Latest News for: 1920s

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Local theaters collaborate on 1920s-themed New Year’s Eve celebration event

The Spokesman-Review 25 Dec 2025
Collaboration is nothing new in the theater world, but “Glitz, Glam and All That Jazz” takes things to another level, bringing four area theaters together for a 1920s-themed interactive event to celebrate New Year’s Eve.
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Focal Point | Christmas lights in Watsonville in the 1920s

Santa Cruz Sentinel 20 Dec 2025
W ... Home holiday lights were only rarely seen before 1920, and early adopters embraced these lights — and learned to fear electricity less — during the 1920s ... .
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‘Indiana Jones’ moment for Fresno historians. Classic lanterns’ past discovered

Fresno Bee 20 Dec 2025
The nearly 100-year-old lanterns were discovered in a storage room inside an underpass in June ... .
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Lalannes Fever and the Global Demand for Design

New York Observer 18 Dec 2025
... estimate—justified by how the piece embodies the very quintessence of Art Deco luxury, blending Orientalist influences with 1920s French fashion and, above all, a distinctly modern feminine aesthetic.
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Built in the 1920s, is Gervais Street bridge wide enough by today’s standards?

The State 15 Dec 2025
The four-lane bridge that stretches across the river from downtown Columbia to West Columbia is dauntingly narrow. Is it wide enough? ... .
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Jeff Daniels’ new Chelsea venue and restaurant will have 1920s chandelier, art deco marquee

Michigan Live 14 Dec 2025
CHELSEA, MI — A handcrafted cherry wood door and 1920s-style chandelier are among the distinctive features in Jeff Daniels’ new music venue and restaurant in Chelsea.
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Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases review – on the hunt with Holmes in restored 1920s mysteries

The Guardian 10 Dec 2025
The British Film Institute has restored three of the short two-reel silent films in the Stoll Pictures Sherlock Holmes series from the early 1920s – and very witty, watchable and spirited entertainments they are too ... ....
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2025 Nightlife & Dining Power Index

New York Observer 10 Dec 2025
During this moment of A.I ... Consider JP and Ellia Park, who run North America’s highest-ranked restaurant, Atomix ... while also planning the expansion of Uovo to New York ... 1 ... “Having spent part of my childhood in Mexico, I’d go to Mexico City in the 1920s ... .
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Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s

The Washington Post 07 Dec 2025
The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks ... .
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Emergency drilling in Newport Beach tackles methane and oil leaks from 1920s well

Orange County Register 07 Dec 2025
Crews in Newport Beach are conducting an around-the-clock drilling operation to fix an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that leaked methane and oil into a home on the Balboa Peninsula.
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ARKANSAS A-Z: El Dorado-based Lion Oil traces history to early 1920s

NWA Online 06 Dec 2025
Lion Oil, based in El Dorado, refines and produces oil, gasoline and other oil-based products. Its products include not only fuels and asphalt but also industrial solvents and oil-based roofing products ... .
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Letter: Durwin column let ring a painful echo from the 1920s

The Berkshire Eagle 03 Dec 2025
To the editor. After reading Joe Durwin's Nov. 28 column "Lost Tales of the Shire. How a community rallied to keep child from being deported from Pittsfield in the 1920s, but failed," I found my breath taken away ....
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