After WWII it was about families, parenting and respecting your elders, parents and discipline. Many of our political leaders today no longer care about values, God and country. I would give everything up to have lived after WWII to enjoy the 50s-60s and while things were still in balance. Today we have a society that no longer respects the rule of law and having the ability to stand for something that had meaning. America the Beautiful that was once our saying. I enjoy these videos and they make you realize life was a better place back then even though we always had issues and problems, but nothing like today. Thank you for allowing all of us to enjoy these timeless moments!
Yes half the country seems to be eager to reelect a thrice married serial adulterer , found to have committed sexual assault and will likely be a convicted felon soon
Woman wore beautiful one of a kind dresses, always watched their weight, very neat lipstick, and shoes and handbag to match. You rarely see this today, because it will cost a lot.
Born late 1950s and recognized some of those cars. How beautiful, creative and colorful they were. I truly wish that I could relive my time then and especially know what I know now. Of course we all can say that for any time period. Another great video. Thank you.
Hello fro the u.k. I’m 66 now, born in 57. Worked in a U.S.owned U.K. based car and engine assembly plant in the north of England, for 35 years. Retired 11 years ago, with a pension. Looked after me life’s good! Take care.
In my working life I took to the highways and byways for my job. Wish time would have permitted me to take the blue highways instead of the express ones. What a wonderful channel , thank you.
@@jameseubanks1817 Thank you for your kind words and contribution in the comments. I'm glad you like the channel. I will have more road trip videos like this in the future. Thanks for watching!
These videos make me weep a bit. Born in 58, went on many little road trips with family from Phoenix in my youth. Am the youngest and family has all passed now. I moved to Thailand 5 years ago to retire. America is beautiful place and I prefer to remember it as in these video montages. Thank you
The cars are definitely great so see. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to actually have the fried clams at Howard Johnson's, but I've heard a lot about them!
@@TheHistoryLounge My Mom used to take me to the one here in my Hometown. Loved the Fried Clams, and the milkshakes, Too. (Not Kosher-but we were Secular anyhow.)
@@drpoundsign We had a HoJo Motel, but unfortunately, it didn't have a restaurant. Sounds like it was especially a big thing out towards Pennsylvania and along the East Coast.
David, it's not just America, you ought to see the UK, especially England. She has been bashed by too much outside influences. Like you, the state of England today really depresses me every day.
Every era in the history of mankind has had its problems. But the 1950s in middle class America had the least amount of problems. It was paradise on Earth. Sure, there was segregation but who wouldn't want to isolate themselves from criminals??
Love to see the wonderful ladies during the 1920’s thru 1940’s, a wonderful time in America when people cared for people, and people helped people 🌹❤️👍
Lived and worked in America in ‘70’s and it was a great time- even these pics of 50’s and 60’s loooked so beautiful and happier times- certainly safer! Greetings from Ireland!
Not the Disco Seventies?? A Dude could get More "Action" then. Everything was about Sex, Sex and More Sex. "English Leather" "Hush Puppies" "Hanes pantyhose." Most of the ads on TV were sexed up. You had "Charlie's Angels" and "Policewoman."
This was very nice. What made the video addictive was the music score 🎼. It just kept gently building until it crescendoed at the end. I want to hear it again and again. The thing that got me about this video were all the faces and how happy they were in their moment of time and now they are all gone. Time - like the music - keeps moving forward, leaving millions of lives lived quickly, then more lives repeat the process, always building in tempo, until time crescendoes for us all. Thank you for the good memories and the obvious reminder that time is fleeting and precious.
I was born in 1957. My mother made every meal we ate. We never went on a road trip. My father worked two jobs and my mother worked. I don't feel like I missed anything because every family in our community lived the same way. I admit I was envious of seeing kids at Disneyland on the Wonderful World of Disney in the 60s.
My dad was a guard at Alcatraz. We never lived there as my dad commuted. I have been fortunate to have been in all 50 states, it took a ;lifetime. I am also grateful that I was able to drive on RT 66 in it's heyday in the late 50's as a young child. I remember it vividly. At night the neon lights were amazing. Americans are born w/a wanderlust spirit.
Great trip down memory lane ! My road trip memories of childhood were my Mom & Dad, sister & I driving from San Diego to New York in our 1973 Toyota Corona Mark 2 Station Wagon. (Deluxe loaded, power everything, A/C & 6 cylinder !) Small Station Wagon, purchased at height of "gas crisis". Yes it was small, but we were a small family. We'd rent a "Car Top Carrier" from U-Haul so all our luggage rode on top. We'd stop at every other "tourist trap" lol.
They were crap. The rusted out in seven years, were mechanically toast at 80,000 miles, were death traps, barely got 15 mpg and polluted like crazy. Today’s cars are exponentially better
@@byronbuck1762 Old cars are both reliable and safe provided the owner can maintain and drive them properly. As for style, the term "cookie cutter" didn't emerge from nowhere.
@@leoncutajar1369 Today’s cars are statistically four times safer than those of the fifties and sixties and they generally have over twice the horsepower to weight ratio of old ones while retuning twice the mileage and two orders of magnitude lower emissions. Yea there are a lot of boring looking cars now but most 50’s cars were butt ugly, 57 Nomads or Tbirds were the exception
Probably the happiest time in America right after WWll. Doubt there will ever be this kind of unity here again nothing but hatred for one another now. At least I actually lived some of this myself.
My parents did too. They were both in their mid 20's then and we went on road trips all over the country in a station wagon. Still have thousands of feet of 8mm movie film of it to this day.
I grew up in the 70s in the UK (West Midlands.) It was a peaceful easy feeling, I bought cigarettes when I was 13, the shopkeeper wasn't bothered, nobody was back then, it was a peaceful easy feeling. Everybody just kept on rolling along. Not so now, everbody is miserable, moody and uptight, so please Lord give me back the 70s, hell I'll even go back to the 50s as I hear people from that era saying it was Good, it was peaceful, it was easy and there were feelings!
Interesting to see all those shiny fifties and sixties cars. Those were the days of no interstate highway system. Travelers had to depend on the AAA guide books to find motels. If your car broke down it could be hours just to find a place to find a phone to get a tow. Finding clean restrooms while on the road was difficult. No fast food restaurants until the early 60s. Gas for 29.9 a gallon.
Great video! Our big trip was in 1959 westward when I was twelve. We hit many of the places you featured such as the parks. Our 1957 Desoto made the long trip from Austin,Texas to LA just fine. Surprised that you didn’t mention Disneyland. It was everyone’s dream back then.
I made it to the 'land back around 1971-72 when I was about 8. Probably the best time to go so you're old enough to remember but young enough to really get excited about it. Years later went several times to the 'world with girlfriends and later wife and kids. I actually lived in Orlando with my wife (before kids) and had a job connected to Disney and drove back and forth several times a day meeting with clients. I've been in the Imagineering offices and the tunnels under the main park. My wife's uncle organizes the marathon each year and we made use of his free pass. However, I have zero desire to set foot on that property ever again. My family actually prefers going to stay on the beach at St. Augustine. Disney can ESAD.
@@jameseubanks1817 I remember the restaurants well, I believe numbers of them still exist. I never ate at one. My Dad (captain of the '56 Buick) was the kind of person who, for all his good qualities, could and frequently did instantly form virulently negative opinions about things. Based upon nothing or at best, an example of one. He hated Howard Johnson's with the heat of 100 suns, LOL. I never knew why, it was almost like it was forbidden to ask. We used to drive from Jersey to Detroit to visit his folks and there were easily a dozen HoJos along the way and they were usually placed in convenient, attractive, easy-to-drive midcentury extravaganzas of Pennsylvania Turnpike magnificence. Nope! Stuckeys found itself in just about the same category.
@@alanpecherer5705 Aren't Dads great,it just took my dad one bad experience at a Howard Johnsons while on our only vacation of the year somewhere around New Orleans, to swear he would never vist ever again, funny how I've never visited Howard Johnsons ever again either. Dads are great
Good looking car & a handsome, successful looking man. 7:30 Just one person out of 100s of millions in this country. Makes me wonder who was he, what became of him ? And the car ?
God I wish I could go back in time. I was born in the wrong era! The good old days… when things were better and everyone drove cars made in America and had an open road and freedom!
I love trips. The photos are great with all the cars and the amazing locations that people went too. Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful video
This was, arguably, the greatest period in American history...the true birth of the middle class thanks to good wages. Companies were booming and employment was there for the taking. Companies stayed onshore and employed more and more people in more extensive factories. Then, slowly but surely, it fell apart. Economists and manufacturers discovered globalisation and the great exodus of blue collar jobs began. First they went to Japan and now China and Mexico. The companies that grew rich through the sweat and hard work of honest Americans dumped those same Americans to fly offshore for cheaper labour. It was all about the might dollar and obscene profits on shares and for CEOs. Now there are many cities and towns in the US which are shadows of their former selves. Whole suburbs abandoned in Detroit and rot everywhere. Cities full of crazed drug addicts and the poor because there are precious few manual labour jobs and good paying factory jobs. Now if you look at China the situation is paralleling the US model. The middle class in China is booming because of plentiful blue collar jobs. People in China have become more affluent. They think nothing of sending their kids overseas to travel, buying real estate in Australia or Canada and buying shiny new cars built by the explosion of car makes over there. And just who financed this boom in China? Why we did...our taxes. our companies our technologies.
It amazes me how good the quality of most of these photographs are. I know, you can improve pictures, once they are digitalized, (did that with my slides collection), but if the source is rubbish, it's no use. Thank you for sharing this video and the accompanying music.
What an absolutely wonderful channel! I cannot get enough of it! May I ask if you can make one of the Sandhills in Nebraska, in particular, of the very small town in the Sandhills called Hyannis but also Alliance (where there is a small airport) and of the very small town called Arthur? Thank-you!
I can tell you what 90%of the cars are ,I grew up with them, I used to go to the dealers when the new models came and get brochures, wish I had kept them
The Chevy dealer in my home town used to cover his showroom windows with brown paper when the new models came out then usually on a Thursday night they would have a big event and tear down the paper and show off the new Chevy’s. What great year when the 1957 Belaire made its debut!
@@Dills1995 They also had the new cars covered on the car haulers with teasers saying the new 1959 Chevrolet is under here I remember going to see the 59 Chevy and noticed the aluminum grille and thinking how cheap it looked I don't think there was a good looking Chevy until the 61 I was 15 when it came out and fell in love with it. Remember when the car magazines would come out with sneak previews of the new models that were supposed to look like in August? Half the time they were wrong 😄
"Guy in '60 Impala - possibly still there." I got a good laugh out of that one! You brought back many memories, including my Grampa Conklin taking us from the oil fields of Alberta for a visit to his hometown of Abilene Texas in 1953. Well done. Keep up the excellent work Sir! Abilene is found in The Bible, Luke 3 verse1. God Bless America... Sincerely, Bob Steele, Maj Ret. Alberta, Canada.
I've been to many of these places (those west of the Mississippi river) the CA ones are definitely in my memories since I was born & raised there. I'm surprised about Bagnell Dam for lake of the Ozarks! Just visited it just last year!😊
Very enjoyable and took me back to my teenage years. What simpler time it was in the mid 40's thru the mid 60's. Of course we had problems, but compared to today, we had smooth sailing. Would enjoy some 50's and 60's from the NY, NJ, Pennsylvania areas. Would also enjoy locations such as the north east- to include upstate NY, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Thanks
Times gone by… beautiful cars people and scenery. My how times have changed, people have no class, cars are foreign made and all look the same and the scenic beauty has all been littered and disrespected. Very sad…. But the memories are great and glad to have seen and lived in those times!
Even the vehicles lined up nicely no matter what it was. Nowadays it looks like a wrecking yard in Walmarts parking lot lol. If I have the option to be reincarnated I’m choosing the 1950s
What's stunning to me is the lack of signage ...no parking meters or regulations..just park for free anywhere anytime for as long as you like.. how liberating that must have been!!!
The Catskills are an excellent suggestion and that area is definitely on my list. So many classic resorts there back in the 50s and 60s. I only hope I can do it justice. Thanks for watching and contributing!
I clicked for the 60s part although most of what I saw seemed to be right before I appeared, but this would have been my mother's childhood and I did see some of the places and businesses that managed to continue on, so a lot of the imagery was familiar only aged a few years.
I remember those days. What a great time to grow up. Such happy times. I really enjoy these videos and I like the music. Thank you.
Such a kinder, gentler, and simpler world back then!
Except for certain places in the south or in the big cities.
When you were white
@@glennso47 Bullshit. I saw more racism and violence up north in the Army than anywhere in the south.
America's glory years.
They're gone now...
After WWII it was about families, parenting and respecting your elders, parents and discipline. Many of our political leaders today no longer care about values, God and country. I would give everything up to have lived after WWII to enjoy the 50s-60s and while things were still in balance. Today we have a society that no longer respects the rule of law and having the ability to stand for something that had meaning. America the Beautiful that was once our saying. I enjoy these videos and they make you realize life was a better place back then even though we always had issues and problems, but nothing like today. Thank you for allowing all of us to enjoy these timeless moments!
Yes half the country seems to be eager to reelect a thrice married serial adulterer , found to have committed sexual assault and will likely be a convicted felon soon
I was born in 1951, and am so grateful for when and where I was born. I don’t recognize my country anymore.
@@thefish5861 why?
@@byronbuck1762
Really? You still have to ask that, w/all the crap going on...and you must ask, "Why"? 🤨😞
@@MattGuzman-ng2yx yea, still same fifty states living in a constitutional republic. What’s changed that makes it unrecognizable?
Can't believe how we've gone down.
Grew up in the 90s but I always had some weird appreciation for the 50s. Always wanted to live in it.
Me too. I grew up in the 60's more or less and always wanted to live in it. Best decade in United States history in my opinion.
@@8176morgan I totally agree.
Lot of these were early 60s based on the newest vehicles seen.
C'est normal regarder comment les peuples africain vouent les cultes aux anciens
It was great. The bad thing is, I got to see it degrade every single time Democrats got in control of the government. So here we are now.
Back when America was GREAT!
Those magical days are over.
Is it just me or do all the women have a sense of style and are beautiful. I miss all this and thank you for the tears on my face.
They did and were more beautiful back then than ever before or now. Everyone always dressed to the nines before going out.
@williambeasley I agree. I feel everything was more stylish then. Of course, that’s the era in which I was born and grew up so I'm a little partial.
Hello Bill! 👏🙏✝️☦️
Woman wore beautiful one of a kind dresses, always watched their weight, very neat lipstick, and shoes and handbag to match. You rarely see this today, because it will cost a lot.
@@hearttoheart4me true, and they didn't have tons of awful plastic surgery and injections etc and big fat arses to match their fat faces.
Born late 1950s and recognized some of those cars. How beautiful, creative and colorful they were. I truly wish that I could relive my time then and especially know what I know now. Of course we all can say that for any time period. Another great video. Thank you.
I appreciate your comments, and I agree. Thanks for watching and for your kind words!
Hello fro the u.k.
I’m 66 now, born in 57.
Worked in a U.S.owned U.K. based
car and engine assembly plant in the
north of England, for 35 years.
Retired 11 years ago, with a pension.
Looked after me life’s good!
Take care.
In my working life I took to the highways and byways for my job. Wish time would have permitted me to take the blue highways instead of the express ones. What a wonderful channel
, thank you.
@@jameseubanks1817 Thank you for your kind words and contribution in the comments. I'm glad you like the channel. I will have more road trip videos like this in the future. Thanks for watching!
I'm 73. Thank you the stroll down memory lane. ❤
These videos make me weep a bit. Born in 58, went on many little road trips with family from Phoenix in my youth. Am the youngest and family has all passed now. I moved to Thailand 5 years ago to retire. America is beautiful place and I prefer to remember it as in these video montages. Thank you
And the music is inspiring, my favorite time 1945 to 1960, MY AMERICA. things were simple and good, people cared for people. ❤️🌹❤️🌹🌹👍👍
It would be so great if we could return to an era like this.
Born in 53, boy do the old cars bring back memories. Howard Johnson's had the BEST fried clams.
The cars are definitely great so see. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to actually have the fried clams at Howard Johnson's, but I've heard a lot about them!
@@TheHistoryLounge My Mom used to take me to the one here in my Hometown. Loved the Fried Clams, and the milkshakes, Too. (Not Kosher-but we were Secular anyhow.)
@@drpoundsign We had a HoJo Motel, but unfortunately, it didn't have a restaurant. Sounds like it was especially a big thing out towards Pennsylvania and along the East Coast.
@@TheHistoryLoungeI live in Suburban Detroit. With some of the Motel Clientele, I think perhaps the "Ho" part is anti-ironic.
@@drpoundsign 😅
Time for a great reset back to these times.
That was great and at the same a little sad when you think what our country has evolved into now.
Amen
Thank you democrats for not enforcing laws, and allowing bums to live on the streets
C'est partout pareil, dommage
Thanks to Democratic Party and to their voters!
David, it's not just America, you ought to see the UK, especially England. She has been bashed by too much outside influences. Like you, the state of England today really depresses me every day.
Oh my! I have no more words!!
Thank you for the video
In 1950, I was 10 years old. I wish I could go back to that beautiful time in my life. Everything was full of joy
Great video...I am ready to go! Thank you so much for another wonderful look back!
Man, teared up with the Ho-Jo fried clams reference. My Mom ALWAYS got the fried clams when we stooped there.
We had problems in America during the times of this video, but things seemed so much relaxed and cleaner.
Because they were.
Every era in the history of mankind has had its problems. But the 1950s in middle class America had the least amount of problems. It was paradise on Earth. Sure, there was segregation but who wouldn't want to isolate themselves from criminals??
@@LukeLovesRose Agree!!!
@@LukeLovesRose I don't remember the Mafia being segregated from ANYTHING. What are you saying? 🤔
Far better then nowadays!
This made me teary, remembering the road trips with the stops at Howard Johnson's and roadside motels. Thank you.
...this actually made me tear up......
Thank you..
Love to see the wonderful ladies during the 1920’s thru 1940’s, a wonderful time in America when people cared for people, and people helped people 🌹❤️👍
Incredible! There were people in Wyoming back in the day!
Lived and worked in America in ‘70’s and it was a great time- even these pics of 50’s and 60’s loooked so beautiful and happier times- certainly safer! Greetings from Ireland!
Peak Americana! Unfortunately, it’s gone and never coming back
I love these films but this one makes me feel so sad.....in a happy kind of way.
Just beautiful
Great videos of the Good Times!
@2:56 Nice that they bought a trailer the same colors as the car!
I can't get enough of these video's.
I'm so glad - thanks for saying so! Stay tuned, because I've got some more good ones coming up!
Really nostalgic ☺️
Always good to climb in the ole’ Studebaker with The History Lounge, thanks for the ride!
Amazing the cars were by and large smaller than all the huge suvs and cuvs we drive today although everyone says how big they were back then.
At 4:30 Idaho. That's the Idaho National Engineering Lab near Atomic City Idaho.
What has my AMERICA gone, GOD bless the good old USA. ❤️🌹👍
1964.
Beautiful. Like time traveling back in time. Beautiful job again!
I was born in the wrong decade….much too late. I have an old soul. I so want to have lived in that time.
Not the Disco Seventies?? A Dude could get More "Action" then. Everything was about Sex, Sex and More Sex. "English Leather" "Hush Puppies" "Hanes pantyhose." Most of the ads on TV were sexed up. You had "Charlie's Angels" and "Policewoman."
Wow love this channel some of the old car s a so nice better than today they should do some remakes of them
Born in 1959 but remember trips in Florida from the 1960s. Kinda miss it now.
This was very nice. What made the video addictive was the music score 🎼. It just kept gently building until it crescendoed at the end. I want to hear it again and again.
The thing that got me about this video were all the faces and how happy they were in their moment of time and now they are all gone. Time - like the music - keeps moving forward, leaving millions of lives lived quickly, then more lives repeat the process, always building in tempo, until time crescendoes for us all.
Thank you for the
good memories and the obvious reminder that time is fleeting and precious.
What a Great and wise post-thank YOU for that! 🫡🇺🇸😃😄
Would love to step back into some of those images for a little while and remember. Or maybe stay there? 🤔👍🇺🇸
I was born in 1957. My mother made every meal we ate. We never went on a road trip. My father worked two jobs and my mother worked. I don't feel like I missed anything because every family in our community lived the same way. I admit I was envious of seeing kids at Disneyland on the Wonderful World of Disney in the 60s.
My dad was a guard at Alcatraz. We never lived there as my dad commuted. I have been fortunate to have been in all 50 states, it took a ;lifetime. I am also grateful that I was able to drive on RT 66 in it's heyday in the late 50's as a young child. I remember it vividly. At night the neon lights were amazing. Americans are born w/a wanderlust spirit.
Wanderlust- Exactly!!! Explore, explore, explore, learn and discover as much as possible!!!
@@JrGoonior
Me an' wifey-we're ON IT!!! ❤👍🙏✝️
great job and yes some problems,, But all and all things I think where so much better.
The only time my family ever drove anywhere, it was to scout out yet another place to move to, even the time we went to Florida.
I didn’t expect sunshine in anchorage Alaska.
"The Mole" (Harry James and Orchestra) - 1956 -- Great "road" music. Thanks, History Lounge!
0:22 That's my first car! The red Chevy 2 door wagon!!
Great trip down memory lane !
My road trip memories of childhood were my Mom & Dad, sister & I driving from San Diego to New York in our 1973 Toyota Corona Mark 2 Station Wagon.
(Deluxe loaded, power everything, A/C & 6 cylinder !)
Small Station Wagon, purchased at height of "gas crisis".
Yes it was small, but we were a small family.
We'd rent a "Car Top Carrier" from U-Haul so all our luggage rode on top.
We'd stop at every other "tourist trap" lol.
What is interesting is that you can estimate the date of the photos easily by looking at the cars - sort of "No earlier/later than xxx".
Just want to see America in the 1940, 1950, 1960’s MY AMERICA, I would go and live it again, the good and the bad, people cared for people. ❤️🌹👍
All these cars. All gorgeous.
We really lost something.
They were crap. The rusted out in seven years, were mechanically toast at 80,000 miles, were death traps, barely got 15 mpg and polluted like crazy. Today’s cars are exponentially better
@@byronbuck1762 Mechanically your right, stylistically your wrong.
@@leoncutajar1369 Style is subjective. Reliability and safety isn’t
@@byronbuck1762 Old cars are both reliable and safe provided the owner can maintain and drive them properly.
As for style, the term "cookie cutter" didn't emerge from nowhere.
@@leoncutajar1369 Today’s cars are statistically four times safer than those of the fifties and sixties and they generally have over twice the horsepower to weight ratio of old ones while retuning twice the mileage and two orders of magnitude lower emissions. Yea there are a lot of boring looking cars now but most 50’s cars were butt ugly, 57 Nomads or Tbirds were the exception
merci :)
très beau...
feel hypnotise thanks
Probably the happiest time in America right after WWll. Doubt there will ever be this kind of unity here again nothing but hatred for one another now. At least I actually lived some of this myself.
My parents did too. They were both in their mid 20's then and we went on road trips all over the country in a station wagon. Still have thousands of feet of 8mm movie film of it to this day.
U.S. didn't have millions of illegals around.
That guy A.I. is a hell of a photographer!
I grew up in the 70s in the UK (West Midlands.) It was a peaceful easy feeling, I bought cigarettes when I was 13, the shopkeeper wasn't bothered, nobody was back then, it was a peaceful easy feeling. Everybody just kept on rolling along. Not so now, everbody is miserable, moody and uptight, so please Lord give me back the 70s, hell I'll even go back to the 50s as I hear people from that era saying it was Good, it was peaceful, it was easy and there were feelings!
Would love to see, where possible, current photos of the places shown in this video.
Wonderful ! paradise did exist. Many baby boomers in France grew up with this idea of the USA. Thank you for proving it even late
Does anyone else find themselves waving back at the people, like at the woman in the car?
Yes!!
Interesting to see all those shiny fifties and sixties cars. Those were the days of no interstate highway system. Travelers had to depend on the AAA guide books to find motels. If your car broke down it could be hours just to find a place to find a phone to get a tow. Finding clean restrooms while on the road was difficult. No fast food restaurants until the early 60s. Gas for 29.9 a gallon.
yip...and it was all done by Eisenhower.
The cars were some amazing shapes, sizes and colors. Now they'd nearly all be excessively pumped up pickups
Better run, better run, faster than their Bumper...
Great video! Our big trip was in 1959 westward when I was twelve. We hit many of the places you featured such as the parks. Our 1957 Desoto made the long trip from Austin,Texas to LA just fine. Surprised that you didn’t mention Disneyland. It was everyone’s dream back then.
Disneyland is not what it was years ago. But then Disney Company is not what it was either.
@@glennso47 Why make everything political?
@Dills1995 that's not "political" so much as an observation.
I made it to the 'land back around 1971-72 when I was about 8. Probably the best time to go so you're old enough to remember but young enough to really get excited about it. Years later went several times to the 'world with girlfriends and later wife and kids. I actually lived in Orlando with my wife (before kids) and had a job connected to Disney and drove back and forth several times a day meeting with clients. I've been in the Imagineering offices and the tunnels under the main park. My wife's uncle organizes the marathon each year and we made use of his free pass.
However, I have zero desire to set foot on that property ever again. My family actually prefers going to stay on the beach at St. Augustine. Disney can ESAD.
@@wwiiinplastic4712 And yet you became a political pawn of the far right.
What's a better picture of pure freedom than the great 50's - 60's road trip?
If you were white!
Do any of you just as old as me types remember the Stuckey stops? Those disgusting, sweet pecan logs?
@@jameseubanks1817 I remember the restaurants well, I believe numbers of them still exist. I never ate at one. My Dad (captain of the '56 Buick) was the kind of person who, for all his good qualities, could and frequently did instantly form virulently negative opinions about things. Based upon nothing or at best, an example of one. He hated Howard Johnson's with the heat of 100 suns, LOL. I never knew why, it was almost like it was forbidden to ask. We used to drive from Jersey to Detroit to visit his folks and there were easily a dozen HoJos along the way and they were usually placed in convenient, attractive, easy-to-drive midcentury extravaganzas of Pennsylvania Turnpike magnificence. Nope! Stuckeys found itself in just about the same category.
@@alanpecherer5705 Aren't Dads great,it just took my dad one bad experience at a Howard Johnsons while on our only vacation of the year somewhere around New Orleans, to swear he would never vist ever again, funny how I've never visited Howard Johnsons ever again either. Dads are great
@@jameseubanks1817 That's funny as hell, we have exactly the same story. Best to you!
Good looking car & a handsome, successful looking man. 7:30 Just one person out of 100s of millions in this country. Makes me wonder who was he, what became of him ? And the car ?
The best times for USA !!
God I wish I could go back in time. I was born in the wrong era! The good old days… when things were better and everyone drove cars made in America and had an open road and freedom!
I love trips. The photos are great with all the cars and the amazing locations that people went too. Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful video
Great idea to do this, I would like to see Tucson, Arizona in general
Thanks, Matt - I’ll put Tucson on the list!
This was, arguably, the greatest period in American history...the true birth of the middle class thanks to good wages. Companies were booming and employment was there for the taking. Companies stayed onshore and employed more and more people in more extensive factories. Then, slowly but surely, it fell apart. Economists and manufacturers discovered globalisation and the great exodus of blue collar jobs began. First they went to Japan and now China and Mexico. The companies that grew rich through the sweat and hard work of honest Americans dumped those same Americans to fly offshore for cheaper labour. It was all about the might dollar and obscene profits on shares and for CEOs. Now there are many cities and towns in the US which are shadows of their former selves. Whole suburbs abandoned in Detroit and rot everywhere. Cities full of crazed drug addicts and the poor because there are precious few manual labour jobs and good paying factory jobs.
Now if you look at China the situation is paralleling the US model. The middle class in China is booming because of plentiful blue collar jobs. People in China have become more affluent. They think nothing of sending their kids overseas to travel, buying real estate in Australia or Canada and buying shiny new cars built by the explosion of car makes over there. And just who financed this boom in China? Why we did...our taxes. our companies our technologies.
Thank the Democrats for all that.
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It amazes me how good the quality of most of these photographs are.
I know, you can improve pictures, once they are digitalized, (did that with my slides collection), but if the source is rubbish, it's no use.
Thank you for sharing this video and the accompanying music.
What an absolutely wonderful channel! I cannot get enough of it!
May I ask if you can make one of the Sandhills in Nebraska, in particular, of the very small town in the Sandhills called Hyannis but also Alliance (where there is a small airport) and of the very small town called Arthur? Thank-you!
What a wonderful video trip. Thank you very much for posting. 😎 I just subscribed to your page and am going to watch all of these. Very Cool.
I can tell you what 90%of the cars are ,I grew up with them, I used to go to the dealers when the new models came and get brochures, wish I had kept them
The Chevy dealer in my home town used to cover his showroom windows with brown paper when the new models came out then usually on a Thursday night they would have a big event and tear down the paper and show off the new Chevy’s. What great year when the 1957 Belaire made its debut!
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They also had the new cars covered on the car haulers with teasers saying the new 1959 Chevrolet is under here
I remember going to see the 59 Chevy and noticed the aluminum grille and thinking how cheap it looked
I don't think there was a good looking Chevy until the 61 I was 15 when it came out and fell in love with it.
Remember when the car magazines would come out with sneak previews of the new models that were supposed to look like in August?
Half the time they were wrong 😄
Yes, Washington State in the 40's, 50's and 60's.
Everything seem to just have more individual styling back then, the cars and buildings. Now everything looks like it comes from the same mold.
Including some "people"... 😮
"Guy in '60 Impala - possibly still there." I got a good laugh out of that one! You brought back many memories, including my Grampa Conklin taking us from the oil fields of Alberta for a visit to his hometown of Abilene Texas in 1953. Well done. Keep up the excellent work Sir! Abilene is found in The Bible, Luke 3 verse1. God Bless America... Sincerely, Bob Steele, Maj Ret. Alberta, Canada.
Great production! Please do one just on Route 66.
Great idea! My sister toured it, but I never have.. please do it! 😢
I did when I was little with my folks...it was incredible.
If we could go back with what we know now ...
I've been to many of these places (those west of the Mississippi river) the CA ones are definitely in my memories since I was born & raised there. I'm surprised about Bagnell Dam for lake of the Ozarks! Just visited it just last year!😊
Loved it. Thank you !
Good to see Tourons existed back then too..
Very enjoyable and took me back to my teenage years. What simpler time it was in the mid 40's thru the mid 60's. Of course we had problems, but compared to today, we had smooth sailing.
Would enjoy some 50's and 60's from the NY, NJ, Pennsylvania areas. Would also enjoy locations such as the north east- to include upstate NY, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Thanks
Look at those cars…..oh my goodness. What we’d give for one of those now 😆
That's when America was America
The USA is still the USA. Things change
Back when it was not AfroJooMexica
Thank you for video. From Paris France.
Another great production Kevin! Thank you! And your captions add so much too! 😁
Times gone by… beautiful cars people and scenery. My how times have changed, people have no class, cars are foreign made and all look the same and the scenic beauty has all been littered and disrespected.
Very sad…. But the memories are great and glad to have seen and lived in those times!
Even the vehicles lined up nicely no matter what it was. Nowadays it looks like a wrecking yard in Walmarts parking lot lol.
If I have the option to be reincarnated I’m choosing the 1950s
What's stunning to me is the lack of signage ...no parking meters or regulations..just park for free anywhere anytime for as long as you like.. how liberating that must have been!!!
Til someone found out the $$$ to be made-cha-ching! 😂💸
That was America!!!
Great video, really enjoyed it. I'd love to see photos from Upstate,New York, typically the Catskills region.
The Catskills are an excellent suggestion and that area is definitely on my list. So many classic resorts there back in the 50s and 60s. I only hope I can do it justice. Thanks for watching and contributing!
Beautiful Cars,beautiful people,no slime no blacks ,Man I love it .
I clicked for the 60s part although most of what I saw seemed to be right before I appeared, but this would have been my mother's childhood and I did see some of the places and businesses that managed to continue on, so a lot of the imagery was familiar only aged a few years.
A much better time period in America.
@6:32 Is that a CB antenna on the back of that Cadillac? HAM Radio operator?