I remember a sweet little old man who was a member of the church my family went to. Everyone just thought he was the nicest, most gentle soul. But finally one day he dumbfounded everyone when he let it slip that in his young days he was Al Capone's driver. Still makes me laugh to think that we may be surprised to discover what the old folks got up to before they got respect for being old.

@honeybunch5765

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah a lot of stories between those wrinkles.

@puzzledobserver7644

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, to be a simpleton.

@zzydny

2 жыл бұрын

@@honeybunch5765 That's when I learned to take the time to listen to the stories of old folks.

@Kerosene.Dreams

2 жыл бұрын

@@zzydny I very much enjoy elders in general. Elders are the best story tellers, in between naps, and I get less judgment from them than your average person.

@scottym6680

2 жыл бұрын

So that would mean you’re grandfather was Tony Acarrdo?

I had two friends, they were sisters. Born in 1906 and 1908, they told me 100s of stories about the 20s. The bars were bring your own moonshine which they made on an island on their property. The pigs got into the mash more than once. Their dad was a deputy sheriff so he knew when the raids were coming and he'd warn the neighbors. Those stories are so much better than life today. Everyone in the bar, called "Waterworks", would go skinny dipping in the lake next to the bar after sundown.

@eddiesroom1868

2 жыл бұрын

I made moonshine once

@rasputanrasputan1380

2 жыл бұрын

My pop had great stories about prohibition

@poisondrationality

2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if they have stories about black friends lol

@poisondrationality

2 жыл бұрын

Life wasnt better back then for us...

@hehoosmeltitdeltit

2 жыл бұрын

And you're writing all these down for others to read where? (If you aren't, you should!)

I barely remember when I was a kid when the first tvs came out. People went crazy over it. We were scared to watch it but we couldn't help it, we couldn't keep our eyes off it. People use to think it was evil because people would be afraid to watch it and would get cold chills/goosebumps when watching it lol. We were so innocent back then.

@malaquiasalfaro81

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Where was this?

@FreezyPop

Жыл бұрын

How old are you

@Isaiah-ft5nx

Жыл бұрын

They were probably right. What else brainwashes people and holds their attention as easily as electronic screens?

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

At least you couldn't carry the TV around with you everywhere staring at it like a zombie and never interacting with others. I wonder what I could be referring to there.

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

No response to any reply in a year? You a bot? It is evil. Tell-a-vision isn't inherently evil, but the people putting the images, words and sounds on the corporate media are.

Wow crazy to think they actually had the balls to ban alcohol. I want to see how that would pan out today

@beaudavis3808

2 жыл бұрын

Massive protest and riots, anyone?

@layna-heyhey

2 жыл бұрын

resorting to poisoning drinks to stop people from drinking, but instead it just killed them

@HZ-qc2qu

2 жыл бұрын

Today we just ban freedom 😔

@cesarmoreta1866

2 жыл бұрын

Pure pandemonium.

@MrVuckFiacom

2 жыл бұрын

War on Drugs sadly exists still.

I remember thinking how weird it was to learn my grandmother was a flapper. When I got older and remembered her I thought, "Yep, I can see that."

@jennyrose9454

2 жыл бұрын

Did she wear Shalimar or Tabu? Those were both THE flapper perfumes back in the day

@AnnNunnally

2 жыл бұрын

My grandma bragged about being one. She also said she was the first of her friends to wear bloomers ( pants).

@someguy9778

2 жыл бұрын

Shalimar smells horrid.

@rosemaryedwards7239

Жыл бұрын

My friend told me his grandmother remembered binding her chest so she was flat which was desired for young flappers!

@rosemaryedwards7239

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnNunnally Bloomers! Scandalous! Lol!

I have always been fascinated by the 1920's, especially now that it's 100 years in the past. However, as a black person, my life would have been quite different than what was mentioned in this video. If I were a young adult in this era obviously, I would be dead by now, but also, I probably would have had an okay life, depending on where I lived. I'm from San Francisco, so things might have been easier for me if I grew up in this region atthe time. I love jazz music and definitely would have frequented jazz bars at that time.

@jimboramba

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you didn't live in the south in the 20s you'd probably be ok

@Sensoredcensored

2 жыл бұрын

As a black person, I’m grateful that I wasn’t born in the past. Even in the 60s blacks were fighting for equality. I can’t imagine how unequal the country was in the 20s.

@Monaedeezy

2 жыл бұрын

Even though African Americans had extreme hardships in those times, the music scene was phenomenal. Our communities were more in tact and lively. Though the camera wasn’t always on us outside of entertainment, I believe it had to have been lit when it came time for us to enjoy ourselves.

@Gokusaiyan.

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monaedeezy dude the upper class black folks hated jazz music they didn't wanted there children to be part of it life wasn't diffrent people hated and fought Just like today stop romanticising things Our music was phenomenal yeah every generation said that shit my grandparent said it my own parents said it and I said it even 100 year's future people will be saying same thing that our era was best and we had best music.

@coolscience622

2 жыл бұрын

It's kind of sad how people with African ancestry couldn't hold on to their African roots, heritage & culture. Only saying this since I have seen other south asians who were brought to the Americas as slaves, held on to their ancestral culture from India and so on, such as the Guyanese people. That's what keeps their communities strong, stable and they are successful.

The Eisenhower Interstate System didn't pass until 1956 when the dude was president. Whats being referenced in the video was the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, which Eisenhower had nothing to do with. Felt this needed to be pointed out since the video shows a picture of Ike and that really confused my historical timeline. Otherwise fantastic video as always

@SusanInSFL

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of inaccuracies in these videos.

@synamintjones502

2 жыл бұрын

Funny that you noticed this too. My husband also stopped the video and said " that Ike reference is wrong" Ike was president in the 50s.

@marqetteliz

Жыл бұрын

I just finished looking that up as I didn't think it was right.

@XanderDDS

Жыл бұрын

was looking for this.

@grobble7321

Жыл бұрын

Eisenberg

Our 20s this century has sucked balls so far.

@kenyattaclay7666

2 жыл бұрын

People said the same thing 100 years ago. Things might look slightly different but they really aren't that different at all.

@Justin-xd7zj

2 жыл бұрын

Crypto got me always living in the roaring 20s

@Saeiyu

2 жыл бұрын

At least we have alcohol.

@NoName-hg6cc

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the 10s didn't suck as 100 years before though. And hopefully nor will our 40s

@olindetroit7636

2 жыл бұрын

We still have 8 more years before calling it Suck.🤣

Flappers then, TikTokers now…the 20’s girls always come up with dances that make everybody mad 😂😎

@alzychoze6591

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@KowboyUSA

2 жыл бұрын

The 1920s had flappers. The 2020s has mud-flappers.

@breakingames7772

2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if I'd find smooth skin or a hair jungle when you took a girl's clothes off back then?

@numerum_bestia

2 жыл бұрын

@@breakingames7772 Would you give yourself a Brazilian with a straight-razor?

@cassiuscrassus3887

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the difference is then it was oppressed women making a statement Now it's entitled women wanting attention

My parents lived the 1920s, so I heard a lot first hand about it. For that matter, my grandparents and more than a few old timers I knew lived the Old West, so I heard a lot of first hand accounts of life that was basically prehistoric to the '20s.

@LeastTresCharLargo

2 жыл бұрын

Not gonna share one?

@sunnymane

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!

@ariahann4114

Жыл бұрын

Please share!

@lexitnute1306

Жыл бұрын

How old are you???!?!?!?

@mimireuser5383

Жыл бұрын

@@lexitnute1306 oh my god I was gonna ask the same 😂

Born 100 years too late to enjoy the roaring twenties, born just in time to live through the boring twenties

@damnmuggle

2 жыл бұрын

It’s barely 2021 lol

@sandyclaws5247

2 жыл бұрын

@@damnmuggle so far the first 2 have been 💩

@robertmasina4610

2 жыл бұрын

Whether this twenties is boring, you still have eight years to go to determine that when this decade is over.

@someguy9778

2 жыл бұрын

Where you had a chance to possibly buy a house and a ton of land.

@Taragoola

2 жыл бұрын

Man we had a pandemic and Russia is starting WW3. Not remotely boring.

This was so interesting!!! Now can y’all please PLEASE do a video on the Harlem Renaissance??!!

@asprywrites6327

2 жыл бұрын

If you're interested, Crash Course is either doing a short series OR are doing it now.

@zacharyrome3432

2 жыл бұрын

YASSSSS !!!

@lexistrying157

2 жыл бұрын

PLEASE

@josva9124

2 жыл бұрын

BORING

@LB-tm1oj

2 жыл бұрын

@@josva9124 good thing you don’t have to watch

I love this channel, I learn a bit and alwayyys laugh because the writing and the jokes are so clever! Lol, I couldn't imagine them trying to ban alcohol today? 😯 People freaked out when they wanted to ban 20oz soda cups!!! I have always enjoyed listening to family that are older and my parents stories about what it was like when they were growing up. I find it so fascinating to hear people's stories and like to hear about their/your lives. I've been this way since I was a child and enthralled with my grandparents tales and true narratives. I guess that's why I like volunteering so much because some people don't have anyone and I just love to sit and talk with them, hearing all about their life. It's truly delightful for me!!! Happy Holidays Everyone!! ❤

@Kerosene.Dreams

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Holidays to you too!

@gram.

2 жыл бұрын

Haaapnin ya wee belter

@annarushlau9722

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I LOVE hearing people’s stories! Happy Holidays love! ❤️❤️

@botticellichick6393

2 жыл бұрын

@@annarushlau9722 Thank you Anna and I hope you had and have happy holidays to you and yours 🤗

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

The US government has always been an experiment, nothing more. At least they admitted they failed and reversed the ban on alcohol. They're not brave enough to experiment more with regulations for drugs or guns.

I always found 1920 culture and history interesting and always found something new in it. I recently finished Ken burns prohibition which was really well done 👍

@chromicapop4595

Жыл бұрын

Ken Burns is always great

Love you guys! I would LOVE to know more about Alaska's history, especially the colonist sent to AK during the Great Depression. It's a very interesting topic.

I thank you Weird History for bringing my idea to light 😊 your effort with comments which help spread your channel awareness is always the gratitude.

Alcohol prohibition lasted only 13 years with the results we all know. Drug prohibition has been in effect for a little over 100 years. The results are uncontrolled international drug cartels and gang wars and an absurdly high prison population. With all this experience, it should seem obvious that any politicians and law enforcement must be getting heavy kickbacks to want to keep up such a failed policy.

@alanareebee

2 жыл бұрын

Right. When people are told they’re not allowed to do something they do shady things to get around the rules. For the most part anyway... I just love arguments on stricter laws or banning such items will “fix” problems of those with poor judgement bc it doesn’t those desperate people do desperate things.

@copperfish543

2 жыл бұрын

True told to get a vaccine that makes you sick for 2 days, that hasn’t been tested, forced to wear masks in certain places, and listening to an old fool, yes I agree

@nedludd7622

2 жыл бұрын

@@copperfish543 Listening to a young dumb is no pleasure. They have been tested and masks work. Few people have a bad reaction, but one or two days is no big deal. You may have had hangovers that lasted longer than that. But Covidiots do not understand anything.

@JudgeJulieLit

2 жыл бұрын

​@@copperfish543 To be "forced to wear masks in certain places" (in public enclosed spaces, where one's exhalations are inhaled by others) is better than to be surprised at having to get COVID and "wear" a ventilator and then perhaps coffin. Personal freedom has always had to balance, negotiate with the rights of others, as to public safety during a pandemic that has taken many lives, as of those who refused prudently to social distance and/or wear masks. If you ever needed Operating Room surgery to save your life, would you want your surgeon and his assistants to be "free" to not wear masks, to prevent their breathing and in season, sneezing and/or coughing into your vital organs and so giving you a life threatening infection? The value of freedom need include rational boundaries; these protect your rights, such as not to be infected by others' serious contagious diseases, as well as others' rights to same.

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

That's why they're perpetually milking this border crisis politically. As if a controlled Mexican border is going to stop people from getting drugs. Utterly delusional and people buy it.

I remember that in one of the Assassin's Creed games you could look through a computer and see concept art for an experience called "Jazz Age Junkies". It was a AC game set in Chicago during the 20's. After watching this I could totally see it. Flagpole sitting sync points, boxing mini-game, raiding rival gangs booze warehouses, newspaper and film reel collectibles.

Wow. You missed the sweet and simple things like going on picnics, boat rides, strolls, gazing at the moon, necking, telling stories, singing, scavenger hunts, bobbing for apples, playing, horseshoes, going horseback riding, skiing, church socials… and really so much more

@Rebecca.xoxoxo

Жыл бұрын

It’s so sad, newer generations get close to none of that, just technology and the internet 😔

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

People back then clearly appreciated life a lot more. Bars were a lot more fun even though alcohol was illegal. Sitting on a flagpole beats sitting on the phone!

@ConnieHeartsValentino

5 ай бұрын

Agreed! As other channels have mentioned, about 40% of Americans lived in poverty, but I'm sure some of them found ways to get by and still try to enjoy a simple life.

I am awarding this channel with Most Unique History Channel of 2021. It is an unofficial award, and not likely to impress everyone you know. I do search and find the most valuable KZread channels and found this one to be worthy of the title. Thank you for the great videos.

Women's hairstyles and makeup were so incredibly attractive during that time period.

@jozihorror

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@kimmorris9664

2 ай бұрын

Mhm

Random but I’d love a video about how Hollywood got to be Hollywood. If that makes sense how did that areas become popular compared to another areas

@jr2904

2 жыл бұрын

I think production moved west because of people like Edison and the various powers at the time that existed in NY and New Jersey charging too much and wanting to control everything. They got tired of it and ditched that area for sunny southern California. A video on it would be cool

@JudgeJulieLit

2 жыл бұрын

@@jr2904 Yes, and the yearround sunny, mild climate and access to terrain to film more realistic Westerns were key factors.

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

​@@cheebatheroadztothewickedg6941that would make the great depression seem like nothing due to the economic damage it would inflict on the nation, you better hope you never see that

Never been this early since the 20's. Thanks for the video, WeirdHistory!

0:26 Did you know that story behind the woman in that photo goes that she wasnt necessarily "poor and hungry" as it has come to be known. Her picture is used to represent the face of poverty as the stock market fell, however, she confirmed in later life that it was a hot day and she was traveling with her husband and children when their car broke down. Her and the children then sat under a shade while waiting for the car to be repaired that's why she looks kinda miserable.

@bronwynj5194

Жыл бұрын

Yet the photo is always used when talking about the depression! There's a book of pictures of people during this time taken by a woman photographer. They are much more interesting and represent real situations

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

​@@bronwynj5194I'm pretty depressed regularly, they could use a picture of me

I find it funny that learning about the regular stuff (entertainment, food, fashion, etc) from other eras of history can be far more interesting than the important events that happened during that era lol.

Great stuff. It still surprises me how much I love history and learning from this channel. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!🦃🍁 🦋

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

Skepticism is needed. KZread has their own mainstream media.

Love the flapper look! Wish we could try that style again! 😍

@areyoujelton

2 жыл бұрын

Do it.

@areyoujelton

2 жыл бұрын

We are in the 20s. It’s appropriate.

@AceOfHearts777

2 жыл бұрын

Who says you can't!

@Shortbus122

2 жыл бұрын

Put on that flapper and flap out

@archangel5627

2 жыл бұрын

Who’s stopping you from trying that look and style!?

My father, who lived on the Canadian border in Niagara Falls, N.Y., played in a band during prohibition. (The Moonlight Serenaders). He also played in the pit orchestra at Buffalo's Palace Burlesque. He regaled me with many stories about his experiences bringing liquor over the Canadian border. Following a gig in Canada they would fill fake gas tanks full of whiskey and bring it back with them. Some of the border guards also would be on the "take." When they played speak-easys they would get paid for the music AND would sell the establishment good booze they brought from Canada. They made out quite well for themselves. Dad played the clarinet, sax and piano and sometimes was the "crooner." The rot-gut whiskey sold in speaks was terrible and the old sweet ginger ale they would use as a mix made the drinks taste worse. Hence, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, a much improved mixer for bad booze.

@rayfridley6649

10 ай бұрын

Anyone during Prohibition who lived next to the Canadian border could easily cross it for good booze. I imagine the same thing was true in the southwestern U.S. where anyone could cross the Mexican border for the same reason.

Would loved to have partied in the twenties! 💃

@Chabon209

2 жыл бұрын

You’re living in the 20s now give it a shot

@beaudavis3808

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chabon209 I am pretty sure that he meant the 1920's, not the 2020's, but you are right about us living in the 20's.

@astewart1003

2 жыл бұрын

Dancing sober and sitting on poles ain't my thing.

@TheConorsmithusa

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chabon209 you ain't wrong there my friend! 😆😉

@TheConorsmithusa

2 жыл бұрын

@@beaudavis3808 r/woosh

The most shocking thing in this video is the photo of 4 people standing in a pool playing a board game that is on a floatie at 10:34. Never in my life have I ever heard of such a thing or thought it could be done. The 20’s were something else

@yOGlo

8 ай бұрын

Lol fr tho

The 1920s was a different time. Parties, fun, games, radio, sports, etc. Not to mention the Great Gatsby.

@samanthad4314

2 жыл бұрын

If I could go back in time just for a little, I’d love to go back and party in that period

@PennyMsElite

2 жыл бұрын

No one worked?

@detriotman

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanthad4314 Same here.

@DPSFSU

2 жыл бұрын

"what time period would you like to visit?" "I'd love to visit the time of the Great Depression!" ....🤦‍♂️

@samanthad4314

2 жыл бұрын

@@DPSFSU actually yes. It would be beneficial for a lot of people in this generation because they don’t appreciate what they currently have.

Gawd, I remember back in highschool (97-00) on the weekend we'd all "hit the loop" and we'd drive from one end of town to the other, we'd turn around in bp parking lot on one end and the shop n save/ McDonald's parking lot at the other, and we'd honk at everyone we knew and after about an hour we'd all meet up in shop n save/ McDonald's parking lot (it's one of those little strip malls, the old Walmart use to be there, lol) nowadays kids just text a spot, if they even go out. When I moved to a bigger town we'd all meet at the cottonwood mall roller rink. Man, I feel old, it's odd I have two adult children and two grandchildren already and I'm barely 39

@eddiesroom1868

2 жыл бұрын

Well there's not much to do in small towns

@Ilovevintage77

2 жыл бұрын

The mall was everything to me and my girlfriends in the 80s and 90s it was so fun to be away from our parents and discover who we were through fashion enjoy delicious food at the food court people watch scope out cute guys and have some freedom sit by the fountain throw pennies exchange them for wishes and feel super cool!!! Even though I feel old and don’t really visit a mall because I don’t like crowds anymore LOL and do all my shopping online then nostalgia m of meeting up with friends at the mall will live forever in my heart ☀️💖☀️💖 And 1000% going to the roller rink the arcade and the movies all extremely fun thank you for jogging that memory!!

@Shortbus122

2 жыл бұрын

Your old 😂

@kalyguti24

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me, small town kids still do things extremely similar to this. I live in a small Texas town and all through high school (even now sometimes) all we could really do was meet under bridges or in parking lots and drive around our own loop.

@eddiesroom1868

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shortbus122 panda Express was everything in JR High, I know I'm old.

So car and driving culture, American sports culture, cinema and theatre culture, keeping up with current events, dance trends, marathons, and jazz music are all officially 100 years old! How cool! Also, Black people have basically been creating and influencing American youth culture for well over a century. Nothing has changed. ✊🏽

@victoriamayo5774

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@liberalbias4462

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be possible without white instruments. ✊🏻

@thunderbird1921

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the culture influence club! Those of us Americans with German ancestry gave the rest of you everything from the Conestoga wagon to the Easter bunny. And yet no one remembers our ancestors today. So much of what America is today was created by ethnic Africans or ethnic Germans, NOT Anglo-Saxons.

@alive2583

Жыл бұрын

We have a gruesome history in fact it is the origin of the Illuminati

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

No! I am a Liberal male who doesn't even know what a male is, yet I will defend these ideologies to the death because dopamine is more important that eternity.@@liberalbias4462

Well, let's be real here. 3:43 the black gentleman is Highway Administrator Rodney Slater and that pic was taken in 1993. Sadly, black people didn't get to have most of this kind of fun in the 20's, nor were we able to run govt. highways.

My parents were born in 1916 and 1918, and watching this makes me think of their parents' youth. Times change but people don't. Thanks for posting this journey to the past. Well done!

This channel is awesome! Loved the jazz history info.

I love movies and being there at the beginning would have been marvellous....we take things for granted these days. Driving around in a \model T would have been awesome too. 'You can have it in any colour so long as it's black'

I use to tell my Parents that ,I was born to late! i I would have loved to have been born in the Roaring 20s...instead of 1959.I adored the clothing from that Era. I remember my mom and Grandmother telling me about my Great Aunt Ida and her Husband always participating in the Danceathons and winning.

@FrankieBlueEyes

2 жыл бұрын

Then you would have wanted to be born in the early 1900s, that way you would have been old enough to enjoy the Roaring Twenties.

@tazhienunurbusinezz1703

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I'm good with my air conditioning, surgery anesthesia, the latest antibiotics, modern plumbing everywhere, streaming pretty much anything I want to watch online, driving to places that are a few hundred miles away in a several hours instead of a few days, having all information about anything in my pocket via my phone & being able to pop over to Mexico or Europe for a long weekend via the nearest jumbo jet if I should ever want to do that instead of it taking several weeks one way by boats that have less safety equipment than necessary. Can't you just have a Gatsby theme party like everyone else? Or do that thing where you just wear the clothes from that era all the time a lá Bernadette Banner? I don't think the reality of what you'd be dealing with would be half as romantic as you might expect. Idk, that's just my opinion though.

@Kaboomboo

2 жыл бұрын

My parents were born in 59. I'm sorry y'all had to live through the 70s lmao

@John77Doe

2 жыл бұрын

You would have been a flapper?? 😄😄😄

@FrankieBlueEyes

2 жыл бұрын

@@tazhienunurbusinezz1703 fair point, like the song says "the good old days weren't always so good." But I think we're all guilty of romanticizing the past every now and then.

I was smiling throughout the video. Such a lovely presentation with photos and video going fast!

Al Capone! No one ever talks about Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, who was to Boston what Capone was to Chicago.

It's amazing knowing all of this is nearing 100 years ago. Let's make the 2020's roar just like these times!

@thepeopleslotteryfn1311

2 жыл бұрын

What reality do you live in id call it the devastating 2020's

@evirareid1500

2 жыл бұрын

As a black person....no. Lets not redo that shit.

@makaelaischillin

2 жыл бұрын

@@evirareid1500 Hmm, very interesting. Black and whites mingled in underground society, though the CRM was still two generations away. However, there were certainly happy black people.

@copperfish543

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree, do you think whatever Mexicans that were around were treated well? I say it was better, because people interacted face to face better.

@BamBabyBrenda

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely not

The book “Last Call” covers in part how lobbying efforts and odd political coalitions lead to Prohibition. It was never put to a popular vote, voted in by career politicians who were beholden to special interests groups

@LAT-qk3vj

2 жыл бұрын

So, nothing has changed. Very 🤔interesting

@jlshel42

2 жыл бұрын

@@LAT-qk3vj just some details. Like congressman trying to smuggle in bottles of booze from Panama, where the canal zone was US controlled. One claimed the broken glass in his luggage was originally dishes. Didn’t explain the stains and smell of alcohol.

@BigBadJerryRogers

Жыл бұрын

​@@jlshel42At least the government had to admit it was a complete failure and reversed course. The country needs to do more experiments with regulations for drugs and guns. Some will fail, some will succeed. But you have to give it a try.

@jlshel42

Жыл бұрын

@@BigBadJerryRogers it was more organizations of citizens that pushed for Prohibition to get pealed back. The government in DC was trying to stay the course since that’s what they prefer.

Thank you for releasing this I enjoy the 1920s through the 1990s please do more of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s '70s. Showing their clothes the fashion where do they like to eat medical conditions sanitary measures. 😇🍷📺💯‼️🥃 Happy Thanksgiving to all be blessed 🦃😎🦃🙋🏻‍♀️🦃🥰😎😇🦃🍷🦃📺🦃🦃😉

I would love to go 100 years ago to socialize with everyone when everyone had the "time" to talk to each other unlike today...yes.

One other extremely popular past time of the 1920s was miniature golf. It started in the USA during the Great War but gained momentum during the post-war economic boom. By 1929, there were estimated to be 25,000 courses in the USA.

Flagpole Sitta is an excellent song. "I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a TV"

@donHooligan

2 жыл бұрын

they cut off my legs. now, i'm an amputee, goddamn you.

@addictedtothewrittenword3451

2 жыл бұрын

Put me in the hospital for nerves And then they had to commit me You told them all I was crazy They cut off my legs, now I'm an amputee, God damn you I'm not sick but I'm not well And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell I'm not sick but I'm not well And it's a sin to live so well

@jackrotz2139

2 жыл бұрын

I wanna publish zines And rage against machines

@garapito24

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a crippler!

@Kerosene.Dreams

2 жыл бұрын

Rock on, people!

This is the best channel to listen to while falling asleep.

My mom told me that her grandma or my great grandmother who was a young lady in the 1920s in American colonization of the Philippines she went to compete in beauty pageants for prizes, it was an era where beauty pageants came into popularity...which still is a huge thing for some Filipinos until now. My great grandmother was one of the upper middle class of the Philippines and she was lucky enough to enjoy old fashioned record players, electricity at home, telephone, and even had radio by the end of the 1920s. Must be a fun time if you are rich enough and be trendsetters. I guess hardly has ever changed now.

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

Damn. As an American, I must express disapproval. Trendsetters are human garbage.

We are in the roaring 20s. Can anyone imagine what 2120 will look like and what they will think about us?

@ccvjd3909

2 жыл бұрын

They will because of the pandemic and impending world record economic recession we will see soon.

@sherlockbonez

2 жыл бұрын

If covid has taught me anything, in a hundred years, the government would do all the thinking for you.

@someguy2135

2 жыл бұрын

No, we are in the Terrible Twenties. The Roaring Twenties started in 1920.

@someguy2135

2 жыл бұрын

Of course, the 1918 pandemic ended just in time for the 1920's. Basically, the end of their pandemic started the Roaring 20's. "The influenza pandemic of 1918-19, also called the Spanish flu, lasted between one and two years." -Encyclopedia Britannica

@ccvjd3909

2 жыл бұрын

@@someguy2135 they didn't have the same type of monetary system we have. Google money supply. Governments nationwide have injected 100s of percent more money into the economy than ever before. It's why there hasn't been a downturn in stocks. This is only going to work for a limited amount of time.

I wish I could time travel to the 1920's. It was a party in between the greatest crises the world has ever faced.

@OffGridInvestor

2 жыл бұрын

You're saying as inflation and government debt is going absolutely out of control.....

The biggest bootlegger in the US in the 1920's was George Remus, a lawyer and pharmacist. He isn't as well known because he didn't get start gang wars like Capone. In the 1920's, he moved to Cincinnati because nearly all of the whiskey manufacturers were within a 300 mile radius, He bought up the distilleries that were going out of business and and continued to make bonded whiskey because as a licensed pharmacist he got an exemption because he was making alcohol for "medicinal" purposes. Within three years he had made $40 million and had 3000 people working for him. Eventually the feds caught up with him and he was sent to jail in 1925. He mentioned to his "cell mate" who was actually an undercover prohibition agent that he had left his wife in control of his fortune.. The agent had an affair with his wife while Remus was still and prison and the two stole all of his money. When he got out and found out what had happened, he followed his wife, ran her car off the road and shot her dead. He was tried and pleaded "temporary insanity". The jury heard how his wife and her lover has stolen all of his money and acquitted him in 19 minutes. He resumed his law practice but never regained the wealth he had acquired from bootlegging. His lifestyle was said to be the inspiration for "The Great Gatsby".

Weird History: how did people in the 20s spend their free time Me: dancing and dope.

The 20s before the stock market crash in 29, was the most partying decade ever was.. I'm 59, I remember talking to people who lived during that time period.. it was more like the wild 20s

@malaquiasalfaro81

Жыл бұрын

Any good stories you can tell?

@ralphmelvin1046

Жыл бұрын

@@malaquiasalfaro81 yes, somewhat, a good friend of mine who's no longer with us was the brother of big band conductor back then, and he spoke of some wild times traveling having sex on the road and even smoking pot back then 😉

My hubby and I still have his great grandfathers raccoon coat. It’s falling apart in spots but you can still put it on.

@forsythelarry979

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, I was in the comments section when I came across yours.. And I decided to send an email to you, hope you don't mind,

There is a mistake in this video, at the beginning it's stated that the consumption of alcohol was banned, this isn't true. Prohibition only banned the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages not consumption. If you had alcohol by some way during prohibition you could legally drink it. Possession by individuals was also not banned. Great channel, love your videos.

I love all the music from that era... and the silent comedies... I was born a century too late. :)

May be because I was in Special Ed back in the 1990s, so my education was quite fascinating, interesting and very relevant to what I needed to know. SPED is completely different to General Ed, which is why I love it! They taught us the everyday lives of people from each of the main eras, so we knew more than the GE kids did. We also learned what they actually wore during the 1920s, what they ate and the actual events of the time such as Yellow Fever and the rise of KKK at the time. We even learned that one of the most popular books in United States during 1920s was Hitlers' book Mein Kamph. 😮We also learned that Eugenics was huge during the 1920s and the obsession with pure race actually started here in United States.. later taken by the Germans in the 1930s and 40s. Yep... Special Ed teachers taught us more than the General Ed and Gifted teachers ever did, especially the nasty, dirty parts of History.

@shastasilverchairsg

2 жыл бұрын

The Special Ed approach seems like a better and more interesting approach to me! It would definitely get people more interested in history.

@Vulnerableandsafe

2 жыл бұрын

Yes GE got a more sanitized version of history littered with all kinds of spin and inaccuracies...but my father would try full in the blanks for us or tell us more details of the real story.Imagine if children we taught more accurate history in elementary school what changes might occur ..I remember first time I really learnt about Christopher Columbus I was in my 20 s . I felt physically sick for days

@thunderbird1921

Жыл бұрын

Adolf Hitler was an admirer of Margaret Sanger. If I remember correctly, he even wrote a letter to her.

@salazarslytherin6575

Жыл бұрын

That’s the part of history I love as well to. I love to know what every day people did, and what every day life was like for people during the various decades right from the early 1900s until today And not even necessarily from those decades, but even previous periods in history, to such as the mediaeval period, or the Victorian period

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

Sped was still dumbed down curriculum. Most teachers are straight-up r3tards.

Wasnt Eisenhowers Federal Highway Act in 1956 not the 20s?

@asprywrites6327

2 жыл бұрын

That pic is from 1993 and that's Dwight Eisenhower's son. This part is totally wrong.

Thanks so much for this! 🎊

Without seatbelts they went fast enough ;) Grew up riding around in grandfathers ford which was the model after T, forget it’s name. Had a rumbler seat I loved riding on which folded up from and sat on the back of the cab, open to the road, no seatbelt, none in the cab either just a cozy ass bench seat and a looooooooooong shifter coming out of the floor It was a pale yellow with black top, classic white wall tires with the spare tucked into the fold of the body at the back of the foot mount to get in. Those seats were so damn comfy which makes sense for the lack of suspension technology tho it was better than it’s predecessor naturally.

Darn it Weird History, now I want to see a 1920s Fast and the Furious movie.

@copperfish543

2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine Vin And Paul Walker racing at 70 MPH, and scaring people?

@GREGZILA3000

2 жыл бұрын

It’s called “The Great Gatsby”

My great grandmother was the first one in the neighborhood to chop off all of her hair. As she was married and had children, she wasn't exactly s Flapper, but still enjoyed having fun.

best announcer ever. Please give him more money and a historical holiday.

Yeah I’ve forgotten about a 1940 Philco television set which was the size of a small radio set which had a tiny screen and as I remember it costed $99 US , I’ve seen one of those things in a museum, I’ve never seen one of those things in operation, Definitely a tiny piece of equipment to huddle around in order to watch one of those tiny little screens

If I had access to a time machine, I would go back to the 20's and use my knowledge to avoid losing everything in the stock market crash. Fun time to be alive and great music. Lots of exciting inventions back then too.

“Badass 28” Yup, that’s right. Grandma was a real badass back in 1928, and don’t you forget it. 😁

Love the channel it reminds me of the history channel back when they actually showed history

A video on the history of tobacco/Big tobacco company would be interesting to see!

There was also wing-walking! My grandma was a serious party-girl/flapper in the 1920s who enjoyed walking out on the wings of biplanes.

I love weird history!

@mitzithompson6585

2 жыл бұрын

Me 2

“…Radio, what’s new? Radio, someone still loves you!”

I love this channel!!!

I remember my father going to bootleggers on Sundays. The friendliest folks I ever met. This, of course, was in the early sixties. I'm sure things were much different in the twenties.

@raptorfromthe6ix833

Жыл бұрын

any more stories relating the toeh 20s?

@derp8575

8 ай бұрын

Nope. They almost never respond. @@raptorfromthe6ix833

I love these year and decade retrospectives. You guys should do the entire 20th century.

I guess I have a nitpick. The pic of The Eisenhower road system was from the 1950's. While a national highway system began in this era, it would be a while before the country would decide rail vs roads in favor of a national system that would not only ease travel around growing suburbs around the country, but is also the primary means of travel for defense and supply in case of war on our soil.

Like hearing about the 20s because I like art deco architecture and Tiffany lamps. I would like to see history on 1940s America. I like to listen to music from the 20s to the 40s. Maybe also you can do something on that?

It's always been a weird concept to me and I'm no historian so correct me. But, that Italians were involved in money laundering, killings, prison, gangs etc and bold about it whilst being immigrants but yet they were allowed to freely go as they may (of course, not the prisoners). While blacks were segregated, confined to certain areas, and limited to access to different businesses.

How did they stay on the flagpoles for so long? Where did they poop? Just right there? Did everyone watch? This is gonna keep me up at night.

Loved the video. Only complaint is the contemporary style of jazz playing. Would have been nice to hear Bix Beiderbecke or Red Nichols rip a solo in the background, if you know what I mean.

I love this!!! Sounds so much like today in many ways!

When I was in my forties, in the noughties , there was a very small old lady, who lived in my area. Her heyday was obviously the twenties because she had the makeup and hair style of the era, with the shoes of that era, but modern clothing. So she must have been in her late teens sometime, in that decade. That picture of Humphrey Bogart is from the forties. 😁 The Wall Street Crash caused a depression everywhere, consequently my late father's father moved to London from Yorkshire looking for work and met his mother who was London Irish.

I mean the 20s did have super weird dances like limp ducks 🤣. I laughed way to hard at that part

Well, time to re-read the Cheaper by the Dozen books. This got me craving entertainment material from or about the 20s! Nothing like the silly 21st century movies. These actually took place in the 20s! The 1950 and 1952 adaptations will do fine, but the books are where it’s at! They’re a humorous memoir of the Gilbreth family, written by two of the 12 siblings. (Sadly, one child, Mary, died at the age of 6, so they were never a dozen all together at the same time, but of course the family still quietly included her.) Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were Motion Study experts, each world-renowned in their own right. They used their large family to get the most out of everything, including the humor. The children absolutely adored their parents and the books are so charming, I have read them multiple times. They’re a fun window into the times, too, because they weren’t intended to be, if that makes sense. They were meant to be about their interesting family, but naturally some 1920s slang came in, especially when the elder kids reached high school. Talk on Sheiks and 23-skidoo and jalopies abound! I also recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It takes place in the ‘teens, but it’s a breathtaking machine. The best memoirs (or thinly-veiled memoirs) or historical fiction can both take you back time as well as show you that so much is still the same, 100 years apart or even more.

Well, without all the tech that we have today that keeps me plenty occupied, I would be a musician. I would play stringed instruments like violin and guitar. I would be a virtuoso soloist who never plays second fiddle to anyone. I would have made history for rocking the house down with my insane fingerwork on the fretboard. That is what I would do if I had to go back to that.

Back in the day before trends consisted of a TIKTOK dances, people sat on flagpoles and actually went outside

Here in Canada In high school we straight up had a speakeasy when learning about the roaring 20's xD We had non-alcoholic champaign!

And I thought a "Flagpole Sitter" was just a song. Learned something new today 👍

A century later we are back in the 20's again, but this decade is anything but prosperous. America has been scarred by a global pandemic, economic stagnation, internal strife and moral decline.

I love it bad ass ‘28 let’s bring it back just 6 years to go!!! The fashion of the 20s was the bees knees !!!

@kathrynberryman2457

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite decade!

@edwin4938

9 ай бұрын

​@@kathrynberryman2457hey toots

The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921...deserved a image that was not "IKE related...that image is in the 1950's and using a future image is Weird History indeed!

I think we should bring back "Flagpole Sitting"

At 3:43 you mentioned the federal highway act of 1921, but show a picture of Eisenhower in 1956. What gave it away wasn’t Eisenhower. It was the 5 starred pentagon (pentagram). There weren’t 5 branches of the military in 1921, and the pentagon (pentagram) wasn’t built until 1941. Symbols tell more about history than people realize.

@rayfridley6649

10 ай бұрын

It was during the 1921 HIghway Act that the assigning the U.S route numbers took place. Odd numbered routes ran from north to south and the even numbered ones ran from east to west.

My Call of Cthulhu character spent the roaring 20s fighting cultists.

Great job on this video 😊. An interesting book on the 1920s that I had to read in college is Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. Highly recommend it!

How about a video of how children lived or did in the past(like ancient times or 1800s etc), example of type of toys, past times, etc. I saw a video about how some toys children played with in old times were dangerous and kind of brought some curiosity on chielren lives of the past.

What is the history behind phone booth stuffing???

Ah the things I listen to while I try to sleep cause I can’t be alone with my thoughts.

The only thing he messed up in the video was talking about Eisenhower’s highway act which didn’t happen till 30 years later after world war 2

Do a video about weird things that are or should be in our collective memory ❤️

Magnificent video cultural