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Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia

Bled, 28 Jun 1929 – Irvine, 7 May 1990

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A life in time

  1. 28 Jun 1929

    Born in Bled

  2. 7 May 1990

    Dies in Irvine, aged 60

Family

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Parents

During his lifetime

He lived through 8 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Bled.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1920s · Prince is born in Bled

Who governed

What people wore

Depression-era clothing and household costs

During the Great Depression, a typical practical dress for women cost $4.50, and mothers often managed to feed a family of six on just five dollars a week.

Getting around

Automobile travel grew rapidly after 1920

By the late 1920s, car sales reached 23 million, and Americans were traveling five times further by car than by train. This shift gave families freedom to choose their own schedules, contrasting with the fixed, rushed nature of railway timetables.

At the table

Shift to prepackaged food items

Housewives traditionally scooped oats and flour from grocers' barrels, but companies like Quaker and Pillsbury began selling them in prepackaged containers.

The Spanish flu. A flu pandemic infected a third of humanity and killed some 50 million people, more than the war that had just ended.Around the world · 1918–1920

The Spanish flu. A flu pandemic infected a third of humanity and killed some 50 million people, more than the war that had just ended.

Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine · public domain

In the news1929–1933

Stock Market Crashes in 1929

The U.S. stock market crashed in 1929, leading to the Great Depression and leaving nearly one-third of American banks failed by 1933.

Music

Radio ownership growth in the 1920s

Radio ownership soared in the 1920s, with over 10 million households owning a radio by 1929, bringing popular music directly into the home. Before this rapid growth, zero radios were produced in the United States in 1921.

Daily life

Kerosene lamps provided limited household light

In the early 1900s, rural families primarily used kerosene lamps for light, which provided only about 25 watts of illumination and required messy weekly maintenance to clean soot from glass chimneys.