The first Miss America Pageant

In 1920, have over the years of flaps, gangsters, and reminds the ban. Another great success for this decade is to create an accredited beauty contest. The first Miss America pageant in 1921 held in Atlantic City. It was not known, however, Miss America Pageant at the time, and the structure varies greatly from the current organization of the parade.

The idea for a "Fall Frolic" was first used by Conrad Eckholm, the administrator of the presentedMonticello Hotel in Atlantic City. He suggested that this be over Labor Day weekend with the aim to benefit small hotels in the Atlantic City area instead of a joke. There should be a great festival with tents for music, dance and various other celebrations. A newspaper writer suggested a "popularity contest" aka "Beauty contest" should be held in different cities to spread the excitement about the newspapers joke. The winners of the contests between the inner city would gain popularity, a freeTrip to Atlantic City and a chance against other city winners at the event Frolic compete.

The featured guests of the Frolic was Father Neptune and the mermaids. Neptune's father was just 80 years old Hudson Maxim, the inventor of smokeless gunpowder. The Mermaids were the Inter-City Beauty participant. Since the Frolic began, Father Neptune and the mermaids entered on a float like a shell more than 60,000 spectators. They came to Keith'sGarden Theater at the pier, where the assessment was to take place. The 8 Inter-City Beauty participants were more than an hour from 5 male judges. The results were announced in the following night at the Governor's Ball took the magnifying glass.

The next day there was a "Bathing Review, held on the beach. The participants of the review were from the garden to Steel Pier to Pier (contribute approximately 1300 m) "swimsuit" aka swimsuits March. That was the birth of the swimsuitCompete in the Miss America Pageant. There were 5 categories in which people could enter the competition: Division 1, Organizations, Division 2, Child, Division 3, Men's Division 4, comic, and Division 5; Beauty. About 100,000 people were in attendance at the bathers review that day.

Three winners were selected from the Beauty category: Margaret Gorman (Inter-City); Mazie Saunders (anchor) and Polly Salisbury, (vocational). The three were competing head to headfor the title of "most beautiful bathing girl in America," the first Miss America. The competition achieved was 50% of the audience applause, and 50% by the election of judges. The winner was Margaret Gorman, Miss Washington.