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Big Band Leaders The Great Depression
Banned from many The Roaring Twenties ended
downtown clubs, black with the stock market crash of
artists such as Cab Calloway October 29, 1929, which set off the
starred at the Cotton Club.
Depression. New York was hard
hit: squatters’ shacks sprang up in
Central Park, and thousands were
out of work. But art flourished, as
artists toiled for the Works Projects
Administration (WPA), creating
outstanding murals and artworks
throughout the city.
Broadway Melodies
The 1920s were the heyday
of the Broadway musical,
with a record number of
plays opening.

Operators after the stock market crash of 1929

Lindbergh’s plane,
Spirit of St. Louis

Breakfast menu
Lindbergh’s Flight
New Yorkers celebrated
Lindbergh’s nonstop solo
flight across the Atlantic
in 1927 in a variety of
ways, including a
breakfast in his honor.

Rockefeller Center
Millionaire John D. Mass Event
Rockefeller drove the final Forty-five million
rivet to celebrate the people visited the
opening of Rockefeller 1939 World’s Fair
Center on May 1, 1939. in New York.

1942 Times Square blacked
1933 Prohibition ends; 1940 Queens– out during World War II;
Fiorello La Guardia begins Midtown Idlewild International
three terms as mayor Tunnel opens Airport (now JFK) opens

1935 1940 1945
1936 Parks 1944 Black
Department headed 1939 1941 US leader Adam
by Robert Moses; Rockefeller enters Clayton Powell
new parks created Center is World War II elected to
completed Congress

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