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=1928 = =--just before the big stock market crash of 1929.= =The economy was booming, and America was the richest country in the world.=


 * dancer Gene Kelly was still just a a college freshman taking tap lessons from his brother
 * The Charleston was the dance craze
 * George Gershwin was the popular songwriter/composer
 * talking pictures (movies with sound) were still new.