Frenchs MUSTARD (a small glass jar)....HOSTESS cupcakes.....THREE COLOR (Rainbow) Popsicles....Frozen PILLSBURY Biscuits.....REAL Orange Juice (in glass gallons) that the same MILKMAN delivered to our house...ETC..ETC....Im gonna cry
Mrs. Dash was ok, but the seasoning MY family really misses is Vegit. It was a mushroom based seasoning that we used in and on almost EVERYTHING. There are SO many of our family recipes I just can't get to taste right anymore because they no longer make Vegit.
I’m a Millennial (1985) and remember Quik in the metal can with needing the spoon to open the top. It lasted into the 1990s. Saltines also used to come in a metal tin.
Me too it was my job to paste them in the books I miss those days terribly 😢the blue chip store we used to go to was near Hollywood and is now a habitat for humanity shop.
@@debralittle1341 That was my hometown market as well back in the late '60s. The independent bakery was sandwiched between the ShopRite grocery store on one side, and the independent drugstore on the other
I was born in 1956. My mother always cooked dinner everyday. On Sundays she would fix the best roast beef in a pressure cooker. Homemade rolls that she baked on Saturday, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn or green beans. She was a good cook. When we got home from church on Sunday night, wed get the leftover roast and eat it on the rolls. So good.
And the dinner table would be set, the house spotless, and my Mom would have her hair done up and a nice dress on .... all ready for my Dad when he would get home from work. She would go "big" grocery shopping once a week and send my Dad out for "little" shopping if we needed anything else.
Also born in 1956. My mom worked full time, and only cooked on the weekends. My dad worked a swing shift and didn't get home till around midnight during the week. Mom would cook simply during the week, and dad's meal was left in the fridge for when he got home. (Jan Griffiths).
@@shawnkelly695 I eventually got the idea to dump the entire box into a large mixing bowl, then back into the box. The toy was always on the bottom, wasn't it.
It was probably "real" maple syrup then, I remember almost everything was in glass with metal lids instead of plastic, for some things I will transfer foods sold in plastic into glass jars that I saved for many years.
Women shopped at the same store every week because the stores featured a different piece of matching China they could get according to their purchase. Also stores gave customers s & h stamps according to how much you bought. When you accumulated enough stamps you could visit the s& h stamp store and turn in your stamps for lots of products. Usually kitchen and home items. It was a big deal for the family and everyone went.
I remember women wearing their hair in curlers, with a scarf or sheer hairnet or "babushka." Smoking was allowed in the store. Aisles were smaller and my Dad had a cigarette in his right hand, while pushing the cart and accidentally set some bread in plastic bread bags on fire! He threw them on the floor and stomped them out. Boy, was he embarrassed. I secretly smiled as it was kind of reassuring to see a grown up really mess up in public.
Yes! Now the only deafening cacophony is the horrible music all of these stores always blast. Can't even enjoy shopping anymore. And remember how fast those skilled cashiers could ring-up your order? They were faster than these damn scanners being operated by unskilled lazy cretins today.
I am a gen x im sure 1 thing boomers and genx have in common we can agree everyone was dressed in clothes not pajamas and slippers at the grocery store
Pajama bottoms piss me off!!! I used to think the occasional woman being seen having to run out for pantyhose or something last minute in her curlers and house dress and thought how tacky it was. I'd love for the 30's and 40's fashions to return for men and women who are so gross with their a** falling out of their way too shorts whose daughters shorts match 🤢🤢😡😡
@@thecatatemyhomeworkmaybe he worked swing or graveyard and kept to his habits even on his day off 🤷🏻♂️ why split hairs on someone's fond memory, sheesh
TV Dinners at .98 ea seem expensive given that we were a family of 7. My parents were amazing; we never felt as though we lacked anything. RIP Dad and Mom - I love you forever ❤
My mom worked at a mom and pop grocery store and my dad worked at Kroger Bakery (not the in store typr but the actual huge baking facility...bread and goodies). We always had food. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🙂🙂
TV dinners were a treat for us if my parents were going out. I don’t think they were that expensive, but were twice the size of what they are now. I was born in 59.😊
I remember when people served their life working in a grocery store. They had nice houses , nice vehicles , most had small boats , and fished every weekend. It was odd to have a grocery store worker to be hateful back then. Every one of them I remember took pride in their work. It really does seem that times were much simpler then.
My husband was the assistant manager of a grocery chain. We had great insurance, and never even noticed the premiums taken out of his pay. My doctor told me I had the best insurance I could possibly have. It was great, it should be even better now. I don’t know how things could get so messed up when they used to be so good..
@@jenniferlloyd9574 now the workers have learned that they don’t have to work. They are doing you a favor if they do work. 80+ programs of welfare have provided them to live either way..
I worked at a grocery store while in highschool. I saw so many products and ways to package them come and go with the times. Women would buy Dippity Do and hair rollers while getting Vitalis for dads. They would buy TV dinners, pot pies, Nestle Quick and Tang for the kids. Soda came only in returnable glass bottles that kids would bring in radio flyer wagons the empty containers to collect the .5 cents per bottle. We then stacked the bottles in wooden crates for pickup by delivery drivers. Outside every store was a penny bubble gum glass dome. Grocery bags were brown paper only and bag boys would take everything to your car and load them for you. You never had to guess the price of any item since a price marker had been used by the overnight stocking crew to mark everything. Cashiers would then ring the marked price unless missing a sticker and then would have to call over intercom "Price check on...".
The original Prell bottle had that distinctive shape, so you instantly knew it was Prell. We loved Quik and Strawberry Quik Now we are awash in plastics from the grocery store, but when my mom was shopping in the 60s and 70s, the packaging was far more natural. Meats and fruit such as strawberries came in cardboard trays or baskets. Bulk fruit in nets had real string nets, not the plastic nets of today. There were cubbies of paper bags under the produce displays, you would grab one and fill it with plums or cherries or whatever. Mom would reuse the paper bags for our school lunch bags. Not to mention big take home bags were all paper. Laundry detergent came in big cardboard boxes - no bottles. My dad used paper bags as mulch in his veg garden. No wonder we are awash in tons of plastic!
@@laurakibben4147 yup. Why not just have luxe and bargain brand detergent, shampoo, etc. Like literally, two or three brands. I don't want, nor need, an entire aisle of nothing but shampoo and conditioner.
@@Curbsidedreamer008Ha! Looked it up, so that's where some of the hand-me-downs for college came from. Still have them too, though some are getting worn and faded.
I totally remember when you used it have to dress up to go to the grocery store go to church go to the movies and so on and on and so on. Times have truly changed.
@@krispoli22 I stuck a pitchfork through my foot (don't ask) and had to wait 20 minutes in the car while my mom put on lipstick, fluff her hair and got fixed up (change clothes). She was soooo annoyed because she had to rush. This was 1979...
@@Vintage.ShowTV Of course that's why I know that dads fed them to their kids when their wives were at Tupperware parties lol. My dad was actually a good cook, but TV diners were tasty, and it was fun to pick out which one we wanted.
I live in Canada . What I remember about food in the 70s is : Breeze laundry detergent ( power , in different sized boxes ) had either a bath towel , hand towel, or a face cloth in it . Mustard was sold in glass jar that became drinking glasses . Red Rose tea bags came with an ornament in each box .
Boomer here, born 1958. #1 i live in Arizona and my grocery store has a bar (beer & wine only) in it. #2 mom cooked every night except on Sundays. Never had a TV dinner until I move out at 18. #3 Welches grape jelly came in glass drinking glasses. When the jelly was gone, you had a glass with the Flintstones printed on it #4 became a truck driver in 1991 and I remember a truck stop gave out S & H Green stamps. #5 last one I promise. Mom always dressed very nicely, but did not wear an evening gown to go shopping
Bet you bought a box of cereal either for the prize inside or the latest 45 paper record you could cut out from the back of the box (I had The Archies Sugar Sugar paper record for many years).
Born in 1961 and I enjoyed all the GREAT things you mentioned. But I never knew what my foster mom would get with those S&H Green stamps. I helped here put them in the books though, lol.
I am a Baby Boomer 64 years old and this takes me back thank you! I remember my father buying laundry soap and getting a free glass or mug in the box. And the Green Stamps my Grandmother had tons of Green Stamps and books. Anyone remember Fizzies and Shake a puddin ? I remember everything in this video and then some that are not. Beautiful memories thank you!
remember, when the TV zonked out at 8:09PM, going down to the local electronics store with your father to get new tubes?? Your father sticking the tubes into the tube tester??
@@donnaruckel1627 I recall a not-so-nice little ditty that some kid made up a about Bosco: "I hate Bosco. It's rich in Vitamin C. Mama put it in my milk to try to poison me! I fooled Mama. I put it in her tea -- Now there's no more Mama to try to poison me!" Kids were always making up gross lyrics to parody some well known song or nursery rhyme. To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, they would sing the refrain thusly: "Glory, glory, hallelujah! Teacher hit me with a ruler! I turned around and hit her with a rotten tangerine! Our gang goes marching on ...." We all thought it was so funny!
Love it when the cashier forgets to enter amount tendered and the register doesn’t show the change. They literally freeze because they don’t know what to do.
I remember when we learned how to count change in grade school. I think I was in fourth grade when I learned. I’ve never forgotten. Never had a short drawer either.
I was head cashier at a Dime Store Downtown in a small town!! Had to count that change back!! But there was a con thing, forgot what's its called but they would give you a $100 for an item that cost $1.63 in the process that you've handed back the change you they decide to give you $2 then they have their hand out you give them back their $100 so you just got screwed out of all that change from the first traction of the $100!! It happened to me town was full of folks shopping, Xmas time!! He had a suit on with beige dress coat. Just as soon as he left and to the door I realized he just did something that made my draw short!! I rang that bell to the boss how much to the penny he got and described him. He took my draw brought me a new one. I was right on the money as to how much he got from me. He got on the phone before counting to put the law and other stores on notice and he was caught!! I had to teach HS girls back around 2000... They had no ideal how to count back change and I had them on co-op program!!
That reminds me when I went to the store with my mom and granny. They had brown grocery bags with store brand bread in it at Safeway and my granny had a melt down on the price. Four loaves for $1.00. I often wonder how her reaction would be today at the price of bread. LOL🤣🤣
I miss the good old days… now you go to the store and the entitled employees act like it’s an inconvenience if you bother them, they aren’t all like that but the majority are.
@@Vintage.ShowTV I miss employees being kind and helpful, the safe foods, nestle chocolate powder and ovalteen, you could go shopping by yourself for mom and the employees would watch over you.
@@fastcharger3314 in the older days you had to be polite and courteous to the customers or you would be terminated, that’s what customers service is about. Nowadays people are lazy and rude, people should get jobs that are suitable for them…
I miss the day when adults knew how to behave and taught their children how to behave too. There is no way that my sibling or I would ever think it was okay for us as children about run up and down the aisles or scream at the top of our lungs in a public place. Parents now seem fine with their children's horrid behavior as long as their kid isn't bothering them. Parents now seem completely unaware that it's their job to socialize their children and teach their kids how to behave.
I know, right? I see this all the time at Walmart where I work. Kids are in charge now, and the parents don't do a darn thing about it. If I acted that way when I was a kid, I would have been punished right there and then. (Jan Griffiths).
It's also bad on airplanes. Kids will kick the backs of the seats in front of them and thoroughly annoy the passengers sitting in them. And the parents will do absolutely nothing! In fact, if you dare tell the kid to stop it or complain to the parents, YOU can get in trouble! It's somehow YOU who are causing trouble and NOT the inconsiderate, ill-mannered kid or indifferent parents. The days of fairness are OVER, Folks!
@@jrnfw4060 That happened to me once during a flight. I told the stewardess, and she said something to the parents. I had no further trouble. The kid and I both fell asleep. (Jan Griffiths).
What I'm nostalgic for is when the person at the register ringing up your order actually acknowleged your existence. Now, almost everywhere, you never get so much as a greeting, and the person running the register does not even acknowlege you when you're speaking directly to them. They are definitely hearing and speach enabled, because they spend the whole time that they are ignoring you, chatting and socializing with their co-workers. The customer is forced to be persistent in trying to interrupt to get even the slightest response. Even if these employees have no idea of their own of how to behave and interact with customers, why aren't their employers training them???? I had many cashier jobs as a teen and it would never occur to me to be so rude and dismissive of a customer I was supposed to be serving.
I was born in the '80s and I'm shocked at how far customer service has fallen just in the last decade or so, and especially since COVID. Almost everyone is really rude now. I'm shocked when I receive good service at a restaurant.
My daughter is a cashier at a grocery store and is amazed at the rudeness of people on both sides! Customers often go to managers to praise her for being helpful and kind.
AMEN! This is unfortunately true of every type of business with customers such as fast food and retail. I complain if someone is rude or dismissive to me. Like you, I worked in those positions and would never have treated customers so shabbily!
I recently told the cashier it was okay to slow down. She was in a hurry, long line and only 2 cashiers. She said management told them zero socializing, no greetings, "Did you find everything alright?" Is the only greeting, just scan and bag. "Have a good day." And if someone is looking for something they couldn't find, therr is no time allowance to actually locate an item.
Not just boomers, Gen x at least early ones like me grew up on a lot of this, though some was only in America. Went shopping with my mom all the time. Just because we weren’t adults doesn’t make our memories of all this any less clear. Nesquik was great and canned ham, not spam was also good. Stores were only for groceries and absolutely closed on sundays.
I remember the little Bonita Store (southern California, little town of Bonita), when I was just three or four years old. The butcher would always hand me a free weiner after filling my parents' meat order. I enjoyed that, and I was always reminded to say, "Thank you."
I was born in 1970. I remember so much of this. I remember Mama (grandma raised me, born in 1915) insisted that we wear nice clothes with matching shoes and pocket books to go shopping. We didn't live close enough to go often so we went to town monthly and it was THE event in my life. She never used a coupon in her life. She felt it was some sort of charity. She was appalled when the "new Piggly Wiggly" in town had things besides groceries. When generics came out I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She was goaded into buying generic tang ONE time. I remember those metal Quick cans, those little tins which held 6 or 8 Anacin but you needed to push just the right spot. I miss those days! I remember a surprising amount of things about shopping in the 1970's. I remember the bicentennial very well, with the year leading up to it having stores stocked with patriotic decorated snacks and patriotic packaging.
Being born in the 50's I remember the grocer knew my name & referred to my mother as Mrs ****. The smell of fresh bread as l ran through the store to help my mom and I learned to shop. I don't think technology has improved this experience.
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
Wrapping cuts of meat in brown paper wraps and tied with a string. Individual cupcakes were much larger. Using the Nestle Quik tin can as a bank after the powder was used up.
I miss lunch counters. We had one in our supermarket. And they were in "Dime stores". We had "Kresges", and "Woolworths"and "Grants". These were pre Kmart days. In Detroit suburbs, in the 60's. Woolworths are still open in Germany.
I remember those days well. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid. I remember when Kmart opened, and worked for one for 3 years while attending college. I still have the turquoise smock I wore. Mom and I would take the bus on Saturdays to downtown Dearborn to shop. She didn't drive. (Jan Griffiths).
I have a vivid childhood memory of going grocery shopping with my mom at A&P. What I remember so much is my mom going to a display of Eight O'clock coffee brand, opening a package that had the coffee beans in it, and pouring it into a big red machine. She would set the machine for something (I was too little to read it) and put the now empty bag under the machine. It would grind the coffee beans, dumping it all back into the bag. She would reseal the bag with the ground coffee and put it in the shopping cart. The smell of the freshly ground coffee permeated the air; and they say that smell is a strong memory trigger.
My dad would do the same thing with the coffee grinding machine that used to be in Safeway when we shopped there. It was fascinating to watch. Plus, we had a hand-cranked coffee grinder at home. It was red and its outer surface was textured. It made that rich grinding noise.
@@douglasgriffiths3534 me too. They’re well made, heavy duty little juice glasses. They had a Looney Tunes series too. I have Tom & Jerry and Foghorn Leghorn. Love them all.
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Do you remember the bubble gum cigarettes? They looked like real filtered cigarettes. The paper looked like a real cigarette and if ya was careful you could get a “puff of smoke” out of it if you didn’t get the end in your mouth wet. If you blew air out, it pushed out a little puff of powdered sugar and we thought we were so big & bad “smoking”. 😂
You, too? We kids had those, and I loved pretending they were real cigarettes and "smoking" them along with my folks when they smoked the real thing. They tasted pretty good, too.
We still have some aluminum drinking glasses that my Grandmother got in laundry soap. I have a little metal cabinet that my mother got with green stamps.
My grandparents had aluminum cups in every color. They had hard well water. Between the aluminum and the minerals in the water, all of my silver fillings acted up.
I was about 8 in 1968. We did a big grocery shop. The whole family always went together. We bought two grocery carts, mounded with food, we were 5 in our house . The total was, 64.00. That was a lot of money and a lot of food. Good days!
Yep, I remember the good old days when my family did that. I was an only child, but we bought a lot of food, and did our big shopping every 2 weeks. 64 dollars was really quite a bit for that time. Don't forget--wages were also lower back then. Hardly anyone made even 10 dollars an hour back then. My dad came close at $8.50 an hour, and mom $7.00 an hour. Dad drove a city bus, and Mom was a nurse. (Jan Griffiths).
I was born in 59. My Mom would shop & spend so much money. But, when I was 11 I had to buy groceries & cook for the family. 7 in our family. My Dad would drop me at the store, with $160.00 so I could buy what our family needed for the week. He worked all the time & had to run errands while I shopped. He always said I spent so much less than my Mom. I knew what everyone in the family liked so I bought it all. Dinners were what I liked & could cook.
Back in the day, TV dinners came in aluminum. Why on earth are they using plastic now?!! Aluminum is so much more better for the environment! And we should go back to glass packaging like generations before! We did it in my day and we turned out fine.
I guess with many homes getting microwave ovens, using aluminum pans could be problematic. My mom found that out the hard way when we got our microwave in the mid-70's.😫
This is. Pretty weak reason to justify all the harm plastics do. I believe soft drinks in glass bottles lasted into the early 1980s. At least in the 2 liter size especially.
@@billyt9830 Aluminum can build up to toxic levels inside the body with continuous use. I had a test done on me for metals, and aluminum was the highest of all of them. We got rid of our aluminum pans after that.
I remember biting into both margarine AND savory gelatin molds at my elders' places... and either gagging or spitting them out! I mean, isn't margarine just a millimeter away from being plastic?
Aspic was gelatin that was mostly beef flavored. It was used a lot for the molded savory dishes. Aspic and jello are both gelatin, but aspic is not jello. And it was gross.
I was born in the early 80s. I remember Quick in a metal can. Used to get a 25lb bag of flour, and we still have a flour bin in the kitchen. We had a lot of these things on this video.
Whenever I did that that made me cough and the chocolate powder would go flying all over the place. But that didn't stop me. I think all kids did that at one time or another.
I see these on old television shows and wish we had those today. Or the butcher on Andy Griffith show. My mom used to talk about soda shops, and I have seen these in old movies to. They look like a fun place to hang out. Wish I could have experienced these things.
I remember going with my grandmother to the green grocers. They only carried fruit and vegetables! The store was downtown, we walked there and grandma bought 1/2 lb green beans. The owner of the store spoke with Grandma and made recommendations on freshness and when vegetables had been picked! He even knew what farms different vegetables had come from! Grandpa drove Grandma to the butcher usually on Saturday morning, and she would get the meat for the week!
I sell my over production from my garden at the farmers market. I make good money, and all of my veggies are organic. I very rarely bring stuff back home. I love farmers markets. It's a shame that ours is only once a month. (Jan Griffiths).
You could hear the little tune the truck chimed several blocks away, and knew it would soon be on your street. Grandpa often bought us ice cream from it.
My mother always bought Prell, but i hated the smell. I got a job mowing yards so i could buy Herbal Essence. I loved the smell. I wish they would bring back the original scent.
@@breeinatree4811 You might find that original scent at a place called “Vermont Country Store”, just google it. I know they used to have “Gee your hair smells terrific”. I’ve bought it there and it was the same as it always was. The Vermont country Store sells a lot of nostalgic items. You might find the Herbal Essence there too.
As a kid, I would do that also. My parents had a station wagon. Sometimes aunts, uncles, and cousins would go too, and all of us kids were in our pjs. (Jan Griffiths).
We did that too only we’d sometimes get a bucket of KFC and all the fixins to go with. Nothing more fun than dinner and a movie outside, in pajamas with our sleeping bags in front of the car. Great memories. Sometimes we’d just get the drive in pizza or hamburger or hotdog? They were all good in those days. They also made good FF. The drive-in’s kitchen wasn’t big and they didn’t sell but those few items, but they were consistently good. One movie I recall watching was The Apple Dumpling Gang. Don Knotts… so funny. Happier times.
The bad thing about supermarkets today is the bakeries have no lovely aroma, and the meat department also has no aroma. It is a very sterile environment. I love the cleanliness, but I also like to go to an independent bakery and my German butcher to get things from them. The aroma makes a wonderful shopping experience.
Yes! Our local grocery store had a real bakery and a skilled butcher. Mom would request certain cuts or special roasts for holidays and he would prepare the meat exactly as she requested. The butcher lived in our neighborhood and would bring over peaches and apricots from his trees to our mom.
I am a millennial, so I don't really have an appreciation for many of these things, but the reason that I clicked on the video was because of the Nestle Quik tin. I have an older brother who is Gen X and there is a picture of him as a little kid sitting at the kitchen table with a tin of Nestle Quik. Additionally, I think I would love a grocery store that just featured food items and smaller stores in general. A lot of the stores I shop at are just so huge that they are overwhelming.
GenX here and i remember a good portion of all these things in the video. Things i miss are actual butchers in the grocery stores, baggers that helped you to your car if needed, brachs mix and match candy displays, Cheer laundry soap,Quisp cereal, cartons of bottled soda, and Eckrich variety pack square lunchmeat that actually fit perfectly on square pieces of bread lol. Oh yeah almost forgot the twin packs of potato chips.
I bought a jug of Cheer detergent at my Walmart (I work there) the other day after work. It was the only one in the store---there wasn't even a shelf sticker for it. It still has that great Cheer scent, and cleans as well as I remember. I'm going to save it though---it's the only one I've seen for quite a while. (Jan Griffiths).
This is the most random video I think I’ve ever watched! New and old clips, pictures from the wrong eras, unexplained photos, and just all kinds of weirdness LOL
Two slim bags in a box for potato chips..Salerno saltines in a four pack tin...Quaker Oats in a round cardboard box, no liner or bag..."Screaming Yellow Zonkers" glazed popcorn for hipsters everywhere... Fizzie's...price tags...giant jaw breakers, pre-Heimlich maneuver...returnable bottles...
Ugh, I can't think of the actual name, but there used to be a shampoo based on beer 😂 just looked it up. It was called Body on Tap and was based on a Budweiser beer lol.
@@lisabishop6266 that was good shampoo. It didn’t smell like beer but it did smell really good and it cleaned my hair well. Pretty sure you can still get that at Vermont Country Store. They still sell original formulas of old vintage brands. They even had Tangee Lipstick. Remember that? It was orange colored in the tube, but when you put it on it was like the “mood rings”, it changed colors. VCS Also has a lot of vintage candies that you can’t find in the stores anymore. They also have a catalog to order from.
Australia must be sooo backwards (sarcasm), we still have customer service counters, bakeries, a delicatessen, child friendly trolleys, scales in produce, giveaway fruit for kids… actually quite a few of these.
I'm in the USA & we have all those things as well. I think the video made it sound like the items mentioned were in the past, rather than saying those things came into use back then, & are still in use today. I doubt they even realized how it would come across to the viewer. 🤷♀️
We had the banana and oranges free fruit. The cardboard box display just said free fruit. I took a banana. They told me at the checkout (rudely, I add) that it was only for kids. Y'all didn't specify that when y'all decided to implement this. I just figured they were soon to go off or something. Maybe write the intent and not just "free fruit" on the display...🤷
I was born in 1950. We lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. My mother went to a very small Mom and Pop store for groceries. The store had hardwood flooring. They sold meat, bread other dry goods. The best thing in the world to me was the Coffee Grinder. You could watch the beans being chopped, made a great noise and smelled like heaven. Does anyone remember Bosco chocolate Syrup? My favourite. I recall Prell Shampoo in a glass container. In the early 50s, children were well behaved in stores, not like now. I would rather shop in a smaller store than an overwhelming monster sized huge boxed store. I still like Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger on the label. On Sunday, everything was closed. Most people went to church. Never had Spam, my mother said it was junk. Same with Soda. We always had real butter, never Oleo. Fresh Seafood was available and wonderful, as were vegetables fresh from the garden.
Grocery stores didn't accept debit or credit cards until the early '90's. I remember when Farmer Jack started accepting debit and credit, it was a big deal. You had to give them your phone number in case the charge didn't go through, which is what happened to me, lol. The supermarket called me and I had to reauthorize the charge
Those things infuriate me. I could have had a check filled out and been down the road faster sometimes. Plus, you have to talk dirty to them, ROFL! "Oh, you stuck it in before I was ready, you'll have to pull it back out." "Ok, now put it back in." 😁😁😁 "Slide it in hard (or slower)" "You did it too hard, you'll have to take it back out."
I remember Farmer Jack's. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid, and there was one a few blocks away from our house. Was formerly a Food Fair. (Jan Griffiths).
Wish they still did that😃 There for a while I had to pay more per lb for wings than they were charging for breast meat. I swear you can gage food item prices by what’s trending on the TH-cam cooking channels. At the time wings in my area at least were through the roof, breast meat was cheaper than ever and there was a lot of them. You’d be lucky to find wings at all and if ya did they were twice the cost of any other parts of that chicken. Since the covid fiasco has died down prices have seemed to equal out some. Still high, but whatta ya gonna do🤷🏻♀️
At 66, I worked in the retail grocery industry from bagging to manufacturing to owning. It is a different world. 24 hour stores assisted in the destruction of American life. The 60's and early 70's forced us to plan and have order in our life.
The part about stores only selling food isn't accurate. I can remember a "toy aisle" at my local grocery store even when I was a very young child in the 60's.
The toy aisle was small and mostly never sold brand name toys, plastic army men, generic action figures and dolls, yo yo's, paddle balls, balloons, cap guns, and stuff
@@jenniferanne4143 It must have varied by store. I definitely remember Barbie Dolls and Mattel Toys there. I got an Ideal Tubsy Doll (1967, she was battery operated, came with her own baby tub and moved her head and arms and splashed water) for my birthday that came from there. I also remember at Christmas time toys everywhere on the top of shelves
Things that have gone from my local grocery stores up here in Montréal but that I want back: Grape-Nut Flakes Variety meats Double-manned cash registers, one person ringing up your groceries and the other one bagging them Free samples Pinkie stamps, the Steinberg's grocery store equivalent to Green Stamps; Steinberg's went belly up in 1992, but the Pinky stamps had disappeared well before that People who bothered to dress stylishly or at least nicely before leaving the house (the ballgowns in this video were downright silly, though; nobody wore ballgown to run errands). Things that have changed for the better: Larger grocery stores, though fewer and further apart Sunday openings Longer business hours.
I remember how... 1. In the 1970s when you walked into the fruits and vegies area of the market you could actually smell the deep Earth freshness of it. Today no smell at all. 2. You could buy half a gallon of milk for 75 cents, slice bread for 49 cents, a dozen eggs for 65 cents. A whole bag of groceries for 25 dollars. 3. the food boxes for cereal and potato chips were actually full at least 75 percent. Today it's full 30 percent and the rest is empty air for 10 times more the price.
Having been born in the very early 1950's , I remember a lot of new products . Transistor radios , portable tape recorders bought at Goodyear , Western Auto brand guns , push button phones , portable TV's , The BEATLES :D and on and on . My mother actually started doing survey work door to door in the early 60's . She would drop off all manner of new products in homes . Then come back later and ask people if they liked the product , or what they would change . She loved doing this , and did it through the 90's . This included new " disposable " diapers and razors , new brands of cigarettes , candy , cereal , shampoo's , you name it . If it was used in a home , chances are she tested it :D When I was in Vietnam , like many . Mom and family sent me Tang to put in my " treated " water to make it way better . Cool video !!
Toothpaste came in metal tubes. You could buy a 3-pack of plastic “keys”, to attach to the back end and roll it up as used, to get every last morsel! And how about “squeezy cheese”? Revolting stuff. Or the aroma beads to put in the special tp holder. Coloured/scented toilet paper. We always got the lilac because every fixture in the bathroom was purple. Stubby glass bottles for beer.
I grew up in Marinette Wi, right on the Wi, Mi border. When I was small, late 50s, I remember going with my mom to drive across the bridge into Menominee Mi to buy margarine at Niemans grocery store. We couldn't get it in Wi, being the Dairy state, stores sold real butter. I never knew why she didnt like butter, everythings better with butter. I use butter and wouldn't think of ever baking without using real butter .
@@Vintage.ShowTV I was five or six at that time. Kids don't think of those things and it was a long time ago😊 There may have been a price difference too, I really don't know. I just found your channel, and Subscribed.
That’s about the time that the big cholesterol scare began…dairy products became “dangerous.” I agree with this comment. Margarine is nasty!! I’d not cook with it unless forced to. It’s basically plastic. 😮
My grandparents on both sides lived in Wisconsin, so I went there all the time growing up. At one point they were allowed to buy 'oleo' but it was COLORED so as to not compete with butter...red, blue, green - looked like rectangular crayons.
Margarine and shortening (like Crisco and Spry) supposedly make better baked goods than butter. Another possibility of why she gpt it instead of real butter
Free cookie anyone! Remember in order to easily open fruit and produce bags they had a little peice of a sponge they kept wet for your fingers, now people lick their fingers 🤨🤢
Ugh! You hit on my pet peeve!!!!! Who are these people who think that the rest of us want their nasty saliva all over things that the rest of us touch???? No, I don't want to be exposed to your bodily fluids!!!! Please do not lick your fingers and transfer your spit to the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The arrogance of that behavior is off the charts!!!!!!
TV dinners were a special treat for my friend, her brother and me when I lived with them. We all were allowed to pick our favorite ones, and we'd get to eat them for dinner when the baby sitter watched us. I think we had them once a month, which is when her parents would have a date night. My most favorite TV dinner in the world was the Swanson one that had beans and franks; corn; cinnamon apples in a sauce that made them taste like apple pie filling; and the best part: chocolate pudding. I bet most kids nowadays, including my own daughter, haven't experienced the joy of eating cooked chocolate pudding. It always had a "skin" on top that I would never eat. But underneath that skin was pure bliss! I was so sad when they stopped making and selling those. We actually even had them in the tin foil trays and cooked them in the oven (obviously not the microwave), which took forever, but it made us look forward to them even more!
When my best friend was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I gave her a gift of an assortment of Mrs. Dash products. My dear friend had never heard of or noticed them before, and she was terribly grateful.
I remember when my uncle got severely cut by a glass bottle of Prell while showering. He had to have stitches on his foot. My aunt swore to never use it again. Then it came out in plastic bottle form.
@sharoncrawford7192 Thats right!! I think I kind of remember that too...I had to have been very young. Do you know what year they stopped putting the pearl in?
@@sharoncrawford7192Lol. There was never an actual pearl in the bottle. They showed a pearl on TV ads for Prell. They dropped it in the bottle to show how thick the shampoo was.
My memories do not include fancy dress, my memories are of women wearing hair curlers and “housecoats” to the store and then spending time running into friends and apologizing for their lack of fussing.
Nostalgic list! What are some grocery store items or experiences that stand out the most for you? 🛒
Soo... I guess this just applies to those who are baby boomers and not maybe gen x born int he 70s?
Frenchs MUSTARD (a small glass jar)....HOSTESS cupcakes.....THREE COLOR (Rainbow) Popsicles....Frozen PILLSBURY Biscuits.....REAL Orange Juice (in glass gallons) that the same MILKMAN delivered to our house...ETC..ETC....Im gonna cry
Roaming the toy aisle while my mom shopped. When I got a bit older, I liked to browse the record section.
Mrs. Dash was ok, but the seasoning MY family really misses is Vegit. It was a mushroom based seasoning that we used in and on almost EVERYTHING. There are SO many of our family recipes I just can't get to taste right anymore because they no longer make Vegit.
Where can I purchase Tang?
I'm Gen X and i remember the Quik with the metal top using a spoon to get it open.. before plastic took over the world
I still have one I use to keep old silver dollars in.
I’m a Millennial (1985) and remember Quik in the metal can with needing the spoon to open the top. It lasted into the 1990s. Saltines also used to come in a metal tin.
Nestles makes the very best.......Chooock....lat.
I remember this too!! As well as the metal International Coffee tins. They used to have a bunch of flavors. They were big before Starbucks.
Nestle's Quik has been around since the 50s
I remember green stamps!
Oh yea, pasting the stamps in the books, going through the Green Stamp catalog, the Green Stamp store, etc..
Sure do, my folks took my sister and I to Disneyland on them back in the 60’s
Blue chip stamps were a thing as well. What happened to this world, we took a wrong turn somewhere.
Me too it was my job to paste them in the books I miss those days terribly 😢the blue chip store we used to go to was near Hollywood and is now a habitat for humanity shop.
And "Wise Owl" (
I loved it when grocery stores just sold food and they did their baking onsite. The smell of fresh doughnuts was so welcoming.
Those were the days
Agreed !
They didn't do that when I was a kid. If you wanted donuts you went to the bakery. Doing them onsite really ruined the quality of the products.
Do you make sure to patronize the smaller grocery stores in your town to keep them alive?? I do.
@@debralittle1341 That was my hometown market as well back in the late '60s. The independent bakery was sandwiched between the ShopRite grocery store on one side, and the independent drugstore on the other
Remember when wine wasn’t sold in grocery stores and stores were closed on Sundays?
I'm not sure about wine, but I remember the hard stuff wasn't.
I sure do.
Also, all the stores closed by 7 pm, with many closing before that!
Not every state allows wine to be sold in grocery stores - mine doesnt. Fyi.
It was wonderful having every Sunday off and family get togethers
I was born in 1956. My mother always cooked dinner everyday. On Sundays she would fix the best roast beef in a pressure cooker. Homemade rolls that she baked on Saturday, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn or green beans. She was a good cook. When we got home from church on Sunday night, wed get the leftover roast and eat it on the rolls. So good.
Yes and my Mom always made hash and eggs with the leftovers on Monday for dinner.
And the dinner table would be set, the house spotless, and my Mom would have her hair done up and a nice dress on .... all ready for my Dad when he would get home from work. She would go "big" grocery shopping once a week and send my Dad out for "little" shopping if we needed anything else.
Also born in 1956. My mom worked full time, and only cooked on the weekends. My dad worked a swing shift and didn't get home till around midnight during the week. Mom would cook simply during the week, and dad's meal was left in the fridge for when he got home. (Jan Griffiths).
The adults in my home were at bars all the time. Only in foster care did I have parents who were actually parents.
I wish you could have invited me over to eat.
Remember toys in cereal boxes?
Great source of joy back then
Dig dirty hands through the cereal to find the toy. Wanted the cereal for the toy.
AND sending in box tops for prizes or toys. I got a big U.S. map for mailing in box tops.
@@shawnkelly695 I eventually got the idea to dump the entire box into a large mixing bowl, then back into the box. The toy was always on the bottom, wasn't it.
Remember when they had records on the back of cereal boxes- you cut the cardboard back off the box and put it on your turntable?
I remember Log Cabin Syrup in a glass shaped log cabin.
Glass shaped?
that and other brands in the little colored tin cans shaped like a cabin in the maple woods!!
It was probably "real" maple syrup then, I remember almost everything was in glass with metal lids instead of plastic, for some things I will transfer foods sold in plastic into glass jars that I saved for many years.
Women shopped at the same store every week because the stores featured a different piece of matching China they could get according to their purchase. Also stores gave customers s & h stamps according to how much you bought. When you accumulated enough stamps you could visit the s& h stamp store and turn in your stamps for lots of products. Usually kitchen and home items. It was a big deal for the family and everyone went.
Oh, ugh! That hideous blue flower Corelle Living Ware!!
My mom shopped on Wednesdays when it was double green stamp day. We always shopped at Piggly Wigglys 😂
I remember women wearing their hair in curlers, with a scarf or sheer hairnet or "babushka." Smoking was allowed in the store. Aisles were smaller and my Dad had a cigarette in his right hand, while pushing the cart and accidentally set some bread in plastic bread bags on fire! He threw them on the floor and stomped them out. Boy, was he embarrassed. I secretly smiled as it was kind of reassuring to see a grown up really mess up in public.
I remember when laundry detergent gave away glassware in the powdered detergent box. It had always migrated to the bottom lol. Tide, Gain, Ulta...
@@anitapeludat256 Ha! I remember women in rollers, too, with scarves on... Friday and Saturday was "date night" and wives got fixed up.
I remember the deafening cacophony of the cash registers of the early 70's. I miss those days!
And every checkstand had a rack had a rack with cigarettes because SO many people smoked back than.
and oh those cash register women!! their fingers flying pushing the plethora of keys!! I was always so impressed how they did it!!
Yes! Now the only deafening cacophony is the horrible music all of these stores always blast. Can't even enjoy shopping anymore. And remember how fast those skilled cashiers could ring-up your order? They were faster than these damn scanners being operated by unskilled lazy cretins today.
Yes awful loud music also at the gas pumps😢
I am a gen x im sure 1 thing boomers and genx have in common we can agree everyone was dressed in clothes not pajamas and slippers at the grocery store
I was at hobby lobby one day and I saw a woman in her housecoat and slippers, I turned and walked away.
@@karengordon6610 This is a new world we live in now for sure
@@sherrielynn5761 I stopped my clock in 1966 and never rewound it.
this is one thing that makes me as mad as hell people need to show some pride and respect.
Pajama bottoms piss me off!!!
I used to think the occasional woman being seen having to run out for pantyhose or something last minute in her curlers and house dress and thought how tacky it was.
I'd love for the 30's and 40's fashions to return for men and women who are so gross with their a** falling out of their way too shorts whose daughters shorts match 🤢🤢😡😡
Heat up a TV dinner, set up a TV tray, sit down and watch Gunsmoke.
Those thin metal ones lol Andy Griffin my TV dad 😂
Yeah, that's a memory for me too.
From what I remember gunsmoke was on Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. a little late for a TV dinner back then.
Or the "Million Dollar Movie"
@@thecatatemyhomeworkmaybe he worked swing or graveyard and kept to his habits even on his day off 🤷🏻♂️ why split hairs on someone's fond memory, sheesh
TV Dinners at .98 ea seem expensive given that we were a family of 7. My parents were amazing; we never felt as though we lacked anything. RIP Dad and Mom - I love you forever ❤
Beautiful…..
Did you find it nostalgic?
$0.98 in 1955 is worth $11.26 in 2024. That's $78.82 for the family (no tip).
my mom was a scratch cook. what she couldn't grow, she purchased locally. she canned, she froze, she dried and we ate well.
My mom worked at a mom and pop grocery store and my dad worked at Kroger Bakery (not the in store typr but the actual huge baking facility...bread and goodies). We always had food. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🙂🙂
TV dinners were a treat for us if my parents were going out. I don’t think they were that expensive, but were twice the size of what they are now. I was born in 59.😊
I remember when people served their life working in a grocery store. They had nice houses , nice vehicles , most had small boats , and fished every weekend. It was odd to have a grocery store worker to be hateful back then. Every one of them I remember took pride in their work. It really does seem that times were much simpler then.
Us too. In BC, Canada. 🇨🇦🙋🏻♀️👍
When I was young in the 70's, I never saw a rude or insolent worker at any shop, restaurant or business. They'd have been let go...
My husband was the assistant manager of a grocery chain. We had great insurance, and never even noticed the premiums taken out of his pay. My doctor told me I had the best insurance I could possibly have. It was great, it should be even better now. I don’t know how things could get so messed up when they used to be so good..
@@jenniferlloyd9574 now the workers have learned that they don’t have to work. They are doing you a favor if they do work. 80+ programs of welfare have provided them to live either way..
back in the days when workers were treated like family!!
I worked at a grocery store while in highschool. I saw so many products and ways to package them come and go with the times. Women would buy Dippity Do and hair rollers while getting Vitalis for dads. They would buy TV dinners, pot pies, Nestle Quick and Tang for the kids. Soda came only in returnable glass bottles that kids would bring in radio flyer wagons the empty containers to collect the .5 cents per bottle. We then stacked the bottles in wooden crates for pickup by delivery drivers. Outside every store was a penny bubble gum glass dome. Grocery bags were brown paper only and bag boys would take everything to your car and load them for you. You never had to guess the price of any item since a price marker had been used by the overnight stocking crew to mark everything. Cashiers would then ring the marked price unless missing a sticker and then would have to call over intercom "Price check on...".
I went to Walmart yesterday and they brought back the brown paper bags. 👏👏
I'm told that I was a rotten kid and would peel off the price stickers when riding in the grocery cart so we always needed price checks.
OMG, forgot about Dippity Do! Oh, Brylcream for men - a little dab will do you
@@susandickerson2663 What about "...an Aqua Velvet man?"
Back then it was so beautiful to be alive now it is 2024 and it seems like we are living in a real horror zombie movie.
The original Prell bottle had that distinctive shape, so you instantly knew it was Prell. We loved Quik and Strawberry Quik Now we are awash in plastics from the grocery store, but when my mom was shopping in the 60s and 70s, the packaging was far more natural. Meats and fruit such as strawberries came in cardboard trays or baskets. Bulk fruit in nets had real string nets, not the plastic nets of today. There were cubbies of paper bags under the produce displays, you would grab one and fill it with plums or cherries or whatever. Mom would reuse the paper bags for our school lunch bags. Not to mention big take home bags were all paper. Laundry detergent came in big cardboard boxes - no bottles. My dad used paper bags as mulch in his veg garden. No wonder we are awash in tons of plastic!
And there are simply far too many of the same type of products 🤬🤬
@@Curbsidedreamer008 Yes! My mom had some of those towels!
I remember detergent in boxes!
@@laurakibben4147 yup. Why not just have luxe and bargain brand detergent, shampoo, etc. Like literally, two or three brands. I don't want, nor need, an entire aisle of nothing but shampoo and conditioner.
@@Curbsidedreamer008Ha! Looked it up, so that's where some of the hand-me-downs for college came from. Still have them too, though some are getting worn and faded.
I totally remember when you used it have to dress up to go to the grocery store go to church go to the movies and so on and on and so on. Times have truly changed.
Lol! Yes- our mom used to make us wear our Sunday best if we had to go to the doctor.
I had to wait for my mom to iron my cloths to go to the emergency room for a broken collar bone.
@@krispoli22 That is hilarious!
@@maguffintop2596 I had a motorcycle wreck and my uncle found me and took me home. Crazy
@@krispoli22 I stuck a pitchfork through my foot (don't ask) and had to wait 20 minutes in the car while my mom put on lipstick, fluff her hair and got fixed up (change clothes). She was soooo annoyed because she had to rush. This was 1979...
I would love to go back in time and shop in a grocery store like we did in the good old days it's was the best times love it ❤❤😊
What would you love to buy again?
@@Vintage.ShowTV hi some of the good old products we don't have now and just enjoy the vibe
Me too!
They were the best days!!
@@ellenelder9941 I totally agree with you not sure about this world to confusing have a great day 💗
TV diners were the meal that dads would feed their kids while their wives were at a Tupperware party lol.
You had that one ever?
@@Vintage.ShowTV Of course that's why I know that dads fed them to their kids when their wives were at Tupperware parties lol. My dad was actually a good cook, but TV diners were tasty, and it was fun to pick out which one we wanted.
@@carriesmith7460 lol....yep!!
Swanson turkey dinner with the cherry crisp dessert
I live in Canada . What I remember about food in the 70s is : Breeze laundry detergent ( power , in different sized boxes ) had either a bath towel , hand towel, or a face cloth in it . Mustard was sold in glass jar that became drinking glasses . Red Rose tea bags came with an ornament in each box .
I kinda think sugar still is the star of cereals. Try to find a low sugar cereal these days. Even the so called natural cereals are loaded with it
Red Rose only quit offering the ornament
Yes! Same in the States. Dolly Parton sold them on the Country show, with Porter. I can still hear her sweet voice say, "Boxes of Breeze."
I remember my mom buy ABC laundry soap.
I just bought some Red Rose tea from Amazon. I like it much better than Lipton. It has a smoother taste.
Don't forget those coin operated kiddie rides in front of the stores. My favorite part of shopping.
Yeah, I remember the coin operated pony and at the time I didn’t realize the pervert sitting next to it
Boomer here, born 1958. #1 i live in Arizona and my grocery store has a bar (beer & wine only) in it. #2 mom cooked every night except on Sundays. Never had a TV dinner until I move out at 18. #3 Welches grape jelly came in glass drinking glasses. When the jelly was gone, you had a glass with the Flintstones printed on it #4 became a truck driver in 1991 and I remember a truck stop gave out S & H Green stamps. #5 last one I promise. Mom always dressed very nicely, but did not wear an evening gown to go shopping
Bet you bought a box of cereal either for the prize inside or the latest 45 paper record you could cut out from the back of the box (I had The Archies Sugar Sugar paper record for many years).
@@charlesfcopeland9756 I had Sugar Sugar, the Jackson 5's ABC, and the Monkee's theme song.
Born in 1961 and I enjoyed all the GREAT things you mentioned. But I never knew what my foster mom would get with those S&H Green stamps. I helped here put them in the books though, lol.
Compared to today you walk into a grocery store and people dressed like they just rolled out of bed
My mom also collected the green stamps and would have us kids paste them into the books for them. I remember those jelly glasses with the Flintstones!
I am a Baby Boomer 64 years old and this takes me back thank you! I remember my father buying laundry soap and getting a free glass or mug in the box. And the Green Stamps my Grandmother had tons of Green Stamps and books. Anyone remember Fizzies and Shake a puddin ? I remember everything in this video and then some that are not. Beautiful memories thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
Yes root beer fizzies loved them , great shakes and Bosco chocolate syrup wonderful memories ❤ Queens NY ❤
remember, when the TV zonked out at 8:09PM, going down to the local electronics store with your father to get new tubes?? Your father sticking the tubes into the tube tester??
donna... hey! you remember Bosco syrup also! 💯👍
@@donnaruckel1627 I recall a not-so-nice little ditty that some kid made up a about Bosco:
"I hate Bosco. It's rich in Vitamin C.
Mama put it in my milk to try to poison me!
I fooled Mama. I put it in her tea --
Now there's no more Mama to try to poison me!"
Kids were always making up gross lyrics to parody some well known song or nursery rhyme.
To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, they would sing the refrain thusly:
"Glory, glory, hallelujah! Teacher hit me with a ruler!
I turned around and hit her with a rotten tangerine!
Our gang goes marching on ...."
We all thought it was so funny!
I remember when little toys came in cereal boxes. 😊😊❤
Nostalgic
yes!! real toys!
Yeah, you had to get to the cereal box and get it before your siblings.
I remember the wonderful smell around the 8 O'clock coffee grinder at the A&P grocery store ! ❤😊
Oh yes!!
I've forgotten about A&P
Watching this is making me very hungry and nostalgic..
Same here!
Yeah, but back in the day those cashiers actually knew how to count out change so if their machine wasn't working properly it wasn't a problem.
Love it when the cashier forgets to enter amount tendered and the register doesn’t show the change. They literally freeze because they don’t know what to do.
@@joannemcmillan9201 LMAO! So true
I'm a cashier at Walmart. I've known how to make and count back change for years. I get put on the cash only lane quite often. (Jan Griffiths).
I remember when we learned how to count change in grade school. I think I was in fourth grade when I learned. I’ve never forgotten. Never had a short drawer either.
I was head cashier at a Dime Store Downtown in a small town!! Had to count that change back!! But there was a con thing, forgot what's its called but they would give you a $100 for an item that cost $1.63 in the process that you've handed back the change you they decide to give you $2 then they have their hand out you give them back their $100 so you just got screwed out of all that change from the first traction of the $100!! It happened to me town was full of folks shopping, Xmas time!! He had a suit on with beige dress coat. Just as soon as he left and to the door I realized he just did something that made my draw short!! I rang that bell to the boss how much to the penny he got and described him. He took my draw brought me a new one. I was right on the money as to how much he got from me. He got on the phone before counting to put the law and other stores on notice and he was caught!! I had to teach HS girls back around 2000... They had no ideal how to count back change and I had them on co-op program!!
Here's what I remember from mid-1970s groceries stores. My mom bought EVERYTHING for a full family Thanksgiving dinner for $50.
$50 was worth a lot more then!
It was like that until 2005. Right when George bush sold our country to you know who
That reminds me when I went to the store with my mom and granny. They had brown grocery bags with store brand bread in it at Safeway and my granny had a melt down on the price. Four loaves for $1.00. I often wonder how her reaction would be today at the price of bread. LOL🤣🤣
Today the thugs will sell you $50 groceries in a single plastic bag.... Sad.
$50 in 1975 is equal to about $290 today, inflation is crazy!
I miss the good old days… now you go to the store and the entitled employees act like it’s an inconvenience if you bother them, they aren’t all like that but the majority are.
What do you miss the most about those great days?
@@Vintage.ShowTV I miss employees being kind and helpful, the safe foods, nestle chocolate powder and ovalteen, you could go shopping by yourself for mom and the employees would watch over you.
Many do it seems.
Sounds like you hate working people
@@fastcharger3314 in the older days you had to be polite and courteous to the customers or you would be terminated, that’s what customers service is about. Nowadays people are lazy and rude, people should get jobs that are suitable for them…
I miss the day when adults knew how to behave and taught their children how to behave too. There is no way that my sibling or I would ever think it was okay for us as children about run up and down the aisles or scream at the top of our lungs in a public place. Parents now seem fine with their children's horrid behavior as long as their kid isn't bothering them. Parents now seem completely unaware that it's their job to socialize their children and teach their kids how to behave.
Thanks for sharing!
That's so right. If we misbehaved we didn't get to go back to the store for a year. We were watched by a neighbor or the opposite parent.
I know, right? I see this all the time at Walmart where I work. Kids are in charge now, and the parents don't do a darn thing about it. If I acted that way when I was a kid, I would have been punished right there and then. (Jan Griffiths).
It's also bad on airplanes. Kids will kick the backs of the seats in front of them and thoroughly annoy the passengers sitting in them. And the parents will do absolutely nothing! In fact, if you dare tell the kid to stop it or complain to the parents, YOU can get in trouble! It's somehow YOU who are causing trouble and NOT the inconsiderate, ill-mannered kid or indifferent parents. The days of fairness are OVER, Folks!
@@jrnfw4060 That happened to me once during a flight. I told the stewardess, and she said something to the parents. I had no further trouble. The kid and I both fell asleep. (Jan Griffiths).
- I remember when you could smoke in grocery stores.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
even our doctors smoked
@@invisableobserver True, I remember the nurse at the front desk had an ashtray and cigarettes...
You could smoke anywhere except gas stations and elevators.
I remember getting notes for the adults to give to the store clerk, asking them to sell you a pack of cigarettes for them. And the clerks did.
Not only stores, but gas stations were closed on Sundays.
That must be a hasle
@@Vintage.ShowTV You just made sure that you filled up your car gas tank on Saturday.
Sundays were relaxing: church and then families got together to eat
@@homethatilove4595 That's how I remember it.
In South Africa petrol stations closed on Friday evenings and opened Monday mornings during the oil embargo and Apartheid era.
These days, I'd settle for grocery store memory lane food prices. And the fact the food was real.
I miss real food, I feel sad for kids today that never had it.
What I'm nostalgic for is when the person at the register ringing up your order actually acknowleged your existence. Now, almost everywhere, you never get so much as a greeting, and the person running the register does not even acknowlege you when you're speaking directly to them. They are definitely hearing and speach enabled, because they spend the whole time that they are ignoring you, chatting and socializing with their co-workers. The customer is forced to be persistent in trying to interrupt to get even the slightest response. Even if these employees have no idea of their own of how to behave and interact with customers, why aren't their employers training them???? I had many cashier jobs as a teen and it would never occur to me to be so rude and dismissive of a customer I was supposed to be serving.
Thanks for sharing!
I was born in the '80s and I'm shocked at how far customer service has fallen just in the last decade or so, and especially since COVID. Almost everyone is really rude now. I'm shocked when I receive good service at a restaurant.
My daughter is a cashier at a grocery store and is amazed at the rudeness of people on both sides! Customers often go to managers to praise her for being helpful and kind.
AMEN! This is unfortunately true of every type of business with customers such as fast food and retail. I complain if someone is rude or dismissive to me. Like you, I worked in those positions and would never have treated customers so shabbily!
I recently told the cashier it was okay to slow down. She was in a hurry, long line and only 2 cashiers. She said management told them zero socializing, no greetings, "Did you find everything alright?" Is the only greeting, just scan and bag. "Have a good day." And if someone is looking for something they couldn't find, therr is no time allowance to actually locate an item.
Not just boomers, Gen x at least early ones like me grew up on a lot of this, though some was only in America. Went shopping with my mom all the time. Just because we weren’t adults doesn’t make our memories of all this any less clear. Nesquik was great and canned ham, not spam was also good. Stores were only for groceries and absolutely closed on sundays.
Gen X here and you're right. We thrived on this era. I remember very clearly.
@@jenniferlloyd9574 Yes we did!
Stores expanded their inventories to other things beside groceries because consumers demanded it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done so.
I miss the butcher shops and bakeries in stores too.
Yes they should be there for convenience of buyers
@@Vintage.ShowTV
Especially considering what we pay nowadays.
I remember the little Bonita Store (southern California, little town of Bonita), when I was just three or four years old. The butcher would always hand me a free weiner after filling my parents' meat order. I enjoyed that, and I was always reminded to say, "Thank you."
I was born in 1970. I remember so much of this. I remember Mama (grandma raised me, born in 1915) insisted that we wear nice clothes with matching shoes and pocket books to go shopping. We didn't live close enough to go often so we went to town monthly and it was THE event in my life. She never used a coupon in her life. She felt it was some sort of charity. She was appalled when the "new Piggly Wiggly" in town had things besides groceries. When generics came out I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She was goaded into buying generic tang ONE time. I remember those metal Quick cans, those little tins which held 6 or 8 Anacin but you needed to push just the right spot. I miss those days! I remember a surprising amount of things about shopping in the 1970's. I remember the bicentennial very well, with the year leading up to it having stores stocked with patriotic decorated snacks and patriotic packaging.
The Spirit of 76.
Being born in the 50's I remember the grocer knew my name & referred to my mother as Mrs ****. The smell of fresh bread as l ran through the store to help my mom and I learned to shop. I don't think technology has improved this experience.
Wow…
Beautiful memories!
What else you remember?
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
Mrs. Dash?
Remember A & P? Walking into the store you would smell the coffee getting ground at the check out. Amazing smell.
Wrapping cuts of meat in brown paper wraps and tied with a string.
Individual cupcakes were much larger.
Using the Nestle Quik tin can as a bank after the powder was used up.
I miss lunch counters. We had one in our supermarket. And they were in "Dime stores". We had "Kresges", and "Woolworths"and "Grants". These were pre Kmart days. In Detroit suburbs, in the 60's.
Woolworths are still open in Germany.
Good old days…. Right?
I loved the 5 & Dime store.
@@margarettickle9659
Yes, nothing like them anymore. Dollar stores don't count .
Not the same .
Woolworths!
I remember those days well. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid. I remember when Kmart opened, and worked for one for 3 years while attending college. I still have the turquoise smock I wore. Mom and I would take the bus on Saturdays to downtown Dearborn to shop. She didn't drive. (Jan Griffiths).
I have a vivid childhood memory of going grocery shopping with my mom at A&P. What I remember so much is my mom going to a display of Eight O'clock coffee brand, opening a package that had the coffee beans in it, and pouring it into a big red machine. She would set the machine for something (I was too little to read it) and put the now empty bag under the machine. It would grind the coffee beans, dumping it all back into the bag. She would reseal the bag with the ground coffee and put it in the shopping cart. The smell of the freshly ground coffee permeated the air; and they say that smell is a strong memory trigger.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
My dad would do the same thing with the coffee grinding machine that used to be in Safeway when we shopped there. It was fascinating to watch. Plus, we had a hand-cranked coffee grinder at home. It was red and its outer surface was textured. It made that rich grinding noise.
In the winter, I’d still use the Nestle’s to make hot chocolate.
Yep, Sunday was a no business, quiet day, to be with family.
And church music all day on the radio!
I realky miss how good it was "Growning Up" when I did !!!
N-E-S-T-L-E-S 🎶 Nestles sells the very best - chocolate 🦌
I think it was, Nestles makes the very best,
I remember those Welch's jelly Flintstone glasses very well.. I'm also a 58 Club member!
I still have a couple of those glasses. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 me too. They’re well made, heavy duty little juice glasses. They had a Looney Tunes series too. I have Tom & Jerry and Foghorn Leghorn. Love them all.
When I was young, my favorite snack was a box of Cracker Jack's caramel popcorn 🍿 now it's hard to find them anywhere .
That was a treat and I loved getting the prize, although most were stupid sometimes you'd get a baseball card or something cool
you can sometimes still find them but they only put one peanut in them now, your lucky if it was not rotten.
Have you tried fiddle faddle ??it's much better but similar...I luv it😊
I remember candy cigarettes
They were good! And fun!
and the sugary drink in those little wax imitation pop bottles?
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Do you remember the bubble gum cigarettes? They looked like real filtered cigarettes. The paper looked like a real cigarette and if ya was careful you could get a “puff of smoke” out of it if you didn’t get the end in your mouth wet. If you blew air out, it pushed out a little puff of powdered sugar and we thought we were so big & bad “smoking”. 😂
You, too? We kids had those, and I loved pretending they were real cigarettes and "smoking" them along with my folks when they smoked the real thing. They tasted pretty good, too.
My grandmother would not allow me to buy them, she said it was a bad influence
We still have some aluminum drinking glasses that my Grandmother got in laundry soap. I have a little metal cabinet that my mother got with green stamps.
Good old times … right?
Did you ever get the towels in the laundry powder box?
Aluminum cups were the best. Kept the milk ice cold.
My grandparents had aluminum cups in every color. They had hard well water. Between the aluminum and the minerals in the water, all of my silver fillings acted up.
I was about 8 in 1968. We did a big grocery shop. The whole family always went together. We bought two grocery carts, mounded with food, we were 5 in our house . The total was, 64.00. That was a lot of money and a lot of food. Good days!
Thanks for sharing!
Yes good old days indeed
Yep, I remember the good old days when my family did that. I was an only child, but we bought a lot of food, and did our big shopping every 2 weeks. 64 dollars was really quite a bit for that time. Don't forget--wages were also lower back then. Hardly anyone made even 10 dollars an hour back then. My dad came close at $8.50 an hour, and mom $7.00 an hour. Dad drove a city bus, and Mom was a nurse. (Jan Griffiths).
I was born in 59. My Mom would shop & spend so much money. But, when I was 11 I had to buy groceries & cook for the family. 7 in our family. My Dad would drop me at the store, with $160.00 so I could buy what our family needed for the week. He worked all the time & had to run errands while I shopped. He always said I spent so much less than my Mom. I knew what everyone in the family liked so I bought it all. Dinners were what I liked & could cook.
Back in the day, TV dinners came in aluminum. Why on earth are they using plastic now?!! Aluminum is so much more better for the environment! And we should go back to glass packaging like generations before! We did it in my day and we turned out fine.
I guess with many homes getting microwave ovens, using aluminum pans could be problematic. My mom found that out the hard way when we got our microwave in the mid-70's.😫
The microwave oven, no metal objects
This is. Pretty weak reason to justify all the harm plastics do.
I believe soft drinks in glass bottles lasted into the early 1980s. At least in the 2 liter size especially.
starm... so true!!
@@billyt9830 Aluminum can build up to toxic levels inside the body with continuous use. I had a test done on me for metals, and aluminum was the highest of all of them. We got rid of our aluminum pans after that.
Back back in the day when TV dinners actually had a taste to them that was good.
I used to love Banquet fried chicken.
Best fried chicken! I loved the dressing on the turkey and that little brownie or apple dessert in the middle!
Margarine = Evil, just yellow oil - only butter for me. I remember and never cared for the savory Jello foods.
I remember biting into both margarine AND savory gelatin molds at my elders' places... and either gagging or spitting them out! I mean, isn't margarine just a millimeter away from being plastic?
And the news was always telling you to eat it to lose weight. Evil is correct!
@@jenniferburchill3658 Remember something called "tomato aspic" ? Ooook! It was awful!
@@michaelschabow2911 Salmon mousse was even WORSE. That stuff was basically lutefisk minus the lye!
Aspic was gelatin that was mostly beef flavored. It was used a lot for the molded savory dishes. Aspic and jello are both gelatin, but aspic is not jello. And it was gross.
I was born in the early 80s. I remember Quick in a metal can. Used to get a 25lb bag of flour, and we still have a flour bin in the kitchen. We had a lot of these things on this video.
My local store still sells Ovaltine chocolate mix.
True. They definitely still had the metal can in the 80's.
I was born in 1979 and remember Nestle Quick as a kid I would make chocolate milk and sometimes take a spoonful of powder right in my mouth lol
Do you like the taste?
Whenever I did that that made me cough and the chocolate powder would go flying all over the place. But that didn't stop me. I think all kids did that at one time or another.
My husband was born in ‘79 I was born in ‘77. I loved Nestle, but you could never get into that without Mom and Dad knowing..
@@christyparr1563Hi, kiddies 😊
I think we could also get Nestlie's Quik in strawberry flavor. We always had the chocolate in our home, and we really enjoyed it.
Does anyone else remember at the.grocery stores exits how they lined up tons of coin op machines for the kids. The Pez machine was my favorite 😊
Sweet memories… right?
Stores had a small animal ride, coin-operated.
I miss the the local Delicatessens, Bakeries, Town Diner's, & A&P's of 1950-60's Boston. ✝️🙏🕯️🇺🇲💪
Did it make you feel nostalgic?
Me too. Everything is run by corporate bs now.
Waldbaums and Edwards
We were lucky we had both A&P and a First National. Not lucky now.
I see these on old television shows and wish we had those today. Or the butcher on Andy Griffith show. My mom used to talk about soda shops, and I have seen these in old movies to. They look like a fun place to hang out. Wish I could have experienced these things.
I remember going with my grandmother to the green grocers. They only carried fruit and vegetables! The store was downtown, we walked there and grandma bought 1/2 lb green beans. The owner of the store spoke with Grandma and made recommendations on freshness and when vegetables had been picked! He even knew what farms different vegetables had come from! Grandpa drove Grandma to the butcher usually on Saturday morning, and she would get the meat for the week!
Good old days!
You must have a great bond with your grandparents haven’t you?
That sounds like she had access to good quality food from good quality people. Very nice.
I sell my over production from my garden at the farmers market. I make good money, and all of my veggies are organic. I very rarely bring stuff back home. I love farmers markets. It's a shame that ours is only once a month. (Jan Griffiths).
Waiting for the Good Humor man was always a peak on a hot summer day. What fun!
You could hear the little tune the truck chimed several blocks away, and knew it would soon be on your street. Grandpa often bought us ice cream from it.
you are wrong. walmart was never a supermarket. it was a discount store. grocery food is something new that was added not too long ago.
Not a discount store anymore
@@choossuck7653 Now a outsourcing retail giant selling CCCP items.
I forgot about the key to open Spam & other cans, now everything is pulltops.
Thank goodness. I never could open that corn beef can right.
My mother always bought Prell, but i hated the smell. I got a job mowing yards so i could buy Herbal Essence. I loved the smell. I wish they would bring back the original scent.
Herbal Essence was Spanish Fly....ohhhh yeahhh.
Gee your hair smells terrific! 😁
@@Overprotected1111 I wish they would bring that back. I used it all the time, both shampoo and conditioner. (Jan Griffiths).
@@breeinatree4811 You might find that original scent at a place called “Vermont Country Store”, just google it. I know they used to have “Gee your hair smells terrific”. I’ve bought it there and it was the same as it always was. The Vermont country Store sells a lot of nostalgic items. You might find the Herbal Essence there too.
Me too
Baby boomer I remember my moms boyfriend had a station wagon we would put our pijamas to go to a drive in.
Thanks for sharing
As a kid, I would do that also. My parents had a station wagon. Sometimes aunts, uncles, and cousins would go too, and all of us kids were in our pjs. (Jan Griffiths).
We did that too only we’d sometimes get a bucket of KFC and all the fixins to go with. Nothing more fun than dinner and a movie outside, in pajamas with our sleeping bags in front of the car. Great memories. Sometimes we’d just get the drive in pizza or hamburger or hotdog? They were all good in those days. They also made good FF. The drive-in’s kitchen wasn’t big and they didn’t sell but those few items, but they were consistently good.
One movie I recall watching was The Apple Dumpling Gang. Don Knotts… so funny. Happier times.
The bad thing about supermarkets today is the bakeries have no lovely aroma, and the meat department also has no aroma. It is a very sterile environment. I love the cleanliness, but I also like to go to an independent bakery and my German butcher to get things from them. The aroma makes a wonderful shopping experience.
Yes! Our local grocery store had a real bakery and a skilled butcher. Mom would request certain cuts or special roasts for holidays and he would prepare the meat exactly as she requested. The butcher lived in our neighborhood and would bring over peaches and apricots from his trees to our mom.
Or the aromas you do smell are chemical and pumped out into the air…like the do at theme parks, etc.
I loved a cereal called "Quisp". The cartoon was of an alien with a huge round head and tiny body. No one ever remembers it.
Sure we do. Quisp and Quake. There's actually a Quisp box in my basement -- used for storing some other items.
@merriemisfit8406
How about Bosco? I understand its still made but I havent seen it on shelves in years.
@@CALLMESIR... Sorry, there is no Bosco in the Quisp box.
@@merriemisfit8406
Lol.
@@merriemisfit8406 Remember the feud between Quisp and Quake? They wanted the kids to choose the best. Quisp won. (Jan Griffiths).
I GREW UP WIRH SWANSON TURKEY DINNERS IN THE 1950'S HOW I MISS MY SWANSON DINNERS PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!
I am a millennial, so I don't really have an appreciation for many of these things, but the reason that I clicked on the video was because of the Nestle Quik tin. I have an older brother who is Gen X and there is a picture of him as a little kid sitting at the kitchen table with a tin of Nestle Quik. Additionally, I think I would love a grocery store that just featured food items and smaller stores in general. A lot of the stores I shop at are just so huge that they are overwhelming.
Thanks for sharing
GenX here and i remember a good portion of all these things in the video.
Things i miss are actual butchers in the grocery stores, baggers that helped you to your car if needed, brachs mix and match candy displays, Cheer laundry soap,Quisp cereal, cartons of bottled soda, and Eckrich variety pack square lunchmeat that actually fit perfectly on square pieces of bread lol. Oh yeah almost forgot the twin packs of potato chips.
I bought a jug of Cheer detergent at my Walmart (I work there) the other day after work. It was the only one in the store---there wasn't even a shelf sticker for it. It still has that great Cheer scent, and cleans as well as I remember. I'm going to save it though---it's the only one I've seen for quite a while. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 yeah I haven't seen any in years
@@douglasgriffiths3534 i started using sun cause it was a close 2nd to cheer but it has disappeared since co v id
I'm gen x and I remember a lot of these.
Miss those prices!
We used Hershey’s coco powder and the tin opened the same way.
Fan of it?
@@Vintage.ShowTV I was at the time. I don’t think I had chocolate milk since I was a kid.
@@Vintage.ShowTV I use it in baking recipes. Calls for it specifically.
This video is all over the place.
Yeah, I didn’t understand the video being cut into more recent commercials when they weren’t making any sense with the concept of the video
Narrator explains old era with Modern machinery 🤔
Weird! Flip-flopping
It was probably done with AI or that Chat tool thing.
Mentions Jif peanut butter and shows Skippy at 5:51
This is the most random video I think I’ve ever watched! New and old clips, pictures from the wrong eras, unexplained photos, and just all kinds of weirdness LOL
I miss the 70s😢
What missed you tge most about that time?
@@Vintage.ShowTV I miss the freedom we had, and pay phones, and no inconsiderate people people with cell phones, men were men & women were women.
Thank you for being my Comforting TRUTHFUL Channel of information!!! GOD Bless you, your family,n these Utube watchers🎉❤
I used to love Strawberry Quik
Two slim bags in a box for potato chips..Salerno saltines in a four pack tin...Quaker Oats in a round cardboard box, no liner or bag..."Screaming Yellow Zonkers" glazed popcorn for hipsters everywhere... Fizzie's...price tags...giant jaw breakers, pre-Heimlich maneuver...returnable bottles...
Omg! I had forgotten that prell had come with a pearl in the bottle to show how rich it was!
Ugh, I can't think of the actual name, but there used to be a shampoo based on beer 😂 just looked it up. It was called Body on Tap and was based on a Budweiser beer lol.
@@lisabishop6266 Body On Tap. That was one of my favorite shampoos it smelled fabulous!
I had to use prell one time to get the Vaseline out of my hair after slicking it back for a 50's dance!
It didn't. The pearl was in the commercials.
@@lisabishop6266 that was good shampoo. It didn’t smell like beer but it did smell really good and it cleaned my hair well. Pretty sure you can still get that at Vermont Country Store. They still sell original formulas of old vintage brands. They even had Tangee Lipstick. Remember that? It was orange colored in the tube, but when you put it on it was like the “mood rings”, it changed colors. VCS Also has a lot of vintage candies that you can’t find in the stores anymore. They also have a catalog to order from.
Australia must be sooo backwards (sarcasm), we still have customer service counters, bakeries, a delicatessen, child friendly trolleys, scales in produce, giveaway fruit for kids… actually quite a few of these.
I'm in the USA & we have all those things as well. I think the video made it sound like the items mentioned were in the past, rather than saying those things came into use back then, & are still in use today. I doubt they even realized how it would come across to the viewer. 🤷♀️
@@Howiesgirl That’s hilarious 🤣
I live in the New York City area and we have all of those things.
We had the banana and oranges free fruit. The cardboard box display just said free fruit. I took a banana. They told me at the checkout (rudely, I add) that it was only for kids. Y'all didn't specify that when y'all decided to implement this. I just figured they were soon to go off or something. Maybe write the intent and not just "free fruit" on the display...🤷
We do still have quite a few of these. The video could have been better produced, frankly.
I was born in 1950. We lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. My mother went to a very small Mom and Pop store for groceries. The store had hardwood flooring. They sold meat, bread other dry goods. The best thing in the world to me was the Coffee Grinder. You could watch the beans being chopped, made a great noise and smelled like heaven. Does anyone remember Bosco chocolate Syrup? My favourite. I recall Prell Shampoo in a glass container. In the early 50s, children were well behaved in stores, not like now. I would rather shop in a smaller store than an overwhelming monster sized huge boxed store. I still like Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger on the label. On Sunday, everything was closed. Most people went to church. Never had Spam, my mother said it was junk. Same with Soda. We always had real butter, never Oleo. Fresh Seafood was available and wonderful, as were vegetables fresh from the garden.
Good old time…. Isn’t it?
Wasn't Green Stamps talked about a lot on All In The Family?
You got good things for those green stamps.
My father practically furnished our house with them.@@aliceputt3133
Grocery stores didn't accept debit or credit cards until the early '90's. I remember when Farmer Jack started accepting debit and credit, it was a big deal. You had to give them your phone number in case the charge didn't go through, which is what happened to me, lol. The supermarket called me and I had to reauthorize the charge
Before the debit cards I remember having to show the card called Honest Face.
Those things infuriate me. I could have had a check filled out and been down the road faster sometimes.
Plus, you have to talk dirty to them, ROFL! "Oh, you stuck it in before I was ready, you'll have to pull it back out."
"Ok, now put it back in."
😁😁😁
"Slide it in hard (or slower)"
"You did it too hard, you'll have to take it back out."
@@laurakibben4147that's hilarious! 😂🤣😂
The grocery store I work at (it was under a different name back in the 1990) was the first location in my state to take debit cards.
I remember Farmer Jack's. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid, and there was one a few blocks away from our house. Was formerly a Food Fair. (Jan Griffiths).
I'm 66, I remember when burger was like 29 cents a pound!!
The invention of the TV dinner. Wow 🎉🎉.
They were much better back then
@@Crazychick64SO good 😋
My mother was a horrible cook. Thank goodness for TV dinners with their high fat and salt content.
Don't forget Swanson's "pot pies" ! Chicken, beef or tuna.
@@michaelschabow2911 tuna? I didn't know they were available in tuna that's gross
I remember in the 60s grocery stores would cut up the chicken and give the wings away for free , now they want a small fortune for them .🇨🇦
Good old times….. right?
My dad would go to the butcher and get free beef soup bones. I choked at the price of them last week.
Wish they still did that😃
There for a while I had to pay more per lb for wings than they were charging for breast meat. I swear you can gage food item prices by what’s trending on the TH-cam cooking channels. At the time wings in my area at least were through the roof, breast meat was cheaper than ever and there was a lot of them. You’d be lucky to find wings at all and if ya did they were twice the cost of any other parts of that chicken. Since the covid fiasco has died down prices have seemed to equal out some. Still high, but whatta ya gonna do🤷🏻♀️
At 66, I worked in the retail grocery industry from bagging to manufacturing to owning. It is a different world. 24 hour stores assisted in the destruction of American life. The 60's and early 70's forced us to plan and have order in our life.
I remember S&H greenstamps. There was an S&H store. I remember the items being mostly household goods--stuff for housewives to use at home.
Thanks for sharing
The part about stores only selling food isn't accurate. I can remember a "toy aisle" at my local grocery store even when I was a very young child in the 60's.
Me too. And a magazine rack and a comic book rack too, as well as soap.
The toy aisle was small and mostly never sold brand name toys, plastic army men, generic action figures and dolls, yo yo's, paddle balls, balloons, cap guns, and stuff
@@jenniferanne4143 It must have varied by store. I definitely remember Barbie Dolls and Mattel Toys there. I got an Ideal Tubsy Doll (1967, she was battery operated, came with her own baby tub and moved her head and arms and splashed water) for my birthday that came from there. I also remember at Christmas time toys everywhere on the top of shelves
Things that have gone from my local grocery stores up here in Montréal but that I want back:
Grape-Nut Flakes
Variety meats
Double-manned cash registers, one person ringing up your groceries and the other one bagging them
Free samples
Pinkie stamps, the Steinberg's grocery store equivalent to Green Stamps; Steinberg's went belly up in 1992, but the Pinky stamps had disappeared well before that
People who bothered to dress stylishly or at least nicely before leaving the house (the ballgowns in this video were downright silly, though; nobody wore ballgown to run errands).
Things that have changed for the better:
Larger grocery stores, though fewer and further apart
Sunday openings
Longer business hours.
Hope you see these things again!
I remember how...
1. In the 1970s when you walked into the fruits and vegies area of the market you could actually smell the deep Earth freshness of it. Today no smell at all.
2. You could buy half a gallon of milk for 75 cents, slice bread for 49 cents, a dozen eggs for 65 cents. A whole bag of groceries for 25 dollars.
3. the food boxes for cereal and potato chips were actually full at least 75 percent. Today it's full 30 percent and the rest is empty air for 10 times more the price.
Having been born in the very early 1950's , I remember a lot of new products . Transistor radios , portable tape recorders bought at Goodyear , Western Auto brand guns , push button phones , portable TV's , The BEATLES :D and on and on . My mother actually started doing survey work door to door in the early 60's . She would drop off all manner of new products in homes . Then come back later and ask people if they liked the product , or what they would change . She loved doing this , and did it through the 90's . This included new " disposable " diapers and razors , new brands of cigarettes , candy , cereal , shampoo's , you name it . If it was used in a home , chances are she tested it :D When I was in Vietnam , like many . Mom and family sent me Tang to put in my " treated " water to make it way better . Cool video !!
Toothpaste came in metal tubes. You could buy a 3-pack of plastic “keys”, to attach to the back end and roll it up as used, to get every last morsel!
And how about “squeezy cheese”? Revolting stuff.
Or the aroma beads to put in the special tp holder.
Coloured/scented toilet paper. We always got the lilac because every fixture in the bathroom was purple.
Stubby glass bottles for beer.
And I loathed Kraft tv commercials.
Gave my mother bad, bad, evil, terrible, godawful ideas.
I grew up in Marinette Wi, right on the Wi, Mi border. When I was small, late 50s, I remember going with my mom to drive across the bridge into Menominee Mi to buy margarine at Niemans grocery store. We couldn't get it in Wi, being the Dairy state, stores sold real butter. I never knew why she didnt like butter, everythings better with butter. I use butter and wouldn't think of ever baking without using real butter .
Didn’t you ask her, why she didn’t like butter?
@@Vintage.ShowTV I was five or six at that time. Kids don't think of those things and it was a long time ago😊 There may have been a price difference too, I really don't know. I just found your channel, and Subscribed.
That’s about the time that the big cholesterol scare began…dairy products became “dangerous.” I agree with this comment. Margarine is nasty!! I’d not cook with it unless forced to. It’s basically plastic. 😮
My grandparents on both sides lived in Wisconsin, so I went there all the time growing up. At one point they were allowed to buy 'oleo' but it was COLORED so as to not compete with butter...red, blue, green - looked like rectangular crayons.
Margarine and shortening (like Crisco and Spry) supposedly make better baked goods than butter. Another possibility of why she gpt it instead of real butter
Free cookie anyone! Remember in order to easily open fruit and produce bags they had a little peice of a sponge they kept wet for your fingers, now people lick their fingers 🤨🤢
Ugh! You hit on my pet peeve!!!!! Who are these people who think that the rest of us want their nasty saliva all over things that the rest of us touch???? No, I don't want to be exposed to your bodily fluids!!!! Please do not lick your fingers and transfer your spit to the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The arrogance of that behavior is off the charts!!!!!!
TV dinners were a special treat for my friend, her brother and me when I lived with them. We all were allowed to pick our favorite ones, and we'd get to eat them for dinner when the baby sitter watched us. I think we had them once a month, which is when her parents would have a date night.
My most favorite TV dinner in the world was the Swanson one that had beans and franks; corn; cinnamon apples in a sauce that made them taste like apple pie filling; and the best part: chocolate pudding. I bet most kids nowadays, including my own daughter, haven't experienced the joy of eating cooked chocolate pudding. It always had a "skin" on top that I would never eat. But underneath that skin was pure bliss! I was so sad when they stopped making and selling those. We actually even had them in the tin foil trays and cooked them in the oven (obviously not the microwave), which took forever, but it made us look forward to them even more!
Mrs. Dash didn’t come out until 1983.
I was going to say that same thing.
When my best friend was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I gave her a gift of an assortment of Mrs. Dash products. My dear friend had never heard of or noticed them before, and she was terribly grateful.
I remember when my uncle got severely cut by a glass bottle of Prell while showering. He had to have stitches on his foot. My aunt swore to never use it again. Then it came out in plastic bottle form.
Remember when they put the white pearl in the Prell shampoo?
@sharoncrawford7192 Thats right!! I think I kind of remember that too...I had to have been very young. Do you know what year they stopped putting the pearl in?
@@sharoncrawford7192Lol. There was never an actual pearl in the bottle. They showed a pearl on TV ads for Prell. They dropped it in the bottle to show how thick the shampoo was.
@chrism1102 hmmm....really? I was young so.....
My memories do not include fancy dress, my memories are of women wearing hair curlers and “housecoats” to the store and then spending time running into friends and apologizing for their lack of fussing.
What else?
Nope. My mother, sisters and I wore dresses in the 50s. In the 60s cut off pants.
I remember not being able to watch a movie on TV on Sunday! Today, anything goes! Lol!
Good old days… right?
Saturday night at the movies. I had to go to bed when it came on. I cried every week at 9 p.m.
@@margarettickle9659 You think THAT was early. I had to go to bed at 8:30 every night! Talk about unreasonable!
I wish i had Nestle Quick right now! Yum!
I have a container in my pantry as we speak. Still buy it. It was yummy then. It's yummy now.
It's Nesquik now, but just as good. Chocolate and strawberry flavors. Most grocery stores sell it. (Jan Griffiths).
What is with all the random images and clips that have nothing to do with the script?
That would be the AI used to make it getting confused. AI scripts and editing seems to be flooding TH-cam lately.
@@RetroDaze AI (artificial "intelligence") is actually quite stupid.