Gman Reminds me of learning to drive class in Civics, movies. We certainly watched some brutal actual accident scenes, preceded by this kind of factual lead ups, Thank you, for your selfless Service, in Viet Nam.
The music is top-notch: a commissioned composer, and a real orchestra, with trained musicians paid to scale. None of today’s incompetent musician playing a cheap keyboard.
When I was in High School driver's ed in the early 70's, we where taught defensive driving. Obeying the laws of the road, leaving early and not placing myself in a position to be in a hurry, looking ahead to avoid potential accidents, use of directionals. Now a days, with people it seems like it's offensive driving, road warfare, road rage, own the road, get out of my way, no patience or courtesy shown anybody else. Turn signals may as well be removed from new vehicle designs, as much as their used anymore.
You are absolutely right. I frequently joke about how the driver in front of me that just turned without using his indicator, must not have ordered the turn signal option when he ordered his car. 👍🙂✌
“Young Pete Oliver twists his wheel to the right, into Fred Tailors car. And so another attempt of Farmer Smith to total his car and claim insurance money was thwarted. But there is always another day.”
Old cars were death traps. Metal dashboards. Non-collapsing steering column. No seatbelts. No airbags. No crush zones. Nothing. Even slow speed accidents had the potential to be devastating back then.
Hey, don't forget that us kids use to stand on the front seat to watch where we were going as our Mom and Dad put their arm in front to protect us from creating a crater on the metal dashboard with our heads or getting decapitated flying through the windshield from an accident.
Don't use a cell phone while driving. You got the steering wheel in one hand and your beer in the other hand - now how you gonna hold that damn phone ??
I'm an old guy and remember these films being shown in high school. This one is very tame compared to the others. I believe that one of them was called "Red Asphalt." One of the clips showed a car being lifted off the head of someone who had been thrown from the car. As the vehicle lifted the smashed head partially regained its shape and several students ran from the room or vomited right in their seats. Of course, kids being kids this didn't stop several of us from totaling our cars in high speed accidents.
Pretty suspenseful. A left hand turn from the right lane with no signal. That's real smart. Speeding and tail gating also contributed to the disaster. Cars with no seat belts, air bags or telescoping steering columns were another joy when in an accident. I love old cars and am not afraid to drive one, but I pray I never hit anything.
@Briguy52748 When I was in Jr. High we had 56 and 57 International buses equipped with aftermarket turn signals. I think by 58 or 59 they came equipped from the factory that way.
@Briguy52748 Buick had them in 1939 as standard. You're right about Cadillac. I love the aftermarket turn signals on trucks. My favorite is a 700 Signal Stat. They fascinated me as a kid. Well, they still do! :-)
After my Dad died in 1998, I was going through some old papers (like everyone else who grew up in the 30's Depression. He saved everything) he had kept. One was an Sale Invoice for his new 1954 Ford he bought that June. On the options mentioned were Turn Indicators (not signals), priced at $16.00.
My first legal car was a '47 Dodge. The original buyer had sprung for a Comfort Master heater and Motorola Golden Voice pushbutton radio, but no turn signals. I drove that thing for eight years in the Northeast, cranking the window down in pouring rain and blinding snow, to provide what were to most indecipherable signals of my intentions...
My dad had a 16mm projector he would bring home from the university. Besides watching our family movies, he would bring home these kinds of safety films about car accidents and kids not observing train track warnings and the like.
@@radiorob7543 it's to discourage people from smoking or taking it up and it works. Also the tax helps pay for all the health outcomes caused by smoking such as cancer etc. They are sold in packs without brand names on them but with graphic warnings of the known health risks and colour photos of said health conditions like black lungs, etc. And it works, Australia's smoking rate is down to about 15% and it's way less cool to smoke now than it was in the 80s or 90s.
"Hear the crashing steel... Feel the steering wheel....Warm leatherette...Peels your burning flesh....A tear of petrol...is in your eye...as the hand-brake... Penetrates your thigh....On warm... leatherette...Warm... leatherette.... Join the car-crash set...."
9:15 I can just imagine that conversation. "Hello ma'am, I'm here because I have the duty of informing you that your husband spent his last moment gripped with terror, and not knowing exactly how it came about."
“Thank you officer and thank you for telling the children before you told me. Would you like some lemonade? And is the Buick okay, it’ll be a classic one day.”
You guys are warped! I was thinking the same thing. Birds of a feather and all that. How sensitive of the officer. "Hi! I'm Officer Jones, your husband is worm food!"
@@jaminova_1969 yeah, those came around long before turn signals came to be standard equipment on new vehicles. To bad farmer brown forgot how to use them.
~ I just got pissed off at four separate drivers today who failed to use their signals when they should have! I love to follow them when I have time and say, "Excuse me, I just wanted to let you know that you turn signal is burnt out." They always thank me but hopefully they get the hint later on when they themselves go to check it. I followed a cop across town once because we were going in the same direction and not once did he use his signal(about seven times) so I called the non-emergency line and told the person at the station desk to let the officer driving (and I gave her the car number) that their car's turn signals weren't working. 😆 "Turn signals are for me, not for you! ⬅️➡️
@@johna.4334 - Here in Washington, Native American casinos still have them. 8-10 bucks a pack. When I was a kid in the early 60's, less than 50 cents. In the Navy in the early seventies there were beer vending machines in the barracks. 50 cents.
@Rick Simpson - According to "The Hot One, Chevrolet: 1955-1957" by Pat Chappell, sticker prices were higher than that in 1956. Prices for V-8 models ranged from $1833 for a series One-Fifty utility sedan (no back seat) to $2707 for the Nomad wagon. A Bel Air convertible was $2443. 6 cylinder cars were about a hundred bucks less.
What happened to the woman who had a view if the intersection, did she see it, or was she too beat from shaking out the two rugs and in the kitchen enjoying a tall glass of fresh hand squeezed lemon aid? And did the ambulance driver ever get that engine wine fixed, or did he not notice it at all over the siren he was running, speeding on his way to the call? How about the patrol man? Did he have another dirty, low down speeder pulled over that he was forced to let go because he was dispatched to this three car crash? The farmer, was he let go to get his wife a present because he forgot it was her birthday? Since they did not make a part two, we will never know, DAMN IT!
Pretty good. Those old tanks were killing machines. That’s not unusual for farmers: I used to travel through rural areas and the classic move would be for a ute or truck to stop at the turn on to the main road, clearly see you, wait, then pull out and slow down anyway. I guess they couldn’t afford to wait the extra five seconds. Literally happened as often as not.
they were thinking you are going so fast anyway and you need to slow down... i'll slow you downand straighten you out... or they just thought fuck you.
@@quagmiredavis4117 yeah, nope. This is an ambulance and not the standard hearse as they had lights and siren back in the day. A hearse did not and were usually painted black.
@@markreisen7038 depending on state or location family has funeral home and a 1956 ambulance Eldorado 2x4 engine all ambulance markings Was used for ambulance and hearse has lights siren ambulance decals white .. now the 1967 ambulance same dual use Our funeral home also has 1933 v12 hearse Packard 1935 v16 Cadillac hearse 1955 hearse 1970 hearse and after this a few newer ones We use the older hearse and flower cars on many occasions..we are restoring 1930 Model A hearse had found this 2 years ago finishing soon Our family started funeral home 1930 ...you Drop dead in Bristol area we can plant you .😆
Possibly a Super or Roadmaster, because there was a "V" on the hubcap (Specials had the straight eight, Supers and Roadmasters had the V-8. And the station wagon is a '55 Plymouth Belvedere. The Highway Patrol car was a '56 Dodge
So in order to turn left (on a highway) you have to slow down and potentially stop in the left lane (on a highway), hoping that all the fast moving traffic in that lane (on a highway) will not smash into you. Oh that's marvelous highway engineering.
Isn't that so true if you can't find your car keys in the house 3 minutes later you find your keys that 3-minutes might have saved your life from an accident or put you in one????? Thank you for the video 👍🇺🇸
Wrong...it's Phil's wife who won't have to work again, provided he bought enough insurance (with any luck, he responded to what the then-new science of motivational research found to be the need for men to be able to be the controlling force of their families, even from the grave) Pete's wife, meanwhile, will have to work to support herself while hubby is in the hospital, deal with piles of medical bills, and possibly long term complications that affect his ability to get and keep employment. For the foreseeable future...she's screwed.
Yep, i played the 'who's gonna get it' game!. Got it wrong, i thought farmer would get it, business bloke escapes (guilt destroys his confidence to sell ties), young dude hospital. The tension was really intense!
@@joebryant5722 I think they do it at Miller Park... you know like the Brat vs. the Italian Sausage vs. the Chorizo. You never know who's going to win!
@@joebryant5722, quite a few ballparks have a race between innings sponsored by a restaurant or hot dog company (i.e. Vienna in Chicago or Nathan's out East) which pits three different foodstuffs against each other (usually the winning character earns a free food item for the ticket holder).
Anywhere in rural Pennsylvania. They make a left from the gutter side of the white fog line, and cross the double yellow line into the oncoming lane to turn right.
It may be old but the message is still relevant today. Although cars are equipped with every manner of safety equipment people are still human and prone to making mistakes and not paying attention.
At least the undertaker got some good business out of this episode on Route 66. It probably got a lot worse too on icey days which Missouri has a ton of every winter. The way people drive today distracted with cellphones makes this all look rather tame.
@@garyteague4480 When I saw farmer Smith's house , I thought "Dang, that looks like the old Teague place!" They moved that back in 64 when they widened the road didn't they?
The old Teague place was burned down after the murders. Mrs. Teague walked in on ol man Teague raping the kids and he flipped out and butchered them all and set the place on fire. He just sat in there and burned alive. You could hear him screaming across town.
Also farmer smith is still in trouble with his wife for forgetting her birthday.
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That's why he surrendered himself to the police right away. Figured out his wife can't get him if he's in a cell. Police interrogation also seemed an easier time than wife interrogation.
If Ole Pete had not stopped for those cigarettes he would have serval minutes ahead and this accident would have never happened. It’s always about timing.
@@billybronc9980 I lost my wife on May 25, 1987, I have thought so many times thought what if she was stopped by just a traffic light. By the way, she was killed by a teenager driving 70 miles an hour on a mountain road. It does not have to be your time when someone could give a crap about anyone else. She was 28 days past 30.
@@GeoHvl So sorry to hear. she was at that spot at that time. it was her time. like walking into traffic, you can or can not, if you do. it was your time.
@@GeoHvl man I can't imagine, just a reminder to me to take driving seriously. I know God was with me on my motorcycle a time or so when I thought it was over.
You're unlikely to find stuff like that in these educational films. Even if they show the aftermath like in Wheels of Tragedy, Signal 30, or Mechanized Death, you're more likely to find wreck footage in 1950s - 1960s races.
When you break the 45 mph barrier, you are in a whole new world. Seriously, cars today are so much faster and better than back then. But the same laws of physics still apply on non-freeway roads, which are about the same as ever. If you try driving at 5 mph less than the posted limits, it will feel very strange at first. But your slower speed buys you time to react, time to brake. Time to remain alive!
Back then you were hitting a tank with a tank. Edit: Why did my comment suddenly become a hot topic after 2 years? YT algorithm keeps getting weirder and weirder.
"Remember cars don't kill, drivers do!" Dan Matthews (Broderick Crawford) in "Highway Patrol. Today we "protect" the drivers from themselves with seat belts, air bags, stability control, energy absorbing construction. This is important with phone and display distraction. So we go to autonomous driving. The next appointment with disaster when the computer and backup fail.
Hitting a tank with a tank might have been OK for the tank but it wasn’t helpful for the people inside who hit the hard insides of the tank at 60mph when they crashed.
type o, daddy-o or give me a gallon, allen. nervous norvus.one of my favorite oldies from 1956. song sounded like my drive to and from work each day until i retired. thank god i never had a accident during that time. don't miss it at all.
I worked for the Bell System (1976-2009). I swore I would never use my cell phone while driving my car after it became illegal, because I could see the headlines from the Los Angeles Times..... "ATT employee causes massive death and gore on the highway while on Cell Phone".☎️🚫
Someone below mentioned seatbelts. I've worn them ever since I started driving in the 80s. I just got a 59 Lincoln that doesn't have any seatbelts and it makes me nervous. I guess I better add some!
austx290 seat belts were optional on 1955/56 Fords as part of the extra cost 'safety package'. None of the three drivers had a Ford car from these model years.
Man, that '59 Lincoln was a YACHT. I looked at one some years ago, you could about hit the passenger door with a rock from the driver's seat...if you threw it hard enough. Congratulations, by the way. Those big Lincolns are hard to find.
At least he doesn’t have to sell ties anymore. So, they could really pay a mortgage and support a family doing that back in the day!?! That’s what impressed me.
@@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus, YES. The minimum wage was considered a "living wage" back then. Unfortunately, wages in the USA started to stagnate in the 1980s, requiring TWO incomes to afford a house and other major purchases. Also, post-secondary tuition increased much faster than inflation, outpacing a family's ability to afford the education to move ahead. Throw in some institutions of dubious integrity that cashed in on money provided by the government on student loans, and now we have people chained into debt practically until retirement.
In school they showed us a similar video. A driver gets inpatient behind a truck and tries to pass it. Boom him and his family are hit head on. Don’t recall if anyone survived.
Like being in grade school again. Smith was a menace on the road. The intersection is still there but it is a major highway now and doesn't look the same.
This was an interesting foray into the past. The benefit of completing Drivers' Education sure made a difference for me and my experience driving these past 56 years.
@@ronaldking4296 Don't be too hard on former Brown, You know how forgetful he is, Hey forgot to look in his mirror before turning left to See if a car Was coming
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I love these old films. Such a priceless window on the past!
Yeah, It also shows how cheaply they were made!
@@4thstooge75 Has nothing to do with how cheaply they were made and everything to do with the technology of the day.
Gman Reminds me of learning to drive class in Civics, movies. We certainly watched some brutal actual accident scenes, preceded by this kind of factual lead ups, Thank you, for your selfless Service, in Viet Nam.
They should test market this production style with a PSA for Covid
The music is top-notch: a commissioned composer, and a real orchestra, with trained musicians paid to scale. None of today’s incompetent musician playing a cheap keyboard.
"Push a little harder..go a little faster.." that's what she said.
Yeah, but she now has an appointment, too. But it's with an OB-GYN 😆🤣😂
@@milojanis4901 yeah, unless she was a CATHOLIC GIRL.
@@markreisen7038 haha they were the fun girls
@MrPitjoey yeah, I know this for a FACT as i was married to one in a CATHOLIC CHURCH!! Shocker eh?
Created the 'Baby Boomer' generation...
When I was in High School driver's ed in the early 70's, we where taught defensive driving. Obeying the laws of the road, leaving early and not placing myself in a position to be in a hurry, looking ahead to avoid potential accidents, use of directionals. Now a days, with people it seems like it's offensive driving, road warfare, road rage, own the road, get out of my way, no patience or courtesy shown anybody else. Turn signals may as well be removed from new vehicle designs, as much as their used anymore.
You are absolutely right. I frequently joke about how the driver in front of me that just turned without using his indicator, must not have ordered the turn signal option when he ordered his car. 👍🙂✌
It's just about a 50/50 flip of the coin as to whether that driver ahead will use that directional. So, drive with a coin in your hand.
It's refreshing to know that some people feel exactly the way I do it's a nightmare out there on the road these days
Every generation gets dumber. Look who got voted in.
Exact same here in France, people are so impatient and aggressive even on sundays ...
"The judge has heard the story many times before...and Farmer Smith has been involved each and every time.."-narrator Jones
“Young Pete Oliver twists his wheel to the right, into Fred Tailors car. And so another attempt of Farmer Smith to total his car and claim insurance money was thwarted. But there is always another day.”
Old cars were death traps. Metal dashboards. Non-collapsing steering column. No seatbelts. No airbags. No crush zones. Nothing. Even slow speed accidents had the potential to be devastating back then.
Hey, don't forget that us kids use to stand on the front seat to watch where we were going as our Mom and Dad put their arm in front to protect us from creating a crater on the metal dashboard with our heads or getting decapitated flying through the windshield from an accident.
@@spiff8862 and if there were a bunch of kids, the fight happened on who would lay on the shelf behind the rear seat and rear glass
Yes. A small 2023 Toyota Yaris would beat the crap out of any big car even from 1990.
Exactly.
I love the lighthearted fifties disaster music.
Disaster in those days was happier.
Now we have to deal with people doing this all the time while talking on their phones?
Yeah its even worse now with phones.
The salesman was texting.
Don't use a cell phone while driving. You got the steering wheel in one hand and your beer in the other
hand - now how you gonna hold that damn phone ??
@@colt4667 Har. As a kid I told my family that you shouldn’t drink and drive because when you tilt your head back, you aren’t looking at the road.
@@colt4667 Aw, that's easy. You let go of the steering wheel.
I'm an old guy and remember these films being shown in high school. This one is very tame compared to the others. I believe that one of them was called "Red Asphalt." One of the clips showed a car being lifted off the head of someone who had been thrown from the car. As the vehicle lifted the smashed head partially regained its shape and several students ran from the room or vomited right in their seats. Of course, kids being kids this didn't stop several of us from totaling our cars in high speed accidents.
If the narrator knew there was going to be an accident why didn’t he warn them?
Cause they didn't have cell phones...Duh!!
we all knew but said nothing, it's our fault
I know it doesn’t seem fair but I think you’ll find it is. Otherwise how are they going to entertain us?
It makes me wonder if the police accident report is still on file?
Because he knew that he'd be good on the Twilight Zone?
Pretty suspenseful. A left hand turn from the right lane with no signal. That's real smart. Speeding and tail gating also contributed to the disaster. Cars with no seat belts, air bags or telescoping steering columns were another joy when in an accident. I love old cars and am not afraid to drive one, but I pray I never hit anything.
@Briguy52748 When I was in Jr. High we had 56 and 57 International buses equipped with aftermarket turn signals. I think by 58 or 59 they came equipped from the factory that way.
@Briguy52748 Buick had them in 1939 as standard. You're right about Cadillac. I love the aftermarket turn signals on trucks. My favorite is a 700 Signal Stat. They fascinated me as a kid. Well, they still do! :-)
After my Dad died in 1998, I was going through some old papers (like everyone else who grew up in the 30's Depression. He saved everything) he had kept.
One was an Sale Invoice for his new 1954 Ford he bought that June. On the options mentioned were Turn Indicators (not signals), priced at $16.00.
@@spiff8862 I remember optional turn signals on many vehicles in the 50s. If you didn't spring for them the arrows were still in the speedometer.
My first legal car was a '47 Dodge. The original buyer had sprung for a Comfort Master heater and Motorola Golden Voice pushbutton radio, but no turn signals. I drove that thing for eight years in the Northeast, cranking the window down in pouring rain and blinding snow, to provide what were to most indecipherable signals of my intentions...
My dad had a 16mm projector he would bring home from the university. Besides watching our family movies, he would bring home these kinds of safety films about car accidents and kids not observing train track warnings and the like.
You certainly led a colorful life. 😁
The third one will escape physical injury but will spend the rest of his life in jail…
Back when they valued life.
I don't know for certain, but I think Missouri had the death penalty back in the 50s.
Boy, if someone told them that just 55 years later a pack of cigarettes would cost 10/12 bucks...
Antonio Perez.....
Don't you mean 65 years ago???
Antonio Perez
In California and Oregon, yes.
Missouri, $3.65 - +/- $5.00
They cost 40 to 50 bucks in Australia...
@@Courier65 Whaaat? I'll stay in MO.
@@radiorob7543 it's to discourage people from smoking or taking it up and it works. Also the tax helps pay for all the health outcomes caused by smoking such as cancer etc. They are sold in packs without brand names on them but with graphic warnings of the known health risks and colour photos of said health conditions like black lungs, etc. And it works, Australia's smoking rate is down to about 15% and it's way less cool to smoke now than it was in the 80s or 90s.
Too cool to see that some of those old buildings are still beside Rt 66/I 44 to this day.
Some actual good lesson here.
Stern and dramatic, yet not graphic way.
I can't be the only one who thought Fred looked like Saddam Hussain, can I?
Of course the farmer cut him off without a turn signal. I live in Texas and that's an everyday occurrence even to this day.
The crying tires the busting glass and the painful scream that i heard last
But he couldnt "kiss our last kiss".😢
"Hear the crashing steel... Feel the steering wheel....Warm leatherette...Peels your burning flesh....A tear of petrol...is in your eye...as the hand-brake... Penetrates your thigh....On warm... leatherette...Warm... leatherette....
Join the car-crash set...."
The telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
"Time flies like an arrow...Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx
Grouch was a _clever_ man :-)
They move that slow?😉
😄
Also.........."What have future generations ever done for us?"
GREAT SOUND TRACK.
Traveling And Crashing Music.
9:15 I can just imagine that conversation. "Hello ma'am, I'm here because I have the duty of informing you that your husband spent his last moment gripped with terror, and not knowing exactly how it came about."
That's exactly what I would have said.
...but then, that's how they broke bad news to you back in those days. None of this "sensitivity training" nonsense like today.
“Thank you officer and thank you for telling the children before you told me. Would you like some lemonade? And is the Buick okay, it’ll be a classic one day.”
You guys are warped! I was thinking the same thing. Birds of a feather and all that. How sensitive of the officer. "Hi! I'm Officer Jones, your husband is worm food!"
@@thomfisher1100 This is why our society is circling the drain.
One thing still rings true today...... if only he had used his TURN signal
That goes double in Massachusetts!
Alot of the trucks and cars didn't have turn signals up until the early 60's.
@@markreisen7038 That's why hand signals were invented!
@@jaminova_1969 yeah, those came around long before turn signals came to be standard equipment on new vehicles. To bad farmer brown forgot how to use them.
~ I just got pissed off at four separate drivers today who failed to use their signals when they should have! I love to follow them when I have time and say, "Excuse me, I just wanted to let you know that you turn signal is burnt out." They always thank me but hopefully they get the hint later on when they themselves go to check it.
I followed a cop across town once because we were going in the same direction and not once did he use his signal(about seven times) so I called the non-emergency line and told the person at the station desk to let the officer driving (and I gave her the car number) that their car's turn signals weren't working. 😆
"Turn signals are for me, not for you! ⬅️➡️
I knew Pete Oliver would live because he would be needed for a future film warning of the dangers of smoking.
If I saw that scene correctly 25 cents in a vending machine got you a pack of cigarettes and a pack of matches. Amazing.
I know, right!😂
@@1940limited
Cigarette vending machines -oh the memories!
@@johna.4334 - Here in Washington, Native American casinos still have them. 8-10 bucks a pack. When I was a kid in the early 60's, less than 50 cents. In the Navy in the early seventies there were beer vending machines in the barracks. 50 cents.
@Rick Simpson - According to "The Hot One, Chevrolet: 1955-1957" by Pat Chappell, sticker prices were higher than that in 1956. Prices for V-8 models ranged from $1833 for a series One-Fifty utility sedan (no back seat) to $2707 for the Nomad wagon. A Bel Air convertible was $2443. 6 cylinder cars were about a hundred bucks less.
"Human carelessness will bring disaster......." BUT until then, enjoy this lovely interlude by Les Brown & His Band of Renown!
What happened to the woman who had a view if the intersection, did she see it, or was she too beat from shaking out the two rugs and in the kitchen enjoying a tall glass of fresh hand squeezed lemon aid? And did the ambulance driver ever get that engine wine fixed, or did he not notice it at all over the siren he was running, speeding on his way to the call? How about the patrol man? Did he have another dirty, low down speeder pulled over that he was forced to let go because he was dispatched to this three car crash? The farmer, was he let go to get his wife a present because he forgot it was her birthday? Since they did not make a part two, we will never know, DAMN IT!
I kept expecting Rod Serling to step into the frame and say "Imagine if you will".
"submitted for your approval".
"They got their butts kicked, on Route 66!"
Pretty good. Those old tanks were killing machines. That’s not unusual for farmers: I used to travel through rural areas and the classic move would be for a ute or truck to stop at the turn on to the main road, clearly see you, wait, then pull out and slow down anyway. I guess they couldn’t afford to wait the extra five seconds. Literally happened as often as not.
they were thinking you are going so fast anyway and you need to slow down... i'll slow you downand straighten you out... or they just thought fuck you.
I love watching these with popcorn!
I didn't know you KNEW My cousin popcorn, Haha
Damn that was a nice buick special. And dodge wagon ...
Yeah, and how about that 53 Cadillac Ambulance.
@@markreisen7038 hearse ambulance ride around a little longer take time going to hospital funeral home will have new customer .. lol
@@quagmiredavis4117 yeah, nope. This is an ambulance and not the standard hearse as they had lights and siren back in the day. A hearse did not and were usually painted black.
@@markreisen7038 depending on state or location family has funeral home and a 1956 ambulance Eldorado 2x4 engine all ambulance markings
Was used for ambulance and hearse has lights siren ambulance decals white .. now the 1967 ambulance same dual use
Our funeral home also has 1933 v12 hearse Packard 1935 v16 Cadillac hearse 1955 hearse 1970 hearse and after this a few newer ones
We use the older hearse and flower cars on many occasions..we are restoring 1930 Model A hearse had found this 2 years ago finishing soon
Our family started funeral home 1930 ...you Drop dead in Bristol area we can plant you .😆
Possibly a Super or Roadmaster, because there was a "V" on the hubcap (Specials had the straight eight, Supers and Roadmasters had the V-8. And the station wagon is a '55 Plymouth Belvedere. The Highway Patrol car was a '56 Dodge
So in order to turn left (on a highway) you have to slow down and potentially stop in the left lane (on a highway), hoping that all the fast moving traffic in that lane (on a highway) will not smash into you. Oh that's marvelous highway engineering.
Damn you Farmer Smith!!!!!
Yeah, you're always going around killing people!
First the tainted bacon, now this.
Amazingly they used these at least into the 1980s for drivers ed - when I took it in 87
Were was this, in CUBA? HA!! HA!!
Yes I remember the one where the woman reached inside her pocketbook for a cigarette and lost control of her car and now is paralyzed
@@markreisen7038 I took Driver's Ed in 10th grade (1987) in Jacksonville, FL and we had these same type movies from the same era.
@@kwb377 well DUH!! They had the same ones in the 70's when I went through driver's ed, only the ones we watched had a lot more guts and gore.
@@markreisen7038 Had one with an x-ray showing a radio knob through the guy's eye.Can't unsee that.
the beginning sounds like the start of a Twilight Zone ep
Moral of the story: don't get your wife a birthday present.
Lol
Wife of seven days, " My plan worked, before he left I had him fill out that big life insurance policy ".
Wife of seven days hears the news,
" Good thing I had him get and sign that big life insurance policy."
Just another day! LOL
Better yet don't get married
Isn't that so true if you can't find your car keys in the house 3 minutes later you find your keys that 3-minutes might have saved your life from an accident or put you in one????? Thank you for the video 👍🇺🇸
...and the farmer’s wife received a lovely but battered suitcase full of slightly bloody ties for her birthday...
That's totally fucked up.... But hilarious !
😁😁😁😁😁
She said I don't want these Doggone TIES, They are all the same color,
Bibles too.
2:24 Green Acres Farm. So now we know from whom Mr Haney bought the farm. Before eventually selling on to Mr Douglas.
Mr Haney sold farmer Smith the pickup truck day before, for $10.00 more he could get the bulbs 💡 for the turn/ stoplights 🙄
That right there is funny, I bought fell out my chair laughing 😅🤣😂
They still talk about that disaster to this day at Sam Drucker's store.
Remarkable that with all they had going on that they were able to all get to the wreck at the same time. People aren't that punctual these days.
He should have used the pit maneuver on the pickup truck just like they do on the TV show Cops,
Very fashionable baggy trousers.
This is so true. If each of us is just a LITTLE more careful, we can AVOID our appointment with disaster
I’m a builder I have a appointment with some plaster. 😂
Accurate.
Oh the way this film just builds up the suspense.
Wife of 7 days looks down at wedding ring thinking " My plan worked, now I don't have to work anymore"
Wrong...it's Phil's wife who won't have to work again, provided he bought enough insurance (with any luck, he responded to what the then-new science of motivational research found to be the need for men to be able to be the controlling force of their families, even from the grave)
Pete's wife, meanwhile, will have to work to support herself while hubby is in the hospital, deal with piles of medical bills, and possibly long term complications that affect his ability to get and keep employment. For the foreseeable future...she's screwed.
His hole future just vanished
Diane, how dreadfully insensitive and inappropriate to make such an inane remark. Shame on you.
@@tomservo56954 Meh. In 1956 the hospital bill was likely about $12.
@@sammolloy1Hahaha 🤣 like what you did there
What a nightmare! Gollee Gee!
That reminds me, I haven't Watched labor to beaver in a long time
GREAT coverage of old Route 66 was unexpected bonus! Newburg, Missouri, now a near ghost town. John's Modern Cabins......
Thanks - I was going to try to find 66 and T, but now I remember the Newburg sign. Now I-44 and T.
The crew over at Mystery Science Theater 3000 would have a field day with this one!
Is MST3K still on ?? I used to enjoy those ;-)
@@josephgaviota
You can watch on Tubi and Peacock.
What is a field day is that like being more than happy or his life went down the tubes where are the tubes and why do you need more than one tube
@@josephgaviota Check out Rifftrax. Same folks as later MST3K.
@@DanaTheInsane Thanks for the tip !
Who's gonna buy it? Fred, Clyde, or Pete? Like watching the sausage race at the ballpark.
Yep, i played the 'who's gonna get it' game!. Got it wrong, i thought farmer would get it, business bloke escapes (guilt destroys his confidence to sell ties), young dude hospital. The tension was really intense!
What's a sausage race at a ball park?
@@joebryant5722 I think they do it at Miller Park... you know like the Brat vs. the Italian Sausage vs. the Chorizo. You never know who's going to win!
@@joebryant5722, quite a few ballparks have a race between innings sponsored by a restaurant or hot dog company (i.e. Vienna in Chicago or Nathan's out East) which pits three different foodstuffs against each other (usually the winning character earns a free food item for the ticket holder).
Farmer Smith is straight from Russia, turning left from the right lane.
😂😂😂
Anywhere in rural Pennsylvania. They make a left from the gutter side of the white fog line, and cross the double yellow line into the oncoming lane to turn right.
And if its anything like today Farmer Smith drove on oblivious to the fact that he caused an accident.
It's makes for a wider turn, it a 'woman's turn.'
It's hard to see where you're going with your head up your a**
Love the upbeat music as these three head to their appointment.
At first glance, it looked like the courtroom cop was wearing a Nazi uniform.
The judge has heard the same story many times. Man, they can't drive for shit in Missouri.
The idiot farmer was a republican, what did you expect?
And the beat goes on..
The cars keep a-going faster all the time
And men still keep on marchin' off to war...
Yes kids, it’s important to have plenty of cigarettes on hand, you know, just in case you crash!
Nobody was addicted then, because the cigarette companies said so.
The days of when cigs were cool and seat belts were a option. 😏🚬
Conclusion: do not forget your wife's birthday.
+MegaZsolti Or look at it another way; remember it. And a lot of other things like signal.
meg zsolti forgetting your wife's birthday buys you hell's payday from a pissed off woman.
@@101Volts Unless you a BMW driver.
Don't work on Monday.
Conclusion: get rid of all clocks. Then they all wouldn’t have left at the same top of the hour.!! Ha.
The housewife is going to relax with a cup of Folgers in her cup then she'll break out a Lucky Strike Lucky Strike means fine tobacco lsmft
It may be old but the message is still relevant today. Although cars are equipped with every manner of safety equipment people are still human and prone to making mistakes and not paying attention.
Everyone driving pedal to the metal.
At least the undertaker got some good business out of this episode on Route 66. It probably got a lot worse too on icey days which Missouri has a ton of every winter. The way people drive today distracted with cellphones makes this all look rather tame.
I like looking up locations on google maps of places in videos to see if still exist on street view.
I live near this intersection and some of it is still there
@@garyteague4480 When I saw farmer Smith's house , I thought "Dang, that looks like the old Teague place!" They moved that back in 64 when they widened the road didn't they?
The old Teague place was burned down after the murders. Mrs. Teague walked in on ol man Teague raping the kids and he flipped out and butchered them all and set the place on fire. He just sat in there and burned alive. You could hear him screaming across town.
@@maxlumens9085 Ahh your right Max, I do remember that
@@maxlumens9085 damn, that is some REALLY CRAZY SHIT going in Newburg. No wonder they call it the state of MISSERY!!
Aw Crap...outa smokes!
Also farmer smith is still in trouble with his wife for forgetting her birthday.
That's why he surrendered himself to the police right away. Figured out his wife can't get him if he's in a cell. Police interrogation also seemed an easier time than wife interrogation.
If Ole Pete had not stopped for those cigarettes he would have serval minutes ahead and this accident would have never happened. It’s always about timing.
When it is your time, it will be your time. Nothing to do with timing.
@@billybronc9980 I lost my wife on May 25, 1987, I have thought so many times thought what if she was stopped by just a traffic light. By the way, she was killed by a teenager driving 70 miles an hour on a mountain road. It does not have to be your time when someone could give a crap about anyone else. She was 28 days past 30.
@@GeoHvl So sorry to hear.
she was at that spot at that time. it was her time. like walking into traffic, you can or can not, if you do. it was your time.
@@GeoHvl man I can't imagine, just a reminder to me to take driving seriously. I know God was with me on my motorcycle a time or so when I thought it was over.
What? no actual wreck of flying parts and flames? I want my 10 cents back from this matinee mister.
I was really disappointed. It's the whole reason I watched.
You're unlikely to find stuff like that in these educational films. Even if they show the aftermath like in Wheels of Tragedy, Signal 30, or Mechanized Death, you're more likely to find wreck footage in 1950s - 1960s races.
I guess neither the 53 Buick, nor the 55 Pymouth, nor the 55 Dodge Pickup had airbags or pretension shoulder belts...
What's funny is that all these buildings still exist; some can be seen from I-44. 🙂
The disaster was losing almost 11 minutes of my life that I'll never get back!
Funny dawg but I'm going to assume you got plenty to spare
@@sillygoose2508 none of us ever have!
When you break the 45 mph barrier, you are in a whole new world.
Seriously, cars today are so much faster and better than back then. But the same laws of physics still apply on non-freeway roads, which are about the same as ever. If you try driving at 5 mph less than the posted limits, it will feel very strange at first. But your slower speed buys you time to react, time to brake. Time to remain alive!
And - stay way back from traffic ahead of you so that you have time to deal with the unexpected.
Amazing special effects!
LOL
No seat belts and metal dashboards, what could go wrong?
Back then you were hitting a tank with a tank.
Edit: Why did my comment suddenly become a hot topic after 2 years? YT algorithm keeps getting weirder and weirder.
With no seat belt
"Remember cars don't kill, drivers do!" Dan Matthews (Broderick Crawford) in "Highway Patrol. Today we "protect" the drivers from themselves with seat belts, air bags, stability control, energy absorbing construction. This is important with phone and display distraction. So we go to autonomous driving. The next appointment with disaster when the computer and backup fail.
And you were the crumple zone
Hitting a tank with a tank might have been OK for the tank but it wasn’t helpful for the people inside who hit the hard insides of the tank at 60mph when they crashed.
Edit: You should be thankful for the attention
*And what Southwest Bell was trying to say is..."We added drama way before At&t came along."* 👀
80mph, I didn't know cars went that fast back then.
My '53 Roadmaster, not too different from the Buick Special shown here, could do 91 -- as a then-60 y.o. car. Ask me how I know.
'Young Pete Oliver _twists_ the wheel to the right...' I see what ya did there. ☺
Farmer Smith later taught drivers ed in Russia
Pretty clever ;-)
Is drivers ed in Russia even a thing. They whip out to pass with a semi 100 yards away coming at them. Wow. Just wow.
Transfusion, transfusion, my red corpsuckles are in mass confusion.... Never, never, never gonna speed again!
type o, daddy-o or give me a gallon, allen. nervous norvus.one of my favorite oldies from 1956. song sounded like my drive to and from work each day until i retired. thank god i never had a accident during that time. don't miss it at all.
@@roadmaster720 LOVED my 1955 Plymouth Fury
Lane-crowding hogs and speeding jackasses, so remember to slow down toda-a-a-ay
"Shoot the juice to me, Bruce!"
Hey dig man, was that a red stop sign...?
Like James Dean said: “Drive safe. The life you save may be your own.”
That was the line but James Dean ad libbed and changed it to "....the life you save may be mine"
Love the light hearted music as a prelude to death and disaster. 😂
Careless in any job definitely leads to disaster.A care less worker will have a deferred appointment with disaster !!!! A sad news.
the nurse stole some money out of the wallet.
Safety belts, traffic roundabouts, safety rails, cats eyes, botts dots and merging lanes. Who needs them?
Gotta love The Bell System.
I worked for the Bell System (1976-2009).
I swore I would never use my cell phone while driving my car after it became illegal, because I could see the headlines from the Los Angeles Times.....
"ATT employee causes massive death and gore on the highway while on Cell Phone".☎️🚫
Hopefully, since I'm delaying my travel plans with this Public Service Announcement, I'll miss my appointment, or not.
Now when you cut someone off they scream at you in Spanish and open fire with Tec9s . Ah the good olde days when you just wrecked..
Always in Spanish? Your sheet with eyeholes is showing.
Conclusion , your wife's birthday expires at midnight. Next time pal, use your mirrors.Slow down and relax.
More like English, and a Glock.
But the music is so happy
Love that 56 V8 Dodge pickup
Someone below mentioned seatbelts. I've worn them ever since I started driving in the 80s. I just got a 59 Lincoln that doesn't have any seatbelts and it makes me nervous. I guess I better add some!
austx290 seat belts were optional on 1955/56 Fords as part of the extra cost 'safety package'. None of the three drivers had a Ford car from these model years.
Man, that '59 Lincoln was a YACHT. I looked at one some years ago, you could about hit the passenger door with a rock from the driver's seat...if you threw it hard enough.
Congratulations, by the way. Those big Lincolns are hard to find.
What a gripping drama!Well,I've learned my lesson.
Years ago the funeral home was also emergency ambulance service.
yes that is true
What happened to Farmer Smith? I need closure on this!!
He's an older white male and Republican, so he got off with a warning.
@@roberthaworth8991 Really? He kinda looked Unitarian to me! LOL😎
Back in the day when flute players had many gigs.
When every broadcast around the world needed an orchestra, better the music, best the program... a long time ago.
My money was on farmer Smith to do something stupid, watching him pull out on highway 66 almost hitting a car making it swerve sold me on him !!
Time is money. Time slips up on a man if he’s not careful.
At least he doesn’t have to sell ties anymore. So, they could really pay a mortgage and support a family doing that back in the day!?! That’s what impressed me.
Time moves on.
@@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus, YES. The minimum wage was considered a "living wage" back then. Unfortunately, wages in the USA started to stagnate in the 1980s, requiring TWO incomes to afford a house and other major purchases. Also, post-secondary tuition increased much faster than inflation, outpacing a family's ability to afford the education to move ahead. Throw in some institutions of dubious integrity that cashed in on money provided by the government on student loans, and now we have people chained into debt practically until retirement.
I want that farmer's truck!
Damn... they made safety videos hit hard back then.
In school they showed us a similar video. A driver gets inpatient behind a truck and tries to pass it. Boom him and his family are hit head on. Don’t recall if anyone survived.
Like being in grade school again. Smith was a menace on the road. The intersection is still there but it is a major highway now and doesn't look the same.
This was an interesting foray into the past. The benefit of completing Drivers' Education sure made a difference for me and my experience driving these past 56 years.
I am Mayhem!
Ahhh the good old days!!!!!!!!!
Farmer Smith thought he was on his tractor plowing a field, he turns left from the right lane all the time in his fields.
Those were two lane roads.
@@ronaldking4296 I know that, but farmer Smith must have thought he was plowing.
@@ronaldking4296 Don't be too hard on former Brown, You know how forgetful he is, Hey forgot to look in his mirror before turning left to See if a car Was coming