12 Things Gone FOREVER…1950s - Life in America 

Yep! Excellent customer service n kindness.

There’s plenty of all those attributes left, you just choose to see the negative side of everything. Open your eyes.

@@timtebowfan628 Once competition was removed from the marketplace and companies outsourced everything the worker started to get a raw deal.

@@douglasskaalrud6865 My eyes ARE open, they're just not covered with rose-colored glasses. I don't know what world YOU'RE living in, but the America of today is NOT what it was in the past. I stand by my statement

@Irving Shekelstein Who said anything about race?...those attributes can apply to anyone. YOU'RE making it about race, so what does that say about your own focus?

We called them rabbit ears, too.

We called them RABBIT EARS where I lived!

We called them 'Children With Hangers"

Born & raised in SoCal; dad was from Arizona, mom was from Nebraska. They called them rabbit ears too.

From the 1953 start of the Playboy magazine and human woman bunny, "bunny ears" were her headgear.

I always loved customer service, but when you can't support yourself on the pay, you have to look for something else. :(

True, and very sad. Just try to find a salesperson in a large department store, today. Good luck! The work ethic has really gone down hill. What gets me are four or five vacant check stands, only one open and operating, and a HUGE long line at that one and only, when they could very easily open up another check stand or two to accommodate more customers. And the latest thing are those darned self-checkout kiosks! I hate those things! Yes, they may be more convenient for some, but so impersonal, not to mention trying to figure out how to use them. We've given ourselves away to technology, and it's dehumanizing us.

God I miss that.

@@jrnfw4060 you have stores that are trying to get the most profit out of what they're selling so you can't find a customer service person or even a checkout clerk in some stores. And if you can find one, they're sol underpaid they can barely care.

@@jrnfw4060 I recently asked a store manager if there were any live checkers available & he pointed out all the open automated lines. I said, "No thanks, I prefer to keep local folks employed by not using those d*$m things." As I walked to the end of a long line of check stands to reach the 1 with an actual person at it, a clerk whispered, "Thank you!"

And drug stores had counters to eat at along with those fountain drinks and malts.

So did some of the five and dime stores...

It all starts in the HOME. Never blame children for being abused/neglected AT HOME, blame their parents or parent

I remember THOSE days too, pushing 80. However, that "kinder and gentler society" , that George H. W. Bush spoke of, will NEVER return, things will only get WORSE until society collapses. Then (maybe), there will be a "reboot".

These are the signs of the return of Jesus. He said the #1 sign would be deception -Matthew 24. In 2 Timothy Paul said lawlessness would be one of the many horrible signs of the Lord's return. It's all unfolding. Get right with Jesus if you aren't now. I love you all.

Trust me there’s still respect

Not like it was back then...

Respect went out the window in 2016 when an absolute pig of a person was elected president by less than half the country

No, 'Bob'....

Ass whippings got replaced by Ritalin

Nothing like the smell of diesel in the morning.

Yes. Sandra !! Me too:. 1955🙂♥️

I was born in 51 and remember that smell! Helped hang clothes out and bring them inburing nose in them to smell that wonderful clean smell! Still love to climb in bed and smell that fragrance!!

☺️☺️☺️☺️

I remember hanging out close on my mom s close line as a child with my sister too.

@kfl611 *Back in that era was the term "cursive" used or was it simply referred to as "writing?"*

I'm a technician and we tell senior coworkers who often expect magic out of us "I'm a technician, not a magician."

Would it not be: the switchboard operator knows EVERYONE? Just sayin'.

@@theobolt250 No, everything, cause they could listen in.

@@theobolt250 everything about everyone! LOL

My Grand Mother & Mother were Switchboard Operators for the Phone Company.

I was born in 1938 too and everything in this video .;-) ;-) Rang lots of bells I love this video

Hang in there sweetie!!!

share all your ideas with the world we love you !!!!

@Wildlife warrior ... On this Earth or another Planet ?

In the mid-fifties --- my high school days --- A very popular dance at the time was "The Bunny Hop" . (And had nothing whatsoever to do with TV reception) !

I remember Mary Jane style shoes that actually had pre-holed straps with buckles and prongs, NOT these velcro closures they have, today. If there weren't enough holes, parents could add what was needed with an awl. I still love the Mary Jane shoes, though the color selections today are sorely limited. Time was, you could get them in almost any color.

I loved my Grandma’s crisp white sheets too!🥰

When I grew up ironing was my chore. I had to iron sheets and my father’s underwear! I used to ask my mom who was going to know if dad’s underwear was wrinkled or ironed? I never got an answer except oh shut up and do your chores. Won’t touch an iron to this day. My good stuff I hang up right out of the wash when it’s done. If something is wrinkled I’ll throw it in the dryer dry and let the heat knock out the wrinkles. Lousy tee shirts and Cotten under pants go in the dryer. Bras go in a mesh bag to be washed on delicate and they dry on my door knobs!

😂

Fault of the guy who hung the line. Not the birds.

They do have great aim, I must admit. I also have a mulberry tree and a clothesline. Far apart though. I have 3 acres, and they are on opposite sides. (Jan Griffiths).

I have a mulberry tree! birds love mulberries, so do kids, I ate thousands of them. We had tortoise and they loved them as well. Their mouths would be purple. As kids we just thought that was hilarious.

@@janetannerevans2320 My mulberry is male, so no berries or seed pods. Makes great shade though. (Jan Griffiths).

amen to that. Courage, faith too are no longer here amongst most people.

You are right...there wouldn't be as many kids in prison if MANNERS and RESPECT were taught!!!

White, well-to-do people?

@@wizzardofpaws2420 is incorrect, from what I can see.

@Caryn Gibson so what, not like the girls were raped, their panties were grabbed not while being worn.

LOL... I'll bet a lot of those encyclopedias were never opened after the first few weeks.

@@emmgeevideo no used them all through school years . Wish I still had them just for the memories, those and HUGE National Geographic magazines.. remember them

@@kbunky69 Me too my brother still has ours 🙂 gosh cursive writing , Do kids today learn it ??

@@kbunky69 LOL... Yes, I remember National Geographic. We used to flip through them hoping to find pictures of African tribes because the ladies didn't always wear more than a skirt.

@@emmgeevideo lol

Only with some.

Oh, shut up. Boomer.

Companies did not expect you to do 3 persons work to keep your job. Multi-tasking was not heard of. Employees were respected.

Meh. I still see plenty of all of that.

Bingo!

yeah, 1953 here, glad i lived when i did,we saw a lot,life was more managable ,and if you were smart, you enjoyed it!

I met a guy a few years ago, our age, he said" you know, we grew up in the best country in the world at the best time" kinda sums it up!

Judging that you said it was a much better era from your perspective I’m assuming your perspective is not that of an African American

How about the iconic phone booths in England. Where did it all go?

​@@howellwong11 Starting about 1970 in USA, new half-shell phone booths on metal stand poles started to replace, phase out the former tall, step in and sit down, glass accordion-doored fully enclosing phone booths that offered quiet for listening, privacy for speaking, and shelter from outside elements. In the vintage Superman comics, Clark Kent would step into a phone booth and use it as a semi-private changing booth to don his Superman costume.

The sears wish book was still around in the 70s. We would look through and choose our wishes. My parents would choose from what we circled, though I don't think they bought them at sears. We were toys r us kids!

@@JudgeJulieLit makes you wonder what would superman be today... there are no more phone booths, maybe a porta potty?

@@JudgeJulieLit Those doors could get stuck and people would get trapped in one from time to time. I think that's why they changed.

Yankee I took your advice and bought the book. Yes it was a great book. Alittle slow at first bit it made me nostalgic for those years.

Mom got me my two-volume unabridged dictionary (which I still have) with Green Stamps.

As a kid, my job was to wet the stamps and put them into the book.

Yes, and also orange stamps and Blue Chip stamps. I still have the pen and pencil holder and matching organizer I got from the Blue Chip catalog way back in the 60s.

I still have and use a soldering gun bought with green stamps.

Or a DeSoto.

im sorry but your nostalgia has gotten the better of you. those times were statistically inferior and obsolete now. just as this decade will be made obsolete in 50 years too. move forward, not back

@@yeoldeseawitch Your arbitrary interpretation has no significance over hers. Seriously, it takes a massive amount of narcissism to dictate how others are allowed to remember their past.

@@231mac well its true, whether you like it or not. we need to move on in life and not dwell on the past. its important to progress as a species.

@@yeoldeseawitch One: your reasoning is absolutely subjective and two: one can progress while still believing past events were/are better. Wow, how one dimensional are you?

@@yeoldeseawitch Dude You have some serious issues. Why would you come along and bust someone’s bubble like that. That was back when life was real. If you don’t like what you read or see hear go somewhere else and take your negative attitude with you. Your on line name matches your personality. Get a life and quit disrespecting others.

There was no kindergarden in North Carolina in the 60s. Me and my brother and sisters started school in the first grade. It should be still that way.

Yes in the 70s and part of the 80s my mom was still using the washing machine with the ringer. She still line dries clothes in the summer months.

@@thomasbranson7237 we lived in PA at the time.

I still line dry

@@thomasbranson7237 My brother, sister and I.... That's not taught anymore.

"The '50s, when a kid could be outside at night, and not end up with his picture on a milk carton." (The Wonder Years). It was not unusual to get in the house after 9PM on summer nights. We were safe. I wish I could spend my life in the '50s---I would miss color TV & microwave ovens, not to mention modern medical.

@@elultimo102 Microwaves technically existed.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 ----I first used a microwave at the Lincoln, Nebraska train station in summer 1960, when I was 11. I saw a demonstration on the Today Show a few weeks earlier. IDK how far back they existed as a home appliance.

@@elultimo102 My dad got my mom an Amana Radarange microwave oven in 1968. They had dials on them then, and the door opened like the oven door on a stove. She was still using it into the 90s. (Jan Griffiths).

@@douglasgriffiths3534 We got a "Frigidaire" made by Amana in '78, but left it with the house in '94. I picked up an Amana dial-front and one with a touch-screen and still have them, along with 2-convection. (garage sale specials). They were made to be repairable, and not disposable. I'm probably going to Craigslist at least two of them.

* 10. Clothes lines and the sticks sold with a slot on one e n

My first apartment post-university (1975) in Seattle still had an old-fashioned ice box. (We had a regular refrigerator, too.) How I loved that place - $160/mo., split with my roommate. Utilities about $8 for two months. Good times! (I made $440/month.) Now the same apartment is renting for over $2300/mo..

@Greg Bloomfield Thanks for recalling the Fuller Brush man (or as I thought it was when a kid: "the full-of-brush man!" Also there was the Watkins man and Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen who'ld come to your door. The last time I saw a Fuller Brush man was 1971.

@@catsinhouse And you still make 440 a month. Capitalism baby

Also, the wringer washer, the milkman making deliveries...& glass bottles for milk (even in school), pop in glass bottles, country doctor, poodle skirts with net slips under & bobbie socks (I missed those, but remember from my older sister😁), Ivory bar soap, black & wh tv, movie camera & those movies on reels, and Elvis......same older sister loved him; she also watched Bandstand every Saturday(?)......

People were selfish and self-absorbed then, too. The 80s was the age of excess, and brought with it the beginning of the "me, me, me" era.

@@swannoir7949 Affably disagree. Humanity throughout history had always carried a sense of selfishness but today, it's become mainstay in the conscience of the last few generations. People today are less courteous, kind and compassionate unless it gets them likes and they want the world to know. Pride has exceeded humility to a point of disgust. The eighties were mild compared to the millennial.

I would say your point has nowhere been illustrated more plainly than in the decline and fall of the modern Republican party, alas.

@@harmgregory4560 Amen. It was Reagan and the Republican Party that issued in their "trickle-down economics" which got us into this mess to begin with. Then turnaround, and point the fingers at the Democrats, whom they expected to clean up this mess, they left behind. But the Democrats went along for the ride, regardless. That is why I'm staying my Black ass at home on election day.

@@harmgregory4560 Oh you’re right because the left democrats have been the epitome of righteousness. Give me a break and seek wisdom.

Once upon a time, NOT so long ago, private property rights were not only respected but sacred. Two of the Ten Commandments address property rights: "Thou shalt not steal", and "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods." In today's world, private property rights mean little, as do several of our other Constitutional rights. The country is going to hell in a hand basket, unless things get turned around SOON!

You'd think so. Unfortunately there's much more dangerous stuff on there.

FK TikTok

Too bad today's college students are more interested in radical politics & gender identity, rather than campus hijinks. 😕

@@wesmcgee1648 Take making anything with using Nyquill for instance. I'm surprised that even nowadays, the federal government hasn't yet issued a law that states that you need a license to buy it. The stuff has 10% alcohol for goodness sakes!

In middle '60s, we had Volkswagon Beetle Stuffing.

Soda fountains existed because there was lots of wealth and prosperity in society. They started to disappear when people had less money to spend.

@@bighands69 School lunch was 35 cents, if you skip a lunch or two you could have a nice banana split with three scoops of ice cream after school. Don't tell mom that.

I'm probably the same age as you and we could get a coke anywhere we wanted. It wasn't a luxury item. TV's with rabbit ears sucked, cursive handwriting is pointless unless you're trying to impress someone. We have the internet now so you don't need encyclopedias. You're not missing out on anything, I promise. People weren't better in the 50's, they were actually super racist and and sexist and the upper middle class made it worse for all Americans just like they do today.

Yea there was a Soda Fountain near where we lived until 70s they would put flavored syrup in your Coke, cherry, chocolate, vanilla was another but can't remember what it was.

@Caryn Gibson If you like cursive, that's fine. I was just pointing out that the ability to write in cursive isn't a requirement to being understood. I personally don't judge people based on their signature. The jobs I have had require me to sign my name thousands of times to the point where my signature is just a scribble.

Our neighborhood in NJ was built around the old Gimbel estate. Lovely stone mansion on a hill Far View.

I trust everyone is aware of the health problems caused by amateur operated X-ray machines./

But now they’re in airports. I chose the pat down instead. I try to avoid airports anymore.

@@harmgregory4560 florouscope (sp?)

Lucky you still have a foot. Edison's assistant didn't make out that well.

the 50s and 60s sucked but the 70s - today are probably the best time to be alive

@@mr.nugget8412 Writing like a total moron...you wear it well.

Unfortunately it all had the worst cases of racism as well as people getting away with child, spousal and animal cruelty they any other decade that followed

AND NO STUPID STUPID INFOMERCIALS

No, sorry to disagree the 1960 were the best. Best fashion, hair styles, music everything was great

You honestly believe that bullshit the moon landing was a hoax still a hoax

Great list. Don't forget the milkman and bread delivery man. Playing outside until the street lights came on.

I was born in 1956, and I remember that growing up in the 1960s included being able to play outside anywhere in town, without any parental supervision, walking 3 miles each way to school every day, and never having ANYONE to DRIVE us to school, because only Dad owned a CAR, and h needed it for work!!

@@bradbackauthor9940 1952 model here. Always walked to school, no matter the weather. Dad had the '54 Ford for work. :) I remember the day he came home and said "well, looks like I have to buy a Chevy!" It was his way of telling us that he'd just been hired at Chevrolet Engineering at the new General Motors complex north of Detroit. I'll never forget that last ride in the old Ford. Dad took me with him and he bought 25 cents worth of gas, telling the attendant that he was selling the car that day and getting a new one. Ah, memories...

I remember so much of that...1957 here!

There was one at Woolworth's into the 80s. Right across from where Dillinger got killed, btw.

In Los Angeles in the 1970s there was a Thrifty drug store with a food counter. I remember the food being very good. Sometimes my mother and I would eat dinner there.

What I miss is the guy making coke at the counter mixing the syrup and soda water and stirring it !

I lived in a small town in Kansas during the 80’s and the local drug store still had a soda fountain.

Highways have pretty much stifled walking. There’s not many sidewalks, and schools aren’t a part of the neighborhood. Most children are bussed because of consolidation. If you have or go to the EU, you’ll see the traditional way of traveling. Also, Main Streets still had lunch counters in the mid~eighties. With ancient walk in wooden, glass, seat, and ceiling exhaust for phone calls.

A little younger than you, but I remember the pulpy paper, the widely spaced lines with the broken one in the middle in grade school in the 50's and early 60's. I've seen the handwriting of young adults and children today, little or no cursive, it looks like grafitti to me.

@@pianomaly9859 and they cannot read it

I don't think they even teach cursive anymore, nowadays it is about transgender issues and critical race theory.

Where you from?

Imagine if they brought back a car like the Bel-Air, only with modern safety features. That styling still looks good 65 years later!

5 has been gone for a long time.

5: oh please. If anything it was far more of an establishment and tow the government line media back then. Now we have far more options to see different views and actually do our own research into an issue than accept what was printed.

The American work ethic still exists -- even more so today imho. It's just not recognized because so many worker's rights have disappeared, and people are starting to seriously recognize that so they're just not willing to break their ass for crummy wages anymore.

Good list. Here's another: corporations that valued their employees and customers and made useful, valuable products. Eastman Kodak comes to mind.

Affordable housing new cars you can fix yourself

REMEMBER THOSE X-RAY GLASSES ???😁

@@ammo8713 Sure do! And one hundred army men for a buck or so with their own cardboard foot locker.

The thing I miss was "Downtown." As a teens we would go downtown to see a movie in a large movie house. After that we would go to Woolworths to eat at the grill. If we had any money left, we would go to the pinball arcade. Then stop at the bookstore to look at blacklight posters. There was even a "Topless" bar that would keep the doors open in the summer time. Us teen boys would stop and peer in until some man would come and chase us away. This was in the early to mid-seventies.

@@smith1958b I remember when boy's were ACTUALLY boys, and girls, were ACTUALLY girls, and the young boys and girls, ACTUALLY knew what public bathrooms, to use, do you remember that?

In the early 60's our Hooks drugstore still had a soda fountain and some independent drugstores had them into the late 60's early 70's.

Watson's in Orange California was a soda fountain and restaurant next to a pharmacy own by Watson. I remember eating there with my dad into the 21 century. Mr Watson was always at the pharmacy selling the medication. When he passed away it was turn into a sports bar. I felt it was such as shame to be destroyed.

Kuhns had a soda fountain where I lived .

My grandfather had the same car. It was the Sunday driver. My grandmother sold it after he died. It was a sad day for me.

My late Dad did too Gosh how we miss that car ! Wish Dad never sold it , bought it new

I was born in 1953, even I remember a lot of this. We are so lucky to have lived through the short "golden age" of America (1946 thru 1966) when the average Joe had a great life and maximum purchasing power.

Hey Jim, I never knew you were that much older than me (1950)! Did I ever tell you that my very first car was a '57 Chevy 2door sedan white over turquoise? And for me it was a nickel mug of root beer at Newberry's in Ithaca... two straws and see if I or my buddy could suck the fastest and drink the most. Hope all is well with you in historically beautiful Livingston County,

The world book encyclopedia was common in my school.

My family had to make international calls to our family in the old country and that was expensive up until the mid 90s.

"Numbah, please..."

Also born in '58. Recall that the EXCHANGE was often based on the initials of your town

I, also remember the air-raid drills in school as a child. Very frightening...

Chalkboards we're still heavily used until the early 2000s then schools started using dry erase

@@Thros1 Yup, I grew up in the 80's and 90's and we still wrote on blackboards with chalk. In cursive also.

@@henny6566 they taught us cursive in the 90s but most schools are doing away with it now

@@Thros1 Yeah I know it's becoming obsolete.

I worked at Motorola too, but not as a switchboard operator. I was in the engineering department for 23 years. I worked at the Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, AZ. (Jan Griffiths).

also pats stretchers & shoe trees

"I.m Buster Brown,i live in a shoe,that's my dog tide he lives there too".😂😂😂

@@vernwallen4246 * Tige pronounced like tiger without the R. A bulldog too 🐶

​@@SGoldsmith111 Shoe store salesmen would seat customers who had selected a shoe style from the display, then fit their unshoed foot onto a metal scale on the floor to measure the foot to get the right size shoe.

Cursive was nothing but a torture, it was pointless. It's only useful for old dip-ink pens. That's why it was invented, to minimize lifting of the pen which caused drips. For modern pens and pencils it's useless. Anyway, I could never get it right. My teacher eventually gave up and gave me special permission to just print.

@@jetstream6389 Fingernails, and those metal chalk holders used to draw multiple parallel lines, with no chalk installed.....

I've got some school papers when I was in High School in the 1970s. You had to write everything in cursive. The funny thing is I can't read my papers anymore. It all looks like heiroglyphics to me. If I write anything it's all print now. Still know how to write cursive.

I remember those x-ray machines. You wiggled your toes to show how much room you had in the shoe. They were fun!

There are a few still around here and there. Rexall franchise local pharmacies seem to be the most common to still have them

Move to Utah! Because the Mormons don't drink coffee, soda fountains have become the de-facto "coffee shop". There's millions (not literally, of course) here.

@@lanegunnell1218 Thanks for the tip. What do they have against coffee ☕️? What is it? The demon drink? I don’t get it. Because Caffeine is a drug? Very Strange.

@@dynjarren8355 Yes, it's the caffeine.

Because the values of that time speak to your heart, even though you didn't experience that era. Some necessary reforms have come about since then -- employment hiring decisions based on legitimate qualifications and not just skin color, gender or age. And women being promoted on the basis of their ability, experience and work performance, and not held back just because they're women. Reforms like that were sorely needed, in the interest of true fairness and justice. However, we still have a two-tiered justice system, even today, so the catching up was never complete. What I don't understand is WHY there's still a disparity in pay between male and female employees. I thought equal pay for equal work was encoded into law a long time ago. Yet, there are still issues with women being paid less for doing exactly the same work as their male counterparts. That part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act is not being enforced. WHY NOT?

Another great asset of encyclopedias -- NO annoying commercials!

I'll see something on the internet like face book and then go look it up. In some ways I wish the internet was up in the 1970s. But I did enjoy the Encyclopedias of the day.

@NO-TO-NATO sadly you're right. The internet can put in front of people ideas that don't have to be fact checked or from a reliable source, or even true. The encyclopedia company could be held to a higher standard.

we now live a better life today. move on from those days, please?

@@yeoldeseawitch No way am I moving on!!! I was a 70's kid in the UK and if there was a time machine I would be back there immediately. Better times, nicer neighbourhoods and genuine communities. Never have I known a society that was more miserable, nothing good about it. You can keep it!!! 70's forever!!!!

@@tinahardman9805 you old folks befuddle me....

@@yeoldeseawitch Some of you young folks are simply off your rockers to be honest. Notice how I don't generalise. You want us to live in your crazy woke world which I have absolutely no time for. I live in the UK and its just the same there. I pity you as this is probably all you have ever known.

@@tinahardman9805 It's awful the old generation didn't listen to Henry Ford when he warned about the Ju's and America fighting World War II for no reason, if you had just left Europe well enough alone the 50's would have never ended

I totally agree with you...born in '45

Oh, my! Today, that would be considered child abuse, and that teacher would have been fired. Sorry that happened. There were definite injustices committed in those days, and while some have been corrected today, others haven't. My own husband is a south-paw, and nobody tried to change him. He is very, very smart.

I am learning Spencerian Handwriting atm. I did learn it in primary school, which was as Catholic school, but on starting high school we had to print so I forgot how to write cursive. I was born in 1958

My neighbor is teaching her two sons to write cursive, using the Palmer method. It allows you to write more quickly, and some people see it as a sign of a better education.

Yup. Like it being possible for a household to be supported by a single income earner.

Letter openers, cigarette cases & cocktail shakers.

I don't know how it goes you can never go back.

I remember all those days in the drugstore when you got the drinks and The fountains and the grill they have jukebox with dance and then then they had the drive-ins and they have little patio dancing outside the cars

I remember party lines. I would call this number and listen to very faint voices talking, then scream my number into the phone and hope some girl heard it and calls me. They never did.

@@smith1958b Wrong type of party lines. The type I was thinking about, were when multiple families shared the same telephone line. So, if somebody got a call, that family would have a different ring than the other families. It also meant when somebody was on the line, the other families could not make or get calls.

@@randyronny7735 That was before my time, or in a rural area. But there was once the thing I described, we called them party lines. That was during the late seventies.

In the 90s we could make three way calls, you and two friends.

I remember those party lines☺️☺️

Out little town just got word that someone is going to reopen the soda fountain shop this summer! I’m praying that it happens before everyone gathers for my parents anniversary. My kids and my brothers kids remembered when we moved to a small town that had a soda fountain shop that was still open, 1999. It closed shortly after though, to the disappointment of us all. We will be ecstatic if this opens before family comes!

@@Laura0IN As soon as I have enough revenue, I'm going to start a soda fountain business... Along with all the classic soda fountain drinks, we'll serve 🍔burgers,fries,classic sandwiches🥪and sell Sundries, and various things you can't get elsewhere...

If everyone knew right from wrong, why were so many people treated badly? why were so many toxic substances dumped in lakes and rivers? (and the air?)

Take those rose-tinted glasses off your eyes.

@@harmgregory4560 Not to mention banning some people from restrooms, lunch counters, drinking fountains, front of the bus, etc. because of their skin color.

Yes that's the price you pay when you destroy Germany when they were telling you what exactly what the Ju's are up to

You can still get full service at a gas station in Oregon or New Jersey. The laws there forbid pumping your own gas.

Impressive. I remember those rabbit ears - you had to stand on a chair in the corner on one leg leaning to the right arm extended fully🤣 Sometimes it worked, but by that time you were usually out of vision range of the tv anyway. Happy days🥰👍

@@lindagardener855 That’s why I got my sister to do it but she never would stay put! What a brat! LOL

@@joyceobeys6818 😂😂😂

Speaking of TV. Kids were the "REMOTE CONTROL" for their Parents.

@@lindycorgey2743 Yes, they were👍😊

Not simpler if you were a woman.

Fully agree that the morality n kindness n good service are a thing of the past. My husband just said, sheesh, what service? Though there has always been immorality we do see it is far worse than it’s ever been. That’s the saddest part. Little kids could go for walks n play all over in the neighborhood without fear of being stolen or harmed. I miss those days. But the sin will be taken care of pretty soon. :) I wonder if there will be malts n things like that in the 1000 year reign?

Rolling laughing my husband laughed and said I don’t remember mom doing all the work, we all had to help, LOL I loved the ringer washers! My clothes got so clean n smelled so good. N I loved hanging up clothes on the line. Women ironed because the material wrinkled. I always ironed my jeans but didn’t need to, but I liked the clean crisp creases. Note: Never put the T poles for clothesline’s in a birds path in the sky or you will be rewashing lots of clothes. Birds take certain paths like we have roads. Find a path they don’t take! LOL I miss the old stores like a Benjamin Franklins, Woolworths, Hudson’s, Wards, Sears, free popcorn n beer nuts in various places! Old time hardware stores where you could find anything n everything but there was an ashtray in every corner n sometimes a spittoon. By then most used a pop bottle. Gross! LOL I loved those days though! I loved listening to the stories on the radio. And listening to WJR n CKLW n etc... our radio had buttons with the names on them n it would go to that spot, LOL And later I got one I could fling the knob to the right or left real fast to get to where I wanted on the radio n I didn’t have to program anything. A rotary phone you could whip against the wall n it would still work. If you were upset you could slam the receiver down but last second we always refrained! LOL Now there’s no temptation cuz there is nothing to slam down! LOL 😂 We still have a working phone booth here because the Mennonites use it. Which I probably should get a picture of before they get rid of it. Beautiful days n simpler times! We were all healthier too! ....Especially if we didn’t eat bottom feeders n pig. People that ate these n pig seemed to get sick more often than others. I loved the old stores n the pop machines where you lift the lid n it was full of ice water n got the wet bottle of pop for a dime n later a quarter n piped the lid off with the bottle opener attached. We made things out of bottle caps n saved them n got free things n discounts in the lids. We also made gum wrapper chains n played marbles n jacks n rode bikes n never went in the house til the lights outside came on. We made forts n collected tadpoles n craw dads for fishing n used red chiffon paper over a flashlight at night in the rain to get earthworms! LOL I loved those days! We didn’t have to buy a permit for everything. The police didn’t pull cars over for money, they were our friends n cared for us. I remember my mom having fits about the little rascals not having parental supervision and said nobody should watch that trash! LOL I could go on and on! LOL

Top Value Trading Stamps AND S & H Green Stamps. I remember my mother colleting them and then going to their "stores" to purchase something with the filled books. Several of our gas stations gave them out too.

I remember LIFE Magazine and Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Oh, yes! The drive-ins! Our favorites in Los Angeles, CA in the late 50s and early 60s were Van deKamp's and Henry's. Good times!😍🥤

I remember that! Ours was a "Steak 'N Shake" and the waitresses (no waiters that I remember) would roller skate around and take your order and then bring the food to you (roller skating carrying the tray). I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the memory.

I bet your aunts nipple didn’t think it was funny.

@ 18 years of age, I had my long hair stuck in the wringer roller, so I turned it off and removed my hair from it. I know a guy around my age who had his arm stuck in it as a small child and ended up with the scars. Unfortunately, he died in the auto collision @ about 23 in 1981.

@@bettywiendels5714 You were lucky to have an electric wringer. Ours was manual, arm muscles only!

I saw a pic or vid of a mid century Australian back yard the other day, and there was one of those rotary clothes lines in it, which I thought was interesting, because we had them just like that here in America, too

coming from n New Zealand most houses here still have rotary clothes lines i do,

We had Hills rotary clothes lines in the UK mate

@@tintobrass532 Wow! I thought they were an Aussie kind of thing! Did you swing on yours?

@@lindagardener855 Yes mate, and I can remember my old man shouting at me “You break that, and you’ll bloody pay for it out of your pocket money”!

You make an excellent point !

I think it’s because classes today all use computers which are necessary tools and only require that a student can type. And many don’t even know touch typing. Between “typing” on cell phones and typing on a computer keyboard, there’s not much need for penmanship anymore, which is a shame. I’m pretty sure the current generation of students rarely, if EVER, writes a handwritten letter or thank you note.

@@A2D4 I guess the moment of truth will be when electrical grids start crashing and technology goes offline.

Blame it on the computer and modern technology, which has made penmanship obsolete. Now, everything is typed on a keyboard. You can choose fonts that resemble cursive or script, but that's the limit of it these days. Some people still hand print, because their cursive is so illegible. My dad's handwriting was that way. He printed everything, because no one could read his cursive. I recall an old manual typewriter that he pecked on for awhile when he needed to send business letters. But he never learned touch typing.

I live in a building built in 1926 that has an elevator just like that 🛗

Sounds like a business opportunity...

sounds like an episode of T.Z. (twilight zone). That was the theme in a couple of his shows and I loved them Many of us yearn to relive our youth or certain times of our past. Oh, to have a time machine, program it to a time a place you want to return and relive that time for just a little while maybe a version of TOTAL RECALL, without the horror of course, like a mini-vacation. Though it might be hard having to return to the present.

Yet, we still have Miss America.

"Bunny ears" had to do a popular Dad's magazine at the time, 😂

I agree with your comment. A lot of people were young and still in their families care. I know that my parents had many concerns. They came out of the depression and a world war that created a nuclear nightmare.

We still have one in Chicago in Marge's Candies. 🥤

There's a great one at a drug store in downtown Abilene, KS as well. It's worth checking out and keeping in the spirit of theings if you visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

There's one at Economy Drug in Ely, Nevada

@@luisreyes1963 I have been there! The Beatles made a stop there and you can sit at the same booth.

Carlisle Drugs in Alexander City AL still has a soda fountain. Well, it still did when I worked at Russell Athletic from 1995-1998. I hope it still exists. It was a really nostalgic place to relax and enjoy a good cheese burger.

The issue is not serial killers. The issue is general crime.

@@bighands69 FBI stats state the murder rate is cut in half from 20 years ago. The only thing different is 500 cable channels and news stations mongering on crime for ratings

In Holcomb, KS, the Clutter murders did it. In Cold Blood.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Oh yeah, Clutter Murders (they made a about it) In the Massachusetts area it was the "Boston Strangler" in the early 1960s, that did it.

@@bighands69 So serial killers are fine with you?