I remember when paper bags were the only option and they would rip and tear so easily. My job was to fold them up when we got home. We would make book covers out of them.

@reneezancewoman

2 жыл бұрын

We did that when I was a kid in the eighties, lol

@DavidBrowningBYD

2 жыл бұрын

We used them for trash can liners, with a folder newspaper in the bottom.

@donnaplumridge9769

2 жыл бұрын

I remember grocery stores in the sixties, when you could have them bag your groceries, or bag them yourself. I too, would use the paper bags as book covers for my books, like math books.

@Linda7647

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBrowningBYD My mom always did that. I recall her saying a number of times, "Time to go to the grocery store again, I'm almost out of trash bags." 😄

@jaray7710

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in 70s and never had a store bought book cover.

What about stamps?? Do u remember getting a certain amount of stamps for spending $5 or $10 and when u filled up ur booklet u got a set of dishes, collection of cups, etc? I can still picture the brown speckled plates that were durable and could be found in everyone’s house!

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

S & H. Food Stamps Was s green booklet.

@karenmessinger9609

3 жыл бұрын

Green Stamps. In Salem Oregon they had a store that only took green stamps as payment. I remember going with my grandma. I loved looking at the little catalog type book for what you could buy with them.

@GeminieCricket

3 жыл бұрын

Blue Chip stamps too.

@suzannelawson9215

2 жыл бұрын

Blue chip stamps where I lived and still remember the books all over the kitchen table as my mom filled each one up. Sometimes I would help her put stamps in the book. Fun to see what items you could get.

@pamelaolson5614

2 жыл бұрын

I think they were called s&h green stamps my mom collected them and when she took me to the grocery store she'd buy a little box of barnums animal crackers to keep me quiet.

What I remember from the 50's going into a store called the Massachusetts Market in San Diego was that you could smell the produce walking through the door. The smell of celery, apples, lettuce, etc. was thick in the air. If my mother went shopping and was unloading a bag of groceries in the kitchen you could smell celery all through the house. It tells me that the nutritional value of food is just not there any more. We have stripped our farm lands of their minerals by over-farming and dumping chemicals on the soil to increase size, kill bugs, kill fungus, kill weeds, increase yield and speed up harvest time. The process has left us with food that is not quality. But those who were not alive back in the 60's and 70's probably don't remember that food actually tasted amazing without dumping loads of salt, sugar, artificial flavoring and spices on it to make it taste like something.

@gypsymom0819

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree Lynn. My sweet auntie and uncle are still alive at 92 and 95 respectively as they always had their own little garden. No pesticides or chemicals on their food for 70 years. They swear that is the secret to a long life.

@edennis3202

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that a lot of varieties have been bred to withstand shipment, and in the process a lot of nutrition and flavor has been bred out of them. Apples is one big thing that comes to mind. They've bred them to withstand rough handling and long shipping times, but they have no flavor.

@gypsymom0819

3 жыл бұрын

@@edennis3202 Yes when we were young in the 60s we just picked apples from my grandparents tree. Hardly anyone I know has fruit trees growing in the yard now. Such a shame.

@lynseychinnery5707

3 жыл бұрын

@@gypsymom0819 My maternal grandmother and her husband lived out in the country in a house that's been there since the Civil War (it will go into ruins because my mom's sister (who has disowned her over jealousy and who knows what) has the estate and wants to let it rot into the ground with everything still inside; which I find just infuriating). Anyway, they always had lots of fruit trees and potato gardens, strawberries, corn everything it was awesome. I'm getting some fruit trees for my backyard that has a sizable forest behind it so hopefully they grow well and stay alive; tried a blueberry bush but it didn't survive for some reason. We'll also have a large container garden with tomatoes, peppers, onions etc. I hope it works out.

@gypsymom0819

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynseychinnery5707 That is such a shame about the house. They don't make them like they used to. I also have container gardens for our herbs but not vegetables. I may try that this year. I love peppers and onions. Might try planting a fruit tree and see if I can keep it alive. Good luck on your planting. I hope an abundance this year.

What I remember most is the mothers would park their baby carriages with the babies in the front of the store while they shopped. In the early 60s my favorite thing was to visit all the babies while my mother shopped. Can you imagine doing that today?

@erinmarie1029

2 жыл бұрын

Wow !!! I can't even imagine

@richardswann5300

2 жыл бұрын

You'd be charged with child endangerment or child neglect ! Life was good back then !

@wherearethefishes

2 жыл бұрын

this is still common in scandinavian countries!

@sandyfreyman3501

2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember ever seeing that in the past and I'm from the 50s.

@vansvanandtravels7566

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandyfreyman3501 I'm 68 and I remember it well but I was from the south. I grew up in an old country grocery store and the memories of how it was then is really unbelievable!

As a child I remember it was very common to see ladies in their curlers and scarfs... I also Remember it was uncommon to see men grocery shopping.... the only men in the stores were the managers ,stockers and bag boys.

@imtheboss1826

3 жыл бұрын

Not true. I remember seeing a lot of men in stores. Single men, few women drove so husbands accompanied them and men who's wives has passed.

@annjones5201

3 жыл бұрын

☺ thats how it was where i lived, the men folk waited outside, or at home. The grocery store ALWAYS had bag boys to help you to the car. "Other" men would rib them, if seen in a grocery store, which was pretty much a woman's domain, like a beauty parlour. 🌞

@altitudeiseverything3163

3 жыл бұрын

Wearing curlers in public was common in the U.S., but shocking to those of us who were newly arrived from Europe. No woman where we came from would be so scandalously unkempt in public, certainly not back then, and rarely even now. My mother viewed it as a lack of self-respect.

@never2late454

3 жыл бұрын

It seemed like wearing cutlers were a fashion statement back it the 60's. I never really gave it much thought as a child back then but it seemed like they were trying to one up each other with who's curlers were bigger.

@annjones5201

3 жыл бұрын

@@never2late454 ☺❤ i loved those huge curlers! They really helped smoothed the hair. Sometimes we'd use empty soup cans! They made our hair hang straight, which was "Groovy" ✌.

Remember my father's friend and family went to America..He wrote back on how you could buy frozen meat and frozen peas in a supermarket..My father said..it will never take off..I laugh every time I buy a pack of frozen peas and vegetables..

@junferg7

3 жыл бұрын

That was in the 1950's

@caseythompson474

3 жыл бұрын

We moved to the US in the 80’s and discovered foods they have here that we didn’t have access to over in Germany. When my mother bought margarine spread the first time, it didn’t go over very well. We had never used it before as butter was cheaper and more accessible there. Being able to go to the store and buy however many of one certain item you wanted (if stock allowed) was a new concept for us as well. Gone were the days of ration cards!

@af6923

2 жыл бұрын

I felt that way when I was getting a drink from the local water fountain at the park and people were talking about how they saw bottled water in the store. I thought, “why would you buy bottled water when you have a sink or water fountain nearby?”…. Then they took out water fountains everywhere and it was the only option if you were out.

You guys im 28, all the comments referencing the 50s and 60s are literally making my day. Its like taking a time machine back into you guys memories and pulling out remarkable Information that I am very much jealous of! Be proud you lived in this time of class and dignity, how amazing 👏❤

@annsowers4591

3 жыл бұрын

Rachel, we had to wear dresses to school and guys wore slacks and collared shirts. Times were simple, but so much fun.

@zuzuspetals9281

3 жыл бұрын

It was a pretty great time to be a kid. I’m grateful that was “my” time period.

@taraellis8279

3 жыл бұрын

IT IS! I love it!

@brodriguez11000

3 жыл бұрын

The prices are quite a trip, plus how many brands people can recognize.

@makaylarose5263

3 жыл бұрын

@@annsowers4591 I’m 26 and let me just say, I wish it was still simple like that but today’s kids would absolutely complain about that dress code. The girls already complain about not being able to wear a tank top but in reality it’s setting up those kids to learn dress code for their future job, but kids do not have the same maturity level they did back then. If those same rules applied today about girls having to wear dresses, they would “cancel” that so fast because some “girls” don’t define as a girl and vice versa. Some people define as non-binary even. With that said, ….I wish I had a life before this new era. I was born in 95.

I'm 60 years old. I'm old enough to witness grocery stores and retail in general change through the years. The one store you showed with the wooden floors takes me back to the ol' Five and Dime. I have very fond memories of those types of stores. I've worked retail for years and remember the pricing guns. No scanners on those registers. Even though I love the big box stores, I still have a soft spot for years gone by.

@lindahandley5267

2 жыл бұрын

Like McCrory's, Kennington's, Emporiumn, Black & White,, Krystal, and some of the fabric cloth stores, five and dime stores and early Woolworths and each store had its own personal smells and all weren't air conditioned. It was a treat to get to go downtown and shop with your mother. Oh, and the full soda fountain with the best hamburgers, chili, soup, sandwiches, fries, etc and fountain drinks and milk shakes! Yum! Those were the days!

@JNMKlover

2 жыл бұрын

Feed stores. 🤤. My brain just mushed. Remember the sound of walking on the old wood floors?

@debrakwilliams48

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the 5 and dime stores that had open candy bins where kids could walk or bike to the store and pick out different pieces of candy if they had some money and place their candy pieces in a bag. The lady at the register would count each piece and ring up a total. Kids either found money on the ground, worked for the money, or got a weekly allowance from your parents.

@lindahandley5267

2 жыл бұрын

@@JNMKlover Yes I do remember that sound as a child in the old downtown McCrory store, with the wooden bins! What a great memory!

@Jackasses

2 жыл бұрын

The five and dime! My ma is 94 yrs old and she still occasionally speaks of Woolworth’s and the 5 & 10. ✌️🇺🇸

No one better ever look at me dodgy again when I walk into the store with a full set of rollers in.

@LGAussie

3 жыл бұрын

No one cares today. Ppl walk into stores with their bellies hanging out now. Ha!’

@justme-dw9oj

3 жыл бұрын

Be sure to be dressed nice like they were!

@knmonlinemedia

3 жыл бұрын

I get grief wearing a bonnet 😒

@LyndasDiamonds

3 жыл бұрын

My mom anyways went out with her hair in curlers with a bandana wrapped around there. Almost v the most iconic look in remember her with

@sherrieadams1253

3 жыл бұрын

@@LGAussie Their butts, guts and everything else. Now you are surprised if they have on decent clothes.

The cheque writing was actually the least time consuming part of the checkout process. Remember, there were no barcode scanners back then, so the price of each item had to be manually entered by the clerk. Those ladies were lightening fast but we still had plenty of time to fill out most of our cheques before she finished. Then we just had to quickly write in the total. The lines, as far as I recall, were actually a bit shorter than now. They may have moved a bit slower, but there were more of them so it worked pretty well. An interesting side note; if you forgot your cheque book, most small-town stores kept generic copies of cheques from local banks so you could just fill in your own information. The last time I used that service was the early eighties.

@ge-ys1uz

3 жыл бұрын

I was ALWAYS annnoyed by check writers. Back in the day we either paid cash or by check. Damn check writers waited until the total was given. Me...I had already filled out and signed my check, and then I filled out the total when it was given. Saved MUCH time

@harveyabel1354

3 жыл бұрын

Easy enough to pre-fill the chegue with all the info except the amount to be paid.

@momentsformoms9467

3 жыл бұрын

Now it’s just sign your name because the machine handles it and you get your check back unless there’s a problem with the process. Customers Still wait until the total is given & I even bagged & put their groceries in their cart for them bc they stand there & watch them pile up and I have no room left. 😤 I hope I never have to be a cashier again. Did it for a few years & it was awful.

@uptoolate2793

3 жыл бұрын

That's right. I worked at a small town store in the early 80s and we had blank checks handy for folks who forgot their check book.

@kudzu_

3 жыл бұрын

I was a 90's kid and my mom always paid by check, even when I moved out at 18. She was pretty mad when prepaid only gas became a thing, because she would have to guess how much gas she needed. Pretty sure she stills pay by check anywhere they allow her to.

This is sooo NOSTALGIC!!! I remember when you could get a POUND of hard candy for a quarter. I also remember ASH TRAYS at the ends of the aisles. Ain't it funny how time slips away...

@lisalee2885

3 жыл бұрын

Ash trays in the theatres too!

@littleclay1838

3 жыл бұрын

I remember buying a whole loaf of bread for a quarter

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

Vincent Sablan: I was telling my friend about the ashtrays at the end of the grocery store aisle. It was a A&P I miss the old day's 😪 😢 😔

@vincentsablan732

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayne59brohammer I think it's to strange, but I can visualize them, still. Remember when you could smoke in hospitals? It just makes me feel OLD!! I'm only 57, but that feels like a lifetime ago...

@lisalee2885

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayne59brohammer I really miss a Good Old Fashion Drive inn... Pj's and blankets and munchies. So much fun!!! 😂😂😂

People always dressed nice in the time I grew up in the 1970s my grandma wore a dress and Grandpa wore a suit and Fedora hat whenever they went downtown to shop at Eatons .Miss those days

@mariabarker2036

2 жыл бұрын

"People always dressed nice..." Guess you didn't see the first picture with the women in curlers out in public, shopping.

@ponygirlusa

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariabarker2036 That picture doesn't depict everyone, everywhere, nor does it depict the majority.

@erinrenee6825

2 жыл бұрын

I miss Eaton’s😢

The first picture with the ladies in hair curlers made me laugh. I'm from a town in Germany, that had Americans stationed there with their families. If you saw a lady with curlers in their hair, it was a dead give-away that they were American. No German lady would ever want to be caught in public with curlers in their hair. :)

@australianwoman9696

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I noticed those curlers growing up also! Every morning you'd see the neighbours talking to each other wearing their bathrobes & curlers. 🤭💚

@johnw2026

2 жыл бұрын

One of my aunt's embarrassed herself royally in the early 90's.... She forgot to take the curlers out of her hair before going to church! 😂😂

@carolferguson

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t believe that they didn’t have a scarf on. My mother would have never gone outside like that!

@PoeCommunicateATL

2 жыл бұрын

So, apparently, it wasn't just Americans who wore curlers in public back then based on what @AustralianWoman said.

@kirchfam

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that she was wearing a dress to look nice, though. The curlers kind of defeat the purpose of looking nice. Ha ha

What I remember is my mom wore curlers in her hair (covered by a scarf) when she grocery shopped on Saturdays so her hair would be styled for Sunday church.

@trollhunter6934

3 жыл бұрын

Same with my grandma!

@susieq8253

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too!!

@kat35lulu88

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe my mom called yours before going out? "I'm in curlers..... you too?"

@speedracer1945

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too with a scarf

@sherrieadams1253

3 жыл бұрын

@Annette Newman I was surprised that the photo showed 3 women in the same vicinity with curlers. I'm 66 and yes everyone wore curlers but as you said they wore a scarf to cover them up.

My most vivid memory of 60's grocery shopping with my mom was in San Diego 1962. The Cuban missle crisis was happening and the shelves were bare. Back then we had the civil defense organization of which my mom was the district coordinator. You were supposed to have a dedicated room or closet with at least three months of food and water. We did and it took up a lot of room. Our evacuation plan was to head for Lake Tahoe if things got sketchy and if we could leave early enough to have fuel along the way before it ran out. Strange times for sure.

I can remember being a very little girl, when my mom would only go to our city’s farmers market to get produce and a separate butcher for meats. She also stopped at the small roadside fruit and vege stands too.

@stevejohnson1685

2 жыл бұрын

We live near the Oxnard Plain (west of Los Angeles), where a whole lot of America's produce comes from. There are farm stands all over the place here, with generally really fresh produce.

Wow those pictures sure bring me back! When I was a kid my mom went to the beauty parlor every Thursday or Friday so she would look good for the weekend, in case we had company or went visiting... Except when the weather was bad in winter! But every day before breakfast she would put those curlers in her hair! However she never left the apartment without a scarf on her head, it was a taboo! She used to say if someone rang the doorbell, answer the door, I HAVE CURLERS IN MY HAIR... 😂 LOL But she ran her errands with a scarf over the CURLERS! But those curlers came out and her hair was set if she had to go to the bank or dentist for example or she wanted to go to a department store before dinner...she would pick me up from school early and off we went! But even if she was home cleaning, cooking, ironing all day,...she had those curlers gone and hair styled before Dad came home from work! I was ALWAYS amazed how much my Mom did in a Day and still Looked good 😊 A little bit of an after thought, I Do remember the Plaid Stamps! Also S&H Green stamps from other stores, my parents saved those stamps, I can still see my mom stuffing them into her purse, heck my father used to stop and get gas only at stations that gave the stamps like Safe WAY & Hess! I remember we got radios, cigars, wooden salad bowl sets , steak knife sets , binoculars, fancy lighters,free car washes, free gallons of gas, even got presto appliances. Yeah those stamps were a nice reward for patronizing these establishments! Late 1960- the '70's they were popular as heck.... Good Memories 😊

@heavyhaul8621

2 жыл бұрын

God I wish women today were like our mothers.

@glenng7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@heavyhaul8621 In what way do you mean that ?

@heavyhaul8621

2 жыл бұрын

The honesty and dignity. The home feeling

@glenng7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@heavyhaul8621 Yessir, I don't want to "trigger anyone" but it's also that it was a different time when the value of a woman wasn't decided on the income she could make , but on the value of being a good homemaker, housewife, and mother of children, wife for her husband, and many other attributes that today's society looks down on like they are some kind of insults. I'm not saying every family regardless of size was perfect in those days, especially when times were tough. But the Mother was the backbone of every family in my opinion. And I sure miss those times

@slouberiee

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenng7085 There were less distractions back then, no social media, no internet. TV, radio, newspapers that was all.

My great-grand parents started a grocery in the early 1900s that then was turned into a self-service by my grandparents and it was operational with my grandmother helping to run cashier when my father was born in 1941. By the 1950s Beeners in tiny Covington, Ohio was a full service grocery with meat and produce. My father was put to work counting potatoes as soon as he could could to 100 - he was about 6. He worked his entire childhood in that store, even doing his homework in between being a bag boy. They sold it completely in the late 70s as a buy out but my father continued on in the grocery business retiring in 2006. I still have the original desk where my great-grandfather, grandfather, and then father did all of their store bookkeeping.

@kathleenjames8042

2 жыл бұрын

incredible

@redsoxu571

2 жыл бұрын

I love that you still have that desk with it's known history. Those are special things. Cheers!

@Sweetgrl23619

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's so neat!

@camibabyy

Жыл бұрын

Beeners huh 😂

@heatherwarner865

Жыл бұрын

@@camibabyy Yes, Bee....not the derogatory racist name for farmers.

Pre-scanners: I can remember being so impressed with the cashiers that had memorized most of the prices. They could ring you up so fast it was amazing.

@kelseymariel2127

2 жыл бұрын

I loved watching the cashiers pick up an item with one hand and key the price into the register with the other. My sister and I played grocery store with our parents typewriter pretending it was a register.

In the 1960's... My Grandma would give me & my brother a quarter to get penny candy. We got 25 candies in a bag. Sometimes we would go and get a popsicle. Sometimes when we went to McCrory's dime store Grandma would buy us a bag of cashew nuts.

@brightspacebabe

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lovely memory. I grew up in the 80’s and I remember going to the Kmart and my mom would buy me an Icee....

@happycook6737

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the soda fountain area of McCrorys. Best hot, crispy fries ever served by an army of older ladies in hairnets giving free useful advice! It was like eating in grandma's kitchen. They'd always give a little extra something free like a slice of day old pie they couldn't sell or a cookie. And you got a great conversation with it. When they announced their last day of business, I went and had one last order of fries back in 1982. Then I wandered around the store looking at all the junk. The rest of the store stayed open a few years more but the soda fountain atmosphere was sadly gone. I also miss the blue light Kmart sales which we thought were SO exciting on Saturdays. They'd announce the department on the loudspeaker and we'd go running there to see the flashing blue light and hear the siren. Lol those were the days! We were easily amused by real conversation and running around the Kmart. 🤭

@ah5721

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a 90s child and in some gas stations the had penny candy. Now its 25c for one mini recess cup

@lisaspikes4291

3 жыл бұрын

Oh how I miss the nut counter! The smell of the roasted nuts! 🤤 I bought some cashews a few days ago, but they’re in a plastic bag. Not quite the same. I’d like to see things go back to going to the nut counter, and getting the amount of nuts you want in a paper bag! So much more eco friendly! There’s too much plastic in our environment! The concept of the grocery store is great, but I hate that everything is covered in a plastic bag! We have to stop this madness!

@chasethecat3839

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes!! I remember so well. There were jars and jars of candy and lined up in the glass case with a Woodstock at the back of the Woodbine market.

I remember a flowing over basket of groceries with meats costing less than $50.00 ....That's what I miss, almost the most ....

@debrahelmlinger6256

3 жыл бұрын

In my neighborhood the kids did the shopping because the mothers were all working by the 70's and our weekly food bill was paid with a $20

@michaelmullin3585

3 жыл бұрын

Buckle up. the Biden socialist regime will triple food prices.

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

I remember in the 50s and early 60s, when my Saturday morning chores largely consisted of the week's marketing and with the ten dollar bill that mother gave me, I was able to shop at half a dozen stores, buy everything we needed and have change left to boot!

@coolwater55

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, those were the days! My daughter shopped last week. 50.00 per each bag of groceries! 4 bags 200.00 and was not even a full cart.

@theresaricci5619

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincentperratore4395: and listened to Doo-Wop music. Doing the stroll , the Walk, the Lindy with Poodle skirts and tight sweaters lol

So many memories flooding in of the 60s and 70s shopping with my mother. The women in curlers made me laugh. My mother would never have gone out that way. I didn't work in a grocery store but did work for Kresge's. The wooden floors, lunch counter, pay day - lining up at the pay wicket each Friday and handed the cash pay packet. Seems like another world not just an era.

I miss the old days! lol! When I was a little kid, my sister and I couldn't cross one very busy street on our bikes. So when we wanted to buy some candy, we'd ride our bikes to a little pharmacy that we could ride to without crossing that street. The pharmacy had a whole wall of candy! We'd get together with our friends and we'd all pick out as much candy as the money in our pockets would allow! I wish I had a couple of videos of us picking out candy back then. I bet the pharmacist got a kick out of it. Now that pharmacy probably made more money from the candy sales than the prescription drugs. After we had made our purchases, we'd hop on our bikes (Stingrays, of course) and go to the school turf area and we'd all sit in a circle and have a candy party! It was so sweet and innocent.

@annsowers4591

3 жыл бұрын

I worked the soda fountain at our small drugstore. I can't begin to guess how many scoops of ice cream I dipped. I made 90 cents and hour. I bought school clothes for me and 3 of my siblings with my paycheck as well as helped buy groceries. I really miss those days.

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Page: We did the same thing the name of the pharmacy was Clar Mar pharmacy. After we got our candy & Archie comic books we would sit under the big shade tree in front of our house and have a great time during our summer break. Oh man do I miss those days. Does anyone have a time machine? Oh almost forgot we also had the sting ray bikes...😆

@suestephan3255

2 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth, I grew up in a grocery store run my my mom ( my Dad died only two years after buying it) but the big seller was the candy and yes mom made more on candy sodas and snacks than anything else. 1957 two big sellers were sweets tarts and Now & Later. She sold some penny candy but mostly 5 cent candy.

@pieluvr7362

2 жыл бұрын

I bet u have a candy jar to share with other's at home

@kathleenjames8042

2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much for sharing this

During the 60s. There was a commercial...”Curlers in your hair...Shame on you”....lol. Yet...curlers...spoolies...spit curls....it’s what we did. And...I use to wrap my hair in orange juice cans. They were the times.

@bonkers5016

3 жыл бұрын

OMG! DIPPIDY DOO! Moma put it on our hair then put it in rollers! 60's slash early 70's! Anyone?

@IDIDances

3 жыл бұрын

My Grandma still sings the “curlers in you hair - shame on you” jingle! I always she did it to be funny (she did) but I never knew she grew up with that!

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

@@IDIDances I remember that commercial 🤣 I would love to go back to the early 1960s.....Does anyone have a time machine?

@karenmessinger9609

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonkers5016 Oh yes!! My mom put it in my hair before rolling with those hard plastic curlers. I was actually looking for some dippity do so I could try rollers again except use the soft curlers. My mom finally started doing my hair with the soft ones...I got a lot more sleep after that. The good ole days. I miss it all.

@tamibrink8569

2 жыл бұрын

Yes dippidy doo, I remember the smell

We’ve come full circle, but now we submit the list over the internet.

@lynnhoffman247

3 жыл бұрын

Not in small towns - I wish!

@lindamcneil711

3 жыл бұрын

Modern day sears catalogue

@Armistead_MacSkye

3 жыл бұрын

No, "we" don't.

@Armistead_MacSkye

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnhoffman247 Are you not able to get your own groceries?

@lynnhoffman247

3 жыл бұрын

@@Armistead_MacSkye Yes, I am. We have one grocery store. Just no deliveries from there or anywhere else (like Amazon, etc. Closest Walmart is 35 miles away 😂)

Those ladies in hair curlers. Remind me when I was a kid. My Mom and Dad went out every Saturday night. Mom would set her hair or go to the beauty parlor. Sunday was always our day.

@littleclay1838

3 жыл бұрын

exactly....get your hair done on saturday...for church on sunday. and maintain it until next saturday

I prefer Mom and Pop shops. I get a headache in large stores...Its overwhelming

@cellgrrl

3 жыл бұрын

Looking all the millions of things in today's supermarket actually blurs my vision. I just have to get out of those really busy aisles asap. Also the laundry detergent aisle has so much perfume I nearly pass out. I instantly get a headaches. The stuff in those boxes is nearly as toxic as the pesticides in our food.

@speedracer1945

3 жыл бұрын

I remember 1980 when stores were in a recession and they cane with stores where they didn't have bags you used boxes . They didnt last long since they sold just can goods and cheap stuff .

@voiceover-impressionist

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather ran an old country store back in the 1950's...

@hazeldavis3176

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I happily trade choice/variety for a smaller more manageable shopping experience. We're lucky to still have a local butcher but our produce store closed years ago. I wish they'd come back.

@miggans21012

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately not all mom & pop shops are great themselves anymore. No loyalty or respect for customers. We're the only game in town so we can treat customers anyway we want to.

Grocery stores actually had cashier's( NO self check out) and bag boys carried your groceries out and put them into your car. Stores valued your business and did everything to keep your business. Wonderful time!

@Wee162

2 жыл бұрын

Publix still does

@DavidBrowningBYD

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when they’d give you a number and you could drive up and a bag boy would be waiting to put all your purchases in your car.

@pieluvr7362

2 жыл бұрын

I was one in early 90s as a teen I enjoyed the tips all the older ladies would give like homemade fudge during Christmas 🎄🎁🙏🏽 and the cashiers would say I was lucky because I was the only 1 who got it I shared it though

@srilaura

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBrowningBYD they do that at Walmart drive thru pickup

@oliviabb73849

2 жыл бұрын

We have this at Heinens in Ohio :)

I remember the quarter horse ride outside and the water fountain inside.

@joysoyo2416

3 жыл бұрын

Who had a quarter?

@toocutepuppies6535

3 жыл бұрын

Ask Grandma!😉

@nancycampbell9554

3 жыл бұрын

Ne too

@michelleblakeney9079

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the horse ride or some kind of toy car

@WillieStubbs

3 жыл бұрын

For a quarter you could buy a gallon of gas, who today would put $2 or $3 for a 3 minute horse ride, but that's the price of gas these days. Makes me think the guys with those vending machines sent their kids to Harvard.

I remember about 1960 I went grocery shopping with my mom at the A&P. We FILLED two carts top and bottom. It was $30, yes thirty dollars! My mom was flabbergasted. She exclaimed that she had never spent so much on groceries in her life! It was the main shopping for a month for a family of six. Last week I carried my groceries in on one hand and it was about $125. Thank the Lord I had the $125!

What I remember most is getting trading stamps from the cashiers. It was so much fun to go to the trading stamp store to buy stuff with those stamps.

@markwhitney3746

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite stories from my grandma is that when she was coming out of anesthesia in the hospital after giving birth to my mom in 1967, she turned to my grandpa and said “do they give green stamps here?”😂

@cherylkern3288

2 жыл бұрын

@@markwhitney3746 That's a GOOD one!!!!

This mid-60s man remembers the days when there were no scanners and being amazed at how fast the checkers were when ringing up the groceries.

@enahayes6726

2 жыл бұрын

And they were friendly too, not like today.

@russs7574

Жыл бұрын

If you think about it, those cashiers were faster ringing you up than today's cashier are scanning your stuff. What amazed me most was that they could ring those items up, often without looking at the price (remember how they stamped the price right on the item?) and could bu!!$h!t at the same time....and not mis-ring a thing.

What was so cool about the 1960s supermarkets were the cashiers. They could key so fast, and they recognized everything in your cart. They knew the difference between a sweet potato and squash. They were as fast then as the cashiers today, using scan technology.

@sassysav6859

3 жыл бұрын

I was a cashier as a high school student and we recognized things over a period of time too! 4011 is still for bananas, 3283 for honey crisp apples, etc. All about memorizing the numbers and recognizing the differences in color and texture of the produce. :)

@Kaos_Magazine

3 жыл бұрын

Now I'm afraid to go in stores and ask where something is because the kid at the counter just started and has no clue and manager hasn't been trained or has keys to anything.

@ED80s

3 жыл бұрын

And the bag boys that would carry groceries to your car.

@brodriguez11000

3 жыл бұрын

@@ED80s : That's still around.

@ED80s

3 жыл бұрын

@@brodriguez11000 not in our supermarkets in Toronto Canada

I remember when the local farmer could sell his produce to the grocery store.

@michaelmullin3585

3 жыл бұрын

Piggly Wiggly used to buy from local farmers. The fresh food was wonderful.

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

In my home town there were plenty of stores, you name it! Big and small, supermarkets, greengrocers, who'd pack their goods into green bags, bakeries, etc., the list was endless!

I remember ladies with their hair in rollers How many of us now don’t even have much hair left

@rosiej1942

3 жыл бұрын

I used to go to the stores, with my hair in curlers, lol would I do that today, probably not, but, I could

@sunflower7045

3 жыл бұрын

To the grocery store 😂

@barbaraleszczynski2214

3 жыл бұрын

Theresa ......you make me laugh so much! So true...these days....there's so little hair left for many of us ladies! lol 🤣😂🤣

@sonyaweinreis3658

3 жыл бұрын

And some were embarrassed to go out in public with curlers

@trudyspeigner2371

3 жыл бұрын

Actually slept in them during high school. But Saturday was not only grocery shopping day but also hair washing day. To get everything done for the day, sometimes you did one while doing the other. Grocery stores came into being which ended neighborhood markets. Going grocery shopping was a big event.

My great grandparents used to have an ice cream shop with their own name on the individual boxes (like the klondike bar). I don't know too much about it but you can still find Welte ice cream containers in antique shops around Michigan. I've even seen them on ebay being sold from different states.

I just love how we all used to wear a curlers to store and everywhere else you had to get a hair done on Saturday if you're going to make it to church on Sunday had to do it yourself so the curlers were necessary thing. Everybody had them so it didn't matter if you had them too

@ponygirlusa

2 жыл бұрын

My mom nor the neighbor ladies where I grew up would have been caught dead wearing rollers in public! Ladies were dressed and looked nice whenever they left the house.

When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother would never wear curlers downtown

@jamesdavis2231

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, but mine did lol. She got mad because I (her little girl) had naturally curly hair

@katiemartell6520

2 жыл бұрын

My Mom never wore curlers in late 50’s or 60’s (or ever) and always wore a dress.

I remember going to grocery store on Saturdays with hair in curlers. & as a child riding bike with basket to get stuff for mom & stopping at homes to see what they needed. You could make a NICKLE

My Grandmother worked in a 1920s grocery store where everthing was behind the counter. She disliked the customers who held on to their shopping lists and would read off one item at a time. She then had to make many back-and-forth trips. In the 1950s, my neighborhood still had several small delicatessens.

This was a fascinating video. I love the old photographs!

My small Indiana town, of 5000, had 3 “supermarkets” when I was a child. We also had 2 small family owned stores. At the “little red store” we would get lunch meat, penny candy, and the coldest sodas on earth. She also sold other items, of course. On the other side of town we bought sodas and sandwiches that were heated up in a toaster oven. I’m only 54 so I’m not ancient, and my town is down to one supermarket. We do have two dollar stores that sell some groceries, but I miss the old stores!!!

@zlatte2594

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I'm 55 And when I was a kid we had a little store named Pops right down the street. They had the old fashion coolers, old fashioned Coke machine and penny candies. My siblings and I along with our cousins would go around the neighborhood and collect glass coke or Pepsi bottles and turn them in for 10 cents each so we could buy penny candies. Then we would go back to the house and divide up the candy. My childhood was great and Pops was my favorite store! Miss those wonderful days.

@grandmajane2593

3 жыл бұрын

It won't be long we will only have Amazon. We will be all confined to our houses with masks on our faces and we will be appeased by ordering from Amazon!

@sharksport01

2 жыл бұрын

I miss Cub Foods.

@marilyntaylor9577

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a Hoosier too! In the 50’s we had a drugstore and family market within four blocks. Then we got a Standard supermarket. Wow.

My grandparents were independent grocery store owners until the mid 80’s in small town Texas

@sarahpursley719

3 жыл бұрын

Which town? I’m from San Antonio.

@jenniferaulds1608

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahpursley719,Red Oak , 30 mins South of Dallas

@sarahpursley719

3 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferaulds1608 my great grand parents lived in Devine, an hour south of S.A., when they were alive. There was a market called Brown’s, I used to love going there as a child in the 80’s and 90’s. Everyone knew everyone, it was fantastic.

@jenniferaulds1608

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahpursley719 , I miss family owned fm stores

@sarahpursley719

3 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferaulds1608 so do I. Going to Walmart or HEB is such a dread, I just try to order everything curbside.

Back in the 50's, I would go shopping with my Mother. I was barely tall enough to look over the meat counter and remember seeing a pound of bacon for 25 cents and asking her if that was high! 🤣 I loved everything about the 50's.

Before scanners , I used to dread price changes, having to scrape the old label off, I always got stuck with the baby food🤥

@Melissa0774

3 жыл бұрын

@@justahasbeen They do? Which ones?

@uptoolate2793

3 жыл бұрын

@@justahasbeen from what? Falling prices? Lol.

I remember Hughes market in Burbank,California had shopping carts that if you returned them to cart machine it would spit out a ticket which was worth money. My brother capitalized and helped people unload bags to car and collecting carts for tickets 😁😁

@Mygraciously

3 жыл бұрын

Smart brother. Wise

@lisalee2885

3 жыл бұрын

He saved his money and bought an Elvis portrait for our mom 😂😂 He was an Awesome son/brother 💜💜

@suzannelawson9215

2 жыл бұрын

Do you remember Lucky's Supermarket and Alpha Beta? I used to shop at both stores. Lucky's was pretty good for low prices. I lived only about 5 blocks away and had a Safeway close by too.

@lisalee2885

2 жыл бұрын

@@suzannelawson9215 Hi...I do remember 😁 On Soledad Cyn rd we had...Lucky's and Alpha beta and Safeway and Vons. All within about 5 miles 😁

@suzannelawson9215

2 жыл бұрын

@@willoughby1888 Did you ever eat at this Mexican restaurant which was on Colorado Blvd. across from the Eagle Rock Plaza and near a big car wash place? I don't remember the name of it at the moment but it was in Eagle Rock. I ate there a few times when I was in the area and food was very good. This was back in the late 1980's when I was there. Don't know if it is still there or not? I used to shop sometimes at Montgomery Ward's in the Eagle Rock Plaza back in the 1980's as well.

I also remember back in the 60's when I was in my single-digits, going into our local supermarket not wearing a shirt or shoe's and enjoying the novelty of air-conditioning!

My friends mom was very pretty and I remember her saying to us little girls to always put on fresh lipstick when going out to get the mail!

@thunderousapplause

3 жыл бұрын

yep. my mom and gram wouldnt leave the house w/o fresh lipstick- and also gram said “always put on a clean apron and fresh lipstick before your husband comes home from work.” they wouldnt EVER be caught dead in public in curlers. we were trained that was trash- almost pornographic.

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

Now you go to walmart, there a sea of grocery carts waiting to run you over pushed by speechless people. Not like the good old days.

I still miss that distinctive smell that came form the hard wood floors and other stuff in the good ol' stores. I even still remember our local feed store that had the old wooden floors and that combination of smells from all the feed and grains you would scoop up dump in the scale and then bag it but sadly that store closed like so many other of our mom n pop stores when wally world infiltrated our area

@JNMKlover

2 жыл бұрын

I JUST commented on them! Like 🤤 right? The memory? My brain needed that recall 💗

@pheart2381

2 жыл бұрын

Yes,each shop had its own distinctive smell!

@takearight.

2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone remember that smokers could smoke in most grocery stores? Some people just put them out on the floor..They had ashtrays at the door inside and out... Managers just had the night cleaner sweep them up with the rest of the debris.Could you imagine that today? Not!!

I miss S & H green stamp books and the A & P.

@caridadrevilla2439

3 жыл бұрын

Geez. I remember those. I was little but loved filling the books with those stamps to earn a product.

@Lifetalk849

3 жыл бұрын

@@caridadrevilla2439 There were some pretty cool prizes available! We lived near an S&H green stamp store in Royal Oak, Michigan, and I remember my mom pulling the green stamps out of sacks of groceries from the A&P.

@caridadrevilla2439

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lifetalk849 yes. We were living in Boston then. The good old days!!

@jamesdavis2231

3 жыл бұрын

My mother bought a "Boston rocker" with S + H green stamps lol

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

A&P had Plaid Stamps

I remember seeing women in curlers but my Mom never went out like that! She was always dressed nice and had a little makeup on...not too much, she didn't need it. She never went to bed in curlers or with cold cream on her face. My Dad always said she looked too young for him, and she was a few months older than him! She was a natural beauty even in her golden years. Boy I miss them both! 🥰😢💖

@sunniertimer598

Жыл бұрын

At that time, it would have been taboo to go out in public like that. I cannot even imagine where this picture is from, but I'm going to say, I'll bet it was actresses on a set.

We still have a small, privately owned grocery store in my area. Shoutout to Ted Clark’s Busy Market! And that “Busy” in the title is not a marketing gimmick! People are in and out of that place all day! But they are unique in that they carry a lot of specialties. They have a great deli that also sells store made salads, meats cold cuts and the best cottage cheese anywhere. They have a hot food counter where you can get a real meal for a decent price, or a sub sandwich. And bakery products from a local bakery. Plus a lot of locally made products. No wonder it’s so busy!

@LGAussie

3 жыл бұрын

Where is it?? I want to go! 🤣

@lisaspikes4291

3 жыл бұрын

@@LGAussie It’s in Waverly, New York.

@LGAussie

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisaspikes4291 So, it’s way up there, like Rochester, right? Nice things still exist there. Ur lucky to have that grocer.

@lisaspikes4291

3 жыл бұрын

@@LGAussie Closer to Ithaca NY.

Those ladies in curlers were preparing for their men to come home from work.

@littleclay1838

3 жыл бұрын

exactly....I know a woman many years ago. That she would do everything she could around the house, but when it was time for her husband to arrive she made sure she was presentable for him.

@AmaniEats

3 жыл бұрын

I love this. He’s the one who mattered. Today women look crazy at home and go out looking better for the wrong people.

@WatermelonPeppermint

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmaniEats Wha? Of course people look crazy at home it's your HOME, where no one judges you. You can walk butt ass naked at home??

@suecastillo4056

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmaniEats speak for yourself dear...

@Kathy-yw8yh

3 жыл бұрын

2 of them looked like teenagers.

Grocery shopping in the 60’s was a very serious affair in my house. Children were frowned upon. My mother and my grandmother had a very serious day to budget and buy the family’s groceries. Not a penny was wasted. My grandmother used wax paper from Rice Krispies boxes,everything was recycled! She made us icecream bars occasionally in the summer from Rice Krispie bars with icecream in the middle wrapped in the paper. Bread bags used as baggies. Rarely pop,treats and chocolate or popsicles ever bought except at Christmas. I never missed out on anything. Nothing was ever wasted or thrown away.

Back in the 60’s and 70’s we had one grocery store, a Piggly Wiggly, within a 20 mile radius. I can remember walking through it with bare feet as a kid. Bottoms of them were black when we came out, lol. Makes me think back. Very nice memories. 🥰

@cantocant2346

2 жыл бұрын

I remember my mom taking us kids to the Piggly Wiggly in the seventies. She wore bell bottoms and had bare feet. If I saw a bare footed woman in the grocery store today, I would think they escaped from an asylum, lol

I grew up in the 50’s & 60’s and loved it! We lived in the suburbs and could pretty much go anywhere, as long as we were back by dinner. One thing I really miss is the drive-in movies! My parents would make popcorn, and fix hotdogs to bring with us. No buying at the concession stand! And having a meal out was a rare treat. We hardly ever got fast food. I would always wish my dad would stop for hamburgers, but he never did. 😕 It was still the best times! I remember our grocery store was Houska’s, a little local market.

@marilynboyd9892

2 жыл бұрын

Or, be back when the street lights came on.

@sandygodislove7402

2 жыл бұрын

Here in west Texas we still have drive in movies 🍿 with a little restaurant you can order pizza and burgers and chicken . I take my kids it is nice …

@theresaricci5619

2 жыл бұрын

@ Janet Hays: yep the drive - in was what we’d call “boss”. We’d go to the concession for fries. But on special occasions.. we’d go to get White Castles.. not sure of the price.. maybe 10 cents each. I could do about 6 , easily .

@ponygirlusa

2 жыл бұрын

Right! Stopping for hamburgers was a very rare treat!

I remember in the mid 60s I was about 7 yrs old helping my mom push 2 stuffed carts full of groceries out to the car and my mom complaing bitterly about being " robbed" having to pay $35.00 for a weeks worth of groceries! Wow. 35 bucks dont go far today!

You can bet those rollers were out of those ladies hair and they were perfectly coifed by the time their husbands made it through the front door. Supper was on the table too. Different times with different priorities.

@tiredtears4177

3 жыл бұрын

Just in time for a good beating if it got too cold for the old man 🤣

@momentsformoms9467

3 жыл бұрын

Well you know you could afford a family on one income...now people can’t even afford them on 4(parents both working two jobs) in some places.

@thesaintmustwalkalone708

3 жыл бұрын

@@momentsformoms9467 are you kidding? We live in the richest country in the world! Even in areas with crazy prices like California, the minimum wage is high too. We are a single income family with 7 children. It takes sacrafice. We don't have cable, eat out a lot, but used clothes and cars, everyone doesn't have a cell phone, etc. We also have more opportunity than they did on where we live and the jobs we have which allow better choices. Every single mom I have met that says they have to work have nice things. What they really mean is they want to work to butly those things. Fine... But call it like it is. Don't play the rich victim. We are all so blessed in America.

@momentsformoms9467

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesaintmustwalkalone708 well good for you but it’s not that way here. We don’t have cable or eat out much either. There’s plenty we don’t do & still can barely afford bills which aren’t even that high to begin with.

@thesaintmustwalkalone708

3 жыл бұрын

@@momentsformoms9467 cell phones? Internet? Second hand stores? One vehicle (don't need two if one stays at home) ? We are still by far the richest nation in the world and complaining makes us look like spoiled brats. We could all sacrafice much more if we really wanted it. If you are "barely" paying your bills, you shouldn't be eating out at all or have imternet

A great look at a piece of American history! Thanks.

One important detail was omitted: Most neighborhood gossip was spread through the grocery store. During the check writing process ladies would tell cashiers who was sleeping with whom and such; that little Billy, the newspaper boy, was actually Norbert’s son from Edna and not her husband Edwin. Good times!

@howiesexton7519

3 жыл бұрын

The second best place for gossip my mom used to say.....the beauty parlor!!!

@LGAussie

3 жыл бұрын

@@howiesexton7519 Still is !! 🤣🤣

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

Is it true that when a woman went into a beauty parlor, she got a head full of suds and an ear full of dirt?

@MichaelWH

2 жыл бұрын

@@howiesexton7519 My aunt ran one in the 70's when I was a child, mom had to drag me there sometimes when everyone in the house was at work or school, and it's true !

@howiesexton7519

2 жыл бұрын

Not only the grocery store, but the beauty parlor and Barbershop we're hotbeds of gossip.

My mother would NEVER wear curlers out anywhere, and I wasn’t allowed to either. Thank you Mom!!!

@steendful

3 жыл бұрын

!my grandmother, mother did but always with a fancy silk headscarf covering it. 😊

@lynnkanerva4519

3 жыл бұрын

We lived in a small town, l remember my mom and other ladies going to the store with curlers covered with a scarf. I never did. Women these days would never dream of doing that; most use curling irons and blow dryers. They would rather go out with a straight style, or messy style.

@germyw

3 жыл бұрын

Same EXCEPT the day before Easter. That was the one acceptable day ifI had to go out after my Easter hair was done.

@suestephan3255

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact. The Island of Bermuda would fine a woman if she wore curlers in public.

@IrishAnnie

2 жыл бұрын

@@suestephan3255 They have good taste there. Let’s move there immediately!!!!

I remember going to Luckys Market and heading straight for the coffee aisle. They had a grinder right there and the smell of freshly ground coffee was heavenly to my brother and I. Then when my kids were little, I could send them down the block to Shortys Meat Market with a note saying please give the girls a pack of smokes for me and they did. I quit smoking years ago and my girls never started smoking. Now my grandkids are teenagers and they go to the grocery store for me and deliver the groceries to my door. Such good memories!

@cantocant2346

2 жыл бұрын

My Nan sent us kids to buy her cigarettes. We also bought my Grandmother's chewing tobacco!

Looking at these photos really beings back memories. The smell and taste of food.

You had to know your math to be a cashier in those days. I still miss the butcher shops in the neighborhoods. Yes, hair rollers and scarves were big outdoor amongst the moms, my mom visited me at my school with her shades, stirrup pants, sweater cardigan set, and the hair roller and scarfs. I was mortified but the kids thought she was cool and pretty. Wow writing a check and people look at you strange when you use cash today!

I never shop at Walmart. They destroy small businesses, treat employees badly & are criminally RICH. 🇺🇸🇺🇸SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@jamesdavis2231

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@pamelaspooner8335

2 жыл бұрын

No Walmart for me, either.

I live in Queens in New York city and although we have big box stores and supermarkets. We still have grocery stores. There are a few in my neighborhood of different ethnic groups and they sell everything.

@theresaricci5619

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing here in da Bronx

We had a neighbor who grew cherries! We would run down the street and hide in the trees eating cherries all day!! They just don't taste the same now.

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

Also, you probably won't get the skitters today either, as you must have back then. (I know I would have!)

Mid 60s, a local drugstore, with soda fountain. I never had any money, but even then, it felt nostalgic to go in there. My buddy and I would go to the magazine rack, pick a comic book or a teen magazine that had new stories about the Beatles. We would sit on the floor and read for an hour or more, put the magazines back and go home. That was in North Hollywood Calif. but the atmosphere felt like something out of Leave it to Beaver

My mom worked as a butcher in the late 50s (a place called food city in, now south Phoenix) and she has a picture of all the butchers lined up behind the meat case in about 57. She was the youngest in line, fresh out of high school.

@grandmajane2593

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was amazing. Back in the 50s employment was so restrictive. There were men's jobs and women's jobs. Kudos to your mother! Your mother must be around the same age as I am.

@LGAussie

3 жыл бұрын

Why don’t u post that photo on ur KZread channel and narrate it. Ppl would love to see it. Just show the photo, then text info or speak about it. That also preserves the photo for years on here.

@riverraisin1

3 жыл бұрын

I like Food City. Even though I nicknamed it Food Shitty. They have a good Hispanic food section.

@Tubes12AX7k

Жыл бұрын

I remember going to the butcher's store. The one good thing about butcher stores were that they really knew meat. You could specify what you were after and they'd give you pointers or opinions or help you get a good cut. And I think I remember them wrapping it up in brown oil paper for your short trip home.

We had Star Market growing up in the 60's. Sometimes we would pile in the back of a pickup to the store. Entering the entrance of the store was a room that we the kids could stay and watch TV while Mom shopped. There were ashtrays at the end of each isle and a soda machine in the back where a cup would fall down and you would pick your fav soda pop.

I also remember people smoking as they shopped 😬

@JessSuave

3 жыл бұрын

LOL that's one thing I don't miss :D

@lisalee2885

3 жыл бұрын

@Moonchild way back in 70's we had Alpha Beta in California. Yes they smoked there

I love the recollection videos and have several coffee table books on many subjects. I was born in 1967 so my memories start after that time but my favorite time frame is post war to the mid 60's. I feel like I was born a generation to late!! The 1st photo with the ladies in the hair rollers was funny. These ladies could either have their hair washed and set and do their errands or they set at home and had the hairdresser brush and style. If they had a big night out, they would set and go about their errands. When we were kids, you behaved in the store or you were sent to the car. You looked forward to picking out your favorite cereal hoping for a good prize inside. Mine was Quisp!! You could look around quietly if Mom found someone to catch up with. We had to clean up before we went shopping. Nowadays. Kids scream and run around, people wear their pajamas to shop or look like slobs and stand around blocking the aisles. It's just as bad on an airplane. No class!!

@Linda7647

2 жыл бұрын

So crazy that I ran across your comment because I was telling my son just last night about Quisp cereal.

When I was a child there were supermarkets, just small ma and pa delicatessens just about on every block

My mom was one who would wear the curlers in her hair and go to our local grocery store. As a kid, I was beyond embarrassed to be seen with her and her curlers. I wouldn't care today, but when you're 12 years old, it matters a lot. lol

@jamesdavis2231

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, mine did too, back in the 60's when I was about 5. I thought that was normal at the time

@riverraisin1

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@laurielozano6263

3 жыл бұрын

My mom used to cover her rollers with a bandana. She had several colors. Some were silk. And there was always a cigarette between her fingers(Kent) in one hand and her list in the other. I pushed the cart😊 Man, I miss those days!

@vickid.1251

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurielozano6263 haha - yeah, my mamma smoked in the grocery store too. Long line? No problem, light one up and chit-chat with neighbors. Everything was so laid back compared to today. I miss it sometimes.

@analogman9697

2 жыл бұрын

It mattered then.

Growing up in the 1970s meant the tail end of 5 and dime stores with wooden floors generally. The owners wore a white shirt and tie always. The stores had a nice new “toy” smell too. The noise of the big cash register “cha Ching” - lol

I remember my mom walking through the store isle's puffing on a cigarette, if she wanted to see if the grapes tasted good she would just pick one off a bunch and eat it right then,apparently that was accepted... And she would open a box of butter and just purchase one stick at a time. Things have definitely changed over the years!

@karenmessinger9609

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Smoking & testing.

@zuzuspetals9281

3 жыл бұрын

I still test grapes before I buy them. I thunk watermelons too.

@rocketmom60

3 жыл бұрын

I still pick one grape off to sample. Maybe not during Covid but otherwise I did.

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

My wife always samples grapes! How else would you know if they were sweet enough?

@arthurbrumagem3844

2 жыл бұрын

@@zuzuspetals9281 here I see families with kids giving them bananas or apples to eat while shopping. They don’t pay for them of course

I remember my grandmother teaching me about budgeting, and telling how hard it was for them to get by in the mid fifties. She needed ten dollars a week for all their groceries, and that fed their family of five. Amazing!

I remember how the food was so good back in the 70 !!! And do you remember when you go to the grocery, always a boy packing your bags and they walk to the care with you to put your grocery in the trunk! Who remember this? We are a long way of that today!!!😉

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

I shop at Safeway in Sun City Arizona & they always ask if you need help to the car, but we are a retirement community...lol

@JessSuave

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Texas and all the supermarkets around me have someone to pack your bags and take them to your car.

@jayne59brohammer

3 жыл бұрын

@Moonchild Yep.....That's the one. Bell & Dell Webb.

@ED80s

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that

@vincentperratore4395

3 жыл бұрын

Also, today, you have to watch that boy packing your bags, that he might be carrying a small but well oiled automatic, with a decent notion of using it on someone he doesn't like!

Back in the late 50s, early 60's, I would get a bag of Tom's potato chips and a RC Cola for .25¢. The neighborhood grocery store sold pickles from a barrel for 5¢ each (they were like 5 inches long and delicious (especially in summer).

@chasethecat3839

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I lived the pickles from the barrel at Pantry Pride market

@suzannelawson9215

2 жыл бұрын

Do you remember the pop drink called "Bubble Up?" I used to love it.

@tomfields3682

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and RC Cola came in 16 ounce bottles, not 10 ounce like Coke and Pepsi did. And it cost the same, 10 cents!

@suzannelawson9215

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomfields3682 We used to get these frosted glass mugs of A & W for 25 cents. It was the best! At an A & W Restaurants.

@tomfields3682

2 жыл бұрын

@@suzannelawson9215 A 7 Up knock off

Back then, women wore curlers alot more than just in grocery stores. And many of them, made sure they had their lipstick on at the same time. I'vd seen in recent years, women in Walmart wearing their pajamas.

I remember going with my mother to the A&P in Connecticut in the late 50's. It had a cold room for the meat dept which we loved, and at checkout the groceries were put in crates that were put on a conveyor belt that moved them to an outside loading area. My mom drove around to the back of the store and the groceries were then loaded into our trunk.

@janicehuff1183

3 жыл бұрын

We shopped at A&P in Chicago in the sixties. Good memories.

@lisaspikes4291

3 жыл бұрын

We used to have a grocery store with the conveyor belt. You’d pull your car up to the front of the store, and your groceries would roll out of the little window so you could load them in your car. An old P & C grocery.

@chasethecat3839

3 жыл бұрын

Yes A&P. And you could collect S&H Green stamps

@erikalee9548

3 жыл бұрын

@@chasethecat3839 Yesssss!!!! 10,000 stamps would get you a potholder. 😂 Loved those stamps.

@chasethecat3839

3 жыл бұрын

@@erikalee9548 haha..yes!!

Ah, ladies with curlers in their hair, sometimes covered with a scarf. The good old days!

@sonyaweinreis3658

3 жыл бұрын

Yip

Loved those Green Stamps. We saved up enough to get a huge unabridged dictionary which helped me throughout junior high and high school. On its own wooden pedestal in the living room (like an exhibit) it was so big. The actual green stamp store where you could pick things was a fascinating place. We went there several times in the nearest larger town. What I miss in the chain grocery stores was that the manager -- always a man -- was up front near the cashiers and actively engaged, making sure customer service was right and that there were not long waiting lines. They were very visible and active with customers, unlike the hidden, behind-the-scenes store managers today. When I worked at the small independent neighborhood grocery nearest our house, at age 16, the owner told me simply to "add twenty percent" as I opened up cases of cans or anything else, set the pricing (sticker) gun, and shelved the items. He was not usually there at night, so just trusted me, a teenage high school student, to compute all the prices myself -- without a calculator! Never gave me any of them nor complained about my work.

Thank you for making and posting this video. Very interesting!

I’m so glad I was born in time to shop at an actual grocery store.

😂 the photo with all the ladies having rollers in their hair just reminds me of a news story I saw. This school started giving parents "dress codes" saying they couldn't come in unless they looked a certain way. Apparently it's "unprofessional" and it just so happens hair rollers were on the list of things you couldn't wear. 🙄 Just goes to show you that women have been busy since way back in they day.

This is a great example that free market economies work well when hearts that are honest! People in other countries would love to have all these items available under one roof! God bless the United States! Thanks!

My grandparents owned a grocery store in Durant, Oklahoma. It was a big part of my childhood and I have lots of great memories from it- grandad cutting lunchmeat for customers, the old soda coolers, the sound of the candy case opening, petting their cat that followed them inside when they opened, grandmother letting me push the big buttons on the old metal cash register when she was ringing people up and so much more. My favorite is every week when the Frito Lay man Mr. Belcher would show up and let me and my sister crawl into the back of his delivery truck and pick a bag of chips. It closed in the 80’s after grandad passed.

@QuietlyCurious

2 жыл бұрын

Paints a fine picture of community. Something we are sorely lacking today, sadly.

@patduffyforever

2 жыл бұрын

Lovely memories💚

Before scanners, there was plenty of time to make out a check.

@momentsformoms9467

3 жыл бұрын

Yet they still wait until the last few seconds. Even when all they had to fill out was their name,they wouldn’t do it until they got their total.

@carmenfernandez5234

3 жыл бұрын

@@momentsformoms9467 The comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has a very funny routine that includes check-writing at grocery stores. It's on KZread.

My first thought is the beginning of unhealthy processed foods. My mom shopped Kwik Chek later known as Winn Dixie. We kids loved all the cheap empty calories and began a struggle with weight. Today a lot of food contains high fructose corn syrup made from GMO corn. The food industry aims for profit and is not your friend.

@neilpuckett359

3 жыл бұрын

Kwik Chek was owned by WD.

@donmorro1087

2 жыл бұрын

Was born in 1960 and being somewhat poor, we did eat a lot of processed food. It was cheaper and easy to prepare. But not very healthy. Although we didn't really know that back then.

I don’t believe check out lines were any longer during the long era of check writing. In fact I remember them as shorter. I worked in the grocery industry from bag boy to assistant store manager during the 70s and 80s for both independents and Safeway. We had a crazy notion of customer service in those days. When things got busy, codes were announced over the intercom that signified the need for either baggers, cart gatherers, cashiers or all the above. If you wanted to keep your job you hopped to it no matter what department you were working in or what you were doing. Cashiers were expected to be be able to accurately add up purchases at a minimum speed and bag boys were trained how to safely bag items rapidly. Usually the cashiers were friendly and chatted with customers as they manually rang up their orders and even counted change back to cash customers and said thank you for your business. Empty, ratty looking shelves and display cases were not tolerated by management. The customer came first.

@russs7574

Жыл бұрын

Fast forward to today. I divorced Target about three years ago because a cashier refused to scan my purchase because I "misgendered" him/her/it. And when the manager came over, she told me that her priority was to "provide her non-mainstream employees with a work environment that they could feel safe in."

Anyone else notice how cookies & cereal shared the same shelves in the "cereal aisle" pic near the end of the video?

@bluegirl777

2 жыл бұрын

As a kid from the 80's - cookies were in our cereal! Cookie Crisp anyone?

I worked in the industry since 1972...just retired, I have seen alot of change in those years....

My mom NEVER went grocery or any kind of shopping unless her hair was “just so” & she looked “ravishing” until the day she died at 85 [2018]! Daddy hired her a maid & she cleaned the house before Coralee arrived ... [what must she “think” of us] more “visiting” happened during that time!

@alisontopalian8592

2 жыл бұрын

I don't ever remember women in public with curlers in their hair. Everyone was dressed make up and hair and nails done. My mom would always be done up and ready.

@hollis2557

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in farm country and folks dressed up to go into town to go shopping. My parents owned a grocery store and a lot of farmers came in the store wearing polished shoes and their newest pair of bib overalls smelling like Old Spice after shave.

@bdavis7801

2 жыл бұрын

@@alisontopalian8592 I was thinking the same thing after seeing the curler picture. I know folks had wraps to cover them but I don't think the average person would leave the house that way. Maybe a regional difference? I have the impression too that most dressed up when running errands in town.

@donnaplumridge9769

2 жыл бұрын

My mom would go to the grocery store in curlers and wear a head scarf, but she would have to put her red lipstick on! And I remember being so embarrassed when I had to go with her, when her hair was in curlers! Lol! To this day, I would never be caught dead in curlers out in public! She also had a small portable pink hairdryer with a big hood that would fit over her curlers. My goodness, was that thing loud as well!

@michaelmerck7576

Жыл бұрын

A regular June Cleaver

The transition from the grocery store to a supermarket was so profound that it even found its way into the lyrics of the Sonny and Cher song "The Beat Goes On".

Born in 53 in Germany. I got the list from my mom.waited at the store for my turn, the owner/ clerk got one thing at a time, I brought my own basket.( Kinda like lil house on the prairie)Then off to the butcher, then to the "Gärtnerei", the garden store, where they grew the food themselves, in the winter it was shipped from Holland, citrus came from Spain. Then to the dairy store, for cheese and milk all local and fresh! All within our little village, where everyone knew everyone.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if young children like the ones shown from the 60’s could go to the store in safety these days?

@karenmessinger9609

3 жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid we didn't have to worry the bad guys on every corner. You could go play all day & your parents didn't have to worry about you making it home.

@missionquestthing

2 жыл бұрын

If you know anything about true crime, it wasn’t. We have much lower rates today we just hear about it more

@cknorris3644

2 жыл бұрын

@@missionquestthing That's actually not true but cool story.

I remember a local "normal" grocery store in the 1970's. I was perhaps like 6 or 7 years old (or younger, but who knows, I was born in 1966) . The store changed over to all generic. I think it was a new fad. I still remember how boring it looked. Everything was with white with black labeling. It was a local store. It was in a small town and we had never heard of Walmart. Does anyone else know what I mean?

@cw1294

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was a push for cheap and generic was the competition. They even had a 6 pack of “beer” nothing else but black letters on white cans

@riverraisin1

3 жыл бұрын

I remember black and white generic being a fad at the very end of the 70's

@sharksport01

2 жыл бұрын

Cub Foods.

@itrthho

2 жыл бұрын

Yes because of stagflation in the 70’s people shopped generic a lot more . Stores jumped on the bandwagon and had generic aisles and even entire stores of the stuff

@MichaelWH

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharksport01 I remember them :)

I loved this! I remember the older stores with creeky wood floors. Meat counter. My lovely late Father used to cut and then deliver chickens. To stores and restaurants all around the area for miles. I got to ride shotgun in the truck many times as did my 4 bros. I was the oldest and only girl tho. So I got a few special treats now and then. I especially remember one of these stores where the little deli counter was the first place I headed. Guy knew I was a true cheese freak lol. He always took a huge round of Colby out and gave me a big slice! My grandparents used to take me to an old Ben Franklin five and dime with wood floors and an emporium filled to the ceiling with stuff. Gosh I miss them all! Even the laundromat! Thanks and Happy New Year🙏😍🎉

I remember in the 1970s when the local Alpha Beta grocery store (I grew up in California) started installing the bar code scanners. At the time, that seemed so futuristic. In the meantime though, I would watch as the cashier keyed everything in manually on the cash register.