Strange Things Everyone Thought Were Normal 100 Years Ago
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- In this age of social media and the internet, we can learn things faster than ever, and technology continues to shape our current culture and define growing trends.
It’s hard to imagine that life was so different just 100 years ago, but it was a time when access to information was a luxury only afforded to the privileged. The computer and television were not even invented yet, and newspapers were still a major source of information for the masses.
100 years is not that far back in time, but we sure have come a long way from the way we lived back then. Here are some strange things everyone thought were normal 100 years ago.
#Strange #History #Normal
Homes for disobedient wives and other crazy people | 0:00
When ugly was illegal | 1:22
Trick or turkey | 2:14
When cigarettes cured asthma | 3:06
Professional waker-uppers | 4:06
Early 20th-century PowerPoint | 4:56
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What do you think we do today that will seem outlandish 100 years from now?
Chemotherapy. I think/hope that 100 years from now we as a society have advanced far enough that we stop intentionally poisoning ourselves to hopefully get rid cancer.
memes
Abortions
dscharlesworth1 hopefully, but cancer aint going away, years may pass but cells most probably will still die and begin a necrossing process, and eventually cancer takes over, chemo or not
phone calls
We do not have to wait a hundred years before people will think that what we do now is strange. Some of us already think it is strange!
Like having a mass-colossal overreaction to a virus, and everyone running around with masks on, like it's a Marx Brothers movie or something? Oh wait...
It was mostly applied to those with visible disabilities
@@VegQuaker13 Haha. That would be ne then though suffering is often worse for people who do not manifest outward signs such as anxiety and depression
The strangest thing we do..
‘Being dark toned is illegal’
People getting killed coz of being black or brown
Or ASIAN
@@joohwangie3046 Exactly and yet some light toned people spend a fortune trying to go darKer for a few weeks.
When I was growing up, the family had a memorial hair wreath that had been in my Mom's family for two-or-three generation. For those who don't know, that's an intricate wreath was made of the hair of loved ones who had died. They were fairly common in the 19th century. Because I'd grown up with it, I didn't see anythng weird about it but when occasionally a friend would ask about it and I explained, they tended to respond, "You mean it's made out of hair from dead people?? My God that's sick! How can your family stand to have that on the wall???" So there's something that was normal 100 years ago that is not seen as such now.
Memento Mori. It was a good tradition. A place in New Hope PA used to have a vast collection. Miss being actively Goth sometimes.
Very interesting, I've never heard of this before. I'm going to look it up.
Would your friend feel better if the hair was from living people? What if they then died? The wreath should be gotten rid of?
So interesting! Thanks for sharing
I have an old locket that has a lock of hair and the obit of the deceased relative. Beautiful black and brass locket.
My British great grandma used to ask people if they got knocked up on time and people would get heavily shocked why this old British lady was asking if they were pregnant when really she was wonder if someone woke them up😂 I miss her
Fun fact, Halloween was Actually around Long before Thanksgiving. It just had more meaning back then, rather than dressing funning and demanding candy.
Yeah wasn’t part of the dressing up to do with scaring demons and dangerous souls away to have good luck for a year?
@@summerlouise6025 yeahhh something like that
Yay! Finally somebody who understands! I hate having to explain how most holidays were stolen or have more meaning.
Halloween is a English concept but it was about paganism. The Americans changed the meaning of Halloween but a shit tonne of countries, including mine don't acknowledge Halloween at all
@@Tully_23_32 god sake internet person it's Irish not English .🇮🇪
My question is, who had the right to determine who was ugly and who wasn’t? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all!
Facts
The family members had the legal right to put anyone they wanted to in asylums. Most were closed in the “70’s.
Stop trying to make yourself fell better, ugly.
Just use the old adage "Beauty is only skin deep, Ugly goes right to the core" Or the song "She ain't pretty, she just looks that way" And beauty is time dependent like in the song "I went to bed at two with a ten and woke up at ten with a two"
Well if beauty is in the eyes of beholder... You just answered your own question... The beholder does
If it was still illegal to be ugly I would've gotten the electric chair
Now we have crazy people running free and killing people. Yay progress!
You do know that it's the same in every year right? Most famous example from the past would be Jack The Ripper.
Also it was uncommon for doctors to wash their work clothes and hands. It used to show that the dirtier and bloodier they look, the harder they where working. Telling them to stay clean was an insult. The guy that introduced washing hands got beat up and possibly died from his injuries for telling them this.
thank you golden showers.
very peculiar name your chosen.
Says so much about you.
you clearly been watching the same stuff on TH-cam, that I have.
Have a warm, anaesthetic bath . That should do it.
Remember humour ?
@@royferguson3909 Golden showers? Eww someone need to learn how to read closer 😂. Its golden shadow, my 12-year old daughter name my channel after her favorite book character from fav book Warrior Cats. Lol thanks for reply tho. Just read closer lol. And get your mind out the gutter!
@@goldenshadow872 After reading the mistaken comment, I went to check and read it wrong too. Good thing i read ur comment after. Lol. Golden shower will be stuck in my mind all day now.....And i agree, ewwww...lol
@@HMRLTL lmaoo yes ewwww
Ugly Laws? They’d have to shutdown TLC and the Discovery Channel
It was not illegal to be ugly but rather illegal to be seen in public if you were ugly. I guess they were expected to hide away in their rooms.
In the 60's and early 70's they used to use Magic Lantern shows as part or background to rock concerts.
The Allman Brothers Band used a Magic Lantern show as a backdrop in a concert I saw in 1990. It was a great concert that captured the feel of the early 1970s.
I have no idea what a magic lantern is -
@@sarah-cx7ij A magic lantern is an image projector that usually relies on glass plates and a precursor of the more familiar slide projector which uses slides.
Sometimes the glass plate was covered with water colors or finger paint used to produce an image that was constantly changing. It was used to produce a psychedelic effect. With CGI, the magic lantern is obsolete unless someone wants to create a vintage retro visual effect.
@@sarah-cx7ij watch the video
I just remember being told to look in colidascope to get a trippy visual as a five year old. That was back the last time I heard it mentioned. That is was like a concert with that.
I tell ya what - the Halloween masks they used in the early 20th century are way more scarier than any today
"It's illegal to be ugly".
Oooh, that's why I'm in prison.
Lmao good joke everyone would be in jail including me
With you there 🥵😱🤯😨
I'm not ugly, I'm facially challanged.
Well, that and the arson.
I am sure you are fine 🤗 possibly "presentable?" 🤗
Wonder how the knocker-upper got up on time each morning. Anyhow, you forgot to mention 'human zoos'.
Halloween is a lot older than thanksgiving. In fact, a form of trick or treating goes back to the middle ages, in greece.
It is a celtic irish tradition going back thousands of years
Ban people for the way they look? What is WRONG with these people?!
We liv in the in the usa... U See Assholes... The the best place to be ... If your rich😎
I mean technically smoking can cure asthma but it costs your life.
@That Person Who wants to be cured only to die?
Death: The Ultimate Cure-all
As far as instead asylums...they just changed the name to nursing homes and dementia centers I'm saying from experience
Yeah, I was in a hospital, and was terrorized by the staff their.
De-institutionalization was a thing though, it happened in the 60s. It basically consisted of dumping the inmates out on the street and the homeless population soared; been that way ever since.
I've been in an asylum. Can't say the staff "terrorized" me but it was pretty shit nontheless
now, all the insane people sleep in the woods and spend their days on street corners. begging. that's progress!
Pastor Peewee You are speaking from experience? So... you have experience in an early 20th century insane asylum AND modern day nursing homes? You would be too old to have worked in both at this point. That means you likely have been a patient since then 😬
Please share your story, right here in the comment section. The world will thank you.
Imagine a business called "Dan's Knocker Uppers" nowadays OMFG I'd die laughing at that......
I'm in my 60's. When I was in the hosp as a kid, Drs & visiters smoked in your room & the hallways!
I have a question-Who woke up the waker-uppers?
Cigarette warnings do not deter even though they started in '66.
Forget that, I think things people do NOW is weird!
I 2nd that nomination
"100,000 doctors have quit smoking cigarettes." "You can too."
Tou Xiong my doctor smokes and his medical assistant is 350 pounds...he has no room (nor she) to question my lifestyle Choices!
@@bearbear4030 most of them are unhealthy as heck!
@@imhuemankeepURcolorsforcrayons fat lie
The oldest that particular clip could be is maybe 70 years. Not 100.
I drink water before I go to bed, not because I have to wake up early, it just helps me sleep better
There was an episode of Frasier when he asked about his dad, and Daphne said she hadn't seen him since he knocked her up that morning. She then explained, "knocked me up. Woke me up. It's an English expression. What does it mean here?" Now, I know the story behind it.
Here in the states, to "knock someone up", means that they got you pregnant.
Maybe 100 years from now, the government will actually care about “the people”!
Government only cares if the people are proactive in it.
Damn you is funny
Nah
huh?
It’s technically still subtly “illegally” to be ugly, in the sense that it’s still embedded in society and an unwritten norm that influences every aspects of culture and society, an unwritten law that enforces itself and is self-reliant.
Perhaps perciveved beauty is an actual indicator of health and therefore potential survival probability.
@@susansullivan7292 the more I get to someone the more beauty I see
Illegally huh?
@@roguedeath69 correction: illegal
Correction: *aspect ( singular )
So what’s your point?
@@SP-cd3wo very intelligent
Bruh ugly was illegal?!! Lucky me
Don't worry Kylie. Waifus will always be safe from that ^.^
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 hahha
ikRR
Imagine if the "Knocker-Upper" slept in...
My brother in law was prescribed asthma cigarettes in 1973 in the UK
One time, doctors really advised people to smoke in order to cure asthma and nosebleed: my grandfather began to do it at 15 years old in 1940... he ended it in 2011, when he died ahahah
He made it to 86... maybe those doctors were right!
You have heard about those people who survive well past 100 years, usually living in the mountains of northern Russia? Many of them are regular smokers. There was a fairly recent female Olympic runner who smokes a pack a day, to improve her wind.
My Grampa is 105 and smoked into his 80’s. I know it’s not the norm..
@@jeffgillson danm i dont even smoke i dont think im gonna make it till 86
@@kyliemaysa3240 me either, no guarantee in this life
I love this channel it's always very educational I always learn something new
About "knocker uppers" -- That profession still existed in seaside areas of Spain well into the 1970's, though it was limited to fishing boat crew members who had to get up very early to get to the boat on time.
That Dr. Kevorkian was jailed instead of being a hero. Marijuana was ever illegal.
Smoking was so ingrained in the National Psyche that Surgeons used to smoke during surgery
Eating a tide pod is not normal
eh by 2118 people will have done stupider things
Yup, some will take a one way time travel ticket to a horrible place in time.
That was one of those things that was blown out of proportion by the lying media. A few people did something really stupid and it was presented as something commonplace. Just one more example of the stupidity that comes out of the 'news' media.
ya that's dumb ass milenials, gramps would a referd to them as shit for brains
Having a life outside of the internet...
Stfu Boomer
Yup it’s not normal anymore I guess
@@user-qk7lh4wl6e boohoo Boomer baby cries cause new generation has tec they never had and they don't know how to use it. Boohoo
@ׄ BooHoo Kid who's a young adult never got used to the cool tec so now there a baby boomer
...okay boomer
When I was about 13 I had an asthma attack . My brother in law told me there was no such thing as asthma and that it was all in my mind. He was killed in a truck accident when I was in my 20s . Went to his funeral, didn't shed a tear .
Was he mean to you all the time?
Really?
So who cares what's inherently false?
You know the truth.
Why be a spiteful, heartless prick?
@@Olkv3D
I learned the truth years later. Telling a 13 year old who's gasping for breath that it's all in his mind is pretty dang heartless. Unfortunately back in the 70's there were people that thought asthma was a psychosomatic disorder. I didn't cry at my brother in laws funeral because I was sure his death was just all in his mind .
@@sgtprestonoftheyukon2423 and after 40 some-odd years you still have piss for his grave ?
@@Olkv3D
He treated my sister like crap . He treated my nephew like crap. I've never pissed on his grave. But I've never shed a tear either.
My dad showed me magic lantern shows in the 1950s. He had saved the whole thing from the early part of the century, I think. Some slides had moving parts whilst others had shades that revealed new parts of the image to tell the story. I remember one was a part of Alice in Wonderland. The Cheshire cat with the smile faded away, well he sort of slid away but the fun was the same.
Similar to Viewmaster, which replaced the stereo viewers. Collecting reels for Viewmaster was a big deal when I was a kid. They seemed amazing at the time.
Tim Jones
I had a Dr Who slide show when I was a kid. We’d show the images on the wall, and my brother would make up stories to go with them. Innocent days.
The costume thing is wrong. Samhain involved dressing in costumes centuries before Thanksgiving existed.
They are not supposed to put anyone in a mental hospital unless they are homicidal or suicidal. I got dragged away from my house by two police officers without my shoes on because I was talking to my Invisible Friends. Well, we were actually having an argument.
I've been locked up in the mental hospital 8 times in the past 3 years because of my Invisible Friends.
Luckily, I'm writing a book about it all, so my sufferings will be worthwhile
It was slightly over 100 years ago, but there was a job of someone having an expensive watch, who would go to Greenwich and get the time off a clock there and walk into towns and charge a fee for people to set their cheap watches by it.
Tbh I drink extra water at bedtime if I have to get up soon. I didn't know it used to be a "thing" tho, lol.
Heck even the native Americans did that.
At 1:05 in the video that man reminded me of Cropsey an urban legend from Staten Island
Actually the cigarettes with asthma makes sense because it opens up the alveoli, allowing greater has exchange. The risk obviously outweigh any benefit.
What about the racist policies everyone had at the time?
Really? What do you want from the video? A full discussion about segregation and jim crow while wrapping it in a nice little bow with all the little facts tucked in still? How about go and read or watch a documentary about it.
This was for things people DON’T know about...
This is too funny about the smoking thing. My Mom told me when I was thirteen (I'm 59 now) if I ever was going to smoke as an adult, I should smoke menthol cigarettes. Because the menthol makes them healthier. Really Ma?? lol She also said don't ever step in dirty water in the street or you'll get polio. I know that's completely ridiculous, but to this day I never step in dirty water.
What about clean water in the street?
1:18 ...oh, it's not nice? So let them live on the streets. It's much more compassionate.
"not nice" = code for cost efficient, saving state and fed dollars on room & board & 'therapists' etc 🙄😲😐 so a lot of those old asylums sit abandoned and/or condemned now...smmaaarrrt...
I wonder if knocker-uppers got an extra fee for the snooze function.
1974? That was about the time Chicago got really ugly!😉
I Trick or Treat in the 60s n early 70s. The hobo with charcoal on your face as a beard was king! Most families stop sending their kids out after the 6th grade year was over for them! 🤷🏻♂️ In our area the first time I remember the time being adjusted to daylight was when the Boston Strangler was out! Don’t know if that was real or just a way of scaring the kids? 🥸
I still do the water thing 😂 Alarm doesn’t help because I just turn it off, but if I drink lots of water and have to go to the bathroom I _have to_ get up. It’s the only thing that helps 😂😂
I tried that with beer it worked, l got up the problem was l was too hungover to get out of bed.🤨 Lol
I had that problem, so I put the alarm clock on my dresser across the room.
I have asthma and I asked my doctor :"why is it that when I check my peak flow meter when I haven't smoked for a few hours it is worse that when I have"! After a few minutes of silence, she admitted that they actually open up your airways! I know that I'll get a lot of grief from "smoking police" but it is true!
u gots asthma and u smokin and u askin yer doc what's up?
Wait Chicago had an “ugly law” until 1974? 😆 find that hard to believe
They need it back: Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice!
No ugly cop would bother enforcing it. Also, once veterans returned after WWI, as it would eject any badly wounded, as well.
Thank you
While everyone is quick to (rightfully) blame tobacco for causing lung cancer, nothing was mentioned about asbestos which is far deadlier.
The “snow” used for “THE WIZARD OF OZ” was made out of asbestos. Asbestos was used liberally and it wasn’t linked to causing cancer until 1939.
as a teacher I had a light day planned on Nov 1 I knew the kids would be tired and out of sorts!
Who woke up the knocker uppers then???
Cocaine
They probably worked on permanent shifts. Once you wake up at a certain time, no matter what time it is, it becomes routine. Maybe the knocker uppers were issued their own alarm clocks.
prob 3rd shift workers waking up 1st shifters
I guess if i lived in Chicago in the 20th century I’d be in jail as soon as i stepped outside
Obviously. If you would stop setting fire to everything, it wouldn't be a problem.
If people in the United States ever abandon the clunky horse-and-buggy US customary units in favor of metric sometime in the 21st century, people in the 22nd century will wonder why the old-timers would use such a messy collection of units.
The English System is better than that Metric System, whether the English think so or not. Not interested in measuring my height in m, cm, or dm, thank you
@@davidpar2 Prove it.
@@davidpar2 OK, how many cubic inches are there to a US liquid gallon? How many.chains to a statute mile? How many acres to a square mile? What's the formal definition of the area of an acre? I know the answers. Do you?
What is 3/8 of 5 feet 11 5/16 inches?
Admit it, you simply are not open to change.
And I am still waiting for you to prove your assertion that English units are superior to metric units. Don't fall back on the argument English units are scaled to humans.
My grandmother was sincerely mentally ill, after shock therapy, and she spent a majority of my dad's life and my own she spent addicted to benzos until she died in a state hospital. She'd be a 100 this year!
I’m so sorry that happened to her & many like her. RIP🕊.
Thank goodness, I saw no relative I love in this mess.
Lol I would've loved to be a waker upper
Love to wake you up
In the future, they’d be surprised that we jail drug users lol
Things were craziness back in 100 years
Can't breathe have a smoke. Makes sense to me lol.
Yes, indeed it was the case in the past when smoking was considered a way to make asthma feel better. According to various past studies, asthma cigarettes which contained belladonna and stramonium were used by asthmatics due to its sweet aroma known to relieve respiratory issues and asthma symptoms.
Paul, in my day if you had asthma, a cold or sore throat they would tell you to smoke a menthol cigarette. I'm not that old, so I guess it's still pretty common.
So in other words Insane asylums were another form of Hospice.
Yes, because it was normal to smoke three cigs at once and have one extra at all times
Raptorlord101: Reminds me of the Woody Allen movie *Sleeper* where rebel Scientists unfreeze Woody's character. They inform him that during his time cigarettes were considered bad for your health, "just the opposite of what we know today."
He always smokes 3 smokes
Raptorlord101 It used to be normal for me until about five years ago. Then I quit smoking.
My mum and Dad worked in Lancashire mills in the 1950's and there were knockeruppers then.
I didn't think prostitution was legal in the UK.
We definitely need to bring back looney bins and public courthouse hangings
Thank goodness I didn’t live in Chicago during the “Ugly” law. 🤣
Why am I just finding out now that there haven't been laws against ugliness since the fifties? That's eighty years of my life I'll never get back.
The bender laugh killed me 🤣🤣
Knocker upper sounds nice, but I would prefer something akin to a bodyguard who flips my mattress every day.
I like your profile name.
I would loved a wake up knocker :-D Being a morning person that is. Seriously though some things people used to do back in the day seem very freak out it is kind of easy to scoff at them in retrospect. I think people 100 from the present will laugh at social media since there is nothing like a real human contact.
The wifey likes a wake up knocker every now and then.
@@Olkv3D Such fun! 😂
Hahaaa. HI-YOOO!
My current mom-in-law AND my ex mom-in-law STILL BELIEVE that blowing cigarette smoke into an infant's ear will cure their earache...
🤯🤯🤯🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Edit: Also, my ex Grandmother-in-law still believes that pregnant women shouldn't raise their hands above their head because itll cause the baby to be born with the cord around its neck.
(She chastised me for putting plates away in the upper cabinet when I was pregnant with my daughter...
She was very smug and 'I-Told-You-So' when my daughters cord was wrapped around her neck twice. 😑😑😑)
there was a time when if you told people that we would build machines that allow you to fly like bird they would say you were nuts or maybe worse
why do you space words so far away ?
My grandfather went to the doctor (in the 1920’s) for a chest cold and his doctor recommended he switch to menthol cigarettes because they would clear up his cold and keep him from getting colds in the future. He died a horrible death of COPD years later.
*Meanwhile, during the ice age.*
Oogh: *drops flint onto flint next to bush* *Sparks start fire*
Oogh: "Oogh oo uah udh wla"(THIS ISN'T F*ING NORMAL WTF IS GOING ON WHAT IS THIS HOT STUFF OHMYGODMYBUSH)
Safron funny
also....
th-cam.com/video/fi11q2LDYIY/w-d-xo.html
LMFAO
I know multiple people who smoke cigarettes to stop asthma attacks. I never got how it works but according to them it works.
At the time the cigarette was so popular, average lifespan often would not reach 70, and coal smoke and lead vapor were present ubiquitously. The cigarette was actually a medical catch-all, in the days when ambulance attendants were limited to non-invasive first aid: a victim might be given a cigarette to dilate the air passages and blood vessels and to soothe the nerves, when attendants were neither equipped nor qualified to issue oxygen or sedatives. Even the cough could help release and evacuate foreign matter. How times have changed, principally because longer life spans permitted development of emphysema and heart disease, where early mortality had prevented the impact of these causes previously.
Many people were put into asylums that were thought to be insane when they only were suffering from thyroid issues
It still happens in Ga if you report a man at work
How weird the world USED TO BE?? Not been paying attention to current events lately?
I think I heard it somewhere that there were so many wake-uppers that there were even wake-wake-upper-uppers.
we have a working magic lantern from 1890 at home :)) some slides too,, it stinks up the house but it’s so cool
The appretion at the end is probably someone lurking about vaping with an electronic cigarette.
They need to bring these homes back.... especially in Chicago!!!
I would NEVER get out of jail I’m so ugly
Bring back the ugly laws!
I had asthma growing up. No doctor ever suggested it might be the cigarettes. To this day my boss opens the door and smokes. She has no idea how horrible it makes me feel
smoking can help in a asthma attacked because of the dry air. Years ago before i was diagnosed with asthma I smoked away breathing problems for little over a week.
Um.... If ugly is agents the law.. Then i must be a fed case😡😱
I wish Chicago STILL had that "ugly" law!! 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭👍💯
We didn't have trick or treating in the UK when I was a kid in thr seventies. We'd have Halloween parties and people would dress in spooky costumes but no demanding treats door to door. By the way it wasn't just Ireland who had knocker-uppers. My grandfather relied on the knocking up service right up til the 1940s in Wales so....
Halloween predated Thanksgiving by about 3,000 years.
An ugly law? So stupid and mean!
I had a girlfriend who would spend the night, and her side of the bed was against the wall, when she got up in the morning to crawl over me her big knockers would hit me in the face and wake me up.😁 Lol