Footage of two older gentleman shopping at a Green Hill grocery store in St. Joseph, Missouri. Shots around the market, a Pepsi vending machine, various magazine covers including one with Columbo on the front of TV Guide.
They already were in control. It was just far too hidden from the public. Nixon was president then. I wasn't even a year old. Problems existed. Everyone looked controlled more than today. At least they talked to each other more, and were polite.
He was also checking prices..back then they were marked with an ink stamp, sometimes the older ones on the shelf were stamped a cheaper price. No bar codes.
@@ejammy1906 we use to wash plastic bags, bread bags to reuse. Hang them from corner tip in closed cabinet above the counter to dry. We are so wasteful now aren't we? I'm 67.
Omg yes! I would ask for extra bags so they wouldn't have any creases in them.😊 My mom got a whole pot and pan set with them green stamps! Literally everyone in the country collected green stamps! Ah the good old days!
@@agoo7581 I’ve said it’s a given on any old video from about pre-2000 you see the same two comments repeated: 1. Nobody looking at their phones 2. No fat people
@@scottkalinowski7185 I think the meaning behind that is that people aren’t very nice to each other these days. There is always someone scanning comments looking to leave a rude reply to someone’s comment.
My dad used to work at a supermarket like this and he could support a family of 3 kids. He then became store manager and we bought a house about 50 miles north of NYC. It was a brand new development and our neighbors were a firemen, a teacher, a salesman, and one was even a doctor. We all just lived normal lives without showing off. I lived there from 2 until 13 and I still have pleasant dreams of that home.
Great comment. That was the original concept of the American Dream. Not trying to make all your fellow citizens poor, but only trying to provide a decent life for your family.
I was 5 when this was filmed. I got dragged to the grocery store almost daily with my mother. The shoppers moved more slowly then, made eye contact with each other and greeted each other. In that respect, it was a much better time and worthy of being missed.
People looked calm because they didn't watch political news every minute of the day. Now it's nothing but polarized angry brainwashed folks. The music has nothing to do with it.
@@jimklipper6022 One little thing in today's "society", troubles are equal to Vietnam x Exponentially worse...Vietnam would be over in 3yrs...Your World War(s) are only ramping up
Filmed in March 1972 because when the guy was checking out I can just make out the TV guide from March 25, 1972 with Peter Falk on the cover. And the Family Circle magazine is the April 1972 edition.
That was a few days before my 4th birthday! What a different world! While I am nostalgic for the past and friends and relatives who are no longer with us, there was this War in Vietnam going on and it wasn't going well. 51 years later and I think the country, if not the rest of the world is in a worse place, simply because people have lost all sense of civility and the concept of democracy.
Same. The music, the clothes, the way the products look… i can watch these for hours and just think about everyone and how they all dealt with similar, but different lives than we today. No internet must of been a weird time.
When people cared about their appearance. I am 31 and I make every effort to make sure I look cleaned up and spiffy to go out in public. Idiots half my age walking with their ass hanging out of their underwear and pants on their knees or smelling like drugs, or wearing clothes so food stained that looked like they fed a gorilla with...sickening.
When the government wants more power over the people they use a formula called Problem Reaction Solution. They create a problem (like school shootings), they get the desired outrage of the public ("oh we need to get rid of guns to save the children") they then implement their preplanned agenda of DISARMING LAW ABIDING AMERICANS. After that, they do exactly what ever government in past history has done to their people after they disarm them: GENOCIDE.
I was 12 in 1972 and I remember the sight, sounds and unique smell of a grocery store like yesterday. Grocery stores were much smaller than today's stores.
The grocery stores used to be easy to shop in. Often there was assistance getting groceries outside. I remember the song that's playing. I miss Muzak when I find myself trying to cover my ears just to get through the store and it's horrible, loud "music." I remember when the cigarette cartons were right on the end by the cashiers. They were around $5 a carton at that time. I remember mostly women clerks and shoppers, however.
Interesting to see the differences in 1972: - no plastic bags - manual register - no credit or debit cards - cash or check only - no candy or gum at register - no barcode scanner - separate scale to weigh produce - smoking in store - Open cigarette inventory (Cigarette Department at 7:13)
I noticed that with the potatoes ... in that heavy paper bag with the net window ... vs. now they're ALL in plastic bags. At first, I didn't know if it was 1970s cat litter or potatoes.
people collect old cereal boxes like Quisp and Quake . If you could snatch a dozen of them and come back to the future- you'd make your $1000.00 back EASY (probably triple it too !)
ah you missed it by 8 years. i had a store in my town that hadn't been renovated in decades. the registers only recently then. still ran the tapes. the old manager retired and sold it
@@pippishortstocking7913 And I could not afford steak back then. I was making $1.25 hour...farm work: Hoeing/chopping cotton, cutting broom-corn, fixing fence, etc. Steak was a far off dream. Hog and chicken I could afford, same as today.
I was 10 years old when this was filmed and remember it like it was yesterday. All those cigarettes out on display, was such an ordinary thing! My mom used to send me to the market with a shopping list that included a couple packs of Winstons for my old man, I was never questioned. All soda pop came in glass bottles, a giant bag of potato chips was 49 cents and a 2 pack of Hostess Cupcakes was 25 cents. 🙂
Blows my mind how he lit up a cigarette in the check out line. And look at that register...it looks ancient. So cool how everything use to be. I was 4 years old in 1972. People use to never be in a rush back then. Today if you take out your credit too slowly people have daggers' in their eyes.
@ambienthangout Vast improvement? No. Only to little wimps that want to control other people. I'm not even a smoker, and I can't stand your non-smoking bs.
If only you knew how badly we are getting screwed over.....if only everyone knew, the govt and globalists would all be swinging by the necks from the nearest bridges and lamp posts......
Illegals and globalization are the two biggest factors…the country was 88% white in 1970 according to the census…all of Western European work ethic and values
I wasn't even born I was born in 1974 but one of my brothers was born in 1972. Everything look so calm at the supermarket nothing like 2023. Rest in peace to the old folks with the shopping cars
Well they have figured out with those happy tunes or music makes people happy. Music made of frequencies, now they use frequencies to hurt people through 5g frequencies. Same principle. Sick world today. Be grateful you had these wonderful memories.
Wow, this takes me back to my past, I was born in 64'. People smoking in public, the cashier wearing a shirt and tie. The sounds in the store, bells on the cash register, paper bags, etc.
I grew up in a small town then. We had a penny candy store(can taste the wax on the tiny soda candy) and a made from scratch Ice Cream + soda jerk shop.
@@NateTheGnat I'm thinking it was more like the 1980s when it all changed. In the 1980s a grocery store trip would look similar to going to your local supermarket now. I was a cashier in the mid 1980s and the cash register was electronic and the first one I ever saw too. Most mothers were no longer housewives so grocery shopping was no longer so friendly . Everybody in a hurry. Get in and get out.
@@MrTruckerf No because "they" were not in control back then. Not to the degree "they" are now. We were a truly FREE AMERICA back then. "America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, sell it off. We will turn it into the world's largest welfare state." ~Netanyahu "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” Gutle Schnapner Rothschild "Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. Let us falsify the scales by deceit, That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes-Even sell the chaff with the wheat..."Amos 8:5-7 "The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Deuteronomy 28:43-44 The "stranger among us" is the FED aka Rothschilds aka Wroth Children of Cain/Esau/Synagogue of Satan-Rev 2:9 and 3:9 They were expelled from more than 109 countries in the past, 359 times for a reason.
@@henrystowe6217 I guess we are just old fashioned Henry ...Do you remember the lil neighborhood corner markets ? Such sweet times ...I miss those too...
The RU-vid algorithm somehow brought me here but it was well worth it. It's crazy to think that even if someone was only 27 in this video they'd already be older than the average life expectancy in the United States right now. The two older gentleman probably have been gone for 30 or 35 years now. I'm an 80's baby but do remember a slightly more relaxed time when I was younger. I cannot even stand going shopping unless it's first thing in the morning or a little before closing.
I was telling my neighbors about how it used to be. 10 cents for can of biscuits. 25 cent can goods. 99 cent 2 liter coke cola. Name brand stuff, not generic. And let us not forget 50 cent per gallon gas. I had job at neighborhood Shellmart#12, and mind you, you earned that $3.15 per hour.
This was 4 years before I was born. Life seemed much more simple back then. The cashiers actually had to know math and they were respectful and well dressed. Groceries were a lot cheaper. I bought 4 items a few days ago and spent $60! I can’t believe there’s cashiers and a bagger. Now you have to do everything yourself without the paycheck.
The grocery store I go to has a bagger, and takes to the pickup when I'm done, plus puts the groceries in the cab. Butchers in the back working cutting/packaging meat. Someone on the floor always helping customers find stuff. Small Mom & Pop store.
they would look at your money and say it was counterfeit, since it was probably printed after 1972. and your cards wouldn't work either. you'd have to go work at the store to make money and you'd earn maybe 10 dollars a day.
@@vampirerobot Is there an explanation of who the original documentarian was? This is such an interesting collection. How did it get to be assembled in the first place? Whoever did the original filming did us all a favor!
Did anyone sit underneath the cart like me and my brother? In the 80s Los Angeles had a grocery store called Alpha Beta and me and my brother both fit under the cart and we would stay there the whole shopping trip. Made it easy for my mom.
watching this made me tear up a little,..such a different time than today,..everything seemed slower,..I loved see the Brach's candy,..that was my grandmothers favorite
I was born in 1989, 17 years before this but even as a small child in the early to mid 90s, going to the supermarket was such a fun adventure! I used to love going to Wegmans with my mom, but I’ve barely gone over the last few years. Now I’m an Aldi shopper. This video is AMAZING! The prices, the clothes, the CIGARETTE department … 😲RU-vid is the closest thing to a Time Machine that we’ll ever have.
This truly brings me back to a time when the world was different! It's crazy how life is just so different. No masks no TikTok no stress life was good when this back then
Yup was born in 1965 and went shopping with Mama sat right up front in the 🛒 as a toddler she bought a whole lot of groceries back then for $25-$30 for a family of 6 . Wished we can bring those days back again 🌷💛
I was 7 years old and still remember the sounds the big clunky register made and the smell of the paper bags. The baggers were skilled at placing your items in the tall paper bags and were always careful to put the fragile items on top. Such a quiet peaceful time when no one was angry or in a rush. Those days are gone forever.
Thank you! ( former bagger). How about the smell of freshly ground coffee... coffee beans were ground at checkout. A&P did this. It was called 8-oclock coffee?
A few years ago, I was buying just a hot rotisserie chicken and half a gallon of ice cream. The bagger had placed the ice cream on the top of hot chicken. He was probably still in a junior or senior high school because it was Saturday. I asked him to re-pack the items in two separate bags because the i-cream and chicken will ruin each other... It was probably like 10 years ago, but I am l smiling while typing it. 😂
These Films are very relaxing! If RU-vid would have existed back in 1972 who knows the type of vloggers shopping in those times we could have seen now! I remember going to the supermarket in the 80s and saw similar shipping experiences like this video. Nowadays, times are so different, you can never see a time capsule such as this one!
No 500-lb. idiots racing around on motorized carts, crowds blocking isles or drugged-out spaceshots ripping up the shelves. The cashiers spoke English and could count change. Wouldn't mind going back to that time; I guess I just didn't appreciate it then. Hard to believe it was more than half a century ago.
I was a baby in 1972,I still can relate to calmer Grocery Stores like this when I was 5 & so on. Even in the 80’s Grocery Stores were more hassle free then they are today. Thanks for posting this video!
I was 14 at the time. I forgot about those big half-gallon cans of juice that you needed a can opener for. The Libbys label had just been changed about that time. Anybody remember the jingle: “When it says Libbys Libbys Libbys on the label label label, you will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”? In the early 70’s my favorite songs were the Chi lites’ “Oh, Girl” and “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps. Still love that music! ❤👋🏻
That cash register brought back memories of my first job, in high school, in 1978-79. I worked in an older grocery store. The newer stores had more modern registers. I loved being a grocery store cashier.
I wonder how many cashiers today would say they love their jobs? And all they have to do is scan, not manually enter everything. But they probably have a lot more crazy people to deal with today, depending on where they work
Once the clerk told me the power was out and they could give change. I said, How do you think we did it before computers? I may as well asked her to compute Pi to the 9th digit !
@@preposterous23 Yeah, I had this situation, when I gave young sale clerk a nickel, so she would give a dime for a change instead of nickel. She looked at me as I was out of this world.
It sure reminds me of the grocery market in my neighborhood in NYC that closed because of rent hike. I cried for months and still get choked up thinking about it. It played great music. Although they have other locations, the original one was one of a kind and felt like home. There is one other store that looks a lot like this one in the video and I hope it stays open forever. My heart can't take another original loss. It's hard enough so many mom an pop stores, where the owners knew you, are now gone.
So cool to see these time capsules. I was born in 1965 I vividly remember going to the local town A&P with my parents in the early 70's. Every time I grind up some eight O clock coffees that wonderful smell transports me back.
My Goodness! 1972. That was the year the Oakland A's took the series from Cincinnati! I was 10 years old. I was reading comics that cost 15 -20 cents each! Pinball machines were one game for a dime and 3 games for a quarter. Gas was 25-30 cents a gallon. What a time that was!
😅 Pinball machines !!! I use to love playing those, and I never had enough quarters to keep playing. What happened to them ? I haven't seen a pinball machine in over 35 years.
Wow! The old S&H Green stamp machine above the cash register sure brought back great memories! Kids today will never know the pleasure of saving up books all year long to buy Christmas gifts at the Green stamp store. Well, that's what mom and dad did with them anyway.
I think they've been replaced in large part now by credit card or supermarket reward points. My regular supermarket gives rewards in fuel points, which can save users up to $1 per gallon for a fill-up.
@@jehobden I agree, I use the points from Fryes food store in Phoenix to get diesel or gas. But the thing about using the rewards points they are useless unless you make another purchase even if it’s at a discounted price. Marketing at its best!! Lol
My parents used S&H green stamps to buy my baby bassinet along with many other things. I can still remember when I was little watching Mom & Dad pasting green stamps in the booklets.
I was 18 and already two years into my grocery career when this was filmed. I had just progressed from bagger to checker/stocker. We all had the old Garvey price markers hanging like tails on our belts and our thumbs were blue from the ink. I used to call the chore of sweeping "wiping butts" because the floor was littered with cigarette butts.
I remember I worked at a grocery store at age 14. That would never be allowed today. Then my second job at age 16 at the local airport! It sure beat flipping burgers.
I remember going to the grocery store with my mom when I was a young kid in the mid 70s and she’d spend about $100 and leave with about 3 full grocery carts full of groceries, enough to last about the whole month and we were a family of 5 at the time. I vividly remember this because at the time, I thought $100 was an extremely large amount of money and also about a week ago, I was telling a younger friend of mine that there was a time when cigarettes and porno mags were just sold out in the open. They weren’t behind the register and this kinda freaked him out.
Yes.....a person could eat 7 days on $20 back then. I was 22 then and remember well. If you were careful, you'd spend even less. So your story is spot on.😊
I remember coming up in the 80s/90s and being fascinated by the colors and architecture of a lot of these older retail buildings from the 60s and 70s. A lot of it got covered up in the 80s with beige and pastels. A lot of it also met the wrecking ball. Despite what younger people think, things started to take on a very generic look in the 1980s that’s just worsened over the years. It wasn’t all neon lights and exciting. A lot of it was cool leftovers with a boring facelift. At least that’s how I remember this era. It’s a time when a lot of vibrant cool looking stuff was covered up with a coat of beige, or completely remodeled to look unremarkable and homogenized. There were exceptions, but not many.
Yep. I remember the 80s being grey and dreadful and boring as well. All the architecture going up was hideous. I'm a brooklyn born and raised 'kid' from 81 myself. And to comment on graffiti... I think people are anti-graffitti in general, just enjoy the style. I don't like graffiti. I like murals.
Actually that's surprising, but you were born in 81 so you didn't get it. The 80s were far superior. The stone exterior, green marble on banks. It was the 90s where everything had to be refurbished and clean and modern and look like a hospital room. Things were still good in the 80s until amateur flippers ruined things in the 90s.
The cash register is awesome! Around this time, I used to work at a well known store in Ann Arbor called Goodyear's. It had a lot of imports and was pretty upscale. It had been founded by German immigrants. It also was outfitted with pneumatic tubes from every department that led to the central office area. The sales person would put the money, or credit request in the container and then whoosh it up to me, in the office area. I would make change from the tray where the containers landed, and send the money back to them in the container. There were approximately 20 of these pneumatic tubes, and sometimes, the containers would come out and bounce off unto the floor. Especially during the holiday season when it was very busy. I also had to go look up their credit account before I could approve their credit purchase. And also, I would get notes from the sales people asking for an aspirin, or other requests/communications. I miss the simplicity of that system, for sure.
As a child of late 60"s and all throughout the 70"s I can remember going to grocery store with mom can remember on Friday if we went to fedmart with mom sometimes we would get a treat after shopping. To stop in the little restaurant area and have something like a doughnut or something similar. It was a big treat for us. Also if I stayed the night on Thursday during the summer. I would get to go on Friday morning with my Grandpa he did the weekly shopping for grandma and him. It was neat to get up early on Friday morning have breakfast of fruitloops this was in 1973 until 77 can remember Grandpa staring up the truck and he and I would go to food basket around 8:30 because they did not open until 9 am. So we would be the only vehicle in the parking lot. Well just a little before 9 you would see one of the employees unlock the door and turn on the lights and we would go in Grandpa was sometimes the only customer in the store. These were when things like grocery stores close at 9 pm or other stores would be closed on Sunday it was different times. I will say glad I had the privilege of going with Grandpa and although he has been gone since 1977 I can still have very clear memories of being with him riding in his truck going to Food basket
Very sweet memory. We grew up in California and my grandparents in Burbank, CA. Hughes market was THE store. Loved going there with them. My brother caught on to the returning of the shopping carts for the 25 cent ticket 😂😂HE made a lot and helped other shoppers. I miss KMart so much. Broadway too!
@@lisalee2885 oh mom was a regular shopper of k mart. I can remember many times the icee machine running and sometimes if we were good in the store mom would takes us to get a treat at the restaurant in the back of store I can remember many times standing still in boys department so mom could hold pants up to me to check if length was the same. I remember one night my sister and I were at k mart with mom and they were about to close the store and I thought WOW were out really late. Of course this was 1974 and at that time 9 pm was late. Lol. Mom didn't go to Broadway. But can remember sears was a staple for mom and dad .it's a little sad to think how many stores from 60"s and 70"s are just a distant memory.
@@ChadtheHammer Where I live the term grocery store fell to the wayside many decades ago. Who calls in a grocery store anymore? People say supermarket. The supermarket closest to me never plays music though the much larger one in town does. I'm with Adcox Robert on this one.
I was eight years old when this was filmed, old enough to remember when adults actually looked like adults......they didn't live in a wishful state of perpetual adolescence like today's young people do. When we were kids, we could hardly wait to be "grown-up". 😃
I was born in 71. I am an eyewitness that back then people dressed decent and no one would be caught dead wearing pajama bottoms out to the store. Today, we have a bunch of idiots running around. It's just sad. I wish I could go back in time.
Yeah, but being a "young" person before the 1980's really had no perks. My parents couldn't wait to get away from their parents. From a young age, people knew life would be better as an adult. Since the 80's or so, kids have had it pretty easy with awesome toys, games, TV, and Internet at their disposal.
I was 12 then..... in 1976 when I was 16 I became a bagboy at the local supermarket in Lorain, Ohio. It was a fun job. My only beef was going out into the cold snow to get more carts from the parking lot. Had to round them all up and bring them into the store. Took us nearly 5 minutes just to put on our heavy snow boots, coats, and gloves etc. I burned off a whole lot of calories, and was in great shape that's for sure...lol. That job bless me so much. I was quickly able to buy my first car. A 1965 Chevy Impala Convertible. Kids didn't mind working hard in those days. When I graduated in 1978 I had been working there for two years already and had a decent salary. I loved the 70's..... we were so free back then.....
This is when cashiers had to really work they had to look at the prices and then enter it on register one by one and every register had a bagger and they push the cart to your car and put the groceries in you trunk for you and usually get tipped 50 cents and they were happy .
I remember when registers converted from inputting prices to scanning barcodes. No need to price every product anymore with the machine that output stickers. It did speed up the lines a great deal and tracked inventory. I worked at a grocery store in the 90's and we still helped customers to their cars if they requested it.
Brings back memories of shopping with my grandfather. He took forever! God bless him, he'd eat a bag of cookies before even getting up to the register! I miss you Pop-pop!
I was 7 or 8 years old depending when that was filmed (born middle of the year). The biggest thing I miss? S&H Green Stamps! There was nothing like seeing the cashier dial up the number of stamps your mom would be getting and handing them to you. And then running home to paste them in the book! ❤ Now if only we could all decide on the sewing machine or the rowboat 😂 (points if you get that reference! 😉)
This was filmed in mid-to-late-March 1972, as the TV GUIDE for sale was dated Mar. 25. Yes, I wish my family had as many trading stamps as the Bradys did. I'd have wanted the color tv (which they ended up getting) more than the rowboat or sewing machine.
