FACES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

[@waynek3366]

This is when family's stuck together and helped each other. Today family will kick you too the curb.

[@dorarobertson3608]

The greatest generation ever. There will never be a stronger or more determined class of people as this generation.

[@bruce8429]

Baloney!

[@dorarobertson3608]

My parents pulled up tiny evergreen trees, bundled them and took them into cities to sell to get money for food in the mid 1930's. No one had money during the depression. My dad went to work for a steel company in L.A. and my mom stood in long lines to buy food. They never went on welfare and never begged. They and all other families worked for food or whatever anyone had to pay them.

[@catman8670]

Also blinded by Roosevelt, who kept the depression going till WW2

[@hauntedmoodylady]

@@catman8670 I have to commend you, you are 10,000% correct. The circumstances, and politics enabled him to keep doubling down on policies which made the depression worse, and worse. These were leftist dem policies which are very similar to leftist dem policies of 2022. Herbert hoover did not cause, or contribute to the depression. The greatest single failure of the government at that time was as has been several times since was the Federal Reserve which is then, and now accountable to no one. In a nut shell, the Federal Reserve at a time when the economy needed it most would not expand the money supply. In spite of everything the country was productive to the extend that if it could be sold it would be produced. It's easy to find pictures of farmers pouring away milk because it could not be sold, cows had to be milked, yet the milk could not be kept, nor transported, it could not be sold, consumers did not have the money to buy it. The highly recognized economist Milton Freidman was awarded a Nobel Prize in the 1960's on his study of the Great Depression, his findings were the Federal Reserve kept reducing the money supply, taking money out of circulation, rather than expanding the money supply. Roosevelt almost bankrupted the US Treasury through spending on his government programs, one of the worst was price controls. Sadly, the start of WW II brought about the end of the depression. Today in the 21st century from 2016 - 2020 this country was prospering, since 2020 the US has plunged into a lower standard of living, and the beginning of rampant inflation. I won't take time, and space to explain how the Federal Reserve expands, or contracts the money supply, the problem is the Federal Reserve almost always gets it backwards, they do the opposite of what is needed at the time.

[@rosemaryedwards7239]

Except maybe their children!

[@billiecurtis9908]

Thanks for sharing pictures. My dad was always talking about the hardships his family went thru during that time. Affected all races of people

[@michaelashcraft8569]

You can actually SEE the worry, and, stress on the faces of the men, and women, but, it's the strength and faith of the Children that tugs at my heart!

[@brigittemariacrosbie5392]

yep withe priviliege

[@lbbradley55]

My parents and extended family told me many stories about living through this. My great uncle said what you all don't understand is there was no money..! Nobody had any money to work for.. ? He said my siblings and I would work in farmers fields all day just for the right to dig some potatoes to eat for just that day...! And it stayed that bad for YEARS... ! And what got us out of this was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ! And he joined the Navy and served 4 years on the aircraft career U.S.S. Randolph and they then fought the Japanese ferociously in the Pacific until the war was won. He said I hope none of you ever know what it is to live like that. ! Words we all should never forget. !

[@rozagelman1977]

Всё это вызывает сострадание!

[@lbbradley55]

@@rozagelman1977 I don't know what that says. ! So why don't you tell us what does that say !

[@rozagelman1977]

@@lbbradley55 I wrote: it all evokes compassion!

[@lbbradley55]

@@rozagelman1977 Ahhh I see. And yes it does.

[@MrCrowebobby]

@@lbbradley55 Google Translate

[@2late4me2care]

Every Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter my brothers and I were made to tend a garden. Me, being the youngest of 4 would complain and gripe and try to get out of the work. One day my step Dad sat me down and explained why he made us learn to hunt, fish, garden, can and dehydrate, and smoke food. He lived through the Depression and his family survived off what they farmed. They ate well but wore hand me downs and worn out shoes. He told of how his family would help help feed other families and how they learned to barter so they could get clothes and shoes. I'm so glad my lazy ass didn't live through the Depression but I'm glad my step Dad cared enough to teach me how to survive!

[@LesterMoore]

Survival skills training rarely goes beyond the second generation what with welfare offering a safety net. When shortages in foods and home materials hit shortly after the Red Chinese Killer Virus hit, I was fully prepared as was my wife. We both came from coal and copper miners as well as agricultural harvesters. Just dialed up the survival skills we were taught growing up.

[@anthonyevans9169]

Grandparents told me the sad stories of that time, they raised me. I can remember all the hardships, Carl Simpson was 92 when he was poisoned by Niki evans who raised her,l wii kill her an Gary reed,408 n maple st eldon mo, I vow tony Evans, very s.

[@rosemaryedwards7239]

My mom & dad both grew up in the depression. I don't just throw stuff away either! I can garden cook, can, and fish. Not much on the smoker. I always appreciate everything I have! Always!

[@adrienebailey9010]

My father passed 2yrs ago. He told so much about the Good Ole Days. They worked hard and did the best they could.

[@andycig2993]

Hard times make strong man. Strong man make easy times. Easy times make weak man. People say that can't happen here... but it already has and will again..

[@tomjoad6270]

My father was a teenager during the Great Depression and when someone would say the good old days when talking about the 30s he would get very angry and say to them there was not one Damn good thing about those horrible times, folks were starving to Death and wearing rags for clothing, living in tents and shanties like pigs and had old rust Bucket's for cars and trucks !!! Then he would say folks would work twelve hours a day in the fields for one Dollar and all you had to eat was hobo stew, fried dough biscuits, grits, a Lord sandwich, boiled potatoes, and if you we're lucky you might have some bacon, beans and some coffee !!! So Don't Tell me about the good old days, right now is the Best times of my life, I have a great job, a good car, a real nice house and nice clothes, and Best of all I have plenty of good food and water and I have a six pack of beer to Drink after work every night !!!! 💯🇺🇸🦅🗽⚔️

[@geoffstorey4569]

Gotta love you Tom having the same name as the main actor. But everything you said was true.

[@Paulie1232]

Sad part people are living like this today....

[@WalturdTheCat]

When you look at this video and then look around the world today you realize how little we can get by with and how spoiled we are today...today's "kids" know nothing about work, all their way into their 50's, for some. These children in this video worked harder than many adults that I know.

[@bruce8429]

Phooey!

[@michaelashcraft8569]

Nearly ALL the people we see in these photos are gone now, but, many of this generation fought in WW2, and, Korea, I was born in 1951, and, I can see War Clouds on the horizon, and, the beginning of a new Depression, be prepared my Children!!

[@berzerker1100]

History repeats as always ! But today's spoiled society is not prepared for hardship, Lord Have mercy !🪖🪂🗡🇺🇲 🙏

[@judypurcell6571]

God bless all these people in the photo life was so hard for them

[@markfurman4386]

My parent's generation. That's the so-called 'entitlement' I keep hearing about. Grinding poverty.

[@artwdeetoo]

I have a nostalgic feeling about the past, it might be because of the beginning of things that did not had all this busy traffic and grumble quarries we have nowadays, technology is good and helpful, but, too helpful, that nobody cares about the person next to them, we use to play and have a great time together, family and friends, we probably did not care much about each other, but, we did not rely on cell phones, internet, games etc., to take us away from a situation, like we do today, ignoring the person next to you, because of the good technology, I apologize if I hurt someone with this, but, this pictures surely makes me very nostalgic. Joe.

[@snydedon9636]

Hate to see kids going through these kind of times, but 2:15 really made me sad. This elderly lady in her senior years probably didn’t have family that could help her as much as she needed because they didn’t have anything either. Seeing things like this puts my own life problems into perspective.

[@ladycharsw]

Our grandma and grandpa had a farm in Turner/ Salem Oregon in 1927. 80 acres. They ad fruit, planted veggies. Wild animals, and they had animals. Had their own food. Etc. When some neighbors did not have much they shared . mom and her sister and bro. worked on the farm. Drawing water doing things. That was also in the 30'S.

[@tonydresler1317]

Great people.

[@OrieCipollaro]

Enter Joe Biden!

[@alexandersolzhenitsyn5303]

It was hard back then I lived on Mr noodles for years

[@sweetpeasmom3580]

Great video. Can anyone tell me the name of that first tune? Thanks in advance.

[@MikSrf723]

Crazy how they look the same to me as people now living in tents and van lifers. Different vehicles, but just people.

[@craigmarr7986]

I'm afraid we are facing a depression so bad it's going to make the 1930's look like a cake walk.

[@bigiron8831]

SAD 😥

[@brianlinke1856]

Guess what, they let in happen all over again in 2008!

[@ArditiPiave]

A photo history of white privilege. After my grandfather survived 3 years in the front line trenches fighting in WW1 (Battles of the Isonzo /Piave / Carso), in which he was the only survivor of his original unit. Often they had no food and the soldiers were forced to eat rats. When the war ended, he came to America where he got a job as a bricklayer, at the Ford Motor Co. His job was to repair the bricks in the factory furnaces. Which were often still so hot that once his hair and eyebrows were burned off, and in numerous occasions he had to be pulled out with a hook when he would pass out from the heat, despite having a bucket of cold water thrown on him before he went in. If he didn't like it, or complained, he would have been fired on the spot, and they would have given the job to someone else. When the Great Depression hit, he lost his job, and was unable to make the final payment of the only home he almost owned. The bank took the house, and he lost all the previous payments he had made. He, his wife, and my mother, were forced to live in a dirt floor shack, with no running water. My mother had nightmares all her life, because of the large rats that would crawl over her when she was trying to sleep. They survived by supplementing their diet with edible weeds and other greens they could forage in the woods. When the Depression came to an end, my grandfather landed a job as a janitor back at Fords and was thrilled to have a job. But soon got Cancer and died in 1947. This highly decorated War Veteran lived out his last days scraping crap out of toilets for minimum wage.

[@neiltappenden1008]

I always wondered how they got their fuel money

[@thomaslucas6079]

all them kids are dead from old age. It must have been terrible being old back then because you knew you would never see better days.

[@ukmedicfrcs]

Everyone looks so tired. Exhausted from the heat, lack of proper nourishment, no sleep and long work days. American grit.. that's for sure.

[@medionlvr]

what is the name and artist of the first song

[@MrCrowebobby]

As horrible as WWII was, and I'm not denying its horrors, I wonder how we would have come out of the Depression if it hadn't been for our joining that war.

[@gregwatson8219]

Bonnie& Clyde were symbols Great Fepression

[@dew02300]

Didn’t these people know they had white privilege?

[@libertyann439]

The people who lived through this national travesty may be great on strength and character but these were not good old days. Lives were destroyed and cut short. Children starved and suffered disease-got little schooling. What potential was destroyed. Imagine what can be achieved outside of survival mode. No one deserved this fate to satisfy "rugged individualism" for its own sake.

[@michellemaher6144]

The Greatest Depression will be coming to channel near you. Thanks to the WEF and Klaus Schwab.

[@berzerker1100]

Who Dat ?

[@nobodispecial]

Look up world economic forum. They're the ones that while you're on social media they're are discussing your future and the nwo. Believe in Jesus Christ. Peace in blessings.

[@jimmorgan5612]

It will happen again.

[@anthonyevans9169]

I think it's all ready is

[@faithfultotheend5202]

It has started and it will be much WORSE

[@Mike-hr6jz]

It’s tragic as the great depression was I wonder why you guys never do it video like this about how it was during the great depression in Europe like Ireland and other European countries where there was nothing they died we were living like high on the hog compared to them but you will never do it video that way what is it you’re trying to say?

[@raymondtonns2521]

watch this and then complain about your life

[@catman8670]

No shortage of kids and pregnant ladies during the depression?

[@donnasloane9031]

Much like today on the streets of L A

[@berzerker1100]

Too much Crack & meth etc...💉💊🚬⛺⛺ 🦧

[@clutchgc1233]

This music doesn’t really match the setting

[@Fdeubcfhbbjhfd]

They are all dead.

[@oldones59]

That's a cruel thing to say. Have you ever suffered?

[@momof2momof2]

Lesson to be learned here.... don't keep getting pregnant

[@sunderwood9321]

I have a big family , more hands to help! Great people!

[@vi9763]

I know you meant don't keep getting women pregnant.

[@berzerker1100]

@@vi9763 I have Low sperm count, Now I just shoot 🔫 Blanks, thank God Gee I'm an Old fart 😁😉😆😅🤣😂