Mid Century Home life -- The 50s 

Well.. If you were the right color... Those government sponsored mortgages were only eligible for people of a certain hue. Unfortunately.

@@lemonielala3080 No, this is the 1950's. No special mortgages and government not involved at all. Everyone could buy a house, literally, and they were good homes, not shacks, average going for $10,000 for a 3 bedroom 1 bath home to $30,000 luxury home. These are prices here in So. CA, probably even less elsewhere. Times have changed for the worse on property values. Did you grow up in the 1950's? We all thought buying a house was just something you did if you were working.

The economy changed due to the "ANTI feminist" movement! Then we women were forced into the workplace.

@@stephanipeloquin4631 Neighborhoods were segregated by public choice, not by any government program. People just feel more comfortable living close to those who share the same culture. It has always been that way -- it's why we have China Towns, Little Italy's, and when I was living in L.A. near Wilshire and Fairfax, the Fairfax area was all Russian Jews with wonderful delicatessens and bakeries.

@@TheBluewaterBlonde you're absolutely right about this in so many ways. People do tend to prefer living and socializing with people like themselves, when that's all they've ever known. And in those days, middle class white suburbanites did not have close daily interactions, as equals, with people who were not also middle class, suburban and white. So even though there was no law against a black family buying a house next door, you can bet your ass the neighbors are not going to be rolling out the welcome wagon. The bank officers are not going to approve the loan. And the property value *will* literally go down. That's a historical fact. That's what happened back then. The minute there was a pretty reliable word on the street that a POC was buying a home in white suburbia, white flight was triggered. Some people moved strictly because of the fact that their property value was about to take a hit, which doesn't seem racist. Others moved because they'd be damned if they'd "live in the same neighborhood as some damn n-words", which seems hideously racist. All the white folks who sold their houses through the white brokers (complicit in the whole white flight affair) were all aiding and abetting racism by their own choice. It's always us white people who have the choice in the first place. Chinatown and all the other places exist because new immigrants seek out familiar people at first, and then they never find diverse and integrated society we *should* be by now, so they stay where they're accepted. Like we all do. It's starting to happen. It's just sad that it has to be such a fight for so long. It really shouldn't be a fight at all. I mean, we really *argue* questions like which lives matter. What a stupid question, right?? Hahaha! Happy Christmas 🎄✝️ Thank you for your perspective and your awesome answer and thought provoking statement☯️

Sure Why not Buy a house, two cars, three brand new iphones every year and a 60" screen then cry about debt.

Aviv Gannon buying a house and two cars isn’t necessarily bad if done right. Buying a house outright and not having a house payment and buying two used cars fully paid off. Of course that’s not how most handle things. They put it on the card or take out loans because they want the newest thing/the house NOW. Can’t bring myself to sympathize with people who do things to themselves.

@@captaindestruction9332 exactly what i meant

Shirley., when i first read your comment i thought you'd made a typo error by writing 'in debt'.... im thinking you mean 'above water'... realised you hadnt made a mistake., i had !!!

Captain Destruction93 there’s lots of pressure on the US to keep up with the Jones’s

Better

I don’t really think it was all that much simpler. People were just more willing to sacrifice to save back then. It was the WW2 mentality and they embraced it. Young people now just don’t really get the sacrifice part of it. Like you can’t buy a $5 Starbucks coffee every day or wear Lululemon leggings. But it’s just a different generation.

​@@supermom23Their priorities are definitely different that's for sure! Door dash is not "essential". Eating is essential. There's a difference lol.

$9K for a Levittown home on LI, our home cost $16K in 1952! HIX just N of levittown

from working in a factory too. its insane

Not only that most of us have to had roommates too

Humanity truly is a failure.

1950s, you actually had to push your lawn .mower haha, I guess the small engine had not yet been invented yet, lol

You can still have something to show for working hard. You probably think 40 hours is a long time, when it should be the bare minimum.

Great comment and so true

that's true...I have a receipt for my dads pay in the 50s or 60s for $56 for 44 hours work week..my parents raised 3 children on his income....we can learn from the past if we will

One paycheck can still support a family - I know many families who manage on one paycheck, including my own.

TheTeacher1020 I'm a stay at home mom and we live what is pretty close to a 1950s lifestyle. My husband doesn't make a lot but we make it work. We don't have cable and I don't buy a lot of premade or frozen food. We make sacrifices so I can stay home with the kids (we have 4) but it's worth it.

Back then they didn't spend like crazed, bored, drones as we do today. Look at any long weekend ... what is the hi-lite going to the mall. Families got by with hand me down clothes, one phone, one black & white TV, a old radio, shared bedrooms with siblings, fewer toys, and less food than we have today. Now this man had a UNION job, many others lived with no insurance, no worker protections. Work hours when with the company needs not worker's rights as they do today. The wife often had only two formal dresses one for shopping and one for church...it was taken off as soon as she got home. We had home clothes and school clothes. No one ever wore their shoes without galoshes in winter---that is over boots. A family could not afford to pay for new shoes more than twice a year. A vacation meant a trip to see distant relatives... not time to visit Florida or elsewhere. They miss a lot of reality in these cheap (isn't america great) films.

*****​ that's a great point. I need to keep this in mind when I'm embarrassed by wearing the same 2 dresses to church every other week and when I fell bad about going to the thrift store for clothes for my kids. I can't even remember the last time we went to the movies or the mall.

How? I don't see why people are having so much issues with living on their own. I'm doing just fine making enough to live with enough for some videogames every month.

Keep in mind people had more take-home pay. No medicare tax yet. Plus no one had cell phone, cable/satellite bills like we do today.

Budgeting is the key, a $600.00 cell phone is not a necessity.

You choose to have cell phone and cable or satellite bill. You could get a no contract phone and watch broadcast TV. A lot of what people see as necessities are actually luxuries.

@@jamesrogers47 I think if I took away my phone, TV, and other luxuries, it still doesn't make up for the fact they had one income for a large family and were able to build their own house.

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

What’s your point? That you could have a nice home built for $11k because you clipped coupons? You can clip coupons all day today that’s not gonna by you a custom built home

@@aunch3 the point is that people today waste their money on crap like Starbucks, video games, smartphones, cable TV, instant meals, third-party sites like Amazon, latest fads and gadgets, junk.

Because those technologies were relatively recent at the time, and thus a lot less cheap proportionally. It's a matter of technology, not of them being "frugal". As for going out and playing... well, that was before urban freeways, built because every single one of those families that moved to those idyllic suburbs all had a car, and all wanted more lanes because they didn't want to idle for hours in traffic. So, urban neighborhoods got bulldozed to the ground to make room for more cars. And then more cars. And even more cars. And today, traffic's worse than ever because traffic has never been solved by adding more lanes.

@@ggwoman The point is that OP doesn't understand economy or technology, and clearly neither do you.

I played in blizzard. Had fun. Really.

So? That's the same for these days. If you see someone in their 30s, they were born in the 1980's.

@@ryangaming5556 not deep at all

@@bean7039 thank you. Not deep.

tit nipples It’s not deep but it’s interesting to think about considering someone that’s 60 today was born in about 1960 but back then someone age 60 (not old by any means) was born in the 19th century, which feels incredibly long ago. You have to be a sociopath to not be intrigued in the slightest.

@@CoolDrifty Its really not that deep.

Mynameis Bob have you seen a movie called Blast from the Past? I thought of it when I read your comment and the reaction the dad in that movie had to how much things had changed.

Isabel Ramirez IMO that movie illustrates perfectly how people and society changed over the decades.

Seriously 💯💯💯💯 it’s sooo fucked up these days

@@limon6592 add to that the amazing news that they'd live longer.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to that

Those days are long gone. This country has become a dystopian nightmare. 😮😮😮

Happy for who?..You think minorities were happy?..whites only…no jobs…racism everywhere?…sheesh

yea sir straight white oriole

people

I wish we could live like this too. Life seemed more happy and nice.

My wife and I retired to a very small, rural community. It has a bank, a service station, convenience store, library, medical clinic and a grocery store/meat locker. Our population is 300 and we thoroughly enjoy this small town life! We know everyone at all the businesses and we patronize them all we can - but we do make the 25 mile journey to town once a month for the bulk of our necessities, but there's nothing like what we have here - there. It's so hustle 'n bustle. No one smiles and says hello - but I try to when I catch a glance - or will hold a door for a stranger and wish them a good day. I haven't been to a big box store in over 20 years and don't miss it a bit! Oh, and our house and most in our neighborhood, were built in the late 1800s. We all tend to our homes with pride and we don't have too many issues with crime here.

@@RRRIBEYE I live on a small town but all there is for grocery is a local supermarket and Walmart and that's it. I would love to have a mom&pop grocery store, a bakery store, a butcher shop, a deli shop all within downtown since I love within walking distance to it. I dont care if it's a little higher in price

I live in Huntington Beach CA. We are small town big city feel. I have a mom and pop Iranian market that I shop at all the time. I know the cashiers and stockers. They’re great. Even the big box store I’m super friendly with majority of the workers there. That’s just kinda how it is in HB.

The neighborhood grocery stores were racist as hell

Even in big stores, if I see someone needing help and an employee isn't around I try to help. Being a '79 baby my parents taught me to be helpful and respectful.

for life

Yeah now you need to make $20 at 40 hrs a week to rent a room for $1200 a month, if you're lucky.

Note: they got an FHA loan

Anyone with a skill in demand usually have no problem finding a good paying job.

Honestly...& No internet

lyman135 We lived in a neighborhood where just about every morning one of the neighbors would stick her head out the window and yell “ coffees on”! Everyone knew everyone. No one had a t.v. Then (1948) kids were out side till the street lights went on. I was 6 years old. No 24 hour news cycle,no mobile phones

Mamma Mia many woman as well as men do not know how to grow old gracefully and look and dress like they just got out of bed

@Mamma Mia 😀😜🤗

rowdyrx sounds like shit my boi

People used to dress up to fly on a commercial airline. Now you see gym trunks, tank tops, and smell of too much body odor. People used to be much skinnier too. I think it's that kids ran around much more outside. Now they stay inside with computers, get driven everywhere instead of walking. And jeans - that's what farmers wore when working in the fields.

You really got along with everyone in school! You must have went to a miracle school where everyone acted like Mary Poppins and Peter Pan! People got bullied back in the day. The main reason was being born to a poor family.

Ahhhhhh sorry...we got bullied back in the day too 😢😊

@@patjones5723 You're right, but there was nothing better when you stood up to a bully and then became friends.

@@aggienodari45313 year old here, now you get bullied for simples things like having a old phone or for no reason at all

Have confidence my friend. That makes you stronger.

You are 90 above??

So your almost 100? You should NOT be spending your final years watching RU-vid😭🙏

I feel like we are in Great Depression right now to be honest, the homeless crisis, nobody wants to work anymore and living in car’s or outside is common these days because there’s no point of even making money to pay ridiculous amount of rent, high taxes, the cost of living is unbelievably high for the hourly wage, it’s unfortunate, life was so much better then I envy you for living the good times.

Why not!? What a horrible thing to say. Should this person be spending their final years with their loved ones? What if they don’t have any? Unbelievable.

@@lucasgallant8178you’re a moron show some respect if your parents raised you with any

Haha, you're funny. I like it.

Why would you want to???

Have you looked up people who still do this now? You can't tell its 2020 at their houses.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I have. I saw one family that lived like the 50s or early 60s. I wanted to join the family! 😀

@@juneberry1982Throughout the years, I've even been buying antique and/or vintage furniture for my house. Real wood furniture built to last. I have a Singer sewing machine, a Osterizer blender, etc...It all makes me feel better, the way I felt as a kid growing up, a much simpler life when things seemed to, for the most part, work as they should... I love watching "Clara's depression cooking" right here on RU-vid. That's just how my grandma and her way of life was 40, 50 years ago...

Trippy huh

Totally agree with you

with how things are going so far, i dont think anyone’s gonna be nostalgic for the 2020’s lol

Right like what 🥴

The 1950s were also atrocious in plenty of ways and people are nostalgic for it.

You dont look like you born 56. You look in the fourties

Some parents are lost at math . Teachers are supposed to teach that's why we pay them with hard earned tax money we earn at our jobs which we don't ask the teachers to come do our jobs.

Lol ikr

I think it's called the mid Atlantic accent, I saw it on RU-vid and it's pretty cool

@@jesushernandez6140 Its a pretty cool accent 😁😁😁

Back then 📺 were just coming out. The beatlea disnt even come out yet so guy probably had a narrators job on entire east coast.

He stayed busy

This is a real time machine.

You can thank the internet.

Many folks have thought of creating communities even towns that reflect the nostalgic values of that time. I would certainly love living in one.

I've been doing it as well.

Same

Wow! $25/week...sigh.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

35mm film cameras have a resolution of about 6-8k, as long as you have the appropriated film scanner, they only scanned in 480p back then because film scanners weren’t capable of more.

This was undoubtedly filmed under ideal lighting conditions, security cameras aren't often needed in broad daylight. There's also the size difference - a 50s camera could be as big as a briefcase (or three), compared to a modern camera that could be no bigger than a fingernail (minus battery or power supply)

It’s ok, not everyone is tech savvy.

Fr tho

Our new neighbor (lady in her 60's ) hates us. I said good morning to her a few months ago and she said: 'What do you mean by that?' A real sweetheart.

Just the way I like it

@TheNauseator you sound like a dysfunctional person, sorry for you.

I know and like my white neighbours on either side. Good people

What do you guys think caused this? Where did we go wrong?

you're forgetting the fact that this was the suburbs and a sizable chunk of americans were still poor famers

@@GeneralElectric202 We didn't live on a farm, but we were poor.

“Society has fallen” is just coded for “white male privilege is no longer socially acceptable or sanctioned by law. Society is far better for MOST people now than it was back then stop being myopic

It has Fallon due to color folks. Back in the white days were the best days

the 17 hundreds?

Ditto!

I love your response. Books and music were my joy as . I grew up in the 80s and 90s but I have similar memories and experiences as u. Thank u for reminding me.

I meant to say "as well"

Im pretty young 21. But my mom didn't want me to have a phone till I was 14. We had the same rule when the street lights come on you gotta run home. we got to stay out longer during the summer and I loved it. Also really cool story id cry if I ever got lost 😂

we didn't have street lights where I was raised it was all dirt roads and shacks I was told to be home before the coyotes came out at night

Amazing story! Oh how I wish I could’ve experienced a lifestyle like that in those days.

@@patfarmer9193 Thanks Pat. We are all 56 now and still best friends. We still blow each other shit just like we did when we were kids. It was a magical time to be a kid. We explored our surroundings without intervention, and talked about everything while we did it. We even named our dicks together. It was truly a blessed childhood. Sadly, one of us passed away last Monday.

@@madtater5948 That’s unfortunate

HoldShiftt2Run you mean 50s

He means as in age.

Its all the smoking

HoldShiftt2Run oh who cares!

@Jason Dubya-DEEZNUTS What is called traditional values? looking old? I come a place more conservative and traditional than yours. Trust me, I know traditional values, but we are talking about age here. I just thought it was funny when he said "young married couple" but they looked like they were in their mid 40's.

YES

I work, while Julia goes and spreads her legs around town. ALL DAY! That means she gets around. That is gross, but we have to make sure we get money.

The old day's were the best people had class and the world was normal

This is how I live now! I have 4 kids, cook almost every night, old cars, we know all the neighbors on the cul-de-sac, many church friends. You can build the life you want! It’s harder because we have so much advertising enticing us to profligate living!

@andapeterson5996 Well said I agree makes sense. Good for you it's good to know some people in America 🇺🇸 still have class and morals!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was born in 1965 and didn't get a store-bought haircut til I was close to 18 years old. Yes, we all wore hand-me-downs, so we'd better not be fatter than our older siblings :o) Mom made a lot of our clothes, cooked all our meals, and as you, Junbug, restaurants were only for 'special occasions'. Summers lasted forever, there were only three channels on TV, and Dad's word was law! Hey, any readers remember laying on the lawn, looking up at the clouds, and try to figure what the clouds looked like?!

Because they are probably living beyond their means...and using credit cards, etcetera...

Ikr!!!

Nico nico? Nii???

nice portrait

There is something in their voice I think I hear the same voices every time I hear these narrators back in their time😂 love it!

Same here

@Speaking Truth low awareness time more like...

@ isn't it past your bedtime grandad? ;)

@@1dayfree Go to sleep now son.

lorraine green sounds like my grandparents. What I would give to hear then lament about the “GoodO Ol’ Days”.

Be aware how terrible the world was back then...

*Sped up Funeral March for a Marionette ensues*

Me too

Racism?

@@bigdawg1448 nah it seen like a nicer time war just ended and everyone wanna to be happy

The good old white days. No color folks in sight ahh those were the days. All American 🇺🇸

When you have nothing else to gripe about, you pull out the race card! In spite of people like you, the 50s were the best of times!

Right. It was only in the seventies that one would begin lock the doors of the house and the car. Very happy to have had such a sorrowless youth, and very sorry as I see my grandchildren grow up in this dirty world.

My house was not like that!

Divorce was rare because they didn't have "no-fault" legislation, the first of which in the entire country was signed into law by California governor Ronald Reagan. Absolute fucking traitor to conservatism, yet retarded boomers worship that Goddamn demon to this day. Never EVER trust a neocon.

Divorce was also frowned upon even if the wife was beaten. You had to obey your husband even if he gave you black eyes. SMH

@@candacerain1 You've been watching too much Hollyweird fiction.

I hate everyone in my street

@@adrianocollinzo5712 😅😅

Maybe because you never try to meet or communicate with your neighbors

@@cloud_c5222 naw man i know what kinda people are in my street, not the kind of peoe you have round for tea. Utter filth bro.

Anyone who responded to the original poster and he himself, is always welcome to have tea with me.

And I am right there with ya Mommy😊.. "make sure u guys are inside when the street lights come on". I can still here my mother's voice lol....great memories @ that time🥰🦋🌻🙏🏽🕊💞.

happen to be just like moments, passing

That extra $40 he took out if his pocket really made the dream a reality.

My parents bought their first home in 1966. A triple decker in a working class boston. Neighborhood for $12,000 !. They told they saved for the $3,000 down payment for about 5yrs.charged their tenants about $125 a month! Crazy.....lol

That still exists in Wisconsin.

Then get misfigured in a horrible freak industrial accident.

@@RandDickson Really? Do you live there?.

lazoputz very nice comment, thanks for sharing

I actually still hang some of my laundry out on the line, sheets and jeans especially..

You're too young to be elderly.

lazoputz you're living the dream my friend. Nevermind all the silly people who want a Ferrari and a helicopter.. You can't take that nonsense with you when you're gone. But memories, memories of the good times live on forever with your loved ones. Grandkids will tell stories of you when they're old and gray. And in this way, you've all but earned immortality. Thanks for sharing your story. It brightened up my day.

+Micheline I felt attracted to the neighbor lady.

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

My neighbors and I interact with each other because all of our kids play together, we take turns mowing our elderly neighbor yard and keep the homeless degenerates off the street

Is this american thing?? Cause we still have strong relationship with neighbors here, i live in Asia btw

I live in a apartment in a big city and here noboby knows each other😌

Assuming they got along

@@cliffto6 very much so ...

Faint

@Patricia Masci There’s a lot of people who lived in the 50’s that are still alive now, so they are aware of those things :-D

They complain all the time bout price. Trust me my dad is 70 yrs ols

It all equals out. Back in those days the work vs cost still were issues.

This guy doesn't know how inflation works.

Same here, Sharon. There were still significant flaws in society for adult life, but as a child I had an idyllic, yet frugal, upbringing and I count myself lucky for it. 🐣➡️👵🏻

"Guys like us, we had it made, Those were the days...."

Yet one of our neighbors with an unlocked door lost her purse when someone came into her house (while she was gardening in back) and snatched it off the kitchen table. And my house was burglarized. And we lived in a nice neighborhood! After that, we all started locking our doors during the day (we'd always locked them before going to bed). This would be in the early 1970s.

@@Gail1Marie weird. We never locked doors during that time. But still if you compared that to today. That is a cake walk.

@@seekingtruth1110 My friend's family left to visit relatives, and somehow no one closed and locked the front door (it was summer, and the screen door was locked). The neighbors on either side of them were burglarized when they were gone, but the burglars skipped my friend's house. They evidently thought that because the door was open, someone was home.

If you were in America

"friendlier".... yeah maybe to other whites you were lmao

Jesse Cole, such a beautiful comment. God bless.

i would of just masterbated for fun

God bless you for appreciating and sharing.. Oh how rich you are with gratitude of your upbringing ~ If only we could turn back the hands of time. .I'm 53, and miss the great days of MY youth. Blessings to you!! Thank you for sharing..

If you had all those things then you weren't poor. At worst, you were lower middle class.

Jesse Cole Ahh...a clean house. How many no longer have that?

God bless you! God is good!!! ☝🏻✝️

You were very fortunate indeed. How wonderful to have a big family and so many siblings.

My mom has a Sears and Roebucks house. It's awesome!

Most people had to build their own homes then. There were not that many to go around.

I grew up in the 70's and my parent's house payment was $240. That included taxes. Today that same house is $240,000. I'm scared for my kids I really am. They will have to pay $60k for a car and $500k for a home. It's scary.

Maybe thousand's of catalog is what built the house.

@@wingmanalive Pay 5 grand for a good car, and rent somewhere to live. It's NEVER yours if they can take it away, so don't waste time on a mortgage. Ever.

Nandi the Bull those planet jobs paid good money, they were all Unionized and could provide a good living. Plus a new car was in reach for most middle class families. Nowadays all the cars are made in Mexico and China. So they can get away paying their workers a tiny fraction of what a union Ed American would make. Plus to add insult to injury a new car is unaffordable to most Americans. A new house wasn’t out of reach either if you could save for a down payment, same with college education.

I remember the early 60's was sweet!!!

Sun Bull I am not surprised cause this is still how it's like in India for middle-class families. My father was the only one to earn. We got education up to college debt-free and he built a home, bought a car while we were in middle school. He works in a government job. But here people don't use credit cards and save a lot, don't live extravagant lives.

Yep, then feminazis ruined it for literally everyone

Our house ran just fine with it. We had no internet. Basic prepaid phones. Bought used car w cash. House payments are often cheaper than rent. We ate less so we were healthier and we went outside more too. Then we got raises and I went to work. We got credit cards and loans to buy things we thought we wanted, that would likely end up discarded. We have more money and less yet less. We def have less time and more stress. We are in the middle of paying off all debt to go bake to absolutely baisc needs again. It is possible.

My mother had an old photo she took of my father when they were dating. That was back in the late '30s. They were out fishing that day, in a wooden rowboat. My dad had on a proper long sleeve shirt, a tie and spats on his shoes. FISHING! I asked my mother about Dad's attire and she shrugged and said men dressed properly in those days. She told me she'd never have set foot out of the house without doing her hair, doing her face, wearing a dress, hat, gloves, silk stockings with the seams straight in the back, and heels. She always wore nail polish. Bright red. That's just how it was.

My 24 year old son had to go to a funeral the other day. When he asked should he wear a suit I had to tell him no. Most would probably be in jeans & snow jackets.

@Frank Silvers Mine, too. She was always very particular about her appearance. I remember once incident when I was probably five years old - not old enough to cross the street on my own. It was probably Memorial Day, I'm guessing. I was on the street corner by our house and I could look down a couple of blocks towards the center of town, which was an old fashioned town square with a court house in the middle. I could hear and see a parade going on around the town square. Excited, I ran into the house and begged my mother to take me to the parade. Well, she had been doing housework and was dressed for the job, not for going out in public. She agreed to take me to the parade, but had to do her hair, touch up her make-up and get completely changed into a nice dress, a hat, gloves, heels, purse, looking presentable. Once she was done she started to walk me down the street towards the center of town. We were met by crowds walking in the other direction. The parade was over. My mother, a typical lady of the times, had spent so much time getting properly dressed for being seen in public, we missed the parade! So she took me home, cleaned me up to look proper and took me shopping instead. Not as much fun as a parade, but she figured as long as she was clean and tidy, no point wasting it! :-D

@@DoubleDogDare54 wow

The men were even in pants and collared shirts to mow their yards! I don't think that happened much even in the 40's & 50's. At least not down here in Florida. Now Sundays for church? Definitely everyone dressed up for that!

Valery Nicolle Lemus Sandoval oh please shut up

Valery Nicolle Lemus Sandoval it’s awful!!! I took my niece to work with me one time (small business owner) to show her work ethic, and to make some $ for a upcoming school trip. I found her 3 different times hiding, on her phone!! I was so pissed! 14 years old and addicted to the phone

Whole Food Plant Based back then you wouldn’t have been showing her a work ethic because she never would have accomplished anything.

The trade off would be you wouldn't be able to have a say in anything, if your husband beat you You would have to deal with it. Racism and sexism we're rampant. The only real thing that's different is that we're app connected anx now we hear about it. Back then people just got abused, in every way and they didn't say anything. Sure some parts were good, but others not so much.

Most of these films are social conditioning. They are intended to display what the writer believes is a picture perfect world. I wish the world was as perfect as a 1950s short film but that's just not reality.

I don't know how I arrived on this site eighter, but let me tell you, I;m glad I did.. I had no idea things that were so tough could be overcome with hard work and support from the love of family and friends.

imbadash Ikr

imbadash same here!

I wish we all could live in a nice neighborhood with good neighbors. In heaven we can. I hope to see you and all of your family there.

imbadash me too

That forty dollars was put in the bank along with other moneys that were put in the bank.

Must be a small or not very empty car!

I have a 2006 Honda van and it only take 30 bucks to fill what are you driving

@@Lazykitty261 Probably a car in California with $4.50 a gallon gas.

poetcomic1 that would make more sense but why would you live in California

Unfortunately when a certain kinda folk move in they destroy everything they touch.

Nope, just flies and parasites

And when they had to trow away lots of food because of it. Unless we stop demanding we can get every type of food we want at any time we can not go back. Probably can't even go back because of the population increase. You do know that the plastic used on food is more enviroment friendly then what we all would trow away if we didn't? Why do people think these problems are so easy to define and fix :')

Just toxic powders.

@Adam Defibaugh Such a smart ass aren't you.

@Retro Playz nope.

Yep - they didn't have to pay for cable/satellite.fiber connections, no internet fees, no cellphone fees, no giving the bank a slice of the pie with every purchase via debit/credit cards, and generally living within their means, an not on credit card debts. Were they really that worse off?

I got 3 3 kids and 2 homes plus my wife dont work all on an electricians salary. I dont drive brand new cars and we fo vacation at least once a year. It can be done but you have look for ways to g et t extra money and save. Read a book called the richest man in Babylon

Sure, but the earnings of the investor class and stockbrokers have quintupled since then, so that makes up for it. Right?

Yeah like how factory jobs here barely exist compared to then and you cant even afford a studio apartment on factory wage or minimum wage. You gotta work 2 or 3 jobs or go to college that's costs a fortune

It’s because the unions have been diminished over the years.

I live in Idaho. It is still like that where I live. I love it here. I have lived in Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Moving to Idaho was one of the smartest things I ever did.

Don't you mean where everyone looked like each other?

We still do. It’s a racially mixed neighborhood, and we all pretty much respect each other and are friendly.

Hey, neighbor! I live in Montana, by the western border. Just wanted to say, there was a lot of good times back then, but also a lot of bad. I went to a Catholic school, and they almost went broke trying to pay off the families of the kids who were molested and beaten by both the priests and nuns. In the 7th grade dad bought a Texaco station, and when I turned 16 we bought a tow truck. My uncle told my dad that he needed to get some equipment that would make us some good money, and help save lives, so we were the first people in Montana to get and use the jaws of life. No speed limit back then, you could drive and drink, and some very unsafe cars kinda ruined the 70's for me, but we were saving lives, and that made it better., But I saw way too much by the time I was 18. Nightmares, depression the whole enchilada. By the 80's,local fire departments started using the jaws to get folks out of wrecks, so I kinda drifted until I got a job driving night taxi. I figured if I could get drunks home, then less people would have to see the stuff I saw when I was 17. I bought rides, and made sure that people got home if they were drinking, no matter what. I tried to take the bad things I went through and make things just a little bit better. Now, I'm almost 66 years old, and I can say"I made a difference" times are what you make them, so be positive and make them better .

Still the same with me and our neighbours in Western New York. But kids aren't allowed to play by themselves but my wife is close to everyone in the neighbourhood.

AsTheWheelsTurn modern day slavery🤫

our society pushed us into a different lifestyle. in the 1970s Gloria steinham pushed women to go back to work not that there is anything wrong with women working outside the home we went from a one income one car and no cable TV to a two income and more than one car society and cable TV and Internet that will take us to any place we want to go online and people seem to think that more is better and that is not true for me I quit driving j use other means of transportation. when needed stalk up on necessary supplies so that I do not have to go to the store so much do not pay for auto insurance (not necessary if you do not own a car and use other means of transportation ) no car means I do not have to worry about auto maintenance or buying gas and yet I am still independent. people think not owning a car means losing your independence no it doesn't I walk a lot (so that means no gym fees for me) and ride three wheeler bike

Most people I know with 2 incomes still barely afford their house and living costs.

Actually even two people working won’t necessarily provide this comfort level of you live in an area like NJ. cost of living is so high.

Commie Trump and the evil Retardlicans and their stupid "trickle down economics" --- giving tax breaks to rich corporations does NOT benefit the working man one bit !!

As a Gen Z, you just described what I want to see and experience to a T. We shouldn’t want to bring the 50s back, it should already be here.

@@Erik_Ochoa013 Buddy the last decade that was like this was the 1990s and the early 2000s, up to 2008. Those were the best years of my life.

​@@madcat789ain't it the houseing crisis in 07

@@hoshimaruhajime7933 the crisis started slowly in 2007 and kicked off in 08.

Well said, exactly right. Those who were vulnerable to racism and sexism had a harder time in those days. The family shown here were part of the relatively lucky set.

I was born in 2000s but I wish I could go to that time when everyone seemed happier and relaxed. No social media and fakes. People seemed happier and relaxed and just enjoyed life

I was born in 1965- growing up even THEN was the BEST!

Veronica Christopher racism, sexism, homophobia and a myriad of other problems were rampant, I’d appreciate what you have.

Veronica NEVER mentioned ANY of those issues- she said slooow and simple- which are NOT related

i was definitely meant to be in the 20's early & 1900's those beaded gowns! traveling by ship and trains oh how I wish!!!!

You say as you write on the Internet lol

Even in the 70's when I was born (71) we only had three TV channels that went off the air every night. We didn't lock our car doors and we kids actually played outside. My mother wouldn't let us pile up on the couch in front of the TV. She made us get out and interact with the neighborhood.

Meh. It was just more time to listen to the family bitch about working and how much it sucks while watching them drink their day away while yelling at the kids for not cleaning the rooms correctly.

Says the imbecile on the internet.

Agustin Salas you’re acting like you can’t do that anymore

comets & blueberries ... remember cowering under our desks during air raid drills ?

Kathleen Macellis - Yes!! And I also remember wondering why we were crawling on the floor under a wood and steel desk to "protect ourselves" from something that could vaporize us in the blink of an eye!? 🤔 And nobody really had an answer for me when I asked. I was a precocious child, and tended to think and act and ask in terms of direct questions, expecting direct answers in return! I was in the 1st grade in 1963, and of course 2nd in 1964, and still recall grim faces and strange news reports on TV before I even started school when the Cuban missile crisis was going on, as well as later on just before Thanksgiving when President Kennedy was shot! That was a very strange time for me. Back then, students in all grades still rode the bus to school, including juniors and seniors. They rode the same bus I did when I was in 1st and 2nd grade, but they transferred to another bus at my school to get to their high school. I remember hearing the strangest conversations during the period of 1963-64 and 1964-65, when they were talking about some strange place (to me) called Viet Nam, and some stuff about the Army and fighting in another War. We weren't in it as heavily in 1963 as we were going to get yet, and where I grew up was heavily populated with all 5 branches of the military, so going to school with "military kids" was just a daily fact of life. They would come and go at the oddest times, and talked a lot about their fathers and older brothers being in it. The Army has two posts there, one of them Transportation HQ for the whole Army. The Air Force Base was Tactical Air Command HQ, which was renamed in the 90's to Combat Air Command (I think.) My husband was in the Air Force when we met and married, stationed at that base. The US Navy North Atlantic Fleet Headquarters is in Norfolk, VA, just "a hop, skip and a jump" down the road, and even the Coast Guard has a station in Yorktown. Military everywhere. There is also Newport News Shipbuilding right downtown, on the banks of the James River, and they build all the Navy submarines, and many aircraft carriers. They are also a repair and refit location, and many ships being repaired are "home ported" there during that time. The Marines are also stationed with the Navy, and Quantico Marine Base isn't that far away. So, seeing uniforms isn't all that unusual, and I remember lots of housing areas nearby that were only for military families. I became a military wife when we married, but we didn't live "in quarters" because it was just the two of us, no kids, and it seemed you couldn't even get quarters unless you had children back then! It would be another 20 years before housing was upgraded, rebuilt and built new by private companies who have contracted out to provide quarters for military families. They look like high grade apartment, townhouse and semi-detached quality homes now, with all kinds of amenities! And all it costs you is your housing allowance, which everyone who lives off base gets ANYWAY. But we got out well before any of that stuff happened, and lived off base. Anyway, enough ruminating! It's time for breakfast! 😉

the real purpose of covering beneath desks is for finding and identifying successfully the remains of the bodies under the collapsed buildings, good luck hiding from radiation.

Not that bad? You must be white...black kids feared nuclear annihilation and being lynched.....or the lynching of their parents

OO Luta I take it you lived through the era?

Lucky you.

God Bless you in Jesus Christ name.

Thank goodness I didn’t grow up in the 40s

Your as old as my dad!

@@dinoman-1skicoin384 Amen

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I AM mortified.

I would think so, am 63 and I am mortified. Disregard of property and life, we used to play wiffle ball in the street at night because nobody had ac , all colors of people and we had fun and were respectful.

I was born in 1951, now 70 and was mortified 30 years ago when wages went up, housing stayed the same and morality, character, respect and humanity started going down the drain. People worried more about the color of their skin, when they got their ‘monthly allowance’ and they didn’t have to work for what they needed, housing, transportation, healthcare and a job that would last more than 4 years. Now housing, transportation, healthcare, food and education has gone to hades in a hand basket.

If I was transported back to the 50’s as an adult, I’d be mortified.

Thank goodness I was born in '48. If I was 30 today I'd hang myself.

Your right. Sunday. Nothing was open except for church. It was called the blue law.

K Mart put an end to that rubbish. First one opened up in my neighborhood (about 3 miles from this house). Opened on a Sunday, and the cops were there.

I really miss that.

Which Year was that?

@@sharkkakirde1 1962

Their children/our parents turned out to be greedy, and voted for that "trickle down economics" bs. Boomers really took their childhoods for granted and destroyed it for their own kids and grandkids. It's so sad, because the adults who came from the great depression (their childhood) and lived this lifestyle did NOT want this to happen. But their boomer kids just shoved them into retirement homes, waited for them to die, and then took the money and squandered it on themselves.

School prayer was taken out of the public school in the 60's, that certainly didn't help. They kicked God out, and things have been going downhill ever since.

Media and Hollywood

We need to get back to this. No morals anymore.

​@@Frunobulax74 Most people own nothing they are just under the illusion they do. Miss house or car payments

I thought the same thing😩

Oil company created the plastic industry. They also created the bullshit about deforestation so we all switched to plastic to save the trees. Then they said we could recycle it. Which is another oil industry lie. Enjoy your green bullshit. It’s a a lie. Marketing

@@mothersarmsreadinesscoachi9360 plastic is still a bad thing

@@mothersarmsreadinesscoachi9360 You could always meet in the middle and bring your own reusable bags. It's what we do. We don't use plastic, and they're not open either.

I don't think plastic was invented then

That’s because that’s what people choose to make it. Everyone has to have a car payment, $1800 a month apartment, $200 a month new iPhone, cable, Netflix, credit cards, student debt, motorcycle payment, eating out daily, and the list goes on.

That is only if you live in America lol. In other countries you will not get a huge college debt

@@ruthnorman1922 Yes, sadly it's almost impossible in many cases to make a living without a car. If an area in America has Uber/Lyft it *could* work out. I know a lady who does that.

Almost. I know people who work 2 jobs and get barely any sleep here in the city and I literally cant imagine doing that. But rent here is incredibly high and the houses are impossible. Put your college debt on top of all of this and its hard to imagine ever having anything more in life than my simple lifestyle. Is that okay? Sure. When I think is that okay for my future children, no, no its not. But hey, there is always hope.

No it’s because you choose to you can get a trades job without going to college and make a more than easy life but I’m guessing you’re terrible at handling money

We would be honored by your presence, sir. I am 70 but have never visited England although legend has it that my predecessors came from England and Wales 175 years ago. This is still a great country if you visit the right places. Where I live is friendly and crime-free.

@@MrTruckerf Thanks Dale, which part of the US are you from ? ps just a snippet of information, when I was in the US in 1969 we went to golf club a fella recognised my accent and said he had been stationed in England during the war at a place called Tewksbury and did I know It,oh yes I knew it as I only lived eight miles from Tewkers as it was sometimes called. He reminisced with us. Even at my young age of 22 I remember thanking him for his service to freedom in WW2. God bless America, God save the King.

Did you grow up with a wringer-washing machine, like I did? (It still had to be plugged in, though).

Come to Asia then. We still hanging our clothes to dry them.

That's cause of your location.

God Bless you

Buckeye Bushcrafter come to the balkans, we still do most of that stuff actually all of the world does as long as you’re not in a major city

It reminds me so much of my childhood, I was born in 2002 in Slovakia. Is that now so different in the US?

@@katarinask139 Sounds like heaven

Oh, yes. The same for me. You write well.

Brilliant glimpse into the simple past, thanks.

Love your comments. Much was true for me, but we were white and middle class. It wasn’t such a great era for folks of color though.

Oh yes

Julia takes the entire FAHKIN' week to do the shopping!

While julia spreads her legs all around the neighborhood, ALL DAY!!!

That is gross, but we have to make sure we make money.

Heyo.

Life came at him fast apparently

*Czech

Zachary Benson 😂😂😂

Was he a draft Dodger?.Or was he too old?

@@Funeeman If he was hired on in 1936-1937 as a tool and die maker then his position was very likely considered essential to the war effort in 1941.

Alexx Soliss oh my gosh I laughed out loud!

Alexx Soliss it’s $4.03 if you count inflation

Alexx Soliss pesos.

Lol

It’s still worth the same it’s just our money is not JFK was to put a end to it but the people that Owen our money had him killed

Paula Schroder; $2.00 pr. hr. was a very good hourly wage, indeed back in the `50's and well into the `60's, also.

I was in grammar school in the fifties. My father worked for the DPW and he earned $86 a week. We had everything a family of five needed to have. We didn't have a car or a TV, but a lot of people didn't. I feel terrible for the young people of today - they will have terrible lives compared to us.

Paula Schroder , inflation generated by greedy corporations.

American greed, Banks the beginning of the corporate citizen - corporate entities that have more rights than real people

@@pilsudski36 you're right 🙄

Yep. My parents were the same. Dad cooked and did laundry too

whats ur age rn

WOW 😳

Rare were the men who did any domestic chores back then. You were lucky

Never knew any parents like that. You're either lying or your father was a beta.

My mom and her brother used to sleep on the front porch most summer nights.

Ummm, I still leave my screen door open. There are quite a few places in America outside of NY, LA and Chicago that are very quiet and peaceful.

If u live in certain mostly ethnocally homogeneous areas, u share enough cultural beliefs that trust is high. Multiculturalism ruinstrust amongst neighbors

uhm mostly everyone in Canada still do this. Only time we don’t is during winter.

And beef was 44 cents a fucking pound!!! & community was a real thing where problems were resolved with teachers, neighbors, and children!