Yesterday's World of Tomorrow | History Traveler Episode 35

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @TheHistoryUnderground
    @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад +2

    Thanks for watching and contributing to the conversation. If you like this or any other video on this channel, be sure to SUBSCRIBE to catch all of the newest content when it comes out.

  • @tomcaldwell5750
    @tomcaldwell5750 4 года назад +5

    Loved that 1950's house. I was a born in 1957, so many of the homes during my childhood had simular features. Brought back fond memories. Thank you for sharing this amazing museum.

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! That was definitely the highlight of the museum for me. And the colors in that house.....dang!

  • @chrisherbst9573
    @chrisherbst9573 4 года назад +2

    The glider on the roof....best part!!

  • @michellepotter628
    @michellepotter628 2 года назад +2

    I have lived in the KC area all of my life and have never even heard about this place. Definitely going to have to check it out!

  • @alexanderpatrick4866
    @alexanderpatrick4866 4 года назад +4

    Wow! You certainly were correct when you stated that this should be a model for other County museums throughout the country. That was very impressive thanks a lot. I definitely have an appreciation for that home as well. All those original products were definitely the standout thing and oh by the way... We had a bright red rotary telephone at my house all the way up until 2003.. we used to call it the bat phone..... LOL! You stated people under 18 wouldn't know what that is, I would venture to Guess that people under 30 would not... Lol! Such a fantastic job I really enjoy watching your videos thanks a lot JD! See you later!

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      My grandma STILL has a rotary phone in her house. Funny how things that were commonplace when you were younger seem like ancient history now. Heck, I showed some kids an original iPod that I have and you'd think that it was a piece that I'd extracted from the pyramids or something.

  • @giselecomeans2091
    @giselecomeans2091 4 года назад +7

    Being old school myself, I enjoyed the 1950s tour. I can relate to so many of the items! Thanks for sharing!

  • @CapCarter838
    @CapCarter838 2 года назад +1

    This county museum is incredible. As a museum professional I feel like any county museum could be like this if states, local government, and local communities put the money and effort into doing so. Usually local historical museums are old houses or old buildings local businesses had once occupied. The people of Johnson county are so lucky to have a place like this for their history.

  • @benjaminrush4443
    @benjaminrush4443 2 года назад

    Good Find. Love the Chevy & Iconic 50's House. Nice to go into a museum and be pleasantly surprised. Thanks.

  • @carrienew4597
    @carrienew4597 3 года назад +2

    Just found your channel and am having fun binge watching your videos. My dad’s ancestors were one of the founding families of Johnson County so this video was extra fun for me. I haven’t made it to this museum yet but I will have to do that soon.

  • @brianmorris7823
    @brianmorris7823 4 года назад +2

    The White Haven Motor Lodge sign was on Metcalf Ave in Overland Park when we moved to that area in 1999. The place closed around 2005 and the sign was donated to the historical society. It was such a cool sign. I always enjoyed driving past it.
    I hope you did the Steamboat Arabia and the National WWI museums and we'll see videos of those as well. Great museums.

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      Interesting! Thanks for the extra information. It's always good to hear the backstory on different historic pieces. I didn't make it to the Steamboat Arabia or the WWI Museum, but I definitely intend to get back up there and highlight both of those places. Thanks!

  • @chrispowell6985
    @chrispowell6985 4 года назад +1

    Nice video! The "House of Tomorrow" brought back a lot of memories from my youth. You're right...it was a well-put together museum.

  • @ja37d-34
    @ja37d-34 4 года назад +3

    Wow, that looks cool! I agree, that 50s house of "tomorrow" was nice. Reminds me of our Air Force Museums Cold War exhibition, where they have a typical living room from every decade of the Cold War. Love that kind of quite recent history with old cereal brands no longer around, comic magazines etc that are typical of an era that you forgot about.. Very nice.

  • @billd.iniowa2263
    @billd.iniowa2263 4 года назад +2

    Loved the balsa airplane on the roof! lol! Been there, many times. It was usually accompanied by my Frisbee. :-( Those were pretty cheap, I must have gone thru a few every summer. Eventually they fell apart from too many crashes. Nose-diving into the street was a pretty rough landing. But they were alot of fun! One of your best episodes, nice job.

  • @lessismore6062
    @lessismore6062 4 года назад +1

    I was born in 1954 so a lot of the items in the 1950's house are very familiar to me. Great tour!

  • @larrychretien2908
    @larrychretien2908 4 года назад +1

    Love the 50's house ,we had a black n" white TV like that when I was a kid, sure brought back some memories.

  • @isaramosquinones6239
    @isaramosquinones6239 2 года назад

    I grew up in the 60's and our bathrooms were very similar to the house you showed. The phone tv all part of my live once a upon a time.

  • @67midnightrider
    @67midnightrider 6 месяцев назад

    I love the fridge because the shelves spin and pull out. 10:35 The wooden play pen I remember growing up with one. My mom would put plywood over the top to keep my sibilings in when they learned to climb out 😅. I was born in the 80s so far from the house of the 50s house of tommorow.

  • @marydunn7234
    @marydunn7234 4 года назад +1

    The building the museum is housed in used to be an old bowling alley. The Motor Lodge used to be down the road. They actually just tore it down within the last few years. The city knew they needed to save that sign. It was such an icon.

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      Very cool. I didn’t know any of that. It really is a impressive museum. Thanks for the extra info and thanks for watching!

    • @marydunn7234
      @marydunn7234 4 года назад +1

      The History Underground I have really enjoyed your videos. I used to live in Dodge City, so to see you go through that area was really great. It brought back good memories. I now live in the Kansas City metro, so to see more videos of places close to me really makes me want to go. Keep up the great work.

    • @brianmorris7823
      @brianmorris7823 4 года назад

      The motor lodge was at 81st and Metcalf if memory serves me.

  • @pamelakern2849
    @pamelakern2849 4 года назад +1

    This museum is close to home . We will have to visit very soon. Thankyou for this great informative video. ☺️

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      It really is worth it. My family and I really enjoyed it. I didn't even show everything that's there either.

  • @Nature9000
    @Nature9000 6 месяцев назад

    12:42
    Definitely loving all your content and doing a little unhealthy binging lol. I needed to pause because you mentioned tv shows with married couples in the same bed.
    I remember researching years ago that, it was actually a 1947 american sitcom called Mary Kay and Johnny. Lesser known, especially with I Love Lucy, but if I remember I think they too were actually married and wanted to portray that, thus were the first to be in a same bed. Just something fascinating

  • @marcsmiley8014
    @marcsmiley8014 4 года назад +1

    That is one of be best county museums I have ever seen. Some that I have seen are like a hole in the wall building.
    That 50s House was cool!! I explained to my kids how to use a rotary phone. Lol

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      It really blew me away. I've enjoyed plenty of the smaller county museums but this one completely blew me away.

  • @johnkelsey2482
    @johnkelsey2482 4 года назад +1

    Excellent............Thanks.....

  • @aaronmorehouse8050
    @aaronmorehouse8050 4 года назад +2

    You should visit Gettysburg,PA there’s are 3 places I highly recommend the visitors center museum, Seminary ridge museum, and The home of President Dwight Eisenhower

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      I visited Gettysburg for the first time a few years back and intend to get back there sooner rather than later to do some videos. I didn’t go to any of the museums though. Thanks for the heads up!

  • @emilyshort7694
    @emilyshort7694 4 года назад +3

    You should make a trip to Sacramento & see the Railroad Museum that is there, its packed with history & all sorts of things to see

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      I would love to get out there sometime. I’ve been to Southern California but haven’t been to any other part of the state yet. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching.

    • @emilyshort7694
      @emilyshort7694 4 года назад

      @@TheHistoryUnderground my pleasure, I really enjoy your videos; whereabouts in southern California have you been? I have family there so I've spent a lot of time in places like Lakw Arrowhead, Ontario, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego & Downy

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      I was down in LA, San Diego and Riverside. That was probably 15 years ago though so I’m sure that much has changed.

    • @emilyshort7694
      @emilyshort7694 4 года назад +1

      @@TheHistoryUnderground a lot has changed in those areas over the years but southern California will always hold a special place in my life because of my family; one other interesting place you might want to check out that is also in Sacramento is Sutters Fort, the last stop of the Donner Party Wagon Train that came over the Oregon trail, it's a really neat site to visit

  • @dousan53
    @dousan53 3 года назад

    Enjoyed this video as always try to visit local museums on our road trips when in the US. Recommend the museum in Kingman AZ if you haven't been there yet

  • @lindafromidaho2932
    @lindafromidaho2932 4 года назад

    Intro: I bet that bug doesn't have guts enough to do that again!!

  • @granskare
    @granskare 4 года назад +1

    My dad said (about some kind of coffee), good to the last drop. He wondered about that last drop !

  • @georgehays4900
    @georgehays4900 3 года назад

    Taking me right back in time. That could have been my folks house.

  • @authorelizabethjsmith
    @authorelizabethjsmith 3 года назад

    My in-laws' bathrooms are still mint green and bubblegum pink/brown and orangeish. That bathroom was actually kind of tame. 😆

  • @jakedarnell479
    @jakedarnell479 4 года назад +3

    I’m 33 and I wouldn’t be able to use a phone from that era

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад

      Jake Darnell - Ha! 😅

    • @billd.iniowa2263
      @billd.iniowa2263 4 года назад

      If you had alot of calls to make your finger started to get sore. Thats when you picked up a pencil and used that, lol.

  • @timf2279
    @timf2279 Год назад +1

    Wow that place is impressive. I would really like to go back to the 1950's.

  • @joefera8947
    @joefera8947 Год назад +1

    I discovered your channel a year and a half ago while I was on medical leave from work. Decided to start from the beginning and really enjoying this stuff. If you ever get the chance, head to Dearborn, Michigan and visit Greenfield Village and The Henry Ford Museum. You would go nuts in that place. They even have the Rosa Parks bus and the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot.

  • @chrismassey9035
    @chrismassey9035 4 года назад

    The green phone... Zip click lic lic lic... Zip click lic lic lic... If you would like to make a call please hang up and try your call again ! My 17 year old daughter didn't know what it was when I showed her one. 😂

  • @sonnyboy0071
    @sonnyboy0071 4 года назад +1

    The first show to show a couple sleeping was The Flintstones

  • @kat1984
    @kat1984 3 года назад

    I think the people in the 1950s were on to something when it came to separate beds. My partner and I have completely different needs for mattresses as well as bedroom temperature. We have separate bedrooms and sleep much better apart, we don't toss and turn and keep each other awake. Our relationship is good, we just need our own space for sleeping.

  • @karenwatson4031
    @karenwatson4031 Год назад

    We had a car like that in the 50s.

  • @jaynesheriff6503
    @jaynesheriff6503 3 года назад

    Actually, the first tv show to show a couple in the same bed was " Mary Kay and Johnny.

  • @patriciacanfield6847
    @patriciacanfield6847 3 года назад

    First couple to sleep in the same bed was Ozzie and Harriet!!!

    • @lynnessewimperfect825
      @lynnessewimperfect825 3 года назад

      I thought it was Lucy and Ricky Ricardo! Shows you how much I know! LOL

  • @butwhy9918
    @butwhy9918 3 года назад

    Mark Kay and Johnny, was the first sitcom to show couple in bed late 40s.

  • @dianebrewer6531
    @dianebrewer6531 4 года назад

    We went to a very interesting museum in Fairfield Utah. That might be one for you to visit if you haven’t already/

  • @rayross997
    @rayross997 4 года назад +2

    When you opened the fridge door, I thought Indiana Jones would pop out. Remember how he survived the nuclear bomb test? The house was great, loved the colours. If you ever get to Nova Scotia, visit Fortress Louisbourg & the Alexander Graham Bell Museum.

    • @TheHistoryUnderground
      @TheHistoryUnderground  4 года назад +1

      Ha! That’s hilarious. And I would love to get over to Nova Scotia some day. Can’t say that I’ve ever been there. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • @joshuagaines9297
    @joshuagaines9297 3 года назад

    What about Wichita?

  • @jamesbergman4917
    @jamesbergman4917 3 года назад

    Agricultural Plinko!

  • @peterlenihan5712
    @peterlenihan5712 3 года назад

    I watched this whole series and it was great, just couldn’t give a like on a single video because you don’t know how to use the word “when” and continuously say “whenever”

  • @jorgecruzseda7551
    @jorgecruzseda7551 Год назад

    Im a Baby Boomer born 1958 😂