First-Hand Accounts Of The Great Depression In America
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- Experience the creativity and survival during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with striking parallels to today. Depression-era life and art come alive with rare film clips and personal stories from survivors.
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An older lady I knew years ago talked to me about the Great Depression. She had calendars going all the way back to the Depression. Each night she wrote 1 good thing that happened that day. She said the Depression was absolutely horrendous. I think it deeply affected her as she was very frugal, had a fully stocked pantry, and lived a spartan lifestyle. She slept in layers of old clothes that looked like rags to save on heating. She never wasted. She could pinch a penny so tight it squealed. Her big luxury was inviting a few friends to enjoy beanie weenie Saturday. She made a pitcher of iced tea, baked beans, boiled hotdogs, and slices of white bread to wrap the hotdog in. She turned the radio on to make it festive and always said dancing and singing were free fun. I learned so many lessons from her. To this day on Saturdays I wish she were still alive for one more Beenie Weenie lunch party.
@@happycook6737 I like your friend 🩷
That's so sweet. My mom was born during the depression and she lived like your friend. ❤
My dad was the same way. He grew up during the Depression. He had this funny thing he would do if the milk was down half a gallon he would put powdered milk and water in the gallon of milk he would also stockpile food and shampoo and toilet paper and everything he could get his hands on
My parents grew up in the depression. Until she passed my mom would only eat half of something. Even a small thing like a cookie. She would always save it for later even though she had plenty of money for food. It was ingrained in her that you might not have enough to eat the next day. She never threw anything away. Those times were hard but it made strong men and women. I look at the youth of today and how they act and it scares me.
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Wow, but my mom was a little girl into depression, and she told it to us. I'm glad I thought of it one more time. She is gone and i'm an old lady, and after this, no one will know. How odd. Live your best life people❤
My mother told me listening to the Radio was big time family entertainment. “Lights Out” “The Shadow” - neighbors would get together to listen. I think this should be added, during The Depression many family members lived together in generational settings. Your grandparents lived with you, and possibly cousins, aunts etc.
My Grandmother has told is stories about living through the Depression. She was one of 12 children and 2 were the neighbors children that lost their mother and the father ran off. They gardened, sweet potatoes always in the fireplace cooking, vegetables of the season. Lots of beans and biscuits.
Beans and biscuits, now.😢
My grandmother always bought so much food to store just in case. As a teen girl not having enough to eat it really did affect her through her life. She knew hard times and could definitely make anything out of just a little. We will miss this generation of folk if things go down because as survivors they had a lot of experience in how to get by.
She had 7 kids of her own and took in 4 from her sister later on and still made it work always willing to feed someone hungry.
And some of us in these days think we got it hard! Bless these people's hearts, living through the great depression.
Some of us are finding out.
I love hearing these stories.
Even though they were hard times, they are our collective history.
Our recent ancestors were some tough people.
The majority of us have it easy now because they had it hard.
Major respect.
My Grandparents, Parents, Aunts Uncles all lived in that era. I was borne in 1961 in St.Louis. Not alot of talk, but their values were cemented by that era. Everyone is gone, just us kids now and we are getting old too. Today the complaining and social discourse is just sad. If this sort of tragedy would happen again, I think the suffering will be equally as bad. I recognise the people in this doc. Tim Conway a comedian said once, "I thought everyone lived in a garage" The Marx Brothers got alot of us through that era. Their family story is legend.
I think it would be worse today because in the depression era many had land and the knowledge of how to grow fruits & veggies, chicken etc
Jack Lalanne ! Oh my! I spent every morning working out, watching him on TV when I was a child. What a treat to see him in this video!!
Thank you for sharing this.I enjoyed watching it. The song we ain't got a whole lot of money.. My parents grew up during the depression and they sang this song On road trips. Grew up listening to their stories of the depression. It really bought back a lot of memories. Both of them are gone now.😢
My father was number 7 of 12 children and grew up during the Great Depression. His father was a real cowboy working for ranches during that time and they lived in a railroad caboose that had been turned into a house if you could call it that. My dad had a 2nd grade education. At that time he had to quit school to go work in the cotton fields to work beside his mother and older siblings. I can remember whe I was about 7 and 8 he would take me hunting and catch all kinds of things and cook it over a campfire and then eat it. I didn't have to eat it all if I didn't want to but as he told me. You never know what's going to happen in this world after you're grown but I want you to know for a fact that you can eat just about anything if you need to. My granny loved squirrel stew so we'd always bring home some squirrels for her or venison but out on those hunting trips I had everything you can just about name. armadillo, skunk. possum, snake, birds of every kind, beaver, bear, etc. 1 time we went to visitt relatives in Arizona and visited an indian reservation during a pow wow and an uncle had a couple of indian friends and we went out to their place and ate 1 of their horses. Wasnt a happy camper about that 1 but as dad said you need to know you can eat it if you have to. Not half bad. I'm 60 years old now, I know how to can, I know how to hunt, grow a garden, I've got enough food to last a couple of years without electricity. Time is coming to where we'll be going through another depression again looks like.
My great grandmother had a horrible childhood during the depression. Her mother died when she was 8 from TB. She had to raise her brother and sister. Her father was an alcoholic. All they had to eat was poke salad and rabbit. She said they were starving to death eating it. Her father was going to sell her and her sister to men a few times each week to earn money. My great grandfather heard of this and married my mamaw to save her at 16. He didn’t love her like a wife, but he couldn’t let that happen to someone. They were married until my papaw passed away in 2010. He grew to love her and she grew to love him. Unfortunately they couldn’t save her sister or her brother. They were both sold to random men. When her sister could leave, she was mentally unstable because the abuse. And her brother became a child molester. I think she felt a lot of guilt on how things turned out. She didnt like talking about her childhood. Everyone was in survival mode. She passed in 2015 and I miss her so much.
Just how bad was the Great Depression? Studies have shown that around 15-20% of draftees for WW2 were 4F due to malnutrition caused by the Great Depression. That would be between 1.2 to 2 million men.
My mother said the girls, three of them, each had one dress they would wash out each night and switch so they didn't wear the same dress as the day before.
We ALL struggle, go through hell, come to our wits end with severe despair; yet we always persevere and rise above it all. NEVER lose that inner strength. It's the REAL YOU. God bless
❤️🩹 Thank you for this. Going through a lot and this was really sage advice. 🙏
Thank you
Its funny how individuals can suffer unnoticed, but if large numbers do, it gets noticed.
What year was this filmed?
i've often tried to imagine todays population living 100 years ago.....i can't do it cuz....."they" wouldn't make it. everything that it took back then?....has been removed from todays population. the want to, the determination to do, the common sense, even basic problem solving skills are sadly lacking in current population. all of that "give your kids better" has backfired greatly in todays world to the point of a whole lot of senselessness.
My father was born in August 1929. It was a big joke in our family that his birth caused the stock market crash two months later.
In the 1980s I knew a woman PHD doctor in Rockedter NY who always dressed in casual varsity hoodies. Her student friend said she was an hieress practically a millionaire to her grandparents fortune which was amassed by buying out hundreds of houses from poeoplecwho had to sell their houses in the 1930s.
My mother told me theaters would have matinee give away prizes. They would call out seat numbers and children could win prizes.
Yes, I remember when the movie theaters did that.
Don’t get me wrong ! We lost our grandma from my ex wife side … we lost everything by the way she was from Oklahoma ..
The Wizard of Oz is not about The Depression. It is about changing the Gold Standard and people were not paying attention.
Let’s ask a bunch of rich actors about the depression and hard times!
So why would fathers leave the family who had nothing ? What chance would a women have to take care of her family ?? So who was the brave sex 🤔
There have always been lazy and shipless men in the world. More so now than then not every man left their home And family. Some do it then and some do it now.
Coming back to you soon, US!
It’s here.
I can’t believe she said government spending is an answer. Look where we are now. In THIS video, it was stated that depression-era government spending didn’t end the depression.
Thank God for "The New Deal"!!!! So shut up!
World War 2 made the difference.
I can't believe that you or anyone would think it would have been better for the government to let the population starve to death as a way to curb spending.
The new deal was a great success!! Things built then are still utilized today! My grandfather worked in CC in the mountains of NC. He was born in 1909.
@@StefaniClowdis and what would have happened to people without the Green New Deal? Our economy IS being spent right now, but not on US. ITS BEING LOOTED BY THE RICHEST of us, while we suffer because they blame immigrants and blather on about "socialism" and "woke" to people too dumb to understand what's really happening. You're being lied to and easily manipulated so they can keep plundering our economy. They are supposed to spend the money they take in from taxes ON US, for OUR benefit, not for corporations and billionaires. That is what the government is for! Why don't you get it?
everything is a constant shift
What I can’t understand
Is why did people continue to have children when things were like this….
And before you say
No birth control.
How about using self control.
Because at the end of the day, material things don't bring joy, family does. Material struggle isn't the end of the world. You adapt, you live on.
It's crazy that you believe poor people shouldn't have children.
@@roflpill I never said that maybe one
Two max.
It’s called being a responsible parent.
At least they were Americans and NOT illegals!!
In between 1890 and 1919 was one of the greatest eras for immigration to shape this country.
Unless someone is indigenous, THEY ARE AN IMMIGRANT.
26mins in, the LIES begin to flow....
"WHO caused the crash?".
"WHAT caused it?".
Banksters Gambling.
The greatest generation was the one that went through the great depression, on to fight World War 2 then came home to a housing shortage and built the infrastructure of roads, water, sewer systems, electrical, gas lines to build the homes, schools, shopping centers we all enjoyed. Then came the hippie generation, Beatles, free love, sex, drugs, abortion, obscenity, profanity in entertainment. We are now witnessing what the Bible calls the last days, 2 Timothy 3. The good news is that the gospel is still open to all who will respond to Jesus' call to repent and believe.
Boooooo
I bet the depression destroyed many many many marriages.
Actually divorce dropped by 25% during the depression.
If you think the economy is bad now.😂 But of the depression came the social welfare system. FDR and his fireside chats. My father grew up during the depression. We are a bunch of wossies compared to them.
Accordance to these documentaries about the Great Depression don't include black americans. I guess we didn't exist
You obviously didn't watch the entire documentary?
Biden and kamala's economy