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- A nostalgic, sometimes tongue-in-cheek trip down memory lane. How many of these places do you remember? How many have been forgotten? Some fading away...just like some of us...! Enjoy this stroll and thanks for visiting!
(Yes, I misspelled absence at 00:46...oops!)
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The 50s and 60s were the good days in America
If you weren't black or female.
I hear yeah I feel as though I was born 20yrs to late. Those times seem to be more wholesome and pure with good godly values.
@Lees Carolina And yet no gives a shot what you think
Nostalgia takes all the tension and stress out cuz you know how everything turned out.
@Lees Carolina Speaking of idiots, try using Grammarly before you resort to name calling.
If there was a time machine I would be the 1st in line to go back to 1963, the year I first met my future wife in the 9th grade typing class. Our Anniversary is tomorrow. Its been a wonderful 53 years. If I could go back I would not change one moment. Shirley is still the one and only love of my life. I am a very blessed man.
Happy Aniversary to you and your missus. That's a nice story of where you met.
How very sweet! Congratulations on a wonderful life together.
Do you have the sports almanac ???
@@whatastud1000 no Peter I do not have the Sports Almanac.
Yes you are, Congratulations to you and your wife. I was in the 6 grade then, and if you have room in that time machine, please invite me.
This is wonderful. There isn't an image that you have included here that I didn't have a visceral, lovely, reaction to...🥰
Keep in mind that this was pre TeeVee addiction for the masses.The Buster Brown dog's name... Tige.
I grew up on the flat, treeless TX Panhandle, within 100 miles of Pantex Nuke factory. We all knew we'd be within the danger zone if the USSR did a preemptive strike on Pantex. We had a fall-out shelter in our backyard, we were preppers before the term was coined. We had Amarillo AFB to the north, Reese AFB to the south, Cannon AFB to the west. All within 45 minutes drive from home. The private airshows from our cattle pastures, farm fields & house roofs were amazing. Those AF guys "practiced" (they were really patrolling) a lot, & they flew much lower than is allowed now. They often rattled the windows in our brand new house. When we heard them approaching we'd run out in the open to wave, they'd circle back around & tip their wing or do a barrel roll for us. A few of those pilots would drive out on a pretty Sunday afternoon to meet us. They were farm boys who missed rural society.
You must include La Plata, Maryland HoJo with the slot machines...loved them
I’ve actually eaten at
that Royal Castle in
Metairie. Small world
after all….
6:29 Sammy, Wilt and comedian Johnny Brown far right.
NO GOVERNMENT CONTROL ON PORSION SIZE AND YET NO ONE WAS FAT THE GREAT OLD DAYS.
I was born in the 50's...became a teenager in the '60's...I wouldn't trade those days for anything!!!
Same here, it was the best of times and I'm grateful I lived in them.
God I wish I could b there NOW....w the shit today....😵😵🤪😬🤯🤯🧐😭 So much simpler and way better...but we were kids...back then parents didn't talk about world 🌎🌍 stuff...😭😭 Or kept it hidden
I’ll take the 60’s any day compared to what we have today... sure things went wrong but there was way more right then there was wrong
I'm not American, nor was I even invented until the '80s, but this video made me shed a tear. Life was a whole lot simpler, purer, and richer before the internet age, that's for sure.
You're so right my friend. 🍻
We need a time machine so bad.
True in simplicity, but the restless behavior because of the '50's Genre started a "We can always do better." in the 60's. Let's just say things progressed a bit Too much from the mid '70's to now.
I too shed a tear for the loss of this world. This is the world I was born into, Southern California in 1958- it was a little piece of heaven! Our home was surrounded by orange groves where now there are only houses, streets, big box stores and freeways. The world wasn‘t perfect but this little bubble was gentle, peaceful, genteel, sweetly naive and rich in the simple eternal joys of life.
@@clieding 😢❤✌
No thanks. very. nice
I am so thankful for living as a teenager in the 60s. Probably didn’t appreciate then, but certainly appreciate it now.
What a heavenly time we lived in and mistakenly thought it would continue !!
Exactly.
Worse thing that happened to this country is when this women's lib garbage got started. Now these women are all taking over and messin the world up big time.
Wish it did.
I wanna go back!
The eras change every about 10 years
Can't get those days back, they are gone forever. How did we ever get to the low we are today, everyone living in fear and corrupt politics.
People were saying the exact same thing then
Nixon.
@JB Yes, some things are worse, others a lot better
I remember "women's lib" accusing males of being "male chauvinist pigs". We thought it was just a sick little cult. Nobody saw Feminism/Feminists infiltrating and subverting governments, MSM, and worst of all...education. They are literally the flying monkeys of the pedo Satanic Globalists...
@@tomdalton4293 ikr people always want better and better we could he living in a utopia but people would still complain how good the past was
What happened to these days? I remember all these things growing up. Yup brought a tear to my eye. Nobody cared about stupid labels, or what is now perceived to be important. Shoot back then if you couldn't afford it you didn't buy it. Man what a better simpler time. Drinking from the hose, swimming in lakes because they were wet and it was hot out.
Wish we could go back. Even though we may have had less, you truly still had more!
I can tell you what happened ...... LIBERALS !! The ones who were throwing human crap and urine at us when we returned from Vietnam. They became the school teachers, politicians, lawyers and judges who ruined this country. Then they taught the next generation how to get in control and hate America even more. Like my comment or not I don't care...it's the truth.
If you couldn't afford it, there was always "law-away".
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Happens that children born on this calmer times (compared to WWII) would raise later so overprotected and entitled kids that they now believe with the right to cry for everything.
I sure do miss those days. Thanks for the memories.
I grew up in the US in 60's and 70's so I remember these and our little towns. Local businesses and main streets that Wal Mart destroyed. 😠 Remember when US MADE stuff and manufactured steel etc long before all their so called "better" computer crap. Thanks for the memories and for sharing.
so so true and look at this micro chip shortage now hurting auto makers
@@brewcrew5854 China will control us all, if it doesn't do so already.
And you posted this how? Smoke signals? Two cans and a string?
I grew up in the 40s and 50s, I remember when we won wars.
@@leekronforst4589 we would trade this day and age for those days in a heart beat
This is a treasure. I was a teenager back then, and I remember so many of the things you pictured. Thanks so much. It was a kinder, gentler time.
My grandmother was a teenager in the sixties.
If a black man walked up to one of those lunch counters people wouldn't have been so kind and gentle.
I have to agree ! Robert, It was the best time for me too , Here in England. I always find that those times as a young boy,were the best years of my life , Ever !!
@@FajitaJim they would have stayed in their part of town .
@@weitzfc1 What a crap expectation. So glad most of us have moved beyond such stupidity.
Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane. I was in my teens during the 60s. The last shot of the Vietnam homecoming was perfectly fitting, as it should be. What a wild ride. 🇺🇸 ❤️
Thanks for the memory ride it was awsome 😀
That Homecoming pic is famous.
I was born in 1947 my teen -young adult years were in the 1960's both good and bad (sad) memories Thank you for the video.
Brings back a lot of memories. I was born in 1960 so I grew up during this time. America sure has changed and not all of it for the better. I pity the young today who didn't get to know what they missed.
America is a shithole nowadays …. Corporate greed has taken over humanity
For sure their brains are mushed even more thanks to Democrats
I remember Downtown stores closed at noon on Wednesdays, none were open at night or Sunday, Cokes were only in bottles with the city on the bottom and when the 10 oz. bottles were introduced, and Coke machines had a lid on top and you slid the bottle thru the rack. Neighborhood stores had penny candy, those that were wrapped were "self serve" in a small paper bag. When I turned 16, gas was $.25 a gallon and kerosene was $.10 a gallon and the rubber hose "dinger" at gas stations.
I'm 21 and I prefer glass Cokes. It just feels more authentic. I wish I could've lived during this time
@@samuelbarrett5648
Some of the ingredients in Coke will react with the metal in a can while in a glass bottle there is no reaction. So, the bottle allows for an unadulterated taste while the can will allow a metallic taste to exist. Cans of Coke SUCK big time!! Always have….
@@samuelbarrett5648 Wish you could have too. Maybe not perfect, but in many ways better. Sorry you missed it.
We worked a 44 hour week with wed afternoon and Sunday off in those days. We were very healthy and active.
Crying through the entire video!!!!!!!,man do i miss the 60s and 70s. WOW THE CARS👍🙏❤😊. AND ALL THE OLD BUSINESSES. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
ME TOO
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This was it! The best we had. Sure it wasn’t perfect, but it was as close as anybody ever came!
Just saying.
I was born in 1953. I remember the 60's as some of the best years of my life. What a time to be alive and young! BTW, I believe the name of Buster Brown's dog was Tige!
Yup, Irish name for an English Bulldog
I was also born in 1953. We didn't know how good we had it.
@worldonfire 15
Thanks for clarifying that!👍
I Remmber!!!
I was also born in 53,,and those were the best times of my life
Amazing what I remember. I love this! Growing up in 1960s and 1970s was awesome for me. There are more good memories than bad. Than for the reminder.
I pumped gas in the sixties and it is my best memories. So many happy memories.
I was born in 1959 looking back lot of fun stuff . life is good. but we the people have to wake up.this country is in trouble. Thank you for sharing this video.
Amen to that Pat. I was born in 1949. Our country is in the same place now as it was in 1859 before the Civil War. Most people just want to go to work, raise their families,etc. Why is this so hard?
Back then fewer people had heart disease ( the worst kind ).
So true! Only God can help us.
You all don't find it suspicious that things became absolutely ridiculous once boomers really got up there in age ? They're the last generation with some sense.
@@neonhalo5807 never too late 🙏🙏🙏🙏
What a wonderful time to have been alive!
I was and it WAS wonderful!
@Mark Twain I'm a 1955 model...I don't have grandkids, but have brothers that do; I'm unsure of what kind of future lies ahead for them. I used to tell my late dad that I am so thankful for the generation I grew up in. I think it was one of the last good ones...
It sure beats being dead.
Yes it was wonderful life 1960
Unless you were black.
I surely miss the 60s even if I was born in the year 2000. I know that no perfect generation exists, but things just seemed more simple and fun back then.
@Drexler john . WHAT. ? 🤔
Can relate to that, born in 2004
Life was freer, less frantic and had much more real quality
- no annoying technology and friendlier people.
As you get older you will look back and realize that you to have fond memories of the 2000s. I was born in 68 and things were a lot simpler.
this was incredibly heart warming. thank you so much for posting this, it was well done in great taste. i'm subscribing.
How wonderfully simple the menu was at McD's in 1967 ..
Only 2 billions were sold.
Plus, a Burger was $.15
I remember a hamburger joint named Carrolls in the 1960s - burgers were 15 cents and occasionally they would have a weekend where you could get 12 burgers for a dollar. Carrolls is the precursor to Burger King.
@@michaelhill7878 Yeah,,and today everything has cheese on it,,and unlike back then if you dont want cheese,,,it STILL costs the same
Riding the skate boards , falling off , skinning your knees and elbows , getting band-aids put on , and then going back and doing the same thing again . Wonderful .
It was a gentler time because there was no mention of democrats or republicans mentioned. The focus was on the people not race or politics. Just Americans
I grew up in the 60's in Brooklyn, NY and it was a wonderful time filled with penny candy, Spalding pinkie stickball and playing hide and seek while our parents played cards on the steps on those hot summer nights. Thank you for the wonderful memories.
New York was New York then, now its is nothing but a cesspool. Been to NYC, but I will NEVER EVER visit today.
It all looks like a wonderful dream. Was it really safe to walk down the sidewalk back then?
Sure...and safe enough to never lock your front door.
I remember coming home after dark at the age of 4. It was completely normal.
Not if u were black.
We ran around in the street after dark, were "dropped off" at the movies, and also played in a dump with a creek flowing through it and survived. My parent's stories were very wild (kids of the 30's in the city).
People didn’t even lock their doors I’ve heard
The 60's were a time to be alive in America. It started with a young president and ended with a man on the moon. A time when new ideas were being practice and invented, a time for social change and a time to be young and growing up in. A decade that has past and will never return but only in our minds and memories. A time that is missed by many and only a dream for a few.
Nicely put.
Told my wife on the way to work that I wished it was 1965. We're a one person income family and she takes care of all the household duties. We don't make it as well as people in decades past would have, though. I mean we do ok, but in 1965 under the same circumstances we could be buying a home (maybe even already bought one), put the kids through college, and even take a yearly vacation. Some of those things are just out of the question (like buying a home and yearly vacations). But we manage. I think we're one of the few remaining one income families. I take pride in that.
Good for your
If it’s working that’s amazing keep doing what your doing
And enjoyed every small moment you can
As long as you two are happy and healthy there should be no shame in anything
Have a great day
When I married in 1967, I had one rule: I’m not a housewife.
you are what the usa made strong god bless from the UK
@@chevyblue10 …yeah.. and when you cure cancer will sing about you!
@@lindaterrell5535 That is probably WHY you have had MORE than ONE husband ISN'T it?
Better times: people had not so much and were less arrogant then nowadays
Certainly less entitled.
Also no snowflakes
You are so right ✅ Marco
@Frank Wawzjnak : for sure!
I was born in 57 and growing up in the 60's was a blast. Wish we could live in the 50's and 60's all over again,
In those days there was more face to face social interaction. People settled their differences in person. It would have been very difficult to 'cancel' someone.
Female actresses could be 'cancelled' for not sleeping with the movie executives.
Anyone remember when the supermarkets and department stores closed early the day before a major holiday? I remember my mom doing her last minute grocery shopping at the Safeway because they'd be closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Mothers had to plan their shopping accordingly. Holidays were more solemn and family oriented, not some commercial shopping occasion like it is these days! Alas, time marches on but fond memories remain and are refreshed with videos like these. Thanks for posting.
@NE 1 Amen to that! These days holidays seem more like a regular week day than a day for resting and family communion!
In the early 1980’s, all shopping malls were closed on Sunday, where I lived.
@@yvellebradley2502 Come to think of it, that's right! It was the same at the malls around here as well. The malls were closed Sundays during the late 1970s and early 1980s until people complained they didn't have enough time on weekends for their shopping! Then it progressed to included the holidays as well. Now there are always stores open regardless of the occasion. But I do remember how peaceful and quiet it was when shops were closed and almost everyone was at home with their families.
Yes it was about family not about greed.
Who "invited " black Friday?
I sure don't remember that as a kid growing up.
@@silvrx-pz3ce What nonsense are you spewing? Did you live through the 1960s? If you did, then you'd say otherwise. Commercialism has always been around as long as we've been a capitalist economy. Society was more family focused back then with less emphasis on shopping for deals on solemn holidays.
Back then in the summer, you could leave your front&back doors open at night!!
Lol! I don't think we had a key to our house. We would go to our camp in Lake George fir the Summer and leave out house unlocked! Can you imagine!!! Lol!
@@meganruchwatercolors7186 My little city also seldom locked their doors, and this was in the early 1980’s! Not now.
You can do now. You'll get robbed, but you can do it.
My mother and her parents always told us to lock our house at night and when everyone was away. We lived in a lower middle-class neighborhood in a small town (population 9,000), Although that neighborhood was extremely close to schools, once someone's father got a promotion, the family started "movin' on up", and movin' away from that place, so it turned into a kind of transitional neighborhood, with most folks not staying for more than a few years. Lots of my neighbors moved away in 1968, for some reason. Anyway, if you live in a neighborhood like that, you better lock your doors.
Back then we never locked our doors,,,Things were simple then
6 kids. None of us had a key to the house because we didn’t need one. The door was never locked. 🤔
Same here 5 kids though. Keys left in the cars too
Hmmm...wonder why that was 🤔. Oh yeah: I know but in this "politically correct" world you can't state the truth.
Back when Parallel Parking was part of driving test !
Oh God don't remind me! ☺
I hated parallel parking still do haha
In CA we did a 3 point uturn. In MN I had to parallel park ICKY!!!!!
My town started phasing out parallel parking in the '60s. By the time I took Driver's Ed in the mid- '70s, there was no place to learn parallel parking, so we had to improvise in the high school parking lot! I think I've had to parallel park only a handful of times in my life.
It still is
I remember watching Captain Kangaroo as a little girl. I'd get up early every morning just to watch it. Other than Captain Kangaroo himself (of course) I liked Mr Green Jeans, Mr. Mouse, and Mr. Moose.
I liked Bunny Rabbit. And the songs.
Me too on all of that!!!
I really enjoyed this video. 😃 Thank you! As a senior who has to choose between paying bills, buying food and medications I can't help but wish prices were the same now. I mean, a porterhouse steak for .99/lb? Wow!
Hang in my friend. God Speed
some great pictures. could have done without the comments and snark.
don't let that door hit you where the sun don't shine
It was an awesome time to be young. We weren't in the big city so it was fantastic.
I was born in 61. To me, the 60s was a time of wonderment and learning, an incredible era which we will never see again.
Nothing incredible about the 60s. Mabey you should take it easy on the lsd.
@@silvrx-pz3ce lots of things happened President killed Presidents bro running for President killed major Civil rights leader killed.
@@johnsimon4263 lots of things are happening now, including false propaganda based on paranoia!!!
@@silvrx-pz3ce Roger that. Seems like people were less afraid back then but i was under ten so not too aware really.
The crazy thing i was dont let my alias nickname fool you...because if i wasnt i would nt have put in my two cents like i did now.
Finished high school in 1967 so this is great to see. I am especially happy to see the kids on those tiny skateboards. How anyone ever road those things without killing him/herself I will never know!
we had respect for one another then, and we all loved our country and all it stood for,,,,
You mean like the respect for black people?
@@queenroyaltyrules55 More like being proud to fight for your country
My kid years were the 1970s. But this was a good trip down memory lane. It's as hard to stop watching for adults as Barney the Dinosaur is for kids.
Minimum wage was 1$ in1960... 1.60$ in 1968! Keep that in mind when you see store prices from back then.
Thanks for the memories!
Memories! it was
I remember chemistry sets.
The smell of burning sulfur is indelibly ‚burned‘ into my brain.
@@clieding Mixing chemicals, starting fires..
The asbestos pad that went under the bunsen burner.
Gilbert
And Erector sets!
I was a teenager in the 1960's. I only have fond memories of that decade.
Ditto.
I was negative 40 in the 60s
@@Camde667dotcom And I'm 3.8 cubits tall, + or - a few millicubits according to the Department of Confusion & Amibiquity.
Can I assume, then, that you weren't drafted?
@@pookysdad4884 I had two friends who had older brothers who went to Vietnam. One brother survived, the other one didn't.
i fondly remember my "downtown" -a main street with a descending order of quality stores. Christmastime was the best, as all the lights illuminated an otherwise drab CBD. it has disappeared in a quick 50 years, replaced by the suburbia spread and "malls." America does not hold tight to its past, much less to its uninspired small-town architecture.
CBD??? And why do you have malls in quotes? Btw, malls are disappearing as well.
@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 I think s/he means central business district.
1:46 I was 4 when this happened. I remember asking my mom why the spacemen were in the washing machine.
😆now THATS cute!I was only 2 in1969.sounds like something I would've asked!
so you're about 56 now, how are you?
@@tenno5509 if you mean me, I'm 54.
I want to go back.
Life was simple back then, me too
Nailed it perfectly! Born 1950.
This is a spectacular time machine. Thanks for the memories of a much simpler time. Back then the American dollar was the strongest currency in the world.
What inflation? 😂
Yes, and those 15cent Mcburgers were bigger and made from fresh beef also.
A new Honda 50 scooter was $215! My '68 Roadrunner was $2900 out the door.
Executives made about $20,000 a year. Big bucks then!
It was a strong currency because it was based on the gold standard. In 1971 the federal reserve took it off the gold standard and inflation started.
@Thomas Brutus
Keep in mind that $1.00 in 1965 was equal to about $9.00 today. So, your $2900 ‘68 Roadrunner was about $27,000 today.
@@dr.jamesolack8504
My point, exactly!
@@joesloadeddiaper3007 Wrong. There have been periods of high inflation before 1971.
In 1951 inflation averaged between 6-8% The dollar is still the strongest currency.
Very interesting.
I'm not American but was born in the UK.
Well growing up in the 60s, Americans had EVERYTHING and remember thinking how good it would be or so I thought
I think we all got hooked on consumerism and still are.
Well the US came out the War and into the 50s as the leading light of consumerism and making things.
Not ever trying was good I crud good old days but we sure have lost a lot.
In our greed to consume more we sold our souls to the Chinese, we get more bang for our buck but things don't last.
I still prefer to buy stuff from Europe and the US because I like quality.
It was a different age, it's come and it's gone.
Certainly the age when we had good music from the US and the UK.
Music today is basically crap.
If you think US and UK music is crap today, try listening to some French music or Japansese or Chinese music!
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 I will pass on that
I loved a lot of the British Invasion stuff, not just groups like the Beatles, the Kinks, the Hollies, and Herman's Hermits, but also solo acts like Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield.
I actually had eaten at that particular drive-in restaurant in Bluefield WVA when I lived there in the 60s and 70s. It was nice to see some vintage pictures from the DC area where I live now. The 60s and 70s had their problems, but I loved growing up during that time. Kids were children then, not criminals like SOME of them today.
That's where the Broadway show "West Side Story" came from. And "Blackboard Jungle,' which I read in high school, 1965.
The typical record store photo at 6:52 must be from late summer 1965, given the girl in the center looking at The Beatles album “Help”. Given that the cover is of the UK version, the photo was likely taken in The UK.
Very observant. So much for 'life in America'.
The pictures were wonderful and amazing but the dumb and sometimes snarky comments that kept coming across the screen stopped me from watching.
4:55 Or See-Saws that would lift you up in the air- till the other kid jumped off.
Frying pan hot steel slides, spin until you get sick go-rounds, wooden swings with thick metal cables, sand that smelled of urine...don’t come home until dinner time!
I remember all the stuff in this video. Mostly everyone is gone. But I still dream the old days.
after reading the comments ....1960 war was only 13 years away for me! I would never be the same....2021
all 13 years would be spent in basic schooling ...one summer then the draft, innoscence to death and destruction in a short time. went from being called lil billie to a murderer in a short time.....my favorite was getting called baby killer ,,,,by people that had never seen a child with a gun before!
Seek some help, dude
@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 another you tube head doctor just what the world needs! lol
@Nomen Clature i have never excepted a TYFYS ...I have never said to my korean war friends yours was only 3 years, i was in the big one. i will hate americans until i die!
Perfect (except for the racism and looming threat of global thermonuclear war)
Thank you for taking time to share this. I thoroughly enjoyed & it brought back so many memories. I was raised in Churchville, MD which was and still is houses/farmland and not many businesses as shown and being my dad was a doctor we didn't do much traveling but it seems you did. When we did get to go out I remember Woolworths and Richardson's drug store lunch counters in Bel-Alir, MD and delicious Sealtest ice-cream, Buster Brown shoes and so much more. Again, thanks for sharing, the trip down memory lane has been nice and your sense of humor appreciated too Just wish they'd bring back those grocery prices - since the pandemic I believe all prices have skyrocketed. Oh what a life!
Bethesda, here, my dad was a doctor too, I went in those stores they showed in Wheaton. I was born in 60 and as the years went on I wondered if my older brother and I would have to go to Vietnam. A boy down the street did, but came home fine. Bethesda and western Maryland, specifically McHenry and Oakland and Deer Park were a great place to spend my childhood. I wouldn't want to live in Maryland now. Too congested and restricted.
Nostalgia with a touch of humor. I approve. 😃
Nice montage, but what’s with the weird commentary?
He states it's with a tounge in cheek POV.
Grew up in 40s & 50s made me feel so homesick. It’s was a wonderful time.
how old are you now?
Me too, born in 1932 in Hawaii. At Nasa Mission Control Center in the late Sixties.
What's wrong with reminiscing you only live once
@@ariesarinoinding943 do some maths
I thought it was magical in the 70's I was born in 62. I always thought that the 40's and 50 's would have been perfect! My favorite Era is the 60's because I loved the music and the fashion was the best in my opinion!!!!
I was born in 1954 and up until the late '60s life in America was idyllic.
The WAR and increasing prices (from monetary inflating after Aug. 15, 1971) destroyed that idyllic view.
@John Barber We were a lower middle class family, my dad worked in a plywood plant, but we had a nice home in the suburbs, plenty of food and nice clothes, friends, good schools. A "Leave It To Beaver" life.
@John Barber As someone famous once said, "The poor will always be with us." However, it's all relative! The "poor" today have luxuries the average person in the 19th and prior centuries could only dream of: inside water and toilets, air conditioning, at least one car (instead of smelly horses that need to be fed and cleaned), far better medical help and hygiene, an abundance of food, and not having to work 16 hours a day just to feed a family, fast transportation with airplanes, etc. And that is the "poor" today! Again, the post-WW2 generations, even the poor were getting wealthier from limiting the government (until Aug. 15, 1971) from stealing your wealth via silent money inflating (from the Federal Reserve banking cartel), and to fund the "Great Society" and the War. The government and its banking cartel is the main problem to prevent increasing their wealth with higher taxes and debasing the "money" which is now only base metal coinage (copper, zinc), and a "dollar" not convertible into gold as it was from 1792 to Aug. 15, 1971.
FOR WHOM??!@
Not if you were black. James Keeney
Never heard of McDonalds when I was a little kid. It was the “Blue Plate” Special in Fountain City, TN.
I remember hearing about McDonalds from their TV commercials, in the pre-Ronald McDonald days. When Ronald McDonald appeared on the scene, I thought, who's this bozo?
Also grew up in North Knox/Fountain City area. Born in 1946.
As I remember, Buster Brown dog name was Tige.
I remember getting a free "periscope" with the purchase of Buster Brown shoes (1966 or 67). It consisted of an open-ended rectangular box with two mirrors, one at each end, that were at an angle to each other so you could crouch behind some bushes, look in the lower mirror, and peer over the top of the bushes with the periscope.
@@mikenekosama4426 I had a similar periscope. I got it at the gift shop of the Corning Glass Museum in upstate New York.
Nice photos, but the immature little comments during this put me off. Why does everyone think they're a comedian...especially when they're not funny?
In the shot of the credit card machine--you didn't mention the NY-city phonebook sized lists of bad cards that came out almost weekly that the poor clerk had to go through to make sure yours was vslid
Ow wow someone captured my memories.thank you
I remember almost all of these places and for me, they were the good old. times. Life was much better for me at that time. However, God is still good.
@7:26…..Buster Brown’s dog was named Tige.
Buster Brown
Lived in a shoe
And his dog, Tige
Lived in there too.
Edit: bear in mind, that’s just off the top of my 69 year old head. So, I’m pretty sure it’s not 100% accurate. And the “g” in Tige is like the “g” in tiger. So, there’s that.
Small TV's, especially a color one, was the early version of high definition. A crisp 13 inch, or even a good 19 inch, gave a better, albeit smaller picture than a 23 inch or the pinnacle of large screen back then, the 25 inch.
I still own a 13 inch TV, it's a Toshiba. Still has a vibrant perfect picture.
S&H Green Stamps.
I am in my 60's and I am a puddle while watching this video. I just wanna go home again...sniff sniff ' ' '. Thank you for this walk back home and for the memories as Mr. Hope would croon. God bless.
So ironic that we are all remembering the good old days of the 60s while we watch it all on TH-cam.
I was 4 in 67 when McDonalds came out with the Big Mac. It was good.
Now, I guess because I'm older, they no longer good to me.
The 60s through the 80s was fun. I don't think it has much to do with age, the world seems to lack a lot.
I agree. I think the Big Mac ingredients have changed, it was probably pure cow back then. I thought the '90s were fun as well although I was well in to my thirties by then. The party ended with the digital age.
I was also 4 in 67
@NE 1 Those fries were addictive!
@@kolbpilot That's because food doesn't contain much food anymore. Cancer causing chemicals and GMOs.
Eating a McDonald's hamburger is like eating cardboard.
I miss those days .Thanks for the memories. I was born in 62 . Life was so much simpler.
Buster Brown's dog's name was Tige
i think buster browns dog was named 'tag'. the slogan was 'i'm buster brown, i live live in a shoe. that's my dog tag; he lives in there too.'
Tide
@@andreatuckman1084 we're both wrong. i looked it up; his name was 'tige'. happy sunday to you and yours.
Lol! I remember that slogan! For a little while, I got that slogan confused with the nursery rhyme "The Old Lady Who Lived In A Shoe". I asked where's Buster Brown and his dog? My siblings and I got our Buster Brown shoes from the Kinney Shoes store.
Paul Parrot and Red Robin shoes.
@@DavidBrown-ob5xf Red Goose.
Could this simple town be Canfield, Tennessee, a dream town where life used to be much friendlier, simpler. Where a neighbor was your kind neighbor.
I can think of all the old farts here (me included) drooling over the days of yesteryear. I lived in Flushing, NY back in the 60’s and my children were of early school years. They walked to and from school on their own every day, like many children did back then. Children cannot do that now, afraid there’ll be some weirdo lurking from behind the bushes. Flushing was totally a different place, what I call ‘a nice place,’ nice because we didn’t have the pressures and social challenges of today. Oh, sure the garbage stayed on the streets for days, but it was our garbage, we spoke English, not the lingo people are forced to speak now or face the consequences of retaliation if we used the wrong word and offended someone. We had patriotism, church, God, and doctors who really cared for your well-being. I left there in the mid-sixties. Good day.
I'll never forget "Fantastic Voyage" where a small manned watercraft and crew reduced to the size of an amoba and injected into a human body. The special effects were in
incredible. Even Dean Martin was
in the move, picking up on some of the women and telling what good
cooks they would make. (sub plot)
My kids would never understand.
I was born in 1964 and yet I can still vividly remember things like the first song that I ever heard on the little transistor radio in the kitchen on the 2nd floor of the two family house in suburban Northern NJ where my maternal grandparents Sam and Francesca lived downstairs while my late mother Carole was cooking supper. It was Cherish by The Association and in my 2 year old ears and mind it was the most beautiful sound that I had ever heard up to that point paving the way for a lifelong love of music. I can also remember seeing the Vietnam War on the black and white television as well as the first time that a man landed on the moon🌝while we ate Swanson TV dinners and so many other amazing memories even though I would truly come of age throughout the 1970's once upon a time in an America that no longer exists and I will never forget about anybody or anything that made me who I am nowadays at age 58...🥃🇺🇸💖✌🏼
We left keys in cars, an housees unlocked at nite,. We need God back in our lives pray America.!!
I remember going to the grocery store my grandpa could not read or write he would hand his checkbook to the cashier she would write the check and he would sign it I was 6 years old and I would look at the check to see if the price maxed the receipt and say okay Grandpa and he would tear it out of the checkbook and hand it to her and we would carry the groceries home
Great story!
in the early 70s a gallon of gas was .32 and a pack of Cools was .32 , I always think of that when history is mentioned. I earned minimum wage and could afford new cars. lol crazy
Because i was born in 1955 I started 1st grade in 1961. So the 1960' were my entire childhood.
Great memories. Thanks for posting.
Do you remember Air Raid drills?
I remember the bread man and milk man. Guess the food stores didn't carry bread and milk back in 1960's.
Yep. We had milk and ice cream delivered by Sealtest. There’s a brand that’s probably no longer around. Even remember potato chip delivered by Charles Chips. They would bring a brand new tin can of them and take your empty one back. Lots of fond memories
@@Tom-ok2rh Our milk was delivered by Sunbeam Dairy, It came in bottles, One particularly cold winter morning, the milk in the box outside froze and broke the bottle.
Our milk came from Foremost in bottles. A special Foremost truck would come by a couple times of year that had a photo studio in it to take family pics.
You got bread and milk at the store, AND, if you wanted it fresher, you could have it (especially milk & dairy) delievered to your door.
I am Canadian and these images took me back to my childhood. People are so much the same whether you are American, Australian, or even German. We all share a common bond. We are all human and in many cases we all get along. Praise God for this short video.
Good dinners and good food. People made friends and boys and girls dated we had such good times. Now people look crazy act crazy to much hate to much killing if I could go back to the 50’s and 60’s see my Mom and Dad and Grandparents and all my friends it was the best of times kids nowadays don’t know what they missed.
I with great sadness miss those days and the wonderful people that surrounded me, all gone now but kept in my heart!
The 1950's might have been great in the USA but they were terrible in Britain. The war bankrupted Britain and many cities were completely wrecked by bombing. When I was a kid in the 50's, we played in bomb craters. Every other block had a bombed out building. Food rationing still existed. Americans were very very lucky.