PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THE ROARING 20S 1925-1929
The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years.
Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The suits men wear today are still based, for the most part, on those worn in the late 1920s.
The 20s was the age Jazz and no one was better than the Jazz Pianist Fats Waller, and his hit song Ain't Misbehavin'. Other great musicians are Reverend Gary Davis, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five.
Historical Events from 1925
•The First Motel (Motorists Hotel) opens in San Luis Obispo, California.
•F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel "The Great Gatsby" was published in April of 1925
•The first issue of "The New Yorker" magazine is published on February 21st of 1925
•A major epidemic of Diphtheria broke out
Major Events of 1926
•Greta Garbo makes her American film debut in the silent film "Torrent" when it was released in February of 1926
•The first Winnie-the-Pooh was published by Author A. A. Milne.
•The first Liquid Fuel Rocket was created by Robert Goddard
Major Events of 1927
•The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Nixon v. Herndon case during March of 1927
•First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
Major Events of 1928
•The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears on November 18th in Steamboat Willie, an animated 1928 short film produced by Walt Disney.
•The Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida on September 16th.
Major Event of 1929
•The Wall Street Crash of 1929, is the stock-market crash that occurred starts on October 28th and started the period of The Great Depression in the United States, starting a world-wide economic crisis and lasting till the mid 1930's.
Presidents From 1925-1929
•John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–29)
•Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression
