Bizarre Things People Believed... 60 Years Ago

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  • @barbaraborgia3289
    @barbaraborgia3289 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    Growing up in the 1960s, the kitchen table always had a sugar bowl. Wouldn’t be unusual to put lots of sugar on your Cheerios or other unsweetened cereal. We weren’t fat, though. Everyone played outside all day until your mother called you

    • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
      @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Yes. High fructose corn syrup is the problem, not sugar. HFCS and a sedentary lifestyle is a killer.

    • @loopslytle
      @loopslytle ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It was the same in my neighborhood.

    • @freedomwon2004
      @freedomwon2004 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Aaaaahhhhhh Cheerios and sugar. There was just one type of Cheerios back then. And outside to play,run, ride your bike. Deliver newspapers, cut grass, and rake leaves.

    • @crowznest438
      @crowznest438 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Terry Cloth Oh oh! And, I remember my dentist giving out LOLLIPOPS to us for being good. No novacaine in those days, either. Nothing to dull the pain, period. That drill. I remember the high pitched whine of that drill.

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@crowznest438 Small toy drawer at childhood dentist's in early 60's. I remember the high anxiety and Marathon Man torture. That's ONE thing that's gotten so much better, last visit to dentist this year was almost completely without discomfort.

  • @tomreed5375
    @tomreed5375 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Some of the best things about the 60's include:
    1. No social media
    2. Schools that promoted academics along with personal responsibility
    3. A societal respect for allowing children to enjoy childhood

    • @tristinhall1275
      @tristinhall1275 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How does any of these things affect your life?

    • @bluefoxblitz8416
      @bluefoxblitz8416 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      😂AND GAY MEANT HAPPY!! NO WOKE B.S.❤

    • @KMFDM_Kid2000
      @KMFDM_Kid2000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      1. Yet here you are using it.
      2. They still do. You'd know this if you completed it.
      3. Children are still allowed to be kids.
      You manufacture your own outrage.

    • @KMFDM_Kid2000
      @KMFDM_Kid2000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@bluefoxblitz8416 it's 2023. You can come out of the closet now.

    • @bluefoxblitz8416
      @bluefoxblitz8416 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@KMFDM_Kid2000 I loved an ice cream called GAYTIME but the whole name has been appropriated. So has rainbows and lemons and eggplants!! 🤣🤣 even pineapples mean swingers. All these things have been sexualized. So my children have to navigate the hidden meaning because of the agenda of adults. Innocence GONE in the name of "rights" for adults to sexualize symbols. That is what I'm trying to say. Have a merry Christmas or winter solstice

  • @zimtage1744
    @zimtage1744 ปีที่แล้ว +1321

    This isn't half as bizare as things people believe today

  • @lukefitz1492
    @lukefitz1492 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    If people from 60 years ago were able to see what people today believe, they wouldn't call it bizarre, they would be speechless.

    • @siriusstar99
      @siriusstar99 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      What ? People from 60 years ago are still living . LOL ,who do you think are commenting about their memories. ? You’re funny .

    • @lukefitz1492
      @lukefitz1492 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@siriusstar99 no shit, what I meant was if people who were living 60 years ago were able to be shown what people 60 years from then will become and believe, they wouldn't have words to express the disappointment and disbelief of how people can regress

    • @latachia_2981
      @latachia_2981 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Well i was around 60 years ago, & yes things have really changed!

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I will be 70 next month. The things happening today are disgraceful, evil, terrible; I could go on and on. However, I choose to treat people how I would like to be treated. That was how I was raised. That is what is missing today.

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm not blind to the world! Age has nothing to do with what I said. I am well aware, and have experienced alot of things in my life. I hope you and yours have a good life

  • @thenapalmbrothershq5585
    @thenapalmbrothershq5585 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    People believe some pretty bizarre things in 2023.

    • @foljs5858
      @foljs5858 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Much worse than the ones in the video too

    • @tsb7911
      @tsb7911 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@foljs5858 While some people believe bizarre stuff today, some of the examples in this video are quite deadly.

    • @angelosantaniello4113
      @angelosantaniello4113 ปีที่แล้ว

      We were much better off back in the day, we’ve became vaginized

    • @brad3042
      @brad3042 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were dumber 60 years ago. I mean, morons bathing in radiation? Inhaling asbestos naively? The "prim and proper" bullshit of a chauvinistic society? Shirking seatbelts? Treating drunk driving like nothing?
      Yeah, they were pretty fucked up back then.

    • @MissMeggypoo
      @MissMeggypoo ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@tsb7911 come again? People aren’t dying because dumb beliefs run rampant in society today?

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell1089 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I grew up in a town in New Mexico in the 70s and it was common to see all the trucks in school parking lot with rifles in the gun racks, and just about everyone carried pocket knives.

    • @LajitasRain
      @LajitasRain ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I graduated High School in east Texas in '78. The student parking lot was full of pickup trucks with gun racks across the back windows full of rifles. Some guys wore hunting knives on their belts during school. I can remember one guy cleaning his finger nails with a 4" knife during history class. It never occurred to anyone it might be dangerous. Kids thought about life differently then.

    • @tbury2516
      @tbury2516 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Here in Wyoming, same thing, all the trucks in the student parking lot had rifles in the back window. I graduated in the early 80's and NOBODY ever thought about using them for anything but hunting.

    • @Melancholy1966
      @Melancholy1966 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      When my husband was in middle school they had a rifle range in the basement of the school, gun safety and marksmanship were taught there. This was in the 1970's in Estacada, Oregon.

    • @gextreme2381
      @gextreme2381 ปีที่แล้ว

      know what else didn't happen? mass school shootings...

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LajitasRain Where in east Texas?

  • @jarekstorm6331
    @jarekstorm6331 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    We had a smoking area in my highschool in the 1980s. It was an outdoor area with concrete benches and ashtrays, the kind with sand in them. 16 was the legal smoking age, so it was considered perfectly normal.

    • @MichellesdesignsEtc
      @MichellesdesignsEtc ปีที่แล้ว

      Fast forward and we think that the same drs. Telling us cigarettes are okay have our best interests when speed developing crazy RNA vaxxs $ ohh and if you take it and you get bad side effects you can't sue sorry not sorry 2023 is just as crazy if not more I mean its difficult but you can stop smoking and most of the effects will go away but once you have RNA vaxx in your system you can't just simply stop it! I'd say you'd have to at least get a blood transfusion of all your blood... I don't know how that would work! 😮if at all

    • @MomentsInTrading
      @MomentsInTrading ปีที่แล้ว +27

      We had a smoking section in my high school in the 80s as well. However, they wouldn’t sell soda for health reasons (only juice). Really.

    • @lisaboban
      @lisaboban ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I thought it was only my "progressive" high school that had a smoking area! Funny to see that this was fairly common.

    • @Hollysays
      @Hollysays ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yep. That’s where I spent my lunches in high school in the late 80’s…in the “smoke hole” with my Dr. pepper, a snickers bar and as many cigarettes as I could smoke before I had to go back to class 🙈

    • @jayfrank1913
      @jayfrank1913 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      In my high school in the early 80's, gum chewing was banned on school grounds, but smoking was allowed in the designated area. You had to walk about 30 feet to the parking lot to buy pot.
      For a couple of months, there was a piece of graffiti on the side of the gym by the smoking area that said in huge letters, "Mr (name of Vice-Principal) Is Pretty Fucking Vacant!" It took them an awfully long time to finally paint over it. I think the janitorial staff agreed with that sentiment.

  • @woofer13
    @woofer13 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    I'm 74 and I don't know if these were in every shoe store, but in our town's main shoe store, you could put your feet under a machine that would show X-rays of your feet....and you could keep your feet under the machine for as long as you wanted. That's free radiation....lots of it. Not good. EDIT:
    I just went to Wikipedia and found: "Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s...." After reading the article, those machines are worse than I thought.

    • @deborahphillips500
      @deborahphillips500 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My mom told me about her parents once taking her to a shoe store that had one of those machines. Her dad refused to let her stick her feet in it. She remembered that they bought shoes there, but never went back.

    • @OofusTwillip
      @OofusTwillip ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I used to know Charles Hayter, the Toronto oncologist who wrote the definitive scientific paper about fluoroscopes.

    • @tinytattoomike7943
      @tinytattoomike7943 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Holy smokes

    • @BobSmith-mj7ik
      @BobSmith-mj7ik ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm 59. I remember the salesman using the xray machine for my first pair of shoes

    • @dabprod
      @dabprod ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm 79 and remember those machines. We used to laugh watching the bones move when we wiggled out toes.

  • @matrox
    @matrox ปีที่แล้ว +86

    When I graduated in the 70s we never even heard of school shootings. I was a member of the Gun club. We had a whole rack of 22s in the basement of the school where our range was located. No one even thought about breaking in trying to steal them even though were locked up in lockers. In the late 60s early 70s our father used to take us to a local public park to set up cans to shoot with our BB guns. If we did that today the swat team would come in with guns drawn and arrest us all.

    • @SpotTheBorgCat
      @SpotTheBorgCat ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Part of it, I believe is the breakdown of teaching kids the value of life. Moral decay.

    • @kellyjogriffin8811
      @kellyjogriffin8811 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And don't forget to mention that those pickups in the student parking lot with guns in the gun racks more often than not were unlocked.

    • @netwrench6570
      @netwrench6570 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kellyjogriffin8811 Same here, and having a Buck knife on the belt was good for daily tasks. Sharp enough to cut paper for someone who forgot their notebook.

  • @gregwasserman2635
    @gregwasserman2635 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I remember that we weren't allowed to go swimming right after we ate a full meal and had to wait an hour. One of the wives tales, along with staring at a TV screen will ruin your vision or crossing your eyes too much will make them stay that way. I also found it kind of funny that credit card companies were reluctant to give them to women. In many households, it was the wife who took care of the family's finances!

    • @sallymiller1359
      @sallymiller1359 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Actually, Greg, blue screen from TVs today and computers are very harmful to the eyes. So are L.E. D. lighting, And now they don't tell you!

    • @flowerfaeri
      @flowerfaeri ปีที่แล้ว +13

      There has been a reported increase in myopia in youth correlated to excessive screen time.

    • @QueenBee-gx4rp
      @QueenBee-gx4rp ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I’m so glad you mentioned the hour wait before swimming! We had a place on a lake and that drove me insane! And all the mothers adhered to it! Also, I wasn’t able to get a credit card because I was an unmarried woman.

    • @gregwasserman2635
      @gregwasserman2635 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We are talking about TVs from the 60 years ago, so, no, I do not stand corrected. Further, the science is still out on how much blue screen is too much and what sort of long term damage it can do.

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And if you make a goofy, contorted face, the muscles could freeze and it would stay that way for the rest of your life.

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Yep, some schools had shooting clubs, yet the students weren't shooting each other or their teachers! It's the values students are taught (or not) that are the real difference.

  • @DavidPsCaddy
    @DavidPsCaddy ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Back 60 years ago my parents didn't bother giving us a house key ... They just left the back door unlocked so we could get in if nobody was home 😲 Now we keep the doors locked whether anyone is home or not 🤨

    • @daniellekennedy8118
      @daniellekennedy8118 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It drove me absolutely insane when my in-laws in Topeka, Kansas did not lock their front door no matter the time of day or night or whether anyone was home or not (how will the mailman get in to deliver the mail on the counter?). It never, ever occurred to them that someone might rob or burgle them. Luckily, they passed away before anything terrible happened. I can't imagine living like that -- it would be such a huge leap of faith.

    • @joanbelmont5450
      @joanbelmont5450 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was different times buddy.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I kept my car locked but someone stole it anyway. Just a couple months ago this year.

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, it's like your home has to be Fort Knox!

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember that. I was your neighbor's son. We used to sneak in your unlocked house all the time and raid the liquor cabinet. I never got to thank your parents!

  • @jimt503
    @jimt503 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Ah yes, guns at school. I grew up in a town that was surrounded by prime pheasant hunting country. There were times when I would go out and hunt with my dad right after school. There was a gun club at school, and just about everywhere you looked those with pickup trucks had gun racks just inside the rear window. There was nothing unusual about that at all. It was normal. What we didn't have was lots of crime, drugs or school shootings. Kids were taught to safely handle, respect and use firearms. The so-called bizarre things mentioned were part of the culture back then. The culture changed over the years and most many cases not for the better.

    • @brettbuck7362
      @brettbuck7362 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We had a rifle range on-site, right at the back of the parking lot and next to the band room. Interestingly, when you have a school rifle team, it might have struck someone that *this might be a bad place to go on a killing rampage*, a bunch of 15-year-olds with deer rifles might have something to say about it. Not so much in a "gun free zone".

    • @jakegarrett8109
      @jakegarrett8109 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same, and I'm only 28, we may have had a few fights, but only a broken nose or some red fluids on the floor, but never did anyone think of using a lethal weapon. If you never teach your children the dangers or safe handling of knives, can you blame them for stabbing someone? If you never teach them about responsibility or safety, is it a surprise they are irresponsible?

    • @paultierneydontshootme_imj4713
      @paultierneydontshootme_imj4713 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      At my school we had a class taught by the NRA.
      They would teach us gun safety, maintainance and proper cleaning.
      When the classes were done for the day they asked you to put your gun in your car. If you didn't have a car you could carry it to your classes.
      If you didn't have a car you could carry your gun on the school bus.
      In all the years I attended that school there were no problems.
      If schools tried that today it would be chaos for sure.

    • @jakegarrett8109
      @jakegarrett8109 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@paultierneydontshootme_imj4713 Probably not, see they were teaching responsibility, many schools don't teach that, but the ones that have that class care about the child's future and teaching them to be safe and responsible. We had similar (I competed in 4H and FFA trap and skeet in high school, I'm only 28 so it wasn't that long ago)

    • @dorothywillis1
      @dorothywillis1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was teaching 8th grade in 1967 and I remember waving to a couple of my students I saw with their rifles on their shoulders off for the first weekend of deer season.

  • @leesashriber5097
    @leesashriber5097 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    This was interesting. I was born in '68 but do remember some of these things. My grandma had that weight loss belt machine. I loved my Seventeen magazines!

    • @user-vm5ud4xw6n
      @user-vm5ud4xw6n ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I used to read 17 magazine but never paid attention to the beauty advice. I was more interested in writing!

    • @siriusstar99
      @siriusstar99 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, like there are more than 2 genders and boys can be girls and girls can be boys. Talk about the regression of society and delusional ignorance.

    • @L.Spencer
      @L.Spencer ปีที่แล้ว

      More recently, there's Bio Shaker.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-vm5ud4xw6n just like some young men read Playboy magazine “for the articles “ 😏🤭

  • @timp1051
    @timp1051 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    More guns were at and in schools back then but you didn't hear about school shootings.

    • @barb-jm7990
      @barb-jm7990 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Kids were also respectful to teachers then.

    • @GeeEm1313
      @GeeEm1313 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      People weren't as mentally ill then.

    • @joanbelmont5450
      @joanbelmont5450 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      BINGO!

    • @joanbelmont5450
      @joanbelmont5450 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @niklass1641ot unstable, but mainly due to the lack of values. No respect for life since God was taken out of their lives.

    • @christophermyers3758
      @christophermyers3758 ปีที่แล้ว

      WOW, we've come full circle with guns in school... back then, kids shot target practice. Nowadays, kids shoot other kids as targets! 🥺😭

  • @crowznest438
    @crowznest438 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    We were told as children that if the siren sounded because of the threat of a nuke being dropped (during the Cuban missile crisis), that we'd be safe if we crawled up under our desks with our hands over our heads. We believed that ridiculousness. We had nuke drills and the siren would sound and under our desks we would go.

    • @Name-ps9fx
      @Name-ps9fx ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That's actually true, so long as you weren't at or near "Ground Zero." If you were farther out, the primary threat is from windows bursting inside the classrooms, and structural damage from awnings blown down to walls collapsing.
      If you were under your desks at that time, you'd be alive and generally unharmed...but if you weren't, chances of injuries were much higher.

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Where were you in '62? Yep, under the desk too.

    • @arricammarques1955
      @arricammarques1955 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pianomaly9 The tag line from American Graffiti.

    • @scottmcwave9479
      @scottmcwave9479 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      duck and cover

    • @bonwatcher
      @bonwatcher ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet sadly those have been replaced by school shooter drills and worse, that bomb goes off far too often.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    At the community college I went to in 1977, Flight Attendant was a major. The college I went to, San Diego Mesa College, had a partnership with PSA airlines. Once you completed the Flight Attendant program you were practically guaranteed a job with PSA(Pacific Southwest Airlines).

    • @L.Spencer
      @L.Spencer ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mesa! My aunt became a flight attendant for American Airlines about a year or so before 9/11. She was over 50 at the time, probably closer to 60. They were still taught how to dress and wear makeup. She was furloughed after that day, never was called back.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Offer you a guaranteed job with TWA or PanAm? 🤭

    • @dennythomas8887
      @dennythomas8887 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I grew up in LA and flew PSA quite often. In the late 70's, early 80's they would run specials where you could fly from Burbank to Las Vegas for $20 each way at least once or twice a month, 5 flights a day. If I remember right during those specials you could also fly from Burbank to S.F. or Lake Tahoe for $40 each way. Good times and a great Airline.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol, my grandma was the HR person that hired all staff for PanAm Airlines in SF. I got to go to the airport a lot and see the stuff not open to the public. We had a special tour when the 747's came about..

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dennythomas8887 Didn't they have the midnight special to Vegas where you had to show that you had at least $100 to gamble with?

  • @mikefialko2979
    @mikefialko2979 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    What I think is wrong with our public schools today is their philosophy that everyone is college bound. If you don’t know by eleventh grade what you’re interested in. Go to a community college. If you like it great, you can always go on to a university.For young people who college is not their thing there should be more vocational training and courses.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In the late 60's and early 70's there were vocational programs for those not destined for academic life. Auto and AC repair for example.

    • @paisleydreamzz
      @paisleydreamzz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What are used to have shop classes and a person could get a full-time family supporting jobs straight out of high school.

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if you can't stand sitting at a desk all day as a student, you won't be able to stand sitting at a desk all day as an adult.
      and I met a teacher who got in trouble for telling his students that.

  • @alexanderfo3886
    @alexanderfo3886 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    4:50 You're gonna laugh, but this happened to a friend of mine just a year ago. She walked into a bank and after saying she was there to make an investment, the clerk asked her whether she had already discussed the matter with her husband (note: she was not married at that time). To which she answered: "No, but maybe I should, so he can tell me a better bank."

    • @RedSiegfried
      @RedSiegfried ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A lot of financial institutions are legally obligated to make sure someone has their spouse's permission when doing certain transactions. And they have to have both spouses sign the paperwork. And assuming someone is married and they might need to fill out that paperwork is not a crime, especially if they don't know and they have to bring it up.

    • @alexanderfo3886
      @alexanderfo3886 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RedSiegfried The matter was that this question was asked although the clerk knew nothing had changed on her marital status. She had her own bank account on her name there, and the bank was non the wiser about her relationship status, which is none of their business.
      And while it is not a crime to assume a woman in her mid thirties with any disposable money must have gotten that money from a husband, and that she couldn't possibly take sound financial decisions on her own, it boils down to not take a customer serious due to erroneous and outdated assumptions. With a financial loss for said bank.
      And I even forgot to mention the icing on the cake, namely that this bank clerk was a woman.

    • @jeffreyparent2931
      @jeffreyparent2931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But, they should never assume. When you assume, it makes an Ass out of U and Me! 😂

    • @susanwenger8448
      @susanwenger8448 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I still think seat belts should be optional. Why does the government care if I get hurt?

    • @TSeeker1
      @TSeeker1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@susanwenger8448Because Auto insurance may have to pay - they can't have that! 😮

  • @mack2192
    @mack2192 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Seeing all the old Store videos takes me back to the record departments in stores like Sears woolworths and many others. I worked for the company that ran many of them and spent time in hundreds of stores around the Midwest. Great memories of my youth. How about a show on the Music Record Departments that went from 45s to LP to 8Track to Cassett to CDs with videos added and even computer software before the internet killed it all.

    • @carlajenkins1990
      @carlajenkins1990 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dear Old Helen's Record Shop.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ah Woolworth's that had the snack bar that served really good burgers in our area.

  • @doug6259
    @doug6259 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    If I could tell my grandparents half the crazy things people believe today, they would accuse me of making it all up and having a wild imagination.

    • @TruthSpeaker.
      @TruthSpeaker. ปีที่แล้ว

      Just because something sounds crazy doesn't make it false.

    • @rustymason3860
      @rustymason3860 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or at least they would accuse you of exaggerating. Even today, many Boomers say, "Oh, it's just a few nut cases, nothing to worry about."

  • @kennethmcdonald2987
    @kennethmcdonald2987 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    I am fortunately married to a woman who was raised to be a lady .When you encounter a lady you will immediately know the difference .There is nothing wrong or degrading with a woman having manners and conducting herself as a true lady .The same can be said for men raised to be gentlemen .Unfortunately both can be hard to find these days .A pretty face is one thing but a true lady is an absolute treasure .Do not think because my wife is a lady she is some fragile flower dependent on a man .My wife can work alongside and keep up with most men doing hard manual labor .She loves to hunt ,fish and does classic car restoration including engine work .She can go from being dressed in hunting camo to an evening gown for the opera or symphony in minutes .

    • @stephendacey8761
      @stephendacey8761 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Today, it's difficult to distinguish the difference between men and women. Sad times we have today.

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      👍👍👍

    • @diegoterneus2250
      @diegoterneus2250 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      In my day, it was a requirement for gentlemen and ladies to use correct punctuation.

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@diegoterneus2250😆

    • @rockyroad7345
      @rockyroad7345 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Women were expected to be ladies, but the introduction of Playboy magazine convinced men what they really wanted was a tramp.

  • @theeclectic2919
    @theeclectic2919 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Actually, teaching women to act like ladies isn't such a bad thing. Men should also be taught to be gentlemen.

    • @alexanders562
      @alexanders562 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the un healthy diets and lack of realizing how cute glasses can be were lame, but if someone wanted to some tips for "acting like a lady" or poise, that is nice. And the gentlemen thing is a for sure.

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@alexanders562 There was a saying "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" that has thankfully been relegated to the landfill of history.

    • @shootshellz
      @shootshellz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pianomaly9 Since when?

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shootshellz I'm sorry to hear if that is still being used by some knuckle draggers. I'm not surprised that you would take justified offense........careful not to break 'em going in and out of that phone booth.

    • @Beitmeh1
      @Beitmeh1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pianomaly9 Glasses makes some gilrls a lot cuter. Glassses can also let a girl detect a pig on sight.

  • @johnp139
    @johnp139 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Bizarre things people believed in 2022…

  • @fixpacifica
    @fixpacifica ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It was advised that you have your tonsils taken out, even if they weren't a problem. Half the kids in my classes in the '60s had them taken out.

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I remember back in High School we had a smoking area, During hunting season everyone had a gun to go hunting during after school. There were no mass shootings. It was a different time, everyone thought different.

  • @HD-J.R.
    @HD-J.R. ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Today people actually think social media is social and brings people together. I know! Hard to believe.

    • @keithlibner9259
      @keithlibner9259 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I always call it anti-social media.

    • @gj8683
      @gj8683 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@keithlibner9259 Mine's close to that: Anti-social not-working

  • @garywagner2466
    @garywagner2466 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Nothing wrong with learning to handle a rifle. Comes in handy when you go off to fight in some foreign field. Also, asbestos was safe when handled properly. Problem was, the industry didn’t bother to tell its workers or customers not to let the fibres mobilize. Not everyone was addicted to sugar. Most families limited how much sweet stuff was available. We could try, but most often I’d be told to have a carrot. Sweets were treats.

    • @stevenlitvintchouk3131
      @stevenlitvintchouk3131 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your word "properly" covers a lot of territory. We now know that "proper" handling of asbestos requires that you were full PPE with a respirator. They used to sell asbestos insulation to homeowners to insulate all kinds of things. My mom wrapped our steam radiator pipes with it so I wouldn't burn myself as a young child. No PPE or respirator included.

    • @garywagner2466
      @garywagner2466 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@stevenlitvintchouk3131, asbestos was used without problems for decades. It becomes a problem when the covering becomes old and the fibres are allowed to escape. Yes, when removing asbestos you now need proper PPE. But so do many other materials. The hysteria over asbestos comes from ignorance, poor handling techniques, and the usual media exaggeration.

    • @bogusmogus9551
      @bogusmogus9551 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well with sugar it all about your teeth not rotting. But there is a hell of alot more obese people now than then

    • @garywagner2466
      @garywagner2466 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bogusmogus9551 , no, using sugar was about moderation. It was actual sugar, not fructose corn syrup, and we didn’t get much of it. Nobody I knew as a kid went to a gym for exercise. We had bicycles, and sports, and were rarely sedentary. Nobody ate much junk food, or processed crap. Parents cooked and baked. Somewhere along the way we lost that. Replaced activity for the body with activity for the brain, like video games. That’s why too many people are overweight and have health issues. Anti-social media doesn’t help.

    • @bogusmogus9551
      @bogusmogus9551 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@garywagner2466 no? what? my childhood was a fucking mirage? And what the fuck do you know about growing up in London in the 1970's?
      Fructose corn syrup, stick it up your arse professor

  • @tilliemaekirk9444
    @tilliemaekirk9444 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    AND none of the guys in "Rifle Club" at my school EVER shot anyone ! They did have a healthy respect for firearms.

    • @gj8683
      @gj8683 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fast-forward to 1996. My son was in pre-school day care. One day, the teachers had a meeting with me to express their concern, which was that during lunch time, my son had made a "gun" out of his sandwich.

  • @edwesby5752
    @edwesby5752 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I went to high school in Wash, DC in the 1960's and back then it was required for all male students to participate in junior ROTC. And for our ROTC drill we used real M-1 rifles( but no ammo), the same ones that soldiers used. AND, he had a rifle team that used 22 rifles and a rifle range on the ground floor of the school. In fact all of the DC high schools back then had a rifle team and we had competive rifle matches regularly. Back then handling a rifle was no real big deal.

    • @sunshine3914
      @sunshine3914 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      No big deal because most mental patients were institutionalized back then.

    • @Mick_Ts_Chick
      @Mick_Ts_Chick ปีที่แล้ว +5

      People were trained on how to handle a gun properly and carefully. They didn't just hand it to kids and say go shooting. We had archery in high school.

    • @laurelcosten1012
      @laurelcosten1012 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big difference between the AR-15”s used by so many murderers nowadays and the rifles used in yesteryear.

  • @bobblowhard8823
    @bobblowhard8823 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It wasn't just single women who were denied credit cards, or were allowed a lower limit. It was also minorities. If you were black or Asian, or Hispanic, or Middle Eastern, or anything other than Caucasian, then you were either denied or had a much lower limit issued to you, just because of your race. And the banks would even tell you that.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      also divorced folks, they were banned

    • @nancyholcombe8030
      @nancyholcombe8030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was born in 1959 and you're absolutely right, it was a white man's world!

  • @gilladamson3722
    @gilladamson3722 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    At my first job in 1972 women weren’t allowed to wear trousers ( pants ) as this was classed as unacceptable clothing for office staff, even the women in the factory ( making table lamps) wore skirts or dresses. Once I wore jeans to work for a week in the packing department, all the men wore them, and the women I worked with told me I should go home and get changed! I lasted a year then left to work in a laboratory where you could wear what you liked since we all wore lab coats anyway.

  • @ericschneider8524
    @ericschneider8524 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In 1977 high school boys carried Buck brand knives in leather cases on our belts openly to class. We had vocational education where we learned wood working skills and basic mechanics. Girls learned to bake and basic sewing techniques.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      my school required all kids to take the home ec class to learn how to wash, iron, cook, and balance your checkbook.

  • @Pippie807
    @Pippie807 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Even today when I need work done on my house some companies ask if my husband can be there too when they come out to give an estimate. Well I’m not married and. Tell them I’ll give them a all when I’m married 🤣😂🤣😅

  • @frankwafer6919
    @frankwafer6919 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I'm a proud and happy BABY BOOMER! Thank You!💖!

    • @stephendacey8761
      @stephendacey8761 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am too. But, Millennialls hate "Boomers". They like to say "Boomers" are the reason why their life is so hard and "Boomers" had it too easy.

  • @norandmurr1432
    @norandmurr1432 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    These are nowhere as bizarre as believing people can change their sex.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      To do that, you have to change your DNA and that’s not possible.

    • @carlajenkins1990
      @carlajenkins1990 ปีที่แล้ว

      Without major surgery. All they have to do is delude themselves.

  • @starman6280
    @starman6280 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Some more "bizarre" things believed sixty years ago: there are only 2 sexes, honesty is the best policy, marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman, sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me, you should be qualified for your job, credit should only be used in an emergency, college was a place for the free and open exchange of ideas and not indoctrination, products were expected to last, a republican and a democrat can be friends, music was special, and last but not least, Truth, Justice and the American Way!

    • @rejanedesevigne
      @rejanedesevigne ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @starman6280 yes you are right on 😊
      These are obsolete now days.

    • @linnpierce
      @linnpierce ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amen.

    • @BeeHatGuy
      @BeeHatGuy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a child

    • @angeladay1534
      @angeladay1534 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not bizarre. There are only male and female. Marriage was created for a male and a female. A man and a woman. People chose to abuse their minds and their bodies. Don't pervert the innocent children.
      Praying for people and families all over the world.
      People are learning to hate holiness. 💔🤢🤮😥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼📖📖📖🙏🏼⛪️💗

    • @robertwoodpa6463
      @robertwoodpa6463 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yours is the best comment.

  • @velshock
    @velshock 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh wow, this explains why my friend’s older mom always smiles when she talks . Had no idea it was taught.

  • @davidjohnson6553
    @davidjohnson6553 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In the 60s most cars came with vinyl bench seats. When you made a turn you would tend to slide over and would need to brace yourself. The first time i wore a seatbelt i loved it because it completely solved that problem. I've worn it ever since!

  • @Tomatohater64
    @Tomatohater64 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    In the 60s, I remember going to professional hockey games with my father. The arena was always filled with the blue haze of many, many people smoking cigarettes while watching the game.

    • @ronaldperry
      @ronaldperry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just like the US congress

    • @catherinebirch2399
      @catherinebirch2399 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      When I was a kid, nearly all the adults I knew smoked including my parents. Nowadays they lecture on the harm that passive smoking causes. How did my generation survive.

    • @stephendacey8761
      @stephendacey8761 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also, way more fights than today. Many games have no fights. Back in the 70's fighting was very accepted. Although, not going into the stands (Madison Square Garden) and fighting w/ fans...Mike Milbury's infamous shoe swat.

    • @MrDan708
      @MrDan708 ปีที่แล้ว

      An early Philadelphia Flyers coach (Vic Staysiuk) smoked cigs behind the bench!

    • @TheRhNegative
      @TheRhNegative 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh how I miss that certain smell: dry ice, cigars & wooden spectator chairs😅😊😢

  • @DragonBlue68
    @DragonBlue68 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I graduated high school in 1988. We had an indoor rifle range/armory for the JROTC (Army). By 1989, the 22 caliber rifles were retired and replaced with air rifles. Soon after, the air rifles were replaced with archery. Soon after that, archery was discontinued. I think I was the last S-5/armorer. Fun times...

    • @1952jodianne
      @1952jodianne ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really, archery is a recognized high school varsity sport where I live, as is shooting, in both KY & OH.

    • @1952jodianne
      @1952jodianne ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad took me deer hunting & taught me how to shoot at age 5.

    • @1952jodianne
      @1952jodianne ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was in the late 1950s & early 60s.

  • @U_ever
    @U_ever ปีที่แล้ว +55

    How on earth did we as a society wander so far away from all of this "normal" stuff ? ? ?

    • @tonymu2976
      @tonymu2976 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lefties!!

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We moved from “Normal “ to “Bloomington “ 😁. You’d have to be from central Illinois to get the joke.

    • @shootshellz
      @shootshellz ปีที่แล้ว

      Liberal Dumbocrat pinheads.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Things have always changed. Your grandmother said the same thing about your generation.

    • @edgarpoinsot5502
      @edgarpoinsot5502 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      By planified EVIL design, not for random.

  • @erict586
    @erict586 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    And note even though schools had students bring guns to school and there were more guns around there were no shooting.🤔 The change? Showing how to respect a weapon to today teaching fear.

    • @barb-jm7990
      @barb-jm7990 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Students also respected teachers then. Disrespectful students with guns is a dangerous combination.

    • @sunshine3914
      @sunshine3914 ปีที่แล้ว

      The biggest change was when mental institutions were shut down.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      cuz back then guns didn't do the shooting like now...

  • @cnyphotovideo
    @cnyphotovideo ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I wish we could go back to those days. Just look at the absolutely crazy things people believe in these days.

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I do remember drinking while driving was pretty much a thing with people. Coolers in the backseat.

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, my aunt got pulled over because,my uncle was sitting in the backseat, because, the way he had his arm positioned! The cop accused him of drinking a beer and, then, when, the cop didn’t see him have a beer in his hand the cop accused him of hiding it! And, in a car, even in the backseat where would you really hide a open beer can or bottle? The cop wouldn’t let it go! Aka/ we were just all out in a bout doing a Sunday family thing and, we know he didn’t have a cooler sitting in the back neither!

    • @awwrelic
      @awwrelic ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Be thankful you didn't kill anybody. IMO, if the attitudes toward drunk driving were harsher back then, maybe my dad would not have been killed at the hands of a drunk driver.

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When I was in high school the boys wood class built gun cabinets. So many guys hunted. I remember riding in cars, especially station wagon, with a bunch of kids. None had seatbelts. In the 60’s when my sisters were born the car seats went in the front seat and only had a base that slid under the back of the seat. When babies were little they were just carried in the lap. In the 60’s and 70’s almost all my relatives smoked. Male and female. When the warning went on the cigarette packs some of my relatives quit. Today there are few that smoke. The cost of a pack of cigarettes is crazy. My dad always bought by the carton. Had to have his Winstons.

    • @annseabolt6645
      @annseabolt6645 ปีที่แล้ว

      I used to smoke cigarettes but switched to vaping. Out of curiosity looked at cigarette case at grocery store last week. Marlboros were $80 a carton. Vaping only costs me about $20-25 a month.

  • @I.am.Sarah.
    @I.am.Sarah. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A big one is that smoking used to be everywhere. Movie theaters, while flying, shopping, getting a haircut, hell, even the Drs often smoked while seeing you as it was believed that smoking was good for you.

    • @Taldaran
      @Taldaran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And on some older jets you could still see the sealed ashtrays in the armrests.

  • @rickintexas1584
    @rickintexas1584 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I remember those shaker machines as a kid (born in 1963). So many houses has them but I never saw them being used.
    My daughter had a shooting club as part of ROTC in high school. They had high power air rifles. I thought it was a great idea.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      my mom had this "relax-a-sizer" you have these pink vinyl covered cot like things one for your upper portion, then the actual machine, then one for your legs. The machine had this pad sort of thing ya put your derriere one and then this heavy sandbag in pink. and you turned on the switch and all it did was move your derriere back and forth and it was supposed to promote weight loss...Totally dumb...but a blast to play on when mom wasn't around, lol. Brought to your home by the posture rest company

  • @maureendrozda9960
    @maureendrozda9960 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Thing About Using A "Pretty" Voice With A Pleasant Pitch Is Not Bad Advice - Just In General, & It Is Certainly Not Offensive To Smile While Speaking If It Is Appropriate... Interestingly - Many MEN Have Proven Themselves To NOT Be Good Credit Risks - Especially As Women Often Used To Keep The Household Accounts & Keep Things Running & Utility Bills Paid! Some Things "From The 60's" Are MISSED Like COURTESY & MANNERS & Treating Other People In A More Respectful Way!

  • @rhonda7070
    @rhonda7070 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'd like more of these--very interesting and entertaining.

  • @MichellesdesignsEtc
    @MichellesdesignsEtc ปีที่แล้ว +23

    There was more sugar back then and yet they were way more skinny than today 🤨

    • @blackpinups
      @blackpinups ปีที่แล้ว +12

      No high fructose corn syrup.

    • @queenbunnyfoofoo6112
      @queenbunnyfoofoo6112 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ​@@blackpinupsExactly. HFCS and transfats are killers.

  • @fredvaladez3542
    @fredvaladez3542 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You hit a home run with this video. I hate to admit it but I remember just about everything you showed. Dang, I feel old.

  • @jonathan45278
    @jonathan45278 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I was surprised that 'getting a sun tan' was not in it. I was a kid in the 70's and 80's and I liked to wear a T-shirt with long pants like jeans. So often, my parents would take off my jeans and T-shirt and tell me to go outside to get a 'healthy tan'. I hated doing it and sometimes got sun burnt. Later when I was in my teens in the 80's, I would be teased for having 'lilly- white' skin. This was done even by people I did not know in the general public. Everybody seemed to have a tan (not a slight tan but a deep brown tan) except me. Who's laughing now!!

    • @joanbelmont5450
      @joanbelmont5450 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Orange man.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In the Pacific Northwest region you can get a rain tan.

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Panda Cowboys That is the worse thing you could have done. I hope you don't lay and get sunburned anymore. You can get the worst skin cancer there is, which is melanoma skin cancer. My grandfather died from it. A lesser form of skin cancer, is basal cell carcinoma. They have to remove it and biopsy it afterwards. Most of the time it comes back benign, meaning, non-malignant. I'm sorry to be so long-winded, but it is something that the medical field doesn't give enough attention today. Use sun block, and don't worry about being "lily white". When they get older those with a tan will look like "alligator skin." 😊

    • @pianomaly9
      @pianomaly9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@susanthompson8962 Yep, spent my first 43 years in southern Ca., went to a dermatologist up here in Seattle several years ago, he asked me where I grew up. Never "worked on a tan" but like most boys ran around shirtless much of the time in summer. Have had pre-basal cell areas removed from my nose and back. Just a few days ago had some keratoses on face treated with freezing at same clinic.

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pianomaly9 Glad you are following up with a dermatologist. It is so important. Keep the sun block on.

  • @R32R38
    @R32R38 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Today of course we don't use vibrating belts for weight loss. Instead we spend $1,000 a month on Ozempic.

  • @tracik1277
    @tracik1277 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think there might have been another reason why those vibrating belt things were so popular that nobody ever talked about.

  • @naturalobserver1322
    @naturalobserver1322 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The 60's were a great time to be alive!

    • @latachia_2981
      @latachia_2981 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes,it most certainly was....some of the best times of my life was in the 60's!
      1

    • @hughgard4707
      @hughgard4707 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      1956 here...the 60's were GREAT if u were a kid..but the 70's were much better if u were a teenager !

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The "free love" movement was well received. Same with "ban the bra". People like sex. The 60's got rid of some of the repression and embarrassment

    • @RamblinRick_
      @RamblinRick_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh yeah, a "great time". I'm 71 YO. Vietnam War. Protests, which led to the Kent State Massacre (May 1970). Chicago Seven. Black Panthers. Bank bombings. Assassinations: JFK, RFK, MLK. Chicago Democratic Convention riots. Watts riots. State-sanctioned segregation. Freedom riders being kidnapped, tortured and killed.

    • @arthurbrumagem3844
      @arthurbrumagem3844 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love the “ pill”. Too bad many today don’t used it

  • @jacksak
    @jacksak ปีที่แล้ว +9

    In the 1960's into the 70's I was a commercial construction worker blowing asbestos on high-rise iron and in tunnels. No one told us about the hazards, and now I have a severe lung condition and am on oxygen.

  • @karencusick879
    @karencusick879 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You mentioned stewardess serving peanuts and ginger ale on flights back in the sixties. Actually, I remember them serving delicious hot full meals with desserts. I think the peanuts and soda didn't come along until the 80s.

  • @velvetbees
    @velvetbees ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One thing I remember is that some homes had laundry chutes going into the basement where laundry was done. Kids loved to slide down the chutes. They were dangerous for kids, not laundry.

  • @andrewbird57
    @andrewbird57 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My dad was involved in three drunk-driving accidents in the 1960s. In one of them, the other driver was killed. My mother thought my dad was going to be charged with manslaughter. But the DA was one of his drinking buddies. And, the other driver was at fault. He was drunk too and had crossed over the center line into my father's car. My dad had a long convalescent period. He was in the hospital for awhile then he came home was bed-ridden for a time. My dad had had a brutal experience in WWII. He was a sergeant in a regiment that was slaughtered by the Nazis and he spent the last half of the war in German POW camps. He suffered severely from PTSD and was the most alcoholic person I've ever known. He died of an alcoholic's disease at age 56 in 1973.

  • @luvnalaska44
    @luvnalaska44 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a really fun video since I was born 60 years ago. 😀

  • @rhonda7070
    @rhonda7070 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In my small school, girls were not allowed to wear pants! Then later they could wear them on cold days only.

    • @latachia_2981
      @latachia_2981 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We were never allowed to wear pants to school. If it was cold walking to school, we just put them on under our skirts & took them off in the bathroom when we got there, Most of us just wore tights when it was cold.....

    • @woofer13
      @woofer13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. Girls couldn't wear pants, and boys couldn't wear shorts during the hot months.

  • @DRAKKENFIRE22
    @DRAKKENFIRE22 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    With exception to some of the practices that were dangerous or sexist, a lot of this stuff isn’t bizarre compared to today’s standards. People today are more immature, stupid, lazy, and always want to do what “feels good” instead of having a structured society that is productive and charitable. Besides, stewardesses actually served meals during that time and flying was a pleasure…today it’s a nightmare. There is nothing wrong with having standards that are productive. Looking at the bizarre and demonic things people believe today, I yearn for the good old days. Children were especially safer 60 years ago than now.

    • @nicolethomas6586
      @nicolethomas6586 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I wish I could give this comment three thumbs up. You took the words right out of my mouth.

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @R. P. Sexism will never go away. Because, well ....the sexes are different. It's inescapable. Morons try to make everything "equal" when equality doesn't (and can't) exist. The universe isn't set up that way. It actually thrives on inequality.

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @R. P. Yeah, okay, but it's still not equality. It's just being different. People are going to label those differences and call them good or bad, as they perceive them. And different people will have different perspectives on each difference. You see where this is going? You're never going to get everyone to see a specific difference as a good difference. What is sexism to one person isn't sexism to someone else. Example: I (a man) might see women giving birth as a good difference. Maybe that's because I don't have to do it myself, or maybe it's because I see it as a wonderful part of life -- something to be admired. A woman may see it as being a horrible burden and that it's not fair, and another woman may see it as the greatest thing that ever happened to her. Differences between the sexes just ARE. They exist. They can't be changed. The only thing you can do is ASK people to look at those differences in a positive light. But again, the universe doesn't operate on "equality" in any sense. Individual humans try to operate on "equality," and sometimes they get close (for a while), but in the end they usually fail. Concentrate on the differences and see them as a good thing, and forget about what is or isn't equal or "sexist," and you'll get along with your spouse 99% of the time.

    • @theeclectic2919
      @theeclectic2919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @R. P. No, you aren't wrong about everything. You simply aren't grasping the truth that equality doesn't exist. It's not real. No one ever achieves it except in their mind. Putting labels on everything is divisive. Using the label "sexist" or "inequality" all the time doesn't achieve much. I'm not saying you can't do that, but to me, those words are red flags.

    • @joanbelmont5450
      @joanbelmont5450 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯

  • @michelefritchie6198
    @michelefritchie6198 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember we used to have a civil defense pamphlet when I was growing up in the 60s. One item was how to fight a magnesium bomb. You were supposed to put a flipped over table between you and the burning bomb, turn a hose on the flames until they died down, then throw a bucket full of sand over it. Using a long-handled shovel, you were then to scoop up the bomb, put it in the empty bucket, and using the shovel to keep it away from you, carry it outdoors so it could explode safely. Recently I looked that up, and if you put water on a magnesium bomb, that makes it even more likely to explode in your face! Just get the Sam Hill out of there!

    • @krisdiperna3929
      @krisdiperna3929 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Just get the Sam Hill out of there!" Oh my gosh! My Dad used to say, "What the Sam Hill is going on here?" I haven't thought about that for years! Thank you for the memory.

  • @thomasallen3818
    @thomasallen3818 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I carried two guns in my pickup truck throughout my high school years. I grew up on a South Texas ranch, and hunted all the time. I had a Remington Wingmaster 12ga. And a Winchester Mod. 94 .30-30. In those days, I never bothered to lock my truck, because no one worried about someone stealing or using someone else’s property. And the guns were always loaded, an unloaded gun is just a club. In 55 years, morals and values have cha need and declined so much that if someone had said even 30 years ago that things would be as they are today, I’d have said they’re nuts. Boy was I wrong. Don’t understand this world, but I’d really like to live in the world I grew up in.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My mom was a teacher from 1959-1969. She said that making asbestos ashtrays was a common craft in elementary schools.
    The teacher would empty a bag of asbestos flakes into a bucket of water, roll up her sleeve, and use her bare hand & arm to stir the mixture into a clay-like paste that the children would form into ashtrays, using their bare hands.
    Mom said her arm would be red and covered in scratches after mixing the stuff.
    As for me, I worked for 10 years, in a very poorly-maintainedtheatre that was prone to leaks, flooding, mold, and hadn't had its ventilation system cleaned in 40 years. It has asbestos flooring, ceiling tiles, and insulation. I hope I don't live long enough for Mesothelioma to get me.

    • @stevenlitvintchouk3131
      @stevenlitvintchouk3131 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I was a young kid, our apartment had those old-fashioned manual steam radiators (no thermostat) that could get very hot in the winter. To make sure I wouldn't burn myself accidentally, Mom would cover the exposed pipes with asbestos.

  • @floridaprepper751
    @floridaprepper751 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video sir, thank you.

  • @barbaradavis393
    @barbaradavis393 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the mid-50s my Dad put lap belts in our car; all that was available. It was about that time that one of my classmates was in an accident. He and his older sister were coming home from church, seated as you show at [5:32]. His mother had just come home from the hospital after having a baby. She passed out, hit a power pole and the two kids went through the windshield. They survived but had really bad scars.

  • @aronc24
    @aronc24 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really liked this, can we have more?! I’d love an 1800’s one 👀

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe you would like s free time travel trip back to the 1800s also.

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@handle-schmandle Hey, long as you voyage into the past- I'm not particular, PC fellow .

  • @deweygill1973
    @deweygill1973 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That vibrating belt must have really worked. The gals in the photos looked great!
    Living in Milwaukee, a city of breweries, brewery employees were allowed to drink at work. They also delivered buckets of beer to laborers working on construction sites, foundries etc.
    A friend of mine watched his grandmother get run over by a drunk Schlitz brewery employee driving home from the job.

    • @deweygill1973
      @deweygill1973 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@randycoppola2069 He was six years old and they were walking together. She pushed him out of the way

  • @sooz9433
    @sooz9433 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    While listing the qualifications for Stewardesses you forgot one very important one.. there was a height requirement.. 5'2"-5'9"
    I was passed over because I was just shy of 5'1" and I'll never forget how hurt I was but.. oh well🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those requirements were so ridiculous. It's hard to believe that those were the requirements and not very long ago!

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jenniferhansen3622 it was so they could easily reach the over head bins on the planes and not need a boost up.

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@savannahsmiles1797 Oh, well that puts a little different light on it. I was thinking they were implying someone shorter wasn't attractive enough. So many things at that time seemed to revolve around women's looks. I thought it was some dumb rule implying they weren't attractive if they were short.

  • @buckshot6481
    @buckshot6481 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yes we could take our guns to school, We had Dads who taught us RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY!

  • @brichards989
    @brichards989 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    At least back then they didn't have the excuse of ignorance with no Internet. What's their excuse for their idiotic beliefs in 2023?

  • @charles-y2z6c
    @charles-y2z6c ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Shooting clubs were not Bizarre. I was in one, we didn’t just shoot. We were taught to respect the power of a gun, things like never to point it at anyone AND it’s safe use. We did this long before going on the range.
    WE NEVER HAD SCHOOL SHOOTINGS.

  • @laural5177
    @laural5177 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Back in the early 80s Gimbels department store would not give me one of their credit cards without my husband's signature. I made more money than he did. They lost a customer that day and went out of business a few years later,

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The crazy thing about it is, it really wasn't that long ago. Absolutely mind-boggling to me that you, and other women, were treated that way.

    • @ronk9830
      @ronk9830 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They'd likely still be in business if not for their policy...

  • @colonial6452
    @colonial6452 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was in the school rifle club and on the rifle team. No problem with carrying my .22 target rifle to school in a case.

  • @SavedByFaithInJesus
    @SavedByFaithInJesus ปีที่แล้ว +15

    1:34 and yet there where NO school shootings.... what changed?? the culture. discipline. Fathers in the home.

    • @jeannerogers7085
      @jeannerogers7085 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too many wars, made American culture gun crazy.

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember it was commonly believed that you couldn't swim until at least one hour after eating as it would give you cramps ao bad you'd drown. Some even believed that you shouldn't even have a bath until at least one hour had passed.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      my mom was the neighborhood lifeguard and she wouldn't let any of us in the community pool unless we waited.

  • @Vegaswill714
    @Vegaswill714 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For me, the number 1 thing people believed back in the day that seems bizarre today, if that getting a suntan (or even a sunburn) was a healthy thing. As children, we ere encouraged to get sun without a shirt during the summertime. Now, we are dealing with melanoma..

  • @barb-jm7990
    @barb-jm7990 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was turned down for my first credit card because I was a woman and they didn't think I made enough. I didn't. I was a public school teacher making less than $10,000 a year! (1979)

    • @freedomrings1420
      @freedomrings1420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      CRY ME A RIVER, Many people weren't even making 10 thousand a year. And they certainly weren't getting the benefits that you were getting.

    • @barb-jm7990
      @barb-jm7990 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@freedomrings1420 Did they have to have college degrees to do their jobs? I doubt it. You don't really know what you are talking about. We had to pay for those benefits.

    • @freedomrings1420
      @freedomrings1420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@barb-jm7990 LOL 😂, you didn't pay for those benefits. They came on top of the income. Maybe you can 🐂💩 some people.

    • @janajones3829
      @janajones3829 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freedomrings1420 You are such a hateful person. Leave people alone.

    • @susanthompson8962
      @susanthompson8962 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Barb I was working for Sears full time back then. I applied for a card, and kept getting denied. Finally, I spoke to the store manager, and I told her, " you're not saying much for the company I work for!" The next thing I knew I had a Sears Credit Card! 😂

  • @lynndupree1205
    @lynndupree1205 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I went to Walmart today. Haven't been in a while and what a shocking and sickening experience. People at least 75 pounds overweight, so many of them that I was the minority as a healthy weight person. Most women dressed in sloppy untucked T shirt with slogan written on the front. Also wearing tight, form fitting leggings with panty lines and all that cellulite showing. Men were just as bad. Huge bellys hanging over the belt, and hadn't shaved in 3 days. It is disgusting what has happened to our culture. You would never have seen this in 1970. People made an effort to look presentable, and there was not one tenth as many obese people.

  • @glynnjohnson2194
    @glynnjohnson2194 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Today we have flat earthers, people who don't believe in the 1969 moon landing, and people who thought Donald Trump would get Mexico to pay for building a wall!

    • @Relaysandthings
      @Relaysandthings 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Today we have people that believe there are 50+ genders, and that a man can give birth and that Biden is the best president ever😂

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In my high school we had classes that taught us how to shoot bow and arrow 🏹

    • @GeeEm1313
      @GeeEm1313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I could have used that. I'm the worst archer alive!

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GeeEm1313 Next to me! I could never even hit the target. My arrow would hit the ground before it got to the target. The class was actually during physical education. I was also a terrible bowler. The ball was in the gutter most of the time.

  • @TheHeat55
    @TheHeat55 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A common snack I would get getting back from school in the '60s was a large slice of white bread topped with lots of butter and as much sugar as you could get on it.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      wonder bread, it stayed fresh for a month

    • @janetclaxton217
      @janetclaxton217 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Toasted buttered bread with sugar and cinnamon

  • @ShereeR99
    @ShereeR99 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What is wrong with projecting a smile in your voice when you speak?

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nothing as long as your smile is not hiding an evil mind.

  • @mdf3530
    @mdf3530 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:32 Who else thought of Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom at Disney World? “Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now. Consistent at least.” 😂

  • @twobrokeguyz1214
    @twobrokeguyz1214 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow! So they actually worked at having 2 genders back then! Imagine!

  • @fasx56
    @fasx56 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When I was going to High School in the 1960s those of us who hunted left our guns in our car trunks to go hunting after school. Mass shootings and gun violence was very rare and owning a gun was not a big negative.

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I'm 77 and wouldn't trade my childhood even with all the "pitfalls" with the poor kids who are growing up in the "Nanny State" today.

    • @carolsmith5151
      @carolsmith5151 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree, Tom!

    • @lindabull8519
      @lindabull8519 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am 76 and agree!

    • @paulazemeckis7835
      @paulazemeckis7835 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you have a better suggestion for married couples who both worked and had children?

    • @trinity6180
      @trinity6180 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulazemeckis7835Learn to live with one income. Be frugal. It was much better when mom was at home. I did both (at different times) with my kids. Much better when I was home with them and serving my community. I provided my grandchildren with care as the economy changed (the woman’s movement) and 2 incomes became the norm.

    • @KMFDM_Kid2000
      @KMFDM_Kid2000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yet you had to adhere to strict conformity and were severely sexually suppressed, and locked into ignorance if you tried to express any free thought that went against the status quo.
      You're a perfect example of rose colored glasses.

  • @Nan-59
    @Nan-59 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video! 🎉🎉 Thanks!

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And some people still pine for "The Good Old Days" of products with Radium, Asbestos & artificial sweeteners. 😂

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      none of my friends are dead yet and we drank Fresca with cyclamates

  • @sammie4695
    @sammie4695 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was also respect back then, no school shootings, if you shop lifted at a business in plain site you would be arrested. If you committed a crime you weren't let out of jail. If you were well & healthy you were expected to get a job, there wasn't a tremendous homeless population, San Francisco was a beautiful safe city, kids treated their teachers with respect, if not they were expelled from school. On & On & On......

  • @karenworley241
    @karenworley241 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I thank God I was raised in the 60s,70s, people had common sense, we kids even when small could take off on our bikes for the day, never thinking of stranger danger, I feel so bad for kids growing up now, 😞🙏🏼

  • @thistlemoon1
    @thistlemoon1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Of course the cars we drove back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were the size of small boats

  • @paulnorton2885
    @paulnorton2885 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Re: seatbelts, the Australian State of Victoria introduced legislation mandating the wearing of seatbelts effective as of 1971. It immediately resulted in a major reduction in road accident fatalities, and was soon emulated by other Australian States.

  • @HBrooks
    @HBrooks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    one thing changed my mind about seat belts (around 1996). riding as a passenger in the back seat of a car driven by an intoxicated person. driving erratically, swerving, etc. I put the seat belt on after digging it out from the seat-backs. at the next intersection, the vehicle i was in was involved in a head-on collision at about 25 mph into a semi-truck turning across traffic. i walked away. not the fault of the driver of the car i was in, but it could easily have been.
    the two in front weren't so lucky, though they lived.
    from that day on, i've worn seat belts. not always when a rear seat passenger, but usually. always in front, no matter what.

  • @ITcanB
    @ITcanB ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember people tossing huge brown paper grocery bags full of trash out of their car windows on the highways.

    • @savannahsmiles1797
      @savannahsmiles1797 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      remember the ad council commercial with the native american tearing up

  • @DogWalkerBill
    @DogWalkerBill ปีที่แล้ว

    Asbestos: My Dad worked for the Union Rail Road, Pittsburgh PA. Steam locomotives were still in use. The steam boilers were lined with asbestos. Indeed much of the locomotive was covered with asbestos. (It controlled heat.) When the asbestos coating got old, my Dad's job was to take a jack hammer, enter the boiler and chisel off the old asbestos with the jack hammer. He was not given any sort of ear protection, respirator or mask. Years later he became deaf from the jack hammer noise and eventually got COPD from the asbestos. (He also survived WWII in the Pacific & after the War, built homes with asbestos insulation. He also smoked heavily until the mid-1980's. He lived to be 96 years old.)

  • @marlanebraun5635
    @marlanebraun5635 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i remember using that "magic" vibrating belt. our brand new high school had a rifle range. school supplied the rifles, girls weren't in the rifle club, and it was part of the fall out shelter.

  • @jpbernier4196
    @jpbernier4196 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At that time, people thought that smoking was a normal social event. Even publicities have shown doctors endorsing smoking cigarettes.