I had two friends, they were sisters. Born in 1906 and 1908, they told me 100s of stories about the 20s. The bars were bring your own moonshine which they made on an island on their property. The pigs got into the mash more than once. Their dad was a deputy sheriff so he knew when the raids were coming and he'd warn the neighbors. Those stories are so much better than life today. Everyone in the bar, called "Waterworks", would go skinny dipping in the lake next to the bar after sundown.
I remember a sweet little old man who was a member of the church my family went to. Everyone just thought he was the nicest, most gentle soul. But finally one day he dumbfounded everyone when he let it slip that in his young days he was Al Capone's driver. Still makes me laugh to think that we may be surprised to discover what the old folks got up to before they got respect for being old.
@@zzydny I very much enjoy elders in general. Elders are the best story tellers, in between naps, and I get less judgment from them than your average person.
I find it funny that learning about the regular stuff (entertainment, food, fashion, etc) from other eras of history can be far more interesting than the important events that happened during that era lol.
My father, who lived on the Canadian border in Niagara Falls, N.Y., played in a band during prohibition. (The Moonlight Serenaders). He also played in the pit orchestra at Buffalo's Palace Burlesque. He regaled me with many stories about his experiences bringing liquor over the Canadian border. Following a gig in Canada they would fill fake gas tanks full of whiskey and bring it back with them. Some of the border guards also would be on the "take." When they played speak-easys they would get paid for the music AND would sell the establishment good booze they brought from Canada. They made out quite well for themselves. Dad played the clarinet, sax and piano and sometimes was the "crooner." The rot-gut whiskey sold in speaks was terrible and the old sweet ginger ale they would use as a mix made the drinks taste worse. Hence, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, a much improved mixer for bad booze.
Anyone during Prohibition who lived next to the Canadian border could easily cross it for good booze. I imagine the same thing was true in the southwestern U.S. where anyone could cross the Mexican border for the same reason.
@@evirareid1500 Hmm, very interesting. Black and whites mingled in underground society, though the CRM was still two generations away. However, there were certainly happy black people.
Of course, the 1918 pandemic ended just in time for the 1920's. Basically, the end of their pandemic started the Roaring 20's. "The influenza pandemic of 1918-19, also called the Spanish flu, lasted between one and two years." -Encyclopedia Britannica
@@someguy2135 they didn't have the same type of monetary system we have. Google money supply. Governments nationwide have injected 100s of percent more money into the economy than ever before. It's why there hasn't been a downturn in stocks. This is only going to work for a limited amount of time.
I remember that in one of the Assassin's Creed games you could look through a computer and see concept art for an experience called "Jazz Age Junkies". It was a AC game set in Chicago during the 20's. After watching this I could totally see it. Flagpole sitting sync points, boxing mini-game, raiding rival gangs booze warehouses, newspaper and film reel collectibles.
I love movies and being there at the beginning would have been marvellous....we take things for granted these days. Driving around in a \model T would have been awesome too. 'You can have it in any colour so long as it's black'
If I had access to a time machine, I would go back to the 20's and use my knowledge to avoid losing everything in the stock market crash. Fun time to be alive and great music. Lots of exciting inventions back then too.
@The7Reaper I don't. the flapper style was a counter culture against the edwardian strictness, and given how there is no culture today to counter against plus girls today dress far more sexually than flappers ever did. (but at least they did it to make a statment.)
At 3:43 you mentioned the federal highway act of 1921, but show a picture of Eisenhower in 1956. What gave it away wasn’t Eisenhower. It was the 5 starred pentagon (pentagram). There weren’t 5 branches of the military in 1921, and the pentagon (pentagram) wasn’t built until 1941. Symbols tell more about history than people realize.
It was during the 1921 HIghway Act that the assigning the U.S route numbers took place. Odd numbered routes ran from north to south and the even numbered ones ran from east to west.
Like hearing about the 20s because I like art deco architecture and Tiffany lamps. I would like to see history on 1940s America. I like to listen to music from the 20s to the 40s. Maybe also you can do something on that?
Well, time to re-read the Cheaper by the Dozen books. This got me craving entertainment material from or about the 20s! Nothing like the silly 21st century movies. These actually took place in the 20s! The 1950 and 1952 adaptations will do fine, but the books are where it’s at! They’re a humorous memoir of the Gilbreth family, written by two of the 12 siblings. (Sadly, one child, Mary, died at the age of 6, so they were never a dozen all together at the same time, but of course the family still quietly included her.) Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were Motion Study experts, each world-renowned in their own right. They used their large family to get the most out of everything, including the humor. The children absolutely adored their parents and the books are so charming, I have read them multiple times. They’re a fun window into the times, too, because they weren’t intended to be, if that makes sense. They were meant to be about their interesting family, but naturally some 1920s slang came in, especially when the elder kids reached high school. Talk on Sheiks and 23-skidoo and jalopies abound! I also recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It takes place in the ‘teens, but it’s a breathtaking machine. The best memoirs (or thinly-veiled memoirs) or historical fiction can both take you back time as well as show you that so much is still the same, 100 years apart or even more.
Continuing ANOTHER Weird History sequence! Thinking about the fifth and final step for the recipe sequence for Caspar Milquetoast*†...while watching this Weird History video! * Inspired by forgotten depression-era meals from the Weird History video "Weird Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression" † Caspar Milquetoast is fantastic!
Great job on this video 😊. An interesting book on the 1920s that I had to read in college is Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. Highly recommend it!
For the fifth step, only use a little bit of 2% milk while frying the toast, between one and two tablespoons. The most important part of the entire recipe is to not use too much milk, which makes the toast become mushy.
Loved the video. Only complaint is the contemporary style of jazz playing. Would have been nice to hear Bix Beiderbecke or Red Nichols rip a solo in the background, if you know what I mean.
At 3:44 the "Eisenhower" Federal Highway Road Construction Act (prompted by his WW2 see as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe of the key importance of a national highway system, as for defense) was signed into law by him as US president in 1956, not "1921."
What did Eisenhower have to do with highways in the 1920s?!?! He was in the military during that time. Yes he was behind the interstates after WWII, but not after WWI.
If one had spent their time in the 1920's collecting newly minted common coins, toys, baseball cards, relics of advertizing and other small iconic items instead of throwing their money into the stock market and passed all of that down to their children, that would have guaranteed some big bucks later down the road.
My mother who was born in 1923 taught me how to do the Charleston for a Halloween costume # when I was a teenager so maybe I would have been a flapper doing the Charleston.
Good grief, why such a big deal over Time magazine? People read all kinds of magazines in those days. Most homes subscribed to several weekly and monthly periodicals by mail. Time wasn't the only thing people read, lol.
The Eisenhower Interstate System didn't pass until 1956 when the dude was president. Whats being referenced in the video was the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, which Eisenhower had nothing to do with. Felt this needed to be pointed out since the video shows a picture of Ike and that really confused my historical timeline. Otherwise fantastic video as always
I barely remember when I was a kid when the first tvs came out. People went crazy over it. We were scared to watch it but we couldn't help it, we couldn't keep our eyes off it. People use to think it was evil because people would be afraid to watch it and would get cold chills/goosebumps when watching it lol. We were so innocent back then.
At least you couldn't carry the TV around with you everywhere staring at it like a zombie and never interacting with others. I wonder what I could be referring to there.
No response to any reply in a year? You a bot? It is evil. Tell-a-vision isn't inherently evil, but the people putting the images, words and sounds on the corporate media are.
My parents lived the 1920s, so I heard a lot first hand about it. For that matter, my grandparents and more than a few old timers I knew lived the Old West, so I heard a lot of first hand accounts of life that was basically prehistoric to the '20s.
I have always been fascinated by the 1920's, especially now that it's 100 years in the past. However, as a black person, my life would have been quite different than what was mentioned in this video. If I were a young adult in this era obviously, I would be dead by now, but also, I probably would have had an okay life, depending on where I lived. I'm from San Francisco, so things might have been easier for me if I grew up in this region atthe time. I love jazz music and definitely would have frequented jazz bars at that time.
As a black person, I’m grateful that I wasn’t born in the past. Even in the 60s blacks were fighting for equality. I can’t imagine how unequal the country was in the 20s.
Even though African Americans had extreme hardships in those times, the music scene was phenomenal. Our communities were more in tact and lively. Though the camera wasn’t always on us outside of entertainment, I believe it had to have been lit when it came time for us to enjoy ourselves.
@@Monaedeezy dude the upper class black folks hated jazz music they didn't wanted there children to be part of it life wasn't diffrent people hated and fought Just like today stop romanticising things Our music was phenomenal yeah every generation said that shit my grandparent said it my own parents said it and I said it even 100 year's future people will be saying same thing that our era was best and we had best music.
It's kind of sad how people with African ancestry couldn't hold on to their African roots, heritage & culture. Only saying this since I have seen other south asians who were brought to the Americas as slaves, held on to their ancestral culture from India and so on, such as the Guyanese people. That's what keeps their communities strong, stable and they are successful.
I think production moved west because of people like Edison and the various powers at the time that existed in NY and New Jersey charging too much and wanting to control everything. They got tired of it and ditched that area for sunny southern California. A video on it would be cool
@@cheebatheroadztothewickedg6941that would make the great depression seem like nothing due to the economic damage it would inflict on the nation, you better hope you never see that
Well, let's be real here. 3:43 the black gentleman is Highway Administrator Rodney Slater and that pic was taken in 1993. Sadly, black people didn't get to have most of this kind of fun in the 20's, nor were we able to run govt. highways.
Alcohol prohibition lasted only 13 years with the results we all know. Drug prohibition has been in effect for a little over 100 years. The results are uncontrolled international drug cartels and gang wars and an absurdly high prison population. With all this experience, it should seem obvious that any politicians and law enforcement must be getting heavy kickbacks to want to keep up such a failed policy.
Right. When people are told they’re not allowed to do something they do shady things to get around the rules. For the most part anyway... I just love arguments on stricter laws or banning such items will “fix” problems of those with poor judgement bc it doesn’t those desperate people do desperate things.
True told to get a vaccine that makes you sick for 2 days, that hasn’t been tested, forced to wear masks in certain places, and listening to an old fool, yes I agree
@@copperfish543 Listening to a young dumb is no pleasure. They have been tested and masks work. Few people have a bad reaction, but one or two days is no big deal. You may have had hangovers that lasted longer than that. But Covidiots do not understand anything.
@@copperfish543 To be "forced to wear masks in certain places" (in public enclosed spaces, where one's exhalations are inhaled by others) is better than to be surprised at having to get COVID and "wear" a ventilator and then perhaps coffin. Personal freedom has always had to balance, negotiate with the rights of others, as to public safety during a pandemic that has taken many lives, as of those who refused prudently to social distance and/or wear masks. If you ever needed Operating Room surgery to save your life, would you want your surgeon and his assistants to be "free" to not wear masks, to prevent their breathing and in season, sneezing and/or coughing into your vital organs and so giving you a life threatening infection? The value of freedom need include rational boundaries; these protect your rights, such as not to be infected by others' serious contagious diseases, as well as others' rights to same.
That's why they're perpetually milking this border crisis politically. As if a controlled Mexican border is going to stop people from getting drugs. Utterly delusional and people buy it.
Wow. You missed the sweet and simple things like going on picnics, boat rides, strolls, gazing at the moon, necking, telling stories, singing, scavenger hunts, bobbing for apples, playing, horseshoes, going horseback riding, skiing, church socials… and really so much more
People back then clearly appreciated life a lot more. Bars were a lot more fun even though alcohol was illegal. Sitting on a flagpole beats sitting on the phone!
Agreed! As other channels have mentioned, about 40% of Americans lived in poverty, but I'm sure some of them found ways to get by and still try to enjoy a simple life.
I love this channel, I learn a bit and alwayyys laugh because the writing and the jokes are so clever! Lol, I couldn't imagine them trying to ban alcohol today? 😯 People freaked out when they wanted to ban 20oz soda cups!!! I have always enjoyed listening to family that are older and my parents stories about what it was like when they were growing up. I find it so fascinating to hear people's stories and like to hear about their/your lives. I've been this way since I was a child and enthralled with my grandparents tales and true narratives. I guess that's why I like volunteering so much because some people don't have anyone and I just love to sit and talk with them, hearing all about their life. It's truly delightful for me!!! Happy Holidays Everyone!! ❤
The US government has always been an experiment, nothing more. At least they admitted they failed and reversed the ban on alcohol. They're not brave enough to experiment more with regulations for drugs or guns.
0:26 Did you know that story behind the woman in that photo goes that she wasnt necessarily "poor and hungry" as it has come to be known. Her picture is used to represent the face of poverty as the stock market fell, however, she confirmed in later life that it was a hot day and she was traveling with her husband and children when their car broke down. Her and the children then sat under a shade while waiting for the car to be repaired that's why she looks kinda miserable.
Yet the photo is always used when talking about the depression! There's a book of pictures of people during this time taken by a woman photographer. They are much more interesting and represent real situations
Love you guys! I would LOVE to know more about Alaska's history, especially the colonist sent to AK during the Great Depression. It's a very interesting topic.
I always found 1920 culture and history interesting and always found something new in it. I recently finished Ken burns prohibition which was really well done 👍
Flagpole Sitta is an excellent song. "I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a TV"
Put me in the hospital for nerves And then they had to commit me You told them all I was crazy They cut off my legs, now I'm an amputee, God damn you I'm not sick but I'm not well And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell I'm not sick but I'm not well And it's a sin to live so well
The book “Last Call” covers in part how lobbying efforts and odd political coalitions lead to Prohibition. It was never put to a popular vote, voted in by career politicians who were beholden to special interests groups
@@LAT-qk3vj just some details. Like congressman trying to smuggle in bottles of booze from Panama, where the canal zone was US controlled. One claimed the broken glass in his luggage was originally dishes. Didn’t explain the stains and smell of alcohol.
@@jlshel42At least the government had to admit it was a complete failure and reversed course. The country needs to do more experiments with regulations for drugs and guns. Some will fail, some will succeed. But you have to give it a try.
@@BigBadJerryRogers it was more organizations of citizens that pushed for Prohibition to get pealed back. The government in DC was trying to stay the course since that’s what they prefer.
May be because I was in Special Ed back in the 1990s, so my education was quite fascinating, interesting and very relevant to what I needed to know. SPED is completely different to General Ed, which is why I love it! They taught us the everyday lives of people from each of the main eras, so we knew more than the GE kids did. We also learned what they actually wore during the 1920s, what they ate and the actual events of the time such as Yellow Fever and the rise of KKK at the time. We even learned that one of the most popular books in United States during 1920s was Hitlers' book Mein Kamph. 😮We also learned that Eugenics was huge during the 1920s and the obsession with pure race actually started here in United States.. later taken by the Germans in the 1930s and 40s. Yep... Special Ed teachers taught us more than the General Ed and Gifted teachers ever did, especially the nasty, dirty parts of History.
Yes GE got a more sanitized version of history littered with all kinds of spin and inaccuracies...but my father would try full in the blanks for us or tell us more details of the real story.Imagine if children we taught more accurate history in elementary school what changes might occur ..I remember first time I really learnt about Christopher Columbus I was in my 20 s . I felt physically sick for days
That’s the part of history I love as well to. I love to know what every day people did, and what every day life was like for people during the various decades right from the early 1900s until today And not even necessarily from those decades, but even previous periods in history, to such as the mediaeval period, or the Victorian period
It's always been a weird concept to me and I'm no historian so correct me. But, that Italians were involved in money laundering, killings, prison, gangs etc and bold about it whilst being immigrants but yet they were allowed to freely go as they may (of course, not the prisoners). While blacks were segregated, confined to certain areas, and limited to access to different businesses.
So car and driving culture, American sports culture, cinema and theatre culture, keeping up with current events, dance trends, marathons, and jazz music are all officially 100 years old! How cool! Also, Black people have basically been creating and influencing American youth culture for well over a century. Nothing has changed. ✊🏽
Welcome to the culture influence club! Those of us Americans with German ancestry gave the rest of you everything from the Conestoga wagon to the Easter bunny. And yet no one remembers our ancestors today. So much of what America is today was created by ethnic Africans or ethnic Germans, NOT Anglo-Saxons.
No! I am a Liberal male who doesn't even know what a male is, yet I will defend these ideologies to the death because dopamine is more important that eternity.@@liberalbias4462
I use to tell my Parents that ,I was born to late! i I would have loved to have been born in the Roaring 20s...instead of 1959.I adored the clothing from that Era. I remember my mom and Grandmother telling me about my Great Aunt Ida and her Husband always participating in the Danceathons and winning.
Yea, I'm good with my air conditioning, surgery anesthesia, the latest antibiotics, modern plumbing everywhere, streaming pretty much anything I want to watch online, driving to places that are a few hundred miles away in a several hours instead of a few days, having all information about anything in my pocket via my phone & being able to pop over to Mexico or Europe for a long weekend via the nearest jumbo jet if I should ever want to do that instead of it taking several weeks one way by boats that have less safety equipment than necessary. Can't you just have a Gatsby theme party like everyone else? Or do that thing where you just wear the clothes from that era all the time a lá Bernadette Banner? I don't think the reality of what you'd be dealing with would be half as romantic as you might expect. Idk, that's just my opinion though.
@@tazhienunurbusinezz1703 fair point, like the song says "the good old days weren't always so good." But I think we're all guilty of romanticizing the past every now and then.
I had two friends, they were sisters. Born in 1906 and 1908, they told me 100s of stories about the 20s. The bars were bring your own moonshine which they made on an island on their property. The pigs got into the mash more than once. Their dad was a deputy sheriff so he knew when the raids were coming and he'd warn the neighbors. Those stories are so much better than life today. Everyone in the bar, called "Waterworks", would go skinny dipping in the lake next to the bar after sundown.
I made moonshine once
My pop had great stories about prohibition
Wonder if they have stories about black friends lol
Life wasnt better back then for us...
And you're writing all these down for others to read where? (If you aren't, you should!)
I remember a sweet little old man who was a member of the church my family went to. Everyone just thought he was the nicest, most gentle soul. But finally one day he dumbfounded everyone when he let it slip that in his young days he was Al Capone's driver. Still makes me laugh to think that we may be surprised to discover what the old folks got up to before they got respect for being old.
Yeah a lot of stories between those wrinkles.
Ah, to be a simpleton.
@@honeybunch5765 That's when I learned to take the time to listen to the stories of old folks.
@@zzydny I very much enjoy elders in general. Elders are the best story tellers, in between naps, and I get less judgment from them than your average person.
So that would mean you’re grandfather was Tony Acarrdo?
I find it funny that learning about the regular stuff (entertainment, food, fashion, etc) from other eras of history can be far more interesting than the important events that happened during that era lol.
The 1920s was a different time. Parties, fun, games, radio, sports, etc. Not to mention the Great Gatsby.
If I could go back in time just for a little, I’d love to go back and party in that period
No one worked?
@@samanthad4314 Same here.
"what time period would you like to visit?"
"I'd love to visit the time of the Great Depression!"
....🤦♂️
@@DPSFSU actually yes. It would be beneficial for a lot of people in this generation because they don’t appreciate what they currently have.
My father, who lived on the Canadian border in Niagara Falls, N.Y., played in a band during prohibition. (The Moonlight Serenaders). He also played in the pit orchestra at Buffalo's Palace Burlesque. He regaled me with many stories about his experiences bringing liquor over the Canadian border. Following a gig in Canada they would fill fake gas tanks full of whiskey and bring it back with them. Some of the border guards also would be on the "take." When they played speak-easys they would get paid for the music AND would sell the establishment good booze they brought from Canada. They made out quite well for themselves. Dad played the clarinet, sax and piano and sometimes was the "crooner." The rot-gut whiskey sold in speaks was terrible and the old sweet ginger ale they would use as a mix made the drinks taste worse. Hence, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, a much improved mixer for bad booze.
Anyone during Prohibition who lived next to the Canadian border could easily cross it for good booze. I imagine the same thing was true in the southwestern U.S. where anyone could cross the Mexican border for the same reason.
It's amazing knowing all of this is nearing 100 years ago. Let's make the 2020's roar just like these times!
What reality do you live in id call it the devastating 2020's
As a black person....no. Lets not redo that shit.
@@evirareid1500 Hmm, very interesting. Black and whites mingled in underground society, though the CRM was still two generations away. However, there were certainly happy black people.
I disagree, do you think whatever Mexicans that were around were treated well? I say it was better, because people interacted face to face better.
Absolutely not
We are in the roaring 20s.
Can anyone imagine what 2120 will look like and what they will think about us?
They will because of the pandemic and impending world record economic recession we will see soon.
If covid has taught me anything, in a hundred years, the government would do all the thinking for you.
No, we are in the Terrible Twenties.
The Roaring Twenties started in 1920.
Of course, the 1918 pandemic ended just in time for the 1920's. Basically, the end of their pandemic started the Roaring 20's.
"The influenza pandemic of 1918-19, also called the Spanish flu, lasted between one and two years." -Encyclopedia Britannica
@@someguy2135 they didn't have the same type of monetary system we have. Google money supply. Governments nationwide have injected 100s of percent more money into the economy than ever before. It's why there hasn't been a downturn in stocks. This is only going to work for a limited amount of time.
Great stuff. It still surprises me how much I love history and learning from this channel. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!🦃🍁 🦋
Skepticism is needed. RUclips has their own mainstream media.
I remember that in one of the Assassin's Creed games you could look through a computer and see concept art for an experience called "Jazz Age Junkies". It was a AC game set in Chicago during the 20's. After watching this I could totally see it. Flagpole sitting sync points, boxing mini-game, raiding rival gangs booze warehouses, newspaper and film reel collectibles.
I love movies and being there at the beginning would have been marvellous....we take things for granted these days. Driving around in a \model T would have been awesome too. 'You can have it in any colour so long as it's black'
best announcer ever. Please give him more money and a historical holiday.
“Badass 28” Yup, that’s right. Grandma was a real badass back in 1928, and don’t you forget it. 😁
“…Radio, what’s new?
Radio, someone still loves you!”
If I had access to a time machine, I would go back to the 20's and use my knowledge to avoid losing everything in the stock market crash. Fun time to be alive and great music. Lots of exciting inventions back then too.
Feels like the '20s were the direct predecessors of the '60s. Wild youth changing everything up.
Back in the day before trends consisted of a TIKTOK dances, people sat on flagpoles and actually went outside
There was also wing-walking! My grandma was a serious party-girl/flapper in the 1920s who enjoyed walking out on the wings of biplanes.
I mean the 20s did have super weird dances like limp ducks 🤣. I laughed way to hard at that part
My great grandma was born in 1923 still alive as of right now!
People were social, not staring at phones when with others.
@Julie Jensen Sad but true, as much as I wish the 1920s could go come, it wouldn't be posisble with how society is today :(
Flagpole sitting… right then. Tiktok clearly did not start stupid trends.
I wish the clothing style of the '20s made a comeback, our styles got worse as the years went on for some reason
Don't follow what others do. Start your own thing
@The7Reaper I don't. the flapper style was a counter culture against the edwardian strictness, and given how there is no culture today to counter against plus girls today dress far more sexually than flappers ever did. (but at least they did it to make a statment.)
@@msatxgault560 Too many people are chicken shits who just want to be a sheep and blend it
The average weekly salary in the 1920s was about $25-$35.
So one couldn't do much, even if the cost of everything was lower.
At 3:43 you mentioned the federal highway act of 1921, but show a picture of Eisenhower in 1956.
What gave it away wasn’t Eisenhower. It was the 5 starred pentagon (pentagram). There weren’t 5 branches of the military in 1921, and the pentagon (pentagram) wasn’t built until 1941.
Symbols tell more about history than people realize.
It was during the 1921 HIghway Act that the assigning the U.S route numbers took place. Odd numbered routes ran from north to south and the even numbered ones ran from east to west.
Like hearing about the 20s because I like art deco architecture and Tiffany lamps. I would like to see history on 1940s America. I like to listen to music from the 20s to the 40s. Maybe also you can do something on that?
Love the channel it reminds me of the history channel back when they actually showed history
I would love to go back in time to the 1920s America since I'm a PoC I don't think it would be a good idea
Well, time to re-read the Cheaper by the Dozen books. This got me craving entertainment material from or about the 20s! Nothing like the silly 21st century movies. These actually took place in the 20s! The 1950 and 1952 adaptations will do fine, but the books are where it’s at! They’re a humorous memoir of the Gilbreth family, written by two of the 12 siblings. (Sadly, one child, Mary, died at the age of 6, so they were never a dozen all together at the same time, but of course the family still quietly included her.)
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were Motion Study experts, each world-renowned in their own right. They used their large family to get the most out of everything, including the humor. The children absolutely adored their parents and the books are so charming, I have read them multiple times. They’re a fun window into the times, too, because they weren’t intended to be, if that makes sense. They were meant to be about their interesting family, but naturally some 1920s slang came in, especially when the elder kids reached high school. Talk on Sheiks and 23-skidoo and jalopies abound!
I also recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It takes place in the ‘teens, but it’s a breathtaking machine.
The best memoirs (or thinly-veiled memoirs) or historical fiction can both take you back time as well as show you that so much is still the same, 100 years apart or even more.
Prohibition and the Volstead Act conspicuously DID NOT ban consumption. Only manufacture, transportation, and sale.
Continuing ANOTHER Weird History sequence!
Thinking about the fifth and final step for the recipe sequence for Caspar Milquetoast*†...while watching this Weird History video!
* Inspired by forgotten depression-era meals from the Weird History video "Weird Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression"
† Caspar Milquetoast is fantastic!
I'd spend my time in the Roaring 20's just like I spend my time now... Drinking!
Me, roaring twenties? Drunk and puking at the bottom of a flag pole someone was sitting on probably.
😂😂
Great job on this video 😊. An interesting book on the 1920s that I had to read in college is Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. Highly recommend it!
For the fifth step, only use a little bit of 2% milk while frying the toast, between one and two tablespoons.
The most important part of the entire recipe is to not use too much milk, which makes the toast become mushy.
“You missed when Time and Life shook hands, and said goodbye...”
This dude just spits facts
facts
Wait a minute its the Roaring 20s now😳
Disapointing 20s😔
I love this channel!!!
Loved the video. Only complaint is the contemporary style of jazz playing. Would have been nice to hear Bix Beiderbecke or Red Nichols rip a solo in the background, if you know what I mean.
If you are sitting on a pole for 45 days what happens when nature calls? Really, I won't rest until I know!
I was aware that "knowing your onions" was a very old term, but I didn't know it went back THAT far or maybe I forgot. I've used it on occasion.
$60 million a year in the 1920's!!😳
That's a crazy fortune!
I think most people in the 1920s had to get up with the roosters to do the haying 😜
Now that's gorgeous af😍🔥❤️
At 3:44 the "Eisenhower" Federal Highway Road Construction Act (prompted by his WW2 see as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe of the key importance of a national highway system, as for defense) was signed into law by him as US president in 1956, not "1921."
Who knew Harvey Danger was performing in the 1920’s? 🤪
You used Eisenhower as an example of of roads getting better in the 1920's? Weird history an accurate name
I envy them because they weren’t stuck staring at a phone screen 80% of the time
The flagpole sitting is similar to the planking in the early 2010’s
What did Eisenhower have to do with highways in the 1920s?!?! He was in the military during that time. Yes he was behind the interstates after WWII, but not after WWI.
Louise Brooks was my favorite flapper ❤️
1923 was 100 years ago. How wild.
How did Kelly go to the restroom on the flagpole?😅
This video was really ducky (1920s slang for fun).
Please do Jack Johnson VS. Tommy Burns
Ah the good old days when flagpole sitting was all the rage...
If one had spent their time in the 1920's collecting newly minted common coins, toys, baseball cards, relics of advertizing and other small iconic items instead of throwing their money into the stock market and passed all of that down to their children, that would have guaranteed some big bucks later down the road.
I'd like to hear about the influence of popular mechanics over the decades
Reefer, wool swimming slacks, flapper girls and the ol’ 23 skidoo.
Imagine 100 years later a RUclips video would be titled: How the 2020s spend their time💀
My mother who was born in 1923 taught me how to do the Charleston for a Halloween costume # when I was a teenager so maybe I would have been a flapper doing the Charleston.
Good grief, why such a big deal over Time magazine? People read all kinds of magazines in those days. Most homes subscribed to several weekly and monthly periodicals by mail. Time wasn't the only thing people read, lol.
I'm confused by the Eisenower interstate system being in the 1920's.
Youre telling me we still have wall street 100 years later?!?!?!
Drinking bath tub gin and going blind was a favorite pastime...
Roaring twenties❣️
Watch all your episodes!
I remember thinking how weird it was to learn my grandmother was a flapper. When I got older and remembered her I thought, "Yep, I can see that."
Did she wear Shalimar or Tabu? Those were both THE flapper perfumes back in the day
My grandma bragged about being one. She also said she was the first of her friends to wear bloomers ( pants).
Shalimar smells horrid.
My friend told me his grandmother remembered binding her chest so she was flat which was desired for young flappers!
@@AnnNunnally Bloomers! Scandalous! Lol!
Our 20s this century has sucked balls so far.
People said the same thing 100 years ago. Things might look slightly different but they really aren't that different at all.
Crypto got me always living in the roaring 20s
At least we have alcohol.
Well, the 10s didn't suck as 100 years before though. And hopefully nor will our 40s
We still have 8 more years before calling it Suck.🤣
Flappers then, TikTokers now…the 20’s girls always come up with dances that make everybody mad 😂😎
Absolutely.
The 1920s had flappers. The 2020s has mud-flappers.
Wonder if I'd find smooth skin or a hair jungle when you took a girl's clothes off back then?
@@breakingames7772 Would you give yourself a Brazilian with a straight-razor?
Yeah but the difference is then it was oppressed women making a statement
Now it's entitled women wanting attention
Wow crazy to think they actually had the balls to ban alcohol. I want to see how that would pan out today
Massive protest and riots, anyone?
resorting to poisoning drinks to stop people from drinking, but instead it just killed them
Today we just ban freedom 😔
Pure pandemonium.
War on Drugs sadly exists still.
The Eisenhower Interstate System didn't pass until 1956 when the dude was president.
Whats being referenced in the video was the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, which Eisenhower had nothing to do with.
Felt this needed to be pointed out since the video shows a picture of Ike and that really confused my historical timeline. Otherwise fantastic video as always
Lots of inaccuracies in these videos.
Funny that you noticed this too. My husband also stopped the video and said " that Ike reference is wrong" Ike was president in the 50s.
I just finished looking that up as I didn't think it was right.
Eisenberg
Noticed this too. I’m from Kansas so I knew right away about ike haha
I barely remember when I was a kid when the first tvs came out. People went crazy over it. We were scared to watch it but we couldn't help it, we couldn't keep our eyes off it. People use to think it was evil because people would be afraid to watch it and would get cold chills/goosebumps when watching it lol. We were so innocent back then.
Interesting! Where was this?
How old are you
They were probably right. What else brainwashes people and holds their attention as easily as electronic screens?
At least you couldn't carry the TV around with you everywhere staring at it like a zombie and never interacting with others. I wonder what I could be referring to there.
No response to any reply in a year? You a bot?
It is evil. Tell-a-vision isn't inherently evil, but the people putting the images, words and sounds on the corporate media are.
My parents lived the 1920s, so I heard a lot first hand about it. For that matter, my grandparents and more than a few old timers I knew lived the Old West, so I heard a lot of first hand accounts of life that was basically prehistoric to the '20s.
Not gonna share one?
Thanks for sharing!!
Please share!
How old are you???!?!?!?
@@lexitnute1306 oh my god I was gonna ask the same 😂
Born 100 years too late to enjoy the roaring twenties, born just in time to live through the boring twenties
It’s barely 2021 lol
@@damnmuggle so far the first 2 have been 💩
Whether this twenties is boring, you still have eight years to go to determine that when this decade is over.
Where you had a chance to possibly buy a house and a ton of land.
Man we had a pandemic and Russia is starting WW3. Not remotely boring.
I have always been fascinated by the 1920's, especially now that it's 100 years in the past. However, as a black person, my life would have been quite different than what was mentioned in this video. If I were a young adult in this era obviously, I would be dead by now, but also, I probably would have had an okay life, depending on where I lived. I'm from San Francisco, so things might have been easier for me if I grew up in this region atthe time. I love jazz music and definitely would have frequented jazz bars at that time.
As long as you didn't live in the south in the 20s you'd probably be ok
As a black person, I’m grateful that I wasn’t born in the past. Even in the 60s blacks were fighting for equality. I can’t imagine how unequal the country was in the 20s.
Even though African Americans had extreme hardships in those times, the music scene was phenomenal. Our communities were more in tact and lively. Though the camera wasn’t always on us outside of entertainment, I believe it had to have been lit when it came time for us to enjoy ourselves.
@@Monaedeezy dude the upper class black folks hated jazz music they didn't wanted there children to be part of it life wasn't diffrent people hated and fought Just like today stop romanticising things
Our music was phenomenal yeah every generation said that shit my grandparent said it my own parents said it and I said it even 100 year's future people will be saying same thing that our era was best and we had best music.
It's kind of sad how people with African ancestry couldn't hold on to their African roots, heritage & culture. Only saying this since I have seen other south asians who were brought to the Americas as slaves, held on to their ancestral culture from India and so on, such as the Guyanese people. That's what keeps their communities strong, stable and they are successful.
This was so interesting!!!
Now can y’all please PLEASE do a video on the Harlem Renaissance??!!
If you're interested, Crash Course is either doing a short series OR are doing it now.
YASSSSS !!!
PLEASE
BORING
@@josva9124 good thing you don’t have to watch
Would loved to have partied in the twenties! 💃
You’re living in the 20s now give it a shot
@@Chabon209 I am pretty sure that he meant the 1920's, not the 2020's, but you are right about us living in the 20's.
Dancing sober and sitting on poles ain't my thing.
@@Chabon209 you ain't wrong there my friend! 😆😉
@@beaudavis3808 r/woosh
Random but I’d love a video about how Hollywood got to be Hollywood. If that makes sense how did that areas become popular compared to another areas
I think production moved west because of people like Edison and the various powers at the time that existed in NY and New Jersey charging too much and wanting to control everything. They got tired of it and ditched that area for sunny southern California. A video on it would be cool
@@jr2904 Yes, and the yearround sunny, mild climate and access to terrain to film more realistic Westerns were key factors.
@@cheebatheroadztothewickedg6941that would make the great depression seem like nothing due to the economic damage it would inflict on the nation, you better hope you never see that
Well, let's be real here. 3:43 the black gentleman is Highway Administrator Rodney Slater and that pic was taken in 1993. Sadly, black people didn't get to have most of this kind of fun in the 20's, nor were we able to run govt. highways.
Alcohol prohibition lasted only 13 years with the results we all know. Drug prohibition has been in effect for a little over 100 years. The results are uncontrolled international drug cartels and gang wars and an absurdly high prison population. With all this experience, it should seem obvious that any politicians and law enforcement must be getting heavy kickbacks to want to keep up such a failed policy.
Right. When people are told they’re not allowed to do something they do shady things to get around the rules. For the most part anyway... I just love arguments on stricter laws or banning such items will “fix” problems of those with poor judgement bc it doesn’t those desperate people do desperate things.
True told to get a vaccine that makes you sick for 2 days, that hasn’t been tested, forced to wear masks in certain places, and listening to an old fool, yes I agree
@@copperfish543 Listening to a young dumb is no pleasure. They have been tested and masks work. Few people have a bad reaction, but one or two days is no big deal. You may have had hangovers that lasted longer than that. But Covidiots do not understand anything.
@@copperfish543 To be "forced to wear masks in certain places" (in public enclosed spaces, where one's exhalations are inhaled by others) is better than to be surprised at having to get COVID and "wear" a ventilator and then perhaps coffin. Personal freedom has always had to balance, negotiate with the rights of others, as to public safety during a pandemic that has taken many lives, as of those who refused prudently to social distance and/or wear masks. If you ever needed Operating Room surgery to save your life, would you want your surgeon and his assistants to be "free" to not wear masks, to prevent their breathing and in season, sneezing and/or coughing into your vital organs and so giving you a life threatening infection? The value of freedom need include rational boundaries; these protect your rights, such as not to be infected by others' serious contagious diseases, as well as others' rights to same.
That's why they're perpetually milking this border crisis politically. As if a controlled Mexican border is going to stop people from getting drugs. Utterly delusional and people buy it.
Wow. You missed the sweet and simple things like going on picnics, boat rides, strolls, gazing at the moon, necking, telling stories, singing, scavenger hunts, bobbing for apples, playing, horseshoes, going horseback riding, skiing, church socials… and really so much more
It’s so sad, newer generations get close to none of that, just technology and the internet 😔
People back then clearly appreciated life a lot more. Bars were a lot more fun even though alcohol was illegal. Sitting on a flagpole beats sitting on the phone!
Agreed! As other channels have mentioned, about 40% of Americans lived in poverty, but I'm sure some of them found ways to get by and still try to enjoy a simple life.
Women's hairstyles and makeup were so incredibly attractive during that time period.
Agreed
Mhm
I love this channel, I learn a bit and alwayyys laugh because the writing and the jokes are so clever! Lol, I couldn't imagine them trying to ban alcohol today? 😯
People freaked out when they wanted to ban 20oz soda cups!!!
I have always enjoyed listening to family that are older and my parents stories about what it was like when they were growing up. I find it so fascinating to hear people's stories and like to hear about their/your lives. I've been this way since I was a child and enthralled with my grandparents tales and true narratives. I guess that's why I like volunteering so much because some people don't have anyone and I just love to sit and talk with them, hearing all about their life. It's truly delightful for me!!!
Happy Holidays Everyone!! ❤
Happy Holidays to you too!
Haaapnin ya wee belter
Me too! I LOVE hearing people’s stories! Happy Holidays love! ❤️❤️
@@annarushlau9722 Thank you Anna and I hope you had and have happy holidays to you and yours 🤗
The US government has always been an experiment, nothing more. At least they admitted they failed and reversed the ban on alcohol. They're not brave enough to experiment more with regulations for drugs or guns.
Al Capone! No one ever talks about Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, who was to Boston what Capone was to Chicago.
0:26 Did you know that story behind the woman in that photo goes that she wasnt necessarily "poor and hungry" as it has come to be known. Her picture is used to represent the face of poverty as the stock market fell, however, she confirmed in later life that it was a hot day and she was traveling with her husband and children when their car broke down. Her and the children then sat under a shade while waiting for the car to be repaired that's why she looks kinda miserable.
Yet the photo is always used when talking about the depression!
There's a book of pictures of people during this time taken by a woman photographer. They are much more interesting and represent real situations
@@bronwynj5194I'm pretty depressed regularly, they could use a picture of me
Love you guys! I would LOVE to know more about Alaska's history, especially the colonist sent to AK during the Great Depression. It's a very interesting topic.
I always found 1920 culture and history interesting and always found something new in it. I recently finished Ken burns prohibition which was really well done 👍
Ken Burns is always great
Weird History: how did people in the 20s spend their free time
Me: dancing and dope.
Flagpole Sitta is an excellent song. "I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a TV"
they cut off my legs.
now, i'm an amputee, goddamn you.
Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy
They cut off my legs, now I'm an amputee, God damn you
I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well
I wanna publish zines
And rage against machines
It’s a crippler!
Rock on, people!
Wasnt Eisenhowers Federal Highway Act in 1956 not the 20s?
That pic is from 1993 and that's Dwight Eisenhower's son. This part is totally wrong.
The book “Last Call” covers in part how lobbying efforts and odd political coalitions lead to Prohibition. It was never put to a popular vote, voted in by career politicians who were beholden to special interests groups
So, nothing has changed. Very 🤔interesting
@@LAT-qk3vj just some details. Like congressman trying to smuggle in bottles of booze from Panama, where the canal zone was US controlled. One claimed the broken glass in his luggage was originally dishes. Didn’t explain the stains and smell of alcohol.
@@jlshel42At least the government had to admit it was a complete failure and reversed course. The country needs to do more experiments with regulations for drugs and guns. Some will fail, some will succeed. But you have to give it a try.
@@BigBadJerryRogers it was more organizations of citizens that pushed for Prohibition to get pealed back. The government in DC was trying to stay the course since that’s what they prefer.
May be because I was in Special Ed back in the 1990s, so my education was quite fascinating, interesting and very relevant to what I needed to know. SPED is completely different to General Ed, which is why I love it! They taught us the everyday lives of people from each of the main eras, so we knew more than the GE kids did. We also learned what they actually wore during the 1920s, what they ate and the actual events of the time such as Yellow Fever and the rise of KKK at the time. We even learned that one of the most popular books in United States during 1920s was Hitlers' book Mein Kamph. 😮We also learned that Eugenics was huge during the 1920s and the obsession with pure race actually started here in United States.. later taken by the Germans in the 1930s and 40s. Yep... Special Ed teachers taught us more than the General Ed and Gifted teachers ever did, especially the nasty, dirty parts of History.
The Special Ed approach seems like a better and more interesting approach to me! It would definitely get people more interested in history.
Yes GE got a more sanitized version of history littered with all kinds of spin and inaccuracies...but my father would try full in the blanks for us or tell us more details of the real story.Imagine if children we taught more accurate history in elementary school what changes might occur ..I remember first time I really learnt about Christopher Columbus I was in my 20 s . I felt physically sick for days
Adolf Hitler was an admirer of Margaret Sanger. If I remember correctly, he even wrote a letter to her.
That’s the part of history I love as well to.
I love to know what every day people did, and what every day life was like for people during the various decades right from the early 1900s until today
And not even necessarily from those decades, but even previous periods in history, to such as the mediaeval period, or the Victorian period
Sped was still dumbed down curriculum. Most teachers are straight-up r3tards.
It's always been a weird concept to me and I'm no historian so correct me. But, that Italians were involved in money laundering, killings, prison, gangs etc and bold about it whilst being immigrants but yet they were allowed to freely go as they may (of course, not the prisoners). While blacks were segregated, confined to certain areas, and limited to access to different businesses.
So car and driving culture, American sports culture, cinema and theatre culture, keeping up with current events, dance trends, marathons, and jazz music are all officially 100 years old! How cool!
Also, Black people have basically been creating and influencing American youth culture for well over a century. Nothing has changed. ✊🏽
I agree
Wouldn't be possible without white instruments. ✊🏻
Welcome to the culture influence club! Those of us Americans with German ancestry gave the rest of you everything from the Conestoga wagon to the Easter bunny. And yet no one remembers our ancestors today. So much of what America is today was created by ethnic Africans or ethnic Germans, NOT Anglo-Saxons.
We have a gruesome history in fact it is the origin of the Illuminati
No! I am a Liberal male who doesn't even know what a male is, yet I will defend these ideologies to the death because dopamine is more important that eternity.@@liberalbias4462
I use to tell my Parents that ,I was born to late! i
I would have loved to have been born in the Roaring 20s...instead of 1959.I adored the clothing from that Era. I remember my mom and Grandmother telling me about my Great Aunt Ida and her Husband always participating in the Danceathons and winning.
Then you would have wanted to be born in the early 1900s, that way you would have been old enough to enjoy the Roaring Twenties.
Yea, I'm good with my air conditioning, surgery anesthesia, the latest antibiotics, modern plumbing everywhere, streaming pretty much anything I want to watch online, driving to places that are a few hundred miles away in a several hours instead of a few days, having all information about anything in my pocket via my phone & being able to pop over to Mexico or Europe for a long weekend via the nearest jumbo jet if I should ever want to do that instead of it taking several weeks one way by boats that have less safety equipment than necessary.
Can't you just have a Gatsby theme party like everyone else? Or do that thing where you just wear the clothes from that era all the time a lá Bernadette Banner? I don't think the reality of what you'd be dealing with would be half as romantic as you might expect. Idk, that's just my opinion though.
My parents were born in 59. I'm sorry y'all had to live through the 70s lmao
You would have been a flapper?? 😄😄😄
@@tazhienunurbusinezz1703 fair point, like the song says "the good old days weren't always so good." But I think we're all guilty of romanticizing the past every now and then.
I suggest you look at your own imagery. That’s not how “people” lived, that’s how certain people lived.
How did they stay on the flagpoles for so long? Where did they poop? Just right there? Did everyone watch? This is gonna keep me up at night.
05:29 Frank Sinatra was old but not *that* old!
Yeah, they got a few video spots completely wrong this time.
Darn it Weird History, now I want to see a 1920s Fast and the Furious movie.
Can you imagine Vin And Paul Walker racing at 70 MPH, and scaring people?
It’s called “The Great Gatsby”