With all this talk of the ‘Roaring 2020s’, how do the third decades of each century compare so far?
Spanish flu pandemic February 1918-April 1920. It didn’t actually start in Spain, but due to Spain’s neutrality in WWI their press wasn’t censored and it was first reported there.
Prohibition legislates in the US against the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920-1933. Result: speakeasies.
Coronavirus pandemic starts spreading widely in March 2020. The true facts about the virus are reported accurately by people on social media.
Lockdown legislates against the purchase of alcoholic beverages from pubs, even as takeaways. Result: a different kind of speakeasy.
Mickey Mouse is created in Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1928. The goal of the character is to be a fun guy who gets up to amusing adventures.
Henry Ford introduces the Ford Model A in 1927 at $385, so that “no man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces”.
Disney announces new Mickey Mouse Funhouse series in 2021: “The goal of the series is to demonstrate imaginative play for children and encourage age-appropriate themes like social and emotional lessons about friendship and creativity”.
Elon Musk introduces the Tesla Cybertruck in 2022 at $70,000, with bulletproof windows that cannot be smashed with a sledgehammer.
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