Random fact of the day: in the original story, Dorothy’s slippers were silver, as the whole story was actually a commentary on the US leaving the gold standard. The cited reason for switching to Ruby in the film version was to “show off” the new color film tech.
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Wow 🔥🤯
nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n was the first place I heard that fact, which led me to get the audible version of the book and damn sure if they weren’t silver.
Wow 🔥 damn now I really want to read the book 🥹 but I haven’t started my Christmas reading list yet 😂🤣 may as well abandon it for now to read L. Frank Baum🔥
Wasn’t the book written 30 years before the US left the gold standard?
You are correct, I had it remembered incorrectly. It was a commentary on money in general. The Gold Standard act was actually signed in 1900, which left silver.
it led me on a brief history of money in the US. Interesting.
Yeah I had to go back and look it up too so thank you lol it was the demonetization of silver, not gold, and I just got it confuzzled. Too many random facts floating around in my brain bin and they blend together sometimes lol