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3 unusual facts about Roaring Twenties


Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Lila Lee

As the Roaring Twenties drew to a close, Lee's popularity began to wane and Lee positioned herself for the transition to talkies.

Peaches Browning

The story became one of the most sensational "scandals" of the Roaring Twenties.


Divorce Me, Darling!

Set ten years after the events depicted in Wilson's much better known The Boy Friend, it is a pastiche of 1930s musicals (in particular those of Cole Porter) rather than the "Roaring Twenties" shows (mostly early Rodgers and Hart) that inspired the earlier show.

Karen Abbott

She has written Sin in the Second City, which tells the true story of the Everleigh Club brothel and the nation-wide battle to shut it down, and American Rose, about stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee and American culture during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression.

Rock Lodge Club

Around 1919, Himmelwright built a bungalow (clubhouse), when the property was being used as a training camp for boxers—during the Roaring Twenties the property was a training camp for Jack Dempsey and other boxers.


see also

Return to Babylon

Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.