John Held, Jr. Creator Of An Era

January, 1966

John Held, Jr. Creator of an Erathe satirist laureate of the twenties, he virtually invented the flapper, and soon the sheiks and shebas were actually patterning themselves on his drawingsIt Won't Be Long NowThey Were Dubbed the Roaring Twenties--a decade unmatched by any other in the annals of modern Americana as a cache of romantic folklore and unabashed, wacky nostalgia. Prohibition was the law of the land, and booze -- bootleg or bathtub-brewed -- had never been more popular or plentiful. Th...