1920s The Quest for Normalcy/The Jazz Age/The Roaring Twenties
Media
Technology
Arts &
Literature
Transportation
Sports
Movies
Advertising
Credit
Bruce
Barton
Improving
life?
Radios
Broadway
George & Ira
Gershwin
Henry Ford
Model A
Price drop
Sedans
Drive-in
restaurants
White Castle
Swimming
Gertrude
Ederle
“Talkies”
Al Jolson
The Jazz
Singer
Rudolph
Valentino
Clara Bow
KDKA
Electric
Refrigerators
Electric Toasters
Magazines
National
Indoor Plumbing
Newspapers
National
coverage
Syndicated
columns
Penicillin
Advertiseme
nts
Tabloids
Wm.
Randulph
Hearst
Entertainmen
t vs. Fact
Radio
Art Deco
Georgia
O’Keefe
Frank Lloyd
Wright
Central Heating
Band-Aids
Kleenex
Synthetic Rubber
B.F.
Goodrich
Lost Generation
Eugene
O’Neill
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Ernest
Hemingway
Gertrude
Stein
Harlem Renaissance
Langston
Hughes
Countee
Cullen
Airplanes
Charles
Lindbergh
Amelia
Earhart
Walter P. Chrysler
Boxing
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Baseball
Babe Ruth
Yankee
Pinstripes
Ty Cobb
“Shoeless” Joe
Jackson
Lou Gehrig
Richard E. Byrd
Transcontinental Race
The Bunion
Derby
LA to NY
Football
Knute Rockne
Red Grange
Steamboat Willie
Mickey
Mouse
Treasure Island
Ben Hur
Oscar Awards
Music/Dance
Foods
Dress/Fashion
Fun/Games
Rights
Labor/Business
Jazz
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Al Jolson
Bessie Smith
The Cotton Club
Bathtub Gin
Men’s
more conservative
trousers widened (24
inches)
knickers
raccoon coat
slouch hat
cigarette holder
Flagpole Sitting
Advertising
“Shipwreck”
Kelly
Women
Strikes
Women’s
long & short skirts
mannish/tomboyish
no bosom
no waistline
hair hidden under
cloche hats
cosmetics
- powder
- lipstick
- rouge
- eyebrow pencils
- eye shadow
- colored nails
Car Camping
“Ain’t We Got Fun”
“Yes, We Have No
Bananas”
“Puttin’ on the Ritz”
Soda Fountains
Coca-Cola
Kool-Aid
Pasteurized Milk
Carter Family
Grand Ole Opry
Pez
Charleston
Frank Farnum
White Castle
Welch’s Grape Jelly
Peter Pan Peanut
Butter
Foxtrot
Dance Marathons
Arthur Murray
Fred Astaire
Caesar Salads
Billboard Magazine
Lockouts
Government Favors
Business
Motor Scooters
Mah-Jongg
Soybeans
Wonderbread
voting
birth control
Margaret
Sanger
Prohibition
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Barnstorming
Ku Klux Klan
More Leisure Time
YoYos
Scopes Monkey Trial
Evolution
John Scopes
Clarence
Darrow
Roller Skating
Marcus Garvey
Crossword Puzzles
The Rosewood
Massacre
Income Rising
Organized Crime
Bootleggers
Rum Runners
Al Capone
George “Bugs”
Moran
Eliot Ness
Bolshevik Revolution
Russia
Communists
Stock Market Crash
Unemployment
Chain Stores
Flappers
Bob Haircuts
Credit/Installment Buying
Zippers
Debt
Miss America Pagent