Source: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Possibly The Greatest Speech Ever Made
“The Gold Rush” 1925 (silent film)
This car expert loves old Fords and rebuilds all the classics (photos)
Flappers In Focus
Source: Flappers In Focus
Yale University Library
Source: Yale University Library
Radio in the Roaring 1920’s
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Silent Movies didn’t start talking until 1927 when Warner Bros. released “The Jazz Singer.” The film ran 89 minutes and grossed almost four million in the U.S. and another three million worldwide.
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Radio, on the other hand, had been going strong for years. By 1923, some three million Americans owned radios, although most of them were crystal sets with earphones. Programming was mostly: baseball, news, music, and advertising.
Crystal Sets
Music
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Tube Radio 
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In 1922, President Harding became the first President to be heard on radio. It was not a political message but a dedication to the composer of the “Star Spangled Banner” Francis Scot Key. The first political message came three years later from President Coolidge.
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In 1927 radios started appearing in cars
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The Marconi Transmitting Station, Marin County California
In 1914, the stations in Bolinas (transmitting) and Marshall (receiving) could receive messages from New Jersey and retransmit them to Hawaii.
The novel Midnight Run 1932 fictitiously uses this facility in its bootlegging activities.
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And last but not least,
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Al Capone’s 1928 Cadillac was equipped with a police band receiver.
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