Roaring 20s Research Article from History Firsthand

This Study Guide consists of approximately 199 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Roaring 20s.

Roaring 20s Research Article from History Firsthand

This Study Guide consists of approximately 199 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Roaring 20s.
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Going to the movies and imitating the appearance of movies stars was just one trend in a decade when people went crazy for fads. With the economy humming along at a brisk pace, Americans seemed almost desperate to entertain themselves in novel ways. In 1924 a movie stuntman named Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly climbed atop a flagpole for more than thirteen hours in Los Angeles, and started a nationwide fad. In the months that followed Kelly's stunt, one man sat high atop a flagpole in Denver for twelve days. Another broke that record and lasted twenty-one days on a flagpole in Los Angeles. Kelly finally set the world record in 1929 by staying aloft for forty-nine days on a flagpole in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where over twenty thousand people came to watch some portion of the event.

Those who bored easily watching a man sit on top of...

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