Forgotten memories, moments, & minutia.
Recollection Road is about taking a look at American life during various decades. This is best done by seeing how these moments looked. We all remember flipping through old photo albums and this channel is meant to feel that same way.
Recollection Road is a place where we can look back at the nostalgic eras of the past.
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Enter: The Clintons. The Bonnie & Clyde of American politics.
The letter T in the word often is silent
Woolworths Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego, California USA 😍 1980s!!🌴
Who remembers putting Christmas gifts on Lay-Away?
Natural bush*s were prevalent
When you can admit to yourself the reasons why some things have changed for the worse, you'll be on your way to making things better again. Even if you can't figure it out, wanting things to improve is the first step on the path.
My first word was " Batman ".
It was "FINE" Corinthian Leather...not rich Corinthian leather....LOL
I was born in 1953. Those were great years. I walked to school alone in 1st grade! We didn't worry about anything. I remember teenage boys having .22 rifles and nobody gave it a second thought. We lived on a street with only about 30 houses, and there were SIXTY kids on the street. Today I go up that street and see not one single kid.
Recollection Road, What do you know about J.I. Joes stores?
Do you remember Vacuforms? They were typically in the form of relief maps. They were made of white plastic. Students could paint the details on this surface.
Discipline
Hes talking about the 1870s ' i had a chopper ' but poor as a sack of potatoes man 🤣🇬🇧🏴
The cell phone/internet has sucked the soul out of humanity.
These skill’s aren’t quite so useless. History repeats itself.
I can't help but wonder what it'd be like if platforms like Vine or Tik Tok was introduced during this era 💀💀. Like, the booth stuffing seems like such an early-internet thing to do that I can't help but wonder what kind of sensationalized, over-saturated challenges would be admitted during this time considering the technology, social/cultural ideas, economic health, etc. What sort of ideas would have sprouted if the internet was introduced much earlier?
Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s was gowing up wallowing in freedom with nary a clue or possibility to use it. With that freedom came economy with veracity, since that provided needed plausible deniability. There was no internet or other feasably applied connectivity to check on you, unless the authorities became involved. In that case, a healthy dose of time-adjusted Machiavelism could save the day....or not, if mentioned authorities were properly up on their game. The lines between freedom and subversion were narrow and vague and a wonderful delight to transgress without getting caught or doing your stinking best to avoid such. Lovely times.
Hm, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s Europe, Good if hardscrabble times. Walking to school taking care of your siblings. Getting hand-me-downs from relatives and friends and theirs and theirs ad infinitum. Collecting old papers, scrap and cans to sell to the scrap-yard at a 1c per pound/500gr or better stil; collect milk-bottles, jam-jars and beer-bottles to cash in the deposit. Toying around with WW2 ammunition and weapons that were still plenty lying around if you knew where to look. After school fishing with found handgrenades....Makes me feel lucky to still have all of my digits. Others weren't. Making huge bonfires on the beach after sneaking out the bed-room window and down the rain gutter-pipes after lights-out. Going to the bathhouse/public bath once a week or keep the bath-money and deal with it with Castile-soap and a bucket of lukewarm water in the garden shed (homes did not have showers or baths at the time.). Better still, doing that together with the other kids in the neighbourhood because besides keeping the bathmoney, it felt deliciously thrilling and sneaky to be 'naughty nekkid' with them. Virginity (equal opportunity) was a rare and frankly speaking highly optional feature beyond 11 years of age. No false modesty after that anymore and still none nowadays. Listening to the radio shows on your DYI crystal radio set, since TVs were only for rich people. Being proud as peacock when getting a brandnew 'Huffy' cruiser bicycle for your birthday. All that chrome!!! and no gears with just coaster breaks, but it was a precious gem that brought freedom to go faster and further than your always worn out leather shoes. Then the Converse Basket-ball shoes with no footbed so to speak of showed up, but they looked swell! Until mopeds came around, that is. Some of those souped-up and lethally hazardous contraptions rivalled motorbikes in speed, but by George those 2-stroke things were noisy, filthy and stinky! Dating at arm's length even when you had more than occasionally fooled around extensively with your date at bathtime in the shed (see above). Had to keep up appearances, you see! Single girls at 18 were old spinsters and if not already mother or pregnant at 21, barren-acres. Boys became men at 16 whether they liked it or not and only the very lucky/well-to-do ones made it to post-secondary or even trade-school education, let alone community college. The vast majority disappeared into factory work or construction jobs before National Service as potential cannon-fodder for WW3 that, thank the higher being of choice, never arrived, but it is where we learned drinking and werer exposed to trade-unions and other subversive things that were fun and very attractive. Dicipline you already had or not, but you certainly didn't get it in the Army, but by Jove, you learned how to comply.....and be lethal if needs be. Still most of us came out allright and most of us also have dear and very fond memories of that time.
Our Helms driver was named Barney. They had the best cream puffs!
We had a Woolworths in Toronto, Canada not too far from where we lived. The side parking lot had homes backing onto it with big back yards. One of the homes had actual reindeer there which became tradition for us to get popcorn when we were finished shopping and feed the deer through the fence. Loved buying toiletrees and gift cards, comic book packs, toys, record albums, and Christmas gifts, decor and seasonal items, snacks and candy, especially broken chocolate bars to bring back home. Of course, always going before lunch and eatting at their luncheon tables or counter. The food was always wholesome and delicious and great prices, very affordable, the shakes were cold and creamy, served in a tall glass with the remainder in a frosty metal cup to refill your shake yourself. This was in the later 60's and 70's that I remember going as a kid, once a teen myself with my part time earnings, would bus it there and get gifts. A few of my fondest memories were shopping there with my grandparents who always let us pick out a toy and shopping with a dear friend who later in life became my spouse, I remember we walked past a bin of coloured patterned boxers reasonably priced and affordable for me, since he loved yellow, I bought him a pair since they had every colour. 😊 It was always fun to walk around and be able to afford cosmetics,perfume, gifts, snacks and lunch. To this day, both my husband and I miss Woolworths very much. 😢
BMX was born in the 70’s. Take a Schwin Stingray, take the long seat off of it and install in its place a ten speed seat. Then get some dirtbike handlebars (shimmed up so you can tighten them up in your gooseneck), last but not least, get rid of your fenders! Then head to the nearest dirt field, build jumps and berms. Wala! BMX!!!! THAT’s how we had fun in the early 70’s!!
This is why we have so few real men left, and a nation full of man- buns and soy-boys! Alas we have few levelheaded non feministic brain washed women! Oh, how I long for the good o'l days.
Another toy.... Gumby
All this looks really pleasant.
We used to throw snowballs at cars.
I still have my been bag ash tray, in the cup holder in my pickup. It still works! And I still have a can opener, and use it!
my gosh very true, no words to express every single point is very true. sadly now all family values gone and kids never plays at home instead hitting into the mobile phone all day.
Send me back. 2024 sucks.
This was SPOT ON ! Loved it ! Graduated in 1978 ! The only (2) things that I wished that you added : 1.) Gerald Ford ( you showed him ! ) was the only appointed US PRESIDENT , and he got us out of Vietnam in April of 1975 . Very significant . 2.) Harley Davidson made history and came out with its first “ factory custom “ in 1977 . The infamous Low Rider , that started the Harley craze . You also could have thrown in that every teenager that drove his own car used to do their own customizations like wide rear tires , SS Crager mag style rims , and Cherry Bomb or Hush Thrush mufflers ! lol ! Peace ☮️
Credit card imprinter machine. today, Identity theft. School year text books were free then, and so were brown paper bags. Also, the Casey Kasem countdown lasted until music went all to hell, like rap.
Another thing I would believe all of you would remember. Everything made back when we were kids, lasted forever.
Hawaiian Punch is junk now…It used to come in flavors like Island Fruit Cocktail. Now it’s red, green, and blue ickiness…😢Donny and Marie Osmond, whose TV variety show was popular when I was young, gave the product a boost with their ads for it. (As Mormons, they could consume a lot of it.)
Never cared for Bob's. Only went to two different Bob's, 40 years ago, and the floors smelled like sour mop. Not sure if that was the case, or was just the smell of their food and cooking. Wonder if all of the restaurants had that same reak? Wasn't for me.
Whataburger just came to our town so we tried it for the first time. Got a patty melt, a spicy chicken sandwich, onion rings, bbq burger, and a chocolate malt. Patty melt was ok but after a while the meat flavor just overpowered everything. BBQ Burger was decent but had mustard on it which we didn't know about, kinda ruined it. Spicy chicken sandwich tasted like a pre-cooked chicken breast from the freezer section in Wal-Mart...did not taste great Onion rings had little onion flavor...might as well had just served up the fried batter because that was the majority of the flavor The chocolate malt had little chocolate in it and tasted like vanilla Tried the honey butter and it tasted like weak corn syrup with a hint of butter flavoring Overall it was slightly better than McDonald's/Wendy's/Burger King/Sonic but I will take Freddy's any day of the week over Whataburger.
These were some of the more regular things I miss about school back then. One thing I don't miss, and you didn't mention, was having to write down "I will not chase Susan on the playground." a hundred times, and turn it in the very next day.
Wow! This brings back memories. The View-master was great! And I had a Schwinn spiffy green sting-ray bike with a white banana seat! It was a simpler, and often more beautiful, time.
Flying has lost its thrill.
😳😳😳😳😳 not that great
Highriser Cycles!
I still carry a notebook and pen in my purse.
I don't feel old, I feel sorry for todays generation, especially the children..
"Battle Of The Network Stars" was the precursor to all those awful reality competition TV shows currently plaguing the airwaves. 😩
weak tea i'm out..
Neighborhood Schools. Better and safer. Your teachers were usually your neighbors.. they knew your parents, face to face. Parents could and did walk into the school whenever they wanted to see how things were going. Monthly P T.A. meetings..again, parents were fully aware what was going on.. something inappropriate or questionable?... Parents made it clear who was in charge.. no b.s.
"The appeal of automatic seat belts is unknown" - Actually Very Well Known. Manufacturers were mandated by Federal laws to transition to airbags within a few short years. (A sizable task for any big manufacturer to adapt every vehicle on the production line.) Extensions to the deadline were allowed as long as the vehicle had "active" safety restraints. The extension provided time for the manufacturers to either stagger production line modifications, or simply include them(airbags) in the next generation chassis. Once the extension date was reached, all vehicles were required to have airbags, and the active seat belts became unnecessary.
The z and millennial generation are the most useless around today , you won't want many of them working for you if you had a business , if China quite making everything for you , you would be done !
I GREATLY ENJOY YOUR CHANNEL! It really brings back memories of my childhood as well as things and places that have sadly faded away. Keep the great memories coming
The airlines were tight with the government thanks to the consumer aeronautics board (CAB) that maintained standards and reduced new entrants. Those regulations were eliminated in the early 1980s and the rest is history.
Battle of the Network Stars! I loved watching that and the animated version called Laff-a-lympics with my favorite cartoon stars. I was SHOCKED when the Really Rottens won twice in Season 2.
I was 8 years old then, and one vivid memory I have is walking with my mother in downtown Boston,when one of those WWII era air raid sirens started sounding off. i guess they were testing it. I didn't know what it was, and when I asked, she told me not to pay any attention to it, but I could see a look of apprehension on her face, that told me otherwise. Some aspects of being a child backthen were very scary. There was always talk of nuclear war, and weekly school drills on what to do in case of it.