Industry on Parade 20 - 1951 February 19

This is my dad's father, my grandpa, was the butcher there at the store there in this time.

We are out of our minds

Junk from China isn’t craftsmanship! Time to start buying western made goods again

Back when yea didn’t need life jackets.

Pride in work is everything and it will show and hold up until end of time

Has a plasterer for over 40 years it was and looked as hard then as it is today real trade men 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Inflation is NOT normal!

Modern house builders are like monkeys compared to these old-time craftsmen.

Amo história

It’s Mr Sheldrake, the producer in “Sunset Boulevard”, playing Mr Burton, and driving a beautiful vintage Jaguar I might add. There’s a couple of familiar faces from classic film in this one. Pretty well done, nicely produced.

0:40 the transistor seen...being installed...has a metal case. Inside..the actual transistor was a miniature version of the first one invented in 1947...the performance characteristics were so wide...transistors had to be "paired / matched" to get best performance...this was true of SONY radios manufactured early on. I learned this stuff with KZbin channel "Asianometry"...and other similiar channels. 👍

We're really not going to say anything about the goof that was chomping gum on the phone and couldn't even be understood??!!

Now they fall apart before you pay off the house. No pride taken today building homes

And in just 2 short years my motor will come off the assembly line.

what we build today others will tear down tomorrow

Watching this movie was what it would've been like watching my grandparents (dad's parents) commissioning the construction of their dream house in 1931. The little boy in the movie could've easily been my dad as they're about the same age.

My respect for them recently we make some demo in a 1930 house and the walls were still hard

Those wheelbarrows haven't changed hardly at all in 100 years!

I want that guy's tennis shoes.

Very informative, glad I found this. Good to see the process explained with visuals.

What do they build today? Garbage that rots away for $500K.What happened to us...

я не понял что в этом доме с теплоизоляцией. Ее нет?

Remodeled a 1930s house, when I had to drill through the studs in the wall to pass wire through it. Had to upgrade to a new drill and get some some auger bits--old growth lumber is phenomenal. Was able to count 90+ growth rings on some of those 2x4s. I wished I could package up that aroma it sent through my house as well. Smelt so good.

Dang all that manual concrete work one bag at a time!

Fast forward to now when new houses are made with a boomerang shaped level

I think houses were built to last back then. Now it’s production building at enormous prices. Very sad what has happened to the American dream.

They didn't have to be done today had time to be a craftsman

I had an older gentleman neighbor once that told me that as a young boy he pounded lath on the inside of homes in Minneapolis for .75 cents a day. Later, he was a radio communications instructor for pilots heading to Europe to fight the Nazis. (Of course very few would return.) Now days no one appreciates the effort that went into putting a roof over their heads. Or for their freedoms they enjoy and abuse.

That is a true work of art,im impressed

Molten lead? Yikes 😮

hate to be the one to point it out, but most of these lads have passed on. R.I.P. to those that have.

Bet that whole house cost under 3K to build. Probably worth 800K today.

@16:13 I didn't know they had running shoes back then.

Wow. European here it’s amazing how they used to make homes of just sticks sat on concrete

Flooring guy is wearing Air Jordans.

No nail guns just the old hammer

We did the plumbing on a 1906 house in Mississippi, remodel. I went into the attic and saw the framing, amazing what they did my hand back then.

Back when a Two by four was really 2 v 4.

1928 with a 5 year old. He was born in 1923. I hope he survived WWII. The Russians lost 70% of the men born in 1923. That is what 8,000,000 dead in a few years will do to a population. As a cable TV tech for Time Warner in Austin, I have been out to Thrall and Taylor and seen some attics with rough cut 2ishx4ish, straight corner lumber. No insulation at all ever installed. They had so little power for tools back then. All tools were hand tools. I own 4 Disston hand saws made at about that time or earlier. I got them ruined and rusty. I will have to restore them sometime.

Back when a 2x 4 was 2 inches x 4 inches not 1 3/4 ext...

IOP 307.1

Wow, no plywood on the roof and no underlayment.😂 Just small shingles nail directly to rough lumber ! 😂

I had no idea they ran wires through conduit in residential back then!

Glad they invented power tools

I live in a 1920s house. In the summer, on a really hot, humid day, the most delightful smell comes out of the wood. Don't think you will experience that in a 'new build'.

Where is the asbestos?

Always wonderd why in the hell did parents of little kids look so old back then. Did they wait til middle age to have babies or what?😂

From slow grown trees

These men sure knew how to construct a building. We are still removing lead and Oakum joints from plumbing systems to this day. The joints last longer than the piping itself in most cases. Which means if the piping is not completely calcified inside or cracked or rotted through, you can still use 100 plus year old plumbing lines for waste disposal. Granted, it's totally unsafe due to its unpredictability and complete lack of seismic safety implementation (for earthquakes). But damn does it still work. I've also opened old mechanical piping systems that were 50 to 70 years old that were still using asbestos gaskets and never once leaked. It amazes me how much smarter these men were than we give them credit for. They were purposely building things to withstand the test of time. But now we build stuff that will reduce the "impact" on the earth. This stuff has to be replaced fruequently and is purposefully meant to biodegrade back down into the earth.