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The Old v. The New

The Old v. The New. Clashing Ideals of the 1920s. Changing Ways of Life & The Twenties Women Popular Culture & The Harlem Renaissance. Sports & Culture. Sports of the 1920s Baseball, Football, Boxing, more… What is “Culture”?

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The Old v. The New

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  1. The Old v. The New Clashing Ideals of the 1920s Changing Ways of Life & The Twenties Women Popular Culture & The Harlem Renaissance

  2. Sports & Culture Sports of the 1920s Baseball, Football, Boxing, more… What is “Culture”? “The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time.”

  3. Baseball Ballparks. Newspapers. Radio. The Negro Leagues.

  4. Baseball The Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs Chicago American Giants

  5. Football

  6. Boxing Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney “Manassa Mauler” “The Fighting Marine”

  7. 1926 Dempsey v. Tunney September 23 Philadelphia, PA Tunney Wins by Decision

  8. 1927Dempsey v. Tunney II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OeeCfbahwQ

  9. Culture of the 1920s Celebrities (and the Great Atlantic Air Derby!) School & the Teenager Radio & Film Literature & the Lost Generation Jazz & the Harlem Renaissance

  10. Celebrities Charles Lindbergh Babe Ruth

  11. The Babe “He was bigger than the President.” Richard Vidmer, NYTimes Left Handed pitcher & power hitter. Back to back 20+ win seasons in 1916 & 1917 January 5th, 1920 “MLB’s #2 Worst Trade in History” Red Sox -> NY Yankees In six seasons with the Red Sox: Won three world series. In 107 seasons without him: Won zero.

  12. “The Lone Eagle”Lucky Lindy The Great Atlantic Air Derby of 1919 $25,000 Prize New York to Paris or Paris to New York “First Transatlantic Flight” But it the Atlantic had been conquered already…

  13. Aviation Summer of 1919 Flew through rain, hail, snow, heavy winds, and lightning. Fog impacted flight. Jack Alcock & Arthur Brown (GBR)

  14. Aviation Alcock & Brown depart from New York Alcock & Brown landing in Ireland Flew 1,890 miles (Slightly more than half the distance from New York to Paris)

  15. Aviation 1920 Three American teams attempt to win the prize of $25,000 (Columbia, America, American Legion). Their Fate? Americawas nose heavy. Destroyed during trial. Columbiawas damaged during a trial flight. American Legioncrash landed after failing to gain momentum. Pilots were killed on impact. America was, at 1920, out of the running.

  16. Aviation Francesco de Pinedo (ITA) Atlantic crossed with seaplane.

  17. Aviation Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli Missing. Presumed Dead.

  18. Aviation Pierre de Saint-Roman, HerveMouneyre, Louis Petit 120 miles from shore radio transmission confirms they will land in an hour. The plane never lands. No wreckage ever found.

  19. The Great Atlantic Derby 9 months. 11 killed. “It was just at this point, when nothing was going right for anyone, that a gangly young man known as Slim flew in from the west and announced his plan to fly the ocean alone. His name was Charles Lindbergh… Ten days before he became so famous that crowds would form around any building that contained him and waiters would fight over a corncob left on his dinner plate, no one had heard of Charles Lindbergh. The New York Times had mentioned him once, in the context of the coming Atlantic flights. It had misspelled his name.”

  20. Charles Lindbergh 25 years old 6 foot 2 inches tall 128lbs Claim to (somewhat) fame? Most successful parachutes out of crashing planes. Chances of reaching Paris? “Generally presumed to be about zero.”

  21. Charles Lindbergh “Maintaining your bearings by means of dead reckoning means taking close note of compass headings, speed of travel, time elapsed since the last calculation, and any deviations… induced by drifting… Lindbergh hit all of his targets exactly… and did so while making the calculations on his lap while flying an unstable plane… All of the other flights that summer either failed, made forced landings on water, or came down without knowing where they were. He seemed to think that flying straight was the most normal things in the world. For him, in fact, it was.” One Summer by Bill Bryson

  22. School & Teenagers Before 1900? Child -> Adult Beginning in the 1920s? Child -> Teenager -> Adult

  23. Courting & Dating “The single greatest factor that led to the emergence of the independent teenager was the automobile. Teens enjoyed a freedom from parental supervision unknown to previous generations… The automobile simply shattered these old-fashioned traditions. Dating was removed from the watchful eyes of anxious parents. Teenagers were given privacy, and a sexual revolution swept America. Experimentation with sexual behaviors before marriage became increasingly common. Young Americans were now able to look beyond their own small towns at an enlarged dating pool.” http://www.ushistory.org/us/46c.asp

  24. Radio & Film Radio Film Local & National Radio Music, politics, news, entertainment. 5 cent theatres (nickelodeons) popped up across the nation Hollywood = HQ Actors could make $100,000 per film

  25. Literature

  26. Jazz & The Harlem Renaissance Literature, Politics, Music, Culture

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