Popular pastimes of the 1920s
The 1920s are best known for the gangsters and revolutionary fashion pictured for us by Hollywood, but there was much more to that decade than ladies dancing on the stage in flamboyant costumes. This post focuses on the popular pastimes of the 20s... 1. Listening to the radio After the First World War, the inventions of technology rocketed, with objects such as the hair dryer and the traffic light in 1920 then the bread slicer and 'Kool Aid' in 1927. The radio and motion pictures allowed access to a media industry and world that no one had ever had access to before! Movies were being shown in movie theatres and this often attracted 50 million viewers very week! Radios become more affordable and were common in households, as was the telephone. This allowed people to listen to music and baseball games in America! 2. Car journeys Travelling by car was an easy way to get to destinations quickly. In the late 1920's, the invention of the Model T Ford caused the motor...