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finally, a period in us history that some people are actually still alive from
and like maybe you can meet them and maybe they still remember it,,! golly gee willikers Very Cool
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for something as cool as this Surely it has an awesome nickname that everyone agrees on right?
right?
ok fine i guess it doesnt,,, lets fix that!!!
personally as the definitely anonymous author of this page (you totally dont know me) i think it should be the
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The Age Of Wonderful Nonsense
or as i like to call it, the old people whimsy era
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but why????
why would i call it that as opposed to the more popular "roaring 20's"?
well you see
what was all that that pizzazz, that razzmatazz that made the 20s "roaring"; other than whimsical, wonderful nonsense? for example.....:
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hollywood
you've probably heard about it.
there were vast improvements made to cameras, including advantures in picture and sound!
this meant that movie theaters got a lot more popular. yay!
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Car
actually Automobile
a LOT more cars were getting made! like a nonsensical amount. almost like magic. shoutout to Mister Ford for this one
they made these huge assembly lines where the workers just kinda sit there and do One (1) thing to the car, and eventually as it moves down the line it gets finished. very cool! this also helped stimulate multiple industries. for example steel
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the harlem renaissance
like the 1300s but BETTER
in New York City (specifically Manhattan (specifically Harlem)), there was a surge in African-American expression!
this involved literally every single form of art that existed at the time. also, it led to advancements in...
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jazz
the most popular music of the 1920s
jazz quickly became very popular among white middle-class teenagers (who would rebel against their parents' culture by listening to it, more on that later)
very very awesome music, the likes of which many people hadn't really heard before. people even learned new dance moves!! (see: charleston)
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flappers
rebellious teenage girls
short skirts, bobbed hair, jazz listener... yeah thats a flapper alright!
literally a whole subgenre of people that were just like . vehemently against the cultural norms at the time
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