Weren't the 1920's great?

Question

Until the Stock Market crashed, of course.

Also, what were your favorite parts?

Answer 1

I'm sure they were for some. I think that every decade has something special about it. You have to love the whole flapper deal. What I wouldn't have survived is the flattening of breasts to go with the fashion, though.

Answer 2

Oh, YES! I would have LOVED to have been around back then! But only if I wasn't poor - they had it pretty rough back then, before FDR came along with the New Deal.

But for those who were not economically challenged, it was a fun, carefree time. It was a transitional time (like the '60s, four decades later) - and society was booming with new technology. There were still a lot of the old Victorian era customs in place, but many many changes were simultaneously occurring.

I would have particularly loved being in Hollywood in the '20s. I recently found out that my great aunt was a silent movie star, and I'm fascinated by this. In the mid-twenties, the first "talkies" started being produced. What an exciting time that must have been!

I love the clothes, the cars, the beautiful Art Deco buildings, and home decor of the era. In fact, I have tried to re-create that look as much as possible in my own home!

Answer 3

Pretty much, it is called the roaring twenties. but that decade had some serious problems besides prohibition, there where 10s of thousands of veterans who could not find work in the early twenties, and they set up a hobo camp of sorts outside the US capitol, and where burn and beaten f by our own troops, Capt Eisenhower, (later General and President) was one of the officers in charge of the treament of the veterans. that was pretty embarrassing . There was the big financial nightmare, called the tea pot dome scandel, much like Enron of today. President Calvin Cooolidge had the added embarrassment of his wife having an affair with a secret serviceman, so he did not ru for re-election. You had the sacco and Vansetti trial, where two Italians where railroaded by local authorities in Massachusetts, and falsely charged with killing a guard in a payroll hold up at a factory, the real killer confessed, but they where electrocuted, the case dragged out for 3 years, big public out cry. But After WWI and before the Depression, there was alot of people living on credit (sound familiar?) and having a good time, drinking in illegal gin joints, dancing to Jazz music and driving around in cars etc. Butthre best decade in the 20th century was either 1901-1910 or the 1950s, econimically things where better for most americans, jobs where plentiful, and money was flowing, and drinking was legal, and politics was pretty tame in those two periods.

Answer 4

I don't think the Jazz Age would be Anyone idea of paradise. My parents and grand parents thought it was not so hot...not like in the movies..poverty and a lot of racial strife..bigoted people...prejudice..ignorant people..get my drift..read some of the novels like about the great American tragedy...

The only thing the 20's were good for is before the crash the country was a country of entrepreneurs..and after 1929 the country became a country of wage earners ...working for somebody else instead of working for yourself..

i think the United States should be more independent on their own resources instead of depending on the government...most people farmed before 1929 or were self employed...now we are dependent on a 'JOB" and the Govt to fund our retirement...the pension funds are going away from private company's and the government is supporting too many people already...there is now 3.3 working people to support one retired person....and soon this number is going to be 2.2..working supporting an aging U.S. retired person..living off of Social security is not going to be fun for anyone..if the system last that long...

Answer 5

You may want to reconsider your praise for the decade of the 1920s - for the people of Germany, Poland, and Russia - it was not "great." By this time, the seeds of the Second World War had already germinated.

Answer 6

From what I have read, I think my favorite parts would be women becoming more free to wear what they wanted. Especially the women called "flappers", how fun!! The silent movies and most of the American literature published.

Answer 7

For a very few, too many struggled with poverty, equality, racism, and other situations. The hair styles were great and dancing was cool, but the chest flattening goes to far!

Answer 8

um not really the country was recovering from WWI and we then went into the stock crash and a depression.

Answer 9

ok i guess i mean for new yrs we had a 20s party and it was kool to get dressed up lol but i lov the 80s

Answer 10

only 10 or so more years till the 20s come again!!!