Pennsylvania Farmer Couple Says How They Lived in the 1920s (recorded in 1979)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I posted this for my subscribers years ago. Two wonderful old Lancaster Pennsylvania farmers. The time was 1979 and I was doing a documentary on the coming of the information age. I chose Lancaster as a place to look at the old times and the new times that were coming including the use of computers in the banks, the post office, and other institutions. Things were changing and I asked folks like these folks what it used to be like and how they felt about it.
It is important to know that these are my outtakes. Everything that was selected was removed from this real which I found in my basement and copied from 16mm to digital. This is what they call work print and you can see by the dirt and scratches that it was run through all time 16mm editing machines. Although it is outtakes, I left the entire clip for you to hopefully enjoy.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is known for its rich agricultural history and tradition. In the late 1970s, farmers in Lancaster were predominantly of three types: traditional family farmers, Amish and Mennonite farmers and some commercial farmers as well.
Lancaster County has been and continues to be one of the most productive non-irrigated agricultural counties in the United States. It's particularly known for its dairy farming and for the quality of its soil, part of the so-called "breadbasket" region of the country. So, despite the struggles common in farming communities (price fluctuations, weather unpredictability, changes in demand), many farms in Lancaster have historically been successful and remain so today.
Moreover, the farming community in Lancaster County is often celebrated for its sustainability efforts and stewardship of the land. This is particularly true of the Amish and Mennonite communities, which tend to prioritize sustainable and environmentally friendly farming practices.
Traditional Family Farmers: These were family-run farms, often handed down through generations. These farms grew a variety of crops and often raised livestock. The success of these farms varied, but they were an important part of the local economy and community.
Amish and Mennonite Farmers: The Amish and Mennonite communities in Lancaster County are well-known for their farming practices. These groups typically practice traditional, low-technology farming, often without the use of modern machinery or chemicals. These farms are typically small to medium-sized and focus on self-sufficiency and community support.
Commercial Farmers: These were larger operations, often focusing on a single crop or type of livestock. They used modern farming techniques and machinery and were a part of the larger agricultural industry. The success of these farms often depended on market prices, government policies, and other economic factors.
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A bunch of office workers tell it straight filmed at the same time - 1979 -
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It is a historical fact that during the Stock Market Crash of 1929, people from states like Arkansas and Maine remained unaffected financially because they were still living off the land and self-sufficient.
These good folks would be rolling in their graves if they saw the world today. Great video. Thank you.
They lived during the Second World War, They saw the worst of Humanity. Nothing today compares to the horrors of WW2.
Yeah it was so much better when children were dying of polio, jews were put into gas chambers and black people were lynched. Fucking retard
After listening to them something tells me these folks understand that regardless of the generation; people are people. I think they'd have a lot more understanding and compassion than you think.
They are both still alive and doing fine. They are 125 years old now 😮
@@theafflictionvhs17" Nothing today compares to the horrors of WW2"....What about Trump?
My radar scope went up when the gentleman talked about being able to buy an electronic device that could give continuous stock reports on the minute but he didn't think that type of thing was a good idea because he said it's not good to know too much too fast because it could "keep your mind in a whirl"! Now that's truly prophetic wisdom that's come to pass today. We literally access just about anything and everything in live time (including the stock market), and we can do it in any place at anytime be it our kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, cars or even while sitting on our toilets! And as a result of all this continuous connective insanity many of us are most definitely in a "whirl", to say the least! Anyway, great video! These documentaries are wonderful learning tools that bring history to life. These videos have more impact and are far superior learning tools than any history or sociology text book with the usual metered antiseptic narratives that would put most young people to sleep! This is living history! God Bless you for all the wonderful documentaries you provide and the positive contributions you're making to our society! 🙂
I don't mind seeing dust scratches and lines now and then knowing the rarity and age of these 16mm film. I always love listening to folks talk about what life was like or how times were different in the past. Thanks Davis Hoffman.
'You have to let your soul catch up with your body.' I think this is one of the most profound thoughts on modern society I've heard. We often don't have the time to process all the information coming at us. And that was forty four years ago.
"I don't think you should know too much too fast. Just relax"
The older footage with folks from the older generations are my favorite. ❤❤❤
These people remind me of my Granny 1905 - 1986 and Grampop 1909 - 1986, they were both raised on farms in Pennsylvania near Lancaster, Grampop retired from Carpenter Steel aka Carpenter Technology in Reading, PA. They were very wise , told me things to watch out for in society, they must have had a crystal ball cause they were correct ❤
same here, my grandmother was a nurse during the Spanish Flu. I did an interview about her, it's on my channel about becoming a Hospice RN.
@@eckankar7756 Thanks for reply, I will look at the interview, My Granny and her sister had the Spanish Flu, she said they were sick but the worst part was most of their hair fell out but grew back even fuller
What is the name of your channel?@@eckankar7756
Thank you David! Wonderful couple. They radiated so much love, respect, and pride. And He was so right---too much info is not good for the soul! Wise man!
Also profound how back then the future looked so bright that they didn't want to go back to the 'good old days' even if they could.
And now....the future looks so dull, we'd do anything to go back to how it once was.
(talk about a script flip!)
I appreciate your love of journalism and filmmaking. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. You're probably the first unofficial independent podcaster! :)
"Everything has its cycles. Everything in life has its ups and downs ups and downs. You have to study them, and after a while you'll get in the rhythm of things. You have to apply yourself to that rhythm. You have to use what little you have inside your head to good advantage, you know."
Thanks for the share, David! This stuff is absolutely some of the best content on UA-cam. Your videos make me feel more connected to our country and our shared history than anything ever before. Seeing life from these perspectives, people were just people then and still are now, but I have to say I completely agree that we all take in too much information and our brains are not meant to carry around the woes of the entire world. A good reminder to go outside, breathe some fresh air. At the end of the day we're on a rock orbiting a giant nuclear explosion in space at a 1,000 miles per hour while also rocketing further into deep space at almost 70,000 miles per hour. The big picture is total chaos and it's insane we even exist, so I want to just appreciate our situation and try to remember it's truly wild to be a person on earth and do my best to lift those up around me..
Thank you Ben.
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Love hearing people talk history. Life was simple, harder. Tech has changed life.
I needed to hear some advice from grandparents. Thank you. I miss having a family
Thank you so much for sharing this! I believe it is essential that knowledge like this is passed down the generations.
David, your videos often bring me to tears, what a fabulous career! I'm just a "kid" at 55 but I remember my family from this generation and made sure my son did too. Now I see him teaching his boys. It won't all be completely forgotten.
I was born and raised in Pennsylvania; although not close to Lancaster, I still did live close enough to similar areas with farmers and amish that hearing their story reminds me of stories I've heard from others. It is so interesting to be able to look back and listen to these perspectives now going into the 21st century along with the new perspectives towards the world people now hold.
Amazing, 1979 was the year I was born. It's wonderful that this was captured forever. I wonder what they would think of the world today? What would they think about the fact that people all over the world would be watching them on tiny little handheld devices less than 5 decades later.
The same year I got born too. As much as I like technology, I miss the old, simpler times.
Wish we could see the published video. I waited tables in a rural Iowa family restaurant for 4 years to get thru college. I knew these people. Coffee was 20 cents and if I got the nickel change I was having a very good day. I knew Who wanted sour cream and who did not. Who wanted more hot water for tea. Their observations are here are gold.
This is so wonderful to watch, many parents & grandparents right here in southern Ohio were exactly the same as this fine couple, especially in the late 70s and there's still generations of family run farms.
Also just like over in Lancaster PA. we have a large Amish and Mennonite community, I drive by them on their horses & buggies everyday, but I know little about them as they mostly keep to themselves, but I do find it facinating that some still don't use electricity of any kind!
Thank You very much once again David! I just loved watching this✌
Did it happen to be Dayton. I have gg grandparents from there and their parents from Lancaster PA . My gg grandparents resemble this couple .
@@vickyhill2680 No Vicky, however I know the Dayton area well, it's only about an hour north west from where I live, but the couple in this video is almost identical to both my grandparents & great grandparents too!👍
@@JWF99 if you send me a private message I'll send you a photo of my gg grandparents it would be fun to compare
@@vickyhill2680 yea, maybe in the near future, I'll dig out some of my photos👍
SE OH here. This couple reminds me of quite a few of the old folks that aren't around anymore.
When he said life is easier now but… it’s made us softer. Amazing true words. We can have anything…anything dropped to our home nowadays. Anything. No work needed. Those days you worked for every little thing so you cherished it more and didn’t take it for granted. Easiness is nice in little bits. When everything is easy access you get lazy and spoiled. America today a bunch of lazy spoiled brats
Very interesting,down to earth people. Thank you for this interview,David.
Thanks for this David. Appreciate the description, too.
My, how different it is today. Thank you David ❤️
The good ole days, David. I saw this one before, I never left a comment. I still love a farm and a wood burning stove.
Let's hope we all don't freeze death this winter due to gas prices and wars.
If not , I am prepared. I still have all my old goodies, my grandpa left me.
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Thank you, David Hoffman filmmaker ...
I wonder what age these lovely folk were in 1979?
To me the Lady looks to be ~70 years, and the Gent ~75 years
This was so lovely! Thank you David. I sure miss talking with my grandparents and parents about such things!! But this brings back some of their recollections to my mind! This was quite nice.😀
Thanks for sharing this, I've seen this video before lol like you say the times are a changing as in the description. Good to look back at these old videos like this one. Thanks again for sharing 🎞️🎥👍🙏
These are the sort of folks that raised my father, and I'm proud of it. Because of him I can grow my own food, I know what hard work is, and I value a challenge because it builds character❤
Really charming interview. Thank you.
Nice story to listen to. To listen to other people points of views how we’re back then.
This couple reminds me of my grandparents, and I do agree with a gentleman, we don’t have any more challenges. Nowadays, a lot of things are giving out freely, I do agree on one thing, Social Security four, we that have work for many years, those people should definitely get their Social Security check, especially the elderly.
My grandparents, went from Texas to imperial Valley, Oregon, picking fruits, and they landed here in Santa Clara County, and they work in the canneries they definitely taught me the value of a dollar, and how to work for it, and there is a lot of work in the fields, we should send people to work in the field instead of getting handouts, people get lazy and don’t want to do nothing for themselves, it handicaps them in a way.
, hard-working my grandparents
What a wonderful interview and a wonderful couple!
I hope you're able to restore that film. The first part looked liked it had been on the floor.
Oh my goodness! This interview is such a treasure
His opinion on “just relax” is a great “short” david
These people are lovely. I like the comment about Abraham Lincoln.
Can you imagine not knowing such news? Now we know when a Kardashian breaks a nail. Fascinating how we're progressing backward!!
Love hearing the cuckoo clock! All this couple say is beautiful 😊
It's interesting that he was a "city slicker" who worked in an office before he had the chance to farm. His wife was raised on a farm, and had no interest in living that way again. My dad's parents were born around the same time as this couple and were both raised on farms. Once they made it to San Francisco in the 1920s, they never looked back.
Great video
My great-grandparents from the corner store was Pennsylvania 2020s clear up late 70s most the old folks shop that good memories thanks David❤ hope you and your family have a wonderful day and night sir
I remember the grocery store had a while isle for flour and sugar as so many still baked at home. I do remember the bigger sacks, 50 and 100 pound sacks of flour came in lovely print cloth that was used to make clothing. We had no indoor plumbing till moving into the city. It was a wonderful time but I'd not want to go back, it was very hard work.
Summer camping and outhouse use is so smelly and hot or cold. We have such good modern bathrooms.
This is incredible.
Lovely couple and a fascinating clip, but my grandparents both grew up in Pennsylvania and the wife is from PA the husband sounds like a non rhotic New Englander to me.
It’s amazing to think these people knew folks that may have voted for President Lincoln…
so my maternal Great Grand Parents were Ethnic Germans from Ukraine -- had Exit Visas from the Tsar's Government ~1902 -- got to So. Dak. as dryland wheat farmers, until a dam on the Missouri River brought irrigation & beef-ranching; the old harvesters abandoned on the hill tops
in the 1920s, the replaced their Pre-Great War "brass-era" T-Model Ford with a "Glass Car" -- the wind no longer whistled through;
the bricks heated on the stove & put on the car floorboards actually kept the car warm longer...
Being 18 i take everything for granted now i realise how easy i really have it
Omg, i have way too much to say about that amazing footage. Not knowing where to begin, ill just say, i can hear some technician saying "ohh if only the film hadn't cut out, and the audio garbled." But me, well, even that part was amazing. Everything happens in cycles!
It is a historical fact that during the Stock Market Crash of 1929, people from states like Arkansas and Maine remained unaffected financially because they were still living off the land and self-sufficient.
Incredible to see this today ..
Everyone needs to watch this and maybe they might value things in their life a little more.
The cuckoo clock sounding the hour was a nice touch. Do you think that they listened to Paul Harvey?
I think that just about everyone did back then.
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What a great anthropological film, thank you David❤
We have forgotten how to just live...Working hard for your food and shelter, and listening to the crickets in the evening.
Love these old interviews..... Where the interview of you at Sir..... If there hasn't been one I would love to sit with you...✌️
I have posted several video interviews of myself but unfortunately, you will have to find them on my UA-cam channel.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I will take a look Sir. I enjoy your work. I'm very interested in your background to see what brought you on the path you are traveling. Stay well Sir. Thank you for your work
Just love this film.
“Let your soul catch up to your body every once in a while”. Man is that a quote, and I’m not religious but I can feel that in our current environment
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Very interesting
Let your soul catch up with your body.
Why keep your mind in a whirl, let your soul keep up with your body.... wisdom. So many things this older man ( probably only 59! ) said is key and spot on. I feel the same as he did!
"Let your soul catch up with your body" -- Brilliant!
The liking the coal/wood stove but not thinking of going back to it makes perfect sense.
Ohhh that party line 😅
I'd like to see more interviews like this. What are their names?
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John. I don't give names without the folks giving me permission and these folks are not around anymore so I can't ask them and I do not know that their descendants.
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Looks like the 16 mm film or vhs tape breaking ended the interview. But it was a great interview.
Please read the description. 16 mm film it was.
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Praying and prepping!
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There are still plenty of good old people left in Pa.
Makes me want to go visit Grandma and Grandpa.
Wonderful interview, they seem to have, maybe an Irish-American accent?
Vi bisht du !
What id like to know, is what was their names? And last name. Also. Have you done interviews like this with Berks County folks of this era ?
Sayn dich shpaydah !
Love the Pennsylvania Dutch accent, reminds me of my grandmother whom was Dutchy
He almost has a hint of Irish accent?
That isn't even close to a pennsylvania dutch accent
How about Pottsville?
Funny how he says we’ve gotten soft and the government takes care of us. People complain about the “good old days” but people complained forty years ago too.
I love how no matter what generation you look at they're always yearning for the past. I think as humans we need to understand that there is a balance but at the moment we living in the best times, minus the shitty economy where most of us slave to pay for something that will never be ours, most of us are well educated, healthy and not as hungry as they were in the 1920s
I agree.
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How high was the camera man?
I was a cameraman but I do not understand the nature of your question. Did you read the description? This is a roll of 16mm outtakes.
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David is it possible to get this couples names? How can I send you a photo?
Send a photo to my office Vicky at the email address allinaday@aol.com.
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David i love your videos
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Absolutely everyone shpuld re-watch what he says at 13:00. Technology was needed to meet the needs of a growing public. Today our technology is doing the same thing.
Except for social media and the gradual downhill slide we are taking as a culture, i bet these two would be impressed with how we've got it now. Stll, though, they would be horrified by a lack of modesty restraint, and manners in today's social landscape.
If he thought they had it too easy in 79, imagine what he'd say about 2023 lol
Coockoo coockoo coockoo!!! Lol i miss old coh coh clocks
my parents sent my paternal Grandparents a cuckoo clock while stationed by the U.S. Army in Mainz, W. Germany -- we lived in a housing area built for the ex-French Zone of Occupation; an ex-POW German was the "coalman" given a basement apartment,
and my Kindergarten was in a Quonset Hut -- de Gaulle gave up the French Zone in W. Germany but kept it in West Berlin -- during a college summer, I once had dinner in the West Berlin French Zone Officer's Club
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'I don't think you should know too much too fast, cause, keep your mind in this world' and this was 1979 with landlines. In 2023 we almost all carry that electronic, ball and chain, device and it's definitely consuming the majority of people's lives and turning us into isolated zombies.
Some people would watch this and right away get distracted and watch something else… that’s just sad. It’s like when I go shopping with my cart and I see people walking towards me with their phones in their face… I stop feet before them and let them bump into my cart … 😅 pay attention… put the phone down… 🤦♂️🤷. These folks made some good points… these easy times make people soft… just look at all the purple haired people complaining about everything 😂.
Wait, why has he been so many places?! Was he a missionary?
Does he have a German accent?
Give the soul time to catch up with the body 👍
Is it just me or does anyone else find the woman has a slight scottish accent?
Way to much of inside,playing with your tech stuff!Worked outside my whole life,and on vacation I would hunt and fish!Mother nature,beauty,people do not know what they are missing!
These two sounded pa dutch ancestry i doubt they appreciated the gd hard life comment by the interviewer
I found myself getting along with them famously. We connected for several years after but I lost touch after that.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker they remind me of my own grandparents I want to record them before it's too late they have given me every teaching I've had in this world and I'm sure I'm partly the man I am today from listening to them answer questions I asked not too indifferent than these.
I know this lady isn't Amish, but she's got an Amish accent for sure
No he doesn't. Not even close
I grew up in that area and speak Pa dutch and they definitely have the accent.
Sad that he accepts chemicals in his plants.
Is this an AI generated video? Seems as if I could be.
Did you read the description?
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"Let your soul catch up with your body." I would add, get outside more, put your feet in some dirt.
My family sold our 11,000 acre ranch last year even though we owned the land entirely and we were next to a decent-sized river where we had the oldest wzter rights! Our ranching techniques were very modern.......for the 1940's. Our grazing, records, hay production and general management was run into the ground by a family member whose ranching knowledge was abyssmal at best! I soon learned that people like Greg Judy who had new ideas were definitely personae non grata......and we had a University 5-10 miles away with a College of
Agricultural and Ag Extension agents everywhere! Such a shame!