#313 The Straw Hat Riots of 1922

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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EPISODE 313"No man likes to have his hat snatched from his head by somebody he has not yet been introduced to." During the month of September 1922, as summer passed into autumn, large groups of rowdy 'hoodlums' swarmed the streets of New York City, grabbing straw hats off the heads of men, leaving the gutters filled with thousands of smashed lids. Why in the world would so many people become outraged at the sight of a straw hat? This is the story of the ultimate fashion faux pas, Jazz Age style, and a look at the dangers of men's wear uniformity. NOTE: As this is our first remotely recorded episode, we're a bit more slap-happy than usual. Expect an extra dosage of puns. boweryboyshistory.com Special thanks to Newspapers.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 313 of the Bowry Boys.
0:03.4	The straw hat riot of 1922.
0:07.3	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:08.9	Hey.
0:10.1	Support for the Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:13.6	Join us for as little as $1 a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:20.5	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys.
0:25.5	This is Greg Young.
0:26.8	And this is Tom Myers.
0:28.8	We are starting out here with our brand new twice a week schedule.
0:34.0	Yes, this is a new Bowry Boys episode released three or four days after the last one.
0:39.5	But going forward for the foreseeable future, every Tuesday and Friday here, you'll get
0:44.9	a brand new Bowry Boys episode in your feed.
0:47.7	And if you're saying right now, what's what are you talking about?
0:51.2	We made this announcement in the last episode on New York's Jack the Ripper.
0:56.7	Check that out if you haven't already.
0:58.5	Greg and I are both recording remotely during this particular time of social distancing.
1:05.7	But we decided instead of pulling back, we were actually going to give you more episodes
1:11.9	that will hopefully inform and also entertain and let's face it, even distract you during
1:17.6	this rather strange and difficult period.
1:20.0	Yes.
1:21.0	So we were rummaging through our lists of podcast ideas here because all of a sudden we've
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