12 Things Gone FOREVER...1960s - Life in America 

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The biggest thing gone from America is peace. Peace of playing outside all day long knowing nothing will happen to you. Peace of walking to and from school with your friends. Peace of a semblance of "normalcy." Peace of going shopping or to a ball game or anywhere with no fear of someone robbing you or assaulting you or stray bullets. Very sad what's happened to America.

If you grew up in the 60's you know what it was like. Pretty hard to convey to anyone living in a different time period. What seems kind of nuts now is back then parents just wanted you out of the house in Summer during the day. They didn't care where you went or what you did. "Just be home by 6 for dinner."

I was born in 1960 and loved my childhood. Today is so far removed from that era 😢 that it's hard to believe we live in the same country.

Many of these I remember. My Great Grandmother stated to me when I was 12, she witnessed everything from the first autos, planes, electricity, indoor plumbing, and telephone, to the first men in space, and on the moon. She was born in 1875 and passed away in 1976. She said God was so good to her to allow her to see so much.

One of the best things from the 1960's gone forever was riding in the back of my dads pick up truck. We felt so cool & had so much fun. Shopping at Woolworths was great too. Lots of candy and toys & they had the lunch counter. Being a kid in the 1960's was the best. We had to walk back and forth to school BUT, we could play outside ALL DAY Saturday & Sunday without a adult in sight. We rode our bikes, walked to the store, hung out at friends houses & living in CA close to the mountains, I could hike for miles taking a lunch and water with me. As long as I was home for dinner, no problems.

My Grandparents saw the newspaper headlines for "WRIGHT BROTHERS FLY AT KITTYHAWK!" when they were younger and saw coverage of "MAN LANDS ON THE MOON!" on television when they were older. What a lifetime!

Peace is gone but so are the neighborhood friends that hung out until dark and families bonding and doing things together. We played more outside than inside and were constantly running and having fun in games - tag, kick ball, baseball and hide and seek. Then catching lightning bugs in the summer in a jar (which we always released before going in for the night). Going from one neighbor’s backyard to another. We all played together! ❤️🤣

One of the best things from the 50's & 60's were the dances--the stroll, the Madison, the twist, mashed potatoes, locomotion, cha cha, the jerk. We moved back then to have fun. Few Kids were fat. We played dodgeball, tin can Willie, skated on metal skates and rode our bikes everywhere. There was no such thing as a play date. We were never bored and had had to earn spending $ with chores, a paper route or a lemonade stand. The only free ride was on our bikes!

Proud 1959 Baby Boomer..I remember everything you showed here..I wouldn't trade my Generation for any other Era..👍✌

The 60's, what a great time to be a kid.

My awesome brother Johnny worked at Curtis Mathis before Vietnam came calling. Got us our first turn table console, on which we heard the 60’s & 70’s Classics on vinyl. While the dust was blowing outside & tumble weeds were going down the street, we were inside listening to awesome music... Thank God, my brother Johnny made it back!

Also gone forever from the 60's is Doctors making house calls. The TV Repairman also made house calls to fix those HUGE console Television sets.

And let's not forget the stereo Hi-Fi. It played 33's and 45's and was very fancy. You could place a stack of records on the spindle, and it would automatically drop the next record. It was a lovely piece of furniture that doubled as a sideboard for Christmas Eve appetizers.

The best thing about growing up in the 1960's was having so many friends because of the post war baby boom. I cherish their memory to this day ... damn we had fun ... went every where on our bicycles ... swimming and exploring the outdoors ... local dances later during our teenage years ... unbelievable innocence and fun.

Born in 1960. Had an amazing childhood. Lots of outside time. I remember Schwinn Krate bikes. Dad would always adjust the color on our Zenith console TV - "Maxwell Smart looks a little green, let me adjust the tint". My parents got a new Pontiac GTO with whitewall tires. I remember when the astronauts landed on the moon.

A 1953 baby. Loved my childhood and I will always be grateful for this time of freedom and innocence.

When we moved to America in 1971, one of the first major purchases for our new house was a massive Quasar console TV in faux Louis de Something style with a cassette AND and 8-Track (which was also in the car)...which was followed with bikes with banana seats and monkey handle bars.... I still remember my Grandmother sitting in the La-Z-Boy watching Dark Shadows and getting "that look" on her face when Barnabas was on... Very pleasant memories :)

One of the coolest things I remember is walking into my local small town Ben Franklin store and the first thing you saw when you walked in the door was a display shelf packed with 45 RPM records. I was in 4th grade at the time. The first record I ever bought ( and I still have it) was the Beatles "She Loves You". Good memories for sure!

I remember it all. Such a different time. The hardest drugs were usually cigarettes, Jack Daniel's and Coke, Budweiser, valium and the really brave ones would smoke cigars. Everyone worked hard, went to church, the children went to school and enjoyed it. A different time I wish would come back. Loosing religion and church was the start of the demise of family life.

I grew up in the 60s and it was becoming turbulent at the end of the decade. In 1970 after I graduated high school I enlisted in the Army and served 5 years in Vietnam in the 5th SFG. It was the end of my innocence.

We had a big Curtiss Mathis High End console TV set with built in radio and HI Fi record player. This was state of the art at the time.

I remember our first color TV. we turned it on, the station was NBC the peacock opened it's wings it was in black and white, we were so disappointed, then it turned on the color, all we could say was WOW. And don't forget the Milkman came to your front door, delivered qt glass bottles he placed in the insulated milk box twice a week. The boomers had the best childhood.

The sixties were an awesome time to actually be an child! Gosh I do remember it & honestly I wish I could go back in time .... LORD I DO

I grew up in the 60s and it was a fantastic decade, I wish today's youth could experience the same freedom as we did.

I remember being told to keep a light on when the TV is on. It won’t burn out your eyes.

I remember as a small boy in the 60’s, sitting in my grandparents living room watching Yankees Games on their big consul TV! I got my first 3 speed Schwinn Stingray bike w/banana seat in 68…and was the envy of all my friends back then! This video brings back many fond memories for sure!

Thanks for remembering the Beatles! They defined the music and fashion of the 1960s and made my confusing teenage high school years much happier.

I was born in 1961 the best thing about the 1960’s were the cartoons on tv every saturday and sunday mornings and weekday mornings before school and afternoon after school.

I was 10 years old in 1966 , my Dad used to send me to a small delicatessen a few blocks away with a note and 2 dollars , I handed the note and the 2 dollars to the guy working , he would hand me 2 packs of Lucky Strikes and about 60 cents in change , which I used 15 cents for a 3 musketeers bar , that regular sized bar was bigger than today’s King Size , Days long gone .

I learned to ride a bike in 1969 and remember that big console TV at my aunt's house. We had a small B&W Zenith TV for a long time and that's what we watched the moon landing on. We had an avocado green telephone in the kitchen and a Kenmore washing machine at back entry. My mom hung the clothes on the line and pretty much baked everything. It's funny, but I never really think of those times as being without technology or wanting in any way--it's more like the other way around. I feel like we have less now than before.

We need to bring back those console television units. Theyre just so cooly underrated. Whos with me?

I was 11 in 1960. The sixties were a mix of good and bad for me. I got my first kiss. The Beatles and the British Invasion. I lost my dad in 1966 and like he did in 1938, I joined the Marines in 1968. I went to Chu Lai in 68-69. I got my first bike, a ‘51 panhead. A lot of memories for that decade.

I remember the “party line” telephone system where you had to deal with neighbors listening to your conversation by hearing a “click” on the line..that really caused a lot of issues but sadly , not like having big brother of today it was a simpler time .

Here's one for ya. Ever wonder why Bazooka Bubblegum has a crease down the middle? Back in the 1960's and I'm sure before, there was a bubblegum cutter at the local corner store, where you could place your wrapped Bazooka inside and chop it in half to share with your friend! Not bad considering the gum was only 1 cent.

I love your voice, I'm interested in every word. This is a lovely trip down memory lane. Thank you for reminding us of a wonderful time in our lives.

Our principal led the Pledge of Allegiance every morning over the intercom. Rode in the back of my dad's pickup, all the neighbors looked out for you. Such a time of innocence and freedom.

Go to any Italian family house between the 70s & 80s and good chance you'd find a non working console tv with a smaller tv on top for viewing. My cousin turned his old console into a liquor cabinet.

Grew up in the 50s and 60s and really enjoyed this blast from the past. Thanks!

I was born in 45, my dad had a plumbing business and he would come home for lunch (if he worked in town) he had a panel truck with running boards and if we times it right we would ride home on the running boards a hang onto the mirrors. We loved it

I remember when people didn't lock their doors. Everybody knew everybody in the neighborhood. All the kids were watched over by everybody. If you were over at a friend's house when lunch rolled around, you ate lunch with them. If you got out of line, any parent in the area would give you a whipping Riding bikes,fishing in the creek.

I remember being herded into my grade schools cafeteria where we watched the Apollo rocket lift off. I still am in love with space travel to this day, those Astronauts are still hero's to me.

I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY, I went into foster care at age 2. But I'd still go back in time for the better times I had with friends and even some of the foster parents. I was never adopted, what I learned about life, the good and the bad and I survived.

As a child of the early 60's , my memories mostly from the 70's and we used to be able to leave our doors open and unlocked. Not anymore. There's no more innocence.

I'm in the older Boomer contigent, born in 1949. It is amazing how people romanticize those days as depicted in videos like these. I remember the assasinations( JFK, MLK, RFK) and Vietnam and city riots. But I also remember how fear of polio had faded by the time I graduated from HS in 1967. That was a great victory which I don't think enough people appreciate today.

Although I was a kid in the 1980s, my dad picked up a used Schwinn bicycle with those iconic handle bars and that banana seat for my sisters and me to knock around on one summer. I’m sure he meant for us to take turns on it, but us being us, we liked to ride all three at a time on it: Two on the seat, one on the handlebars, pedaling backwards. Quite a show for the neighbors, I’m sure. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

The 50s and 60s were a great time for kids growing up. Great music, cool cars, a simpler time with a lot less crime.

One thing they did not have in the 1960's was 300 to 400 pound men and women riding a cart at Walmart and going to McDonald's and ordering 4 big macs, large fries and a diet coke!!!

Fizzies, ant farms, American Bandstand, Roger Maris baseball star, a mother who smoked while pregnant, the Beatles, Apollo mission -- all part of my childhood.

Grew up in late 60's and 70's, but didn't go to penny candy stores. I remember the Sears candy counter. As soon as we walked into Sears we could smell the popcorn popping and the glass case of candies was mesmerizing. Growing up in Houston, we had models of the Apollo Rocket, Lunar Rover, Moon buggy

Wow. I forgot all about Fizzies back in the late 50's. Amazing how those faint memories come to life on this channel.

BORN in 1954 and life for a kid back then was one adventure after another. Some how I lived through it. The majority of my free time was spent riding my cherry red English Raleigh Bicycle. Took that bike everywhere....even on spooky night time October rides in a big old cemetery in the Boston area. We would get a group of kids together and the one with a light on his bike took the lead. Boston is an old area of the country with some really old and spooky grave yards.

The biggest thing I have noticed missing since I was born in 1979 is respect and fear of neighbors. When I was growing up in the 80's people were more respectful to each other, not just because it is neighborly, but because hard men from the World Wars we're still alive to keep peace. Everyone knew someone who was not to be messed with back then. But nowadays everyone feels like the world revolves around them, there is no more looking out for your neighbor's. Just my thoughts though, peace and love y'all 🤟

In the mid-60s, I bought a standard 26-inch bike and replaced the seat with a banana seat and the handlebars with high handlebars. The set up worked well starting in 1968 when I began delivering the Detroit News. The handlebars were Ideal for holding a canvas bag full of newspapers above the front tire, and on Sundays, the banana seat held an additional set of saddle bags, which were needed due to the large number of pages in each paper.

Lived in the Bronx from 1967 to 1973. Best time ever. You walked to school and picked up your friends on the way. You threw your book bag out the stairwell window and waited for the boom in the 4 or 5 story apartment building. Elevators were in office buildings. During the summer it was all the sports. Litter was mufflers and crush hub caps and bottle caps everywhere. Stickball in the street. Outfielder screamed "CAR!" and you moved over. Baseball we were the Yankees always. (except in 1969 when we became the Mets for some reason). Football on the concrete. We were the NY GIants who played like they still should in Yankees stadium. For winter or raining days I had my AFX slot car track nailed to a 4x8 board that you put up against the wall when you were done. That was and still to this day, My Xbox. Sleep time you had your transistor radio under your pillow to listen the Yankee night games while mom and dad thought you went to sleep like you should. Everyone knew everyone. Good, bad and in between. Time of our lives and you know, we knew it then and we were right.

Towns almost completely shut down on Sundays, and most families went to Church.

Memories of my youth ✌️😎 '55 Model As tough as it was for my parents and Grandparents, we lived a peaceful life. Lots of love, laughter and happiness. Blessings from Georgia, USA 🙏🌹💜 🪶

It was a glorious free time for a kid - penny candy, bike riding, freedom to roam the whole neighborhood. Kool-aid in that smiley pitcher, hide and seek at dusk, collecting fireflies, the good humor truck, backyard sprinklers, water out of the hose, sing along with Mitch, Hanna Barbera, Yogi bear, my old astronaut halloween costume, Look magazine.

We had 2 outlets to get penny candy. In our small town - mostly farming area - there was a corner store where you could get the basics - milk, bread, eggs, ice cream and candy. Then on Sundays after church in the slightly larger city next door, we would go to the Polish neighborhood where our aunt had a house and an old cousin lived upstairs, she would treat us to toast and jelly (for 7 kids around a small kitchen table!), then mom would give us all a nickel or dime and we'd go to a little junk store with an awesome candy counter run by a guy named Freddy who was always ready with a smile, some bad jokes, and he would always pull some crusty, dusty old thing out of the depths of his small shop to show us. Good times. Small town life rocks. Glad to be back in one after most of my life in big cities. Wish I could go even smaller, but I still need a workplace.

As I recall, Mercurochrome was mild compared to the stronger Merthiolate, which did sting for sure. They both, however, brought quick healing to cuts, etc. Thanks for these memories.

I still have my mom’s console TV and will never part with it. The picture tube tv is gone but I retrofitted shelves inside it that hold my cable box and CD player. The record player on the left side and the AM/FM radio on the right side still work. Almost took out a College Hunks mover but it’s still here

Fizzies, ant farms and banana seat bikes brings back memories of the 1960's the best decade to be a kid. Thank you guys for the love 💘.

Back in the 60's, TV's were all tube (not just a picture tube) I remember learning how to take them out, when the TV wasn't working correctly, and taking them to the drug store to use their tube tester. The drug store also sold all sorts of replacement tubes.

There's a store online that still sells most of the penny candy. All the old cadies, root beer barrels, Boston Baked Beans, Good n Plenty, all of it

I had a Schwinn "Stingray" Crate 3-speed. It was metallic Green with a metallic gold "Banana Seat" and a metallic gold fork. It also had a red-line slick in the back, and blue "Crazy Wheel" tire on the front. I just loved that bike!😊

Yup, born in 1955 and remember each and every one of these! Thanks again for the great memories! As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!

My parents had a portable tv, a big thing that sat in a metal cart with wheels and a handle on the back. Three stations, four if you count the local UHF, and rabbit ears. Sometimes you had to play with the metal ring around the channel knob to get the picture completely clear. No remote, you had to get up and turn the dial.

The 1960s - The best era to grow up in. Space travel, music, teachers who cared, innocent times, respect and on and on and on. Send me back.

I remember fizzies, console TV sets and bikes with banana seats. Clip a folded playing card to your spokes and it sounded like a real chopper as you peddled lol.

LOVE THE 50S AND 60S,BOY DO I MISS THOSE DAYS.YOU COULD MAKE YOUR OWN HOT RODS,DRIVE INN SHOWS,AND ALL THE FREEDOM A KID COULD HAVE. GOD BLESS

I forgot all about Mercurochrome. Penny candy stores were the greatest thing invented. This will sound terrible but, the most used funeral home (about a 20 minute drive from our house) for our relatives to be waked, was 2 doors away from a penny candy store. Whenever my parents said we had to dress nicely because great aunt so-and-so died, I was so excited because I knew we would each get a dime or two for penny candy. Sometimes other relatives would give us more money, I guess to get rid of us for a little while. We would stand there staring at the candy trying to make out desired favorite selection. What great memories.

I remember going into a record store & being able to listen to the latest songs & artists without having to buy the record if you couldn't afford it that day.

I remember them all ..... can we go back?!?!

Compare life in the 50-60s to life today. It will break your heart.

I was born in 1954 and did most of my growing up in the 1960's. All six kids in my Family went to the same school so, everyone knew us and my Mother worked in the school office and chaperoned when we went on a school trip. I remember the Milkman, his name was Herbie and he looked like Bluto from the Popeye cartoon. We also got an allowance of .50 cents a week. I still have some saved Franklin 50 cent pieces. That was a lot of money to a kid back then. While my siblings blew through their money, I saved mine. I got some shoe shine products with that money and made a box with a hinge on it to put them in and an iron foot to nail on top of the box with the help of my Father. I shined shoes just off the elevated on Myrtle Ave and Broadway in Brooklyn to make some extra money. When I discovered Marvel comics, I decided to buy some with my money. I have those books to this day. I also bought a bicycle for myself. My Father was surprised and happy. I rode my bike everywhere and of course in the street. Today, a parent would get a visit from child protective services just for doing what I did. I believe I had the best childhood ever. We played stickball in the street, Johnny on a pony, played all day in the snow during winter. I was a Boy Scout. Every kid and parent knew us and we knew everyone. Kids were in an out of our house all the time. Didn't need a cell phone or ID. We always knew when to come home for dinner and my parents were the best. I'm approaching my 68th birthday and life has been good. I have wonderful memories of that time growing up. I've seen friends from high school pass, as did my good Father when I was 17, but my Mother is still with us at 101 years old!!! God Bless Mom. Thank you for posting this video. It reminds me of a better time in American life. Best to all. God Bless America.

I’m a 80s kid but I’m here to thumbs up everyone’s comments that grew up in the 60s love reading you guys that nostalgic comments.

Life with out cell phones we will never see that again. I miss the good old days.

thank you so much recollection road I live for your videos I really look forward to them they bring back fond memories🤗

The image of the console TV with the built-in Hi-Fi set reminded me of the many times family friends showed off their "Stereo Hi-Fi", usually about 8' long, with cloth-covered speakers on each side. Everyone had a special LP demo record, and we were seated, very precisely, on a couch, facing the unit while our hosts played the record. "WELCOME to the world of STEREOPHONIC SOUND!" said the narrator. We were treated to the sound of a steam locomotive, seemingly crossing the living room, and, of course, the bowling ball rolling down to the pins. "Can't you JUST SEE IT?" our hosts would say.

I was born in 1962. ("Generation Jones") I have a vivid memory of sitting on the exam table in my pediatrician's office as he smoked a cigarette while talking to my mother.

Makes ya wanna cry, doesn't it? I was born 1960, so I remember all the 1960's and 1970's stuff. We had a console tv with 26" screen, had a good sound, but no stereo or radio in it. That kind was expensive. I had one of the bikes featured until I was age 13. Dad smoked cigars, but mom never smoked. We watched the first moon landing in 1969. We also watched the evening cartoons of the Peanuts, Winnie the Pooh, and all the Bob Hope specials. Tv was great during those two decades, and during 1980's.

In the 70s, we still had penny candies at a local drugstore that also had a soda fountain. I used to use my lunch money for candy. 😀 I remember the root beer fizzies, but had forgotten what they were called. We always had that bottle of mercurochrome in the house with the glass stylet to apply it. Burned like heck, but it did the trick. I had a gold Scwinn with a flower banana seat and a basket on the front. Those were good times. 😊🚲🚵

Best part of those big Console TVs were the Tubes that needed to be replaced constantly ... every town had several TV Repairmen, who would make house calls to adjust, tune and re-tube your TV every year or two.

Born in 1946 and remember all you have shown. What a wonderful trip down memory lane. Everyone is decently dressed. No multi colored hair or a tackle box of trinkets piercing peoples eyelids, tongues, ears, noses, belly buttons, nipples AND elsewhere or people tattooed all over their body wearing purposely torn pants... God, I miss those days.

Born 1957, I do remember everything you showed

I remember just about all of these! What a great time to grow up in the 60's and 70's. And oh those ant farms!! Great memories!!

Silver Christmas trees accented with rotating rainbow lights.

I was born In 1962 what a time that was now I'm still here thank the good Lord but the 70,s were also great Elvis n David Cassidy rullled miss them both...

I remember how we played with our friends outside all seasons we got along without fighting we did not see color we had the summer bands,we went to the playground, we had family cookouts, we went out of town to our family reunions, to the parks, we went the action house to eat summer lunches and we could even take it home if it was crowded, we had the swimming mobile and I could go on and on with this subject the ice cream truck to buy popsicles,ect thanks so much for this upload , oh and going downtown to eat and shop catching the bus, thanks sooo much for this beautiful upload.😍😘😊😍😘😊

Fizzies were pure crap. After the first package, we never had them in the house again but my grandmother would always have them around. I guess we didn't want to hurt her feelings. I went to the Schwinn dealer and ordered a new purple Sting-Ray with paperboy special box handlebars, the big saddle seat, springer front end, rear slick, and 2-speed rear axle, and then spent half the time riding it on the rear wheel. I loved that bike. Thanks for the memories.

As I was born in 1970 I had the pleasure catching the tail end of this era. thank you for sharing this,

Here in México kids in small towns, still walk to the grocery stores and buy candy,, is a real treat for kids that come from the US on vacation to visit family,,, the first thing they do when they arrive, they jump out of their cars and run to the store to buy 🍬 candy!!

I grew up in the 70s but being in the midwest change came slowly so it was actually more like the times of the 60s. I not only had the Ant Farms, but the Mexican "jumping beans" as well.

I'm 79 my first job was at food counter as waitress at Woolworths. Had to wear white uniform we bought ourselves like a nurses dress. We had roast beef or turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and real gravy , vegetable and roll for 69 cents. Our popular German chocolate cake, 4 layer coconut cake, and 3 or 4 kind of pies. Hot goes salads and sandwiches. Ice cream sundaes and the best thick milk shakes. Then they moved me to the jewelry counter and we had an engraver to put names on bracelets/ necklaces. It was a hot item then to give your girlfriend or boyfriend an " ID" bracelet or necklace with their name engraved on it. Second year I worked in the candy counter. Big square with glass cases all 3 sides with every kind of bulk candy imaginable and not fresh nuts ( many kinds) that we roasted ourselves. Boy did I love hot roasted cashews and pecans. Then I worked at cash register. No scanning then. Each item had price tag...we had to hit tall cash register with item dept, ( had to memorize the numbers) then hit price and hitring up tab pad with side of hand. No moving conveyor...we had to move item with left hand and ring it up with right hand and KEEP IT MOVING. Each item would cause a Ding Ding when I hit the ring up tab. I was so fast I could make that register sing. Then sacks in sizes were under the counter and I had to bag it. And oh yes.....we had to count the change back to customer. Kids have no idea how today. Register never told us what to give back. The stores open until 9 on Thursday night. Every night until 9 the 3 weeks before Christmas. 🎄 great era the 50's and 60's.

As a "Boomer" these were the best days ever! So much more simple!!

We use to have a giant Philco color tv consol when I was a kid. Played all my early records on the turntable. Years later I found an unused Panasonic 8-track player in one and broke it out of it. Still works perfectly today.

In the 60s life was so simple and was mostly fun.

I grew up in Dallas...and in the late 60's the was a store similar to 7-11 called Super Saver...I remember on many days bringing a dime (and if I was lucky, a quarter) to buy penny candies from the large stock they had...I would take my bag home to watch shows like "Family Affair" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" ...all while eating my treats...

FIZZIES !!!! Loved fizzies. I didn't know about the cyclamate issue, specifically. I do remember it just disappeared. As to penny candies, well, of course. Actual candy bars were only a nickel, then rose to a dime.

Every thing about the 60s made it the most amazing and exciting decade ever. Phenomenal time to be alive both good and bad