In Germany, the Great Depression contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Unemployment dropped rapidly in the United States after 1939, when factories started ramping up production of munitions and armaments. The depression had ended by 1941 when the U.S. entered World War II. The world has yet to experience another depression as devastating.
Rollin' Stone commented on changing standards of acceptable dress for women in the 1930s. One suspects that clothing which drew the ire of traditionalists in the 1930s would be quite modest by today's standards.
The introduction of new technologies continued to transform society. Automobiles became affordable for middle class Americans with the introduction of Henry Ford's Model T in 1908.
The 1920s were a time of booming industry, wealth, and excess. With the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the United States experienced the most devastating depression in its history.
In 1955, Fox retired to Vero Beach, Florida, where he played golf and watched baseball's spring training camps. He died in 1964. His epitaph reads, "I had a hunch something like this would happen."
To keep up with the times, Fox eventually converted his trolley car into a bus, as seen in this 1953 cartoon. However, the Skipper had trouble steering the new-fangled contraption around curves.
