https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce Made with mirth en-us 2018-02-14 16:52:19 UTC 2025-03-21 02:02:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231591796 The Jazz Singer
Made in 1927, it was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized recorded music score and a lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences. It was directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros.]]> 2018-02-14 16:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231591796 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231913692 The KDKA was the first commercial radio station during the 1920´s and was located in Pittsburgh. It first went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. Radio became a huge market and was a major source of night-time entertainment for families. As the popularity of radio increased, radio stations diversified by broadcasting things like popular music, classical music, sporting events, lectures, fictional stories, newscasts, weather, market updates, and political commentary.]]> 2018-02-15 14:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231913692 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231924282 Tiger Flowers was the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb, a whiter boxer, and claiming the title in 1926. During the decade, Jim Crow laws prevented most gifted black athletes from participating in the American Dream of success that was so much a part of the sports culture. Convinced that a mixed boxing match would have little gate appeal, many white boxers refused to face black fighters or, if they did, virtually required the African American fighters to lose.]]> 2018-02-15 14:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/231924282 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/232006640 Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Their style largely emerged as a result of French fashions and made girls look young and boyish: short hair, flattened breasts, and straight waists. ]]> 2018-02-15 16:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/232006640 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/232019605 The essential part of a 1920´s man’s wardrobe was his suit. For day, evening, office, or parties, a man always wore a suit. What sets 1920´s men’s suits apart from other decades are the material and fit. Suits were mostly made of thick wool or a wool tweed, and pants made of wool based flannel that made them heavier than today’s suit materials but lighter than the previous decades. Suit jackets were either single or double breasted and featured 3 or 4 buttons up the front.]]> 2018-02-15 17:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/232019605 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233099210 The first selective jukebox was introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument Company (AMI). In 1928, Justus P. Seeburg combined an electrostatic loudspeaker with a record player that was coin-operated, and gave the listener a choice of eight records. This Audio-phone machine was wide and bulky, and had eight separate turntables mounted on a rotating Ferris wheel-like device, allowing patrons to select from eight different records. Jukeboxes were most popular from the 1940´s through the mid-1960´s, particularly during the 1950´s. By the middle of the 1940´s, three-quarters of the records produced in America went into jukeboxes.]]> 2018-02-20 01:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233099210 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233100630 Kirby's Pig Stand was the first drive-in restaurant to open in the United States. It was opened by Jessie G. Kirby and Reuben Jackson in 1921, in Dallas, Texas. The restaurant expanded into chains all around the United States in states such as Texas, New York, Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, California, and Alabama. Drive-ins were a major symbol of the 1950´s, and are featured in many films and TV series about this period.]]> 2018-02-20 01:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233100630 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233101796 During the Harlem Renaissance, Christianity was a major factor and influence on society and other movements. Many of the writers and social critics discussed the role of Christianity in African American lives. One important writing was a poem by Langston Hughes, "Madam and the Minister". It reflects the temperature and mood towards religion during the Harlem Renaissance.]]> 2018-02-20 01:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233101796 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233103276 A new way of playing the piano called the Harlem Stride Style was created during the Harlem Renaissance, and helped blur the lines between the poor Negroes and socially elite Negroes. The traditional jazz band was composed primarily of brass instruments and was considered a symbol of the south, but the piano was considered an instrument of the wealthy. With this instrumental modification to the existing genre, the wealthy blacks now had more access to jazz music.]]> 2018-02-20 01:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233103276 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233104017 Coca-Cola serves as a good example of how product advertising changed over a forty-year period. When first introduced in the 1880´s, the product was marketed as a medicine, with claims that it cured headaches, and that it "revived and sustained" a person. Seeking to build repeat business and brand loyalty, by the 1920´s the company emphasized it as a refreshment and a "fun food". Consumers demanding the cola at soda fountains could pressure store owners to stock it, or risk losing their business. ]]> 2018-02-20 01:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233104017 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233105724 New tabloid newspapers launched after the war, like the New York Daily News, and achieved large circulation by covering crime, sports and scandals. The paper is known for "speaking to and for the city’s working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct". The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew.]]> 2018-02-20 01:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233105724 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233108603 Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. In the 1920´s the laws were widely disregarded, and tax revenues were lost. Very well organized criminal gangs took control of the beer and liquor supply for many cities, unleashing a crime wave that shocked the nation. By the late 1920´s a new opposition mobilized nationwide.]]> 2018-02-20 02:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233108603 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233111187 A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during Prohibition. The speakeasy soon became one of the biggest parts of American culture during this time. Several changes happened as speakeasies formed; one was with integration. With "black and tans", people of all races, black or white, would gather together and even mingle. People would mix together and have few or no problems.]]> 2018-02-20 02:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233111187 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233113793 Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie. Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound, including character sounds and a musical score.]]> 2018-02-20 02:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233113793 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233114465 Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic black community. The original radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played a number of different characters. With the episodic drama and suspense heightened by cliffhanger endings, Amos 'n' Andy reached an ever-expanding radio audience. It was the first radio program to be distributed by syndication in the United States, and by the end of the syndicated run in August 1929, at least 70 other stations carried recorded episodes.]]> 2018-02-20 02:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233114465 19johnsene https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233115100 The Negro National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. At first the league operated mainly in mid western cities, ranging from Kansas City to Pittsburgh; in 1924 it expanded into the south, adding franchises in Birmingham and Memphis.]]> 2018-02-20 03:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19johnsene/63qq0j220tce/wish/233115100