I turn 65 in a few days. Those were the best years of my life. Life was simpler then. People were human and for the most part normal. Every girl looked beautiful from behind. They were feminine and did not deface their body’s with tattoos. Imagine, people actually talked to each other back then. Keep your cell phone.
nostalgia ain't what it used to be! The 60s had great music, and the wonderful miniskirts! but also the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam war (including the Kent state shootings) and things we do in the blink of an eye now used to take weeks, like getting a passport and traveling
I agree completely… the country (USA) has gone absolutely Batshit Crazy compared to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, sure there was some strange and bad stuff but nowhere near to the extent that it is today, I’m heartbroken, we’ve (USA) lost our way and I believe we’re in a societal death spiral and I don’t know how we’ll get out of it… evil has taken over.
@@apegues All generations had good and bad. Things really changed in the mid 90s as a whole. The dynamic changed. Obviously different times from decades before but the easy access to internet changed everything. Started the technological boom that has some great benefits but has not been a net positive for mankind.
The green was always a depressing color. Gold was kinda nauseating and the red was just repulsive. Born in 47, I remember it all too well. But I was lucky enough to get a kiss from Nancy Sinatra as a young 19 year old GI in 1966 on a mountain top Army outpost where she sang these boots…. For a bunch of very happy soldiers! And yes, great legs!!!
Also a '57 baby. I wore fishnet stockings and minis every day in jr high. (My mother said nylons were too expensive and panty hose were just starting to appear in stores.)
I remember Mama replying to my question about what were those "waves in the sky" by saying they were search lights and were used to look for airplanes. This was in the very early 1950s, and the Korean War had just ended. I was riding in my parents' car, before the freeway system was built, and looking out the window and seeing these marvelous rays of soft bluish light crossing one another as they appeared to sweep the sky from one end to the other (kid's perception). Daddy said the search lights no longer did that, but were helping direct people to some special event. I just recall being enthralled by them.
I was born in 1968 and growing up, I was fortunate to have access to many of these items. Hula Hoops, drive-in movies, being taught the Twist by my mom and dad. We had the milkman and soda fountains. Thank you for the memories 😊
Those old avocado green appliances were built to last. Last year I sold a vacation home I owned for over 20 years. When I bought it in 2001 it had an old avocado green Frigidaire refrigerator I assume was from the late 60s/early 70s. It was still working fine when I sold the home in 2022. The fridge was over 50 years old and still working fine. My motto, if it ain't broke why fix or replace it.
A friend of mine has three from the early '80's that still run fine. The new ones are loaded with circuit boards to do all kinds of stuff nobody needs and they break way more often.
And the TV had that big, clunky, ratcheted channel knob which required a bit of force to turn, and when you switched to another channel it made a loud CHONK which you could hear from next door 😂
I was born in 1960. I got to experience all of the things in the video. We played with hula hoops, jump ropes, metal roller skates and my brothers played with cap guns and rode their banana bikes. The girls had Barbies and little kiddles ( anyone remember those?). My mom would find those little Barbie shoes everywhere. I had a Chatty Cathy doll that I played with till it broke. We had a litte record player. We would play 45's and the girls would make up dance routines and perform for our parents and neighbors. We would buy beads and make jewelry. We kept ourselves busy creating. I now have a hobby as a metalsmith so still making jewelry! I remember when it was safe to sleep out in your backyard. We would throw a blanket over a clothes line hung between two trees to make a tent and sleep out in our sleeping bags. We had a drive in our town. We would pile in our station wagon. My Dad would make a huge bag of popcorn at home and Koolaid for us. We would be in our pajamas as after the first kids type movie we were told to fall asleep in the back. The second feature was the adult movie. We listened to our parents and would fall asleep. Ha ha that wouldnt happen now. I saw The Sound of Music at the drive in. When I was six my Mom would let me walk with my younger brother and my friends to a milk and dairy store in based in Ohio. It was called Isaly's. They had a soda counter where we could buy ice cream cones. They had a big selection of candy. We especially loved cracker jacks because there was a toy inside. And no one ever bothered us on the road to the dairy store. My brother collected base ball cards. He still has his base ball card collection. Sorry I went on and on. It was a great time to be a kid. The music was awesome.
I absolutely loved your story. I was born in 1953, but also experienced all those things. The 60's was the best decade ever ❤😊 What a wonderful thing to go to the drive in during the Pandemic. There are no more drive-ins here in South Africa 😢 I remember them so well.
I remember Kiddles! My favorite dolls along with Barbies & Trolls! & we use to take a few cards from a deck & take a clothes pin & place it in the spokes of our bicycle tires🎉 Great times!
My aunt was raised during the 60's and 70's and I feel so grateful she gave me many of her things. My favorite is the amazing clothing she wore. What a time to grow up!!
@@birdsfan57 Women who practiced "Home Economics" in the 1960s spoiled me, growing up! Each one of them deserves an Honorary Degree for one of the toughest jobs, ever...😇
@@birdsfan57 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
The girls in our neighborhood used the "Hula-hoop" for it's intended purpose. However us boys used to throw the Hula hoop forward with a backward spin to make it roll back to us, simple times but we had fun with what we had. 🎗️
I loved Super Balls as a kid!! If they still make/sell them, it must be only in certain regions of the country. I have been looking for them in local stores for the past couple of years, wanting to get some for my grandkids.
Nothing quite like the thrill of hitting a wall with a super ball and having it ricochet into your own balls at warp speed. Changed your outlook on life for the rest of the day.
honestly, the 20 year span from '45 to '65 really does seem to be one of the greatest times to live in in American history, of course nothing is perfect, but it seems like such a nice time, especially if you lived in a small town
If you were a middle-class het white person, sure! For other demographics, it wasn't such a halcyon time. Mind you, what made the Fifties such a great time for so many Americans was that income inequality was at a record low level. The middle class bloomed like never before, thanks to the G. I. Bill and strong unions. If we could go back to that, without all the racism, sexism, and homophobia, that would be great.
Rick, i turned sixty this past March 7th, and I've grown to love the miniskirts and the boots since the late Eighties, by way of the video of Nancy Sinatra - who I feared when I was a child, as I feared she would carry out her threat. I love them now, Rick, and I thank you for listening to me.
Around since 55' and REALLY enjoyed Mini Skirts and Go Go Boots! And nothing was the equal of Nancy in both, although Ann Margret would have a toss up too! Still in love with so many...an old guy can still dream :-).
It wasn't just furniture that had that space-age look, cars often had tails lights, turnsignal lights, hood ornaments and other trimwork have that rocket/jet look.
We had a milk box built into the side of our house in the kitchen. It had doors that opened, one on the outside and one on the inside. You would put a list inside every night and the milkman would put your requests in the box early in the morning. The reason I remember this so well is that my mother would often forget her keys to the house, and I would have to crawl through the box to let us in!!!!
Mini skirts never really went out of fashion. They come around every so often in one form or other. I was a child of the 1970s and remember a lot of these things. There's one drive in theatre about an hour or so away from me. You didn't mention carhops, who were a staple of places like A&W in the 1950s and 1960s. When I was a child in the 1970s, there was still one A&W with a carhop close to one of the towns in which I lived then. We'd go as a family to it, and sometimes go to the drive in after that.
Mini shorts are big now since few women wear skirts today. In fact skirts might be among the disappearing items noted in this video. Also saddle shoes and socks for women. Oh, and bobby pins to curl your hair--maybe even rollers and most certainly head covering hair dryers.
@@karenryder6317 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
I was one of those blessed kids who had 2 parents. I turned 71 in Feb. I don’t forget the bad stuff from the sixties..still have a way to go in this country.
I was just a kid in the 60’s and I admired the older girls in the go go boots I loved them! But no matter cause I got to wear bell bottoms and platforms in the 70’s. I wouldn’t trade those days for anything ❤
I begged my parents for a pair of white go-go boots and finally got them as a 1O yr old in '67. I was a huge fan of shows like Shindig and Hullabaloo, and wished I was old enough to be a dancer on either show. Sweet memories...
As a little girl, I was more interested in the Beatle boots. My older cousins had them and also the Beatle dolls. I thought they were ultra cool teenagers, lol!
As a person who was born in India, I enjoyed those and many other things which are shown in this video. I can relate to the people here who are older, because of most of the things that we have experienced as a child. I'm 23 by the way, One of the last generation who was born in the 20th century. So I can relate myself to the people who are born in the 70s and 80s. Proud to be an American and have an English ancestry, by the way.
It was refreshing to open those wing windows all-the-way to blast air in my face durring hot days before air-conditioning was available in most all cars
We had milk delivery by horse drawn milk wagon until the mid 2000s right here in canada. It eventually got too expensive and closed. I'm glad I got to see that in my life.
I remember a fellow that had brought a pony to our suburban neighborhood and would take pictures of little kids on the pony in cowboy hats for a price.
@@outterlimits1 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
The one thing here I really miss is home milk delivery. My family had a wide variety of dairy items delivered throughout the 60s and early 70s, so this was tough to lose in 1973.
Milk delivery was the best. You can't beat milk in glass bottles as it gets so much colder than milk in plastic jugs. Also less trash in the landfill destroying our environment. On the bomb shelters. We didn't have a bomb shelters, but how many of you remember the bomb drills where you had to get under your chair with your hands over your head. How was that supposed to protect us from a nuclear bomb?
Yep, we had milk delivery. In the 50's, it was still delivered by horse and wagon. Nobody was driving! The milkman was busy in the back, and running back and forth to the houses. The horse knew the route. A lot of people in the 60's got bread delivered. Also drycleaning and diaper services.
@@anitaharris9095 In our school, we went into the hallway, and sat cross legged with our heads down, and backs against the wall. We had huge sirens on poles throughout the city, which they would test sometimes. One day, I think in the 70's, I noticed they were gone. Perhaps they had been removed years before.
View Masters... a toy which showed stills from popular programs as well as Home Movie projectors... BOTH were rendered obsolete by the advent of video tapes, hand held cameras and the VCR which combined eventually led to the development of Home Theater!
My brother collected bottle caps when we were kids, not one of each but EVERY bottle cap he found. Some did have the cork, and his room smelled of stale beer due to his boxful of caps. Good times!
And the vending machines that held the bottles horizontally, with the cap facing you. You could hold a glass under the bottle and remove the cap with a bottle opener to have most of the drink flow out into the bottle, and you could drink the rest by inserting a drinking straw for free.
Near where my parents owned a cottage, there was a drugstore that had a soda fountain aside the pharmacist's counter. The sodas, floats, and shakes were made by the elderly pharmacist himself. If he was busy filling a prescription, he'd call out, "Be with you in a minute, son." When done he'd wash his hands and ask what could he get for me. I always ordered a chocolate shake, malted of course, even though that was 5 cents extra. He'd always fill up the heavy shake glass and place the still partly full aluminum mixing cup next to it. In the late '80s the pharmacy was still there but the soda fountain was long gone. The only evidence it was ever there at all were bolt holes in the ancient tile floor where the stools once stood. Today, the operation is completely renovated and even that evidence is gone.
happy safer time? nope - look up "Cold War" "Cuban Missile Crisis" and "Kent State Shootings"; the worst part is that those times are coming back, as the world is polarising thanks to the old men in power
In th mountain's of Tennessee the 60s weren't so great. We were 20 years behind the times until th interstate highways. And abject poverty. Still it beats the society of Today.
Drive-in movies are STILL the best experience for watching a movie. New one or re-runs... all night long. Concession stand snack foods, togetherness... more freedom then a theater experience, and more connection then the online reaction experience.
I love drive ins! The big screens, the fresh summer night air, sneaking our own sodas and food in to save money. On rainy days just sit back in the car and relax!
Back in the 60's, going to the drive-in was a Summertime Friday and Saturday night ritual in our family. We would arrive while it was still light enough for us kids to play on the swings and the play area on the grassy areas right below the screen. We would hurry back to the car at dusk, to get ready for the movies (almost always a double feature). I can still clearly remember seeing " Madigan" starring the late Richard Whitmark, as well as the original Disney's animated Cinderella, though not as one of the many double features (Lol). Such fun, sweet memories...the 60's were a magical time to be a kid!
Our family went to the drive-in quite a lot in the summer. They had a playground, too. We had a station wagon and at dusk my younger siblings would be given a snack and changed into pajamas. The first movie was a family movie like a cartoon or Disney. By intermission they'd be asleep and my father would bring back a snack for my parents and me. Sometimes on a weekend they'd play three movies. The late one would be something geared to my parents' interest (spy movies, etc.)
I had the fancy hula hoop with ball bearings inside so it made a noise when you played with it. I remember a very real debate in my house about whether it would be appropriate for me (a child) to wear my go-go boots to church. The drugstore where my mother worked when I was ten had a lunch counter/soda fountain, so you could have a burger and fries with your Coke (in the South, we use Coke instead of "soda" or "pop" as a generic term for any fizzy drink). Those old avocado appliances (they also came in sunset orange and harvest gold) might've been ugly, but I guarantee they would last FOREVER - whether you really wanted them to or not. 🤣
MY SISTER WALKED TO SCHOOL WEARING FAUX FUR LINED BLACK SNOW BOOTS. SHE WAS SENT HOME WITH NO ONE CALLING BECAUSE THE SCHOOL SAID THEY WERE GO GO BOOTS. THIS WAS IN THE 60S. FROM THEN ON, MY SISTER WALKED TO THE NEXT BLOCK & TOOK THE BUS TO SCHOOL. SHE WAS UNDER 10
The Hula Hoop made a bit of a comeback around 2008. This time it was more of a fitness item. The hoops were heavier so the user could shed weight around their midsection. Back then it was called hopping. I'm pretty sure it's faded back into the background.
No kidding about those appliances lasting forever! I have a friend whose family had an auto-body repair shop. They did a lot of business painting avocado (or gold or copper) appliances white all through the 80's and 90's, with even a couple coming in after 2000 !
Where we lived, everyone had white metal milk boxes where the milk man would place the orders. The night before he came, my mother would sit st the table and make out her order, to be left in the box for the milk man. You could order all sorts of dairy products including butter milk and corsage cheese.
You could still get milk with the cream on top, if you lived in a rural area, and knew someone who had dairy cattle. We did that well into the 1970s. We raised cattle, but they weren't dairy cattle. But one of our neighbors had dairy cattle, and we got several glass gallon jars of fresh milk from them every week, until the latter 1970s.
Every day after school I would go to our Danish neighbours and their small farm picking up 4 jugs of fresh milk with the waxed cardboard cap keeping all the goodness inside!☺️
@@dudedude9793 I was fortunate and for several years had my own dairy goats so I could have raw milk. They were Toggenburgs, an Oberhasli and a French Alpine. I loved the cream on top. I am still lucky and know someone with dairy goats. They are Nigerian Dwarfs and the raw milk is even sweeter and creamier! The goat milk tastes like sugar has been added. So good!
Happy to say Chubby Checker is still with us today. He's 81. Mostly because so many first generation rockers have died since the 2010's like Chuck Berry, Fat Dominos, and worst of all Little Richard in 2020. Seriously, I am happy he's still around.
The dance was called the Watusi. “The Wah-Watusi” is the title of a specific song. Avocado was just one of the colors that were very popular in that era. Harvest gold and coppertone were equally big, and all three remained so well into the ‘70s. 😎
we had the yellow side by side frig and a dble stove and oven my stepmother had the green stove same exact one and i had white gogo boots i didnt even ask for them mom just brought them home and they fit
I remember even toilet paper came in designer colors and perfumed flower prints. This is how you knew to hang the roll in the proper overhand fashion so that you could see the print, lol. Even tissues came in various colors, and paper towels had all kinds of designer prints. Now everything I see is white.
When I joined the Army in 1965, our drill Sargent at Fort Jackson told us we were only authorized 2 pieces of toilet paper a day. On rule we ignored, unless he wanted to see at it personally.
@@gulliver3644 My brother-in-law grew up with a limit of three squares. My sister informed him she would not be joining him in that practice once they got married. lol
@@willhorting5317 Lol, this went a little off topic, but back when humans were eating a healthy diet (1965) two squares was more than adequate for a "courtesy wipe" just to make sure. All the other mammals on Earth don't even need that. But with so much junk and processed foods in our current diet, yeah, two squares ain't gonna do it.
linoleum is popular again. It's all organic made from linseed oil so it's a renewable resouce considered good for the environment. Vinyl is made from petroleum.
I remember vinyl flooring being big because you didn’t need to wax it. My Mom hated waxing and loved her vinyl floor. I still remember a tv commercial for a floor wax that didn’t yellow
I remember going to the drive-in movies a lot when I was 5 or 6 years old. Funny thing, I don't remember coming home. I'd just wake up in my bed the next day. Strange...
I would have loved to have experienced more of these trends than I did. I was born in 1964, so most of these trends, fads, and fashions were gone by the time I was old enough to remember anything. I love it whenever I can find an old tiki lounge or restaurant. And soda fountains are something that I missed that I wish were more available these days - seeing in old movies how people gathered at these places looks so friendly and inviting.
Some of these trends seem more 1950s to me, mini skirts were definitely a 60s fashion trend as were bell bottom pants but soda fountains and hula hoops I remember as a small child in the 50s gone by the 1960s. I guess it depends on where you lived. My Mom did love her mid 60s avocado appliances!
Our house had an aluminum insulated milkbox on our back porch. The MM would drive up the alley enter the yards and drop off the milk. And it never crossed anyones mind to steal peoples stuff. People then were more decent as a whole. Today you have to now lock up your mail box from thieves.
I remember all of this, grew up in these times. How about drive up diners with the waiters on roller skates. Sadly one of the last drive in movie places shut down in Crescent City, CA, a few years ago after a fire. Soda fountains in shopping stores, counter top lunch service. Kinder times, more social and fun. Some of those old appliances from the 60's are still working fine, unlike the new/short lived appliances.
Fallout shelters are being uncovered now but often they get converted into other spaces. Depending on the person it could become anything. I’ve seen some converted into a full extra bath, others a workshop, even extra living space. You never know
I still chuckle about people building those fallout shelters. We didn’t know back then that nuclear fallout wouldn’t just go away in a few weeks at most. I remember in grade school (I was born in 1947) when we had drills for anything nuclear - we had to line up nose to bottom along a wall that had inky very high windows so the,glass wouldn’t kill us😄😄😄. I don’t know if I’d ever want to relive those times - they were both very good and pretty awful just for what we didn’t know!
George, I'm with ya there. I never liked earth tones. We had a double oven that was sort of a dark reddish rust color. Hated the color, but boy was that double oven handy at Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Mine had Brady Bunch orange countertops and backsplash, with dark brown cabinets. The other choices in that apartment complex were harvest gold and avocado, but I wanted the Brady vibe. 🤓
I live in a town that still has a popular soda fountain. Teenagers still go there at lunch, and older people love it, too, because they remember it when they were growing up. They have sodas, milkshakes, hamburgers. It's still decorated in old 60s furniture. It's a part of a pharmacy that moved into the building, but it's very much alive.
The drive-in near my house was still doing a brisk business into the early 80s. The last time I drove by a Target was in it's spot. Lotsa good memories from that drive-in, some not suitable for sharing in this comment section. 😉I remember all the stuff shown in this video and you know what, some things deserved to go away. But as always, it's fun to recall the days of my childhood. It sure was a whole lot simpler being a kid back then.
My best friend (yeah, we called them that back in the day) had a round stereo with a bubble top. When you raised the top, there was a slot that the lid sat up in. I thought it was the coolest thing ever back in the 70's when she was given it.
I turned 65 this week. It was fun going to drive-ins. I thought the avocado green and harvest gold appliances were awful. I remember miniskirts weren't tolerated in my school. The Beatles were great and the Rolling Stones.
The bird and animal calls in the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland and Disney World were done by A. Purves Pullen, who performed as Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath, in the comedy band Spike Jones & His City Slickers. Doc Birdbath and I were penpals in the early 1990s. I still have all of his letters.
Going to the drive-in theater was blast when we were kids. In front of the movie screen, there was a playground provided for us kids to play on while it was still light out before the movie started. Also enjoyed the going to the snack bar for eats and drinks during intermission. Sometimes, Dad would back in the station wagon, open the tailgate and we could watch the movie from there. Dad laid out laid out a mattress along with blankets for us to enjoy the movie in comfort. He and mom sat in lawn chairs nearby and we all enjoyed the evening. Thanks for sharing the video, RR!
@@Mick_Ts_ChickI remember, my mother saying, "Look behind you before opening the car door, you don't want to injury running kids", as they ran to the playground in front of the screen and running back from the snackbar. lol
Here we go again.....Hula hoops are everywhere and used in PE classes often.Lots of 3D glasses being used at Disneyland!They say there is a rebirth of Driveins......one near me!The mini skirt has never gone away.We should be more worried now about nuclear threats!
The reason why the miniskirt took off in the UK is because of a tax on women's clothing that was quite high. There was an exemption for children's clothing, but the way that the law was written, any skirt with a length of less than 24" was considered to be children's clothing, hence the popularity of the miniskirt in the UK.
I believe I was the last of the baby boom generation. I was born in 1963. Growing up in the Bronx NY, I have vague recollections of milk delivery, I'm pretty sure it stopped in my neighborhood by 1971. The one thing I DON'T miss about the good ole days was the prevalence of Cigarette smoking. It was everywhere. Both of my parents died from smoking related illnesses. I'm glad most people have stayed away from it.
Some of those things are very popular and collectible now. The furniture with the futuristic theme can sell for a lot. And, avocado green kitchenware is very desirable right now to collectors.
My childhood home was built in the 1970s. All the kitchen appliances and the countertop were avocado green. The countertop and most everything else avocado was replaced by around 1990, and the oven door was repainted, but you could still see the legacy in the oven's control panel. That oven finally crapped out around 2003 when the heating element blew up.
In the 1960's, contact paper became a popular way to revive walls and desks and you name it. My dad covered a lot of surfaces with it. By the 70's people realized the downsides and it faded away.
Households in the 60s into the early 70s had intercom systems in them and could include a radio and even a record changer and the main control panel would be near the kitchen.
Miniskirts are still incredibly common, completely normalized. Except where i work. I got in trouble for wearing a miniskirt. Everyone wears them, it’s only a problem if someone complains though.
Other 50s - 60s toys that disappeared... * Kaleidoscope * The Yo-yo * Marbles Then... * 8mm home movies and the reel to reel tape recorder * The very popular Stockings replaced by pantyhose
We still have a company that will deliver milk, dairy and other products from Smith Brothers Farms! My hubby and I had ours delivered for a while but stopped it because we weren’t using the items up fast enough. My mom had ours delivered in the 1980’s and they accepted food stamps for payment which was great for us!
We had a Peoples Drugs store, now (CVS) in our hood that had a soda fountain and served small meals too. It was in a small strip row of stores. All torn down now replaced by condos a Walmart and fast food stores. What used to be small neighborhood traffic is now a mess of bumper to bumper traffic.
I was in the first grade in 1958 so I remember the cold war years very well. Particularly the first 4 years in elementary school. We watched films about nuclear war that showed the destruction from a nuclear bomb. Every student in class had a metal dog tag with our name, address and phone number taped onto the side of our desk. I still have mine! We would have the duck and cover drills where we put on our dog tags and got under our desks and cowered down with our hands on the back of our heads. I suppose the dog tags were worn to identify the ashes in the event of a nuclear attack because there’s no way a desk would protect you! The teachers sent home pamplets and papers to give to our parents that were instructions on how to build bomb shelters and what to stock it with. All over the city were big yellow air raid sirens mounted on power poles. They would test them regularly and they were very loud. AM radios had two little triangles on the tuning dial and that’s where you would tune your radio for information if there was an attack. They were scaring us kids to death! We just knew that one day we would be vaporized!
There were buildings, most of them brick as I recall, that had a black and yellow "CD" (for Civil Defense) signs on them. I think we were supposed to take shelter in them in the event ICBMs were headed our way.
I never understood why someone thought hiding under a desk would help you in a nuclear blast, lol. You'd either be vaporized or die from radiation poisoning! Personally I'd rather be gone quickly than have to endure the aftermath.
Great video, brings back a lot of memories of my Mom and Grandmother's house. At least the avocado appliances were unique. Now your only choices are white, black, or stainless steel. No personality. No individuality. Just factory stamped crap that can't even be repaired anymore.
A lot of kitchens had the tables and chairs with metal legs and trim. The backs of the chairs were vinyl and matched the table top. Our tabletop was red and white. I can't quite describe the underlying design. It wasn't marble, but small geometric gray tones that gave the illusion of depth. This was in the house we lived in from 1955-67. My mother used Johnson's Wax on the kitchen tile and linoleum floor. My grandfather mowed the lawn with a push mower (sharpened blades, no gas). We had a family of 8 by 1962 and laundry was done daily Monday-Friday. Hung out to dry. Lots of diapers. Lots of ironing, too.
I’m 65 and my roommate of the last 40yrs is 56 her and I were just talking about how life was better in the 60’s,70’s and 80’s. Then this video popped up. We consider ourselves lucky to have grown up and met each other when we did.
I wanted to thank you for the promotion of Legacybox (and the discount, of course!). This has motivated me after decades to get a couple dozen old 8mm films I'm family custodian of digitized now, so that the very few remaining family members can also see them. Thanks for what you do here AND thanks for getting my aging carcass moving to get this done! - Ed on the Ridge
i'm 50, and out walking my dog today. It's spring and lotsa sunshine, dappling through bare but budding branches. My dog stopped to make his business, and I looked up.. to this big beautiful tree. Long thin needles, clustered. I can't remember the name. Lots of branches.. thick, mature branches that could withstand my 130 lbs. I wanted to CLIMB THE TREE lololol and I haven't wanted to do ANYTHING like that since I was 11.. :D I didn't.. but I used my eyes to track my route upwards.. ya never know.. i just might try it this spring ^_^
I live in Southwest Pennsylvania and we still have quite a few drive-ins I have at least three different ones that are relatively close to where I live they're very popular here❤
Drive Ins are definitely an endangered species. There are still many around but more close each year. We lost one close to us just last year and now the closest dedicated drive in to us is almost two hours away. If I had the means I would try to open one up ... maybe even an indoor drive in that could run year round or one under a tent that could show movies during the day or early summer evening hours like some did in the past. Drive In movies are just so special because they're 100% pure Americana.
We had the harvest gold kitchen in the 70’s. Even down to the blender & electric can opener. Today I’d be hard pressed to find any of that on my counters.
