I was born in 1961. I really miss the simplicity of life then. We really appreciated the little we had. My Dad worked 2 jobs and my Mom stayed home and took care of me and my 3 brothers. There were problems then, but life overall was happy, content, and minimalist. We had a wall mounted kitchen phone with a party line. You had to speak into the receiver and nicely tell the other people talking that shared your line that you needed to make a phone call. My Mom made a lot of our clothes. My cousins would send over clothes they had outgrown and we would get really excited seeing them. Every fall, school started in September, we got one pair of new shoes. Brown leather loafers, usually Buster Brown brand. I used to put my next to the bed and lean over at look at them everynight before school started. We were poor, but we were blessed. My parents and one brother are gone. How I wish I could go back 50 years and share dinner with everyone again. 😔

@jeromestarkey5927

7 ай бұрын

Beautiful . 1964 here with similar circumstances.

@youtube-user73424

5 ай бұрын

❤

Here in 2023 there are still lessons to be learned from these documentaries from the past 👍

@BimBop83

Күн бұрын

Like adopt, don’t shop!

Gotta give them props. Even 50 years ago this video made a point of it to advocate adopting a puppy from a shelter instead of buying from a store. Love it.

@nathanjustus6659

Жыл бұрын

Even then pure breed dogs were expensive. The pound was way cheaper.

I could watch things like this all day. Helps with my anxiety for.some reason

@truethat774

4 жыл бұрын

teresa duffy That’s because they only show the “happy” bits of life, but mostly the voice over is very soothing. I like it too, for the same reason. 😊

@susiemac9816

4 жыл бұрын

teresa duffy it’s soothing n relaxing .. lol I do same thing

@tam1729

4 жыл бұрын

Because simplicity is better

@acgillespie

4 жыл бұрын

You would had really enjoyed living it.no pills needed

@tam1729

4 жыл бұрын

acgillespie that deep. Don’t his comment fly over y’all heads .

Back when folks were genuine and appliances were made with the same care and precision as an aircraft. I wish I had the pleasure of growing up in those times

What a different world it was compared to today. A time when you could raise a family with one income, no cell phones or video games, no school shootings, Anerican made with quality, etc.. It wasn't a perfect time but the simplicities compared to today had so much more value to it. We've taken so much for granted and so many things are lost and can't even be imagined, let alone appreciated by today's generations. I loved the cars and how everyone cared about looking decent. This was a fun video to watch.

@jpbaley2016

2 жыл бұрын

Just 4 yrs later, an ex-marine, after killing his wife and mother, would take his weapons to the top of the University of Texas’ clock tower and shoot 43 students, visitors and staff, killing 13. Don’t kid yourself, our country’s unique economics, ideas and fostered hate brought a lot of violence. We just didn’t have ready access to what was going on across the nation.

@lilliansteele7165

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the home that I inherited from my parents. Yes it is a 1960s ranch house. No regrets because I had two parents and my grandmother lived with us plus my granddad was next door. I loved them dearly and they raised me to be thrifty. What a blessing.

@nathanjustus6659

2 жыл бұрын

People in the time were also very, very frugal which is how they did it.

@zackakai5173

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanjustus6659 that isn't the whole story though. Back then a little frugality could let you raise a family on a paycheck and still put money away for a vacation, or a car, or any other number of things. Nowadays you can be even more frugal than that, but a single average income still isn't enough to afford even a small house (and forget about a family, let alone any of the other things I mentioned). Average pay was just higher compared to the cost of living back then. That started to change in the 80s when people like Reagan and Thatcher managed to convince multiple generations of western society that if they only let private industry hoover up more and more and more of the wealth, it would totally, definitely, absolutely trickle back down. It's been four decades and counting, and we're still living with the consequences of that myth.

I grew up in that world and I’m grateful for it.

@RCALivingStereo

4 жыл бұрын

nancysrios Me to, wouldn’t trade it for nothing

The one Black lady looked a LOT like my mom in those days; she was very beautiful and dressed like Jackie Kennedy.

@kelebeck5905

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sure she was absolutely beautiful!

@Rosie82333

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful American woman

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

Wes McGee yep!!!! Women looked SO lovely then!!!

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

Kele Beck she certainly WAS!!! 😊

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

La Rosa 🌹😊

This reminds me of my mom and dad . She was a stay-at-home mom with three kids and my dad provided well for us . We weren't rich , but we always had enough . I'm so glad she was at home after school every day .

@matildamaher2650

3 жыл бұрын

And we were contented and happy.

@sharonproctor4079

Жыл бұрын

Same with me. Stay at home Mom three kids my Dad went to work as an engineer. Only got paid once a month. That last week my Mom made breakfast suppers, spaghetti, creamed eggs on toast to make the food budget stretch.

@miroslavserb1

Жыл бұрын

Sad how it’s almost impossible nowadays

@Sheri451 Take it from someone who was there - I was 10 years old in 1962, and in the 1950's and early 60's, the typical American suburb was as close to heaven on earth as you can get. Back then, me and all my friends had a stay-at-home mom, and a dad who came home to dinner every day. I don't remember a single kid whose parents were divorced. In the summer, we left our houses in the morning, and roamed the neighborhood all day long, without our parents having anything to worry about.

@invisiblepinkunicorn7626

4 жыл бұрын

amateurphilosopher, lucky you😀❤️....we weren’t so lucky. It just wasn’t as common as it is today. My grandma was widowed, then divorced and was a single mom to my mom and uncle. My mom couldn’t raise me. I was a state ward. It wasn’t all heaven in the 60’s.

My goodness! 5 boys, 1 girl, the grandma, & both parents in the house! And what a talented fellow on the trumpet!

What a lovely video. I'm 23 and I've always been interested in this kind of stuff. It's kind of sad that back then everyone dressed so nicely (suits and ties, hats, gloves, etc) and now people will just put on a ratty tee shirt.

@nette9836

2 жыл бұрын

Make a good example to others and dress nicely in public. It could start a domino effect.

No one's in jeans! Everyone is dressed so nice💝

@heraldeventsandfilms5970

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. It looks more like 1942 than '62. It's fantasy of course. Perfect families and nothing out of place. The Truman Show.

@karenpanslerlam7760

2 жыл бұрын

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 This was not fantasy. It was real life. We were well dressed in the 60s. My dad was a school teacher and the sole bread winner with 5 children. My mom was a housewife. We were well dressed every day. See my 1960s family movie @ kzread.info/dash/bejne/dX6frMOogsfVpLw.html

I'm glad they added getting an animal from the animal shelter instead of pet store, It's a better option in most cases.

@hearttoheart4me

6 жыл бұрын

Great comment. Thank you for pointing that out.

@kevinr3263

5 жыл бұрын

How you doing

@hm6134

5 жыл бұрын

Always adopt. Don't shop.

@rexpositor6741

4 жыл бұрын

Do you get the woman from a shelter too?

@HANSIHANZEN

4 жыл бұрын

I too noticed and appreciated that choice!

Everyone was so well- groomed. Neat hair and clothing.

@lisatrautner9426

4 жыл бұрын

And no tattoos!

@jeromecabral6995

4 жыл бұрын

I agree I was born in the late 70s I loved to live in those years

@sharonsmilesphotography5553

4 жыл бұрын

Trust me people real people did not look that fancy and fixed up. This was like Pleasantville and not realistic.

@dlynn101

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone's well-groomed when they know they're about to be filmed.

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

l was around then. lt was kinda nice. There was more formality. But it wasn't all sickening sweetness nor was it so perfect. Believe me.

Notice how she didn't belittle her husband when he was being cheap trying to find the free parking and running the gas to empty. She smiles as if to say I still love him despite his faults....

@SuperShecky

Жыл бұрын

Must have been the influence of mother's little helper. The cheap bastard sure deserves belittling.

@island661

Жыл бұрын

Lol 🤣

At 21:45 is my elementary school, Conant Elementary, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I was really suprised to see my old playground and kindergarten classroom on the screen. Had to go back to verify.

@acgillespie

4 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it isn't you and your mom in this film?

@kelebeck5905

4 жыл бұрын

Wow that’s really cool

@swingman5635

3 жыл бұрын

That's great!

My mom always tells me I should've been a kid in the 60's like her because I enjoy sewing and I hate working.

Back when every CEO, Congressman and Senator weren’t multimillionaires. When you produce goods, the wealth is spread more evenly. When you outsource production, the profits go to shareholders. After that your economy collapses and then the cycle restarts.

@Tamar-sz8ox

4 жыл бұрын

Brett Vogel : Amen to that 🙏🏼🇺🇸

@tacitdionysus3220

4 жыл бұрын

It was certainly a big change from the gilded era and decades of increasing financial inequality that led up to the Great Depression and WW2. The world depicted is the Bretton-Woods agreement era, where income was much better distributed through deliberate policy. It lasted up to about the Nixon era. It existed as a response to the threat of communism. The USA in particular was determined not to give their people any reason to be tempted to embrace it through experiencing anything like 'the grapes of wrath' again. This clip reflects that time. It was the year of Kennedy, the Berlin Wall, Project Mercury, ICBMs, the Domino Theory, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Crisis, and Duck and Cover. There was good reason to create an environment in which people felt free, secure, happy and optimistic, in spite of the existential threats. Potential risks (like the growing power and competition of the USSR) were turned into something positive, like "By the end of this decade, we will put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth". Sadly, since the 80s, we're gradually evolved back again to most wealth being held by a minority, while the majority can't afford to cover a $400 emergency. It is now much more characterised by a pessimistic view in which everything is a threat over which people have little control. Power is derived mostly from exploiting all sorts of fears and risks. That works best when there is a genuine core of truth in whatever nightmare is in vogue.

@amydecker6207

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly wish it would just go ahead and collapse completely so we can begin afresh.

@carolynhowell9768

3 жыл бұрын

women folk

I wish I too could go to the Bahamas for a week for just $71.50!

@MrGchiasson

9 жыл бұрын

Yep..Remember, the dollar was worth about 12 times what it is today.. In 65' my neighbor bought a brand new Mustang convertible for about $2,400.00. A one-paycheck family was the normal thing.

@mindsaglowin

8 жыл бұрын

But the ad said "plus transportation." Flying was MUCH more expensive, relatively speaking, in the 60's. A flight to the Bahamas was probably $250 a head, which was like a month's salary. Most trips today are a steal in today's dollars, with airfare included.

@karenhargis3682

4 жыл бұрын

BaronessVonFancy and a lot safer, less cruises and simpler then I am sure

@jn1mrgn

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could live at home for a week for just $71.50.

@SirenaSpades

4 жыл бұрын

@@mindsaglowin I don't know where you're from, but I wish a flight to the Bahamas was $250 a head from my area!

As an entrepreneur and business owner, my products are all manufactured in the US, no matter the costs.

back when furniture was made of solid wood

@angrychick9649

8 жыл бұрын

and not made in china

@Perktube1

8 жыл бұрын

On a strange note, I've had an Ikea particle board tv stand things been good for 20 years. But without a TV on it for the last 5…

@coffeepot3123

7 жыл бұрын

Now it's all glue pressed sawdust that brakes after three disassemblies. Good thing i inherit our family table and bench/chairs. All solid pine with only two screws underneath the table. Rest is held together by these wooden thingies - s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7c/94/21/7c9421e2c04d689ce28468da90f78420.jpg This furniture set lasted throughout my childhood. With scratchmarks and other abuses.

@randomrazr

7 жыл бұрын

Enclave Soldier i recently bought a bed and nightstand made of solid pine. well majority made of pine lol. its nice and looks nicer, but man pine is a softwood and dents SO EASILY

@coffeepot3123

7 жыл бұрын

randomrazr It dents? :o Is it coated/covered with those "fake" wooden trims or. hmm

Life hasn't changed at all. It's just a dream of some idealic past that never existed. I'm 71 and I grew up during this time interval and things may be different today but no better.

@Gina231329

8 жыл бұрын

Nah nice try but lots of people grew up in this time and they'll tell you it was definitely better.

@daisychainmilk

7 жыл бұрын

+Gina231329 it's called not being old and bitter. This person clearly isn't old and bitter. They have better things to do than complain about "this generation".

@86Rcavalier

7 жыл бұрын

With the Korean War just over, Russia and the US having Nuclear bombs pointed at each other. Poverty much more severe than it is today. It was marvelous:(They didn't have the Social programs they have today. It wasn't worse, just no better.

@Gina231329

7 жыл бұрын

+Milk Prince Didn't say he was old and bitter. And while 'the good ol' days weren't always good', (war, poverty, racism, I get it) kids were more respectful of adults, men were men, and overall people were more disciplined, polite, and gracious. Now people are so fake and weak and overly sensitive and quick to be offended and to make issues out of non issues. I wish I were alive during the times when people were tougher and more genuine.

@86Rcavalier

7 жыл бұрын

It's an illusion, my good man:)))

I love this video. This reminds me of when I was a child in the 60s before our Walmart nation.

@Mandi2727

4 жыл бұрын

Between greedy Walmart and Big Brother

@Tamar-sz8ox

4 жыл бұрын

UtopianSeeker : I loved Main Street America ❤️

@jacquelinerussell8530

3 жыл бұрын

👍me too

A well done video of the days I grew up.....I rememeber living in this era....My Grandmother and Mother were always dressed, in the late 50's and the country manufactured everything. Quality and made to last and everyone was working>>>>>Those days are gone forever..

When I was very small I'd talk a great deal with elders who grew-up in the 1800's. Not city folk either; so a great many of them were even a century behind city life; the 'big' city, not town. Man the history I learned was so exciting; history long before movies. Life then was a world away from today. Washing, laundry, shopping, 'refrigeration' and cooking, school, travel, communication. And many people made thier own clothes. When the sewing machine came out, it was every bit as revolutionary as the automobile. OH and dating; intense romance was escaping to the summer shade of that old oak tree, to share some fresh baked corn bread, some closeness and a few looks and snickers. This whole idea is so bizarre to contemporary life. I guess I'm just kinda glad that those days mean as much to me as the 10 minute relationship of today. Kinda troublesome though; STD's, pregnancy, and an old flame that will tattoo your head with a steel bar. Were things worse, were they better, were they neither one - just different. Life, no matter what, may change, but it will forever cut both ways. Literally everything was very different. And the reason that things weren't so bad was frankly living WAS easier, living held to an altogether different meaning, practice, and experience. Plus, that's all anyone knew. If someone could be magically transported from our current living styles, and spend maybe just a single day in the world of your-own elders, even just, say, six or so generations behind you, when you did get back here, you'd probably be spending the next 365 days wrapped in bandages suffering from terminal culture-shock. I think people generally have trouble with change because it introduces a certain vulnerability, I think that a great deal of it is simply that. Well, maybe not simply.

Great documentary. I remember the Corvair at 10:00. My Dad bought one the first year they came out. It was in the shop at least three times in 12 months. It was a lemon. He traded it in for another Chevy after owning it for only 13 months. He stayed a “Chevy man” though and, at age 92 today, owns a Chevy. Love the hats, gloves, and firs. We really did dress up a lot in the 50s and 60s.

if I could get the young people to learn ONE thing from my 65 years experience, it would be to save all you can for retirement...old age comes so quickly...I learned it too late, even tho my parents warned me this day would come

@wadebarnett2542

4 жыл бұрын

True. I might even add DON'T RETIRE! I should've taken a long vacation, and stuck around six to ten more years...or more.

@andyrock6481

4 жыл бұрын

I know what be you be mean. I was foolish with my time.

@robertoleeva985

4 жыл бұрын

We hear you..! Thank you.

@yougotta2505

4 жыл бұрын

Is that presumptuous? What if the person doesn't live to retirement age?

@Texasgrrl77

4 жыл бұрын

You are so right! I told this to my two children early. My daughter is 20 and my son 29. They both understand that they have to save early for later on in life. I wish that they were taught this in school. My parents never taught me this and it's too late for me but I'll be damned if it's too late for my kids.

I like to watch the 50's and the 60's what nostalgia

3:00 .... That's how I remember my mom's face when my brothers and I was asking for something that was not in the budget. You know what people... I still grow up happy and I love to remember them good old times on the playground. No money but lots of friends ,adventure and lots of fantasy....

@denisesysyn1946

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to go back to those days! I'm a Boomer...born in 1960. Happier times.

This should be mandatory viewing for anyone unfamiliar with this era prior to watching the TV show Mad Men. This was wonderful, thank you for sharing!

I'm 73 and I remember this all. Gee, such wonderful times. I miss them.

@knucklehoagies

4 жыл бұрын

You mean to tell me these dumb propaganda videos actually depict what life was like back then?

@sazgarmuhammad8364

Жыл бұрын

l am 18, are you single?

What she bought also depended on how much her husband made at his job. that's why she budgeted so well. Had to think about what she bought and not just throw it in the shopping cart.

@silencedogood9747

3 жыл бұрын

Yes there was no " buy now pay later."

Ah America. I miss that beautiful country.

It's funny. I was a little girl in the 60's but all I seemed to remember most of my life were the good times. Now that I'm old, some of the not-so-good things are coming back to me. Ours was not an Ozzy and Harriet household.

@pjesf

4 жыл бұрын

One thing I did like about this film is that it did show the importance of the female role during that time. I could have done without seeing the woman in the fur and gloves who was shopping for fabric because she sure as hell wasn't going to go home and make clothes for the kids. My parents (with 5 kids) were not rich but we ALWAYS had everything we needed - applause should go there 👏🏻 because I don't know how they were able to do it. I'm sure I'm not the only one with parents of that ilk Edit: And my mother never wore heels to the grocery store

The days before corporate America sent nearly all manufacturing to China...

@DanKirchner5150

4 жыл бұрын

exactly as chevrolet is doing

@tavaramirez668

4 жыл бұрын

And completly ruined our government.

@tavaramirez668

4 жыл бұрын

Kathleen Shaw is right. I lived through that asshat and his politics. The beginning of the end.

@joeltunnah

4 жыл бұрын

Kathleen Shaw, Carter is an antisemitic peanut brain, and so are you. Go crawl back in your hole.

@DBEdwards

4 жыл бұрын

Made in the USA. What a laugh today

I hear you. I just wish I could have lived as a teen in the 50s or first half of the 60s --even with the problems those societies had. What we have today is a nightmare. By the way, I'd recommend the full length (except for the last part) version of The Parent Trap (1961), that you can see here at KZread. I know you'd really enjoy it.

I love the intonation of this piece and the voice of the reader.

This was awesome! Make America Classy Again!

The year I was born. I remember my mother wearing white gloves, and I remember those cars. But was it really as simple as this film suggests? I guess it's fun to romanticize the past like this. Some day, they will do the same about our age.

@bighands69

8 жыл бұрын

+ddoyle11 The facts speak for them self. The average household income in the 1950s was $5000 per year and the average house cost $5000. So this meant that aggressive personal finance could enable even factory workers to own a home. Women had a choice of either staying at home with the child or fo out and work if they decided to do so. Credit cards were only considered short term credit such as one month and saving was considered normal practise. People were married in their 20 with children. By the 1960s this was the norm but there was one big problem looming that would increase taxes and that was welfare. Up to 50% of the taxes you pay today is for welfare. That is the reason why the higher tax rate has gone from 25% to 39%. Even the very poor pay taxes.

@c.a.g.3130

8 жыл бұрын

+bighands69 Plus, the biggest thing, we went to the doctor and he came to US and we paid cash and, even though it wasn't cheap, everyone could afford it because the health insurance scam hadn't removed the consumer relationship between doctor and patient yet. Now we have 10 times the gadgets, 10 times the divorce rate and 1/10 the peace, 1/10 the community, and 1/10 the sense of purpose. Even with fear of the 'Rooskies,' we still knew we were living in an amazing time and were blessed. You're absolutely right: the facts speak for themselves.

@PimpernellP

8 жыл бұрын

+C. A. G. how true. Too much credit card debt.

@lelandjr2

8 жыл бұрын

+ddoyle11 I think the film _idealized_ that time more than _romantized_ it. As I remember; we knew what was portrayed on television wasn't exactly happening in real life, but like in the Ozzie & Harriet Show, it was an ideal to strive for and work towards, there certainly wasn't anything wrong in that.

@melaniexoxo

8 жыл бұрын

Wow your mom wore white gloves? I guess that may have been regional. I was born in 61in southern CA and my mom never did any such thing. Things were this simple. Almost every mom in my neighborhood was a stay at home mom, we played outside, walked without fear to the Stop & Go... spent weekends at the beach... parked for free. Life is what you make it I guess, but with double the people on the planet its more difficult to achieve.

How unusual that wives and mothers would be recognized in 1962. My mother did indeed control the family finances and managed to find room for a lot of extras such as a travel trailer for weekend trips She worked full time and kept everything going even when her mother and mother-in-law had to move in with us at the same time! I guess that's just what you did then. This whole video is such a trip down memory lane...How I wish things were the same today. I didn't realize how much my mother(and father) did for us. We did have it good, and probably the last generation who had a better lifestyle than their parents. The world was open to us...what did we really do to improve it? Thank's Mom and Dad---sorry kids. That's why we end up in nursing homes now.

"She spends to save and saves to spend." Brilliant writing, lol!

1962- Nice symphonic weave-in of the "See the USA in your Chevrolet" jingle there near the end- (for those of you not old enough to recognize the music!)

@gabrielhowell5861

4 жыл бұрын

Do you think maybe Chevrolet produced or sponsored this film?

I remember shopping with my mom in those days and the men were always eyeballing her. She was going thru a really nasty divorce with my dad and wasn't too interested in getting into another relationship. With the first alimony check, she bought a new fur, wall to wall carpeting and lots of new outfits for me.

Those were the days, and oh how I miss them

I recall watching Jam Handy Organization films in the classroom back in the 60's. Even then this film was a kind of a gilding the lily and making the life in America appear a bit more perfect than it was. Compared to what we have doing down now in the USA I would say the times depicted in this film were like heaven.

@diblik

7 жыл бұрын

if you were a white, white male or a woman without ambition

@pastormatthew4362

7 жыл бұрын

Would you please explain that comment?

@diblik

7 жыл бұрын

Sure what's to explain? If you were a black woman the opportunities were minimal and in many places it was heavily segregated, if you were a white woman then better to have no ambition outside to be a homemaker and with luck find a husband that won't beat you or cheat on you because no one is going to help you. Tbh most of my aunts that grew up like this and had this kind of live hated it they were alone and worked as beast then raped because who cares for sexual education right? In the outside looks good but I prefer the freedom to support myself and take my own desktops also in the 50 and big part of th 60 women weren't allowed to have bank accounts independent from their husbands

@pastormatthew4362

7 жыл бұрын

True, as I watched my divorced mother struggle in the early 70s. As for blacks, much of that was due to racism that was more rampant then. But today, the people have chosen another class of person to dub as not fully human and also personal property. That too is an arbitrary judgment that results in the murdering of over 3,000 preborn children every single day here. It is striking to me that the offspring of the same political cult that once declared blacks not fully human now say the same about the preborn.

@bethbartlett5692

7 жыл бұрын

+Pastor Matthew You have a serious point there - and were wise in your delivery - it's not neatly put into a "classification" called "Political Party" -

It wasn't perfect then, but on the postive side, people wanted to be a good citizen. A good citizen paid their taxes, kept their yards clean and neat, gave to charities, and helped their fellow man. These days people are nothing but selfish, whining brats, who cry when they have to pay taxes, yet at the same time expect perfect roads and schools.

@dianestevenson4996

4 жыл бұрын

And want government HANDOUTS instead of working

AHHHH, life before cell phones!

Notice the pride in personal appearance

@matildamaher2650

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

My Father (born 1954) and I (1984) both learned how to cook & continue to do so on my Grandmother's (born 1921) built in GE Electric Range. Built to last was no joke, & it was her pride & joy.

@MrGchiasson

9 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1954. Trivia question: When was the last time you bought anything...anything..that wasn't made in China?

@msbrowngault

9 жыл бұрын

MrGchiasson Today

The quality of life was much better back then.. People did productive things.. There was no internet and no smart phones to look down at all the time or Facebook to be on all the time.. No big technology to take peoples' jobs.. You learned something and you worked hard back in those days, and it paid off.. The world in the recent years has become very superficial.. I mean look at the garbage music coming out these days.. No talents in anything, anyone can sing with auto tune... And the music, all they sing about is sex, and the top 40 music consists of music that belongs on the street in a ghetto.. I think even the 90s was a better age than today.. I wish I was around in the 50s.. I didn't come until the late 70s, and I even though the 80s was a very good decade..

@MrTheMiguelox

8 жыл бұрын

+vintageceilingfans Oh internet, computers and smartphones are horrible and people waste time on it, that's why you are watching a video from the internet in one of those devices...

@winnsutanto3133

8 жыл бұрын

+vintageceilingfans . Indeed, America at her best BEFORE the late 1960's The beginning of late 1960's when sex revolution. hippie cultures, homosexual revolution, radical feminist movement started, that how the decay of America started. Up to mid 1960's God was still greatly honored in our beloved USA. Men were men, Women were women. One-income household was more enough to build a middle class family back then. You earned what you got, back then. You put a good quality of workmanship to your job. The cars that were produced by the big three were the good ones, not like the junks that we see today. The movies were wholesome. God was not allowed to be mocked in the movie. Yes, the 1980's were better than today. But even the 1980's or even the 1970's, America was already in serious decay. As a naturalized US citizen, I love America with all my heart, but Americans are so eager to pave their own destruction. Americans are not willing to repeat what was working in the past, but they are so eager to follow any directions that will accelerate their decay such as: abortion, gay marriage, depending on government assistance, having out of wedlock babies, teaching the youngsters immorality by distributing condoms in the grade schools, mocking Christianity, glorifying liberal political correctness etc etc etc. America will NOT survive much longer, if its citizenry are so very eager to follow the roads of destruction. Any prosperity that America is still having now is a residual of the prosperity that was created by the previous generations, i.e.the generations of America before the late 1960's.

@TheBohemianReport

8 жыл бұрын

+vintageceilingfans Maybe if you were white and wealthy.

@TheBohemianReport

8 жыл бұрын

If you guys think the hippies are to blame for our demise, then how do you explain the $20 trillion dollars of our national debt and dollar that isn't worth jack. No social group or religion has brought down our country, it is our very own government that fails to represent the people. I'm glad we got out of this time period where everyone was asleep to government corruption and believed everything they read in the News Paper or heard on television. Everyone smoked a truck load of cigarettes, lead paint, every housewife drugged, segregated schools, mental patients inhumanely locked away in the funny farm; the middle class suburbs sucked! My grandfather lived in the city during this time period in a three family apartment and it was nothing like this. It was loud and dirty, strip clubs, ghettos, rivers filled with shit, drunks, beatniks, the mob; and the countryside again was totally different from what this film presents.

@styldsteel1

7 жыл бұрын

I understand your point. But these devices as a whole have indeed made us incredibly stupid. Ever read the comments on facebook? I canceled my account 10 months ago. Do people REALLY need to check their email now? Why can't people remember phone numbers anymore? Why don't people know how to get anywhere anymore? How about sitting at a dinner table at a restaurant? People don't even talk to each other anymore. It's pathetic the way people behave these days. That was the mans point above yours and I agree even more than he does with himself.

We used to watch these films in grade school! We would go to the librairy and they put reels on a projector. The libairy was the only air conditioned place jn the building.

It's funny how these films taught people how to save money. Saving money was a sales pitch for everything. Now it's spend spend spend. No money? No problem? Finance it for 18% interest!

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it more on the 1920s than the 1950s...? I'm curious to know why? :/

@vinesauceobscurities

7 жыл бұрын

1930s more like, since the knock on effects of the Depression were only felt hard in that decade. That said, frugal culture spawned from the Depression may still be alive and well at the time since the generations that were born around the height the Depression are now in the workforce and raising families.

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

Vinesauce Obscurities Oh yeah! In the 1920s it was more like every spending imaginary to make themselves look rich but really cause a lot.

@vinesauceobscurities

7 жыл бұрын

Zoroku Zoroark There's a reason a good chunk of that decade was known as the Roaring Twenties after all.

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

Vinesauce Obscurities I suppose you right.

Just love these kind of old narrated jewels . Back when homes were family and church oriented . When the middle class truley ruled . The mindset was so simple and life was grand . God was with this country then . The true definition of a woman to be desired but rare today ! Proverbs 31

@Syncopator

4 жыл бұрын

But then we invaded a bunch of other countries for no good reasons other than to tell them how to run their country and commercialize their resources, and God decided at that point, he wasn't with us anymore.

This movie was produced by 1904 and 1924 Olympic swimmer Jam Handy, who became a giant in advertising business from the 1930s-60s.

@crazybobdj

8 жыл бұрын

+Mark Spencer Always keep your perseveres in a convenient location!...Jam Handy.

@JoeKaye-hn5dt

6 жыл бұрын

His name was Jamison, hence the "Jam" part. It was right down the street from the Fisher Bldg where GM's headquarters are. Odd for Jam Handy to not include Detroit area scenes which I do not see here.

@Bluetangg

4 жыл бұрын

Here’s the video truth. Made by an advertiser.

Pillbox hats galore. Jackie is in the White House.

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

l remember my mom wearing one. And she wore gloves. And had cigarette holders.

For those who did not live during the 1960's: humans had not yet developed the ability to vocalize. We had no larynx.

@mizzwycked7931

4 жыл бұрын

Zoltan Korda 😂😂😂😂😂

@mfb3042

4 жыл бұрын

No personality needed. We didn't know many of us were preparing for emotional explosions.

@kiwitrainguy

4 жыл бұрын

2:24 What the hell are they saying?

@mfb3042

4 жыл бұрын

@@kiwitrainguy They're showing how cute and sweet everything is. They all perfectly love each other. Now they are going to buy their daughter a puppy because she wants one. When Elvis in the 50's started shaking his hips all this phony baloney started breaking down.

@DDios-ih9de

4 жыл бұрын

😜😅😀😀😀😀😝😝😂

My mother and aunts had that hair style. I call it helmet hair. I reminds me of wearing a helmet. Hard and round. My hair likes to hang long and free.

@SAnn-rf3oz

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, we would laugh at my Ma and call her helmet head.😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@lynseychinnery5707

3 жыл бұрын

My mom has shoulder length hair and bangs; she's never been able to grow her hair out very long. I have long hair and prefer it that way; it's about waist length and I'm trying to get it to grow as long as it used to be but it's hard with 'fine' type hair as I go thru a lot of detangler just to keep it manageable; that and I had to take prednisone for a couple weeks and lost hair by the handful. I've yet to get it back but I'll keep trying.

"well dressed" the narrator says; back when people didn't wear pajama pants to the store. I have pajama pants and I wear them at home for bed. I don't know why it irks me so much; but maybe because my mom always said, "make an effort to be presentable when going out". She still does even though she can't really wear eye makeup anymore because she's developed an allergy to the ingredients of most makeup brands. She still goes to the hairdresser every 6 weeks and still does her nails (and toe nails in the summer). She's not vain; she just wants to look "presentable".

This is such a nice video on the important role of women! A mother who works at home is a working woman, and that is a great job ! The pay may not be top tier , but the benefits are out of this world. God bless every mother , and woman that takes care of their family , either at home , or at another workplace! Thanks

I just love these little red heads. If I could make some, I would 😄😄😄

❤❤❤❤❤❤ *Back when home appliances were made to last a lifetime and not become obsolete within a few years*

YAY!! They decided to adopt a puppy from the animal shelter instead of buying one from a pet store and supporting puppy mills!!!!! :)

@mindsaglowin

9 жыл бұрын

They called them "dog pounds" back then.

@agentfungus9742

8 жыл бұрын

+mindsaglowin : And nobody neutered their pets. Puppies and kittens all over. Getting run over by cars. When they were taken to the shelter, they were killed en masse in decompression chambers. The good old days.

@laurawhitaker1797

4 жыл бұрын

Jenna Winsor I think getting a dog from the pound versus the pet store was driven by cost not by discouraging puppies mills.

I do believe this short film ,(a jewel of a film), does reflect the spirit of life back then . Today , evil is good and good is evil . Just think if the family unit was still that strong today and children were taught morles and values that are clearly being conveyed in this film .

Times of Best of the best: Family Values, well Dress, Best build Homes, Well made Furniture. Everything will lasts....Times of Safe Neighborhood 😁

Thanks for sharing these great classic videos

These aren’t “boomers”. These parents would have been born around 1930.

@estheresch3989

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Tunnah yes their children were the boomers. I’m one.

@shainaneidigh4269

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Tunnah boomers parents

@lemurianchick

4 жыл бұрын

@Joel Tunnah: Okay, boomer! (I couldn't resist! 🤣)

@joeltunnah

4 жыл бұрын

Only boomers would call a household a “boomer household” where they were the *children*. As usual, it’s always about them.

@joeltunnah

4 жыл бұрын

gumshoesoul, we agree that the boomers are awful (I’m gen-x), but I really have to question your premise that their parents were wonderful people. What do you think turned the boomers into a bunch of divorced, substance abusing narcissists? Most boomers I personally know had very abusive parents. The WWII generation had ptsd from the Great Depression and the war I guess. The family depicted in this video did not really exist, except for a very few people. It’s a national myth.

so fun to watch Loved this

@PopleBackyardFarm

8 жыл бұрын

+To Tell The Truth - yes, it's sad how times have changed.

@kiwitrainguy

4 жыл бұрын

To Tell The Truth - the ones who can change things for the better are the people. Vote out the wrong politicians and vote in the right ones.

I was there also, I was 8 in 1962....the cars and the homes were exactly as this video portrays.....Our neighborhoods were safe and our Country was very proud and solid with growth....constant prosperity. Women dressed with great style and everyone dressed very neatly, clothes were made to fit properly. The American Manufacturing Era was Everywhere....Everything was made in this country and with absolute Quality. Families went to Church and ate meals together, always. The true American Days.

This is my mother thanks for the memories

Everybody in 1962 had a brand-new Chevy, too!

@inkey2

8 жыл бұрын

+bdh70 my family had a 1955 plymouth, Savoy, 4 door in 1962....manual 3 speed transmission, no rugs, no radio, no air conditioning, no seat belts. We would take 1000 mile road trips to visit my grandmother in the mid west (in july). It was like being in an oven for 2 days.

@agentfungus9742

8 жыл бұрын

+inkey2 : Remember the hot vinyl care seats? OMG. AC in a car was the windows that would roll down. Sucked if you were caught in a traffic jam in summer.

@inkey2

8 жыл бұрын

+Agent Fungus OHHH yeah, hot sticky vinyl seats. At least there were the tiny "butterfly side windows" you could open to get some air circulation.....but even those were gone by like 1972. Air conditioning was not even standard in cars till the mid/late 1970s. I think AMC was the first car company to have AC as standard equipment

@agentfungus9742

8 жыл бұрын

inkey2 : Oh, the "wing windows." Cars started to rattle about 6 months after they were new. Hey, I was a teen during the 70s muscle car era. Cruised a lot. But those gas guzzling monsters rusted out within a couple of years. Sucked gas and leaked oil. My first car was a '73 Gremlin. That's how I met my husband. He sold it to me. The damn thing broke down every week and we got together to take it apart, replace parts, and put it back together. Such bonding. Cars were so simple back then. They broke down frequently, but you could always fix them yourself &/or with friends.

@OldsVistaCruiser

4 жыл бұрын

@@inkey2- The '68 AMC Ambassador was the first American car to offer standard A/C, even before Cadillac, Imperial or Lincoln.

They don't make cars like that anymore and yes I know they were gas guzzlers. They were really beautiful.

@sabrinamassie5606

7 жыл бұрын

And lasted for years if not decades .. Now they're almost disposable .. Cheaply made but expensive to repair with endless government regulations.

@tinaelevation9868

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@JoeKaye-hn5dt

6 жыл бұрын

Everyone was driving a Chevy!

@mikepeterson764

6 жыл бұрын

although, I love classics cars too, the cars of today can go many more miles 100,000 on those old cars was a death sentence, now 200,000 isn't the end.

@ssfinch4761

6 жыл бұрын

Tina Elevation Safer too and they didn't even have seat belts!

I enjoy these. Simply seeing how the THINGS in the videos looked when new is fascinating. The crowds of well-behaved children, lack of traffic, newly built infastructure. hard to believe it was real.

@truethat774

4 жыл бұрын

majidi those well behaved children were extras in a film.

I would LOVE to have that Pyrex pot at 14:50. I have my mother's Pyrex percolator and it makes the BEST coffee

For time machine travel, as well as visiting other times, the 60s is a decade I would revisit.

@snugbug5067

4 жыл бұрын

@Ollie Haze I love futuristic scenarios too. I hope it's kind to us. 🖖

People should realize that this was before the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. Literally, even in California there are property deeds from this time period with covenants that prohibit non-Caucasians from purchasing certain property. Just as this happy family was being filmed Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting segregation and at this point in time we still didn't have Miranda warning rights.

@hasselett

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. These fucking idiots commenting on this page just love romanticising the past. Funny thing is that plenty of them complain about how self-centered and cynical the world's become these days, and that the 60's were "simpler, more trusting times". I suppose it's easy to look over the fact that minorities were treated like dogs and that blacks weren't allowed to use the same restrooms and buses as Caucasians if you're white yourself. America today is far from equal, but huge strides have been made since the 60's. Blacks aren't structurally ostracised from society and aren't legally forced to sit in the back of the bus anymore.

@karenpanslerlam7760

2 жыл бұрын

Watch "Wealthy Middle Class Blacks in Los Angeles, 1960s @ kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHaJpplpfNPflNI.html

I love how they oh-so-subtly worked in the Chevrolet theme toward the end, among the patriotic themes. I'm not knocking it, that's how it's done. "See the USA, in your Chevrolet." I bet that flew right over the heads of most viewers back in the day, or now. However, subconsciously it registers. Brilliant marketing.

@karolinesmail489

4 жыл бұрын

Dinah shore sang it best and yes we were achevy family

The youngest red head boy is Bobby Brady from the Brady Bunch. They died his hair black for the show but the later episodes as a teen he had his natural color.

I was born in 62 its nice to see what was happening the year of my birth

I wish we could buy things made in America again

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

We have to start increase the resources in order to make a boom to our supplies.

@thetraitor3852

7 жыл бұрын

No, you need to invest into Education, because uneducated workers will never cover the needs of a 1st world country

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

TheAllegiantTraitor Why 1st world if you can do it with the 2nd and 3rd...

@thetraitor3852

7 жыл бұрын

Zoroku Zoroark he said he wants things to be made in america,and not 3rd world countries. for that you need educated population, that can make and operate machines, that will do the work instead of chinese and indian children.

@nightslasher9384

7 жыл бұрын

TheAllegiantTraitor I meant other countries who aren't like China or India but to give them more education than us.

I am eighty two and remember those days and economy but to have a husband who would drive around to find a meter with time left is miserably cheap which is why women started working outside the home (like me)

@miriamhavard7621

4 жыл бұрын

dian kreczmer 😊😂

We watched films like this at school when I was kid.

@karolinesmail489

4 жыл бұрын

So true I did too it was the late sixties and early 70s

Today was a great day to focus on this video!

back when being a stay at home meant something

@cardigansnloafers

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly? I think it still does. People respect people's choices today more than we're led to believe. :)

@pollyfoofoo8703

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it still means something, its just in most cases two incomes are needed.

@MaryJane-qq9mm

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Now a woman is shamed for taking care of her family. That's a daycares responsibility🤤🤡💩. No wonder the drug n crime rates went up. The majority have been raised by TV's, movies, music, public education system, and daycares.. And the house is a pig sty when someone isnt always taking care and maintaining... It's sad.. 🙄

@virginiamoss7045

4 жыл бұрын

@@MaryJane-qq9mm - Someone? Or forcing all females to this one narrow role. Not any males, ever. Not giving any choice. Assigned to this one, unappreciated role to all females. It was not a better system. Mothers and parents should get better social (governmental) support for being the molders of future generations. It's a critical role for both mothers and fathers. As long as it takes two incomes to just barely get by, the children will get shortchanged. Eliminate the obscene wealth gap that currently exists and we could have a better family life where children are tended to adequately by both parents as well as grandparents and "the village" as well.

@MiserysFence

4 жыл бұрын

@@MaryJane-qq9mm I've been a stay-home mom, a working mom, and a single working mom. No one "shamed" me at any time. Maybe the people you surround yourself with are just dicks. And FYI, both of my children are gainfully employed, productive citizens with no criminal records or drug use--despite the fact that I mostly raised them alone.

The "family paycheck."

Those pink appliances, they really had style !!!

I was born in 1966, my mother 1943, she tells me about growing up in the 50s when I ask and she says for the most part it was decent. Her immediate family though made it difficult because my grandfather, her father, ruled the household with an iron fist. That was her words. The music, the movies was good she said and she wrote in to fan clubs for actors, etc. She got an autographed photo back from Tab Hunter, I saw it. She told me once she was out on the beach on a blanket and 2 photogs came.

I see the first comment right below mine about shopping for food during the 60’s. I was born in 1951 into a 5 person home-(including me)! I remember going with her to grocery shop. She could fill her shopping cart with enough food to feed 5 people and it would only cost her $25.00. And that $25.00 gave us 3 real meals per day, with some sort of salad for the dinner and supper meals and also a dessert of some kind! Today $25’.00 won’t get you much at all!

@patquint3291

4 жыл бұрын

Florida Gal I was born in 1951 also. My folks owned a small house, we had a new car every 3 years, my mother stayed home, we only went out to eat about once a month, attended church every week. And we always had plenty of nice clothes, Christmas with loads of gifts, and a two week vacation every year, traveling by car all over the Western United States. All this and I think my father made about $15,000 a year! I had a wonderful childhood with tons of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents’ farms to visit. I had it all. Such memories!

@geenal360

4 жыл бұрын

Florida Gal $23.00 value in 2019 compared to 1951 is $251 dollars.

@zippetydodahday

4 жыл бұрын

~ $25.00 in 1951 is worth : What was $25 in 1951 worth in today's money? Adjusted for inflation, $25.00 in 1951 is equal to $256.97 in 2020. Annual inflation over this period was 3.43%. You can definitely put some good meals on the table with that including a salad🥗 and a 🍨🎂dessert. 😋 Today ✅

Junior's little trip to the ER wouldn't be the food budget for the whole year. Even with insurance now, I just pray. The slogan should be: "one job should be enough." Many single people are working two jobs just to keep a roof over the head, and in some areas can't do even that. And what is our government doing? improving things for the one percenters. And an edit: this was produced by chevy, the unmistakable theme starts at 22:52. Even corporations had a conscience back then.

@pwrfl2357

4 жыл бұрын

People didn’t run to the er for every little cut or sneeze. EMTALA brought that about everyone interpreted that as an invitation

This is a 1962 "educational" film produced for Chevrolet by the masters of the "advertising film" {and the one outfit they successfully did business with for over 40 years}, Jam Handy, and seen primarily in schools, community meetings and occasional Sunday morning screenings on local TV stations; note the subtle glimpses of Chevy's automobiles in certain sequences {also practiced when sponsoring "MY THREE SONS" and "BEWITCHED"}, and yes, the famous "Chevrolet" jingle at 22:50 through 23:32...

the red haired brothers was a cute scene...I remember in the 1970s sharing clothes and a bedroom with my sister,today kids have a room just for their toys alone.

they need remake family tv shows like this something drama free

I miss my country.

How many women today wouldn't give anything to be able to stay home in a beautiful house that has this kind of kitchen and take care of their family instead of having to face the stress of full time work away from their home!

Chevrolet must have been the sponsor of this and wanted to push the Corvair. This is definitely made in a time when everyone worked together and we didn't just throw things away so fast. I love how this shows not just the homemaker but woman who worked outside the home as well.

I thought it was funny when they showed the metal sink. That design has been around forever. Pretty much every house built in the 90's has a kitchen faucet exactly like the ones they show here.

@JoeKaye-hn5dt

6 жыл бұрын

Stainless steel sinks are very practical. As long as you don't drop something real heavy in them, they can look brand new forever. Porcelain sinks suck.

@ThomasTalbotMD

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, at the low price point; its the same exact faucet and vegetable sprayer! I guess the design is timeless.

That used to be USA...glad I was born in those days... Wonderful memories

I respect the message... however, being born in 1962 to a depression-era set of parents, it could be a total pissing drag at times. "Eat every scrap on your plate". Even though we were stuffed to puking, we'd eat it, or our Dad would hit us. EVERYTHING was about saving $$, denying everything frivolous, meaning fun. My Dad (I do love him) died maybe 4 years after retiring from a hard job. Never really got to enjoy what he worked for. Mom is still alive, sitting on top of $$ I wish she'd spend on herself. I hate what the depression did to 2 generations of Americans.

@yosemite2405

8 жыл бұрын

+KurtB Born in 63, forced into adoption to Depression-era people myself. Never spend the money...never

@kurtbjorn

8 жыл бұрын

ProBoard Bear I guess these folk knew real hunger and privation, and it got burned into their brains. I tried to get my Dad to spend $250 on himself for a nice tool he wanted about 1995... he was super-hesitant. And yet they had a net worth of at least $750K. Everything was self-denial, save save save.

@YooTuba

8 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the ones who lived through the depression and now save every little scrap of plastic or whatever because they might be able to use that again...leaving a hoarded house for their kids to clean out.

@williamperkins9349

7 жыл бұрын

Like it or not, the Depression made this country. Tough times made tough people, albeit some didn't adjust well once they had things & $$.

@mgoc5010

7 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling, I used to tell my dad (RIP) that he pinched penny's so hard, the the dead presidents would scream.

Wow ! Love that soup pan !!

The narrator sounds like Mike Wallace. I will never forget his Fluffo commercials.