My grandmother, Alma, was born and grew up in Rock Rapids, Iowa. She met and married Ray E. Stubbs in North Dakota and they had 5 children together, the youngest was my mother. She died of TB at 41 years of age, in 1928, in the Olive View Sanitarium in Sylmar, CA, which was destroyed by the 1971 Newhall earthquake.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1920s Changed Our Daily Lives & Not How You Might Think . . .
In the 1920's life changed drastically for the average American and for people all over the world. Airplanes began to be a mode of transportation and communication. Automobiles, rather than horses, ...