13 FORGOTTEN Memories from the 1950s… These will make you smile! 

Brings a tear to my eyes. People don't know how good life was.

Don't sit too close to the television set, kids!

Being a kid of the 50's/60's this sure brings back great memories. To see the dumpster fire the country has turned into is so disheartening.

For my Mom she said it was a wonderful time, lots to do outside, you never wanted to be inside specially in nice weather and sitting around you never did. Kids were very active back then! Made there own fun! Thanks for sharing!👍

"Play clothes" brought back memories of the iron-on patches on blue jeans when we wore holes in them. The iron-ons would last a few weeks the come off in the wash machine. Great summer memories.

I can remember almost everything here. Sure makes me feel old. A great time to be a kid, though.

A time when less was truly more!

Born in ‘52 and remember many of these things. Our TV was a 17” Muntz. I know many say it but it truly was the best decade to grow up in. It was a time of discovery, innovation and happiness.

One two buckle my shoes....who remembers that one?

A lot of things in this video were still true in the 70s. After Saturday morning cartoons, the rest of the day was spent playing outside. When we heard the ice cream truck coming, we ran inside to ask Mom and Dad for money.🍦😃 🏈

I was born in March of 1946 and remember it all. Where I was from (Louisiana) Saddle Shoes were called "Saddle Oxfords". I liked Davy Crockett like most kids, in 1970 during my 2nd tour in Vietnam I got to meet Fess Parker at a USO canteen in Da Nang. I was surprised how tall he was and how nice he was which I expected from Davey Crockett "The King of the Wild Frontier".

I was born in 1959. Growing up as a sixties kid I too had designated play clothes.

He forgot to mention the View Master 3D Stereo scope viewers that were real popular back then. My brother and I still have ours along with the slides.

I was born in 1948 - remember the 1950's very well. It was a great time period to be a kid.

Nostalgia is powerful. Family game night sounds like a damn good idea instead of the digital distractions.

I feel my blood pressure lowering when watch and listen to your calming voice. Thank you!!

I wasn’t born til 1961 but I always think of the 50’s as being innocent and fun! ❤

I was born at the very end of the 50s but still a carryover of memories from my early days.

I was born in 1958 and I remember all of this. I love memories past , but I enjoy looking forward to tomorrow .

As a side note your 50's and 60's recollection videos are my favorite ones bringing back many fond memories of a very long time ago.

In the 1960's, when elementary school let out, we'd walk home, change into our "play" clothes and then, if it was nice outside, we'd go play until dinner. After dinner, we'd go back outside to play and my parents expected me to *be home* when the street lights came on. :D Rules weren't made to be broken. They were made to help everyone learn to be more thoughtful and dependable.

Me and my Pa set up our old 1930s Lionel train every year at Christmas time, until he passed at 79 in 2002. Those years at Christmas are some of my most cherished memories. RIP Papa.

Sad my grandkids can't live how I did....so much happier times.

Grew up in the 2000/2010s I had so much fun stuff like video games and internet, but I think it would be great to give it all up to be able to grow up in the 50s 😢

Having been born in 1950 I remember all of this. Given what we see happening around us in this present time I'm grateful to have lived in the best of times.

The older I get the more I appreciate these videos. I wouldn't trade those times for anything

I absolutely love your channel! It’s a beautiful thing to be able to take a trip back and see how much better we lived in America. It’s really sad what has happened to our country and world. It sickens me and to see so much bad things I am reminded of how the Bible says it will be like this. Thank you for giving us a good feeling of how it was and what we miss so much ….

I was born in the late 50s but I can still relate to most of this. I also had saddle shoes in 3rd grade which I loved though they weren't the standard at that time. I had to go to a foot doctor in order to get a pair I wanted them so badly!

When times were simple.😊

I was born in 1957,I was raised in the 1960's. Those were the good old days and enjoyed this video.

I was born in 1979, so the 80s was my 50s. Even the 1980s felt a lot better than today. We had Regan and a booming economy. Good times!

I'm 73. Still waiting for Prince Charming.

I remember back when I was a kid we had black and white TVs and color had not hit the scene. And then after he did I only knew a couple of people that had a color TV. And most of the shows weren't in color yet anyway. LOL I remember watching Gilligan's Island in black and white when it was brand new in the second season it was in color but not at my house. It just said in color on the screen. So it's always fun to go stay with some relative and watch cartoons on Saturday and color it was like a whole new world. 😂

Life was so different then. Great time to grow up.

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee 🎶

I am always impressed of all the vintage photos there are in these video's

I Am from 64 and had play clothes watched Davy Crockett and Daniel boone, and waited for the ice cream truck , so lucky to have been brought up in this era without the distractions of digital gadgets.

Born in ‘47…and I fondly recall all of this. Dangerous activities made us smarter. We overcame fears, learned about nature, learned to get along with others, learned courage, learned to make good decisions, learned responsibility, etc. By the time we were 18, we were ready for adulthood…we had learned to work, handle money, pay bills, some were ready for marriage. We signed up for the draft, went to college to actually learn something so we could be beneficial to our society….in other words…we had matured. There were always exceptions, of course…but most of us succeeded at life because of our independent childhoods.

I still watch the Roy Rogers show every Saturday morning. Great memories here. Thanks for putting this together for us.

Thanks for the sweet look back 🙂

I was born in the mid-1950s and I remember all of these things. So nostalgic.

I miss those days!!

Wonderful memories of a happy time.

I loved Good Humor!

Oh, the memories😀. Thank you for sharing❤️

I was born in 1952. This video brought back so many wonderful memories. Thank you.

Thanks for the memories.

Born in '57, I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Looking back, if I had a choice I'd pick the 50s to grow up in.👍

One thing that stands out in MY memory banks is how everything tasted so much better back then.

It's great to remember....life was gentle..not hateful like now

I recognized just about everything in these videos. Those striped polo shirts, I remember my brother wearing those. I had several of those dresses with the smocked fronts and the banded sleeves. I was also such a skinny little kid (at least until I hit puberty) that I never had a dress with bands that fit snugly around my arms. And the Good Humor truck in the town where I lived had coconut popsicles. My favorite, although just about everyone else thought I had lost it.

Feels like I just time traveled. I love it ! Keep up the amazing work ! I’ve been a subscriber for a while .

My dad was the first TV repairman in our neighborhood but just like the cobbler that makes shoes WE Didn't get a TV till 1961. Play clothes still exist in my vocabulary only I think they are called my gardening clothes 😂. Much simpler time.

Love your channel! Brought back memories of polishing my saddle shoes to keep them white.

We didn't have "Good Humor" in my neighborhood, but we did have "Red," the driver of his own ice cream truck ... and as a yute, I spent many an afternoon waiting to hear his ice cream music coming down the street. He also sold frozen candy bars, and I used to like to get one of those. I don't know why, but it was something we didn't normally get. The thin chocolate coating would kind of "break away" leaving the hard interior. Sixty years later, I can still remember it.

It was fun to "double-up" those roll-caps for an extra bang, or even quadruple them up and smash them with a pointy rock on the pavement!

At the gasoline filling stations, the pump jockeys gave 5 point service: 1-Filled your tank with gasoline 2-checked the air in all your tires; 3- Checked the water in the radiator; 4- Checked your oil level; and 5- Cleaned/washed all your windows.

ah how i wish i was 60 years younger again. it was a great time to be a little kid.

I did almost the same things during 1970’s when I was little kid. I even remembered going a gas station when there was a tenant working at the station to fill up the car or checking the oil. Even having a Good Humor Man or an Ice Cream truck go around the neighborhood. Another one was going to a drive in restaurant to eat in the car. I grew up in the 70’s and the 80’s. I do remembered a lot of stuff in my lifetime.

I didn't arrive until 62', but could still relate in early 70s.

Kids today will never know the good times we had in those days!!!

Kids & teenagers certainly were easily amused back in the 50's. How I envy them. ☺️

I remember going into a store and seeing a big pile of coon skin caps on a large table I was so exicted to get one, I remember proudly wearing it home.

4:50 I cannot TELL you how many games of Yahtzee I've played with my grandma as a youngster.

I absolutely hated the saddle shoes!

Born in 2001... I'm lucky enough to have experienced play clothes. I lived in the sticks. I adventures out in the woods and in the yard from the morning to sundown. When I was old enough, I was allowed to bike further than a mile from the house. Also, I remember "if you don't go outside, you're doing chores"... outside I went

Thanks for the great video - Things I remember - "play clothes" the ice cream truck" - the milk man too! I grew up in the the 60's and 70's

50s, 60s and 70s, were the best times for kids to grow in. If I only had a time machine.

We weren't allowed to watch daytime tv. We had to go out and find something to do....bikes,baseball,bug hunting etc. Lol

I wasn't around til the late 60's but we still had a sense of family. Only thing that really changed were some items and the clothes.

Who else grabbed Dad's hammer and smashed whole rolls of caps to see what would happen? Fun times, thanks.

Man, I identify with most of this. We had a jungle gym like the one at 1:43 mark on our grade school playground. It was on asphalt. A few times a year someone hanging upside down would fall on their head. Back in class- “What happened to Billy”. “He cracked his head open” “ Oh.” Then the ambulance would pull up and we wouldn’t see the kid for a couple of days. They eventually replaced the asphalt with dirt, and years later some kind of rubber base. Our first TV was an Admiral with a pretty small screen. I watched Captain Kangaroo and westerns on it and the 1957 and 8 World Series. Then it was a Sylvania, when that crapped out we went a few weeks without one. Finally, around 1965 we got a color Zenith set, and it was like a whole new world opened up before your eyes. Remember the TV repair man coming over with his carry case of tubes? If he had to take the set back to the shop you wouldn’t see it for a while. I remember getting a Sheriff’s kit that holstered a cap gun on each hip along with a hat and star. Boy, was I styling. When you shot someone, they were supposed to fall down when you said “Bang bang you’re dead”. One kid kept telling me I missed, even at point bank. “Ha Ha! You missed me!”. I finally had to push the little prick down. Of course, I got in trouble. Life lesson learned at 5 years old: not everyone plays fair.

Nowadays you can get stuff that used to be play clothes are now available brand new complete with holes in the knees.

Who hear remembers wearing Dirty Bucks shoes? I had several pair in the early and mid 60s but they were also popular in the 50s.

In the 70s the hearing that trucks bells made all of us kids get out of the pond and have our change ready for a strawberry shortcake or chocolate eclair. I was born in 1966 and my older siblings were 61,59,57. So I was always being draged all over the place. Parents made the siblings watch the younger ones back then. I watched them and experienced a lot for that time. They smoke drank and drove cars and dated people that they weren't supposed to. All this was a front row seat to see the seventies show. I tapped a good keg at 8 and lit bongs and campfire and fetched beers. Let's just say I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for them. You do an awesome job stirring up the memories! Keep them coming!

Super-enjoyable!! Always appreciate your hard work on these videos!

I sure do miss full service gas stations.

I was born in the 70s, but I was always obsessed with the 50s. Still am. How I wish life today could be like the 50s. It was such a memorable time to live in ❤

Yep, the days when you could stay out all day until after dark, drank straight from the garden hose, rode in the back window of my Dads Buick. And yet I somehow survived

Those cowboy cap guns were still around in the 70's, and so were cars with bench seating. My family had several board and card games, as well.

Grew up with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans/ I loved that show. I always played Dale Evans when kids in the area were playing cowboys and Indians. She was my role model. I hated saddle shoes because of the color combination. I only wanted shoes of one color.

Simple times

This was a time when kids could play outside without worry. You came in when the street lights came on. Gas was cheap, so was groceries, homes and cars. Oh the memories these videos of long ago brings back. Life was simple then. Moms stayed home and dads went to work. Thank you for another trip down memory lane. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy trails to you. God bless.

We had alot of the same rules and habits in the 90s. I remember the ice cream truck. Also had to lear how to tie my shoes. We had cap guns

I was born in 1960 (hubby in 1952) so many of the stuff from the 50's carried over for me. My teens were the 70's, but it was still much better than today!

The early 1950s had the iceman come by to put ice in my grandmother's icebox. He'd give us kids an ice chips to suck on. The fridge came later.

The era had it"s problems however it was a simpler time.

Iwas born in 1950, and remrmber much of this. But I never liked dolls. Animals were my thing, and I went on to become a gallery artist who specialized in wildlife.

Just a quick thing about Cinderella... The one with Julie Andrews was a version done by Rogers and Hammerstein and two more versions of it were done on TV as well. In 1965 there was the version with Leslie Anne Warren in the titular role and then Brandy took the title slot in 1997. NOTE: This is just the Rogers and Hammerstein version. I'm not including the countless other versions that are also available (including the Disney version - even though it was released in 1950).

Thanks for the MEMORIES ❤

Nice 😀

The '50s and 60s were happy times today it has become deceitful , I'm 72 but I really do feel sorry for younger generation they don't know how to go outside and just have fun.

I wore saddle shoes until I graduated HS in 1977. Loved them.

i remember as a small boy in the 40's and 50's listening on our big ass radio, foster hewitt calling hockey night in canada. in the forties i remember us having to black out our windows when the 2nd world war was on. i guess they thought germany might bomb british columbia. there used to be a grocery van, an ice wagon and a tar truck back then. i remember rumble seats in cars and mechano sets. sweet memories.

Fess Parker went to school with my uncle. Such wonderful times and yes for the play clothes. And equally special New clothes for church. Loved my Saddle shoes and skates with the key . Great video as always.

Priceless ♥

Born in '54 I remember the Howdy Doody show on TV as well Roy Rogers. I always waited for the Good Humor truck in summer months. Also recall girls wearing saddle shoes with bobby socks. My father gassed up our Oldsmobile with $2 worth of fuel every week - boy, what a change!

These videos are perfectly designed to promote happiness and education

I used to tell my granddaughter about life in the 50's, but it went in one ear & out the other. My grandparents used to tell me about their "good ole days" & it went in one ear & out the other.

I love my saddle shoes and wore them until they wore out.