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@@snoberg8784 FREE WILL , whence is it given, whence does it end? GOD created us 1stly in SPIRIT then formed our flesh in our mothers wombs. Free will starts on the day you born here and ends on the day you depart from here. it is not given nor found earlier, as earlier you didn`t exist. earth is testing ground, as it has became lucifers kingdom. testing ground for us, to show GOD whom amongst us shall be deceived by lucifer. All the answers are pretty clear ones - aren´t these? - MANY are deceived and FEW are not. None of us can`t drag free will beyond humans earthly life, as it is not earlier nor after found nor given. Jeremiah 1:5 KJV Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. FREE WILL is given for the choices which are here on earth to make. Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Since making choices and being deceived takes place here on earth, free will does not go beyond human earthly lives.
The oldest person I ever met was 107, a woman who’d outlived three husbands and seven of eight children. She was nearly deaf, but read lips and loved tell stories of her life and experiences growing up and living all her life in the same place, a small upstate NY town. She was sharp as a tack, well-spoken. She passed away later that same year, in her sleep in her own bed, same room as where she was born! That was in 1978. RIP Miss Helen ❤ 😇
As a kid, I was scared to get close to old people because I saw them as being close to death. About 20 years ago, I started a job working with the elderly and realized what I'd been missing out on. They are a delight to talk to and hear their stories. I've learned so much about how things used to be and realized what an asset they are to the community if you give them the time to share their experience and perspective. I've had the privilege of hearing first hand accounts of historic events I previously read about in history books. I no longer fear death or getting old. I don't look forward to losing my health but hope to live a long and full life.
That's awesome. I knew a helen too . I think she made it past 100. And another lady who lived till nearly ninety grew up during ww2. I loved listening to their stories.
I"m Anita: I would love to hear her stories of growing up, As a Grown Woman and how times and scenery have changed. My husband was born and raised in Up State NY and I was born and raised in Tenn. I met him in Tenn. and married.
Sounds like her family was not poor. They would have had servants to do all the menial work. Even in the UK someone like a shopkeeper would likely have at least one servant.
More to the point, she sounds very educated and at age in her 80s? Has all her faculties and l agree her voice is like warm milk and honey. I wish l could have met her. Love from the UK.
Yes she certainly does. It's so comforting. I listen to this every night and drift into a calm sleep and sometimes dream of her idyllic landscape of memories.
I've been in LA my entire life and I can relate with her feelings of watching the city continuously devolve over time. It has become like a scene from a dystopian movie now, full of homeless, crime, trash and even worse smells now. The buildings were beautiful back then. This video and her narration is as close as we can get to time traveling back to a simpler time, a better time in LA's history.
My children’s pediatrician was Dr. Leila Denmark. She lived to be 114 years old. What a gem she was! She continued practicing, in-office, until 108. Later giving advice by phone until 112 years old. Always ‘sharp as a tack’! No one like her!
I was a dementia nurse. Many of the patients in long term care however are not there for memory loss. Getting to hear the stories of their lives, and the stories from the family members of those who had no memory anymore made that job very interesting. We fail in this country, to show enough intrest in our elderly. They have so much to offer us.
The culture needs to change. The loving elderly deserve to stay with their kids and never regarded as an ounce of hindrance. Just as parents took care of us for 20 years to prep for life we take care of them for the last 20 years at the very least.
A good friend of mine is going to be 97 this month. Born in 1926. He is the "baby" of his family who are now all gone. He has long outlived 2 of his 3 children and his wife. His last living sibling passed away 25 years ago. He has more energy than most people i know at my age! Still splitting wood, still gardening and loves to fabricate with metal. He is the grandfather i never had! I am 42 years old and i enjoy every minute listening to all of his stories, even if I've heard them already. And I've learned quite a bit from him
@@SweetyPrincessMarghe interview her too! so much knowledge that we can now preserve with recordings. I wish I had interviewed my grandparents when they were still around.
@@amandaburleson2035 Based on the video title and description, the recording was made in 1964, almost 60 years ago. The woman speaking was born in 1878, not 1978.
How in the world is this recording so clean and perfect for being made in the 60s?? The quality of the best films during those times were still nowhere near as good as this recording which makes me super curious
1:00 some sh!t don't change this is a refernce to the CHP and how they can add heights to a plot of land and change the rules if you want to I want to change the rules dipshit i wanna do whatever the fuck i want to do boo hoo I forgot dude's name- he was annoying though
@@anymongus if you watched til the end, she pauses to collect her thoughts then starts up again also at the end, the creator of the video states there were many pauses they put it all together with some points starting at mid sentence.
My grandmother was born in 1924, her mother was born in 1890 so it’s not far off from this woman. Anyhow, my grandmother died almost 25 years ago. Some of my fondest memories as a child were staying the night at her house and she’d tell my brothers and I a bedtime story that often times was similar to this, reminiscing her childhood in New Jersey. Nostalgia that I cherish and miss oh so much.
I grew up in the L.A. area so I found this particularly interesting. When my grandmother was little, her great-great grandmother Hannah lived with them. Born in 1801 and died in 1905, she told the children bedtime stories of her lifetime including the civil war. My great aunt, who was 12 years old when Gramma Hannah died, and remembered her very well, had the foresight to write down the stories and later typed them up, giving copies to family members. They are a treasure for our family.
Those are the best! I have a copy of my GGG Grandfather’s life story. He came from Ireland during the potato famine to the US. After retiring he and his wife moved to Los Angeles to be with their daughters and grandchildren.
She's very well spoken, and descriptive. It makes me realize that we have pretty much lost the art of storytelling as a society. Great quality recording! Thank you!! (I'm from the Los Angeles area too, but born 100 years later)
My Great Great Grandma was born in 1860 and she used to tell us stories about "the old days". I loved to hear what she had to say. I wish now we had recorded her stories with a tape recorder. As a child I never thought about it back then.
There are so many people today who can't believe it one you say you spoke with someone born before 1900. I do not know the year my own great great grandmother was born, or even what her name was but while she must have been born in the 1850s or so, even my great grandmother was long gone before I was born -- very few people have met there GG Grandmother as you have.
@@animalntelligence3170 The truth is, in the grand scheme of things, that wasn't that long ago. My grandpa was born in 1880 the year before the OK corral. My dad was 8 years old when Wyatt Earp died. My dad was taken by grandpa to the funeral homes to see Bonnie & Clyde. 72 years later, I had supper with Clyde's nephew. Time marches on.
@@PAUL-pz3rz I agree but also much is forgotten. I have wondered if also we have genetic memories. In my own case, I was fascinated by the title of a reader in first grade; it was only decades later that I discovered that the title of that book was the same as the street my grandmother had lived on as child, now much more than a century ago.
@@animalntelligence3170 This was my Great Great on my Mothers side. The Grandpa I speak of was on my Fathers side. He was 41 when my dad was born in 1921. Two different sides of my lineage.
How did that tiny population build those huge ornate buildings? The angelic architecture doesn't fit the timeline. They were "Founded," because they probably found them. None of them had landscaping, and they had no decent sidewalks or streets. It makes no sense. The city is relatively empty. 18:58 15:16 14:36 14:07
There's a video of a man who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln's assassination. It's mind-boggling that we can see someone from the 1800s now in the 2020s. (He was a child during the assassination and the video was made in the mid-20th century when he was old.)
The most amazing lady I met in hospital in 2007 when I was in for a hip replacement in my early forties . The lady in the opposite bed was 88 and in for the same operation. She was the first child her mother had birthed in 1920 . Her mother had seven miscarriages one after the other. All because she was a maid in a well to do house in the early 1900s . Part of her job was to black the big kitchen ranges every morning. After she left the house to get married the doctors found she had been suffering from lead poisoning . This had caused repeated miscarriage until finally her eighth pregnancy proved successful and she had given birth to the little old lady in that ward who was now 88. How people suffered in those days !
I just didn’t know how needed to hear this dear woman speak of her life in such dulcet tones. I bet she could’ve never imagined that this recording would reach over half a million people ❤
My great grandmother passed away at 101 yrs young. Her daughter my grandmother passed at 100. The stories they would tell of their time growing up as lil girls were awe inspiring. My great grandmother came from England and to hear her talk about England in the Victorian era was something else, especially when I got to play with trunks up in the attic of all her old long dresses & gowns with the bustles and corsets and high lace up boots with her big hats from that time.
Ask him about his grandfather and grandmother, and where were they born. Earliest memories? Did he ride a horse to school? who were his best friends as a kid, first dog, first job, first car, first kiss. Keep trying.. record it on audio or vid instead of writing it down. I know almost nothing about my mom's parents, and nothing at all about HER grandparents. Regrets..
I feel lucky to have basically grown up in a nursing home. All through the 80s and 90s we'd go to work with my mum, and later, I worked in health care. I've met WW1 soldiers and survivors, holocaust survivors and WW2 veterans, heard stories about the depression and how they survived, and much more. If you can, go make friends with the elderly. They enjoy the companionship, and you'll learn a lot.
There is a picture of Belle aka Jett Collins in public genealogy trees. She married in 1901 to a wealthy man (Arthur Collins) from England and moved to England with him until he passed away in the 1930s. Prior to that her father, and her beloved Pembroke had died in Los Angeles. She moved back to L.A. and was the last surviving child of Belle (her mother) and Cameron Thom. She had no children of her own. She died in Beverly Hills, CA. Her father was one of the original landowners for what is now Glendale, CA.
Do you know what in business her father was employed? It sounds like he made or had inherited wealth from the East that he brought to the Los Angeles area.
@@kitchenskills5427, I just looked him up and he's got a Wikipedia page. He was a lawyer and a Confederate that had originally gone west as a 49er. Pembroke died in 1934 at age 53 and Rowena was his daughter.
@@kitchenskills5427 He first came out in 1850 for the Gold Rush. When that didn' t work out I believe he studied for the Bar Exam in California. He had a law degree from his hometown in Virginia. While practicing law, he was transferred from Sacramento area to Los Angeles. That is how ended up there. He was the mayor for the years she (the speaker, Belle Thom Collins) describes being very young and supposed to hand out the flower bouquet in the 4th of July parade. 1882-1884. He worked in the public (city attorney) and private sector. He was disbarred in California because he went back home (to Virginia) in the 1860s to fight as a Confederate in the Civil War. His first wife died by the time the war ended and he came back to California. That's when he found out the California had disbarred Confederate sympathizers. So he was really down on his luck and no money. He borrowed $300 and built back his reputation and married his wife's sister. Who was about 20 years younger than her sister (his first wife). She is the speaker's mother. Both the speaker and her mother were named Belle. Thanks for your question :)
@@MezzoMamma1 As far as what happened to her. She married a famous theater manager named Arthur Pelham Collins. He managed the Drury Lane Theater in England. This is where things get a bit shady, especially this being Victorian times...he was married and had a son. His first wife was alive when they married in 1900 in Manhattan, New York. I don't know if there was an issue with a divorce or ????? But 10 years later Belle aka Jett Collins was introduced as his wife when she then moved to England. She lived there with her step son and several servants. When Arthur died in the 1930s (so did his first wife) . Belle aka Jett moved back to the L.A. area (California) . By then her father had died and so had her beloved Pembroke. If you listen to the recording at one point she is pretending to be her younger self at school and calls herself "Jett".
I was born in Los Angeles 70 years ago and as I was watching this I was thinking how every person who gets old and looks back at the city they were born thinks-it’s changed so much! I just don’t even recognize it anymore, it hurts a little because just like Mrs Collin’s in your minds eye you can still see exactly what it looked like, the colors, the smells, your mother-young, your father as well caring his lunch Box and thermos to work, etc. This was so lovely. Thank you.❤
I love this. I can’t wait to get my teacher’s license in 2025, because I will definitely show this to my students in my social studies classroom! They deserve to hear this lovely lady say this wonderful testimony!
This brought back so many memories. I am 40 years old. My great grandmother Stella was born in 1889. She died when she was 103 years old. I loved hearing stories between her and my grandmother, Lorna. Great grandma Stella told me about growing up in an old church house. She had "stick dolls" made of sticks and cloth. Her favorite past time was sitting by the fire playing marbles with her siblings. Eventually, she inherited her childhood home, that became a boarding house. She ran the boarding house her entire adult life until she wasn't able to in her elder years. My Grandma Lorna told me wild stories about the boarding house and how she met so many interesting people. When I was little, they talked alot about the depression era. They had kept ration books and other trinkets from that time, and passed them down to me. My grandpa Charles was in the Navy during WW2. Grandpa Charles and Grandma Lorna met shortly after he returned from WW2. Grandpa was one lucky guy. He was transferred off the USS Arizona, to another ship, ONE day before it was bombed. My grandparents bought their home in 1946, raised all 8 of their children in their 3 bedroom home and lived there all their lives. My dad is the 3rd oldest, out of 8. I also have so many fond memories of my dad's childhood home and spending time with my grandparents there. I can still remember every nook and cranny of that old house.
Bless you ma'am, & your Grannie. I actually live in my grandmothers house, which also happened to be built in 1946. We live in florida, so it's what we would call a "cracker house", which is just a simple little wood frame home. My family has lived on this property for 5 generations. My parents, who are in their late 70s, live next door, & the have many good stories, but nothing like the stories my Neena would tell. She was born in 1918, & died in 2011 from dementia. I miss her so much. She was the best friend I ever had. She was a professional seamstress, one hell of an amazing cook, & if she loved you, it was fierce. ❤
Wow, that story is amazing! God spared him for you when Pearl Harbor was bombed, I bet he thanked his lucky stars and God for saving him. He must have had a specific plan for him in life! Bless you dear. ❤
My great-great grandma was born in 1892 in Ohio. At 19 and a newlywed, she and her husband rode in a covered wagon to Kentucky. Her life as a farmers wife was starkly different than this lady, as were their children. The only thing store bought was flour, coffe and cornmeal twice a year. She lived to be in her 90's. She was very sweet, kind and smart. She taught me a lot. Thanks for this lady's story. Fascinating!
@@aewtx They rode into town in the spring and fall and that was an all day trip. They lived off the land. No running water, electric or indoor plumbing. Farmed corn and tobacco for money, (which bought those goods), and had a garden. She canned food outdoors using a big tin tub. Sulphured apples, slaughtered their own meat, had a spinning wheel to make material for clothes, linens and towels. Their mattresses was filled with corn husks. It was a hard life. Compared to them, and most everyone else during that era, we have it easy.
It is obvious someone more advanced built all of this not these people with horse wagons, barrels of flour etc. There are also modern looking electric poles. The real question is what happened to all the people that used to live there, big city very few uncultured people living in a modern world setting doesn't add up.
@@rowingtothedream Actually it was large sacks. During the Depression the sack companies made the cloth with pretty patterns so she used them to make clothes with, too. Their house didn't get electricity until near the middle of last century because it was far away from the town and way out in the country. During WWII my great-great -grandfather bought a radio. The battery was as big as a car battery! Once a week they listened to war news to save the battery.
@@rowingtothedream Just as today, the big monopolies of the day occasionally brought inventions from the urbanized East to the more rural regions out West. Remember that the 1870's was not only cowboys and farmers. The megacorps in New York were producing all kinds of inventions and exported them West when the frontier closed. The wealth disparity was infamous even then - 1% of American families owned 51% of the country's land property - hence the term "Gilded Age."
I feel privileged to have met my great grandmother who was born in 1884. She died when I was 7 in 1977. Time passes by so quickly doesn’t it? This stuff is so interesting. I love hearing old stories. And her voice is so sweet and soothing. Such a gentle and dear lady.
Wow, I wish I could of met someone who experienced living in the Victorian era but there is no one alive now who was alive during that time. The oldest person I met was my great grandmother born in 1916 but she died long ago when I was 5. You learn about WW1 in school so the early 1900s don’t feel so distant but you don’t hear a lot or see a lot about before then. The 1800s feel so far away, so foreign. It’s weird to think about how people actually lived in those times and experienced it themselves, it’s not just fiction from tv. I wish I could of talked to someone who experienced living through that time, the actual Victorian era, and ask them questions about their life.
Thank you for posting. I did the same and thoroughly enjoyed this recording. Have a great week and remember that you are not completely dressed unless you are wearing a smile. 😊😁
Amazing. Her memory was so clear and so detailed, and she talked about her memories so beautifully, as if she was on stage and holding the audience spellbound. It is a privilege to hear her talk about her life.
Interesting thing is that she mentioned Henry Joseph Vanderlick but he wasn't born until 1900.. Grown up to be a incredibly prominent guy as she said in California, LA.. She must have meant his father or something
Long term memory is not effected as much as short term memory. I'm 91 years old and remember more of what happen 70 years ago than what happen 7 years ago.
The way she speaks, like "bahskett" for "basket" and the way you can tell how she loves her memories, when she says, "Now! What do you think?" to punctuate her narrative.
I recorded my great grandma telling about her and my great grandfather's history as they were San Diego natives. She was born in 1898. I have a video of it actually, I recorded it in the early 90's. I consider it a priceless piece of our family history, and we all still live in San Diego.
What a sweet woman! This is a treasure to keep forever. Her voice is so soothing! I loved when she said: " thank God there were no sirens back in those days". She seems to have been a very good-hearted, sensitive old lady.
I was born in 1953, my mom and dad in 1917, my grandma 1893 and both grandpas 1887, great grandpa 1865, and great. great grandpa 1811. I have a history on them all and pictures also. I love listening to older folks. I did an interview in college 1977 with a women in a nursing home who was born in 1876, she was as spry as a spring chicken.
I could cry...her voice is laced with wisdom and grace. Wooden sidewalks, she saw us go from horse and buggy to cars... Her shoes, with the tassels...😏 She absolutely transforms us to another time. "I must have been a sight!" She is absolutely precious. Nowadays people record every mundane thing...and they're saying nothing of value. She's amazing. And she would be amazed that we're so impressed. And we are. 🌹
I don't think her contemporaries would have thought what she was saying was important at the time. In 80 years, people might find the videos we make quite interesting.
Something about this audio is so grounding. And humbling. This was recorded so many decades ago. And this lady is loooong gone. To hear the humanity in her voice... her perspective. Reminds me of just how short life really is. I enjoyed it.
This is absolutely marvelous!! Rest in peace dear Mrs. Collins. Thank you for sharing your story and making a piece of history come to life. I'm so glad your niece bullied you into doing this.
“I’ve been bullied, by my beautiful niece…” That made me smile because I know the world bully meant something different. Her niece persuaded her with the insistence.
it didn't mean anything different. She was just using it in a playful way. Remember, this was the 60s, 30 years after the little rascals dealing with Butch and his gang. The concept of "Bullying" was nothing new.
This was the kind of "playful", teasing speech that generation would use. I know by experience, mom and dad would be around 100 now, my grandparents around 120.
She was trying to be funny/satirical. It meant similar back then. The unusualness of saying it essentially is the point of the joke. No trigger warnings or trigger word worries were popular back then so it would have been more acceptable to joke about getting bullied then than now. Now, people would worry about the joke offending or upsetting someone and thereby losing its intended comedic effect.
Mrs. Collins' is beautifully spoken with tone and pace. She recalls with such wonderful clarity and descriptions. Imagine being born in the eighteen hundreds and having over a million people from around the world in 2024 listening and enjoying the recording. My grandmother was born in Colorado just nine years before her, so this was such a treat for me. Thank you so much for sharing.
This was magical! Her accent was so eloquent, and her diction was beautiful. I wish her interview had been longer. Simply lovely to hear of her sweet memories…❤
@JesusFriedChrist That pronunciation of wh was fairly common throughout all of the US until fairly recently, even outside the south. Nixon and Reagan, both of whom are from California, used that pronunciation. The simple w sound that we use today, was present mostly only in east coast cities before the 1960s.
I’m in awe of her very descriptive storytelling of her childhood. I don’t know about how any of you feel, but I feel like I was there when she was growing up, like I was born in that era instead of being born in 1970. She had such an amazing childhood. I’m so very, very grateful that her great-niece had her record what her childhood was like, because that’ll be preserved for generations to come. I’m honored, in some way, to have heard such brilliant words coming from a phenomenal woman. May she rest peacefully in her eternal slumber.
That’s how I would feel listening to my own grandmother’s stories. I really felt connected to that time period as I listened to her talk about the 1920s and 1930s.
I agree with you. It was humbling to listen to Mrs Collins’ recollections of a bygone era and yes I was right there with her. I’m from the U.K. and found it fascinating.
❤❤ I can listen to this wonderful woman day long!! She reminds me of my Mother, she use to tell me her stores as a child and I loved her for it, and ask for more. Is this the only recording of!!! Any one knows please?
@@lorencast Im in the UK Loren and here in our local history centre they keep recordings in their archives of local people talking about their past, so maybe you can find something similar where you live. Libraries could help you perhaps. Wasnt this fascinating? I remember asking 95 year old grandmother to tell me a bit about her earlier days, but sadly she couldnt remember a lot as her memory was going. So I missed an opportunity there. I have a lot of time for older people, I could listen to them for hours just talking about their earlier lives.
My grandmother, born in 1912, spoke in much the same fashion about her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio. My great grandmother was born in 1889, but sadly she would mostly lament about how things had changed instead of sharing stories of her youth. Her home was like a time capsule, filled with fine antiques, mostly things that her parents and grandparents had owned. The majority of those items my grandfather drove to the city dump when she passed. I never knew why.
Now schools don't even want to spend time teaching penmanship. A teacher told me that the kids are just going to use computers, so it isn't important. Same with basic math.
@@DQ_Mine yea yea, i grew up in the 70s we spent a lot of useless time learning to spell and even have spelling contests, most people didn't know what the words meant, because they did no vocabulary...but they sure could spell. I have read a lot of history, history records great authors, and great orators from Caesar to Winston Churchill...I have yet to find any reference to a great man of history because of his spelling.
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz - You didn't make any sense. "In the 70s we spent a lot of useless time learning how to spell..." The irony is, you still don't have reading comprehension skills, and neither do so many "woke adults".
@@DQ_Mine - This isn't anything new, especially since colonialism. Brown-skinned people were already in so-called America, before pale-skinned people. Certain adults, besides myself, already knew/know what's been happening in many controlled/dumbed down ways by the pale-skinned elites in so-called America.
@@kristin1533There’s nothing wrong with “like”..that doesn’t mean someone isn’t intelligent or classy (even though the word classy itself is outdated). It’s just a dialect of modern American times and shouldn’t be viewed as shameful.
It's because her father is from Culpeper VA. So her dad was a Virginia aristocrat, so yes he had an upper-class genteel southern accent and so does she.
I loved her story about the dog pulling her brother from the water "by his britches" and I loved how the pet parrots would call out "Pembroke," and little Pembroke (such a great name!) would come running, only to find he had, once again, been duped by the parrots! I could listen to her for the whole day and I am so grateful this was posted. She sounds like she was truly a lovely person.
I loved how clear and understandable she talked it really helped paint the picture! I love how beautiful and quiet was the picture she painted of the story. One with nature,1800 hundred's things were very simple yet you still had to work very hard to get by,
@@PAUL-pz3rz Which is why sane people live in suburbs… until it gets ruined by two specific demographics moving in, and then my peeps flee to a different suburb/small town that hasn’t been tarnished as much. Never ending continuous Wyt flight. My family used to live in L.A. county, and we moved to a fantastic suburb 25 minutes north when bussing of us kids to a terrible deep part of LA to force mix us started in the ‘70s. I thank the stars that my folks made that wise decision, giving me a great childhood.
In her formative years there was no media like radio, TV, and movies to distract from life in the present. People would spend their days interacting with one another and that would include sharing with others what they had seen or did. This likely contributed to developing stronger conversational and observational skills.
This is absolutely amazing... I'm imagining living in these decades through her stories. What a time it was here in the (then) beautiful southern California... today (2020s).... well u know the rest..
I’m not American but I love this one. Her incredible command of the language, at the time she was “interviewed” is amazing. Her description of the time is detailed. She belongs to my grandmother’s age/era. I hope there’s more of her “interviews.” Thank you for sharing this wonderful recording. ❤️🇵🇭❤️
This is my personal account of an elderly woman I met years ago. It’s fairly long, so TL;DR: 109 y/o woman broke her wrist and spent a few days in the same hospital I happen to be in recovering from a car accident. 1993 - I was recovering from a near fatal car accident. This was a three week ordeal that started at one small town hospital for the first surgery, had me transferred to another for two more surgeries, and found me back at the first hospital again to recover. The last week I was there, a 109 year old lady came in (she referred to herself as G-ma). She was there because she had broken her wrist and needed surgery to pin it together. I was just relearning how to walk again, so as I got out in the halls more on my own, I got to meet her. The staff at the care home G-ma stayed at warned a new intern to never take her teddy bear from her because it was the only thing she had left in this world seeing as how she had outlived her entire family. Well, the first night shift the intern worked, she took the teddy bear away. G-ma broke her wrist when she punched the intern square in the jaw and knocked her out cold. G-ma stayed at the hospital for 4 days before she went back to the care home. She was a strong woman who still cared for herself for the most part. She showered and dressed herself, fed herself, walked with just a cane, and she could crush your hand if she caught you off guard when shaking hands…something she liked to do to unsuspecting people as a joke. I would spend hours in her room just listening to her talk about her life and everything she had seen and done. Those were some of the best hours of my life. She basically told me her history from the late 1880’s to the present (1993). She traveled the globe many times, married once, had two kids, and three grandkids. Unfortunately her parents, her one brother, her husband, their kids, and grandkids all passed away before the 1960’s from various illnesses and fighting in wars. She lived on her own until her early 90’s. Once she could no longer drive, she decided to live in a care home to be safe. After I was released from the hospital, I tried to find out where she was staying at, but because I wasn’t family, no one would tell me. I’ve never forgotten her though. The history I learned from her was more valuable than just about any book I’ve read or documentary I’ve watched.
She fascinated and enriched your experience while healing up....I hope you know that by sitting and just talking and spending time with her, you ALSO enriched her last days (or wks/months/years) too...why??? Because you haven't forgotten her even now even after all these years and she told you herself that she'd outlived everyone so there was nobody else to remember her...I really wish the staff would have taken your info/phone number/address and THEN delivered it TO HER so you both could continue your visits, however they would have happened. I'm sure she would have loved that......
@@MezzoMamma1 yes, I’m in a lot of pain right now, but I will put a few things together later today. The one thing she spoke the most about was the automobile. She absolutely loved cars and the advancements in technology get applied each year.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful and funny moment. I bet seeing a car or plane or electricity for the first time was as profound a paradigm shift as me experiencing the internet for the first time in the late 90s.
My grandmother lived to be 101 years old! She loved to tell us scary stories and we loved hearing them. She was born in 1902. I miss her so much! I love this video!
My Gran was born in 1902 and was the only person I felt ever truly loved me, apart from God 🌈✝️🕊️ I miss her so much, she passed in 1988. I married on her birthday 11th Aug 2007 and named my only daughter after her in 2012 x x x
I had a great great grandmother that turned 100 in 1996 she told me about traveling in wagons and how life was when she was a little girl! It was so neat! I had never known someone who lived that long ago and was amazed by it! She passed away right before her 101 birthday. I had another great great grandma that lived to be over 102 as well
I could listen to this woman talk for hours - she had the most beautiful speaking voice! Am so looking forward to Part 2. Would love to hear about her teens and young adulthood...
My grandfather was born in 1876 and died in 1965. He was a farmer and owned a livery stable when he was young and served as postmaster in town when he got older. I remember him as a kind and hard-working man.
As an Historical Archeologist whose PhD was on Victorian era children and childhood, this ethnographic account is priceless! Thankyou so much for sharing! Because, history matters.
@@okaycola2 So, while traditionally it was not acceptable to start sentences with 'and' or 'because' or end with prepositions- much of those rules are either out dated or not necessary to follow in casual writing, such as posting on a youtube video.
@@okaycola2 "Because" is a subordinating conjunction that is usually followed by a dependent clause. It is not incorrect to begin a sentence with a dependent clause as long as it is followed by a comma. In this case, the conjunction was properly set off by a comma. In your criticism, however, you failed to use a comma after "Ma'am," a direct address, and then you failed to use a comma after the dependent clause that followed. If you are going to be so petty as to criticize a thoughtful remark on the basis of grammar, you need to pay more attention to your own.
@@okaycola2It seems like bragging about being a "self-taught" teacher might have backfired on you here! How does one actually become a self-taught teacher, though? Homeschooling?
My grandmother spoke like her, using similar phrasing. She came to Los Angeles in 1904 or 5. Stayed in California all her life. This was fascinating to listen to and I’m looking forward to part two! Back in the 1970s I recorded my grandmother talking about meeting and marrying my grandfather in Oakland in 1919.
My grandmother sounded almost exactly like the niece. It almost made me cry how similar she sounds! My grandmother was born in 1919 in Rhode Island. People from that generation had amazing memories!
@@BearingMySeoul they do! I’ve done genealogy for years now and everything I’ve found about her and her family is in my notes from the stories she told me when I first became interested. So even though I can’t document her dad considered buying a property on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, I believe it.
Awsome. My great grandfather told me stories about his life. He bought his home in 1903 in San Francisco for $3,000. I lived there for a brief time and happy he was alive to see the birth of my son. He helped build the Bay Bridge
@@tinaahl4597 that is awesome! A few years ago, my uncle was telling me he used to hike up to a place and watch them build the bay bridge when he was a kid! His dad, my grandfather, grew up in San Francisco until the earthquake in 1906. They stayed in tents for a while, but eventually moved over to Oakland and then Berkeley. When my grandparents married in 1919 they lived in Oakland, their whole lives together.
I love how she described her shoes and clothes. Embroidered undergarments, button up shoes, beaver trimmed coat from New York. And her embarrassment at school when her brother said the word “belly” during his little poem and that she couldn’t go back after that. So innocent.
While her father had attempted to introduce slavery to California, apparently. It's hard for us to grasp that in the past folks' values were different, rather than better or worse. Folk just had a different worldview. In future folk might be puzzled that we can be picky about trying to pay women the same wage as men, for the same work, yet (with information freely accessible online) happily buy goods made in Chinese sweatshops or expect people in developing countries to live on 1/50 of what we pay either men OR women here.
@louisehogg8472 Why do you decide he tried to introduce slavery to California? Confederate soldiers weren't trying to spread slavery to the free states. 🙄
Hearing her speak, like I’m sitting beside her on my porch while the breeze blows, brings joy to my heart and mind. I had a neighbor who passed away about six years ago in his mid-nineties. We would frequently sit on the porch and eat a popsicle while he reminisced about his life. They were some of the most unexpectedly magical times-me in my late teens/early twenties and him in his nineties…I could feel the wisdom thick in the air during those times and I gleaned all I could. His nickname that he’d had his entire life was Boots. He was one of 18 children born to the same momma and daddy and still had just under half of his siblings living. They had breakfast dates every week and enjoyed being with one another so much. Siblings are unique in that, while some aspects may vary, siblings are the only people who experienced life like you did. Boots told me about his quitting school at eight years old to go and cut timber to help support his family. He lied about his age and joined the army at just 16 years old. Married and had children, who had children, who then had children. He’d seen it all and done it all and loved his life, speaking to me about the goodness of God while the sun shone and the trees danced. I would love to go back and listen to him again. Our elders have so much to teach us.
How wonderful you had these experiences with Boots. And I am so glad you were so receptive to those chats. I've been an elder care LPN for 33 years and love to speak and share memories with them
Mrs. Collins remembers so much! She is really a hoot! A wonderful storyteller. What a time to be alive and to have your father the mayor. She had many privileges I'm sure her peers didn't have. She really loved her little brother. What a sweet woman! Thank you for letting us hear about the good ole days! ❤
I am sure that any modern person who went into the past she is speaking about would miss very many things we have today. Most houses were still lit by open flame, telephones were rare and of course flying across country would be impossible for half a century -- driving across country took weeks until the highway system of the 1950s.
@@Lazcomeforth Well according to her it smelled much better in her day lol I think things just smelled different for her. I'm sure if you grew up with no plumbing, less showers and clothes changes, etc. one would be accustomed to the smell and what came later would be bad. Maybe we are too accustomed to the smell of smog and pollution that we hardly notice it.
So amazing. This recording inspired me to ask my mother, born in the 1930's to record her, and then my father's history. She lived through the times when wood burning stoves were still common, the end of the depression, WW2, and the developments since. The grand and great-grandchildren would love it.
This inspires me to also record my grandma who was born in the 1930s too and lived through the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression and famine. The first time she saw a lightbulb was when she was 19.
The way she spoke w such love & adoration for her baby brother made me sad in the best way. I wonder how Pembroke passed away, she spoke of him in the past tense. These type of recordings are priceless. ❤
This was absolutely wonderful to listen to. Her retelling her memories really paint a picture. Plus her diction & general speech are so sweet. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank you so much for this! I grew up here in LA area, and lived in DTLA many years ago before the gentrification. This nice lady was able to capture much of the great history of LA. As a Chinese American... I always wondered how the cultural interaction was for Chinese during the 1800s, as 3rd and Main is less than a mile from present-day Chinatown. She was able to tell some stories. That was awesome. Her home is now a present-day I believe a LA department building, but around 2006 when I was living in Downtown LA. There were some buildings before the tore down. One specific building was I believe the Marilyn Higgins Gallery??? They had a piano in there on the top floor. When you pressed the patterns, the piano opens up to a stairwell downstairs. It was an underground speakeasy bar. If you stand south facing Los Angeles Street...you will see the Avocado trees, and you face north thats Bunker Hill. Thats the railways shes talking about.
I loved this! Even pulled up an 1888 map of LA to follow along. I was born there less than 80 years later. 2 years after she recorded this. She hates the growth of LA in 1964 and feels it’s pristine quality is gone. When I think back to my childhood, I also think of LA as prettier, more lovely too. You could actually see orange trees everywhere back then. My earliest childhood memories are of the orange trees and the amazing bright orange sunsets. If only we could turn back time.
I'm about the same age as you are. I mostly lived rural or suburban. The night skies looked different in the 1970s - more starry and bright. Less air and light pollution I guess, although I'm biased, living out side of a city. I still live rural, and the skies don't look the same. Also, there were more bugs, I think, so many that they'd die on our skin covered in bug repellent, and the bugs would ruin car's paint jobs. And, wild fruit like blackberries ripened much later in the summer.
I love that she mentions her grandchildren listening to this. She couldn't imagine something like RUclips. And how so many will listen and enjoy her mom.
This is so wonderful to listen to; reminds me of the beautiful stories my grandmother used to tell. She was born in the 20s and was a proud first generation American. My deepest regret is not recording her...we foolishly thought we would have more time with her. Thank you for sharing!
Our elders are walking history books. The true unaltered history. I had the luxury of knowing my great grandmother who passed away in my 20s. She lived to be 93. Her sister lived to be 98. My daughter ended up being her only great great grand baby that she got to meet. ❤
AND…. They are telling us the truth. We really should not believe the stuff, who the heck is telling us about history. It is well known that governments and groups try to rewrite history
@@miyamoto900How is this unbelievable?? All of my children have met all of their great-grandmothers. Some of my cousins' children got to meet their great-great-grandmother. When you've got good genes and have babies in your prime childbearing years (like we are meant to...ah, science!), this happens.
@@miyamoto900 - When you live long enough, you realize what's bullshit & what's truth - especially with regards on who stands to profit politically or financially from a given situation.
My dad was born in 1911 and his father was born one year after the end of the civil war. One thing I remember my dad telling me and whether it's true or not I have no way of knowing. He said his dad told him when he was a kid people didn't carry around guns everywhere when they were in public. He also said that the "bad guys" generally didn't have any face-to-face shootout, they usually got shot in the back when people got fed up with their bad behavior.
My G-G Grandfather was sheriff of Canadian County, Oklahoma Territory in the 1890's. He had jurisdiction over the lands of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, the Darlington Agency, and Fort Reno. Things were much more violent there at the time, and his goal was trying to keep people from wearing their guns everywhere...even to church. Nobody felt safe without them. Not only the Indians, but those who would illegally trade with them. Then the itinerant outlaws passing through. If you're ever in Yukon Oklahoma, go to the main cemetery across from the old Yukon High School. It was built literally as a boot hill cemetery along the Chisolm Trail. You'll find plenty of people buried there who were murdered during that period. My family who lived there had the last name of Shacklett, and there's plenty of stories about them. One is of Stonewall Shacklett, who was framed for a murder at a post office. The point I'm trying to make is, some places weren't nearly as safe as your grandfather's area.
He was telling the truth. The wild west us pretty much dime store novel myth. Most cities and towns had strict gun laws. No open carry and if you were just visiting, the local sheriff made you turn in side arms till you left
This was a bit before my grandmother’s generation (sometimes called the Lost Generation) & they all still astound me. They went from this to an age of computers and space travel. They lost husbands and then sons in two world wars. Struggled through Spanish flu and polio epidemics & the Great Depression. Others also suffered under the terror of Jim Crow. My Grandma was a woman of few words. Very little could impress her. As I enter my 60’s, I truly begin to understand why.
They were not the lost generation. The lost generation consisted of the young adults that came of age during WW1. She was a member of the generation before the Lost Generation. The children of the Gilded Age
Exactly. I think of my grandmother, born in 1896, less than 8 years before the Wright brothers flew their plane at Kitty Hawk. Fast forward 73 years, and I sat with her watching men walk on the moon. Amazing.
This is such a treasure. I hope people will listen to this and appreciate this amazing womans recollection of United States history. Thank you for documenting this on RUclips.
Her CORRECT vocabulary, her PROPER diction, is spellbinding. People seemed to speak differently now compared with how she sounds. She's just enchanting.
People now speak like degenerate uneducated animals. I don’t even know what people are talking about half the time, because they are either mumbling, or making up words that totally don’t exist. Unfortunately, this is what happens when the unions get involved, the federal government gets involved, and even the state government. They dumb everyone down, and the more of a degenerate you are, the more you are praised.
I wish I knew elderly people like the woman from this video. Today's elderly are bumbling fools who believe all the nonsense they read online on fb or hear from Tucker and most of them have no good stories to tell either.
And she spoke so clearly too, with excellent elocution & attention to detail. Every word she speaks ( or spoke ) is beautifully articulated and enunciated
What a lovely voice Mrs Collins had! So descriptive and detailed! I would love to hear more! That was recorded a year before I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Culver City. Her love for Penbrook really shone through in her voice! What a sweet woman she was! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for this. I was raised by my grandmother and, until I was 13, my great-grandmother, who was born in 1896. I was so lucky to have been able to grow up in the care of those two ladies, and this takes me back to my great-grandmother telling me stories of her life. What I wouldn't give to hear their voices and stories again.
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Thank you.
All these beautiful old world buildings. Thanks
@@snoberg8784 FREE WILL , whence is it given, whence does it end?
GOD created us 1stly in SPIRIT then formed our flesh in our mothers wombs.
Free will starts on the day you born here and ends on the day you depart from here. it is not given nor found earlier, as earlier you didn`t exist.
earth is testing ground, as it has became lucifers kingdom.
testing ground for us, to show GOD whom amongst us shall be deceived by lucifer.
All the answers are pretty clear ones - aren´t these? - MANY are deceived and FEW are not.
None of us can`t drag free will beyond humans earthly life, as it is not earlier nor after found nor given.
Jeremiah 1:5 KJV Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
FREE WILL is given for the choices which are here on earth to make.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Since making choices and being deceived takes place here on earth, free will does not go beyond human earthly lives.
No video?
@@snoberg8784no video?
Why not monetized?
The oldest person I ever met was 107, a woman who’d outlived three husbands and seven of eight children. She was nearly deaf, but read lips and loved tell stories of her life and experiences growing up and living all her life in the same place, a small upstate NY town. She was sharp as a tack, well-spoken. She passed away later that same year, in her sleep in her own bed, same room as where she was born! That was in 1978. RIP Miss Helen ❤ 😇
When my grandmother died she was a couple months away from being 104 years old. I used to like to hear her stories from the old days
As a kid, I was scared to get close to old people because I saw them as being close to death.
About 20 years ago, I started a job working with the elderly and realized what I'd been missing out on. They are a delight to talk to and hear their stories. I've learned so much about how things used to be and realized what an asset they are to the community if you give them the time to share their experience and perspective.
I've had the privilege of hearing first hand accounts of historic events I previously read about in history books. I no longer fear death or getting old. I don't look forward to losing my health but hope to live a long and full life.
That's awesome. I knew a helen too . I think she made it past 100. And another lady who lived till nearly ninety grew up during ww2. I loved listening to their stories.
"Ohio Town" by Helen Santmyer is a really good read
I"m Anita: I would love to hear her stories of growing up, As a Grown Woman and how times and scenery have changed. My husband was born and raised in Up State NY and I was born and raised in Tenn. I met him in Tenn. and married.
She has a voice like a warm cup of tea. I could listen to her all day. :) Sounds like she had a fabulous time growing up in old Los Angeles.
Sounds like her family was not poor. They would have had servants to do all the menial work. Even in the UK someone like a shopkeeper would likely have at least one servant.
More to the point, she sounds very educated and at age in her 80s? Has all her faculties and l agree her voice is like warm milk and honey. I wish l could have met her. Love from the UK.
@@helenamcginty4920 now they call them employees, haha.
Yes she certainly does. It's so comforting. I listen to this every night and drift into a calm sleep and sometimes dream of her idyllic landscape of memories.
I've been in LA my entire life and I can relate with her feelings of watching the city continuously devolve over time. It has become like a scene from a dystopian movie now, full of homeless, crime, trash and even worse smells now.
The buildings were beautiful back then. This video and her narration is as close as we can get to time traveling back to a simpler time, a better time in LA's history.
It’s amazing how her niece recorded this for her grandchildren- little knowing that thousands would take interest in the years to come. ❤️
…hundreds of thousands will hear her voice…she had no idea then. Never take anything you do for granted…it may live well beyond you.
@@hertzair1186June 2023
I'm very greatful coming across this video !!! It was such a different life back then...blessings to the family members, for sharing your life...❤🙏
That was the whole point
millions
My children’s pediatrician was Dr. Leila Denmark. She lived to be 114 years old. What a gem she was! She continued practicing, in-office, until 108. Later giving advice by phone until 112 years old. Always ‘sharp as a tack’! No one like her!
That's amazing.
What a Gem you met someone who saw so much change
I have got to know her secret!
They didn't eat the contaminated food breathe contaminated air and drink contaminated water
Horse and wagons , no roads , but somehow constructed amazing churches , cathedrals, hotels ... all with no workforce . Nothing odd at all
I was a dementia nurse. Many of the patients in long term care however are not there for memory loss. Getting to hear the stories of their lives, and the stories from the family members of those who had no memory anymore made that job very interesting. We fail in this country, to show enough intrest in our elderly. They have so much to offer us.
My grandmother died from thirst here recently while in the care of san diego county home for elderly citizens it breaks my. Heart
So true. We need to change that and capture more of their insights and wisdom.
The culture needs to change. The loving elderly deserve to stay with their kids and never regarded as an ounce of hindrance. Just as parents took care of us for 20 years to prep for life we take care of them for the last 20 years at the very least.
Beautiful...
Very interesting for a fan of America's history.
@@HighExplosiveDualPurpose40mmmy condolences. I live in San Diego. What senior care facility was she in?
A good friend of mine is going to be 97 this month. Born in 1926. He is the "baby" of his family who are now all gone. He has long outlived 2 of his 3 children and his wife. His last living sibling passed away 25 years ago. He has more energy than most people i know at my age! Still splitting wood, still gardening and loves to fabricate with metal. He is the grandfather i never had! I am 42 years old and i enjoy every minute listening to all of his stories, even if I've heard them already. And I've learned quite a bit from him
You should record him
Record him!
David Attenborough is also 97, and still going strong. Same with Dick Van Dyke, who posts new videos on YT every so often.
My grandmother was born in 1929 and she's still alive and mentally well 😊
@@SweetyPrincessMarghe interview her too! so much knowledge that we can now preserve with recordings. I wish I had interviewed my grandparents when they were still around.
I think it’s so cool that she contributed to this somewhat obscure recording and now 60 years later it’s been listened to by a million people
40 years.. not 60... 1980 was only 43 years ago
@@amandaburleson2035
Based on the video title and description, the recording was made in 1964, almost 60 years ago. The woman speaking was born in 1878, not 1978.
Math is hard tho 🤷♂️
@@_dalbit ok youre ruight. ii was watching this video on little sleep very late at nigjht
It kind of makes you think about what we could contribute to the future
Huge gratitude to the woman who was smart enough to know this was worthy of recording for the future …. ❤️
Same script ❤different cast
How in the world is this recording so clean and perfect for being made in the 60s?? The quality of the best films during those times were still nowhere near as good as this recording which makes me super curious
@@Bookworm214-y3d this is the quality you'd get on any reel-to-reel recorder from that time, what are you on about
Lovely lady
@@Bookworm214-y3d why is this unusual for a 60s recording?
We have elderly people all around us right now with great memories and stories to tell all we have to do is make the time to listen to them speak.
Very true
So often, the belief is that younger folk aren't interested in what elders might share, because that is the impression they give > disinterest.
This "society" now encourages people to think of elderly people as mentally deficient and having no wisdom.
"They" don't want us to listen to the wisdom of our elders.
1:00 some sh!t don't change this is a refernce to the CHP and how they can add heights to a plot of land and change the rules if you want to
I want to change the rules dipshit i wanna do whatever the fuck i want to do boo hoo
I forgot dude's name- he was annoying though
I could listen to her for hours. What a memory!
Amazing
Me too❤
I don't believe this is a real recording- it's a scam
Nah
@@anymongus if you watched til the end, she pauses to collect her thoughts then starts up again also at the end, the creator of the video states there were many pauses they put it all together with some points starting at mid sentence.
Can’t you just hear,how much she’s loving this chance to tell these stories,from her lovely childhood.It’s beautiful.
My grandmother was born in 1924, her mother was born in 1890 so it’s not far off from this woman. Anyhow, my grandmother died almost 25 years ago. Some of my fondest memories as a child were staying the night at her house and she’d tell my brothers and I a bedtime story that often times was similar to this, reminiscing her childhood in New Jersey. Nostalgia that I cherish and miss oh so much.
Beautiful.
This little lady is just adorable and “That’s that!”
I grew up in the L.A. area so I found this particularly interesting.
When my grandmother was little, her great-great grandmother Hannah lived with them. Born in 1801 and died in 1905, she told the children bedtime stories of her lifetime including the civil war. My great aunt, who was 12 years old when Gramma Hannah died, and remembered her very well, had the foresight to write down the stories and later typed them up, giving copies to family members. They are a treasure for our family.
That's absolutely awesome
What a blessing. Such a treasure
What a treasure to have in the family.
Wow! What a treasure you have there.
Those are the best! I have a copy of my GGG Grandfather’s life story. He came from Ireland during the potato famine to the US. After retiring he and his wife moved to Los Angeles to be with their daughters and grandchildren.
She's very well spoken, and descriptive. It makes me realize that we have pretty much lost the art of storytelling as a society. Great quality recording! Thank you!! (I'm from the Los Angeles area too, but born 100 years later)
Yes, everybody just does texting
Love the sound of her voice
I didn't hear her say, and like we went shopping like everyday, and like I loved it like so very much..😊
I'm from Los Angeles too 🙂
Who's we?
My Great Great Grandma was born in 1860 and she used to tell us stories about "the old days". I loved to hear what she had to say. I wish now we had recorded her stories with a tape recorder. As a child I never thought about it back then.
There are so many people today who can't believe it one you say you spoke with someone born before 1900. I do not know the year my own great great grandmother was born, or even what her name was but while she must have been born in the 1850s or so, even my great grandmother was long gone before I was born -- very few people have met there GG Grandmother as you have.
@@animalntelligence3170 The truth is, in the grand scheme of things, that wasn't that long ago. My grandpa was born in 1880 the year before the OK corral. My dad was 8 years old when Wyatt Earp died. My dad was taken by grandpa to the funeral homes to see Bonnie & Clyde. 72 years later, I had supper with Clyde's nephew. Time marches on.
@@PAUL-pz3rz I agree but also much is forgotten. I have wondered if also we have genetic memories. In my own case, I was fascinated by the title of a reader in first grade; it was only decades later that I discovered that the title of that book was the same as the street my grandmother had lived on as child, now much more than a century ago.
@@PAUL-pz3rz BTW, if your grandfather was born in 1880, would it be be great grandmother or great great that you meant? 1860 is only 20 years before.
@@animalntelligence3170 This was my Great Great on my Mothers side. The Grandpa I speak of was on my Fathers side. He was 41 when my dad was born in 1921. Two different sides of my lineage.
Imagine watching your hometown grow from 11,000 to 2.4 million in one human lifetime…
Skidrow has a larger population
And she said her father brought in the first Avocado tree. Little did he know then that it would be a huge California industry!
How did that tiny population build those huge ornate buildings? The angelic architecture doesn't fit the timeline. They were "Founded," because they probably found them. None of them had landscaping, and they had no decent sidewalks or streets. It makes no sense. The city is relatively empty.
18:58 15:16 14:36 14:07
Imagine her walking down skid row now
@@Overstand100they definitely inherited those buildings
Its incredible hearing people from those times speak on camera so even though they have long since died their stories will live on forever
Yes, it is
A priceless gift to us. ❤
There's a video of a man who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln's assassination. It's mind-boggling that we can see someone from the 1800s now in the 2020s. (He was a child during the assassination and the video was made in the mid-20th century when he was old.)
The most amazing lady I met in hospital in 2007 when I was in for a hip replacement in my early forties . The lady in the opposite bed was 88 and in for the same operation. She was the first child her mother had birthed in 1920 . Her mother had seven miscarriages one after the other. All because she was a maid in a well to do house in the early 1900s . Part of her job was to black the big kitchen ranges every morning. After she left the house to get married the doctors found she had been suffering from lead poisoning . This had caused repeated miscarriage until finally her eighth pregnancy proved successful and she had given birth to the little old lady in that ward who was now 88. How people suffered in those days !
My paternal grandfather was born in 1877… he had the most wonderful stories of coming to the Indian Territory in a covered wagon.
I just didn’t know how needed to hear this dear woman speak of her life in such dulcet tones. I bet she could’ve never imagined that this recording would reach over half a million people ❤
Most certainly she couldn't have. Dear lady !
@@BrightSeaStar, she knew. Everyone wants their stories told.
she does have a beautiful voice.
@theresaachase over two million views as of today, 12/12/24. 😂❤
They recorded this for the grandchildren, but thousands have a chance to listen. So cool! Pembroke sounds like a blast, too.
Pembroke was a wildman!
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My great grandmother passed away at 101 yrs young. Her daughter my grandmother passed at 100. The stories they would tell of their time growing up as lil girls were awe inspiring. My great grandmother came from England and to hear her talk about England in the Victorian era was something else, especially when I got to play with trunks up in the attic of all her old long dresses & gowns with the bustles and corsets and high lace up boots with her big hats from that time.
Wow!
Wow, I know you had fun 😮
You should write her memories down for your family.
My father will be 102 in December and I still can't get him to talk about his life. This recording is pure gold!
Maybe make up some stories and he will “correct you”…. Wink wink
@@karieberry1070 HAHA you are a genius! I'm going to try that!
Ask him about his grandfather and grandmother, and where were they born. Earliest memories? Did he ride a horse to school? who were his best friends as a kid, first dog, first job, first car, first kiss. Keep trying.. record it on audio or vid instead of writing it down.
I know almost nothing about my mom's parents, and nothing at all about HER grandparents. Regrets..
@KMVS8686 He was 55. Had my little brother when he was 79. I'm hoping he's finally done lol
@@egyptsflame8368 damn pops ain't no joke. Had your brother at 79. He must've been rich asf to be hitting them youngins 😂😂😂
I feel lucky to have basically grown up in a nursing home. All through the 80s and 90s we'd go to work with my mum, and later, I worked in health care. I've met WW1 soldiers and survivors, holocaust survivors and WW2 veterans, heard stories about the depression and how they survived, and much more. If you can, go make friends with the elderly. They enjoy the companionship, and you'll learn a lot.
Christina you are so correct! I was a LVN for 27yrs & loved caring for our elders.. so many life stories!
This is just unbelievably depressing and sad.
@@Ludydobrywhat?
@@Ludydobry We find it depressing because we worry about ourselves. If we can overcome this, we can serve the elderly better.
So true. Most of them are overjoyed to speak about their life..and tell you their stories. Rich or poor..they had GRACEFUL ways..and believed in GOD.
There is a picture of Belle aka Jett Collins in public genealogy trees. She married in 1901 to a wealthy man (Arthur Collins) from England and moved to England with him until he passed away in the 1930s. Prior to that her father, and her beloved Pembroke had died in Los Angeles. She moved back to L.A. and was the last surviving child of Belle (her mother) and Cameron Thom. She had no children of her own. She died in Beverly Hills, CA. Her father was one of the original landowners for what is now Glendale, CA.
Thank you for sharing the details. I was wondering what happened to her. Do you know where she is buried?
Do you know what in business her father was employed? It sounds like he made or had inherited wealth from the East that he brought to the Los Angeles area.
@@kitchenskills5427, I just looked him up and he's got a Wikipedia page. He was a lawyer and a Confederate that had originally gone west as a 49er. Pembroke died in 1934 at age 53 and Rowena was his daughter.
@@kitchenskills5427 He first came out in 1850 for the Gold Rush. When that didn' t work out I believe he studied for the Bar Exam in California. He had a law degree from his hometown in Virginia. While practicing law, he was transferred from Sacramento area to Los Angeles. That is how ended up there. He was the mayor for the years she (the speaker, Belle Thom Collins) describes being very young and supposed to hand out the flower bouquet in the 4th of July parade. 1882-1884. He worked in the public (city attorney) and private sector. He was disbarred in California because he went back home (to Virginia) in the 1860s to fight as a Confederate in the Civil War. His first wife died by the time the war ended and he came back to California. That's when he found out the California had disbarred Confederate sympathizers. So he was really down on his luck and no money. He borrowed $300 and built back his reputation and married his wife's sister. Who was about 20 years younger than her sister (his first wife). She is the speaker's mother. Both the speaker and her mother were named Belle. Thanks for your question :)
@@MezzoMamma1 As far as what happened to her. She married a famous theater manager named Arthur Pelham Collins. He managed the Drury Lane Theater in England. This is where things get a bit shady, especially this being Victorian times...he was married and had a son. His first wife was alive when they married in 1900 in Manhattan, New York. I don't know if there was an issue with a divorce or ????? But 10 years later Belle aka Jett Collins was introduced as his wife when she then moved to England. She lived there with her step son and several servants. When Arthur died in the 1930s (so did his first wife) . Belle aka Jett moved back to the L.A. area (California) . By then her father had died and so had her beloved Pembroke. If you listen to the recording at one point she is pretending to be her younger self at school and calls herself "Jett".
I was born in Los Angeles 70 years ago and as I was watching this I was thinking how every person who gets old and looks back at the city they were born thinks-it’s changed so much! I just don’t even recognize it anymore, it hurts a little because just like Mrs Collin’s in your minds eye you can still see exactly what it looked like, the colors, the smells, your mother-young, your father as well caring his lunch Box and thermos to work, etc. This was so lovely. Thank you.❤
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You're so right! I live in NYC and have similar memories at age 69. Miss my parents and neighbors. They're all gone now. 💔
This is an 86 year old talking??? What a beautiful voice! And she must have seen so much change.
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I love this. I can’t wait to get my teacher’s license in 2025, because I will definitely show this to my students in my social studies classroom! They deserve to hear this lovely lady say this wonderful testimony!
There will be no classrooms in 2025 online only ! Lol
You will most likely not be teaching,the school systems are heading to non existence with all the wake agenda BS
That's if they let you show this. Could be propaganda by then.
@@melindasmith3713 I hope not! Lol
@@jaywilson2600 you never know
This brought back so many memories. I am 40 years old. My great grandmother Stella was born in 1889. She died when she was 103 years old. I loved hearing stories between her and my grandmother, Lorna. Great grandma Stella told me about growing up in an old church house. She had "stick dolls" made of sticks and cloth. Her favorite past time was sitting by the fire playing marbles with her siblings. Eventually, she inherited her childhood home, that became a boarding house. She ran the boarding house her entire adult life until she wasn't able to in her elder years. My Grandma Lorna told me wild stories about the boarding house and how she met so many interesting people. When I was little, they talked alot about the depression era. They had kept ration books and other trinkets from that time, and passed them down to me. My grandpa Charles was in the Navy during WW2. Grandpa Charles and Grandma Lorna met shortly after he returned from WW2. Grandpa was one lucky guy. He was transferred off the USS Arizona, to another ship, ONE day before it was bombed. My grandparents bought their home in 1946, raised all 8 of their children in their 3 bedroom home and lived there all their lives. My dad is the 3rd oldest, out of 8. I also have so many fond memories of my dad's childhood home and spending time with my grandparents there. I can still remember every nook and cranny of that old house.
Bless you ma'am, & your Grannie. I actually live in my grandmothers house, which also happened to be built in 1946. We live in florida, so it's what we would call a "cracker house", which is just a simple little wood frame home. My family has lived on this property for 5 generations. My parents, who are in their late 70s, live next door, & the have many good stories, but nothing like the stories my Neena would tell. She was born in 1918, & died in 2011 from dementia. I miss her so much. She was the best friend I ever had. She was a professional seamstress, one hell of an amazing cook, & if she loved you, it was fierce. ❤
How few people had conversations with people born almost a century before them.
Yikes! My Great-Grandmother Stella lived to be 102. Born in August, I was able to be there for her 100th when I was 7 in 1970.
Wow, that story is amazing! God spared him for you when Pearl Harbor was bombed, I bet he thanked his lucky stars and God for saving him. He must have had a specific plan for him in life! Bless you dear. ❤
@@jackmessick2869 That's amazing!
my great great aunt lived to 101 died in 2021 her husband lived until 100 died in 2015 their stories were amazing and I miss them
My great-great grandma was born in 1892 in Ohio. At 19 and a newlywed, she and her husband rode in a covered wagon to Kentucky. Her life as a farmers wife was starkly different than this lady, as were their children.
The only thing store bought was flour, coffe and cornmeal twice a year.
She lived to be in her 90's. She was very sweet, kind and smart. She taught me a lot.
Thanks for this lady's story. Fascinating!
Wow, how much they must have bought of those items if it was to last for 6 months!
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They rode into town in the spring and fall and that was an all day trip.
They lived off the land. No running water, electric or indoor plumbing. Farmed corn and tobacco for money, (which bought those goods), and had a garden.
She canned food outdoors using a big tin tub. Sulphured apples, slaughtered their own meat, had a spinning wheel to make material for clothes, linens and towels. Their mattresses was filled with corn husks.
It was a hard life. Compared to them, and most everyone else during that era, we have it easy.
It is obvious someone more advanced built all of this not these people with horse wagons, barrels of flour etc. There are also modern looking electric poles. The real question is what happened to all the people that used to live there, big city very few uncultured people living in a modern world setting doesn't add up.
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Actually it was large sacks. During the Depression the sack companies made the cloth with pretty patterns so she used them to make clothes with, too.
Their house didn't get electricity until near the middle of last century because it was far away from the town and way out in the country.
During WWII my great-great -grandfather bought a radio. The battery was as big as a car battery! Once a week they listened to war news to save the battery.
@@rowingtothedream Just as today, the big monopolies of the day occasionally brought inventions from the urbanized East to the more rural regions out West.
Remember that the 1870's was not only cowboys and farmers. The megacorps in New York were producing all kinds of inventions and exported them West when the frontier closed.
The wealth disparity was infamous even then - 1% of American families owned 51% of the country's land property - hence the term "Gilded Age."
I feel privileged to have met my great grandmother who was born in 1884. She died when I was 7 in 1977. Time passes by so quickly doesn’t it? This stuff is so interesting. I love hearing old stories. And her voice is so sweet and soothing. Such a gentle and dear lady.
Wow, I wish I could of met someone who experienced living in the Victorian era but there is no one alive now who was alive during that time. The oldest person I met was my great grandmother born in 1916 but she died long ago when I was 5. You learn about WW1 in school so the early 1900s don’t feel so distant but you don’t hear a lot or see a lot about before then. The 1800s feel so far away, so foreign. It’s weird to think about how people actually lived in those times and experienced it themselves, it’s not just fiction from tv. I wish I could of talked to someone who experienced living through that time, the actual Victorian era, and ask them questions about their life.
Wonderful story
I was lucky to meet my great grandmothers from my mom’s family. One died when I was 4 the other when I turned 11yrs.
My great grandmother
was born in 1879.
I was 16 when she died before turning 96.
I asked her everything that I could think of!
My Great grandmother born 1887 babysat me and passed away in 1972.
I sat with my eyes closed listening and I could picture it all. I smiled several times listening to this lovely woman.
@@TomTom-bh2wf that was a good one.. haha haha
At 86 she still had a good memory.
Same! 😌
Same here- I closed my eyes!
Thank you for posting. I did the same and thoroughly enjoyed this recording. Have a great week and remember that you are not completely dressed unless you are wearing a smile. 😊😁
This is wonderful.I could listen to her talk all day.Her voice is mesmerising. I love how she ends some sentences with “ that was that.”❤
I am so grateful Rowena thought to record her aunt's memories while she could! This is incredible.
Amazing. Her memory was so clear and so detailed, and she talked about her memories so beautifully, as if she was on stage and holding the audience spellbound. It is a privilege to hear her talk about her life.
Interesting thing is that she mentioned Henry Joseph Vanderlick but he wasn't born until 1900.. Grown up to be a incredibly prominent guy as she said in California, LA..
She must have meant his father or something
At the time of this recording in 1964, she was only 86 years old. At this age most elderly people still have good memory
I can't recall much of my childhood. Amazing how she remembers in such detail
Long term memory is not effected as much as short term memory. I'm 91 years old and remember more of what happen 70 years ago than what happen 7 years ago.
That is a sign she was an elite child during that time.
This lady is so beautifully spoken. So clear and articulate. If only people spoke like this now.
So true! And I love her gratitude and lack of entitlement. People today seem full of knowledge but void of character and wisdom in comparison.
The way she speaks, like "bahskett" for "basket" and the way you can tell how she loves her memories, when she says, "Now! What do you think?" to punctuate her narrative.
Just because you've never met them doesn't mean they aren't well spoken. Maybe it's a reflection of you. Not everyone spoke like her!
@FC-hj9ub what you are trying to say.
Like the coffee shop girl.
Listening from Los Angeles. This warms my heart so much.
I recorded my great grandma telling about her and my great grandfather's history as they were San Diego natives. She was born in 1898. I have a video of it actually, I recorded it in the early 90's. I consider it a priceless piece of our family history, and we all still live in San Diego.
you should most definitely upload that!
Please share it!
We need authentic history. Please share it. 🙏
Yes please!!
Oh that would be great to see
I love how she talks..reminds me of my grandmothers, especially great-grandmother. I love how she says, "and that was that!"
What a sweet woman! This is a treasure to keep forever. Her voice is so soothing! I loved when she said: " thank God there were no sirens back in those days". She seems to have been a very good-hearted, sensitive old lady.
Yeah! She opened with gratitude to the Lord for her life. Such grace and respect. ❤
Such a wonderful lady 🥰
There were sirens but they were Hand cranked and not readily available.
But WARS make everything available and cheap.....
I was born in 1953, my mom and dad in 1917, my grandma 1893 and both grandpas 1887, great grandpa 1865, and great. great grandpa 1811. I have a history on them all and pictures also. I love listening to older folks. I did an interview in college 1977 with a women in a nursing home who was born in 1876, she was as spry as a spring chicken.
I could cry...her voice is laced with wisdom and grace.
Wooden sidewalks, she saw us go from horse and buggy to cars...
Her shoes, with the tassels...😏 She absolutely transforms us to another time. "I must have been a sight!" She is absolutely precious. Nowadays people record every mundane thing...and they're saying nothing of value.
She's amazing. And she would be amazed that we're so impressed. And we are. 🌹
She be ashamed of what america has become.
wee done Mia
@@oRealAlieNo Sounds like she already was by then lmao
Yes, precious !
I don't think her contemporaries would have thought what she was saying was important at the time.
In 80 years, people might find the videos we make quite interesting.
Something about this audio is so grounding. And humbling. This was recorded so many decades ago. And this lady is loooong gone. To hear the humanity in her voice... her perspective. Reminds me of just how short life really is. I enjoyed it.
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Well put!
What a delightful voice this lady had … so expressive … so genteel. What a treat to listen to her. Greetings from Querétaro, México .
Yo soy de Queretaro tambien.... Soy Queretuano.
@@edrowinzky6264 Queretano 😊
This is absolutely marvelous!! Rest in peace dear Mrs. Collins. Thank you for sharing your story and making a piece of history come to life. I'm so glad your niece bullied you into doing this.
“Well that was that.” Love to hear this lady and the memories she shares. God bless her soul.
What a beautiful story teller. She has a voice like running water, I could listen to her talk all day. RIP
“I’ve been bullied, by my beautiful niece…”
That made me smile because I know the world bully meant something different. Her niece persuaded her with the insistence.
This whole video made me smile
it didn't mean anything different. She was just using it in a playful way. Remember, this was the 60s, 30 years after the little rascals dealing with Butch and his gang. The concept of "Bullying" was nothing new.
This was the kind of "playful", teasing speech that generation would use. I know by experience, mom and dad would be around 100 now, my grandparents around 120.
It's a standard meaning of "bullied" - pushed
She was trying to be funny/satirical. It meant similar back then. The unusualness of saying it essentially is the point of the joke. No trigger warnings or trigger word worries were popular back then so it would have been more acceptable to joke about getting bullied then than now. Now, people would worry about the joke offending or upsetting someone and thereby losing its intended comedic effect.
Mrs. Collins' is beautifully spoken with tone and pace. She recalls with such wonderful clarity and descriptions. Imagine being born in the eighteen hundreds and having over a million people from around the world in 2024 listening and enjoying the recording. My grandmother was born in Colorado just nine years before her, so this was such a treat for me. Thank you so much for sharing.
This was magical! Her accent was so eloquent, and her diction was beautiful. I wish her interview had been longer. Simply lovely to hear of her sweet memories…❤
Personally I think she sounded younger than her niece 😊
Her saying Hwite instead of White is very interesting. I imagine she got it from her parents, having moved from Virginia.
@JesusFriedChrist That pronunciation of wh was fairly common throughout all of the US until fairly recently, even outside the south. Nixon and Reagan, both of whom are from California, used that pronunciation. The simple w sound that we use today, was present mostly only in east coast cities before the 1960s.
Sounds like a mixture of british and American english it's beautiful
@@marshawargo7238YES!!!! I hear it too
I’m in awe of her very descriptive storytelling of her childhood. I don’t know about how any of you feel, but I feel like I was there when she was growing up, like I was born in that era instead of being born in 1970.
She had such an amazing childhood. I’m so very, very grateful that her great-niece had her record what her childhood was like, because that’ll be preserved for generations to come. I’m honored, in some way, to have heard such brilliant words coming from a phenomenal woman.
May she rest peacefully in her eternal slumber.
That’s how I would feel listening to my own grandmother’s stories. I really felt connected to that time period as I listened to her talk about the 1920s and 1930s.
I agree with you. It was humbling to listen to Mrs Collins’ recollections of a bygone era and yes I was right there with her. I’m from the U.K. and found it fascinating.
❤❤ I can listen to this wonderful woman day long!! She reminds me of my Mother, she use to tell me her stores as a child and I loved her for it, and ask for more. Is this the only recording of!!! Any one knows please?
@@lorencast Im in the UK Loren and here in our local history centre they keep recordings in their archives of local people talking about their past, so maybe you can find something similar where you live. Libraries could help you perhaps. Wasnt this fascinating? I remember asking 95 year old grandmother to tell me a bit about her earlier days, but sadly she couldnt remember a lot as her memory was going. So I missed an opportunity there. I have a lot of time for older people, I could listen to them for hours just talking about their earlier lives.
My grandmother, born in 1912, spoke in much the same fashion about her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio. My great grandmother was born in 1889, but sadly she would mostly lament about how things had changed instead of sharing stories of her youth. Her home was like a time capsule, filled with fine antiques, mostly things that her parents and grandparents had owned. The majority of those items my grandfather drove to the city dump when she passed. I never knew why.
Mrs. Collins was a wonderful story teller as many people were in those days, also beautiful letter writers. Loved this audio!🥰🥰
Yes, I love to read their letters.
Now schools don't even want to spend time teaching penmanship. A teacher told me that the kids are just going to use computers, so it isn't important. Same with basic math.
@@DQ_Mine yea yea, i grew up in the 70s we spent a lot of useless time learning to spell and even have spelling contests, most people didn't know what the words meant, because they did no vocabulary...but they sure could spell. I have read a lot of history, history records great authors, and great orators from Caesar to Winston Churchill...I have yet to find any reference to a great man of history because of his spelling.
@@JohnJohnson-pq4qz - You didn't make any sense. "In the 70s we spent a lot of useless time learning how to spell..." The irony is, you still don't have reading comprehension skills, and neither do so many "woke adults".
@@DQ_Mine - This isn't anything new, especially since colonialism. Brown-skinned people were already in so-called America, before pale-skinned people. Certain adults, besides myself, already knew/know what's been happening in many controlled/dumbed down ways by the pale-skinned elites in so-called America.
Her accent was so magnificent and soothing !
Sounds a bit of a mix of British accent and southern accent.
And not one "like"! So refreshing.
I don’t hear southern or british…but I wonder how much can be attributed to the general “classiness” of people in that era.
@@kristin1533There’s nothing wrong with “like”..that doesn’t mean someone isn’t intelligent or classy (even though the word classy itself is outdated). It’s just a dialect of modern American times and shouldn’t be viewed as shameful.
Not southern at all.
It's because her father is from Culpeper VA. So her dad was a Virginia aristocrat, so yes he had an upper-class genteel southern accent and so does she.
I loved her story about the dog pulling her brother from the water "by his britches" and I loved how the pet parrots would call out "Pembroke," and little Pembroke (such a great name!) would come running, only to find he had, once again, been duped by the parrots!
I could listen to her for the whole day and I am so grateful this was posted. She sounds like she was truly a lovely person.
It's so, so sweet to hear her talk about how much she adored him 🥹❤️
What a beautiful voice and so well spoken. We have definitely lost the art of being well articulated. Very interesting she is. Thank you for this.
I agree.
I loved how clear and understandable she talked it really helped paint the picture! I love how beautiful and quiet was the picture she painted of the story. One with nature,1800 hundred's things were very simple yet you still had to work very hard to get by,
Literally...
I sometimes think about how much more quiet the world was back then.
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Which is why sane people live in suburbs… until it gets ruined by two specific demographics moving in, and then my peeps flee to a different suburb/small town that hasn’t been tarnished as much. Never ending continuous Wyt flight.
My family used to live in L.A. county, and we moved to a fantastic suburb 25 minutes north when bussing of us kids to a terrible deep part of LA to force mix us started in the ‘70s. I thank the stars that my folks made that wise decision, giving me a great childhood.
In her formative years there was no media like radio, TV, and movies to distract from life in the present. People would spend their days interacting with one another and that would include sharing with others what they had seen or did. This likely contributed to developing stronger conversational and observational skills.
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And stronger tight knit families and communities!
They don’t call it TV “programming” for nothing!
“You didn’t catch me going up the tree, you caught me going down” 😅 He’s sharp !!
This is a treasure. So fascinating!
This is absolutely amazing... I'm imagining living in these decades through her stories. What a time it was here in the (then) beautiful southern California... today (2020s).... well u know the rest..
@@nemesisut8793 She made it sound so refreshing compared to Los Angeles now.
@@ravenrose3730 yes!!
I’m not American but I love this one. Her incredible command of the language, at the time she was “interviewed” is amazing. Her description of the time is detailed. She belongs to my grandmother’s age/era.
I hope there’s more of her “interviews.”
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recording. ❤️🇵🇭❤️
This is my personal account of an elderly woman I met years ago. It’s fairly long, so TL;DR: 109 y/o woman broke her wrist and spent a few days in the same hospital I happen to be in recovering from a car accident.
1993 - I was recovering from a near fatal car accident. This was a three week ordeal that started at one small town hospital for the first surgery, had me transferred to another for two more surgeries, and found me back at the first hospital again to recover.
The last week I was there, a 109 year old lady came in (she referred to herself as G-ma). She was there because she had broken her wrist and needed surgery to pin it together. I was just relearning how to walk again, so as I got out in the halls more on my own, I got to meet her.
The staff at the care home G-ma stayed at warned a new intern to never take her teddy bear from her because it was the only thing she had left in this world seeing as how she had outlived her entire family. Well, the first night shift the intern worked, she took the teddy bear away. G-ma broke her wrist when she punched the intern square in the jaw and knocked her out cold.
G-ma stayed at the hospital for 4 days before she went back to the care home. She was a strong woman who still cared for herself for the most part. She showered and dressed herself, fed herself, walked with just a cane, and she could crush your hand if she caught you off guard when shaking hands…something she liked to do to unsuspecting people as a joke.
I would spend hours in her room just listening to her talk about her life and everything she had seen and done. Those were some of the best hours of my life. She basically told me her history from the late 1880’s to the present (1993). She traveled the globe many times, married once, had two kids, and three grandkids.
Unfortunately her parents, her one brother, her husband, their kids, and grandkids all passed away before the 1960’s from various illnesses and fighting in wars. She lived on her own until her early 90’s. Once she could no longer drive, she decided to live in a care home to be safe.
After I was released from the hospital, I tried to find out where she was staying at, but because I wasn’t family, no one would tell me. I’ve never forgotten her though. The history I learned from her was more valuable than just about any book I’ve read or documentary I’ve watched.
She fascinated and enriched your experience while healing up....I hope you know that by sitting and just talking and spending time with her, you ALSO enriched her last days (or wks/months/years) too...why??? Because you haven't forgotten her even now even after all these years and she told you herself that she'd outlived everyone so there was nobody else to remember her...I really wish the staff would have taken your info/phone number/address and THEN delivered it TO HER so you both could continue your visits, however they would have happened. I'm sure she would have loved that......
Can you tell us some highlights about life back in the 1880’s as recalled by her conversations? 😊
@@MezzoMamma1 yes, I’m in a lot of pain right now, but I will put a few things together later today. The one thing she spoke the most about was the automobile. She absolutely loved cars and the advancements in technology get applied each year.
Thank you for that story.
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Thank you for sharing this beautiful and funny moment. I bet seeing a car or plane or electricity for the first time was as profound a paradigm shift as me experiencing the internet for the first time in the late 90s.
My grandmother lived to be 101 years old! She loved to tell us scary stories and we loved hearing them. She was born in 1902. I miss her so much! I love this video!
My Gran was born in 1902 and was the only person I felt ever truly loved me, apart from God 🌈✝️🕊️ I miss her so much, she passed in 1988. I married on her birthday 11th Aug 2007 and named my only daughter after her in 2012 x x x
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I had a great great grandmother that turned 100 in 1996 she told me about traveling in wagons and how life was when she was a little girl! It was so neat! I had never known someone who lived that long ago and was amazed by it!
She passed away right before her 101 birthday. I had another great great grandma that lived to be over 102 as well
Priceless documentation. Well spoken lady.
How wonderful that Rowena had Belle record this. The photos are a really nice touch along with the music.
I could listen to this woman talk for hours - she had the most beautiful speaking voice! Am so looking forward to Part 2. Would love to hear about her teens and young adulthood...
My grandfather was born in 1876 and died in 1965. He was a farmer and owned a livery stable when he was young and served as postmaster in town when he got older. I remember him as a kind and hard-working man.
What a contrast of development between 1876 to 1965 he really lived from the first industrial revolution to the second woooow that is a HUGE change
As an Historical Archeologist whose PhD was on Victorian era children and childhood, this ethnographic account is priceless! Thankyou so much for sharing! Because, history matters.
You have a PhD & you begin a sentence w bc? Ma’am speaking as a self-taught teacher you need to read the books not just set your beverage on them
@@okaycola2 So, while traditionally it was not acceptable to start sentences with 'and' or 'because' or end with prepositions- much of those rules are either out dated or not necessary to follow in casual writing, such as posting on a youtube video.
@@okaycola2 @underwearonly, " you need to read the books ".
@@okaycola2 "Because" is a subordinating conjunction that is usually followed by a dependent clause. It is not incorrect to begin a sentence with a dependent clause as long as it is followed by a comma. In this case, the conjunction was properly set off by a comma. In your criticism, however, you failed to use a comma after "Ma'am," a direct address, and then you failed to use a comma after the dependent clause that followed. If you are going to be so petty as to criticize a thoughtful remark on the basis of grammar, you need to pay more attention to your own.
@@okaycola2It seems like bragging about being a "self-taught" teacher might have backfired on you here! How does one actually become a self-taught teacher, though? Homeschooling?
My grandmother spoke like her, using similar phrasing. She came to Los Angeles in 1904 or 5. Stayed in California all her life. This was fascinating to listen to and I’m looking forward to part two! Back in the 1970s I recorded my grandmother talking about meeting and marrying my grandfather in Oakland in 1919.
oh how precious and sweet. 💗
My grandmother sounded almost exactly like the niece. It almost made me cry how similar she sounds! My grandmother was born in 1919 in Rhode Island. People from that generation had amazing memories!
@@BearingMySeoul they do! I’ve done genealogy for years now and everything I’ve found about her and her family is in my notes from the stories she told me when I first became interested. So even though I can’t document her dad considered buying a property on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, I believe it.
Awsome. My great grandfather told me stories about his life. He bought his home in 1903 in San Francisco for $3,000. I lived there for a brief time and happy he was alive to see the birth of my son. He helped build the Bay Bridge
@@tinaahl4597 that is awesome! A few years ago, my uncle was telling me he used to hike up to a place and watch them build the bay bridge when he was a kid! His dad, my grandfather, grew up in San Francisco until the earthquake in 1906. They stayed in tents for a while, but eventually moved over to Oakland and then Berkeley. When my grandparents married in 1919 they lived in Oakland, their whole lives together.
She starts off by giving thanks to our heavenly father ,priceless
AMEN!!!!!!!
That's what I was going to say!! God bless her!@@7michael7getachew7
Really remarkable to have someone tell us memories of their life from the 1880s- 140 years ago. This makes that era come alive.
I love how she described her shoes and clothes. Embroidered undergarments, button up shoes, beaver trimmed coat from New York. And her embarrassment at school when her brother said the word “belly” during his little poem and that she couldn’t go back after that. So innocent.
I know, soooo sweet.
Could you Imagine if they could see todays youth 🙈
While her father had attempted to introduce slavery to California, apparently.
It's hard for us to grasp that in the past folks' values were different, rather than better or worse. Folk just had a different worldview.
In future folk might be puzzled that we can be picky about trying to pay women the same wage as men, for the same work, yet (with information freely accessible online) happily buy goods made in Chinese sweatshops or expect people in developing countries to live on 1/50 of what we pay either men OR women here.
@louisehogg8472 Why do you decide he tried to introduce slavery to California? Confederate soldiers weren't trying to spread slavery to the free states. 🙄
Now THIS is class. I'm 74 years old and remember knowing people like this lady ... and I miss those times very much.
The only old people i ever met (i’m 33) spoke in that hollywood 1950’s accent like lucille ball. This accent sounds kind of british and american
This is amazing! Thank you for posting it.
Hearing her speak, like I’m sitting beside her on my porch while the breeze blows, brings joy to my heart and mind. I had a neighbor who passed away about six years ago in his mid-nineties. We would frequently sit on the porch and eat a popsicle while he reminisced about his life. They were some of the most unexpectedly magical times-me in my late teens/early twenties and him in his nineties…I could feel the wisdom thick in the air during those times and I gleaned all I could. His nickname that he’d had his entire life was Boots. He was one of 18 children born to the same momma and daddy and still had just under half of his siblings living. They had breakfast dates every week and enjoyed being with one another so much. Siblings are unique in that, while some aspects may vary, siblings are the only people who experienced life like you did. Boots told me about his quitting school at eight years old to go and cut timber to help support his family. He lied about his age and joined the army at just 16 years old. Married and had children, who had children, who then had children. He’d seen it all and done it all and loved his life, speaking to me about the goodness of God while the sun shone and the trees danced. I would love to go back and listen to him again. Our elders have so much to teach us.
How wonderful you had these experiences with Boots. And I am so glad you were so receptive to those chats. I've been an elder care LPN for 33 years and love to speak and share memories with them
This was so special
Thank you for sharing Boots with us.
Mrs. Collins remembers so much! She is really a hoot! A wonderful storyteller. What a time to be alive and to have your father the mayor. She had many privileges I'm sure her peers didn't have. She really loved her little brother. What a sweet woman! Thank you for letting us hear about the good ole days! ❤
I am sure that any modern person who went into the past she is speaking about would miss very many things we have today. Most houses were still lit by open flame, telephones were rare and of course flying across country would be impossible for half a century -- driving across country took weeks until the highway system of the 1950s.
@@animalntelligence3170 Not to mention the lack of indoor plumbing and outhouses. We may have car pollution but horse manure everywhere is worse.
@@Lazcomeforth Well according to her it smelled much better in her day lol I think things just smelled different for her. I'm sure if you grew up with no plumbing, less showers and clothes changes, etc. one would be accustomed to the smell and what came later would be bad. Maybe we are too accustomed to the smell of smog and pollution that we hardly notice it.
What great stories and lovely storytelling.
So amazing. This recording inspired me to ask my mother, born in the 1930's to record her, and then my father's history. She lived through the times when wood burning stoves were still common, the end of the depression, WW2, and the developments since. The grand and great-grandchildren would love it.
This inspires me to also record my grandma who was born in the 1930s too and lived through the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression and famine. The first time she saw a lightbulb was when she was 19.
Wow, what a great memory this woman has! Loved listening to this. Some of my family history is out of L.A. Glad I came across this!
The way she spoke w such love & adoration for her baby brother made me sad in the best way. I wonder how Pembroke passed away, she spoke of him in the past tense. These type of recordings are priceless. ❤
Yes-that was so sweet of how she spoke of her little brother. ❤
Pembroke...he lived on in her heart...🌹
@@miapdx503And now he lives in ours ☺️
This recording have an infinite value. It's a true time machine. Thank you for uploading it!
What a brilliant recording ❤
This was absolutely wonderful to listen to. Her retelling her memories really paint a picture. Plus her diction & general speech are so sweet. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Her recall of memories in such detail decades later is phenomenal!
I'm 6th generation Californian & I loved this. I wish we'd recorded family members recollections of early California
I CAN'T WAIT FOR PART II!!!!! This was so fun to listen to.
Thank you so much for this! I grew up here in LA area, and lived in DTLA many years ago before the gentrification. This nice lady was able to capture much of the great history of LA. As a Chinese American... I always wondered how the cultural interaction was for Chinese during the 1800s, as 3rd and Main is less than a mile from present-day Chinatown. She was able to tell some stories. That was awesome. Her home is now a present-day I believe a LA department building, but around 2006 when I was living in Downtown LA. There were some buildings before the tore down. One specific building was I believe the Marilyn Higgins Gallery??? They had a piano in there on the top floor. When you pressed the patterns, the piano opens up to a stairwell downstairs. It was an underground speakeasy bar. If you stand south facing Los Angeles Street...you will see the Avocado trees, and you face north thats Bunker Hill. Thats the railways shes talking about.
This was delightful! Imagine being this advanced in years, and remembering how 'precious' you were as a child
I loved this! Even pulled up an 1888 map of LA to follow along. I was born there less than 80 years later. 2 years after she recorded this. She hates the growth of LA in 1964 and feels it’s pristine quality is gone. When I think back to my childhood, I also think of LA as prettier, more lovely too. You could actually see orange trees everywhere back then. My earliest childhood memories are of the orange trees and the amazing bright orange sunsets. If only we could turn back time.
The 1880s were a horrible time to be alive.
@@unknownkingdom I was around back then, and I agree.
@@unknownkingdom not for us..kniguaros have taken it over now and it's garbage. Stay in your sty and stay out of our beautiful towns.
@@unknownkingdomYes, for everyone except for the rich.
I'm about the same age as you are. I mostly lived rural or suburban.
The night skies looked different in the 1970s - more starry and bright. Less air and light pollution I guess, although I'm biased, living out side of a city. I still live rural, and the skies don't look the same.
Also, there were more bugs, I think, so many that they'd die on our skin covered in bug repellent, and the bugs would ruin car's paint jobs.
And, wild fruit like blackberries ripened much later in the summer.
I love that she mentions her grandchildren listening to this. She couldn't imagine something like RUclips. And how so many will listen and enjoy her mom.
This is so wonderful to listen to; reminds me of the beautiful stories my grandmother used to tell. She was born in the 20s and was a proud first generation American. My deepest regret is not recording her...we foolishly thought we would have more time with her. Thank you for sharing!
Our elders are walking history books. The true unaltered history. I had the luxury of knowing my great grandmother who passed away in my 20s. She lived to be 93. Her sister lived to be 98. My daughter ended up being her only great great grand baby that she got to meet. ❤
AND…. They are telling us the truth. We really should not believe the stuff, who the heck is telling us about history. It is well known that governments and groups try to rewrite history
Don't think it's true. What's the proof
@@miyamoto900How is this unbelievable?? All of my children have met all of their great-grandmothers. Some of my cousins' children got to meet their great-great-grandmother. When you've got good genes and have babies in your prime childbearing years (like we are meant to...ah, science!), this happens.
@@miyamoto900 - When you live long enough, you realize what's bullshit & what's truth - especially with regards on who stands to profit politically or financially from a given situation.
Wonderful .....listening and living in the past for awhile.
My dad was born in 1911 and his father was born one year after the end of the civil war. One thing I remember my dad telling me and whether it's true or not I have no way of knowing. He said his dad told him when he was a kid people didn't carry around guns everywhere when they were in public. He also said that the "bad guys" generally didn't have any face-to-face shootout, they usually got shot in the back when people got fed up with their bad behavior.
Every area was different.
A lot of people think tv and movies are factual
True. The other is Hollywood fantasy.
My G-G Grandfather was sheriff of Canadian County, Oklahoma Territory in the 1890's. He had jurisdiction over the lands of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, the Darlington Agency, and Fort Reno. Things were much more violent there at the time, and his goal was trying to keep people from wearing their guns everywhere...even to church. Nobody felt safe without them. Not only the Indians, but those who would illegally trade with them. Then the itinerant outlaws passing through. If you're ever in Yukon Oklahoma, go to the main cemetery across from the old Yukon High School. It was built literally as a boot hill cemetery along the Chisolm Trail. You'll find plenty of people buried there who were murdered during that period. My family who lived there had the last name of Shacklett, and there's plenty of stories about them. One is of Stonewall Shacklett, who was framed for a murder at a post office. The point I'm trying to make is, some places weren't nearly as safe as your grandfather's area.
He was telling the truth. The wild west us pretty much dime store novel myth. Most cities and towns had strict gun laws. No open carry and if you were just visiting, the local sheriff made you turn in side arms till you left
This was a bit before my grandmother’s generation (sometimes called the Lost Generation) & they all still astound me. They went from this to an age of computers and space travel. They lost husbands and then sons in two world wars. Struggled through Spanish flu and polio epidemics & the Great Depression. Others also suffered under the terror of Jim Crow. My Grandma was a woman of few words. Very little could impress her. As I enter my 60’s, I truly begin to understand why.
Amen
Awomen!
Me too. 63 now, it goes so fast. My 4 grand parents were born from 1890 to 1910. I too am amazed what they had to live, the wars, depression.
They were not the lost generation. The lost generation consisted of the young adults that came of age during WW1. She was a member of the generation before the Lost Generation. The children of the Gilded Age
Exactly. I think of my grandmother, born in 1896, less than 8 years before the Wright brothers flew their plane at Kitty Hawk. Fast forward 73 years, and I sat with her watching men walk on the moon. Amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing. Love this so much!
This is such a treasure. I hope people will listen to this and appreciate this amazing womans recollection of United States history. Thank you for documenting this on RUclips.
Her CORRECT vocabulary, her PROPER diction, is spellbinding. People seemed to speak differently now compared with how she sounds.
She's just enchanting.
You never hear mothers telling their children to 'speak clearly and distinctly'
People now speak like degenerate uneducated animals. I don’t even know what people are talking about half the time, because they are either mumbling, or making up words that totally don’t exist. Unfortunately, this is what happens when the unions get involved, the federal government gets involved, and even the state government. They dumb everyone down, and the more of a degenerate you are, the more you are praised.
@@deborahdean8867In general, no. Some, however, do.
I wish I knew elderly people like the woman from this video. Today's elderly are bumbling fools who believe all the nonsense they read online on fb or hear from Tucker and most of them have no good stories to tell either.
People today have no idea how to behave and are losing their soul. Back then God was important. Society is losing this.
And she spoke so clearly too, with excellent elocution & attention to detail. Every word she speaks ( or spoke ) is beautifully articulated and enunciated
Delightful, thank you. She had a lovely speaking voice, I could listen to her for hours.
I could listen to her for hours! She is such a wonderful storyteller.
What a lovely voice Mrs Collins had! So descriptive and detailed! I would love to hear more! That was recorded a year before I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Culver City. Her love for Penbrook really shone through in her voice! What a sweet woman she was! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for this. I was raised by my grandmother and, until I was 13, my great-grandmother, who was born in 1896. I was so lucky to have been able to grow up in the care of those two ladies, and this takes me back to my great-grandmother telling me stories of her life. What I wouldn't give to hear their voices and stories again.