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African influences??? Ma'am Jazz is Black Classical Music. It IS of african decent not influenced.

I used to go see the Shipstad and Johnson Ice Follies every year with my Family in the late 50's and early 60's... I remember my favorite scene was a clown act, and the clown would throw a bucket of water at the audience, although it was popcorn... I was pretty young at the time, born 2-9-1953. We always got complimentary prime seating because my Uncle Frank Acuna was the exclusive Men's costume designer. I was so proud my Uncle, he made so many beautiful costumes. He later became Liberace's designer and life long taylor. He was considered the Taylor to the stars and the most famous taylor/designer in Hollywood, until the designers from Italy came to Hollywood and made deals to work for Hollywood producers free and stole all his business, and that's how they got famous. His clients included Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney, and literally the biggest stars and producers in Hollywood. I personally later on became a visual artist, photographer & storyteller. I was so inspired by the ice follies in my uncles memories, that I created a photo project in the late 90's and early 2000's called "I want to be a Ballerina" My work was discovered by the 2nd largest calendar company globally called "Portal" and my calendars sold in 40 countries. ( now you know how the Italian designers got famous) I did my share of free work to be a world class photographer.

Regarding 4:50 - Mary Pickford stopped producing movies at the end of 1949 and sold her shares in United Artists in 1956 - so it's inaccurate to say that she remained in the film industry until her death in 1979

72 now and attended Armstrong Elementary School in Gastonia, NC. First grade in 1958. Each classroom had a cloakroom where misbehavior landed us for PADDLINGS. I was fascinated by Tarzan movies and wanted to BE Tarzan. One teacher wrote on a report card that I spent too much time daydreaming and talking about Tarzan. I loved the lunches especially soup and sandwiches. Our lunchroom and library were in the same room. I had big ears and was teased as Dumbo, Bigears, and Little Bobby Bigears. I had to agree and made fun of myself. Classmates liked that I could take a joke and in junior high was voted Wittiest and in high school voted Friendliest. I have four Woolworth’s photos of me with enormous ears acting like Elvis after seeing “Kid Galahad.” Wonderful memories. I have regrets but they’re that I should have “buckled down” as my mother used to say and studied harder. I loved school and my classmates. Saw one yesterday at Venecia Restaurant in Gastonia. Introduced me to his grandson. I said he couldn’t be old enough to be a grandfather. I’m so glad I attended school in the 1950s and 1960s. I still feed traumatized about learning of President Kennedy’s assassination while I was in a 6th grade classroom. Those were days that gave me precious memories.

I went to schools in 1948 and on till I graduated from high school. We had to know our cursive writing where no ABCs or vowels how to dissect the sentence and find the dangling partaisble sentence. The classroom discipline was good because the teacher was in charge not the students people didn’t go to school looking like a bum with their butts hanging out or their girls with their shirts open start class. We start the class every day, but the pleasure of allegiance and the patriotism in the school was outstanding. We also participate in assault vaccine for folio and we had to take to Iowa achievement test in order progress up to the next class in essence, you worked your backside off in class and you had a fairly good amount of homework to do that had to be done for the next day not like today we have the pansy lazy generation, not all of them, but

I am 74, started to Elementary school in 1956. We had to make our own fun. My Dad, and most of my classmates, were in WWII. It was a great time to be a kid.

The classroom in the 1960s was big enough, at least 25 kids, and by 5th grade only me, and one of the boys were becoming artists and making our own drawings …😊.

And I am glad I never grew up with those lousy computers …

NO and NO, in the 1960s, if there was an earthquake ( that didn’t happen at school in CA, even though at home I had 2 enjoyable earthquakes 😊😊) during those drills we would go under our desks, and intertwine our fingers over that bump on the back of our necks to protect it ; that one teacher said that is the main part of our spine and nervous system …

Liked everything except the AI voice pronouncing "plaid" as "played".

This video is spot on except for one thing-their implication that eating red meat is a “health risk”. 🙄 I’d argue that except maybe for smoking, people were probably in much better health then than we are today.

Great history and a lovely narrator voice. Very easy to watch and listen to. 🙂

A wonderful cafeteria food cooked from scratch, great food, we all ate well, no commodity !

A wonderful time to be alive , no chaos , just good times,

So interesting!

Another awesome look at Florida in the 1920's and thank you for showing this great footage of Florida.🇺🇲👋

The only downside to this is a chunk of this was racially segregated.

74 here. Loved school while growing up in 50’s. Life was great then. Mama had supper on table by 5 pm and we all sat down and ate together. In bed by 9 pm and up at 6. Rode school buses every day and girls wore dresses, no slacks. We all knew what we were and we behaved. If you got in trouble in school you were in trouble at home because parents did not put up with unruly kids.

Bring back Home Ec and shop!

The very best of times!

Ì'm 80 a beautiful time in history, you were safe, could leave your doors open and nobody would bother you, the neighbors looked out for and helped each other. The community raised the children. In that the older people were great teachers and wonderful historiaedns. Story tellers and they taught right and wrong, was at home with my neighbors. Loved them, so many good memories of them. Was taught that if i was being bad they should spank me when they spanked theirs. 😢😮had discipline from parents. Liked school. Teachers were in control of the class rooms. Only bully in school was that 5 ft. heathern in front of the class wielding a ping pong paddle. ❤❤❤she was law and order. Bad behavior was not rewarded.get whipped at school, got one at home. We had two grades taught in one classroom . First and second grade in the evening, third and fourth in the mornings one room school. Then we went to a larger school. Seventh grade was in one room. Then high school was different. Two grades sometimes in one homeroom an classes separately.

Kids in grade school today have so much more pressure on them. To grow up faster and engage in activies a lot sooner than we did.

My mum, born yrs, 1932s silent 93s yrs,ago also she's had passed longs latest, 1990s

Thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹

Amazing…….what was once normal and worked is now treated with contempt and scorn and even hatred….sad .

I miss the good old days !!!

Omg it was a different country. It would take to long to explain

I remember grocery stores in the 1970s and early 80s having a rack of cigarette packs above the conveyor belt. Cartons were sold on end caps of an aisle. No one checked IDs for cigs because there was either no minimum age, or it just wasn't enforced. However, by the latter part of the 1980s, minimum ages for cigarettes were starting to be enacted and merchants started locking up cigs to reduce theft. Self service displays for cigs made them easy to steal. As unbelievable as this may sound today, parents would send their kid to the grocery store to buy cigarettes back in the 1970s and early 80s. Mom or dad often gave the kid just enough money to also buy a candy bar. This may not have been done everywhere, but I did see it happen growing up in the Fox Cities of Wisconsin.

78now, but I remember in high school I took auto mechanics. Best thing I ever did! The thing about elementary school was that we had to put our heads down on our desks for half an hour so we wouldn’t get polio. Boy, if I only knew then what I know now.

The class room here looks exactly how my grade school classrooms looked! I was in a Catholic school and lots of my teachers were nuns. They prepared me well for high school, college, & graduate school 😊

In the 1950s there were only 3 billion people on this planet.

Those were much better days. We had a childhood, and in my opinion we learned more including a value system. The classroom environment lent itself far more leaning and paying attention. It was a more disciplined environment, but not a stifling environment.

6:14 People were dressed so "proper" and respectful back in the day.

Blessed to be a kid in these times, they are sorely missed.

Duck and c 0ver was really interesting when you were the tallest kid in the c lass. Harder to get under the desk. I ended up in the aisle next to my desk, kneeling with my head down and my hands over my head. Probably would have been as effective as under my desk in an actual bombing 😅😂

I got my Shirley Temple doll in her sailor suit for my 5th Christmas......I still have her. I'm 70.

I love a good road trip!

I85 an I remember school We walked home for lunch dm

The Learning was Paramount - Especially the BASICS ? Our Foundations were excellent ? No Union Leeches existed ? The Best Example is the New York City Public Schools ! Was Arguably the Best in Country ! LOOK AT TODAY - A Slow Moving Train Wreck ? My Observations and Opinions ! As it paid poorly - Teachers Did It As An Avocation - Not a Profit Center ? Educated Instead of Indoctrinated ? 😢

I started kindergarten in 1947 and graduated from high school in 1960. You can't get more "1950's school" than that! This video covered things pretty well. I do remember those atom bomb drills. At recent reunions, my fellow students and I mused at how pointless they were - a conclusion many of us had come to without discussing it before. Something I could add as a retired teacher: Class sizes were HUGE - over 40 kids per room! I guess the way kids were sorted out by ability back then was that those who could make it continued on, and those who didn't quit and got a job. Of course, better educated parents, with a mom who generally stayed home, were able to tutor their kids more than poorer parents. Blackboards, BTW, were black because they were made of thin sheets of slate, a rock, that would take being marked up by chalk. Once paints that could take chalk were invented, boards became wood and were painted green or tan.

Great days of my life. ❤

Were are all the fat kid's, think about it.

I started first grade 1953

We were taught patriotic songs , the pledge of allegiance and the star spangled banner.

It was the best time frame of this country! Born in 1950 I enjoyed the atmosphere of the hero’s of WWII. The country was growing, proud of itself and greatly admired. We were educated on what things happened as well as the reasons they happened.. of my 8 grandchildren only 3 are in school. Two just graduated from college and 3 are lifetime careers, yet they lack understanding what our constitution means and how often it is violated by our own government. We baby boomer grandparents have many conversations to pass on realities. Our children know as well but most are working parents. Kids are raised in day care.

We did not have air conditioning back then just open windows. And who remembers making book covers out of grocery bags? And the class rooms had an American flag in it and everyone would stand with their right hand over their heart and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Lily white and very strict. I had African American cousins but no way we could visit until the Civil Rights Act was passed. We went up north to visit family. Some lady asked me why once? I bit my tongue. I wanted to say " We could get arrested" but she wouldn't understand it.

It might have been the very best of times for white baby boomers but not for black children, extremely rejected.

At 79 now, I lived these school days and loved them.

The video was nice, but terribly incomplete. The 50’s was a time of teaching love of country, patriotism, teamwork, individuality, pride (in the good way) values of friendship and working together, sportsmanship, respect for authority and the elderly,family and all that it entails,and just a general sense of goodness, Love & trust in the atmosphere.I will admit, all these things were not universal in all homes & schools, but where I grew up it was the norm. You felt safe & secure and life was GOOD. The school, by & large was in general an extension of the home. A place to learn & grow into a decent human being. Classrooms were run w/ respect & discipline. The parents were on board w/ most of th teacher”s report of any behavior issues. Oh how I cried when I graduated. So sad to leave my school, my classmates and my hometown.😢Once that happened the big bad world came crashing down. Of course, things eventually leveled out again ......and in large part due to my wonderful childhood and schooldays😊Could we ever have such a lovely serene time as that again, my sweet Lord😊❤