Welcome to the The Roaring 20s Giveaway Hop, hosted by The Kids Did It and The Mommy Island.
The term “Roaring 20s” sure conjures up an image, doesn’t it? A carousel of flappers and speakeasies and seemingly endless parties. The “Lost Generation” of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. The generation that came of age during World War I, the war that they thought would end all wars.
The 1920s (and 1930s) were also the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction”, the era of not just Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, but also Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner and even Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet. With the addition of Arthur Conan Doyle, who was still alive and still adding to the Sherlock Holmes canon during the 1920s, these are the giants on whose shoulders the modern mystery genre still stands.
The 1920s were years of ferment in so many ways. Looking back, it sometimes seems to have been a never-ending party, at least until the resounding crash of the stock market on October 28-29, 1929. When it all came tumbling down. Hopefully we’ll fare better with our own “Roaring 20s” in the 2020s.
What images come to your mind when you hear the phrase “Roaring 20s”? Answer in the rafflecopter for your chance at either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or a book, up to $10 in value, from the Book Depository.
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The Great Gatsby.
The charleston dance is the first thing that comes to mind for me
This first thing that comes to mind is flapper dresses.
I imagine the great relief felt worldwide at the end of WWI and the wonderful optimism of young people everywhere looking forward.
Weird hairstyles.
I think of the fashions.
their dancing, the charleston I believe it was
Women and men wearing what is now considered dress clothing all the time, also the unique clothing styles.
Honestly, nothing comes to mind when I think of the roaring 20s.
The fashion is the first thing that comes to mind for me.
I think of the gorgeous clothing in the 20s, especially the dresses!
The Great Gatsby! 🙂
The hairstyles.
I think of the Flappers.
When I think of the “Roaring 20s” I think of dancing in great halls.
I think of ladies in their flapper dresses.
The Harlem Renaissance
The clothing and flappers!
I think of the music
Flapper dresses and those hairstyles with the headbands!
When I think of the 1920s, I have an image of grainy black-and-white film showing Flappers doing the Charleston. The overriding image of the decade is frivolity. And, of course one can’t forget the Speakeasies and prohibition
I think of flappers!
I think of flappers dancing.
I think of flappers and prohibition.
Flappers dancing the Charleston. Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂
Black and white, fashion, music.
The awesome fashion!!
I think of the dancing and women wearing dresses.
I think of the flappers. Thank you
I think of the dropped waist dresses with hats plus shoes that match the purse.
The flapper dresses.
Black and white movies.
The first thing that comes to mind is Flappers!
I think of zip suits in 20’s
The fashion. The hairstyles.
flapper dresses
I think of the Great Gatsby
The clothes and the dancing come to mind! 🙂
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I think of flapper dresses.
I think of the clothes and Great Gatsby
flappers
The first thing that comes to mind are flappers.
Flapper.
But also all the old mysteries you cited–I read them all!
I think of the great depression and flapper dresses!
I think of flappers and the charleston.
I think of flappers doing the Charleston.
Women dancing in flapper dresses
I think of flapper dresses.
When I think of the Roaring 20’s I think of Jazz.
Flappers are the first thing that come to mind.
I think about the clothing they wore.
Flapper dresses and bob hairstyles.
Flapper dresses lol
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great style and hair.
Flappers.
hair style changes and clothing styles. smoking cigarettes and drinking.
I always think of the Charleston.
It just reminds me of the 1920’s fashion.
Speakeasies and the mob
The first thing that comes to my mind is a flapper in a fringy dress dancing the Charleston!
I think of the style!
When I think of the Roaring 20’s, “prosperity” comes to mind!
Flapper dresses and headbands.
Flapper dresses a short hair 🙂
The first I thought was my grandmother was a baby!
The first thing that comes to your mind when I think of the “Roaring 20s” is flappers. Thanks for the giveaway!
The flapper dresses – they were pretty cool
Flappers and the Charleston dance
I think of that good old jazz – like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five.
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I think about the fashion and music
The “Lost Generation” began its transformation of American literature.
In 1920, the “Lost Generation”—expatriate writers who lived in Europe following World War I—became a force in American literature. Among books published in 1920 were Main Street, a skewering of small-town America by Sinclair Lewis; This Side of Paradise, the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald’s first collection of short fiction. That year, Fitzgerald also introduced Maxwell Perkins, the famed editor for Scribner’s, to the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, who would go on to some success.
10. The mass media was born.
In November 1920, the first commercially-licensed radio station began broadcasting live results of the presidential election. The transmission of breaking news was new and unprecedented, and as word spread of this new medium, the “talking box” exploded in popularity. Two years later, Americans bought 100,000 radios. In 1923, they bought 500,000. By 1926, there were over 700 commercial radio stations, and virtually the entire country was covered by radio signals. As Burns writes, “No other event of 1920 would have more of an effect on the future than the birth of radio, with was in turn the birth of American mass media.”
I think of women winning the right to vote.
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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the “Roaring 20s”?
The Great Gatsby movie\book
I think of the fashions of the 20’s.
Dancing
Flappers & The Great Gatsby.
All those amazing dresses–and the parties with the fun dancing, of course!
The first thing that comes to mind for me are flapper dresses.
Flappers
Agatha Christie’s mysteries
The clothing styles and womens hairstyles comes to mind.
Flapper dresses
Flapper girls
I think of flappers.
I thin of jazz :]
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I think of the flapper dresses!
A lot of dancing is the first thing that comes to mind!
i always think of flappers and swing dancing
The Great Gatsby was the first thing that came to my mind. Thanks for the chance!
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The first thing that comes to mind is flapper dresses
Flapper dresses and purses.
I think of the fashion when I think of the 20s.
“What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the “Roaring 20s”?” Sheer dresses with elegant beading!
The jazz music
This first thing that comes to mind is flapper dresses.I love them
The dresses is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Roaring 20’s.
The Great Gatsby
The flapper dresses come to mind first for the 1920s.
I think of The Great Gatsby. Am I remembering the movie right? Was that actually set in the 20’s?
I think of their clothes. 🙂
The first thing that comes to mind is the finger waves. I am a hairdresser and always notice hairstyles first.
I think of how elegant the women were and the flapper dresses.
The fashion and the dancing.
Flapper dresses are the 1st thing that come to my mind when I think of the roaring 20’s!
I think of the clothes.
Fabulous fashions, make up and style.
For me prohibition comes to mind.
The fashion mostly. The hats, hairstyles, dresses and men wearing suits.
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I think of the fashion in the 1920s
The fashion is what I think of. I loved the flapper hats.
I think of flappers and the charleston dance.
speakeasys
I associate flappers with the “Roaring 20s”.
I think of flappers and jazz music.
The Flapper costume I wore in 8th grade for Halloween. The dress had been my Nana’s.
i envision flapper dresses
the flapper dresses and hats
definitely the fasion!
Downton Abbey! The gorgeous dresses & short hair! 🙂
I usually imagine the pretty flapper dresses.
When I think of the Roaring 20s- I picture flappers and speakeasys. I guess it was a wild time.
Flippers & music
I think of jazz music and prohibition.
I think of ladies in flapper dresses and bobbed hair.
all the cool cars of that era
I think of the fashion first.
I think of the dancing and outfits.
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When I think of the 20s it makes me think of show girls.
All the pretty dresses.
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Flappers and bathtub gin.
The first thing I think of is jazz music.
I think of flappers.
“Won’t you Charleston with me”
Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis
I think of flappers.
Flapper girls in their fancy dresses with their Bob haircuts long strings of pearls and feather headbands
I think of the word “flappers” when I think of the roaring 20’s. My mother and father were born in 1925.
I think of my grandma showing us how she used to dance the Charleston.
I think of the fashions first.
I think of bootleggers and flappers!
The Lindberg Kidnapping comes to mind.
The awesome clothing designs.
Definitely Flapper Dresses!