Take an unforgettable walk back in time through Rural America.

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[@michaelmullin7941]

People were sooo poor. I was among them.

[@jayarajjohnson2476]

The Hill Twins....real cute...wonder what all mischief they were up to.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

They look capable of some mischief, don't they! :-) Thank you for watching and commenting! Hope you enjoyed.

[@theodorepetine7562]

What good old days I wish we could bring them back

[@thefamilyalbum739]

The old days certainly had a kind of charm about them, didn't they? Thanks for watching, Theodore, and especially thanks for commenting!

[@lisasgian]

Awesome photos! Great choice in music!!

[@sharonh2991]

I could have looked at those pictures and listened to the music all day long. I didn’t want that video to end.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

How kind of you to say, Sharon, you made my day! I have another Rural America video "in the can", I think is the expression, with equally unique music, I think. Just waiting till this one finishes trending before I post it. Thank you for watching and especially for commenting.

[@LesterMoore]

This should make most of us extremely grateful for what we have today. We may have difficult and challenging times but rarely the hard times of the past.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

I so agree, Mario! Thanks for watching and for commenting!

[@loricarrera4397]

Nice photos and music, I sit back and enjoyed the photo and smooth music. Thanks for sharing.

[@philmuskett265]

A fascinating glimpse into the lives of salt-of-the-earth down-home folks. The backbone of America.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

So true. You gotta admire their strength and resilience! Thanks for watching, Phil, and for taking the time to comment!

[@williamjenkinson9213]

Great photos and music. Hard times make strong people. 💪

[@thefamilyalbum739]

So true, William. Character building stuff! Thanks for watching, William, and for taking the time to comment.

[@garyhughes9649]

I didn't realize how much simpler all the buildings were then

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Frighteningly so! LOL. Thank you for watching and for commenting, Gary. I hope you enjoyed!

[@catherinejohnson2235]

Good luck! You have a great voice, the photos are treasures, and the music - THE best! Thanks.

[@mathonamoore123]

Thank you for uploading this. Greetings from Ireland on the 22nd of June 2022 🇮🇪💕💜

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Wow, Mathona, thanks for traveling so far just to watch! LOL. Been to Ireland! Adored it, with a castle around every bend and green grass all the way to the horizon! So glad you enjoyed!

[@tedscott1478]

Beautiful imagery and lovely haunting music. This history needs to be preserved. Good luck for your project👍🤞🙂

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you so much, Ted, and thanks for watching. More RURAL AMERICA videos coming!

[@tedscott1478]

@@thefamilyalbum739 👍😊

[@billweeks3987]

Loved it

[@veramae4098]

Yeah. Sure. My great grandmother died on her living room floor, delivering her 14th baby (it died the next day), bleeding to death while her husband and the doctor got drunk. Her name's even spelled wrong on her tombstone. You can keep ol' rural America. Michigan

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Oh how horrible, Vera Mae. I'm sorry. I like to think rural America has come a long way since we were kids.

[@claraguzman6842]

Great pictures. Loved the music. I just subscribed. Good luck!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Clara. So, so appreciated! Have a wonderful 4th!

[@mistiinseattle]

Great channel. I appreciate your clear, easy-to-understand voice and love the pix!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Wow, THANK YOU, Sue, you made my day!

[@johnjaco5544]

Thank you great photos.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, John. Thanks for watching! More Rural America coming soon!

[@martieflagg4671]

Subscribed. Love looking back in time and great music choice!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@RM-mm4jr]

I loved these old photos. Thank you for showing us. The young people don t know n the old people forget so stuff like this is important. The music is absolutely beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you ♥️ From Australia

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Wow, are the old Down Under remote, rural areas similar, RM? Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment!

[@cami9447]

I’m from WV. 74 years old now, and still remember the brutal poverty in Moundsville. I lived in the original tiny house ☺️. Now torn down , right at the end of Jefferson avenue next to the power plant. Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing makes us appreciate what we have now.

[@dewilew2137]

Hi! Do you still live in West Virginia, or did you move at some point?

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Ain't that the truth! From now on when I'm feeling deprived, I'm going to look at those pictures all over again! Thank you for watching and for sharing!

[@whereswaldo5740]

My grandparents lived in Daybrook West Virginia. It’s on the map but I’m not sure why. It’s unincorporated and nothing there. Used to be a small school general store and gas station. Many of these photos look like things I’ve seen. Spent as much time as I could down there. Loved my grandparents and meeting all the people. I learned a lot.

[@Elizabeth-rq1vi]

Fascinating look back at a time and places I've never visited. I did get a chuckle out of the car in front of the Ritz Hotel...the parking lines are quite visible but there's always one who won't/can't park! Probably didn't want anyone to ding his car's paint job!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

LOL. Thank you, Elizabeth. That ever-annoying don't-know-how-to-park person is usually ME! LOL. Thanks for watching. Have a happy 4th!

[@alvashoemaker8536]

Great combination of music and photos…SUITABLE; HACK! SOME of those photos (cars driving they water; flooded roads), in a way, were reassuring: LIFE…for ME& my neighbors…got a little “crazy”; we had to do pretty much “I whatever it took” to keep putting one foot in front of the other! HOWEVER, COUNTRY people ARE RESOLUTE!! 👍🏼👍🏼😳❤️👣

[@alvashoemaker8536]

THANKS for this vid…!😃😃👍🏼❤️👣

[@thefamilyalbum739]

It was a time and a circumstance that required courage and fortitude, for sure! I've got to admire them - and you! Thank you for watching, Alva.

[@belvinsweatt1274]

Was nice to watch this. Places reminded me of places I lived in growing up.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thanks for watching, Belvin. Glad you enjoyed!

[@morellawalker373]

Great music!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Morella, I got lucky. I hope you enjoyed it.

[@georgeharleydavidsonrider156]

Great video. Thanks for posting. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thanks for watching, George. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rogerb5615]

Good stuff here. Many similar images of my southern Appalachian region can be found in the TVA archives. Thank you for your efforts - this history must be neither forgotten nor "cancelled" by today's thoughtless culture.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Roger. It must have been a tough place to grow up, but no one looked unhappy! Thanks for watching!

[@dewilew2137]

A throwback to a much more simple time. I so wish I could have experienced it. Thank you for another lovely video! I can’t wait to share some of these with my family and loved ones. 🤗♥️

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Dewi, you're such a loyal watcher and commenter. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it! You make it all worthwhile!

[@belvinsweatt1274]

I’ve always wanted to write a little book about my life growing up. I would title it, “And You Thought You Were Poor”. The first thing I remember was my mother making biscuits from the dough pan after my father had mixed the flour etc together for her. She had just come home from the hospital after having twins; #8&9. They did not survive. I was 3, but I remember it. It was 1951.

[@dewilew2137]

@@belvinsweatt1274 you should write it! I’d definitely read it.

[@barbiewert7182]

Great job may almighty God bless you and your

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Barbie. And thank you for watching and for commenting!

[@robertcombs55]

I was a USAF Brat; remember when Dad got transferred; even RESTAURANTS had Outhouses...

[@thefamilyalbum739]

WOW! Thanks for watching, Robby and for taking the time to leave a comment! Thankfully, I grew up in a plumbed world. :-)

[@rickyteets9524]

Greatness !

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Ricky! So glad you enjoyed it.

[@aussiecopy]

Thank you so much

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Warwick. Thank you for watching and for commenting.

[@waynesmith9765]

I enjoyed the pictures. Especially the ones with dates.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Hi, Wayne, thanks for watching! I share your frustration, believe me! Some of them don't even have LOCATIONS when I get them! I spend a lot of time chasing down clues from things I can see in the picture. What did we do before Google?!

[@1m2rich]

South before they got federal dollars. Red States.

[@pearlcaster8287]

No, the SOUTH---before the TVA got the dams built! You seem to have missed the word "flood" or note the damaged houses.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Yes, looks it was a tough place to grow up. Hope things have improved since. Thank you for watching, Judy!

[@rolandojo3394]

Wow you're amazing the videos and picture are all fantastic..GOD bless you ..

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Wow, thank you so much, Roland! You made my day!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

SUBSCRIBED!! Thank you, awesome, wonderful! 🙂❤️❤️❤️🏆👏

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Don't know if you noticed, but at 3 am this morning we crossed the 1,000 subscriber threshold. And it's thanks in part to YOU! I hope we continue to live up to your expectations!

[@robertodebeers2551]

So much poverty, where poverty still exists today.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Yeah, I like to think it's not quite as bad, but I may be deluding myself. Thank you for watching and for commenting, Roberto.

[@maryfuller8598]

The tax assessor can really sling a leg up!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

LOL. They sure can! I wonder if they intimidate their own families the same way! Thank you for watching, Mary. Happy 4th.

[@steven2212]

Well done, good luck!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Steven. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to leave a comment. Appreciated!

[@tommy5367]

It would be fun growing up there but would be a pretty sleepy place for adults.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Sure would! I'm guessing the nearest entertainment was a major road trip away! Thanks for watching, Tom, hope you enjoyed.

[@jessestewart169]

Wow a step back in time. When life was real.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Sure seems like it was, Jesse. Real and tough! Thank you for watching and for commenting!

[@ambercrombie789]

Wondering if the coming recession will put WalMart out of business and small businesses will return. ?? Comments?

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Hmm, interesting thought. I was just reading an article about a dozen huge chain stores that will be shutting down this year, so I suppose anything's possible. There sure was a charm about the local hardware store, butcher and corner delicatessen/mini-supermarket, wasn't there.

[@rickyteets9524]

Damn. I hope so !

[@1m2rich]

Many products have already left the market because of the long pandemic.

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... #20 ✝ {6-29-2022}

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Carl! So glad you enjoyed!

[@catherinejohnson2235]

Is that Robert Johnson?

[@betty4gators]

So good to see some of my heritage and music on YT! All I usually get is urban anti-country garbage!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you, Betty. Finding the right and different public domain music for each video can be a challenge. So glad you liked it! And especially thank you for commenting!

[@ceendiemassee4004]

love the one from tellico plains....not far from me, bout 30 minutes

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Oh wow! Have things changed much? Thank you for watching and for the comment!

[@ceendiemassee4004]

@@thefamilyalbum739 no not really, still a small country town

[@ceendiemassee4004]

@@thefamilyalbum739 there was a mass murder there in october of 2001 and i was in the middle of it and saw the whole thing....the man that done al the shooting, went next door to my trailer and shot himself n the back bedroom and i saw the bullet come out the wall and into the ground.

[@haroldcampbell3337]

@@ceendiemassee4004 Yee haw!

[@johnnycrash3270]

6:25 The Revenuer comin to collect tax , MA don't look to happy

[@thefamilyalbum739]

LOL, no, I think she just wanted to get it over with!! LOL. Thanks for watching, Johnny.

[@larryboyes7276]

Superb nostalgia with great music. Who's the musician?

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Hi, Larry, thanks for watching! When I found the music, I thought it was right on! It's called EMPTY BOTTLE, EMPTY BED by the Mini-Vandals.

[@robertniles8240]

Interesting Mother Nature Fury Before the Globalists declared global warming Guess they missed that!!

[@thefamilyalbum739]

It would appear so. :-) Thanks for watching, Robert.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

This was fun. If I may make a suggestion, why not date, or at least put "Circa ~____?" I was wondering, for example, how old that billiard parlor was. Great music you selected for this, BTW. Fits perfect;-)

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thanks for watching, Doc, and thanks for commenting! Great observation! This batch of pictures was so frustrating cause they came with virtually no information! What little background I WAS able to provide on some came from hours of Googling! Hope you enjoyed nonetheless.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

@@thefamilyalbum739 Well, I took out my magnifying glass and did a bit of "research" myself, regarding that billiard parlor. The picture was taken in the early 30s, based on the cars. Looks like they had a lunch counter in there also. I noticed the sign says "Pocket" Billiards, and that dates it a bit too, because at the time this was taken 3-cushion billiards, which has no pockets, was still enjoying fairly wide popularity, and pocket pool was gradually replacing it, because it was a whole lot easier. If you listen to the lyrics of the first verse of the song "Ya Got Trouble," in "The Music Man," it's about what a supposedly coarse, bad influence pocket pool was to the youth, as opposed to the more cerebral game of 3-cushion. Again, thanks for putting this montage together. I'd almost forgotten there was a time, so long ago, when even I wasn't born yet.

[@skelelator]

around the 2:50 mark, did the little girl on the right have her face smudged out by the family, or just a mar in the picture?

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Ya know, I was trying to figure that out as well. That particular picture was provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), so I have to assume it is just a deterioration, but who knows. Thanks for watching and for the comment!

[@gregorykacsandy5005]

Pics could be dated...

[@1m2rich]

Nothing charming about poverty.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

So true, but we can't escape reality. Thank you for watching, Judy.

[@Luciopiacenza333]

AMERICA? America is from Alaska to Patagonia, maybe you mean the United States.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Hi, Lucio, thanks for watching, and thanks for commenting! Actually, since the video includes a pre-statehood Alaska, I think I squeezed in under the wire in terms of using "America". LOL. Thanks again.

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Lucio, agreed, sounds unnecessarily sarcastic though lol? And you could be more helpful and nice about sharing, reminding & educating on this awareness? 🤔 Every single one of us has things we can learn and improve on in life. Including you, I'm sure 😉

[@Luciopiacenza333]

America encompasses many countries, the country you are referring to is called the UNITED STATES, America is a Continent, you learn something every day, keep fighting for your goals and learn something every day, today you learned that America is a Continent, what will you learn tomorrow? What Mexico is in North America? surprise! if it is!! 😮 wow!!! Right? Hahaha!!!

[@leewhitley9492]

@@Luciopiacenza333 most foreignors refer to people from the United States as Americans. There, now YOU have iearned somethng!!

[@haroldcampbell3337]

@@Luciopiacenza333 Take a chill pill and and come down off your condescending high horse. Everybody just loves obnoxious trolls like you.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Alot of people sure were poor back then.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

They sure were, Sharon, but I guess their contentment came in never experiencing wealth. I suppose you learn to appreciate what you have. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@SwirlingDervish536]

Rural areas still very poor

[@pearlcaster8287]

Jeez Sharon, the depression was called "THE GREAT DEPRESSION" for a reason! It affected the working poor; factory workers, sharecropper farmers. carpenters, city plumbers, mechanics, et al. We're an eyelash away from another and the government printing more money won't make it better. The only virtue the GREAT DEPRESSION had was ZERO INFLATION, because we were on the gold standard. Wages were low, but money had a lot of buying power. FDR confiscated gold for the government, making it illegal for citizens to own gold, other than dental fillings and jewelry. Nixon deregulated gold because the Arab nations were gobbling up U.S. gold, trying to create a monopolistic possession on world-wide gold. LBJ devalued silver currency in the U.S. to pay for NASA, his "GREAT SOCIETY," and the Viet Nam War expansion (that's why we have silverless-copper coins, all other nations still have real money---> silver coins), and our paper money has "Federal Reserve Note" across the top of it (truth be told, paper money doesn't have to be redeemed!). Deficit spending got us here. FDR did deficit-spending to pay for WWII. My generation (born in WWII) was to pay extra taxes to pay for WWII's cost when we entered the work force; however, LBJ upped the deficit and we've never yet paid off WWII. Each political party has kept increasing deficit-spending to date. It's called the "NATIONAL DEBT."Sending U.S.A. factories to China, due to American manufacturers, not being able to meet the too-high standards decreed by the EPA, robbed us of jobs in multi-layered catagories. You'd better read books, go to college and get a good job, because Social Security has been run into the ground by paying too many benefits to, among others, illegal aliens, who've entered and requested asylum (supposedly due to them being persecuted in their native Mexico, Central America, et al). You're going to aee "a lot of people sure were poor today."

[@Name-ps9fx]

A lot of these pictures use initials for names ("J. L. Smith's farmhouse")...No way of knowing what they meant. I've seen a lot of old graves the same way: J.L. Smith Mrs J.L. Smith Child of J.L. Smith (usually no date, or just a day or two of life)

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Yeah, I've noticed that too. There were some pretty awful names in those days. Maybe they were hiding in shame. LOL. Thanks for watching and especially for commenting!

[@pearlcaster8287]

The guitar solo was unnecessary and distracting. Several pictures had no reference to location. I saw a far-flung posible cousin reference. Most people don't realize that the prime mover in Ohio, Tennesse, Alabama, West Virginia, Virgina becoming more prosperous was the TVA's dams on the persisitently flooding rivers.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Thank you for watching, Pearl, and especially for commenting. If you only knew how much of my time is consumed in finding music whose use isn't prohibited by copyright and trying to find a unique and different piece for each video. Somehow, when I found this, I pictured somebody sitting on his disheveled wooden porch strumming away. Sorry it didn't resonate with you the same way. Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless.

[@edwardmoore5325]

I can't believe that of all those pictures not one person of color was shown.Im sure there are plenty of black people living in those areas but you chose not to show them.not subbing.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

GREAT CRITICISM. Truth is, I'm working on a video about slavery in America. My problem is, being white, I'm very concerned about offending. I'm thinking about underlying commentary by Martin Luther King, LBJ, the late Congressman John Lewis, JFK, etc. You thoughts? Thanks for watching, Edward, and thanks for taking the time to comment.

[@pearlcaster8287]

I think your comment is insulting to the video poster. Your comment was to infuse guilt, and it did. Her first apology to you was, "...MY PROBLEM IS, BEING WHITE..." Her second apology was, "...I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT OFFENDING..." I do wonder why she thinks JFK said anything gracious about "people of color." That term, in itself, was just a wider loop to get American Indians, Latinos, et al to incorporate themselves alongside Negros, Blacks, people of color, and the next politically-correct term, plus whomever else they could garner political support from. The term, "people of color" is ignorant. Read an old, politically-incorrect physical anthropology textbook. There are three races, with two subsets, and race has nothing to do with "people of color" (i.e., skin color). Not to belabor my point, (1) maybe that's all the photos that fit her time limit, sound-track, catagory, area of past disasters, etc. (2) historical time period; The Great Depression, rural areas 1932-1941, and ??. If you're considering yourself "woke" then you're intolerant to others. Your comment says a lot about your personality type. Your lack of punctuation, and ending/beginning sentences - you didn't proofread what you wrote, says something about your attention/educational level. I'm an elderly math teacher and I grit my teeth at ignorance. To be ignorant, is to be uninformed; to be stupid, is to not recognize you're ignorant. Now, I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. I'm talking to you as an adult to an adult. This is is a critique, not a condemnation. Read more. Educate yourself to a much higher degree.

[@thefamilyalbum739]

Hi again, Edward. Check out my new video on Slaves and Discrimination in America. I'd love to know your thoughts.