Not so strange. Back then, kids were exposed to common bacteria and built up immunity. Today, everything is super sanitized. It's been proven farm kids are more healthy because they still get exposed to certain bacteria.
They actually spent hours playing outside, and involved in active activities. Most are connect to a computer, a console, or cellphone these days, instead of being physically active, and out and about with their friends.
That isn't true, seems like it, but in reality many children had health problems. Just the diseases alone had many children out of school frequently. Polio, measles, German measles, chicken pox, mumps, and more, everyone knew someone crippled from something. Classmates who died when you were in grade or high school. Hindsight has a habit of being through rose colored glasses.
I was born in the 70s and remember going to the corner store when I was 10 buying cigarettes "For My Mom"😂. Back then the store sold 6 packs of soft drinks in glass bottles. You could return the empty bottles for 10 cents each and cigarettes were a 1.00 per pack. So all you needed was (2) 6 packs of empty bottles for a pack of cigarettes.
I was born in 47 and it was 2cents per bottle and 25cents a pack and Saturday matinee movie was 35cents or 18 returned bottles. McDonald's started with a burger, fries, and a soda 35cents. I played with Mercury quite often and I'm 77 now.
My dad used to send me to the store down the street with a quarter to get him a pack of Kents. I think pop bottles were 2 cents where I lived too. One time my older brother got one of his cigs from the ashtray and puffed it. Dad made him smoke a whole cig...really smoke it. I do not think he ever touched one again.
You mean that discipling in schools is not allowed? No wonder the conditions in the classrooms is the way it is. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is never outdated and has proved so for many years.
Riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck wile standing and holding on to his ladder racks. Riding a snow sled being pulled by a car. Going for a ride on the outside of the car.
There were 2 different kinds of candy cigarettes. One was a chalky kind of hard candy that had a red tip. The other was bubble gum with powder on it wrapped in paper. When you blew through it, the powder would come out like smoke
@elultimo102 bubble gum cigar was a mouthful at first.. then it would shrink as the sweetner all dissolved. I remember them. Pastel green ones and pink ones in the huge Easter basket.
Halloween in the 60s was awesome. My brother, cousins and friends and I had fabulous times running loose in our small town trick or treating. Would I have let my daughter do the same thing in the 90s? Are you out of your mind? Everything had changed by then!
LOL! I was born in 62 and i miss not having marry-go-rounds for the kids these days, drive in theaters were the best, and yeah, i must have smoked a ton of candy sigs. 😂🤣
Incidents of problems resulting from unsupervised trick or treat were all but non-existent. The few there were mostly faked. Equally trouble free was so-called free for all swimming. Kids learned to look out for themselves, a trait not common today.
I remember going trick or treating as a little kid. Little kids back then in the 60s could go out at night unsupervised by adults and could feel safe. There were never any incidents about kids being attacked or poisoned with candy. Back then everyone looked after one another. Kids were safe out on the streets at night.
My mom would give me a note to take to the corner store, and it usually included cigarettes. There were also cigarette vending machines in places like bars and restaurants Where my dad worked had a cigarette vending machine in the employee lunchroom
@@jamesszalla4274 I remember in the 70s, our bus stop was near a police station. When it was cold or rainy we went inside where I bought my first packs of cigarettes from a vending machine there. They were 50 or 75 cents!
When we camped in the 60's . After packing up the tents , we would spend considerable time in "policing the camp" , picking up every scrap of paper , and doing our best to erase any evidence that we had been there . Throwing trash in the river would get you a belt whipping , I promise you .
Obviously the banning of CFCs, smoking in planes, wearing seatbelts etc. are good developments, but I mourn some of the other things which have been taken away and make life really boring for today's kids. Those were times when we went off to play without adults around, dared ourselves on adventurous playground equipment, learned lessons by making mistakes, and realized that bad behaviour has consequences - so much freedom then that we enjoyed, and we grew up learning to take responsibility for ourselves.
my uncle was raceing the car and the car jump up in the air going down hill ,and me and my little brother with no seat belt on lol we thought that was so much fun , never even though we was in danger
I smoked a joint in the bathroom of an air Canada flight from Calgary to Montreal when I was 18 in 1979. No one batted an eye. Lol. Cheers from Montreal
Not only did we have candy cigarettes, but in the early 1950s my sister had a toy iron that plugged in and got hot. I managed to burn a miniature sole-plate pattern into the linoleum on our bedroom floor.
I had a real mini sewing machine and wound up sewing my great aunt's antique lace tablecloth together. My mom got so upset about me doing that but my great aunt told her to "leave me alone, that was why they invented seam rippers" I was the first girl after about 15 boys in the family so my mother said I was super spoiled and could get away with anything.
@6:32 - I think we should go back to No Speed Limits on Rural Roads. There was less road rage at that time. @8:50 - RIP to our Neighborhood Bully. He had a habit of stealing little kids Halloween candy. One year some kid( we guess) was ready and gutted him with a knife. That killing is still unsolved. @17:33 - The only kids hurt by Lawn Darts were the stupid ones. The one who stand there, wait for someone to throw the dart, then try to run under it..Just like the kids today at the Skate Parks who wait for an adult tries to do a stunt and jumps in front of them so they can be seen on video. @19:19 - When North Carolina Baptist Hospital banned smoking..Nurses and Patients nearly lost their mind. You'd see patients being taken to and outside area, still in their gowns to toke on a ciggy.
I don't know if anyone else remembers something like a three floored metal tower that had to be put together with nuts and bolts. It even came with a pull up ladder. I can't remember if the ladder was metal or rope. My neighbor down the street had one of these kids towers set up in his backyard. As a kid of 8 to 10 years old, I remember this tower being pretty tall. Anyway, the neighborhood boys were on the top level of this tower. Being "little sister" and to "prove my prowess" as a Tomboy, I wanted to get up there too. But, the boys pulled the ladder up, so I couldn't use it. I thought "well, I'll just scale up the outside of the tower" climbing up the metal bars that zig zaged across the tower. As I reached the outside top tier, hanging on by my outstretched arms, they began to tickle me under the arms. Well, I was quite high off the ground and started screaming for help. A neighbor across the street (one of the neighborhood fathers) saw and heard me, but he did nothing to help me. But, in his defense he probably didn't know if my screaming was real or just playing. Anyway, the boys tickled me so much that I couldn't hold on and I fell all the way to the ground. Somewhere on the way down I either hit something or the impact from hitting the ground, caused me to cut the top of my tongue pretty good. I went home crying and had a sore tongue while the rest of my family (including my older brother who had tickled me and made me fall) all went outside and had a picnic dinner in our backyard as I lay in bed with a sliced tongue. I think it was called a Tangle Tower... anyone else remember something like this tower for kids back in the late 60's, early 70's? I tell you what, you had to be tough as a kid back then to take the punches as they came! And yes as I was born in '59, I don't ever recall ever having to use any seatbelts while driving around with your parents. In fact my two brothers and I would use the no seatbelt freedom of the back seat to shove each other against the car doors as we went around the curves. And not only did we drink out of unfiltered tap water faucets, we would always drink from the garden hose just lying in the yard as we were too busy playing to go inside to get a drink! Growing up in the 60's and 70's was great!!!
I live in the hills of NC and I burn all my trash right here in the burn barrel. Too much of a hassle to load it up and haul to the dump. Which I'll add is 22 miles one way! lol
I remember still smoking on USA domestic flights as late as 1988. And in fact, smoking wasn’t prohibited on domestic flights until 1990. And pilots were still allowed to to smoke to avoid nicotine WD.
On CFCs, I did HVAC for almost 30 years. The pink refrigerant jug show is R410A. It’s a non CFC refrigerant. The old R22 CFC refrigerant comes in a mint green jug. Refrigerant jugs are color coded.
The really best thing today is the ban of smoking everywhere. As a little kid, I used to live in constant foggy atmosphere at home made from my parents and their friends. No one have ever cared for us, children. I hated it so much, and never smoked in my life
I did end up a smoker. My mother, grandmother, aunt and uncle all smoked. It didn't bother me except when we had to take Grandma shopping in the winter, in the car with the windows rolled all the way UP! I would roll mine down a crack to try to breathe some fresh air and would get yelled at for letting the COLD air in!
I'm 77 and still smoke. Send the hate. Oh forgot! I was also part of the test group of first Polio vaccine. Imagine a vaccine that actually prevented the disease and didn't try to kill you while being only partially effective.
I grew up in the 70's and I remember going trick or treating with my friends and I remember puffing on candy cigarettes and using ledded gasoline I even drove a 1964 Dodge Dart, I got it in the 80's and I had to carry a ledded additive and when I got gas I would use the additive.
Yes, I'm old(er). I remember when Every One of these was common. A few of them Greatly impacted MY life (no, not lawn darts 🤭) and shaped the way that I raised my own kids.
My mom and dad would burn trash in the back yard when I was a kid. We also had an outdoor toilet that had to go when our town got a sewer system installed.
I have a couple mercury thermometers and and a doctor-type blood pressure gauge that uses mercury. (You need a stethoscope to hear the blood flow and get a reading).
Born in '61. Rode in the bed of pick ups, seatbelts were for groceries, caused a fire and was punished by having my hands pressed onto a hot (HOT) stove. When my teacher saw my burned hands she said something like 'you won't do that again, will ya?'
From MY honest perspective, School Corporal punishment was the most STUPID and BARBARIC thing of the 1960's and considering how stupid some of those things actually were( like adding Led to gasoline for example) that's saying quite A LOT!! W.T.F. were they THINKING having School corporal punishment during the "Doctor Spock Era?!?"
I grew up in the 60s, and 70s, . I became a young adult in the early 80s. I experienced all these things in this video at one time or another. They did leave out quite a big one however. Kids playing in the DDT pesticide clouds of the neighborhood mosquito spray trucks that frequently slowly rolled through the neighborhood streets leaving dense white clouds of DDT pesticide behind them. Us kids would almost always run laughing and spinning around in the dense clouds of pesticides that had been advertised as safe and non harmful for years. " DDT is good for me ! " Being one of the chemical companies most memorable slogans for DDT. We , nor our parents, had even the slightest clue that we were playing in clouds of one of the most dangerous pesticides known to mankind. Who knows just how many of us ended up with cancers and other neurological diseases later in life from our first hand exposure to that poisonous pesticide.
I was born in 1957, and some of this stuff has me LOL as to how ridiculously ignorant society was at that time. How we handled trash, kids riding on their parent's lap in the front seat of the car, candy cigarettes, mercury thermometers are hilarious.
"how ridiculously ignorant society was at that time"...really???? Back then men were men and never thought they were women too (at least out in the open). I will take the old days over now gladly.
I, was born in 1957, and I remember when the neighbors, would burn the garbage in shopping carts from the stores, until the city, would not permit burning garbage in the allies. I,still remember when, the school teachers, would take a wooden paddle, and paddle the students. When, the parents found out about the punishment and the parents would sue the board of education, the school district and the school teacher. The, parents did not want the school teachers, to lay their hands on their children. 16:44
Well from MY honest perspective, School corporal punishment was the most stupid and barbaric thing of the 1960's which is saying quite a damn LOT considering how mind-numbingly STUPID some of those things were!
I was born in 1975 and was spanked, both of my parents smoked like a factory near me , my mother who grew up in Lakewood Ohio just 6 miles west of the Cuyahoga River told me about the river catching fire, and they never wore seatbelts even after being fined a couple of times each. Also we were never put in car seats as kids , but my cousin was brain damaged as a child in the 50s on one of those steel playground pieces embedded in concrete
Yep remember in the 70 s was about 10 years old getting on my bike with a friend riding about 5kms to the milk bar to buy candy cigarettes, what a time!
Did anyone notice that 50 seconds in, that's legendary, iconic actress Joan Collins? She's holding a drink and looking at the man next to her, who is smoking. It's obviously a scene from one of her movies but I don't know which one.
It is actually an advert for Cinzano wine. The actor with Joan is Leonard Rossiter (famous for the UK TV show rising damp) Somehow Joan always got the wine spilled on her in the adverts. If you google Cinzano advert with Joan Collins you can see them.
@@gill8779 Thank you so much! You've been very helpful. I did know Joan made some commercials for Cinzano back in the day but the only one I've seen is the one she included in her documentary "This Is Joan Collins" a few years ago. And yes, she got wine spilled on her! I will google them. I adore Joan Collins and imagine my surprise when she showed up in THIS video! I rewound it and froze it a few times to make sure I was really seeing who I thought I was seeing.
The water from the tap is still great in Harrison,NJ because the Town Council has placed all of their relatives and their offspring working for the local treatment plant.
Grew up on a farm. Father and uncle would put old tires into sinkholes. Live in a rural area: what's a speed limit? Father would beat me with what he had. Still see beer ads on television today. Mother used White Rain hair spray.
One thing I remember that isn't mentioned here: Throwing snowballs at cars. That was fun. But today, it's against the law. In fact, I never see kids today throw snowballs, period.
6:16 I'm not sure there was ever a time when there were no speed limits on rural roads. The speed limit was Reasonable and Prudent. That is what the signs said. You could still get a ticket for driving an unreasonable speed. And that was only in Montana and Nevada before the 55 mph National Speed Limit took effect in 1974. When the National Speed limit was repealed in 1995 Montana returned to Reasonable and Prudent for a while until they got a 75 mph speed limit. I drove in Montana at that time and it was fun. Other states all had speed limits just like they do now. Though some of them were a bit higher then now.
I loved those candy cig's It never made me want to smoke. They were just part of make believe. No harm no foul! We had imagination in those days. Today's kids have video games. No thought required.
Well.. it's simple growt6 of population, i had a 70 chevell6, no seat belts, racing down the road, compared to today, holding a beer, etc..carnage on the highway, im6 not bitter, these laws are necessary, good memories though.
Funny how times have changed, the lolly cigarettes we had as kids were called "Fags". And another pink, raspberry flavoured lolly was called a "red skin"
@PeterGriswald I don't think there was a kid in my family that wasn't shot with a bb gun at least once and there was 23 of us, the girls and the boys.
Somehow, we survived! Back then serving lots of alcohol and allowing inebriated guests to drive off in their cars was commonplace! Today’s addiction is the cell phone followed by gambling! Sports betting and casino gambling can be performed anywhere, anytime, on your cellphone! Gambling commercials have surpassed Beer commercials! Waiting to see some stories about people draining their life savings by gambling online!
I remember that candy. It looked like smokes. It was alright. Nothing like a Zero. But I chewed them up. I remember a lot of TEST items. They came out. Was never seen again.
What a repulsive, ignorant, video. In 1955, the world population was 2.9 billion people, it had taken 2.5 million years to get there and there was no plastics industry. No mass consumerism. Generally, you threw things away because waste (paper bags) was biodegradable. Of course people knew about pollution. Clearly you're not sufficiently educated to know about The Great Stink, London, 1858. In 1964, the world population was 3.25 billion. The plastics industry was just beginning. In 2024, the world population is 9.1 billion, thus x3 global population in only 69 years!!!!!!!! Not millions of years. There's a massive plastics industry and global mass consumerism. Go figure the rest and its impact on humanity and society. People have adapted very quickly because they're not stupid. The world's changing far too fast around them whilst technology is no solution. It solves one problem only to create the next bigger one.
Pampers had yet to be invented and most food products came in glass jars instead of plastic and waxed paper was to go to wrap for sandwiches etc. Paper straws and no Styrofoam food containers and no Teflon coated pots and pans yet. Much better times save for the parents smoking all the time.
Regardless l will take the 60S decade over these days ANYTIME. 😢😢
The '50s were even better---No drugs, no war, or "social unrest."
YES!!! ME, TOO!!!!!!!
Life in the 60s was a million times better than now. Kids were made of steel unlike now when they are so delicate even words hurt them.
EXACTLY!! We were tough as nails!
Back when life was carefree and awesome i miss it
Funny how all survived anyway though, isn't it. 🤔
Apparently not, hence the regulations :)
Strange, but kids who grew up then were more heathy than kids today.😮
Not so strange. Back then, kids were exposed to common bacteria and built up immunity. Today, everything is super sanitized. It's been proven farm kids are more healthy because they still get exposed to certain bacteria.
They actually spent hours playing outside, and involved in active activities. Most are connect to a computer, a console, or cellphone these days, instead of being physically active, and out and about with their friends.
That isn't true, seems like it, but in reality many children had health problems. Just the diseases alone had many children out of school frequently. Polio, measles, German measles, chicken pox, mumps, and more, everyone knew someone crippled from something. Classmates who died when you were in grade or high school. Hindsight has a habit of being through rose colored glasses.
They played outside and weren't "glued to screens". 🤔
Didn't put poison and dyes in our food.
I miss the freedoms of that time to explore your world unencumbered.
I was born in the 70s and remember going to the corner store when I was 10 buying cigarettes "For My Mom"😂.
Back then the store sold 6 packs of soft drinks in glass bottles. You could return the empty bottles for 10 cents each and cigarettes were a 1.00 per pack. So all you needed was (2) 6 packs of empty bottles for a pack of cigarettes.
@@MrDan11422 sure they were fer ur mom sure😅hee hee jk.
I was born in 47 and it was 2cents per bottle and 25cents a pack and Saturday matinee movie was 35cents or 18 returned bottles. McDonald's started with a burger, fries, and a soda 35cents. I played with Mercury quite often and I'm 77 now.
My dad used to send me to the store down the street with a quarter to get him a pack of Kents. I think pop bottles were 2 cents where I lived too. One time my older brother got one of his cigs from the ashtray and puffed it. Dad made him smoke a whole cig...really smoke it. I do not think he ever touched one again.
Born in 79 They were still selling those candy cigarettes 🚬
I still drink tap water. I've never had a problem.
me too
My tap water is from a well on my property so of course I drink it.
Out here in nowhere, I still use the burn barrel for paper and wood products.
So have you realized yet you should NOT be doing that????
I was born in 1961 and I’m still having an f- ing blast. Cheers from Montreal
yep i use to pretend i was smoking was them cigarette candy lol 😂 we had more fun then the kids now a days :P
You mean that discipling in schools is not allowed? No wonder the conditions in the classrooms is the way it is. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is never outdated and has proved so for many years.
I was caned and slippered numerous times at school, and I got the belt at home when I deserved it. I was a little shit. 😊
Riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck wile standing and holding on to his ladder racks.
Riding a snow sled being pulled by a car.
Going for a ride on the outside of the car.
Yes! We would set up lounge chairs in the back of the truck, get the dogs on board and ride through town!
We used to tell our dad to drive down all the hills with bumps because it was so fun to fly around the in back of the truck. Memories...
There were 2 different kinds of candy cigarettes. One was a chalky kind of hard candy that had a red tip. The other was bubble gum with powder on it wrapped in paper. When you blew through it, the powder would come out like smoke
@@bindig1 yes! I remember blowing "smoke" through the paper. And, remember those delicious pink bubble gum cigars??
@@rds1717oh yeah!
If I ever got trick or treaters, I would hand out candy cigarettes. They are still out there. Specialty candy shops and ghetto type gas stations.
I seem to remember chocolate candy cigarettes and bubblegum cigars.
@elultimo102 bubble gum cigar was a mouthful at first.. then it would shrink as the sweetner all dissolved. I remember them. Pastel green ones and pink ones in the huge Easter basket.
gee, I survived it all.
Same.
Halloween in the 60s was awesome. My brother, cousins and friends and I had fabulous times running loose in our small town trick or treating. Would I have let my daughter do the same thing in the 90s? Are you out of your mind? Everything had changed by then!
I used to 'smoke' candy cigs ... And used a PEZ dispenser to 'light' them 😄😄
LOL! I was born in 62 and i miss not having marry-go-rounds for the kids these days, drive in theaters were the best, and yeah, i must have smoked a ton of candy sigs. 😂🤣
Incidents of problems resulting from unsupervised trick or treat were all but non-existent. The few there were mostly faked. Equally trouble free was so-called free for all swimming. Kids learned to look out for themselves, a trait not common today.
I remember going trick or treating as a little kid. Little kids back then in the 60s could go out at night unsupervised by adults and could feel safe. There were never any incidents about kids being attacked or poisoned with candy. Back then everyone looked after one another. Kids were safe out on the streets at night.
My mother used to give money with a note to my 7 yr old brother to take to the store, to buy a pack of cigarettes for her .
My mom would give me a note to take to the corner store, and it usually included cigarettes. There were also cigarette vending machines in places like bars and restaurants Where my dad worked had a cigarette vending machine in the employee lunchroom
@@jamesszalla4274 I remember in the 70s, our bus stop was near a police station. When it was cold or rainy we went inside where I bought my first packs of cigarettes from a vending machine there. They were 50 or 75 cents!
When we camped in the 60's . After packing up the tents , we would spend considerable time in "policing the camp" , picking up every scrap of paper , and doing our best to erase any evidence that we had been there . Throwing trash in the river would get you a belt whipping , I promise you .
Obviously the banning of CFCs, smoking in planes, wearing seatbelts etc. are good developments, but I mourn some of the other things which have been taken away and make life really boring for today's kids. Those were times when we went off to play without adults around, dared ourselves on adventurous playground equipment, learned lessons by making mistakes, and realized that bad behaviour has consequences - so much freedom then that we enjoyed, and we grew up learning to take responsibility for ourselves.
So far as smoking on an airplane, only 3 passengers were non smokers AND they knew what to expect...
I will take those days over anytime now.
🤠 Here in rural Texas we STILL burn trash in Burn Barrels....And I was surprised to see this on your list 😳
I live in southern mo. Lots of people here also burn their trash.
@@laurabentzinger200 🤨 Yep, when you got no choice it's common sense 🗑️+🔥=👍
(A growing rarity in today's America) 🫤.
Same story on the countryside here in Sweden, but we try to avoid to throw plastic and stuff like that in the fire...
Here in East Texas, it's weird to not burn your trash.
Don't trip, it's just an elitist, Karen video. They don't know any better 😂
my uncle was raceing the car and the car jump up in the air going down hill ,and me and my little brother with no seat belt on lol we thought that was so much fun , never even though we was in danger
I still drink tap water and burn some trash in the yard…mostly cardboard, paper and wood scraps, but no plastics.
Hey how about when your parents said here hold my cigarette while I button your brothers cost.
Candy cigarettes are still widely available and they look exactly the same.
They don't make the one end "red" anymore. It's just plain white sticks now.
They call them "candy sticks" now. 🙄
I smoked a joint in the bathroom of an air Canada flight from Calgary to Montreal when I was 18 in 1979. No one batted an eye. Lol. Cheers from Montreal
I remember even in the 80s if I had a note from grandma I could buy her cigarettes from the corner store
yep, lol
Not only did we have candy cigarettes, but in the early 1950s my sister had a toy iron that plugged in and got hot. I managed to burn a miniature sole-plate pattern into the linoleum on our bedroom floor.
I had a real mini sewing machine and wound up sewing my great aunt's antique lace tablecloth together. My mom got so upset about me doing that but my great aunt told her to "leave me alone, that was why they invented seam rippers" I was the first girl after about 15 boys in the family so my mother said I was super spoiled and could get away with anything.
@6:32 - I think we should go back to No Speed Limits on Rural Roads. There was less road rage at that time.
@8:50 - RIP to our Neighborhood Bully. He had a habit of stealing little kids Halloween candy. One year some kid( we guess) was ready and gutted him with a knife. That killing is still unsolved.
@17:33 - The only kids hurt by Lawn Darts were the stupid ones. The one who stand there, wait for someone to throw the dart, then try to run under it..Just like the kids today at the Skate Parks who wait for an adult tries to do a stunt and jumps in front of them so they can be seen on video.
@19:19 - When North Carolina Baptist Hospital banned smoking..Nurses and Patients nearly lost their mind. You'd see patients being taken to and outside area, still in their gowns to toke on a ciggy.
For a while I practically had a seat with my name on it the principals office in Elementary school😂
I had a cell. 😄
We used to buy mercury at the drugstore to play with. It is just amazing stuff.
How many here had burning barrels in their yards?
I don't know if anyone else remembers something like a three floored metal tower that had to be put together with nuts and bolts.
It even came with a pull up ladder.
I can't remember if the ladder was metal or rope.
My neighbor down the street had one of these kids towers set up in his backyard.
As a kid of 8 to 10 years old, I remember this tower being pretty tall.
Anyway, the neighborhood boys were on the top level of this tower.
Being "little sister" and to "prove my prowess" as a Tomboy, I wanted to get up there too.
But, the boys pulled the ladder up, so I couldn't use it.
I thought "well, I'll just scale up the outside of the tower" climbing up the metal bars that zig zaged across the tower.
As I reached the outside top tier, hanging on by my outstretched arms, they began to tickle me under the arms.
Well, I was quite high off the ground and started screaming for help.
A neighbor across the street (one of the neighborhood fathers) saw and heard me, but he did nothing to help me.
But, in his defense he probably didn't know if my screaming was real or just playing.
Anyway, the boys tickled me so much that I couldn't hold on and I fell all the way to the ground.
Somewhere on the way down I either hit something or the impact from hitting the ground, caused me to cut the top of my tongue pretty good.
I went home crying and had a sore tongue while the rest of my family (including my older brother who had tickled me and made me fall) all went outside and had a picnic dinner in our backyard as I lay in bed with a sliced tongue.
I think it was called a Tangle Tower... anyone else remember something like this tower for kids back in the late 60's, early 70's?
I tell you what, you had to be tough as a kid back then to take the punches as they came!
And yes as I was born in '59, I don't ever recall ever having to use any seatbelts while driving around with your parents.
In fact my two brothers and I would use the no seatbelt freedom of the back seat to shove each other against the car doors as we went around the curves.
And not only did we drink out of unfiltered tap water faucets, we would always drink from the garden hose just lying in the yard as we were too busy playing to go inside to get a drink!
Growing up in the 60's and 70's was great!!!
I live in the hills of NC and I burn all my trash right here in the burn barrel. Too much of a hassle to load it up and haul to the dump. Which I'll add is 22 miles one way! lol
I came up without seatbelts. We didn't need them! We had my mother, who took no prisoners!
Same in the 80’s. 😂. I’m surprised I survived that one arm swing always flying across my chest.
I remember still smoking on USA domestic flights as late as 1988. And in fact, smoking wasn’t prohibited on domestic flights until 1990. And pilots were still allowed to to smoke to avoid nicotine WD.
On CFCs, I did HVAC for almost 30 years. The pink refrigerant jug show is R410A. It’s a non CFC refrigerant. The old R22 CFC refrigerant comes in a mint green jug. Refrigerant jugs are color coded.
The really best thing today is the ban of smoking everywhere. As a little kid, I used to live in constant foggy atmosphere at home made from my parents and their friends. No one have ever cared for us, children. I hated it so much, and never smoked in my life
I did end up a smoker. My mother, grandmother, aunt and uncle all smoked. It didn't bother me except when we had to take Grandma shopping in the winter, in the car with the windows rolled all the way UP! I would roll mine down a crack to try to breathe some fresh air and would get yelled at for letting the COLD air in!
I was born in 1960 and my parents smoked everywhere. I am 64 now and I still detest cigarettes, smoking is pathetic 😮
I'm 77 and still smoke. Send the hate. Oh forgot! I was also part of the test group of first Polio vaccine. Imagine a vaccine that actually prevented the disease and didn't try to kill you while being only partially effective.
Grew up using a burn barrel, Household trash was 99.999% paper, glass, tin cans or compostable food scraps.
Now kids just vape or smoke real cigarettes.
I loved candy cigarettes
Rural places still burn trash in barrels. There’s no garbage service out there. Food scraps go to coyotes in the woods.
Same here!
Lot of happy flyers compared to now. Less toxin and poison use.
I grew up in the 70's and I remember going trick or treating with my friends and I remember puffing on candy cigarettes and using ledded gasoline I even drove a 1964 Dodge Dart, I got it in the 80's and I had to carry a ledded additive and when I got gas I would use the additive.
I used lead substitute in my VW bugs in the 2000s.
No lead gas was hard on the valve seats.
Candy cigarettes are still in stores today
Yes, I'm old(er). I remember when Every One of these was common. A few of them Greatly impacted MY life (no, not lawn darts 🤭) and shaped the way that I raised my own kids.
Bring back licence free un-regulated fishing and of course burning barrels 😊
My mom and dad would burn trash in the back yard when I was a kid. We also had an outdoor toilet that had to go when our town got a sewer system installed.
I still have a mercury thermometer fully intact and in its original case.
I have a couple mercury thermometers and and a doctor-type blood pressure gauge that uses mercury. (You need a stethoscope to hear the blood flow and get a reading).
OMG, kid’s candy cigarettes, I ate a bunch of them in my childhood years. I was born in 1951.
You can still buy candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars.
Born in '61. Rode in the bed of pick ups, seatbelts were for groceries, caused a fire and was punished by having my hands pressed onto a hot (HOT) stove. When my teacher saw my burned hands she said something like 'you won't do that again, will ya?'
From MY honest perspective, School Corporal punishment was the most STUPID and BARBARIC thing of the 1960's and considering how stupid some of those things actually were( like adding Led to gasoline for example) that's saying quite A LOT!! W.T.F. were they THINKING having School corporal punishment during the "Doctor Spock Era?!?"
I grew up in the 60s, and 70s, . I became a young adult in the early 80s. I experienced all these things in this video at one time or another. They did leave out quite a big one however. Kids playing in the DDT pesticide clouds of the neighborhood mosquito spray trucks that frequently slowly rolled through the neighborhood streets leaving dense white clouds of DDT pesticide behind them. Us kids would almost always run laughing and spinning around in the dense clouds of pesticides that had been advertised as safe and non harmful for years. " DDT is good for me ! " Being one of the chemical companies most memorable slogans for DDT. We , nor our parents, had even the slightest clue that we were playing in clouds of one of the most dangerous pesticides known to mankind. Who knows just how many of us ended up with cancers and other neurological diseases later in life from our first hand exposure to that poisonous pesticide.
I was born in 1957, and some of this stuff has me LOL as to how ridiculously ignorant society was at that time. How we handled trash, kids riding on their parent's lap in the front seat of the car, candy cigarettes, mercury thermometers are hilarious.
Mercury thermometers were never a problem since it was sealed inside the glass. So it never came in contact with skin.
@@lesaber251 Except when the glass broke, which occasionally did happen if not by accident, by mischievous kids unaware of the danger.
"how ridiculously ignorant society was at that time"...really???? Back then men were men and never thought they were women too (at least out in the open). I will take the old days over now gladly.
I remember using a dime I got for helping in the yard to buy Winston bubblegum cigarettes. My babysitter said, "You and my Dad smoke the same brand."
@@stephenr3910 😄
we still have the exact box lawn darts at 17:12. 😅 also, mid 70s my friends and I loved the candy cigarettes! We thought we were so cool lol
FAs gave out 4 cigarettes in a little package...
I, was born in 1957, and I remember when the neighbors, would burn the garbage in shopping carts from the stores, until the city, would not permit burning garbage in the allies. I,still remember when, the school teachers, would take a wooden paddle, and paddle the students. When, the parents found out about the punishment and the parents would sue the board of education, the school district and the school teacher. The, parents did not want the school teachers, to lay their hands on their children. 16:44
My folks would just paddle us when we got home from school if we had to get paddled in school.
Using asbestos as a building material was common in those days.
Sports events on tv were sponsored by alcohol and tobacco products.
Today it’s the kids who are the bullies. They shouldn’t have eliminated the paddle.
Well from MY honest perspective, School corporal punishment was the most stupid and barbaric thing of the 1960's which is saying quite a damn LOT considering how mind-numbingly STUPID some of those things were!
I was born in 1975 and was spanked, both of my parents smoked like a factory near me , my mother who grew up in Lakewood Ohio just 6 miles west of the Cuyahoga River told me about the river catching fire, and they never wore seatbelts even after being fined a couple of times each. Also we were never put in car seats as kids , but my cousin was brain damaged as a child in the 50s on one of those steel playground pieces embedded in concrete
Marry go round, teeter todder, monkey bars? Which.
What about riding in the bed of a pickup truck?
good show
Yep remember in the 70 s was about 10 years old getting on my bike with a friend riding about 5kms to the milk bar to buy candy cigarettes, what a time!
Did anyone notice that 50 seconds in, that's legendary, iconic actress Joan Collins? She's holding a drink and looking at the man next to her, who is smoking. It's obviously a scene from one of her movies but I don't know which one.
It is actually an advert for Cinzano wine. The actor with Joan is Leonard Rossiter (famous for the UK TV show rising damp) Somehow Joan always got the wine spilled on her in the adverts. If you google Cinzano advert with Joan Collins you can see them.
@@gill8779 Thank you so much! You've been very helpful. I did know Joan made some commercials for Cinzano back in the day but the only one I've seen is the one she included in her documentary "This Is Joan Collins" a few years ago. And yes, she got wine spilled on her! I will google them. I adore Joan Collins and imagine my surprise when she showed up in THIS video! I rewound it and froze it a few times to make sure I was really seeing who I thought I was seeing.
The water from the tap is still great in Harrison,NJ because the Town Council has placed all of their relatives and their offspring working for the local treatment plant.
Chocolate cigarettes and cigars are tastier than the mint stick ones. I wonder if the chocolate ones still exist.
Never heard of chocolate ones.
I remember those.
Remember when you could throw paper out the car window with no repercussions.
Grew up on a farm. Father and uncle would put old tires into sinkholes. Live in a rural area: what's a speed limit? Father would beat me with what he had. Still see beer ads on television today. Mother used White Rain hair spray.
All my teeth were filled with mercury fillings! And yes, those candy cigarettes were cool
One thing I remember that isn't mentioned here: Throwing snowballs at cars. That was fun. But today, it's against the law. In fact, I never see kids today throw snowballs, period.
We still burn in backyard
6:16 I'm not sure there was ever a time when there were no speed limits on rural roads. The speed limit was Reasonable and Prudent. That is what the signs said. You could still get a ticket for driving an unreasonable speed. And that was only in Montana and Nevada before the 55 mph National Speed Limit took effect in 1974. When the National Speed limit was repealed in 1995 Montana returned to Reasonable and Prudent for a while until they got a 75 mph speed limit. I drove in Montana at that time and it was fun. Other states all had speed limits just like they do now. Though some of them were a bit higher then now.
I know we did not have a clue.
I loved those candy cig's It never made me want to smoke. They were just part of make believe. No harm no foul! We had imagination in those days. Today's kids have video games. No thought required.
We had a burn barrel in the ‘70s
yeahhh, life sure was alot more fun back then
In NJ,one thing still remains from the 60's.
We can't pump our own gas.
Everyone had a burn barrel in their backyard when I was a kid.
I remember the candy cigarettes and smoking on the City Bus.
I remember my gilbert chemistry set lucky i didn't blow myself up good times
Well.. it's simple growt6 of population, i had a 70 chevell6, no seat belts, racing down the road, compared to today, holding a beer, etc..carnage on the highway, im6 not bitter, these laws are necessary, good memories though.
People now still use garberators and throw their compostables down the sink grind it up and flush it into the sewer system! Just as shocking to me!
I miss the candy cigarettes. Once in your life, you can look grown up and not get in trouble.
My parents and brother became smokers and I didn't strange huh?
Funny how times have changed, the lolly cigarettes we had as kids were called "Fags". And another pink, raspberry flavoured lolly was called a "red skin"
Pretty hard for someone to steal your identity when there was no internet and you burned all of your mail and personal papers in your burn barrel.
I was born in 1964 and I remember most of those. I always thought those were dangerous, especially lawn darts.
Hell. we used to have BB gun wars! lmao. unbelievable that any of us are still alive lol
@PeterGriswald I don't think there was a kid in my family that wasn't shot with a bb gun at least once and there was 23 of us, the girls and the boys.
@@PeterGriswald "You'll put your eye out with that thing." (Christmas Story).
5:06 Now we have Juul vape .🚬💨
Both of my parents smoked, and i loved the candy cigarettes
Somehow, we survived!
Back then serving lots of alcohol and allowing inebriated guests to drive off in their cars was commonplace!
Today’s addiction is the cell phone followed by gambling! Sports betting and casino gambling can be performed anywhere, anytime, on your cellphone!
Gambling commercials have surpassed Beer commercials! Waiting to see some stories about people draining their life savings by gambling online!
I remember that candy. It looked like smokes. It was alright. Nothing like a Zero. But I chewed them up. I remember a lot of TEST items. They came out. Was never seen again.
I could go on but the leaded gas is sad. Ethanol serves the same purpose without the catastrophe.
What a repulsive, ignorant, video. In 1955, the world population was 2.9 billion people, it had taken 2.5 million years to get there and there was no plastics industry. No mass consumerism. Generally, you threw things away because waste (paper bags) was biodegradable. Of course people knew about pollution. Clearly you're not sufficiently educated to know about The Great Stink, London, 1858. In 1964, the world population was 3.25 billion. The plastics industry was just beginning. In 2024, the world population is 9.1 billion, thus x3 global population in only 69 years!!!!!!!! Not millions of years. There's a massive plastics industry and global mass consumerism. Go figure the rest and its impact on humanity and society. People have adapted very quickly because they're not stupid. The world's changing far too fast around them whilst technology is no solution. It solves one problem only to create the next bigger one.
Pampers had yet to be invented and most food products came in glass jars instead of plastic and waxed paper was to go to wrap for sandwiches etc. Paper straws and no Styrofoam food containers and no Teflon coated pots and pans yet. Much better times save for the parents smoking all the time.
Let's go back now
This is political not fun..You dont show how we actually lived.
Could smoke on some Airlines, big ones, in the nineties.
i got spank in jr. high school for wearing my mini skirt to short lol
Surely you can't be serious.
I can, and don’t call me Shirly!