Anniversary Markers (Traditional/Modern) 10th – Tin/Aluminum or Diamond Jewelry 20th – China or Platinum 90th – Stone or Engraved Marble

1920s • First commercial air travel • Lindberg & Earhart setting flying records • Stock market • prohibition • Literature: The Great Gatsby, Winnie the Pooh, Hemmingway, Virginia Wolf • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences founded and first Oscars held • Zigfield follies • Showboat • Popular Music: My Blue Heaven, Blue Skies, Stardust, Tiptoe through the Tulips, Singing in the Rain, Funny Face (Gershwin), Ravel’s Bolero, Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin), An American in Paris (Gershwin), Irving Berlin • Popular Performers: Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Al Jolson, Isadora Duncan, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Barrymores, Clara Bow, Anna May Wong, Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Greta Garbo, Harry Houdini • Art: MOMA opens in NYC with exhibition of Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, & Van Gogh; Surrealism, Precisionism, Art Deco; Picasso, Magritte & Duchamp • The Charleston (dance) • Cloche hats • Flappers • Widespread use of aluminum for furniture and other uses • The Mob and gangsters (Al Capone, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre) • Sports: Harlem Globetrotters organized, Sonja Henie ice skates, Babe Ruth, NFL founded • The Jazz Age • The Machine Age • Inventions: Radio, Jukeboxes, Kodak develops 16mm movie film, Model T Ford • Early movies: The Great Train Robbery, The Jazz Singer • Women get the right to vote • Harlem Renaissance • Architecture: Construction of Empire State Building, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gropius & Le Corbusier, Hearst Castle under construction • Comics: The Adventures of Tintin, Buck Rogers, Tarzan of the Apes, Popeye the Sailor • Mah Jong and crossword puzzles popular • King Tut’s tomb discovered • Radio shows: Amos n Andy, Grand Ole Opry, Rudy Vallee, Your Hit Parade 1930s • Air Mail service begins • Inventions: 3M markets Scotch Tape, RCA Victor- first long play phonograph record, VW Beetle introduced, Kodachrome (color film), Chocolate Chip Cookie invented, BBC starts television • FDR – fireside chats, Fala • King Edward abdicates in England and as the Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson • Movies: Snow White & the Seven Dwarves, The Little Princess, The Wizard of Oz, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, Tarzan, Charlie Chan, Hitchcock, Our Gang (Little Rascals) • Literature: The Hobbit, Comic Books – Superman & Batman, The Maltese Falcon, Agatha Christie, Steinbeck, Gone with the Wind, Little House on the Prairie • Popular Music/Musicians: Georgia on my Mind, I Got Rhythm, Night and Day, April in Paris, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Stormy Weather, Easter Parade, Blue Moon, Cole Porter, Swing music, Delta Blues, Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Glenn Miller, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Fatts Waller • Balanchine founds School of American Ballet • Anything Goes • Porgy and Bess • Golden Gate Bridge construction • Life Magazine starts publication • Sports: Baseball Hall of Fame founded, First FIFA World Cup, Lake Placid Olympics • Popular Athletes: Joe Louis, Jessie Owens, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig • Popular Performers: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rodgers, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplain, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Walt Disney, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Buster Keaton, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Orson Welles, Mae West • Popular Artists: Paul Klee, Romare Bearden, Chagall, Dali, Duchamp, Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth, Kandinsky, Frieda Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Matisse, Miro, Mondrian, O’Keefe, Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lang, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Coco Chanel • American Gothic • Comics: Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, Superman, Little Orphan Annie, Betty Boop, Blondie, Charlie Chan, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Li’l Abner, Little Lulu, Mary Worth, Nancy, The Phantom, The Shadow • Radio shows: Edgar Bergen, Burns and Allen, Captain Midnight, Fibber McGee and Molly, Green Hornety, Guiding Light, Jack Benny, Lone Ranger, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Ripley’s Believe it or Not!

Iconic books/movies/musicals set in the 1920s/30s • 42nd Street • Agatha Christie’s Marple & Poirot • Annie • Anything Goes • Auntie Mame • The Aviator • Bonnie & Clyde • Brideshead Revisited • Bullets Over Broadway • Cabaret • Chicago • Citizen Cane • Doctor Zhivago • Downton Abbey • The English Patient • Funny Lady • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes • Harlem Nights • It’s a Wonderful Life • Lawrence of Arabia • Memoirs of a Geisha • The Natural • Oh Brother Where Art Thou • Out of Africa • The Remains of the Day • Seabiscuit • Singin in the Rain • Some Like it Hot • The Sound of Music • Splendor in the Grass • Thoroughly Modern Millie • To Kill a Mockingbird • The Untouchables • Upstairs, Downstairs • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? • Where the Red Fern Grows