At 6:51 thats my grandfather and grandmother coming out of the store and my dad would've been 11 years old at the time...my Mom would've been 8 years old at the time...those were the times America was growing..still recovering from the Great Depression..family values were strong ..people cared about each other..and history was being made day by day..if I could go back in time...this is where I'd visit first..we all need to remember our history because it's fading every day with each passing of the "older" generation that created it. They were the gifted ones..never forget.
Times may have been hard but people where healthier and happy. I’d choose then over anyday now idc what stuff we have to make life easier, bc in turn it makes us worse off as humans
This is wonderful. I have a friend there that fixes coke machines. He purchased a huge brick warehouse with beautiful wood floors. It became available because the mills machinery was sold to China along with all the jobs.
At 6:51 thats my grandfather and grandmother coming out of the store and my dad would've been 11 years old at the time...my Mom would've been 8 years old at the time...those were the times America was growing..still recovering from the Great Depression..family values were strong ..people cared about each other..and history was being made day by day..if I could go back in time...this is where I'd visit first..we all need to remember our history because it's fading every day with each passing of the "older" generation that created it. They were the gifted ones..never forget.
Cool, it's clear enough you could make a photo. That was a great time to be alive.
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My mother was from Granite Falls. She would have been 8 years old in 1938. Thank you for posting these films! I really enjoyed watching them.
Great footage.. makes me wish I could have lived back then.. thanks for posting!
this is amazing, thatd be nice if i could see my great grandma or grandpa in one of these clips
Strange to see the mill in operation. Wish the town was revitalized again. I love living here.
I would love to see the movie theater and Western Auto reopen.
yes indeed it is, so many amazing places and people,
wish people cared more for the old history of things.
Times may have been hard but people where healthier and happy. I’d choose then over anyday now idc what stuff we have to make life easier, bc in turn it makes us worse off as humans
T.Y. good video......I'm in Cajah Mnt.....be well.
This is wonderful. I have a friend there that fixes coke machines. He purchased a huge brick warehouse with beautiful wood floors. It became available because the mills machinery was sold to China along with all the jobs.
Larry Huffman ?
i know an Allan Huffman who owns it now
Cool films.
I live in Rhodhiss no but come through granite all the time.
My Grandma would have been about 10 years old then. She grew up in Dudley Shoals. Her daddy was a tobacco farmer. Love this footage.
Nice footage. Isn’t it great that someone had the motivation and guts to just go film these people?! Now these images live forever. 😁
I just saw my uncles, Billy Boy and John Joe O’Bannon.
wow
in 16 years itll be 100 years since this was recorded
That was cool. Where did you find this? Bought my first set of tools at the Granite Western Auto.
l6j8b32 Joan had it on her facebook page and I downloaded it. I bought a bike there among other things.
Really neat. You could make a few commercials out of this. How different today
I love here
Are any of these kids in this video alive today
Possible but I highly doubt it. Maybe the ones under 15 years old.