Everything about Gay Nineties totally explained
Gay Nineties is an
American term that refers to the decade of the
1890s.
The decade was a period of extremely exceptional economic expansion, and, in particular, of rapid wealth gains in
New York City and
Boston. The American empire of trade was at one of its zeniths, and cities were growing rapidly. While the same decade saw an
explosion of
immigration to the United States from less economically prosperous lands, and consequently no gaiety for the
working classes, it was a period of vast wealth for a newly emergent "society set". The railroads, the agricultural depression of the
Southern United States, and the dominance of the United States in
South American markets and the
Caribbean meant that industrialists of
New England were doing very well.
The term itself began to be used in the 1920s and is believed to have been created by the artist Richard V. Culter, who first released a series of drawings in
Life magazine entitled "the Gay Nineties" and later published a book of drawings with the same name. The high life of the "old money" families was well documented in the novels of, for example,
Edith Wharton.
It was also the name of a nostalgic radio program in the 1930s, hosted by a prominent composer of popular songs of the 1890s,
Joe Howard.
The phrase has nothing to do with the term "gay" to refer to homosexuality, a usage that long postdates the phrase.
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