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I started different topics. I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out. Also, where should the womens first election to vote, and the suffering of the Agriculture industry go? 12.220.47.145 03:07, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
It's late where I live, so I need to stop. But the Red Scare, and Morality of the Roaring Twenties should be adde in. Thx. Falphin 03:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Umm, could you PLEASE paste the sites that you used for this research because I'm doing a project on the 20s and 30s in Canada.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.193.27.210 ( talk) 13:29, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm going somewhere with this... It's a start. Maybe someone can help tie it in. It's late here too.
Also, I know that Prohibition was a part of the culture, but it was also part of the cause too... Needs to be moved back up. Maybe split into three parts: Prohibition (in Causes), Speakeasies (in Culture), and 21th Amendment (under Stock Market Crash, or End of the Twenties) ℬastique▼ talk 04:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I thank you all for initiating the discussion. I feel the article should have a small beginning of few sentences, encapsulating the time and spirit of Roaring Twenties. I will try to do that and all are invited to re-edit the same as may be required. I will also try to rearrange and rephrase the sections/sub-sections, but that will be done very slowly. I will try to expand certain sections. Let us come closer to create a really remarkable article.-- Bhadani 14:43, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Kellog-Briand pact and Washington Naval treaties be included on this page?. Falphin 13:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether Bobby Jones or John Logie Baird are necessarily important here. The other four figures are critical because of the events surrounding the article:
Bobby Jones: Not sure who this is because the link leads to a disambiguation page. If he is the golfer, then he doesn't belong here, because golf as a sport does not figure into the culture of the Roaring Twenties.
John Logie Baird was the Scottish engineer who invented the television in very late 20s--which didn't enter into wide use until much later. He doesn't really figure into the article at all.
IMHO of course ℬastique▼ talk 19:12, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
boom, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.235.199.10 ( talk) 16:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
"American historical period" or "North American historical period"...is/should this article (be) only about the US or does/should it also include Canada in a significant way? ~ Dpr 20:24, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I think it makes perfect sense to split the articles into Europe and North America (i.e. make one for Europe). As it is now the article only talks about North America (excluding Mexico). As mentioned in this article there was a Golden Twenties era in Europe too. Look at the French and German interwiki articles. And Great Britain's culture certainly sparked up in that period too I suppose. As it is now, American hegemony is too big -- and the article too.-- Phlebas 14:09, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
Language like "The decade encapsulates a fascinating story" is subjective and adds no information to the article. It makes it read too much like an essay or an emotion-laden summary - should be edited out. -- Tothebarricades.tk 03:54, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
Ought Swing (really Lindy Hop) music and culture be a part of this article? — thames 15:31, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
< Jun-Dai 21:45, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)> Was the U.S. really even aware of Dietrich before the 30s? </ Jun-Dai>
OMG noobs google.com rocks eat my shorts!!!!!!!darfawegvwedcasrebytehsebdfbre rwegserdgbdf rftg bxdrhserfgdfgfb rgdfgbhdxrthge rghetgh rh fh rfgbh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.97.219 ( talk) 23:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Its not known as the 1920's in North America but the Roaring Twenties, why was this moved???? Falphin 02:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
When I first read this article this morning, I found that the neither the word "speculation" nor the word "crash" appeared in the article, which I thought was a remarkable oversight. I inserted a brief section on speculation, which was largely reverted by Will Beback, for reasons which escape me. I have restored it, and invite discussion here. -- HK 01:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I am rather puzzled by the fllowing sentence in the section 'Fashion and the changing role of women':
"In Europe, this look featured women with short hair (Bubikopf) for the first time; in the U.S., the bob was introduced by actress Louise Brooks in the late 1920s."
I do not belive this to be correct information. While Louise Brooks is renowned for her bobbed hair, so was Colleen Moore, Leatrice Joy and numerous others. While Brooks may be recalled for her bobbed hair, I do not believe she "introduced" it to the American public. Also, the bob came into vogue much earlier than the late 1920s as photographs of my grandmother and her sisters from 1922 show - they are all teenagers and all have quite severe bobbed haircuts. ExRat 20:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I changed the "request for a speedy deletion" photograph of Marlene Dietrich with one of actress Louise Brooks who I feel more accurately protrays the "ideal" look of 1920s fashion. Also, as mentioned above, while Dietrich was quite popular in the late 20's, her androgynous look became more popular in the early 1930s and not in the 1920s. ExRat 22:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
This article did not go through the current GA nomination process. Looking at the article as is, it fails on criteria 2b of the GA quality standards. No references are provided and the citation of sources is essential for verifiability. Most Good Articles use inline citations. I would recommend that this be fixed, to reexamine the article against the GA quality standards, and to submit the article through the nomination process. -- RelHistBuff 12:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)soorrrry man be al ittle nicer—Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.22.186.7 ( talk) 21:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
It's a good article, but too much concentrated on the USA. If you try searching in Google "roaring twenties Britain" or other countries there was quite a sense of roaringness elsewhere too jm—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.125.119.162 ( talk) 07:59, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
--in Europe its called the "Golden Twenties", the Roaring Twenties was only the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.52.137 ( talk) 15:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Should this page be merged with Golden Twenties? - jlao 0 4 12:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I propose to remove the image in the Overview section as it is of a terrible quality. - jlao 0 4 11:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please check this article? There are some questionable statements and vandals have been hitting article. Ronbo76 15:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I wonder why this is getting a lot of hits? Ronbo76 19:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
In first paragraph: "The era was further distinguished by several long johns and realities of far-reaching importance..." long johns? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 ( talk) 19:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
In my opinion, "roaring twenties" should not be capitalized. It is not a proper name. --Jeremy Butler 13:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I believe that it should because it is an era in our history, such as "The Great Awakening" or the "Era of Good Feelings." Do you believe they should be capitalized? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aragornrox ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm assuming that the graph shows GDP in the USA, you might want to mention it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.18.164.66 ( talk) 09:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
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"Various policies initiated by the Republican Party had a horrendous impact on the boom. The government was associated with laissez faire economics, which helped create the conditions for the boom."
So, which sentence should we kill? 124.82.6.85 ( talk) 08:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it true that there were gay clubs back in the 1920's? Can you find a source on that because I think it says something on gay clubs and how it was called pansies club and I just want to verify the source that this come from?-- 67.34.213.78 ( talk) 18:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
I just undid an edit where someone deleted the section on Canadian Politics and replaced it with the words "Who gives a damn". Although this is clearly not good enough for wikipedia, as I read what he had replaced I couldn't help but agree. I think the section should be either deleted or rewritten to reflect the impact of canadian politics on the culture of the roaring 20's and not the 20's in general. -- DarkAvenger ( talk) 08:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
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Normalcy is not a word. It is normality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.90.18 ( talk) 21:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
As per the article, it was a term coined by Warren G. Harding during his 1920 Presidential campaign and thus is appropriate.
It should also be remembered that Harding was "notorious for his verbal gaffes." Poet e.e. cummings referred to him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors." Doug O'Connell ( talk) 15:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug O'Connell ( talk • contribs)
Changed the subject heading from "Government Interventionist Economic Policies" to "Economic Policies". Also, did a slight edit to remove bias from a part that suggested that reducing the top income tax bracket to 25% was a government interventionist policy. That rate is low historically and was actually a reduction from the 77% that was in effect from 1916-1925. The section is sourced to the CATO Inst, a laissez faire oriented think tank. While the argument could made, it's not by any means a consensus. This entire section should be updated to inculde other views. Some of the other arguments that the 1920's were interventionist are suspect, particularly regarding lending and spending. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.10.2 ( talk) 21:24, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
The Cato is totally rewriting history. The twenties were a period of explicit faith in markets to achieve policy ends. Hoover's economic team urged business to volunarily work with the government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.70.112 ( talk) 02:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I added the convential view of "economic policies" as a period of cooperation between business and government and merged it with the vigorous challenge made by the Cato and other conservatives that argue that it was intrusive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.70.112 ( talk) 04:28, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I cleaned up some grammatical errors to make it more coherent. Nice job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.10.2 ( talk) 16:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I added the "Globalize" banner at the top because the scope of the article is too narrow. It is heavily focusing on the Northeast and Midwest of the U.S. with a tiny bit of coverage on Canada and the West Coast. Events in Canada and the West Coast were more significant than this makes it sound. But even more glaringly this completely neglects Texas which was one of the areas of the greatest growth and change during this time (indeed the oil boom there can be said to have substantially spurred the growth in the 20s). There were a lot of other areas as well where significant things were going on.
One other area that would be interesting to cover in this article as well is the rise of gambling empires. Remember that laws against gambling had developed in the early 1900s. During the 1920s major gambling empires arose as a result of this and Prohibition in places like Miami, New Orleans, Galveston, Hot Springs (AK), etc. These empires all greatly influenced the later development of Las Vegas (one could argue that Las Vegas would never have developed as rapidly or as lavishly as it did had these gambling empires in more established cities not created a mould for Vegas to follow later).-- Mcorazao ( talk) 21:33, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
There does need to be more, especially on London and the major capitals of Europe, all of which were very much effected by the Roaring Twenties.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.102.231.211 ( talk) 12:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
"The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, aProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0"
the sentence in the article doesn't make sense. 132.161.197.102 ( talk) 23:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Erm, not an expert on the era at all, but does anyone know what this sentence at the start of 'Economy' should say?
"The Roaring Twenties is traditionally viewed as an era of sex economic prosperity driven by the butt holes of a wide array of new penis's."
...I'm reasonably sure that isn't how it should read. "Loop holes of a wide array of new laws" and taking out the sex is my best guess, but I'm really not sure.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.114.237 ( talk) 17:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Jazz and dance music are related, as some of the roots of jazz are in dance music and some music is jazz music suitable for dancing. However, they are not the same. Some artists are jazz artists, some dance music artists and some are both.
Some artists listed in the Jazz Age section were reverted in an overly conservative later edit. Although some of the artists deleted should be listed as "dance", or more generally "popular" artists and not placed in the jazz section, the list was of very reasonable length and a well-chosen selection of the "best of the best".
The comments on radio in the beginning of the jazz section should be edited. The information on KDKA would be more appropriate as the beginning of a section on radio in the 1920s. Furthermore, the spread of jazz should be attributed also to recorded music and live performances, not just to radio. Niel Shell ( talk) 18:56, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The statistics listed in the section "Factual Errors" are incorrect. The article claims that when Harding took office, unemployment was over 20%, and yet official sources place the 1920 unemployment rate at 5.2% http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html#axzz0zdK7VyGK
Also, far from experiencing "runaway inflation", the economy was in fact experiencing a 1.24% rate of deflation. Shanbo ( talk) 21:08, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
In the introduction there is a mistake; " By the middle of the decade, prosperity was widespread. The second half of the decade becoming known as the 'Golden Twenties'." Could someone please edit this so that the last sentence is a proper sentence? For example, "By the middle of the decade, prosperity was widespread, hence the calling of the 1920's as 'The Golden Twenties' in the latter half of the decade." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.54.107 ( talk) 11:39, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
The "dance" section of this article makes note of "pole dancing" and "stripper clubs." I am reasonably certain that this is not correct, but am not sure what it *should* say, since the past month+ of history leaves this intact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.187.170.190 ( talk) 18:35, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
I tagged this article to twice because this page seems to be soaked with POV and peacock statements, e.g.: "Jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood, Art Deco peaked, and, in the wake of hyper-emotional patriotism after World War I, normalcy returned to politics." I will scan through the page and correct as needed, but I hope others assist if they can.-- Sıgehelmus (Talk) |д=) 17:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I suggest we have a long article and can skip technologies (like TV, penicillin) that were not part of the decade and use the space for items that were much more important in practice, such as radio & insulin. Rjensen ( talk) 20:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Television and penicillin were discovered in the 1920s and are among the major technological innovations of the era. Their historical impact is not that minor. I pretty much skipped television innovations of the 1930s, though we do have articles on several of them.
No objection to covering radio, though our History of radio pays more attention to developments prior to the 1920s.
I honestly overlooked insulin, as I was unaware of its historical uses. Outside Wikipedia, I have come across several books and history books covering penicillin and its uses in detail, but only found a couple of passing mentions to insulin. Then again it might be based on Alexander Fleming's celebrity status. As a 6-year-old, I had a couple of books lionizing Alexander Fleming as a science hero, right next to Louis Pasteur. His widow Amalia Fleming was a successful Greek politician and quite a celebrity in her own right, at least in my country. Dimadick ( talk) 20:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Can we add a picture collage to this article like the articles for the world wars? I think it would be a good idea for people to get a quick overview of the topic. Synesthetic ( talk) 06:22, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
For my history class we were assigned to add information to a Wikipedia article. I've chosen the "Roaring Twenties" page because I believe that the "Prohibition" section could have more information added to it. I will be basing my information from sources similar to the ones that I've referenced below. My overall goal will be attempt to improve the section a bit more. If anybody has any suggestion on reputable sources please let me know! Thanks. Histedit110m ( talk) 01:24, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Histedit110m
The "Homosexuality" section shares an unfortunate early-21st-century tendency to view the condition of sexual minorities in olden times through some very rose-colored glasses. In the US, at least, there was nothing the least bit "more acceptable" about homosexuality in the 1920s, at least not outside a few rarefied urban enclaves in the arts, and being truly "out" was risky even there. Actor William Haines, whose very unusually "out" existence (although he was certainly not "out" to the general public) is currently cited as an example of the "relative liberalism of the decade", ended up having to choose between his film career at MGM and his mate (bye-bye MGM), and thanks to some lovely upstanding neighbors in his lovely oceanside neighborhood, he was LYNCHED by a mob, although he escaped with his life. Editors too young to remember the pre-Stonewall era should be aware that being exposed as gay usually meant loss of employment, ostracism by family and friends, and even felony charges under the then-ubiquitous "crimes against nature" laws. Suicide was not an uncommon result. To Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen, "those people" were simply unspeakable sex perverts, out to molest and recruit innocent children; they were worse than murderers, and they should either be locked up or shot. That viewpoint is, or course, not entirely extinct even today, but it was ubiquitous and normal before the social revolutions of the late 1960s and 1970s. 66.81.105.142 ( talk) 15:06, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
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The Roaring Twenties was an American era completely based around American history and culture. I understand that other countries were experiencing similar things but they should have their own articles for that (and some do.) It's like randomly jamming in irrelevant information about a number of other countries in the Années folles or Golden Twenties articles. Even in those articles and in this same one in other language it is referred to as American. Those things should just be in the article about the 1920s and not this one. SMTWTFS ( talk) 18:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
This cannot be right: Woloch, Women and the American Experience: A Concise History, pp. 28–3.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 08:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The article is full of phrases based on POVs, and has a clear liberal bias. The article, for example, tries to associate Ford and his bussiness model based in efficiency with more opinative topics like the form of gonverment, regulation and culture, calling all of this “progressive”. Well, this is a eufemistic word (progressive) that the academic left considered good to be used when talking about their political views - they prefer calling it progressive. I think this should be avoided in Wikipedia, some scholars can think whatever they want, but, this encyclopedia should be neutral and non biased. And this supersedes the fact that “The editors are just copying what the scholars had published”. We have to be more selective. This article seems like pure liberal propaganda. Regulation is harmful for the economy, brings unemployment in the private sector and it’s survival is guaranteed only by bureaucrats and their supporters, they can justify their salaries and create the narrative that some area needs “some control”, but it’s good to the political establishment and the bureaucrats, not to the economy. So when we associate that with “progress” we are just lobbying for people that make money on our taxes. I think we should not “play stupid”, of course the word “progressive” is used just to associate some public policies to progress, and talk about that as we were unbiased is dishonesty. The article is absolutely biased, even if the literature is biased, some contradictory arguments can be used instead, the right to disagree, the right to the contradictory... all of this should be celebrated here, instead of totalitarian-like literature. Just to clarify, the “progressive” side as a word in political science is already greatly impregnated in the academia and the media, but we can always search for an independent path when selecting what is going to be added here, in order to collaborate with the article’s equilibrium. Sorry for the English, the misspellings that are obviously possible here at some extent, and cheers from Brazil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:D55:4:A3DC:6D64:C9B0:9726:912B ( talk) 02:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
This says the last silent film was a poverty row film in April 1930, but City Lights was released in 1931 and is a true silent. It cites reference 33, which I suppose is wrong. 2601:408:8002:69E0:CCF0:A8CD:5C5:510E ( talk) 00:03, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
In a documentary produced in 1950s, the decade was referred to as The Golden Twenties. A task would be to find when it was first called Roaring Twenties, probably The Roaring Twenties (1939) film.
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I started different topics. I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out. Also, where should the womens first election to vote, and the suffering of the Agriculture industry go? 12.220.47.145 03:07, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
It's late where I live, so I need to stop. But the Red Scare, and Morality of the Roaring Twenties should be adde in. Thx. Falphin 03:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Umm, could you PLEASE paste the sites that you used for this research because I'm doing a project on the 20s and 30s in Canada.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.193.27.210 ( talk) 13:29, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm going somewhere with this... It's a start. Maybe someone can help tie it in. It's late here too.
Also, I know that Prohibition was a part of the culture, but it was also part of the cause too... Needs to be moved back up. Maybe split into three parts: Prohibition (in Causes), Speakeasies (in Culture), and 21th Amendment (under Stock Market Crash, or End of the Twenties) ℬastique▼ talk 04:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I thank you all for initiating the discussion. I feel the article should have a small beginning of few sentences, encapsulating the time and spirit of Roaring Twenties. I will try to do that and all are invited to re-edit the same as may be required. I will also try to rearrange and rephrase the sections/sub-sections, but that will be done very slowly. I will try to expand certain sections. Let us come closer to create a really remarkable article.-- Bhadani 14:43, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Kellog-Briand pact and Washington Naval treaties be included on this page?. Falphin 13:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether Bobby Jones or John Logie Baird are necessarily important here. The other four figures are critical because of the events surrounding the article:
Bobby Jones: Not sure who this is because the link leads to a disambiguation page. If he is the golfer, then he doesn't belong here, because golf as a sport does not figure into the culture of the Roaring Twenties.
John Logie Baird was the Scottish engineer who invented the television in very late 20s--which didn't enter into wide use until much later. He doesn't really figure into the article at all.
IMHO of course ℬastique▼ talk 19:12, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
boom, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.235.199.10 ( talk) 16:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
"American historical period" or "North American historical period"...is/should this article (be) only about the US or does/should it also include Canada in a significant way? ~ Dpr 20:24, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I think it makes perfect sense to split the articles into Europe and North America (i.e. make one for Europe). As it is now the article only talks about North America (excluding Mexico). As mentioned in this article there was a Golden Twenties era in Europe too. Look at the French and German interwiki articles. And Great Britain's culture certainly sparked up in that period too I suppose. As it is now, American hegemony is too big -- and the article too.-- Phlebas 14:09, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
Language like "The decade encapsulates a fascinating story" is subjective and adds no information to the article. It makes it read too much like an essay or an emotion-laden summary - should be edited out. -- Tothebarricades.tk 03:54, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
Ought Swing (really Lindy Hop) music and culture be a part of this article? — thames 15:31, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
< Jun-Dai 21:45, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)> Was the U.S. really even aware of Dietrich before the 30s? </ Jun-Dai>
OMG noobs google.com rocks eat my shorts!!!!!!!darfawegvwedcasrebytehsebdfbre rwegserdgbdf rftg bxdrhserfgdfgfb rgdfgbhdxrthge rghetgh rh fh rfgbh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.97.219 ( talk) 23:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Its not known as the 1920's in North America but the Roaring Twenties, why was this moved???? Falphin 02:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
When I first read this article this morning, I found that the neither the word "speculation" nor the word "crash" appeared in the article, which I thought was a remarkable oversight. I inserted a brief section on speculation, which was largely reverted by Will Beback, for reasons which escape me. I have restored it, and invite discussion here. -- HK 01:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I am rather puzzled by the fllowing sentence in the section 'Fashion and the changing role of women':
"In Europe, this look featured women with short hair (Bubikopf) for the first time; in the U.S., the bob was introduced by actress Louise Brooks in the late 1920s."
I do not belive this to be correct information. While Louise Brooks is renowned for her bobbed hair, so was Colleen Moore, Leatrice Joy and numerous others. While Brooks may be recalled for her bobbed hair, I do not believe she "introduced" it to the American public. Also, the bob came into vogue much earlier than the late 1920s as photographs of my grandmother and her sisters from 1922 show - they are all teenagers and all have quite severe bobbed haircuts. ExRat 20:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I changed the "request for a speedy deletion" photograph of Marlene Dietrich with one of actress Louise Brooks who I feel more accurately protrays the "ideal" look of 1920s fashion. Also, as mentioned above, while Dietrich was quite popular in the late 20's, her androgynous look became more popular in the early 1930s and not in the 1920s. ExRat 22:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
This article did not go through the current GA nomination process. Looking at the article as is, it fails on criteria 2b of the GA quality standards. No references are provided and the citation of sources is essential for verifiability. Most Good Articles use inline citations. I would recommend that this be fixed, to reexamine the article against the GA quality standards, and to submit the article through the nomination process. -- RelHistBuff 12:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)soorrrry man be al ittle nicer—Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.22.186.7 ( talk) 21:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
It's a good article, but too much concentrated on the USA. If you try searching in Google "roaring twenties Britain" or other countries there was quite a sense of roaringness elsewhere too jm—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.125.119.162 ( talk) 07:59, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
--in Europe its called the "Golden Twenties", the Roaring Twenties was only the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.52.137 ( talk) 15:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Should this page be merged with Golden Twenties? - jlao 0 4 12:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I propose to remove the image in the Overview section as it is of a terrible quality. - jlao 0 4 11:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please check this article? There are some questionable statements and vandals have been hitting article. Ronbo76 15:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I wonder why this is getting a lot of hits? Ronbo76 19:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
In first paragraph: "The era was further distinguished by several long johns and realities of far-reaching importance..." long johns? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 ( talk) 19:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
In my opinion, "roaring twenties" should not be capitalized. It is not a proper name. --Jeremy Butler 13:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I believe that it should because it is an era in our history, such as "The Great Awakening" or the "Era of Good Feelings." Do you believe they should be capitalized? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aragornrox ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm assuming that the graph shows GDP in the USA, you might want to mention it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.18.164.66 ( talk) 09:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
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"Various policies initiated by the Republican Party had a horrendous impact on the boom. The government was associated with laissez faire economics, which helped create the conditions for the boom."
So, which sentence should we kill? 124.82.6.85 ( talk) 08:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it true that there were gay clubs back in the 1920's? Can you find a source on that because I think it says something on gay clubs and how it was called pansies club and I just want to verify the source that this come from?-- 67.34.213.78 ( talk) 18:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
I just undid an edit where someone deleted the section on Canadian Politics and replaced it with the words "Who gives a damn". Although this is clearly not good enough for wikipedia, as I read what he had replaced I couldn't help but agree. I think the section should be either deleted or rewritten to reflect the impact of canadian politics on the culture of the roaring 20's and not the 20's in general. -- DarkAvenger ( talk) 08:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
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Normalcy is not a word. It is normality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.90.18 ( talk) 21:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
As per the article, it was a term coined by Warren G. Harding during his 1920 Presidential campaign and thus is appropriate.
It should also be remembered that Harding was "notorious for his verbal gaffes." Poet e.e. cummings referred to him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors." Doug O'Connell ( talk) 15:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug O'Connell ( talk • contribs)
Changed the subject heading from "Government Interventionist Economic Policies" to "Economic Policies". Also, did a slight edit to remove bias from a part that suggested that reducing the top income tax bracket to 25% was a government interventionist policy. That rate is low historically and was actually a reduction from the 77% that was in effect from 1916-1925. The section is sourced to the CATO Inst, a laissez faire oriented think tank. While the argument could made, it's not by any means a consensus. This entire section should be updated to inculde other views. Some of the other arguments that the 1920's were interventionist are suspect, particularly regarding lending and spending. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.10.2 ( talk) 21:24, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
The Cato is totally rewriting history. The twenties were a period of explicit faith in markets to achieve policy ends. Hoover's economic team urged business to volunarily work with the government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.70.112 ( talk) 02:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I added the convential view of "economic policies" as a period of cooperation between business and government and merged it with the vigorous challenge made by the Cato and other conservatives that argue that it was intrusive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.70.112 ( talk) 04:28, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I cleaned up some grammatical errors to make it more coherent. Nice job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.10.2 ( talk) 16:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I added the "Globalize" banner at the top because the scope of the article is too narrow. It is heavily focusing on the Northeast and Midwest of the U.S. with a tiny bit of coverage on Canada and the West Coast. Events in Canada and the West Coast were more significant than this makes it sound. But even more glaringly this completely neglects Texas which was one of the areas of the greatest growth and change during this time (indeed the oil boom there can be said to have substantially spurred the growth in the 20s). There were a lot of other areas as well where significant things were going on.
One other area that would be interesting to cover in this article as well is the rise of gambling empires. Remember that laws against gambling had developed in the early 1900s. During the 1920s major gambling empires arose as a result of this and Prohibition in places like Miami, New Orleans, Galveston, Hot Springs (AK), etc. These empires all greatly influenced the later development of Las Vegas (one could argue that Las Vegas would never have developed as rapidly or as lavishly as it did had these gambling empires in more established cities not created a mould for Vegas to follow later).-- Mcorazao ( talk) 21:33, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
There does need to be more, especially on London and the major capitals of Europe, all of which were very much effected by the Roaring Twenties.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.102.231.211 ( talk) 12:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
"The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, aProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0"
the sentence in the article doesn't make sense. 132.161.197.102 ( talk) 23:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Erm, not an expert on the era at all, but does anyone know what this sentence at the start of 'Economy' should say?
"The Roaring Twenties is traditionally viewed as an era of sex economic prosperity driven by the butt holes of a wide array of new penis's."
...I'm reasonably sure that isn't how it should read. "Loop holes of a wide array of new laws" and taking out the sex is my best guess, but I'm really not sure.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.114.237 ( talk) 17:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Jazz and dance music are related, as some of the roots of jazz are in dance music and some music is jazz music suitable for dancing. However, they are not the same. Some artists are jazz artists, some dance music artists and some are both.
Some artists listed in the Jazz Age section were reverted in an overly conservative later edit. Although some of the artists deleted should be listed as "dance", or more generally "popular" artists and not placed in the jazz section, the list was of very reasonable length and a well-chosen selection of the "best of the best".
The comments on radio in the beginning of the jazz section should be edited. The information on KDKA would be more appropriate as the beginning of a section on radio in the 1920s. Furthermore, the spread of jazz should be attributed also to recorded music and live performances, not just to radio. Niel Shell ( talk) 18:56, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The statistics listed in the section "Factual Errors" are incorrect. The article claims that when Harding took office, unemployment was over 20%, and yet official sources place the 1920 unemployment rate at 5.2% http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html#axzz0zdK7VyGK
Also, far from experiencing "runaway inflation", the economy was in fact experiencing a 1.24% rate of deflation. Shanbo ( talk) 21:08, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
In the introduction there is a mistake; " By the middle of the decade, prosperity was widespread. The second half of the decade becoming known as the 'Golden Twenties'." Could someone please edit this so that the last sentence is a proper sentence? For example, "By the middle of the decade, prosperity was widespread, hence the calling of the 1920's as 'The Golden Twenties' in the latter half of the decade." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.54.107 ( talk) 11:39, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
The "dance" section of this article makes note of "pole dancing" and "stripper clubs." I am reasonably certain that this is not correct, but am not sure what it *should* say, since the past month+ of history leaves this intact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.187.170.190 ( talk) 18:35, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
I tagged this article to twice because this page seems to be soaked with POV and peacock statements, e.g.: "Jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood, Art Deco peaked, and, in the wake of hyper-emotional patriotism after World War I, normalcy returned to politics." I will scan through the page and correct as needed, but I hope others assist if they can.-- Sıgehelmus (Talk) |д=) 17:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I suggest we have a long article and can skip technologies (like TV, penicillin) that were not part of the decade and use the space for items that were much more important in practice, such as radio & insulin. Rjensen ( talk) 20:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Television and penicillin were discovered in the 1920s and are among the major technological innovations of the era. Their historical impact is not that minor. I pretty much skipped television innovations of the 1930s, though we do have articles on several of them.
No objection to covering radio, though our History of radio pays more attention to developments prior to the 1920s.
I honestly overlooked insulin, as I was unaware of its historical uses. Outside Wikipedia, I have come across several books and history books covering penicillin and its uses in detail, but only found a couple of passing mentions to insulin. Then again it might be based on Alexander Fleming's celebrity status. As a 6-year-old, I had a couple of books lionizing Alexander Fleming as a science hero, right next to Louis Pasteur. His widow Amalia Fleming was a successful Greek politician and quite a celebrity in her own right, at least in my country. Dimadick ( talk) 20:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Can we add a picture collage to this article like the articles for the world wars? I think it would be a good idea for people to get a quick overview of the topic. Synesthetic ( talk) 06:22, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
For my history class we were assigned to add information to a Wikipedia article. I've chosen the "Roaring Twenties" page because I believe that the "Prohibition" section could have more information added to it. I will be basing my information from sources similar to the ones that I've referenced below. My overall goal will be attempt to improve the section a bit more. If anybody has any suggestion on reputable sources please let me know! Thanks. Histedit110m ( talk) 01:24, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Histedit110m
The "Homosexuality" section shares an unfortunate early-21st-century tendency to view the condition of sexual minorities in olden times through some very rose-colored glasses. In the US, at least, there was nothing the least bit "more acceptable" about homosexuality in the 1920s, at least not outside a few rarefied urban enclaves in the arts, and being truly "out" was risky even there. Actor William Haines, whose very unusually "out" existence (although he was certainly not "out" to the general public) is currently cited as an example of the "relative liberalism of the decade", ended up having to choose between his film career at MGM and his mate (bye-bye MGM), and thanks to some lovely upstanding neighbors in his lovely oceanside neighborhood, he was LYNCHED by a mob, although he escaped with his life. Editors too young to remember the pre-Stonewall era should be aware that being exposed as gay usually meant loss of employment, ostracism by family and friends, and even felony charges under the then-ubiquitous "crimes against nature" laws. Suicide was not an uncommon result. To Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen, "those people" were simply unspeakable sex perverts, out to molest and recruit innocent children; they were worse than murderers, and they should either be locked up or shot. That viewpoint is, or course, not entirely extinct even today, but it was ubiquitous and normal before the social revolutions of the late 1960s and 1970s. 66.81.105.142 ( talk) 15:06, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
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The Roaring Twenties was an American era completely based around American history and culture. I understand that other countries were experiencing similar things but they should have their own articles for that (and some do.) It's like randomly jamming in irrelevant information about a number of other countries in the Années folles or Golden Twenties articles. Even in those articles and in this same one in other language it is referred to as American. Those things should just be in the article about the 1920s and not this one. SMTWTFS ( talk) 18:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
This cannot be right: Woloch, Women and the American Experience: A Concise History, pp. 28–3.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 08:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The article is full of phrases based on POVs, and has a clear liberal bias. The article, for example, tries to associate Ford and his bussiness model based in efficiency with more opinative topics like the form of gonverment, regulation and culture, calling all of this “progressive”. Well, this is a eufemistic word (progressive) that the academic left considered good to be used when talking about their political views - they prefer calling it progressive. I think this should be avoided in Wikipedia, some scholars can think whatever they want, but, this encyclopedia should be neutral and non biased. And this supersedes the fact that “The editors are just copying what the scholars had published”. We have to be more selective. This article seems like pure liberal propaganda. Regulation is harmful for the economy, brings unemployment in the private sector and it’s survival is guaranteed only by bureaucrats and their supporters, they can justify their salaries and create the narrative that some area needs “some control”, but it’s good to the political establishment and the bureaucrats, not to the economy. So when we associate that with “progress” we are just lobbying for people that make money on our taxes. I think we should not “play stupid”, of course the word “progressive” is used just to associate some public policies to progress, and talk about that as we were unbiased is dishonesty. The article is absolutely biased, even if the literature is biased, some contradictory arguments can be used instead, the right to disagree, the right to the contradictory... all of this should be celebrated here, instead of totalitarian-like literature. Just to clarify, the “progressive” side as a word in political science is already greatly impregnated in the academia and the media, but we can always search for an independent path when selecting what is going to be added here, in order to collaborate with the article’s equilibrium. Sorry for the English, the misspellings that are obviously possible here at some extent, and cheers from Brazil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:D55:4:A3DC:6D64:C9B0:9726:912B ( talk) 02:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
This says the last silent film was a poverty row film in April 1930, but City Lights was released in 1931 and is a true silent. It cites reference 33, which I suppose is wrong. 2601:408:8002:69E0:CCF0:A8CD:5C5:510E ( talk) 00:03, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
In a documentary produced in 1950s, the decade was referred to as The Golden Twenties. A task would be to find when it was first called Roaring Twenties, probably The Roaring Twenties (1939) film.