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On the date

Friday, December 20, 1929

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile

The December wind bites through my wool coat as I frame a real sheba draped in heavy fox fur, her face hidden behind those new Foster Grant sunglasses despite the gray Park Avenue sky. I track a sleek sedan humming with the low vibration of a car radio, its tires clicking over the slick pavement just blocks from where the sirens wailed for poor DeWitt Wells. My frozen fingers fumble with the shutter, competing with a street urchin rattling a Duncan Yo-Yo made of cold, hard maple against his corduroy knickers. Nearby, a technician hauls a thick coil of coaxial cable through the slush, the heavy rubber insulation smelling of wet soot and industrial progress.

Memories from that day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Singin' in the Rain

Nacio Herb Brown

The must-have

Duncan Yo-Yo

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1929

  • Wall Street Lays an Egg

Tech Check

Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Meanwhile

  • The Great DepressionGDP fell 30%; triggered by Black Tuesday (1929-10-29).

Time Elapsed

35,231 days ago

(96 years, 191 days)