"1920s" Blogs & Blog Posts

Harry Houdini is famous today as an escape artist, but his real passion in the 1920s was ghost busting. Or, rather, busting phony psychics who claimed to communicate with the dead. Spiritualism was extremely popular after the horrors of World War I,...

In case you woke up today wondering if you stand correctly while doing housework, this guide will show you the proper way to stand while sweeping, scrubbing, and preparing food.  This series of photos shows Miss Ruth Kellogg dressed in a pristin...

Caffe Reggio is known for bringing the Cappucino to the USA. I don't like the idea of living in a place where Cappuccinos don't exist, so I'm very thankful for Caffe Reggio for popularizing the drink in the states in 1927 (according to them). —...

It's no surprise that life in 1924 was drastically different than it is in 2024. Photos show how people's day-to-day lives looked 100 years ago.

Car factories were how Americans dominated the automotive industry in the 20th century. Here's what they looked like.

According to The Folk Revival Project, this colorized film shows "Bascom Lamar Lunsford (fiddle and vocals) and three other musicians (guitar and banjo) performing a song called 'Doggett Gap,' recorded in Asheville, North Carolina on October 7th, 192...

Remember when people thought we'd emerge from the pandemic into a "new roaring 20s"? Yeah, that didn't quite happen. Here's a taste of those original roaring 20s—archival film footage inside a speakeasy of the Prohibition Era. As Jello Biafra o...