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San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09
San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.18.09
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10 minutes
Released:
May 18, 2009
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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 ... read on ...
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 ... read on ...
Released:
May 18, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
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