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Join us for a trip back in time to the year 1922, the year Gledhill Nursery
was founded...
It is the time of The Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties...
The United States is in the Prohibition era.
Warren G. Harding is president of the United States (vice president: Calvin
Coolidge).
Rebecca L. Fulton becomes the first woman Senator.
Lillian Gatlin becomes the first woman to fly across the continent.
Skywriting first appears in America, introduced by Britain’s Jack Savage.
Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
The highest temperature ever to be measured on Earth is recorded in Libya: 136 degrees
Farenheit (58 degrees Celsius) in the shade.
Construction of the Appalachian Trail begins.
$100 in 1922 is worth $986.90 in 1999.
Population:
 | Estimated United States population (according to U.S. Census Bureau):
1922: 110,049,000
1999: 273,631,799 |
| Estimated world population:
1922: 1,900,000,000
1999: 6,015,293,830 |
Technology:
| Charles Francis Jenkins (inventor) makes the first laboratory transmission of a television picture signal. |
| The first commercial is broadcast, charging $100 for 10 minutes airtime.
Ads for Palmolive soap, Lucky Strike cigarettes, Gold Medal Flour, etc.
follow. |
| Connecticut's first radio station, WDRC, begins broadcasting. |
Some movies released in 1922:
| Nosferatu (starring Max Schreck) |
| Robin Hood (Douglas Fairbanks) |
| Oliver Twist (Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney) |
| Blood And Sand (Rudolph Valentino, Lita Lee, and Nita Naldi) |
| Flesh And Blood (Lon Chaney) |
| The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) |
| Moran Of The Lady Letty (Rudolph Valentino, May McAvoy, and William Long) |
| The Man From Beyond (Harry Houdini, Nita Naldi) |
| Quincy Adams Sawyer (John Bowers, Blanche Sweet, Lon Chaney) |
| The Toll of the Sea (A two-color process is introduced by Technicolor;
starring Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley) |
| Tess of the Storm Country (Mary Pickford) |
| Orphans of the Storm (Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish) |
| Dr. Jack (Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince) |
| Smilin' Through (Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond) |
| One Exciting Night (Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Porter Strong) |
| Foolish Wives (Rudolph Christian, Miss DuPont, Maude George) |
| Manslaughter (Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson) |
| Nanook of the North (the first documentary, starring Nanook) |
| The Toll of the Sea (A two-color process is introduced by Technicolor;
starring Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley) |
| Daydreams (Buster Keaton, Renie Adorie, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Edward F.
Cline) |
| The Sawmill (Larry Semon) |
| The Dome Doctor (Larry Semon) |
| Working Winnie (Ethlyn Gibson) |
| The Return Of Grey Wolf (James Pierce) |
| Rounding Up The Law (Big Boy Williams) |
| Human Hearts (House Peters, Russell Simpson, and Gertrude Clark) |
| Down To The Sea In Ships (Clara Bow) |
The first 3-D movie is released, using red/green lens glasses.
Some people born in 1922:
| Charles Schulz ('Peanuts' comic strip/cartoon creator) |
| Sid Caesar (comic actor and TV pioneer) |
| Jason Robards (actor) |
| Ava Gardner (actor) |
| Judy Garland (actor) |
Some people who died in 1922:
| Alexander Graham Bell |
| William Desmond Taylor (an unsolved murder of a top Paramount film director in early Hollywood) |
Music/dance:
| The Charleston dance (this is one of the Gledhill Nursery webmaster's
favorite activities!) becomes popular after being danced on Broadway. |
| New Orleans Rhythm Kings (Dixieland jazz) is formed. |
| Fats Waller (jazz pianist) releases his first record, Muscle Shoals Blues. |
Literature:
| James Joyce publishes Ulysses. |
| T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land. |
| Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbitt. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes Tales of the Jazz Age. |
| Emily Post publishes her first book on etiquette, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at
Home. |
| Reader's Digest is first published in New York City. |
| Booth Tarkington wins the Pulitzer Prize for Alice Adams. |
Sports:
| Giants beat Yankees in World Series, 4-0. |
| Babe Ruth is suspended for one game for throwing dirt on an umpire. |
| Canton Bulldogs are the #1 standing team in NFL (Super Bowl I is still 45
years away). |
| Johnny Weismuller becomes the first human to swim 100 meters in under one
minute. |
| Boxing champions: William Bryan Downey, Dave Rosenberg, Jock Malone, and
Mike O'Dowd (middleweights); Battling Siki (light heavyweight). |
World news:
| Southern Ireland becomes the Irish Free State. |
| Republic of Turkey is established. |
| Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) is formed by Vladimir Lenin. |
| Benito Mussolini becomes the premier of Italy. |
| Mahatma Ghandi begins a 6-year prison sentence for leading the
Indian National Congress after 22 died in riots. |
| Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamen. |
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