A View of American Life During the 1930s

[@kenanshobbies9970]

I had an ear-to-ear grin on my face the whole time while watching this video and wished that it would never end. I even wondered what it’d be like to live back then. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing.

[@TomTabaczynski]

If you go to Eastern Europe it looks like this (but with cell phones and the cars are more modern). I might start a "Nostalgia Tours" travel agency.

[@TheWhip55]

Look how nicely people are dressed, how clean the streets and the service stations are. This is when folks had pride in their life and their property. How we, as a society, have changed in the past 90 years and not for the better.

[@tinachavez8712]

You are right we are in decline big time.

[@voodoodisco]

you realize we can show off the best pictures of any decade at any time. Even in 2023 we can show the best pictures of 'how great' everything is. Those 1930 pictures are beautiful but in no way represent the real history of the 1930s.

[@x60mmx]

It's when America was White. Just Like England and France were beautiful before the brown tide flooded in.

[@firepower7654]

@@voodoodisco They absolutely do. Even in poor areas people dressed up nicely when going out. People kept their yards clean and it was part of societal norms not to litter. My great grandparents and grandparents lived in Detroit, Michigan and they didn't even have locks installed on their doors well into the 1950s. They were not rich but kept their small homes kept up at all times and they talked about how they would get dressed up and go downtown for shopping and lunch in an environment of practically zero crime. The issue is you want to keep telling yourself things aren't so bad so that you don't have to face the hell hole you live in now or do what is necessary to fix that problem. There is a solution, but that solution is brutal.

[@andrewwaldock]

@@firepower7654 Well said. Shallow souls like the one you responded to have to lie to themselves and claim that things were never objectively better, because confronting the reality of what we have lost (or more accurately, what has been taken from us) would probably cause an existential crisis. I was born in the mid 80s and the general quality of life has gotten significantly worse over my lifetime, and went into a freefall in the mid 2010s. But as long as people have creature comforts and technological distractions (that offer short term pleasure at the expense of the long term) they will continue deceiving themselves.

[@gregb6469]

Women's clothing and hair styles in the 1930s were much more attractive than what we have today.

[@Dadsezso]

It helps that there were no tattoos, multiple piercings and koolaid colored hair.

[@joefell7845]

Yup , the feminist movement was not about feminism.

[@extrastout1741]

​@@joefell7845I can't go anywhere without seeing such angry comments. This is my favourite fashion era, I like country like etc and there are always these angry men in the comments when the video has nothing to do with their comments Hahshshshhs

[@straitjacket5656]

​@@DadsezsoREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@ilmaio]

​@@extrastout1741 1) this 21st century era has no fashion, as it has no music, just bad taste. 2) you like so called actual world, suit yourself. Many dislike it, henceforth the many angry comments. 3) this America did not chop genitalia off poor kids out of sick gender ideology, and gave birth to the generation that won WW2. Modern America let transvestites punch women in the octagon. I rest my case.

[@cashstore1]

Everything is so clean it's hard to believe

[@x60mmx]

America was a White country.

[@rickintexas1584]

What a beautiful glimpse into the past when it was a much simpler time.

[@mikemike1071]

The good old days. Gone forever.

[@bobblowhard8823]

Yeah. The Good Old Days.... If you were WHITE.

[@LukeLovesRose]

Wait for those diversity trolls to come along and make this joyous time out to be the most sexist or racist ever....

[@x60mmx]

America will be White again.

[@frankanon4450]

It's fun to watch videos like this and go back to a time when this country was great and people actually loved it, cared for it and had pride.

[@knightsnight5929]

Yep, no rights for women, being homosexual was a criminal offence, segregation was in full swing, and if you were lucky on a Sunday you could attend a good old lynching while having a picnic. Good times......

[@davidestate]

Well that would only be White Privilege when Racism was extremely heavy, where whites made comments like, I don't want Negros living in my areas, going to my schools or working with me. If a Negro could show me he can do work like Whites, then he can work with me, all while creating Red Lining Policies at Banks, keeping Blacks out of school, speaking ill about Asians and Latin people. This time was only a great time for people who were Racist - Not to mention the KKK existed.

[@josephstorm6093]

The good old days, makes me sad to see it now in comparison.

[@charliefrharper]

​@davidestate Well, the whites proofed to be right looking at today's situation.

[@ikdw3259]

⁠@@knightsnight5929 I’m no doctor but the women in this video look happier and healthier than the average woman today.

[@iwishilivedinafreecountry5749]

You know what I love about all these photo's? No obesity and no tattoos.

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

No wahmn pretending to be mehn and being terrible at it

[@bobbobertson6249]

The bathing beauty looked like a man though

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

@@bobbobertson6249 i stared and twisted my phone and thought the same thing

[@hianxiety940]

Yeah, and no green or purple hair with piercings all over their faces.

[@thystaff742]

No single mothers posing in yoga pants with their kids present.

[@Erwin.Wijayanto]

"These colorized street scenes from 1930s USA are like a portal to the past. It's incredible to see how daily life and fashion looked back then. It's a reminder of the rich history of our country and how much has changed over the decades. Thank you for bringing these vintage moments to life!" 🕰🇺🇸🌆

[@anthonyg6221]

Many of these places are now completely opposite. Really shows the decay in every aspect of being a human being.

[@NeverDoubtMe23]

Damn, that is a great (and sad) point...

[@uk7900]

My dad was born in Louisville KY, in 1922. It’s almost like I was waiting for his dear self to come walking out of any one of these photos .. 🥹🥹 I miss you, Dad

[@shootfirst2097]

I get nostalgic just for the 1970s. Seeing THESE photos is just a whole 'nother level of life that I wish I could have experienced

[@OutragedPufferfish]

I'd hate to live in the '70s. Looks dorky ASF.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@OutragedPufferfish Not cool like today, with people wearing pajamas to Walmart? LOL

[@LukeLovesRose]

These people truly knew and respected life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People used that freedom to serve their communities. They helped friends and neighbors better themselves. Now it's more like reigning in h*ll than serving in heaven.

[@OutragedPufferfish]

@@norwegianblue2017 The Soviet Union looks great to me.

[@OutragedPufferfish]

@@norwegianblue2017 Including the '70s.

[@mattr.1887]

I wish I could go back in time, just for an hour or two, to walk those streets.

[@jackthepirate9233]

Classy people, no purple hair, no piercing, no tattoos !!

[@josebro352]

I agree about the piercings and purple hair but a lot of guys had tattoos in the 30s. Mostly sailors and military personnel.

[@bobblowhard8823]

No black people. No Hispanics. No Asian people. Just lots of white folk. I guess that's "classy" to you.

[@Justafan333]

I was shocked to find out that women were tattooed even then. You’ll find the videos on KZbin I imagine as I watched one recently.

[@tcjohnson3437]

​@@bobblowhard8823Half the country is a socialist shithole now. That's real classy to you I bet.

[@bobblowhard8823]

@@RiceDriedger And just what is "their own kind"? Also, you misspelled "their". It's not "there" own kind.

[@Kat-n-Ollie]

I love seeing a simpler time. Beautiful.

[@bea1365]

Amazing images. One of the most noticeable things is that there weren't many overweight or obese people I'm those days.

[@jerrys.1910]

Largely local produce and whole foods without preservatives. Cows and chickens weren't steroided to death, etc. Life was simpler but physically more demanding which helped keep both genders in shape.

[@janicewalker8114]

Notice all the ads for CocaCola....which back then actually contained cocaine; maybe that's why there weren't so many overweight/obese LOL

[@jerrys.1910]

@@janicewalker8114 - Actually Coca Cola had discontinued using cocain decades earlier. Still, though, it's an interesting fact.

[@charlesroyal2357]

Wish we could have this america back

[@ihikebc2295]

Lemme guess, you are not African-American? I appreciate the longing for clean streets and nicely dressed thin people, but back in the day things weren't so rosy for a whole lot of people.

[@Liberalismisadisease809]

@@ihikebc2295that’s your problem

[@x60mmx]

It can be White again.

[@ihikebc2295]

@@Liberalismisadisease809 No, it's not, as I am not Black. But America in the 30s was a "good" place to live not for everyone. Segregation aside, many whites were very poor, and those who want for the 30s to come back certainly envision themselves to have a healthy bank account, don't they?

[@JiTiAr35]

you don't want to experience the great depression, that's for sure.

[@bacon1564]

What a beautiful country this was.

[@danb1827]

It was beautiful. Everything went downhill when families turned away from God, their country, values, the golden rule, etc. Then school systems taking the ten commandments out of every classroom, etc. 😑😓

[@joshuagenes]

Mobsters with machine guns roamed the streets, Negros were oppressed and hung on occasion, the depression was in full swing but yes it was beautiful physically in some ways and still is today. The Chinese name for America is "beautiful nation" when translated. So yes it is a common and old opinion of America.

[@jess8075]

@@danb1827 You are so right; that's when a good percentage believed so strongly, that if you did not look like them you were inferior.

[@x60mmx]

When the US was still White. It will be again.

[@KendraAndTheLaw]

@@joshuagenes Delusion

[@oldtrucker672]

This has got to be one of the best collection of 1930,s street scenes ever! Thanks for putting this together. I really enjoyed the interlude, even if it was for just eight minutes.

[@seed_drill7135]

That first shot made me think of my great-great uncle. He was a DC (horse drawn) trolley driver, then street cars then busses. He lived to be 107, well into the 21st century.

[@ablewindsor1459]

@@seed_drill7135 as a kid in the 1960s I may have ridden with him in the trollies.....neat.

[@seed_drill7135]

I think he may have retired in 1959!@@ablewindsor1459

[@markmark5269]

It's good, but a bit car orientated.

[@oldtrucker672]

Pick, pick, pick! Everyone's a critic. Can't you just enjoy the video for what it is? The creator was just trying to entertain folks and all everyone wants to do is pooh pooh his video. What am I missing here? Cars were a big part of 1930's culture. @@markmark5269

[@fasx56]

Precious look back at America at another Generation. To see such high quality photos of the 1930s cars driving through streets, parked and in driveways. The average person would never be able to see so many wonderful photos of that time period. Thank you History Lounge.

[@FuzzyWuzzy75]

Wow, excellent video! The music was nice too. Scenes from the past before society lost it's collective mind and when things made sense put me in a far better mood than current events. Thank you.

[@acesmith8623]

No tattoo, no drugs, no phones, only natural beauties and simple life. Good old days

[@bradbradshaw-i4n]

good old days of just trying to get enough to eat during the depression.

[@kno6ndg7]

Back in the days when America was Great.

[@moisessan1]

Argentina and Brasil...yeahhhhhh!!!

[@x60mmx]

Before the immigration act of 65 that opened the third world floodgates.

[@troytempest4918]

Thank you for all the videos. I'm in my 70s somewhere and enjoy the nostalgia. Thanks also for posting the music used in the presentation!

[@xyloeye]

It wasn't all fun and games, but I'd go back in an instant if it was possible. People were genuine for the most part.

[@shadboy]

-Yes--less crime--simpler life **

[@Nick-ju5vf]

Yes less Diversity. We weren’t overrun. Y people who want what we have but are offended we still live here lol

[@LukeLovesRose]

​​@@shadboyWhite European Christians were never perfect. But we had potential to be perfect. Unfortunately these other people only seem to have the ability to turn thriving nations into impoverished nations. And then the people running this diversity train blame us for their misfortunes ie incapability

[@hm3drake35]

@@Nick-ju5vf you think racial minorities didn't exist back then?

[@a-dutch-z7351]

@@hm3drake35 Less than 10%, with a lot less people overall.

[@germanshepherdlover2613]

Beautiful photos with wonderful colourization. The people were so well dressed and groomed. Greetings from Australia 🙂

[@2113pinch]

The best America. Style not slobs. Healthy not fat. No tattoos and little thing life crime. 😢 Born too late.

[@cliffbrown4217]

me too.

[@LouDeVere]

Absolutely beautiful nostalgia of a time long ago. I remember times in England albeit much later when the roads were so clean and people had great pride in their community. Nice music choice too. Thank you.

[@chrisdye5068]

Those people were so cool and they didn't even know it.

[@TheHistoryLounge]

Yes, they were. A very tough and respectable generation of folks!

[@hakapeszimaki8369]

Good, old America. Look it now…

[@burtronomaniac]

You didn’t have to know it back then , that’s the difference

[@Southern_Perspective]

They knew it

[@bmorebob6624]

If they could see us now, wonder what they’d think?

[@robertnilla]

most people were very poor with little food on the table. On that note: the country still had a rich vibrant culture that valued church, family and moral values!!

[@rodgercottrill3342]

Still poor today credit cards max out

[@guardiana3177]

When having Freedom didn't mean to be naked and do onlyfans. When Men and Women actually had dignity and pride.

[@puciohenzap891]

@@SharpShack Of course they did, everyone lived a happy life without stupid, created 'problems' to keep us scared and conflicted between each other.

[@TheBlacktom]

@@SharpShack I'm sure women didn't have credit cards in the 1930s. I know this because I did this "history research" thing you are talking about.

[@Hatrimn]

​@@SharpShack Women are more depressed/suicidal now. Literally everything has a cost.

[@Hatrimn]

@@SharpShack You would think that, and you are wrong.

[@Hatrimn]

@@SharpShack Not at all. I clearly stated that modern women are more miserable than women from this era, which is indisputable. I also said everything comes at a cost...including telling women to live like men. Turns out it isn't psychologically good for them, go figure.

[@SIRCAM73]

People used to be so classy. Thanks for share this video, literally we traveled in time.

[@kaikearns8548]

its AI 🤣🤣

[@Rashomon69]

Clean streets and well-dressed men and women. I'm jealous.

[@planetmikusha5898]

People were more fit and dignified in those days.

[@mikeg2924]

I think this is beautiful and fascinating.

[@bengolfs1]

I see lots of happy people with smiles on their faces. No smart phones, no traffic, no meth addicts, no smash and grabs.

[@CelesteMagalíQuiroga]

pero si de guerra

[@AIRPORT-mc2ys]

AL CAPONE running it all.

[@beansff]

Gotta love the paint by numbers aesthetic

[@MichaelKrick-tu8jk]

Cars of the 30's were way much cooler looking than the cars of today.

[@watermelonlover745]

We were supposed to progress and improve...instead our morals caused regression

[@MichaelKrick-tu8jk]

@@watermelonlover745 You got that right!

[@FERNANDOAMENDIVIL]

“Women were half the size of today.”

[@touchofgrey5372]

When gas station attendants dressed better then the folks at a wedding ceremony today! I'd love to go back in time and live in those days!

[@julesverne2509]

I bet all the people in these pictures could pass a civics exam.

[@ryanwhitley9789]

The women were thin, feminine, and pretty. Not nasty inked up hogs like today.

[@LukeLovesRose]

They had self-respect and dignity as well as love and respect for others.

[@00powerslave]

Wow America was great back then! Wouldn't it be cool if someone came and made America great.. again?

[@tomb2429]

Well, the only one who purports to wanting to do so is "controlled opposition" at best...after all, THAT guy gave us "two weeks to flatten the curve"----how'd that work out for us? His "legendary savvy" must've been left in his sock drawer when he headed to the swamp...never to be found again, I might add...

[@samirSch]

@@tomb2429 Sometimes I really get frustrated at both Orange man and Bozo here in my country and I'm inclined to believe they're controlled opposition as you say. But we could breath under them. There was some relief, more than my expectations. The political path won't lead towards state mafia dissolution, its just to grant us some time to develop agorism. So even if he's "controlled opposition", its better than nothing. At least it may serve to awaken the rest who still expecting something from politicians. Besides, they're putting so much effort to take him out its pathetic. I don't think, given how powerful they are, they'd bother with such theatrics. Otherwise they'd get Ron DeSantis, he's the controlled opposition.

[@tomb2429]

@@samirSch where are you from?

[@samirSch]

@@tomb2429 Brazil. The outsider candidate, Bolsonaro, did a much better than expected job, despite 3 years of pand3mic, just to have the narco-socialists back in power and destroy everything he built in 8 months. Over 1k people are still in jail for demanding to see the source codes from electronic urns, which was refused and they were arrested for "antidemocratic terror1sm" for doing hideous things like singing the national anthem. Bolsonaro is very silent so I wonder if he gave up or if he was controlled opposition, because he had chances to do something but let things escalate like this and now it's all lost.

[@vince5227]

great job .it looked so peaceful back then..

[@TheHistoryLounge]

Thanks, Vince. I agree - it did look more peaceful then.

[@Peizxcv]

Back when the country was beautiful

[@jeremypr]

and racist.

[@robertmiller32]

In not one of those pictures did i see large groups of low life's robbing a store i wonder why@@jeremypr

[@TheBlacktom]

@@robertmiller32 Because the photos are staged and mostly advertisements. Did you notice every single photo has a car in it? They are probably from some historic automotive archive. If you want to see people robbing stores look for that. But in 1930s there were no security cameras, so chances are you won't see many examples in actual photos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias But you can search for mafia footage for example: kzbin.info?search_query=1930s+mafia+footage Check how long this documentary playlist is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXWUoopjgMynd68

[@x60mmx]

​@@jeremyprYep, and it will be again. ❤

[@mercedesvan-doors34]

No graffitti, well dressed folk and proper service, good looking dames as well 🙂

[@SodaCrackers-ej5le]

What we need more of is good-looking men instead of hideous fat-beards everywhere.

[@thinukawijerathne]

Golden times of the History 🇺🇸

[@OPTIONALWATCH]

My grandpa was born in 1913. I always envied him for enjoying those great years.

[@pintorfantasma666]

no social media, no lgbtq++ , no fentanyl, no homelessness man was man and women was women

[@misst.e.a.187]

Newspapers and newsreel=propaganda. Underground gay/lesbian clubs/parties=alphabet community (rampantly). Opium=drug addictions. 1929 crash=mass homelessness of individuals and families (not shown in this vid)

[@24CiViC]

Delusion is never a good look.

[@Puzzoozoo]

America was much nicer and a happier place back then to what it is like today.

[@EndlessTravels]

Back when it had a gov that stood for what it was designed to be and when borders were "Real"?

[@gordoeinstein]

Back when everything was an experience and American's had self-respect and respect for what the nation actually stood for and offered, whereas today there is very little respect and an unprecedented sense of entitlement and very little culture. Language, Borders, Culture

[@x60mmx]

America was an explicitly White country until the Immigration Act of 1965.

[@misst.e.a.187]

@@x60mmx Except, of course, for the Native Americans and the descendants of slaves, I guess it was. However, as those explicitly white folks were themselves immigrants, it makes everyone and immigrant

[@x60mmx]

@@misst.e.a.187 Immigrants come to a settled and civilized country to leave behind their lesser country, we came to savage wilderness and created a civilization. We weren't immigrants, we were pioneers. Something your people wouldn't understand.

[@philippayne6655]

So that's where we left all that style and class

[@x60mmx]

Immigration act of 65 brought in the turd world.

[@lanadale1479]

Wow ..This is Great as Love going back in time. Spectacular!!!

[@NicholasGeorge-cg3cf]

It was really nice back then , we have not progressed but just made our lives faster , more difficult and far more stressfull.

[@paisteplayer1040]

And insanely more expensive

[@tdunph4250]

What exactly do you mean by haven't "progressed" Examples?

[@LukeLovesRose]

Without hope, dignity, self-respect or self-reliance

[@a-dutch-z7351]

@@tdunph4250 Outside the material, and I think that that would probably have been better as well had we kept this, we'd be on Mars right now.

[@x60mmx]

Brought to you by diversity! ✊🏿✡️

[@unclepecos845]

No tattoos, pink green or purple hair, just a little makeup & dressed nice and neat. Back when women knew how to attract a man by being a real lady.

[@wirmerflagge999]

no diversity

[@charlescole645]

Can you do something about it?...... I thought so.

[@wirmerflagge999]

@@charlescole645 bizarre comment. do something about it? those people are doing something about themselves - gender transitions, abortions, and welcoming african and middle eastern rape gangs, aka refugees, with abandon. the pendulum always swings. and we are about to swing back toward traditional nationalism hard and fast. 10 years tops and you will see real neo-fascism (not the cry baby trans-tifa you're a fascist,' bullshit) winning the populace all over the west. what is your point, chuck?

[@boboboy8189]

By showing their body half naked?

[@jeffreybarwegen9567]

Look how clean everything is. No trash or graffiti.

[@velelimaka9040]

Do you understand that it was the time of the Great Depression?

[@brownie830419]

@@velelimaka9040 Do you understand it was the time of no-diversity?

[@Simbor-rh1dj]

@@brownie830419always pulling the race card. Bastard. This is why I support crt.

[@brownie830419]

@@Simbor-rh1dj Of course you support that as a brown invader.

[@dannielz6]

No psychopaths with assault rifles😂

[@crlguitar1]

Wonderful colorized pictures....It kind of 'put ME there' in the 30's.... It surely was a different world back then.

[@zer976]

You wouldn't even be allowed to start a fire on a beach anymore. The problem with this country is the amount of rules they added to regulate everyone. Everyone is blind to the amount of freedom that was taken away.

[@geeeeeeee1504]

We trade convenience and safety for freedom but get neither

[@SCH292]

Where I live we still have these type of buildings. They were built during the 1950s. The idea behind these building is that the ground floor is where the average Joe or Jane can run their place of business while upstairs is where Joe or Jane or the married couple can live. Some still stand too these day but people are NOT ALLOW TO LIVE UPSTAIRS even if they own the place due to "safety regulation". It was never about..""safety" it was all about..."How can I tax people fast and easy? I'll just make up safety rules and use that to tax people".

[@Greenredfield]

If we had 100 million people still, you'd still have many of the same privileges. An increased population leads to more knuckleheads and overcrowding ruining the fun.

[@zer976]

@@SCH292 To be fair my small Indiana town has these type of buildings too. Since they were all connected when one catches fire, they all pretty much did. But hey it's America, I should be able to be caught on fire if I want. haha.

[@zer976]

@@Greenredfield The current population of the United States of America is 340,284,661 as of Monday, August 28, 2023. I don't really understand your point. Yeah the more people, the more there is to ruin everything. But when did we start letting the dummy ruin everyone else's time?

[@chronobot2001]

That woman on the thumbnail was stunning. She is what I consider the ideal of feminine beauty. No tattoos or piercings. Slim. Modestly, yet attractively dressed with a happy and friendly demeanor. Modern women could learn a lot from her.

[@richardhead3211]

yes!

[@Topper_Harley68]

A beauty.

[@hummingpylon]

Feels like it was a dream that had to end.

[@clara4942]

The era when men blended style and masculinity perfectly. Gosh I miss those days.

[@FarmsteadForge]

It's really fun looking through the old pictures - I love how everything was made back then. Thanks!

[@Webbwagon2]

Not one person on a cell phone! Imagine that

[@LukeLovesRose]

In other words, very few people had their heads up their own a**es

[@dolorescordell129]

Not so bright or nostalic for many. My parents said that sometimes all they had to eat was oatmeal. My father would never again eat "rolled oats."

[@duska3529]

why back then everything looks just better? Cars, buildings, clothes, even fucking street lamps, just everything

[@duska3529]

even girls!!! these girls holding tire.. Nowadays all girls are just fat without belly muscles.. Thanks to lazy style of life and sweets in every food..

[@deuswow2360]

It's because we're being poisoned in every aspect of our lives, spiritually, mentally, physically@@duska3529

[@johnknowing-zr8de]

Yep that was the day’s where men were men and women were women. The day’s people never locked their doors. Your word was your bond and the handshake confirmed it. The era where Honesty and integrity was the practice and valued Days that people had real manners and please and thank you was common. A day when people stopped to help someone. But when the country became more liberal everything that used to be good disappeared.

[@johnknowing-zr8de]

@johnnyhjohns3817 Yes ironically I thought about what you said I was typing my comment. Not hard to see it coming. Compare that gangsters back in the day looking at the gang members today in our cities that spilled over into our public places where people shop. 557 riots we had. Defund the police etc. Then the smashing grab now! The country peaked back in the fifties,60s. Just look at the TV shows like Gun smoke, Rifleman, Ponderosa, Wagon train, my three sons, Dennis the menace, Andy griffin show, Mr. Ed, my favorite Martian, I dream of Jeannie, lost in space, the adventures, superman, flying nun, Gidget, Bewitch, Green acres, high chaparral, petticoat junction, Brady bunch, star trek, the Munsters, Beverly hillbillies, the Walton’s Lucille ball, carol Burnett, gilligan’s island I can go on and on. Look how many of the show’s at the end there was a lesson with morals. Try to find that today

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

We all have our opinions, but the 1930s were and are, clearly better than the 2020s.

[@kenwittlief255]

talk to your grandparents google "The Great Depression", polio, syphilis, TB, consumption and ask anyone from that time who was not a wealthy white male

[@gerryyaum]

Interesting yes, but a WHITE WASHED version of history. People of color? nope? Depression? Nope!. Poverty? Never!

[@journeytosilius1]

The cities still looked new. Now everywhere seems decrepit and dirty, about 90 years later. We'd have to rebuild or renovate all of our major cities to look this nice again. And then they'd last that way for a few decades, looking pristine again.

[@Samm-uz5hr]

@@gerryyaum funny. You're a not pushing diversity. Why would there be scripted bots pushing diversity? Unless... Nobody really believes diversity is our strength.

[@babaofett2165]

Great pictures.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

Man a time when vehicles, buildings and women where beautiful and everyone dressed properly. Plus the government wasn't a punishing bureaucracy.

[@LukeLovesRose]

No tattoos. I swear. I was delivering food the other day... to a 15 year old girl with tattoos all over her arms. EEK. This is the era of the antichrist

[@jcarey568]

In the middle of the depression and fewer homeless people than now. God help us.

[@MrRezillo]

Not true; many large cities had areas known as "hoovervilles". It only seems like fewer because the cities werent' as overly tolerant of pup tents on the sidewalk as they are today.

[@misst.e.a.187]

They only showed nicer scenes. Not everyone suffered during the Great Depression.

[@24CiViC]

There were many homeless…poverty was rampant. The Great Depression…The Dust Bowl - many children didn’t survive childhood, lifespans were shorter…these images are interesting and there were definitely things that were better, but it’s all relative, really.

[@lee4171]

And look at the country now.

[@114D]

Brilliant restoration. Felt like I could be walking around in all these places.

[@braddywarbucks]

We were great once.

[@dannielz6]

Yep, then you elected a traitor and followed him blindly.

[@chestercopperpot1325]

It looking less diverse looks peaceful and clean.

[@x60mmx]

White America 🇺🇸

[@JAM-zb2vh]

The women had class

[@Juliana_So_Unique]

Women now are for the streets

[@JohnPassio]

I envy the people who were true Americans back when this Country was Strong and Proud

[@Riposte821]

Everyone complaining how bad cities are now. Enjoy them while you’re here, future generations will look at ours with nostalgia as well. What’s coming is worse than you can imagine.

[@robertostapenzki549]

No one getting shanked, Detroit is still standing, people not looking over there shoulders to get mugged, children playing in the streets walking to school without the fear of getting capped.

[@x60mmx]

Yep, America was White.

[@mikedemic479]

One thing is very interesting: no overweight, just slim ppl..

[@mayort2688]

Astute observation. Back then you could fat shame people. Kept em in shape. Nobody wanted to be called 'fatty boomsticks'.

[@Juliana_So_Unique]

was that an actual insult? I love it, but don't understand it. Broomsticks?@@mayort2688

[@mikedemic479]

@@mayort2688 ...o you are so wrong if you think people were slim just because of shame....

[@mayort2688]

@@Juliana_So_Unique Boomsticks not broomsticks. And looking back I'm not sure exactly what it means either. lol. It was popular in the 3rd grade school playground.

[@mayort2688]

@@mikedemic479 I didn't state fat shaming was the only reason people were slim. It certainly helped though. Honestly when I see a 120kg behemoth thighs the size of tree trunks ordering the equivalent of 3 meals at a burger place I have to show restraint to not say, "how about you order a salad and not add another layer of lard". Everyone has seen em, some waddle because they can barely walk.

[@roselamoure]

I love the hairstyles women had in the 30s and 40s it‘s absolutely stunning and gorgeous, I honestly wish women could all do it again today.

[@keithnoneya]

Wow look how nice everyone dressed and how everything is kept up, swept, painted and clean! Our people today seem to take no pride in there cities in how they trash them. Look at all the goods right on the sidewalk, flash mobs would have stolen it by now. What a shame, and we say we've come so far, it doesn't look like it to me. Thanks for sharing, very nice.

[@proverbialmind_spread9421]

And notice the lack of obesity? You had to go to a carnival side show to see the "fat lady". Now there's 20 of them at any given moment in a Walmart.

[@RunaroundAtNight]

That's because everyone today is sitting on their couch watching youtube videos. @@proverbialmind_spread9421

[@x60mmx]

This is when America was White.

[@keithnoneya]

@@x60mmx I'd say mostly white, but there were a lot of high class black, Hispanic, Asian Neighborhoods too. The problem is the Socialist Demoncrats started passing Welfare and giving money away to the poor for votes. It all went down hill from there, with the White Voters approving of it I might add.

[@RonRay]

I actually cried watching this video. We have lost so much purity and decency in 90 years. (BTW, I'm a 74 year old man....)

[@LukeLovesRose]

Watch Never Forget

[@LukeLovesRose]

By Asha

[@LukeLovesRose]

Logos

[@biggest23]

@@LukeLovesRose ….Yes, one of the best brother,

[@AzureSwiper]

I was born in the 2000s and it's crazy to see how much we've regressed through history to today. Perhaps, it's because America has forgotten about God and its belief in Jesus Christ that founded this nation.

[@Happy32153]

Vehicles styles and fashion were* much nicer. People were normal body sizes unlike the disgusting redundant protoplasm today.

[@MrKevinStraub]

don't you know it is lipo-cellular enhancement?

[@dominusnox8231]

Refined sugar and carbs. Poison. Easy to produce. Cheap. But poison.

[@helloworld5644]

U know what else was nicer? QUALITY products that weren't built to break or just be thrown out...

[@davida7284]

And they didn’t have to worry about ridiculous pronouns.

[@Uhtred772]

White People

[@kuruptzZz]

That girl in the thumbnail is the definition of timeless beauty

[@2339091q]

didnt find her

[@kuruptzZz]

@@2339091q Same :(

[@M3LTUP]

LA looked so nice back then. What a shame what it has become.

[@craigdoriety9798]

Technology may have progressed but seems socially we have regressed in many ways.

[@NoOne56488]

I was about to say the same thing, it got me thinking i wish i could go back to the late 80's early 90's when i was a kid.

[@ihikebc2295]

Godlessness did its thing.

[@JKTProductionzIncNCo]

@@ihikebc2295 Completely agreed. I have been saying this since high school.

[@redbluesome2829]

@@NoOne56488much of the damage to our society was initiated politically between the mid-60’s and early-70’s. In terms of social policies, outsourcing of industry, and removal of the dollar from the gold standard.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Make America Great Again.

[@carlostiviroli4467]

Golden age. Nice video. Greeting from Argentina.

[@samcy9551]

Not even one fat person... NO KFC and NO Mc Donalds. But Coca Cola was there.

[@danielm3670]

Coca Cola back then was probably healthier, containing actual Kola nut.

[@BurninatorTheTrogdor]

This is when there was pride for one's self and country. Imagine explaining your problems to any of these people. They would most likely rather be deed.

Can anyone explain how we got from this world to the one we live in today? this rotten world of ours? Has something COLORFUL been put in the water we drink?

[@stockbatch4109]

Clean Streets, No Graffiti, No Homeless encampments, 15 cent gasoline, Strong Economy, If only we were not a divided nation who had a sense of National Pride and didn't have corporate greed sending all our manufacturing to China and other countries.

[@stuart6478]

if only time stood still and no one ever had babies or anything... all those people would be dead. like their bs time.

[@mikeytee6821]

@@stuart6478 Okay millenial.

[@baums547]

LOL, strong economy. This was the great depression.

[@mikeytee6821]

@@baums547 And we AREN'T in one now?? Difference is that 'back then' people were STILL civilized. OKAY Millenial...

[@stockbatch4109]

You're right, I guess what I was trying to say was that we manufactured things. When you loose your manufacturing you have no source of income, once the petro dollar collapses we are in for bad times since we don't make hardly anything anymore.@@baums547

[@garyf285]

Everything looks clean and orderly. No homeless encampment. No tents on the sidewalks.

[@markhadley1545]

So real Americans living in real America.

[@likeicare300]

Lots were irish n Italians

[@Dynamatrix2000]

Sounds like you're bashing immigrants. 🤔

[@applepretz5368]

What does "real American" even mean? If you were born in the United States, then your nationality is considered American.

[@markhadley1545]

Since about 1962 it more or less means people who were born in and live in rural areas and small towns. @@applepretz5368

Can anyone explain how we got from this world to the one we live in today? this rotten world of ours? Has something COLORFUL been put in the water we drink?

[@cebedojames]

Americans were not fat back in the days

[@LawofMosesHere]

Thanks to a lack of GMOs, processed foods and fast food

[@kenwittlief255]

its was the great depression they were starving to death

[@electronwave4551]

@@kenwittlief255 Those days, having an empty stomach for a good part of the day, between meals, was typical. Today, it is opposite.

[@boboboy8189]

Back in the day, people are healthy

[@mohamedalkaboom]

@@LawofMosesHere Bullshit. It was lack of sugar in everything. Fast food doesn’t make one fat. Staying physically active and avoiding sugar is what kept these people trim

[@Chrilsama]

Peaceful and beautyful without "diversity"!

[@idk8964]

I didn't know Manhattan looked like that in the 30's. That is super impressive

[@mohamedalkaboom]

When America was civilized and great. Now the animals are free to roam it’s streets without any fear of punishment

Can anyone explain how we got from this world to the one we live in today? this rotten world of ours? Has something COLORFUL been put in the water we drink?

[@cjk8249]

@Yes, it's because we have forgotten God. Now He has left us alone to our own devices.

[@Ragnar6000]

Gosh woman had class back then!

[@RobinatorsPlace]

Imagine No alphabet people, no la bamba musak, and no rap culture.

[@lorddoobsworth144]

no stupid face diapers either

[@liddyvasquez7919]

People we're happy and dressed well. I love watching old films. It helps escape this world we live in today at least for a little while.

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

I make it a point to look up Black and White movies and TV shows ... works almost as well as holding a purring cat! 🐈🐱📺

[@nv1493]

How far tech has advanced, and how far we have fallen.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Did you notice how clean the cities were? No trash lying about everywhere.

[@kevinreyimperial722]

Check out Kensington so clean .