1920s interview with 99-year-old man born in 1829

An interview from 1977 with 108 year-old Florence Pannell. She was born in 1868 and talks about life in the Victorian era

94 year old former slave owner interviewed in 1929

The fact he was born 14 years before the invention of the telegraph and lived to see the beginning of the radio era is a better historical metric than his age.

He is a biological time bridge. When he was born (1829), the fastest speed a human could travel was a galloping horse. There was no photography, no telegraph, and no electricity. By the time he sat for this interview, humans had invented cars, airplanes, radios, and sound film. His brain had to update its operating system from the "Candlelight Era" to the "Industrial Age" in a single lifetime.

The United States shortly before his birth

Tell that to Dick

George Washington passed away just thirty years before this guy was born. The War of 1812 ended 15 years before he was born.

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Gen X is going to be the last generation with any real knowledge of how everything got here, and certainly the last generation to actually know how any of it works…

bros seen some things

My gramps used to tell me about riding the rails as a hobo (a bum doesn’t work for meal )and how they would mark a place that was nice so next hobo could go. He was born 1887. Lotta info I passed to my kids. I’m 75 now. Grew up reading with kerosene lamp myself.

Amazing. But a man born in 1829 would have 91 years of age in 1920.

imagine living from horse carts to skyscrapers, thats wild. what a legend.

You can hear the hint of British accent

This is like time traveling... Fascinating

the number of things that this guy lived through is unreal

what a humble man

2020’s ==> watching a 100 year old interview with a 100 year old man technology is cool

So much happened in the 1800's

bruh, that dude witnessed like three centuries of chaos.

Interesting, very clear and polite English language and it seems little cognitive problems for this kind of age. Impressed! 😯

yes... the Dick Van Dyke @iammrvandy of his day

Living history, literally! 🎥 Talk about a timeless investment in stories.

Whoa, that's wild! 🤯 Imagine the stories he could tell. 😮 Tell me more! 🤔

I don't hear him

Prof Byrne! I had him for a business class in college in 1985!

Wow

It surprises me how much doesn't change people they may stay the same in important ways but how many people have made the same mistakes that have caused their downfall.

To think…. He was born almost 200 years ago

Dude lived through the Civil War and indian wars and the only thing he wants to talk about is "yeah, the buildings are way taller now"

He was 35 when Lincoln was assassinated!!

He must have born the wisdom of the ages