What happened to America's Gilded Age Families | The Astors

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  • @joemackey1950
    @joemackey1950 Před rokem +152

    Like the saying: The first generation makes the money, the second generation enjoys the money, the third generation loses the money.

    • @baylorsailor
      @baylorsailor Před rokem +16

      Proven to be true over and over again.

    • @myriamickx7969
      @myriamickx7969 Před rokem +4

      Well, according to this video, a lot of Astors did not do too badly.

    • @lhzook
      @lhzook Před rokem +6

      Also think about it. By the time we get to the third generation, the pie is divided into a lot more, smaller slices.

    • @jacquelinearcher1158
      @jacquelinearcher1158 Před rokem +3

      We 🇬🇧 say from “shoes to clogs in three generations “

    • @kelleenrossman7781
      @kelleenrossman7781 Před rokem +3

      Three generations, a.k.a. Thunder, wonder & plunder

  • @christopherstephenjenksbsg4944

    I had the pleasure of meeting Brooke Astor several times as I consulted with several of the charities she helped support. Wonderful lady -- an old-fashioned grande dame -- and very, very gracious!

  • @cliffhoelzer6895
    @cliffhoelzer6895 Před rokem +69

    I live in a brick Victorian Mansion in old Louisville. It was built in 1890 and has 5000 sf. Most of the interior is from 1890. Stain glass, tigerwood floors mahogany 10 ft foors, etc!! They really could build in the guilded age!!

    • @FreeSpirit47
      @FreeSpirit47 Před rokem +6

      It sounds gorgeous! Antique architecture is fascinating.

    • @ilahildasissac1943
      @ilahildasissac1943 Před rokem +5

      I agree, there is a reason these home have survived over 100 years! I live in Chicago, and love viewing those homes!

    • @lilythomas869
      @lilythomas869 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Yes it's true but the reason is back then and up to prewar buildings the quality of material was high and labor was cheap. Now it's the opposite.

    • @danielleschiazza6172
      @danielleschiazza6172 Před 4 měsíci

      That is amazing! I love old Victorian homes! They definitely don't make em like that anymore. I love the layout, the craftsmanship, the decor and furnishings, everything! U are so lucky to have been able to live in such an incredible home.

  • @t7957r
    @t7957r Před rokem +17

    Brook Astor in the 70's was the queen of NY high society and was a great philanthropist. She showed the rich how to spend their money. Clearly she took a lesson from the great families of the Italian Renaissance and the city is better for it.

  • @RedfishUK1964
    @RedfishUK1964 Před rokem +12

    Fun Fact: On the British Branch - the 2nd Viscount Astor - was a MP but when he inherited his father's title he moved to the House of Lords, so his wife Nancy Astor was elected in his place in 1919 and became the first Women to sit in the House of Commons as women (over 30) got the vote in 1918
    Although an Irish MP Constance Markievicz had been elected in 1918 but her party Sinn Fein didnt take their seats - they still don't

  • @here_we_go_again2571
    @here_we_go_again2571 Před rokem +18

    It was Brooke's grandson who blew the whistle on his father's and his ("socialite" -- in reality,
    "social-climbing") stepmother's fraud. They left Brooke alone in her NYC home without a
    care or hiring a skilled nurse to look after her! They also almost emptied her country home
    (not a cabin in the woods by any means) of its artwork and antiques!

  • @Kelly_Wren
    @Kelly_Wren Před rokem +8

    Your sense of humor is *chef's kiss*
    So glad I found your channel.

  • @melissam.5612
    @melissam.5612 Před rokem +5

    If you haven't found the info yet, Charlene Marshall Astor is currently 77 years old (she was born in July 1945).

  • @michellecornum5856
    @michellecornum5856 Před rokem +12

    Wow! How sad. How fast it all goes away. The money, the houses -- the clothes. Very interesting.

    • @JosedeJezeus
      @JosedeJezeus Před 11 měsíci +1

      The Actors were wealthy e ause they got lucky, not because they knew something profound about life that the rest of us don't. They are not a genius family, obviously.

    • @thtgurlbb
      @thtgurlbb Před 14 dny

      ⁠ jj the first told his heir to burn all of his communications and business contacts when he died, which he did and told his son to do the same when he passed. By tht time they owned most of manhattan😭 no one was getting tht money. pretty genius if you ask me
      Edit: terrible but still

  • @vintagelife5195
    @vintagelife5195 Před rokem +24

    This was awesome! Ive been seeing these peoples houses all over the country. The Newport mansions are the epitome of gilded age. The biltmore down south is one of the best. Even been to the originator or the term guilded ages home. Out of all of them it would be Mark Twains home I would personally live in. Im sooo looking forward to more of these. Ive even been to the private Vanderbilt tomb. Its fascinating to follow the peoples lives that shaped America.

  • @stevezytveld6585
    @stevezytveld6585 Před rokem +18

    Great video. Thank you. Amazing how the grandkids always waste perfectly good money on lawyers in an attempt to get even more money than they're due. Good for the women for making so many donations.
    - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

  • @rabbitsrule9437
    @rabbitsrule9437 Před rokem +6

    The English one owned hever castle and made it look beautiful, I went today and apparently the queen mother was courted there by Bertie aka the king ie parents of queen Elizabeth.

  • @Michelle-bk5uq
    @Michelle-bk5uq Před rokem +12

    This was fantastic! Just found your channel and can't wait to watch more!!

  • @FreeSpirit47
    @FreeSpirit47 Před rokem +6

    There are many wealthy people I know or have known. I'm comfortable with my income. Having learned a lot from wealthy friends, then, applied it, I do okay.
    The two lessons I learned from my friends are to remain humble, neither dish out nor accept BS.

  • @syedmazharhasan6803
    @syedmazharhasan6803 Před rokem +11

    If I had HBO max, I would have happily shared my password with you 😁
    Nice initiation of series. Keep it up 😊

  • @user-tf2ru7oz6w
    @user-tf2ru7oz6w Před rokem +8

    Another wsy the American Astor Family got rich is because they owned a lot of New York real estate, including slum property. When Vincent Astor found out he was getting rich from slum property, he sold it and gave the proceeeds to charity. Vincent Astor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were distant cousin's. FDR's step brother married Helen Astor. They were also good friends and they went deep sea fishing on Vincent's yacht.

  • @52daa
    @52daa Před rokem +8

    I get a real kick out of your sense of humor 🤣
    Great video and really appreciate all the information you really did some research 😃

  • @anaerobic
    @anaerobic Před rokem +7

    That's an incredible lamp!

  • @tiffanysanchez9184
    @tiffanysanchez9184 Před rokem +4

    You forgot the second son of John Jacob Astor’s (the one who died on the Titanic) second son born posthumously to his second wife Madeline

  • @bigreddallas2742
    @bigreddallas2742 Před rokem +4

    Love your delivery and humor. Definitely subscribed. I enjoy history as a hobby, so this is right up my alley. Thank you.

  • @luislaplume8261
    @luislaplume8261 Před rokem +6

    Jacob Astor was the richest man in America when he died in 1848. There is a street named Astor Place where a subway station with that name and it is 1 block away from where my late mother paid her union dues. I ought to know. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s.

  • @beautyforumbyangela
    @beautyforumbyangela Před rokem +3

    I’m so pleased I discovered your channel. Looking forward to enjoying all of your videos. Cheers 😉🌹

  • @frankfowlkes7872
    @frankfowlkes7872 Před rokem +5

    The problem with equating past wealth to current wealth is that the cost of what mattered then was way different than today. Labor and material were much cheaper so they had these huge houses with cheap labor (servants). Everyone thinks it would be grand to live then and be wealthy but there were also great drawback to this period. Even the wealthy lost many children to an early death. Healthcare was very limited compared to today and even electricity was only around for the end of the Gilded Age. In fact in many respects what pass for the poor today live better lives the wealthy 150 years ago or even the Emperor in ancient Rome!

    • @JosedeJezeus
      @JosedeJezeus Před 11 měsíci

      Imagine how the future will be so much better than the life we live today.
      Our reality is a hell compared to what the future holds for human kind.
      The future is so bright, so beautiful.

  • @rickfortine7454
    @rickfortine7454 Před rokem +5

    John Jacob Astor IV American business magnate died on the Titanic !!!

  • @marientwistle2797
    @marientwistle2797 Před měsícem

    Thank you for doing these videos! I’ve been obsessed with The Gilded Age and the people who were involved since I’ve been little. I’ve read every book that’s been written on the subject and it’s all fascinating. I’ve just finished The Second Mrs. Astor which was about JJ IV second wife Madeleine. She was with him when the Titanic sunk. She was 5 months pregnant. She lived and had a son. Very fascinating book!

  • @silverstar4289
    @silverstar4289 Před rokem +4

    For a family of untold wealth, for the present British Astor to be worth only a couple million, is sad. It’s isn’t difficult to have a million dollar net worth by his age

  • @e.jenima7263
    @e.jenima7263 Před rokem +5

    William Astor was Briefly engaged to Ellen Gellespie 1916-2008 who apparently broke off the engagement bc. she found him in her words " Too Irresponsible and immature". Her family Founded Brown University .

  • @WVgirl1959
    @WVgirl1959 Před 6 měsíci +1

    You have to remember that the Gilded Age didn't have taxes, but those later on did have to pay taxes.

  • @jessicaross417
    @jessicaross417 Před rokem +8

    must say, I clicked because of the Astor's, haven't watched the show. I stumbled upon the audio book "Astoria" during a 2 for 1 audible deal and it's so good. highly recommend!

    • @sandraoopie
      @sandraoopie Před rokem +2

      will check out Astoria, but I stumbled on this great segment because I was inspired to look up JJA IV after just finishing the marvelous "The Second Mrs. Astor," about him and his 18-year-old bride Madeleine Force, their tragic tale which ended on the Titanic. It was excellent, and very moving, so if you liked Astoria, I'm sure you'd love this.

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones Před rokem +4

    I wonder if all of these confusing John Jacobs is the origin of the silly song. His name is my name too!

  • @reyinfante5553
    @reyinfante5553 Před rokem +3

    They got rich due to their business, not because of corrupt dealings with China or Ukraine.

  • @marthahancock7938
    @marthahancock7938 Před rokem +3

    "Our Crowd" by Stephen Birmingham is a very interesting and readable book about the parallel social scene in New York City - the wealthy Jewish families, many of whom were very generous. I grew up in northern New Jersey, where a large home in town was the Astor estate (which Astor?), that was bought by the town & used for offices. Another local name was Schiff, as we went to the Schiff Reservation for day camp swimming. Schiff (can't remember his first name) was one of the very wealthy, very generous Jewish businessmen of that era.

  • @jackrosario9990
    @jackrosario9990 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I was on Astor place in Greenwich village in Manhattan today, they own a lot of land!

  • @MadTracker
    @MadTracker Před rokem +3

    Really interesting. Thanks for all your research!

  • @08MrPancakes
    @08MrPancakes Před rokem +8

    Did it dwindle or is it just subdivided among a more numerous number of descendants like the Du Ponts?

  • @marissaclaridge7627
    @marissaclaridge7627 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for your information about the Astors...Lady Nancy Astor was my great great Aunt...I am connected to the House of Haig...my great great Grandmother was Lady Charlotte Haig...Earl Douglas Haig's sister...Lady Nancy Astor was the first Woman in the British Parliament!!!Thank you againxxx

  • @williamsmith5549
    @williamsmith5549 Před rokem +2

    Great video, looking forward to watching more of your channel indeed! Do you have any inside, detailed information about the "Rokeby Astor" branch, aka "The Astor Orphans"? I've been watching some of Alexandra Aldrich's videos and THAT seems to be a story maybe even more harrowing, or at least as crazy, as the more infamous Grey Garden Bouvier tale everybody knows about? Can't wait to learn more from you!

  • @lisad476
    @lisad476 Před rokem +2

    Love love love your channel

  • @roxannsinchek2644
    @roxannsinchek2644 Před rokem

    Thank you for your video I really enjoy the history of these families

  • @michaelhilborn4204
    @michaelhilborn4204 Před rokem +2

    You might want to look into the life of Lady Nancy Astor, who was born in Virginia and moved to England where she was elected to Parliament and became a close friend of G. Bernard Shaw and a famous foil of Winston Churchill.
    I believe she was also related to Mark Twain, with whom she shared a rapier-like wit.
    After the death of her husband she moved back to Virginia, where she remained until her death in 1964.
    She had two sons-Jacky and Michael-both of whom were officers in the British Army in WWII.

  • @jamesdouglas7345
    @jamesdouglas7345 Před rokem +5

    It was told John Jacob the fur trader got rich by betrayal or wilfull intent to defraud. Who knows?

  • @nozrep
    @nozrep Před rokem +3

    yes there’s actually been, I am relatively sure, some interesting socio-economical studies done on wealth accumulation in America, and how subsequent generations fritter it away versus re-investing it to continue to earn profits and returns on investments. I dunno if it is a specifically American phenomenon or what… and sorry I am unable to recall the official source of the study/ies. Just I remember reading about them when I was in my finance and economics classes in college. Very interesting indeed!

    • @kalburgy2114
      @kalburgy2114 Před rokem

      There was a time when a businessman would gain and lose several fortunes during his lifetime.

  • @maryh4650
    @maryh4650 Před rokem +2

    Nancy Astor became a member of Parliment in the UK, I believe the first ever woman to win a seat.

  • @martinronczkowski7353
    @martinronczkowski7353 Před rokem +2

    Thank you very much - good explained

  • @teresap268
    @teresap268 Před rokem +1

    Thanks for sharing. Interesting.

  • @TheBrainBenders
    @TheBrainBenders Před 9 měsíci +1

    John Astor was involved with Oak Island,,Andrew Deveaux from south carolina and Manhattan ny alo bahamas ,cousins to elias ball, took Daniel McInis to Oak Island ,,Teddy Roosvelt descendent of Peter Deveaux...Some say he found captain kidds treasure,which is also a theory on oakisland. there is so much i could say but thats all i got now lol

  • @sheissunshine
    @sheissunshine Před 11 měsíci +1

    LOL!!! "and no one will give me their hbo password."

  • @gregoryabbot420
    @gregoryabbot420 Před rokem +2

    I don't think we have to worry about today's hyper rich recycling very much money back to society.

  • @withcharmtospare
    @withcharmtospare Před rokem +14

    What an interesting series! Can’t wait to learn more. It’s wild how much these families were allowed to amass on those days

    • @daisydukes8252
      @daisydukes8252 Před rokem +4

      Allowed? Who “allowed” them to amass money?

    • @kenj.8897
      @kenj.8897 Před rokem

      Allowed? What are you a sociopath

  • @markregiec9223
    @markregiec9223 Před rokem +3

    If you found Brook Astor Interesting. The book Mrs Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon tells it all. The family fighting, lawsuits, and sadly the elder abuse.

  • @powderandpaint14
    @powderandpaint14 Před rokem +3

    Was this Astor family relations of Nancy Astor, the first female MP in the UK?

  • @platynowa
    @platynowa Před rokem +4

    You can calculate current net worth easily. You just have to check for average prices of local items that are less impacted by technological changes, such as hand made clothes, fruits, wine, traditional kinds of cheese and meats, bread, grains such as oats, spirit, gold, diamonds etc. Then you calculate how much could you buy for, e.g. 1000 dollars now and then (so-called Big Mac Index). You can also use inflation data and do linear regression on it.

    • @LJB103
      @LJB103 Před rokem

      There's another way that's based on what fraction of the gross national product the fortune in question represented for any specific year and then how much you would need to get that same fraction today. Sounds rather complicated to me.

  • @LJB103
    @LJB103 Před rokem +3

    William Backhouse , Jr (Caroline's husband) was not the head of the family as he was the younger brother of JJ III. It seems that Brooke Astor was just following the wishes of her late husband to give the money away. He had had some type of an illness when young and so knew that he would never have children. He also came to really dislike his half-brother JJ VI and didn't want him getting any more family money (JJ IV never got to change his will leaving everything to Vincent). I do have to say that William Waldorf's daughter-in-law, Nancy (Lady Astor who while not the first woman elected to Parliament, was the first to take her seat) could give Caroline a run for her money in the fame department.

  • @protonman8947
    @protonman8947 Před rokem +1

    Well done!

  • @LisaD007
    @LisaD007 Před rokem +2

    I love this very interesting and illuminating discussion! Excellent research and presentation my dear! ❤

  • @abandonedaccount747
    @abandonedaccount747 Před rokem +7

    I'd love to see a review of The Gilded Age series from you. Hopefully someone can share their HBO password! Much love from Canada ❄💜

  • @luislaplume8261
    @luislaplume8261 Před rokem +2

    Brooke Astor was the Grand Dame of NYC and was also the richest woman in NYC when I was a boy in the 1960s. I dont know if she was still the richest woman in NYC when she died, but Melania Trump would be close before Trump became President.

  • @mcdowelltorres
    @mcdowelltorres Před 11 měsíci +1

    I loved this!!!

  • @LuvPureCom
    @LuvPureCom Před 11 měsíci

    Just me? Anyone else? Every time I hear "John Jacob", in my head I think "Jingleheimer Schmidt". I can't help it.

  • @howardjohnson2138
    @howardjohnson2138 Před rokem +1

    Thank you

  • @cristinawilligs
    @cristinawilligs Před rokem +2

    thanks for your information, BUT I believe the money is for people who can multiply it, and I admire people who know how to make money, and last, not all billionaires made money by abusing the poor

  • @tesspeelz
    @tesspeelz Před 6 měsíci +1

    They died and theres one survivor left in North America. Me.

  • @sirfortesque8757
    @sirfortesque8757 Před rokem +2

    Love your channel!!
    Just a heads up, the Gilded Age has never ended for these Oligarchs we have here in the Ol' USA

    • @AdelaideBeemanWhite
      @AdelaideBeemanWhite  Před rokem +1

      Yes, in fact, I was surprised by how (comparatively) little money the 19th century robber barons had. Even when adjusted for inflation it’s just a fraction of the net worth of the likes of Bill Gates or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.

    • @sirfortesque8757
      @sirfortesque8757 Před rokem

      @@AdelaideBeemanWhite Your use of the word"comparatively" has to be given a lot of generosity to make sense here. Foregoing the fact that there was no income Tax , no labor laws and with an enormous growth in immigration to work in the factories the slum situations were far worse than current times. Everything i read told me that In 1890, 11 million of the nation's 12 million families earned less than $1200 per year; of this group, the average annual income was $380, well below the poverty line. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie would by today's standards be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars - far more than tech giants like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and even Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest individual in the world as of 2023.
      By 1890, the top 1 percent of the U.S. population owned 51 percent of all wealth. The top 12 percent owned an astounding 86 percent. The lower 44 percent of U.S. population-almost half the country-owned just 1.2 percent
      Nothing has changed much in 130 years except for the middle class. the poor and working class are still , for the most part, screwed.
      But. as a lifelong New Yorker i do so love the older architecture and all the remnants that still exist.
      I wish you the best of luck with your channel and all the success you deserve and hope it continues to grow.

    • @AdelaideBeemanWhite
      @AdelaideBeemanWhite  Před rokem

      Sorry about that blunt no in my original response. It was supposed to be a yes.

  • @cottaghomes
    @cottaghomes Před rokem +1

    Well done. Look forward to hearing more

  • @nozrep
    @nozrep Před rokem +2

    yes excellent video and in my opinion we’ve (America) been and or are still in a second guilded age, per se, right now. Like maybe for at least twenty years now or most of my lifetime. But that is my, one dude’s opinion.

  • @somerandomvertebrate9262

    Nowadays, it has become nearly impossible to translate the less inflated dollars of earlier times into today's currency due to the increasingly "modified" techniques of which consumer price indexing has been measured since the 80's or 90's. One rule of thumb is that if you have a stated sum from an earlier era and the fraudulent CPI now in use tells you it's worth a specific amount in 2023 dollars, you get a somewhat honest account if you nearly double it.

  • @MrBlizzard769
    @MrBlizzard769 Před 11 měsíci

    Ms astor passed away not long ago , I believe 2009 , her philanthropic work lives on today

  • @marilynwade9448
    @marilynwade9448 Před rokem +2

    But the money doesn't go back to the people.the bulk of it goes to the handlers

  • @Julie.Canada
    @Julie.Canada Před rokem +1

    Well done 🎉

  • @notke6207
    @notke6207 Před rokem +1

    I have a painting of Mrs Astor in my room

  • @FH-wi6so
    @FH-wi6so Před rokem +1

    I think that one of the astors owned the Times newspaper at a certain time

  • @Richardsonprincess00
    @Richardsonprincess00 Před rokem +1

    Any powerful family to add to discuss the Gilded Age?

  • @johnmorelli1988
    @johnmorelli1988 Před rokem

    The idea that money concentrated in families is hoarding shows how badly the educational system teaches economics.

  • @abidababida7096
    @abidababida7096 Před 11 měsíci +2

    What? you’re only leaving me 70 million when u die mom? (clubs aging frail mother on head with bat) I WANT MORE… THAT’S NOT ENOUGH!

  • @mpalfadel2008
    @mpalfadel2008 Před rokem +2

    Folgers, Hearsts, Rockefellers, and Morgan’s

  • @jennifersinclair5988
    @jennifersinclair5988 Před rokem +1

    This was so fun, thanks! I love what you are wearing, the lace blouse and pearly earrings. Your skin is like porcelain, so pale and clear, and your eyes are the same colour as mine. I would suggest a blue background rather than a white one, to set off your eyes and skin color. I know, I know . . . I am shallow🙂But you are very beautiful.

  • @lilliancathrynperry8827
    @lilliancathrynperry8827 Před rokem +2

    What about John Jacob Astor 4 new wife who was his new wife on the titanic. She survived and has his new baby.

  • @robertmccully2792
    @robertmccully2792 Před rokem +2

    Everyone that’s says families should give away there money fairly do it themself.

    • @martiketelsen4974
      @martiketelsen4974 Před rokem

      I caught that too. She does podcasts on the top .1% of the wealthy and she applauds that they should give it all away. She must be a socialist or worse.

    • @AdelaideBeemanWhite
      @AdelaideBeemanWhite  Před rokem +2

      I would not describe myself as a Socialist or as a Capitalist. I am a Quaker, and the Bible is clear on the topic of wealth: "Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal. Instead, store up riches for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and robbers cannot break in and steal. For your heart will always be where your riches are." -Matthew 6:19-21

    • @kalburgy2114
      @kalburgy2114 Před rokem

      It would be an improvement to differentiate the Industrialists, those who created wealth, from those who manipulated wealth for their own gains - the true "robber barons".

  • @sharonpuckett1441
    @sharonpuckett1441 Před rokem +2

    As Jesus says what if a man gains the world and loses his soul

  • @oceanark77
    @oceanark77 Před rokem +1

    He has a mountain in Antarctica named after him... 🧐🤔

  • @skapiolaniwilliams7628
    @skapiolaniwilliams7628 Před rokem +1

    good job ❤

  • @lilythomas869
    @lilythomas869 Před 11 měsíci +1

    It's good money should not be hoarded in one family but the charities that receive the money although good did not have anything to do with the accumulation of that money. The people that worked for the Astors did and I know it's the way it is but just think if Astors gave generous wages they'd have helped create a middle class.

  • @ah5721
    @ah5721 Před rokem +3

    Interesting how family fortunes not properly handled dwindle with generations..🤔 . I would love to see the Vanderbilt family next! please up it in the card note on the screen ! ! The Vanderbilt family is still a very well known "old money family " that's well known if you have any social climbing desires ...

    • @myriamickx7969
      @myriamickx7969 Před rokem +2

      A present-day scion of the Vanderbilt family is Anderson Cooper, who I understand is not doing too bad for himself.

    • @johnscanlan9335
      @johnscanlan9335 Před rokem +2

      Very interestingly while the Vanderbilts are considered "old money" today, in the 19th Century they were snubbed as "new money"!

  • @d3mist0clesgee12
    @d3mist0clesgee12 Před 8 měsíci +1

    funny good commentary, sobriquet, my favorite word, lol

  • @jebsails2837
    @jebsails2837 Před rokem +3

    Sorry you could not interview my late Aunt and Uncle. They were the Superintendent and Secretary of the Newport Casino (now Tennis Hall of Fame). The Casino was just that for the Bellevue Avenue crowd of millionaires. They did caution me that there are a number on inaccuracies in Mr. Amory's tome "The Last Resorts". My mothers folks came to Aquidneck Island in the 1630's with a grant from "Chuck" 1. Narragansett Bay

  • @jaelynrae6045
    @jaelynrae6045 Před 5 měsíci

    What about JJ Astor's other son with Madaline, who survived the Titanic?

  • @idahardy4052
    @idahardy4052 Před rokem +2

    I’m loving all the videos about customs and clothing and how things were in the American and Western European culture.
    And then you said that people’s money should not stay in the family but should go back to the people…
    I’m not sure I understand what you mean, there.
    Perhaps you elaborate on that topic in one of your other videos.

    • @myriamickx7969
      @myriamickx7969 Před rokem

      The money does not go back to the people, unless the author means donating most of one's money to charities, which, let's admit it, is a rarity. Generally, the later generations squander it away or do bad investments, or there's a war or a recession. Mostly, though, they are more bent on spending the family money than on investing wisely, that's their eventual downfall.

    • @idahardy4052
      @idahardy4052 Před rokem

      @@myriamickx7969
      I don’t know what she means other than, when you die, your family should give your savings to the government.
      I was hoping she’d clarify.

    • @teoleno4019
      @teoleno4019 Před 11 měsíci +1

      They got rich based on colonization.

    • @idahardy4052
      @idahardy4052 Před 11 měsíci

      @@teoleno4019
      Most of them got rich by investing their money wisely, being frugal, having intuition for coming trends and using their own money to purchase raw materials and then produce goods and services that they would then have in inventory and sell.
      They risked their money to make money.
      And they have the right to leave their money to whomever they wish.

  • @paulcosentino1140
    @paulcosentino1140 Před rokem +1

    The obvious dislike bias towards people that god forbid did well for themselves was quite annoying. I still taste the obvious lean towards socialism. Eecck

  • @KalypsoVega
    @KalypsoVega Před rokem +2

    I'll give you my password. It is absolutely lovely I love love love the Gilded Age show.

  • @gaylecheung3087
    @gaylecheung3087 Před rokem +1

    They spent their fortune and Taxes, lol

  • @cowpunkability
    @cowpunkability Před rokem

    Why didn’t you go into the story of the Astor orphans?

  • @melissamybubbles6139
    @melissamybubbles6139 Před rokem +1

    Interesting. There had to be at least one very charitable person, and at least one elder abuser in this story.

  • @jessicarobinson4563
    @jessicarobinson4563 Před rokem +1

    Maybe the American families aren’t around but they have British counterparts still thriving in the aristocracy

  • @vinceastor232
    @vinceastor232 Před 9 měsíci +2

    still going strong lol

  • @jeannedouglas9912
    @jeannedouglas9912 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I think a big chunk of the 400 million went to the bronx zoo.

  • @jukukwakuattionu5080
    @jukukwakuattionu5080 Před rokem +1

    These families still exist.

  • @beasleymatt8100
    @beasleymatt8100 Před rokem +2

    I do have a bit of issue with you sayong the weath should go back to the ppl, while charitable giving is great the fact is the economy is no 1 pie that some ppl hoard at the expense of everyone else. The pue in fact is a pie factory,at least in a free market society. The rub is when a few ppl exclude otheres throughgovernment requlation. That must be stopped

  • @keepitsimple4629
    @keepitsimple4629 Před rokem

    Mamie Eisenhower bangs.

  • @allenatkins2263
    @allenatkins2263 Před rokem +1

    Now some people get have to be elected to office to get that rich.

  • @alicearceneaux9969
    @alicearceneaux9969 Před 11 měsíci

    She left out the slaves - He made his money from Slavery too...