great depression

June 6, 2021

I’m Watching “The Century: America’s Time – 1920-1929: Boom To Bust” on YouTube

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...

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