You might be OLD…If You Remember These! PART 1

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  • @sabrinapittsley2304
    @sabrinapittsley2304 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    I’m old!!!! But so happy I grew up in this era. 😊

    • @gitfar
      @gitfar ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I agree.
      getting old is better than not growing old .

    • @itiswhatitis7639
      @itiswhatitis7639 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ABSOLUTELY

    • @vw4x4
      @vw4x4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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....

    • @fanaticat1
      @fanaticat1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too!

    • @JD-gy7kp
      @JD-gy7kp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯💯🙃

  • @mikeywestside8509
    @mikeywestside8509 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    I remember when kids used to play outside, drink from the garden hose, learn how to write cursive, and respect their elders.

    • @samsmom400
      @samsmom400 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I remember when I had to stand up if an adult came into the room. AND I WAS A GIRL! All adults were called "Mr./Mrs./Miss and then the last name. I STILL refer to those adults that way (of course, most have passed).

    • @gregorykiernan7849
      @gregorykiernan7849 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And if you disrespected your elder...your parents put you in your place.

    • @butcharmstrong9645
      @butcharmstrong9645 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      AND rode in the back of a pickup truck!

    • @johnscott2076
      @johnscott2076 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ok boomer

    • @michelleblose226
      @michelleblose226 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That was from another planet!!!!

  • @mikecagle984
    @mikecagle984 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    I am 61 and remember all of these things vividly. Boy, this generation now has no idea what they missed!

    • @freeguy77
      @freeguy77 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

    • @frankmartin8471
      @frankmartin8471 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @lewisjones4130
      @lewisjones4130 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'M 52 & THOSE WERE THE GOOD OL DAYS!

    • @mluck67
      @mluck67 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I feel BAD for them!!!

    • @ohyikes1
      @ohyikes1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm 64. They know what they missed but many of them don't care.

  • @seangray2613
    @seangray2613 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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 😢

  • @charlesgall7829
    @charlesgall7829 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    At 71 I remember all this , and happy to be "old".

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    Spending an entire Saturday morning watching cartoons then going outside to play with your friends.

  • @bostonwhofan
    @bostonwhofan ปีที่แล้ว +46

    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.

    • @lorrainemudd5022
      @lorrainemudd5022 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @alanhumphrey4198
    @alanhumphrey4198 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Born 1955...know about everything you described. Sometimes, I wish I could return to those times. Seems like everything was simpler then.

    • @CologneCarter
      @CologneCarter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @manonmars2009
    @manonmars2009 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    Okay, Okay...So I'm guilty as charged. I am 61 now. But let me tell you, the 60s and 70s were absolutely a blast for me.

    • @redundantcow
      @redundantcow ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I’m right there with you. Such great memories 😊

    • @christopherbroaddrick7198
      @christopherbroaddrick7198 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Me too!

    • @artiek1177
      @artiek1177 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Same here

    • @donnaawb
      @donnaawb ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I'm 62 and miss those days

    • @firstnlastnamethe3rd771
      @firstnlastnamethe3rd771 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Same age. I lived in the Bay Area and remember the Summer of Love.
      I was only 5 y.o, though.

  • @thomasskladany7760
    @thomasskladany7760 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Lord , What I would'nt give to be able to return to these wonderful times !!!

    • @stuarthirsch
      @stuarthirsch ปีที่แล้ว

      Were they really that wonderful?

    • @thomasskladany7760
      @thomasskladany7760 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @Kinikia95
      @Kinikia95 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stuarthirsch Of course there was some bad stuff that went on, but we're enjoying remembering the good parts.

  • @jenwolfe2188
    @jenwolfe2188 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    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!!

    • @leecowell8165
      @leecowell8165 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @TheKarinsuezen
      @TheKarinsuezen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

  • @rosemarymurphy1295
    @rosemarymurphy1295 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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 😊❤

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    I was so lucky to get to grow up in the 70s and 80s, Really feel sorry for kids that have to grow up in today's broken world

    • @cathyt502
      @cathyt502 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      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.

    • @susansalvucci4281
      @susansalvucci4281 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

    • @laureencriss8220
      @laureencriss8220 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cathyt502 Born in 66. I found a ticket to The Who from 1982. It cost $9 to see them and The Clash, lol. Good times!

    • @franwebb7756
      @franwebb7756 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 😋😋

    • @zeeqq105
      @zeeqq105 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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. 😂😂

  • @davidallen5776
    @davidallen5776 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Even though the good old days weren't always good, I'm glad that I was a kid in that era. I wouldn't want to be a kid today if you paid me!!

    • @tommcdonough6086
      @tommcdonough6086 ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

    • @scottfrederick4457
      @scottfrederick4457 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @David Allen If anyone asks "What was so good about the good old days?" the answer is simple: We were young. BTW I'm 66.

    • @kybble
      @kybble ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @scottfrederick4457
      @scottfrederick4457 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kybble That's the reason for that other adage: "Youth is wasted on the young" ☺

  • @edwardportell4955
    @edwardportell4955 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The loss of the Woolworth's lunch counter is irreplaceable. There will never be anything like it.

    • @Kinikia95
      @Kinikia95 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I miss that too!

  • @daveerhardt1879
    @daveerhardt1879 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    There is nothing wrong about getting old. Love these memories.

  • @cynthiarose7534
    @cynthiarose7534 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Born in 1957 and remember all of these and more. Glad to have grown up then and not now.

    • @tommcdonough6086
      @tommcdonough6086 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Know what you mean born in 68 here, we all were lucky to grow up when things were simpler before cellphones ect. Where does the time go........

    • @sissymurphy9620
      @sissymurphy9620 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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

    • @mikegrimes9997
      @mikegrimes9997 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dec. '57 here. Wouldn't trade it for anything

    • @Lisa-cj6vx
      @Lisa-cj6vx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      July 57 Me too!!

    • @mayloo2137
      @mayloo2137 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I live in Canada. Born in Hong Kong April/60. Moved here as a child. Glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. It was a more innocent time.
      I enjoyed it.

  • @drusmith3480
    @drusmith3480 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I'm Old. I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70s and 80s for anything.🤘😎

  • @debbiedarrah6518
    @debbiedarrah6518 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I miss our old world! 🌎😢

  • @robertdode2822
    @robertdode2822 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd take the old times back again. Nothing Like OLD School.

  • @marlenalinne6100
    @marlenalinne6100 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    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.

    • @pam5389
      @pam5389 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Ok true confession time. Did you ever listen in on the party line? I did 🤦😂. I was a nosey kid.

    • @dronedaze
      @dronedaze ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@pam5389 me too

    • @diannabowen3868
      @diannabowen3868 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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!

    • @elderlypoodle9181
      @elderlypoodle9181 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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 😉

    • @mrsandman3954
      @mrsandman3954 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I remember party lines and Dick and Jane readers, Grimms Fairy Tales, Highlight magazines etc as well

  • @Andykev
    @Andykev ปีที่แล้ว +183

    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.

    • @samsmom400
      @samsmom400 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I can remember when I got paid .50 cents an hour for babysitting. Then it was .75 cents and on up to $1. I got a "real" job after that.

    • @robertjaent6087
      @robertjaent6087 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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.

    • @samsmom400
      @samsmom400 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@robertjaent6087 My grandmother lived in a small town and she had a 5 digit number.

    • @1950Grendel
      @1950Grendel ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @barbaraanderson2645
      @barbaraanderson2645 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And aren't we glad that those were "our years" --- 40's, 50's and sixties --- we could not have asked for a better time!!!!

  • @lisah1077
    @lisah1077 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    OMG, I AM old, because I remember most of these!! Oh, how I long for these wonderful times again!!😊❤

  • @surfboard396
    @surfboard396 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

    • @billybrown7953
      @billybrown7953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, and now it seems like doom and gloom. Glad that I'm 62.

    • @surfboard396
      @surfboard396 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billybrown7953 Keep On Rockin Billy ! 🤟

  • @RJ-luci
    @RJ-luci ปีที่แล้ว +115

    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!

    • @marvinmartin4692
      @marvinmartin4692 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We owned 2 blocks of our neighborhood! Kick the can, playing army, red rover, cowboys and Indians! Only came home for food!

    • @elfiero50
      @elfiero50 ปีที่แล้ว

      don't worry, you are old

    • @RJ-luci
      @RJ-luci ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@elfiero50 I knew that…….but I’m not “worried!”

    • @1950Grendel
      @1950Grendel ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We used to haunt the appliance stores for refrigerator and washer/dryer boxes for forts and grass sleds.

    • @johnmadow5331
      @johnmadow5331 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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!

  • @springsuza9663
    @springsuza9663 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I was born in 1955, I loved growing up in those eras.

  • @MrBillandBeth
    @MrBillandBeth ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The cars of the 50's are rolling works of art.

    • @leecowell8165
      @leecowell8165 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they were TANKS is what they were!

  • @bostonwhofan
    @bostonwhofan ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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!

    • @bostongirlsandy
      @bostongirlsandy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love Queen! I would love to have been at that show.

    • @zeeqq105
      @zeeqq105 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @bcatd
    @bcatd ปีที่แล้ว +77

    For me..... worth it to be old now if it means having the great memories

  • @danielbrodowski8446
    @danielbrodowski8446 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    I I guess I'm getting old but this was the best time to be growing up

    • @frankrizzo4460
      @frankrizzo4460 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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.

    • @orionwarren4244
      @orionwarren4244 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      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!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@orionwarren4244
      PERFECTLY said.
      Ditto that same here.
      Thanks Orion!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.)

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

  • @tonyhurd5697
    @tonyhurd5697 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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

  • @jimwilloughby
    @jimwilloughby ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

    • @leecowell8165
      @leecowell8165 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "fresh fish"? Not where I lived.

  • @teasea3152
    @teasea3152 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    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.

    • @marvinmartin4692
      @marvinmartin4692 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I feel the same! I’m 66.

    • @qmnnvrdyz8965
      @qmnnvrdyz8965 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

    • @markgrove2030
      @markgrove2030 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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....

    • @marvinmartin4692
      @marvinmartin4692 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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!

    • @teasea3152
      @teasea3152 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@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.

  • @robertgoss4842
    @robertgoss4842 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I grew up in the 1950s. This video brought back memories, but is a bit sad, for times gone by.

    • @ponygirlusa
      @ponygirlusa ปีที่แล้ว

      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. 😂

  • @mountaingirl72455
    @mountaingirl72455 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember all those things. I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I had a wonderful childhood. Life was so much simpler and fun. Nope, I'm not old though.

  • @kevins1114
    @kevins1114 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I still remember how amazed I was to see all of these things when I first immigrated here to America. Such things were only the stuff of fantasy in East Germany.

  • @Tracy_Burns
    @Tracy_Burns ปีที่แล้ว +28

    So glad I grew up when I did.. I miss those simpler days.. **sigh**. 🙄💜✌️

  • @rxvanz
    @rxvanz ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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.

    • @billybrown7953
      @billybrown7953 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was in the military under Carter and Reagan. I know exactly where I was when Reagan was shoot.

  • @genie6456
    @genie6456 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @beansoup6056
    @beansoup6056 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So many memories I could go on forever.

  • @tennesseesmoky9012
    @tennesseesmoky9012 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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.

    • @1MSally1965
      @1MSally1965 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were a treat at my house too. Mom always cooked dinner.

    • @gregorykiernan7849
      @gregorykiernan7849 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you remember the chipped beef in a baggy...that you boiled and served over toast/noodles?

    • @privatelyprivate3285
      @privatelyprivate3285 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup - my mum would spoon feed me the dessert when she didn’t like it!

    • @billybrown7953
      @billybrown7953 ปีที่แล้ว

      With the brownie

    • @billybrown7953
      @billybrown7953 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregorykiernan7849 Yes I do.

  • @journeytothemosthigh5021
    @journeytothemosthigh5021 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    I don't mind being old. This was some of my childhood in one video😢

    • @cwilson6990
      @cwilson6990 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Neither do I 😉 Best Years of my Life 😊 im 68 Us Baby Boomers remember Kids today need to Educate themselves watching these videos 😊😂

    • @citibear57
      @citibear57 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Some? This was my childhood, and I am proud that I grew up during this era 😄

    • @lindaborres5034
      @lindaborres5034 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Me too! Best of times.

    • @journeytothemosthigh5021
      @journeytothemosthigh5021 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@citibear57 yes some because there was so much more awesomeness! Best years of my life. Even then I didn’t want to grow up but it just happened!

    • @christopherdibble5872
      @christopherdibble5872 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Back when gas was 30 cents a gallon and love was only 60 cents away.

  • @stolnpckup
    @stolnpckup ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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.

    • @stolnpckup
      @stolnpckup 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@caco4now-mi7og huh

  • @humbleservant9313
    @humbleservant9313 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for the reminder of a time when life was safe and special. I am 62 and this brought back good memories.

  • @aaronlopez492
    @aaronlopez492 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I remember 100% of all these including S&H green stamps and blue chip stamps. And let's not forget layaway. Wow, I'm old.🙂

    • @artiek1177
      @artiek1177 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And if you didn’t collect S&H green stamps you had Triple S blue stamps. I got a chess set and my first fishing rod that way.

    • @ecphorizer
      @ecphorizer ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @artiek1177
      @artiek1177 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ecphorizer I don’t remember Blue Chip stamps. What part of the country were they in?

    • @Porsche996driver
      @Porsche996driver ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@artiek1177 West Coast, had them in LA!

    • @artiek1177
      @artiek1177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Porsche996driver Ok, thanks.

  • @alandickerson3379
    @alandickerson3379 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember everything you mentioned!! I was born in 1950.

  • @Patriot-American
    @Patriot-American ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just like I remember!! Sure miss those times and growing up in the 60's and 70's ...

  • @retirednavy8720
    @retirednavy8720 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I remember all of these. Times were much simpler back then.

  • @christinebutler7630
    @christinebutler7630 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    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?

    • @alfredo7843
      @alfredo7843 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I sure do. My first matinee was Herbie The Love Bug at the Whitehall Mall in Whitehall, PA. Great memories as a kid at that theater.

    • @ScottFoster482002
      @ScottFoster482002 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

    • @MaggieMayFlower
      @MaggieMayFlower ปีที่แล้ว +8

      On Saturday morning, The two movies, the cartoons, the previews, popcorn, and a Coke cost $.25

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was 10 when they showed Deep Throat and Debbie Does Dallas.

    • @MaggieMayFlower
      @MaggieMayFlower ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mr.bnatural3700 who showed you?? Your Babysitter??

  • @darrellwiley4288
    @darrellwiley4288 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It's official! I'm old, I remembered everything

  • @patriciabarnes6841
    @patriciabarnes6841 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember almost all these things. Life was simpler, safer and better. I miss those days.

  • @pauldegennaro7798
    @pauldegennaro7798 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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 .

  • @airbornegrunt6898
    @airbornegrunt6898 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    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.

    • @chevychase3103
      @chevychase3103 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And soul train! With Don Cornelius!

    • @brianhenderson9470
      @brianhenderson9470 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We had it the best, I almost feel sorry for todays kids.

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I feel your pain. I am 51 and feel the same way about this country now.

    • @frankmartin8471
      @frankmartin8471 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember when the Mickey Mouse club aired in 1953. We got a television a few months later.

    • @conleykat
      @conleykat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @elwin38
    @elwin38 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    As a 70's kid, I remember all of this.

    • @bullionaddict9164
      @bullionaddict9164 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same here.

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if you really remember party lines in the 79s you real rural. I lived in the 70s rember the phone co saying people might have them but never saw one

    • @waitingforchrist
      @waitingforchrist ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too... I remember and miss those days.

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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

    • @elwin38
      @elwin38 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.🤷🏾‍♂

  • @markcarson8566
    @markcarson8566 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was born in 1960 and saw most of all this what a great time to be alive!!!

  • @zerozero9085
    @zerozero9085 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    I'm not old, I'm mid-century modern.

  • @woohunter1
    @woohunter1 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    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

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That’s hilarious. Ya I remember just falling on my butt until I got it right lol. It was more of an incentive to get it right lol.

    • @ammo8713
      @ammo8713 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I REMEMBER WALKING MILES TO SCHOOL IN THE SNOW AND GOING BACK HOME....AND IT WAS
      UPHILL BOTH WAYS ! WHAT A LIFE . 😁

    • @roryschweinfurter4111
      @roryschweinfurter4111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

    • @50pinkies67
      @50pinkies67 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

    • @ponygirlusa
      @ponygirlusa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha! crash and burn is right, I remember that well!

  • @XMattingly
    @XMattingly ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “If you recognize this, you grew up during a special time. But unfortunately, you are now old.” 😂
    Love Recollection Road Guy’s matter of fact delivery of this unfortunate news. 🤣

  • @TheMistysFavs
    @TheMistysFavs ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm old,old,old! Remember them all...and so much more! THANK YOU for the memories!

  • @drunolan5656
    @drunolan5656 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Born 1939 and recall a lot more- but my7 kids grew up with these memories. They are in their 50’s and 60’s.

    • @frankmartin8471
      @frankmartin8471 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @MelywoodMedia
    @MelywoodMedia ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Old is in the mind. Glad to have experienced these wonderful times.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How true, Melywood!
      Is this following to prove as-so? "Life begins at eighty."
      I've no idea as to who said it but, I suppose some few
      ARE to find out.

    • @MelywoodMedia
      @MelywoodMedia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamesmiller4184 Better chance of getting there if you were not jabbed. Insurance acturials show American death rate up 20% since 2022

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MelywoodMedia Well, thanks for that advisement Melywood but, no comment . . . other than to put 👍👍👍 that is. 😸

    • @KenanTurkiye
      @KenanTurkiye ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Old IS in the mind, that I have solved :)
      but death is reality, that I am working on. :))))

  • @scottyellis3442
    @scottyellis3442 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I grew up in the 70's so pretty much remember all of this stuff. Great memories. 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @sallyphillips9175
    @sallyphillips9175 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still have a key ring with my apartment key, key to my parents' house and car key fob.
    ETA: LOVED going to Roller Disco in the late 70s and early 80s while in middle school! So many cherished memories are from there. It was magical. I had loads of Little Golden Books as a toddler, too! I loved reading.

  • @LoveVanillaRose
    @LoveVanillaRose ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I'm definitely old. These were the good old days!!

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m younger than dirt. Does that count?

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      The good old days actually ended when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden.

  • @paul16451
    @paul16451 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    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.

    • @DavianSinner
      @DavianSinner ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh yeah. I was up before anyone else in the house on Saturday. Right in front of the TV with my bowl of cereal.

    • @steverogers2603
      @steverogers2603 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @diegosuarez1563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The cartoons we watched are not considered wholesome today.

    • @steverogers2603
      @steverogers2603 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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 😳

    • @diegosuarez1563
      @diegosuarez1563 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@steverogers2603 Went from physical assault to verbal assualt.

  • @michaeloshea3090
    @michaeloshea3090 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm 10 days away from being 62, I really miss the 60s and 70s. I just wish my sons could have experienced it. Great memories!

  • @angelagoodwin5758
    @angelagoodwin5758 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My fondest memories are of the 60s and 70s. You do a marvelous job providing us with the closest thing to a time machine. Thank you!

  • @patriley9449
    @patriley9449 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    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 !

    • @samsmom400
      @samsmom400 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @1950Grendel
      @1950Grendel ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And dad risked his life putting an antenna on the roof.

    • @beansoup6056
      @beansoup6056 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Do you remember when the newspaper had the TV listing in it?

    • @TheMistysFavs
      @TheMistysFavs ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My brother was a pin boy! Yes, rabbit ears. I STILL say we had the best of childhoods!

    • @gracealexandre3381
      @gracealexandre3381 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a remote in our house -- me!

  • @kumabear3529
    @kumabear3529 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Born in 69. Growing up in the 70s and 80s was the best

  • @gma1343
    @gma1343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video. Brought tears to my eyes as I remembered a more innocent time in America. 2 pieces of candy for a penny. Buying a soda with 5 cents and the bottle. We knew everyone by name in the neighborhood. Neighbors looked out for each other. It is a long ago time that will never be again and that is sad. It was the best of times. Thank you so much for the walk down life's memory lane.

  • @dwaynecoy1871
    @dwaynecoy1871 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That huge station wagon @:30 reminds me of Clark Griswold's "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" in the sweet metallic pea color. It's a damn fine automobile and if you're thinking of taking the tribe across country, it's the one you should be using.

  • @davidsquires154
    @davidsquires154 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

    • @davidsquires154
      @davidsquires154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @YTCensors I was born and raised in Detroit,Michigan.

    • @NotMe-st8qc
      @NotMe-st8qc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember the jingle, let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages…

  • @sararuiz2014
    @sararuiz2014 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I must be old! Lol. I remember all these things like it was yesterday. Miss those days…the good ol days.

  • @pmafterdark
    @pmafterdark ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes, it certainly was a very special time. I can happily say I'm still living with a couple of these today.

  • @annmarie1569
    @annmarie1569 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The 80's and 90's were the best years ever to grow up in. I miss those days so bad 😔😔😔 Yes I'm old 😭😭😭

  • @youtbe999
    @youtbe999 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I really thought that all of those good things would be around forever.

  • @annaleefinch7266
    @annaleefinch7266 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Ahhhh, the good ole days!

  • @mr.bnatural3700
    @mr.bnatural3700 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My Step dad is 97; he can remember the 1920s. He is probably the last living person to witness the St. Francis dam breaking and the aftermath in Santa Paula , Ca.

    • @leecowell8165
      @leecowell8165 ปีที่แล้ว

      wow! that man has witnessed some water over the dam. does he still have cognitive? there's lotta actors getting up there.. Eastwood, Hackman, and may others getting ready to enter their 10 decade.

  • @JoDo777
    @JoDo777 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I LOVE being the age that I am. Having wisdom, peace, love & happiness now during this time was well worth it!

  • @dannettepeters1507
    @dannettepeters1507 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    As a 50's kid, you're right; I am old but still remember those wonderful times! We have a lot more stuff now, including mental and spiritual illness.

  • @karengunia5451
    @karengunia5451 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am 67 and remember all of it. I still use Vicks....I too am glad to have grown up then.

  • @thebewitchinghour831
    @thebewitchinghour831 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom still writes checks at the grocery store. LOL
    I forgot all about the Little Golden Books. That's why I love this channel. It reminds me of wonderful memories from years gone by. Thank you, Recollection Road!!!!

  • @StarFleet_Tech1701
    @StarFleet_Tech1701 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ah, great ole days...like 80's music and movies.

  • @1mespud
    @1mespud ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Quote from Red Green: "I'm not old, I'm ripe!" LOL!!😄

  • @kendalchandler3357
    @kendalchandler3357 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 10 in 1978. So I remember a lot of the things your channel plays. EXCELLENT channel, I subbed, for sure. Going to watch MORE. Glad you have the resources and the time to give us these flashbacks.

  • @larrybell1859
    @larrybell1859 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There was a certain adventure in planning to go to a movie and actually going to it. The mystery and aurora of going into a movie theater and seeing the lights dim was a really fun time as a child.

    • @pixiec3
      @pixiec3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People had to be quiet in theaters back then. I remember the ushers would come down the aisles with flashlights to make you take your feet down from seats and they actually threw people out who disrupted others; they didn't get their money back either.

  • @kencarp57
    @kencarp57 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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!

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady ปีที่แล้ว +37

    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.

    • @pacmanc8103
      @pacmanc8103 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here - class of 1975!

    • @mikepalmer2219
      @mikepalmer2219 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @watogo7664
    @watogo7664 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cherish being old with these America the beautiful memories of when it was.

  • @ronrice2249
    @ronrice2249 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember everything you mentioned, and I still use a phone book and yellow pages on occasion. The block of American cheese you got from 'commodities' wasn't pre-sliced, but it was the best American cheese made. The cans of beef and gravy were delicious, too. Ben Franklin's was the place most kids went to on allowance day. My brother still has a corded phone. Kids nowadays look at the rotary dial and don't know what to do. Those were the good old days.

  • @stevecrow3075
    @stevecrow3075 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good Ole days thanks for sharing this times.😊

  • @wetbobspongepants
    @wetbobspongepants ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It's weird being the same age as old people.
    I remember back in the day, “Panic Buying” was when the bartender said “Last Call”.
    What a nice little flash from the past. Great content...do more.🤠

  • @MrMarshall7491
    @MrMarshall7491 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Being able to say you have gotten old is an honor, not a punishment.

  • @KOLDBLU3ST33L
    @KOLDBLU3ST33L ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wouldn't trade those days for a new youth...especially today.

  • @darrenkrivit6854
    @darrenkrivit6854 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I never have thought it "unfortunate" that I've gotten older (57), rather pretty fortunate to have grown up when I did and still going strong 😁

    • @stuarthirsch
      @stuarthirsch ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @1MSally1965
      @1MSally1965 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Born in 1965! Missed boomer by 6 months! Still consider myself one. Great times!!

  • @tmscheum
    @tmscheum ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember when the ignition key was on the dash board like the push button start on most new cars now, and the dimmer switch for head lights was on the floor board? I’m vintage ‘56.

    • @privatelyprivate3285
      @privatelyprivate3285 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good lord - you just reminded me of the time in ‘98 when I was late for my midnight shift because I couldn’t find the damned headlights switch in my the 80s Pontiac Sunbird I’d borrowed from my friend’s mom! Even figuring it was in the floor, it was too dark for me to find! Lol

    • @Mick_Ts_Chick
      @Mick_Ts_Chick ปีที่แล้ว

      I desperately wish the dimmer switch was still on the floor! I hate the hand operated ones. Most people I talk to who used the floor ones want them back.

    • @privatelyprivate3285
      @privatelyprivate3285 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mick_Ts_Chick either way for me, but I do see the shoe-debris issue, especially in nastier climates. Mud, leaves, snow, dirt, gravel, and SALT/CALCIUM…ick.

  • @christinemedina1640
    @christinemedina1640 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just turned 60 and it was a great time to grow up in America, I used to also like to hear stories about the 50's when my parents grew up 👍🤗🙏🇺🇸

  • @elizabethreid9448
    @elizabethreid9448 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @mansfieldlou
    @mansfieldlou ปีที่แล้ว +73

    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.

    • @privatelyprivate3285
      @privatelyprivate3285 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How else were you supposed to prob up an visiting baby to the dinner table?

    • @xlr8nguy
      @xlr8nguy ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don`t forget about the collect calls (and the 5 second message) you would make to get picked up from wherever you went to.

    • @jhollie8196
      @jhollie8196 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

    • @mansfieldlou
      @mansfieldlou ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @xlr8nguy
      @xlr8nguy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jhollie8196 You found your special purpose!!! "Be somebody." Navin Johnson

  • @deweygill1973
    @deweygill1973 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember going to the matinees on really hot days to sit in the air conditioning, of course it didn’t matter that we walked or rode our bikes two or three miles in the heat to get there. Movies were about 50 or 75 cents. Then a 25 cent burger or two at the burger joint around the corner. Fries were 15 cents.
    Even though we lived in a new suburban ranch home built in 1959, no one had air conditioning. We had a Montgomery Ward box fan at the end of the hall to circulate air to the bedrooms on hot nights