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= July 1928 =

The 20's were a time of radical change caused by the many changes happening in technology with new advancements, discoveries, and inventions and is often known as the Roaring Twenties.It was a time of change and spontanious actions. The 1920s was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought the world closer to home. The telephone connected families and friends. During this time the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) took place. The KKK was targeting Catholics, blacks, and Jews with its terrorism. In 1928 represented an era of change and growth. The 20's was about learing and exploration. America had become a world power and was no longer considered just another former British colony. This time helped set America’s position in respect to the rest of the world, through its industry, its inventions,and its creativity. Americans were opening up to all diffrent ideas. Maven of 1928

The U.S. presidential election of 1928 pitted Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Alfred E. Smith. The Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s and Smith suffered politically from anti-Catholic prejudice. The election held on November 6, 1928 was won by Republican candidate Herbert Hoover.
 * **1928 U.S. ELECTION **

For city families as well as farm families, radio became the new source of news and entertainment. The radio networks sent news and entertainment broadcasts all over the country. The isolation of rural life was broken by the creation of the "black box," as people often called the radio. Radio was often used for adversisting.
 * ==Technolgoy ==







Because of invances in technology the production of toys was a lot more easier to make more. Teddy bears were created in 1907 it was only in the 1920's that its popularity took off when companies like the Knickerbocker Toy Company mass produced them. The Knickerbocker Toy Company started in 1920's and still makes teddy bears today. In the 1920s, musical bears and mechanical bears increased in popularity world-wide. The two leading manufacturers of these novelty bears, Schuco and Bing, made bears that walked, danced, played ball, and even turned somersaults.

Automobiles of 1928 fall into what is known as the vintage era.
 * ==Cars of 1928 ==



Flappers was the style that was in throughout the 1920's. During WW1 all of the men were fighting the enemy, which left the women to take over the workforce. A whole generation of young men had died during the war which left a generation of young women without possible husbands. The young women decided that they were going to enjoy their life, the young generation was breaking away from the old ideals. During this time women were still seen as benath men, they were dependent of fathers and husbands. Women were paid less than mend and had fewere opportunites than men. Young women rebelled against the old idea of a lady was. Flappers took big risks and were rebellioius. A way to rebel was to smoke and drink alcohol. Since alcohol was band during this time they were taking a big risk.Some even carried hip-flasks full so as to have it on hand. Movies, radio shows, sophisticate advertising and popular magizines influenced the lives of young women. They began to model themseelves on mobies stars, the galmourous new age.
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Fashion of flappers

The Charleston was a popular dance that came up in the 20's and is still know today. It was very popular witht the teenagers and the younger generation, but the older people didnt enjoy it. Young people introduced their clothing in with their dancing. People saw the new dances in Hollywood movies and practiced them to phonograph records or to radio broadcasts before going out on the dance floors of nightclubs.

Prohibition started in the 20's when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. Police were given the task of enforcing the law. Even though the sale of alcohol was illegal, alcoholic drinks were still found at "speakeasies" and other underground drinking places. Many people also kept private bars to serve their guests. Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from Canada. Even goverment officals and politicians later admitted to using alchol during prohibition. media type="custom" key="8733766"
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Chicken lb. 42¢ in New York Coffee 1 lb. 45¢ in New York Cornmeal 1 lb. 6¢ in Los Angeles Eggs 1 doz. 59¢ in New York Round Beef Steaks 1 lb. 51¢ in New York Butter 1 lb. 56¢ in Chicago Bread 1 lb. 10¢ in Chicago
 * Food Prices


 * On July 7th, sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".


 * ==Jazz ==

Jazz was the music of popular choice and some of the best known musicians were jazz musicians including Duke Ellington and Al Jolson. This was the beginning of independent record companies, smaller operations that weren’t afraid to take a chance on music and artists that the bigger companies wouldnt take a chance on. Some of the great early jazz,performers appeared on indie labels like Gennett, Paramount and Okeh. Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home. He gave American music its own sound for the first time. In his fifty year career, he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as Asia. Duke's popular music set the bar for most of the jazz music during this time.
 * __Duke Ellington__**

In the 1920s gangsters became the American icons of the self-made-man. Gangsters became popular and made tons of money through prohibition. Al Capone is one of the most well known gangsters duringthis time.Capone had played a big role in illegal activites during the 1920's. Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries at a reported income of $100,000,000 a year. The mayor of Chicago,Hale Thompson, worked with Capone but he was ruining his political image. Thompson had hired police to run Capone out of the city. He finally bought an estate at 93 Palm Island, Florida in 1928 after he discoverd that he was unpopular in most of the contury.
 * ==Gangsters ==

Ku Klux Klan
The Washington State Klan during the 1920s was part of the second of three waves of KKK activity in America. The second KKK was a mass movement that invoked the memory of and built upon the first KKK, which was a terrorist organization founded by white supremacists in the U.S. South. The clan had public rallies that ranged from 20,000 to 70,000 people. While they publicly encourged violence, Klan members participated in violent campaigns against labor activists and Japanese farmers in Yakima Valley.

On july 6th, a preview was held in New York of the first all-talking movie feature, "The Lights of New York." On july 30th, George Eastman showed the 1st color motion pictures in the US.
 * ==Film ==

Films were really popular during the 20's as well as in 1928. Slient films were the most popular, they were becoming longer and better story lines. The five major film studios during this time were Warner Bros, Famous Players, RKO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th centry pictures.

During the 1920s, the comedies of Charlie Chaplin were some of the most popular films of the decade.The film **The Circus** was a popluar film of his. Charles directed and was the writer in the movie. He also in the movie. media type="custom" key="8763084"

The worlds largest hailstone happend in Potter, Nebraska on July 6th. The hail was recorded as 1.5 lbs, 7 inchs in diameter.This record was held for a very long time but it eventually got beaten by : seven inches in diameter (17.8 centimeters) and a circumference of 18.75 inches (47.6 centimeters) in Nebraska on june 22nd.
 * ==Worlds largest record hailstone ==

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 * ==Sports ==
 * 1) 1st televised tennis match
 * 2) 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland. She placed first in the discus throw during the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games.
 * 3) Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game.


 * ==Famous Birthdays ==
 * July 13th Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
 * July 19th John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
 * July 20th Peter Ind, jazz musician
 * July 22nd Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth)

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