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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
yeah, the twenties were grand
contraception and alcohol were illegal
women were essentially excluded from the workforce
life expectancy in the US was 54 years (Urge, Newb and Neverending would be dead:eek: )
blacks and whites are strictly segregated
it took 13 days to get from NY to California
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i was going to say something similar but you beat me to it ..
the part people remember fondly of the 20's is the part that is glamorized in movies.
the same way that - in the future - people will look at each decade of the past and think that what the tiny minority was wearing - gleamed from books and magazines and films ...was the norm for the time.
in otherwords .. just like hollywood has always portrayed as the standard : bullshit, smoke and mirrors.