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Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9
Getting a divorce [150] drugstore cowboy Well-dressed man who loiters in public areas trying to pick up women [150] drum Speakeasy [20] dry. Main article: Prohibition. Place where alcohol is not served or person opposed to the legal sale of alcohol [152] dry Up Cover up; Keep quiet about; stop talking [153] dry-gulch Murder or kill someone [152 ...
Jazz music, previously restricted to mainly poor African-Americans, broke out as the musical craze of the 1920s. In the 1920s, American jazz music and motor cars were at the centre of a European subculture which began to break the rules of social etiquette and the class system (See also Swing Kids and Flappers).
The law that banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the US came into force in 1920, but instead of stopping people from drinking, it merely sent them underground. For 13 ...
Speakeasy bars in the United States date back to at least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth ...
The post Vintage-obsessed woman lives every day like it’s the 1920s-1950s appeared first on In The Know. Carly Knight spends her days wearing vintage clothes while surrounded by antiques, and ...
Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
By 1920, the speakeasy was renowned for its riotous performances of hot jazz music which occasionally degenerated into violence and mayhem. [35] The Washington Post crime reporter described The Krazy Kat as being "something like a Greenwich Village coffee house ", featuring gaudy pictures painted by futurists and impressionists . [ 36 ]