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What positive and Negative Impacts did the 1920's have on the United States?-
Music- Jazz was most popular. More upbeat than any other type of Music- Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were very famous.
Dances- The Charleston, The Black Bottom, The Tango, The Waltz, The Cake Walk, and The Foxtrot were very popular.
Radio shows- after dinner families would gather around the radio, and listen to different things.
Prohibition- started a bunch of gangs and crime. more people were breaking the law. helped start NASCAR.
Speakeasy Bars- secret bars for people to go drink, you needed a password to get in.
Decor- ranged from regular houses to farm houses, early Hollywood, safari, art deco.
Buying on credit- buy now pay later, lots of people were in debt, helped start great depression, but people bought more things and businesses made money.
Advertising- commercials on radio, posters.
Sports (my group)
Fashion/stores in the 1920's
Men wore suit, ties, hats, sweater vests, also bow ties. No jeans. shorter pants. Hair, slick back or to the side a little. Women hair had tight buns. Flapper- short hair, curl under, dresses go just above the knees, wore hats. Flappers because they would leave their shoes unbuckled and it would make the flapper noise. Kids- girls had dresses, boys had like little sailor outfits and sweaters.
Big stores were Macy's and Citco, more were Sears Roebuck, and Walgreens
Fads
Harry Houdini magician. Yo-Yo lots of people had them. Sitting on flagpoles, lots of people thought it was fun. Barnstorming- fly planes through barns.
Games
Pogo-sticks and stick-ball/ sort of like baseball, played around the world.
Mahjong/cards/crosswords were very fun games.
Slang
bee's knees, big cheese- high ranking person, Beeswax- none of your business. Flyboy- someone cool. Heebie jeebies- scared of something.
Movies and actors of 1920's
Sherlock Jr biggest movie. He Who Gets Slapped was another big movie. Jobyna Ralston and Brigitte Helm were big actors.
Food
Hot Dogs were one of the more popular foods of the 20's, pasta being marketed as healthy for the wheat, butter finger came out in the 1920's its a compound candy bar of chocolate and peanut butter it was made from the Curtis Candy Company, and now it is part of Nestle, BabyRuth started to come out too.
Teaberry Chewing Gum was most popular gum because it was tea flavor.
Restraunts- drive in came around, Texas Pigstand, funded by J.G. Kirby and Dr. Reuben W. Jackson. A&W, Roy & Frank started it in Lodi, California, in 1923 their first restaurant came about. Orange Julius founded in late 20's, it was a frosty juice.
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