THE ROARING TWENTIES

the 1920s

100 YEARS AGO

Women could vote, not Eartha

#MissAmerica pageant established, Eartha could not enter

The #LincolnMemorial was dedicated in Washington D.C.

First #WinterOlympics, held in France

The #Scopes #Monkeytrial took place

#GrandOleOpry’s first #radiobroadcast

First flight to the #NorthPole

The Great #MississippiRiver flood occurred

#CharlesLindbergh in the #SpiritofSaintLouis made the first nonstop #transatlantic flight

#AmeliaEarhart became the first woman to fly over the #AtlanticOcean

The #SaintValentine’s Day Massacre took place

The #StockMarket crashed

And in Eartha and Eugene’s World

The United States was 150 years old

#CalvinCoolidge was President

#Prohibition was alive and well

Shotgun weddings were still around

For a while, my daughter’s favorite movie was #DirtyDancing. I invited my mother to watch it with us, but she turned up her nose and declined saying, “I know all about dirty dancing.”

1924 - She went to her first party at age 15. My brother was born six weeks before her 16th birthday. What exactly was dancing like in the #RoaringTwenties?

Hers was not the first #shotgunwedding in her family. Her first niece was born a year after she was. Her sister Vickie was forced to name the guy, a musician. Next time he was in town, he found himself in night court and married.