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Imagine back in the day people lived in that type of environment and were happy! Not nowadays everyone has to have more and more and the latest and greatest… Life has become so sad… There’s never enough time to even enjoy life😔
Yeah it took a while to realize stuff doesn't make you happy and then you have to spend time getting rid of stuff or getting out of debt from buying stuff
Well, I think it's your own responsibility to make the best out of your life. Times are changing and yes it is sad, that so many people don't care about great things. But you can't change that. What you can do is to go outside, do as many things you love as you can and just enjoy. Maybe you can attract some people because of it. 😇
How could you possibly assume how happy or sad they were? I'd have to guess they were as happy and sad as most people today, lacking evidence to the contrary. To those people that pine for the "good ol days"...there were problems back then as well...wars, drafts, racial unrest, nuclear war fears, depressions...etc.
Living in poor conditions can have a terrible effect on your health though. Not likely to be happy being ill, wheezing away etc. Though I get the point about not needing 101 clutterings.
My parents married in the 1940’s and I remember my Mom telling me stories of using cardboard to insulate the walls of old houses they lived in. I was born in 1960 number 7 of 8 kids. I remember the old fashioned wallpaper and it being in layers on our walls. Also my mom painting the linoleum rugs when all the color got worn off them. Carting our water in buckets and breaking ice off them in the morning so we could get a drink wit a metal dipper.
I agree Dan is a fascinating man Robert you ought to have a separate program detailing his youth how he got interested in the local history ad memories of that part of Georgia! It would be fascinating!
But they were thankful they had a place to lay their head and be warm when it rained. That is so cool I enjoyed this. Shows us how the poorest people lived and put everything to good use. Thank you
Looking at that wall with it's layers of history really brings home how poor they were in relation to today. I remember buying a few things as a youngster in the early fifties and paying only a few cents for items. Where I grew up there where many old farms with outhouses and three room schoolhouses. WE had an old Victorian Farmhouse with hand dug wells. We didn't think anything of it, it was the way of life. It's too bad places like that can't be restored as "living" history. Mr. Akin has the knowledge to make those places and people live again in our memories. Thank you, Frederick :"Rik" Spector
Dan is quite a historian. Enjoyed listening to his memories. I was fascinated with the inside of the house, imagining the lives of the past inhabitants.
Brings back memories of the 1960's bottles of Dr Pepper and RC Cola---we never threw out the bottles tho--we took the bottles back to the store for change !!
Your exploration into the past makes one appreciate all the comforts we have today, namely walls that don't let in the outside! 💙 Thank you Robert and Dan.
Truly a time capsule exploration episode. The old walls hold so much detail. I find it incredible that Dan can identify the people who lived there and owned the property, then identify several of the names found with the real person, either by his own acquaintance or from his in depth knowledge of all the history that is in and surrounds Waverly Hall. Including the Byrd connection. Whiitehead must have been a huge plantation orginally. Just amazing to listen to you two. Many, many houses had that siding - My old family places had the same. The crepe myrtle looks like a standing of bamboo, indeed unusual. Another fantastic guided episode. Loved it. ❣️👍👍
In the 80s I had a boyfriend who's family owned a house with tar paper siding. I remember him and his dad on ladders taking it down for siding. It was a big two story in town. They had already lived in it 20 years. Just a couple weeks ago it burned down. It was so sad to see the antique go down like that.
Very interesting that you found a child’s shoe inside the walls of the house,,, I watched a video many months ago on a castle that had been renovated and they found a shoe inside the walls and said that it was tradition to place shoes of that era inside the walls of the structure to date the structure ,,, I find that extremely interesting that you found a shoe inside the walls of this little cabin when the tradition of placing the shoe inside of the walls comes from Europe very interesting 🤠
Matthew 19-24 ,,, better to live a lowly repentant life in a small cabin than a life of comfort,,, riches,,, power and accolades ,,, such as the Freemasons with their vulgar penile obelisks who will be eternally shamed on the day of judgment !!!
A friend of mine had her grandpa's house moved to the back of her property. She fixed it up but left the original look inside and out. Her grandpa wrote phone numbers and notes on the wall of the sitting room. Now people come to have professional photos taken in and around the place. This house you're looking at reminds me of it, but the porch is wood and not concrete. Our local museum has an old log cabin they moved to their site. The inside walls were papered with multi-layers of newspaper for insulation.
As mentioned, it looks like the sleeping area was upstairs yet I didn’t see any indications of access to it. Did you see anything? Perhaps something that may have gone straight up on a wall. Curious.🧐🧐🧐
My great grandmas house in Greenbrier Tn. was a " tar paper shack". The walls were covered with newspaper from the 1800's. She spent her olden days sitting on the porch with her shotgun while dipping snuff. My brothers and I got in trouble one time for dropping M80 firecrackers in the outhouse and blowing crap everywhere! We got a good ass whopping for that. She made us get a bucket of water from the creek to wash with before we could go in the house!
Thank you for this really interesting historical video. Your friend is a wealth of local knowledge. He is a true historian by combining his knowledge of local families with knowledge of history in general. Wow!
What a great video Robert 👍. I love seeing these old homes. Seeing how people lived back then is amazing. Simpler times but not always easy. Great job Robert and Dan.
Robert. Thank you for another great historic video. So nice to have historian Dan along. Consider giving Brian’s channel a shout out. He was such a big part of the early days of “sidestep”. He could use a boost to his subscribers numbers
Love the stories that go with the house.My Dad put up cardboard in our house when I was little.It sure kept the cold wind out.Thank you Mr Akin and Robert, 👍❤️
An excellent old house. That door lock you were looking at, we had one on our back door like that when I was younger. Glad the place didn’t burn down with all that old,dry paper used. The ads made the place even better. And those receipts were cool.. I wouldn’t mind having some of the wood and what about that old rocker? The trees!!! What a great day in the woods. 🙏🏼☮️🌎. 💖🇺🇸. 😁😎
I really enjoyed hearing and seeing the history of this house 🏠. There wasn't a bathroom inside, so where was the outhouse and where was the well? I love your adventures and appreciate Dan's knowledge of the history of your county. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Interesting to see how people loved. Then like today it is a reflection of poverty. Most worked out of it so they didn't have to live like that. The card board worked pretty well as long as the roof didn't leak. Dan's observation about metal roofing is very accurate.
I sure did enjoy going through the house with you. It brought back so many memories of the house my grandparents lived in. They built it together by hand. That old house got torn down. Thank you guys
Dan, your history is amazing. That house is trying to hold its own in spite of all the neglect. The tar paper siding has helped prevent a lot of the rain damage. I wonder if the original part was once an overseer's house. There is so much history in the Waverly Hall community. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for taking us along on this interesting explore. This house was amazing. Those doors were just awesome. I love old doors...I'm whacky like that..lol. I learned a lot as I usually do on your channel. I grew up mostly in Jacksonville FL, a Navy Brat, but since live in Virginia. Thank you and God Bless!❤🇺🇸🙏
My daddy was born in Moultry, GA. In 1909. His family was farmers and during the time period of 1930's his family and connected families left Georgia, moving to North Florida. I can't remember why, but daddy hated the sandy soil saying you couldn't grow a crop like in Georgia. I wish that I knew more about their Georgia history. Someone mentioned boll weevel infestation. I absolutely love these visits that you all make to old homes and cemeteries. Thank you Robert and Dan.
My mom stayed in a house like that when she was first married. My dad was only 17 at the time and she said he said he tried to move her into a chicken coop at first but couldn't get the furniture to fit through the door. lol she always told me her life's story.
People lived so simply back in the day. Obviously these places were built well enough to stand the test of time. It amazes me that some of these places are still standing. Thank you enjoy watching your videos
Wow thats awesome. You should see bout buying it and tear it down and repurpose the wood just to preserve the history. I have been thinking bout finding old homes like this one to buy just for the wood. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate all you do in sharing history with all of us. God bless you
I believe if you were to take off that thumb bolt on the old door and open it up there will be a patent date on the inside. It could help give an age to the building. You guys put out fascinating content. Thank you.
Wow so much history! I'm glad and amazed at the house is still sort of standing keep filming because the way things are going and the removal of (so called) controversial statuses etc being taken down. History needs to be preserved or it's lost. Thanks for sharing.
Good exploration there. Dan adds a lot of history to the area. Thanks so much for taking us along. So many memories were brought back in that old house...
Hey guys ✌️ Watchin from Berlin, Germany and it's so interesting to see that great history. It's amazing that you have still so much of it. Love your videos. They always chill me down 😇 Keep doin' what you're doin' 🙌
Love when Dan is along! He is a wealth of information & I love listening to his stories. That home had happiness & life in it at I ne time. Thanks for exploring it & sharing with us.
I know you like to leave things as you found them and take nothing away when you leave but has anyone considered the lost history that will result? The wallpaper for instance documenting the pattern by taking a piece and preserving it? Just little things like that. Some of these places it’s obvious they aren’t cared for and left to just disappear from this world and I always think if future generations that would love to see examples of how things were.
Was very interesting to see what is left of the old house. The Byrd's that Dan mentioned, were they in any way relation to the two Byrd Brothers, whom built the one house, that you now have and are preserving on the Old Byrd Farm??
My Uncles house had that siding on it. He was a farmer here in central Illinois. The house was built in early 1900's. Lot of houses around here had that siding.
WOW. I absolutely enjoyed this video Rob and the history. To know what some families had to go through and or live in and I was one of those people. Thank God I've been blessed through the years and I no longer have to live in those conditions.
I can remember houses done with the tar paper that looked like bricks on it out in the hills in Mississippi around Webster County and Leflore County in Mississippi
Thank you for talking about the siding and when they used it. My grandparents house had that red brick look siding up until my mom's family sold it in 98.The buyer put vinyl siding on it. They had moved into it around 1940 or 41 when my momma was a baby.
We had tar paper siding on our house in central Florida, my mom (single mom of 10 kids) bought it for $26.000 back in the 60's, was built 1926...it had a fireplace and well water and blackberry plants all around it. was the only house on the dirt street until late 70's.
Loved that thanks, just love the nosey into someone else’s world. That was a lovely old place. Thanks so much for the share. Please stay safe and take care
My Grandparents and one of My Aunts had that tar paper siding with a tin roof, Grandma and Grandpa had propane stoves throughout the house. Aunt Doris had a 2 Warm Morning wood stoves and one propane Warm Morning stove and cooked on a propane cookstove and one of the wood stoves
This is an incredible exploration! Abandoned places are so interesting. We have some abandoned places videos on our channel and they are the videos with the most views. It's great that you know so much about the people that lived there. It's so interesting to learn so much about an abandoned place.
My daddy grew up in a share cropper’s home. He said he had 7 siblings because of the wide slits between boards of house. The wind would blow through and his parents cuddled to stay warm. Thus children would be born.
Thank you for this video Robert. This is my favorite things to do. Explore old abandoned structures.. We live in e tn and go for a Sunday drive looking for old places and photograph them and post on the fb group abandoned tn.. Loved the old newspaper and comb. The dr pepper bottle with the ten 2 and 4 my husband said was the old advertisement. Wanting people to drink it at ten 2 and 4. Didn't know if you knew that or not.
My paternal great-grandparents lived in a home similar to that. Inside, the walls were covered in newspaper. This was in Kentucky. My Grandfather coaxed them later to move. They raised nine children in that home.
Your friend, that begins around 2:04 has a strong speaking voice which makes for what we in Journalism like to call "natural Narrators". I've noticed in your videos that he also has vast History knowledge, together with your other friend, and you, your Passion and Patience, you guys make a great trio-team for these sort of works. Your works are always so interesting and could only be improved with the addition of a "like energy, Production Professional", course they would cost you more time and a desire to be really focused on this venue as your focus of work. But few can attest this potential and you guys are definitely a golden potential. I really enjoy your works! Best Travels and Wellbeing.
Wow amazing house so sad but with beautiful history I remenber my grandparents I grow up with them I born 1961 with to my sisters and brothers total we 9 children's is beautiful to have all those memories now our children and grandchildren them raise different in I don't like it but that new technology I really love your videos God bless everyone 🙏
Robert as a young man We lived in an old 1800's Farm House In the early 1970's it was a high ceiling 4 fireplace Tin roof house Winters were cold Heated by Oil heat,and Chopped Plenty of firewood. TOUGH living Plenty of hunting and fishing Had a big Garden Hung clothes on the line No electronic videos computers, had ice cold Well and pump house even the honey bees were happy as they build a home in the backwall of the House. Loved to hear the Rain on that Tin Roof, It was home Me and my Blue Tic Hounds had a good ol time.
Thank you for pointing out that there is still some good reusable wood in this cabin and places like this. It makes me crazy to see these abandoned videos with all of this wood just sitting there, either just going to waste, or going to be bulldozed.
Thank you I love looking at old bones of houses and how other countries built. That tar paper siding was very interesting, not that it would last long in an Aussie climate and with our bushfire. Which probably explains why it was never used here. Did Americans make any "wattle and daub" houses?
Question: is the original whitehead plantation home gone? Also you should try and get permission to detect this property. Id love to bring my detector down and help. 😅
