1930s USA - Real Photos of the Great Depression - Colorized

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1930s USA - Real Photos of the Great Depression - Colorized
During the Great Depression lives were reshaped, fortunes were lost, and hope endured. This period is etched in history's sepia-toned pages. But this time, we're bringing those memories to life in vibrant color.
Imagine a world where families were going about their lives, working hard to make ends meet, and a sense of security was the norm. But then, in the blink of an eye, the Great Depression descended, shattering those lives and the certainties they held dear.
Join us on a journey to The Great Depression in the United States and be grateful for everything you have in the present.
#greatdepression #nostalgia #1930s
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@lorinelson9057 8 месяцев назад

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.

@DENCSER 7 месяцев назад

8 миллионов людей погибло в США, в 30ые годы от голода нищеты и болезней.

@magdaz4583 7 месяцев назад

Самое ужасное в этой истории, что не было войны, склады были забиты продуктами и миллионы умерших от голода!

@martyreking5487 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this

@ac8907 7 месяцев назад

@lorinelson9057. Nice and emotional photo of nice family. ☺👏

@captain687 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for bringing even more life to these images!

@justanamerican9024 8 месяцев назад

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.

@tiffanygrever8092 8 месяцев назад

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.

@karlos1060 8 месяцев назад

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.

@justanamerican9024 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@tiffanygrever8092 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@sharonclark-cd8ph 8 месяцев назад

Well, shortly we are going to experience a depression WORSE than this Great Depression, and 90 per cent of the people are totally clueless!

@thehistoryprof6750 8 месяцев назад

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.

@NBZW 8 месяцев назад

Yup, know that routine well.

@TimidStorm 8 месяцев назад

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. 🧶

@calebwhite5600 8 месяцев назад

Is your friend a sitting US Senator or Congressman? lol

@thehistoryprof6750 8 месяцев назад

@@calebwhite5600 nope

@roadhouse5273 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing.

@johnbrackett5818 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this . The photography is stunning. It really captures the feel of the era on the faces. I was born in 1938.

@VintageTreasuresVideos 8 месяцев назад

Thank you, John. I appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed!

@kathyannpardi9888 8 месяцев назад

@@VintageTreasuresVideos Wonderful music selection also.

@JuanDeLaGarza-gq3lp 8 месяцев назад

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.

@seeleygirl6178 8 месяцев назад

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.

@lesliebooth2833 8 месяцев назад

@@seeleygirl6178Amen sister!

@Ilovevintage77 7 месяцев назад

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.

@lesliebooth2833 7 месяцев назад

@@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!

@DENCSER 7 месяцев назад

8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.

@NBZW 8 месяцев назад

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.

@carelgoodheir692 8 месяцев назад

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.

@NBZW 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@carelgoodheir692 8 месяцев назад

@@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..

@NBZW 8 месяцев назад

@@carelgoodheir692 No argument with that at all 👍

@NBZW 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@rmg3008 8 месяцев назад

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.

@user-oz4nn3jw8p 7 месяцев назад

Deep state.

@Aluttuh 7 месяцев назад

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.

@Aluttuh 7 месяцев назад

watch europa the last battle, it dives into the origins of its creation.

@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station 7 месяцев назад

Yeah well enough people understand who is responsible so that the next time coming up it will likely be titled "the great rope shortage".

@Odivorous619 7 месяцев назад

The next thing they're trying to get us with is the CBDC or Digital Passport. Not this time.

@tylero8595 8 месяцев назад

Seeing these photos in colour make it real and not just history. Its amazing how colour does that.

@yvonnelewis4888 8 месяцев назад

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.

@DENCSER 7 месяцев назад

8 миллионов людей погибло в США, в 30ые годы от голода нищеты и болезней.

@turnne 8 месяцев назад

Have to say whoever did this colorization did a very good job.

@VintageTreasuresVideos 8 месяцев назад

Thanks man 🙏

@jakestilson1947 8 месяцев назад

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.

@terrylynn9984 8 месяцев назад

Not hoarding it's prepping and much younger folks are doing it these days, smart

@thorsonofodin3210 7 месяцев назад

I was born in 1922, life as a kid was so hard back then. Life as a parent was even harder.

@an-cx1ho 7 месяцев назад

Congratulations on hitting 100

@lukekim1028 2 месяца назад

I deeply admire you sir or ma'am. I was only 37, I can't imagine how hard you were back then..

@mchlsull 8 месяцев назад

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.

@thomastimlin1724 8 месяцев назад

In the 1800's yes, early 1800's no. that would make them like100 years old. 1850 would make them in their 80's.

@user-nr2td7jl8c 8 месяцев назад

Oh, the American education system.

@mchlsull 8 месяцев назад

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.@@user-nr2td7jl8c

@mchlsull 8 месяцев назад

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

@dmk7700 8 месяцев назад

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.

@DENCSER 7 месяцев назад

8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.

@colonial6452 8 месяцев назад

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.

@DENCSER 7 месяцев назад

8 million people died in the US in the 1930s from hunger, poverty and disease.

@asthecrowflies737 8 месяцев назад

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.

@vicg5323 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for the upload . A great reminder of how good we have it and take too much for granted!

@ThomasDeLello 8 месяцев назад

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.

@xlerb2286 8 месяцев назад

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.

@blake9358 8 месяцев назад

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

@bodhixxx1 8 месяцев назад

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"

@roberthaworth8991 8 месяцев назад

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.

@vivian2217 8 месяцев назад

@@bodhixxx1hire many jobs are you working? Pay? Join the military

@bodhixxx1 8 месяцев назад

@@vivian2217 I was in the military I am 46 now I work one job with overtime

@4002corbe 8 месяцев назад

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.

@lisaahmari7199 8 месяцев назад

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.

@frankanddanasnyder3272 8 месяцев назад

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.

@TiffBishop-ww8br 8 месяцев назад

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

@genacunningham1731 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful coloring. Thank you!

@mattwiggin9458 8 месяцев назад

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

@nealwright5630 7 месяцев назад

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.

@tanknstein1027 8 месяцев назад

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.

@tammanyfields3583 8 месяцев назад

Really brings it home. Imagine we are reliving this in real-time.

@catsaregovernmentspies 8 месяцев назад

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.

@78cheerio 8 месяцев назад

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.

@matrox 8 месяцев назад

I dig the music.

@gwengwen4535 8 месяцев назад

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.

@an-cx1ho 7 месяцев назад

she doesnt look overly happy to me. in fact she looks out of place in that shack

@Waya420 8 месяцев назад

these recolors are really good. thank you

@dustysmoke4996 8 месяцев назад

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.

@amygalvin1799 8 месяцев назад

My Grandmother told me about these welcoming chalk marks. Imagine the relief in finding 1. 😎

@andresvega6001 8 месяцев назад

wonderful story, thanks for sharing

@wellingtonmartins9137 8 месяцев назад

These colorized photos make everything much more real and close to our current time.

@amosfari7779 8 месяцев назад

Подписался на ваш канал. Смотрю с удовольствием! Спасибо за красочные исторические экскурсы! Мне кажется, прошлое многим дорого и сердцу, и душе! ))

@VintageTreasuresVideos 8 месяцев назад

Thanks, appreciate it ❤️

@dariuszszumczyk9162 8 месяцев назад

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)

@now591 7 месяцев назад

Sad but too true. Society back then was still sane & wholesome.

@winter-vb3pd 8 месяцев назад

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.♥

@grandpahickory613 8 месяцев назад

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....

@rcjdeanna5282 8 месяцев назад

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.

@moonstruck336 8 месяцев назад

people looked so real and so beautiful, no makeup no filter and so beautiful even amidst all this horror

@kennybachman35 8 месяцев назад

No morbid obesity either.

@Jahzwolf1955 8 месяцев назад

I wonder if anyone is going to remember our old folks on the streets living in their cars 🚗. These images give me some comfort ❤

@davidbrayshaw3529 8 месяцев назад

Or not in cars, more to the point.

@jessewolf7649 8 месяцев назад

The homeless man at 2:50 is better dressed than the average American today.

@imaouima 8 месяцев назад

He lost his job but kept his suit. It might have been everything he owned at the time.

@justbecauseOK 8 месяцев назад

trust me, those clothes are not comfortable, that is business wear anyway.

@kevinkrochak2546 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for this!

@assail 8 месяцев назад

when in color its becomes for some reason more relatable and the connection can be established

@paulclark494 8 месяцев назад

The sad thing this is happening again and is likely to be worse than the 1930's.

@MilaMila20240 8 месяцев назад

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. 😓

@amosfari7779 8 месяцев назад

Возможно. И не только в Америке, но и во всем мире... к сожалению...

@travisadams4470 8 месяцев назад

@YourCousinFromBoston Bush started the war but both parties kept the war going. We need Trump!

@nuttybar9 8 месяцев назад

@@travisadams4470 Bush didn't start any wars.

@travisadams4470 8 месяцев назад

@@nuttybar9 Afghanistan and Iraq.

@robertsmit9872 8 месяцев назад

Excellent colorization!

@koala2052 6 месяцев назад

great work, it really succeeds in giving a feeling of those times....

@sergio42868 8 месяцев назад

Hard times but hard and good people. It took almost a decade to recover.

@curtf9813 8 месяцев назад

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.

@bodombeastmode 8 месяцев назад

The 2930's eh?

@jimc4839 8 месяцев назад

@bodombeastmode I have hit that 2 many times when going for the 1.

@bodombeastmode 8 месяцев назад

@@jimc4839 yeh I'm a dick I guess lol

@jimc4839 8 месяцев назад

@bodombeastmode Lol. I don't believe that.

@mattsheezy5469 8 месяцев назад

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.

@donnatrudeau889 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for posting

@catherinemccrann6655 8 месяцев назад

I enjoyed it very much.thank you

@AdventuresBeginHere409 8 месяцев назад

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.

@scooterrockets7815 7 месяцев назад

Well you’re going to love 2024/2025 then

@rickj1983 8 месяцев назад

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.

@LiliWhyte 8 месяцев назад

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.

@proudvirginian 8 месяцев назад

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.

@davidbarr8394 8 месяцев назад

How do you know? You lived in one?

@dchuns1 8 месяцев назад

I enjoyed the colorization, definitely :) Good History input, all around

@scorpy6331 8 месяцев назад

Great video

@ashleymarie7452 8 месяцев назад

The photo of the Hooverville in Seattle is telling. Homeless people here are living worse than that today in Seattle!

@VintageTreasuresVideos 8 месяцев назад

😔

@travisadams4470 8 месяцев назад

today the "homeless" are drug addicts, bums and vagrants. They wouldn't work if you offered them a job. Big difference

@flexiblebirdchannel 8 месяцев назад

Click bait: the picture does not appear in the video only the background.

@larsstougaard7097 8 месяцев назад

Amazing work

@bryanwhitton1784 8 месяцев назад

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.

@dmpi483 8 месяцев назад

They may have been poor as dirt but they didn't go attacking each other like they do now.

@justbecauseOK 8 месяцев назад

are you kidding me? Germany for starters.....

@jamesgibbs7933 8 месяцев назад

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.

@marcietownsend3635 7 месяцев назад

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.

@jq8974 8 месяцев назад

The colour helps me see these folk as my neighbours. Beautiful.

@johnsonrepp 8 месяцев назад

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.

@martybrodell2424 8 месяцев назад

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.

@titolovely8237 8 месяцев назад

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.

@yvonneplant9434 8 месяцев назад

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.

@georgestauber2636 8 месяцев назад

The fed reserve was made and right after that the great depression hit. Funny that.

@spelunkerd 8 месяцев назад

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.

@yvonneplant9434 8 месяцев назад

@@georgestauber2636 The fed reserve was created in 1913. Takes literally seconds to google it. 😂

@24Master 8 месяцев назад

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.

@johnwilliams7600 8 месяцев назад

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.

@hittpitch1019 8 месяцев назад

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 RU-vid 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.

@argus1393 8 месяцев назад

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.

@fluffy1931 8 месяцев назад

You are definitely in a reddit korean basket weaving forum sir.

@patrickdelomais496 8 месяцев назад

That's a Very, Very Good Comment !

@davidedwards3520 3 месяца назад

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.

@wonder6789 7 месяцев назад

Stunning colorization. Bravo!

@1rwjwith 8 месяцев назад

Good video, interesting…but you thumbnail picture of the two young women seems to be “click bait”:. They are fake

@reinisdravnieks 8 месяцев назад

Atleast they had traditional familys back then and people who knows how to work for living

@texaswunderkind 8 месяцев назад

I prefer today, where a bunch of child-molesting clergy isn't controlling my life.

@justbecauseOK 8 месяцев назад

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 !

@reinisdravnieks 8 месяцев назад

@@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

@reinisdravnieks 8 месяцев назад

@@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

@reinisdravnieks 8 месяцев назад

You should travel to russia 🇷🇺 country have great laws about gay but they chemicaly castrate pedos , youre country does that to ordinary people

@datukalex 8 месяцев назад

It’s amazing to think no one in any of these pictures was over the age of 36.

@paulsaragosa371 8 месяцев назад

I will always subscribing indefinitely and amazing amen

@KatorNia 8 месяцев назад

7:31 It kinda feels relevant still, doesn't it?

@Spaceface3 8 месяцев назад

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.

@seed_drill7135 8 месяцев назад

A lot of men were 4F when their draft notices came due to the tribulations suffered during the Depression.

@now591 7 месяцев назад

dragged into a war based on propaganda & lies.

@yellowboot6629 8 месяцев назад

👍❣️ Thanks

@jonesy4588 8 месяцев назад

I didn't see any need for the fake picture to lure people in to this video

@davidboyd8113 8 месяцев назад

The depression that we’re entering now will be a lot worse than the pictures you see here

@rupertsamborski5153 8 месяцев назад

Marxism taking over not economic depression

@Fern_Thaddeus 8 месяцев назад

Speechless

@screwthenet 7 месяцев назад

These restorations of photo and film have gotten so much better in recent times. SUBBED! Happy "holy" days to you and yours. Be well ^

@booksteer7057 8 месяцев назад

The lumberjack and his wife at 3:54 are gorgeous! They look like they should be stepping out for a night at The Stork Club.

@MaryBeth1965 8 месяцев назад

I agree :-)

@tedoydislake 8 месяцев назад

-1 for your lying thumbnail

@tUiDo4 7 месяцев назад

That lumberjack and his wife gives BIG ENERGY. Like WOW.

@mylesmulenga-uz6gd 7 месяцев назад

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.

@justincoleman7856 8 месяцев назад

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.

@gsquare6382 8 месяцев назад

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.

@tgchism 8 месяцев назад

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.

@proudvirginian 8 месяцев назад

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.

@markrenton5791 8 месяцев назад

Where are the ladies on the thumbnail?

@garymerrill3823 5 месяцев назад

Clickbait!

@poeda6637 8 месяцев назад

Great colorization!

@xDevoneyx 8 месяцев назад

Well "enjoyed this video"... I found it more informative. And it certainly nudges me more into the direction of appreciating everything we have.

@Sam-el6hq 8 месяцев назад

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

@Cam_88 8 месяцев назад

Yep

@HoboTango 8 месяцев назад

Im gonna have to dislike and will not subscribe for that clickbait thumbnail.

@annalisavajda252 2 дня назад

Why do you assume the thin girls are clickbait? Poor people don't have as much money for food didn't you know?

@fartonpico3387 8 месяцев назад

I really enjoy the guitar work

@edge6441 6 месяцев назад

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.

@hiwottesfamariamekubay-ud8lh 8 месяцев назад

In God we trust _ God Bless The United States of America 👩‍💻 Hiwot Ekubay

@HulaShack1 8 месяцев назад

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.

@justbecauseOK 8 месяцев назад

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 7 месяцев назад

People lived those times knew how it was and there was no mindless violence, teen crimes, thugs n vandalism like today. Fact.@@justbecauseOK

@justbecauseOK 7 месяцев назад

@@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.

@hanage1609 7 месяцев назад

I like the music just as much as the photos.

@MichaelChengSanJose 8 месяцев назад

Amazing colorization. Yet, we know at the same time so many suffered, the wealthy were still out building grand castles for themselves.

@tomcummings711 8 месяцев назад

These survivors Especially the Children Became the Greatest Generation Ever ! Their Toughness Won WW2 For the Allies ! Not many like them Today !

@purplespeckledappleeater8738 8 месяцев назад

The Silent Generation or Depression Generation were also an apathetic generation and they spoiled their children, "Generation Me", who created many of the problems America faces today. Americans today are still trying to get "Generation Me" out of power so America can start healing.

@tomcummings711 8 месяцев назад

Your Wrong ! Not the Baby Boomers ! It was one or two Generations after that ! Are you in Generation Me ? Seem like it ! You seem Spoiled !@@purplespeckledappleeater8738

@tomcummings711 8 месяцев назад

Wrong The hard Working Baby Boomer Generation Came Next ! All through the 50S , 60S , 70S and 80s They Grew America Into the Only Super Power in the World ! Wake Up@@purplespeckledappleeater8738