This was the first time in which ordinary working and middle-class people knew about the existence of the stock market and invested in it. Millions of people put their savings into stocks.
One of the high-flyers was "Radio" (Radio Corporation of America) going from about $15 in 1927 to a peak of $114 in 1929, to ; after the stock market crash it sank to less than $3 a share in 1933.
Despite prohibition, people went to illegal "speakeasies" to drink, financing an underworld and making celebrities of gangsters like [[Al Capone]]. It was a period of licentiousness. Young women called "flappers" wore short skirts and danced in ways that showed off their bodies. This was a time, when automobiles became common, and couples could get in a car, escape from parents, and park in dark locations.