Peter Jennings hosted this in 1999. He would be dead six years later at the age of 67.
It starts off by discussing prohibition and the spread of electricity. People started using electricity in the cities first, then to the point where most households had electricity in their homes by the end of the decade.
It states that people used lanterns for light… it made no mention of gas lighting, which was also used, I’m just not sure what span of time its use covered.
I remember my great grandmother still had a couple of the pipes that were used for gas lighting…. I remember her talking about it. Her dad built her a house in the 1910’s gratis. He built one for all of my grandmother’s siblings..
My great grandparents lived in the house, mortgage free, until they both died in the early 2ks. I miss them so much. Life is fleeting, isn’t it?
Didn’t mean to go off course onto memory lane…
Anyway, they briefly discussed the stock market crash and how it effected people’s lives for generations..
To get a complete picture and understanding of the decade, it would take hours upon hours of study and a lot more material than this provides… But it serves nicely as a short primer..
It’s hard to believe this was just a hundred short years ago. Of course, as the mortal beings we are, we can’t possibly wrap our minds around the fact most of us alive today didn’t even exist 100 years ago.
