You Would Find These Old Historical Photos Unthinkable Today

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  • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
    @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    That portable dressing booth actually looks like a good idea. Does anyone else remember those climbing frames being called monkey bars?

    • @annematousek350
      @annematousek350 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes I do.. As a kid in primary school in the 1960.s we had metal monkey bars. Plus metal slippery dips. Quite popular at the time. In South Australia..

    • @Relativecalm2
      @Relativecalm2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same Primary school 1960s. Don’t know how we survived really - no air-conditioning, no classroom heaters, no car safety belts or climate control, one television that ad to have a licence to own, pop guns, rewarded at school by being picked to clean the duster which resulted in standing in a cloud of chalk dust, no calculators just pencil & paper or a piece of plastic and an erasable china graph pencil. No water bottles, although I fondly remember the weirdly shaped plastic canteen style ones that were oblong-ish with a similar drinking cup lid and usually contained cordial and certainly NEVER taken into class to save the children from dehydration 😂 Yo-Yos flying around, not to mention the possible (self-inflicted) acquired brain injury from playing with conkers. I could go on and on - but I already have! 🤣 💕

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I had all sorts of these metal monkey bars to play with at my primary school where I grew up in England. Occasionally someone fell off and broke something. But, we all lived and were probably better and stronger for it !

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stacie Oakford: That was a beautiful description of my 70's childhood !!!!

    • @davidjaap2130
      @davidjaap2130 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes indeed I remember those monkey bars for sure. We also had 3 high bars, just a simple horizontal bar, 3 different hts. I was on the 2nd highest one doing something called a 'Baby Drop'. You hang by your legs upside down, do 3 swings, then let go. You should land on your feet. I tried this to impress a girl. Well I came down on my face & chipped my 2 front teeth. Didn't hurt to much but when I felt my teeth, well let's say there was crying involved. Much, much crying. Don't know what happened to that girl, but I bet she has a good chuckle nowadays when ever she thinks of that. Thanks for the great pics...thanks for bringing up BAD memories. 🙏😅😅😅💓😁😇

  • @lastjellyontheplate8828
    @lastjellyontheplate8828 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh I dunno as a mother of three kids, that waste basket playpen looks extremely handy to me!

  • @patstokes7040
    @patstokes7040 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    5:34 I was a kid in the 1950 and the Monkeybars are exactly what we had in the school play ground.

    • @gardeninginthedesert
      @gardeninginthedesert ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In the 70s too.

    • @deborahbaker4770
      @deborahbaker4770 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aren’t monkey bar’s just straight across pipes or whatever they are made from and not like those climbing thing’s ??

    • @kirnpu
      @kirnpu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deborahbaker4770 Ours were pretty much like this - box shapes.

    • @lauraswann5543
      @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deborahbaker4770 No, we had a big boxy metal climbing frame like this in the playground in the late 1970s and they were called monkey bars.

  • @annbrannigan3958
    @annbrannigan3958 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Made me feel really nostalgic 😊

  • @renafielding945
    @renafielding945 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My sweet beloved friend Linda has a wonderful son, Stephen, who my whole family loves. Linda turned furniture over on him (big wooden playpen and crib-certain advantages to living in Bassett) when he was little because there was nothing he couldn’t escape.

  • @lovelyshirl
    @lovelyshirl ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mark, let me first say, your music on this was just stunning. Sooooooo beautiful ❤❤❤ Now, the photos....amazing. Each photo needed to be looked at closely - the detail in each one was an education in itself, to understand how things used to be. Just AMAZING. ❤

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you again for such kind words Shirley. I spent the first 20 years of my life only interested in sport. Since then music and history have been at the forefront of my focus. It is nice to hear that my time is not wasted !

  • @essejd
    @essejd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you so very much, that was really great 👍. You must be quite young, im 56 and we had those climbing frames when we were young, loved them 👍✅. Lol. Monkey Bars, thank you reviewers✅👍for reminding me the name😂. Grew up in Forest Hill and Laverton RAAF base Melbourne ❤️. Now in WA

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I had those exact metal climbing frames as a kid also ... still have the scars ...lol

  • @Misterwhistle
    @Misterwhistle ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Anyone who remembers playing on monkey bars remembers how it felt when your whacked your head on one.

    • @johneeeemarry34
      @johneeeemarry34 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember that during a school trip to the zoo , I got whacked off by a monkey who put his hand through the bars.. I’ve spent thousands on therapy, alas , it hasn’t helped me come to terms with what happened, maybe you reach out , perhaps give me a hand….

    • @Misterwhistle
      @Misterwhistle ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johneeeemarry34 go back to the zoo.

  • @rw8733
    @rw8733 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Mars and Earth comparison photo was really eerie.

    • @lauraswann5543
      @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are both photos taken on earth.

  • @anunearthlychild8569
    @anunearthlychild8569 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Pramobile had a lot of similarities with the modern cargo bikes. So the inventor was not so stupid after all.
    At the railway bridge, however, one would like to cover one's eyes.

  • @BeachBum447
    @BeachBum447 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The climbing frame is called Monkey Bars, at least where I’m from. I grew up playing on one and I survived. In fact, I never knew anyone that didn’t.

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born and raised in England and our primary school had them ... Monkey bars is exactly what we called them. We played on them every day and my entire time there I only heard of one broken arm.... and we were falling off them all day long .... lol

  • @pommydiva1
    @pommydiva1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    loving all your videos. makes you feel lucky to be living NOW, they had it tough and dangerous back then

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most don't realize just how lucky we are ... in many ways. Mind you I could do without 90% of human beings staring into a phone 23 hours a day but I guess its swings and roundabouts !!!

  • @cathysmith1014
    @cathysmith1014 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, thank you for this glimpse of the past! There were some pretty scary shots.

  • @soggyfroggy22
    @soggyfroggy22 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That ski lift with no belt and seeing how high they are is giving me anxiety 😨

    • @lauraswann5543
      @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too, that photograph terrified me, I was like "What if thechild falls off? How high up are they?" Terrifying.

  • @chaseygentile2894
    @chaseygentile2894 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Omg we had those exact same climbing frames when I was a kid in the early 2000s that’s crazy those are still around

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Shows you with all this modern technology and what children nowadays are being exposed to that they are missing out on all these outdoor activities that previous generations used to partake in sad really

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved the portable dressing booth n the pram mobile n in the tenements in New York in 1900 the air was so fetid the baby in the cage out the window probably saved his life just being able to breath air that wasn't contaminated!!!!

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I don’t get the big deal about those🤷‍♀️ babies safe, outside for some air. So?

  • @willoughby1888
    @willoughby1888 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was born previous to the first picture of the baby in the "Safety Bin" from 1960, and can honestly tell you that they were trash cans. It was crazy wild back then, as long as you didn't mean any real harm. I often was placed under those screen cans when they were empty, that is. Other mothers did it with their wild male babies also. Sometimes the mom or a child would remove a few easy things and just put them back in the trash can when they were done. I could swear on a Holy Bible I know this as fact, too. Not everyone did it, just the park mom's who thought they could get away with it. Other people would mostly 'just laugh' when they saw anyways. Park police another story. But I quickly recalled those screen trash cans at the parks. We had cleaner 'park trash' back then also. People threw away their bagged lunches, not their used needles and condoms... and spit or other fluids. Now, back to the video! This should be good. I like good. Bad is overrated.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I live in Bulgaria now - its like that here. One of the things I have seen in the shops is a baby locator - its a blue tooth tag you put on your baby for when you forget it - no kidding.
      But here babies in prams are abandoned all over the place whilst the mother goes in the shops

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@piccalillipit9211 "Dolls"... those are their dolls, not their babies. They must feel that way anyways. It's good that they sell that Bluetooth device! "Hello" from Maine, USA.
      I just about to upload a video I made today showing some white geese and a duck. They enjoy hanging out together by a water discharge pipe at the Back Cove across the street from me. They're tame. I go out and remove plastic scraps from where they like to visit. This morning, I found an arrow sticking up out of the ground right by where they hang out. Someone must want 'foul' for dinner... fresh! No kidding. I guess people are this way all over the planet maybe, but I'm hoping not.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@willoughby1888 " "Dolls"... those are their dolls, not their babies." Its a very different society here, the communist cities are built like lots of little villages so 5 or 10 apartment blocks have their own little high street, schools, shops, doctors, pharmacies, playgrounds, small fields, everyone knows everyone and child care is a communal thing. No one uses child care - leaving your child with a stranger is basically considered child abuse here.
      The old people look after the kids. Children are society's responsibility.
      So it is remarkably easy to forget where you left your kid.
      I have lived in this block for 4 years - I have no idea which child belongs to which family.
      I'm very sorry about someone trying to kill your ducks

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@piccalillipit9211 Thank you for explaining things I had zero knowledge of, please forget what I said earlier about babies being thought of as only dolls. I was born unloved and thought of as only a little boy doll' to do as my family pleased. I wish it had been more like what it is in Bulgaria! If I lived there, I'd make that innocent, "Where's the baby" error because of distraction too.
      They're not exactly, "my" ducks, I just pick up the trash from where they like to visit. Someone's leaving food for the foul. I've seen some nice, exotic bigger birds hanging out at The Back Cove the last few years. I bought a drone last November and I want to try it out, too! My video camera I use on a tripod is dying, so I better get with it quickly. Thank you again for letting me see all places are not the same after all. Peace. Laugh often, too.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@willoughby1888 "I was born unloved and thought of as only a little boy doll' to do as my family pleased" My childhood was not much better Ill be honest...
      I chose to live in Bulgaria precisely because it WAS like this, very different to the UK. Love to the ducks :-D

  • @ninakramer276
    @ninakramer276 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is amazing! Each photo is extraordinary. I wish there was a way to label each frame without that distracting banner that does fade but yet, distracting. Nice work!

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have tried several others and they look way worse... The lesser of evils for now, but I'll keep experimenting !

    • @ninakramer276
      @ninakramer276 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Thanks for your amazingly hard work!

  • @marjoriegoodwin2993
    @marjoriegoodwin2993 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw, in a museum somewhere in Massachusetts, a reconstructed ancient Chinese home. In it was a sort of barrel affair, into which they set their toddlers, when adults were doing dangerous things, like tending the fire. I thought it was brilliant. A safety device actually.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:25 that was certainly a unique style snd and one that I haven't really come across before

  • @annecosgrove2133
    @annecosgrove2133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first one from 1960 has a cringy look today, but is similar to pop up circular gates to keep babies in one spot. My doctor when I was a kid kept his youngest toddler outside in a small fenced corral under a tree unsupervised with toys to play with. My brothers and I found this cringworthy, particularly because my mom drove the exact model and color car as the doctor owned so the child would call out and try to get our attention when we went by. Ouch!

  • @trennalogsdon245
    @trennalogsdon245 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t think a lot of these are so far fetched.
    I think some would be kinda fun to try.

  • @Isabel-qu3hl
    @Isabel-qu3hl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍The knocker-uppers. Never knew something like that existed.

    • @notsure1277
      @notsure1277 ปีที่แล้ว

      Joe Biden could hire one to keep him awake...

  • @bobnewhart4318
    @bobnewhart4318 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That baby safety bin could definitely still work today

  • @pixifairy67
    @pixifairy67 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The safety bin is an upside down trash can

  • @gentlejourney6503
    @gentlejourney6503 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful music!

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you ! More can be found at www.markbulmer.com or youtube channel m.youtube.com/@markbulmer

  • @cherylpurdue888
    @cherylpurdue888 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like the pramoblie.

  • @RealMusicHype
    @RealMusicHype ปีที่แล้ว +1

    00:36 Great stuff.

  • @willoughby1888
    @willoughby1888 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    00:42... "Not a safety belt or rail in sight". Ok, I call them on that one. What's that strung across the body of the little one, a human 'ham hock'? No, that's a mother's 'superarm' bracing her small, confident child, and just like she does when she has to hit the brakes hard suddenly in traffic. Yep, there's a 'rail' there alright. There's maybe only a 'soft belt' if the kid acts up after a whole series of certain warnings beforehand, times being much different then.

  • @davidschumaker8107
    @davidschumaker8107 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not sure where you are getting these from, but keep it up, amazing!

  • @DukeCannon
    @DukeCannon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember ski lifts like that in Gatlinburg when we used to go during summer. Also same technique was used to keep us from flying into the dashboard when stopping quickly. Ha.

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol ... great analogy.

    • @DukeCannon
      @DukeCannon ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AmazingHistoricalPhotos seatbelts? Pfth! 😉

    • @lauraswann5543
      @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว

      That photograph terrified me. How high up were those chairlifts? What if the child fell off?

  • @michaelkurtz1967
    @michaelkurtz1967 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Prior to children's carseats parents would often put the babies in the back floor board to keep them safe.

  • @linux2420
    @linux2420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Add a couple of parental advisory warnings and you've got yourself a kickass album cover

  • @krude-ck3wy
    @krude-ck3wy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We had climbing frames like that in England in the 90s

  • @Countdown420
    @Countdown420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:18 i buy that any day

  • @UncommonEyes
    @UncommonEyes ปีที่แล้ว

    Considering all the weird stuff going on these days, I dare any man to cultivate the man-in-the-moon hair/beard style🤣

  • @OrangeTabbyCat
    @OrangeTabbyCat ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know, that safety bin for kids seem like a pretty good idea. People and animals would be safe from some kids we have these days.

  • @MundoVCH
    @MundoVCH ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:25 Unthinkable? I used to play a lot with these!

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had all sorts of monkey bars to play with at my primary school. Occasionally someone fell off and broke something. But, we all lived and were probably better and stronger for it. !

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those were great! I call playground equipment from then toothcrackers lol. But we all lived. With some cracked teeth lol

  • @esthervarney4011
    @esthervarney4011 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the monkey bars anybody want to climb .too?!

  • @notsure1277
    @notsure1277 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wozniak's Apple I had a tape recorder because cassette tapes were used to hold information. Cassettes were still being used in the early 1980s.

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My first computer as a kid was a ZX Spectrum. It too used tape cassette !

  • @Ij-jan
    @Ij-jan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great photos thank you

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for watching !

    • @davidarthur3588
      @davidarthur3588 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think thats Ernest Hemmingway with a group of people on top of the pyramid

    • @Ij-jan
      @Ij-jan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidarthur3588 I think you may be right

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      I wasn't sure but does look like him.

  • @alisteeaiken7667
    @alisteeaiken7667 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pulling those barges couldn't have been much fun.

  • @lauraswann5543
    @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the lady in the very first photo, and my mother, must have read the same childcare book! 😂 Edit; 5.24; why are monkey bars on this list, do kids not have them anymore? I often played on them in the late 1970s. We used to hang from them by our ankles. Never saw anyone fall from them. And our playground had concrete on the ground, not grass!

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We had them at my school in the 70’s also, I always fell off … but survived uninsured 😀
      They are very rare nowadays, lawsuits waiting to happen….

    • @t.h.8475
      @t.h.8475 ปีที่แล้ว

      I fell face first from a 6 foot monkey bars when I was in the 5th grade. It had dirt under it. I was knocked unconscious, got 2 black eyes and a concussion. Was back to school the next day.

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a similar story ...lol

  • @OICUR12
    @OICUR12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some were pretty unthinkable back then.

  • @andreesimpson4232
    @andreesimpson4232 ปีที่แล้ว

    The wooden bike 👍

  • @october0000
    @october0000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:24 They really counted all of them? Dedication 😂

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO .... That was the first thing I thought in my research. The number was a bit precise. But, then again Ancient Rome is my specialty and having read almost every piece of literature available, nothing would surprise me when it comes to Roman architecture and works. I wouldn't rule out the fact that somewhere in the rubble was a series of tablets or scrolls with a complete description of each and every nails correct placement in the fort .... each nail with a corresponding number. They were that good !!!

    • @davidjaap2130
      @davidjaap2130 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard legend has it that the count was off so there STILL is a guy counting those nails.🙏☺

    • @october0000
      @october0000 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AmazingHistoricalPhotos wow, that's sounds so cool! Thanks for sharing 😊

    • @october0000
      @october0000 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidjaap2130 lol 😂

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

  • @sarahmahany3404
    @sarahmahany3404 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Modern day monkey bars are wimpy

  • @elowishusmirkatroid4898
    @elowishusmirkatroid4898 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Portable dressing booth could be the solution for trans females in womens' changing rooms.

    • @shutterchick79
      @shutterchick79 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or large private changing stalls that go all the way to the floor.....

  • @tbjtbj4786
    @tbjtbj4786 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The safety bin is still available
    A big Landry hamper

  • @ventibreeze6648
    @ventibreeze6648 ปีที่แล้ว

    The baby looks like the mom just up ended a bin in the park and wants some down time 😂

    • @lauraswann5543
      @lauraswann5543 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is exactly what is happening there. The "safety bin" caption is a joke.

  • @jaywilliams8386
    @jaywilliams8386 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cog slide looks like fun. The poor baby in the so called Safety Bin looks like the mother just inverted a trash can holder. I grew up in 60's the and I never saw anything like this. Folks seem to have used their imaginations more often back then.

  • @ELisa-qf2mw
    @ELisa-qf2mw ปีที่แล้ว

    The first pic is the answer to any boomer woman's favorite refrain: "you modern mothers nowadays make it look like raising kids has become something difficult and tiring all of a sudden because you are weak"... Well maybe not feeling free to restrain them in a trash bin contributes to making it difficult and tiring...

  • @kathrynmolesa1641
    @kathrynmolesa1641 ปีที่แล้ว

    That kid really wanted a bike.

  • @peternesbitt
    @peternesbitt ปีที่แล้ว +4

    People weren't snowflakes back then. My mother use to say 'go play in the traffic'. 😂

  • @Mninoyb
    @Mninoyb ปีที่แล้ว

    And nobody sitting heads down with a mobile.

  • @kirnpu
    @kirnpu ปีที่แล้ว

    What was a cassette recorder doing in Steve's Apple I?

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      "The original IBM Personal Computer and IBM PCjr included support for storing data and programs on compact cassette tape. It was common for home computers of the time, such as the Apple II, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro, to use cassette tapes for storage due to the lower cost of hardware and media compared to floppy disks."
      .... My first computer as a kid was a commodore and it too used tape cassette.

    • @kirnpu
      @kirnpu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Thank you so much for the response - I had no idea!

    • @AmazingHistoricalPhotos
      @AmazingHistoricalPhotos  ปีที่แล้ว

      You are very welcome.

  • @iconsumepizza
    @iconsumepizza ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first one looks a lil brutal but love history ❤️

  • @thatonepianoguy_
    @thatonepianoguy_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let’s bring back 4:32

  • @mangot589
    @mangot589 ปีที่แล้ว

    That “safety bin”. Come On. We didn’t have those. 😂 Can’t vouch that moms didn’t do that 100%, ,but that’s just a trash bin and people will do anything, I guess. But that was NOT a normal thing. We did have playpens and stuff that were dragged around, just like now.

    • @lsw1944
      @lsw1944 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're probably too young to know didly squat

  • @jonkline709
    @jonkline709 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This tells me people spend far to much time on focusing on what the other people are doing rather then mind their own business and it’s gotten way out of hand.right all you Karens

  • @gaetanlizotte1957
    @gaetanlizotte1957 ปีที่แล้ว

    never see that safety bin baby cage, I was there in 1960

  • @gaetanlizotte1957
    @gaetanlizotte1957 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lockdown is much worse than the baby cage