Early marriage, my husband was a milk man in training. On one house, he was warned that the peoplevanted him to go in and put the milk in the refrigerator, but they had a little dog that would bite their heels. They had to try to beat the dog in and out. One morning, he caught the trainer. The bite scared the trainer so bad that he fell down and threw the milk. It broke and milk went everywhere. Such a mess. Thy had to clean it up. Anither delivery, the people had a big Doberman. He learned to throw an ice cream bar as far as he could and get the milk delivered before he finished it.
When I was growing up , I like so many S&h Green stamp books , I can still remember the taste of the glue , we bought camping gear with the stamps and went camping at starved Rock Illinois 🤣🤣🤣♦️♦️♦️‼️
70 years old - very old - remember these things. At one place we lived we had a drive-in theatre basically in our back-yard and the house wired for sound from the movie. Dad cut a deal with the theatre when they bought the place so we saw movies for free. Yes, the screen was very visible from the house.
Those were the best days growing up. As a kid on the weekends you stayed out all day until it Dinner time . Then you got to go out until it got dark. You played with your friends all day all over the neighborhoods instead of sitting in your room texting them. You carried a dime with you anytime you went out in case of emergency so you could call home on a pay phone.
I have four siblings and we did exactly that, we stayed out all day playing with the neighborhood kids and when it was time to clean up for supper mom has a specific whistle for each of us.
That's super true!! I have an uncle on my stepdad's side of the family and he's blond with blue eyes and 6'4. The other 2 boys are 5'8 TOPS with brown eyes and had dark brown hair but are bald and have been since their early 20s! However Scott still has a full head of hair and looks only like my grandmother LOL. If he wasn't the Milkman's kid then he was the Mailman's haha.
I babysat for three little girls way back when; a brunette, a blonde and a red head. The mom used to joke that their dad's were the milkman, the mailman and the meter man. LOL
Strange but good. Remember when we said SPAZ, COOL and all our other phrases. We were blessed to not have to go through what kids have to put up with today 💕🙏
I really got a kick from this one as I am a Boomer. Loved hearing the milkman delivering milk in the morning, and I’d swear it tasted better than market milk. I was one of the millions who saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I could hardly wait to see that show that night. Thanks for talking about my generation.
@@johnpoole8321 - I remember when “Hound Dog” came out, and we were just young kids, and we thought that was the most fun song we’d ever heard. 😢 Fun times.
I remember Beatlemania when I was little. My older cousins had one of those Beatle dolls and the boots. I thought they were the ultimate in cool. We had the follow-up in the 70s which was Rollermania, when the Bay City Rollers became popular. We had the short tartan trimmed pants and the tartan scarf with our favorite band member's name on it to wave at the concerts. Fun times indeed! 😊
My mother collected those and Gold Bell stamps. I remember her calling me over to the table and telling me to stick out my tongue. She would roll the stamps over my tongue and stick them in the book. I remember the time she caught putting postage stamps in the books. I can still hear her screaming!
Pasting green stamps into the booklets was one of my very first jobs at home. I really enjoyed it, especially when my mom's face lit up at a full book!
Up to the early 60's people typically turned those stamps in for a card table & matching folding chairs, or porch furniture. I recall the neighbor lady got a dutch oven.
I loved the Avon lady. I always got a tiny sample lipstick. We had blue chip stamps and green stamps, it was fun looking in the store at all the neat stuff they had. My grandmas basement was a little creepy. Full of coal beneath the shoot and what seemed like hundreds of jars of canned fruits and vegetables, an of course it was pretty dark. Occasionally my Mom would have chocolate milk delivered-it was expensive. And all the kids listened for the ice cream man in the summer. We also had Helms bakery trucks with these long, long drawers full of cakes, pies, donuts and bread. We four kids were sitting on the floor in front of the tv with our tv dinners. My Dad came home and surprised us with a new, very exuberant puppy who came running in and gobbled up each of our dinners. We loved it, my dad did not. It really was a great time to be a kid.
I honestly believe we lived in the very best time ever. Even with the social upheaval and the Vietnam war th. 60s were the greatest time to be alive. I remember all of these things and so much more. As another poster commented, we’ve lost so much.
It was a friendly time, a safe time, everybody knew everyone else and kept an eye out for each others children. There was no violence in schools, there were mothers who stayed home and Sundays were for church services and family dinners. Kids played without worry until those street lights came on and summer vacation was a free spirted time for kids to play with each other, building forts, endless street games, and sleepovers at each others house. A snow day was a "blessing" to be out of school and as soon as it was announced on the radio we all headed to the local hill to sled the day away. I cry for todays kids who have no earthly idea of what this was like.... it was a time that is sadly gone forever. We were the lucky ones to grow up at such an awesome time in America!
What a shame. Tell you what if I was born in the USA today I would move to the Far East. Or maybe Norway or the Netherlands. i would definitely NOT remain in this country. We didn't even have locks on our entry doors. And when we went to the beach here in FL we left our keys IN THE IGNITION so we didn't have to carry them down to the beach in case they became lost in the sand! Can you imagine that today?
...and we didn't have to wear safety helmets to ride a bike or stupid knee pads and numbered sun screens. We climbed up into trees, slept outside overnight in tents, walked to parks to swing as high as we could on swings, Climbed on high monkey bars, went as fast as possible on metal merry go rounds and fell or flew off at times, we often ran around bare footed on hot sunny sidewalks, got sun burned, jumped in leave piles/had leave fights, went sledding on the highest hills we'd find without adults, had snowball fights, and knew how to cross streets safely on our own, we'd be outside all day whenever off from school, we walked to school even in Kinder Garten in the cities. We actually loved being outside all day and early evenings on our own. It was authentic and purely spontaneous Inventive play until bedtime with windows open when it was warm or hot hearing crickets, cars driving near or in the distance, rain or the rustling of tree leaves in the breezes or winds. It was authentic and all good as granted. It was the utmost of actual living. If Baby Boomers are said to be spoiled it could only be true for the aforementioned above.
@@johnsherman6718 One of the first things I remember is my mom teaching me how to cross the street. We had damn good teachers. They taught us the 3 R’s. And our parents taught us about life. “ those were the days my friend, we thought they’ed never end.” But sadly they did. At 82 I have a few more years of the good times on you, but we both had the time of our lives. Have a great rest of your life John Sherman.
My dad was a milk man delivery to homes. Some people actually leave the door unlocked for him just to go on in . Times have really changed. S&h stamps were really neat. If you went on Wednesday to the store you got double stamps. My mom got several things throughout the years. We used regular cards on our bicycle spokes. It was a neat sound. Times have really changed. I remember all of these things. Life seemed so much simpler then. ❤️
I wasn't alive at any time in the 50s but wanna say drive-ins were still around in the 70's. The sixties were great in my book. So a magical time for children. No lash laws for the dogs. They were part of the neighborhood and would walk you home after the street lights came on. From a parents point of view at that time l can't say for sure what my parents thought. I think they had a good time too. 🙏
And one could adopt a dog or puppy at the SPCA for $15-$20, with no background checks or lengthy application processes, and you didn't need to register them at your town's borough hall and pay for a license in order to actually have them added to your family.
< No lash laws> Not like the leash laws they have now. These things are caused, in many cases, by lawsuits. We are a sue-happy society. Anybody is free to get those laws changed
I would too but only to visit. I've become too enamored of the electronics age to ever want to stay but spending a month or so back then would be aces.
@gregggoss2210,,, I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
I would NEVER have thought to put my baseball cards on my spokes! I put regular playing cards there! Of course, I was a Tom boy. We had 3 channels on the television, and the reception was not all that good... until our father had an antenna installed on our roof with a controller to point it more accurately. Yes, the Ed Sullivan show: the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Elvis Presley... shocked my mother who was watching; my father ignored it, reading his newspaper. As to schools, yes I had to learn how to use a slide rule; an electronic calculator was both an anomaly and a God send.
I was a tomboy too, and my dad also put up a roof antenna with a rotor for us. Thank goodness slide rules were not used when I took algebra/trig in high school! They seemed like a b***h to learn how to use, lol.
I remember trying to trick the milkman into delivering chocolate milk by leaving notes pretending to be from my mother. I suppose the fact that they were written in crayon probably tipped him off that they were fakes!
An "A" for the effort! When we lived near Albany, NY in the mid 70's, we used to get a 5 gallon container of milk delivered by the milkman. It had a handle on top and a convenient tap to dispense. Of course when nobody was around, I would just drink from the tap! It was amazing how fast we drank that 5 gallons. My Grandparents were serviced by the Lehigh Valley Dairy, and they were able to get O.J. and iced tea delivered. Everything was in cartons by then.
I remember the milk trucks but we also had the egg truck as well. We had a box on the porch that was insulted for those deliveries. I also helped a friend of mine on his news paper route riding our bikes all over town delivering news papers. We grew up mowing yards and raking leaves and then in the winter months shoveling snow. We always watched Bonanza along with Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom. The nightly news Huntly Brinkley report. Then after that was cartoons.
Mowing the lawn until my boyfriend made fun of me at 16 and I told my mother I wasn't going to do it anymore. I was the one to do everything and there was alot. At 75 tomorrow I'm still in shape. It gave me a good foundation for health. Yay babyboomers💕🙏✌️
If you can recall the insulated panels as being light gray in color with fuzzy edges, then like my family you had one with solid asbestos panels glued to all four inside and lid....found this out as an adult in my 30s.
Yes!!! Calculators were NOT ALLOWED in school. NOT EVEN DURING a study period. If you were found with one you might find yourself suspended. And one more thing. If you disrespected a teacher in ANY way; you had to face the WRATH of your parents, even after a possible suspension. To bad the nation has fallen so far. R. C. G. S.
It was a great time to be a kid! I was born at the end of 1961 and am at the tail end of the baby boomer generation. I have fond memories of being a teenager in my neighborhood in the 1970’s! I had great friends. We played baseball all summer long and played football during the cold weather months. It was a simpler time and life was good!
Yes...everyone played outside all the time. Such great memories. My son used to play outside and I remember when video games started to be a thing in the '80s and he would get frustrated with his friends who stopped going outside to play.
@@itsdiane2you11 Scientists now say "The longer one stares at a cell phone, the greater their danger to become a zombie. Really. This is what scientists now say. Really.
I was born in 1955 the year color TV came out. In the 70's I was working 3 jobs at a time. buying perfect low mile luxury cars from $50. to $350. That was a lot of money for me back then, but I have always been a great Saver of money. Had showroom cars like a 1959 Pontiac 2 dr. I bought from a guy who stopped in to buy 1 gal. of gas to make it to the junk yard to sell it. I asked, he said he would probably get $100.00 for it. I offered $125.00 if he would wait until fri. He agreed. So many good deals back then and I traveled a lot in my HI way floaters! Sure miss everything except the war.
I remember those years with fond memories. The milk that was delivered was in a glass bottle, it had a cardboard seal on the top with a tab you could just pull to get it open and the cream separated and was on top. He would place it in a square insulated box on our doorstep and inside the box was our next order from a piece of paper he left the day before. All we had to do was check what we wanted on the list for the next day. I remember mom getting us around the table licking those S&H green stamps to fill up the books. She got quite a few items from those books. I miss the drive ins, the playgrounds, the metal speakers with the armored cables that hooked on your car window and intermission time when we could make a run to the snack bar. I had no idea Bonanza ran that long but I do remember being surprised that Dan Blocker weighed ten pounds when he was born. I don't know if it was a regional thing at the time but what you didn't mention was the cotton candy man and MR Softee that would come around. Thanks for the reminders of better times it was a joy to watch.
We lived out in the country, but we had an ice cream man who stopped once a week, bringing delicious popsicles, drumsticks (the ones with the round scoop of ice cream, choc, nuts on top), and various other ice cream treats! We also had a bread man stop once a week!
Bonanza was long running besides Lorne Greene was Canadian but what about Gunsmoke? Kitty was into menopause while Matt was still rubbing the barrel of his metal not his flesh of a gun. Kitty didn't get pregnant because if no marriage, no pregnancy-good family value.
@@haroldharwell7078, So your ice cream man was entitled I see. Ours had a trike where the freezer was on front with handlebars that was the steering. He had to ring a bell as he went down the street. LOL
I still get my milk delivered early in the morning in glass bottles by a milkman - I've been doing it for years but during lockdown lots of people tried it and have continued. (UK).
I'm 75 and I remember all of this. Those were better days than now. We didn't have cell phones, no microwave ovens and our TV in 1954 had one channel. A year later CBS and ABC stations arrived. Much simpler times. Dad's worked and Mothers stayed home and raised the children. People were friendlier and more respectful. Then the mid 60s arrived with the Vietnam War heating up. That was the beginning politically of where we are now. A mess.
Interesting fact about those milk trucks. The driver did not sit down, as there was no seat. He stood up the whole time, because it was faster getting it on out of the truck. I know because I worked for a very brief time as a milkman in 1968. And when I say brief I mean less than a week, as it was not an easy job and I hated starting work at 3:00 in the morning.
Some, milk delivery trucks had foldable seats at least in the 50's. Made it easier to get in and out when there was only a short distance between stops.
I remember my milkman driver from 1966-1969 he was a good man when I was a kid when he didn't show up after a week I asked my grandpa " where is he?" he told me he died ,,,My milkman drove for "Roberts" and on TV commercials the jingle tune was "Roberts the dairy on the move" That was in my hometown of Plainfield Indiana .
I remember so many things watching this video. As kids and teenagers, we had real friends and talked to them personally instead of by social nets. Miss those simpler times, but we can never go back.
Here in rural Scotland our milk is still delivered (usually twice a week), by local dairy farmers selling organic milk (which still has the cream on top). The homogenous milk supplied in supermarkets, has almost no nutritional value, while calcium absorption is almost nil. Fresh milk is something completely different - and even has its own special taste
I'm a Gen Xer and remember going to a drive-in movie or two (the closest one to me closed down in 1988) and we had our milk delivered by a local dairy from the late 70's - mid 80's. My siblings and I used to collect baseball & football cards but never put them in our bike spokes. So glad I was a child in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's because those were great times!
Not to nitpick, but... no self-respecting baseball card collector would ever "display" his cards by pinning them to his bike, as that ruins them in pretty short order. If you wanted that sound, it was much better to use old playing cards, as they tend to be made of more durable material (often with plastic coatings), and they have no residual value to preserve.
We had the milk man and the dry cleaners guy come to our house. Dad played in a band and had to wear clean white starched shirts. The delivery guy would save part of his sandwich to give to the German Shepard who guarded the house. She looked forward to him coming around
I’m not even a baby boomer (I’m Gen-X) and I remember all of these things still existing throughout my childhood. The only one I didn’t personally experience was the milkman, however I was aware of such dairy services still existing in some areas. It was certainly still a popular concept on TV, so I was aware of it. And Mom, Grandma, and I used to fill out those S&H stamp booklets in the 70s. Good times. 🙂
Burning your fingers on the TV dinner when it was time to peel off the foil on the veggies and dessert, yep. Good times. And "58008" inverted on a red TI LED display HA... we had the most fun. Good one, thanks as always.
Gen X here. Our family had milk delivery until 1979-1980. They still used the old stand-up driver trucks as well. I remember in the summertime with the windows open, hearing the glass bottles clinking at 4-6 AM when he showed up.
I remember in the late 1950s we would ride out bikes behind the fog of the mosquito sprayer, little did we know we were breathing in cancerous DDT but I'm happy to report that I'm mow 71 and still kicking!
My first first "dream" job was as a milkman. I even talked him and my folks into letting me go with him on his rounds one summer! Imagine doing that today?
I remember them all…I work as an operator for 2.5 years on those cord boards before I took a job in outside plant. I loved working the information desk. When calculators 1st cam out they were mega expensive. The Isley milk truck delivered cottage cheese, cream, milk, buttermilk. There was a Nichols bakery truck that deliver bread in the summer ( so my mom didn’t have to heat up the house with baking bread then. We lived I. The country and their were delivery people for all kinds of things: Charlie Chips ( potato chips in metal cans), McNess (spices and flavorings like vanilla and such),…in the summer all the traveling salesman showed up like Fuller Brush, vacuum salesman, Bible salesman, etc. then there was the book mobile from the county library too! There were always people dropping by, the insurance man, the paster, all those sales people…there were more then I listed. Memories 😎
Encyclopedia salesman ‼️ My grandmother got me the world books. I learned so much. Countries and the people... fascinating ‼️ Geography and great information. Computers are fine but reading is an experience like no other. My Dad made me read the paper at 4. I chose the funny papers. He read the paper at 2. He became an attorney and Circuit Court Judge. Smart and funny, a real treat to be around 💕🙏✌️
Yes I remember the fruit and vegetable truck, the knife sharpener guy, and our milkman brought all kinds of stuff besides milk. Bread, pastry, potato chips, chocolate milk, and more.
I’m 69 remember some of this stuff well it was a time kids could go just about any where and do whatever they wanted and parents didn’t worry about us we need those days again 😢
Love the picture with Jack Kilby in it. He was co-inventor of the integrated circuit. Worked alongside my father at Globe Union in Milwaukee before going to T.I. Was a neighbor of ours for about 2 years also. He told Dad about the house for sale in his neighborhood that my parents wound up buying.
@@carolferguson19 Hi Carol, thank you very much for the compliment. Dad highly admired Jack Kilby. In fact, when Jack left Globe Union for Texas Instruments, Dad left shortly after also, going to work for Simplicity Outdoor Lawn & Garden in Port Washington, Wi.
In New York City back in those days, kids, ages 4 and older could go outside unsupervised to play with their friends and ride their tricycles or bikes around the neighborhood until dinner time. The only safety rule I can remember was if you wanted to cross the street, find an adult to take you and hold your hand. One of our big rites of passage was the day we got our parent's permission to cross the street all by ourselves! The world back then was so much simpler than today. Thanks for the memories.
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Interesting....parents actually taught their kids how to cross the road and to be responsible.....not today...here in Ann Arbor MI........there must be over 100/200 cross walks with flashing lites...because people today cant cross the road without the help of the local govt....so sad !!!!........so miss the world of my childhood!!
@@keithbrown8814 In kinniegarden (c. 1955) we got a decal with glue on the back to put on our door. It said: 'STOP at the corner LOOK both ways, WAIT until it's safe, WALK across the street.' I took that thing real seriously (I lived on the corner so it was of special interest to me). Anybody else get one of those?
@@mikezylstra7514 Don't remember that but I do remember "Let the Ball Roll". We sang it in auditorium as a safety reminder to not run into the street after the ball.
You were a kid. Kids don't have the stresses of adulthood, including facing your mortality. But kids back then did hear that the Russians could hit the red button and destroy the entire world in 5 minutes. But no stress.
Most of these are gen x too. Damn near everything you showed were up to and thru the 70's. I was a 60's kid and I remember all of this and I took my kids to the drive in and shoved TV diners down their gullet on TV trays
My son has the metal TV trays that my mom passed to me. These sat on your lap and had "groovy" '60s flowers on them. I saw one of them in an episode of the Walking Dead in a scene with Eugene. Flashback. My son's kids use them often while watching TV. 😊
@@mariebussinger6565 My mom also cooked for us...we never had frozen dinners. My little brother thought a Swanson's Chicken Pot Pie was the nest thing ever - he never had one until he visited me after I moved out. My mom also made many of our clothes. She even made me my first two piece bathing suit. I loved it!
Oh my goodness what a walk down memory lane. S&H green stamps. Mom would bring them home after grocery shopping and we would lick them and stick them in the book. My mom saved enough books for 1 Xmas present for each of us. What fun. 😊❤️
I bought a bunch of gear for scouting with Green Stamps. My mom got them at the supermarket and gave them to me as a supplement to my allowance. We went to a lot of drive in movies back then. My folks had three kids. There were two drive in theaters near to the only McDonald’s in the area. We’d go to McD and then a movie. It was fun. Calculators came out when I was in high school. A friend who came from a well to do family has a TI scientific calculator that was almost $500. I bought a basic one (add, subtract, multiply, divide and square root) for almost $50. I recently bought a scientific calculator at Dollar Tree for $1.00. Times have changed.
Good memories of growing up in the 50's and early 60's. We lived in the country so when we finally got telephone service, it was a party line with several other families on it. Generally the # of rings told you who the call was for. If you picked up to make a call, some of the other families may already be on the line chatting. Eavesdropping others calls was frequent! It was a law in Oklahoma back then that if someone got on with others and said they needed the line for an emergency, the others had to hang up and give them the line. If not, they could be charged. But if you faked an emergency, YOU could then be charged so no cheating!!
Omg I forgot about the party line‼️ Us kids would listen in. When you wanted to call out and someone was on it you had to wait unless it was an emergency 💕🙏✌️
Was just thinking the same thing, I'm a country boy, almost 40 miles to town. Those phones turned many in our community into what we call "gossips". Had to be careful what you said, cuz someone was sure to be listening. Dad hated it, was nice to get markets, but if you contracted a sale, the whole community knew about it. Still, I miss the old days. we went to church with maybe 20 or so people in the pews, and it seems like folks just knew what was right or wrong. Born in '49.
I was a U.S. MARINE in 1968 when my grandfather died. I was in Washington state at a school, and could not go home I called collect to my grandmother and had to tell the operator I wanted to call Gueydan La, and the number was 4321. She asked for the rest of the number, I told her that is it, no prefix no area code, just 4321. She finally got me connected. I was his first grandson, so it was a hard time.
@@campfireaddict6417 Sure enough. We had a code worked out with my parents for when I traveled somewhere such as back to school. I'd tell the Operator I wanted to make a "person-to-person" call at their number for some fictitious name we'd made up. My mom or dad would answer and when the O would say she has a p-2-p call for XXXXX, they'd say "he's not here right now, call back later." That meant I'd arrived okay and so no charges. 🙂
We had Milk, Wonder bread, and Ice delivered! No store savings stamps that I remember in Canada! Here is one you missed. Who remembers getting Margarine in bags with a red dot, that you had to massage to get it yellow!? lol. TV didn't come to our area till the late 50's! Mum got her soaps on the radio! Steam trains! The kids used hockey cards in their spokes. Those of us with out bikes use to play various games, by flicking them against a wall! Born in 1948! great to be alive!
I remember all of these things. I was 13 when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan. Not one kid in the neighborhood missed it. It swept the nation. Many garage bands sprouted up due to the "British Invasion" as it was called. Mom always saved Green Stamps. Our house had a "Milk Chute" where the Milk man placed the milk. This was when I was a kid in Pontiac, Michigan. Good times!
That Ed show - the 3 in a row changed my punk ass 12 year old life. I moved later from CT at 23 to LA and worked at Capitol because of them. Mom and step-Dad loved Beatles and were hip so life through the 60s was very cool. Today I sit retired in N Hollywood turning 70 with my guitars still multi tracking my ass off for no other reason than fun. Still have my 16 magazines and LPs and about 100 books and Beatle stuff I harvested within arms reach of me. Long Live the Invasion!!! lol ☮
I used squashed up gallon milk jugs for a unique glug glug sound on my bike spokes however that would loosen up the spokes which dad didn't approve of. The Sealtest milk truck home deliveries were a common thing plus mom would buy us ice cream and fudge pop sickles right off the truck. Dad took us kids into a big city nearby and bought us handheld transistor radios from Kmart. Mom collected S&H stamps. Park and Shop was one of the grocery supermarkets that she shopped at. This was a time long before convenience stores were a thing in that mostly every business was closed on Sunday and you had to make sure that you got your shopping and other needs done by Saturday night
We never had milk delivered but our next door neighbor did. We would time our mornings by him. We would hear him turn off the motor, slide the door open, hear the glass bottles clinking, heard him walk up the steps and then the sounds were reversed. That meant I had to leave the house in 5 minutes to go to school.
Yea I'm a late boomer born near the end of 64.i remember seeing everything with the exception of the milk man.they we're gone where I was.we were on a telephone party line until my sister started dating boys and tied it up all time and we were kicked off it lol
Our apartment in SoCal in 1959 had a narrow driveway with tiny stoops to the back doors to access one of the parking areas. The door was unlocked with the refrigerator near the door with the empties between the door and the fridge. The milkman would come inside and he would put the order in the refrigerator, take the empties and shut the door. We had a bakery delivery that we kids called the Donut Man. S&H Green Stamps were a thing until the discount chains such as Target or K-Mart put them out of business.
Clipping baseball cards to your bicycle was not a way to show off your collection. It was only about the sound. You certainly wouldn't do that to your favorite cards. Sometimes, we used regular playing cards.
@Francis Busa was like a abacus..but no spheres..flat like calculator non electric..just think five slides you moved up and down..can see it in my mind just don't recall name
When I was in college in 1963, a classmate whose father worked for a supermarket said that the chains had agreed among themselves to ditch green stamps in the future. The professor wouldn’t believe it, but he was vindicated.
In the late 50s and early 60s, I recall my mother buying eggs from the "egg man," who did home deliveries to his customers in a paneled station wagon that I would kill to own now. These little life touches that seemed so normal then now appear strange and foreign. Amazing how 50 years will alter our perception.
I remember seeing Planet of the Apes at the drive-in and dad had the wagon backed up facing the screen. Three or four of us kids piled in the back with pillows and blankets and the back hatch open. Dad and mom in lawn chairs at back of car and a cooler with "pop". Good times
I also saw Planet of the Apes at a drive-in, but on a date!😁 Probably not the best choice of movies, but it may have been the best movie at that time!?
Small transistor radio to listen to the World Series the games played in the daytime during school hours. The teacher knew we were listening but let us get away with it during class.
My earlist memory of the Milkman was the (Draft) Horse & Cart. The horse would respond to woah and get up commands but usually worked in silence knowing exactly where to go and stop. Usually, the Milkman had a hard time keeping up to the horse!
Drive in theaters were a cheaper way for my parents to take the whole family to the movies in the early 60's; and by the late 60's a place where me and my friends could watch films while telling jokes and smoking a shitload of dope. Good times!
It wasn't that simple. I remember very well the tumultuous 1960s and I was born in 1955. I still remember the scenes shown on TV of the Civil Rights marchers and Freedom Riders being attacked by "law enforcement " in the South. Then there were the assassinations, the anti-war protests, the urban riots, and the significant cultural changes. Maybe I was just paying more attention than most kids.
We had a milk chute through the wall in the breakfast room. It was small and as a young kid they always put me through it and had to push me in. The floor was a ways down. I hated it. They always forgot the keys ‼️ I forgot all about it. My older sister was too big. As I got older and they had to push harder I told them I wasn't going to do it again ‼️ The milk was fun to get. My mom would ask if the milk came yet. It was Twin Pines and they had cottage cheese with pineapple in it, that was a treat. Times were good and fun. Lots of friends in the neighborhood. We made our own fun climbing trees, going to the movies on Saturday and meeting your friends. Pogo sticks, little bikes with training wheels, hula hoops, bongo boards, roller skates, ice skating in the winter, horseback riding and swimming. Go to the corner store and get cigarettes and meat for my mom. Go to the office with my dad on Saturdays and not make a sound. I would go up and down 17 flights of back stairs in the building. The good old days. BEST GENERATION. First generation to make more than their parents due to the Rock and Roll generation 💕 I was proposed to by a famous guitarist. Christine Lahti is most accomplished actor of our generation. My best friends sister. It all could never be duplicated. The generation that won't fade away❗🎶🌅🏞️🏖️🎶🙏✌️💖🤙
I can remember all the things you mentioned, we also had the bread man come every day. It was Bond bread. They had different types of bread rolls, and they had some sweets, a glazed, oblong doughnut, which I loved as a kid. We had the seal test Milkman come my neighborhood, Abbotts milk come to their house. We also have the Fuller brush man come around the neighborhood, we even had a rag man come in his horse and wagon even though I live in the city, he was there. A lot of good times playing outside and going to the woods. Thank you for these memories! 8:05
We still have milk delivery in Western Washington State. I never knew anyone who clipped baseball cards to a bike. We still have a drive in here. Westerns set in the high country are still popular. Boy bands are still out there, tv dinners are still a thing, so not much has really changed.
Happy Mother’s Day. My mom was a telephone operator for bell telephone company. She started in Lehighton pa and retired in the late 1980s from Allentown pa. The company is now Verizon and she is still going 85 years young
Oh how well I remember all of these! On cold winter mornings when getting the bottles of just-delivered milk, the cold air forced about an inch and a half of pure white cream to the tops of the bottles. You had to shake the bottles to get the cream evenly distributed (or else try to gobble the cream up if Mom wasn't looking). Speaking of Mom, we would tease her that if our house ever caught fire she would risk life and limb in order to save her cache of S&H Green Stamp books.
Yup...remember licking cream off the paper tops when I took the bottles to the frig. Had to shake the bottles to mix the cream into the milk. Later homogenizing milk kept the cream from separating..
I remember the milkman, I still remember his name even. I used green stamps to buy my first deep sea fishing pole. Never did the card motor sound thing. My wife and I did our first date at a drive in movie. Saw Bonanza a few times but not a huge fan. I saw her standing there was my fave. Only ate one or two swanson. Calculators were not allowed in my school. I talked to operators.
Our milk cow faithfully delivered the milk every single day, no holidays off. It was nice & warm on our cereal on a cold winter morn. I also still have items purchased with green stamps. A different store in our city gave out a yellow stamps and you would order items by mail in a catalog.
