Those were the best days growing up. As a kid on the weekends you stayed out all day until it Dinner time . Then you got to go out until it got dark. You played with your friends all day all over the neighborhoods instead of sitting in your room texting them. You carried a dime with you anytime you went out in case of emergency so you could call home on a pay phone.
I have four siblings and we did exactly that, we stayed out all day playing with the neighborhood kids and when it was time to clean up for supper mom has a specific whistle for each of us.
70 years old - very old - remember these things. At one place we lived we had a drive-in theatre basically in our back-yard and the house wired for sound from the movie. Dad cut a deal with the theatre when they bought the place so we saw movies for free. Yes, the screen was very visible from the house.
Strange but good. Remember when we said SPAZ, COOL and all our other phrases. We were blessed to not have to go through what kids have to put up with today 💕🙏
It was a friendly time, a safe time, everybody knew everyone else and kept an eye out for each others children. There was no violence in schools, there were mothers who stayed home and Sundays were for church services and family dinners. Kids played without worry until those street lights came on and summer vacation was a free spirted time for kids to play with each other, building forts, endless street games, and sleepovers at each others house. A snow day was a "blessing" to be out of school and as soon as it was announced on the radio we all headed to the local hill to sled the day away. I cry for todays kids who have no earthly idea of what this was like.... it was a time that is sadly gone forever. We were the lucky ones to grow up at such an awesome time in America!
What a shame. Tell you what if I was born in the USA today I would move to the Far East. Or maybe Norway or the Netherlands. i would definitely NOT remain in this country. We didn't even have locks on our entry doors. And when we went to the beach here in FL we left our keys IN THE IGNITION so we didn't have to carry them down to the beach in case they became lost in the sand! Can you imagine that today?
...and we didn't have to wear safety helmets to ride a bike or stupid knee pads and numbered sun screens. We climbed up into trees, slept outside overnight in tents, walked to parks to swing as high as we could on swings, Climbed on high monkey bars, went as fast as possible on metal merry go rounds and fell or flew off at times, we often ran around bare footed on hot sunny sidewalks, got sun burned, jumped in leave piles/had leave fights, went sledding on the highest hills we'd find without adults, had snowball fights, and knew how to cross streets safely on our own, we'd be outside all day whenever off from school, we walked to school even in Kinder Garten in the cities. We actually loved being outside all day and early evenings on our own. It was authentic and purely spontaneous Inventive play until bedtime with windows open when it was warm or hot hearing crickets, cars driving near or in the distance, rain or the rustling of tree leaves in the breezes or winds. It was authentic and all good as granted. It was the utmost of actual living. If Baby Boomers are said to be spoiled it could only be true for the aforementioned above.
@@johnsherman6718 One of the first things I remember is my mom teaching me how to cross the street. We had damn good teachers. They taught us the 3 R’s. And our parents taught us about life. “ those were the days my friend, we thought they’ed never end.” But sadly they did. At 82 I have a few more years of the good times on you, but we both had the time of our lives. Have a great rest of your life John Sherman.
Early marriage, my husband was a milk man in training. On one house, he was warned that the peoplevanted him to go in and put the milk in the refrigerator, but they had a little dog that would bite their heels. They had to try to beat the dog in and out. One morning, he caught the trainer. The bite scared the trainer so bad that he fell down and threw the milk. It broke and milk went everywhere. Such a mess. Thy had to clean it up. Anither delivery, the people had a big Doberman. He learned to throw an ice cream bar as far as he could and get the milk delivered before he finished it.
When I was growing up , I like so many S&h Green stamp books , I can still remember the taste of the glue , we bought camping gear with the stamps and went camping at starved Rock Illinois 🤣🤣🤣♦️♦️♦️‼️
I would too but only to visit. I've become too enamored of the electronics age to ever want to stay but spending a month or so back then would be aces.
It was a great time to be a kid! I was born at the end of 1961 and am at the tail end of the baby boomer generation. I have fond memories of being a teenager in my neighborhood in the 1970’s! I had great friends. We played baseball all summer long and played football during the cold weather months. It was a simpler time and life was good!
Yes...everyone played outside all the time. Such great memories. My son used to play outside and I remember when video games started to be a thing in the '80s and he would get frustrated with his friends who stopped going outside to play.
@@itsdiane2you11 Scientists now say "The longer one stares at a cell phone, the greater their danger to become a zombie. Really. This is what scientists now say. Really.
I was born in 1955 the year color TV came out. In the 70's I was working 3 jobs at a time. buying perfect low mile luxury cars from $50. to $350. That was a lot of money for me back then, but I have always been a great Saver of money. Had showroom cars like a 1959 Pontiac 2 dr. I bought from a guy who stopped in to buy 1 gal. of gas to make it to the junk yard to sell it. I asked, he said he would probably get $100.00 for it. I offered $125.00 if he would wait until fri. He agreed. So many good deals back then and I traveled a lot in my HI way floaters! Sure miss everything except the war.
My dad was a milk man delivery to homes. Some people actually leave the door unlocked for him just to go on in . Times have really changed. S&h stamps were really neat. If you went on Wednesday to the store you got double stamps. My mom got several things throughout the years. We used regular cards on our bicycle spokes. It was a neat sound. Times have really changed. I remember all of these things. Life seemed so much simpler then. ❤️
I really got a kick from this one as I am a Boomer. Loved hearing the milkman delivering milk in the morning, and I’d swear it tasted better than market milk. I was one of the millions who saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I could hardly wait to see that show that night. Thanks for talking about my generation.
@@johnpoole8321 - I remember when “Hound Dog” came out, and we were just young kids, and we thought that was the most fun song we’d ever heard. 😢 Fun times.
I remember Beatlemania when I was little. My older cousins had one of those Beatle dolls and the boots. I thought they were the ultimate in cool. We had the follow-up in the 70s which was Rollermania, when the Bay City Rollers became popular. We had the short tartan trimmed pants and the tartan scarf with our favorite band member's name on it to wave at the concerts. Fun times indeed! 😊
I honestly believe we lived in the very best time ever. Even with the social upheaval and the Vietnam war th. 60s were the greatest time to be alive. I remember all of these things and so much more. As another poster commented, we’ve lost so much.
That's super true!! I have an uncle on my stepdad's side of the family and he's blond with blue eyes and 6'4. The other 2 boys are 5'8 TOPS with brown eyes and had dark brown hair but are bald and have been since their early 20s! However Scott still has a full head of hair and looks only like my grandmother LOL. If he wasn't the Milkman's kid then he was the Mailman's haha.
I babysat for three little girls way back when; a brunette, a blonde and a red head. The mom used to joke that their dad's were the milkman, the mailman and the meter man. LOL
My mother collected those and Gold Bell stamps. I remember her calling me over to the table and telling me to stick out my tongue. She would roll the stamps over my tongue and stick them in the book. I remember the time she caught putting postage stamps in the books. I can still hear her screaming!
Pasting green stamps into the booklets was one of my very first jobs at home. I really enjoyed it, especially when my mom's face lit up at a full book!
Up to the early 60's people typically turned those stamps in for a card table & matching folding chairs, or porch furniture. I recall the neighbor lady got a dutch oven.
I remember in the late 1950s we would ride out bikes behind the fog of the mosquito sprayer, little did we know we were breathing in cancerous DDT but I'm happy to report that I'm mow 71 and still kicking!
I remember trying to trick the milkman into delivering chocolate milk by leaving notes pretending to be from my mother. I suppose the fact that they were written in crayon probably tipped him off that they were fakes!
An "A" for the effort! When we lived near Albany, NY in the mid 70's, we used to get a 5 gallon container of milk delivered by the milkman. It had a handle on top and a convenient tap to dispense. Of course when nobody was around, I would just drink from the tap! It was amazing how fast we drank that 5 gallons. My Grandparents were serviced by the Lehigh Valley Dairy, and they were able to get O.J. and iced tea delivered. Everything was in cartons by then.
Interesting fact about those milk trucks. The driver did not sit down, as there was no seat. He stood up the whole time, because it was faster getting it on out of the truck. I know because I worked for a very brief time as a milkman in 1968. And when I say brief I mean less than a week, as it was not an easy job and I hated starting work at 3:00 in the morning.
Some, milk delivery trucks had foldable seats at least in the 50's. Made it easier to get in and out when there was only a short distance between stops.
I remember my milkman driver from 1966-1969 he was a good man when I was a kid when he didn't show up after a week I asked my grandpa " where is he?" he told me he died ,,,My milkman drove for "Roberts" and on TV commercials the jingle tune was "Roberts the dairy on the move" That was in my hometown of Plainfield Indiana .
Gen X here. Our family had milk delivery until 1979-1980. They still used the old stand-up driver trucks as well. I remember in the summertime with the windows open, hearing the glass bottles clinking at 4-6 AM when he showed up.
I'm 75 and I remember all of this. Those were better days than now. We didn't have cell phones, no microwave ovens and our TV in 1954 had one channel. A year later CBS and ABC stations arrived. Much simpler times. Dad's worked and Mothers stayed home and raised the children. People were friendlier and more respectful. Then the mid 60s arrived with the Vietnam War heating up. That was the beginning politically of where we are now. A mess.
I remember those years with fond memories. The milk that was delivered was in a glass bottle, it had a cardboard seal on the top with a tab you could just pull to get it open and the cream separated and was on top. He would place it in a square insulated box on our doorstep and inside the box was our next order from a piece of paper he left the day before. All we had to do was check what we wanted on the list for the next day. I remember mom getting us around the table licking those S&H green stamps to fill up the books. She got quite a few items from those books. I miss the drive ins, the playgrounds, the metal speakers with the armored cables that hooked on your car window and intermission time when we could make a run to the snack bar. I had no idea Bonanza ran that long but I do remember being surprised that Dan Blocker weighed ten pounds when he was born. I don't know if it was a regional thing at the time but what you didn't mention was the cotton candy man and MR Softee that would come around. Thanks for the reminders of better times it was a joy to watch.
We lived out in the country, but we had an ice cream man who stopped once a week, bringing delicious popsicles, drumsticks (the ones with the round scoop of ice cream, choc, nuts on top), and various other ice cream treats! We also had a bread man stop once a week!
Bonanza was long running besides Lorne Greene was Canadian but what about Gunsmoke? Kitty was into menopause while Matt was still rubbing the barrel of his metal not his flesh of a gun. Kitty didn't get pregnant because if no marriage, no pregnancy-good family value.
@@haroldharwell7078, So your ice cream man was entitled I see. Ours had a trike where the freezer was on front with handlebars that was the steering. He had to ring a bell as he went down the street. LOL
Here in rural Scotland our milk is still delivered (usually twice a week), by local dairy farmers selling organic milk (which still has the cream on top). The homogenous milk supplied in supermarkets, has almost no nutritional value, while calcium absorption is almost nil. Fresh milk is something completely different - and even has its own special taste
We had the milk man and the dry cleaners guy come to our house. Dad played in a band and had to wear clean white starched shirts. The delivery guy would save part of his sandwich to give to the German Shepard who guarded the house. She looked forward to him coming around
I wasn't alive at any time in the 50s but wanna say drive-ins were still around in the 70's. The sixties were great in my book. So a magical time for children. No lash laws for the dogs. They were part of the neighborhood and would walk you home after the street lights came on. From a parents point of view at that time l can't say for sure what my parents thought. I think they had a good time too. 🙏
And one could adopt a dog or puppy at the SPCA for $15-$20, with no background checks or lengthy application processes, and you didn't need to register them at your town's borough hall and pay for a license in order to actually have them added to your family.
< No lash laws> Not like the leash laws they have now. These things are caused, in many cases, by lawsuits. We are a sue-happy society. Anybody is free to get those laws changed
I loved the Avon lady. I always got a tiny sample lipstick. We had blue chip stamps and green stamps, it was fun looking in the store at all the neat stuff they had. My grandmas basement was a little creepy. Full of coal beneath the shoot and what seemed like hundreds of jars of canned fruits and vegetables, an of course it was pretty dark. Occasionally my Mom would have chocolate milk delivered-it was expensive. And all the kids listened for the ice cream man in the summer. We also had Helms bakery trucks with these long, long drawers full of cakes, pies, donuts and bread. We four kids were sitting on the floor in front of the tv with our tv dinners. My Dad came home and surprised us with a new, very exuberant puppy who came running in and gobbled up each of our dinners. We loved it, my dad did not. It really was a great time to be a kid.
I’m 69 remember some of this stuff well it was a time kids could go just about any where and do whatever they wanted and parents didn’t worry about us we need those days again 😢
I remember all of these things. I was 13 when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan. Not one kid in the neighborhood missed it. It swept the nation. Many garage bands sprouted up due to the "British Invasion" as it was called. Mom always saved Green Stamps. Our house had a "Milk Chute" where the Milk man placed the milk. This was when I was a kid in Pontiac, Michigan. Good times!
That Ed show - the 3 in a row changed my punk ass 12 year old life. I moved later from CT at 23 to LA and worked at Capitol because of them. Mom and step-Dad loved Beatles and were hip so life through the 60s was very cool. Today I sit retired in N Hollywood turning 70 with my guitars still multi tracking my ass off for no other reason than fun. Still have my 16 magazines and LPs and about 100 books and Beatle stuff I harvested within arms reach of me. Long Live the Invasion!!! lol ☮
I remember them all…I work as an operator for 2.5 years on those cord boards before I took a job in outside plant. I loved working the information desk. When calculators 1st cam out they were mega expensive. The Isley milk truck delivered cottage cheese, cream, milk, buttermilk. There was a Nichols bakery truck that deliver bread in the summer ( so my mom didn’t have to heat up the house with baking bread then. We lived I. The country and their were delivery people for all kinds of things: Charlie Chips ( potato chips in metal cans), McNess (spices and flavorings like vanilla and such),…in the summer all the traveling salesman showed up like Fuller Brush, vacuum salesman, Bible salesman, etc. then there was the book mobile from the county library too! There were always people dropping by, the insurance man, the paster, all those sales people…there were more then I listed. Memories 😎
Encyclopedia salesman ‼️ My grandmother got me the world books. I learned so much. Countries and the people... fascinating ‼️ Geography and great information. Computers are fine but reading is an experience like no other. My Dad made me read the paper at 4. I chose the funny papers. He read the paper at 2. He became an attorney and Circuit Court Judge. Smart and funny, a real treat to be around 💕🙏✌️
Yes I remember the fruit and vegetable truck, the knife sharpener guy, and our milkman brought all kinds of stuff besides milk. Bread, pastry, potato chips, chocolate milk, and more.
I’m not even a baby boomer (I’m Gen-X) and I remember all of these things still existing throughout my childhood. The only one I didn’t personally experience was the milkman, however I was aware of such dairy services still existing in some areas. It was certainly still a popular concept on TV, so I was aware of it. And Mom, Grandma, and I used to fill out those S&H stamp booklets in the 70s. Good times. 🙂
Happy Mother’s Day. My mom was a telephone operator for bell telephone company. She started in Lehighton pa and retired in the late 1980s from Allentown pa. The company is now Verizon and she is still going 85 years young
Music was great in the 60s. Tons of lightning bugs and Charlie's Chips delivery guy in the 60's also. Saturday morning cartoons and then going out to play. Stay at home home Moms and everyone knew everyone on the block.
Our apartment in SoCal in 1959 had a narrow driveway with tiny stoops to the back doors to access one of the parking areas. The door was unlocked with the refrigerator near the door with the empties between the door and the fridge. The milkman would come inside and he would put the order in the refrigerator, take the empties and shut the door. We had a bakery delivery that we kids called the Donut Man. S&H Green Stamps were a thing until the discount chains such as Target or K-Mart put them out of business.
Oh my goodness what a walk down memory lane. S&H green stamps. Mom would bring them home after grocery shopping and we would lick them and stick them in the book. My mom saved enough books for 1 Xmas present for each of us. What fun. 😊❤️
I’ve noticed while watching old TV shows like Bonanza, Rifleman, Wagon Train, Gilligan’s Island…………that the networks put a disclaimer before the shows that state they do not conform to the standards or opinions of todays world and you shouldn’t watch if you are offended by these old ideals. What a crock.
I remember the milk trucks but we also had the egg truck as well. We had a box on the porch that was insulted for those deliveries. I also helped a friend of mine on his news paper route riding our bikes all over town delivering news papers. We grew up mowing yards and raking leaves and then in the winter months shoveling snow. We always watched Bonanza along with Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom. The nightly news Huntly Brinkley report. Then after that was cartoons.
Mowing the lawn until my boyfriend made fun of me at 16 and I told my mother I wasn't going to do it anymore. I was the one to do everything and there was alot. At 75 tomorrow I'm still in shape. It gave me a good foundation for health. Yay babyboomers💕🙏✌️
If you can recall the insulated panels as being light gray in color with fuzzy edges, then like my family you had one with solid asbestos panels glued to all four inside and lid....found this out as an adult in my 30s.
Small transistor radio to listen to the World Series the games played in the daytime during school hours. The teacher knew we were listening but let us get away with it during class.
I would NEVER have thought to put my baseball cards on my spokes! I put regular playing cards there! Of course, I was a Tom boy. We had 3 channels on the television, and the reception was not all that good... until our father had an antenna installed on our roof with a controller to point it more accurately. Yes, the Ed Sullivan show: the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Elvis Presley... shocked my mother who was watching; my father ignored it, reading his newspaper. As to schools, yes I had to learn how to use a slide rule; an electronic calculator was both an anomaly and a God send.
I was a tomboy too, and my dad also put up a roof antenna with a rotor for us. Thank goodness slide rules were not used when I took algebra/trig in high school! They seemed like a b***h to learn how to use, lol.
Born in 1950 I remember all of these things and more. Drive ins were a regular event and cheap entertainment to watch first run movies. The price of everything was significantly less and gasoline was cheap. Life was much less complicated.
I remember so many things watching this video. As kids and teenagers, we had real friends and talked to them personally instead of by social nets. Miss those simpler times, but we can never go back.
My earlist memory of the Milkman was the (Draft) Horse & Cart. The horse would respond to woah and get up commands but usually worked in silence knowing exactly where to go and stop. Usually, the Milkman had a hard time keeping up to the horse!
I remember seeing Planet of the Apes at the drive-in and dad had the wagon backed up facing the screen. Three or four of us kids piled in the back with pillows and blankets and the back hatch open. Dad and mom in lawn chairs at back of car and a cooler with "pop". Good times
I also saw Planet of the Apes at a drive-in, but on a date!😁 Probably not the best choice of movies, but it may have been the best movie at that time!?
I remember the milkman when they used clydesdale horses, i always went out in the dawn and patted the horse, great memories, i wish i was still in that era❤️simple carefree days😢
I'm a Gen Xer and remember going to a drive-in movie or two (the closest one to me closed down in 1988) and we had our milk delivered by a local dairy from the late 70's - mid 80's. My siblings and I used to collect baseball & football cards but never put them in our bike spokes. So glad I was a child in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's because those were great times!
I still get my milk delivered early in the morning in glass bottles by a milkman - I've been doing it for years but during lockdown lots of people tried it and have continued. (UK).
You were a kid. Kids don't have the stresses of adulthood, including facing your mortality. But kids back then did hear that the Russians could hit the red button and destroy the entire world in 5 minutes. But no stress.
Most of these are gen x too. Damn near everything you showed were up to and thru the 70's. I was a 60's kid and I remember all of this and I took my kids to the drive in and shoved TV diners down their gullet on TV trays
My son has the metal TV trays that my mom passed to me. These sat on your lap and had "groovy" '60s flowers on them. I saw one of them in an episode of the Walking Dead in a scene with Eugene. Flashback. My son's kids use them often while watching TV. 😊
@@mariebussinger6565 My mom also cooked for us...we never had frozen dinners. My little brother thought a Swanson's Chicken Pot Pie was the nest thing ever - he never had one until he visited me after I moved out. My mom also made many of our clothes. She even made me my first two piece bathing suit. I loved it!
I remember when I was a child back then, when I got sick the doctor came to my house. He would put on his head(taken from his large med bag) a mirror with a hole in the middle of it, held on his head by a large leather strap. Those were the days.
We never had milk delivered but our next door neighbor did. We would time our mornings by him. We would hear him turn off the motor, slide the door open, hear the glass bottles clinking, heard him walk up the steps and then the sounds were reversed. That meant I had to leave the house in 5 minutes to go to school.
Yea I'm a late boomer born near the end of 64.i remember seeing everything with the exception of the milk man.they we're gone where I was.we were on a telephone party line until my sister started dating boys and tied it up all time and we were kicked off it lol
I remember all of these things and I’m not quite in the baby boomer generation. The milkman brought back a lot of memories as did the TV dinners. I remember sitting on the couch with a TV tray and eating my dinner from off of it. Thanks for the fun memories!
I remember going to the drive in and couldn't wait to get old enough to were my play clothes, and getting to stay up sometimes past my bed time and sharing the fun with a friend or two. I remember how we would sit and watch the movie in the back of the station wagon and by the time of the 2nd movie we would all be sound asleep. But then again it was a lot simple times in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Love from Marysville, California
@@kirkmooneyham It shouldn't, I don't live close enough for it to flood where I am. I have 2 leeves between me and the river. Love from Marysville, California
I remember being dumbfounded when I learned they were getting rid of human operators. “How will we ever get a number we don’t already know?” 🤷🏻♀️ haha!
We got a used color TV in about 1964. The first color broadcast I saw was Bonanza. I was amazed at the intensity of the colors. Never liked the Beatles after they ruined my 7th birthday party. I thought I was going to get birthday kisses from some of the girls but all they cared about was the Beatles. Yes, I was born on Feb. 9.
These were the Best Times ever. I miss them so much...espically the drive in's, where you could go in your PJ's and your mom could bring food to eat and snack too I know my mom did....
I can remember all the things you mentioned, we also had the bread man come every day. It was Bond bread. They had different types of bread rolls, and they had some sweets, a glazed, oblong doughnut, which I loved as a kid. We had the seal test Milkman come my neighborhood, Abbotts milk come to their house. We also have the Fuller brush man come around the neighborhood, we even had a rag man come in his horse and wagon even though I live in the city, he was there. A lot of good times playing outside and going to the woods. Thank you for these memories! 8:05
We had a Nomad station wagon and when we would go to the drive in, my folks would put down the back seat and put a pad and blankets down. Very handy when we got sleepy! we also ate tv dinners and Banquet meat pies, and I recollect that they tasted much better than they do today. I could be wrong.
Yes!!! Calculators were NOT ALLOWED in school. NOT EVEN DURING a study period. If you were found with one you might find yourself suspended. And one more thing. If you disrespected a teacher in ANY way; you had to face the WRATH of your parents, even after a possible suspension. To bad the nation has fallen so far. R. C. G. S.
I worked at the last Drive-In theatre equipment maker in the country until they closed in "83". They blamed the new cable T.V. for killing the theatre business.
Oh how well I remember all of these! On cold winter mornings when getting the bottles of just-delivered milk, the cold air forced about an inch and a half of pure white cream to the tops of the bottles. You had to shake the bottles to get the cream evenly distributed (or else try to gobble the cream up if Mom wasn't looking). Speaking of Mom, we would tease her that if our house ever caught fire she would risk life and limb in order to save her cache of S&H Green Stamp books.
Yup...remember licking cream off the paper tops when I took the bottles to the frig. Had to shake the bottles to mix the cream into the milk. Later homogenizing milk kept the cream from separating..
Good memories of growing up in the 50's and early 60's. We lived in the country so when we finally got telephone service, it was a party line with several other families on it. Generally the # of rings told you who the call was for. If you picked up to make a call, some of the other families may already be on the line chatting. Eavesdropping others calls was frequent! It was a law in Oklahoma back then that if someone got on with others and said they needed the line for an emergency, the others had to hang up and give them the line. If not, they could be charged. But if you faked an emergency, YOU could then be charged so no cheating!!
Omg I forgot about the party line‼️ Us kids would listen in. When you wanted to call out and someone was on it you had to wait unless it was an emergency 💕🙏✌️
Was just thinking the same thing, I'm a country boy, almost 40 miles to town. Those phones turned many in our community into what we call "gossips". Had to be careful what you said, cuz someone was sure to be listening. Dad hated it, was nice to get markets, but if you contracted a sale, the whole community knew about it. Still, I miss the old days. we went to church with maybe 20 or so people in the pews, and it seems like folks just knew what was right or wrong. Born in '49.
I was a U.S. MARINE in 1968 when my grandfather died. I was in Washington state at a school, and could not go home I called collect to my grandmother and had to tell the operator I wanted to call Gueydan La, and the number was 4321. She asked for the rest of the number, I told her that is it, no prefix no area code, just 4321. She finally got me connected. I was his first grandson, so it was a hard time.
@@campfireaddict6417 Sure enough. We had a code worked out with my parents for when I traveled somewhere such as back to school. I'd tell the Operator I wanted to make a "person-to-person" call at their number for some fictitious name we'd made up. My mom or dad would answer and when the O would say she has a p-2-p call for XXXXX, they'd say "he's not here right now, call back later." That meant I'd arrived okay and so no charges. 🙂
S & H Green Stamps where still in use through the 1970’s. I remember shopping as a little 7 year old kid at my local Mckays grocer in Coos Bay Oregon and seeing adults pick up the stamp books and green stamps. Tom Sisson
Jimmy was our milkman. He let me ride with him to the corner. He had this big chunk of ice in the back that made everything cold and I fondly remember him letting me rub it. Once I brought a friend and he drove us both to corner. He was so nice. We still kept our milk shoot and my house now has a milk shoot although covered over on the outside with vinyl siding. It’s nice and cool just like Jimmy’s milk truck and I keep some of my art projects in there so they can feel cool. Born in 1959 I think I was about 4 when I met Jimmy. Mom and dad never had to worry about me tagging along with Jimmy to the corner and I’d toddle home. Alone. We didn’t live on a busy street so even that young I could cross without help. There was always someone outside to make sure you were OK.
In high school I remember that a man was measured by the size of his slide rule. We had one in the algebra 2 classroom that was hung over the blackboard that must have been 5-6 feet long as learning tool! I was trained as an engineer with a slide rule and now these young folks have never seen or heard of one. What we do today blows me away! Love watching those kids at SpaceX. I envy them so much!
I was born at the very end of the boom 1964 and remember all but TV dinners. My stay at home mom, made dinner each nite. Kids born in the 60s and 70s had it the best.
I, too, remember (vividly!). For me, a 73-year-old with a remarkably good long-term-memory, it was yesterday. And I miss the 1950s terribly. And I praise God that I had a "perfect" childhood!❤
When we were newlyweds, my husband called "Information" to ask how to make coffee in a percolator and was cheerfully given the instructions. Talk about customer service!
Had an old dime payphone in our old Texaco station. If you put a nickel in it and double punched the change return just right you could get your call for a nickel. Lol
My first first "dream" job was as a milkman. I even talked him and my folks into letting me go with him on his rounds one summer! Imagine doing that today?
Drive in theaters were a cheaper way for my parents to take the whole family to the movies in the early 60's; and by the late 60's a place where me and my friends could watch films while telling jokes and smoking a shitload of dope. Good times!
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Those were the best days growing up. As a kid on the weekends you stayed out all day until it Dinner time . Then you got to go out until it got dark. You played with your friends all day all over the neighborhoods instead of sitting in your room texting them.
You carried a dime with you anytime you went out in case of emergency so you could call home on a pay phone.
I have four siblings and we did exactly that, we stayed out all day playing with the neighborhood kids and when it was time to clean up for supper mom has a specific whistle for each of us.
Till the streetlights came on...lol
We called collect,let it ring twice. Mom then knew to pick us up and didn't cost that dime😅😂
Exactly you got it💕🙏✌️
@@Freya-bs5tx Excellent ‼️ Good ol' days we were blessed 💕🙏✌️
71 years young and remember everything on this clip like it was yesterday, when “all my troubles seemed so far away!”
I am 72 years old & I remember everything on this video!
Now it looks as if they’re here to stay.
76 here. Can't remember what I did yesterday, but remember all of these.
Oh you kids, I am 83, most of these things were for town kids.
70 years old - very old - remember these things. At one place we lived we had a drive-in theatre basically in our back-yard and the house wired for sound from the movie. Dad cut a deal with the theatre when they bought the place so we saw movies for free. Yes, the screen was very visible from the house.
I am 65 and blown away by all these wonderful memories. How could things that seemed so normal now appear very strange!?
Democrats happend
@@junicohen7918 👎How does it feel to not have full control of you brain?
Strange but good. Remember when we said SPAZ, COOL and all our other phrases. We were blessed to not have to go through what kids have to put up with today 💕🙏
@@junicohen7918 You got it exactly 🤙🙏✌️
@@johnopal316 Feels like...democrats happening.
I am 65 and remember everything that was mentioned. Boy, those sure were simpler and way better times! Thank you!
Agree
I'm 75 and except for losing a lung in Nam, I lived the best and happiest life humanly possible.
Unless u went to Viet Nam…
I’m 60 amazing memories such simpler times
AGREE !!! 😪
It was a friendly time, a safe time, everybody knew everyone else and kept an eye out for each others children. There was no violence in schools, there
were mothers who stayed home and Sundays were for church services and family dinners. Kids played without worry until those street lights came on
and summer vacation was a free spirted time for kids to play with each other, building forts, endless street games, and sleepovers at each others house.
A snow day was a "blessing" to be out of school and as soon as it was announced on the radio we all headed to the local hill to sled the day away. I cry
for todays kids who have no earthly idea of what this was like.... it was a time that is sadly gone forever. We were the lucky ones to grow up at such an
awesome time in America!
What a shame. Tell you what if I was born in the USA today I would move to the Far East. Or maybe Norway or the Netherlands. i would definitely NOT remain in this country. We didn't even have locks on our entry doors. And when we went to the beach here in FL we left our keys IN THE IGNITION so we didn't have to carry them down to the beach in case they became lost in the sand! Can you imagine that today?
Ditto! It was the best of times! Great fun was spontaneous and there were many kids from big families of all ages!
Amen to that!
And then the late 60’s happened and it all started to unravel.
...and we didn't have to wear safety helmets to ride a bike or stupid knee pads and numbered sun screens. We climbed up into trees, slept outside overnight in tents, walked to parks to swing as high as we could on swings, Climbed on high monkey bars, went as fast as possible on metal merry go rounds and fell or
flew off at times, we often ran around bare footed on hot sunny sidewalks, got sun burned, jumped in leave piles/had leave fights, went sledding on the highest hills we'd find without adults, had snowball fights, and knew how to cross streets safely on our own, we'd be outside all day whenever off from school, we walked to school even in Kinder Garten in the cities. We actually
loved being outside all day and early evenings on our own. It was authentic and purely spontaneous
Inventive play until bedtime with windows open when it was warm or hot hearing crickets, cars driving near or in the distance, rain or the rustling of tree leaves in the breezes or winds.
It was authentic and all good as granted.
It was the utmost of actual living.
If Baby Boomers are said to be spoiled it could only be true for the aforementioned above.
@@johnsherman6718
One of the first things I remember is my mom teaching me how to cross the street. We had damn good teachers. They taught us the 3 R’s. And our parents taught us about life.
“ those were the days my friend, we thought they’ed never end.”
But sadly they did.
At 82 I have a few more years of the good times on you, but we both had the time of our lives. Have a great rest of your life John Sherman.
We've lost so much. It breaks my heart.
Our parents: the greatest generation.
Agree
Mine too.
Sad, but true...if we could ONLY go back...
I'd go back in a minute.
I loved the way these memories were put together. It reminds me of times we were human and respected each other .
Guess I'm getting old...I personally remember all of these things 😂
Early marriage, my husband was a milk man in training. On one house, he was warned that the peoplevanted him to go in and put the milk in the refrigerator, but they had a little dog that would bite their heels. They had to try to beat the dog in and out. One morning, he caught the trainer. The bite scared the trainer so bad that he fell down and threw the milk. It broke and milk went everywhere. Such a mess. Thy had to clean it up.
Anither delivery, the people had a big Doberman. He learned to throw an ice cream bar as far as he could and get the milk delivered before he finished it.
I do too. I also remember the coal man who would put an alarm clock to shame.
Yeah, I'm sure I'm old. It snuck up on me! 😎
Right there with you!
When I was growing up , I like so many S&h Green stamp books , I can still remember the taste of the glue , we bought camping gear with the stamps and went camping at starved Rock Illinois 🤣🤣🤣♦️♦️♦️‼️
@@theodoreroberts3407 thanks for that one! I remember the coal truck would come and deliver it down a shute onto our basement coal room
I was blessed to have been a child in the 50's and 60's. What an amazing time! I would go back in a heartbeat! ❤
You know it. A lot safer too. I didn't know what a Vagina was until I was about 12 or 13. How's that for innocence?
I Definitely would give just about anything to go back yo that time. Fond memories, simple times, no corruption. Alas, gone forever
Me too!
Take me with you 😂😂😂
I would too but only to visit. I've become too enamored of the electronics age to ever want to stay but spending a month or so back then would be aces.
It was a great time to be a kid! I was born at the end of 1961 and am at the tail end of the baby boomer generation. I have fond memories of being a teenager in my neighborhood in the 1970’s! I had great friends. We played baseball all summer long and played football during the cold weather months. It was a simpler time and life was good!
Yes...everyone played outside all the time. Such great memories. My son used to play outside and I remember when video games started to be a thing in the '80s and he would get frustrated with his friends who stopped going outside to play.
@@itsdiane2you11 Scientists now say "The longer one stares at a cell phone,
the greater their danger to become a zombie. Really. This is what scientists now say. Really.
@@artlewellan2294 well that ended up being true
I was born in 1955 the year color TV came out. In the 70's I was working 3 jobs at a time. buying perfect low mile luxury cars from $50. to $350. That was a lot of money for me back then, but I have always been a great Saver of money. Had showroom cars like a 1959 Pontiac 2 dr. I bought from a guy who stopped in to buy 1 gal. of gas to make it to the junk yard to sell it. I asked, he said he would probably get $100.00 for it. I offered $125.00 if he would wait until fri. He agreed. So many good deals back then and I traveled a lot in my HI way floaters! Sure miss everything except the war.
62, here...we're the tail end of Boomers
My dad was a milk man delivery to homes. Some people actually leave the door unlocked for him just to go on in . Times have really changed.
S&h stamps were really neat. If you went on Wednesday to the store you got double stamps. My mom got several things throughout the years.
We used regular cards on our bicycle spokes. It was a neat sound.
Times have really changed. I remember all of these things. Life seemed so much simpler then. ❤️
Our house had a milk chute for the milkman to leave the milk in.
We had an insulated milk box on our front porch. I remember getting cottage cheese in colored aluminum drinking cups. We used those cups for years.
My Dad used to tease kids... " You look like the milkman!"
For many years, I used a punch bowl and cups purchased with green stamps.
I got my first tennis racket with S&H green stamps!
I really got a kick from this one as I am a Boomer. Loved hearing the milkman delivering milk in the morning, and I’d swear it tasted better than market milk. I was one of the millions who saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I could hardly wait to see that show that night. Thanks for talking about my generation.
Me also, we used to watch Elvis concerts as well. I remember he did 1 in Hawaii.
@@johnpoole8321 - I remember when “Hound Dog” came out, and we were just young kids, and we thought that was the most fun song we’d ever heard. 😢 Fun times.
I remember Beatlemania when I was little. My older cousins had one of those Beatle dolls and the boots. I thought they were the ultimate in cool. We had the follow-up in the 70s which was Rollermania, when the Bay City Rollers became popular. We had the short tartan trimmed pants and the tartan scarf with our favorite band member's name on it to wave at the concerts. Fun times indeed! 😊
I also saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan because of my older sister. I was pretty little but I’ll never forget the excitement!
@@daisydukes8252 - “Excitement” is exactly the right word!
I honestly believe we lived in the very best time ever. Even with the social upheaval and the Vietnam war th. 60s were the greatest time to be alive. I remember all of these things and so much more. As another poster commented, we’ve lost so much.
If there was a kid in a family who didn't resemble either parent, they were often jokingly called "the milkman's baby". 😉
That's super true!! I have an uncle on my stepdad's side of the family and he's blond with blue eyes and 6'4. The other 2 boys are 5'8 TOPS with brown eyes and had dark brown hair but are bald and have been since their early 20s! However Scott still has a full head of hair and looks only like my grandmother LOL. If he wasn't the Milkman's kid then he was the Mailman's haha.
That was me . All my bothers a sister were dark haired not me I was blond when I was very young .
I babysat for three little girls way back when; a brunette, a blonde and a red head. The mom used to joke that their dad's were the milkman, the mailman and the meter man. LOL
Oh that's right I forgot‼️ Funny phrase everyone said. The good ol'days 💕🙏 ✌️
@@michaeljohn9263 Good story I love it ‼️ Good thing he looked like his grandmother LoL💕 🙏✌️
My Mother collected these stamps , She purchased an aqua dish & bowl set , And a portable 8 track radio for my Dad . great video.
My mother collected those and Gold Bell stamps. I remember her calling me over to the table and telling me to stick out my tongue. She would roll the stamps over my tongue and stick them in the book. I remember the time she caught putting postage stamps in the books. I can still hear her screaming!
Pasting green stamps into the booklets was one of my very first jobs at home. I really enjoyed it, especially when my mom's face lit up at a full book!
Up to the early 60's people typically turned those stamps in for a card table & matching folding chairs, or porch furniture. I recall the neighbor lady got a dutch oven.
Oh yeah, here in Georgia was the S+H green stamps!
@@sheilacape4794 we had both. Massachusetts
I remember in the late 1950s we would ride out bikes behind the fog of the mosquito sprayer, little did we know we were breathing in cancerous DDT but I'm happy to report that I'm mow 71 and still kicking!
Me too. I remember that exotic smell.
I remember trying to trick the milkman into delivering chocolate milk by leaving notes pretending to be from my mother. I suppose the fact that they were written in crayon probably tipped him off that they were fakes!
An "A" for the effort! When we lived near Albany, NY in the mid 70's, we used to get a 5 gallon container of milk delivered by the milkman. It had a handle on top and a convenient tap to dispense. Of course when nobody was around, I would just drink from the tap! It was amazing how fast we drank that 5 gallons. My Grandparents were serviced by the Lehigh Valley Dairy, and they were able to get O.J. and iced tea delivered. Everything was in cartons by then.
Ha, that's a pretty good trick. I would have probably tried that if we had milk delivered back then. 😂
Great story !😂
Interesting fact about those milk trucks. The driver did not sit down, as there was no seat. He stood up the whole time, because it was faster getting it on out of the truck. I know because I worked for a very brief time as a milkman in 1968. And when I say brief I mean less than a week, as it was not an easy job and I hated starting work at 3:00 in the morning.
How could you drive if you couldn’t sit down?
Some, milk delivery trucks had foldable seats at least in the 50's. Made it easier to get in and out when there was only a short distance between stops.
I remember my milkman driver from 1966-1969 he was a good man when I was a kid
when he didn't show up after a week I asked my grandpa " where is he?" he told me he died ,,,My milkman drove for "Roberts" and on TV commercials the jingle tune was "Roberts the dairy on the move" That was in my hometown of Plainfield Indiana .
Our milkman always called me butch, and sometimes gave us chunks of ice to chew on.😁👍
My cousin Ralph drove me to school in a milk truck. I later on drove a milk truck for w. e. Davis
Dairy. There was always a seat.
Gen X here. Our family had milk delivery until 1979-1980. They still used the old stand-up driver trucks as well. I remember in the summertime with the windows open, hearing the glass bottles clinking at 4-6 AM when he showed up.
Our milkman usually arrived mid-morning.
Divco milk trucks. Unchanged body design,1938-1986, if memory is accurate. They were still in service in my city in the early 90s.
A secure feeling to hear those bottles clink all was right in the world, men working, products ordered and brought.
I'm 75 and I remember all of this. Those were better days than now. We didn't have cell phones, no microwave ovens and our TV in 1954 had one channel. A year later CBS and ABC stations arrived. Much simpler times. Dad's worked and Mothers stayed home and raised the children. People were friendlier and more respectful. Then the mid 60s arrived with the Vietnam War heating up. That was the beginning politically of where we are now. A mess.
Now women are fat, desperately and have tattoos. They were prettier back then.
I remember those years with fond memories.
The milk that was delivered was in a glass bottle, it had a cardboard seal on the top with a tab you could just pull to get it open and the cream separated and was on top. He would place it in a square insulated box on our doorstep and inside the box was our next order from a piece of paper he left the day before. All we had to do was check what we wanted on the list for the next day.
I remember mom getting us around the table licking those S&H green stamps to fill up the books. She got quite a few items from those books.
I miss the drive ins, the playgrounds, the metal speakers with the armored cables that hooked on your car window and intermission time when we could make a run to the snack bar.
I had no idea Bonanza ran that long but I do remember being surprised that Dan Blocker weighed ten pounds when he was born.
I don't know if it was a regional thing at the time but what you didn't mention was the cotton candy man and MR Softee that would come around. Thanks for the reminders of better times it was a joy to watch.
We lived out in the country, but we had an ice cream man who stopped once a week, bringing delicious popsicles, drumsticks (the ones with the round scoop of ice cream, choc, nuts on top), and various other ice cream treats! We also had a bread man stop once a week!
Bonanza was long running besides Lorne Greene was Canadian but what about Gunsmoke? Kitty was into menopause while Matt was still rubbing the barrel of his metal not his flesh of a gun. Kitty didn't get pregnant because if no marriage, no pregnancy-good family value.
I remember the "Good Humer" ice cream truck.
Saturday morning matinee at the theater.
@@haroldharwell7078 Commander Cody, we've come a long way from a detective with a jet pack, leather jacket and a 38.
@@haroldharwell7078, So your ice cream man was entitled I see. Ours had a trike where the freezer was on front with handlebars that was the steering. He had to ring a bell as he went down the street. LOL
Here in rural Scotland our milk is still delivered (usually twice a week), by local dairy farmers selling organic milk (which still has the cream on top). The homogenous milk supplied in supermarkets, has almost no nutritional value, while calcium absorption is almost nil. Fresh milk is something completely different - and even has its own special taste
I just felt bad for the milkman that had to put up with Hyacinth Bucket, (pronounced Bouquet).
The postman too!!!
Are the tops still colour-coded? Gold was the best if my memory serves me well.
@@flyingphobiahelp silver now .. just silver
@@skfalpink123 guess I’m not coming back to Edinburgh 😂😂
Yep.. we used to shake it to mix the cream.
They need to bring back drive ins. There are a few around, but I really miss them.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I experienced every single one of these. It was a different time for sure
We had the milk man and the dry cleaners guy come to our house. Dad played in a band and had to wear clean white starched shirts. The delivery guy would save part of his sandwich to give to the German Shepard who guarded the house. She looked forward to him coming around
Smart delivery man‼️ The simple good life 💕🙏✌️
What a great memory!
In Florida we had doctors who made house calls!
I must say, growing up in the 60's and 70's I ate quite a few Swanson dinners.
I remember that T.V. dinners and Chef Boyardee pizza kits were what we had when Mom and Dad went out for the evening and we had a babysitter.
"How do you handle a hungry man, the man handler"
And Banquet, Then 'Hungry Man'
@@urbanurchin5930 My Mama made those pizza kits. She added ground beef and onions. Sooo delicious!
They were and still are gross and beyond disgusting, but we didn’t know better back in the day, I guess. Everyone should know by now.
I wasn't alive at any time in the 50s but wanna say drive-ins were still around in the 70's. The sixties were great in my book. So a magical time for children. No lash laws for the dogs. They were part of the neighborhood and would walk you home after the street lights came on. From a parents point of view at that time l can't say for sure what my parents thought. I think they had a good time too. 🙏
And one could adopt a dog or puppy at the SPCA for $15-$20, with no background checks or lengthy application processes, and you didn't need to register them at your town's borough hall and pay for a license in order to actually have them added to your family.
< No lash laws> Not like the leash laws they have now. These things are caused, in many cases, by lawsuits. We are a sue-happy society. Anybody is free to get those laws changed
I loved the Avon lady. I always got a tiny sample lipstick. We had blue chip stamps and green stamps, it was fun looking in the store at all the neat stuff they had.
My grandmas basement was a little creepy. Full of coal beneath the shoot and what seemed like hundreds of jars of canned fruits and vegetables, an of course it was pretty dark.
Occasionally my Mom would have chocolate milk delivered-it was expensive. And all the kids listened for the ice cream man in the summer. We also had Helms bakery trucks with these long, long drawers full of cakes, pies, donuts and bread.
We four kids were sitting on the floor in front of the tv with our tv dinners. My Dad came home and surprised us with a new, very exuberant puppy who came running in and gobbled up each of our dinners. We loved it, my dad did not.
It really was a great time to be a kid.
That was our basement.
Tupperware parties. I heard they recently went belly up. I also hear Pyrex is in trouble.
Let's not forget "AMWAY".
Or the Regal lady who came around before Christmas for Christmas cards and decorations.....
I’m sure everyone here had roller skates with a key. I can still feel them on my feet with the bracket tightened around my toes. LOL!
I fell down a lot!
I’m 69 remember some of this stuff well it was a time kids could go just about any where and do whatever they wanted and parents didn’t worry about us we need those days again 😢
I remember all of these things. I was 13 when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan. Not one kid in the neighborhood missed it. It swept the nation. Many garage bands sprouted up due to the "British Invasion" as it was called. Mom always saved Green Stamps. Our house had a "Milk Chute" where the Milk man placed the milk. This was when I was a kid in Pontiac, Michigan. Good times!
That Ed show - the 3 in a row changed my punk ass 12 year old life. I moved later from CT at 23 to LA and worked at Capitol because of them. Mom and step-Dad loved Beatles and were hip so life through the 60s was very cool. Today I sit retired in N Hollywood turning 70 with my guitars still multi tracking my ass off for no other reason than fun. Still have my 16 magazines and LPs and about 100 books and Beatle stuff I harvested within arms reach of me. Long Live the Invasion!!! lol ☮
I was 13 also. I’ll never forget that night!
@@cuda426hemi Sounds like a great time!😊
I remember them all…I work as an operator for 2.5 years on those cord boards before I took a job in outside plant. I loved working the information desk. When calculators 1st cam out they were mega expensive. The Isley milk truck delivered cottage cheese, cream, milk, buttermilk. There was a Nichols bakery truck that deliver bread in the summer ( so my mom didn’t have to heat up the house with baking bread then. We lived I. The country and their were delivery people for all kinds of things: Charlie Chips ( potato chips in metal cans), McNess (spices and flavorings like vanilla and such),…in the summer all the traveling salesman showed up like Fuller Brush, vacuum salesman, Bible salesman, etc. then there was the book mobile from the county library too! There were always people dropping by, the insurance man, the paster, all those sales people…there were more then I listed. Memories 😎
Second hand Lions 😄 I forgot about the bookmobile, thanks for the reminder.
YES ‼️ I forgot. Fuller brush always came. What about the ice cream truck. Ringing his bells up and down every corner. Thanks for reminding me 💕🙏✌️
Encyclopedia salesman ‼️ My grandmother got me the world books. I learned so much. Countries and the people... fascinating ‼️ Geography and great information. Computers are fine but reading is an experience like no other. My Dad made me read the paper at 4. I chose the funny papers. He read the paper at 2. He became an attorney and Circuit Court Judge. Smart and funny, a real treat to be around 💕🙏✌️
The Fuller brush man was at our house the day Kennedy was shot.
Yes I remember the fruit and vegetable truck, the knife sharpener guy, and our milkman brought all kinds of stuff besides milk. Bread, pastry, potato chips, chocolate milk, and more.
I enjoy looking back on simpler times, wonderful memories, and my past. I miss the America I grew up in!
I miss it too.
I’m not even a baby boomer (I’m Gen-X) and I remember all of these things still existing throughout my childhood. The only one I didn’t personally experience was the milkman, however I was aware of such dairy services still existing in some areas. It was certainly still a popular concept on TV, so I was aware of it. And Mom, Grandma, and I used to fill out those S&H stamp booklets in the 70s. Good times. 🙂
Yeah, for the purposes of clicks, the Greatest, Silent and X generations will never, ever, never remember any of these phenomena!
I just commented that!
Yep, Gen-X should know a lot of this stuff.
I still have a partly filled green stamp booklet.
I'm X too and about half of these were before my time, but some they still had.
Happy Mother’s Day. My mom was a telephone operator for bell telephone company. She started in Lehighton pa and retired in the late 1980s from Allentown pa. The company is now Verizon and she is still going 85 years young
Music was great in the 60s. Tons of lightning bugs and Charlie's Chips delivery guy in the 60's also. Saturday morning cartoons and then going out to play. Stay at home home Moms and everyone knew everyone on the block.
I loved Charlie's Chips. My dad would hide them because I would get out of bed at night and eat the whole can, or get sick which ever came first.
Our apartment in SoCal in 1959 had a narrow driveway with tiny stoops to the back doors to access one of the parking areas. The door was unlocked with the refrigerator near the door with the empties between the door and the fridge. The milkman would come inside and he would put the order in the refrigerator, take the empties and shut the door. We had a bakery delivery that we kids called the Donut Man. S&H Green Stamps were a thing until the discount chains such as Target or K-Mart put them out of business.
I remember the Helms donut man early in the morning before sunrise.
Also a boomer from L.A. - Hi there !
@@LTMH369 Our Helms man usually came through in early afternoon. We always stopped him for candy (I loved the candy drawer).
@@itsdiane2you11 I remember fresh donuts before sunrise. I did even know they had candy.
@@LTMH369 I called it the secret candy drawer...don't know why. It wasn't deep and not hugely stocked but it did have a few candy bar selections.
We used playing cards on the bike wheels, they were more pentiful. But they would wear out really quick.
Multi party phone lines. Most time you had to wait your turn to get a connection.
@@donallen2819 We were never allowed to listen. We immediately had to hang up, per our parents. It belonged to our next-door neighbors...
I was a teenager in the 60s. In those days cars had trunks big enough to hold two friends and sneak them into the drive in.
Oh my goodness what a walk down memory lane. S&H green stamps. Mom would bring them home after grocery shopping and we would lick them and stick them in the book. My mom saved enough books for 1 Xmas present for each of us. What fun. 😊❤️
We used a sponge...
@@leecowell8165 to avoid a green tongue.
I’ve noticed while watching old TV shows like Bonanza, Rifleman, Wagon Train, Gilligan’s Island…………that the networks put a disclaimer before the shows that state they do not conform to the standards or opinions of todays world and you shouldn’t watch if you are offended by these old ideals. What a crock.
I remember the milk trucks but we also had the egg truck as well. We had a box on the porch that was insulted for those deliveries. I also helped a friend of mine on his news paper route riding our bikes all over town delivering news papers. We grew up mowing yards and raking leaves and then in the winter months shoveling snow. We always watched Bonanza along with Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom. The nightly news Huntly Brinkley report. Then after that was cartoons.
Mowing the lawn until my boyfriend made fun of me at 16 and I told my mother I wasn't going to do it anymore. I was the one to do everything and there was alot. At 75 tomorrow I'm still in shape. It gave me a good foundation for health. Yay babyboomers💕🙏✌️
I remember sneaking in my parents bedroom upstairs and watching The Little Rascals, I Love Lucy and the rest. She was downstairs making dinner 💕🙏✌️
@@carolferguson19 Lucky you. I'm 72 and getting the dwindles. Former track star, swimming team all city champ, never fat.
If you can recall the insulated panels as being light gray in color with fuzzy edges, then like my family you had one with solid asbestos panels glued to all four inside and lid....found this out as an adult in my 30s.
The driver, he drove standing-up
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Small transistor radio to listen to the World Series the games played in the daytime during school hours. The teacher knew we were listening but let us get away with it during class.
You could take them on your bike and listen to rock & roll.
I would NEVER have thought to put my baseball cards on my spokes! I put regular playing cards there! Of course, I was a Tom boy. We had 3 channels on the television, and the reception was not all that good... until our father had an antenna installed on our roof with a controller to point it more accurately. Yes, the Ed Sullivan show: the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Elvis Presley... shocked my mother who was watching; my father ignored it, reading his newspaper. As to schools, yes I had to learn how to use a slide rule; an electronic calculator was both an anomaly and a God send.
I was a tomboy too, and my dad also put up a roof antenna with a rotor for us. Thank goodness slide rules were not used when I took algebra/trig in high school! They seemed like a b***h to learn how to use, lol.
@Mick_Ts_Chick I had to use a slide rule for 1 year in high school. The next year we had calculators!
Born in 1950 I remember all of these things and more. Drive ins were a regular event and cheap entertainment to watch first run movies. The price of everything was significantly less and gasoline was cheap. Life was much less complicated.
I remember so many things watching this video. As kids and teenagers, we had real friends and talked to them personally instead of by social nets. Miss those simpler times, but we can never go back.
My earlist memory of the Milkman was the (Draft) Horse & Cart. The horse would respond to woah and get up commands but usually worked in silence knowing exactly where to go and stop. Usually, the Milkman had a hard time keeping up to the horse!
I remember seeing Planet of the Apes at the drive-in and dad had the wagon backed up facing the screen. Three or four of us kids piled in the back with pillows and blankets and the back hatch open. Dad and mom in lawn chairs at back of car and a cooler with "pop". Good times
I also saw Planet of the Apes at a drive-in, but on a date!😁 Probably not the best choice of movies, but it may have been the best movie at that time!?
@@pattymiller9040 And groundbreaking/controversial
Kids wore pajamas to the drive in and were carried in asleep when the family got home. Care and security.
@@mariebussinger6565 Yes! 🙂
I remember the milkman when they used clydesdale horses, i always went out in the dawn and patted the horse, great memories, i wish i was still in that era❤️simple carefree days😢
I'm a Gen Xer and remember going to a drive-in movie or two (the closest one to me closed down in 1988) and we had our milk delivered by a local dairy from the late 70's - mid 80's. My siblings and I used to collect baseball & football cards but never put them in our bike spokes. So glad I was a child in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's because those were great times!
I was born in 1950.. and they were wonderful times. Wish I could do it again 😢
I was born 1962. You're an old guy
I still get my milk delivered early in the morning in glass bottles by a milkman - I've been doing it for years but during lockdown lots of people tried it and have continued. (UK).
Great video!! Great memories of simpler and less stressful times.
There was plenty of stress. We just kept it inside we didn't " share" things as much.
You were a kid. Kids don't have the stresses of adulthood, including facing your mortality. But kids back then did hear that the Russians could hit the red button and destroy the entire world in 5 minutes. But no stress.
You're right! Simpler times.
Most of these are gen x too. Damn near everything you showed were up to and thru the 70's. I was a 60's kid and I remember all of this and I took my kids to the drive in and shoved TV diners down their gullet on TV trays
My dad bought my brother a calculator in 1971 when he left for college. It cost $100. That's
$762.22 today (US-CPI).
My son has the metal TV trays that my mom passed to me. These sat on your lap and had "groovy" '60s flowers on them. I saw one of them in an episode of the Walking Dead in a scene with Eugene. Flashback. My son's kids use them often while watching TV. 😊
We were lucky to miss the frozen dinners and fast food. Mom cooked fresh. She was traditional and French. Also knitted and sewed for us.
@@mariebussinger6565 My mom also cooked for us...we never had frozen dinners. My little brother thought a Swanson's Chicken Pot Pie was the nest thing ever - he never had one until he visited me after I moved out. My mom also made many of our clothes. She even made me my first two piece bathing suit. I loved it!
@@itsdiane2you11 our Moms were a gift.
We've come full circle with todays Door Dash and groceries delivered after ordering on apps.
If I remember correctly the milk trucks had seats that would fold out of the way so the driver could sit or stand..
I remember those, too.
The local Kroger's gave out Top Value Stamps. It was a big deal for me at age 8 to put them in the books and go with my mother to redeem them.
And S & H
Yep, I licked many a yellow TV stamp when I was a kid lol! Loved going to the redemption center with my mom. 😊
So many memories- thanks! Remember all the fun facts!
While you lived through this time, you think this is the way it will always be. Boy, was I in for a surprise! Thanks for video.😊
In some communities the local switchboard operator recognized their clients voices and correctly connected a child to their Grandma!
I remember when I was a child back then, when I got sick the doctor came to my house. He would put on his head(taken from his large med bag) a mirror with a hole in the middle of it, held on his head by a large leather strap. Those were the days.
As an early Gen Xer (born 1965) , I remember many of these events.
I remember the metal box out front of the door for the milkman.
We never had milk delivered but our next door neighbor did. We would time our mornings by him. We would hear him turn off the motor, slide the door open, hear the glass bottles clinking, heard him walk up the steps and then the sounds were reversed. That meant I had to leave the house in 5 minutes to go to school.
Yea I'm a late boomer born near the end of 64.i remember seeing everything with the exception of the milk man.they we're gone where I was.we were on a telephone party line until my sister started dating boys and tied it up all time and we were kicked off it lol
Gen X (73) and you are correct.
I remember the metal box too. But I can't remember getting milk from a milkman. I was pretty young.
Our "milk chute" was built into the wall...opened up inside in the broom closet.
I remember all of these things and I’m not quite in the baby boomer generation. The milkman brought back a lot of memories as did the TV dinners. I remember sitting on the couch with a TV tray and eating my dinner from off of it. Thanks for the fun memories!
I remember going to the drive in and couldn't wait to get old enough to were my play clothes, and getting to stay up sometimes past my bed time and sharing the fun with a friend or two. I remember how we would sit and watch the movie in the back of the station wagon and by the time of the 2nd movie we would all be sound asleep. But then again it was a lot simple times in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Love from Marysville, California
Hope the river doesn't flood you guys too bad this time.
@@kirkmooneyham It shouldn't, I don't live close enough for it to flood where I am. I have 2 leeves between me and the river. Love from Marysville, California
@@dorothydromgoole8040 Or the earthquakes.
@@campfireaddict6417 I would say, the earth quakes. They kill but the child hood memorys are just that a memory. Love from Marysville, California
I remember going to the Rocket drive-in in El Paso Tx to see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969.
You just put a smile on my face taking me back to a better and simpler time! Thank you!!
I remember being dumbfounded when I learned they were getting rid of human operators. “How will we ever get a number we don’t already know?” 🤷🏻♀️ haha!
We got a used color TV in about 1964. The first color broadcast I saw was Bonanza. I was amazed at the intensity of the colors. Never liked the Beatles after they ruined my 7th birthday party. I thought I was going to get birthday kisses from some of the girls but all they cared about was the Beatles. Yes, I was born on Feb. 9.
These were the Best Times ever. I miss them so much...espically the drive in's, where you could go in your PJ's and your mom could bring food to eat and snack too I know my mom did....
Very nice! I remember ALL of these things and more!
It WAS a simpler time! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Excellent.
Yes, I do remember many of these precious, precious moments.
Aww, simpler, always better.
I can remember all the things you mentioned, we also had the bread man come every day. It was Bond bread. They had different types of bread rolls, and they had some sweets, a glazed, oblong doughnut, which I loved as a kid. We had the seal test Milkman come my neighborhood, Abbotts milk come to their house. We also have the Fuller brush man come around the neighborhood, we even had a rag man come in his horse and wagon even though I live in the city, he was there. A lot of good times playing outside and going to the woods. Thank you for these memories! 8:05
We had a Nomad station wagon and when we would go to the drive in, my folks would put down the back seat and put a pad and blankets down. Very handy when we got sleepy! we also ate tv dinners and Banquet meat pies, and I recollect that they tasted much better than they do today. I could be wrong.
Those were the very best of times in the very best of times. Many fond memories.
Back in the day, calculators weren't allowed in our classrooms. I learned long hand,as it should be today.
Yes!!!
Calculators were NOT ALLOWED
in school.
NOT EVEN DURING a study period.
If you were found with one you might find yourself suspended.
And one more thing.
If you disrespected a teacher in ANY way; you had to face the WRATH of your parents, even after a possible suspension.
To bad the nation has fallen so far.
R. C. G. S.
@@ronnclif4572 they wielded paddles in the vice principals office, we knew better...
I worked at the last Drive-In theatre equipment maker in the country until they closed in "83". They blamed the new cable T.V. for killing the theatre business.
Oh how well I remember all of these! On cold winter mornings when getting the bottles of just-delivered milk, the cold air forced about an inch and a half of pure white cream to the tops of the bottles. You had to shake the bottles to get the cream evenly distributed (or else try to gobble the cream up if Mom wasn't looking). Speaking of Mom, we would tease her that if our house ever caught fire she would risk life and limb in order to save her cache of S&H Green Stamp books.
Yup...remember licking cream off the paper tops when I took the bottles to the frig. Had to shake the bottles to mix the cream into the milk. Later homogenizing milk kept the cream from separating..
Drive Ins were great..One Big Party.
Good memories of growing up in the 50's and early 60's. We lived in the country so when we finally got telephone service, it was a party line with several other families on it. Generally the # of rings told you who the call was for. If you picked up to make a call, some of the other families may already be on the line chatting. Eavesdropping others calls was frequent! It was a law in Oklahoma back then that if someone got on with others and said they needed the line for an emergency, the others had to hang up and give them the line. If not, they could be charged. But if you faked an emergency, YOU could then be charged so no cheating!!
Omg I forgot about the party line‼️ Us kids would listen in. When you wanted to call out and someone was on it you had to wait unless it was an emergency 💕🙏✌️
Was just thinking the same thing, I'm a country boy, almost 40 miles to town. Those phones turned many in our community into what we call "gossips". Had to be careful what you said, cuz someone was sure to be listening. Dad hated it, was nice to get markets, but if you contracted a sale, the whole community knew about it. Still, I miss the old days. we went to church with maybe 20 or so people in the pews, and it seems like folks just knew what was right or wrong. Born in '49.
Long distance calls were discouraged because they cost money on the phone bill.
I was a U.S. MARINE in 1968 when my grandfather died. I was in Washington state at a school, and could not go home I called collect to my grandmother and had to tell the operator I wanted to call Gueydan La, and the number was 4321. She asked for the rest of the number, I told her that is it, no prefix no area code, just 4321. She finally got me connected. I was his first grandson, so it was a hard time.
@@campfireaddict6417 Sure enough. We had a code worked out with my parents for when I traveled somewhere such as back to school. I'd tell the Operator I wanted to make a "person-to-person" call at their number for some fictitious name we'd made up. My mom or dad would answer and when the O would say she has a p-2-p call for XXXXX, they'd say "he's not here right now, call back later." That meant I'd arrived okay and so no charges. 🙂
I sure do remember talking to operators, and I wish I still could. The technology advanced, but the phone-calling experience got a milion times worse.
I remember my parents used S&H stamps and drive ins in 70s
Born in 59. Grew up in the 70s. All of this was part of my life. Not just 50s and 60s
I miss drive in theaters
S & H Green Stamps where still in use through the 1970’s. I remember shopping as a little 7 year old kid at my local Mckays grocer in Coos Bay Oregon and seeing adults pick up the stamp books and green stamps.
Tom Sisson
Jimmy was our milkman. He let me ride with him to the corner. He had this big chunk of ice in the back that made everything cold and I fondly remember him letting me rub it. Once I brought a friend and he drove us both to corner. He was so nice. We still kept our milk shoot and my house now has a milk shoot although covered over on the outside with vinyl siding. It’s nice and cool just like Jimmy’s milk truck and I keep some of my art projects in there so they can feel cool. Born in 1959 I think I was about 4 when I met Jimmy. Mom and dad never had to worry about me tagging along with Jimmy to the corner and I’d toddle home. Alone. We didn’t live on a busy street so even that young I could cross without help. There was always someone outside to make sure you were OK.
I miss the old days especially FREE TV and being satisfied with three or four channels.
You are right, great shows back then, now I have 300 channels of junk.
@@lennyanders1639 I solved that problem by only watching three channels.
In high school I remember that a man was measured by the size of his slide rule. We had one in the algebra 2 classroom that was hung over the blackboard that must have been 5-6 feet long as learning tool! I was trained as an engineer with a slide rule and now these young folks have never seen or heard of one. What we do today blows me away! Love watching those kids at SpaceX. I envy them so much!
I was born at the very end of the boom 1964 and remember all but TV dinners. My stay at home mom, made dinner each nite. Kids born in the 60s and 70s had it the best.
I, too, remember (vividly!). For me, a 73-year-old with a remarkably good long-term-memory, it was yesterday. And I miss the 1950s terribly. And I praise God that I had a "perfect" childhood!❤
Me too! Cheyenne, Sea Hunt, Have Gun--Will Travel. Baseball cards. A Three Musketeers candy bar cost 5 cents. Comic books were a dime. Oh, yeah!
When we were newlyweds, my husband called "Information" to ask how to make coffee in a percolator and was cheerfully given the instructions. Talk about customer service!
This brought back some great memories. Excellent video. I’m following 👍🏻
Not only was it the milkman who delivered but the baker did as well .
And doctors made house calls...
I was born in Bronx NY in 1973 and am grateful for being able to experience some of the great things from the Baby Boomer era.
Thanks for not hating us they were awesome times. Not a day goes by without thinking of them.
During this time there were a few telephones that had a crank on the side that was used to place a call!
Had an old dime payphone in our old Texaco station. If you put a nickel in it and double punched the change return just right you could get your call for a nickel. Lol
My first first "dream" job was as a milkman. I even talked him and my folks into letting me go with him on his rounds one summer! Imagine doing that today?
Drive in theaters were a cheaper way for my parents to take the whole family to the movies in the early 60's; and by the late 60's a place where me and my friends could watch films while telling jokes and smoking a shitload of dope. Good times!
Very good video!! I fondly remember each of those events! Thanks fir posting!