A look back at the last ’20s
A common theme among the left… They’re not well versed in History, Math, U.S. Government, Civics, etc. If they were knowledgeable with actual history, for example, they’d more than likely reject leftist philosophy. (r/The_Donald)
For the sake of posterity, and for other reasons, people were interviewed in the late 1920s. The folks featured in this interview were born in the 19th Century. It even includes someone recounting a Civil War event:
More interviews, 1928-1930:
This video, from the 1920s, makes a prediction of how things will be through the year 2000:
A capture of events in the 1920s:
In AD 2120, they could have 3-D images of things related to the 2020s. Who knows…
The first video made me laugh at about 2:32. “We didn’t enlist for a month or a year but enlisted for the war”.
Keyed in on that myself…”for the war.” Many of the early Southern units had a 1 year enlistment and a multitude of the Federal initial enlistments were for 90 days. Also giggled at the reference he made to “the Dutchmen” a term used to describe people of Germanic immigrant status. The Missouri area during that time was more of a true “civil war”/brother against cousin tearing families apart/living by the feud. The Outlaw Josey Wales was based on and very much historically accurate in that respect..
Cool videos thebesig, I’ve read some of these transcripts in the past and now I can get deeper into the youtube things. In my decades of conducting Living History Programs I have been appalled at the lack of history being taught in the school systems. It’s almost as if it is an insidious plot to NOT teach history to the young’uns in order to not prepare them for what the future may hold. And it’s not just the students that I can amaze, many of the younger teachers scratch their watches and wind their asses, wanting to know “where did you get that information from?” Lot to be said for having 50 to 100 year old printed books.
” It’s almost as if it is an insidious plot to NOT teach history to the young’uns in order to not prepare them for what the future may hold.”…
That’s EXACTLY what it is 5th!
Those who forget (or don’t know) the past are doomed to repeat it. – Santayana
I believe it began changing when schools went from teaching US history to teaching ‘social studies.’
That seems a reasonable assumption
“Social” as a prefix in a word pair is an indicator of negation.
The third video isn’t too far off. Cruise ships now look a lot like the model of the passenger ship. Elevated commuter rail is common. Streets (and now highways) clogged by automobile traffic still goes on. Not too far off, really. Just the clothing: certainly more stylish than what some people wear now.
Here’s a good video of New York City then (early 20th century) and now.
I kinda wish they’d bring back Art Deco. Art Deco has a kind of optimistically-elegant feel to it.
Cool. Thanks for posting these.
Gotta feed Mrs. GB right now, but I’ll watch ’em later.
The video that tried to predict the future is the one that is most interesting to me. They got a few things right-the more streamlined boats or that a young man would have a phone with him wherever he went (even if they didn’t understand what form that would take). I like to see stuff like this from the context of the future looking back, it’s really interesting to see how past generations envisioned how things might be.
It’s tough to do-predicting the future-even for those who think about it a lot. There’s a two-part episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called “Past Tense’ which was shown in 1995 and depicted San Francisco in 2024. It shows a city overcome with vagrancy and an out of touch elite (that part they got right, at least). But they couldn’t anticipate how technology might change over 30 years. For instance, there is a scene where one of the characters wants to get in touch with an important person and a citizen takes her inside to use a work station (which looks a lot like computers did in the 1990s). But of course the writers and director had no idea about the ubiquity of cell phones, and so the scene just gives the modern viewer a chuckle.
Well now here we are in the year 2020 and I still haven’t seen even a single damned Jetson car, a monorail train, “People Pods” for transportation,… Screw it, I’m going for a ride in my 4WD Pickup!
Yeah, but you can go down to Costco and purchase your Soylent Green Helper in bulk.
The sad part is that we started a new decade, and we are no closer to returning Elaine Ricci to her loved ones. She is the Lindbergh Baby Of our time.