You might be OLD…If You Remember These! PART 2 

Being 20 in the 70s was much more fun than being 70 in the 20s.

Born in 1961..I'll take the '60's and '70's ANY DAY!!!!!!!

Growing old doesn't happen to all of us. Only the lucky ones of us.

I remember all of these and so much more. I wouldn't trade places with a young person for anything, we grew up in much happier times and were allowed to be kids. Thank you for another wonderful look back 😊

I remember ALL of these things. I'm fortunate enough to still be alive and kicking, and remembering the cool days of my youth.

Our local radio stations announced school closings. And we still watch Andy Griffith and Mash.

Yes, I'm getting old(er). I remember all that was presented here. We did not eat out very much back then as my mother cooked food at home. On the rare occasion we did eat out, it was a fun time to be out of the house. I still have some of those massive Sears catalogues from the 60s. The ones showing all of the toys that you could buy at Christmas time was spectacular. If you were a kid in the 60s and 70s, you experienced a time in this country that cannot be duplicated.

The good old days! A simpler time. 😊

Growing up I remember answering the door, reading a book, talking to people, writing a letter, cars with ashtrays, chopping wood, and the ever so cumbersome task of washing dishes.

Looking at the Sears Christmas catalog was a ritual for me and my sister when we were little.

OK I GUESS I’M OLD!! 🤣🤣🤣 I LOVED THIS STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE!!🥰

Ah yes, we panted our way through the Sear's Wishbook! Thanks for these great memories!

Those were the best years of my life, thank you so much for helping me relive them God bless you.

Yep...I'm old, remember all of these!

Anyone remember Candid Camera? It was fun to watch people's expressions and just a way to enjoy laughing at ourselves really.

I could spend hours commenting on the memories this video brings back . I would just like to tell you Thank You !

I wish I could go back 50 plus years

I am old enough to remember all of these. Thanks for the memories!

I feel lucky to have grown up in the special time...I'll take older as the trade-off any day.

I remember all of these places, activities, TV shows, and yes cursive writing and learning how to use a typewriter (required in High School); a good skill to know. These were good times to be a young person.

Oh well, I’m old😮but I wouldn’t trade a memory from those days to be young now.

Yep, I remember all of that. Just yesterday I gave my brother a Christmas card. He smugly informed me that people don't do that anymore and that he and his wife would send "Christmas Texts" instead! I just sighed and said "Well, I guess I'm just old fashioned." I fondly remember Christmas cards from family and friends lining the fireplace mantel or attached to the Christmas tree. Sadly I don't get Christmas cards anymore, but that won't stop me from sending them out. Merry Christmas all!

Snow days were awesome. Sledding, hopping cars, making igloos, and snowball fights.

Dam right I'm old.of course i remember/ lived all this.

I was a teenager in the 70s, this brings back memories of a better time!

I have a lot of old photo albums of people that are no longer here, especially of both my parents, a brother and a sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends. I loved them all.

When I was young and I listened to my parents and grandparents reminisce about things they remembered, I would wonder what things I would look back on and reminisce about. Now I know. 😌

Some great bands in the collection of 8-tracks!

The best of times never to be seen again! It was all worth it. Never had a snow day in Minnesota 1959-1970. And the school bus never got stuck! How grand those days were. Memories are forever 😅

This was my era. Everything in this video was familiar to me. Was an excellent time to be a kid and teenager. Thanks for the reminding me of them.

Yeah, the rub for, “snow daze,” was that you still had to make up the day(s), lol.

We had that cardboard fake fireplace back in the 70s, lol. 😀

Learning cursive...I love cursive and still use it. I was at the DMV and I heard the clerk ask a man in his 20's to sign his name on a form. The young guy looked confused and said "Signature? You mean that scribble writing?"

I'm grateful to be old. Better than these days hands down! I truly feel bad for the children of 21 century. I remember when people would go to the bank to open an account or get a safe deposit box and would get a toaster or blender as a gift. I remember the horrible smell of gas at the gas station and I'd get sick to my stomach if we stayed long enough. I also remember how good food used to taste back then. There was flavor, natural flavor and it was just so good! Even the change of seasons had such wonderful smells..my favorite was spring! Summertime we'd see all kinds of bugs, ladybugs were deep red with black dots, not orange, grasshoppers, praying mantis' were commonly seen. Playing a game of leapfrog, with friends on a Saturday morning and the smell of honeysuckles.... then the group of us having sandwiches and cake over at a neighbors house for lunch. The memories...

I recall the first time my parents took me to Shakey's Pizza in the early 1960s; staff dressed like a barbershop quartet, wood shavings all over the floor, and a player piano playing old time music as it accompanied a silent movie comedy; The Keystone Kops, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin... And it was my first taste of root beer with a fresh, hot pizza.

I'm 67 years old.....I can't remember what I had for Breakfast this morning!!!! 😝😆😂😎🚬

Going on a plane trip we would wear our Sunday best not a jogging suit!!

I remember those Fotomats when I was a kid, now some of them are still standing and used to sell flowers where I live. And I remember long distance phone calls , it was always a quick call because it was expensive. Also the whole family would speak loudly like their talking across the nation 🤔

Sears catalogs were sent to everyone's home. They were as thick as the phone books. In the sixties we had air-raid drills. We had to sit on the floor next to the other kids, in the cloak room. This was during the Cold War. I still have my report cards. ☺

Man I am old😳Thanks for the memories.Wouldn't trade them for anything🌟

My beloved grandmother had an 8-track in her car. I remember being a tiny kid, but thinking we were so cool cruising in her huge red Ford (probably to K-mart!) blasting Johnny Cash! I miss her and those days so much, but the memories are priceless! Thank you Recollection Road for preserving these beautiful times! ❤

I am so in love with this channel!!! Thank you for all your hard work ❣️😊

I guees I'm really old now. Just turned 60 this month. I remember all these things 😀

My 5th grade graduation my mom got me a polaroid camera, holy crap the amount of pictures that came out of that thing over the years. Her now what would be my photo albums are all long gone. Hundreds of pictures, the cartridges weren't cheap either especially for that time period. So days, back in my day there had to be actual ice on the ground for school to be called, I can vividly remember walking to school with snow up to almost my knees, NOW it gets called if it hits freezing. WTF!

I remember when you could get a Big Mac for under a dollar. When the extra value meal was first introduced there were only 4 meals and they were all $2.99

we had all those restaurants except Burger Chef, snow days were fun, i had senior year typing on an electric typewriter in 1976, my mom did S&H green stamps, my grandmother worked at Sears & Roebucks for 40 years, always got the catalog every christmas, we had penmanship books, to this day i still write very well, loved spelling class, and won an award, i still have an 8-track case filled with disco tapes. i was born in 1958, grew up in the 60's & 70's, i'm now 64 and still working, riding a bike, i feel more like 50, but oh yes those were the best times, it will never be that way again, we were blessed.

I guess I’m old since I remember all of these things. I just turned 60 last week. So glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Those were the days.

I thought, for sure, that you'd mention an egg timer. This was used to limit how long each person got to in on the long distance call. I remember the family gathering around the phone to talk to my big brother who was in Vietnam. Those calls were important on both ends of the line. Luckily, he made it back just fine but it was still scary for all involved - except me. I was too young to understand the danger he was in.

My mother used to send 40 to 50 Christmas cards every year but finally gave it up: stamps are too expensive.

I'm old, but I feel like a kid when I recall the excitement for snow days. ☃️

I still have b&w Polaroids from the '50's. Afraid to take them out of the photo album-they might deteriorate. Was always fascinated at how images appeared before my own eyes.

Hate getting older but I can happily say I remember all of these things and wouldn't trade my period I grew up in for anything.

I just love strolling down memory lane with the host and all the commenters! At my age (75), I remember all these things and more!

I don't need to have the "might" in the title..I'm definitely old. I even remember the gorilla tossing around those Samsonite suitcases..LOL And kids today have no idea what they're missing out on not having the Sears and Monkey Wards Christmas catalogs .* sigh *

Yes, I remember it all. Ah, the good 'ole days! Bring them back!

I miss being able to call the local phone number and getting the time and weather reported 🥺

Of my 16 years in school, including 4 years of engineering study in college, the typing class I had in high school, was the most valuable in my subsequent engineering career. I remember taking the class because, of the classes still open that I had to choose from, it was the only one with a lot of girls in it.😆😉

I remember photo mat & burger chef. How about the flash cubes for the 110 cameras. I look forward to these . Thanks for sharing the memories.

So sad that kids today will never know these things.

I love these videos. Such great memories.

We had 3 tv channels, snowy,😅 When we got PBS, I was over the moon. We used to pick a Canadian channel too. I’m glad I grew up then. I have so much history that I lived through.

Thank you! Im 56 ,and this brought back sooo many great memories.

Based on this, I'm not old. I'm ANCIENT. When I was in grade school, we didn't get snow days. We just stood out by the road until the bus got there and hoped for the best. The roads weren't cleared and if the bus got stuck, the bigger fifth and six grade boys helped dig it out and push it. Sometimes a farmer would come by with a tractor to help. None of the restaurants shown existed and there were no fast food restaurants like the ones shown. If you wanted to grab a hamburger, you ordered it from a carhop and she brought it to you. I worked three summers as a carhop and I loved it. I took typing in high school on a manual typewriter. Christmas presents came from the local dime or department stores. The car radio had only am and fm and there was no tape player. All of the television shows shown were years in the future. We got our photos developed at the drug store.

The good ole days

Wow ! Mott the Hopple. On 8 track. I have the cassette, and still listen in the garage. Thanks for St. Paul Minnesota.

Thank you for your videos of yesterdays, always love the trip down memory lane.

Remember all of these, except I don't remember if we actually ate at a Burger Chef, but I remember the commercials. I wore that exact same McDonald's uniform with the paper hat in 1980-81. I took a typing class my junior year of high school; it came in handy when computer keyboards became the new thing. My parents had that exact same Samonite aqua green/blue set of luggage for many years. As far as catalogs and toys, you should do a toy store episode. Many are gone now - Toys R Us, FAO Schwartz, Kay-Bee in shopping malls, etc.

I love your channel. Thank you so much for bringing those memories back🌸🦋

I can still smell my grandma's old and red Samsonite luggage set.

The 60’s on our street in Chicago homes had Christmas lights on every house. 🏠 yep

In typing class in high school, I always got caught looking down at the keys. Finally my instructor had enough and he taped a piece of paper over the the top of my typewriter, so I could not see them. 😃

Another thing about the phone calls is, if you did not have a "private line" you had to deal with the other "party (ies)" that shared your same line. It was fun to listen sometimes and hope you didn't get caught. It was two of us on our line before Dad paid extra for a private one.

I remember when we had deep snowfalls and super cold winters and walking to school freezing in deep snow and getting to school and being it was closed and walked all the way back it was cold but so much fun and we survived those days miss those day

I remember 25.9 for gas 15 cent burgers and a Righteous Candy Bar for a Dime. Ten cent "bottomless cup" Coffee. All because of: SILVER!! As far as "old" I was born in 1952 and it has given me a great understanding of history. And my Great Aunt's cursive was un-readable. ;)*

I was born in 1960,so much of this video brings me back to my childhood and teenage years. Thank you

Yup. I'm definitely old. In the mid 70's I had a type writing class. After a semester and a half I was doing 70 wpm with no errors. Pretty good in my opinion!

i think we all yearn for what we consider a more simpler time. i for one do. i wish i was a kid again lol.

I remember all of this. At the time I don't think any of us ever realized how much we would use our keyboard skills in the future LOL! Thank God I took typing, having that skill have been a lifesaver in life.

I remember all of these things. I'm totally old too.

I took typing and stenography in high school. The shorthand came in handy when I made notes to myself and no one else could read them.

I remember all of this and even before all of this! I learned to type on an Underwood upright (look it up!) as a freshman in highschool in 1964! I was so excited when in my senior year we got to use electric typewriters! We didn't even have a television until the early 1960's. And then it was only black and white! Anyone ever hear of telephone service called a "party line"? (again, Google it) That's what we had! Many families shared one telephone line. Each family had a different ring tone. You had to wait in line to use it sometimes! Amazing things have happened in my seven, plus decades on this old planet! Be sure to appreciate all the wonderful conveniences and blessings you have!! There are people in the world today who still do not have electricity or clean, running water/indoor plumbing. Be grateful!!!

There is an old Fotomat booth on the corner of Tampa and Vanowen in the Valley near where I live, it is now a Smoke Stop (I believe) and sells cigarettes.

I lived in NJ until I was 10 then we moved to Florida. I remember so vividly "slip sliding" to school up North 😂. In '79 we got snow and as I walked to the bus stop waved to a friend on the bus then ran back home. My mom said what's going on? I yelled "Snow day!" as I ran off to my room, I was 15. An hour later my best friend rang the doorbell 😂😂❤☮

Yup, I'm old, I remember everything except a couple of the restaurants that were mentioned......the color of our wall phone was "harvest gold" the same color as my parents fridge and stove ☺

I remember everything in this video!! Thank you very much!!

Lord I wish I could go back to these better times!

Problem is I'm a history nut. I "remember" things that happened way before I was born. And those TV shows are still being aired on nostalgia stations.

The music back then was awesome

Ah, the good old days. The Sears Christmas catalog, wow did I spend hours looking through that, making lists. And who else made collect calls using codes to let someone know you arrived without having to accept the charges? Burger Chef was great. I loved that his sidekick shared my first name! I could tell stories about each of the things you mentioned, but I won’t take up any more space. Thank you for the memories.

Born at the end of 1959, going out to eat was a very rare treat, even fast food was rare in the 60’s for my family. I also remember being married in 1979 and family would call after 11pm for rates to go down, how I hated that if I was in bed!

It's my birthday today and I remember ALL of that stuff! It seems like yesterday! Funny though, I haven't gotten any older - everything else has!!

The "smaller case for bathroom items" was referred to as a TRAIN CASE, and was for a ladies' needs. It held your makeup and night needs, and usually lingerie and slippers. I still use one.

I was stuck with typing class when an elective I signed up for was canceled. Turned out to be a great skill and I've used it ever since.

I remember all these things... some of the TV shows, like All In The Family, and MASH were after I was an adult.

There was never a one hour Fotomat booth in my area but the local Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and K-Mart store had one hour photo developing in store.

Thanks RR😁

We still have an A&W close by. One of the few restaurants not closed. I remember watching “Mash” reruns late at night in bed. Who shot JR? All in the Family seemed so controversial at the time. Now, watching reruns it seems pretty mild. Those 8 track tapes were so big compared to the cassettes and cds.

I remember Foto-Mart in Southern California and one thing one had to remember was to be punctual when picking up you photos. If you left them there for too many days in the summer, the heat could ruin the prints and negatives. This happened to me when the pictures were important but I couldn't get them for a week. The prints would stick together and tare and the negatives would run and/or discolor. Good times... (Yes they were air conditioned, but if you remember they frequently had those envelopes stored in the sun. Mine anyway)

I remember how we magically started acting right about September; we knew Santa was starting to pay attention, and those wish books came in the mail. Being in the Midwest we had Sears, JC Penny's, and K's Merchandise. I sure do miss those old days

Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs are still printed. I just received mine last week. I loved Montgomery Wards. I remember when they used to seel hand tools similar to Craftsman.