Weird Facts About the 1920s

In the 1920s, New Yorkers loved Ragamuffin Day. On this day everyone, young and old, dressed up like ghostly hobos

“Talkies,” movies with sound, changed the game for movie studios overnight with the first of its kind...

During the 1920s/1930s Knocker Uppers were people who would...

In the 1920s, the undisputed king of motion pictures at the time was a man named...

He is the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry & a leader of the Harlem Renaissance

At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium THIS debuted for the first time.

The modern workweek began in the 1920s. Defined as...

It took until the 1950s for them to become a part of living rooms across the U.S. but they were invented in the 1920s.

The 1920s was the decade when the___________ was ratified, officially giving American women the right to vote.

African American musicians migrated north to escape the racism of the south & brought this music style with them...

While technically illegal, due to low postage costs, some people sent their __________ in the mail.

You couldn’t produce or buy booze in the US during the ‘20s. However, if you could get it leggally from a ...

People were convinced Prohibition would work so well that crime would all but disappear. So, towns began to sell...

An establishment that wasn’t licensed to sell alcohol and asked their customers to keep everything on the down low.

In 1928 Missouri baker Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented THIS. It was the greatest thing since itself.

All these brands started in the 1920s EXCEPT...

After cars became popular, these popped up in NYC. People were a little freaked by the three colors but got used to it.

Many women joined the “_________” movement. These outgoing women became the most recognizable participants in the decade

Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in May 1927. The next year _____________ became the 1st women to do it

In 1921 Czech writer Karel Capek introduced the world to his play R.U.R and this word, meaning slave or slave labor.