Does anyone remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer before class started in the morning? I'm 75.

@diannelavoie5385

3 ай бұрын

I spent eight years in a Catholic elementary school. Plenty of praying there, plus crossing over to the Cathedral for First Fridays and Ash Wednesday ashes.

@yourgodsisspeakingtoyouher4284

3 ай бұрын

Well said, as well corporal punishment in schools, homework, teaching kids to respect police and firemen and teachers. Prayers in school.

@edmartin875

3 ай бұрын

And we sang patriotic songs before beginning our lessons.

@williambruncojr

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I'm 63. I remember that in grammar school.

@johnstrohsnitter2094

3 ай бұрын

I had a Catholic School education from 1st to 11th grade, but in the 1960-61 and 1972-73 school years I attended Kindergarten and 12th Grade in a public school district in suburban NY. in the 1960-1961 school year We said the Pledge of Allegiance, then the following prayer: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. And we beg Thy blessings on us, our parents, our teachers and our country. If my memory serves me correctly, this all stopped around 1963 when a nationally known atheist, Madeline Murry O'Hare filed suits that led to a Supreme Court decision that banned prayer in public school. Of course, in Catholic School, we prayed several times a day. In 12th grade, we still said the Pledge, but instead of prayer, there was about 10 seconds of silence. There was an opening and closing "benediction" by a Jewish Rabbi and Catholic Priest at our public school commencement exercises in 1973, the year that I graduated, but not when my children graduated in 2000 and 2001. Fast forward, none of this happens, now and school districts will not host bible study clubs, will fire coaches that take a knee (unless during the National Anthem), etc., but WILL allow Satanist clubs and will send your kids for abortions and gender identity counseling without your permission or knowledge! Much of this came from appointed (as opposed to elected) officials, the PTA (which actually advocated for school-based birth control clinics) and, of course, the major teachers' unions, all of which have committees forcing these ideas.

How about the Service Station where they actually pumped your gas checked your oil and cleaned your windshield.

@bobberndt9744

3 ай бұрын

Ding Ding !!

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget "checked your tires", checked your fan belt and gave you "Green Stamps"!

@tomloft2000

3 ай бұрын

Watch out for those defective oil cans!

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

3 ай бұрын

Yep!

@linwoodkent1246

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember these guys, Kinda like a pit stop at a race track. The minute men they called them they checked everything and we didn't have to ask.

I remember when they played the national anthem at midnight before the TV would sign-off.

@tonycollazorappo

4 ай бұрын

Wow, I remember that too, LOL.

@bp39047

4 ай бұрын

I remember seeing them at NFL games.

@drewv1785

4 ай бұрын

I remember when our local station would sign off at night, and the the two stations next to it from a more distant city would come in.

@juliemcarthur3004

4 ай бұрын

Me to

@dave3657

4 ай бұрын

Remember when you got up too early and the test pattern was on? Then the station signed on for the day. ☺️

The phone books also served as a book for kids to sit on so they could reach the table.

@TheUtuber999

3 ай бұрын

In the 90's they made for a decent monitor stand. 😄

@jackilynpyzocha662

3 ай бұрын

Or to steady a chair/table, whatever.

@lynnjudd9036

2 ай бұрын

Same thing with the Montgomery Ward and Sears catalogs.

@laurieeyebee

2 ай бұрын

We really collected and used them. I miss them.

@kristinholsapple2587

Ай бұрын

And before Google maps, waze alexia , my mom used the phone book because it had the streets of our town in the back to find where my friends lived if I didn't know 😂

Also ice cube trays with handles that pulled up to break the ice into cubes.

@laurieeyebee

2 ай бұрын

way better than the plastic kind

@user-ds2cg1cg1m

2 ай бұрын

@southerngal2245: I hated those. Could never pull darn lever up and had to run water over them, what a mess.😊

@teresarichardson3869

2 ай бұрын

And how your skin would stick to the ice cube trays

@BETTERWORLDSGT

Ай бұрын

I remember those with the lever!

@kittykaleidoscope434

Ай бұрын

My mom passed away ,and I found those darn ice trays under a lower cupboard waaaaay back in a corner full of dust 😆

Kids could play on the swings and no one bothered them.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

Kids could ACTUALLY walk to school by themselves, without anybody bothering them! I even remember hitchhiking with my friends in my pre-teen years with nothing bad happening!

@jhonsiders6077

3 ай бұрын

now days play grounds are boring plastic low to the ground stuff we had those all steel tall swing sets and monkey bars and a merry go round we used to spin so fast see who could hang on ! and it was concrete under them !!

@TheUtuber999

3 ай бұрын

Merry go rounds, teeter-totters.

@teejae2065

2 ай бұрын

Just a note...that wasn't safe. In 1974 I was 9 and my mom sent me with my 3 yr old brother to the public park a block from our house because she just had a baby and wanted to nap. I was taken Into the boys bathroom and sexually assaulted by 3 teenage boys. I told no one until I was in highschool and my.mom was letting my sisters go the the locawasn't. Alone (different park) it seemed life was safer. But it really wasnt.

@cacatr4495

2 ай бұрын

and parents/adults didn't fight in such places. One didn't see people acting up in public, nor was their foul language in public. People reserved their bad behavior for private places, where their indignities could be hidden from public view.

Saturday morning cartoons, Church on Sunday, afterwards news paper with pages & pages of coloured funny pages.

@diannelavoie5385

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Then a big Sunday dinner at home or at Grandma's house. Often a "Sunday drive" afterwards.

@rudvy1

3 ай бұрын

Yea you’re right it was Saturday cartoons and 8 tracks came before cassettes

@TheUtuber999

3 ай бұрын

Yep, in the 70's it was Saturday morning cartoons. We were sent to church on Sunday mornings and told we would be quizzed on the topics of discussion that day... so we picked up the leaflet at church and left for the dirt lot to play, and quickly skimmed through it to be ready for the quiz later, then tossed it and had fun at the park! 😁

@laurakibben4147

3 ай бұрын

Davey and Goliath is still my favorite!!!

@joesheppard1367

3 ай бұрын

...and the unique smell of the "funny pages"/

You forgot the flash cubes you needed to take pictures!

@maurarenouf3616

4 ай бұрын

Magicubes!

@TheUtuber999

3 ай бұрын

Surprised the thumbnail included a Polaroid camera but it wasn't mentioned in the video.

@gregmiller7123

3 ай бұрын

My dad used a light bar to film holidays that were as bright as aircraft landing lights! 😵‍💫. You opened presents by feel since you were blinded by the lights! 🤪

@richardepstein3494

2 ай бұрын

yes

@dennispalmer6007

Ай бұрын

Before the cubes we had single bulbs you changed after each Picture and they were very hot after a flash.

This and other KZread nostalgia videos all seem to have one underlying theme: the old days were special. I'm dang near 70 so most all the things in this video I remember fondly. Cartoons that were mostly on Saturday mornings, no 24 hour TV, spending hours creating a mix tape, going to the library to access the encyclopedia, dime stores. Compared to today's instant access and 24 hour availability makes me realize that if you have a good thing all the time, it's no longer special.

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

Libraries rock! Then and now. Remember sliding the file card drawer out? Smooth beyond description.

@boblittle2529

3 ай бұрын

@@brianarbenz1329 I do!

@madelinehall8944

3 ай бұрын

I remember door to door sales and insurance premium collectors.

@richardepstein3494

2 ай бұрын

The 50's and 60's were much nicer for us kids than what kids have today. I know it's totally different technology but still....

@kathryncrawford7105

2 ай бұрын

​​Wow! Great one to remember!! I can still smell the paper cards using the Dewey decimal system. Once you found the book(s) you 📚 wanted,you'd go to the desk for the librarian to pull the card from the inside cover and stamp the due date on it with the metal/rubber stamper!! Feels like yesterday!!😊@@brianarbenz1329

I wouldn't say it was a good old days but man it was way better than today

@jhask64

3 ай бұрын

I definitely agree

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

It WAS good, IF you were WHITE!

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

It was the good old days to me.

@darlenekorson3716

3 ай бұрын

It was pretty darn good for me. Wayyyy better than today.

@tracysimmons9319

Ай бұрын

I agree!

Us boomers really did live the most enriching lives. I would not want to be a teenager now.

@user-gl3mn4gf4l

4 ай бұрын

Why does each generation say the same?????

@sludge8506

3 ай бұрын

@@user-gl3mn4gf4l Exactly, friend!! Perhaps mike could sample the boomer remover. 🤪🤪🤪

@vickiebailey5261

3 ай бұрын

WE DID ALOT OF WALKING ,BIKE RIDING ,PLAYING BADMINTON IN THE STREET . NONE OF THAT WOULD CAUSE ' CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME' OR LAZINESS.

@godfreyberry1599

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately THIS generation will be up against and experience the very WORST decline in human civilization and morals EVER. Enormous battle ahead.

@lindaprevatt8910

2 ай бұрын

Amen!!!!

I remember when babysitting and watching tv at 10 pm the station would have a public service announcement… “It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your kids are at?”

@eredmond5345

3 ай бұрын

It's crazy our parents had to be reminded to check on us...😮

@dianavasto3047

3 ай бұрын

Fox 5 NYC still begins the 10 pm news saying it’s 10 pm do you know where your children are 😁

@frederickdominguez4829

3 ай бұрын

Hah !! Yup I remember that

@laurieeyebee

2 ай бұрын

yep

@garyposthuma9607

2 ай бұрын

@@dianavasto3047 fox 6 out of Wisconsin does to

As a baby boomer, I've lived my life in the best times this country had to offer. Those days are gone never to return.

@TS-wh4ey

26 күн бұрын

No doubt about it. We were the Rock N Roll generation, I'll never forget the evolution of rock music in the 70s. The music, the bands, and the concerts, that was quite a time and I'm glad I was privileged to live it.

Most baby boomers weren't watching Scoobie Doo....thats 1980s junk. We watched Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Top Cat, Heckle and Jeckle, Casper, Pixie and Dixie, Quickdraw McGraw, the Jetson etc. And the most cartoons came on Saturday Mornings, not Sunday.

@tomloft2000

3 ай бұрын

Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny.....

@pattymiller9040

3 ай бұрын

Scooby Doo started in the late 1960s!

@3dboobtuber

3 ай бұрын

Loved those old ones like heckle and Jeckle, Fractured fairy tales.. Pixie and Dixie.. Boy, it is hard to even find them on KZread!

@3dboobtuber

3 ай бұрын

Loved those old ones like heckle and Jeckle, Fractured fairy tales.. Pixie and Dixie.. Boy, it is hard to even find them on KZread!

@matrox

3 ай бұрын

@@3dboobtuber I forgot about FFT.

I remember when could dial a certain number and get the correct time, also party lines.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

You could also get the weather forecast by dialing your favorite FM station's special number, for FREE!

@marygoff3332

3 ай бұрын

The time # was 853-xxxx

@elmersmammalove8577

3 ай бұрын

My grandmother - (God rest her soul) was a woman of the depression era she washed tinfoil, saved bread bags and tabs, made menstrual products out of old rags (can you imagine?) and in her efforts to save EVERYTHING was the last person in BC to have a phone on a party line! She also collected cans and went to Hawaii on the proceeds. She survived the “Dirty Thirties” in Canada on the prairies and when my grandfather went to war - she drove a milk truck and worked in a munitions factory!

@TheUtuber999

3 ай бұрын

Anyone remember dial-a-joke from the late 70s?

@catw6998

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@elmersmammalove8577oh yea, the Milkman. Anyone else remember the joking around when it was said that they didn’t think you looked like either parent and you could embarrass your Mom by bringing up the idea of the Milkman?

Love this! Thank you for creating it. Two very minor things that I’d correct: 1. Poor TV reception did not produce pixelation prior to digital TV. You got snow, ghosts, horizontal rolling,, wavy lines etc., but not pixelation. 2. Cartoons where I grew up were on SATURDAY mornings Not on Sundays.

@davidestrich7055

4 ай бұрын

But the sabbath day is Saturday. You go to church on Sunday to start your week with prayer.

@davidestrich7055

4 ай бұрын

But the sabbath day is Saturday. You go to church on Sunday to start your week with prayer.

@debbietroyer9480

4 ай бұрын

I remarked on the pixelation comment, myself. 😂

@We_Seek_Truth

4 ай бұрын

Two excellent points. Snow was the enemy of reception. And Saturday morning cartoons kicked Sunday morning cartoons' BUTT!! In fact, Wikipedia has an article for "Saturday Morning Cartoons", not Sunday morning. It talks about how Sunday morning cartoons were much less popular and had inferior programming than Saturday morning cartoons.

@We_Seek_Truth

4 ай бұрын

​@@davidestrich7055 I agree with you but he never mentioned "The Sabbath", only that Sunday mornings were held sacred by many families, which they were. The debate over which day is the biblical Sabbath is a valid one but is completely off topic and not really appropriate here.

Does anyone remember the paddle? It was an instrument the teachers used to keep us in line. They kept one in their desk drawer or hung one up on the wall for all of us to see. The paddle helped us to keep quiet in school and encouraged us to complete all of our homework before returning to school the next day. And it helped us to have respect for the teachers too.

@MarkWG

3 ай бұрын

We are living in the Last Days. Lawlessness prevails. I have good friends who are teachers today. They all say they cannot wait to retire in a couple years. The kids can hit them and spit on them. If the teacher repremands them, they get written-up or fired.

@joesheppard1367

3 ай бұрын

Remember that. Our coach whacked me good. His paddle had a hole in it. I didn't need a second paddling.

@gregmiller7123

3 ай бұрын

The “Board of Education”! 😳😂

@nobux717

3 ай бұрын

@@joesheppard1367Yes, among other paddlings I got, my 7th grade music teacher gave me 3 swats in the hallway because she told me 3 times to stop making noise in class. Needless to say, I kept quiet for the rest of the school year.

@markmarkofkane8167

3 ай бұрын

Oh yeah. My backside never forgot.

Have a working rotary phone on my desk. Absolutely baffles the children.

@stevedennison2828

3 ай бұрын

I don't think the crank phone will work anymore, though.

@jrnfw4060

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, they're probably baffled that you don't carry that flat thing in your hand and constantly have your finger sweeping across the front of it. You know, I was sort of glad when, a couple of days ago, the grid went down for awhile and nobody's "smart" phone would work.The land lines, few though they still are, worked just fine.I grinned, because we still have land lines.

@lisasharf1442

2 ай бұрын

😂

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

Mine is a fancy French phone like all the moviestars had. It is so beautiful and still functional. I only have a landline by choice.

For boomers and senior citizens, the current market and economy are unnecessarily harder. I'm used to simply purchasing and holding assets, which doesn't seem applicable to the current volatile market, and inflation is catching up with my portfolio. My biggest concern is whether I'll survive after retirement.

@shellyhayn

8 күн бұрын

Just buy and invest in Gold or other reliable stock , the government has failed us and we cant keep living like this.

@Walter_hill_

8 күн бұрын

Yes, gold is a great investment and a good bet against the devaluating dollar, been holding some for awhile now, I’m grateful my adviser’s moment by moment changes in the market are lightening quick, cos who know how much losses I would’ve had by now.

@Trevor_Morrow_LTD

8 күн бұрын

that’s some interesting , mind revealing this person guding you ? he/she must be a seasoned advisor

@Walter_hill_

8 күн бұрын

Vivian Jean Wilhelm is the licensed advisor I use. Just google the name. You’d find necessary details to work with and set up an appointment.

@Trevor_Morrow_LTD

8 күн бұрын

Thank you for the lead. I searched her up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.

I remember when I was raising my kids and the VCR was still new and unaffordable for us. About 3 times a year, we would rent a VCR and movies. You could get five movies for five days for $5. It was a thrill for all of us.

It used to be sooooo exciting receiving letters and postcards!!! I miss them.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

Especially when they were hand written! This texting BS we now have is SO impersonal!

@liciewhiteley7376

3 ай бұрын

I send letters to my nephew. He just thinks it's the best. He is 4.

@m42037

2 ай бұрын

​@@liciewhiteley7376This guy doing this video is an idiot. Records crackle and pop, that's trashed records, drive ins there's over 300 still open. I think these people live in a cave that make these videos

@dszfafreyiu3400

2 ай бұрын

You can still send postcards and letters

@tanastoiberg7981

Ай бұрын

Me too. I still write letters to friends and my mom. Much nicer to do.

Transistor radios, truck that would come through spraying mosquito poison, ice cream man, Happy rain show. I do miss those days.

@joesheppard1367

3 ай бұрын

What about CB radios. I remember military aircraft "bombing" our neighborhood for fire ants.

@garyposthuma9607

2 ай бұрын

Yup I can remember running threw that spray then they discovered it was no good for humans will I made it to 66

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

I thought my transistor radio was the living end! Took that thing everywhere.

@marknewton6984

Ай бұрын

I still drink out of the garden hose! 😎

@tracysimmons9319

Ай бұрын

@@marknewton6984 Me too!

Still remember when I would go on the roof and move the tv antenna around. My dad would yell through the heater vent up to me on the roof, "Stop right there!! No!! Move it back!!!" LOL

@barbarahecht4617

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, we lived dangerously back then, didn't we? Oh well, I used to ride my bike and take public buses everywhere up until I was in my late teens. Most young people today don't trust public transportation.

@terrenceolivido741

4 ай бұрын

-... the quintessinal experience !

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

The antennas I put up, had "rotors" for optimum positioning from the comfort of my easy chair. Also, worked great for those that were into TV "DXing"!

@jhonsiders6077

3 ай бұрын

We had 3 antennas on a tall mast made from pipe it was like 40 feet tall had TV transmitters from different directions they all had to be set correctly we got like 10 channels and that was something back in the 60s !

@mikeromero8162

3 ай бұрын

Yes I remember that too. It is crazy that people had to do that for the TV. My dad used to help a friend of his who had a TV shop and my dad would sometimes have to repair the TV replacing tubes in back of it.

I remember all of these and the TV repair shop. You don't see them anymore, now you just buy another TV.

Good old days! it will never be the same again.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

Sure as death and taxes!

@doltonmurray1625

3 ай бұрын

Right it can never be the same again no matter what the politicians want! That goes for both sides of the border!🇨🇦

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

Ya never know. It might take a million or two years...

@marknewton6984

Ай бұрын

Today is not the same!😮

I remember elevator operators; well into the 1960's there were elevators that were operated by a person who's sole job was to make the elevator go up and down and stop at the proper floors, sometimes engaging in conversations with the passengers. As a kid, I wanted to grow up and be an elevator operator; but, alas, elevators are now fully automatic.

@doltonmurray1625

3 ай бұрын

And they wore white gloves!

@BETTERWORLDSGT

Ай бұрын

I would have remembered that I guess, but I grew up in small towns and rural areas, and didn't see elevators much till I was growed!

@mrcoz1764

Ай бұрын

In the late 60`s,,I was hired as an elevator operator in a 16 story building down town,,I was 16

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

A Police Officer or Fireman was once the Drean Job of young Boys.

@felicitybywater8012

Ай бұрын

There was one in my town in the big department store. They were keeping him on until he retired.

I got a couple to add. Using a map to find your way somewhere. A sliding credit card machine. Recording and watching 8mm home movies. Car radio with the mechanical preset buttons; you pulled out and pushed them back in to set the station. Most people only had single speed bikes. Black and white tv's and they only had 13 channels. You were luck if you could pick up 4 stations. Wringer washing machines and hanging the laundry out to dry. Oil can and spout. And finally, the smell of leaded gasoline.

@stevedennison2828

3 ай бұрын

Oh! I forgot that about leaded gas. I saved a manual credit card thing and a pong game you hooked to the TV that were being thrown out in case a museum wanted them some day.

@BETTERWORLDSGT

Ай бұрын

I remember all that except credit cards and home movies, that was the rich people!

@BAM-jc7uy

Ай бұрын

we left early sat morns (early-mid 50s) on our Schwinn bikes with wide, white sidewalls and didn't come home til supper time. Sometimes no dime or quarter...for sure NO lunch backpack or water bottles....when we got thirsty we stopped at the full service gas stations and drank water out of the black hose used to fill the radiators with water, next to the air and gas pumps. I can still remember the smell from the black rubber hoses. No one ever asked us where we had been or worried we were "lost." We rode our bikes and easily turned corners "Look ma NO hands." LOL albuq. nm

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

Only men could own a credit card. Women weren't allowed until 1970.

@ariock63

Ай бұрын

Wow! Yes, I remember all of those! I also just added a comment about the local grocery stores where you could walk in the back door.

Saturday. Mornings were the time for cartoons. Not Sunday.

@johnsupz9608

3 ай бұрын

yup with a bowl of trix cereal in hand it was Saturday's for me as well!!

@juliebaker6969

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnsupz9608Cocoa Puffs.

@BETTERWORLDSGT

Ай бұрын

Sunday was wild kingdom and the wonderful world of Disney!

@michaelueberroth9553

Ай бұрын

Tom and Jerry came on at 8 am on Sunday mornings.

@1RUTHGroup

3 күн бұрын

Amen.

I remember mom dressing all us kids in our pajamas before we left for the drive in movie ride. Such a treat!

@marysimon

2 ай бұрын

We wore our pajamas too. Before we left for the drive-in my mom would make Jiffy-Pop popcorn and put it in paper lunch bags to take with us. Jiffy-Pop was the worst popcorn - it always burned on the bottom and left a bunch of seeds, but I always liked watching the tin foil sphere expand - I thought it was so cool.

@ariock63

Ай бұрын

I remember my Mom having one or two of us hiding, either in the trunk or backseat, before entering the drive-in!

Saturday morning with cartoons Sunday morning was all church programs on TV

@sludge8506

3 ай бұрын

We had pro wrestling on Sunday mornings where I lived.

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

3 ай бұрын

On Saturdays there were cartoons and wrestling for me. 😁

@laurieeyebee

2 ай бұрын

right and then American Bandstand

I can remember when you could "only" get a phone from the phone company when you got your phone number, lol.

@davebaker9128

4 ай бұрын

I still have a black bakelite dial desk phone that says "property of Pacific Bell" on the bottom

@johnharris3362

4 ай бұрын

I still have one hooked up, works perfectly and I've lost track of how many modern phones it has out lasted.

@user-te3ff8np1s

4 ай бұрын

I worked in the factory that made the telephones.

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

My friend lives in the house he grew up in and still has active land line and rotary phone. I still remember the phone number from almost 50 years ago. I'm gonna call it just for kicks to see if he'll answer it😁

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

I tried calling my friend's land line rotary phone. I just got a busy signal and hang up. He probably got it disconnected recently because he said he was being charged ridiculous money to keep it active. It was functional for many years until recently.

Remembering us neighbor hood kids playing games in the yard. Hide and go Seek, Red Rover Red Rover, Freeze Tag. We played a game called Snake In The Gully . You had to have a side walk to play on. We would play till our Moms! and Dads! would call us in. Those were the DAYS!😊🤗🤗❤❤

@georgiafloyd1079

Ай бұрын

Things have changed but not for the better 😢

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Hide and go get it, whatever that meant.

@lisajoyce6803

Ай бұрын

Ghost in the graveyard mother may I were what we played besides the other games mentioned and we rode bikes and roller skating with metal skates

@gabe_2544

24 күн бұрын

Wiffle ball

@ReneePresson

23 күн бұрын

You. came in when the street light came on

Great nostalgia for a 63 years old fart like me! Loved the memories. But, you left out 8-track tapes, portable CB radios in cars, Lava lamps, "leisure suits", metal bumpers on cars, wide whitewall tires, and fins! There were few to none cartoons on Sunday here in Dallas. But Saturdays they were on every major TV network until 12 noon. Also only one frequency band on radios - AM - until about 1965.

@karenwells5957

3 ай бұрын

I kept thinking they would mention 8tracks but they never did

@m42037

2 ай бұрын

​@@karenwells5957Yes only he tells bs about records that they pop and crackle and only hipsters collect them more less. My records all clean only pop when the needle comes down. An occasional crackle not many because people that value their vinyl take care of them. Drive-ins there's over 300 still open he's crazy. Arcades we're at their peak in the early-mid 80s not 70s I'm 58 I hung out in them with my friends

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

@@m42037 I have all my original vinyl. Starting in the early 60's. Play them every day.

When We Were Young and 60s 50s you have to have a lot of respect for your oldest

My mother bought Christmas for the whole family with green stamps. I wish they would bring them back.

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

My only new bike👍

@madelinehall8944

3 ай бұрын

They also had coupons on cigarettes.

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

My lead crystal lamp I got from Green stamps never stopped working from the 1960's until the late 2000's. My kids convinced me it wasn't safe anymore. I loved it so much.

@BETTERWORLDSGT

Ай бұрын

Yes, S&,H Green Stamps!

@marknewton6984

Ай бұрын

S&H!😮

OMG!!!! I remember literally ALL of these! At the site of the S&H Greenstamps I instantly remember the taste of the glue when we had to lick the back to stick them in the books! Where did the time go??? I still have a real, old, rotary dial phone I use as it reminds me of the times my husband & I would talk for hours when we were kids and the cost of " Long Distance Calls" and paying per minute to talk! Our parents would get furious at the phone bills!!

@rayfridley6649

3 ай бұрын

I also remember S&H's competitor Top Value stamps. These were yellow with an elephant logo.

Does anyone remember the printing ink they used for school paper that had a unique smell

@jamesmartin7282

4 ай бұрын

Do you mean the "ditto" machine?😊

@maurarenouf3616

4 ай бұрын

All schools used the...bluish purple ink. Smelled like a spelling test 😂

@sresnic

4 ай бұрын

@@jamesmartin7282Or the mimeograph. You could get a good buzz if you got your nose too close.

@davidestrich7055

4 ай бұрын

or eating library paste

@ladavidson9269

4 ай бұрын

That Ditto High, yes we all sniffed ditto sheets back then

Miss all these and have seen all these. I was born in 1961, oh to go back in time if I could.

@jackiemalik8758

3 ай бұрын

I couldn't live without Google now lol.😂

@earldriskill3505

11 күн бұрын

Some things have improved. Less auto pollution. Lead free gasoline. The invention of point of sale transaction machines that allows you to use a debit card, instead of cash.

A lot of this is past baby boomers, I’m gen x and I used most of these things. I remember black and white tv with only 3 channels. Record players came in a box like a little suitcase. Polaroid cameras, all of this was my childhood. Fun times 😊

@gaylegoodman9097

4 ай бұрын

I was lucky. I lived in an area that provided 5 TV stations. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. We also had 1 station that wasn’t associated with a national network. They showed movies, syndicated shows, kid shows, etc. It is still broadcasting today, but is affiliated with the fox network. I haven’t watched it in years.

@rods.3245

4 ай бұрын

Ditto.

@rods.3245

3 ай бұрын

@@annasbandit 1965-1980

@nugerone5475

3 ай бұрын

@@annasbandit they are from 1966 - 1980

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

In the Twin Cities, as late as 1965, there was ONLY one UHF channel. It was 17, an "educational" channel that carried programs originated by the University of Minnesota. It was on for TWELVE hours a day!

Remember red wax lips you could chew and black wax mustaches you could chew around Halloween. Remember turquoise tuttifruity popscopiles that would taint your tongues blue. You can still them in tubes.

@dbw825

3 ай бұрын

Also, candy cigarettes.

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

3 ай бұрын

Remember Big League Chew that came in a pouch like the chewing tobacco?

@laurakibben4147

3 ай бұрын

And 15¢ got me a half a sack of candy up the street from grandparents after buying grandpa's CIGARETTES!!! 😂😂

@johnsupz9608

3 ай бұрын

used to luv chicklets,licorice pipes,double bubble and bazooka!

@cynthiataylor2092

3 ай бұрын

Red wax lips to wear, then chew for Halloween.

I was a bellhop at a place called Lujans.And we had a convertible . SO one night we went to the the Drive In,with the speaker hanging on the window.My son who was just 2 ,yells into the speaker,he wanted some food.He wanted a hangabuugler with Ketchit and mangonase.And nobody answered, he was mad.After the third time everyone was dying laughing, he did not think it was funny.Finally we took him into the stand for food.Hes 62 now and it's still funny.

I loved the sign-off where the pilot in the fighter jet was soaring while the poem High Flight played over it. It still gives me chills to this day. It’s available to watch on KZread and if you’ve never seen it, it’s truly inspiring.

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

I loved that too. And one day I found it printed in a book. And touched the face of God. I used to cry.

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

Planes breaking the Sound Barrier.

We also prayed before we went to lunch. This was in the 70s and a public school.

When the president came on with his speech. All 3 channels covered it and the whole night of watching tv was shoot to hell

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

Then Eric Severeid or Frank Reynolds would spend 10 minutes telling us what the president just said. 😃

@catw6998

3 ай бұрын

@@brianarbenz1329 yea, basically carried that that over but now the 10 minutes has expanded to 30 or more minutes. I think that the news folks just live to hear themselves talk 🤪

@darlenekorson3716

3 ай бұрын

Right...we didn't give a crap about politics. Idk why parents these days stress out their kids with all this adult mess.

@drats1279

3 ай бұрын

I do and it was shot to hell.

@markmarkofkane8167

3 ай бұрын

Except on independent stations. We had 2 independent channels. KPLR AND KDNL. No longer independent, of course.

Does anyone remember 800 number customer service lines for airlines and other businesses which were answered quickly by a real person in your own country who helped you sort out your issues quickly without stress. Miss that. Oh and TV channels without endless reruns.

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Hey, the Jetsons.

@earldriskill3505

11 күн бұрын

I remember that. I use to be an 800 answering service operator in the late 70s and early 80s. We would use a dumb computer terminal hooked up to a main frame computer to send our orders to. I would also take credit cards for orders, and once in a blue moon, someone would call in, thinking they could pull a fast one, and give me a made up credit card number, trying to get a free purchase. The computer would automatically reject the number, and I would tell the caller, that's an invalid number. They would make up some excuse, or just immediately hang up, 😅.

I’m sure someone already said this, but at least in California, cartoon morning was Saturday. Sunday morning we had to go to church.

Encyclopedia Britannica and National Geographic were mainstays in our home before TV became widespread. I credit those two as nurturing my interest in the sciences.

Remember Woolworths? They made the best burgers and shakes😊

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

Great place, yes, maam.

@raross6119

2 ай бұрын

Five and dime

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

I bought my first hamster from Woolworths. Also all my Christmas shopping as a kid.

@BAM-jc7uy

Ай бұрын

WW and Kress 5&10....remember the palomino mechanical saddled horse outside the WW entrance...the ride was 10 cents.

@lindakrumenauer1099

Ай бұрын

Yes! Woolworths also made real malts and bacon, lettuce ,and tomato sandwiches! In Minneapolis they also had snow cones. You could go thru two on a hot summer day of hitting the three dime stores and Daytons basement!( Bargains on great stuff....)

Pliers and coat hangers (and maybe some foil) were a must have for those Black and Whites T.V.s. can anyone remember their uses?

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

3 ай бұрын

I started putting a clothespin on the foil when I used to move around the TV antenna to keep from getting shocked.

@raross6119

2 ай бұрын

And kids to move them around

@billwalsh388

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah.

@duncanbauer7309

21 күн бұрын

@@raross6119 Great!!!

@duncanbauer7309

21 күн бұрын

@@KevinPayton-fq8gd Before Digital T.V., I still used Foil on non-cabled TVs.

Now in the USA is gone to HELL!

@stevenrussell5340

Ай бұрын

Agreed, I am just hoping that God our Heavenly Father takes me "HOME" and off this satanic rock.

@MrCJ-qz9dl

Ай бұрын

​@stevenrussell5340 This is what He wants--hatred of this life.

@stevenrussell5340

Ай бұрын

@@MrCJ-qz9dl Shut up satan, you lost at the Cross. Bwahahaha!!!!!!!

@stevenrussell5340

Ай бұрын

@@MrCJ-qz9dl Your not intellegent if you believe this. Tell your evil master that it lost at the Cross.

@MrCJ-qz9dl

Ай бұрын

@@stevenrussell5340 l just don't understand the thrill individuals get on YT by insulting people they don't even know. We are in a sick society. Whatever!!!

Soda fountains also made malts. It's rare to find a place that makes malts now.

@joesteedman8230

4 ай бұрын

The one that sat closest to the TV had to change the channel.lol

@juliemcarthur3004

4 ай бұрын

Portillos does

@WonderfulSurfboards-rw9hu

3 ай бұрын

is there any such place these days to make at least a half descent malt like we had back in the day. i don't think so.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

White Castle?

@cordiagabert2573

3 ай бұрын

My dad loved malts. If we had tummy aches our mom had us drink a malt or milk with ice.

A blast from the past!! Loved every moment watching this!! Memories of childhood and bike rides with friends. Adventures where you were safe and used your imagination!! Enjoyed watching this ❤

The Flintstones started as a week night series

@graysonwagner1855

3 ай бұрын

And was the first TV show to see husband and wife share the same bed.

@jhonsiders6077

3 ай бұрын

And was supposed to be a adult sitcom ! but it appealed to kids more being animated .

@user-vr6xm8lm1o

2 ай бұрын

@@graysonwagner1855I always thought “ Pete and Gladys” was the first TV program to show a man and a woman share the same bed. It shocked me when I was a little kid. In the 1960s, the Sunday comic strip, “ Blondie” always ALWAYS showed Blondie and Dagwood in separate beds, I was much more comfortable with that. 😊

@bharatg8542

2 ай бұрын

The Flinstones were based on the Honeymooners. Fred was Ralph Cramden while Wilma was Alice.

@msp12000

Ай бұрын

The Flintstones were on the ABC network 8:30 p.m. Friday nights, followed by I'm Dickens - he's Fenster

I remember those camras, Polaroid.. just had to wait a few minutes to see the picture

I was born in 1972 & I remember & experienced most of the things in this feature. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.

@frederickrapp5396

Ай бұрын

People born in 1972 were not “Baby Boomers.” You are of a younger generation, even if you can remember all of the 30 things mentioned here.

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

The Baby Boom generation was from 1946-1964

@ondreacounts2556

Ай бұрын

@@frederickrapp5396 I never said I was a baby boomer! That's why I said I was born in 1972! I'm Gen X, the best generation that ever was.

So many things from yesterday that are just a distant memory that will never be forgotten. 😊

@marknewton6984

Ай бұрын

I will not forget them!😎

I remember waiting for my family's television to "warm up" after turning it on. The sound came on after about 20 seconds, then the picture appeared after about a minute. Our table radios required time to warm up, too. Transistor radios came along in the 1950s and were "instant-on" but they were much more expensive than tube/valve radios. All-transistor televisions (except for the picture tube) didn't become common until the 1970s. In the 1960s and 70s, many transistorized items had the words "Solid State" on their panels.

@billwalsh388

Ай бұрын

It's weird when you think about it, houses were affordable, but people could barely afford a new TV!

I should mention that this video is better than time travel for those of us who lived it. All the fun, and l don't have to leave my chair.

You forgot the venerable Pinball Machine and the crude early skateboards (plywood plank with wheels from old roller skates). We had a very steep long hill that was a great skateboarding run. It is a wonder we survived.

@TheOzthewiz

3 ай бұрын

What about going to the "shooting gallery"?

@laurastewart9877

2 ай бұрын

Yes! My brother and I have scars from many homemade skateboard mishaps. Fond memories of spending summers at the shore roaming the boardwalk, checking the coin slots on the pinball machines for dimes to play pinball. Life was much simpler then. 😊

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Metal Roller Skates with a Key.

@earldriskill3505

11 күн бұрын

Pinball machines were alot of fun.

I remember dialing a specific phone number on my regulation tabletop or desk phone in order to get the Time and Temperature- The temperature is 58 degrees. At the tone, the time will be 1:14 p.m.

@Adogslife54

14 күн бұрын

TI6-1212. I still remember the number for the time.

This was great! I wish we could go back to the good old days. And I loved those banana seats we had on our bikes!

Them Dial phones were almost indestructible. I dropped are phone a lot more than once when I was a small boy.

Born in 1952, and I certainly do remembet all this. Lots of fond memories of it now, though some of it seemed quite ordinary back then. Maybe because that was just how things were. Nostalgia often adds a certain "glow" to thongs from our pasts, though not everything.

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

Right! The bomb. And being terrified of the Russians. Just like now

Johnny Quest was great.. Bugs Bunny a staple cartoon.. But does anyone remember Heckle and Jeckle? Fractured Fairy Tales?

@debbieharris5667

3 ай бұрын

I loved fractured fairy tales. That was part of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show wasn't it?

@marysimon

2 ай бұрын

Both of those were great.

@jchapman8248

Ай бұрын

@@debbieharris5667 And don't forget the Aesop's Fables cartoon with voiced by Charles Ruggles!

I'm glad that my mother didn't make all those weird dishes with Jello. We just had it as a dessert treat.

@doltonmurray1625

3 ай бұрын

I liked Jello 123, but I think it came out late 60’s. I hated regular Jello cos it always had a skin on top!

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

​@@doltonmurray1625 Are you sure you're not thinking of pudding with the skin on top? I liked pudding but didn't like Jello even though my mom would put bananas or cherries in it sometimes.

@doltonmurray1625

3 ай бұрын

@@mickangio16 Nope.If you don't get the hot and cold mixture right, the jellow will form a slimmy skin on top. my mother was notorious for it! Hence the reason I still do not eat jello to this day!

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Oh Lord, how I Hated Jello with mixed Fruit!!

I remember DOUBLE-FEATURES at the movie theater. When Friday night movies only cost $1.00

@mrcoz1764

Ай бұрын

I remember double features "James Bond" and it was 50 cents to get in

@sherriflemming3218

Ай бұрын

Saturday afternoon matinees.

@mrcoz1764

Ай бұрын

@@sherriflemming3218 Something to do on a rainy day

Those were the most fun days

Operator can you please do an emergency break through, the line has been busy lol

I kinda miss hearing a dialtone.

We didn't call them banana seat bikes, but a sting-ray bike. My friends and I all had one. :D

@marysimon

2 ай бұрын

We just called them banana bikes

Wow memories of the good ole days, thank you 👍. 😊

@m42037

2 ай бұрын

He's only wrong about six things 😅

Had to laugh at the phone operator section. Many, many moons ago my wife moved down from Yankee land to the wilds of New Mexico. We met, 'got married in a fever' after one date (drinking heavily at the Half Way Bar!) and set up shop. Both of us worked for a major oil company. She kept trying to call home using One-Plus dialling and couldn't get through. I asked her what the long distance operator was doing wrong. "Long distance operator?" She had no idea that we were decades behind the rest of the country and still had to have a Southern Belle connect us to the outside world! Forty-some odd years later, we STILL laugh at that one. And, yes, we only had one date before seeing the judge in Lovington, NM. He took a break from a murder trial to perform the ceremony. We only brought one witness, needed two, so the judge grabbed the sworn witness to the murder to be our second.

@rayfridley6649

3 ай бұрын

Many areas did not have dial service at all. Even the local calls required operators to connect. Lift the handset of your phone and you would hear "Number Please" after which you would tell the operator the number you wanted to call.

@vickiebailey5261

3 ай бұрын

AND PERSON TO PERSON CALLS !

@Norah56s

2 ай бұрын

@r.f.pennington746 -- Great story!

@rebeccaswift7588

2 ай бұрын

Wow, and I thought my marriage happend quick. My late husband proposed to me 4 months after we met. We got married quick and had a wonderful marriage for 25 yrs..

@deborahstevens9763

2 ай бұрын

@@rebeccaswift7588 I met my husband knew him for two weeks, then stayed married for 25 years. My mom knew my Dad for a month and a half and was married for 55 years.

Favorite Sunday show was..the wonderful world of Disney!!

Great memories! And I remember using White Out, a powdery white correction tape, and “liquid paper” liquid to wipe out poorly spelled words, only to carefully type over the whited out areas with the correct spelling.

@madelinehall8944

3 ай бұрын

What about carbon paper to type copies?

@Adogslife54

14 күн бұрын

Liquid Paper - which was invented by Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees) mother. I never seemed to have White-out. I always used Scotch tape. Lifted the mistake right off the page.

Yes!! I’m 74 and miss the mood of those early years. Love my iPad and iPhone …. But “instant” food, and information. Yes, if your family had a Britannia Encyclopedia was a status marker! TVs were in black and white. I watched the first color tv show… the show was Disney, first into was breathless! The fireworks were in color filling your screen.

@susaneasterday8164

3 ай бұрын

I also remember Childcraft books. Remember using card catalogs and the reader’s guide?

@marknewton6984

Ай бұрын

Spin and Marty. Annette!

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Yep but, the T.V. Dinner or those pouches of Chicken a la king you boiled and poured over a slice of real Bread. Let's be honest, Government Cheese made the Best Broiled Cheese Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Syrup. Buttermilk and Hot Cornbread. Um Hungry Now!

At age 61, I remember all of these old school items.

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

Pencil boxes. Lunch boxes. Slinkies.

@stevenrussell5340

Ай бұрын

@@elenalatici9568 Oh yeah!!

Yes, drive-in theaters did make for many unforgettable dates. It also made quite a few unwanted pregnancies. Since my great uncle owned the drug store where the only soda fountain in town existed, I usually made my own milkshakes and other drinks for me and my friends. Since our football coach told us carbonated drinks were bad for us, I made my soda drinks uncarbonated (flat). I developed a taste for them and to this day, an ice cold flat Pepsi is my preferred soda. I just shake the bottle until it stops fizzing. Our T.V. antenna was right outside the window and there was a pipe wrench on the window sill in order to turn it with. The video left out the most interesting part of the dial phone. In many small towns, you would find yourself on a "party line". Often you would pick up the phone to make a call, but another member on the party line would be chatting away. And before the rotary phones, you picked up the receiver and an operator would greet you with "Number please." I still have my dads typewriter from the 40's. In my younger days, the kids of the house was the remote control. The first time I ever heard of a VCR was in the early 70's and a co-worker bought one for $999. I'll quit now. :o)

@m42037

2 ай бұрын

He's only wrong about six things. .

Penny bubble gum, paper routes and public phone booths. Mom had no TV growing up. Grandma had no autos growing up. I wish they were still here to talk to.

You forgot Howdie Doodie and captain Kangaroo

@marysimon

2 ай бұрын

Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans

@user-jm8yu9zl7n

Ай бұрын

I loved Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans

@mrcoz1764

Ай бұрын

And Sally Star

@duncanbauer7309

Ай бұрын

Mr. Ed., My Favorite Martian. Gummmmbyyy/Pokey and the Blockheads.

@Barbara-br2gv

28 күн бұрын

How about Mr. Roger's Neighborhood with added people, puppets and scenery??

TELEPHONES: Remember a time when long distance calls cost a fortune. Any time the phone would ring and the operator would say "You have a long distance call from (fill in the blanks)...........it was almost always "bad news" like a grand parent dying or a relative gravely sick.

@vinny5518

3 ай бұрын

I use to call my girl friend Collect at a phone booth until I got caught by the operator.

Those banana seat bicycles were actually called stingrays.

@jhask64

3 ай бұрын

If they were made by Schwinn.

@jhonsiders6077

3 ай бұрын

Schwinn was the stingray others had all kinds on names I had one that was hand built from my old bicycle A fried of my fathers had a motorcycle shop he welded up a chopper for me did nice metal flake paint and sent out the forks and sissybar along with the rear fender to be chromed he cut down a set of ape hangers for the handlebars and chromed them too .

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

But we did refer to that style bike as a Stingray regardless of make even though a genuine Stingray was made by Schwinn- at least where I grew up.

@sammylacks4937

3 ай бұрын

We called them spider bikes and they were designed to wheelie.

@jhonsiders6077

3 ай бұрын

@@sammylacks4937 remember the wheelie bar you could get that had skate wheels on it so you did not go all the way over if you lost your balance ??

Wish it was back im a proud boomer

Do you remember Hoppty Hop , lite bright , candy land game , Banana seat bicylces , play dough , VHS , TV Dinners , the veiw master , the cap gun and the Red Rider BB rifle at Western Auto , the christmas lite candles you would place in the window and hope they would not cacth fire these were the things that made life worth while😮😅😅

I am 70 years old and I remember every single one of these things. I am surprised you didn’t spend more time talking about reel-to-reel tape recorders as a blind person, I got my college textbooks mailed to me from Recordings for the Blind. They were a separate organization from the National Library Service for the Blind and they specialized in recording textbooks for students. I also had my massive music collection and saved literature on 7 inch 4-track reels. I miss dialing 1411 to get information and asking the operator to give me a phone number for someone I wanted to call. The service used to be free and then they started charging for every single request which was hard on blind and vision impaired people. I can’t stand yelp and it seems to be more difficult to get a phone number these days than it used to be. I really enjoyed this video. If you ask me, there should still be a sign off on television and I enjoyed the pattern music in the morning. I never got to hear it at night. In the morning, the television would first play the pattern music and on many mornings, they would play the poem High Flight.

@jamesschaefer6824

4 ай бұрын

Oh. Hell. Had. Them. All😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😅😅😅😅😅😅😊

@terrenceolivido741

4 ай бұрын

god bless you.

@lindakrumenauer1099

3 ай бұрын

I still remember well the reel to reel recorders. They were quite pricy for the time, too. I also lived High Flight. What a beautiful poem. Freedom!!!

@cordiagabert2573

3 ай бұрын

Remember most businesses and grocery stores closed on Sunday.

@joannedoctor8215

3 ай бұрын

74 ...all

SATURDAY morning cartoons. Sunday morning, we were going to church. Even if you weren't, it was sermons or Sunday morning talk shows.

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

And if you were lucky, a Charlie Chan movie.

@gregmiller7123

3 ай бұрын

We watched the claymation show “David and Goliath” while getting ready for church. “Davieee” 😂

@huckleberryfinn338

2 ай бұрын

Church was more important back then. Also divorce was uncommon.

I saw the Beatles in 1966 at an N.H. racetrack. They wore matching suits and ties 👔 !!!

@joesheppard1367

3 ай бұрын

First time I saw them I laughed and thought they looked like a bunch of girls. With in a year me and all my buds were trying to look like them to impress the real girls.

@billwalsh388

Ай бұрын

I heard a story that some band (I don't know who right now) told John Lennon "Someone stole our suits" and Lennon said "I wish someone would steal our suits!"

Nope. No yucky Jello dishes for us! Thank goodness! We just had good ol’ fruity Jello! 😂 PLUS: It was Saturday morning cartoons and programs, not Sunday. Heaven forbid we would miss church on Sunday morning!

@marysimon

2 ай бұрын

Where I lived Gumby and Davey and Goliath came on tv on Sunday. Another commenter here said the same thing.

Phone booths,hard to find one now

I remember CB radios. My mom and dad and I loved to CB. It was a cool way to talk to other people on the CB. Love from Marysville, California

@dbw825

3 ай бұрын

My father was a ham radio operator. My mother always hated the tall outside antenna he had to put up😮

@Dorthy-wx9fq

3 ай бұрын

Ya, I heard about ham radio operators and how they came to the rescue of the people who were in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971. I'm sure that your dad was one of them. Love from Marysville, California

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

3 ай бұрын

My aunt had a CB radio in her car. I would actually use it sometimes.

@catw6998

3 ай бұрын

@@KevinPayton-fq8gdmy Dad opted for a CB radio but I don’t recall the year.

@Dorthy-wx9fq

3 ай бұрын

@@KevinPayton-fq8gd My parents and I used ours when we went up to Alsca. Sorry if I misspelled the state. Love from Marysville California

How about cloth diapers.

@elenalatici9568

Ай бұрын

Right. And they didn't end up in landfills.

I was a long distance telephone operator. It was my first job after high school graduation.

America's best days are behind her. I was born in 1958 and had an amazing childhood,teen years in the 70's we won't get into details 😂 it wasn't always easy but back then you didn't quit! Oh the memories and that's the sad thing about getting older you remember vividly your younger years.

@rebeccaweaver2817

3 ай бұрын

I agree with you I was born in 1952 and I remember all of it and I miss those days

@cordiagabert2573

3 ай бұрын

​@@rebeccaweaver2817Born in 1944. Sad when in the 70s when there was a huge demarcation of change in morals in the nation starting.

@soilmanted

3 ай бұрын

Nonsense! 1948 birth year here. My happiest days are now, and in the future. Growing up in the 50's and 60's was painful. The food, especially, was awful Remember Wonderbread? And Minute Rice? When I became an adult and could make my own food choices, the first thing I did was buy quality Italian, French breads, and German, and Scandinavian whole grain loaves. I explored the wonderful world of real rice. I learned out there were actually 1000's of different cultivars grown and used across the world, and dozens of cultivars available locally. I learned that you could cook cruciferous vegetables al dente, instead of the way my clueless mother cooked them - until they were mush. And with no microwave food heaters, you had to _wait, _ for hours, for frozen food to thaw so that you could cook it evenly. We did have better watermelons and citrus fruit back then. Today seedless watermeons are the worst. Real tangerines have disappeared. Grapefruits gained color and lost flavor.

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

​@@soilmanted To each his own. Good to see someone happy with the current situation. I liked Wonderbread before they left Chicago. Now it's hard to find a fresh loaf of bread anywhere.

@mickangio16

3 ай бұрын

​@@soilmanted and I have never had better cooking in my life than my Mom's was🫡

Personals in newspapers, good way of finding new friends. Back when most houses had just ONE car - for the whole family - today EVERYONE has their own car, or truck. When a family shared one telephone. When toys required imagination. In hardware stores and grocery store - the display of tubes ( for radios and TV) with tube tester. Bank when getting an ice cream cone at the ice cream pallor was fun. When a penny would get a handful of candy or gum from a bubblegum machine. Those rides in front of grocery store - there was a horse, or a helicopter, boat, bat mobile and others. S&H green stamps Sears Christmas catalog back when, all summer long, kids were gone from sun up to sun set. Playing tag, hid and seek, exploring the neighbor hood, knowing EVERYBODY in the entire neighbor hood. Back when many drove slowly looking for people sitting on porch or working in yard, so the could wave and say "Hello" as they went by. when during a trip, the kids played in the back of the station wagon. when a big news story broke, everyone talked about - even with complete strangers. when toy guns looked real and (with caps) made a bang with real smoke, just like a real gun when candy cigarette were cool during the 70s, when some girls painted their pants and jackets and some used rhinestones, and wore mood rings. during the 70s, those bags of little green army men, in grocery stores. Back when kids pick the box of cereal that had the coolest toy in it, who cared what kind of cereal. Back when there were very few choice=s in the grocery store. It made life so much easier shopping. back when most Americans worked in factories, gas cost 20 cents, a coke, 5 cents and bubblegum machines cost a penny. Back when EVERYONE read the newspaper. Back when calls were missed, and often. Photo album I could go one for ever on things that are no more. I was born in 63. I am sure older people's list will be longer.

@susanrheaume4658

3 ай бұрын

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@Frank-pi2gz

3 ай бұрын

Next time pal, keep it short. You're not writing a book report.🤨

@Frank-pi2gz

3 ай бұрын

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@m42037

2 ай бұрын

​@@Frank-pi2gzWell that's because you're a Gen Z and came here to learn something, we know that's a job for your generation that can't do anything mechanical or write cursive lol

#31-Top 40 AM Radio-Every city had it's Top 40 AM Radio and it's popular DJ's playing "the HITS".

@vinny5518

3 ай бұрын

Portable 8-Track players

You forgot the iconic Barbie..and for the boys it was GI Joe.....I can think of so many things...the rusty metal lunch boxes...

@BAM-jc7uy

28 күн бұрын

did anyone go downtown to buy a 5$ Hoola Hoop from Payless Drugs????

Don't you mean Saturday morning cartoons.

@tonycollazorappo

4 ай бұрын

My foster parents would complain about me not getting up in the morning to go to school, but I'd get up early on the weekends to watch cartoons, lol.

@diannelavoie5385

3 ай бұрын

@@tonycollazorappo Sounds familiar. 🤣

Thanks for the memories..... simpler times, much better in my opinion!!

I remember when telephone books were the first "booster seat" of its time.

I miss those days.

@user-gl3mn4gf4l

4 ай бұрын

I don't!

Yes, loved those polaroid cameras! Film was ready to peel paper off in a few minutes, you had your picture! We saved the coke bottles, took them back down to the store and got change for them. 5cents a bottle? Gas was maybe 1$ gal. All stores closed on Sundays.