Fads- Harry Houdini, Yo-yo, sitting on flagpoles, barnstorming/airplanes
Games- Pogosticks and stickball outdoor games. Pogo sticks got popular after advertisements spread. Stickball, littler version of baseball popular in bigger cities on streets. Mahjong, cards , and crosswords.
Slang- Bee’s knees, big cheese, cat’s meow, horse feathers, gumshoe, beeswax, swanky, flimflam, flyboy, ducky, drugstore cowboy, heebie jeebies
Top ten movies- Sherlock Jr., The passion of Joan of Arc, Pandora’s box, He who gets slapped, the cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Top ten actors- Jolyna Ralston, Brigite Helm Emil Jannings, Marie Mosquini, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Mary Delschaft, Conrad Veidt, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Rudulph Valentino Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer
Food- Hot Dogs, pasta. Butterfingers, baby ruth, founded by the same person. Teaberry chewing gum, very popular.
Restaurants- Texas pig stand, A&W, Orange Julius, Karmel corn
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