USA in the Roaring '20s
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- USA in the Roaring '20s
- Entertainment
- Cars
- Helped cities grow
- Radios
- People who could not afford to buy one outright, purchased in instalments
- Almost everyone listened to the radio
- NBC making $150 million per year
- A lot of choice of programmes
- By August 1921, only one licensed radio station
- By 1922 there were 508 of them
- Flappers
- Term given to fashionable young women who wore their dresses short and cut their hair short
- Different from before war
- Term given to fashionable young women who wore their dresses short and cut their hair short
- Cars
- Growing Cities
- More people lived in towns and cities than countryside, first time in American history in 1920s
- They imposed a skyline full of skyscrapers
- In New York, built because no more available land, built on top of building
- Sport
- Al Capone was a baseball fan
- Baseball became big money sport
- Legendary teams like New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox
- Boxing also very popular sport with heroes like world heavy weight Jack Dmepsey
- Cinema
- Hollywood developing
- All round sunshine meant studios could produce large numbers of films or 'movies'
- Douglas Fairbanks thrilled with daring adventure films
- New stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton made audiences roar with laughter
- Until 1927 films were silent
- First 'talkie' in 1927
- Entertainment
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