There isn’t a better time, than these good old days. I’m a child of the 60’s. It was a blast being a child. I loved the Monkees and making the chain gum necklaces. 😘
The only reason that the 60s seemed like the perfect time to grow up is because we were children and didn't have the problems adults had. Reasurch a little history and you'll find the 60s was a very chaotic time. Civil rights, Vietnam War, rioting in the streets, college students being shot by the National guard were just a few things going on. No, there was a lot of bad things going on then.
@@bobprescottActually, there were huge numbers of gun safety and riflery classes at schools for decades. And it was common until recently, and probably still is done in some locations, for kids to bring their hunting rifles to school in the gun racks of their pickups, in order to go hunting after school. Disarming the victims does not make people more safe, it makes them less safe.
This channel brings us our feel good memories and I love it! Sometimes you’ll see something you had forgot about and then the memories come rushing back! There’s nothing else like it! The good ol days!
@@carolynridlon3988 But do you remember all those wonderful prizes inside? Sometimes they'd stick them in the bottom of the box, so there I went, shoving my arm into a full box, just to get that prize. Twas the little thrill of the prize, coupled with the thrill of not knowing what it would be. I also remember digging into jars of Maxwell House coffee, to get at the coupons for my mother's collection.
Yep! remember all of this. Not a disposable society back then. People fixed everything, and things were built to last and repair. Even stereos, and electronics. Great time to grow up in. We didn't have or need cell phones, tablets, and all the gadgets kid have now that keep them glued to a screen, gaming. We were outdoor kids, and loved it. There was no such thing as watching TV all day either.
If we sat inside watching TV on a Saturday afternoon, our dad would chase out of the house. He'd tell us that kids need to be outside. On weekdays, once we finished our homework of course, we could run around until dinner time.
And it was normal for fridges and stoves and kettles and radios and everything, to last for *decades*. WE expected it to stay that way. The current of our thinking, now, does not assume longevity, alas.
My parents bought two brand new homes in their time together. 20+ years. Never bought more than one appliance per house. TV too. I can’t tell you how many hot water heaters, W/D & DWs I’ve replaced. Insane.
My mom bought a (giant) microwave when I was a baby. It finally died when I was in my early 30s!! It was a little embarrassing using such a big, old appliance when we had company over, but my mom insisted that, as long as it's working, we're going to use it! 😅
72 here. I remember our TV repairman, too - it was ME. Eight years old, I built my own tube tester from a kit. Still have it, in fact, but it's just a memento now. Nothing has tubes anymore, for one, and the thing was left in a damp basement for about twenty years, which damaged the meter. It's pretty hard to find a replacement these days, and it would likely be very costly if one could be found. Not worth it just to have a functioning tube tester with no tubes to test.😄😄
63 y/o here. My dad was an electrical engineer (as am I and my son as well). He would fix our TV, and I would be parked right there next to him. I used to love going to Radio Shack and using the tube tester.
@@sandramari5120 Sugar Frosted Flakes, now called just Frosted Flakes, becauss of that stupid pc thing I mentioned. Still, frosted flakes are grrrrraatttt!!!--- and for all time, they had *BETTER* be frosted with sugar. For that is the way God intended.
If my sister and I had behaved ourselves reasonably well throughout the previous week, mom let us fill up a bag of goodies at the Brach's Candy shop. The caramels, the watermelon and green apple hard candies were our favorites but we made sure to get plenty of the jelly nougats and butterscotch discs for the folks.
I remember that! We didn't go weekly, but did go once a month as the store as the grocery store was 45 minute drive away (we lived in the boonies) My mom had us do chores, and we'd earn stickers on the reward chart. Home work turned in on time...all sorts of way to earn stickers on the rewards chart. Every 10 stickers = $2 we could spend at Brach's (back then, a fortune!) and I'd often have about $10 to spend. I loved going right after halloween (when all the halloween goodies went on sale) and same after christmas- the sales!
A family that inhales candy together, stays together. Likewise, a family that goes aching-ly to the dentist together, stays together... except minus a few teeth when they come back out the door. 🙂
I'm 46 and remember it, only it was my grandparents that would always get some and had a jar filled with a variety of them. My favorite was also the jelly nougats, the hard strawberry candies, and the caramel with creme centers. You can get a few of their candies but not the jelly nougats that I loved so much.
Being born in 1966 I must say as a child growing up in The United States of America during that time was great😃2023, "NOT" even close😫I feel bad for kids these days☹My wife and I were born at the right time😁ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
Our TV repair guy would give us a loner TV if he had to take it back to the shop. No charge for it 😊 kept us kids off moms case about Saturday morning cartoons . This would be very unusual today if we still had repair people coming to our homes especially in a major city outside NYC.
Your channel never disappoints, excellent memories and great presentations. I remember everything on this list. Made me smile today. Thank you. Cheers from Arizona 🍻😎
My neighbors made their TV from parts available from Radio Shack. My two older brothers and I all read Hardy Boys books. We had a complete set. We had a mom & pop Drug Store in our semi-rural area, before grocery stores has drug stores. Everyone knew Mrs. Bond and her family who ran the store. Mom always had us pay special attention to the rows of decorative glass figurines and bowls for gifts, so we wouldn't break any.
Great memories. I remember going with our grandparents for a weekend. Grandma would get her hair done at the beauty salon while grand dad would check mail at the post office box. Later, we would go to the pharmacy/soda fountain and have an ice cream while picking out a new comic book.
@@midnightcaller200I found some old Tom Swift books in the early 80s as a teenager, and loved them. I also seem to remember the Happy Hollisters, but I think I only had, or borrowed one or two perhaps. I'll look them up in a moment. I'd forgotten that book series entirely until I read it in your comment. So thanks for reminding me! And I really liked the Sugar Creek Gang series, had a few of them. I also remember a great children's book called Pinky Pye, something about a cat, I think. I read it several times, and enjoyed it very much.
Your comment reminds me of an old buddy of mine. Remember the original big screen TVs that were the size and weight of a full bookcase? When flatscreens first came out, some guy got one and gave my buddy his big counsel TV. Took several guys to move it into his condo. He was totally bragging to everyone that he got it for free. Fast forward about 5 years. Everyone had a flatscreen TV now. He couldn’t get rid of it 😂 No one wanted it. The dump wanted a huge fee to accept it. He ended up putting it into his storage unit. I lost touch with him; for all I know he still has it 😂
I still have an old Curtis Mathis console TV that is utilized when the neighborhood kids come over with the grand kids to play vintage games on an NES or Atari. They seem to enjoy that over the more modern games that are available today.
@@MomentsInTrading There's this one guy on RU-vid, calls himself "shango". He takes these old TVs in, as some kind of labor of love, and he brings them back to life. It's a miracle to me when I see it, but he has the skills and the tools and the experience. He can resurrect just about anything electronic, not just TVs. He brought a 1961 RCA color tv back from the dead, and when he had gotten it adjusted to where he wanted it, he plugged a vcr into it, and played a Kennedy speech from May 1961, something to do with getting the space program underway in ernest. Needless to say, it was awesome to see, not just the tv, but John F. in glorious executive color!
@@keithbrown7685 My parents had a 1956 RCA black and white TV with the mahogany veneer that would swivel. I remember my father replacing maybe 2 tubes but it lasted well into the 70s till my parents got a new Zenith TV and it was still working but the main picture tube needed a booster. That RCA w as always on. I had a Samsung projection TV that I bought in the early 00s that was still working when I got rid of it over a year ago and it was hard to get rid of even for free. Everyone wants a flat screen. I remember my mother had a Bendix washer and dryer for years that would not die but then we moved in a new house and she gave them away. She bought a new GE combination washer/dryer that was nothing but trouble and after a few years she replaced it with a new Maytag washer and dryer that lasted for decades with no repairs.
And weekday afternoon was too. Many stations had afternoon cartoon shows with local hosts. Such as Grandpa Happy and Captain Ernie from the Quad Cities back in the day.
@@glennso47 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
I had captain kangaroo on in the mornings as a kid in Santa Rosa, CA. Weekday afternoons was Bennie & Cecil (the sea sick serpent) and all the others (yogi bear, quick draw McGraw,....) and Flintstones at night once a week. When we moved to the central valley of CA (Lodi) we got Cisco kid, captain delta, lone ranger, big valley, death valley days,.... TV was the best in those days! 😊❤
I lived in the 50s and high school in the 60s I am now 74, and love that time you could run outside all day and your parents never worried. I feel sorry for the kids today.
I hate to say it, but if this was supposed to make me feel old, well, I was already grown with my own children during this time. I'm not old, I'm ancient.
Oh, the good old days. Candies, Cereal, The 5 and Dime store with the lunch counter on the side. We had one of those BOX tv's with the slide out carriages that held the tube and the vacuum tubes behind it. I remember going to the hardware store for replacement tubes. My grandparents had an old Victrola record players, and they had a 78 rpm slide out record player panel with the radio that sat above it in the large cabinet. My parents have all those old furniture pieces. My aunt had one of those gargantuan wall unit pieces with a record player on one end, a radio in the middle and records to the other side, banked by the cabinet speakers in the unit.
I didn't realize how much I miss those good old days , kids these days all they know is cell phones, video games. Life was simpler back then, you could actually trust most people. The Brachs candies were so good, people these days don't know what they missed out on. Thank you for the memories I'm happy but sad at the same time. I'm 67 years old and look at this country and can't help but be sad.
@@samanthab1923 My dad would do the same thing occasionally, I think my favorite ones were the pink white and chocolate coconut squares , my sister and I would always try to get those first! Thank you for your comment!!
This is my favorite Utube channel. I can't wait for new ones to come up. What makes this channel so unique is the man's voice. He makes you feel like you've gone back in time. Thank you Recollection Road!!
Opening. The first color TV we had was a Heathkit with cabinet. I helped my Father build it around 1967. IIRC, it was a hybrid transistor tube set. FINALLY Star Trek in COLOR! There is nothing you put on this channel that I will not remember, I was born in 1951. Assembling that TV with my Father (RIP 2013 at 96) was what got me into electronics after High School. Went on to be in the USAF as a radio technician and after that a computer technician. I finally retired in 2013. So here I am 10 years later at 72.
My Mom always wanted one of those horses that you put the quarter in to ride. She remembered them from when she was little and always wanted one. I wish we could have made that happen for her before she pass in Jan. Thanks for the great Memories! I remember the little carousels that was in front of most K-Marts or Wal-Marts back in the day.
Me too! At our mall, and maybe some of our bigger stores, there was an electric horse that wanted quarters. I liked it, but I think it's good that the ride didn't last long. I could see myself wanting off after a couple of minutes.
My father repaired TVs for a few years. We had a Volkswagen Minibus to carry them to and from the customers. My brother and I used to evaluate tubes in our suitcase tube tester. I eventually joined the Navy - as an Electronic Technician. Thanks Dad!
Yup, same here. I was always helping my Dad to fix and build things. I too joined the Navy at 17 and eventually got my degree in Mechanical Engineering.
I remember all of these. I liked Mr Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo. The Statler Brothers had a song - Flowers on the Wall. Watching Captain Kangaroo now don't tell me- I've nothing to do!!! LOL LOL LOL
@@freedomrings1420 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
Just a bit of trivia. That song came out in 1965. Why I should remember such things, I don't know and don't really care anymore. :-) And not to brag, really, but I can sing and play the whole song on guitar. Such was the gift that music could give us. And the gift never wore out either.
They were so *neat* and they smelled so good. Me being a boy, I didn't get the chance to make any of my own, but my sisters took up the slack, no pun intended. :-)
In addition to TV repair being a lost art, what about shoe repair? Try finding one of those today! Also, every town had at least one fix-it shop, where you could have any small appliance repaired. Replace? Never! "A little dab'll do you" worked well, until "Hey! You still using that greasy kid stuff!?" came along! Sales probably plummeted after that. The best cardboard records were in MAD Magazine- who can forget Alfred E. Neuman's "vocal" of "It's A Gas"?
Shops like that are out there,but they are few and far between, so you really have to look. Main problem is, repair cost vs. replacement of the item. Parts can be impossible to get. I fix my own, if possible. @@buickinvicta288
I had one as a kid and it eventually got thrown into a box of stuff and I put it into my mother's basement. Years later I was helping clean her basement and came across the foot. It was totally hairless by then. It was just a mummified foot. I remember screaming and throwing it when I found it because I didn't realize what it was.🤣
@TerryClothAt 5 or 6 years old, I went to a Five and Dime store and on a black table was a HUGE MOUNTAIN of rabbits feet, 10 cents for small size, and 25 cents for large size - I kept grabbing a bunch of them and dropping them back, over and over/ I didn't know then they were the REAL thing, I thought they were some kind of ornament - it would be better to talk about the kite flying craze in 1965-66. At the toy store, kites were 10 cents each but you had to put them together, and also get a pile of string. If the kite fell apart I would use newspaper ( everyday the newspaper, Daily Breeze and Herald- Examiner were 10 cents each; I miss Rick O'Shay ). 😢
As a child born in 1960, i remember so many of these items or places! Here's another ideal, what about: Toni home perms Perfumes from the 60's - 80's Ripcord beadspreads for boys & chennele ones for girls Paper dolls, lincoln logs, tinker toys, spirographs, wooly larry (magnet boards)
"...Spirograph rings are groovy things. Your eyes won't believe what your hands have done. ..." That was part of their jingle in the early 70s. I first heard it Christmas 1973. I remember how my elders were so much better at Spirograph than I was. But I still loved it, and it still pulls on a wonderful heart string.
Oh yeah. I'm OOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDD! I remember all that stuff like it was yesterday........but I can't remember yesterday at all. I loved Captain Kangaroo and The Electric Company! Watched a lot of Mr. Rogers too. You forgot about the fruit scented markers. One girl in our 5th grade math class got some for her birthday, and she would pass them around the room for everybody to smell!!!! LOL Did you do a video on what we, as kids, used to do for fun when we were forced out of the house until it got dark? I don't remember seeing one, although I might have missed it.
These were the best times glad I lived through them. Life is so generic now....and the young people don't know any better. Movement of time will be our demise. That is the way it always has been on this planet anyway.
I never made a gum wrapper chain but I remember friends did. My parents didn’t get us candy, soda or gum. When we went to visit relatives we got soda and candy. My mom always went grocery shopping by herself. I remember passing the Brach’s display with the assorted candy. I just never got it. My mom always bought the cheapest cereal when I was young. Rice Krispies or Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. When I moved out and married she started buying more cereal with sugar like Count Chocola. We never had oatmeal or other hot cereal. Nor eggs and sides unless we went out for breakfast. At my school, in 6th grade, all the kids went to this camp for 3-4 days. The first morning we went to eat in the mess hall. They had hot oatmeal! I was so excited. Other kids didn’t want there’s so I ate four bowls. I was in heaven. I remember getting a Bobby Sherman and Partridge Family paper record from the cereal box. I cut it out and put it on my dad’s console stereo. I guess the paper record wasn’t good for the expensive needle on his turntable. 😁
We never had candy, pop or snacks in our house either. Mom did make us oatmeal though only on cold mornings. There were six of us kids. We did make gum wrapper chains. My grandma would give us the gum wrappers mostly. They were good times though!
Oldest of 5. We never had soda or candy in the house. On the rare occasion my dad would by Birch Beer, he knew we hated it. My mom would buy day old bread. We toasted it anyway. She only bought enough vegetables for my dad & herself. We wouldn’t touch them. Didn’t force us. Would buy the good cereals & cookies but if we gobbled them up, that was it till next week.
I remember all of these things. Taping a coin to the top of the needle arm helped make those cereal box records play. I loved Captain Kangaroo. I have very fond memories of watching his show. 😊
@@nbenefiel Just wondering, were you also counting flowers on the wall, smoking cigs, and playing solitaire with a deck of 51? :-) That's a reference to the song.
There was a little clip of Slim Goodbody with Captain Kangaroo. His name is John Burstein. He was born in 1949. He still tours the US and Canada in his Slim Goodbody outfit. He's in a group called Bodyology. He's older but yes, he still looks good in spandex.
That reminds me of a funny story: I am a youth sports photographer, and a couple years ago I was doing a dance competition where one of the solos had a girl in a leotard like Slim Goodbody. I commented on that to her parents, and they had no idea what I was talking about. It was the grandparents that got it. This made me feel VERY old
Thank you for the video. Being born in 1956 and living in a very rural area, just going to town was like a trip to the moon. Ah, if only I had a time machine.... Sadly, my children will never live in such an age of innocence. A long distance phone call was an event and to get an actual letter meant family meeting time as my parents read the letter aloud.
I remember those Archie records from the Honeycomb boxes. I had "Everything's Archie" and "Love Light". Those things actually lasted a long, long time! And those animal rides in grocery stores? My daughter loved riding the 1 at a local supermarket just 10-12 years ago. I don't think they have it anymore, but surprisingly once in a while you can still find one.
I don't remember records on the back of cereal boxes. But I do remember the small cereal boxes on the front had small holes, you can open them, put some milk in there and eat out of them ( I did that at least twice)!
I also remember when windows were made of wooden frames and the glass was individual panes. If you broke one you just replaced that pane not the whole window
When our tv set needed repair and we called the repair guy. The tv would work fine while the repair guy was in our house but when he left it would act up.😮
Those NTSC analog color TVs were just a nightmare to get properly adjusted. Even skilled repairmen couldn't get convergence properly adjusted on the entire screen. You settled for decent convergence in the center of the screen. Loss of color sync was another serious problem. The color signal would break up into red-green-blue components with a "barberpole" effect on the screen. Weak signals would lose vertical hold and the picture would start rolling. Etc.
I'm in my mid 50's, and I remember most of those things. Like watching tv on the big console in the living room, and of course, it would be on one of the 3 major networks. No cable back then, so if you lived out in the country, getting reception from your rooftop antenna could be rough. And wow, Crazy Cow cereal---I forgot all about that!
@@BakedRBeans You Might be Old…If You Remember This, when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
@@leesashriber5097 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
Yeah, everybody in the family had the "3 in 1" entertainment center.......TV, radio, and record player. Took up a whole wall!!! My great Aunt had hers until she passed away. I wonder how much that thing was worth. It still looked new, and still worked, with the original tubes!!!
I saw one at Goodwill about 5 years ago. That thing was huge! Cabinet was close to 8 feet long-the biggest one I ever saw, and in like-new condition. Had the most beautiful carved wood panels over each speaker. I wanted to buy it, but I was short on money at the time, and didn't have help to move it. @@mewregaurdhissyfit7733
@@mewregaurdhissyfit7733 You Might be Old…If You Remember This, when teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
Yeah, I also remember our family doctor making house calls and colored sugar water in little wax bottles. Of course, I also remember Mom darning our socks and starching Dad's shirts and ironing for hours on end. And I remember only having 3 TV channels that we watched on like a 12 inch screen in B&W. And I remember my sister having polio, because no vaccine (she was OK, eventually). Like any other time, it was good points and not so good points.
I remember all the things in the video, and I also remember when we used to get towels in boxes of laundry detergent, glassware in dry oats and even sugar. That's how we decided what brands we would purchase. I still have the Dixie Crystals butter dish that came in the sugar.
Also don't forget collecting glasses & pitchers (avocado green & amber) from gas stations or records & pots and pans from grocery stores?! These were a long with getting blue chip or green stamps!❤
The supermarket closest to my home had one of those mechanical horse rides for kids until just two years ago, when that strip mall was totally remodeled. For technically oriented families, Heathkit sold a line of electronics kits that included a build-it-yourself 25-inch color TV. It was a lot of work to build because you had to solder every resistor, transistor, capacitor, etc. to individual circuit boards and wire everything yourself. But that's what made it so much fun!
So many memories. My dad used to be a tv repair man. Han ran his own tv repair business right out of our garage it was full of tv stereo and other electronic equipment. The great big tv furniture I remember all too well.
Totally forgot about the test tube testers until now - I remember making the trip to the local hardware store as the designated carrying and holder of the box of precious, precious tubes, lol.
I was born in 1961, and enjoyed the 60s, 70s, and early to mid 80s. Great music, movies, TV shows. Best times for kids to have grown up in. In my opinion the late 90s up till now, sucked and are sucking. Kids today will never know what real fun and games were like. =(
That's Hillarious. I grew up in the 80's, and I remember all the grumpy old people saying "the fifties were the best time to grow up, and kids today will never know what real fun and games were like"
I was born in 1958 and u got it right !!! Things started getting sucky in the 90's. We were lucky to grow up in the good 'ol days, I loved the 60's , 70's & 80's , got married in '79, and still married after 43 years !!
My favorite has always been Koogle peanut butter; cinnamon or vanilla flavored from the late 70s. Yum yum. And Brach's hard cinnamon candy was awesome.
We rarely bought from the Brachs display as we still had a mom & pop penny candy store left over from earlier times. They had *everything* and a kid with a quarter could make that go a long way.
When I was a kid, Brach’s was the Halloween candy that cheap people gave out. Sometimes, when walking up a driveway to a house, kids leaving would give you a warning if they were giving out Brach’s or Raisins 😂
We usually got full sized bars and didn't like getting raisins either. We got apples, pennies and homemade cookies and popcorn balls as well. My mom gave out Tootsie Pops every year. I hope he does another one on Halloween this year. This is my favorite channel.
I grew up watching Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans on Cleveland Ohio TV. Not to mention Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson) and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson), Big Chuck and Hoolihan, Lil' John and Dick Goddard.
I'm old enough to remember when drug stores had soda fountains, and there were things called "five and dimes", like F.W. Woolworth, for example. They went out of business in '97, but ultimately morphed into Foot Locker.
@@cokesquirrel According to Wikipedia, that is precisely what happened. It surprised me, too. There was another company in between called Venator Group. Here's the article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company
I remember the first time I saw a color tv picture. Our family had known only b&w tvs for decades. Then one time in 1975, my brother-in-law and my sister came to visit a while, and he brought his portable color tv.... And I was ASTOUNDED, blown away-- just speechless. It was one of those kid moments when your eyes open wide in absolute wonder! I mean, to see the logo of your tv station in those unreal colors, instead of all those years of shades of gray. It was like seeing everything anew. And I was sad at having to go back to blah old b&w when he took his tv home. Oh and btw, I got color shock, to see Tweety Bird looking sooo yellow. 🙂
@@dougthompson5449 It's almost like TV was trying to make up for all those years of b&w, by piercing your eyes with something that was almost techno-color, but thankfully not quite that loud. :-) And Star Trek would have been just the show to make kids *and* parents see the light, and to plan and save like mad for their first color TV, and to *never* look back.
Yep, I'm old. Funny thing, during the part about Brach's candy, I suddenly had a flash memory of Chuckle's candy, something that I haven't thought about in at least 40 years, and did a search to see if they still existed. I found them, and placed an order. 😁Funny the way the brain works.
The PSA’s and Brach’s but for some reason my mom never let me get any loose candy. I don’t know if they were expensive. Or she just didn’t want to buy them. Her excuse was “Everyone touches them you can’t trust that” 🙄😅 I would be allowed to get a candy bar from the check-out lane or a cherry fruit rollup pizza thing, I don’t remember the name but it was a circle-shaped piece of fruit candy roiled up, yummy. Too bad Brach’s are gone now or at least I haven’t seen any. I have one for consideration : I am so old I remember the pantyhose department in most mid to high-end department stores. Now one is hard-pressed to find anything other than the seasonal tights. I still feel uncomfortable not wearing pantyhose when I wear a dress or skirt because the ghost of my grandma will haunt me “Ladies wear pantyhose” 😂 Sorry grandma
I most definitely remember those televised PSAs! Does anyone remember those highway safety PSAs from the mid 1960s imploring us to, "Watchout for the other guy!" to avoid accidents? And how about the anti-smoking PSAs where the cartoon character literally coughs his head off? And, how about the Camp Fire Girls commercials with their jingle, 🎶"Sing around the campfire. Join the Camp Fire Girls!"?
@@buickinvicta288 My two sisters were Camp Fire Girls! The eldest one got to lead the Christmas parade in our town back 1967! My brother and I were marching in it as well. We were Cub Scout proudly sporting our Bobcat badges!
Riding in the back of your dad’s pick-up (I now live in AZ and its still legal here), burning your trash in metal trash cans, Thrifty’s ice cream 5 cents/scoop, my dad having his gun rack mounted behind the seat covering the window. Mom would go to the grocery store for regular supplies but then go a block down the street to buy chicken and fish. Also we bought a freezer and would buy half a beef at a time…..good times
Well...I recall pretty much all of these thing so yes, I am old. I was an AVID reader growing up and the school book fair was always something I looked forward to! That and the visit of the book-mobile (who else remembers that?). Miss the Brach's candy displays, though for some reason my bag always ended up mostly full of root beer barrels, lol. And Brylcreem! Never used it myself but my dad sure did. Every time I see it mentioned or see it in an old t.v. show or movie I think of him. Miss you Pop!
I had forgotten about the records on the back of cereal boxes! And somehow I never learned how to make those gum wrapper chains. I don’t remember the tube testing stations at stores at all.
I loved music and still listen to the oldies "only". I could never for about those records in the cereal boxes. They sounded bad but I loved every one of them, LOL.
Remember the commercial telling us that, "The wet head is dead?" I think it was for a new men's hair spray called THE DRY LOOK? It pretty much killed Brylcreem's sales.
I must REALLY be old! Even if I was 20 years younger, I’d remember most of these. I should stop watching your videos. Sometimes they remind me how I should go out to the south pasture and resume digging my own grave. I’m too cheap to let my estate pay for a grave digger. I was using Lucky Tiger for my flat top hair style while in high school back in the 50’s. I remember soldiers coming back from WWII. I was 8 years old then. Gotta go… dig out my shovel, get ready to die and polish up my Realistic radio to serenade me into the next life. Thanks for reminding me of how old I really am, and prepare appropriately for the next chapter of my soul.
Wow... Growing up in the 60's in Seattle area, we watched JP Patches, Ketchikan the Animal Man (Bob Newman), Wunda Wunda, Romper Room, Stan Boreson and his dog No-Mo-Shun, Brakeman Bill, Captain Puget. What a great time to be a kid. I remember what a big deal it was when my parents bought a brand new 1968 Ford LTD 2dr hardtop and we took a family road trip to Lloyd Center in Portland to go shopping... My older sister got car sick and threw-up in the back seat!
We moved to NC from CT. Dad was vice president of an electronics company. Mom wanted to move "back home" after 16 years in CT so Dad bravely quit his job and opened a TV repair shop. He worked there successfully until retirement. I always admired how he quit a very successful position and moved his family of 6 to a strange new town and made it work. Thank goodness he did. NC was definitely a better, safer place to grow up. We lived not too far from NYC in CT. and the town was going down hillin 73...I realize CT has some beautiful areas though.
Made me remember when the pony man came through the neighborhood to set up with his camera to photograph kids in their cowboy and cowgirl gear on the pony's back while their moms smiled and paid in advance for the portrait.
I remember TV tube testers at Rite Aid and Radio Shack, and yes even the kiddie rides like the merry go round outside of Rite Aid! I used to watch The Electric Company and Zoom, which aired on PBS, anyone remember Don’t Look Now, that show was pulled off the air so quickly!
I loved reading comic books especially Archie and Marvel comics! Cereals always had prizes in them and sometimes puzzles or games on the back of the box. Up through the 90’s and early 2000’s I still put my two kids on the mechanical rides at the malls ( horses, ducks , cars ect). They are no longer at our malls. Kids loved those rides you fed quarters in. 😊❤️
It's too much to hope for to not hear about Michael J, he's just too popular, but having to see Bill C, that was totally unnecessary. So much good stuff to reminisce about, no need to tinge it.
The chewing gum wrapper chains was a new one on me. Never heard of that. On a different note, my mom never let us chew any gum other than Trident. Rabbit's foot, yes. Backpack, no. There were no backpacks in my day. The only people who ever used them were people who went backpacking, ie on long hikes, often overnight. Yup, my brother and I had Hardy Boys books. I loved them. I also had Sugar Creek Gang books, and loved them too. There was never any Brylcreem in our house. But I remember the jingle. I watched The Electric Company all the time! How about this? The shoe store where my mom took us boys for shoes- it had two things of interest now. First was the electric eye in the doorway. It was on one side, with a mirror on the other. When customers walked through, a bell would ring. Then the other thing was the mutoscope. We would ask my mom for some coins. You would put a coin in, and that would connect the crank and turn on a light. Then you would look in and turn the crank, and watch a movie short. That was so cool. We never needed to go someplace that had a tube tester, because my Dad had one of his own (from Heathkit). I have it now.
I REMEMBER TAKING THE TUBES OUT & TESTING THEM. I DONT KNOW IF I COULD REMEMBER HOW TO FOLD THE GUM WRAPPERS, BRACHS THE CHOCOLATE COVERED MINTS. BRYLCREEM A LITTLE DAB WILL DO YA
I don’t have any memory of making chains out of gum wrappers but we had a neighbor who had a treehouse and he wallpaper his treehouse with gum wrappers and candy wrappers
