't seen a jukebox for a long, long time.

Answer 14

Hi Liz,

The cost I remember was 3 songs for a quarter. I don't know how much it is now.

Answer 15

In the U.K. I believe that it was 6d (sixpence).



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I'm probably referring to late 50s but jukeboxes were something I used very rarely as I would not have had money to spare.

Answer 16

Ten cents each or three plays for a quarter, both in Canada, and the US, during the late fifties and sixties.

Haven't seen one in working order, in years.

Answer 17

Three tunes for a quarter, and that was an hour's wages for a lot of teens.

Answer 18

10 cents for one song, and 25 cents for three songs. I'd forgotten that

Answer 19

3 plays for a quarter, this was in the mid-60s.

Answer 20

i n the 50s in Britain 6 pence for two discs

Answer 21

Earliest I remember, it was a nickel a song or it seemed like all afternoon for a quarter

Answer 22

Think a quarter gave you three picks as I recall.

Answer 23

IT costed one shilling in the UK.