Leisure and entertainment 1920s USA
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- Created on: 11-05-14 15:16
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- Leisure and entertainment
- Consumer goods
- Consumer goods brought a rapid change in the life of many americans
- Brought the average time of household chores from 47 to 44
- Radio
- The number of radios increased to over 10 million by 1929
- In 1921 there was 1 radio channel compared to over 500 in 1923
- 50 million people listened to the radio
- Unlike newspapers you didn't need to be literate to know about current affairs
- The radio introduced many people to drama, as the martian scare of 1938 was to show
- Jazz age
- The increase of the numbers of radios also changed the popularity of music
- The 1920s ware known as the "Jazz age" because of the popularity of Jazz music
- Americans were delighted to put the war behind them and learn new dances such as the charleston
- Cars
- With the growth of car membership some families became more mobile
- Weekend trips for well of American's became common
- American's travelled out of their immediate area for the first time
- Baseball
- Baseball was the most popular sport of the urban working classes
- "Babe" Ruth of the Yankees becoming a national hero
- Some baseball players earned up to $80,000 p/a !
- Cinema
- The most popular entertainment was the cinema to go and see a film was a weekly affair for some Americans
- By 1926 there were over 17,000 cinemas
- In 1927 the first talking film was made " the singing fool"
- By 1930 more than 100 million cinema tickets were sold every week
- Consumer goods
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