I was born in 57. Such a great time! Three TV channels, penny candy at the drugstore, playing outside until dark, riding my bike for miles some days. We got a new Chevy Impala in 1966. My mom had clear plastic covers on the seats. Spending a night or vacation week at one of my cousins houses.
I was also born in ‘57. I remember Daddy drove a gray Chevy truck and Mom drove a ‘59 Olds. That thing was a boat! No power steering, but she could park that thing in the tightest spaces. It didn’t even have a radio. Then in the mid 60’s, Daddy got a Jeep Wagoner and Mom got a ‘65 Olds. We lived a good life! Camping in the summer and sleigh rides on the hill behind our house.
Thank you Recollection Road for all the fond memories. Born in '49 and I wouldn't trade growing up in the 60s for anything in the world. It was the greatest decade to be alive and I feel blessed to have been a part of it.
I never heard of the Arrow Books before, but one thing I do remember from the 1960s was watching Dark Shadows. I grew up in Phoenix, where it aired at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. We didn't have VCRs back then, so if someone got sick and was absent from school they would watch it and tell us what was happening. Other that that, we only got to see it during the summer months and Christmas break. Still, we all loved Barnabas Collins, although Victoria Winters was my favorite character..
@@beadyeye2312I didn't have the cards, but I did get a Dark Shadows game for Christmas. I remember that the plastic bones either did glow in the dark, or they reminded me that they did.
My mother-in-law used to play poker with Marlin Perkins... Scholastic Book Services...they changed my life. We had no money but the Dad would skip lunch to buy me books. I'd climb a huge pine tree and sit up there and read all day..I've still got some of those books..."The October Country " by Ray Bradbury that I'm looking at right now, for instance... PS...this was a Great episode, one of the best, too much to comment on, thanks, buddy.
I was born in March of 1946 and remember the 60's very well. I joined the Marine Corps in Jan. 1965 and was sent to Vietnam in Oct.1965 for 13 months....then again in 1971. I'm 78 now and I'm "upright and dressed" so I guess I have no complaints. T. Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired
I think I have a couple of wheat pennies in a drawer, somewhere. I also had one of those red skate boards ( eye roll ) Archie comics were the best. We also read Little Lulu and Richie Rich.
I,was born in 1957,and grew up in the 1960's on Detroit's Eastside. I,remember watching The Flintstones, and The Lucy,Show,and Carol Burnett Shows. I,still remember the Detroit Riots in 1967,I also grew up on A&P Stores. Those were the Good Old Days. 7:21
My dad was borng in 1957, we grew up in Flint Michigan (I was born in 81) he would tell me how much bigger Flint was, and how great Downtown was with the trolley carts, and also told me about the riots that happened in Flint during the same time as yours in Detroit.
I loved ordering books from the scholastic catalogs! We also used to have blue and white checkered Kirkpatrick's Bread! One jingle they had was "we bake Kilpatrick's Bread like we're making it for our own kids"!
60s were great as a kid. Bubble gum machines. The coin operated horses in front of grocery stores and supermarkets. Watching Roadrunner, Sinbad the sailor with Salty and Popeye and Bluto, The Flintstones.
I was a teenager before I ever had a frozen pizza and even older before getting a restaurant pizza. I don't remember pizza in school before high school. But the family would have Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza from that box kit often and mom would add our own toppings to it to make our own beef supreme pizza.
I did not experience plastic couch covers here in Australia but my dad used our family wagon as his work vehicle also, as he was a carpenter, so Dad had custom made and fitted plastic covers installed on all the seats in the car. A lot of the other products featured here we did not have the same brands, we did have Alkazalzer. The Flintstones were a must on the tv just before dinner time here. We have Fanta brand orange softdrink and I remember the self serve Coke machines which were massive machines and very heavy, filled with ice water, you would put in your coins and snake the glass bottle along the guides until you could pull it out.
I was born in 1957, so grew up in the 1960s. I don't remember the Arrow Books anthology. Sunbeam was great. Betty and Veronica were hot. We didn't have plastic-covered furniture. I don't remember the Aurora kits, but I remember plastic worms we made from molds. Wild Kingdom was cool. Chef Boy-ar-Dee was good, but I don't remember the pizza kit. I don't remember Sea Ski. The Alka-Seltzer commercial was great. I liked the cherry licorice whips. I mentioned Fred Flintstone in a web meeting today! I remember Green Giant, but didn't like veggies. I road a skate board, but don't know the brand I had. I don't remember Nesbitt's (I remember a lemon soft drink I really liked from a gas station in Texas). I remember wheat pennies.
When you mentioned the plastic covers on the furniture, you forgot to mention that the people who had plastic furniture covers also had the original plastic covers on their lamp shades so that dust wouldn't get the shades dirty.
63 now and oh boy do I miss all of it. I still own my original ARAURA monster models, meticulously painted and displayed in a glass case in my hobby room. I have 2 original boxes with the instruction pamphlet inside. Chef boy r dee was good stuff. Let's not forget Crayola Crayons and Colorforms ✌
Vending machines that used to cost only a nickel or a dime! I remember getting gumballs, runts, jolly ranchers, for either 5 or 10 cents! Also Archie Comics were very popular that my cousin had a subscription well into the nineties! Because the comics were funny for both older kids and adults!
I'm 64 and when I was little I used to collect matchbox cars Loved every single one of them almost every week and/or every other weekend.I would get a new one Then I would take my building blocks and lay them down and put dashes on them and use them as roads
Wild Kingdom is back as a new show hosted by a fellow (Jim somebody) that worked with Marlon Perkins back in the day. It’s pretty good, especially when compared to other garbage being dished out these days by the networks. As for pennies, I remember as a very young kid in the 50’s everyone being excited over the occasional Indian Head Cent that showed up in change.
I don't remember plastic couch covers, but my dad put a clear plastic cover over the back seat of our 1967 Imperial. I remember that well. I remember Wild Kingdom very well also. I remember the licorice whips too. I also have a coffee can about 3/4 full of wheat pennies in rolls that my best friend gave me. He said some day when I feel like doing it, I could go through and see if there any valuable dates. I think he said his mom had saved them.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins (who was briefly director of the Lincoln Park Zoo near my home), comic books (though I wasn't an Archie fan), Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza kits (the pizza it made wasn't that good, but it was hot and fresh out of the oven so we loved it), suntan lotion (I lived near the beach Lake Michigan and the beach always smelled like suntan lotion), spicey meat-a-balls, cartoons (especially The Flintstones and The Jetsons), "Ho-Ho-Ho, Green Giant," wheat pennies are among the last made with 95% copper so they're worth around two-and-a-half cents (more than double the face value) to over four hundred dollars (for the rare ones). In place of that orange pop (I never heard of) I'd mention "Green River," made at the soda fountain at the local corner store (you can still find the bottled version or at some soda dispensers).
We went to the Presbyterian church kitty-corner to our house and across the street. My middle sister sang in the choir. She had to watch me Friday nights so I would go down to the kids room of the church and watch the Flintstones while she had practice. I don’t remember any of the other things you’ve shown. We didn’t eat white bread. My dad went to the German bakery the next town over and bought bread. Being a girl, I spent my time on a bike. Just the way it was. Never even heard of a skateboard or if I did it just wasn’t anything I was interested in. I used to love scary movies but I liked the old stuff not the slasher garbage they have today. Couldn’t beat Vinnie Price or Bela Lugosi!
We never missed Wild Kingdom.... Good old Jim... I think he nearly got eaten by a lion every Sunday evening, while Marlin made sure to get the footage from the helicopter before he capped the animal.. "That was another close one Jim"... How about the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza with the tiny cubes of pepperoni? We always added extra cheese and real pepperoni on top to get it close to the real thing...
I want to clarify something, the Chef Boyardee pizza kits were the worst thing on the market. They were horrible and you'd actually have to buy a half dozen "kits" to feed a family. 😂
63 the mid to late 60s are clearer. The kool aid man glass serving pitcher that one of the neighborhood mothers had. Gasoline 20 cents, a coke machine cost 10 cents my dad refused to pay that much. A Penny found from a bubble gum machine got a handful of gum or candy. Watching the Archies sing Sugar Sugar, the biggest bubble gum song. The last hit bubble gum song the partridge family - I think I love you 1970. Putting a 45 of the latest hit on the record player. Those little kid rides in front of grocery stores. Sometimes a horse, batmobile, helicopter, boat a merry go round and others. Having dyslexia and loved comic books because the text was small. Banana seat bicycles. Playing in the back of the station wagon on a long trip. All the space toys from the various space missions. Pinball games. Picking the box of cereal because of the toy inside of by mail Ordering a toy from a comic book. Western Auto had Matchbox cars. The first Hot Wheels had the coolest paint jobs - lead paint gave them a deep luster. Cars with the candy apple red paint job with a deep luster, again lead paint The small owner businesses, all kinds. Shoe repair, deli, bread stores, shoe stores, toy store and candy stores amount others. Dimes, quarters and half dollar were silver and paper money were payable in silver on demand. In 65 only half dollar still had silver in them and no more silver notes. People often drove slower looking for people on porches to wave at. And people still walked for transportation. Ho Jo or Howard Johnsons on long trips and the different ice cream flavors A&W drive ins S&H stamps When gas stations gave kids bubble gum or candy or a toy. When everyone read newspapers When TVs needed a new tube that one got at the grocery store radio and TV tube display. Home cooking was normal and everyone was thin. And diet pills were Meth. The black and white checkered flooring in schools.
I remember my fathers God parents having couch covers. They lived in that same house since at least the early 1920s if not before and the furniture and decorations were still from that era but the living room sofa and chairs had the plastic covers.😁
Plastic furniture covers! Who didn't know a Mom, who kept a "parlor" with those? Kids, men and dogs, keep out, at all times! "It's for the COMPANY!!!" Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Poor Marlon Perkins. Already old, he took to sending his buddy Buck out, to chase after snakes, crocodiles, and man eating mammals. "I will remain in base camp, and monitor Buck's activities!" Oh, yeah, WE KNOW IT!!! Ettore Boiarde: As a cook, my hero. Pioneering the canning of tomato products, not an easy thing. The acid from tomatoes would eat the cans from the inside out, a problem today with modern MRE pouches, which took years to solve,. feeding millions of soldiers, won medals for WWII, and, as an Army veteran, I salute him!
If you were a kid in the 60's and you had a nickel or dime in your pocket you were doing ok. If you had a quarter you were doing better than ok. 1 quarter would get you 2 Chocolate Eclair ice cream bars and a double popsickle from the Good Humor Ice cream man! FACTS!!!
I found a 1959 penny which is the first year with the Lincoln Memorial design in pristine condition at the local mini mart in the give a penny take a penny.... I swapped a penny. I have a bad feeling someones coin collection was needed to pay for food it is in such good condition.
The smell of Coppertone sunscreen would immediately take me back to my childhood summers at the beach in OC MD with my family. And btw, also just hearing the word 'boardwalk' does as well.
Simple joys like the Vietnam War and the body count of thousands killed on both sides? I don’t think so! 😮 I had to participate and Uncle Sam wouldn’t take “no “ for an answer. 😢
My four older brothers were all in the service during Vietnam. Thankfully they all lived through the awful experiences. I am sorry you had to experience that too. ❤
All bottled sodas in the 60s were glass bottles. The only reason they went to plastic in the 80s is of inflation and rising gas prices. Bottled sodas were lighter and cheaper to ship.
My granny's plastic covered couch was called the davenport. How about Brut cologne and Hi-Karate? Then there was the first televised war, as well as body count and mary jane.
One of my friends called the couch ( or sofa ) a davenport. I forgot all about that.They were from Iowa. Was your granny from the mid west??? Maybe it's a regional thing?
I feel so lucky to have grown up in the sixties.
Comments are turned off. I was born in 1961 and it was a great time.
I now live in Bedrock RV Park. Lol 😂
I feel the same way, born 1961 here.
The sixties were boring, only three tv channels
Same here! I was born in 1963
Colorforms! Those thin plastic kits, sort of like paper dolls but the plastic pieces stuck by static cling. Hours of fun with those!
I loved color forms and cutouts.
Battling Tops, Dizzy Dan ha ha ha.
I’ll never forget my box of Miss Cookies Space Kitchen colorforms!!
We used to stick them to the inside of the car windows on long trips.
Colorforms...as a boy, I spent hours trying to get those people into inappropriate positions. And remember Spirograph?
I was born in 57. Such a great time! Three TV channels, penny candy at the drugstore, playing outside until dark, riding my bike for miles some days. We got a new Chevy Impala in 1966. My mom had clear plastic covers on the seats. Spending a night or vacation week at one of my cousins houses.
I was born 59. That was the beauty of three channels you went outside and invented fun ! Penny candy yes!
Born in 59. We had a 66 Impala too, a convertible. Such a great car!
I was also born in ‘57. I remember Daddy drove a gray Chevy truck and Mom drove a ‘59 Olds. That thing was a boat! No power steering, but she could park that thing in the tightest spaces. It didn’t even have a radio. Then in the mid 60’s, Daddy got a Jeep Wagoner and Mom got a ‘65 Olds. We lived a good life! Camping in the summer and sleigh rides on the hill behind our house.
Always a great trip down memory lane with Recollection Road! Great times as a kid in the 60’s.
I am honored to be a child of the 60’s. So glad to have experienced the best times of my life. 😊❤
Born in 1961, Memphis Tennessee , a kid the whole 60’s decade, cartoons , morning cereal , toys and games! Hot wheels and Lite Brite!
What a great time in my life The Sixties!❤️
I was born in 1961, and I enjoyed my childhood if I could go back I would. 😃👍
Agree. 1960s were the tops.
Same, but only for a day
Me too! Born 59.
Thank you Recollection Road for all the fond memories. Born in '49 and I wouldn't trade growing up in the 60s for anything in the world. It was the greatest decade to be alive and I feel blessed to have been a part of it.
I'm a kid of the 70s, and many of these items were still were still going strong then too. 😀
I miss those times
this one really hit home...thanks for the memories
I never heard of the Arrow Books before, but one thing I do remember from the 1960s was watching Dark Shadows. I grew up in Phoenix, where it aired at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. We didn't have VCRs back then, so if someone got sick and was absent from school they would watch it and tell us what was happening. Other that that, we only got to see it during the summer months and Christmas break. Still, we all loved Barnabas Collins, although Victoria Winters was my favorite character..
I started watching that show at age 8 or 9 with my grandma in the late 60s.
@@beadyeye2312I didn't have the cards, but I did get a Dark Shadows game for Christmas. I remember that the plastic bones either did glow in the dark, or they reminded me that they did.
My mother-in-law used to play poker with Marlin Perkins...
Scholastic Book Services...they changed my life. We had no money but the Dad would skip lunch to buy me books. I'd climb a huge pine tree and sit up there and read all day..I've still got some of those books..."The October Country " by Ray Bradbury that I'm looking at right now, for instance...
PS...this was a Great episode, one of the best, too much to comment on, thanks, buddy.
I had some of those monster model kits. I hadn't thought of them in 50 years. Thanks for the memory.
I was born in March of 1946 and remember the 60's very well. I joined the Marine Corps in Jan. 1965 and was sent to Vietnam in Oct.1965 for 13 months....then again in 1971. I'm 78 now and I'm "upright and dressed" so I guess I have no complaints.
T. Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Did these bring back any of your own memories? I used to have a huge collection of wheat pennies!
I remember my participation in the Vietnam Era. And before that my graduation from high school.
I think I have a couple of wheat pennies in a drawer, somewhere. I also had one of those red skate boards ( eye roll ) Archie comics were the best. We also read Little Lulu and Richie Rich.
Thank you. These are awesome
I,was born in 1957,and grew up in the 1960's on Detroit's Eastside.
I,remember watching The Flintstones, and The Lucy,Show,and Carol Burnett Shows. I,still remember the Detroit Riots in 1967,I also grew up on A&P Stores.
Those were the Good Old Days. 7:21
My dad was borng in 1957, we grew up in Flint Michigan (I was born in 81) he would tell me how much bigger Flint was, and how great Downtown was with the trolley carts, and also told me about the riots that happened in Flint during the same time as yours in Detroit.
Why all of the unnecessary commas?
Born in 55 in Lincoln Park ( down River)
I loved ordering books from the scholastic catalogs! We also used to have blue and white checkered Kirkpatrick's Bread! One jingle they had was "we bake Kilpatrick's Bread like we're making it for our own kids"!
I remember all these things; I would watch Wild Kingdom shows!
I was a kid during the 60s. Nothing but great memories.😊
What a trip down happy memories of my childhood! Thanks so much for brightening my evening! Happy Holidays to you and yours. 😊
Born '54 - loved the 60's.Manhattan. Wonderful community. A lot of neighborhood friends. Safe.
60s were great as a kid. Bubble gum machines. The coin operated horses in front of grocery stores and supermarkets. Watching Roadrunner, Sinbad the sailor with Salty and Popeye and Bluto, The Flintstones.
"The Outer Limits" and "The Invaders" on ABC.
I was a teenager before I ever had a frozen pizza and even older before getting a restaurant pizza. I don't remember pizza in school before high school. But the family would have Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza from that box kit often and mom would add our own toppings to it to make our own beef supreme pizza.
Yeah remember metal tray TV dinners that took like 30 minutes to heat in the oven? No microwaves. Jiffy-Pop popcorn on the stove!
I did not experience plastic couch covers here in Australia but my dad used our family wagon as his work vehicle also, as he was a carpenter, so Dad had custom made and fitted plastic covers installed on all the seats in the car. A lot of the other products featured here we did not have the same brands, we did have Alkazalzer. The Flintstones were a must on the tv just before dinner time here. We have Fanta brand orange softdrink and I remember the self serve Coke machines which were massive machines and very heavy, filled with ice water, you would put in your coins and snake the glass bottle along the guides until you could pull it out.
I remember reading the Archie comics when I was younger
I was born in 1957, so grew up in the 1960s. I don't remember the Arrow Books anthology. Sunbeam was great. Betty and Veronica were hot. We didn't have plastic-covered furniture. I don't remember the Aurora kits, but I remember plastic worms we made from molds. Wild Kingdom was cool. Chef Boy-ar-Dee was good, but I don't remember the pizza kit. I don't remember Sea Ski. The Alka-Seltzer commercial was great. I liked the cherry licorice whips. I mentioned Fred Flintstone in a web meeting today! I remember Green Giant, but didn't like veggies. I road a skate board, but don't know the brand I had. I don't remember Nesbitt's (I remember a lemon soft drink I really liked from a gas station in Texas). I remember wheat pennies.
I was born in early 57, I remember it except the pizza kits.
I still watch the Flintstones and love Archie comic books- they are worth quite a bit today if from the 1960s. Good times!! 😊😊😊
“Wild Kingdom”and later on I now have Mutual of Omaha Life insurance. 😮
Used to go to Grandpa's house who had an amazing COLOR TV to watch Wild Kingdom and Lawrence Welk. No cares then.
@@saxophoney1786I would enjoy watching Lawrence Welk with my foster parents. I was 3 or 4 then in the early 60s. 😊
I miss watching Saturday morning cartoons while munching away on a bowl of Sugar Frosted Flakes🐯🥣
Omg I had the Arrow Book of Ghost Stories!!!! I was born in 67 but I got it through the Scholastic Book Sale. Loved that book!!
Thank you !!!
I remember scholastic book orders they were so cool
When you mentioned the plastic covers on the furniture, you forgot to mention that the people who had plastic furniture covers also had the original plastic covers on their lamp shades so that dust wouldn't get the shades dirty.
Always great stuff !
Loved sunbeam bread!!❤
I STILL BUY IT
great times! captain kangaroo, lassie, flipper, popeye, sea hunt, and the book mobile. favorite was sloppy joes in elementary school.
63 now and oh boy do I miss all of it. I still own my original ARAURA monster models, meticulously painted and displayed in a glass case in my hobby room. I have 2 original boxes with the instruction pamphlet inside. Chef boy r dee was good stuff. Let's not forget Crayola Crayons and Colorforms ✌
Thank you.
There was a Sunbeam bakery in the downtown area of the city I grew up in.
The scent of fresh baked bread wafting from that bakert was heavenly.
Wow! I had so many of the Aurora monster kits. Loved them.
I use to put bingo chips in the Penny gumball machines it worked well
Looks like it's that time again.
I could literally smell the sun lotion and MoO Wild Kingdom was and still is one of my all time favorites.
Vending machines that used to cost only a nickel or a dime! I remember getting gumballs, runts, jolly ranchers, for either 5 or 10 cents! Also Archie Comics were very popular that my cousin had a subscription well into the nineties! Because the comics were funny for both older kids and adults!
Yes, Archie Comic books, Sgt Rock, Hot Rod Comic books and mad magazines.☝😁
Don't forget the competitor to chef boyardee, Alpian Way Pizza, that was my family's favorite
Completely forgot the Aurora Monster models. I had the mummy.
I remember that book of ghost stories 😅
Sea and Ski - I remember it well 😎
Copper tone had the best scent. I still use it today because of the smell.
🎉
I was born in 1964 so wholesome❤❤❤
I'm 64 and when I was little I used to collect matchbox cars Loved every single one of them almost every week and/or every other weekend.I would get a new one Then I would take my building blocks and lay them down and put dashes on them and use them as roads
RR please do a video on shoes and sneakers we wore in the 60s.
Wild Kingdom is back as a new show hosted by a fellow (Jim somebody) that worked with Marlon Perkins back in the day. It’s pretty good, especially when compared to other garbage being dished out these days by the networks.
As for pennies, I remember as a very young kid in the 50’s everyone being excited over the occasional Indian Head Cent that showed up in change.
The Flinstones one the most classic cartoons in history.
I don't remember plastic couch covers, but my dad put a clear plastic cover over the back seat of our 1967 Imperial. I remember that well. I remember Wild Kingdom very well also. I remember the licorice whips too. I also have a coffee can about 3/4 full of wheat pennies in rolls that my best friend gave me. He said some day when I feel like doing it, I could go through and see if there any valuable dates. I think he said his mom had saved them.
TV dinners game and metal trays and they were so more real and flavorful than what they have out today
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins (who was briefly director of the Lincoln Park Zoo near my home), comic books (though I wasn't an Archie fan), Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza kits (the pizza it made wasn't that good, but it was hot and fresh out of the oven so we loved it), suntan lotion (I lived near the beach Lake Michigan and the beach always smelled like suntan lotion), spicey meat-a-balls, cartoons (especially The Flintstones and The Jetsons), "Ho-Ho-Ho, Green Giant," wheat pennies are among the last made with 95% copper so they're worth around two-and-a-half cents (more than double the face value) to over four hundred dollars (for the rare ones). In place of that orange pop (I never heard of) I'd mention "Green River," made at the soda fountain at the local corner store (you can still find the bottled version or at some soda dispensers).
I remember scholastic book orders they were so cool I had the Charlie Brown Peanuts gang paperbacks too
I was born in 1964 I remember this Along with my late brothers and my late mother.
We went to the Presbyterian church kitty-corner to our house and across the street. My middle sister sang in the choir. She had to watch me Friday nights so I would go down to the kids room of the church and watch the Flintstones while she had practice. I don’t remember any of the other things you’ve shown. We didn’t eat white bread. My dad went to the German bakery the next town over and bought bread. Being a girl, I spent my time on a bike. Just the way it was. Never even heard of a skateboard or if I did it just wasn’t anything I was interested in. I used to love scary movies but I liked the old stuff not the slasher garbage they have today. Couldn’t beat Vinnie Price or Bela Lugosi!
I think I still have my copy of Ghost Stories!
We never missed Wild Kingdom.... Good old Jim... I think he nearly got eaten by a lion every Sunday evening, while Marlin made sure to get the footage from the helicopter before he capped the animal.. "That was another close one Jim"... How about the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza with the tiny cubes of pepperoni? We always added extra cheese and real pepperoni on top to get it close to the real thing...
Wild Kingdom and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza! I spent many a Sunday evening with those two!
I used to always read the Sunday morning comic strips. My biological father would hand it to me after he separated it from the regular news.
Where I lived, Wild Kingdom came on just before Disney on Sunday. Of course, after Disney it was Ed Sullivan. Ahh, Sunday at my grandparents' house.
The couch covers would ark a spark of static electricity in the winter time that was shocked the hell out of people. So funny.
‘56 here. Grew up in a small/medium ‘burb in Ohio. Wouldn’t trade a minute of it. Best decade ever to grow up in…
1955 here…
Born in the Middle 60s I grew up in up a 1970s Grade school Kid . Started school in 1970.
1954 here.
I remember when I had a stomach ache and I took an Alka Seltzer and it made my stomach hurt worse! 😢
I miss the Chef Boyardee box pizza mix. 5:11 5:12
TV dinners game and metal trays and they were so more real and flavorful than what they have out today yeah we had Archie comics too
In the 60s we would often still see pennies in circulation from before 1910.
I still have my Arrow Book of Ghost Stories. Is that crazy! I am so blessed to have been a Baby Boomer.
I can still get Sunbeam Bread here but it's more expensive than other brands so it's a rarity to buy it.
Wild Kingdom came on Sunday Night.
Sunbeam bread is all I buy.
The Flintstones were first sponsored by Winston cigarettes!🚬 It was scary to see Fred and Barney smoking!
I want to clarify something, the Chef Boyardee pizza kits were the worst thing on the market. They were horrible and you'd actually have to buy a half dozen "kits" to feed a family. 😂
The clothes were much better then. The Sunbeam delivery driver has a wool coat that would probly cost near 1000$ today.
63 the mid to late 60s are clearer.
The kool aid man glass serving pitcher that one of the neighborhood mothers had.
Gasoline 20 cents, a coke machine cost 10 cents my dad refused to pay that much.
A Penny found from a bubble gum machine got a handful of gum or candy.
Watching the Archies sing Sugar Sugar, the biggest bubble gum song. The last hit bubble gum song the partridge family - I think I love you 1970.
Putting a 45 of the latest hit on the record player.
Those little kid rides in front of grocery stores. Sometimes a horse, batmobile, helicopter, boat a merry go round and others.
Having dyslexia and loved comic books because the text was small.
Banana seat bicycles.
Playing in the back of the station wagon on a long trip.
All the space toys from the various space missions.
Pinball games.
Picking the box of cereal because of the toy inside of by mail
Ordering a toy from a comic book.
Western Auto had Matchbox cars.
The first Hot Wheels had the coolest paint jobs - lead paint gave them a deep luster.
Cars with the candy apple red paint job with a deep luster, again lead paint
The small owner businesses, all kinds. Shoe repair, deli, bread stores, shoe stores, toy store and candy stores amount others.
Dimes, quarters and half dollar were silver and paper money were payable in silver on demand. In 65 only half dollar still had silver in them and no more silver notes.
People often drove slower looking for people on porches to wave at. And people still walked for transportation.
Ho Jo or Howard Johnsons on long trips and the different ice cream flavors
A&W drive ins
S&H stamps
When gas stations gave kids bubble gum or candy or a toy.
When everyone read newspapers
When TVs needed a new tube that one got at the grocery store radio and TV tube display.
Home cooking was normal and everyone was thin. And diet pills were Meth.
The black and white checkered flooring in schools.
Pinnacle of American civilization.
Thousands of young Americans dying in rice paddies was the pinnacle of American civilization???????
I remember my fathers God parents having couch covers. They lived in that same house since at least the early 1920s if not before and the furniture and decorations were still from that era but the living room sofa and chairs had the plastic covers.😁
Plastic furniture covers! Who didn't know a Mom, who kept a "parlor" with those? Kids, men and dogs, keep out, at all times! "It's for the COMPANY!!!" Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Poor Marlon Perkins. Already old, he took to sending his buddy Buck out, to chase after snakes, crocodiles, and man eating mammals. "I will remain in base camp, and monitor Buck's activities!" Oh, yeah, WE KNOW IT!!! Ettore Boiarde: As a cook, my hero. Pioneering the canning of tomato products, not an easy thing. The acid from tomatoes would eat the cans from the inside out, a problem today with modern MRE pouches, which took years to solve,. feeding millions of soldiers, won medals for WWII, and, as an Army veteran, I salute him!
If you were a kid in the 60's and you had a nickel or dime in your pocket you were doing ok. If you had a quarter you were doing better than ok. 1 quarter would get you 2 Chocolate Eclair ice cream bars and a double popsickle from the Good Humor Ice cream man! FACTS!!!
I found a 1959 penny which is the first year with the Lincoln Memorial design in pristine condition at the local mini mart in the give a penny take a penny.... I swapped a penny. I have a bad feeling someones coin collection was needed to pay for food it is in such good condition.
If you remember the sixties, you weren’t there.
The smell of Coppertone sunscreen would immediately take me back to my childhood summers at the beach in OC MD with my family. And btw, also just hearing the word 'boardwalk' does as well.
I was born in 1962
Simple joys like the Vietnam War and the body count of thousands killed on both sides? I don’t think so! 😮 I had to participate and Uncle Sam wouldn’t take “no “ for an answer. 😢
My four older brothers were all in the service during Vietnam. Thankfully they all lived through the awful experiences. I am sorry you had to experience that too. ❤
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@@nelliemayo9886 thank your brothers for their service ❤
Thank you for your service ❤
@@tonycollazorappo I will! How very kind of you! ❤️
All bottled sodas in the 60s were glass bottles. The only reason they went to plastic in the 80s is of inflation and rising gas prices. Bottled sodas were lighter and cheaper to ship.
My granny's plastic covered couch was called the davenport. How about Brut cologne and Hi-Karate? Then there was the first televised war, as well as body count and mary jane.
One of my friends called the couch ( or sofa ) a davenport. I forgot all about that.They were from Iowa. Was your granny from the mid west??? Maybe it's a regional thing?
@@KarlLaFong-v2q Indiana, I've never heard it called that by anyone else since.
It's 10:00 PM, Do you know where your children are ?
I wasn’t born in the sixties
So?
Sunbeam bread was terrible and nothing like the home made bread my Mom made.