Man Born in 1867 Talks About Working in the 1880s - Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps] 

Oh my. You are soo lucky to have him. I had a similar "Keith" when I was raising my toddler daughter alone. "Uncle Ernie" lived across the street from me and would stop by with salmon he caught fishing (and share) and I'd just come home and he'd be sitting at the chairs on the patio, hanging out. He had a heavy German accent. He was retired from Pierce Co. parks dept. greenhouse (Tacoma, WA). He was put in a home by his step son (who I did not like) and Ernie killed himself at the nursing home. He laid down on the balcony and shot himself. Rest in peace, sweet neighbor of yesteryear.

Keith is our neighbour now too tell him we said hi

Keith is the man! He reminds me of my great uncle who just had a birthday and is 93 years old now. Never wants help doing things and at 85 he helped my dad lay bricks for his patio. The guy is one of those nonstop workers, he was outpacing all of us and still didn't seem as tired as we were. Some of those older people are tough as nails!

My brother in law's mom recently died at 98. She was still putting her own Christmas lights up eery year till she was about 92! She was anamazing woman.

Keith sounds like an absolute Chad!

In the early 1980s we rented a video camera, VHS tape. It was hard to do interviews at a house party because people did not want to be recorded. It was such a novelty then. Now a camera is carried by everyone. People aren't shy anymore.

I feel like he was afraid of being judged based on what he said, because he mainly only said things that were straight to the point without elaborating much. I almost feel like he may have been ashamed that he had a job handed to him and was able to accomplish what he did when others who likely never had that opportunity, so I greatly admire his humbleness in that sense because you certainly won't find much of that these days. Rather most people these days with a high end job have a sense of entitlement and don't see themselves as being lucky to have what they have. Which is a crying shame.

Tell that to tic tok

@@MrJdebest people have no shame anymore I lost faith I our kids

he didn't let out one f-bomb

He died trying to save Fegelein

@@Perririri Nowadays not many people will get the joke.

@@Perririri FEGELEIN!

Very cool. Like someone said above, just think, his grandparents may have been around during the American revolution. 🤯 How amazing is that

@@frankstrawnation No, I don't get it..

@@techtutorvideos who knows. Science is amazing, and gene editing will be a thing.

even with gene editing there is a hard limitation to human life. the only way to surpass 120-130 years is with nanotechnology aka become part robot.

It was amazing except that the story is actually quite boring.

@@chinchang5117 i bet youre a hit at parties.

@@chinchang5117 maybe for you, but history is fascinating to a lot of us.

There are no employers worth working for anymore.

Yes and actually make more Monet moving from job to job rather than sticking to one.

It is possible but, now companies view people today as more disposable. It doesn't matter how great your skills are. It was likely much different back then as people had a better mindset and work ethic when it came to finding, working and keeping jobs.

With a pension.

The saying "Hard work pays off" isn't true anymore. You have to belong to an N.W.O family.

I'm looking on a phone screen, but it looks like he adjusts a pair of glasses at one point. Someone is probably holding a script just offscreen, which would explain the long delays too as they're turning the page.

He has a fascinating accent. To an Australian ear it almost has a British sound to it, until you hear that good ole NYC twang when he pronounces certain words. Very glad we can listen to what he had to say 😊

@@dennymambo It is the transatlantic accent, which was invented by Hollywood to bridge the gap between the UK and America. It was meant to sound like a hybrid of the two. It was only used during the golden age of Hollywood and radio. Only movie stars, entertainers and upper class socialites used it. It fell out of use around the time of WWII

Yes my 24 year old son just asked me why they talked so strange

@@leighsaldivar4439 there is an accent coach who does great videos. He mentioned this in a video by WIRED called "Accent Expert Breaks Down 4 Amazing Things About Languages". If you go to the 5 minute mark he explains this accent, and where it came from, and what happened to it.

My great-grandfathers were born in 1844, 1845, 1861 and 1864. My daughter is only 20 and so has a slight chance of seeing the next turn of century.

I always think about how cool it was to have kissed my great grandma knowing that her father fought in the civil war. My kids don't seem to think it's that big of a deal.

My grandmother was born in 1882. She died in the 1970's, when I was in my 20's. I knew her well, and we had many good conversations. I recall her telling me about a friend of her father's (my great grandfather, who I never met) who had met and shook hands with Abraham Lincoln. That stunned me to think I was only 3 steps away from Lincoln.

That's American education for you treating it as the dawn of time with Washington riding a T-rex

We are closer to history than we think. I recently heard a former journalist tell of the time he was assigned to interview a Boer War veteran in the early 60s. The journo said his hair stood on end when the old boy casually mentioned that his grandfather, as a boy, had witnessed the soldiers returning from Waterloo.

Pre Internet and the social media fueled narcissism epidemic.

Yes such a dignified individual. Rest in Peace. 🎉🎉🎉

Donald Trump is much older than this man. Much more elderly, and he is all about self-promotion, exaggeration and has a pompous attitude. The future will judge Donald Trump very harshly compared to men such as this one.

At work I use the restroom in the 10 floors up and come back down the stairs to still have some exercise during work* 😂

Though some call me crazy, I swear I saw Bob Gymlan in the RU-vid Wilderness.

@@ponyman13 Just another hoax

Sounds like something a great aunt would say 😂 i have a beloved neighbor who's 103 currently and she attributes her old age to ‘’being boring for most of it all(life)" but was also "always careful to avoid boats". She also has something against sitting under balconies

Fascinating there was a Muslim princess who lived here in Mindanao, Philippines who lived to 130+ living on vegetables i assume.

I can recall a Spanish American veteran or two in our town's 4th of July parade about 1960. They looked nothing like my childish image of gallant soldiers and they were, of course, very old.

@@davewalker8363 did you guys think about the Spanish American war to that high of a level?

@@themagicminstrels476 Dude that's like talking to living fossils! Kind of overshadowed by ww2 though.

My great paternal grandfather was 119 when he passed in 1970 not quite 120. He was born in 1850. He was 102 when I was born.

Wow. Really.

Highly likely he asked for more than double, and was counter-offered the $4/wk. Even badder. If his first comeback was $4, and it was accepted, then he didn't go high enough. But ultimately, it made no difference, considering where he went from there! Fred

For a 14 year old.

Honestly most people have no idea you can do the same thing today. I've gotten salaries near doubled just by saying I was getting a job offer elsewhere for higher. Haha

pretty depressing that even in that hyper-exploitative, near feudal environment with no labor laws and child-workers, someone was able to ask and receive double what they offered and get a job. we can’t even get a penny more than the advertised hourly rate *now*. and most of the time they’ll start you at less than they advertised. USA and capitalism are in the toilet. President Xi has it exactly correct. Socialist Planned Economy is the only sane way to run a modern society. The “market” is a mindless death drive that serves no one but billionaires.

@@conzmoleman It's because our money system is in the toilet.

Not only that, but imagine being hired for a entry-level management position without a university diploma. Hell, this man hadn't finished high school. Not only have the morons in the boardroom destroyed the old corporate culture, but they've devalued a college education to utter meaninglessness by demanding one for positions that most people would be qualified for with a high school diploma.

@@juliancate7089 in those times there was almost no government intervention, compared with what we have now...

Dude sounded bad

Imagine a company NOWADAYS giving you MORE than your agreed upon salary. Would never happen. NEVER.

@@diegocolomes Wow. You just couldn't resist throwing in the youtube-obligatory anti-government cheap shot. Mindless.

Such a nice comment, I hope he replies

Dude was only 63 yrs old! 😄

@jayvir jadeja What is, is - it is not what is not. What is not is not and can not be. We might one day know all there is to know about our universe, within the limits of a primitive human brain. But even then this knowledge won't even be a drop of water in the ocean on one out of million planets. Yet somehow your mind is fooling you to believe you know anything about the nature of our universe. I would like to argue that since you and me are aware of this man he is as immortalized as anything can ever be, and our universe will not decay one day. If it ever would, it already has and it never would be. But if it never was, there was never anything that could decay in the first place.

In the metaverse with neuralink shoved into your head

@@MrBearddog Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The way he talks about it, you'd think him elderly. He would only just be a boomer at that age now.

There was very little progress back then, at least for vast majority of people. Young person getting first job in 1900 could reasonably assume he will retire from the same company. This lasted for another half a century but nowadays is a thing of the past.

Well, if you set up shop in some small town then you had no choice but to be loyal. Labor is a world-wide commodity now and these owners can just go online to find someone willing to work under whatever conditions are offered. It is really no different than Tinder which makes everyone promiscuous and "unfaithful".

Loyalty is a two-way street. And times have changed. 10 years in the past is a month now.

Lol it's a business contract not a marriage.

@@TestECull But all marriages is a legal contract

The age of the United States is actually very young. Only a small handful of lifetimes ago. Very easy to forget or not even realize that. History makes everything sound so long ago.

this man already sounded nervous as is talking to a camera, I think this man would drop dead if he knew this video would be witnessed millions of times over by the grandkids of that generation 😂

Why would he be surprised? He was literally filmed, he knew that the footage would have been published and that he would have been seen by at least thousands

Daniel Morgan - I think about that stuff all the time. My Wife's grandparents passed away in recent years. The whole family was in agreement to give me (the photographer/videographer of the family) the "shoe box" of film reels + the old film projector. I set up the film projector in my basement and played the 5 minute and 20 minute films on the wall. I set up my camcorder (sony nx100) and recorded the films. It was a 1 year project (a couple hours a week) to clean up the footage and get it organized. In the end, there ended up being almost 3 hours of footage, which was burned to a blu-ray disc (each family house hold was given a copy - aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings etc) This goes back to your original question; Back when they were filming on their little hand held film camera. They could have never imagined, decades later, their granddaughters husband would immortalize their footage digitally for generations to enjoy. When you compare FILM to digital... Makes me wonder what technology my grandchildren will convert my home movies to (holographic experience?)

@@jeremywithacamera235 They most probably just won't care.

Half a million 4 days ago, this figure more than doubled thanks to the algorithm

My next door neighbors when I was growing up were a couple who were born circa 1880. The gentleman had been retired since 1945, yet I never saw him dressed in anything other than a long sleeved, white shirt, buttoned at the color, a necktie, dress pants, well polished Oxfords. Often, he wore a sports jacket. Most days he spent indoors with his dear wife, who was blind. They were a wonderful example to me of how people should live, with grace, class, and dignity. Dear Mr and Mrs Byrnes.

Yep, sadly those qualities you've mentioned are now considered racist by the woke crowd.

@@jupiterinaries6150 what are you talking about?

And Christian {or at least a Protestant).

Yeah, you will never get an interview like that from these whiney crybabies we have as our future.

Just go watch any old 30s movies. WC Fields!

@@ronj9448 yeah because 1930 is the same as 1867

@@Sam_Hyde_Apologist When was WC Fields born?

My grandfather was born in 1865 and lived until 1942.

This is equivalent to someone born in 1967 talking about working in 1980, in a recording 8 years from now.

Yea I applied when I was 12 but they said no go.

@@epicmatter3512 they can, you can start work as early as 15 I believe, at least here in california. You just can't do 8 hours a day, but you can start at like 3 hours per day, if the school signs off on it.

Retired in 1955, ah yes the days of the pensions. How nice that must have been. Coupled with wages that were still decent as compared to inflation.

Must be nice in those days to go into a company with zero experience or degree and become an executive.

I'm not sure if that's a valid claim of "genuinely self made man" seeing as how he did not start the company, rather he climbed a pre-existing ladder somebody else had built 🤔

I'm thinking he was a lot more educated, or polished than your regular worker, but yes, dude was dope. Bruv.

Thing is, he knew he was speaking for posterity - he's speaking carefully and formally, nothing like how he'd have talked casually with friends. Still fascinating ofc, but we can't really compare formal speech from back then to informal speech today.

Being well spoken is racist..You will comply with what the leftist mob deems appropriate...

@@cyborgar15 Insisting on prestige dialect and formal grammar: racist (and classist). Talking however tf you want, including prestige dialects and formal grammar: not racist. No problem at all with the way this guy speaks, but I am a bit wary of your "well spoken". I do have an elite grammar-school education - I can perform the shibboleths to qualify as "well spoken" by any measure I've seen, and honestly that has been very useful to me at times. That was me gaining unfair advantage in a racist and classist system though. I've also studied linguistics, and I can assure you that standard or prestige dialects like Standard UK English aren't intrinsically superior to lower-status dialects like African American English. On a similar note, formal grammar (in the non-technical sense) is almost purely a shibboleth. Real language use is far richer and subtler, and correctness is defined by actual usage rather than by academic arguments past or present.

@@patheddles4004 o jesus

I feel like I saw him in some other RU-vid video where he was portrayed as something significant .... can't recall which

Cool. Thanks for that tidbit.

Graybar is still around. They make junction boxes and things like that

It's almost like you actually watched the video!

His photo is in Wikipedia

Hee hee ... G(r)aybar.

I just bought tools there yesterday. Wow

@@ColtraneTaylor ;) heh heh gay bars

They order huge amounts of electrical tape from 3M. A huge chunk of our repack and UPS orders come from Graybar

Really ratchets up the relatability knowing we can grab a phone today and still contact a piece of this guy's life. Almost as cool as some letters written on clay tablets shared between brothers (if I remember correctly) where they were complaining about work issues no differently than we do today. Pick anytime over the past 5000 years and common stories of life in the big city reverberate.

I read that as "she was born in 1989" and got so confused.... LOL!

You say that but you don't actually mean it.

When he recorded that in 1930, he probably never thought that over 10,000 people would be watching his interview in the year 2022.

Do not use empty words. Better say nothing at all.

@@renatovonschumacher3511 Oh, get over it. If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all.

@@kwd3109 This also applies to your, or does it not ?

Thank you for sharing.

You are right. I am a 48 year old woman in 2022, but my grandmother, who helped raise me, grandmother was a slave. We're not THAT far removed from the beginnings, trials, and traumas of our country. 🇺🇸

Yep, my grandmother and grandfather were born in 1914, and, though my grandfather died in 1989, my grandmother was 79 at the time that I was born (my father was the youngest sibling). However, I never really got to know that side of my family, both because of the large age gap (my oldest cousin was born in the late 60’s) and because all but two stayed in the Philippines. My regret is that my parents were so busy that I never really got to know too much about our family history on either side. It would’ve been wonderful to hear about the stories of how they fared during the American and Japanese occupations (during which all of my aunts and uncles on that side were born) or about their lives in general. My only chance to have captured this essence was when my maternal grandparents (born around 20 years later) stayed with my family for a few months in 2003. I learned all about how my grandfather, despite never having graduated, was so good at math that he worked payroll in the Philippine army, about his different perspective from most Filipinos on spirituality and religion (which partially shaped that of my own), and he would even say that I could become the first Asian president of the United States (lol). All I know is that history is always happening before our eyes and that, despite the information overload that we have due to the onslaught of social media, it’s best to pay attention so that we can, one day, impart this knowledge to the younger generations. Albeit, it’s really weird for me to speak or type those words knowing that I’m still in my 20’s.

That's nothing. The grandson of one of the first presidents died just a couple of years ago. Grandson not great grandson or great great etc.

@@danielsmit11I guess he had another grandson lol, I remember seeing an interview with another grandson a few months back. I just looked it up again and he was the grandson of President John Tyler. He married in 1844 (his presidency was between 1841-1845) as the first president to marry in office. Meanwhile, his son, Lyon Tyler, was born in 1853 while the grandson, Harrison Tyler, was born in 1928 and is still alive today with three children. Basically, a two-generation pattern of having at least one child later in life (around 62-63 for the president and 64-65 for his son) explains this. However, all of Harrison’s children were born between 1958 and 1961 when he was around 29 to 33.

In the 1970s I was employed and mentored as a teenager by a man who was born around 1900. What a different generation! Emotionally strong, practical, very determined and purposeful. To this day I look up to him.

@@waterheaterservices I totally agree, well said.

Today's men act and dress like teenagers.

My Dad was born in November 1910.

@@waterheaterservices As I understand they were extremely humble as well.

Some jobs will pay up front to retain desirable employees. All kinds of sign-on bonuses or perks or extra wages paid out all kinds of different ways. Assuming the worker is a worthy investment. Will clearly bring real loyalty, quality, and value over time. Unskilled, uneducated, unintelligent, unmotivated workers are unworthy. Just cogs you replace as cheaply as possible.

Yeah, and the fact that he counter offered double the salary from 2 to 4 dollars, and they accepted it. Must have been nice when workers are actually needed, and there arent hundreds at the door lining up for most positions

I gave up on working for others decided to make my own company and now as long as I try I’ll get yearly raises.

But what was the actual duties of his job?

@@vmm5163 Which job? He had several. At 14, probably anything manual and unskilled that needed doing.

He still spent a fortune, 48 years. time isn't cheap.

that education has diminishing returns now. Student debt is a tool to destroy the middle class.

It's a two way street. Companies don't value exceptional performers, they want across the board equal. This led to the worker having no allegiance to their company and/or trade.

@@TheRaven078 interesting take. Don't think I've heard that one before.

You can definitely still do this, depending on the company and industry.

Foist week uhhhh

Makes you think that secondary school is waste of taxpayer money. All we need to know is read and write and basic math. Most of the stuff Ive learned was outside of school.

@@nugsnjugs9954 Yes, but in his time technology did not get in the way of his IQ.

@@shiftstart IQ is a meaure of the ability to problem solve and form patterns. Technology has never changed that. Did the wheel produce the scientist or the scientist produce the idea? What you say makes no sense.

@@nugsnjugs9954 Good, now that we have established what IQ means, do a test of this generation stuck on tick tok, instagram, Twitter and tell me how quickly they can solve a basic problem.

@@shiftstart thats a specific group that your generalizing. Can I get an IQ test for the boomers who revolves their lives around Nascar? Get them to solve computer problems.

Kind of sounds like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Amazing stories and insights into the America our grandparents or great-grandparents knew and lived in and BUILT!

And both world wars along with cold war led to many inventions which changed our lives.

@@edd7812 I agree. But today's radical left is saying those people are all white supremacists that took over land that did not belong to them. They are insane. Think about if Europeans did not come to this land. It would never have been this advanced. And yes, the USA (as all countries) is not a perfect country. Indians have died, Americans have died, slavery, etc. But in the end, America turned out to be a great country. Those radicals today who do not like this country can kiss my ass, and they can then leave.

Its fascinating to think that this sort of comment will live on in a very different form compared to 50 years ago.

My grandpa was born1907. My grandma 1917. I always loved hearing the story's. They were around for a lot of major events.

@@eligebrown8998 Yup and so will we

@@shoreshotarchery yeah but our story's will be of stress and nightmares.

@@eligebrown8998 Just like theirs were. And just like them, we will leave the stress and nightmares behind, and remember primarily the good times. I mean, if you feel so sorry for yourself, imagine going through two world wars, and having to work your way back. You have it easy.

@@eligebrown8998 Wow 1907. Back in the horse and wagon days.

Well in 1867, a newborn wouldn't be imagining posterity doing anything!! But sure, his parents wouldn't have imagined their newborn being watched a century and a half later... Fred

They are going to watch tik tok videos 150 years from now and figure out this was the burp in our culture that slowed down mankinds progression.

@@itzamia lol true

@@itzamia The robots, who will be running everything, will figure that out. And they'll celebrate. Fred

They will be using their new fangled technology to call up the dead (us) to ask how life in the 2020s was like.

And perilously close to our future demise when we rest on our laurels.

@another awful shitposting channel Agreed, colorizing historical videos like this one is good but colorizing any works of art is bad, I don't know of any that have turned out better than the original after being colorized.

99% of b/w movies were filmed that way, not for any artistic intent, but because color film was too expensive. It cost MGM, in 1938/39 $'s, an extra $500,000 to be able to film Gone With The Wind in color, thats like $25,000,000 now. Our reality exists in living breathing color, not that seemingly safely far away from us b/w world. So im totally all for colorizing any and all movies and documentaries, bringing them and us eye and mind opening relevancy.

@@michaelbruns449 A b/w movie that was done mainly with a creative/artistic/entertainment goal probably wouldn't be improved by colorization. Reality wasn't the goal. A b/w movie that was done mainly with a documentary/instructional/historical goal probably would be improved by colorization. Reality was the goal. Modern craftsmen and artists are constantly creating new art out of old art, sometimes improving it, sometimes not. I don't want to stop them.

@@raconteur5195 Rather than resting on our Laurels we must become more Hardy -- whether we colorize their old films or not! (And don't get me started on Marxism!)

I worked for a local telecommunications company and many of my co-workers were involved with the Telephone Pioneers organization. Wow it has been around for such a long time!

They were just as much of pioneers, as the homebrew computer club, and the two men who invented Unix.

That was barely weeks after the Japanese surrender and WWII ended. He lived to know about the atomic bomb and jet aircraft.

Thanks, you saved me from having to Google this myself. I was curious about the exact same thing.

@@davidb2206 Don't jump to conclusion. He may have been senile at that time.

I think it’s called mid or high Atlantic speak - like FDR and many actors of the time.

@@socalcraigster Yea, that’s right. It was very common in Manhattan, more so than the Bronx or Brooklyn. Funny thing? They bought a house in Bayside, Queens after he retired in 1952. He referred to it as ‘moving out to the country’, lmao!

Bet the West Village was a lot less posh (and probably more interesting) in those days :)

@@mickeeteeze - I was born in Brooklyn but lived in Ozone Park Queens til I was 7.

@@dorseykindler9544 Oh yea. The last time I checked on that neighborhood, there were obvious multi million dollar apartment units looking over the Hudson. But? They’d have the old duplex apt buildings, still some cobblestone for about half a block. Back in that day, it was mostly immigrant longshoremen and tenement buildings. There were dozens of streets razed over by what is now the west side highway. All working class.

My Grandparents were all born in the 20s. Still amazes me that during their childhood horse and oxen carts in the street were nothing unusual, in their adulthood they witnessed the moon landing.

My Dad was born in 1907, his name really was Robin Hood, amazing stories. He was 22 when the Depression hit. He married in 1938. I was the last of five children. My brother and I served in the Navy during Vietnam, he went twice at his request!!! He was in North Vietnam past the DMZ. Sadly, I lost him to Agent Orange two years ago. I was in during but Not in 'Nam, during the early '70s. Machinery Repairman 3rd class. Stay safe and GOD bless.

@@dalehood1846 Condolences to your brother. People don’t give the Navy credit (since most of our battles were fought out of sight, out of mind) unlike the Army and Marines. Hell, we just got a memorial at Normandy a few years ago and our tin cans turned the tide of battle driving right up to shore and gunning it out with German 88s. Or the tin cans USS Roberts and USS Johnston charging the largest Japanese fleet and trading blows until they went down but forced the Japanese to flee saving thousands of troops at Leyte. Every Marine unit has Sailors attached. A Sailor helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima. Everyone tells stories of the Marines here, or the Army there, but the Navy lost a hell of a lot of good men,1000s of miles from land in battles only briefly mentioned. And Sailors humped through swamps and jungles and scaled cliffs with every Marine unit in history. I was YN2 on a destroyer. I was on the interdiction team boarding Iranian and Iraqi freighters in the Persian Gulf, armed with a 1911 .45 and our boat crew had wooden-stock M14s. Here’s to you and your brother Shipmate.

Ain't nobody ever landed on no moon. And nirvana isn't as good as ZZ Top.

@@scottndawn Yo, crack ain't for ya, mayun. Quit drugzz.

You can talk that way, if you want.

That was back when your reputation mattered. Now, anything goes which has its consequences for a society.

They read books back then and took pride in their language and how it's presented.

Then leftists would deem it racist and you'd quickly bend the knee..

Hello Paula! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?

Could be !! 🤔

🤠👍Don't seek the Gold 💰💰💰💰💰

Hello Jannett! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?

Answer to your family Jannett. They are worried about you!

What is up with the replies? Has something happened to her?

@@alindumitrache6008 idk lol seems weird

@@alindumitrache6008 I now feel strangely compelled to ask Jannett of she received the care package of socks I sent her. But I have never assembled a care package in my life.

Damn, 110 years old. Those who were born after like 70s can't even make it to 75years.

They never learned the moon landing neverhappnd tragic

@@banrap9369 ironically my uncle worked for NASA at the Canberra array in Australia and was part of the team who tracked all the Apollo missions to the moon including the nerve racking failure of 13. Crazy how the Internet has skewed the views of rational people to think they never happened and the earth's flat. Had it been only one mission and somehow they managed to fool the Soviets then maybe. Trouble is 12 men walked on the surface of the moon and regardless of your viewpoint it did actually happen.

Landing on the moon?

@@mishuevos7838 yes the Apollo program mate.

Agreed, chum. 👍

Swell conversation chums!

Nah. I would not call a friend "shark bait".

@@johncampbell3979 We'll call you "pippy" instead, because you are a pip.

We surprisingly do in Quebec, in French though haha

150 years is nothing historically speaking it's just that technology has made the gap larger in another era example 50 AD to 200 AD not all that much changed in the day to day lives of people whereas 1870 to 2020 is a monumental difference due to the industrial revolution, nuclear power, the space race, the world wars and the accessibility of information which have radically changed society

Humans haven’t changed much.

“The more the things change, the more they stay the same.”

Same here, my grandparents born in 1890s & they both died in 1975, I was 9, grampa was in ww1 as a infantryman, hope to see them again in heaven.

My grandpa cut the tip of his finger off like that and then did it again later lol

The wearing of a suit and hat in public was common into the 1950's Take a look at TV show hosts and participants, candid college photos, commercials, traveling passengers etc. from the 40's and 50's--so slim and neatly dressed. We lost a lot in ensuing years, but at least the sexism, racism and smoking is decreased from those times.

@@karenryder6317 I was born in the 1950s and two things I don't miss was all the public smoking and the litter in the streets.

@@karenryder6317 the decrease in smoking has been a good thing. It seems as of late that the pendulum on sexism and racism has gone too far. The Grandparents would have equated “woke” with “insanity “, and they’d be right.

@@CP-012 thats just alt-right propaganda, most of the woke things are only on the internet, most people in IRL arent like that

Thank globalism. You're competing with slave labor from all over the world, so it's no wonder.

@@jon4715 It's not globalism. It's technology. It's cheaper to use an app than to pay humans to do the same work; it's cheaper to use robotics at Tesla than autoworkers, etc. We traded human employment so that we could all buy mobile phones and tweet each other from a Model 3.

@@warrenny No, automation didn't cause this at all. Automation is a very recent and unrealized sea change. It's globalization, it's been going on for 40 years: export of capital and ip, import of labor and goods.

That's what happens when you double the labour force.

@@warrenny People have been making that argument since the invention of the steam engine in the 1700s. Automation increasing productivity isn't new. Nails used to be so expensive people because each was hand made, that Laura Ingels Wilder said that when her father was building a barn in the 1800s, her father would search through the grass to find any nails that dropped Phone calls used to be insanely expensive, partially because you used to have to employ people to plug wires into sockets, until someone invented automatic switching. Technology doesn't kill jobs, or lower wages. It does force people to learn new skills, and has for the past 200 years. It also lowers costs for things we consider essential, and improve our lives. It's not all twitter. Do you really want to go back to a world where nails are precious, and you have to worry about making a long distance call because it costs $5 a minute? Technology isn't the problem, it's regulation of jobs, and working conditions.

..and no tax.

You can buy gold with your money today so your money is good. Quit the harping.

@@ronj9448 I get what you're saying but come on, man. You know what he meant. Gold only increases in value, while money decreases.

My job pays $600 - $800 /week. I'm unskilled labor. Am assembly line worker. We also get half the month off. Believe it or not there are better jobs out there.

@@roberteischen4170 3 things to consider: 1) What is your real pay after taxes, fees, licences..etc. They paid zeo back then. 2) What is the cost of inflation on anything you saved, they experienced deflation (lower prices each year, yet better quality of goods). 3) Why after a century despite all the GAINS in productivity and technology are you at the SAME level and not vastly better off? WHERE have all those gains gone?

Would you do the same with your children?

11 year olds are supposed to learn and play, not work. What you did was child labor to make you an obedient worker not some exercise in work ethic and your father failed at his obligation to unconditionally suport your basic needs

@@gabriels81 Of course I would. Every person I know who has really good ethics at work. (People my age) They all say one thing. I started to work at a very young age. So I would much rather to be a hard worker with ethics than a lazy bum who believes everything should be free.

@@oiytd5wugho My father never failed. Only a fool would say that. Because at my age I realize how important it is to be a hard good worker. You would only find 1 for every 100 workers now in this days. So yes I deeply thank my father for making me a responsible father and husband.

@@georgecanto4279 well, have fun slaving away for someone. Imma join a union and do only what I'm contractually bound to

How much is that worth now? Does someone in his family, still have it.

@@johnpastore7685 63, I was wrong 4 years, but that to me is terrific to see. How much is it worth? I cannot qunatify, but chill, don't you think?

@@joeycarpenter3773 I don't understand the chil word.

@@johnpastore7685 cool, chill, same thing.👍

@@joeycarpenter3773 I kind of thought so. Just misunderstood, the post. It's ok

sadly so.

Many different jobs make for a broader experience, though, which is more useful if you live in unpredictable times. You might not get as much depth as this guy had, but most basic jobs don't take more than 2 years to master anyway. Even now, if you learn a trade that's in demand, you can probably keep at it for 50 years. Even when the last tree's been cut down we'll still need carpenters.

I don’t know, back then I think that staying at one job was pretty common.

Untrue. I know people who spent decades at a job, until their retirement. What you can't do nowadays is move up the ladder over time because job experience is mute without specialized education.

Remarkable! I wonder what she had against electricity. I still have a few letters my great grandmother wrote to me in the mid 80s. In one of them she talks about the thick layer of leaves in front of her house that makes it feel if she's walking on an expensive carpet.

The old ways workes. Not as easy, but they're secrets being lost to time that we'll need if anything like an emp happens

Based schizo grandma

I was born in 1982 in Manhattan. I totally relate to everything u just said 👍

Aggie Rowe..... I started work at 15 back in the 80s. In the UK it was no big deal a few decades back.

Wow you sound like a person who really loves home. I'd love to have you as a friend.

@@21mgny spending your 90s in Manhattan must've been bliss

Its mind-blowing everytime I think about it. The US is so young yet has accomplished a lot. I wished more people would see this instead of focusing on the bad.

Thats what my black great grandfather told me. I won't share the other atrocities he mentioned.

People can live about 80 years on average, perhaps? If you think about it, the Declaration of Independence in the US was only... 3 or 4 people ago... Maybe 5 or 6 if you consider they didn't used to live as long. But still... really not that long ago.

@@LordBLB people nowadays are living well into their 90s tho...and dare i say 100 plus

@@TacticalDimples we need to focus on the bad though, thats how improvement happens

Folk in the day didn't brag what was said was enough information.

@@kylef8232 That isn't close to true but okay lol

It was possible for a time. The American Dream. Work hard and you rise in status

@@quintinlarson9499 No.

@@MeanBeanComedy Statistically yes.

Without being overbusy from school until you're 20 years old... Life isn't life anymore

@@ferdtheterd3897 Life isn't life? Lol Oh you all gotta stop this lamentation whining. Life is what you make of it back then and today. No difference. Don't go to school if you don't want. You can start a business today and become a successful CEO in a few years.. People back then didn't commonly all become CEOs. Even back then it was a fantastical story 9f rags to riches. Ffs you all pretending like "they" are making you do stuff or preventing you because modernity has "canceled you out". Get a hold of yourselves.

It wasn't uncommon for folks to leave home with an 8th grade education. But back then they were taught more to succeed in life in general.

Most of them are too busy swearing to have any real vocabulary.

Education was MUCH better then. You can look up exams that kids in 8th grade had to pass to get into high school. They're extremely difficult....many questions on history and civics.

@@queenbunnyfoofoo6112 I saw a test that was given to 8th graders back in the 1890's. The questions that were asked would be considered University level today. Yes. Civics was heavily studied back then judging by those test questions. I doubt a majority of students would even be able to answer them if given today.

@@mxgonzo I doubt that ANY 1890 era student could pass any HS exam today.

It's sad how time flies. When looked at a bigger picture, those years are nothing on the grand scheme of thing yet life constantly changes... Amazing and beautiful, yet tragic. Much like a car crash in slow motion.

1835 (end of the early 1800's) + 90 years old would be 1925 at the latest when you met this person born in the "early 1800's" (choosing an extremely old age for that time to give benefit of the doubt). If you were 10 in 1925, you were born in 1915, and you're now at least 106 years old. How old are you, bro??? Mad computer skills for a centenarian!!!

@@DugrozReports I agree @Straightener would have to be in his/her late 90's or over 100 years old himself to speak to anyone born in the "early" 1800s

I have a house across the road from me that once housed a woundEd vet from the Civil War that my old neighbors told me about. As they were kids when they met him and then the same house had a vet that stormed the beaches of Normandy and had two purple 💜 . I the same house 50 years apart amazing.

That was the standard. We have since steadily lowered our standards -- to the point where most students can't even write their own name without doing it on a keyboard. "Write?" "Cursive?" Half our students today will give you a blank stare because they don't know what the hell you're talking about.

@@briane173 I feel that my generation, those of us born in the 1980s, were the last to enforce Handwriting (a subject matter taken cursive and manuscript writing very seriously). I recalled being hammered to write everyday, despite my disabilities to do cursive. Now-a-days I get compliments over the complicated, elegant signature I do. People become amazed by my cursive abilities thinking I am some 20 year old... being mixed with many cultures and ethnicities has its advantages in the youth department. It is depressing knowing that things like cursive and calligraphy are a lost art in the next decade or so... severely will only be reserved for museum restoration artists and artifact restorers. Calligraphy was once expected by everyone with basic formal education. I think the lost is due to the whole anti-public school system mentality. People take for granted what a public school system offers. Can be it better... ALWAYS! Perfecting any system ought to be the focus. Too bad that even those within the system itself for the most part lack the motivation to think that way, much less to actually act it out and practice the art of perfecting a technique, strategy and art form. I also blame parents for not enforcing the importance of certain skills to keep the culture alive and well and to instill abilities and skills that make us a civilization. ... and that includes imprinting the importance of the academics to better a society and nation. For a civilization to thrive it needs more than just language, it needs the written language, history, the arts, government, a sense of common belief (doesn't have to be religion, could be purely philosophy like what the Chinese had with Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism), strong commerce/economy, strong agriculture system, ... those are the seven basics for a civilization to thrive, but there are many more... our current modern societies are losing those qualifications of a society to be considered a full true civilization.

@Juci Shockwave One can believe in education without believing in government run education.

The way we speak will always keep changing. His grandparents probably thought his speech was lacking, While many think he speaks better than people today. I would love tobe able to live long enough to see language really change. The problem is, I'd probably change right along with everyone else.

@Jim Thain In "Gulliver's Travels" Gulliver is introduced to someone who will never die. He is told the poor soul will become so out-of-date with their language as to be unable to communicate with others and become hopelessly alone.

Glad you made it back...I feel worthless compared to the Greatest Generation(s)! I couldn't be a pimple on my Father' butt...He worked On Staten Island, would wake up @ 4 am and travel West for 40 minutes, cross on a ferry and then worked inspecting huge gas tanks in the middle of winter, 75' straight-up steel ladder, 75' up, 75' down, no gloves as grip was life or death. All the best, Brother.

I can't understand most when they're talking today. We talk much too fast and don't prounce our vowels properly.

+ little to no sarcasm & complaints..like today.

Language evolves. My father was born in 1896. My parents married in 1927. By the time I was born, they were middle age. My father talked old, e.g. he called cars "automobiles". My son was close to my father and picked expressions from him. As a child in the 1970s, called Matchbox Cars "my little automobiles".

The diction is at least in part because he is being recorded. People are more careful with their diction when they know that they are being recorded, especially back then when it was a rare occurrence. Old Candid Camera episodes actually get used for research into how people talked, because it’s some of the earliest recordings of people who didn’t know that they were being recorded.

"because good diction and good handwriting were treated as more important subjects" BY PARENTS. And the parents were around. Especially the full-time mothers.

Man it’s be great if you could find a link to that video. It sounds really cool and I’d really like to watch it based on your description

Could you please link?

@@namesurname624 I wish I could find it now, but sorry can't.

It's one of 2 videos posted by yt channel William

I'll be 59 tomorrow, and the younger folks are always amazed when I tell them I remember a time before blow dryers.

And I'll tell my grandkids about how I grew up during the covid scare and that back in my day you couldn't even go to work without a covid pass

One day had to explain to my oldest son when he was 10 or 11 what a "record player" was... I made sure to tell him about the "tape recorder" at the same time. LOL!

It was only 66 yrs between Kitty Hawk and walking on the moon, which is my age. Remarkable

I'm your age and your great grandfather was 40 when the one on my dad's side was born. The one on my mom's side was born in 1903 (his wife, my great grandmother, died 2 and a half weeks before Christmas in 2005).

That was an AT&T subsidiary that made telephones

@@Perririri Yes, they made all the hardware.

That's one way to get yourself exploited for another man's profit.

@@alicev5496 It’s with an attitude like yours that will assure you’ll never have job security.

If they are not all dead already, that is a great idea. I'm only 41, but all of my great grandparents, grandparents, both parents, and a few aunts and uncles have already died. I, sadly, do not have the option of this, although I would love the chance. My youngest uncle is only about 10 years older than me, so there is little he can impart of historical knowledge, and many of the others are not much older, or have no desire to talk to anyone outside of their own small piece of our tribe and family. :/ I feel like we are forgetting much of what we need to know to keep things going in a positive direction. Without our personal and collective knowledge of the past, I feel we run the danger of forgetting lessons already learned by those older and more experienced than us, and may have to re-learn them the hard way.

Telegrams and prices, sure, but you do know streetcars are still a thing... everywhere.

My grandfather was born in 1923. He would tell me stories about how excited he would get when his mom gave him a NICKEL, I couldn't believe how much he could buy with a NICKEL. I'm an 80s baby. I couldn't buy anything with 1 nickel as a kid.

@@006ahenry with a few coke bottles you could go to the movies

@@avgwhitegurl6646 idk where you were at then. I was in NJ, the movie was $3 to $5 when I was a kid, depending on the theater.

This was filmed in 1930.

@@freedomforever6718 Which is about 1800s

1880 through 1910 are incredible years, especially for engineering achievements leveraging the work brought forth by scientists who teased out the laws of electricity and magnetism and today we have the iPhone. Can you imagine the shock of Darwin, Maxwell, and the greats upon being presented an iPhone? Or comprehending the god-like qualities of the internet? My fantasy is to go back in time to Ben Franklin or someone of his stature and try to explain what I know. Someone like him might actually believe me.

...$500? damn! I know people who don't even make that today!

When he first started working in 1881, his $5 weekly salary would be worth about $137 in 2021 dollars (using an inflation calculator), or about $550 per month.

@@jabber1990 And no income tax back then either. You kept what you earned until you spent it on your own choices. Classical economics at work.

@@valuedcustomer9614 I like to use gold -- the money of that era -- as basis for modern comparison. In 1880 "$5" was 1/4th ounce of gold ($20/oz back then). And today, a recent-mintage 1-ounce gold bullion coin will set you back about $2,000 -- not allowing for numismatic value of an old coin. Hence the $500 value for today. US Dept of Labor "inflation" deflator didn't begin until many decades later. In my view the only way to value "dollars now" versus "dollars then" is to compare based on price of gold.

@@byronking9573 of course there was no income tax, the government was significantly smaller, i'll bet thet there were other taxes though, you can't operate without taxes