Entertainers

Sometimes you just have to let loose and dance...and that's just what they did in the Roaring 1920's. After World War I and just before The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, people just wanted to have fun. Perky and energetic, you couldn't stay still when you saw this and that's still true. Watch the black bottom dance being performed to the tune "Varsity Drag"!

Music makes our hearts soar, brings us joy when we're depressed, puts a twinkle in our eyes, makes us dance - and singing is a good workout for our lungs! Music is the soundtrack of our lives. Have you ever heard a song and it takes you back in time to the first time that you heard it? You know where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. Checkout this musical photo collection of entertainers from the past. Do you remember the first time you heard them?

There are jeers from people who object to the use of animals, and cheers from people who remember the circuses of their youth - but however you feel about circuses, "the greatest show on earth" has been a part of our lives for a very long time. See some of the faces and experience what the circus was like back in time.

It's the nature of life that people close to us eventually pass. The hardest deaths are those of family and close friends. But sometimes the death of people we never even met are also difficult. It's often hard to say goodbye to our favorite celebrities, singers and actors, and other entertainers who impacted our lives over the years. Whether it is listening to your favorite song or watching the same actors and actresses throughout the years over and over again, these entertainers end up having a special place in our lives. No matter how long they are gone from us, entertainers will always be a part of our lives because of the enduring nature of movies, television, and music. These are photos of some of these beloved entertainers from our past. Do you remember them? Do they still entertain you, even today? Are there others that you want to add?

Warren Beatty's movie "Rules Don't Apply" is a fictional story about Howard Hughes in the 1950's. Checkout this real live footage compiled of photos of Hughes before that starting in the 1920's through the 1940's.

The Boy Scouts, Civil War units, all girls bands, fiddlers, and Army and Post Office bands - even a band from the 1900's which included guns. Checkout this collection of historic musical bands and musical family photos from the 20th century.

From skimpy costumes to being covered head to toe, dancers in the first half of the 20th century were a diverse lot. The women dancers of the early 1900's began to change the form of dance and the way people viewed women in general. These are photos of those diverse, independent dancers and their impact on society and thinking in the early 20th century.