You Would Find These Old Historical Photos Unthinkable Today

Life was very different back then. Amazing Historical Photos Volume 20 shows just how we have changed. Health and safety wasn't a thing. People were free to do as they saw fit. I'm not sure any of them would be possible in todays world. In fact, you would probably find these old historical photos unthinkable today.
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0:00 Introduction
0:24 Auto Polo Yes, AUTO POLO ! Canada (1919)
0:54 A Baby in a Cage Getting Fresh Air A common sight suspended high up in early to mid 1900's city apartments
1:09 Allmanna Telefon AB's 262 ft. Telephone Tower It connected 5,500 telephone lines in Stockholm Sweden. (1888)
1:24 Portable Changing Booths Coney Island, New York (1938)
1:39 Self-made Wooden Bicycle Tarvastu, Estonia (1912)
2:09 Nore Forts with Artillery Guns at Sea Used to guard British shipping lanes from Luftwaffe air raids & mine laying
2:54 A Day at the Beach... by the Derricks Los Angeles (1931)
3:09 Mars on the Left, Earth on the Right Jezero Crater v Atacama Desert, Chile
3:39 Tourist Sunbathing & Tea Party Atop The Great Pyramid (1938)
4:09 A "Cog Slide" Used to descend Mount Washington, New Hampshire in the 1900's
4:39 Gold Miners (1898)
5:09 An Early Air Mail Carrier (1912)
5:24 Children's Climbing Frames Central Park Playground, New York City (1942)
5:39 Miners Digging for Coal South Wales (1931)
6:09 Train Crossing the Dale Creek Viaduct Wyoming (Late 1800's)

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

That portable dressing booth actually looks like a good idea. Does anyone else remember those climbing frames being called monkey bars?

[@annematousek350]

Yes I do.. As a kid in primary school in the 1960.s we had metal monkey bars. Plus metal slippery dips. Quite popular at the time. In South Australia..

[@Relativecalm2]

Same Primary school 1960s. Don’t know how we survived really - no air-conditioning, no classroom heaters, no car safety belts or climate control, one television that ad to have a licence to own, pop guns, rewarded at school by being picked to clean the duster which resulted in standing in a cloud of chalk dust, no calculators just pencil & paper or a piece of plastic and an erasable china graph pencil. No water bottles, although I fondly remember the weirdly shaped plastic canteen style ones that were oblong-ish with a similar drinking cup lid and usually contained cordial and certainly NEVER taken into class to save the children from dehydration 😂 Yo-Yos flying around, not to mention the possible (self-inflicted) acquired brain injury from playing with conkers. I could go on and on - but I already have! 🤣 💕

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I had all sorts of these metal monkey bars to play with at my primary school where I grew up in England. Occasionally someone fell off and broke something. But, we all lived and were probably better and stronger for it !

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Stacie Oakford: That was a beautiful description of my 70's childhood !!!!

[@davidjaap2130]

Yes indeed I remember those monkey bars for sure. We also had 3 high bars, just a simple horizontal bar, 3 different hts. I was on the 2nd highest one doing something called a 'Baby Drop'. You hang by your legs upside down, do 3 swings, then let go. You should land on your feet. I tried this to impress a girl. Well I came down on my face & chipped my 2 front teeth. Didn't hurt to much but when I felt my teeth, well let's say there was crying involved. Much, much crying. Don't know what happened to that girl, but I bet she has a good chuckle nowadays when ever she thinks of that. Thanks for the great pics...thanks for bringing up BAD memories. 🙏😅😅😅💓😁😇

[@lastjellyontheplate8828]

Oh I dunno as a mother of three kids, that waste basket playpen looks extremely handy to me!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Spoken like a real mother !!! ...lol

[@patstokes7040]

5:34 I was a kid in the 1950 and the Monkeybars are exactly what we had in the school play ground.

[@gardeninginthedesert]

In the 70s too.

[@deborahbaker4770]

Aren’t monkey bar’s just straight across pipes or whatever they are made from and not like those climbing thing’s ??

[@kirnpu]

@@deborahbaker4770 Ours were pretty much like this - box shapes.

[@lauraswann5543]

@@deborahbaker4770 No, we had a big boxy metal climbing frame like this in the playground in the late 1970s and they were called monkey bars.

[@annbrannigan3958]

Made me feel really nostalgic 😊

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Me too ... every time I make a video

[@essejd]

Thank you so very much, that was really great 👍. You must be quite young, im 56 and we had those climbing frames when we were young, loved them 👍✅. Lol. Monkey Bars, thank you reviewers✅👍for reminding me the name😂. Grew up in Forest Hill and Laverton RAAF base Melbourne ❤️. Now in WA

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I had those exact metal climbing frames as a kid also ... still have the scars ...lol

[@renafielding945]

My sweet beloved friend Linda has a wonderful son, Stephen, who my whole family loves. Linda turned furniture over on him (big wooden playpen and crib-certain advantages to living in Bassett) when he was little because there was nothing he couldn’t escape.

[@Misterwhistle]

Anyone who remembers playing on monkey bars remembers how it felt when your whacked your head on one.

[@johneeeemarry34]

I remember that during a school trip to the zoo , I got whacked off by a monkey who put his hand through the bars.. I’ve spent thousands on therapy, alas , it hasn’t helped me come to terms with what happened, maybe you reach out , perhaps give me a hand….

[@Misterwhistle]

@@johneeeemarry34 go back to the zoo.

[@lovelyshirl]

Mark, let me first say, your music on this was just stunning. Sooooooo beautiful ❤❤❤ Now, the photos....amazing. Each photo needed to be looked at closely - the detail in each one was an education in itself, to understand how things used to be. Just AMAZING. ❤

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you again for such kind words Shirley. I spent the first 20 years of my life only interested in sport. Since then music and history have been at the forefront of my focus. It is nice to hear that my time is not wasted !

[@soggyfroggy22]

That ski lift with no belt and seeing how high they are is giving me anxiety 😨

[@lauraswann5543]

Me too, that photograph terrified me, I was like "What if thechild falls off? How high up are they?" Terrifying.

[@rw8733]

The Mars and Earth comparison photo was really eerie.

[@lauraswann5543]

They are both photos taken on earth.

[@BeachBum447]

The climbing frame is called Monkey Bars, at least where I’m from. I grew up playing on one and I survived. In fact, I never knew anyone that didn’t.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I was born and raised in England and our primary school had them ... Monkey bars is exactly what we called them. We played on them every day and my entire time there I only heard of one broken arm.... and we were falling off them all day long .... lol

[@pommydiva1]

loving all your videos. makes you feel lucky to be living NOW, they had it tough and dangerous back then

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Most don't realize just how lucky we are ... in many ways. Mind you I could do without 90% of human beings staring into a phone 23 hours a day but I guess its swings and roundabouts !!!

[@cathysmith1014]

Wow, thank you for this glimpse of the past! There were some pretty scary shots.

[@anunearthlychild8569]

The Pramobile had a lot of similarities with the modern cargo bikes. So the inventor was not so stupid after all. At the railway bridge, however, one would like to cover one's eyes.

[@chaseygentile2894]

Omg we had those exact same climbing frames when I was a kid in the early 2000s that’s crazy those are still around

[@seandelap8587]

Shows you with all this modern technology and what children nowadays are being exposed to that they are missing out on all these outdoor activities that previous generations used to partake in sad really

[@lizlocher3612]

Loved the portable dressing booth n the pram mobile n in the tenements in New York in 1900 the air was so fetid the baby in the cage out the window probably saved his life just being able to breath air that wasn't contaminated!!!!

[@mangot589]

Yeah, I don’t get the big deal about those🤷‍♀️ babies safe, outside for some air. So?

[@ninakramer276]

This channel is amazing! Each photo is extraordinary. I wish there was a way to label each frame without that distracting banner that does fade but yet, distracting. Nice work!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I have tried several others and they look way worse... The lesser of evils for now, but I'll keep experimenting !

[@ninakramer276]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Thanks for your amazingly hard work!

[@gentlejourney6503]

Beautiful music!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you ! More can be found at www.markbulmer.com or youtube channel m.youtube.com/@markbulmer

[@pixifairy67]

The safety bin is an upside down trash can

[@willoughby1888]

I was born previous to the first picture of the baby in the "Safety Bin" from 1960, and can honestly tell you that they were trash cans. It was crazy wild back then, as long as you didn't mean any real harm. I often was placed under those screen cans when they were empty, that is. Other mothers did it with their wild male babies also. Sometimes the mom or a child would remove a few easy things and just put them back in the trash can when they were done. I could swear on a Holy Bible I know this as fact, too. Not everyone did it, just the park mom's who thought they could get away with it. Other people would mostly 'just laugh' when they saw anyways. Park police another story. But I quickly recalled those screen trash cans at the parks. We had cleaner 'park trash' back then also. People threw away their bagged lunches, not their used needles and condoms... and spit or other fluids. Now, back to the video! This should be good. I like good. Bad is overrated.

[@piccalillipit9211]

I live in Bulgaria now - its like that here. One of the things I have seen in the shops is a baby locator - its a blue tooth tag you put on your baby for when you forget it - no kidding. But here babies in prams are abandoned all over the place whilst the mother goes in the shops

[@willoughby1888]

@@piccalillipit9211 "Dolls"... those are their dolls, not their babies. They must feel that way anyways. It's good that they sell that Bluetooth device! "Hello" from Maine, USA. I just about to upload a video I made today showing some white geese and a duck. They enjoy hanging out together by a water discharge pipe at the Back Cove across the street from me. They're tame. I go out and remove plastic scraps from where they like to visit. This morning, I found an arrow sticking up out of the ground right by where they hang out. Someone must want 'foul' for dinner... fresh! No kidding. I guess people are this way all over the planet maybe, but I'm hoping not.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@willoughby1888 " "Dolls"... those are their dolls, not their babies." Its a very different society here, the communist cities are built like lots of little villages so 5 or 10 apartment blocks have their own little high street, schools, shops, doctors, pharmacies, playgrounds, small fields, everyone knows everyone and child care is a communal thing. No one uses child care - leaving your child with a stranger is basically considered child abuse here. The old people look after the kids. Children are society's responsibility. So it is remarkably easy to forget where you left your kid. I have lived in this block for 4 years - I have no idea which child belongs to which family. I'm very sorry about someone trying to kill your ducks

[@willoughby1888]

@@piccalillipit9211 Thank you for explaining things I had zero knowledge of, please forget what I said earlier about babies being thought of as only dolls. I was born unloved and thought of as only a little boy doll' to do as my family pleased. I wish it had been more like what it is in Bulgaria! If I lived there, I'd make that innocent, "Where's the baby" error because of distraction too. They're not exactly, "my" ducks, I just pick up the trash from where they like to visit. Someone's leaving food for the foul. I've seen some nice, exotic bigger birds hanging out at The Back Cove the last few years. I bought a drone last November and I want to try it out, too! My video camera I use on a tripod is dying, so I better get with it quickly. Thank you again for letting me see all places are not the same after all. Peace. Laugh often, too.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@willoughby1888 "I was born unloved and thought of as only a little boy doll' to do as my family pleased" My childhood was not much better Ill be honest... I chose to live in Bulgaria precisely because it WAS like this, very different to the UK. Love to the ducks :-D

[@marjoriegoodwin2993]

I saw, in a museum somewhere in Massachusetts, a reconstructed ancient Chinese home. In it was a sort of barrel affair, into which they set their toddlers, when adults were doing dangerous things, like tending the fire. I thought it was brilliant. A safety device actually.

[@annecosgrove2133]

The first one from 1960 has a cringy look today, but is similar to pop up circular gates to keep babies in one spot. My doctor when I was a kid kept his youngest toddler outside in a small fenced corral under a tree unsupervised with toys to play with. My brothers and I found this cringworthy, particularly because my mom drove the exact model and color car as the doctor owned so the child would call out and try to get our attention when we went by. Ouch!

[@bobnewhart4318]

That baby safety bin could definitely still work today

[@Isabel-qu3hl]

👍The knocker-uppers. Never knew something like that existed.

[@notsure1277]

Joe Biden could hire one to keep him awake...

[@seandelap8587]

4:25 that was certainly a unique style snd and one that I haven't really come across before

[@trennalogsdon245]

I don’t think a lot of these are so far fetched. I think some would be kinda fun to try.

[@RealMusicHype]

00:36 Great stuff.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

That is my fav photo on this video !

[@cherylpurdue888]

I like the pramoblie.

[@davidschumaker8107]

Not sure where you are getting these from, but keep it up, amazing!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Research ... a lot ! .... I negate about 500 for every one that I use.

[@davidschumaker8107]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos WOW!

[@willoughby1888]

00:42... "Not a safety belt or rail in sight". Ok, I call them on that one. What's that strung across the body of the little one, a human 'ham hock'? No, that's a mother's 'superarm' bracing her small, confident child, and just like she does when she has to hit the brakes hard suddenly in traffic. Yep, there's a 'rail' there alright. There's maybe only a 'soft belt' if the kid acts up after a whole series of certain warnings beforehand, times being much different then.

[@linux2420]

Add a couple of parental advisory warnings and you've got yourself a kickass album cover

[@DukeCannon]

I remember ski lifts like that in Gatlinburg when we used to go during summer. Also same technique was used to keep us from flying into the dashboard when stopping quickly. Ha.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

lol ... great analogy.

[@DukeCannon]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos seatbelts? Pfth! 😉

[@lauraswann5543]

That photograph terrified me. How high up were those chairlifts? What if the child fell off?

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

I don’t know, that safety bin for kids seem like a pretty good idea. People and animals would be safe from some kids we have these days.

[@michaelkurtz1967]

Prior to children's carseats parents would often put the babies in the back floor board to keep them safe.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I think i was one of them ....

[@Ij-jan]

Great photos thank you

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you for watching !

[@davidarthur3588]

I think thats Ernest Hemmingway with a group of people on top of the pyramid

[@Ij-jan]

@@davidarthur3588 I think you may be right

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I wasn't sure but does look like him.

[@Countdown420]

0:18 i buy that any day

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

LOL ... You obviously have small children !

[@krude-ck3wy]

We had climbing frames like that in England in the 90s

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I fell off of many in the late 70s

[@notsure1277]

Wozniak's Apple I had a tape recorder because cassette tapes were used to hold information. Cassettes were still being used in the early 1980s.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

My first computer as a kid was a ZX Spectrum. It too used tape cassette !

[@UncommonEyes]

Considering all the weird stuff going on these days, I dare any man to cultivate the man-in-the-moon hair/beard style🤣

[@esthervarney4011]

I love the monkey bars anybody want to climb .too?!

[@MundoVCH]

5:25 Unthinkable? I used to play a lot with these!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I had all sorts of monkey bars to play with at my primary school. Occasionally someone fell off and broke something. But, we all lived and were probably better and stronger for it. !

[@mangot589]

Those were great! I call playground equipment from then toothcrackers lol. But we all lived. With some cracked teeth lol

[@alisteeaiken7667]

Pulling those barges couldn't have been much fun.

[@elowishusmirkatroid4898]

Portable dressing booth could be the solution for trans females in womens' changing rooms.

[@shutterchick79]

Or large private changing stalls that go all the way to the floor.....

[@andreesimpson4232]

The wooden bike 👍

[@lauraswann5543]

I think the lady in the very first photo, and my mother, must have read the same childcare book! 😂 Edit; 5.24; why are monkey bars on this list, do kids not have them anymore? I often played on them in the late 1970s. We used to hang from them by our ankles. Never saw anyone fall from them. And our playground had concrete on the ground, not grass!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

We had them at my school in the 70’s also, I always fell off … but survived uninsured 😀 They are very rare nowadays, lawsuits waiting to happen….

[@t.h.8475]

I fell face first from a 6 foot monkey bars when I was in the 5th grade. It had dirt under it. I was knocked unconscious, got 2 black eyes and a concussion. Was back to school the next day.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

I have a similar story ...lol

[@october0000]

2:24 They really counted all of them? Dedication 😂

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

LMAO .... That was the first thing I thought in my research. The number was a bit precise. But, then again Ancient Rome is my specialty and having read almost every piece of literature available, nothing would surprise me when it comes to Roman architecture and works. I wouldn't rule out the fact that somewhere in the rubble was a series of tablets or scrolls with a complete description of each and every nails correct placement in the fort .... each nail with a corresponding number. They were that good !!!

[@davidjaap2130]

I heard legend has it that the count was off so there STILL is a guy counting those nails.🙏☺

[@october0000]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos wow, that's sounds so cool! Thanks for sharing 😊

[@october0000]

@@davidjaap2130 lol 😂

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

lol

[@OICUR12]

Some were pretty unthinkable back then.

[@ventibreeze6648]

The baby looks like the mom just up ended a bin in the park and wants some down time 😂

[@lauraswann5543]

That is exactly what is happening there. The "safety bin" caption is a joke.

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

That kid really wanted a bike.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

He sure did !

[@sarahmahany3404]

Modern day monkey bars are wimpy

[@tbjtbj4786]

The safety bin is still available A big Landry hamper

[@ELisa-qf2mw]

The first pic is the answer to any boomer woman's favorite refrain: "you modern mothers nowadays make it look like raising kids has become something difficult and tiring all of a sudden because you are weak"... Well maybe not feeling free to restrain them in a trash bin contributes to making it difficult and tiring...

[@jaywilliams8386]

Cog slide looks like fun. The poor baby in the so called Safety Bin looks like the mother just inverted a trash can holder. I grew up in 60's the and I never saw anything like this. Folks seem to have used their imaginations more often back then.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

That was an inverted trash can ...apparently it was a thing !

[@Mninoyb]

And nobody sitting heads down with a mobile.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Truth.

[@kirnpu]

What was a cassette recorder doing in Steve's Apple I?

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

"The original IBM Personal Computer and IBM PCjr included support for storing data and programs on compact cassette tape. It was common for home computers of the time, such as the Apple II, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro, to use cassette tapes for storage due to the lower cost of hardware and media compared to floppy disks." .... My first computer as a kid was a commodore and it too used tape cassette.

[@kirnpu]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Thank you so much for the response - I had no idea!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

You are very welcome.

[@iconsumepizza]

The first one looks a lil brutal but love history ❤️

[@peternesbitt]

People weren't snowflakes back then. My mother use to say 'go play in the traffic'. 😂

[@thatonepianoguy_]

Let’s bring back 4:32

[@mangot589]

That “safety bin”. Come On. We didn’t have those. 😂 Can’t vouch that moms didn’t do that 100%, ,but that’s just a trash bin and people will do anything, I guess. But that was NOT a normal thing. We did have playpens and stuff that were dragged around, just like now.

[@lsw1944]

You're probably too young to know didly squat

[@jonkline709]

This tells me people spend far to much time on focusing on what the other people are doing rather then mind their own business and it’s gotten way out of hand.right all you Karens

[@gaetanlizotte1957]

never see that safety bin baby cage, I was there in 1960

[@gaetanlizotte1957]

lockdown is much worse than the baby cage