This an amazing look into our past and how the Chevrolet Dealers were structured nearly 100 years ago. Fascinating !

John, I hired you to be the bookkeeper, not the self appoint company spy. You're FIRED!

John is the kind of twerp most employees would throw off the roof of a building.

Little did they know...Two years later they would all be waiting in the bread lines waiting for a crumb...LOL!

@craigsmith157

9 жыл бұрын

Sad but true.

@davidtagliaferri

5 жыл бұрын

What does he mean when he says floor gravey?

@MarinCipollina

Жыл бұрын

@@davidtagliaferri The suggestion is that the salesman just happened to be there when a guy showed up ready to buy a car, that he didn't have to work for the sale.

Gee. I work at a dealership and I'm supposed to sell cars? And keep track of prospects and sales? Thanks John for bringing that revolutionary concept to auto retailing. And that mustache sure is a great disguise. Who'd have thought it was you

the entire sales staff got $850 not just one guy/ looked like there were four guys so probably $200 each

FLOOR GRAVY!

You never hear a swear word in a silent film.

The good ol days, when they actually left the text on screen LONG ENOUGH TO READ IT ALL!!

John, I hired you to be the bookkeeper, not the self appointed company spy. You're FIRED!

@tdpay9015

6 жыл бұрын

In the days before computers, accountants like John were the main source of hard data in a business. Profits went UP as a result of his spying.

@CamaroAmx

Жыл бұрын

Considering Ford had people that spied on employees to make sure they were living the way Henry wanted his workers to live (no drinking, no staying out late, ect), and if you didn’t, it was cause for firing. Then this was just the way things were.

The accountant is a self-appointed micro-manager. "Floor Gravy", I say!

awesome!

Wow, the girl in the drug store’s a real beauty and she had time to talk with the salesman!

awsome!

If you had watched this film in 1927 and seen yourself portrayed as a lunkheaded dealer, lackadaisical salesman, or a dirty sneak of an accountant, would you be motivated?

Schrodinger's Zombie, and anyone else still interested, "floor gravy" roughly translates to "b.s.", with specific reference to one's monetary worth. The expression came out of the culture of the Speakeasy during Prohibition. I remember my grandmother using the phrase.

Why is there even an audio track to this??????????

Inward opening exterior door? That workplace building is a fire trap. 🔥

@unconventionalideas5683

Жыл бұрын

In those days the modern concepts of fire safety were in their extreme infancy.

@CamaroAmx

Жыл бұрын

A lot of that started to change after the 1908 Rhodes Opera House fire in Boyertown Pa in my state. 171 people were killed because the people couldn’t get out because the doors opened inward. It took awhile before it was changed across the country.

John, that is a fake mustache, not a fucking cape of invisibility.

@xaenon

7 жыл бұрын

The same logic by which a pair of eyeglasses hides the fact that Clark Kent is Superman.

Back before sounds.

Love the random "Floor gravy!" Can anyone tell me what the heck that means?

@bradboustead1682

4 жыл бұрын

The customers who walk into the showroom ready to buy.

@paulnicholson1906

Жыл бұрын

@@bradboustead1682 I guess I'm floor gravy then. I stay out of car dealerships until I'm 100% ready especially with my wife since she always wants to go home with a new car.

When he was informed that fat John died ; he owner of the dealership said "well what is for lunch " ? i'm hungry !

35 cars sold in one month by a single salesman? That’s pretty good. Even 15 cars a month is good enough for a salesman to keep his job at any dealer. I used to work at a Hyundai dealer and the top salesman sold an average of 30 cars a month and he was considered great at his job.

John Bangs is my new "movie" name

Two colors, black and real black.

@stevenoverwood2474

2 жыл бұрын

Most films were still silent at this time. The first feature sound film The Jazz Singer would come out this same year.

@56cadd

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenoverwood2474 fatty Arbuckle films are a good example too.

@stevenoverwood2474

2 жыл бұрын

@@56cadd True and Charlie Chaplin from the silent era.

@56cadd

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenoverwood2474 ya him and the other 2 stunt guys that they would put 20s music to, Harold Loyd and Buster Keaton.

look at how much our dollar has been devalued in less than 100 years....where did all of that value go? into the bankers pockets I suspect...

What is at 19:57 "Burning the Midnight Mazda" ? wtf ?

@Flyfishtherockies

Жыл бұрын

Mazda made light bulbs back then, probably a reference to working nights with the lights on.

take me thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

@martyzielinski2469

7 жыл бұрын

No thank you..... Sitting on a cold seat taking a poop in an unheated alcove off the back porch? Dying of the lymphoma that didn't kill me in 2012? 1927 was no picnic. (or the aftermath of the crash two years later)

@gwcoty0715

6 жыл бұрын

Marty Zielinski take me there anyway, I would'nt mind it one bit. I'd give anything to go back.

@paulnicholson1906

Жыл бұрын

@@martyzielinski2469 you might not have even made it to get lymphoma. Congratulations on beating it. That is great! Progress is everything. Looking back is interesting but wouldn't want to go there for real..

22:42 Holy crap Mr. Andrews, this guy's nutty as a fruitcake!

I wonder what the commission was on a 1927 Chevrolet.. 1 dollar? 2?

@56cadd

2 жыл бұрын

Couple 5180$, sedan 2100$ in 27.

@CamaroAmx

Жыл бұрын

No idea but that salesman was handed a check for the modern equivalent to just over $4000. The rent on the dealer was over $6000. I hope these weren’t weekly paychecks.

What does he mean when he says floor gravey?

@bradboustead1682

4 жыл бұрын

Customer who walks into the showroom ready to buy.

where was it filmed? detroit?

@MYOBASSUME

Жыл бұрын

Edgewater Grocery Co. has me thinking Chicago.

@matrox

5 ай бұрын

The checks say Andrews Chevy, in Chicago.

Find a way to screw the employees, that’s good business.

Apparently front and rear bumpers were optional back then.

@mitchbarredo3990

2 жыл бұрын

They were considered as nice options, safety wasn't a thing back then.

vsauce army coming through

$850 was a huge monthly salary in 1927. The average high school teacher was earning about $2500 a year. Even by 1970, most people did not make that much.

@mitchbarredo3990

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't all for one guy, it was divvied up between four guys. About $200 each which was still a lot of money for that time period.

@CamaroAmx

Жыл бұрын

The sales manager got $250 or just over $4000 today. Hope that wasn’t weekly.

I'm guessing they wanted to catch up to old Henry Ford on the SOB of the year award. Looks like Mills rolled 13 that week, that's about average to above average for a month now. Used car losses? also known as incompetence! I find it interesting May was their big month, I would of guessed fall, both for the new models, closeout on the old and farmer's crops coming in they had money and the fall and settled up their accounts with the merchants.

@fernbarrera598

3 жыл бұрын

An old car salesman told me, "if you can make it through January and February, you can March through April and May"

vsau

Freaky

Now this was just...dumb.

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