Everyday Objects Today vs. 100 Years Ago

[@RecollectionRoad]

Sorry about the messed up text in this video. It must have happened when it exported, so you will have to just ignore it. Thanks!

[@awesomedallastours]

It's sloppy and shows how lazy you are. Why dont you delete this version, fix it and reupload?

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Always worth your episodes.

[@brian70Cuda]

Not a big problem, knew what you meant:)

[@-Thauma-]

No problem at all ❤

[@enigmawyoming5201]

No problem about the text issue. I just considered it was a salute to how Larry, Moe and Curly would do a KZbin video. I think you did it on purpose to see how many people caught the joke.

[@Soul-cry1]

That toaster was a work of art, I love how they tried to make even the most Simplist of things for everyday use still beautiful.

[@markjulianoriginalhooli2217]

Art Deco👍

[@Soul-cry1]

​@@markjulianoriginalhooli2217 art deco was beyond amazing back then, and will always stand the test of time, although the toaster looks more art nouveau than deco.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Yes! Now, most all is just of the gross utilitarian.

[@debbylou5729]

So beautiful. And it sucked

[@oakmaiden2133]

Todays’ manufacturing is of the cheapest quality and nothing to look at. Plastic should be banned.

[@heathermichael3987]

My great grandmother was a real driver back in the 20s, We managed to know each other before she passed. Her major thing besides education was all the girls knowing how to drive and how to take care of our cars 😊

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

My father and father in law were like that, the girls had to know how to care for their cars just like the boys did.

[@nedludd7622]

Could she drive a double-clutch vehicle? Not to be confused with dual-clutch. I had a work truck from the 40's which needed double-clutching.

[@jeffreymiller1630]

Hi Heather, my grandmother was Kitty (Katy) Michael, who also was driving back in the 20s, in New York. She had several sisters. I wonder if we're related???

[@OofusTwillip]

In the 1920s, people in big cities had rotary-dialled phones. But most people lived in rural areas, where party lines (a single line shared by many homes) were common. You'd know the call was for your home if the ringing (made by the caller cranking the ringer on their phone) was the one for your home. But since it was a shared line, everyone else would pick up their receivers and listen in. Rural phone calls were also made by jiggling the hook to reach the operator, and asking her to connect you to the number you wanted to call. She'd manually connect it at a switchboard---like Ernrstine on "Laugh In".

[@sallyintucson]

Party lines were still around in the early “80’s, at least where I lived.

[@markjulianoriginalhooli2217]

I remember party lines in my small town of Fair Oaks California in 1963

[@samanthab1923]

@@sallyintucsonYou’re right. I remember reading about a town in NJ in the 80’s that was finally getting rid of their operator. Weird. My mom grew up with a party line in the city. They had a beach house with no phone.

[@woodwaker1]

My grandparents had a party line in the 1950's and 60's, many of the women would listen in on other conversations - social media of the day

[@calendarpage]

We had a party line in Washington State in the late 1950's. My parents rented a house because the Air Force base where he was assigned didn't have housing available. We also only had 2 channels on the TV.

[@fob1xxl]

We don't stop to think what it was like without these things. How wonderful all those new comforts and inventions must have been to society. We've come a long way. Too bad we take so much for granted.

[@biggatorcaesar]

your exactly right. especially when the power goes out and your left with no electricity. sadly, I have to admit I'm the worst complainer when I have to do without the basics even if it is just for a few hours.

[@berywildbrielle]

I oddly do think of this often lol. There was an Australian show about people who came back to life after centuries or decades and it was quite entertaining seeing their reactions to modern day tech. I always wonder how mind blown they’d really be lol

[@jamesmiller4184]

Problem now is that in many cases, the "conveniences" have become our rulers! In the case of handheld communicators, we (or, very many) are now it's slaves, so very dependent now as such are. In key ways, we are (or, as having been lead by the hand to it) a very stupid, foolish species.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

​@@biggatorcaesar Maybe you're simply not used to doing without. Fifteen or so years ago there was a windstorm that took out power in some southern California cities. Our power was out for three days. I am a candle person so we had plenty of light to play board games or read in the evenings. I strategized meals so that I would only need to open the refridgerator a couple of times a day. It made me think of the early 20th century when families relied on an icebox, that they may have had to strategize the same way.

[@miapdx503]

When my first child was born, my mother was just thrilled with disposable diapers. She told me about laundering, even boiling them.

[@JPee-x4you]

There's one thing many people don't realize, is that many things from the past are better than today's. Back then, things were repairable. Today, we turned into a disposable society. Things were built with quality back then. Today, in my opinion, many things are poorly made not to last very long. My favorite channel!!!!

[@sammott8557]

So true. When I bought my house, I kept the old clothes dryer it came with which is still working like a charm. No clothes washer included, so I had to buy one and another one when it quit working and again, another one and, well, yes, they don't make appliances today like they used to.

[@datatwo7405]

Absolutely and there were tons of people who specialized in such repairs. Which kept people employed and part of the growing middle class. Not anymore. Everything is set up to enrich the top 8%. We’re just a bunch of fools believing everything is better because it is pretty and shiny or it keep s us entertained. Then we happily drop another grand or two a few years later for a new one because of planned obsolescence or just because we’re told to. A generation of fools.

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

They turned us into a consumer nation, they didn't want us being inventive, because it made up think of easier ways to invent the same thing but with a more personal use, hence Elon Musk. He doesn't want people working on the cars, because we'll figure it out and come up with a better product.

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

@@datatwo7405 that's why I have a old school mentality. If it can't handle how I use it, I don't buy it.

[@brianandrews7099]

Money was scarce commodity then, and credit was not available as a catch all that was easily accessible to purchase unnecessary goods as it is today. Big ticket items were expected to last far, far beyond the life of the loan taken out to purchase it. If it did not, it was not only considered to be of poor quality but also a ripoff; a mistake that would not be made again. Telephones were not owned by the consumer then, they were leased from the telephone companies and would be in service for 20-30 years. New phone subscribers would wish for a brand new telephone when their service was installed, but realistically, the best they could expect was a reconditioned used telephone. It was just the way life was then.

[@paulbourgeois4491]

My Pa was born on 20 August 1923, would have been 100 years old this year... Grew up in the depression, saw combat in World War II, met and married Mom, had a career in computer system development, and watched men land on the moon. He often told us (his 3 sons) about how primitive things were on the farm when he was a kid, in far northern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior. This video reminds of the stories of his childhood, now 100 years back. Miss him every day, he was kind and gentle, like Andy Griffith. Thanks for posting.

[@zovalentine7305]

Grandma still called her new refrigerator an "ice box"

[@sandybruce9092]

@@ichibonfriend2923I still do sometimes!! It’s easier to say!

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

My grandparents and great aunties/uncles did, too. I have lived in a couple of houses with an exterior icebox door.

[@DavidMorgan-zg9pl]

Hello 👋🏿how are you doing?

[@_Sakidora_]

Same; I find myself still calling it an icebox sometimes because that’s what I learned to call it when I was little.

[@MarinCipollina]

Mine called her refrigerator a "Frigidaire", because that was the brand, built by General Motors.

[@ynp1978]

My parents are both gone...but my Mom was born in 1923 on a farm and they used an outhouse the entire time she lived there....something like 1942. My Dad was born in 1921 and he too grew up on a farm but they had an indoor bathroom. But he told us many times about tearing pages out of old magazine's/catalogs and so forth for TP! I was born in 1963 and a rotary phone mounted to the wall was the only type of phone they ever had.....right up to the time my elderly Mother sold the house in 2008 after it was flooded out bad.

[@Ralphie_Boy]

At 66 years young, I do remember being around and using a few of those items displayed in this video in the 1960s!

[@samanthab1923]

I’m a few years younger but my parents wanted everything new. We had an electric can opener, electric knife, a fridge with the ice & water receptacle on the outer door. Garage door opener. DW & push button phones.

[@Ralphie_Boy]

@@samanthab1923 Bet you guys never layered a multi-color TV. size screen tape to view " " color T.V., the weird old days!

[@barbararuss3881]

Me too. The memories come flooding back.

[@frankwafer6919]

Thank you for all the trips down memory lane!😀💖💯🤍👍!

[@karenh2890]

This is the era when my grandparents were in their 20s. Both of my parents were born in 1930 in San Francisco. My dad's parents came from farms in the Midwest, but my mom's parents had family in San Francisco going back to the Gold Rush. My mom's parents and grandparents experienced the 1906 earthquake and lost their home to the fire. Time goes by so fast. My brother is celebrating his 70th birthday today. I'm just two years behind him!

[@miapdx503]

Bless your soul! I'm 63, and this world is devolving so fast. Sad, bad times. But it will all be over soon...🌹

[@EmilyS-gk3st]

It depends which side of my family you're talking about if you want specific places for events, but it would've been my great-grandparents in the 1920s. My grandparents came around in the 1930s and 40s. One side of the family half English, half Australian, and the other side of the family American. I was born 23 years ago and grew up in a heavily Christian home and am still very much Christian myself even today. Not all the modern generation is godless.

[@pslm23]

My dad once showed me his adding machine 8:32 He was an accountant. He would bring home lots of coins and had to "roll" them. I loved helping him. He would teach me how to count each type of coin out. 10 stacks of 10 pennies = $1, 10 stacks of 10 dimes = $10, etc....

[@samanthab1923]

I love that. My Pop pop was a bank manager & showed us secrets on the bills. On a five, the states are all along the cornice of the Lincoln Memorial. Stuff like that.

[@nancyjaplon4909]

Love learning about stuff like that.

[@jackmatson962]

My grandfather had one of these 100 button adding machines. One of my first jobs was in a factory making mechanical adding machines into the 70s! Electronic calculators were coming out, but they didn't print. Accounting folks really insisted on that paper record. We were making electronic calculators with impact printers in about 1974.

[@samanthab1923]

@@jackmatson962 When my son was young I picked up an old adding machine with the tape at a thrift shop. He loved playing with it.

[@OofusTwillip]

Despite building codes being revised to include indoor plumbing, most rural homes didn't get indoor bathrooms for decades. My Dad said his parents didn't get an indoor bathroom until 1947. But they still kept their outhouse, just in case.

[@samanthab1923]

A dear friend of mine who is 73 grew up in Williamsport PA she went to school in the 60’s with kids that still had outhouses.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@samanthab1923That is so interesting!! It must have been that new homes being built were required to have indoor plumbing, but homes that had already been built weren't required. I find videos like this to be so fascinating, and I love reading the comments to learn even more from people sharing their experiences.😊

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I love the fact that they kept their outhouse just in case! You never know!! 😁

[@rockyroad7345]

There are plenty of people in the U.S. that still use outhouses in rural and remote areas.

[@awwrelic]

Oh yeah. An uncle had one, as well as one of my grandfathers (he lived in a log cabin with no indoor plumbing or running water). These were both in the mid-1970s. Also at that time Kentucky still had wooden outhouses set up in the boonies for travellers.

[@spokanetomcat1]

You forgot about ironing boards that folded out like a Murphy bed in many kitchens. My grandmother had one. I found out the hard way when I opened it up and it almost fell out on me.

[@hestushenchman]

I rented an apartment about 15 years ago that had one.

[@hewitc]

They still sell them. I installed one in my laundry room 5 years ago.

[@pjseiber2774]

I really enjoyed the new blast from the past . Keep up the great work!

[@luvnalaska44]

I love all things vintage but the 1920s was pretty amazing. I so enjoyed this look back 100 years.

[@zovalentine7305]

Grandparents (who raised me) had rotary phone with PARTY LINE .... I did NOT like to pick up phone to call someone & there was already someone chatting away❗ So I hopped on my bike & just went to their house 🚴‍♀️

[@charles-y2z6c]

The fact you need to tell people about rotary dial is amazing. I remember them from the 70s and even beyond. You can still buy nostalgia land line and even wireless ones today.

[@Dadsezso]

These flashbacks are great. I'm a kid from the 50's/60's and remember some of these things still being around then. I had an aunt and uncle that lived in West (By God) Virginia and it was always a trip into the past when we went to visit them. The only "modern" convenience I remember them having was electric lights, and that plus a very old style refrigerator with the compressor on top that they still called the ice box, was all they used electric for. Everything else was done by hand. They had 19 children and a pretty good sized house that had one large barracks style bedroom upstairs where all the kids slept, including visiting kids. All the little ones were doubled up. They had 2 outhouses (living big time). There was a hand pump in the sink for water. A cast iron wood burning stove for cooking. Meals were served to adults first then kids. Daily baths were done in shifts by gender in a huge galvanized steel tub brought in from outside into the kitchen. Kids bathed first starting with the oldest. You didn't want to be at the end of that queue because the water was almost like mud by then. All girls first then a water change, then all boys. Water was heated in huge buckets on the wood stove. Plenty of homemade lye soap to go around. No worries about lice in that house. Also, if you had scrapes and cuts, you sure were reminded of them, come bath time. Since they lived far from a city, they had an old phone without a dial that an operator answered when you picked up the ear piece. It was a party line with probably 10 other households on it. They had a few cows and hogs, plenty of chickens, and a couple of hunting dogs. They always had fresh milk, homemade butter, salt pork and lots of home canned vegetables and some fruits. Fresh vegetables if it was later in the summer. What a life.

[@1217mikegrs]

Amazing, thank you for sharing. I was born 1990 but I really appreciate our past and those who paved the way for us.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Thanks for sharing that. It was enjoyable to read. I was raised in West (by God) Virginia as well, in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

[@rooky55]

Just like my Grandparents house except no power, very bright mantel lamps, 12 volt battery in the radio, and a generator for charging, just a root cellar with ice for the icebox. Loved my summer holidays there. Great adventures!

[@peterj.fallon4327]

Thanks for thx vivid description! My family is from NYC, my parents moved to W. Virginia before I was born (‘77) then moved back to NYC when I was 2 y/o. Often think what my life could have been like had we stayed. Surely not that rustic (dad’s an architect) so any kind of farming’s out. Tho he LOVED the people of WVa

[@suzz1776]

About a month ago, my dad gave me my g-gmas old wooden box phone she got in 1910 for her wedding. He wanted me to refurbish it, and it turned out beautiful. The damn thing weighs about 50lbs. Lol. We r so lucky to have our smartphones now days. But, things back in the day were made better (to last) and were beautiful.

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

I was born in the 60s and remember everything my granny bought that was "new and improved", mainly because most hand cranked mechanisms were being converted into electric gadgets. I loved percolators when I was little. They fascinated me to no end........so much so, I started collecting them. I'd dig through peoples garbag to see if they were throwing out a percolator and take it home. Needless to say, my granny was not happy with my collection.

[@sandybruce9092]

My Mom had a percolator - aluminum with a little glass top where the coffee would pop up/percolate! Fascinated me too! It’s interesting that people now are discovering percolators make great coffee.

[@hewitc]

@@sandybruce9092 Drip/filtered coffee became popular in the 70's with Mr. Coffee. Of course the diners always used that method, often putting egg shells in with the coffee and filter to draw out the "acid". We still have a percolator. It takes a different, coarser grind. Slightly different taste.

[@DavidLS1]

Thank you for not discussing dentists' drills from back then. I think my dentist was still using one when I was a child.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Mine too! Ugh😫

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Kitchen ovens have also changed a lot in 100 years. Mostly, they've shrunk. In the 1920s, it wasn't uncommon for a kitchen oven to have two or three separate ovens for baking several different things at once, probably because families were larger back then (extended families, more children, etc.). Also, many folks today use the kitchen oven less and less as they've come to rely on toaster ovens and microwave ovens.

[@Gratefulman1965]

My new oven plays music when the oven is at baking temperature and when timer has completed. Also our washer and dryer does it as well. My folks were born in the 1920’s they would’ve loved these new gadgets. I love the music they play. It puts a smile on my face. 😊

[@samanthab1923]

@@Gratefulman1965Abything is better than a buzzer 😊

[@samanthab1923]

You’re right. I’ve noticed people on YT going w/o proper ovens. That darn air fryer 😊

[@dougbrowning82]

@@Gratefulman1965 My oven just beeps.

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

Not this folk, I am not a big fan of preparing food in a microwave. I prefer to use my stove or oven, even in the heat of summer. 😉

[@randyronny7735]

I have some disagreements with this. Back then most toasters had to manually turn the toast over when one side was done to the person's needs. The telephone did not have dials, just lifting the earpiece alerted the operator that a person wanted to make a call and then the person making the call would tell the operator with whom you wanted to talk to or give a number and they would manually make the connection.

[@dennissmith2673]

Correct

[@korbell1089]

actually, the rotary dial was invented in 1892 so by the 1920's there would be quite a few of them.

[@randyronny7735]

@@korbell1089 In rural areas, there were not dial phones until after WWII, and even then, they had to have party lines where 4-6 families shared the line.

[@elultimo102]

@@randyronny7735---I recall rural Wisconsin with party lines at least into the '60s. I knew a farmer in the area with a cistern pump on the kitchen sink. Pulaski, WI had no electric power until the mid '60s.

[@LibraAllWoman]

Yes. You are, absolutely, correct. I've learned this through watching classic movies and historical documentaries.

[@walls2ink]

Happy Weekend ❤

[@steveberthelette7742]

That was really nice. Good job

[@baseballmomof8]

Always a joy when RR pops up. We were just at the Jack London State Park and saw many of these items displayed.

[@PolPotsPieHole]

I love this channel, just got a cup of coffee, couldnt be happier

[@saminaneen]

@@PolPotsPieHole I remember, in 1923, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@GeorgieB1965]

I remember all of the ads for these products from all of the newspapers that I used to prep for microfilming back in the day. Those were some very cool items back in the day.

[@cynicalrabbit915]

Most phones had a crank mechanism that signaled a local switchboard that you needed an operator, an operator would then connect to your line and ask for the number you wanted to call. Back then you had to give the operator the name of the exchange/switchboard plus the number in that area. The operator would connect to the other switchboard and ask the operator there for a connection to the number you were calling. If there was another call connected to the number, that operator would inform your operator that the line was busy, and your operator would tell you. Usually only businesses and the wealthy had private lines. Most people couldn't afford a private line with just their phone on it. Everyone else had a line where multiple homes were attached to the same line, these were called Party Lines.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

Pretty good perspective ! I recall hearing that in about 1820, some Neo-Luddite suggested "closing the US Patent office, because everything truly useful had already been invented" LOL 😆😆😆

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

It was actually the head of the US patent office. I forget his name, but I believe it was in the very late 19th century, rather than the early 19th. Not many people know about this infamous quote. You're the first person I've ever seen refer to it online. I read it decades ago in a magazine I think.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER Too funny. I guess I get a pass due to obscurity of quote. I tend to collect wise sayings. Bible, Founding Fathers, Philosophers, Prophets & the occasional Rational Mystic, if available. GK Chesterton is probably my most favorite quotable writer: "Nine times out of 10 it is a harsh word that condemns an evil, and a refined word that excuses it". Guy was brilliant & pithy, the latter of which I have little. Cheers my friend !

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@psalm2forliberty577 Yes, I try to collect such pithy sayings as well. One which I like, which I made up, (I think) is, "Studies have confirmed that 94.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot to prove a point." The exact number changes every time, because I can't remember what the original number I made up was. 😂

[@psalm2forliberty577]

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER As one who will NEVER admit to doing such, I think you have a 99% chance of being correct, lol. I just heard Dr Steve Turley observe that irony comes from the Creator & we don't expect it: "GOD has a surprising tendency to draw straight lines with crooked sticks..." Hmmm...

[@dougthompson5449]

​His name was Charles Duell the head of the Patent Office. He said this in 1889 predicting that the office would have to close soon because "Everything that can be invented has been invented".

[@marksherrill9337]

Absolutely the most beautiful cars ever made.

[@nomadman1196]

The roaring twenties, what a great time to be alive. 😊

[@1024laf]

Enjoyed this so much; my grandmother was born in 1923 so seeing some of the stuff her parents had and used compared to todays versions; not from 1923 but her father had one of those cars with the rumble seat and she said she and her siblings got wet when it rained while her parents were dry up front, lol!!!!!!!!!!

[@samanthab1923]

My mom was born in 39. Said bathing suits were made of wool!

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

Now some seem to be made of dental floss!! LOL

[@samanthab1923]

@@SpotTheBorgCat Right? I still haven’t figured how that is comfortable 😆

[@antilogism]

Dries a good bit faster that linen or cotton.

[@dave3657]

I believe the term “flashlight” comes from the way they were used and built. On top the switch has two settings. The first setting leaves the light off till you push the button. The second position turned the light on. So in the first position you could press the button and flush the light. It also was advantageous to only flash the light when needed preserving the batteries.

[@dougbrowning82]

You could also use your flashlight to signal others in the dark.

[@5610winston]

Learned Morse code with the official Boy Scout flashlight in the late '60s. @@dougbrowning82

[@karendobbs8153]

This was very interesting. I really enjoyed watching.

[@reedwest638]

You forgot the most loved "RADIO" set that brought the family together every evening, Just a photo at the end with no explanation or comparison to modern sets.

[@zovalentine7305]

Grandma used a manifold (flat items) PLUS an iron (smaller delicate items)

[@trish5556]

We had a mangle iron you ran flat sheets and pillowcases through.

[@sandybruce9092]

The word is mangle as the previous person said. My grandma has one and she could even iron grandpa’s white shirts he wore to work! That thing scared the willies out of me as a child!

[@vetgirl71]

Lawnmowers were manual that had blades that you pushed. My mother was born on a farm in the rural south. She had 12 siblings and they grew up with an outhouse. Years later her parents had another house built and they had indoor plumbing. My mother washed clothes with a washboard, which was hard work. Her mother later had a washing machine that had a wringer and they hung up clothes on a clothesline even up to when I was a teen in the 70’s.

[@hyett1954]

I still use the same safety razor I got as a teenager back in the early 70's. it's all metal, built to last and the blades are a fraction of the cost of today's multi blade razors.

[@jimtastic688]

Same here. I'm still using a 1970's razor.

[@roncaruso931]

How about radios, TV, air conditioners, clocks and watches? God knows what we will have in 2123.Hopefully we will still have a country by then.

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

Don't think we will have a country, or, it will definitely be third world! It's degenerating in every way as we are yet still alive!

[@PolPotsPieHole]

great stuff, hope all is well.

[@dogsareprecious4842]

Does anyone else think about people back then being able to see what we have now, and how shocked they'd be?!??!

[@-Thauma-]

Yes!! I do all the time, especially when I watch old photos of people long gone...

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

I think about Betty White and realise, that it would take someone who knew nothing about advancement to be baffled by everything from this era. It might not be obvious at first, but I believe, once explained, many practical devices would be quite easy for someone in the 1920s to pick out and reasonably understand to some degree. A refrigerator, more or less, is roughly the same kind of thing as an ice box. Toilets, faucets nor bathtubs have substantially changed in appearance nor basic function and would be among the least challenging to figure out what those are. Other things would be a bit more complicated, and I would say, that people living middle age in a post-war era would have an easier time assimilating in this twenty-first century as there were many more obtainable things that weren't necessarily luxuries in their day with similar enough analogues these days. The lack of simplistic dials and mechanical readouts on appliances could be a drawback and learning curve. Utilising the potato function on the microwave oven is something many twenty-first century residents have trouble with too. It would be interesting to see something like that, but for the most part, I don't know, that it would be quite as drastic as someone going from this twenty-first century to their era. At what point have we progressed too much for average people of a particular year to not understand our tech at all, or at what point has twenty-first century society gone too far as to be functionally useless operating tech from the past‽ There are still people living today that were adults in the 1950s and know the nuances and limitations of available tech of that era but are also fully capable and knowledgeable about operating their tech today. The 1920s would have been much different to compare to, but assuming someone lived to at least the mid-1960s and had been utilising and/or was fairly up-to-date with equipment of a household, then I don't think the progression would be so shocking. Products of today were thought experiments from the minds of people past. Some people would be utterly and overwhelmingly confused by many things, whilst others would be excited and curious.

[@RecollectionRoad]

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[@Mama4d8]

I remember pastel colors of toilet paper

[@zovalentine7305]

And PUFFS tissue.... pink!!

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I remember that even in the 80s! 😊

[@carmelbrain7399]

I am old enough to remember this stuff at my grandparents house, used to love flipping down the sides of the toaster

[@kennykittrell2549]

My dad was born in 1920 and my mother was born in 1921.They had 8 children of which I am the youngest. But they still used these things until we moved from the farm to a little town called Amherst Texas.

[@kathleenking47]

1:51 All phones were rotary dial, until the early 70s

[@kennykittrell2549]

We had a candlestick phone on the farm and you had to crank it 5 times just to get an outside line.

[@Christianministrycentral]

Great content

[@Name-ps9fx]

The number of digits for phones were different, too. I remember 5-digit numbers, and asking my parents about Hee-Haw's "BR Five-Four-Nine" phone number, which got into a discussion of using words to help remember the first two numbers. Nowadays I can't barely remember my own phone number (since I never call myself, LOL) but I still remember our home phone from when I was in high school....

[@sammott8557]

Three digit phone numbers were common way back then with four digit numbers emerging a short while later. Today, its a 10 digit number (in my community, one always has to include the area code in giving someone their number, as there are so many around here.)

[@rooky55]

Our number started with PA for Palace, there were so many others like Glendale and more.

[@suzannelawson9215]

I like the women's bathing suits with the long skirts 😃😃😃😃 I doubt anyone would agree with me, especially men. 😄

[@jenniferhansen3622]

It seems like it would be harder to swim in them though.

[@suzannelawson9215]

@@jenniferhansen3622 Maybe true if you plan to swim but not everyone who goes to the beach or lakes plan to swim. Some people just like to dip their feet in or lounge on deck/beach chairs. If I go to the beach, I NEVER swim in the ocean anyway. Might just walk in the water a bit to cool off, but not into swimming.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@suzannelawson9215 I don't even know how to swim, and I absolutely hate going to the beach so I never wear a swimsuit of any kind. I was just making an observation that they looked like they would be hard to swim in.😊

[@sandybruce9092]

Yes, I think they were hard to swim in - they possibly were made of wool! Yikes!! Ladies probably only waded into the ocean. But I have seen pictures from the 1920s and before of,so,em who were competitive swimmers and they had a more modern-looking suit - probably raised many eyes when they were seen back then!

[@antilogism]

As a guy, I'd say the late 30's through early 40's had some of the sexiest suits and skirts totaly work.

[@MrDan708]

Those water-closet toilets were actually more efficient (2.5 gallons) than the more compact toilets that replaced them (7 gallons).

[@johnp139]

What?

[@DragonBlue68]

Still using a DE/Safety razor, brush, and tub of shaving soap... Best shave I've ever had and cheaper than disposables. 😎

[@brian70Cuda]

Thank you:) We, in my head, have lost so much to the modern day. Cars of the past had character, now there is none.

[@leonnahofer9138]

I grew up with a party line in the late 70’s. Hated it! I also grew up calling it an ice box instead of a fridge even though true ice boxes were gone for decades prior. My great gma used to call it that so we did too lol.

[@dennythomas8887]

Being born in 1957 a few of these thing were still around as a kid at my grandparents homes. The one appliance that kind of peaked in the 60's and hasn't really changed much since is the Clothes Iron. I remember as a kid my mom being thrilled that her new electric iron had a built in steam function and adjustable heat settings. I remember we had a family gathering (maybe Thanksgiving) and all the ladies were in the kitchen checking out my mom's new iron. I have no idea why I remember that like it was yesterday. 🤣 Our iron died a couple years ago and we had to buy a new one ( I never really paid much attention to them until we needed a new one). Aside from auto shutoff and Teflon coated bottom nothing is has really changed from the one my mom had in the 60's.

[@Ivehadenuff]

Regarding the old toilets…My aunt’s house had one when I was growing up. My father used to sing a ditty in a drunk voice, “Alone at night you’ll find me. Too weak to pull the chain behind me…” to make us laugh.

[@thecrafteaneighbor5177]

As always, a great video! I have one of those old grammophone in a spare bedroom and remember really heavy duty irons. Amazing home much changed in 100 years. Maybe you could do one from 200 years ago & 100 years ago vs today. That would really be amazing to see! 😊

[@rooky55]

My grade 2 teacher in 1959 had a gramophone that she would crank wind for us kids to play musical chairs. Good little warmup before class.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you for another beautiful episode.

[@rooky55]

As kids, riding on those old cars or in the pickup truck box was an adventure with many happy memories.

[@willardroad]

Another excellent video!! Solid production values, and I enjoyed the categories. I was surprised, as a Boomer, how many of these things were still in use in the 60's - my childhood.

[@cecoya]

You did forget washing machines and dryers for doing the laundry before ironing them flat. lol This was fun, thanks for sharing. Have a great day

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Thanks!

[@hardyboy1959]

Good video but there's a couple of things that are off... @ 1:27 as inconcievable as it seems, there was no 'spring mechanism' to pop the toast up, you just had to keep an eye on it to make sure it didn't burn. @ 1:40 the rotary dial phone became available to the public in 1919 but did not become widely used until the 1950s. The norm in 1923 was the magneto crank.

[@rooky55]

Yup, you flipped the sides down and took off your toast when it was done to your liking.

[@luisreyes1963]

Our ancestors certainly had it rough when it came to basic items we now take for granted thanks to advances in technology.

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

This video proves just how far we came since the early 1900's . Think about how Primitive Hospital Operations used to be , And it was not that long ago we learned about Heart and Kidney transplants.

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

I was just remarking the other day, about how modern medicine resembles Star Trek. They ( the hospitals) now have a hand held " ultra-sound" device that you can view if someone's arm is broken or just sprained. ( used in ER.) Just like Bone's Tricorder! And of course, Blue-tooth head phones smaller than Ohura's ear piece!

[@saminaneen]

@rayinpau s.a.6351,,I remember, in 1923, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@pourquoipas971]

Another time , another world….

[@powellmountainmike8853]

In 1923 dial telephones were already in use in big cities, and some large towns, but most telephones still contacted the operator, usually by cranking a magneto which rang a bell on the operator's plug board to alert her of a call. She would then plug the line from your telephone into the line from the phone you wished to call. If the call was out of town, or "long distance" it often went through several operators and plug boards before it reached the end phone. Crank telephones were still in use in some rural areas of the U.S. into the 1960s. I remember using a crank telephone at my grandmother's house in Eutawville SC in the early 1960s.

[@johanea]

Most of the things from past, still work and function today. Our modern rubbish seldom last past 5-7 years.

[@TommyLive62]

That's not true about the strollers. You can see the metal "bands" at 5:20. The whole basket "floated" on the frame to absorb shocks. You were also able to rock the basket by hand if you were stationary.

[@sasz2107]

My mom's parents didn't have a toaster. They held a piece of bread on a fork over the burner on the stove and toasted the bread that way. Actually, most people had a LOT LESS money than we all do today and did not have anywhere near the number of modern conveniences we now have. I know they didn't have a phone, even in the 1940s. They walked to the store down the block and used the phone there if they really had to. And they did not have heat or hot water either. They heated the water on the stove in pots and poured it into the bathtub, which was in the kitchen. So they only took baths once a week because they had to go through so much effort to take one. I know they didnt have an electric vacuum cleaner - they had this thing that you rolled on the floor, which rolled a little roller brush inside and swept it into a little basket. It took a while to clean floors that way. And it was one car per family then, and most women did not know how to drive. But you either lived in the city or the country then - there were no suburbs that caused them to be as car dependent. Their house was heated with coal, which meant shoveling a lot into the furnace.

[@ll7868]

Movie theatres have changed a lot but the floors are still sticky.

[@jmartinez1989j]

The old 1920 vacuums they showed I have one of them vacuums that still works till this day it shows old is way better then new.

[@bonwatcher]

Seeing the appliances like the ice box, blender and phonograph from the 20's reminds me of Disney's Carousel of Progress.

[@Markimark151]

The phonogram and film camera are the only vintage designs that are getting a resurgence! The vintage look rotary phones that are sold at Target and Walmart are just phones with touchtone buttons!

[@sandybruce9092]

Vintage telephones are available all over but can be very expensive. I wish I had “borrowed” the phone from my grandparents house when they passed 1977/1978 - just never thought about it. It was very heavy and black and may have been from their previous home when they moved in 1950 so could have been a 1940s model! It felt so good in my hand when I needed to use it!!!

[@Markimark151]

@@sandybruce9092 they’re no longer made, I’ve seen few rotary phones at a yard sale, but it won’t work since phone lines are digital. My elementary school had rotary phones til the 1980s, before the school went through a major renovation.

[@michaelarrowood4315]

"... more efficient and convenient tools that make our lives better, every single day." That is a very sweeping and perhaps debatable generalization for an otherwise innocuous video. Has somewhat the sound of an indoctrination film from the WWII era. :) I would just beg to make at least an exception for the mobile phone, which I nominate as truly the devil's two-edged sword. Better every day, worse every day, or just a wash - history's still out on that one!

[@joeheid2776]

Would've been cool to see the differences in public transportation.

[@triadmad]

Several of these items weren't available to my grandparents back in the '20s, due to the fact that they didn't get electric run to their homes until the mid to late '30s. My mother didn't get to live in a house with running water, until she married my dad in the very early 1950s. Her father and youngest brother continued to live in a house with no running water (other than a hand pump in the kitchen), and no telephone until the end of the 1960s. My father told me what their telephone number was when he was a kid, before the war, but now I can't remember what the combination of short and long rings were.

[@rbsmith3365]

I have seen in Smithsonian over 40 years ago and in large antique stores are selling that stuff including stoves, fans, phones, you name it. Mostly are unsold and overpriced. My great grandparents first car it was 1922 Buick sedan. No such vacuums and refrigerator until 1927. It was so expensive. Small refrigerator with freezer inside. It costs over $700. It makes lot of humming noises and high electric bill. Some are still working and asking too much money.

[@ChrisHirner]

Hey now im still a safety razor guy. My dad used one. Never saw the need for the plastic ones. of today

[@antilogism]

I've gone backward. Started with DE in the 1980's, then Gillette Attra, then back to DE, then SE then to the straight razor I use daily. (I tested MANY cartridges too) Overall the double edge is the absolute best balance of convenience with great speed, comfort and economy. The two edges and near absence of cloging makes them the fastest shave.

[@prettyc7001]

Wow I am blown away by the refrigerator! My great grandmother was in 1922❤ This is so interesting.

[@wxman2003]

I remember when everything was in black and white. That truly was the color of the world back then.

[@antilogism]

I remember when everyone was mute and we had to communicate with title cards and hand gestures.

[@DanTalmage-dl8sd]

Really good peice. One mistake, or I should say omission. The speed graphic camera used 4x5 inch sheet film, not rolls.

[@antilogism]

True. There was at east one Speed Graphic that could do rolls. I have the smaller Speed Graphic 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 that I use with a 120 roll adapter sinces it's easier and cheaper than the odd-ball sheets. At 8 shots per roll it still makes one consider the shot carefully!

[@NathansMoparGarage]

Back then not everyone had electricity or running water in their homes to use some of these items.

[@bnthern]

loved the space saver (added last letter below the line) very good presentation!

[@awwrelic]

My dad used to use a "safety razor" when I was a kid, but around a year before his death in late 1974 he switched to the Bic razors that had just hit the market. I still have an older "safety razor" with plenty of blades for whenever I run out of the Gillette cartridge type. Interestingly, one of my (more backward) uncles lived in a house in the mid-1970s that had no indoor toilet, and instead had ye olde outhouse that always threatened to careen over the edge of the creek valley it was sitting on. Yeah, you can imagine the sights and smells...

[@rooky55]

My Dad used a straight razor until the eighties. The razor strop was also used for punishment by many Dad's.

[@bekindtoanimals2189]

(Seriously) What did Dog food look like? Was it packaged and sold in stores, or did our pets rely on table scraps? What did under garments look like? I think the brazier wasn't common until the late teens. What was the main fashion look like in the early 20's from hair to clothing? THANK YOU.

[@sandybruce9092]

There is a great TV show called “Food That Made America” which did a segment on per food! Dog food came first and people were very skeptical as everyone fed dogs table scraps. (A very bad idea!!!) - it was invented by a cereal company whose name I’ve forgotten for the moment! I’m old😢😢. Cat food didn’t come on the market till the latter part of the 1950s! Good show to watch.

[@bekindtoanimals2189]

@@sandybruce9092 Thank you for taking the time to share this great information with me! I'm loving your channel!

[@bigcat618]

Check out Frederick Lewis Allen's books "Only Yesterday" and "Since Yesterday". He describes everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s as well as events of the era..

[@bekindtoanimals2189]

@@bigcat618 Thank you!

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

​@@bigcat618Those are GREAT books!

[@mikeywid4954]

I remember my grandmother had an old record player with speeds 78, 45, 33 1/3, and 16. Plus to listen you had to tune to a spot on a radio as it had no speaker!

[@sandybruce9092]

I don’t remember the 16 speed but I sure remember the other three! It’s interesting that young people today are rediscovering vinyl records. My so. (Age 43) recently bought a turntable he plugs into his speakers - he doesn’t know yet, but I’m giving him all our records! Eventually!!! We are 73 (dad) and 76 (me)!

[@gcbranger1189]

i do remember there being a 16 speed along with the others.

[@frankdillon6127]

Push carpet sweepers were very popular, had a rotating brush as a catch pan with long handle.

[@marilyntaylor9577]

I love these! There is no way to eliminate the drudgery of housework. Did a man write this?

[@BigJeremyBeyer]

I just want to point out the fact that many of these things were still in regular use less than 40 years ago.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

My grandparents were born in 1911 and I liked hearing their stories about how things were back then. My great grandfather had the first Model T in his county, and my grandmother played piano for the silent movies. I sure don't miss rotary phones or those huge calculators (or adding machines as they called them). My cousin worked for Texas Instruments and got us those first cool digital calculators and watches when they came out for a huge discount.

[@johnwillard8311]

The 'music player' pictures for the 1920s show machines that were 20 years out of date by then. Machines with hidden horns/speakers, looking more like nice furniture, began outmoding the 'horned' ones as early as 1905, and were still quite standard in the early 1920s. Later in the decade, the Victor Orthophonic Credenza and Brunswick Panatrope - some models being electrical, and even having a radio - became the norm.

[@williamlewis9320]

My Grandparents had alot of these things. I'm 80 and remember some of them.

[@roncowan276]

Memory’s of the past.😊

[@zovalentine7305]

Snow shovels (no blowers) Hand mowers 1st.... then along came gas powered

[@garymathis1042]

When I was a kid in the early 50s, we had an ice box and I still remember the ice man delivering ice.

[@Thomas-yy6rm]

Absolutely Neanderthal😮

[@akuakesewaa9715]

Am in my early 30s and I have used some of this items in my lifetime before, am grateful for the environment I grew up that made this experiences possible

[@lesiepetersen1582]

I still use Revere Ware . It's stainless steel with copper bottom. Got some from my mom and some from garage sales. It is still the best in my kitchen and easy to clean. Recently got an electric fry pan from my neighbor. It has a big domed lid and the cord still works. Found out I could use it as a mini oven. I am 71 . My son is a cook and prefer s my stuff instead of his.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

Ah, the good old days of John Wayne toilet paper: "Rough and tough and won't take s*&% off nobody." On a more serious note, we had one of those old style radios when I was a kid. The family we bought our house from left it behind I guess. It worked too, but was strictly A.M. Not sure whatever happened to it. When I was very young my grandmother lived with us. We had a toaster but she wouldn't use it. Instead, she would make me toast every day by holding the bread over the open flame of our old oil stove. She would scrape the black off and butter it up. I miss ya Nanny, and that toast and tea we would share in the morning. Maybe we'll have a sit down in a little bit, I'm closer to the end of the ride than the beginning that's for sure.