I remember using paper grocery bags to cover my school books because you would be fined by the school for the wear and tear of the books, and I mean any wear on them no matter how minor
No , answering machine, cell phones, computers , a phone in the living room, stores closed on Sundays, yet we broke bread with our neighbors and had time to visit people on weekends. And we sang hymns in public schools in the north east and there was no problems like today ❗️
So true. Miss the days before the internet. The internet could have been so good but it’s also brought so much bad into impressionable children’s lives.
Good times. God , how I miss life when it was so simple. No agendas , just people living their lives , taking pleasure in the small yet important things. Sad kids today will never know how it was to really be a kid , before all the internet/social media garbage.
Yeah we definitely were blessed to have grown up in those times. I would play tackle football in the streets with my friends until it got dark outside and drank out of the hose on the side of the house. We're all still standing years later. Great memories back then.
heres the thing. We raise the next generation. The actions we take directly impact HOW they grow up. Kids arent playing outside? Why didnt you let them? Kids on social media? Why’d you buy a ten year old a phone? Kids eating junk food? Why’d you give it to them?
I remember the radio show and the 30 minute TV show Casey would host that would show 1 video from the top 10 songs of the week. I remember at the end of the show Casey would say " Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars".
@@richardshermanjr1899The tv show was on for a hour, I know, I watched it to and, the other few tv shows similar to that followed up with Solid Gold which was on a for a few hrs!
I remember when credit cards became a "thing" when I was little. Credit cards were literally for "special occassions" only........going out to eat after church on Sunday, for a birthday party, or for Christmas gifts. People still paid cash and wrote checks for everything else that were standard shopping items. Casey Kasem may had a suave and sophisticated voice, but so do YOU! I love to hear you speak! One of the many reasons I love your channel! I loved Ding Dongs.......the originals. When Hostess changed the recipe to cheaper ingredients and more chemicalized ingredients, they took away the foil wrapper and started using plastic. Dong Dongs weren't as good anymore. A few years ago, Hostess sold off a lot of their recipes to other baking companies, who, once again, changed the recipes. Ding Dongs are not the same as they were when I was young, and I refuse to waste my money on them now. Hobby shops were big here in Big D when I was little. And almost all stores carried those cheap little bamboo planes. But they fell apart easily. I preferred the larger versions made out of styrofoam that you could put stickers on, to decorate them as a commerical airliner. I had forgotten about the gas jockeys and the "ding ding" at the gas station. That was always fun to be in the car when granny stopped to get gas. Another thing thats lost to time, are Green Stamps. Many stores, hotels, and gas stations had Green Stamps you could get for buying certain items or buying in large quantities. And then you turn the Green Stamps in at your local GS office for things like gift certificates, sets of bath towels, sets of kitchen towels, dinnerware, flatware, tools, lawmowers, and expensive toys. Sometimes you could even turn them in for discounts on travel. I also remember when companies put "prizes" or "free gifts" in thier products. My granny loved buying the big boxes of detergent, because she collected the set of dish towels they were offering......one in each box of detergent. I remember granny got free "works of art" every time she filled up her tank with gas. They were just 8x8 printed mat paintings of famous paintings, pasted onto a stiff cardboard. I thought they were the neatest thing. Some other things that are gone.............. Kindness, ethics, honesty, respect for your elders, manners, etiquette, self-worth, and an honest days work.
They were not gas jockeys, they were service men, they were providing you with a service as business and they gave you the full service treatment! The servicemen, never said to you ding, ding! When, you crossed into the parking lot that portion of their gas line went off and rang to let them know a customer had arrived and, one of the service station men ( what they really were) would suddenly come outside!
Those model airplanes you are referring to were balsa wood, not bamboo. I remember them quite well and probably had my fair share of them as they were only about $.25 which was some cheap entertainment until they eventually got busted up.☹️☹️
About 10 years ago, I saw a paper doll book that had a warning printed on it: TO AVOID INJURY, REMOVE STAPLES BEFORE GIVING THIS BOOK TO A CHILD." If your kid can't play with paper dolls without getting impaled on a staple, that kid's not long for this world.
Absolutely!! A much simpler time when there wasn’t all this hatred and division. So thankful I was able to be a part of the best era’s of life. I would never want to be growing up as a child in this time in history!!
It was a better time all around. From kids being feral to the political parties actually working together back then, things were just better. I remember being a feral child. Fun times
Most of the kids nowadays will never know how much real fun we had and we didn't have cell phones or internet. We had it made and didn't know it until we grew up...at least we have our memories of all the fun times. Love this video!
@@Styxswimmer Yep my mother used to kick me out of the house to go and play. find something to do the only rule was don't leave the neighborhood, and be home in time for lunch or dinner . I did not have a watch at that time, so I asked my mother how would I know its time for dinner and she told me when the other kids go for dinner that was simple , played in the woods made forts, climb trees and we used to jump of a dirt cliff
Oh my, I remember all of them. My sister played with paper dolls. My Grandfather always carried a coin purse. I had many if the balsa wood aeroplanes 😂. Remember the ding ding at the filling station. Oh all those precious memories with those that mattered most. They are are gone now😢 But I still have the memories. Oh how I miss my youth it all went by so damn fast, as has life itself. I'm 60 now and it all seems a lifetime ago and just a few days ago at the same time. Anyone else feel that way ?.... Thanks for taking me back again..
I’m a little older but remember those air planes and everything else you mentioned. We used to ride our bikes over the hose at the gas station just to bug the attendant.
I remember listening to that distinctive voice for years. When I finally saw him on television, it was hard to match the man with the voice. I pictured someone different.
I remember everything mentioned in this video. I would love to go back to those days and get away from 2023 and thank goodness for music because it's the only time machine that transports me to a particular year from a particular decade.
I miss those days so much when I was a kid I would say I can’t wait until I’m grown and now I regret it so so much smh 🤦🏾♀️ now my kids say they can’t wait until they get their own place lol lol
@@jademusic1211I agree 😢 I’m 60 and my formative years were the 70’s. It even made me sad seeing the “Made in the USA” item. This country and people have devolved so much.
The candy cigarettes were cool! I can still taste them. The paper bag book covers were a pain to put on. By the time I graduated high school there were new covers that just fit over the books with elastic. Kasey Kasam was great to listen to on the radio! What did he used to say “Keep your feet on the ground but reach for the stars?” Something like that. He had such a calming voice. So sad what happened to him when he was sick and incapacitated.
The bubble gum cigarettes were the ones that we could actually blow the powdered smoke out of,but the actual bubble gum tasted nasty & so did the chalky cigarettes
As a kid, I remember getting yelled at by the gas stations guys for riding over the "bell" hose with my bicycle every time I passed by. I never realized I was doing something wrong.....
I did the same thing at the local gas station I went to get candy, and sometimes watch TV. Wayne would pretend to get mad at us but he was laughing all the time A quarter could buy a whole bag of candy back then, like foot long bubs buddy bubble gum, pixie sticks zots sweet tarts, candy bars that bubble gum with the comics in it ,and bubble with baseball cards or wacky stickers, like flunk now and avoid the June Rush Back in those days you could collect pop bottles and turn the in for money a nickle for a coke bottle and 25 cents for a big 7-up bottle
@@midnightcaller200 I too remember scouring the ditches along the side of the road on the way to the 7-11 looking for discarded bottles to cash in for the deposit money. Like you said, it wasn’t much but it was enough to satisfy a kid wanting a drink and a candy bar. Plus I guess unknowingly we were cleaning up the environment a little at a time.😊
I used to try to jump on the air hose as a kid to make it "ding." Also, remember the display of stacked oil cans (metal oil cans) usually in a pyramid shape near the door to the gas station office area.
You missed so many things, too many to mention. Also too many to show in a TH-cam video, a lifetime of memories come flooding back whenever I watch your videos. Thank you for the trips! Keep 'em coming.
My grandpa owned several laundromats in NE Ohio in the '80's. I visited him as a child in December one of those years and I would go with him to visit each store and collect the money and prepare the store for the next day. We stopped at Howard Johnsons to get some "to-go" food and eat it on the road. We ate the food, made our late-nite stops and on the way back Grandpa was driving his 1976 DeVille on the highway around 80+ MPH. When he was done with his cigar he pressed the power window button to throw it out and it was like one of those science fiction movies when someone accidentally opens the airlock. Stuff went flying everywhere, it was instantly -20 below in the car and the Howard Johnson bag got sucked out into space with a wwuush! It is seared in my memory to this day that the bag had big letters on it that said "HOJO TO-GO". And then it was gone.
@@JohnWilson-wg4gk LOL - yes I loved the fried clams but that nite we had a couple cheeseburgers and two orders of fires. Gramps had coffee and I had a coke. There was a cupholder console from JC Whitney sitting on the trans hump for the drinks - no cupholders back then - how did we manage? Well that's another memory for recollection road!
My brother had a paper route for several years and that meant his own money! He used to get one of those Carnation "Chocolate Malts" practically every day from the ice cream man and they were in a waxy cup with the wooden spoon! The late paper doll artist Tom Tierney revived the genre with an amazing series of books throughout the 90s and beyond with some remarkable designs and characters! Foil packaging was also used in cereal boxes - especially for the particularly sugary and sticky cereals like Sugar Crisp and Cocoa Krispies!
Carnation makes the malt powder, the ice cream shops make the malts with ice cream in them, not Carnation and they aren’t called Carnation malts, just malts!
Great comment i forgot all about Tire Chains also changing the Tires from summer to Winter Studded Snow Tires using a bumper jack LOL and if it was a big snowstorm 15 inches or more you just stayed home untill the strees were plowed or you put on a plastic baggie on each foot and put your shoes on and walked to a conner store to pick up Mom and Dads cigaretts
I remember making plastic models, not of airplanes, but of movie monsters. There was a model for Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, Wolfman, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame (that was chained to a circular platform that turned).
My older brother had a few of those. Seems to me like they required a lot of painting for them to look like the box. I thought I remembered him having one from “The creature from the Black Lagoon”. along with the other ones mentioned.
I always did the comics or brown paper bags for school books, my hubby still uses the plastic coin holders, i wish the ice cream came in those containers with wooden spoons, candy cigarettes, Kasey kasem, paper dolls,.... So many memories ❤
I remember Casey Kasem and also Wolfman Jack, they were my two favorites dj's. We always had paper bag book covers, I wasn't artistic so mine stayed clean. Thanks for the videos, lots of memories
when i was a kid living in Florida. one weekend my dad took us to meet wolfman jack in some strip mall he was doing autographs there. i forgot where it was.
I remember both the candy cigarettes and gum cigarettes. The candy ones had reddish-pink tips, and the gum ones had a powder type thing (i assume), so when you blew on them, it looked like you were smoking. What were they thinking? 😄 There's a gas station by me that sells candy cigarettes. They must be from the 80s, though, because I can't imagine they are still actively made today. Then again.... 😂
Regular candy cigarettes are still around, although the ones at the corner gas station here in South Columbus aren't identified as "cigarettes". I do remember having them (and the 5 cent gum cigars...a lot of gum for a nickel), though thankfully I was never tempted to actually smoke later on.
That's hillarious. I'm 50, and grew up in the 80's, and I remember all the grumpy old people saying the exact same thing. How life today is a cesspool, and the 1950's were so much better. I get the sense, in the year 3187, all the grumpy old people will say the exact same thing
Yes. We are all old grumpy people. Go back to sleep. You moron I'm in my 30s and looking at these videos I prefer how life was in those decades. And I don't give a hoot what people will say in the year of 3187.@@vicepresidentmikepence889
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 The 1950's were far better for everybody, including black small businesses. Segregation. Not even a fraction of the black-on-black murders of today. Chicago. Detroit. New Orleans. D.C. Oakland. were all livable places.
One of my favorite childhood treats was Snack Pack pudding in the little tin cans - I know it's still available now in little plastic cups and I still enjoy it, but it doesn't feel quite the same to me
Oreo cookies aren’t any good either, the best thing about eating an Oreo is dunking it in the milk and soaking up the milk. Now they’re too hard they don’t even suck up milk anymore?
I always giggle when you say, let me know if I missed anything, there's so many, many things.... but you hit on some big ones and thank you, because you brought back memories.
🎉 gracious greetings from coastal Mississippi. Thank you for these wonderful memories. A time gone by, never to be repeated , so blessed to be living back then😂❤
I was born in 1982 and remember all of these things. I was raised the old way and it makes me sad to see how much this world has changed in such a short time. I am not sure what kind of childhood these kids have today but it seems very odd and nothing like what the rest of us experienced.
The other thing I remember about full service gas stations were the promotional items. I once collected a complete Noah’s Ark. One pair of animals with every fill-up.
I remember the Shell station that offered Philips AM-FM transistor radio made in Holland for half of the retail price in Thailand with one filled tank. I love the case and radio box with Philips Logo.
They had Dolls of the World, too. You could buy them for 99 cents with your gas purchases. They were like 8" tall, each dressed in the traditional costume of the country. My favorite was Holland. We finally got the whole collection (12 in all). 😊 There was a cardboard display case to go with. Anyone else remember those? I just looked them up. They were from Arco. Memories!
Great video as usual! How about kid’s birthday cards with various coin slots scattered amongst the artwork to give a monetary gift to the birthday boy or girl?
The government had a bunch of commemorative quarters that were issued in the 90s and they had cards with slots to display them. There was one coin that commemorated each state and territory.
@@glennso47 that brings back great memories of my lovely Mom collecting those coins with her much loved Grandsons! Both boys still have those booklets! ❤️
Wood flavored ice cream because of the spoon! Lol! I certainly do remember that. These episodes go by too fast with so many memories. Thank you again Recollection!
I remember everything you mentioned. I had one of those coin purses when I was a kid and still carry one of them today. They are a great way to keep all your change together and not have to dig through your pocket for that dime or nickel. I still give the younger cashier change so I don’t get change back from a bill and love to watch them try to figure out what I do that for. Of course when they enter it in the register and it tells them the returned bills some of them figure it out!!! By the way, my kids call my change purse my grandpa purse.
I also remember flying kits. They had many styles and types. It was a fun challenge to see how much string I could release to make it fly higher. Slot cars were another enjoyment as well.
I remember when those little ice cream cups were made out of paper that had a thin wax film on the inside. I also remember when I could get 5 candy bars for a quarter. Where I lived, sales tax didn’t start until 30 cents.
Dang, I still have that wooden taste in my mouth after 50 years. Never forget that and this just helped me relive that experience, and taste of summer.
I loved when you didn't have to pump your own gas. In the early 70s one of our service stations gave away a steak knife with each fill up. You could collect the set. Also got a set of glasses that way.
I loved it when you didn't have to check your own oil with the dirty dipstick either!. The attendant would ask you, "Check your oil?" and every month or two, you said "Sure."
Neighborhood SUNOCO station always had a few cars that were being worked on, with "Mechanic on Duty" sign out front.. They mostly only sold gasoline, oil, tires, hoses and fan belts. Their only "food" offerings were soda pop and peanuts and crackers and candy bars out of vending machines.
@@JoJo173That's right!! I completely forgot about that.. I was there Six year's ago & was wondering why my Cousin wasn't getting out of her car?? Then of course she tipped the attendant he checked tire pressure as well
I certainly remember all these examples and had one of those wind up airplanes. It really worked and was fun. We had a table with the aluminum trim too. Sturdy, and the only reason to get rid of it was a desire for a more modern table , never because it wore out.
That sounds like my lunch. I had the bologna ( Sammich ) lol . with mayonnaise. I don’t think I had cheese in it . Can’t remember. Mostly just bologna. Or fried bologna.
This was my childhood, being born in 1971, I had a Tupperware and Avon mom. Jell-O could be dessert and Hot Wheels were collected like Pokemon. 8 tracks in my dads Oldsmobile wearing neon bright, talking about Duran Duran. Great video!
You mention Avon. Are you referring to the collectable perfume decanters? The designs printed on them were done in Hackensack NJ by a silk screen process that my father helped to develop. Avon and Fabrige were their two biggest customers.
I built practically all of the Aurora movie monsters back in the day. I may still have Godzilla packed away somewhere, last time I saw, it was fragile and missing a foot.
Yep. I had Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein. I also built several model cars and our hobby store also sold Slot Cars, Slot Car parts so you could build your own custom car, and even had a Slot Car racing track in the back. Great memories.
Your definitely not wrong. We have everything at our fingertips but yet it's not enough for some people. There was something to be said about doing things for yourself back then, it took more time and energy but we just did it because that's all we knew. Glad I was able to experience those times.
“Is as always was: rain, and sun fall on the backs of both good, and mischief-makers alike. Our surroundings change, people remain the same. Be the good you seek, remove yourself from evil, don’t dance with it. Don’t fret over others. Focus on improving yourselves” ~things elders said
How has life improved. The food, water, and air are all poisoned, and only 1% of the world's population is succeeding. All by design. I miss real food, and laughing with friends. It's the entertainment industry corrupting all the morals. They've been doing it all my life, and I'm 65. I want to get back to all things natural, not this plastic, artificial world.
The candy cigarettes I remember had powdered sugar on them, so you could blow one puff of pretend "smoke". I think they were gum. They each had a paper wrapper, and came in an imitation cigarette pack.
I have never seen a Howard Johnson anything on Facebook but I was just at a party last night and mentioned them and now it shows up... Big brother is listening
Am 77. Our cup ice cream was in a waxed paper cups, had wood paddle spoon. I remember most things from the late 1940's to today.. You forgot checking air in the tires and oil level.
I worked as a receptionist at a private country club and we still had the manual cc reader . It was 2017 😂😂😂😂😂😂. First time I'd ever touch one in my life 😂
I'm always amazed how you come up with these things, as I usually remember almost all of them. Yes, the horrible taste of that wooden spoon, and covering books---I had teachers that would come around and make sure that we did. And my parents were smokers, and they used those McDonald's ashtrays. And yeah, I've eaten at a Howard Johnson's restaurant---just like Denny's, they had the most bland food you could get lol
I do miss those days. Everything you've shown here I do remember, and I really miss it. If I have a hard time sleeping I just go back to the 60's, and early 70's when things made sense, and was peaceful for me then before I know it I'm sound asleep. What I wouldn't give to to wake back in the 60's in my old room a week before christmas, walk out to the living room to see mom baking everything imaginable for Christmas, and hearing Perry Como playing. Dad would be getting ready to go to work, and as I climbed up onto one of those chairs shown at the beginning of your video, and how it stuck to my legs as I squirmed trying to get comfortable mom would bring over a box of Captain Crunch, add milk to the bowl, and had a delicious sugary meal all the while looking at the colorful pictures on the cereal box. Wow, just typing this has me want to go back. Back then it was so easy to be a child. I'm so happy, and very thankful I had that experience, and I feel so sad for todays children. Maybe in 50 or so years they will look back, and maybe say the same thing. Who knows. Many thanks for the video, they always bring me back to a time I cherish, and miss so much.
I often repeat the Casey Casum announcement from October 1983 the Elvis Presley had sold, count them with a B, one billion albums. That number still blows my mind, and he is still the highest earning dead person most years.
Elvis Presley was to music what Wayne Gretzky was to hockey. Nobody is going to beat Elvis Presley's sales records and nobody is going to beat Wayne Gretzky's scoring records.
As a kid born in the mid 80’s growing up in NY, I agree 100% with this video. Those wooden spoons broke so easily if you were impatient…like me. My entire kitchen and parts of my living room were covered in Formica. I still have my black coin holder. Watching people copying the credit cards was more exciting than dessert. My schools sold book covers but all the “cool” kids used their own brown paper. Not a single house with smokers didn’t have a McDonald’s ashtray they acquired. KC was always great to hear and meant the songs I wanted to hear were coming up. Unpopular opinion, candy cigs tasted delicious. I’d get two packs for 25 cents, then brag to adult smokers. Far too many girls sat in class cutting clothes out of magazines to put on their dolls. Ring Dings were a staple of school lunch. Those cheap airplanes brought me so much joy. Throwing them for distance down the long halls of your school or a mall felt like a rocket going to the moon. Many people talked about Howard Johnson’s, but I don’t remember eating there. Solitare was fun, but Minesweeper was MUCH more satisfying to win. That trilling bell chime at gas stations lives rent free in my head. Hess, Shell, and every other station used them.
there used to be large amber glass ashtrays that would be on every living room table in front of couches. my mother would smoke in the grocery store while shopping in the 1970s. my how times change... the captain has turned off the no smoking light, so sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
I remember when traveling by plane as a teenager by myself my Dad would always ask me if I wanted a seat in the smoking section Of course as a teenager I would always get the smoking section which was always the last 7/8 rows (Roughly) in back of the plane those tiny tiny ashtrays in the arm rest were a hassle
@@jcbulldog533 hahahaha. Yep I remember. And, I remember mom and dad would smoke all the way to our destination and we would be in the back seat inhaling that "second hand" smoke. The little corner windows they used to have in the car and when they flicked their ashes, half the ashes would land on us. By the way, the second hand smoke didn't kill me . Still kickin". And my mom quit smoking in August of 2023 (at 91) to lengthen her life span per her doc (lol). She is still as healthy as she can be. Believe it's in the genes.
Does anyone remember cinnamon flavored toothpicks? You could buy 10 in a wax bag for 5c. If you left on your lip too long it would start to burn. Also, candy bars were 5c and Savon Drug Store in southern California sold 3 for a dime in the 60’s. (The beginning of my diabetes).
I remember those plastic coin purses. Wonder if any stores still sell those or only online these days? Would love to find an actual store to buy one at. Tried Dollar Tree stores and 99 Cents Only stores but they do not sell them. DJ Casey Kasem was one of the greatest on radio and television.
Memories, Memories, Memories. Oh long for the good times. Crime was low back then. People were more respectful & really into the outdoors and life in general. Eating at the kitchen table during meal time. These times are mostly gone. Please keep up with your great videos.
I worked at a Howard Johnson’s off of I-95 up north. I loved working there. Nothing like a cup of hot clam chowder (I wasn’t so far north we said “chowdah”) and some Zesta saltines. Even though we weren’t supposed to use the motel pool we occasionally slid quietly into that refreshing water after a long hot night of waitressing. I learned to drive a ‘65 VW and used to fill up my gas tank using tip money. Going back quite a bit further I also covered my books in store paper bags. And doodled on them in especially boring classes. Thanks RR. Great memories.
Some of those stuff isn’t really obsolete; like ice cream with wooden spoons, book covers, Howard Johnson’s, and especially Solitaire! The obsolete stuff that takes me back to my childhood is circus shows, playing old video game arcades, going to a drive thru movie theater, and using typewriters for letters!
I had a grand piano in my living room when I was growing up and mom had a full console organ in the basement, I never learned how to play organ, though. Mom was a church organist/pianist and my dad sang with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra Chorus and he was also a church choir director. After I bought my current house, there was something missing and I now have a 6’ grand piano in my parlor.
With the exception of paper dolls and computer games, I had all of those things. My Grandpa used to take me to a diner (it was called The City Line Diner). When he paid the check he would always get me a bubble gum cigar.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about the ding at the gas stations. The hobby shop near us had a big HO track. I forget how much it cost but you rented track time for your HO cars. And those wind up planes. I remember my brother and I playing around with one of those at dusk and a bat zoomed in on it, buzzing my brothers head. That was it for that night anyway.
The three ring binder and the cheapo silver one hole punch maker was nothing in comparison to the great 3 hole one the teacher always had that worked so well and created such great confetti as they collected in the bottom of it. The super sharp paper slicer block with all the squares on it to help you measure & cut perfectly always comes to mind as well. Not to mention the cheapo staplers they used to sell us that alway got jammed up and barely worked if you had 5 pages to staple together. And who didn't want the 4 color bic pen back in tnose days. Or the fantastic stencils with the whole alphabet to help do school projects.
@@andrewvelonis5940 That is the case now and not then. Although available they were very costly. Smarten up. Ask anyone over the age of 50 if they remember making holes by using a ball point pen and tracing the size of it by using another peice of looseleaf as a guide to do so and you might come to understand.
I can remember those 3 ring binders that you had to be careful not to pinch your fingers. Do you remember the binders that closed by some magnets too? I always thought those were cool. Not sure if I ever had one I just remember how different they were. I always looked forward to the new school year when your mom or dad (mainly mom) would take you to get new school supplies. Those were the days
The credit card imprinter shown here was more recent than the first ones. VISA was originally called "Bank Americard," and MasterCard was originally called "MasterCharge." Those bank credit cards came after the proprietary store credit cards. Every large department store had its own card: Macy's, Gimbels, etc., as did each gasoline company: Shell, Chevron, etc. MasterCharge and Bank Americard eliminated the need to carry around all those different credit cards. The book covers that we elementary-school kids used for our textbooks weren't from brown bags, but manufactured out of glossy paper or something. Each one had the logo and colors of a different college: Rutgers, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc. Those were the ones I remember using.
We always used ShopRite paper bags for our books and I remember if we didn’t get our books covered by a certain time, the teacher would give zeros. I still to this day don’t know how to cover books, my sister had to do mine as well as hers. Drakes ring dings were sooo good when they came in foil. Actually everything from drakes cakes tasted sooo much better then. Big wheels (snack cakes) good, too. And how I miss burrys’ cookies, fudgetown, gauchos, and burrys best chocolate chip cookies, yum!😊
All of them! I was just talking about paperbag book covers at work as,my granddaughter is using laptops in kindergarten. Loved my paper dolls! I love your channel. I recommend it alot to my friends.
Perhaps in a future video mention the neighborhood ice cream truck. When we would hear the truck’s jingling music, all the neighbor kids came running to buy fudgsicles and bombpops.
This brings back a lot of memories. Does anyone remember the small metal rockets with the plastic fins? You'd put a cap under the weighted tip, then throw it up in the air and when it fell onto a hard surface the cap would go "bang".
Yep, I remember those. I also had a water rocket set. It was a pump and a plastic rocket that you filled up with water and pumped the pump until the pressure fired the rocket. Like the alka seltzer rocket, you could get some serious altitude out of those things.
I had one of those too. We would also cut a slice in the bottom of a pringles can, put a firecracker with the fuse sticking out of the slice, then put the pringles can in water and light the fuse, would send the can about 25' in the air. @@slactweak
I am pretty sure I remember those. Seems to me they were pretty durable and well made. I think the caps were called Greenie Stick-ems as you would peel one individual cap off a roll. Hell I remember just banging caps with a hammer on the sidewalk, it didn’t take much to entertain me 😂😂
In my day the ice cream came in paper cups. The plastic cups didn't come along until later. The last time we put in a kitchen we had Formica countertops because stone or faux stone ones were too heavy and expensive. This was after the turn of the millennium. Most kids I knew never bothered with book covers, but the brown paper style made out of a grocery bag was popular. You could even buy premade ones at Walmart and such. Candy cigarettes were a Halloween trick-or-treating staple through the sixties and early seventies (I didn't trick-or-treat after that). Paper dolls were everywhere in the early sixties, but, yes, Barbie pretty well killed that fad. I still argue that Solitaire is the only useful program ever written by Microsoft. The black pneumatic "bell" hoses at gas stations made sense when we didn't all pump our own gas. I've heard only New Jersey and Oregon still don't let you pump your own gas, but that may have changed recently.
2:17- That machine is called an Addressograph. I still have one at work but with the newer cards not having raised numbers it really is becoming obsolete.
I live in Australia. Some things I hear have no relevance to others however ring the bell such as paper dolls. I had them and wish I could find some to give my grand niece before she gets to old to enjoy them. Love Recollections
I remember using paper grocery bags to cover my school books because you would be fined by the school for the wear and tear of the books, and I mean any wear on them no matter how minor
Ditto here, and I well remember decorating by doodle the covers of those books.
We did that in the 80s. 😊
I liked to use the comics from Sunday papers to cover my books 📚
Indeed. I had the cover-folding technique down pat.
@@redlady8296I used to enjoy wrapping birthday gifts in the comics!
No , answering machine, cell phones, computers , a phone in the living room, stores closed on Sundays, yet we broke bread with our neighbors and had time to visit people on weekends. And we sang hymns in public schools in the north east and there was no problems like today ❗️
So true. Miss the days before the internet. The internet could have been so good but it’s also brought so much bad into impressionable children’s lives.
Good times. God , how I miss life when it was so simple. No agendas , just people living their lives , taking pleasure in the small yet important things. Sad kids today will never know how it was to really be a kid , before all the internet/social media garbage.
Oh the irony, You're calling the Internet garbage, WHILE COMMENTING ON THE INTERNET😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
But here we all are on social media😂
Yeah we definitely were blessed to have grown up in those times. I would play tackle football in the streets with my friends until it got dark outside and drank out of the hose on the side of the house. We're all still standing years later. Great memories back then.
heres the thing. We raise the next generation. The actions we take directly impact HOW they grow up. Kids arent playing outside? Why didnt you let them? Kids on social media? Why’d you buy a ten year old a phone? Kids eating junk food? Why’d you give it to them?
@@Voice.of.Thanatos Words of wisdom. Older generation blaming young people when they were the ones that raised them😄
I remember listening to Casey Kasem, every week and doing my homework while i waited to hear my favorite songs climbing the charts.
I think he voiced Shaggy on Scooby-Doo!
@@jamesnoggle2661 Yes!!
@@jamesnoggle2661 He did.
I remember the radio show and the 30 minute TV show Casey would host that would show 1 video from the top 10 songs of the week. I remember at the end of the show Casey would say " Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars".
@@richardshermanjr1899The tv show was on for a hour, I know, I watched it to and, the other few tv shows similar to that followed up with Solid Gold which was on a for a few hrs!
I remember when credit cards became a "thing" when I was little. Credit cards were literally for "special occassions" only........going out to eat after church on Sunday, for a birthday party, or for Christmas gifts. People still paid cash and wrote checks for everything else that were standard shopping items.
Casey Kasem may had a suave and sophisticated voice, but so do YOU!
I love to hear you speak! One of the many reasons I love your channel!
I loved Ding Dongs.......the originals. When Hostess changed the recipe to cheaper ingredients and more chemicalized ingredients, they took away the foil wrapper and started using plastic. Dong Dongs weren't as good anymore. A few years ago, Hostess sold off a lot of their recipes to other baking companies, who, once again, changed the recipes. Ding Dongs are not the same as they were when I was young, and I refuse to waste my money on them now.
Hobby shops were big here in Big D when I was little. And almost all stores carried those cheap little bamboo planes. But they fell apart easily. I preferred the larger versions made out of styrofoam that you could put stickers on, to decorate them as a commerical airliner.
I had forgotten about the gas jockeys and the "ding ding" at the gas station.
That was always fun to be in the car when granny stopped to get gas.
Another thing thats lost to time, are Green Stamps.
Many stores, hotels, and gas stations had Green Stamps you could get for buying certain items or buying in large quantities. And then you turn the Green Stamps in at your local GS office for things like gift certificates, sets of bath towels, sets of kitchen towels, dinnerware, flatware, tools, lawmowers, and expensive toys. Sometimes you could even turn them in for discounts on travel.
I also remember when companies put "prizes" or "free gifts" in thier products. My granny loved buying the big boxes of detergent, because she collected the set of dish towels they were offering......one in each box of detergent. I remember granny got free "works of art" every time she filled up her tank with gas. They were just 8x8 printed mat paintings of famous paintings, pasted onto a stiff cardboard. I thought they were the neatest thing.
Some other things that are gone..............
Kindness, ethics, honesty, respect for your elders, manners, etiquette, self-worth, and an honest days work.
They were not gas jockeys, they were service men, they were providing you with a service as business and they gave you the full service treatment! The servicemen, never said to you ding, ding! When, you crossed into the parking lot that portion of their gas line went off and rang to let them know a customer had arrived and, one of the service station men ( what they really were) would suddenly come outside!
They were called gas jockeys where I am.@@sonyafox3271
He never said the gas jockeys came out and literally said "ding ding" to you...😂
Those model airplanes you are referring to were balsa wood, not bamboo. I remember them quite well and probably had my fair share of them as they were only about $.25 which was some cheap entertainment until they eventually got busted up.☹️☹️
_"Ding ding"_
You people are cracking me up. 🤣😂😆
About 10 years ago, I saw a paper doll book that had a warning printed on it: TO AVOID INJURY, REMOVE STAPLES BEFORE GIVING THIS BOOK TO A CHILD." If your kid can't play with paper dolls without getting impaled on a staple, that kid's not long for this world.
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Can’t out wit Darwin.
It's not because of children but because of lawyers.
How did they avoid paper cuts??
I knew things were going to heck when Mr. Potato Head started coming with a plastic potato.
The world before the internet and social media was the best time ever. Simple and a lot less stressful.
Absolutely!! A much simpler time when there wasn’t all this hatred and division. So thankful I was able to be a part of the best era’s of life. I would never want to be growing up as a child in this time in history!!
One thing that although not quite obsolete but extremely lacking in many younger people is RESPECT. 🤷♀️🇺🇸👍
And humility.
What a wonderful step back in time! Time seemed to move at a slower pace.
It was a better time all around. From kids being feral to the political parties actually working together back then, things were just better. I remember being a feral child. Fun times
Most of the kids nowadays will never know how much real fun we had and we didn't have cell phones or internet. We had it made and didn't know it until we grew up...at least we have our memories of all the fun times. Love this video!
that's an illusion because with age, your recollections slowed down😉
@@Styxswimmer that's why Mrs. Johnson kept sending you to the principal's office. he had drawer full of your pea shooters.
@@Styxswimmer Yep my mother used to kick me out of the house to go and play. find something to do the only rule was don't leave the neighborhood, and be home in time for lunch or dinner . I did not have a watch at that time, so I asked my mother how would I know its time for dinner and she told me when the other kids go for dinner that was simple , played in the woods made forts, climb trees and we used to jump of a dirt cliff
Oh my, I remember all of them. My sister played with paper dolls. My Grandfather always carried a coin purse. I had many if the balsa wood aeroplanes 😂. Remember the ding ding at the filling station. Oh all those precious memories with those that mattered most. They are are gone now😢 But I still have the memories. Oh how I miss my youth it all went by so damn fast, as has life itself. I'm 60 now and it all seems a lifetime ago and just a few days ago at the same time. Anyone else feel that way ?.... Thanks for taking me back again..
Just turned 60 myself, and those balsa wood planes really brought back the memories! How fast it has all come & gone!
me too
I’m a little older but remember those air planes and everything else you mentioned. We used to ride our bikes over the hose at the gas station just to bug the attendant.
@garychiuminatto917 yeah I do believe that I may have done that on occasion too! Just to hear that bell 😆
I hear 👂 you!!! I’m 62 years old and I’m like where did all this time go?!😮
Casey Kasum was such a sweetheart. I loved his program.
American Top 40
It's such a shame his family took advantage of him as he declined in years.
SiriusXM plays reruns of his show every Saturday... talk about good memories!
I remember listening to that distinctive voice for years. When I finally saw him on television, it was hard to match the man with the voice. I pictured someone different.
Behind the scenes he was not a nice man.
I remember everything mentioned in this video. I would love to go back to those days and get away from 2023 and thank goodness for music because it's the only time machine that transports me to a particular year from a particular decade.
You can easily go back. I don't know why more people don't do it.
I’m with you.
I miss those days so much when I was a kid I would say I can’t wait until I’m grown and now I regret it so so much smh 🤦🏾♀️ now my kids say they can’t wait until they get their own place lol lol
@plicketyplunk I wish you could.. I'd definitely go.😞 I'm 59 and have nostalgia depression. I can't stand these times.😩💔
@@jademusic1211I agree 😢 I’m 60 and my formative years were the 70’s. It even made me sad seeing the “Made in the USA” item. This country and people have devolved so much.
The candy cigarettes were cool! I can still taste them. The paper bag book covers were a pain to put on. By the time I graduated high school there were new covers that just fit over the books with elastic. Kasey Kasam was great to listen to on the radio! What did he used to say “Keep your feet on the ground but reach for the stars?” Something like that. He had such a calming voice. So sad what happened to him when he was sick and incapacitated.
Wax lips 😅😅
Chocolate AND bubble gum
cigarettes, as well. cb
The bubble gum cigarettes were the ones that we could actually blow the powdered smoke out of,but the actual bubble gum tasted nasty & so did the chalky cigarettes
As a kid, I remember getting yelled at by the gas stations guys for riding over the "bell" hose with my bicycle every time I passed by. I never realized I was doing something wrong.....
I did the same thing at the local gas station I went to get candy, and sometimes watch TV. Wayne would pretend to get mad at us but he was laughing all the time
A quarter could buy a whole bag of candy back then, like foot long bubs buddy bubble gum, pixie sticks zots sweet tarts, candy bars that bubble gum with the comics in it ,and bubble with baseball cards or wacky stickers, like flunk now and avoid the June Rush
Back in those days you could collect pop bottles and turn the in for money a nickle for a coke bottle and 25 cents for a big 7-up bottle
@@midnightcaller200 I too remember scouring the ditches along the side of the road on the way to the 7-11 looking for discarded bottles to cash in for the deposit money. Like you said, it wasn’t much but it was enough to satisfy a kid wanting a drink and a candy bar. Plus I guess unknowingly we were cleaning up the environment a little at a time.😊
I used to try to jump on the air hose as a kid to make it "ding." Also, remember the display of stacked oil cans (metal oil cans) usually in a pyramid shape near the door to the gas station office area.
Really?😉
These videos make you zone in back to those times. I find myself smiling a lot.
I do the same thing! 😀
You missed so many things, too many to mention. Also too many to show in a TH-cam video, a lifetime of memories come flooding back whenever I watch your videos. Thank you for the trips! Keep 'em coming.
Yeah but they could never cover it all. Wish they would do part 2-t0 though.
My grandpa owned several laundromats in NE Ohio in the '80's. I visited him as a child in December one of those years and I would go with him to visit each store and collect the money and prepare the store for the next day. We stopped at Howard Johnsons to get some "to-go" food and eat it on the road. We ate the food, made our late-nite stops and on the way back Grandpa was driving his 1976 DeVille on the highway around 80+ MPH. When he was done with his cigar he pressed the power window button to throw it out and it was like one of those science fiction movies when someone accidentally opens the airlock. Stuff went flying everywhere, it was instantly -20 below in the car and the Howard Johnson bag got sucked out into space with a wwuush! It is seared in my memory to this day that the bag had big letters on it that said "HOJO TO-GO". And then it was gone.
I bet you had fried clams in that bag. With tartar sauce, french fries and a dinner roll.
@@JohnWilson-wg4gk LOL - yes I loved the fried clams but that nite we had a couple cheeseburgers and two orders of fires. Gramps had coffee and I had a coke. There was a cupholder console from JC Whitney sitting on the trans hump for the drinks - no cupholders back then - how did we manage? Well that's another memory for recollection road!
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@@michaelb8245 😉👍
Excellent !
I grew up in NE OH- Akron. Sad to see how it looks today.
What I wouldn't give to travel back in time. I lived and loved the 60s & 70s! Thank you for the stroll down memory lane.
My brother had a paper route for several years and that meant his own money! He used to get one of those Carnation "Chocolate Malts" practically every day from the ice cream man and they were in a waxy cup with the wooden spoon! The late paper doll artist Tom Tierney revived the genre with an amazing series of books throughout the 90s and beyond with some remarkable designs and characters! Foil packaging was also used in cereal boxes - especially for the particularly sugary and sticky cereals like Sugar Crisp and Cocoa Krispies!
Carnation makes the malt powder, the ice cream shops make the malts with ice cream in them, not Carnation and they aren’t called Carnation malts, just malts!
I forgot about the foil packaging for cereals. Now I'm remembering Honey Smacks; I used to love it. I want some! Do they still make that?!!!!!
When I was a child in the 50's and early 60's the sound of winter was cars with tire chains going down the street.
That was a fun sound I remember the car chains in the 1950s that was our version of sleigh bells
@@barbaramoran8690 Exactly!
Great comment i forgot all about Tire Chains also changing the Tires from summer to Winter Studded Snow Tires using a bumper jack LOL and if it was a big snowstorm 15 inches or more you just stayed home untill the strees were plowed or you put on a plastic baggie on each foot and put your shoes on and walked to a conner store to pick up Mom and Dads cigaretts
@@rogerstlaurent8704 didnt you have rubber boots At our house we always wore boots in winter
@@rogerstlaurent8704 Tire chains, aye. My parents never sent me to the store for their smokes but my aunt sure did.
I remember making plastic models, not of airplanes, but of movie monsters. There was a model for Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, Wolfman, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame (that was chained to a circular platform that turned).
I didn't do the Hunchback, but I did the other four. Great times, those.,
My older brother had a few of those. Seems to me like they required a lot of painting for them to look like the box. I thought I remembered him having one from “The creature from the Black Lagoon”. along with the other ones mentioned.
I always did the comics or brown paper bags for school books, my hubby still uses the plastic coin holders, i wish the ice cream came in those containers with wooden spoons, candy cigarettes, Kasey kasem, paper dolls,.... So many memories ❤
You can still buy the ice cream with the wooden spoons in them at almost every store.
I remember Casey Kasem and also Wolfman Jack, they were my two favorites dj's. We always had paper bag book covers, I wasn't artistic so mine stayed clean. Thanks for the videos, lots of memories
when i was a kid living in Florida. one weekend my dad took us to meet wolfman jack in some strip mall he was doing autographs there. i forgot where it was.
@@cabbitkisser2620 awesome!!
Clap for tha wolf Mann
Oh my goodness I remember all of these !!!!!!
Thank you Recollection Road for always bringing back such wonderful memories of our collective childhoods. Your videos always warm my heart.
I remember both the candy cigarettes and gum cigarettes. The candy ones had reddish-pink tips, and the gum ones had a powder type thing (i assume), so when you blew on them, it looked like you were smoking. What were they thinking? 😄 There's a gas station by me that sells candy cigarettes. They must be from the 80s, though, because I can't imagine they are still actively made today. Then again.... 😂
WOW!!! thats right i remember that the powder was powdered sugar ...do you remember they also had chocolate ones????
@@henerygreen578 I don't remember chocolate ones. I do know we thought we looked cool, pretending to smoke at like 7 years old. 😄
Regular candy cigarettes are still around, although the ones at the corner gas station here in South Columbus aren't identified as "cigarettes". I do remember having them (and the 5 cent gum cigars...a lot of gum for a nickel), though thankfully I was never tempted to actually smoke later on.
@@awwrelic I forgot about the cigars! I remember them.
And those tiny wax bottles shaped like major brand soft drink bottles and filled with sickly sweet fluorescent-colored syrup?
Those were the days. Compare them to the way we live today and there is no comparison. Things have changed dramatically for the worse.
That's hillarious. I'm 50, and grew up in the 80's, and I remember all the grumpy old people saying the exact same thing. How life today is a cesspool, and the 1950's were so much better. I get the sense, in the year 3187, all the grumpy old people will say the exact same thing
Yes. We are all old grumpy people. Go back to sleep. You moron I'm in my 30s and looking at these videos I prefer how life was in those decades. And I don't give a hoot what people will say in the year of 3187.@@vicepresidentmikepence889
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 The 1950's were far better for everybody, including black small businesses. Segregation. Not even a fraction of the black-on-black murders of today. Chicago. Detroit. New Orleans. D.C. Oakland. were all livable places.
One of my favorite childhood treats was Snack Pack pudding in the little tin cans - I know it's still available now in little plastic cups and I still enjoy it, but it doesn't feel quite the same to me
Too many kids got cut on the sharp metal edges. And plastic is cheaper than metal.
Snack-pack Vanilla pudding is still one of my favorites to this day! Has 2b good and cold, right outta the fridge!
Yes! As a child of the 80s I remember having a tin can of pudding in my lunch.
I was one of those kids that got cut. Never happened again 😉@@OofusTwillip
Oreo cookies aren’t any good either, the best thing about eating an Oreo is dunking it in the milk and soaking up the milk. Now they’re too hard they don’t even suck up milk anymore?
Yeah, I remember them all. What a wonderful time to have been young.
Ding Dong's wrapped in tin foil were the absolute best!
I always giggle when you say, let me know if I missed anything, there's so many, many things.... but you hit on some big ones and thank you, because you brought back memories.
🎉 gracious greetings from coastal Mississippi. Thank you for these wonderful memories. A time gone by, never to be repeated , so blessed to be living back then😂❤
I was born in 1982 and remember all of these things. I was raised the old way and it makes me sad to see how much this world has changed in such a short time. I am not sure what kind of childhood these kids have today but it seems very odd and nothing like what the rest of us experienced.
The other thing I remember about full service gas stations were the promotional items. I once collected a complete Noah’s Ark. One pair of animals with every fill-up.
I remember the Shell station that offered Philips AM-FM transistor radio made in Holland for half of the retail price in Thailand with one filled tank. I love the case and radio box with Philips Logo.
also used to give away Hot wheels cars
They had Dolls of the World, too. You could buy them for 99 cents with your gas purchases. They were like 8" tall, each dressed in the traditional costume of the country. My favorite was Holland. We finally got the whole collection (12 in all). 😊 There was a cardboard display case to go with. Anyone else remember those?
I just looked them up. They were from Arco. Memories!
Oh yeah! We had the Noah's Ark set too!
Dino the dinosaur at Sinclair!!
Great video as usual! How about kid’s birthday cards with various coin slots scattered amongst the artwork to give a monetary gift to the birthday boy or girl?
The government had a bunch of commemorative quarters that were issued in the 90s and they had cards with slots to display them. There was one coin that commemorated each state and territory.
@@glennso47 that brings back great memories of my lovely Mom collecting those coins with her much loved Grandsons! Both boys still have those booklets! ❤️
And, remember the March of Dimes booklets with slots for dimes?
@@crowznest438 oh yes! And the collection bank milk cartons for UNICEF?
Yes,I remember those being at every counter at the Five & Dime stores,even at bank's if I'm not mistaken
Wood flavored ice cream because of the spoon! Lol! I certainly do remember that. These episodes go by too fast with so many memories. Thank you again Recollection!
I remember everything you mentioned. I had one of those coin purses when I was a kid and still carry one of them today. They are a great way to keep all your change together and not have to dig through your pocket for that dime or nickel. I still give the younger cashier change so I don’t get change back from a bill and love to watch them try to figure out what I do that for. Of course when they enter it in the register and it tells them the returned bills some of them figure it out!!! By the way, my kids call my change purse my grandpa purse.
I had a red one when I was a kid! I loved 🥰 it!
How about a lucky rabbits foot?
I had completely forgotten about the ding ding sound when driving over the hose as the gas station!
Thanks for taking us back! 👍
I also remember flying kits. They had many styles and types. It was a fun challenge to see how much string I could release to make it fly higher. Slot cars were another enjoyment as well.
I remember when those little ice cream cups were made out of paper that had a thin wax film on the inside. I also remember when I could get 5 candy bars for a quarter. Where I lived, sales tax didn’t start until 30 cents.
Wooden Taste with the Ice Cream is definitely a great memory for me.
Dang, I still have that wooden taste in my mouth after 50 years. Never forget that and this just helped me relive that experience, and taste of summer.
I still buy Hoodsie cups with the wooden spoons for my kids. It does taste the same today.
Thank you for another great and fun look back 💞
I loved the Ding Dongs !!! The foil wrapping was the perfect protection for it back in the day....Made it taste fresher too 😁
🎅Thanks for the wonderful memories from the past-Merry Christmas!🌲
I’m a 50’s kid and had many of those squeezie coin purses. (Purchased from the School Book Store.) I had forgotten that❤️
You could also put them on your nose as a disguise.😂
I had one in the 80s!
The school book store! I'd forgotten those. And, bake sales. And, the book fair.
: ) Remember that, for sure. @@glennso47
I still love them cups of ice cream 😂..🤷♂️
I loved when you didn't have to pump your own gas. In the early 70s one of our service stations gave away a steak knife with each fill up. You could collect the set. Also got a set of glasses that way.
I loved it when you didn't have to check your own oil with the dirty dipstick either!. The attendant would ask you, "Check your oil?" and every month or two, you said "Sure."
I now live in Mexico and they still have service stations. You're not legally allowed to pump your own gas. I love it!
And they would clean your windshield. It was great!@@stevenlitvintchouk3131
Neighborhood SUNOCO station always had a few cars that were being worked on, with "Mechanic on Duty" sign out front.. They mostly only sold gasoline, oil, tires, hoses and fan belts. Their only "food" offerings were soda pop and peanuts and crackers and candy bars out of vending machines.
@@JoJo173That's right!! I completely forgot about that.. I was there Six year's ago & was wondering why my Cousin wasn't getting out of her car?? Then of course she tipped the attendant he checked tire pressure as well
I certainly remember all these examples and had one of those wind up airplanes. It really worked and was fun. We had a table with the aluminum trim too. Sturdy, and the only reason to get rid of it was a desire for a more modern table , never because it wore out.
Yep, Ding Dongs wrapped in foil in the lunch box with an apple and a bologna and cheese sammich.
That sounds like my lunch. I had the bologna ( Sammich ) lol . with mayonnaise.
I don’t think I had cheese in it . Can’t remember. Mostly just bologna. Or fried bologna.
Great memories. Thank you Recollection Road.
☮️💟 i remember a lot of it!!!!! Thank you!
This is such a great channel. What I wouldn’t give to go back to the 1960s and 1970s. Such great reminders.
This was my childhood, being born in 1971, I had a Tupperware and Avon mom. Jell-O could be dessert and Hot Wheels were collected like Pokemon. 8 tracks in my dads Oldsmobile wearing neon bright, talking about Duran Duran. Great video!
You mention Avon. Are you referring to the collectable perfume decanters? The designs printed on them were done in Hackensack NJ by a silk screen process that my father helped to develop. Avon and Fabrige were their two biggest customers.
I grew up in Massachusetts. We called those ice cream "Hoodsies" Good times.
We visited a hobby store every month. My favorites were the Aurora monster model kits, some of which I still have.
I built practically all of the Aurora movie monsters back in the day. I may still have Godzilla packed away somewhere, last time I saw, it was fragile and missing a foot.
Yep. I had Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein. I also built several model cars and our hobby store also sold Slot Cars, Slot Car parts so you could build your own custom car, and even had a Slot Car racing track in the back. Great memories.
Life is much improved, but I feel humanity has gotten worse.
Your definitely not wrong. We have everything at our fingertips but yet it's not enough for some people. There was something to be said about doing things for yourself back then, it took more time and energy but we just did it because that's all we knew. Glad I was able to experience those times.
“Is as always was: rain, and sun fall on the backs of both good, and mischief-makers alike. Our surroundings change, people remain the same. Be the good you seek, remove yourself from evil, don’t dance with it. Don’t fret over others. Focus on improving yourselves”
~things elders said
How has life improved. The food, water, and air are all poisoned, and only 1% of the world's population is succeeding. All by design. I miss real food, and laughing with friends. It's the entertainment industry corrupting all the morals. They've been doing it all my life, and I'm 65. I want to get back to all things natural, not this plastic, artificial world.
The candy cigarettes I remember had powdered sugar on them, so you could blow one puff of pretend "smoke". I think they were gum. They each had a paper wrapper, and came in an imitation cigarette pack.
I have never seen a Howard Johnson anything on Facebook but I was just at a party last
night and mentioned them and now it shows up... Big brother is listening
Am 77. Our cup ice cream was in a waxed paper cups, had wood paddle spoon. I remember most things from the late 1940's to today.. You forgot checking air in the tires and oil level.
he said oil
@lovly2cu725 sorry, I didn't hear that. Have a Merry Christmas 🎅 and Happy Holidays
I worked as a receptionist at a private country club and we still had the manual cc reader . It was 2017 😂😂😂😂😂😂. First time I'd ever touch one in my life 😂
I'm always amazed how you come up with these things, as I usually remember almost all of them. Yes, the horrible taste of that wooden spoon, and covering books---I had teachers that would come around and make sure that we did. And my parents were smokers, and they used those McDonald's ashtrays. And yeah, I've eaten at a Howard Johnson's restaurant---just like Denny's, they had the most bland food you could get lol
I do miss those days. Everything you've shown here I do remember, and I really miss it. If I have a hard time sleeping I just go back to the 60's, and early 70's when things made sense, and was peaceful for me then before I know it I'm sound asleep. What I wouldn't give to to wake back in the 60's in my old room a week before christmas, walk out to the living room to see mom baking everything imaginable for Christmas, and hearing Perry Como playing. Dad would be getting ready to go to work, and as I climbed up onto one of those chairs shown at the beginning of your video, and how it stuck to my legs as I squirmed trying to get comfortable mom would bring over a box of Captain Crunch, add milk to the bowl, and had a delicious sugary meal all the while looking at the colorful pictures on the cereal box.
Wow, just typing this has me want to go back. Back then it was so easy to be a child. I'm so happy, and very thankful I had that experience, and I feel so sad for todays children. Maybe in 50 or so years they will look back, and maybe say the same thing. Who knows.
Many thanks for the video, they always bring me back to a time I cherish, and miss so much.
I often repeat the Casey Casum announcement from October 1983 the Elvis Presley had sold, count them with a B, one billion albums. That number still blows my mind, and he is still the highest earning dead person most years.
Elvis Presley was to music what Wayne Gretzky was to hockey. Nobody is going to beat Elvis Presley's sales records and nobody is going to beat Wayne Gretzky's scoring records.
As a kid born in the mid 80’s growing up in NY, I agree 100% with this video.
Those wooden spoons broke so easily if you were impatient…like me. My entire kitchen and parts of my living room were covered in Formica. I still have my black coin holder. Watching people copying the credit cards was more exciting than dessert. My schools sold book covers but all the “cool” kids used their own brown paper. Not a single house with smokers didn’t have a McDonald’s ashtray they acquired. KC was always great to hear and meant the songs I wanted to hear were coming up. Unpopular opinion, candy cigs tasted delicious. I’d get two packs for 25 cents, then brag to adult smokers. Far too many girls sat in class cutting clothes out of magazines to put on their dolls. Ring Dings were a staple of school lunch. Those cheap airplanes brought me so much joy. Throwing them for distance down the long halls of your school or a mall felt like a rocket going to the moon. Many people talked about Howard Johnson’s, but I don’t remember eating there. Solitare was fun, but Minesweeper was MUCH more satisfying to win. That trilling bell chime at gas stations lives rent free in my head. Hess, Shell, and every other station used them.
there used to be large amber glass ashtrays that would be on every living room table in front of couches.
my mother would smoke in the grocery store while shopping in the 1970s.
my how times change...
the captain has turned off the no smoking light, so sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
I got two! Amber and that old Green color.
I remember when traveling by plane as a teenager by myself my Dad would always ask me if I wanted a seat in the smoking section Of course as a teenager I would always get the smoking section which was always the last 7/8 rows (Roughly) in back of the plane those tiny tiny ashtrays in the arm rest were a hassle
@@jcbulldog533 hahahaha. Yep I remember. And, I remember mom and dad would smoke all the way to our destination and we would be in the back seat inhaling that "second hand" smoke. The little corner windows they used to have in the car and when they flicked their ashes, half the ashes would land on us. By the way, the second hand smoke didn't kill me . Still kickin". And my mom quit smoking in August of 2023 (at 91) to lengthen her life span per her doc (lol). She is still as healthy as she can be. Believe it's in the genes.
First heard Casey Kasem on AFN in Germany in the late 70s… enjoy hearing the old programs today…. A nice trip down Recollection Road!
We had waxed paper ice cream cups with wooden stick “spoons.” Maybe a regional thing as I’m not sure what area Hood dairy products was available.
Love your videos, even though they make me feel OLD.....LOL!
Does anyone remember cinnamon flavored toothpicks? You could buy 10 in a wax bag for 5c. If you left on your lip too long it would start to burn. Also, candy bars were 5c and Savon Drug Store in southern California sold 3 for a dime in the 60’s. (The beginning of my diabetes).
I remember the cinnamon toothpicks!!!! I used to suck and chew them when I was a kid. Boy, what memories! 🥰
I remember many of us made our own to enjoy and cheaply sell. The homemade ones were sometimes much hotter. Loved 'em!
@@312afWe used to make ours too.
Yes I remember those in elementary school and middle school back then.
Wow. This comment section is bringing back so many memories. I haven't thought about the cinnamon toothpicks in 6 decades.
I loved my paper dolls. Got mine when I was 4 in ‘63. Loved folding the tabs.
I remember those plastic coin purses. Wonder if any stores still sell those or only online these days? Would love to find an actual store to buy one at.
Tried Dollar Tree stores and 99 Cents Only stores but they do not sell them.
DJ Casey Kasem was one of the greatest on radio and television.
I still have one of those wallets 😂
Memories, Memories, Memories. Oh long for the good times. Crime was low back then. People were more respectful & really into the outdoors and life in general. Eating at the kitchen table during meal time. These times are mostly gone. Please keep up with your great videos.
My sister "smoked" so many candy cigarettes i got second-hand diabetes 😂😂😂
Lol, good one! Thanks for the fun.
I worked at a Howard Johnson’s off of I-95 up north. I loved working there. Nothing like a cup of hot clam chowder (I wasn’t so far north we said “chowdah”) and some Zesta saltines. Even though we weren’t supposed to use the motel pool we occasionally slid quietly into that refreshing water after a long hot night of waitressing. I learned to drive a ‘65 VW and used to fill up my gas tank using tip money. Going back quite a bit further I also covered my books in store paper bags. And doodled on them in especially boring classes. Thanks RR. Great memories.
Some of those stuff isn’t really obsolete; like ice cream with wooden spoons, book covers, Howard Johnson’s, and especially Solitaire! The obsolete stuff that takes me back to my childhood is circus shows, playing old video game arcades, going to a drive thru movie theater, and using typewriters for letters!
I had a grand piano in my living room when I was growing up and mom had a full console organ in the basement, I never learned how to play organ, though. Mom was a church organist/pianist and my dad sang with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra Chorus and he was also a church choir director. After I bought my current house, there was something missing and I now have a 6’ grand piano in my parlor.
With the exception of paper dolls and computer games, I had all of those things. My Grandpa used to take me to a diner (it was called The City Line Diner). When he paid the check he would always get me a bubble gum cigar.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about the ding at the gas stations. The hobby shop near us had a big HO track. I forget how much it cost but you rented track time for your HO cars. And those wind up planes. I remember my brother and I playing around with one of those at dusk and a bat zoomed in on it, buzzing my brothers head. That was it for that night anyway.
The three ring binder and the cheapo silver one hole punch maker was nothing in comparison to the great 3 hole one the teacher always had that worked so well and created such great confetti as they collected in the bottom of it. The super sharp paper slicer block with all the squares on it to help you measure & cut perfectly always comes to mind as well. Not to mention the cheapo staplers they used to sell us that alway got jammed up and barely worked if you had 5 pages to staple together. And who didn't want the 4 color bic pen back in tnose days. Or the fantastic stencils with the whole alphabet to help do school projects.
3-hole punches are not hard to come by. Just go to an office supply store.
@@andrewvelonis5940 That is the case now and not then. Although available they were very costly. Smarten up. Ask anyone over the age of 50 if they remember making holes by using a ball point pen and tracing the size of it by using another peice of looseleaf as a guide to do so and you might come to understand.
I can remember those 3 ring binders that you had to be careful not to pinch your fingers. Do you remember the binders that closed by some magnets too? I always thought those were cool. Not sure if I ever had one I just remember how different they were. I always looked forward to the new school year when your mom or dad (mainly mom) would take you to get new school supplies. Those were the days
I remember buying a vanilla cup and a small size Planters peanuts in cellophane and making a sundae in Jr. High. Yummmm
The credit card imprinter shown here was more recent than the first ones. VISA was originally called "Bank Americard," and MasterCard was originally called "MasterCharge." Those bank credit cards came after the proprietary store credit cards. Every large department store had its own card: Macy's, Gimbels, etc., as did each gasoline company: Shell, Chevron, etc. MasterCharge and Bank Americard eliminated the need to carry around all those different credit cards.
The book covers that we elementary-school kids used for our textbooks weren't from brown bags, but manufactured out of glossy paper or something. Each one had the logo and colors of a different college: Rutgers, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc. Those were the ones I remember using.
The Visa card in Canada was originally called Chargex.
Wonderful memories. I still have my paper dolls. I loved going to the Woolworth’s in my neighborhood to buy them.
Casey Kasem also played the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo
Thank You for Bringing Back Great Memories😃
We always used ShopRite paper bags for our books and I remember if we didn’t get our books covered by a certain time, the teacher would give zeros. I still to this day don’t know how to cover books, my sister had to do mine as well as hers.
Drakes ring dings were sooo good when they came in foil. Actually everything from drakes cakes tasted sooo much better then. Big wheels (snack cakes) good, too. And how I miss burrys’ cookies, fudgetown, gauchos, and burrys best chocolate chip cookies, yum!😊
burrys cookies- the round ones with the icing in the middle . Mothers cookies on the west coast are similar
All of them! I was just talking about paperbag book covers at work as,my granddaughter is using laptops in kindergarten. Loved my paper dolls! I love your channel. I recommend it alot to my friends.
I remembered all of this.
Perhaps in a future video mention the neighborhood ice cream truck. When we would hear the truck’s jingling music, all the neighbor kids came running to buy fudgsicles and bombpops.
This brings back a lot of memories. Does anyone remember the small metal rockets with the plastic fins? You'd put a cap under the weighted tip, then throw it up in the air and when it fell onto a hard surface the cap would go "bang".
I had a plastic rocket, you put a small piece of alkaseltzer and water in it, it would get 50’ or higher
I don't remember that one, but it sounds pretty cool.@@robertstrickland2121
Yep, I remember those. I also had a water rocket set. It was a pump and a plastic rocket that you filled up with water and pumped the pump until the pressure fired the rocket. Like the alka seltzer rocket, you could get some serious altitude out of those things.
I had one of those too. We would also cut a slice in the bottom of a pringles can, put a firecracker with the fuse sticking out of the slice, then put the pringles can in water and light the fuse, would send the can about 25' in the air. @@slactweak
I am pretty sure I remember those. Seems to me they were pretty durable and well made. I think the caps were called Greenie Stick-ems as you would peel one individual cap off a roll. Hell I remember just banging caps with a hammer on the sidewalk, it didn’t take much to entertain me 😂😂
Paper dolls! So easy to make new outfits! Slinky's were so cool.
In my day the ice cream came in paper cups. The plastic cups didn't come along until later.
The last time we put in a kitchen we had Formica countertops because stone or faux stone ones were too heavy and expensive. This was after the turn of the millennium.
Most kids I knew never bothered with book covers, but the brown paper style made out of a grocery bag was popular. You could even buy premade ones at Walmart and such.
Candy cigarettes were a Halloween trick-or-treating staple through the sixties and early seventies (I didn't trick-or-treat after that).
Paper dolls were everywhere in the early sixties, but, yes, Barbie pretty well killed that fad.
I still argue that Solitaire is the only useful program ever written by Microsoft.
The black pneumatic "bell" hoses at gas stations made sense when we didn't all pump our own gas.
I've heard only New Jersey and Oregon still don't let you pump your own gas, but that may have changed recently.
Great memories...that I'd forgotten about until this video. Thanks!
I still do love & miss that wooden residual aftertaste in those single serve ice cream; it just wouldn't taste the same with anything else.
OMG! Best video I've seen in a while. Took me right back to my childhood. Thanks!
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That machine is called an Addressograph. I still have one at work but with the newer cards not having raised numbers it really is becoming obsolete.
we called them a kachunker
I remember everyone of them. Yes indeed. Bring back the memories.
I live in Sweden in Europe and most of the things were similar here. I still play minesweeper on my computer :)
I play Splitare on my IPhone.
Minesweeper was the Best! Followed closely by Freecell.
I live in Australia. Some things I hear have no relevance to others however ring the bell such as paper dolls. I had them and wish I could find some to give my grand niece before she gets to old to enjoy them. Love Recollections