Peek Inside a 1940s Home
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Have you ever wondered what it was like to step inside a 1940s home? In this video, we peek inside the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom of a home during this decade.
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A little before my time, but I remember a lot of things because my grandmother had kept her house in the 40’s vibe way into the 1970’s…….. so I feel as if I know the era myself.
Me too.
I was born in 1957, and my grandmother's house looked the same way into the 1970's, too!
Where, I grew up in the 1970s and my parents were married in the mid 60s a lot of young couples were having brand new homes built, my brother had said it was because, the cost to build the homes were $1200 back then! If you go to Harrison, OH, down to the Meadows-A Subdivision, it’s like taking a step back in time and, however these houses including my childhood home is still standing but, you can see that the homes now are beginning to show their age!
Very cool!
The same with me. I remember growing up in the 70s visiting my grandparents and seeing many of the 1940s type things. As a kid, I just thought that is how "old" people lived.
My life with my wife began in 1972. We moved into the home I live in today in 1973. It is a classic Cape Cod.... much as you described. I just celebrated my 50th year in this house. These are livable homes.
Congratulations and many happy years to come!
What a sweet share….thank you!
3:55~I wish I had that stove!!
I grew up in a cape cod.
No you didn't. We grew up in Alaska, and you loved whale blubber as a child. You used to stick your finger in the whale blubber and throw it at little Anhanmik Remember? Till that time he hit you with the club his dad used on the seals. You stopped slinging whale blubber then. @@kathleengallagher2659
My dad was born in 1935 and he’s still with us and I love seeing how he lived..
I was born in 1947. The house I grew up in was built in the ‘20s. It was a bungalow but other houses on our block were larger. Didn’t bother me, only child so I had my own bedroom and an attic to play in. Great neighborhood!
Sounds wonderful!
@@wannaduckfin You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
Your story sounds like mine. Also born in 1947, grew up in a very small but cozy and happy 1920s bungalow. Only child. Had a small bedroom, attic to play in, wonderful neighborhood we played outside until the street lights came on. We were all poor but none of us knew it. There was so much love and community.
@@Desertcrone You aren’t from Indiana are you?
I grew up in a 2 bedroom house, there were 6 kids. Our living room was long , my dad made two rooms for my brothers on each end. My oldest brother got one side and the other two had a bunk bed. Our wooden house was on cinder blocks and built in the 1920's. We had a kerosene heater in the dining room. We had a screened in back porch. We three girls shared the big bedroom. My older sister got her own bed, I shared with my little sister. We had a claw foot tub. We lived there till I was 14.
The homes always looked inviting and cozy
I live in the apartment my apartment feels like it’s from the 1940’s the heat temperature is old you have to put it up.
Families spent much time together. Thats what is missing now. The 1940's the greatest generation!!
You need therapy if you think 1940s was great💀💀💀
@Miki_big_red_machine It was the greatest generation. Obviously, you don't read much. There is a book entitled "The Greatest Generation " by Tom Brokaw. It was about the sacrifices Americans made during WW2. The hardships at home and, of course, the men who were fighting. Why don't you get away from your smartphone and computer. Stop wasting your life with them all day. Your not very intelligent. You are probably a Taylor Swift fan.
For white, straight people.
Yes indeed families togetherness. Taking Sunday rides and stopping for a picnic lunch but always together. The were happier.
As long as you weren't black, German, Italian, Japanese, Latino, Jewish, anti-war in any way, a woman who didn't want to be a housewife, or gay. Then you would be faced with , sexism, homophobia, racism if you were black or Latino, and likely bullying and being beat up at best and internment at worst if you were from the first three groups, no matter whose side you were on
My house was built in 1930 and I'm trying to keep it in the pre-WWII vibe of the space going with traditional style furniture and appliances (at least the big appliances). Nothing "modern" in it except things that are small and not very noticeable. My TV, computers and stuff like that are all upstairs. I love videos like this as it gives me more ideas on how to decorate vintage.
That’s awesome 😎
Here too, Patrick. My living room furniture is between 1886 and 1940. Most of the house is older furniture and what isn’t, is slowly being sold off and replaced with older pieces. No TVs or computer junk downstairs here either. A working wood stove cooks our meals most of the year. The sofas were inherited and date from 1920 and 1931. To some, it probably looks “stuffy” but I find it cozy.
@@amieinnovascotia3237 Sounds great! I would love to see that.
@@Patrick-kt5mc: The old piano has just been removed to make way for an old quarter sawn oak china cabinet (that we don’t need) but couldn’t pass up. None of the furniture is of any significant value. The piano was extremely heavy and we are “on in years” (73 & 81) and realistically will likely have to give up this old barn eventually so it had to go while we are still strong enough to wrestle with it.
Same here for me, living in my grandparents’ house.
Born in 1955, but we lived in the upstairs of a dual level home in New Orleans which sported most of the things mentioned. My mom definitely had a cedar chest, still have it today. And my grandparents home was the same, as most homes we visited. Great memories! God bless you and your family always. Thanks for everything you do! Love the channel!!
I too have my mom's cedar chest downstairs ... I haven't opened it in at LEAST 30 years. I now wonder what's even in it?
So many great people here and so many great comments:) You can't beat the smell of a cedar chest.
@@brian70Cuda You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
I also was b.1955, I have my parents 1950s Lane Cedar chest,I was born in Sacramento, Ca in a new housing development in the suburbs, 3 bd 1000sqft My grandparents home in town was a craftsman house built in the 1900s, many of the same features as this video…..
I also lived in an upstairs level of a dual-level home in NOLA, a great city for vintage homes. It was over 100 years old.
Our home was built in 1945 and *it* was a two bedroom ranch style. We bought it in 1992 and while renovating the bathroom we realized the "ceramic tile" around the bath tub/shower was some sort of metal with enamel paint. All the ceramic had gone to the war effort and builders "improvised". :)
There was also a plastic version of that tile, I think it came around in the 50s.
There was also a board called Marlite that was used to panel the walls and ceilings of many 40s kitchens and baths.
Metal would have gone before ceramic.
All of this was before my time but by watching this video it brings back such fine memories of dearly departed friends and relatives that are now gone. It is interesting to see what a simple life they'd led and how satisfied most were at that time. Certainly not over the top materialism like we have today.
They likely had it beat out of them by the Great Depression. Once it started going out of living memory, though, the old bad habits started creeping back in.
I was born in '65 and recall many of these items from my grandparents homes. My dad's mom had a claw-foot tub and I thought it was the coolest thing. One thing I didn't see mentioned was the old style washing machine with the twin-roller ringer thingy mounted on it. My mom's parents had one in their basement.
My mom's parents had a ringer washer in their basement too. I was fascinated by it!
Yup. My grandmother had one. Cool to watch her use it when I was a kid.
Born in '60, my grandparents had those things, I loved taking a bath in the clawfoot, with a rubber drain stopper attached to a chain. But they also still kept an outhouse back by the barn until they sold in the 80's.
Wringer washer
Love the old photos of the houses and how people dressed!
@scottmcwave9479,,You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
My family's home had only one telephone (rotary dial) and it was in the dining room. If someone called after 8 pm bedtime (almost unheard of) we all woke up with hearts pounding and my father would have to go downstairs to answer it.
6:13 "With half of the 1940s taken by the second world war ..."
My friend lives in a "war house," build in the early '40s, and it has the most efficient water piping design I've ever seen. It has a kitchen and only one bath, and the kitchen is backed by the bathroom, and the water heater is in the corner of the kitchen.
_ALL_ of the water pipes, _especially_ hot water pipes, are all within a 5 foot circle. I now speculate this was to conserve the piping required to run to the various sinks and toilet and tub.
And yes, it's just under 1000 sq ft.
LOL, it still is. I design this way out of habit, but the reason is to avoid wasting materials. It just makes sense. One reason the "tiny house movement" seems so ridiculous to me is that "smaller" has always been the way to build "cheaper". Now, it seems that "cheaper" is no longer the reason to build small. Seems that it's all about cute-sounding names. Maybe somebody has trademarked the term already... sheesh. No, efficient design isn't only a wartime consideration. Some people just don't want to spend all the extra money.
@@shaggybreeks I'm not arguing with you, I promise I'm not.
In my first house, built in about 1970, it had a garage out front, facing the street. In the garage was the water heater. The master bathroom was in the very back of the house, I don't know, 30 or 40 feet away? The hot water pipes (and cold too, obviously) went up into the attic, then the whole way across the entire house to the back. When taking a shower, you'd run a few gallons of water until you got hot water.
Now, I live in a tri-level condo, built in 1989. The water heater is in the basement. The master bedroom is on the 2nd floor (two stories above), and again, opposite side of the building. Again with the gallons of water before hot is present.
I recognize "my experience" is not "everybody's experience," but from what I see, not as much attention is payed to pipe length compared to the '40s.
I remember that my house as a kid at first had no indoor plumbing except we had a kitchen sink with running water. We had” a little brown shack “ out back. That’s an outdoor toilet.
My parents married in 1937 and Dad was already living in the house his father built and he inherited. Grandma also lived there. I was the youngest of four surviving birth and was born in 1957. Ours was a bungalow style with interior much like this video. I thought it terribly outdated when I was in school especially during the mid century modern era. My brother retired and makes his home there now with his wife. It’s a wonderful feeling of nostalgia to be able to visit where I grew up. I now appreciate how well made the appliances were. Some still being used.
So true about appliances from back then.
Our house when I was a tyke when we lived with our grandfather had only one phone located in the hallway entrance at the bottom of the steps and just as you enter the living room, there was a small phone table and chair where you sat while conversing. In this house we still had a claw foot tub. This was in the late 50s and the house was built around 1912. When we moved to our own home we had 1 phone in the basement, 1st floor and top floor. By the late 1970s and 80s almost every room in most houses had a phone. The new home we moved into was built in the 40s. Had the original late 40s stove and refridge. When we sold the house in the early 2000s. It still had the same stove and fridge and worked perfectly after over 50 consecutive years of use. Still had the original metal kitchen cabinets too.
My home was built in 1949 and is 944 square feet. It's small but perfect for us. I love the mid century aesthetic.
Old houses are more attractive to my eyes
I was born in '48, but I remember those styles lasted a few years into the '50s. I bought a house in '81 that had one of the gas stoves from the video. I used it for about 25 years before I decided to replace it with something a bit smaller.
Yeah, a lot of those were 42" wide ... pretty much all stoves today are 30" wide.
Those stoves were built to last forever, unlike the fancy ones today.
Ahhh, so breaking down was not the reason for replacing it 🙂
@@erikaquatsch2190 Most of the parts were metal and replaceable. You called in a repairman and he fixed it. Today with all the plastic parts and printed circuit boards, it's cheaper to throw the whole thing away. Quite un-green actually in spite of all the hoopla about global warming.
@@incog99skd11 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
I Am 65, But You Made Me Tear Up. It Was Like Walking Into The Best Ever Granny House 😢 Thank So Much.. How About The 1930???
The 40s were my parents elementary years. Very fun to see what they probably lived in. Though, my mother lived in a home that had no electricity, used a Woodstove for cooking and a manual pump for water. Thanks so much for such a well thought out video. ❤
Yes same with my parents, my Mom told me they had an outhouse for the bathroom. She was always scared to go out outside at night her brother my Uncle worked check for animals before going inside. This was in Brooklyn NY back when it was mostly farm land. It's hard to imagine now but very interested to me how things change.
its crazy how fast time really goes by... the 40's were before my grandparents time!
Several of those kitchens with the metal cabinets remind me so much of my maternal grandparent's first house in the suburbs. They LOVED that house - it was all hand-built by my grandfather and a couple of his friends!
I wonder if it was built according to a Sears plan? Back then, you could buy house plans from Sears, and build-it-yourself.
@@josephgaviota yes you could!
Same here. My grandfather built some furniture I still have.
@@martinpennock9430 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
@Doesnotplaywellwithothers My grandparents had a metal cabinet in the kitchen. It was a stand alone piece I still have today.
Great video. At home air conditioning was introduced in 1931 but cost 10 to 50k a unit so very few but the rich had them..
My parents first house was a Levitt house in NJ in the 60’s. Brand new so that’s the only reason I grew up with central AC. 😊
I love nostalgic stuff like this😃Thank you Recollection Road👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
In 1971 my parents purchased a small (salt box style) house in an older area of Lodi, CA
It was built in 1946 & i still remember the linoleum (couldn't take it up - asbestos backing) in the kitchen & back porch, Hardwood floors, gold & burgundy tiles for the kitchen counter, salmon pink tiles for the bathroom,.... it was where my parents lived till dad died in in 1994 & mom stayed there till 2021 (50 years!) When she moved in with my brother in Stockton. I recently saw the house on a rental property site - I saw many things still there and wonder.
The 40s were well before I came along but, things were built to last a lifetime back then so, as a child born in 1968 and raised through the 1970s-80s, I remember many of these things.
Several times, you mentioned that most homes didn't have air conditioning back then and our farmhouse (built in the 1890s) was no different. However, one thing that was added by my grandparents sometime in the 1950s was a huge, reversible attic fan. That fan could push or pull so much air through the whole house the, when it was running, there was a good 10-15 m.p.h. breeze no matter what room you were in so, it was almost like having a/c. We also had a large, double sided wood burning fireplace. One side opened to the living room and the other to the kitchen. Even in that old farmhouse, we were never cold in the winter and, never had to worry about having a hot meal, even if we ran out of propane for the stove. With all that said, my favorite thing about that house was my bedroom. Obviously because it was MY room but, there was another great feature too. You see, my room had a set of French doors that opened onto a balcony. I can't tell you how many nights I dragged my mattress out onto the balcony and fell asleep under the stars. It was wonderful growing up in that house! So wonderful in fact that my wife and I added those features to our own 1890s farmhouse over the 30+ years that we've owned it and, raised our family. Even though they're all grown and on their own now, our kids still call the old place HOME!
Sounds delightful. Love the idea of sleeping under the stars ⭐️
How absolutely wonderful. I would have been in heaven if my childhood bedroom had a balcony.
I can imagine how superb a bedroom balcony must've been growing up ..
Never had that, although you reminded me of having one of those enormous attic fans. My father installed it mid-1970s and I can recall from childhood many hot humid New England summers without A/C, but the large fan was the next best thing and worked the way you described ..
a constant steady breeze flowing in from every open window throughout the house, making it much more comfortable to sleep etc.
@@E4Sierra It’s funny I spent some summer nights at a friends house in college. Big place, tennis court, pool, on a lake. No AC! They had an attic fan.
We had a house built in 66 but it had an attic fan. We ran it in the spring and fall when the days were very warm but the nights were cool. We ran a/c during the hot days though, thank goodness.
Well, this episode was the ultimate trip back in time. So much like my grandparent's house. The furniture, buffet where my grandmother would put up so many baked goods for Christmas. She also had a cedar chest with clothing and newspapers and magazines. One paper reporting on JFK's assassination.
I work as a sous chef and I'm in a commercial kitchen all day ... but I have to admit that the kitchen at 3:55 is my dream kitchen ♥
That kitchen and stove are adorable! The older I get, the more I really love all things vintage! 😊
@@debbiepochy6751 Yes, the old Gaffers & Sattler and O'Keefe and Merritt stoves were so great! Makes me think of my late grandmother's house.
@@josephgaviota You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
Beautiful indeed!
And designed to last until you got tired of it@@debbiepochy6751
3:00 A friend's mom lives in the same house she's lived in since she was three (she's now 88); and the only phone is a black phone on the wall in the kitchen.
My first house had a "phone nook" in the hallway where the phone was ... as our narrator says, out of the living room, so as not to disturb other activities.
Grew up in the 60s. A thousand square feet is fine and all you really need. We were a family of six, and we were fine living in that small house. People today have all kinds of things but are not as happy as we were with much less. My mother stayed home, we only had one car but had more fun than all of the people I know today. We played outside and rode our bikes all over town. Today people are afraid to walk down the street or let their kids do anything that might get them dirty.
Same with us! Wonderful childhoods
Yes. As kids we were always outside and all over our small midwest town, just had to be home for supper then back outside until it got dark.
I think we were lucky to be kids when there were no distractions like social media and smart phones.
It amazes me how people today want to own those "monster houses." Do you really want to heat, cool, light, and clean 5,000 sq. feet of a house? Really?
There is t a lot of fun in life anymore. Dads being able to take us to a Sunday School picnic, or even just a day at the Beach. My father used to take us to an island to explore abandoned buildings - quarantine hospital from 1800s, an abandoned homestead, an old lighthouse from the 1920s. Then a fire was built on the beach and a pot of ocean water set to boil lobsters. Then marshmallows. These days, fathers and mothers work all day with many having side jobs to gobble up the weekends just to keep a home going. Appliances that once lasted decades have to be replaced every 4 or 5 years now so the money has to keep flowing in to pay for this stuff over, and over, and over again. Not to mention the taxation.
What a different world we have managed to create, not a good one.
4:25 That kitchen table, except in yellow, is the exact table my grandmother had until her dying day.
My grandparents had the yellow one too!
I remember as a little girl granny who passed away years ago had a cedar chest👃😌 and they smell so good wish they still make that furniture
I live in a 1919 California Bungalow, furnished with all vintage pieces from the late 1920s and 40s. I love the retro look and feeling.
I'll bet it looks excellent. I love things from that era. Like our grandparents.
You are so lucky to live in such a great environment. In Cali, no less. I grew up in Miami, even as I kid, I loved the pastels of the art deco hotels. We have lost a lot over the years to that Pottery Barn sensibility I think.
@@sarahalbers5555 Being a native San Franciscan, it's so sad of how the city has declined...no comparison to the city I came of age in (late 40s-mid 60's).
Love this, thank you! I'm 66, a simpler time as it seemed back then...
I was born in 1945. My parents didn't buy their first new home until 1961 when I was in high school. It was a modern, all electric 2,500 sq ft two story home in Santa Clara, CA. I think they paid a little over $24,500. Last year, it sold for $1.8 million ! Crazy !
My parent's house was $16,000 in 1956. Three bedroom, two bath, big back yard.
My father paid 13k for home in 1960 for a 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath semi detached house. Sold it for 180k in the early 2000s.
Ask yourself why it sold for so much more. _Who_ are the ones charging _usury?_ _Who_ created "inflation"?@@matrox
@coloradostrong MY parents home in Santa,Clara is in PRIME Computer tech territory. Everything is sky high because of supply and demand. SAN JOSE, SANTA CLARA are all desired areas to live in by those in the "tech business".
Good video it’s real interesting on how a normal house was in the 40s and features it has in it
Love those kitchens❤❤ so charming and artsy, not like the blah boring cold looking ones of today.
Agreed. Much nicer than the Pottery Barn look, I think.
My grandma told me, stories, about back in the days. When she was younger, everything was different and better back then the good old days. 😊😮😁💯👌👍
My parents grew up in the 40's/50's; Dad had a large Philco radio with a single 12" speaker that tuned in the AM and short-wave bands. He kept that old radio until he died in 2011.
My Mom had one of those cedar chests; blankets were stored there after winter's end.
My dad had a big, black short wave radio, too, and he enjoyed listening to stations far, far away.
This is the way my maternal grandparents' home looked. They lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia. This is also the way the first home I remember looked. The cabinets were "Youngstown kitchen". Steel with a white enamel finish. We had brushed steel canisters with black Bakelite lids, with letters in white indicating flour, sugar, coffee and tea. We had a "Welbuilt" stove. It was amazing that my mom could fit a 20 pound turkey in the oven on Thanksgiving. The highchair, children's furnishings, and especially the living room looked 1940's. And I was born in 1955. So to this day, I find the 1940's style house very homey.
I remember a friend of mine found a bunch of LIFE magazines from the 42-45 years and it had a lot of advertisements that showed what homes and products were used during that time ⏲️ frame.
I enjoyed the artwork on those advertisements.
Recollection Road While I love your informative videos, I must correct one thing from this video! The “bureau” with the attached mirror was not called a bureau! It’s called a VANITY & was designed for women to sit at while they did their makeup & hair & put on their makeup. Fancy perfume bottles also often adorned the tops. The drawers were used for storing these items and usually lingerie, including hose & garters, &/or undergarments. The vanity was always accompanied by an elegant small chair. My mother had one that matched my parents’ bedroom suite. Born in 1958, I’m not from that era, but I grew up antiquing with my parents & can easily identify hundreds of obsolete items going back to the early days of the Victorian era. It’s one reason I so enjoy your videos!
I was not around in the 40s. But as a child I have been in many homes still adorned with 1920s, 30s and 40s decor.
Very enjoyable and very nicely presented.
I think the appliances they had were much better than what we got now. Yes the refrigerator is good but they make everything so cheap now and it doesn't last unlike everything in the past. Some of the items they showed in this video I would love to have now. Having a small house is better as well unless you have a lot of children of course. My parents house was about 1200 sq ft and they raised 7 kids in it. It seemed so big to me until I moved away and came back periodically and realized it wasn't as big as I thought it was when I was a kid lol.
You take us back and we want to stay 💖
Reminds me of my Grandparent's house when I was little!!!🥰😊
My paternal grandparents lived in a large home with 2 apartments in place of a basement. Their lot was 2 acres and my grandfather raised horses and they had a big garden.
My maternal grandfather was a Master Carpenter and he and his wife lived ion homes he built and when it was done he would buy a new lot and build a new home. Eventually my grandmother go fed up with this and demanded they stay in one of the houses they sold, but the buyer wasn't able to make the payments and they had to repossess the home.
I remember my grandma's metal cabinets in her kitchen (until she remodeled.) I also have her hope (cedar) chest which was in her bedroom now its in mine.
Did she have the matching jewelry case?
@@samanthab1923 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, In the 1940's when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
We had metal cabinets. Always made a loud bang when you closed the door. Ours had been repainted, so the doors would stick together and be hard to open or close. My Mother hated that. The enameled cast iron sink had a 2 ft. wide attached drain board on each side. Great for washing and storing dishes. Mother loved that! Wish I had the sink but never the cabinets.
My parents moved to LA from Dearborn Mich. so my dad could work for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach. He was too old to enlist but was willing to work in a factory for war effort! He was a musician by trade and never worked in a factory again! My family moved from LA to a little town east called Azusa! I lived there until I graduated from high school ! Great memories of those two contrasting cities! Azusa was all orange groves and lots of places to play! I remember how quite that first morning was when I went outside with my brother! What a contrast! It was a great childhood!!!
I go into old homes that have picture rails which are crown molding that have a 1 inch gap below the ceiling. People would put a hook on the gap that was used to hang pictures because the walls are plaster and putting a nail in a plaster wall would cause the plaster to crack.
😂 1:46 She's on a ladder in heals. No doubt, cleaning in pearls. Advertising back then was a hoot.
My grandparents’ home was built in the mid-Depression so its style was probably close to the 1940’s aesthetic mentioned in this video. The wringer washer was also in their kitchen, as was an everyday table that was useful as extra workspace when needed.
I was born in 1945 and remember much of this exactly as you show! I really lived in a house like that! In Florida! I remember the brutal summer heat with no more than a table fan to try to keep cool.
I still have the Bing Crosby Christmas "album" of 78 speed records pictured at 02:40. it belonged to my parents.
Thanks for sharing this video!, a simpler time, loved the clawfoot bath tub and the colorful kitchen, but I'd have to have more food prep space, but the ladies made do with what they had. 😊
Medicine cabinets in the 40's, 50, and even the 60's were built with a little slot in the back of it, to dispose of worn-out razorblades. When rehabbing an old house, you might find hundreds of rusty razorblades, between the walls.
Telephones were also kept in nooks or cubby holes in the hallway; that is, these "phone access locations" were designed, some with a Cathedral-type architecture, as insets in the hallway wall to easily hold a (rather heavy) rotary dial telephone. I don't know where the phone book was kept, but perhaps there was room in that inset for it, being placed right beneath the phone, or, perhaps, there was a drawer just below where it could be kept out of sight. One thing I noticed with post-World War II subdivisions, and I lived in one in the 1950s as a child, was the lack of trees. When I look at my childhood neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, via the internet--now roughly 70 years later, it still has that barren look, with minimal landscaping and almost no trees. It has a forlorn feeling about it. ~drs (01/09/24)
I'm from Europe. My parents were young teenagers in WW 2. In Europe they didn't have radios back then, no transportation and they had to walk hours for a pound of butter. This looks very luxurious for the 1940's.
I just bought a 1940s home and found so many similarities to this vid. very cool.
It's amazing how much these description match my grandparenets houses in the 1960's, minus the television. Their houses had not changed much in the 20 years since the 1940's.
Our house was built in 1946 when we replaced the roof we noticed that the sheathing was old military crates now that’s recycling
Thank you for the wonderful trips down memory lane!🙂🤍💯👍!
3:56 Those old Gaffers & Sattler and O'Keefe and Merritt stoves were so great. HEAVY, HUGE, Long Lasting.
This is amazing. Please keep doing these!!! This era is my past life.
In the evening the family would gather in the living room and listen to popular radio programs.
Imagine that! The family actually getting together each evening.
Ten years ago I downsized to a 840 sqft 2BR house that was built in 1925. I'm pretty sure it's not a Sears kit home but is based on the Vinita Sears kit design.
I would love to find out who was sitting in here listening to the radio when they heard the war was over.
Nothing is square in an old house but, since it's small, repairs are cheap and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I absolutely ADORE the understated, functional elegance of the 1940s - where all ornateness might been stripped away, it was instead downsized to a very select minimum that was enhanced by the tidied removal of overcrowding garishness. Its roots were devastating, of course, but the resulting style is timelessly appealing. (Not to mention how dang DURABLE the era’s stuff was - such as my toaster and fav pots and pans!)
Everything is so beautiful and different ❤❤❤
Wish I lived back then , love every thing about the 40's ❤️
Thanks for posting. I enjoyed watching.
My 1885 house still has the 40s cabinet and porcelain sink
Other than gathering around the radio instead of a little TV, this looks a lot like the house I grew up in throughout the 70s. It's probably a rich man's house in the 40s but a poor man's house in the 70s.
I was born in 1942. The radio was the center piece of the living room. The house was heated by coal and the walls had to be washed each spring. We had an ice box in the kitchen, and until 1945 we were a household of sisters whose husbands were at war
The bathroom's medicine cabinet often had a space to drop used razors (no handle!) which collected in the walls!
My parents bought their first house in 1952, a brand new Cape Cod, and it had many similarities to the 1940s style reflected here. I grew up in the transitional period from deco to modern, and it was awesome. In the early 1960s, we moved into a larger ranch style house and started to adopt the paneled "country" look that was so prevalent in the 1960s - oranges, browns, etc. which carried over into the 1970s. What awesome memories these videos elicit!
I love listening to Old-Time Radio. SUSPENSE, The Jack Benny Program, ESCAPE, Adventures of Sam Spade, Burns & Allen, and The Whistler are all favorites.
Our first home was one of the old cinderblock homes built in Canada after the war. Warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Like many, ours had been sided over. Still many were just painted.
Just under 1000 square feet, but good dry basements. A large family room took up half. Shared driveway.
A back wooden sunroom added extra space. Not useable except for storage in the winter. Kept pop cold at Christmas.
Our second baby came home to that house.
Having been born in '42, i can easily identify with almost all of this era. Dad worked for adhor milk farms as a milkman, and mom worked for Douglas aircraft during the war as a riveting supervisor and later on engineering Dept at North American. I was an only child at the time but that changed when we moved from los Angeles to texas.
My parents had a nice little Cape Cod home on Barry Avenue in Methuen, MA. I was just little, but i remember it well. I have a one hundred year old cedar chest that belonged to my grandmother. I use it in my living room as a coffee table. Almost everyone had a cedar chest back then, for storing winter woolens.
My grandmother had one. 👍
I really love this program, thank you❤
This is correct. I can remember my grandparent's 1950s-1960s house. Nothing changed much from the 40s to the early 60s except the first black and white television and later color television. They were simple, unpretentious people.
Another great vid by Recollection Road
Tfs. I Lov your vintage channell.
I've always loved the Craftsman houses!
Went to Arkansas in ‘64 to visit relatives. I was 14. My Granny had an outhouse, no hot water,& a pig.
In Illinois we used to have no hot water, an outhouse and a chicken coop. Until I was about 9.
If it makes you feel any better, Some of us here in Arkansas are still waiting on city water and high-speed Internet!!!!😢
I put red strip wallpaper in the alcoves of OUR 1940.s home we had a coal fireplace and a book shelf in the alcoves for dads gardening snd world 2 leather bound gardening books dad grew potatoes cabbages tomatoes brussel sprouts lots more home grown veg we had apple tree rhubarb and gooseberry bushes they were a bit draughty i remember the cold strong winds blowing our curtains across the through the french windows. We had real wood picture rails. It was Lovely.
Id kill for those appliances and bathtub! I HOPE you'll do more videos like this for every decade.
Both of my grandmas had the same exact step stool chair at 3:53 in their kitchens. Spent a lot of hours watching them cook or can.
This isn't generally true for houses built in the 1940s, but a lot of people in the 1940s were still living in houses without indoor plumbing and telephones. We've come a long way since then.
I have a dear friend who grew up in Williamsport PA in the 60’s. She went to school with kids who still had out houses!
_... a lot of people in the 1940s were still living in houses without indoor plumbing ..._
So true. That's why a home with three bedrooms and ONE bathroom seemed _luxurious,_ imagine, using the potty INDOORS !
Compared to going outside for an outhouse, this _was_ a wonderful thing.
@ericdonner7199 I’m in Bucks Co. PA now & occasionally see them in peoples gardens. Usually the old Stoneys.
My grandmother live in rural Va. on a decent size farm. She had indoor plumbing and a bathroom. about 90% of the neighbors still had out houses well into the 1970s. When I visited these neighbors and some were my relatives I myself used these out houses.✊😌
My parents carpeted the bathroom and liked it so much they decided to bring carpet inside our house. 😂
I visited a time capsule back in 1980 when I helped cater a home where everything was 1940 's furniture appliances & carpet..it was as if I went back in time ..
Cool for sure!
I'm watching so as to jog my memory of my grandmother's home. Hers was also the same until she moved to an apartment in the 70's!! My God I miss that woman💖
I loved the colour photo of the kitchen with red/white checked curtains and mint green wall and cupboard door accents. Thank you.
I absolutely love all your videos. They always make my day :) thank you!
I'm with ya on that one!
I own a 1942 ranch and I’m trying to add some decade appropriate character into. This video is great! I already have some of the items mentioned and I’m on the right track. Much appreciated!
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Just described my grandparent's house exactly, and it was built in 1937.
Love this channel bringing back so many memories.
2:50 My dad told us that as a kid, they had blackout curtains. The fear of the Japanese bombing Los Angeles suburbs was palpable.
I was born in 1946 in southern Indiana and we still had an out house. There was a pitcher pump in the kitchen cold water only so water was heated on the stove. Wringer washer and clothesline for drying. Also the living rooms would be used for a loved one casket to be viewed before the funeral. There would be someone setting 24 hours for 3 days to greet families that were coming from afar and would get there late hours. We called this a wake.