Escape from the modern world to The Jazz Age -- the period between and including the two World Wars (this is not a war history tribe). Join us for discussion, stories or questions related to life in the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s...music, literature, politics, fashion, art, architecture, movies, etc.

"Park your roadster out front and come bust your conk with the smooth pips and hot tomatoes for some ring-a-ding and rag...Just cast your glims on this scene, cats! We've got Satchmo hot plates and a crazy gator combo blowing up a storm. Frisk your whiskers with a stick of tea and jittersauce and get in the mix."

If you have any idea what I just said, this is the place for you!

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Keywords:
Flappers, jive, swing, jazz, film noir, talkies, silent film, the depression, speakeasies, golden age, prohibition, the Lost Generation, Scopes Monkey Trial, zoot suits, radio shows, nuclear fission, dirigibles (zeppelins, air ships), transatlantic flight, Hindenburg disaster, Popeye, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Surrealism, Spanish civil war, phonographs, vaudeville, Cotton Club, bebop...

Some people of note:
Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Benito Mussolini, Paul von Hindenburg, Louis Armstrong, Joseph Stalin, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Sigmund Freud, Karl Jung, Adolf Hitler, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, Salvador Dali, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, L.B. Mayer, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hughes, Albert Einstein, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, W.R. Hearst, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, Anita Loos, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Jean Harlow, Clara Bow, Amelia Earhart, Peal S. Buck, Bette Davis, Judy Garland...

http://JazzAge.tribe.net