1929 Interviews With Elderly People Throughout The US

A 1929 Film interviewing various Senior Citizens of the era.

[@nicklespale22]

those first people on camera acted like they were talking to the whole world. little did they know they'd be talking to the whole world.

[@ninja1676]

They already knew they were talking to the world.

[@lufsolitaire5351]

They were hoping and perhaps even knew it would be preserved for posterity, and they were right.

[@imnotdcijlkash4834]

If they acted like they were talking to the whole world, then they did?

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

Every time an elder passes away an entire library of unique stories is lost. Talk to your grandparents. Learn their lives. Pass on their stories.

[@MrUnkownUnknown]

People should talk to people in general. More interviews should be done with them.

[@truth2powermillions400]

That's one of my favorite African proverbs

[@Erode-karan]

I too think the same. An unwritten Big chapter came an end.😢

[@erikrost22]

"talk to your grandparents" that hit me man...

[@kaiammons7690]

A lot of grandparents don’t care to share stores. The new age is going to be wild, we will have stories

[@Tr1Hard777]

He was born before the train. Let that sink in.

[@supersober-786]

I know, And his parents lived in the napoleonic era

[@lionnelskyfn8295]

So he was born on the 21st February 1804

[@margaretgaby2356]

Before the train and after the rise of the car.

[@almighty5839]

God that just blows my mind imagine living during those times had to take a wagon and cities were barely a thing really scary how it seem it was long ago but in reality is so recent

[@Crumbcat4life]

Dang

[@suhani551]

Imagine being born before the industrial revolution and seeing everything change through your eyes.

[@jothepro1013]

@Real Human Bean I feel like this one will be much crazier

[@yourarseismine1016]

Mobile phones have forever changed the way humans function and interact.

[@MichaelJ44]

We’re living in the Technologic revolution. 50 years from now we’ll be saying “Remember human pilots and cashiers?”

[@tripwall]

If you were born after 1980 youre going to see a lot of things change too

[@ninja1676]

@@jothepro1013 Every industrial revolutions would be bigger than the other.

[@CM13051]

My great great aunt passed away last year at the age of 110. She was born before the Titanic sank, both World Wars, the great Depression, and was born before JFK. She started working at the age of 8, never learned to read, and ran away from home after my Great-Great Grandfather didnt approve of her husband. She had her memory and all to the end and had many stories about watching the world go from tiny towns into Metropolis' and mankind going into space. Never underestimate someone by their age and take interest in your elders.

[@boostedls24]

Wouldn’t it be your great great great grandfather ? Who would be your great great aunt’s father ?

[@miscellania4263]

I hope you recorded her amazing stories

[@idiotic1021]

@@boostedls24 yes your great great aunt’s father would be your great great great grandfather.

[@MrArdhazz]

Yeah? Yes? I don't care!

[@ishmam84]

@@MrArdhazz Then don't comment. We care even less about your comment

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

One man said he was born in 1829! 100 years before the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 that sent the world into the great Depression.. insane!

[@andrewb4999]

1829 would mean he was born three years after the year John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died.

[@MichaelJ44]

@@andrewb4999 Source?

[@jamesmattox6890]

there were other depressions and such before 1929

[@ryantaylor3917]

Also means that she was born nearly 200 years ago! Crazy thought.

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

1829, the man was born merely 8 years after Napoleon died

[@L3a98]

I’m so blessed my grandmother lived to 99 years of age. She was born in 1912 and passed away 2011. She spoke of her memories of the 1918 epidemic and WWII.

[@kakashi101able]

If you could, please share some of her stories. Thank you 😊

[@libertylady1952]

Write down for your grandchildren her stories.

[@ShowginTV]

7:27 You know someone was born a long time ago when he was a former member of the Whig Party.

[@Ejexion]

DUDE! That gave me the chills. The politically "yellow" is what I've always aligned with most: minimal government intervention, and a free market. That's real freedom. Sadly, the politically green and yellow are forever destined to succumb to the authoritarian red and blue, respectively.

[@TWhite94]

Sitting here, watching this, thinking about how these people had absolutely no idea that in nearly 100 years there’d be videos of them that’d would be stored on the internet for people to watch on their phones, a concept they’d have no way of even comprehending.

[@terencemckennabitch8580]

Makes you realize your life isn't that long

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

Even 100 years isnt long in the grand scheme of things.. the universe is 13,800,000,000 years old.. the earth is 4,600,000,000 years old.. humans have been around only for roughly 200,000 years, if that.. a single human life is 100 years (or there abouts) if that human is lucky. Of course short.

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

if it wasnt, life would lose some of its beauty.

[@Jen-jd3ci]

@Nicholas Jevon we will not enjoy the moments if we lived forever. That's why we should remind ourselves daily to enjoy as one morning will be our last. Amen!

[@lodii7246]

Don’t know man 16 years felt really long for me

[@YoSoyUu]

@@lodii7246 I’m 16 as well, and as you get older the years go faster.

[@manuhernz2745]

Funny to think we are now living in the 20's also.

[@aleksthegreat4130]

The old man at 6.37 and after,born in 1826,spoke about his father and grandfather,his grandfather was probably born before the Declaration of Independence(1776) and he saw him,he was 11 years old when the great Russian poet,Alexander Pushkin was killed(1837),amazing.

[@user-wf5vn7iz2k]

As a Russian, I’m glad you brought it up since the comment made me realize HOW old they are. Gosh, it is incredible…

[@johnh.mcsaxx3637]

And he was born the year Thomas Jefferson died.

[@Hey_its_Koda]

They dont sound their age. They all seem very clear and aware. Todays elderly seem different. Why is that?

[@jobyd2000]

I'm purely speculating, but I'll offer a theory. There are many, many more people alive over 80 today than there were in the 1920s. It's likely that those that were able to get out and about were the mentally and physically fittest of the fit. Today, with modern medicine, people who would be too feeble or sick to live or travel can live more normal lives, even if they seem less clear sometimes.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

Because back then, the elderly who couldn’t get out and about died sooner. Remember, the average lifespan at this point in time was in the 50s, so everyone in this video is quite exceptional.

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 58.8 years. But that was because there wasnt vaccines yet for things like t.b. and a lot of people still relied on prayer to break fevers and nonsense like that. Also infant deaths and women dying in child birth happened often. Germ theory wasnt entirely accepted as fact, so disease spread like wildfire. But if you made it through these things, odds are you lived just as long as people do today.

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 you have to think.. less people died in freak accidents like automobile wrecks or being ran over, dying in a skydiving accident, etc. Every time period has its share of problems.

[@junkermans5836]

Ninja k people at that time were better educated and talked more intelligent.

[@goaheadmakemyday7126]

The 94 year old man at 2:24 was born perhaps in 1835. To put that in perspective, James Madison, one of the founding fathers, died in 1836. Some of the older people who are 100+ might have even been alive when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were frail old men.

[@jojo-xk8ri]

makes you realize the founding of america wasnt really that long ago

[@Rhovanion85]

@@jojo-xk8ri Compared to the age of the universe it happend less than a fraction of a second ago.

[@JohnnyReb]

Trying to figure out who those two gentlemen were.

[@boostedls24]

It is extremely unlikely anybody here was alive when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were alive, one would have needed to be born in 1826 or prior

[@goaheadmakemyday7126]

@@boostedls24 Actually when I checked it now I noticed I made a mistake when I mentioned Jefferson and Madison. Someone born 100 years before this film would've been born in 1829, not 1826. I manged to get those two years mixed up somehow

[@lamujermaslinda]

They had more of a social life than I do

[@Th3Jac0b]

That's main problem of our times.

[@MichaelJ44]

Source?

[@lamujermaslinda]

@@MichaelJ44 a source for what?you want to know how many people I interact with?

[@ninja1676]

@@Th3Jac0b It's not their fault it's our fault.

[@Th3Jac0b]

@@ninja1676 Who said that this is their fault?

[@nirbhayshastry6534]

Me watching 100 years old men 100 years later on a small screen.

[@ProblematicBitch]

100 years from now they will watch you in their past simulator machine

[@nirbhayshastry6534]

@@ProblematicBitch yeah

[@dylanjohnson4624]

@@ProblematicBitch 100 years from now people will be reading both of our comments and thinking about how we both have passed by now.

[@oustandingsitter6106]

Watching a video about the past, while theyre talking about their past. Cool.

[@reclusivehermitwithalongbu3767]

That first man in the top hat with the huge moustache and sidewhiskers is amazing. These folks were born before the Civil War

[@chenzenzo]

"I don't worry about the future. I'm going to live as long as I can as long as I am happy."❤️

[@andrewscott8673]

Really puts into perspective hoe young the US is as a country. People born at the time this was filmed are younger now than some of the subjects were then, and these people remembered such events as the Trail of Tears and the decline of the Whig Party. These people witnessed the railroad being a new transportation technology and the airplane being a new transportation technology.

[@exodus6996]

most of us couldn’t imagine what it was like 200 years ago, although some of us have already lived a quarter of that time (50yrs) the US isn’t even 250 yrs old yet😅

[@Mezza-ld3bq]

My cousins grandmother turned 104 this year unbelievable 😳

[@manuhernz2745]

Amazing how healthy and sharp their minds are. They move around and look like people in their 60's today. The food they ate was all organic and life was much less stressful

[@walterthecat2145]

The life expectancy in 1929 was like 60 so

[@Angel-pg6uf]

I was thinking the same thing, they remember small datails like dates. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast today.

[@alianamanzana2452]

@@Angel-pg6ufbecause we eat junk food

[@blah7983]

It’s mostly survivorship bias. Not the only cause, but it’s a key player They had far inferior medical care. Pretty much all cancer survivors. Young kids with pneumonia. Infections in general, especially for diseases we now vaccinate for. All those people back then just died. So in the modern day, you have a higher percentage of disabled/weaker immune system people who tend to deteriorate sooner. We’re also better at keeping people alive in old-age, almost scarily so. Also the US is generally a safer place now than it was then. When those guys were growing up, their bread likely had chalk added! All kinds of preservatives and medicine additives are illegal now. Modern food and drug companies have to keep a paper trail the size of Timbuktu. Another huge part is the amount of . Nursing homes cut your life expectancy unless the elder is already at hospice stage. Being able to stay active within your family and community is integral to your motivation to live in general, which actually heavily impacts life expectancy. I agree the junk food isn’t helping, but it’s really not the pesticides or wax in nonorganic food having that massive impact

[@tiffanye9403]

My grandma Norma rose was born March 29,1929. She lived a hard but wonderful life and passed away sadly in 2014 of lung cancer never touched a cig in her life.

[@colinvanblaricom6573]

Did some research. This was made in 1929 and: - Lydia died two years later in 1931 at 102 - Daniel died 11 years later in 1940 at 89 - Galusha died two years later in 1931 at 93 (he was actually 92 in this video) - Rebecca died less than a year after this at 95 - John died three years later in 1932 at 102 - John died 11 years later in 1940 at 70 (he must've only been 59 in this video)

[@BlunderB]

Great info!

[@adankmeme651]

Rip

[@lufsolitaire5351]

Who was that humorous gentleman with the most fashionable facial hair and top hat? Also who were those ex-confederate guerrillas that fought at Wilson’s Creek?

[@user-hd4fm8qq9u]

Poor Rebecca

[@kassierobinson636]

Wow that man talking about being in war. He talked about the battle of Wilson’s Creek in Springfield, Mo. I live there. Crazy. Also, these people don’t even look as old as they say they are. It really makes you wonder about what we put in our bodies nowadays.

[@Asf-bj4rw]

Back then if you’re gonna make it to 90 you’d have to be in top shape or you’d be dead. Due to medicine etc we can live longer but most people can’t function and back in the day would be dead

[@Mikamichae]

@@Asf-bj4rw what’s the point in living longer if you’re just a useless vegetable

[@MsIvargas]

Well back then people grew their foods, just keep it healthy!(:

[@yourarseismine1016]

@@Asf-bj4rw They put shit in process foods to make people age like shit so people pay for “adjustments”.

[@madcat789]

Mostly stress is what gives us the wrinkles. That and all this heat.

[@gabrielfromyhr5694]

6:33 Beethoven was still alive when he was born

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

Beethoven was in the 90s! Silly

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

@Michael Loftus Beethoven 1992

[@ObviousTrollFrom2007]

And just to think that these people are nearly 200 years old. They were born around the same time that one of the oldest photographs in the world was taken, and they had grandparents that had lived during the Revolutionary War, and parents that might have been born at the very end of the 18th century. Talk about insane.

[@Brandon-bh7pj]

I think it's amazing to watch videos this old. Just takes you back thru time. It's cool just hearing and seeing how life was back then for them.

[@EmilyTienne]

I was so touched by their stories, their manners of speech. I found the retiring locomotive engineer’s story and warm good-bye especially moving.

[@alexandergreene6986]

My grandfather was born in 1879. And my grandmother in 1880. She looked like Mary Ingles from little house on the prairie in a picture from the mid-1890s. In the picture is her family, with her grandmother dressed in black and holding a bible in her lap. I am now 61 years old, but it's kinda strange knowing you met people born in this century. My dad once asked his father about the good old days, he replied, the only good thing about the good old days is that there gone. Enough said.

[@raspberrypi2430]

2:30 I like how he touches his friends hand. You can tell the one on our left's starting to forget things.

[@heh.9166]

Try to imagine this in colors & with good sound quality, it’s a glimpse in a whole other era. Magical.

[@mozambique9113]

Possible with AI. People let AI recolor the film all the times. Such as 1900s berlin one on youtube.

[@Stiff_Richards]

This is great, everyone was skinny and had manners. God bless us all

[@toddsmitts]

7:29 Considering the Whig Party was effectively extinct by the time of the Civil War, it's crazy to think of someone old enough to vote for them living into the time of sound with film.

[@matthewstuckenbruck5834]

Yep. Not only that, but he was old enough to vote for Henry Clay when Texas was being annexed.

[@hawkfeather6802]

My great grandma was born in 1925 and died last year at 97. She had a few stories about her life from back then written down. Like going to school in a horse and buggy and girls only being allowed to wear dresses and skirts. These people look and sound like they would be interesting to talk with. Probably had lots of cool stories to tell.

[@TaiganTundra]

She was a little toddler when these people were on their last years of life.

[@Regnbuesolv]

I love the train engineer towards the end!

[@dr.sujitgharaimd9477]

Me too

[@Jimbo8012]

The crazy thing about this KZbin video is that my grandparents would have been between the ages of 5 and 15 when this was recorded. I can't believe I'm now 40 and the last grandparent of mine died 15 years ago. It's nuts how fast life passes by.

[@willow_rayne6678]

I was in the healthcare field before my osteoarthritis caused me to have to quit working. I just turned 35, and already we've lived through a lot. I took care of so many elderly people that had the most amazing stories to tell me about their lives and the past. I LOVE history, and I'd be given the real, and raw, details that you aren't told about in the history books. One woman I took care of had dementia. She hardly ever spoke.. One day, we were watching Pearl Harbor and all of a sudden she started talking about where she was, what was happening, etc. Turns out, she was there that day and took care of people who were hurt. I'd had another woman who told me so many stories. Once they're gone, those stories are gone. The real stories, not the convoluted crap that schools try to censor and teach you.

[@solitaryhermitmonk6843]

I particularly enjoy seeing the old men with big whiskers

[@jackmcd277]

10:03 that’s an incredibly powerful thing to hear

[@SpeedyWings2323]

She’s speaking in a trans Atlantic accent

[@MainaGakere]

This video is mind-blowing. Historic Vids on twitter brought me here.

[@Jen-lg4hp]

God bless all of these souls! RIP!

[@Wxtst.3]

Great video. But please give credit to the original poster of this footage (Guy Jones) who edited, remastered and polished this footage so we as viewers could watch it with ease. It’s not easy to do so giving credit where it’s due would be greatly appreciated.

[@jonathantrego]

Good Evening, please give me the link and I will share it in the description. I do not mean to steal credit, I use my channel to store archive footage from various sources for my own use (I don't monetize my channel), I am not trying to take away from anyone. I don't even remember where this was from. If they wish me to take it down or make it private I will happily do that as well. My intention is not to offend. As you can tell my channel is a hodgepodge of various historical footages (mostly from public archives). I am honestly surprised that I even have a video with 8k views lol..... I mostly use my account to store videos that either interest me, I need to refer to for projects, or in some cases that I just enjoy.

[@politecat4236]

@@jonathantrego what an eloquent response

[@user-cr2bt3zp1f]

Jonathan Trego This video and several others were unjustly taken down by the University of South Carolina, that’s why it’s no longer on his channel. It’s wonderful that this footage is still available.

[@docgray1013]

@@user-cr2bt3zp1f yes...they sure we're last year I left them a rant on their youtube channel about it. What kind of dumbass university does such a thing? Well south Carolina that's who.

[@mohaelorgulloso1576]

@@docgray1013 and why did they do such a thing?

[@madelineflorio8460]

100 yr old birthday girl is waltzing like a leaf in wind god bless her

[@alexarrison8560]

Rest in Peace to these folk

[@the_vainful_dead]

Except the old lady senator(Rebecca I believe) horrible slave owner and advocated for lynching But for the rest absolutely rest in peace

[@alianamanzana2452]

@@the_vainful_deadlOl shut the fuck up…. That was normal to them back then 🥱

[@datrevmeister]

At 7:35 I never thought I’d hear the voice of a Whig Party member!!!!! This is outrageous!! 7:59 “I dont worry about the future” Wise words that I will now live by.

[@jeffmercer3891]

These are priceless. I’m in total awe

[@EdouardPicard0224]

My grandmother was about 7 years old during this. Crazy!

[@angb4329]

I look like these people. But my heart is with those who suffered injustices while these lived without worry.

[@instamillionarecockblocker3146]

🥺❤️

[@dr.sujitgharaimd9477]

One of the best video in youtube.

[@JohnnyReb]

1:34 Trying to figure out who those two men were. The first one served under Colonel Walter S. O'Kane (then a captain as he said) with O'Kane's Battalion Missouri State Guard.

[@lukaskomann3433]

This makes me realize how similar we are, even 100 years apart. Sometimes I imagine people acting and talking completely different than we do, but that‘s just rarely the case it seems.

[@vegasgirl3538]

The thing that strikes me most is you can still hear traces of a British accent in their speech.

[@lufsolitaire5351]

That’s the fascinating thing, you can still hear their vintage Received Pronunciation/Mid-Atlantic accent most Americans would of had at the time. Mid-Atlantic was much more turn of the century but in some parts near the coast like in Newfoundland, parts of MA, ME you can hear the original original Anglo-Celtic accent of the late 1700s/early 1800s. Kind of a shame schools stopped teaching it, sounds much more elegant than modern American English vernacular and elocution.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@lufsolitaire5351 when’s the last time they were spoken would love to hear the footage

[@lufsolitaire5351]

@@balloon1104 you must of missed the 2nd half where I put that the mid-Atlantic was more turn of the century, obviously younger than what these people are clearly speaking is an older accent than that. Read better and it will spare you the dissertation.

[@ScotchIrishHoundsman]

100 years old in 1929… man that woman lived through it. Gah Lee I’d have loved to have lived in her lifetime.

[@samayolantaka]

This footage never cease to amaze me.

[@ramik81]

How is that one guy whistling when he talks? That was a trip.

[@comfym3850]

2:04 "old fashioned" horse pistol..imagine what was considered old fashioned to a man in say 1860-something

[@hypn0298]

It was probably a flintlock pistol.

[@JohnnyReb]

@@hypn0298 You're right. Especially at that point in the war (1861) in Missouri you used whatever weapon you could. Some of the militia units even used pikes!

[@musicloverlondon6070]

Perhaps a blunderbuss! 😊

[@ninja1676]

Depend on your age, these people could be your great grandparents’s great grandparents or just grandparents of your great grandparents.

[@fernandodiaz4166]

A world without social media and much more natural , that’s why they aged but kept their mind aware and clear

[@toddsmitts]

Generations that grew up with social media haven't had the chance to get this old yet, so your assessment is a bit premature.

[@SirensOfFire]

If I'd been born 100 years prior, under the same strain I went through at age 10, I would have successfully ended my life and been unable to live long enough to show "lack of mental clarity" as an adult. People love to blame social media for everything

[@makerkandike9810]

These videos are so fascinating! I love them.

[@samambler3809]

I absolutely love this. I'm so nostalgic for a time I've never lived in, in fact, it seems so far removed it's almost a guarantee we will never see it's like again. I'm 24 and wish everyday i had lived among these wonderful people in that wonderful simple time.

[@thatgirlshae6913]

I don’t . I’m black. I’m sure you don’t need any further information of why I’m glad I wasn’t alive then

[@samambler3809]

@@thatgirlshae6913 cool chalk up an entire generation of people who fought for the freedom you have to say what you want to just "racists" that's alot easier than acknowledging that without these people none of us would be here. White or black.

[@thatgirlshae6913]

@@samambler3809 you know how black people were treated back then. Most whites did not treat blacks like human beings. So sure. I’m a “racist” for not wanting to live at a time where I would be beat or lynched just because of the color of my skin😒

[@nightsky3304]

​@@thatgirlshae6913 the Rebecca in this video is a white supremacists and slave owner I think these are bunch of racist old people 🤮 only white people want to live in that era lol

[@redsoup2584]

@@thatgirlshae6913 What about the 20's in Africa? Segregation in some countries prob, but not as bad as some western countries.

[@arthurwatt5162]

Just amazing. Information here is invaluable.

[@jacintatate]

This is amazing footage, Really takes you back to their time .

[@dLw920]

1929 was near 100 yrs ago, This video was before my grandparents even were alive. And now were watching them on our phones.

[@Munozs95]

Priceless.

[@firemonkey1015]

Just seeing how respectful everyone is and how kind everyone is to one another. It’s very strange to see

[@BrandonM10]

That old lady clearly wasn’t respectful and kind to her slaves…

[@firemonkey1015]

@@BrandonM10 How do you know that? It’s a foreign concept today to think about but not everyone who owned them treated them like dirt.

[@BrandonM10]

@@firemonkey1015 If you are “owning” another human being, and not setting them free, then by definition, you are treating them like dirt. You can’t treat someone “nice” if you’re holding them in captivity. If someone kidnapped your child, are you going to care that they fed them, gave them a bed, a room, and nice clothes? No! That man kidnapped your child and deserves to go to prison. It’s crazy how you can look at a lady who formerly owned slaves and call her “respectful” and “kind”. That woman is evil, and is probably burning in hell as we speak.

[@firemonkey1015]

@@BrandonM10 You’re ridiculous. Everyone, every race and continent owned slaves at the time. Is every generation prior to a little over 200 years ago, in hell?

[@firemonkey1015]

@@BrandonM10 That was completely normal at the time. Every continent “owned” people. Didn’t matter what race or where you came from, everyone did it. You’re arguing that everyone past a little over 200 years ago, was evil.

[@michaelweller2114]

You have been seen. And you have been heard. Amazing.

[@emimfgael]

There is so much to be learned from their experiences, just wow

[@aimanmarzuqi4804]

To think that some of these people probably had parents who participated in the civil war or at least was a child during the civil war was crazy. The Civil War felt like such a long time ago but in hindsight its actually a lot closer to our time period than we think

[@jonathantrego]

Some of them were in the U.S. Civil War. There will still Civil War veterans alive into the 1950s. It’s closer than many of us younger people realize. During WWI-WWII era Civil War veterans were like the WWI and WWII veterans of the early 2000s-2010s (I think around 2011 is when the last verified WWI veteran passed), though they were very rare even before that for many years. Now we are getting to a point where WWII veterans are becoming rare.

[@ForkInToaster-mi6mo]

My grandma wasn’t even born when this was recorded. She’s now 88! It’s crazy how fast time flies and how short life is. Beautiful video!

[@xlnc4737]

July 1829 that is incredible!

[@greggp9555]

all i can say is WOW! Such History and reminder that time is both fleeting a relative

[@u.sdepartmentofthetreasury6561]

This is actually a very important piece of evidence for history in my opinion. Truly amazing what humans can achieve during time!! 👌🏻

[@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694]

These 80-95 year old people look like today’s 60-75 year old people today. No junk food, no sugar, no stress, no air pollution..

[@skysetblue9578]

Their Stress was very different lots of hard work if they were common or farmer people (but not complicated like today)but no modern medicine, or processed junk

[@SuperPickle15]

there were plenty of air pollution...

[@WonkelDee]

The camera quality covers up most of the wrinkles and whatnot

[@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694]

@@WonkelDee They sound much younger than people their age today.

[@WonkelDee]

@@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 This is due to a number of factors. The biggest one being that there were way less elderly back then, so the ones who did live to old age were more genetically gifted. Older mics also seem to make voices sound higher pitched. Even so, most of the elderly people I’ve met are still very lucid and talk very well

[@smokey4664]

amazing how time changes

[@mish8753]

I love watching these videos, it's so odd thinking about the passage of time, these people weren't alive all too long ago but things are so different, yet they really are just like people today.

[@jaredp731]

Amazing. What they all got to see during The Guilded Age

[@MissBillieBadass]

Wow. This is an incredible video.

[@sperez95814]

This is amazing

[@madelineflorio8460]

oh what a sweet note to end on

[@jackierowe380]

Mind blowing when you think really amazing

[@xav3436]

4:25 | This amazing woman was born in 1829. That means James Madison, one of the founding fathers, lived for 7 years while she was alive. Queen Victoria, Louis Pasteur, Louis Vuitton, Phineas Gage, and Florence Nightingale were only about 5-10 years older than her. She was in her 20s when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, so she fully understood its significance and probably remembered the headlines. She was nearly 10 years older than Adolf Hitler's father, and her great grandparents could've lived in the 1600s. And here she is dancing with a man.

[@lllllllllllllll534]

And then it was indecent for a woman to dance with a man?

[@xav3436]

@@lllllllllllllll534 No. I only mentioned it because I was emphasising how miraculous it is that this woman, who has witnessed SO much history, is videoed dancing, like any normal woman.

[@uneyedentified2017]

Fascinating

[@barto7536]

God bless these people 😇

[@LeMusica]

That is really interesting to look at i think the guy whos was 103 is the older person i ever will see and hear books doesnt count :D he born at 1826 what the fuck 7 more years and hes be 200years from this world :D

[@seedo4562]

Le Musica - Good Vibes Only that’s crazy! His grandparents were most likely born before the U.S. became independent.

[@shehannanayakkara4162]

He was born when Beethoven was still alive. Also he was born closer to Galileo's lifetime than today (Galileo died in 1642, 1826-1642 = 184 years)

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

Some of them might have been born in 1700s

[@shehannanayakkara4162]

@@cliffsofmoher4220 Unlikely as they'd have to be at least 130 years old. But they definitely would've known people born in the 1700s as they were growing up. Andrew Jackson was president when the oldest guy in this video was 3 years old until he was 11 (from 1829 to 1837), and Jackson was born in 1767. James Buchanan, who was born in 1791, left the presidency in 1861 when the guy in the video was 35 years old.

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

@@shehannanayakkara4162 when did the last person from the 1700s die

[@ElTimotoQIK]

3:36 she was born in 1829...

[@kevin-cx3ro]

This proves that all humans in different eras are still the same.

[@gregoryhenderson2640]

That was awesome!

[@ludicrousmodel3173]

2:11 Wow, he'd be 188 years old now!

[@deanaldham3043]

Fascinating stuff

[@kronikzblehtcgs3303]

This is a piece of history

[@ThroughVision]

Elderly people are soo nice.

[@fleshwound5149]

Lady at 9 minutes even predated the land clearing..

[@benjaminrojas3166]

I'll never make it old age but learned alot from them dead soon thanks

[@dick-diddling-bandit]

incredible how they talked is identical to ours.

[@outofbody6797]

one thing sticks out, THESE ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE SHARP..

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Call me crazy, but when Lydia started dancing, I started tearing up. Not sure if because I miss my Grandparent's or just simply seeing something like this and makes me worry that when our generation makes it to our elderly years, that we won't be acting like this; can't really explain it well.

[@hugodaniel8975]

I think we will be even happier than them because we have technologies like smart phones and social media where we can share dance

[@dannyboy4929]

@@hugodaniel8975 no bcuz elderly ppl these days are all going senial (i may have spelled that wrong). Elderly ppl these days are no where near as healthy as what ppl were 70 to 100 years ago and that's a proven fact. Bcuz of all these processed harsh foods nothing is actually that healthy anymore so our bodies arent up kept like how these elderly peoples bodies were back then. We will not be happier at all.

[@dannyboy4929]

@@hugodaniel8975 and by the time we're elderly its going to be new technologies that we dont know how to use hardly just like the elderly people these days..

[@croonyerzoonyer]

@@hugodaniel8975 wrong. Some of the happiest people on earth don’t even have electricity. Social media etc quite often makes people unhappier. These people lived in simpler calmer times. They definitely were happier.

[@AJB3]

I do know what you mean, but at the same time there are various ways back then those elderly people probably thought things were going to 'heck in a handbasket' and found certain forgotten things their own grandparents did to be nostalgic too lol.

[@Rizwan_Mir]

94 year old was born in 1835 ! Amazing!

[@margaretgaby2356]

Just think - that guy was 94 in 1929. So he was born in 1835 - his grandfather probably fought in the revolutionary war and he saw Much of the Farms develop into parks and factories (New York City). And then he saw that market crash.

[@APH1991]

His grandparents may've been born in the 1770's or 1780's. His 3x great-grandparents would've been born in the 1600's. Mental.

[@tacenda3250]

The Revolutionary War was about 60 years before that, so his father probably wasn't involved

[@burgerswithgoys9905]

Old people then had far more life in their eyes then now.

[@WTFBOOMDOOM]

1:16 His sunglasses make him look modern.