I, thank God, I’m old. Experiencing the 60’s as a child and teen in the 70’s Was truly The Best! Btw, smoking in the 60’s and 70’s was just another day in the life….. ☺️
As a non-smoking teen(!), I remember when I got home from work, pulling my T-shirt over my head, and _smelling_ all the cigarette smoke on the shirt! _EVERY_ desk had an ashtray on it and most of the people at work, smoked all day.
Even if no one in the household smoked, you kept ashtrays and other smoking paraphernalia around just in case you had guests who did. You accommodated them as guests.
@@lovly2cu725 I just checked it out and you're right. I didn't realize that Spencer still had a market presence. Their website says there's a Spencer Gift Store just north of me In the Poconos here in PA. I'll check it out next time I'm in the neighborhood.
One thing I'll never forget.... fifth grade, Stanley elementary school, page county, Virginia, we had Mrs ward.....bless her heart.... teach the class Bible study. Brings tears to my eyes to see how this country has become the CESSPOOL it is today.
When I was a kid my Dad worked for Nabisco and I used to help him stock the shelves in the supermarkets on Saturdays, and I remember people smoking cigarettes while shopping and you could see them on the floor all the time. How times have changed.
My pediatrician smoked cigars while he was giving me a shot. Consequently, whenever I smelled cigar smoke I always got anxiety about getting shots. He was a good doctor though. During one doctor's appointment, my infant brother was also circumcised right there in the room and then the doctor gave my father a cigar and they both smoked cigars and I threw up. That's quite a memory (1967)!
Yikes!!! That was my year of birth. I grew up in the smoke clouds. My parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles all smoked. My Nonno (grandfather) smoked a pipe. I can still smell that smell in my mind. It was his smell. I loved it and loved spending every minute with him. I miss him and his pipe tobacco smell.
Everybody smoked it seems, my grandpap smoked a pipe. Mmm I loved that smell. Dad smoked cigars and mom smoked cigarettes. It was common. Of course I smoked would sneak my mom’s 😊 I did love it. I am fifteen years smoke free now. But those were the days!
This is my absolute go - to - feel - good nostaligia channel! I was born in 1962. I have such fond memories of my days in late 1960s and 70s. Your channel takes me there! Thanks!
61 for me. Sometimes I wish these videos were a bit longer. FredFlix is another similar channel. He does commercials, TV shows, fads, etc. You should check him out.
I recall in high school in the Long Island, New York during the 70’s every Friday the jocks wore the letterman jackets and everyone wore the school colors , which was red and white with jeans! We felt unity and pride uniformly wearing our school colors! I miss those days!
@@bridgetmccracken1381The feeling is mutual. I'm sure most kids today are glad they don't live in an Era of 3 TV channels, or listening to music on records, or the fear of dying in a rice paddy in Vietnam, or not being able to instantly see a photo of a new born loved one
I said that too when I shared the video on FB 😁. I graduated in '83, and remember letterman jackets being in highschool. Not so much sweaters though. If your 1965 means that you were born in '65, then we're the same age🤓. October '65 here 😊.
I graduated in 1990 and we still had letterman jackets but no sweaters, only jackets. I attended and graduated high school in Houston, Texas and we carried the tradition.
I grew up in the 50s, so I had the Letterman gray/white jacket. "Man From Uncle", Mission Impossible", and "Wild,Wild,West" were my favorites. The 60s were great. So many things changing. The 70s, especially the late 70s were my favorite years. Unbelievable fun as a young guy making his way in life.
As a teen in the 70s, my grandmother took my brother and me to the King Tut exhibit at the Los Angeles museums. Looked at the mask, sarcophagus, and all the pieces that toured with it. In the mid-80s I went to Egypt to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings and Queens.
In the late '80s and through the '90s, you had to buy computer software at the store. They came in boxes with floppy discs and manuals. This was before the internet
I love these walks down memory lane. I often say “yeah I remember that” “I use to do that” etc. Id love to see an African American edition of this. Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston were some 80s crushes. Run DMC and LL Cool J was the music. Wearing shell toe Adidas and track suits. Kangol Hats. Big gold chains. The Cosby sweater. Etc
Blacklite - That black-light poster room had nothing on mine. I had 4 six foot tubes, one on each ceiling wall crease, and everything in my room lit up. I mean everything. I would buy the paint, and my mom got obsessed with buying me stuff from the "Head Shop" because I was too young to go inside myself. The spy craze - You left out Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin and The Saint with Roger Moore before he was 007. Then there was also The Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman in the late 70's. King Tut - My dad was the Chief Cargo Agent at LAX for United Air Lines Air Cargo in the 70's and 80's. They shipped some of the items for the Los Angeles exhibit, so he and my mother were special guests at a special dinner engagement with guest speakers like archeological scientists and historians. My mother was completely obsessed with Egyptian everything the rest of her life.
I bet the King Tut cargo was transported from LAX to the museum by armed guards. My 8th grade class took a field trip to LA to see the exhibit. This brings back good memories. I totally forgot about that until now.
@lisapolanski9379 I'm pretty sure the high value stuff went by ship, not air. But, who even knows if that was the real deal? It could've all been replicas. Who would have known the difference???
the 50s and 60s are almost like yesterday. 70s i was busy growing up, being a wife and mom. i love these walks down memory lane! thank you sooo much!!❤
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 What I meant was during ones own lifetime you never realized how wonderful that time period was they were until they are long since gone. :)
@@bp39047 Yes, I know that's what you meant, but many people on this channel believe, in the history of civilization, the only era that was great was between 1960 and 1980
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 In my lifetime (born in 1950) 1980's was the last great decade or period in my life. As a retired 40+ yr. manufacturing engineer I watched as manufacturing left the US starting in the late 80's and thus making today the US a "service industry" country. I survived those years afterward by willing to move after each job played out from one place to another. Last 3 jobs played out due to being over 55 (age discrimination). In addition, prior to the 90's there was laughter and joy in the work place. The PC movement came into full play in the 90's destroying free speech in the US. Yes, the first 30 years of my life it was great. :)
@bp39047 Thas funny, I grew up in the 80's, and I remember all the "grumpy old people" in my church saying "Society is horrible now. The 1950's were the last great decade in America"
Smoking was always awful for me as someone with asthma. I always resented having to “deal with it” because I did nothing wrong and the lack of caring or compassion for my ability to breathe when someone smoked drove me nuts. I lived through it in my teens and early twenties working in environments where 90% of my colleagues smoked and needled me into taking it on even knowing I wouldn’t be able to breathe well for two days if I even took a puff without inhaling. I was so glad when I could finally work in an office without putting my coat over my face.
Team Debbie Gibson! It was the first cassette album I’ve ever purchased, and I remember rushing over to K- Mart( over five miles away )on a skateboard to buy it! The memories😊
Everything here about the 1980s is still fresh in my memory. That was such a good time growing up. This episode has 3 of my biggest crushes of the 1980s such as Tiffany , Debbie Gibson and also Lisa Bonet from the Cosby Show. Side note... I had every one of those Tiffany and Debbie Gibson cassettes shown at 7:11 👌🏽 Those were the days.🤗
In the mid 80s, skinny ties from the 50s suddenly came into fashion again. I had a letterman jacket in the 70s that I got at an antique clothing store, until my mom threw it away. I think "Happy Days" inspired me to buy it.
People like my brother got one at the sports store while we still were in grade school and, he was in sports so, he could add his H badge and, then, as he earned his pins! Funny when, we moved he got another letterman jacket but, as he got oder he messed up his life and never earned any badges!
Yeah, lettermen jackets were plenty popular through the 1980s. I earned a letter in the 70s for track, but never got a jacket. My boyfriend had one with lots of patches on the school letter, my brother too. And yes, skinny ties were very popular in the 80s. Remember Billy Joel asked, "Can't you tell that your tie's too wide?" In It's Still Rock and Roll to Me?
I'm 60 and I remember the black light poster craze very well, though I wasn't in on it. I did have a black light bulb though, which I still have today. I don't remember much what I did with it, but I remember putting it in a lamp occasionally.. Back in the day I actually never saw a James Bond movie with any actor other than Roger Moore. I was much older when I found out that other actors played Bond, believe it or not. Consequently, Roger Moore is my favorite Bond actor. I watched Mission Impossible occasionally, but never saw Man from U.N.C.L.E. But Get Smart! was one of my favorite shows. That's interesting about the ESTs. I never heard of those. In the 1980s my Dad bought an Atari computer, which had dual foppy drives for the memory. They were the 3 1/2 inch size. Up until this past Spring my parents still had that computer in their basement. They had the complete outfit, with even the floppy disks and Atari magazines. It was amazing. But then my brother got to it and threw it all away.
As someone being a child from the 1970s into the 1980s, my favorite sitcom during the 1980s was Family Ties💜🦄🌈!! I remember when our school got our first computer in my Math Lab class, we were really in awe😃😃, but what little did we know that the computers of the 1980s would be considered a piece of junk by today's standards 😂😂🤔🤔!! And I'm not sure when in the 1970s that weird therapy existed🤔🤔, but thank God I would have been too young to have known what it was because helping people by "verbally abusing people to help them❤️🩹💔" sounds really odd and bizarre by any time.period👽💔❤️🩹😳😲😂😂!!!! Thanks for sharing these wonderful and not so wonderful parts of our history!!!!
I remember when airlines would also hand out small packs of cigarettes to those passengers wanting a smoke. That was back when they served fairly good food on actual dishware with real cutlery and it included complimentary wine and cocktails. And no TSA, that'll check you boarding pass and you'd walk across the tarmac and up a set a stair directly into the plane.
I remember all of this. There are 2 TV stations in my area that broadcast the old sitcoms. They're a joy to watch when you see what is available today.
I was born in 82 & my childhood was end of 80s early 90s. Definitely remember those tv shows, then Family Matters & Full House. Sheesh. Over 30+ years ago.
@@carrieonly5638 the pagers, beepers, & riding my bike throughout the city. Actually playing outside. Class of the millennium. Then that changed everything.
I still have my 1969 first year letterman’s jacket and three other letters to go with it. They don’t make them like they used to. Mine is double sided. The letter and number side is wool and the other side is white waterproof duck fabric. And, it still fits!
I am now 69 and remember most of the things shown in this video. But, I do not consider myself old. I still work and I am in good health. I run and workout with weights. Old is just a state of mind. I believe the Supremes wore wigs.
I remember these things. Baby Boomer. I wish the after school soda fountain social scene still existed when I was a teenager. It seems as if once Vietnam started, social life changed. I was starting HS when Woodstock happened.
All i know i am very blessed to have grown up in the 70s. Things were so different back then cigarette machine at every gas station. As well as candy machines. Candy bar cost 10 cents. I could go on and on. But i won't. 😊
I grew up in the 60’s- then in 1974 I married at 15 years old. I was put into foster care at 13 years old. Had 2 sons before I was 21. I grew up too fast, and wish to this day everything would’ve been different. I often think of a different universe in which I actually got to enjoy my young years- wish I could see it! That brings a smile to my face! 😌
I traveled a lot back in the day, yes smoking was not only tolerated, but it was also embraced by the airlines who secretly thought it relaxed passenger anxiety about flying. They were freely given away in little 3 or 4 to a pack just for the asking. As time went on, you were restricted to the back rows if you wished to smoke but the penalty was you had to suffer with leftover or last call meals because the non-smokers ahead of you had first choice of the menu items. Some airlines sat you in reverse order to serve the smokers first, giving them a competitive advantage by catering to smokers, if I recall Northwest Orient did that.
In my bedroom I had black light posters, bed spread, rug and stickers on the ceiling. There were also a lot of models (glue kind) and painted, also HO train set and HO slot car truck, I also had those army men ( found in grocery stores) Then the stacks of 45s and LPs. This was in the 70s and early 80s when I was a teen. In 1988 I met Debbie Gibson. I met her at a political rally I was speaking. She was one of many bands that showed up to give support. In 88 Debbie Gibson and I made MTV news, as we were dating.
When I remember growing up in the 80s the big things that people just don't do is laying on the floor to watch tv. We had a big wood fixture that housed our tv that was very low to the ground. I spent more time with a pillow on the floor watching tv than any other place as a kid. I have never seen or heard of any kid using the floor to watch tv since nowadays you have a big flat screen that is either mounted on the wall or on a pretty tall cabinet or table. Felt like we had a bunch more room because the "Family Room" with the tv was where everyone got together to enjoy their favorite shows which kinda goes along with the "family" sitcoms during the 80s. There was more attention to making room for everyone as opposed to now where everyone play video games or watches streaming on a computer on their own in their own rooms. Not to get too deep into it but I think there was more an emphasis on family than nowadays. Eating, watching tv, and doing chores all seemed to be an event that was shared. Instead of telling someone to take out the trash it was kinda a cleaning event after dinner for everyone to do something. Then after, relaxing together with a couple tv shows.
I grew up in the 70's & 80's. What struck me was the picture used at the beginning of the computer segment. It was the girl in the picture with her barrette. That was the biggest craze for girls then. Making them with ribbon, with the tails in our hair in pretty colors.
I was a tour guide for later Rameses exhibit. 9 months it was on our campus and I got to be a tour guide for all that time, complete with blazer, tie, khaki skirt.
In the mid 60’s madras was all the rage . There were madras shirts , belts , shoes , pants you name it ! We loved it all the more as the material easily faded once washed . Another must were 😮 weegan (sp ? ) shoes 👟. You were especially cool if you sported madras and weejans! 😊.
I remember the mall store "Spencer's Gifts ", blacklight room...Secret Agent Man🎵, great show/song...starting in banking as a teller, no computer til Macintosh...so many memories...ty for taking us back to the good times 😊
I'm old for sure. The time goes by so fast though I don't feel old. I liked songs from both Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. Good videos too. Are there chalkboards in schools anymore? I don't think cursive writing is taught anymore as far as I know. Thank you Recollection for another great episode!"
Ahhh, cursive writing. Now we old folks can write notes to each other and the young people won't be able to decipher them. To them it's hieroglyphics! 😅
Remember as a kid back in the 70's and 80's going to Spencer Gifts at the mall. They had a really cool black light display area at the back of the store where they had all the black light posters. Those were really fun days.
I remember...... ...Letterman jackets. Had one because I lettered 3 consecutive years in basketball, in high school. ...Black light posters. ...The spy genre. ...The King Tut exhibition. And definitely Steve Martin's "King Tut". ...The "family" sitcoms. ...The early '80s computers, although I didn't have one. Our little school was just getting computers for learning in my Senior year. ... And I remember those singers, but they weren't my type of music. ...
4:11 I remember watching Steve Martin singing King Tut on SNL. I had it stuck in my head till today. 😄 6:01 Lately I noticed almost all the actors from the sitcoms that I used to watch are gone. 😢 6:42 I still have a 5.25 floppy ‘boot disk’ from college they said not to loose, so I didn’t. 😁
Fab comedy-relief in your description of EST! "... a therapy that verbally abused you... to make you feel better." Indeed! An INSANE avant-guard approach that "inflicted deeper wounds than the ones which you came to heal." 🤩 And... we were also at the NYC Exhibition for KING TUT! Amazing! I still have the Tutankhamun Coffeetable Book & matching Diary (which contains my daily experiences during my SpringBreak "HitchHike" up the East Coast from New York to Nova Scotia!! Amazing Era of Memories! Thanks so much for your most creative heartwarming Channel🇺🇸🗽 Love Living IN IT!
In the late 1970's our school received a limited number of tickets to see The Treasures of Tutankhamen at the local museum. The school had 50 tickets and had a lottery to see who would get to go. I won one of them.
Yep! Just the other day I was talking to a guy with grey in his beard about “the good old days”. He mentioned that he was born in 1983. I was shaken; I’d graduated high school, college, been half-way around the world in the military, married, divorced, lived in 3 different states, by the time he was born. It made me feel lots older than I feel I am.
Ok. Anybody else recollect watching "The Real McCoys? I used to like Walter Brennan my tv n movie grandpa. And as I wasn't a huge fan of John Wayne I got sad n she'd a few tears when he died. When Jim Morrison passed I cried for a week. Anybody else remember the cool small brass incense burners n bells
I worked for a commuter airline in the early '80s. I remember a maintenance tech saying that smoking would add as much as 90 lbs a year to a planes weight. The smoke would get into the fabrics, the ventilation system, and everywhere else.
Ohhhhh boy how I wish I was nine again.......sooooo simple, wholesome, clean, trusted life of living........Never again will this happen.....the world is all a mochery, full of hate, crime, indifference,,lack of love....the nurture way in the 60s....❤❤❤😢
I am of mid 1960s, -- 1970s. and late 1970s it was starting my adults years, but I remember all of the things here from mid 60s until the late 70s was my under 21 years and it was exiting and kinda scary to live them not knowing what was going to be in the future.
While Letterman's sweaters were gone (at least in my neck of the woods) jackets were still a big deal when I graduated in '83. I had one for the debate team (no joke, lol).
Tiffany and Debbie (now Deborah) Gibson were teen idols in the late '80s. Less than 20 years later both of them posed fully nude in Playboy. And lots of guys who had crushes on them back in the day had their minds totally blown when they did.
DEBBIE GIBSON POPS UP FROM TIME TO TIME. LAST ALBUM THAT I KNOW ABOUT WAS MID 90S, BC I WAS CHATTING ONLINE WITH PRODUCER TONY VISCONTI & HE WAS PRODUCING HER ALBUM
Absolutely love your video -- I've watched them all. Lately there has been more and more time devoted to promoting Legacy Box. Please keep Legacy Box promotions to what is the required minimum. Please.
Smoking was so common in the 60s and 70s that Doctor’s office waiting rooms, hospital waiting rooms and even hospital patient rooms had ash trays. Cigarette vending machines were literally everywhere with absolutely no monitoring of who used them. If a kid had 35 cents he could buy his own pack of cigarettes and many did start smoking around age 12 and even younger.
In the 1980's I didn't watch ANY of those sitcoms because I didn't watch tv. In 1980, I turned 20 and I was ALWAYS on the go....no time for tv. I watch plenty now though. Just for myself, I made my own classic tv station where I can watch 104 classic shows from the 60's-80's and I run classic commercials too. It's like watching tv back in the day, but now I only get the GOOD commercials. Thanks to today's technology, I can go back in time every single day.
