SH Archive Interview with a Woman Born in 1881

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David Hoffman is a documentarian with decades of interviews. His interviews interest me. I thought they may interest some of you as well. Here is an interview he did in 1979 with a woman born in 1881. No watershed revelations other than when this woman was born, transportation was a horse or a train, but in 1979 she sits in an airconditioned home with a tv on behind her and a motion picture camera before her.

At 12:50, though, she talks about the years 1901 to 1929. Going from Philadelphia to Boston was "going on a trip". Roads today clock that drive at 306 miles. Makes me think about all the World Fairs from that time and how many people supposedly attended them, as I have seen others posit this same question here.

Maybe ya'll can find things I missed.

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Today, we are introduced to new tech through the tv or internet, but the first time a person saw a car move, it was real time. No preparation. That feeling of awe and wonderment always fascinated me, but I've never felt it.
In my childhood, I always asked every person of the appropriate age:
-What did you think when you saw a car for the first time?
-What did you think when you saw an airplane in the sky or actually rode in one for the first time?
-What was it like to see tv for the first time?
-What did you think when man landed on the moon?

Bill Clinton had this to say about the moonlanding in his 2004 autobiography, My Life, "Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon...The old carpenter asked me if I really believed it happened. I said sure, I saw it on television. He disagreed; he said that he didn't believe it for a minute, that 'them television fellers' could make things look real that weren't. Back then, I thought he was a crank. During my eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if he wasn't ahead of his time."

The interviews with The Silent Generation (Greatest Generation) on how they viewed the Boomer generation, and the interviews with young Boomers in the 60's and how they felt about their parents show that nothing has changed. Parents overcorrect their child-rearing based on what they felt they didn't get from their parents. Gen Xers, the latch key generation, the product of divorce, became helicopter parents. Perhaps adulthood is just chasing unfulfilled dreams of our childhood through our children...

All kinds of cool stuff on his channel.

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Username: esgee1
Date: 2020-01-12 04:16:04
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I love it when she mentions that during the winter time they prayed for snow. Since it was easier to get around on a sleigh!

David Hoffman posts some very interesting historical videos. He's interviewed a lot of people in the 20th century. I discovered his his youtube channel last year and recommend it as well to our members here.

 

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Username: whitewave
Date: 2020-01-12 19:19:50
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Being an old biddy myself, I can remember when plastic trash can liners hit the market. All us kids were ecstatic. No more having to spend Sunday afternoons with a garden hose washing out the trash cans. What a miracle of science, we thought. Can you imagine yourself today getting even mildly interested in plastic trash can liners? I also remember when microwaves were first available for sale to the public. It was a magic box that used invisible "something" to cook your food in minutes instead of hours. Like any magic object it was not without it's dangers. When we first got one we would huddle around the humming dark box waiting with anticipation for that buzzer that would tell us we could now eat without having had to slave over a hot stove. Occasionally things would explode instead. I still have one but it's just used as a glorified coffee warmer. My kids are into raw vegan, Paleo or keto trendy diets that require careful, laborious preparations. They warn me of the hazards of plastic and microwaves. (They're probably right). In their efforts to "go green" they're back to doing things the way I did as a kid. There is nothing new under the sun.

 

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Username: Searching
Date: 2020-01-12 19:37:15
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Being an old biddy myself, I can remember when plastic trash can liners hit the market. All us kids were ecstatic.

Reminds me of this scene from The Graduate:

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-01-12 23:35:34
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UAP had this to say about historical interviews.

Hoax 1850 Historical Interviews

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• 12/16/19

I’m showing you why I think something huge happened in 1850, and more evidence of the coverup...

 

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Username: Searching
Date: 2020-01-13 00:36:30
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As far as UAP pointing out some of the people don't look as old as they portray themselves to be, maybe.
On one hand, we're told these people lived a hard life, had no access to modern medicine, worked physical labor jobs, and as a result, had shorter lifespans.
On the other hand, we're told modern medicine, GMO food, and working non-labor jobs causes us to have shorter lifespans.

Ultimately, its up to the individual which story he wants to believe.

 

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Username: whitewave
Date: 2020-01-13 00:37:22
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Things like this may be evidence that what we think of as "the reset" could have been, not a singular event but, a series of localized catastrophic events over a protracted period of time. Such a scenario would account for why the world seems to have no memory or records of a worldwide reset. If say, over a 200-300 year period, natural calamities (volcanoes, tsunamis, comets, etc.) devastated several large swathes of landscape, the survivors wouldn't necessarily assume the entire world was affected (true). Perhaps the world was once a relatively calm place but, for whatever reason, it began a period of sporadic upheavals which is still ongoing. Lethal and unpredictable natural ocurences for which there is no preparation or warning would be paralyzing news and not something you'd want the population learning. Creating a narrative with anecdotal confirmation like the above interview allays people's fears. The entire official story seems to be working to quell fears of widespread calamity and prevent close scrutiny into historical events. In my lifetime I've seen news of 3 disasters so intense that they altered the axis of the planet yet there's no panic in the streets and people continue to show up for work.

 

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Username: esgee1
Date: 2020-01-13 01:30:21
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The feller in the video who said he was 110 I think said that in jest. He didn't mean it as fact.