My father in law, Charlie Gemora, immigrated from the Philippines in 1919, entering San Francisco. He was a brilliant artist. He sat outside the Hollywood studios in 1920 doing portraits. He worked as a make-up artist and set designer until his death in 1961. He was famously known as the gorilla in movies with Laurel and Hardy, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and others. He created the gargoyles for the set in the Huntch Back of Notre Dame. He created monsters in movies such as War of the Worlds and others. He built his home in Hollywood Hills above the Hollywood sign. Thank you for creating these excellent historical videos.
@Toddytoad7
6 ай бұрын
That's just an awesome legacy
@daler.steffy1047
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to revisit some family history, as it is definitely an example of oral history that has the power, as such stories are able to do when passed along to the next generation of interested people, to enlighten them in what some of life used to be like here in America many years ago. You are a very good writer, as well; and I appreciate how you pay close attention to accurate punctuation.
@alexw9373
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS
3 ай бұрын
War of the world was created in 1983 nice try.
@AlcibiadesMD
3 ай бұрын
@@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS100% incorrect!
@mistermystery1999
6 ай бұрын
4 years ago I briefly lived in a very rural area, I befriended a 94 year old lady from down the road and visited her often. What struck me the most was how she was always happy to turn on the radio for me, it felt like it was still an exciting new technology for her
@davehughesfarm7983
6 ай бұрын
I still listen to talk AM radio. I am 48 years old
@mistermystery1999
6 ай бұрын
@@davehughesfarm7983 me too in the car, I guess the reason I made the comment was she had a special sparkle in her eye when it was radio time
@vibes1680
5 ай бұрын
I love that
@rickysig
3 ай бұрын
Many in that generation were happy and content with very little. The amount of downtime and lack of technology would be unbearable for so many of us.
@CarolinaFlorezCoaching
Ай бұрын
@@rickysig only because it's not what we're used to.
@doreekaplan2589
6 ай бұрын
My Dad was born 100 years ago in Los Angeles, living 96 years. One day sitting on the couch he simply passed. No pain, no fear. Btw, he never exercised, drank lots of water or watched what he ate except he liked eating fresh foods, and didn't choose junk or fast food ever.
@everettamador9870
6 ай бұрын
May He Rest in peace😞
@geraldek4948
6 ай бұрын
Glad he went peacefully
@billm.819
6 ай бұрын
You are blessed.
@lizzapaolia959
5 ай бұрын
God bless your dad 🙏. Have faith in our Savior Jesus Christ 🙏. You will see him again.
@daler.steffy1047
5 ай бұрын
His long life could also have been attributed to the good "genes" he was wearing, and certainly further contributed to by the fresh food he had chosen to eat. I stay away from fast-food. Occasionally, I will buy a box of frozen breaded shrimp from the grocery store and chrisp it up in the oven; however, when I'm washing the glass flat Pyrex container in which I heated up the shrimp--now I'm still thinking I'm eating healthy here, because it's shrimp--well, the amount of grease left behind in that glass Pyrex container was just unbelievable! So even if we think we're avoiding eating crappy food by not going out to fast-food restaurants, "this vile food" can still sneak in through such devious means as I have just illustrated.
@SuzanPeters-p4e
6 ай бұрын
A very old woman back in 1980s said when asked about changes in her lifetime said, “ The roads became so much better.” Meaning asphalt.
@riverwildcat1
6 ай бұрын
The great concrete freeways we have now didn’t exist before 1954 or so. They were still being built into the’70s. Only Route 66 ran from coast to coast and a lot of it was rural and crude.
@tajmulhall
6 ай бұрын
I’m very sorry for your loss, but on the other end the stick I love your story I so hope that’s how my daddy gets to go
@joobn8r
6 ай бұрын
My mom said the weed got better!
@kevinmontgomery1383
6 ай бұрын
@@riverwildcat1 Chicago to Santa Monica!
@jenniferlloyd9574
6 ай бұрын
@@joobn8r I guess your Mom's priorities are a bit lacking.
@jerrymail
6 ай бұрын
Now, we are used to seeing asphalt roads everywhere, but in my village, at the end of the 1950s, all streets were still dirt.
@doreekaplan2589
6 ай бұрын
Never were villages in California.
@jerrymail
6 ай бұрын
@@doreekaplan2589 I live in the south of France.
@davehughesfarm7983
6 ай бұрын
My village in Missouri has gravel and dirt roads.
@BabyBugBug
3 ай бұрын
@@doreekaplan2589I like how you assume the commenter lives in California. Nice one.
@Shelly-m5t
6 ай бұрын
I wish times wouldn't change so much , that we could still be living this way, but it always gets more technical and the natural disappears more and more.
@cashinn7490
3 ай бұрын
Rich people are lazy. They want to get these instantly. Natural things take work and they are slowly beginning to not need the "working class" much longer due to AI making these cheaper then paying people to do it.
@someguy4911
6 ай бұрын
The one photo of the car deep in the tire ruts in Iowa reminded me of my late grandfather's stories of how when he was a kid in the 1920s, his dad would drive the family from Omaha to Iowa City. He said at the time, you followed the tire ruts in the dirt that traveled along telegraph lines connecting Omaha and Iowa City. You also carried many inner-tubes as a few tire blowouts were guaranteed. There was no car radio and no A/C or heat.
@jimmerhardy
6 ай бұрын
This is beautiful work. More than a collection of upgraded photos, this is a thoughtfully produced documentary. Well done.
@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804
6 ай бұрын
its ai
@sunsetsarsparilla
4 ай бұрын
lmao it's AI
@jimmerhardy
4 ай бұрын
@@sunsetsarsparilla Nah. Enhanced archival pics is my guess.
@riverwildcat1
6 ай бұрын
Excellent work. Very nostalgic. My grandparents bought a house in Hollywood, and it was situated in a neighborhood right below the Hollywoodland sign and the huge white mansion in your 1927 photo. Charlie Chaplin lived in the white mansion, and my mother said everyone called it the Elephant House. Stan Laurel lived across the street from them. The neighborhood still stands.
@thestu4602
6 ай бұрын
The house is still there
@davidbryden7904
6 ай бұрын
The Los Angeles basin was a beautiful place 100 years ago. A veritable Garden of Eden. Then "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." 🎵🎶
6 ай бұрын
But we never got that tree museum.
@UmmYeahOk
6 ай бұрын
They paved that river.
@riverwildcat1
6 ай бұрын
Yes. Utopia is farther away than ever.
@shaunsteele6926
6 ай бұрын
Los Angeles was great until the 60s-70s when liberal hippies and illegals took over.
@kevinmontgomery1383
6 ай бұрын
@@riverwildcat1 But, worth the trip!
@daler.steffy1047
5 ай бұрын
Even though I was born in 1948, I was still fortunate to remember as a child seeing some of the "vestiges" reflected in a few of the images that showed up in these photographs. ~ I also got to experience a bit of "rural 1930s history" when, in 1969, at 20 years old, I hopped on an $89 Raleigh, 10-speed bicycle here in Sonoma County, in northern California, and rode it on a solo trip across America, concluding in Boston. A notable memory of that trip, one that speaks to our history with respect to our early-day road development, was that I purposely chose to bicycle on, what I think I still remember as US Route 30, which was then a narrow, two-lane concrete ribbon of highway that partly went through Nebraska and Kansas. It gave me a chance to feel, in this odd sort of way, intimately involved with the land I was passing through, which included corn and alfalfa fields.One of the greatest joys of that part of the travel was smelling the incredibly sweet, pungent air after an alfalfa field had been freshly mowed and the grass then bailed. And as a traveler on that sort of conveyance, it was always critical to know where the next town was for being able to eat and get fresh water. Riding my bicycle along that narrow, country highway, even though it had a U.S. route designation, it also enabled me to know where the next town was, because, against the backdrop of a (usually) brilliant blue sky, I could see a farm grainery rising up in the near-distance, and most often situated at the edge of a town. And thank goodness those towns were fairly close together, allowing me to continue to find sustenance in plentiful supply as I continued on down the highway. ~ As a side note, I had a small 9-volt transistor radio strap onto the gooseneck of my handlebars, and that was, of course, for companionship on the open road, as well as having the opportunity to listen in on local broadcast stations, thus allowing me to get a sense of the "flavor" of the kinds of things that were important to people in the given region I would be riding through (and also to hear different, albeit sometimes subtle, regional dialects, which were fascinating to listen to, especially "against the backdrop" of my harsh California vocalizations). I remember listening to the Arthur Godfrey show on occasion, which was a variety and talk show still on the radio in 1969 and still serving as an example of what some of old-time radio used to be be like. Also, I could listen in on farm reports, hearing the latest beef and corn prices, for example, that were set at the "present market rate" in the auction houses within the local farming areas; this observation being another example of giving a small sense of what rural America was like at that time. And some of these local radio programs included swap-shop call-in segments, allowing local people to call the radio host and say that they had this or that for sale and the price and then provided their phone numbers. (And just for the record, I never bothered to call in make any inquiries because...wait, this is 1969 and THERE WERE NO cell phones; also, how could I have carried anything more on my bicycle?!) So anyone listening to the program, if they wanted that item(s) being offered for sale, would have sufficient information to get in touch with the seller. The neat thing was, even at age 20 at that time, I was astutely aware of the historical significance of that listening experience. Of course, over those weeks that I traveled, there are many other vignettes I could presently share, and some of them would compliment this particular video presentation. But I'll say those stories for another time. Maybe in a book. ~drs (04/24/24)
@daler.steffy1047
5 ай бұрын
I want to take a quick moment here in responding to my (own) "Comment" above, that because I take a certain pride in TRYING very hard to get syntax and grammar correct, I do find it often quite difficult to edit my work on a small computer screen, so I reread the comment text above, but this time AFTER I hit the "Reply" button, and I noticed a few rather obvious errors. Now I don't think most people who read the "Comments" sections really care, but I do; so if I annoyed anyone because of advertently making some grammar/syntax errors, I do apologize. (So now, in my present paranoia, I'm wondering where I might have screwed up grammatically in this reply! Yikes! I have to be careful or I'm going to drive myself crazy! Or maybe nuts...) [~ Signed, a Ret. H.S. Engl.Tchr...So maybe now it might come to light as to why I have a near-maniacal penchant for trying to get my writing as error-free as possible.]
@TheHistoryLounge
4 ай бұрын
Wow - a bike ride across the country in 1968! That would've been really interesting. You should write your book!
@jasonrodgers9063
6 ай бұрын
At 6:35- The Levy brother's store in downtown Louisville KY! My parents took me there to buy me my first suit at age 11 (55 years ago), in the menswear dept. just inside the angled windows on the corner! THANKS for the memories!
@brucestaples4510
6 ай бұрын
Kevin, I'm guessing you don't get tired of hearing it, and at the risk of being redundant, I must, once again, compliment you on another outstanding collection of photos, informative narration, and music befitting the subject and era. Kudos! 👍 Bruce
@moderatedoomer2945
4 ай бұрын
What strikes me about the 1920's is how modern and recognizable it is. The 1920's see the introduction of or popularization of cars, home mortgages, a consumer culture, a distinct youth culture, mass communications like radio and Hollywood blockbusters, we get Mickey Mouse, we get Oreo cookies, we get college and professional sports on the radio, and above all Americans really see themselves as part of a shared national culture. And if that were not enough, it was the first time that majority of American did not live in rural areas.
@SirPlusOfCamelot
Ай бұрын
50 years ago from 1920 we rode on horses and lived mostly in small towns. There were no metropolitans. 50 years ago from today things were pretty much the same as now except we have internet and more technology. However, in the 70's there were already cars, big cities, telephones, television, modern schools, etc.
@philliplaplante8086
6 ай бұрын
My dad was born in LA in 1918 and my mom in Hollywood in 1925. Pre-WWII LA was a great place to grow up before there were freeways, smog and too many people. Hollywood was in its heyday.
@The_best_days_are_yesterdays
6 ай бұрын
Just gorgeous! Well done and VERY MUCH appreciated. Thank you
@labridgers8264
6 ай бұрын
People didnt just leave farms, they were forced off so Big Brother could develop their land. They had no choice but to move to cities
@Lu-pt2bf
6 ай бұрын
that was the real name in the 20's Hollywoodland
@David-yw2lv
6 ай бұрын
It was originally a promotion for a real estate development.
@Dulcimertunes
6 ай бұрын
Now it’s Holly Weird
@MrCooper83
19 күн бұрын
@@Dulcimertunes(UN)Holly😟
@larsedik
6 ай бұрын
I loved shopping at Sakowitz in downtown Houston 1968-1972 when I was living on campus at Rice. I could take any bus on Main Street to get downtown, where the best stores were back then, including Foley's and Neiman-Marcus.
@jenniferlloyd9574
6 ай бұрын
Remember the Easy Listening Music that played in grocery and department stores??? Elevator Musik!
@ninaflo769
Ай бұрын
Stripling and Cox, Mott’s five and dime, Piccadilly cafeteria, Bill Martins seafood restaurant. I could get 10 cents for every coke bottle I brought back to 7-11 and get another coke.
@manofsound9098
6 ай бұрын
5:18 The PPL Building in Allentown, PA. I Lived 1 block from it. My parents always shopped at Hess's Department Store and Allentown was a beautiful place back then. Even in the 70s and mid 80s. WOW I have never seen the PPL building under construction. Thank you for showing this!
@jaydee975
3 ай бұрын
Oh to go back into the 1920s and ride the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha passenger train between Chicago and Seattle and viewing the beautiful scenery from the Superdome observation car. ❤❤❤❤
@peterselten500
6 ай бұрын
Great video the old gas stations are my favourite part . Cheers mate🇦🇺
@lolabunny7788
4 ай бұрын
& now here we are, over worked, overwhelmed, mentally exhausted and missing the simple farm days
@SuzanPeters-p4e
6 ай бұрын
Right. Less fat people, maybe because way less processed foods
@PraveenSrJ01
6 ай бұрын
Touché but makes plenty of sense
@ChuckoMountain-fv9yj
6 ай бұрын
Great story and pictures. Thanks!
@TheHistoryLounge
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment - I’m glad you liked it!
@marybeck7594
6 ай бұрын
Please bring back the gold standard! Great pics, keep up the great work. 😊
@TopHotDog
6 ай бұрын
Ft. Knox is empty.
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
6 ай бұрын
Yes, absolutely we need the gold and silver standard back. ASAP!
@kentbrokman2338
5 ай бұрын
Convert 30 trillions of US debt in the gold ?
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
5 ай бұрын
@@kentbrokman2338 The true price of gold is vastly higher than the current very low manipulated price.
@billsephton5932
6 ай бұрын
Wonderful photos tinged with sadness that the people have had their lives and passed on.
@estelleadamski308
6 ай бұрын
I loved the way the girls dressed in the 1930's. They were shaking the confines of dresses worn by the mother & grandmothers.
@stoveboltlvr3798
6 ай бұрын
I like the fair skin ladies had then. Tanned is overrated. Even the less fortunate dressed nice. Ladies-dresses and men-suits were a standard. Now people go shopping in PJ's and flip flops.
@estelleadamski308
6 ай бұрын
@@stoveboltlvr3798 Yes, the 30's ladies protected their skin. Tans can have a leathery look to them. The ladies dressed up to go to the grocery store, even Yes, no one dresses up anymore, dress like slobs.
@reneevaz7848
6 ай бұрын
Great editing! Very professional.
@tdkz72
6 ай бұрын
The World was a much better place in spite of war and a depression era..... I'd take those days anytime over what we have now!
6 ай бұрын
That blimp was at the same station where the Hindenburg blew up.
@nicklazarakis4837
6 ай бұрын
Wow, what an era, I have 12 old gas pumps from that era, built to last, look so cool. Nick Melbourne Australia
@NLong-zk4yl
6 ай бұрын
People seemed happier and content back then. Not many lazy people, most people worked hard. Hardworking is healthy.
@Sheba-bh7lc
6 күн бұрын
Yes, it is and is being discouraged now. Welfare is the norm now with people proudly expecting others to support them. InCome redistribution.
@bullwinkle2380
6 ай бұрын
People sure wore interesting and colorful clothes back in the olden days!!!
@Sir_Winston_Smith_Oceania
3 күн бұрын
Every person who ever lived must have thought they were living in modern times. Even back 2000 years in Rome, that modernity must have been shockingly wonderful. "How can it get any better than this?"
@lorewilhelm9182
6 ай бұрын
I love the 1920'S and 1960'S.
@garneauweld1100
3 күн бұрын
St. Louis formed the first improved road organization, and Missouri produced the best mules in case you became stuck in the mud as illustrated in this production.
@johnwatson8323
6 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you!!!
@geeebee8512
23 күн бұрын
5:58 is from 1929. The Broadway Melody was the highest grossing movie of the year. The title song was later used in Singin in the Rain in the 50s. You can also see The Trial of Mary Dugan with Norma Shearer being advertised on the right. I read somewhere that The Broadway Melody of 1929 was in colour but only a black and white version survives. If you are interested in movies- it's shocking how many of the 1920's movies are lost, including the first version of The Great Gatsby. I'm a big fan of Louise Brooks and I wish I could see all of the pictures she was in. Maybe more will be found one day.
@quicksilver2510
Ай бұрын
My grandfather (born in 1906), drove a model T Ford for the first in 1925. A lot of the suburban roads in Australia at the time were mostly dirt, even in big cities like Sydney. He told me it was really hard to drive a model T on muddy roads because you had to hold your foot on the low speed pedal for miles at a time.
@stevenkaskus6173
6 ай бұрын
MY Mom had pictures of the house they lived in at one time in Quartz Hill, CA (the Antelope Valley) and in the picture the house was pink stucco and Sandy dirt roads. That was in the late 50's about 1958. We went for a drive one weekend out to the desert to look at New homes like we would do and My Mom told me where to go and turn and we ended up in Quartz Hill and right Next to the house in the picture and the only thing that changed was that the Sandy dirt road was now blacktop, the house still Pink stucco everything looked the same. This was in the early 1990's.
@RENRAW111
6 ай бұрын
Very enjoable video! Thank you So much for all your efforts. Please make more. From Los Angleles
@TheHistoryLounge
4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@diane1390
6 ай бұрын
I'll just call AAA mule, they'll get us out of this mud!
@Amanwithoutaface112
24 күн бұрын
people respected each other and never felt entitled
@james5460
6 ай бұрын
It was indeed a big decade for radios - and thus RCA stock. It was the first "tech" stock and rose astronomically. Then the 1930s hit, the stock plummeted with falling demand, and it didn't recover to previous levels until the mid-1950s. There's a lesson in there somewhere for current investors.
@nwproductions5763
Ай бұрын
Crazy to think everyone in these pictures lived out their entire lives and dead before we even came near to showing up to this world.
@jamesmccasland887
6 ай бұрын
My mother grew up during depression she. always had a fear of lack, despite my father had a steady income. She always would say "put it in the box", after grocery shopping. She grew up with "The Ice Box" with Ice man delivering.
@sjbock
6 ай бұрын
The names of the actresses sitting under an umbrella on the sand at 7:57 are reversed. The actress on the right is Joan Crawford.
@scottstambaugh8473
6 ай бұрын
We had better citizens then.
@MarinCipollina
6 ай бұрын
We had a less fascist society then too.
@scottstambaugh8473
6 ай бұрын
@@MarinCipollina what is fascist about our society now?
@MarinCipollina
6 ай бұрын
@@scottstambaugh8473 You have to ask? Look around.. We have RW billionaire capture of government.. We have absurd RW cartoon figures elected to congress.. We have a deranged criminal nazi running for president instead of rotting in jail where he belongs.
@alanbravender347
19 күн бұрын
My Family has been in the Los Angeles area for 100 years. I used to hear stories about driving to Arizona on long wooden planks on the sand dunes before there was a road system. Wild ! 😳
@jaydee975
3 ай бұрын
In 1926, a monumental event happened in American transportation history when the US Highway system was formed. It was around this time that those new US highways were paved with strong durable concrete. There are still many stretches across the country of the original roads that are still in existence and are still in great shape!
@shaunsteele6926
6 ай бұрын
I heard all about it from my grandma growing up. She grew up in Los Angeles in the 20s-30s and had all kinds of stories.
@alexclement7221
6 ай бұрын
5:35: That is the Singer building in the background. torn down in the mid 1960's.
@attila7092
14 күн бұрын
It's Friday so I'm in the mood for a speakeasy
@anony_mouse1
6 ай бұрын
Everyone a lot thinner then since soybean oil and artificial sugars weren't in everything.
@sandybiltz2476
23 күн бұрын
Good point. Also they were a great deal more active. 100 years later everybody seems to be just sitting around watching their computer do all their work for them. Plus all their active fun. Between fake food & a sedentary lifestyle, no wonder everyone 100 years later are obese.
@jesseserna8424
4 ай бұрын
Im 58 now but I always wanted to be a young man to join the military during WW2..But all the old timers I’ve ever talked to over the years has told me NO YOU DONT…my grandfather was in WW2 ,but I never met him even though I got his military discharge papers 🇺🇸.thank you for this.
@lesley4215
18 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@yamil.343
6 ай бұрын
What a cool video! If I’m not mistaken the cars when they first came out cost $100 & not everyone could buy one. Imagine that. 😮
@TheHistoryLounge
6 ай бұрын
Thanks, Yamil - I’m glad you liked the video! Your comment prompted me to look up the numbers, and here’s what I found. In 1920, the average income in thee US was around $3,200.00, and a new Ford Model T ran around $300.00 - so about one tenth of an annual income. Interesting…🤔
@yamil.343
6 ай бұрын
@@TheHistoryLounge Interesting indeed. Thanks for the info!
@stoveboltlvr3798
6 ай бұрын
@ 3:30 that price of $37.50 in 1920 is $581.86 in 2024 money. A model T Ford was $575.00 which is $8,921.87 today. Amazing to compare. According to Inflation calculator.
@ShesooBreezy
6 ай бұрын
I’d be so mad if I just bought a car, and it got stuck in the mud. 😩😩😩
@Gary-s8e
6 күн бұрын
in 1920 every thing was cheap but money was hard to get
@seancrouse9623
6 ай бұрын
5:17 Hey! That's my town!
@Shelly-m5t
6 ай бұрын
Trains have always appealed to me.
@jgg204
6 ай бұрын
Life was slower, there were much fewer people, and everyone shared common culture.
@shynickel8239
6 ай бұрын
Explain ,common culture? Immigration was exploding.
@TannerMason
6 ай бұрын
Yes, if by “common culture” you mean WASPs were in charge and kept everyone else quiet and in their place.
@pehash
4 ай бұрын
I don't think you know what you're talking about
@jessemacias2
6 ай бұрын
Great images, takes you back to a simpler better life.
@TheGeniuschrist
6 ай бұрын
0:40 real quick- only poor people were affected by prohibition. It was NOT illegal anywhere in the country. Politicians were still drinking like fish at Smedley Butler's football games.
@rcforlife443
27 күн бұрын
It’s crazy to look at people dressed in suits and dresses to be criminals!! People nowadays can look homeless and be harmless.
@cody3134
3 ай бұрын
Let's see. Fascinating stuff!! Interesting
@jaydee975
3 ай бұрын
Now regards to the early vehicle transportation noted in this video. The US highways were the ones who got the concrete and improved road surfaces first. The other roads that were maintained by the state and county were improved later on. The US highways had a concrete surface that was 9 feet wide (considered a lane and a half by today’s standards) with no shoulders And definitely were made of durable concrete that in some places still exists to this day. I don’t know about your state but in Minnesota there are still original sections of US Highway 61 and US Highway 52 that still exist!!!
@spirals73
4 ай бұрын
I love the '20s for fashion and hair. I don't have the time nor inclination anymore, but I used to do marcel waves in my hair. They were used to control curls.
@SuzanPeters-p4e
6 ай бұрын
What I found to be rather rare was a nicely painted house/ building
@VR-yd1kq
6 ай бұрын
Wow, we’ve really gone downhill.
@andrewleonardi3351
4 ай бұрын
Awesome video
@laural5177
22 күн бұрын
During prohibition my mother-in-law told me they made rye in the basement and the local priest would come over and dink with them.
@jamesmccasland887
6 ай бұрын
Radio was very effective. FDR during depression was a run on banks. FDR made changed, bank holiday, banks reopened and people lined up to redeposit money. You would not see that today.
@Davett53
6 ай бұрын
Excellent!.....Been exploring my city's history for decades, though old photos. Friends share stories about where "Speak Easies" were located in the remaining old buildings, and how "candy shops" supplied sugar to bootleggers. (Sugar was used in the making of booze) Family histories include tales of "just folks",....not criminal enterprises, who aided in smuggling booze, in false bottom cars, and even in early 1900s automobile's spare tires, that were either filled with beer, or other booze. I live in Columbus, Ohio, but I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland had gangsters and rum runners, who traversed Lake Erie up to Canada, to buy liquor and the ingredients to make booze. I'm presently 70, but my life and times, I was involved (smuggling) & buying marijuana, just from a network of friends, we weren't apart of organized crime, either. In the late 1960s, the 1970s, & 80s, & 90s "weed" could be easily purchased on every college campus, from coast to coast. Business was conducted safely in student campus housing, and privately rented homes.
@randymente80
6 ай бұрын
Good vid
@scotnick59
5 ай бұрын
@7:30 = NOT Fay Wray, but Mary Brian.
@user-qr7ee2cp4y
6 ай бұрын
Interesting stuff
@brentcowan8077
6 ай бұрын
Coolest ever are the electric street cars.
@burnacco
4 ай бұрын
*comment romantizing those times even though I never lived to experience them*
@davidmiller4078
6 ай бұрын
With G in the bass makes it Gmajor9
@flynnlizzy5469
27 күн бұрын
2:42 Theres a 'Hurleyville NY' but no 'Harlyville NY'.
@十蘭コメント
25 күн бұрын
Thanks.
@paulineweir6031
6 ай бұрын
My grandfather came from Spain 🇪🇸 dead in war war 1 to become a citizen they had 9 kids one son ..he dies in war war 2 for our freedom …so proud of them truly American 🇺🇸 proud thank you for our freedom…
@jaydee975
4 ай бұрын
Road crews must’ve surely known how to build exceptionally good roads back then. Many US highways from the mid 1920s were built using concrete that in a few locations is still in great shape to this day despite being a century old! 😮 there are many good examples of this road surface along US Highway 61 in Southeast Minnesota.
@patjohnson742
6 ай бұрын
I notice there only appears to be one segment of the population showcased back in the day. How far we have allowed ourselves to fall. Those were the best of times.
@D3MON_KOR3
6 ай бұрын
Imagine the USA if the prohibition stuck around? The courts would be broke lol.😂
@blake068
10 күн бұрын
The good ol' days!
@publiusvalerius8934
5 ай бұрын
I was looking through my genealogy awhile back and found out that I had a relative that competed in the Miss Universe pageant ... it was in Galveston, Texas and of course had a swimsuit competition on the beach -- in the 1920s. I think I read that 70,000 people showed up for the event!
@angelmoisesgerardopineda6132
14 күн бұрын
100 years ago was the Year of 1924
@johnward6699
4 ай бұрын
Ppl had pride in themselves back then,not walking around looking like crazys. Dressed properly and everyone had a job
@daneldridge
4 ай бұрын
Cars cost more than a house now
@cynthiataylor2092
6 ай бұрын
The vineyards survived probation by providing wine for the Catholic churches for mass. Today there is a vineyard right next to Farmer's Market on 3rd in LA
@Itsoperated
25 күн бұрын
Infrustrcture looks much more beautiful than it does now. Everything is so bland and cities are so horribly laid out.
@joesielskisr4911
6 ай бұрын
My mom was born 1924
@PraveenSrJ01
6 ай бұрын
My grandmother who is still alive today was born in 1928. Is your mom still alive at age 99 going on 100 💯
@andrewjones4774
4 ай бұрын
Your old lol
@johnnyjensen8805
6 ай бұрын
I would go back anytime
@GreyMarano
5 ай бұрын
1936 in Lakeland Florida ABC liquor started or what ever they named themself specifically. Brilliant move!
@franksters08
4 ай бұрын
Almost no over weight people were spotted throughout the video
@monicaqueenan9985
4 ай бұрын
Being heavy was considered a sign of prosperity. For everyone else, manual labor, few conveniences and walking everywhere kept them slim.
@franksters08
4 ай бұрын
@@monicaqueenan9985 it was because the food back then wasn’t processed like today
@letshaveacuppa_official
2 ай бұрын
A speakeasy was supposed to be hidden and private. I’m finding it very strange that they’re out in the open like that that’s not what they were. Speakeasies we’re supposed to be where you went to be able to drink as drinking was against the law.
@TheSuperPsychoKiller
6 ай бұрын
When people actually dressed up to look their best when boarding an airplane.
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