12 Things Gone FOREVER...1960s - Life in America

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Thanks!

[@katiebice3905]

One of the best things from the 1960's gone forever was riding in the back of my dads pick up truck. We felt so cool & had so much fun. Shopping at Woolworths was great too. Lots of candy and toys & they had the lunch counter. Being a kid in the 1960's was the best. We had to walk back and forth to school BUT, we could play outside ALL DAY Saturday & Sunday without a adult in sight. We rode our bikes, walked to the store, hung out at friends houses & living in CA close to the mountains, I could hike for miles taking a lunch and water with me. As long as I was home for dinner, no problems.

[@matrox]

You will get ticketed for that today. If you refuse the ticket they will arrest you. If you refuse the arrest they will kill you.😥👀

[@5610winston]

We had Kresge before they went all K-Mart on us. Remember the ten-cent comet goldfish you had to buy a fish bowl to keep? or were the goldfish free and the fishbowl cost a fortune, not big enough to keep the fish alive for more than a week?

[@gremlinfinger5964]

We used to call it riding in back of the back.

[@57Jimmy]

And I bet that pickup truck had the gas tank right behind the seat, inside the cab!

[@marathonfortruth4768]

Wow California in the 60’s was as idyllic as it gets. Before it became overcrowded and overrun.

[@choward5430]

The biggest thing gone from America is peace. Peace of playing outside all day long knowing nothing will happen to you. Peace of walking to and from school with your friends. Peace of a semblance of "normalcy." Peace of going shopping or to a ball game or anywhere with no fear of someone robbing you or assaulting you or stray bullets. Very sad what's happened to America.

[@ManFa_Q]

I totally go along with that one👍... Yeah, There were a few bumps and bruises HERE AND THERE back then but not every fkn day like it is now !

[@chasbodaniels1744]

We have about 2.5 times as many people now as in 1960. The middle class has been squeezed by Republicans letting Big Biz run roughshod over consumers, and shipping jobs overseas. Racial discrimination rested heavily on millions of decent citizens of color, keeping them out of the mainstream. Plus, compare 1960 with 1910 and notice the vast differences in those eras … just like 1960 to the present time.

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

I was living in the US during the 60's it was Wonderful just as you described. I remember the TV show Jonny Quest when it was new. Baseball practice ended a half hour before it would start. I ran all the way home and arrived just in time to watch it. In the 70's we moved to Okinawa which was a sanctuary away from the corrosive elements that so changed America.

[@bluegrassgal7856]

Elvis...Ole Shep was a dog....ih..that was 50s

[@johnzeszut3170]

Maybe things will get better. Remember that courtesy and good manners are a direct attack against the trashy behavior that plagues America.

[@lar4305]

The 60's, what a great time to be a kid.

[@MyTMARhAR]

Sure was- you could buy a whole bag of penny candy w/ just 25¢!!!!! There were good times & bad, but I wouldn't trade those "good ol days" for anything!!!!

[@janetwoods7362]

Yes it was but what went wrong? 70s and the serial killer's were invented! 80s many children were on milk cartons.

[@HateNetSlime]

*LIAR*

[@flyingtigerline]

@@HateNetSlime Give it a rest, drone.

[@freddfezzo8524]

The best thing about the '60s was my age..

[@michaeldooley3396]

I was born in 1960 and loved my childhood. Today is so far removed from that era 😢 that it's hard to believe we live in the same country.

[@jwrn4u]

We don’t, I commonly refer to this place as the former USA

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

Saturday morning cartoons. Jonny Quest, The Rifleman, The Man from UNCLE, The Green Hornet, with Bruce Lee, and dozens more. Including "This is a National Aeronautics and Space report" on TV.

[@blackcitroenlove]

@@trsgringo actually, both Hart and Celler were of Irish/German descent and Catholic. We Jews didn't have the opportunities then that we have now. Stop being jealous of our rise and follow what we do if you want to do well too. Value education. Have some standards.

[@Shawney-jf6kc]

Then terrible sin sept in. 🤮

[@dontworrybehappy8080]

'64 for me. I remember some things but mostly I was still a child. I recall the '70s better.

[@stevedeleon8775]

Proud 1959 Baby Boomer..I remember everything you showed here..I wouldn't trade my Generation for any other Era..👍✌

[@Abacab965]

Me either Steve ✌️

[@KrustyKlown]

Ditto!! 1959

[@williamhaynes4800]

1960 here Steve. Those were some wonderful times we grew up in. Despite the bad things in our decade I can look back and see the good that came out of it. I sit down with the kids, nephews and nieces and show them pictures of then and I almost cry just remembering 'what was'.

[@curtischildress9580]

I'm from 1959 and turned 63 this year. Everything in this video was a part of my life. We had it made in the shade back then and kind of knew it...being kids meant we could be happy. Kids today seem to have so many threats and pressures.

[@curtischildress9580]

I made this comment on a totally different video!!! Why is it suddenly showing up here? There is a major glitch in the KZbin system.

[@parrsnipps4495]

If you grew up in the 60's you know what it was like. Pretty hard to convey to anyone living in a different time period. What seems kind of nuts now is back then parents just wanted you out of the house in Summer during the day. They didn't care where you went or what you did. "Just be home by 6 for dinner."

[@denisefarmer366]

Yep, outside all day, even in winter. They absolutely didn't care, never asked where we were going, etc. Got to ride my bike everywhere. Remember tho, there was very little traffic in the 50's and most of 60's.

[@Dulcimertunes]

Or when street lights came on

[@bluegrassgal7856]

@@Dulcimertunes Captain May I?

[@NobodySpecial512]

I was in elementary and middle school in the 60's. In the summers we would leave the house after breakfast and not come back until dinner. Our parents were just glad to get us out of the house.

[@scook5599]

True.

[@douglas_drew]

My Grandparents saw the newspaper headlines for "WRIGHT BROTHERS FLY AT KITTYHAWK!" when they were younger and saw coverage of "MAN LANDS ON THE MOON!" on television when they were older. What a lifetime!

[@kesmarn]

I've often thought about that too. That particular generation! Wow... the changes they witnessed. The introduction of telephones and electric lights into most homes. Travel by car/bus instead of horses and carriages. Indoor plumbing. Radio and then television. Refrigeration. Air travel. Antibiotics and safer anesthesia along with vaccines to prevent so many common causes of early death. The list could go on and on.

[@stuarthirsch]

@@kesmarn It had it's difficulties, like 2 world wars, but looking back it was a gilded age. I hope that 75 years from now people will look back and say this was a gilded age as well., and that will be repeated generation after generation because each generation will have it better than the last even with their challenges.

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@stuarthirsch I do too but with crazy Vladimir Putin the world will come to a horrible end. I'll pray to God for our protection every day!

[@babybear2395]

@@bobboscarato1313 Don't worry about Putin, He's not interested in you.

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@babybear2395 :what's your point! Moron!

[@cheriedewald914]

Peace is gone but so are the neighborhood friends that hung out until dark and families bonding and doing things together. We played more outside than inside and were constantly running and having fun in games - tag, kick ball, baseball and hide and seek. Then catching lightning bugs in the summer in a jar (which we always released before going in for the night). Going from one neighbor’s backyard to another. We all played together! ❤️🤣

[@sohappytogether353]

Oh my God you just brought back so many memories!!! What about Foursquare and Jax when it was raining... The boys wouldn't let us shoot marbles 😂😂

[@efandmk3382]

You'll be happy to know that just recently, a democratic house just passed a law legalizing "range parenting". I was "range parented" and my childhood was a joy.

[@bruce8429]

Crime has gone down. A lot. Fear has gone way up. Only in America.It's true although many people will deny it.

[@annetierney42]

Peace eludes not only USA. IT SEEMS TO BE THE PLANET. Fentanyl is killing left & right. All doors locked. Friendliness is perceived as: “ what do you want”. It’s sad

[@dogetaxes8893]

I wouldn't say that. From a pure statitical point of view violent crime and homocide rates are much lower today then in the 70's to 90's. I'd say feat of violence and crime has gone up, but do people forgot about mass serial killers? (pretty much extinct today). Peace is not gone, it's just your old and no longer naive. And we're also always pounded by the media and internet how dangerous the world is, despite homocide rates in 2015 being some of the lowest in all of history. Statically the 2010s is one of the safest decades ever in pretty much all metrics crime related.

[@nrich5127]

The best thing about growing up in the 1960's was having so many friends because of the post war baby boom. I cherish their memory to this day ... damn we had fun ... went every where on our bicycles ... swimming and exploring the outdoors ... local dances later during our teenage years ... unbelievable innocence and fun.

[@slackjawedyokel1]

we moved to the burbs in 63 -just about every house had school age kids

[@HateNetSlime]

*I had ZERO FRIENDS & an EviL ViLe BirthBit-ch for LeGaLized ABUSER!!!!* ------------------------------------------ *I Just Learned that Mer cur O Ch Rome was Mercury!!! I just Never Connected that & I'm 75 !!!*

[@brianpayne1083]

i grew up with 3 brothers and 2 sisters. the windows were usually open, and the doors were never locked...we didn't have to. everyone knew everyone else.

[@SD-nh5yr]

Yes....you just bought back the best memories for me...thanks.

[@mikewalters3048]

I am 71 years old. I have a lifelong pal who still lives in his (deceased) parents' house back in the old neighborhood. I go visit him now and then. I am amazed at how few kids live on the block when compared to back in the day. There are no kids on bicycles going up and down the street. No neighborhood kickball or wiffleball games played in driveways. A lot of the lack of kids goes to school zones, cost of the houses, etc. Another factor is probably video games and air conditioning. Still, kind of sad

[@BlueGoat682]

One of the coolest things I remember is walking into my local small town Ben Franklin store and the first thing you saw when you walked in the door was a display shelf packed with 45 RPM records. I was in 4th grade at the time. The first record I ever bought ( and I still have it) was the Beatles "She Loves You". Good memories for sure!

[@birdsfan57]

My first record, 59 cents at Woolworths, was also by The Beatles; "A Hard Day's Night". I wanted "She Loves You" (still one of my all -time favorites because it brings me right back to their initial Sullivan appearance), but they were sold out.

[@MyTMARhAR]

I'm from Maryland & we also had a Ben Franklin store in my neighborhood!! It was like Woolworths - they sold just about everything & I remember the penny candy was actually a penny!!

[@ffdaddy69]

I would get a lot of them in the basement department of Woolworth's.

[@birdsfan57]

@@ffdaddy69 Yes! The basement at Woolworths. Broad Street in Philly.

[@KB-ke3fi]

The Beatles hijacked American rock and made it pop music.

[@sandramartin9106]

And let's not forget the stereo Hi-Fi. It played 33's and 45's and was very fancy. You could place a stack of records on the spindle, and it would automatically drop the next record. It was a lovely piece of furniture that doubled as a sideboard for Christmas Eve appetizers.

[@carolsikkema7136]

We had a record player (bought at Sears) which opened like a suitcase. The small attached speakers folded out to either side. The playing speeds were 16, 33 45 and 78. We all know what 33 and 45 are. 78s can still be found. But what the heck are 16s? Anyone know? I still have that record player and it still works fine, with a few updates, like the needle. We had it set up in a large storage closet in the basement. My mother called that " the music room".

[@P_RO_]

@@carolsikkema7136 Look up "Phonograph record" on wikipedia and it says 16 2/3 RPM emerged about 1960 as a way to get 40 minutes per side out of an album-sized disk. I seem to remember it as being older though. I gave all my records to a friend-collector long ago and there were a couple 16 RPM ones.

[@danasmith1899]

What no 78s

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

@@carolsikkema7136 16 rpm was too slow for high-quality music, but 16 rpm records could be used to record people speaking.

[@zahniehill3301]

And they produced a million dollar sound! People pay thousands to get that sound now! If I could find one today, I'd buy it!! 😏 Just for the FM.

[@Jennyfeather_22]

One of the best things from the 50's & 60's were the dances--the stroll, the Madison, the twist, mashed potatoes, locomotion, cha cha, the jerk. We moved back then to have fun. Few Kids were fat. We played dodgeball, tin can Willie, skated on metal skates and rode our bikes everywhere. There was no such thing as a play date. We were never bored and had had to earn spending $ with chores, a paper route or a lemonade stand. The only free ride was on our bikes!

[@Bluerose888]

Also Freddy and the Dreamers, Doing the Freddy dance.

[@zahniehill3301]

Yep! I can still see myself standing in front of my Mom's mirrored dresser teaching myself how to do the mashed potatoes! That left leg kept giving me problems, but I conquered it. 😏

[@txJoJo55]

Sounds like everything I used to do with all my siblings and neighborhood friends. Never a dull moment, never worried about crime. Played outside till dusk. Man I miss my childhood years. The late 50's and 60's were a blast for me and my family

[@txJoJo55]

@@zahniehill3301 LOL same here

[@jocelyngardner5711]

Things wasn’t called free it was just set up for some people to look normal. I’m actually happy to read about wonderful memories 🌈 back when the rainbow was a symbol of everything feels fantastic.

[@MelvisVelour]

When we moved to America in 1971, one of the first major purchases for our new house was a massive Quasar console TV in faux Louis de Something style with a cassette AND and 8-Track (which was also in the car)...which was followed with bikes with banana seats and monkey handle bars.... I still remember my Grandmother sitting in the La-Z-Boy watching Dark Shadows and getting "that look" on her face when Barnabas was on... Very pleasant memories :)

[@nja3224]

Quasar, wow, haven't heard of that brand in a while. Zenith, RCA, and others come to mind. I used to watch Dark Shadows too and Barnabas creeped the heck out of me, especially when his fangs were out. Great memories.

[@jeffsilverman6104]

We had a similar console with 8 track and a turntable - it took ten guys to move those monsters, they took up half of the room!

[@NYCHFAN]

Ours was a Magnovox.

[@anthonymorales842]

Faux Louie de Something.....hysterical

[@tonygatos1]

You have inspired me to clearly remember my childhood furniture and bikes. I still miss my last cherry red bike with a banana seat.

[@robertabrams8562]

I remember as a small boy in the 60’s, sitting in my grandparents living room watching Yankees Games on their big consul TV! I got my first 3 speed Schwinn Stingray bike w/banana seat in 68…and was the envy of all my friends back then! This video brings back many fond memories for sure!

[@markoman5267]

And don't forget the sissy bar for the bike!!

[@605pilot]

I’m 67 years old and I have a vintage 71’ Orange Krate in my living room as decor.

[@markoman5267]

@@605pilot The Krate was a badass bike!

[@petercermak1910]

You are lucky, my dad wouldn't pay the $6 additional dollars for the 3 or 5 speed model. I got a Murray mono speed, metallic green model. my ex-mother-in-law tossed it back in 1991 along with my 1950 red three speed bike. I was very upset.

[@markoman5267]

@@petercermak1910 As well you should have been.

[@robertvillarreal7055]

My awesome brother Johnny worked at Curtis Mathis before Vietnam came calling. Got us our first turn table console, on which we heard the 60’s & 70’s Classics on vinyl. While the dust was blowing outside & tumble weeds were going down the street, we were inside listening to awesome music... Thank God, my brother Johnny made it back!

[@pastelskies8466]

Walter Cronkite covered the Vietnam war as we watched everything on a Magnavox console.

[@honesty_-no9he]

@@pastelskies8466 You mean Walter Cronkite & Co Covered-Up the American Indochina Holocaust. Which Cronkite only eventually criticised on the basis "that we can't win" not because killing millions of people for absolutely no reason is an abomination.

[@maggiesfarm7970]

I'm so glad he came back! I was born in '54 and the war was so horrific to live with.

[@robertvillarreal7055]

Yes. Thankful & Thanks for your kind thought! Blessings.☮️🌈🙏🏿

[@scotchbudmeister9018]

Born in 1960. Had an amazing childhood. Lots of outside time. I remember Schwinn Krate bikes. Dad would always adjust the color on our Zenith console TV - "Maxwell Smart looks a little green, let me adjust the tint". My parents got a new Pontiac GTO with whitewall tires. I remember when the astronauts landed on the moon.

[@stephendacey8761]

You must remember the JFK assassination.

[@MissTippiLu]

Me too. I loved my banana seat bike🥰

[@stephendacey8761]

@puppy oneSome people think it never happened.

[@DouglasUrantia]

@puppy one ........NO man has ever walked on the moon, it was a total cold war hoax.

[@bobcatbigpaws5597]

I remember adjusting the old tvs and that green color. Everyone looked sick 🤢

[@matrox]

We had a big Curtiss Mathis High End console TV set with built in radio and HI Fi record player. This was state of the art at the time.

[@sallygomez8799]

Those were awesome!!

[@hydrolito]

4:42 shows some brand of that but he incorrectly just calls it a console TV.

[@orbyfan]

I remember the TV ads for Curtis Mathes in the '70s promoting it as "the most expensive television set in America--and darn well worth it."

[@mayloo2137]

Family friends had such a console (?). Don't remember if it was Curtiss. I definitely remember the record player. I still have a picture of the two younger sisters, who were my age, standing in front of the unit.

[@earsplitingloud]

I still have the cabinet of the Curtis Mathes stereo cabinet that my dad bought for my mom in the early sixties. I consider it a family heirloom and take good care of it. The walnut is really thick, they dn't make them like that anymore.

[@sailboatbob3969]

I remember our first color TV. we turned it on, the station was NBC the peacock opened it's wings it was in black and white, we were so disappointed, then it turned on the color, all we could say was WOW. And don't forget the Milkman came to your front door, delivered qt glass bottles he placed in the insulated milk box twice a week. The boomers had the best childhood.

[@ManFa_Q]

👍👍👍... In addition to the milkman, It was "Home Juice" (Remember them?) ... Those orange and green trucks with the two finger holes at the top of the glass bottles😁

[@kathybost1879]

I remember that box- my Easter basket was in it one yr.

[@jeffmartin3406]

I got to ride with my Dad when he was making home deliveries at 4 in the morning. A whole new world to a 8 year old boy. Sorry I dropped a gallon of milk on your front porch!

[@robertsr.249]

Hey , Bob , all those colors or the black and white was his tail .. not his wings

[@l.5832]

I still remember the first show we watched on our colour set.....Lassie. The bright green grass and blue sky! Of course right after getting the colour set Dad had to get cable. The 'snow' from antennae television is tolerable in B&W but terrible on a colour set!

[@robinrstewart1104]

Grew up in the 50s and 60s and really enjoyed this blast from the past. Thanks!

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hi how are you doing?

[@rckkeller9437]

A 1953 baby. Loved my childhood and I will always be grateful for this time of freedom and innocence.

[@MisterPersuasion]

Here's one for ya. Ever wonder why Bazooka Bubblegum has a crease down the middle? Back in the 1960's and I'm sure before, there was a bubblegum cutter at the local corner store, where you could place your wrapped Bazooka inside and chop it in half to share with your friend! Not bad considering the gum was only 1 cent.

[@noble604]

I had no idea! Thanks!

[@Pimp-Master]

The artwork inside the Bazooka gum was impressive. They wanted you to follow Bazooka Joe and his friends.

[@robertsr.249]

@@Pimp-Master Mort and his turtleneck always cracked me up

[@pattibond2342]

@@robertsr.249 Lol - How did you remember that??? Too funny:)

[@barthjackk]

We always shared our Bazooka but I don't recall the cutters. We would just fold ours at the crease and tear it in two.

[@bp39047]

Wow. I forgot all about Fizzies back in the late 50's. Amazing how those faint memories come to life on this channel.

[@bb22602]

They were pretty awful, as I remember.

[@rosemariekury9186]

I remember them too. Surprised they didn’t mention Tang!

[@bb22602]

@@rosemariekury9186 Tang is still around in liquid concentrate form - and still tastes better than Fizzies!

[@gillboardman8998]

Yes, Fizzies!!! I remember they had a boy's or a girl's face on each one and you'd push them out of the foil back hoping above hope you'd get the same sex you were.😁

[@karenh2890]

@@bb22602 🤣 I loved them!

[@matrox]

The 50s and 60s were a great time for kids growing up. Great music, cool cars, a simpler time with a lot less crime.

[@5610winston]

If you don't remember it, look up the Studebaker Avanti. Looks better sixty years later than anything that came before or since. The '66-'67 Buick Special and Skylark coupes came close. Also, look up the King Midget. Nowadays all the criminals have law degrees.

[@eyemnew2991]

@@5610winston Criminals have law degrees, that's why their in prison because they know what the laws are and lawyers don't.

[@matrox]

@@5610winston 69-72 Pontiac Grand Prixs, Fast back Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, SuperBees, Road Runner, GTOs, block long Cadillacs, Luxury Land Yachts that felt like going down the road on your sofa. 64-66 TBirds, To many cars to list.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@matrox And they all were better looking than the Studebaker Allante.

[@stuarthirsch]

Simpler? It was also a time of, president Kennedy's, senator Kennedy"s and Martin Luther King's assassinations, the Vietnam war and it's protests, the draft, racial injustice and riots, George Wallace's and Nixon's campaigns, the "great" society, "war" on poverty, to name but a few issues.

[@brandywinelady7235]

Thanks for remembering the Beatles! They defined the music and fashion of the 1960s and made my confusing teenage high school years much happier.

[@StephenThomson-jy3rm]

Hello beautiful, how are you doing

[@sarahalbers5555]

Motown, also!

[@martinpennock9430]

Yup, born in 1955 and remember each and every one of these! Thanks again for the great memories! As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!

[@karenh2890]

Good year...1955! I was born that year also!

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY, I went into foster care at age 2. But I'd still go back in time for the better times I had with friends and even some of the foster parents. I was never adopted, what I learned about life, the good and the bad and I survived.

[@China-Clay]

Thank you for sharing your story!

[@noble604]

Blessings to you. You are loved.

[@China-Clay]

I was a foster parent for ten years, we were able to adopt one of our first kiddies!

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Bummer that you weren't adopted but unfortunately most aren't. Such things should never happen to an innocent child but they do. I'm glad you had some good times and people back then! Also glad you're still with us. Know that you are loved unconditionally. You are a great part of this world! Thanks for sharing!

[@daschundloverable]

good for you sir.

[@TheJHMAN1]

I remember being herded into my grade schools cafeteria where we watched the Apollo rocket lift off. I still am in love with space travel to this day, those Astronauts are still hero's to me.

[@SweetBearCub]

Don't forget the flight controllers, without which the missions never would have happened. Look up "Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo".

[@meman6964]

I remember watching John Glenn launch, watched at Avondale elementary school. Ohio was so proud!!

[@awaitingthetrumpetcall4529]

I was born in 1953. We watched or listened on radio in the school auditorium as John Glen blasted off . I had totally forgotten about that!

[@mikewalters3048]

I was born in 1951. I remember a kid in my class was way ahead of his time. As we watched the Mercury and Gemini launches on one of the school's TVs, he loudly proclaimed, "This is fake. It's all one big hoax. No one is really going into space." He could not make it to our 50th high school class reunion a few years ago because he was in Montana looking for Bigfoot.

[@thomascunningham111]

@@mikewalters3048 Moon landing was fake. Too risky for the astronauts, due to many technical issues.

[@1957jmhiser1]

I remember it all. Such a different time. The hardest drugs were usually cigarettes, Jack Daniel's and Coke, Budweiser, valium and the really brave ones would smoke cigars. Everyone worked hard, went to church, the children went to school and enjoyed it. A different time I wish would come back. Loosing religion and church was the start of the demise of family life.

[@TheJHMAN1]

I hated school from kindergarten to 12th grade , 1967 to 1979. But I realize now the 60's and 70's were a great time to grow up.

[@pepper13111]

Liked segregation I guess!

[@trashyraccoon2615]

Churches became political and toxic. Not even gonna go into the catholic scandals man.

[@badwolf54]

Hated school and never went to church. I was thrilled when i reached the 1970’s and college

[@ghostofreagan3181]

@@pepper13111 it was pretty nice.

[@mitchelltrio]

Although I was a kid in the 1980s, my dad picked up a used Schwinn bicycle with those iconic handle bars and that banana seat for my sisters and me to knock around on one summer. I’m sure he meant for us to take turns on it, but us being us, we liked to ride all three at a time on it: Two on the seat, one on the handlebars, pedaling backwards. Quite a show for the neighbors, I’m sure. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

[@carlbowles1808]

Fizzies, ant farms and banana seat bikes brings back memories of the 1960's the best decade to be a kid. Thank you guys for the love 💘.

[@HateNetSlime]

*1960's Best Generation to Be a Hater of GOD, a Smoker, Drunk, Drugger & a SOD O Nite!!!!*

[@mikewalters3048]

Here's some mid-60s kid-style entertainment... A kid would take about 1/4 of a Fizzies tablet, swallow it like a pill and then gulp about a half a glass of water. Sixty seconds later he would be a burping machine for about 15 minutes.

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

Fizzies definitely!

[@HateNetSlime]

@@mikewalters3048*

[@cathieludemann5879]

@@shinjaokinawa5122 Fizzies got me through college. We only had water fountains in the dorm (and not much money) but I had "soda" whenever I felt with my Fizzies. Most of the girls in the dorm hadn't seen them before. Still miss them. 🙁

[@GuitarAnthony]

Go to any Italian family house between the 70s & 80s and good chance you'd find a non working console tv with a smaller tv on top for viewing. My cousin turned his old console into a liquor cabinet.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Saw a lot of that in my childhood.

[@rascalme9754]

And clear plastic covers on the furniture. 🤣

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@rascalme9754 Saw that!

[@misha2197]

Same! :)

[@johnzeszut3170]

I had a friend and when one t.v. set stopped working his father would just put another one on top and than another one!

[@donaldcarter2970]

The sixties were an awesome time to actually be an child! Gosh I do remember it & honestly I wish I could go back in time .... LORD I DO

[@drobichaud1000]

I hear you bro

[@melissasalasblair5273]

70s, and 80s too 😁🚲

[@allen_p]

Grew up in late 60's and 70's, but didn't go to penny candy stores. I remember the Sears candy counter. As soon as we walked into Sears we could smell the popcorn popping and the glass case of candies was mesmerizing. Growing up in Houston, we had models of the Apollo Rocket, Lunar Rover, Moon buggy

[@mdgraystone]

Yes, the giant Sears stores had everything! And I loved the smell of the hot, fresh popcorn. What a special outing it was!

[@minarosered6699]

The Sears candy counter! They would scoop the candy onto the weights and then into a bag. I always got the chocolate malted balls

[@mdgraystone]

@@minarosered6699 Yep. And the chocolate covered peanuts and raisins!

[@allegory7638]

I grew up on the south side of Houston in the 60s and 70s!

[@allen_p]

@@allegory7638 We were out 1-10 East and went through Washburn Tunnel to the two story Pasadena store.

[@jacktegel3953]

In the mid-60s, I bought a standard 26-inch bike and replaced the seat with a banana seat and the handlebars with high handlebars. The set up worked well starting in 1968 when I began delivering the Detroit News. The handlebars were Ideal for holding a canvas bag full of newspapers above the front tire, and on Sundays, the banana seat held an additional set of saddle bags, which were needed due to the large number of pages in each paper.

[@jamesrobertson7906]

Oh HELL yeah! If nothing else you had something to hold a routes worth of papers especially the Sunday edition and its 10 tons of inserts

[@RangerCaptain11A]

but when you hit a too tall driveway, the high bar-paper bag combo would slam forwards and get the bags all smushed in the spokes. then you had to push the wobbly-wheel mess to finish the route, and go spend hard earned money on replacement papers for the ones that got torn up, from the corner machine.

[@Retired88M]

@@sherril.562 and rolling the paper up so you could throw it where the customers wanted them and they wouldn’t fall open

[@TheJHMAN1]

Oh man my friend friend a Detroit news route I subbed for him once for 2 weeks. After that I said never again, wild horses could not have dragged me into a paper route. One time of trying to collect from the customers was enough for me.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

@@TheJHMAN1 you're right, collecting $2.50 from customers was ridiculous work!

[@johnvaldez8830]

I learned to ride a bike in 1969 and remember that big console TV at my aunt's house. We had a small B&W Zenith TV for a long time and that's what we watched the moon landing on. We had an avocado green telephone in the kitchen and a Kenmore washing machine at back entry. My mom hung the clothes on the line and pretty much baked everything. It's funny, but I never really think of those times as being without technology or wanting in any way--it's more like the other way around. I feel like we have less now than before.

[@cheriedewald914]

We had much more love and true interaction with people back in that time. People were much friendlier and spent their time with other people. Life was so free and spontaneous! We played all kinds of games in our neighborhood and all kids were welcome. We were outside most of the time and had to be in the house or around our house when the street lights came on. Wonderful memories! ❤️🇺🇸

[@DouglasUrantia]

Moon walk was done on a movie set.

[@Bill23799]

Also gone forever from the 60's is Doctors making house calls. The TV Repairman also made house calls to fix those HUGE console Television sets.

[@johnyvico]

They make house calls again Is just now I FaceTime call

[@ttgyuioo]

I forgot about that we had a Dr come to our house when I was sick. How about photographers that came to your home to take pictures of the kids

[@Bill23799]

@@ttgyuioo I remember when I was eight years old I had really bad pains in my stomach. Our mm called Dr. Lipman and he came to our home to look at me. He asked what I ate . I told him bananas. He said how many. I told him the whole bunch of bananas. hahaha I really liked bananas. We never had a photographer come to the home to take pictures. However when our uncle Johnny setup to show us the 8mm home movies he had I found out our grandfather believed babies should be raise " Free Range ". Yes, there I was at two years old running around the backyard naked. I guess it saved on washing diapers.

[@michaelmerck7576]

My Dad was a TV repairman. He was always busy

[@georgetsokanis3542]

Corner pharmacy, local butcher,toy store. Replaced by the national chain,big box store.

[@fscott7840]

Lived in the Bronx from 1967 to 1973. Best time ever. You walked to school and picked up your friends on the way. You threw your book bag out the stairwell window and waited for the boom in the 4 or 5 story apartment building. Elevators were in office buildings. During the summer it was all the sports. Litter was mufflers and crush hub caps and bottle caps everywhere. Stickball in the street. Outfielder screamed "CAR!" and you moved over. Baseball we were the Yankees always. (except in 1969 when we became the Mets for some reason). Football on the concrete. We were the NY GIants who played like they still should in Yankees stadium. For winter or raining days I had my AFX slot car track nailed to a 4x8 board that you put up against the wall when you were done. That was and still to this day, My Xbox. Sleep time you had your transistor radio under your pillow to listen the Yankee night games while mom and dad thought you went to sleep like you should. Everyone knew everyone. Good, bad and in between. Time of our lives and you know, we knew it then and we were right.

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

OMG, the transistor radio under my pillow at night, sometimes picking up signals bounced from hundreds of miles away, thank you for sparking that lost memory!

[@walpolescrew]

I remember being told to keep a light on when the TV is on. It won’t burn out your eyes.

[@charliewerchan7252]

I remember, don't sit so close to the tv, it will mess up your eyes. Every adult said that. Anywhere you went.

[@curtcollett2893]

I remember having to constantly get up and adjust the horizontal and vertical dials on our old black and white.

[@charliewerchan7252]

@@curtcollett2893 I still do ....

[@samanthab1923]

That’s right! Never watch TV without a light on in the room & don’t sit too close either.

[@daisymazie9642]

@@curtcollett2893 We had 3 channels and my brother and I had to change them when my dad said to!

[@joedoe-sedoe7977]

I remember the “party line” telephone system where you had to deal with neighbors listening to your conversation by hearing a “click” on the line..that really caused a lot of issues but sadly , not like having big brother of today it was a simpler time .

[@birdsfan57]

We were always instructed by our parents not to listen in...and we DIDN'T...it was our neighbor...surely, a different time....

[@vickiross1025]

@@birdsfan57 Mom liked to sneak & eves drop.

[@Retired88M]

My dad was self employed and we had our own private line but I could remember picking up the receiver and the operator would ask you “Number please?”

[@karloshandezcay9206]

YES' 😂😂✌️ party lines ☎️ .was funny ,! . WOW.

[@sadhumarga7422]

I remember meeting chicks with those phones!

[@madonnahagedorn5649]

I love your voice, I'm interested in every word. This is a lovely trip down memory lane. Thank you for reminding us of a wonderful time in our lives.

[@jamesdalton2310]

Seeing these great old days worth the smile… hope you have nice time out there?

[@robertsr.249]

I was 10 years old in 1966 , my Dad used to send me to a small delicatessen a few blocks away with a note and 2 dollars , I handed the note and the 2 dollars to the guy working , he would hand me 2 packs of Lucky Strikes and about 60 cents in change , which I used 15 cents for a 3 musketeers bar , that regular sized bar was bigger than today’s King Size , Days long gone .

[@JohnSmith-rn5tb]

I also bot cigs for my Mom at an early age w/ a note- crazy times!

[@sandrahealy552]

I'm a 1960's kid who went to the store for cigarettes for my dad too..."Kent in the Box" 55cents.

[@ttgyuioo]

That's so funny I remember my mother giving me a note to the store giving her permission for me to buy her cigarettes and they always gave them to me

[@zahniehill3301]

15cents!? I remember when they were a nickel! Remember Big Times and Hollywood candy bars!? And nickel bags of potato chips and Fritos!? 😏

[@susan5301]

As a "Boomer" these were the best days ever! So much more simple!!

[@generalyellor8188]

Everyone says their childhood time was "much more simple" because, then, all of our lives were.

[@bbr6444]

The 1960s weren’t that great for me. My dad died in 1963 a month before jfk died. I was only eleven. I really needed him to get through my teens and he was gone.

[@susan5301]

@@bbr6444 I'm so sorry...........

[@bbr6444]

@@susan5301 thanks. Me too.

[@denisefarmer366]

Yeah, we actually talked face to face all the time. Life was slower and common sense abundant. Social media has brought civilization to it's knees. People are not kind or polite anymore. We don't know our neighbors. It's all rush rush, and don't forget your phone..... Yeah, don't ever leave home without it, but only because there's not a single pay phone left in this country. We're slaves to the system and technology.

[@ewmhop]

LOVE THE 50S AND 60S,BOY DO I MISS THOSE DAYS.YOU COULD MAKE YOUR OWN HOT RODS,DRIVE INN SHOWS,AND ALL THE FREEDOM A KID COULD HAVE. GOD BLESS

[@Snapepet]

The fifties and sixties were before my time...but I somehow miss them. I wish I was there. (Wasn't born until 1970.) God bless to you too, ewmbop!

[@ewmhop]

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN GOOD TIMES ANDJUST TREAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU WANT TO BE TREATED.GOD GO WITH YOU YOUNG PERSON.@@Snapepet

[@jonyoung6405]

Can make your "hot rod" today as well.

[@ewmhop]

NO,TO OLD AND TO MANY LAWS AGAINST IT.MAY THEM FROM PARTS FROM THE TONW DUMP AND CARS LEFT IN THE WOODS.I TALKING ABOUT CARS FROM THE 20S THUR THE 40S.WE WERE CLOSES TO A ARMY BASE.I TALKING 1959 TO 1962.MY LATE COUSINS WERE GOOD AT IT.@@jonyoung6405

[@bradzimmerman3171]

@@ewmhop " god bless " I remember hearing crap like that in the 60s ( some still do) I guess it's tradition or something kind of silly knowing what we do today religion is all fake oh well!

[@scottgould6590]

We need to bring back those console television units. Theyre just so cooly underrated. Whos with me?

[@SK-nd7db]

ME !!!!!

[@margaretchayka6878]

We had 2 outlets to get penny candy. In our small town - mostly farming area - there was a corner store where you could get the basics - milk, bread, eggs, ice cream and candy. Then on Sundays after church in the slightly larger city next door, we would go to the Polish neighborhood where our aunt had a house and an old cousin lived upstairs, she would treat us to toast and jelly (for 7 kids around a small kitchen table!), then mom would give us all a nickel or dime and we'd go to a little junk store with an awesome candy counter run by a guy named Freddy who was always ready with a smile, some bad jokes, and he would always pull some crusty, dusty old thing out of the depths of his small shop to show us. Good times. Small town life rocks. Glad to be back in one after most of my life in big cities. Wish I could go even smaller, but I still need a workplace.

[@michaelfoxbrass]

Did you ever scavenge for returnable pop/soda bottles - 5c or 10c each to get candy money for the corner store?

[@karenh2890]

@@michaelfoxbrass My husband has fond memories of riding his bike, looking for bottles to turn in for cash! He found plenty growing up in the Los Angeles area.

[@leftylou6070]

@@michaelfoxbrass When I was a kid bottles had a .02c return. You must be talking about the 70's?

[@freeguy77]

Margaret, How about working at home now with the Internet and many jobs can be done now from home! Best of both worlds!

[@abrahamnutrition]

Crusty, dusty old thing out of the depths of his small shop to show us?

[@billweedmark6915]

I grew up in the 60s and it was becoming turbulent at the end of the decade. In 1970 after I graduated high school I enlisted in the Army and served 5 years in Vietnam in the 5th SFG. It was the end of my innocence.

[@NorseMan633]

Thank you Bill for your service during what must have been a very difficult time for you. Thanks !

[@momof4kids735]

Thank you so much for your service. Because of men like you, my own children continue to enjoy the freedom you bravely protected. 🙏❤️🙏

[@billweedmark6915]

The worst part of the service was when I came home and found out that I wasn't welcome or wanted back here. I'm so glad that nowadays people treat their service men and women better. I ended up going back in the Special Forces after I tried for 4 years to fit into the civilian world.

[@prissiananda1047]

@@billweedmark6915 I’m so sorry to hear that

[@tomdettman1621]

God bless you, Bill! - Sue

[@Patriot-American]

I remember just about all of these! What a great time to grow up in the 60's and 70's. And oh those ant farms!! Great memories!!

[@eyemnew2991]

I always begged my mom for an ant farm. She always had a better idea.... She would tell me I can have all the ant farm I wanted at grandmas house, but the ants had to stay at grandmas house. Which was a farm. I didn't understand that then.

[@57Jimmy]

Ant farms and Chia-Pets!

[@karenh2890]

@@eyemnew2991 🤣 I always wanted an ant farm, but strangely, my mom didn't think it was a good idea.

[@eyemnew2991]

@@karenh2890 And your mom was probably right Hence, ants

[@incog99skd11]

I got an ant farm but the ants got loose in the house LOL.

[@ixoye56]

I grew up in the 60s and it was a fantastic decade, I wish today's youth could experience the same freedom as we did.

[@biancagerade4229]

thank you so much recollection road I live for your videos I really look forward to them they bring back fond memories🤗

[@yvonneplant9434]

I'm in the older Boomer contigent, born in 1949. It is amazing how people romanticize those days as depicted in videos like these. I remember the assasinations( JFK, MLK, RFK) and Vietnam and city riots. But I also remember how fear of polio had faded by the time I graduated from HS in 1967. That was a great victory which I don't think enough people appreciate today.

[@darbybeattie1548]

All still here now camels and fentynal do not forget monkey pox next money-making scam.

[@davidschmidt6013]

Salk developed his vaccine in my home town, Pittsburgh. Better believe WE appreciated it!

[@AKayfabe]

I appreciate it every time I go to the Dr because even though I am a child of the 80s, and didn’t live through Polio, there is an original Iron Lung at my clinic on display where people can look at it, get inside it and everything. I have layed in the Iron Lung and thought about the sugar cube vaccine they gave me when I was a child. It must have been horrible. I cannot imagine living inside.

[@ujayet]

I’m a 80s kid but I’m here to thumbs up everyone’s comments that grew up in the 60s love reading you guys that nostalgic comments.

[@johnetheridge5833]

I was born in 1961 the best thing about the 1960’s were the cartoons on tv every saturday and sunday mornings and weekday mornings before school and afternoon after school.

[@birdsfan57]

Rin Tin Tin and Johnny Quest on Saturday mornings and the religious-based "claymation" Davey and Goliath (boy and his dog)on Sunday mornings...

[@johnetheridge5833]

@@birdsfan57 And after the cartoons went off we went out side to play.

[@tincanp38f]

As I was born in 1970 I had the pleasure catching the tail end of this era. thank you for sharing this,

[@billkallas1762]

Back in the 60's, TV's were all tube (not just a picture tube) I remember learning how to take them out, when the TV wasn't working correctly, and taking them to the drug store to use their tube tester. The drug store also sold all sorts of replacement tubes.

[@Timinator62]

Rexall Drugs even had their own branded TV Tube Tester with the replacement Tubes in the Cabinet below the Tester.

[@billkallas1762]

@@Timinator62 That's where my father used to go.

[@nja3224]

Yup. You'd plug the old one in to test it. Once in a while I'd smash one on the ground, they caused a pretty neat little explosion. I made sure I swept up any evidence though.

[@joevignolor4u949]

@@nja3224 Vacuum tubes don't explode when they break. They implode. Because there is no air inside the tube (hence the term "vacuum tube") the outside air is constantly pushing inward on the tube. When the glass of the tube breaks the chunks of broken glass go inward first and then rebound and go outward all over the place. So in the end the results are the same.

[@nja3224]

@@joevignolor4u949 Thank you for the education, it gave me a good laugh and also made me smarter!

[@sandramartin9106]

It was a glorious free time for a kid - penny candy, bike riding, freedom to roam the whole neighborhood. Kool-aid in that smiley pitcher, hide and seek at dusk, collecting fireflies, the good humor truck, backyard sprinklers, water out of the hose, sing along with Mitch, Hanna Barbera, Yogi bear, my old astronaut halloween costume, Look magazine.

[@cheryldellamano3374]

We had the sing along with Mitch record...

[@cheryldellamano3374]

@@johncasciello4123 My sisters and I watched Lost in Space, and played Lost in Space in our neighbor's weeping willow tree with them. That was our spaceship, lol.

[@cheryldellamano3374]

@@johncasciello4123 And I loved Lassie shows, always wanted a collie of my own, now I've owned 5 over my lifetime. Still have one.

[@scottmiller6495]

Why did these days end! Why did great television and movies change to the crap we have now? Why can't people be patriotic and act normal anymore? Answer, this horrible woke culture and young people of today 35 and under who don't give a damn and never will, it's not only horrible but unforgivable as well PERIOD!!!!!

[@philbrown9764]

I was 11 in 1960. The sixties were a mix of good and bad for me. I got my first kiss. The Beatles and the British Invasion. I lost my dad in 1966 and like he did in 1938, I joined the Marines in 1968. I went to Chu Lai in 68-69. I got my first bike, a ‘51 panhead. A lot of memories for that decade.

[@elisem1912]

Good/bad, but at least it's an interesting ride. :)

[@nobleroman1133]

Thanks for your service Phil , I'm younger than you and remember how so many of the older kids started disappearing , only to find out that they were drafted , sadly I think less than half ever returned , at that time the military was sending officers , sometimes there'd be 2 , a man and a woman , they would get out walk to a neighbor's house , once inside and the door was closed us kids would hear wailing from inside , it was only when I became older did I realize why those military people went inside for. Personally I think LBJ should have gotten the same he did for JFK , The one for getting us in to Vietnam and the other for keeping us there , all f##king politics.

[@rickostman7890]

Semper Fidelis Phil, welcome home Marine.

[@jgraef919]

I forgot all about Mercurochrome. Penny candy stores were the greatest thing invented. This will sound terrible but, the most used funeral home (about a 20 minute drive from our house) for our relatives to be waked, was 2 doors away from a penny candy store. Whenever my parents said we had to dress nicely because great aunt so-and-so died, I was so excited because I knew we would each get a dime or two for penny candy. Sometimes other relatives would give us more money, I guess to get rid of us for a little while. We would stand there staring at the candy trying to make out desired favorite selection. What great memories.

[@brendasnow8255]

And, you could get a lot of candy for a few cents.

[@elisem1912]

You are sick ;)

[@roserollins9800]

Born in 1951 I remember going to the five and dime with my sister and buying a quarter's worth of candy the man would get it from containers with a big scoop and put it in a paper bag that was a big treat after picking cotton all week

[@JohnSmith-rn5tb]

MECUROCOME had dangerous chemicals in it- mercury,I believe

[@jdaleb]

Monkey blood. My sisters when they were 12-13 years old back in 72 would mix monkey blood and baby oil for suntan lotion and crawl up on the roof and suntan. I crawled up there one day to spy. I had one of my mom's sheets and when they caught me I jumped off the roof and tried to use the sheet as a parachute. Lmao. Broke my arm. Busted for spying on my sister and her friend. Worst if all got but spanked for using a GOOD sheet. I was 9. Those were the days.

[@1958indyfan]

Fizzies were pure crap. After the first package, we never had them in the house again but my grandmother would always have them around. I guess we didn't want to hurt her feelings. I went to the Schwinn dealer and ordered a new purple Sting-Ray with paperboy special box handlebars, the big saddle seat, springer front end, rear slick, and 2-speed rear axle, and then spent half the time riding it on the rear wheel. I loved that bike. Thanks for the memories.

[@eyemnew2991]

I liked the sparkly seats. I was mesmerized by the sequence sparkles.

[@randysmith7045]

i loved fizzies

[@michaelmullin7941]

@@randysmith7045 Every now and then, a brave kid in school would pop one of those fizzies in his mouth and foam up like a rabid dog. Favorite color was green, it looked so gross. Of course, the brave kid would serve detention and parents were called. BUT, it was worth it. Hero for a day!

[@joneshugh]

IIRC I had a 5 speed w/a stick shift :)

[@1958indyfan]

@@joneshugh I was in it for the wheelies so with the two-speed overdrive you could backpeddle about 1/8th turn to shift and you were good until the next stoplight.

[@cattuslavandula]

My parents had a portable tv, a big thing that sat in a metal cart with wheels and a handle on the back. Three stations, four if you count the local UHF, and rabbit ears. Sometimes you had to play with the metal ring around the channel knob to get the picture completely clear. No remote, you had to get up and turn the dial.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

That rickety cart thing dropped a 50 pound tv on my head once..

[@deborahpeeples1439]

We had one of those. Looked like a cross between a medical device and a prop in a sci-fi movie :))

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The 1960s - The best era to grow up in. Space travel, music, teachers who cared, innocent times, respect and on and on and on. Send me back.

[@Liitebulb]

But you didn't go to space, and fake respect is not respect, and no guarantee your teacher cared

[@I_literally_dont_know]

​@@Liitebulbthere was much more respect back then than now

[@johnpotter8039]

The image of the console TV with the built-in Hi-Fi set reminded me of the many times family friends showed off their "Stereo Hi-Fi", usually about 8' long, with cloth-covered speakers on each side. Everyone had a special LP demo record, and we were seated, very precisely, on a couch, facing the unit while our hosts played the record. "WELCOME to the world of STEREOPHONIC SOUND!" said the narrator. We were treated to the sound of a steam locomotive, seemingly crossing the living room, and, of course, the bowling ball rolling down to the pins. "Can't you JUST SEE IT?" our hosts would say.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

our demo was "green, green" by the new christy minstrels. the song had STEREO. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpfbmJWpjcqHmqc

[@frglee]

We had a British version of that long console, a b&w tv/radio/stereo record player console that my father bought new for around £70 around 1966 (about £1400 in 2022 prices, electronics were not cheap here in those days). Made by Fergusson, I think. We had a 'Living Presence Stereo' music LP with it that I still have. The tv console didn't last very long - being replaced by a rented colour 625 PAL system tv around 1972.

[@nja3224]

My dad bought a reel to reel hi-fi and bought a sound effects tape. I loved the racing car one, the thing sounded like it was in your living room traveling left to right. I loved those sund effects and got a kick out of listening to it, every time.

[@Pimp-Master]

Something I never did as an adult, though I listen now to them online, was listen to comedy LPs. They existed back then and were good for a few spins. As an adult I spun through most of George Carlin's records, enjoying his genius of course.

[@nja3224]

@@Pimp-Master - Carlin was half comedian, half prophet, and 100% funny.

[@markw208]

Great video, as usual. Good memories that make us/me miss those times. I remember every one of those things. I loved Fizzies. I think there’s a retro candy company that has a new generation of Fizzies. The TV consoles were genuine wood and looked great. 3 cents worth of candy in a little white paper bag lasted all day. Things really were better back than, it’s not just our crazy Boomer memories. Oh, I forgot, everything was made in the U.S.A.

[@awaitingthetrumpetcall4529]

_"Oh, I forgot, everything was made in the U.S.A."_ I remember as a kid when "Made in Japan" meant it was cheap. I 'did' love those little transistor radios though!

[@taxusbaccata9200]

There were a lot of things made in Japan. Lots of tchotchkes.

[@mothermcready4417]

Or Japan.

[@markw208]

@@mothermcready4417 , Sorry, not in the 50’s or 60’s until the late 60’s. In the early 70’s Japanese products or made in Japan was less than 50%

[@OjibwayDreams]

As a child of the early 60's , my memories mostly from the 70's and we used to be able to leave our doors open and unlocked. Not anymore. There's no more innocence.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I was 6 1/2 in the summer of 1970. My parents sent me across the street to return an article that belonged to my friend. I knew they were out, but I went across the street, entered their home, and returned the item, probably a toy. People really did leave their doors unlocked in suburbia over 50 years ago. That was about to change unfortunately, even then. Mom and Dad probably wouldn't have sent me over if they knew our neighbors were out.

[@dogetaxes8893]

Statically, the 2010's has been one of the safest decades since the early 60's. violence, crime and homocides was much worse in the 70's, 80's and 90's then now. Fear of crime has gone up, but statically now is much safer. Your just no longer young and naive.

[@occheermommy]

I haven’t locked my door in 10 years

[@johnsherman6718]

Front doors and back doors were left open all summer. The screen doors were closed but never locked. You,d hear screen doors slamming shut all over throughout summer as kids would be going in or out of houses constantly. Kids were everywhere in the neighborhood. There weren't "play dates." We just went out and came up with lots of thing's to do.

[@jeffsmith14]

Are you crazy!?!? What did you want? To get murdered?

[@stabbrzmcgee825]

FIZZIES !!!! Loved fizzies. I didn't know about the cyclamate issue, specifically. I do remember it just disappeared. As to penny candies, well, of course. Actual candy bars were only a nickel, then rose to a dime.

[@cherylchristian5673]

Remember how big the nickel candy bars were?

[@hcombs0104]

I remember Bazooka bubble gum being one penny.

[@stabbrzmcgee825]

@@hcombs0104 yeah, and you could split it in two and share it with a friend, each getting a half.

[@robertforman3494]

I remember the insult “Ha ha..you’re as funny as a flash flood in a fizzie factory “

[@jimpetterson3447]

I was born in 45, my dad had a plumbing business and he would come home for lunch (if he worked in town) he had a panel truck with running boards and if we times it right we would ride home on the running boards a hang onto the mirrors. We loved it

[@tammylewis9324]

My dad cut the back out of a VW bug and built a flat bed onto it. That’s what we (and cousins, neighborhood kids, etc.) used to ride around on.

[@mrs.g.9816]

I loved and miss Woolworth's. The one in my town had tin ceilings and ceiling fans, pull-down seats at the ends of aisles, and wooden floors that creaked. I especially loved the different penny candies, and the "5 & 10" was where I got my first Beatle album one summer afternoon. And I do remember those great console TV's. My grandma had one with good speakers with a a rich bass. I even liked hearing some commercial jingles, such as Marlborough cigarettes and Hertz rent-a-car, over those speakers.

[@karloshandezcay9206]

Glad you mention Woolworth's,😂 memory lane.i was 18 i starter working in the 70..in Tampa Florida, on the shipping and receiving, second floor still have the bathroom for colored people and whites only, i ask my self were do i go..IAM brown color,,😂😂 i was mesmerizing to see those bathrooms.cant believe my eyes..but true.. building still same place in downtown Tampa Florida..i WISH i took a picture, at that time did not understand what was All about.😢 And that's My story. bless you.

[@mrs.g.9816]

@@karloshandezcay9206 Boy, that sucked! The way I figure, we all may look different, but we all are the same. Have a great day!

[@karloshandezcay9206]

@@mrs.g.9816 Thanks 👍 , exactly. .

[@tammylewis9324]

Bought our records at woolworths and also sewing supplies. My grandmother taught me to embroidery at an early age and we bought our pillow slips, patterns and thread at Woolworth. Also, if you haven’t heard it there is a beautiful song by folk singer Nanci Griffith (Five and fine) about the Woolworth store.

[@tammylewis9324]

Five and Dime

[@floydmills8963]

The biggest thing I have noticed missing since I was born in 1979 is respect and fear of neighbors. When I was growing up in the 80's people were more respectful to each other, not just because it is neighborly, but because hard men from the World Wars we're still alive to keep peace. Everyone knew someone who was not to be messed with back then. But nowadays everyone feels like the world revolves around them, there is no more looking out for your neighbor's. Just my thoughts though, peace and love y'all 🤟

[@KrustyKlown]

Best part of those big Console TVs were the Tubes that needed to be replaced constantly ... every town had several TV Repairmen, who would make house calls to adjust, tune and re-tube your TV every year or two.

[@JusticeAlways]

Drugstores had tube testers...stocked with new tubes...cost 2 - 3 bucks.

[@elvistommy1]

My Dad did TV repair for extra money for the Family. Born in 55, Woolworth's was behind our House w a Shopping Center. My youngest Brother & I wld go to the Woolworth's counter for a Strawerry shake & split it. Lost him last yr Aug 1st, really miss him, we were Buddy's growing up.

[@Joeh1154]

I was born in 1954 and did most of my growing up in the 1960's. All six kids in my Family went to the same school so, everyone knew us and my Mother worked in the school office and chaperoned when we went on a school trip. I remember the Milkman, his name was Herbie and he looked like Bluto from the Popeye cartoon. We also got an allowance of .50 cents a week. I still have some saved Franklin 50 cent pieces. That was a lot of money to a kid back then. While my siblings blew through their money, I saved mine. I got some shoe shine products with that money and made a box with a hinge on it to put them in and an iron foot to nail on top of the box with the help of my Father. I shined shoes just off the elevated on Myrtle Ave and Broadway in Brooklyn to make some extra money. When I discovered Marvel comics, I decided to buy some with my money. I have those books to this day. I also bought a bicycle for myself. My Father was surprised and happy. I rode my bike everywhere and of course in the street. Today, a parent would get a visit from child protective services just for doing what I did. I believe I had the best childhood ever. We played stickball in the street, Johnny on a pony, played all day in the snow during winter. I was a Boy Scout. Every kid and parent knew us and we knew everyone. Kids were in an out of our house all the time. Didn't need a cell phone or ID. We always knew when to come home for dinner and my parents were the best. I'm approaching my 68th birthday and life has been good. I have wonderful memories of that time growing up. I've seen friends from high school pass, as did my good Father when I was 17, but my Mother is still with us at 101 years old!!! God Bless Mom. Thank you for posting this video. It reminds me of a better time in American life. Best to all. God Bless America.

[@joystickricksherrell774]

Thanks for sharing and God Bless you friend.

[@Helen3691]

Do kids go on field trips anymore? That was so much fun back then.

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

Joeh1154, 🤗🦊57

[@IceSkater8491]

Your mom still living at 101 years old is amazing. God bless her.

[@daleroberts8772]

Joeh iam 63 years old! And it is cool that you living in brooklyn and me and my 2 sisters living here in eastern washington! Could have so much in common growing up in those years! Except for the elevated platform whete you worked? I also had a paper route from the 4 th grade to the 8th grade! That is where i got my money! God bless your mom and give her all of our love and best wishes! God bless you to joeh

[@mountainmolerat]

I was born in 1962. ("Generation Jones") I have a vivid memory of sitting on the exam table in my pediatrician's office as he smoked a cigarette while talking to my mother.

[@janesawyer3495]

@@handle-schmandle Amen!

[@StephenThomson-jy3rm]

Hello , how are you doing

[@whirlybird5244]

Our principal led the Pledge of Allegiance every morning over the intercom. Rode in the back of my dad's pickup, all the neighbors looked out for you. Such a time of innocence and freedom.

[@deliarealtor]

The Beatles may be gone but their music will always be here.

[@charliewerchan7252]

Absolutely. I still listen to them.

[@nunyabizznizz7326]

love this channel and the memories it releases.........

[@demetriabishop3208]

I love the look of the console tv so much, I had one built around my TV I love it

[@trish5556]

I remember everything on this list, and more. Remember the flavor straws you would put into your milk? We also used to make Aung Jemima's coffee cake in a pan that came in the box. Good times...

[@kimmer6]

Dip-N-Sip. Chocolate and Strawberry. Yes, those were good times.

[@waynek3366]

Life with out cell phones we will never see that again. I miss the good old days.

[@richardpatureau3980]

Compare life in the 50-60s to life today. It will break your heart.

[@nedludd7622]

How so? Where you there? I was and all was not so great.

[@richardpatureau3980]

@@nedludd7622 well I’m 80 yrs old so guess I was there. I have fond memories of that time.

[@57highland]

The kids of today don't compare anything to anything else. This is their time. Today is their childhood. To them, theirs is as good as yours was to you.

[@grahamwalton1049]

@@57highland you are right, I never thought of it like that. Thank you!

[@ocsrc]

The big huge vehicles were so nice. Lots of room. All steel. A cat typically weighed 8000 pounds empty. Now, a small economy car weighs just over 900 pounds You could drive through a brick wall with these vehicles. I know, I did.

[@vivianjones9749]

Yes, the cars! My grandparents had a 61 Impala and all 6 of us grandkids could fit in the back seat

[@williamhaynes4800]

My Grandparents were fond of Buicks back then. GF went the dealership while GM watched us kids at their house. He came home an hour later with a brand new 65 Electra 225, the biggest car I had ever seen. She told it was too big and he took it back. Next he drove up in a yellow Skylark. She didn't like the color. They finally decided on a silver 65 LeSaber. They kept that ca until the early 90s after GP passed away.

[@artiek1177]

Yes! My dad had a 1967 Plymouth Fury III

[@williamhaynes4800]

@@artiek1177 Damn nice machine. I dated a girl that drove a late 60's Coronet.

[@susan9522]

Yeah, and no seat belts. Remember sitting in the back bench seat of the family station wagon, with the window down, waving to the people in the next car?

[@johnw2026]

I have an uncle who still owns one of those old TV's with a radio, 8-track, and record player built into it. I don't think he can watch anything on it, but I'm pretty sure the radio and record player still work.

[@moep9572]

Thank you for that I wish you had more pictures in long videos it's so Funny Things were much simple then.

[@Nacho-Mamma]

Along with Mercurochrome, there was Merthiolate. Both were disinfectants, and both worked wonders. I remember putting Mecurochrome on my gums after cutting them open with the lead paint chips I ate! Nothing wrong with me! Well, I did always pull to the right when I ran. So, they made me the merry go round spinner. Nobody could get that sucker to spin faster than me! But I was lousy at tetherball!

[@FRAME5RS]

Tetherball champ here. I was a head taller than every girl in 5th and 6th grade. I could take on the whole line at recess, wrapping that ball up so high on the pole the other girls couldn't reach it. Had one in my backyard to practice on too.

[@russs7574]

Never had either of those on a cut or scrape. My parents were strictly Bactine people.

[@Nacho-Mamma]

@@russs7574 Bactine? YOU BIG BABY! If it was a cut, we used Mecurochrome, Methiolate or rubbing alcohol. If it was a burn, butter or bacon grease!

[@Nacho-Mamma]

@@FRAME5RS Please don’t tell me anymore! I’ll wait to see the movie!

[@kenhill9176]

Mercurochrome sure was a cool color.

[@manricobianchini5276]

It was a more innocent time, a memorable time.

[@Hillers62]

I grew up in Dallas...and in the late 60's the was a store similar to 7-11 called Super Saver...I remember on many days bringing a dime (and if I was lucky, a quarter) to buy penny candies from the large stock they had...I would take my bag home to watch shows like "Family Affair" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" ...all while eating my treats...

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I remember in the early 70s when Icees went from up from a dime to $0.15! That was a shocker to this grade-school kid!

[@charliewerchan7252]

@@MisterMikeTexas We drank alot of icees. I dont know if they still make them at 7 11, but they sure were great. Got alot of brain freezes during the summer drinking those.

[@sandyhendricks3120]

As I recall, Mercurochrome was mild compared to the stronger Merthiolate, which did sting for sure. They both, however, brought quick healing to cuts, etc. Thanks for these memories.

[@lisamh9037]

We had both. I didn't know the difference. They both stung! But I didn't die from infection so I guess they were good for me! (Born in 1963 and still kicking!)

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hi how are you doing?

[@Boddissatva]

Ha I remember both of those. What a memory!

[@fob1xxl]

I was born in 1945 and used to get Fizzies in the mid late 50's. It was cool. It was like a flavored "Alka Seltzer" ! At the "old fashioned" neighborhood corner store I would buy my candy cigarettes, wax mustache, lips and teeth, my "Beeman's", "Black Jack" , and "Clove" gum and it was there I got my first cherry and vanilla coke at the fountain. By 1963, I graduated High school and all of these kind of stores were pretty much gone., at least in my old neighborhood. Great memories as a kid !

[@marilyntaylor9577]

Finally! Someone who remembers the same things I do. Graduated in 1965.

[@mindyenglish5305]

I love Black Jack gum! When I was about 12, in the mid 80's, I could get it at Wonder World in Vegas for $.25 a pack. They also had the other 2 flavors, but I preferred Black Jack. When that store closed down, I only ever saw it one more time, but I can't remember where. I'm almost positive they still make it. Now I'm gonna go try to track some down. Wish me luck.

[@VoightKampf]

How about the wax Coca-Cola bottles with flavored liquid in them that came in a tiny six pack?

[@samiam619]

@@mindyenglish5305 I’m sure you could find the gum at (ahem) Amazon… The first time I ever heard of Beeman’s gum was the movie The Right Stuff! Yes, in the theater…

[@mindyenglish5305]

@@VoightKampf Walgreens or CVS has them on the candy aisle. I occasionally see them at the dollar store. I got a pack to share with my son when he was about four. I was so excited to show him something I loved when I was a kid. He was not impressed.

[@leesashriber5097]

This was a great trip down memory lane!! I had an ant farm and loved to go to the candy store! Loved riding in the back of the truck! Back when life was simple and fun!! Thank you!!! 😊

[@pamelamays4186]

Silver Christmas trees accented with rotating rainbow lights.

[@incog99skd11]

I still have an 8 foot aluminum tree with a rainbow light and tree turner. I put it up every year. Each year little kids come up to the window and look at it with wonder!

[@billmcfarland2294]

The rotating color light was called a "color wheel"

[@birdsfan57]

How about tinsel? We always had a real tree, because my Dad would have to be in charge of the tinsel, which we would joke that he'd always "go heavy on"...

[@anndinoto]

The one thing I remember most about the color wheel was that it would stop for no apparent reason and the colored triangle where it stopped would melt. Try to get a replacement, I never remembered our family being able to, except for replacing the entire wheel. Does anyone remember having all the ornaments on the silver tree the same color including the tinsel? Oh, I'm old.

[@billmcfarland2294]

@@anndinoto And we had to be very careful where we put the color wheel and only use it while we were at home. The big bulb in it got very hot! We put a variety of ornaments on our tinsel tree.

[@reginacahill984]

I loved Fizzies when I was a kid. Thanks so much for mentioning them-----I had forgotten !!!

[@jamesdalton2310]

Seeing these great old days worth the smile… hope you have nice time out there?

[@StephenThomson-jy3rm]

Hello , how are you doing

[@392hemi9]

In 1963 my dad bought home a brand new Curtiss Mathias color counsel television with AM FM multiplex stereo radio, and record player. This was the first color television the Curtiss Mathias dealer in Marshfield Wisconsin sold. The price was $1000.00 which was a helluva lot of money in 1963. I currently have this TV in my basement. It still works!

[@gunarhargisson1887]

Lot of money - you bet! Curtis-Mathes (the correct spelling) advertising tagline was 'The most expensive television in America, and darn well worth it!" And they were.

[@deanbrunner261]

Quality goes in before the name goes on

[@392hemi9]

@@deanbrunner261 That was Zenith

[@deanbrunner261]

@@392hemi9 your right it's been awhile

[@solarguy1702]

Marshfield, WI? My sergeant in the Air Force was from there. Said it was a great place to be FROM. Lol

[@floraaficianado5050]

Born 1950: let’s not forget how mother’s lightening fast right arm was THE seat belt longgggg before the advent of “buckle up!”

[@Dulcimertunes]

Yes!

[@charliewerchan7252]

Yep, never needed a seat belt. Mom or dad had that arm over before head smacked the dash. Ahhhhh, what love they had for us.

[@lynn6221]

Absolutely..lol.

[@charliewerchan7252]

@@lynn6221 The arm worked to save your face from the dash, and it also smashed your face if you talked back . What love they had for us.

[@lynn6221]

@@charliewerchan7252 ain't it true! Lol. Good old days.

[@donaldmartin4980]

The sixties were an interesting time, I have memories from 1960 onward. The Kennedy dynasty, Vietnam, LBJ, anti war rock and roll. Uncensored war footage, 23.9 cent per gallon gasoline…. The end of innocence.

[@michaelmeyers3664]

One thing they did not have in the 1960's was 300 to 400 pound men and women riding a cart at Walmart and going to McDonald's and ordering 4 big macs, large fries and a diet coke!!!

[@jaengen]

Yep morbid obesity was VERY unusual back then. Today it’s everywhere you look.

[@nja3224]

I HATED Mercurochrome, and the hard, plastic applicator attached to the cap, which you felt immediately as it ran across your cut or scrape, followed by the intense stinging and burning. That thing was a bottle of torture. Edited: I stand corrected. It was iodine that stung, but still, hated any of that stuff on me.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

The applicator was more painful than the cut itself. Ha ha ha. Those hard plastic "fibers" (I guess they were 0.5mm diameter nylon) were like needles scraping the fresh wound. I wonder if the designer of that cap tried it on his wound.

[@renep2220]

@@pbxn-3rdx-85percent Pure Torture! Nothing like poisoning your kid with Mercury.

[@trevorjameson3213]

Yeah I remember that stuff too, and it was terrible. It stained your skin for days, too. It's just too bad nobody knew we were poisoning ourselves with that stuff. But, were we really? I bet we're exposed to a lot more environmental toxins now, than back then.

[@caliscribe2120]

Great for S and M fetishists. You began to associate love from Mom with pain. lol

[@angelataylor8863]

I always wondered what happened to that stuff. This video explained it.

[@Mbartel500]

Neil Armstrong actually said “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”

[@melissabibby7310]

I’m to young to remember the 60’s, but my Mom was born 1954, we take about when she was a kid during that time. Thanks for sharing.👍

[@inkey2]

BORN in 1954 and life for a kid back then was one adventure after another. Some how I lived through it. The majority of my free time was spent riding my cherry red English Raleigh Bicycle. Took that bike everywhere....even on spooky night time October rides in a big old cemetery in the Boston area. We would get a group of kids together and the one with a light on his bike took the lead. Boston is an old area of the country with some really old and spooky grave yards.

[@David-sc2ir]

Walking into G.C. Murphy's and that smell of fresh popped popcorn wafting in the air! We'd run to the candy counter with all those bins of confections to choose from. We each got a quarter, it was 10 cents for the popcorn and the rest was spent on chocolate malt balls. Wrinkled old women were behind the counter with cat eye glasses giving us a denture clicking smile. We'd race over to the pet section where glass cages held parakeets and aquariums full of guppy's and turtles and even an occasional baby alligator! Mom would be in the fabric section looking at patterns and material while we run amuck through the store. Remember those balsa wood airplanes? Every now and then my pop would buy me one..... or better yet a kite that was wrapped around two pieces of wood to be put together and flown. What wonderful times those days were! Everything was so simple yet we were excited with everything and everyone.

[@rascalme9754]

And over winding it until the rubber band looked like a chain of balls.

[@cherylchristian5673]

Kids will never know what true fun was, what we knew back then.

[@darbybeattie1548]

I remember basement stairs bargain city.Blue waltz perfume and tangle 💄. I had my first lipstick 68 cents.

[@darbybeattie1548]

I have Jack's too only now made-up plastic.

[@russs7574]

And Murphy's had that awesome lunch counter. If my Mom and I happened to be shopping in our town's Downtown section at lunchtime, we'd go over to Murphy's...she'd have either a tuna melt or a B.L.T., and I would have a root beer float. Diagonally across the intersection was a place called Sun Drugs. They had a lunch counter, too, but THEY had those Seeburg Countertop Juke Boxes up and down the counter.

[@rjc7289]

I remember Mercurochrome still being used in the 70's and 80's when I was a kid.

[@alanalan-uc4zb]

i was born in 1955. there use to be a car called "the station wagon". we had one. i can still remember my dad complaining about the rattling noise coming from the back interior. he was never able to figure out where it was coming from. some of "the station wagons" had fake wood paneling on the outside.

[@kenfrank2730]

In 1965 my parents bought a new Chevy station wagon. Our family of 5 made a vacation trip from LA to Chicago along route 66 in that wagon. Great memories. To this day I still like station wagons.

[@richarda996]

Station wagons are still around today, most people call them a suv.

[@joycegreer9391]

@@richarda996 Don't look the same.

[@tammylewis9324]

My dad had a beautiful 57 Chevy with black leather interior. He had it custom painted bright orange. When we adopted my baby brother there were suddenly too many kids for the back seat. The car ended up being traded for a large station wagon. There wasn’t a time that my dad passed that Chevy on the road that he didn’t hit the steering wheel and swear.

[@rickfreeman9530]

@ alan Alan. I remember my brother and friends used to sleep over night in the station wagon. Used it like a tent. Of course our mom and dad's knew exactly where we were at. Oohh the good Ole days!! Montana Rick.

[@lewie7820]

I remember when people didn't lock their doors. Everybody knew everybody in the neighborhood. All the kids were watched over by everybody. If you were over at a friend's house when lunch rolled around, you ate lunch with them. If you got out of line, any parent in the area would give you a whipping Riding bikes,fishing in the creek.