Prohibition and Culture
- Begins with Silent Films
- People get their new before the movie - Charlie Chaplin - The "Movie Palace" - Dance Contests? Exploration and Innovation - Amelia Earharts and Charles Lindbergh's flights - Cars and planes both popularized during this era - Radio in every house - Moving pictures Leisure: Babe Ruth, The new York Yankess and murders row - Walt Disney - Football - Dance Halls and Movie Palaces - Driving in your car Prohibition - 1920-1933 - Temperance movements - Rum running - In place until 1933 “Pleasure was the color of the time.”
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The roaring 20's were at full swing. Things were being invented, and fun was being had. Booze had been banned, and it caused quite a stir, but it didn't stop people from having fun.
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