And the music was great too!
Hey Dan, maybe you know and maybe not, look up Leo Reisman on youtube and listen to some of his music from the late 20s and 30s. 1928 original Puttin on the Ritz was his recording. He was swinging and jazzing before Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. He was called the King of Sweet and a gal back then who was big was Annette Hanshaw.
I've CDs of both....try to find an original photo or one even signed by Hanshaw, if you do, it will be in the high hundreds!!! Great music back then....IMO!!!
And I think it was Leo Reisman, after hearing about Henry Ford complaining about the harmful effect of modern music on morality, commented that nothing had lowered morality more than Ford's popularization of the automobile.