In 1965 I was doing a paper on the depression for an American History class at PSU. My dad was 14 in 1930, so I ask him: What was the depression like for you? He said: "Marvin, we really didn't notice it. When you're a farmer, you get up and go to work, whether you're making money or not." I've lived my life that way - still getting up and going to work at 78!
The difference is nowadays you need money to buy land and to buy tools and equipment and to get permits, etc - essentially its the same in both the cities and rural countries to build anything.
My father lived during the depression and it shaped his whole life. He saved every penny and didn’t buy frivolous things. He wouldnt buy a house even thou he could afford it and had no debt. Most every appliance in our house was something he found and fixed. He learned to fix anything. Us kids thought him to be the original Scrooge but as an adult, I now get him.
My grandmother was also a survivor of the Great Depression, she had to quit the 5th grade to help make money and raise her siblings- she was the strongest woman I know , and raised her own children as well as her sisters children , as a single mother when my grandfather passed away..
When we would go to family weddings in the 1960's, if their was any rolls, cookies, sugar packs left after the meal the aunt's would gather them up, roll them in napkins, put them in their purses and take them home. Us kids couldn't understand why they did this until we heard stories of the Depression, ration coupons, etc. This was a symptom carried forward some 20 years. I named it "depressionitis".
@@cristinafisher2565 I like that term 😀. It’s amazing how events shape peoples lives and behaviors and effect their children and even the great grands. I think some of the outcomes are valuable life lessons. Like “waste not, want not” and “take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves”.
My grandparents did pretty well during the depression. Gramps was a butcher and automotive mechanic and grams had a green thumb and loved her huge garden. They also flipped houses and rented them out. When the renters couldn't pay rent, gramps would trade or let them do work on the farm and or help butcher animals. Grama canned a lot of food, even when I was a youth. They really knew how to make things work and I am grateful they had beautiful hearts to help others and never threw anyone out into the street.
My Nanna would eat shrimp, tails and all, when we'd take her out to eat. At home, she'd break bones and get the marrow out. Southern Appalachia and the depression never left...
My grandparents also lived through the depression. My grandma did her best to grow a garden and canned everything she grew. Grandpa worked on the railroad so was going to work pretty much the whole time.
I don't know if this saying was from the depression or just from the south, but my grandma always said, "Make do or do without, take it in or let it out.
The father that came home and cried at his dinner table because he had to fire someone is a reminder of all the good there can be in the human spirit. I respect that so much.
Me too. He had compassion for his fellow man. Out of.all the jobs I've worked, both blue collar and professional, I really can't think of anyone with compassion for others like that other than myself. If someone was let go it was just gossiped about and sometimes made fun of. I am 65 now and still working and can say that it is a joke how people treat each other. I see no compassion extended to anyone for anything. It's become such a selfish world. All about me, me, me. I am so glad I can't relate to that, but it is so painful to be out in it working and just watching it happen.
@@tootsiebabe3555 That's why I rejected offers to be "promoted" into management, I wouldn't be able to take that kind of responsibility for someone else's life like that. Dad worked non-management jobs all his life, and I understand why.
Most people didn't blame the government for anything. This was not a good thing to do. I think that in this time period, people could only do so much to help themselves. Once a day bread and soup is not enough to sustain a person. I am not saying to blame the government for everything.
After my great aunt passed, (who was a young teen during the depression) I helped remove her belongings so her house could be sold. She was no hoarder, but she had organized and neatly stored every possession she had ever acquired. Even at a basic dinner you could tell she valued all of it. She would end visits by gifting me a quarter, it became a joke. I thought she was a crazy old lady until I understood what she went through. Now it all makes sense. Thank you for a great video! 👏
Times were tough, my dad was born in 1930 and he and his brothers were placed into foster care. They had nothing and I mean NOTHING. My dad never spoke much of it but my uncle sure did. he told me stories of the boys running the streets for food, eating out of garbage cans, having newspaper for shoes in the winter, stealing to survive. My dad said he didn't eat for so long that he got sick at the smell of food. They were lucky when they went to foster care. They are all gone now but they were a different breed., tough as nails. Oh, my dad was in the Korean and Vietnam war and never complained. We don't know how lucky we have it.
it's going ot happen in 2021 or 2022 it's only going to take 1 small trigger right now the stock market is be held up by people who threw their entire savings ( stimulus check) savings and the government is only supporting it at this point I all ready pulled out of the stock market silver and gold are the way to go WATER too EVEN banks are limiting cash transactions and pulling personal line of credits it sucks for them when they lose their life saving for being greedy banks will be closed ATMs are going to limit transactions the housing market is a joke and small business are pretty much gone.. it's going to be a Great Doomer Depression these poor Millennials are going to fall on their face and sink to the bottom of the ocean like the titanic it's going to be epic so hang on for the ride... I was raised by my grandparents they taught me well ( they were born in the 1930s )... so I have a lot of knowledge of not to misuse "credit" ... i have done really well for my self compared to my peers of my age.. A Key point is to plan ahead of time ... you will sink or swim ...
I'm sometimes embarrassed about how weak i feel compared to that generation. I'm 50, my grandparents fought through WWII. I won't list my family's military service because everyone had to do it, it was nothing unusual. My dad was born in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. I can't imagine the suffering the likes of your dad and your grandparents went through. I wish i could be 1% of the people they all were.
No our parents were in the forefront of what is happening now! We built in safeguards to protect against another great depression! Our politicians have sold us out though! Look at the homeless epidemic! Look at people who lost their homes due to balloon mortgages! Look at all the rights Le are being stripped of! Billionaires that don't pay taxes! Corporations killing the Independent farmers, running them off lands that have been in their families for 5 or 6 generations! Elected representatives are turning people out! We are in a different great depression!
My grandparents both lived through the depression and i remember them talking about it. They didn't like to waste things and didn't throw things away. I've picked up those same traits.
My gma was a child in the depression. Her father owned the local grocery store. She said her family was fine. However she did remember her father putting food on tab at his cost because people couldnt eat and he felt it was cruel not to help them. Food that was going to go bad soon was given freeley to the elderly and families with children. She said every single person on tab eventually paid their Bill's when things turned around.
My Grandfather ran a country store and my Grandmother would talk about eating fried bologna and grits! I just can’t imagine and I wonder how ppl would deal with a situation like that today 😳
My grandfather had a small store and he used to fry bologna slices ansd I think I remember in the 1970s eating the curled up cup of fried Bologna with a scoop of Cottage Cheese in it & Red Tomato Heinz Ketchup!
When an older person dies and the house is cleaned out, all the youngsters see the tons of things a person has accumulated and doesn't realize that anyone who came out of the depression threw NOTHING away. There might be a use for it someday. They lived frugally and simply as that event molded their characters.
We cleaned 3 overloaded huge dumpsters of stuff out of my grandparents house. Who knew a person could put so much into a 900 square foot house. That's what it was they may have a use for it someday. Organized hoarding with a purpose is what I've learned to do.
We are parents and grandparents , we save our stuff to give to family. As our children left our home, we gave them stuff to help set up their own homes. Our son was refusing to take our"junk", but within a month or so, he came back and apologised for his rudeness. He had not realised just how much money it cost him to set up a home.And home much money he saved by taking our offerings. Now it is the grandchildrens' turn. And yes, we still collect stuff to hand on. We hope that our children will remember and keep their children and grandchildren, topped up,with stuff and memories.
As an elder millennial, one of the few advantages is having lived through the Great Recession. My advice. Reduce unnecessary expenses, increase your savings by investing in financial markets and do not sell. One thing I know for sure is that diversifying your income can help insulate you from much of the craziness going on in the world.
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My father told me many stories of growing up during the Great Depression. He was born in Texas in 1926 and remembered a Christmas when he received an Orange, a toothbrush and 2 hand knitted by his mother pairs of socks and he was so happy to have a Christmas. He told me about his Daddy being hired by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1936 and the whole family moved into a railroad company owned home and he especially remembered my Grandpa picked him up so he could pull the chain to turn on the light and my father was so amazed that light would come on with just the pull of a string and also he no longer had to haul water from the well outside.
My Dad was in his early teens during the Great Depression. His father had two jobs - one of them being with the city of Chicago. With my grandfather's income, they were able to support several other family members. I was told that they were "barely comfortable". I'm a 67 year old retiree now. Long ago, my father said I would never survive a "Great Depression" because I'm spoiled. He's right.
I don't think you're spoiled...blessed. AND if push came to economic shove, I bet you'd be as resourceful as your dad...because he was actually teaching you a few things...
When my grandma died and we were going through her things, I found sooo much money socked away in odd places. It's incredible to think how bad the Great Depression must've been to shape an entire generation like that. I loved seeing all these old celeb/ actors. RIP.
My daddy rode the rails from Boise Idaho all the way to California when he was 16 what saved him was the G.I. Bill after serving in World War II. I think the difference between me and my generation I listened to what he had to say about the depression, I listened to what he had to say about the war .He had these big huge books on WWII, they got damaged really bad by water, and I had to throw them away which is a real pity, but there were two or three books about World War II and I read them all. I got educated, I educated myself, unfortunately unlike him, I wasn’t able to finish college. However, I did get two associates degrees: associates of science, and associates of arts. Not too bad and then I went on to open my own business, just like my daddy did. He taught me a lot. He’s in heaven now... sorely missed.
I was born in the 60s, and I had people around me all my life, like my grandma, who lived through the great depression and WWII. They had a different attitude and work ethic than people today. This pandemic has been bad, but it is nothing like the great depression.
Remember who raised the people you are trashing. Yalls kids raises this generation of so called "lazy people". Prices of everything have skyrocketed while wages have stayed the same. Every generation has good people and lazy people. Don't be so naive.
@@celerinojasso4180 "Corner Store"? There haven't been "corner stores" where I grew up in 40 years, nor downtown stores either. Delivery of perishables dissappeared around 50 years ago. Everything closed up, put out of business by Walmart and gas-station conveniece store. Yeah in the 70's we could still walk or ride a bike to a country store at a cross-roads but that America vanished two generations ago. Try walking to Walmart 6 miles away in July and getting back home with a jug of cold milk. Nonesense.
I can't thank my grandparents enough for the lessons they learned through the depression. They shared their knowledge with me and my sibling. I preserved as canned over 200 jars this year, all learned from them!
My Missus cans fruit every October. Her parents survived the Depression as children on Oklahoma and Arkansas farms. Her maternal grandmother taught school for $100/month. Her paternal grandparents raised about 150 turkeys/year, grew the corn needed to feed them, and grew some vegetables for the family. No plumbing, no electric. Family hoped the car would not break down. The farm was a homestead, so not mortgaged. SOmehow, they paid the property taxes.
As a kid I helped grandparents work the garden - harvest / prepare food for canning. My grandmother made her own version of ketchup that was outstanding. I grow a small garden but don't can anything (I know I should!) How things have changed - there's something to be said for simpler times....👍
I'm so blessed to have had my grandparents and great grandparents. I used to love asking them questions about what life was like back then. They told me such cool and wonderful stories. I miss them so much and wish they were still here. They were kind and strong. There will never be another generation like that again ever. It's a damn shame people aren't like that any more
I so agree with you! I would love to talk to my Grandmother now! I was a teenager when she was telling me all of her stories and I didn’t appreciate it like I would now! I miss and ❤ you Sallie
I inherited a Depression game my grandmother played and the next 2 generations played with as children. It was called Dr Quack and so much fun when we were little in the 1970's.
In high school, we were given the assignmen to talk with someone who had been alive during the depression. I interviewed my grandmother and she said they didn't know there was a depression because they were poor before the depression, poor during and after. Grandma went to work in the hot dangerous cotton mills at the age of 12.
Same for my grandparents and parents during the depression. They lived in a rural area so continued to grow vegetables, raise a few farm animals, hunt and fish.
@@lurchlovestacos6588 21:28, 31:54, 33:19, 34:33, 55:05, 105:36, 155:00. Maybe the white people are all the same to you, but they come from many different origins; Irish, Scottish, Armenian, Jewish, Italian and others. Not to mention Japanese and Latinos.
My Nana was born in 1928. For my 6th grade school assignment, I had to record her recollection of war times. To this day, I wish I could have learned more from her. She's still alive in her 90s, but has forgotten a lot. My other grandparents, born in 1907 and 1908, died either before I was born, or a couple of weeks after. I wish I had their knowledge of the world, their stories, because it seems so precious now when I'm in my 30s.
I was in a boarding school during the 2nd world war and we learned a lot of patriotic songs and I still remember them."There'll be fields of clover the White Cliffs of Dover, tomorrow when the boys come marching home." Remember that??
My great grandma was born in 1913 and died in 2006 when I was 18. I loved hearing her retelling of the depression. She survived so much, we just don't know how lucky we are in the world today.
That's wonderful! I interviewed mine for an old school project too. She was born in 1917 and also lived through it all. It definitely shaped them in a way that set them apart. Great Generation! :-)
My grandparents were blessed. Father's dad was a professor of math at Carnegie Tech. My mother's dad was a court reporter. They kept their jobs throughout the depression.
Mom's folks were poor, but good people who survived the great depression. Living in the country, they ate chicken they raised and traded eggs and honey for coffee and ham. Mom remembered looking in the 'dream book', (Sears or Wards catalog) then using the pages for toilet paper. My uncle tapped maple trees which Gram turned into syrup, and Gram had a large garden she kept until she was 90 years old. My uncle hired out working on farms locally at age 12, and spent Saturdays fishing for breakfast fried fish at the nearby lake. A far cry from today's spoiled lives.
My parents grew up during the Depression and both of them lived in small town rural areas of Ohio. They said they always had dairy products bought or traded locally and the grocery store also sold meat that was produced by local cattle farmers prepared by a butcher who would cut your meat to order right off the side of beef in the refrigerator/cooler. Same with pigs and chickens, all produced locally. Their garden was four times as big as a house. My Grandma was gardening most of the time in the late spring, summer right into fall. They had a lot of corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, strawberries, lettuce, carrots. She could grow anything. And they preserved everything in Mason jars. Of course my mom and dad were right there too helping in the garden when out of school. Mom said there was always lots of flowers planted around the garden. So people kept right on bartering or giving away food to each other all the way through the Depression. Both my mom and dad agreed that the Depression wasn't nearly as bad for them as some people had it.
My step-grandfather was a teenager during the depression and he worked in a mill. Everyday for lunch, he would bring a biscuit drizzled with bacon grease. He said that a co-worker always brought in a burlap bag that was noticeably heavy. One day when the man wasn't looking, he grabbed the bag, ran around the back of the building and opened it expecting to find it full of food that the man wasn't sharing. Instead, he found a handful of hickory nuts and two bricks to crack them open with. That was what the man had been bringing for lunch everyday. He said he gave him his biscuit that day.......
"I'll take you to the candy shop I'll let you lick the lollypop Go 'head girl don't you stop Keep going 'til you hit the spot, whoa" Fitty Cent said it better
I can remember my mother turning the cuffs and collars of my father's shirts. This was in the 40's and 50's. We had our shoes resoled, food was put up in jars, etc. Mother and Dad were products of the Depression. We grew up eating leftover meals, nothing was thrown out. If we, as kids, didn't like some new food, mother always said to try a tablespoon. She expected us to "try". A lot of my clothes were 'hand-me-downs. Aprons were made out of chicken feed sacks. My grandmother knitted our socks, she also made dresses for me. All part of their Depression experience. During the Depression my grandfather rode the rails looking for work. He was a Stonemanson from the old country. These grandparents were my mother's parents.
At last year's family reunion, I asked my elderly aunt how my grandmother's family survived the Great Depression. Her answer did not surprise me as my grandmother and her sisters lived out the rest of their lives like it could happen again, at any time. My great grand father was a farmer in Illinois that did not play the stock market; he lost every cent he had when the banks failed. My family was "lucky" in that they owned their farm and were able to survive solely on what they raised or grew; sometimes, she said, it was so bad all they had to eat were potatoes. I think there are lessons here for everyone today as uncertainty in today's world grows..
I have many Great Depression stories from my grandfather, during the Depression he was a musician and played at the "swanky" restaurants in St. Louis, MO; my grandmother hated it, because sometimes the pay was only a meal for two...basically, playing to eat.
My Gramas stories of growing up on a WV farm during the Great Depression were incredibly vivid and have stuck with me ever since. The Depression was much more traumatic for her than any of the other events she lived through during her 105 years.
My mom also through the depression on a farm. They were the lucky ones that didn't have to choose which child wasn't going to eat. Gramma peddled chickens in town till she died of a sunstroke climbing all the hills in Pennsylvania. Grandpa cultivated his ginsing and hunted. Such wonderful tales! Amazing people.
@@thevacdude Yeah, we were lucky to have her that long, but it still felt too short. She had the right attitude for it. Very forgiving of others, very curious about people and events, very generous of spirit. All of the older elederly that I've met seem to have some version of it.
Both my parents were born in the mid 1920s. Lived next door to each other. Their fathers literally built their own homes. I think they had electric and indoor plumbing. My mom didn't have a phone until the 1940s since her sister worked at the phone company. My dad only had one pair of slacks. At night he folded them and put under his mattress to get them unwrinkled. After Pearl Harbor my dad joined the navy, just out of high school. That's all I know of their growing up. My dad died 10 yrs ago. My mom was 95 and died in June 2020 from covid19.
My grandfather was a schoolboy at the time. He came home and was telling his father how bad it was going to be. The old man listened patiently and then asked "corn still gonna grow?" "Yes" "Rabbits and deer still gonna be around?" "Yes" "Still gonna be catfish in the river?" "Of course" "I don't see a problem."
my husband's grandparents lived during the depression. Grandpa's parents left all the kids, no one knew where they went and they never came back. Grandpa was 16 yrs old and the oldest of 7. He took care of all of his siblings at 17!!!!. Made them very close group. They kept their faith too during all this BS. After everything was said and done, they opened a restaurant in Denver. We love their recipes today.
I was real confused seeing the date this was posted and some of these folks I know are long gone. But it's from 2010. So many great minds. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to capture their thoughts.
My grandpa is the youngest of 13, born in 1936. They grew up in the Great Depression. They were literally dirt poor. They had one pair of shoes that the kids took turns wearing. They were able to eat only because they were farmers. As soon as my grandpa was of age, he joined the military because it was a guaranteed meal ticket with a paycheck. He eventually worked his way up to a state of wealth. He and my grandma sold 22 acres in Maple Grove, MN for over $1M per acre. To this day, he puts fresh coffee and hot food in he microwave and eats quickly because if he didn’t, he wouldn’t get any food and it was rarely hot. I love him and my grandma with my whole heart and some of my fondest memories are of when I lived with them in my early 20’s amidst some turmoil and break ups. My grandma would make me a sack lunch everyday to take to work. I would sit at her kitchen island while she cooked and baked and told me stories about her younger years when my mom was a kid when they’d move all over the US due to my grandpa’s Air Force career. It didn’t matter if I had heard that story 3 times before, I’d listen intently as if it were new to me. My grandma now has Alzheimer’s and confuses me and my sister, and confuses my mom and me. She sometimes refers to my mom as my daughter’s mom because my daughter looks exactly like me and seeing my mom hold her reminds her of seeing my mom and I when I was a toddler. I dread the day when I don’t have them with me anymore 😢 call your grandparents. Call your parents. Just to say hi and I love you. Time passes quickly. The days are long, but the years are so so short. Cherish them ❤
My grandmother raised 9 children alone with next to no income during the depression. They lived in a small 2 bedroom house. My mother, being the youngest got to sleep in a bed the first time at age 12, after her older siblings moved out . Today's kids think they are suffering if they don't have the latest iPhone.
My grandfather was one of 9 children and although his father's business was affected by the Depression, it was always a source of pride that there was a fruit bowl on their kitchen table that was always full of fruit, and the kids would always be able to come home from school and have fruit as a snack. Where did the fruit come from? The trees in their own yard. You were considered affluent if you had a fruit tree growing in your own yard.
I really appreciate social history which focuses on the lives of most of us reading this, not the flawed, larger than life icons we see in portraits that encourage myth making. Because here I see those small but incredible moments of generosity and compassion, bravery, protest, loss and despair. The human condition in all its dimensions does reveal itself when one is confronted with, every damn day, this kind of struggle to survive, and you’re down to the basic elements. Frankly, I don’t know if I would survive losing everything, the social unrest, food Insecurity, personal insecurity, being left my own devices to deal with the most basic survival problems. And what’s frightening is the social problems have started they’re here we’re not dealing with them and they’re just getting worse every day. We have thousands of countrymen who queue up for miles, waiting to get food because they don’t have any money. we have seen skyrocketing increases in suicide and people engaging and petty self just to get some food for their families getting caught at grocery stores, and extreme political division, and a paralyzed and ineffective federal government unable to respond adequately. Note to self: buy a farm, learn small farming and start planning.One thing is absolutely essential no matter what your political proclivities are, the average Joe has got to stop seeing the other average Joe across the street has his enemy or somebody who is just like an alien because their neither they’re just like you. The enemy is not a Democrat it’s not the Republican is not the black man is not the white man it’s not the João it’s not Christian it’s not the Muslim. But I’d like you to think it is because when you divide to conquer when you divide you distract when you divide your weekend. We are the 99% whatever our diverse backgrounds or interests are, we are more similar then different regardless of our political, religious, cultural, economic or business philosophies. Elite is elite, and we are the common people. So let’s make what we have in common the focus, and let’s get this on. No matter if my neighbor is on the complete opposite side of my outlook on life he is not the enemy, he is my fellow American countryman. he’s my brother. I think we all know who and what the problem is, and the 99% have to start dealing with it. Collectively and United, we do have the power. you have the power. Stay in current MO, and it’s gonna be real bad; it’s going to be some thing like out of “Les Miserables”And what the elite will have to face is a lot of their blood on the streets.
The Americans who crossed the country and set up new homes in the 19th century were pretty tough too. Travelling in waggons, all kinds of dangers....No electricity, no refrigeration, no cars, no welfare system, no schooling. Yet these people built entire communities including shops, churches, schools, businesses...
I was quite touched by James Karen's story about a banker coming to his parents house, spitting on the floor and throwing them out. Then after WW2, a veteran and in great shape, and seeing that same banker, and spitting in his face then punching him. Bravo!
35:39 to 36:23 th-cam.com/video/FAZjlxWNszw/w-d-xo.html Docu - The Crash of 1929. Look now and see what's going on. So many websites advertising stocks and trading secrets and advantages. But that's buying low and selling high, AND NOT REALLY PRODUCING REAL TANGIBLE WEALTH! Money is just a representative of wealth used ONLY as a convenient form of trading one set of physical goods and services for another set of physical goods and services. But now it is being used again as a SPECULATION TOOL, A HIGH RISK SPECULATION INSANITY ALL OVER AGAIN!
@@themilitanthousewife8021 35:39 to 36:23 th-cam.com/video/FAZjlxWNszw/w-d-xo.html Docu - The Crash of 1929. Look now and see what's going on. So many websites advertising stocks and trading secrets and advantages. But that's buying low and selling high, AND NOT REALLY PRODUCING REAL TANGIBLE WEALTH! Money is just a representative of wealth used ONLY as a convenient form of trading one set of physical goods and services for another set of physical goods and services. But now it is being used again as a SPECULATION TOOL, A HIGH RISK SPECULATION INSANITY ALL OVER AGAIN!
My wife’s grandmother was a child in the depression. When she died in 1998, her car had 30,000 miles on it. It was 37 years old. Cars were for going to church on Sunday, the Post Office twice a month, and the grocery store every month or two. When she went shopping for dinner, she went to the basement pantry. Every item mattered because MONEY.
you are about to go through exactly what she did to make her that way. You can only worship one God. God or Money. and "Money" is not a reason. it is a thing. so saying "because MONEY" makes absolutely no sense. Because God strengthened her she didnt need MONEY.
@@mikeyseo not what my grandmother has told me over the years and she lived through the depression. Her family used there cars and earnt money saved money and used other means of transport and still always had money set aside for nice things on special occasions they weren't church people never will be but they taught me to respect the church but we dont believe in god
@@michaelmcilraith8699 I want you to try to focus. use punctuations. pay attention to the "ands" and "buts" and "because" and "then" s in a sentence. they are conjunctions and do have meaning.. be mindful of what you are saying. and doing. and always remain honest and pray. then God will be with you. whether you believe or not. There are power in your words. whether you believe or not.
Lesson here is don't be in a city if the SHTF. my grandparents on both sides were dirt poor anyway and lived in very rural areas. Grew their own food and raised livestock,they were essentially subsistence farmers and only bought a few things in town with the money made from logging. I asked them all what the depression was like and they all said they were so poor they couldn't really tell anything had happened and so life went on more or less as usual.
Both my parents were raised during the Great Depression. My dad had a rural upbringing and my mom was raised in Jersey city, NJ. Each family struggled but did well. The lessons they taught me have been priceless.
We all need this perspective. We think things are so bad and difficult in our time. People act like it's the end of the world right now. Things are rough for a lot of people but as a group we know absolutely nothing.
My mom had to leave her hometown when she was 17 to work as a welder in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, CA. She had to help support her mom and two younger sisters.
My grandparents came from Tuscon to work in shipyard. My dad grew up in Atchison Village which was Kaiser housing in PT Richmond. I live here on a hill still. It's not as nice as it was then.
If you ever come out to California - Richmond to be exact, go and see the Rosie the riveter museum that they have there. Everything around there is now condos but they still put up a museum in honor of the ladies who worked in the Richmond shipyard.
Both my parents lived during this depression..one in New York City..she was so happy not to have starved to death..my Father lived in the hills of the Great Smokey mountains on land where he had no cloths but he had vegetables and anything they could hunt for meat..both were in the Army also. WWII.. veterans.both disabled veterans but didn't know it..they raised six kids I am the youngest and we were products of those two humans and what they lived through..great humans..neither didn't know what values they gave to this world..both would not have been able to deal with Americans and their actions against comment sense... Saying when we were sick we stayed home..a often alone because they worked sell employed interior designers..with their great passion for life..that both fought to keep.. shared their passions with their work..many times never looking down at any race or economic standing in any one individual.. I can't understand how America has gotten to this social destruction..my parents were individuals who voted for their own pratt and didn't stay true to one party but counted on each politician as their choice.. I vote for the person ..and follow political platforms and their changes or how their is not a said standard platform.. This is the lite side of the facts if a time when a country had come out of this depression and built character in the human race.we were filled with individuals from around the world... But we had a common goal... Building a new way of life abetter life to such a young country.. my parents blamed many parts of the depression on men's own selfish decisions and pride and cowardness..
Thank God my patents, who lived through the depression, taught me how to use up everything-sometimes in other forms. (ie: worn sheets became curtains). I taught my kids the same lessons and they are teaching their children.
My parents lived during the depression too. Mom lived on a farm with 7 siblings. They grew and raised everything they ate. Grandma also fed the hobos that rode the rails behind the house. They were allowed to sit on the back porch to eat. Dad's family made lye soap to sell a nickel a bar. Grandpa worked in a leather factory. When the war broke out my dad and 3 other brothers all served. Sent most of their pay back home to help with the household.
Both my parents relayed their experiences of the GD to me. My mother came from a fairly well to do family in Massachusetts. They owned a number of hardware stores. My father grew up in Texas and was the son of an architectural engineer. You can imagine what happened to both families when the bottom fell out of the economy. Nobody had money to spend in the stores and nobody was building anything. The lesson was and still is, you can go from comfort to poverty in a short time. My father, until the day he died, always kept a stash of cash hidden in the house just in case.
My dad went through the depression, grandpa took him to the family home in Pennsylvania, his grandpa house to live, dad would always tell us about this big house, he took us there one year to visit, it was huge, coming from Brooklyn, tiny old apartment… 3 stories and an attic and a basement…..old Victorian, his aunt and uncle still lived there, what wonderful people….oh I forgot, I inherited his grandpas name.
I have a much deeper respect for old timers of that era who have passed & ones still alive. Plus hats off to the actors also who endured it. Thanks for these reminders & for all the small blessings we tend to take for granted⚘💖
Back then, humans were made of steel, period. I´m wacthing this in september 2020, in the middle of the covid-pandemics. It´s incredible to watch the people of the United States, living in slumm´s like many people do live rigth now in South América, Africa and Asia. I´m a chilean lawyer, and believe me, there´s still many people living in that conditions yet, here in the early 21th century. This documentary was filmed back in 2009, so many of this brave people are not here to guide us in this difficult times. But, i think that most of their genius and strength do still remanis within our hearts, and souls. The message is clear: only cooperation and solidarity is going to save us of this troubled times; only by remembering that we are the same species, that we are the same people, and remembering that we are brothers and sisters, despite our legitime differences, is going to make the difference between death or survival. Unfortunately, today both the USA and Chile are led by people who are not F.D. Roosevelt exactly. It will depend on us, the citizens and the people, to save human civilization. Greettings from this unemployed chilean lawyer, to the people around the planet who reads this comment. There´s better times, rigth in front of us, The only thing we have to do, it´s just keep walking towards. =) (PD: And please excuse my english, im just a self learner)
@Fernado 🙋 Your English is incredible, don't doubt yourself. Everything you have stated is correct, it was about communities then and during WW2. Community strength is barely exist now or can't compare to those eras. I was fortunate to be raised by that generation, I wouldn't trade the love, memories or compassion they showed others for anything I learned elsewhere. Blessings, light and peace to you, my friend 🙏🕯️❤️
I pray your comment does not place you in danger. A tweet going about from ' general pattern of roundness' "we could have one liveable planet or 2604 billionaires."
My parents both lived through war times and the depression. My father was born in 1904 and my mom 1925. We are South Africans. My sister and I became hardworking, responsible people with a strong awareness of value, importance of standing together to help and have empathy for all people and animals struggling in any situation, It made us stronger. We learned to fix things before we throw away. We have both gone through difficult life situations. I feel fortunate to have had to learn to stand on my own feet and be responsible. I believe the world is going through a massive change now to get us humans back to what life is really about. To be loving before hating. It will be tough but I believe we must change the course of our thinking.
My grandparents were all connected to farming & ranching during the depression so they came out OK. they refused to buy on credit or mortgage their land & house for short term gain. they taught me the same, that buying on credit is the first step on the road to ruin & perdition! they had very little money to spare but their families always had an income (small as it might be) a roof over their heads, and food to eat. because of this work ethic, my mother & father were the first in their families to graduate from collage! I consider that our family was very lucky during that time. So many others weren't.
Our generation today wouldn't know how to react during bad time's, sadly we are in the verge of of facing depression as the day's come and pass us by, The music and good times will only be a memory, God have mercy upon us all, 😇🌿🌹
Both of my parents remember the horror as they were born in Kansas in 1928 and 1933. People need to watch Grapes of Wrath to fully understand the situation across the entire United States. Not everyone could farm since The Dust Bowl was happening at the same time. Dad ate lard sandwiches to survive until his parents brought him to Oregon. Mom lived in a box car until her parents brought her to Oregon. Learn about the boxcar people, too, as they protested President Hoover's hands off approach to the disaster. It was not all about the stock market crash.
The fact that majority of us still live and well, proof that our ancestor is truly something. I can't even imagine having only $200 for a month, let alone just a soup and a bread for 3 days
My mother had only bread and butter with sugar on it for days. One day there was a knock at the door and there was a box of food from the church. My mother wasn't bitter just greatful for what she had
Good that we still have these tapes. Somehow, lately, I seem to be seeing more flms on the depression. Maybe it is because subconsciously we are thinking that this could happen again and IT MAY! But I think the thing to remember is that most people made it through that time. I feel like we are on the edge of another depression or something and I just wonder if we are as resilient as these people. (Or the people who actually lived through it.) Maybe this time it will be worse.
Makes me cry,born in 53' raised by this incredible generation, my parents and grandparents aunts uncles,raised in santa Barbara and ventura, california,what a life,how the world has changed,both good and bad.
This is truly a superb documentary! Its date of production (2009) was perfectly timed, since so many of the participants are sadly no longer with us; and yet it is not so chronologically distant that we cannot relate to it. It is a precious time capsule of the people who went through it all: beloved actors, academics, economists and historians, social activists and public figures, as well as just everyday folks - they’re all represented. So many heartfelt personal stories and so much wisdom here...Thank you for uploading this rare gem - subscribed! Greetings from Greece.
When I was a child in NZ we were taught about the depression and what USA experienced. The Dust bowl, John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath I enjoyed in particular reading. The depression years music tell their own stories too.
My grandparents all lived through the depression. I remember my maternal grandmother reusing tea bags a few times and rinsing out paper towels and laying them out to dry. She never wasted anything and always said "waste not, want not" and "money doesn't grow on trees". She was the queen of reuse. My paternal grandmother would sit everyone down to eat and would't eat until we had all finished our plates. I asked my father why she did this and he told me that her mother (my gg-ma) did this during the depression. She would go without eating in order to feed her family. If there was anything left, she would eat. My grandma learned to feed her family in the same way. Pretty heartbreaking.
I was raised, in part, by my grandmother who had all (4) of her children from 1931 - 1936. The great depression remained a part of her for the rest of her life. She wagged her finger at me, I was a teenager in the 1980s, almost every day about how wasteful I was. Of course, like many of the comments have alluded, she saved everything and lived a very frugal life. One of the things that stands out to me from my time with her were dates on the canned food cans that she would purchase from the grocery store. She would put the year on the cans, not the date & year: just the year. After I moved out of her home and would come back for visits over the years, and until her passing, I would look to see what inventory of canned food was that she purchased from the grocery story she had. Mostly, to see what she still had. I would still come across a can or two that were marked with year of 1984. As adult, now in my 50s, I believe that I have been able to caption what was her life long effort following the depression and that being "I can get the very same as you, or better, for half the price that you paid". She seemed to march with this as her daily mantra, almost as if she was in continual competition with the increasingly softening core of the modern culture of the day. I find that this "mindset" has become my own. I, along with my siblings, made fun of my grandmother for her manifest behaviors. My children have made fun of me for these very same manifest behaviors that have become my own. However, I do see in my one daughter, the drive to spend less while at the very same time achieving the same level of value for her and her family in all of her purchases: the lesson taken by grandmother has now been passed to the third generation. Fascinating to ponder that lessons from these people are still living, and thriving, even in the millenial and gen z generations. I wish she (my grandmother) could see it for herself.
My grandmother died months ago at 90 years old. She was born and raised in Ga and her childhood was the Great Depression, WW2, Jim Crow and naked hatred by the majority of the American population. I can’t describe how strong a woman she was and what she had to overcome.
now in GA, the naked hatred is from the blacks who don't even try to disguise it. White people should leave GA and take their tax revenue with them to a place more accepting of white folk.
Im in 7th grade currently, me and my friend are supposed to do a poster or timeline type thing about someone growing up during the great depression. I find this to be an interesting yet sad topic knowing how peoples lives were back then.
My grandmother was born in 1932 so she was a small child in the depression. R.I.P to her and I miss her she had so many interesting stories about back then
My grandma died a few years ago at 96. I remember eating dinner with her and grandpa. You waste nothing! And you cannot drink your juice or milk until your plate was all eaten.
My Mothers mother, (Gramdma),Born in 1898 made hooch of some sort,We lived near a Railroad repair place,Grandma said I had kids to feed and was unapologetic😊, Good for her!.
My Papa was the oldest of 8 kids, under 10, born to Irish and Welsh immigrants during the depression. His father walked out the door one day and just never came back. His mother would take the 3 oldest children to the railroad yards with a broom and a gunny sack. They would climb into the empty cars carrying grain and sweep the remaining grain into the gunny sack to make bread. It got to be too much. She just couldn't feed 8 children on her own. She took the three oldest children, including Papa, to a catholic orphanage. They were split up. He formed a close relationship with a boy a couple of years younger than him and they were very close life Ling friends...brothers. When they were 14 and 12 they ran away from the orphanage (he says they were beaten with rubber hoses among other severe punishments while in the catholic orphanage). They hopped trains from Oklahoma to California to try to find work. When they arrived, they had nothing. There were Mexican migrant farm workers near the train station living under a bridge. They spoke little to no English. When the women saw my Papa and his friend, they took them in. They fed them, clothed them and gave them a safe place to stay. They even helped them get jobs working in the fields. When my Papa turned 18 he joined the navy. He then became a professional painter and Mason. The last 15 years that he worked he was the President of the Oklahoma Painter's & Mason's Union. He was a big handsome man and reminded me of John Wayne and he was an amazing Papa. He and my Grandmother were literally the only Democrats I knew growing up in a small town in Oklahoma. He had a profound impact on my life.
A shame about your dad having to go to the orphanage and I hope he was able to later reconnect with his siblings and his mom as I don't know if you're talkin about his mother or your mother's mother
My dad was born in the 30s in the US to immigrant parents. He was artistic but also a down to earth kid. He taught me how to make book covers out of a paper bag. He also did some of his artwork on paper bags back in the day because that was all he could scrounge for free. Whenever I gave him a present of markers, paint, pencils, or charcoal, he was always so modest. It was such an extravagant gift to him. But at the same time he made do with whatever he had as a kid and continued that as an adult. He always preferred to gift/spoil me as a kid but I preferred to spoil him when I could. His experience growing up in that situation never left him. He was always a person who got along with others and always polite and funny.
My grandma was in the great depression her stories terrified me so.much that I dont waste one penny all my debts get paid off asap I dont try to compete with the jones get what I need and enjoy life that way. I'm a financial prepper and I think I'll thank myself soon way things are looking
I wanted to add something for history sake. My mom was young (born 1927) lived in N.Y. the Bronx. Her mom and the neighbors took turns making large pots of soup which were taken to the distribution area. She said she saw the men, looked down and saw the nice shoes some wore. That really frightened her because her father wore nice shoes too and this could happen to him (and her family). So here it is, a little bit of history.
Very interesting. My great-grandparents told me stories. Some sad, some happy. I took their words to heart. My family will survive anything our politicians can throw at us.
When I ask my Mother what happened to her, and her family during the depression. Mother said she didn't even know the depression was going on, because nothing ever changed for them. The family lived, and still live in the Appalacian Mountains. Her family went right along doing what they'd always done. Farm, and peddle farm stuff to city people in the small town near them. My Father's family were share croppers, who moved back and forth from Madison county NC, to Greenville Tenn. I ask my Dad if his family ever went hungry? He gave me a surprised look, and said, "Nooo!" Like I crazy for asking! He said they ate good from farming, canning what they grew, and from hunting. About everyone killed a hog every Nov. As we did when I was growing up. So we always had meat to eat. Seems like the depression effected city people much more than country folks.
My grandfather told me stories of growing up 1 of 6 kids in the 20s, father gone, mother trying to get by with sewing. No money for heating oil, living in the UP michigan where it can get below zero frequently. Frost so thick on inside walls that you could stick your clothes on the walls. Just wood cooking stove and candles for heat. When he joined the CCC at 17 yrs old, 6 ft 2 inches, he weighed 110 lbs. He said that was the first time he could remember having a full stomach.
I always tell our children and grandchildren,..that history repeats itself unfortunately,…and to never ever take life as you might know it for granted. I’ve taught them how to bake breads,…foods to try and keep around the home,..just in case. What foods can sustain life within you. It’s all basic really,..and watching this “depression documentary” proves things right in society. I wish and pray always that one day,…we will not repeat the same mistakes among all humans all over this world;..that we will all learn to get along and realize the power we as humans can gain and use for the better good of all generations to come in our earthly journey.❤️. “Love Is The Key,…the Master Key”.❤️🌍
Bless you! Yes, we must be prepared. I am also waiting for a time, when prejudice and suspicion towards the fellow man will not be the norm, but the deep understanding that we are all human after all, and tolerance is the key to a better life.
These stories offer such inspiration, and hope. My parents were teens during this time. There were no stocks or money in the bank. They had to work harder, and compete more but, parents just did the best they could. You can't mourn what you never had. Thanks for shari g this important part of our history.
My German mother was part of that Strongest Generation. Along, with allied bombs being dropped over their heads. My inspiration came from her strength, and ability to prepare for and overcome adversities.
The ✡️ is the reason why America and Germany both suffered such a terrible depression. IMO, we never should’ve fought your country. We fought the wrong dictator
Recently Iwas hauling tree limbs to the town dump and while I was there a couple in their 30's were throwing perfectely good useable items to the dump. After they left i went to see what they were so happily discarding. I found new pet items, kitchen utensils, dishes, etc. I was speechless at the utter waste . Obviously, they weren't raised by Depression parents...
We live in an age of replace, replace, replace. The amount of people who will buy a new toaster (for example) just because it fits their decor better astounds me! Or buying a bottle to decant shampoo/washing liquid which already comes with its own bottle because it is ‘prettier’. Consumerism at its worst.
I know at least 6 people from Mexico who load trailers full of useful products thrown away by Americans and sell them in Mexico- and they make very good money doing so. We're spoiled here, and every successive generation worse.
My dad was born in Nov. 1930. Drafted in 1950 and we're one of the first group sent to Korea. He was 47 when I was born and I count the knowledge he passed to me invaluable today. If needed I can build, hunt, fish etc. Through my career I can provide basic medical care if needed. My dad's love of racing taught me basic repair skills. I'm almost 45 now and have passed what I know to my children.
Before I watch this, the imagery of the dust bowl comes to mind immediately. That generation got through it, with our knowledge today you would think we wouldn't be getting into the very same if not worse situation but, here we are. Cheers from Canada, and thanks for these stories.
@joseph baska Don't be an Idiot!! If you listen to the GOP they seem to think the New Deal made things worse!! They are the main ones driving the economic crisis by blocking everything! The Democrats may not be much good (having become ever more like the GOP over the last 30 years), but at least if it was up to them we'd have another $1,200 check and a continuation of the increased unemployment benefits which were keeping the economy afloat. Also you need to learn how to spell and what the word communist actually means. The Democrats are (sadly) more dedicated to Capitalism than the GOP who want ever more socialism, ever more government money, ever more power to go to the rich and big businesses that fund them. They want a pentagon that spends Trillions on contractors but hardly anything on the soldiers.
I like the part where “they” give “you” some milk and “you” give “them” some eggs. In times of trouble, they embrace each other instead of having a we vs them mentality.
My parents went through the depression and were greatly affected by it, as was I because of their frugality. My father never threw anything away and repurposed everything that had broken.
I asked my Grandma in 2011 when she was 95 how we will know how bad the recession was going to be. She said " You will know its bad when they start burning the fences to stay warm." 5 husband's 7 children and multiple businesses from confectionery to pizza places she had a great long run.
Yes, it is critical to remember our history, but just as critical to remember is that absolutely nothing in this world can grow eternally. We have not seen the last major economic downturn in this country. Take a look at the 19th and 20th centuries and you have constant boom and bust cycles. There is no way we can prevent them from happening. The best we can hope for is a quick recovery.
We are making a whole bunch of new mistakes today but not due to an economic crash but the opposite, too much success that we have become lazy and valueless.
@S Masco Of course you are right but convince the brainwashed it the trick. The brainwashed voted for Graffer King Biden because of the fake news not calling out the lying corrupt Dems.
My mom was told by her mom my grandma that people would jump off of buildings because they just didn't have nothing and they didn't want to live no more
Mostly an urban legend. Studies of the death statistics of the time show very very few people killed themselves, either when the stock market crashed, or during the depression. I guess people figured there was no reason to hurry it along, they'd die soon enough if they just did nothing. Maybe I'm a little depressed myself.
I asked my Grandfather about what it was like during the Great Depression, and he said that his family didnt even notice it. They were nine children living on a very rural Texas farm, so they were already about as poor as they could be. The saving grace was that it was a farm. So, even if they couldn't afford shoes, they could still eat a small portion of the crops they were cultivating.
I grew up hearing stories of the depression from various family members. My mother's family lived on a farm. They always had plenty of food but very little cash, so buying shoes/clothes for kids was an issue. My dad's family were not so fortunate. Many of them took to the rails. Traveling the country looking for day jobs, earning just enough to eat. Even so, they had a good sense of humor when telling their stories.
My dad 's mom died when he was 12. He quit school and was peddling fruits & vegetables on the streets of Newark, NJ to make money for his family of 6 siblings during the depression. Also, tho WW2 ended in the '40's, it took the US several more years to get back "on-line", the early 1960's is how I remember it in our family.
@@cristinafisher2565 Depending on where they lived and their situation , a number of American families were doing really good by the 1950s especially by the mid-1950s ... you can look at various videos here about what life was like in the 1950s for a lot of Americans and especially the suburbs . It was more the British who took longer to recover and that was because of WWII and many of the British were still going without in the early 1960s ... whereas a lot of America was doing well .
All of these famous, accomplished people telling their stories of living in the great depression. Then they went on to fight a world war on two fronts and be victorious. Tell that this isn't the greatest generation ever!
They didn't do those things without the help of the generation previous to them, and after them. It's not the greatest generation ever. That's silly. They are human beings. It's great they won a war, and it utterly sucks they had to go through the depression. But, uh, ask an Irishman about the potato famine. Or ask a Russian about the pre-revolutionary famine. Or ask our forefathers in America about any of the horrific and terrific things they endured and accomplished. They are people. Let's stop being silly about generations and trying to compare them. Pretty sure the civil war Americans who saw the industrial revolution could give the WWII folks a run for their money.
@@SplotPublishing And elderly revolutionary war veterans of the time probably labeled the civil war generation soft. Old people have always been calling younger generations weaker than theirs.
When I see people waiting in line in this video, its the same kind of people not working, waiting in line for the food banks, in my city, Montreal, Canada. My mother told me so much stories about the Great Depression. Thanks to her, I'm more prepare for hardship.
Unless the tax structure changes Montreal will remain lower middle class. Speculators are trying to push real estate values upward there knowing the U.S. is looking at hyperinflation in the near future and they think the Chinese will always be there to backstop the residential real estate market in Canada. Short term the speculators are probably right but when the U.S. dollar loses the world's reserve currency status the speculators will be wiped out completely.
I had spoken to a farmer who grew up in North Dakota during the depression. He had stated that they (I am assuming his family) did not see any money for three years. Not even a penny. He stated after my questions that they bartered for everything. They knew the depression was over when a traveling salesman showed them three silver dollars as proof of how good of a salesman he was. Other stories from North Dakota consisted of people trading their lands mineral rights for a bag of potatoes. I still wonder how big of a bag of potatoes they got.
My dad was a young man and my mom a child when the depression hit. Neither got to go to college but went to work to help support the family ( no welfare etc during the depression) families all moved in together in the biggest house. Women did stitching washing cooking cleaning etc to make a little money cause not many jobs for women. My Grandfathers both still had work cause one worked on train maintenance and one was a fireman. So our family bought food for their siblings family took it to them if they weren't living with them. They fixed everything themselves, grew some food also. My grandpas and dad knew how to do everything because of it carpentry car repair plumbing electrical repair etc..They lived near the port and rail line and people came to the door asking for food often and my grandmas would make a sandwich for them. Lot of people in our family lost their property snd farms businesses cause they couldn't pay the taxes . These same people did later get jobs and a home so made it through. It did change people. My parents never wasted anything as a result. We had jars ( my sister and I continued the practice also) you save nuts bolts nails screws rubber bands wire string everything and anything you might need in the future, wrapping paper ribbon rags nothing is wasted.( cause there was no money to buy stuff).Also people helped their neighbors and friends,, loaned each other stuff or helped fix things. Made us all frugal and aware all can change in an instant so make long range plans and help others. My young nephew was trained to be the same. So not all bad
Interesting though, some of the poorest counties in Ky like the ones my grandparents resided in did managed to survive the Great Depression and put food on their table. People grew gardens, made quilts from old clothing, and people bartered or traded. The churches were the community centers and so were the old country stores which usually had a post office. People made their own soap, canned their food, and did make their way. These folks had no money and no debts but they managed to get by and help one another.
@@IngeEvenwel that spirit is still alive. In this part of Southeastern Ky, in the Ky Cumberland plateau, came a deadly unimaginable flood last August claiming 39 lives, 2 missing. People who lost everything except for the clothes on their backs went where rescuers couldn’t reach and they recused others. There was a lot of caring and sharing going on. President Biden and the Ky governor put everything aside and came to offer assistance. Rand Paul and the Turtleman were no shows until weeks went by. They both seem so very detached about this disaster. They were there for the photo op and that’s all.
I think all the farmers, nationwide, had a better time through the depression. I'm from northern Ohio, and my father and his friends all used to tell stories on each other about the depression. They were penniless, and even shoeless in a very cold place, but they all said if you had a farm, you could always eat. Dad said people were getting vitamin deficiency illnesses like scurvy, and his mother made sourcrout, which could keep them healthy in the winter. So she made extra and bartered it. They bartered soap, because you couldn't really make soap in the city, it had to be outdoors. So they had a whole little industry of things to sell and trade.
@@Hollylivengood thank you for sharing. It is true, the farmers had it made in the depression except for those who borrowed money to finance property which most mortgage holders lost. People ate cornbread because the corn meal and baking powder in it prevented nutritional diseases. Corn bread and beans made a complete source of protein. Some ate mush in its place.
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In 1965 I was doing a paper on the depression for an American History class at PSU. My dad was 14 in 1930, so I ask him: What was the depression like for you? He said: "Marvin, we really didn't notice it. When you're a farmer, you get up and go to work, whether you're making money or not." I've lived my life that way - still getting up and going to work at 78!
The difference is nowadays you need money to buy land and to buy tools and equipment and to get permits, etc - essentially its the same in both the cities and rural countries to build anything.
If people did not lose their farms to banks back then they survived.
The Dust Bowl farmers sure noticed.
Keep your nose to the grind stone.
@@Isawwhatyoudid I came here to say that.
My father lived during the depression and it shaped his whole life. He saved every penny and didn’t buy frivolous things. He wouldnt buy a house even thou he could afford it and had no debt. Most every appliance in our house was something he found and fixed. He learned to fix anything. Us kids thought him to be the original Scrooge but as an adult, I now get him.
More of your father and less of the instant gratification, we'll all be better of . 👍
The timeline is changing again.
My grandmother was also a survivor of the Great Depression, she had to quit the 5th grade to help make money and raise her siblings- she was the strongest woman I know , and raised her own children as well as her sisters children , as a single mother when my grandfather passed away..
When we would go to family weddings in the 1960's, if their was any rolls, cookies, sugar packs left after the meal the aunt's would gather them up, roll them in napkins, put them in their purses and take them home. Us kids couldn't understand why they did this until we heard stories of the Depression, ration coupons, etc. This was a symptom carried forward some 20 years. I named it "depressionitis".
@@cristinafisher2565 I like that term 😀. It’s amazing how events shape peoples lives and behaviors and effect their children and even the great grands. I think some of the outcomes are valuable life lessons. Like “waste not, want not” and “take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves”.
My grandparents did pretty well during the depression. Gramps was a butcher and automotive mechanic and grams had a green thumb and loved her huge garden. They also flipped houses and rented them out. When the renters couldn't pay rent, gramps would trade or let them do work on the farm and or help butcher animals. Grama canned a lot of food, even when I was a youth. They really knew how to make things work and I am grateful they had beautiful hearts to help others and never threw anyone out into the street.
I remember my mother always canning fruits and vegetables, stocking meat in a smokehouse for storage.
My Nanna would eat shrimp, tails and all, when we'd take her out to eat.
At home, she'd break bones and get the marrow out.
Southern Appalachia and the depression never left...
My grandparents also lived through the depression. My grandma did her best to grow a garden and canned everything she grew. Grandpa worked on the railroad so was going to work pretty much the whole time.
I don't know if this saying was from the depression or just from the south, but my grandma always said, "Make do or do without, take it in or let it out.
Hearts of gold, your grandparents!
The father that came home and cried at his dinner table because he had to fire someone is a reminder of all the good there can be in the human spirit. I respect that so much.
Still is
Me too. He had compassion for his fellow man. Out of.all the jobs I've worked, both blue collar and professional, I really can't think of anyone with compassion for others like that other than myself. If someone was let go it was just gossiped about and sometimes made fun of. I am 65 now and still working and can say that it is a joke how people treat each other. I see no compassion extended to anyone for anything. It's become such a selfish world. All about me, me, me. I am so glad I can't relate to that, but it is so painful to be out in it working and just watching it happen.
@@tootsiebabe3555 That's why I rejected offers to be "promoted" into management, I wouldn't be able to take that kind of responsibility for someone else's life like that. Dad worked non-management jobs all his life, and I understand why.
Not much of that sentiment going around these days. SMH
Most people didn't blame the government for anything. This was not a good thing to do. I think that in this time period, people could only do so much to help themselves. Once a day bread and soup is not enough to sustain a person. I am not saying to blame the government for everything.
After my great aunt passed, (who was a young teen during the depression) I helped remove her belongings so her house could be sold. She was no hoarder, but she had organized and neatly stored every possession she had ever acquired. Even at a basic dinner you could tell she valued all of it. She would end visits by gifting me a quarter, it became a joke. I thought she was a crazy old lady until I understood what she went through. Now it all makes sense. Thank you for a great video! 👏
Those quarters probably have real silver. Hope you held on to them.
Times were tough, my dad was born in 1930 and he and his brothers were placed into foster care. They had nothing and I mean NOTHING. My dad never spoke much of it but my uncle sure did. he told me stories of the boys running the streets for food, eating out of garbage cans, having newspaper for shoes in the winter, stealing to survive. My dad said he didn't eat for so long that he got sick at the smell of food. They were lucky when they went to foster care. They are all gone now but they were a different breed., tough as nails. Oh, my dad was in the Korean and Vietnam war and never complained. We don't know how lucky we have it.
My mom said my grandpa and his siblings would dig for muscles on the beach in Maine to have something to eat.
it's going ot happen in 2021 or 2022 it's only going to take 1 small trigger right now the stock market is be held up by people who threw their entire savings ( stimulus check) savings and the government is only supporting it at this point I all ready pulled out of the stock market silver and gold are the way to go WATER too EVEN banks are limiting cash transactions and pulling personal line of credits it sucks for them when they lose their life saving for being greedy banks will be closed ATMs are going to limit transactions
the housing market is a joke and small business are pretty much gone..
it's going to be a Great Doomer Depression
these poor Millennials are going to fall on their face and sink to the bottom of the ocean like the titanic it's going to be epic so hang on for the ride...
I was raised by my grandparents they taught me well ( they were born in the 1930s )... so I have a lot of knowledge of not to misuse "credit" ... i have done really well for my self compared to my peers of my age..
A Key point is to plan ahead of time ... you will sink or swim ...
I'm sometimes embarrassed about how weak i feel compared to that generation. I'm 50, my grandparents fought through WWII. I won't list my family's military service because everyone had to do it, it was nothing unusual. My dad was born in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. I can't imagine the suffering the likes of your dad and your grandparents went through. I wish i could be 1% of the people they all were.
My parents were depression era ... I am proud of what they taught me.
No our parents were in the forefront of what is happening now! We built in safeguards to protect against another great depression! Our politicians have sold us out though! Look at the homeless epidemic! Look at people who lost their homes due to balloon mortgages! Look at all the rights
Le are being stripped of! Billionaires that don't pay taxes! Corporations killing the Independent farmers, running them off lands that have been in their families for 5 or 6 generations! Elected representatives are turning people out! We are in a different great depression!
My grandparents both lived through the depression and i remember them talking about it. They didn't like to waste things and didn't throw things away. I've picked up those same traits.
"Waste not, want not".
"Use it up, wear it out. Make with due or go without"
We weren’t allowed to waste food
My gma was a child in the depression. Her father owned the local grocery store. She said her family was fine. However she did remember her father putting food on tab at his cost because people couldnt eat and he felt it was cruel not to help them. Food that was going to go bad soon was given freeley to the elderly and families with children. She said every single person on tab eventually paid their Bill's when things turned around.
My Grandfather ran a country store and my Grandmother would talk about eating fried bologna and grits! I just can’t imagine and I wonder how ppl would deal with a situation like that today 😳
@@jbarwick50 that sounds kinda good
I feel like maybe 1/2 the people would come back and pay today.
My grandfather had a small store and he used to fry bologna slices ansd I think I remember in the 1970s eating the curled up cup of fried Bologna with a scoop of Cottage Cheese in it & Red Tomato Heinz Ketchup!
@@namafarm Why does that sound good? :)
When an older person dies and the house is cleaned out, all the youngsters see the tons of things a person has accumulated and doesn't realize that anyone who came out of the depression threw NOTHING away. There might be a use for it someday. They lived frugally and simply as that event molded their characters.
I think that's why you see a lot of older people that are hoarders.
A very intelligent set of statements, indeed.
We cleaned 3 overloaded huge dumpsters of stuff out of my grandparents house. Who knew a person could put so much into a 900 square foot house. That's what it was they may have a use for it someday. Organized hoarding with a purpose is what I've learned to do.
We are parents and grandparents , we save our stuff to give to family. As our children left our home, we gave them stuff to help set up their own homes. Our son was refusing to take our"junk", but within a month or so, he came back and apologised for his rudeness. He had not realised just how much money it cost him to set up a home.And home much money he saved by taking our offerings. Now it is the grandchildrens' turn. And yes, we still collect stuff to hand on. We hope that our children will remember and keep their children and grandchildren, topped up,with stuff and memories.
No its mental illness. Hoarders R usually wanting to hold onto good memories thru materialism
As an elder millennial, one of the few advantages is having lived through the Great Recession. My advice. Reduce unnecessary expenses, increase your savings by investing in financial markets and do not sell. One thing I know for sure is that diversifying your income can help insulate you from much of the craziness going on in the world.
The stock market is a way to hedge against inflation. Most notably amidst recession, investors need to understand where and how to allocate funds to hedge against inflation and still make profits.
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Thats true, I've been getting assisted by a coach for almost 2 year now, I started out with less than $120K and I'm just $19,000 short of half a million in profit.
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My father told me many stories of growing up during the Great Depression. He was born in Texas in 1926 and remembered a Christmas when he received an Orange, a toothbrush and 2 hand knitted by his mother pairs of socks and he was so happy to have a Christmas. He told me about his Daddy being hired by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1936 and the whole family moved into a railroad company owned home and he especially remembered my Grandpa picked him up so he could pull the chain to turn on the light and my father was so amazed that light would come on with just the pull of a string and also he no longer had to haul water from the well outside.
My Grandmother lived thru the Depression and she talked about it her entire life! She never got over it! ❤
My mother never got over it too but she wouldn't talk about it.
My grandmother was a widow raising 4 little kids back then. It was a terrible situation for single mothers with no breadwinner in the family.
Mine too, with 5 kids. As soon as they could, the older ones went to work too.
My Dad was in his early teens during the Great Depression. His father had two jobs - one of them being with the city of Chicago. With my grandfather's income, they were able to support several other family members. I was told that they were "barely comfortable". I'm a 67 year old retiree now. Long ago, my father said I would never survive a "Great Depression" because I'm spoiled. He's right.
I don't think you're spoiled...blessed. AND if push came to economic shove, I bet you'd be as resourceful as your dad...because he was actually teaching you a few things...
When my grandma died and we were going through her things, I found sooo much money socked away in odd places. It's incredible to think how bad the Great Depression must've been to shape an entire generation like that.
I loved seeing all these old celeb/ actors. RIP.
My great grandfather, pa rogers, kept cash in a tackle box that he carried everywhere
After my Grandmother died I found money in a sock drawer and in socks 😮
We found my grandmother's wedding ring in a tin box behing the silverware. Money was stashed everywhere.
We may see one, I don't know how people will be able to handle it.
QUEEN CERSE. CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOME OF THAT MONEY. THANK YOU
My daddy rode the rails from Boise Idaho all the way to California when he was 16 what saved him was the G.I. Bill after serving in World War II. I think the difference between me and my generation I listened to what he had to say about the depression, I listened to what he had to say about the war .He had these big huge books on WWII, they got damaged really bad by water, and I had to throw them away which is a real pity, but there were two or three books about World War II and I read them all. I got educated, I educated myself, unfortunately unlike him, I wasn’t able to finish college. However, I did get two associates degrees: associates of science, and associates of arts. Not too bad and then I went on to open my own business, just like my daddy did. He taught me a lot. He’s in heaven now... sorely missed.
I read this as I am in Boise....interesting
I was born in the 60s, and I had people around me all my life, like my grandma, who lived through the great depression and WWII. They had a different attitude and work ethic than people today. This pandemic has been bad, but it is nothing like the great depression.
I was born in the 1960s, also. My grandmother saved a lot of things because of what she went through, until her death in 1984.
Yea cus millions of people all over the world died and had to quarantine from the Great Depression
That's so true they had work ethics and saved money and were tough not like today's spoiled brats who need a car to go to the corner store.
Remember who raised the people you are trashing. Yalls kids raises this generation of so called "lazy people". Prices of everything have skyrocketed while wages have stayed the same. Every generation has good people and lazy people. Don't be so naive.
@@celerinojasso4180 "Corner Store"? There haven't been "corner stores" where I grew up in 40 years, nor downtown stores either. Delivery of perishables dissappeared around 50 years ago.
Everything closed up, put out of business by Walmart and gas-station conveniece store.
Yeah in the 70's we could still walk or ride a bike to a country store at a cross-roads but that America vanished two generations ago.
Try walking to Walmart 6 miles away in July and getting back home with a jug of cold milk.
Nonesense.
I can't thank my grandparents enough for the lessons they learned through the depression. They shared their knowledge with me and my sibling. I preserved as canned over 200 jars this year, all learned from them!
Me too 200 at least
@@stevemace1725 maybe learning the lessons of rainy day money and 0 debt would serve you well, and i don t mean in a bank
Wonderful! You'll be so grateful for all that glorious food you've put up over the horror of the next few months xx
My Missus cans fruit every October. Her parents survived the Depression as children on Oklahoma and Arkansas farms. Her maternal grandmother taught school for $100/month. Her paternal grandparents raised about 150 turkeys/year, grew the corn needed to feed them, and grew some vegetables for the family. No plumbing, no electric. Family hoped the car would not break down. The farm was a homestead, so not mortgaged. SOmehow, they paid the property taxes.
As a kid I helped grandparents work the garden - harvest / prepare food for canning. My grandmother made her own version of ketchup that was outstanding. I grow a small garden but don't can anything (I know I should!) How things have changed - there's something to be said for simpler times....👍
I'm so blessed to have had my grandparents and great grandparents. I used to love asking them questions about what life was like back then. They told me such cool and wonderful stories. I miss them so much and wish they were still here. They were kind and strong. There will never be another generation like that again ever. It's a damn shame people aren't like that any more
I so agree with you! I would love to talk to my Grandmother now! I was a teenager when she was telling me all of her stories and I didn’t appreciate it like I would now! I miss and ❤ you Sallie
I inherited a Depression game my grandmother played and the next 2 generations played with as children. It was called Dr Quack and so much fun when we were little in the 1970's.
In high school, we were given the assignmen to talk with someone who had been alive during the depression. I interviewed my grandmother and she said they didn't know there was a depression because they were poor before the depression, poor during and after. Grandma went to work in the hot dangerous cotton mills at the age of 12.
Same for my grandparents and parents during the depression. They lived in a rural area so continued to grow vegetables, raise a few farm animals, hunt and fish.
This needs to be shown in every U.S. school! Why? Because it shows how we can pull together, and make it happen.
So where is the black people in the program
I hope this mess leads to another New Deal
We did in 2008 and elected Obama, people dont need to be shown anything. What they do need to be shown is how we got there, by voting republican.
@@lurchlovestacos6588 21:28, 31:54, 33:19, 34:33, 55:05, 105:36, 155:00. Maybe the white people are all the same to you, but they come from many different origins; Irish, Scottish, Armenian, Jewish, Italian and others. Not to mention Japanese and Latinos.
@S Masco They burned crops because they believed if they gave the crops away free no one would buy the other crops and they would go broke.
My Nana was born in 1928. For my 6th grade school assignment, I had to record her recollection of war times. To this day, I wish I could have learned more from her. She's still alive in her 90s, but has forgotten a lot. My other grandparents, born in 1907 and 1908, died either before I was born, or a couple of weeks after. I wish I had their knowledge of the world, their stories, because it seems so precious now when I'm in my 30s.
This was my moms generation she was born in 1919 and passed away this year at 101.
I was in a boarding school during the 2nd world war and we learned a lot of patriotic songs and I still remember them."There'll be fields of clover the White Cliffs of Dover, tomorrow when the boys come marching home." Remember that??
My great grandma was born in 1913 and died in 2006 when I was 18. I loved hearing her retelling of the depression. She survived so much, we just don't know how lucky we are in the world today.
@@funsizedi88 Ya freaking antibiotics dude 🤯 and microscopes 🤯🤯
That's wonderful! I interviewed mine for an old school project too. She was born in 1917 and also lived through it all. It definitely shaped them in a way that set them apart. Great Generation! :-)
My grandparents were blessed. Father's dad was a professor of math at Carnegie Tech. My mother's dad was a court reporter. They kept their jobs throughout the depression.
Loved seeing Jerry Stiller in this. He is missed.
He was great in that show with his "daughter" & the UPS husband, such a funny man!
Now I understand why he finds tinsel distracting
And Phyllis
@@JaneDoe-ql7sc King of Queens!
I Met JERRY STILLER AND HIS WIFE IN A RECORD STORE IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
THEY WE JUST REGULAR FOLKS.
Mom's folks were poor, but good people who survived the great depression. Living in the country, they ate chicken they raised and traded eggs and honey for coffee and ham. Mom remembered looking in the 'dream book', (Sears or Wards catalog) then using the pages for toilet paper. My uncle tapped maple trees which Gram turned into syrup, and Gram had a large garden she kept until she was 90 years old. My uncle hired out working on farms locally at age 12, and spent Saturdays fishing for breakfast fried fish at the nearby lake. A far cry from today's spoiled lives.
My parents grew up during the Depression and both of them lived in small town rural areas of Ohio. They said they always had dairy products bought or traded locally and the grocery store also sold meat that was produced by local cattle farmers prepared by a butcher who would cut your meat to order right off the side of beef in the refrigerator/cooler. Same with pigs and chickens, all produced locally. Their garden was four times as big as a house. My Grandma was gardening most of the time in the late spring, summer right into fall. They had a lot of corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, strawberries, lettuce, carrots. She could grow anything. And they preserved everything in Mason jars. Of course my mom and dad were right there too helping in the garden when out of school. Mom said there was always lots of flowers planted around the garden. So people kept right on bartering or giving away food to each other all the way through the Depression. Both my mom and dad agreed that the Depression wasn't nearly as bad for them as some people had it.
We will go through this and it will be worse. My parents had dairies. I am 72. my dad born in 1906 and mom in 1920. We heard all the stories.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
My step-grandfather was a teenager during the depression and he worked in a mill. Everyday for lunch, he would bring a biscuit drizzled with bacon grease. He said that a co-worker always brought in a burlap bag that was noticeably heavy. One day when the man wasn't looking, he grabbed the bag, ran around the back of the building and opened it expecting to find it full of food that the man wasn't sharing. Instead, he found a handful of hickory nuts and two bricks to crack them open with. That was what the man had been bringing for lunch everyday. He said he gave him his biscuit that day.......
Wonderful and sad story
And so many people now just want to be idle with free money
"We're so often saved in spite of ourselves." Hugh Downs nails with that one sentence.
"I'll take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl don't you stop
Keep going 'til you hit the spot, whoa"
Fitty Cent said it better
I can remember my mother turning the cuffs and collars of my father's shirts. This was in the 40's and 50's. We had our shoes resoled, food was put up in jars, etc. Mother and Dad were products of the Depression. We grew up eating leftover meals, nothing was thrown out. If we, as kids, didn't like some new food, mother always said to try a tablespoon. She expected us to "try". A lot of my clothes were 'hand-me-downs. Aprons were made out of chicken feed sacks. My grandmother knitted our socks, she also made dresses for me. All part of their Depression experience. During the Depression my grandfather rode the rails looking for work. He was a Stonemanson from the old country. These grandparents were my mother's parents.
What really angers me is these economic suffering periods are largely created by corrupt inept politicians, who never suffer their own bad decisions.
This video kind of gives a perspective of the frightening time we are now in.
Shh it's a secret
This is as good as it has ever been.
@@craigme2583 Wrong. But it will soon be better because Jesus has already won!!!
@@patmelton43 that's a brainwashed statement
@@craigme2583 I prefer to be brainwashed by God than by the leftists.
At last year's family reunion, I asked my elderly aunt how my grandmother's family survived the Great Depression. Her answer did not surprise me as my grandmother and her sisters lived out the rest of their lives like it could happen again, at any time. My great grand father was a farmer in Illinois that did not play the stock market; he lost every cent he had when the banks failed. My family was "lucky" in that they owned their farm and were able to survive solely on what they raised or grew; sometimes, she said, it was so bad all they had to eat were potatoes. I think there are lessons here for everyone today as uncertainty in today's world grows..
I have many Great Depression stories from my grandfather, during the Depression he was a musician and played at the "swanky" restaurants in St. Louis, MO; my grandmother hated it, because sometimes the pay was only a meal for two...basically, playing to eat.
Like hearing the real common man stories thnx
K lol
@@ggstorm8101 I do too !
There were times when all there was to eat was bread and butter and sugar sandwiches for weeks when my mother was a child in North Dakota in the 30s
My Gramas stories of growing up on a WV farm during the Great Depression were incredibly vivid and have stuck with me ever since. The Depression was much more traumatic for her than any of the other events she lived through during her 105 years.
My mom also through the depression on a farm. They were the lucky ones that didn't have to choose which child wasn't going to eat. Gramma peddled chickens in town till she died of a sunstroke climbing all the hills in Pennsylvania. Grandpa cultivated his ginsing and hunted. Such wonderful tales! Amazing people.
What year did she die? 105 is a long time.
@@thevacdude 2013. Born 1907 to our best knowledge (bad record keeping).
@@taylorlibby7642 Almost 106, man, that's a long time.
@@thevacdude Yeah, we were lucky to have her that long, but it still felt too short. She had the right attitude for it. Very forgiving of others, very curious about people and events, very generous of spirit. All of the older elederly that I've met seem to have some version of it.
Both my parents were born in the mid 1920s. Lived next door to each other. Their fathers literally built their own homes. I think they had electric and indoor plumbing. My mom didn't have a phone until the 1940s since her sister worked at the phone company. My dad only had one pair of slacks. At night he folded them and put under his mattress to get them unwrinkled. After Pearl Harbor my dad joined the navy, just out of high school. That's all I know of their growing up. My dad died 10 yrs ago. My mom was 95 and died in June 2020 from covid19.
Sorry for your family's tragic loss Covid is a terrible way to go may she RIP 🙏
@@lisalking2476 Dying at 30 is a tragic loss. 95 is a victory.
My grandfather was a schoolboy at the time. He came home and was telling his father how bad it was going to be. The old man listened patiently and then asked "corn still gonna grow?"
"Yes"
"Rabbits and deer still gonna be around?"
"Yes"
"Still gonna be catfish in the river?"
"Of course"
"I don't see a problem."
my husband's grandparents lived during the depression. Grandpa's parents left all the kids, no one knew where they went and they never came back. Grandpa was 16 yrs old and the oldest of 7. He took care of all of his siblings at 17!!!!. Made them very close group. They kept their faith too during all this BS. After everything was said and done, they opened a restaurant in Denver. We love their recipes today.
I was real confused seeing the date this was posted and some of these folks I know are long gone. But it's from 2010.
So many great minds. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to capture their thoughts.
Buzz doesn't look that hot these days
I am with you I am just about 30 I hope I will keep the lights running after you if you do not mind.....
@@whatkenyan7684 I’m 49 and still going strong! Another Great Depression is very close ladies and gentlemen wake theF up ! Asap !
We can take it cause it gunna get bedder.
Classic.
It's amazing to get so see so many now-departed personalities share their own experiences.
My grandpa is the youngest of 13, born in 1936. They grew up in the Great Depression. They were literally dirt poor. They had one pair of shoes that the kids took turns wearing. They were able to eat only because they were farmers. As soon as my grandpa was of age, he joined the military because it was a guaranteed meal ticket with a paycheck. He eventually worked his way up to a state of wealth. He and my grandma sold 22 acres in Maple Grove, MN for over $1M per acre. To this day, he puts fresh coffee and hot food in he microwave and eats quickly because if he didn’t, he wouldn’t get any food and it was rarely hot. I love him and my grandma with my whole heart and some of my fondest memories are of when I lived with them in my early 20’s amidst some turmoil and break ups. My grandma would make me a sack lunch everyday to take to work. I would sit at her kitchen island while she cooked and baked and told me stories about her younger years when my mom was a kid when they’d move all over the US due to my grandpa’s Air Force career. It didn’t matter if I had heard that story 3 times before, I’d listen intently as if it were new to me. My grandma now has Alzheimer’s and confuses me and my sister, and confuses my mom and me. She sometimes refers to my mom as my daughter’s mom because my daughter looks exactly like me and seeing my mom hold her reminds her of seeing my mom and I when I was a toddler. I dread the day when I don’t have them with me anymore 😢 call your grandparents. Call your parents. Just to say hi and I love you. Time passes quickly. The days are long, but the years are so so short. Cherish them ❤
My grandmother raised 9 children alone with next to no income during the depression. They lived in a small 2 bedroom house. My mother, being the youngest got to sleep in a bed the first time at age 12, after her older siblings moved out .
Today's kids think they are suffering if they don't have the latest iPhone.
My grandfather was one of 9 children and although his father's business was affected by the Depression, it was always a source of pride that there was a fruit bowl on their kitchen table that was always full of fruit, and the kids would always be able to come home from school and have fruit as a snack. Where did the fruit come from? The trees in their own yard. You were considered affluent if you had a fruit tree growing in your own yard.
Same for my grandparents, they had every fruit and vegetable that would grow in Virginia.
These were the toughest people who ever lived. Truly the greatest generation.
Yeah....then they fought in WW2.
My dad was in the Navy. He told me in his senior years that capitalism would eventually collapse...
I really appreciate social history which focuses on the lives of most of us reading this, not the flawed, larger than life icons we see in portraits that encourage myth making. Because here I see those small but incredible moments of generosity and compassion, bravery, protest, loss and despair. The human condition in all its dimensions does reveal itself when one is confronted with, every damn day, this kind of struggle to survive, and you’re down to the basic elements. Frankly, I don’t know if I would survive losing everything, the social unrest, food Insecurity, personal insecurity, being left my own devices to deal with the most basic survival problems. And what’s frightening is the social problems have started they’re here we’re not dealing with them and they’re just getting worse every day. We have thousands of countrymen who queue up for miles, waiting to get food because they don’t have any money. we have seen skyrocketing increases in suicide and people engaging and petty self just to get some food for their families getting caught at grocery stores, and extreme political division, and a paralyzed and ineffective federal government unable to respond adequately. Note to self: buy a farm, learn small farming and start planning.One thing is absolutely essential no matter what your political proclivities are, the average Joe has got to stop seeing the other average Joe across the street has his enemy or somebody who is just like an alien because their neither they’re just like you. The enemy is not a Democrat it’s not the Republican is not the black man is not the white man it’s not the João it’s not Christian it’s not the Muslim. But I’d like you to think it is because when you divide to conquer when you divide you distract when you divide your weekend. We are the 99% whatever our diverse backgrounds or interests are, we are more similar then different regardless of our political, religious, cultural, economic or business philosophies. Elite is elite, and we are the common people. So let’s make what we have in common the focus, and let’s get this on. No matter if my neighbor is on the complete opposite side of my outlook on life he is not the enemy, he is my fellow American countryman. he’s my brother. I think we all know who and what the problem is, and the 99% have to start dealing with it. Collectively and United, we do have the power. you have the power. Stay in current MO, and it’s gonna be real bad; it’s going to be some thing like out of “Les Miserables”And what the elite will have to face is a lot of their blood on the streets.
The greatest generation that EVER LIVED???
The Americans who crossed the country and set up new homes in the 19th century were pretty tough too. Travelling in waggons, all kinds of dangers....No electricity, no refrigeration, no cars, no welfare system, no schooling. Yet these people built entire communities including shops, churches, schools, businesses...
@@raybin6873 @@@@a. A. : f
I was quite touched by James Karen's story about a banker coming to his parents house, spitting on the floor and throwing them out. Then after WW2, a veteran and in great shape, and seeing that same banker, and spitting in his face then punching him. Bravo!
Resonated with myself lost my home in the Financial Crash.
@@themilitanthousewife8021 Sorry to hear about it. That whole Financial Crash was a crime IMO.
His story made me feel good too!
35:39 to 36:23 th-cam.com/video/FAZjlxWNszw/w-d-xo.html Docu - The Crash of 1929. Look now and see what's going on. So many websites advertising stocks and trading secrets and advantages. But that's buying low and selling high, AND NOT REALLY PRODUCING REAL TANGIBLE WEALTH! Money is just a representative of wealth used ONLY as a convenient form of trading one set of physical goods and services for another set of physical goods and services. But now it is being used again as a SPECULATION TOOL, A HIGH RISK SPECULATION INSANITY ALL OVER AGAIN!
@@themilitanthousewife8021 35:39 to 36:23 th-cam.com/video/FAZjlxWNszw/w-d-xo.html Docu - The Crash of 1929. Look now and see what's going on. So many websites advertising stocks and trading secrets and advantages. But that's buying low and selling high, AND NOT REALLY PRODUCING REAL TANGIBLE WEALTH! Money is just a representative of wealth used ONLY as a convenient form of trading one set of physical goods and services for another set of physical goods and services. But now it is being used again as a SPECULATION TOOL, A HIGH RISK SPECULATION INSANITY ALL OVER AGAIN!
My wife’s grandmother was a child in the depression. When she died in 1998, her car had 30,000 miles on it. It was 37 years old. Cars were for going to church on Sunday, the Post Office twice a month, and the grocery store every month or two. When she went shopping for dinner, she went to the basement pantry. Every item mattered because MONEY.
Cars can barely make 5000 miles these day
you are about to go through exactly what she did to make her that way. You can only worship one God. God or Money. and "Money" is not a reason. it is a thing. so saying "because MONEY" makes absolutely no sense. Because God strengthened her she didnt need MONEY.
@@mikeyseo not what my grandmother has told me over the years and she lived through the depression. Her family used there cars and earnt money saved money and used other means of transport and still always had money set aside for nice things on special occasions they weren't church people never will be but they taught me to respect the church but we dont believe in god
@@michaelmcilraith8699 I want you to try to focus. use punctuations. pay attention to the "ands" and "buts" and "because" and "then" s in a sentence. they are conjunctions and do have meaning.. be mindful of what you are saying. and doing. and always remain honest and pray. then God will be with you. whether you believe or not. There are power in your words. whether you believe or not.
@@michaelmcilraith8699 You have the name of an Arch Angel. btw. you should try harder to live up to the name you have been given.
Lesson here is don't be in a city if the SHTF. my grandparents on both sides were dirt poor anyway and lived in very rural areas. Grew their own food and raised livestock,they were essentially subsistence farmers and only bought a few things in town with the money made from logging. I asked them all what the depression was like and they all said they were so poor they couldn't really tell anything had happened and so life went on more or less as usual.
Both my parents were raised during the Great Depression. My dad had a rural upbringing and my mom was raised in Jersey city, NJ. Each family struggled but did well. The lessons they taught me have been priceless.
Right on. Urban people will eat each other alive. Rural people will make do and deal.
That's tragic. All of it.
We all need this perspective. We think things are so bad and difficult in our time. People act like it's the end of the world right now. Things are rough for a lot of people but as a group we know absolutely nothing.
This is happening again right now. Go look back a hundred years and it looks like today
History keeps repeating itself
Rough? Are they having trouble buying edibles & paying their cell phone bill?
@@hensonlaura yes
Wait a year. This is probably about to happen all over again
My mom had to leave her hometown when she was 17 to work as a welder in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, CA. She had to help support her mom and two younger sisters.
Wow. She sounds like a tough lady.
@@PMinPhoenix She was a tough chick.
My grandparents came from Tuscon to work in shipyard. My dad grew up in Atchison Village which was Kaiser housing in PT Richmond. I live here on a hill still. It's not as nice as it was then.
If you ever come out to California - Richmond to be exact, go and see the Rosie the riveter museum that they have there. Everything around there is now condos but they still put up a museum in honor of the ladies who worked in the Richmond shipyard.
Both my parents lived during this depression..one in New York City..she was so happy not to have starved to death..my Father lived in the hills of the Great Smokey mountains on land where he had no cloths but he had vegetables and anything they could hunt for meat..both were in the Army also. WWII.. veterans.both disabled veterans but didn't know it..they raised six kids I am the youngest and we were products of those two humans and what they lived through..great humans..neither didn't know what values they gave to this world..both would not have been able to deal with Americans and their actions against comment sense... Saying when we were sick we stayed home..a often alone because they worked sell employed interior designers..with their great passion for life..that both fought to keep.. shared their passions with their work..many times never looking down at any race or economic standing in any one individual.. I can't understand how America has gotten to this social destruction..my parents were individuals who voted for their own pratt and didn't stay true to one party but counted on each politician as their choice.. I vote for the person ..and follow political platforms and their changes or how their is not a said standard platform..
This is the lite side of the facts if a time when a country had come out of this depression and built character in the human race.we were filled with individuals from around the world... But we had a common goal... Building a new way of life abetter life to such a young country.. my parents blamed many parts of the depression on men's own selfish decisions and pride and cowardness..
Greed and the lust for power has corrupted o lot of folks that have sold their soul to the powerful for money!!
Thank God my patents, who lived through the depression, taught me how to use up everything-sometimes in other forms. (ie: worn sheets became curtains). I taught my kids the same lessons and they are teaching their children.
My parents lived during the depression too. Mom lived on a farm with 7 siblings. They grew and raised everything they ate.
Grandma also fed the hobos that rode the rails behind the house. They were allowed to sit on the back porch to eat.
Dad's family made lye soap to sell a nickel a bar.
Grandpa worked in a leather factory. When the war broke out my dad and 3 other brothers all served. Sent most of their pay back home to help with the household.
Both my parents relayed their experiences of the GD to me. My mother came from a fairly well to do family in Massachusetts. They owned a number of hardware stores. My father grew up in Texas and was the son of an architectural engineer. You can imagine what happened to both families when the bottom fell out of the economy. Nobody had money to spend in the stores and nobody was building anything. The lesson was and still is, you can go from comfort to poverty in a short time. My father, until the day he died, always kept a stash of cash hidden in the house just in case.
That's the stupidest thing he can do
My dad went through the depression, grandpa took him to the family home in Pennsylvania, his grandpa house to live, dad would always tell us about this big house, he took us there one year to visit, it was huge, coming from Brooklyn, tiny old apartment…
3 stories and an attic and a basement…..old Victorian, his aunt and uncle still lived there, what wonderful people….oh I forgot, I inherited his grandpas name.
I have a much deeper respect for old timers of that era who have passed & ones still alive. Plus hats off to the actors also who endured it. Thanks for these reminders & for all the small blessings we tend to take for granted⚘💖
Back then, humans were made of steel, period. I´m wacthing this in september 2020, in the middle of the covid-pandemics. It´s incredible to watch the people of the United States, living in slumm´s like many people do live rigth now in South América, Africa and Asia. I´m a chilean lawyer, and believe me, there´s still many people living in that conditions yet, here in the early 21th century. This documentary was filmed back in 2009, so many of this brave people are not here to guide us in this difficult times. But, i think that most of their genius and strength do still remanis within our hearts, and souls. The message is clear: only cooperation and solidarity is going to save us of this troubled times; only by remembering that we are the same species, that we are the same people, and remembering that we are brothers and sisters, despite our legitime differences, is going to make the difference between death or survival. Unfortunately, today both the USA and Chile are led by people who are not F.D. Roosevelt exactly. It will depend on us, the citizens and the people, to save human civilization. Greettings from this unemployed chilean lawyer, to the people around the planet who reads this comment. There´s better times, rigth in front of us, The only thing we have to do, it´s just keep walking towards. =) (PD: And please excuse my english, im just a self learner)
@Fernado 🙋
Your English is incredible, don't doubt yourself.
Everything you have stated is correct, it was about communities then and during WW2.
Community strength is barely exist now or can't compare to those eras. I was fortunate to be raised by that generation, I wouldn't trade the love, memories or compassion they showed others for anything I learned elsewhere.
Blessings, light and peace to you, my friend 🙏🕯️❤️
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I pray your comment does not place you in danger.
A tweet going about from ' general pattern of roundness' "we could have one liveable planet or 2604 billionaires."
I agree with you and your English is great
Your english is fine, thank you for your observations!
My parents both lived through war times and the depression. My father was born in 1904 and my mom 1925. We are South Africans. My sister and I became hardworking, responsible people with a strong awareness of value, importance of standing together to help and have empathy for all people and animals struggling in any situation, It made us stronger. We learned to fix things before we throw away. We have both gone through difficult life situations. I feel fortunate to have had to learn to stand on my own feet and be responsible. I believe the world is going through a massive change now to get us humans back to what life is really about. To be loving before hating. It will be tough but I believe we must change the course of our thinking.
My gpa grew up on a farm in Kansas during the dustbowls and the depression.
He never even had a toy.
What a great man he was!
My grandparents were all connected to farming & ranching during the depression so they came out OK. they refused to buy on credit or mortgage their land & house for short term gain. they taught me the same, that buying on credit is the first step on the road to ruin & perdition! they had very little money to spare but their families always had an income (small as it might be) a roof over their heads, and food to eat. because of this work ethic, my mother & father were the first in their families to graduate from collage! I consider that our family was very lucky during that time. So many others weren't.
Nice to see Jerry Stiller once again
Our generation today wouldn't know how to react during bad time's, sadly we are in the verge of of facing depression as the day's come and pass us by, The music and good times will only be a memory, God have mercy upon us all, 😇🌿🌹
You almost have to be blind to miss the similarities between then and now. Lots of problems converging at once, not totally the same, but similar.
It’s so true that struggle and strife can bring people together.
Both of my parents remember the horror as they were born in Kansas in 1928 and 1933. People need to watch Grapes of Wrath to fully understand the situation across the entire United States. Not everyone could farm since The Dust Bowl was happening at the same time. Dad ate lard sandwiches to survive until his parents brought him to Oregon. Mom lived in a box car until her parents brought her to Oregon. Learn about the boxcar people, too, as they protested President Hoover's hands off approach to the disaster. It was not all about the stock market crash.
The fact that majority of us still live and well, proof that our ancestor is truly something. I can't even imagine having only $200 for a month, let alone just a soup and a bread for 3 days
Almost 50% of individuals depend on government “welfare”. If this continues to grow we are 3rd world bound
My mother had only bread and butter with sugar on it for days. One day there was a knock at the door and there was a box of food from the church. My mother wasn't bitter just greatful for what she had
im currently on welfare and only live on 197/ monthly. this is real in 2022
This documentary is a treasure for us all.
Good that we still have these tapes. Somehow, lately, I seem to be seeing more flms on the depression. Maybe it is because subconsciously we are thinking that this could happen again and IT MAY! But I think the thing to remember is that most people made it through that time. I feel like we are on the edge of another depression or something and I just wonder if we are as resilient as these people. (Or the people who actually lived through it.) Maybe this time it will be worse.
Makes me cry,born in 53' raised by this incredible generation, my parents and grandparents aunts uncles,raised in santa Barbara and ventura, california,what a life,how the world has changed,both good and bad.
This is truly a superb documentary! Its date of production (2009) was perfectly timed, since so many of the participants are sadly no longer with us; and yet it is not so chronologically distant that we cannot relate to it. It is a precious time capsule of the people who went through it all: beloved actors, academics, economists and historians, social activists and public figures, as well as just everyday folks - they’re all represented. So many heartfelt personal stories and so much wisdom here...Thank you for uploading this rare gem - subscribed! Greetings from Greece.
When I was a child in NZ we were taught about the depression and what USA experienced. The Dust bowl, John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath I enjoyed in particular reading. The depression years music tell their own stories too.
Mary West - How very true.
My grandparents all lived through the depression. I remember my maternal grandmother reusing tea bags a few times and rinsing out paper towels and laying them out to dry. She never wasted anything and always said "waste not, want not" and "money doesn't grow on trees". She was the queen of reuse.
My paternal grandmother would sit everyone down to eat and would't eat until we had all finished our plates. I asked my father why she did this and he told me that her mother (my gg-ma) did this during the depression. She would go without eating in order to feed her family. If there was anything left, she would eat. My grandma learned to feed her family in the same way. Pretty heartbreaking.
I was raised, in part, by my grandmother who had all (4) of her children from 1931 - 1936. The great depression remained a part of her for the rest of her life. She wagged her finger at me, I was a teenager in the 1980s, almost every day about how wasteful I was. Of course, like many of the comments have alluded, she saved everything and lived a very frugal life. One of the things that stands out to me from my time with her were dates on the canned food cans that she would purchase from the grocery store. She would put the year on the cans, not the date & year: just the year. After I moved out of her home and would come back for visits over the years, and until her passing, I would look to see what inventory of canned food was that she purchased from the grocery story she had. Mostly, to see what she still had. I would still come across a can or two that were marked with year of 1984. As adult, now in my 50s, I believe that I have been able to caption what was her life long effort following the depression and that being "I can get the very same as you, or better, for half the price that you paid". She seemed to march with this as her daily mantra, almost as if she was in continual competition with the increasingly softening core of the modern culture of the day. I find that this "mindset" has become my own. I, along with my siblings, made fun of my grandmother for her manifest behaviors. My children have made fun of me for these very same manifest behaviors that have become my own. However, I do see in my one daughter, the drive to spend less while at the very same time achieving the same level of value for her and her family in all of her purchases: the lesson taken by grandmother has now been passed to the third generation. Fascinating to ponder that lessons from these people are still living, and thriving, even in the millenial and gen z generations. I wish she (my grandmother) could see it for herself.
My grandmother died months ago at 90 years old. She was born and raised in Ga and her childhood was the Great Depression, WW2, Jim Crow and naked hatred by the majority of the American population. I can’t describe how strong a woman she was and what she had to overcome.
now in GA, the naked hatred is from the blacks who don't even try to disguise it. White people should leave GA and take their tax revenue with them to a place more accepting of white folk.
Im in 7th grade currently, me and my friend are supposed to do a poster or timeline type thing about someone growing up during the great depression. I find this to be an interesting yet sad topic knowing how peoples lives were back then.
My grandmother was born in 1932 so she was a small child in the depression. R.I.P to her and I miss her she had so many interesting stories about back then
My grandma died a few years ago at 96. I remember eating dinner with her and grandpa. You waste nothing! And you cannot drink your juice or milk until your plate was all eaten.
My Mothers mother,
(Gramdma),Born in 1898 made hooch of some sort,We lived near a Railroad repair place,Grandma said I had kids to feed and was unapologetic😊, Good for her!.
R.I.P to a legend that is Jerry Stiller
seen pic and came just to say this!
If ANYONE could make the Great Depression funny...
Yo Mama Who was the hot chick in the pic you were looking at?
He was a treasure.
Only knew his work from king of queens, very funny guy, couldn’t imagine anyone being as perfect in the role as him!
My Papa was the oldest of 8 kids, under 10, born to Irish and Welsh immigrants during the depression. His father walked out the door one day and just never came back. His mother would take the 3 oldest children to the railroad yards with a broom and a gunny sack. They would climb into the empty cars carrying grain and sweep the remaining grain into the gunny sack to make bread. It got to be too much. She just couldn't feed 8 children on her own. She took the three oldest children, including Papa, to a catholic orphanage. They were split up. He formed a close relationship with a boy a couple of years younger than him and they were very close life Ling friends...brothers. When they were 14 and 12 they ran away from the orphanage (he says they were beaten with rubber hoses among other severe punishments while in the catholic orphanage). They hopped trains from Oklahoma to California to try to find work. When they arrived, they had nothing. There were Mexican migrant farm workers near the train station living under a bridge. They spoke little to no English. When the women saw my Papa and his friend, they took them in. They fed them, clothed them and gave them a safe place to stay. They even helped them get jobs working in the fields. When my Papa turned 18 he joined the navy. He then became a professional painter and Mason. The last 15 years that he worked he was the President of the Oklahoma Painter's & Mason's Union. He was a big handsome man and reminded me of John Wayne and he was an amazing Papa.
He and my Grandmother were literally the only Democrats I knew growing up in a small town in Oklahoma. He had a profound impact on my life.
Stories like yours are the reason why I read the comment section
@@karlfonner7589 Same here .
A shame about your dad having to go to the orphanage and I hope he was able to later reconnect with his siblings and his mom as I don't know if you're talkin about his mother or your mother's mother
Your "Papa" had character, got it from his mom!
My dad was born in the 30s in the US to immigrant parents. He was artistic but also a down to earth kid. He taught me how to make book covers out of a paper bag. He also did some of his artwork on paper bags back in the day because that was all he could scrounge for free. Whenever I gave him a present of markers, paint, pencils, or charcoal, he was always so modest. It was such an extravagant gift to him. But at the same time he made do with whatever he had as a kid and continued that as an adult. He always preferred to gift/spoil me as a kid but I preferred to spoil him when I could. His experience growing up in that situation never left him. He was always a person who got along with others and always polite and funny.
If you dad was born in the 30s you should be at least 80 by now. Stop lying plus the channels your subscribed to dosent look like an 80 year olds
My grandma was in the great depression her stories terrified me so.much that I dont waste one penny all my debts get paid off asap I dont try to compete with the jones get what I need and enjoy life that way. I'm a financial prepper and I think I'll thank myself soon way things are looking
Yep thanking myself right now as gas sky rockets
I wanted to add something for history sake. My mom was young (born 1927) lived in N.Y. the
Bronx. Her mom and the neighbors took turns making large pots of soup which were taken to the distribution area. She said she saw the men, looked down and saw the nice shoes some wore. That really frightened her because her father wore nice shoes too and this could happen to him (and her family). So here it is, a little bit of history.
Very interesting.
My great-grandparents told me stories.
Some sad, some happy.
I took their words to heart.
My family will survive anything our politicians can throw at us.
Same here. Looks like it might happen too.
When I ask my Mother what happened to her, and her family during the depression. Mother said she didn't even know the depression was going on, because nothing ever changed for them. The family lived, and still live in the Appalacian Mountains. Her family went right along doing what they'd always done. Farm, and peddle farm stuff to city people in the small town near them. My Father's family were share croppers, who moved back and forth from Madison county NC, to Greenville Tenn. I ask my Dad if his family ever went hungry? He gave me a surprised look, and said, "Nooo!" Like I crazy for asking! He said they ate good from farming, canning what they grew, and from hunting. About everyone killed a hog every Nov. As we did when I was growing up. So we always had meat to eat. Seems like the depression effected city people much more than country folks.
As long as you werent in the dustbowl.
My grandfather told me stories of growing up 1 of 6 kids in the 20s, father gone, mother trying to get by with sewing. No money for heating oil, living in the UP michigan where it can get below zero frequently. Frost so thick on inside walls that you could stick your clothes on the walls. Just wood cooking stove and candles for heat. When he joined the CCC at 17 yrs old, 6 ft 2 inches, he weighed 110 lbs. He said that was the first time he could remember having a full stomach.
I talked to someone about the great depression once and they said everyone was poor and it was sad
I always tell our children and grandchildren,..that history repeats itself unfortunately,…and to never ever take life as you might know it for granted. I’ve taught them how to bake breads,…foods to try and keep around the home,..just in case. What foods can sustain life within you. It’s all basic really,..and watching this “depression documentary” proves things right in society. I wish and pray always that one day,…we will not repeat the same mistakes among all humans all over this world;..that we will all learn to get along and realize the power we as humans can gain and use for the better good of all generations to come in our earthly journey.❤️. “Love Is The Key,…the Master Key”.❤️🌍
Bless you! Yes, we must be prepared. I am also waiting for a time, when prejudice and suspicion towards the fellow man will not be the norm, but the deep understanding that we are all human after all, and tolerance is the key to a better life.
Understand this Love is sacrifice
These stories offer such inspiration, and hope. My parents were teens during this time. There were no stocks or money in the bank. They had to work harder, and compete more but, parents just did the best they could. You can't mourn what you never had. Thanks for shari g this important part of our history.
My German mother was part of that Strongest Generation. Along, with allied bombs being dropped over their heads. My inspiration came from her strength, and ability to prepare for and overcome adversities.
Lets not forget all the bombs the Germans dropped on innocent families in London
The ✡️ is the reason why America and Germany both suffered such a terrible depression. IMO, we never should’ve fought your country. We fought the wrong dictator
Did Europe also go through the Great Depression?
Recently Iwas hauling tree limbs to the town dump and while I was there a couple in their 30's were throwing perfectely good useable items to the dump. After they left i went to see what they were so happily discarding. I found new pet items, kitchen utensils, dishes, etc. I was speechless at the utter waste . Obviously, they weren't raised by Depression parents...
We live in an age of replace, replace, replace. The amount of people who will buy a new toaster (for example) just because it fits their decor better astounds me! Or buying a bottle to decant shampoo/washing liquid which already comes with its own bottle because it is ‘prettier’. Consumerism at its worst.
How good do you have to have it to have never heard of a thrift store?
I know at least 6 people from Mexico who load trailers full of useful products thrown away by Americans and sell them in Mexico- and they make very good money doing so. We're spoiled here, and every successive generation worse.
My dad was born in Nov. 1930. Drafted in 1950 and we're one of the first group sent to Korea. He was 47 when I was born and I count the knowledge he passed to me invaluable today. If needed I can build, hunt, fish etc. Through my career I can provide basic medical care if needed. My dad's love of racing taught me basic repair skills. I'm almost 45 now and have passed what I know to my children.
Before I watch this, the imagery of the dust bowl comes to mind immediately. That generation got through it, with our knowledge today you would think we wouldn't be getting into the very same if not worse situation but, here we are. Cheers from Canada, and thanks for these stories.
I'm not seeing as much dust as I am ash lately.
@joseph baska Ok.....sooooo what does that have to do with my comment? Or were you just looking for a space to rub off your ego?
@joseph baska Don't be an Idiot!! If you listen to the GOP they seem to think the New Deal made things worse!! They are the main ones driving the economic crisis by blocking everything! The Democrats may not be much good (having become ever more like the GOP over the last 30 years), but at least if it was up to them we'd have another $1,200 check and a continuation of the increased unemployment benefits which were keeping the economy afloat.
Also you need to learn how to spell and what the word communist actually means. The Democrats are (sadly) more dedicated to Capitalism than the GOP who want ever more socialism, ever more government money, ever more power to go to the rich and big businesses that fund them. They want a pentagon that spends Trillions on contractors but hardly anything on the soldiers.
@Andrew Phillips Deleted his comment and ran off like a coward.
I read the Governments insisting that the farmers plow up the land over and over and it caused the "Dust Bowl"...Ya Think?
I like the part where “they” give “you” some milk and “you” give “them” some eggs. In times of trouble, they embrace each other instead of having a we vs them mentality.
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I feel hopeful and that is a gift for which I am grateful
My parents went through the depression and were greatly affected by it, as was I because of their frugality. My father never threw anything away and repurposed everything that had broken.
I asked my Grandma in 2011 when she was 95 how we will know how bad the recession was going to be. She said " You will know its bad when they start burning the fences to stay warm." 5 husband's 7 children and multiple businesses from confectionery to pizza places she had a great long run.
It's so critical to remember our History....to learn how to endure hardships & to avoid making the same mistakes in Future!! ~ Godspeed ~
Yes, it is critical to remember our history, but just as critical to remember is that absolutely nothing in this world can grow eternally. We have not seen the last major economic downturn in this country. Take a look at the 19th and 20th centuries and you have constant boom and bust cycles. There is no way we can prevent them from happening. The best we can hope for is a quick recovery.
buy physical silver and gold
We are making a whole bunch of new mistakes today but not due to an economic crash but the opposite, too much success that we have become lazy and valueless.
@S Masco Of course you are right but convince the brainwashed it the trick. The brainwashed voted for Graffer King Biden because of the fake news not calling out the lying corrupt Dems.
My mom was told by her mom my grandma that people would jump off of buildings because they just didn't have nothing and they didn't want to live no more
Mostly an urban legend. Studies of the death statistics of the time show very very few people killed themselves, either when the stock market crashed, or during the depression. I guess people figured there was no reason to hurry it along, they'd die soon enough if they just did nothing. Maybe I'm a little depressed myself.
@@SplotPublishing doubt its an urban legend look at the suicide rate now, and this is sposed so be 100 years in the future
@@dahjeekwenglee5909 suicide rate is worse than before genius
Damn thats messed up
@@MF-qy9kt It wasn't reported on as much back then. Also mental health was still considered taboo, so it was all still hush hush.
Greatest hero of all time that soldier that punched out the banker.
I asked my Grandfather about what it was like during the Great Depression, and he said that his family didnt even notice it. They were nine children living on a very rural Texas farm, so they were already about as poor as they could be. The saving grace was that it was a farm. So, even if they couldn't afford shoes, they could still eat a small portion of the crops they were cultivating.
I grew up hearing stories of the depression from various family members. My mother's family lived on a farm. They always had plenty of food but very little cash, so buying shoes/clothes for kids was an issue. My dad's family were not so fortunate. Many of them took to the rails. Traveling the country looking for day jobs, earning just enough to eat. Even so, they had a good sense of humor when telling their stories.
My dad
's mom died when he was 12. He quit school and was peddling fruits & vegetables on the streets of Newark, NJ to make money for his family of 6 siblings during the depression. Also, tho WW2 ended in the '40's, it took the US several more years to get back "on-line", the early 1960's is how I remember it in our family.
@@cristinafisher2565 Depending on where they lived and their situation , a number of American families were doing really good by the 1950s especially by the mid-1950s ... you can look at various videos here about what life was like in the 1950s for a lot of Americans and especially the suburbs .
It was more the British who took longer to recover and that was because of WWII and many of the British were still going without in the early 1960s ... whereas a lot of America was doing well .
All of these famous, accomplished people telling their stories of living in the great depression. Then they went on to fight a world war on two fronts and be victorious.
Tell that this isn't the greatest generation ever!
They didn't do those things without the help of the generation previous to them, and after them. It's not the greatest generation ever. That's silly. They are human beings. It's great they won a war, and it utterly sucks they had to go through the depression. But, uh, ask an Irishman about the potato famine. Or ask a Russian about the pre-revolutionary famine. Or ask our forefathers in America about any of the horrific and terrific things they endured and accomplished. They are people. Let's stop being silly about generations and trying to compare them. Pretty sure the civil war Americans who saw the industrial revolution could give the WWII folks a run for their money.
@@SplotPublishing And elderly revolutionary war veterans of the time probably labeled the civil war generation soft. Old people have always been calling younger generations weaker than theirs.
@@destubae3271 because it’s mostly true lol
When I see people waiting in line in this video, its the same kind of people not working, waiting in line for the food banks, in my city, Montreal, Canada.
My mother told me so much stories about the Great Depression. Thanks to her, I'm more prepare for hardship.
Unless the tax structure changes Montreal will remain lower middle class. Speculators are trying to push real estate values upward there knowing the U.S. is looking at hyperinflation in the near future and they think the Chinese will always be there to backstop the residential real estate market in Canada. Short term the speculators are probably right but when the U.S. dollar loses the world's reserve currency status the speculators will be wiped out completely.
I had spoken to a farmer who grew up in North Dakota during the depression. He had stated that they (I am assuming his family) did not see any money for three years. Not even a penny. He stated after my questions that they bartered for everything. They knew the depression was over when a traveling salesman showed them three silver dollars as proof of how good of a salesman he was. Other stories from North Dakota consisted of people trading their lands mineral rights for a bag of potatoes. I still wonder how big of a bag of potatoes they got.
The problem with doing that today is that the government would take your land or house for taxes. No one really owns anything any more.
@@centsible12 thats right and now they are even pushing for "the great reset" meaning you own nothing
It's called desperation for your family not money hungry greed like today.
My family lived in North Dakota in Minot scrambled to eat in the depression
My dad was a young man and my mom a child when the depression hit. Neither got to go to college but went to work to help support the family ( no welfare etc during the depression) families all moved in together in the biggest house. Women did stitching washing cooking cleaning etc to make a little money cause not many jobs for women. My Grandfathers both still had work cause one worked on train maintenance and one was a fireman. So our family bought food for their siblings family took it to them if they weren't living with them. They fixed everything themselves, grew some food also. My grandpas and dad knew how to do everything because of it carpentry car repair plumbing electrical repair etc..They lived near the port and rail line and people came to the door asking for food often and my grandmas would make a sandwich for them. Lot of people in our family lost their property snd farms businesses cause they couldn't pay the taxes . These same people did later get jobs and a home so made it through. It did change people. My parents never wasted anything as a result. We had jars ( my sister and I continued the practice also) you save nuts bolts nails screws rubber bands wire string everything and anything you might need in the future, wrapping paper ribbon rags nothing is wasted.( cause there was no money to buy stuff).Also people helped their neighbors and friends,, loaned each other stuff or helped fix things. Made us all frugal and aware all can change in an instant so make long range plans and help others. My young nephew was trained to be the same. So not all bad
Interesting though, some of the poorest counties in Ky like the ones my grandparents resided in did managed to survive the Great Depression and put food on their table. People grew gardens, made quilts from old clothing, and people bartered or traded. The churches were the community centers and so were the old country stores which usually had a post office. People made their own soap, canned their food, and did make their way. These folks had no money and no debts but they managed to get by and help one another.
They also worked in coal mines which were needed extensively in the depression and war.
That was the spirit then.... Helping each other. Sharing what you have with others where you could
@@IngeEvenwel that spirit is still alive. In this part of Southeastern Ky, in the Ky Cumberland plateau, came a deadly unimaginable flood last August claiming 39 lives, 2 missing. People who lost everything except for the clothes on their backs went where rescuers couldn’t reach and they recused others. There was a lot of caring and sharing going on. President Biden and the Ky governor put everything aside and came to offer assistance. Rand Paul and the Turtleman were no shows until weeks went by. They both seem so very detached about this disaster. They were there for the photo op and that’s all.
I think all the farmers, nationwide, had a better time through the depression. I'm from northern Ohio, and my father and his friends all used to tell stories on each other about the depression. They were penniless, and even shoeless in a very cold place, but they all said if you had a farm, you could always eat. Dad said people were getting vitamin deficiency illnesses like scurvy, and his mother made sourcrout, which could keep them healthy in the winter. So she made extra and bartered it. They bartered soap, because you couldn't really make soap in the city, it had to be outdoors. So they had a whole little industry of things to sell and trade.
@@Hollylivengood thank you for sharing. It is true, the farmers had it made in the depression except for those who borrowed money to finance property which most mortgage holders lost. People ate cornbread because the corn meal and baking powder in it prevented nutritional diseases. Corn bread and beans made a complete source of protein. Some ate mush in its place.