DAM..... I'm old...... I'm not sure if this is a compliment or and insult! The very sad part of getting old is a lot of the people in these pictures are dead. This is happening way to fast....
And the generation before that! Money was 90% silver coins (dimes-quarters-halves until the 1965 Coinage Act removed the silver real money) and a silver dollar paper certificate was redeemable into gold at 1/35th per oz. until the gold-dollar divorce on Aug. 15, 1971. That started the destruction of the 'money' (a hidden tax on the people) holding its purchasing power.
We had a hillside of some 100 acres to play on behind us, and a half mile the other way was the river where we went skinny dipping in a swimming hole. We once rode a raft several miles to the ocean. Boy did we catch hell for that.
Today's youth are pathetic, soft, sheltered, lazy, entitled, safe spaces and therapy pets for them. The school system is setting them up for utter failure in the real world!!! It's not all rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs it's tough out there!
Now wait a minute!!! I wouldn't go that far I wouldn't mind being 7 again and doing it all over If i knew a 10th of what I know now. especially if i was being paid.
Remember at the entrance to the parking lot of many shopping malls, there was a Fotomat which was a small, shack-like building where you dropped off you undeveloped film from your camera. A few days later you returned to pickup your developed photos. These Fotomats were everywhere.
Remember poodle shirts.james dean Elvis.what great movies and music. I grew up in NY. Remember Carvel ice cream,stores like robert hall.i Remember hanging g clothes on the line in winter they were like cardboard when you brought them in.
Things were simpler back then. Things were also a lot slower. But things were also a lot harder for some (manual laborers and farmers, as well as farmers children) and a lot more devestating for those getting seriously ill. The sad thing is, with advance in technology there was also an advance in making money no matter the consequences and we all pay the price now.
you could play outside and ride your bike and run free and you knew if you had street lights it was time to get your butt home . Most neighbors turned on porch lights and that was a cue also
Me too. I grew up in the 60s and 70s.... we had the best times and music especially.. all those concerts of great bands at under $10 a show. My own sons were born mid 80s and so glad I didn't have to deal w/ smart phones or computers ... yet.
@@cathyt502 I was born in 1954 and remember the 1960s and 70s fondly, but my husband just reminded me of the turmoil in the US - assassinations, civil rights, Vietnam, riots on the college campuses. So maybe just as tumultuous as today. I seem to remember the 1980s as being a bit more peaceful, but I was busy with my children and was distracted.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. It was great except for the Vietnam war. Also the Bay of Pigs but I didn't even know about it until much later. Edit also JFK assignation, so sad. But life was slower and kids played outside and going to the movies was special and trips to the Dairy Queen 😋😋
@@susansalvucci4281Yeah, people forget the 60s was a rough time. But I’ve always loved the fashions. The gogo boots and miniskirts. I couldn’t wait to leave home so I could wear them. 😂😂
I'm 75 and remember every one of these great memories 😅 The good ole days, that are gone forever...and truly are missed and will always be cherished!! Oh, to be a kiddo again! Old is just a number...that kid we used to love to be, is still in us, enjoy, while we still have time 😊❤
I grew up in the 40s and 50s, so this is all new stuff. How many remember the party line? I remember learning how to read with Dick and Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff, and Tim.
I grew up in the 50's and very well remember party lines! Also, my grandmother had an outhouse and no running water in her house...she had a pump in her kitchen that we had to use to fill buckets with water, heat them on her wood stove, then cook or bathe with the hot water...fun times!
I was born in the 60s but remember the Dick and Jane readers. I thought I was so important being chosen to read aloud in a circle. I just bought a vintage Duck and Jane primer 😉
Remember when you went outside to play, and your parents really had no idea where you were or what you got up to? As long as you were home in time for dinner, no questions asked. It was great. Kids had to figure out stuff on their own and learned lifetime skills everyday!!
yep. girls and boys didn't mix then either.. not until well after puberty. no locks on our entry doors so we never had a key on us because the door was always of course, open! I remember my first car a 1949 Chevy coup and it had a key slot on the outside of the drivers side door. what's this? I don't believe I even had a key for it because the knob for both door locks was missing! wow.
or later in the year as long as you were home (if you lived in the city) the lights came on and the neighbours all looked after you as you were with their kids as well
I remember every one of these, also no malls, no “supercenters” No cell phones, no internet. We played outside and in the mountains and woods. No one talked back to ANY grown up. We said yes ma’am and yes sir. And I was born in 65 😢
I remember 5 cent Hershey bar, party lines, phone numbers without area codes, gas stations where the attendant filled your tank checked oil, and cleaned your windshield (for my Dad), looking at the Parakeets and gold fish at Woolworths, and the cheap toys, caps and cap guns, when we actually had paperboys, collecting bottles to bring to the store for a refund.. wow.
How about phone numbers before they became all numbers? I can remember our phone number in the very early 60s was WE1-****. The WE stood for Webster. Think it was mid 60s when phone company sent out letters to everyone explaining how their numbers were going to "change" and become all numbers, so the WE1 became 931.
Also milk delivery, "three on the tree", A&P, Mel Allen saying, "It's going, going, gone" on the radio, Wonder Horse, 50 cent bleacher admission at Yankee Stadium.
I just turned 70 and really don’t feel “old.” I think it’s because I played outside so much! The front and back-yard was whatever we wanted it to be. It was a paradise for our imaginations!
I am almost 70 and I don't fell I am old and needs assistance when I was sick at the hospital. I can drive to work and never want to "work from home" ! I can fly a plane safety why should I stay home and waiting to die on Rocking chair like what my ex employee 401K investment bourchue!
@@stuarthirsch Born in '55 , grew up in the sixties surrounded by a large & loving family ... Yeah for me they were the best time of my life. PEACE to you & yours.
I was born in '48 , and also remember milk , bread, and fish, all of it incredibly fresh, being delivered to our home, along with biking to the next town, about 8 miles away to go candlepin bowling, taking a bus into the city, by ourselves, to go to the movies , and so much more. It was a good time to grow up.
got a few years on you. First thing I could remember was my Dad had an ICE route in MD! I was amazed how fast he could take a tiny ice pick and cut up a 1000 pound block of ice (at the "ice house") into perfect 80 pound blocks in seconds! He'd then pick 2 of these up and carry them with ice tongs down to the truck and he'd do that until the entire block was in the truck... and off we'd go delivering ice on his ice "route". yep like yesterday, Jim.
Yes I totally agree with you I'm so glad I grew up back then and not in today's generation. I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days.
Compared to the sh!tshow today's youth have to endure, I consider myself fortunate to have been young 50 years ago. And even more fortunate to be old and soon to be gone from this nightmare that shows no sign of ending!
Absolutely the case that it was. (War baby here, born DURING it. Statistically our numbers are very low on account. I am contemplating the creation of a little grouping of us, while we exist-still.)
@@orionwarren4244 I'm sorry life hasn't worked out for you. I don't know what your nightmare is but in my beautiful country everything is still just like this video.
@Mark rapacki there were a few recent ones but not enough to be easily reembered. I am 57 and inever met anyone witha party lne durring my my memory . Wgiuhich startys in earnetst in the 1970s
@@0011peace It happened in the early 70's(before 73). I'm not rural, I grew up in the city(the hood). A couple of times i was on the phone and the operator cut into my call because a family member from out of town was calling. I passed the phone to my mom and she took over.🤷🏾♂
YES. This was a great trip down memory lane . I’m 60 so have experienced all these things. Our generation had some really good times growing up. The Saturday morning cartoons. The muscle cars and the drive in movies. Great music of the sixties and seventies. It was a much simpler time with not a lot of worry.
I was born in the early 1950's so yes, I'm old and I remember all of these things. Seeing all of the changes over the years and seeing how the world is today, I thank my lucky stars that I was born then and not now.
So, I have a serious question for you. I'm 59, and once in a great while, I'll get in a debate with someone who says that crime is the same as always, we just know about it faster. There's no way I believe that, and I'm curious on someone else's take on that.
A person could write a book on life in the early 60s but few today would believe the stories. When America was strong, fit, and honorable. You mention writing checks at the grocery store; remember counter checks?? At the BIG A&P or Super Valu there was a "courtesy" rack of checks from half a dzn banks. If u had forgotten your checkbook, you carefully and legibly wrote your name/address for the $7.36, handed it to the cashier & that was that. I suppose there were a few who scammed the stores but not many. Why? Because we had a country; nobody would THINK of doing that....
We do have way more information than the past! Look at all the cell phone filming and in the public realm immediately! Besides satellite, cable and radio and hundreds of television stations! The old saying, you see what you look for!
@@qmnnvrdyz8965 I'm 71 and there is definitely more crime today. When I was growing up we didn't even lock our doors. Neither did our neighbors. Breaking and entering was unheard of...at least in our neighborhood. There was no gun violence. I still live in the same city and gun violence is now a common occurrence. We didn't have to walk through a metal detector at school. If we misbehaved at school, we were dispciplined at school. And again at home if our parents found out! In school we ate lunch off of real plates and used real silverware. Now they're afraid kids will use real silverware as weapons so plastic spoons, forks and knives are used instead. I never heard of a school shooting when I was in school. Most boys carried pocketknives, but I never heard of a stabbing in school. If you were playing with your pocketknife when you should have been studying the teacher would take it and give it back when the class was over. Carrying a knife to school today will get you arrested. On weekends and during the summer we played outside from sun up to sundown and our parents hardly ever knew where we were. We fished, built huts in the woods, played baseball, football, swam in the river, rode our bikes, picked up bottles for the 2 cent deposit etc. We knew right from wrong and stayed out of trouble. Parents didn't have to worry about their kids getting kidnapped or molested. I suppose it did occur, but I never heard of it happening to any kids I knew. Parents nowdays have watch their kids every minute, especially young girls. It was a safer world when I grew up than it is now.
So true. I remember everyone smoked (at least my parents both did) and going on long drives choking on all that second hand smoke which we pretty much got used to, since we weren't allowed to roll down the windows - it would ruin my mother's hairdo. 😂
I feel so blessed to have grown up in a small town during the 50s and 60s. It was safe to walk around town by yourself even if you were a young girl and everybody knew your name and your Mom & Dad & your grandparents too!
Absolutely remember all of this!!! I'm 60 years old and loved the 70s, 80s and the 90s. Saturday morning cartoons and American bandstand!! So sad the way our country is now, don't recognize it at all.
I will be 60 next month and I remember Saturday morning cartoons, American bandstand and listening to Wolfman Jack on the radio and all the rest of the great things in the 70's & 80's.
I hear you Ray, 1970's were magical... We supposed to improve as a society as time moves forward, we have gotten worse. Now, Fast food is overpriced and tastes like crap, TV is worse, Music is worst, etc etc...
I learned to drive in a 1941 Studebaker. Our milk was delivered in clear bottles with cream at the top. We set our clocks by the fire station noon horn which could be heard for miles.
When we wanted to go to a rock concert, we waited in line outside a store that sold tickets with hundreds of other people, sometimes overnight, even when it was raining or snowing, and even if it was a school night. I remember paying $10 to see Queen at the Boston Garden and I thought it seemed really REALLY expensive back then!
Imagine seeing Queen for $10 bucks! Remember watching two movies for the price of one. And going to the matinee. I haven’t been to the movies literally in years. I refuse to pay 20 dollars for a movie and another 15 dollars for popcorn.
Man , I miss my childhood of the late 60’s and early 70’s . Everything he says in this video is 100% true facts . Thanks for the memories of my childhood. The ones that I forgot about in my old age too !! ✌️and ❤️ to ALL
Remember in 1962 when JFK's motorcade pulled into an Esso station to get gas? JFK reportedly leaned out the window to collect all those Blue Chip stamps for Jackie. Aside: I had a classmate who had a face that resembled the Blue Chip mascot squirrel.
Anyone remember when the Saturday matinee at the movies included the previews, AND two or three cartoons, a newsreel, a short feature and finally the main feature?
My mother gave me $1.25 and took my brother and sister and I to Saturday morning movies. She then could shop without us. By the way, we used to have money left over.
I loved the 70s , 80s when I grew up .I remember all of my time and experiences. From them even the foods and drinks also. I would love to go back and grow up again .
I remember when bowling alleys had " pin boys" who were stationed behind the bowling pins and set the pins back up manually. You also had to consult the TV Guide to see what was playing on all of the channels. There were 3 main channels and maybe 3 or 4 minor channels. There was one TV in the house, and it was black and white with no remote. Reception was via " rabbit ears." Now that's really old !
Yes!!! Remember all the aluminum foil that you were wrap on the antenna's to get better reception? Or if you got your youngest to stand in just the right place in the right way, the reception got better too. The youngest always had to turn the channel and as we got older it became a matter of whoever got up and turned the channel got to watch what they wanted.
Yes, remember many of these. Sad that all the stores shown we had and are now gone. Spent many Friday and Saturday nights at the drive in. Bowled on a couples league for a few years. I turned 65 this year! Some days I feel older. I am so glad I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Sometimes I wish I could go back.
I was just thinking about all the stores we used to have. It’s crazy how radically things have changed but I guess every generation says that. However I think generations now days are so much further removed from the previous generations.
I currently live in a small town where a lot of places still accept checks, bowling alley is full weekends,, kids are outside playing basketball and riding bikes. Attitudes are different then the 60s but people are still friendly and will stop to offer help if your car breaks down. True story. Mayberry small town charm is still alive here. I'm blessed
Phone books for large cities were very thick because they contained the phone numbers of everyone who had a phone in that area. You usually had to pay an extra fee if you wanted an unlisted number. I remember watching a show as a kid, I think it was called, "You Asked for It" where they asked strong men to see if they could rip a big city phone book in two with their bare hands.
I remember seeing my name in the phone book for the first time.. Party lines were a trip. One could very easily listen to the other parties chat. Good times
@@jhollie8196 Yeah, that was a big deal when you got your own phone and saw your name in the phone book for the first time. It confirmed the fact that you were now officially an adult.
I also remember frozen TV dinners from this time period. Those aluminum trays with fried chicken, creamed potatoes and green peas. Or maybe the one with that Salisbury Steak and brown gravy. Swanson or Banquet? We didn’t have them often, but they were a treat for us kids.
My first car had two keys. A push button high beams and where you filled the gas tank was behind the license plate. Also, I remember riding my bicycle to the bowling alley.
@susan ruthroff My ex and I were discussing that ice cream several years ago. His son thought we were making up the little wooden thing we ate it with. He wouldn't believe us!
I remember ALL of these things vividly, and I'm 65 now. It was indeed a WONDERFUL time to be a kid (in the 60s for me). Thank you for this lovely video!
Remember when you were excited to wake up early Saturday morning to eat a bowl of cereal and catch actual fun and wholesome cartoons shown on broadcast TV? Except for certain evening specials during some holidays, it was the ONLY time during the week that you could see cartoons! I would literally be watching from 7am to 11am, if my parents let me. Sometimes they did, other times they insisted I go play outside instead or help with chores. But I always got at least an hour or two in.
Same exact memories. I knew what was on the 3 channels and when to flip it. I started watching when the test pattern was still on and watched until mom threw me off between 10 and noon.
@@diegosuarez1563 yeah, perish forbid we should scar our kids by watching a cartoon coyote have an anvil dropped on him ( and fully recover). They’re much better off with The Family Guy 😳
I was shocked a little while ago, was invited to my nephews birthday party at a roller rink, the kids that couldn’t skate very well had what looked like a walker! When I was little, we’d just crash and burn! Lol
I remember when my cousin. had a roller rink birthday party. And I was scared to go out on the floor, and practiced on the rug by the time I was ready to go out on the rink the party ended. So to this day i still can't roller skate
1956 I practiced roller skating with metal skates on the sidewalk while my mom held my hand so I didn't crash. I was about 6. When I was older and the invites to roller rink parties came calling, I was pretty good at it. Thanks Mom.
I teach English as a second language and still use Dr Seuss books, which are available online or in paper books and the kids and teens still love them.
A couple of other things I remember is stores and gas stations being closed on Sundays, also you could only by 3.2 beer on Sunday. We were able to bring our own food and drinks to the ball park. You could also bring your own food to the movie theatre and drive-in.
And we could drink beer legally at 18, but it was all 3.2 beer. You would go to a club and they would check your ID and stamp your hand with one of two different stamps, one for 18-21, one for 21 and older. Waitress would want to look at your hand stamp before taking your order. Grew up in Ohio.
well of course to the drive in. I loved those things! We generally brought goobers, raisinets and soda. and my parents and brother would go just about every Friday night. I think it cost the vehicle 4 bucks to get in (didn't matter how many were in the vehicle). Had to get there early to play "spotlight" up on the screen! yeah Sunday absolutely nothing was open. just a way simpler and innocent time. so sad to see it gone forever these kids have no idea. none.
I remember all those! We had a Ford Pinto Station Wagon. Before that was an old VW Bus. I remember my pops buying a Dodge Challenger with a 8 track player listening to The Beatles. Good times! I'm old enough to remember president Carter and Reagan and old enough to remember when Elvis and John Lennon dying.
I was old yesterday. Yes I remember all of these, however mom gave us kids 7-up when sick and not Ginger-ale. We only had three channels to watch on TV. It was a time when you stood in line to vote (voting day was one day and not voting month) and waited until until dark to watch the returns with Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley
Mom gave US coke. Yeah....we had 3 networks, 3 local channels, & 1 educational channel, & there was MORE to watch BACK THEN than there is NOW with over 500 CHANNELS!!! These days, IF a show has 5-10 MILLION viewers it's considered a HIT....BACK THEN, it would've been CANCELED as a FLOP!!! (LOL)
I still have a clothesline at my house and use it. With 4 kids and a wife that believes you cant wash 1 persons clothes with another it helps on electric bill. I I took it from my first home and brought it to my second home. They were made at my first home to be removed out of concrete with aluminum slotted hole in the ground. Slid right out. I tried to duplicate it at my second home but aluminum and steel dont act right together so they are not permanent but still usable.
Born in the early 70s so yes I remember almost all if these things. I loved and missed thoes days. I definitely wouldn't want to be a kid in today's generation.
I'm 67 and remember all of those things! Thanks for the fond memories! The 60s were a great time to grow up. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and as always God bless you and yours and thanks again for everything you do!!
I was born in 1957,I was one of the baby boomers. I am now 65 years old and getting old. I remember the phone books and they looked like the Sears,Roebuck Catalogs. I grew up in the 1960's and 1970's. Those were the good old days. Even the 1980's and 1990's were excellent years. I am looking forward to part 2. I remember everything from part 1.
Yes, I'm old, I remember a lot of these and more, even on Saturday mornings watching the American Band Stand, But those days were the best days to have lived in, wonderful days, didn't have to lock your house doors even at night. Set on the front porch at summer nights listening to the crickets.
Gotta Love being Old . I remember the first Calculator from Texas Instruments and when it cost well over $600.00 for a VCR ! , And who could forget having a Party Line on your telephone with any where from 5 to 15 women exchanging recipes . You better be home before the street lights came on !!!!
REMEMBER -- "Life begins at eighty." I've no idea as to who said that but, someone did. Only three years to go here, and then I'll see and report-back any results.
I too consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in a unique time of prosperity, in a country where freedom and human rights are protected. I also hope that I have adapted to the progress. I remember the "old" days with fondness but also embrace the evolving new technology.
I grew up in the 1960's and 70's graduating in 1976 so most of this I remember. Woolworth's was a very small store in the town near us. I think those years were the tail end of the good old days (and men and women still dressed up to go most everywhere) (I don't consider myself old at all!).
I'm class of '76 too. However, I grew up in Chicago and mom took us to Woolworth on State St. for lunch at the counter when we were visiting downtown for shopping, sightseeing or Christmastime w/ the moving window displays :)
@@cathyt502 Wow. Lucky you! We were in a small town and the next town over had a few stores one of which was a very small single room Woolworth with mostly ladies clothing.
I remember going to a big city to do our fall and spring shopping for clothes, and of course Christmas. I also remember Tysons Corner Mall which was a big deal. Shopping all under one roof.
I also graduated 1976, and fondly look back at the era I grew up. The high school I went to was an alternative school ; S.W.A.S. loved it, many good memories
First of all, the movies were mostly "double features" - the one you came for and a second one following it. When you arrive, a cartoon was playing first, then the movie started. After that was intermission and then the second movie. It was almost an 'all day' affair.
We'd have a newsreel, previews, a cartoon or two and a double feature all for a quarter. Wonderful cartoons and Disney features. Candy and popcorn was a dime. In my birthday we'd take all of my friends to the movies.
