The times when life was simple WITHOUT unnecessary complications people just got on with life, without smartphones etc etc, many of us would like to go back to those simpler times!!!!!!!!!!
I always appreciate your taking the time to discover, upload and sharing of these old pictures, showing life as it was then. It’s both wonderfully nostalgic and sad to think how quickly time moves on and people once full of life and vibrant, are no longer with us. Thank you again. 💕💕💕
My grandparents raised 9 kids during the Depression on a farm in rural Wisconsin. Looking at the photo of Mrs. Renninger and her son at 10:34 reminds me of my grandmother's saying, repeated to me by my mother, that "if I don't have 800 quarts of preserves put up by the time the snow flies, I won't make it through Winter." Until I saw this photo, I never really believed that saying. Grandma had more than half an acre of kitchen garden. I can't imagigine how much work it took to put up 800 quarts of preserves using a wood stove as your heat source. Of couse, she had lots of young helpers, at least when they weren't in school.
My dad grew up in the North Bottoms in Lincoln. Growing up, we vacationed in Lincoln more summers than not, starting in the late 50's. Thank you so much for this walk down memory lane, even though it's long before I started visiting there. It brings my dad's memory closer.
My grandpa was raised in Barneston (born in 1934...he's a Winslow and there was a lot of them in Nebraska at that point 😂) His family were mostly poor farmers who first came out here when they started settling Nebraska in the 1800s. These pictures were fascinating to look at!
My father and his two brothers were born in Lincoln, Nebraska in the 1920s. The family moved to a farm in northwest Kansas during the Depression only to have encounters with Dustbowl conditions. Throughout my childhood we would take occasional summer "vacations" to visit relatives in Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota. These photos are a great glimpse into conditions a decade or two before our forays into many of the same places. I always wanted to kiss the ground when we got back home to our place 7,600 ft. high in the Rockies.
Wow, lovely collection of old photos. As a railfan and train lover, I especially loved the pic of the railway crossing with the old triangular warning sign. Quite different from the crossbuck .
Thanks for sharing these great photos. I was born in Gothenburg, Ne and my grandparents were from Kearney, my aunt & uncle lived in Omaha. I lived in Lincoln & Scottsbluff for a period of time so almost all the towns shown have a personal connection to me. That was really great to experience. And parts of Nebraska are not much different today!
My dad was born in '29..he didn't talk much about his growing up years in Atkinson. In fact it wasn't til my sister and I looked through photo albums in 1999 that we learned he earned ribbons for his singing. We never heard him sing. Thanks YTT for these interestingly captioned photos and the cartoon like finish!! I expected porky pig and friends to pop up!
I am reminded that the North Platte canteen during World War II served more than 6 million free meals to traveling servicemen. An astonishing accomplishment.
My Dad was from Nebraska, born 1917. His stories of growing up there shed a different view compared to what I was taught in school. The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression really took its toll on the area. He had old photos of the area from different years, one showing workers standing on top of snow drifts bending over to work on the power lines. Another one I remember showed a house almost completely buried in a drift, a huge dust or dirt drift. Some were photos of WPA Workers he worked with or knew well. I no longer have these photos but another family member does. I'll see if I can get ahold of some and submit them if I can.
@@Goldensnail111 My Dad's Stepmother(Grandma Winnie) lived in Nebraska her whole life. She was 2 weeks shy of 110(born April 1, 1878) when she passed away in March 1988. I loved listening to her stories, as well as all of my other elders. My peers grew up watching Westerns on TV, I grew up hearing the stories straight from people who actually lived it. It always baffled my History Teachers when I could detail most historic events after the early 1880s with ease. What made it even better for ME.....Grandma Winnie was a retired History Teacher with a PhD in Mathematics. With her and all of my other elders, along with all of the shoe boxes full of photos, History was a cinch. lol Most of Dad's stories about Nebraska involved Grand Island and Hastings, the 2 closest "big" cities to his hometown. He also spent a lot of time with family in Kansas, too.
Thank you for the upload. The extreme sharpness of the black and white images are hard to equal today. I assume they were all made on large format cameras.
I used to have a '45 model of that Farmall M tractor, sold it to a farmer a few years ago when I bought a newer Kubota tractor. As far as I know it's still running and doing occasional work around the farm. Those were some VERY well built tractors, and there are probably thousands still running. There also appears to be a toy truck sitting on the hood of the tractor for some reason.
I know car dealers for decades offered toy versions of their cars to kids of potential customers. I've never heard of commercial or agricultural dealers/makers doing this? I'm sure there's a fascinating story behind the model truck on the hood of the tractor but alas, we may never know!
Quite a few Farmalls sold in NZ, but faced fierce competition from the mid 50s on from Ferguson 35s.... plenty of old Fergies doing work around the country.... a tractor restoration place/collection just 28 km south of here at Te Horo . Round here..Levin... seems to be mainly John Deere country....from NZ.
@@neville132bbk Fergies were easier to get on and off of, but I still like the Farmalls styling and power better. Most of those tractors from that era were solid machines.
THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION THANK U I'VE RODE ONE IF MY HARLEY'S THROUGH THOSE PLACES ONCE EVERY YEAR SINCE 1987 AND USUALLY STAY IN LINCLON OVER NITE ON THE WAY TO STURGIS S D EVERY YEAR
*I have very few 'fond Memories' of the past except for the ones of 'me & my Big Sister' playing which was long and long ago and I loved her fiercely* *She was 3yrs. older and 'left me behind' as she grew-up so much faster than 'her little brother' that she protected from all enemies with her bony knees and elbows* ____________ *We haven't spoken or seen each other in decades now...but even that cannot erase 'what once was'* ( *Little sister came along when I was almost 11 and I was her 'playmate/teacher/sitter/and 'always there' during 'Mommy Dearests' gone activities* ) ____________ *'Photos?'* *Yes...many of them, and I relished finding and destroying them almost becoming exalted over them ripping in my hands and then burning them all into ashes* ( *Yes, I have a very few I kept when we were kids because of the 'good memories'* )
I was hoping to recognize something... anything! Born and raised in Omaha! The bridge in some of the stockyard photos could be the 16th Street Bridge? Don't quote me. Gothenburg still looks exactly the same! Probably the same gas pumps still there! 🤭 Mrs Renicker seemed to have an unusual amount of pickled eggs!? (top shelf in photo) This is like the time I found a wash tub filled to overflowing in an antique shop on my way to Olathe KS. Somebody's memories lost in time! Photos no one will ever identify again. Fascinating to look at but really really sad at the same time! Families letting their history, their heirlooms being hocked at an antique/junk shop.
Silver nitrate negatives are still the best detailed image producers. Extreme digital,while wonderful for detail, does not allow for shading of light as does film molecular closeness. From an olde time IATSE editor. Cheers.
My mother was a child when they packed up and moved from Quapah OK to Oregon in about 1934. She said that as they were crossing the Rockies, the brakes overheated on their overloaded car (probably a Model A) and came close to going over the edge. I can see how that could happen pretty easy, because when living in a flat area, who thinks about brake fade...
that '48 chevy reminds me of the old cars i remember growing up in a small town in illinois in the '50's...they're probably still running in cuba now as they were made to last.
Thanks for sharing this with me, but where's a lot more photos of Western Nebr, I only seen like only 2, where's (Scottsbluff) National Monument? And who could forget (Bayard, Nebr). Home of Chimney Rock Monument, and other towns too here in (Western Nebr), like Mitchell, Morrill, Chadron, Alliance, Kimball, Bridgeport, Scottsbluff/GERING.
I have a box of old coins from the late 1880s to 1960 or so. I look at those coins and then pictures in your video and wonder about the coins in someones pocket back then. Someone had to have used them, they are used! Just fun thoughts. Then think how much you could buy with just pocket change back then. Oranges 1¢? Thanks for the video
That young man at 2.11. That is the face of someone who has had a hard life in the few short years he'd been on Earth. He looked like fifteen going on forty.
May not seem much but you see a lot of independent people making a living (barely) on their own. But just wait in the 70’s through 2000 they have some of the best football teams in college history, GBR.
@@hopetondelli5146 Well then you would have loved the grocery store I worked at back in the early 70s because that's what they played on the intercom all day....lol.
The times when life was simple WITHOUT unnecessary complications people just got on with life, without smartphones etc etc, many of us would like to go back to those simpler times!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up in Nebraska during the 1950's and I enjoyed these photographs very much. Thank you for posting them.
I was born, raised and still reside in Scottsbluff. Thank you for sharing such nostalgia 💚
Did you know a Jim Ross? Former Scout Master down in NOLA.
@@carlschleg5918 Apologies Sir, as I did not.
I always appreciate your taking the time to discover, upload and sharing of these old pictures, showing life as it was then. It’s both wonderfully nostalgic and sad to think how quickly time moves on and people once full of life and vibrant, are no longer with us. Thank you again. 💕💕💕
Get your camera out cause what’s coming is going to look a lot like what your seeing in these pictures only it’s going to be in TECHNO-COLOR
I grew up in Omaha and still live here. It’s so cool you took time to feature Nebraska in a segment. Thank you
Many splendid photographs carefully crafted at the time, thank you for this sharing
My grandparents raised 9 kids during the Depression on a farm in rural Wisconsin. Looking at the photo of Mrs. Renninger and her son at 10:34 reminds me of my grandmother's saying, repeated to me by my mother, that "if I don't have 800 quarts of preserves put up by the time the snow flies, I won't make it through Winter." Until I saw this photo, I never really believed that saying. Grandma had more than half an acre of kitchen garden. I can't imagigine how much work it took to put up 800 quarts of preserves using a wood stove as your heat source. Of couse, she had lots of young helpers, at least when they weren't in school.
I didn't read the caption in the video - I thought they were in a shop! Bloody hell! Different times then for sure.
VERY NICE MY GRANDPARENTS COME FROM LINCOLN 1899 WORKED THERE WAY WEST TOWN TO TOWN TILL COMING TO DENVER EARLY 40S...GREAT PHOTOS
My dad grew up in the North Bottoms in Lincoln. Growing up, we vacationed in Lincoln more summers than not, starting in the late 50's. Thank you so much for this walk down memory lane, even though it's long before I started visiting there. It brings my dad's memory closer.
My grandpa was raised in Barneston (born in 1934...he's a Winslow and there was a lot of them in Nebraska at that point 😂) His family were mostly poor farmers who first came out here when they started settling Nebraska in the 1800s. These pictures were fascinating to look at!
Thank you for the video, love the history my,my,my how times have changed.Makes me miss being a kid back in the 50s.Please dont stop making these.
My father and his two brothers were born in Lincoln, Nebraska in the 1920s. The family moved to a farm in northwest Kansas during the Depression only to have encounters with Dustbowl conditions. Throughout my childhood we would take occasional summer "vacations" to visit relatives in Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota. These photos are a great glimpse into conditions a decade or two before our forays into many of the same places. I always wanted to kiss the ground when we got back home to our place 7,600 ft. high in the Rockies.
Wow, lovely collection of old photos. As a railfan and train lover, I especially loved the pic of the railway crossing with the old triangular warning sign. Quite different from the crossbuck .
Thanks for sharing these great photos. I was born in Gothenburg, Ne and my grandparents were from Kearney, my aunt & uncle lived in Omaha. I lived in Lincoln & Scottsbluff for a period of time so almost all the towns shown have a personal connection to me. That was really great to experience. And parts of Nebraska are not much different today!
Eu sou facinado por fotos antigas de qualquer parte do mundo 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Love your vids, love the music !
My dad was born in '29..he didn't talk much about his growing up years in Atkinson. In fact it wasn't til my sister and I looked through photo albums in 1999 that we learned he earned ribbons for his singing. We never heard him sing. Thanks YTT for these interestingly captioned photos and the
cartoon like finish!! I expected porky pig and friends to pop up!
@@YesterdayTodayTribute there's my thumbs up! 👏 Added!! And 1 of these🙂
I am reminded that the North Platte canteen during World War II served more than 6 million free meals to traveling servicemen. An astonishing accomplishment.
I saw a picture not long ago of the North Platte station. It was my grandmother along with my 3 year old mother serving sandwiches to the soldiers.
Somehow, that old farmhouse and the land surrounding it at 10:04 makes me think of Andrew Wyeth's painting, "Christina's World".
An Art Deco state capitol building? I was surprised to see that! Really cool looking!
and that early photo of a petrol station :-)
Great photos , thank you!
My Dad was from Nebraska, born 1917. His stories of growing up there shed a different view compared to what I was taught in school. The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression really took its toll on the area. He had old photos of the area from different years, one showing workers standing on top of snow drifts bending over to work on the power lines. Another one I remember showed a house almost completely buried in a drift, a huge dust or dirt drift. Some were photos of WPA Workers he worked with or knew well. I no longer have these photos but another family member does. I'll see if I can get ahold of some and submit them if I can.
My grandmother would possibly remember some of these things, she lived in many of the places pictured and is still living at almost 101 years old.
@@Goldensnail111 My Dad's Stepmother(Grandma Winnie) lived in Nebraska her whole life. She was 2 weeks shy of 110(born April 1, 1878) when she passed away in March 1988. I loved listening to her stories, as well as all of my other elders. My peers grew up watching Westerns on TV, I grew up hearing the stories straight from people who actually lived it. It always baffled my History Teachers when I could detail most historic events after the early 1880s with ease. What made it even better for ME.....Grandma Winnie was a retired History Teacher with a PhD in Mathematics. With her and all of my other elders, along with all of the shoe boxes full of photos, History was a cinch. lol Most of Dad's stories about Nebraska involved Grand Island and Hastings, the 2 closest "big" cities to his hometown. He also spent a lot of time with family in Kansas, too.
I love your videos! Thank you for!
Intéressant, ce petit reportage photos
Thank you for the upload. The extreme sharpness of the black and white images are hard to equal today. I assume they were all made on large format cameras.
Thank you! My grand parents were from Nebraska. I can picture them there in my mind.
Love this so much , thank you 💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻☺️
Thank you❗❤😊👍
I used to have a '45 model of that Farmall M tractor, sold it to a farmer a few years ago when I bought a newer Kubota tractor. As far as I know it's still running and doing occasional work around the farm. Those were some VERY well built tractors, and there are probably thousands still running.
There also appears to be a toy truck sitting on the hood of the tractor for some reason.
I know car dealers for decades offered toy versions of their cars to kids of potential customers. I've never heard of commercial or agricultural dealers/makers doing this? I'm sure there's a fascinating story behind the model truck on the hood of the tractor but alas, we may never know!
Quite a few Farmalls sold in NZ, but faced fierce competition from the mid 50s on from Ferguson 35s.... plenty of old Fergies doing work around the country.... a tractor restoration place/collection just 28 km south of here at Te Horo . Round here..Levin... seems to be mainly John Deere country....from NZ.
@@neville132bbk Fergies were easier to get on and off of, but I still like the Farmalls styling and power better. Most of those tractors from that era were solid machines.
I was born in Fairbury, NE, MANY years ago.
Very well done.
Looked like a hard scrabble life there, but at least they had Mildred Irwin to keep them entertained
The Winifred Attwell of her day! 🧡
1:25 I have phone at our front door to match this one.
2:38 I filled up from a pump like this at Mink Creek Manitoba in 1973.
THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION THANK U I'VE RODE ONE IF MY HARLEY'S THROUGH THOSE PLACES ONCE EVERY YEAR SINCE 1987 AND USUALLY STAY IN LINCLON OVER NITE ON THE WAY TO STURGIS S D EVERY YEAR
Thank you that was great
Great video, have you done one about Minnesota?.
*I have very few 'fond Memories' of the past except for the ones of 'me & my Big Sister' playing which was long and long ago and I loved her fiercely*
*She was 3yrs. older and 'left me behind' as she grew-up so much faster than 'her little brother' that she protected from all enemies with her bony knees and elbows*
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*We haven't spoken or seen each other in decades now...but even that cannot erase 'what once was'*
( *Little sister came along when I was almost 11 and I was her 'playmate/teacher/sitter/and 'always there' during 'Mommy Dearests' gone activities* )
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*'Photos?'* *Yes...many of them, and I relished finding and destroying them almost becoming exalted over them ripping in my hands and then burning them all into ashes*
( *Yes, I have a very few I kept when we were kids because of the 'good memories'* )
Loved 🥰
wonderful...
I was hoping to recognize something... anything!
Born and raised in Omaha!
The bridge in some of the stockyard photos could be the 16th Street Bridge? Don't quote me.
Gothenburg still looks exactly the same! Probably the same gas pumps still there! 🤭
Mrs Renicker seemed to have an unusual amount of pickled eggs!? (top shelf in photo)
This is like the time I found a wash tub filled to overflowing in an antique shop on my way to Olathe KS. Somebody's memories lost in time! Photos no one will ever identify again. Fascinating to look at but really really sad at the same time! Families letting their history, their heirlooms being hocked at an antique/junk shop.
The Gothenburg grain elevator outlasted the gas station of the picture. I remember the elevator from the 70"s.
Silver nitrate negatives are still the best detailed image producers. Extreme digital,while wonderful for detail, does not allow for shading of light as does film molecular closeness. From an olde time IATSE editor. Cheers.
My mother was a child when they packed up and moved from Quapah OK to Oregon in about 1934. She said that as they were crossing the Rockies, the brakes overheated on their overloaded car (probably a Model A) and came close to going over the edge. I can see how that could happen pretty easy, because when living in a flat area, who thinks about brake fade...
New sub! Liked
that '48 chevy reminds me of the old cars i remember growing up in a small town in illinois in the '50's...they're probably still running in cuba now as they were made to last.
Nice tunes!
Von wem ist die wunderbare Musik und wie ist ihr Tittel?
Love it
@2:16 poor little guy looks like an old man: hard times!
He may still be alive.
4:00 Man, they built them big back then. I can't imagine a family big enough to fill out the place, never mind the heating bill.
Gas 29 cent a gallon. Another nice video. Thanks
I can remember gas being 20 cents in 1968.
Born in GI but was in a military family. So raised all over the US.
Thanks for sharing this with me, but where's a lot more photos of Western Nebr, I only seen like only 2, where's (Scottsbluff) National Monument? And who could forget (Bayard, Nebr). Home of Chimney Rock Monument, and other towns too here in (Western Nebr), like Mitchell, Morrill, Chadron, Alliance, Kimball, Bridgeport, Scottsbluff/GERING.
What is this song? It always reminds me of when I was little in the sixties 😊
1st pic was interesting where he used a horse wagon as utility trailer
The first photo looks perfect for a painting
I never knew until now that Scotts Bluff County was called ‘The American Valley of the Nile.’
Would be an interesting place to visit.
I have a box of old coins from the late 1880s to 1960 or so. I look at those coins and then pictures in your video and wonder about the coins in someones pocket back then. Someone had to have used them, they are used! Just fun thoughts. Then think how much you could buy with just pocket change back then. Oranges 1¢? Thanks for the video
Excellent
That young man at 2.11. That is the face of someone who has had a hard life in the few short years he'd been on Earth. He looked like fifteen going on forty.
Sorry to have missed Hoxies, in North Platt, best eating house in town.
Beautiful life
Other than the dopey depressing music, I enjoyed this video.
The tunes in the background sounds like we're taken from the Sim City game 😅
2:12 I can see in that face what the kid will look like at seventy years old.
May not seem much but you see a lot of independent people making a living (barely) on their own. But just wait in the 70’s through 2000 they have some of the best football teams in college history, GBR.
Love the "Assassin Of Youth: Marihuana" photo! LOL the old-timers are rolling in their graves right now!
what model car is in the first photo? - farm boy with flat tire.
How did a 1946 Buick end up in a 1942 photo?
By mistake & ignorance, of c - my h ...
I spent many summers in Litchfield
10:22 looks like it was a cigar store.....
I wonder how many of these folks ended up in Bakersfield California during those years.
CooL
Are we sure these photos are from the 30's and 40's? I've lived in that godforsaken land, and it looks like last week to me.
Been around lately? I don't think so.
Nice pictures. I don't think I would have made it in Nebraska. Maybe so I'm a good Truck driver. Might have hauled grain or livestock.
So if you had your picture taken in the 1930s or 40s, you had to disclose your "FSA borrower status." Who knew, right?
Probably taken for FSA public relations...
It wasn't even called FSA back then, it was FHA in those days.
The people looked so thin and under-fed.
Ok
Those were the good old days? Look pretty grim
back in those days marijuana was known as, and spelled, marihuana.
Lo
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Elevator music from the 70s I can't stand it....lol.
....??? ......too stupid to push the mute button ??
i love this music - who is the performer & name of this tune?
@@hopetondelli5146 Well then you would have loved the grocery store I worked at back in the early 70s because that's what they played on the intercom all day....lol.
@@beverlyspencer2448 Kevin MacLeod "Intractable"
@@GeorgePrice003 just hit the mute button, no more crappie music, problem solved.
Stop 🛑 🛑
Music is horrible
There is not one thing interesting about Nebraska!
You missed the boat show in Lincoln for the last 50 years,😎🤓🤔💰💲😱🍺🤑🥴😵
So,,what does interest you ?
Then don't watch it.
looks like you just copied a bunch of pics from www.shorpy.com , and even copied the text from most, at least you left his watermark on most
He compiled pictures of the lifestyle of Nebraskans during the 30s and 40s and made an interesting video on UA-cam. So where’s yours?