Those banana seat bikes were great!!! You could carry a second person easily, pop 'wheelies' and look cool :). My dad couldn't afford new bikes for us. He bought a few used bikes and repainted them for us. He's incredible - 90 years old and living independently. Go Dad!!
I remember that for a couple of years, during the annual showing of The Wizard of Oz on TV, a guy would come on and preface the movie by saying that if you had a color TV set, not to worry if the first part was not in color (it was in sepia tone) The creators of the movie filmed it that way to contrast the dull bleakness of Dorothy's home with the BRIGHT colors of Oz. They had to explain all that. LOL A couple of years later, they no longer did that particular introduction.
One activity that was big in the 1960s that was not mentioned in the video was going to the movies at the Drive-in movie theater. Many Friday or Saturday evenings during the late Spring to early Autumn, our whole family would pile into the car and go to the Drive-in to see a double feature (two movies played back-to-back). The Drive-ins were closed for movies in the colder months, but would host flea markets on the weekends. I remember seeing on the really big screen at the Drive-in in the 60s: Planet of the Apes, the 1960s James Bond films, Fantastic Voyage, The Great Race, Born Free, a bunch of Disney movies, as well as many others. At the Drive-in there was a playground with swings, monkey bars, and a merry-go-round that us kids would play on until it got dark enough for the movie to start. Also at the Drive-in, we got dinner consisting of hotdogs or corn dogs, popcorn, and soda or a slushy, and perhaps soft serve ice cream, an ice cream novelty, or candy for dessert, depending on how good we had been. More often than not, as young kids we would fall asleep in the car's back seat during the second movie, and our parents would carry us into the house and put us to bed when we got home.
The sixty's and seventies were the sweet spot we hit 🎯. I was born in 1959. Today I feel sorry for young people. They have technology but not the quality of life we had. We never missed it. 😏 . Glad I am old. 😅
Born in 60 on a Navy base by the time I was 10 I lived on 2 different islands one in the Pacific " Okinawa" and one in the Bering sea " Adak Alaska" also California before we settled in Texas, living on military bases as a kid in the 60s was awesome lots of exploring like the caves on Okinawa and combing the beaches of Adak it was a blast
Born an Army brat in '58 in France, by the time I was 8 I had lived in 3 different countries on 3 different continents and visited a half a dozen more. Came back to the states in '66, so alot of this stuff is familiar.
@@vernhoke7730 what was your favorite place and did you live on or off base ? My favorite was Adak Alaska base housing close to the beach , we lived off base in Okinawa next to a sugarcane field at the base of a mountain I still can picture the skull and human bones I saw in a cave
1971 Southern California baby here. Too young for this time, but being the youngest of 4 kids and having parents born in the early 30s, this was a foundation of my life and I feel like I know it well. It sure shaped every decade in my life up to the present day. And was such a significant and transitional period in history (for good and bad), that you guys don't realize how much it has affected your generation. Perhaps your generation more than mine because you're completely immersed in its legacy.
Born in 57. I remember Saturday morning line ups for kids. I now believe those were implemented to keep kids busy so our parents could sleep late. Most of them focused on cowboys like Roy Rogers Gene Autry the Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid. The main other show I watched was Lassie. I definitely remember all of the assassinations that occurred. I also remember Hanoi Jane. Not fondly either!
57 too. Definitely riding my bike was the most memorable. The 60s were a transformational decade. So much change, and many tragedies. It was amazing to see the Apollo missions live on tv. We had a large 25” color tv, and looked like the ones in the video. We had two couches in the “den”, really just a first floor bedroom.
Photographs and movies in the U.S. were almost all in color by the 1960's, but color television sets were rare and expensive (and not very good) until the end of the decade and into the mid-1970's. The joke in the title possibly is that television networks in the 1960's would announce their programs as being "in color" to imply they were higher quality - the same way people today announce their programs as "in HD".
Such a flood of memories, number one for me, was getting my drivers license, and a 90 dollar car. The 60's were turbulent, amazing and full of highs and lows, it formed a generation. Peace!
1960's in Color....For me my Grandmother Bought a Console Color TV in 1963. They had just been made available to the public and I remember we would go over to Buffy's on Sunday afternoon and watch her color Television. It was fascinating. Professional Golf was one of the first to adopt Color Broadcast thru national television. Disney also was one of the first to broadcast in Color.....
I remember the first color tv I saw was in 1960. It was in the lobby of a restaurant that my family went to every Sunday after church. They always had a baseball game on and the grass on the field was always dark blue.
I turned 3 in 1960. It was a turbulant decade. There was so much going on. But it was a time of freedom and little fear. We could leave the house early in the mornings and come home when the street lights came on. I was a military brat and I saw the world through different eyes than most kids. I watched every show you have mentioned. Holidays were full of magic times. Kids didn't expect all of their wish to come true. But we were glad when we got what we really wanted. Vacations were fun times where we camped in tents. I still love road trips. Yes we would sometimes see roadside mini golf courses or small theme parks. Not the massive ones of today. But we would see historic sites or the woods. So much fun so many memories but the '70s brought my teens!
yep, I was 8 in 1960, also a military brat loving the vacations on the road ... loading up the station wagon and heading to the first of many Holiday Inns or occasional campsite parks for those families who brought tents.
I was 10 in '60. We always took family road vacations, either to visit grandparents in Baltimore or camping out West. There were many Kiddielands or miniature golf courses, and quite often near the roadway. Never had a banana seat but had a Schwinn and rode it everywhere, especially to the beach - 6 blocks away.
My absolute earliest childhood memory is watching one of the Apollo moon landings on a black and white TV at a distant relative's house that we were visiting. I have no idea which Apollo mission it was, might have been the first one. But I distinctly remember all of us staring at the TV and being mesmerized by it all. I was 4 or 5 at the time.
Apollo 1 when up in Flames in a test on the launch pad with the Astronauts on board. Apollo 8 was the next manned mission that went around the moon. Apollo 11 was when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and Apollo 16 was the one I p*ssed off my grade teacher by seeing the launch in person from the causeway.
My mother started working in 1968. Prior to that she had been a full-time stay at home mom and homemaker. She took a training course at the nearby community college on operating keypunch machines, which punched holes into paper cards for data entry into the computers of the time. She was a keypunch operator until the early 1990s when most offices had changed over to more modern networked computer stations.
Reminds me of when I took my first Computer language class at my community college, a year (1983) before they rid of the Hollerith cards (punch cards) for the computer classes. After that, they use CPM machines and we had to upload our programs to the Mainframe.
@@quantumleaper ...I was probably going through that at the same time as you were, and before that my company had been using teletypes up until about 81', that's how far back it goes!...things were happening at A very rapid pace technologically, esp. in computing in those early eighties...we moved to an IBM 9040 Main Frame based on the MS Dos operating system, but didn't stay with it for long before moving to an inhouse dedicated network...ahh, the old days!
Yep, grew up the 60's in California (San Diego). I think he really made the Space Race a very short piece. The 60's were full of space launches, often covered from launch to final landing on TV and the focus in schools for science and finally landing on the moon was so much a part of the decade.
There are tons of videos similar to this on RU-vid. The one's about commercials from the 60's 70's 80's etc are funny. But many regarding how Christmas was celebrated and the various decorations people used to use.
Born in late 50’s and this was so on point. Children growing up in the 60’s were still naive, their 2 parent homes made sure to keep them that way for as long as they could. This video brought back my childhood in wonderful memories. Miss my Mom, Dad, & Brother so much… See you guys again one day, I’ve so much to tell you all.
Born 1952. Grew up in the 50s and 60s. No screen time. Summer was enjoying the outdoors with friends. We didn't do road trips because we didn't have the money but oh what fun with hopscotch, jump rope, neighborhood softball games, summer evenings playing hide and seek and more! No one was glued to the television because you only had 3 channels which didn't come in clear all the time. There were only a handful of shows you might watch. No cell phones to stare at and no video games but plenty of card games, board games and my family loved playing croquet in the backyard. The 60s were a tough time with all the issues going on but I had a neighborhood full of fun kids to hang out with to get through those scary times. I do enjoy today's technology and how we can share each others cultures. That IS fun!
I was born in 1953. My favorite memories were seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, Apollo 11 landing on the moon, seeing the movie and listening to the Woodstock album, seeing Janis Joplin and Tina Turner on TV. Spock was an alien from the planet Vulcan, who had no emotions and lived his life by logic. Star Trek dealt with the issues of the times by portraying them in a futuristic and alien setting. The stupidity of racism was shown with feuding races from a planet where one race was black on the left side and white on the right side; where the other race had the colors switched. Women's rights, war, and other topics were also dealt with.
When I first started driving in CA in 1965\66, gas was 28¢ a gallon, lol. You would be surprised how far $1 could take you. As a teen you could never fill the gas tank unless you had wealthy parents. It was either money you earned by working, saved lunch money or pass the hat to everyone sharing your ride. Good times!
Well to be fair the gas mileage wasn’t anywhere near what it is today so that dollar still only took you under 100 miles. But it’s still a whole lot farther than it will take you today. Even at 50 miles per gallon in a hybrid you’re still only going to get about 12 miles on a dollars worth of gas.
My mom was born in 1953. So she definitely told me about the 60s. She graduated high school in 1972.. I'm an 80s baby. But I grew up in the 90s. Graduated in 2000.
Yep, I'm a 60's kid. Born in the 50's. It was truly an amazing time to grow up. Amazing music, horrible things like JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations, Viet Nam War, being fascinated with the Space Race. I grew up in Miami, and I can remember the rows and rows of Red Cross tents, set up during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The music is what I used to help escape from the terrible things.
I cannot imagine while we were up here in Georgia thinking about fallout shelters, you were 90 miles from the scene of it all. I hope you were sheltered from the reality of it as much as possible.
I remember being in Elementary School during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We had drills where the school would sound an alarm and the teachers would lead the children out single file into the halls where we would sit down with back to wall and head between legs until the all clear sounded.
Other memories from in the 1960's was the Berlin Wall going up, dividing Berlin into East Berlin and West Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, all the stores were closed on Sunday, music changing from Bee Bop to Folk Music and then to Rock and Roll, and all the men wearing hats. Love your channel!
I'd love to see you do reactions to videos like this for all the decades. I was born in 73, so I had to learn about the 60s from my mom and TV. I think that game was shuffleboard, but I've only heard about it being on cruise ship decks, not roadsides. "In Color" was popular in the 60s because color TV was just getting its start. While a lot of shows were still being filmed in black and white, those that were being filmed in color had to advertise that fact. "Colorized" was a different thing altogether.
I will always remember Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay. When us kids went out to play after breakfast Mom would say, "Be home before the street lights turn on." Then we'd disappear at a friends house, in the woods, at the playgrounds, window shopping, walking the railroad tracks, bird hunting with BB guns and more until it was dark. Kids today do not know what they are missing.
Yes we had a tv like the one with the 4 long legs, it gave me my first set of stitches in my forehead when I was playing once at the age of 8 years old and ran into the corner of it. I was proud of that scar.😆
I had a color TV set in my room in the 60s, in fact, we had multiple color TVs in the home, but it helps when your dad is the Service Manager for an Appliance Store that sold TVs. In 1980 when my Dad died, we has over 20 TVs in the Basement, but most didn't work. Though none had Channel ONE on the dial.
We got our first color tv in 1969. My dad wouldn't get one until our black and white from 1951 died. I graduated from high school that year, too. You two are the ages of my great nieces and nephews.
I was 5 years old when they landed on the moon. I don't remember much about it other than the whole family was watching it on TV. Brings back alot of memories. I'm not crying, i just got soemthing in my eye.
I miss watching football in the 70's, when they mostly played outside and there was a couple feet of snow on the ground and it was coming down hard.. those huge guys looked like bison making their way down the field. Thanks for sharing.
I remember watching Disney , al[ their wonderful shows with Walt doing the introductions. There were every night Variety shows ,hosted by great Stars of the time. All the great Comedians, Jack benny, Red Skelton and George and Gracie.
I remember my mother taking pictures of the TV during the moon landing. I didn’t understand why she was doing that and thought she was being silly. Those bicycles with the tall handles and banana seats are coming back - in “70’s colors like orange.
Born in 1959 so to use your guys description @I was a 1959 baby”! Grew up in the 60’s with drive-in movies, miniature golf and long road trips with the five kids plus parents in huge american cars.
Born in 1961. My dad bought our huge color console TV for the first Super Bowl. We also had a party for the moon landing. So long ago and yet feels like yesterday.
James looked confused about Go-Go boots.... They became trendy from the "Go-go" dancers of the 60's that appeared on TV shows featuring rock or pop bands; the dancers would dance in the background, often on high platforms. The boots were generally worn with mini-skirts & were usually mid-calf or higher; white patent leather (or vinyl) was popular.
In the 60s TV shows were just starting to be shown in color, therefore a lot of shows would say "In Color" during the opening. The first season of The Brady Bunch 1969 says that at the opening 😸
Back in the mid to late 60s, one of the major TV networks (I think it was NBC) often advertized their shows as being "in color". Color TVs were new and rare and expensive. My parents got a early round tube used one in late 1969.
Pretty much the only place you see those kinds of games (shuffleboard, horseshoes...) in the US (and Canada) are at old style family campgrounds, where lots of seniors hang out.
Sheldon did like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and did dress up as Mr. Spock. Mr. Spock was the Science Officer who usually displayed no emotions. However, Mr. Spock did not run particularly very fast. Sheldon also dressed up as the comic book hero The Flash, who did run very fast. Your vague memory is combining characteristics of the two characters.
Those bikes were the kind I had growing up in the 70s. We called those seats "banana seats". I remember watching moon landings. I guess I missed Apollo 11, because it was at night. I remember watching Star Trek in my V-neck T-shirt. We had a black & white TV at the time, so I couldn't tell the difference.
back in the 60s and 70s, i remember driving across the country and seeing burma shave signs along stretches of the freeway. lok up burma shave signs and you will see what im talking about.
The Interstate Highway System took a lot of charm away from the roadside. Back in the '60's the roadside attractions and hotels that you would find on the backroads were amazing and yes there are many places in America where you can just pull into a fun place but they are on the backroads and seldom seen on the interstate.
I remember when we got our first color TV I was about 9 or 10 about 64 0r 65 there were only two or three shows in color at the time --- it wasn't instantaneous color --- one was bonanza and the other was Disney's wonderful world of color, I believe a cartoon called space ghost came on in color on Saturday morning soon afterward. The other two shows came on Sunday evening.
A lot of bars here in vegas have a patio you can play corn hole and of course pool. Some are just adult arcades you can game and gamble in and it is a bar
Born in 1990, I watched Tv Land so watched I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters, The Brady Bunch, Gilligans Island, Bewitched, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Get Smart etc.
I was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, so I don’t remember much from the first half of the decade. I saw a few seconds of when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. That had a huge effect on me. My father made a comment (just to me) which revealed he had worked on a part used in the lander. I had no idea his work was related to aerospace. I tried to follow in his footsteps from such a tiny moment. lol. Another highlight, we had a station wagon called an Edsel. Edsel station wagon. supposedly it was a “flop”. No one bought them and they had failed. They were funny looking, is as nice as I can be about it, but at least we had a station wagon that fit every body.
I was born in 1964 so I was very young in the 1960's, I remembered my family gathered around the TV and my younger Brother and I would change the Channels when my parents wanted it changed, I remember the 3 Channels.
I was born in 1960 and have vivid memories of growing up - becoming aware of the momentus cultural things going on was always in the background - tv, parents and friends talking etc. I was big into the space program - watching rockets blast off on tv. It seemed to be a more innocent time compared to today but things were changing quickly.
8 Years old in 1960, just a couple of months short of 18 when the decade ended, so very much grew up in the 60s. I can't help but feel that this video left out so much -- The 60s were so transformative. Also, a little correction on your Big Bang Theory reference. Sheldon did, in one episode (possibly more) go to a Comicon event costumed as Spock from the original Star Trek series, but he's not the one who 'runs fast.' You're thinking of another episode where he dressed as the DC comic book character the Flash, which I think he may have done in more than one episode.
I grew up in the 60’s, born1959. Teen in the 70’s🤘 My home was brick all sides , full basement.3 bedrooms, 1 & 1/4 bath. 2 acres. Payments $98 a month. My mom had a fit when it went up to $101. My grandparents got a color console TV 1963.
As far as roadside attractions go, Route 66 is full of them, and even back then it was billboards and signs next to the highways saying things like "world's biggest ball of twine 30 miles" or "5 cent coffee 100 miles" things like that lol
I was four when those brave men went to the moon. My oldest sister is thirteen years older than me. She built a rocket made out of cardboard, for me. I could go inside, close the door, and there were even windows where I could see the moon or Earth. Because of her, I remember that event. It was a special and exciting time!
I was born in 1960 my greatest memory was actually going to cape Canaveral and watching the Apollo 8 launch my uncle worked for NASA and got us in I was only 8 but I will never forget it
So I was a little kid, about 6. My Brothers came in and woke me up, there is something on TV we want you to see. It was the moon landing. I watched it live on TV at 6 years old. We were in Phoenix Arizona at the time and it was July. So afterwords when it was done, we went into our in ground swimming pool in the back yard and looked up at the full moon. It was trippy looking up there and knowing there were people on there right now. Cool memory.
I was born in 57. My sister liked Fabian and I loved the Beatles. We both loved Elvis. We got our color TV in the early 70's. Our brother was in the Vietnam War and thank goodness he came home. (It was terrible the way the veterans were treated.) We children were innocent and allowed to just BE children. We used our imaginations and played outside. TV shows had a moral to them and comedies were clean without being potty and/or mean. (Questionable humor was worded to go over our innocent heads, but the adults could enjoy it.) Everyone had the right to their opinion, and we didn't have adult topics crammed down our throats. Divorce and single parents were a rarity and it was shameful to be on welfare. All in all, I'm very glad I grew up then and not in today's world. Thanks for showing those old pictures, brings back lots of memories!
Talking about things "coming back again"... My Mom wore open toes shoes from her 40's fashion. Being the "cool" 60's kid I thought they were ridiculous. Then in 1969 while walking around my college campus I looked down and realized that I was wearing the latest fashion: bell bottom pants and open toed shoes... Guess what? I had and great laugh. Years later my girls who used to laugh at my bell bottom pants from the 60's were wearing them too in the 90's. I had a great laugh again!!!
Despite the rough bits, the 60s is still my favorite decade to have lived through (followed closely behind by the 80s). It had a vibrancy (and stress, to be fair) that was just...well...60s. It's a bad analogy, but it was sort of like life was now in living color (just like TV around 1965-66).
I remember 1969. My friends and I were at a slumber party. IDK if kids still do that. The girl whose party it was and I were making a kitchen run. Her mother stopped us on the way back. "You girls need to stop and see this. This is history!. " She had a 9 inch b&w tv at her elbow. She was working at a huge wooden rolltop desk in the dining room. Neil Armstrong was about to step on to the moon's surface. It was so fuzzy I couldn't be sure of what I saw. I definitely heard what he said. I must have been 12 years old.
OK, let's get something clear off the bat - The Wizard of OZ was released in 1939 with Technicolor. Gone With the Wind was released in 1940. Color had been around a while. In film, the color process was available, it just cost more. The 1960s did bring some cheap B/W films and it had many B/W TV series because few homes had color TVs yet (VERY EXPENSIVE).
I was born in 1953, I am now 70 years old life for me and my one brother and five sisters was a wonderful time. We grew up very rural on a farm it was simpler and I would not trade it for nothing. Took my drivers test in 1969 Gasoline was 28.9 cents per gallon.
I was born in the 80s myself. My dad was a volunteer FF and working for my uncle's garage in the 60s. In 73 he was on a B52 bomber going over Vietnam. Screwed up couple of decades, that I fear we'll see repeated.
We had color TV in the 60s. It was in the later part, shows had started to move to color. Appropriate radiation scares were sent out and of course, we were all going to die of radiation poisoning. Ali changed his name when he converted to Islam. Being a kid in the 60s, great time to grow up. One of my favorites were the block (well cul-de sac in my case) parties on weekends. Pull out everyone's grills, get the old folks (for a 9 year old kid, that was a 30 year old) some chairs, grab the hoses and everyone have a good time.
I was born in 1952, remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assination of Kennedy in 63, MLK and Bobby, in 1969 I was on my way to Vietnam with the Marines.
We dont have those at hotels or motels off the highways. BEFORE Interstate Highways we had 2 and 4 lane road with the old motels with parking lots and doors right to your car. Those days in America are all but gone. BUT you can still find a few at the beach old school motels. You definitely can find it in Florida manufactured home parks where they offer all sorts of park programs and different things to do. It totally depends on the price of the home, the price of the park lot rental and all that is included. BUT those in Florida and other "warm weather" locations definitely will have pickle ball, tennis, pools, maybe some shuffle boards and more...... But you get the idea
I was born in 1953. Couldn't afford trips anywhere but we had fun outside till after the streetlights came on. And the lightnin' bugs came out. (fireflies) card games & board games, fizzies, penny candy, Popsicles had 2 sticks & were a nickel. 5¢. Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night. We had to go outside to fix the antenna on the roof if Philly stations weren't coming in. The music rocked. I had my Hullabaloo boots/Shindig boots. Commonly known as GoGo boots. Saw Herman's Hermits,The Four Seasons & Peter and Gordon on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Chuck Berry & Bo Diddly elsewhere President Kennedy was killed when I was in 5th grade. They sent us home. Then MLK & Bobby Kennedy. I suggest listening to "Abraham, Martin & John". I forget who sang it. (Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King & John Kennedy with Bobby showing up at the end with harps. Always got to me. Vietnam was a bad time- 2 brothers were there. Navy gunboat up the Mekong (sp) 66? & 101st Airborne in 68-69. One of the most surreal things was watching the evening news with Walter Cronkite looking for a shot of my brother Walt during their coverage & then right after watching man land on the moon. Man's greatest folly (war) & man's greatest achievement. Figuratively speaking.
