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Boom to Bust: The Roaring 20s

The 1920’s were an era of painful contradictions. Still reeling from the Great War and the world wide wave
of disillusionment that it inspired; both dazzled and bewildered to their sudden access to such technological
wonders as radios, movies, the automobile and the airplane; torn between the traditional life of simple rural
virtue and the exciting jazz age that beckoned to them from the streets of cities (a lure of sexual
experimentation and freedom from responsibility), people attempted to make sense of their lives.

It was as if they had returned from the war to discover themselves living on a different planet, one made more
by the hand of man than the hand of God, a world of neon skyscrapers, of new mass produced products
hawked through new mass-audience media, and of new mores challenging Victorian notions of the proper
and civilized. The twenties were the decade when modern society was established.

Below: In accordance with the 18th Ammendment, Federal Agents pour alcohol down a sewer.

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