This was the year my Dad went into the Korean War. He was only 21 years old at the time and had his whole life in front of him. Thank God he made it out alive or I wouldn't have been here. He's no longer with us anymore but I miss him every day. God bless your soul Dad🙏
Thank you for your service. My beloved Father served in Korea. We just lost him in 2020, he lived to be 90! I am so blessed to be the daughter of my Hero! ❤️ 🇺🇸
I was born in December, 1950, so 1951 was the first full year of my life. I agree that we Baby Boomers had a wonderful childhood. It will soon be Christmas, and every year I recall the most exciting Christmas of my life -- 1961, when I was eleven. My dad bought us a tape recorder, which was really exciting. In those days the only way of making personal recordings was on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Digital voice recorders were undreamed of and even cassette recorders were not yet available to the general public. We recorded Her Majesty, the Queen's Christmas speech from the radio and I can still remember parts of it today, especially her quoting the hymn, "O, hush the noise , ye men of strife and hear the angels sing".
I was born in 1952.... and there are times I weep and get lonesome for those days... such a good time to live, I thank God that I experienced that era. Now what do we have in this world. Thank you Recollection Road!
Perhaps it's ironic that people today weep for people in the 50s who have no civil rights, protection from domestic violence, equal opportunity in the workplace, DNA testing to find criminals, the list goes on
I was born in 1951. I am so thankful that I was able to experience life in the 50's as well as the amazing progress we have had since then. However, there was something about the simplicity of the 50's that was truly special. We are missing a lot of that simple life today.
@@holyhellal Hi Alan - February here. Three channels on the TV, a lot of time outside playing, and we had to use our imagination. It amazes me that I am older now than my grandparents were back then lol
@@jjs2351 where did the time go John ,, my grandmother seemed so ancient then ,,and now i am not far off her maximum age ,,however i feel blessed to live in that age ,,far better than who were 18 years old in 1939 ,went to war and were killed so young ,,our tough fathers
i was born in kalamazoo grew up there till i was 12 then we moved to Charlotte nc , Thank the Lord everyday for letting me just a small part of this world !! this is the BEST!! Just think what its gonna be like 100 yrs from now ,or 200 !!?
@@mikeanderson9278 Yes they were Mike before animals were turned loose on America,LBJ Done it to get votes for Democrats😡.They have turned our cities into crime factories,I was born in very early 1951Dad was in WW2 and married Mom in 49.The 50s were GREAT never be another time like it.Invaders,have been flooded in by liberals,They only love Americas wealth😭,We could go on and on..Take care brother American.🇺🇸
@@packingten yes sir! Did you serve? I'm a grown man, and sometimes when I watch the news and I see this horrible lawlessness it makes me wanna puke! Then I think of my childhood and the fifties, my first bike, a Schwinn with handle bar streamers red, white and blue. And the day my parents got me a "cub scout" uniform and I started to cry and I had no idea why tears would stream down my cheeks. My mom had to tell me they were tears of joy, and she was crying too... I get misty eyed just thinking about the 50s.. Elvis and the McGuire sisters... Father Knows Best. And leave it to Beaver, and Old Yeller, and Song of the South... man, I miss the 50's!
@@mikeanderson9278 Mike I was in the "BOY SCOUTS", We had a CAMPOREE on November 22 1963 weekend a weekend ruined forever by Lyndon Johnson!. He lured John Kennedy to Texas to have him killed,Johnson wanted in for several reasons Kennedy was going to veto civil rights Bill because it was ANTI WHITE!,He was going to pull us out of v nam,and LBJ Wanted blk votes as well then LBJs friends owned military factories...So bye bye Kennedy I'm conservative and JFK was the best we EVER HAD!.
In 1951 we had the TV be quite new still. It's decades before my birth. I am turning 31 in August. The middle class life of then needs to come back now. After a hurricane comes a rainbow, so it was prosperity after the Great Depression and World War II. I just enjoy history so I enjoy these videos.
Every bit of that evil sci-fi has come true. Going to the moon, Zombies in the streets chanting climate change LOL, 1984 Big Brother fascist cancel culture, world death lab virus plague that may never end, invasion of the body snatchers, perpetual war, fake elections, Frankenstein people, etc.
@@srats56 Here we go with the woke bullshit!! Women were very happy in the 50's they realized how important their role was in our society!! As far as Jim Crow goes there is no excuse for that and it's a stain on the history of this country. Remember it was white men that got the Civil Rights bill passed!!
I was 4 to 5 years old in 1951. I remember som of this. You had Arthur Godfrey’s picture on when talking about Ivan Sanderson, and Ivan Sanderson when talking about Catcher in the Rue. I’m thinking it was a situation of editing the timing of photos to narrative. I remember watching the first episode of I Love Lucy. It was on my fifth birthday. This is a great video. In fact, I have enjoyed them all. 👍🏻
You could make a life for your self back then. You could start a new life for self easy. Fined a job buy a home buy nice car. Try all that now from scratch.
The first skits of The Honeymooners aired in October 1951. Also Barbara Eden won The Miss San Francisco Beauty Pageant but was using her given name of Barbara Huffman. She is also related to Felicity Huffman.
I was 5 years old and was placed in an orphanage ,the one thing I remember was that they cut off all of my long curly hair. Thankfully it all grew back lol 😆
Wonderful, I enjoyed that very much. ...the year I was born........@ 1;39 while showing a "Jack-in-the box" burger joint,in the photo there is a 59` Chevy parked outside which makes me think that the 22 cent price listed on the wall might not be the right one?
When kids weren't hanging out with Lucy and Ricky, they were riding the hills with Roy Rogers and the gang. Oh how far "family entertainment" has fallen.
What's a bit strange to wrap your head around is the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House On The Prairie) was still alive. Heck, Half-Pint may have watched "I Love Lucy", on television.
Sure it seemed like a B&W world when there was no color TV yet. I'm sure at that time, the only way one was to find out the world was in color was to go watch a movie at a theater that wasn't one in B&W.
I can't remember when my Dad bought our first television. I think it must have been in 1951. I'm just old enough to remember listening to the radio: Sargeant Preston of the Yukon, Baby Snooks, I forget what else.
Major Professional Sports Champions during 1951: - MLB World Series (Oct. 4-10) New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2. - NBA Championship Series (April 7-21) Rochester Royals 4, New York Knicks 3. - NFL Championship Game (Dec. 23) Los Angeles Rams 24, Cleveland Browns 17. - NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 11-21) Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Montreal Canadiens 1.
I was born in January 1951. My dad came home on leave from the Navy the week after I was born. He was scheduled for duty in Korea but never went. He says I “saved” him from serving overseas in the Korean conflict.
" 66 was still a narrow two lane highway. Harry Truman was the man who ran the show. The bad Korean war had just got started And I was just two years to young to go" I know the song well and I was born in '51. Have it on a 45.
Lucky for me I was born in 1953. If you were lucky enough to be a kid from the late 40's thru the mid 60's, it was a "golden age" for America. Everything seemed fresh, new, and geared towards kids. It was like growing up without a care while parents had maximum spending power. My grandma was a nurse and retired in 1960. She bought a waterfront lot and had a home built. A nurse...think about that. My parents were middle school teachers. They bought a new house, had 2 cars, a 25 foot sailboat, and bought a waterfront lot and had a cabin built on the lot for weekend getaways. 2 school teachers...again, think about that. I just assumed that the good life would continue but then the late 60's and 70's happened. And it has only gone downhill from there as things become less and less affordable and outright Marxism crept into education, then government and the MSM. And here we are....I don't recognize America.
Education isn’t Marxist. Nor is the government, nor the mainstream media. You seem to long for the 1950’s when people thought there were commies behind every rock. It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now. Nor is it true that things are less affordable now. For example, do you have any understanding of how much a TV cost in the 1950’s? Or a refrigerator? And forget about affording a plane ticket in the 50’s.
@@sherril.562 This is unlivable? Kids want to go back to a time they have no knowledge of??? Tell them there were no cellphones in the 1950's and see how eager they are about it, LOL. I'll take 2021 over 1951, even with the pandemic.
The picture is obviously incorrect. CBS did not use that type of color camera in 1951. They used what was basically a black and white camera with a spinning color disk in front of it. The CBS color system was quickly replaced by the RCA color system.
Just a few days after Dennis the Menace debuted a British comic strip about a mischief-making boy also started up. It was called ... Dennis the Menace. Hank Ketcham and the creators of the British comic swore up and down for the rest of their lives that they had had no prior knowledge of the other effort.
When I was a kid in the 80s, I thought the logo was a "baseball -> football -> basketball"... I did not realize it was an eyeball until much later! I guess I associated CBS with sports.
The FCC approve the CBS system in which you're talking about in this video the ntsc system which is the RCA system was not approved until December 17th 1953. The CBS approval was withdrawn before the ntsc system was approved
When cars could be recognized by their style, the Ford at the beginning was instantly recognized. I don't remember Alice in Wonderland being a flop. I thought it was very good then, and I have not changed my opinion since. Vaguely remember the CBS iris opening and closing. I Love Lucy instantly became regular viewing.
Songs before 1951 were horrible. Christmas songs were in the top 10. LOL. In 1959 I was 5, loved watching the old movies on afternoon cinema TV. Barbara Stanwick westerns and Roman historicals.
It's interestin' that that you mention RCA, but show CBS color cameras (~3:35). CBS invented the sequential color system (rotatin' color wheel in front of a B&W camera; larger one at receiver). The FCC briefly adopted it. But mighty RCA came along and said, "we can do better!" They introduced the NTSC color system & would later start these broadcasts on NBC (which they owned, at the time). RCA's system was also 100% backward-compatible w/ B&W receivers.
It is more amazing to see how much (except prices and wages) are still the same. I don't find it to be progress when people have stopped getting their news from a limited number of television networks. The migration to cable and then to internet has eliminated all Americans having a common experience. Now people form their opinions by searching for sources that agree with what they already believe. In the '50s we had Brown v. Board of Education and school integration which tried to bring people together. Look where we are today with all the hate in the country. Keeping all the bad parts the same while forgetting all the good parts. Too bad that I can't go back again to 1951.
In 1951, CBS broadcast using a system that employed a spinning three color disk in front of the camera and a matching disk spinning in front of the black and white TV. The color cameras shown are ones that use the RCA color system with the color picture tube.
Think about what you are saying: If you say that because you grew up after then, you'd be that much closer to death. The only thing that is special about the 1950's is people reminiscing about them were children then with fewer responsibilities. Also, if you saw all of the 1950's, you also grew up in the 1960's as well and remember more of them than the 1950's. Moreover, this video is not about the memories small children had then or even most adults for that matter. This does not help you understand what life was like back then for each socio-economic or ethnic background in the U.S. Even for notable news items, the one thing that I still actually remember is Sputnik, but that was not 1951. Everything else I remember was either personal events, toys, or popular culture. Hula hoops, for example.
@Jan96106 I have thought about what I said, and I would have preferred growing up in the 50's it was a much simpler time. There is really no need to overthink it unless you have a time machine, lol
I was born in the beginning of 1959 and don't remember much except maybe glass baby bottles. I do remember early 1960's and Kennedy's assassination on our b&w tv.
Butch Armstrong, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951. My favorite movie of all time . You probably already know that it was based on a book by Harry Bates. Farewell to the Master first appeared in the Oct 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. If I remember correctly there were a few sci fi books out in that time period. I was born in 1951 and when I was about 10 or so I'd walk down to a local drug store that had a magazine rack. Most of them were short stories I believe.
Born in 49... I was all over Forbidden Planet, and Robby the Robot. I did like TDTESS... though. We're definitely not in Kansas anymore, "toto"... I hate the 21st century.
@@mikeanderson9278 I certainly know what you mean. Life seemed so much better then. I was born in 1951 and miss the era . I realize that we had our share of problems then but it wasn't broadcast all over social media. If I could go back i probably would
This was the year my parents got married.My mother dropped out of highschool to elope with my dad in May.It was her senior year .She eventually went back and got her diploma in 1954
I started kindergarten in 1951. The principal of the school had an unfortunate physical resemblance to President Truman who, for some reason, my mother couldn't stand. Needless to say, if she got called in to a conference with the principal, my mother already considered the man to have 2 strikes against him.
Recollection Road gets "political" only by mentioning a quick and precise overview of the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. A great overview of 1951 Again, thanks for this great video five years before I was born.
I don't understand how they could have had a color TV show in 1951 when the color television wasn't even invented yet. It's not possible to watch a color TV show on a black and white TV. Sure, they might have been able to BROADCAST it in color, but nobody would have been able to SEE it in color.
In Baseball, Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World for the New York Giants for the win of the National League Pennant. The Giants won the Pennant in 1951
FDR was needed in such dark times. But once it was over 2 terms is more than enough. And 1 six year term would be even better as no having to waste 2 years campaigning for another 4 years. its maddening.
@@anncooper3416 i wish I could time travel back to the 1950s. And everytime it got to 1960, I'd reset back to the 1950s. Id be in a perpetual ground hog day. Unlike Bill Murray I'd have an entire decade to repeat and not just be confined to the "town" - Punxsutawney.
I grew up in the 50s...a wonderful time...we had hope for the future THEN....great cars, great tv, great schools....I'd go back in a heartbeat!
This was the year my Dad went into the Korean War. He was only 21 years old at the time and had his whole life in front of him. Thank God he made it out alive or I wouldn't have been here. He's no longer with us anymore but I miss him every day. God bless your soul Dad🙏
a huge thank you to the thousands of men who sacrificed their lives for us
Me too. Dad was in the Korean War. Died at 82 in 2008.
@@paulazemeckis7835 Thank you for his service to our Republic. That's the same year my Dad passed too.🙏🇺🇸
Thank you for your service. My beloved Father served in Korea. We just lost him in 2020, he lived to be 90! I am so blessed to be the daughter of my Hero! ❤️ 🇺🇸
I was born in December, 1950, so 1951 was the first full year of my life. I agree that we Baby Boomers had a wonderful childhood. It will soon be Christmas, and every year I recall the most exciting Christmas of my life -- 1961, when I was eleven. My dad bought us a tape recorder, which was really exciting. In those days the only way of making personal recordings was on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Digital voice recorders were undreamed of and even cassette recorders were not yet available to the general public. We recorded Her Majesty, the Queen's Christmas speech from the radio and I can still remember parts of it today, especially her quoting the hymn, "O, hush the noise , ye men of strife and hear the angels sing".
I was born in 1952.... and there are times I weep and get lonesome for those days... such a good time to live, I thank God that I experienced that era. Now what do we have in this world.
Thank you Recollection Road!
@@garyfrancis6193 Thank you Gary for that little story... it made me chuckle.
so true, all we have is flat screens and fast internet, ridiculous, if i had a time machine i'd so outta here... and im 50 BTW
I was born in 1953 - I don’t remember those days. I was too young.
I hear you , friend!
Perhaps it's ironic that people today weep for people in the 50s who have no civil rights, protection from domestic violence, equal opportunity in the workplace, DNA testing to find criminals, the list goes on
I was born in 1951. I am so thankful that I was able to experience life in the 50's as well as the amazing progress we have had since then. However, there was something about the simplicity of the 50's that was truly special. We are missing a lot of that simple life today.
me too ,,march 51
@@holyhellal Hi Alan - February here. Three channels on the TV, a lot of time outside playing, and we had to use our imagination. It amazes me that I am older now than my grandparents were back then lol
@@jjs2351 where did the time go John ,, my grandmother seemed so ancient then ,,and now i am not far off her maximum age ,,however i feel blessed to live in that age ,,far better than who were 18 years old in 1939 ,went to war and were killed so young ,,our tough fathers
So agree!
@@holyhellal november 1951
i was born in 1958, grew up in the 60's, those days are long gone, it's so different now, and sad....
i was born in kalamazoo grew up there till i was 12 then we moved to Charlotte nc , Thank the Lord everyday for letting me just a small part of this world !! this is the BEST!! Just think what its gonna be like 100 yrs from now ,or 200 !!?
What do you think of the changes in the 60s? From first hand experience.
The 50s Looked Fabulous!😊
It was fabulous, I was born 1955
I was born in 49. The fifties was pure bliss.
@@mikeanderson9278 Yes they were Mike before animals were turned loose on America,LBJ Done it to get votes for Democrats😡.They have turned our cities into crime factories,I was born in very early 1951Dad was in WW2 and married Mom in 49.The 50s were GREAT never be another time like it.Invaders,have been flooded in by liberals,They only love Americas wealth😭,We could go on and on..Take care brother American.🇺🇸
@@packingten yes sir! Did you serve? I'm a grown man, and sometimes when I watch the news and I see this horrible lawlessness it makes me wanna puke! Then I think of my childhood and the fifties, my first bike, a Schwinn with handle bar streamers red, white and blue. And the day my parents got me a "cub scout" uniform and I started to cry and I had no idea why tears would stream down my cheeks. My mom had to tell me they were tears of joy, and she was crying too... I get misty eyed just thinking about the 50s.. Elvis and the McGuire sisters... Father Knows Best. And leave it to Beaver, and Old Yeller, and Song of the South... man, I miss the 50's!
@@mikeanderson9278 Mike I was in the "BOY SCOUTS", We had a CAMPOREE on November 22 1963 weekend a weekend ruined forever by Lyndon Johnson!. He lured John Kennedy to Texas to have him killed,Johnson wanted in for several reasons Kennedy was going to veto civil rights Bill because it was ANTI WHITE!,He was going to pull us out of v nam,and LBJ Wanted blk votes as well then LBJs friends owned military factories...So bye bye Kennedy I'm conservative and JFK was the best we EVER HAD!.
Born January 19. Lived through the absolute best times in America. Perhaps the world!
I was born March 27
In 1951 we had the TV be quite new still. It's decades before my birth. I am turning 31 in August. The middle class life of then needs to come back now. After a hurricane comes a rainbow, so it was prosperity after the Great Depression and World War II. I just enjoy history so I enjoy these videos.
I was born 1951 when people loved they're country
Maybe the country was worth loving.
Me too
I Love Lucy is still such a great show to watch today. It can still make me laugh out-loud! ✌🏻🙂✌🏻
The person shown when Ivan Sanderson was mentioned is actually Arthur Godfrey.
What a difference 70 years makes. ⏳
1880-1950 also,.........Whew!
Every bit of that evil sci-fi has come true. Going to the moon, Zombies in the streets chanting climate change LOL, 1984 Big Brother fascist cancel culture, world death lab virus plague that may never end, invasion of the body snatchers, perpetual war, fake elections, Frankenstein people, etc.
We would have never imagined the evil filthy mess America is today
These year-by-year videos are great - please keep 'em coming!!!
The cars in rhe Jack in the Box were not 1951 models.
I was born in 1953. All I can say is..... it was a very different time back then. Goodness, if we had known what was coming.
I was born in the 70's but just feel the 50' where ideal times in America!!
@@chuckydall9250 as long as you were a white male, not so good for women and minorities
@@srats56 Here we go with the woke bullshit!! Women were very happy in the 50's they realized how important their role was in our society!! As far as Jim Crow goes there is no excuse for that and it's a stain on the history of this country. Remember it was white men that got the Civil Rights bill passed!!
@@srats56 Also just read through the comments from the women who grew up in the 50's they sound miserable don't they lol
@@srats56, take your Race BS somewhere else!
It was 13 years before my time but I wish there was a time machine that could take back to that time✨✨✨✨✨
That was Arthur Godfrey in the photo supposedly of Sanderson in the first color show. I’m quite sure of it.
I love classic USA cars.
My Mom was 14, my Dad was 17.
I happen to own a 1951 Studebaker Champion Starlite Coupe. It's like a time machine!
It's interesting you should focus on 1951 the year I was born. Thank you for the great videos you produce.
Hey. Me too. We are old.
Was “Duane” really a name in use in 1951?
Feb 2
I was born on February 10 , 1951 .
That was a great day for me .
6:08 One of the absolute best scenes in TV history!
"I Love Lucy" was also very revolutionary because it was shot on film stock using *THREE* cameras.
That TV show debuted two days after I was born.
Hard to believe all those things are 70 yrs old, just like me. 😉
I was 4 to 5 years old in 1951. I remember som of this. You had Arthur Godfrey’s picture on when talking about Ivan Sanderson, and Ivan Sanderson when talking about Catcher in the Rue. I’m thinking it was a situation of editing the timing of photos to narrative. I remember watching the first episode of I Love Lucy. It was on my fifth birthday. This is a great video. In fact, I have enjoyed them all. 👍🏻
Thanks again, told you that 50K subs were just around the corner. Keep up the great work.
You could make a life for your self back then. You could start a new life for self easy. Fined a job buy a home buy nice car. Try all that now from scratch.
You're so right.
And not being able to do all that now, is one of the biggest things that I have against our society.
Many were married by 20, by 24 for sure, that's likely a good start as to why.
I was born in 1956. Oh how I long for the type of society I grew up in. I don’t even recognize this country anymore. Simple times
Indeed! 21st century 🤦♂️🙇♂️🤷♂️🤦♂️👎👎👎
I agree I was born in March 1956. Such a better world then❤
That's because of Trump.
R.I.P Robin Williams, 1951-2014. R.I.H Zobin Gilliams, 1951-2014.
Nice, but you forgot to mention Joe Louis' knockout loss to Rocky Marciano in October. This was the Brown Bomber's last fight.
The first skits of The Honeymooners aired in October 1951. Also Barbara Eden won The Miss San Francisco Beauty
Pageant but was using her given name of Barbara Huffman. She is also related to Felicity Huffman.
I wasn't born until January 1959..so my youth era was the 60's thru 70's
We were all wondering about that. Thanks for sharing, Steve.
@@alevine1951 I bet you poop through the eye of a needle. Misery guts.
I was 5 years old and was placed in an orphanage ,the one thing I remember was that they cut off all of my long curly hair. Thankfully it all grew back lol 😆
Was born in 1951!
The only thing about those TV dinners is that you had to have two of them because it wasn't enough food in just one of them.
Thank you
Thank you to all the vets
How exciting. … my birth year.
Wonderful, I enjoyed that very much. ...the year I was born........@ 1;39 while showing a "Jack-in-the box" burger joint,in the photo there is a 59` Chevy parked outside which makes me think that the 22 cent price listed on the wall might not be the right one?
My timeline started in 1951....haven't finished yet!
When I was a little kid I thought there was this magical black & white world where Lucy & Ricky and Fred & Ethel lived and I wanted to live there too.
When kids weren't hanging out with Lucy and Ricky, they were riding the hills with Roy Rogers and the gang. Oh how far "family entertainment" has fallen.
@@thunderbird1921 hasn't it though. Sad.
What's a bit strange to wrap your head around is the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House On The Prairie) was still alive. Heck, Half-Pint may have watched "I Love Lucy", on television.
Sure it seemed like a B&W world when there was no color TV yet. I'm sure at that time, the only way one was to find out the world was in color was to go watch a movie at a theater that wasn't one in B&W.
@@Gransonec she died in 1957...the year I was born.
I can't remember when my Dad bought our first television. I think it must have been in 1951. I'm just old enough to remember listening to the radio: Sargeant Preston of the Yukon, Baby Snooks, I forget what else.
rezillo In 1951, Fanny Brice had passed away, before the
"I Love Lucy " program even premiered.
2:00. My grandpa used to tell that joke all the time ! = )
I don't know if I ever remember my father not having a suit & tie on except on weekends..mom always wore a dress even weeding garden..
Oh Lucy 🙂
Major Professional Sports Champions during 1951:
- MLB World Series (Oct. 4-10) New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2.
- NBA Championship Series (April 7-21) Rochester Royals 4, New York Knicks 3.
- NFL Championship Game (Dec. 23) Los Angeles Rams 24, Cleveland Browns 17.
- NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 11-21) Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Montreal Canadiens 1.
I was born in January 1951. My dad came home on leave from the Navy the week after I was born. He was scheduled for duty in Korea but never went. He says I “saved” him from serving overseas in the Korean conflict.
There's a Merle Haggard recorded a song entitled "That's The Way It Was in 51." If you enjoy this video, check out that song.
" 66 was still a narrow two lane highway. Harry Truman was the man who ran the show. The bad Korean war had just got started And I was just two years to young to go" I know the song well and I was born in '51. Have it on a 45.
Lucky for me I was born in 1953. If you were lucky enough to be a kid from the late 40's thru the mid 60's, it was a "golden age" for America. Everything seemed fresh, new, and geared towards kids. It was like growing up without a care while parents had maximum spending power. My grandma was a nurse and retired in 1960. She bought a waterfront lot and had a home built. A nurse...think about that. My parents were middle school teachers. They bought a new house, had 2 cars, a 25 foot sailboat, and bought a waterfront lot and had a cabin built on the lot for weekend getaways. 2 school teachers...again, think about that. I just assumed that the good life would continue but then the late 60's and 70's happened. And it has only gone downhill from there as things become less and less affordable and outright Marxism crept into education, then government and the MSM. And here we are....I don't recognize America.
Well said, thanks.
Education isn’t Marxist. Nor is the government, nor the mainstream media. You seem to long for the 1950’s when people thought there were commies behind every rock. It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now. Nor is it true that things are less affordable now. For example, do you have any understanding of how much a TV cost in the 1950’s? Or a refrigerator? And forget about affording a plane ticket in the 50’s.
Define Marxism
Your father married your mother-in-law????😳
@@sherril.562 This is unlivable? Kids want to go back to a time they have no knowledge of??? Tell them there were no cellphones in the 1950's and see how eager they are about it, LOL. I'll take 2021 over 1951, even with the pandemic.
I’m pretty sure the presenter shown around 4:10 is Arthur Godfrey, not Ivan Sanderson.
You are right, it's Mr. Godfrey himself!
The picture is obviously incorrect. CBS did not use that type of
color camera in 1951. They used what was basically a black and white camera with a spinning color disk in front of it. The CBS color system was quickly replaced by the RCA color system.
Two new musicals opened on Broadway in '51. The King & I and Guys z7 Dolls,
Just a few days after Dennis the Menace debuted a British comic strip about a mischief-making boy also started up. It was called ... Dennis the Menace. Hank Ketcham and the creators of the British comic swore up and down for the rest of their lives that they had had no prior knowledge of the other effort.
Some thing long forgotten in the media they both saw , heard or read may have made them both think of the same thing
No joke, the CBS Eye logo gave me nightmares when I was a young child!
me too ! I think that eye from the twilight zone had something to do with it !!!lol !
I HATED THAT @×==/_^%$ EYE! .
Now I know why I never liked that logo.
Yes! Exactly!
When I was a kid in the 80s, I thought the logo was a "baseball -> football -> basketball"... I did not realize it was an eyeball until much later! I guess I associated CBS with sports.
The FCC approve the CBS system in which you're talking about in this video the ntsc system which is the RCA system was not approved until December 17th 1953. The CBS approval was withdrawn before the ntsc system was approved
You left out "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" , Bobby Thompson's Home Run on October 3rd which decided the National League pennant.
I was born in 1951. Cool to see what the world was like the year I was born.
I was born in March of this year. I had a brother 3 years older who was very good to me.
I live in Rochester, the Royals played in what today would be a large high school gym. The team was short lived and moved to Cincinnati.
That's Rochester, New York.
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Yes
@@charles-y2z6c thanks Charles
Now every Sunday there will be a Flashback year, it started ;ast weel with 1950 and continues on through the 1980's, I think.
70 Years Ago
It was in 1951 that telephone direct distant dialing premiered in Englewood, NJ.
When cars could be recognized by their style, the Ford at the beginning was instantly recognized. I don't remember Alice in Wonderland being a flop. I thought it was very good then, and I have not changed my opinion since. Vaguely remember the CBS iris opening and closing. I Love Lucy instantly became regular viewing.
Songs before 1951 were horrible. Christmas songs were in the top 10. LOL.
In 1959 I was 5, loved watching the old movies on afternoon cinema TV. Barbara Stanwick westerns and Roman historicals.
Ah yes, the year I was born. I remember it well!
My oldest sister was born this year....RIP big sis (4-27-51~9-3-2007)
Sorry for your loss brother, RIP to your sister.
It's interestin' that that you mention RCA, but show CBS color cameras (~3:35). CBS invented the sequential color system (rotatin' color wheel in front of a B&W camera; larger one at receiver). The FCC briefly adopted it. But mighty RCA came along and said, "we can do better!" They introduced the NTSC color system & would later start these broadcasts on NBC (which they owned, at the time). RCA's system was also 100% backward-compatible w/ B&W receivers.
It is so refreshing to see how far we've come hahaha!
It is more amazing to see how much (except prices and wages) are still the same. I don't find it to be progress when people have stopped getting their news from a limited number of television networks. The migration to cable and then to internet has eliminated all Americans having a common experience. Now people form their opinions by searching for sources that agree with what they already believe. In the '50s we had Brown v. Board of Education and school integration which tried to bring people together. Look where we are today with all the hate in the country. Keeping all the bad parts the same while forgetting all the good parts. Too bad that I can't go back again to 1951.
In 1951, CBS broadcast using a system that employed a spinning three color disk in front of the camera and a matching disk spinning in front of the black and white TV. The color cameras shown are ones that use the RCA color system with the color picture tube.
Ow how I wish I grew up in the 50's!!
U missed the best time s
Go to TH-cam and watch everything 50's! You'll get a sense what it was like. Iived it... I was blessed..
@@eutimiochavez415 yup, I hear ya... I was luck and blessed..
Think about what you are saying: If you say that because you grew up after then, you'd be that much closer to death. The only thing that is special about the 1950's is people reminiscing about them were children then with fewer responsibilities. Also, if you saw all of the 1950's, you also grew up in the 1960's as well and remember more of them than the 1950's. Moreover, this video is not about the memories small children had then or even most adults for that matter. This does not help you understand what life was like back then for each socio-economic or ethnic background in the U.S. Even for notable news items, the one thing that I still actually remember is Sputnik, but that was not 1951. Everything else I remember was either personal events, toys, or popular culture. Hula hoops, for example.
@Jan96106 I have thought about what I said, and I would have preferred growing up in the 50's it was a much simpler time. There is really no need to overthink it unless you have a time machine, lol
At 4:17 I’m seeing Arthur Godfrey.
At 5:20 “Klaatu Barada Nikto”
I saw Arthur too. What was that all about?
@@karenryder6317 The guy making the video does not recognize Arthur Godfrey when he sees him, apparently.
That CBS Color camera used a mechanical disk spinning at 1440 rpm. CBS abandoned this system in October of 1951.
Methinks the Pennsylvania barns with hex signs that inspired the CBS logo were Amish … not Shaker.
I was born in the beginning of 1959 and don't remember much except maybe glass baby bottles. I do remember early 1960's and Kennedy's assassination on our b&w tv.
"Klaatu, barada nikto" 5:24
Gort!
Butch Armstrong, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951. My favorite movie of all time . You probably already know that it was based on a book by Harry Bates. Farewell to the Master first appeared in the Oct 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. If I remember correctly there were a few sci fi books out in that time period. I was born in 1951 and when I was about 10 or so I'd walk down to a local drug store that had a magazine rack. Most of them were short stories I believe.
@@jimconaty6218 I know that was the movie. I like it too, some great actors in it, Michael Rennie and Patricia O'Neal for instance.
Born in 49... I was all over Forbidden Planet, and Robby the Robot. I did like TDTESS... though. We're definitely not in Kansas anymore, "toto"... I hate the 21st century.
@@mikeanderson9278 I certainly know what you mean. Life seemed so much better then. I was born in 1951 and miss the era . I realize that we had our share of problems then but it wasn't broadcast all over social media. If I could go back i probably would
This was the year my parents got married.My mother dropped out of highschool to elope with my dad in May.It was her senior year .She eventually went back and got her diploma in 1954
I was born feb 2 1951. Dad was in Korea.
1951 was cool time
To me, the most memorable thing that happened in 1951 was the fact that I was borne.
I thought the first color program was the Rose Bowl parade January 1 1954. Thanks.
I started kindergarten in 1951. The principal of the school had an unfortunate physical resemblance to President Truman who, for some reason, my mother couldn't stand. Needless to say, if she got called in to a conference with the principal, my mother already considered the man to have 2 strikes against him.
@Proud Pastrami yup!
How is it possible you forgot to add one of the greatest stories in sports history? Bobby Thompson’s shot heard around the world.
Good times coka cola soda's on the way home from school 🤣🤣🤣
February 3, 1951 I was born!
I was born in 1940 ,think of all the fun i had , well at least till 1970
At 4:15 that's Arthur Godfrey not Ivan Sanderson.
Recollection Road gets "political" only by mentioning a quick and precise overview of the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.
A great overview of 1951 Again, thanks for this great video five years before I was born.
Congress limited the number of terms a POTUS can serve, but, didn't bother to include themselves in that Amendment. Imagine that!👿
Joe DiMaggio played his last game the month I was born.
I don't understand how they could have had a color TV show in 1951 when the color television wasn't even invented yet. It's not possible to watch a color TV show on a black and white TV. Sure, they might have been able to BROADCAST it in color, but nobody would have been able to SEE it in color.
In Baseball, Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World for the New York Giants for the win of the National League Pennant.
The Giants won the Pennant in 1951
Oct. 3, 1951 . I was born 14 days later.
FDR was needed in such dark times. But once it was over 2 terms is more than enough.
And 1 six year term would be even better as no having to waste 2 years campaigning for another 4 years.
its maddening.
It wasn't just the US that recovered but everywhere worldwide technology was progressing after that horrific bloodbath that was WW2
Color TV may have been broadcast, but the public did not have a color TV. I have no idea who had a color TV in '51.
Paul Ohlstein - We didn't even own our own color TV set
until 1991 !!!
I was born in 1951, but I don’t remember any of this stuff!
One can tell some of the photos were taken in later years, not in 1951.
Why show Arthur Godfrey when talking about Ivan Sanderson?
Nineteen FIFTY-ONE!!!
Wow,
in 1951, Things were a little cheaper, and there wasn't any color at all.
They had few color films.
My mom was born in December of 1951.
🎶Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you...🎶
I always wonderd why “Catcher In The Rye” was never adapted into a movie. I couldn’tve been because of the tragic connection to John Lennon, could it?
The films were in Black and White.
At 4:10 I think that's Arthur Godfrey...
Yes, that is Arthur Godfrey.
@@anncooper3416 i wish I could time travel back to the 1950s. And everytime it got to 1960, I'd reset back to the 1950s. Id be in a perpetual ground hog day. Unlike Bill Murray I'd have an entire decade to repeat and not just be confined to the "town" - Punxsutawney.
@@mikeanderson9278 Sounds good to me. If only we could.
@@anncooper3416 I just despise the 21st century. I don't belong here!
OCTOBER 1st.......I was born.