Mintz!!!! He was my history professor in 1997 at the University of Houston. He had a certain way of speaking. A lot of pauses while he spoke. It wasn't bad or distracting, just noticeable. And, yes, everyone thought he looked like Abraham Lincoln.
@djeieakekseki20585 жыл бұрын
Jsuarez6 hhhh
@tink_a5 жыл бұрын
Because he wants to. Look at his beard.
@joan95695 жыл бұрын
Marfan's?
@jphasson5 жыл бұрын
My grandfather spoke this way as well. I didn't understand it as a child, but as I grew older, I realized that he was thoughtful in the words he chose, instead of just speaking whatever came to mind. I think a great many politicians, CEOs, reporters, etc, could learn a thing or two from being introspective and thoughtful when speaking.
@L0j1k5 жыл бұрын
There are computer science professors who are legendary for this, and the programmer joke is that their brains are garbage collecting.
@stevehokie5 жыл бұрын
This is very well researched and thoughtful. But I am still trying to figure out if this guy has a beard or not.
@mvrdamonxy79425 жыл бұрын
Thats a beardstrap a hybrid chinstrap beard.
@Shabazzelbey5 жыл бұрын
stevehokie almost an amish-esque hint to it if you will
@blazer56634 жыл бұрын
Yes, a Abraham Lincoln beard, but a very thin one that can barely be seen.
@rawsketch4 жыл бұрын
Yes, but no...well maybe.
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
He's got a 'Peter, Paul and Mary' kind of vibe, looks wise. Smart fella, good insights.
@amesadamson5 жыл бұрын
Your interviews are so historically significant. I re-learn things i might have forgotten, and learn for the first time...all sorts of things! Thanks DH!
@goodbyecommunists13352 жыл бұрын
Wow, THIS is your source for Truth and Education, really?
@willdogs5 жыл бұрын
After going through the Great Depression, World War II, and a post-war revitalization, the 1950s and early to mid-60s were a well-deserved break from what had been a long generation of despair, chaos, and disappointment for millions of Americans. In a way, it could be compared to recuperation from a collective nervous breakdown by promoting a feeling of stability. Though many problems remained, this time period also gave birth to unprecedented industrial and technological advances like space exploration and the nuclear age. It was also a significant time for popular culture with the introduction of rock 'n roll, television, widescreen stereophonic movies, and the proliferation of the American automobile industry. The 1950s also set the foundation for the civil rights movement. Change is never easy, but in retrospect, 1950s USA makes perfect sense and deserves a huge nod of respect.
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
All that AND James Dean. The epitome of cool and youth alienation.
@fightingblindly3 жыл бұрын
I would argue the Civil Rights movement foundation was set long before the 1950s
@PennyBluebottle3 жыл бұрын
Gosh a great analysis thank you.
@jadedandbitter3 жыл бұрын
Had it not been for LBJ and his desire to make a crap-ton of money on his military-industrial investments and the cultural chaos caused by his warmonger greed and the justifiable outrage in response to it, that era might have lasted a whole decade longer.
@diogenes5053 жыл бұрын
Well said Mr. Bernet
@jeffreyhunt17272 жыл бұрын
This guy hits all the notes... his explanation of the postwar inter-generational gap is maybe the best I've ever heard. It's still very accurate today, and it also describes how Millennials and Gen Z struggle with the expectations put upon them by our society.
@PhthaloBloo4 жыл бұрын
I love the facial expressions this guy makes. You can see the gears turning and the words and ideas forming in his brain. Very cool!
@goodbyecommunists13352 жыл бұрын
Yeah : cool like all employees and followers of Old Man Potter are cool, per the classic film "It's A Wonderful Life."
@alienonion46365 жыл бұрын
Spot on. Really I don't even think of the 70s with the great nostalgia I have for the 50s and 60s. There really is no other time like it. We lived in the suburbs and it was daddy's greatest pleasure to take us kids for a hot chocolate and a cookie. Dad had grown up in a slum. Mom complained we were getting fat but that just made daddy smile. The two of them didn't have the pleasurable experience of walking with a parent for a treat such as chocolate or coffee and a cookie Every Day! I still marvel that daddy's pleasure of giving the treat was, by far, greater than our receiving it.
@sapphireluna48183 жыл бұрын
I love this story, thanks for sharing. I did not grow up in the 50’s or early 60’s, but there was a street in my town when I was growing up that had a movie theater from the 40’s and a few little shops from 50’s, and I thought certainly it was the most charming part of my town. My dad as a Baby Boomer used to take me when I was a child for an ice cream sundae or a root beer float at this ice cream parlor that looked exactly as it did in the 50’s, and I could see it brought him much joy, as it did for me. I can imagine now the nostalgia he must have felt, being a child of the 50’s and 60’s
@nathnaeledea38913 жыл бұрын
why do you keep saying "Daddy", its pretty weird
@twyckoff873 жыл бұрын
That was so sweet thank you for sharing
@factsoverfiction78263 жыл бұрын
@@nathnaeledea3891 Can't speak for OP ... but in the South, many adults affectionately refer to their parents as 'Daddy' and 'Mama'.
@hklinker2 жыл бұрын
@Nathneal I don’t know - the way you spell your name is weird 😉. #differentstrokes
@RandyR5 жыл бұрын
I am still trying to figure out how we ended up in the bizzare world we exist in now. Born in 53. At times, I wonder what planet I am on
@jonathandewberry2893 жыл бұрын
My father was somewhere around there, he grew up in the 50s and 60s and he frequently says he has no idea what the hell is going on anymore. He lives in rural areas but when he visits the city he says "I feel like Im living in the Twilight Zone!" (which was a TV show he grew up with heh. Mind you, Im now old enough - i wonder what the hell is going on now. Its like our world turned upside down, i also feel it now.
@justleaveit15573 жыл бұрын
I ain't 50, but I assure you you are not alone brother.
@josephdockemeyer67823 жыл бұрын
@Miles Maillet how is referring to the world as being inhabited by clowns offensive??? CLOWN WORLD!!!!!!
@artdecotimes29423 жыл бұрын
@@jonathandewberry289 I grew up in the 40s, my god it has changed. You know the colors that used to coat the streets pristinely, Two tone desserts as I called them. Every automobile has colors anywhere from Ice green on a Chevrolet 1951 to a chocolate Bronze Desoto 1948.
@mattmonroe28073 жыл бұрын
lmao
@SteveSilverActor5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best analyses of the 1950s I've listened to. His point about the media's idealization of the time period is especially poignant. Thank you for posting this.
@rafopderand85245 жыл бұрын
He's still wrongish though. I don't think America needed new energy - and if it did it had to be of a different nature because the energy we speak of has proven to be utterly selfdestructive and America could and did launch a satellite without it. But mostly Boomers don't want to know or hear about their wrecking of society or they lie to themselves to justify the hellscape they created in America and indeed the western world.
@changed90475 жыл бұрын
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@Gnefitisis5 жыл бұрын
This is exactly why I like these interviews- they're so honest and do not idealize the 50s. It's realistic and that's what is great!
@laudace17645 жыл бұрын
@@Gnefitisis Not so realistic. I grew up during these times, and out of 30-35 kids in each of my elementary school classes from first through sixth grade, on average, only one kid per class came from divorced families. Notwithstanding his comments, the state of family was much more healthy and intact than it was in the succeeding decades (after the onset of the 60s).
@Rick-zw7zv5 жыл бұрын
Idealization sets an unrealistic standard for happiness and fulfillment, on the dark side of that it also sets a standard for expectation and failure. Something like "The Cosby Show" made a lot of men look and feel inadequate in their father role.
@iTsEfFiNsTePhh5 жыл бұрын
His name is Steven Mintz and he's still alive was born in 53' if any of y'all wanna look him up 👍🏼 He doesn't have the beard anymore tho 😭 Was hopin to see an older Abey
@jonathandewberry2893 жыл бұрын
4:30 this was told to me by my grandparents and old uncles too. They said, when they grew up they didn't have this idea of 'Teenagers'. That wasn't a thing, a category and certainly not some sort of classification or 'lifestyle'. When we asked 'well what happened then' they just seemed to say you were a child but expected to (eventually) become and adult. So that was that. You were just becoming an adult but there wasn't this idea of 'The Teenagers' and how that was to be a kind of lifestyle and personality of its own. by the way, they seemed to talk like inventing 'teenagers' wasn't really a great idea or helpful.
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
A teenager....adolescence...the concept has only grown. Socoety has gone From driving a tractor at 10 and being a valuable part of the family to living in a state of prolonged adolescence.... living in your parents basement playing video games all day. From so many angles it seems like a war on the family unit...in all cultures. Thomas Sowell explains it well.
@jonathandewberry2892 жыл бұрын
@@mikesmith-nj1ij I heard some Jewish people talking about some party, some ritual they have when a boy turns 13 and is then considered an adult man. By todays' worldview, this sounds strange, not the ritual but the idea a 13 year old boy is a man. When seen in the worldview of nearly all cultures this is actually normal just as little as a century ago. In this sense, you were a very very young and small growing adult who is to 'be' as adult as you can. As some of our oldest relatives noted: there were no 'teenager clothes'. There were children's clothes and then adult clothing. yes, at around 13 you were given 'long pants' or whatever adults wore and that's that. Now, the idea of a Jewish boy just turned 13 is a 'Man' must seem hilarious and weird to people. Yet, that was normal life for much of our civilization for most of it's run here on earth.
@troubleshooter166 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr Hoffman and the commentators. When in the middle he spoke of alienation of the youth, thought isn't that a problem of youth today. People don't change, only the accessories around them.
@rickh98524 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this guy give U of H history lectures on TV at about 2 in the morning on Houston TV back in the eighties or nineties. He was really young, unique and kind of weird but his lectures always drew me in. He really knows American history and is engaging.
@inkey25 жыл бұрын
Happiness is relative of course. Why wouldn't you feel happy after surviving the 1918 Flu Pandemic, starving during the great depression and then being in combat for 6 years during ww2. The 1950s happiness was "not" an illusion it was "real". It was a collective sigh of relief that they actually made it through 3 decades of pure hell.
@inkey25 жыл бұрын
@@yeahx32p69 anyone who knows anything about the history of the 20th century in the USA could not possibly say that the 1950s happiness was an "illusion". Absolutely absurd. As the case of my own father,,,,,,,,his father and many family members all die of the 1918 flu pandemic. My dad was only two years old with a baby sister too. His father who died in the pandemic was only 30 years old. It left them very poor. My dad had to start working at 10 years old because there was no father to bring in a pay check. Then the great depression hit when he was 12 years old. More poverty more sadness. Then my father was drafted into the U S ARMY. Just as he was going to be released from military service Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was sent over to Germany and was very badly injured from bomb fragments....but the army would not release him even though 40% disabled simply because he was an "officer". He spent 8 years in the military. Then in 1950 they tried to draft him "again".....simply because he was an officer. Fortunately he was so badly injured they would not induct him for military service. This entire set of events was very common for the people of that era.
@robertrichard61074 жыл бұрын
Nothing like an A bomb drill at school to break up your day.
@robertrichard61074 жыл бұрын
The womans rights thing was coming to a boil also in the 50's after woman got out of the war facrories. Woman who made more money then men still couldn't break the glass ceiling. Also, the Dixiecrats should be brought up in this, that party LBJ learned from FDR, but JFK not so much. Truman was a poor leader to bring the war to an end, and bring the U.S. to the 50's. He opened Pandora's Box using the bomb, and starting the Cold War and Red Scare. Congress was warned of Sputnik 2 weeks before it flew, but did nothing. Ike was put in office more than him wanting to actually become president, per his autobiography I read from 1948.
@inkey24 жыл бұрын
@@robertrichard6107 Thanks for the 1 year+ reply. I stand by what I said......the 1950s Happiness was no "illusion". That is an absurd statement and insulting to those who managed to live through the 1918 flu, The Great Depression and WW2. ....then come back from the war mentally and or physically crippled.
@effexon4 жыл бұрын
@@inkey2 this makes sense why people were happy with steady job and meal every day in 1950s (other interview from 50s guy in this channel). A meal was betterment after 1929 and wars.
@BigRigVic4 жыл бұрын
Mr Hoffman your content really dissolves delusions about the times gone. Its incredible how well spoken and how much sense all these commentators make. Your channel has greatly improved my understanding of the current times as well. Thank you. I think I will buy one of your t-shirts.
@333Mesmerized4 ай бұрын
I was just thinking the same thing.
@malgremor855 жыл бұрын
The term "teenager" first appeared in the 1920s, when Madison Ave. advertising firms got the idea of creating an entirely new marketing demographic. My mother remembrered it. She was a "flapper" in her day...
@mikepatrick59094 жыл бұрын
I had a grandmother that was a flapper..she drank vermouth until she died....
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
@@mikepatrick5909 No, bathtub gin, to mix with it!? Whoa.
@CaptApril1233 жыл бұрын
@@waynej2608 Vermouth 'and' bathtub gin?? You ain't going to live too long with that combination. ;)
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
And now there are 'Tweeners' or TWEENS.
@MarilynCrosbie5 жыл бұрын
In the 1940s city teenagers also had popular language. I can't think of examples at the moment, but they did have their own lingo. i think "swell" was one word they used when 1960s teen said, "mint", "cool", "groovy" etc.
@mickga35645 жыл бұрын
My mother and father were fleeing communism and tyranny in the 50's and 60's from Cuba. Hence my values and upbringing in the USA was much different. I value our freedoms and government. I am a US soldier and proud of it. Hoah!
@danielmccurdy99485 жыл бұрын
Michael Garrido I know people from the USSR and Ukraine who feel the same as you. Thank you for your service. Young people have been duped into thinking socialism is the way to go. I remember Nikita Khrushchev and Alexander solzhenitsyn.
@metacomfortable3 жыл бұрын
Cuban kid here, great grand parents came here in ‘39 we still have not forgotten what this country has given to us and that’s from the “slums” of the Bronx god bless America
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
Michael...shhhhhh.... This administration likes people from every country BUT CUBA! Something about not wanting people to know what communism is really like from people who have experienced it. They'd rather just tell you how good it is.
@JNTX20085 жыл бұрын
Wow! I remember watching Prof. Mintz’s lectures on Houston Public Access for “fun” when I was a teenager in the ‘90s. I never knew his name or would’ve expected to ever come across him again. The overstructuring of childhood is a plague for kids today too. I have to gripe at mine to go outside, go ride your bikes, get into some trouble (not too much). Sadly, there are never any kids outside for them to play with.
@digital_gadget5 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the same thing - kids these days are shuttled between soccer, piano, katate, tutoring... because their parents are afraid they won't have enough to make it in today's economy, and they are afraid to let the kids free play because there's a "bad guy" around every unsupervised corner whether outside or online 😔
@suspiciousteacup79314 жыл бұрын
...atleast your kid can go outside without an adult at all. where i grew up (in a verry nice, low crime suburb) even a group of unsupervised 10/12 year olds goin around their neighborhood would raise eyebrows. Lack of freedom of movement isnt the only type of helicopteryness that was normal either, and honestly, it shows. In general, the kids there tended to be reckless in terms of physical dangers and generally restless (i mean, pretty much all kids are like that to an extent, but i feel like the ones that lived in this culture of bubble wrapping where expecially so) Plus it really sucks when you, for whatever reason, dont have anything on your schedule. As a kid i actually hated summer vacation because it meant being stuck in a house and little back yard with no friends to play with and nothing new to do/learn for very long periods of time :/
@evangelasmith88492 жыл бұрын
This is one interview that makes me appreciate this channel tremendously. I could only imagine what was lost in the fire...
@karenhorn66855 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1953. Grew up in very safe and wholesome neighborhoods. Most people got their first black and white TV in the 50's but there were not that many programs. At that time the Christian church was more influencial than telivision just because it wasn't watched that much but by the 60's there were more shows. And people were beginning to get colored television in the 60's. A TV salesman lived next door to us in the 60's and he had the first colored TV on our street. We did not go to very many movies. It was a special treat. The media did not influence opinions as it does today because it was a minor player. The parent teacher organizations helped support the school. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and little league baseball and swimming occupied our time And bikes, skateboards and playing on playgrounds All pretty wonderful!
@99967416995 жыл бұрын
I was always curious, what was the real situation of race relations between people who were not bigoted.
@bansho70765 жыл бұрын
@@9996741699 Think this channel had an interview on the subject from around that time.
@jp7feet5 жыл бұрын
@@9996741699 The Oak Cliff section of Dallas was a microcosm of this "diversity" thing of obsession today, and we pretty much got along.
@robandrews48155 жыл бұрын
Yes. I was born the same year as you . I get the point you make. But I wasn't part of that middle class. We were kind of poor. But as I got into my teens I faced growing homosexual feelings. People had to strongly repress this and there was n o place to talk with others about this.
@andytaylor54765 жыл бұрын
@@robandrews4815 Rob Andrews- I'm gay born in 1953. I grew up in a very unreal upper mid class area. But no matter what backround I was in a minority who would slowly find a voice and be seen for the first time in history. I can't imagine what my life would have been like had I not come out and found out I wasn't the only one!
@kathymack37915 жыл бұрын
I was born in the mid-50's. It was a time of great expansion in the middle class. I think what I miss most is the civility; of people being polite and considerate. But, I don't miss the descrimination that was a big part of that era. Reality is, life was great if you were living in a happy, stable home (especially if you were white) with enough money to have some "extras". It was not so great if you were poor and/or lived in a highly dysfunctional home. There weren't the interventions in schools like there are today, to help a kid who had a bad home life. In fact, that was no one's business; things were "swept under the carpet" or "kept in the closet". I often wonder how my life would have gone if there were interventions in place to help kids like me.
@justinkire46585 жыл бұрын
People were polite and considerate because it was an ethnically cohesive white society. That wasn't a coincidence.
@unknown-hf3jg5 жыл бұрын
@Martin Jensen Well no you can't say it because it's incorrect. White families do better because on average they have higher levels of wealth and income (which largely stems from that increased level of wealth. Most of this wealth was built through the GI bill in the 50s which gave white families much easier access to home ownership. Home ownership is the primary driver of intergenerational wealth. Plus black families were disadvantaged through redlining and underfunded schools, not to mention slavery and segregation. You see this with Asian families too. Asians have a higher average wealth than whites and subsequently do better in quality of life statistics. Maybe you're just ignorant but you are repeating white nationalist talking points almost word for word.
@peacheskong22454 жыл бұрын
@@justinkire4658 It's interesting to me how white societies can't be great without interfering into non-white societies.
@wendym21924 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing with us, Kathy! Im glad you are here to tell us about your life experiences growing up in the 1950's.😊👍❤ We can learn so much from one another if only people just give it a chance. 👍❤
@gregc65353 жыл бұрын
@@peacheskong2245 Sweden, among others, is a white society that is great and hasn't interfered into non-white societies. The myth that whites interfered with non-whites and weren't great until then is asinine, anti-white racism.
@jonglass5 жыл бұрын
I hope you will be posting more clips of this man. Thanks. And it seems the 50s were more tumultuous than the perception lets on.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
Jon. Over the next weeks I will be posting more clips from him. An extraordinary researcher he is. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@karenhorn66855 жыл бұрын
I remember watching JFK'S funeral with my parents in 1963 in black and white. I was 10. We probably got a colored television in about 1966.
@anthonysiebenthaler6825 жыл бұрын
Really, it is just more destroy the west claptrap. If you disagree then follow his path and see how miserable you are when you hit 60
@goodbyecommunists13352 жыл бұрын
I'm aghast at what we Americans perceive as education and Wisdom. The reason families FLOOD our borders from the entire rest of the world is to HAVE their Families be like the 1950s' stability, , , the American Dream of a stable Home and a happy Family Life.
@Saber232 жыл бұрын
They weren’t people are just stupid enough to think they were “tumultuous”
@144Donn2 жыл бұрын
I have rarely seen a person and thought "they belong in another time." His thoughtfulness, erudition and articulation..and the look in his eyes, seem to come from someone in the 1800's. Fascinating!
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. David Hoffman filmmaker
@abdelgaderalfallah5 жыл бұрын
It's almost now 1:10 am and tomorrow I got to get up early. It supposed to be a sleep now but Mr. Hoffman's channel keeps me awake. And I have to be wide awake, I ought to. Ask me why? Because it worth watching over and over and over and over. Thanks Mr. Hoffman for sharing.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. Now please. get some sleep. David Hoffman - folmmaker
@moniquemosley21224 жыл бұрын
He's still alive, David. Ever consider a follow up? The new century is officially 20 now and I would love to hear his thoughts on American society today.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker4 жыл бұрын
I would love to do that Monique but time and money don't allow these days. The best I can do is post clips from my old films and shoot zoom interviews on a regular basis which I am doing. He certainly was a good thinker and I suspect still is. David Hoffman - filmmaker
@josenavas58595 жыл бұрын
Mr Hoffman; I think your right sir. The professor does identify the attitudes of the day. I myself was born on 1951. The expectations were I too had a unlimited future. The sky was the limit all I had to was reach for it. Well yes and no the only person to tell me the truth was my dad. He to was fill was a fault scents of good guys wears white hats and well everyone doesn't. Conformity was the life to aspired to. With few exceptions pretty much every one I knew and their parents believe in that. The change came when my dad got a job in a metal work shop. Making bullets and the like. Vietnam was first spoken and told me not to worry it will over soon. I was all 15...then the world went to hell. Civil unrest, political Assassination liberating moments. Black right, women right, gay rights grey panthers rights. All was possible by 1970. It made me what I am today."CAUTIOUS" I do wonder now that it's almost been 50 years ago since 1970. Even then I wonder what was it for some one in 1920. There were people in there 70's as I am now almost. What did they think of us then? I wonder what people are to think in the future.?
@ForumArcade5 жыл бұрын
Are the odd audio skips in the video, or is my aux cord going bad?
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
it is not your cord. There are some glitches in the original beta video recording. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@Irene-eu4iz5 жыл бұрын
Beta 😂
@MarioNiebles5 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker VHS was the right way! 🤦♂️
@mvrdamonxy79425 жыл бұрын
No just a really weird beard/chin strap.
@Gonthor10005 жыл бұрын
It's your government blocking sensitive information.
@nathanmeacham3705 жыл бұрын
People are interesting and as a collective even more so. The more I watch your interviews the more I realize people are the same in every generation with all the same issues, problems, dreams, concerns, etc. The years may change but we're pretty much the same.
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
If history doesnt repeat, it sure does rhyme. Mark Twain
@SteverRob5 жыл бұрын
By the 1960s, being "cool" meant you got high, or was ok with people who got high. "Is he cool?" " Yeah, he's cool"
@djeieakekseki20585 жыл бұрын
KingMacintosh I don't think the word cool is used as much as before. It might even have a little bit of negative connotation to it.
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
@@djeieakekseki2058 Well, if that's the case, that is just not 'cool'. 😎
@YanraOnesja3 жыл бұрын
Dazed and confused
@johnb73375 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to hear this guy summarize every decade up to the present in the same way.
@anonymike82805 жыл бұрын
Youth culture? In my graduate seminar on Asian-American literature, I wrote about John Okada's novel "No-no Boy". I made the point that the Japanese-American youth of the Postwar entirely broke away from their isolated, repressed parents and embraced all of the elements of Postwar youth culture, including the car culture and the aimless violence of the youth and young adultes of the era. I also said that the break between the non-Americanized older generation often born in Japan and the youth was not due to the internment. I was not popular for my view. The last time talked to the instructor, who is a formerly Muslim woman of South Asian descent, she explained to me why she had been nice and not given me a C in the course. Nice, my heinie. She knew I would have appealed and she would have been cleaned out. In my presentation, I also explained why there were two Koreas today in the context of the Soviet entry into the war in the Pacific. That made me even less popular. Not because it was not interesting and accurate background. Because it started to clue in a bunch of contemporary graduate lit students about how to think about history.
@metacomfortable3 жыл бұрын
Honestly I can’t wait to here the kids of this era talk about their experiences and challenges with modern colleges
@dionysianapollomarx3 жыл бұрын
Pretty odd that a South Asian woman would be ahistorical in literature. How long ago was this? I'm pretty sure such an academic posture is no longer respected in the humanities.
@anonymike82803 жыл бұрын
@@dionysianapollomarx What do you mean by ahistorical in literature? What academic posture are you talking about? Min? Or hers? It was recent. 2017, in fact.
@joao_19863 жыл бұрын
@@anonymike8280 Now I'm actually curious to see your presentation if you don't mind ofcourse.
@anonymike82803 жыл бұрын
@@joao_1986 I don't have a lot to add. The argument I made about the Asian-American immigrant experience was that it was characterized by the same stage as the earlier European immigrant experience. I argued that (as it was represented in the literature we read) there was a first stage which I called adaptation. I said that the first-generation immigrant adapted to but never became assimilated into American. The first generation (new) immigrant remained "old country" in significant ways for the remainder of his or her life. The first generation immigrant sometimes did but often did not become fluent or even functional in English and usually spoke with a recognizable accent even if they became fluent. The second generation usually became entirely assimilated. In the literature we read, this was very pronounced in the Japanese-American community after the internment, where the Postwar youth were represented as as assimilated into American society and involved in all of the social trends of Postwar youth generally. This was not a popular view because it was based on the idea that inherent human rather than racism was what was the cause of the older generation's isolation from American society. Asian may have been more isolated than the Europeans had been. The cultural form of their isolation may have been different because of their race and their isolation may have been more extreme, but the ultimate governing idea in both cases was the same.
@stalstonestacy43165 жыл бұрын
Finally someone telling the truth about the mythical 50s housewife! Growing up nearly every woman I knew who was married with a family in the 50s and 60s also worked a full time job. Half of those had at least some college or a certification from a skilled trade college. That heels and pearls jazz was for entertaining company, going out and Sundays.
@genedryer-bivins83144 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley. Every family in the neighborhood had a working husband and a housekeeper wife. Most had only high school educations. Nobody worked two jobs. Most had kids and a pet of some kind. Cliches become cliche because they're true.
@leeautrey30754 жыл бұрын
The women in my family worked but it was PT and after the kids were in grade school. Also back then it was common to have other family members living with you who could watch the kids if Mom was working. So, childcare stayed in the family.
@shannongodbey74203 жыл бұрын
My Grandma was a saleslady while my father and aunts and uncles were growing up. My Grandfather had a good steady job but that extra income sure helped with so many mouths to feed
@CaptApril1233 жыл бұрын
Mary Tylor Moore on 'The Dick van Dyke' show refused to wear the dress & pearls thing for her character Laura, because that's not how housewives actually dressed.
@wasabe5913 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1952. My mother worked outside of the home since I was four years of age.
@robandrews48155 жыл бұрын
Professor Mintz should do a video about today's teens. I would like to get his opinion on school violence and the 'drug epidemic'. I guess he is still alive 29 years later.
@3_m_1_72 жыл бұрын
This man seems extraordinarily genuine and insightful for his time. I can't help but think that his account of the '50s would have been perfectly placed in the newspapers of the time. While I don't know if that may have been reasonable to expect, something tells me that it didn't. But I would welcome information to the contrary!
@jobee12 жыл бұрын
Excellent discussion on understanding the why’s of the time which is important if your going to judge a single generation. Every generation has why’s that are significant to the time good or bad.
@mdarrenu4 жыл бұрын
Another great interview Mr. Hoffman. I think I have heard of Dr. Mintz before but never read his books.
@stevenh47975 жыл бұрын
your videos are so interesting... this was one of the best. really impacted my sense of the world my parents and their peers grew up in, and how much (but differently than I'd thought before) it still influences our culture. Thanks David!
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
you are welcome. I feel the same way about this man and the way he analyzes. It was very helpful to me in understanding that time from a three-dimensional level. not just the typical stereotypes people say about that time. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@MarilynCrosbie5 жыл бұрын
When you say that the teenagers of the 1950s were rebelling through the clothes they wore, you are omitting to say that the teenagers were not the designers of those clothes. this means that there were adults planning clothing designs for the teenagers, so adults of a type different from their parents were in control of fashion at that time.
@johnmunk50674 жыл бұрын
Good catch! And expounding on that, that means that (at least) a certain element of that generation found instant $$$ to be more important that what happened to the kids who bought the clothes they designed in the future. And that would be reinforced by what we can see those determined to be rich have done to the Earth especially since the very time this video is about.
@yvonjasser4 жыл бұрын
They certainly didn’t find the rebel clothes at the local rebel store, they were modifying and making their own. The market later adjusted to the demand.
@freeto91394 жыл бұрын
Partially, this could be true. But, let's not forget that sewing machines were in every house and people did design many of the things they wore using patterns from the dime store that were sold for nickels and dimes.
@greggeverman55783 жыл бұрын
Very interesting...
@ritacampbell38333 жыл бұрын
I disagree. Designers didn’t choose the hairstyles, or tell anyone to turn up collars in the back, or how to push up sleeves, or how to combine things. On the other hand, not the designers, but I grew up with incredibly strict behavior and dress codes for school - certainly compared to today when kids take it for granted that the world should revolve around them sometimes, and it’s their right to back talk parents and authority figures, and express themselves through colors, hairstyles, piercings, tattoos, skin hanging out, etc. Even from the 70s TV shows, I’ve been shocked at the self importance and self indulgence and sassiness of kids. That’s TV, of course and not real life but I never saw any proof that real children didn’t expect it was their right to wear and say and do anything they wished, as well as the fictional TV characters. I wasn’t raised that way and school wasn’t that way at all for me in the 50s and early to mid 60s. We had to have perfect hygiene, perfect adherence to the rules, perfect obedience, and we were expected to obey our parents and bring honor to the family and the school and community. We had choices, no I am kidding. We had virtually no choices. Choices were something we would have when we were adults, and living in our own homes, and old enough and able to to assume all the heavy responsibilities of choices and freedoms. That was the deal. It didn’t bother me, not much. It did a bit at first, but I soon came to accept it. I just took it in stride that it was my place as a young person to respect my elders and the rules, to learn, to be good, and that my time would come eventually where I would be the adult and the boss. My point is not that it was a perfect way, or that any way is perfect, but it was what was normal to me. So I do find it hard to understand why young people today seem to think it is their right to be free to wear their hair anyway that they take a notion to wear it, and everything else, that they can do whatever they like, do what they like, back talk teachers and adults. But of course, not everyone is that way. I feel that the rules snd the strictness I had to live under taught me to be a team player, to be less selfish, to be more empathetic, to be a good citizen, and to have respect for myself, for property, for other people. On the opposite side, when I first lived out on my own, I had so little experience in dealing with choice making of all kinds - shopping for groceries, living within a budget, and so on that once I suddenly had to do all these things - they were harder due to not having had experience deciding things for myself, and knowing about boundaries, etc., because all those decisions had been made for me, and I wasn’t taught how to do a good many things for myself. I learned a very long time ago, but I can still remember that at first, it was a very great struggle.
@danielfronc43044 жыл бұрын
David Hoffman - I didn't know that you posted such excellent, truly insightful videos as well as your vintage pictures. You are AMAZINGLY talented. Keep on doing what you do best. I show your work to my 18 year old (I married later in life), who's just going off to college in a month. It gives him an idea of what my young life was like in the sixties and serves as a cautionary tale, preparing him for what he can expect in his coming life. He, too, is becoming a fast fan of you and your work as well. Thanks much!
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Daniel. David Hoffman - filmmaker
@Dave-zl2ky4 жыл бұрын
It was a good time to be a kid for the most part. Not perfect by any stretch, but lots of good things happening in the 50's. Dad worked, Mom stayed home. One car. Friday night was go to the local pizza and Italian restaurant. Neighbors told your mom and dad if you screwed up. people talked to each other.
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
Sure there were issues but so much good.
@sailorbychoice14 жыл бұрын
I was born in '61, I was the youngest of four boys, my eldest brother was born in '51. I grew up in suburbia as the outer world we viewed shifted from Black and white to color. The message of what we consider a good society and our rolls within it has changed dramatically. Growing up through the 60's was really growing up in the tail end of the 50's as we think of them, just as the 60's culture really didn't come in to most of the country until the late 60's. Between 1946-present the message about how we were supposed to live changed. The biggest message was from the feminists. The message from the Woman's Movement changed a lot, as I remember it, at first it was they wanted women to have "a choice" between staying home as a housewife and working outside the home, I'm not sure what they meant by that. I came from a family that throughout the 50's had been working itself up from poor to the lower middle class, neither of my parents had finished high school due to circumstances beyond their control, my dad started his career operating "an idiot stick" (his vernacular), a stick with an idiot on one side and a shovel-head on the other, for the cemetery department. After a year of digging burial graves he got a "raise" to walking behind a garbage truck. When the driver got the truck stuck on an icey hill road a year later, and my dad unstuck it, he got promoted to driver, that led to his being raised a couple years later to the driver for the street repair department. A couple years of hard work later when one of his co-workers got sick, dad's supervisor decided to teach my dad how to run heavy equipment for the town; bulldozers, backhoes,and graters. By the time I had come around he had a job that was almost exactly the national average income wage. We had made it out of poverty to lower-middle class into the middle-middle class. We had a pretty good house, a good used car for Mom, and a used pick-up truck for Dad, and we rarely had to add an extra cup of water into the soup anymore. My mother had gone to work for a hospital when they had gotten married working as a practical nurse. For those not in the medical field a practical nurse has the least in-school training, the hospitals would train their own PNs in procedures and in patient care. She started as a straight up bedpan emptier, take the temp, dispense meds, give a rub down, remake the bed if needed, or assist the RNs in more demanding tasks. Just about the time I was born my mother was selected for special training to work in the nursery caring for the newborns; it was considered a major step up for them as well as fifteen dollars more per week. Mom did not consider it particularly liberating to be out working while she had 4 sons at home. She wasn't working for the joy of working or for a cause beyond food, shelter, clothes, and a few of the niceties that make the difference between life's drudgery and a bit of security, she was working to maintain the home and hearth. My mother wasn't alone, all of the "house-wives" in our middle-middle income world worked, most worked part time, not because they couldn't get full time work but because they only wanted part-time work because they were only trying to make a bit more to bring together where the Dad's income ended and the monthly expenditures continued, and a few enjoyed the break in routine. She had started her little ceramic business at exactly the right time, as the ceramic hobby era was just coming in, and it lasted just long enough for her to spoil her newborn grandchildren. We'd have about a hundred students per week come to the house for classes, almost all middle class housewives. I spent almost ten years listening to groups of middle class housewives gabbing amongst themselves. I don't think I ever heard one say they wanted to be able to go out into the world to work harder than they already did. They all bitched about their husbands and their kids but that's what women do when they get together.The difference between men and women, I suppose, because a group of guys would never get together and bitch about their wives and the stupid things our kids do~ Am I right fellas? So, my mother had always worked, starting when her mother died when she was 13. She started a home business in the ealry 70s, but as soon as they could afford it, just about the time I got out of school (I am the youngest) she quit working when my dad got his next big promotion operating the huge diesel engines that pumped the town's water supply; in twenty years together he had gone from a grave digger to road work to heavy equipment operator to stationary engineer. She had gone from bed pan emptying to specialist nurse to entrepreneur to early retirement~ for her, dad worked almost 20 years more. I don't understand how my mother staying home when she could afford to enslaved her. It seems to me, my dad always worked hard, had really hard, physically demanding jobs to perform. Mom worked hard too, but always part-time. Mom controlled the purse-strings for the household, for her business and Dad's. Dad also ran a small lawn maintenance business on the side, so he wound up working about 60 hours per week then came home and did another 10-15 hours of whatever my mom wanted him to do around the house for most of 40 years. Mom worked 20 hours per week outside the home. When she opened her ceramic studio, she stopped working outside the home entirely putting in about 25- 30 hours per week from home. My dad had to pour many of the molds for her, some weighed up to a hundred pounds, as well as making bases for lamps out of wood and electrifying lamps and clocks and such. So when she started her business she was putting in 25-30 hours per week, dad was doing his job, doing his part time business, coming home and putting in 10 hours per week for mom plus doing the standard dad work around the house. Yes, it may have been "liberating" for them for her to work, and concede that mom worked hard-ish, but I remember my dad being the one ALWAYS working~ until Mom finally let him retire. By the end of the 70's there had been a sea change in the feminist message. Instead of the message being, "we want our sisters to have a choice to work or stay home," to a woman had to choose to work outside the home or they were second class citizens, looked down upon, the very term "House Wife," has almost come to mean "House Slave" to the feminists. How many young mothers today would rather be home with their babies? or if given an actual choice, if they do work full time, how many would rather work half that and stay home the other half? Of course, because so many women work now the wages have dropped as there is no scarcity of warm bodies to do work, the price of housing has climbed from 1/4 of a Dad's monthly income to cover the mortgage and insurance (yes, that's how banks traditionally used to figure our how much house you could afford, 1/4 of one person's take home pay should cover your house payment). But when we had 2 full time incomes to draw from... over about a 7 year period, it went from 1/4 of one full time job when my oldest brother bought his first house to ALL of my brother's take home pay, leaving them to live off of her income only when they bought their second. Gee, could there have been some other economic reasons for wanting women in the workforce? We've doubled the percentage of people to stick into the workplace, told them them are not real people unless they do, the increase does not include population rise nor immigration, and we wonder why we have an employment problem in this country.
@TheNacropolice4 жыл бұрын
I think the rise in prices is mostly down to inflation, though perhaps having both work helped. Though as the video said, women working wasn't an anomaly in the 50s, nor i assume in the 40s. Your experience certainly seems one where both parents loved each other, however, imagine a situation where that isn't the case and the woman is wholly dependent on the man for her financial well being; suddenly it is a different calculus, isn't it? In my view, a lot of the struggles we face today is because America never fully embraced some common sense ideas. For instance, why don't we accept the fact that both parents working is the de facto reality (instead of still trying to make believe ourselves into woman can work and take care of kids) and start real funding for affordable child care for all. You mentioned housing, during your dad's time odds are things like Levitttowns were all around, we don't see this massive push towards construction. Price, after all, is a factor of supply/demand/sunk cost. There are many affordable houses still, some in good middle class neighborhoods; the issue is that they are 40+ miles from a major city so you will have to accept a longer commute. The feminist cause is a noble and just one, a woman is only different from a man by her physical features. There is nothing that should mandate a woman should be submissive to her husband, or be looked down upon as lesser because she is a "she" and not a "he". Likewise nothing should stop a man from being able to be a "house husband" as well. I think that is what real feminism, not this new wave BS of "all men are pigs" is about: We are all equal where biology doesn't step in (which really is just physical strength), we should all be allowed the same opportunities to fail and succeed and nothing has to be a stereotypical male or female role. My dad, for instance, certainly does more of the house work than my mom does due to her working a lot (she 's a workaholic really)
@Sabs2155 жыл бұрын
3:27 lmfao those ideals of self-fulfillment in 2019 are optimistic. We've come full circle.
@GaelissFelin3 жыл бұрын
i was just thinking the same. i just want to own a house by my forties, maybe go back to get my degree when it makes more financial sense. maybe foster a kid or two. have a job that i'm good at that earns good money, even if i don't always like it or find it interesting. doing some good in the world would be a real bonus. i don't care abt the rest.
@blinkth3dog5 жыл бұрын
This dude was amazing. Again reminds me of waking life. Funny how things change but stay the same
@pbrucpaul5 жыл бұрын
That's particularly interesting what he said about Divorce coming on in the 50's. I honestly thought that was something of a deal in the 70's. I thought it was an "O.K. you restless 60's Boomer's, now that you've married and have kids, Are you going to practice what you Preached and maybe had solutions for?" What have been the result's since?
@YouT00ber4 жыл бұрын
I like these interviews. The person just talks and puts it out there and the interviewer just shuts up and let’s it happen. Nice work sir!
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker4 жыл бұрын
thank you. That is my style. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@damienholland81035 жыл бұрын
Income inequality and job instability has pretty much wiped out all those gains thanks to the upper class in this country's greed.
@user-td7xf3gz4l5 жыл бұрын
Is that right?
@jasonlambert55525 жыл бұрын
@@user-td7xf3gz4l Very correct, I know you think you're rich with your 60k a year headache job. But you're not.
@johnscanlan63375 жыл бұрын
What exactly do you mean when you point to "the upper class" as the culprit? I'm guessing I have a very different viewpoint but I'd like to hear more about your position.
@benk13073 жыл бұрын
@@johnscanlan6337 Over $10 million a year plus a majority shareholder position in multiple major companies (companies you didn't create yourself). That's the "upper class" that critics of the "upper class" often refer to, while advocates of the "upper class" tend to think that 100k a year and no equity of any kind is "upper class". In traditional socialist theory, no equity = working class, regardless of income. No equity = no preferred stock ownership and therefore no true decision making power (apart from a fake democracy). If you own stock with voting rights in sufficient number to actually influence company agendas, you are part of the ruling class. If you don't, you are working class.
@damienholland81033 жыл бұрын
@@troyboldon1 Nope, the real answer lies in "Wage Stagnation" plenty of economists are talking about it just Google it. Pew Research, for example, has an article on it headlined "For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades". The subject of people being too lazy to work or work hard is not what I am describing (that's a different subject altogether). As far as what I meant by rich people causing most of America's economic problems that's also easy to research. We are almost fully a plutocracy (i.e, a two-party system primarily influenced by the rich).
@LeoWhalen19335 жыл бұрын
These interviews are outstanding. I can't get enough. Thank you!
@Fires7558 ай бұрын
Can't afford to join , instead I'll listen to your show!!! Best one, Love you!!!
@OakhillSailor5 жыл бұрын
TV changed everything.
@dkatomski5 жыл бұрын
OakhillSailor LSD too.
@marvinimhoff48295 жыл бұрын
I grew up in this era in a lower middle class family. As far as i remember there wasn't all of the rebellion he speaks of. Just a family adjusting to all of the new technology and freedom it gave to be closer as a family.
@joshualittlewolfe85505 жыл бұрын
marvin imhoff I know lots of old people who had horrible lives in the 1950’s. It was the same as now overall just hidden under the glamour of Hollywood
@BlackButlerCLCL5 жыл бұрын
marvin imhoff he was just talking about the uproot of beatnik / punk culture which did basically take over “youth culture” in 60’s-80’s
@levinb15 жыл бұрын
Interesting to think about the role of Television on shaping culture across the US spectrum. Television at a time when people had the option, or at least some people, to move to the suburbs, leaving the bustle of the city, and spend time with family around the television to keep them updated on the bustle of the country.
@anastasia100173 жыл бұрын
I think the 50's an 60's were happier because people could find jobs easily and get work and look forward to a raise and could afford to pay for their rent and their car. and companies didnt fire people for no reason and your companies didnt take 110% or your energy so you had nothing left to give to your family. The fact that they didnt have the fear of being laid off looming over them added to the quality of their lives. he mentions that black families were stable - and that is the same reason- black families had work and could pay their rent and feed their families.
@tnh7234 жыл бұрын
incredibly relevant today! my own family has a very rigid structure for my daughter who goes to gym 3x a week, we tutor her 4x a week, she also does additional sports during the same week. GenXer here. now we have YEET, OOF, and more lol . I love this!
@donmc1950 Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1950 and what I most remember is the threat of Nuclear war and the polio epidemics. It was a scary time
@PyRoToXiNe6695 жыл бұрын
Super instructive, this will help me for my dissertation, thx David, thx Steven
@jn37505 жыл бұрын
He's a former prof. Of mine! Great lecturer
@jn37505 жыл бұрын
@coffeeinthemorning Maybe. I haven't seen him in about 15 years. He probably tried to look like Abram Lincoln!
@timburr44537 ай бұрын
Very well researched and informative. Gives new perspective on the 50s
@carolyna.8692 жыл бұрын
As Uranus goes, so goes the world! Uranus was in Cancer for most of the 1950s. Hence the focus on families, marriage motherhood and fertility. There was a tremendous baby boom for women of all ages-- from teens to 50s. What a great time for building ideals of families and marriage that pe0ple can continue to strive for! Men should always be providers and mothers should always be nurturing and steadfast. What a great time for kids as well--playing outside and having fun- so unlike the kids of today with all of their mental problems.
@totallyfrozen11 ай бұрын
8:45 I see his point, but young people do need structure and discipline. I remember not long ago, we spoke with a very highly skilled and accomplished piano player regarding my daughter’s tendency, like many kids, to not want to practice. He said, I credit my success to my mother. I didn’t always want to practice the piano but she made me do it everyday regardless and I’m glad she did. We don’t want ti stifle creativity and expression; however, many times in order to creatively express ourselves it requires skills that take discipline to develop.
@Upside_Down_Guitar_Guy3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, even more so after having just rewatched Mad Men. It reminds me of Betty and how she longed to live a more unconventional life but gets stuck in the “ideal” family of the 50s
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
Im sure there was disenchantment and resentment...but progressives hold the microphone and are only too happy to share some revisionist history.
@berylbroughton87235 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for the unique insight you give us into family life in the 1950's. I was born in 1955, so I would tell you that my childhood really was in the 50's until after the assassination of President Kennedy. I also had very young parents...my mother had me when she was 18 and my father was 21...but you would never know this to look at them. I think that for quite a few American's, conformity was outwardly very, very comfortable...
@oldlonewolf96493 жыл бұрын
In my country there is expression that humble living is good for childrens .
@EdySmi5 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know his thoughts as to why exactly the family structure of minorities changed. He's probably written a book about it. I'd also love to see an interview of the interviewer himself, and his thoughts about all those he interviewed in aggregate, as well as what stood out.
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
The government thought they'd 'fix' things wiyh LBJs Great Society. They sure fixed things all right!
@destubae32712 жыл бұрын
Cointel and like Mike said, policy like Great Society. Just some evil subversion
@linkskywalker5417 Жыл бұрын
@@mikesmith-nj1ij How?
@AwesomeSauce71762 жыл бұрын
Is there an extended version of this interview?
@charlesg30865 жыл бұрын
This explains so much about American society after the 1950s. Glad I came across this video
@MickeyMorandini1 Жыл бұрын
I am falling in love with your work Mr Hoffman. you sir are a patriot
@paganofthenorth4485 жыл бұрын
And now it is a titanic struggle to fulfill these goals.
@iittssmmee22395 жыл бұрын
Pagan of the North well you have the leftists to thank for that. Regulations, high taxes, incentivizing divorce and single motherhood. They preached/preach about being yourself and being independent and free from conformity, unless you disagree with them and don’t conform to their system. They focused so much on “ social justice “ that they put into place bureaucratic policies that made it easier for people. Witch made people less likely to strive to be the best they can be and instead felt that it should just be handed to them as if it were owed to them. People are now perfectly happy for the “ loving liberal government “ to take someone else’s money and use it for the programs they enjoy but they still aren’t happy they want more. Idc how much money the next man has and it’s none of my business. Unless I have loaned you something I don’t feel like I’m owed a damn thing from my parents or society!! I’m not rich or middle class I’m 24 and live in a 1 bedroom apartment with my girlfriend, but if I make it to the middle class or rich I certainly wouldn’t want a bunch of entitled brats screaming about how I don’t give them enough of what I earned. The left isn’t what they advertise themselves as, they are the real tyrants and most of them don’t realize it because it’s like a religion, even when presented with facts and evidence that contradict their beliefs they only double and become hostile towards you going as far as trying to ruin your personal relationships and tarnish your reputation, try to ruin your career and even becoming extremely violent and after you have been assaulted and dehumanized say it’s your fault because you had wrong think or speech. I’m sorry for my ranting but the biggest threat facing our future is the left and the religious/political indoctrination of the youth and any youth that doesn’t conform is cast out, ignored, neglected, intimidated and even hated and it don’t matter if your white, black , man , woman, gay, straight, trans if you betray the left they will make you pay.
@paganofthenorth4485 жыл бұрын
Maga Gene H Tell me something I don’t know.
@danielmccurdy99485 жыл бұрын
@@iittssmmee2239 You said it!
@jasonlambert55525 жыл бұрын
@@iittssmmee2239 That is pure speculative hyperbole. You're punching down while probably barely scraping by with 24k a year. While the people that make that in an hour tell you keep working hard for me, I'll but another yacht next week thanks to your hard work, don't be late!"
@unknown-hf3jg5 жыл бұрын
@@iittssmmee2239 lol that was complete nonsense. If you actual looked at anything factually you wouldn't be a conservative.
@wheresmyeyebrow16085 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all your films!
@Mooseman3275 жыл бұрын
I kept waiting for some questions about Moby Dick which never came. Excellent interview nonetheless!
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
Well, Starbuck, ye don't realize he had limitted time and a tired sea leg. Argh!
@RowdyLowdy5 жыл бұрын
Well spoken and incredibly well versed in 50’s culture and lifestyle. I’m sure he’s just as informed about other decades as well. Probably a sociology major.
@constantdarkfog494 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1951, it was a very good year, the 1950's part of my life were by far my best ever. Families were very close & loving, life was good. Life was simple, we did not have all the terrible mass killings we see today.
@danceswithcarsdc3 жыл бұрын
While the video was uploaded a couple years ago, when was it recorded? Do I gotta finish it to find out in credits/end scroll?
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
Start by reading the description please.
@danceswithcarsdc3 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker fair enough. I'm spoiled by modern titling and closed captions...
@danceswithcarsdc3 жыл бұрын
I do mark down for maga hash tag though
@gringax99473 жыл бұрын
The comment that 30% of marriages contracted during the 50's ended in divorce, includes a huge amount that split in the late 70's after 23 years of marriage like my folks. I think it is an error to attribute a blase attitude about divorce to people living in the 50's. Even in the late 60's being a "divorcee" was still quite scandalous, even in California.
@coffeeosu_2 жыл бұрын
Born in 2002. I love 1950s car culture, and I wish cars today looked the same. I wish car culture would make come back in the 2050s 🙏
@cm309023 жыл бұрын
I don’t really agree with some of his reviews regarding the youth but it’s interesting to listen to him talk! As a culture we send too much time in the review of yesteryears as my mom says! Just live in the moment & do your best!
@kelseymathias38812 жыл бұрын
11/22/63 everything changed...Americans now felt vulnerable in all aspects of their lives.
@hypnoticmagical48055 жыл бұрын
Interesting perspectives and insights.
@GaelissFelin3 жыл бұрын
stunning how detailed this is. i was mildly shocked that he mentioned how the youth culture came from black folks! credit where credit is due! still the case to this day
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
I learn so much about culture from listening to rap lyrics. If thats our primary cultural influence....
@John-Brown5 жыл бұрын
C Everett Koop called and he wants his beard back.
@jamesrobiscoe11745 жыл бұрын
A thoughtful look at the changing values and cultural practices and their growth through the 1950s. The always interesting stories of "cause and effect". I'm disappointed this interview was apparently made in 1990.
@triscuithebiscuit3 жыл бұрын
He talks about the upheaval of the 30s and 40s and the affect they had on the 50s. I wonder how today's relative upheaval of social norms and interaction will affect this decade or the next? We've already seen a shift to working from home and skyrocketing depression and isolation, and that's just in the last year. Maybe the next decade will also have low expectations, as many events and lives have had to be changed to fit with the coronavirus. Personally I tend to accept things when they happen (school closing down indefinitely for one) and that may be an increasing trend. Thoughts?
@rashidkadura6935 жыл бұрын
interesting beard
@chase67905 жыл бұрын
Looks almost Amish-esque
@OphiuchiChannel5 жыл бұрын
Abraham Lincolnesque
@Irene-eu4iz5 жыл бұрын
It’s like having a beard without having a beard
@zill06785 жыл бұрын
i was born in 1988 and grew up in the 1900s. for me this video shows a two very similar situations between the 50s and 90s and the following 60s and 2000s with the introduction of a more expansive communicative technology(TV. and The Internet). , the subsequent economic boom, the power to purchase exclusivity increases(1950s from the citys to the suburbs,1990s from the suburbs to the gated community's) , disconnect with the youth from the prevailing adult norms to ideology's that reinforce their perceptions, a reckoning, Society Stabilizes or social collapse. we got society stabilizes in the 80s i believe due to external pressures from the soviet union and success generated from overcoming those pressures resulted in a course correcting of the youths and young adults radical ideology to ones more stable but somewhat hollowed out ideology keeping with that of their parents
@josephgraziano24133 жыл бұрын
This is really good but the video is hiccuping for me despite a normal connection. It’s just the voice muting intermittently.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
This was recorded on Beta SP videotape back to 1989 and the audio has degraded. I'm sorry. David Hoffman filmmaker
@yogurt24662 жыл бұрын
thank you for uploading. i love david hoffman!!
@johnwall7254 жыл бұрын
Such a great speaker honest Abe
@mikesmith-nj1ij2 жыл бұрын
It's hard to believe this guy went from living in a log cabin to being a professor at the University of Houston. It's a real uplifting rags-to-riches Tale.
@Moto_Medics4 жыл бұрын
Amazing, I appreciate you greatly for these films, tv is dead, so these not being lost to the ether is a gift.
@austinballard68158 ай бұрын
He speaks very well and he is quite accurate about times.
@allaroundamazing70075 жыл бұрын
David Hoffman, I was wondering if you happen to have the link to the full video??
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
Not yet, but I will be uploading more comments from him in the near future. David Hoffman - filmmaker
@zanebliss37645 жыл бұрын
Great analysis. I found it interesting thoughts on what they faced. Teens of the 60s (generally) where the first ingrateful generation in America history and now they are running the country. I guess their argument on not wanting to gaining material wealth change to greed and irresponsible.
@johnvillella10876 ай бұрын
Just a brilliant summation of the times.
@ES29903 жыл бұрын
Me, a Detroiter: Man, this guy sounds like he's from SE Michigan. I look it up and it turns out he's from Detroit too lol
@johnnysalami273 жыл бұрын
This is the only man I’ve seen the chinstrap beard on a man, not to be confused with the Abraham Lincoln
@anonymike82805 жыл бұрын
I have a different view of the ideal family of the 1950's. I was there and I was aware of a lot domestic violence, economic distress and dislocation, and post-traumatic stress in the men. Some of the "ideal family" scenarios I see in retrospect as attempts to provide people with models of what good family life and solitictous parenting might be like. Unlike many of today's television shows about American family life, I don't think these programs were intended as mirrors of the actual family life of the time.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker5 жыл бұрын
I also was aware of the difficulties for families living at that time. I think that the people who paint this idealized picture of that time are younger and didn't live through it. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@anonymike82805 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker A side effect of my graduate program in English literature: I am becoming (if I am not bragging too much) a superb social theorist. But, as they say, if you can do it, it ain't bragging. Always have been one, but this is new territory.
@argyleeuphoria62004 жыл бұрын
David, these videos are incredible. Thank you for posting.
@3rdeyeshine945 жыл бұрын
Abraham Lincoln son
@w.a.c.50275 ай бұрын
You asked, "how we ended up now" In a nutshell, The 1968 Summer of Love in SF and Greenwich Village with "if it feels good, do it" That was the beginning of the end and all downhill from there.
@freedomfirst55575 жыл бұрын
It used to take a village to raise a child..................now youtube, twitter, facebook are raising them. What could possibly go wrong with that
@chastitywhore61413 жыл бұрын
I can imagine Abe Lincoln lecturing on KZbin about the social impacts of the 1950s.