I’m old!!!! But so happy I grew up in this era. 😊

@gitfar

Жыл бұрын

I agree. getting old is better than not growing old .

@itiswhatitis7639

Жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY

@vw4x4

Жыл бұрын

DAM..... I'm old...... I'm not sure if this is a compliment or and insult! The very sad part of getting old is a lot of the people in these pictures are dead. This is happening way to fast....

@fanaticat1

Жыл бұрын

Me, too!

@JD-gy7kp

Жыл бұрын

💯💯🙃

I remember when kids used to play outside, drink from the garden hose, learn how to write cursive, and respect their elders.

@samsmom400

Жыл бұрын

I remember when I had to stand up if an adult came into the room. AND I WAS A GIRL! All adults were called "Mr./Mrs./Miss and then the last name. I STILL refer to those adults that way (of course, most have passed).

@gregorykiernan7849

Жыл бұрын

And if you disrespected your elder...your parents put you in your place.

@butcharmstrong9645

Жыл бұрын

AND rode in the back of a pickup truck!

@johnscott2076

Жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@michelleblose226

Жыл бұрын

That was from another planet!!!!

I am 61 and remember all of these things vividly. Boy, this generation now has no idea what they missed!

@freeguy77

Жыл бұрын

And the generation before that! Money was 90% silver coins (dimes-quarters-halves until the 1965 Coinage Act removed the silver real money) and a silver dollar paper certificate was redeemable into gold at 1/35th per oz. until the gold-dollar divorce on Aug. 15, 1971. That started the destruction of the 'money' (a hidden tax on the people) holding its purchasing power.

@frankmartin8471

Жыл бұрын

We had a hillside of some 100 acres to play on behind us, and a half mile the other way was the river where we went skinny dipping in a swimming hole. We once rode a raft several miles to the ocean. Boy did we catch hell for that.

@lewisjones4130

Жыл бұрын

I'M 52 & THOSE WERE THE GOOD OL DAYS!

@mluck67

Жыл бұрын

I feel BAD for them!!!

@ohyikes1

Жыл бұрын

I'm 64. They know what they missed but many of them don't care.

I remember every one of these, also no malls, no “supercenters” No cell phones, no internet. We played outside and in the mountains and woods. No one talked back to ANY grown up. We said yes ma’am and yes sir. And I was born in 65 😢

At 71 I remember all this , and happy to be "old".

Spending an entire Saturday morning watching cartoons then going outside to play with your friends.

@aaronpatterson2369

Жыл бұрын

Yup! From 6am till 11am or noon!

@pietersleght6905

Жыл бұрын

you forgot cowboy shows too

@markcarson8566

Жыл бұрын

Bugs bunny and Tom and Jerry

@philosopher1a

Жыл бұрын

The BEST !!!

@markcarson8566

Жыл бұрын

@@philosopher1a right?!!

Remember at the entrance to the parking lot of many shopping malls, there was a Fotomat which was a small, shack-like building where you dropped off you undeveloped film from your camera. A few days later you returned to pickup your developed photos. These Fotomats were everywhere.

@lorrainemudd5022

Жыл бұрын

Remember poodle shirts.james dean Elvis.what great movies and music. I grew up in NY. Remember Carvel ice cream,stores like robert hall.i Remember hanging g clothes on the line in winter they were like cardboard when you brought them in.

Born 1955...know about everything you described. Sometimes, I wish I could return to those times. Seems like everything was simpler then.

@CologneCarter

6 ай бұрын

Things were simpler back then. Things were also a lot slower. But things were also a lot harder for some (manual laborers and farmers, as well as farmers children) and a lot more devestating for those getting seriously ill. The sad thing is, with advance in technology there was also an advance in making money no matter the consequences and we all pay the price now.

Okay, Okay...So I'm guilty as charged. I am 61 now. But let me tell you, the 60s and 70s were absolutely a blast for me.

@redundantcow

Жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you. Such great memories 😊

@christopherbroaddrick7198

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@artiek1177

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@donnaawb

Жыл бұрын

I'm 62 and miss those days

@firstnlastnamethe3rd771

Жыл бұрын

Same age. I lived in the Bay Area and remember the Summer of Love. I was only 5 y.o, though.

Lord , What I would'nt give to be able to return to these wonderful times !!!

@stuarthirsch

Жыл бұрын

Were they really that wonderful?

@thomasskladany7760

Жыл бұрын

@@stuarthirsch Born in '55 , grew up in the sixties surrounded by a large & loving family ... Yeah for me they were the best time of my life. PEACE to you & yours.

@Kinikia95

Жыл бұрын

@@stuarthirsch Of course there was some bad stuff that went on, but we're enjoying remembering the good parts.

Remember when you went outside to play, and your parents really had no idea where you were or what you got up to? As long as you were home in time for dinner, no questions asked. It was great. Kids had to figure out stuff on their own and learned lifetime skills everyday!!

@leecowell8165

Жыл бұрын

yep. girls and boys didn't mix then either.. not until well after puberty. no locks on our entry doors so we never had a key on us because the door was always of course, open! I remember my first car a 1949 Chevy coup and it had a key slot on the outside of the drivers side door. what's this? I don't believe I even had a key for it because the knob for both door locks was missing! wow.

@TheKarinsuezen

11 ай бұрын

or later in the year as long as you were home (if you lived in the city) the lights came on and the neighbours all looked after you as you were with their kids as well

I'm 75 and remember every one of these great memories 😅 The good ole days, that are gone forever...and truly are missed and will always be cherished!! Oh, to be a kiddo again! Old is just a number...that kid we used to love to be, is still in us, enjoy, while we still have time 😊❤

I was so lucky to get to grow up in the 70s and 80s, Really feel sorry for kids that have to grow up in today's broken world

@cathyt502

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I grew up in the 60s and 70s.... we had the best times and music especially.. all those concerts of great bands at under $10 a show. My own sons were born mid 80s and so glad I didn't have to deal w/ smart phones or computers ... yet.

@susansalvucci4281

Жыл бұрын

@@cathyt502 I was born in 1954 and remember the 1960s and 70s fondly, but my husband just reminded me of the turmoil in the US - assassinations, civil rights, Vietnam, riots on the college campuses. So maybe just as tumultuous as today. I seem to remember the 1980s as being a bit more peaceful, but I was busy with my children and was distracted.

@laureencriss8220

Жыл бұрын

@@cathyt502 Born in 66. I found a ticket to The Who from 1982. It cost $9 to see them and The Clash, lol. Good times!

@franwebb7756

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. It was great except for the Vietnam war. Also the Bay of Pigs but I didn't even know about it until much later. Edit also JFK assignation, so sad. But life was slower and kids played outside and going to the movies was special and trips to the Dairy Queen 😋😋

@zeeqq105

Жыл бұрын

@@susansalvucci4281Yeah, people forget the 60s was a rough time. But I’ve always loved the fashions. The gogo boots and miniskirts. I couldn’t wait to leave home so I could wear them. 😂😂

Even though the good old days weren't always good, I'm glad that I was a kid in that era. I wouldn't want to be a kid today if you paid me!!

@tommcdonough6086

Жыл бұрын

Today's youth are pathetic, soft, sheltered, lazy, entitled, safe spaces and therapy pets for them. The school system is setting them up for utter failure in the real world!!! It's not all rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs it's tough out there!

@scottfrederick4457

Жыл бұрын

@David Allen If anyone asks "What was so good about the good old days?" the answer is simple: We were young. BTW I'm 66.

@kybble

Жыл бұрын

Now wait a minute!!! I wouldn't go that far I wouldn't mind being 7 again and doing it all over If i knew a 10th of what I know now. especially if i was being paid.

@scottfrederick4457

Жыл бұрын

@@kybble That's the reason for that other adage: "Youth is wasted on the young" ☺

The loss of the Woolworth's lunch counter is irreplaceable. There will never be anything like it.

@Kinikia95

Жыл бұрын

I miss that too!

There is nothing wrong about getting old. Love these memories.

Born in 1957 and remember all of these and more. Glad to have grown up then and not now.

@tommcdonough6086

Жыл бұрын

Know what you mean born in 68 here, we all were lucky to grow up when things were simpler before cellphones ect. Where does the time go........

@sissymurphy9620

Жыл бұрын

you could play outside and ride your bike and run free and you knew if you had street lights it was time to get your butt home . Most neighbors turned on porch lights and that was a cue also

@mikegrimes9997

Жыл бұрын

Dec. '57 here. Wouldn't trade it for anything

@Lisa-cj6vx

Жыл бұрын

July 57 Me too!!

@mayloo2137

Жыл бұрын

I live in Canada. Born in Hong Kong April/60. Moved here as a child. Glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. It was a more innocent time. I enjoyed it.

I'm Old. I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70s and 80s for anything.🤘😎

@mikepalmer2219

Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@bretthibbs6083

Жыл бұрын

same here

I miss our old world! 🌎😢

I'd take the old times back again. Nothing Like OLD School.

I grew up in the 40s and 50s, so this is all new stuff. How many remember the party line? I remember learning how to read with Dick and Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff, and Tim.

@pam5389

Жыл бұрын

Ok true confession time. Did you ever listen in on the party line? I did 🤦😂. I was a nosey kid.

@dronedaze

Жыл бұрын

@@pam5389 me too

@diannabowen3868

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 50's and very well remember party lines! Also, my grandmother had an outhouse and no running water in her house...she had a pump in her kitchen that we had to use to fill buckets with water, heat them on her wood stove, then cook or bathe with the hot water...fun times!

@elderlypoodle9181

Жыл бұрын

I was born in the 60s but remember the Dick and Jane readers. I thought I was so important being chosen to read aloud in a circle. I just bought a vintage Duck and Jane primer 😉

@mrsandman3954

Жыл бұрын

I remember party lines and Dick and Jane readers, Grimms Fairy Tales, Highlight magazines etc as well

I remember 5 cent Hershey bar, party lines, phone numbers without area codes, gas stations where the attendant filled your tank checked oil, and cleaned your windshield (for my Dad), looking at the Parakeets and gold fish at Woolworths, and the cheap toys, caps and cap guns, when we actually had paperboys, collecting bottles to bring to the store for a refund.. wow.

@samsmom400

Жыл бұрын

I can remember when I got paid .50 cents an hour for babysitting. Then it was .75 cents and on up to $1. I got a "real" job after that.

@robertjaent6087

Жыл бұрын

How about phone numbers before they became all numbers? I can remember our phone number in the very early 60s was WE1-****. The WE stood for Webster. Think it was mid 60s when phone company sent out letters to everyone explaining how their numbers were going to "change" and become all numbers, so the WE1 became 931.

@samsmom400

Жыл бұрын

@@robertjaent6087 My grandmother lived in a small town and she had a 5 digit number.

@1950Grendel

Жыл бұрын

Also milk delivery, "three on the tree", A&P, Mel Allen saying, "It's going, going, gone" on the radio, Wonder Horse, 50 cent bleacher admission at Yankee Stadium.

@barbaraanderson2645

Жыл бұрын

And aren't we glad that those were "our years" --- 40's, 50's and sixties --- we could not have asked for a better time!!!!

OMG, I AM old, because I remember most of these!! Oh, how I long for these wonderful times again!!😊❤

YES. This was a great trip down memory lane . I’m 60 so have experienced all these things. Our generation had some really good times growing up. The Saturday morning cartoons. The muscle cars and the drive in movies. Great music of the sixties and seventies. It was a much simpler time with not a lot of worry.

@billybrown7953

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and now it seems like doom and gloom. Glad that I'm 62.

@surfboard396

Жыл бұрын

@@billybrown7953 Keep On Rockin Billy ! 🤟

I just turned 70 and really don’t feel “old.” I think it’s because I played outside so much! The front and back-yard was whatever we wanted it to be. It was a paradise for our imaginations!

@marvinmartin4692

Жыл бұрын

We owned 2 blocks of our neighborhood! Kick the can, playing army, red rover, cowboys and Indians! Only came home for food!

@elfiero50

Жыл бұрын

don't worry, you are old

@RJ-luci

Жыл бұрын

@@elfiero50 I knew that…….but I’m not “worried!”

@1950Grendel

Жыл бұрын

We used to haunt the appliance stores for refrigerator and washer/dryer boxes for forts and grass sleds.

@johnmadow5331

Жыл бұрын

I am almost 70 and I don't fell I am old and needs assistance when I was sick at the hospital. I can drive to work and never want to "work from home" ! I can fly a plane safety why should I stay home and waiting to die on Rocking chair like what my ex employee 401K investment bourchue!

I was born in 1955, I loved growing up in those eras.

The cars of the 50's are rolling works of art.

@leecowell8165

Жыл бұрын

they were TANKS is what they were!

When we wanted to go to a rock concert, we waited in line outside a store that sold tickets with hundreds of other people, sometimes overnight, even when it was raining or snowing, and even if it was a school night. I remember paying $10 to see Queen at the Boston Garden and I thought it seemed really REALLY expensive back then!

@bostongirlsandy

Жыл бұрын

I love Queen! I would love to have been at that show.

@zeeqq105

Жыл бұрын

Imagine seeing Queen for $10 bucks! Remember watching two movies for the price of one. And going to the matinee. I haven’t been to the movies literally in years. I refuse to pay 20 dollars for a movie and another 15 dollars for popcorn.

For me..... worth it to be old now if it means having the great memories

I I guess I'm getting old but this was the best time to be growing up

@frankrizzo4460

Жыл бұрын

Yes I totally agree with you I'm so glad I grew up back then and not in today's generation. I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days.

@orionwarren4244

Жыл бұрын

Compared to the sh!tshow today's youth have to endure, I consider myself fortunate to have been young 50 years ago. And even more fortunate to be old and soon to be gone from this nightmare that shows no sign of ending!

@jamesmiller4184

Жыл бұрын

@@orionwarren4244 PERFECTLY said. Ditto that same here. Thanks Orion!

@jamesmiller4184

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the case that it was. (War baby here, born DURING it. Statistically our numbers are very low on account. I am contemplating the creation of a little grouping of us, while we exist-still.)

@mr.bnatural3700

Жыл бұрын

@@orionwarren4244 I'm sorry life hasn't worked out for you. I don't know what your nightmare is but in my beautiful country everything is still just like this video.

Man , I miss my childhood of the late 60’s and early 70’s . Everything he says in this video is 100% true facts . Thanks for the memories of my childhood. The ones that I forgot about in my old age too !! ✌️and ❤️ to ALL

I was born in '48 , and also remember milk , bread, and fish, all of it incredibly fresh, being delivered to our home, along with biking to the next town, about 8 miles away to go candlepin bowling, taking a bus into the city, by ourselves, to go to the movies , and so much more. It was a good time to grow up.

@leecowell8165

Жыл бұрын

got a few years on you. First thing I could remember was my Dad had an ICE route in MD! I was amazed how fast he could take a tiny ice pick and cut up a 1000 pound block of ice (at the "ice house") into perfect 80 pound blocks in seconds! He'd then pick 2 of these up and carry them with ice tongs down to the truck and he'd do that until the entire block was in the truck... and off we'd go delivering ice on his ice "route". yep like yesterday, Jim.

@nedludd7622

9 ай бұрын

"fresh fish"? Not where I lived.

I was born in the early 1950's so yes, I'm old and I remember all of these things. Seeing all of the changes over the years and seeing how the world is today, I thank my lucky stars that I was born then and not now.

@marvinmartin4692

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same! I’m 66.

@qmnnvrdyz8965

Жыл бұрын

So, I have a serious question for you. I'm 59, and once in a great while, I'll get in a debate with someone who says that crime is the same as always, we just know about it faster. There's no way I believe that, and I'm curious on someone else's take on that.

@markgrove2030

Жыл бұрын

A person could write a book on life in the early 60s but few today would believe the stories. When America was strong, fit, and honorable. You mention writing checks at the grocery store; remember counter checks?? At the BIG A&P or Super Valu there was a "courtesy" rack of checks from half a dzn banks. If u had forgotten your checkbook, you carefully and legibly wrote your name/address for the $7.36, handed it to the cashier & that was that. I suppose there were a few who scammed the stores but not many. Why? Because we had a country; nobody would THINK of doing that....

@marvinmartin4692

Жыл бұрын

We do have way more information than the past! Look at all the cell phone filming and in the public realm immediately! Besides satellite, cable and radio and hundreds of television stations! The old saying, you see what you look for!

@teasea3152

Жыл бұрын

@@qmnnvrdyz8965 I'm 71 and there is definitely more crime today. When I was growing up we didn't even lock our doors. Neither did our neighbors. Breaking and entering was unheard of...at least in our neighborhood. There was no gun violence. I still live in the same city and gun violence is now a common occurrence. We didn't have to walk through a metal detector at school. If we misbehaved at school, we were dispciplined at school. And again at home if our parents found out! In school we ate lunch off of real plates and used real silverware. Now they're afraid kids will use real silverware as weapons so plastic spoons, forks and knives are used instead. I never heard of a school shooting when I was in school. Most boys carried pocketknives, but I never heard of a stabbing in school. If you were playing with your pocketknife when you should have been studying the teacher would take it and give it back when the class was over. Carrying a knife to school today will get you arrested. On weekends and during the summer we played outside from sun up to sundown and our parents hardly ever knew where we were. We fished, built huts in the woods, played baseball, football, swam in the river, rode our bikes, picked up bottles for the 2 cent deposit etc. We knew right from wrong and stayed out of trouble. Parents didn't have to worry about their kids getting kidnapped or molested. I suppose it did occur, but I never heard of it happening to any kids I knew. Parents nowdays have watch their kids every minute, especially young girls. It was a safer world when I grew up than it is now.

I grew up in the 1950s. This video brought back memories, but is a bit sad, for times gone by.

@ponygirlusa

Жыл бұрын

So true. I remember everyone smoked (at least my parents both did) and going on long drives choking on all that second hand smoke which we pretty much got used to, since we weren't allowed to roll down the windows - it would ruin my mother's hairdo. 😂

I remember all those things. I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I had a wonderful childhood. Life was so much simpler and fun. Nope, I'm not old though.

I still remember how amazed I was to see all of these things when I first immigrated here to America. Such things were only the stuff of fantasy in East Germany.

So glad I grew up when I did.. I miss those simpler days.. **sigh**. 🙄💜✌️

I remember all those! We had a Ford Pinto Station Wagon. Before that was an old VW Bus. I remember my pops buying a Dodge Challenger with a 8 track player listening to The Beatles. Good times! I'm old enough to remember president Carter and Reagan and old enough to remember when Elvis and John Lennon dying.

@billybrown7953

Жыл бұрын

I was in the military under Carter and Reagan. I know exactly where I was when Reagan was shoot.

I feel so blessed to have grown up in a small town during the 50s and 60s. It was safe to walk around town by yourself even if you were a young girl and everybody knew your name and your Mom & Dad & your grandparents too!

So many memories I could go on forever.

I also remember frozen TV dinners from this time period. Those aluminum trays with fried chicken, creamed potatoes and green peas. Or maybe the one with that Salisbury Steak and brown gravy. Swanson or Banquet? We didn’t have them often, but they were a treat for us kids.

@1MSally1965

Жыл бұрын

They were a treat at my house too. Mom always cooked dinner.

@gregorykiernan7849

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember the chipped beef in a baggy...that you boiled and served over toast/noodles?

@privatelyprivate3285

Жыл бұрын

Yup - my mum would spoon feed me the dessert when she didn’t like it!

@billybrown7953

Жыл бұрын

With the brownie

@billybrown7953

Жыл бұрын

@@gregorykiernan7849 Yes I do.

I don't mind being old. This was some of my childhood in one video😢

@cwilson6990

Жыл бұрын

Neither do I 😉 Best Years of my Life 😊 im 68 Us Baby Boomers remember Kids today need to Educate themselves watching these videos 😊😂

@citibear57

Жыл бұрын

Some? This was my childhood, and I am proud that I grew up during this era 😄

@lindaborres5034

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Best of times.

@journeytothemosthigh5021

Жыл бұрын

@@citibear57 yes some because there was so much more awesomeness! Best years of my life. Even then I didn’t want to grow up but it just happened!

@christopherdibble5872

Жыл бұрын

Back when gas was 30 cents a gallon and love was only 60 cents away.

My first car had two keys. A push button high beams and where you filled the gas tank was behind the license plate. Also, I remember riding my bicycle to the bowling alley.

@stolnpckup

8 ай бұрын

@@caco4now-mi7og huh

Thanks for the reminder of a time when life was safe and special. I am 62 and this brought back good memories.

I remember 100% of all these including S&H green stamps and blue chip stamps. And let's not forget layaway. Wow, I'm old.🙂

@artiek1177

Жыл бұрын

And if you didn’t collect S&H green stamps you had Triple S blue stamps. I got a chess set and my first fishing rod that way.

@ecphorizer

Жыл бұрын

Remember in 1962 when JFK's motorcade pulled into an Esso station to get gas? JFK reportedly leaned out the window to collect all those Blue Chip stamps for Jackie. Aside: I had a classmate who had a face that resembled the Blue Chip mascot squirrel.

@artiek1177

Жыл бұрын

@@ecphorizer I don’t remember Blue Chip stamps. What part of the country were they in?

@Porsche996driver

Жыл бұрын

@@artiek1177 West Coast, had them in LA!

@artiek1177

Жыл бұрын

@@Porsche996driver Ok, thanks.

I remember everything you mentioned!! I was born in 1950.

Just like I remember!! Sure miss those times and growing up in the 60's and 70's ...

I remember all of these. Times were much simpler back then.

Anyone remember when the Saturday matinee at the movies included the previews, AND two or three cartoons, a newsreel, a short feature and finally the main feature?

@alfredo7843

Жыл бұрын

I sure do. My first matinee was Herbie The Love Bug at the Whitehall Mall in Whitehall, PA. Great memories as a kid at that theater.

@ScottFoster482002

Жыл бұрын

My mother gave me $1.25 and took my brother and sister and I to Saturday morning movies. She then could shop without us. By the way, we used to have money left over.

@MaggieMayFlower

Жыл бұрын

On Saturday morning, The two movies, the cartoons, the previews, popcorn, and a Coke cost $.25

@mr.bnatural3700

Жыл бұрын

I was 10 when they showed Deep Throat and Debbie Does Dallas.

@MaggieMayFlower

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.bnatural3700 who showed you?? Your Babysitter??

It's official! I'm old, I remembered everything

@charmingspider9442

Жыл бұрын

At least you still have your memory 🥴

@belindabutcher7925

Жыл бұрын

Me too!! Wouldn't trade it for nothing!!!

I remember almost all these things. Life was simpler, safer and better. I miss those days.

I loved the 70s , 80s when I grew up .I remember all of my time and experiences. From them even the foods and drinks also. I would love to go back and grow up again .

Absolutely remember all of this!!! I'm 60 years old and loved the 70s, 80s and the 90s. Saturday morning cartoons and American bandstand!! So sad the way our country is now, don't recognize it at all.

@chevychase3103

Жыл бұрын

And soul train! With Don Cornelius!

@brianhenderson9470

Жыл бұрын

We had it the best, I almost feel sorry for todays kids.

@mikepalmer2219

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. I am 51 and feel the same way about this country now.

@frankmartin8471

Жыл бұрын

I remember when the Mickey Mouse club aired in 1953. We got a television a few months later.

@conleykat

Жыл бұрын

I will be 60 next month and I remember Saturday morning cartoons, American bandstand and listening to Wolfman Jack on the radio and all the rest of the great things in the 70's & 80's.

As a 70's kid, I remember all of this.

@bullionaddict9164

Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@0011peace

Жыл бұрын

if you really remember party lines in the 79s you real rural. I lived in the 70s rember the phone co saying people might have them but never saw one

@waitingforchrist

Жыл бұрын

Me too... I remember and miss those days.

@0011peace

Жыл бұрын

@Mark rapacki there were a few recent ones but not enough to be easily reembered. I am 57 and inever met anyone witha party lne durring my my memory . Wgiuhich startys in earnetst in the 1970s

@elwin38

Жыл бұрын

@@0011peace It happened in the early 70's(before 73). I'm not rural, I grew up in the city(the hood). A couple of times i was on the phone and the operator cut into my call because a family member from out of town was calling. I passed the phone to my mom and she took over.🤷🏾‍♂

I was born in 1960 and saw most of all this what a great time to be alive!!!

I'm not old, I'm mid-century modern.

@maryclarafjare

Жыл бұрын

😂

@lovly2cu725

Жыл бұрын

SO IS MY HOUSE

@christophersmith3005

Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna borrow that line. Just letting you know.

@airtiki2374

Жыл бұрын

You tell"em

@privatelyprivate3285

Жыл бұрын

Desirably retro!

I was shocked a little while ago, was invited to my nephews birthday party at a roller rink, the kids that couldn’t skate very well had what looked like a walker! When I was little, we’d just crash and burn! Lol

@mikepalmer2219

Жыл бұрын

That’s hilarious. Ya I remember just falling on my butt until I got it right lol. It was more of an incentive to get it right lol.

@ammo8713

Жыл бұрын

I REMEMBER WALKING MILES TO SCHOOL IN THE SNOW AND GOING BACK HOME....AND IT WAS UPHILL BOTH WAYS ! WHAT A LIFE . 😁

@roryschweinfurter4111

Жыл бұрын

I remember when my cousin. had a roller rink birthday party. And I was scared to go out on the floor, and practiced on the rug by the time I was ready to go out on the rink the party ended. So to this day i still can't roller skate

@50pinkies67

Жыл бұрын

1956 I practiced roller skating with metal skates on the sidewalk while my mom held my hand so I didn't crash. I was about 6. When I was older and the invites to roller rink parties came calling, I was pretty good at it. Thanks Mom.

@ponygirlusa

Жыл бұрын

Haha! crash and burn is right, I remember that well!

“If you recognize this, you grew up during a special time. But unfortunately, you are now old.” 😂 Love Recollection Road Guy’s matter of fact delivery of this unfortunate news. 🤣

I'm old,old,old! Remember them all...and so much more! THANK YOU for the memories!

Born 1939 and recall a lot more- but my7 kids grew up with these memories. They are in their 50’s and 60’s.

@frankmartin8471

Жыл бұрын

I learned to drive in a 1941 Studebaker. Our milk was delivered in clear bottles with cream at the top. We set our clocks by the fire station noon horn which could be heard for miles.

Old is in the mind. Glad to have experienced these wonderful times.

@jamesmiller4184

Жыл бұрын

How true, Melywood! Is this following to prove as-so? "Life begins at eighty." I've no idea as to who said it but, I suppose some few ARE to find out.

@MelywoodMedia

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesmiller4184 Better chance of getting there if you were not jabbed. Insurance acturials show American death rate up 20% since 2022

@jamesmiller4184

Жыл бұрын

@@MelywoodMedia Well, thanks for that advisement Melywood but, no comment . . . other than to put 👍👍👍 that is. 😸

@KenanTurkiye

Жыл бұрын

Old IS in the mind, that I have solved :) but death is reality, that I am working on. :))))

I grew up in the 70's so pretty much remember all of this stuff. Great memories. 👍🏻👍🏻

I still have a key ring with my apartment key, key to my parents' house and car key fob. ETA: LOVED going to Roller Disco in the late 70s and early 80s while in middle school! So many cherished memories are from there. It was magical. I had loads of Little Golden Books as a toddler, too! I loved reading.

I'm definitely old. These were the good old days!!

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

I’m younger than dirt. Does that count?

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

The good old days actually ended when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden.

Remember when you were excited to wake up early Saturday morning to eat a bowl of cereal and catch actual fun and wholesome cartoons shown on broadcast TV? Except for certain evening specials during some holidays, it was the ONLY time during the week that you could see cartoons! I would literally be watching from 7am to 11am, if my parents let me. Sometimes they did, other times they insisted I go play outside instead or help with chores. But I always got at least an hour or two in.

@DavianSinner

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. I was up before anyone else in the house on Saturday. Right in front of the TV with my bowl of cereal.

@steverogers2603

Жыл бұрын

Same exact memories. I knew what was on the 3 channels and when to flip it. I started watching when the test pattern was still on and watched until mom threw me off between 10 and noon.

@diegosuarez1563

Жыл бұрын

The cartoons we watched are not considered wholesome today.

@steverogers2603

Жыл бұрын

@@diegosuarez1563 yeah, perish forbid we should scar our kids by watching a cartoon coyote have an anvil dropped on him ( and fully recover). They’re much better off with The Family Guy 😳

@diegosuarez1563

Жыл бұрын

@@steverogers2603 Went from physical assault to verbal assualt.

I'm 10 days away from being 62, I really miss the 60s and 70s. I just wish my sons could have experienced it. Great memories!

My fondest memories are of the 60s and 70s. You do a marvelous job providing us with the closest thing to a time machine. Thank you!

I remember when bowling alleys had " pin boys" who were stationed behind the bowling pins and set the pins back up manually. You also had to consult the TV Guide to see what was playing on all of the channels. There were 3 main channels and maybe 3 or 4 minor channels. There was one TV in the house, and it was black and white with no remote. Reception was via " rabbit ears." Now that's really old !

@samsmom400

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Remember all the aluminum foil that you were wrap on the antenna's to get better reception? Or if you got your youngest to stand in just the right place in the right way, the reception got better too. The youngest always had to turn the channel and as we got older it became a matter of whoever got up and turned the channel got to watch what they wanted.

@1950Grendel

Жыл бұрын

And dad risked his life putting an antenna on the roof.

@beansoup6056

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember when the newspaper had the TV listing in it?

@TheMistysFavs

Жыл бұрын

My brother was a pin boy! Yes, rabbit ears. I STILL say we had the best of childhoods!

@gracealexandre3381

Жыл бұрын

There was a remote in our house -- me!

Born in 69. Growing up in the 70s and 80s was the best

Great video. Brought tears to my eyes as I remembered a more innocent time in America. 2 pieces of candy for a penny. Buying a soda with 5 cents and the bottle. We knew everyone by name in the neighborhood. Neighbors looked out for each other. It is a long ago time that will never be again and that is sad. It was the best of times. Thank you so much for the walk down life's memory lane.

That huge station wagon @:30 reminds me of Clark Griswold's "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" in the sweet metallic pea color. It's a damn fine automobile and if you're thinking of taking the tribe across country, it's the one you should be using.

I was born in 1957,I was one of the baby boomers. I am now 65 years old and getting old. I remember the phone books and they looked like the Sears,Roebuck Catalogs. I grew up in the 1960's and 1970's. Those were the good old days. Even the 1980's and 1990's were excellent years. I am looking forward to part 2. I remember everything from part 1.

@davidsquires154

Жыл бұрын

@YTCensors I was born and raised in Detroit,Michigan.

@NotMe-st8qc

3 ай бұрын

Remember the jingle, let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages…

I must be old! Lol. I remember all these things like it was yesterday. Miss those days…the good ol days.

Yes, it certainly was a very special time. I can happily say I'm still living with a couple of these today.

The 80's and 90's were the best years ever to grow up in. I miss those days so bad 😔😔😔 Yes I'm old 😭😭😭

I really thought that all of those good things would be around forever.

Ahhhh, the good ole days!

My Step dad is 97; he can remember the 1920s. He is probably the last living person to witness the St. Francis dam breaking and the aftermath in Santa Paula , Ca.

@leecowell8165

Жыл бұрын

wow! that man has witnessed some water over the dam. does he still have cognitive? there's lotta actors getting up there.. Eastwood, Hackman, and may others getting ready to enter their 10 decade.

I LOVE being the age that I am. Having wisdom, peace, love & happiness now during this time was well worth it!

As a 50's kid, you're right; I am old but still remember those wonderful times! We have a lot more stuff now, including mental and spiritual illness.

I am 67 and remember all of it. I still use Vicks....I too am glad to have grown up then.

My mom still writes checks at the grocery store. LOL I forgot all about the Little Golden Books. That's why I love this channel. It reminds me of wonderful memories from years gone by. Thank you, Recollection Road!!!!

Ah, great ole days...like 80's music and movies.

Quote from Red Green: "I'm not old, I'm ripe!" LOL!!😄

I was 10 in 1978. So I remember a lot of the things your channel plays. EXCELLENT channel, I subbed, for sure. Going to watch MORE. Glad you have the resources and the time to give us these flashbacks.

There was a certain adventure in planning to go to a movie and actually going to it. The mystery and aurora of going into a movie theater and seeing the lights dim was a really fun time as a child.

@pixiec3

Жыл бұрын

People had to be quiet in theaters back then. I remember the ushers would come down the aisles with flashlights to make you take your feet down from seats and they actually threw people out who disrupted others; they didn't get their money back either.

I remember ALL of these things vividly, and I'm 65 now. It was indeed a WONDERFUL time to be a kid (in the 60s for me). Thank you for this lovely video!

Yes, remember many of these. Sad that all the stores shown we had and are now gone. Spent many Friday and Saturday nights at the drive in. Bowled on a couples league for a few years. I turned 65 this year! Some days I feel older. I am so glad I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Sometimes I wish I could go back.

@pacmanc8103

Жыл бұрын

Same here - class of 1975!

@mikepalmer2219

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about all the stores we used to have. It’s crazy how radically things have changed but I guess every generation says that. However I think generations now days are so much further removed from the previous generations.

I cherish being old with these America the beautiful memories of when it was.

I remember everything you mentioned, and I still use a phone book and yellow pages on occasion. The block of American cheese you got from 'commodities' wasn't pre-sliced, but it was the best American cheese made. The cans of beef and gravy were delicious, too. Ben Franklin's was the place most kids went to on allowance day. My brother still has a corded phone. Kids nowadays look at the rotary dial and don't know what to do. Those were the good old days.

Good Ole days thanks for sharing this times.😊

It's weird being the same age as old people. I remember back in the day, “Panic Buying” was when the bartender said “Last Call”. What a nice little flash from the past. Great content...do more.🤠

Being able to say you have gotten old is an honor, not a punishment.

I wouldn't trade those days for a new youth...especially today.

I never have thought it "unfortunate" that I've gotten older (57), rather pretty fortunate to have grown up when I did and still going strong 😁

@stuarthirsch

Жыл бұрын

I too consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in a unique time of prosperity, in a country where freedom and human rights are protected. I also hope that I have adapted to the progress. I remember the "old" days with fondness but also embrace the evolving new technology.

@1MSally1965

Жыл бұрын

Born in 1965! Missed boomer by 6 months! Still consider myself one. Great times!!

Remember when the ignition key was on the dash board like the push button start on most new cars now, and the dimmer switch for head lights was on the floor board? I’m vintage ‘56.

@privatelyprivate3285

Жыл бұрын

Good lord - you just reminded me of the time in ‘98 when I was late for my midnight shift because I couldn’t find the damned headlights switch in my the 80s Pontiac Sunbird I’d borrowed from my friend’s mom! Even figuring it was in the floor, it was too dark for me to find! Lol

@Mick_Ts_Chick

Жыл бұрын

I desperately wish the dimmer switch was still on the floor! I hate the hand operated ones. Most people I talk to who used the floor ones want them back.

@privatelyprivate3285

Жыл бұрын

@@Mick_Ts_Chick either way for me, but I do see the shoe-debris issue, especially in nastier climates. Mud, leaves, snow, dirt, gravel, and SALT/CALCIUM…ick.

I just turned 60 and it was a great time to grow up in America, I used to also like to hear stories about the 50's when my parents grew up 👍🤗🙏🇺🇸

I currently live in a small town where a lot of places still accept checks, bowling alley is full weekends,, kids are outside playing basketball and riding bikes. Attitudes are different then the 60s but people are still friendly and will stop to offer help if your car breaks down. True story. Mayberry small town charm is still alive here. I'm blessed

Phone books for large cities were very thick because they contained the phone numbers of everyone who had a phone in that area. You usually had to pay an extra fee if you wanted an unlisted number. I remember watching a show as a kid, I think it was called, "You Asked for It" where they asked strong men to see if they could rip a big city phone book in two with their bare hands.

@privatelyprivate3285

Жыл бұрын

How else were you supposed to prob up an visiting baby to the dinner table?

@xlr8nguy

Жыл бұрын

Don`t forget about the collect calls (and the 5 second message) you would make to get picked up from wherever you went to.

@jhollie8196

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing my name in the phone book for the first time.. Party lines were a trip. One could very easily listen to the other parties chat. Good times

@mansfieldlou

Жыл бұрын

@@jhollie8196 Yeah, that was a big deal when you got your own phone and saw your name in the phone book for the first time. It confirmed the fact that you were now officially an adult.

@xlr8nguy

Жыл бұрын

@@jhollie8196 You found your special purpose!!! "Be somebody." Navin Johnson

I remember going to the matinees on really hot days to sit in the air conditioning, of course it didn’t matter that we walked or rode our bikes two or three miles in the heat to get there. Movies were about 50 or 75 cents. Then a 25 cent burger or two at the burger joint around the corner. Fries were 15 cents. Even though we lived in a new suburban ranch home built in 1959, no one had air conditioning. We had a Montgomery Ward box fan at the end of the hall to circulate air to the bedrooms on hot nights