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1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iii. 82 They talked and told strong stories of Ella, Wall, East Coast Mary,..and lesser jook lights around whom the glory of Polk County surged.

1936 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 27/2 Jim's daddy owned the General Store and a nigger jook.

1937 in Florida Rev. (1938) Spring 28/1 Back yonder a ‘juke’ was a place, usually a shack somewhere off the road, where a field negro could go for a snort of moonshine.

1937 in Florida Rev. (1938) Spring 28/1 There were negro juke-joints as far back as I can remember.

1941 J. Faulkner Men Working ii. 39 The glow from the lights of the jook house at the lake appeared above the trees.

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xviii. 151 Juke from juke box came from juke house—which was once a whorehouse.

1958 P. Oliver in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz i. 23 The crude, wood-frame dance-halls called ‘jooks’ (or jukes).

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 93 You go into the bars and the juke joints and you ask around.

1968 Blues Unlimited Nov. 6 Now Ike told Dave that he cut Elmore's ‘Dust my broom’ at a Canton juke-joint.

1971 Black World June 72/2 Had done sent Lueta and Carol Ann to every juke joint in Greenwood askin bout you.