Why Did These Strange 1950s Inventions Kill So Many People?| Hidden Killers | Absolute History
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- Dr Suzannah Lipscomb looks at the hidden dangers of the British post-war home. In the 1950s, people embraced modern design for the first time after years of austerity and self-denial. The modern home featured moulded plywood furniture, fibreglass, plastics and polyester - materials and technologies that were developed during World War II.
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Entertaining and informative... but why cover the news clippings with that diffused black spot? The narrations are fine, but I'd prefer to see the clippings unobstructed.
@@AquaeAtrae Excellent question!
No.
@@AquaeAtrae because in the 50s the newspapers were a bit more.. descriptive than they are today as one that has read some. And they want to stay family friendly and showing descriptive text about a 70% 1st degree burn injury and 3 witness reports also being very descriptive isnt very family friendly. Also they were very racist and seeing slurs in headlines was common (in the back of my head i play the mayhem that would happen if you put the n word in the headlines today, like i literally couldnt believe it.)
Wages were rising faster than housing prices. Well, they sure as hell fixed that, didn't they.
And then they drove out the unions and CEO’s began making millions and billions and the stockholders did, too. So the profits went to a very, very few 1%’ers who could never get enough money and it just spiraled down. Then the Repubs enacted all sorts of tax reduction so the safety net collapsed and those top
1%’ers got even more wealth.
And how!
Chemistry set was probably recycled material that's why it's so cheap.
@@janewashington421 -HA! You forgot the democrats endless taxing and spending that drove our national debt into the stratosphere, and their crippling regulations that decimated the manufacturing industry by encouraging everyone to set up shop overseas. Now we've got moonbatty leftists that want to pay burger flippers $15 an hour, tax "carbon", and destroy the rest of American industry with "green" initiatives. Funny you mention unions - big democrat donors, and just as corrupt. They had their place 60 years ago. Now they're just wings of the democrat party, much like today's mainstream news entities.
Ever check out housing costs in CA and MA? Highest in the nation, aside from HI and DC. What's the common denominator between all four of these geographical areas? DEMOCRATS ...
Problem solved.
I now understand why my grandparents unplugged things at night and were generally afraid of technology
My great aunt unplugged the microwave after heating her coffee because she feared the "rays". Absolute fruitcake.
@@tubularfrog thats why she lived longer... being a fruitcake helps :)
I unplug things before bed, and I’m only in my 30s. There are still issues with fire when it comes to that stuff, though it has gotten significantly better since the 50s. How many years ago were people’s cells exploding while charging? Besides, your appliances can still use electricity while turned off but plugged in. Save money on that bill.
Relatable
How about leaving the tv plugged in during a electrical storm?
For every safety standards we have today, there's a tragic story behind it
You should look into red dye 40. At least then it took a conscious effort to cause yourself harm.
Where's the one for u being born
Safety standards are written in blood
the tragic stories of today are suppressed too, and being even worse!
We live in the times of bio weapon jabs and population control.
Yes there are when you are having to a warning label to “not try to stop a chainsaw with your hands” maybe we should go back to have a survival of the fittest kind of mentality. It’s amazing how dumb society has become- just so sad
Burnt synthetic fibers are no joke. As a child when playing with some sparklers, I waved it around some stupid way, and I melted the strap of my bathing suit to my shoulder. Between how hot sparklers get, and the suit melting, it was terribly painful. I remember the panic of feeling something burning my skin but there not being a fire to put out.
Ouch !!!😬☹️💔
My stepdaughter was burned and her poor hand was terrible from a sparkler. I don't let my kids use them. Gun powder and fire just seem like a bad idea to me.
When I was a kid we didn't get limits put on stuff if we burned ourselves we learned to be more careful and avoid making the same mistake again
@@user-pz6js5dv3vgood for you.
AAAAAAAAAAA...oh Jill just stepped on another burnt out sparkler, maybe we should put them in a coffee can or something...
Memories.....
Apparently the 1950's was an excellent time to commit murder. "Oh, it was faulty wiring", "I didn't know the ladder would fall on her", "He really enjoyed that chemistry set.", "He really should have opened a window while he worked with that new glue.", "She liked to fall asleep while watching the telly."
It was very easy to commit murder throughout the Industrial era. The cities, the technology...but lack of communication we have now (internet, DNA testing, etc.) ...made it extraordinarily easy. People commit a lot less murder now even with mass shootings.
Im just giving everybody a 👍 LIKE!!!
Just cus i feel great after my 2 cup of coffee cheers from CORPUS CHRISTI in South Texas !
It works even today
@@christinash2235 Back before DNA testing became widely available there were a lot of innocent people getting life long prison sentences and even worse getting the chair. Usually guilty verdicts where reached on nothing more then witness testimony and false accusations. A lot of black men getting accused of rape.
Teresa Ellis even better in the Edwardian or Victorian era where you could easily take someone out with arsenic
As an American I love the “unsurprisingly the American chemistry sets were even more spectacular” and it included uranium because of course it did
Same 🤣🤣
@@GladeSwope It was the 50s. The 50s were all about atomics. Remember that this was before Chernobyl and 40+ years of anti nuclear propaganda, so it really was a different time.
@@GladeSwope Well nuclear tech had just won WWII for America, so building an interest in it was viewed as a positive thing. Also, uranium itself doesn't give you a bomb. It's the refined, and insanely hard to make, isotopes that do that. Uranium is actually fairly common since you can pull it right out of sea water if you don't have any land deposits for instance.
Uranium is badass
Literally that part was so american it hurt
Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s I always wondered why adults were so concerned with appliances catching fire, I know it can still happen now but I never realized how prevalent it was back then.
Because electric shop wasn't required in middle school and high school. That's why we have so many dimbulbs here in the US who have no idea how to wire a wall socket.
I'm 34 and I'm still worried about appliances catching fire.
I was raised by my grandparents and I still have a habit of walking around the house and unplugging things before I leave the house... It's not anxiety, it's just how I was taught! lol
What I don't get is why the newspaper texts are censored instead of highlighted.
I imagine they were going to use the darkened area to re-write the newspaper texts, in modern graphics and/or highlighting the parts being narrated, but just forgot about it.
"Two in hospital after attempt to make *liquid oxygen* "
What the fuck kinds of equipment were in these chemistry sets
Lmao
Uranium for starters. XD
I don’t know, but I ate some of them. Found my dad’s old chemistry kit in the basement as a kid 🤦♀️😂😭😭😭
Not enough equipment to make liquid oxygen that's for sure
Dr. Waffles ummm, obviously not
This is why I live naked in the middle of an empty field.
😂😂😂😂😂 WTF? dude
good for you
😂 😂 Yo if its true it'd actually lit
You too?
Completely chemtrail exposure!
I got a set back in 1962. It didn't end well. I can still remember my mom screaming and us furiously running back and forth from bathroom and kitchen carrying water in anything we found to put out the fire. Fortunately, we got it out with damage limited to my desk and wall behind it. My model train on a shelf melted. I was lucky.
Ohhh...had my chemistry set in the 70's and conducted "experiments" on frogs. Imagine a bunch of dead frogs in front the house when the parents came home. Mom was horrified. Dad still laughs.
@@jasonhutter7534 Damn :D
@@devanov3103 I feel really bad about the frogs now, trust me. Im an animal lover.
@@jasonhutter7534 I know the feeling. I washed my hamster when I was 10 years old and she died of hypothermia the next day. Didn't expect that. I thought you could wash and dry them and they'd be alright.
I got one when i was ten years old.I mixed some things together. It exploded a made a huge red spot on the ceiling
My parents built a house in the 50s. The heating was in the ceiling...warm air rises. We were so cold in the winter. There was no carpeting...only hardwood and tile.
Does it bother anyone else that every time a newspaper article is shown it's blacked out.
Yes, I hate it.
Why did they put it up just to black it out?
I just paused it before it went black so I could read the article.
@@annwithaplan9766 you are my hero✌
I think the quote they are say was supposed to come up in white text, but for whatever reason they forgot to add it :/
The family that DIYs together
*Dies together*
....at least they saved !
omg yes
DIY or die hard trying XD
DIY electrical wiring installation !
This is why I DREAD working in domestic installations [yes, licensed electrical worker]. Far too much DIY layers of dangerous work hidden away that won't test as dubious, yet I could be held responsible for not identifying and making safe, even if that is disconnection.
Frankly, it's far safer working on electrical equipment in a Heavy Industrial and High Voltage level equipment, because there is a higher level of respect afforded to the very real dangers.
We have a saying here: DIY = DIE
As soon as she started getting into how badly all the DIY's went wrong because of zero skill, I just kept seeing articles flash behind my eyes decrying how Millienials don't know how to do anything for themselves when their parents and grandparents were amazing DIY-ers. I know a Millenial who built his own home. He told me of a crafty lil trick he used to make it seem like his grounding line was the proper depth into the ground when it wasn't. Wired the place himself too. I would legit be worried to live there. Please call a professional if you're doing anything electrical and ya know, maybe if you can't be bothered to build things up to code yourself.
It doesn't surprise me that those chemistry sets were the first item mentioned. I remember my dad showing me some boxes like that many years ago when he found them at my grandparent's house. He was saying how unbelievable it was that they were sold as a kind of "toy". Also, how wild it was that he was actually supplementing these sets by ordering even more hazardous substances from catalogs...obviously pretending to be an adult. The "experimenter today, scientist tomorrow" did hold true for him...but luck would have been on his side.
Grandparents' house: More than one grandparent.
Grandparent's house: One grandparent.😊
Well, my Dad was excited to buy his girls a chemistry set. I'm surprised I didn't blow up and thing.
You said it ! Posing as an adult to order chemicals ! If you're that smart, You're taking your chances with eyes wide open !
I was given a chemistry set as a present. Even with the instruction book, I didn't have a clue.....
My chemistry set came with a microscope. I wanted to take the chemistry class at the local pharmacy but Dad said I was to young at 10 years old. By the time I could take chem class in high school I was no longer interested because of sex, drugs, and rock and roll ! Never put off your motivated kid until it is to late after the media has a grip on them.
I was born in 1957 and I had one of those 'dangerous' chemistry sets. That got me interested in the sciences. It was invaluable at teaching me to be careful around chemicals and things that I didn't understand. I wasn't allowed to play with it alone. My dad made us take appropriate precautions. That was how it was with all of my friends when it came to doing adult things. When I mowed the lawn at 10 years old, he was nearby. When we launched model rockets, there was an adult present. Responsible parents didn't allow their children to put themselves in danger. Where were the parents when these children got hurt? The pendulum swung the other direction with overkill.
I had a chemistry set but no one looked over my shoulder. I guess I was lucky.
“I’m going upstairs to the first hidden killer, the child’s bedroom”
Oh so the kid did it
Yup - but was it with the knife in the conservatory or with the wrench in the library? That we still don't know!
Sounds more like the bedroom did it.
No, Professor Plum did it, in the kitchen....
...with yo momma.
@@Sparks52 no it was with the chemistry set in the living room
And notice how I am climbing these stairs in high heels 👠,
old people: back in my day we didn't need warning labels!
oh but you did
Nah, one just got sick.....or died
The ones who did, generally got et up in the thresher (died in childhood). Nature tends to take out the stupid.
Today we are awash in warning labels that no one reads. So.....
@@101Volts If someone is willing to use a hair drier in the shower, warning labels will be of little merit.
Right? It was like today, you need to practice a bit of common sense at any point in history. Stupid in the fifties is the same as stupid today.
I was a kid in the 60s and we had some pretty dangerous playthings. I had an E-Z bake oven that had a light bulb so hot that it baked little cakes. Creepy Crawlers were little bugs that we made by pouring 'goop' into a metal mold set into an implement that was plugged in and heated up hot enough to turn the 'goop' into rubber. Oh, and Click Clacks. Those were brightly colored golfball sized solid plexiglass type orbs. There was one on each end of a 10 inch string with a plastic ring in the middle. You held it by the ring and flapped it so the 2 balls clacked together. A lot of heads got whacked by this toy.
Sounds just like my childhood 🤗
I'm an 80's kid and surprised how long the Creept Crawler maker stuck around. I had one growing up and it was a family/supervised activity "making bugs" because my mom realized how dangerous the thing was and worried we would get burned.
@@PuffKitty we had all the same "toys" back in the day too, LOL!
Wasn't it great!!!!
Don't forget wood burning sets!
Had one when I was 7. That was fun!
@@usa91787 and chemistry sets! And no creepy parents following us around all day. A "playdate" in summer was basically running outside after breakfast and seeing who all we could rustle up. Then lunch, back outside on bikes, at the pool or lake, dinner, then back out until the lightening bugs came out. We played with the danger toys on rainy days. It really was an awesome childhood back then.
And we're still here.
This is a great video that I’ve come back to several times but I never understand why whoever edited this decided to blackout all of the newspaper clippings. Why even include them at all if you’re just going to black them out one second later?
Most of what is blacked out is being read.
Indeed, it is very irritating!! I may not even finish the video.
Maybe if shown they would have to pay or acknowledge someone/something.
Video editor’s first day on the job? It would look nice if the black smoke effect was more transparent, but someone clearly messed up here.
I'm late to the party on replying, but it was definitely an editing mistake! My guess is there was text meant to appear on the screen over the black effect that somehow got removed before export (likely a whole layer was disabled), and they didn't notice before it was uploaded. Shame as adding all that text was probably quite a chore and the end result would have looked great! The editor is likely kicking themselves for letting this video get uploaded in its unfinished state (I know I would be, in fact it happened to me once or twice in the beginning of my editing career lol!)
Guy is wearing a tie doing brick work, now that’s classy
Reminds me of some old movie where Jimmy Stewart was grilling in the backyard. He was wearing a dress shirt and tie!
B May : greatest generation ever.
@@danrook5757 I don't know about that, but they were pretty well-dressed often.
Alas, many carpenters died in the 50's doing the same while using the table saw.
Hopefully it was a Colin Furze approved safety tie.
I remember my brothers late 1960's chemistry set. He burnt a hole straight through a 1inch thick wooden table top. Dad was not impressed.
How long was he grounded for?
@@youngmasterzhi I think my Dad was probably more upset about giving my brother a gift that was so dangerous. My brother didn't get grounded just had his chemistry set taken from him.
Lynn Oneill aw, that’s nice at least :^)
6:20 just consider it progress
Was it an acid
My dad (who was born and raised in England), gave me the chemistry set he had when he was a kid; from the late 60's. A lot of the chemical bottles were empty, but still had the labels, and even though I was only 10 or 11 at the time, I still remember being shocked by a ton of the dangerous chemicals that were in it! I asked my dad about it (he is a biochemist professionally now), and he was like "Oh yeah, I guess that is pretty dangerous." He said he didn't think about it when giving it to me, because he was about my age when he'd gotten it himself. Craziness. He ended up safely disposing of the dangerous substances and properly cleaning or disposing of the containers as necessary, but we do still have the kit somewhere at my parents' house. He did end up buying me a modern chemistry set as well, which I really enjoyed as a kid!
Ah! The 1950s, when builders wore a suit and tie to work and you immediately became 45 as soon as you were 21.
Well, no trainers and jogging pants.
you basically just described the character William D Foster from Falling Down, lol
And you could smoke a cigarette while you get operated on.
I wish that were still the case
@@71050505 With the medicine of those days, you'd need it.
Meth labs: *Levels entire apartment buildings*
1950's kids with chemistry sets: Hold my asbestos and uranium 238
I live in a neighborhood where the homes were built during the 50's. Due to the expense, many haven't been much renovated since then. I knew someone whose family had their meth lab blown up in their home. It was an interesting sight for a long time. I went to see it up close when it was being investigated and they were carrying things off, but I was a child and the police yelled at me, saying that it is illegal to disturb them.
Those chemistry sets where the inspiration for many a meth cook. Not even joking.
*hold my beaker.
Hold my uranium
Would have been so much better
I love the styles, furniture and automobiles from the 1950's. Omitting the deadly appliances, of course.
Yes ! The 50’s designs were cool and sleek, but then everything got klutzy and boxy. The space ship designs went from smooth and curvy (as in Star Trek) to angular and cluttered in later Sci-fi, designs also reflected in auto making. Home design also lost it’s innovative quality.😒
And I feel I've been running away from these hideous (to me) colors and styles my whole life! 😂. The only thing I can remember as cool was my grandpa's ash tray, which was on a post about 30 inches tall, and had a lighter and space for a pipe and supplies in a "bowl"in the middle. Finally, a grand handle to pick it up and move to another chair. Somewhat dark wood column, brass feet and handle, and amber glass for the ash tray.
It went away once I discovered where the lighter lived-
Imagine telling your camera crew, "Hey, I need you to take really menacing pictures of this chicken carcass."
Being professionals, they already knew the perfect angles to use
Yea. That was scary!
It's no joke, back in the 1970s when they wanted to photograph a turkey to make it look like it was hot from the oven, they'd hide a lit cigarette behind it for the smoke.
Imagine surviving the war, only to pass away from your own house.
Almost poetic. Your house as a big coffin.
That's worse than...a heart attack? Car accident? Diabetes? Not one breath is guaranteed.
*BOOM* a child.
This video is a giant hyperbole. The chance of anyone deing from asbestos in there house or a tiny bit of radiation from uranium in a chemistry set is virtually nil.
It was worse when the Pandemic of 1918 - 1919 showed up, right after World War I.
"Uranium isn't exciting; it doesn't explode or cause puffs of smoke"
Oppenheimer: "Hold my apparatus"
A.E. Good catch! That irony went right past me. "..doesnt cause puff of smoke or explode." hahhaha
If you DO see a chunk of uranium giving off smoke, you are in BIG trouble.
Most chemistry sets in those days were not capable of producing an explosion. If they were making liquid oxygen or explosive compounds then they were using things well beyond what was available in the typical children's chemistry set.
LMAO!!!!...Yeah, because lmma about to blow some shyt up.😂😂😂
If There's Was uranium They couldve Fited Some Explosives in there to Top it off.
I loved the tiny cake mixes , but hated the oven. My mother let me use the big oven ( unattended!!) when I was 4.
I was the last of 8…. My parents weren’t very concerned by the time I showed up. My older (12 years) sister #3 wasn’t even allowed to walk down stairs by herself until she was 6. 40’s kids were apparently more precious than late 50’s kids.
I remember my grandfather unplugged stuff before going to bed. Even to the TV back in the 70s.
May God bless all!
Belief in a silly Sky fairy should have left you in the 1950s as well
My grandpa is blind in one eye because of those chemistry sets
my grandpa is blind in both eyes because he's dead.
Why was your grandfather using a kids chemistry set?
@@tubularfrog maybe he used it when he was a child? Dumb question.
@Unkwon Malaysian Guy yaass 😂
that's why you have 2 eyes; doesn't matter if you lose one!
"The post WW2 home is the most dangerous place to live"
Victorian era homes: I beg to differ
Yeah the lead and arsenic in everything is hard to beat
@@missmelodies52 lead and arsonic where posh because you could do things like kill cockroaches and paint the walls which was still common in the 50s but in the 70s some jealous parents blamed the neighbors because their kids ate paint.
Tudar homes be offended
@@Rigiroony Tudor homes don't have internet because they are located in rural England unless they have satellite but that would be pretty expensive for the hippies living in a Tudor homes.
Not sure if Dr L was behind the CZcams about poorly designed stairs, it was a epithany for me. I 'assumed' that what's now basic common sense for said steps had been a thing for maybe 1,000 years, NOT 150, as in ca 1870
Growing up in Florida before air conditioning mosquitos and gnats were a problem. A truck would go up and down the streets to try to alleviate the outbreaks. As kids, we used to run behind the mosquito truck to play in the smoke....while parents watched. Nobody thought a thing about it being dangerous. But, we were breathing insecticide! We also would put a Pic coil in our car at the Drive-In or our bedrooms at night to ward off mosquitos and gnats. It would burn and emit smoke. We breathed that almost daily. When my mother was having anxiety issues trying to be the perfect housewife and mother...the Dr recommended she start smoking. Lol Those were the days!
I was watching an old episode of Ozzie and Harriett that l have on DVD. There's a guy in a commercial for Sucrets throat lozenges. He has a sore throat and you feel sorry for him. Then, the narrator says. "...and you can even use them while smoking" as the guy lights up a cigarette. Riiigght, like smoking is going to help that sore throat!
You are still alive, aren't you?
Same here with the mosquito fogger going through the neighborhood! Yikes! 🤪
Hey! I was born in 1953. I remember the mosquito fogger. Maybe my family was smarter than the average bear, but we knew not to play outside when the truck came down the road.
My mom's story was leaving England in 1946 and emigrating to New Zealand Auckland where they at first lived on the beach. So by 1950s mom was running around barefoot surfing and sailing. Carefree of the toils of London left behind and their gadgets for better living. Her dad did make things by hand & we still have his art here today. I'm a '67 special and had to hear about all the dangers to household items, now I know where it's from!
?? mom i thought in New Zealand Auckland you say mum
The editing choice of a black blot over written materials and during quotations was really annoying. Seriously, who says "Here's a picture of some text, I'm going to cover it up so you can't read it. With a cataract simulation." ?
Exactly! That was so annoying, what's the point of having the text if they're going to hide it?!
In some of these videos they quote the spoken lines with white letters over the smudgy bit. I have no idea why these ones are empty.
was LITERALLY about to post the same comment.... I'm pretty sure I've seen other videos of theirs that do the same thing
Yes! What is the opposite of "highlighting" text? Besides annoying?
@Edan Robertson but it's done every single time in every video
I love how she’s wearing a 1950s inspired dress, it’s such a nice touch
Also her shoes.
It's Lady Vintage London dress in hepburn style and japanese floral print. :)
and her sexy shoes are the style of the time too..so cute..
I can see from the profile pic that it's your preferred style. Me too. Though I'm 37, I have been trying to style my hair in a feathered pomp-style forever. Can NEVER get it right!!
She looks classy and feminine.
I had a chemistry set, and can still smell whatever the white powder was. No explosions though. My dad taught me-a girl-how to make a rubber band gun, and we mixed up goo to “bake” it in insect-shaped molds in a low heat oven. The stuff smelled bad! My dad also made lead soldiers and let us kids play with mercury with our bare hands.
When I broke a fever thermometer, I was allowed to play with the beads of liquid mercury. No long, but bare hands pushing the beads around.
We also played with Mercury with our hands. It was a more innocent time. When everything wasn't dangerous and forbidden.
As long as you washed your hands with Comet after playing with mercury, you should've been ok! 😆
My brother has lice in the late 60s and my mom put gasoline on his scalp, before washing him 😳 No wonder he turned out to be a jerk. 😁
@@amg9163I think I used Lava 🧼 to wash after mercury play. We had some for dad to use getting heavy machine grease off his hands before eating.
My friends dad gave us a huge bottle of mercury to -lat with. We would dump it on the floor and slap it to make little balls fly everywhere
electrical injuries and deaths continued into the 60's and 70's. The solution was the now ubiquitous ground fault circuit interrupter (GFI, and other nomenclatures in various countries). This industrial device was first 'miniaturized' and then turned into a mass produced product that in combination with the 'circuit breaker' replaced fuses in modern homes.
It was developed by my Father at FPE in Toronto, and then widely spread around the world. He also made the very first portable GFI unit, which we used at our house for years to make our corded electric lawn mower and hedge trimmer safe from ground fault accidents, years before anyone else could do so! This was further reduced in size until it could fit inside a wall socket, or the power cord of things like hair dryers and extension cords.
he was inspired to begin trying to solve these problems by the near electrocution of one of our neighbors who lived across the street in Montreal. When he was in Hospice care, half a century later, he took great satisfaction knowing he was responsible for saving untold millions of lives around the world, and pointed out to the nurses and doctors that the only reason they could safely hook him up to the various electrical devices so ubiquitous in hospitals today, was his own inventions, tucked tidily away from view, silently standing guard over his life, just like everyone else's.
Greatly appreciate what your father has done in creating the GFCI that has been saving the lives of countless people over the past, what, 50 years? Thank you for sharing this.
Try not to die: house edition
Lmfaoooo I'm GOING TO HELL
Only if I can play as Hugh Laurie
"Science is never evil except in wrongly used by man" that's some deep shit
Toys back then didn't fuck around
Ask hitler
I had mostly " dangerous toys " back then. Good times. Good times. Now we have safe fat sissies.
@@becca5100 ...Ask Robert Oppenheimer
@@jameretief8327 at least we don't identify as fucking Mr. Burns
@@SEFSQklOR0VS Rather be a mr burns than a part time he/she
My parents were very much safety conscious people. As kids in the 1960's, we were instructed to look for the "UL" insignia of Underwriters Laboratories on all prospective gadgets before bringing them into our home. Safety Glass was in automobiles, and the magazine "Consumer Reports" laid on our coffee table and kitchen counter along with Life, Look, and Ebony magazines. I am really grateful to my parents for instilling safety awareness into all of us kids. They were born and reared in during the Great Depression, yet they had respect and awareness that a lot of other people did not have.
One can buy those stickers, most of Chinese products have them on the cord. Yet.. I wouldn't believe in it now a days.
I remember my brother having aCreepy Crawlers play set and I had a Fun Flower set that came with liquid plastic that you poured into metal molds and cooked in little steel electric stoves that heated to about 350 degrees that we played (ages 7 - 12) with no suggested parental supervision. My other always monitored us - but because she thought we would spill the fluid and make a mess - not for possible burns or fires. Lol
Just think! You and your brother could have been millionaires. Just add a fishing hook in the worm before baking and $$$$ in the bank. Pretty much what we have today!
@@paulne1514, I still have some of the fishing lures I made!
When she said "although the odd girl did walk in" when she was talking About the chemistry set and whispered "look, there's me" idk why but that warmed my heart
I missed the point of what she said in that part. Does she mean she is the girl in box's picture?
@@kd1only she meant that every so often a girl would be interested in the science kits and that she was one of those girls that was interested
@@zacharywood9416 Ah I see. Thank you for explaining it to me 😉
Got it.
@Rimone Media meaning girls interested in science. Notice only one girl on the box, peering behind the boys
Forget calling the ambulance, you must SUMMON it
With all these accidents there's plenty of blood available for the summoning ritual.
A pentagram with 5 little Match Box/Hot Wheels ambulances...or the OUIJA planchete just keeps going over 9-1-1?
@@troyevitt2437 Accio Ambulance!!!!
It means the same thing.
@@AugustTheStag No, it's not. "Calling" an ambulance uses a phone. "Summoning" requires a sum-total of human energy and if Saturn in is Virgo, the congregants must be sky-clad.
“Bobby, are you carrying chemicals in your pockets”
“No…”
“Liar, lia… oh God! Your pants are on fire!”
Hahahaha...well played
The producers' choice to grey out the print of the articles was quite annoying!
I had a chemistry set in the 70s made a nice stinkbomb horrible smell in the entire house. But it was fun changing colors of solutions.
-Here’s a chemistry kit with uranium!!
-I’m not going to buy that
-you’re right it’s probably too dan...
-It doesn’t even explode or smoke what’s the fun in that?
-..I beg your pardon?
@@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115 _keep b e g g i n g_
@@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115 if it can't kill me, it won't thrill me
-If you say so Lisawati Goh...
I love how they talk about the dangers of the children’s chemistry set and just when you think it can’t get crazier they introduce the Americans set. We Americans always have to be bigger and better to our own detriment 🤣
"summoned an ambulance" just sounds like they're trying to summon a demon but they got an ambulance instead
Summoning an ambulance requires the sacrifice of knees
SahasaV at least they specified the method of sacrifice
@@alexandria3583 unlike the actual experiments :P
Well they might not have had a telephone to call one so they have to go somewhere else to summon one.
*is summoning satan*
Weeee woooo weeee woooo
SHIT WRONG BOOK
I remember 9 or 10-year-old kids in the early 1960s getting gifts of wood burning sets to make name badges and little signs. With no supervision, there were many possible scenarios for burns and fires.
Back before I was born, my Grandpa Hurd made a number of serious efforts in being an inventor. He invented a kitchen sink re-heater that would heat up the dish water again after it cooled off. He got financial backing and spent considerable money to get his heater on the market, of what he did succeed, but tragically and most unfortunately, there was a housewife got electrocuted from faulty insulation and the lawsuit drove Grandpa into destitution, for the rest of his life, and he never did fully recover. He also suffered a shrink-type enormous guilt trip.
LLC????????????
So much tragedy that invention involves, we take risks…really sorry about your gramps .❤️🌺
"the post war home is the most dangerous place you could be"
people coming home from the war must have been tickled
Imagine getting a PTSD flashback because juniors Christmas gift starts exploding and burning people
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero the way you detailed that made me snicker
This ludicrous statement sets the tone of the video.
Mostly hysterical nonsense.
Slap and tickle even.
I love how they call them the most dangerous and yet they still stand and outlast most new houses.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember sometimes when I picked out pajamas, they would say “not flammable “
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Omg I remember that in the 2000s and I always wondered and laughed it off. Oh the reality
I believe that they still do
They still do.
It was a huge problem with baby products in the past as well. They used to be highly flammable, and it took a while for regulations to fix it.
Carbon monoxide symptoms can mimic flu-cold symptoms, but also have a wide variety of other effects, like hallucinations or memory loss. Several reports of “hauntings” were found to be CO poisoning, with cases of people seeing “ghosts” or finding things moved in their house, with one case finally found when the person posted online that they kept finding sticky notes posted around the house in their own handwriting but that they had no memory of writing and someone recommended a CO monitor (supposedly).
Having both a 'dangereous' chemistry set and a microscope set with an unbelievably nice microscope in the mid-1960s I can attest to it hooking me on science. Today I have degrees in geophysics and computer science.
The first thing I did with my chemistry set? Made tear gas that ran me, my friend, and my dog out of my room. 👍👍👍👍👍
Ok dude…but wouldn’t your supervised chemistry class have gotten your interest in science ? Home chemistry kits also enabled future pipe bomb makers !😏
@@IvanKosta-dv5mw actually, reading got me interested in science. I recommend it.
@@IvanKosta-dv5mw about the tear gas, the instructions were in the set along with a lot of others.
Those were the days. We let bleeding hearts talk us into stopping all the really good fun I used to have like riding bikes 28 miles round trip to go fishing with your buddies at 12 years old and never dreamed of having, or needing, an adult.
Yep, those were the days. I'm sorry you missed them.
Kids like me, who's parents couldn't afford that stuff, were luckier than we'll ever know.
Yeah I had metal Tonka trucks. It's a wonder I didn't end up needing a tetnus ( spelling could be wrong) shot. But they lasted till I outgrew them. By then they were made of plastic
Yes u were
@@merceduslong4486 *tetanus
@@potat099 Lmao thank you☺☺
That's what I was thinking. Even now it's always beneficial to just wait to buy some new innovation until, well, the "bug fixes" are done.
It's a fascinating show but maybe don't darken the text on the newspaper clippings when you're focused on them. It's like you've invented negative highlighting!
I thought the same thing. I'm guessing there is personal information or something.
Yeah, thanks for redacting what we're supposed to be reading
Having watched a couple more videos from the series I believe it's an editing mistake. There is meant to be white text over the black clouds but somebody probably forgot to turn the text track back on before exporting.
Highlightn't™
I found the video at BBC. There is white text over the dark area. I suspect someone made a mistake and uploaded a copy that didn't have the text graphics added.
My grandparents raised me (born 1899 & 1902). To this very day, I unplug everything at night! It's just ingrained in me.
I was born in 1953 so Boomer One Group. I was into paste up art making “furniture” for my Barbie doll house (shoe box rooms) out of all sorts of materials. I used rubber cement to glue my creations together. One day I was using the rubber cement and my mom had a cigarette burning nearby. My glue brush that I held burst into flames as well as the can of rubber cement! I freaked and threw them into the sink but they continued to burn! My mom smothered the flames with a pot lid and salt. Both my parents smoked and never once connected the fire with a burning cigarette.
Holy shit Ommg
@@fiberpoet6250 Barbie dolls were not around until 1959
And into the 60s, seemed like everyone smoked. Older teen sisters had a cig burning in the ashtray as they sprayed huge amounts of hairspray on their heads. It was many years before I realized how lucky we were it didn't all go up in smoke!
@@dennyj8650 Yikes, that’s just dumb luck!
@@juliecuthbert9565 I was six when I got her; she was a brunette and my little sister got a blonde. My mother used to buy their clothes up on Woodland Ave at a small store that exclusively handled Barbie clothes. Our “Kens” were Dr. Kildare and Dr. Ben Casey; suppose Kens were hard to find. Before Barbie it was my “Tootles” doll; she was a red head with long curly lashes.
I got salmonella when I was 23 and it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. The idea that people were suffering from that in droves because no one was washing their hands is madness.
Are you ok
I got it from not washing lettuce. It was horrible. Luckily in the basement was a very small bathroom with the sink directly across from the toilet. I really appreciated that design at the time. I was 33 and in fairly good health. I suffered severely for a good 4 days straight. Please wash your lettuce even if it says that it's washed already.
@@lorimiller4301 look at it this way.."Your troubles were BEHIND you" lol my elderly Grandfather used to say that to me all the time when we had "bathroom" issues . Or the runs lol. Your troubles are behind ya ;)
I think I went to high school with Sal Monella
Look up the history guy episode The Doctor who washed his hands. You'll be exponentially more frustrated with that story but it's really good.
I still can't believe I can watch these amazingly made documentaries, for free, online. It is so fascinating.
*Right? They're so well done for the most part, high quality productions!*
@@Griselda_Puppy They didn't make them. They just license them from the company that did.
@@sepez it's still free
@@sepez *Um, well, I never said they actually made them, or just liscenced them, or whatever. I dont believe the other commenter did either. I was just commenting on what good quality they are, and the other person (and I as well) were finding it amazing that they're **_FREE_** for all to watch. Thats it.* 🙂
I understand now why my English mother in law was so afraid of the gas and electricity in her house. I don't blame her. None of this crap in America. Back when lawyers worked on the side of the angels.
In the 60s my oldest brother brought home a sheet of asbestos from work saying it was fireproof and indestructible. We all spent the afternoon smashing it with a hammer 🙄
My dad was a firefighter in the 60s-90s, and one of his unbreakable rules was that they NEVER smoked upstairs. And all ashtrays were put into the kitchen sink with a bit of water at the end of the day. not dumped into the trash. It didn’t fix everything but it helped.
It's amazing just how effective all the fire prevention work in terms of community outreach, school events, PSAs, etc has been. Anytime I saw someone doing something unsafe with fire, even as far back as a kid in the 90s, someone (often multiple people at once) would immediately speak up and put the Fear of Fiery Death into whoever was being irresponsible. Even the people with zero personal experience with fire would speak up, often being the first to do so, which if you think about it really is incredible and shows just how effective the outreach has been.
Not that it stopped any of us from playing from fire, of course, but at least we were safe about it. When one kid told us he found some random spray could be held in your palm while on fire pretty safely, nobody there was willing to be the first to test it. A few people went as far as verifying they knew where the nearest extinguisher were in case his demonstration failed. Even when everyone else wanted to try it, they always started with the tiniest amount of spray.
On the other hand I get the impression that if you went around in the 50s and offered to set people's hands on fire after you sprayed something on it, a lot of people would agree on the spot and wouldn't even think to check the label of what's in the spray.
My Grandparents emptied their ashtrays in a sand bucket at night
rule in our house was they were emptied into a metal can and the can was filled with water then tossed out in the burn barrel every couple of days, NEVER INTO THE DRY TRASH CANS ALL ASHTRAYS WERE PLACED ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER OVERNIGHT.
Jack Cassidy, David's Father died from being drunk and passing out with a cigarette. He set the whole place on fire. Extremely sad situation.
@@lorimiller4301 Thank you for your informative comment. Jack Cassidy's untimely death was a great loss to me and others. Damn cigarettes are a real killer no doubt. Jack's way of comedy was just fine. He brought out smiles and laughter. R.I.P. Jack...
For anyone wondering about the black spot on the screen- it is an editing mistake in FCP. The intent is to zoom in on a piece of an image, and blow it up. The tool chosen requires you to then select the spot to lighten, which didn’t happen here. It’s definitely frustrating! I had this issue and was very annoyed. I can’t imagine being the editor and having to leave it in there.
I thought maybe it was to cover up personal names or something like that. Or maybe it was a silent killer thing. Lol. Thanks
Thank you for explaining that!
They do that in every video in all their channels, and they added this later to some videos that I've recently rewatched. I'm pretty sure it is not "an editing mistake" but rather deliberately done - I can only guess after a copyright claim by the newspaper whose clippings they used.
I was thinking they were supposed to scroll the (retyped) text from the newspaper across the dark spot in white (or light colored letters), but somehow got left out in the final edit.
Thanks for the explanation I figured it was some form of error
I had a series of these kinds of kits in the early 60's as well. I learned how to make invisible ink....was afraid of the stuff, yet fascinated at the same time.
The first house I bought had electrical problems, the one circuit with an outlet was wired with lamp cord, and the two-fuse main box had one of the fuses across the ground! It's a wonder the place had not burned down before we bought it!
War vet: *Gets home from war*
TV: The post war home is the most dangerous place you can be
"Alright, I'll invite that Nazi across the street."
*German neighbor waves hello*
*Vet waves back*
"And while he's waiting, I'll sneak out a window and wait for him to die!"
@Newfriend wow, way to stereotype 50% of people on earth because of a handful.
@@rickwrites2612 WRONG its only 48.9% of the people on earth. check your facts
@Newfriend 🤗👍
@@ivyblack21 Woah slow down there buddy, that number doesn't jump as dramatically as your distaste of pedantic people.
a difference of over one percent in such a large sample size is not down to randomness like you wish to imply.
Was anyone else thinking “A family that DIY’s together, DIES together?”
I thought she was gonna say that, I'm surprised they missed out on it
🤣🤣🤣
People in that era were actually capable of performing these DIY tasks. From the 70's on, people began to consider these tasks beneath them, and only 'trades people' were supposed to do these dirty tasks. We lost a lot of common sense and capabilities when this happened. Nowadays commentators on these programs actually condemn anyone who tries to learn these skills as 'dangerous'. What a poor, lost lot of souls you are.
😭 omg yes 😳😭😧
@@MrHitchikerOz Absolutely agree. Most people are all but useless and incompetent beyond the bubbles created for them at their 9-5. Refacing a door becomes apparently dangerous enough to make a tv program warning against DIY. I'd almost feel sorry for them, if it wasn't willful ignorance.
The DIY electrical work can still be a problem. I lived in Oklahoma and Arkansas for a year and a half and I saw so many burned down houses. When I asked a friend why (house fires, especially to the extent that the whole house completely burned down was a major rarity where I grew up), they said that there weren't laws saying an electrician had to check any diy electrical work or that an electrician had to do electrical work so it ends in more house fires.
My brother, while still in high school, installed electric wiring in his second floor bedroom and closet. Don't think that ever got checked for safety. We never had a problem with his wiring as long as our family lived in that house.
Joyce Brewer that's great, it isn't a guaranteed problem, but it can be. I also believe this is when someone who wasn't an electrician did the wiring on the whole house. Most states have laws saying that homes have to checked that they are up to code.
@@izzieluv This can happen whenever anyone does anything electrical to their house, even just replacing a bad socket or light switch if they do not know, nor did any research for anything electrical related. I bring this up as I've seen photos of sketchy wiring where it's nowhere close to code and it's a wonder it didn't burn the place down right away.
This can be due to overloading a circuit for instance and the circuit breaker is over sized so does not trip (using a 15 amp circuit breaker when a 10amp is recommended, then the circuit overheats and starts a fire as the circuit breaker does not trip) kind of thing.
I've read about, and seen one video of Steve Lavi having to get to a fuse panel, yes, a fuse panel and step over crap piled up in the room, only to find it was sketchy as hell due to pennies in place of fuses etc, totally unsafe and if I recall, he would not touch it as much of the house was in darkness as a result. The lady was elderly and a hoarder and lived alone.
Another example, Matt that has a channel, the Fixer owns a house built in 1946 and over time before he bought the house, it had been chopped up in several places, and one was the basement stairs being moved and some of the floor framing was cut into, in spots pretty significantly. Other areas, additions were added and over time, the bathroom had a significant dip due to a support wall was moved, and it was all done by an amateur who didn't know what they were doing.
@Lizzie Cottrell - thank you for posting that. I moved to AR about 2 years ago and currently have a late 1890s house in contract for sale. I hired an inspector, who provided me a 90 page report. I saw some wacky electrical stuff that looked dangerous to my untrained eyes. The inspector called out the same thing and indicated that the electric had been done by a non licensed person. I will be re-doing the electric as one of the first things when I take possession of the place.
My grandpa built his own house in northern Arkansas which my dad owns now. My dad's evaluation when he went under the floor to check the wiring was "it's amazing this place hasn't burned down already". It's been there for 75 years now though, and we still stay there regularly.
Our previous home was built in 1988 and there was a gas fireplace in the bedroom which was unvented. It was only a few inches deep with the flame exposed. We never lit it, but replaced it with a proper vented fireplace.
The flammability of children's clothing was addressed by treating them with flame retardant chemicals, which were later determined to cause health and cancer problems.
That was poor drafting. I should have said "...cancer and other health problems."
@BornToRunBarefoot
Treating children with flame retardant chemicals was never popular :P
I believe this would be covered in a different era episode. In the 50s, they didn't know that yet.
Yes. That was in the 1970's. The U. S. government started to mandate more flameproofing of children's clothes in the early part of the 1970's. Then in the latter part of the 1970's there were discoveries of the hazards of some of the treating chemicals and they were banned. I would think it would be similar in Britain, NZ, Aus, Canada, Ireland, Iceland and European countries, since the ideas and study results tend to heard responses.@@bethanyhanna9464
@HEREWARD THE WAKE No need to YELL and the MSG scare was just a hoax based on a letter someone wrote apparently trying to scare people away from Chinese restaurants, blaming the MSG. It has never been shown to be harmful except to rodents with concentrations of the stuff injected into their abdomens. Presumably that is not how normal people have ever used it. Lots of public scares are overblown or completely imaginary because media profits depend heavily on viewership and viewership depends heavily on sensationalism and drama. Just watch the opening of any evening news broadcast on even the most boring of news days. "Breaking news!!" said breathlessly.
My parents always used to make us unplug the tv. Now I get why
I was thinking of the 3 foot rule. We thought it was for our eyes, but it sounds dangerous if you were close
@@julienelson6506 Hey, that does make sense now that I think about it.
Conserving electricity and preserving your existence
They also made us turn it off durong storms or when there are thunders
Now that you mention it.. My folks used to do that too, but that was in the nineties. The TV we had would sometimes spontaneously turn itself back on for no reason other than it being an old brick that was just better off unplugged when you were done watching. I look at our flat screen now and think, damn, that feels like such a long time ago...
Oh my gosh, my cousin set his basement on fire with this exact set. We played with it all the time!
I'm glad you both made it
Just realized I have a chair from the 50s which has foam in it. Love the style (Very much in demand right now). I will be switching out the foam for new!
Why switch out the foam? If your house catches on fire, that'll be the least of your worries. Just don't drop flaming objects onto it. Common sense, my good man. If the foam has degraded, on the other hand, go ahead and change it out; if it was recovered any time in the last 30 years, it's probably already been re-foamed.
I always hate it when my tie gets caught under a brick that I'm laying!
-----or a chick that you're laying! hahaha!!
@@mhrgall haha sex, am I right?
I saw dick get's caught under brick, not sure how that happened.
This is where bow ties come in luv!
Then boy are you in luck, I have just the product for you!
Year 2100: "The horror's of the 2020 home"
"Cellphone screens were actually the main culprit of spreading the coronavirus"
@@lassipls No it's the damn Facebook video face software ad that which caused suicide!
Bruh that's assuming society still exists by then LOL
@@thebitlot Society will exist in 2100 but under communist rule where everyone is forced to think happy thoughts elts they be taken for re education
2020 would be like.
Kids played with plastic blocks called Legos. They hurt your feet. And have choke kids.
I had a chemistry set, a real table top steam engine, a wood burning set and a kit to cast lead soldiers. Somehow I survived, and with all my fingers.
Great video! Never realized the problems in Europe after the war. I live in the Chicago area. Metal conduit is used and wiring inside of it and metal boxes. Romex is used in most states with plastic boxes. All homes in the USA can have metal conduit & metal boxes. All you have to do is ask the builder. It is an additional cost, but not that much? All commercial spaces usually require metal conduit and metal boxes. Romex costs more than insulated wiring. The thing that scares me about romex is the bundling of wiring in the attic (most homes on slabs). When the wiring heats up, it can melt the insulation and cause a fire. I have never seen this, but I considered it, in my dad’s home in North Carolina. He had a short circuit in the home on the line to the freezer in the garage. I wired a separate line to the unit in the garage to solve this problem. Later, by accident I found a nightlight bulb that was shorted and when changed, problems went away. Jim
PS: Some of these problems were addressed by UL and ETL in the USA and CE in Europe. Food problems were solved by cooking to certain temperatures and proper refrigeration and handling.
Dealing with caustic and flammable chemicals. Puts on goggles. Doesn't wear labcoat or gloves, or use a fume hood. 10/10 safety.
I was like wait, just the goggles though???!!
Yes. I’m a laboratory technician. Big safety fail there.
you don't wear nitril gloves around flammable substances because if they catch fire it'll be really bad
Well, you're right to the effect that you wouldn't wear nitrile gloves. You'd wear flame retardant gloves when working with flammable substances.
asbestos gloves
My husband was born in 1957 and had several hand-me-down chemistry sets from his dad or uncle. They all had vials of mercury and his favorite thing to do was empty them all out into a small bowl and play with it, rolling it around in his hands, pouring it over other toys, etc. I’m surprised he didn’t seriously poison himself! Whenever he says something dumb or does something crazy, I always say it must be the Mercury has gotten to his brain!
My mom talks about playing with balls of Mercury also
Loraine A - I was born that year, too. I remember when a thermometer broke and I let the little mercury balls roll around in my hand. I recently learned that something needs to be added to it in order for it to actually get into your skin.
Eating some mercury is fun too..🥴
@@annwithaplan9766 Liquid Mercury has such a high surface tension it tends to stay as it appears and doesn't poison Children as one might think.
On the other hand, heat it up and create Mercury Vapor your lungs will die, and so will you!
@@freedomwatches2454 Down at the morgue, they got characters who sneak around and harvest gold teeth and Silver Fillings from the dead. To get the silver separated from the amalgam they heat it up to melt the silver out. This vaporizes the Mercury and the fumes turn delicate lung tissue into tough rubber.
I thought that was pretty interesting.
This lady is a timeless beauty
My father who repaired oil burners use to bring home old chemistry sets that customers gave him. The worst I did with a chemistry set was set a window curtain on fire. I was using an alcohol burner on a telephone table next to a window. The sun was so bright I was unable to notice that spilled alcohol was burning and it set the window curtain on fire. lol my father who supplied the chemistry set was sitting not far away at the kitchen table when it happened. He in fact noticed the fire before I did.
I had a chem set in the ‘80’s……I do miss the smell of the alcohol burner…played with mine out in my workshop…lol set the workbench on fire and blew a few test tubes up…fun times for sure!
It is a bloody miracle that I survived , being born in the fifties. I remember many of the warnings about furniture, nylon pyjama's and the chemistry boxes
Did you have a chemistry set yourself?
And they were still at it with the damned pyjamas when I was a kid in the 1970's. They were impregnated with TDCPP, a carcinogenic chemical used as a fire retardant.
Science kits back in the 50's - How to make explosives.
Science kits today - How to make slime and the joy of salt.
Except the 50's kits were actually good
many of these chemistry sets had very small quantities of the chemicals. pretty safe, safer than fire crackers, or riding a bike.
now a recall a friends brother decided to make a flame thrower with a Windex bottle filled with gasoline, and a Bic lighter. He caught fire, no dangerous chemistry set needed.
They make it sound a lot worse than it was. I received a chemistry set for a (maybe 10th) birthday. There were a lot of interesting experiments and it engendered a lifelong interest in science.
@@shaulgrantz9077 i loved my chemistry set. Stuff sold today is a joke.
It would be neat to mix the sets up, exploding slime going everywhere and then my wife coming home and me sleeping on the couch for a week.
I can't think of a single technology that does not bring risks. Even things like smoke detectors and automobile seat belts can be misused or defective in some way to occasionally cause more harm that good. Just like the 1950's, every decade has its own new technologies that bring new risks. One could easily do a series on this subject with an episode for each decade.
The DIY amputation kit had people in stitches. lol
A little gallows humor from an amputee...
When we were getting my late grandmother's house ready to sell, we were delighted to find hardwood floors under the carpet & I mean under ALL of the carpet. The entire house (except for the kitchen and bathrooms) had gorgeous hardwood floors. They had been protected for decades under all that carpet padding. It made the value of the house go way up. My mom wanted to gut the 50s kitchen too but I convinced her to leave it. I knew someone would love that mid-century modern look. The people that bought the house said they weren't going to change a thing.
@@brittanyclark7484 One of the bathrooms had a pink tub, toilet & sink. That's about as far from neutral as you can get 😉
yes, up until about 1975, it was typical to install 1/2" plywood subfloor, then run the 3/4" hardwood flooring perpendicular to the joists, which added strength to the floor. My dad was a building contractor and i asked him one day why do they install hardwood floors then cover it up with carpeting.. Was not long after that they went to 3/4" plywood and then you can put whatever flooring you wanted on top. IF you were installing a 1/4" vinyl floor, or tile, in the kitchen/baths, you would add a layer of 1/2" to bring up those floors to teh level of the carpeting (3/4")
Every time I started reading the newspaper article a black cloud of doom appeared out of nowhere. Why would you do that?
To emphasize the deadliness?
Yes, probably to shield from lawsuits? Maybe?
@@alzychoze6591 In other episodes, they highlight the text being read.
@@alzychoze6591 maybe relatives of this family are still alive, and could sue if their names were used without consent.
It's to simulate that everything was on fire- they're char marks.
One hidden danger they didn’t explore and I 3xpected to see it, was the prevalence of lead in paint, pipes, lead was just about everywhere.
my brother had a few different kinds of these throughout the years. he made rat poison for our farm and even homemade wine among lots of other things. because of these chemistry kits he became an inventer. our whole attic was his lab
Now I know why my parents never let me have a chemistry set in the 1950s.
@@aliyahislam1728 What's your story? May we know?
@@filledvoid yeah. Would be interesting to know how it was.
@@fxjh21 They probably thought he would try making explosives, like basically every kid given access to the materials to do so would, and wind up blowing themselves up.
How about old fridges closing on kids . Trapping them in the fridge
That happened to my neighbour in 1961. He was completely blue when they found him.
@@Tubularvalleydude Happened to my brother's cat, luckily he went to get something out of the fridge and found his cat freezing his ass off.
Yea that was a problem as I remember. Washers and dryers too. The original washing machines from way back in the day where really dangerous because all of the mechanical parts that moved where out in the open and didn't have guards to keep you safe. If you got your hand or arm caught up in the laundry in the machine while using it it could rip your arm off. But no matter how dangerous they where it was still better then beating your cloths against a rock in the yard or taking them down to the rivers edge.
My grand parents had an old one in the basement with the door against the wall. Wr were too young and small to turn it.
@@bethlehemeisenhour8352 great childproofing though!
Wow ! That 1955 oven looks amazing ! Can’t get one like that now with all the different compartments !
Incredibly annoying how the newspaper articles (assuming they're genuine) are blacked out after a second or two. Other than that, interesting video.
I grew up in the 50’s and had two older brothers and a lot of these toys and products. All my life I have been annoyed by my “over-protective” mother. She seemed to have a sense of the danger about many of the items portrayed here. I’m thinking now she probably saved us from injury or death. My mom had only a high school education, but she was one smart cookie.
High education/I.Q. level...very different than WISDOM. What a MASSIVE to have had such a mom!
(Mine too🤗).
@@anabaird3835 I came across my father's HS report cards (graduated 1933) and can attest that he took subjects that today would be taught at a community (2-year) college. Back then, the vast majority of students ended their education at twelfth grade (or earlier). His older sisters left school in ninth grade to go to work to help support the family; only the later-born children finished high school.
@@Gail1Marie Remember that the 1933 body of knowledge was still small and simpler to grasp, except for math, of course.
@@alienvomitsex You'd think that, wouldn't you? But the classes he took were more advanced than those offered in high school today (how many high schools offer Latin?) As I recall (I don't have his report card in front of me), he also took philosophy and blacksmithing! Since most students' education ended at high school, I think classes covered what might be found in the first two years of college. It was actually more advanced, not simpler.
Now go apologize for giving her a hard time.💯
What makes me sad is watching genuine 1950s videos of these types of houses all over CZcams and how happy everyone looks in them, not knowing the dangers that awaited them.
@@timmyotoole7312 Exactly. Not all houses were dangerous.
The birth of advertising.
Future generations will view exploding mobile phones as a threat. It just wasn’t significant enough.
The kids born in the 50s now get sucker punched from the back by 'youths' while grocery shopping, just for fun and worldstar clout. I guess the dangers and threats change uh
Ah, yes! The Happy facade of the Upper/Middle/Lower Class American Families, circa 1950s/1960s.
My oldest brother had a microscope and he had slides with all sorts of truly dangerous pathogens he’d never be able to have as a 10-yr-old now. My uncle was a professor of science. He gave my brother slides and told him they were dangerous and not to lift up the slide covers. Imagine! Horrific.
Kids were more disciplined in those days. If an adult told you not to do something because it was dangerous, you respected their wisdom. Nowadays, kids (in general) lack that kind of discipline and respect. A modern kid would probably lift the covers off the slides to prove that the adult was wrong. Then, when the whole family ended up in the hospital, he'd claim that he didn't know that it was that dangerous.
I'd spend all day Outdoors as well, if my home was a death trap like that.