The jukebox played music. It required a quarter or other coins, then a song could be picked by numbers and letters - just like a vending machine - and played.
"Jukebox" is derived from "juke joint," which came from "juke" or "joog," a dialect term for disorderly.If you type "etymological dictionary" in the search box of the browser, you can find several...
just to listen to music..
alicia is cool!! haha
Two fold. For the procurement of money being a coin-operated machine and then later the realization that exposure of music on jukeboxes sold records....