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.
In a movie enactment, a well-dressed man driving his automobile, is pulled over by motorcycle policeman, who pays no attention to his explanations, and gives him a summons. The man is seen arriving at his pleasant middle class home, where he greets his wife and baby, sitting in the backyard. A street sign shows Main Street at Broadway in the small city.
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 cross a street. Cars are parked along the curb and several other people are seen out walking. The shops along the street include a pharmacy that has an advertisement for a current movie: "Norma Talmadge in Secrets." The women pause to look at the adverstisement, and then go on their way.
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.
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