The Farm Family, Iowa, 1936, at 1:29 was my grandparents and their children. The little boy was my Dad. They were farmers, and my Grandpa did some construction around the area. He was skilled at laying foundations for homes. They also had a small business on the farm of turning sorghum into molasses, and farmers around the area would bring their sorghum to my Grandparents for processing. This isn't the only photograph taken that day; I found close to a dozen in the Library of Congress website. The photographer's name was Russell Werner Lee, and he took most of the photographs in this video as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration.
Both my parents were raised in the Great Depression. Both had to go without shoes and had to work to help the family. When my father was 13 he earned more money than his father. Then, they had to fight the biggest war in history as young adults. Tuberculosis and malaria were major killers then before medicines and insecticides and if you got any form of cancer it was a death sentence. I know many think it is hard now, but believe that they had much, much worse than now. Count your blessings that you are alive today.
Yes though now we haft to worry about COVID and all the other super bugs the commies are still trying to take over we have multiple bad guys that want to see half of the world dead and for some reason the Jewish people are back on the radar, I feel like I'm living in my great grandmother world.
Every period in time had good and bad things. Now we could be at the end of the world if WW3 would brake out. But you are right in the things you said. We always tend to go back in time thinking it's better. But that mainly is because as a human we grow older and get all the signs of age with it, and thinking when we were young it was much better, but the fact is we were more agile and we ahd more stamina. Getting older wears you out so we tend to see it better in the past. But reflecting on humans past beside the possibility of wiping out mankind we are in a better place for now. Our technology is much more advanced so we can cheat death a little longer. But back in the days people were more as one, talking being outside. We were closer to eachother. The internet and changing of the world is cause of that mainly. As a Dutch back in the days i would have never read your comment. So in a way we are closer, but also more away from eachother then ever. That being said, the 30's and 40's were probably one of the tuffest times in modern history to mankind.
@@karlos1060 How true, the mid-20th century was a scary place. One could be excused if in 1942 he thought the end of the world was at hand. Then by 1950, the enemies were friends and the friends enemies and it all started over again WITH nuclear weapons. My father was a Sargent in WWII. He directly sent men into battle and many did not survive. I could tell he was resentful that with all that suffering humans did not learn the lessons war keeps trying to teach us be we forget too soon. You are right, the next big war could be the end of all life. My father was an industrial real estate developer. in the 50's and 60's He worked for years on a complex and went to finalize the paperwork. On the way to the meeting on the corporate jet he asked the CEO of the chemical company who was going to use the facility what was going to be produced there. The CEO said it was top secret, but he trusted my father to share with him they were going to produce a chemical that, if strategically released, could kill all life on earth. He got off the plane and booked a flight home. He never signed the papers and took no fees for the work he did. When he got home he was white as a sheet and I knew something had happened. Years later he told me he did not want his name on the documents for that atrocity. Humans seem to be in a race with ourselves on whether we will create a bright future or destroy ourselves. It's neck and neck.
@@karlos1060 especially in Holland,you guys really got the brunt of that war and I guess now information is more available so it's harder for the bad guy's to cover it up. I really pray for better days.
I have good friends from Nebraska. He and the wife were born in 1931. He said things were so bad including the family's crops that his dad had to borrow $100 to pay for his release from the hospital at birth. Then an insurance man showed up and his dad had to buy life insurance on him for the loan. As a child he studied by kerosen lamp and used an outhouse until age twelve. He was a hard worker and extreme saver and is very wealthy with an annual cash flow just under $500k. He and wife are now 92 but live in a very modest home and avoid spending. He buys very old used cars and has even glued his shoes to repair them to avoid buying new. His sweet wife is even more extreme ... with a mindset of poverty and refuses to see themselves as well off much less wealthy. She admits being depression babies still affects them and how they view money. So many of us today no little to nothing about true hardship. Their friendship has been a blessing, a wonderful history lesson and made me so much more grateful. Thank you for your video.
My great grandparents lived in 1930s Kansas while raising several children. They were so poor that my great grandma somehow used regular sewing thread to crochet since they couldn’t afford yarn. 🧶
My family was very fortunate during those times, both father and grandfather were employed in the gold mining industry. Mother would send me to school with extra food to share with my not so fortunate classmates, we raised a large garden, had chickens and geese. When the Hobos nock on the door they were always given chores for a meal. People were much different then, none felt entitled like the citizens of today.
None felt entitled then? Steinbeck's picture of depression California shows all those who were already there before the flood of Okies came as quite certain that they were entitled to a good life and that the Okies were not. We tend to imagine that people were better way back - I don't believe it, I think people are people in all eras.
@@carelgoodheir692 Believe as you wish, those folks came to California and other locations looking for WORK, not welfare the only form of welfare in California was Old Age Assistance and Veterans Homes, non residents did not qualify...Welfare came much later, it was the vinegar that drew the gnats . Here’s the kicker, I was there and lived through it, you were not born yet. I agree Steinbeck portrays an image of Monterey-Hollister areas well, Mice And Men is a good example.
@@NBZW Okay, so you're older than me, I wasn'r born till '43, in The Netherlands. But what we experienced during the occupation in NL makes the US depression look like a picnic. Thank God I live in a country (Scotland) where we take it for granted that the state collects taxes and disburses them in ways that provide health care, education and (in principle) basic housing for all. Our 'entitlements' are paid for, our taxes are the insurance premiums - as Rightists love to chant, nothing's free..
@@carelgoodheir692 A bit of clarification. You refer too entitlements as something you have worked for, like our Social Security which is earned by working and paying the required tax. The entitlement I am referring to is the system of welfare where most recipients, not all but most have not worked too earn the benefits, it’s something they feel they deserve simply by being here. Politicians at work again.
I was born 20 years after the Great Depression so all the adults I knew came from that era, most were hard working blue or white collar, they were not big complainers or feel entitled. They looked at the world through realistic eyes, knowing that things could change for the worst overnight. I have always remembered that. My father worked hard to advance the family’s fortunes from where they started in the late 40’s. My parents succeeded in that endeavor. I have also worked hard to continue that legacy. I appreciate them so much, they were not perfect ( who is) but they were not quitters and did their best.
It raised the Greatest Generation they in turn raised the baby boomers. Young people will never get it. Me me me!!!😢 People had integrity, morals, manners, pride in Country, God and respect! Work ethic and so much more we are missing today.
It’s true. People today are selfish and entitled and it makes me very sad and frustrated. As we can see in the world and from the pandemic ANYTHING can happen quickly and unexpectedly and we should be grateful every day.
@@yeshuaismyking2885 Yeshua wins! And we are the King's kids...But it's still possible to get worse before we get to go be with Him! Buckle your spiritual seat belts and hang on!
I’d love to see Colorized‘s pictures of the Native American tribes from the late 1800s in to the beginning of the 1900s. There are so many out there that the world has never seen. It reveals a life that’s so few of us have ever known. The Native Americans tribes are all across our lands & their culture is a rich part of our nation today.
I wasn't born until 1965 but I would like to give a shout out to the families behind the Federal Reserve for the atrocities that they were responsible for during this time.
So many old folks today still hoard very large quantities of canned food and dry goods. A habit instilled into them by parents who were haunted by fear of returning to the nineteen thirties. Brilliant but sad pictures. Thank you.
It is truly amazing how the colorization process applied to these old sepia photos completely alters the viewing experience. Additionally, the historical information provided is spot on.
It's wild to see the older people in these images. To think they were probably born in the mid 1800s, and we can see clear images of them today. Just makes me think of the future people looking back at all the images we have today. From back then on, we are going to be able to look back at the past with more clarity.
Out of everything I said, this is what you got out of my message? Must be so nice to live in your country. Having to pick out the one thing I said wrong. People are a joke.@@YourConscience-k8g
When these are in sepia or black and white, the people in them do not seem quite real. When color is added, the humanity jumps off the page. Thank you so much.
What a wonderful channel! Thank you so much. My great-grandparents and grandparents lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the Great Depression. It was what it was, and everyone survived.
Median incomes are lower now than in the Great Depression. Adjusted for inflation, household median income was about $85k. Now, it is around $50k. Both husband and wife usually have to work to support a family, and the ability to own a house has decreased.
My dad was a member of an immigrant family living in the Boston area during The Depression. He and his siblings worked whatever jobs that they could find and pooled their funds. Upon graduating high school, he worked as a gas station mechanic during the day, made and sold cheese and yogurt and sold used cars all while attending law school at night. He finished law school in 1940, just in time for WW2. My mother was an only child whose father was a middle manager for the New Haven Railroad. They had a steady income and were very comfortable. What a contrast.
My family were in the wholesale produce business... They built a three storey warehouse with freezers and a freight elevator in 1919. They survived the depression in good stead but with long working hours. Drove a Packard car. They probably sold the apples to the broken stock brokers on Wall Street who resorted to pushing apple carts for a living. They immigrated here from central Adriatic Italy in 1880 and worked first as ditch diggers in the new subway system. They started their produce business before the income tax and paid into it all along. We lived to see the Interstate Highway System create the logistical infrastructure that ruined their business knocking out "the middle man" with supermarkets, shopping malls and franchize business'. I lived that history.
My grandparents on both sides did ok during the depression. My dad's parents were dairy farmers and the cream checks kept them going, my mom's dad was a section chief for a railroad. But times were certainly hard due to both depression and drought. I've got a photo of dad as a kid during the early to mid 30's that would match the ones here. Barefoot, raggy pants, a rope for a belt. And equally raggy shirt. Now farm work clothes are always a bit on the raggy side but what he was wearing went beyond normal.
People starved in England far worse because of the German wolf packs during the first and second world war my dad migrated to Australia after WW2and couldn't believe the abundance of foods everything was in plenty
things are just as bad as they are now anyone who has reproduced has much debt and hopes that this flimsey economy keeps going but it is going down in flames myself I am single no wife no kids and surviving proof that the average Joe cannot afford a "full life"
In 1964, LBJ toured part of the rural Southern Plains by car with an aide - a holdover from the Kennedy Administration- who hailed from a wealthy Boston-area family. “Look at those children, wearing rags”, observed the shocked aide. His boss was incensed: “Those aren’t rags”, said the President pointedly, “those are patched clothes - there’s a big difference!” Patches were normal in those parts; the lowbrow Johnson clan had always had them in the Texas Hill Country. But actual holes meant the child’s family had fallen apart and now lacked a mother or elder sister who could sew. Holes meant the child was at serious risk of malnourishment or even death. The next year, LBJ launched the War on Poverty.
One can only imagine how much worse coming depression is going to be. Back then, most people were normal; now, few are still sane. This will be a blood bath worse then the worst ideas of the apocalypse! ( great job on restoring those photos; brings it back to life)
Both of my parents were in their early teens duing this period. They told me they never wanted for most things since they lived in a rural setting raising their own food and made their own clothing.
This was so amazing to watch ..thank you so much! My grandma and grandpa both grew up near London Ohio and were born around 1932. It was so cool seeing how things would have looked to them during that era....I loved it
100% true. I wouldn't be surprised within the next 5 years. We've the start of WW3. It seems nowadays that's what foreign countries wants mostly. Pushing buttons on purpose. Wanting USA to make the 1st move. Like it's Vietnam all over again. Let's not forget 9/11 Iraq War. What a waste of 20 yrs of PURE LIES !!! AKA: Bush Administration. For Afghanistan to suffer either way. 😓
The lumberjack and his wife is a famous one that I love, they look very happy like they’re doing well. Being a 50 year old Oregonian, I know a lot about the lumber industry and how it began so that photo in particular makes me happy. Who knows, they could’ve started a town, that little couple.
My father was seven in 1939. He was the tenth of eleven children living in SW Arkansas, and Papa (my grandfather) was a farmer and a pastor. They didn't really have any money and lived off the land. Dad said they didn't know there was a depression because nothing really changed for them.
I'm a Cameroonian (West African) watching this in Cape Town, South Africa and couldn't help thinking if some of those kids in the photos are still alive somewhere today and if they could have the chance to see these photos from the days of their youth. The music was so beautiful and almost made me to feel like I was witnessing the events in real time. Their raggedy clothes and bare feet and the grime on some of their faces really made me feel the toughness of that era. Thanks a lot for sharing. Love to all from the Cape of Good Hope.
WE LOST OUR 300 ACRE FARM.....THE DEPUTIES THREW OUR BELONGINGS IN THE STREET.....IT WAS RAINING BAD, WE SLEPT IN THE RAILROAD YARDS, WE MADE COFFEE ON SMALL FIRES BESIDE THE RAIL TRACKS....Sometimes kind store owners let us clean their stores, and yards for a sack of beans, and 1 pound of corn bread... I remember 1 Christmas they gave us a stick of licorice, and 2 peppermint canes....
Many thanks from Russia for the opportunity to get in touch with the history of America . I accidentally came across your channel. Amazing photos and music.♥
There is this museum in Columbus Ohio. They have a full walk thru model of a metal home. It was not a mobile home, but a regular home. The company was in CA. They were delivering these homes via railroad, but there were fees to cross each state. Also, the railroads were not standardized across states, so stuff had to be u loaded and reloaded. Thus the fees were high. This company that made these homes and delivers them went out of business.
I grew up with many depression stories and totally love this stuff. Interesting that neighborhood cafes and bars as well as beauty parlors and barber shops flourished. People today thinking of a new business should remember that! A cafe here from 1937 with simple sandwiches and coffee didn't close until 1990.
My dad was a younger man in his twenties during the depression, and spent most of it hoboing around the country looking for work, and wasn't above asking for handouts when he didn't have two pennies to rub together. He had moxie, and humorously recalled entering and bumming the biggest bank in Portland, Oregon one time- the bank's president actually came down and gave him some coin, bemused and impressed by his determination. But his favorite story was of the woman who regularly fed homeless men off the street, with whatever spare bread or food she had around. One day, the woman's neighbor came by and told her about a chalk mark on the front gate of her picket fence, and how it was a known symbol to other hobos that they could ask for work and/or food here, and would not be turned away. Someone she'd fed must have left it there, like a beacon for other hungry, desperate people. The neighbor then offered to wipe off the mark so that she wouldn't be bothered as much by the needy, who were everywhere in those days. The woman just shook her head, and said "Don't you dare." The mark stayed, and mercy and hope won a small victory that day.
We are so very fortunate to have been born during this period in history (especially in the United States). We’ve already won the lottery & don’t even know it. Up until very recently, life was extremely difficult, & traumatic. That’s part of the reason why religion was so popular, it gave people something to look forward to while simultaneously keeping them in line.
My grandma was born in 1923 in northern Minnesota, along the Canadian border. For most of her life she, and her future husband, were self sufficient. They farmed and ate deer, fish, and other wild game. Talking with her it didn’t seem like she noticed any difference between the 1920s, 2930s, and 1940s.
My father's family owned a chicken ranch in Indiana at the beginning of the depression. They ate chicken for years. My uncle passed away in the late 80's and up to the time of his death wouldn't eat chicken. My grandfather on my mother's side worked in the WPA building parks in California. He said that there were days when they moved rocks form one side of the park to the other side. Then when it was finished they moved them back. They built roads, bridges and buildings all for $.10/ day. But at least they ate. My father was born in 1920 and my mother in 1926. Those were seriously hard times. I really enjoyed this video. I wonder why there were a lot of pictures from London Ohio.
I have always been intrigued with hearing about the great depression and love your presentation. Maybe you perhaps in time you could do one on the New Madrid earthquake up here in New Madrid Missouri.
At 3:24, why didn't you simply say "A family near Southern Pines, North Carolina"? The shanty town at 4:54 is cleaner than literally all of the homeless camps today.
Ha, I thought the same things. There's a huge difference between being dirt-poor back then & the ditch pigs of today. They didn't always go hand in hand. It's called self-respect, community respect & common decency.
Here's a letter written by a Seattle resident in 1937 regarding that particular "clean" shanty town. To the Honorable City Council, Seattle The attention of the North End Progressive Club has been called to this little colony of poverty stricken people who have built shacks on the sand at Interbay waterfront. It was pointed out that an unsanitary condition might exist there and that these unsightly shacks annoyed the people who had property in the vacinity [sic]. We recognize the fact that these people have drifted in from other parts of the country - that no funds are available for other housing. That our Governor has vetoed the bill which might have enable them a chance to help themselves. That it is unlawful to shoot or drown them. But - we want you to do something about it. Respectfully, May Gamble Young, 130 East 37 St. Citation: May Gamble Young to City Council, April 24, 1937. CF 154992. Comptroller Files, 1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives. www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/Hoover/doclist.htm Transcription: 4/24/37 She viewed the "unsightly shacks" where "an unsanitary condition might exist" in the same way you seem to view homeless encampments of today. It seems as though the picture has sanitized things in your view of the shanty town. That said, It turns out the two of you have almost the same view of the homeless 86 years apart. The difference is her vision wasn't clouded. She saw it and smelled it. And don't forget, it's still, "unlawful to shoot or drown them" in 2023. More history related to the Hoovervilles in Seattle www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/digital-document-libraries/hoovervilles-in-seattle#:~:text=Some%20unemployed%20became%20transients%2C%20searching,the%20homeless%20were%20called%20Hoovervilles Also not sure why the need to single them out as African Americans rather than just a poor family. We can see they're African Americans without the description.
Back then there were still many farmlands, though people were already starting to rely on city amenities and moved away from farms. Today, the majority of the world is helpless against similar disasters, as the farmlands are disappearing and millions rely on grocery stores and food manufacturing.
This subject is another one which should be dealt with in more detail in our public schools and citizenship classes for immigrants. So people can actually see where we were then, and just how far American determination can get us in a FREE democratic country. Too many of both of these groups have an overinflated sense of entitlement these days. Both of my parents were born during this time and we have family stories about it. Tough times.
A better explanation of the stock market crash would be helpful. Such as people borrowing money from banks to buy stocks on the margin. Then when the market dropped, their stocks were worth less than they paid for them and they were unable to repay their bank loans causing banks to have a liquidity crisis. Blaming it on tariffs, while partially true is not the main reason for the bank failures and ensuing economic collapse.
well it's an extremely complicated event that had alot of causes. definitely the liquidity crisis and run on banks was the root cause but the contraction of monetary supplies by the fed as well as runaway protectionism made the depression MUCH deeper than it had to be. in fact it would have been longer had WWII not broken out and forced the allies into trading relationships again and governments to start spending like crazy which stimulated the economy enough to pull it out.
This video didn't say that protectionist policies caused the stock market crash, it said the later decision to increase tariffs delayed recovery and made the situation worse. This is precisely why institutions like the federal reserve should not be directly controlled by politicians, who sway with the winds of uneducated public opinion. Politicians love scapegoating, borrowing from future taxpayers, and making promises they can't keep, knowing full well that honest discussion can be painful. Politicians are also indebted to donors who see the world from a narrow perspective. What's best for the country isn't necessarily the most popular or politically convenient decision. Even recently, studies of tariffs introduced in 2018 showed the net cost to the US manufacturing sector was greater than the benefit.
Amazing channel makes you thankful for everything we have today! Give thanks to God for everything you have! and think that this particular matter might just be around the corner in slightly different form ...history likes to repeat itself.
Bad times create strong people. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. Weak people create bad times. Five dollar cigar for the correct guess as to where we are now.
My grandfather owned a small machine shop during the Depression and every morning there would be a line of men out front seeking work. Each day he would pick a different man and pay him a day’s wages to help around the shop. My mother grew up during the Depression and us kids always joked that she could squeeze a nickel until the buffalo cried.
I'm haunted by the child at the 4:28 mark. Who are they? Did they overcome their sickness and live a rich, full life, or die young from their illness? Are they still alive in their 90's, somewhere in a nursing home today? Did they have a hard life, dying some half a century ago? Did they marry and have kids of their own? That was a young human being, a person. And today they're just a color-enhanced image on a UA-cam screen, forgotten. But they were known once, and I can't help but wonder if someone alive today knows who they were, and knows at least a little bit about their story.
My grandfather had to use tape as a sole to his shoes during the Great Depression, he passed away in 2021 a millionaire. Never give up, good time are just around the corner if you work hard and believe in yourself and your family.
My father graduated from high school in Chicago during June of 1929. In the '50s, my dad probably missed not one day of work. In 1960, he was confined to Hines Hospital with TB. He remained there for 2.5 years.
Traditional families exist today, or are you living under a rock? Besides back in the day people with unorthodox lifestyles were shunned, mocked and pilloried, imprisoned and murdered for being different.....think about that !
@@justbecauseOK lolz thats why disney is failing , im saying back then there were more and all this pronoun bs where you can be a transformer is bat crazy
@@justbecauseOK i know that America is perversed as hell ,thats why only fans still exist ,its impossible in our country ,unorthodox should be dealed with psihiatric clinics ,not talking about gays and lesbians ,talking about pedos and pronoun libs and leftists
Today thugs would be looting and killing people for their doughnut and coffee. Even though the people were poor, the stood patiently, together and waited for their soup our whatever. God help us if this ever happens now.
that's true enough about todays thugs, but we dont have all the information about those times, we don't see the rampant crime in these pictures. And there was crime. Rose coloured glasses seem very easy to put on.
@@now591 show me the statistics please. Crime statistics are very well documented. You have to consider population. And urban density, and economic conditions. The Rose coloured glasses you wear are not proof of anything.
So my only issue here is at 4:56 where they call it Hooverville in Seattle in 1937, when Hoover wasn't even in office at the time. Yes they were still struggling with the Great Depression, but the photo is wrongly titled as to call it Rooseveltville during that time.
Probably was because that's what they were called when the depression started (Hoover was President from 1929 to 1933) and the name just continued on. I know you want to blame every bad thing in history on a Democrat but your comment is really a reach.
Absolutely! Hoover and the GOP were blamed for the Depression because they were in power when it started! Hoover and the GOP's indifference to the suffering of the people is a major reason Roosevelt and the Democrats overwhelmingly won the next election! Roosevelt and the Democrats passed 77 laws in the first 100 day in office directed to getting the country back working again! One of them started the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. As a teenager my father joined the CCC which paid $30 a month with most of it being sent home to his family! The CCC and other Public Works projects built many of the first infrastructures like water & electric systems in communities across the nation! They wen't a long way to getting the country on its feet again.
There were also "Hoover blankets" "Hoover flag" "Hoover leather" "Hoover wagon". They blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. In 1936 Roosevelt won 60.8% of the vote and carried every state except Maine and Vermont. You can't change history because you don't like it.
Not very many people alive today remember this time and the hardships people lived through! They were tough hard working people that went on to win WWII and made the U.S. a true world power.
Atleast there was no flash mobs, baggy pants, rap music, gang beatdows and a certain group that causes all these problems knew their role in society and behaved. Now it's far worse
1st of all, the stock market crash of 29 did NOT cause the great depression. It was 100% caused by the Federal Reserve contraction of the money supply. Smoot Hawley did not help, but it too was not the reason for the great depression. Oh, by the way, the money supply in the US has been declining since the start of this year, something that has not happened in 90 years! Oh, also, the young girl depicted at 04:20 was Tatum O'Neil from the movie Paper Moon. Nice lie though!
That's why I'm a minimalistic lifestyle proponent. I drive a well maintained 2003 Honda Accord and live in a two bedroom apartment. I don't buy high end clothes or go on fancy vacations. I do enjoy my life but do not live above and beyond my means.
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The Farm Family, Iowa, 1936, at 1:29 was my grandparents and their children. The little boy was my Dad. They were farmers, and my Grandpa did some construction around the area. He was skilled at laying foundations for homes. They also had a small business on the farm of turning sorghum into molasses, and farmers around the area would bring their sorghum to my Grandparents for processing. This isn't the only photograph taken that day; I found close to a dozen in the Library of Congress website. The photographer's name was Russell Werner Lee, and he took most of the photographs in this video as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration.
8 миллионов людей погибло в США, в 30ые годы от голода нищеты и болезней.
Самое ужасное в этой истории, что не было войны, склады были забиты продуктами и миллионы умерших от голода!
Thank you for sharing this
@lorinelson9057.
Nice and emotional photo of nice family. ☺👏
Thank you for bringing even more life to these images!
Both my parents were raised in the Great Depression. Both had to go without shoes and had to work to help the family. When my father was 13 he earned more money than his father. Then, they had to fight the biggest war in history as young adults. Tuberculosis and malaria were major killers then before medicines and insecticides and if you got any form of cancer it was a death sentence. I know many think it is hard now, but believe that they had much, much worse than now. Count your blessings that you are alive today.
Yes though now we haft to worry about COVID and all the other super bugs the commies are still trying to take over we have multiple bad guys that want to see half of the world dead and for some reason the Jewish people are back on the radar, I feel like I'm living in my great grandmother world.
Every period in time had good and bad things. Now we could be at the end of the world if WW3 would brake out. But you are right in the things you said. We always tend to go back in time thinking it's better. But that mainly is because as a human we grow older and get all the signs of age with it, and thinking when we were young it was much better, but the fact is we were more agile and we ahd more stamina.
Getting older wears you out so we tend to see it better in the past. But reflecting on humans past beside the possibility of wiping out mankind we are in a better place for now. Our technology is much more advanced so we can cheat death a little longer.
But back in the days people were more as one, talking being outside. We were closer to eachother. The internet and changing of the world is cause of that mainly. As a Dutch back in the days i would have never read your comment. So in a way we are closer, but also more away from eachother then ever.
That being said, the 30's and 40's were probably one of the tuffest times in modern history to mankind.
@@karlos1060 How true, the mid-20th century was a scary place. One could be excused if in 1942 he thought the end of the world was at hand. Then by 1950, the enemies were friends and the friends enemies and it all started over again WITH nuclear weapons. My father was a Sargent in WWII. He directly sent men into battle and many did not survive. I could tell he was resentful that with all that suffering humans did not learn the lessons war keeps trying to teach us be we forget too soon.
You are right, the next big war could be the end of all life. My father was an industrial real estate developer. in the 50's and 60's He worked for years on a complex and went to finalize the paperwork. On the way to the meeting on the corporate jet he asked the CEO of the chemical company who was going to use the facility what was going to be produced there. The CEO said it was top secret, but he trusted my father to share with him they were going to produce a chemical that, if strategically released, could kill all life on earth. He got off the plane and booked a flight home. He never signed the papers and took no fees for the work he did. When he got home he was white as a sheet and I knew something had happened. Years later he told me he did not want his name on the documents for that atrocity.
Humans seem to be in a race with ourselves on whether we will create a bright future or destroy ourselves. It's neck and neck.
@@karlos1060 especially in Holland,you guys really got the brunt of that war and I guess now information is more available so it's harder for the bad guy's to cover it up. I really pray for better days.
Well, shortly we are going to experience a depression WORSE than this Great Depression, and 90 per cent of the people are totally clueless!
I have good friends from Nebraska. He and the wife were born in 1931. He said things were so bad including the family's crops that his dad had to borrow $100 to pay for his release from the hospital at birth. Then an insurance man showed up and his dad had to buy life insurance on him for the loan. As a child he studied by kerosen lamp and used an outhouse until age twelve. He was a hard worker and extreme saver and is very wealthy with an annual cash flow just under $500k. He and wife are now 92 but live in a very modest home and avoid spending. He buys very old used cars and has even glued his shoes to repair them to avoid buying new. His sweet wife is even more extreme ... with a mindset of poverty and refuses to see themselves as well off much less wealthy. She admits being depression babies still affects them and how they view money. So many of us today no little to nothing about true hardship. Their friendship has been a blessing, a wonderful history lesson and made me so much more grateful. Thank you for your video.
Yup, know that routine well.
My great grandparents lived in 1930s Kansas while raising several children. They were so poor that my great grandma somehow used regular sewing thread to crochet since they couldn’t afford yarn. 🧶
Is your friend a sitting US Senator or Congressman? lol
@@PriesthoodPub nope
Thank you for sharing.
My family was very fortunate during those times, both father and grandfather were employed in the gold mining industry. Mother would send me to school with extra food to share with my not so fortunate classmates, we raised a large garden, had chickens and geese. When the Hobos nock on the door they were always given chores for a meal. People were much different then, none felt entitled like the citizens of today.
None felt entitled then? Steinbeck's picture of depression California shows all those who were already there before the flood of Okies came as quite certain that they were entitled to a good life and that the Okies were not. We tend to imagine that people were better way back - I don't believe it, I think people are people in all eras.
@@carelgoodheir692 Believe as you wish, those folks came to California and other locations looking for WORK, not welfare the only form of welfare in California was Old Age Assistance and Veterans Homes, non residents did not qualify...Welfare came much later, it was the vinegar that drew the gnats . Here’s the kicker, I was there and lived through it, you were not born yet.
I agree Steinbeck portrays an image of Monterey-Hollister areas well, Mice And Men is a good example.
@@NBZW Okay, so you're older than me, I wasn'r born till '43, in The Netherlands. But what we experienced during the occupation in NL makes the US depression look like a picnic. Thank God I live in a country (Scotland) where we take it for granted that the state collects taxes and disburses them in ways that provide health care, education and (in principle) basic housing for all. Our 'entitlements' are paid for, our taxes are the insurance premiums - as Rightists love to chant, nothing's free..
@@carelgoodheir692 No argument with that at all 👍
@@carelgoodheir692 A bit of clarification. You refer too entitlements as something you have worked for, like our Social Security which is earned by working and paying the required tax.
The entitlement I am referring to is the system of welfare where most recipients, not all but most have not worked too earn the benefits, it’s something they feel they deserve simply by being here. Politicians at work again.
I was born 20 years after the Great Depression so all the adults I knew came from that era, most were hard working blue or white collar, they were not big complainers or feel entitled. They looked at the world through realistic eyes, knowing that things could change for the worst overnight. I have always remembered that. My father worked hard to advance the family’s fortunes from where they started in the late 40’s. My parents succeeded in that endeavor. I have also worked hard to continue that legacy. I appreciate them so much, they were not perfect ( who is) but they were not quitters and did their best.
It raised the Greatest Generation they in turn raised the baby boomers. Young people will never get it. Me me me!!!😢 People had integrity, morals, manners, pride in Country, God and respect! Work ethic and so much more we are missing today.
@@seeleygirl6178Amen sister!
It’s true. People today are selfish and entitled and it makes me very sad and frustrated. As we can see in the world and from the pandemic ANYTHING can happen quickly and unexpectedly and we should be grateful every day.
@@yeshuaismyking2885 Yeshua wins! And we are the King's kids...But it's still possible to get worse before we get to go be with Him! Buckle your spiritual seat belts and hang on!
8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.
Thanks for this . The photography is stunning. It really captures the feel of the era on the faces. I was born in 1938.
Thank you, John. I appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed!
@@VintageTreasuresVideos Wonderful music selection also.
Seeing these photos in colour make it real and not just history. Its amazing how colour does that.
I’d love to see Colorized‘s pictures of the Native American tribes from the late 1800s in to the beginning of the 1900s. There are so many out there that the world has never seen. It reveals a life that’s so few of us have ever known. The Native Americans tribes are all across our lands & their culture is a rich part of our nation today.
8 миллионов людей погибло в США, в 30ые годы от голода нищеты и болезней.
I wasn't born until 1965 but I would like to give a shout out to the families behind the Federal Reserve for the atrocities that they were responsible for during this time.
Deep state.
all we had to do was not play their game they made but for some reason our ancestors played along and sent everyone else after them off the cliff.
watch europa the last battle, it dives into the origins of its creation.
Yeah well enough people understand who is responsible so that the next time coming up it will likely be titled "the great rope shortage".
The next thing they're trying to get us with is the CBDC or Digital Passport. Not this time.
Have to say whoever did this colorization did a very good job.
Thanks man 🙏
So many old folks today still hoard very large quantities of canned food and dry goods. A habit instilled into them by parents who were haunted by fear of returning to the nineteen thirties. Brilliant but sad pictures. Thank you.
Not hoarding it's prepping and much younger folks are doing it these days, smart
It is truly amazing how the colorization process applied to these old sepia photos completely alters the viewing experience. Additionally, the historical information provided is spot on.
8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.
It's wild to see the older people in these images. To think they were probably born in the mid 1800s, and we can see clear images of them today. Just makes me think of the future people looking back at all the images we have today. From back then on, we are going to be able to look back at the past with more clarity.
In the 1800's yes, early 1800's no. that would make them like100 years old. 1850 would make them in their 80's.
Oh, the American education system.
Out of everything I said, this is what you got out of my message? Must be so nice to live in your country. Having to pick out the one thing I said wrong. People are a joke.@@YourConscience-k8g
No one cares - you understood what I meant. Next time try not to respond if you're just going to knit pick pointless information.@@thomastimlin1724
When these are in sepia or black and white, the people in them do not seem quite real. When color is added, the humanity jumps off the page. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the upload . A great reminder of how good we have it and take too much for granted!
What a wonderful channel! Thank you so much. My great-grandparents and grandparents lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn during the Great Depression. It was what it was, and everyone survived.
Really brings it home. Imagine we are reliving this in real-time.
Median incomes are lower now than in the Great Depression. Adjusted for inflation, household median income was about $85k. Now, it is around $50k. Both husband and wife usually have to work to support a family, and the ability to own a house has decreased.
These photos are amazing, and above all else, all I can see is stoic people with a lot of class. Something that I feel is missing in todays society.
My dad was a member of an immigrant family living in the Boston area during The Depression. He and his siblings worked whatever jobs that they could find and pooled their funds. Upon graduating high school, he worked as a gas station mechanic during the day, made and sold cheese and yogurt and sold used cars all while attending law school at night. He finished law school in 1940, just in time for WW2. My mother was an only child whose father was a middle manager for the New Haven Railroad. They had a steady income and were very comfortable. What a contrast.
8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.
My family were in the wholesale produce business... They built a three storey warehouse with freezers and a freight elevator in 1919. They survived the depression in good stead but with long working hours. Drove a Packard car. They probably sold the apples to the broken stock brokers on Wall Street who resorted to pushing apple carts for a living. They immigrated here from central Adriatic Italy in 1880 and worked first as ditch diggers in the new subway system. They started their produce business before the income tax and paid into it all along. We lived to see the Interstate Highway System create the logistical infrastructure that ruined their business knocking out "the middle man" with supermarkets, shopping malls and franchize business'. I lived that history.
My grandparents on both sides did ok during the depression. My dad's parents were dairy farmers and the cream checks kept them going, my mom's dad was a section chief for a railroad. But times were certainly hard due to both depression and drought. I've got a photo of dad as a kid during the early to mid 30's that would match the ones here. Barefoot, raggy pants, a rope for a belt. And equally raggy shirt. Now farm work clothes are always a bit on the raggy side but what he was wearing went beyond normal.
People starved in England far worse because of the German wolf packs during the first and second world war my dad migrated to Australia after WW2and couldn't believe the abundance of foods everything was in plenty
things are just as bad as they are now anyone who has reproduced has much debt and hopes that this flimsey economy keeps going but it is going down in flames myself I am single no wife no kids and surviving proof that the average Joe cannot afford a "full life"
In 1964, LBJ toured part of the rural Southern Plains by car with an aide - a holdover from the Kennedy Administration- who hailed from a wealthy Boston-area family. “Look at those children, wearing rags”, observed the shocked aide. His boss was incensed: “Those aren’t rags”, said the President pointedly, “those are patched clothes - there’s a big difference!” Patches were normal in those parts; the lowbrow Johnson clan had always had them in the Texas Hill Country. But actual holes meant the child’s family had fallen apart and now lacked a mother or elder sister who could sew. Holes meant the child was at serious risk of malnourishment or even death. The next year, LBJ launched the War on Poverty.
@@bodhixxx1hire many jobs are you working? Pay? Join the military
@@vivian2217 I was in the military I am 46 now I work one job with overtime
One can only imagine how much worse coming depression is going to be. Back then, most people were normal; now, few are still sane. This will be a blood bath worse then the worst ideas of the apocalypse! ( great job on restoring those photos; brings it back to life)
Sad but too true. Society back then was still sane & wholesome.
Both of my parents were in their early teens duing this period. They told me they never wanted for most things since they lived in a rural setting raising their own food and made their own clothing.
Beautiful photos, these people suffered through hardships but you get a feel that they were far more connected to one another than we are today.
Even though this was a very sad and desperate time these people held onto their dignity and dressed so clean and nicely what amazing people
This was so amazing to watch ..thank you so much! My grandma and grandpa both grew up near London Ohio and were born around 1932. It was so cool seeing how things would have looked to them during that era....I loved it
The sad thing this is happening again and is likely to be worse than the 1930's.
100% true. I wouldn't be surprised within the next 5 years. We've the start of WW3. It seems nowadays that's what foreign countries wants mostly. Pushing buttons on purpose. Wanting USA to make the 1st move. Like it's Vietnam all over again. Let's not forget 9/11 Iraq War. What a waste of 20 yrs of PURE LIES !!! AKA: Bush Administration. For Afghanistan to suffer either way. 😓
Возможно. И не только в Америке, но и во всем мире... к сожалению...
@YourCousinFromBoston Bush started the war but both parties kept the war going. We need Trump!
@@travisadams4470 Bush didn't start any wars.
@@nuttybar9 Afghanistan and Iraq.
The lumberjack and his wife is a famous one that I love, they look very happy like they’re doing well. Being a 50 year old Oregonian, I know a lot about the lumber industry and how it began so that photo in particular makes me happy. Who knows, they could’ve started a town, that little couple.
she doesnt look overly happy to me. in fact she looks out of place in that shack
My father was seven in 1939. He was the tenth of eleven children living in SW Arkansas, and Papa (my grandfather) was a farmer and a pastor. They didn't really have any money and lived off the land. Dad said they didn't know there was a depression because nothing really changed for them.
I'm a Cameroonian (West African) watching this in Cape Town, South Africa and couldn't help thinking if some of those kids in the photos are still alive somewhere today and if they could have the chance to see these photos from the days of their youth. The music was so beautiful and almost made me to feel like I was witnessing the events in real time. Their raggedy clothes and bare feet and the grime on some of their faces really made me feel the toughness of that era. Thanks a lot for sharing. Love to all from the Cape of Good Hope.
WE LOST OUR 300 ACRE FARM.....THE DEPUTIES THREW OUR BELONGINGS IN THE STREET.....IT WAS RAINING BAD, WE SLEPT IN THE RAILROAD YARDS, WE MADE COFFEE ON SMALL FIRES BESIDE THE RAIL TRACKS....Sometimes kind store owners let us clean their stores, and yards for a sack of beans, and 1 pound of corn bread... I remember 1 Christmas they gave us a stick of licorice, and 2 peppermint canes....
Many thanks from Russia for the opportunity to get in touch with the history of America . I accidentally came across your channel. Amazing photos and music.♥
people looked so real and so beautiful, no makeup no filter and so beautiful even amidst all this horror
No morbid obesity either.
Подписался на ваш канал. Смотрю с удовольствием! Спасибо за красочные исторические экскурсы! Мне кажется, прошлое многим дорого и сердцу, и душе! ))
Thanks, appreciate it ❤️
These colorized photos make everything much more real and close to our current time.
these recolors are really good. thank you
There is this museum in Columbus Ohio. They have a full walk thru model of a metal home.
It was not a mobile home, but a regular home. The company was in CA. They were delivering these homes via railroad, but there were fees to cross each state. Also, the railroads were not standardized across states, so stuff had to be u loaded and reloaded. Thus the fees were high. This company that made these homes and delivers them went out of business.
I grew up with many depression stories and totally love this stuff. Interesting that neighborhood cafes and bars as well as beauty parlors and barber shops flourished. People today thinking of a new business should remember that! A cafe here from 1937 with simple sandwiches and coffee didn't close until 1990.
My dad was a younger man in his twenties during the depression, and spent most of it hoboing around the country looking for work, and wasn't above asking for handouts when he didn't have two pennies to rub together. He had moxie, and humorously recalled entering and bumming the biggest bank in Portland, Oregon one time- the bank's president actually came down and gave him some coin, bemused and impressed by his determination. But his favorite story was of the woman who regularly fed homeless men off the street, with whatever spare bread or food she had around. One day, the woman's neighbor came by and told her about a chalk mark on the front gate of her picket fence, and how it was a known symbol to other hobos that they could ask for work and/or food here, and would not be turned away. Someone she'd fed must have left it there, like a beacon for other hungry, desperate people. The neighbor then offered to wipe off the mark so that she wouldn't be bothered as much by the needy, who were everywhere in those days. The woman just shook her head, and said "Don't you dare." The mark stayed, and mercy and hope won a small victory that day.
My Grandmother told me about these welcoming chalk marks. Imagine the relief in finding 1. 😎
wonderful story, thanks for sharing
Hard times but hard and good people. It took almost a decade to recover.
I dig the music.
Beautiful coloring. Thank you!
We are so very fortunate to have been born during this period in history (especially in the United States). We’ve already won the lottery & don’t even know it.
Up until very recently, life was extremely difficult, & traumatic. That’s part of the reason why religion was so popular, it gave people something to look forward to while simultaneously keeping them in line.
I enjoyed the colorization, definitely :) Good History input, all around
I wonder if anyone is going to remember our old folks on the streets living in their cars 🚗. These images give me some comfort ❤
Or not in cars, more to the point.
great work, it really succeeds in giving a feeling of those times....
Still much safer than the streets today filled with the 13% scourge.
Thank you for posting this video please keep them coming ❤
My grandma was born in 1923 in northern Minnesota, along the Canadian border. For most of her life she, and her future husband, were self sufficient. They farmed and ate deer, fish, and other wild game. Talking with her it didn’t seem like she noticed any difference between the 1920s, 2930s, and 1940s.
The 2930's eh?
@bodombeastmode
I have hit that 2 many times when going for the 1.
@@jimc4839 yeh I'm a dick I guess lol
@bodombeastmode
Lol. I don't believe that.
My father's family owned a chicken ranch in Indiana at the beginning of the depression. They ate chicken for years. My uncle passed away in the late 80's and up to the time of his death wouldn't eat chicken.
My grandfather on my mother's side worked in the WPA building parks in California. He said that there were days when they moved rocks form one side of the park to the other side. Then when it was finished they moved them back. They built roads, bridges and buildings all for $.10/ day. But at least they ate. My father was born in 1920 and my mother in 1926. Those were seriously hard times.
I really enjoyed this video. I wonder why there were a lot of pictures from London Ohio.
I have always been intrigued with hearing about the great depression and love your presentation. Maybe you perhaps in time you could do one on the New Madrid earthquake up here in New Madrid Missouri.
Well you’re going to love 2024/2025 then
The colour helps me see these folk as my neighbours. Beautiful.
I was born in 1922, life as a kid was so hard back then. Life as a parent was even harder.
Congratulations on hitting 100
I deeply admire you sir or ma'am. I was only 37, I can't imagine how hard you were back then..
when in color its becomes for some reason more relatable and the connection can be established
At 3:24, why didn't you simply say "A family near Southern Pines, North Carolina"? The shanty town at 4:54 is cleaner than literally all of the homeless camps today.
Ha, I thought the same things. There's a huge difference between being dirt-poor back then & the ditch pigs of today.
They didn't always go hand in hand.
It's called self-respect, community respect & common decency.
Here's a letter written by a Seattle resident in 1937 regarding that particular "clean" shanty town.
To the Honorable City Council, Seattle
The attention of the North End Progressive Club has been called to this little colony of
poverty stricken people who have built shacks on the sand at Interbay waterfront. It was
pointed out that an unsanitary condition might exist there and that these unsightly shacks
annoyed the people who had property in the vacinity [sic].
We recognize the fact that these people have drifted in from other parts of the country -
that no funds are available for other housing. That our Governor has vetoed the bill which
might have enable them a chance to help themselves. That it is unlawful to shoot or
drown them. But - we want you to do something about it.
Respectfully, May Gamble Young, 130 East 37 St.
Citation: May Gamble Young to City Council, April 24, 1937. CF 154992. Comptroller Files,
1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives.
www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/Hoover/doclist.htm
Transcription:
4/24/37
She viewed the "unsightly shacks" where "an unsanitary condition might exist" in the same way you seem to view homeless encampments of today.
It seems as though the picture has sanitized things in your view of the shanty town. That said, It turns out the two of you have almost the same view of the homeless 86 years apart. The difference is her vision wasn't clouded. She saw it and smelled it. And don't forget, it's still, "unlawful to shoot or drown them" in 2023.
More history related to the Hoovervilles in Seattle
www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/digital-document-libraries/hoovervilles-in-seattle#:~:text=Some%20unemployed%20became%20transients%2C%20searching,the%20homeless%20were%20called%20Hoovervilles
Also not sure why the need to single them out as African Americans rather than just a poor family. We can see they're African Americans without the description.
How do you know? You lived in one?
My parents were both children in the depression. The frugality I learned is not a bad thing as we head into another undoubtledly worse depression.
Excellent colorization!
Back then there were still many farmlands, though people were already starting to rely on city amenities and moved away from farms. Today, the majority of the world is helpless against similar disasters, as the farmlands are disappearing and millions rely on grocery stores and food manufacturing.
This subject is another one which should be dealt with in more detail in our public schools and citizenship classes for immigrants. So people can actually see where we were then, and just how far American determination can get us in a FREE democratic country. Too many of both of these groups have an overinflated sense of entitlement these days. Both of my parents were born during this time and we have family stories about it. Tough times.
What's amazing is that some people born in the 1930s are still alive today. The great depression seems so long ago, yet so close too.
A better explanation of the stock market crash would be helpful. Such as people borrowing money from banks to buy stocks on the margin. Then when the market dropped, their stocks were worth less than they paid for them and they were unable to repay their bank loans causing banks to have a liquidity crisis. Blaming it on tariffs, while partially true is not the main reason for the bank failures and ensuing economic collapse.
well it's an extremely complicated event that had alot of causes. definitely the liquidity crisis and run on banks was the root cause but the contraction of monetary supplies by the fed as well as runaway protectionism made the depression MUCH deeper than it had to be. in fact it would have been longer had WWII not broken out and forced the allies into trading relationships again and governments to start spending like crazy which stimulated the economy enough to pull it out.
There are YT videos which are very good at explaining what was going on in the 1920s which helped bring on the crash in 1929.
The fed reserve was made and right after that the great depression hit. Funny that.
This video didn't say that protectionist policies caused the stock market crash, it said the later decision to increase tariffs delayed recovery and made the situation worse. This is precisely why institutions like the federal reserve should not be directly controlled by politicians, who sway with the winds of uneducated public opinion. Politicians love scapegoating, borrowing from future taxpayers, and making promises they can't keep, knowing full well that honest discussion can be painful. Politicians are also indebted to donors who see the world from a narrow perspective. What's best for the country isn't necessarily the most popular or politically convenient decision. Even recently, studies of tariffs introduced in 2018 showed the net cost to the US manufacturing sector was greater than the benefit.
@@georgestauber2636 The fed reserve was created in 1913. Takes literally seconds to google it. 😂
Amazing channel makes you thankful for everything we have today! Give thanks to God for everything you have! and think that this particular matter might just be around the corner in slightly different form ...history likes to repeat itself.
The homeless man at 2:50 is better dressed than the average American today.
He lost his job but kept his suit. It might have been everything he owned at the time.
trust me, those clothes are not comfortable, that is business wear anyway.
Stunning colorization. Bravo!
7:31 It kinda feels relevant still, doesn't it?
Amazing colorization.
Yet, we know at the same time so many suffered, the wealthy were still out building grand castles for themselves.
Bad times create strong people.
Strong people create good times.
Good times create weak people.
Weak people create bad times.
Five dollar cigar for the correct guess as to where we are now.
You are definitely in a reddit korean basket weaving forum sir.
That's a Very, Very Good Comment !
My grandfather owned a small machine shop during the Depression and every morning there would be a line of men out front seeking work. Each day he would pick a different man and pay him a day’s wages to help around the shop. My mother grew up during the Depression and us kids always joked that she could squeeze a nickel until the buffalo cried.
Most of the soldiers off ww2 had to endure that as younger kids, then grew up to fight the biggest war known to man, a crazy part of American history.
A lot of men were 4F when their draft notices came due to the tribulations suffered during the Depression.
dragged into a war based on propaganda & lies.
The photo of the Hooverville in Seattle is telling. Homeless people here are living worse than that today in Seattle!
😔
today the "homeless" are drug addicts, bums and vagrants. They wouldn't work if you offered them a job. Big difference
It’s amazing to think no one in any of these pictures was over the age of 36.
I'm haunted by the child at the 4:28 mark. Who are they? Did they overcome their sickness and live a rich, full life, or die young from their illness? Are they still alive in their 90's, somewhere in a nursing home today? Did they have a hard life, dying some half a century ago? Did they marry and have kids of their own? That was a young human being, a person. And today they're just a color-enhanced image on a UA-cam screen, forgotten. But they were known once, and I can't help but wonder if someone alive today knows who they were, and knows at least a little bit about their story.
That lumberjack and his wife gives BIG ENERGY. Like WOW.
They may have been poor as dirt but they didn't go attacking each other like they do now.
are you kidding me?
Germany for starters.....
Just understand the same people who put us in the great depression then are the same ones who did it again today
My grandfather had to use tape as a sole to his shoes during the Great Depression, he passed away in 2021 a millionaire. Never give up, good time are just around the corner if you work hard and believe in yourself and your family.
My father graduated from high school in Chicago during June of 1929. In the '50s, my dad probably missed not one day of work. In 1960, he was confined to Hines Hospital with TB. He remained there for 2.5 years.
Atleast they had traditional familys back then and people who knows how to work for living
I prefer today, where a bunch of child-molesting clergy isn't controlling my life.
Traditional families exist today, or are you living under a rock?
Besides back in the day people with unorthodox lifestyles were shunned, mocked and pilloried, imprisoned and murdered for being different.....think about that !
@@justbecauseOK lolz thats why disney is failing , im saying back then there were more and all this pronoun bs where you can be a transformer is bat crazy
@@justbecauseOK i know that America is perversed as hell ,thats why only fans still exist ,its impossible in our country ,unorthodox should be dealed with psihiatric clinics ,not talking about gays and lesbians ,talking about pedos and pronoun libs and leftists
You should travel to russia 🇷🇺 country have great laws about gay but they chemicaly castrate pedos , youre country does that to ordinary people
These restorations of photo and film have gotten so much better in recent times. SUBBED! Happy "holy" days to you and yours. Be well ^
Click bait: the picture does not appear in the video only the background.
These people look happier and more relaxed than most of the people you would see on the average train today.
Today thugs would be looting and killing people for their doughnut and coffee. Even though the people were poor, the stood patiently, together and waited for their soup our whatever. God help us if this ever happens now.
that's true enough about todays thugs, but we dont have all the information about those times, we don't see the rampant crime in these pictures. And there was crime.
Rose coloured glasses seem very easy to put on.
People lived those times knew how it was and there was no mindless violence, teen crimes, thugs n vandalism like today. Fact.@@justbecauseOK
@@now591 show me the statistics please.
Crime statistics are very well documented.
You have to consider population. And urban density, and economic conditions.
The Rose coloured glasses you wear are not proof of anything.
I didn't see any need for the fake picture to lure people in to this video
My parents lived during the depression in NYC, my dad's family had it tough but my mom's family did ok.
Good video, interesting…but you thumbnail picture of the two young women seems to be “click bait”:. They are fake
Thank you for this!
-1 for your lying thumbnail
I will always subscribing indefinitely and amazing amen
So my only issue here is at 4:56 where they call it Hooverville in Seattle in 1937, when Hoover wasn't even in office at the time. Yes they were still struggling with the Great Depression, but the photo is wrongly titled as to call it Rooseveltville during that time.
Probably was because that's what they were called when the depression started (Hoover was President from 1929 to 1933) and the name just continued on. I know you want to blame every bad thing in history on a Democrat but your comment is really a reach.
Absolutely! Hoover and the GOP were blamed for the Depression because they were in power when it started! Hoover and the GOP's indifference to the suffering of the people is a major reason Roosevelt and the Democrats overwhelmingly won the next election! Roosevelt and the Democrats passed 77 laws in the first 100 day in office directed to getting the country back working again! One of them started the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. As a teenager my father joined the CCC which paid $30 a month with most of it being sent home to his family! The CCC and other Public Works projects built many of the first infrastructures like water & electric systems in communities across the nation! They wen't a long way to getting the country on its feet again.
There were also "Hoover blankets" "Hoover flag" "Hoover leather" "Hoover wagon". They blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. In 1936 Roosevelt won 60.8% of the vote and carried every state except Maine and Vermont.
You can't change history because you don't like it.
Not very many people alive today remember this time and the hardships people lived through!
They were tough hard working people that went on to win WWII and made the U.S. a true world power.
Where are the ladies on the thumbnail?
Clickbait!
Time travel proof: @6:20 a young man was talking on his mobile phone.(right side)
The depression that we’re entering now will be a lot worse than the pictures you see here
Marxism taking over not economic depression
People were poor but they had dignity in their faces.💜
Atleast there was no flash mobs, baggy pants, rap music, gang beatdows and a certain group that causes all these problems knew their role in society and behaved. Now it's far worse
Yep
I enjoyed it very much.thank you
1st of all, the stock market crash of 29 did NOT cause the great depression. It was 100% caused by the Federal Reserve contraction of the money supply. Smoot Hawley did not help, but it too was not the reason for the great depression. Oh, by the way, the money supply in the US has been declining since the start of this year, something that has not happened in 90 years!
Oh, also, the young girl depicted at 04:20 was Tatum O'Neil from the movie Paper Moon. Nice lie though!
It isn't Tatum O'Neal.
7:10 notice the flies on the young boys right arm and overalls😢
That's why I'm a minimalistic lifestyle proponent. I drive a well maintained 2003 Honda Accord and live in a two bedroom apartment. I don't buy high end clothes or go on fancy vacations. I do enjoy my life but do not live above and beyond my means.
Well "enjoyed this video"... I found it more informative. And it certainly nudges me more into the direction of appreciating everything we have.