Welcome to Memory Lane Channel! Memory Lane is meant to be a visual history lesson. Each video explores a topic that relates to a specific point in time and takes a look back at that moment with not only snapshots, but also with commentary that tells a story.
Learning about life during various decades 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.
Memory Lane is a place where we can look back at the nostalgic eras of the past.
😊😊 yep the 1ST half 🌗 😊 of the 1940s was 4 the war affort everybody had 2 work 2 gether the factorys was working 3 shifts 24/7 and U heard the news and music 🎶 😊 on the radio 📻 😊 back then and U went 2 the stores 2 get what U needed it a alot of people went 2 the hardware store 🏬 😊 get most things then there was other stores where U could a brand new washing machine or a new radio and most people either listen 👂 😊 jazz or big band music 🎶 😊 and finally most people in town now had electricity and the 2ND half of 1945 after the war was over people and America 🇺🇸 😊 went back 2 work in the factorys and stores making new cars trucks and tractors other things also went 2 electric on the farm also arch welders was new back then farmers worked during days and evenings they went 2 and learned how 2 weld there self although back then there was a welding shop in town 😊😊 more things were being made 2 make life easier and drive in movies was very popular at that time ⌚ 😊where U eat and watch a movie at the same time 😊😊 I still remember 1 that we use 2 all of the time when I was a kid years ago and they had ice cream and ice cold soda 🥤 😊 back then they would be so cold they would make your teeth ache good cold even better w slush in them that was a time be 4 my time I heard a about it I still remember the things from when I was a kid baseball ⚾ 😊 and the train sets and going 2 the hobby store was the thing back and dont 4 get when U could go 2 the drug store 🏬 😊 and get something 2 eat and drink also ice cream or a soda fountain drink 😊😊 it was a different time ⌚ 😊 and different place back then very stores like that now its all true 😮😮 /😊😊 OMG 9 21 2O24
😊😊 YEP I can remember when there was drive in movies 1 in town the other ourside of town and other places mcds tastey freeze golden skillet bills bbq and the old dairy queen stores when they were green and white and there use 2 be god fathers pizza 🍕😊 / its sad 2 say U dont see them no more either I dont 😮😮 OMG 9 12 2O24
😊😊 the stores I remember when I was a kid was Safeway a and p IGA HIGHS if there was any more I don't what they was be 4 my time others I have heard be 4 they were in other towns or wasn't around here at all 😮😮 OMG 9 12 2O24
😊😊 the blue and white car I noticed rightway a 1953 chevy bel air 2 door hard top and later on there was the 1955 1957 chevy bel air also they dont make cars like that no more its sad 😔 😮 2 say and they had the side windows U could open and vents near the floor board was the same way 😊😊 OMG 9 12 2O24
😊😊 do U have any idea 💡 😊 where that grey hound bus station 🚉 😊 was 2 I only know 2 near by there used 2 be 1 down town be 4 U got 2 the river where I worked / thank U let me know thank U 😊😊 OMG 9 12 2O24
Really serious car safety was researched and developed in the fifties by Volvo and Mercedes-Benz while american cars where Suicidemachines far into the seventies! Besides that, your fotoshopped thumbnail is just embarrassing!
I just enjoy looking back at America during the 40's, 50's and 60's. I grew up in the 70's which I think was the last decade when kids could just be kids and have fun.
I was with my grandmother in a Kroger's in 1961 on a Friday night (payday) when a group of 4 came in with shotguns and pistols and robbed the place. They took all the cash from the registers and all the money from the check cashing booth at customer service. Fortunately they didn't hurt anyone, although they threatened to when they saw an employee trying to run to the back and, they didn't bother the money or valuables of customers. The one going to registers ripped my grandmothers glasses off her face though. It was a pretty harrowing experience for a 6 year old.
Anyone remember the hose running across the driveway that when you ran over it it rang a bell in the service station to let the attendant know he had a customer?
'we are the men of Texaco, we work from Maine to Mexico servicing your car. An ad from Milton Berle's TV show in the 50's. I can't recall the rest of lyrics but the ad featured four or five guys singing the jingle dressed in Texaco uniforms
I liked looking at all of these old gas stations, but my favorite ones are: 1) Roy's gas station @7:40 that is on old Route 66 in Amboy, California. The price per gallon is very high at $4.99 and up. 2) I would like to find a gas station like this @14:35 that has a price of 15 cents per gallon, plus they give out S & H green stamps as a bonus!! 3) The Mobil station @14:56 that has the red Pegasus (The flying winged horse.) 4) The station @16:35 that has a yellow VW bus on the top of the canopy. 5) The red and white building @17:35 that looks like an old teapot or coffee pot.
By looking at the thumbnail and at many photos of gas stations in the past, many of the older stations didn't have a canopy to protect the attendant or whoever was pumping the gas from getting wet when it was raining. Virtually all gas stations now have a canopy. Also, if you were pumping gas at a station without a canopy during a heavy rain, you could possibly get some moisture into the gas tank, which wouldn't be good. I recently bought gas at a station called Buc-ee's here in nearby Daytona Beach, Florida. Buc-ee's is huge with 104 gas pumps and a convenience store that is over 50,000 square feet in space.
The picture of the Dome gas station @6:56 was taken in 1921. The Dome gas station was near the intersection of Cedar Street and Blair Road in Washington, D.C., in a section called Takoma Park. In the mid 1950's and 1960's, I grew up within a mile of where this gas station used to be. By that time, this gas station was no longer there, but the same picture that was in this video was hanging on a wall inside a Sunoco gas station that was about a block away from where the old Dome gas station was located.
Best time of my life when I was 14 to 16 years old. and was pumping gas in a BA station in the sixties. The girls would stroll by and us gas jockeys were in paradise. What great memories! We boys loved those girls when we were growing up before they had a penis.
Is it just me but do these pictures of life back then make you all have a wonderful happy feeling in your stomach that lifts into your lungs with an air of freshness and normalcy? Does your mind wander into wanting to live in these images?🤗 I'm old enough to be a product of growing up in the 70's and 80's where things still resembled much of these images. What the Hell has happened?🤔
Today, the only Drive-in Restaurants still active are the ones run by Sonic. I was lucky to have had lunch there with my family back in the early 2ks. 🍔
My father had a Flying A gas station in Queens NY in the late 60s early 70s. He said he didn’t make much money selling gasoline. Most of the money was made fixing cars.
1950's Gas Stations??? How come there was a 1967 PONTIAC LEMANS parked RIGHT NEXT TO THE BUILDING in the SECOND SHOT IN THE VIDEO??? And it DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS NEW. Seems more like Gas Stations in the late 1960's early 1970s, which I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember... Guess old Doc Brown misprogrammed the FLUX CAPACITOR on this one...
Notice how skinny folks were. This was before the greaseburger franchises arrived. My dad's Standard station in rural Iowa closed when WWII deprived stations of product and his health declined a bit. Since then, the building has been an apartment and a beauty parlor but may be empty now. Our town was on cross-country federal highway 6, which had sustained eight gas stations in this little town of 900. Interstate 80 bypasses such communities, and highway 6 exists only in short segments here and there across America.
Once again, awesome memories relived. I have a not so awesome memory from a Kroger's though. On a Friday in 1963 I was with my grandmother standing in line being checked out. The store was always packed on Friday night because everyone got paid and Kroger's would cash paychecks and it was convenient to cash your check, as banks were already closed, then grocery shop. While standing there a group of 4 or 5 holdup men ran into the store with pistols and shotguns and robbed the place. One that came to the register we were at ripped my grandmother's glasses off her face. They robbed only the registers and the check cashing booth and didn't bother any of the customers money. It was pretty shocking as a kid.
