I should play this on the nights I have trouble falling asleep. The sound of this guy's voice and the back ground music makes me so relaxed and makes me wish the world was still this way.
David, Life in the 1950s was VERY hard, VERY DEMANDING In that era, life was healthier, yes Corporations were not yet mandated to poison food, water and health care workers were not yet incentivized to slaughter the very young, Or the old But all that was already planned just as wwiii was...
I was born in 1957 and grew up watching these types of films in school. Not to rain on everyone’s nostalgia parade but kids used to laugh at these back then because nobody had these “perfect” families and lives. There was a lot of sweeping things under the rug back then that today would be considered a crime or dysfunctional. The “old people” back then would talk about how “much better” life was in their youth in the 1890s and 1900s.
If your generation laughed at this Millwood film, then watching those character education films must have been a challenge - as in trying not to break out into fits of giggles in front of the teacher. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) does a great job of spoofing those films (heckling, scoffing) - at least to my tastes.
Unfortunately- you missed the Cinderella syndrome. Everything we watched - in general - was from “fairytales to my next step is…” oh yeah, what I was programmed to do, and then take a look at what was supposed to work. I always bring up w/people who are divorced like me, “Wouldn’t it have been great, if we raised our kids with someone we were in love with?” It’s so true for many of us!
@@lynnschopler2396 BINGO!!! My husband and I talk about this ALL the time. Everything was checking a box..graduate at “x” age, marry at “y” age, have children at “z” age, etc. The problem with that is you end up regretting you didn’t marry earlier or later when you did meet the right person. That happened with my husband and me. We were high school/early college sweethearts who married the wrong people because they came along at the “right time.” We reconnected 40 years later. What we should have done is married in college but we didn’t because the “rule” was you wait until you graduate and get a job and then marry.
I love how this video emphasizes the importance of every person and their role in the world. So often today, it's easy for people to look down on those who work certain jobs and praise others who work certain jobs; even easier to forget that there are people working while you sleep to keep things running smoothly for everyone else. But this video emphasizes that each is equally important. I wish we were all as respectful and grateful as this video encourages us to be. Times were simpler then.
It was a backward era - in terms of health, technology,gender, race ,cultural equality … esp with regard to women’s body rights & opportunities; and civil rights and equality for others who weren’t white .. let alone were not well off middle class males.. i.e. women and LGBTQI gender-wise; or ethnic communities ….Black Americans and CALD groups .. for ‘others ‘ to have a say and be entitled to any education & fair incomes & to be able to access a loan to buy their own house and not need to marry to survive or be able to co exist in society… It may have seemed simpler but it was very restricted & restrictive and one only flourished if you were white educated or aspirational &/ or middle class and accepted a racist patriarchy .
@@annanutherthing4373 It wasn't "backward". Every era has its issues, and people were working to address them. It was fine, it was hopeful, it was a society that was evolving and growing. No matter what you've been taught, the present has just as many problems, and that aggressive negative attitude that focuses only on the negatives creates even more and worse problems. You need an honest, balanced view to know that there was a lot worth keeping that's been destroyed or replaced by cheap imitations.
@@LynxSouth QUITE provincial in the 50's/60's. But no one knew because it had ALWAYS been this way. Prior to the 70's, ONLY white men had full opportunity with no barriers and restrictions.
One thing that is true about the 'good old days' is that people were more involved in community, church & social clubs. They built communities & helped each other out. Nowadays, people isolate. Everyone wants to do their own thing. Love how the video honors those that are working to keep the community running smoothly. Again, it's about working together for a greater purpose.
I especially like the fact that this film recognizes that housewives were important members of, and contributors to, the community. By the time I was a housewife in the 90s and early 2000s, that respect was gone.
I really think most moms staying at home the majority of the time rather than working full time facilitated this community engagement. When you have two people working full time with kids then the house still has to be dealt with there is no energy or time for as many social activities. This has hurt everyone as a whole. We threw the baby out with the bath water in many ways and denigrated the roles women had that really contributed to the functioning of families and society. If mom doesn't want to stay home and dad does, I get it...just speaking in generalizations quite obviously.
Dads can do all those jobs you know. And it’s a dream to think a two income family isn’t necessary. Of course if one salary actually paid workers their full worth one partner could then focus more on quality of life tasks like home, children, that kind of thing. I totally agree with you there. We have lost a lot. (73 years.o. man speaking)
Current times are a literal golden age compared to the 50's. All in here are used to the convenience of a cell-phone and debit Visa card in their pockets...of getting virtually all you could imagine from anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. It would mean giving up all you are now used to to return to a MUCH more primitive, provincial way of life . You'd lose your minds...ESPECIALLY those under 25.
As a child of age 4, I remember my grandmother getting her milk delivered to the door by her milkman. Those bottles had a paper seal on them. We would have to hurry from the bus to get home to get the milk in the fridge. It was such a delightful life. Her groceries were delivered to her home. She had a vegetable and flower garden in her yard. We would get goodies from the garden and beautiful flowers. I loved staying with my granny. However I missed the whole decade of having a doctor visit the house. If you were sick you went to the hospital and they kept you in there till your stiches or staples were removed. You might stay 1 to 2 weeks. I remembering staying an entire week in the pediatric unit for a broken arm with bone chips that had to be removed. A whole entire week! Nowadays you can go home the same day. It was interesting to be able to pick what you wanted off the menu and they gave you shots every 4 hours for the pain. LOL not in these days anymore! But I decided as a child I wanted to be a nurse from that experience because I had wonderful and loving nurses take care of me. I went on to be an RN
Jenny...There's something I didn't get:the milkman delivered the milk early in the morning to your granny.Unless she was unable to take the bottle in why did you have to hurry back home to get the milk in the fridge? Regardless it sounds a comfy life,if a little hard on women...'managing the house 'according to the comentary In Europe we didn't have it so good.We were deeply transformed by WWIi and would have been in a worse place had your country not come to the rescue.Thank you for that
Same here: born in 1955, husband born in 1952. Those who write this nasty, sarcastic posts have NO IDEA how it was to live back then. If I could, I would gladly go back and live during that time again. There are hundreds of thousands that think just like me, and agree with those times being much better than the trashy society we have now.
@Dela Flowers There is so much information on the internet regarding the current events and how close we are, both to the Rapture and the End Times, that it seems foolish for people not to believe it. We preach about it, pass out tracts, testify and witness to people, but sadly most have no idea about any of it.
I was born in 1952. This vid brought back so many memories of my childhood. We had a milk man, bread man, and paperboy to start the day. We lived in Long Island. In those days L.I. was still small townish. Simpler but great. We always ate dinner together every evening at 6:30. We always (mostly always) told our parents where we were going and who going to be with. We come home mostly when expected and my parents used to check my homework before I went to bed. Such a different world but I'm glad I grew up then.
The 1950s WAS modern. The only significant difference now is computing technology which merely makes what was once expensive, cheap. You could get video calls in the 1960s - but it was a dedicated closed circuit system, and expensive. Take pictures - ditto. Movies - ditto. But in essence not a whole lot.
•I was born in 1952. •My town had about 2,000 inhabitants . •We walked or rode bikes everywhere. •We ate together as a family every night. • we knew our neighbors • we never talked back to our parents
Cathy Prichard But still no free speech....i understand about it and i agree with it but still if their is a disagreement and the one that is disagree to the parent probably has a valid point of saying to make cuz maybe its true and the parents are wrong, not all the time but what if the child knows something legit and the parents wont listen and therefore cuz of rejection to anothers point of view, the issue of whatever it is will increase to be worse.
"@ashleytoalson1489" you would be so disappointed. If you are female you would not be allowed to play certain sports in school or have a girls' team like boys do. You would not be able to get a credit card unless your dad or other male relative approves of it. You would not be allowed in, or would find it very hard to get into certain careers or jobs other than kindergarten teacher, stewardess, or nurse. It would be a big price to pay just to pay 5 cents for an ice cream cone.
@@obscurelyvague exactly. and lets add the horrific sexual abuse that was occurring & being hidden. The alcolohism! The marital affairs, etc., etc. It was only this idyllic for very, very few. Sadly. Even the children of hollywood "stars" have their sad tales.
Videos like these are sweet to watch. I try to make a life like that around me: appreciating people for their good work, whatever they do, friendly greetings, etc.
I was born in 48 so I remember the 50s very well. Parents still had to provide food and shelter for their families. Bills needed to be paid and it’s true things were much less expensive but wages were much much lower. Life was simpler but not necessarily easier and I think that is true for every generation.
It depended on the family, but growing up in the 1960s, it was a simpler time. We walked and carried groceries home, and there were cabs and buses. Doctors were inexpensive! There was crime etc, but as a rule, most people were more polite. There were neighborhood bars on every corner but I never did see anyone stagger out drunk. Seemed like people in my poorer class neighborhood set limits and behaved well. There were many Mom & Pop stores, so shopping meant walking from shop to shop. Quite delightful way to grow up. Walked to school as well.
Dude - - I remember the 50's - - no air conditioning anywhere except movie theaters - - if it was 90 degrees outside - - there was no relief - - the 50's were anything but cool !!!!
K San, it does depend on where you lived, I suppose. For my father, my in-laws, and even for me, it was like this. The biggest differences were that families were closer knit back then and people were generally more community-minded and more religious. Basically those factors made people more civil to one another and more interdependent. I'm going to agree with Karen and Diana's comments below. My town still had milkmen doing deliveries into the 1970's. Crime was a lot lower - you wouldn't steal from the person at the corner store because that person was your father's dental patient (or whatever) and everyone in the town knew everyone else. The erosion of these things plus the loss of stability from factories closing down made people more cynical and that's really too bad.
The racism, the bigotry, the close-mindedness, the constant judgement of others. Thank gosh MAGA will force this on all of us again!!! Weeeeee! Don’t step out of line!!!!
@@immortalobelisk6302 words like toxic masculinity, gender affirming, DEI, social justice, are all part of your vocabulary. We aren't in the same league.
@@immortalobelisk6302says the racist communist leftist who loves to lick big daddy government’s feet. The confusion and lack of what’s really going on by now makes your comment all that much more pathetic
This feel-good video has really struck a chord among senior citizens. I was born in 1949 and lived in a town exactly like the one shown - albeit in Canada (Dauphin, Manitoba). It was the best possible place (and time) to grow up in - even though I could not have known it at the time.
I am in Winnipeg and had access to small-town village life where my parents grew up in SW Manitoba. I love this film - especially the emphasis on the importance of everyone's jobs and their contribution to the community. Its a lesson people so often forget.
Same thing here in Canada. I grew up on a small family farm in the 1960's where we kids pitched in with the daily chores as well as the planting and harvesting...we were self-reliant but also a close-knit community that came through for one another when we needed extra help with just about anything that had to be done. (hay mowing, ploughing, planting, harvesting, butchering, etc) That's how it worked so well.
It was pretty much still the 50s until around 63 or 64, Seems like around 67 or 68 everything just flipped to the turbulent 60s. By the mid 70s things were slowly changing with the fake gas crises, and coming off the gold standard and skyrocketing inflation. By the late 70s and early 80s America was is moral decay. Today America is a true and utter sh!thole.
We don't think much about it now, (even in here in '52 it gets a passing glance.) But writing, editing, putting together, proofreading, typesetting, proofreading again, THEN printing AND distributing a daily PHYSICAL newspaper is actually an amazing achievement.
I was born in 42 and knew no one with a TV until I was in the 7th grade. We only had sweets on holidays and I don't remember knowing anyone with a weight problem young or old as fast junk food hadn't come into our town yet. People car pooled as there were no two car families. We entertained ourselves as parents weren't running kids to sports, dance, piano gymnastics etc. we had one pair of shoes and got a new pair when the old ones could no longer be repaired at the shoe shop or you out grew them. Our mothers cut and permed our hair at home. We brown bagged it to school and ate our pb&j sandwich, drank our thermos of milk finished with a piece of fruit at our desks before running out to create fun on a dirt play ground void of any playground equipment. Never heard of designer clothes and everyone wore whatever their parents were able to order for them out of the catalog. We had an icebox until I was 6 and then my parents were able to get a fridge with a freezer compartment large enough to hold an ice cube tray! Etc and etc. and if I was to go back the things I would miss the most: central heating and permapress clothes.
Wow what a time to be alive if I may add your TV was called your imagination when listening to the radio I know this because I love listening to Steelers on the radio Stay cool my friend ☺️😊☺️😊☺️☺️😊
@carolynbrown3379 a friend of mine, I will refer to her as "J" who is now in her late 70s grew up in the 1940 and 1950s and one of her brothers had a severe allergy to wheat and back then it was not as recognized as it is now. Food labels could hide a lot of ingredients. "J's" brother's allergy meant that their mom had to go to special health food stores ( much more a rarity back then) to get wheat-free foods. Once "J's " aunt fixed dinner for the family and though she knew that "J's " brother had a severe wheat allergy she put some wheat in the gravy thinking that such a small amount could not do harm but "J's" brother then had to be rushed to the hospital and his parents were told by doctors that one second more the boy would not have survived. Some things are much easier for people born with food allergies now and the medical world has more knowledge about it.
I was born in the sixties and in my own way I replicate some of the small town experiences. I go to the same neighborhood grocery store every week where the bakery sees me coming and has a fresh loaf of sourdough bread waiting for me. (I go to Costco every couple of months too). My local hardware store asks me upon arrival what I'm looking for and directs me to it. I know my five neighbors and we help each other mow the grass and shovel snow. Connection is a big part of these old films. Look up from your phone and say hello, hold a door open- that's how community is built
"Elle scooter" My dad was born in 1912. He spent his earliest years in Puerto Rico and when he was approximately 10 years old his mom brought him to the mainland where he spent his young adulthood and the rest of his life. He says that lived in New York and Arizona and traveled on trains during the depression. He said that times were dangerous when he was a young man in the 1920s and he saw gang fights, people getting stabbed and shot, and young girls getting kidnapped, women being assaulted by their boy friends, and he lived in places where people had to lock their doors and have a big stick near the door ready to use in self defense in case anyone breaks in. He said that vagrancy used to be against the law way back then, and if a cop thought you looked like a vagrant then that cop would strike you with his billy club or punch you in the face and it happened to my dad.
Well we had an atari 2600 in i believe 81. Spent some time playing it. But spent most of our time outside. Specially in winter. Drifts were in place october to early march. We dig tunnels at the fire station
We went outside and played but we also gathered our friends to play games like baseball and football. We used our own brains. We sometimes had dads and older brothers as coaches but often we learned to settled disagreements among ourselves. Yes, we got mad but didn’t usually hold grudges. Not for long anyway.
I was born in 1956. I remember when the milk man would take our empty bottles and leave fresh milk. I remember the bread man and the smell of fresh baked goods. I also remember when it all ended. There was something magical about that era. I was sheltered from most of life's harsh realities until I entered my fourth year of school. That's when my parents made a decision about my education that would shape me and change the course of my entire life. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I will forever be grateful to Mom and Dad for their wise decision. Life is what you make it.
@@MrCrowebobbythat's the thing all these boomers forget, when they bemoan the good old days are no more. They were children. Of course everything is simpler when you're a kid 🤦🏻♀️
This reminds me of my own life, the town in which I was raised was Pecatonica, Illinois; named in honor of the Pecatonica Indians, who once dominated the area. As a boy I discovered many arrowheads and other relics from the Pecatonica Indian tribe. When my family lived there in the 1960's the population was less than two-thousand. We had one department store, which was owned by a rather grumpy man named Mr. Benedict, aptly named "Benedict's Dept. Store". There were two restaurants, "The Pecatonica Diner" and a bar & grill which I was too young to enter. 'Pop' was one of the best bowlers on the bowling league team to which he belonged. We kids spent a great deal of time at the YMCA swimming in their Olympic-sized pool, such fun! Our next-door neighbors were an elderly widow lady named Mrs. Anders and a widower named Rolland Dirkson (odd that they were both widowed) and his adorable daughter, can't recall her name just now, she was such a little beauty that she won many local beauty contests. When she was 16 she won the title of "Miss Winnebago County Fair". My father was a dairy products deliveryman, AKA "The Milkman". His great sales ability was noticed by a medical equipment company executive who offered my father a position as a sales executive in the mid-west, propelling my father into great success; he became the wealthiest man in town, "a big fish in a small pond". My eldest brother, Kurt joined the United States Marine Corps and was killed in The Vietnam War. Before his death in 1969, I spent the happiest days of my life in that wonderful Mayberry-like town, we even had a fishin' hole! Years later, when the trials of life would become a bit too much for me, I'd drive to this cherished haven in an attempt to recapture the happiness and peace which I once knew there; but, as Thomas Wolfe wrote: *"You can never go home again."*
In the 90s folks still got all the news and gossip while getting their mail at the post office. My first wife's grandparents lived there then. Pretty little town near Rockford/ hiwy20. Small world!
Similar to early 60's. Around 1964, I was 8 years old, I remember the milkman, Murray, a few times getting me to help him on his route for the last couple of hours of his shift. It was fun for me and he paid me $5. Of course, I gave him back a bit of that to buy either chocolate milk or pink lemonade. LOL
In modern times most of these jobs have either been outsourced or turned into crappy minimum wage part-time jobs. This video talks about the importance of all workers and how they help their community, but this totally goes against the grain of modern America where labor is looked down upon, big corporations treat workers like expendable trash, and nobody cares about helping other people in their community. Ah, progress.
Man has a dream and that's the start! He follows his dream with mind and heart! And when it becomes a reality theres a great big future for you and me! Oh there's a great Big, Beautiful, Tomorrow!
The idea that a shop keeper could make a descent wage had me comparing retail workers today to then. Minimum wage, part time, no benefits, varying hours, no job security.... Some of the jobs such as linemen and firefighters still pay well thanks to unions.
I think I watched a history/prediction video regarding each revolution, and he was saying how it took many generations of people to learn how to farm and that it was a bloodbath; in that regard I hope the same can go for technology before we kill ourselves (figuratively or literally).
Remember penny candy ? Oh and the smell of the small neighborhood store when u entered...candy smell ..heavenly 🙌. Halloween wax candy smelled the best lol
Yes !! There was a store called "The Party Shop" .. rows and rows of penny candy.. and some were like 3 for a penny.. ! We went with a quarter each and came out with a BAG o CANDY !
Sadly, nowadays children have very little sense of how a successful civil society functions consequently, there is little appreciation for all our blessings.
@@colonelautism9957 the leftists or commies or what ever you want to call them took over much of the education system and big city government. that was their plan and it was very successful, That was this countries downfall
I see people talking to each other and being respectful. No overcrowding or trash everywhere. No pants below the underwear or rap music. Fathers with their children and kids running to school. Mothers staying home? Church on Sunday too? I want to move there. It sure beats any place I have been to lately.
+TheNauseator this wasnt a type of life in america. Its an idealistic view. Theres always going to be problems. And there is nothing wrong with gay families or single parent households...
+TheNauseator 1950's were far from perfect if they would of had today's technology bet would be same as today. just as many sick, twisted, loud mouthed, ignorant, perverted people them as now.
Things were different but not a perfect world like others would believe. The 20s had the mob shooting up the streets during prohibition, I wouldn't quite call that respectful.
As someone born in the 2000s, I can't believe I missed a lot of this awesome looking stuff :( Gosh, I'd do anything to live in those times over these times.
@@Thomas-yr9ln you think there wasnt incredible amounts of redlining and racial discrimination in the north? read a book , i know youre american so being uneducated is expected of you, but try it some time
The part where they are showing all the little stores the little town I grew up in had those. Now everything is Amazon goodbye America. Support small business
This is possibly the most ignorant economic argument ever. People should purchase the best quality products at the lowest prices possible, not just local products no matter the quality or price. What you're essentially saying is that everyone should have a higher cost of living, and that this is the path to prosperity for all Americans. No, it's not. Buy low, not local.
I was born in 1950 and grew up in Ohio in a small town just about like this one. Everything they talk about in the video was true. People attended community events together, like the 4th of July dance and picnic. You saw all your neighbors in church and at school. Everybody knew everybody else. It was a small microcosm of a world. Of course there were a lot of problems, like race relations and the fighting of small wars all over the place just to name a few, but people generally got along with each other. Everything was cheap back then and our father's were making good money in the steel mills and rubber factories. I remember 12 ears of corn for $1. A Pepsi was 10 cents, not $3.29 like I recently paid for one.
@@Crush44"RUINED IT"?!?! Why you young whipper-snapper, I've a good mind to take you over my knee and teach you some respect for your elders! By the way, did you catch the cop littering at 6:06...
I had a paper route...and clearly remember those days. And those things... Back then..and later..I thought EVERYONE..had a memory like I did..and still do...I later discovered. that everyone doesn't have a photographic memory!.. I treasure it.. For me, it's worth FAR MORE than money ever could be.
@@tximeleta35 I do know what you mean and feel so sad for the racial discord in many areas back then. Where I lived I didn't see that, but I was fortunate. There are no excuses for people to treat others badly because of race, religion or because someone is different.
@2025 Sebastian Silva I did live in the 80's and 90's and was young and have great memories. Every decade offers something good , I think. I guess it's the nostalgia of the 1950's that I want to experience. I truly wish time travel really existed.
@@roseb.1537 if you didn't see signs of racism it was most likely because yours was as exclusively white area. If you think about it THAT is probably the most exclusionary form of racism. There were no confrontations because the non white population "knew their place and knew to stay there".
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so do I...Mr. Dugan the bread man. Put the orange sign in your front window, signifying that you need him to stop. Open your back door before 7:00 a.m., and there inside your milk box was fresh, cold milk waiting for you to bring in...in GLASS bottles! You could also order orange juice, eggs and cheeses. We had a milkman until the late 60's. REAL milk with the cream on top, not this white colored water like today... Miss those days.
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'ed never end. I cherish my memories of the late fifties and sixties. Everyone was a neighbour and friend in our small town.
The coolest thing about the 50's was there wasn't a regressive tax code that taxed families into poverty. In the 50's a man could graduate high school and get a good paying job that would support his wife and three kids. Now we have so many taxes at the federal and state level it takes both parents holding down full time jobs to make it. Most modern women wish they could live like women did in the 50's but they work because they have no choice
wanna know what really sucks?? my grandpa bought a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house back in the idk 60s and has lived in that same house up until 2 months ago that house was bought for under $170,000 unfortunately because of his passing we can NOT inherit his house you know why?? because the house is now valued at half a million dollars and the property tax is over a thousand a month we cant handle paying that much a year so therefore it has to be sold to a BIG time middle class family who can afford the property tax and the house payments and once that happens that house will no longer ever be stepped foot into again turns out its expensive because its in a nice neighborhood ( with alleyways) and it has a Huge backyard my mom grew up in that house as a child i can see why people say we cant have nice things
yeah no problem i will say grandpa had no problem with buying the house (although he did say that was a big risk he took) as he told me that right after high school he joined the air force so i guess back then his intelligence is what made him able to buy the house since everything was cheaper back then but also the payment on everything so it may not have made that much difference to a homebuyer now like it was back then
Thomas Donohue do you really believe that "most modern women" don't want to have an education, and be paid for the contributions they make to society? When was the last time you stayed at home taking care of preschool kids, cleaning the house, doing dishes by hand and laundry with an old wringer washer and clothesline? All for the sake of marriage to some entitled man who expected his slippers, his pipe, or a cocktail when he got home at 5pm. Many housewives in the 50's had serious mental health problems or addiction due to the boring drudgery of their lives. And no personal freedom, either.
I disagree that most women want to stay as house-wives, and if you think about it in our modern context it makes no sense to do so either. The partner + kids will be at work/school 8 hours a day, why should a woman waste her life at home doing nothing when she has the potential for so much more during that time? Many women of those times had serious psychological problems from boredom, apathy etc. it's not natural or healthy for any person's to stay immobile for long periods of time and be confined in the same space. Just like prison isn't healthy either.
@@themaskedman221 I agree because there was also the Great Depression which most people around the world including in the US were economic trouble then came the war which killed millions
I was as born in the late 1950’s. If I could I would certainly go back to the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Some towns in Mexico are reminiscent of the 1950’s and I love it there. I really miss those days gone by.
A Great time for me to come around in 1955.. Grew up In Anaheim California in a orange grove community.. walking to school safely .. and riding my bike around neighborhood .. neighbors ,and family friends over often to visit my parents .. and kids to play with .. loved going to the market w my mom in her huge 57 Buick station wagon .... those days !! A dream now !!!
I grew up in Anaheim near Disneyland in the 1970's, we still had orange groves everywhere. It was a beautiful area and was very safe for kids...Everything started going downhill in Anaheim in the 90's, that's when my family got the hell out. What a shit hole Anaheim has become now...actually most of Orange County sucks now.
As wonderful as our current day advantages are, there is much to be missed from the days of the 1950's. For those of us who can remember such days, we should consider ourselves blessed to have the memories.
Yes, the dad could work at the local grocery store and be able to afford to have a place for his wife and kids to live in, a car, and they would be able to take a vacation.
That's because of unions and government regulation making it hard to run a business so companies leave and take jobs with them government is the problem they need to be made way smaller
I was born in 1962 and for a very short time, we had a milkman delivering to our home. I can remember when my parents had their first telephone installed. Me and my friends could go anywhere and all the neighborhood moms knew who we were, knew our parents and helped watch over us throughout the day.
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Also 62. Grew up in California on a street with tons of kids. Walked to school K-12, and even went home for lunch every day. Played all day, and was expected to be home for dinner. The one thing that really saddens me is how kids today--at least from what I see--don't hang out together and explore. They're never outside with each other just getting along and making their own entertainment: everything is orchestrated by their parents or their devices. Seems a horrible way to be a kid--if it's even being a kid at all.
Jobs that don't exist: Milkman. Newspaper men and women. Baker. Paper delivery boy. Railroad station workers. Beat cop/cop directing traffic with NO GUN or military paraphernalia. My favorite: exactly what my parents told me--the kids' job is to go to school and learn to be a good citizen. Different universe.
and i remember as a kid, all the mom and pop stores, from paint, hardware, grocer, hobby, to shoes, to clothing, everything and anything, A & P was the biggest grocer we had, no malls, nor super stores ! Can't forget about the doctors that made housecalls.
@Lyndon Tree It wasn't the communists (they were a tool only). The same group that funded the Russian revolution was working behind the scenes spreading socialism, destruction of middle class values, and removing prayer from the schools in the 1960's. It's called the dialectic (please watch an interview with congressional investigator Norman Dodd-The Reese Committee into tax exempt foundations to learn more). Our failure to understand the dialectic, and the failure of the media to report it is why our country (and the world) is experiencing culture cancel. Please learn from this that life can be what we the people choose when directed by God's values, and not what is given us from the top down. Once God is removed, the country falls. Evil reigns. What was good is now called bad, and what was bad is now called good. The Bible teaches these will be the coming days.
I was born in 1952 and grew up in Forrest City, AR. Population about 10,000 to 12,000 then and now. Born in Memphis, Tn. but raised in FC, AR. I wouldn't change my upbringing in any way. My Momma was an R. N. and my Dad was a policeman! Love those small towns and yes we rode bikes everywhere and I could take a sack lunch and my collie dog and shotgun and go off into the woods and tell Momma I would be back before dark and no one thought a thing about it.
I miss those days terribly. I remember the milkman, the mailman, the butcher behind the counter, the grocery story and the drug store. My mom's favorite gas station. I don't remember my mom wearing a pantsuit until my late teens then you couldn't get her out of them. I always loved the Sears, J.C.Penney and Montgomery Ward catalogs. They were my wish books. My mom was obsessed with green stamps, had books of them. My dad worked for the Post Office delivering mail so I never got to see him in the mornings except on his days office. We always had a real Christmas tree, smelled good. Life was wonderfully simple, why didn't we fight harder for it.
Yup. Someone in another comment on another video like this mentioned this way of life "disappearing." Someone else replied, "It didn't disappear, it was taken from us." So true.
Watching this takes me back to my childhood of the late 50s and 60s! Wow since then have this world gone mad. Miss the old days of an easy era long gone!
I am so jealous of the people who lived in that era. Things looked less complicated back then and there were many jobs. Would have been awesome to live in the 1950s.
agreed, however it wasn't the same politically. This was the transition from WW2 - Cold War - to Vietnam war. But yes, much more relaxing for the citizens.
Well it wasn't always so heavenly, but life was slower paced. We seemed to have more routines. You knew what to expect. But factory work was gruelling, and no air conditioning. But the old cook stoves and refrigerators lasted forever! Well made products. That is what I really miss. But the freezer in a 50s fridge was very very small. They expected ladies to go shopping almost every day. Most jobs just brainless grunt work, as I called it. But it paid, and one was glad to work. Now more automation. Less unskilled jobs.
Danny Leo it looks like a nice place to visit but the "easy jobs" would be in a full factory and the Internet wasn't around so that would suck super hard also there were a lot of social problems
I was always fond of the 50's even though I never lived through them. And no not because I watched happy days or like the back to the future films. Stand by me was good however. It's just in today's stressful world it's easy to daydream about a life that didn't revolve around emails and being addicted to your smart phone that carries your stress wherever you go. A man got up every morning, ate breakfast with his family, kissed his wife goodbye for the day while she maintained the home as he went to work. Dinner promptly at 6pm every night. Weekends were consistent with yard work on Saturdays and church on Sundays. You slept with the doors unlocked and you trusted your government. Today we're all in a hurry to go places we don't want to be, doing things we don't want to do. Everybody is in debt and you're paying more a month for your kid's phones than your parents paid for the house you grew up in. Cars were simpler, people obeyed the law and you didn't have news like radical Islamic terrorism or the BLM hate group. If you told someone in the 50's that we would someday have a tv actor and a real estate tycoon as presidents they would choke on their pezz. I guess I'm fond of that time because of my own hectic and connected life. I want to disconnect and the 50's just seemed like the perfect vacation.
you didn't hear news about Islamic terrorism because the US had only recently started to take their oil from the middle eastern countries and would later interfere with their domestic issues and start arming different groups against the Soviets. That bit them in the back later
Agreed, Nazis suck as a hate group towards POC. BLM will always be a wonderful thing. ;) Might not wanna drop race into your fantasy of living in the 50s again, it tells some things about you that you should be ashamed of.
Eu assisto esses documentários várias e várias vezes porque são muito educativos e nos lembram como é ser civilizado e feliz, ao mesmo tempo em que nos ensinam a enfrentar a vida. Gratidão pela postagem I watch these documentaries over and over again because they are very educational and remind us of what it is like to be civilized and happy, at the same time that they teach us to face life. Gratitude for the post
I was very small back then. I remember when you took the car to the gas station, there was a rubber line on the ground at each pump. You would roll over them and the bell in the station would go ding. Letting the attendants know that someone was waiting at a pump. LOL SO many memories.
I watch a lot of these videos from the 40s and 50s and it all seems so idealic and simple. I then read the comments and see so many remenisce their childhood. I wonder if people really lived like that or if the videos make them seem so perfect and people's memories only allow them to remember it as good due to the innocence of youth.
People didn't even have to lock their doors at night, or much of the time during the day. Public civility was at an all-time high, and small children could roam their neighborhood all day far from home without worry. Everybody's boat was floated higher by these values, I doesn't matter who you were.
Life in America as the sole developed nation to come out of WW2 nearly unscathed. People of those days appreciated their situation, while the fat, dumb people of today haven’t the slightest clue and complain incessantly.
Yes - and many of us older people realize it is WTP who did not take care to see it didn’t change. We let DC and career politicians run amok. WE did. 😢
TheOfficialPhoenixTV Scuse me - CLINTON had a merry band of crooks filling their pockets, Obama was in a corrupt ANTI AMERICAN Marxist category all his own
As a young child in the early 60s, it was like this growing up in my hometown. We had mild delivered several times a week and the mailman, Mr. Paul, came in through the back down in the morning usually as we were eating breakfast exchanged pleasantries with my mom, patted us on the head and and went and put the milk and any other dairy products my mom ordered in the refrigerator. We also had a vegetable man, Mr. C, who came in a van on Wednesday with all the fresh fruit (seasonal) and vegetables for our needs that my dad didn’t grow in the garden behind our garage. Mr C always saved a few “samples” of the best fruit for me and my brothers. We walked to the drug store, butcher shop, hardware, schools and library. We road the bus to go downtown or further distances. It was much simpler then.
I'm 14 years old. I truly wish that the small town I live in had the stores it had in the 50s. There were 5 gas stations in 1956 and now, 60 years later, only one stands. Every building in town was used in the 50s. It's sad to see what has left over the past 10 years.
It will happen again. This entire world is coming crashing down and the only people left will be those who understand that this was the zenith of civilization in modern times.
@@usroze2806 Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you! 😊
Some of the exteriors were shot in Wilmette, Illinois. The church is the same church from Home Alone. The school the children are walking into is Central School, it's a grade school. The front exterior looks exactly like it does in the 1952 scene. The town is pretty much the same as it was then but there have been changes but it's surprisingly similar but some buildings have been torn down and replaced and now the restaurants serve alcohol. It was a 100% dry town until 1974. It’s still has a small downtown area around the train station.
@@tommybrown7529 Running wild? Not quite. The KKK was at its largest and scariest in the 1920s with about 85,000 members. It steadily declined in membership and by the 1950s basically broke up into smaller local groups. There are now around 5,000 members. Which is 5,000 too many. No doubt African Americans faced many hurdles in the 1950s and still today. But to say the KKK was running wild during this time is not true.
@dev null dang dude, that sucks. In my small town we have about 2.5k people and most people don’t lock their doors. I live on a farm a few minutes outside of town and we only ever lock the front door lol
It’s 2021. I needed to come back to this video for some peace of mind and some sense of normalcy. I so wish I could go back in time, just for a little while….
I want to go back to those days, when things were so much more "normal" and kids could go to sleep at night and not think about what a mess we're now living in. When the milkman used to bring the milk to our house, and we'd never ever imagined a world with drive-by shootings/gangs, drugs all over out street corners, screwed up politicians and the GREED OF TODAY.
Every Generation has it's charme and bad sides of course. Gen Z has to deal with the new snowflake generation, climate change, future water shortage and the unnecessary and inhuman developement of technology. In the 50s as a teen you would be extremely limited in your freedom and spare time. Also, in the 50s the USA was in an extreme anti-communist state, thus arresting any potential non-capitalist. Still both the 50s and 2000s are beautiful in their own way. The 50s because of their classiness and "simple" life, the 2000s because of better access to knowledge, equal rights, generally more freedom/less stigma
Jamie Harper When you're in the sixth grade, would you like that stinking Science Fair FORCED on you , whether you like it or not? The teacher was saying ALL of us had to be involved in that at the end of the school year, in 1967 when I was almost 11 years old. NO, I decided NOT to do a project at all, and I was so worried, SO WORRIED that I wasn't going to graduate (but it turned out I DID graduate, and went on to Hillcrest Junior High School that same year).
Jamie Harper I'm just saying, whether you lived in the 1950s or 1960s, they are NOT always good times; and that 1960s decade, for me, was NOT a good decade.
@@murphy1011And that’s bad? Look around you. People word vomit their dysfunction in public all the time now, and as a result the family unit degenerates more and more.
@@UnfrozenCavewoman well yeah plus you're constantly connected to everyone everywhere. You see it all. Back then it was hidden or you didn't know about it because it wasnt in the news. Humanity has always been deviant, now you're just aware of it 😂
I was born in 1951. Lived on a small horse ranch in Alta Loma, California. Walked 4mi to school. Bought eggs at the local chicken ranch. Rode my horse to Market to pick up vegetables and fruits paying with a check my Mom signed. The owner knew my family and trusted us. At the Lumber yard or Savings + Loan our family was known and trusted. My uncle was a HS counselor. My math teacher came to our home for dinner. Our front door was always open just like all our family homes. At night I read books or listened to radio drama. Our B+W TV had 3 stations and we all watched Ed Sullivan or Jack Benny. Our town had only 1 sheriff. Our family had lived here since 1890 as Citrus Farmers.
The 50's were better in many respects, not all. Very little drug usage, no terrorism, lower crime respect for teachers. In the 1950's there were not as many broken familes. A man could work a 9 to 5 job and support a family.
@ Eric Von Dumb....You're the one that has no damn clue. The 50's were wayyyyy better the these times. I lived them I KNOW. I loved those times and as a Hispanic I never experienced any discrimination of any sort , didn't have any smart phones or computer and LOVED IT , I HATE these times. You must have your head in the sand SMDH
Alterjunkie: I remember Ike and a time when Mexicans were proud to be called Mexican, not a hybred Hispanic.You were apparently a child then and times were indeed good. It seems you are a miserable, bitter old gump now. Sticking my head back in the sand now. Revel in your misery. LMAO
@@izi5150 y'all act like every town was a sundown town, like every white person was a klansmen. I know you hate to admit it, even though society wasn't close to perfect in the 50's, its still better than it is now. What we are seeing know is the US turning into a third world country. Atleast you didn't have groups of teens severely beating the elderly, you don't have people dressed like bums all the time, you didn't have homeless people shooting up drugs and shitting everywhere etc.
One thing this brought to my mind was just now many industrial jobs where regulating gauges long before the computer age. Human in control rather than computer controls. Also fact that having gone thru WWII most people in small towns had gardens and cooked fresh vegetable every meal and middle class seldom eat out other than special occasions. Family often played board games etc in evening as TV was limited. Most signed off after 10:oopm news on week days because no one watched that late. 12AM on weekends when they showed late movies mostly before Jack Parr Tonight show.
@@GeorgeGlass-j6o Now there's not really much choice - most stuff ppl use on a daily basis is made in China or Mexico. American Manufacturing is in decline - although it did rise when Trump was president but is back down agin with Joe Bidumb- so American made products are scarce and expensive because of the high ass taxes and inflation cost of labor on American businesses.
@@salleymudd5488 did you know the decline, the auto industry had been in decline for decades? Stop buying cheap products from China. Y'all love your Walmart. You don't want to pay fair prices for America made. Even trump's hats and ties were made in China. 🤣🤣
@@GeorgeGlass-j6o I shop local whenever I can. I don't wear political gear but the Official Trump MAGA hats and gear are NOT made in China - you are referring to a meme that shows an unofficial knock-off MAGA hat that was indeed made in China as are most cheap imitation items sold on Amazon. The actual Official MAGA gear used in Trump's campaign ARE indeed manufactured right here in the USA in Carson, North Carolina. I work as a Media Producer and research is 90% of my job. Also many fact-checking sources including SNOPES verified the "China MAGA hat" meme as False - which is shocking for SNOPES, a well-known left-leaning "fact checking" source that routinely skews in favor of the left. While Snopes had no choice but to admit that the Official MAGA merch is manufactured here in the US, it does reiterate that many unofficial third-party MAGA merch is manufactured overseas. All of this notwithstanding, has no bearing on the fact that our sitting president is in openly bed with China (currently under investigation for such)- which has had a far greater impact on the current economic condition of our country than a couple of knock-off 2016 MAGA hats.
@@salleymudd5488 everything is global. Apples from Chile. The globalists are only afraid of climate change just so much, until it comes from fruit from Chile.
We didn't realize how good everything was back in the 50's. Sure we have better medical treatments today but the quality of life back then was much simpler. I remember having milk, ice, and coal being delivered to my home. And yes, we actually had doctors come to our house. I also remember watching Howdy Doody back then. I was born in 1948. After what we have been going through in 2020, this film clip brought tears to my eyes. I am so worried for my 2 young granddaughters for the world they are growing into. Just imagine, no cell phones, less violent crime, and no masks!!!!
Masks are a problem for you? Seriously? Back then, at least people were willing to make sacrifices. But you won't even put a 1-ounce piece of cloth on your face to save lives?
I should play this on the nights I have trouble falling asleep. The sound of this guy's voice and the back ground music makes me so relaxed and makes me wish the world was still this way.
You should listen to solfeggio frequencies they'll do much more than help you sleep.
You should let people do as they please he’s not doing anything to hurt anyone.
@@GamingTranceSeer ??? solfeggio frequencies? What is that?
David,
Life in the 1950s was VERY hard, VERY DEMANDING
In that era, life was healthier, yes
Corporations were not yet mandated
to poison food, water
and
health care workers were not yet incentivized
to slaughter the very young,
Or the old
But all that was already planned
just as wwiii was...
Yeah the voice and the music etc is reassuring and relaxing
I was born in 1957 and grew up watching these types of films in school. Not to rain on everyone’s nostalgia parade but kids used to laugh at these back then because nobody had these “perfect” families and lives. There was a lot of sweeping things under the rug back then that today would be considered a crime or dysfunctional. The “old people” back then would talk about how “much better” life was in their youth in the 1890s and 1900s.
If your generation laughed at this Millwood film, then watching those character education films must have been a challenge - as in trying not to break out into fits of giggles in front of the teacher. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) does a great job of spoofing those films (heckling, scoffing) - at least to my tastes.
For sure. It didn’t reflect the times accurately. It was idealistic.
Your over 60 years old 😳
Unfortunately- you missed the Cinderella syndrome. Everything we watched - in general - was from “fairytales to my next step is…” oh yeah, what I was programmed to do, and then take a look at what was supposed to work. I always bring up w/people who are divorced like me, “Wouldn’t it have been great, if we raised our kids with someone we were in love with?”
It’s so true for many of us!
@@lynnschopler2396 BINGO!!! My husband and I talk about this ALL the time. Everything was checking a box..graduate at “x” age, marry at “y” age, have children at “z” age, etc. The problem with that is you end up regretting you didn’t marry earlier or later when you did meet the right person. That happened with my husband and me. We were high school/early college sweethearts who married the wrong people because they came along at the “right time.” We reconnected 40 years later. What we should have done is married in college but we didn’t because the “rule” was you wait until you graduate and get a job and then marry.
I love how this video emphasizes the importance of every person and their role in the world. So often today, it's easy for people to look down on those who work certain jobs and praise others who work certain jobs; even easier to forget that there are people working while you sleep to keep things running smoothly for everyone else. But this video emphasizes that each is equally important. I wish we were all as respectful and grateful as this video encourages us to be. Times were simpler then.
Have a blessed day.
It was a backward era - in terms of health, technology,gender, race ,cultural equality … esp with regard to women’s body rights & opportunities; and civil rights and equality for others who weren’t white .. let alone were not well off middle class males..
i.e. women and LGBTQI gender-wise; or ethnic communities ….Black Americans and CALD groups ..
for ‘others ‘ to have a say and be entitled to any education & fair incomes & to be able to access a loan to buy their own house and not need to marry to survive or be able to co exist in society… It may have seemed simpler but it was very restricted & restrictive and one only flourished if you were white educated or aspirational &/ or middle class and accepted a racist patriarchy .
easy now, that's communism.
man, Reagan and McCarthy, really screwed this country.
@@annanutherthing4373 It wasn't "backward". Every era has its issues, and people were working to address them. It was fine, it was hopeful, it was a society that was evolving and growing. No matter what you've been taught, the present has just as many problems, and that aggressive negative attitude that focuses only on the negatives creates even more and worse problems. You need an honest, balanced view to know that there was a lot worth keeping that's been destroyed or replaced by cheap imitations.
@@LynxSouth QUITE provincial in the 50's/60's. But no one knew because it had ALWAYS been this way. Prior to the 70's, ONLY white men had full opportunity with no barriers and restrictions.
One thing that is true about the 'good old days' is that people were more involved in community, church & social clubs. They built communities & helped each other out. Nowadays, people isolate. Everyone wants to do their own thing. Love how the video honors those that are working to keep the community running smoothly. Again, it's about working together for a greater purpose.
I especially like the fact that this film recognizes that housewives were important members of, and contributors to, the community. By the time I was a housewife in the 90s and early 2000s, that respect was gone.
I really think most moms staying at home the majority of the time rather than working full time facilitated this community engagement. When you have two people working full time with kids then the house still has to be dealt with there is no energy or time for as many social activities. This has hurt everyone as a whole. We threw the baby out with the bath water in many ways and denigrated the roles women had that really contributed to the functioning of families and society. If mom doesn't want to stay home and dad does, I get it...just speaking in generalizations quite obviously.
the GOOD OLD DAYS.. were the ROOT systems of TODAY!.
Dads can do all those jobs you know. And it’s a dream to think a two income family isn’t necessary. Of course if one salary actually paid workers their full worth one partner could then focus more on quality of life tasks like home, children, that kind of thing. I totally agree with you there. We have lost a lot. (73 years.o. man speaking)
Never in my 58 years would I have thought a life like THIS would be my biggest fantasy.😞
the post war economy was good, and we did not know we were poor. LOL born in 48.
Same age and me to
@@joeyank2451 👍😊
Current times are a literal golden age compared to the 50's. All in here are used to the convenience of a cell-phone and debit Visa card in their pockets...of getting virtually all you could imagine from anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. It would mean giving up all you are now used to to return to a MUCH more primitive, provincial way of life .
You'd lose your minds...ESPECIALLY those under 25.
@@weedermann ah yes. I would miss gmo foods, totalitarian governments, chemtrails, crime, plandemics and oh so much more. Not.
As a child of age 4, I remember my grandmother getting her milk delivered to the door by her milkman. Those bottles had a paper seal on them. We would have to hurry from the bus to get home to get the milk in the fridge. It was such a delightful life. Her groceries were delivered to her home. She had a vegetable and flower garden in her yard. We would get goodies from the garden and beautiful flowers. I loved staying with my granny. However I missed the whole decade of having a doctor visit the house. If you were sick you went to the hospital and they kept you in there till your stiches or staples were removed. You might stay 1 to 2 weeks. I remembering staying an entire week in the pediatric unit for a broken arm with bone chips that had to be removed. A whole entire week! Nowadays you can go home the same day. It was interesting to be able to pick what you wanted off the menu and
they gave you shots every 4 hours for the pain. LOL not in these days anymore! But I decided as a child I wanted to be a nurse from that experience because I had wonderful and loving nurses take care of me. I went on to be an RN
We had an ice box, the fridge came later.
Jenny...There's something I didn't get:the milkman delivered the milk early in the morning to your granny.Unless she was unable to take the bottle in why did you have to hurry back home to get the milk in the fridge?
Regardless it sounds a comfy life,if a little hard on women...'managing the house 'according to the comentary
In Europe we didn't have it so good.We were deeply transformed by WWIi and would have been in a worse place had your country not come to the rescue.Thank you for that
Our MM delivered Milk and OJ in glass bottles. He put them in an aluminum insulated box on the back porch.
Love your story thank you
The best milk ever
I was born in the 50's, and much of this can be from my childhood even thru the 60's. Ah...those were truly the good ole' days !
Your old as my grandma
Same here: born in 1955, husband born in 1952. Those who write this nasty, sarcastic posts have NO IDEA how it was to live back then. If I could, I would gladly go back and live during that time again. There are hundreds of thousands that think just like me, and agree with those times being much better than the trashy society we have now.
@@jikoai8709 And your point is?
@Dela Flowers Amen to that! It's just getting worse as time goes on, but that's all written in the Bible= End Times.
@Dela Flowers There is so much information on the internet regarding the current events and how close we are, both to the Rapture and the End Times, that it seems foolish for people not to believe it.
We preach about it, pass out tracts, testify and witness to people, but sadly most have no idea about any of it.
I was born in 1952. This vid brought back so many memories of my childhood. We had a milk man, bread man, and paperboy to start the day. We lived in Long Island. In those days L.I. was still small townish. Simpler but great. We always ate dinner together every evening at 6:30. We always (mostly always) told our parents where we were going and who going to be with. We come home mostly when expected and my parents used to check my homework before I went to bed. Such a different world but I'm glad I grew up then.
Hello Phyllis, how are you doing?
We CAME home mostly when expected....
Hard to believe that this life was 70 years ago. Many ways the 1950s is modern. 70 years from 1950 was 1880.
The 1950s WAS modern. The only significant difference now is computing technology which merely makes what was once expensive, cheap. You could get video calls in the 1960s - but it was a dedicated closed circuit system, and expensive. Take pictures - ditto. Movies - ditto.
But in essence not a whole lot.
Did I say that or did you.
50s wasnt modern, how is slavery modern and oppressing women and gay people modern?
Saggy T there was no slavery in the 1950s dumbass that ended in the 1860s
Wow!! That is some great math. skills , you must have been educated in the U.S.A.
•I was born in 1952.
•My town had about 2,000 inhabitants .
•We walked or rode bikes everywhere.
•We ate together as a family every night.
• we knew our neighbors
• we never talked back to our parents
Deborah Troutman-Immink
Never talked back?, no free speech. 😒😑
It was called respect for your parents and other adult relatives.
Cathy Prichard
But still no free speech....i understand about it and i agree with it but still if their is a disagreement and the one that is disagree to the parent probably has a valid point of saying to make cuz maybe its true and the parents are wrong, not all the time but what if the child knows something legit and the parents wont listen and therefore cuz of rejection to anothers point of view, the issue of whatever it is will increase to be worse.
@@garouuchiha4041 talking back is worse
Deborah Troutman-Immink
We also respected our elders. We were very patriotic.
Im a 17 year old who grew up with technology. But watching these videos makes me want to live in the 50s.seems like a simpler time.
I lived through the whole 50's while giving your mother a decade's worth of sweet, greasy loving 😛💓🤏👌💦👄
"@ashleytoalson1489" you would be so disappointed. If you are female you would not be allowed to play certain sports in school or have a girls' team like boys do. You would not be able to get a credit card unless your dad or other male relative approves of it. You would not be allowed in, or would find it very hard to get into certain careers or jobs other than kindergarten teacher, stewardess, or nurse.
It would be a big price to pay just to pay 5 cents for an ice cream cone.
@@obscurelyvague exactly. and lets add the horrific sexual abuse that was occurring & being hidden. The alcolohism! The marital affairs, etc., etc. It was only this idyllic for very, very few. Sadly. Even the children of hollywood "stars" have their sad tales.
Videos like these are sweet to watch. I try to make a life like that around me: appreciating people for their good work, whatever they do, friendly greetings, etc.
@@obscurelyvague Sounds good to me!!!! Hahahaha Does it suck to be you? You sound full of anger and hate!
I was born in 48 so I remember the 50s very well. Parents still had to provide food and shelter for their families. Bills needed to be paid and it’s true things were much less expensive but wages were much much lower. Life was simpler but not necessarily easier and I think that is true for every generation.
I'm so intrigued of the past. I always think about how it was back then living in it. it's like a different planet , seems really chill/cool
It depended on the family, but growing up in the 1960s, it was a simpler time. We walked and carried groceries home, and there were cabs and buses. Doctors were inexpensive! There was crime etc, but as a rule, most people were more polite. There were neighborhood bars on every corner but I never did see anyone stagger out drunk. Seemed like people in my poorer class neighborhood set limits and behaved well. There were many Mom & Pop stores, so shopping meant walking from shop to shop. Quite delightful way to grow up. Walked to school as well.
+K San
How did he say it really was?
+K San I don't know where HE grew up, but where I grew up in the 60's, it was a lot like this.
Dude - - I remember the 50's - - no air conditioning anywhere except movie theaters - - if it was 90 degrees outside - - there was no relief - - the 50's were anything but cool !!!!
K San, it does depend on where you lived, I suppose. For my father, my in-laws, and even for me, it was like this. The biggest differences were that families were closer knit back then and people were generally more community-minded and more religious. Basically those factors made people more civil to one another and more interdependent. I'm going to agree with Karen and Diana's comments below. My town still had milkmen doing deliveries into the 1970's. Crime was a lot lower - you wouldn't steal from the person at the corner store because that person was your father's dental patient (or whatever) and everyone in the town knew everyone else. The erosion of these things plus the loss of stability from factories closing down made people more cynical and that's really too bad.
I was so blessed to live during this time as a child. I miss it so much! 😢💔
Hello Lynne, How are you doing?
Yes.
I wish I could have been born in 1950 when people cared for each other.thank u for sharing a good life of the 1950s.
Literally a different world. The language. The attitude. The environment. The jobs.
The internet made the world so much smaller. Whoever thought a small device in your pocket can connect you to anyone when ever you want instantly.
The racism, the bigotry, the close-mindedness, the constant judgement of others. Thank gosh MAGA will force this on all of us again!!! Weeeeee! Don’t step out of line!!!!
🤡🤡🤡@@immortalobelisk6302
@@immortalobelisk6302 words like toxic masculinity, gender affirming, DEI, social justice, are all part of your vocabulary. We aren't in the same league.
@@immortalobelisk6302says the racist communist leftist who loves to lick big daddy government’s feet. The confusion and lack of what’s really going on by now makes your comment all that much more pathetic
This feel-good video has really struck a chord among senior citizens. I was born in 1949 and lived in a town exactly like the one shown - albeit in Canada (Dauphin, Manitoba). It was the best possible place (and time) to grow up in - even though I could not have known it at the time.
I am in Winnipeg and had access to small-town village life where my parents grew up in SW Manitoba. I love this film - especially the emphasis on the importance of everyone's jobs and their contribution to the community. Its a lesson people so often forget.
Chilliwack BC was a lot like this.
Shame you boomers leave nothing but a ruined country for your grandchildren. You should have fought hard against desegregation
I was born in 1952. It's so interesting to see how much the world has changed. I'm not sure for the better.
Dann your old.
So was i . i loved the 50s and early 60s .
Yes, the world has changed and not for the better. I graduated from Purdue in 1955. I've seen it all.
Not really
Phyllis Charpentier I was born in 1953, and I agree with you.
it's dated 1952....but I'll tell ya, I lived it and it was pretty much this same way right thru most of the 60's where I lived.
Same here.
Same thing here in Canada. I grew up on a small family farm in the 1960's where we kids pitched in with the daily chores as well as the planting and harvesting...we were self-reliant but also a close-knit community that came through for one another when we needed extra help with just about anything that had to be done. (hay mowing, ploughing, planting, harvesting, butchering, etc) That's how it worked so well.
@@bonniebluebell5940 Social background matters
@@obscurelyvague sorry, I wasn't raised on Venus like you and your troubling life.
It was pretty much still the 50s until around 63 or 64, Seems like around 67 or 68 everything just flipped to the turbulent 60s. By the mid 70s things were slowly changing with the fake gas crises, and coming off the gold standard and skyrocketing inflation. By the late 70s and early 80s America was is moral decay. Today America is a true and utter sh!thole.
We don't think much about it now, (even in here in '52 it gets a passing glance.) But writing, editing, putting together, proofreading, typesetting, proofreading again, THEN printing AND distributing a daily PHYSICAL newspaper is actually an amazing achievement.
I was born in 42 and knew no one with a TV until I was in the 7th grade. We only had sweets on holidays and I don't remember knowing anyone with a weight problem young or old as fast junk food hadn't come into our town yet. People car pooled as there were no two car families. We entertained ourselves as parents weren't running kids to sports, dance, piano gymnastics etc. we had one pair of shoes and got a new pair when the old ones could no longer be repaired at the shoe shop or you out grew them. Our mothers cut and permed our hair at home. We brown bagged it to school and ate our pb&j sandwich, drank our thermos of milk finished with a piece of fruit at our desks before running out to create fun on a dirt play ground void of any playground equipment. Never heard of designer clothes and everyone wore whatever their parents were able to order for them out of the catalog. We had an icebox until I was 6 and then my parents were able to get a fridge with a freezer compartment large enough to hold an ice cube tray! Etc and etc. and if I was to go back the things I would miss the most: central heating and permapress clothes.
Hello Carolyn, How are you doing?
Thanks for sharing!
Yes..so many obese kids today. It's sad
Wow what a time to be alive if I may add your TV was called your imagination when listening to the radio I know this because I love listening to Steelers on the radio
Stay cool my friend ☺️😊☺️😊☺️☺️😊
@carolynbrown3379 a friend of mine, I will refer to her as "J" who is now in her late 70s grew up in the 1940 and 1950s and one of her brothers had a severe allergy to wheat and back then it was not as recognized as it is now. Food labels could hide a lot of ingredients. "J's" brother's allergy meant that their mom had to go to special health food stores ( much more a rarity back then) to get wheat-free foods. Once "J's " aunt fixed dinner for the family and though she knew that "J's " brother had a severe wheat allergy she put some wheat in the gravy thinking that such a small amount could not do harm but "J's" brother then had to be rushed to the hospital and his parents were told by doctors that one second more the boy would not have survived.
Some things are much easier for people born with food allergies now and the medical world has more knowledge about it.
Wonderful film! It encourages children to appreciate the people who work hard to make their communities better places.
Does it? Really?
@@weedermann yea dick
I was born in the sixties and in my own way I replicate some of the small town experiences. I go to the same neighborhood grocery store every week where the bakery sees me coming and has a fresh loaf of sourdough bread waiting for me. (I go to Costco every couple of months too). My local hardware store asks me upon arrival what I'm looking for and directs me to it. I know my five neighbors and we help each other mow the grass and shovel snow. Connection is a big part of these old films. Look up from your phone and say hello, hold a door open- that's how community is built
why did every narrator sound exactly the same
Same guy.
they had a specific accent which was trending then i dont remembr the name, search for 50s narrators accent
Exactly!!!! Maybe it's the same guy narrating.
Well, narrarators all sound the same today too, and news anchors
it was a liked accent for narrators at the time, plus the fact that the microphone made them sound similar
Oh man
ITS BEEN ONE OF THOSE DAYS
Yes… Its been one of those days
Kids didn't need to be rushed around to a laudry list of organized activities and sports. They went outside and played until dark.
no video games to veg out in front of the tv. if you were bored, go outside find something to do.
"Elle scooter" My dad was born in 1912. He spent his earliest years in Puerto Rico and when he was approximately 10 years old his mom brought him to the mainland where he spent his young adulthood and the rest of his life. He says that lived in New York and Arizona and traveled on trains during the depression. He said that times were dangerous when he was a young man in the 1920s and he saw gang fights, people getting stabbed and shot, and young girls getting kidnapped, women being assaulted by their boy friends, and he lived in places where people had to lock their doors and have a big stick near the door ready to use in self defense in case anyone breaks in. He said that vagrancy used to be against the law way back then, and if a cop thought you looked like a vagrant then that cop would strike you with his billy club or punch you in the face and it happened to my dad.
Well we had an atari 2600 in i believe 81. Spent some time playing it. But spent most of our time outside. Specially in winter. Drifts were in place october to early march. We dig tunnels at the fire station
@Conway Twitty flake lol
We went outside and played but we also gathered our friends to play games like baseball and football. We used our own brains. We sometimes had dads and older brothers as coaches but often we learned to settled disagreements among ourselves. Yes, we got mad but didn’t usually hold grudges. Not for long anyway.
People dressed up for just about everything in the 50's. So classy.
mindsaglowin Did you notice the paper boy wearing a tie?
Also very racist
@@TenshinhanIsKing um how
@@TenshinhanIsKing White people are just as racist today. It just mutates into a new form with the times.
Dressing up to go take the garbage out, shoveling the snow, walking the dog 😂
Probably just a guess that they would
I was born in 1956. I remember when the milk man would take our empty bottles and leave fresh milk. I remember the bread man and the smell of fresh baked goods. I also remember when it all ended. There was something magical about that era. I was sheltered from most of life's harsh realities until I entered my fourth year of school. That's when my parents made a decision about my education that would shape me and change the course of my entire life. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I will forever be grateful to Mom and Dad for their wise decision. Life is what you make it.
What was the decision?
The only magic was you were young.
After the civil rights act this country is done for. You have ruined for everyone.
@@RowanMcKay how did she ruin it for everyone?
@@MrCrowebobbythat's the thing all these boomers forget, when they bemoan the good old days are no more. They were children. Of course everything is simpler when you're a kid 🤦🏻♀️
I love this but at the same time it makes me so sad how things have changed so very much not for the best .
This reminds me of my own life, the town in which I was raised was Pecatonica, Illinois; named in honor of the Pecatonica Indians, who once dominated the area. As a boy I discovered many arrowheads and other relics from the Pecatonica Indian tribe. When my family lived there in the 1960's the population was less than two-thousand. We had one department store, which was owned by a rather grumpy man named Mr. Benedict, aptly named "Benedict's Dept. Store". There were two restaurants, "The Pecatonica Diner" and a bar & grill which I was too young to enter. 'Pop' was one of the best bowlers on the bowling league team to which he belonged. We kids spent a great deal of time at the YMCA swimming in their Olympic-sized pool, such fun! Our next-door neighbors were an elderly widow lady named Mrs. Anders and a widower named Rolland Dirkson (odd that they were both widowed) and his adorable daughter, can't recall her name just now, she was such a little beauty that she won many local beauty contests. When she was 16 she won the title of "Miss Winnebago County Fair". My father was a dairy products deliveryman, AKA "The Milkman". His great sales ability was noticed by a medical equipment company executive who offered my father a position as a sales executive in the mid-west, propelling my father into great success; he became the wealthiest man in town, "a big fish in a small pond". My eldest brother, Kurt joined the United States Marine Corps and was killed in The Vietnam War. Before his death in 1969, I spent the happiest days of my life in that wonderful Mayberry-like town, we even had a fishin' hole! Years later, when the trials of life would become a bit too much for me, I'd drive to this cherished haven in an attempt to recapture the happiness and peace which I once knew there; but, as Thomas Wolfe wrote: *"You can never go home again."*
I am so sorry that your brother was killed.
In the 90s folks still got all the news and gossip while getting their mail at the post office. My first wife's grandparents lived there then. Pretty little town near Rockford/ hiwy20. Small world!
Was so sad to read your brother was killed in Vietnam. God bless his soul and God bless your whole family.
@@ioodyssey3740 It must have been either Seward or Pecatonica, Illinois.
Of course back then people would say "them redskins". Those were the times!
My mom was so lucky to have grown up in the 59s. I think that she was a especially wonderful person because of it.
Yes, so many happy memories of rushing home from school and turning on the television and staring at the test pattern until the programming day began.
Similar to early 60's. Around 1964, I was 8 years old, I remember the milkman, Murray, a few times getting me to help him on his route for the last couple of hours of his shift. It was fun for me and he paid me $5. Of course, I gave him back a bit of that to buy either chocolate milk or pink lemonade. LOL
Hello Rose, how are you doing?
In modern times most of these jobs have either been outsourced or turned into crappy minimum wage part-time jobs. This video talks about the importance of all workers and how they help their community, but this totally goes against the grain of modern America where labor is looked down upon, big corporations treat workers like expendable trash, and nobody cares about helping other people in their community. Ah, progress.
Man has a dream and that's the start! He follows his dream with mind and heart! And when it becomes a reality theres a great big future for you and me! Oh there's a great Big, Beautiful, Tomorrow!
The idea that a shop keeper could make a descent wage had me comparing retail workers today to then. Minimum wage, part time, no benefits, varying hours, no job security.... Some of the jobs such as linemen and firefighters still pay well thanks to unions.
I think I watched a history/prediction video regarding each revolution, and he was saying how it took many generations of people to learn how to farm and that it was a bloodbath; in that regard I hope the same can go for technology before we kill ourselves (figuratively or literally).
Your right. And this is also the era before American colonialism
@@maddie9117 ?
If you veer far off the interstates you can still find towns like this. It’s truly worth the trip.
What an interesting peek into the past. Most enjoyable to watch. The innocence made me smile.
A wonderful time to raise a family. I relate to a lot of the comments mentioned below.
Remember penny candy ?
Oh and the smell of the small neighborhood store when u entered...candy smell ..heavenly 🙌. Halloween wax candy smelled the best lol
What a great smell that was! Kinda like Woolworth's, had it's own great smell.
Yes !! There was a store called "The Party Shop" .. rows and rows of penny candy.. and some were like 3 for a penny.. ! We went with a quarter each and came out with a BAG o CANDY !
These 1950's videos are my asmr for going to sleep, love hearing them as I go to sleep. :)
They sure do seem to care alot about. richard.
he'll grow up to be an appliance salesman.
Look at his delivery truck, "Black Hawk Meats"
Not now that he's a dick.
+Neil Tipton Yep too bad he wasn't named Donald.
+beloog99 lol exactly.
I loved this. Reminded me of the town I grew up in as a child. Simpler times back then ❤️
Wow, that is one nice looking neighborhood. Wish I could have lived in that era.
I grew up in that era, only the elite lived in such neighborhoods.
@@swabby429 where is it?
@@swabby429 So what? Sucked to be you I suppose!
Sadly, nowadays children have very little sense of how a successful civil society functions consequently, there is little appreciation for all our blessings.
more like you screwed it all up now
Jim Dandy, sadly, they are taught just the opposite in schools these days....
@@normalnick9693
Social media screwed things up for
good people are busy calling each other
names instead of bettering their own lives
@@colonelautism9957 the leftists or commies or what ever you want to call them took over much of the education system and big city government. that was their plan and it was very successful, That was this countries downfall
@@brrtool
They worship failure, they love to stew in it eternally,
they think anything that's healthy and successful = fascism.
I see people talking to each other and being respectful. No overcrowding or trash everywhere. No pants below the underwear or rap music. Fathers with their children and kids running to school. Mothers staying home? Church on Sunday too? I want to move there. It sure beats any place I have been to lately.
yeah those seem like good times
Would be great except I would miss today's technology, the racism and lack of medicine for of sicknesses and disease.
+TheNauseator this wasnt a type of life in america. Its an idealistic view. Theres always going to be problems. And there is nothing wrong with gay families or single parent households...
+TheNauseator 1950's were far from perfect if they would of had today's technology bet would be same as today. just as many sick, twisted, loud mouthed, ignorant, perverted people them as now.
Things were different but not a perfect world like others would believe. The 20s had the mob shooting up the streets during prohibition, I wouldn't quite call that respectful.
As someone born in the 2000s, I can't believe I missed a lot of this awesome looking stuff :( Gosh, I'd do anything to live in those times over these times.
You know black people couldn't use white water fountains in 1952
@@SaraH-jn5db only in the southern states.
"@BlueThunderstorm" you can join the Amish or the Hutterites.
@@Thomas-yr9ln you think there wasnt incredible amounts of redlining and racial discrimination in the north? read a book , i know youre american so being uneducated is expected of you, but try it some time
I know, awesome right!
the wonderful 1950s as a child was spectacular. Nice people, manners, dress up, respect and enjoy
yes yes nice manners like denying minorities basic civil rights and services, thats respect in your brain?
No diversity is our truly a strength
100 percent @@Hidalgo-tg1ky
Segregation, racism, no rights for women. Yeah, it was so great.
Yes@@KC73
The part where they are showing all the little stores the little town I grew up in had those. Now everything is Amazon goodbye America. Support small business
This is possibly the most ignorant economic argument ever.
People should purchase the best quality products at the lowest prices possible, not just local products no matter the quality or price. What you're essentially saying is that everyone should have a higher cost of living, and that this is the path to prosperity for all Americans.
No, it's not. Buy low, not local.
What’s wrong with Amazon? They are a platform for independent sellers as well.
Yes vulture capitalism has made it very difficult to run a small business. Everyone works for a "company." Sad.
@@smakkdat They are killing their workers. Underregulated.
I was born in 1950 and grew up in Ohio in a small town just about like this one. Everything they talk about in the video was true. People attended community events together, like the 4th of July dance and picnic. You saw all your neighbors in church and at school. Everybody knew everybody else. It was a small microcosm of a world. Of course there were a lot of problems, like race relations and the fighting of small wars all over the place just to name a few, but people generally got along with each other. Everything was cheap back then and our father's were making good money in the steel mills and rubber factories. I remember 12 ears of corn for $1. A Pepsi was 10 cents, not $3.29 like I recently paid for one.
"@johnallen2771" Wow you could write a book. It would be important for history.
Crazy how you were born in 1950 yet my parents born in 1954 don't even use email 😅🤭
And you boomers ruined it
@@Crush44"RUINED IT"?!?!
Why you young whipper-snapper, I've a good mind to take you over my knee and teach you some respect for your elders!
By the way, did you catch the cop littering at 6:06...
how upset were you when black people got civil rights?
I had a paper route...and clearly remember those days. And those things... Back then..and later..I thought EVERYONE..had a memory like I did..and still do...I later discovered. that everyone doesn't have a photographic memory!.. I treasure it.. For me, it's worth FAR MORE than money ever could be.
I would love to live in the 50's.
But being White, right?
@@tximeleta35 I do know what you mean and feel so sad for the racial discord in many areas back then. Where I lived I didn't see that, but I was fortunate. There are no excuses for people to treat others badly because of race, religion or because someone is different.
@2025 Sebastian Silva I did live in the 80's and 90's and was young and have great memories. Every decade offers something good , I think. I guess it's the nostalgia of the 1950's that I want to experience. I truly wish time travel really existed.
@@roseb.1537 if you didn't see signs of racism it was most likely because yours was as exclusively white area. If you think about it THAT is probably the most exclusionary form of racism. There were no confrontations because the non white population "knew their place and knew to stay there".
Rose B. Always remember to repent of your sins (sin is transgression of YAHUAH’S LAW: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy) And Have Belief On YAHUSHA HAMASHYACH. HE Died and Rose Again On The Third Day So that you can be forgiven of your sins!
HE Loves you! Come to HIM!🙂
It seemed like everyone had a place, every place was important, and everyone was content with their own. Harmony.
sure miss those deliveries of milk and bread. those were the days!
Small town here. Grocery just started delivery, and I am like so pleased! Reminded me of 'the old days'.
so do I...Mr. Dugan the bread man. Put the orange sign in your front window, signifying that you need him to stop. Open your back door before 7:00 a.m., and there inside your milk box was fresh, cold milk waiting for you to bring in...in GLASS bottles! You could also order orange juice, eggs and cheeses.
We had a milkman until the late 60's. REAL milk with the cream on top, not this white colored water like today...
Miss those days.
Try Shipt or Instacart! They'll bring you your milk!
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'ed never end. I cherish my memories of the late fifties and sixties. Everyone was a neighbour and friend in our small town.
Richard should be around 73 these days .
Richard is now in a state of technological shock!! 😂
Trump’s age.
He got hit by a car hes dead
If he made it through Vietnam alive.
@@StoicContrarian We Wuz Anglo Saxons N Shieeet Dawg!!!
The coolest thing about the 50's was there wasn't a regressive tax code that taxed families into poverty. In the 50's a man could graduate high school and get a good paying job that would support his wife and three kids. Now we have so many taxes at the federal and state level it takes both parents holding down full time jobs to make it. Most modern women wish they could live like women did in the 50's but they work because they have no choice
wanna know what really sucks??
my grandpa bought a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house back in the idk 60s and has lived in that same house up until 2 months ago
that house was bought for under $170,000
unfortunately because of his passing
we can NOT inherit his house
you know why??
because the house is now valued at half a million dollars and the property tax is over a thousand a month
we cant handle paying that much a year
so therefore it has to be sold to a BIG time middle class family who can afford the property tax and the house payments and once that happens
that house will no longer ever be stepped foot into again
turns out its expensive because its in a nice neighborhood ( with alleyways) and it has a Huge backyard
my mom grew up in that house as a child
i can see why people say
we cant have nice things
fargeeks damn that's messed up I'm sorry
yeah no problem
i will say grandpa had no problem with buying the house (although he did say that was a big risk he took)
as he told me that right after high school he joined the air force
so i guess back then his intelligence is what made him able to buy the house since everything was cheaper back then but also the payment on everything
so it may not have made that much difference to a homebuyer now like it was back then
Thomas Donohue do you really believe that "most modern women" don't want to have an education, and be paid for the contributions they make to society? When was the last time you stayed at home taking care of preschool kids, cleaning the house, doing dishes by hand and laundry with an old wringer washer and clothesline? All for the sake of marriage to some entitled man who expected his slippers, his pipe, or a cocktail when he got home at 5pm. Many housewives in the 50's had serious mental health problems or addiction due to the boring drudgery of their lives. And no personal freedom, either.
I disagree that most women want to stay as house-wives, and if you think about it in our modern context it makes no sense to do so either. The partner + kids will be at work/school 8 hours a day, why should a woman waste her life at home doing nothing when she has the potential for so much more during that time? Many women of those times had serious psychological problems from boredom, apathy etc. it's not natural or healthy for any person's to stay immobile for long periods of time and be confined in the same space. Just like prison isn't healthy either.
ah yes, the 40s and 50s. Now those were the days. I would love to return. I loved them then and would love them again........
I think that the 30s and 40s are usually considered a more appropriate grouping. Unless you think that World War II was the good old days.
Very odd. Life expectancy was about 20 years shorter.
@@themaskedman221 I agree because there was also the Great Depression which most people around the world including in the US were economic trouble then came the war which killed millions
I was as born in the late 1950’s. If I could I would certainly go back to the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Some towns in Mexico are reminiscent of the 1950’s and I love it there. I really miss those days gone by.
A Great time for me to come around in 1955.. Grew up
In Anaheim California in a orange grove community.. walking to school safely .. and riding my bike around neighborhood .. neighbors ,and family friends over often to visit my parents .. and kids to play with .. loved going to the market w my mom in her huge 57 Buick station wagon .... those days !! A dream now !!!
I grew up in Anaheim near Disneyland in the 1970's, we still had orange groves everywhere. It was a beautiful area and was very safe for kids...Everything started going downhill in Anaheim in the 90's, that's when my family got the hell out. What a shit hole Anaheim has become now...actually most of Orange County sucks now.
As wonderful as our current day advantages are, there is much to be missed from the days of the 1950's. For those of us who can remember such days, we should consider ourselves blessed to have the memories.
Hello Nancy, how are you doing?
its funny how all the jobs payed you well, unlike today
true. today a household needs two incomes to get by.
Yes, the dad could work at the local grocery store and be able to afford to have a place for his wife and kids to live in, a car, and they would be able to take a vacation.
Its the Federal Reserve's problem. Its a non Gov agency that control's the USA money supply.
In a post-WW2 world when America produced 80% of the world's good due to destruction of factories in other countries, it was an economic boom.
That's because of unions and government regulation making it hard to run a business so companies leave and take jobs with them government is the problem they need to be made way smaller
I was born in 1962 and for a very short time, we had a milkman delivering to our home. I can remember when my parents had their first telephone installed. Me and my friends could go anywhere and all the neighborhood moms knew who we were, knew our parents and helped watch over us throughout the day.
Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you! 😊
Also 62. Grew up in California on a street with tons of kids. Walked to school K-12, and even went home for lunch every day. Played all day, and was expected to be home for dinner. The one thing that really saddens me is how kids today--at least from what I see--don't hang out together and explore. They're never outside with each other just getting along and making their own entertainment: everything is orchestrated by their parents or their devices. Seems a horrible way to be a kid--if it's even being a kid at all.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 maybe one day things will go back to that. 😊
Jobs that don't exist: Milkman. Newspaper men and women. Baker. Paper delivery boy. Railroad station workers. Beat cop/cop directing traffic with NO GUN or military paraphernalia. My favorite: exactly what my parents told me--the kids' job is to go to school and learn to be a good citizen. Different universe.
and i remember as a kid, all the mom and pop stores, from paint, hardware, grocer, hobby, to shoes, to clothing, everything and anything, A & P was the biggest grocer we had, no malls, nor super stores ! Can't forget about the doctors that made housecalls.
@Lyndon Tree It wasn't the communists (they were a tool only). The same group that funded the Russian revolution was working behind the scenes spreading socialism, destruction of middle class values, and removing prayer from the schools in the 1960's. It's called the dialectic (please watch an interview with congressional investigator Norman Dodd-The Reese Committee into tax exempt foundations to learn more). Our failure to understand the dialectic, and the failure of the media to report it is why our country (and the world) is experiencing culture cancel. Please learn from this that life can be what we the people choose when directed by God's values, and not what is given us from the top down. Once God is removed, the country falls. Evil reigns. What was good is now called bad, and what was bad is now called good. The Bible teaches these will be the coming days.
Plenty of bakers, even baker's unions.
Go to school and not be taught that your country is horrible and evil in every way, and you should be ashamed of it and work to destroy it.
absolutly right
It's amazing how different things where when we produced our own things
I was born in 1952 and grew up in Forrest City, AR. Population about 10,000 to 12,000 then and now. Born in Memphis, Tn. but raised in FC, AR. I wouldn't change my upbringing in any way. My Momma was an R. N. and my Dad was a policeman! Love those small towns and yes we rode bikes everywhere and I could take a sack lunch and my collie dog and shotgun and go off into the woods and tell Momma I would be back before dark and no one thought a thing about it.
How are things in Forest city now
🤜🤛 best comment right there.
"@Nightdog1978" there were a lot of cold cases from way back then.
I miss those days terribly. I remember the milkman, the mailman, the butcher behind the counter, the grocery story and the drug store. My mom's favorite gas station. I don't remember my mom wearing a pantsuit until my late teens then you couldn't get her out of them. I always loved the Sears, J.C.Penney and Montgomery Ward catalogs. They were my wish books. My mom was obsessed with green stamps, had books of them. My dad worked for the Post Office delivering mail so I never got to see him in the mornings except on his days office. We always had a real Christmas tree, smelled good. Life was wonderfully simple, why didn't we fight harder for it.
Yup. Someone in another comment on another video like this mentioned this way of life "disappearing." Someone else replied, "It didn't disappear, it was taken from us." So true.
Watching this takes me back to my childhood of the late 50s and 60s! Wow since then have this world gone mad. Miss the old days of an easy era long gone!
I am so jealous of the people who lived in that era. Things looked less complicated back then and there were many jobs. Would have been awesome to live in the 1950s.
How I feel all the time. I'm forever in love with a decade I'll never be in!
agreed, however it wasn't the same politically. This was the transition from WW2 - Cold War - to Vietnam war. But yes, much more relaxing for the citizens.
Well it wasn't always so heavenly, but life was slower paced. We seemed to have more routines. You knew what to expect. But factory work was gruelling, and no air conditioning. But the old cook stoves and refrigerators lasted forever! Well made products. That is what I really miss. But the freezer in a 50s fridge was very very small. They expected ladies to go shopping almost every day. Most jobs just brainless grunt work, as I called it. But it paid, and one was glad to work. Now more automation. Less unskilled jobs.
your grandfather IS WRONG
Danny Leo it looks like a nice place to visit but the "easy jobs" would be in a full factory and the Internet wasn't around so that would suck super hard also there were a lot of social problems
What a beautiful society and time in America when people worked together for the good of the community and put others before themselves. Thank you!
No colgaban a los negros en esos bellos tiempos?
I do like how this video shows how everyone who works is an important part of a community. Today we have lost sight of this!
I was always fond of the 50's even though I never lived through them. And no not because I watched happy days or like the back to the future films. Stand by me was good however. It's just in today's stressful world it's easy to daydream about a life that didn't revolve around emails and being addicted to your smart phone that carries your stress wherever you go. A man got up every morning, ate breakfast with his family, kissed his wife goodbye for the day while she maintained the home as he went to work. Dinner promptly at 6pm every night. Weekends were consistent with yard work on Saturdays and church on Sundays. You slept with the doors unlocked and you trusted your government. Today we're all in a hurry to go places we don't want to be, doing things we don't want to do. Everybody is in debt and you're paying more a month for your kid's phones than your parents paid for the house you grew up in. Cars were simpler, people obeyed the law and you didn't have news like radical Islamic terrorism or the BLM hate group. If you told someone in the 50's that we would someday have a tv actor and a real estate tycoon as presidents they would choke on their pezz. I guess I'm fond of that time because of my own hectic and connected life. I want to disconnect and the 50's just seemed like the perfect vacation.
you didn't hear news about Islamic terrorism because the US had only recently started to take their oil from the middle eastern countries and would later interfere with their domestic issues and start arming different groups against the Soviets. That bit them in the back later
Agreed, Nazis suck as a hate group towards POC. BLM will always be a wonderful thing. ;)
Might not wanna drop race into your fantasy of living in the 50s again, it tells some things about you that you should be ashamed of.
Eu assisto esses documentários várias e várias vezes porque são muito educativos e nos lembram como é ser civilizado e feliz, ao mesmo tempo em que nos ensinam a enfrentar a vida. Gratidão pela postagem
I watch these documentaries over and over again because they are very educational and remind us of what it is like to be civilized and happy, at the same time that they teach us to face life. Gratitude for the post
Thanks cs188 for bringing me here
same XD
@@danielsmithproductions yeah
I was very small back then. I remember when you took the car to the gas station, there was a rubber line on the ground at each pump. You would roll over them and the bell in the station would go ding. Letting the attendants know that someone was waiting at a pump. LOL SO many memories.
I can still hear that bell!
I would love to have grown up in a small town like that, during that era.
Man how I wish so much just to spend a day or two. Living this life really understanding what my great grandparents talked about
I watch a lot of these videos from the 40s and 50s and it all seems so idealic and simple. I then read the comments and see so many remenisce their childhood. I wonder if people really lived like that or if the videos make them seem so perfect and people's memories only allow them to remember it as good due to the innocence of youth.
I miss the small town life. I miss walking in the woods and watching all the wildlife coming out with the new born baby animals 😊
People didn't even have to lock their doors at night, or much of the time during the day. Public civility was at an all-time high, and small children could roam their neighborhood all day far from home without worry.
Everybody's boat was floated higher by these values, I doesn't matter who you were.
mindsaglowin So there was no such thing as criminals and voilence in the 50s? Doubt it
Sean Haney S
Actually its true back then a murder was rare
Maybe in the "perfect" suburbs.. not in other areas of America/the world
even the minority groups were happy?
+TheZocky i'm gonna trump your reasoning right now.
it was white's that brought them here in the first place against their will.
I loved the 50s, but I can't let yesterdays take up too much of today.
Life in America before the decline.
yep Reagan, Bush and Trump really bruised America's Bossom
@@theofficialphoenixtv5765 Don't forget all those shit Democrats too!
Life in America as the sole developed nation to come out of WW2 nearly unscathed. People of those days appreciated their situation, while the fat, dumb people of today haven’t the slightest clue and complain incessantly.
Yes - and many of us older people realize it is WTP who did not take care to see it didn’t change. We let DC and career politicians run amok. WE did. 😢
TheOfficialPhoenixTV Scuse me - CLINTON had a merry band of crooks filling their pockets, Obama was in a corrupt ANTI AMERICAN Marxist category all his own
I love this. It highlights the town planning of yesterday.
As a young child in the early 60s, it was like this growing up in my hometown. We had mild delivered several times a week and the mailman, Mr. Paul, came in through the back down in the morning usually as we were eating breakfast exchanged pleasantries with my mom, patted us on the head and and went and put the milk and any other dairy products my mom ordered in the refrigerator. We also had a vegetable man, Mr. C, who came in a van on Wednesday with all the fresh fruit (seasonal) and vegetables for our needs that my dad didn’t grow in the garden behind our garage. Mr C always saved a few “samples” of the best fruit for me and my brothers. We walked to the drug store, butcher shop, hardware, schools and library. We road the bus to go downtown or further distances. It was much simpler then.
Hello Janet, how are you doing?
I'm 14 years old. I truly wish that the small town I live in had the stores it had in the 50s. There were 5 gas stations in 1956 and now, 60 years later, only one stands. Every building in town was used in the 50s. It's sad to see what has left over the past 10 years.
+J.R.X360 That's because people are moving to big cities now.
Very true
It is that people have to work for a living. Small towns do take a hit, and become bedroom towns. People only there at night to sleep.
What is the name of this town what is the state name
The year I was born; so blessed to grow up then. Such a peaceful period, never to be seen again.
It will happen again.
This entire world is coming crashing down and the only people left will be those who understand that this was the zenith of civilization in modern times.
@@johnslatin4646 I sure hope and pray it does. Thank you
@@usroze2806 Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you! 😊
Some of the exteriors were shot in Wilmette, Illinois. The church is the same church from Home Alone. The school the children are walking into is Central School, it's a grade school. The front exterior looks exactly like it does in the 1952 scene.
The town is pretty much the same as it was then but there have been changes but it's surprisingly similar but some buildings have been torn down and replaced and now the restaurants serve alcohol. It was a 100% dry town until 1974. It’s still has a small downtown area around the train station.
where did this logic go ? please come back!
@YYZpresto Don't forget an ever increasing stream of non-European immigrants, and cultural Marxism.
MAGA 2020
The days when you did not have to worry about locking your front door.
False lol
KKK was running wild this is bullshit.. Be real
@@tommybrown7529 Running wild? Not quite.
The KKK was at its largest and scariest in the 1920s with about 85,000 members. It steadily declined in membership and by the 1950s basically broke up into smaller local groups. There are now around 5,000 members. Which is 5,000 too many.
No doubt African Americans faced many hurdles in the 1950s and still today. But to say the KKK was running wild during this time is not true.
You still don’t have to worry about it in small towns 😂
@dev null dang dude, that sucks. In my small town we have about 2.5k people and most people don’t lock their doors. I live on a farm a few minutes outside of town and we only ever lock the front door lol
i would give anything just to live in this time to be honest.
@@thebirdguardien.14
Nowhere near as miserable as today.
@@thebirdguardien.14 cause you know.
It’s 2021.
I needed to come back to this video for some peace of mind and some sense of normalcy.
I so wish I could go back in time, just for a little while….
I want to go back to those days, when things were so much more "normal" and kids could go to sleep at night and not think about what a mess we're now living in. When the milkman used to bring the milk to our house, and we'd never ever imagined a world with drive-by shootings/gangs, drugs all over out street corners, screwed up politicians and the GREED OF TODAY.
You seem racist.
@@hshshshshshshs8831 When your demand for racism exceeds the available supply, you’ll always come up with ways to find it.
Every Generation has it's charme and bad sides of course. Gen Z has to deal with the new snowflake generation, climate change, future water shortage and the unnecessary and inhuman developement of technology. In the 50s as a teen you would be extremely limited in your freedom and spare time. Also, in the 50s the USA was in an extreme anti-communist state, thus arresting any potential non-capitalist. Still both the 50s and 2000s are beautiful in their own way. The 50s because of their classiness and "simple" life, the 2000s because of better access to knowledge, equal rights, generally more freedom/less stigma
@@hshshshshshshs8831 you seem non-white.
You obviously are not a person of color.
I want to live in the 1950s....
Me too!
I want to live in both of u if possible...
Big10 Cartel you genius
Jamie Harper When you're in the sixth grade, would you like that stinking Science Fair FORCED on you , whether you like it or not? The teacher was saying ALL of us had to be involved in that at the end of the school year, in 1967 when I was almost 11 years old. NO, I decided NOT to do a project at all, and I was so worried, SO WORRIED that I wasn't going to graduate (but it turned out I DID graduate, and went on to Hillcrest Junior High School that same year).
Jamie Harper I'm just saying, whether you lived in the 1950s or 1960s, they are NOT always good times; and that 1960s decade, for me, was NOT a good decade.
People were well dressed and polite in public. Family holidays. Family values. Life was definitely safer.
Rose colored glasses. Families were just as dysfunctional then as they are now. They just suffered in silence.
@@murphy1011And that’s bad? Look around you. People word vomit their dysfunction in public all the time now, and as a result the family unit degenerates more and more.
@@murphy1011you are insane.
@@UnfrozenCavewoman well yeah plus you're constantly connected to everyone everywhere. You see it all. Back then it was hidden or you didn't know about it because it wasnt in the news. Humanity has always been deviant, now you're just aware of it 😂
Not even close to being true.@@murphy1011
I was born in 1951. Lived on a small horse ranch in Alta Loma, California. Walked 4mi to school. Bought eggs at the local chicken ranch. Rode my horse to Market to pick up vegetables and fruits paying with a check my Mom signed. The owner knew my family and trusted us. At the Lumber yard or Savings + Loan our family was known and trusted. My uncle was a HS counselor. My math teacher came to our home for dinner. Our front door was always open just like all our family homes. At night I read books or listened to radio drama. Our B+W TV had 3 stations and we all watched Ed Sullivan or Jack Benny. Our town had only 1 sheriff. Our family had lived here since 1890 as Citrus Farmers.
The 50's were better in many respects, not all. Very little drug usage, no terrorism, lower crime respect for teachers. In the 1950's there were not as many broken familes. A man could work a 9 to 5 job and support a family.
also any job either a janitor , a gas station attendant could support his family. a house was paid off in 5 years.
it'd be great to be able to live off one income easily again
Frankewhatever: WTF! You have no clue. The 50's were just as fucked up as today! What fairytale have you been watching?
@ Eric Von Dumb....You're the one that has no damn clue. The 50's were wayyyyy better the these times. I lived them I KNOW. I loved those times and as a Hispanic I never experienced any discrimination of any sort , didn't have any smart phones or computer and LOVED IT , I HATE these times. You must have your head in the sand SMDH
Alterjunkie: I remember Ike and a time when Mexicans were proud to be called Mexican, not a hybred Hispanic.You were apparently a child then and times were indeed good. It seems you are a miserable, bitter old gump now. Sticking my head back in the sand now. Revel in your misery. LMAO
I wish life was still like this, the world has changed and not for the better.
The Jews took over
SO TRUE
Exactly 😮
Sundown towns were so much fun at night right
@@izi5150 y'all act like every town was a sundown town, like every white person was a klansmen. I know you hate to admit it, even though society wasn't close to perfect in the 50's, its still better than it is now. What we are seeing know is the US turning into a third world country. Atleast you didn't have groups of teens severely beating the elderly, you don't have people dressed like bums all the time, you didn't have homeless people shooting up drugs and shitting everywhere etc.
One thing this brought to my mind was just now many industrial jobs where regulating gauges long before the computer age. Human in control rather than computer controls. Also fact that having gone thru WWII most people in small towns had gardens and cooked fresh vegetable every meal and middle class seldom eat out other than special occasions. Family often played board games etc in evening as TV was limited. Most signed off after 10:oopm news on week days because no one watched that late. 12AM on weekends when they showed late movies mostly before Jack Parr Tonight show.
Would have LOVED to love then. Working hard and being a good person still got you somewhere!!
Doing things for other people...the key to a successful society.
"John Rogan" kind of a blanket statement.
It is not practical to do things for homeless vagrants. That would not benefit society.
@@obscurelyvague another negative Nancy
Its nice when everyone is White so you know they will not just take take take take and still call you racist
Nostalgia for a time I never knew, and I time I’ll never see.
Our minds play tricks to keep us from being too depressed about our lost youth.
Imagine a time where most of our food, clothes, and products were made right here in America.
Yeah, now you want cheap stuff from China.
@@GeorgeGlass-j6o Now there's not really much choice - most stuff ppl use on a daily basis is made in China or Mexico. American Manufacturing is in decline - although it did rise when Trump was president but is back down agin with Joe Bidumb- so American made products are scarce and expensive because of the high ass taxes and inflation cost of labor on American businesses.
@@salleymudd5488 did you know the decline, the auto industry had been in decline for decades? Stop buying cheap products from China. Y'all love your Walmart. You don't want to pay fair prices for America made. Even trump's hats and ties were made in China. 🤣🤣
@@GeorgeGlass-j6o I shop local whenever I can. I don't wear political gear but the Official Trump MAGA hats and gear are NOT made in China - you are referring to a meme that shows an unofficial knock-off MAGA hat that was indeed made in China as are most cheap imitation items sold on Amazon. The actual Official MAGA gear used in Trump's campaign ARE indeed manufactured right here in the USA in Carson, North Carolina. I work as a Media Producer and research is 90% of my job. Also many fact-checking sources including SNOPES verified the "China MAGA hat" meme as False - which is shocking for SNOPES, a well-known left-leaning "fact checking" source that routinely skews in favor of the left. While Snopes had no choice but to admit that the Official MAGA merch is manufactured here in the US, it does reiterate that many unofficial third-party MAGA merch is manufactured overseas.
All of this notwithstanding, has no bearing on the fact that our sitting president is in openly bed with China (currently under investigation for such)- which has had a far greater impact on the current economic condition of our country than a couple of knock-off 2016 MAGA hats.
@@salleymudd5488 everything is global. Apples from Chile. The globalists are only afraid of climate change just so much, until it comes from fruit from Chile.
I can remember this time - for me it was a sweet & positive time. But was not a positive time for others……… thank you for this amazing look back.
We didn't realize how good everything was back in the 50's. Sure we have better medical treatments today but the quality of life back then was much simpler. I remember having milk, ice, and coal being delivered to my home. And yes, we actually had doctors come to our house. I also remember watching Howdy Doody back then. I was born in 1948. After what we have been going through in 2020, this film clip brought tears to my eyes. I am so worried for my 2 young granddaughters for the world they are growing into. Just imagine, no cell phones, less violent crime, and no masks!!!!
racism was rampant in the 50s
You are right.
@@dominicdelgado1654 exactly that whole less violent crime thing is the opposite with what they did to black people back then
Masks are a problem for you? Seriously? Back then, at least people were willing to make sacrifices. But you won't even put a 1-ounce piece of cloth on your face to save lives?
It’s worse now