The "March of Time" newsreel....

 

1900

 

Casey Jones and the Cannonball Express

76 million Americans

"In the Good Old Summertime"

Dow: 1/2/00: 68.13

President McKinley assassinated

Coal miner's strike

"You're a Grand Old Flag"

Edison and his 'talking' machine

 

1910

 

Ragtime!

The sinking of the Titanic

Birth control

Model T

"Over There"

Dow: 8/2/14 :81.11

Women's suffrage

The War to end all wars.

 

1920

 

ABC radio network

105 million Americans

"Speakeasies"

Al Capone

Bath tub gin

The flapper

The Charleston

The Lindbergh Flight

Babbitt

Bonnie & Clyde

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Jazz Age

"The Great Gatsby"

Dow: 9/3/29: 381.17

Dow: 10/29/29: 230.7 (the crash)

Dow: 11/1/29: -9.00

 

1930

 

"Buddy, can you spare a dime?"

Dow: 4/15/32 :34.49

F. D. R's New Deal

25% of households on welfare

750,000 farms foreclosed

The Grapes of Wrath

The Drought

Orson Welles' "Invasion from Mars" Unemployment- 20%

Hitler

 

 

1940

 

The Greatest Generation

132 million Americans

Dorsey Brothers & Glenn Miller

Big Band

Schlindler's List

Pearl Harbor

Saving Private Ryan

The Atomic Bomb on Japan

Dow: 7/15/43: 144.87

Stalin

Patti Page and Old Cape Cod

Fibber McGee and Molly

The G.I. Bill

A Sentimental Journey

Boagie and Bacall

McCarthyism

 

1950

 

Old Soldier's Never Die!

Beatnik

151 million Americans

 Korea

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

I like Ike

Ozzie and Harriet's suburbs

Roswell

Sputnik

Bomb Shelters

Drive-in movies

Polio

Plastic

Mother's Little Yellow Pill

"Rock Around the Clock"

"Rollover Beethoven"

The day the music died

Elvis and James Dean

Marilyn Monroe

"Catcher in the Rye"

ABC-TV

Dow: 6/10/55:437.72

"Peyton Place"

 

1960

 

The Chairman of the Board

180 million Americans

The Twist

 Johnny Carson

 Cuban Missle Crisis

Civil Rights

Dow:ll/22/63:711.49

JFK dead at 1 pm CST

Camelot:Dealy Plaza

Rush to Judgment

Good Morning Vietnam!

The Green Beret

Good Vibrations/Strawberry Fields Forever

 Haight Ashbury

"I have a dream!"

"I dream of things that never were

and ask why not?"

LSD/ Mary Jane

Hippie

Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Age of Aquarius

Dow: 6/7/68: 914.88

Silent Spring/ Population Bomb

The Feminine Mystique

"One Giant Step for Mankind."

Woodstock

Charles Manson

(Sympathy for the Devil)

 

1970

 

Future Shock

200 million Americans

"Jesus Christ Superstar"

Chairman Mao

The Weatherman & the Black Panthers

Archie Bunker

Roe v. Wade

Dow:8/6/73:912.78

Rocky Mountain High

Studio 54: Disco

Saturday Night Live

"American Graffiti"

Spirit of America

Stagflation

Dow: 8/14/76:990.19

Deep Throat

Watergate

Nixon's Resignation

Pet Rock

Star Wars (the movie)

Hard Hat

Women's Liberation

 

1980

 

Yoko Loses her Walrus

227 million Americans

AIDS

Big Chill

Greed is Good

Lean & Mean

Downsizing

Outsourcing

Reagenomics

Star Wars (the weapon)

Challenger Blows up

Moral Majority

The Material Girl

The Boss

Heavy Metal

 The militia movement

Yoda/ R2-D2

Punk

ABC Presents:

 "The Shooting of the President."

 Microwave ovens

Farm Crisis 1

The stock market crash

Dow: 10/16/87: 2246.74

Dow: 10/19/87: 1738.74

Kokomo

Cabbage Patch Doll

Postmodernism

Global Information Society

MTV/VH-1

 

1990

 

249 million Americans

Desert Storm

NAFTA

"A Way Out, Not a Way of Life."

Waco

"Oh Well, Whatever, Never mind"

Oklahoma City Bombing

OJ & DNA

JonBennett

Forrest Gump

Human Cock Fights/Cable Porn

Sex Chat/Internet Addiction

Farm Crisis 2

ABC.COM

IOWA.COM

Drive By Killings

Road Rage

The People's Princess

(Candle in the Wind)

The______Shootings

(Fill in the blank)

e-mail

Monica's Story: The Impeachment

Bonfires of Woodstock 99'

The Titanic (the movie)

Dow: 10/11/90/2365.10

Dow: 1/20/93  3241.95

Dow: 1/10/96  5032.94

Dow: 7/16/98 9,300

Dow: 9/28/99 10,275.53

 

275 million Americans

 

Y2K*

 

"Rich in goods, yet ragged in spirit" R.M. Nixon

 

Good bye Beaver Cleaver, Adlai & Ike,

Sgt. Pepper's Endless Summer, and Generations lost in space.

Bye,Bye Miss American Pie

Follow Every Rainbow,

Until You Find Your Dream

 

*(Watch New Zealand then New York City)

 

EPILOGUE: A Little Boy Salutes the Nation

(Image slows to a "Freeze Frame" and

gently fades.....no music)

 

Joel C. Snell (Special thanks to Gary Botos, Research Librarian at Kirkwood Community College)