1923

Post-war jazz era

1923 refers to a specific calendar year, but in contemporary usage often appears as a cultural reference point.

The year marks the height of the Jazz Age and Prohibition-era America.

More recently, it's recognized as the title of a Paramount+ television series set in that year, a prequel to *Yellowstone*: Have you watched 1923 yet?

jazz

flappers

1920s modern young women

bootleggers · Louis Armstrong · Duke Ellington · Bessie Smith · ragtime · Harlem Renaissance · Ziegfeld Follies · phonograph · radio · dance halls

historical

Roaring Twenties

Prosperous 1920s era

Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding · hyperinflation · Weimar Republic · League of Nations · silent film · Time magazine · Yankee Stadium · Wembley Stadium · Walt Disney

literature

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American Dream · wealth · decadence · nostalgia · opulence · old money · new money · Long Island · West Egg · socialites

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temporal distance

19232023

Calendar year recently passed

antiquity · 2024 · 3000 · the present · today

ECONOMIC ERA (Pre-Depression Prosperity vs. Economic Collapse)

19231932

Early thirties date

1929 · 1930 · 1931 · Black Tuesday · economic collapse

POLITICAL STABILITY (Interwar Period vs. World War Years)

19231939

Year preceding global conflict

1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944

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