These Are Gone Forever… 1950s-1990s 

I'm 66..and I'll take those days to these days anyday..love the channel

The 1950s-1990s will forever be legendary

I Love ❤ and miss my 70!’s the most!! Nothing can replace my teenage years!

1970's: "Don't hitchhike, I don't want you to get in a car with a stranger!" 2010-Present: "Don't hitchhike, I want you to use an app to get into a car with a stranger!"

I miss the old days! There is so much anger and high prices today.

34:35 In defense of paper maps ... they are great for PLANNING your vacation. It's just easy to see the entire nation all at one, and how far place 3 to place 4 to place 5 will be on your trip, because "this far" vs "that far" is easy to see. While driving of course, GPS is a true blessing.

This was really good. I am a Baby Boomer and this was a part of my life. It was awesome.👍🏽😁❤️ what a great travel down memory lane. Thanks.😊

I'm 75, so grateful I was born when America was united, fun and really free.

maybe different parts of America, but this was the first time i heard them called "bunny ears" lmao i always heard "rabbit" ears

Love love the cars from the 50’s and 60’s❤️

11:44 ... buy candy with all the change from your piggy bank ... No, we wandered the alleys, collected bottles and turned them in for the deposit, _THEN_ bought candy.

It amazes me that any of us survived the 50-60s without government safety intervention. Born in 50 and what a beautiful childhood and the teeny booper years with the free love era 😊. Still kicking and sad to see what this country has become. Thanks for bringing back memories.

I remember cursive, wish schools didn’t remove cursive.i still see some old drug stores using soda fountains and counter service.In the old days we got up to turn the channels on tv.I remember old rotary phones we had 5 digit numbers, party lines and spoke to operators.I remember Jack LaLane, Jane Fonda& Richard Simmons on Tv.We used to call Mercurchrome monkey blood.Love this channel🥰

Just want to say Thank You to Recollection Road for bringing back all of these memories for us, in such the glorious way that you do! Appreciate the hard work.

There is a Soda Fountain near Houston TX that still mixes all drinks by hand. It’s called Another Time Soda Fountain in Rosenberg TX it’s about an hour outside of the city. Really good food too.

I love this channel! My mother told me about....👍🤗✌️

Air dryed clothes always smelt so good, fresh. I miss seeing clothes on a clothes line.

I am old now and I still have a potpourri bowl. I used to love wine coolers.

Okay, I can't stand it any longer. Mercurochrome was red and didn't sting. It was Merthiolate, the neon pink stuff, that stung. They are not the same. I hated that stuff. My mom only bought the Mercurochrome, but my Aunt bought the Merthiolate... I hated to get hurt over there!

29:45 Believe it or not, I still have the DVD/VHS player combo. I keep it in new condition. My husband bought it for me 20 years ago. I also still have a few VHS tapes I've decided to keep. My 2004 Chev Suburban also has a CD/Cassette player combo as well. I play my cassettes more than I play the CDs.

I remember when project Apollo launches were a huge TV watching event.

16:25 They really _should_ bring back School House Rock ... very educational, very catchy ...

Both my brothers made hanging ceiling chains with pull top tabs.

23:00 How oh how did Bud Light go from Spuds MacKensey to Dillan Mulveney?

12:15 I still have the Locomotion 45 downstairs, by Little Eva ... I probably played that thing at least a hundred times. Eventually I bought Locomotion by Grand Funk ... and that's a good 45 too!

Thank You for the Video (and the memories) 😀

Awesome memories. I'm 74, the best time to live and experience life. We had a 57 Chevy a black and white TV and a 4 digit phone number

Also gone forever. The delivery of telephone company White and Yellow pages to your home. An instruction book on how to play simple tunes on your touch tone telephone key pad.

I miss the 1950's most of all..

The Beatles opened up the door for The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and other British rock bands.

Soda fountains were wonderful on a hot Summer day !

This was a great video. Being a 60s gal, I loved the coverage.

You forgot the Chevy Vega. My family had 1 that was orange with blue upholstery. 😪

Born at the start of this period, I still managed to completely ignore, or mostly ignore, almost all of these. Exceptions would be The Beatles, the Moon landing, and the PC/phone modems/floppy discs/CDs, and VHS. I eagerly embraced all of those, but of course each of them has been upstaged by something newer.

When I was a kid, elementary school aged in the early 90s, one of my still all-time favorite Christmas gifts was the high speed VHS rewinder my parents got me. Lightning speed compared to using the VHS player's rewinder. Absolutely amazing!

I saw a lot of my favorite acts for the first time on either American Bandstand or The Ed Sullivan Show. I have varied tastes and those two shows had me covered.

10:00 as a kid, we were really excited about Fizzies. Sadly, they weren't as good as we hoped, but we bought them multiple times.

I was a switchboard operator at our hospital, from 1996-2005. We didn't have the cord plug like the ladies at the beginning of this video, but it was fun (mostly). One of my coworkers as an operator did use that type board/PBX

Even though I did learn cursive, I preferred to and still do print

I hated those console TVs because the screen was just a few inches off the floor.

I still have the old brown and orange couch and chair that was so popular in the 70s. My kids and grandkids wont let me get rid of it. 😁

I wish streaking was still popular. 😜

I still have loads and loads of VHS tapes and watch all my favorite movies (recorded off tv--remember that?) and vacation movies on my VHS/DVD combo player, bought just before they became extinct. I even have a backup player if mine goes kaput and actually enjoy watching the commercials because it reminds me where I lived at the time.

i am 50, was born in the 70's..6yrs old in 79..my mom and grandma washed clothes like that, and dried them like that. yes, they were poor, by today's standards, but i don't know if it were that, or tradition..my grandma was half choctaw..that made them do everything manually..i remember collecting chicken eggs, and a hand pump faucet going straight into the underground well, and feeding chickens

First time I got drunk was at 14 in 1985. I drank 4 or 5 Bartles and James wine coolers and yacked my guts out.

American Bandstand! I love the beat. It's easy to dance to.

Great memories, as always. My wife, as late as 1992, was working at an answering service that use plug-ins.

The greatest generation built that for us!🤗

The 5 decade period of prosperity. Afterwards it all went to shit in all aspects of life.

Am I the only one who remembers FLAVOR STRAWS ?

I always thought that the Pontiac was the “poor man’s Cadillac”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Re: 7:20: Back in the 1970's, my school was visited by a guy in a wheelchair who spoke out to us about why we should wear our seatbelts and not drink and drive. Back in the 1950's, he was driving down a road when some drunk driver swerved into his lane. He tried to avoid the drunk but struck the guy. He said had he had a seatbelt to wear, he would have had only minor injuries. However, he was seriously hurt and had to spend several weeks in the hospital recovering.

When I was younger my dad got box seats at Dodger Stadium to try to get Hank Aron’s 714th home run. He had a telephoto lens on his Nikon camera. Hank didn’t hit it that day but he got 5 action shots shots of a streaker who jumped on the field and ran the bases! Definitely a piece of history!!

Soda fountains were still around in a lot of places in the 1960's.

My son still has his Beanie Babies that my Mom got him. He’s 30 and says he knows that they don’t have any monetary value, but his grandma spent a lot of time and money getting them for him.

Gone 😢

Just saw a 57 Chevy while I was driving through a neighborhood yesterday. It was fully restored and for sale. Don't know how much but I'm sure it wasn't cheap.

I was born in 1959, so this was a very wonderful ride through my life! Thanks so much for the memories! I remember the huge tv consoles, the living rooms and family rooms with matching sofas and shag carpet colors, fizzies, soda fountains, and so much more! But my father was an aeronautical engineer, so we traveled mostly by airplane almost all of my life. I miss not being able to meet people at their arrival gates, it was always such a rush when you first saw them! But one of my most vivid memories was in the nineties. I had gone to pick up my best friend's cousin from a late flight to the airport, but her plane had been delayed by three hours because of a huge storm. So now, an eleven pm arrival was arriving at 2:30 am, leaving me in a deserted Atlanta airport! Deserted, that is, except for a lone couple with a toddler girl that they were having such a loving, marvelous time with! They too were waiting for the same plane as it had one more destination to reach and they appeared to be the only passengers. I watched them for a minute, then walked over to them to tell them how cute the child was. They were very polite and thanked me for my kindness as they played with her. It was only then that I realized that this was Kurt Cobain and his wife and daughter! This now VERY famous man was traveling alone to get some private time with his family! That's why they were traveling in the middle of the night! I wished them a pleasant flight and returned to my seat across the room without mentioning his name or his music. I was now protective of them until my own passenger arrived! I nodded to Kurt to look behind him when I saw a camara lens hiding in a curtain, but he looked at it, shrugged, and went back to playing with his beautiful little girl. The pictures were all over the newspapers the next day! But I was glad that a little family had a few hours of peace because a plane was late!

Latchkey kid from the 70’s here, perfect time to ride banana seat bikes, mini bikes, swimming holes and building forts, was all glorious until the weekend when dad noticed a tool missing 😳ruuuuun😅

I was born in 1946 and remember all of this. Thanks!

I miss so many people from this time in my life

BUNNY EARS: Never heard it called that. Only "Rabbit Ears".

I think the pinto and gremlin looked kinda cool 😅

Born in 1961. Thank you so much for this!

Remember hanging clothes on the close-line, an incinerator, going-to-the-dump, girls took home ed and the boys took shop, in almost all high school. I took geometry and biology, chemistry and physics,and I was strange. Party lines (could be fun!). I liked pep-club, but didn't like dress codes. I remember the Beatles and Elvis. Do you? Some things I do miss, other things I'm glad are gone.

Thanks for the memories! Born in 1965.

More- 1970s and later- I remember those soda can tabs very well. A few years ago I found one on a deserted beach along the Delaware Bay. When NJN, our New Jersey PBS channel signed off every night, they would play a slideshow with an anthem called Positively New Jersey. That's available to be seen on RU-vid. I love it. Regarding the ugly American compact cars, you missed the Chevy Vega. I didn't like Disco back in the day, but I do now. Regarding Boom Boxes, my brother got one in the 80s, but it was referred to simply as a box. I loved those wine coolers, especially since I can't stand beer. My father was into industrial computing all my life. I remember when he did a lot of work to prepare systems for Y2K. Re: paper maps and atlases, I love them and still use them. Great video. Thanks.

14:25 “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette’’

Mom mother was a telephone operator in Paterson, NJ in the 50's. She helped put my dad through college.

Thank you. This was fascinating and well made. ☮️

Born in 1963, the first thing on this list for me was cursive writing, which was a very important step in becoming a "grownup" around the 1st/2nd grade. Also we got a set of "World Book" encyclopedias in 1970 which had a huge impact on my knowledge development. Most kids could only access this at their school or public library so it felt like a privilege to have them at home. Bicycles with banana seats and tall chopper-style handlebars were also a big deal, and I remember the bike parking area at school was a place for guys to hang out in the morning before class to see who had the coolest ride. The Schwinn Stingray 5-speed was on every kids wish list. Don't even get me started about "School House Rock", which was hugely instrumental in rudimentary math, grammar, history and government while set to catchy songs which got stuck in our heads and for me still reside today. It was perfectly inserted in the Saturday morning cartoon lineup, so without even knowing it we got some useful education somewhere in between Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo. And finally, slide show evenings were often boring as hell and somehow memorable. Slides, as opposed to printed photos, were seen as a mark of intellectual distinction for people like my Dad who was a PhD scientist/professor, and some of their friends or our neighbors who would invite us over for slide shows of their recent travels. It was a bit like having a home theater with the darkened room and big projection screen, so just keep the popcorn coming and we kids were ok with it.

I have to say, soda fountains here in Texas lasted into the 70's. Especially in rural and medium population towns. Even today, you might still come across one in an older drug store.........even here in Dallas (I think there's one still in downtown). My granny had one of those Chevy's. She traded it in for a 69 Chevy Nova. She felt sick after that. She said she had made a big mistake, and wish she had kept her BelAir. I wish she had kept it as well. I miss my banana bike. They still make them.........I see one every once in a while. I don't know who makes them, but I have seen a couple of them in stores in the past few years. For the 1970's, you forgot about the Van craze and video arcades. And the craze for Gloria Vanderbuilt and Sergio Valente' jeans. And the girls ALWAYS had to wear clogs or Candies.

I still have that same Bell & Howell slide cube projector @ 22:08 from my parents kicking around somewhere in the basement. They're gone, but it still lives on.

From the 1960's. Chocks Vitamins. Also, taking empty glass soda bottles to the corner store for a few cents, then spending your small fortune on penny candy or five cent chocolate bars.

I clearly remember using the shoe x-ray at McCallum's in Northampton MA, in the 50's. lol Oh joy.

I loved 70-80s

Thank you.

i love this channel and yes it sometimes makes me feel old lol. it's funny the 57 chevy storey made it in here but the 57 ford outsold them that year. i remember all this stuff lol.

Thanks for taking me back through all my memories and I still use AOL born the 60s

Several years ago, we stopped to stretch our legs at a rest stop in SC and I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted what turned out to be a still-operarional pay phone booth. Hadn't seen one of those in at least a decade or more. My son was only about 3 at the time, I said "Buddy you probably won't ever remember this when you're older, but this is probably the last time you or me will ever see one of these" as we went it to it.

I was born in 52 and remember everything in this video. Awesome job!

At least back then- They knew the definition of a Woman.

Thanks for this video,,,,,❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤

My family had the first two floral sofas. In the 90s 😂

Believe it or not I found a little town out in the desert about 20 years ago that actually has old fashion soda fountain. They taste way different than what we have in the stores

General happiness, optimism and hope for the future?

I do NOT miss the giant console tv. Those were a pain in the ass to move.

Thank you❗️❤️

Never heard them called bunny ears. Rabbit ears yes, all my life, everyone calls them rabbit ears. Never bunny

Very sad I never got to live through these times. I’m young but I’d rather be older and well off who lived through the good old days !!

Also, I had a small device you could plug the main phone line into that wouldn't let someone picking up the phone interrupt the line. As long as your modem was connected before that device, you didn't have to worry about having your data stream screwed up!

Classic!

I thought Spuds Mackenzie was the advertising for Target Stores. They have a bull terrier as their icon too.

Another washing "item" that I remember from the 50's were large frames that my grandmother would set up to pin and stretch her sheer curtains to dry out on her back lawn. Being left-handed, I hated writing on a blackboard.

In 1967, I was in 3rd grade and recall learning cursive handwriting, I ENJOYED it very much. I wouldn't trade my grade school days for what today's youth are being taught, etc....HELL NO!! My FAVORITE car, both my sisters dad and my mother's boyfriend, drove a 1955 & 1956 Pontiac station wagon.....Boy ol' Boy....I truly LOVED that car and STILL do.

10:50 LOTS of kids had that big red stain surrounding their scabs when I was a kid.

when it showed the pic of Family Matters Everyone is Smiling but Carl lol

The real floppy disks started with the 8 " and then the 5.4 "...The 3.5 was not a floppy disk. The first computer that I bought in 1982 had an 8 MHz processor (12 in turbo mode), two 5.4 " floppy drives and I added a whopping 20MB hard-drive when they came out. Oh, how for we have come...

I still carry Randy McNally maps in my truck, you never know when things might get squirrely. And yes, I still write in cursive.

I appreciate and look forward to all your videos! xx ^____^