You never know what simple things can impact one's life. In the late 80's early 90's I went on a several day camp on a small island with my son and nephews. I made a reflector oven from branches and aluminum foil and prepared biscuits to go with the fish we'd caught. I saw one of the nephews a few years ago and he said he never forgot those biscuits and how I made an oven that baked them to perfection and he said to that day he had never tasted biscuits so good. I couldn't believe that out of the entire stay that was the main thing he remembered. Main thing for people to remember is to just take kids camping, hiking, fishing, hunting as often as possible so they will have memories to hold onto regardless of significance.
Yep, a favorite memory of mine is when 3, 17 year old high school buddies decided to go elk hunting. No clue what we were doing and we all basically borrowed everything we took. I even borrowed my girlfriend’s dad’s pickup. A disastrous trip in every sense of the word and now, in our 70’s, we still laugh about the train wreck of calamities during that trip. Fun to tell the grandkids, nephews and nieces.
I'm 67 now ,I haven't set up that same tent sense about 1973. As I watched you do it I remembered it. My dad used that tent hunting and fishing from the 40's. It was a great tent. Good memories.
My mother was born into a very poor family in 1937. Her mom & dad both worked many hours a day in a cotton mill. She told me many times of camping in the Smokies. They had no tent, but slept out on the ground. However, they used many of these items when cooking out over a fire. In her later years, she never tried of recalling how much fun the family had on these simple camping trips in the mountains. I greatly appreciate what you do. Thank you!
My mother had the same"affliction" you have,she was addicted to antique camping goods and old pic-nic items, she was born in 1920 in california,and would frequent anywhere that sold such things,i really appreciate what you do and its very heartwarming for me.
Reminds me of my childhood in the late 50s and early 60s. My parents would set up a campsite in the Pocono Mts in Pennsylvania for the summer months. My father was a city boy but Mom had grown up on the Mississippi coast in the 30s and 40s, hunting, fishing and camping with her father and brother. She was an expert camper and just as comfortable in the woods as she was at home. I vaguely remember my mom cooking over the fire, but that eventually changed to a Colman gasoline stove. With the camp stove, the meals we ate in camp were just as good (or frankly, better) than the meals Mom prepared at home. Dad would "commandeer" four shipping pallets from where he worked at the start of every year to use as a floor for the tent since it was a bottomless canvas tent. This kept our bedding off the ground protecting it from rain puddles throughout the summer months.
Really cool camp equipment! I remember when I was young, my dad always wanted a 9x9 umbrella tent, instead of the old tent that we had. He never got the umbrella tent, because money was tight. Great video!
You are putting together a fine collection of period equipment and gear. The result is that you can offer a true atmosphere as to what my grandparent's camping trips looked like.
A lot of the modern-day bushcrafters and campers have an elitist type aditude. Some seem to think you need the newest or most expensive gear. I get inspired by this channel because you can use what you have and just have fun without spending a fortune. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
In watching this it made a memory of my sleeping bag that was that exact mustard color on the inside and brown on the outside with cowboys like at a rodeo.
Absolutely beautiful old camping gear that tent is priceless my grandpa had one when I was a very young child can’t believe you found one in good shape,
Another fantastic Hobo life video. I love your attention to detail and how you make it so immersive. Please keep the hobo and 1930's camp life series going! They are special.
Recently discovered your channel, and it's fastly become my favorite. I really appreciate your attention to detail and the lengths you go to have authentic period correct pieces. Too many people buy vintage-esque clothing and stop there. Keep the content rolling, sir
When I was growing up (I’m 54 now) here in the uk my mum and dad had a nice old canvas tent they had owned for years. Every summer it would get put up at some point in the back garden and I would sleep out in it during the summer holidays . Till this day I remember that smell and it would send me straight back to those days even going in a canvas marquee . I really do love seeing all the old equipment you have collected and definitely shows how stuff was made to last . I can’t imagine someone will be able to make the same video in 50years with are modern gear. Great video👍
My dad probably had the same kind or at least very similar from what I remember. It’s been long gone. He was always replacing the glass liner and he was very happy when he got his first thermos that was all steel. I haven’t seen the glass liners in stores in about forty years and don’t know if they still make them. I would retire that old thermos and replace it with an all steel version. I know it’s not period accurate but I wouldn’t want to risk breaking the old one.
I lived most of 10 yrs as an Arizona Nomad, and there are so many similarities in how I set up my camp kitchen. Most often, I traveled with a few friends and did a lot of the cooking, usually set up on a folding table with a Coleman stove and folding Coleman oven. Nothing beats fresh biscuits with bacon and eggs cooked outside for a group of friends. Maybe mine wasn't quite as vintage. But it still functioned the same way.
My wife's grandfather was a camp cook for many a hunting outfitter in the 1960 and 70s. He would quit a good job to go with an outfitter for a few months. He loved doing this. This video reminded me of him.
@@WayPointSurvival He had many a story! He gave me his Winchester Model 70 that he used in those camps. I gave it to my son when he was of age to hunt. Might also say that his last employer figured out his pattern and adjusted accordingly, hiring him back when was out of the camp cook job (small town and good ol' boy way of dealing with things).
It's amazing to me how similar much of this gear is to the stuff I grew up camping with in the early 1970s. Not much about this type of gear really changed very dramatically for many years, until plastics and other materials came along to change things more fundamentally. But the tent, table, chair, spade, etc. look almost identical to the stuff my dad brought out when it was time for camping. Come to think of it, some of that gear he'd probably had for years at that point, and he may have even obtained it second hand as well, so it very well could have been a lot older to begin with. Back then, gear was made to last. But watching you set up this camp brought out a lot of nostalgia.
I love how you use period correct gear. You are bringing back a lot of happy memories of camping with my dad. More modern gear, but the idea was the same, although we had a white gas Coleman stove for many years!
Former 50 of 74 years a hobo. Great video. Surprising enough your camp cooking set up is very close to what was used when I was a kid. As a youth we had a canvas tent very close to what you showed. Us kids would sleep in the tent in the back yard during the summer months because our house was hot as hell. We used a stove top coffee pot just like what you showed as it took what seemed like hours to use our electric coffee pot. Back in the 1950s no such animal as a drip pot. As a boy scout our occasional weekend camping trips had just about every thing you showed and in a wooden box very much like the one you showed. Tho we did have an metal ice chest. The ice never lasted long, it was mostly to keep critters from running off with the meat.
I'm 40 and live in Australia, my youth was spent in a very similar tent called a 1 minute tent (it took a lot longer than 1 minute to put up and a lot of yelling from dad) built in the early eighties with a vulcanised base that came up the sides about 2 foot that turned into a swimming pool one ill fated camping trip after heavy rain and flash flooding in the snowy River area.
What's crazy is the stuff he's wearing used to be what poor folks wore but now those handmade high leather boots are 500 plus, those wool pants are a good 100 plus and the wool shirt also 100 plus, even the felt hat is hundreds of dollars now
@@verbena208 I've found a few brands that are quality and at a good price range like Jim green boots that are made in south africa by experts and they are around 150 to 250 bucks but very worth it
@@missourimongoose8858 Your estimates are a bit high, but either way don't let the numbers fool you. Sure those boots might have been like $6 in 1930, but the average laborer's wage in a state like New York was around 58 cents an hour. In a state like Alabama it was half that. To put that into perspective, that $6 is 26 hours of Alabama labor, or $180 at the current $7.25. A flannel shirt then was around $1.29, now it's $40 for similar quality. Same sort of deal. If the poor were wearing the sort of clothes he's wearing here it was secondhand, or years old and wearing out. Camping for recreation only became an option for the average person with the advent of the automobile and the establishment of the national parks and highways. Camping like *this* was the middle class glamping of the 1930s.
@steampossum7905 if anything I'm low man, sure cheap boots today are 100 bucks but they aren't handmade leather boots like he has on in this video, go look at the price of nicks boots right now lol they are 500 plus or russel moccasins they are 700 plus and a 40 dollar flannel today isn't even close to the quality back then
Thanks. Another great video. I've got quite a collection of old tools from eighty years ago. They still work, and look like they'll last forever. Amazing how things were made to last. I think we've lost something. Keep on posting.
There's something about the simplicity of living off the land where the only sound is the running stream. It feeds your soul in a way that nothing else can! You're communing with nature in a very spiritual and uplifting way.
Well done James. Can't wait to get back out in the woodland with tent and essentials that makes you feel and glad to be alive. God willing, I'll recuperate well from open heart surgery that I just went through and sit in front of a fine camp and fire. God bless
Yes ! I enjoyed seeing your camping nostalgia and I remember seeing some of the utensils in my boy scout troop 149 in the Roanoke valley NC BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE ON THE BANKS OF THE ROANOKE RIVER ,,,CIRCA 1974 ❤
I love the 1930’s & 40’s way of life. I've been very interested in how they lived now more than ever. To some it may seem like they didn’t have much compared to the junk we have today. What they did own was quality, and it was paid for.
My man, this channel is brilliant. I've watched most of the hobo series and the entire 1890s epic and I have to say your passion for this stuff is really infectious. The gadgets especially are excellent, and even my girlfriend now wants one of those reflector ovens
I have several of the old coffee pots in different sizes but the nested one is a 20 cup that I bought of eBay a year ago and when I seen it came from lance creek Wyoming I messaged the lady and told her that my late brother in law and sister in law used to trap out there every winter and that the rancher had even offered me a job out there but my wife did not want to leave Michigan When I told the lady that she said oh yes I remember that and now remember him offering you the job she said she had just lost her dear husband the year before and that the coffee pot had been on many a cattle drive over the years and you can tell it has a history. She was in her 90s now but even at her age still remembered my in-laws first and last names and how many good times they had had with them and that was back in 1975 through the early 80s when the fur prices went to heck. Brad and Julie used to run 500 traps and it was nothing for them to catch well over 500 -1000 fox coyotes and beaver in a season they would trap from October to the first part of January in Wyoming one the head to Georgia to trap until the end of the season down there. They just ran the trap line and had a couple young fellows that would do all the shinning for them I remember that it was nothing for them to come home in the spring with a roll of cash that was well over a hundred thousand dollars and that was after paying the young guys for skinning and all other expenses. Brad was smart though he sold real estate here in northern Michigan in the summer and at that time there were many pieces of property that were along the Ausable river near Grayling and Lowell’s Michigan that.he would have listed for sale for people. And if it did not sell before the listing ran out he would make the owners a decent offer and end up buying it. Most pieces were not cleared or even had a road into it so he bought an old dump truck a bulldozer and a backhoe and would build a road and clear out a building spot and end up turning a really really nice profit when he would sell the piece. A lot of the piece were off old trail roads where the national grand from camp grayling would be training in the summer. If you’re not familiar with camp Grayling it is the largest national graurd base in the United States. Ok I’m done rambling just thought that the old coffee pot story might be interesting
@@plupyduplupydu1369 oh heck no do you want my whole life story it’s a number one best seller. Once you start to read it I promise you will not be able to set it down it starts with having my first file to carry around the farm at age 4 and attending a one rom school house in the 1960s
You consistently amaze me with your unique items. That folding table would sell as fast as they hit the market. Someone with the means should reproduce them. Thanks a bunch for sharing your treasures with us.
My parents had an umbrella tent. Wow, this was a memory lane video. I remember my parents and grandparents using these items. Unfortunately, due to greed and thoughtlessness amongst my parents generation and my siblings, most sll of these items are gone. But, i would say you were spot on.
Can’t tell you how much I love what you do. Thank you sir. Please keep up the good work. Would love to see you cook with this set up and camp/sleep in the tent.
I can smell the canvas in that tent , what an aroma , takes me back to younger days. Your spade , I'm very familiar with them. My Dad had a couple from Germany that look exactly like that and we used them when digging bushes for resale. From the late 50'and early 60's. I have dug thousands of bushes with one of those spades. Dad had 20 acres of bushes and I was the one digging them for customers back then. Today I'm 81 and still have two of those spades out in my workshop. One with a short handle and with a one long handle , they last forever.
I'm 67 and I remember camping with my mom, dad & my older brother on the Current River near Datto AR. Back when I was 5-12 years old we'd go there every year during model change Dad was from there and back then he had kin there. Anyway we had a tent like that but it had a side room on it. I remember my brother & me in that small part and mom & dad in the bigger area. Dad Had a lot of that camping stuff like that he got from my grandpa his dad when he passed on. They're all gone now just me but your video brought back some good memories thanks.
I'm 56 my grandfather died whin I was 8. He was 62. Never cashed his first retirement check. He bilt a camp stove from a folding card table and a old gas stove top. Was what I first learned to fry a egg on.
What a terrific camp kitchen video Jim. You are a walking, talking museum of information of the way things were and maybe even the way they still can be for some. After you do your end review shot of the video, you should also show it in B&W just for old times sake. Great job.
as a kid I remember my dad cleaning out a section of the barn and he pulled out a green canvas tent that looked a lot like the one you have,,,it was in pretty bad shape as the mice ate plenty of holes thru it. he said it belonged to my grandfather, farmers never threw anything out, there was always a use for it down the road , thanks for the interesting video take care my friend
James, Thanks for the video showcasing the old time tents and kitchen wares. Really fascinating how and why they got along camping and all in all that really wasn't that much gear. Speaking for myself I really appreciate the time and effort you put into doing these videos for US. Thanks Again, Be Safe, and God Bless! P.S. ---> I really like the camp table.
I have that same tent you have in the back ground a man gave me it to me years ago at a yard sale I slept in it all summer for three summers the windows look like the screen is a cheese cloth type material I love it.
😂God bless you. Your getting over a cold and still working hard. Thanks for the informative video and many things you have taught me. Brother on Christ
Wow, this was so interesting brother. Thank you for sharing it. You obviously spent a lot of time, research and money on the gear used so long ago. I’m amazed at how we have the same setups, but with modern day plastics and aluminum!😂 I appreciate how we human beings have the same needs when we go camping. I really enjoy your videos and would donate if my funds allowed, but it is nice that I can check your videos out for free. You and Dave Canterbury to include many others have taken the time to share this era! God Bless my friend!😊
I remember my old umbrella tent, when it was destroyed in a windstorm, I replaced it with an American made springbar. That was 20 years ago, I still miss how easy that old umbrella tent was to set up. Happy camping!
Boyscout camping was similar up to about 60 years ago. Then it went through some big changes. By the 1970s, we had more synthetic materials which made everything lighter. Nice video. Good Luck, Rick
You should feature some Singer sewing machines from this era or before. As an Upholsterer in Scotland I have a few. My pride and joy is the Singer PATCHER ❤❤❤❤❤❤. It's from 1887 , still working brilliantly 👏 😀 😉. This was the Cobblers leather sewing machine. ❤. The sewing foot can revolve 360 degrees ! SEW clever !😂
Nice, this really contrasts the Hobo videos where a minimalist thought prevailed. In the 1960s,my family camped with a big canvas tent. My dad built a plywood box that fit in the luggage rack on top of the station wagon. We had a Coleman stove though, but the rest looked very familiar. Thanks.
Thank you, James, for bringing this genre of video with such quality and without an overbearing ego to dampen our enthusiasm for connecting with like minded recreationists. Even my 5-year-old granddaughters ask if we can watch the Hobo videos and then ask if we can go out and do the things they watched or if I can get out their little backpacks and go through their equipment. God Bless.
I have said, before and I will say, again: I like the hobo series but I really enjoy these classic camping videos more. That tent is awesome! I think you can still buy reflector ovens that are pretty much the same design. Dave Canterbury did a video a couple of years ago where he showed how to DIY one out of a few baking/cookie sheets, a few bolts and wing nuts. That is a project I want to try when I get one of those round tuits that everyone talks about.
I appreciate the time you put into your research and preparing for your camp setup! So many could not survive today if SHTF so to say. Folks even had a hard time after this year's storm season. They have forgotten our history and the ways that help pave the way for all the conveniences they take for granted in today's society. Thanks again for all you do! I know it's not easy to find some of the gear you have!
I live in Montreal and that Father John's Medicine box definitely rings a bell, likely form some small tin or glass bottles I have seen in antique stores... AND that peek into the past shows us things have not necessarily changed all that much when it comes to camping if you're not an ultralight gear head.
I love how the difference between you and Daves kit, Dave with the Hunters woodsman gear and you with the more gucci gear of the day for the camper. This was fantastic I hope you guys can come together and do it again in years to come.
My grandad who lived in Hocking Co. Ohio had a similar tent he used when he went out fox hunting. The center pole was a two part heavy wooden pole with a metal collar that connected the two pieces. The spreader was iron. I used it when I was a boy and remember it smelled of camp dry waterproofing and kerosene.
James, I love your channel. I recently discovered your 1790s series. It is AMAZING! I am hooked. It's like a documentary of a time period before cameras, recordings, etc... It's one of the best series I've ever seen. Thank you for doing such a great job of accurately displaying time and events. Job well done!!!!!
I like this type of camping I have some folding metal Medical tables and a field desk from Sportsmans Guide. I like putting the grill on a metal table and off the ground. 😊
@WayPointSurvival Thank You. I have a Slumberjack Roadhouse tarp that I snug up next to my tent. It looks attached to the vestibule but isn't in case of wind gust. But it makes a great porch I can raise and lower witj the poles. I keep the hard gear under it and out of the elemants and it make a sort of living room. I basically use it for the tent the way Slumberjack intended for an SUV/TRUCK.
@@WayPointSurvival Oh Wow! Thank You! I just ordered the Putties and a 48 Star Flag for My 100 year old Grandfather. I take care of Him and My Grandparents taught Me a lot of this way of living and preserving. We still have His Coleman two burner and works just fine, I put in a new pump seal last year. I really appreciate Your Channel and wach often.
Great looking camp. Looks pretty much the way our camp used to look back in the 1960s when I used to camp with my family at lake Cumberland. Our canvas tent was shaped the same but it had an aluminum Pole frame on the outside. Of course back then we used the white gas Coleman stove and Coleman lantern. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Ron
It’s amazing to me that so many people think of this video as a interesting bit of information from the past, and not an instructional for when this all happens to us again. We are not as advanced and past ruin as we would like to think we are.
❤️ A wonderful collection of life and camp items in amazingly good condition too. Reminds me of my own fascination for these already antique things and times back when I was growing up. As always , thank you for sharing. 🏞️🏕️☕🍔🌭
Brings back loads of memories from when my Dad would take us kids camping in the 50s. The War Surplus stores in those days were a treasure trove of good useful camping gear. Our camping tent was almost exactly like yours and he would double up the bottom with a thick military tarp. Simple but tough, and a lot of great camp outs. 🙂
So many of those items bring back fond memories. Our tent was a heavy, canvas, vertical walled, blue and tan "cabin" tent with a front awning (sized for 8 if I remember correctly, though we were a family of 5) from the late fifties. My brother and I had aluminum "bunk" cots while Mom, Dad and my sister had similar floor level cots. We had a larger kitchen box that required both my brother and me to carry. I now have dad's old garden spades that look much like yours, one is square like yours, the other is curved to a blunt point. Even your accoutrements seemed very familiar! I still remember the smell of that old tent quite fondly - not musty, but definitely canvas! But let me tell you that if we ever had to break camp in a heavy downpour (as we did on a few occasions), that tent was extremely heavy and awkward to _heave_ to the top of the station wagon and into a secure position under my canoe!! Setting the wet soggy tent up in the backyard to dry out was a chore too - I'm surprised the aluminum poles survived the stress! Thanks, James. Your videos are much appreciated for many reasons!
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You never know what simple things can impact one's life. In the late 80's early 90's I went on a several day camp on a small island with my son and nephews. I made a reflector oven from branches and aluminum foil and prepared biscuits to go with the fish we'd caught. I saw one of the nephews a few years ago and he said he never forgot those biscuits and how I made an oven that baked them to perfection and he said to that day he had never tasted biscuits so good. I couldn't believe that out of the entire stay that was the main thing he remembered. Main thing for people to remember is to just take kids camping, hiking, fishing, hunting as often as possible so they will have memories to hold onto regardless of significance.
Very great point I have very specific memories of camping withy parents as a kid that theymay not remember
Bless you for doing that
Absolutely, it's amazing how the simplest things can create the most impactful memories.
Yep, a favorite memory of mine is when 3, 17 year old high school buddies decided to go elk hunting. No clue what we were doing and we all basically borrowed everything we took. I even borrowed my girlfriend’s dad’s pickup. A disastrous trip in every sense of the word and now, in our 70’s, we still laugh about the train wreck of calamities during that trip. Fun to tell the grandkids, nephews and nieces.
Great story. Thank you
I'm 67 now ,I haven't set up that same tent sense about 1973. As I watched you do it I remembered it. My dad used that tent hunting and fishing from the 40's. It was a great tent. Good memories.
That's wonderful! I'm glad it brought back good memories.
My mother was born into a very poor family in 1937. Her mom & dad both worked many hours a day in a cotton mill. She told me many times of camping in the Smokies. They had no tent, but slept out on the ground. However, they used many of these items when cooking out over a fire. In her later years, she never tried of recalling how much fun the family had on these simple camping trips in the mountains. I greatly appreciate what you do. Thank you!
That's a great story! Thanks so much for watching.
We camped,as a kid, in the 50s. My dad had a big green canvas tent,I remember how it smelled. Great memories.
Yeah. The smell. It brings you right back.
My mother had the same"affliction" you have,she was addicted to antique camping goods and old pic-nic items, she was born in 1920 in california,and would frequent anywhere that sold such things,i really appreciate what you do and its very heartwarming for me.
Reminds me of my childhood in the late 50s and early 60s. My parents would set up a campsite in the Pocono Mts in Pennsylvania for the summer months. My father was a city boy but Mom had grown up on the Mississippi coast in the 30s and 40s, hunting, fishing and camping with her father and brother. She was an expert camper and just as comfortable in the woods as she was at home. I vaguely remember my mom cooking over the fire, but that eventually changed to a Colman gasoline stove. With the camp stove, the meals we ate in camp were just as good (or frankly, better) than the meals Mom prepared at home. Dad would "commandeer" four shipping pallets from where he worked at the start of every year to use as a floor for the tent since it was a bottomless canvas tent. This kept our bedding off the ground protecting it from rain puddles throughout the summer months.
You have an amazing collection of good old reliable gear.
Thank you kindly!
All the old school stuff is neat. That tent is really kool . The fact it made it all these years i was born in 73 and its in better shape than me.
Thanks so much for watching!
Really cool camp equipment! I remember when I was young, my dad always wanted a 9x9 umbrella tent, instead of the old tent that we had. He never got the umbrella tent, because money was tight. Great video!
You are putting together a fine collection of period equipment and gear. The result is that you can offer a true atmosphere as to what my grandparent's camping trips looked like.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
I can almost smell the old tent., Thanks for this.
Can almost smell the people sleeping in it
A lot of the modern-day bushcrafters and campers have an elitist type aditude. Some seem to think you need the newest or most expensive gear. I get inspired by this channel because you can use what you have and just have fun without spending a fortune. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
In watching this it made a memory of my sleeping bag that was that exact mustard color on the inside and brown on the outside with cowboys like at a rodeo.
Great demonstration of the old quality kit there James, never seen a fire reflector oven before 👍
It's mainly TH-camrs and not actual campers I run into with the fancy equipment. We use older, dependable stuff if we aren't hiking five miles.
@MIForrestguy I agree. That's really what I meant, but I just could have worded it better.
Thats just youtubers and lazy people that cant carry any weight
Absolutely beautiful old camping gear that tent is priceless my grandpa had one when I was a very young child can’t believe you found one in good shape,
Another fantastic Hobo life video. I love your attention to detail and how you make it so immersive. Please keep the hobo and 1930's camp life series going! They are special.
Recently discovered your channel, and it's fastly become my favorite. I really appreciate your attention to detail and the lengths you go to have authentic period correct pieces. Too many people buy vintage-esque clothing and stop there.
Keep the content rolling, sir
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoy the videos!
When I was growing up (I’m 54 now) here in the uk my mum and dad had a nice old canvas tent they had owned for years. Every summer it would get put up at some point in the back garden and I would sleep out in it during the summer holidays . Till this day I remember that smell and it would send me straight back to those days even going in a canvas marquee .
I really do love seeing all the old equipment you have collected and definitely shows how stuff was made to last . I can’t imagine someone will be able to make the same video in 50years with are modern gear.
Great video👍
WELL DONE! I can smell the old canvas. Using old WWII pup tents the smell takes me back. Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
YMCA 'Indian Guides', 1960s.
One of the Dads in our group was James Doohan, Star Trek's 'Scotty'.
I still have the thermos from my Dad's lunch box around 1964, its got red plaid paint job like that shirt your wearing
Very cool!
My dad probably had the same kind or at least very similar from what I remember. It’s been long gone. He was always replacing the glass liner and he was very happy when he got his first thermos that was all steel.
I haven’t seen the glass liners in stores in about forty years and don’t know if they still make them. I would retire that old thermos and replace it with an all steel version. I know it’s not period accurate but I wouldn’t want to risk breaking the old one.
I lived most of 10 yrs as an Arizona Nomad, and there are so many similarities in how I set up my camp kitchen. Most often, I traveled with a few friends and did a lot of the cooking, usually set up on a folding table with a Coleman stove and folding Coleman oven. Nothing beats fresh biscuits with bacon and eggs cooked outside for a group of friends. Maybe mine wasn't quite as vintage. But it still functioned the same way.
I love you so much for sharing ❤this story story us so I can eat it ❤often ⁴
You were a bum
My wife's grandfather was a camp cook for many a hunting outfitter in the 1960 and 70s. He would quit a good job to go with an outfitter for a few months. He loved doing this. This video reminded me of him.
That's wonderful! He must have had a lot of great stories!
@@WayPointSurvival He had many a story! He gave me his Winchester Model 70 that he used in those camps. I gave it to my son when he was of age to hunt. Might also say that his last employer figured out his pattern and adjusted accordingly, hiring him back when was out of the camp cook job (small town and good ol' boy way of dealing with things).
It's amazing to me how similar much of this gear is to the stuff I grew up camping with in the early 1970s. Not much about this type of gear really changed very dramatically for many years, until plastics and other materials came along to change things more fundamentally. But the tent, table, chair, spade, etc. look almost identical to the stuff my dad brought out when it was time for camping. Come to think of it, some of that gear he'd probably had for years at that point, and he may have even obtained it second hand as well, so it very well could have been a lot older to begin with. Back then, gear was made to last. But watching you set up this camp brought out a lot of nostalgia.
Yes, the design of much of this gear stayed the same for a long time.
I love all the authentic items.Ive broken several of those glass thermos over the years.THANKS JAMES
Those thermos are great, but you have to be careful with them!
I love how you use period correct gear. You are bringing back a lot of happy memories of camping with my dad. More modern gear, but the idea was the same, although we had a white gas Coleman stove for many years!
Hell they still make the good old white gas stoves, if it has a red tank its white gas of silver its dual fuel
Now that's the best camping video I've watched in a long time - took me back to a better time and place. Thank you.
I really enjoyed the journey back in time. You have collected some real iconic gear. Thanks for sharing.
Former 50 of 74 years a hobo. Great video. Surprising enough your camp cooking set up is very close to what was used when I was a kid. As a youth we had a canvas tent very close to what you showed. Us kids would sleep in the tent in the back yard during the summer months because our house was hot as hell. We used a stove top coffee pot just like what you showed as it took what seemed like hours to use our electric coffee pot. Back in the 1950s no such animal as a drip pot. As a boy scout our occasional weekend camping trips had just about every thing you showed and in a wooden box very much like the one you showed. Tho we did have an metal ice chest. The ice never lasted long, it was mostly to keep critters from running off with the meat.
Very cool! As always, thanks so much for watching and for your thoughtful and supportive comments. I truly appreciate it!
I'm 40 and live in Australia, my youth was spent in a very similar tent called a 1 minute tent (it took a lot longer than 1 minute to put up and a lot of yelling from dad) built in the early eighties with a vulcanised base that came up the sides about 2 foot that turned into a swimming pool one ill fated camping trip after heavy rain and flash flooding in the snowy River area.
I certainly appreciate all the hard work you put into these vintage camping videos! Great content.
Glad you like them!
It's amazing just how prepared people were back in the day versus now. I learn so much from watching these videos it's just amazing.
What's crazy is the stuff he's wearing used to be what poor folks wore but now those handmade high leather boots are 500 plus, those wool pants are a good 100 plus and the wool shirt also 100 plus, even the felt hat is hundreds of dollars now
@missourimongoose8858 yeah we're s society that prioritizes the cheap and glamorous over the functional.
@@verbena208 I've found a few brands that are quality and at a good price range like Jim green boots that are made in south africa by experts and they are around 150 to 250 bucks but very worth it
@@missourimongoose8858 Your estimates are a bit high, but either way don't let the numbers fool you. Sure those boots might have been like $6 in 1930, but the average laborer's wage in a state like New York was around 58 cents an hour. In a state like Alabama it was half that. To put that into perspective, that $6 is 26 hours of Alabama labor, or $180 at the current $7.25. A flannel shirt then was around $1.29, now it's $40 for similar quality. Same sort of deal. If the poor were wearing the sort of clothes he's wearing here it was secondhand, or years old and wearing out.
Camping for recreation only became an option for the average person with the advent of the automobile and the establishment of the national parks and highways. Camping like *this* was the middle class glamping of the 1930s.
@steampossum7905 if anything I'm low man, sure cheap boots today are 100 bucks but they aren't handmade leather boots like he has on in this video, go look at the price of nicks boots right now lol they are 500 plus or russel moccasins they are 700 plus and a 40 dollar flannel today isn't even close to the quality back then
Thanks. Another great video. I've got quite a collection of old tools from eighty years ago. They still work, and look like they'll last forever. Amazing how things were made to last. I think we've lost something. Keep on posting.
Thanks, will do!
There's something about the simplicity of living off the land where the only sound is the running stream. It feeds your soul in a way that nothing else can! You're communing with nature in a very spiritual and uplifting way.
That's a great way to put it!
You're a hoot. Love to watch and learn about your knowledge and the past. Keep up the good work.
Yeah waypoint. We all really love these nostalgia vids. Great job bro. 👍🏻
That umbrella tent brought back lots of memories!
Thanks for watching!
Well done James. Can't wait to get back out in the woodland with tent and essentials that makes you feel and glad to be alive. God willing, I'll recuperate well from open heart surgery that I just went through and sit in front of a fine camp and fire. God bless
Sounds good, God bless and get well soon!
Yes ! I enjoyed seeing your camping nostalgia and I remember seeing some of the utensils in my boy scout troop 149 in the Roanoke valley NC BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE ON THE BANKS OF THE ROANOKE RIVER ,,,CIRCA 1974 ❤
Cool!
@@WayPointSurvival thanks 👍
@Louis-e6q reminde me of a patrol Chuck box in a way.
I love the 1930’s & 40’s way of life. I've been very interested in how they lived now more than ever. To some it may seem like they didn’t have much compared to the junk we have today. What they did own was quality, and it was paid for.
My man, this channel is brilliant. I've watched most of the hobo series and the entire 1890s epic and I have to say your passion for this stuff is really infectious. The gadgets especially are excellent, and even my girlfriend now wants one of those reflector ovens
Thanks for watching! I hope you continue to enjoy the channel!
I have several of the old coffee pots in different sizes but the nested one is a 20 cup that I bought of eBay a year ago and when I seen it came from lance creek Wyoming I messaged the lady and told her that my late brother in law and sister in law used to trap out there every winter and that the rancher had even offered me a job out there but my wife did not want to leave Michigan When I told the lady that she said oh yes I remember that and now remember him offering you the job she said she had just lost her dear husband the year before and that the coffee pot had been on many a cattle drive over the years and you can tell it has a history. She was in her 90s now but even at her age still remembered my in-laws first and last names and how many good times they had had with them and that was back in 1975 through the early 80s when the fur prices went to heck. Brad and Julie used to run 500 traps and it was nothing for them to catch well over 500 -1000 fox coyotes and beaver in a season they would trap from October to the first part of January in Wyoming one the head to Georgia to trap until the end of the season down there. They just ran the trap line and had a couple young fellows that would do all the shinning for them I remember that it was nothing for them to come home in the spring with a roll of cash that was well over a hundred thousand dollars and that was after paying the young guys for skinning and all other expenses. Brad was smart though he sold real estate here in northern Michigan in the summer and at that time there were many pieces of property that were along the Ausable river near Grayling and Lowell’s Michigan that.he would have listed for sale for people. And if it did not sell before the listing ran out he would make the owners a decent offer and end up buying it. Most pieces were not cleared or even had a road into it so he bought an old dump truck a bulldozer and a backhoe and would build a road and clear out a building spot and end up turning a really really nice profit when he would sell the piece. A lot of the piece were off old trail roads where the national grand from camp grayling would be training in the summer. If you’re not familiar with camp Grayling it is the largest national graurd base in the United States. Ok I’m done rambling just thought that the old coffee pot story might be interesting
Is that your whole life story:)
@@plupyduplupydu1369 oh heck no do you want my whole life story it’s a number one best seller. Once you start to read it I promise you will not be able to set it down it starts with having my first file to carry around the farm at age 4 and attending a one rom school house in the 1960s
Wow, what a great story! Thanks for sharing.
The aluminum reflector oven is really neat. A lot better than eating ash cakes.
Great equipment for that time I like the tent
You consistently amaze me with your unique items. That folding table would sell as fast as they hit the market. Someone with the means should reproduce them. Thanks a bunch for sharing your treasures with us.
It really is a great table. I wish they still made them as well!
My parents had an umbrella tent. Wow, this was a memory lane video. I remember my parents and grandparents using these items. Unfortunately, due to greed and thoughtlessness amongst my parents generation and my siblings, most sll of these items are gone. But, i would say you were spot on.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it brought back some good memories.
Can’t tell you how much I love what you do. Thank you sir. Please keep up the good work. Would love to see you cook with this set up and camp/sleep in the tent.
Thanks for watching and for the suggestion!
Man, so much work went into this ! thanks for so nice video about camping history!
I can smell the canvas in that tent , what an aroma , takes me back to younger days. Your spade , I'm very familiar with them. My Dad had a couple from Germany that look exactly like that and we used them when digging bushes for resale. From the late 50'and early 60's. I have dug thousands of bushes with one of those spades. Dad had 20 acres of bushes and I was the one digging them for customers back then. Today I'm 81 and still have two of those spades out in my workshop. One with a short handle and with a one long handle , they last forever.
I have a German one from WW2, that I have sanded, shellacked,and painted the steel flat black,it looks new
Still have mine, its worn down to a quarter its size from generations of use
We had an umbrella tent back in the 50’s. Served us very well!
They are great tents!
i really like your series on the past camping and hobo series keep up the great job
I'm 67 and I remember camping with my mom, dad & my older brother on the Current River near Datto AR. Back when I was 5-12 years old we'd go there every year during model change Dad was from there and back then he had kin there. Anyway we had a tent like that but it had a side room on it. I remember my brother & me in that small part and mom & dad in the bigger area. Dad Had a lot of that camping stuff like that he got from my grandpa his dad when he passed on. They're all gone now just me but your video brought back some good memories thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
I'm 56 my grandfather died whin I was 8. He was 62. Never cashed his first retirement check. He bilt a camp stove from a folding card table and a old gas stove top. Was what I first learned to fry a egg on.
Nice setup. Love your collection and the fact you aren't afraid to set it up and use it. Everything but the kitchen sink, I mean dish pan.
I absolutely love your videos. This is what real camping should be like. Not the camping videos they make today with fancy gadgets and internet.😎👍💯
Why gatekeep? Everybody can camp, regardless of their means.
OMG!!!!! This is the best You Tube ever!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Happy Hobo Glamping!
What a terrific camp kitchen video Jim. You are a walking, talking museum of information of the way things were and maybe even the way they still can be for some. After you do your end review shot of the video, you should also show it in B&W just for old times sake. Great job.
as a kid I remember my dad cleaning out a section of the barn and he pulled out a green canvas tent that looked a lot like the one you have,,,it was in pretty bad shape as the mice ate plenty of holes thru it. he said it belonged to my grandfather, farmers never threw anything out, there was always a use for it down the road , thanks for the interesting video take care my friend
Great information, also love those Leather pouches. Thanks..
James, Thanks for the video showcasing the old time tents and kitchen wares. Really fascinating how and why they got along camping and all in all that really wasn't that much gear. Speaking for myself I really appreciate the time and effort you put into doing these videos for US. Thanks Again, Be Safe, and God Bless! P.S. ---> I really like the camp table.
You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words and God bless you too!
I have that same tent you have in the back ground a man gave me it to me years ago at a yard sale I slept in it all summer for three summers the windows look like the screen is a cheese cloth type material I love it.
That’s awesome!
😂God bless you. Your getting over a cold and still working hard. Thanks for the informative video and many things you have taught me. Brother on Christ
You're very welcome, and God bless you!
Great job, sir. I appreciate the education you provide with your content. Very enjoyable.
I appreciate that! Take care, my friend!
Wow, this was so interesting brother. Thank you for sharing it. You obviously spent a lot of time, research and money on the gear used so long ago. I’m amazed at how we have the same setups, but with modern day plastics and aluminum!😂 I appreciate how we human beings have the same needs when we go camping. I really enjoy your videos and would donate if my funds allowed, but it is nice that I can check your videos out for free. You and Dave Canterbury to include many others have taken the time to share this era! God Bless my friend!😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the kind words and God bless you too!
As McGrews, we all let out a gasp when you showed the label on the table. Which is label aside, the coolest portable table I’ve seen.
Thanks! It is a really cool table!
I remember my old umbrella tent, when it was destroyed in a windstorm, I replaced it with an American made springbar. That was 20 years ago, I still miss how easy that old umbrella tent was to set up. Happy camping!
I’m with you! The old umbrella tents were a good design.
Boyscout camping was similar up to about 60 years ago. Then it went through some big changes. By the 1970s, we had more synthetic materials which made everything lighter. Nice video. Good Luck, Rick
Indeed.
You should feature some Singer sewing machines from this era or before.
As an Upholsterer in Scotland I have a few. My pride and joy is the Singer PATCHER ❤❤❤❤❤❤. It's from 1887 , still working brilliantly 👏 😀 😉.
This was the Cobblers leather sewing machine. ❤.
The sewing foot can revolve 360 degrees ! SEW clever !😂
Wow. Sounds like a field trip is in order
Nice, this really contrasts the Hobo videos where a minimalist thought prevailed. In the 1960s,my family camped with a big canvas tent. My dad built a plywood box that fit in the luggage rack on top of the station wagon. We had a Coleman stove though, but the rest looked very familiar. Thanks.
Yes, it's interesting to see the differences in what people needed to take camping over the years!
Thank you, James, for bringing this genre of video with such quality and without an overbearing ego to dampen our enthusiasm for connecting with like minded recreationists. Even my 5-year-old granddaughters ask if we can watch the Hobo videos and then ask if we can go out and do the things they watched or if I can get out their little backpacks and go through their equipment. God Bless.
That’s wonderful to hear! I'm glad it sparks a love for the outdoors in them! God bless you too and tell the little ones I said, "Hi!"!
Love this video. I haven’t seen any of your videos that I didn’t appreciate. Love your channel content. God Bless 🙏🏼
Awesome! Thank you and God bless you too!
Fun video. When I was a kid in the 60s we would still see those old canvas umbrella tents at campgrounds. 😊
Excellent nostalgic video, My prayers to Blackie Thomas and a speedy recovery from his mild stroke 🙏
Absolutely! He's a treasure to the outdoors community as well as a personal friend.
I like everything about this.
Thanks so much!
I have said, before and I will say, again: I like the hobo series but I really enjoy these classic camping videos more. That tent is awesome!
I think you can still buy reflector ovens that are pretty much the same design. Dave Canterbury did a video a couple of years ago where he showed how to DIY one out of a few baking/cookie sheets, a few bolts and wing nuts. That is a project I want to try when I get one of those round tuits that everyone talks about.
Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad you are liking the series!
I appreciate the time you put into your research and preparing for your camp setup! So many could not survive today if SHTF so to say. Folks even had a hard time after this year's storm season. They have forgotten our history and the ways that help pave the way for all the conveniences they take for granted in today's society. Thanks again for all you do! I know it's not easy to find some of the gear you have!
I have that same folding chair, sturdy as can be. Picked up for 2 bucks.
I live in Montreal and that Father John's Medicine box definitely rings a bell, likely form some small tin or glass bottles I have seen in antique stores...
AND that peek into the past shows us things have not necessarily changed all that much when it comes to camping if you're not an ultralight gear head.
Absolutely!
You have a nice set up
I really enjoy seeing this stuff.
I love how the difference between you and Daves kit, Dave with the Hunters woodsman gear and you with the more gucci gear of the day for the camper. This was fantastic I hope you guys can come together and do it again in years to come.
We are hoping to do it again next year, for sure.
Makes me jealous of the old ways
Yes, we have lost a lot of great things!
My grandmother had a tent like that, in the 1950s.
I must have been 3-4 years old.
It seemed huge.
My grandad who lived in Hocking Co. Ohio had a similar tent he used when he went out fox hunting. The center pole was a two part heavy wooden pole with a metal collar that connected the two pieces. The spreader was iron. I used it when I was a boy and remember it smelled of camp dry waterproofing and kerosene.
That's a very cool memory!
Super cool loved the level you took to stay true to the era I have a camping flashlight my Grandfather used back in the 30's
James, I love your channel. I recently discovered your 1790s series. It is AMAZING! I am hooked. It's like a documentary of a time period before cameras, recordings, etc... It's one of the best series I've ever seen. Thank you for doing such a great job of accurately displaying time and events. Job well done!!!!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you are enjoying the series!
Yet another astonishing collection!
Thanks so much!
I like this type of camping I have some folding metal Medical tables and a field desk from Sportsmans Guide. I like putting the grill on a metal table and off the ground. 😊
Are those Logsdon and Co boots? I plan on getting a pair in the new year.
Sounds like a great setup!
@rchristianwooley4870 Yes, and the shirt.
@WayPointSurvival Thank You. I have a Slumberjack Roadhouse tarp that I snug up next to my tent. It looks attached to the vestibule but isn't in case of wind gust. But it makes a great porch I can raise and lower witj the poles. I keep the hard gear under it and out of the elemants and it make a sort of living room. I basically use it for the tent the way Slumberjack intended for an SUV/TRUCK.
@@WayPointSurvival Oh Wow! Thank You! I just ordered the Putties and a 48 Star Flag for My 100 year old Grandfather. I take care of Him and My Grandparents taught Me a lot of this way of living and preserving. We still have His Coleman two burner and works just fine, I put in a new pump seal last year.
I really appreciate Your Channel and wach often.
Great vid as always. I really enjoy your content. Keep up the great work.
I'm glad you like it!
Great looking camp. Looks pretty much the way our camp used to look back in the 1960s when I used to camp with my family at lake Cumberland. Our canvas tent was shaped the same but it had an aluminum Pole frame on the outside. Of course back then we used the white gas Coleman stove and Coleman lantern. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Ron
It’s amazing to me that so many people think of this video as a interesting bit of information from the past, and not an instructional for when this all happens to us again. We are not as advanced and past ruin as we would like to think we are.
A slight tweak or two, and this is a great set up for today.
Greetings from the off grid cabin. Nice collection of vintage items. I also like this style of camping. Hope to see you down the tracks.
Sounds good, my friend! Thank you for watching and take care as well!
My Grandfather had some old camping equipment in his basement. It was a lot of fun to look at. It seems like it was so long ago.
That is one cool camping pitch, 😎👍
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Thank you for the effort in making these videos. I just love to see the antiques that you use.
Thanks so much! I appreciate that!
Wow! Whee in the world do you find all those wonderful old items. True treasure!!
WHERE
I find them at yard sales, flea markets, antique shops, and eBay as well as Etsy.
Always interesting. I had no idea there was such a large amount of time between the invention of canned food and the can Opener!
Thanks so much, my friend!
❤️ A wonderful collection of life and camp items in amazingly good condition too. Reminds me of my own fascination for these already antique things and times back when I was growing up.
As always , thank you for sharing. 🏞️🏕️☕🍔🌭
Brings back loads of memories from when my Dad would take us kids camping in the 50s. The War Surplus stores in those days were a treasure trove of good useful camping gear. Our camping tent was almost exactly like yours and he would double up the bottom with a thick military tarp. Simple but tough, and a lot of great camp outs. 🙂
Sounds like some great memories!
So many of those items bring back fond memories. Our tent was a heavy, canvas, vertical walled, blue and tan "cabin" tent with a front awning (sized for 8 if I remember correctly, though we were a family of 5) from the late fifties. My brother and I had aluminum "bunk" cots while Mom, Dad and my sister had similar floor level cots. We had a larger kitchen box that required both my brother and me to carry. I now have dad's old garden spades that look much like yours, one is square like yours, the other is curved to a blunt point. Even your accoutrements seemed very familiar!
I still remember the smell of that old tent quite fondly - not musty, but definitely canvas! But let me tell you that if we ever had to break camp in a heavy downpour (as we did on a few occasions), that tent was extremely heavy and awkward to _heave_ to the top of the station wagon and into a secure position under my canoe!! Setting the wet soggy tent up in the backyard to dry out was a chore too - I'm surprised the aluminum poles survived the stress!
Thanks, James. Your videos are much appreciated for many reasons!
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind words!
Everything in that box is just beautiful and precious. Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@ yes Sir. Thank you very kindly. I am new to the channel and am very much enjoying your content. Then you so much!
Great video, very informative trip back to the 20s/30s...
Glad you enjoyed it!
What’s great is much of that stuff is still used today.
Absolutely!