Step right up to the Gilded Age — where America covered itself in gold leaf and hoped nobody would notice the rust underneath.
On Fifth Avenue, the Vanderbilts and Carnegies threw parties so extravagant you needed a PhD just to understand the dinner menu. Meanwhile, a few blocks away, entire families were packed into tenements the size of modern closets, cooking potatoes over coal stoves and hoping not to catch cholera.
Factories roared, children worked like adults, and tycoons like Rockefeller and Morgan made fortunes big enough to buy small countries (and occasionally entire art museums). Workers struck, politicians stuffed their pockets, and reformers shouted into the void — but hey, at least baseball and hot dogs were on the rise.
So grab your monocle, tighten your corset, and join us on a whirlwind trip through the era of glitter, greed, and really questionable life choices.
📺 What to expect: • Mansions the size of castles • Tenements the size of broom closets • Tycoons, strikes, scandals, and a whole lot of cigar smoke • Sarcasm, history, and just enough snark to keep it fun
💬 Drop a comment: Which would you rather live in — a marble mansion with caviar dinners or a noisy tenement with better neighbors?
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