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Entertaining and informative... but why cover the news clippings with that diffused black spot? The narrations are fine, but I'd prefer to see the clippings unobstructed.

​@AquaeAtrae Excellent question!

No.

@AquaeAtrae because in the 50s the newspapers were a bit more.. descriptive than they are today as one that has read some. And they want to stay family friendly and showing descriptive text about a 70% 1st degree burn injury and 3 witness reports also being very descriptive isnt very family friendly. Also they were very racist and seeing slurs in headlines was common (in the back of my head i play the mayhem that would happen if you put the n word in the headlines today, like i literally couldnt believe it.)

My great aunt unplugged the microwave after heating her coffee because she feared the "rays". Absolute fruitcake.

I unplug things before bed, and I’m only in my 30s. There are still issues with fire when it comes to that stuff, though it has gotten significantly better since the 50s. How many years ago were people’s cells exploding while charging? Besides, your appliances can still use electricity while turned off but plugged in. Save money on that bill.

Relatable

@DW X microwaves are still pretty dangerous.

High education/I.Q. level...very different than WISDOM. What a MASSIVE to have had such a mom! (Mine too🤗).

​@ana Baird I came across my father's HS report cards (graduated 1933) and can attest that he took subjects that today would be taught at a community (2-year) college. Back then, the vast majority of students ended their education at twelfth grade (or earlier). His older sisters left school in ninth grade to go to work to help support the family; only the later-born children finished high school.

@Gail Lofdahl Remember that the 1933 body of knowledge was still small and simpler to grasp, except for math, of course.

@conservatives ♥️ school shootings You'd think that, wouldn't you? But the classes he took were more advanced than those offered in high school today (how many high schools offer Latin?) As I recall (I don't have his report card in front of me), he also took philosophy and blacksmithing! Since most students' education ended at high school, I think classes covered what might be found in the first two years of college. It was actually more advanced, not simpler.

Now go apologize for giving her a hard time.💯

Lead is pretty harmless until you're eating it or inhaling it.

@conservatives ♥️ school shootings I'm surprised they didn't mention the "shoe x-ray machine" here. Maybe it wasn't prevalent in GB? I make leaded glass, so I use lead and lead solder a lot. The trick is to work with a small fan blowing across your workbench while you're soldering to blow the fumes away, and to scrub your hands thoroughly when you're done (especially before eating that sandwich!)

Used it for his microwave oven how many of those microwaves got him?

I had a chem set in ‘74; I set myself up in a closet with a “LAB” sign on the door. I’m so lucky to not have asphyxiated or blown myself up in there☠️

​@Eggroll🤣😂

@Eggroll yeah but look what you learned!

The alleged dangers of all this stuff is HIGHLY exaggerated.

I had a chemistry set also. No gas though in the late 50’s or early 60’s

That is so sad, horrible that happened! Im so sorry for your family's loss💔

It's as true of general life as of aviation, trains, or structural engineering: the regulations are written in blood.

My first father-in-law’s first marriage ended after their baby had a life-altering accident. There was a baby bouncy swing that had a long spring that was held up in a doorway by a large screw. The screw came loose as she bounced and it fell with force from her bouncing and struck her head hard. The girl suffered permanent brain damage and she was never able to live independently.

@Silverhaired59 that's tragic 😥.

@Silverhaired59 It's a shame that so many babies have been severely injured or died before manufacturers made untested products like that safer. You'd think there would be stricter standards knowing that the lives of babies were at stake, but like everything else, there has to be suffering and loss of life before safety measures are taken.

It was very easy to commit murder throughout the Industrial era. The cities, the technology...but lack of communication we have now (internet, DNA testing, etc.) ...made it extraordinarily easy. People commit a lot less murder now even with mass shootings.

Im just giving everybody a 👍 LIKE!!! Just cus i feel great after my 2 cup of coffee cheers from CORPUS CHRISTI in South Texas !

It works even today

@Christi Nash Back before DNA testing became widely available there were a lot of innocent people getting life long prison sentences and even worse getting the chair. Usually guilty verdicts where reached on nothing more then witness testimony and false accusations. A lot of black men getting accused of rape.

You had one hell of a good father. 👍👍

I was a child in the 70s in the United States. I truly wanted one of those chemistry sets. However, my dad wouldn’t budge. He would tell me I could kill my self or burn the house down. Now I see he was correct. This from a man who stopped going to school in the 4th grade in Mexico.

It's the degree that makes you smart. Just ask the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. 😁

I point out that science is a tool, and it can be handled for good purposes and also for evil ones, depending on who is wielding it, just like a hammer.

Wuhan you have some explaining to do

Dr Fauxi

Nice comment, very similar to my life

I hear old people constantly bemoaning the fact that kids spend all their time playing video games, while ignoring the fact that their parents won't allow them to do anything interesting or fun, nor provide them with the opportunity. When I was young, there were wild places nearby for us to explore and be wild ourselves. Nowadays, kids live trapped in endless suburbia. The parks are fine for walking dogs and sports, but they are not wild places that can be explored. Kids have had so much that is exciting removed from their lives, and have then been blamed for having nothing to do but play video games.

Sounds like a boring job

@Aaron Davis Speaking as a younger teacher, yes I agree with you! I make it a point to take my students out on walks whenever I can, even if it's just to the small wooded area behind our school so they can explore a little. Sometimes we focus on trying to find different leaves, sometimes it's reptiles, and other days I just let them wander the very shallow creek bed. I was fortunate enough to spend a huge chunk of my childhood helping on my grandmother's farm and then spending my free time wandering the forest around her house, and I want to try to offer my students some of the same lessons I learnt during those days.

@Aaron Davis So us boomers found a way to get bicycles and ride out of suburbia to more interesting places! Didn't ever have to be home until dark. And parents didn't worry about it.

No chamber pot? Yikes! Scary.

@Cathy O a chamber pot would be a necessity for older people.

I got my first indoor toilet in 1967! Many of my older family members still had privies back then.

My old boss had a outhouse in Kentucky that I used when on a trip down there.he said he shot a rattlesnake under the outhouse. It makes a person think twice before using one.😌

It must’ve been awful trying to go to the bathroom at night, especially in the winter.

I'm surprised I survived too but born in the early 50s! Lived in a Canadian city and from ages 6-10, I walked to school by myself, got home an hour before my Mom from her job, got my breakfast and myself to school on time at age 7+, played unsupervised outside, went to a large park for hours after crossing a busy 4-lane street, played with a boy about 17 years old (unsupervised also) who was clearly developmentally challenged - had on a 'Have Gun Will Travel' cowboy hat from that TV show and had the capacity of a 7-year old. WOW for both of us! Had a Mom who was not completely up on hand-washing safety although the house was spotless. I survived a case of intestinal worms and some abdominal cramping (probably from some unsafe food issues) a few times. She used to leave food out on the counter for hours after it had cooled to make sure it was really cold enough for the fridge. I still remember my Dad pointing out the dirt stain around my bedroom light switch on the wall area, but no one thought to tell me to wash my hands when I came home, after using the bathroom, or even before eating! If you don't see your parents doing it, then we do not clue in to wash. Funny that I went into the medical health field, sterilized surgical instruments as part of my job along with assisting in surgeries, kept my fridge colder so milk could be 'felt' on its way down to the stomach, became a helicopter Mom, etc. etc. I must have had two Guardian Angels watching over me! With all of the true crime YT shows I watch now, I consider myself so lucky to have avoided being kidnapped or other harm.

Yeah I was born in 61, and remember playing army! I had a TOMMY gun with a helmet I got for Christmas. I still have the picture of me opening it up! We all had army men, and marbles! I miss those days. The 70's were better. I had a EVIL KENIVAL bike that was my favorite toy next to my G.I. Joe! LOL

My father was almost seriously injured when somebody shot a BB gun at him (not on purpose I don’t think) Your comment just made me think of this. Have a great day.

Yes, and you developed good common sense. I also had the pocket knives, real tree houses, played on the ice on lake Erie, rode my bike everywhere. We used to climb up and down the cliff in front of our lakeside home. Just developed skills, judgement and survived.👵

I grew up in the 80s and my self made log/stick cabin survived 5 years, the tree fort was less impressive. BB guns and pocket knives are just fine for boys that go on to play with guns and chainsaws. I'm more surprised that so many have survived the drug war.

I thought maybe it was to cover up personal names or something like that. Or maybe it was a silent killer thing. Lol. Thanks

Thank you for explaining that!

They do that in every video in all their channels, and they added this later to some videos that I've recently rewatched. I'm pretty sure it is not "an editing mistake" but rather deliberately done - I can only guess after a copyright claim by the newspaper whose clippings they used.

I was thinking they were supposed to scroll the (retyped) text from the newspaper across the dark spot in white (or light colored letters), but somehow got left out in the final edit.

Thanks for the explanation I figured it was some form of error

Oh yes, that was an "elixer" called Radithor and it took about three years for the guy's body to begin falling to pieces. Can be seen in the second story in this video: trshow.info/watch/8MpR4k3-edc/video.html&ab_channel=MrBallen

Ohhh...had my chemistry set in the 70's and conducted "experiments" on frogs. Imagine a bunch of dead frogs in front the house when the parents came home. Mom was horrified. Dad still laughs.

@Jason Hutter Damn :D

@DE VANOV I feel really bad about the frogs now, trust me. Im an animal lover.

@Jason Hutter I know the feeling. I washed my hamster when I was 10 years old and she died of hypothermia the next day. Didn't expect that. I thought you could wash and dry them and they'd be alright.

Well I'm glad you were okay!

Me two!

LMAO...says Ian's mom!!

👍👍👍 Absolutely.

Safety laws are written in blood.

My brother, while still in high school, installed electric wiring in his second floor bedroom and closet. Don't think that ever got checked for safety. We never had a problem with his wiring as long as our family lived in that house.

Joyce Brewer that's great, it isn't a guaranteed problem, but it can be. I also believe this is when someone who wasn't an electrician did the wiring on the whole house. Most states have laws saying that homes have to checked that they are up to code.

@Lizzie Cottrell This can happen whenever anyone does anything electrical to their house, even just replacing a bad socket or light switch if they do not know, nor did any research for anything electrical related. I bring this up as I've seen photos of sketchy wiring where it's nowhere close to code and it's a wonder it didn't burn the place down right away. This can be due to overloading a circuit for instance and the circuit breaker is over sized so does not trip (using a 15 amp circuit breaker when a 10amp is recommended, then the circuit overheats and starts a fire as the circuit breaker does not trip) kind of thing. I've read about, and seen one video of Steve Lavi having to get to a fuse panel, yes, a fuse panel and step over crap piled up in the room, only to find it was sketchy as hell due to pennies in place of fuses etc, totally unsafe and if I recall, he would not touch it as much of the house was in darkness as a result. The lady was elderly and a hoarder and lived alone. Another example, Matt that has a channel, the Fixer owns a house built in 1946 and over time before he bought the house, it had been chopped up in several places, and one was the basement stairs being moved and some of the floor framing was cut into, in spots pretty significantly. Other areas, additions were added and over time, the bathroom had a significant dip due to a support wall was moved, and it was all done by an amateur who didn't know what they were doing.

@Lizzie Cottrell - thank you for posting that. I moved to AR about 2 years ago and currently have a late 1890s house in contract for sale. I hired an inspector, who provided me a 90 page report. I saw some wacky electrical stuff that looked dangerous to my untrained eyes. The inspector called out the same thing and indicated that the electric had been done by a non licensed person. I will be re-doing the electric as one of the first things when I take possession of the place.

My grandpa built his own house in northern Arkansas which my dad owns now. My dad's evaluation when he went under the floor to check the wiring was "it's amazing this place hasn't burned down already". It's been there for 75 years now though, and we still stay there regularly.

My mother was a nurse in the 70s. No lipstick, earrings, or bright fingernail polish. No bracelets, and only wedding ring. Absolutely no perfume.

How fascinating!! Thank you for sharing!!

@Nibor Nnyw I was recently a patient overnight in a hospital. One of the nurses came on shift and she had a lot of some type of scent on (it was not exactly perfume but didn't smell like commercial deodorant either?). It immediately made me nauseous in my post op state, so I understand that rule completely!

The modern feminist loves to make the claim that women were not allowed to have careers until the rise of feminism saved us all. For generations before feminism, women did work if they wanted to or had to. Nursing is one of the hardest professions and it has always been primarily female led positions. Previous to the rise of feminism there was a high code that nurses had to obey... in the way they dressed and their actions. Today... these standards are almost inexistent. Nurses have multiple piercings, their hands are often filled with rings and many wear hideous perfumes. Uniforms are often wrinkled because ironing is a thing from the past and shoes are often scuffed and dirty. Sneakers are the most common footwear and there is no longer a uniform dress-code in most hospitals. How can anyone believe that women have come a long way, as the commercials love to say. Decades ago women were all well dressed, neat and clean... regardless of income. Today most women look as if they only comb their hair once a week. It really is a shame.

My father grounded our antenna. But, he had built two houses by then.

I’m a senior now and was always told to turn off and unplug the tv because it would blow up. I’m still weirded out watching tv during a storm.

Blew up his toilet--priceless!

I can recall the high school being evacuated when somebody concocted something that made the entire school stink of rotten eggs!

I wish recycling was more enforced.

Almost poetic. Your house as a big coffin.

That's worse than...a heart attack? Car accident? Diabetes? Not one breath is guaranteed.

*BOOM* a child.

This video is a giant hyperbole. The chance of anyone deing from asbestos in there house or a tiny bit of radiation from uranium in a chemistry set is virtually nil.

It was worse when the Pandemic of 1918 - 1919 showed up, right after World War I.

The ones that come to mind is the lawn darts, the slip and slide, the pogo ball, and the slap bracelets that became razers when they got warn out.

When I broke a fever thermometer, I was allowed to play with the beads of liquid mercury. No long, but bare hands pushing the beads around.

We also played with Mercury with our hands. It was a more innocent time. When everything wasn't dangerous and forbidden.

As long as you washed your hands with Comet after playing with mercury, you should've been ok! 😆 My brother has lice in the late 60s and my mom put gasoline on his scalp, before washing him 😳 No wonder he turned out to be a jerk. 😁

@Am GI think I used Lava 🧼 to wash after mercury play. We had some for dad to use getting heavy machine grease off his hands before eating.

My friends dad gave us a huge bottle of mercury to -lat with. We would dump it on the floor and slap it to make little balls fly everywhere

Same 🤣🤣

@Glade Swope It was the 50s. The 50s were all about atomics. Remember that this was before Chernobyl and 40+ years of anti nuclear propaganda, so it really was a different time.

@Glade Swope Well nuclear tech had just won WWII for America, so building an interest in it was viewed as a positive thing. Also, uranium itself doesn't give you a bomb. It's the refined, and insanely hard to make, isotopes that do that. Uranium is actually fairly common since you can pull it right out of sea water if you don't have any land deposits for instance.

Uranium is badass

Literally that part was so american it hurt

Oh yes….yes they did. Remember klick-klacks? The two resin balls on strings? When they shattered…. one could lose their vision. They came out decades after the chemistry kit.

I wanted a "toy" iron, so my mom put me to work ironing all the percale sheets with the real one! Learned my lesson!

Yes, I had one of those irons/ and ironing boards. And yes I got a terrible shock when using it. Sparks flew, I ran.

My mom talks about playing with balls of Mercury also

Loraine A - I was born that year, too. I remember when a thermometer broke and I let the little mercury balls roll around in my hand. I recently learned that something needs to be added to it in order for it to actually get into your skin.

Eating some mercury is fun too..🥴

@Freedom Watches Down at the morgue, they got characters who sneak around and harvest gold teeth and Silver Fillings from the dead. To get the silver separated from the amalgam they heat it up to melt the silver out. This vaporizes the Mercury and the fumes turn delicate lung tissue into tough rubber. I thought that was pretty interesting.

I'm looking for a mid century modern house right now lol I love that style! But prefer upgraded bathrooms with neutral colors lol

@Brittany Clark One of the bathrooms had a pink tub, toilet & sink. That's about as far from neutral as you can get 😉

And then they drove out the unions and CEO’s began making millions and billions and the stockholders did, too. So the profits went to a very, very few 1%’ers who could never get enough money and it just spiraled down. Then the Repubs enacted all sorts of tax reduction so the safety net collapsed and those top 1%’ers got even more wealth.

And how!

Chemistry set was probably recycled material that's why it's so cheap.

Problem solved.

Yup - but was it with the knife in the conservatory or with the wrench in the library? That we still don't know!

Sounds more like the bedroom did it.

@jlind52 no it was with the chemistry set in the living room

And notice how I am climbing these stairs in high heels 👠,

We had one until the mid-sixties, but most people had new ones by then, exxcept for one friend whose parents bought theirs after the war and never replaced it.

Thank you that's very helpful!

Wow. Thanks.

People like you are true heroes

Thx.. you gonna go far kid!

🙄

Same here, my mom brought home a little tube of mercury from work. My sister and I played with it till we spilled it on the sofa and it all scattered away.

My first teaching job was in the 60s in a rural school, and in the science cabinet was a heavy glass bottle filled with mercury. One of the parents worked in a science lab, and he was able to take care of it for me.

We all played with mercury at home and school in the 70s and 80s. Tbh the chemicals used in food and furniture today are far more prevalent and dangerous than back then!

As long as you didn’t ingest the Mercury then there is no problem.

@John PLike everything, it's absorbed through your skin. So rolling it around in your fingers isn't such a great idea- but back then they put mercury in our fillings near our brain, which I'm sure was a lot more toxic. And it did leach out and many an amalgam was swallowed. Even today some dentists still use it.😌

@Timmy O'Toole Exactly. Not all houses were dangerous.

The birth of advertising.

Future generations will view exploding mobile phones as a threat. It just wasn’t significant enough.

The kids born in the 50s now get sucker punched from the back by 'youths' while grocery shopping, just for fun and worldstar clout. I guess the dangers and threats change uh

Ah, yes! The Happy facade of the Upper/Middle/Lower Class American Families, circa 1950s/1960s.

You learned to practice caution rather than be coddled in padded rooms.

@Tales From The Abyss calm down, there bud

@Dawn I can't. I need it badly

@Tales From The Abyss lol well i'm not sure youtube is the best place to get that

@Dawn no no this is fine

@Tales From The Abyss aight, you sure? Just sayin, you might not have much luck here, my guy.

It was harder to find authoritative information before the internet. You just had to ask someone, and often they were full of it

in the classes below the middle class.. the system doesn't promote or support family. no. housing and jobs don't support comfort or functionality; and, products targeting us is about how best to numb yourself from this economic power structure. the rich(you) have created for themselves a Utopia, while telling the unrich, the poor and humble, *you can't live on love*.

@Keetah Brough I'm really not sure how you can imply I was rich, when you really don't know anything about me. My father worked his butt off doing 3 jobs. Obviously the jobs didn't pay much, otherwise he wouldn't have had to work 3 of them. Just because you have a job doesn't mean it pays much. He worked, 1 full time, and two part time jobs, just to ensure we made it. My mother worked part time. Which is why I came up with a lawn mowing thing. We figured out ways to make it work.. Just because we did projects didn't mean we were rich. We were no where near it..We did these projects because we could not afford to have anyone else do it. So to avoid our only place to live falling apart, it required us all to do our part. We lived in a tiny 3 bedroom house at 975 square feet, (I just looked the square footage up, so it's accurate). That square footage nowadays might get you a two bedroom apartment depending on where you live, that's how small it was. Our beds were donated by friends and family. Before we got the beds I had a cot. There were three of us in a room, just barely big enough to fit the beds in. There was no AC except a fan and an open window. But we didn't complain. We all worked to make ends meet. This was back in the 1960's. So being safety conscious was extremely important to us because we couldn't afford someone having to go to the hospital. As far as love goes, when you have a family as big as ours was crammed into a tiny house, you better believe we made it many months on love. You have to if you are going to make it work in such tight living conditions. If you're wondering why I responded in such detail, it's because my father, and mentor passed away a few months back, and I suppose we are all still a bit emotional about it If you are talking about now, currently I live the life I do from serving most of my adult life in the Military. My family sacrificed having a normal life so others didn't have to. Placing myself in harms way wasn't a way to get rich. It was a way to serve my country, and again to make ends meet. I'm now in my 60's, and can hardly move due to chronic pain. I wouldn't call that living a rich life.

yep nothing like helping dad on his day off/ re paneling my bed room

@no peace And those same people full of it are giving information on the internet 😂.

I think I had that! My brother called it "a mad scientist kit"!

Yuk on the freeze dried frog🐸

I was watching an old episode of Ozzie and Harriett that l have on DVD. There's a guy in a commercial for Sucrets throat lozenges. He has a sore throat and you feel sorry for him. Then, the narrator says. "...and you can even use them while smoking" as the guy lights up a cigarette. Riiigght, like smoking is going to help that sore throat!

You are still alive, aren't you?

Same here with the mosquito fogger going through the neighborhood! Yikes! 🤪

Hey! I was born in 1953. I remember the mosquito fogger. Maybe my family was smarter than the average bear, but we knew not to play outside when the truck came down the road.

Are you ok

I got it from not washing lettuce. It was horrible. Luckily in the basement was a very small bathroom with the sink directly across from the toilet. I really appreciated that design at the time. I was 33 and in fairly good health. I suffered severely for a good 4 days straight. Please wash your lettuce even if it says that it's washed already.

@Lori Miller look at it this way.."Your troubles were BEHIND you" lol my elderly Grandfather used to say that to me all the time when we had "bathroom" issues . Or the runs lol. Your troubles are behind ya ;)

I think I went to high school with Sal Monella

Look up the history guy episode The Doctor who washed his hands. You'll be exponentially more frustrated with that story but it's really good.

Sounds like you had graphe ne in your chem set😅

It's amazing just how effective all the fire prevention work in terms of community outreach, school events, PSAs, etc has been. Anytime I saw someone doing something unsafe with fire, even as far back as a kid in the 90s, someone (often multiple people at once) would immediately speak up and put the Fear of Fiery Death into whoever was being irresponsible. Even the people with zero personal experience with fire would speak up, often being the first to do so, which if you think about it really is incredible and shows just how effective the outreach has been. Not that it stopped any of us from playing from fire, of course, but at least we were safe about it. When one kid told us he found some random spray could be held in your palm while on fire pretty safely, nobody there was willing to be the first to test it. A few people went as far as verifying they knew where the nearest extinguisher were in case his demonstration failed. Even when everyone else wanted to try it, they always started with the tiniest amount of spray. On the other hand I get the impression that if you went around in the 50s and offered to set people's hands on fire after you sprayed something on it, a lot of people would agree on the spot and wouldn't even think to check the label of what's in the spray.

My Grandparents emptied their ashtrays in a sand bucket at night

rule in our house was they were emptied into a metal can and the can was filled with water then tossed out in the burn barrel every couple of days, NEVER INTO THE DRY TRASH CANS ALL ASHTRAYS WERE PLACED ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER OVERNIGHT.

Jack Cassidy, David's Father died from being drunk and passing out with a cigarette. He set the whole place on fire. Extremely sad situation.

@Lori Miller Thank you for your informative comment. Jack Cassidy's untimely death was a great loss to me and others. Damn cigarettes are a real killer no doubt. Jack's way of comedy was just fine. He brought out smiles and laughter. R.I.P. Jack...

They weren’t saying the people were dumb. They were literally saying what you just said: much of this stuff was new, and there were all kinds of dangers until more stuff was figured out. Relax.

@rage'n ribbons - What they actually kept saying is that none of this was the fault of the users, but rather everything was the fault of the product creators. The man dropping a ladder on someone was the fault of the companies pushing that people could DIY projects. The woman sticking a knife into a toaster was the fault of the toaster company. The people dropping burning objects onto furniture was the fault of the plastic manufacturers. The people not opening a window next to a gas boiler was the fault of the boiler manufacturer - ad nauseum.

Thalidomide?

Yeah, we heard about your "rigid laws in Germany"

Why? The only toy they mentioned was chemistry sets.

@Big Baller The pre-60´s toys had lead on its paint which is dangerous to even touch them as paint cracks and falls on your fingers when the toy is touched or handled. The plushes also had dangerous products to keep leather soft and on its place for a long time in daily playing

Sad because the 1940 "Box-O-Glass" was quite sparkly.

Where is batman and Robin lmao.

@Jimmy Duncan Don't forget Irwin Mainway's Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk, with 2 real switchblades at the push of a button. Oh and I almost forgot, the Bag O' Nails, and the Bag O' Vipers.

Most of what is blacked out is being read.

Indeed, it is very irritating!! I may not even finish the video.

Maybe if shown they would have to pay or acknowledge someone/something.

Video editor’s first day on the job? It would look nice if the black smoke effect was more transparent, but someone clearly messed up here.