I knew the daughter of Adele, herself the spoiled daughter of Emily Vanderbilt, who had the most expensive wedding in America c. 1900 & went to Biltmore for her honeymoon on a round the world yearlong trip!
The Vanderbilts, only because Gloria V's mother was part of Avery van Arthur (my best friend for the last 2 years of his life) and his mother's social set which comprised the likes of Elsa Maxwell, Marjorie Merriweather Post, "The Cole Porters," Doris Duke, the "Fun" Guggenheim (the one who would dive into the Venetian canals) to have fun dropping a few names from a very large list who would meet up for a season on the French Riviera or Palm Beach or Venice. For me it's the individual not the family that holds the greatest fascination. XoXo ❤
but the video clips have nothing to do with the information. Its clips of the tv shows: gilded age, catch me if you can, downton abbey, titanic, lark to candleford rise, john adams movie, and a few jane austin movies...oh and a dash of Golden Age (elizabeth II -tudor). the sparse few actual historical clips were nice, but not nearly enough.
Thanks for putting this together and out here for us to absorb,complete and factual documentary with a great narrator. Saves the UA-cam day,good job folks 📈🏴
As a young woman I had the pleasure of meeting "old Mrs.Du Pont. I was in a florist shop in Saratoga Springs NY when a limo pulled up and a uniformed driver opened the door for a shabbily dressed elderly lady. I was looking at some flowers in the case and she commented that roses were common and directed me to some lilies. She had a twinkle in her eye and we chatted for a bit while her driver loaded up her car.
As an American, I ridiculously feel some pride with the rags to riches tales of early America…even though MY grandfather died from black lung from working in the coal mines since he was 12… 😂
My great grandfather who hailed from West Virginia died from the same thing, it was the only work he had ever known. His sons, my great uncles, followed in his foot steps and their lives were claimed by the same thing. My ancestors include the famous feuding family the Hatfields, by my great grandmother. And although the feud at times was ridiculous in today's standards I feel a since of pride knowing I'm one of their many many decendents.
MY MOTHER HAD WORKED AS A SERVANT FOR THE ASTORS ....AFTER MY MOTHER LEFT THE OR-FAN-AGE SHE GREW-UP IN... SHE WORKED FOR THEM IN 1942 WHEN SHE WAS 18 YR'S OLD.... ((I TEXTED THIS BEFORE. )) AND THEY HAD A RESIDENTS HERE IN NEWARK TOO......AND LADY ASTOR ENJOYED THE SPEAK-EASYS. THE ONES WITH BLACK ENTERTAINMENT. NIGHT TIME CLUBS.... ..
My father was farmed out as a worker when was 8-9 he worked at farms and was raised by farmers wives,not his own mother and father.When people say they grew up hard O don't think they can really imagine hardship
One had to employ fortune preservation strategies, while continuing to earn money and plan the future. Succession-planning in fact begins in the family's nurseries.
It's happening again yoday and it's contributing to the record debt. 33 trillion debt is created by no tax collection from companies donation of philanthropy money that is not taxable. Billionaires take out loans in place of stocks pay no taxes.
Epic saga, but unfortunately, the descendants did not handle the wealth left to them very well. And by avidly studying these rich people's lives, I have learned that money does not buy happiness, health or wisdom (which the Bible teaches, btw!), so study the scenario and invest well, both in real estate and your health and wisdom! Your health is your wealth!
Strange Coincidence.. According to this, Caroline Astor threw these annual society balls on the third Monday of January -- Today as I watch this -- is the third Mon of Jan 2024.
I just started watching Julian Fellowes’ the Gilded Age series. Very interesting how the centuries old families turn their noses up on the new ‘gaudy’ social climbers who do have the money
Thank you for this documentary. During your discussion of the NYT, it might have been noteworthy to mention it was that illustrious newspaper that denied the holocaust. Fact.
Yes, you're right. Also, nobody likes to talk about the ship filled with refugees. The ship was turned away and sent back to Europe and all the passengers died in the Shoah. Definitely NOT our finest moment.
I feel like you downplay Carnegie's ruthlessness. His workers wanted better wages and he sent his essentially private army on them and would not.back down. He eventually broke them after 6 months and felt it was his right because it was his company
I watch your channel I love the way you document all the rich people that started this so-called America and the way they help they American rich ! But what about the poor immigrants that made these rich white people rich ? I never hear no congratulations no respect for the people that actually worked their lands and made it work for them to become these matriarchs of this land that was taken from the Indians when Thomas Jefferson approve the removal of the indigenous Indians that was settle on this land ! Can you make a page about the people that actually worked the land more than when the rich people exploited them show me poverty pictures of the settlers and what they went through more than showing me how these people spent their money and like you said when people was in need of food they was just amazed about they wealth ? Other than that I like to see how these people really lived that's why I watch your channel because the bloodline and the system never change😮
Aster may have been the richest is America and likened to Beso and Musk but neither were the richest in the world then now or since Mansa Musa. Still an interesting piece…
@@brandy777Carnegie had an exclusive country club built for himself and all his rich buddies. To build it they had to create a dam on a river. The dam was destroyed by a heavy rain. Several townsfolk were killed when the dam burst. That event symbolizes the Gilded Age and how bad an impact the wealthy had on the commoners. Also the two extremes of unchecked wealth and the lower classes.
@@michaelconnor5378 I recall learning about that from a documentary I watched about him. That is a perfect example of what the Gilded Age truly was. Thinking of that term Gilded Age should clarify it wasn't all that grand and while it was a fascinating period in American history, it's a period I'm thankful I didn't live in.
😆 How the descendant fumble the bag. This is why I'm not leaving my kids 💩. I've shown them how to make money, it's up to them to go get it on their own.
I thought the same thing, lol. While I understand the use of some of the film footage, those did not make any sense to me to be used in this documentary.
What's Carnegie libraries available to color people because at the end of the day we're still in the 1800s or the late 1800s and it's still slavery so please explain to me where did these rich white people help the black poor😮
And where are they now? In the grave waiting for the judgement of the Lord Jesus Christ...What would it profit if you gain the whole world and lose yout soul. Seek the Lord while he can be found.🙏
Do not take drugs. I left the USA at 79 to a safer and less expensive country. USA is dangerous. And expensive. End of our marriage. Deal breakers.. For the good times Al Green It's your MAN and never say boy or girl. Respect yourselves. Everything is less expensive in Queretaro. With my USA pension. The minimum wage is $8.00 per 12-24 hours and 6 days Not per hour, but per day.
Non-sense again. Anderson is self-made use his name for maybe access. His mother long spent her inherited fortune. Then made her own spent and enjoyed life until the end.
Thank you for putting this together. Well done in most ways, but including the excerpts from "Gilded Age" is most unfortunate. Probably the one low point of Jullian Fellowes very important and illustrious career... Horribly written and mis-cast, it demeans the work you've done.
@@ShushaSofiacompared to Downton Abbey, the Gilded Age is poorly written likely because there are too many characters split between at least 3 different households. There's no time to develop anyone's character and the storylines feel superficial with little opportunity to create depth and investment.
As the name implies “Standardbreds” allowed any horse which could trot or pace a mile in 2 1/2 minutes to be registered. Messenger may have been influential but he did not sire all Standardbreds.
For you, which Gilded Age family has the most interesting history?
I knew the daughter of Adele, herself the spoiled daughter of Emily Vanderbilt, who had the most expensive wedding in America c. 1900 & went to Biltmore for her honeymoon on a round the world yearlong trip!
They are all a bunch of immoral freaks
The Vanderbilts, only because Gloria V's mother was part of Avery van Arthur (my best friend for the last 2 years of his life) and his mother's social set which comprised the likes of Elsa Maxwell, Marjorie Merriweather Post, "The Cole Porters," Doris Duke, the "Fun" Guggenheim (the one who would dive into the Venetian canals) to have fun dropping a few names from a very large list who would meet up for a season on the French Riviera or Palm Beach or Venice. For me it's the individual not the family that holds the greatest
fascination. XoXo ❤
@@WellbredNfedKembleTVI bet you heard some great tales.
😂😬👌👌👌🤥
This is sooo good. I’m learning a lot of gems about wealth history that goes hand in hand with “The Psychology of Money”. Thank you so much for this!
That’s great to hear, Jo! We’ll be releasing a lot more weekly!
I like the way that you use actual movie clips to get your point across. Very well documented.
Glad you liked it!
Except that 3/4 of the movie clips have absolutely nothing to do with the dialog...
@@bethnadeau6183 Precisely why I do not like these videos. Bogus video diminishes the veracity of the spoken content.
but the video clips have nothing to do with the information. Its clips of the tv shows: gilded age, catch me if you can, downton abbey, titanic, lark to candleford rise, john adams movie, and a few jane austin movies...oh and a dash of Golden Age (elizabeth II -tudor). the sparse few actual historical clips were nice, but not nearly enough.
There's also a clip of Elvis.Im just not getting how a clip of Elvis had anything to do with the Vanderbilts?
Thanks for putting this together and out here for us to absorb,complete and factual documentary with a great narrator.
Saves the UA-cam day,good job folks 📈🏴
Our pleasure!
I watch this 2x a week
..I love that era ❤
Thanks for watching Feri!
As a young woman I had the pleasure of meeting "old Mrs.Du Pont. I was in a florist shop in Saratoga Springs NY when a limo pulled up and a uniformed driver opened the door for a shabbily dressed elderly lady. I was looking at some flowers in the case and she commented that roses were common and directed me to some lilies. She had a twinkle in her eye and we chatted for a bit while her driver loaded up her car.
Roses ARE common. Lilies are always best.
@@veritas6335❤
Lovely! Sadly she passed away already
As an American, I ridiculously feel some pride with the rags to riches tales of early America…even though MY grandfather died from black lung from working in the coal mines since he was 12… 😂
My great grandfather who hailed from West Virginia died from the same thing, it was the only work he had ever known. His sons, my great uncles, followed in his foot steps and their lives were claimed by the same thing. My ancestors include the famous feuding family the Hatfields, by my great grandmother. And although the feud at times was ridiculous in today's standards I feel a since of pride knowing I'm one of their many many decendents.
When did he have your mom or dad? Lol
Do you think Aster would’ve been happy in the coal mine? No, he had to have entrepreneurial spirit. And even then it’s a gamble
😮
Ridiculous indeed
Pls do more videos on the gilded age mansions owned by wealthy gilded age families
Will do!
@@OldMoneyDocumentariesHow about all their Hudson Valley estates. Love those ❤
MY MOTHER HAD
WORKED AS A SERVANT FOR THE ASTORS ....AFTER
MY MOTHER LEFT
THE OR-FAN-AGE
SHE GREW-UP IN...
SHE WORKED FOR
THEM IN 1942 WHEN SHE WAS
18 YR'S OLD....
((I TEXTED THIS
BEFORE. ))
AND THEY HAD
A RESIDENTS HERE IN NEWARK
TOO......AND LADY
ASTOR ENJOYED
THE SPEAK-EASYS.
THE ONES WITH
BLACK ENTERTAINMENT.
NIGHT TIME
CLUBS....
..
Is this a poem or something?
WELL AT LEAST A
REAL-LIFE MOIVE.
😉😉😉😉
The absence of an income tax …………..
Exactley
That’s the key!!!
From the narrator’s tone, it sounded like it was a bad thing.
My father was farmed out as a worker when was 8-9 he worked at farms and was raised by farmers wives,not his own mother and father.When people say they grew up hard O don't think they can really imagine hardship
Sounds like he was a forced orphan/foster care
The old money riches and affluent families and Vanderbilts and Astor's family dystanies made a difference in the world
I love this! Has been my bedtime documentary for a few days now
That’s great to hear :)
Same!
The descendants of these families are hardly poor. They want the masses to think they are.
100% correct!
Thank you, so much information, thoroughly enjoyed it
So glad!
Why the ‘background’ music throughout? Unnecessary and intrusive!!!!!!
This documentary was GOOD!
I like this narrator and his modern word play at times
FUMBLING THE BAG 😅 This is a documentary we needed in the 90s
The gilded age perfectly shows how quickly money turns low people into power hungry blue bloods.
Blue blood refers to royals. But I guess that's as close as the usa could come
@@kristinehansen4665 yes I know. But my comment makes sense all the same.
One had to employ fortune preservation strategies, while continuing to earn money and plan the future. Succession-planning in fact begins in the family's nurseries.
Who you kidding they are all still trying to control the word today
Love this narrator!
Who is it?
Yo the old man said "as kids say today FUMBLING THE BAG 💰" who is the narrator 😩🤷🏾♀️😅
It's AI 😭
I understand my family was related to Elvis. My family was very much a part of this life. They knew all of these families
Elvis? Please tell us more!
Baloney
It was Mark Twain who called this the "Gilded Age"- as in contrast to a Golden Age.
I visited his house in Hartford & another he had in Tarrytown 🏡
@@samanthab1923Easton
The Carnegies really benefitted the U.S. by establishing public libraries throughout the U.S, which are still there and used in 2023.
I was sad to hear Yonkers NY knocked their Carnegie Library down. Just to reroute a street! 😢
Carnegie was notoriously cheap. Built the libraries but never gave them books 😮
Jeez well whats next. He should have sat by our bedsides and read for us too? @@samanthab1923
@@samanthab1923he is not cheap, just an honest to goodness Scot!!
@@michaelconnor5378 Very true 😆👋
In the DuPont story, I swear I saw Alan Alda’s twin from 100 years ago😂
It's happening again yoday and it's contributing to the record debt. 33 trillion debt is created by no tax collection from companies donation of philanthropy money that is not taxable. Billionaires take out loans in place of stocks pay no taxes.
Nah that’s all the social welfare and over bloated military contract spending. The rich pay more taxes than you ever will.
Using Rockefeller and morality in the same sentence is laughable.
😂
You knew the guy?
Agreed !😅
...look up how he took over our medical system and the history of his father, a con man
A tad jealous ?
Anyone else recognize the narrator’s voice? It’s Hugh Bonneville from the Abby
I don’t think so.
Epic saga, but unfortunately, the descendants did not handle the wealth left to them very well. And by avidly studying these rich people's lives, I have learned that money does not buy happiness, health or wisdom (which the Bible teaches, btw!), so study the scenario and invest well, both in real estate and your health and wisdom! Your health is your wealth!
My great grandad was a coal Baron. The Berwinds
Strange Coincidence.. According to this, Caroline Astor threw these annual society balls on the third Monday of January -- Today as I watch this -- is the third Mon of Jan 2024.
I am subscribed again! I don't know what happened, but anyway, I am subscribed, again.
Welcome back!
Money and good looks don't necessarily coincide I notice. ? So there is some
justice...
Thank u
i wonder if the russels coming out ball story in gilded age is based on this actual snub of astor.
I just started watching Julian Fellowes’ the Gilded Age series. Very interesting how the centuries old families turn their noses up on the new ‘gaudy’ social climbers who do have the money
How does Elvis Presley have anything to do with the Asters?!😂
😂
Thank you for this documentary. During your discussion of the NYT, it might have been noteworthy to mention it was that illustrious newspaper that denied the holocaust. Fact.
😬
Yes, you're right. Also, nobody likes to talk about the ship filled with refugees. The ship was turned away and sent back to Europe and all the passengers died in the Shoah. Definitely NOT our finest moment.
Wasn’t the Times owned by a Jewish family?
You ride well and the horse you are on is beautiful!!!
@@lindadeal3344 Thank you.
An inability to raise well-balanced children, which became their legacy.
Wonder what Anderson Cooper thinks of his family's legacy
He loves it. Trust me, he has millions in the bank.
Berwinds were neighbors
Tzar nicholas was worth $80 Billion. He was the richest man alive during that time period, the romanovs where the Ambani's of their day.
A friend of mine now works for J.P Morgan Co.
It’s a pretty common employer
So?
@@veritas6335 so, I didn’t have any “connections” to anything gilded age related until now
Mention the actual age difference between the Astor’s. Omitting that is weird.
More than one Astor are Astors. To indicate the plural, simply add an s. The apostrophe is used to indicate possession.
Members Only-
we are in Guilded Age 2.0
I feel like you downplay Carnegie's ruthlessness. His workers wanted better wages and he sent his essentially private army on them and would not.back down. He eventually broke them after 6 months and felt it was his right because it was his company
I watch your channel I love the way you document all the rich people that started this so-called America and the way they help they American rich ! But what about the poor immigrants that made these rich white people rich ? I never hear no congratulations no respect for the people that actually worked their lands and made it work for them to become these matriarchs of this land that was taken from the Indians when Thomas Jefferson approve the removal of the indigenous Indians that was settle on this land ! Can you make a page about the people that actually worked the land more than when the rich people exploited them show me poverty pictures of the settlers and what they went through more than showing me how these people spent their money and like you said when people was in need of food they was just amazed about they wealth ? Other than that I like to see how these people really lived that's why I watch your channel because the bloodline and the system never change😮
Comprehensive.
Aster may have been the richest is America and likened to Beso and Musk but neither were the richest in the world then now or since Mansa Musa. Still an interesting piece…
Just like now!
The opening scene is a bit unreal. A humble butcher would not being wearing such a classy wig!! ps nor sleeping in such a bed.....
😂
Rockefeller and Carnegie hated each other. It's weird that their kids would hook up. Between those two families there is one fat-ass stack o' cash!
😬
If you think about it it's really not that weird, Europeans have been doing that for centuries. Settling a feud by marriage was very common.
@@brandy777 You're right about that.
@@brandy777Carnegie had an exclusive country club built for himself and all his rich buddies. To build it they had to create a dam on a river. The dam was destroyed by a heavy rain. Several townsfolk were killed when the dam burst. That event symbolizes the Gilded Age and how bad an impact the wealthy had on the commoners. Also the two extremes of unchecked wealth and the lower classes.
@@michaelconnor5378 I recall learning about that from a documentary I watched about him. That is a perfect example of what the Gilded Age truly was. Thinking of that term Gilded Age should clarify it wasn't all that grand and while it was a fascinating period in American history, it's a period I'm thankful I didn't live in.
Who is the narrator?
Skipping a generation. They have to continue to ask the family accountant for stipend or what?
Napolione Buonaparte invests in America 🙏🗽
Gloria Vanderbilt had four sons.
😢I am happy and one order from above to do it in God remains love for humanity 🗽🌱
The Narrator is hilarious.. Love how he tells the stories about these Rich Folks😂
The astors and dellanos made their money in shipping opium to china.
No income tax, jealous. We should not have one.
Compare these families to the tasteless billionaires of the 21st century.
Why not tell the Berwind story just as interesting but did not like publicity!!!
Meh my greatest great grand father stood in the shadows under a boabab tree where mansa musa past by.
Where are all these rich worldly cronies now, I ask?
😬
Pushing up daisies, of course. Rich or not, none of us escapes that...
Nobody gets off that easy. Death is no escape.
@@chiarac3833
NYC
@@marie2511with the atmosphere in NYC today not to mention the idiot governor/mayor I suspect they have changed latitude.
She was not Lady Astor, but Mrs. Astor. Americans gained their independence from the British aristocracy.
😆 How the descendant fumble the bag. This is why I'm not leaving my kids 💩. I've shown them how to make money, it's up to them to go get it on their own.
😂
Why Elvis. Why deniro. Why Clooney???????
🎥
I thought the same thing, lol. While I understand the use of some of the film footage, those did not make any sense to me to be used in this documentary.
I enjoyed all of it, especially the footages!!😅😂❤
Who created this ? I would like to know! Give me names not letters.
That's funny I thought Rockefeller was a Christian
...funded by a loan of $100 from his mother... Seriously? Every story the same. Not gonna stick around to see if there was a "fire." Egads...
🤔
What's Carnegie libraries available to color people because at the end of the day we're still in the 1800s or the late 1800s and it's still slavery so please explain to me where did these rich white people help the black poor😮
They hated black people.
Why should white people
Help black? Black have enough wealthy folks who should help
And where are they now? In the grave waiting for the judgement of the Lord Jesus Christ...What would it profit if you gain the whole world and lose yout soul. Seek the Lord while he can be found.🙏
Do not take drugs.
I left the USA at 79 to a safer and less expensive country. USA is dangerous. And expensive.
End of our marriage. Deal breakers..
For the good times Al Green
It's your MAN and never say boy or girl. Respect yourselves.
Everything is less expensive in Queretaro. With my USA pension. The minimum wage is $8.00 per 12-24 hours and 6 days
Not per hour, but per day.
Ewww so you’re some sort of expat parasite on said place?
Did you just have a stroke?
@@marine4lyfe85
😂
Anderson Cooper single-handedly ended the Vanderbilts
😆
Nonsense.
Non-sense again. Anderson is self-made use his name for maybe access. His mother long spent her inherited fortune. Then made her own spent and enjoyed life until the end.
Thank you for putting this together. Well done in most ways, but including the excerpts from "Gilded Age" is most unfortunate. Probably the one low point of Jullian Fellowes very important and illustrious career... Horribly written and mis-cast, it demeans the work you've done.
I don’t like it either. Thought it was the casting at first but I agree the writing is atrocious
Why do you say that? I love that show.
@@ShushaSofiacompared to Downton Abbey, the Gilded Age is poorly written likely because there are too many characters split between at least 3 different households. There's no time to develop anyone's character and the storylines feel superficial with little opportunity to create depth and investment.
@@ShushaSofiaI came from the Dawson family of Chippewa Falls
You forgot about the Rothchild Are you scared to mention their name?
Secrets of The Rothschild Family (Documentary)
ua-cam.com/video/m0YxEeG1loA/v-deo.html
As the name implies “Standardbreds” allowed any horse which could trot or pace a mile in 2 1/2 minutes to be registered. Messenger may have been influential but he did not sire all Standardbreds.
Anderson Cooper....
I should have known.....
Using government and morality in the same sentence is laughable.