When all hope is gone and dignity is a memory, The only thing that keeps you going is the will to live and provide for your family. These are the people who made America great. They never gave up. They rebuilt what the wall street greed destroyed. These are the great Americans! The greatest generation ever!
Grandparents raised seven children during the Great Depression. From what she said about that time period, she said she wouldn't want to live through another one. Sounded pretty scary. Most folks today have never had to go through rough times like that and wouldn't know how to survive it if it happened again.
I'm 75 years old and was raised by people that went through the Depression. My father hobo'ed around th whole country including Alaska from when he was 13 years old. When he was 21 he had to go fight WW2 in Europe. I'll never forget the stories they told me...
Hear! Hear! The youth of today should put down their video game controllers, phones, social media nonsense, etc. and watch this and learn what's really important.
Every individual serving in government should have to watch all of it and then be required to answer a few easy questions to ensure they paid attention.
@@MikeL-yj4ds The parents PAY for the phones and video games. Blame them. Most people that I know that play video games for hours and have cellphones are older people.
This is something I have known about for all my 77 years and never thought would repeat itself and here we are. Soon the wars will become bigger until total annihilation will be at our door, so keep insulting each other and don't help each other and reap the harvest you have sown.
SO MUCH FOR ALL OF OUR ROMANTICIZING ABOUT THE GOOD OLE DAYS ! THEY WERE HARD & TRYING TIMES ! I NEVER HEARD THAT OVER 12,000,000 PEOPLE DIED OF MALNUTRITION & STARVATION IN AMERICA !
At 15:12 that’s actually a Root Cellar, that’s where you store your canned goods and food to keep cool you can see she’s taking some mason jars out. We had one on the farmer called it “TheCave” it’s also where we went if a tornado was coming.
Today kids look at a meal put before them and say YUCK, when I was little I didn’t dare say YUCK to a meal momma cooked… she always said be glad you got it !! America today is spoiled!!
Agreed! We never said yuck.. we had oatmeal, cream of wheat, cream of rice, egg on toast, puffed rice cereal, honestly a lot of kids are ungrateful today, but a lot are thankful to
@ yea momma didn’t play that stuff… lol momma was a beast 😝…but I grew up poor, so we didn’t complain about much when it come to eating and being from the south, dad killed a lot of what we ate which was Deer, rabbits and squirrels, so we didn’t complain , it was pretty good stuff. Only thing I remember actually rejecting was liver smothered in onions🤮I told momma and daddy, beat me if you wish but I AINT EATING THAT!!!😝
Such I was raised by my grandparents, I learned to be thankful for what was on the table. My grandparents were in the depression so they knew how things was.
I was a child during the great depression. We were homeless because there were no jobs. Many times there nothing to eat. I went to school with no shoes even in winter. My sister carried me on her shoulders putting my feet in her coat pockets.
You cannot help wondering what became of some of these people. I cannot believe this was happening in America during my day and time, though only an infant. Life was cruel to young and old.
Oh God the look of despair in those kids eyes . What an awful time tino have been living. Times don't seem to change: now in 2024 we have terrible conflicts in Gaza & Ukraine. Why oh why can't we live in peace and harmony? PJS. 😢
some Americans are just plum retarded....but they are in for a rude awakening......lots of sh-t will hit the fan? they really dont know what they have done....WOW they really threw the USA in the garbage can!
If there were no HUD, Government subsidized housing, Food Cards, free healthcare, bus vouchers, cash/energy assistance and food banks, the situation would look much much worse than this.
My Dad and grandma told about th soup line's thy stood in everyday just for a bowl of waterd down soup consisted of a few cabbage leaves couple of potatoes maybe a peice of fatback. But thy were thankful. God rest there souls
Thank you for uploading this moving testament to human suffering. At 15:38 looks more like a traditional undergroundcold store for preserves. Perhaps they lived nearby
I think this video should be displayed on a huge monitor running in every major city in U.S.A. This l know is no way possible, just a creative thought. Folks need to wake up.
@andrewricci8710 Yes, you're right. There's a sucker born every minute, especially with social media. I put my money in mutual funds, and leave the stock market to the pros.
I don't suppose any of those people could possibly be alive now. The pictures bring back a few distant memories of people I knew who were even poorer than our family in the '50s.
How beautiful but poignant this music evokes to the sad and desperate lives of these people who with no fault of their own fell into such a harsh existence
Over 12 million Americans died of malnutrition/starvation during the 10 year span of the Great Depression. When we have another given today's population the casualty count will be Biblical.
Trump is our last hope and with our LORD to guide him , and if he AND HIS CABINET can drain the swamp of leftist Democrats and a few Republicans, we might have a chance. If not we are going right back to the depression, but worse . SAD !!!
This was just the tip of the iceberg. It took over 20 years to recover till the end of WW2. The greatest generation continues being the true heroes of this nation. They endure a lot & preserve. That Baby Boomers, Millennials & Gen Z will never understand/care till this day. When you think you had it tough. Think of them. Our descendants.
The scary thing is, we could experience another Great Depression again. It can happen. I think it is an even greater possibility with international trading. If the bottom drops out from mutual trade, look out!
If their complaining about the homeless encampments in parks today, they should look back in time to the depression encampments that resembled small towns! Almost 100 years later and the world isnt much better for folks to survive in
I was born in1950,things were just as bleak lived in two room farmhouse, no electricity, indoor plumbing, slept outside in summer and froze in winter, wind would sent dust through cracks on the walls.
@ToddBrittain1963 out in plains of west Texas, even though electricity was provided to anglo farmers homes, the farm workers'two room houses were not modernized up dated for that period 1950's, I remember those big old cotton fields,hot summers, and cold winters.
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these people should have never had to live like this it shows how a countries leaders care about its people there were someone putting money in their own pockets
Look closely at the fingers of the people in these photos. Use a magnifying glass if necessary. They are all contorted or withered or look like claws. Almost every pic shows this
This was back when men and women had true grit and fought for survival! How many do you think would make it in modern day America, if something like this was to happen again?!
My grandparents used to call that period of depression "Hoover Time". Herbert Hoover was our president during the stock market crash and many folks blamed him for not helping us get out of those dire situations back then.
@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 There were plenty of Road side cafes, drive ins, Restaurants, lunch wagons. The people in the photo, had no money. Watch, The Grapes of Wrath. Or read the book. St.Paul,Minnesota.
Keep it in your pants🦁&🐯&🐻 oh the f#$@My! That should have been the motto from back then. It appears that everyone had children, lots of children (with nothing) and some of the pictures the women we're pregnant. When you have nothing how do you think you're going to support more ??? Great reminders in the format of pictures. ❤❤
African-Americans did not have a hard time in the Great Depression because they did not have their money in the banks and because of that they save Cadillacs because they were buying Cadillacs during the Great Depression
Wrong. On top of the hardships that everyone endured, 119 African Americans were lynched during the depression years (1929-39). Since when is living in hardship, and in perpetual fear of being lynched for the most trivial of reasons, particularly if you were a black male, "not having a hard time" ?
@@ToddBrittain1963 I was not talking about lynching I was talking about financially even they kept Cadillac afloat because they did not put their money in the bank they had their money in their home so they didn't go bankrupt
they had to airbrush out the kid's privates.Afraid they might offend someone.I'm sure the original photographer wanted you to do that.Finally taking a stand against porn,huh?
Trump wants to leave you without a job by using Elon Musk self driven trucks and robots. Trump wants to leave you without a Social Security and goverment assistance no matter how much you worked before when the economy was good. Trump wants to help the millionares to pay less taxes meanwhile you pay more as a worker. Trump has taken advantage 7 times of the tax payer's right to go into bankcruptcy to get help to keep at least their roof and a car; and for regular people about to lose their land or homes its not so easy..
@@duelenigma7732 Trump already proved himself the first time and had America on the upswing even with Democrats swamping the system. Now we have the house as well. Don't be a spoiled sport like so many people did before.
These extremely sad photos make me think that it could happen again. Makes me think of Church teaching people that god will take care of you .What idiot promulgated that !!!!!
I didn’t vote, but when Trump was in office I was thriving financially. I currently live off credit cards to make it every two weeks and I technically reside in the top 90% of earners my age. The last few years have been devastating to everyone I know. Inflation over the last four years has destroyed the buying power of the middle class.
some Americans are just plum retarded....but they are in for a rude awakening......lots of sh-t will hit the fan? they really dont know what they have done....WOW they really threw the USA in the garbage can!
@@Chunkyb514Not judging you but from your statement I am going to presume that you are fiscally challenged. If your outgoings exceeds your income then you are not balancing your lifestyle but rather living in the hope that things will get better. Being in the top 90% of earners does not mean you need to live like that, living the lifestyle of a 60% earner would be just as gratifying. I understand that one’s standard of living is proportionate to their earnings but you don’t have to eat caviar everyday just because your earnings dictates that you should. Don’t live up to the Jones’ let them live up to you.
@ I make six figures. I was living fine before hyperinflation. I hardly buy anything. All of my expenses are paying bills and for my family. My friends say I’m cheap because I refuse to buy new things.
When all hope is gone and dignity is a memory, The only thing that keeps you going is the will to live and provide for your family. These are the people who made America great. They never gave up. They rebuilt what the wall street greed destroyed. These are the great Americans! The greatest generation ever!
So agree and so many skinny kids grew up in time to die whist rescuing us all in ww2. Must admit to brushing away a lot of tears while watching this.
People today have NO idea how good they have it. This is so sad, a reminder of the tragic past. May God Bless America.
How American society has forgotten the past so quickly this is what our grandfather‘s had to live through!!
Grandparents raised seven children during the Great Depression. From what she said about that time period, she said she wouldn't want to live through another one. Sounded pretty scary. Most folks today have never had to go through rough times like that and wouldn't know how to survive it if it happened again.
I'm 75 years old and was raised by people that went through the Depression. My father hobo'ed around th whole country including Alaska from when he was 13 years old. When he was 21 he had to go fight WW2 in Europe. I'll never forget the stories they told me...
We never thought it could happen again but we are on the very of this every day.
Not even close. Are you kidding me? Times are tough right now but nothing like the great depression.
What makes me cry is few today care to acknowledge the sacrifice so many made to get this far. And now we change direction and throw it away!
Greed for money & power is a powerful force to be reckoned with.
The good Lord will show the righteous the way.
Every American should see these photo's to see where we are heading. This is no joke!!
Hear! Hear! The youth of today should put down their video game controllers, phones, social media nonsense, etc. and watch this and learn what's really important.
20.15.
Few Americans know that the Federal Reserve tight monetary policies caused the Great Depression and all it's suffering, hopelessness abd suffering.
Every individual serving in government should have to watch all of it and then be required to answer a few easy questions to ensure they paid attention.
@@MikeL-yj4ds The parents PAY for the phones and video games. Blame them. Most people that I know that play video games for hours and have cellphones are older people.
What's crazy is that some of these very young children might still be alive today!
This is something I have known about for all my 77 years and never thought would repeat itself and here we are. Soon the wars will become bigger until total annihilation will be at our door, so keep insulting each other and don't help each other and reap the harvest you have sown.
Most young people have no idea how hard it was to just survive
This is what life is all about pain suffering
Absolutely haunting.
SO MUCH FOR ALL OF OUR ROMANTICIZING ABOUT THE GOOD OLE DAYS !
THEY WERE HARD & TRYING TIMES ! I NEVER HEARD THAT OVER 12,000,000
PEOPLE DIED OF MALNUTRITION & STARVATION IN AMERICA !
excellently restored photographs, some The details look impressive. Good work.
At 15:12 that’s actually a Root Cellar, that’s where you store your canned goods and food to keep cool you can see she’s taking some mason jars out. We had one on the farmer called it “TheCave” it’s also where we went if a tornado was coming.
Today kids look at a meal put before them and say YUCK, when I was little I didn’t dare say YUCK to a meal momma cooked… she always said be glad you got it !! America today is spoiled!!
Agreed! We never said yuck.. we had oatmeal, cream of wheat, cream of rice, egg on toast, puffed rice cereal, honestly a lot of kids are ungrateful today, but a lot are thankful to
@ yea momma didn’t play that stuff… lol momma was a beast 😝…but I grew up poor, so we didn’t complain about much when it come to eating and being from the south, dad killed a lot of what we ate which was Deer, rabbits and squirrels, so we didn’t complain , it was pretty good stuff. Only thing I remember actually rejecting was liver smothered in onions🤮I told momma and daddy, beat me if you wish but I AINT EATING THAT!!!😝
Such I was raised by my grandparents, I learned to be thankful for what was on the table. My grandparents were in the depression so they knew how things was.
@ yes my grand Parents were depression era as well…
And even more sad there are not very many momma's that cook home meals anymore, easier and quicker to grab take out
I was a child during the great depression. We were homeless because there were no jobs. Many times there nothing to eat. I went to school with no shoes even in winter. My sister carried me on her shoulders putting my feet in her coat pockets.
You cannot help wondering what became of some of these people. I cannot believe this was happening in America during my day and time, though only an infant. Life was cruel to young and old.
Many of the men were lost to history during WWII.
They didn’t need cell phones and other electronic luxuries, they were just plain tough.
We’re all just travelers here, we should respect each other.
So sad, my family lived & survived the depression. They were from the Midwest. It took WW2 to get America out of the depression.
Oh God the look of despair in those kids eyes . What an awful time tino have been living. Times don't seem to change: now in 2024 we have terrible conflicts in Gaza & Ukraine. Why oh why can't we live in peace and harmony? PJS. 😢
Because a tiny, tiny minority of people won’t allow that to happen.. so us ordinary people, just trying to live a good life, suffer..
some Americans are just plum retarded....but they are in for a rude awakening......lots of sh-t will hit the fan? they really dont know what they have done....WOW they really threw the USA in the garbage can!
Amazing photos, thank you, they say a picture says a thousand words, can see it in their faces, but I would love to know their stories..
If there were no HUD, Government subsidized housing, Food Cards, free healthcare, bus vouchers, cash/energy assistance and food banks, the situation would look much much worse than this.
My Dad and grandma told about th soup line's thy stood in everyday just for a bowl of waterd down soup consisted of a few cabbage leaves couple of potatoes maybe a peice of fatback. But thy were thankful. God rest there souls
Yes I can eat every kind of bean or veggie my parents said be grateful you have some beans and rice I am today too!
Thank you for uploading this moving testament to human suffering.
At 15:38 looks more like a traditional undergroundcold store for preserves. Perhaps they lived nearby
I think this video should be displayed on a huge monitor running in every major city in U.S.A. This l know is no way possible, just a creative thought. Folks need to wake up.
Those people were idiots back then. We're smarter.
@andrewricci8710 Mister, can you spare a dime? lol They were idiots.
@andrewricci8710 Everyone, even the working man was sucked into the stock market, thinking that it would ride high forever. So yes, they were idiots.
@andrewricci8710 Yes, you're right. There's a sucker born every minute, especially with social media. I put my money in mutual funds, and leave the stock market to the pros.
I don't suppose any of those people could possibly be alive now. The pictures bring back a few distant memories of people I knew who were even poorer than our family in the '50s.
How beautiful but poignant this music evokes to the sad and desperate lives of these people who with no fault of their own fell into such a harsh existence
AMERICAN DREAM.....😂😂😂😂😂🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Interesting that the "Good Ole Days" look very similar today?
I knew the depression was really bad, but seeing those shanties built on what used to have been Central Park- wild
Over 12 million Americans died of malnutrition/starvation during the 10 year span of the Great Depression. When we have another given today's population the casualty count will be Biblical.
All under a democratic administration
And who will be leading us through it all?
Gracias a los ROCKEFELLER, ROTCHIELDS, Y DEMAS REPTILES QUE USTEDES AMAN.....🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎😆😆😆😆😆
@@luckyguy600 a con man I'm sorry to say
Trump is our last hope and with our LORD to guide him , and if he AND HIS CABINET can drain the swamp of leftist Democrats and a few Republicans, we might have a chance. If not we are going right back to the depression, but worse . SAD !!!
This is an incredible visual view into the past and the background music was the cherry on top.....OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what growing up for us looked like,
This was just the tip of the iceberg. It took over 20 years to recover till the end of WW2. The greatest generation continues being the true heroes of this nation. They endure a lot & preserve. That Baby Boomers, Millennials & Gen Z will never understand/care till this day. When you think you had it tough. Think of them. Our descendants.
The scary thing is, we could experience another Great Depression again. It can happen. I think it is an even greater possibility with international trading. If the bottom drops out from mutual trade, look out!
History always repeats.
Only this time it's coming to it's finality 😢
If their complaining about the homeless encampments in parks today, they should look back in time to the depression encampments that resembled small towns! Almost 100 years later and the world isnt much better for folks to survive in
I was born in1950,things were just as bleak lived in two room farmhouse, no electricity, indoor plumbing, slept outside in summer and froze in winter, wind would sent dust through cracks on the walls.
Where was this?
@ToddBrittain1963 out in plains of west Texas, even though electricity was provided to anglo farmers homes, the farm workers'two room houses were not modernized up dated for that period 1950's, I remember those big old cotton fields,hot summers, and cold winters.
@@mitchtrevino4471 Thanks for sharing. It makes us appreciate what we have now doesn't it
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WW2 made USA rich and powerful. These pictures show how much.
Everyone looks so tired and worn out. The baby eating dirt on the ground.😢
😢😢😢😢😢😢
And I thought I had it ruff. 😢
these people should have never had to live like this it shows how a countries leaders care about its people there were someone putting money in their own pockets
History repeats itself. 2025
At 15:30 who said that was a dugout home? I would guess it is a root cellar to keep canned goods cool.
Look closely at the fingers of the people in these photos. Use a magnifying glass if necessary. They are all contorted or withered or look like claws. Almost every pic shows this
Back in the "good old days."
My parents often talked of 'how it was' But as a child in the 50s I could never fathom of what they were talking about
Morning 😢😢😢
Terrible times for these Americans and most other countries too
i will not allow anyone to tell me how bad they have it today ,i remember getting evicted because we didnt have the rent money of 35.00/mo.
17:21 That is Natchitoches, Louisiana, not Los Angeles
This was back when men and women had true grit and fought for survival! How many do you think would make it in modern day America, if something like this was to happen again?!
You've taken a piece of history and made it look like a cartoon!!
Are we living depression yes we are
And in 2024, poverty is considered not having upgraded cable service and air Jordan shoes.
Naw… lots of poor people these days have Air Jordans…
Look how thin and hungry those folks look. How could leaders let our country get to that point?
My grandparents used to call that period of depression "Hoover Time". Herbert Hoover was our president during the stock market crash and many folks blamed him for not helping us get out of those dire situations back then.
Velmi smutné fotografie,myslím,že se to pomalu vrací.
No obesity anywhere.
No McDonald's anywhere.
Because there were no fast food places. If there were, they would be fat. Guaranteed
@@vintagerecordambassadeur4098 There were plenty of Road side cafes, drive ins, Restaurants, lunch wagons. The people in the photo, had no money. Watch, The Grapes of Wrath. Or read the book. St.Paul,Minnesota.
They were starving.
Plus now you can eat 3000 calories for just a couple bucks.
И в те годы кто-то из американских корреспондентов сказал : А в Москве столько красивых и нарядных женщин.
Horrible Horrible situations and yet they kept bringing more babies into it. Unbelievable
It was the only thing that gave them pleasure and they didn't know how not to have babies.
So you decide whose good enough to live. Wow, what power.
when do you think birth control came along ? No idea . I thought so .
Looks like homelessness and poverty still exist. Always has, always will.
Depressing pictures. Depressing music.
Keep it in your pants🦁&🐯&🐻 oh the f#$@My! That should have been the motto from back then. It appears that everyone had children, lots of children (with nothing) and some of the pictures the women we're pregnant. When you have nothing how do you think you're going to support more ??? Great reminders in the format of pictures. ❤❤
No birth control, fool. Abstaining fr sex was only option and we know how well that works for men
African-Americans did not have a hard time in the Great Depression because they did not have their money in the banks and because of that they save Cadillacs because they were buying Cadillacs during the Great Depression
Wrong.
On top of the hardships that everyone endured, 119 African Americans were lynched during the depression years (1929-39). Since when is living in hardship, and in perpetual fear of being lynched for the most trivial of reasons, particularly if you were a black male, "not having a hard time" ?
@@ToddBrittain1963 I was not talking about lynching I was talking about financially even they kept Cadillac afloat because they did not put their money in the bank they had their money in their home so they didn't go bankrupt
New Democrat plan for working class Americans
People were mighty glad to vote in FDR,who was Democrat
they had to airbrush out the kid's privates.Afraid they might offend someone.I'm sure the original photographer wanted you to do that.Finally taking a stand against porn,huh?
All of that you see is now illegal.
How do. They ɓuy. Gas
I. Think they pay. The attendant at the station and. He pumps the. Gas
The US is headed down that road again ! Vote Trump 2024 !
Trump wants to leave you without a job by using Elon Musk self driven trucks and robots. Trump wants to leave you without a Social Security and goverment assistance no matter how much you worked before when the economy was good. Trump wants to help the millionares to pay less taxes meanwhile you pay more as a worker. Trump has taken advantage 7 times of the tax payer's right to go into bankcruptcy to get help to keep at least their roof and a car; and for regular people about to lose their land or homes its not so easy..
So apparently you like the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Must be nice to be super wealthy like you.
@@ohreally8929 Lol !
Hillbily eric , we shall see what your goof ball accomplishes . Not for himself I mean , for the country and world .
@@duelenigma7732 Trump already proved himself the first time and had America on the upswing even with Democrats swamping the system. Now we have the house as well. Don't be a spoiled sport like so many people did before.
Idabel to Krebs, not Frebs.
These extremely sad photos make me think that it could happen again. Makes me think of Church teaching people that god will take care of you .What idiot promulgated that !!!!!
We had less crime when people felt closer to God.
@@drkskyes Yep, John Dellinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, bootleggers, Al Capone, the Mafia, and the list goes on and on.
a well feed church wanting your last penny
I put very little in churches the way they bowed down to Trump.
@@drkskyes Nonsense.
With MAGA in power, we'll live this again.
You're an idiot
I didn’t vote, but when Trump was in office I was thriving financially. I currently live off credit cards to make it every two weeks and I technically reside in the top 90% of earners my age. The last few years have been devastating to everyone I know. Inflation over the last four years has destroyed the buying power of the middle class.
some Americans are just plum retarded....but they are in for a rude awakening......lots of sh-t will hit the fan? they really dont know what they have done....WOW they really threw the USA in the garbage can!
@@Chunkyb514Not judging you but from your statement I am going to presume that you are fiscally challenged. If your outgoings exceeds your income then you are not balancing your lifestyle but rather living in the hope that things will get better. Being in the top 90% of earners does not mean you need to live like that, living the lifestyle of a 60% earner would be just as gratifying. I understand that one’s standard of living is proportionate to their earnings but you don’t have to eat caviar everyday just because your earnings dictates that you should. Don’t live up to the Jones’ let them live up to you.
@ I make six figures. I was living fine before hyperinflation. I hardly buy anything. All of my expenses are paying bills and for my family. My friends say I’m cheap because I refuse to buy new things.