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1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald^ wrote in Echoes of the Jazz Age:
It ended two years ago, because the utter confidence which was its essential prop received an enormous jolt, and it didn`t take long for the flimsy structure to settle earthward. And after two years the Jazz Age seems as far away as the days before the War. It was borrowed time anyhow — the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of grand ducs and the casualness of chorus girls. But moralizing is easy now and it was pleasant to be in one`s twenties in such a certain and unworried time.
Life in the 1920s
- For the first time, more people lived in cities than in the country
- High increase of inventions and in the availability of birth control
- People were spending money they didn't have on house appliances and clothes. America became a consumerist society in the 1920s.
- The first commercial radio hit the airwaves in 1920 and by the end of the decade more than 12 million households owned a radio
- The automobile was an affordable luxury for people and only cost $260 in 1924, and was also available on credit.
- As a result, service stations, motels, mechanics were being built and generating jobs