Board games and Amusement parks
the board game Monopoly was first created in the early 1900s before the war, and was a great game played by family's to this day. Amusement parks have been opening in America since 1846, one of the most famous amusement parks in America is Coney Island, being opened in 1895, which then resulted in other parks being opened on the island such as Steeplechase Park opening in 1897 and Luna Park opening in 1903, and the last park being Dreamland which opened in 1904. these parks created lots of tourism in America, while Coney Island was in its hay day it brought in nearly 7 million tourist yearly.
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was an American illusionist and stunt performer. Harry Houdini was famous all around the world preforming escape attempts from specially made hand cuffs in London, 1904 to in 1912 preforming the Chinese water torture cell, he was also known as the first person to fly a plane in Australia. In 1906 Harry Houdini started his movie career preforming in a film called Houdini Defeats Hackenschmidt (George Hackenschmidt was a famous wrestler during the time).
The Ouija Board was first patented protected on May 28, 1890. the Ouija board was primarily used by medians (who are people that communicate with the dead). in the early 1900's. It later became most often used by the public.