This educational film shows what life was like in North Carolina in the 1950's
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@catherinemcneill70458 ай бұрын
Born and raised in NC and know all these places. A special time, and a special State.
@MegaBait16168 ай бұрын
It's changing now :-(
@tracey5215Ай бұрын
Me too!!
@yesorlando054 жыл бұрын
North Carolina is a gorgeous state, then and now.
@Gonzoweirdo14 жыл бұрын
Yep. As it is everywhere too. I only wish that we could get rid of COVID-19 sooner. This video was closer to another pandemic in history. The Spanish flu of 1918 was a closer time period to this video, which was much like now in 2020 that we are living in, and like we have lived in all year. I’m still a little disappointed that we had that bathroom bill almost five years ago. I’m not worried about it anymore though. COVID-19 is a huge huge huge deal I mean COVID-19 is bigger than 9/11 was. This will go down in history COVID-19 will definitely go down in history. It’s big because so many people have died this whole year since March. We had no idea. It’s bigger because it’s still going on. It’s getting a little bit better absolutely. We have a long ways to go though. They’re working on that seems right now as we speak. Big-time I mean. They are on schedule. It’s unheard of. They knew how big of an emergency this COVID-19 pandemic has been. COVID-19 will be remembered for 100 years. It will be over sooner than we think.
@RuthEdelstein Жыл бұрын
@@Gonzoweirdo1 it was all a scam. and you're right it was bigger than the spanish flu because of the corruption we've been seeing since 2020, some of us saw it earlier.
@Gonzoweirdo1 Жыл бұрын
@@RuthEdelstein I honestly think that when the COVID-19 respiratory illness was at the pandemic phase we just lived through was in my opinion the second worst pandemic we just lived through it it was the second worst in my opinion I think honestly since the bubonic plague the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic when the COVID-19 infectious disease was the pandemic that we just went through that started in Wuhan, China 3 years ago was the same death toll Worldwide as The Thirty Years’ War from 1618 to 1648 The Catholic War that was fought in Westphalia, Europe in the 17th Century. I mean what? When COVID-19 started out as the Global pandemic we just went though right it killed what? Over 6 million people around the world in a matter of what? 20 months right? I mean that’s as many as The Thirty Years’ War if you study which I study history all the time it should be studied more in today’s World in my honest opinion World history, The Thirty Years’ War in Westphalia, Germany from 1618 to 1648 killed as a result somewhere roughly between 4 million, and 12 million lives which is as many as COVID-19’s pandemic phase we just lived through killed. We always think of World War I, and World War II as the worst wars but The Thirty Years’ War was just as deadly, and it was also just as costly if not worse. Trust me. The Thirty Years’ War was extremely catastrophic. We just lived through what it probably must have or what it probably would have felt like to be Louis XIII in 2020, and in parts of 2021. COVID-19’s pandemic phase was the closest in modern times we in our lifetime will ever have felt to The Thirty Years’ War or The Bubonic Plague except COVID-19’s pandemic phase was in the 21st-century not the 17th-century. But we felt how our great human ancestors must have felt only in modern times. The plague, and the 30 years war was the same exact thing as COVID-19’s pandemic phase. It’s just that it was in our lifetime.
@Gonzoweirdo1 Жыл бұрын
@@RuthEdelstein The only difference between COVID-19’s pandemic phase, and The Thirty Years’ War was COVID-19’s pandemic phase was a pandemic widespread disease, and The Thirty Years’ War was a widespread war. I’ll be honest with you The Thirty Years’ War was also kind-of a pandemic I’m just being honest. I’m just gonna be honest things were dangerous everywhere just like in 2020 in The year 1625. Fighting was out there we had to not let our guard down we couldn’t go outside we couldn’t see people we couldn’t be in the world because there was widespread fighting Worldwide daily. People died every second honestly from a wound. Even on ships. There were even pirates that committed acts of piracy in that war. There was no United States at the time of The Thirty Years’ War. But even if there was a North American continent with people even if there were some inhabitants they still had to defend themselves due to the war. The world was tragic during that war. Human lives turned upside down when The Thirty Years’ War started. What ended the war just like vaccines, immunity from prior infection, and treatments ended the pandemic of COVID-19 we just lived through? The Peace of Westphalia. Sound familiar?
@NC_SUGAR Жыл бұрын
@@Gonzoweirdo1 Ben, I have worked in a Charlotte and Matthews NC Hospital all through the pandemic. We had a tough time with covid but it was never what the news led people to believe. I know because I lived it every 12 hour shift.
@beverlyauerbach91613 жыл бұрын
Grew up in NC and graduated High School in 1955. This film brought back memories of my youth
@daddygrace2532 жыл бұрын
Racist memories I am sure. I was born in Durham in 1955 in the then segregated Duke Hospital. Durham was a racist and segregated town. I was forced to attend the all white Durham High School in 1970 due to desegregation. I left Durham in 1973 after graduating from High School for New York City (Manhattan) and I never looked back.
@sherrisolomon8673 Жыл бұрын
@@daddygrace253 New York is past it's glory days.
@MegaBait16168 ай бұрын
@@sherrisolomon8673 , yep Way Past...... ne well.
@terrybane62064 жыл бұрын
Priceless footage.....
@CCC3213 жыл бұрын
This makes me SO NOSTALGIC! I grew up with all this fabulous world. Now it's all gone replaced with banks and crap.
@marlaacolee Жыл бұрын
downtown washington NC still has some of their historic storefronts you should visit if you haven’t already!
@Maitairanch Жыл бұрын
Notice how nice the architecture is.. it’s like our society is digressing 100 years later
@mountainslapstick61704 ай бұрын
Corporate greed is ruining the ability to build anything nice - now its just as cheap and as fast as possible
@knoxcarmack86485 жыл бұрын
If they had a world champion auctioneer this guy at the Tobacco Warehouse would be the world champion he's got to be the best I ever heard
@lisagee33184 жыл бұрын
Though I live in the city is something about the south you never forget it's like Brooklyn wherever you go I don't know if you understand that that's what it is Doe it is time that doesn't get lost with range and range doesn't get lost with time the respect for the South I can't say you know I guess it's just a Brooklyn way of speaking for respect especially when I didn't build the school
@jamesonquinn69503 жыл бұрын
sandy Houston
@wholmmovies4 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see what things were like back then. It's important to remember the past and our history - so we can value, respect and preserve the good parts, and improve on all the rest.
@NC_SUGAR Жыл бұрын
They still have singing on the mountain once a year in Asheville. The mountain people and bluegrass singers and pickers gather and it's such a good time
@MegaBait16168 ай бұрын
yes they do....... but Asheville has changed.... smh. East San Fran now.
@MYvesAllaire6 ай бұрын
This is when we had JOBS in NC - tobacco, textiles, furniture manufacturing, banking, finance, and insurance were all big employers before those manufacturing jobs moved to China and other places with low pay workers.
@LayDeeTee12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this video! 😊 Reminds me of days gone by in Eastern Carolina.
@Vivaldi1Dvorak24 жыл бұрын
That auctioneer barker is awesome!
@kingarcher55572 жыл бұрын
Love too see the how it looks then compared to now. A lot is just the same as it has been. Makes me proud of my little mountain town.
@jeffbryan401911 ай бұрын
I lived near UNC Chapel Hill for a year and in Wilmington for three years . I love our weather and friendly towns across our great state . We are blessed with beautiful beaches and mountains .
@williammay53003 жыл бұрын
This show the true beauty of North Carolina!! I hope someday soon they bring this film 🎥 up to 4k HD!!
@DistanceNsVeterans3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes this a good old film and I remmber when the Atlantic coast line railroad use to own my train station which was built in 1924 befor amtrak took over my state rail line had 5 tracks befor but now it just has 2 tracks
@kennyhill26783 жыл бұрын
I'm from The Other Mecklenburg.. Across the line. Nothing could be finer, than to be in Carolina
@jeromebrooks82093 жыл бұрын
North Carolina is home to 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. It would have been nice to get a glimpse of African-American life in NC during this time.
@BecomingCharles3 жыл бұрын
Facts
@christinagraham29153 жыл бұрын
This was the 50s and you already know why they didnt .
@daddygrace2532 жыл бұрын
@@christinagraham2915 😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
@christinagraham29152 жыл бұрын
@@daddygrace253 🥲
@adanreyes13042 жыл бұрын
In Wilson NC, in the 50’s. the KKK was very active. like very active. They try and push all that to side and forget it. Shame.
@midnightgt463 жыл бұрын
me being from north carolina this is really cool
@KP-do2ss3 жыл бұрын
My mom and Dad were in high school then. They raised us here and my siblings and I never left.
@midnightgt463 жыл бұрын
@@KP-do2ss i am still in highschool but i don't plan on leaving ever
@Lucas.Dunn243 жыл бұрын
This makes some of the city’s look bigger than they are now
@leonation892 жыл бұрын
So it's not just me?
@BR-ci4ud Жыл бұрын
You aren't wrong. A lot of buildings throughout the US that existed pre 1960s have been demolished to make space for parking lots.
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
parking lots screwed our cities
@Cuteflu102 жыл бұрын
CAROLINA PANTHERS ------------------------------------ The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team is headquartered in Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte; the stadium also serves as the team's home field. The Panthers are supported throughout the Carolinas; although the team has played its home games in Charlotte since 1996, they played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina during its first season.
@sandraforeman6202 жыл бұрын
How about "Uncle Sam's Pawn Shop????? Charlotte was a wonderful place to grow up in....then.
@MegaBait16168 ай бұрын
sadly the state is changing with loads from mid-west n west coast now..... I'll take a yankee over them.... be well.
@lockedin604 жыл бұрын
My how things have changed. I do not think we are a leader in any of the industries listed here now. We maybe a leader in engineering or electronics It always grabs me watching men and women of the 1950s wearing dresses and common wear.
@mahz25824 жыл бұрын
We are leaders in medicine and pharmaceutical practices and manufacturing
@suzannedemos46652 жыл бұрын
looks like some other planet. what did we do to ourselves?
@Prophetessdaejaligula2 жыл бұрын
The enemy came in more and more
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
capitalism
@cobrakai97933 жыл бұрын
Back when Durham was known for tobacco and not shootings....sigh
@jamesonquinn69503 жыл бұрын
yes sir
@dangerskilzkiboykins44332 жыл бұрын
Tobacco has killed more people then gun violence
@DG-xj7pm2 жыл бұрын
@@dangerskilzkiboykins4433 it's prob not the tobacco as much as it is the additives and chemicals.
@johngotti2992 жыл бұрын
@@dangerskilzkiboykins4433 I smoke tobacco everyday and I’m in great health. Some people smoke tobacco everyday and live to be 100.
@jonp182 жыл бұрын
The first and only time I visited Durham I went to the streets at Southpoint mall and there was a shooting, I’m not going there again
@robscott8296 Жыл бұрын
Boy I love my state
@365DaysofRockNRoll3 жыл бұрын
Bothers me to think how Peaceful NC was back then, now in Raleigh.. there are Shootings every single day.
@gtas3212 жыл бұрын
It wasn't peaceful. Black people were being hung from trees every single day.
@christinagraham29152 жыл бұрын
Lmao u R lying
@brianblack121 Жыл бұрын
@@christinagraham2915 Compared to back then, it is true!
@johndang887 Жыл бұрын
@@brianblack121 don’t bother trying to convince an ape from the same group doing the shootings. they’re going to call you racist and deny any statistic or observation.
@jeffbryan401911 ай бұрын
Wilmington is bad with shootings too . Durham and Kinston even more.
@bjdon993 ай бұрын
NC in the pre-AC days would have been a tough place to spend the summers
@fordtruxdad515511 күн бұрын
It sure was! No AC even in stores, churches, schools, etc. My Grandpa used to sleep on the screen porch in the Summer. Everybody else just had to lie there, drenched, until you fell asleep from sheer exhaustion!
@chrisfloyd92243 жыл бұрын
When they showed the boats racing, I just knew they'd mention CMS, I was wrong.
@Louis-kk3to2 ай бұрын
If you go down I 95 at night nowadays Roanoke Rapids NC is the brightness city along the east and south coast 😮
@SkipElsheimer4 жыл бұрын
C'mon ABC11, no attribution? Is this a version of Variety Vacationland?
@I_Wish_I_Was_Home2 жыл бұрын
wow, my city charlotte in the 50s, home to the hornets ball club at the time
@coffeehubby3 жыл бұрын
My father's world
@gentlemangaz36512 жыл бұрын
Wish i grew up in these times
@maleekpate67702 жыл бұрын
I love my state
@owenshi89804 жыл бұрын
Where is 19.03. Please
@Tanay_Vyas11 күн бұрын
Wilmington is my favorite.
@alexaandpanther4922 жыл бұрын
Y’all did my boy dirty😭 9:00
@brianblack121 Жыл бұрын
Alexa and Panther... He was smiling!!! 😊😊😊
@altnap Жыл бұрын
3:16 ahh yes the family
@k3llybird3 ай бұрын
NICE
@dirtyd79315 ай бұрын
They do have the best peanuts. If you like peanuts especially boiled peanuts they got it locked down.
@forestjohnson74747 ай бұрын
0:35 did anyone catch that UFO?
@ScarletDestiney Жыл бұрын
The only time you see any poc in this vid is of them working, not having fun like everyone else. :/
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
yep, most blacks didn’t earn enough money to have fun
@knightlife226 ай бұрын
I have so many questions that I already know the answer to. As an all life North Carolinian this made me a bit uncomfortable.
@forestjohnson74747 ай бұрын
7:59 wrong, peanuts aren't nuts, they're beans.
@Teslaroadster802 жыл бұрын
THATS MY provinces
@user-is9hq1qq7i4 ай бұрын
I remember moving to Winston-Salem in the late 80s and the whole city smelled like tobacco as soon one arrives ?
@eglyshernandezgarcia404 Жыл бұрын
Everything was made in America 🇺🇸 😢
@WariorOfPeace2 жыл бұрын
So sad to see children being made to work tobacco fields. This was a dark time in our history in the way we treated people.
@ronaldcorey85352 жыл бұрын
Not really. At least kids back then had a little work ethic. Also, nowadays we just use modern-day indentured servitude by exploiting workers from Mexico and Central America.
@daddygrace2532 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldcorey8535 What do you think slavery and Jim Crow laws were?
@NC_SUGAR Жыл бұрын
My folks picked cotton. They were kids. Nobody made them. They did it for very little money but it was a job they could do and they liked earning the little bit of money. They got paid by the pound. Wasn't much but it was something.
@NC_SUGAR Жыл бұрын
@@daddygrace253 During this film time there was no slavery and white kids picked cotton as well. My folks did. It was a job kids could do and one of the few jobs kids were allowed to do to make a little money.
@jeffbryan401911 ай бұрын
The hard working kids of that bygone era were much more respectful than the cell phone addicts of today with their potty language . Spoiled beyond measure . My parents grew up helping in the tobacco fields and they never expressed any regrets whatsoever !
@mariaw.47802 жыл бұрын
White people and Black people working side by side in the fields in the American South. ... Some times really do change!
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar2 жыл бұрын
Or proves others wrong from want they thought. Because as they say today "being naive means what you believe is immediately correct"
@WariorOfPeace2 жыл бұрын
Those were children… this is illegal today
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar2 жыл бұрын
@@WariorOfPeace labor? Yah go sit on your confidant sofa while your mother gets you a glass of lemonade.
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarchildren shouldn’t work
@MooPotPie4 жыл бұрын
8:57 'nuf said
@gilbertgrape99694 жыл бұрын
He was a kid worker, probably hasn’t seen a camera before! I bet that “young” man is still alive, I hope he sees this or has seen this footage.
@angeloramen41384 жыл бұрын
LMAOOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣
@MrJames14713 жыл бұрын
@@gilbertgrape9969 I think he knows. He literally smiled for the camera at 9:00.
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar2 жыл бұрын
@@gilbertgrape9969 this isn't 1700...god you kids really haven't learned anything about history as much as you believe. God you act like you just aced the history of each decades test since you seem so confident in that analogy.
@rajerrell5 ай бұрын
No mention of NC being one of if not THE most racist locations on earth. Then and today. I worked in Durham in a printing shop for Ligget Myers i. 1967. I moved there from a little farm town in Indiana at 17 years old. It was the first time I lived in a city with anyone that was not white. ”Colored” bathrooms was the last of it. It was unspoken death for a black man to even talk to a white girl especially alone. 1967 I remind you. It is different today but the hatred undercurrent is still palpable. Shane on the entire south. I now live in Seattle. Yup, there are lots of problems here but there is zero racism that I've personally seen. The diversity is so great essentially no single group is treated badly. Yes, homelessness and economic problems plague us but we're trying to find solutions that face us here peacefully.
@chosenkidonlyforplanes14622 жыл бұрын
Everybody here been Billy and Grape street crip and 20 doves ever since we was babies from Brack Willson park and born richer doing better than these lames forces family members to palpitate each other instead of us or get jumped
@willjsoden4 жыл бұрын
If the state would legalize marijuana it could be fucking amazing for our economy were it handled right. Fucking tobacco though.
@luvendertabon63674 жыл бұрын
Beautiful and such a shame there was so much racism
@RandomHud4 жыл бұрын
*eye roll*
@yesindeed21513 жыл бұрын
It's always the racist who finds racism in everything. People like you are so sickening.
@combatveteran2403 жыл бұрын
@@yesindeed2151 you deny history
@combatveteran2403 жыл бұрын
@@RandomHud its true
@dmccalldds3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately there will always be people who see the world through the lens of race first.
@chriswaters3442 Жыл бұрын
UNC … proud home of the lab that brought SARS-COV2 to the world!!!
@ExPhysWithG3 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry to make you all feel angry about your world changing from what THIS was. But remember it was all propaganda and there was evil stuff happening to people right here in NC.
@christinagraham29153 жыл бұрын
Facts
@DistanceNsVeterans3 жыл бұрын
Well yea true about my state
@NC-18612 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@nathanielovaughn21452 жыл бұрын
As in every other town, state, and nation the world over, mighty flighty grasshopper. 🙄 🤣
@ctlefler86842 жыл бұрын
@Robert Actually, crime rates peaked in the 80s and 90s, and have now returned to similar levels of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. You just hear about the crime more often because of the internet, television, and a higher population.
@gatheringleaves2 жыл бұрын
Ugh, what an awful time period in history
@brianblack121 Жыл бұрын
Infinite Sky ... You must be talking about present day!!!
@NC_SUGAR Жыл бұрын
NO, It really was not an awful time.
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
@@NC_SUGARit was a shitty time
@Recluse6162 жыл бұрын
Look at all these racist people.
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar2 жыл бұрын
Who are right next to African American folks working with them...yah really racist.
@nicelol524110 ай бұрын
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarthey work with blacks, they aren’t racist at all lmao there were very much racist comments made by these people complaining about blacks working
@Owl3506 ай бұрын
Caucasian isn't a race.
@tiffanyfoy10395 жыл бұрын
Soo is this what make America great again means?😒😒😒😞
@chrisalley62825 жыл бұрын
Yeah yeah we get it... "Orange Man Bad....blah blah blah....Patriarchy...blah blah blah...White Privilege....blah blah blah..." ad infinitum ad nauseum. God forbid that Whites and Blacks, Gay and Straight, men and women get along and tolerate each other.
@PricelessDes4 жыл бұрын
calihartley2010 well where will you be going?
@yesorlando054 жыл бұрын
What in the heck does this 65 year old video have to do with MAGA? I mean, wow lol.
@jairousl.parkersr.42934 жыл бұрын
Yes, industry will and putting people back to work like when we produced and exported quality products instead of importing inferior ones.
@moonlightlady61263 жыл бұрын
@@yesorlando05 Some people blame Republicans for everything. It's become a timeless joke now because few are listening.