ALL - AMERICAN ADS OF THE 20s

Prohibition made liquor illegal and all the more fun to drink. Speakeasies,luxury cars, women`s liberation, bathtub gin and a booming economy kept thecountry`s mood on the up-and-up. Women sheared off their locks and tapedtheir chests, donning flapper dresses and dancing the Charleston untiltheir legs gave out. Gangsters flourished in big cities and gangstermovies flourished in Hollywood. It was the roaring twenties in America: asingular time in history, a lull between two world wars and the last gaspbefore the nation`s descent into the Great Depression. Forging the wayinto the future like a modern ocean liner in a sea of antiquity,advertising in the 20s sought to bring avant-garde into themainstream—which it did with great success.