The problem we have is because Most people always taught that " you only need a good job to become rich " . These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.
" It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid , instead of trying to be very intelligent."
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies.
I also keep seeing lot's of people testifying about how they make money investing in Stock, Forex and Crypto Trade(Bitcoin) and I wonder why I keep loosing. Can anyone help me out or at least advice me on what to do.
Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others. As an investor, you should've known that by now that nothing beats experience and that's final. Personally I had to reach out to a stock expert for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to $35k, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again.
I really hated history in high-school...and now I absolutely love it....including historical novels....heck I’m even finding politics and economics interesting....whats happening to me?
I remember my grandfather, who was born in 1920 telling me about having to trim the wicks and filling the oil lamps in their home as a kid. He died in 2016. He saw a hell of a change in this world and not all of it for the best.
yep my gramps was born in 1934 eastern europe. it was qite backwards out there,he was one of the most educated in his village after completing 7 years of school,and worked as an accauntant in their villages collective farm...after 7 years of school...not college,just regular school,he was 15 and was an accauntant for a whole ass collective farm that was the only farm in a village of a few thousand people. imagine a 15 year old being an accauntant for a buisness of even 200 people today...with no computers just paper
I feel you. They're one of the most unique generations. A lot of them grew up with a pre industrial way of life that was more similar to ancient civilizations. but they were using Iphones at the end.
@@kostya22264 your grandfather still with you,my Dad was born 1932 here in Canada. Lots of stories about the great depression, and ww2. Dad has stories of the old people as he calls them ,the pioneers .happy week,blessings 🇨🇦
My Aunt Claris was a "flapper" in the 1920s and lived into the 1980s. She once told me that out of all the technological advances that she had seen in her lifetime, the one she could never get used to was airplane travel. To look into the sky and see an airliner fly by was just amazing. ❤
Thanks for sharing your comment I am a young teenager and I really do wish I can speak to people from that time I've been into 1920s 1930s 1940s culture and music and movies since I was 12. I been getting into the 1950s recently
My mom was born in 1908 and my dad was born in 1901--both in Iowa. So, they were raised on farms not too far from each other. They literally lived from the era of the horse and buggy to the jet age and moon shot. There was more technological change during their lifetimes than the current generations have ever seen. We tend to think of ourselves as whiz-bang technological leaders. But my parents went from the outhouse to indoor plumbing and from feeding chickens to shopping in a big supermarket.
@@SKYSAW59 she is right though. With all of the streaming platforms that exist for anybody to share their music, there is plenty of good music. You are just too lazy to listen and find it.
"In 1900, there were only 8,000 automobiles in the United States and less than ten miles of paved roads." My grandparents used to talk about travelling then. They had some amusing stories.
+Ray Unseitig Not too many people get it, Mr. Unseitig! If we could learn from the mistakes from those that came before us, then government wouldn't be in such the bad shape today that it is. They've decided that the only way to control the economy is by controlling the people, and their hearts are set towards World Economy, World Religion, and World Government at the expense of all else. They've decided that a Republic no longer suites the needs of what they consider a "modern world" which requires a "modern" solution to outdated constitutions that benefit the People more so than they benefit Big Government that seeks to grow beyond what it should be allowed. I'm convinced 100% that there is not a single government that can be fashioned by man, that will not eventually turn on those they were tasked with protecting and serving. Now they serve only themselves while maintaining this false illusion that we still have a functioning Government, for the People, and by the People. This allows them to install their "deep state" UN solution towards World Government right under our noses using and creating invalid laws that suit their needs as they go along. Coming together at the top, pitting us all against each other at the bottom to ensure that we do not unite against them!
+Matthew Fogarty ...the way I see things, is that as long as there are those born today that have it in their hearts to determine for the rest of us, what tomorrow will bring, there will never be solutions that will prevent past mistakes from being made over and over again. Word Peace is not the consequence of World Government, and there will only be True Peace when Jesus Christ, the True Prince of Peace, returns.
My Dad passed away in 1975. He had what looked like a solid copper wedding band from his father that had a date of 1878 inscribed inside the band. Turns out It was my Great Grandfathers. One day I went to polish it and it polished GOLD! Its a thick solid gold wedding band that I still have today.
My great grandparents were sharecroppers during this time they persevered during the harsh Jim Crowe era and managed to buy not one but two homes on 3 acres My family still owns the land and homes today!!
And no matter how bad we think things are, we habe no idea how hard life could really get. 'We Have have been blessed by the mistakes of our forefathers.'
@@noneofyourbusiness1114 Pawnstars and junk. The Smithsonian had a deal with History that gave History exclusive access and rights to their shows and documentaries they made. When the contract was up for renewal the Smithsonian did not renew - They opted to make the Smithsonian Channel and now it's how History used to be.
My Great-Grandmother was born in 1903 and died in 1999 when I was still in middle school. The degree of change she saw in her lifetime is unprecedented in all of human history. The 20th Century eclipsed even the 19th in terms of technological progress and world-shattering events and upheavals! I wish I could have had a good long talk with her but I was only a lad when she died.
Actually, more impactful technological advancement occurred during the second half of the 19th century than in the early 20th. Much of the advancement of the early 20th was merely an elaboration and extension of preexisting tech.
Man, I can't understand why people don't like or appreciate history. It's so freaking interesting. We literally have pretty much the history of the entire world at or fingertips in seconds if we needed it. Plus you're gonna be killer at trivia games 💀 Edit: Never thought I'd get 200+ replies to a comment about history being fascinating 😂
I have a friend that mentioned that history was her least favorite subject because the events happened in the past. Little does she know that what happened 100 years ago still has an influence of how we live today.
Tesla got his knowledge from someone else even though he was the best inventor come electrical mechanical engineer come scientist he real was a worlds first genius that people didnt realy understand how he got his knowledge from some of it he was born with some of it was from some where else that's what
Tesla also believed that we should kill all babies with Down syndrome, and that people who couldn’t work due to physical or mental disabilities shouldn’t be able to reproduce. Look up his theories on eugenics and you won’t be so impressed with Nikola Tesla. He was a monster.
@@jiveassturkey8849 it was a common stance of the day. In fact, Sweden practiced Eugenics up until the 70s. Singling Tesla out for such a view is ridiculous. None of his inventions aimed to aid Eugenics.
@Keith Busch I don't see the connection. Could you describe the causality between Sweden's eugenics program and the the problems of current day Sweden ? Surely their problems are not caused by a lack of people with genetic defects.
@@jiveassturkey8849 just because he believed that doesnt make him a monster. Back then they did not fully understand what down syndrome was and how it formed to the extent that we do today. They also assumed everything was contagious to a point. So when George Washington was bled out because his doctors believed thwy needed to drain the bad blood but they killed him doing it. Does that make them monsters? No. Same type of scenario. Tesla was not a physician. Obviously it isnt something he understood and therefore did not practice on people. Tesla got screwed over, like knife in back (fig of speech) by Einstein and others. If Teslas idea and invention was allowed to be used everywhere we woukdnt have to pay an electric bill as of today. He was not a monster
My Dad took, with a “Box Brownie” camera, black and white photos of Hiroshima two weeks after they dropped the bomb. I remember looking at those pictures over and over as a child, fascinated by them. Now I wonder how the film was not affected by the radiation to get these pic’s. Yet my dad’s teeth all dropped out one by one and he was the baldest man I ever knew. Years later we realised it was the radiation exposure. But those photos survived and have now been gifted to the Returned Soldiers League (RSL.)
Maybe he spent more time around the actual radiated spots then the camera did? That's a fascinating tale thank you for sharing it and super cool that the pictures got saved
My great grandfather was 4 years old when he came to this country with his father through Ellis island from Italy in 1896. They came on a ship called the Alsatia. They immigrated to New Jersey where there is good farm land and created a very nice life here from nothing. I am forever grateful for the hard work they put in for us.
I, too, am glad he was able to succeed. And I acknowledge he put in a lot of hard work. However, the reason he was able to have that experience in large part had to do with the fact that he was white.
Barb Chester, ikr! I love listening to elders that love telling their stories! 😁 I have history class in person with those that lived in that time, or from whatever country they're from!😄
My Mom was born 1909, and raised on a farm near Waco, TX. She told me about her whole family of 6, except for 1 brother, having the terrible 1918 Spanish influenza. They all survived when the one healthy boy fetched a doctor from Waco to treat them. The Great Depression hit when she was 20, and it affected her, concerning the respect for, and handling of money the rest of her life.
Wow that bridge worker eating lunch at about 13 minutes waved at the camera. I bet he had no idea that people will be seeing him over a hundred years later
tolfan...yes, I thought the same. In fact, I thought about it for a long time after the video. Fascinating! edit: strange, isn't it, that most people today are repeatedly being filmed on CCTV? That man was publicly filmed when few folks would have been.
@@JM-kv2kn just for working hard and waiving at the camera, as it should be. All these years later people still recognize hard work and the peace of stealing a few minutes away for a small lunch 😊
I remember reading the written monthly minutes of my Masons lodge from a day in 1925 whereby they created a committee on whether or not to install electricity in the lodge. I've got the monthly meeting minutes back to 1864
I have a set 1898 very detailed encyclopedias. They are fascinating and surprising. There were people who were very concerned about the wiping out of the buffalo which was near extinction at the time. And believe it or not they were also concerned about civil rights and the abuses of the american indian. One thing that I find very suprising is that they had figured out exactly what was needed to make motion pictures. How many frames per second and that each frame had to stop for a fraction of a second. They just hadn't been able to make a projector that could do it yet.
I always feel the invention of photography was ahead of its time, it is such a 20th century thing and I'm always amazed we have photos of the American civil war.
@@ianclarke3627 the first war to be photographed was the crimean war of 1850 to 53 i believe. Theres a very good video on youtube about that war and the way it was photographed. It was when the charge of the light brigade happened. They knew for many centuries about light sensitive chemicals so its amazing that photography didn't come about earlier.
Never get rid of them ever. I’ve been watching history being revised for over a decade. Started studying history in my free time when i was 8, almost fifty years ago. Seriously
I am 42 now and have lived without cell phones and remember when records were still a thing. We used maps to get places. I remember when the internet and computers were just beginning.
My great-grandparents built a Victorian style home in the early 1900's and still lived in it when I was a teenager. I loved the skeleton keys, crystal doorknobs, claw foot bathtubs and curved mahogany staircase. I still have their roll top desk. My great-grandfather spoke of delivering mail on horseback as they lived in a small town. I still remember trying to wash my hands with the separate faucets for hot and cold water 😊
My god! Hot and cold separate faucets!!! The us citizens (apart from the poor and homeless) are living in a well insulated bubble, that only a stream of bullets or a eviction notice with jobloss etc can burst it seems...
@TAS TX, the Victorian home sounds like it was amazing and beautiful! I love old details like you described. It's special that you got to experience it and remember it.
@@amg9163 Yes, but as they got older they couldn’t manage the stairs and built a one story house across the street. It was sad that a family with 6 children moved in and destroyed the house with the leaded glass windows broken and watched it fall into disrepair. I often wonder what has become of it as when they died we never went back.
Awesome film footage! My late mother was born in 1908 and my late father was born in 1910 as well. We used to visit Manhattan almost ever weekend when I was growing up in the 1950s, i.e. born in 1948 before the shopping centers opened up in the suburbs so we did our shopping on the weekends and also did sightseeing! My father worked around Wall Street! I went to a fashion art school and became a professional fashion illustrator in NYC and lived and worked there in the late 1960s and into the 1970s and attended university there as well. So many changes since then. Have always loved the straw boaters the men wore back then and the fashions of the Edwardian era! The Costume Institute at the MET had a beautiful exhibition one year on all the fashions from that era, the early 1900s. My husband's family from Ukraine /Russia lived on the lower East Side in the early 1900s until they moved to Yonkers where my late father in law was a dentist. Would love to go back in a time machine to visit there and in the 1920s and 30s! During the early 1900s there was the deadly Polio pandemic, and in 1918 the Spanish flu pandemic with no vaccinations back then at all! Polio came here in 1894 and it took til the 1950s to get a vaccination against that thanks to the late great Dr. Jonas Salk! And we had a small pox epidemic as well and got our much needed vaccinations for that as well, all mandated or we couldn't go to school! Our children also had to be vaccinated against highly contagious diseases in the 1980s as well mandated or they couldn't go to school as well. Thanks for taking us down Memory Lane!
My neighbor (when I first moved into my current home) was 8 years old when she fist came from Seattle to Wenatchee, and then by steamboat up the Columbia River... followed by a stage coach to the lake I now live on. It was 1903. I had many a long chat with her about life 'back then' (with a cup of tea each time). Before the US entry into WWI she lived in NY, where she met and once dated John Reed (buried in the Kremlin Wall). She went to Columbia (before Lou Gehrig) and saw Christy Matthewson pitch at the Polo Grounds. She thought her date for the game was a bore... he was too much into baseball. She volunteered as a nurse in WWI and stayed on in Paris after the War. She briefly met Gertrud Stein, Pablo Picasso & Ernest Hemingway (she was not fond of Hemingway). I miss our chats. She lived to be 104.
Amazing! I love visiting with older people. They have so many stories to tell. I wish young people today had more of an interest in getting to know their elders. We've suffered such a loss in morality and responsibility with this generation. I treasure all my visits over the years with these old souls. They've taught me things that I still try and carry with me today. And, incidentally, I grew up in the Okanogan valley, and am fortunate to be living near there now, but closer to the Columbia river😊
billyhank . It is. Early 1900s were like much of the 1800s, lawless, wild, guys visiting whore houses (no condoms) Whore houses were legal. It was physically demanding, people were stinky, etc.
My great grand mother was born in 1902. She was suddenly taken away from me and my first daughter, who was her great great grand daughter, in 1990. I still think about her every day. Through the years i asked her and she told me about so many different things. How nobody locked their doors. How she survived the devastating influenza pandemic that killed three young friends of hers just on her street alone. How people talked face to face all day long and stayed together because they actually needed each other to live, to survive. And many other human cultural extinctions.
My grandfather was born in 1883. My grandmother was born in 1898. My Grandpa died in 1973 and my Grandma in 1991. I often wonder what they would think of the world today.
True. And that was one of the advantages of the various cultures clustering together in neighborhoods > all speaking the same language and with the same cultural backgrounds and needs. It brought strong family units and friendly neighborhood bonds.
@@NancyLudden2 we all want to be around people w/the same language,customs, & love of the U.S.-- not frikkin' foreigners who leave their country & come here & pretend their back where they came from.& act the same, not assimilate into the country & take the main language there & culture...it separates or divides us..when we need to come together.
My great grandfather came to America from Greece in the early 1900’s. Came to Wisconsin where he eventually settled and it’s fascinating to see what he would’ve seen in New York when he came here…history is just the best!!
What an exceptionally profound thorough history video! This should be a month-long curriculum in schools across the United States! Just think of all that they would learn and all the hands on activities that could be done.
Those clothes and hats. They were all so beautiful and the men in their suits. I would love to go back in so many different periods of time just to be a fly on the wall and watch it all happen.
Have you been out east in the summer ? That had to be so uncomfortable. I imagine there were alot of flies on the walls.....omg if they could only make smell-o-vison
And shout out to my history teacher in 7-9th grade, Mrs. Zimmerman at Eagle Rock Junior High School. She was older than dirt and kids laughed and got away with stuff, but I always glued myself to her words and even stayed after class a couple of minutes to speak with her. She was old and sweet. Life was young and cruel. She and a few other adults helped make up for it.
I love learning about history, as far back as it goes. My Grandpa was born in 1908, he was the youngest out of 3, and my Grandma was born 1919, there were 8 kids and she's about number 5 or 6 child from 8 kids. When I was a kid growing up in the early 1970s, my Grandpa use to tell me things when he was young. I myself was born 1966 and about the age of 3 years old, I remember becoming close to my Grandpa. My Dad and his two sisters, one older than my Dad and the other younger than him, we all were born old you can say. Love watching old classic movies, love the 1940s Big Band sound of music. So anything I find on RU-vid about the early 1900s, I just got to watch.
I am LIVING HISTORY. My Father's family traveled in covered wagon when he was five years old. Their trip took them from Indiana to Missouri. Later, they would go from Missouri to Kansas. My Daddy was 61 years old when I was born! He was a WWI Veteran. Now, that I am 66 years old, I know I am truly living history. I have been blessed to be able to crawl into my Daddy's lap as a child and listen to his stories of growing up. Little House on the Prairie would be the TRUTH in my life. I'm grateful that I can honestly state that I AM LIVING HISTORY. Thanks Dad! I miss you and look forward to when we are all together again.
They can't get their nose out of their phones long enough. Even at work they're on their phone too busy to help a customer. I remember when such behavior would get you fired. And they're the ones blaming boomers and calle ing them selfish. Smh
@@snow-wlkr7xplorer494 My kids, and nieces and nephews are all around this generation. They range in age from 4 to 21. The younger kids, of course, age 14 and below, do not work at a place of employment, but the older kids have excellent grades, one was valedictorian, three have taken honors classes exclusively, three are in extracurricular activities that keep them busy most of their free time, and two of them work, a lot, including my daughter, who is a crew leader, at 17, 6 months prior to when she'd normally be eligible to be in that position, which means she usually works between 25 to 30 hours a week, while maintaining her grades at school. She graduated in May, at which time she'll take a well-deserved extended vacation, and come back to start full-time 30-40 hours a week until college starts in August. All of this to tell you, most of her friends are exactly like this. They aren't the children you see portrayed on TV. Don't believe everything you hear. Reality is far different.
My grandmother was born in 1895 in rural NC. She used to tell stories about her childhood which I loved to hear re-told many times. She was so proud of her father, who was a "planter" who grew cotton and tobacco. When she was a child they had a "fine carriage" and four "matched" horses, meaning all four were the same breed, color, and size. I guess that was enviable at the time! Her lineage hails from England. They arrived in 1654 when there was no US. It was a raw, untamed land. They came with only their hope and determination, and simple tools and skills.
My Great Grandfather and Great Uncles rode horses from S. Illinois to attend the fair. My Great Uncle said the electric lights was the most amazing thing they saw at the fair.
When I was younger my late grandmother (b.1890) would tell me about electricity entering homes and gas lights being replaced by bulbs in the streets. She went on to describe how strange it was to see cars in the the street, then airplanes flying overhead… . …Aliens would flip her out!
My Grandmother, born 1897, always kept as much provisions stored in her pantry for just in case purposes. She saved string and tin foil. Raised chickens on Galveston Island even in the early 60's. I recall getting to feed them. And that we cooked them, too. I learned a chicken is the same 'chicken' that you eat. I wish I had gotten to converse with my grandparents more.
European history was my concentration in college. But, American history is incredibly interesting it's just so short in comparison. I'm American and I've been to nearly every state and as such I've learned so much about my country as a result. It's a shame that we don't tell an accurate history of our country. It's also a shame that we, in the US, don't study the history of the UK, which is fascinating in it's own right.
@Yeahweat thebuffet Not necessarily. History has been turned into a social justice narrative that fudges the truth for political goals. How many school kids know anything about slavery in other countries? Some British colonies and territories had it far longer than one should suppose, there was still slavery in Brazil long after the US Civil War.
Karen it's because your instructors were left-wing and anti-American fairly common throughout your country. It manifests itself in such hideous insults as creating effigies of our president as a pig. And this is the thanks we get for fighting two world wars on your behalf. Pity we were dragged into them by Democratic presidents who were leftist anglophiles. American blood spilled to prop up a dying empire ruled by a perverted monarchy and ruling class.
@@donaldbarnes1144 You must have went to a subpar school. I learned about British and French history when I went to grade and high school but I also went to Parochial school.....and this was in the 1970s.
My grandfather, born 10/1906 - 1/2000... Told me so many stories that I wish I would have recorded. He was a beat cop his whole life and never once had to pull his gun. He told me about riding a donkey to school. Wish I lived during those days
I was 9 yrs old in 1966. After school I had no place to go until around 6 PM, so I'd walk down Figueroa Blvd in Highland Park, CA. I'd stop and speak with the line of business owners who'd come out to sweep the sidewalk in front of their different stores. One of several "beat cops" would walk by every few minutes. He'd stop and speak with us(always anyone who desired to also) and including me right along with the grownups as if I was a very important person too! That always made me feel good. I was being abused at home and tormented by bullies after school. Those beat cops made me feel like life and people weren't all actually crazy. Your Father sounds like a decent person who cared. Don't have to even HAVE a gun in mind(or hand) when your mind in on your heart and the other person instead.
@@willoughby1888 He caught criminals, but no gun needed. Most criminals back then didn't use guns. My grandmother saved articles from the newspaper about him and his work. Once, he chased 2 bank robbers down an alley, grabbed them both by the backs of their collars and banged their heads together... Knocked them both right out.
@@teestjulian omfg! That is awesome! But it's more awesome to have a descendant like you..relive his tale...which is a form of paying tribute...and giving honor and respect to his life.thanks for sharing!
This was great to watch. My Grandmother on my dad's side was born in 1895 in Colorado her parents were born in Sweden. She died when I was 8 in 1984. She was a big influence on me. An old soul.
As it's nice having influential relations! My millionaire great uncle influenced me! By the time I was old enough to remember it was my step grandmother who taught me about the past as well as my great uncle! I may not have followed my great uncles advice to reject social democracy! However he beat the odds going from invalid to multi millionaire earning every penny of his wealth!
Wow! Same here....but it was my grandmas' mom...my Nana whose name was Monica...who I remember quite well and she died when I was in 4th grade.My grandma was her only child and she recently died in 2019....right before her 97th birthday.Monica was a "mixed woman" from the Carribean island of St Vincent and she had a child with a "mixed" man by the name of John White who was a Jamaican immigrant.He helped build the Panama canal.Anyway,my Nana worked as a domestic servant,saved and along with her new husband Mr Holder...bought a brownstone in Bed Stuy Brooklyn sometime in the 1930's or 1940's.Those type of buildings are now worth a couple million now and gentrification got these whites buying them like crazy.i was partially raised by grandma who took all of us in after my mother suffered a nervous breakdown wheni.was 13.I lived in the brownstone with my cold mean grandma whom I despised because she was so cold.Had my own room and I will never Forget it.it was like a trip to the past.A big old fashioned clunky radio.Old style furniture that fascinated me and made me feel like I was back in time! I used to sneak peeks into the family album.some of the pics were in black and white.Their hairstyles and clothing were outdated and you could tell it was from a long time ago.At the time...in 1990...I was 14.i wanted to steal one of the pics soooo bad.i regret not doing so.
My mother was born in 1896. I was the youngest of her family, being born in 1933. It amazes me to think of the changes that taken place in the world in just her and my lifetimes. In my childhood in the Midwest, not every home had a radio, and television was experimental. The interstate highway system hadn't been conceived yet and transoceanic air travel was in its infancy. Nuclear power was science fiction, as was space travel. Radios and even the first computers depended on vacuum tubes, in fact it was when I was a radio operator in the Marines in Korea that our old vacuum tube radios were replaced by ones with transistors, cutting the weight about in half. History should be taught in our schools because how else can the future learn from the mistakes of the past?
I was born in 1957. All 4 of my grandparents were born in the 19th century. Yes, history is fascinating. I've read books about TR and Czar Nicholas. I'm currently reading about WW1.
So interesting to see how many of us have wonderful stories of our families' past and their experiences! I too, am a major history fanatic! I should have studied American Family History in school!
the really sad thing is the way we treat our elderly if you just sit down and talk with them you will see just how much wisdom they have and a whole lot of common sense.
I recommend "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. A book of the Irish working class in early 20th Century. A novel but part biography of the writer's childhood in Brooklyn.
It was in March 2002 I had the pleasure of visiting New York City with a tour group. One of the places we visited was Ellis Island. It certainly gave me an appreciation of how difficult the lives of immigrants must have been. My maternal grandparents came through Ellis Island when entering this country in 1914.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door 🗽
In 2095...u will be 100.And people from that time...will damn near worship you and milk u for information about how life was "back then"...so the stuff that u are learning about now ...like the early 1900's ...will make u "the bridge"...between back then and the far future like 2095.You can tell the younger people about what u saw on RU-vid about how life was in the early 1900's.Because nobody will care about the early 1900's in 2095...the same way we care more about the early 1900's...than we do about the1700's and the 1800's.haha.Im 46...I regret not keeping a notebook from my elementary,junior high or even high school years.i regret throwing away my Walkman even if they broke.i regret not keeping a diary or taking more pictures or keeping something...anything...from the past.So start now.dont throw away your cellphone even if u get a new one.because one day it will be considered to be an ancient artifact that future people will be fascinated by.take lots of pics and put them in an actual album.keep a couple of pieces of clothing or jewelery.And keep your "historical items" in a bin and consider it sacred.100 years from now ..that bin will be priceless! Your great grandchildren will cherish it and will be grateful that they they had an ancestor who had enough sense to know that his belongings would be considered priceless and dear....100 years or more from now.
My grandmother was born in 1906. She told me that when women's skirts were 'raised to above the ankles," HER mother thought that was a wonderful change!
Lots of criticism on this video but I love documentaries like this that many would call "boring": no flash, just talking about the subject in a factual way.
Yes, I love this type of doc too, looking at the old times, all those people now dead and gone, never knowing they would be being observed by others more than a hundred years later...
Imagine being born in 1890 and living to 2000. What a whopper of change you would see! That’s the reason I’d like to live a super long time. I wanna see how far we take it...
We have discovered DNA, space travel, computer micro processing… What more is there to discover in the next 100 years? Clean energy is hopefully one of them
Boomers lived through an era where the rate of change had actually slowed down. The really big changes were from about 1835 to 1950. Except for the internet, the world of today is not fundamentally different from the world world of the 1950s (except perhaps socially, but technologically, quite familiar). I expect that someone who is 20 today and makes it to 70 will see a monumental reversal. By 2100, 1900 may seem like an advanced age.
My grannie was born near a tiny little town on the Kansas prairie in 1892. The oldest of seven children, she took over a mother's work when her mother died when she was 14. She married in 1910, and lived on farms and ranches in Kansas, Wyoming, and Nebraska. She saw automobiles replace the horse for transportation, and after WWII, saw the tractor replace the plow horse on the farm. She moved to town after my grandfather died - and had indoor plumbing and electricity in her house for the first time. By the late 1950's, she had a gas stove to replace the huge wood burner she had for years. It was still on her back porch until she died. She died in the mid 1970's, never having flown in a plane, and never wanted a television. Her phone was still on a party line. She adopted and adapted to the technology changes that suited her tastes and lifestyle, but never really became part of the new way of life that was in existence when she died. I mind lands in that place somewhere between nostalgia and wonder when I see pictures of her and her life from over 100 years ago.
I feel the same. Growing up I was never actually interested in history. But in my early 20s I became enamored by all history and cherish every moment I get to learn more about how we got where we are. Regardless of how good or bad certain things were it’s all so important to remember. What’s happening in schools across the country trying to get rid of and suppress history because it makes some people upset is unbelievable. It’s almost like they’re trying to suppress certain history so they can repeat it in today’s society.. I can spend hours reading or watching history on pretty much anything because it all is monumental in how we got where we are today. No matter how big or small it all made huge differences in where we are today. It’s emotional sometimes seeing how lost we are as a society today. Things that don’t matter are so important to people and so many people are miserable and unhappy.. seeing old videos of parks filled with people and so many events jam packed with people and families but today parks are empty kids live on phones and family isn’t an importance to many people... I wish I had been alive in the early 1900s.. o couldn’t imagine what it was like seeing the industrial revolution.. it’s hard to imagine how big it really was. Hope everything is going well in your world tod beard. Take care and be safe.
@@Forward-Observer Those people in "the good old days" would gladly take the modern meds and luxuries that we have today. People are people. There were just as many sad people back then as there is today. It was a hard life back then, even though people today like to romanticize about it. (BTW Today is also history.)
I’m from Birmingham Alabama and feel so sorry for all African American people that my ancestors have disrespected. I myself could not fathom hurting someone for the color of their skin. I love all people and I’m so happy that my state has come far from that and I can now walk down the streets with the man of my dreams, who happens to be African American.
But when you see how they act today, it's as different as night and day. Today's generation couldn't handle being a slave or just a citizen. They aren't Africans. They are US citizens. The Africans definitely don't think they are anything like them at all.
There's a lot of people that sold black people as slaves for one other black people. And perhaps they were not disrespected for the color of their skin they were merely sold as products like a business. But we got to hear people like you make up all kind of glorified garbage and turn it into this that and the third.
TRUE CONFESSIONS! I was not interested in history when I was young. My mom and dad tried to get me to read more. I wanted to live in the now…but, now I regret my lack of interest. Yes, I know…I was a dumbass! Now history fascinates me…Oh well. Or is that Orwell?
If you had seen this in high school, it would probably have meant that we would have had the Internet so much earlier, and the entire world would be a different place because of that one thing.
@@cidchase2689@quickdraw3411 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳this entire film is communist propaganda: "As an alternative to the heartless ways of modern society, the era also saw the formation of utopian societies and settlement houses. These altruistic Havens function as communes and as sources of information and adjustment for confused immigrants. And as a refuge for alternative lifestyles"
the thing about people not being schizophrenic or psychotic or not having neurosis back in the old days is that they actually did have all of these thigs, only later we learned they're serious, but treatable conditions and not being 'crazy' or 'different'.
Correct. Look at the term "hysterical" or "hysteria", something we now define as humourous, it actually referred to women that were believed to be insane due to their uterus being flipped. From the latin term hyster. Doctors put strong smelling ointments on women's vaginas. So in hindsight, mental illnesses certainly existed, but were so misunderstood they were referred to as hysteria, lunatics, slow, shell shocked, etc.
Krzy my great uncle had bipolar and lived long enough for science to balance out his life! Unfortunately another great uncle didn't live long enough to gain relief from his rare form of seizures! Fortunately my sons rare seizures are controllable!
They had mental illness. Possibly more even. It just was kept secret back then. Anxiety, depression, post partum depression, alcoholism, drug abuse etc. Spouse n child abuse, incest etc etc
Is this the narrator of the Sandlot? I love watching and hearing stories about how America was made, how people lived and learning something new. Great video
Fact check: The Brooklyn Bridge, as stated @ 4:35 was not constructed in the century's first decade. In fact it was already up and running by 1883. That was the year of it's opening.
World wars one and two were preplaned to happen. And contracts signed in Belgium to make it happen. Those wars were harvest time. British lost 100,000 the first day mostly to machine guns. You think the commanders would have learned well from the thousands mowed down by new machine guns and not just say your next
Since I learned about the world wars, I always wanted to look more into WWI since it was less 'good vs. evil' and less learnt about... but then I read a book that correctly points out that World War I is what literally defines everything about the modern world! Even the War on Terror and beyond. Everyone always points to WWII as the reason for modernity, and some may point back to WWI simply as the cause of WWII, but really there were decisions and conflicts dating directly to WWI alone (such as the Middle Eastern boundaries) that are responsible.
My great grandpa's generation was born at this time. He saw us go from horse and buggy with a few cars, to landing on the moon. And now we'll get to see this level of change our lifetimes. Humanity has no limits!
AWESOME RECAP of the last 120 + years! Amazing how far we've come and all we've accomplished! Yet we still have Serious Issues with the Color of a Man! EVERYWHERE in the WORLD!
@@michaelhesterberg702 You are apparently unaware that in much of the English-speaking world (Great Britain, Australia, etc.) "learnt" is completely correct. RU-vid covers the world, not just the U.S.
Enjoyed this video, learned a lot. I did have one disappointment about the muckrakers, there are scenes about woman's suffrage yet one of the muckrakers was woman they completely left out of this video, Ida Tarbell who's articles got John D, Rockefeller dragged into court and broke up his monopoly in the oil industry.
Clyde Morgan: Tarbell was remarkable, not only for catalyzing the breakup of Rockefeller and company but for her extensive biographies of Lincoln (in many ways comparable to Robert Caro's research for his 5 vol bio of Lyndon Johnson). I believe her research is still the foundation of most Lincoln scholarhip. Also, she's the principal inventor of investigative journalism. As to the getting the vote for women, she had been a force but had significant disagreement with some of the methods of the activist suffragettes. In general she was more thoughtful than doctrinaire about most things, preferring facts to ranting. Later in life her views included that housekeeping and motherhood were valuable and praiseworthy occupations. Probably her broader, non-strident views explain why one doesn't hear as much of her today as she deserves. She lived 1857-1944 so spanned the change folks here are commenting about. Aside from Wikipedia, take a look at spartacus-educational.com/Jtarbell.htm
I sit here and read this in a house that was built back in 1906. My neighbor and I were speculating on what they talked about sitting in front of the fireplace back then. I told him I was pretty sure they talked about everybody else. Just like they do now. Many things change, but not everything.
The school books are mostly one sided propaganda to control the masses..just look at the lies the history books will tell in my last 70 years of living seeing in real time and knowing they are lies
Me too, but in all honesty, I was not in the frame of mind to learn like I am now. Probably the same for millions of others, who say this very same thing. Just guessing.
I have been so immersed viewing these videos about old newyork from the last 200 years, it is unbelievable, the homes, the buildings, the people and how the city started its transformation up to the 1930-40, it was astonishing.
