No doubt you can find contemporary journalists saying "wasteful in this depression!" if you look. And probably others saying "wasteful!" in every decade... how can we tell whether this was the reason?
I know stunts with WWI surplus airplanes were a common attraction in the 20s, maybe trains just started to seem old-fashioned?
Movies also sounds likely, to me, they were coming of age. In fact IIRC booming, as cheap entertainment.
I know stunts with WWI surplus airplanes were a common attraction in the 20s, maybe trains just started to seem old-fashioned?
Movies also sounds likely, to me, they were coming of age. In fact IIRC booming, as cheap entertainment.