Some thoughts on this wonderful video: Both my parents smoked Camels...mom died of lung cancer @ 85, while dad lived to age 92 in nearly perfect health. Early in 1964, my dad bought a Magnavox console stereo...he played his Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason records for 4 straight days. The "experts" of that era were convinced that your school desk would shield you from the 3500 degree heat and 500 mph shock wave, following a nuclear blast. I remember the USPS announcing that (according to their 1965 data ) normal mail delivery would resume within 60 days of a nuclear attack. Neither rain, nor snow, nor radiation etc. etc. My family would go to the "Drive In" several times every summer. I was always amazed at the joy my dad found in the greasy cheeseburgers and fries sold at the snack bar. He was also very fond of the "giant" bags of popcorn...his favorite was the cheese flavored. I remember it being bright orange...looked like "sprayed on" orange powder to me. After finishing the entire bag, dad and everything/everyone within 6 feet , was usually covered in orange popcorn powder. My draft number was 39...I hadn't planned on joining the Navy, but it sure beat getting drafted! Memories are a wonderful thing...thanks again, Fred.
I think it was for further away from the heat and cover to keep you from going blind from the light. I don't know. By 1969 in kindergarten we weren't doing ut. Nor when we moved and I was elementary school.
@@Aerin-Lena1 oooh no....gotta be Pall Malls with the extra length that filters and smooths the smoke under and over the tobacco leaves. No dry smoked out taste.
@@Aerin-Lena1 AHHH doctors know nothing. Lee Marvin said Pall Malls Famous length filters the smoke naturally....traveling under, over, around and through the tobacco leaves. He even smoked while working out in the gym (see youtube video of Lee Marvin selling pall malls)
I'm old enough to remember every one of these and young enough to know they were great. A culture and society finding itself. Fred, Thank you for these blast from the past..
docdurdin Im crying. I remember all of this. My grandmother actually joined the communist party, course once she was told exactly what it was , she propmtly quit.
I remember when the CB radio fad was just starting, we kids would take our cheap walkie talkies and ride our bikes around the neighborhood talking back and forth, and sometimes to the guys with the big bases. I begged my folks for a base station, but they just got me a better walkie talkie! Still alot of fun tho.
clogged arteries? not after just 1 hot dog and some french fries... now, granted, if you ate that stuff 3 times a day every day for years, then yes, that wouldn't be good for the arteries.. but, they're not advocating that type of thing.
Another wonderful one! My father-in-law was an Internist and he said several times he couldn't understand where cigarette companies were getting their "doctor" surveys from. I was reminded of that seeing the commercial.
R.J. Reynolds, the makers of Camels, commissioned several surveys in the late 1940's. However, BEFORE they were sent out, all 113,000 + doctors were sent FREE SAMPLES OF CAMELS so that when the question "What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?" was posed, GUESS WHICH BRAND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE DOCTORS STATED ON THOSE SURVEYS?
Ahhhhh, "Duck and Cover".... I remember being called out at school for repeating what I heard my (active Marine Corps) Dad say -- that "Duck and Cover is bulls**t".
Just when this crap show of a world we live in now starts to be too much to handle I find one of your videos and take a time travel trip back to when I was so much happier. Thank you so much
Another excellent video! I would've added a word or two about s&h green stamps. My folks got some really good stuff from those, like an electric blanket (come to think of it, I don't see THOSE around anymore either!).😁
itiswhatitaint anditaintwhatitis There were also Plaid Stamps and King Korn Stamps. I remember that there was a rescue mission in my town that had a big sign "Jesus Saves " and someone added "green stamps!" (On the subject of electric blankets, I'm thinking I had seen some at Walmart, but maybe it was just a heating pad!😳🤔)
S&H green stamps were very important. My parents smoked hella lot of Raleigh cigs to fill out kitchen with gadgets n appliances. I know mother didn't like ya to lick n stick anywhere but the book lol
I really appreciate the segment on the Vietnam draft. My brother was in that age group. I was a little tyke, so I don't remember the angst and tension. Thank you for making it real for me.
My Father WAS drafted. He ended up as a 25th infantry sharpshooter. The war was ugly, they all are. But the ugliest part was the treatment these men received when they came home.
Back in the '90s I hosted two teen exchanged students from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for a weekend at our home in MD. On Saturday night I took them to one of the last drive-ins in our area -- Bengie's Drive-In, near Baltimore, which opened in 1956. They were floored by the food, the arcade games, the whole experience, which to them wasn't "retro" at all, but completely novel and quintessentially American. The thing these two guys liked best was probably the fact that, since it was about 92 degrees all night, the many white trash Baltimore girls were wearing practically nothing.
I remember practicing Duck and Cover drills in grade 1. We kids were terrified of every jetliner that passed over our school as we feared it might be a bomber dropping "the big one."
We also had those air raid drills in elementary school through the mid-60's. "Everyone under the desks!". They would intersperse them with the fire drills on various days. We got so used to them, that we would actually think it was funny every time we would hear that stupid sound. Today, parents would be suing the government for emotional duress of schoolchildren, but back then, it was just another reminder of how far the government would go to "protect the children" from it's perceived enemies.
@birdsfan57 Exactly. By the third grade such drills were a welcomed distraction to the usual routine. Even at that tender age we figured that the suggestion of holding a newspaper over our bodies wouldn't save us from being blasted by radiation.
I remember my father had a '61 Galaxie (mint green) and on the radio there were two stations for CD (Civil Defense). I also remember my elementary school had a bomb shelter in basement. We had bomb drills, like fire drills, just in case the Russkies dropped the big one. In the cafeteria we were all assembled to see the Mercury launches. Believe it or not, it's true, for all the young TH-cam viewers.
All radios of that era had the "CD" (Civil Defense), or Conelrad stations marked. In the event of an attack those would be the only two frequencies use for broadcasting.
What a scary time to have lived in. I bet children had nightmares about atomic bombs. I bet they were relieved to see JFK put a stop to Russia putting those bombs in Cuba.
We had the famous 7pm air raid siren drill every Wednesday in our city, which many folks used to set their watches as it was usually right on the hour.
"if the person is a communist who is a very strident communist and speaks fondly and loudly about communism whenever possible, they might be a communist"
Thank-you I miss it very much! Back then MEN WERE MEN & WOMEN WERE WOMEN...ANYTHING ELSE KEPT IT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! PEOPLE REALLY DID READ THE BIBLE & WENT TO CHURCH!! WWG1WGA!
What a fun piece, FredFlix! This was the world we once knew. I'm happy now with my beautiful family, but wish I could bring them back from time to time to see this wonderful period in not just American history, but our shared history.
Erich L. Ruehs Say, you're not joking, are you? Racism, sexism, YEAH, INDEED!!! America was GREAT back then!! Oh, and lest we forget, THE DRAFT! By the way, how old are you? Under forty, ain't ya? Never served a lick of time in the U.S. military either, I'll bet. And just as white as a Caucasian male could possibly hope to be. Thanks for messing America up domestically, Bubba.
Thanks Fred. Lots of good memories in your videos. Reminds me of my childhood family doctor. A great physician, he made housecalls day and night. Smoked like a chimney and lived well into the 1970s, passing on in his early 90s.
Charles Whitley I came home from second grade crying because we heard the Commies were coming to kill us. We lived next to a SAC command. Our school was the Civil Defense shelter. The “commies” just wanted to earn, eat, rest and love their families too. The politicians just wanted us all scared
Back when I was in school, the school lunches were good, for instance, we would get meatloaf and mashed potatoes, green beans and a fruit for dessert, sometimes we got a piece of cake, or pudding or jello with fruit in it. And the best dinner rolls in the world in my opinion. But back then, they were cooked in the kitchen and not cooked in a facility that cooked for every school in the county and brought in frozen. Plus we had real butter for baked potatoes and home made chili for the hot dogs. And every Friday, we would either have fish sandwiches or tuna on a lettuce leaf. I am guessing for the children who were Catholic. Back then, Catholics couldn't eat other meats on Friday.
I'm Catholic and I love the 1950s and 60s, but I'm 16. That is one of the only things I like about nowadays. Only during Lent(mid-February through late-April) we can't eat meat on Fridays or any day like Ash Wednesday.
Absolutely .... my mom wasn't one but ... all of the ladies in the kitchen cooking for the children were mom's! That's the way it was in my school anyway ... And you would be in your class learning and you could smell those wonderful cinnamon rolls or yeast rolls proofing and cooking all morning . green beans and bacon oh my gosh they really had good food and yeah everything was made right there ... pizza or fish on Friday- and not gross greasy Pizza it was actually a really nice healthy hamburger pizza... No wonder most every kid was pretty lean because we went outside to play!!
Thanks again Fred! In hindsight, and as someone who (like yourself) has lived through all of this, I spend the entire video alternating between maniacal laughter and sobbing. Great therapy!
The draft pre-empted Mayberry, R.F.D. which was a continuation/spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show on CBS. I don't think any network at that time would even try to televise any sports draft, much less the NFL/AFL draft, which was held in January of that year. When ESPN first said they would televise the draft in 1980, people believed that watching it would like having the phone book read on TV.
We had three different CB radios at home. My dad had I believe a Realistic mobile CB in his car. I can't remember off hand whether it was a 23 or a 40 channel one. My mum had a Regency home base CB 23 channel with a mic gain. Dad bought another 40 channel but nobody was using it so I started using it lol. It was a 40 channel Blackfoot 40. I was so excited when I got my CB license. I even remember all the numbers of each of our respective CB licenses back then. Thanks for the video memories!
I was born in 1953. I remember all of this. I even remember the "duck and cover" drills we did in school. I even remember during the Cuban missile crisis when my parents filled a hallway closet with all kinds of non-perishable food.
I remember duck and cover drills, diving under our desks in the classroom. Even at that age, it seemed silly to me as I knew the destructive nature of a nuclear warhead. No flimsy desk is going to save you. I also remember watching 'The Day After' TV movie which was pretty terrifying at the time. Young people today wouldn't bat an eye, but back then they didn't show such traumatic things on TV. It had a major impact on everyone as it was not just a movie, but a simulation of what could be a reality at the time. 100 million people watched it on November 20, 1983. I forgot a lot of things in life, but I'll never forget watching people vaporized and knowing it could really happen.
Another excellent video! I would've added a word or two about s&h green stamps. My folks got some really good stuff from those, like an electric blanket (come to think of it, I don't see THOSE around anymore either!).
Hey Fred, thanks again for a great collection. I had forgotten how primitive the original Odyssey home video game systems were. Wow, that just blew my mind. You are doing great work, Fred. Keep up the GREAT work!
I was born 3/28/52 and lottery number was in the 300's I worked at Bank of America in the mail room midnight shift. I also played in a band Friday thru Sunday at Nu-Pike amusement park in Long Beach CA. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 6/72. Served 3 years and discharged after war ended. I had a 52 DeSoto.
Introduction of "stereo"? I was 14 years old in '66 when The Monkees released their first album. And I enjoyed it on our old "mono" record player. Not long after getting the album, my parents bought me a "stereo record player". I was listening to that album and "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" started playing. Holy crap? There was Davy Jones cracking all kinds of jokes. Yep, that is the first song I ever heard in stereo. And don't get me started on "first dates". Fred, I have stories of, about, and for everything in this video. I keep these memories alive in a journal I started writing on Wednesday 11/21/79. You, however, keep them alive in video memories from the past. Thank you very much for doing so.
So, was that first Monkees album in Mono, since you had the Mono record player? Mine was, because I also only had the Mono player. Back then, albums came in two versions; Mono for Mono record players and Stereo for Stereo players. I had to go to my friend's house to listen to all her Stereo Monkees albums on her big color tv/stereo console (on which we also watched the Monkees TV show every Monday night at 7:30). We were just insane for the Monkees, and even manufactured our OWN little group of likewise-crazy fourth-grade girls. We would argue on any given day about which one of us would be "Davy", and, of course, the friend with the stereo console also owned a pair of mirachas, so she usually won. Such fun, innocent times. Wish I could go back!
@@birdsfan57 It's actually "hi-fidelity", aka stereo. So when I got that new "stereo" record player, "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" was the first song I heard in stereo and that album remains packed away with stuff...lots of other "stuff"...I simply call "keepsakes". Stories and histories are told in four separate journals and yep, my daughters have the luxury, or perhaps curse, of having to go through all that stuff after I'm dead and gone. And yes, I am right there with you: I'd go back to those days in a minute. Now? It's my "personal history" of...television. For Christmas 2010 our older daughter gave me a Nintendo Wii console. On 01/01/11, I discovered...Netflix. Television...with NO commercials? Oh I was hooked. But then that changed to appeal to the ever-changing "demographics" and this past Saturday 02/18/23 would be the last time we'd watch Netflix. Now it is yet another device that same daughter got me for Christmas of this year, a Roku (is that right?) and we are back to watching those "old" tv shows with...yes, commercials. But at least I can mute 'em all. And we, you and I, don't even want to talk about telephones "back then" v what they have become now, do we? So yes, I'd go back in a minute.... You stay safe and be well.
I agree! LIVED IT,LOVED IT, AND MISS IT SO MUCH!!! I feel so sorry for what WE let our country turn into! ALL OF YOU UNDER 50...MARK MY WORDS! EVIL,EVIL FORCES ARE AT WORK IN OUR COUNTRY! WAKE UP! Put down the games do RESEARCH, BEFORE IT'S TO LATE!!!!!! WWG1WGA!
Another great trip down memory lane....interesting they had milk at the top of the food pyramid! I remember it was a big deal to be the one that went and got the tray of milk for the whole classroom.
I just like to say thanks for posting this, and thanks for bringing back all the memories of the world that I grew up in. God they were great times to be alive.
when I was a kid my dentist smoked "Kent" cigarettes and my "General practitioner" (primary care physician) smoked Camels. All my teachers smoked too.....Pipe or cigarettes. If the door opened from the teachers lounge a thick white cloud of smoke would pour out. Just about everyone reeked of tobacco back then.
I remember our doctor bumming cigarettes off me when I was a teenager! My parents "let" me smoke at 16 though I had been doing it for several years on the sly!
my busy, chain smoking doctor came by for my bi-weekly prostate examination today. When I flinched, he told me I should relax by taking up smoking and left me his pack of camels. I don't like smoking yet, but I'm sure I will before my his next house call.
That's what we did, we went to the drive in movies almost every weekend. Sadly, there are no more of them in the area. Due to the owner unable to convert to digital.My mom told me my pediatrician smoked in the office while examining the children.I saw the Salem commercial somewhere on here. Sometimes when I have had a hard day at work I think to myself, "If I were a smoker, I would have myself a Salem." But my sister says menthol cigarettes are strong.
Well, what else ya gonna do? Stand there watching the fireball? That’ll make you blind, and if you kept standing the blast wave would knock you into the county. And, you’d find out that the entire world wasn’t destroyed, and we weren’t bombed to the stone age, either. It’s better to be healthy and able to see, than crippled and blind. Duck and cover....whatever chance of survival you have depends on this.
It was a wonderful time to be a kid, playing on the railroad tracks and jumping on a box car hand railing for a hundred feet or so before jumping off, blocking the street with discarded christmas trees and hiding, just to watch and listening to the cussing drivers as they stopped and moved them out of the way. Catching a jar full of fire-flies, lightening bugs, and turning them loose in the house after bed time.
we were in touch with reality, thermo nuclear war was a clear and present threat during the cold war at its height, unlike kids today needing a safe space because they hear a word that upset them.
small children and grade school up to junior high schoolers weren't informed, no point to do it, I mean to be told you were gonna be either killed instantly or burned to death In only a couple of hours would have brought more questions, especially us seventh graders, that was 1969 for me waiting for 3:00pm to run home and watch dark shadows.
@@Grimoor yeah, kids today don't have anything to worry about, right. Every other school has a shooting spree every damn day and this is a real and present danger.
We still have one drive in theater in RI, one of the few left in the country. It's very popular, you have to show up long before dark to get in! It's not going away. We used to have a lot of them, and when I was in high school and college, I'd go with friends. We'd buy snacks at the convenience store before and bring folding lawn chairs to sit on. It was a real tradition, and I hope enough of these places have survived so kids these days can experience them.
Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head used real Potatoes, Carrots, Apples or Oranges (Or other fruits & veggies) until the early 1960's at which time a plastic 'potato' was included because of safety concerns. The current version is a joke. The original and later versions had several sets of 'Eyes' 'Noses' 'Ears' 'Lips' 'Eyebrows' 'Facial Hair' (Made of felt) and other items like a Corn Cob Pipe, a Purse, several sets of Feet/Shoes and several types of plastic bodies, Arms/Legs and Clothing as well as other 'Accessories'. There were several 'Kits' of varying sizes and some pieces were sold separately.
I wonder, If mom needed your new potato/veggie friends to be cleaned & plopped into the stew pot to finish up supper, did the kids generally end up in tears? By the time I came along, mr potato head came equipped with his own plastic head
I remember the televised draft. My cousin's number came up pretty high and he was drafted. But he ended up serving in the Presidio in San Francisco and then as a recruiter in West Virginia. Never left the country. I was a preteen girl, but my birthday came up near the last of the numbers. I thought it was a pity I couldn't "sell" my number.
Oh, look, mommy, a thermonuclear flash! Quick, under this blanket! LOL! Amazing times weren't they? A time when the presidency was an honorable and respected office to hold. Those were the days my freinds.
I thought that these dreams were memories. Or it was some far away and distant fantasy long-forgotten. I'm still not really certain that any of this actually happened. I don't feel old however , I feel like some kind of alien or freak. Looking at the world around me, looking at myself, damn. I've got to get back - and try again.
I was hot and heavy into CB radio. Does anyone remember upper side band ? We went from CB radio to upper side band as it got out much further. And the crispy lesson learned from not grounding the antenna for the CB correctly. It is a wonder the house didn't burn down. It melted most of the "Moon Raker" antenna and the push-up pole it was mounted on didn't anymore ( didn't push up or collapse ).
I was born april 8 1968. Some of it is my world and some is the prequel to it. I'm the youngest I have siblings 10 years older than I. From the prequel years. I love your chanel. Keep up the good work.
Man....wow! The memories, seemed like a lifetime ago. Life for me was innocent I guess ignorance wss bliss. To quote the phrase if I knew then what I know now....of course being a child in the single digits during the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons, Schwinn muscle bikes, no computers or cell phones. Playing outside then watching TV, we thought we had hit the big time when we got a 19 inch color Quasar wow! Going out to eat was going to Burger Chef, McDonald's, Burger King, and it happen 1 to 2 times a month and I got to drink a Coke a cola and was a real treat! I played with toys and used my imagination no battery where the toy can play by itself today. What a great time and then becoming a teen in the 1980s. The radio and music was the soundtrack of my life always growing up and memories being made. Sadly time marches on and the only constant that there is changes every day.......
Duck and cover...um, is it bad that the one of the large group outside reminds me of the 'Andy's Coming' meme that was around for a while? Since just doing 'duck and cover' is useless for something like an A-bomb, it must have been designed to make people *feel* safer...a morale thing. The 'housewife' stuff is hilarious! The draft....oh my. :O I didn't know guys were selected by lottery according to birth date.
back then in boot camp they taught us if we see a nuclear blast to lay down with our m-16's under us, i asked why and drill sgt, said so g.i.'s advancing can peel our bodies off them and have a functional weapon lol.
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When my mom was pregnant with me she asked the doctor "when can I expect my baby to move?" and he said "hopefully right after college".
LOL!!!!!! good one!!!
Dr G Marx?
Waaah waaaaah
HA! :)
Lol funny doctor
Some thoughts on this wonderful video:
Both my parents smoked Camels...mom died of lung cancer @ 85, while dad lived to age 92
in nearly perfect health.
Early in 1964, my dad bought a Magnavox console stereo...he played his Frank Sinatra and
Jackie Gleason records for 4 straight days.
The "experts" of that era were convinced that your school desk would shield you from the
3500 degree heat and 500 mph shock wave, following a nuclear blast.
I remember the USPS announcing that (according to their 1965 data ) normal mail delivery
would resume within 60 days of a nuclear attack. Neither rain, nor snow, nor radiation etc. etc.
My family would go to the "Drive In" several times every summer. I was always amazed at the
joy my dad found in the greasy cheeseburgers and fries sold at the snack bar. He was also very
fond of the "giant" bags of popcorn...his favorite was the cheese flavored. I remember it being
bright orange...looked like "sprayed on" orange powder to me. After finishing the entire bag, dad
and everything/everyone within 6 feet , was usually covered in orange popcorn powder.
My draft number was 39...I hadn't planned on joining the Navy, but it sure beat getting drafted!
Memories are a wonderful thing...thanks again, Fred.
Fantastic comment, Scott.
i wouldnt change a damn thing for the greatest memories of my youth like you said!!!!
@@garybeckefeld9613 I'll be 72 soon...the older I get, the more precious the memories become.
That was great.
I think it was for further away from the heat and cover to keep you from going blind from the light. I don't know. By 1969 in kindergarten we weren't doing ut. Nor when we moved and I was elementary school.
I just took up smoking and reported my communist neighbors to Homeland Security... All thanks to you Fred!
I found some commies to Fred!
As the doctor suggest smoke camels. I tried and got kicked.
Kathy’s fingers grazed the data surface of that LP. No bueno.
@@Aerin-Lena1 oooh no....gotta be Pall Malls with the extra length that filters and smooths the smoke under and over the tobacco leaves. No dry smoked out taste.
@@Aerin-Lena1 AHHH doctors know nothing. Lee Marvin said Pall Malls Famous length filters the smoke naturally....traveling under, over, around and through the tobacco leaves. He even smoked while working out in the gym (see youtube video of Lee Marvin selling pall malls)
I'm old enough to remember every one of these and young enough to know they were great. A culture and society finding itself. Fred, Thank you for these blast from the past..
docdurdin
Im crying. I remember all of this.
My grandmother actually joined the communist party, course once she was told exactly what it was , she propmtly quit.
I remember all of them too.....
It's happening again
I was born in the 2000s right before the 2010s but a life like this seems so appealing
I remember when the CB radio fad was just starting, we kids would take our cheap walkie talkies and ride our bikes around the neighborhood talking back and forth, and sometimes to the guys with the big bases. I begged my folks for a base station, but they just got me a better walkie talkie! Still alot of fun tho.
Cant believe I lived through all of that. Even got drafted and fought for a year in Viet Nam.
Thank you you're cause was just
BLESS you for your service!
So glad you made it back Dave, a salute to you sir...
Thank you for your service.
Glad you made it home.
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦.
LOL, Back when you had to use your own potatoes for Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.
My parents were poor. I got Mr & Mrs Kidney Bean for Christmas!
@@TurtleFrackI’m late to the party here, but your comment is hilarious! I’ll remember it!
Best tasting food in the world, a hotdog, and greasy fries in a basket at the drive-in theater!
absolutely correct!!!!
Enjoy those clogged arteries now.
clogged arteries? not after just 1 hot dog and some french fries... now, granted, if you ate that stuff 3 times a day every day for years, then yes, that wouldn't be good for the arteries.. but, they're not advocating that type of thing.
@49jubilee yes, thank you 49jubilee, that's the point I was making as well
Food kept warm by heat lamps.
“The world we knew.”
Enough said.
This is the world that I grew up in and now I am wondering what happened .
The world looked completely different then. I feel like I've lived on two different planets.
People got smarter
nothing lasts forever? no one wants to do the same things forever? people change? progress? take your pick.
@@joesmoe8983 hahaha no
Liberals are what happened.
I wish my doctor puffed a Camel during my digital rectal exam. At least one of use would be relaxed.
Another wonderful one! My father-in-law was an Internist and he said several times he couldn't understand where cigarette companies were getting their "doctor" surveys from. I was reminded of that seeing the commercial.
R.J. Reynolds, the makers of Camels, commissioned several surveys in the late 1940's. However, BEFORE they were sent out, all 113,000 + doctors were sent FREE SAMPLES OF CAMELS so that when the question "What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?" was posed, GUESS WHICH BRAND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE DOCTORS STATED ON THOSE SURVEYS?
@@fromthesidelines A survey of how funeral home directors thought of cigarettes would be more telling.
Another fabulous FREDFLIX production!
really enjoy your vids. I'm same age and they really bring back memories. It was a different world. A whole different vibe.
I remember all of this, Fred. Every dang bit of it. Thank you for what you do, sir.
Ahhhhh, "Duck and Cover".... I remember being called out at school for repeating what I heard my (active Marine Corps) Dad say -- that "Duck and Cover is bulls**t".
Just when this crap show of a world we live in now starts to be too much to handle I find one of your videos and take a time travel trip back to when I was so much happier. Thank you so much
So many good memories. I really loved those years.
Sad, but the "duck and cover" is still taught in the USA. Not because of the atom bomb though.
It's now called mask and distance.
Another excellent video! I would've added a word or two about s&h green stamps. My folks got some really good stuff from those, like an electric blanket (come to think of it, I don't see THOSE around anymore either!).😁
itiswhatitaint anditaintwhatitis There were also Plaid Stamps and King Korn Stamps. I remember that there was a rescue mission in my town that had a big sign "Jesus Saves " and someone added "green stamps!" (On the subject of electric blankets, I'm thinking I had seen some at Walmart, but maybe it was just a heating pad!😳🤔)
Glenn Lego Good memories!
Big Lots still has electric blankets, they work great but don't last as long as the ones from the 60' and 70's. Not as soft either.
I have an electric blanket from the 80s still. Doesn't work very well and it's a very rough, scratchy, and uncomfortable wool-like material.
S&H green stamps were very important. My parents smoked hella lot of Raleigh cigs to fill out kitchen with gadgets n appliances. I know mother didn't like ya to lick n stick anywhere but the book lol
I really appreciate the segment on the Vietnam draft. My brother was in that age group. I was a little tyke, so I don't remember the angst and tension. Thank you for making it real for me.
You're welcome.
My Father WAS drafted. He ended up as a 25th infantry sharpshooter. The war was ugly, they all are. But the ugliest part was the treatment these men received when they came home.
Back in the '90s I hosted two teen exchanged students from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for a weekend at our home in MD. On Saturday night I took them to one of the last drive-ins in our area -- Bengie's Drive-In, near Baltimore, which opened in 1956. They were floored by the food, the arcade games, the whole experience, which to them wasn't "retro" at all, but completely novel and quintessentially American. The thing these two guys liked best was probably the fact that, since it was about 92 degrees all night, the many white trash Baltimore girls were wearing practically nothing.
Bring your friends to the drive in. Hide them in the trunk.
Bob Simmons we did that too. To see R movies when we were underage. LOL
Bob Simmons we used to . At 16 i drove a 77 buick electra . This was in 96
We had one that was 3$ a carload they were piled in the trunk like cordwood
Been there done that ; )
Some hid under a blanket in "way back" of station wagon. Or just ducked down on floor in back seat (though backseats were much larger back then).
I remember practicing Duck and Cover drills in grade 1. We kids were terrified of every jetliner that passed over our school as we feared it might be a bomber dropping "the big one."
Congrats, the government effectively freaked out an entire generation of kids for no reason at all. And kept them freaked out...
We also had those air raid drills in elementary school through the mid-60's. "Everyone under the desks!". They would intersperse them with the fire drills on various days. We got so used to them, that we would actually think it was funny every time we would hear that stupid sound. Today, parents would be suing the government for emotional duress of schoolchildren, but back then, it was just another reminder of how far the government would go to "protect the children" from it's perceived enemies.
@birdsfan57 Exactly. By the third grade such drills were a welcomed distraction to the usual routine. Even at that tender age we figured that the suggestion of holding a newspaper over our bodies wouldn't save us from being blasted by radiation.
@@andrewthornhill7042 LOL.
I remember my father had a '61 Galaxie (mint green) and on the radio there were two stations for CD (Civil Defense). I also remember my elementary school had a bomb shelter in basement. We had bomb drills, like fire drills, just in case the Russkies dropped the big one. In the cafeteria we were all assembled to see the Mercury launches. Believe it or not, it's true, for all the young TH-cam viewers.
Stanley Costello , my husband dad had a Mint green ford galaxy. It must gave been a popular car.
All radios of that era had the "CD" (Civil Defense), or Conelrad stations marked. In the event of an attack those would be the only two frequencies use for broadcasting.
What a scary time to have lived in. I bet children had nightmares about atomic bombs. I bet they were relieved to see JFK put a stop to Russia putting those bombs in Cuba.
We had the famous 7pm air raid siren drill every Wednesday in our city, which many folks used to set their watches as it was usually right on the hour.
Sheri451 it was horrible. I wondered every day if it was going to be today. And I grew up right next to Oak Ridge, TN, home of the Bomb.
"if the person is a communist who is a very strident communist and speaks fondly and loudly about communism whenever possible, they might be a communist"
Just replace the word communist with Democrat and you have the same meaning!
@@michaelhoward6782 Exactly.
Nothing beats Pink Floyd on an old RCA stereo
You boomers had some pretty cool stuff
Thank-you I miss it very much! Back then MEN WERE MEN & WOMEN WERE WOMEN...ANYTHING ELSE KEPT IT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! PEOPLE REALLY DID READ THE BIBLE & WENT TO CHURCH!! WWG1WGA!
What a fun piece, FredFlix! This was the world we once knew. I'm happy now with my beautiful family, but wish I could bring them back from time to time to see this wonderful period in not just American history, but our shared history.
Erich L. Ruehs
Say, you're not joking, are you? Racism, sexism, YEAH, INDEED!!! America was GREAT back then!! Oh, and lest we forget, THE DRAFT! By the way, how old are you? Under forty, ain't ya? Never served a lick of time in the U.S. military either, I'll bet. And just as white as a Caucasian male could possibly hope to be. Thanks for messing America up domestically, Bubba.
No tie worn at the Drive-In theater? What a shock! How slovenly we were!
The Salem cigarette commercial knocked me over when they said; a breath of fresh air with every puff..LOL
By 1965, their slogan was "Turn to Salem for a taste that's SPRINGTIME FRESH!"
That was the year smoking peaked in the U.S.
My Dad smoked Salems. Wow!
"Take a puff- it's springtime!"
@@fromthesidelines Springtime in Bejing!
I love your videos. Brings back great memories
Thanks Fred. Lots of good memories in your videos. Reminds me of my childhood family doctor. A great physician, he made housecalls day and night. Smoked like a chimney and lived well into the 1970s, passing on in his early 90s.
I liked Ann...Love the way she attacks that cotton candy....also...I hate still hate Commies.....Love your videos Mr.Flix!
Charles Whitley I came home from second grade crying because we heard the Commies were coming to kill us. We lived next to a SAC command. Our school was the Civil Defense shelter. The “commies” just wanted to earn, eat, rest and love their families too. The politicians just wanted us all scared
@@montanacrone8984 You really cannot be THAT stupid.
Distilling fear makes for more compliant peon- eh - citizens. 😉
Ann was a little tart. That kid had no chance landing her.
Back when I was in school, the school lunches were good, for instance, we would get meatloaf and mashed potatoes, green beans and a fruit for dessert, sometimes we got a piece of cake, or pudding or jello with fruit in it. And the best dinner rolls in the world in my opinion. But back then, they were cooked in the kitchen and not cooked in a facility that cooked for every school in the county and brought in frozen. Plus we had real butter for baked potatoes and home made chili for the hot dogs. And every Friday, we would either have fish sandwiches or tuna on a lettuce leaf. I am guessing for the children who were Catholic. Back then, Catholics couldn't eat other meats on Friday.
I'm Catholic and I love the 1950s and 60s, but I'm 16. That is one of the only things I like about nowadays. Only during Lent(mid-February through late-April) we can't eat meat on Fridays or any day like Ash Wednesday.
Absolutely .... my mom wasn't one but ... all of the ladies in the kitchen cooking for the children were mom's! That's the way it was in my school anyway ... And you would be in your class learning and you could smell those wonderful cinnamon rolls or yeast rolls proofing and cooking all morning . green beans and bacon oh my gosh they really had good food and yeah everything was made right there ... pizza or fish on Friday- and not gross greasy Pizza it was actually a really nice healthy hamburger pizza... No wonder most every kid was pretty lean because we went outside to play!!
I remember the spooky broadcasts of "Radio Free Europe, from Behind the Iron Curtain".
Thanks again Fred! In hindsight, and as someone who (like yourself) has lived through all of this, I spend the entire video alternating between maniacal laughter and sobbing. Great therapy!
Well, Paul, I didn't expect that kind of reaction but as long as it was good for you...
I totally get how throwing a table cloth over your head can protect against an atomic bomb.
When the NFL/AFL Draft wasn't televised and the military draft was.
They did it in prime time (9 PM)?
The draft pre-empted Mayberry, R.F.D. which was a continuation/spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show on CBS. I don't think any network at that time would even try to televise any sports draft, much less the NFL/AFL draft, which was held in January of that year. When ESPN first said they would televise the draft in 1980, people believed that watching it would like having the phone book read on TV.
Tim Warneking The draft preempted my life also.
OUTSTANDING! It was a banquet of food for thought! Thank-you so much!
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Chairman of the Board ummm No. That’s Dickens A Tale of Two Cities.
We had three different CB radios at home. My dad had I believe a Realistic mobile CB in his car. I can't remember off hand whether it was a 23 or a 40 channel one. My mum had a Regency home base CB 23 channel with a mic gain. Dad bought another 40 channel but nobody was using it so I started using it lol. It was a 40 channel Blackfoot 40. I was so excited when I got my CB license. I even remember all the numbers of each of our respective CB licenses back then. Thanks for the video memories!
I was born in 1953. I remember all of this. I even remember the "duck and cover" drills we did in school. I even remember during the Cuban missile crisis when my parents filled a hallway closet with all kinds of non-perishable food.
Wow...I enjoyed this video...had a little bit of everything. Truly amazing how much we remember from those days. Connie from Fla.
I have heard about the draft lottery but I was to young in the 60's to remember it. Glad we don't have the draft anymore.
I remember duck and cover drills, diving under our desks in the classroom. Even at that age, it seemed silly to me as I knew the destructive nature of a nuclear warhead. No flimsy desk is going to save you. I also remember watching 'The Day After' TV movie which was pretty terrifying at the time. Young people today wouldn't bat an eye, but back then they didn't show such traumatic things on TV. It had a major impact on everyone as it was not just a movie, but a simulation of what could be a reality at the time. 100 million people watched it on November 20, 1983. I forgot a lot of things in life, but I'll never forget watching people vaporized and knowing it could really happen.
Another excellent video! I would've added a word or two about s&h green stamps. My folks got some really good stuff from those, like an electric blanket (come to think of it, I don't see THOSE around anymore either!).
This is only volume 1. I couldn't even begin to touch on everything. But S&H green stamps will come.
Hey Fred, thanks again for a great collection. I had forgotten how primitive the original Odyssey home video game systems were. Wow, that just blew my mind. You are doing great work, Fred. Keep up the GREAT work!
I was born 3/28/52 and lottery number was in the 300's I worked at Bank of America in the mail room midnight shift. I also played in a band Friday thru Sunday at Nu-Pike amusement park in Long Beach CA. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 6/72. Served 3 years and discharged after war ended. I had a 52 DeSoto.
What an incredible channel you have here!
Introduction of "stereo"?
I was 14 years old in '66 when The Monkees released their first album. And I enjoyed it on our old "mono" record player. Not long after getting the album, my parents bought me a "stereo record player". I was listening to that album and "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" started playing. Holy crap? There was Davy Jones cracking all kinds of jokes. Yep, that is the first song I ever heard in stereo.
And don't get me started on "first dates".
Fred, I have stories of, about, and for everything in this video. I keep these memories alive in a journal I started writing on Wednesday 11/21/79. You, however, keep them alive in video memories from the past.
Thank you very much for doing so.
So, was that first Monkees album in Mono, since you had the Mono record player? Mine was, because I also only had the Mono player. Back then, albums came in two versions; Mono for Mono record players and Stereo for Stereo players. I had to go to my friend's house to listen to all her Stereo Monkees albums on her big color tv/stereo console (on which we also watched the Monkees TV show every Monday night at 7:30). We were just insane for the Monkees, and even manufactured our OWN little group of likewise-crazy fourth-grade girls. We would argue on any given day about which one of us would be "Davy", and, of course, the friend with the stereo console also owned a pair of mirachas, so she usually won. Such fun, innocent times. Wish I could go back!
@@birdsfan57
It's actually "hi-fidelity", aka stereo. So when I got that new "stereo" record player, "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" was the first song I heard in stereo and that album remains packed away with stuff...lots of other "stuff"...I simply call "keepsakes". Stories and histories are told in four separate journals and yep, my daughters have the luxury, or perhaps curse, of having to go through all that stuff after I'm dead and gone.
And yes, I am right there with you: I'd go back to those days in a minute.
Now? It's my "personal history" of...television.
For Christmas 2010 our older daughter gave me a Nintendo Wii console. On 01/01/11, I discovered...Netflix. Television...with NO commercials? Oh I was hooked. But then that changed to appeal to the ever-changing "demographics" and this past Saturday 02/18/23 would be the last time we'd watch Netflix. Now it is yet another device that same daughter got me for Christmas of this year, a Roku (is that right?) and we are back to watching those "old" tv shows with...yes, commercials. But at least I can mute 'em all.
And we, you and I, don't even want to talk about telephones "back then" v what they have become now, do we?
So yes, I'd go back in a minute....
You stay safe and be well.
Ann knows how to have a good time especially the way she was chomping on that cotton candy.
I just finished major surgery..Now I need a Camel 😂😂😂😂
Why wait, take a cigarette break, the nurse can handle it😁
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Hey Fred Flix!! Love your videos!! It’s nice to see so much footage of the world around the time of my birth.
I agree! LIVED IT,LOVED IT, AND MISS IT SO MUCH!!! I feel so sorry for what WE let our country turn into! ALL OF YOU UNDER 50...MARK MY WORDS! EVIL,EVIL FORCES ARE AT WORK IN OUR COUNTRY! WAKE UP! Put down the games do RESEARCH, BEFORE IT'S TO LATE!!!!!! WWG1WGA!
Another great trip down memory lane....interesting they had milk at the top of the food pyramid! I remember it was a big deal to be the one that went and got the tray of milk for the whole classroom.
I just like to say thanks for posting this, and thanks for bringing back all the memories of the world that I grew up in. God they were great times to be alive.
You're welcome.
"What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?"
Hilarious.
when I was a kid my dentist smoked "Kent" cigarettes and my "General practitioner" (primary care physician) smoked Camels. All my teachers smoked too.....Pipe or cigarettes. If the door opened from the teachers lounge a thick white cloud of smoke would pour out. Just about everyone reeked of tobacco back then.
I remember our doctor bumming cigarettes off me when I was a teenager! My parents "let" me smoke at 16 though I had been doing it for several years on the sly!
"You bring in fresh air with every puff of Salem."... Yeah sure
One heck of a channel, keep up the great work!
Thanks, Lila.
Mr. Tomato head didn’t work so good!
maddanl353 looked scary as hell.
THANK YOU, AGAIN, Fred! Michael in frosty Minnesota...
Watching that draft lottery was a dose of reality upside the head
Janet made me feel awkward and inferior..... so I became a communist and took up smoking!
"Get your flu shot" is the new "duck and cover"
my busy, chain smoking doctor came by for my bi-weekly prostate examination today. When I flinched, he told me I should relax by taking up smoking and left me his pack of camels. I don't like smoking yet, but I'm sure I will before my his next house call.
Wonderful! I appreciate your work. Thanks!
"Gee, Wally that was really neat!"
"Sure Squirt."
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Remember sweating through draft number drawings to get a high number for draft card?
Frank put on his jacket to answer the door?
I’m going to have to check with my doctor on which brand to smoke. 🤣
That's what we did, we went to the drive in movies almost every weekend. Sadly, there are no more of them in the area. Due to the owner unable to convert to digital.My mom told me my pediatrician smoked in the office while examining the children.I saw the Salem commercial somewhere on here. Sometimes when I have had a hard day at work I think to myself, "If I were a smoker, I would have myself a Salem." But my sister says menthol cigarettes are strong.
I miss those days so very much....
duck and cover? sure that will help against nuclear weapons.
Assuming you aren't in the 'immediate explosion' part of the blast, it's actually pretty decent advice.
Well, they had to come up with something.
Makes it easier to shovel up the radioactive cremains.
Well, what else ya gonna do? Stand there watching the fireball? That’ll make you blind, and if you kept standing the blast wave would knock you into the county.
And, you’d find out that the entire world wasn’t destroyed, and we weren’t bombed to the stone age, either. It’s better to be healthy and able to see, than crippled and blind.
Duck and cover....whatever chance of survival you have depends on this.
Iyumi Blue : it wouldnt even help much against conventional artillery
It was a wonderful time to be a kid, playing on the railroad tracks and jumping on a box car hand railing for a hundred feet or so before jumping off, blocking the street with discarded christmas trees and hiding, just to watch and listening to the cussing drivers as they stopped and moved them out of the way. Catching a jar full of fire-flies, lightening bugs, and turning them loose in the house after bed time.
Thanks Fred. I was there for every one of those events. Doctor once took my blood pressure while he smoked a Salem. Thanks - Lumpy
Duck and cover ? when a nuke explode ...wow how out of touch with reality we were back in the day..
we were in touch with reality, thermo nuclear war was a clear and present threat during the cold war at its height, unlike kids today needing a safe space because they hear a word that upset them.
It seems like they would’ve known duck and cover wouldn’t do anything?!
small children and grade school up to junior high schoolers weren't informed, no point to do it, I mean to be told you were gonna be either killed instantly or burned to death In only a couple of hours would have brought more questions, especially us seventh graders, that was 1969 for me waiting for 3:00pm to run home and watch dark shadows.
Duck and cover started in the age of the smaller atomic bombs ; not the hydrogen bombs that we have all grown to love......
@@Grimoor yeah, kids today don't have anything to worry about, right. Every other school has a shooting spree every damn day and this is a real and present danger.
Winston taste good like a cigarette should remember that
Also, they said something else about Winston " Filter, flavor, flip-top box!"
The duck and cover during the BBQ had me rotflmao. Not only are we not dead but now we're not eating.
We still have one drive in theater in RI, one of the few left in the country. It's very popular, you have to show up long before dark to get in! It's not going away. We used to have a lot of them, and when I was in high school and college, I'd go with friends. We'd buy snacks at the convenience store before and bring folding lawn chairs to sit on. It was a real tradition, and I hope enough of these places have survived so kids these days can experience them.
Mr. Potato Head used a real potato. That was awesome.
I had one of those Mr. Potato Head toys that used a real potato. That shows my age, I’m sure.
Today it would be racist or cruel to a veggie. LOL
Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head used real Potatoes, Carrots, Apples or Oranges (Or other fruits & veggies) until the early 1960's at which time a plastic 'potato' was included because of safety concerns. The current version is a joke. The original and later versions had several sets of 'Eyes' 'Noses' 'Ears' 'Lips' 'Eyebrows' 'Facial Hair' (Made of felt) and other items like a Corn Cob Pipe, a Purse, several sets of Feet/Shoes and several types of plastic bodies, Arms/Legs and Clothing as well as other 'Accessories'. There were several 'Kits' of varying sizes and some pieces were sold separately.
I wonder, If mom needed your new potato/veggie friends to be cleaned & plopped into the stew pot to finish up supper, did the kids generally end up in tears? By the time I came along, mr potato head came equipped with his own plastic head
I remember the televised draft. My cousin's number came up pretty high and he was drafted. But he ended up serving in the Presidio in San Francisco and then as a recruiter in West Virginia. Never left the country. I was a preteen girl, but my birthday came up near the last of the numbers. I thought it was a pity I couldn't "sell" my number.
That Camel commercial made me want to start smoking. She made it look so good.
Back when doctors made house calls and recommended Camel cigarettes ! 😂😂😂
It's a good thing Frank can think for the both of them. He probably saved their marriage many times.......
neat look into the past. for some reason im craving a cigarette though....
Gee Wally these videos sure was swell.🤣😂
Fred - THIS was awesome!😊 Although I would like to vacation in the 50s and 60s, I couldn't deal with the smoking!! 😂😂😂
I remember when the doctor came to our house.... !
Oh, look, mommy, a thermonuclear flash! Quick, under this blanket! LOL! Amazing times weren't they? A time when the presidency was an honorable and respected office to hold. Those were the days my freinds.
5:40 ..The date segment.. Looks like the set from My Three Sons
And nowadays, asking for that first date would result in a 50/50 chance of being screamed at for sexual harassment.
The stupidest thing I ever did was to start smoking. I just covered my eyes as my mouth dropped open at those cigarette commercials.
2:09 More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
No kidding!
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I thought that these dreams were memories.
Or it was some far
away and distant fantasy
long-forgotten. I'm still
not really certain that
any of this actually
happened.
I don't feel old however ,
I feel like some kind
of alien or freak.
Looking at the world
around me, looking at
myself, damn.
I've got to get back -
and try again.
I was hot and heavy into CB radio. Does anyone remember upper side band ? We went from CB radio to upper side band as it got out much further. And the crispy lesson learned from not grounding the antenna for the CB correctly. It is a wonder the house didn't burn down. It melted most of the "Moon Raker" antenna and the push-up pole it was mounted on didn't anymore ( didn't push up or collapse ).
Thank you so much! This was great!
The mom of those boys asking for dates looks like their grandmother.
That's the way mothers LOOKED back then
@@jonimichalski9193 I think it was the hairstyles and clothes. You looked like you were 50 when you were 20.
I was born april 8 1968. Some of it is my world and some is the prequel to it. I'm the youngest I have siblings 10 years older than I. From the prequel years. I love your chanel. Keep up the good work.
I will. Thanks.
I literally lived through this✌🏼
No wonder so many of us puffed away.
Mad men revisited. Love your content
Keep them coming!
Man....wow! The memories, seemed like a lifetime ago. Life for me was innocent I guess ignorance wss bliss. To quote the phrase if I knew then what I know now....of course being a child in the single digits during the 1970s Saturday morning cartoons, Schwinn muscle bikes, no computers or cell phones. Playing outside then watching TV, we thought we had hit the big time when we got a 19 inch color Quasar wow! Going out to eat was going to Burger Chef, McDonald's, Burger King, and it happen 1 to 2 times a month and I got to drink a Coke a cola and was a real treat! I played with toys and used my imagination no battery where the toy can play by itself today. What a great time and then becoming a teen in the 1980s. The radio and music was the soundtrack of my life always growing up and memories being made. Sadly time marches on and the only constant that there is changes every day.......
Duck and cover...um, is it bad that the one of the large group outside reminds me of the 'Andy's Coming' meme that was around for a while? Since just doing 'duck and cover' is useless for something like an A-bomb, it must have been designed to make people *feel* safer...a morale thing.
The 'housewife' stuff is hilarious!
The draft....oh my. :O I didn't know guys were selected by lottery according to birth date.
back then in boot camp they taught us if we see a nuclear blast to lay down with our m-16's under us, i asked why and drill sgt, said so g.i.'s advancing can peel our bodies off them and have a functional weapon lol.
@@Grimoor good gawd