AVENUE Magazine September 2013

Page 208

Hot Spots and Entertainment

The Object of a

Proposit

Writer Cajsa Lilliehook Photographer Eve Kazan Graphic Designer Leah McCullough

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t was the 1920s. The world had come out of a devastating war that decimated a generation and survived the worst global pandemic in human history. People felt lucky to be alive. Their desire to kick off their heels, dance and celebrate was unstoppable, even by the ill-advised, unpopular Volstead Act that launched Prohibition and created a nation of scofflaws. Speakeasies and jazz clubs proliferated, infused with a new, rebellious music, more explicit, more demanding and more outrageous than anything before.


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