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Imagine back in the day people lived in that type of environment and were happy! Not nowadays everyone has to have more and more and the latest and greatest… Life has become so sad… There’s never enough time to even enjoy life😔
Yeah it took a while to realize stuff doesn't make you happy and then you have to spend time getting rid of stuff or getting out of debt from buying stuff
Well, I think it's your own responsibility to make the best out of your life. Times are changing and yes it is sad, that so many people don't care about great things. But you can't change that. What you can do is to go outside, do as many things you love as you can and just enjoy. Maybe you can attract some people because of it. 😇
How could you possibly assume how happy or sad they were? I'd have to guess they were as happy and sad as most people today, lacking evidence to the contrary. To those people that pine for the "good ol days"...there were problems back then as well...wars, drafts, racial unrest, nuclear war fears, depressions...etc.
Living in poor conditions can have a terrible effect on your health though. Not likely to be happy being ill, wheezing away etc. Though I get the point about not needing 101 clutterings.
Looking at that wall with it's layers of history really brings home how poor they were in relation to today. I remember buying a few things as a youngster in the early fifties and paying only a few cents for items. Where I grew up there where many old farms with outhouses and three room schoolhouses. WE had an old Victorian Farmhouse with hand dug wells. We didn't think anything of it, it was the way of life. It's too bad places like that can't be restored as "living" history. Mr. Akin has the knowledge to make those places and people live again in our memories. Thank you, Frederick :"Rik" Spector
But they were thankful they had a place to lay their head and be warm when it rained. That is so cool I enjoyed this. Shows us how the poorest people lived and put everything to good use. Thank you
Dan is quite a historian. Enjoyed listening to his memories. I was fascinated with the inside of the house, imagining the lives of the past inhabitants.
Truly a time capsule exploration episode. The old walls hold so much detail. I find it incredible that Dan can identify the people who lived there and owned the property, then identify several of the names found with the real person, either by his own acquaintance or from his in depth knowledge of all the history that is in and surrounds Waverly Hall. Including the Byrd connection. Whiitehead must have been a huge plantation orginally. Just amazing to listen to you two. Many, many houses had that siding - My old family places had the same. The crepe myrtle looks like a standing of bamboo, indeed unusual. Another fantastic guided episode. Loved it. ❣️👍👍
Brings back memories of the 1960's bottles of Dr Pepper and RC Cola---we never threw out the bottles tho--we took the bottles back to the store for change !!
Your exploration into the past makes one appreciate all the comforts we have today, namely walls that don't let in the outside! 💙 Thank you Robert and Dan.
My great grandmas house in Greenbrier Tn. was a " tar paper shack". The walls were covered with newspaper from the 1800's. She spent her olden days sitting on the porch with her shotgun while dipping snuff. My brothers and I got in trouble one time for dropping M80 firecrackers in the outhouse and blowing crap everywhere! We got a good ass whopping for that. She made us get a bucket of water from the creek to wash with before we could go in the house!
Very interesting that you found a child’s shoe inside the walls of the house,,, I watched a video many months ago on a castle that had been renovated and they found a shoe inside the walls and said that it was tradition to place shoes of that era inside the walls of the structure to date the structure ,,, I find that extremely interesting that you found a shoe inside the walls of this little cabin when the tradition of placing the shoe inside of the walls comes from Europe very interesting 🤠
Matthew 19-24 ,,, better to live a lowly repentant life in a small cabin than a life of comfort,,, riches,,, power and accolades ,,, such as the Freemasons with their vulgar penile obelisks who will be eternally shamed on the day of judgment !!!
As mentioned, it looks like the sleeping area was upstairs yet I didn’t see any indications of access to it. Did you see anything? Perhaps something that may have gone straight up on a wall. Curious.🧐🧐🧐
What a great video Robert 👍. I love seeing these old homes. Seeing how people lived back then is amazing. Simpler times but not always easy. Great job Robert and Dan.
Thank you for this really interesting historical video. Your friend is a wealth of local knowledge. He is a true historian by combining his knowledge of local families with knowledge of history in general. Wow!
My parents married in the 1940’s and I remember my Mom telling me stories of using cardboard to insulate the walls of old houses they lived in. I was born in 1960 number 7 of 8 kids. I remember the old fashioned wallpaper and it being in layers on our walls. Also my mom painting the linoleum rugs when all the color got worn off them. Carting our water in buckets and breaking ice off them in the morning so we could get a drink wit a metal dipper.
I agree Dan is a fascinating man Robert you ought to have a separate program detailing his youth how he got interested in the local history ad memories of that part of Georgia! It would be fascinating!
Robert. Thank you for another great historic video. So nice to have historian Dan along. Consider giving Brian’s channel a shout out. He was such a big part of the early days of “sidestep”. He could use a boost to his subscribers numbers
An excellent old house. That door lock you were looking at, we had one on our back door like that when I was younger. Glad the place didn’t burn down with all that old,dry paper used. The ads made the place even better. And those receipts were cool.. I wouldn’t mind having some of the wood and what about that old rocker? The trees!!! What a great day in the woods. 🙏🏼☮️🌎. 💖🇺🇸. 😁😎
Love the stories that go with the house.My Dad put up cardboard in our house when I was little.It sure kept the cold wind out.Thank you Mr Akin and Robert, 👍❤️
I believe if you were to take off that thumb bolt on the old door and open it up there will be a patent date on the inside. It could help give an age to the building. You guys put out fascinating content. Thank you.
Dan, your history is amazing. That house is trying to hold its own in spite of all the neglect. The tar paper siding has helped prevent a lot of the rain damage. I wonder if the original part was once an overseer's house. There is so much history in the Waverly Hall community. Thank you for sharing.
My mom stayed in a house like that when she was first married. My dad was only 17 at the time and she said he said he tried to move her into a chicken coop at first but couldn't get the furniture to fit through the door. lol she always told me her life's story.
Thank you for taking us along on this interesting explore. This house was amazing. Those doors were just awesome. I love old doors...I'm whacky like that..lol. I learned a lot as I usually do on your channel. I grew up mostly in Jacksonville FL, a Navy Brat, but since live in Virginia. Thank you and God Bless!❤🇺🇸🙏
I sure did enjoy going through the house with you. It brought back so many memories of the house my grandparents lived in. They built it together by hand. That old house got torn down. Thank you guys
Wow thats awesome. You should see bout buying it and tear it down and repurpose the wood just to preserve the history. I have been thinking bout finding old homes like this one to buy just for the wood. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate all you do in sharing history with all of us. God bless you
Wow so much history! I'm glad and amazed at the house is still sort of standing keep filming because the way things are going and the removal of (so called) controversial statuses etc being taken down. History needs to be preserved or it's lost. Thanks for sharing.
We had tar paper siding on our house in central Florida, my mom (single mom of 10 kids) bought it for $26.000 back in the 60's, was built 1926...it had a fireplace and well water and blackberry plants all around it. was the only house on the dirt street until late 70's.
I know you like to leave things as you found them and take nothing away when you leave but has anyone considered the lost history that will result? The wallpaper for instance documenting the pattern by taking a piece and preserving it? Just little things like that. Some of these places it’s obvious they aren’t cared for and left to just disappear from this world and I always think if future generations that would love to see examples of how things were.
My Uncles house had that siding on it. He was a farmer here in central Illinois. The house was built in early 1900's. Lot of houses around here had that siding.
Hey guys ✌️ Watchin from Berlin, Germany and it's so interesting to see that great history. It's amazing that you have still so much of it. Love your videos. They always chill me down 😇 Keep doin' what you're doin' 🙌
Interesting to see how people loved. Then like today it is a reflection of poverty. Most worked out of it so they didn't have to live like that. The card board worked pretty well as long as the roof didn't leak. Dan's observation about metal roofing is very accurate.
People lived so simply back in the day. Obviously these places were built well enough to stand the test of time. It amazes me that some of these places are still standing. Thank you enjoy watching your videos
Your friend, that begins around 2:04 has a strong speaking voice which makes for what we in Journalism like to call "natural Narrators". I've noticed in your videos that he also has vast History knowledge, together with your other friend, and you, your Passion and Patience, you guys make a great trio-team for these sort of works. Your works are always so interesting and could only be improved with the addition of a "like energy, Production Professional", course they would cost you more time and a desire to be really focused on this venue as your focus of work. But few can attest this potential and you guys are definitely a golden potential. I really enjoy your works! Best Travels and Wellbeing.
Was very interesting to see what is left of the old house. The Byrd's that Dan mentioned, were they in any way relation to the two Byrd Brothers, whom built the one house, that you now have and are preserving on the Old Byrd Farm??
Love when Dan is along! He is a wealth of information & I love listening to his stories. That home had happiness & life in it at I ne time. Thanks for exploring it & sharing with us.
I bought a dresser from the 1860's from a Victorian home. Behind the mirror are news papers from way back that were put there to steady the mirror. The prices for clothes and things were back when our money was worth alot more. I wrapped those old papers with some of our 'modern day papers'. Hopefully after I'm gone the dresser will go to a very good home and will continue to be loved. And it would be neat to see the faces of those folks when they see the papers and what would they think of our once modern-day news papers. "Look at those OLD CARS that actually drove on roads !" Maybe by then folks would be in flying cars, who knows. What a nice old home. Sad to see it forgotten and falling apart. Folks did the best they could with what they had then as we still do today. I wonder how many were born there, died there, how many Christmas/& other holidays and birthdays they had there. Guitar or banjo playing going on while you see the clothes are on a line drying. I'd love to go metal detecting there, who knows what might be around the house, & under the floor boards, where was the outhouse & so on. May whomever lived there be resting in peace. Thank you for taking us along.
Thank you for this video Robert. This is my favorite things to do. Explore old abandoned structures.. We live in e tn and go for a Sunday drive looking for old places and photograph them and post on the fb group abandoned tn.. Loved the old newspaper and comb. The dr pepper bottle with the ten 2 and 4 my husband said was the old advertisement. Wanting people to drink it at ten 2 and 4. Didn't know if you knew that or not.
Thank you I love looking at old bones of houses and how other countries built. That tar paper siding was very interesting, not that it would last long in an Aussie climate and with our bushfire. Which probably explains why it was never used here. Did Americans make any "wattle and daub" houses?
That old asphalt siding that looks like fake bricks was extremely popular from the 1940s to about 1965. It did a world of good for keeping wind out of poorly-built houses in the wintertime, but often caused the boards beneath it to rot.
Talking about insulation. There was a old house. The owner worked for years at a movie theater. He used old movie posters to insolate the house. The new owner found posters while fixing up the house. 1 Frankenstein poster sold for $20,000
Truly a time long past. At times simpler an others a much harder time. I sure wished I could get a copy of the Part that you found. It's got me mystified as to what it is for sure. I may half to Wait till middle of April when my Brother comes down to help me set our Younger Brothers HeadStone. Thinking he may know or know of an Elder older Mechanic or someone to help identify it.
Wow, paper was so scarce they wrote names, phone #'s, did math, ect on the walls! Now we know how and why that practice originated! Nothing was wasted, even an old envelope was used for wallpaper. And the free cardboard from work at the cabinet shop in town helped keep the place warm. But they were fond of their soda pop, a rare refreshment from their hardscrabble life!
My Dad and his 7 siblings grew up in a house, not much different than this in Eastern Kentucky, beginning in the the 1920's. Hundreds of thousands of people lived this way throughout Appalachia.
I have always wondered why back on the day,they built their houses with such high ceilings. I suppose to look more grand. But more to heat too. Thanks for the video gents.
Wow! Amazing video! I love how you took time for all that stuff! The kids shoe, the receipt! Crazy prices! The writings on the walls, the wallpaper! Truly awesome to see all this thank you so much! Bravo on sharing this with us!
My grandparents house in Wilkes Barre had that tar paper siding on it. It was c.1920’s.It was a small 2 or 3 room cabin that was added on to. I remember the upstairs rooms where my Mom and my uncles and great grandmother slept had newspaper lining the walls.
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Imagine back in the day people lived in that type of environment and were happy! Not nowadays everyone has to have more and more and the latest and greatest… Life has become so sad… There’s never enough time to even enjoy life😔
Yeah it took a while to realize stuff doesn't make you happy and then you have to spend time getting rid of stuff or getting out of debt from buying stuff
Well, I think it's your own responsibility to make the best out of your life. Times are changing and yes it is sad, that so many people don't care about great things. But you can't change that. What you can do is to go outside, do as many things you love as you can and just enjoy. Maybe you can attract some people because of it. 😇
How could you possibly assume how happy or sad they were?
I'd have to guess they were as happy and sad as most people today, lacking evidence to the contrary.
To those people that pine for the "good ol days"...there were problems back then as well...wars, drafts, racial unrest, nuclear war fears, depressions...etc.
@@ytcomments6934 everything you listed is still happening, maybe that’s not what they are taking about.
Living in poor conditions can have a terrible effect on your health though. Not likely to be happy being ill, wheezing away etc. Though I get the point about not needing 101 clutterings.
Dan really is a treasure trove of information, hope he realises how much we all respect him ❤️🤍💙
Amen I love listening to Dan talk abt the history there. He's so easy to listen too. We love you too Dan!
Looking at that wall with it's layers of history really brings home how poor they were in relation to today.
I remember buying a few things as a youngster in the early fifties and paying only a few cents for items.
Where I grew up there where many old farms with outhouses and three room schoolhouses.
WE had an old Victorian Farmhouse with hand dug wells.
We didn't think anything of it, it was the way of life.
It's too bad places like that can't be restored as "living" history.
Mr. Akin has the knowledge to make those places and people live again in our memories.
Thank you,
Frederick :"Rik" Spector
People today are more poor. The same bad actions over a longer period of time.
I love how he can just start giving the history of who lived where, who was related to who, and what happened when people passed.
But they were thankful they had a place to lay their head and be warm when it rained. That is so cool I enjoyed this. Shows us how the poorest people lived and put everything to good use. Thank you
Dan is quite a historian. Enjoyed listening to his memories. I was fascinated with the inside of the house, imagining the lives of the past inhabitants.
I enjoy when Dan is with you on some of you adventures. He has a ton of information about your area. Love listening him.
My house had tarpaper siding when we bought it. I pulled it all off and found the original wood siding underneath. Old houses are always an adventure.
Truly a time capsule exploration episode. The old walls hold so much detail. I find it incredible that Dan can identify the people who lived there and owned the property, then identify several of the names found with the real person, either by his own acquaintance or from his in depth knowledge of all the history that is in and surrounds Waverly Hall. Including the Byrd connection. Whiitehead must have been a huge plantation orginally. Just amazing to listen to you two. Many, many houses had that siding - My old family places had the same. The crepe myrtle looks like a standing of bamboo, indeed unusual. Another fantastic guided episode. Loved it. ❣️👍👍
I agree. Dan is a wealth of information!!
Brings back memories of the 1960's bottles of Dr Pepper and RC Cola---we never threw out the bottles tho--we took the bottles back to the store for change !!
I remember that I used to take my pop bottles back to
Your exploration into the past makes one appreciate all the comforts we have today, namely walls that don't let in the outside! 💙 Thank you Robert and Dan.
My great grandmas house in Greenbrier Tn. was a " tar paper shack". The walls were covered with newspaper from the 1800's. She spent her olden days sitting on the porch with her shotgun while dipping snuff. My brothers and I got in trouble one time for dropping M80 firecrackers in the outhouse and blowing crap everywhere! We got a good ass whopping for that. She made us get a bucket of water from the creek to wash with before we could go in the house!
Very interesting that you found a child’s shoe inside the walls of the house,,, I watched a video many months ago on a castle that had been renovated and they found a shoe inside the walls and said that it was tradition to place shoes of that era inside the walls of the structure to date the structure ,,, I find that extremely interesting that you found a shoe inside the walls of this little cabin when the tradition of placing the shoe inside of the walls comes from Europe very interesting 🤠
Matthew 19-24 ,,, better to live a lowly repentant life in a small cabin than a life of comfort,,, riches,,, power and accolades ,,, such as the Freemasons with their vulgar penile obelisks who will be eternally shamed on the day of judgment !!!
@@tx-sweet-pjg3547 🙏Amen!
@@tx-sweet-pjg3547 I agree. They are known to sell their souls to the Devil.
Wow. 👍
Shoes were placed in old walls as a protection against witchcraft.
So much history in these old places! (here in Hawaii you never, ever find a single abandoned dwelling).
The people who lived in that house had a tough life. Makes me more greatful for a more sturdy house
As mentioned, it looks like the sleeping area was upstairs yet I didn’t see any indications of access to it. Did you see anything? Perhaps something that may have gone straight up on a wall. Curious.🧐🧐🧐
Hi Robert and Dan very interesting it's surprising how the house 🏠 survived weather and the years well done Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 🇬🇧
What a great video Robert 👍. I love seeing these old homes. Seeing how people lived back then is amazing. Simpler times but not always easy. Great job Robert and Dan.
Thank you for this really interesting historical video. Your friend is a wealth of local knowledge. He is a true historian by combining his knowledge of local families with knowledge of history in general. Wow!
My parents married in the 1940’s and I remember my Mom telling me stories of using cardboard to insulate the walls of old houses they lived in. I was born in 1960 number 7 of 8 kids. I remember the old fashioned wallpaper and it being in layers on our walls. Also my mom painting the linoleum rugs when all the color got worn off them. Carting our water in buckets and breaking ice off them in the morning so we could get a drink wit a metal dipper.
I agree Dan is a fascinating man Robert you ought to have a separate program detailing his youth how he got interested in the local history ad memories of that part of Georgia! It would be fascinating!
I've heard that newspaper as insulation.
Simply fascinating. When we were young, mom would take us investigating old places. I loved it
Thanks for sharing.
It is amazing how fast nature reclaimed the land.
No one is managing the woodland. Thise vines are choking out the flora
I love your adventures with Dan Akin and hearing him talk about the history of these old places. Thanks for sharing Robert.
Hi Robert, can imagine all the history of the old tenet house. Thanks for sharing it. Every place has a story. God Bless. ✌&❤
Tenant house.
Robert. Thank you for another great historic video. So nice to have historian Dan along. Consider giving Brian’s channel a shout out. He was such a big part of the early days of “sidestep”. He could use a boost to his subscribers numbers
Love watching your videos of old houses and cemetery’s.
An excellent old house. That door lock you were looking at, we had one on our back door like that when I was younger. Glad the place didn’t burn down with all that old,dry paper used. The ads made the place even better. And those receipts were cool.. I wouldn’t mind having some of the wood and what about that old rocker? The trees!!! What a great day in the woods. 🙏🏼☮️🌎. 💖🇺🇸. 😁😎
Love the stories that go with the house.My Dad put up cardboard in our house when I was little.It sure kept the cold wind out.Thank you Mr Akin and Robert, 👍❤️
This house is so amazing with the old newspapers, box advertising the grocery receipt. Thank you.
Such a good video! That house is huge or just looks huge from the angles. Those doors..I love those doors. Always fun hearing what Mr. Dan has to say
My Mom and Dad's house in Chicago had that siding when they bought it in 69'.
The house was built in 1884.
I believe if you were to take off that thumb bolt on the old door and open it up there will be a patent date on the inside. It could help give an age to the building.
You guys put out fascinating content.
Thank you.
Dan, your history is amazing. That house is trying to hold its own in spite of all the neglect. The tar paper siding has helped prevent a lot of the rain damage. I wonder if the original part was once an overseer's house. There is so much history in the Waverly Hall community. Thank you for sharing.
My mom stayed in a house like that when she was first married. My dad was only 17 at the time and she said he said he tried to move her into a chicken coop at first but couldn't get the furniture to fit through the door. lol she always told me her life's story.
Thank you for taking us along on this interesting explore. This house was amazing. Those doors were just awesome. I love old doors...I'm whacky like that..lol. I learned a lot as I usually do on your channel. I grew up mostly in Jacksonville FL, a Navy Brat, but since live in Virginia. Thank you and God Bless!❤🇺🇸🙏
I sure did enjoy going through the house with you. It brought back so many memories of the house my grandparents lived in. They built it together by hand. That old house got torn down. Thank you guys
Enjoyed thanks Dan and Robert
Wow thats awesome. You should see bout buying it and tear it down and repurpose the wood just to preserve the history. I have been thinking bout finding old homes like this one to buy just for the wood. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate all you do in sharing history with all of us. God bless you
Great seeing you both and great video on the old house. History is just amazing from then to now....
Wow so much history! I'm glad and amazed at the house is still sort of standing keep filming because the way things are going and the removal of (so called) controversial statuses etc being taken down. History needs to be preserved or it's lost. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting 💕👵
We had tar paper siding on our house in central Florida, my mom (single mom of 10 kids) bought it for $26.000 back in the 60's, was built 1926...it had a fireplace and well water and blackberry plants all around it. was the only house on the dirt street until late 70's.
I know you like to leave things as you found them and take nothing away when you leave but has anyone considered the lost history that will result? The wallpaper for instance documenting the pattern by taking a piece and preserving it? Just little things like that. Some of these places it’s obvious they aren’t cared for and left to just disappear from this world and I always think if future generations that would love to see examples of how things were.
- Even if for a town museum/historical society...I don't know, but I did think the same!
My Uncles house had that siding on it. He was a farmer here in central Illinois. The house was built in early 1900's. Lot of houses around here had that siding.
Thank you for sharing it is awesome to see things that were from long ago I enjoy seeing it🌷
Hey guys ✌️
Watchin from Berlin, Germany and it's so interesting to see that great history. It's amazing that you have still so much of it. Love your videos. They always chill me down 😇 Keep doin' what you're doin' 🙌
I just love listening and learning about the history Dan has to offer! How nice it would be to go back to the old times just for a bit
amazing old property! i learn so much from your channel, thanks for continually taking us fun places
I really enjoy you and Mr. Dan taking us to these places. Both of you know so much.
Interesting to see how people loved. Then like today it is a reflection of poverty. Most worked out of it so they didn't have to live like that. The card board worked pretty well as long as the roof didn't leak. Dan's observation about metal roofing is very accurate.
Love the old history and the way they lived.
Great video. Dan is such a wealth of knowledge. What a Blessing to have some of his knowledge documented for generations to come.
I remember when people in Georgia used to sweep their front yards. No grass.
I love watching stuff like this. It helps me relax.
That house is fascinating but must be one of the most flammable
Thank you! I love it when you talk History!😊
People lived so simply back in the day. Obviously these places were built well enough to stand the test of time. It amazes me that some of these places are still standing. Thank you enjoy watching your videos
That clay pipe is known as a stove thimble. Dan is correct used.
Your friend, that begins around 2:04 has a strong speaking voice which makes for what we in Journalism like to call "natural Narrators". I've noticed in your videos that he also has vast History knowledge, together with your other friend, and you, your Passion and Patience, you guys make a great trio-team for these sort of works.
Your works are always so interesting and could only be improved with the addition of a "like energy, Production Professional", course they would cost you more time and a desire to be really focused on this venue as your focus of work.
But few can attest this potential and you guys are definitely a golden potential.
I really enjoy your works!
Best Travels and Wellbeing.
Fascinating! A journey through times past---
Was very interesting to see what is left of the old house. The Byrd's that Dan mentioned, were they in any way relation to the two Byrd Brothers, whom built the one house, that you now have and are preserving on the Old Byrd Farm??
I LOVED seeing this old house. The house had so many stories to tell you all - Thank you for taking us along.
Love when Dan is along! He is a wealth of information & I love listening to his stories. That home had happiness & life in it at I ne time. Thanks for exploring it & sharing with us.
You guys are amazing and know so much! Artifacts, land, history, etc. Thank you for doing what you do.
So Little House on the Prairie! ❤️
I bought a dresser from the 1860's from a Victorian home. Behind the mirror are news papers from way back that were put there to steady the mirror. The prices for clothes and things were back when our money was worth alot more.
I wrapped those old papers with some of our 'modern day papers'. Hopefully after I'm gone the dresser will go to a very good home and will continue to be loved. And it would be neat to see the faces of those folks when they see the papers and what would they think of our once modern-day news papers.
"Look at those OLD CARS that actually drove on roads !" Maybe by then folks would be in flying cars, who knows.
What a nice old home. Sad to see it forgotten and falling apart. Folks did the best they could with what they had then as we still do today.
I wonder how many were born there, died there, how many Christmas/& other holidays and birthdays they had there. Guitar or banjo playing going on while you see the clothes are on a line drying.
I'd love to go metal detecting there, who knows what might be around the house, & under the floor boards, where was the outhouse & so on.
May whomever lived there be resting in peace. Thank you for taking us along.
Thank you for this video Robert. This is my favorite things to do. Explore old abandoned structures.. We live in e tn and go for a Sunday drive looking for old places and photograph them and post on the fb group abandoned tn.. Loved the old newspaper and comb. The dr pepper bottle with the ten 2 and 4 my husband said was the old advertisement. Wanting people to drink it at ten 2 and 4. Didn't know if you knew that or not.
I’ve learned a lot from your explorations! Great videos!
Thank you I love looking at old bones of houses and how other countries built. That tar paper siding was very interesting, not that it would last long in an Aussie climate and with our bushfire. Which probably explains why it was never used here. Did Americans make any "wattle and daub" houses?
Oh and the Crepe Myrtle were interesting they are an Aussie Mallee native sp tree. Strange how they are growing in a thicket in "antique" Georgia.
That old asphalt siding that looks like fake bricks was extremely popular from the 1940s to about 1965. It did a world of good for keeping wind out of poorly-built houses in the wintertime, but often caused the boards beneath it to rot.
The chimney looks to be in good shape for the age of that building. Interesting place. Just the 2 wood walls would be pretty drafty.
Very interesting.
Talking about insulation.
There was a old house. The owner worked for years at a movie theater. He used old movie posters to insolate the house. The new owner found posters while fixing up the house. 1 Frankenstein poster sold for $20,000
Thank you so much this was beautiful at one time. God bless you both 🙏❤️
That's called a thimble. For passing a stove pipe through a wall.
Shame a local historical society or something don't restore/ preserve the house
I like it when you find something you leave it like it was
Truly a time long past. At times simpler an others a much harder time. I sure wished I could get a copy of the Part that you found. It's got me mystified as to what it is for sure. I may half to Wait till middle of April when my Brother comes down to help me set our Younger Brothers HeadStone. Thinking he may know or know of an Elder older Mechanic or someone to help identify it.
Wow, paper was so scarce they wrote names, phone #'s, did math, ect on the walls! Now we know how and why that practice originated! Nothing was wasted, even an old envelope was used for wallpaper. And the free cardboard from work at the cabinet shop in town helped keep the place warm. But they were fond of their soda pop, a rare refreshment from their hardscrabble life!
What a fun adventure. I do enjoy exploring old homes. So much history.
Truly old and amazing.. This is beautiful. Very eerie. I saw the keep out sign. Best be careful.
This is such an awesome video!!!! Thank you for doing this!!!😀💕
My Dad and his 7 siblings grew up in a house, not much different than this in Eastern Kentucky, beginning in the the 1920's. Hundreds of thousands of people lived this way throughout Appalachia.
Wow Robert I hope you can find some more places like this it’s very interesting
An excellent tour! Quite moving and very informative.
I have always wondered why back on the day,they built their houses with such high ceilings. I suppose to look more grand. But more to heat too. Thanks for the video gents.
It made the rooms more comfortable in the summertime. Heat would be extra foot or two above their heads. With attic insulation that practice stopped
Wow! Amazing video! I love how you took time for all that stuff! The kids shoe, the receipt! Crazy prices! The writings on the walls, the wallpaper! Truly awesome to see all this thank you so much! Bravo on sharing this with us!
I was told once the tar paper siding was called insulbrick.It gave way to a great invention called asbestos..
What a great adventure!! I wish I was there
Thank you for sharing some more history
My grandparents house in Wilkes Barre had that tar paper siding on it. It was c.1920’s.It was a small 2 or 3 room cabin that was added on to. I remember the upstairs rooms where my Mom and my uncles and great grandmother slept had newspaper lining the walls.
A most interesting video!!
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on
I grew up in a house with that same siding on it! Always wondered what it was called! Thank you for saying what it was! 😊
it is absolutely amazing how you uncover things/life. a gift nonetheless
Awesome find!
Robert that siding is called insul-brick circa 1920’s
Interesting old house. Lots of life happened there.
Wow thank you for sharing this video and information.