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Relics Of the 1920s

St. Petersburg, Florida

Floridian Social Club

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

New Port Richey, Florida

Hacienda Hotel

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

The first English edition, published in 1975, with illustrations by Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte.

The Hoax Book That Became an Anarchist and Hippie Bible

'The Papalagi'—supposedly written by a Samoan chief in 1920—offered a societal critique, but carried on a problematic racial trope.

Jordan Todorov September 8, 2020

Meet the Jackson Town Council of 1920-23, aka the "petticoat rulers": (from left) Mae Deloney, Rose Crabtree, Mayor Grace Miller, Faustina Haight, Genevieve Van Vleck.

Remembering When Women Ruled a Wild West Town

In 1920 the "bad-man rendezvous" of Jackson, Wyoming, elected an all-female government. Will it be another hundred years till that happens again?

Amelia Mularz June 5, 2020

An image from the 1931 cookbook <em>Recipes The Modern Pabst-ett Way</em>.

When the Government Banned PBR, Pabst Made Cheese Instead

Selling dairy products helped the brewery survive Prohibition.

Mark Hay April 7, 2020

The interior of the hotel.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Biltmore

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

Puente de Sant Jordi (San Jorge Bridge)

If you like Art Deco you will love this bridge.

A man in the Muscatine shell-soaking room, about 1915.

A Sift Through the Remnants of Iowa's Forgotten Fashion Scene

For decades, the Mississippi River town of Muscatine was the pearl-button capital of the world.

Harrison Cook September 11, 2019

Fourteen great songs, one iconic shirt.

The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt

The aloha shirt has many possible inventors and a long, fraught cultural history.

Sabrina Imbler August 20, 2019

A crowd of swimmers and sunbathers on Lincoln Beach in the 1920s.

The Hidden History of a Missouri State Park

Century-old traces of a bygone resort are starting to surface at Castlewood.

Evan Nicole Brown July 29, 2019

The wrecks are visible from drones too.

The Short Life and Strange Death of Maryland's Ghost Fleet

The long-languishing ships of Mallows Bay are getting a second life as a National Marine Sanctuary.

Jessica Leigh Hester July 16, 2019

Loop-the-Loop named themselves after the popular Coney Island coaster.

amusement parks

The Singular Queerness of Old Coney Island

Drag kings, queer burlesque, and bathhouses abounded.

Sabrina Imbler June 28, 2019

Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves on the Bradshaw Trail in 1930.

These Adventurous Women Photographed the California Desert in the 1920s

We almost lost their work forever.

Winnie Lee May 21, 2019

Donofrio's pamphlets spun a fake legend to promote their candy.

How a Candy Craze Almost Wiped Out the Barrel Cactus

Fake legends and Southwest imagery sold crystalized cactus to Americans.

Tal McThenia April 26, 2019