What was it like to live in the 1920's? Learn about Flappers, Fashion, Music, Politics, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the following Depression years.
Discover what it was like to live under Prohibition or how to dance the Charleston.
View the rapid progress made in transportation by automobiles, trains, ocean liners, airships and aeroplanes. All this and more can be found on 1920-30.com.
The information, taken largely from books and periodicals of the period, captures how life was in the U.S.A and the World during the 1920's - a time that is often referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" - a boisterous period characterized by rapidly changing lifestyles, financial excesses, and the fast pace of technological progress.
Also, there are lists of resources with links to other web-sites on many topics related to the nineteen-twenties.
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The Roaring Twenties Blog
Puncture Solutions
Magnets and small boys used to pick nails up off roads to avoid punctures in car tires
Introduction of 40 Hour Working Week
THAT man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is a dictum of the Scriptures that has been pretty well abolished in America, where, in the main, he now acquires, not bread, but canned goods and package foods, by the oil on a machine. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is on record as [...]
What is Dry Ice
Dry ice has already become a valuable refrigerant, and the reason is that its temperature stands some 112 below zero. Pound for pound it refrigerates fifteen times as much as common frozen water.
The Outlook for Oil
THE Federal Oil Conservation Board has reported to Secretary Work that the supply of oil in the pumping and flowing well areas of the United States is about 4,500,000,000 barrels-a six years’ supply in theory, though it cannot be extracted within that period. Up to June last the 68,000 wells bored since 1866 have produced [...]
Lindbergh Mail Problems 1927
COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH'S chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzhugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier's mail.
Nell Grayson's Ranching Days 1926 May Hollis Barton
1926b India Half Rupee ~ UNC
REPRODUCTION POSTCARD / 1926 BUS
Zenith Star Sea Baby Star Elite Automatic $19200 NEW
Rare-Franklin Mint 1928 Stutz Black Hawk
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