In trying times like the ones we’re living through, escaping into the past now and then can keep a person sane, and there is no better past than the Jazz Age – the fabulous Jazz Age, that is. We will not be visiting the 1920s and 1930s of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the racism, race riots and Ku Klux Klan, the rise of fascism, and all the other persistent ills of the era.
We just need to have a little fun in this, the Second Coming of the Roaring Twenties.
Kathryn Sailor is the Jazz Age Junkie
She lives in San Francisco, California, where the Jazz Age is still alive and well more than 100 years since it first began to change the world. She is the author of two historical Jazz Age novels soon to be published.
She can be reached at JazzAgeJunkie@gmail.com
Buster Keaton,
Jazz Age Canine
Buster Keaton, the naughtiest dog in San Francisco, has embraced the Jazz Age by living the scofflaw lifestyle, taking his cues from Asta, another San Francisco wire fox terrier made famous for wreaking havoc in the lives of Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man book and movies.
Sometimes referred to as Sir Barksalot or the Prince of Barkness, Buster is somehow able to thumb his nose at authority even without thumbs. Four trainers and thousands of dollars wasted on obedience training, and Buster is no closer to canine compliance than he was the day he jumped into the arms of the Jazz Age Junkie as an eight-week-old puppy.
But the dog’s got style, and he knows it!
He can be reached at JazzAgeBusterKeaton@gmail.com
Asta makes his entrance in The Thin Man (1934)