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Published
November 27, 2013
A Look Back: Here’s an Old Ad from the Roaring 20s
Take a look back at the Roaring 20s with this old ad from the Washington Post on August 5th, 1928. See the imagery and get a sense of what life was like in the 1920s.
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Here’s an old ad from the roaring 20s.
Washington Post – August 5th,
1928
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