Chapter 6 - Good Times and Hard Times in TN: Lesson 1 - The 1920's
Tennessee Through Time; The Later Years, pub. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 2008
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- ragtime
- a style of American music popular from 1890 to 1915
- nickelodeon
- the first movie theaters; admission was 5 cents
- Clarence Saunders
- Changed the way people in America shopped by opening a self-service grocery store in Memphis, TN called "Piggly Wiggly"
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean; is plane was named the Spirit of St.Louis
- Thomas Edison
- American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, and motion pictures.
- W. C. Handy
- Known as the "Father of the Blues"; his voice was the first sound heard across radio waves in Tennessee.
- phonograph
- a machine that recorded and played sounds on cylinders
- Robert Neyland
- UT football coach for 27 years; his assignment was to Vanderbilt's football team. He served many years in the military.
- Bessie Smith
- famous Blues singer of the 1920s.
- James D. Vaughn
- Owner of the first radio station in TN, WOAN in Lawrenceburg.
- Edward Crump
- A candidate for mayor Memphis in the 1920's; hired W. C. Handy to play at some of his campaign events.
- blues
- a type of music created by American blacks.
- navigation
- to steer an aircraft (airplane) or ship (boat)
- gramophone
- an early record player.