Insightful interviews with survivors of the Great Depression including incredible color photographs taken during the period. Learn how they lived, how they survived and how it affected their lives today.
as a modern 14 year old kid, i would just like to say our generation is going to be FUCKED if this ever happens. learning about the great depression is so interesting and I’ve never been more excited and engrossed in learning. Actually, I’ve never even been excited to learn, let alone engrossed in the lecture. But something about the Great Depression is seriously so intriguing. I would love to sit down with one of these people and just hear stories upon stories.
I'm watching this cuz I'm curious of what to come but it's like you know when we had it in the 1929 it was the beginning of the world but remember we are almost reaching the end of the world that's why history is repeating itself they had hoped to move on but we the end of the world is coming
@@0annonymous Yes indeed you tell people to worship God because I don't want them to come when they need him I want them to get to know that God and his love for them and their existence because people are too busy worshiping material things and they don't seem to remember that he had their creator is watching over them
Im still living the depression.live on a dirt road .i have a mule and im getting some chickens.i have haul water.went without hot water..things costs so much now .we have to lower the heat .need to put in a garden.i relate to these folks.❤
my parents grew up during the depression. their families made it thru it with decency, integrity and togetherness. the result was being the "greatest generation".
@@woesofthewest8645 Haha. So the Jews are to blame for Feminism, the Refugee Crisis and "other wars"? Are Feminism and the Refugee Crisis examples of wars? What?
WoesOfTheWest what are you going on about ?! Stfu . Why does everyone hate on Jews and blame them for everything I have never seen Jews being the problem of anything. And every time I ask a Jew hater online why they hate Jews they don’t have an answer.
We don't have it easy today at all. I live in Philadelphia and see people sleeping on the streets and eating out of dumpsters every day. Everyone I know is either homeless or one paycheck away from homelessness. The conditions of that era are creeping back.
Im only 20 years younger than these people, but I remember my mom and dad teaching us some of these same things. As a child I was told to "clean your plate", too. I could listen to stories like these all day! Such a treasure in our elders that many so readily dismiss.
Lauren i advise you to get a bunch of Great Depression people to sit on stage n film it and let them talk to your classes n school n elementary school as well as well as girl and boy scouts n church n youth groups. Hopefully it would spark some people in this and if u can make a group to go round n help people and teach them. Also send out Heirloom veg seeds in each letter n makes good stocking stuffer
My grandpa lived through the great depression, he had food since his dad played on the New York Yankees, he had to eat in his car because his classmates would beat him up for is food.
Funny, not too different from the early 60s in South Dakota. My grandparents talked about The Depression all the time. I got my great-grandma's treadle sewing machine, which was cabinet style. Stuff full of remnants of coveralls and such, for mending. My great-aunt said the cows were eating cockleburs. There was almost no water in the well.
In my family's experience we WERE quite alright, not lacking because we produced, and hence HAD money. Our experience would have been much the same as the guy in the grey shirt near the end was saying. Being a farmer with your own farm was the way to go. But we didn't face the droughts farmers in the USA faced during the depression.
It's fine if you've never known any different. Can't miss what you never had. It's much worse to be up there, then fall. Which is what's going on now. People are falling fast, and from a larger height.
Well, I remember what it was like in the depression. I was a child but I remember how everthing was kinda sad back then. We didn't have much and daddy tried to find work but it was hard. But mama told us if we kept our heads up and looked for a brighter day it would come and you know something? It did. It weren't long before Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to help his people fight the depression. Even though he was rich and it didn't bother him he was willing to help Americans. So then he declared war on the Notsy system and made friends with Joe Stalin. Joe Stalin hated the Notsies too and so did Winston Churchill and so then daddy got him a job in the bomb plant helping to make bombs to drop on them Notsy childern. Then Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joe Stalin made the world safe for Jews and Israel by killin all the Notsies and that's why everthang is so good today. I lived through all this so I should no.
None of these people really had it that bad, because many had land that produced enough and had some kind of money. Today few could afford land enough to stay alive and the Government wants the farmers to head to the cities, so that time was better situated for a depression, less reliant on government. I like to hear those who had it not so good like regular common folk of the day.
For a video titled "Great Depression Survivors" you'd think they'd choose people who actually lost everything and had to struggle to survive, not the lucky ones
Well not everybody lived that way. While the Great Depression had a lot of poverty and some families did lose everything overnight. Vast majority of Americans didn’t fail in extreme poverty and many continued to have regular lives like before, except money was tighter and had to make more sacrifices to continue live in a certain condition.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 I know the Great Depression didn't hit everyone the same, but using the word "survivors" and then only showing people that got through it easily just doesn't fit.
Lauren, u r wise beyond your years. Read the books. FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE and CHEAP EATING by Ragnar Benson also watch the film PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO written, directed, produced and directed by Ray Milland he was OSS/CIAduring world war 2 the film is the best prepper film ever made. It csme out right at time of CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS n touches on everything that can happen. PRAY b safe.
This generation sure got the short end of the stick....as kids great depression than as young adults WW2. However, this generation will outlive us all...so many are in their 85+ yrs. Boomers and Gen X are not living as long it seems. People are dropping like flies in their 40's and 50's now. Heart attack and Cancer top culprits.
FDR was one of the GREATEST but i wish he would have let the farmers pay their taxes with their crops which could have been distributed to the people.at least temp till things picked up.
@@josephbarbosa4322 No quite the opposite...I'm making fun of millennials and present-day snowflakes, who think it's probably "tough" to be without internet for a few hours. They couldn't handle what the depression era folks went through
@@0annonymous your response is equally histrionic, emotional and equally extremely unhelpful. If you find solace in the return of Christ, I hope your piety is as strong as you posture.
as a modern 14 year old kid, i would just like to say our generation is going to be FUCKED if this ever happens. learning about the great depression is so interesting and I’ve never been more excited and engrossed in learning. Actually, I’ve never even been excited to learn, let alone engrossed in the lecture. But something about the Great Depression is seriously so intriguing. I would love to sit down with one of these people and just hear stories upon stories.
The Great Recession of 2008 was almost as bad.
@@JW-uy2on Not even close.
Whelp, how about now? I’m already feeling it creeping in (asia)
need an update as a modern 17 year old. Do you still use the word engrossed?
@J W 2008 was nothing like the depression....
God help us all for what's about to come.
I'm watching this cuz I'm curious of what to come but it's like you know when we had it in the 1929 it was the beginning of the world but remember we are almost reaching the end of the world that's why history is repeating itself they had hoped to move on but we the end of the world is coming
@@0annonymous Yes indeed you tell people to worship God because I don't want them to come when they need him I want them to get to know that God and his love for them and their existence because people are too busy worshiping material things and they don't seem to remember that he had their creator is watching over them
I'm on my way out so it doesn't matter
@@catlove111 don't say that
@@stevek5600 ok
This takes me back to the stories my mother told me about the depression
Im still living the depression.live on a dirt road .i have a mule and im getting some chickens.i have haul water.went without hot water..things costs so much now .we have to lower the heat .need to put in a garden.i relate to these folks.❤
my parents grew up during the depression. their families made it thru it with decency, integrity and togetherness. the result was being the "greatest generation".
@@woesofthewest8645 Haha. So the Jews are to blame for Feminism, the Refugee Crisis and "other wars"? Are Feminism and the Refugee Crisis examples of wars? What?
WoesOfTheWest what are you going on about ?! Stfu . Why does everyone hate on Jews and blame them for everything I have never seen Jews being the problem of anything. And every time I ask a Jew hater online why they hate Jews they don’t have an answer.
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My mom was a stickler for Raleigh salve,she come up in the depression so we kids was raised like this,I live like this now❤
This makes me realize how easy we have it today. It also makes me realize to live conservatively.
We don't have it easy today at all. I live in Philadelphia and see people sleeping on the streets and eating out of dumpsters every day. Everyone I know is either homeless or one paycheck away from homelessness. The conditions of that era are creeping back.
Oh this didn't age well
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Im only 20 years younger than these people, but I remember my mom and dad teaching us some of these same things. As a child I was told to "clean your plate", too. I could listen to stories like these all day! Such a treasure in our elders that many so readily dismiss.
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These are unbelievable accounts of Great Depression survivors. To think of what this generation endured as children is heartbreaking - Keith
thats sweet how they said it brought them closer but it is so sad
Seeing what's going on at the moment, we might just be about to find out how we cope with a situation like this...
Lauren i advise you to get a bunch of Great Depression people to sit on stage n film it and let them talk to your classes n school n elementary school as well as well as girl and boy scouts n church n youth groups. Hopefully it would spark some people in this and if u can make a group to go round n help people and teach them. Also send out Heirloom veg seeds in each letter n makes good stocking stuffer
Anyone else watching during the Covid19 pandemic. Wanted “advice” I guess from people that went through it themselves.
Yeah, though I think at this rate toilet paper is worth more than money. Toilet paper will be the currency in the apacolypse.
Communist Propaganda I don’t get why people just can’t go outside and drag their butt along the grass. It’s free too. Toilet paper is overrated
no. im here for hw
@@angelsuarez3439 How about just jumping in the shower? Or a washrag, then right into the wash bucket? TP overrated.
Beautiful work Adam. Thank you
My grandpa lived through the great depression, he had food since his dad played on the New York Yankees, he had to eat in his car because his classmates would beat him up for is food.
Mustache Duck Michael Gazella
Mustache Duck thank you!
who was your great grandpa if you dont mind saying? very interesting
@@Anon_Fox I don’t mind! He is Michael Gazella.
to be a dental patient in those days? it’s the GREAT DEPRESSION FOR A REASON. i’ll die of abscess, thank you.
I wonder how my generation would handle this type of depression. probably not very well.
you probably broke
Farmers would still be making money, food would still be available, and banks wouldn't be closing. It would probably not be as bad
Did you already forget the Great Recession of 2008? It was the worst one since the Depression.
Halopies banks only ended up closing in 2008 till the fed stepped in
As long as there’s safe places. Should be okay hahaha
Been prepping canned foods and water and rice and vitamins because our country is heading to this again
Very interesting, thanks a lot!
Vicky Payeur what Up I don’t use condoms
@@austinsims3741 😂😂
Am I the only person watching this for school and not to complain about being born in the wrong generation.
Funny, not too different from the early 60s in South Dakota. My grandparents talked about The Depression all the time. I got my great-grandma's treadle sewing machine, which was cabinet style. Stuff full of remnants of coveralls and such, for mending. My great-aunt said the cows were eating cockleburs. There was almost no water in the well.
Sounds somewhat like things are getting today.
In my family's experience we WERE quite alright, not lacking because we produced, and hence HAD money. Our experience would have been much the same as the guy in the grey shirt near the end was saying. Being a farmer with your own farm was the way to go. But we didn't face the droughts farmers in the USA faced during the depression.
Well now we have 2020
Me too very helpful
This is very sad 😭
Its nothing to joke about
Yes we have a lot acreage for cattle and farming. Yes we miss the ranch life.
I was wondering what this time was like...
For all the things I have, I would still want to be closure to my wife and kids more than anything else.
It's fine if you've never known any different. Can't miss what you never had.
It's much worse to be up there, then fall.
Which is what's going on now. People are falling fast, and from a larger height.
It's way worse now
The problem with today is people want all these fancy things and live beyond there means so if they miss a paycheck then they are screwed
Hello Adam Bird, I was wondering if I could use clips from your video in my National History Day project, and give you credit?
Well, I remember what it was like in the depression. I was a child but I remember how everthing was kinda sad back then. We didn't have much and daddy tried to find work but it was hard. But mama told us if we kept our heads up and looked for a brighter day it would come and you know something? It did. It weren't long before Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to help his people fight the depression. Even though he was rich and it didn't bother him he was willing to help Americans. So then he declared war on the Notsy system and made friends with Joe Stalin. Joe Stalin hated the Notsies too and so did Winston Churchill and so then daddy got him a job in the bomb plant helping to make bombs to drop on them Notsy childern. Then Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joe Stalin made the world safe for Jews and Israel by killin all the Notsies and that's why everthang is so good today. I lived through all this so I should no.
None of these people really had it that bad, because many had land that produced enough and had some kind of money. Today few could afford land enough to stay alive and the Government wants the farmers to head to the cities, so that time was better situated for a depression, less reliant on government. I like to hear those who had it not so good like regular common folk of the day.
For a video titled "Great Depression Survivors" you'd think they'd choose people who actually lost everything and had to struggle to survive, not the lucky ones
Well not everybody lived that way. While the Great Depression had a lot of poverty and some families did lose everything overnight. Vast majority of Americans didn’t fail in extreme poverty and many continued to have regular lives like before, except money was tighter and had to make more sacrifices to continue live in a certain condition.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 I know the Great Depression didn't hit everyone the same, but using the word "survivors" and then only showing people that got through it easily just doesn't fit.
No I don't use acupuncture. It's called alcohol a natural thinner
Lauren, u r wise beyond your years. Read the books. FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE and CHEAP EATING by Ragnar Benson also watch the film PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO written, directed, produced and directed by Ray Milland he was OSS/CIAduring world war 2 the film is the best prepper film ever made. It csme out right at time of CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS n touches on everything that can happen. PRAY b safe.
Definitely depressing ..
Did people come to your farm and steal food ?
My Grandma Was Born In 1936 And She Survived And It Affects Us Still
Hi Adam, I would like to interview theses GD survivors. do you have their contact info? are you the film maker? where are you located?
Free Free I shot this quite some time ago, I don’t have current contact information for the subjects anymore. Sorry!
This generation sure got the short end of the stick....as kids great depression than as young adults WW2. However, this generation will outlive us all...so many are in their 85+ yrs. Boomers and Gen X are not living as long it seems. People are dropping like flies in their 40's and 50's now. Heart attack and Cancer top culprits.
FDR was one of the GREATEST but i wish he would have let the farmers pay their taxes with their crops which could have been distributed to the people.at least temp till things picked up.
I think the great depression was better than right now
We do work a lot for the entertainment industry as a stress relief.
5 cents for an ice cream cone in the great depression it was cheaper jesus christ people pay like 6 bucks for 2 ice cream cones
gorgeousman 420 back then 5 cents was worth a lot
@@azulgrisel very true
gorgeousman 420 that was before the federal reserve act
Azetlor146 tru
Bro can someone js give me the answers
Eating contest pretended wirh my son. Got him to eat.
😎🫡🫡 in 2023
Why didn’t you just shovel snow in the winter?
Krystjan Allen shut up you rich ass bitch
...but did you all have a good internet connection?
@@josephbarbosa4322 No quite the opposite...I'm making fun of millennials and present-day snowflakes, who think it's probably "tough" to be without internet for a few hours. They couldn't handle what the depression era folks went through
Anyone in 2024 July
The great depression was 100 years ago because it's 2020
The depression began in 1929 and practically defined the 1930s
People are too selfish now a days and we are in for a lot of trouble
Its ironic that the mans uncles name is uncle Sam... Like the government lol
Wow no black people interviewed ...
Histrionic and emotional. Extremely unhelpful.
@@0annonymous your response is equally histrionic, emotional and equally extremely unhelpful. If you find solace in the return of Christ, I hope your piety is as strong as you posture.