![]() ![]() The Great War was over and (most of) the Western world had never been so prosperous! And this prosperity means it's time to par- tay! And after four years of trench warfare and a flu pandemic that had killed around 100 million people, most everybody needed cheering up. The setting of many an Agatha Christie mystery, this is one era that absolutely lives up to the stereotypes and then some. When coffee and movie tickets cost a dime, trolley rides cost a nickel (the same as hot dogs or hamburgers), newspapers cost two cents, and sliced bread was considered the greatest invention ever. A dizzy, giddy time of petting parties, bootleg gin, jazz, and flappers. ![]() "The era of wonderful nonsense", as the newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler later termed it.
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