Street sign in a small city reads 'Main Street'. Cars drive along a wide street. Men confer on sidewalk outside a building. Many cars are parked along the curb. Man with a package "jay walks" across a street causing difficulty for drivers who must avoid him. He, in turn, rails at the drivers. Pedestrians on sidewalk look over unpaved roadway. Man, on upper porch of a building, looks out over cars driving on the street below. A woman cleans window of Hotel upon which "Hotel Dayton, Under New Management," is painted (presumably in Dayton, Ohio).
Local members of optimist club, in small city, pose on steps of a building for photograph. Two photographers click pictures. An octagonal sign reads 'Optimist International'. People sit at tables in a hall.
Automobiles driving along a street in small U.S. city in the 1920s. People coming and going in and around shops along a sidewalk. Two women walking outside a shot while one of them eat an ice cream cone. A woman exits a shop with packages of things she bought. Men gathered out side a shop tip their hats to one another. Numerous 1920s cars are seen in a parking area at center of a street and parked along the sides as well. A motorcar enters the garage of a service station, where an attendant refuels it with gasoline. Several cars are parked at the station, awaiting repairs. A street of the city filled with automobiles driving and many parked along the curb sides.
Women flaunting tradition in the "roaring twenties." Three women in flapper styles sit on a park bench and read tabloid newspapers with headlines: A woman puts on make up. Another woman smokes a cigarette.
Two women walk on a city sidewalk in the U.S. in the 1920s. They enter a barber shop (which usually has only men for patrons). Both women have "bob" short hair styles that are a considerable departure from styles of a decade earlier. They sit in the shop and read a newspaper, as they wait for the barber to finish giving a man a haircut. A woman goes to the empty barber chair as she explains, to the barber, how she wants her hair trimmed. The barber begins to cut her hair.
Actors dramatizing people in a city of the United States. Cars parked on a road. Two men in a car. One man drinks from a personal flask of liquor, violating prohibition laws. Next scene shows a man and woman as they kiss in a car. Young men and women, some in flapper styles, crowded into an open car behaving wildly and having fun, portraying the wild "roaring twenties" attitude. Balloons tied on the car.