Middleton Family New York World's Fair(1939) 

I woulda smacked him myself! I was raised not to interrupt myself. I raised my son now 18, not to be rude .I’m cringing at that kids rudeness.

Yes, same here. If you either interrupted or back talked,,you would be sent to your room and punished. As a teen I still remember back talking my Mom,,,and the smack across my face knocked me off the chair. I was told to go to my room and do not come out until you have learned why you’re their. It’s called respect,,, something many nowadays do not understand.

Love Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich. Passed this year @ 98 RIP .

That's Hollywood for you!

I’m an 80s kid and even in the 80s that bad behaviour would of been disciplined too!

Ain’t it the Truth! 🥲Thank Goodness for the movies!

In a lot of ways we have rose as well too though. You're just not thinking deep enough. The black lady working in the kitchen who can't sit and eat with them or use their bathroom and the gays who were scared to be themselves or women who couldn't think for themselves. TIMES HAVEN'T CHANGED that much in 90 years at all when you think humans have been around 10s of thousands of years.

Uh, the good old days weren’t always good. White middle class straight men had it best of all so I understand why it would seem we have “slipped”, but educated women, people of color, and non-straights would mostly agree they’d never want to go back to those times.

Привет из России, из Сибири! Я тоже смотрю эти видео, они очень интересные! В старые времена люди больше старались быть представительными, чем сейчас.

“Sex Discrimination Act passed in 1975, banks - as well as employers and other institutions - were legally required to treat women and men equally. From this point, a woman could open a bank account in her own name and apply for a mortgage without facing discrimination, in theory. ---- Much about the good old days wasn’t good esp for women and the poor, Native Americans (millions here in peace thousands of yrs before Europeans ‘found’ the land), African Americans, Italian, Japanese …hmmm there’s a trend. Edit: girls often discouraged from going to college/university over marriage and kids.

He moved apparently I guess?

Uhhhhhh ITS CLARK GABLE

They moved to NY for him, he wasn't probably a baby.

And nobody else in the family speaks like that.

They all have theatrical accents, not common NY accents.

Hail Bob!

Only the kids whose fathers owned successful depression-proof businesses and could afford to keep Grandma in her own big home with a maid.

I grew up in the 70s and I wore a suit as a kid lol

Everyday clothes for after school and play, corduroy knickers, argyle knee socks, canvas high top shoes, button up shirt with pullover sweater, cap. There are many photos of my uncle and mother from the 1920s and 1930s.

@@dumbbo1 Very true! My Dad had a friend who lived in what is today, still a 3 million dollar home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, NY. Marty’s family had a gardener, a housemaid, and a cook. His father owned a number of office supply stores in NYC and New Jersey. My grandfather worked for one of the stores driving a delivery truck. Normally, the two would never have crossed paths, but Marty sometimes played stickball with some boys on the “other” side of the Grand Central Parkway. He and Dad were introduced by a mutual friend. In talking, they figured out the connection. My Grandpa made a good impression and he eventually got him connected to a business friend. For a time, my father drove one of the trucks. Sadly, Marty got drafted to Korea and was killed on his first day of combat.

Me too. I want so much to go back in time. Yet we are looking at the past with eyes of the present and not seeing it for what it was truly like, if we did go back in time I don't think it would be as we imagine it by watching stuff like this. I wasn't real life after all. If people in 80 or more years came back to our time would understand it any better? I can't help but wonder that. We would say what's so exciting ? Its just real life as boring as anytime. However again I feel like that too.

Well said! But I'm not so sure how great it was, hence the invention of Hollywood CA and such propagandist films. And they were and clearly still are.C'mon.. Dig even the slightest bit deeper into history and you will change you mind about what you have or have been tried to teach.@@randydelaney7053

Truth!

Nope, Now everything begins with 'like'.

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Worth noting she was also an inventor on par with any of the things in this video, doing a lot of integral work on the technology that would later become secure wi fi, bluetooth and GPS. Most people overlook the fact she was a Brilliant mind as well as a pretty face.

That is becausenofilthyillega*swerepouriginfromdumpcountries back then. htat came here back then were respectable immigrants from Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Ireland, England came here to WORK HARD adn be successful, not freebies and demanding free verything- HTAT Is what is ruining our American Aesthetic- THAT and cheap CHINESE junk- htanks China for our calssic stores and departmet stores closing like Sears, Montgomery Wards, part of my childhood, now lost, it is sick and purposeful.

​@jimrockford1283I do get your point, but I'm moved to say that even that was done with pride, unlike our sleazy little wars today We don't even know they're happening.

​@dammitbobby283 what does that have to do with the original statement? Nothin, I tellyawhut.

Hey I’ll take em

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My dad graduated in the early 1950's. Every male in his yearbook was wearing a suit for their pictures. It was so classy.

@@cjgem80 I would’ve LOVED to have Lived at that Time….Everything had RESPECT from your Parents to Your Grandparents even talking to other…….Just a BEAUTIFUL time to Live in….

This was before people knew of Nazi atrocities and how low and cruel people could be.

The time capsules are still there

Electro is in Mansfield Ohio

The daughter Barbara “Bebs” died in 2015. She was the mother of Anne Archer.

Oh yeah, and atop the flagpole at my Alma Mater was a brass eagle that came directly from this World Fair. Formerly on a big swastica, it was donated to the Fair by Hitler. I used to look up at it and marvel at the history it has seen.

@@jumboJetPilot Germany didn't participate in the 1939 NYWF. Japan did though.

I mean, it's an industrial film. It can be expected to be a little tendentious. :-P

The evil communists must be exposed for who and what they are!

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Because communism is so wonderful, right??🤦‍♀️Good grief.

@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 it’s red scare propaganda in its early years

Thanks for that. Always loved Anne. Very interesting.

No the English way was to make all the underpopulated English derivative Commonwealth countries a mixing bowl for 200 years and multiculturalism and be one-world government

Why do you care so much about "One World Govt"? What's it to you? You live on one planet. You worship one god. Maybe one world govt is the next step in our evolution?

@@mollflanders9314 Have fun with an unelected, unrepresented by the people, dictatorial communist one world government. For a possible idea of what it might be like look at North Korea , China or Russia etc. Sadly you've been brainwashed by your education system, your lying treasonous complicit government and the lying complicit media if you think one world government is good.

@@Prieze868 No that was NOT the English way. The English way was to establish infrastructure both judicial and governmental , business/economy, educational and healthcare infrastructures so these colonies could later self govern themselves. The English were against interracial marriage and multicultures as a rule preferring to keep themselves and their own culture intact and undefiled and undiluted. Multiculturalism was FORCED on England and the British Commonwealth and the USA and South Africa and Rhodesia and Australia, Germany, Holland, Denmark and all the Western Protestant Christian nations by their treasonous traitorous government who made secret deals and arrangements behind the people's backs and WITHOUT their consent.

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yup

Brighter than the sun, at least in Japan.

@@hydrocarbon82 OuT oF PoCkEt

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The ultimate concept is to have 2 dishwashers installed side by side. You take clean dishes from one, and use the other to hold the dirty dishes. You just alternate back and forth, as you use the dishes. In this way, you never have to unload a dishwasher again, unless you have an excessive amount of dishes to do. In that case, you now have 2 dishwashers to ease that burden as well!

It's called children.

@@DistantVision85 Brilliant!

I think it was just the first course.

Modern eyes ruins everything. Back then people didn't think twice about a simple compliment. Today everybody is so paranoid 24/7 everything is over-analyzed and people have become incredibly thin-skinned. No wonder all kinds of personality disorders and autism have become commonplace. That dad in 1939 simply expressed his pride. Today he *must* be an incestuous creep. Like I said: Modern eyes ruins everything. Humor in particular where everybody seems offended over everything. And if your comment was meant as a joke. Like I said: Bad humor today too.

TiberiusClaudius Caesar I agree with you, and yet that was my first reaction as well. I had to remind myself that there really is nothing wrong with a complement like that. It did (and does) bother me, though, that my first reaction was as expressed above: Creepy.

@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 I'm Autistic and that has nothing to do with it. it's a pervasive Neurodevelopmental disability and Neurotype. We have always existed. Every unborn baby has a 50/50 chance of developing this way. Don't talk about things you clearly don't understand.

@@tiberiusclaudiuscaesar5238 So sexual harassment, rape and social issues didn't exist until modern times in your strange perspective of reality and history? Guess you have no idea how information evolved either.

@@erictroup5094 I’m totally agree and I felt the same way when he said it.

Grandma was cool, I tink I would hang out with Bud

this... All of thus.

Ah yes, Middleton lore.

James Lydon died in 2022. Douglas Stark died in 2009. George Lewis died in 1995.

... yeah like segregation

@@airmark02 Ya know, theres always one.

Every dumb comment deserves another. 🤣

@@rexpositor6741 And every comment doesn't deserve a comment.

@@airmark02 No. Democrats are back to pushing for segregation today.

I wouldn't want a boyfriend that idolizes a moneygrubbing bag of fat in a $600 suit who pays for sex. Psst...talking bout trump.

@@mollflanders9314 What are you, 12? Grow up. You sound so ignorant and adolescent. Your Bill Clinton raped women in the White House as President. Get educated before you make yourself a fool.

They're called Soy boys or betas

Yeah it was there from the 20's.. Made the Nazi's more attractive to some as they were anti Soviet too. (You don't see even an off hand slap at them.) And not so telling as it was an expected point of tension all through the war of what would happen when the two sides finally met.

@@postal_the_clown Not in the US. It's possible to anticommunist and anti Nazi. They're two sides of the same coin. Like Democrats and "Antifa"(quotes because antifa are fascists in disguise).

@@harsesishoktar9386 Read-up on the German-American Bund. See if some of their catchphrases don't sound familiar in the idol worship of 45. (or did I miss the golden statue of any living Dem?)

Huh? My Dad was Antifa, and so was every guy who crossed the ocean between 1941--1945 to kick Hitler's ass. You don't know what you are talking about. Go Google WWII.

@@postal_the_clown It sounds more like the idol worship of Obama and Hillary.

Leggings are a marvel of comfort for the disabled and you can pry them from my cold dead hands.

Except back then a liberal was a person who believed in free markets, sound money personal liberty and limited government. "Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at least (but not, for instance, in France), because liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging interference with private property and the market on behalf of egalitarian goals. This version of liberalism - if such it can still be called - is sometimes designated as "social," or (erroneously) "modern" or the "new," liberalism.

@@dsvet See, this is why we have a split. Also, thank you for the thoughtful answer. I used to be a Conservative. Grew up as one. My first husband watched Fox and listened to Rush. Thing is, the orgy of "OMG, those Libs are k-razy. They live in this country and yet want to destroy it by doing all these silly, wacky things!" started when Clinton was elected. My ex-husband had one objection to the man I can still see today. Bill did all sorts of shady things in Arkansas. But the rest of it has been a non-stop propaganda machine against what Conservative pundits SAY Liberals believe in. Some Liberals do go to extremes, MOST DON'T. But that's boring, and and does not get ratings. So for each 1000 Liberals who are the "old fashioned" kind, we get the white-hot focus on whoever is at the fringe. Liberals believe in the following. Yes, we do. Every person I know of this persuasion believes these things, hear it out of the horses' mouth for a change, k? We know the infrastructure and police and schools in this country are one reason we are a great nation. YOU CAN'T get those results from private firms building for their self interest alone. I'll be happy to discuss why if you wish. A feeling of national pride where we all kick in to have a regulated, efficient, and well ordered infrastructure is KEY to our way of life. Taxes are not fun, but if we are a nation, we must have things which we do as one unit. Otherwise, why even bother being a country? Our health care system is a horrible mess. We are not #1 in care, but we pay more than any other First World nation for far, far less. ALL of those other countries, including the large country of Australia, have much better government run health care programs than we do. Period. I know the myth is it's a horror show of long lines, but the truth is, all I've ever heard in person is lots of positive, not much negative. Also, health care costs are a major reason for bankruptcy in this nation. That's not true anywhere else, not even close. Insurance companies are ruthless bastards who spew toxic propaganda against any kind of improvement in the system. So Heath Care, that's one thing Liberals would love to change and make Federal, not private. Education is another key issue. Sure, you don't want to pay extra taxes for little Johnny Smith down the block to grow up and get a PhD. Why should you, he's not your kid, right? But little Johnny Smith could be the doctor who saves your life. He could be a genius engineer who helps make the world a better place. He, and all the other straight A students are the people who will make tomorrow a better world. That's been true in the past. The kids who grow up to be cashiers and plumbers and mechanics and dental assistants can get fairly affordable schooling. But, let's face it, the things we have like computers and all our conveniences and modern medicine were not invented by Joe Blow who had 2 years learning HVAC. You are investing in the future when you make it possible to get a higher education without going deeply into debt. The environment. We have much more of a pro-environment, anti build-at-all-costs attitude than Conservatives. My husband is an environmental scientist. He's alarmed and saddened by the recent environmental cutbacks. Trusting greedy big business over people who want clean water, land, and air is not a winning way to go. I know, then we get to the tricky stuff. Guns, abortion, Feminism. Guns: I have a gun. My husband owns several. EVERY Liberal I know personally owns a damn gun. We're not coming for guns. We would like stricter regulation on guns, and close gun sale loopholes. Abortion: We're for it. Feminism: Many people don't know this, but the ERA never passed. It's totally legal to pay a women less. I know several women who are. Yeah, this one is a land mine of opinion. After that, keep in mind. Liberals occupy the same country as you do. They pay taxes. Put their kids though school. Go to football games, and so forth. We aren't out to take down a place we do love and live in. Try to understand that.

@@lisathuban8969 As tempters, yet trustworthy, that wall text i saw once may apply here, not sure though, but the word "propaganda" always seems to have a negative ring to it. .....................o yeah, 5000 years bhrhrhrhrrr.

@@Geert365 I have no idea what you're saying.

@@lisathuban8969 Me neither now , thought i wanted to comment on someone saying that this period was a time when there was highly pressing and advertising certain ideals, and it wasn't clear to me if also an opinion about that was ventilated, so that's i guess why i posted this, because often when people try swaying public opinion, it seems to invoke a lot of negativity from people, just for the sake of it being such a mass unpersonal thing, and the intentions behind it could easily be good, but often are met with suspicion from the public (me anyway i know of myself, and not all but many others often i think). Still vague may be, hope i cleared it up a bit. Like i said, can't see comment i thought i was responding to.

Yaaas. What a cad!

That damn robot is so noisy!

Cigarettes were still good for you at that time!

@@robinguertin574 Oh, right. Silly me.

P.s. Electro-Man was a fraud.

True!

That's what it's supposed to be.

So Jim is capitalism and nick sounds like a facist which shall she keep

@@jadedavis822 Nick doesn't sound like a fascist, he sounds like a socialist/communist.

@@jadedavis822 Nick was literally talking about Karl Marx... take a wild guess.