Abandoned House Of German Immigrants In The USA ~ War Changed Them!
Ah good day everybody, welcome back to another
episode on the Bros Of Decay, as you can see I am in severe discomfort because it's still very cold
here in the state of Illinois where we are today. We crossed the border back from Canada
and we're now exploring over here, but the cold over here feels
much colder than in Canada. It's only -10 degrees Celsius today, but anyway
today we are documenting a very interesting abandoned house that has been left behind for
almost 15 years right now. This place used to be of the family Schmidt and it's a true time
capsule with everything left behind in there. Probably one of the best ones we have
seen so far in the United States. – Oh look. The inside is completely Frozen up. We were
in here yesterday to check the place out, but now it seems to be completely Frozen up. Oh, Danny got it open the door, so now
you're able to go inside the place. No, we didn't break anything, It's
okay, welcome inside of the house, let's film this beauty, let's
make an epic documentary.
This journey will take us deep
into the state of Illinois, where we discovered the forgotten
house of the family Smith. Around six decades ago, Glen and Dorothy
immigrated from their home country Germany to the United States, where they started a completely
new life as traditional honey farmers. Glen was the director of a large bank in Berlin, and this
new world was far from where he was original. It remains entirely unclear to us why
they made this life-changing decision. Since they moved from Germany, they lived all
their lives in this house, accompanied by their loving daughter Glenda.
Unfortunately, she chose
not to follow in their footsteps and pursue a career in nursing. This proved helpful later in
life because Glen passed away early and Dorothy resided in bad health for the last years of her
life. The hospital was far away from their remote house, but luckily, Glenda was able to take care
of her and made her last years more enjoyable. After her mother passed away Glenda
continued living inside the house, she never had a husband nor children and passed
away in relative loneliness in the year 2005 leaving the house abandoned forever. Since the passing of Glenda, the house has
remained abandoned and acts as a time capsule into their past lives, with every single item
still remaining inside its forgotten walls. Today, we will take you on a tour
around what has been left behind, and we will tell you the
story of their lives story. Oh so let's start off this documentary,
I'm really excited to document this place, first off Danny, come over here, and
have a look at this in the entrance hall. The coats of the aunts, the mother,
and Glenda herself are still left behind.
Whenever you come to an abandoned house
and you walk inside and you see that the coats are still there you know that
you're dealing with a time capsule. Oh my God, this one is even
completely molded up as you can see. And then we enter into the first room of the
household, one of the most important rooms of the house, where the bellies are filled
and where love is made in the form of food. Where Glenda and her mother Dorothy,
used to make beautiful meals, maybe even their father as
well Glenn, but I don't know! Oh have a look at the first artifact over here,
we have a fridge completely filled with magnets and stuff like that, but over here you can see
a picture off the both of them.
This is Glenda and this is Dorothy her mother, it says over
here pack Myers 2nd of 1997. I'm born in 1997 so this picture is as old as me this has the same
age as me standing here, isn't that just insane? Like to think about it that we are entering these places and documenting stuff
that's literally decades old. Okay, I love that the front of the fridge
it's completely covered with magnets of memories and these are definitely memories.
You've got some hart shapes over here, we've got some stuff from the hospital
from Glenda back in their time, nurses can really take the
pressure it says over here.
Some handwritten notes probably for
when I went to the grocery store, two cups of sugar, one cup of
water, oh no this is a recipe! – Oh yes. That's amazing right to see something like! I am also pretty intrigued
by this cabinet above here, it's completely carved out to fit
over the fridge as you can see. You're bumping into everything! – It is a small table.
Yeah and everything is still left in this
cabinet from the Horsley's cocoa powder, Morton salt, oh this is very moist – Yeah put this back.
Yeah, I'm gonna put this back. Do you want to do it? – I don't but yeah. – Oh okay let me show quickly, it's full of
things even pills, oh my God just close it, yeah! – the regret… Why do I keep doing this? Why
Lesley? Why do you keep doing this? I just do it because my brother always loves
to open the fridges and look in them and it has become sort of a habit to always
open the fridge in an abandoned place. But I should stop this habit I think. – Yeah! I saw this plate when I walked from downstairs
over here, it's pretty interesting, it looks like some sort of a carnival parade or something like
that.
Circus Walt Museum, oh! Barbados Wisconsin, It's actually far away from here, Wisconsin. – Yeah. That's a neighboring state but it's still
a far away because this state is enormous. Here's the cooktop where they
would make their lovely meals on. A very typical American cooktop as you can see, even the pots and pans are still
left on top of it, the last towel. Like this cooktop is so different
from what we have in Europe right? – Oh yeah! Absolutely, it looks so strange. – We normally don't have those things there. It's all underneath here exactly and
then the oven part is down below, still some residue of the last meal that they
cooked, I always find that very intriguing to see. Oh and then all our things that are also still on
the countertop, a very typical American blender. – Yeah exactly. And then the thermos that I took
to their job to make the honey, the American flag representing
the country of course! Oh have a look at this, a very classical Coca-Cola
can, this has been outfaced for a long time.
– Yeah it's not old but it's
old, it's like 10-15 years. Yeah, something like that, it's Frozen as
well, it's unopened for all those years. The last expiration date is on
there, wonderful! I hate housework! Me too, me too Glenda I get you! ,Wow lovely! Everything is also still in here,
let me quickly show you as well, and there are no last dishes left behind except
for these pots and pans that are standing over here. Oh oh that's an intro interesting cabinet
and there's a bar of soap still in here. I am not going to open up everything, but
I just want to show you the main things of this household. Oh have a look at this
Danny, this is her card from when she was still a nurse and when she went to the
hospital she would hang this on her belt.
– Wow! Glenda Schmidt, department nursing, position
RN it says over there and somebody in this household also was pretty sick at the end
of their lives, all the pills and everything still left here. The toothbrush
"Interplak" Which sounds like a Dutch name, is also still standing here, we got a lovely
oil lamp with still some oil in there. What is this? Wow! – It's beautiful, but creepy at the same time. Yeah this gives me a very
creepy slash beautiful feeling; I love how it still rotates and
the mechanism still functions.
Let's play this in the backgrounds! "Schloss neuschwanstein" These were German people and they
were very proud of their heritage. The year 2005 was the last date that
somebody still lives in this place. so I got some things up here some
magazines and stuff like that. WOW! Oh, I thought it stopped
playing, but it keeps playing. With this background music, have a look at
this room that we're entering right now, it looks like out of a picture I would say, the plants have fallen from the table when the
table cracked down, they've fallen onto the floor. A plate has fallen over there that's
insane. This is typical natural decay, the whole table just falling apart over
the decades that this place is abandoned. Have a look at this wonderful Chandelier,
this is just a lamp I would say! – No it's a chandelier, it's
hanging from the ceiling, come on.
Yeah, okay okay sorry, but it
has a reservoir down here where the oil would be in here back in the
time, but as you can see. Oh NO NO! – It's not broken those things, you
can take it out it's like earrings. It was converted into an electric lamp afterward. But at first, it used to be an oil
lamp, a fascinating piece, wow! I absolutely adore it, behind it we have
this couch where they would probably sit after a full dinner, have a full stomach,
and then relax over here with a coffee. Everything is completely
falling apart from this couch. – The wall completely decayed! Almost no wallpapers left,
everything is peeling off, this is barely holding on, you can
see it's holding up the wallpaper. I think these people also wear
religious, yeah most definitely. – There's another Jesus portrait just right there And that seems like a hand-painted
one, oh that's actually very lovely. I've never seen a depiction of Jesus in
this way, he also is depicted as a view of a very masculine and beautiful man in
this depiction over here, very interesting! You can see the temperature reading
but it's corn and there's even still some corn in there, you see
that behind here the window, some corn in there probably for a
good harvest or something like that.
Ah, a lot of Christmas decorations as well, we
saw that the place was abandoned in January, so they might have not taken
their Christmas decoration down,. – January that's why I was looking at the door
sorry but there's Christmas stuff everywhere. It was literally Christmas time when Glenda
passed away and the house got abandoned forever. Lovely hat over here, this is definitely a farming hat that they used to wear when they were
working on the fields, taming the bees,and then you think Glen would smoke his pipe on
the field while he was working with the bees. There's a lot of paperwork also still
left from them, I am not gonna go through this all because this is all very
personal, oh and this was their heater.
– It's a heater? Yeah, I think so or cleaner,
oh no sorry it's a humidifier. Is this an answering machine,
I think so right yeah! – Oh it's an ATNT. Yeah, it's an answering machine, it's something
that we have not seen in a very long time, you can see there are recorders, you can
record these probably these are full with voices of people that call them back in the
time and they're still voicemails on there. That's crazy! I would love to listen to those, but
to take one of those with us would be stealing. Lots of angels and religious artifacts
on top of here and then we have the bag probably from Glenda when she went to
work she would carry this one with her. There are even still some pictures in here. – That one is gone, Polaroids don't
last, some Polaroids do but most don't.
There's a very vague picture of two people
as you can see, hmm, okay, oh look at this! -Oh be careful it's completely broken up. It's a picture of this young lady as you can see. You have to be very careful with that, oh all the knitting supplies are also
still in here, isn't that just facinating! – I think her mother loved to sew. Yeah why do you think so. – For the looks of it I'm not sure, but I saw a petal down there and
this looks like a sewing table.
Yeah you can even open it up there used to
be a sewing machine in here and I'm literally displacing everything, but there
used to be a sewing machine in here. Okay, then in the corner of the room,
they had that television one of the first, it sort of looks like flat-screen
television, no it's not a flat screen. Panasonic one, their VHS tapes and everything
is still left in here as you can see, everything it's still present and
even the cent an American cent. – Yeah there's one on the floor.
One Dime On top of here we have some
artifacts for example this globe; this Christmas globe; but the water in
there is not clear anymore as you can see. – It's yellow! It's snowing in there right now… – Oh God! This also makes music!!! *Lesley starts laughing* Can I stop this? – no no no no it needs to finish. Love this car that we have in here, there's
also some sort of a recorder as you can see, oh VHS yeah! Oh yeah VHS tape recorder yeah
wow and a form of a car of a transformer. – That's really cool! Very interesting right! – I've never seen that! Have a look above here, there's an aerial
picture of the grounds of the house and back in the time they flew around with
helicopters that took pictures of houses, and then I went to the door and tried
to sell them to the owners of the house. Very wonderful, we have one more corner
in this lovely room left and that is this one over here, a very memorable corner
with a lot of pictures of these people left.
You can immediately see a picture
of Glenda appearing over here, the lovely lady that took care
of her aunts and our mother. Oh, who's that? – I don't know who is the child
but I just saw the these aunts. The three aunts that lives here right? Oh,
this one is the same as when they were younger. Have a look at this, this is
this woman most definitely, that's her and this is most likely her.
– Yeah, yeah so there are
probably the three sisters. Katie May 1918, oh my God! Uncle Leonard's daughters, wow Estella, levera
it's very badly written but this is literally more than 100 years old this picture
that we're holding in our hand right now and this is the picture from when they were older. – So there were three sisters, that's amazing! And now we have a picture of a man.
– Yeah that's just a joke photo. Yeah, it's probably a costume for Christmas
or Carnival or something like that. Up here I was looking at this boy, he looks
a little bit mentally disabled I would say. – Yeah. There are more photos here, also I think
it's a girl, look at them. Not sure! Yeah, she is together with another girl that's so
interesting bro and down here we can see a lot of books left behind; I just had a quick glance
and these were all medical books, AIDS and HIV, cardio, everything is still in here. See! Glenda Schmidt, these were all
her books and she was a nurse and she studied from all of these books, physiatrics
nursing, here we have a book that states, street drugs and identification, packaging,
use and influence, so everything about street drugs which is very common in the United
States is written down in this booklet.
This looks a little bit like glenda, okay! – It's amazing, I love it! You put it here with all her books together. I was just looking at this plack over here on
the wall, it's talking all about Grandmothers, grandmothers have a special place one
of the highest acclaims that's true, all about Grandmother and when we are
talking about grandmothers I can still see them sitting here. Glenda was such
a nice person for taking care of them and giving them the last years of
their lives, it's so wonderful! Danny, please come further, we're gonna
show the people more of this household. Oh then a very small bathroom to this side as
you can see, it's completely stacked up with stuff right now, but this was the bathroom where
they all used to shower and groom themselves.
And then we come into another room and I think
when Glenda got older she also, unfortunately, passed away, but when she got older she moved
her bed downstairs and she slept over here. This is a very common thing,
when people get older in life, we see this all the time in abandoned places, they move their bed downstairs because they cannot
reach the upper floors of the house anymore. A lovely bed, a lovely piece
everything's still intact and left here. Here she used to sleep on this
still-made bed, this was her pillow. Lovely bed frame around it, you can see
the design in there it's also beautiful! It's just an iron bed, but it's made
like, it's painted in a wood collar.
– Yeah! Vintage television as you can see,
RCA never heard of that brand. – Me neither! Lovely piece, okay those shoes are even still
left here and everything is still in there, oh let's put it back nicely! And over here, we've got some nursing
puppets as you can see this porcelain, oh it's again a depiction
of her in her work field. Oh her safe as well, yeah that's also necessary
for the household and even everything is left in here you can see the calculator is also still
left here, this is a machine unlike I have ever seen before, Texas Instruments probably a very
dated machine, it's just a normal calculator.
Telephone and everything left behind,
even some syringes are left here. Over here religious depiction of Maria
I think, there's nothing on the back! With what kind of camera are these made? – Yeah original Polaroid. Wow, so they are one of a kind. – Yeah! That's insane! Oh, a lot of nursing stuff is in here still. I see a lot of plasters and everything.
And this was probably her notebook where she
wrote down everything about her patients. It's always difficult to close this
backup, because over time they expand, and then they are way more difficult to close up. Cabinet over here, whoa these are swinging doors. – Oh nightgowns! Sorry how do you call this? – Nightgown, because it's a dress and it's
to wear at night, so it's a nightgown. I've never heard of that word before, yeah
nightgown, but these where indeed then all her nightgown and uh that's what she
used to wear, all still left here. There's even a globe up here, it's
a piggy bank Globe, I love it; probably for our travels that you
wanted to do around the world. I hope she made those travels in her lifetime. Oh and then we have their vanity over here,
with all the dolls and the teddy bear still left on there from that time period and a lot
of pills as well, we already saw a lot of pills throughout the house, Glenda might unfortunately
have been sick at the end of her lifetime.
What's this, this is a lamp or something like that in the form of corn, oh no
it's not a lamp, it's a bottle. – Oh no don't open it. Yeah it's sort of a creme
in there, maybe corn cream, who knows? I don't know if that's the thing. – Me neither Oh and one of her hats is also still
hanging here on the vanity, lovely. And then we enter into one of the last rooms
here on the downstairs floors the living space where the family came together with it
and spent their most time talking about the stuff and it's actually a very
very neat living space I must say.
Starting off with the piano
that we have here in the corner. Wellington, the cable company in Chicago, this is
Chicago made piano as you can see, very Regional! Who's this a picture of? That's
most definitely Glenda, right? – I'm not sure, because it's old, yeah she
was very young still in this picture yeah so I'm not sure, because back in the day when
she was younger that was just a black and white photo so I don't know. Maybe that's
a painting or something I don't know. A very creepy clown doll
still lying here on the piano. – Yeah, there is a lot of creepy stuff. – Let me say it's not creepy but it's
just weird like these dolls up here. Yeah they're sort of singing in the choir, holiday
Valentine's traditions candles the left here definitely those depictions of religion coming
back throughout the house, what a lovely place! – And Christmas stuff also.
Yeah, of course, this is all Christmas
stuff yeah yeah like we told you before, everything is from Christmas. – No no it's a rat right? Oh there's a mouse lying up there. – WOW! All their documents are still in here from staff
member meetings, it's all from the hospital, she probably had a very important position in the
hospital if she kept all these documents at home.
– And I also think she worked
for someone like for people. Wow is this machine over
here is a recording device. – Yeah recording That's so interesting, even a faxing
machine over here, she most definitely had her own company in nursing and she
went from home to home as Danny said. 2001 we got another calendar over here and
this is also one from German Landscapes this is a castle in Germany, I've not
visited yet, but it's a fantastic castle! Wow, look over here, these were most likely
her parents that are depicted on there and even the child down here. But, you see the seams over here, this opens
up, what do you think it's going to reveal? – By the looks of the whole cabinet,
a sewing machine? No, oh oh yes. It's a complete record player! – It still plays! Yeah, I pushed this button over here then
everything in this house makes sounds. – It's playing happy birthday! Where does the sound come from, I have no clue I just pushed the random
button and then started making that sound. – Wait no these are the
speakers, it's the speakers.
Yeah doesn't open up, that's crazy man! – Oh my God it doesn't stop. This house is insane absolutely! Where's the sound coming from? – It's inside, it's somewhere! The batteries are still
working after all this time.. This is just a birthday thing, but the batteries
are still working after 17 years of abandonment. Then we have a small little piano here
standing in the corner of the room that of course is not going to function.
Lovely, what do we have over here? This is all
from the hospital where she worked, you can see all the documents are still left behind here. And then over here we have the sitting area
where they would all sit together in the evening and just enjoy themselves.
there is no television in this room so they most definitely listened to some
music and had some conversations in here. – I think this was more like a relaxing
art uh enjoying room because you have the piano you have the music, the other room on the
other side had a TV so maybe more dining room.
Donald, he was 13 years old and he drew
this lovely painting for somebody and this is probably because there were farmers they
drew like a pig over here and everything. We got also some more pictures
of the family left here and then we have a fire truck down here and these
might have been our parents that we have up there.
And a full book written here a full notebook, I'm not sure what's actually talking
about I'm very bad at reading handwriting. – Yeah it's cursive. Lovely room, what a place
and also you can see it's completely deteriorating already after that time. – Ooh this is a mirror. Yeah that's a mirror exactly, it's like folded
over the wallpaper, completely folded over the mirror and even the wall is, unfortunately,
cracking up over there, it's falling apart. Time is taking its toll on this place and it's
not gonna last for much longer Unfortunately as always the sad part about this house is that
in some cases or most cases the especially United States cannot be restored anymore so the only yeah
solution is that it's going to go as demolition. With probably all the memory is still inside,
that's why we give these places the last ode to their lives and we want to document them before
they are gone forever and that's why I love this.
First the basement Danny or first the upper
floors, let's first just do the basement – Yeah I make the decisions here! Not a lot of places in the United
States have basements but in the north, it's more common, and over in
this house is also more common. But in the south of the United States, we have
not found a single basement yet, you can go first Danny go into there, slowly but surely we're gonna
make our way into the basement of this place. Also, have a look before you go in there at this
completely chipping off paint here on a wall. Oh, slowly into this basement, have a turn
around have a look at this, there are some artifacts up here you can see these were all used
for baking and there are some pots and pans here and even up here we have a tea kettle left behind.
What's on there, Cleveland, wow
we've not been to Cleveland yet. Okay and welcome into that
very tiny basement over here, you can see that this is also an ancient Relic,
the items that are in here are old, definitely. I think this was sort of a washing machine
that we see even here in front of us, I'm gonna disassemble this. – A washing or drying machine. Yeah exactly, yeah and on top of there
are samples of wallpaper as you can see. I think it's wallpaper. – Yeah, yeah. It's most definitely wallpaper and back in the
time, people loved to change out the wallpaper, just to give the house a new feeling and a new
look. Nowadays people mostly paint their houses they do it every few years but back then it would
be wallpaper and it took a very long time to put it on the walls and a lot of precision.
– You know what this was for? For the honey I think.
– Yeah look yeah let me show you. This is from their honey company
maybe there's even the stamp. It's lovely! They probably all cleaned them out and put them
up here for the next batch that never happened there is even underneath here yeah it's the
little ones, they're small ones perfect mason, this was all for the honey company back
in the time when Glenn was still alive and maybe over here they bottled all of
them these were probably all used for that, kettles to store, fridges and
freezers to keep everything fresh.
Back here we have something else, big
bottles probably for bigger batches, but these more like look like wine bottles or
something like that or vinegar says on there, yeah apple cider vinegar, do
you need that to make honey? – I don't know, I don't know. Ingredient from the process? – I'm not it's I'm not sure that's a wine jug. That's definitely and still a cork on there,
but it's probably Frozen, yeah most likely! – yeah, be careful. The air in here is very bad,
yeah okay let's go back upstairs. Yes and then from the basement, we can make
our way to the last part of this house, but also a very intriguing
and interesting part as well, bro have a look at how this stairway is
constructed, it's hidden in the kitchen area over here and then it opens up to
reveal a hallway that goes upstairs.
– Thank you. There you go. wow long Stairway to the top floor
wallpaper also already peeling off in this section of the household, everything is falling apart
and then we come into a very long hallway. – Yeah and the carpet, love it! The doorways to either side of them, Jesus Christ. – Oh I already see wallpaper! Oh my God everything is
falling apart, unfortunately, this is sort of a wardrobe I would say. – Yeah walk-in closet. All her clothes are still in
here, can I go into there, please? – Be careful with the floor you never know. Yeah, maybe it's like bad or something. A lot of pillows in here as
well as you can see, oh yeah and I can also see some calendars hanging
here one is from 1958. Oh, a pirate ship with calculations and everything on there a loved
one behind here as well 1952 what the Bible says and this is actually also
from Christmas time this one. – Yeah. Let's place is back nicely, in
here we have all that clothing nicely hanged up over here and these
are all female clothes as you can see.
– Yeah that's what I was going to
say, I don't find any male clothes. Nothing of a man left behind in here, Glenn
must have passed away a long time ago, wow! I saw a nice dress over here as
well, yeah have a look at this sort of looks like a wedding dress I would say, still perfectly in shape nice pink sort of wedding
dress still in its packaging left over here. Let's put this back neatly, I'm gonna zip this
up because I want this to be preserved. Okay, what do we have in here, oh my God? – It's close. It's completely filled to the brim with stuff;
I'm gonna leave that's not very interesting, there's also an attic to this side as you can
see but I'm we're gonna go up there later but let's now first go into the first bedroom
of this place that's this one over here.
I can already see from the corner of my eye
that is very beautiful, oh it has a vanity with two rocking chairs to the side here, I love
all the flowers that are throughout the house, all plastic flowers, unfortunately, but they
look magnificent after 17 years of abandonment. This is sort of a vanity slash drawer combination. – Oh my God… Even more music machines, I'm just going to wind it up, let's let
it just play like background music exactly I wish you a truly childish Christmas
and a Happy New Year, Christmas card. – Yeah there's Christmas. Christmas everywhere Yeah Christmas crowns and everything in here it's related to
Christmas, I love the rocking chairs that are in this room. This is something
so typical from the United States. Like during our Explorations in Europe
we have you have found one or something. – Yeah in Portugal is common, yeah but in other countries France
Italy nowhere you see rocking chairs.
– But they are lovely and they are
two of the same. I truly love them. They are lovely, I agree with
you even the clothing I think these are nursing clothing, as you can see. – Oh yeah yeah yeah. Also left here, I'm gonna move this rocking
chair out of the way for a second to show you the nursing clothing that's behind here,
so maybe when Glenda was still younger she would have slept in this room. Yeah, most definitely the clothes that
she used for her work as you can see. That's fascinating to see, so this
was her room we can safely assume. Lovely bed over here as well, I love
how it's still made and everything the blue bed sheet on top of there and then we
have another teddy bear at the end here, love you.
Wow, look at all those newspapers that we
have over there, a crazy stack of newspapers. Rock ages there's also a Christian thing off the bat I
wonder why they put these corn leaves behind here. – It's also religious. Is it for a good harvest of maybe something maybe? – No no it's a time of the year
it's in Easter time I think, they I don't know exactly how to explain in
English but yes it's a religious thing also. Okay, oh we also have like a costume hanging
here as you can see leaving the pants down here, that's a skirt I've never
seen a costume skirt before.
– It's not a costume it's
just a suit as a suit but I'm sorry I say costume but I have to say Suit. But this is from Glenda and maybe for our business meetings or something like that she
would wear this suit as you can see. That's lovely, okay let's go to the next rooms, I also really adore the wallpaper that
we have in the household, isn't it the same one that we saw in the basement.
This might have been the same wallpaper. Okay, then we come into the next room, after
you bro, you can go first, oh wow look at that. -This is just lovely. This looks like a wedding dress still lying here and this is definitely from the arms and the
mother that lived in here you can see everything in here our female clothings this was definitely
a house of women that all live together here.
Wow lovely dress hanging from the wall, this is so charming bro really is,
very difficult to hang back on there. Then we have this bed over here also still made,
everything is still in place from that time and up above there we have sort of diploma from a
Public school, can you see from for who was? – Uh Francis. And I see it's from 1911 down there where oh yeah okay so this is that's crazy really
old that's really old, absolutely. Wow and then to this side, he had another vanity
standing here with light stands and everything still on there, an unfinished scarf or something
like somebody was knitting something here. – Somebody starts something. We have this American Tourister baggage
tag from Glenda Smith left here, red pepper Burns, some booklets, some
letters, and everything is here still. Oh and this was her purse, it's a weird-looking
purse like how it opens in the front, would it be from a music instrument or something? – I don't know. Oh look at this one down here, these speakers they
look yeah they have the same design as downstairs exactly, that's the cabinet we saw with the record
player, but that doesn't open up, unfortunately.
What does this represent, looks
like the nose of a pig up here. – It clearly it's like abstract I would say. Very abstract! – But I saw the other one. Is there another one in there? – Yeah yeah! Wow! It looks like a pillar to me,
okay there's more in here, oh my. – oh it's full of stuff that's all a
farming you can see this is a corn, shoe and then we have a farmer and this
might have been a Sketchbook of some sort.
Maybe Glenda was very artistic, wow they
were learning how to draw that's lovely! Put this back nicely when we're done filming,
now we have a painting hanging on the wall, I always love how the wallpaper just peels
over the things that are inside of the house. Typical American Vacuum Cleaner Oreck
never heard of the brand before, XXL extended live, the Americans in their
advertising there it's insane right. And then Danny. – Yeah. We have a sewing machine standing
here a very very lovely one. Would it still function? No no it's Rusty, completely rusted up. The belt is still on there as you can see. Everything is still in place from the sewing
machine all the tools and everything are still left behind yeah wow yeah, but is the sewing
machine still in place that's the question, this is how you would open it up. Oh, there it comes! I'm not sure what's on there, but look at this all the needles are still in
there, she put them all over here on this cloth, over time when she needed one you would just
take it out and this is made in Cleveland USA.
It still functions. – be careful! Yeah, I will be very careful with,
I am gonna nicely put it back. – Oh the sound. And then we have the next room over here and
I believe this used to be a child's bedroom as you can see, a very very low bed, like this
would not be for a normal adult, but the reason why I think that is because there are a lot of
child things inside of this room, you can see a chalkboard standing there against the wall and
the child would play with that back in the day. Maybe Glenda when she was younger she used to
sleep in this room, yeah most definitely actually and all our toys are also still
left from when she was younger.
Christmas toys as well, Santa's Workshop it
says on there, oh we have another elf over here, a teddy bear elf that's lovely fake
flowers and everything's still left here. Wow so much paperwork on top of this drawer, who made this looks very old yeah this might have
been something from Glenda now when she was young. – Yeah the paper is very old.
Let's put it back very carefully, oh wow! Oh Honey! It's the Glenn Schmidt honey this these
are the labels from their own company. As you can see wow wait wow this would be on
the bottle so we saw downstairs for sure wow packed and guaranteed by Glenn M Schmidt and there
are literally hundreds of these labels in here. That's insane right? Another Christmas thing
over here is definitely abandoned around Christmas time that always gets me sad when
houses are abandoned around Christmas time. That's lovely and again all
those fake flowers all around. Angelica, religious artifacts! Does this one still opens
up? It's very tough to open. – I hate that. Happy birthday again. Why is in here? Shouldn't this
be in the kitchen or something? Yeah a lot of weird strange things in
here yeah exactly yeah like, for example, the honey labels why are they in here.
– Yeah and the nails also. Let's have one more look at the bed over here,
oh there's also a calendar on the wall there. – Oh I didn't show that. Oh that's lovely and this one's
from 1947 you can see down there. Even her shoes are still here, sorry
what's the word for this in English? – Slipper I think nighttime slippers. Lovely pink one as well, it's even some
artifacts underneath the bed here that shouldn't lay down there, let's
put them up here okay some angels. Come over Danny let's film this last
bedroom that we have here upstairs. And these bedrooms that we just all
showed you the aunts and the mother and even Dorothy and the aunts and Glenda all
used to sleep here together upstairs that's why they also are still four still made bedrooms
for the three aunts and the mother and Glenda. And here we have another lovely calendar and
this one is actually from 1946 we get giving more and more, older and older over time, also a
still made bad with a pink sheet on top of there.
Christmas decoration at the front of it,
what's this cloth over here, this looks like it is hand sown together, like all these pieces
are hand sewn together in some way it's lovely. Oh a little stand over here, sort of a jewelry box that we have over
here our knitting box, cloth in there. – I love this stand! Chicago you can see there at the top, this is
the full representation of the state of Illinois. – Wow it's a big state! It's enormous bro Lily you won't believe
this is bigger than our countries. 1946 and this one is even older than the other one – I love that these old calendars
were just or you just rip a paper. Is this year by year or month by month. January 1946 that's the last day that
somebody probably slept in these rooms. Now let's go to the last part of this
household and also a very interesting part, we're going to the attic the place where
history is stored, where people store everything that they don't need in their house anymore,
probably still holds memorable values to them.
An American ethic is one of the first actually. In Europe, attics are always very very big. – Oh yeah this is small yeah look at Leslie. I have the crouch in here, the first
thing that catches my attention is this lovely oil lamp that we have lying
on the floor over here, what a piece, this house is definitely very very old, and
has seen multiple changes throughout the years. It's so much interesting stuff up here,
look at this one American Mailbox lying here on the floor, there's still something
in there, it says that it's for school.
What I think this is to put on your
counter and to where you put the receipts. – Oh okay yeah. – What is that machine? I think it's just a vacuum cleaner, see there. Oh so much stuff up here excuse me this? – I don't know, it's a projector? Before my time, I'm not I'm not sure
no it's not a projector okay no. I'm not sure it's all before my time so
and then we have this section over here, a few kettles up there I think this used to be a
cabinet fridge or something like that, Oh Danny. – Oh shoes. This one's even missing the end part, these were
the shoes Glenda or her mother still hanging here. I don't know this brand never seen
it before, probably an American brand wow I was expecting to find something
from the honey production up here. This is I think an outside Lantern or something. – Old furniture and stuff. – And that's just a box it's just a box yeah Yes we can go through this forever, but I think
we covered the entire house and documented everything that's in here, and like I said on the
downstairs floor, I'm very happy that we gave this place it's last ode it's before it probably
gets demolished or forgotten about forever.
I want to thank the family Smith for their
lives, I want to thank Glenda for taking care of her aunts and Dorothy her mother and
this was just a fascinating place to document. Danny thank you for filming. – You are welcome! And thank you for watching the video, if you liked
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