I Love the 20's MC Thread

[theprawncracker]

We have the 80's and the 90's... so I figured we needed this one too!

Remember those wonderful 1920's? The Great Depression? The era of silent films? Mickey Mouse? Ahh... those were the days.

 

[Colbynfriends]

oh yes the roaring 20's, Steam Boat Willy and The Jazz Singer come to mind for me.

 

[Beauregard]

oh yes the roaring 20's, Steam Boat Willy and The Jazz Singer come to mind for me.

*hugs Colby* I'm so glad we have you around to remind us of such things. Just don't know what we'd do without the 20's...

 

[Beakerfan]

Oh how I long for the days where over-sized gorillas could climb the Empire State building at whim..... the 1920's rocked. Er, roared.

 

[Xerus]

Back in the 20's, college guys wore flat straw hats and long fur coats, and they usually carried around flags and ukuleles.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Ah yes, the 20s, ha-cha-cha! What a dilly of a decade! I had a swell time doing the Lindy Hop and the Charleston down at Razor Joe's speakeasy. Yeah, I ended up on skidsville after the market crash, but before that, I was the cat's pajamas, you betcha!

I remember a picture with Clara Bow where she fleetingly showed her bare elbow! That flicker was banned in several cities, but it was the bee's knees, lemme tells ya!

 

[Winslow Leach]

Back in the 20's, college guys wore flat straw hats and long fur coats, and they usually carried around flags and ukuleles.

Yes, the raccoon coat! One time some joker sold me a live one, although I didn't know it was alive until I hopped into my Model-T, and the thing starting biting my neck! Yowza! I kept it anyway, had a lot of laughs with the guys.

I was also the world's best flagpole-sitter. Spent two and a half years atop a flag pole, ha-cha-cha! Don't tell no one, but my sponsor was none other than Big Al himself...as in Capone. Made a lotta green sittin' atop that pole, you betcha!

I was also the champion goldfish-swallower. I could swallow more goldfish than a seal after a hunger strike, lemme tells ya! Got a spiffy trophy. Made of real zinc, you betcha! Hotsie-totsie!

And how 'bout them Yanks? The Babe could do no wrong. Now I've seen that fella down nearly thirty hot dogs before a game! And he still managed to hit five homers. I tells ya, the Babe had the constitution of a mountain lion! What a swell fella!

 

[MrsPepper]

The Great Depression wasn't the twenties. Pfft. *gives Prawnie a Look* If you're gonna do it, do it right! DUH.

 

[Winslow Leach]

The Great Depression wasn't the twenties. Pfft. *gives Prawnie a Look* If you're gonna do it, do it right! DUH.

Actually, the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, thus beginning the Depression...

 

[CensoredAlso]

Ok Ok, now we all know.

I love looking at old advertisements from the '20s, like Coca Cola, with the whole flapper image women had. They rebelled against wearing corsets and long hair styles and gave women a lot more freedom.

Two '20s items I can think of is the book The Great Gatsby (absolutely wonderful book) and the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts, which is as funny today as it was then. Plus it's one of the first talkies, but it still gives you an idea of what the '20s were like (just before they were about to end).

And that is the bee's knees! Twenty three skidoo!