My grandparents got married in November of 1953. My grandmother wrote my grandfather letters while he was stationed in Korea, even though they had never met, and after he returned, they married only several months later. They remained married until their deaths in 2013.
My mother graduated high school in 1953, it was interesting to take a peak of what actually transpired during that year. She passed 10 years ago, so I can't share this with her. Thanks for the flashback.
My father bought, for my mum, a Voice of Music white blond wood phonograph in 1953. A beautiful piece of furniture. A high fidelity record changer. Made in the USA when there was pride in fine craftsmanship. I still have it.
Most of you young people wouldn't liked it!. Back when America was for PRODUCTIVE FOLKS!, Not someone who played on they're asses all day doing drugs all night because the government supported them with welfare checks.
ELVIS! Elvis made his first recording, My Happiness. I never saw a picture of the original record, the photo included in this production looks like a 78 r.p.m. 12-inch shellac test disc. Thank you for adding this picture.
1953--Times were hard. As a 10 year old a nickel was valuable. You could turn in a soda bottle for 2 cents or a beer bottle for 1 cent and thus earn candy money. Pepsi's were a dime. There were no government benefits. When I heard about Television I was amazed. I watched static for 2 hours at a barbershop which had the only t.v. that I knew of. I believe people of today would be absolutely bored at life in 1953. We didn't even have a telephone. Life was quiet in the country.
???? Are you sure about that? Sex, drugs, and rock & roll.....is that how you'd define the sixties? I remember them as just another era of mass consumerism parading around as revolutionary. You're living in the results of that era today (2021). No need to pine for the past.
@@brucemarsico6 either you can't absorb things you read or you've mixed me up with someone else's comment. But anyhow, never mentioned sex drugs rock-'n'-roll. Think anyone would be crazy not to be enjoying the progress we've made to the current time. I would willing to bet I'm in the top ten percent that took advantage of and now enjoying the current prosperity that has progressed from the time I came to be. As a kid with no responsibilities other than going to school and getting good grades the sixties were great for me. My life is far too entertaining to cause the need to pine over anything from the past Now lonesome Bruceey. I made your day. You finally got someone to notice you and your, starved for attention, trolling. But you only get one shot. You're now blocked so you need to troll someone else.
1953 was my birth year. I didn’t see a color TV until one of our neighbors got one, I am guessing, about 1959. I still remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock.
@@aurorarose2836 I must have long forgotten that Sleeping Beauty's real name was revealed in the story, but be that as it may, how your mother must have loved you looking down upon you.
My folks paid $500 for a Magnavox 23" color console in 1966, our or more specifically, my DAD'S first color TV. He installed a motorized antenna on the chimney and forbade us kids to touch it or the TV unless he or my mother were present. We usually just watched our old 21" B&W tv my dad moved downstairs. The first program viewed on the color set? A new show called Star Trek that quickly became my Dad's favorite show, of course!!
I was 12 in 65 when we got a used color tv. My brother and I thought it was fun to turn the people green and red by adjusting the knobs.. When our parents weren't around, of course.
Actually, Watson and Crick were heavily indebted to prior work done by Rosalind Franklin. She pointed out flaws in their original attempts at building a model. Franklin produced the first clear x-ray diffraction images of DNA and surmised that its form was a double helix. They published ahead of her, but were familiar with her work which preceded theirs.
They forgot to mention that I was drafted into the Army in late January, went thru basic them to Parachute School in Ft. Benning, GA. I was slated to be sent to the Korean War, but the truce was signed before I graduated, so I was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where I became an Airborne Medical Aidman with the 82nd Airborne Division. Fame is fleeting, no?
I was just a toddler in 1953. I really enjoyed the 1950s and wish to God I could go back. We had a Stromberg Carlson television in 1954. It was obviously black and white and tube type. Took several seconds to warm up and the antenna was on top of the house. My dad had a 52 Dodge. Cokes were a nickel and hamburgers were a quarter. Times were good.
Sure was. According to the inflation calculator, that RCA set would cost $9826.72 in 2020 dollars. Also, the Rose Parade was of course broadcast by NBC (then a division of RCA) not by RCA itself.
I was born in 1953. Didn't realize that a color TV could be bought in 1953...for $1000!!!. That is a third of the average income. Today the average income is $87K. 1/3 of that income would be $29K for a TV. First run of a new technology....
It is no wonder that we did not get color t.v. for quite a few years. We had a black and white console which added a lot of cost to a television because it was a piece of furniture. The color set we eventually had was one without the furniture which made it more affordable.
My grandparents had the first color TV I ever saw. It was a TV screen set in this huge wooden cabinet that had to be close to 6 foot from side to side. Most of the TVs back then were built into wood cabinets of some sort so they did look like furniture. Broadcasting was over at 9pm, they wished you good night, played the national anthem and the screen either showed some sort of color bars, the flag or static. And when you turned the TV off the picture blipped out and there was this bright white dot in the middle of the screen that glowed for minutes after as the tube cooled off. I remember when I was little going up to the screen and staring right into that white dot, sure I would see some sort of programming going on behind it.
Both Sides of My Family were Coming to California at This Time, one Side from Iowa, The Other from The Philippines, my Mom and Dad were Just Kids 6 and 7 Years Old, I heard many Stories of those Times, good and Bad but I wish I was There to see it All✨✨✨✨✨✨
Whenever new stuff like that came out it was always pricey. My first microwave was a marvel for the time and cost $500. The first calculator I bought was the size of sandwich, could plug in or operated with AA batteries and cost $80. The first slow cooker I had was a Christmas present from a friend, was 4.5 quarts, you couldn't remove the crockery and cost $40, give or take.
Major Professional Sports Champions during 1953: - MLB World Series (Sept. 29-Oct. 4) New York Yankees defeated Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 - NBA Championship Series (April 4-10) Minneapolis Lakers defeated New York Knicks 4-1. - NFL Championship Game (Dec. 27) Detroit Lions 17, Cleveland Browns 16. - NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 9-16) Montreal Canadiens defeated Boston Bruins 4-1.
Lorraine Baines: Our first television set. Dad just bought it today. Do you have a television set? Marty McFly: Well, yeah! You know we have... two of them. Milton Baines: Wow! You must be rich! Stella Baines: Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
R.I.P Ketia Tahana, August 23rd, 1953 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P Ian Lewis, June 6th, 1953 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P The 151 NZ People, 1920S/1940S - December 24th, 1953.
very interesting 1953 was more important than people realize,how far we've come as a nation,and not always in a good way- thanks for this video.stay safe
2:30 I love how the narrator still pronounces it ARNEZ even though the Mandela Effect changed it to ARNAZ. What more do you need to know it's a real phenomenon? Lol.
And most women did not work back then. Too busy staying home raising the kids. That was Dad bringing home the bacon. And people lived comfortably on that salary. One phone on the wall of the kitchen. one car, one TV that often only got one channel, no computers, kids wore hand-me-downs from older siblings. no eating out, a lot of the older houses didn't have heat upstairs, no air conditioning. Families averaged 4 kids or more. If you were Catholic you had the biggest family in town - many had 8/10/12 kids, all living on Dad's one check a week. Santa brought you fewer toys and more of what you needed in the way of coats, scarves and mittens. Life was good
$1,000 for a TV is a lot in 2024. But a least that's not a 3rd of one's annual salary. My father returned to the USA from the Korean War in 1953 (He earned a Purple Heart).
June 7-9 severe thunderstorms formed deadly tornados first in the midwest then moved up to the Northeast to New England forming the famous Worcester F4 Tornado
Numerous notable events and yet just barely over 6 minutes long, indicating the least significantly newsworthy year thus far in the series. Come to think of it many '53'ers I've known have tended to be a bit boring, no idea if there's a correlation.
@@jerryleroy9187 They had them for free on internet archive, and during pandemic I watched, but they took them down. I bought the entire show for $99 on apple tv Where do you see them for free?
I was born in 1953. Thanks so much. Good old days.
My grandparents got married in November of 1953. My grandmother wrote my grandfather letters while he was stationed in Korea, even though they had never met, and after he returned, they married only several months later. They remained married until their deaths in 2013.
My mother graduated high school in 1953, it was interesting to take a peak of what actually transpired during that year. She passed 10 years ago, so I can't share this with her. Thanks for the flashback.
My father bought, for my mum, a Voice of Music white blond wood phonograph in 1953. A beautiful piece of furniture. A high fidelity record changer. Made in the USA when there was pride in fine craftsmanship. I still have it.
Yep! Blonde furniture. We had some. It was the fashion for a while.
Also in 1953 was the first successful ascent of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, on May 29. I enjoy history so I love videos like this.
I’d give literally anything to live back then instead of now
Most of you young people wouldn't liked it!. Back when America was for PRODUCTIVE FOLKS!, Not someone who played on they're asses all day doing drugs all night because the government supported them with welfare checks.
@@packingten I’m a conservative you fucking moron, I work for my money, Way to go assuming, really proved yourself an ass
@@packingten Presumptuous little prick. Ain'tcha?
Yourself and MILLIONS of others -- to escape this ever-metastasizing ugliness that demonstrates zero promise of ever abating.
Me2
ELVIS!
Elvis made his first recording, My Happiness. I never saw a picture of the original record, the photo included in this production looks like a 78 r.p.m. 12-inch shellac test disc. Thank you for adding this picture.
I love Elvis Presley. I have been to Graceland. My last name is Reis.
Great,Video,Thanks,For,Sharing,It
I was born in 1953 and loved seeing what the year was like....
Me too.
Awesome videos keep them coming. I love every one of them.
1953--Times were hard. As a 10 year old a nickel was valuable. You could turn in a soda bottle for 2 cents or a beer bottle for 1 cent and thus earn candy money. Pepsi's were a dime. There were no government benefits. When I heard about Television I was amazed. I watched static for 2 hours at a barbershop which had the only t.v. that I knew of. I believe people of today would be absolutely bored at life in 1953. We didn't even have a telephone. Life was quiet in the country.
Interesting memories you've shared.
Thank you.
First colour TV,Elvis,Lone Ranger and Tonto,TV dinners and so many more events. In other words,those were the days
I was born in July 1953…..I wouldn’t go back. I’d go back from age 38-50. Those were the best years of my life.
Me too!
Born on March 17 1953. Best time to be born so to be old enough to remember sixties. Best decade to have lived. Best music, movies and time period.
???? Are you sure about that? Sex, drugs, and rock & roll.....is that how you'd define the sixties? I remember them as just another era of mass consumerism parading around as revolutionary. You're living in the results of that era today (2021). No need to pine for the past.
@@brucemarsico6 either you can't absorb things you read or you've mixed me up with someone else's comment. But anyhow, never mentioned sex drugs rock-'n'-roll. Think anyone would be crazy not to be enjoying the progress we've made to the current time. I would willing to bet I'm in the top ten percent that took advantage of and now enjoying the current prosperity that has progressed from the time I came to be. As a kid with no responsibilities other than going to school and getting good grades the sixties were great for me. My life is far too entertaining to cause the need to pine over anything from the past Now lonesome Bruceey. I made your day. You finally got someone to notice you and your, starved for attention, trolling. But you only get one shot. You're now blocked so you need to troll someone else.
that's intersting. My dad was born March 12, 1953
April 9, 1953 How does it feel to be 70?
1954 for me, I guess I'm kind of a youngster.😊
1953 was my birth year. I didn’t see a color TV until one of our neighbors got one, I am guessing, about 1959. I still remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock.
Thanks, a lot was starting to happen.. I turned 9yo so I sort of remember many of these things... In another few years everything was taking off...
My Mother graduated from high school in 1953. Very interesting to see what her current events of her senior year included.
Wow is your username your real name? Very beautiful! Was your mom a fan of romance novels?
@@alevine1951 ...Thank you, it's real. My Mom named me after "Sleeping Beauty"
@@aurorarose2836 I must have long forgotten that Sleeping Beauty's real name was revealed in the story, but be that as it may, how your mother must have loved you looking down upon you.
@@alevine1951 ...❤
My folks paid $500 for a Magnavox 23" color console in 1966, our or more specifically, my DAD'S first color TV. He installed a motorized antenna on the chimney and forbade us kids to touch it or the TV unless he or my mother were present. We usually just watched our old 21" B&W tv my dad moved downstairs. The first program viewed on the color set? A new show called Star Trek that quickly became my Dad's favorite show, of course!!
I was 12 in 65 when we got a used color tv. My brother and I thought it was fun to turn the people green and red by adjusting the knobs.. When our parents weren't around, of course.
I remember that new show, Star Trek. Everyone at school was talking about it. Fall of '66. And all the girls were swooning over the Monkees, too.
Pretty phenomenal year for so many firsts and changes to come in pop culture!
Thank you...thank you very much...
Actually, Watson and Crick were heavily indebted to prior work done by Rosalind Franklin. She pointed out flaws in their original attempts at building a model. Franklin produced the first clear x-ray diffraction images of DNA and surmised that its form was a double helix. They published ahead of her, but were familiar with her work which preceded theirs.
I wish we could flashback to 1953 🤣
Seriously love your videos!
They forgot to mention that I was drafted into the Army in late January, went thru basic them to Parachute School in Ft. Benning, GA. I was slated to be sent to the Korean War, but the truce was signed before I graduated, so I was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where I became an Airborne Medical Aidman with the 82nd Airborne Division. Fame is fleeting, no?
I went through a bunch of years looking for 1953 to see the Corvette. 😥
I was just a toddler in 1953. I really enjoyed the 1950s and wish to God I could go back. We had a Stromberg Carlson television in 1954. It was obviously black and white and tube type. Took several seconds to warm up and the antenna was on top of the house. My dad had a 52 Dodge. Cokes were a nickel and hamburgers were a quarter. Times were good.
That's Yvonne DeCarlo (i.e. Lily Munster) playing Scrabble, not to mention Catwoman winning the Pageant...
Thanks for the video.
What a year! Thank you👍
One of my sisters was born this year(12-15-53). Most of my sisters were born in the 50's, and almost every year😁😁
THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO
Thanks .
A thousand dollars for a tv in 1953 dollars is a whole lot of money.
Sure was. According to the inflation calculator, that RCA set would cost $9826.72 in 2020 dollars. Also, the Rose Parade was of course broadcast by NBC (then a division of RCA) not by RCA itself.
It’s not exactly chicken feed in 2021 either.
@@popcultureaddict733 - I was thinking about $10K on top of my head. No calculator needed.
You can now get a huge color tv for less than 500 dollars. And you don’t need 3 strong men and a boy to lift it either.
I was born in 1953. Didn't realize that a color TV could be bought in 1953...for $1000!!!. That is a third of the average income. Today the average income is $87K. 1/3 of that income would be $29K for a TV. First run of a new technology....
My parents couldn’t afford a TV until 1969…
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing.
1K for a color TV, when the family income average was 3700.00. Outrageous, astronomical. Wonder how many were sold?
Love your videos!
I couldn't imagine spending $1,000 today, in 2022, on a color television.
Actually it would be about $10,442 in today's money.
Yeap, and don’t forget taxes, so depending where you lived, owning a color tv in 53 was good news for any family.
My dad graduated from University Of Arizona in 1953..( bachelors degree of science )
In 1953, my mother was born in Lubbock, Texas.
I was born in El Paso that year....at Fort Bliss Army base.....
On May 15,1953 I was born in Michigan City,Indiana.
It is no wonder that we did not get color t.v. for quite a few years. We had a black and white console which added a lot of cost to a television because it was a piece of furniture. The color set we eventually had was one without the furniture which made it more affordable.
My grandparents had the first color TV I ever saw. It was a TV screen set in this huge wooden cabinet that had to be close to 6 foot from side to side. Most of the TVs back then were built into wood cabinets of some sort so they did look like furniture. Broadcasting was over at 9pm, they wished you good night, played the national anthem and the screen either showed some sort of color bars, the flag or static. And when you turned the TV off the picture blipped out and there was this bright white dot in the middle of the screen that glowed for minutes after as the tube cooled off. I remember when I was little going up to the screen and staring right into that white dot, sure I would see some sort of programming going on behind it.
A lot of people didn’t get color till mid 60s, we had our first B/W in “55
Both Sides of My Family were Coming to California at This Time, one Side from Iowa, The Other from The Philippines, my Mom and Dad were Just Kids 6 and 7 Years Old, I heard many Stories of those Times, good and Bad but I wish I was There to see it All✨✨✨✨✨✨
Overall a great year.
Wow. A third of the annual salary for a color TV.
Whenever new stuff like that came out it was always pricey. My first microwave was a marvel for the time and cost $500. The first calculator I bought was the size of sandwich, could plug in or operated with AA batteries and cost $80. The first slow cooker I had was a Christmas present from a friend, was 4.5 quarts, you couldn't remove the crockery and cost $40, give or take.
Major Professional Sports Champions during 1953:
- MLB World Series (Sept. 29-Oct. 4) New York Yankees defeated Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2
- NBA Championship Series (April 4-10) Minneapolis Lakers defeated New York Knicks 4-1.
- NFL Championship Game (Dec. 27) Detroit Lions 17, Cleveland Browns 16.
- NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 9-16) Montreal Canadiens defeated Boston Bruins 4-1.
Sadly, that's the ONLY time both NFL teams ever got championships. ☹️
I was born that year.Thanks for telling me what happened during my birth year.
Thats fun. My dad was born March 12, 1953
Lorraine Baines: Our first television set. Dad just bought it today. Do you have a television set?
Marty McFly: Well, yeah! You know we have... two of them.
Milton Baines: Wow! You must be rich!
Stella Baines: Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
You guys missed the Corvette, first sold in 1953.
SOUNDS HOT
I was born that year.
Surprised they did not mention the death of Hank Williams Sr. on January 1, 1953.
My parents were married on January 22, 1953.
This is my favorite year as this was the year my dad was born! = )
What a time it must of been to live then!!
R.I.P Ketia Tahana, August 23rd, 1953 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Ian Lewis, June 6th, 1953 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P The 151 NZ People, 1920S/1940S - December 24th, 1953.
Railroading Cuttings (1953) - Rafael Malachite's Demise.
R.I.H Rafael Malachite, June 22th, 1917 ~ July 26th, 1953.
very interesting 1953 was more important than people realize,how far we've come as a nation,and not always in a good way- thanks for this video.stay safe
0:20 a BIG Family actually had money to LIVE back then
MY INCEPTION YEAR.
I was just a kid stuffing the ballot box voting for Miss Rheingold.I never did know who won.
Don' t remember much about 1953.I was 4, but I was there!
I turned 4 that year myself.
2:30 I love how the narrator still pronounces it ARNEZ even though the Mandela Effect changed it to ARNAZ. What more do you need to know it's a real phenomenon? Lol.
Many people make in a week now what the average family made in a year in 1953.
Not in today's dollars...
@@Daledavispratt
Of course not. Pointing out how much inflation we have had.
And most women did not work back then. Too busy staying home raising the kids. That was Dad bringing home the bacon. And people lived comfortably on that salary. One phone on the wall of the kitchen. one car, one TV that often only got one channel, no computers, kids wore hand-me-downs from older siblings. no eating out, a lot of the older houses didn't have heat upstairs, no air conditioning. Families averaged 4 kids or more. If you were Catholic you had the biggest family in town - many had 8/10/12 kids, all living on Dad's one check a week. Santa brought you fewer toys and more of what you needed in the way of coats, scarves and mittens.
Life was good
The 1953 Tangiwai Railway Accident.
December 24th, 1953.
My wife and I were born in Nov. 53
My mom was born May 1st 1953 ❤️🙏
I lived in this era…. But as someone else. I’m so connected to this decade.
Love ❤️ it
(That's what SHE said!!!)
$1000 for a Television in 1953. I bet only the rich could afford that.
Oh yea
Not only that, no remote. OR on some tvs it was a $100 extra.
Actually it would be about $10,442 in today's money.
And don’t forget the taxes, hefty sum in those days indeed and today too.
$1,000 for a TV is a lot in 2024. But a least that's not a 3rd of one's annual salary. My father returned to the USA from the Korean War in 1953 (He earned a Purple Heart).
Eisenhower is the first president I remember; however, did not realize our VP was Nixon.
Plus, I was born ...
A thousand bucks for a color tv......wow!
Actually it would be about $10,442 in today's money.
点点滴滴 0:07 😊😊😊❤
and my dad came home from korea
Thanks!! This was super interesting!
Wish i could go back, live & work in the community i live ib bow & make the same $$$ that i make now.
Eggo eaffles were out in the 50s?!?! Cool!!!!
Let go my Froffel doesn't exactly roll off the tongue 😛
North - "Fractured", Bill Haley
South - "Bear Cat", Rufus Thomas.
June 7-9 severe thunderstorms formed deadly tornados first in the midwest then moved up to the Northeast to New England forming the famous Worcester F4 Tornado
My grandpa was born in 1953
Can't wait till you get to 1959, the year I was invented.
Same, can you remember 1963-4.?
How'd you miss, "The Wild One" movie?
Well my guess in the same way as about 100 other things were.
This you might better have thought of yourself.
Also my mom was born in 1953
To this very day, the ROK 🇰🇷 & the DPRK 🇰🇵 never signed a peace treaty after the '53 armistice.
OMG almost one quarter of your yearly income on a TV! I must be cheap. LoL
Numerous notable events and yet just barely over 6 minutes long, indicating the least significantly newsworthy year thus far in the series. Come to think of it many '53'ers I've known have tended to be a bit boring, no idea if there's a correlation.
I was boem 1953
If we only knew what was coming o m g
The Korean war was only 3 years? MASH lasted 11 years 🙄
LMAO!
@Paco
I bought all 11 seasons on apple tv app for $99
@@charles-y2z6c You can watch them for free. You know that right?
@@jerryleroy9187
They had them for free on internet archive, and during pandemic I watched, but they took them down. I bought the entire show for $99 on apple tv
Where do you see them for free?
@@charles-y2z6c Right here on TH-cam.
I was bor 10/08/53
2:30 What's with this 'new' spelling? We all know it was Arnez. Desi ARNEZ. NOT ARNAZ. Mandela Effect.
Loved General Ike. Great person...best as P. O. T. U. S.
I LIKE IKE"
After buying their color tv the average family would still have $230.00 per month left to live on.
some ol dude named Leo was tinkering with the future of guitars and amps and rock and roll
Are-Miss-Tus???
Harvester
On July 27th; the Kree-an Ar-MISS-tus ?????
@@MrSTOUT73 I think the voice is a "robot". Or... perhaps Eengleesh not his first language. 😁
He vaguely sounds like a slowed down James Woods...
Did you do a video of 1947?
I think RR believes somehow that none of us from much earlier exist-still.
'Got NEWS for 'em!
exchange rate here is 1 is to 2 silver coin
@ 3.54 Korean “armistas”. Oh please! Get robo narration that works, if you’re going to have any historical credibility!