The Year is 1922
Very interesting for all ages.
The year is 1922,"One hundred years ago."
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for Year 1922:


The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.

Fuel for cars was sold in drug stores only.

Only 14 percent of homes had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of homes had a telephone.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.

The average US wage in 1922 was 22 cents per hour.

The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000 per year.

A dentist earned $2,500 per year.

A veterinarian between $1,500 and 4,000 per year.

And, a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births took place at home

Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND in the government as "substandard."


Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women washed their hair once a month . and, used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed law prohibiting poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

The Five leading causes of death wer

1 Pneumonia and influenza
2 Tuberculosis
3 Diarrhea
4 Heart disease
5 Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars ...

The population of Las Vegas , Nevada was only 30.

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.

There was neither a Mother's Day nor Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write And, only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were available over the counter at local drugstores. Back then pharmacists said: "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach, bowels, and is a perfect guardian of health!" (Shocking?)

Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help..

There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.
I am now going to forward this to someone else without typing it myself. From there, it will be sent to others all over WORLD all in a matter of seconds! It is impossible to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.

AHHH 1922 I remember it well. I could still get a speeding ticket for running to fast back then.

The one line about women washing their hair once a month.

That cracked me up.

100 years is not a lot of time.

When I think of all I have seen come into existence in my life. Wow.

Exponential growth like a snowball rolling down a hill.

It is hard to imagine where this world is going. From 0 AD to 2022 is a grain of sand on the beach of time.

Just try to imagine 4044.

Almost impossible to imagine.

Skynet will become self-aware long before 4044.

My great grandmother use to tell me stories about how they waded across the Ohio river in the summers.

That helps explain the short life expectancy.

For much of man existence not much changed.

Life without electricity, cars etc. was all about time spent on survival.

So much time was spent just on what was then the chores of normal life.

In the last hundred years normal life advancements have been staggering.

182 years ago.

I miss my Grandma.

I always thought in amazing that in 66 years we went from first powered flight (Kitty Hawk 1903) to flying to and landing man on the moon 1969.

Think of all the airplanes that flew in the 1940's from 1903, I think that is remarkable.

And to think, they landed a man on the moon in 1969 and haven't been back since.
And if you think about it, there is no reason for a man to ever go back to the moon, with robotics so advanced, it's surely easier to build a whole world of ant sized robots, which weigh less, and send them to explore space instead.
You could send a half a million ant sized robots into outer space, each with an individual mission, and still be less than the weight of 1 human probably, who can only do one individual mission and requires food and sleep.

182 years ago. 161.5 miles was the worlds longest railroad, and the worlds' first postage stamp was produced. 1840.
I wonder if they had cigarettes in 1840.
(Some Brittish Queen, Queen Victoria, married her cousin?, that means they had the same grandfather, or same grandmother. ) Year 1840.
When did they build the railroads.

Before Dams, you could walk across the entire span of the Ohio River in periods of dry weather. (Boat travel would have been impossible)
Congress Authorized the Canalization of the Ohio in 1878.
1878, that's pretty late

Think how quickly we have lost those skills. Think how quickly people are going to die when the stuff hits the fan and we are going to need those skills. How quickly people are going to riot and loot to find necessary items.

Think how quickly we could lose the knowledge we have gained over the last few hundred years. Without their smart phone, most people are lost.

My degree in college was in Anthropology. Although I never made a living in it. I have remained interested.

A survival skillset in a changing world requires a knowledge of many skills.

Our ancient ancesters actually used their brains more than the people of today as odd as that sounds.

If some natural catastrophe like a mega volcano or asteroid happened. Those who survived the initial event. Many would perish.

They don't have the ability cope and adapt. Some do. Many do not.

80 years between the civil war and ww2. Went from fighting with muskets to nuclear weapons.

Death by Diarrhea, Tough times.

Not so much here but in many countries with untreated water diarrhea kills many.

100 years from now the Browns will still be searching for a QB and Super Bowl

But I love things like this. It is crazy how drastically the world has changed in just 100 years

Yep. Keep drinking tainted water, keep expelling most of the water you ingest, you die of dehydration.

I've given some thought about having been born at the turn of the twentieth century, 1900. At age 17 WW1 would have started. Early in that war you would have likely been drafted. At the age of 29 the nation entered the great depression. Economic times like this country has never seen before or since. At the end of 1941 the U.S. entered WW2. America rationed automobiles, tires, gasoline, fuel oil, coal, firewood, nylon, silk, and shoes. You were actually given ration card for things like household staples including meat, dairy, coffee, dried fruits, jams, jellies, lard, shortening, and oils. If you had children in your early 20's they would have been drafted to serve in WW2.

People had to sacrifice for the country they loved. Maybe that's why they appreciated America so much more then.

But if you would have been born in 1900 you would have lived through two world wars and the great depression all by the age of 45. People born in future generations have no idea what that must have been like.

Well said. I often hear my grandparents (who were born circa 1930) say how their parents had the toughest of lives … WW1, pandemic, depression, WW2, cultural revolution, etc

My parents were born in 1914 and 1918.

I learned from them what their early lives were like. It blows me away that my grandparents were born in the late 1800's.

I never knew them all were immigrants.

My father was a master sergeant in WWII.

My parents lived through the Great Depression. You don't experience what their lives were like and not be formed by those times.

Just as every generation teaches the next. My parents life experiences were passed on to me in lessons.

100 years is not much time but with how fast the world is changing now the changes are coming at warp speed.

I find it hysterical that I hardly use a cell phone. Then I see people glued to them in a manner like they are receiving a divine message.

I had a call with an insurance company and I had to have some person walk me through using the phone so I could accomplish something they wanted.

I am not adverse to technology just a bit puzzled with why people as so addicted.

Reading has always been a passion. History and how people lived interests me. Often I wonder how I would have lived in different times.

In my life there have been times when I lived in a way that people lived long ago. Wood heat, no electricity, no running water, wind mill, outhouse, oil lamps.

I did not find it difficult nor did I miss modern life. In fact I really enjoyed it.

I live with my two grandsons. I think that they will never experience life as I have. No different than I could have experienced the life of my grandparents.

Chlorination of public water supplies and antibiotics contributed greatly to the increase in age.

Dude, how can you even do anything about notable things from the year 1922 without mentioning the birth of Betty White... BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

In fact, it was yesterday, 1/17/1922...

Usually, it's the little things that make the most difference... and each of those differences add to the timeline that leads us to here.
Back in that day, drainage ditches that ran alongside roads were just short of open sewers.

Yep...little things for sure. Even over the last 20 years one can look at the changes in their recent life, let alone the changes in their life, I am assuming someone might be around 45.

I agree... it's a bit crazy.... I live on my cell phone... mainly because I do a lot of my work on it. I text a ton, email, and have several apps that I use for both of my jobs.... it's crazy to think how far some technology has come. Will be interesting to see where we're at in the next 20 years

" I work at the palace ballroom, but gee that palace is cheap
When I get back to my chilly hall room I'm much too tired to sleep.
I'm one of those lady teachers, A beautiful hostess you know.
The kind the Palace features, For only a dime a throw.
Ten cents a dance That's what they pay me, Gosh how they weigh me down
Ten cents a dance Pansies and rough guys, Tough guys who tear my gown!
Seven to midnight I hear drums.
Loudly the saxophone blows,
Trumpets are breaking my eardrums. Customers crush my toes.
Someimtes I think, I've found my hero But it's no clear romance.
All that you need is a ticket, Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors Can pay for their ticket and rent me
Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me.
Though I've a chorous of elderly beaux, Stockings are porous with holes in the toes.
I'm here till closing time, Dance and be merry, it's only a dime.

Ten cents a dance That's what they pay me, Gosh how they weigh me down
Ten cents a dance Pansies and rough guys, Tough guys who tear my gown
Sometimes I think I've found my hero, but it's no clear romance.
All that you need is a ticket,
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance."

The system; was broken, is still broken. "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed"
one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundr