52 Amazing Photos That Show Life in Rural America Through the Early to Mid 1900s Volume 2
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Thank you so much for these amazing pictures. I can remember helping mama wash clothes with an old wringer type washing machine. Some may call these the worst of times but I think they were the best of times
I remember these days. I was born in a rural area of NC in 1936 and worked in the fields from early morning to dusk all summer. First job was making 15 cents and hour when I was10 years old.
scenes like this remind me of a day in 1974, when I went to the court with my 70 year old grandfather (I was 12) for a ticket of no drivers license. remembering the look on the judges face when my grandfather (who'd left texas when he was 16 on an indian motorcycle for seattle washington) told him how he'd never had a license for his motorcycles, 2 air planes, nor any car or truck in his life, and that he wasn't about to get 1 now. the judge, exasperatedly pleaded with him to at least "think about it". we left the courtroom having paid no fine or court costs what so ever. still brings a smile to my face........ what good times this country once had.........
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That's a cool story.
The days when the word freedom actually meant something.. now you are only free to move about the cage,,,, if you can pay for it.
Great Story! I Love it!
Lived in a dirt dugout home and still wore a tie outside. We lost something critical since that time and we are worse off for it.
Indeed. Americans had far less but were far happier.
@@billytwoknives6495 Yes, we were much happier and healthier indeed!!!
We lost civility that our churches taught. Democrats and Republicans were attending the same churches and schools. If I got into trouble at school, I would be in far worse trouble at home. If a neighbor called my mom and said… Bret did: and I just wanted you to know I paddled his and my sons rear ends…… my mom would then tell my dad that evening and, there was a 75% chance I’d get another spanking that evening with a long lecture and a deep hug and sense of love from my parents.
Yes there are some great men and women who grew up in single parent homes. But it’s not ideal.
I am not so sure we were healthier. Walk thru an old graveyard and look at the tombstones. Child mortality rates were high. Some children did not live past 1 year and some died in just a few months. That said, they were still better times then we have today.@@jameswood231
I am 55....not very old but old enough to remember my Great-Great Gandfather who was born in 1884-1974. And yes, he told me stories and I still remember him and his pipe and cane fishing pole.
Im a boomer born in Conn. We had an inside water pump in the kitchen for a year or two after I was born, and only batteries for a few lights that my dad would recharge with his tractor. We had a battery radio too I believe. They weren't too uncommon back then. My big entertainment was exploring ponds and barns
Watching this brings back so many memories. I was born in 1937 in rural Alabama. All my family are gone, I’m the only one still alive and I miss them dearly. It was a hard life during that time but I would give everything I own to be able to go back and live it all over again. It was hard on my mother bless her heart but was the happiest time of my life. Mother lived to be 99 years old so that proves hard work won’t kill you.
When I see a photo from before 1942 I wish I could dive in and find my great grandpa and tell him not to get on that plane. When he died it changed the direction my family went even almost 40 years before I was born.
People back then were poor in possessions but rich in spirit. Just the opposite of today
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As a young boy back in the 1950's I remember the road in front of our farm house was a dirt road. I was born in one of the poorest places on Earth, Eastern Kentucky. My parents had nine children and had taken in three homeless boys, my Father never had a drivers license, we never owned a car. My father worked the farm and did construction work when he could (my father only had one good hand, childhood accident). We survived somehow?.
NCLUSA, I was borned and raised in Eastern, Ky in 1959. In a town called Louisa, Ky. Times were sure different then, that's for sure.
@@davepelfrey3958 Somewhere along my way I knew a Danny Pefley I think in Indianapolis?..Maybe brothers went to school w him?.
Much respect to your father for his hard work and devotion to his family.
Some of the best people I’ve ever known were from eastern Kentucky
@@jefferyepstein9210 Were they under aged girls, Jeff?.
These photos remind me of how good we have it today and how much we take for granted. We've come a long way...
While it's nice looking at pictures from the past and all, I'm glad that I live in modern times. Because even with all of its evils, I prefer having electricity, indoor plumbing, running water, state of the art medicine and dentistry and the ability to very quickly communicate with friends and family on the opposite side of the planet.
You are so right on with this comment! When I see all these people protesting about this and that I think to myself how easy anyone in modern times has it and they should be overjoyed with appreciation for what they have instead of being so mad about everything. I can go anywhere I want in the US and be there same day. I can have a cold drink or ice cream ANY time I want. I have access to all of the world’s spices I want to mix in with any vegetable or fruit that grows on earth. I have running hot and cold water without any effort. Heck I don’t even wash my clothes, the machine does that for me. I could go on and on.
Those of us commenting what it was like....also know how to survive the shtf. A country boy can survive, Hank.
@@Jay-kc1ql Absolutely!!! The modern world does have "some perks."
@@rodleyeriffe9149 Right on Hank.
The building from the 3rd photo "Country store on a dirt road" in Gordonton NC is still there. I wish I could put the photo on here!
I love these old photos. They bring bittersweet memories. Are there any out there of the Ozarks?
Beautifully photographed. wonderful images.
Just a simple life without electronics or big corporations!!! I miss those days!
Great music, especially first and third to accompany the photos. Well done.
Every time I romanticize the past my 85 year old dad says the same thing. “Two words, son. Anesthesia and dentistry.”
Haha! Too true. May I include indoor plumbing and washing machines to his short list?
It’s hard not to miss the good of that time. But it’s easy to want to forget some of the things we had to put up with also.
Having lived then and now….. I’d take then again with all the hardships.
If I could get rid of a few things for the entire world. It would be cell phones, personal computers, TV’s and Hollywood. I miss the uniqueness of each city, their churches, restaurants, and what made each area its own. Today… if you set me down anywhere in the Midwest blindfolded and then pulled it off.. asked “where are you?”…. it would be hard to tell. Everything has become homogeneous. Believe it or not, we had the best of unique locations and personalities combined with the common moral foundations of “what is right or wrong being taught in churches across the nation.
It wasn’t perforce but it was darn good and people were United in striving to do better.
@@bret9741 Good point.
These pictures are amazing. I love old photos and have old family black and whites all over in my home. Thanks for sharing😎
I've lived in Montana for most of my life-i I had to google Cascade County to know its county seat.. because just north of where I live on the Rimrocks, a huge bluff over the city, is miles of land that looks like this with old and new grain elevators. The old store shown with lights burning in the windows reminds me of the old store my gramma worked in .. my memories aren't real clear and detailed.. I was very young..
most of these pictures are earlier but not that far removed.. my heart is touched by the pictures of the families around the tables, on their porches, in front of the store..
Was it really a simpler time.. maybe inspite of or despite the poverty they were richer?!
Yes, in a way they were. Spiritually, at least. A life that revolves around material objects is pretty empty sometimes.
@@miriambucholtz9315 Materialism will leave a person empty. Just like what we sow, we will reap. In times past, America was a nation of people as a whole, that truly placed their faith in GOD of the Bible. In times of war, times of depression, times of epidemics (Spanish flu, polio, etc). America turned to GOD ALMIGHTY, not the almighty dollar for their salvation.
WOW, The pictures and music are brilliant but I had to slow down the playback speed to fully enjoy looking at and reading each picture. Brilliant and thanks for putting this video on CZcams.
The school desks in the 1936 photo were the same ones we were using in high school in the early 70's. Also, have you ever noticed that in a lot of the vintage "hunting" photos some men are wearing ties and dress jackets? One more thing, couples had large families back then, because the children were supposed to take care of their parents when they got old. Social security didn't start until 1935 and it took a while to get people signed up and contributing to it.
there weren't birth control pills that were safe
@@victorhopper6774 I would agree, I don't think people back then thought so much about their retirement when having so many children; they just had them. Remember, infant/child mortality ran rampant during those early years.
You had lots of kids back then because large families were needed to run farms. During the Great Depression, the birthrate plummeted to shocking lows, so people could and did prevent pregnancies even with less than perfect birth control. Definitely child mortality was an issue....though that improved for everyone after antibiotics were common.
Love the background music.
Thanks so much for sharing!!
when you're a kid, home is home, if you're lucky
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1:45 I live in the region with Dayton, WA, and was curious enough to go check and that old silo is still there, with the 'new' addition plus a few more modern barrel silos. It's quite a complex these days. The warehouse in the background is gone, though. 46°19'33.83"N 117°58'20.65"W for those curious
These photos are amazing. But I feel sad about the fox at the end.
Me tpp
The last thing a farmer wanted to hear was a fox in the henhouse! Let me say ... I like foxes. But they will make a mess in the chicken coop!
Thank you!
Your so right these really are 52 amazing photos of life in rural America,
Such a strange feeling, to feel nostalgia for a time I was not alive to experience. Perhaps it is in our collective, American conscience, from visiting my grandparents' old farms, and hearing stories, and watching old home movies from the 50s.
..in the 1930's, my old man remembered going to bed at night, hungry. In the cold North Ontario winters, he hauled his older brother to school every day, two miles one-way, on a f***ing toboggan. Unc caught Polio in his right foot and couldn't walk. My father cried the day my asshole grandfather told him he couldn't go to high school.
Sounds like that White Privilege I keep hearing about
This was great, thanks for sharing. Loved the photos
Soon after this, people began to travel by car, interstates were built, and small-town America disappeared.
I know. Growing up in Cullawee N.C. in the 60's it has changed so much now. I live in a small town in Ga. now called Lula. And its starting to change. I'm seeing a lot of drug dealers.
@@sherrykendrick1765Sherry.. We all know who started that delightful era in America,🐒 See 🐒 Do.
Small town America is still here, I live in one Google can't pronounce, am one of 14 kids raised on home grown canned goods and wild meat, I raised my kids the same way as they are my grand children now. I'll take my wood and coal stove, fresh air , spring water and speedy beef over any small or large city anywhere, been to the city you can have it. I kept looking for a family photo to come up on the video.
@@sherrykendrick1765 I know that area. : ) Drugs are the scourge of small southern towns.
You don’t get out enough.
Many years ago I bought a house and borrowed the money from the "Farmers Home Loan" government agency.. My monthly payments were $165 dollars..
Many years ago. Thanks for sharing Larry.
Oh man, 9:14, school house, WV. I remember sitting in desks like those when I was in school.
My father went to a school like that in the '20s. The teacher was so good, he had no trouble transferring to Berkeley, CA schools as a teenager.
These old days are just around the corner, life styles like this are our future!
What planet do you live on???
I was brought home from the hospital as a newborn to a chicken coup, converted to live in (1949). The house I grew up in was a converted garage with no running water or plumbing. Rural WVA and Ohio.
Love the photos and the music.
Note the size of the feet of the two girls in the center of the photo at 11:29. That comes from never having owned a pair of shoes. I've seen the same thing in the Indios of rural Mexico. It's amazing this kind of poverty existed in America, even during the Great Depression. I hope those girls grew up to a better life.
11:29 ?
And the picture of the Black family at the table. There are Newspapers on top of the Tablecloth. It looks like a cloth tablecloth underneath. The Newspapers must have been to catch anything that fell off plates and other dishes. I found that fascinating. I think it was at about 2:40 into video.
I think you mean 6:10...
this could have been my mother and some of her siblings, as she was 13 in 1936...no shoes and their dresses were made from flour sacks.
Not at 11:29.
This is what the Republicans under Trump want to turn America back to being. Or make it into Nazi Germany
We have "Country" Stores all over in rural Kentucky, where (in some instances), time passed us by..
Love the bric brac phrase. I love old black and white photos.
So funny...how many of these pics are portrayed as "long lost images of some other time". In rural america (yes,we're still here), we see these things quite often - day to day. It's not us who finds it 'amazing', LOL.
That's what I was thinking, I live on a seasonal limited road in a small town that Google can't pronounce correctly, one of 14 kids and raised my kids on home grown canned goods and wild meat mostly. I don't ask the government for permission to my God given rights.
I think I could take some photos that resemble these, if I found some black and white or sepia film. The problem is, most of the people now have so many dang tattoos. And the clothes are different. Except in the older folks.
You completely missed the point, the photos are a look back into a way of life in the early 1900's NOT so much about ppl living out in the country 🙄
Many of the changes since then are bad. But I do like air conditioning! 😀
Typical Howard we like the nice inventions like AC&Microwaves...Internet...lol.
YES! the AC and elevators... two really good things of life.
My Dad grew up in the 1920s and 30s in Kennebeck South Dakota. It hasn't changed much as they don't have a Walmart!
Well this pretty much proves one thing, poverty makes everybody equal.
So does Socialism...Puts EVERYONE into Poverty, and hence, Equality
a lot of people in those pics weren't poor.
Said perfectly
Appalachian area is on eof the poorest places in the country. Not a lot of gangs or drive by shootings there.
@@tunisiancrochetchannel
As someone who has survived socialism, I can assure you it does.
In what socialist country have you lived?
Great music backgrounds!
Personally I miss being able to go to the local hardware store and order a case of dynamite. You could do that back in the day.
how long ago was that?
As late as the early 1960’s I can remember as a boy of 12 or 13 watching old man Hollingsworth, a local farmer, using sticks of dynamite in blowing up stumps in the Vermilion River to open up the entrance to the local sportsman club for boats. It was great fun.
@@thomasgalyen6757 Thanks!
People didn't blow people up back then like now.
That Napa Valley shot with the horse and wagon. It looks like the farmer forgot the horses head!
Good to see some pics from my home county
Please could you tell me the name of the background music?? I love it!!! Very relaxing combination.
Various selections by Kevin Macleod
10:46 Tories Tavern was not far from my home. We used to marvel at it when we'd go by there in the 60s- 70s. It was still occupied by a tenant family and looked about the same as it does in this photo. Sadly, it burned down in the 70s or 80s. They left the chimneys standing for a long time but eventually they, too, were torn down. The house at 11:00 is also close by and is still standing.
Notice the can of, what is probably, turpentine or kerosene, by the woman washing clothes? They used it to get out stains. My mother did that for many years in the 1970’s.
Probably fuel for the washing machine engine. 2 stroke engine.
Also kerosene was rubbed on a child's head if they had cooties (head lice)) and it worked
@@allenwatkins4972 Yes, it's probably fuel that's what I thought, too. Not always 2-stroke, but usually a kick-starter w/heavy flywheel that'll bust yer leg/foot/ankle if ya don't watch it. Noisy, heavy bastards, lol.
I love these - but sure wish there was a link to volume 1. I have searched and can't find it.
It's sad to think about how many of these places are now strip malls and developments that will be shabby looking soon. Back then folks used things till it was worn out and knew how to build stuff. Now we have a disposable society that knows little about survival.
Even in the 40's, compared to the rest of the world, we were prosperous beyond measure. The rise of the middle class was beginning.
The same "middle class" the gov't is desperately trying to destroy now.
I like the Franklin County, Illinois picture lol. "End of State Maintenance" on one sign and on the other it appears to read "Prepare to Meet Thy God"
Yep, that made me smile
@@StokesburyUSA Sorry I'm not very tech proficient
I missed the tunes on this sound , used to watch those all the time backed by those tunes ,is it possible to get the songs on a cd or download them? I love old pictures , thanks for these.
The final track is called 'Lucid Dream ' by Dr Head ...
Nice music
Really old fashioned poor folks like in the old west even thru the 1940s and 50s !
Thanks I went to your site and found Kevin m.
9:20 That is not "an old school bus." It is, instead, a form of trailer or tiny home on wheels for sheep ranchers. We used to see them all over the American west when we were children.
I have seen those old sheep camps as well, however my father in law had a school bus very similar to the one in the photo,... .
@@imitatefirst Perhaps this is a matter of upcycling?
This is exactly why, when this generation says they have it harder than anyone before them, I say "no, not by a long shot."
Im digging the Converse from 1935 ~ 8:15
Boy we live like kings next to these people
Oh how much simpler life looked back then.
That's because it WAS simpler.
Simple? Making your own soap, washing clothes! Simple, I think not
@@taylorrice8612 You're most likely of a generation accustomed to and dependent upon modern conveniences. Also likely a city dweller. Therefore, you have an incomplete and distorted view of the past.
@@taylorrice8612 You had to know how to "make do" and take care of your own needs, but it was a lot simpler in other ways. Modern conveniences came at a price. Back then, if your car broke down, it wasn't half as complicated to fix. And your "washing machine" didn't have a sensor that meant the whole machine would stop working if it got moisture in it. Doing it the old fashioned way meant more sweat, but it was pretty reliable. And the world didn't come to a stop because the electricity went out.
@Julie Lourdes They were. And the odds are your brother or your uncle or someone could come over and fix it in your carport. They didn't have to hook it up to a diagnostic tool and then recalibrate the computer system, and all of your car's working parts weren't integrated into that one irritable finicky little mother board. I took my vehicle in because there was an indicator light on the dash that wouldn't go off. They couldn't figure out why, said I needed a new computer, and presented me with an estimate for $1500! Being old fashioned, I thought, "Well, that light's not hurting anything." Two weeks later, the light went off. That's part of the lunacy; all this complexity means it's a LOT easier to get robbed, first by the manufacturers, and later by repairmen. What people have given up for convenience! I'm wondering why environmentalists aren't up in arms over all the appliances that are ending up being tossed after a few years because it costs more to repair them than to buy new.
Sorry about the rant, but this kind of trend makes me nuts. But then, I guess that's required to fit in nowadays. These are crazy times. ; )
Posted on National Cactus Day :).
Love the pictures and music.
People sure had it a lot harder back then.
All the people had to W-O-R-K before the government handed some welfare checks&free housing,heathcare,phones,food...Sorry makes me mad!,I saw Dad walk out the door with him so sick he could barely walk&I saw bumps @ store cpl days ago pay with Food stamps then talk to another one,Both had cars with fancy wheels,And of course,a 1K cell phone😡.Just makes ya mad😊
in general every generation has had it easier than the one before. the irony is that every generation was more independent than the one after.
@@victorhopper6774 We'll see how "Independent" they are when Daddys basement&money are gone😊!.
We have come a long way
2:32 WOW those girls have a gold mine! That's the biggest cantaloupe I've ever seen.
See any fat people? Me neither
People worked their ages off valued freedom
But the media keeps saying "the poor are getting poorer..." These photos make that seem like a lie.
of course! broke is broke.
That first picture (tears): all the children are undernourished. The little boy standing on the left with his stomach protruding looks like severe malnutrition. So sad.
Interesting you noticed that too! So so sad.
I saw a lot of advertising signs an gas pumps in these pictures that would be worth a lot of money today.
11:17 Poor animals,,😢
I believe that first picture is relatives of mine.
8:18 Girl wearing vintage hi-top Converse sneakers, in 1935?
Solid, irrefutable proof of time-travel/ancient aliens.
I’m from Mansfield… last photo, odd seeing hometown
First photo...the little boy all the way on the left seems to be in starvation judging by his stomach.
Maybe starvation but the other kids look ok maybe he has worms which is possible.
That first family was ridiculous.
They used my likeness back in the day to help sell RC cola.
The young women smoking together remind me of a lot of the young ones today except today they are covered in tatoos earrings and different colored florescent hair dyes.
I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I've never seen that.
8:23 shes wearing chucks
Wow when folks have thier families biggest riches of all now it's true shame how things are.
My last name is cornett and my grandpa always said he was from Kentucky how do I find out where the picture came from ?
Same as it ever was.
Music by who???
Blimey,. Some of these places are what you call dirt poor.
Depressing
just! Have family photos of my great grandma and her parents AND grandma. All poor as dirt.
Must be that White Privilege I keep hearing about
Desperately trying to identify song starting at 4:01
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Anyone else see a headless horse at 1:13?
He turned his head at the same time they took a photo I’m guessing they did it at random times lol
They were very popular, being cheap to feed and water, the drawback being their short life.
@ the 3:36 mark.
Looks like a square dance to me!!!
Swing game? WTF? Really?
It'a rave - they're all jacked up on legal coke and bathtub gin. Fairly common 'going into town' Friday night til ? courting ritual/orgy.
8:17 is she wearing black converse mid tops?
Example after example of all that "white privilege", huh.
Next time anyone mentions that tripe break out this video.
Amen
Love the photos but the music doesn't match.
Totally disagree
Ironically it seems like racism wasn’t as bad as it is now
In fact, black ppl in the US were doing much better in 1870 than they are now. Progressivism (Wilson....) is what instituted ALL of this BS we're just NOW going to apparently end the country over. Oh well.
Ok ..... Anybody else a lil’ Creeped Out by the soundtrack / music ?
It’s a bit dis- jointed and slightly Psychotic