1920s USA - Rare Colorized Photos of Vintage America [Real Scenes] 

I'm new here, do you have anything from the 19th century especially civil war Era?

Great channel! And a great job on the colorizing! There were a few surprises with Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Edison! You have a new subscriber!

How true

Exactly thank you my friend I didn’t know anybody else could think that way!!!!!as do I

Until one becomes sick. In 2013 I had triple bypass surgery. Not possible back then. No modern drugs. No antibiotics.

It still would be worth it. Today they are trying to kill use.

@@user-yn3si4nh1g​​⁠yep, the governments worldwide are thinking up ways to cull their national populations. Too many people, and so little pension money, we are in trouble. Wars will soon become People vs State 😂

*Make sure you don't catch Spanish Influenza, tuberculosis, or small pox.* No penicillin until 1929.

Some of them may have had style, but no way to verify if they were smart.

By "smart," he meant smartly dressed, not brain smart.

*If they had money, they had style.* Same as it's always been.

It was considered Blasphemy back then.

And if you could have seen these same people a few years later when everything was at their finger tips... most of that plumpness was loss and so was the glow when they were struggling to feed themselves and families.

The luxury of being overweight for the majority wasn't there yet. If you look at statistics, obesity rises with the popularity of fast food and later with Welfare, as many states give quite a bit of money to those on the system for food and there are no restrictions on what they can buy with their EBT card (so long as it's "food"). They can literally spend all their food money on donuts and soda. Keep in mind that in New York the food allowance for a family of three under the poverty line is about $500 a month. During covid, NY was giving out double that amount to those on welfare for the whole of the last three years. Doctors in the 1920s also were not afraid to tell their patients to lose weight for their health if they were getting pudgy.

@@baylorsailor People walked more back then and were outdoors more as well(no TV), no air conditioning, so the body works to stay cool in summer. And lets not forget strong fat shaming existed 30 plus years ago.

If you study enough Google images, you see that obesity did _not_ grow with an expanding economy. The US economy exploded immediately after WWII, but the fat explosion occurs in the 1980s. There were three major areas that the US changed _suddenly_ within the decade of the 70s, making the 80s substantially different from the 60s. 1. Eating habits changed dramatically. Prior to the 70s, nearly everyone ate only three times a day with almost nothing but water between meals. There were no vending machines in schools and workplaces. There were no break rooms with microwaves and refrigerators. Schoolchildren and office workers did not eat at their desks, nobody brought in donuts. People got water, maybe coffee with sugar, during a single break in the morning and another in the afternoon. Kids came home from school and had to wait until dinner. There was virtually no snacking. I distinctly recall in the later 60s when the food industry _invented_ the "after school snack" and started pushing mothers to have snack food on hand. After the 70s, people had snack food constantly available and many people began consuming calories nearly every waking hour of the day. 2. Ultra-processing of fast and junk foods was spun up during the 70s. The mantra at the time was "better living through chemistry," and food became highly chemicalized. Yes, there was "fast food" prior to the 70s, but "fast food" in the 60s was just whole food cooked in casual restaurants. "TV Dinners" were regular food that was cooked and simply frozen. Wheat in the 60s was still pretty much the same wheat of fifty years earlier. The creation of ultra-processed foods was from the 70s.

@@baylorsailor Obesity isn't a problem of the poor, it's an issue with modern western civilisation, you can eat fast food and still be slim if you burn those calories off. The real issue, especially in western society is lack of movement, too fond of cars and binging on Netflix and social media. How many kids today do we see playing on the streets or in local neighbourhoods ? they're all on screens. Obesity isn't a welfare issue it's a society issue.

@@vanillaexplosion99 lol fat shaming is probably hate speech today.

it seems 1880 to like 1950 was the golden generation. The best decade (and the most destructive) was 1890's. Lots of stuff happened in Nevada and California

Not great if you were black, native, Jewish, gay, wanted a beer, worried about lead poisoning, asbestos in houses, wanted a 40 hour work week, did not want child labour, or were a woman (they just barely got the right to vote, but were still expected to be at home and sexism was rampant). Those rose colored glasses, some keep them quite snuggly on their face.

@@bartwfielder the golden generation aka reset generation where people weren't allowed to talk about family origins (mass genetic engineering and incubators).

My parents were born in the 20’s, so I love to see pictures from that time. I don’t think my grandmother was a flapper, though. They lived on a farm so fashion wasn’t a big deal. But, my mother dressed beautifully and fashionably when she was young, and before the war broke out. Things were rationed then, even fabric.

My grandparents were all born in the 1910s, but my childhood neighbors were born in the late 1800s, died in the 1990s. One of my favorite things in the world was sitting with them for hours and listening to all their vivid stories of life in a completely different world than we know today. Back when horse and buggies weren’t just for the Amish .. ;) He had a gnarly scar on his leg from getting his foot caught in the wagon spokes as a kid; walked with a limp for the rest of his life. I truly miss hanging out with this generation. They’re a different breed of people, even compared to those born in the 30s who’re still living. I’d give anything if I could have had more time with them.

We now are in the 20s.

@@GTRPGeisterfahrer The 1920s. You knew what I meant.

They were so much more classy and modest back then. ❤

Come the 30s millions were walking in rags

Those were the days.

2024 you have social decay and a rise in idiocy. Look at the MAGA political cult.

Bigotry still abounded. The pictures do not depict Negros and Whites together. Some towns had curfew laws in placed and inforced directed towards the Negros (Colored People) of the city; town.😣

*Two world wars and depressions in between.* Amazingly amazing.

Not film. Just foto slides. And there's many places, where was a wrong colour. Too much times

@@pravdanet Yep, its rather easy and simple AI Colorization, something i don´t like at all, also because its becoming widespread for no good reason. If you´ll look for Photo or Film colorization by hand, you´ll need to search for quite a while.

The music in this one really is great.

No phoney beauty.

No vaccines, no civil rights for most, wall st collapse of ‘29

.... and beautiful

*Get all your vaccinations first.* And don't get too close to anyone or you might give them COVID19.

If you were white and at least middle class those were the good days.

Funny. I'm 54 and I was just thinking that very same thing then stumbled onto your comment. These people were my grandfather's age. He passed in the 90's in his 80's. When girls were girls and men were men.

@@booberry6715 54 here too and can not agree more!

I was thinking the same…all gone, but left their mark somehow

On February 5, 2024 a woman in the northern California town of Willits celebrated her 116th birthday. She is the oldest confirmed living person in the USA and a few months younger than the oldest in the world living in Spain. There are many other people well over a century still alive and it's possible one or more could have been pictured in any of these photographs.

@@netescape7771 sure its possible but not likely ... take in for account the majority of people are older than 20 in most of these pics you would have been a infant or toddler or small child when these were taken. my comment was more about mortality than facts about maybe 1 or 2 people might still be alive today

Now it is all electronic social media.

not me. - i'm going to be a star and people are going to love me and travel far and wide to hear me speak

From sugar and processed carbs.

And no factory raised cows and chickens. No fast food garbage.

I think Mr Ronald McDonald deserves a special mention on this topic.

Where did yoe find this information? I also find it a bit odd that you mention percentage, but didn't state what that percentage is? i think you just made this up in your head .

A quick google search says 40% of Americans are Obese(That's the best part of 150 million people)...18% are severely Obese...most of the people in these photos appear to be of normal body weight...Sorry but it's not rocket science.@@Coolcarting

The music was more like 50’s background jazz at the earliest.

Still does!

Don't forget about polio, though. People smoked a lot back then, too. And factories sent chemicals and smoke straight into the air, unabated. But by and large, it was a much calmer, happier time, and people were generally quite decent to each other.

Polio was ddt poisoning

Except for minorities.​@@Tubes12AX7k

Yes not like the fake today. Nothing like natural beauty

@@mkkuusisto6222 Like minded , that look at the past for guidance, should all unite and form a new nation based on the best of our past. Keep time and culture at a standstill, if you don't like it you can leave for another land. Protect such a land with a strong nuclear deterrent.

Normal figures back then too. It seems people have forgotten what real women actually looked like. Today's standard requires body modification and cosmetic surgery to be beautiful and desirable.