San Francisco history timecapsule podcast 05.18.09 - Flappers in the newspapers - a podcast by Richard Miller

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: 1922: Flappers in the newspapers


May 19, 1922
Flappers

Right off the bat I have to admit the fact that -- to paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck -- what I don't know about San Francisco in the 1920s is a lot.

I did know that all sorts of great Prohibition and gangster stuff must have gone on, though, so I started leafing through a couple of 1922 editions of the Chronicle looking for stories.

And was immediately distracted by the flappers.

You know, flappers.

Louise Brooks, Josephine Baker, Zelda Fitzgerald ...

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