Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: “The Ghost of the Roaring Twenties”

The Ghost of the Roaring Twenties
Author: Lucile Arnold

Lucile Arnold grew up in Gladstone, now vanished into Maplewood, in the 1920s. She and her friends danced the Charleston, rode the streetcars, shopped (and worked) at the Golden Rule, talked about Babe Ruth and Nazimova and Charles Lindbergh, saw shows at the Metropolitan, walked to Phalen Park, sang “Ain’t We Got Fun?”, and attended the first Johnson High School. She, her sisters, brother, and amused father searched for the ghost lady by the graveyard on Larpenteur Avenue. Then in October 1929 the stock market crashed. “By the end of the year the dust had settled, and like the lady ghost, the Roaring Twenties slipped quietly into history.”
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