1957 America. Some Call This Time PARADISE. Do You See It That Way? 

Each decade has a TOTALLY different vibe. '50s. Wholesome but with a little bit of rebellion. '60s literally EVERYONE tripping on LSD 24/7. '70s I just can't, I just can't, I just can't control my feet. '80s PHIL COLLINS SNARE DRUM SOUND. '90s Grunge. Don't remember the 2000s. 2010s: part 1: DUBSTEP. part 2: social justice warriors. 2020s: CORONAVIRUS. 2030s: flying cars. 2040s: flying cars on Mars.

im' lafonz it’s not idiot

Isn’t that the truth

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It’s a fine comment , Robert Thomas. Each decade not only brings about its own uniqueness , tech advances etc , but also its own travesties as well I’m in my 5th decade and have seen plenty

Precisely and odd indeed!

Getting more advanced and worse

As technology gets better, people get worse.

it's pretty easy. it's getting better in some ways and worse in other ways.

It's true, we have movies and music at our fingertips, but the quality of such is at an all-time low.

Not me. I was also born in 1939 and graduated in 1957. Narrow minded, bigoted, racist, simplistic idiots in control of morality and education. The interstate highway system, a gift to big business (General Motors and others ("See the USA in your Chevrolet") and the death of the railroads and trolley systems. Only the whitest of the white were in charge, not only on a national basis, but in my home town. I ought to know cause I'm whiter than white.

True in some ways and so were the 60s 70s and 80s despite all the racial tension and Cold War paranoia, In other countries such as Britain and most of Europe they were still dealing with the aftermath of WWII as cities were destroyed by bombings and even rationing was still in place, I would argue in some ways the world would've been better off without war as technological advances would've happened quicker

in all parts of the world, ages between 10 and 20 are the best years of our lives... you can hear the same stories from anyone of your age here in turkey too... there were always mass murders, drugs, robberies, and shootings but there was no MEDIA COVERAGE back then... and that is a good thing. media exaggerates and broadcasts only EVIL!

I wasn’t alive then, but I’d certainly trade places with that time compared to the malaise of today. I think it’s easily the worst time since at least the civil war. Freedom is long gone, the economy has been crushed by 60 years debt accumulation, constant ideological subversion. It’s miserable

I’m so jealous. 🙏🏻❤️💔💔💔. I believe I was born in the wrong times.

My grandpa was born in 1935 but in Brazil... but he liked the 50s to

.. My mom born in 34 and Dad in 36.. They both loved the 50s much better..

I was born in 1951 but the 80s is my favorite decade.

of course he did considering he was in his 20's. I was born in the 70's and LOVE the 90's

That’s normal…I was in my 20s in the 70s and that was my favorite decade

Those were the good ol days when a man could support a family on his income alone. I hope those days return once more.

Urban Braun Good stuff mate. You definitely lived in the golden era

Sounds like you had a very nice, rich life. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

I was born in '57, was the oldest of my siblings - 2 brothers and a sister. My mom was a stay at home mom and my dad was a local truck driver. We were by no means rich, more like lower middle class, but on my dad's salary we had a house in the suburbs of Long Island, N.Y., had a 2 week vacation on a lake in Vermont every summer and mom & dad made sure that our birthdays were made special. Christmas time was always awesome, we always had a roof over our heads and food on the table. In the last 2 years, both of my parents have passed. Thank you to mom & dad and the rest of the family for making sure we never went without ! Wish we lived now in similar, simpler times. 😧

@@nik5626 - I wish it was a little slower. I wish people were more civil with each other. I wish little kids couldn't find porn on the internet. I wish materialism wasn't so important to folks, and I wish cell phones had never been invented! LOL. We all have to do time in the time we live. As for me? Wish I had been born around 1940. I'd have been about 15 when Rock n Roll was born, early 20s when The Beatles hit the ground, I would have gone to Vietnam and I'd be ready to call it a day pretty soon, just in time to miss this country's coming civil war! 😎

I was fortunate to find out at an early age that love is the most important reality. A child must have quality time with his/her parents so that the love bond is strengthened. I have such wonderful memories of camping and exploring with my dad and sitting around a warm fire listening to mum sing and tell stories. A child needs to know that they are loved.

😭😪 My great great grandmother died that year & the same month also. However she was born in Nicaragua 1890, luckily she got to see the U.S. what it was a glimpse of it and of course my mother as a newborn (August 1957) & a few months before her passing.

@@ojsilva1975 My grandmother was born in 1892 and spent her entire working life working in the same textile mill that's now an education centre and museum.

My mom died last year at the age of 98. She had lost her mobility, eyesight and some of her hearing, but she too, during my last, visit took my hand, squeezed it, and said she loved me. People from that generation had a grace and dignity under fire, a sense of self sacrifice that's lacking today. Your comment reminded me of my mom.

@@gunnarthorsen How true.

Lol, I've always maintained the thought that in 30 years people will look at us now and think about how much better things were. As a gen z, most of us are nostalgic about 2016.

@@natasharules770 I hate to think about America getting any worse than it is currently. Can't possibly imagine a president worse than Biden.

There’s a twilight zone episode about that

@@martinramirezmi5457 Um well the previous president lost his re-election bid, then directed people to do a violent coup on January 6, 2021. Just my opinion, but Biden hasn’t done anything that bad🤷‍♂️.

@@martinramirezmi5457 Andrew Jackson personally wanted the trail of tears. Andrew Johnson took any meaningful progress the civil war had by allowing white oppression of all kinds besides straight up reinstating slavery. Millard Fillmore passed the fugitive slave act. By any human standards, three presidents that are far worse than Biden. I stayed away from presidents that existed within current humans life to avoid the whole “my team” phenomenon. If america can survive Ronald “Mush brains” Reaganomics and reality star/living joke since the 80’s Donald “common man with a small loan of a million dollars from daddy” trump than we’ll be fine with old Biden.

Of course, by now, scores of millions of Americans have grown up in those suburbs and never really knew any other kind of life. I'm one of them, of course. The subdivision in Atlanta where I grew up was built in 1964, and most of the community I lived in was built within four years either side of that, a community of tens of thousands of people. The street where I lived was made up almost entirely of young families, all but one from the South, many from Atlanta itself, so we didn't have much of a problem connecting with each other. We were real *neighbors*, sticking together for more than forty years--closer than much of our extended family, as you can imagine. I'm sure this is true elsewhere as well, but the TV never talks about that. The fact that our homes were nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime plainly had a lot to do with it as well. The houses in Levittown in this video are "starter" houses, and people don't have much incentive to stay in starter houses if they can trade up. Subdivisions made of starter houses, at least down here, wind up either going downhill or being razed for something nicer--maybe a development of luxury townhomes. Anyway: As I said before, nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime, but *not* nice enough to treat as an *investment*. Quite good enough, but not good enough for people who feel they always need to be "advancing", because the standard for that is, well, bigger. Our homes were just small enough (though they had large yards) and just, well, *homely* enough to *feel like homes*, to feel like places where you can put down roots, and developers don't build homes like that any more. They build starter homes and homes for investors. The houses where I grew up have apparently become "starter homes for the managerial class", whereas once they'd been that class's "forever homes". The widespread prosperity of the postwar era was built partly on a large managerial class, and we don't seem to have that now. We need some way to get back to the distribution of wealth we had between 1960 and 1975, and developers need to build *homes*, not just *housing* or *investments*.

I've met your relatives - no great loss.

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It's like this in many 3rd world countries. I spent time in the Philippines and it's like that there. They live with their families and stay close knit. I was even listening to the Lawrence brothers podcast and they remarked about this. They're a close family too.

And the theme has continued with the media hating everything about middle class suburban American's. The 1960's with it's protests, assassinations and hippie movement was the worst decade of the 20th century.

And stranger danger should have been teached way more back then. I have been following a case that happened in 1957 which is about a 7 year old little girl named Maria Ridulph she was kidnapped and murdered while playing with her friend just outside her house when it was getting dark it had just started to snow and the children were excited to play in the snow, a young man gave the little girl a piggyback ride and then the 7 year old child was taken and the child's body was found 6 months later. The parents were so devastated and whole family. On a interview i watched on a documentary of the case the mother was interviewed on TV and she couldn't barely speak she was just so devastated and begged the kidnapper to please return her little girl, but 6 months later the child's body was found dead in the woods. In 2011 they arrested a man (who was 18 years old at the time) and believed he was this Johnny who gave the little girl piggyback rides and kidnapped her, back lack of evidence released him. Now her case remains unsolved once again.

@Karen Reed I know bad things happened to kids back then. My folks taught me the whole thing about not accepting things from strangers, or to go with a stranger for any reason. I realize most kids didn't have the same upbringing that I did, but if you want to call it "TV program" then go ahead. All I can do is tell you MY experience as a kid growing up in 1957 !

@John Saunders You're welcome "Wally" !

@John Saunders be quiet. There’s nothing wrong with being sentimental and remembering ones childhood with happiness.

@John Saunders I beg to differ on that. Sentimentality of childhood is brought on by joy and happiness.

Your a grown man. You should be grateful for 47 years of wonderful. Did you think she was going to live forever? Should you have gone first & left her behind instead? Your a very fortunate man.

Porkchop's Papi oh shut the fuck up! Fucking cancer took her. A unnatural death. What if the person you spent all your life with dies way before you and your barely 65. I’m sorry man but you’re a dumbass 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm so sorry for your loss! She must've been a wonderful person. God bless you! 💕

Sir am sorry for your loss, and am happy for 47 years of happiness. Love from Somalia.

@@porkchopspapi5757 first off you inane inbred jackanapes, it's you're not your. Second . Disrespect this man and his wifes marriage and memory just shows you are lower than whale dung. Want to put a face to your comment I'd be happy to show you mine... Toe to toe... What do you say? Snowflake

That's why I'm conservative. Not the GOP conservative but a conservative nonetheless.

Yeah, and when you’re young you don’t realize that gradually you will lose everyone you love.

@@AntyTiff Then you take on new things to love.

Wow. Thanks for sharing that. Sounds like you had a great family.

What a great family!

bro gettin bread for a copy and paste i see u my boy i see you

It was a pleasure to read your comment

I really wanna read the book now, thanks for sharing this!

I'm 49 and i remember the 70s and 80s well. You're my fathers age and i was just talking to a friend about how are time is coming to grow old.

1:13, this boy is now in his 70s, time flies

2:48 is that a baby doll in the crib? LOL Baby boomer at its peak

You are 79? Wow!

@@Skiskiski Sure am. This was taken a few days from my 79th Birthday. (scroll down to the notes for an earlier version) flic.kr/p/2gYzVrW

Julianne Demse-Manly and nobody was playing Fortnite and making cringy TikTok Videos.

And when blacks couldn't use the same bathrooms as whites

No Google tracking your every move.

@@Alex-ky8bw Someone like you ALWAYS has to bring up racism in every single positive comment about the 50s. It gets so old. How is that even relevant to this comment?

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath because it's true?

i like the simplicity but i’d rather be living today

@@splash2849 thats your choice, but I see that the 50s was a much better time. Especially for teenagers.

@@hawke4753 well white teenagers yeah if i wasn’t a poc ig i’d love it

@@splash2849 It was MUCH better for black teenagers as well. The level of drop outs, teen pregnancies and above all violence was a FRACTION of what it is now.

@@poetcomic1 civil rights movement? why would anyone want to be alive during that

Did they teach the difference between 'there', 'their', and 'they're' back then?

Bigga Winna Crapsa lol

@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 It was a wonderful time compared to now. You probably would not have liked it. Too much common courtesy for you.

Born in the 60s. Wish it had been then.

@@D098zxcv - Forced common courtesy - by the church. And remember, don't eat meat on Friday - What would Jesus do?

But that is always the case in any time.

@@b.gailcooper7530 agree absolutely. too many people want to go back to old times and believe the grass will greener for them. it's not that green now and wasn't then either for many people

@@tjmichael8773 it was greener

@@tjmichael8773 they did not live in fear that their rights may be torn apart by a mob that relies solely on feelings. I'd rather be extinguished three fold of atoms than stand and witness what the forefathers have built get set ablaze.

@@savagetv6460 theres an irony to being on this side of the fence and insisting the grass WAS greener over there.

Sure gas was cheaper than today but that's just inflation - your salary would've been smaller too. If you Google how much $7 in 1957 is worth today, it's around $72, so it was actually similar to today, maybe a bit more expensive

Im 19 rn. I cant believe my grandparents grew up in the 40s and 50s for some reason

There are quite a few of us left. Try visiting a local retirement community. Most older Americans enjoy sharing memories.

I experienced everything in the 60’s

lauren I was the same way I had us history my junior year and man let me see best class and teacher ever I had in the morning time which everyone feel asleep and I would be the only excited to learn and watch stuff like this, learning about ww2, ww1, just everything in the early age was amazing I’ve only met one ww2 veteran and I’ve always wanted to met a ww2 veteran and sit down and have a conversation with, my grandpa (never met) was in ww2 Pearl Harbor

Too bad that history is complete bullshit. All wars for 500 years have been to expand central banking into every country, lead by our Jesuit controlled military for the Pope. George Washington was a satanic Freemason and died a Catholic, and now is deified as Zeus (found in the Smithsonian) and in the nations capital dome with fallen angels like poseiden and columbia. His phallic symbol, called the Washington Monument, is really a depiction of Nimrod's penis and it stands 6666 inches high and 666 inches wide. Our country has been used by Jesuits for them to take over the world, in this world's last New World (covert) Fascist Order. When we won the American Revolution, supposedly, we decided it would be a good idea to have the exact same colors on our flag of our enemy. Makes perfect sense heh? The public fool system is just that.

NY city college was free too.

My mom was a stay-home mother. My dad worked 9 hours every day Monday-friday good ole 50s and 60s

@@billbill2214 Born in July 1958 & 4 years prior to that my mother worked on Wall Street as a legal secretary [before stopping for good in mid '58] and my father worked full time days for a pharmaceutical outfit while getting a free Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College @ night after his 2 year stint in the Korean war. The $ my mother made was banked and his $ paid the $30.00 a month rent etc. and by 1961 with 3 kids they waltzed into a mint [built in 1954] $12,000.00 4-5 bedroom house in Bethpage, NY [with dad making over 8k per year @ the time] with roughly 70% down & a very low monthly mortgage + fully paid off a few years prior to selling it in 1967 for 17k & buying a brand new bigger home in Suffolk County for 38k with the 17k rolled over as the down payment leaving a 21k mortgage @ 3% & a puny $130.00 monthly payment. It was easy to buy decent homes at the salary to price ratio back then & most homes were recently built like the Bethpage home. He got a higher paying job during the final years in Bethpage and reached 6 figures during the 70's & on up to retirement in 1998. If people had a game plan & were able to stick to it they had a good chance of getting where they wanted to be back then & with plenty of $$ left over!

Those glory days courtesy of the Democratic Party and the "great compression", when rich people didn't make all the rules for awhile and the Middle Class was enormously expanded.

@@edwardanthony7283 Wow seems like successful parents. Took me awhile to read because i have no glasses.

I’m honestly fine not living in that era

I really can’t think of anything the 50s did right. It was an awful time. Racist, reserved, sexist, forcing people to suppress themeselves, etc. Sure, it had its charms with music and fashion but was really an awful time for anyone who was different and wanted to live their own kind of life.

@@Ty-vj4wg yeah back then abortion was illegal, cops shot black people for no good reason, people couldn’t say they were gay, the air and water were polluted, people were obsessed with acquiring empty status symbols. good thing today is nothing like that. 🤣🤣🤣

@@Ty-vj4wg yea i agree. The world was in shambles but the charm is unique and cool, i can see why people could fall in love with it.

Enjoyed your post. You would like this song by The Judds called "Grandpa".

As a Black American these comments are amazing.

@@commonsense3921 i’m young as hell and black and confused lmao, were most of the ppl in these comments not aware of the issues or was it just like a universal thing that they didn’t have to think about so they don’t associate it with their childhoods? genuinely wanna know the climate/dynamic

Yeah they were great for us because we're both white people

Me too!!

​@@splash2849 they like to not think about it most likely

How old are you now?

@@engineeredarmy1152 I'm almost 30. My Dad was born in 1945 and and I was born in 1991.

@@1matsg I was born in 1946. I remember the 1950s well. The cars of the late 50's had those fins and rocket look. Many of the shows on TV were westerns.

@@boblackey1 wow how was your life

@Kathryn Dennis fuck you boomer

Now the corporate media fabricate the "news".

Yea, everything stopped for the 6'o clock news with Huntley and Brinkley. Now they just make it up, so to coverup news or for propaganda and people aren't interested.

Thank you for sharing. I gotta get up and pave my own path in life for real

Not me. My Mom was a mentally ill alcoholic.......we used to starve..............

@@LoneLee2022 Sad to hear. Hope your life became much better

Unless you were black.

@@alekseicarpenter3359 Depends on where you were and the parents you had.Good hard working people always do better.Black people were actually moving up in those days until President Johnson declared The coming of his “Great Society “which put people on the welfare rolls .However if you do not offer training in the society,you get dependency.Nanny State control.We are still stuck in that system today.Prior to that event Black kids had a two parent home now Many only have one parent or Grandma to raise them now.The more responsibility you take from people for actions on this Earth,the weaker they get.White people have suffered from this too and in larger numbers but not as a greater percentage than the number of Black people have.Goverment sucks.Goverment is the only entity that creates inflation.It causes most of the problems we have today.

@@alekseicarpenter3359 The black community was actually doing very well: your real problem is that, by that stage, the Deep State was already busy dismantling America so it could control it. Divide and Conquer was a very important part of it: many of the bloodline families that ran the slave trade now control the politicians who are telling you that innocent white men were responsible for enslaving your ancestors. Then they asked you for your vote. Unfortunately it worked and continues to work. I'm white - I was born in Ireland in the 1960's: Irish Catholics were not even allowed to VOTE in Northern Ireland back then - regardless of whether they were white or men. Know your enemy - because I can guarantee you your enemy knows you better than you know yourself.

@@alekseicarpenter3359 Ah yes, living in America in the 1950s as a black person must of been horrifying compared to starving in Africa, living in a straw mud hut wondering when the neighbouring tribe is going to come and butcher you with machetes, damn white people! Favour please, stfu.

@@franksullivan1873 You are just preaching racist stereotypes. I guess it really shows the era you grew up in. The fact that you are saying that black people were "moving up" and that they were better back then because of having two parents at home is just horrible. And saying "Good hard working people always do better"???? No matter how hard black people worked back then, they would be murdered and segregated because of the color of their skin.They were not able to move up and get as good educations because they were only recently allowed to be taught in the same schools as white folk. Clearly you grew up privileged, white, and have no real sympathy for anyone else. How disappointing that racists like you exist. I guess it is good that this older generation is dying off. Its a shame for all the good people, but I am relieved for all of the ones stuck in the past and unable to progress and move on.

Because its clever propaganda

Remember when families would play board games in the evening instead of watching the "idiot box"?

That’s because people lived with less charges and fees. This isn’t clever propaganda, it’s the way it was. It amazes me that people no more than 20 years old think rright now, is how things always were. They can’t see how dark a time is because they born were in it.

That's all you needed.

I would phrase it as we didn't need as much "stuff" to be happy. I recall when a room had maybe two or three plug-ins, enough for a tv, a lamp, and a clock. Today I need power strips in every room. For a tv, cable box, Xbox, desktop computer, monitor, printer, router, phone charger, plus any other devices. And that's for several rooms if not every room (excluding router)--plus service fees for the phone, cable, internet, and streaming sites. It's crazy the amount of tech devices we "need" today on a daily (every minute!) basis. And are we happier than we were back then? Sure doesn't seem like it.

I feel like I’m watching forensics files.

are you qualified to bestow such a superlative

N-n-n-nineteen. Nineteen!

@@buddysteele7624 Yes.

I know, I keep waiting for someone to disappear...and the creepy music to kick in!

Very lucky. How did they manage to escape ? My Grandfather went to GULAG and got out when Stalin died. Tried to escape but never had a change again

My families left Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. They eventually made their way through many middle eastern countries until my Dad was offered a menial job in New York by his brother.

I, too, emigrated from Japan to America, in 1957. My Dad was an American Navy man and met my Mom while stationed there. We lived in Tokyo until 1957 but my Dad got homesick so off we went. I was 3 years-old but I remember it all like it was YESTERDAY. There was SO MUCH SPACE, land, and food was so different. My 5 Y/O Sis and I fell in love with "Rice Krispies," "Ovaltine," "TANG," "KOOL-AID," and don't get me started on all of those CANDY BARS!!! Television in America was very different from what we watched in Tokyo...you know which shows I'm talking about...! When the "Barbie" doll debuted, two years later, of course, us girls just HAD to have them. Life in America was SO MUCH FUN: my Dad's American family was so kind and good to us; everybody laughed, it seemed, all the time. We arrived in the U.S. on October 31, 1957 and I'll never forget all the children knocking on the door dressed all kooky and wanting candy. They didn't celebrate Halloween in Japan, of course. To this day, Halloween is my favourite holiday, even over Christmas. Glad you and your family made such a great life here, Sarah.

@@shakhmoroff123 It took then 40 Years to reach America. I am from Estonia here last time to escape was 1944 autumn. After that our country got fully controlled by USSR. We got communism much later than 1917 revolution in Russia

@@t2216 My family lived in Asiatic Russia Samarkand Region. I was told that the Bolsheviks came knocking on my Grandparents door in the 1930s. It was then that my Grandmother took her family over the mountains into Afghanistan. They traveled across 5 Islamic countries to finally arrive in Jerusalem in 1939 where they had family. They had to pretend they were Islamic and bribed border guards to make it across country to country.

well.....only if you were white

Very soon there aren't going to be many jobs left, especially if they are workers without skills. In the 1950's, even if you didn't do so well in high school, you could easily find some blue collar work and make enough to support a family by yourself. Now if you have no skills, good luck finding decent paid work, and good luck trying to raise a family, buy a house, and have a nice car in the driveway that isn't on credit. At my first job, at a phone based ISP callcentre; they shut the entire 200+ people based operation down, and replaced it with a web portal + 20 people taking calls. At my current job, there used to be 3 of us and one was classed as management on quite a high wage. Now, only 10 years later, I am the only one needed and due to automation and improved software I am only part time. Look at all the unmanned kiosks in supermarkets, McDonalds is testing computer kiosks, at the moment this stuff is crude but before long it'll take many more jobs. Automated burger making machines are being tested. Self driving truck convoys. Hell the other week I went to a gas station at 2am and it was 100% automated, had nobody on the premesis at all. In 50 years the only jobs left will be ones we don't want robots doing. Such as fitting shoes on children, or child care, or doctors. But even so healthcare is being automated, in the near future a doctors visit will involve being scanned by a machine and the doctor will just read the printout. There will be millions unemployed. So a Basic Income / Citizens Wage is the only thing I can think of to avoid collapse. We are not there yet but in 20 years I think we could be.

@@zarategabe That was a terrible fact at the time. In my view, racial inequality was a real problem overlooked by most.

@@zarategabe fax

@@mikesully110 pretty scary

In 1971 we also did Pledge of Allegiance in school I really liked it! live was so much better back then. Never fear of getting shot, kidnapped or drugs and everyone was far more respectful of each other. Together Americas are nasty! they get into road rage,the steel from stores "seen it twice in two hours" in Puyallup WA

My life exactly only I was the son of two teachers. It was great until one day when I was 7 I asked mom and dad why we never went to restaurants. They hemmed and hawed and said well we don't need it. We have food at home. It was years later I realized that we could not go to those places because of our color. I felt really stupid when I learned the truth. I also did the pledge of allegiance in my segregated school and honestly believed in liberty and justice for all. I had a rude awakening

We said the pledge of allegiance in the 90s we just had seen 9/11 then the Iraq war and we thought about it with critical thought not nostalgia and not being bothered by oppression

It's not that bad im 21. Just that alot people dont know how to live within their means. I make 24k a year and I have a 6 month emergency fund 10k in investments. I didn't go to college but I'm doing fine. My monthly burn rate is $700 - $1000 so I save half of my monthly pay checks. Have my own place and live in the suburbs in a good area in a good city. Times are rough but the 60s where worse I wouldn't want to be 20 or 30 in the 60s fearing every moment of my life for nuclear inhalation. Times are good even now. So idk what people complain about saying they cant make ends meet then stop being financially stupid save leave with your means dont get into debt or buy shit you can't afford. My rule us if u can't afford 5 of them I can't afford 1.

@@Sora_Nai what do you do for a living?

@@Sora_Nai That works great when you're 21. It doesn't hold up over time...not without more money.

@@nickc247 that's why me doing this at 21 by the time I'm 25 or 23 I'll be making more money and be financially free gaining money passively.

@@Sora_Nai Making more money will be tougher without that degree or at least a solid trade. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have plans. I guess what I'm saying is, it probably won't turn out that way.

@Daniel S That’s an odd, racist, comment, Daniel. Do you see everything through a racial lens? Sad life you must live.

​@@NoBite2 Daniel's comment has disappeared.

@@annarodriguez9868 That’s odd!

Wow This sounds like heaven

@@bricklawson9745 This was long before projection TVs or big screen TVs. One family would hang a white sheet over their garage door. They had a movie projector and played kids movies after the sun went down.

70's too

cool

Natives also get everything for free.

@@rocketeer2361 Right ✅️

@@rocketeer2361 Makes sense since everything was taken from them

@@goes5114 Nobody alive today took shit from them.

Terry Harding the Native Americans lived a harmonious life one with nature. The white man has deluted this land to 57 genders pedophiles slavery in taxes and concrete jungles. No more afternoon watching lakes and wildlife just arguments republican vs democrats and mass shootings on tv?.

I'm a good bit younger than you, but it almost made me cry too.

@@alvarohernandez2438 They lived in harmony with nature the same way tribal people do: because they cannot exploit it. These same natives were just like you and I, and they often committed brutal atrocities and fought over territory amongst themselves. If they could've done what Europeans did, they would have... they were no more noble than anyone else.

I was born in '63 and I miss the fifties!!! I'm only semi-joking!

It was a great time in the 50s. Unfortunately, we are now seeing the after effects of such industrial development,

This was an golden era, the 1950s and it lasted to end of the 90s.

@@mikaelglansencreutz2482 What do you think happened in the 2000s to create the foreboding atmosphere that almost everyone seems to be able to feel?

@@concars1234 I think it actually started to crumble in the 90s. We saw it come to a head in the 2000s. It feels like to turning point was September 11th, 2001....not because of the attack itself, but our reaction to it. Same thing with the pandemic....our reaction to it was worse than the pandemic itself in my opinion. Just seems like everyone's spirit is broken now. We're jump from one "crisis" to another and we get beaten down a little more every time. This was one of the themes of "1984". They were constantly at war with one country or another and kept society on edge making them controllable through fear. I think there our powers (people) that want this fear because it makes us controllable. They have it in their head that they are going to mold a new society that is "equitable" to everyone. They're going to do that by dragging the middle class down, not elevating the poor because they've found that you can't elevate the poor. Make everyone equal in the gutter except for a small elite at the top.

@Mister Scaz Yeah, over the past years I have also noticed that our governments restricts many things that back in the 90s could be done without a problem. And I am beginning to wonder: has Orwell’s 1984 really some predictions of the future?

@@oznelnavnaekal6679 if needing a "vaccine" for international travel is not a red flag for EVERYONE then I think people are really just willfully ignorant of this issue

I know anytime in history has its joys and sadness.But to have a chance just to live is a chance we are given and not chosen.Despite the times that those days were for folks of Color,it was a time for a new beginning and the coming of Civil Rights for all.The people born in those times helped to change the World.Life is important,always cherish it,live to learn and anyone can flourish.

Amen

So true

I think you got the just of it. short and sweet.

Like most people

I think your case probably was not too uncommon sadly. Under the glitz and glam of the projected "perfect American family" were lots of issues being swept under the rug.

@@Wheelio Definitely, all those men coming home from the war had PTSD too

@@emjay2045 then again, we have a mental health crisis in our youth, so you lose some you win some

☹️Your tale is a sad one for sure.I am glad you survived it.I was just fortunate to have parents that loved each other and loved me.Not everyone’s story is the same.I hope are doing well and have gotten on to a better life situation.

Same shit goes on today, extremely sad

We now live in Sodom and Gomorrah and as Jesus said in the days of Noah!

Lucky

You listened to Buddy Holly?

@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay please stay in india, we dont want indians in America

You lived through an amazing time. I'm in my 40s now and I'm truly afraid of what the USA will be like when I'm 79.

Wait till you see 2019’s sequel

Gay

Yea i mean just imagine having to drive to the other side of town just to see how many countries are in the world from a book that's probably from the Interwar period (the area in between the World Wars).

@@MrCreeperYT_Official Libraries were kept very up to date and most cities of any size had many libraries, for me there was the big main branch that was downtown and most of my childhood I lived a few blocks from the local branch. And a popular thing to buy at the time was encyclopedia sets, so a good percentage of homes had their own reference on general facts about history, science, philosophy, etc, with some sets being more specific than others. I was born in 1958 and my sister in 1954 and my folks bought several sets (typically from door to door salesmen I think) and my favorite one to look through was Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia from 1962, it was like our "internet" back then to answer questions or to go down a random rabbit hole on a lazy Sunday morning because TV sucked . . . no cartoons just boring political talk shows dad liked to watch! ;-)

@@JohnLRice the library has been my fav hangout all my life. They even have computers there son.

CuzKatieSaysSo Nostalgia is always nice. Remember these are advertisements

CuzKatieSaysSo there are still plenty of stay at home moms aren't there? My mom is a stay at home mom and all my neighbors moms we're stay at home/ work from home moms

I too was born in 57' , we grew up in a great time in the 60's the end of a era . We saw things change in our lifetime but hate the aches and pains with old age . LOL

I was almost 10 at that time and yes those were good times. Would like to have those days back. That is when the kids went home and not to a day care.

Chris I would do it all over again if I could. At that time my Dad had a1950 Chevrolet kind of grey color sedan. Mom run it into a fence post. I got a ride in a Greyhound scenicruiser bus

I did that too in 1998.....

D Con And back in the day, especially in Southern California, you had blue-collar neighborhoods that had underground swimming pools in the backyard!

Almost the same in my neighborhood. I was born in 1954. I was the first born of six after my Dad returned from Korea in 1953. Blocks of mostly cookie cutter 2 story Cape Cod houses, some with 1 car garages! Riding our bikes all over the neighborhood until dusk. We had the milk box on the small front stoop for the Milkman. The Fuller Brush man would come around every week. The Good Humor man would drive his truck around in the summer. As soon as we heard the bells we'd run towards his truck! I used to get either a Strawberry Shortcake or Toasted Almond ice cream bar! Great times!

@@jondstewart You mean ''in ground?''

@@Yakanhikoerotikkushiti I was a 16 year old puke chunk. Skateboarding (was lousy at it too), dropout, pot smoking, loitering, loser scumbag. Played a lot of Tenchu, Resident Evil & Metal Gear and got in a lot of trouble and listened to a lot of shitty nu metal. Had a cute girlfriend & a lot of friends though. Late '90s were not too bad lol

Same with my Grandma! But she was not living the American Dream. Life was hard for her.

I remember the 70's. It was all over by the 80's.

I was a teen in the late '70's/early '80's and I agree with you! And there was always that promise. That we would inherit what Reagan used to call "the shining city on the hill." And we did. And we messed it up so much, I don't think it will EVER come back. And we did it with greed, self centeredness and apathy. Those qualities (or lack thereof) best define the sub "Jones Generation" which is made up of the younger boomers and older genxers. How far we have slid.

You're acting gay

Yes it was simpler!!!!!! I wish Regan was never voted into office

Free Bible Prophecy Book Reg6 Dot Com ...fuck 😢

Ahem Racisim?

Depends on who you were, where you lived, how much money you made.There was despair and sadness and insecurity. People hid behind their fears and conformed in silence and self torment.I will admit there seemed to be more of a community. Now, there is verylittle, neighbors do not know neighbors, and it seems that they don't wantto. The USA people are desensitized. It's a cold country out there now, 2019.

@@mrbevelaqua8649 Im not brain washed, Racisim Exists

That's because when JFK was murdered it was the end of our Democratic Republic. Everything since then has been one big script.

You have to earn respect. It's not just a given.

Jupe367 Have fun with polio

Jupe367 Were black people respected?

J. ROD #LeGoatFan blacks don't respect blacks. Why should anybody else?

The women in these pics look beautiful and the men look like a bunch of boring clowns.

America will never be so great as it was back then back then.

@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Great for those people depicted in the video...

@@67hoursAndCounting Yes

@Emil Frederiksen. Women couldn’t do anything in the 1950s

@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay Cardi B & Nicki Minaj have to do with it ???????

@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay maybe, but their doing something right ?, They do have the money

@@marypevitt174 I've Built A LEGO 1957 Police Car

@@SuperJacob2006 that's awesome

Amen

I don't know how to measure that . . . www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ ^ that's a thing though

That was by design.

@@Endoterrestrials the conservative resurgence, which brought along with it pro corporate fiscal policy benefiting only America's wealthiest had caused this, a side effect of the general overall wealth gap. I don't get people that argue in favor of trickle down economics (or supply side economics as proponents of it often resolutely "correct" me). Knowledge of economics and all the stats don't reinforce it. Also just look at Hong Kong. Corporate deregulation and policies aimed at aiding the rich screw over the poor big time (seems obvious but apparently not to some).

I don't really know what this would show, or how to prove that some direct link from the loss of the nuclear family model lead to these social ills you speak of. I'm sure there are plenty of gay couples that raise their children just fine. I'm straight guy and I plan on getting married and having a kid some day, but if others don't choose to get married in a heterosexual relationship, I don't really care.

Yes, but you were a child and remembering childhood is a cocktail of 1 part fear of aging, 1 part fatigue of change, 1 part yearning for better health and lost agility, and 1 part acceptance of impending inevitable death. All good: I was born in 1959 btw. But always remember Corinthians 1: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

What r dresses?

@lemon diesel Open your eyes and look around.Most young people and children are obese. And all they know how to do is play on their phones. When SHTF they will be dead or killed in urban riots.

@lemon diesel I would say the culmination of that has to be this generation, gen z, the absolute worst most careless hateful scummy people on this planet without a doubt, no value of human life, no beliefs, no passion, nothing what so ever, this generation will bring about the end of the word as you know it mark my words

Funny how your generation disses the boomers. Not one single one of you would even be here if not for that generation!!

@Evan Perrine In the south. And tbh, I'd take making food and cleaning the house over having the possibility of death in a 9-5 job. I do agree about the school clothing though.

"they"? Who are "they"

@@hubbletelescope1721 me

Not necessarily. If anything, we’ve been given too much from this ‘they’ you speak of. Our current society is the result of excess. Excess everything

@@hubbletelescope1721 central banks

@@beccuhhh106 except love, caring, and understanding. And some people just don't want to give up their hate. It's disgusting.

yeah suddenly the white man wasnt allowed to hold everyone else down

@@acsilver2777 I will say it wasn't all white pickett fences and apple pie for everyone in the great USA, but I was blessed with a great childhood. For that I'm grateful 🙏.

@@stevetrevino5346 yeah, still isn't. But the ones who had those white Pickett fences are still trying their hardest to hold on to it. Not once did they try to help build a white Pickett fence for their neighbors of another color. They packed up from the cities and moved into the suburbs. There is still plenty of work to do.

@@acsilver2777. Very insightful on your part. I live in an area that when that happened it was known as the white flight. It was a real thing .

@@stevetrevino5346 people wonder why black communities are full of struggle and crime but it's simply because they never had the same support from society. They were left to figure out how the world worked the hard way. The older generations really messed up, they ran from the problem instead of trying to fix it. We have all tried to build this country from day one. I just wish we could all come together as a nation. We should be more worried about china than our neighbors.

Well said

100% agree

well said sir!

Thank ye!

Crypto Hunt my grandmas ten years older than you! 😁

If you like to read I will recommend a book that will let you travel back in time (in your imagination). It's called "11/22/63" by Stephen King. It is about the JFK assassination in Dallas. I read it last summer (I was born in 1958 in Ft Worth TX). It was weird reading that book. Stephen King states that he visited that area to do research for his book. I don't remember a lot of the places (buildings, streets, businesses, etc that are mentioned in it) but I read bits of it to my mom who is 84. She remembers a lot of the things King talks about in this book. Amazing way to tell a story! The main character goes back in time to try and stop the assassination.You go along for the ride!

Marty McFly already did so

pegleg09able - I need to find that book! I didn't know he wrote it. I was also born in 1958, (Des Moines, IA), and remember that day. We were sent home from kindergarten early 💔

You can...in the Twilight Zone 🗝️

hell for most people outside north america and western europe

@CrazyDinosaur Umm…. I’m pretty sure it felt like hell for “some people” in North America CrazyDinosaur………🧐

@@commonsense3921 i know, i said "most people outside" not only people outside and at risk of this being received wrong, i will say that i would rather have been an african american in the US, than native peasant/worker in China, the USSR, any african country/colony etc in the same period

@@crazydinosaur8945 The orignal commernter stated "this era was paradise for some, and hell for many" and your response referenced ONLY the people OUTSIDE of the US because you didn't mention the people inside of the United States AT ALL, So I reference SOME of the people inside the USA because this video and his comment is about the United States. Also I don't understand your point, Being an African American in the United States in the 50's and 60's was a terrible reality the fact that you feel the need to compare it to some of the worst conditions on earth to minimize the suffering is disgusting, The point is it wasn't a paradise for African Americans can we agree on that???

@@commonsense3921 "earth to minimize the suffering is disgusting" it was the best way I could phrase it and i did say "and at risk of this being received wrong" i said "hell for most people outside north america and western europe" i didnt say "ONLY hell for most people outside north america and western europe" i didnt cancle "This era was paradise for some, and hell for many." i add to it by pointing out that most people outside these places had it like hell. "African Americans can we agree on that" at what point did i say it wasent i only said that at least they want in china undergoing the worst famine in history, thats not a high bar, so yes we can agree that it was not a paradise for African Americans. i still don't understand why you are so angry at my first comment BTW

Why vaccines?

Caroline Garity Are you out of your mind? Stick with the present . Go back in time @your own peril

Caroline Garity i'll be waiting for you when you get back in about a week

Ann YEP!!!! LONG List Native Genocide. Under the Mantra of "Manifest Destiny", The US purposely​ killed natives. In the 19th century they marched thousands across the country in the Tail of Tears, Killed helpless old men, women and children. Wounded Knee, The same, unarmed men women and children slaughtered while the men were away hunting. There are many more massacres of indians by the US army, as well as bounties put n the heads of natives with prices different for men, women, and child. Giving natives disease infested blankets and others. Too many to mention here. Not enough time. The US was committing genocides into the 20th century with Eugenics, and sterilization of Native women into the 1970's. The 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide states: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” This was done by stealing Native children and forcing them into "Indian Schools" well into the 1950's to "kill the indian, save the man". Here's a verifiable list of what your leaders thought of us: Nice Day for a Genocide: Shocking Quotes on Indians By U.S. Leaders, Pt 1 Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography, 1750s “If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.” Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, May 31, 1779 “The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Governor William Henry Harrison, of the Indiana Territory (1800-1812) while defending displacement of the Indians “Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?” John Quincy Adams, 1802, when rationalizing territorial imperatives as God’s will “What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?” President Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1813 “This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.” James Monroe, in a letter to Andrew Jackson, October 5, 1817 “The hunter or savage state requires a greater extent of territory to sustain it, than is compatible with the progress and just claims of civilized life, and must yield to it. Nothing is more certain, than, if the Indian tribes do not abandon that state, and become civilized, that they will decline, and become extinct. The hunter state, tho maintain’d by warlike spirits, presents but a feeble resistance to the more dense, compact, and powerful population of civilized man.” Chief Justice John Marshall, Johnson and Graham’s Lessee v. William M’Intosh, 1823 “The tribes of Indians inhabiting this country were fierce savages, whose occupations was war, and whose subsistence was drawn chiefly from the forest… That law which regulates, and ought to regulate in general, the relations between the conqueror and conquered was incapable of application to a people under such circumstances… Discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy, either by purchase or by conquest.” President Andrew Jackson, in his fifth annual message, December 3, 1833 “They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the midst of another and a superior race, and without appreciating the causes of their inferiority or seeking to control them, they must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long disappear.” General Philip Henry Sheridan, 1869 “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1887 “This language which is good enough for a white man or a black man ought to be good enough for the red man. It is also believed that teaching an Indian youth in his own barbarous dialect is a positive detriment to him. The impractibility, if not impossibility, of civilizing the Indians of this country in any other tongue than our own would seem obvious.” Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol. I. 1889 “Nowadays we undoubtedly ought to break up the great Indian reservations, disregard the tribal governments, allot the land in severalty (with, however, only a limited power of alienation), and treat the Indians as we do other citizens, with certain exceptions, for their sakes as well as ours.” Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol. I. 1889 “The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. Moreover, to the most oppressed Indian nations the whites often acted as a protection, or, at least, they deferred instead of hastening their fate.” Again, the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide states: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Caroline Garity Maybe you do. Guarantee minorities don't. White people were caustic and detrimental to everything they touch. Poluting the air, water, and all of the environment, instilling hate towards everyone not white. WTF the '60's and '70's were about?? LONG List Native Genocide. Under the Mantra of "Manifest Destiny", The US purposely​ killed natives. In the 19th century they marched thousands across the country in the Tail of Tears, Killed helpless old men, women and children. Wounded Knee, The same, unarmed men women and children slaughtered while the men were away hunting. There are many more massacres of indians by the US army, as well as bounties put n the heads of natives with prices different for men, women, and child. Giving natives disease infested blankets and others. Too many to mention here. Not enough time. The US was committing genocides into the 20th century with Eugenics, and sterilization of Native women into the 1970's. The 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide states: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” This was done by stealing Native children and forcing them into "Indian Schools" well into the 1950's to "kill the indian, save the man". Here's a verifiable list of what your leaders thought of us: Nice Day for a Genocide: Shocking Quotes on Indians By U.S. Leaders, Pt 1 Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography, 1750s “If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.” Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, May 31, 1779 “The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Governor William Henry Harrison, of the Indiana Territory (1800-1812) while defending displacement of the Indians “Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?” John Quincy Adams, 1802, when rationalizing territorial imperatives as God’s will “What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?” President Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1813 “This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.” James Monroe, in a letter to Andrew Jackson, October 5, 1817 “The hunter or savage state requires a greater extent of territory to sustain it, than is compatible with the progress and just claims of civilized life, and must yield to it. Nothing is more certain, than, if the Indian tribes do not abandon that state, and become civilized, that they will decline, and become extinct. The hunter state, tho maintain’d by warlike spirits, presents but a feeble resistance to the more dense, compact, and powerful population of civilized man.” Chief Justice John Marshall, Johnson and Graham’s Lessee v. William M’Intosh, 1823 “The tribes of Indians inhabiting this country were fierce savages, whose occupations was war, and whose subsistence was drawn chiefly from the forest… That law which regulates, and ought to regulate in general, the relations between the conqueror and conquered was incapable of application to a people under such circumstances… Discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy, either by purchase or by conquest.” President Andrew Jackson, in his fifth annual message, December 3, 1833 “They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the midst of another and a superior race, and without appreciating the causes of their inferiority or seeking to control them, they must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long disappear.” General Philip Henry Sheridan, 1869 “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1887 “This language which is good enough for a white man or a black man ought to be good enough for the red man. It is also believed that teaching an Indian youth in his own barbarous dialect is a positive detriment to him. The impractibility, if not impossibility, of civilizing the Indians of this country in any other tongue than our own would seem obvious.” Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol. I. 1889 “Nowadays we undoubtedly ought to break up the great Indian reservations, disregard the tribal governments, allot the land in severalty (with, however, only a limited power of alienation), and treat the Indians as we do other citizens, with certain exceptions, for their sakes as well as ours.” Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol. I. 1889 “The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. Moreover, to the most oppressed Indian nations the whites often acted as a protection, or, at least, they deferred instead of hastening their fate.” Again, the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide states: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

You've convinced yourselves of many of your issues, and in turn you put democrats in office who care nothing about the homeland, let alone your particular needs.

People also had a hard time affording things back then too, that's capitalism. And most women were married into affording anything, often times they weren't allowed to have independence and autonomy. Even tho they began to work in daily life after the war, it was still limited in what options they were allowed to take as a job for themselves, they were still restricted by society and men, and forced into roles.

You are so right, our Country is on a wrong road and I am 78 and grew up in the 50s, I graduated from eighth grade June 3rd 1957. Very few mothers worked out of the home, we came home for lunch from school then walked back to school. We all had chores to do and we had dinner as a family every night at 6:00 pm and their were 5 of us kids and as I look back I think of all the good times we had together. Today our Country is on a somewhat different track, and it's not good. My grandkids and great grandkids won't grow up the way I did and its a very sad thought to see it.

I'm from Astoria

@@marijooneill8015 maybe elect ppl who live in reality and recognize the problems science reveals. Instead half of america wants their made up gender to be validated while the other half menstruate about "CRT" What was it like in previous decades with getting an underdog in the political race at any level?

If you mean violent and hostile, then yes.

@@coolguy02536 Ah, but objective analysis proves quite the opposite.

@Donald Smith Thank Ronald Regan n for that

That's how I look at the 90s, but I'm guessing it's all and nostalgia than an objective fact.

I too was born in 1944, we were poor but we didn't know it, I didn't liuve in America but Scotland, I wore second hand clothes, but once again i did not know this. We played outside in rain, snow and it was fun, walked to and from school, nobody had a car! If they did they were rich lol. It was a fantastic time to grow up, lots if friends the music was fab. My dad used to put cardboard inside my shoes haha it didn't help, always had wet feet, but wouldn't change anything about the 50s it was a lovely time to grow up. I feel sorry fir my grandchildren today's world is sad.

What you mean bigoted hateful offensive oppressive things like opening a door for someone? YOU SCUMBAG.

@Niven English Lmfao take a good long look at BLM

Niven English Never said it was a good cause, however I can assure you it has done less damage with its “peaceful protests” than BLM ever has

Niven English Bold of you to assume that only MAGA protestors have done irreparable damage to America. “Some bs damage from a protest” an eight year old black girl being killed in the middle of a protest that was created to protect her and her race isnt bs to me. That’s a young girls life taken for no reason except for the fact that BLM thought it a good idea to vandalise a car she was in. She’s not the only one though, countless people have been killed because of the BLM protests, stores have been vandalised, families and businesses ruined and the modern form of neo nazis is being accepted into today’s society. By no means am I a trump supporter however you need to open your eyes if you think only MAGA has done damage. An example of this is Cannon Hinnant, small white boy who got killed by a black man. He was shot square in the head point blank yet he got no media coverage, no protests, no riots, nothing. The news didn’t cover it as political correctness has created such a level of censorship that it ensures news like this horrific black on white crime never makes mainstream news. To me that sounds like systematic racism at its finest. What do you mean by your people? Are you assuming my race based on my political view? I really hope not as that could be deemed racist whether I’m white or not.

Niven English Stay ignorant :)

I'm also half Greek, and I lived on Corfu without dad for three years, best time of my life.

The society is ruined now.

@@ianjohngonzales4066 how is it ruined?

It's not hopeless for me.

@@kbanghart Well people have offered themselves to Internet, TV, living through buying, living through working, polluting the planet, while getting dumber and poorer as time goes by.

One of the more realistic comments on this thread!

Best comment on this video!

Yup the view from the other side of the track is way different.

There will alway be poor people, Jesus himself said so. But at least in the 50s there WAS a middle class.

@@matthew8153 Well there are enough countries that do not accept poverty and try to do something about it. Perhaps in the USA you call it socialism, but others consider it solidarity.

@@joopspeth6483 And none of those countries have been successful in getting of poverty. No country ever has.

@@matthew8153 of course countries were successfull in fighting poverty, so that at least everyone has a place to live and an income. Btw Jesus didn't want us to accept poverty but to care for other people. And not letting them live tents on the streets.

silverfox how was cannabis viewed or loved if at all during that time?

flying kites and playing with those old balsa wood airplanes with the red propellar! ha ha ha

I was born Jan. 1950...there was nothing till Elvis

Hippy(Bboomer) pot is no worse than processed sugar nor shall I say that word....alcohol. It's how it's used and abused that matters. I am with you that during those times things were different from a mental perspective...but there were just as many raging alcoholics as there are now. To blame some bad actions on a plant is absurd. It's how things are used....guns for example. Guns don't kill people. Not a gun toting person and yes flooding a market with more will increase the violence rate in some situations. Yes flooding a school with pot may lead to more dropouts. Well same goes for putting more liquor stores in neighborhoods. At the end of the day it comes down to choices and balance.

Jon Stewart Today’s generations are much more intelligent than previous generations due to the rise of more accessible information.

Matt Schnaare If they’re so intelligent, why don’t they use proper grammar or spell, capitalize, and punctuate properly? Half of today’s high school graduates are functional illiterates and even more than that can’t name every state there is on a map of the U.S. I worked in Fort Yukon, Alaska one time and my coworker was from Missouri. We talked to a local elementary school teacher there from Chicago and she thought Missouri was way out west.

Jon Stewart Anecdotal evidence is not valid in terms of argumentation, that’s one of the first things you learn in middle school in the modern education system. Rather the providing anecdotal evidence about my experience with a huge influx of Advanced Placement classes being introduced into high school by the College Board (AP Physics, Psychology, and many others) that are lightyears ahead of predating classes from the 1950s, I will first present the physical differences in what is expected in a high school student. In terms of mathematics, a student from the 1950s may be required to learn basic algebra. As per graphing these algebraic equations, a standard linear equation in the form of y=mx+b is all that would be expected. Mathematics in today’s high schools teach all of the foundation algebra either freshman year or their last year of middle school. From there it branches into more complex topics that build off of algebra such as trigonometry and eventually integral and differential calculus. This was only introduced at extremely high level college courses in the 1950s. I have not found anything that relates the science courses from the 1950s to modern day, however in modern high schools students are required to take at the very least Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. All of these have honors and AP variants available that dive into topics that didn’t even exist in the year 1950, and are at the college level. Students in history take Modern U.S. history (covering reconstruction to 9/11), World History, and Government. There are AP variants for all of these classes and honors for MUSH. One key difference from today’s learning environment and that from the 1950’s is that modern students are required to not only know the history, but to develop historical analysis skills to connect different events in history and argue certain perspectives. This would have never been asked if a student in the 1950’s. Similarly in English, modern students are required heavily annotate texts and develop strong college level thesis statements in order to prove a given essay prompt. Moreover, they are required to develop public speaking skills and overall reading comprehension. In addition to core subjects, many high level electives are offered in high schools as well. PLTW has introduced +IED and +POE that allows high schoolers to be introduced to engineering concepts as early as age 14. Due to this increase in standards of our students, studies have showed that with each decade, the average IQ the student body increases by 3. That means that a modern student would have an adjusted IQ of 118 in the 1950’s.

Matt Schnaare Wow, where did you get all this info? I’m not as smart as I thought I was. All I was saying was it seemed to me American society overall is drifting towards Idiocracy; I didn’t know anything about how math and science have advanced. I barely passed Algebra 2 in high school (not like it’s of any use in real life). Anyway, in my most perceptive opinion, most of the generation born the past 40 years have been dealt a bad hand compared to the Baby Boomers in terms of upward mobility.

And yet with all this information at their fingertips, the fact remains in general they still appear daft , not to mention socially inept. I guess they are not making use of all they are learning.

Yeah. Except ofc if you lived in the US in the 1950s as an Afro American, the stories would have been a bit different.

@@oznelnavnaekal6679 your talking long ago. If america is as racist today as it was. Explain how that happened

@Donovan Bryan What I am saying is that back in those days racial segregation was still widespread (especially in the south). In those days it wasn’t uncommon for white Americans to say the word “negro” when referring to Afro American and use the word “nigger” to literally insult them. I am not saying that racism in the US has vanished, but it’s completely different compared to the 50’s. As someone who is fascinated by history, I should know that.

@@oznelnavnaekal6679 " back in those days" That's the statement you should pay attention to. Was in the past. Just like Slavery. Let it go In the past gengis Kahn used to kill his own people. Should Chinese all start remembering and talk about it?

@Donovan Bryan I am a historian and compare the human mindset of modern times to that of present. And when you said “let it go” does that mean that people who have lost a family member in for instance an ISIS attack, like the one in Brussels, that they have to “let the past go”? I don’t think it will be easy. And when you say let the past go, does that mean that we don’t have to learn about the type of warfare that was used in WWII and that we can just kill in the same ways as before? Try to understand that my statements are just facts and historical studies fgs.

no flack from me, you are spot on

It doesn't take two incomes for a family of four to live now you just have to have your priorities straight you don't have to have the latest of everything vacation every year two brand new cars in the driveway

@@debbieframpton3857 very true.

Over the last 50 years we've seen more and more breaking up of the family unit, more self interest and narcissistic behaviour. Society seems to be heading to hell in a handcart.

I have to correct you on something dude. TODAY it's "family first." The attitude of the younger boomers and older genxers are "as long as me and mine have OURS who gives a shit about anyone else." Back the, people CARED about OTHER people. Neighbors knew their neighbors and helped them in times of need. Communities came together and helped one another. See, I'm in a very unusual situation. I live in my family home which my parents built during the time period of this segment. And I live in a very small town. When I was a boy, we knew EVERY family in the neighborhood. They were good people who had respect for each other. Now, I have the distinction of being the 7th longest living person in the development (the other 6 were here since the '50's and are very old now). The new younger people don't even want to know you. You try to be friendly and they act like you have 3 heads. They start making noise at 6 AM (which is against the law), even on Sundays. And since some of them party until midnight, it gives one very little time for sleep. America was built on people helping people and neighbor helping neighbor. That doesn't exist anymore.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories. 😄

I'm much younger than you, born in 93. I CRAVE what you just said for my America. I wish my generation had what you said. Thank you for giving me a small sample of that.

@@SuperWesley16 well, I wish I could give that kind of life to you and any other young person who missed out. My grandkids are always saying they wish things were as simple as when I was a kid. I also know how hard my parents, and my friend’s parents worked and sacrificed to give us the lives we had. People nowadays don’t know many of their neighbors. That’s one way to make life better, get to know your neighbors, and include them in activities. It may sound corny, but that’s what most people did back then, plus kids played outside. Plus families were closer before “life” got in the way. Good luck, and God bless.

@@SuperWesley16 oh you missed so much. When you went to the bank everyone called you by name. You eagerly waited for the ice cream truck to come down your street. You ran for joy after school on Halloween just to get dressed. You walked with grocery bag. Christmas was the most exciting. You truly believed in Santa. Just like the movie . You begged for your red Ryder. You were filled with joy at getting roller skates that you tied around your shoes. And kept a key to adjust skate from pulling left or right. Your mom would dress like she was going to a wedding just to go to grocery store. Your dad wore a suit and tie. And when you visited grandma you drove down a white gravel single lane road. Dust everywhere. Wow. The whole world loved god

Because you weren't subject to being lynched by white people.

Ryan Johnson: I didn’t realize that a mortgage was ten years then-(and on a one-breadwinner income). My Aunt saved $7,000 for 5-years as a downpayment for an $11,000 duplex. She sold it for nearly $600,000 when she was 90. Perhaps when females began working full-time (supplying 2 incomes for married couples), the mortgages began to skyrocket?

Actually, alot of people did not even have a mortgage......the word inflation was brought into our vocabulary, and it has taken 50 plus years for some people to realize that inflation means AMORTIZED debt , and this debt decreases the value of the instrument we use to conduct day to day transactions . WE now live in a world populated by greedy toads , called experts (with degrees ) that absolve their responsibilities by imposing taxes on not only our children, but also our children's, children's, children . And demonize us if we COMPLAIN.......

My opinion, the corporations and the greedy stole the American dream from common working people. :(

@@chrisbronson5341 True.

Good boy,Ryan!

My friend Peter Thomas. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker that’s amazing that you know him!!!! His voice was so good on Foresic files bit of a fan I’d say

"There was no danger because everyone was a parent". Yes, exactly. Families keep communities safe, because a parents primary instincts are to protect their children. People without children will never understand, and as a result, we have places like San Francisco today.