Thanks!

My parents bought a Motorola deep freezer in 1946. When my mom passed away in 2010 and the house was sold, the freezer was unplugged for the first time in 64 years. It ran the entire time without any repairs.

@georgepierson4920

10 ай бұрын

Do you still have the freezer?

@dougthompson5449

10 ай бұрын

@@georgepierson4920 I gave it to a friend of my mom's who wanted it and her son took it home and plugged it in and it started running again. As far as I know it still might be.

@WWeronko

10 ай бұрын

I was going to mention that older appliances were often built with sturdier materials and seem to last an eternity. Often they were replaced not because they wore out but people just tired of seeing them. The relevant humorous antidote is a modern frig says "I break with in two years." The 60s frig says "I will outlive you and everyone you love. I am eternal. I am time itself."

@jeffreyalanwong

10 ай бұрын

Things were built to last in those days!

@hangchencpa3677

10 ай бұрын

Made In America meant quality and craftsmanship. This is no longer the case.

My dad passed away when I was 9 but before e did he made me a doll house and put the wall paper from each room (including the bathroom) in the corresponding doll house rooms. He also painted it olive green just like our house was. I still have it and cherish it so much.

@maryelliott7143

10 ай бұрын

❣️

@marianalvarado4193

10 ай бұрын

What a wonderful gift!

@PraveenSriram

9 ай бұрын

The doll house sounds really nice 😊. Sorry though your dad passed away so young

@judyroe663

9 ай бұрын

What a treasure!

@johnhenderson131

9 ай бұрын

Make sure you pass something as precious as that down to the right person, that can appreciate such love.

A child of the 60's and 70's, I witnessed most all of this firsthand. It was a magical time to be a kid; little did we know the end of it would arrive by the late 80's. I truly feel bad for kids from that time since; all kids should have the chance to grow up when we did, with innocence and wonder allowed us to just be kids. - Ed on the Ridge

@madmike2624

10 ай бұрын

I tell my wife, I'm glad we are in the 3'rd quarter, cause raising kids now would be a nightmare!!

@tonycollazorappo

10 ай бұрын

Same, I was born in 1961. I miss it all, lol.

@staceyo1723

10 ай бұрын

I smiled at this comment. As someone who grew up in 80\90’s, I think the same thing about my childhood and how it was the best time to grow up. 😊 I’m sure my kids will the say the same about growing up now.

@petestaint8312

10 ай бұрын

Same! A snapshot of my childhood. 👍

@julenepegher6999

10 ай бұрын

Right, we never had organized play un less we organized it ourself like kick ball, we used our imagination with a ball a bike or a rope. Great times I was born in 59.

Wall phones with a "mile" long cord for privacy was the way to go. Especially for teenagers.

@tonycollazorappo

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, lol.

@jcbulldog533

10 ай бұрын

OMG!! Yes,our kitchen phone was a orange trimline model on the kitchen wall that I actually bought with money from my first ever job.. I bought the longest cord possible & from stretching it so much it actually touched our floor & then some . Enjoy these Wonderful videos they bring back some great memories for me

@julenepegher6999

10 ай бұрын

We stretched the phone cord from the kitchen down the hall for privacy, talking to our boyfriends. me and my sisters.

@annpoitras7875

10 ай бұрын

We had a yellow wall phone…only one in the house… it was right in the kitchen and the cord was short. Needless to say… no privacy as a teen!!

@kathymcel

10 ай бұрын

My mom stretched the cord into the hall closet for privacy

Born in 1962 I can say I’m blessed to have grown up in this era. 🤠🇺🇸❤️

Born in 1960 I loved the freedom of growing up in a time where kids could play outside all day and just come in for meals. A different time indeed.

I own a 1940s bungalow 1100 sq ft. with 2 bedrooms. I love my home. Just the correct size for us two retired folks.

@madmike2624

10 ай бұрын

So happy for you!

@jcbulldog533

10 ай бұрын

Sounds very cozy!! Happy Retirement 😊

@christinakinsley4441

10 ай бұрын

I lived near Maclaren Lake when I grew up in the '70s. Now I live in a 2 bedroom 50's home near a different lake. I'm looking forward to retiring next year and I agree it is perfect for two. No dishwasher. No A/C. I hope you have a long and enjoyable retirement.

@JimAllen-Persona

10 ай бұрын

I'd be concerned about the electric unless you've upgraded it. I'm jealous though, my kids are still home and I'm almost ready to retire. It's hard to maintain a 2600 sq ft house and yard when you're over 60.

@markdavid7013

10 ай бұрын

Houses have gotten "obscenely large" now.

I grew up in the 60s in Appalachia. Our home was built in the 1800s and was heated by a coal furnace. I can still walk the home and yard in my mind. A magical time to be a kid.

@trudygreer2491

10 ай бұрын

So, no sunken living room or electric double wall ovens, then, eh?! 😉

@dougthompson5449

10 ай бұрын

We also had a coal furnace. Every time I smell coal smoke now my mind automatically takes me back to my boyhood home in rural Pennsylvania.

@seanleith5312

10 ай бұрын

1960s is the worst decade in 20th century. that's the end of everything classical, beautiful, reaonable. replace that with craziness, destoy every wisdom human found during long history of the past. it is like a wealthy family accumlated wealth over generations, throw it all away on a flush of stupidity, and generations after him have to through the dark times again. it would be much different world if 1960s never existed. look at what today's society has become, it started in 1960s.

@tonyf.8858

10 ай бұрын

30 years from now a kid from the 2010's will say the same thing, "a magical time to be a kid". Growing up is just plain magical, no matter the decade in which you were born.

@alecfoster4413

10 ай бұрын

@@seanleith5312 Being born in 1959, I would agree! But you could take everything in your comment and apply it to the 1970's. That is when the stupidity and foolishness hit a crescendo. I think we still remember the 60's fondly as elements of the old culture remained. But the seeds were sown in the 60's. I think the best thing in the 60's were the legitimate, 1st wave of the Civil Rights movement and the Space Race. The other trends became destructive.

I was a child of the 60's. Love those decades. Life was simpler, food was way cheaper and healthier. People rather lived life. Family life was healthier too.

@Argonaut121

4 ай бұрын

I grew in the late 50s and 60s. I consumed mostly processed foods, sugary cereals, canned soups, TV dinners, white bread and white rice, Jello, Twinkies, potato chips, donuts, fast food hamburgers, French fries and fried chicken, soda pop. My kids - now in their twenties and early thirties - grew up with much healthier diets and wouldn't dream of eating and the drinking the crap I did when I was young.

@Argonaut121

4 ай бұрын

@@FleshMann-sp9xd I never said it wasn't satisfying. I just said it wasn't healthy or nutritious.

@iseegoodandbad6758

4 ай бұрын

​@@Argonaut121you must be from NY!! The diet there now is much healthier than it was 60 years ago!!!

@Argonaut121

4 ай бұрын

@@iseegoodandbad6758 It is, in fact. Though you can still find plenty of crap. Actually I live in Canada.

@iseegoodandbad6758

4 ай бұрын

@@Argonaut121 what? Hahaha!

Man, I would love to go back in time to see homes like this, 1920s-70's

I was born in 1951..little young for the 50’s remembering..but the 60’s..oh yea, this is it..spot on! In 1956 my parents bought a brand new split level home for $12,500, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, one car garage on a cul de sac..what a neighborhood!! They lived there and gave us a great childhood for 30 years, retired, moved to Florida then back to Connecticut where most of our family lived, played, worked and..died..Omg were we blessed..Thank you..God Bless..😊

@samanthab1923

9 ай бұрын

With five kids & the oldest only 11 we needed a bigger house. Much snazzier neighborhood to. The first time my Pop pop heard one of my younger brothers say cul de sac instead of dead end he howled laughing 😂

@nita7561

9 ай бұрын

You sound like the same childhood I had. I too was born in 51 My family moved into our “new house” in 58. We always lived in apartments that were not in the best part of town. Our house was also was cul de sac. We use to play base ball in the “ circle “ My parents worked very hard to buy the house for 12,000. It had 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, and 1 car garage. I could walk to school. It was a great neighborhood to grow up. In the late 60s…I was a hippie then. I was very political . Our family lived there for 40 years until my sister died. The holidays, weddings, graduations, funerals, . That what make a house a home….memories Oh, I forgot to tell you, I’m from a suburb of Dallas, Richardson. Summers was stifling and using fans to keep cool. We got a/c several years later, We thought we had gone to heaven. It’s really nice to remember, Sorry I bent your ear so much Take care Peace.!

@samanthab1923

9 ай бұрын

@@nita7561 We also played in “the circle”. Only 2 houses in the Court. My parents spent $17K on a 4 bed/2 ba. Cape Cod. You’re driving mu

born in 69, so missed the 60's, but they trickled over enough into the 70's i remember much of it. life was great then.

Remember all the different styles of ashtrays that would adorn every coffee or end table?

@karenh2890

10 ай бұрын

I sure do!

@deborahpellerito6117

10 ай бұрын

My parents had a ceramic baseball glove ashtray they would but their cigarettes out

@mikem5043

10 ай бұрын

@@deborahpellerito6117 As kids in elementary school in the '60s, many of us made ashtrays for our dads in pottery class

Seems to me that people did a lot more entertaining in the 60s than they do now. Thank you Recollection Road for another wonderful trip down memory lane.

@themagus5906

10 ай бұрын

Yes; moms had a lot of "coffee klatches" while the dads were at work. They had babysitting clubs as well. It was a rarity for there to be two cars in a household, so moms went out on the weekends to get out of the house. And people that entertained other families were always "keeping up with the Jones's".

@debby8428

10 ай бұрын

Way before social media!

@joanmayfield4791

10 ай бұрын

My parents had canasta parties and us kids had to stay in the bedrooms. I remember trying to listen through the heat vents and wondered what was going on because of all the laughter.

@mikeywid4954

10 ай бұрын

@@joanmayfield4791 I can relate. Pinocle was the game for our folks and we kids got sent to another room to play Monopoly.

Born in 1957. The 60's and 70's were the best. Now if I only had a time machine.....

Thanks. I also recall “pole lamps” that were in a corner of a room, with spring loaded pole that was wedged between floor and ceiling. They usually had three or four adjustable lights with cone shaped shades. They still seem like a neat idea. 😀

@pigoff123

4 ай бұрын

I have a pole lamp in the garage. I have a few vintage ashtrays. I had to leave my moms old stereo in Germany. I didnt want to but it would not work stateside

@DrunkenUFOPilot

2 ай бұрын

Exactly what I could use two of in my apartment! But do they still exist in 2024?

The 1960's was an interesting era & definitely fun to grow up in!!! Thanks for the memories!!! 👍👍🙂

@PraveenSriram

9 ай бұрын

A house cost $15,000 in the sixties

Absolutely gorgeous interiors. People had beautiful manners back then and they were respectful and took time to talk and listen to you. Women where beautiful home makers and mothers and Dads took pride in being great providers for their wife and kids. Love the lovely homes and lifestyle back then. The clothes were gorgeous as well.

@tombudzinski950

10 ай бұрын

Then why did those beautiful homemakers get sick of being an unpaid worker with long hours and went out and got a job as soon as their kids could manage on their own? Then most husbands resented women taking their roles. There were an awful amount of divorces back then.

@genxx2724

7 ай бұрын

@@tombudzinski950 It just occurred to me that’s one big reason for the housing shortage - divorce! Families taking up two homes when they ought to be in just one.

@user-cm6lg5eo9x

Ай бұрын

@@genxx2724 So should the victims of spousal abuse just deal with it? Sometimes, it’s better for a couple to divorce; especially for their children. What if one parent is abusive?

@patty109109

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this is true, of course, except for the people who didn’t fit any of these criteria whatsoever. Plenty of homes in disrepair, plenty of abusive fathers.

@kathibudrock4746

Ай бұрын

Yeah, everything was perfect. Come on, good memories of our past is great, but try and embrace the world we live in now and bring some listening and posotivity

Loved this! I was a sixties kid! Remember the waxed fruit in bowls? How about bucket style dinette chairs that swiveled? And those giant wooden fork and spoon decorations! Loved it all 🙋‍♀️💕

I was born in 1962 and I grew up in a home like these. We had a Turquoise stove (gas) and my parents had bedroom furniture that was very square. We had a black and white tv but we did not have a console. Also the neighborhood I grew up in (North Hollywood) was very clean and neat. Everyone took care of their yards, including my Dad. He took great pride in doing yard work to make our house look good.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's. All this brings back wonderful memories of a time gone forever. Everything was so colorful, comfortable, cozy and relaxing. I was blessed to experience those wonderful times.

@PraveenSriram

9 ай бұрын

Is that your profile photo from the 60s or in 2023?

@DonnaJoshi

9 ай бұрын

@@PraveenSriram it's today

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

8 ай бұрын

I'm an early 1960's child. Our 60's kitchen was pale blue. With light wood and red chairs. My bedroom had pale pink walls, and a pale blue bunk bed. Mum made our curtains, while dad made my desk. The living room, and master bedroom had 1950's furniture. Our 1970's house's kitchen was orange, yellow, and green. So was the tableware ! My new room was pink and lilac. Befitting a teen. I made my own curtains. Our living/dining room was a mix of old and new. Cream, orange, and brown striped sofa set. (3+2+1). Embroidered wall tapestries and cushion covers to match. Cream wallpaper with a discret brown pattern. And lamps the same colours. The dining table lamp was copper ! I moved out in the 80's, and my parents moved into an apartment. Toned down colours. Mostly cream. And a sofa suite in pale gold velvet. A massive new persian rug in cream, brown and pale gold. Love from Norway 🇳🇴

@DonnaJoshi

8 ай бұрын

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 everything sounds wonderful :)

I really miss the sixties, and the early seventies! The best decades to grow up and be alive in, for sure. We had it so good, then. People were so much kinder and happier to work and play together. Groups of neighbors and co-workers always getting together for picnics, camping, fishing trips, horse shows, game nights in someone's home, etc. Even a special movie in front of a color television with a bucket of chicken and several neighbors and all the kids on the floor on a blanket was just special.

@frogpalpeeper4249

4 ай бұрын

And there was a lot of singing in groups then too. I remember village talent shows with various singers, singing in school and even on the bus going home. I miss it.

This is how people with money lived in the 1960s. For most of us in the lower middle class, things weren’t nearly that nice. It was still a great era to grow up in.

@pegs1659

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, we didn't have all of that fancy stuff lol.

@hewitc

10 ай бұрын

No "Eames" chairs or double electric wall ovens. No fancy real to real tape recorder built into the wall unit.

@verasmith4767

10 ай бұрын

This was middle class living. Not all of us lived like this. We had a older house and plenty of food . It was a nice neighborhood to grow up in.

@nita7561

9 ай бұрын

Our family too. We always had Christmas , birthdays, and Easter clothes probably not as much as my friends but I had great memories and my parents worked very hard for what we had.

@PrinceCity007

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I said the same thing. This was high tier living.

Many of this slid in to the 70's. Love the memories.

@sassenach5964

10 ай бұрын

I agree!

@victorboucher675

10 ай бұрын

was that after 69?

@trudygreer2491

10 ай бұрын

I think some of these images were from the '50s, too..

@Menleah

10 ай бұрын

And even fewer, but still a few, made it to the 80's. Usually at Grandma and Grandpa's house 🙂

Our toilet paper used to match our bathroom (blue and the other one pink). Now you get nothing but white.

@HBrooks

10 ай бұрын

there were floral patterns, too.

@samanthab1923

10 ай бұрын

Even napkins & paper towels & tissues came in different colors

@karenh2890

10 ай бұрын

We had plain old white toilet paper in the 50s and 60s, but I was always very impressed by people who had toilet paper to match their bathroom.

@rufust.firefly4890

10 ай бұрын

Sometimes we had yellow tp.

@someoneelseentirely3452

10 ай бұрын

@@rufust.firefly4890 😂

My mom still has a lot of that stuff. My grandmother still had plastic on her furniture even in the 80s😂

@wotawanancy3249

10 ай бұрын

Got married in 1964. Modern Danish furniture was the in thing. Still have a lot of Tupperware. Really lasts. Going back would not a problem except I would miss the air conditioning.

@AlBundyPolkHigh.

10 ай бұрын

@@wotawanancy3249 My mom had Tupperware parties back in the 70s and that stuff was expensive back then.

@johnhardman825

10 ай бұрын

@@wotawanancy3249 I still have some of my mom's Tupperware! It was from the 70's.

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@@AlBundyPolkHigh. I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

@jcbulldog533

10 ай бұрын

​@@johnhardman825Us Gal's at work had many Tupperware parties.. I got married in 1982 & prior to that I had aquired a nice assortment of Tupperware believe it or not I still a lot of it & use it occasionally Was pricey,yes but 40 + years later still very functional

We were poor and didn't have any of these things, but I remember them from TV shows we watched on a second-hand TV that sat on a rusty metal stand.

I was a kid in the 60s and remember all of this. Thanks for the video.

I love these sweet look back videos!!! Being a child in the 60s was a joy for the most part and these videos bring me such joy now so THANK YOU!!

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@bridgetmccraken1381,,I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

@festidious2644

10 ай бұрын

Good looking blond in the thumbnail too!

@bridgetmccracken1381

10 ай бұрын

@@festidious2644 guess that never hurts lol

@JudithSanchez-ht6jn

10 ай бұрын

The sixty was my teen age era you right as individual my life was no sweet but that was as individual but was era. I started work in a factory and study and we to a job and became a civil servant. Good but also turbulent times.

@bridgetmccracken1381

10 ай бұрын

@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn I would gladly take those times over what we are living in today

I was born in 1970, but still remember our kitchen setup being done in avocado colors, which I understand was also a fad of the 60s. And who could forget colored toilet paper, which I believe also became popular around that time? As a young kid I still remember we had pink, green, and blue depending on the time of year.

@journeytothemosthigh5021

10 ай бұрын

Same here!

@brmnyc

10 ай бұрын

I miss colored TP! And Kleenex came in different colors too. There was one box you could buy with a pastel floral design, and inside the Kleenex alternated all the different colors: pink, blue, green, yellow!

@FrankiesFancy

10 ай бұрын

Colored paper towels for the kitchen, too! My fave TP was the white with little pink rose buds printed on it. It came back out again a few years back and I snatched a bunch of rolls but over the years, there were times when I'd run out of regular TP and, well, the quantity dwindled until they were all gone. 😢

@julienielsen3746

10 ай бұрын

We also had some floral print toilet paper sometimes. I didn't care for the avocado green one.

@incog99skd11

10 ай бұрын

I hated the yellow toilette paper.

To this day I still love the sunken living room design. Although it was not in my house several friends from that era had it in theirs and I always found the look very relaxing and cozy, we had alot of great times in those little spaces.

@wildwest5436

10 ай бұрын

I've got a sunken living room but my house was built in 94.

@chuckwadnofski7147

10 ай бұрын

Had to go easy on the cocktails so you wouldn't trip into the pit.😂

@footballlvnlady

10 ай бұрын

I built a new home in 1986. We had a sunken living room. We had a walkway around the living room with beautiful oak railing that my FIL made. One wall was floor to ceiling with beautiful stone and fireplace in the center. Each end of that wall had oak shelving half up and oak cabinets half down.

@JimAllen-Persona

10 ай бұрын

My in-laws have sunken family and living rooms and now that my f-i-l is using a walker they're problematic. I think their house was built in '68. Just a heads up.

@hewitc

10 ай бұрын

They are rare now-- probably too many lawsuits for being a trip hazard. Most of the homes in theis video were owned by affluent people. What average wage earner owned an Eames chair or some of the complicated hifi systems shown? Or double electric wall ovens?

Some of these are actually bleed overs from the 1950's. Straight out of the TV show,"Leave it to Beaver"A return to a time of innocence.

Well, one part you didn't have here was the garage. Many garages had one corner where dad would keep his tools that he needed to fix various problems that would arise around the house, and might have had a workbench for this. The garage door was usually manually raised; garage door openers weren't readily available until the late 1970's or so.

@garycarpenter2932

10 ай бұрын

funny. i remember my dad's first garage door opener. not sure who liked it more though. him, or my brother and i. kinda like the tv remote. your dad's going to be home soon, go open the garage door. or change the channel. kinda one and the same. course we loved doing either one. kids didn't sit around too much then. and what wonders could become of a cardboard box.

@chrisnemec5644

10 ай бұрын

@@garycarpenter2932 I said readily available, meaning that someone who wasn't super wealthy could afford them.

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@@chrisnemec5644 I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

@garycarpenter2932

10 ай бұрын

@@chrisnemec5644 wow.. what brought that about? my parents were not wealthy. blue collar. dad was a mechanic. who did work with his dad's, my grandpa nights and weekends at grandpa's home remodeling business. my christmas presents were mainly clothes wrapped in the funny pages. but he did get a garage door opener around 1970. where this 'wealth' came from? long hard working hours. just like i did for my family. wealth? no.

@gonefishing11

10 ай бұрын

I barely remember our garage because it had been converted into 3 small bedrooms to accommodate our large family.

And living in the sixties, none of this seemed unique. It was just the way it was.

This is so spot on it's ridiculous. Right down to the Barbie dream house I had and the Monkees photos on the wall over the bed. The 60s was an incredible time to grow up, I'm glad I lived through that era.

Never had enough money to update to the 60s. 30s or 40s decor was good enough for my parents.

@jamesmiller4184

10 ай бұрын

Sure! With some neat stuff left over from the Twenties!

@rufust.firefly4890

10 ай бұрын

My grandmother(born in 1880) had a claw foot bathtub. No shower.

@verasmith4767

10 ай бұрын

This was video was made by people who didn't live then. Some of us had a modest house and live style. Those houses were the result of the GI Bill. WW2 and Korea vets built them.

Love the simple life of the 1960's . Ranch style house 🏠, deep shag carpet, I even had the art coffee table with redwood base. Ohh my magazine rack needs a little dusting

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@stevansikes8477,,I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

Most of the Tupperware they showed wasn’t available until the 70’s. It had the tops you could seal one handed by pushing down in the center. The original Tupperware was the kind it took two hands to get the lid on and you “burped” it to remove excess air. I still have the 70’s canisters in my pantry. They keep flour, meal, sugar and coffee fresh great.

@DawnDavidson

21 күн бұрын

Agreed. 50’s and 60’s Tupperware was mostly in translucent white or colors like pink or light green. The ones they showed here were 70’s colors. The avocado green, harvest gold, and flame orange trend was a very late 60’s but mostly 70’s color scheme, and the Tupperware was made to match it. We had carpets that were a very greeny-gold color in our house back then, and my mom’s best friend in the neighborhood’s favorite color was orange. We saw a lot of those colors!

This was wonderful to watch. You have the perfect voice for this, very calming while our minds flashback on our nostalgic past of a simpler time. I paused constantly and looked at every item in the room like an innocent child reading a storybook. Thank you for this post. ❤

@ConsolidatedPBY

10 ай бұрын

No kidding, I can’t recollect without this dude’s voice!

@roberto1519

10 ай бұрын

Are you sure this isn't AI? I'm honestly asking, as I really think it isn't a human reading the text.

@lemurianseahorse

10 ай бұрын

@@roberto1519 Hey Roberto, you could be right? I hope not cause I'm not a fan of AI for most things but there's so much AI out there that "they" are keeping from us!

@lemurianseahorse

10 ай бұрын

@@handle-schmandle you are probably correct!

@roberto1519

10 ай бұрын

​@@lemurianseahorse I'm pretty sure it's AI, if you listen to it in many of its other videos, it has no emotion, the tempo, phrasing, pitch and so on are always the same, and these are only few aspects you can see it's most certainly AI.

Let's check it out right here. It's that time even on Sunday. I did see plenty of this growing up in the '70s.

Our house was built in 1966. Ranch style. My mom loved interior decorating. We had wallpaper in every room but the family room with wood paneling. Family room was orange and black. Kitchen bright yellow and black. Even zebra print drapes on the patio doors. The living room was in powder blue. My bedroom was green carpet and big tan flowered wallpaper. My parents room had red carpet and black accent. My sisters room was three shades of pink with hot pink shag carpet. The large bathroom was in red and gold. Had wallpaper with shiny gold back and red flocked flowers. Half bath was different shades of blue and white trim. Our basement rec/bar room had red and black carpet, red bar top and black shag carpet on the sides of the bar. Red refinished upright piano and a red phone on the bar. Later years when the house was remodeled it was a pain removing all the wallpaper.

@smartysmarty1714

10 ай бұрын

Your parents must have bought magic mushrooms in bulk !!

@footballlvnlady

10 ай бұрын

@@smartysmarty1714 LOL No, my dad worked for the DOT for 35 years and mom for the city. We were raised Catholic so no mushrooms. My mom just liked decorating.

@mritzs5142

10 ай бұрын

Wall paper is making a big comeback

@stuarthirsch

10 ай бұрын

Love real wood paneling on the walls or ceiling. Love hard wood floors, but for some reason hard wood floors weren't liked in the 1960s, wonder why.

@stuarthirsch

10 ай бұрын

@@mritzs5142 Hope not. I had wall paper in my first house. My parents persuaded me that it was the thing to use. Hate it. Never again.

This video makes me want to watch Mad Men again. Probably the best 60's set design ever done on television.

@gonefishing11

10 ай бұрын

It makes me want to watch the movie, Cold Turkey lol

@GreekGypsy

10 ай бұрын

​@@gonefishing11😂

@marybazargani6929

10 ай бұрын

Yes, Mad Men did have the best 60's set design down to the tiniest details. A lot of this came back because of that show.

I was born in 1966. I remember our home looking so much like this video. The furniture, dinnerware, and the art was something I will always remember. The painting's, and the cool posters that would be framed were just so cool. The fact that almost everything you bought was made here in the US. The way that people conducted themselves and spoke was so different then. People took pride in what they had and wanted to take care of it to pass it down. Music and TV entertainment were completely different. It was a time were we were only 15 years removed from WW2 and less than 10 years from the Korean War. It was a time of " newness " and excitement. We had just witnessed man walking on the moon. Our beloved President was murdered and then Dr King, Bobby Kennedy and Malcolm X. Things changed and now we have a complete mess. I long for those simpler times when there was hope and innocence.

@Johan-ez5wo

5 ай бұрын

Born in 1966 too, my memories are more in the '70 ties though. The video can easily be a '70 ths movie, not much changed

What a glorious time to be free. 😁🇺🇸

One of the big trends in the 60s was the blending of tech and furniture. TVs, record players, radios, and sometimes all of them together were encased in a stylish wooden cabinet. They were no longer items that were placed in the living room, they became part of the living room, as much as a sofa or recliner. Every household I remember used the tops of the cabinets as a stand to display things like framed pictures, houseplants, or any number of other items. I know that during the Christmas season my family used it for Christmas decorations, like those ceramic Christmas trees with the fake plastic bulbs that lit up when the lightbulb in the tree was switched on. It was a time when TV Repairman was an actual job. If your TV wasn't working, you called the repairman to fix it. Today, we just throw the TV away and buy a new one. Many things in the houses of the 60s were repaired, not just replaced.

@stuarthirsch

10 ай бұрын

Hope fine wood TV and entertainment cabinets and entertainment centers make a comeback, however with modern electronics.

@DawnDavidson

21 күн бұрын

The tech was different then, and more easily repaired. But yes, one of the things I do not like about our current era is all the planned obsolescence and “disposable” furniture, clothing, and appliances. I still try to donate as much as possible, but things just don’t last like they used to.

Love This Channel! I grew up in the 60s. What a Great Time to grow up in!

@tonycollazorappo

10 ай бұрын

I was born in 1961, the best years ever! Let's turn the clock back to those times.

Still have all my albums!!

@marknewton6984

9 ай бұрын

Vinyl rules: Mitch Ryder, early Airplane, Righteous Bros. Boogaloo!!!

Thanks for the memories. I'm 69 and I remember them well.

I grew up in the wonderful 60's. Parents always had formal cocktail parties and I had a lot of babysitters. We had a pool and bath house and it was always non stop parties for the kids and the parents. Amazing time to grow up and amazing time for parents to dress up and socialize with friends. We knew how to have fun.

I still remember my mom’s washing machine, a German Miele. In Italy there weren’t the same appliances as in the US, my first Barbie doll was the one my aunt sent in a parcel to her family still living in Italy. I adored that doll. Beautiful and unforgettable year, full of hope and opportunities

LOL every ONE of those items brings back a different memory!! Especially those LOUD bedspreads, the orange and yellow Tupperware, and of course, that God-awful paneling !

Great to see a 1960’s homes as I live in a home built in classic 1961 ranch..

As a kid in the sixties, I use to like hanging around my Dad while maintaining his 66 station wagon and motorcycle

This video was really fun. I sure remember those things but they were modern things that other people had, not the families in our neighborhood anyway. We had good cozy houses with trim little yards and flowers but the newest houses were 1940s or before. Our house was one of the oldest, built around 1910. Nextdoor was probably the oldest circa 1880. But I'm sure our moms admired all the newest stuff. We just cared about room to play! It was a good time to be a kid.

I'm a late 67 vintage myself, so my memories of the actual 60s are hazy at best, but we had a lot of those things when I was a kid in the 70s. The titanic wood box Zenith Color TV. Remember when color TV was a big deal? We had the green shag carpet in our family room, and my dad had a Magnavox stereo in wood powered by vacuum tubes with a turntable, am/fm radio and a reel to reel tape deck. It was eight feet long and had to weigh close to two hundred pounds. I wish I still had it.

@bobcoats2708

10 ай бұрын

Right there with you, having been hatched in late ‘66

@lesiepetersen1582

10 ай бұрын

I remember asking my Dad what he wanted for Xmas. His answer always was " color tv ". I'm 71 now. His wish came true a little later.

I grew up in the sixties and early 70s. Although we had bits and pieces of these things, we didn't live like this. We had good food and clothing, but sadly, there was no house, no dishwasher, no car, no cocktail parties and no money. An occasional highball if someone stopped by

Ahhh yes, I'm 77 and I remember it well!

Dad had to hide the Playboy magazines. Board games were very common then and I love playing them. Dad would have other married neighbors come over to play team card games and he would mix up a "Salty Dog" for refreshment. Time moved slowly back then.

It was the best of times. I miss those days and all the ones that have passed on. How I loved them and wish they were still here.

@waltertowns1362

16 күн бұрын

I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL I MISS ALL OF MY EMEDIET FAMILY AND FRIENDS I GREW UP WITH 😢😢😢😢😢😂😂❤❤PRECIOUS MEMORIES

Being a teenager during the 60's was the highlight of my life. I think big part of it was music. Some of the greatest names in Rock n Roll were born in those years. Thanks for the memories!

Still have my mother's dishes from back then? And I still have some LP records from back then. Greatest time to be alive was 1950s and 1960.

@jamesmiller4184

10 ай бұрын

As for that last, how very so with some late forties remembrance as a sample of what went before.

Also in the living room - three walls painted and one with wallpaper or paneling! Haha!

@perrybarton

10 ай бұрын

Or, as we had in our living room, three walls painted light green (or whatever color) and one wall painted in a much darker shade of the same color.

Thank goodness my mom decorated in traditional, classic choices. We still had the olive and gold color scheme, but plain oyster white painted walls, and she did love turquoise accents. I often envied the more modern "In" style of my friend's homes, but even then, I could see the lasting, classical, and beautiful look of my mother's traditional decorating choices. The 60's was a fun time to be growing up.

@danielkoher1944

8 ай бұрын

With the exception of the Vietnam 🇻🇳 War.

@mickikindley7821

7 ай бұрын

Sounds familiar except for the kitchen but she soon got around that lol

In the early 60s central AC was rare. My family was the 1st on our block to have it. The kids loved it

@tonycollazorappo

10 ай бұрын

I still had wall units till the early 2000s, then I had a central A/C unit put in. I kept a few wall units, and the were handy when the central A/C needed maintenance, I live in Florida and A/C is a must, LOL.

@latachia_2981

9 ай бұрын

We never had central air, but we did have a big swamp cooler in the kitchen & it was really, really cold! You must of came from a rich family... I don't think to this day,(I was born in 1951) I've ever been in someone's house that has central air conditioning! And my parent's were pretty well off, but frugal., They owned several houses that they rented out, so besides their jobs, they had income from the houses as well. ..I guess they didn't see central air conditioning as being a necessary thing to have, as I'm sure it was really expensive & the swamp cooler more than did the job!

@beefstew4698

8 ай бұрын

Wow …pretty cool

@boudicca7181

5 ай бұрын

I don't remember being hot back then so didn't need AC.

@kaydeedid

Ай бұрын

Never Even had a/c until I had grown up and got my own place. We had attic fans and sometimes water coolers

I,was born in 1957,and I grew up in the 1960's. I ,lived in Detroit,Michigan on Detroit's Eastside. I went to elementary and junior high school in the 1960's and I also remember the Hippie Years. I went to High School in the early 1970's.

@pegs1659

10 ай бұрын

Same here. Born in 57 and started HS in 72.

@scarycarrie1809

10 ай бұрын

@@pegs1659 Same birth year for me as well, born and raised in the Catskills when their resorts were still popular.

Born in 1959, we were a thrifty family that didn't follow these trends but still had the 50s things and white metal kitchen cabinets. The 1954 refrigerator had a very tiny freezer.

@braised44

10 ай бұрын

Our tiny freezer could barely fit a half gallon of ice cream!

@samanthab1923

9 ай бұрын

@@braised44That sounds like my aunts fridge. It was apt. size

The end table lamps were HUGE!

I was 5 in 1964. I remember our first color TV. A Zenith with a rectangular picture tube! I was amazed at the colors. The first program I saw in color was the Flintstone. Back then, families had dinner together, and after dinner, they had time for games as your video shows. We don't have families getting together anymore. A shame. At about 3:30, wasn't that Muhammad Ali?

@rckmrsh123

10 ай бұрын

That surely is Muhammad, Ron. I met him twice in my life, at charity events, and I know him when I see him.

@victorboucher675

10 ай бұрын

@@rckmrsh123 So then it was not Clay.

@glennso47

10 ай бұрын

Now family members talk to each other by cell phones or texts even when they are in the same room.

@glennso47

10 ай бұрын

@@victorboucher675 His name was Cassius Clay but he became Muslim and changed his name.

@rufust.firefly4890

10 ай бұрын

My dad told my brother and me not to fool w/the knobs. At the back there were two knobs to adjust the color. When the parents weren't around, We would adjust them to make people's faces turn red and green.

Most of the homes I grew up in were rentals, we were poor, our rentals were built in the 1920s-1940s……didn’t have any of this…..

@deehubs1353

Ай бұрын

My parents rented for years as well, but to this day I think of brick bungalows, older homes as cozy. They had pretty woodwork and hardwood floors. I can recall every room and every inch of our yard in the rented house that we had in the 60’s. I was in that house from kindergarten until the 4th grade.

My grandmother had a "party line" rotary dial phone, where you shared the "line" with an unknown party. As a youngster, I would sometimes pick up the phone to silently eavesdrop if the phone was in use, only to be told by the person to "get off the line" once they suspected someone was listening.

@DawnDavidson

21 күн бұрын

As a four year old, I famously told the other person to get off the line instead! 😂

We had the mint green bathroom and shag carpet that was a different color in each room.

I was I could have been a teen or young adult in the sixties . I love the original mid century modern style.

I had an apartment from 1999-2007 that had a sunken in living room, it was one of my favorite things about that place. I am guessing those aren't that popular anymore. These videos are fun to watch, even though I was born after the 60s, it's a nice blast from the past. And it reminds us all of a much simpler time.

@samanthab1923

10 ай бұрын

People always missed that step & wound up twisting ankles

@flowerfaeri

10 ай бұрын

I have a sunken living room. No missed steps or twisted ankles to date 😊

@glennso47

10 ай бұрын

The time was not really simpler.

@karenh2890

10 ай бұрын

I agree. If you were a kid in the 60s, it may have felt like it was simpler because you didn't have adult worries.

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@@flowerfaeri I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

Yes, I remember! American Products, made to last! Loved it!

@uzeela

7 ай бұрын

Made here with real union jobs...not cheap made in China that lasts about a week. Corporations went for cheap labor and did not care about their fellow Americans.. only to full their greedy pockets....

This site is fantastic ❤

We had Mercurochrome in the medicine cabinet also. There was also another one that looked the same that burned real bad that we would confuse it with I think it was called Merthiolate 😂

@johnhardman825

10 ай бұрын

Merthiolate was a brand name for Mercurochrome.

@AlBundyPolkHigh.

10 ай бұрын

@@johnhardman825 no they were two different medicines that looked the same. Merthiolate was the one that burned a lot and Mercurochrome didn't and basically did the same thing.

@saminaneen

10 ай бұрын

@@AlBundyPolkHigh. I remember, the REAL days, of the 1960's, where boys, were actually REAL boys, and girls were actually REAL girls, and there, was no confusion, or MENTAL ILLNESS, concerning, which public bathrooms, to use, unlike, today, where over 50%, of the young children, today, are extremely mentally ill, and need a psychologist.

@JohnBGood-kq3ul

10 ай бұрын

Iodine?

@johnhardman825

10 ай бұрын

@@AlBundyPolkHigh. Thanks for info, I was just a little kid then. i just thought twas a brand name.

THIS WAS A REAL BLAST FROM THE PAST!!! I grew up in the 60s..... what a sweet and innocent time. our home was just like this (wish i didnt know now what i didnt know then)

WHO EVER YOU ARE I HUMBLY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THESE PICTURES OF THE 1960S I WAS BORN IN THE 1960S I LOVE THESE YEARS AND THE 1970S 😢😢😢😢I MISS THEM GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS PLEASE KEEP POSTING

mercurochrome with the glass rod applicator was always fun. i remember it all too well. wipe out on your bike and mom or grandma applied it to all your cuts and scrapes. did it hurt? no, not really. but sure was scary as a little tyke.

I remember homes in magazines looking like this…but as a child of the late 60s we never lived in anything like these homes. We had a clean modest home in the country but never this fancy lol

@peacenik4168

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree, I had maybe 'one' friend who lived in this type of modern-decorated, newly-built, meandering st, in a neighborhood that I envied and knew I'd never be able to afford. I STILL remember every detail in their home. SO different than our old, 2nd-hand decorated from Garage-sales, etc...broken-down home.

@annarchy665

7 ай бұрын

My fam had a triple deckers in the city. The whole fam lived together. 😒 Lots of faux sequin fruit, Jesus in every room and plastic on velour furniture.

Such a good video! I remember so much of these interiors. One thing I remembered when you were talking about the bathrooms was the trend to match your toilet paper to the colors. Toilet paper in green, yellow, pink and blue!!

@TerryCloth

10 ай бұрын

I don't think they make colored tp anymore because It's unhealthy?

@jimdrummer816

10 ай бұрын

@@TerryCloth Too much dye in the sewer system.

@latachia_2981

9 ай бұрын

That was something that I haven't thought about in years!

I was a child of the 50s and 60s. When I bought our home for my son, I wanted so much to bring back the 1950s and early 1960s memories for him to enjoy. I built a pool and hot tub and we shared it with our neighbors. Every weekend we all gathered together in our back yard and got to know and care about each other. It was so much fun.

I see the trolls and folks who just want to complain about everything have found this channel and comment section. It used to be folks fondly remembering whatever topic was in the video, now it’s the “what about” folks and people complaining that “they didn’t live like or experience” whatever the topic is. 🙄

@TerryCloth

10 ай бұрын

Whom I like to call 'buzz killers' ,lol

@victorboucher675

10 ай бұрын

@@handle-schmandle wanted, needed, or useful.

The sixties were a time of change and if they had moved forward in a linear way our world would be a better one now. Unfortunately it did not turn out that way. Thanks for bringing back those days..

I grew up in a house built in 1945 And it's still had the Original gas heater hook, ups. And In the bathroom The original matching pink Gas heater and Bathtub were still in the house

@sharksport01

10 ай бұрын

Ok

In the early 60s, when I was still in high school, we lived in a ranch house and had some furniture similar to what was in the video, but we were never big socializers. By the late 60s, we had moved 3 times and I had also started living on my own in an efficiency apartment.

@sharksport01

10 ай бұрын

Ok

At 2:27 OMG, we had an ashtray exactly like that large yellow glass one. Exactly! You missed pole lamps ( or were they more popular in the 50s ? ) Anyway, I love pole lamps, the ones that had 3 cone shaped shades that you can turn in any direction. I had one in the early 2000s. It was brass but I got rid of it because the new place I moved into had very high ceilings. Pole lamps will always be cool, imho.

Don’t forget swag lamps and pole lamps. I remember the tension pole with 3 lights on it. The pole went from floor to ceiling and could be moved around - a great idea actually. Also the large “couch sized” picture, often a nature scene or even a large mirror, that hung over the couch.

@kcindc5539

8 ай бұрын

Yes! The three-lighted pole lamp that was held by tension to the floor and ceiling. Ours was white with the three lampshades in a brown rattan (wicker kinda) pattern on them.

I was born in the 1950s and definitely remember the 1960s. This video brought back soo many memories of my childhood. Thank you for these precious memories.

I wasn’t born in the ‘60’s, but I definitely remember my mom using mercurochrome on all my cuts and scraps, I always had reddish orangey elbows and knees and such. And also having to “burp” the Tupperware lids.😊

In the 60’s we did have a pool that lit up turquoise at night, colored patio lights and even colored up-lighting on the plantings. Simple but party-like every evening.

How about the basement? Some homes didn't have em but if it did it would have a funky rumpus room area down there! Great video 👍

I have great memories of my Uncle's 1966 model home on Long Island. 20 years later, I bought a 1966 model home near Albuquerque. The sacrifice of bedroom space for large open spaces was the norm. I also have a LARGE brick fireplace that amazes even the fireplace supply stores. There is a "game closet right next to the fireplace. No conversation pit, though. But the house did have a completely uncalled for intercom system with a radio in the base station. Still looking for a remote station to replace one that's missing. There was a large covered patio that you could fit a pool under. The effects of 70s chic was also there when we moved in - shag carpet over the original hard wood floors. Even the realtor didn't know they were there. Quickly took out the pastel decor in the hall bathroom, though. The spot for the big console television in the family room is obvious, but that space is now an entertainment center and 55" wall-mounted TV. Things have changed.

I love those years!💖👍!

As an aside...when they show the medicine cabinet, you'll notice a small slot near the bottom in the back of the cabinet. Most had them. It is for disposing of safety razors. You simply dropped the used razor into the slot, and it fell down behind the wall. I've had more than one person mention that when they remodeled a bathroom in an older home, they found a pile of rusted razors behind a wall, and it creeped them out. I had to explain how they got there.

@tombudzinski950

10 ай бұрын

Our house, built in the 1920s had a slit for dull razor blades. The cabinet was wooden. Imagine how many rusty blades are down there. I hope all of today’s contractors are aware to watch out for the pile of rusty blades hidden in bathroom walls.

Our living room was danish modern which I didn't like because it wasn't very comfortable. Our rotary phone was in the living room. My girlfriend would call me up when The Monkees came on and I would have to watch it while she described everything that was happening. I loved that girl.

@Mick_Ts_Chick

10 ай бұрын

I had everything you mentioned (except you can replace girlfriend with best friend). We never missed the Monkees on Saturday morning!

@derricklangford4725

8 ай бұрын

​@Mick_Ts_Chick hey, hey, were the money's 🤣

Yet ANOTHER wonderful video! Glad I subscribed!

I was a kid, turning teen.. But I remember a great many things, of those days.. Thanks..!

I was born in 1965 and all I can remember is our house only had wood paneling in the hallway, front room, dining room and kitchen. And our rotorary phone was in the dining room by the AC window unit and dining room table. And my bedroom was painted yellow and I had a olive green bedroom suite. And I remember the Tupperware too! Thanks for the memories! Really enjoyed your video.

@tonycollazorappo

10 ай бұрын

I was born in 1961, and I sure do remember the wood paneling, lol.

@glennso47

10 ай бұрын

I think Tupperware has been replaced in some homes by Rubbermaid food storage items. It has in mine!

@samanthab1923

9 ай бұрын

My grandparents bought a beach house out on Long Island when my mom was in HS. When they redid it & expanded every room was paneled!