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Adrian's 1920s Photo Essay (continued)

1920s Schoolhouse 

1920s food truck in Chicago 

1920s Mercedes Cabriolet C

1920s men fashion

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President's Comic: continued & concluded

On the way up Mount McKinley, they see a whole bunch of Teddy Bear ROSES (Teddy Roosevelt). It’s really cold on the top of the mountain -- the wind is blowing such a DRAFT (William Taft) that they get the shaky shaky WILLIES (Woodrow Wilson) and they start to HARDEN (Warren Harding) into ice because they’re so COOL (Calvin Coolidge). They pull out their HOOVER (Herbert Hoover) vacuum cleaner to try to warm themselves up, but it doesn’t work, so they head back down the mountain, again passing the ROSE bush which now has pictures of Ben Franklin on it (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and is the biggest rose bush they've ever seen (FDR had the longest presidency).

They get down to the bottom of the mountain and the parade has been joined by a TRUE MAN (Harry Truman) and he has these huge EYES (Dwight D. Eisenhower). The parade is also joined by Barbie and her handsome, but false man -- KEN (John F. Kennedy). Kennedy was assassinated, so he was followed by a JOHNSON (Lyndon B. Johnson), who has lots of NIX (Richard Nixon) on his face.

They all get on a FORD (Gerald Ford) tractor, which is followed by a CART (Jimmy Carter) full of RAGgedy Anns and RAGgedy Andys (Ronald Reagan)*

The cart tips over in front of a BUSH (George H.W. Bush) that gets hacked down by CLINT Eastwood (Bill Clinton), but another BUSH (George W. Bush) grows up in its place, so Clint Eastwood gets really mad and shouts out, “Oh BUMMER!” (Barack Obama).

*I didn’t make this up; I think “Raggedy Ann” to help you remember Reagan is a pretty bad stretch.

Nathaniel's 1920s Photo Essay

JAZZ

Advertisements for jazz concerts:

Louis Armstrong playing his famous trumpet.

Now that's what's called loving your work!

Early jazz band.

Improvising.

In early jazz you played what you wanted when you wanted

Jazz flourished in gangster run nightclubs,

because gangsters were the only ones who would hire black musicians 

and the only ones serving alcohol.

New dances came with jazz.

FASHION

Dresses were looser and shorter.

Cloche hats were popular.

MOVIES

Greta Garbo in her first starring role in 1924.

The first full-length talking movie was "The Jazz Singer" in 1927.

"The Jazz Singer" opens in Times Square, NYC.

AL CAPONE

Born in New York where he joined a gang and murdered some people.

He was never tried because of lack of evidence.

He went to Chicago in 1919 and lived here:

He became the head of Chicago's organized crime by 1925

and arranged many murders of rival gang members.

He was finally arrested and convicted on tax charges.

INKLINGS

In the 1920s, J.R.R. Tolkein had three children and met C.S. Lewis.

The Hobbit hadn't been written yet and no, Faramir hadn't been created.

Faramir, as he appears in The Lord of the Rings movies

This has absolutely nothing to do with the 1920s or American history.