If someone came up to me and said, "Hey, you watch 1920s history documentaries all day with me," I'd say, "You just became my bestie."

Oh look, we are in the roaring 20's again! And it all seems so familiar!😂

@paulabarch5065

3 ай бұрын

And how did the 20s end?

@cathrinewhite7629

3 ай бұрын

@@paulabarch5065 not well! LOL

@roverworld7218

3 ай бұрын

Nah! Where's the great music and the fun? Definitely we are not in a decade long party like many where in the 1920s.

@TommyTumma

3 ай бұрын

Except instead of bootleg whiskey we have fentanyl! Yay! Progress!

@GHC3

3 ай бұрын

History does repeat itself.

That clip of Mussolini crossing his arms to look tough makes him look like a toddler. Makes me laugh every damn time.

@twhis9843

2 ай бұрын

I read he had taken the posture from a famous Italian actor of the time. Being a newspaper guy he analyzed numerous celebrities and took bits and pieces that he saw the public respond to in a positive manner. And you know how the public always loves a BS’er puffing up his chest. We are just a bunch of apes, aren’t we?

@darryl_fitness

Ай бұрын

@@twhis9843we really are.

@Karlach_

Ай бұрын

I can never look at him without thinking of that picture of his corpse hanging.

@poetcomic1

Ай бұрын

Whnever I see Mussolini I think of the movie Some Like It Hot. The great actor Nehemiah Persoff was famous for doing his Mussolini imitation at parties in Ho9llywood and Wilder wanted him to do his Mussolini as the gangster chief. in that film. He was perfect.

@twhis9843

Ай бұрын

@@poetcomic1 oh wow! I’ll have to watch that again and look for that. My mom said pre-war, in the 1930s, kids would imitate Hitler and Mussolini from newsreels. Their gestures were so comical even the kids made fun of them. Even me, growing up immediately post war remembers the playground limerick “ Mussolini bit his wienie, now it does not work.”

My paternal grandparents crashed, but didn’t burn. They lost one of two houses, grandpa lost his Wall St. job, but grandma who had graduated high school and two years of business and secretarial school found work in furniture store doing shipping orders. Grandpa took several part-time jobs, Half time and all day Saturday in a hardware store as a stock boy. He also did day labor, whatever he could find. Their two widowed parents moved in with them and they rented out the third floor attic to an even poorer family. They kept the house and went without a car for a time. They kept it, but didn’t use it because of the cost of gas and maintenance. Their diet changed, but nobody went hungry. My mom’s family, in the other hand, were among those whose 1920’s weren’t “roaring.” They had arrived from Poland just before the war, with no marketable skills except manual labor. Grandpa took day labor jobs and grandma did washing and cleaning for “rich” people. When the stick market crashed, the rich were no longer able to pay laundresses and cleaners. Unskilled construction workers resorted to roaming the streets for usable trash, like wood and bits of coal to burn. In 1930, grandpa left in search of work and was never seen again. Grandma got evicted with three children and a few bags of clothes and broken down furniture onto the streets in Brooklyn. Not knowing what to do, she took some meager savings and rode the Long Island Railroad to the summer community of Rocky Point. There, they lived in an old Army tent in the woods and she found work cleaning the Post Office and for the local doctor, his offices and his house. The Depression didn’t affect them as much as they’d always been poor, so it was more of the same, only now they could raise some vegetables, pick wild berries, harvest chestnuts, and eventually kept chickens.

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

That generation were made of different stuff they didn't expect everything to be easy and dealt with life as it happened unlike today's who expect to be warm happy and wealthy every moment and start crying when they're not

@kristidavidson8945

Ай бұрын

Thank you for this incredible description. It’s 2024 as I write this and I am 52 so I have heard plenty of stories about the great depression but yours is clear and concise. I’m an old lady to have a 16 year old, but I do and I plan to read your description to her. Thank you for sharing.

@ulrikjensen6841

18 күн бұрын

Alas, your Grandpa 😮 so sorry to hear of that 😢

@FreespeechSensor-cs3te

2 күн бұрын

OMG do you mean people can actually survive without the government taking from one person and giving to another?! 😲

The "Roaring Twenties" are usually characterized as having been a prosperous time. However, this ignores the plight of the farming community, particularly small family farms. The farmers were suffering from chronically low prices for their products plus draughts and floods.

@DeadBlonde_80

3 ай бұрын

Yep. My grandma was born in 1919 and her parents had a farm in Oklahoma. My g great grandparents moved to central California in 1922 and stayed. He ended up working for Edison so he was lucky.

@artlewellan2294

2 ай бұрын

The "Roaring Twenties" usually characterized as a prosperous time, however ignores the plight of farmers amd small family farms suffering from low prices for their products despite draught and flooding.

@artlewellan2294

2 ай бұрын

The "Roaring Twenties" was a time of degradation.

@baylorsailor

2 ай бұрын

Because whenever anybody does the history of the roaring twenties they always focus on the major cities and what was happening there.

@kiwitrainguy

2 ай бұрын

*drought

Actress Barbara La Marr married 5 times and died at 29. Just wow. This certainly gave Zsa Zsa her inspiration

@Fusionfreakdrummer

2 ай бұрын

Legend has it..... Her vajay-jay was a hallway, the queefs were apparently extremely loud & immediate upon entry 🤢

@bruceellenburg429

Ай бұрын

It's a wonder she made it 29 years

We skipped the roaring 20's and moved straight to the great depression.

@investorbettor505

10 күн бұрын

We are most definitely in more of a roaring 20s situation right now. All currencies are inflating rapidly, society focused on entertainment and abundance to distract us from the more real issues at hand

History as always will repeat, with that being said "Here we ARE"!!

Thanks awesome documentary 👍🏾 would like more content like this please thanks again!!

@CrossOfBayonne

3 ай бұрын

Same, Most of the guys who fought in World War II were born and raised during the roaring 20s then Depression

Superb! Watching it again, a lot to take in, going around the world! Very well done! Thank you!

For "boomers" this is our parents generation that experienced the depression and WW2. The greatest generation as Tom Brokaw wrote about it.

@bruce8320

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@lesliehorwinkle

26 күн бұрын

My pop was born in '17 and def. a member of the G.G. but at 25 for Pearl Harbor He was an 'old man' in military by then yet too young to have participated (just a teen) for the depression, much less Roaring '20s. All of my grandparnts born in late '19th century got the worst of it, but hey, the late 1800's weren't exactly flush. What's crazy is how far back it seems yet only 100 yrs. Lots of folks live that long. And to think Great Grands were born soon after Civil War...wild.

That cop hit a dude with his coat. Lol, strange weapon to deter a rioter but okay.

@lawrenceleverton7426

3 ай бұрын

I actually laughed at that myself. Imagine a brass button pinging off your head.

@TheDavidlloydjones

Ай бұрын

Cops' coats often carried a few pounds of metal sewn into the edge of the lining in those days...

Yep history repeats

@kristinmeyer489

2 ай бұрын

Thank God some people still study it, learn from it, and recognize it in real time.

@terry4137

2 ай бұрын

@@kristinmeyer489no one in this administration

@bruce8320

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@lesliehorwinkle

26 күн бұрын

Economics is pretty reactionary by nature.

During the segment discussing jazz, the dancers are doing the jitterbug .That style of dancing didn't happen for another 15- 20 years.....

@Fusionfreakdrummer

2 ай бұрын

@bellestarr9976 My babys momas cousins sisters boyfriends moms friend from work over on 56th street & Jeffrey. She knows this one guy from that jiffy lube over on 52nd & cottage grove,she gets her oil changed there.. ol'boi be in the pit,changing that oil all day. He stays in the big yellow building on 50th & Jeffrey on the 5th floor. He goes to that old man bar over on 73rd & yates,he drinks that crown royal 🤢 Anyways...... He knows this old man who chills there 24/7. The old man, he said yup, he said his great grandfather invented the jitterbug...

That’s comedian and all-around smart guy Fred Allen, giving the occasional narrative.

I have an old leather blackjack from the 1920s. It belonged to my great grandfather who was a small town constable. He only ever used it on unruly drunks

People: "The 2020s are gonna be awesome! Roaring 20s all over again!" Me: "Yeah you don't know much about recent history, huh?"

@bruce8320

2 ай бұрын

Yes

I couldn't imagine living every day with so much hate in my heart.

This is fantastic.

The American narrator of part of this program is none other than Fred Allen.

If you can't pay your debts, you shouldn't have had them in the first place. Money printing in the twenties should have taught us a lesson but here we are again today at the brink.

Ah… the “Lindy” hop for Charles Lindbergh’s achievement…thank you!

Thanyou! ❤

The birth of the Tom Brokaw MYTH ‘The greatest Generation‘

1920's : Roaring Twenties 2020's : Boring Twenties

@Rest65432

16 күн бұрын

You are right about that

Rich people didn't want to pay taxes back then either. Just tuck tail and leave your country, to save yourselves and your money. While throwing everyone else under the bus.

@josephanderson7237

Ай бұрын

Rich people pay a hell of a lot of taxes. Trust me.

@phylliselizahb1041

Ай бұрын

& move yer business to the least expensive workforce country. Also yer headquarters. But still say yer an American company.

@FreespeechSensor-cs3te

2 күн бұрын

@Susieq26754 Let's do some what should be simple math for most people. I make $10 a year and pay 28% tax and you make $100 a year and pay 28% tax who pays more????

43:47 Wow..... Even back then. They came to the exact same conclusion.

1929 all over again.

We are in the 2nd roaring 20s.

@luisreyes1963

2 ай бұрын

The difference is that the gangsters today are from Latin America & they make their wealth from drugs.

I thought that was a very entertaining video 👍🏾

Even now, in the early part of the mid 2020's, whenever I mention "The '20s" nearly everyone thinks I'm referring to the 1920's, unless I say otherwise.

Yay another history video with a side of predatory ads

I still dance the Charleston. Cant drink bathtub gin though.

It appears that the world was neurotic back then and still is today.

Most amusing comment (32:34) : a British Lord's Day Observance Society tour of Europe found "frivolity, hilarity, betting, gambling, excitement, revelries". So they had a very good time.

Margin calls, the Federal Reserve, pleasure and materialism .

The narrator of the old film portions (e.g. 10:05) sounds a lot like radio comedian Fred Allen.

Watching this programme you would think that the Southern Hemisphere never existed. No mention of South America, Africa, Australia, or New Zealand.

Yes just got finished watching documentary of the roaring twenties and yes it seems all too common especially 2007 and 8 in the, they did exactly in 2008 what they did in 1929 and that was to freeze credit and it dropped everything and broke the world and then they repeated the same mistake about 100 years later

3020’s signing in🫡

100% of the time, the markets always crash after a Fed Rate cut. Usually the rate cut triggers a brief market euphoria then pop goes the weasel as the bubble bursts. When they cut rates it’s because they have confirmed stuff is hitting the fan economically. So just wait for the Fed rate to happen.

Too bad censorship department works overtime and blurs out scenes time and time again.

“Make America Safe For Americans” sounds familiar..

The Lindbergh film announcer sounded like Vin Scully but he would have been too young.

2020 vision bright shadow, feels like north ice berk, i supposed ill use the opposite end of the flash light tree too see a shadow now

The FED, the Creature From Jekyll Island, purposely caused the great depression.

@flyingsword135

Ай бұрын

And FDR's policies were all purposefully designed to make the depression last longer.

Same old narratives, blame the same old people.

Watch the Roaring Twenties 1939 James Cagney movie.

What was the "employment rate" during the Great Depression?

@CrossOfBayonne

3 ай бұрын

It was very rock bottom until the New Deal was signed then Pearl Harbor which America went into overdrive for WWII

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

5 people working

@spaceman081447

2 ай бұрын

The highest unemployment rate during the Great Depression was 24.9% in 1933, for a total of 12,830,000 people out of work. In 1939 the unemployment rate was 17%.

Anyone who trusts anything is a fool.

The roaring 20s always meant the style of popular culture to me. I don't relate the term to politics.

The comment about the people escaping into fantasy is so apropos to our current society. Here, we are 100 years later, and we're repeating many of the same mistakes. Will America survive this time?

Trickle down economics doesn't work.

@phylliselizahb1041

Ай бұрын

Works for the wealthy

@FreespeechSensor-cs3te

2 күн бұрын

There has never been an economic program called "Trickle down economics"! Reagans economic policy called Supply Side Economics!! In a nutshell it told corperations that have become these massive monopolies due to the government bailing them out of their corrupt business dealings that they had to be profitable to survive and not expect the tax payers to come to their rescue! Aka FREE MARKET CAPITALISM! Survival of the fittest! People chose the products and services they want not the government! Perhaps you should do some research and educate yourself rather than muttering the nonsense other people say

Non alter articles

So unabridged capitalism is a bad thing? Too bad that lesson hasn't been learned well since the "Great Depression"

@lawrenceleverton7426

3 ай бұрын

Capitalism, making millions while taking loss after loss.

@terry4137

2 ай бұрын

You are seeing corrupt Capitalism at one point it made all people rise up because you had competition. It was great then. But when the gov’t and big business get together it falls! No competition, no capitalism!

@kenhalperin3195

2 ай бұрын

It’s better than socialism/ communism 💔🇺🇸💔!

@user-pb8ge8qw1g

2 ай бұрын

Iu77uuuuh7u KK kkkññnn​@@lawrenceleverton7426

Just go live in the bush ❤

And the USA 🇺🇸 seems increasingly in decline from 2021-now

Gave up after the 20th commercial. I guess I will never know which was longer.... the adds or the completely chopped up show. What was I watching anyway?....It was something about history or something like that...right? Probably won't be subscribing to this channel...the commercial channel.

I just love historical videos that are censored!!! Might as well censor the whole thing!! And yes I know it's ut and their censoring rules! But really, what's the point of even airing the video?? I refuse to give a thumbs up for censored historical content!! How I despise ut!

Your soundtrack is too damn loud! I gave you a thumbs down. Can't hear the narrator because he's overwhelmed by your annoying background soundtrack which is too loud!

22:47 that's enough shit for me. I do not need to hear al Johnston pretend he's a black man singing jazz

@kiwitrainguy

2 ай бұрын

Just be thankful that he wasn't in blackface.

@MagdaleneDivine

2 ай бұрын

@@kiwitrainguy not far from it though

''Don't tell my Mother that I'm a banker. She thinks I play piano in a brothel.'' 'Fitting today as well, perhaps also for their political allies, all avoiding action on human caused climate change as well as global strife and inequity! 😔 🌊 🧊 ❄️🌪🔥 📛 🔥🌪❄️ 🧊 🌊 🙁

@terry4137

2 ай бұрын

Climate change you poor boy. 😂

Geez. So how many billions of QE II's likenesses are about the world? Postage stamps, currency, coinage, souvenirs... 🙄 And I'd like to hear one of these British documantarians dare criticize the past queen or the current king and say they aren't always right.

11:11 but this is still dull

@terry4137

2 ай бұрын

Move on! Too young you’d never get it anyway! Good day!

@Realliberal

2 ай бұрын

Divine’s right. In spite of 100s of clips. Why? The Repetitive party line. Nothing learned. The vid assures the ignorance of Americans continues.

@MagdaleneDivine

2 ай бұрын

@@terry4137 I'm 43. I'm sorry but they're just skimming the surfaces of really serious and fatal issues here. It's called fluff. It's inaccurate and further more and worst of all ITS BORING, TRITE AND ITS IRONIC YOU SAY I DONT GET IT lol

@hhwippedcream

2 ай бұрын

Weird and disjointed - as if the doc has to keep moving lest something uncomfortable surface.

@MagdaleneDivine

2 ай бұрын

@@hhwippedcream huh? If you got to explain the retort it's not a good retort I would've just shut up. I'm pointing out all the uncomfortable truths about this newsreel style documentaries. This is weak sauce. As was ..ok I had to reread the entire damn thing. Although I still don't know who you are insulting ... Or siding with

Because daddy was a punk lol

Man without God is a beast.

@HumanBeanbag

2 ай бұрын

God without Man is nothing.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

Nope there is no GOD

@972duarte

Ай бұрын

Hooray for the crusades!

Hedonism unbridled. Anything and everything except what God wants for people.

@chrysiarose

2 ай бұрын

Religion is myth and superstition. There are no magic fairy sky daddies. No God, just a human created story because we can't handle that we die and can't do a thing about it.

Out of a population of three million only two thirds of population dad is not handsome ......so crooked fellows got all the ........job done and ........disappointed dad without a card .......i mean ...no one really wants to pay dad who is not as handsome as your dad ?? So .......the story is endless if people are not handsome !!!!!

Catherine, and I'll prepared and 98% of the money in 2% of people's hands, GREED we could gon...and on...

This year will mark the 95th Anniversary of The Great Depression. Why is it that whenever the nation is in an economic tailspin, a Republican was in the White House? 😕

@jasonromage6129

2 ай бұрын

I didn't realize Roosevelt was a Republican

@PunaSquirrel

2 ай бұрын

The Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover.​@@jasonromage6129

@ronalddesiderio7625

Ай бұрын

Because someone has to straighten the mess out.

@stewiesaidthat

Ай бұрын

Jimmy Carter was in charge for the recession of the 70s. Bill Clinton was in charge for the roaring 90s and the 2000 market crash. The democrats more often than not crash the economy leaving a conservative republican to fix it

Capitalism isn't working because capitalists are SO GREEDY!

@thomasshoff6512

3 ай бұрын

Capitolism needs a balance. Some regulation to prevent financial abuse works. THERE IS NO OTHER BUSINESS philosophy THAT FUNCTIONS TO BENEFIT SO MANY PEOPLE!

@residentzero

3 ай бұрын

At the end of the day it's a pyramidal scheme, it works, for now, but like a house of cards, it's bound to collapse eventually. Then rinse and repeat, in the meantime causing havoc and suffering to millions

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

Nope capitalism does work

WHY IS THIS SO DAMN DULL

@DarinW-gx3mm

2 ай бұрын

Because you are maybe??

@MagdaleneDivine

2 ай бұрын

@@DarinW-gx3mm lol yeah I'm totally dull. That's why you are reading my stupid nonsense instead of watching the actual program. Thank you for proving my point.

@DarinW-gx3mm

2 ай бұрын

@@MagdaleneDivine no I just like reading the comments on a documentary that I’m currently viewing and I just came across yours You have really proved nothing. Have a good day.

@MagdaleneDivine

2 ай бұрын

@@DarinW-gx3mm BUT IF THE CONTENT WAS ACTUALLY INTERESTING YOU WOULD NOT NEED TO PURUSE THE COMMENTS. AND IM CAPITALALIZING CAUSE I CANT FIND MY GLASSES. But SERIOUSLY IF YOU HAVE TO READ SURPLUS MAYERIAL WHILE CONSUMING CONTENT ITS NOT INTERESTING. YOU JUST GOT USED TO NOT WATCHING ANYTHING. ITS JUST BACKGROUND MATERIAL. YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO ANYTHING ANYMORE 🙄

The dancing in that Harlem club wuz amazing..but y erbody hating on jazz music I'm not a big fan but rock n roll sucks too so wat

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

Nope Rock is great

@GIjoe614

Ай бұрын

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN that's koo I kno alotta people like rock & alot of people like jazz I've heard some of both that is ok..rock on dude

I love listening to an English bloak telling about American History. Aren't there any Americans that make documentaries!??? It's just not right. Like having a german narate the history of the battle of the bulge .... Spreken Ze dutche niscf gut

Very weird documentary. I was interested in the subject but very oddly executed. It’s all over the place. Pass!

Only music worse than jazz is 1940s music. Oh gawd that horny ass big band sound is torture

The Boomers have really done a great job! Not

Jazz didn't become cool until the fifties. I agree that the annoying piano rattle is as toxic as today's rap music. Piano rags have to be the worst.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

RAP IS CRAP not music

Joe Biden's America

I avoid anything about the twenties cause jazz sucks. So im trying to hamg in there. But the first sound of a stupid jazz band im leaving

@rebeccahale4673

2 ай бұрын

🤣

I hate the 20s cause they always play god awful jazz music. Jazz is damn horrible. At least they aren't playing that crap

Nothing like getting the skinny all fired up, global chaos is not a good thing.

Every time I see a photo of Trump, it reminds me of Benito Mussolini. Look and compare.

@sunnyadams5842

2 ай бұрын

Same. Both give me the heeby jeebies! For the very same reasons....

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 ай бұрын

No that would be Bidey The Pooperman

@kiwitrainguy

2 ай бұрын

LISA - Dad, they don't like people doing Benito Mussolini. Homer - I thought I was doing Donald Trump.