Steve, my grandfather as a child taught himself how to read in an outhouse. There was no toilet paper in 1905-10, they used old newspapers. So dear ol' grandpa would work on his spelling and grammar while sitting there. He said the Sears & Roebuck catalog came in handy as well. . . true story.
In the photo of the school house you can see how the flew pipe goes into a chimney (although I’ve not seen one go so far from a wood burning stove), and when when not in use the wood stove would be taken out. The plate over the chimney hole is normally made out of metal with two wires on the backside keeping it in place. Sometimes folks would also wallpaper those metal plates to make it blend into the wall as was ours in our farm house. Thanks Steve for another great video.
Steve, where the chimney is there is a “plate” hanging on the wall. If you removed that plate, there would be an opening where the stovepipe from the stove would be hooked into the chimney! We had one in our house growing up!
I have thoroughly enjoyed this presidential tour of grave! Well I am unable to travel anymore, these are all places I would want to see. Some of them I have seen and enjoyed seeing them again. Thank you Steve!
Another very interesting video, Steve. Herbert Hoover has been treated badly by history, in my opinion. To me, he just happened to occupy the White House when the stock market crashed. The key causes of the crash predated Hoover by many years. He is criticized, perhaps justly, for not doing more during the early years of the Great Depression. He simply believed the role of the federal government was to govern--not to become a nanny state. Hoover was a brilliant organizer--someone who got things done. As a private citizen, he was put in charge of an ambitious international effort to supply food for Belgium during the German occupation of that country in the First World War when it became obvious that it was not a high priority for the Germans. That was a mammoth task--and Hoover did the job very well.
Great video! Now that I'm older, I love history. My family is also from Kentucky and I have some from West Virginia too. I was a young girl visiting family in Kentucky when I used an outhouse for the 1st time. I absolutely love Kentucky and have so many great memories from back in the day!
Even though we are the same age Steve I grew up having to use a outhouse. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle on a large farm and they had no indoor plumbing. Outhouses are pretty scary and dark when your young!
On that wall where you was looking for a flue there was a flue covering there. It was round, yellow with a picture in the middle. My parents and grandparents used them in the summer. I lived in a home growing up that we used an outhouse.
Thank you, Steve! I always learn so much from your videos. Doing this presidential grave tour has been awesome. Stay happy, Steve and thank for taking me along 😊
I visited Hoover's gravesite and Library back in 94'. It is definitely worth the stop! Steve - the stove pipe would have connected to the chimney were the decorative circular plate-looking is. My great aunt had one identical to that in her Michigan home. I used an outhouse during my first tour to Iraq in 2004.
Greetings from Canada (near Toronto). My wife & I are seniors & we really enjoy your videos. Your narration is respectful and informative. We also appreciate your efforts at promoting respect & inclusion for all, when you narrate stories relating to the terrible treatment of LGBTQ folks in the past. Art Brun's post said something I was going to mention, the 'decorative" cover plate in the house which would have been removed when the stove was brought indoors, to permit connection to the chimney. Keep up the great work Steve, we look forward to your videos.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again…..was the first thought that came up in my mind when I clicked your video 😊. Interesting as always, Steve, you must have had a good time overall, visiting these presidential graves. But also, I’m sure it was exhausting as well so: kudo’s 👍. Have a great day 👋.
Did you know: George Washington called the outhouse "the necessary room" ?. I enjoyed this video very much. It is always interesting to me to see where and how people used to live. 5 People in this tiny house, they must have done a lot of standing up.
Geeze Louise thanks again for taking us along on your adventure what a beautiful place. Im happy you got to go on your trip that you had been waiting so long for. And thank goodness for indoor plumbing how crappy (excuse the pun) it would be to still have to use a out house haha. Yes Hoover got elected at a terrible time in history. Seeing a outhouse and a Mcdonalds close together well ??? lol Thanks again Steve.
Back in the 60s, when I was a young buck, outhouses were still in use. They weren’t common, and were most often seen in remote areas but I had used them on occasion. I still remember the last one I used. It served a hunting and fishing camp in Maine. That was in 1978. The best way to describe an outhouse is stinky. They are a piece of American history. Right up there with chamber pots. Hoover’s outhouse seems rather small. Many Americans these days would be unable to enter it. Another great video, Steve. ‘He’s a wanderer, he’s a wanderer, he roams around, around, around, around…’
I love how you cover the Presidents. I am a voracious reader of presidential biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Your videos in this series are absolutely fascinating. Thank you!
Hi Steve, yes l was "fortunate" enough to have an outhouse when l was three & we moved out of Mpls. to a farm in Southern MN. (1951) It.was actually a two seater 😅 & l got stung on the behind by a bumble bee. Thanks for all the get trips. ‼️
i was watching the video about the ''haters'' that leave nasty comments. Your videos are informative, historical and handle all subject matters with great respect and dignity....and you often add a little humour as well. You are not scary or creepy with the subject matter.we enjoy your work and always look forward to the next video. only a very creative person would think of ''outhouse'' as a subject line. Bravo to you and your work.
Thank you Steve for sharing the presidental gravesites, i enjoy seeing were he lived with his family and yes it was tight and the school that he attended thank again steve can't wait for the next video.
The house reflects the simplicity of Quaker life. The little village was restored & is also interesting. Btw, FDR is buried in the garden of the home where he was born in Hyde Park, NY with his wife, Eleanor. His dogs, Falla & Chief are also buried nearby.
I only remember ever using an outhouse at campsites! But I know there was a small area in the city I grew up in where they did have outhouses until the 80s or something, I remember reading about it in the local paper when that area finally got proper indoor plumbing. I am not really sure why they didn't before that.
Your videos will probably be the closest I ever get to seeing these gravesites. Thanks, Steve. My grandparents and an aunt and uncle still had outhouses in the early 60s. Needless to say, we were thrilled when they finally got indoor bathrooms. I spent more than one session with huge spiders! 😳
Hi Steve, What a beautiful and peaceful area! Nice to see the simple toys on the floor in the house. Outhouses as same growing up in Australia🇦🇺 A wonderful and very interesting tour👍
Really enjoying all your presidential stops. I'm up there in years so this is a giveaway. When I was 6 years old my family moved to a rural NJ town of 500 population and while we had a bathroom inside with a tub (but no running water for the tub) and a woodstone in side as well as an "icebox", we did have an outhouse.
Hard to imagine any POTUS living until 90 years given the stress of the job. Never knew Hoover was an orphan and that he spoked Chinese. Enjoyed seeing the Mickey D's "Golden Arches" and the Hoover family outhouse.
Of course you'll never hear about Hoover except "Hoover Days." FDR marries his cousin and has the mistress with him when he dies at Warm Springs, Georgia is swept under the rug.
@@judd442009 I interned under the crook Governor Carter '74. Carter over sprayed Georgia with toxic fire ant spray. It only poisoned the Georgia people. Carter loved the commune Habitat for Humanity.
Steve that paper plate looking thing high on the wall (in the area you said looked like it had been changed) in the living room is a flue cover. It comes off and a piece of pipe would be added between the flue(chimney) and the stove for the smoke to exit thru the roof. That information paper said they would move the stove from the porch to the living room. Thats to get "duel purpose" heat and cooking out of it in colder months then move it back to the porch in hotter months replacing the flue cover. I have a flue cover in my house that I own ( built in 1950) but mine is to cover up the pipe where the old big box propane heater used to sit. I really enjoy your videos keep up the good work.
Trivia bit! I'm always going to remember the 1970s commercial for a bloopers collection where the radio announcer called him "Hoobert Heever"! Haha! The audio is actually here on UA-cam and I'm going to listen to it after this video!
My Grandmother didn't get indoor plumbing until the early 30's. Her out house stood loud and proud on the back of the property close to the huckleberry bushes until the day she died. I used to use the outhouse on occasion while picking huckleberries, that was in the 50's. I got a bang out of it. Thanks for this interesting video on presidents and their out houses.
Hi Steve ! Well, this is quite the history lesson ! Very interesting and humorous at the same time ! No TP so they used a catalog ! Newspaper ! Thanks again for this vlog ! Take care ! Deborah Manitoba Canada
Great video Steve reminds me going back to Arkansas to visit my grandmother when I was little no electricity in her house no indoor plumbing water from a well it was a small town they she lived in it had one TV and everybody in the town would go over there and watch Gunsmoke once a week
He was a master chess player Did you know he taught himself how to read as a young man he loved to read as a former President he did so much to help feed the homeless he helped the idea of food stamps He had hard life as a young man he worked at young age he did not the united states to go against Germany or Japan but after we went into world war two he helped to sell war bonds
My grandparents and aunt and uncle used to live in an old one room schoolhouse and only had an outhouse. My aunt passed in 2009 and even then, still just had that outhouse. Have a great day Steve. Blessings - Judith 🎭
My dad told me a story about going to President Hoover's funeral as Secret Service agent for President Johnson. He said it was the shortest memorial service he had ever been to. You have to assume that his son wanted it that way or it was his dad's wish. It is so beautiful there and the simplicity of their graves, maybe it is exactly what President Hoover wanted.
That painted plate hanging on the column in the kitchen was where the wood stove flue was connected to the chimney. Back in that day the wood stove was taken out in the summer months to make more room in the house. It was moved back in come cold weather. I grew up with an out house and wood heat at my grandparents. They didn't have indoor plumbing till I was about 16.
I know you did not always have time to fully explore the homes and museums affiliated with the presidential graves you visited, but I’m glad Hoover was among the ones you were able to.
Thanks Steve for visiting my area President Hoover hope you enjoy the visit there Send his home the presidential library Museum his home was moved there on the grounds I believe like the blacksmith and other buildings so again thank you so much Steve for coming to my area and checking this out have a safe trip’s
The last outhouse I used, and I have used several, was in 1979, and its use was in connection to a graduation gift from H.S. My mom had arranged through a friend, a 2-week stay for me in a cabin, on a lake, in Maine as a surprise. The cabin was a dilapidated mess, and had no plumbing but I loved it. I fished to eat, and had brought canned vegetables and potatoes in with me. It was the best gift I ever received. I still think back to the quiet solitude with fondness. The use of the outhouse can be summed up in one simple expression though... "Oh! The Humanity!!! However and sadly, as you know, I lost my presidential bid, so my outhouse will have to die in obscurity like a good outhouse should.
This is a county over from Hoover Birthplace,, west of me. I love visiting this place and walking the prairie (full bloom in the Summer) near his resting spot
Steve back in 1960 we had a out house on our place we had a farm we used to buck book to wipe on but that was the good old days their long gone now I miss my farm so much ok keep up great work you are doing say hi it y buddy from Kentucky
Hi Steve, 😊 Both grandparents, had outhouses, few other relatives, used them but didn't want to 😂. Enjoying your vlog travels as always 🚗. Plus looked up history of him and wife Lou, said was raised by his uncle from age 8. ( Changed my pic/added Bill)
I have only been too LBJ library. I went for the Kennedy information. Love this. Thank you. Please take care of yourself and each other. Much love to you and Jim. Be safe. New covid is out there.
For the stove, the gold colored disk up toward the ceiling would come out. The stove pipe would hook into it. Those chimney covers are common in old houses where the wood or coal stoves have been removed. It keeps weather and critters from getting into the house through the chimney.
I remember camping as a kid in the summer with folks with our WW2 surplus tent and WW2 surplus sleeping bags. Out houses were the norm. And watch for snakes in some places we went or bees. Herbert Hoover lived here in Oregon for a little bit as a boy. The house is a museum in Yamhill Oregon. I have never been.
Very nice video Steve, good job. President Hoover's cottage was very nice, but (just my opinion) I would have learned carpentry if I was a member of the family back then & built several more rooms to the cottage. I'm saying this kiddingly especially because of all the property around the cottage. I got a kick out of you wondering as you walked through the cottage where the kitchen was located. I agree with you 100% that kitchen should have been improved upon, depression or not. Thanks again for the tour.
Hoover was one of my first Presidential grave sites, being my 6th. Hoover's Library and Museum was my first Presidential Library, however. It's also the earliest presidential grave site I have video of me visiting! This was all the way back in 2010 when I was only 12 years old, so I didn't exactly have a good camera, unfortunately. Awesome video as always, Steve!
Hi Joe, even if your camera wasn't up to today's standards it's still pretty awesome that you have footage of your visit. Do you know Kurt Deijon? kdgravehunter on instagram. He started visiting President graves when he was eight. You should connect with him, if you haven't already. I just checked out your channel and I see that you have met Kurt. I'll have to watch the video with him when I have a free hour. :-)
I do! I've known Kurt for about 7-8 years. now. We did a discussion on our stories visiting Presidential gravesites back in 2021. He's a good friend of mine. I started when I was 11 in 2009, with visiting Lincoln's Tomb
Hi Joe, I just watched the video with you and Kurt yesterday and left you two comments on that video. I really enjoyed watching it and subscribed to your channel.
When I was very young our family lived in the country on five acres. We too had an outhouse. Our toilet paper was a Sears and Roebuck catalog. Daddy kept some livestock, a cow a goat, a few chickens, and one mean rooster. He chased me into the outhouse more than once. He finally ended upon the dinner table, to my great relief.
I use to have a outhouse here at my grandparents place but it was so old and I tore it down i wish now I would have fixed it up and just kept it for looks I use to keep gardening tools in it.
They would bring the woodstove into the house , hook it up to the chimney !!! That round flat decorated covering on the chimney is covering the flew !!!
Steve, my grandfather as a child taught himself how to read in an outhouse. There was no toilet paper in 1905-10, they used old newspapers. So dear ol' grandpa would work on his spelling and grammar while sitting there. He said the Sears & Roebuck catalog came in handy as well. . . true story.
LOL, the good old days. :-) Thanks for sharing that with us, Steve. Love hearing stories like that!
Along with corn cobs.
I love stories about the Sears & Roebuck catalog -it played such a huge role in our country's history (and apparently your grandfathers too!)
Interesting
Hello Steve thanks for the vlog that I's so interesting
In the photo of the school house you can see how the flew pipe goes into a chimney (although I’ve not seen one go so far from a wood burning stove), and when when not in use the wood stove would be taken out. The plate over the chimney hole is normally made out of metal with two wires on the backside keeping it in place. Sometimes folks would also wallpaper those metal plates to make it blend into the wall as was ours in our farm house. Thanks Steve for another great video.
Thanks for sharing that Art!
Steve, where the chimney is there is a “plate” hanging on the wall. If you removed that plate, there would be an opening where the stovepipe from the stove would be hooked into the chimney! We had one in our house growing up!
Well you were uppity, a "heated," outhouse. 😉
I have thoroughly enjoyed this presidential tour of grave! Well I am unable to travel anymore, these are all places I would want to see. Some of them I have seen and enjoyed seeing them again. Thank you Steve!
I'm happy to hear that Connie!
What a beautiful place to have a resting place! That little home is so cute! You could really get cabin fever in there! Thanks for taking us along!
Your in my state Iowa great to have you .❤️😎
What an interesting gentleman Steve 😮 I leaned so much today 🙏🏻
Steve, this gravesite and history lesson was delightful, as your usual. Thanks so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another very interesting video, Steve.
Herbert Hoover has been treated badly by history, in my opinion. To me, he just happened to occupy the White House when the stock market crashed. The key causes of the crash predated Hoover by many years. He is criticized, perhaps justly, for not doing more during the early years of the Great Depression. He simply believed the role of the federal government was to govern--not to become a nanny state.
Hoover was a brilliant organizer--someone who got things done. As a private citizen, he was put in charge of an ambitious international effort to supply food for Belgium during the German occupation of that country in the First World War when it became obvious that it was not a high priority for the Germans. That was a mammoth task--and Hoover did the job very well.
He seemed to be a very smart and decent guy.
One more republican apologist.
This is pretty cool Steve. Love the outhouse. Makes me appreciate indoor plumbing. The gravesite is pretty.
It sure does Greg. :-)
Great video! Now that I'm older, I love history. My family is also from Kentucky and I have some from West Virginia too. I was a young girl visiting family in Kentucky when I used an outhouse for the 1st time. I absolutely love Kentucky and have so many great memories from back in the day!
Even though we are the same age Steve I grew up having to use a outhouse. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle on a large farm and they had no indoor plumbing. Outhouses are pretty scary and dark when your young!
Yes, I can see how they might cause some nighmares when you are young. :-O
On that wall where you was looking for a flue there was a flue covering there. It was round, yellow with a picture in the middle. My parents and grandparents used them in the summer. I lived in a home growing up that we used an outhouse.
LOL everyone seemed to notice it but me. :-O
Probably had a Franklin stove there for use in the wintertime. The cook stove on the porch probably didn't move because of its weight.
I just love being included with you, my friend, on this great, great trip! Thanks!
Thank you William!
Thank you, Steve! I always learn so much from your videos. Doing this presidential grave tour has been awesome. Stay happy, Steve and thank for taking me along 😊
I visited Hoover's gravesite and Library back in 94'. It is definitely worth the stop!
Steve - the stove pipe would have connected to the chimney were the decorative circular plate-looking is. My great aunt had one identical to that in her Michigan home.
I used an outhouse during my first tour to Iraq in 2004.
As always, your commentary and observation makes this such a beautiful visit.
Many thanks don!
Good morning Steve 🙋🏽. This is a interesting video. Thanks for sharing this with me ‼️😃 have a awesome day ‼️🙋🏽👍🏽❤️.
Greetings from Canada (near Toronto). My wife & I are seniors & we really enjoy your videos. Your narration is respectful and informative. We also appreciate your efforts at promoting respect & inclusion for all, when you narrate stories relating to the terrible treatment of LGBTQ folks in the past.
Art Brun's post said something I was going to mention, the 'decorative" cover plate in the house which would have been removed when the stove was brought indoors, to permit connection to the chimney.
Keep up the great work Steve, we look forward to your videos.
Hello beautiful Steve it good to see y out today see you soon
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again…..was the first thought that came up in my mind when I clicked your video 😊. Interesting as always, Steve, you must have had a good time overall, visiting these presidential graves. But also, I’m sure it was exhausting as well so: kudo’s 👍. Have a great day 👋.
I loved that show and that song, but forgot that line! Thanks for the reminder RS, Those Were the Days! :-)
@@TheGraveyardChannel didn’t need no welfare states - everybody pulled his weight
Thanks Steve for the upload.
Best wishes
DJ from the UK
My grandparents had a outhouse on their property. Great video.
Did you know: George Washington called the outhouse "the necessary room" ?. I enjoyed this video very much. It is always interesting to me to see where and how people used to live. 5 People in this tiny house, they must have done a lot of standing up.
LOL sitting is over rated. :-)
@@TheGraveyardChannel rotfl
My grandma had an outhouse and we took baths in a galvanized tub on chairs in the kitchen. Our family cabin has an outhouse also 😎
Thanks for sharing Josele!
Thank you for sharing. My Grandma had an outhouse until the 70's.
Geeze Louise thanks again for taking us along on your adventure what a beautiful place. Im happy you got to go on your trip that you had been waiting so long for. And thank goodness for indoor plumbing how crappy (excuse the pun) it would be to still have to use a out house haha. Yes Hoover got elected at a terrible time in history. Seeing a outhouse and a Mcdonalds close together well ??? lol Thanks again Steve.
LOL we forget just how lucky we are now to have indoor plumbing and McDonald's. :-)
@@TheGraveyardChannel I'd rather have to use an outhouse than eat at McDonald's 🤣🤣🤣!!!
THank you very much for all the lovely videos ! Love all of your videos ! Take care God Bless you !
Glad you like them Patti!
Wow! What a sad great story thanks for the video you did it again thanks for taking us along with you!
Glad you enjoyed it Sylvia!
Back in the 60s, when I was a young buck, outhouses were still in use. They weren’t common, and were most often seen in remote areas but I had used them on occasion. I still remember the last one I used. It served a hunting and fishing camp in Maine. That was in 1978. The best way to describe an outhouse is stinky. They are a piece of American history. Right up there with chamber pots.
Hoover’s outhouse seems rather small. Many Americans these days would be unable to enter it. Another great video, Steve. ‘He’s a wanderer, he’s a wanderer, he roams around, around, around, around…’
That’s an interesting observation RH! I haven’t even thought about how much larger most people are these days and how many of them would be a luck! 😲
I love how you cover the Presidents. I am a voracious reader of presidential biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Your videos in this series are absolutely fascinating. Thank you!
Very interesting, thanks!
Steve, thank you for another interesting video !!! I love history and i learned a few new things !!! Have a great day !
Life back then was definitely a true minimalist!
I never knew that he spoke Chinese! That is amazing! Thank you again Steve, for ALL the historical context and info!
Hi Steve, yes l was "fortunate" enough to have an outhouse when l was three & we moved out of Mpls. to a farm in Southern MN. (1951) It.was actually a two seater 😅 & l got stung on the behind by a bumble bee. Thanks for all the get trips. ‼️
love this video stay safe steve
Thank you for sharing very interesting and nice 🙂 hope you are doing well stay safe.
i was watching the video about the ''haters'' that leave nasty comments. Your videos are informative, historical and handle all subject matters with great respect and dignity....and you often add a little humour as well. You are not scary or creepy with the subject matter.we enjoy your work and always look forward to the next video. only a very creative person would think of ''outhouse'' as a subject line. Bravo to you and your work.
Loved this video and Information you shared Steve🙏🏻✌🏻☕️🐓
Thanks for visiting all these very interesting sites. Great job as usual Steve❤️👵🏻
Thank you Steve for sharing the presidental gravesites, i enjoy seeing were he lived with his family and yes it was tight and the school that he attended thank again steve can't wait for the next video.
Glad you enjoyed it Syreeta!
The house reflects the simplicity of Quaker life. The little village was restored & is also interesting. Btw, FDR is buried in the garden of the home where he was born in Hyde Park, NY with his wife, Eleanor. His dogs, Falla & Chief are also buried nearby.
Hi Steve, Thanks for another great video and remembering these past Presidents. Have a great day.🌞
Thanks, you too Charles!
I only remember ever using an outhouse at campsites! But I know there was a small area in the city I grew up in where they did have outhouses until the 80s or something, I remember reading about it in the local paper when that area finally got proper indoor plumbing. I am not really sure why they didn't before that.
Thank you for this history. I’ve only used an outhouse a few times as a child. Stay safe!
The pipe cover is the gold decorated cover on the stack. I have the same set up in my old farm house.
I did not realize the Hoovers were quakers & he was an orphan - very interesting. Very good report Steve - thank you.😊👍
Glad you enjoyed it Ann!
Your videos will probably be the closest I ever get to seeing these gravesites. Thanks, Steve. My grandparents and an aunt and uncle still had outhouses in the early 60s. Needless to say, we were thrilled when they finally got indoor bathrooms. I spent more than one session with huge spiders! 😳
Yikes, one of the many unpleasant things about outhouses!
Thank you for sharing💜
Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Hi James, thank you so much for the generous donation. That is very kind of you. You'll be getting a shout out soon! :-)
We had an outhouse, scary place to visit as a child but need out done fear! Great video Stave 👍😁
Great as always Steve, enjoying the president gravesite videos! 😊👍
Thanks 👍
Hi Steve,
What a beautiful and peaceful area! Nice to see the simple toys on the floor in the house. Outhouses as same growing up in Australia🇦🇺
A wonderful and very interesting tour👍
Great video Steve! I love learning the history and seeing the sites!
Beautiful!
I really enjoy your tours! Thank you
Glad you like them Bobbi!
I love your UA-cam channel!! I have learned a lot from your videos!! I can tell you treat the subjects with respect!!
Thanks! Love your vids!
I look forward to seeing your uploads!
Hi Queen, thank you so much for your sweet and ver kind donation. You'll be getting a shout out soon! :-)
another amazing history lesson thank you
Nice tour you provided, and I like that house. Very nice.
Thank you Mitchell!
Really enjoying all your presidential stops. I'm up there in years so this is a giveaway. When I was 6 years old my family moved to a rural NJ town of 500 population and while we had a bathroom inside with a tub (but no running water for the tub) and a woodstone in side as well as an "icebox", we did have an outhouse.
It's funny to think that things like this were the way most people lived until not too long ago. Thanks for sharing with us Arleen!
My sister told me he was the one who invented the Vacuum cleaner! Nice park and a very humble gravesite! Thanks Steve!
Loving the Presidential Series!!
Hard to imagine any POTUS living until 90 years given the stress of the job. Never knew Hoover was an orphan and that he spoked Chinese. Enjoyed seeing the Mickey D's "Golden Arches" and the Hoover family outhouse.
I can't believe that Carter is now 97! I sure hope he makes it to 100!
@@TheGraveyardChannel God bless Jimmy! I think he's done more for this country since leaving the White House than any other ex-POTUS.
Of course you'll never hear about Hoover except "Hoover Days." FDR marries his cousin and has the mistress with him when he dies at Warm Springs, Georgia is swept under the rug.
@@judd442009 I interned under the crook Governor Carter '74. Carter over sprayed Georgia with toxic fire ant spray. It only poisoned the Georgia people. Carter loved the commune Habitat for Humanity.
Steve that paper plate looking thing high on the wall (in the area you said looked like it had been changed) in the living room is a flue cover. It comes off and a piece of pipe would be added between the flue(chimney) and the stove for the smoke to exit thru the roof. That information paper said they would move the stove from the porch to the living room. Thats to get "duel purpose" heat and cooking out of it in colder months then move it back to the porch in hotter months replacing the flue cover. I have a flue cover in my house that I own ( built in 1950) but mine is to cover up the pipe where the old big box propane heater used to sit. I really enjoy your videos keep up the good work.
Glad you made it to Iowa! Welcome and I trust you enjoyed your visit. Really enjoyed the video!
Yes, I really liked Iowa!
Trivia bit! I'm always going to remember the 1970s commercial for a bloopers collection where the radio announcer called him "Hoobert Heever"! Haha! The audio is actually here on UA-cam and I'm going to listen to it after this video!
Never thought of the outhouse connection! My Grandmother never had indoor plumbing, so yes we used an outhouse up until we moved away when I was 6.
Great job Steve! Showing us all the Presidents gravesites is so cool! Thank you for all your hard work and patriotism! 🇺🇸👍
My Grandmother didn't get indoor plumbing until the early 30's. Her out house stood loud and proud on the back of the property close to the huckleberry bushes until the day she died. I used to use the outhouse on occasion while picking huckleberries, that was in the 50's. I got a bang out of it. Thanks for this interesting video on presidents and their out houses.
Thanks for sharing that memory Lou. Hard to believe that this was once the only option. :-)
Will barely cover gas but Love your videos and will contribute as I can! xo
Hi Jane, thank you so much for the generous donation. That is very sweet of you. You will be getting a shout out soon! :-)
Hi Steve ! Well, this is quite the history lesson ! Very interesting and humorous at the same time ! No TP so they used a catalog ! Newspaper ! Thanks again for this vlog ! Take care ! Deborah Manitoba Canada
Great video Steve reminds me going back to Arkansas to visit my grandmother when I was little no electricity in her house no indoor plumbing water from a well it was a small town they she lived in it had one TV and everybody in the town would go over there and watch Gunsmoke once a week
He was a master chess player
Did you know he taught himself how to read as a young man he loved to read as a former President he did so much to help feed the homeless he helped the idea of food stamps
He had hard life as a young man he worked at young age he did not the united states to go against Germany or Japan but after we went into world war two he helped to sell war bonds
My grandparents and aunt and uncle used to live in an old one room schoolhouse and only had an outhouse. My aunt passed in 2009 and even then, still just had that outhouse. Have a great day Steve. Blessings - Judith 🎭
Wow, hard to imagine, but I guess you can get used to anything. Thanks for sharing that with us Judith!
@@TheGraveyardChannel They were used to it but I sure wasn't when we would go to visit them. Yikes - LOL - Judith 🎭
Steve love your videos! This one in particular, much too do about #2...lol!!!
LOL, thanks Anthony 👍
cool video!!!
My dad told me a story about going to President Hoover's funeral as Secret Service agent for President Johnson. He said it was the shortest memorial service he had ever been to. You have to assume that his son wanted it that way or it was his dad's wish. It is so beautiful there and the simplicity of their graves, maybe it is exactly what President Hoover wanted.
Just love these Presidential final resting place videos!
That's a neat historical connection Elizabeth. Thanks for sharing it with us.
That painted plate hanging on the column in the kitchen was where the wood stove flue was connected to the chimney. Back in that day the wood stove was taken out in the summer months to make more room in the house. It was moved back in come cold weather. I grew up with an out house and wood heat at my grandparents. They didn't have indoor plumbing till I was about 16.
I know you did not always have time to fully explore the homes and museums affiliated with the presidential graves you visited, but I’m glad Hoover was among the ones you were able to.
I'm glad too. I loved it. Thanks for mentioning it before I went!
You always make your videos so interesting. Thank you.
Glad you like them Renee!
Thanks Steve for visiting my area President Hoover hope you enjoy the visit there Send his home the presidential library Museum his home was moved there on the grounds I believe like the blacksmith and other buildings so again thank you so much Steve for coming to my area and checking this out have a safe trip’s
I really enjoyed it R! You live in a nice state and area.
Hi Steve hope You and Yours are doing well 😊☺
You too Wanda!
The last outhouse I used, and I have used several, was in 1979, and its use was in connection to a graduation gift from H.S. My mom had arranged through a friend, a 2-week stay for me in a cabin, on a lake, in Maine as a surprise. The cabin was a dilapidated mess, and had no plumbing but I loved it. I fished to eat, and had brought canned vegetables and potatoes in with me. It was the best gift I ever received. I still think back to the quiet solitude with fondness. The use of the outhouse can be summed up in one simple expression though... "Oh! The Humanity!!! However and sadly, as you know, I lost my presidential bid, so my outhouse will have to die in obscurity like a good outhouse should.
This is a county over from Hoover Birthplace,, west of me. I love visiting this place and walking the prairie (full bloom in the Summer) near his resting spot
Steve back in 1960 we had a out house on our place we had a farm we used to buck book to wipe on but that was the good old days their long gone now I miss my farm so much ok keep up great work you are doing say hi it y buddy from Kentucky
I don't think I've ever seen an outhouse and I was born in the beginning of the '60s
Hi Steve, 😊 Both grandparents, had outhouses, few other relatives, used them but didn't want to 😂. Enjoying your vlog travels as always 🚗. Plus looked up history of him and wife Lou, said was raised by his uncle from age 8. ( Changed my pic/added Bill)
Thanks for sharing that with us Bev 👍
I have only been too LBJ library. I went for the Kennedy information. Love this. Thank you. Please take care of yourself and each other. Much love to you and Jim. Be safe. New covid is out there.
Thank you! You too and I hadn't heard about a new covid, yikes!
Omicron has 2 out in the country. Be careful in the summer.
For the stove, the gold colored disk up toward the ceiling would come out. The stove pipe would hook into it. Those chimney covers are common in old houses where the wood or coal stoves have been removed. It keeps weather and critters from getting into the house through the chimney.
I remember camping as a kid in the summer with folks with our WW2 surplus tent and WW2 surplus sleeping bags. Out houses were the norm. And watch for snakes in some places we went or bees. Herbert Hoover lived here in Oregon for a little bit as a boy. The house is a museum in Yamhill Oregon. I have never been.
Thanks for sharing that Lisa!
Very nice video Steve, good job. President Hoover's cottage was very nice, but (just my opinion) I would have learned carpentry if I was a member of the family back then & built several more rooms to the cottage. I'm saying this kiddingly especially because of all the property around the cottage. I got a kick out of you wondering as you walked through the cottage where the kitchen was located. I agree with you 100% that kitchen should have been improved upon, depression or not. Thanks again for the tour.
Grew up in Philly in the 50’s. Grandfather had a small barber shop with ‘apartment’ in the back and just outside was the outhouse.
Hoover was one of my first Presidential grave sites, being my 6th. Hoover's Library and Museum was my first Presidential Library, however. It's also the earliest presidential grave site I have video of me visiting! This was all the way back in 2010 when I was only 12 years old, so I didn't exactly have a good camera, unfortunately. Awesome video as always, Steve!
Hi Joe, even if your camera wasn't up to today's standards it's still pretty awesome that you have footage of your visit. Do you know Kurt Deijon? kdgravehunter on instagram. He started visiting President graves when he was eight. You should connect with him, if you haven't already. I just checked out your channel and I see that you have met Kurt. I'll have to watch the video with him when I have a free hour. :-)
LOL, I just watched your Hoover video. My first videos were that shaky too. :-) Looks like you had a nicer day than I did!
I do! I've known Kurt for about 7-8 years. now. We did a discussion on our stories visiting Presidential gravesites back in 2021. He's a good friend of mine. I started when I was 11 in 2009, with visiting Lincoln's Tomb
Hi Joe, I just watched the video with you and Kurt yesterday and left you two comments on that video. I really enjoyed watching it and subscribed to your channel.
WOW very kool great info.,,1st class AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ again great video I liked it a lot keep up the great work.
When I was very young our family lived in the country on five acres. We too had an outhouse. Our toilet paper was a Sears and Roebuck catalog. Daddy kept some livestock, a cow a goat, a few chickens, and one mean rooster. He chased me into the outhouse more than once. He finally ended upon the dinner table, to my great relief.
I use to have a outhouse here at my grandparents place but it was so old and I tore it down i wish now I would have fixed it up and just kept it for looks I use to keep gardening tools in it.
They would bring the woodstove into the house , hook it up to the chimney !!!
That round flat decorated covering on the chimney is covering the flew !!!
Interesting didnt know much about him