Things You Couldn’t Live Without in the 1960s and 1970s 

Anyone remember the Norelco shaver ads at Christmas with the shaver sledding through the snow?

I watch Recollection Road, and some days, I really wish I could go back. Even if just for a little while. They were the best of days.

We lived on our bikes in the early 70's. Huffys and stingrays with banana seats. We went all over as carefree as could be. Those were great times.

Oh how i miss those saturday mornings with my bowl of cereal and bugs bunny, scooby and the jetsons

I'm 59 and I remember all of these thanks for the memories.🇺🇲🙋‍♂️🇺🇲

I took a high school class in typewriting and spent several years pounding those manual typewriter keys. What a joy when the electric typewriter came along!

I remember in high school typing class. We all were typing in unison and then reached the end and the bells rung.

Playing with the View-Master when i was a kid made me love photography & travel later in life. One of my most beloved toys ever!!!

Yes, the old flash bulb cubes.

Imagine gen z trying to use a manual typewriter😯 No delete, no spelling/grammar correction, no preview, no emoji’s😂😂😂

Thank you Recollection Road for your wonderful videos of yesteryear. I'm 74 yo and they always evoke such wonderful memories of days gone by.

Viewmasters were indeed a part of my life. Still have them with a box of vintage viewmaster slides packed away.😁

It was such a great time to be young!! Thank you for this sweet look back 😊

"Hitch-hiking". Dear Lord, astonishing that ANYONE survived! Remember the classic bumper sticker? A silhouette of a busty girl with her thumb out, and the timeless caption- "Gas, grass, or ass, NOBODY rides for free!"

I have over 10k in albums that I started when I was 12. I’m now 60 and the sound is so pure that no other platform comes close. Thanks for touching upon a lost art form. Your channel covers everything. Thank you for this channel. I wish you all the best.

your voice, the background music, and the subject, makes me just want to rip open space and time, and go back to those times

One Sat a month we had slide night. My dad preferred slides to photographs. Great memories.

The portable transistor radio was a great escape! CKLW out of Detroit had the best of music, then on Friday nights the scary movies played, which let your imagination run wild! Great times! The reel mower however, death on two wheels. I would spend hours picking up sticks in the yard before mowing, only to be abruptly stopped by the one stick I missed and have the mower handle smack me in the teeth!

It's always a good day whenever Recollection Road uploads

Who could forget the family station wagon for vacations … in Avocado green here 😂

You know you're old when..............you see a 20 something person in a thrift store pick up a Viewmaster and say "What is this thing". As a teen boy in the 70s, I remember velour shirts, bell bottom pants, dingo boots, and feathered hair being all the rage in my high school. Also tricked out vans and sports coupes with shiny mag wheels and twice the size rear tires for extra grip when racing out in the boonies. And fro's. Lots of kids started perming their hair and many just flat out got fro's. And don't forget, the 70's is when you said everything on a Tshirt. And thats when marketing Tshirts came out.....companies had to gret a cut of the profits on putting stuff on Tshirts as well. Guys colognes: Old Spice, Musk, Polo, Hai Karate, and Paco Rabanne for those with cash burning a hole in their pocket. And for girls it was clogs, Candies, hot pants with colored tights, and frizzy hairstyles. Lip gloss was EVERYWHERE as well. And you either had to smell like Charlie, Shalimar, Loves Baby Soft, or if you had money.....Channel #5. And DON'T forget that hideous BLUE EYESHADOW you could see from space!!!

Cousin Eddie, in National Lampoon's Vacation, said it best. I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself. Mmm Mmm! As a typical poor college student, that was about as GOURMET as meals got for me.

Record players !! My grandparents had an old Victrola, a standing furniture box with the radio and 78 rpm record player, and a stand alone 33 rpm record player, that had the stub attachment for 45's. I got my first transistor radio when I was a little kid, with the "Single Ear Bud" line out. I had a Red View Master !! Yup, I had the Schwinn blue bike with the white banana seat. Pictured in this video. The day my father took off the training wheels and I began my first solo ride, I ran over one of the young girls who lived on my street, it was quite comical, but she was not happy about being run over !! My grandparents also had one of those manual lawn mowers, where I learned how to mow the lawn as a young boy. They later got a gas powered 1st generation lawn mower. Atari 1979 !!! Space Invaders, The shooting gallery, the race track. God Forbid a parent allowed their kids to drink from the hose in the back yard today. That gave us strength and helped us fight off bugs and other illnesses. My mother would send us outside and lock the door, and would not allow us back inside until dinner time. In Miami we skated at the Kendall Skating Rink. We had 2 Beta Max machines and movies we would trade between families to copy movies back and forth. Aw, you didn't mention the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop, How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?? One, Two, Three .... THREE !!!

God I love this channel ............memories of good times ....sigh.

Me being a true 70’s girl I could not live without my hip hugger blue jeans and the best music ever! ❤

Tootsie Roll Pops were a great treat. They have tootsie roll candy in the center of the pops.

How different things look through the lens of time. Thanks for the video!

Fond memory….received my first little transistor radio when I was in my tweens. After forced into bedtime I would pull my covers up and listen to WLS.

That GE oscillating fan was a great rapid learning educational toy.

Manual lawn mowers were excellent exercise.

Being born in 1968 I remember all of this! Best time to grow up ever! Thanks for taking me back! ❤

Schools back then wouldn't have been the same without reel movie projectors that had to be set up and rewound at the end plus film strips with tape recorded narration! The thing about early home video games was that, although Atari had some great games it was actually ColecoVision Games that offered more of an arcade replication in the beginning! There was a really cute novelty song by the late, great British singer Alma Cogan called "Couldn't Resist her with her Pocket Transistor" in the 60s! Haha!

Cartoons were awesome. Pink Panther was the best.

3:00 That was the EXACT moment that that kid learned not to put his fingers into a fan. Childhood was magical in the pre-nerfed days.

My wifes Grandfather gave me his collection of cameras and lenses he had. Some as old as the 60's. I was blown away and honestly I use the lenses now in 2024. But just the "family" history these lenses has seen is incredible.

In grade school in the early 1970s, I was taught how to do fine cursive script using a fountain pen. I haven't used it since.

Those were the best days ever 👍😎

@ 11:00 The model in rhe middle looks like Nick Nolte. 😊

In 1959, when I graduated from Jr High, my parents gave me a "Shick 3 Speed Electric Shaver." I am Italian, so I hit adolescence early ! 😂😂😂 When I was in my single years I fixed many a "Hamber Helper" meal. It was easy and it was good ! 8 TRACK was a total thrill to have. I had one installed in my 1968 Buick GS400 convertable as a Birthday present.

I had a blue Schwinn Stingray, with the ape hanger handlebars and a gold flecked banana seat. Some (explicitive deleted) cut the lock and stole it when I was seeing Star Wars. I didn't have a roller rink, but I did have a bowling alley with an arcade and a lunch counter that served, what I considered to be, the best greasy cheeseburger in existence My Dad was a gadget nut, so we had every gizmo you mentioned. I still have his instmatatic camera, and still prefer a typewriter over a computer for writing.

Great Memories...Thanks Recollection Road!

Such memories from watching this video. Hamburgers were about 15 cents, pop was a nickel, you could buy a small bag of sunflower seeds for 2 cents. I never had the cool bicycle but some of my friends did. I would trade everything I own now to go back to those sweet simple enjoyable times.

A great feeling channel.

I was born in 1946, so i remember all of these, except the magazines.

The amount of different cigarette lighters produced back then is mind boggling. I collect them, and the best I'll ever do is maybe 10% of models ever produced. Same with table top lighters and ash trays, endless variations.

Gotta love the Hamburger Helper coupon, save 7 cents😂

3:07 baby and a metal fan.What more can you ask for.We did experiment when we were young and thank goodness we were alright

Elvis made a huge impact on the 1970s

Re: Fountain pens- For the 1966-67 school year, our school decided fourth grade and up would use cartridge pens except for math. Cartridge pens were fountain pens, but used a cartridge of ink dropped into the barrel of the pen, instead of filling the pen from an ink bottle. It was going to make our penmanship beautiful! Instead, ink was everywhere! It was on shirts and blouses, trousers and skirts, in the wooden desks, leaking from pencil cases. It was especially fun on the playground for boys to somehow "accidentally" stomp ink cartridges. The next year, everybody in fourth grade up used Bic ballpoint pens, excepting with certain permission, when a Flair felt tip could be used. 😂

OH MY ACHIN' BACK. This takes me so much back to my young adulthood and early parenthood. Those were the days.

I Hitch hiked all the time in the 70s before getting a car.

This was literally an almanac of what i've seen & what I had growing up in the 70's. ☺️

Nice Video. Thank You

Back in the 60s and 70s when we played our vinyl records we didn't really mind the pops and clicks from frequently playing the same records, but today in the digital age when I digitize those same vinyl records to same on my computer I spend more time finding all of the pops and clicks and wore vinyl record sounds than it took to record the vinyl records in the first place.

With the manual law mowers there was a truck that used to come around in the 70s and sharpen the blades, hedge clippers and other stuff. We had the last of all the “good ole experiences” of the previous decades. One thing that I don’t miss… typing class!

Hamburger Helper helps her hamburger help her, make a great meal. 🎶

We had a remington typewriter exactly like the one shown!

It's that time again, let's check it out y'all

I loved my olivetti typewriter circa 1974 at awa ashfield 🇦🇺

The three male models the one in the middle look like Nick nolte

I had typing classes on manual typewriters in the 80s. Many of my homework assignments for other classes had to be typed. I was so excited when we got an electric one at home.

Hamburger Helper came out years earlier than the late 1970s! We ate tons of that stuff in college, because it was cheap and filling. I never could eat it again.

I remember lying on a cot in the summer of 1973. My parents had sent me and my brother to a sleepaway camp in Long Island. I stayed awake with my transistor radio pressed against my ear, listening to the great Jean Shepherd on WOR radio.

Thanks for the memories;

My grandparents had a lot of these things and I was always getting into their stuff and playing around with it but I was always careful. They bought me an Atari in my youth years and boy I had a time with Pac-Man but it was fun. I only wish those years could have stuck around a bit longer.

I still like hamburger helper. I remember moms would step out on the front porch and yell your name and saying dinner. If you passed a friend on your bicycle. They would tell you, your mom is hollering for you. Good times!

grade school used blue black ink fountain pen mine was "modern" used an ink cartridge i didn't need an ink well like others much less mess but had to wait for my writing to dry used through 8th grade. instamatic had 12 exposure so expensive to process so we took group pictures 4 times a year major holidays then after a year we processed send in the mail took 2 weeks to get back

rockford files was a big promoter of answering machines

Loved all of these had them remember hanging my transistor radio hanging on my bike Handles AM of course 😊

I've seen everything your showing at the local goodwill..I go there not so much to buy something, but just to get "hands on" on the things we had back then,also fun to watch the younger folks there to try to figure out what some of those things are and were used for..take me back to those times!

When I was in kindergarten in 1964, I made an ash tray for my Father.

This was the perfect video at the right time. "Stingrays", bell bottoms, transistor radios, and Hamburger Helper. Oh, my! Just today, I found one of my Mom's boxes of old stuff. Old pictures, old school crafts, even my school report cards from the early '60s. Never knew she kept all that stuff. Now the job of separating out my things from my older brothers' and sending them theirs.

Wait! Is that Nick Nolte? 11:02 Those other two guys look familiar, too.

4:25 we had the slideshow when I was little. Looking back, it’s gone full circle. My FireTV give us a slideshow from our phone photos! Nice! 12:23 used to have 8-track players but still weren’t as robust as cassette tapes.

I shipped my dad's electric typewriter to the states for him. We still listen to tapes and records at home.😊

You had me at the Schwinn Stingray bikes. A lot of kids, me included, bought the seats and handlebars to convert any 20" bike into a faux-Stringray. I made my sedate little Raleigh Record into a cool ride that way, back in the mid-60's. Thanks for the memories..

Hamburger Helper? LOL I'm fixing that for dinner tonight.

Growing up I remember old black and white cartoons like Deputy Dawg and the Flintstones sponsored by Salem or Winston cigarettes. How inappropriate is that now? And no, when I was born dirt hadn't been inverted yet!

In the 1970s, I listened to my transistor radio for the station KRLA, for the early rock and roll songs, but every hour they would also play the recent 70s songs ( most of them were junk). But it was later, in the 1980s I needed that same radio - because the small TV then could get channel 6 in San Diego, over 50 miles away, it got the picture but no sound, my radio supplied the sound; it was showing the Jackie Gleason Show from the early and mid 1960s, having the American Scene Magazine; the programs were a half hour long, having the comedy only - and showing Joe the Bartender at the end with Crazy Guggenheim, this used to be on 5 days a week …😊

I never had an electric razor till 1981 or 82. It was a Remington Microscreen. I guess I used it till it started having trouble cutting, and then I forgot about it and went back to conventional razors. Sometime in the mid 70s my grandmother gave me a little AM transistor radio that she had gotten as a bank premium. It's a GE P1758 that still works. I loved our Viewmasters. We actually had some old reels that were from when my mom was a kid in the 40s, I believe. We always drank from the hose out in the yard. We had our own well, and it was pretty deep. So our water tasted good and was nice and cold. I always enjoyed it. My parents had two classic station wagons in a row that they had bought new. Both were Chrysler Town and Countrys. The first was a `72, and the next was a `75. On the family road trips my brother and I always rode in the way back. We would make the arm motion to truckers to pull their air horns.

Weekday afternoons were when I watched cartoons. I would get home from school and watch Captain Ernie or Grandpa Happy. They were local kids shows from the Quad Cities.

It's ironic that the vinyl record and record player has both a comeback. Along with the Polaroid camera I saw all three on sale at Walmart recently and had to laugh. What was once popular and useful years ago the younger generations have rediscovered. I still own a floor model stereo, record player and eight track system and it still plays and works fine. Love the Saturday morning cartoons and the old video games which have come back again. I still enjoy the blow pop lollipop once in a while. Thanks for the videos and memories.

Couldn’t live without them great station wagons with roll down back window and fold out back seat!!

I still use a hamburger helper to make 4 cheese lasagna. One of my favorites.

My mom made a mean batch of hamburger helper back in the 1970's!

Hamburger Helper, Mac N Cheese, TV dinners, hotdogs and hamburgers…those were the days…pre-microwave or cell phones 😊❤

I'm 57 and remember taking typing lessons on manual typewriters. The teacher tortured us with rhythm drills on the keys with our fingers until they almost fell off and you had to hit the keys really hard for the letters to type out. I won't miss manual typewriters nor forget the enduring pain the typing teacher had us go thru. I forgot all about what that class taught and started typing with two fingers with each hand and I got pretty good at it.

I remember the days before I had an answering machine - if I was going to step out for a few mins (like to take out the trash), I’d take the phone off the hook so that if anyone called they’d know I was there and call back in a few minutes. I thought I was so clever 😂

Vinyl records have made a comeback recently in several years So have old fashioned typewriters I saw a video of a school teaching kids about the typewriter.

Slides were not a big part of our family, we were a photograph family.

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Thanks, Recollection Road, for providing these splendid glimpses of the past, a past that grows more distant with each tick of the ( analogue ) clock.

I liked the Remington MicroScreen so much, I bought the company...

With the fountain pen- Didn't you have to have an ink well????

I seem to recall that electric typewriters and gas-powered lawn mowers were readily available and far more commonly used by the 1960s-70s, at least where I lived. Some of these images look more 50s to me. And ball-point pens had already replaced fountain pens. No inkwells on my school desk!

I remember when the pocket size transistor radio came out…..I carried mine all over.

3:00 - Back when toys were functional appliances, too.

By the 60s, most people had lawnmowers with motors, and ballpoint pens. My father, who enjoyed shopping in junk stores, had both a rotary lawn mower and a stunning variety of fountain pens.

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing! My Mom enjoyed this video. He was born in 1954.