In the mid-fifties --- my high school days --- A very popular dance at the time was "The Bunny Hop" . (And had nothing whatsoever to do with TV reception) !
The one thing I remember about the '50s and early '60s was the idea of "service." When I went into a store with my mother, someone was always there to help us----for her help with trying on dresses, making suggestions, making sure alterations were available. When we bought towels, sheets or blankets----all our purchases were carefully wrapped and boxed. The salesclerks took PRIDE in what they did. Customer service was their focus. Same with shoe shopping----I can remember always having a salesman rush over, measure my feet, and bring out at least 10 pairs of shoes to see which one I liked. People aimed to please back then----today "service" has gone out of America's vocabulary and into the dust heap of history.
True, and very sad. Just try to find a salesperson in a large department store, today. Good luck! The work ethic has really gone down hill. What gets me are four or five vacant check stands, only one open and operating, and a HUGE long line at that one and only, when they could very easily open up another check stand or two to accommodate more customers. And the latest thing are those darned self-checkout kiosks! I hate those things! Yes, they may be more convenient for some, but so impersonal, not to mention trying to figure out how to use them. We've given ourselves away to technology, and it's dehumanizing us.
@@jrnfw4060 you have stores that are trying to get the most profit out of what they're selling so you can't find a customer service person or even a checkout clerk in some stores. And if you can find one, they're sol underpaid they can barely care.
@@jrnfw4060 I recently asked a store manager if there were any live checkers available & he pointed out all the open automated lines. I said, "No thanks, I prefer to keep local folks employed by not using those d*$m things." As I walked to the end of a long line of check stands to reach the 1 with an actual person at it, a clerk whispered, "Thank you!"
I was born in 48, so not THAT OLD yet, but something about the soda fountain with all the high school kids all drinking malts or sodas made me want to cry. When I see all the hate and violence even in kids younger than these, it speaks volumes to how far our society has fallen. And yes, I know there are still lots of good people with solid values out there but not nearly enough. I'm praying for a turn around before it's too late.
I remember THOSE days too, pushing 80. However, that "kinder and gentler society" , that George H. W. Bush spoke of, will NEVER return, things will only get WORSE until society collapses. Then (maybe), there will be a "reboot".
These are the signs of the return of Jesus. He said the #1 sign would be deception -Matthew 24. In 2 Timothy Paul said lawlessness would be one of the many horrible signs of the Lord's return. It's all unfolding. Get right with Jesus if you aren't now. I love you all.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 My eyes ARE open, they're just not covered with rose-colored glasses. I don't know what world YOU'RE living in, but the America of today is NOT what it was in the past. I stand by my statement
@Irving Shekelstein Who said anything about race?...those attributes can apply to anyone. YOU'RE making it about race, so what does that say about your own focus?
Nothing like the fresh smell of clothes and sheets hung on a line outside!!! Also nothing funnier than helping our mom running and trying to yank them off the line when an unexpected rain came! ☺️☺️☺️☺️ Born in 1955
I was born in 51 and remember that smell! Helped hang clothes out and bring them inburing nose in them to smell that wonderful clean smell! Still love to climb in bed and smell that fragrance!!
Phone booths are another lost cultural icon. There used to be one in our neighborhood until around 2008, I think the property owner kept it by their business for nostalgia's sake. My Grandmother always bought Chevy's, she had a '57 BelAir just like the the one in the video. You could add phone books and Sears and Wards catalogs, especially the Christmas editions, to the list.
@@howellwong11 Starting about 1970 in USA, new half-shell phone booths on metal stand poles started to replace, phase out the former tall, step in and sit down, glass accordion-doored fully enclosing phone booths that offered quiet for listening, privacy for speaking, and shelter from outside elements. In the vintage Superman comics, Clark Kent would step into a phone booth and use it as a semi-private changing booth to don his Superman costume.
The sears wish book was still around in the 70s. We would look through and choose our wishes. My parents would choose from what we circled, though I don't think they bought them at sears. We were toys r us kids!
I remember Mary Jane style shoes that actually had pre-holed straps with buckles and prongs, NOT these velcro closures they have, today. If there weren't enough holes, parents could add what was needed with an awl. I still love the Mary Jane shoes, though the color selections today are sorely limited. Time was, you could get them in almost any color.
I remember my grandmother would starch and iron her bed sheets. When we visited, I always loved sleeping on those sheets. That was in the late 50s and 60s.
When I grew up ironing was my chore. I had to iron sheets and my father’s underwear! I used to ask my mom who was going to know if dad’s underwear was wrinkled or ironed? I never got an answer except oh shut up and do your chores. Won’t touch an iron to this day. My good stuff I hang up right out of the wash when it’s done. If something is wrinkled I’ll throw it in the dryer dry and let the heat knock out the wrinkles. Lousy tee shirts and Cotten under pants go in the dryer. Bras go in a mesh bag to be washed on delicate and they dry on my door knobs!
My mom was born in the early 1930s, she learned how to write cursive with a fountain pen and ink well. I found most people of her generation had very similar penmanship. This of course was before they had invented ball point pens.
I was born in 1939 and you hit almost everything I remember of the '50's. In my small town, Geneseo, NY, Ulmer's Drug Store had a soda fountain. My future father-in-law had a '57 Belair, blue, white top, four-door hardtop convertible with a power pack. Incredible automobile. Great video. Thank you.
I was born in 1953, even I remember a lot of this. We are so lucky to have lived through the short "golden age" of America (1946 thru 1966) when the average Joe had a great life and maximum purchasing power.
Hey Jim, I never knew you were that much older than me (1950)! Did I ever tell you that my very first car was a '57 Chevy 2door sedan white over turquoise? And for me it was a nickel mug of root beer at Newberry's in Ithaca... two straws and see if I or my buddy could suck the fastest and drink the most. Hope all is well with you in historically beautiful Livingston County,
The neighbors had a mulberry tree. Birds love mulberries. Birds loved relieving themselves over the laundry hanging on the lines. Their aim was incredible.
They do have great aim, I must admit. I also have a mulberry tree and a clothesline. Far apart though. I have 3 acres, and they are on opposite sides. (Jan Griffiths).
I have a mulberry tree! birds love mulberries, so do kids, I ate thousands of them. We had tortoise and they loved them as well. Their mouths would be purple. As kids we just thought that was hilarious.
When I was in Kindergarten in 1966, we'd go to a soda fountain at a local drugstore and get milkshakes. They all seemed to disappear by the 70s. My grandmother had an old washing machine with the ringer. She used it until her death in the 70s. My mother ironed dress shirts and used clothes lines into the 70s as well. You could do a video on the 1960s as well.
I grew up in the 60s but we still wrote on a blackboard at school. We also still did air-raid drills for a time. I remember ducking under the desk or lying down in the hallway. How did the comedian Louis Black put it: "Protection my *#&, it was kindling.!" I lived in Texas during the 90s and the Chevy dealer down the street from my home had a 57 Chevy in the showroom. I don't recall how many miles were on it but was in mint condition, light blue with a white leather interior. He told me it was mostly for show but he said if he got the right offer he would be open to selling it. Cool stuff. Thanks for posting the memories and keep up the good work.
I remember seeing the laundry ringer, telephone switchboard, did the cursive on the blackboard in 2nd grade and we had the Compton’s Encyclopedia instead of the Britannica. Born in 65 here.
my granny taught me to iron in the late 50s and i got very good at it.....i cold take a can of spary starch and make a garment look like it came from a professional cleaners, in 66, while in the army, i ironed a lot of fatigues for the guys and this skill still serves me today....i have been married for 55 years and basically ironed all our cloths, most of the time
You were in the army in '66? Didn't you realize the Vietnam war was the beginning of the end for your imperialist country? Look at the true America now. Supporting and supplying Israel to mass murder unarmed civilians. You must be so proud. The state of the world today lays on the shoulders of your pathetic country. Keep ironing.
I would add S and H Green stamps and Plaid stamps to this list. I remember every adult feverishly saving all of theirs, filling out their trading stamp books in the hopes to get an item- toys, housewares, furnishings, you name it. Also, many car companies don't exist today that were around in the 1950s. When was the last time you saw an Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Studebaker, Packard, Hudson, Nash, or Kaiser-Frazer?
Yes, and also orange stamps and Blue Chip stamps. I still have the pen and pencil holder and matching organizer I got from the Blue Chip catalog way back in the 60s.
There was a soda fountain in the back of our local Woolworth 5 & Dime. My dad made quite the distinction between a malt and a shake: "They add malt to a malted." Given his girth, I tended to trust him on all things sweet. As for the seatbeltless cars, don't forget to metal dashboard! As a kid I loved the '57 Chevy because I could stand on the backseat and my head didn't touch the ceiling.
The thing I miss was "Downtown." As a teens we would go downtown to see a movie in a large movie house. After that we would go to Woolworths to eat at the grill. If we had any money left, we would go to the pinball arcade. Then stop at the bookstore to look at blacklight posters. There was even a "Topless" bar that would keep the doors open in the summer time. Us teen boys would stop and peer in until some man would come and chase us away. This was in the early to mid-seventies.
@@smith1958b I remember when boy's were ACTUALLY boys, and girls, were ACTUALLY girls, and the young boys and girls, ACTUALLY knew what public bathrooms, to use, do you remember that?
Watson's in Orange California was a soda fountain and restaurant next to a pharmacy own by Watson. I remember eating there with my dad into the 21 century. Mr Watson was always at the pharmacy selling the medication. When he passed away it was turn into a sports bar. I felt it was such as shame to be destroyed.
@@swannoir7949 Affably disagree. Humanity throughout history had always carried a sense of selfishness but today, it's become mainstay in the conscience of the last few generations. People today are less courteous, kind and compassionate unless it gets them likes and they want the world to know. Pride has exceeded humility to a point of disgust. The eighties were mild compared to the millennial.
@@harmgregory4560 Amen. It was Reagan and the Republican Party that issued in their "trickle-down economics" which got us into this mess to begin with. Then turnaround, and point the fingers at the Democrats, whom they expected to clean up this mess, they left behind. But the Democrats went along for the ride, regardless. That is why I'm staying my Black ass at home on election day.
Born in 1960, I still remember the Encyclopedia salesman walking down the street and my dad agreed to buy a set. We had them for so many years. This was before man landed on the moon, so it was funny to read through that letter to see how they predicted things like that. So many things I miss about those times. One kind of blue jeans and if you wanted them faded, your mom had to bleach them. Ripped jeans were turned into play clothes, not something to wear as a fashion statement. Mom stayed home while dad worked. She was there to greet us when we came home from school. You only ate out on special occassions. Gas was cheap and cars were huge and were made of metal. You ate at the dinner table without the television blaring. There were no cell phones or computers. People didn't curse on television. Naked people didn't appear all over the screen. Couples got married before living together. (well, mostly) Stores were closed on Sunday. Television went off the air at midnight. (or maybe 10 pm). The Nation Anthem was played on t.v. as it went off the air each night. Boys were boys and girls were girls. A prayer was said at the beginning of the day in school. Parernts didn't have to sign a consent form for their kids to be paddled in school. If a kid deserved a paddling, he or she was lit up by the principal. There was no "time out" to think about what you had done. You were wrong and you paid the consequences and thought twice before ever doing that again. You could understand the lyrics of songs on the radio. Some didn't make sense, but at least you could understand what was being said. Cursing in a song was not in "fashion". Women didn't wear yoga pants to the grocery store. Pajamas were worn only in the home. People dressed up to attend sporting events. Preachers didn't wear ripped jeans in order to attract a younger crowd to their congregation. News reporters actually reported the news and refrained from giving their opinions. Football players didn't dance in the end zone after scoring a touchdown. They simply smiled and handed the ball to the referee. Fans didn't run onto the field in protest of the latest complaint. I could go on and on and on. Maybe someone could add to this list. Have a great day!
I was born in 1956, and I remember that growing up in the 1960s included being able to play outside anywhere in town, without any parental supervision, walking 3 miles each way to school every day, and never having ANYONE to DRIVE us to school, because only Dad owned a CAR, and h needed it for work!!
@@bradbackauthor9940 1952 model here. Always walked to school, no matter the weather. Dad had the '54 Ford for work. :) I remember the day he came home and said "well, looks like I have to buy a Chevy!" It was his way of telling us that he'd just been hired at Chevrolet Engineering at the new General Motors complex north of Detroit. I'll never forget that last ride in the old Ford. Dad took me with him and he bought 25 cents worth of gas, telling the attendant that he was selling the car that day and getting a new one. Ah, memories...
I love this nostalgic video! I remember fluoroscopes in shoe stores, and then, when we'd shop in Gimbel's, we'd climb the few stairs to a platform where our salesmen would press the toes of our shoes to make sure they'd fit. Some doctors also had fluoroscopes to check for broken bones after an injury. It was amazing that I could wiggle my fingers and see the bones! Oh, do I miss the switchboard operators! The other day I spent HOURS trying to reach my service provider. The voice menu couldn't understand my question, and I kept trying to reach a human being. A switchboard operator would have known what I wanted and gotten me to the right person in a few seconds. I miss when companies would pride themselves on customer service -- that's a thing of the past. I also miss being free as a child. We didn't need play dates, we'd just go outside and find our friends. Saturdays we could spend the whole day in the movies. Back then, even our humble movie theater had a live show, then a travelogue, newsreel, cartoons, and two feature movies! There was also a matron who patrolled the children's section. She actually wore a white uniform and wielded a flashlight. What I miss most was getting to know our neighbors. As a child, I was fascinated by old people, and would question them non-stop about what their childhood was like. My most vivid memory is my conversations with a particular neighbor. She had been born a slave! This was in the 1950s, so she would have been in her late 80s or early 90s. And what fascinated me most was that, if she also loved talking to very old people, she could have met someone who had been born before the Revolution!!! Time is a funny thing, sometimes it creeps along, and sometimes it speeds by. Thanks for posting these videos. You make time slow time just a bit!
Born in 58 but my memories of the early 60s were were very similar. Raised in a small town, 50s technology continued. Telephone calls were long distance 10 plus miles away and you had to go through an operator. Very expensive too.
im sorry but your nostalgia has gotten the better of you. those times were statistically inferior and obsolete now. just as this decade will be made obsolete in 50 years too. move forward, not back
@@yeoldeseawitch Your arbitrary interpretation has no significance over hers. Seriously, it takes a massive amount of narcissism to dictate how others are allowed to remember their past.
@@yeoldeseawitch One: your reasoning is absolutely subjective and two: one can progress while still believing past events were/are better. Wow, how one dimensional are you?
@@yeoldeseawitch Dude You have some serious issues. Why would you come along and bust someone’s bubble like that. That was back when life was real. If you don’t like what you read or see hear go somewhere else and take your negative attitude with you. Your on line name matches your personality. Get a life and quit disrespecting others.
@@emmgeevideo no used them all through school years . Wish I still had them just for the memories, those and HUGE National Geographic magazines.. remember them
@@kbunky69 LOL... Yes, I remember National Geographic. We used to flip through them hoping to find pictures of African tribes because the ladies didn't always wear more than a skirt.
I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s and we had antenna tvs, cursive handwriting and encyclopedias. I would have liked to enjoy a soda fountain at the drug stores.
@@bighands69 School lunch was 35 cents, if you skip a lunch or two you could have a nice banana split with three scoops of ice cream after school. Don't tell mom that.
I'm probably the same age as you and we could get a coke anywhere we wanted. It wasn't a luxury item. TV's with rabbit ears sucked, cursive handwriting is pointless unless you're trying to impress someone. We have the internet now so you don't need encyclopedias. You're not missing out on anything, I promise. People weren't better in the 50's, they were actually super racist and and sexist and the upper middle class made it worse for all Americans just like they do today.
Yea there was a Soda Fountain near where we lived until 70s they would put flavored syrup in your Coke, cherry, chocolate, vanilla was another but can't remember what it was.
@@CarynGibson-ey1xn If you like cursive, that's fine. I was just pointing out that the ability to write in cursive isn't a requirement to being understood. I personally don't judge people based on their signature. The jobs I have had require me to sign my name thousands of times to the point where my signature is just a scribble.
Oh, dear sir, I remember drugstore soda fountains until 1970. Every neighborhood had one. They were like alcohol less neighborhood bars. The food was delicious, great truck stop - like food.
"The '50s, when a kid could be outside at night, and not end up with his picture on a milk carton." (The Wonder Years). It was not unusual to get in the house after 9PM on summer nights. We were safe. I wish I could spend my life in the '50s---I would miss color TV & microwave ovens, not to mention modern medical.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 ----I first used a microwave at the Lincoln, Nebraska train station in summer 1960, when I was 11. I saw a demonstration on the Today Show a few weeks earlier. IDK how far back they existed as a home appliance.
@@elultimo102 My dad got my mom an Amana Radarange microwave oven in 1968. They had dials on them then, and the door opened like the oven door on a stove. She was still using it into the 90s. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 We got a "Frigidaire" made by Amana in '78, but left it with the house in '94. I picked up an Amana dial-front and one with a touch-screen and still have them, along with 2-convection. (garage sale specials). They were made to be repairable, and not disposable. I'm probably going to Craigslist at least two of them.
What an era! What a time to be alive and working/plying/learning! Given that some trends lingered and held on a bit, I'd say the 50s-70s was the best 30 years to be growing up/living!
Unfortunately it all had the worst cases of racism as well as people getting away with child, spousal and animal cruelty they any other decade that followed
I remember all those days in the drugstore when you got the drinks and The fountains and the grill they have jukebox with dance and then then they had the drive-ins and they have little patio dancing outside the cars
Some of the things I remember from the '50s: Garbage men for wet garbage, the not food Garbage was collected on a different day. 2. Coal deliveries for our coal furnace, 3. Men going down the street selling blocks of ice for those of us that didn't yet have electric refrigerators, 4. Traveling salesman that sold clothes to my mother, 5. Doctors who made house calls regularly, 6. Six ounce "tap glasses " for beer on draft (draught" to be correct), 7. 5 cent Cashews in a machine at one or both ends of the bar, 8. Saloons that had a rail to place a foot on, 81/2 saloons that still had spitoons, 9. being able to take a shotgun in a case that you checked in to the principal's office so I could go hunting after school. 1
My first apartment post-university (1975) in Seattle still had an old-fashioned ice box. (We had a regular refrigerator, too.) How I loved that place - $160/mo., split with my roommate. Utilities about $8 for two months. Good times! (I made $440/month.) Now the same apartment is renting for over $2300/mo..
@Greg Bloomfield Thanks for recalling the Fuller Brush man (or as I thought it was when a kid: "the full-of-brush man!" Also there was the Watkins man and Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen who'ld come to your door. The last time I saw a Fuller Brush man was 1971.
Also, the wringer washer, the milkman making deliveries...& glass bottles for milk (even in school), pop in glass bottles, country doctor, poodle skirts with net slips under & bobbie socks (I missed those, but remember from my older sister😁), Ivory bar soap, black & wh tv, movie camera & those movies on reels, and Elvis......same older sister loved him; she also watched Bandstand every Saturday(?)......
My parents owned a chain of grocery stores from 1950 until their retirement in 1981. The super markets all had soda fountains with a service eat in counter and booths. Our main or original location was in a shopping center my dad had built in 1953, and the soda fountain was expanded into a full service restaurant/steakhouse. I along with my siblings decided to take another path in life and only worked with our parents through high school and college.
I was born in 1950 and remember all of these categories fairly well. A much better era than today from my perspective. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio...
Born in '47, I remember all, except writing on the blackboard. We were given stick pens, ink pots, and the lousiest pulpy paper to practice cursive. My older brother had a gorgeous '57 Chevy Bel Air, 2 door hardtop, fire engine red, red and black interior. Souped up engine, 4 on the floor, 1/4 mile in the low 14s. What a car!!!!
A little younger than you, but I remember the pulpy paper, the widely spaced lines with the broken one in the middle in grade school in the 50's and early 60's. I've seen the handwriting of young adults and children today, little or no cursive, it looks like grafitti to me.
shades of PLEASANTVILLE and BACK TO THE FUTURE. So very happy that TH-cam and others came up with this feature. Who was it that said: "You can never go home again"? sure you can.....with a click of a keystroke.
I Am Only In My Early 20s But I Can Not Help Myself From FeelIng Oh So Greatly Attached To This Wonderful Magical Era… Thank You For Sharing Sincerely ! ! ! !
Because the values of that time speak to your heart, even though you didn't experience that era. Some necessary reforms have come about since then -- employment hiring decisions based on legitimate qualifications and not just skin color, gender or age. And women being promoted on the basis of their ability, experience and work performance, and not held back just because they're women. Reforms like that were sorely needed, in the interest of true fairness and justice. However, we still have a two-tiered justice system, even today, so the catching up was never complete. What I don't understand is WHY there's still a disparity in pay between male and female employees. I thought equal pay for equal work was encoded into law a long time ago. Yet, there are still issues with women being paid less for doing exactly the same work as their male counterparts. That part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act is not being enforced. WHY NOT?
My grandma and her twin both worked as cardboard operators. My mom and dad & his dad both worked for the phone company. I started working for the phone company right out of high school. Had 2 first cousins also work for phone company. I did 37 years, dad was 42, his father 45. Overall my family put in well over 150 years.
As an Australian born in the mid 1950’s, we had Hills hoist rotary clothes lines that were always wonky from us kids swinging around on them, which was a lot of fun. Almost every family had one - many still do, actually. In the 50’s Mum always did the washing in the copper with a wringer attached, and then it got hung on the wonky clothes line until we girls had to bring it in later that day and fold it all. That was a big job. There were eight kids in my family. I don’t really know what a soda fountain is. We had bottled soft drinks like Coke, Pepsi, Passiona and Fanta orange and of course lemonade. These were often in a self-serve fridge that you put money in the slot, then slid your selection across to get it out. There was a bottle opener on the side. We had milk shakes in the big metal containers that kept them really cold. Chocolate malted was my favourite. We also had thick shakes. There were ‘spiders’, which was just coke poured over ice cream in a glass, but I didn’t really like them. We also had sit in booths in the Milk Bars, as we called them, and you could order banana splits, and ice cream sundaes. They usually had a juke box, which was lovely, and sometimes the older girls would dance, even though there wasn’t much room. Later on in the 60’s they got pinball machines, which were so much fun. I remember that sweet pop it made when you got enough points for a free game! I got pretty good at playing them for ages on just one sixpence. I used to get in trouble from my father though, cause I guess it wasn’t seemly for a young girl to be playing the ‘pinnies’. Ahh, they were good times.
I saw a pic or vid of a mid century Australian back yard the other day, and there was one of those rotary clothes lines in it, which I thought was interesting, because we had them just like that here in America, too
I just love these videos. I have so many comments but I’ll just mention a couple. We had a drive up restaurant called the Flame and the waitress would come out with roller skates on and take our order. When she brought the order out you would have to roll up the window a little bit so she could hang the tray on it. Also I remember when grandma and grandpa got there first phone. It was a party line and it didn’t matter what ring it was grandma would answer it and yell on it as loud as she could. She couldn’t understand how anyone could hear her through the wires. It was so funny. And one more. My Aunt Dorothy was doing laundry and she got her boob caught in the ringer. That was also so funny. Long time ago.
I remember that! Ours was a "Steak 'N Shake" and the waitresses (no waiters that I remember) would roller skate around and take your order and then bring the food to you (roller skating carrying the tray). I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the memory.
@ 18 years of age, I had my long hair stuck in the wringer roller, so I turned it off and removed my hair from it. I know a guy around my age who had his arm stuck in it as a small child and ended up with the scars. Unfortunately, he died in the auto collision @ about 23 in 1981.
Thanks for posting this great video, it brought back many memories. My dad had a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, two tone, automatic push button. He had a lot of great cars over the years but that was the one he had prized the most. The odometers then only went to 100,000 miles and then back to zero and I remember him taking me for the ride when that happened.
A lot of kids in my family back then, and in 1960 (?), we got a late 1950's three seater station wagon.....the back seat faced backwards....so fun!! But it was some type of Plymouth with the push buttons! I guess that concept never really caught on!!?
Born in 1958. When my parents brought me home from the hospital as a newborn, my Dad`s car was a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere in pink with white wall tires! He was teased about the pink but he loved it!
Wonderful nostalgic walk back to a simpler time. I remember helping my grandmother with the ringer washer, hanging clothes on a line with clothes pins, and ironing my grandfather's handkerchiefs. My mother, was a switchboard operator, at Motorola. Her first automobile, was a white 1957, Pontiac Bonneville, with red interior. My mother was a classy lady, but that car was nothing but trouble for her. We couldn't afford a set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas, but I recall longing for them, and drooling over the set at our local library. Eventually, my prized possession as a teenager, was my hardcover Webster's Dictionary. I think you forgot to mention the neighborhood grocery. They were the transition between the mercantile, and supermarkets. And the Dimestore, which was a hybrid of pharmacy, soda fountain, newsstand, and trinket store. There were neighborhood versions, and the famous Woolworth's. In the summer, we walked to the Dimestore, every day. I purchased my first Barbie doll there, and we would often walk home eating our orange push-ups.
I worked at Motorola too, but not as a switchboard operator. I was in the engineering department for 23 years. I worked at the Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, AZ. (Jan Griffiths).
There's a great one at a drug store in downtown Abilene, KS as well. It's worth checking out and keeping in the spirit of theings if you visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
Carlisle Drugs in Alexander City AL still has a soda fountain. Well, it still did when I worked at Russell Athletic from 1995-1998. I hope it still exists. It was a really nostalgic place to relax and enjoy a good cheese burger.
I remember many years ago leaving the city. I had a sense of adventure at 18 years old. So I took a trip to Montana,the scenery was breathtaking. I did have an opportunity to stop in this old but fully intact maltshop. I got to chatting with the owner and he had owned the place since the 50s. He said he never changed the style of the malts,or his out of this world cheeseburgers. I enjoyed everything about that place. I wish we could bring some of the stuff from the 50s back again😊
sounds like an episode of T.Z. (twilight zone). That was the theme in a couple of his shows and I loved them Many of us yearn to relive our youth or certain times of our past. Oh, to have a time machine, program it to a time a place you want to return and relive that time for just a little while maybe a version of TOTAL RECALL, without the horror of course, like a mini-vacation. Though it might be hard having to return to the present.
My older sisters were 50s children and I was a 60s child. They were gracious enough to take me with them in their teens. I always watched them dance, go to car hops, watched American Bandstand together, they took their younger brother on Coney Island rides, Nathan's, Mitchell's and Big Daddy's for lunch. Miss them.
We had a black & white console TV. When you changed a TV channel the knob made this loud, "ketchunk kerchunk" sound. Then you'd adjust the 'rabbit ear' antenna to get the best picture reception.
I wasn’t born till 1982, but I still remember learning to write cursive on the chalkboard and putting tinfoil on those rabbit ears in 1989. But I definitely never heard of those foot X-ray machines until watching this. That gave me a good laugh.
@@CloudWatcher500 Shoe store salesmen would seat customers who had selected a shoe style from the display, then fit their unshoed foot onto a metal scale on the floor to measure the foot to get the right size shoe.
Cursive was nothing but a torture, it was pointless. It's only useful for old dip-ink pens. That's why it was invented, to minimize lifting of the pen which caused drips. For modern pens and pencils it's useless. Anyway, I could never get it right. My teacher eventually gave up and gave me special permission to just print.
I've got some school papers when I was in High School in the 1970s. You had to write everything in cursive. The funny thing is I can't read my papers anymore. It all looks like heiroglyphics to me. If I write anything it's all print now. Still know how to write cursive.
I have so many fond memories of the 40s and 50s but I will mention only one. Local soda fountain had the sit up to the counter stools PLUS white wire backed chairs sitting up to small round tables. This has been so much fun.
Cursive writing has made a comeback in bullet journaling and related aesthetics. Not just cursive, either, but there's been a revival of Spencerian penmanship, specifically, amongst Gen Z students. Very cool to see.
I am learning Spencerian Handwriting atm. I did learn it in primary school, which was as Catholic school, but on starting high school we had to print so I forgot how to write cursive. I was born in 1958
My neighbor is teaching her two sons to write cursive, using the Palmer method. It allows you to write more quickly, and some people see it as a sign of a better education.
Thanks for the memories!!!!!! I remember all those items that you mentioned and they seem just like yesterday!!!!! Unfortunately the only way we can go back is through all the pictures we took!!!!!
Seeing those clothes being hung on that clothes line, I remember how fresh they smelled when my mom brought them into the house when they were dry. It made the whole house smell WONDERFUL!!!
1. Common sense 2. Decency 3. Self-Respect 4. Patriotism 5. Free Speech 6. Sense of Humor 7. Marriage 8. Manhood 9. Womanhood 10. Literacy 11. Penmanship 12. The Ability to Drive
Surely deep down you know that some of those examples are overgeneralizations. All twelve are not gone forever from the world. I think some of those things are just less common. Your putting "Manhood" and "Womanhood" after "Marriage" makes it seem you are against gay marriage. I respectfully disagree. You have a right to your opinion, as do others. What "Decency" is defined as is something some disagree on. Literacy, penmanship, and careful driving are among things that have always been important to me.
Move to Utah! Because the Mormons don't drink coffee, soda fountains have become the de-facto "coffee shop". There's millions (not literally, of course) here.
@@lanegunnell1218 Thanks for the tip. What do they have against coffee ☕️? What is it? The demon drink? I don’t get it. Because Caffeine is a drug? Very Strange.
Over-the-air TV still exists and so do "Rabbit Ear" antennas. I luckily live in a "signal rich" area an no longer need cable as I can receive 60+ broadcast channels with a set of rabbit ears that I bought at Dollar General LAST YEAR for less than $10.
Impressive. I remember those rabbit ears - you had to stand on a chair in the corner on one leg leaning to the right arm extended fully🤣 Sometimes it worked, but by that time you were usually out of vision range of the tv anyway. Happy days🥰👍
I remember having a dress exactly the same as the little girl in the photo in the classroom made by my grandmother. Plaid cotton was really in style! My grandparents gave my parents a television as a gift in honor of my birth in 1952!
ALSO GONE FOREVER: 1. American manufacturing. 2. The American Middle Class. 3. The American Work Ethic. 4. Civility and good manners. Being polite. 5. Objective Journalism in the mainstream media. 6. Dressing modestly. Seriously, the list goes on and on.
5: oh please. If anything it was far more of an establishment and tow the government line media back then. Now we have far more options to see different views and actually do our own research into an issue than accept what was printed.
The American work ethic still exists -- even more so today imho. It's just not recognized because so many worker's rights have disappeared, and people are starting to seriously recognize that so they're just not willing to break their ass for crummy wages anymore.
We had a soda fountain at Madura's Pharmacy in South Amboy, NJ. I had a 1956 Turquoise Chevrolet in the 1960's. It burned oil quite a bit and my uncle got it for me. Wish I had it today.
I wonder if that was around in the 60’s. We lived in Matawan but my dad would drive us up to the So. Amboy YMCA. We’d be given money for lunch & hang out swimming & playing in the gym.
I still do laundry and ironing on Saturdays!!!!I did a trunk switchboard for The Whittier daily news while I was in college!Still have this camera!I taught for 40 years retiring in 2014 and I wouldnt let them take out my chalkboard.......for the messy whiteboard!I bought a set of World book in 1985 and still find it extremely useful!I had my own set from the 1950s.I loved pantie raids...lol...........we would only leave out underwear that was sexy and they hung it across campus on a clothesline!!!!
@@wesmcgee1648 Take making anything with using Nyquill for instance. I'm surprised that even nowadays, the federal government hasn't yet issued a law that states that you need a license to buy it. The stuff has 10% alcohol for goodness sakes!
Loved this, took me back to the soda fountain, drive in movies, walks in the park with my sweetie at dusk, and Church picnics on the grounds. We were smarter back then, we knew right from wrong, didn't have to to worry about offending everyone. We could almost trust Dr.'s, politicians and always Ministers. Now we have vet them before using their services. Our children are paying the price.
Out little town just got word that someone is going to reopen the soda fountain shop this summer! I’m praying that it happens before everyone gathers for my parents anniversary. My kids and my brothers kids remembered when we moved to a small town that had a soda fountain shop that was still open, 1999. It closed shortly after though, to the disappointment of us all. We will be ecstatic if this opens before family comes!
@@Laura0IN As soon as I have enough revenue, I'm going to start a soda fountain business... Along with all the classic soda fountain drinks, we'll serve 🍔burgers,fries,classic sandwiches🥪and sell Sundries, and various things you can't get elsewhere...
@@harmgregory4560 Not to mention banning some people from restrooms, lunch counters, drinking fountains, front of the bus, etc. because of their skin color.
The great thing with encyclopedias was that you could look up something and then have you eye be caught with other topics to learn about. That might hold true with the internet too but I'm willing to bet it doesn't happen as much.
I'll see something on the internet like face book and then go look it up. In some ways I wish the internet was up in the 1970s. But I did enjoy the Encyclopedias of the day.
@NO-TO-NATO sadly you're right. The internet can put in front of people ideas that don't have to be fact checked or from a reliable source, or even true. The encyclopedia company could be held to a higher standard.
You cannot crank these videos out fast enough for me. I love each and every single individual you put out!!! Sometimes I let them pile up so I can watch/listen to them all in a row. I'm weird that way. If I wasn't on a broken income I would send you money like a TV. preacher.
I, was born in 1957 and I still remember when my mother would wash clothes on Mondays and iron on Tuesdays. I, remember the Maytag Square Wringer Washer and the Sear's Kenmore Wringer Washer also. I, still remember when my mother would hang laundry on the clothesline to dry before ironing clothes. I, remember the Colonial Style A&P Stores,and when Kroger gave Top Value Trading Stamps. And, soda fountains in the Department Stores and Drugstores. The, rabbit ears antennas. Life was much more simpler back then, than now a days.
Fully agree that the morality n kindness n good service are a thing of the past. My husband just said, sheesh, what service? Though there has always been immorality we do see it is far worse than it’s ever been. That’s the saddest part. Little kids could go for walks n play all over in the neighborhood without fear of being stolen or harmed. I miss those days. But the sin will be taken care of pretty soon. :) I wonder if there will be malts n things like that in the 1000 year reign?
Rolling laughing my husband laughed and said I don’t remember mom doing all the work, we all had to help, LOL I loved the ringer washers! My clothes got so clean n smelled so good. N I loved hanging up clothes on the line. Women ironed because the material wrinkled. I always ironed my jeans but didn’t need to, but I liked the clean crisp creases. Note: Never put the T poles for clothesline’s in a birds path in the sky or you will be rewashing lots of clothes. Birds take certain paths like we have roads. Find a path they don’t take! LOL I miss the old stores like a Benjamin Franklins, Woolworths, Hudson’s, Wards, Sears, free popcorn n beer nuts in various places! Old time hardware stores where you could find anything n everything but there was an ashtray in every corner n sometimes a spittoon. By then most used a pop bottle. Gross! LOL I loved those days though! I loved listening to the stories on the radio. And listening to WJR n CKLW n etc... our radio had buttons with the names on them n it would go to that spot, LOL And later I got one I could fling the knob to the right or left real fast to get to where I wanted on the radio n I didn’t have to program anything. A rotary phone you could whip against the wall n it would still work. If you were upset you could slam the receiver down but last second we always refrained! LOL Now there’s no temptation cuz there is nothing to slam down! LOL 😂 We still have a working phone booth here because the Mennonites use it. Which I probably should get a picture of before they get rid of it. Beautiful days n simpler times! We were all healthier too! ....Especially if we didn’t eat bottom feeders n pig. People that ate these n pig seemed to get sick more often than others. I loved the old stores n the pop machines where you lift the lid n it was full of ice water n got the wet bottle of pop for a dime n later a quarter n piped the lid off with the bottle opener attached. We made things out of bottle caps n saved them n got free things n discounts in the lids. We also made gum wrapper chains n played marbles n jacks n rode bikes n never went in the house til the lights outside came on. We made forts n collected tadpoles n craw dads for fishing n used red chiffon paper over a flashlight at night in the rain to get earthworms! LOL I loved those days! We didn’t have to buy a permit for everything. The police didn’t pull cars over for money, they were our friends n cared for us. I remember my mom having fits about the little rascals not having parental supervision and said nobody should watch that trash! LOL I could go on and on! LOL
Top Value Trading Stamps AND S & H Green Stamps. I remember my mother colleting them and then going to their "stores" to purchase something with the filled books. Several of our gas stations gave them out too.
We had the Brittanica books. I remember doing a lot of book reports using them. My parents would have us pick out a book and we had to pick out topic and tell them about it. lol We loved Brittanica. Schools should go back to using the chalkboard. Pressure from your peers might make you study harder. It worked for us.
Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia that I acquired in the early-'70s for only $2 per letter volume, sometimes getting two letters for a rare letter as Q or X! And I still remember how to spell that word from Disney's character, "Jiminy Cricket" in a segment of "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-59), who yelled out each letter: "E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A." "Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" --Dick Martin ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" tv show, 1967-73).
@@freeguy77 My siblings & I watched Mickey Mouse Club every day back when....I had forgotten about Juminy Cricket!😁 And, those Funk & Wagnals....I have about half of a set, which I bought a volume a week from a local grocery store. It was in the mid 70s (?) when I had young children, thus many distractions, thus why only half a set of F & W encyclopedias!🤷🏼♀️
THANK YOU FOR TAKING ME BACK TO CANAL STREET AND K& B DRUG STORE ,BEST NECTOR SODA FLOAT EVER. BUT WHAT I MISS THE MOST ARE THE LOVE ONES NOT HERE ANYMORE.GOD BLESS
I can’t believe I just discovered your channel. Been watching your videos for 2 days straight now. I am really a fan and I always have fascination about the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s era. Hope you can create a video about make ups in those eras as well. Much love from the 🇵🇭
I LOVED SEEING THE PHOTO OF THE SODA FOUNTAINS WITH MAGAZINE RACK IN THE BACKGROUND WHAT HAPPY TIMES THAT BRINGS BACK THRIFTYS DRUG STORE 5 AND10'S THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS AND GREAT FOOD
Lunch counters in drug stores existed into the 1970s. You could get a cheeseburger and fries cooked to order and eat it at the counter in the drugstore. Some department stores also had lunch area where you could get cooked food. I was shocked to find out recently that cursive is no longer taught in schools. Along with finding out that kids no longer walked to school. They are driven or take a school bus. When I was growing up on the first day of school you were driven by a parent to make sure you knew how to get there. Then we walked to school usually with friends. You would see groups of children walking all at the same time. We walked in rain, snow or sunshine. Most schools I walked to were 3-5 blocks away. I suppose that is why it was unusual to see fat children or teens back then as most of us got exercise walking each day.
In Los Angeles in the 1970s there was a Thrifty drug store with a food counter. I remember the food being very good. Sometimes my mother and I would eat dinner there.
Highways have pretty much stifled walking. There’s not many sidewalks, and schools aren’t a part of the neighborhood. Most children are bussed because of consolidation. If you have or go to the EU, you’ll see the traditional way of traveling. Also, Main Streets still had lunch counters in the mid~eighties. With ancient walk in wooden, glass, seat, and ceiling exhaust for phone calls.
I know a restored soda fountain outside Houston. All drinks including the Sodas are mixed by hand. They make their own butterscotch and even serve the old phosphates. It’s called Another Time Soda Fountain in Rosenberg TX.
in the early 1970s, our town had to rely on the old switchboard to make calls for a few weeks while the phone system was rebuilt after a mishap. People stopped using the phone except for calls going outside of town. It was easier to go over to a person's house than to wait 20 minutes for an operator to connect you.
We had a 1947 Dodge fluid drive imported from the USA. I grew up in South Africa and we had marvellous soda fountains but they were independent and not an adjunct of a drug store. And a Maytag washing machine with a wringer.
My Mom and Dad met in this decade, RIP, I love you. That era the USA was growing rapidly, highways being built, the servicemen from the war we're settling down and towns and cities were expanding, my parents were part of the in the Boston area, I was born in 1960, I remember very patriotic upbringing, close family ties, always visiting each other, I witnessed many changes since then, now I'm 61 and so grateful for my freedoms as a USA citizen, it's a brave new world for sure. 🇺🇸🙏
I remember party lines. I would call this number and listen to very faint voices talking, then scream my number into the phone and hope some girl heard it and calls me. They never did.
@@smith1958b Wrong type of party lines. The type I was thinking about, were when multiple families shared the same telephone line. So, if somebody got a call, that family would have a different ring than the other families. It also meant when somebody was on the line, the other families could not make or get calls.
@@randyronny7735 That was before my time, or in a rural area. But there was once the thing I described, we called them party lines. That was during the late seventies.
I’m only 37, born in 84… in the 90s my mom still had a wringer washer , maybe cause we weren’t as financially well off? We did have a dryer though. .. we also still used encyclopedias, and dictionaries… we also learned to write cursive … and had black boards written on with chalk. We had 13 channels on our small TV . Perhaps b/c we grew up in a smaller city???
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 Yeah, there was the Internet, but sometimes it was easier to snatch a book off the shelf than to turn on the computer and go on the Internet with the dial-up modem and stuff.
I remember the antenna being called "Rabbit ears" not "Bunny ears." Perhaps it depended on where you were from.
We called them rabbit ears, too.
We called them RABBIT EARS where I lived!
We called them 'Children With Hangers"
Born & raised in SoCal; dad was from Arizona, mom was from Nebraska. They called them rabbit ears too.
From the 1953 start of the Playboy magazine and human woman bunny, "bunny ears" were her headgear.
I was born in 1938 ! Still going strong ! Really enjoyed this video !!! Keep 'em comin' !!!
I was born in 1938 too and everything in this video .;-) ;-) Rang lots of bells I love this video
Hang in there sweetie!!!
share all your ideas with the world we love you !!!!
@Wildlife warrior ... On this Earth or another Planet ?
In the mid-fifties --- my high school days --- A very popular dance at the time was "The Bunny Hop" . (And had nothing whatsoever to do with TV reception) !
RESPECT,KINDNESS,AND GOOD SERVICE !
The one thing I remember about the '50s and early '60s was the idea of "service." When I went into a store with my mother, someone was always there to help us----for her help with trying on dresses, making suggestions, making sure alterations were available. When we bought towels, sheets or blankets----all our purchases were carefully wrapped and boxed. The salesclerks took PRIDE in what they did. Customer service was their focus. Same with shoe shopping----I can remember always having a salesman rush over, measure my feet, and bring out at least 10 pairs of shoes to see which one I liked. People aimed to please back then----today "service" has gone out of America's vocabulary and into the dust heap of history.
I always loved customer service, but when you can't support yourself on the pay, you have to look for something else. :(
True, and very sad. Just try to find a salesperson in a large department store, today. Good luck! The work ethic has really gone down hill.
What gets me are four or five vacant check stands, only one open and operating, and a HUGE long line at that one and only, when they could very easily open up another check stand or two to accommodate more customers.
And the latest thing are those darned self-checkout kiosks! I hate those things! Yes, they may be more convenient for some, but so impersonal, not to mention trying to figure out how to use them. We've given ourselves away to technology, and it's dehumanizing us.
God I miss that.
@@jrnfw4060 you have stores that are trying to get the most profit out of what they're selling so you can't find a customer service person or even a checkout clerk in some stores. And if you can find one, they're sol underpaid they can barely care.
@@jrnfw4060 I recently asked a store manager if there were any live checkers available & he pointed out all the open automated lines. I said, "No thanks, I prefer to keep local folks employed by not using those d*$m things." As I walked to the end of a long line of check stands to reach the 1 with an actual person at it, a clerk whispered, "Thank you!"
I was born in 48, so not THAT OLD yet, but something about the soda fountain with all the high school kids all drinking malts or sodas made me want to cry. When I see all the hate and violence even in kids younger than these, it speaks volumes to how far our society has fallen. And yes, I know there are still lots of good people with solid values out there but not nearly enough. I'm praying for a turn around before it's too late.
And drug stores had counters to eat at along with those fountain drinks and malts.
So did some of the five and dime stores...
It all starts in the HOME. Never blame children for being abused/neglected AT HOME, blame their parents or parent
I remember THOSE days too, pushing 80. However, that "kinder and gentler society" , that George H. W. Bush spoke of, will NEVER return, things will only get WORSE until society collapses. Then (maybe), there will be a "reboot".
These are the signs of the return of Jesus. He said the #1 sign would be deception -Matthew 24. In 2 Timothy Paul said lawlessness would be one of the many horrible signs of the Lord's return. It's all unfolding. Get right with Jesus if you aren't now. I love you all.
Things gone forever: class, civility, responsibility for one's actions, pride in a job well done.
Yep! Excellent customer service n kindness.
There’s plenty of all those attributes left, you just choose to see the negative side of everything. Open your eyes.
@@timtebowfan628
Once competition was removed from the marketplace and companies outsourced everything the worker started to get a raw deal.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 My eyes ARE open, they're just not covered with rose-colored glasses. I don't know what world YOU'RE living in, but the America of today is NOT what it was in the past. I stand by my statement
@Irving Shekelstein Who said anything about race?...those attributes can apply to anyone. YOU'RE making it about race, so what does that say about your own focus?
Nothing like the fresh smell of clothes and sheets hung on a line outside!!! Also nothing funnier than helping our mom running and trying to yank them off the line when an unexpected rain came! ☺️☺️☺️☺️ Born in 1955
Nothing like the smell of diesel in the morning.
Yes. Sandra !! Me too:. 1955🙂♥️
I was born in 51 and remember that smell! Helped hang clothes out and bring them inburing nose in them to smell that wonderful clean smell! Still love to climb in bed and smell that fragrance!!
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I remember hanging out close on my mom s close line as a child with my sister too.
Phone booths are another lost cultural icon. There used to be one in our neighborhood until around 2008, I think the property owner kept it by their business for nostalgia's sake. My Grandmother always bought Chevy's, she had a '57 BelAir just like the the one in the video. You could add phone books and Sears and Wards catalogs, especially the Christmas editions, to the list.
How about the iconic phone booths in England. Where did it all go?
@@howellwong11 Starting about 1970 in USA, new half-shell phone booths on metal stand poles started to replace, phase out the former tall, step in and sit down, glass accordion-doored fully enclosing phone booths that offered quiet for listening, privacy for speaking, and shelter from outside elements. In the vintage Superman comics, Clark Kent would step into a phone booth and use it as a semi-private changing booth to don his Superman costume.
The sears wish book was still around in the 70s. We would look through and choose our wishes.
My parents would choose from what we circled, though I don't think they bought them at sears. We were toys r us kids!
@@JudgeJulieLit makes you wonder what would superman be today... there are no more phone booths, maybe a porta potty?
@@JudgeJulieLit Those doors could get stuck and people would get trapped in one from time to time. I think that's why they changed.
Each song on this channel is a journey through the most beautiful memories of time. ✈
We had rock n roll, Elvis, Chuck, Jerry Lee, Little Richard............ and the girls all wore stockings and suspenders/garters!
Oh what a time!
I remember Mary Jane style shoes that actually had pre-holed straps with buckles and prongs, NOT these velcro closures they have, today. If there weren't enough holes, parents could add what was needed with an awl. I still love the Mary Jane shoes, though the color selections today are sorely limited. Time was, you could get them in almost any color.
I miss so many of these. The nostalgia behind many of these is strong.
Yankee I took your advice and bought the book. Yes it was a great book. Alittle slow at first bit it made me nostalgic for those years.
What element of American society that appears to be gone forever…RESPECT.
Trust me there’s still respect
Not like it was back then...
Respect went out the window in 2016 when an absolute pig of a person was elected president by less than half the country
No, 'Bob'....
Ass whippings got replaced by Ritalin
I remember my grandmother would starch and iron her bed sheets. When we visited, I always loved sleeping on those sheets. That was in the late 50s and 60s.
I loved my Grandma’s crisp white sheets too!🥰
When I grew up ironing was my chore. I had to iron sheets and my father’s underwear! I used to ask my mom who was going to know if dad’s underwear was wrinkled or ironed? I never got an answer except oh shut up and do your chores. Won’t touch an iron to this day. My good stuff I hang up right out of the wash when it’s done. If something is wrinkled I’ll throw it in the dryer dry and let the heat knock out the wrinkles. Lousy tee shirts and Cotten under pants go in the dryer. Bras go in a mesh bag to be washed on delicate and they dry on my door knobs!
Amazing! I remember all of these things! I am 76. John.
My mom was born in the early 1930s, she learned how to write cursive with a fountain pen and ink well. I found most people of her generation had very similar penmanship. This of course was before they had invented ball point pens.
@kfl611 *Back in that era was the term "cursive" used or was it simply referred to as "writing?"*
I was born in 1939 and you hit almost everything I remember of the '50's. In my small town, Geneseo, NY, Ulmer's Drug Store had a soda fountain. My future father-in-law had a '57 Belair, blue, white top, four-door hardtop convertible with a power pack. Incredible automobile. Great video. Thank you.
My grandfather had the same car. It was the Sunday driver. My grandmother sold it after he died. It was a sad day for me.
My late Dad did too Gosh how we miss that car ! Wish Dad never sold it , bought it new
I was born in 1953, even I remember a lot of this. We are so lucky to have lived through the short "golden age" of America (1946 thru 1966) when the average Joe had a great life and maximum purchasing power.
Hey Jim, I never knew you were that much older than me (1950)! Did I ever tell you that my very first car was a '57 Chevy 2door sedan white over turquoise? And for me it was a nickel mug of root beer at Newberry's in Ithaca... two straws and see if I or my buddy could suck the fastest and drink the most.
Hope all is well with you in historically beautiful Livingston County,
The world book encyclopedia was common in my school.
The neighbors had a mulberry tree. Birds love mulberries. Birds loved relieving themselves over the laundry hanging on the lines. Their aim was incredible.
😂
Fault of the guy who hung the line. Not the birds.
They do have great aim, I must admit. I also have a mulberry tree and a clothesline. Far apart though. I have 3 acres, and they are on opposite sides. (Jan Griffiths).
I have a mulberry tree! birds love mulberries, so do kids, I ate thousands of them. We had tortoise and they loved them as well. Their mouths would be purple. As kids we just thought that was hilarious.
@@janetannerevans2320 My mulberry is male, so no berries or seed pods. Makes great shade though. (Jan Griffiths).
When I was in Kindergarten in 1966, we'd go to a soda fountain at a local drugstore and get milkshakes. They all seemed to disappear by the 70s. My grandmother had an old washing machine with the ringer. She used it until her death in the 70s. My mother ironed dress shirts and used clothes lines into the 70s as well. You could do a video on the 1960s as well.
There was no kindergarden in North Carolina in the 60s. Me and my brother and sisters started school in the first grade. It should be still that way.
Yes in the 70s and part of the 80s my mom was still using the washing machine with the ringer. She still line dries clothes in the summer months.
@@thomasbranson7237 we lived in PA at the time.
I still line dry
@@thomasbranson7237 My brother, sister and I.... That's not taught anymore.
The sodas, milkshakes and hamburgers were so good!
The biggest thing I miss are manners and self dignity . I'm sure there is a planet out there that is still 1950's .... people just like us . 😄🇺🇸
amen to that. Courage, faith too are no longer here amongst most people.
You are right...there wouldn't be as many kids in prison if MANNERS and RESPECT were taught!!!
White, well-to-do people?
@@wizzardofpaws2420 is incorrect, from what I can see.
@@CarynGibson-ey1xn so what, not like the girls were raped, their panties were grabbed not while being worn.
I grew up in the 60s but we still wrote on a blackboard at school. We also still did air-raid drills for a time. I remember ducking under the desk or lying down in the hallway. How did the comedian Louis Black put it: "Protection my *#&, it was kindling.!" I lived in Texas during the 90s and the Chevy dealer down the street from my home had a 57 Chevy in the showroom. I don't recall how many miles were on it but was in mint condition, light blue with a white leather interior. He told me it was mostly for show but he said if he got the right offer he would be open to selling it. Cool stuff. Thanks for posting the memories and keep up the good work.
I, also remember the air-raid drills in school as a child. Very frightening...
Chalkboards we're still heavily used until the early 2000s then schools started using dry erase
@@Thros1 Yup, I grew up in the 80's and 90's and we still wrote on blackboards with chalk. In cursive also.
@@henny6566 they taught us cursive in the 90s but most schools are doing away with it now
@@Thros1 Yeah I know it's becoming obsolete.
Old joke: a technician knows everything about something, an executive knows something about everything, and the switchboard operator knows everything!
I'm a technician and we tell senior coworkers who often expect magic out of us "I'm a technician, not a magician."
Would it not be: the switchboard operator knows EVERYONE? Just sayin'.
@@theobolt250 No, everything, cause they could listen in.
@@theobolt250 everything about everyone! LOL
My Grand Mother & Mother were Switchboard Operators for the Phone Company.
I remember seeing the laundry ringer, telephone switchboard, did the cursive on the blackboard in 2nd grade and we had the Compton’s Encyclopedia instead of the Britannica. Born in 65 here.
my granny taught me to iron in the late 50s and i got very good at it.....i cold take a can of spary starch and make a garment look like it came from a professional cleaners, in 66, while in the army, i ironed a lot of fatigues for the guys and this skill still serves me today....i have been married for 55 years and basically ironed all our cloths, most of the time
You were in the army in '66? Didn't you realize the Vietnam war was the beginning of the end for your imperialist country? Look at the true America now. Supporting and supplying Israel to mass murder unarmed civilians. You must be so proud. The state of the world today lays on the shoulders of your pathetic country. Keep ironing.
I actually ironed my sheets and my husband’s underwear when we married in 1965! Didn’t last long!
Thank goodness I am retired so I do not have to iron much, but I still enjoy it and it any is done in our house, I do it.
I would add S and H Green stamps and Plaid stamps to this list. I remember every adult feverishly saving all of theirs, filling out their trading stamp books in the hopes to get an item- toys, housewares, furnishings, you name it. Also, many car companies don't exist today that were around in the 1950s. When was the last time you saw an Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Studebaker, Packard, Hudson, Nash, or Kaiser-Frazer?
Mom got me my two-volume unabridged dictionary (which I still have) with Green Stamps.
As a kid, my job was to wet the stamps and put them into the book.
Yes, and also orange stamps and Blue Chip stamps. I still have the pen and pencil holder and matching organizer I got from the Blue Chip catalog way back in the 60s.
I still have and use a soldering gun bought with green stamps.
Or a DeSoto.
There was a soda fountain in the back of our local Woolworth 5 & Dime. My dad made quite the distinction between a malt and a shake: "They add malt to a malted." Given his girth, I tended to trust him on all things sweet. As for the seatbeltless cars, don't forget to metal dashboard! As a kid I loved the '57 Chevy because I could stand on the backseat and my head didn't touch the ceiling.
The thing I miss was "Downtown." As a teens we would go downtown to see a movie in a large movie house. After that we would go to Woolworths to eat at the grill. If we had any money left, we would go to the pinball arcade. Then stop at the bookstore to look at blacklight posters. There was even a "Topless" bar that would keep the doors open in the summer time. Us teen boys would stop and peer in until some man would come and chase us away. This was in the early to mid-seventies.
@@smith1958b I remember when boy's were ACTUALLY boys, and girls, were ACTUALLY girls, and the young boys and girls, ACTUALLY knew what public bathrooms, to use, do you remember that?
In the early 60's our Hooks drugstore still had a soda fountain and some independent drugstores had them into the late 60's early 70's.
Watson's in Orange California was a soda fountain and restaurant next to a pharmacy own by Watson. I remember eating there with my dad into the 21 century. Mr Watson was always at the pharmacy selling the medication. When he passed away it was turn into a sports bar. I felt it was such as shame to be destroyed.
Kuhns had a soda fountain where I lived .
A few more things gone forever are people being courteous to another and thinking of someone else besides yourself.
People were selfish and self-absorbed then, too. The 80s was the age of excess, and brought with it the beginning of the "me, me, me" era.
@@swannoir7949 Affably disagree. Humanity throughout history had always carried a sense of selfishness but today, it's become mainstay in the conscience of the last few generations. People today are less courteous, kind and compassionate unless it gets them likes and they want the world to know. Pride has exceeded humility to a point of disgust. The eighties were mild compared to the millennial.
I would say your point has nowhere been illustrated more plainly than in the decline and fall of the modern Republican party, alas.
@@harmgregory4560 Amen. It was Reagan and the Republican Party that issued in their "trickle-down economics" which got us into this mess to begin with. Then turnaround, and point the fingers at the Democrats, whom they expected to clean up this mess, they left behind. But the Democrats went along for the ride, regardless. That is why I'm staying my Black ass at home on election day.
@@harmgregory4560 Oh you’re right because the left democrats have been the epitome of righteousness. Give me a break and seek wisdom.
Born in 1960, I still remember the Encyclopedia salesman walking down the street
and my dad agreed to buy a set. We had them for so many years. This was
before man landed on the moon, so it was funny to read through that letter to
see how they predicted things like that. So many things I miss about those times.
One kind of blue jeans and if you wanted them faded, your mom had to bleach
them. Ripped jeans were turned into play clothes, not something to wear as
a fashion statement. Mom stayed home while dad worked. She was there to
greet us when we came home from school. You only ate out on special occassions.
Gas was cheap and cars were huge and were made of metal. You ate at the
dinner table without the television blaring. There were no cell phones or computers.
People didn't curse on television. Naked people didn't appear all over the screen.
Couples got married before living together. (well, mostly) Stores were closed
on Sunday. Television went off the air at midnight. (or maybe 10 pm). The
Nation Anthem was played on t.v. as it went off the air each night. Boys were
boys and girls were girls. A prayer was said at the beginning of the day in school.
Parernts didn't have to sign a consent form for their kids to be paddled in school.
If a kid deserved a paddling, he or she was lit up by the principal. There was no
"time out" to think about what you had done. You were wrong and you paid the
consequences and thought twice before ever doing that again. You could
understand the lyrics of songs on the radio. Some didn't make sense, but at least
you could understand what was being said. Cursing in a song was not in "fashion".
Women didn't wear yoga pants to the grocery store. Pajamas were worn only in
the home. People dressed up to attend sporting events. Preachers didn't wear
ripped jeans in order to attract a younger crowd to their congregation. News
reporters actually reported the news and refrained from giving their opinions.
Football players didn't dance in the end zone after scoring a touchdown. They
simply smiled and handed the ball to the referee. Fans didn't run onto the field
in protest of the latest complaint. I could go on and on and on. Maybe someone
could add to this list. Have a great day!
You honestly believe that bullshit the moon landing was a hoax still a hoax
Great list. Don't forget the milkman and bread delivery man.
Playing outside until the street lights came on.
I was born in 1956, and I remember that growing up in the 1960s included being able to play outside anywhere in town, without any parental supervision, walking 3 miles each way to school every day, and never having ANYONE to DRIVE us to school, because only Dad owned a CAR, and h needed it for work!!
@@bradbackauthor9940 1952 model here. Always walked to school, no matter the weather. Dad had the '54 Ford for work. :) I remember the day he came home and said "well, looks like I have to buy a Chevy!" It was his way of telling us that he'd just been hired at Chevrolet Engineering at the new General Motors complex north of Detroit. I'll never forget that last ride in the old Ford. Dad took me with him and he bought 25 cents worth of gas, telling the attendant that he was selling the car that day and getting a new one. Ah, memories...
I remember so much of that...1957 here!
I love this nostalgic video! I remember fluoroscopes in shoe stores, and then, when we'd shop in Gimbel's, we'd climb the few stairs to a platform where our salesmen would press the toes of our shoes to make sure they'd fit. Some doctors also had fluoroscopes to check for broken bones after an injury. It was amazing that I could wiggle my fingers and see the bones!
Oh, do I miss the switchboard operators! The other day I spent HOURS trying to reach my service provider. The voice menu couldn't understand my question, and I kept trying to reach a human being. A switchboard operator would have known what I wanted and gotten me to the right person in a few seconds. I miss when companies would pride themselves on customer service -- that's a thing of the past.
I also miss being free as a child. We didn't need play dates, we'd just go outside and find our friends. Saturdays we could spend the whole day in the movies. Back then, even our humble movie theater had a live show, then a travelogue, newsreel, cartoons, and two feature movies! There was also a matron who patrolled the children's section. She actually wore a white uniform and wielded a flashlight.
What I miss most was getting to know our neighbors. As a child, I was fascinated by old people, and would question them non-stop about what their childhood was like. My most vivid memory is my conversations with a particular neighbor. She had been born a slave! This was in the 1950s, so she would have been in her late 80s or early 90s. And what fascinated me most was that, if she also loved talking to very old people, she could have met someone who had been born before the Revolution!!! Time is a funny thing, sometimes it creeps along, and sometimes it speeds by.
Thanks for posting these videos. You make time slow time just a bit!
Our neighborhood in NJ was built around the old Gimbel estate. Lovely stone mansion on a hill Far View.
I trust everyone is aware of the health problems caused by amateur operated X-ray machines./
But now they’re in airports. I chose the pat down instead. I try to avoid airports anymore.
@@harmgregory4560 florouscope (sp?)
Lucky you still have a foot. Edison's assistant didn't make out that well.
Just jogged my memory, i'm 68 and have forgotten a few things, thanks!
Born in 58 but my memories of the early 60s were were very similar. Raised in a small town, 50s technology continued. Telephone calls were long distance 10 plus miles away and you had to go through an operator. Very expensive too.
My family had to make international calls to our family in the old country and that was expensive up until the mid 90s.
"Numbah, please..."
Also born in '58. Recall that the EXCHANGE was often based on the initials of your town
Other things gone forever: decency, civility, common sense and politeness,
Only with some.
Companies did not expect you to do 3 persons work to keep your job. Multi-tasking was not heard of. Employees were respected.
Meh. I still see plenty of all of that.
Bingo!
Civility, and politeness are the SAME. Am I the only one left that knows his 'theres'. It sometimes feels like it!
The 50’s were the best of times….I’m so glad that I grew up during that time period.
im sorry but your nostalgia has gotten the better of you. those times were statistically inferior and obsolete now. just as this decade will be made obsolete in 50 years too. move forward, not back
@@yeoldeseawitch Your arbitrary interpretation has no significance over hers. Seriously, it takes a massive amount of narcissism to dictate how others are allowed to remember their past.
@@231mac well its true, whether you like it or not. we need to move on in life and not dwell on the past. its important to progress as a species.
@@yeoldeseawitch One: your reasoning is absolutely subjective and two: one can progress while still believing past events were/are better. Wow, how one dimensional are you?
@@yeoldeseawitch Dude You have some serious issues. Why would you come along and bust someone’s bubble like that. That was back when life was real. If you don’t like what you read or see hear go somewhere else and take your negative attitude with you. Your on line name matches your personality. Get a life and quit disrespecting others.
I was born in the 70's and I think that the 57 Bellaire is still one of the best cars ever.
Cursive! On the blackboard, loved it!
I remember when we got our encyclopedia. It was a big deal and can still remember the smell of the books
LOL... I'll bet a lot of those encyclopedias were never opened after the first few weeks.
@@emmgeevideo no used them all through school years . Wish I still had them just for the memories, those and HUGE National Geographic magazines.. remember them
@@kbunky69 Me too my brother still has ours 🙂 gosh cursive writing , Do kids today learn it ??
@@kbunky69 LOL... Yes, I remember National Geographic. We used to flip through them hoping to find pictures of African tribes because the ladies didn't always wear more than a skirt.
@@emmgeevideo lol
I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s and we had antenna tvs, cursive handwriting and encyclopedias. I would have liked to enjoy a soda fountain at the drug stores.
Soda fountains existed because there was lots of wealth and prosperity in society. They started to disappear when people had less money to spend.
@@bighands69 School lunch was 35 cents, if you skip a lunch or two you could have a nice banana split with three scoops of ice cream after school. Don't tell mom that.
I'm probably the same age as you and we could get a coke anywhere we wanted. It wasn't a luxury item. TV's with rabbit ears sucked, cursive handwriting is pointless unless you're trying to impress someone. We have the internet now so you don't need encyclopedias. You're not missing out on anything, I promise. People weren't better in the 50's, they were actually super racist and and sexist and the upper middle class made it worse for all Americans just like they do today.
Yea there was a Soda Fountain near where we lived until 70s they would put flavored syrup in your Coke, cherry, chocolate, vanilla was another but can't remember what it was.
@@CarynGibson-ey1xn If you like cursive, that's fine. I was just pointing out that the ability to write in cursive isn't a requirement to being understood. I personally don't judge people based on their signature. The jobs I have had require me to sign my name thousands of times to the point where my signature is just a scribble.
Oh, dear sir, I remember drugstore soda fountains until 1970. Every neighborhood had one. They were like alcohol less neighborhood bars. The food was delicious, great truck stop - like food.
It was a wonderful time to be a child during that era.
"The '50s, when a kid could be outside at night, and not end up with his picture on a milk carton." (The Wonder Years). It was not unusual to get in the house after 9PM on summer nights. We were safe. I wish I could spend my life in the '50s---I would miss color TV & microwave ovens, not to mention modern medical.
@@elultimo102 Microwaves technically existed.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 ----I first used a microwave at the Lincoln, Nebraska train station in summer 1960, when I was 11. I saw a demonstration on the Today Show a few weeks earlier. IDK how far back they existed as a home appliance.
@@elultimo102 My dad got my mom an Amana Radarange microwave oven in 1968. They had dials on them then, and the door opened like the oven door on a stove. She was still using it into the 90s. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 We got a "Frigidaire" made by Amana in '78, but left it with the house in '94. I picked up an Amana dial-front and one with a touch-screen and still have them, along with 2-convection. (garage sale specials). They were made to be repairable, and not disposable. I'm probably going to Craigslist at least two of them.
What an era! What a time to be alive and working/plying/learning! Given that some trends lingered and held on a bit, I'd say the 50s-70s was the best 30 years to be growing up/living!
the 50s and 60s sucked but the 70s - today are probably the best time to be alive
@@mr.nugget8412 Writing like a total moron...you wear it well.
Unfortunately it all had the worst cases of racism as well as people getting away with child, spousal and animal cruelty they any other decade that followed
AND NO STUPID STUPID INFOMERCIALS
No, sorry to disagree the 1960 were the best. Best fashion, hair styles, music everything was great
So much more could be added to this. I see a part 2 in our future😂
Yup. Like it being possible for a household to be supported by a single income earner.
Letter openers, cigarette cases & cocktail shakers.
I don't know how it goes you can never go back.
I remember all those days in the drugstore when you got the drinks and The fountains and the grill they have jukebox with dance and then then they had the drive-ins and they have little patio dancing outside the cars
Started watching these on my 65” TV and it’s even much more enjoyable now! 😀
Some of the things I remember from the '50s: Garbage men for wet garbage, the not food Garbage was collected on a different day. 2. Coal deliveries for our coal furnace, 3. Men going down the street selling blocks of ice for those of us that didn't yet have electric refrigerators, 4. Traveling salesman that sold clothes to my mother, 5. Doctors who made house calls regularly, 6. Six ounce "tap glasses " for beer on draft (draught" to be correct), 7. 5 cent Cashews in a machine at one or both ends of the bar, 8. Saloons that had a rail to place a foot on, 81/2 saloons that still had spitoons, 9. being able to take a shotgun in a case that you checked in to the principal's office so I could go hunting after school. 1
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My first apartment post-university (1975) in Seattle still had an old-fashioned ice box. (We had a regular refrigerator, too.) How I loved that place - $160/mo., split with my roommate. Utilities about $8 for two months. Good times! (I made $440/month.) Now the same apartment is renting for over $2300/mo..
@Greg Bloomfield Thanks for recalling the Fuller Brush man (or as I thought it was when a kid: "the full-of-brush man!" Also there was the Watkins man and Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen who'ld come to your door. The last time I saw a Fuller Brush man was 1971.
@@catsinhouse And you still make 440 a month. Capitalism baby
Also, the wringer washer, the milkman making deliveries...& glass bottles for milk (even in school), pop in glass bottles, country doctor, poodle skirts with net slips under & bobbie socks (I missed those, but remember from my older sister😁), Ivory bar soap, black & wh tv, movie camera & those movies on reels, and Elvis......same older sister loved him; she also watched Bandstand every Saturday(?)......
My parents owned a chain of grocery stores from 1950 until their retirement in 1981. The super markets all had soda fountains with a service eat in counter and booths. Our main or original location was in a shopping center my dad had built in 1953, and the soda fountain was expanded into a full service restaurant/steakhouse. I along with my siblings decided to take another path in life and only worked with our parents through high school and college.
I was born in 1950 and remember all of these categories fairly well. A much better era than today from my perspective. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio...
yeah, 1953 here, glad i lived when i did,we saw a lot,life was more managable ,and if you were smart, you enjoyed it!
I met a guy a few years ago, our age, he said" you know, we grew up in the best country in the world at the best time" kinda sums it up!
Judging that you said it was a much better era from your perspective I’m assuming your perspective is not that of an African American
Born in '47, I remember all, except writing on the blackboard. We were given stick pens, ink pots, and the lousiest pulpy paper to practice cursive. My older brother had a gorgeous '57 Chevy Bel Air, 2 door hardtop, fire engine red, red and black interior. Souped up engine, 4 on the floor, 1/4 mile in the low 14s. What a car!!!!
A little younger than you, but I remember the pulpy paper, the widely spaced lines with the broken one in the middle in grade school in the 50's and early 60's. I've seen the handwriting of young adults and children today, little or no cursive, it looks like grafitti to me.
@@pianomaly9859 and they cannot read it
I don't think they even teach cursive anymore, nowadays it is about transgender issues and critical race theory.
Where you from?
Imagine if they brought back a car like the Bel-Air, only with modern safety features. That styling still looks good 65 years later!
Our Buster Brown children’s shoe store had the x ray machine.
"I.m Buster Brown,i live in a shoe,that's my dog tide he lives there too".😂😂😂
@@vernwallen4246 * Tige pronounced like tiger without the R. A bulldog too 🐶
Love your channel and the memories they evoke.
shades of PLEASANTVILLE and BACK TO THE FUTURE. So very happy that TH-cam and others came up with this feature. Who was it that said: "You can never go home again"? sure you can.....with a click of a keystroke.
I Am Only In My Early 20s But I Can Not Help Myself From FeelIng Oh So Greatly Attached To This Wonderful Magical Era… Thank You For Sharing Sincerely ! ! ! !
Because the values of that time speak to your heart, even though you didn't experience that era.
Some necessary reforms have come about since then -- employment hiring decisions based on legitimate qualifications and not just skin color, gender or age. And women being promoted on the basis of their ability, experience and work performance, and not held back just because they're women. Reforms like that were sorely needed, in the interest of true fairness and justice. However, we still have a two-tiered justice system, even today, so the catching up was never complete.
What I don't understand is WHY there's still a disparity in pay between male and female employees. I thought equal pay for equal work was encoded into law a long time ago. Yet, there are still issues with women being paid less for doing exactly the same work as their male counterparts.
That part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act is not being enforced. WHY NOT?
My grandma and her twin both worked as cardboard operators. My mom and dad & his dad both worked for the phone company. I started working for the phone company right out of high school. Had 2 first cousins also work for phone company. I did 37 years, dad was 42, his father 45. Overall my family put in well over 150 years.
As an Australian born in the mid 1950’s, we had Hills hoist rotary clothes lines that were always wonky from us kids swinging around on them, which was a lot of fun. Almost every family had one - many still do, actually. In the 50’s Mum always did the washing in the copper with a wringer attached, and then it got hung on the wonky clothes line until we girls had to bring it in later that day and fold it all. That was a big job. There were eight kids in my family.
I don’t really know what a soda fountain is. We had bottled soft drinks like Coke, Pepsi, Passiona and Fanta orange and of course lemonade. These were often in a self-serve fridge that you put money in the slot, then slid your selection across to get it out. There was a bottle opener on the side. We had milk shakes in the big metal containers that kept them really cold. Chocolate malted was my favourite. We also had thick shakes. There were ‘spiders’, which was just coke poured over ice cream in a glass, but I didn’t really like them. We also had sit in booths in the Milk Bars, as we called them, and you could order banana splits, and ice cream sundaes. They usually had a juke box, which was lovely, and sometimes the older girls would dance, even though there wasn’t much room. Later on in the 60’s they got pinball machines, which were so much fun. I remember that sweet pop it made when you got enough points for a free game! I got pretty good at playing them for ages on just one sixpence. I used to get in trouble from my father though, cause I guess it wasn’t seemly for a young girl to be playing the ‘pinnies’.
Ahh, they were good times.
I saw a pic or vid of a mid century Australian back yard the other day, and there was one of those rotary clothes lines in it, which I thought was interesting, because we had them just like that here in America, too
coming from n
New Zealand most houses here still have rotary clothes lines i do,
We had Hills rotary clothes lines in the UK mate
@@tintobrass532 Wow! I thought they were an Aussie kind of thing! Did you swing on yours?
@@lindagardener855 Yes mate, and I can remember my old man shouting at me “You break that, and you’ll bloody pay for it out of your pocket money”!
I just love these videos. I have so many comments but I’ll just mention a couple. We had a drive up restaurant called the Flame and the waitress would come out with roller skates on and take our order. When she brought the order out you would have to roll up the window a little bit so she could hang the tray on it. Also I remember when grandma and grandpa got there first phone. It was a party line and it didn’t matter what ring it was grandma would answer it and yell on it as loud as she could. She couldn’t understand how anyone could hear her through the wires. It was so funny. And one more. My Aunt Dorothy was doing laundry and she got her boob caught in the ringer. That was also so funny. Long time ago.
Oh, yes! The drive-ins! Our favorites in Los Angeles, CA in the late 50s and early 60s were Van deKamp's and Henry's. Good times!😍🥤
I remember that! Ours was a "Steak 'N Shake" and the waitresses (no waiters that I remember) would roller skate around and take your order and then bring the food to you (roller skating carrying the tray). I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the memory.
I bet your aunts nipple didn’t think it was funny.
@ 18 years of age, I had my long hair stuck in the wringer roller, so I turned it off and removed my hair from it. I know a guy around my age who had his arm stuck in it as a small child and ended up with the scars. Unfortunately, he died in the auto collision @ about 23 in 1981.
@@bettywiendels5714 You were lucky to have an electric wringer. Ours was manual, arm muscles only!
Thanks for posting this great video, it brought back many memories. My dad had a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, two tone, automatic push button. He had a lot of great cars over the years but that was the one he had prized the most. The odometers then only went to 100,000 miles and then back to zero and I remember him taking me for the ride when that happened.
A lot of kids in my family back then, and in 1960 (?), we got a late 1950's three seater station wagon.....the back seat faced backwards....so fun!! But it was some type of Plymouth with the push buttons! I guess that concept never really caught on!!?
Born in 1958. When my parents brought me home from the hospital as a newborn, my Dad`s car was a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere in pink with white wall tires! He was teased about the pink but he loved it!
I remember also the famous "send away" advertisements in the back of comic books!
REMEMBER THOSE X-RAY GLASSES ???😁
@@ammo8713 Sure do! And one hundred army men for a buck or so with their own cardboard foot locker.
Wonderful nostalgic walk back to a simpler time.
I remember helping my grandmother with the ringer washer, hanging clothes on a line with clothes pins, and ironing my grandfather's handkerchiefs.
My mother, was a switchboard operator, at Motorola. Her first automobile, was a white 1957, Pontiac Bonneville, with red interior. My mother was a classy lady, but that car was nothing but trouble for her.
We couldn't afford a set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas, but I recall longing for them, and drooling over the set at our local library. Eventually, my prized possession as a teenager, was my hardcover Webster's Dictionary.
I think you forgot to mention the neighborhood grocery. They were the transition between the mercantile, and supermarkets. And the Dimestore, which was a hybrid of pharmacy, soda fountain, newsstand, and trinket store. There were neighborhood versions, and the famous Woolworth's.
In the summer, we walked to the Dimestore, every day. I purchased my first Barbie doll there, and we would often walk home eating our orange push-ups.
I worked at Motorola too, but not as a switchboard operator. I was in the engineering department for 23 years. I worked at the Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, AZ. (Jan Griffiths).
There are still a good handful of soda fountains in the U.S. There's one called Shug's Soda Fountain in Seattle (which opened recently).
We still have one in Chicago in Marge's Candies. 🥤
There's a great one at a drug store in downtown Abilene, KS as well. It's worth checking out and keeping in the spirit of theings if you visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
There's one at Economy Drug in Ely, Nevada
@@luisreyes1963 I have been there! The Beatles made a stop there and you can sit at the same booth.
Carlisle Drugs in Alexander City AL still has a soda fountain. Well, it still did when I worked at Russell Athletic from 1995-1998. I hope it still exists. It was a really nostalgic place to relax and enjoy a good cheese burger.
A lot of these things endured through the 1960’s, and a few into the 1970’s.
I remember many years ago leaving the city.
I had a sense of adventure at 18 years old.
So I took a trip to Montana,the scenery was breathtaking.
I did have an opportunity to stop in this old but fully intact maltshop.
I got to chatting with the owner and he had owned the place since the 50s.
He said he never changed the style of the malts,or his out of this world cheeseburgers.
I enjoyed everything about that place.
I wish we could bring some of the stuff from the 50s back again😊
Sounds like a business opportunity...
sounds like an episode of T.Z. (twilight zone). That was the theme in a couple of his shows and I loved them
Many of us yearn to relive our youth or certain times of our past. Oh, to have a time machine, program it to a time a place you want to return and relive that time for just a little while
maybe a version of TOTAL RECALL, without the horror of course, like a mini-vacation. Though it might be hard having to return to the present.
My older sisters were 50s children and I was a 60s child. They were gracious enough to take me with them in their teens. I always watched them dance, go to car hops, watched American Bandstand together, they took their younger brother on Coney Island rides, Nathan's, Mitchell's and Big Daddy's for lunch. Miss them.
We had a black & white console TV. When you changed a TV channel the knob made this loud, "ketchunk kerchunk" sound. Then you'd adjust the 'rabbit ear' antenna to get the best picture reception.
I wasn’t born till 1982, but I still remember learning to write cursive on the chalkboard and putting tinfoil on those rabbit ears in 1989. But I definitely never heard of those foot X-ray machines until watching this. That gave me a good laugh.
@@CloudWatcher500 Shoe store salesmen would seat customers who had selected a shoe style from the display, then fit their unshoed foot onto a metal scale on the floor to measure the foot to get the right size shoe.
Cursive was nothing but a torture, it was pointless. It's only useful for old dip-ink pens. That's why it was invented, to minimize lifting of the pen which caused drips. For modern pens and pencils it's useless.
Anyway, I could never get it right. My teacher eventually gave up and gave me special permission to just print.
@@jetstream6389 Fingernails, and those metal chalk holders used to draw multiple parallel lines, with no chalk installed.....
I've got some school papers when I was in High School in the 1970s. You had to write everything in cursive. The funny thing is I can't read my papers anymore. It all looks like heiroglyphics to me. If I write anything it's all print now. Still know how to write cursive.
I remember those x-ray machines. You wiggled your toes to show how much room you had in the shoe. They were fun!
I have so many fond memories of the 40s and 50s but I will mention only one. Local soda fountain had the sit up to the counter stools PLUS white wire backed chairs sitting up to small round tables. This has been so much fun.
Cursive writing has made a comeback in bullet journaling and related aesthetics. Not just cursive, either, but there's been a revival of Spencerian penmanship, specifically, amongst Gen Z students. Very cool to see.
I am learning Spencerian Handwriting atm. I did learn it in primary school, which was as Catholic school, but on starting high school we had to print so I forgot how to write cursive. I was born in 1958
My neighbor is teaching her two sons to write cursive, using the Palmer method. It allows you to write more quickly, and some people see it as a sign of a better education.
Thanks for the memories!!!!!! I remember all those items that you mentioned and they seem just like yesterday!!!!! Unfortunately the only way we can go back is through all the pictures we took!!!!!
Seeing those clothes being hung on that clothes line, I remember how fresh they smelled when my mom brought them into the house when they were dry. It made the whole house smell WONDERFUL!!!
1. Common sense
2. Decency
3. Self-Respect
4. Patriotism
5. Free Speech
6. Sense of Humor
7. Marriage
8. Manhood
9. Womanhood
10. Literacy
11. Penmanship
12. The Ability to Drive
well at least list the good things about the 50s
You forgot racism
@@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980 Oh racism still exists. BLM is as racist as it gets :)
Surely deep down you know that some of those examples are overgeneralizations. All twelve are not gone forever from the world. I think some of those things are just less common. Your putting "Manhood" and "Womanhood" after "Marriage" makes it seem you are against gay marriage. I respectfully disagree. You have a right to your opinion, as do others. What "Decency" is defined as is something some disagree on. Literacy, penmanship, and careful driving are among things that have always been important to me.
@@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980 Racism isn't gone.
I really miss the soda fountain.
There are a few still around here and there. Rexall franchise local pharmacies seem to be the most common to still have them
Move to Utah! Because the Mormons don't drink coffee, soda fountains have become the de-facto "coffee shop". There's millions (not literally, of course) here.
@@lanegunnell1218
Thanks for the tip. What do they have against coffee ☕️? What is it? The demon drink? I don’t get it. Because Caffeine is a drug?
Very Strange.
@@dynjarren8355 Yes, it's the caffeine.
Over-the-air TV still exists and so do "Rabbit Ear" antennas. I luckily live in a "signal rich" area an no longer need cable as I can receive 60+ broadcast channels with a set of rabbit ears that I bought at Dollar General LAST YEAR for less than $10.
Impressive. I remember those rabbit ears - you had to stand on a chair in the corner on one leg leaning to the right arm extended fully🤣 Sometimes it worked, but by that time you were usually out of vision range of the tv anyway. Happy days🥰👍
@@lindagardener855 That’s why I got my sister to do it but she never would stay put! What a brat! LOL
@@joyceobeys6818 😂😂😂
Speaking of TV. Kids were the "REMOTE CONTROL" for their Parents.
@@lindycorgey2743 Yes, they were👍😊
I remember having a dress exactly the same as the little girl in the photo in the classroom made by my grandmother. Plaid cotton was really in style! My grandparents gave my parents a television as a gift in honor of my birth in 1952!
NUMBER 1....RESPECT !!!
ALSO GONE FOREVER:
1. American manufacturing.
2. The American Middle Class.
3. The American Work Ethic.
4. Civility and good manners. Being polite.
5. Objective Journalism in the mainstream media.
6. Dressing modestly.
Seriously, the list goes on and on.
5 has been gone for a long time.
5: oh please. If anything it was far more of an establishment and tow the government line media back then. Now we have far more options to see different views and actually do our own research into an issue than accept what was printed.
The American work ethic still exists -- even more so today imho. It's just not recognized because so many worker's rights have disappeared, and people are starting to seriously recognize that so they're just not willing to break their ass for crummy wages anymore.
Good list. Here's another: corporations that valued their employees and customers and made useful, valuable products. Eastman Kodak comes to mind.
Affordable housing
new cars you can fix yourself
We had a soda fountain at Madura's Pharmacy in South Amboy, NJ. I had a 1956 Turquoise Chevrolet in the 1960's. It burned oil quite a bit and my uncle got it for me. Wish I had it today.
I wonder if that was around in the 60’s. We lived in Matawan but my dad would drive us up to the So. Amboy YMCA. We’d be given money for lunch & hang out swimming & playing in the gym.
I still do laundry and ironing on Saturdays!!!!I did a trunk switchboard for The Whittier daily news while I was in college!Still have this camera!I taught for 40 years retiring in 2014 and I wouldnt let them take out my chalkboard.......for the messy whiteboard!I bought a set of World book in 1985 and still find it extremely useful!I had my own set from the 1950s.I loved pantie raids...lol...........we would only leave out underwear that was sexy and they hung it across campus on a clothesline!!!!
Panty raids ended in the 70's when young women stopped wearing any panties!
I remember after school we had to clean the eraser’s that the teachers used on the black board by banging them together. Of course it was outside.
My Nan would hang the unmentionables inside the other wash.
Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. 🙂🌷
I'm 63 years young & I still write in Cursive!
Phone booth stuffing would definitely be a Tik Tok challenge if the booths still existed.
You'd think so. Unfortunately there's much more dangerous stuff on there.
FK TikTok
Too bad today's college students are more interested in radical politics & gender identity, rather than campus hijinks. 😕
@@wesmcgee1648 Take making anything with using Nyquill for instance. I'm surprised that even nowadays, the federal government hasn't yet issued a law that states that you need a license to buy it. The stuff has 10% alcohol for goodness sakes!
In middle '60s, we had Volkswagon Beetle Stuffing.
Loved this, took me back to the soda fountain, drive in movies, walks in the park with my sweetie at dusk, and Church picnics on the grounds. We were smarter back then, we knew right from wrong, didn't have to to worry about offending everyone. We could almost trust Dr.'s, politicians and always Ministers. Now we have vet them before using their services. Our children are paying the price.
Out little town just got word that someone is going to reopen the soda fountain shop this summer! I’m praying that it happens before everyone gathers for my parents anniversary. My kids and my brothers kids remembered when we moved to a small town that had a soda fountain shop that was still open, 1999. It closed shortly after though, to the disappointment of us all. We will be ecstatic if this opens before family comes!
@@Laura0IN As soon as I have enough revenue, I'm going to start a soda fountain business... Along with all the classic soda fountain drinks, we'll serve 🍔burgers,fries,classic sandwiches🥪and sell
Sundries, and various things you can't get elsewhere...
If everyone knew right from wrong, why were so many people treated badly? why were so many toxic substances dumped in lakes and rivers? (and the air?)
Take those rose-tinted glasses off your eyes.
@@harmgregory4560 Not to mention banning some people from restrooms, lunch counters, drinking fountains, front of the bus, etc. because of their skin color.
The great thing with encyclopedias was that you could look up something and then have you eye be caught with other topics to learn about. That might hold true with the internet too but I'm willing to bet it doesn't happen as much.
Another great asset of encyclopedias -- NO annoying commercials!
I'll see something on the internet like face book and then go look it up. In some ways I wish the internet was up in the 1970s. But I did enjoy the Encyclopedias of the day.
@NO-TO-NATO sadly you're right. The internet can put in front of people ideas that don't have to be fact checked or from a reliable source, or even true. The encyclopedia company could be held to a higher standard.
Bunny ears are still around with the FREE TV reception on Modern TV's
You cannot crank these videos out fast enough for me.
I love each and every single individual you put out!!!
Sometimes I let them pile up so I can watch/listen to them all in a row.
I'm weird that way. If I wasn't on a broken income I would send you money like a TV. preacher.
I, was born in 1957 and I still remember when my mother would wash clothes on Mondays and iron on Tuesdays. I, remember the Maytag Square Wringer Washer and the Sear's Kenmore Wringer Washer also. I, still remember when my mother would hang laundry on the clothesline to dry before ironing clothes. I, remember the Colonial Style A&P Stores,and when Kroger gave Top Value Trading Stamps. And, soda fountains in the Department Stores and Drugstores. The, rabbit ears antennas. Life was much more simpler back then, than now a days.
Not simpler if you were a woman.
Fully agree that the morality n kindness n good service are a thing of the past. My husband just said, sheesh, what service? Though there has always been immorality we do see it is far worse than it’s ever been.
That’s the saddest part.
Little kids could go for walks n play all over in the neighborhood without fear of being stolen or harmed. I miss those days.
But the sin will be taken care of pretty soon. :)
I wonder if there will be malts n things like that in the 1000 year reign?
Rolling laughing my husband laughed and said I don’t remember mom doing all the work, we all had to help, LOL
I loved the ringer washers! My clothes got so clean n smelled so good. N I loved hanging up clothes on the line.
Women ironed because the material wrinkled.
I always ironed my jeans but didn’t need to, but I liked the clean crisp creases.
Note: Never put the T poles for clothesline’s in a birds path in the sky or you will be rewashing lots of clothes. Birds take certain paths like we have roads. Find a path they don’t take! LOL
I miss the old stores like a Benjamin Franklins, Woolworths, Hudson’s, Wards, Sears, free popcorn n beer nuts in various places! Old time hardware stores where you could find anything n everything but there was an ashtray in every corner n sometimes a spittoon. By then most used a pop bottle. Gross! LOL
I loved those days though!
I loved listening to the stories on the radio. And listening to WJR n CKLW n etc... our radio had buttons with the names on them n it would go to that spot, LOL And later I got one I could fling the knob to the right or left real fast to get to where I wanted on the radio n I didn’t have to program anything.
A rotary phone you could whip against the wall n it would still work. If you were upset you could slam the receiver down but last second we always refrained! LOL Now there’s no temptation cuz there is nothing to slam down! LOL 😂
We still have a working phone booth here because the Mennonites use it.
Which I probably should get a picture of before they get rid of it.
Beautiful days n simpler times! We were all healthier too!
....Especially if we didn’t eat bottom feeders n pig.
People that ate these n pig seemed to get sick more often than others.
I loved the old stores n the pop machines where you lift the lid n it was full of ice water n got the wet bottle of pop for a dime n later a quarter n piped the lid off with the bottle opener attached.
We made things out of bottle caps n saved them n got free things n discounts in the lids. We also made gum wrapper chains n played marbles n jacks n rode bikes n never went in the house til the lights outside came on.
We made forts n collected tadpoles n craw dads for fishing n used red chiffon paper over a flashlight at night in the rain to get earthworms! LOL
I loved those days! We didn’t have to buy a permit for everything.
The police didn’t pull cars over for money, they were our friends n cared for us.
I remember my mom having fits about the little rascals not having parental supervision and said nobody should watch that trash! LOL
I could go on and on! LOL
Top Value Trading Stamps AND S & H Green Stamps. I remember my mother colleting them and then going to their "stores" to purchase something with the filled books. Several of our gas stations gave them out too.
I remember LIFE Magazine and Saturday Evening Post magazine.
We had the Brittanica books. I remember doing a lot of book reports using them. My parents would have us pick out a book and we had to pick out topic and tell them about it. lol We loved Brittanica. Schools should go back to using the chalkboard. Pressure from your peers might make you study harder. It worked for us.
We bought a second set in the 1980s. There was one book missing out of the set so there were a few things we knew nothing about!
We had the World Book encyclopedias.....I acquired them!!😯
Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia that I acquired in the early-'70s for only $2 per letter volume, sometimes getting two letters for a rare letter as Q or X! And I still remember how to spell that word from Disney's character, "Jiminy Cricket" in a segment of "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-59), who yelled out each letter: "E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A."
"Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" --Dick Martin ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" tv show, 1967-73).
@@freeguy77 My siblings & I watched Mickey Mouse Club every day back when....I had forgotten about Juminy Cricket!😁 And, those Funk & Wagnals....I have about half of a set, which I bought a volume a week from a local grocery store. It was in the mid 70s (?) when I had young children, thus many distractions, thus why only half a set of F & W encyclopedias!🤷🏼♀️
I still have them. Also year books from 1952 to 1962. Wonder if they are worth anything to collectors?
THANK YOU FOR TAKING ME BACK TO CANAL STREET AND K& B DRUG STORE ,BEST NECTOR SODA FLOAT EVER. BUT WHAT I MISS THE MOST ARE THE LOVE ONES NOT HERE ANYMORE.GOD BLESS
Thanks for sharing these.
We had soda fountains in Detroit during the ‘60s. Loved them!
Good days. Good people
I can’t believe I just discovered your channel. Been watching your videos for 2 days straight now. I am really a fan and I always have fascination about the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s era. Hope you can create a video about make ups in those eras as well. Much love from the 🇵🇭
I LOVED SEEING THE PHOTO OF THE SODA FOUNTAINS WITH MAGAZINE RACK IN THE BACKGROUND WHAT HAPPY TIMES THAT BRINGS BACK THRIFTYS DRUG STORE 5 AND10'S THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS AND GREAT FOOD
Lunch counters in drug stores existed into the 1970s. You could get a cheeseburger and fries cooked to order and eat it at the counter in the drugstore. Some department stores also had lunch area where you could get cooked food. I was shocked to find out recently that cursive is no longer taught in schools. Along with finding out that kids no longer walked to school. They are driven or take a school bus. When I was growing up on the first day of school you were driven by a parent to make sure you knew how to get there. Then we walked to school usually with friends. You would see groups of children walking all at the same time. We walked in rain, snow or sunshine. Most schools I walked to were 3-5 blocks away. I suppose that is why it was unusual to see fat children or teens back then as most of us got exercise walking each day.
There was one at Woolworth's into the 80s. Right across from where Dillinger got killed, btw.
In Los Angeles in the 1970s there was a Thrifty drug store with a food counter. I remember the food being very good. Sometimes my mother and I would eat dinner there.
I lived in a small town in Kansas during the 80’s and the local drug store still had a soda fountain.
Highways have pretty much stifled walking. There’s not many sidewalks, and schools aren’t a part of the neighborhood.
Most children are bussed because of consolidation.
If you have or go to the EU, you’ll see the traditional way of traveling.
Also, Main Streets still had lunch counters in the mid~eighties.
With ancient walk in wooden, glass, seat, and ceiling exhaust for phone calls.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 One in Calumet City
I know a restored soda fountain outside Houston. All drinks including the Sodas are mixed by hand. They make their own butterscotch and even serve the old phosphates. It’s called Another Time Soda Fountain in Rosenberg TX.
in the early 1970s, our town had to rely on the old switchboard to make calls for a few weeks while the phone system was rebuilt after a mishap. People stopped using the phone except for calls going outside of town. It was easier to go over to a person's house than to wait 20 minutes for an operator to connect you.
We had a 1947 Dodge fluid drive imported from the USA. I grew up in South Africa and we had marvellous soda fountains but they were independent and not an adjunct of a drug store. And a Maytag washing machine with a wringer.
My Mom and Dad met in this decade, RIP, I love you. That era the USA was growing rapidly, highways being built, the servicemen from the war we're settling down and towns and cities were expanding, my parents were part of the in the Boston area, I was born in 1960, I remember very patriotic upbringing, close family ties, always visiting each other, I witnessed many changes since then, now I'm 61 and so grateful for my freedoms as a USA citizen, it's a brave new world for sure. 🇺🇸🙏
wonderful! More please. 😊
Dad had one of those cameras, I loved it and it took good pictures! When you looked down inside it was like a tiny tv screen.
I also remember having to deal with "party lines" until the mid-60's.
I remember party lines. I would call this number and listen to very faint voices talking, then scream my number into the phone and hope some girl heard it and calls me. They never did.
@@smith1958b Wrong type of party lines. The type I was thinking about, were when multiple families shared the same telephone line. So, if somebody got a call, that family would have a different ring than the other families. It also meant when somebody was on the line, the other families could not make or get calls.
@@randyronny7735 That was before my time, or in a rural area. But there was once the thing I described, we called them party lines. That was during the late seventies.
In the 90s we could make three way calls, you and two friends.
I remember those party lines☺️☺️
I’m only 37, born in 84… in the 90s my mom still had a wringer washer , maybe cause we weren’t as financially well off? We did have a dryer though. .. we also still used encyclopedias, and dictionaries… we also learned to write cursive … and had black boards written on with chalk. We had 13 channels on our small TV . Perhaps b/c we grew up in a smaller city???
were encyclopedias and dictionaries still used a lot in the late '90s?
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 yes
Wow
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 Yeah, there was the Internet, but sometimes it was easier to snatch a book off the shelf than to turn on the computer and go on the Internet with the dial-up modem and stuff.
@@youtuberyoutuber2495 yes we definitely used them :)
I miss America!
Yet, we still have Miss America.
Thanks for the memories 👍👍👍
Bonnie, you are spot on.