These people suffered greatly and most of them endured to begin a new, better life. My grandma was from Arkansas, though she came to California prior to this time. I greatly respect anyone who came through these hard times.
Absolutely a beautiful, heartfelt video that gets to the real experience these folks suffered. The blend of spiritual and classic music only served to enhance the experience. Thank you.
Very nicely done... These pictures echo the hunger & despair of these familys, in the middle of nowhere, with no food, no gas, and no hope for a future. But alot of our parents and grand-parents went through it, both the depression and the dust bowl, and lived to tell us their stories. Listen to them and you will learn a great deal about how to deal with bad times. Thanx for posting...
I was bored in 1936 in South Carolina. My dad ran a USDA agricultural experiment station. Didn't experience any of this personally but I heard a lot about it from my parents and grandparents. Wonderful clear photos. You did a great job Thank you
@ajaxa9 Your Dad was one of the lucky few here with a stable job. My Mom was born in Greenville SC in 27, one of 13 kids. Her Dad made a bit of money fixing cars and her Mom kept the kids busy gardening and hunting poke salad when it was in season. None of them had more than one set of clothes and only the girls had shoes, worn only on special occasions. Neighbors and kinfolk all pitched in to help each other but nobody really had anything. Unimaginably hard times.
@@P_RO_Although I didn't have to endure any of the effects of the depression directly, my father died shortly after World War II and we went back to West Virginia to live with my grandparents on a subsistence farm with no running water or electricity. Our neighbor's kids didn't even wear clothes during the summer. We had an 80 acre farm and lots of help from neighbors and shared crops. No one wore shoes in the summer ot were bothered with intact, presentable clothing. As I remember we always had plenty to eat and we're reasonably happy. I don't think the current generation could survive this sort of existence.
My parents and my grandfather migrated from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to Taft, California in 1941. I was 6 months old. They drove what my mother described as an old Ford panel truck. They arrived in California just in time for the U.S. entry into WWII. I kept looking for the panel truck during your video, but now realize our trip took place much later.
Great pictures, I grew up and currently live 50 miles north from the dust bowl epicenter, in south east Colorado. Both of my grandmothers tufted it out in the 30’s and stayed here. My grandfathers both left to find work elsewhere. Both grandfathers were farmers. Both grandmothers were able to raise their children and stay here.
Thank you for producing this very informative and educational Video that depicts the Historic Drought Conditions and Hardships that part of America went through during the 1930s. The combination of the 1929 Stock Market crash followed by the Great Depression and 25% un employment brought devastating economic conditions that the U. S. did not come out of until after WW 2. The past two generations do not know what Real Hard Economic Times are like. Let us all hope that we do not have a repeat of that historic time period in America. The Narration was excellent in comments for each series of Photos.
Hi Vern and welcome to the channel. I thank the Lord each and every day and every night for what I have and for how He provides for me and my family. Be blessed🙂
Very well done piece. I found a book of Dorothy Lang’s work at a flea market and bought it. I have passed it down to my son who has interests in things past and works at a Cultural Center and Museum in WV. She did amazing work. Very artistic reality.
@pascalt9655 Many of them were very intelligent also. My maternal grandfather "blew out" of Oklahoma in the mid 30's. They, like so many plains farmers, headed west, taking any work they could find, sleeping in a tent, eating water biscuits and water gravey. They couldn't afford milk. Beans and cornbread was a feast when they could afford it. They finally came back to New Mexico where Grandpa had gotten a job as a Gandy Dancer, track worker, on the Santa Fe. Grandpa bought everyone a hamburger and a bottle of Coca Cola with his first paycheck. My poor mom had not eaten anything that rich in years and wound-up not being able to keep it down. She's 94 this year and remembers that like it was yesterday.
Wonderful job. It's amazing to think of the despair and deprivation that millions of folks experience, and how that shaped their attitudes towards financial behavior. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without," were mottos my grandparents lived by (as did many of their generation who came of age during this time) and that trickled down to their kids, and so on. Unfortunately, as with so many lessons learned, the further in time we get from an experience like that, the less the lessons learned are remembered and passed on.
thanks for the great pictures and info. Maybe the music is a little bit to loud in some parts, but that's just my humble opinion. Best regards and looking forward to more, Simon
My grandmother was an okie. She remembered leaving and the journey and struggle and how everything had value and use. Cardboard for resoling shoes etc. she is 100 years old now and still kicking. Unfortunately the stories are no longer told but are still remembered from family.
The days when cars and motorcycles used the same tyres. Well looks like it anyway. Thanks for showing. We just came back from the outback of Australia in our Japanese 4 x 4.. I can't imagine travelling in these old cars. At 5:39 we see some people on a hunting and fishing trip with a tent bed thingy.
Hi and welcome to the channel! It is truly hard to believe that people traveled to the west coast with everything they had packed into an old Model T but the did.
It 2018 I had the opportunity to drive Route 66. I was on one of the oldest sections, just north of Bristol, OK, on a section that dead ends at the Sand Creek Bridge. I pulled over and just thought about all the people that drove that old road, the hopes and dreams they had, and all the different cars that went down that old highway. All the troubles they went through, the breakdows, the flat tires, getting stuck, overheating, all the hot, miserable miles crossing America, and this country is HUGE. Almost a century later I crossed the country just because I could, and then drove back again. Driving a modern car all I did was put gas in it. Thanks for this video, those pictures helped put it in context, and I've no doubt some of those were taking on Route 66. And just what IS on the running board of that car at 9:20? No, it's not a subwoofer.. a camping stove maybe?
At 9:18 why does that model T ford have a dual 10inch subwoofer box on the running boards? At least this family had a bangin' system in their ride! 😎 Also notice there were no overweight people in these pictures...none. It was beans and cornbread or go hungry. My dad lived like that in eastern kentucky mountains till he left for work in Detroit around 1964 for good. He didn't know they were poor growing up because everyone was happy. He didn't plan to stay in Michigan either but life has other plans than what you want sometimes. We always visited down home as often as possible, but it was March 15 , 2016 he took his final ride up the holler. I still miss my father/best friend. I'll be coming to see you soon enough dad.
Even as late as the 1950s my older brother was driving across Kansas during a dust storm and the wind was blowing so hard that it sand blasted the paint off one side of his car.
I’m reading a novel about a family living through the dust bowl “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah. The photos are a visual reminder of the suffering and resilience of those living on the plains in the 1930’s.
I’m 73 and remember my grandparents talking about the depression. Seeing these pictures shows the reality of the hardships people faced. Im so lucky to have had the life I’ve had. Everyone needs to see these pictures!!!!
Most of the cars were Fords, Chevys and other low priced makes' Many were ten plus years old. Hardly a day of travel could be made without breakdowns, flat tires, overheating etc. I assume many cars broke down, not repairable and left on the side of the road. Did these people end up walking? Did they leave or lose their possessions? How many died and are buried along the roads? There must be thousands of stories. I really liked your video, thanks. Liked and subbed.
Hi Dennis and welcome to the channel and thanks for subscribing! Yes, many of those low priced cars that were a decade old and beaten up, yet they still managed to use them. Tough folks back then.
@dennisthehirev580 Most places had anti-vagrancy laws, so if your car couldn't be fixed you sold it and your belongings for whatever price you could get, then hitched a hide with whoever you could from there. Later on during the migration instead of jail for vagrancy you might be carried out of town then dumped off because even the jails didn't have enough food to go around.
Thank you for your liking my comment lol only reason I know of what my parents experience through that time period I was born in 1962 so I also had my grandma and uncles that share stories of their youth now my mom’s folks was not originally from Canada they came up from Lancaster PA and my grandma had lot more interesting stories lol
Just when you think you have it tough today,we can't imagine the struggle many Americans suffered thru in the 30s. WE are tough and resilient folks here in the U.S..Thanks Ken ,that was great.Thx
LOL 😂, " WE "WERE " TOUGH AND RESILIENT FOLKS". Now go get that sex change. From the GREATEST GENERATION to the CELLPHONE HOLDING FREELOADER GENERATIONS.
Hi and welcome to the channel. How right you are. I will actually be doing a 1:43 scale "barn Find" diorama with a couple of Model A cars I end up using.
One thing that most of them had in those days was each other, meaning large families. Today it's just the opposite, according to my own experience and that of many others. We are now seperated and isolated for many reasons while being materialistically much better off.
Yes and if that wasn’t enough the dust bowl refugees were treated very badly and exploited by neighbouring states, we’ve learnt nothing from that awful period- great photos but those poor people really suffered
I did not enjoy this video, but I really appreciate you going to the trouble of compiling and narrating it, I found it really interesting and it is a salutary lesson to all of us and the fact that migrants were Not welcomed just goes to show mans inhumanity to man, which even encompasses treatment of ones countrymen and women. I'm from Australia and my parents grew up during the great depression, my father and his younger brother were only about 5 feet 4 inches tall from a family of 6 feet men as they were the ones under 8 when the depression hit. Thanks again.
Really nice video and brings "Grapes Of Wrath" alive visually. Unfortunately, if the audio narrative was less echoing, it would be a very professional presentation.
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The guy at 9:18 definitely had his priorities straight. He has his sub-woofer box tied to the running board. Can't go anywhere without that baby! 😎 He was probably rolling around bumpin' Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, or perhaps Glenn Miller. Not much changes over the years, just the music... 🤷♂️
well I'm not so sure but to me, "vehicles" for the title works. Per the dictionary as follows Vehicle.....noun plural noun: vehicles a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart. "the vehicle was sent skidding across the road" I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Don't forget the "ASH BOWL" vehicles from the Mt.Saint Helen's Era ..I remember vehicles not starting up because of Clogged up air filters & fuel management systems getting contaminated😢😮
Not exactly his intention, but Henry ford's Model T is what saved most Okies and allowed them to travel west. Ford designed that car to be maintained and repaired by the average person mostly with basic tools, and to have such a low price that everyone would buy them. So there were plenty around for spare parts and most of what made it move could be patched easily and cheaply. It could also run on alcohol, kerosene, turpentine, and mixes of other burnable liquids. If you were poor and traveling west by road there was no better choice of car. One aspect of this that isn't shown: most paces didn't want the travelers hanging around competing for what little jobs and food their communities had. Vagrancy laws were rampant and if the people of the community didn't chase you out of town at sundown the Sheriff might do it or pick you up and set you out several miles outside of town because the Cops and jails were broke and hungry too. Many times there would be large signs posted at the edges of towns telling travelers to be gone by sunset, giving rise to the phrase "sunset town". It was a trip where once started you couldn't stop and there was nothing behind you to go back to- you went on because there was nothing else you could do.
The transitions are distracting and aren't needed. A simple dissolve would have been sufficient. Other than that, well done. Great collection of photos and a good reminder that life can turn on a dime. Embrace gratitude and enjoy every sandwich.
Good video BUT this is supposed to be about dust bowl vehicles, NOT a catalog of every video transition effect you could possibly find. Take it from a pro - more than 2 or 3 transition styles is distracting and actually takes away from the good content.
My father related the story of when his father and uncle and families headed west from Missouri. They got to the point to where they put the teenage boys out. "We can't take care of you anymore." They had younger ones to tend to. White privilege.
Duesenberg was never going to build an entry level car. It wasn't their market and with their cars being hand made and not production line builds they were never going to be cheap.
The problem is that a normal job doesn't pay enough to live in California or much of the US for that matter. Nothing is free and the vast amounts of money pumped into the economy out of thin air has destroyed the dollar. Using the dollar as a weapon around the world has also started to end its reign as the world's currency. Once that happens it's game over for the US economy.
I'm sure most people don't even notice the music. I hardly did. It was perfect. Awesome job!!! I've been wanting to build a replica of a dust bowl machine one day. Dress the part, drive it around town....that would be a blast!
So much for man made climate change. This earth will do what it does no matter what we do. Just gotta be flexible to survive it. Common sense, folks.👍🇺🇸❤️
@@kensmithgallery4432 agreed. Keep it clean. But use the inexpensive, plentiful fuels we have. Climate change- if in fact it is real- isn’t manmade. This earth cycles and has been for thousands of years. No matter what we do.👍🇺🇸❤️
My Grandparents were in their 20's during the depression, they were farmers in Pennsylvania so the depression didn't hit them as hard, they always had food, but my grandmother told me she would give people food, they would come to the back door and ask/beg for food and she always gave what she could, my Grandparents did pretty good with their lives, not rich by any means but always had what they and the kids needed, they were hard working, respectful people who always did what was right, I miss them very much, think I'll go to the cemetery today 🥹
Hello Logan, The soils here in the 5 state region were the dust bowl occurred are very dry and extremely fragile when the grass is disturbed and torn up. The soil is just like powder cement very fine. So any time the wind blows with out ground cover there is dust. We have better farming techniques and are able hold the soil down more. Our average rainfall is only 15 inches per year not much moisture. So man did over use the soil and caused the dust bowl.
These people suffered greatly and most of them endured to begin a new, better life. My grandma was from Arkansas, though she came to California prior to this time. I greatly respect anyone who came through these hard times.
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Not many of them left, just the ones who were kids then
Absolutely a beautiful, heartfelt video that gets to the real experience these folks suffered. The blend of spiritual and classic music only served to enhance the experience. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
Very nicely done...
These pictures echo the hunger & despair of these familys, in the middle of nowhere, with no food, no gas, and no hope for a future.
But alot of our parents and grand-parents went through it, both the depression and the dust bowl, and lived to tell us their stories. Listen to them and you will learn a great deal about how to deal with bad times.
Thanx for posting...
Hi Mark and welcome to the channel! Those are some very well said thoughts. Thanks for sharing them!
So sad , but eerily beautiful pictures.
I agree, sad, but beautiful to see, especially how people overcame.
I was bored in 1936 in South Carolina. My dad ran a USDA agricultural experiment station. Didn't experience any of this personally but I heard a lot about it from my parents and grandparents. Wonderful clear photos. You did a great job Thank you
Hi and welcome to the channel. Thanks so much for sharing your story!
@ajaxa9 Your Dad was one of the lucky few here with a stable job. My Mom was born in Greenville SC in 27, one of 13 kids. Her Dad made a bit of money fixing cars and her Mom kept the kids busy gardening and hunting poke salad when it was in season. None of them had more than one set of clothes and only the girls had shoes, worn only on special occasions. Neighbors and kinfolk all pitched in to help each other but nobody really had anything. Unimaginably hard times.
@@P_RO_Although I didn't have to endure any of the effects of the depression directly, my father died shortly after World War II and we went back to West Virginia to live with my grandparents on a subsistence farm with no running water or electricity. Our neighbor's kids didn't even wear clothes during the summer. We had an 80 acre farm and lots of help from neighbors and shared crops. No one wore shoes in the summer ot were bothered with intact, presentable clothing. As I remember we always had plenty to eat and we're reasonably happy. I don't think the current generation could survive this sort of existence.
I own a restored 39 Buick and a 38 Ford.Love them both good to see when they were new
Sounds like a couple of great cars to have!
What an awesome film ,you did a great job on putting this together..
What a time in our history .
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My parents and my grandfather migrated from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to Taft, California in 1941. I was 6 months old. They drove what my mother described as an old Ford panel truck. They arrived in California just in time for the U.S. entry into WWII. I kept looking for the panel truck during your video, but now realize our trip took place much later.
Hi Jim and welcome to the channel! I am sure you heard many a story about that old panel truck too!
Great pictures,
I grew up and currently live 50 miles north from the dust bowl epicenter, in south east Colorado. Both of my grandmothers tufted it out in the 30’s and stayed here. My grandfathers both left to find work elsewhere. Both grandfathers were farmers. Both grandmothers were able to raise their children and stay here.
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Thank you for producing this very informative and educational Video that depicts the Historic Drought Conditions and Hardships that part of America went through during the 1930s. The combination of the 1929 Stock Market crash followed by the Great Depression and 25% un employment brought devastating economic conditions that the U. S. did not come out of until after WW 2. The past two generations do not know what Real Hard Economic Times are like. Let us all hope that we do not have a repeat of that historic time period in America. The Narration was excellent in comments for each series of Photos.
Thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
ALWAYS be thankful for what you and family have for someone else could be worse off.🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍
Hi Vern and welcome to the channel. I thank the Lord each and every day and every night for what I have and for how He provides for me and my family. Be blessed🙂
Very well done piece. I found a book of Dorothy Lang’s work at a flea market and bought it. I have passed it down to my son who has interests in things past and works at a Cultural Center and Museum in WV. She did amazing work. Very artistic reality.
Hi Uncle Dave and welcome to the channel. You certainly found a gem of a book! Thanks for sharing!
Bravo !
These people are all beautiful, slim, and proud.
Yes they are and brave too!
@pascalt9655 Many of them were very intelligent also. My maternal grandfather "blew out" of Oklahoma in the mid 30's. They, like so many plains farmers, headed west, taking any work they could find, sleeping in a tent, eating water biscuits and water gravey. They couldn't afford milk. Beans and cornbread was a feast when they could afford it. They finally came back to New Mexico where Grandpa had gotten a job as a Gandy Dancer, track worker, on the Santa Fe. Grandpa bought everyone a hamburger and a bottle of Coca Cola with his first paycheck. My poor mom had not eaten anything that rich in years and wound-up not being able to keep it down. She's 94 this year and remembers that like it was yesterday.
Wonderful job. It's amazing to think of the despair and deprivation that millions of folks experience, and how that shaped their attitudes towards financial behavior. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without," were mottos my grandparents lived by (as did many of their generation who came of age during this time) and that trickled down to their kids, and so on. Unfortunately, as with so many lessons learned, the further in time we get from an experience like that, the less the lessons learned are remembered and passed on.
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Super great film, well done. It was a sad time for America at that time. Some People now days dont know how good they have it.
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thanks for the great pictures and info. Maybe the music is a little bit to loud in some parts, but that's just my humble opinion. Best regards and looking forward to more, Simon
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I tell you it brings tears to my eyes to see this. 😇🙏
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Thanks for sharing this piece of history! Blessings.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My grandmother was an okie. She remembered leaving and the journey and struggle and how everything had value and use. Cardboard for resoling shoes etc. she is 100 years old now and still kicking. Unfortunately the stories are no longer told but are still remembered from family.
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Thanks for sharing and for watching!
We have it so easy in America today. I just wish everyone understood that.
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Nice work. Very enjoyable. "Those who don't remember are doomed to repeat 'it'
Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for the kind words and you are so spot on! It is important to remember the past both the good and the bad!
These photos put things into perspective......the music and narration are well done.
Thanks so much for commenting and for watching!
The days when cars and motorcycles used the same tyres. Well looks like it anyway. Thanks for showing. We just came back from the outback of Australia in our Japanese 4 x 4.. I can't imagine travelling in these old cars. At 5:39 we see some people on a hunting and fishing trip with a tent bed thingy.
Hi and welcome to the channel! It is truly hard to believe that people traveled to the west coast with everything they had packed into an old Model T but the did.
Down to earth with not sugar coating. The way it was.
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It 2018 I had the opportunity to drive Route 66. I was on one of the oldest sections, just north of Bristol, OK, on a section that dead ends at the Sand Creek Bridge. I pulled over and just thought about all the people that drove that old road, the hopes and dreams they had, and all the different cars that went down that old highway.
All the troubles they went through, the breakdows, the flat tires, getting stuck, overheating, all the hot, miserable miles crossing America, and this country is HUGE. Almost a century later I crossed the country just because I could, and then drove back again. Driving a modern car all I did was put gas in it.
Thanks for this video, those pictures helped put it in context, and I've no doubt some of those were taking on Route 66.
And just what IS on the running board of that car at 9:20? No, it's not a subwoofer.. a camping stove maybe?
Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your story! I honestly do not know what is on the running board but a stove seems plausible.
At 9:18 why does that model T ford have a dual 10inch subwoofer box on the running boards? At least this family had a bangin' system in their ride! 😎
Also notice there were no overweight people in these pictures...none. It was beans and cornbread or go hungry. My dad lived like that in eastern kentucky mountains till he left for work in Detroit around 1964 for good. He didn't know they were poor growing up because everyone was happy. He didn't plan to stay in Michigan either but life has other plans than what you want sometimes. We always visited down home as often as possible, but it was March 15 , 2016 he took his final ride up the holler. I still miss my father/best friend.
I'll be coming to see you soon enough dad.
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for real ??? some of you dimwits think that is a sub woofer box ,,,! i promise you it is anything else but that !
Even as late as the 1950s my older brother was driving across Kansas during a dust storm and the wind was blowing so hard that it sand blasted the paint off one side of his car.
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I’m reading a novel about a family living through the dust bowl “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah. The photos are a visual reminder of the suffering and resilience of those living on the plains in the 1930’s.
Hi Bruce and welcome to the channel. That novel sounds really interesting!
Just read that novel and was going to make the same comment but you beat me to it!
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I’m 73 and remember my grandparents talking about the depression. Seeing these pictures shows the reality of the hardships people faced. Im so lucky to have had the life I’ve had. Everyone needs to see these pictures!!!!
people today need to know history. period.
I could not agree more with you. Thanks for watching!
The images of cars buried in dust make me wonder how many still are today.
I wondered that too!
Thanks for this photos! Love from Sweden ❤
Thanks for watching from way over there!
What a great collection excellent picture and story development. You are an artist
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Thanks so much for this awesome presentation.
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thanks from germany for this interesting view of that time 🇩🇪❤️🇺🇸✌️
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Thank YOU !!!!!!
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And some of us think we have it bad today. 😢
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Most of the cars were Fords, Chevys and other low priced makes' Many were ten plus years old. Hardly a day of travel could be made without breakdowns, flat tires, overheating etc. I assume many cars broke down, not repairable and left on the side of the road. Did these people end up walking? Did they leave or lose their possessions? How many died and are buried along the roads? There must be thousands of stories. I really liked your video, thanks. Liked and subbed.
Hi Dennis and welcome to the channel and thanks for subscribing! Yes, many of those low priced cars that were a decade old and beaten up, yet they still managed to use them. Tough folks back then.
@dennisthehirev580 Most places had anti-vagrancy laws, so if your car couldn't be fixed you sold it and your belongings for whatever price you could get, then hitched a hide with whoever you could from there. Later on during the migration instead of jail for vagrancy you might be carried out of town then dumped off because even the jails didn't have enough food to go around.
Great job putting that together!
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I believe the word you were looking for @4:08 was "decimated."
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Well done.
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People have forgotten where they come from nowadays an how to live it's sad
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Great work!
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Southern Saskatchewan & Alberta Canada also faced the drought as well dealing with WWII didn’t help
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Thank you for your liking my comment lol only reason I know of what my parents experience through that time period I was born in 1962 so I also had my grandma and uncles that share stories of their youth now my mom’s folks was not originally from Canada they came up from Lancaster PA and my grandma had lot more interesting stories lol
Just when you think you have it tough today,we can't imagine the struggle many Americans suffered thru in the 30s. WE are tough and resilient folks here in the U.S..Thanks Ken ,that was great.Thx
Hey Dean. My dad grew up during the depression. The stories he shared to stay alive are bone chilling by today's standard.
Well said
LOL 😂, " WE "WERE " TOUGH AND RESILIENT FOLKS". Now go get that sex change. From the GREATEST GENERATION to the CELLPHONE HOLDING FREELOADER GENERATIONS.
*were
Great pictorial!
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great job man! music a little over your voice at times, sorry i couldn't help myself ! i wonder if some of those cars are still buried out there
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The large two hole item on the running board was a stove top...
Great eye! Thanks for sharing!
The good old days.....
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At least they had family around them. Doesn't seem like family is as important now, sad.
Hi and welcome to the channel. I can't speak for others but I am blessed with the family I do have.
awesome
Thanks for watching!
Excellent modeling subjects.
Hi and welcome to the channel. How right you are. I will actually be doing a 1:43 scale "barn Find" diorama with a couple of Model A cars I end up using.
Presumably you are acting the part of a troll. If not, you should educate yourself before exposing your limited knowledge of history.
The oldest cars were more suitable for car camping than they are now.
Hi and welcome to the channel. Very true!
Amazing how many Model Ts there are in the photos
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That's back when people had pride!!
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One thing that most of them had in those days was each other, meaning large families. Today it's just the opposite, according to my own experience and that of many others. We are now seperated and isolated for many reasons while being materialistically much better off.
@@JimErvin-d2i great observation! Thanks for watching!
Yes and if that wasn’t enough the dust bowl refugees were treated very badly and exploited by neighbouring states, we’ve learnt nothing from that awful period- great photos but those poor people really suffered
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Some hard scrappin peoples. The look 👀 on there faces tell the whole story
Hi Ronald and welcome to the channel! Yes they were from a very tough stock!
Where did people grow food and feed animals during these years?
Many of them didn't and migrated west to CA, OR, and WA in hopes of food and work.
I did not enjoy this video, but I really appreciate you going to the trouble of compiling and narrating it, I found it really interesting and it is a salutary lesson to all of us and the fact that migrants were Not welcomed just goes to show mans inhumanity to man, which even encompasses treatment of ones countrymen and women. I'm from Australia and my parents grew up during the great depression, my father and his younger brother were only about 5 feet 4 inches tall from a family of 6 feet men as they were the ones under 8 when the depression hit. Thanks again.
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Dorothea Lange Documentary photographer notable for her striking images of Depression era America.
She was amazing! Thanks for watching!
Really nice video and brings "Grapes Of Wrath" alive visually. Unfortunately, if the audio narrative was less echoing, it would be a very professional presentation.
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This is how the motor home or RV was invented.
Indeed it was! Thanks for watching!
I enjoyed it what is next?
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The guy at 9:18 definitely had his priorities straight. He has his sub-woofer box tied to the running board. Can't go anywhere without that baby! 😎
He was probably rolling around bumpin' Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, or perhaps Glenn Miller.
Not much changes over the years, just the music... 🤷♂️
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Automobiles is the correct term as most would refer back then, Vehicles are for commerce, most people don't care not though
well I'm not so sure but to me, "vehicles" for the title works.
Per the dictionary as follows
Vehicle.....noun
plural noun: vehicles
a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart.
"the vehicle was sent skidding across the road"
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How do those old motors run with that much dirt?
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Talk about a Living Hell!
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Don't forget the "ASH BOWL" vehicles from the Mt.Saint Helen's Era ..I remember vehicles not starting up because of Clogged up air filters & fuel management systems getting contaminated😢😮
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Not exactly his intention, but Henry ford's Model T is what saved most Okies and allowed them to travel west. Ford designed that car to be maintained and repaired by the average person mostly with basic tools, and to have such a low price that everyone would buy them. So there were plenty around for spare parts and most of what made it move could be patched easily and cheaply. It could also run on alcohol, kerosene, turpentine, and mixes of other burnable liquids. If you were poor and traveling west by road there was no better choice of car.
One aspect of this that isn't shown: most paces didn't want the travelers hanging around competing for what little jobs and food their communities had. Vagrancy laws were rampant and if the people of the community didn't chase you out of town at sundown the Sheriff might do it or pick you up and set you out several miles outside of town because the Cops and jails were broke and hungry too. Many times there would be large signs posted at the edges of towns telling travelers to be gone by sunset, giving rise to the phrase "sunset town". It was a trip where once started you couldn't stop and there was nothing behind you to go back to- you went on because there was nothing else you could do.
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The transitions are distracting and aren't needed. A simple dissolve would have been sufficient. Other than that, well done. Great collection of photos and a good reminder that life can turn on a dime. Embrace gratitude and enjoy every sandwich.
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Them was so hard times
Indeed they were!
The old interstate highway
Indeed!
is that"35 or '36 Ford ?
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So sad to see. We have too much to be thankful for. The Lord is good.
Yes He is.
Very rough times, depression, dust bowls and wwII .
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Good video BUT this is supposed to be about dust bowl vehicles, NOT a catalog of every video transition effect you could possibly find. Take it from a pro - more than 2 or 3 transition styles is distracting and actually takes away from the good content.
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My father related the story of when his father and uncle and families headed west from Missouri. They got to the point to where they put the teenage boys out. "We can't take care of you anymore." They had younger ones to tend to. White privilege.
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Boys over 16 were considered grown in those days, had to get out and work.
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Duesenberg was never going to build an entry level car. It wasn't their market and with their cars being hand made and not production line builds they were never going to be cheap.
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Looks like downtown L.A. California right now, but they live in tents now, not cars or trucks.
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They don't intend working either.
@@kensmithgallery4432 it's a comparison between people then and now,it's relevant. ✔
The ones that came to California they were looking for work. The ones now are looking for a handout !
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LET'S GO DARWIN......
Or, looking to survive.
yes on the taxpayers dime
The problem is that a normal job doesn't pay enough to live in California or much of the US for that matter. Nothing is free and the vast amounts of money pumped into the economy out of thin air has destroyed the dollar. Using the dollar as a weapon around the world has also started to end its reign as the world's currency. Once that happens it's game over for the US economy.
Your math on gas price is incorrect. Most gas tanks were just 10-12 gallons so at 10 cents 0ne dollar to 120 Not $7 a tank.
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My late father told me that during the depression, buy 10 gallons for $1.
Yeah, but how about the 1830s?
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Video just nearly started and I am already hooked
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Engine trouble❤
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Dirt poor in the U.S., wondering if theyre going back to those days.?
Makes you wonder how they managed. Thanks for watching!
You would have had a million views if you added color ...
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Great video. But, next one please turn off the background music, that's louder than your commentary.
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Soooooo, the climate was actually way worse almost 100 years ago. Got it.
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Don't like noise in the background you are trying to talk over
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I'm sure most people don't even notice the music. I hardly did. It was perfect. Awesome job!!!
I've been wanting to build a replica of a dust bowl machine one day. Dress the part, drive it around town....that would be a blast!
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💥👍AUSTRALIA!🤍💙❤🙌💪
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world war 2nd change everything
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The amount of farmland that was being farmed back then was a tiny fraction and had no contributing factor.
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Nice photos. Annoying transitions.
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So much for man made climate change. This earth will do what it does no matter what we do. Just gotta be flexible to survive it. Common sense, folks.👍🇺🇸❤️
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@@kensmithgallery4432 agreed. Keep it clean. But use the inexpensive, plentiful fuels we have. Climate change- if in fact it is real- isn’t manmade. This earth cycles and has been for thousands of years. No matter what we do.👍🇺🇸❤️
My Grandparents were in their 20's during the depression, they were farmers in Pennsylvania so the depression didn't hit them as hard, they always had food, but my grandmother told me she would give people food, they would come to the back door and ask/beg for food and she always gave what she could, my Grandparents did pretty good with their lives, not rich by any means but always had what they and the kids needed, they were hard working, respectful people who always did what was right, I miss them very much, think I'll go to the cemetery today 🥹
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The time spent on this would've better been spent on brief stories about the subjects and vehicles, rather than fluff on the photohraphers themselves.
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Man had nothing to do with the dust bowl! Just another one of their big lies.
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New technologies, (tractors, multi blade plows) resulting in new farming practices that took time to accept.
Hello Logan,
The soils here in the 5 state region were the dust bowl occurred are very dry and extremely fragile when the grass is disturbed and torn up. The soil is just like powder cement very fine. So any time the wind blows with out ground cover there is dust. We have better farming techniques and are able hold the soil down more. Our average rainfall is only 15 inches per year not much moisture. So man did over use the soil and caused the dust bowl.