As a kid my room was the farthest away from the wood stove. I'll never forget the frost on the walls inside the room. I could see my breath under the covers. People take a lot of things for granted now.

@christianzilla

2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame your carers couldn't recognise that those conditions render that location as unfit for human habitation.

@destinationunknown7857

2 жыл бұрын

Amen. Know exactly what your saying lol. And don't forget the glass of water that froze during the night

@bwghall1

2 жыл бұрын

do not forget the prince of wales feathers on your window glass.UK.

@fredsilvers1427

2 жыл бұрын

@@bwghall1 I'm trying to understand what heraldic symbols and my window as a child have in common. Am I looking too deeply into it? I need another hint.

@Ytdeletesallmycomments

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianzilla omg it was normal back in the days.

One thing he forgot to mention was how they kept warm at night time. Most families back in the 1900s we're pretty large usually at least four or five members per household. They would use their own body heat by snuggling together. It was very common for family members to sleep together.

My dad was born in 1912 in a farmhouse. He said the stairs going up were always covered in frost...he said they would fight to see who got the dog to sleep with as he always kept their feet warm.

Growing up DIRT POOR in the 70's in a freezing cold "textile mill house" and NO AC, very little food, no phone, cable, etc, I feel so very blessed today. As an adult I have the comfort of a warm house in the winter and cool in the summer, food, phone, etc. But one good thing about growing up WITHOUT these luxeries, if I have to, I can ADJUST to that life again!!!

@lpodruchny

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!!! I did everything I possibly could to ensure that my children did NOT grow up as I did. But at least they do know how fortunate and blessed they truly were and have grown up to be good adults with values.

@patriciaking7892

4 жыл бұрын

@@lpodruchny you're Blessed to have kids that appreciate what you've done for them 👍.

@patriciaking7892

4 жыл бұрын

Lore Ann, a lot of people that don't know or don't want to are gonna be f**ked up when those times come back around 👌. Excuse my French lol.

@akmguy1821

3 жыл бұрын

@Big Booty Libertarian Well if you listened during History class, I'd say he grew up in one of the Eastern or South Eastern states since the REST OF THE U.S. DOES NOT HAVE ***"textile mill house"'s*** in their states!!!! Nor are they known for any textile ANYTHING!!

@mikehartsook5281

3 жыл бұрын

lore ann • I was born in 1961,and we were poor and I remember we had a regular pot belly stove for heat we could use wood or coal to burn in the stove my dad would use wood most of the time that heater kept the house warm we lived in a 2 bedroom house we never went hungry thank GOD. My mom had a electric stove to cook on one of my best friends his mother had a wood stove for heat and his mom had a stove to cook on that you had to build a fire in to cook sometimes I would trade my lunch to my friend at school when he packed his lunch sometimes when his mom fixed him 2 scrambled egg sandwiches they were delicious from being cooked on a old cook stove. I, remember my dad sitting a slice of a potato on the wood stove and heating it up I would eat one too those, were the good ole days.

When my grandparents got married they took over my great grandparents chicken coop. My grand father said he had a small wood stove where the rear seat was , he would out early morning to get the coke and coal started before the ride to work. They were tough as rusty nails. My grandmother still saved tin foil and if you questioned her about it, you always received the same answer. We lived through the depression you know. There was no money or jobs ,food. Be thankful for what you have and don’t complain about what you don’t have. Love you grandma!

@byrnejr

4 жыл бұрын

They used there hand

Most of these ways were still in use in the 1950/60’s here in the UK. I was born in 1958 and remember using them. As a child we had coats on the bed for extra warmth and we would scrape the ice from the inside of the windows to see out.

No insulation so whatever heat there was escaped. Cold enough to see your breath in the morning. Might as well slide down the hill or skate on a pond and come home with frozen toes and enjoy yourselves for a few hours. No bath tub; some people still had outdoor toilets in the early 1950s. With the luxuries we have today, there should be more happiness in the world, wouldn't you think?

@greyarea1764

5 жыл бұрын

We do forget how lucky we are.

@tonyosborn1073

4 жыл бұрын

1928gerry - That’s the problem .I’m sitting here now with an iPad linked to the internet the entire world and we are still going to freeze if the electricity goes out and our heat pump doesn’t work. I have a propane heater but gas is expensive and doesn’t last as long as coal. Outrage Home was built in 1966 and is a box lumber house with no Two by four framing and no insulation in the walls or under the floor.Carpeting helps but we only had that in one room. - Like you said with All this technology and we’re still close to freezing to death. I never could understand in this day and age why they couldn’t build something that would be warm in winter even without a heat source .Make the walls thicker or something.

I am almost 60. Up till I was 20 we heated with two wood stoves. A large home comfort wood stove in the kitchen which my mother would sometimes cook on and another wood stove in the living room. It was my daily job, after school, to chop and bring in enough wood to last all evening and through the next day when I got home from school. Our house was not insulated and I remember many times water freezings inside during cold nights. Still, the warmest heat I ever felt was from a wood stove. It just felt comforting

Can't remember where I heard it at: 'Chop a cord of wood and it will warm you twice'. Those iron pans to put hot coals in weren't put directly in the bed they were wrapped up in a tea-towel THEN placed in the sheets. This kept the black scorch marks off the bedding.

My grandmothers bedrooms were on the right side of the house, separated by a door to the main rooms. The living room had a pot bellied stove. In the mornings the women would dress around the stoves. The men would dress after the women retired back to the rooms. Before we went to sleep under several quilts, mom would warm the bottom sheet with a stone or a brick. There was NO source of heat what so ever in the bedrooms . It sounds bad, but to this day, I find memories of visiting Grandma happy ones🐾

@jennymichaelson4832

5 жыл бұрын

Judy, I loved reading your comment. What a good storyteller you are!, and cheerful, too. I would have loved to have lived back in a time of true survival means, as you have. However, this 40-year-old girl has not experienced this extreme a hardship, but I very dearly am grateful for and appreciate my life, who and what I have been given in my life... especially my loved ones. My boyfriend came into my world when I was on the verge of giving up. 😢 I am so happy and grateful for him! ❤ Anyway, we all need to come together as One People!!! And to see with wonder in our open eyes, at the miracle of life; take nothing for granted... because life is beautiful. Again, Judy, I was inspired by your story. Have a wonderful day.

I live in Delaware and I have been in a few houses in Odessa Delaware that have fireplaces in each bedroom as well as downstairs. Basically like you mentioned in every room. I love when I have the chance to work in them old places. Thanks for the video

I remember reading that people would bake potatoes and put them in their pockets to travel; doubling as a snack later on.

@deletedleaf2688

5 жыл бұрын

Alicia Haley that is brilliant! I’m going to do that this winter lol

@Kanelle88

5 жыл бұрын

My grandmother mentioned that she used to do that when she went to school as a child.

@boondoggled1

5 жыл бұрын

Ah-ha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 hilarious! Love it

@getoffyourbassandletsfish7651

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what I do when I’m hunting

@andyginterblues2961

5 жыл бұрын

My mom told us stories from when she was a youngster in the depression, her family lived near a dump, and she and her brothers and sister found a hole in the fence around the dump, and that's where they would go and play. She said that they would sneak potatoes out of the cold cellar, and have "buddado roasts" in the dump. They would build fires from the trash, and bake the potatoes in the coals. She told us that "nothing tastes as good as a stolen potato roasted in an outdoor fire". I never tried it, but I believe her.

My Gramma was born in the Netherlands, she said they would put hot potatoes in their pockets. She said also that they would put sad irons at the end of their bed, or they would use bricks too. And they would layer hay or newspapers between sheets and blankets to keep them warm. Gramma had a job at the flour mull and she would get paid in flour sacks. The sacks we're printed. That's how she would make quilts to keep them warm. And she would get wool from the sheep's they had and she would use it to make wool thread then she would knit huge sheets of fabric, and that is what she would use for batting in the quilts. She would make two top layers of the blanket and put a wool sheet between, and then two layers of blankets. She would do this all by hand (sewing) . She would make beautiful wedding blankets and sell them during Christmas. I think life was more complicated then, but people worked hard and appreciated it more. I have a blanket that my great grandma made and it's a lot warmer than any you get at Walmart. My kids come visit me and "steal" it only to send it back a month or two later and tell me "oops I accidently brought this home". It's like a tradition to see who can keep it longer than the other.

@Raj-nh3fc

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this sweet story with us. I almost cried reading it and I am a man!

I grew up in Nova Scotia, in a house built in the 19th century with balloon framing . There wasn't a scrap of insulation in the entire house. Our house was heated with a massive, cast iron wood stove in the cellar. Rural Nova Scotia kitchens (up until recently) had a wood burning cook stove, making it the warmest room in the house. There's a tradition in NS of spending long winter evenings in the kitchen, eating, playing cards, story telling, playing music. It still continues to this day. Sleeping in socks was a given in our house, also longjohns, flannel sheets, wool blankets and an electric blanket..... Ahhhh the good ol' days

@atlasshrugged7475

5 жыл бұрын

My sis & her hubby use a large wood burning furnace/stove in their basement. I don't think there is a blower on it. The heat just radiates in up through the floor vents. When I lived "out North" I had a small wood burning furnace that radiated out heat into the living room. It worked fine; but, I hung out in that living room. Bedroom and kitchen got cold. Esp. the bedroom so I'd change real quick and jump under the covers. Ah, yes the good ole simpler, hardier days.

@pineo81

5 жыл бұрын

@@atlasshrugged7475 yes there was no blower on the wood stove, just radiant heat.

@mariellelita

5 жыл бұрын

It

@wfcoaker1398

5 жыл бұрын

I’m from Newfoundland, it’s the same here: wood stove in the kitchen, two holes in the ceiling over the stove so the hot air would go upstairs, cuz that’s the only heat that’s gonna go up there. Lol. Of course nowadays we have all the mod cons, but it’s not that long ago that we didn’t. Our ancestors had it hard, but we all look back at those days as some sort of golden age of peace and safety. Lol

@Troubles0125

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing....Those days seem to be moreof a close knit families then it is today...Blessing...

"The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a fascinating account of her and her family trying to stay warm during a severely cold winter.

My mom grew up in West Virginia in the 80’s and early 90’s and if she left a glass of water in her room it would be frozen by morning. To keep warm they would heat up rocks in the fireplace and put them in the covers of their beds at their feet. This was like 30 years ago

@patty5201

5 жыл бұрын

She just needed to get up and throw some more wood on the fire before it went out. Depending on the size of the stove, once or twice a night. No problem! I have done it for years. Keeps you young!

My mother grew up in the depression era in Illinois and they would paste pages from magazines and newspaper on the wall in their bedrooms and if they had any bricks they would hear them on a wood burning stove and wrap them in old clothes and put them under the bed covers to warm their beds. Sometimes they even used potatoes.They would take turns stoking the wood burning stove and on really cold nights all the kids got in one bed and snuggled together with every blanket on top of them.

@kitkat-dp8ec

5 жыл бұрын

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@cleanfreak2005

5 жыл бұрын

My Parents were born in 1936 in Wisconsin and they talked about the same as what you wrote. My mother 's family had 9 kids in the family so they all doubled and tripled up in bed. My father's parent's house didn't have electricity until the 1960's and it never had plumbing. When we went to visit them we used an outhouse and had to use a pump for water (when it wasn't frozen). Baths were in the kitchen in a galvanized wash tub placed next to the pot bellied stove. And at night during the winter they would bundle us kids up in soft cotton socks and PJs and then place heavy wool blankets on top of us. There was no furnace in the house, but all of the bedrooms were next to the kitchen and there were cupboards that could be opened from the kitchen and they had no back, so they opened into the bedrooms to let the heat in from the stove.

@mikeparker5008

5 жыл бұрын

What nobody is saying is that when you're in bed with someone else, all covered up with comforters, you're both very warm and snug :)

@dannymiewdg

5 жыл бұрын

Some of these people must have been very poor I suppose. Why, my grandparents born in the 1860-80 told me they had running water and stoves and a hearth in the living room - this was in Austro - Hungary. Some houses had furnaces, that is a closed structure made of thick bricks from the floor to the ceiling built between two rooms where coal or wood was burnt. The bricks kept and stayed warm untill next day.

@daschundloverable

5 жыл бұрын

@Janelle Westbrook. My dad was orphaned in '31 during the depression also. He was a toss-around kid and would follow coal trucks to pick up some to take to whoever he was living with. My mom had 8 siblings and there were 3 bedrooms in her home - 2 for the kids who would snuggle up at night. I wish they were still around for I have so many questions for them, but unfortunately they passed away in their early 60's.

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett

I know a guy who has installed a wood stove installed in his house. This thing is from the 1890's. He can get the room he has it installed in up to 90 degrees in the winter time with ease, just from wood burning. Granted, it eats wood like crazy, but it'll get you sweating in no time!

@billyboy9675

Жыл бұрын

Yup I got one!

I'm watching this in 2018 and thinking that this guy must live in a modern convenience bubble where old-fashioned ways are only from centuries ago and nobody lives like that today. I'm dressed in warm clothing here inside my house and now will go back to the heater in the kitchen to get warm.

@luannequiles5791

5 жыл бұрын

jbtex784 Yea l got that too. My husband and l put in a wood stove several years ago and use it whenever we want to really heat it up! But it also gets rid of the excess moisture in the air, so it’s great for moist and mild prone areas

@DepDawg

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I rent a small 2 room flat and the landlord barely heats the units. I cut a hole in a blanket, stitched the edges, and made a poncho out of it. I wear it along with multiple layers, hiking socks and lined moccasins, and a ski cap. I stitched up various sizes of flannel pouches after filling them with feed corn. Small ones for my pockets, medium for my lower back, larger for my feet. I microwave them and then tuck them inside my sleeping bag at night and I stay warm. My dog lays outside against my back (right where the corn bag is against my lower back) but my cat climbs in the bag and curls up against my chest. She has arthritis and I made her small heating pads with rice inside, and she loves them. I have solar lamps, phone charger, and a solar radio to save some money, no TV or computer, a small gas oven, one small radiator for the whole apt (mostly cold), a microwave, a heavy goose down sleeping bag, down comforter, and I bake bread and make bone broth for soup regularly, so the kitchen is warmer and we 3 sit in there often. Some of my neighbors in the other units don’t have warm pets or a good sleeping bag. The worst off are the little kiddos. Their mums are young and not very skilled in difficult conditions. I’ve tried to help but their boyfriends are aggressive.

@mikeparker5008

5 жыл бұрын

I live in an 1860 farmhouse in rural maine. I have a wood stove; I use like 30 gals. of oil per year, maybe, just for when it's over 40. My house is probably far warmer than anyone else's on this page. I keep it over 70 most of the time. When I wake up, it's maybe 66. I burn 5 cord of wood/yr., costs 800 to $1,000. It gets to -30; we're snug as bugs in a rug. There IS some finesse involved, knowing how to do it. People today just don't want to be bothered with this, they take no pride in providing for their basic needs - they want that all covered, and to spend their time on their iPhones instead. Oh well, have fun with that.

@janetsides901

5 жыл бұрын

We have an old house,built in 1886. There is a lil furnace in the basement,we have never used it we heated with wood until three years ago. We installed a pellet stove. We still have the woodstove hooked up and ready in the basement,but we only spend about 800 a year in pellets. We keep the temp low,we don't like it hot. We wear sweatshirts,extra blankets. Etc.

@janetsides901

5 жыл бұрын

*oil furnace

Heated bricks wrapped up in newspaper in the bed (with brown parcel paper on outside to stop the ink smudging on the sheets) and this was the late 1970's early 80's. Oh, and the soundtrack to my childhood "shut that bloody door" ;)

@bill605able

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the door to shut to prevent chilling the house was brother and me's bedroom, Dad kinda chuckled, we got the joke.

@bethminer7634

5 жыл бұрын

Meat wrapping paper..

@simondunlop656

5 жыл бұрын

Thats actually quite crafty

@qualqui

5 жыл бұрын

C cG, good of ya sharin' this good American Ingenuity with the rest of us, while the cold isn't as extreme up here on the central plateau(elevation: between 6,200 and 7,200 ft. above sea level)it gets COLD! lol...my Momma, rip, used to turn on the stovetop burners during early morning and by noon, with it being a beautiful sunny day, turn them off and yeah also "CIERRA ESA PINCHE PUERTA", applies also to us! ;)

I can still remember my wife's grandfather sitting in front of the coal fire while reading the local broadsheet newspaper. One day he sat a little too close the fire when the newspaper suddenly burst into flames. He was OK, just a little startled.

I grew up in Chicago in the 60’s and 70’s. We were lucky enough to have central heating, but it was still very cold. In the winters, I remember coming home from school, taking a hot bath, putting on flannel pajamas and then taking a blanket to put over a register on the floor. I would hold the blanket down around the register with my feet. The blanket would fill up with the warm forced heating and I would fall asleep on the floor, so cozy and warm. It felt so good!

I am 66, when I was a kid we used hot bricks to warm the bottom of the bed. We had a wood burning stove that had a place to place bricks, and at night we wrapped each brick in newspaper, and that went at the foot of the bed prior to bedtime. It was sooooo nice to have such a heater under the covers.

now the smoldering coals weren't just thrown in the bed threatening safety, they were actually in a very secure container and not left just to burn up the bed....your a bit over dramatic and misleading

@FurnitureFan

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. My grandmother had one. It was exactly like ironing the sheets before you got into a cold bed in winter.

@lannalane4247

5 жыл бұрын

Early American bed warmers are a copper covered pan with a long handle. They would put it under the covers just long enough to warm before someone got in bed. The round shaped bed warmer he showed are English and you could sit in a chair and put your feet on top of it. I assume it would work in a bed but it's not user friendly.

@CLASSICALFAN100

5 жыл бұрын

Dramatic & Misleading would be a great name for a goth band...lol

@rogueprince1341

5 жыл бұрын

One of the maids actually uses one in the first Pirates of the Caribbean. When Elizabeth is in bed and they are talking you can see her slip it in between the sheets of the bed.

@6ixConfessions

5 жыл бұрын

My parents actually have a gorgeous copper bed pan with a long blackwood handle hanging in the entrance way of their home. When the polished copper catches the light of the late afternoon sun that shines through the beveled glass of the front door it creates a soft warm glow throughout the whole entrance way. When they're gone it'll be handed down to me. It originally belonged to my father's grandmother & was actually in use right up until the 1940s.

"More than 30 tonnes of coal each day" 4:19 Really? More than 30 tonnes of coal a day to keep the Witley Court heated. Does anyone else think that is incorrect?

@icantthinkofaname15

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@bethminer7634

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was a small place and I'm certain insulation is more modern than at that time fire places sucked a lot if heat up the chimney

@dirtydickwhistle6752

5 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing. 30 tons a day? That seems like a bit of work lol

@cynthianolder8587

5 жыл бұрын

A ton already is 2,000 lbs.

@josephineroe8424

5 жыл бұрын

ridefastjumphigh420 It was a verbal typo. They meant to say that it takes 300 million tons of coal per day

There is no greater pleasure on earth than taking a flat stone from the stove or fireplace wrapping it in a sheet then placing at the foot of a cold bed. If it’s our grandmother or aunt doing it for us the warmth is that much greater.

In 1970's Britain, there wasn't much in the way of central heating, and most people could only heat their living rooms. As children, we would dread the order to go to bed because we knew the bedroom was freezing. I have many memories of staying at my grandparent's house where they had a single gas fire in the living room, and that was it. We would have beds covered with blankets, with a pile of overcoats on top. Later, we had a paraffin heater in the room, which was a big improvement, provided you didn't tip it over. Here's a tip - wear a woolly hat at home. It stops heat leaving through the head and makes a huge difference. I wish I'd been given this advice back in my flat-broke student days.

@hollyavillella554

Жыл бұрын

@UncleFeedle ~ you are very right about wearing a hat indoors! I have Raynaud's and on the worst days, wear a hat indoors and walk about to get warm ! I also sit near a little space heater and drink a lot of hot herbal tea! 🙂✨

My mother grew up using many of these techniques in 1960s' West Germany. I remember stories about only the kitchen and a small living room being heated every day, having to pre-warm the bed every evening and my grandpa would even put a hot brick stone inside a tin bucket next to the toilet so the water in there wouldn't freeze overnight.

I really have trouble believing that someone burned thirty tons of coal a day in their house. Can you imagine how many people it would take to even move thirty tons in a day. In a one hundred day winter that would come to 3,000 tons. That would be a small mountain.

@christianzilla

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't 30 tonnes a day. Cannot be. Preposterous!

@bahadortanzif8932

Жыл бұрын

30 tons Nope. B.S. Not even freezing yer twigs n berries or lady bits near off Coal doesn't burn THAT much faster than wood. Does burn faster though.

I can see, by the early 1900's, how the kitchen had become the meeting place for the family. A warm room in the fall and winter. Hot coffee, all the time, and a warm meal that a loved one (granny, mom, aunt) could offer.

Please.... I grew up on a dairy farm... no indoor plumbing... no central heat or ac...in the mountains of Kentucky. Coal stove in the main room and wood burning stove in the kitchen. That was after the turn of the century... like 1960’s!

@sabrina.h2737

5 жыл бұрын

Same for me but in the 80s in rural Australia. ☺

@lucysisco9802

5 жыл бұрын

I lived the exact same way for 10/11 years on a dairy farm,but in Massachusetts. I am in my 70s now, but feel as I could still do it ,if necessary. ...We all had to work very hard,as I am sure you had to,also.

@SandcastleDreams

5 жыл бұрын

We still burn wood! And up in Oh, we used to burn coal and wood.

@sheila9612

5 жыл бұрын

Same here, in Lexington in the 1960’s.

@MrRobmellor

5 жыл бұрын

From the 1940s till the mid 1960s, we lived in what was called an under-house, that is when there is a front door for one level of a house, then another door round the back for the lower level of the house. Every morning I was sent to a bend of the railway track to collect any coal that had fallen off the early morning trains. Another way to keep the fire burning was to go to a local rubber works that made wellington boots. I would take home any rubber souls that had been thrown away to be burned on our fire/oven. The best was the 4x4,by 3 foot long wooden poles, they were stud-up in the fireplace and left to burn down . I wasn't the only one, we were all like that in post war north of England..

Bake potatoes, put them in your coat pockets, now you have a hand warmer. You can eat it later too

@sofiaalexis3716

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha lol 😂

I remember those days from my grandparent's farm house in the 1960's, huddled in the kitchen/dining room around an old pot belly stove freezing on one side and burning on the other. All the other rooms were closed off and freezing cold.

@DP-jy2ge

5 жыл бұрын

Mark If you're not using those rooms, it's a waste to heat them.

@bryancreech1236

5 жыл бұрын

Mark man what you talking adout that is want I hated the most warm on one side frozen on the other

it was so cold when we were kids in the winter we had to bring our words in from outside thaw them out so we could hear what we said

@patty5201

5 жыл бұрын

Hehe! I like that. I'm going to steal it!!

@OisO8

4 жыл бұрын

Bwahahahaha 😂

Its funny growing up in the 60's my family had it rough sleepy in one room and 4 bodies in a one bed kept us warm there was only two rooms that was warm the kitchen and the bed room the rest of the house was as cold as being outside plastic on the window a coal wood burning stove in the kitchen no pluming all frozen we borrowed water from our friends kept it stored in a huge plastic new trash container that we used for washing dishes and used for bathing ,using the bathroom was another no running water all frozen so we made daily trips to wood to dump our toilet use ,its sounds bad I know but we made it work and did what was needed to survive as the 70's came along things got better but when we fell on hard times we knew how to handle it .Our mom loved us and she was a hard cookie we prayed a lot and had good friends that understood our needs but we made it

@paulsecrest9427

5 жыл бұрын

LOGANSRUN no the feeling cheers to strong mothers.

@sonnilynmiles6598

5 жыл бұрын

That sounds like my childhood

@gorhamcj1

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you know what to do if times get bad. God bless you!

@Patrick3183

5 жыл бұрын

What country did u grow up in?

@barrywainwright3391

5 жыл бұрын

Why were you living that way in the 60s when it was a modern era? I guess you aren't from the USA.

The men in my dads POW barracks had to run in place at night to keep from freezing to death. The germans didn’t issue enough coal. In their defense, the didn’t have it themselves. Just one of many privations. At least he came back alive.

@juliecramer7768

5 жыл бұрын

Pipe Duster Wow. Thanks for sharing!

@steveos111

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks from me to your Dad for his service.

@GreencampRhodie

5 жыл бұрын

The reasons the Germans didn't have enough resources is because BRITAIN et al (funded by the zionists) deliberately bombed all the supply routes & factories. We & the zionists blame the Germans for what we did to ourselves! Funny how the HOLLOWcaust doesn't focus on OUR war crimes at the time, huh...!

@esta1ful

5 жыл бұрын

RhodieFreedomCamp it’s because we won the war. I didn’t call what happened “war crimes”. It was simply the fortunes of war. I didn’t call what the Germans did “war crimes” either. That is a different category entirely.

@steveclark6514

5 жыл бұрын

Rhodie WW II ended just like Jesus wanted it to. Merry Christmas Mr.C

in the early 1950s, My family was living in the harlem section of nyc in an old turn of the century five story walk up tenement building. I was 6 years old at the time, but I distinctly remember our four room rail road apartment having a rather old pot belly stove in the living room. In the freezing winter months, my mother would have my older brother take a pail down to the basement to fill up on coal. He would then hoist the pail up to our top floor apartment by the building's dumb waiter. You can guess where my family was gathered on the those cold winter nights.

@robtownsend5126

5 жыл бұрын

A furry muff can be very warm

@82luft49

5 жыл бұрын

@@robtownsend5126 ?

@dimik3855

5 жыл бұрын

@@robtownsend5126 and inkyguy - crude

Most of that would apply to the 1700s, 1600s, 1500s, etc. I'm very grateful for central heating, clean, safe drinking water, hot water at the taps, etc. A few years ago I bought an electric mattress cover (18 volts) from Amazon. I set it on "hi" a few hours before going up stairs and my bed is pleasantly warm on the coldest nights....really great. Then turn it down to the "3" setting for the night. Hate to get out of bed in the morning. When I was very little we lived with my grandfather on his farm. Dad was at war in Europe. There was a huge coal fired hot air furnace in the basement. Grandfather was terrified of the possibility of a house fire so he banked the coals every evening. By morning the bedrooms were VERY cold and we were all under huge down comforters and on featherbeds. He would get up long before everyone else and restart the fire so that we could run down later and stand on the huge grate off the entrance hall to get warm in the hot air. I still remember the faint smell of the coal-heated air. I am the only one still alive.

@tolget4684

5 жыл бұрын

wholeNwon Glad you're still with us... keep golfing

@graceandglory1948

5 жыл бұрын

I experienced the same thing! It was the early 1950's, and the house was so cold!! The hot air coming up through that grate was wonderful. My Aunt use to iron our undershirts, then dress us in front of the open oven door to keep the chill off. I did not feel deprived, I felt loved and cared for. It's a totally different world now. I prefer the world the way it was.

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

@@tolget4684 Thanks, me, too! Actually I don't golf but do play a lot of tennis. Happy holidays!

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

@@graceandglory1948 I remember putting my cold feet in the warm cook stove oven with the door open. That was a memorable comfort.

@tolget4684

5 жыл бұрын

wholeNwon But your name???lol

We still heat our house with wood and it is a nice warm heat. In the winter I will cook on the top of the wood stove too. When I’m at someone’s house who heats with anything else I feel cold lol. Wood is a lot of work but saves money!

I heated my whole house with a Vermont casting wood stove in Washington State for years.

30 tons of coal a day? Yeah, no. I had a coal furnace, I know how much space a ton of coal takes up. It also burns for a long time, we used maybe 6 tons a winter. So maybe the house you mentioned used 30 tons a season, 30 tons day is what Bethlehem Steel would use a run it's smelting furnaces.

@martine8056

5 жыл бұрын

Yep

@stevendeatley4878

5 жыл бұрын

yeah 39 tons a day ,now they had enough fire to heat the whole county,they woulda stayed warm just keeping the coal buckets filled.lol

@peterb1849

5 жыл бұрын

Breaking that down: 30 tons =60,000 lbs. 60,000/24hrs= 2,500lbs per hour= 41lbs a minute! Thats some fast burning coal and would take a whole lot of people to keep up the fires...

@TheChuckoluck

5 жыл бұрын

The old coal burning trains didn't even use 40 pounds a minute. Why he made such a ridiculous statement isn't clear. Maybe he's an idiot.

@ezrabrooks12

5 жыл бұрын

James/// I DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT ONE EITHER!!!

Great video. They also used hay or old newspapers in shoes. Sleeped while sharing bodyheat. Stuffed newspaper under the clothes for isolation, and heated up stones, draped them in fabric and placed them under their bedcovers.

Am a Baby boomer ➡️💯% miss the good ole days faded in sun shine never to return😢😢😢 days where alot better then today life now has no meaning Thk's For trying to bring back something I miss very deeply

This seems to have a bit of bias to it....a little judgemental. I live in an 1860 farmhouse in rural Maine. It can go to 30 below in winter. I heat my home with a wood stove. I burn about 5 cords of wood ($1,000 per year, today). My house is 73 degrees or so all winter. It was this warm back then, too. Warmer than most can afford to have their thermostats set now! People didn't suffer like many sources love to talk about...the very poor certainly did, but don't they in ANY era? The farmers here before me were certainly not "of means", but lived in the same way I do. "Most people" knew how to take care of themselves, far better than we do today (what happens when the power goes out, folks? My old farmhouse is....yup, still 73 degrees even with no power! And my pipes will NEVER freeze). What you are making fun of, or jabbing at, is that old ways didn't conform to modern standards. Most of what you portray is hearsay, little tales...yup, they used warm bricks to warm the beds and so on, only because if you chose not to tend your stove late at night, when it's VERY cold (below zero), the house can get down to say 60 degrees. Oh, dear, the humanity! Families spending time together - help us! Geez. I'm glad you're scaring people away; it keeps my area low population, and we'll keep on with the "old ways", ha ha! :)

@ElinWinblad

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Parker yea I agree they make it sound like everyone was starving and cold. Maybe in cities. Cities created poverty. In open land you can build your house hunt etc only thing that would keep you down was injury /illness.

@grandmalovesmebest

5 жыл бұрын

Yes but today you cant cut down trees to build yourself a hut or for firewood and you were probably only homeless if you were alone and even then people probably looked out for you a little bit. Today in Orlando you can get arrested for feeding homeless ppl downtown. To humanity's credit, many ppl do it anyway.

@ElsieDee001

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Parker If one doesn't know anything different, one does not miss what one does not know about. People just did what they knew to do.

@genieschiegg2815

5 жыл бұрын

Really admire your good attitude. It shows through in your story about how you live. Have heat, but I wear socks to bed, even with an electric blanket here in CO - was 8 deg. this morning.

@willythewave

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Parker You pay $1000 for 5 cords of wood? You`re getting ripped off big time. Here in VA it`s about $75 a cord if you`re too lazy to go out and cut it yourself. If you are in rural maine I think I`d invest in a chainsaw and a log splitter. JS

People in the 1800’s?? My dad grew up in deep rural Minnesota during the late 40’s, 50’s & early 60’s. He didn’t even experience a flushing toilet until he was 5. He recalls waking up with frost on the blankets and his hair freezing into his pompadour style, then defrosting at school. He would fetch firewood as a small 8 year old child, sometimes having to rest under the dry sheltered area beneath the pines and snowdrifts-sometimes being afraid to rest because he knew he wouldn’t wake up again. He was a sniper-level shot (as was his mother, my grandma) because his mom would send him into the woods with a rifle and one bullet to get something for dinner: if he missed they didn’t have meat. He used to say “But there wasn’t any point in complaining: all your neighbors had it as tough as you, so you just didn’t know any different. There are still people living that way today in the US: go visit the Indigenous people’s reservations, the people of rural Alaska, and the extremely impoverished people of the Appalachia’s and surrounding Deep South

@jondstewart

5 жыл бұрын

Many people of rural Alaska have the state take care of them thanks to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. That’s why many villages are cesspools of filth, garbage, domestic violence, and drunkenness. You don’t hear about these people starving or freezing to death unless it’s a long way from their homes on their snowmachines or 6 wheelers. Heating oil and processed food in their little markets costs a pretty penny, but they don’t have a problem affording it. Appalachia is a different story. You have some people living in extreme poverty with dirt floor shacks and others still isolated from society that keep their homes nice and orderly. Most of the people living in the hollers are set in their ways, work hard without question, eat well, speak with thick accents, and don’t gave a complaint in the world. Country singer Loretta Lynn was somewhere in the middle growing up.

@ElinWinblad

5 жыл бұрын

RL B yea I experienced outhouse growing up and that was 80s

@joea1433

5 жыл бұрын

A large proportion of men who went into the military in WW 2 were like your father, growing up in rural areas without electricity. The reason we have electric all over now is due to the rural electrification act that gives low interest loans to electric and phone companies for the purpose of running lines for miles with few customers per mile.

@atlasshrugged7475

5 жыл бұрын

I remember only having an outhouse. Wood heat. Did have electricity though and appreciated it.

@sailorette1

5 жыл бұрын

Very true!

The struggle for us was when I was growing up our heater was always breaking my mom would turn on the oven and prohibit us from the kitchen the oven was on 400 degrees for an hour and our tiny apartment would be all nice and cozy in the living room!

I remember my mum putting blankets over the single glaze windows in our council house in the winter as there was only a built in fire in the livingroom that had a glass door and the radiators barely worked. We also had lots of layers over us in bed and hot meal at tea time and a hot chocolate or milk before bedtime. We could see our breath in the winter at home but we were some of the lucky ones as my parents always had the coal bunker full as food, heat and electric were always their first priorities and they put themselves last after us kids. . Thank God our parents looked after us well

@hollyavillella554

Жыл бұрын

@smc1786 ~ What a lovely story of your dear family! Bless you! ✨

I love videos like this which take us back in time and give us a good idea of how easy we have it with all of our turn on the switch conveniences since the late 1950s. Everyone appreciates the things that add quality to our lives and service on quick demand but if the electricity goes out and nothing works we get upset real quick, we are spoiled to say the least.

And now, in 2019 we are sitting with sleeping-bags around us, beause of the bills

@gryl.4030

4 жыл бұрын

Two litres waterbottles are perfect to warm up the bed.

@johncresswell2087

4 жыл бұрын

I know how you feel right now I owe rent 695.00 bills120.00 to my gas bill and electric about 150.00 and on top of all this I owe 131.50 for a no insurance ticket and on top of all that I got to pay 85.00 to have my license reinstated plus my insurance now that I have it and it's another 100.00 plus dollars that's what I need at the moment not counting ive been being harassed by the police and I got four homeless tickets from when I was homeless I have four parking tickets one possession of marijuana ticket and one parafinila ticket and one destruction of trees ticket now you tell me how I'm suppose to get caught up not counting I don't get food stamps n I got to get gas for my car and the lady I love and want to eventually be with is locked up.

@kalikasurf

4 жыл бұрын

John Cresswell208 sounds like you need a better job and start making some better life choices!! And the chick in the joint.........yeah, probably just let her go

@patsyhodge9071

4 жыл бұрын

@@kalikasurf Im laughing. This guys life is a mess of his own doing.

@breejames6323

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same here! I’m so broke it’s heat or eat lol. I was working 36 hours at my new job but had to switch to 28 hours otherwise I’d loose Medicaid. Now I’m broke asf . And since this corona virus crisis food is so god damn expensive.

wow! NEVER EVER THOUGHT I would be lucky enough to be taught how to stay warm in the winter. Appreciate You more than I know how to say. How I have survived so far is beyond belief.

I still do many of these things. I have a natural gas furnace that is very expensive to run enough to be 100% warm all season. So warm clothes, thick curtains, hot water bottles are all the norm for me😊And I'm always grateful for them!

Ha ha, when I saw the electric fire, I remembered I nearly caught the house on fire😂 I wanted to warm my brother and my night clothes and put them over one of these lol!

How about soapstone bedwarmers) about 1.5 ins. Thick and about 6x8 ins.square placed on stove in the evening then rubbed under covers.also had wire bail to hold .

@vernbower

5 жыл бұрын

They were also carried outside and laid on the floorboards of the buggy or sleigh to keep yer feet warm while in travel. At a friends/family, you would reheat for the trip home.

In the 1960's, we had muffs. They were for WALKING somewhere, like to school, when you didn't NEED your hands for anything. And my Gma had a rental house that still had a wood cook stove in it. Our own house, built in 1956, had central heat but it used oil. I now live in a house that was built in 1910 and it has ONE original outlet that's in the living room. Two original light switches are 2 push buttons for on/off. An original brick wall in the kitchen was where the wood cook stove was but unfortunately now has an electric stove.

@miriambucholtz9315

5 жыл бұрын

I remember living in a few places that had oil burners and one or two that had coal furnaces in the basement (late 1940s).

@lesliekendall5668

5 жыл бұрын

@@miriambucholtz9315 My 1910 house had coal but I don't know what decade it was put in.

@miriambucholtz9315

5 жыл бұрын

@@lesliekendall5668 I don't remember when they were put in, either; that was when I lived there.

@debrajessen7975

5 жыл бұрын

Leslie Kendall I can remember being a kid in the 60s in London England, where almost everyone had coal fires. We could hardly breath when the weather was bad. Also the air was green in the area I lived in. Now I live in Denmark where many people have got wood burning fires, the air doesn’t seem so dirty. But of course London is over populated.

@lesliekendall5668

5 жыл бұрын

@@debrajessen7975 Are the skies in Denmark overcast less often than London? That's always a factor, too. There are some cities in the US where you're not allowed to burn wood if it's overcast.

There's better/more accurate information in the comments than in the video...

@wuffothewonderdog

5 жыл бұрын

And there isn't that awful voice droning away down here.

@funnyanimalshorts643

5 жыл бұрын

@@wuffothewonderdog Just my screaming tinnitus.

@mikemaccoy

5 жыл бұрын

Why is this guy narrating so many videos? AAAAANnd he is the worst voice on KZread.

@anitarussum4590

5 жыл бұрын

mikemaccoy .....I agree. He is the worst narrator.

@suzannereilman4516

4 жыл бұрын

...no doubt!!

19th century? Much of this was commonplace during my childhood in the 1950s and 1960s. I did not have central heating until I was 58 (2012). I can remember as a child doing my homework with a blanket, cloak-like, over my shoulders. My mum was constantly knitting, making mittens, scarves, hats and sweaters, which sometimes were worn in bed. Those were the times when you woke up with ice on the inside of your windows. Still, the coal fires gave my dad a second source of income as a part time chimney sweep. The good old days! NOT!

@onusgumboot5565

5 жыл бұрын

People today don't understand how much easier they have it compared to just a short time ago, in historical terms. We spent the winter sitting on the radiator reading books. There was no way that system was going to warm the house up much on sub zero days. And we didn't have television until I was eight, and then it was black and white, and someone had to stand to one side holding the rabbit ears to get the channel to come in. Not really the good old days, but I learned a lot from those books. At least we had indoor plumbing by then, my parents didn't even have that when they were children.

@lovemesomeslippers

5 жыл бұрын

Where are you from? How bad were winter temps?

@geoffpriestley7001

5 жыл бұрын

Coats on the bed unable to open the curtains when they stuck to the windows

@onusgumboot5565

5 жыл бұрын

@@lovemesomeslippers winter in Missouri gets to 15 below and lower. the old hot water radiator system had a coil of pipe that went down into the furnace where the water heated up and since heat rises the only thing circulating the water was that natural rise of hot water and drop of cold. By the time it got to the second floor it was warm at best, No pumps were involved. The house was built in the late 1800's so there was no insulation. we hung sheet and blankets on the doorways to keep down the draft. It was worse in Minnesota where the temp got to 40 below and sometimes lower

@onusgumboot5565

5 жыл бұрын

@kragseven when the house I grew up in was new it was in an upper class neighborhood. I'm sure if there was a better heating system available it would have been installed. None of my friends on the block had any better. By the time I was growing up there, it was a working class area, there may have been better systems available, but it would have been a huge expense and a major remodel to get it done. My parents didn't have that kind of money. As for myself, at six years old you don't have much in the way of a choice in matters like that. As a final note your statement was a lot like telling a homeless person it was their choice to live outdoors. Sometimes even if something is available you still don't have the choice to get it. I don't drive a 15 year old van out of choice, It's what I can afford

I still have four fireplaces in my little Cottage and a Stanley range which I heat up with turf. The range heats the water for my house as well.

@huub1989

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds idyllic! I miss the smell of turf.

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

Wow

@markc1234golf

5 жыл бұрын

I live in Connacht and we just replaced our old turf stove with a big Rayburn range.... best decision we ever made. Heats radiators, hot water galore and you can cook a whole sunday dinner on it - roast beef and yorkshire pudding....yum

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

@@markc1234golf Aren't they like AGA stoves, burn continuously? If so, it seems that they must radiate a good deal of heat all the time. How do you handle that in warmer months? Have other cooking and water heating arrangements? Don't the high cost of the range and the need for continuous fuel mitigate the value?

@lincolnpaul1814

5 жыл бұрын

Holger H and yet you have computer, cellphones and television. Priorities priorities

I am a senior citizen, my grandmother placed potatoes in the oven before the children went to school in the winter. When the kids left to walk to school, a hot baked potato would be placed in each pocket to keep the hands warm. The potato was later consumed with lunch. Of course, Connecticut Yankee's have always been quite clever and industrious. Stay warm.

In Victorian Wales, there was a tradition called 'Bundling' - a courting couple could spend time in bed together to keep warm while courting.... supposedly with something between them- bedclothes, a pillow or even a wooden board. However, the practice did lead to the obvious consequence and a baby conceived while bundling was considered a happy omen and would be considered as fully legitimate offspring of the couple when they eventually married

@imthebossofme63

5 жыл бұрын

cosine8arctan my understanding is that the Amish still practice this today for their betrothed.

@ccg8658

5 жыл бұрын

About 30 years ago I read a book by an early Victorian(*) describing the rural customs in the West Country which were beginning to disappear at that time and a similar practice was still common usage between courting couples, not only that but a marriage would only be arranged once they'd conceived and if after 12/18 months of courting they'd not conceived then the courtship would be stopped by the families and both parties were expected to find new partners. (* Possibly Thomas Hardy???)

@inkyguy

5 жыл бұрын

Miss Jenny's Cleaning, no the whole Amish bundling thing is largely a myth.

@GreencampRhodie

5 жыл бұрын

Is that where the term "offspring" comes from then?

@grandmalovesmebest

5 жыл бұрын

RhodieFreedomCamp Good one! Also in Grace & Favor Mr. Humphries bundled with the farmer's daughter.🙃

We had no central heating till 1985 , remember ice on the inside bathroom windows when wer little kids , use to share a bath with my sister early 70's , mam brought us 3 kids up on her own , R.I.P , Mam.xxx.

We lived in just the livingroom in the cold month's and just had a wood stove when my kids were little, you do what you have to, to get by with what you have.

Pretty soon most will have to do these things again

@mikeparker5008

5 жыл бұрын

Or, most simply won't be here anymore...

@debrafrakes6479

5 жыл бұрын

Dooooooooomsdat bs,

@LB-pg3no

5 жыл бұрын

If the liberals get socialism/communism everyone will be resorting to these lifestyles again!!!

@canislatrans8285

5 жыл бұрын

I have a lot of fur and I know how to sew it. I also have traps and know how to use them. And to process the furs and tan them. Peta retards can go freeze to death lol.

@jaclynrichmond1049

5 жыл бұрын

@@LB-pg3no who would want socialism that did nothing for the masses? Isn't the whole point of socialism ( at least the old fashion concrete definition ) a bigger government so programs run to uphold the people?

This is interesting. Thank you for putting up this video. :)

Some ppl still can't afford heat

@shaunlenton8865

5 жыл бұрын

tracy 511 that's my choice, it's either heating or eating. Never both........

@tracy-dg3qq

5 жыл бұрын

@@shaunlenton8865 its disgusting ppl still living like this in this day and age x

@shaunlenton8865

5 жыл бұрын

tracy 511 I'm actually in bed at the moment as it's the warmest place.

@tracy-dg3qq

5 жыл бұрын

@@shaunlenton8865 sounds like me my house gets cold

@shaunlenton8865

5 жыл бұрын

tracy 511 it's got nothing to do with that, I just can't afford to put the heating on. I get paid at the weekend and my electricity meter has around £2 left on it AND that has to last the next 60+ hours.

30 tons of coal per fire place per day? Yeah bull.

@rebeccasmith8567

5 жыл бұрын

They must be heating a small town. My dad worked in scoal mines & we heated with coal. During winter, people became acclimated to the cold, at least 2 people to a bed & dressed warmly.

@lesliekhanna5488

5 жыл бұрын

Rebecca Hall no, they said the whole manor house used it . There were many coal fireplaces throughout.

@mikeparker5008

5 жыл бұрын

@@lesliekhanna5488 Still no 30 TONS per day. Maybe 3 tons per year.

@lesliekhanna5488

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Parker yeah. It may be a typo. I’d need to see how bloody big this home was😂

I'd love to have a cooking stove like the one you showed, in the #2 clip. Beautiful stove. Lol

I remember as a kid growing up in the Netherlands till I was 11 we had a gas stove in the kitchen and in the living room and the rest of the house was cold. There were lots of times that we woke up with frost on her blankets.

I WAS BROUGHT UP IN A HOUSE IN VIRGINIA,THAT WAS BUILT-IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA WE HAD A FIRE PLACE IN ALL OF THE ROOMS, WE STAYED WARM AND HAPPY🙌

Hell I remember my grandma keep the oven on when I was little and that was the 80's and also to dry socks and underwear

Love these old photos. I've always been able to draw in a fine art way but have stumped for things to draw all my life until the Internet. I trace off the TV screen, for speed and fill in the shading after

Great video; it was really interesting. Thanks for the thinker.

My little cottage here in Ireland was built in 1912 apart from the roof being insulated I have two open fireplaces I use wood and coal for heat 🍀😁

I'm not gonna say anything about putting my hand in my gf's muff to keep it warm. When we first got our farm in the 1970's, for the first few years, we burned wood, (for heat, cooking, etc.) We had a big "Home Comfort" woodburning cookstove in the kitchen. When it was fired up, it kept the kitchen warm, but the firebox was so small, that all the wood would burn up after a few hours, and someone (usually me) would have to get up and re- build the fire in the morning. The Amish still cook and heat with wood, and it's still possible to buy "modern" woodburning cookstoves, they are still being manufactured. I was in an Amish farmhouse a few months ago, and they had one.

@connerswish3026

5 жыл бұрын

The first stove was manufactured in St.Louis and if it wasn't for the railroad it wouldn't of gotten out of state because they're too heavy

@andyginterblues2961

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, we had two of those stoves. And they are heavy af. For awhile, we had an antique business. Our farm was full of old stuff, mom liked it better than the cheap stuff that you buy today, We lived for a time without a lot of modern conveniences, I mean, we had electricity, a phone, television, and motor vehicles, but a lot of stuff on our farm was done by hand, milking the goats, shearing the sheep, making the maple syrup, etc. Mom was into teaching people the old ways of doing things. She said that the old ways were better, people were healthier and lived longer if they did everything by hand.

@andyginterblues2961

5 жыл бұрын

Oh- and we split the firewood by hand, too. How could I forget that?

@maxnoerenberg6370

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that joke from the TV show #That70sShow were Red and Eric made fun of the Muffler Store that got vandalized and defaced with alot of Muff's on it.....and Kitty didnt really get it ha ha......a Muff and a Muff two different things, but both keep your hands warm ha ha

@knbgrace

5 жыл бұрын

I remember having only wood heat , nan would bank the stove similar to your wood stove to keep the coals for morning , we also had a grate in the ceiling above the stove that allowed heat to flow upstairs n the old spare bedroom had the chimney so it was the warmest bedroom in the house.

You had me at 'muff'. Muff dive that is. Lol

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania. Several years after my mom died, her brother was appointed my guardian. Grandma had died shortly before that, but they lived in a home for many years with no running water, no flush toilet and no central heat and air. So, I spent my teenage years in that same home. We used a coal stove for heat, and it burned wood too. It was in the living room. The ceiling would always have a tint of black soot. We had an electric heater and kerosene heater too. Finally had running water and a real bathroom (and toilet) put in my junior year of high school because I griped about it a lot lol. So, yeah I've been there, so to speak!

Thomas Edison was not behind General Electric as inventor. That was Nicola Tesla. Edison was a competitor and owner of Edison Electric.

@boondoggled1

5 жыл бұрын

Karl Schueler Edison was Westinghouse

@6421rich

5 жыл бұрын

No George Westinghouse was Tesla, Edison was a jealous miserable thief that hated Tesla, he electrocuted many animal and people trying to show how dangerous Tesla's A.C. current was, it backfired

@6421rich

5 жыл бұрын

By the way Edison didn't invent the light bulb he improved and pruduced it, the one we use today is Teslas

@82luft49

5 жыл бұрын

Nicola Tesla was beyond brilliant, and way ahead of his time. He predicted the mobile phone that would be able reach distances a round the world, and fit into a shirt pocket. The year? 1926!

@82luft49

5 жыл бұрын

@@6421rich And AC current instead of Edison's DC current.

30 tons of coal per day,compleat bollocks even a cruse liner wouldn't use this much.

@catreader9733

5 жыл бұрын

The RMS Titanic used over 800 tons of coal per day.

@jeredhersh789

5 жыл бұрын

Mauritania burned upwards of 1,000 tons a day to make her 4 day runs across the Atlantic.

@David-mo5jw

5 жыл бұрын

Yea you got me on the cruise liner quip ,but no not a household.Coal used to be called black diamonds as it was not cheap.30 tons a day would require your own coal mine ,so still nonsense@@jeredhersh789

@willythewave

5 жыл бұрын

@@catreader9733 Yeah but it only done that once.

@catreader9733

5 жыл бұрын

@@willythewave True, as RMS Titanic made less than one full passenger run. There had been, of course, trial runs to test steering and handling. Because there was a coal strike, coal had been transferred from other ships to Titanic, so that the new ship would have enough to make that voyage. Some of passengers (and crew, I think) had transferred to Titanic because the ships they would have boarded did not have coal.

As a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s I can remember my Great Uncle's hardware store was heated by a single old-fashioned pot belly stove. We received regular coal deliveries in a shed behind the store's loading dock. As a kid my job was to get scoops of it to put in the stove as needed. When my Dad took over the business he installed a central heating system and we all cheered. That was around 1970.

Northern michigan.unforgivin cold burrning wood and paper to keep warm. Loved every minute.

We have a wood stove in our house and sometimes it gets so wicked hot we have to crack open a window

@wholeNwon

4 жыл бұрын

Adjust the air flow to reduce burning rate.

In my house: we stay in one or two rooms now, close the doors to rooms we're not in, wear socks and bathrobes. Gotta watch my heating bill.

@ironmaven1760

5 жыл бұрын

Me too..I live in a drafty older house lol we put those rolled up towels at the bottom of the front and back door for drafts .....

@cannibalbananas

5 жыл бұрын

@@ironmaven1760 I was doing that too, but got some draft stoppers for xmas, so I use those now. Every little thing helps, right?

@Slick420Pgh

3 жыл бұрын

NO YOU DONT

@cannibalbananas

3 жыл бұрын

@@Slick420Pgh Do you live in my house? No? Then how can you say I don't do this? I absolutely do. I even keep draft blockers along the bottom of my doors.

@Slick420Pgh

3 жыл бұрын

I was joking obviously I dont know you

I recall many houses that had both a door into the parlor or front living area, as well as another door that led more directly into the kitchen area, for winter use. I am not referring to a back or side door. In one house in particular, I recall that the second door opened onto a narrow hallway that led back to the kitchen, bypassing the front rooms. Of course, this second entrance was also used by friends and family, to bypass the formal rooms even in the warmer weather.

Up in the north of England when I was little in the 60’s there was no central heating. The loos were outside and there was a coal fire in the small living room. At bedtime my mum would sleep curled around me till I fell asleep to keep me warm.

I can remember my late father (who was born in 1916) telling about gas heaters built into the wall or fireplace, You had to drop coins in a slot to get heat for a certain amount of hours. This was near Boston circa 1925.

@gryl7471

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! I've never heard of anything like that! Wild! Thanks. That made my night.

@inkey2

4 жыл бұрын

@@gryl7471 I would guess that the Gas company would send employees around to empty the coin boxes on scheduled monthly dates......kind of like the way the phone company would send employees to empty the coin boxes in Phone booths

@gryl7471

4 жыл бұрын

@@inkey2 Neat! Thanks, again.

They would not leave the hot bottle full of water or hot coals in the bed, but the maid would 'iron' the sheets prior to the house holder getting into bed. And the maid would go from room to room with the hot pan, warming up the other beds too.

@veravaladez1525

5 жыл бұрын

Who’s maid was she yours !!

Wonderful & amazing images! Thank you :) Girl at the end in front of electric heater looks like the girl on the old Morton Salt container :)

Up north , I always slept with my socks on in the winter and with covers over my head even with the heat on .

We should have gratitude that our basic needs are met and we have a good standard of living in America. Thank you God!!

You were lucky if you had coal - Wood burns at 500 degrees and coal at 1,500 degrees..

@margepaz

5 жыл бұрын

R Toguidver interesting

Excellent video put together real well no stupid loud music

I grew up in the 60's in Michigan and we heated with a General wood stove in the living room and a Victor Jr. wood cook stove in the kitchen. My Mother made some awesome meals on that ol Victor Jr. !

A child made this vid. We had charcoal fueled hand warmers in the 1970's & '80's when we played golf. Completely safe to use.

@atlasshrugged7475

5 жыл бұрын

wow, that is interesting. Is that called snowshoe golf, ha,ha.

@patrickeh696

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO! Gel packs were primitive, only lasting about an hour. Charcoal warmers lasted 12 hours. There are still many brands available. Because they work MUCH better than what you used back then.

@patrickeh696

5 жыл бұрын

It's called golfing in winter if you don't live in the sun belt.

@Underledge

5 жыл бұрын

In the 50's I recall hand warmers that burnt alcohol.

@greyarea1764

5 жыл бұрын

I had one that used lighter fluid like a Zippo.

I visited the old jail in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. Prisoners froze to death on a regular basis there. They would be jammed next to the door or the wall next to the laundry to stay alive. I didn't regard this as a cultural tour but as an object lesson in how cruel people are to one another. Very disturbing.

@terriatca1

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing with the jail in Ottawa and Citadel Hill in Halifax.

I have a fur muff that my great grandma brought with her from Munich to the US in the 1930’s. But she was born about 1905, so this is much later, but was still used in her time. :)

@gary1961

5 жыл бұрын

It's nice to hear you talk about your muff, Chelsea.

Fascinating! My parents used to take me there on my Dad's vacation times Around 1962.

Three dog night

@connerswish3026

5 жыл бұрын

Pavlovs Dog

@maternst1

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!!! I have four!

@bigniper

5 жыл бұрын

rowmin goat Mama told me not to come.

@MadameRaven1

5 жыл бұрын

@@bigniper Just an old fashion love song playing on the radio....

@rhondamiles9922

5 жыл бұрын

3 Boston Terriers, they can't wait to get under the covers...spoiled pups!!!

We didn't have central heating until the 80s.

@smartieplum

5 жыл бұрын

@Maxwell Smart 🤣

@jaceek2030

5 жыл бұрын

Grew up in a house with a floor furnace used in Winter and a swamp cooler in the window in the Summer. Same deal when I was 1st married. In late 1990's hubby and I bought a house with central heat/air. And more than 1 bathroom. A-la George Jefferson, we were "movin' on up!". LOL

@maxnoerenberg6370

5 жыл бұрын

I remember it too......in my childhood we had a huge tiled stove in the middle of the living room, that generated heat by burning wood ( but we also could keep our dinners warm in the special compartment. Plus we had outdoor toilets ( not really outdoors but outside our apartment in the public stairwell. At nightime we used potties to relief ourself so we dont had to go outside in the chilly stairwell! And those were in the end of the 1970s and 80 in Berlin Germany! ( West Berlin )

@joannelube4336

5 жыл бұрын

i still dont have central heating

@patriciarider5698

5 жыл бұрын

Joanne Lube me neither!

I can say that back In the 70s the electric blanket rocked!

I read a book and learned about copper chestnut roasting pans with a wood handle on one side, which had perforated lids or tops. They would be used to heat beds.