12 Things People Couldn’t Live Without in the 1960s

[@christopherkraft1327]

I was born in 1958 & I fondly remember each of these items!!! The sixties were a great time to grow up!!! 🙂

[@Instantpower332]

53 for me and I also remember fondly all of those also.. I wish some times that life back then would come back.. A lot of fond times especially walking to school from 1st grade to 4 th grade. Now even if you had to walk a block ( we lived out in the sticks ) it was over mile to school for me. With todays problems that's not going to happen...

[@michaelbenardo5695]

Early and mid 60s, yes.

[@freedomrings1420]

Can you imagine growing up today when your fun is sitting, staring at your cellphone all day. My friend tries to do things with his 13 year old son. My friend has a boat ,bicycles...money. But his son only wants to play video games and my friend gets so mad. I'm 63 ... my friend is 55 and I keep telling him it's the new generation of Americans.

[@christopherkraft1327]

@@freedomrings1420 Sad but so true!!! 🙄

[@saminaneen]

@@christopherkraft1327 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@brianbumgardner8704]

Growing up in the 60's and 70's were the best times!

[@michaelmerck7576]

Not for me,I like today way better

[@saminaneen]

@@michaelmerck7576 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@rachelgarber1423]

I learned to type on a manual typewriter, and I had an Instamatic camera

[@johnburns1902]

It truly was. It truly, truly was.

[@saminaneen]

@@johnburns1902 I remember, in the 1950's & 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@SonyaSwann-xm9xd]

Love this nothing like growing up in the 60s and 70s what a wonderful time it was.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961, best times for kids to grow up in. We spent a lot of time outdoors and with friends, out in the sun.

[@pegs1659]

I totally agree.

[@524kirkd]

@@tonycollazorappo Had to go home when the street lights came on. Nobody ever feared we’d be abducted or harmed by someone. I feel so blessed to have been born in ‘63 and experienced a very carefree childhood.

[@kenlompart9905]

@@524kirkd Born in 64, we had an old school bell my mom would ring at dinner time because she knew I was always close by but never knew where.

[@524kirkd]

@@kenlompart9905 Dinner was at 6:00 and we were expected to be there. Since all of my friends were within a few blocks it was not difficult - but I do remember making a few mad dashes to get there in time! After dinner, we were back outside until dark in the summertime.

[@lisadobbie7109]

Every item in this video was a part of my life growing up in the 60's. What memories!!! It was a special decade, wasn't it!!

[@Nicksonian]

That’s what I just said. The only stretch was, my family never had a View-Master, but I had a friend who did.

[@laurachristianson1688]

@@Nicksonian exactly while I was managing a record store when they first came out they were hailed as some great new thing….digital sound and no scratches like vinyl…HAH. I just love when a cd gets one little mar I get to listen to feedback or worse….yet I have albums that are nearly fifty years old that still sound pretty damn good. Granted I have most always used good care with them polyliners, the ever present discwasher, needle cleaner etc.

[@Nicksonian]

@@laurachristianson1688 I entered college in 1975, and the main activities me and my roommate engaged in outside of looking for girls and eating pizza was scouring the racks of the record stores. My ex berated me into culling my LP collection about 20 years ago…down to barely 200. My old roommate today has thousands of LPs and CDs. My brother worked for a time in one of the stores I bought many of those LPs, Finders Records in Bowling Green, Ohio, which remains in business in the same location today…a real rarity.

[@saminaneen]

@@Nicksonian I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@Helmuesi911]

What did you use the electric shaver for?

[@524kirkd]

We lived in an old house that was built in the early 1900s. It was creaky. I remember getting yelled at for running across the living room and causing the needle to skip on the stereo.

[@summerrose4286]

Same

[@lovly2cu725]

😁

[@saminaneen]

@@summerrose4286 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@glennso47]

Did you finally learn not to run across the room and make the phonograph needle skip? 😮

[@kirnpu]

Oh yeah - I'd forgotten about the needle skipping and creating a permanent ding on the record sometimes. Ugh.

[@jamierae7405]

The 60s were my junior hi and hi school years. Oh those were the days!!❤️❤️

[@rooky55]

Like the song says. Those were the days my friend, we would sing and dance and dance forever and a day.

[@524kirkd]

Did you have big coiffed hair in your yearbook pics? 😉

[@elaineteeter9485]

@@rooky55 I loved that song, by Mary Hopkin. She had such a sweet voice. I was born in 1956; nowadays, the lyrics of that song bring tears of longing for those golden times.

[@elaineteeter9485]

Haha, I had those pink sponge rollers and tried to sleep on them!

[@coleparker]

Mine as well. When I was a junior in high school, I had this thing for one of the seniors even though she was a WHOLE YEAR OLDER😀

[@roncaruso931]

I still have my View Master from the 1960's. I'll never forget the brilliant colors and the 3D effect.

[@dennythomas8887]

Sadly I don't have mine anymore. One year for Christmas "Santa" brought me View Master picture disks of all the National Parks, they were awesome! Unbeknownst to me at the time it was a lead up to a 3 week road trip to Yosemite, Zion, and Yellowstone National parks the following summer. Guess my parents were trying to get me to not hate being stuck in the backseat of the car with my two older sisters. Being the kids we were of course we fought the whole time. Drove my parents nuts. 😂😂

[@roncaruso931]

@@dennythomas8887 Great days gone forever!!

[@joannjones3232]

I still have mine too!

[@herbs4921]

I get better colors and 3D with my virtual reality goggles today.

[@Nightwriter1843]

That was my favorite from the video, too!! We didn't have a color TV until much later; maybe that's why the View Master seemed so cool...!!!

[@janet6348]

I still have the transistor radio my father bought for me when I was 16, and it still works!! I am now 73.

[@bonniepwtf]

Very cool.

[@maryyoung4046]

oh that is so nice, Janet. My father gave me a transistor radio when I was 6; and gave me another one for my 10th birthday. I no longer have them. I am glad yours still works.

[@chimom7112]

They don't make things like they used to. That's so cool

[@daviddebord499]

Can you find anything worth listening to?

[@jellis3699]

What make radio?

[@susandockery1838]

I love these these videos too. It’s wonderful to watch these videos and remembering those days when I was young. I grew up in these days. Times were so much simpler.

[@markjulianoriginalhooli2217]

Things made sense then✌️

[@flyingphobiahelp]

Oh, we forget so quickly - the fear of nuclear annihilation, being sent to Viet Nam, riots across many US cities etc, etc

[@michaelbenardo5695]

@@flyingphobiahelpWe did have nuclear fears, but in the early part of the decade, life for kids was great.

[@markjulianoriginalhooli2217]

@@flyingphobiahelp I'll bet you're really popular at parties🙄

[@flyingphobiahelp]

@@markjulianoriginalhooli2217 😂😂😂😂

[@BOLLOCKS1968]

Me and my siblings would all talk into the fan so we could sound like robots 😂

[@Stephanie-vn6ir]

We used to do the same exact thing, but with a window box fan.😂🤣

[@earleneslay7977]

I used to do that too! 😂. I never thought about that until now!!! 😂

[@saminaneen]

@@earleneslay7977 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@summerrose4286]

We did too.

[@beanixdorf6977]

Yeah, we did too 😂😂😂

[@RaeAnne232]

I miss the 1960's. I had all these things. Brings back such great memories. Thank you.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I truly miss those 60s as well. I would go back in time if it were possible. :)

[@michaelbenardo5695]

And the great cars and great paying jobs!

[@MAGronemeyer]

There's something you definitely left out was the Lady Sunbeam hair dryer with the vinyl bonnet that connected with a hose to the unit.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

My mother used her bonnet hair dryer literally for 30 years - which she got in the late 60s with her S & H green stamps!

[@karenh2890]

Yes! We'd put foam curlers in our hair and put the bonnet on! I have my great-aunt's hair dryer. She probably bought it in the 60s.

[@jane-cn6nd]

My grandmother used to set her sisters' hair and they'd be plugged into the bonnet dryers in the living room.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I still have a picture of myself at about 4 or 5 yrs old with one of those on my hair, and wearing my footie pajamas. 😂

[@lovly2cu725]

omg had one. next episode

[@lisadobbie7109]

Remember when the ink cartrige came on the market for fountain pens. That was high tech in those years.

[@michaelbenardo5695]

I remember that! Was quite a thing, compared to having to frequently refill the pen.

[@glennso47]

Yet the cartridges often leaked ink all over the place. 😢

[@61rampy65]

@@glennso47 Yes, and it usually was in my front shirt pocket! Mom would get so mad!

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

Fountain pens were already on the way out then.

[@trish5556]

In the late 1960's it was considered chic to have a fountain pen with purple ink. Also sealing wax was big. I remember having wax and a sealer to put on the back of envelopes. That is also when incense started to come in style, along with beads hanging from a doorway.

[@drusmith3480]

When I was a little kid in the early 70s, I loved it when my Dad got the slide projector out. I was so fascinated with how the pictures on the wall changed when you pressed the button.

[@glennso47]

I had a slide projector that I used to entertain my kids by showing them pictures of my navy days and other pictures I had taken for slides. They were fascinated by the pictures on the wall.

[@glennso47]

Remember the Instamatic camera with flash cubes for indoor lighting for pictures? “Blue dots for sure shots “ was the commercial for the flash cubes . The cubes had a blue dot that was supposed to tell you the flash cube was ready for picture taking.

[@kenlompart9905]

@@glennso47 And it made a high pitched squealing noise when it was getting ready. My best friends mom worked for Polaroid so they always had cameras around. We used to make funny faces at the camera then watch it develop right in front of our eyes.

[@johanvangelderen6715]

​@@glennso47 The blue dot indicated that a bulb within the cube had not been used yet. After use the individual blue dot would be Grey and burnt.

[@saminaneen]

@@johanvangelderen6715 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@GentlePace8]

I absolutely love your videos. So cozy, I keep rewatching them, missing the good old times 💕🌸

[@sonhuynh8222]

Same here !

[@-Thauma-]

Same 😊❤

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

Agree.. these makee feel cozy...we are fortunate to have these memories.

[@saminaneen]

@@sonhuynh8222 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@saminaneen]

@@-Thauma- I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@awwrelic]

I remember the 60s, and I recall the only place I recall a fan was in the front room. I don't remember any of the other rooms having a fan back then, but we typically kept our windows open to keep the bedrooms relatively cool. And I remember my dad, who was a steelworker who also was a welder, being the belle of the ball, so to speak, with neighborhood kids wanting extra forks welded onto their bikes :) I remember Viewmasters; my mom would take the tabletop model and cycle through the reels, shining them on the front room wall while telling us the stories from them. I still have a good collection of those to this day. They bring back so many memories for me.

[@bryanspindle4455]

Same here. We had one small fan that was usually in the living room. My dad moved it to my parent's bedroom at night. The other bedrooms were stifling. We didn't get an air conditioner until 1971.

[@freedomrings1420]

Extra forks for the " chopper" look. We just cut off the forks from old bikes and hammer them over the existing forks . Kinda dangerous, but so was growing up in our days which made men ... MEN. Today ,they have warnings on everything.

[@freedomrings1420]

@@bryanspindle4455 I moved to Florida in 88 from Upstate NY and I have live in places in Florida with only a fan . How I survived without AC in Florida is amazing.

[@bryanspindle4455]

@@freedomrings1420 l don't know. Most of July, August and September are very humid here in coastal Virginia, but not as bad as Florida.

[@Fred-kz5xh]

We still have a GE Grey fan like in your video. We depended on it every summer.

[@mikehughes4969]

As far as I'm concerned, vinyl records still sound better than anything today. And did anyone else love the pop hiss sound of a flashbulb going off?

[@pavelsarneki354]

Love? No.

[@524kirkd]

We had an instamatic camera with a “flip flash”. It held about 10 flash bulbs and you plugged it into the top of the camera. You would use 5 flashes and flip it over to use the other 5 flashes. My mom was famous for thinking she had a flash left but really didn’t 😂. She never swore but that brought her to the edge. As kids, my sister, cousins and I thought it was hilarious when it happened.

[@Retired_Gentleman]

I fondly remember that hissing. I made the mistake of touching one of the used flash bulbs. Ouch!

[@michaelbenardo5695]

I agree!

[@reb1050]

The old flash bulbs also had a distinct smell to them.

[@Shmerpy]

I still have our family Sunbeam toaster from the early fifties, the kind where the bread goes down automatically, and comes up automatically too, all by clever mechanisms. Still works like new.

[@dawnelder9046]

I had the one my husband's Aunt bought in 52. She had 4 children, plus foster children. Finally hit the dust in the early 2000s. Unable to get it fixed, which was my first instinct. The elements had melted. My sister still has the one my mom bought in 57. Not used quite as much. Less children. You can not buy a toaster that well designed anymore.

[@JD-gy7kp]

The 60's were a BLAST. 🙂🙃😉 I'm still looking for a Time Machine to go back.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Cool boy toys that were semi dangerous to eyes. That was fun.

[@jodyjackson5475]

The best. So free and happy

[@cherylschantz9893]

I love that vinyl albums have made a comeback.

[@MothGirl007]

For a lot of people, they never went away.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

My albums never really went away... Yes, I bought audio tapes then CDs but never got rid of my records and love them still though my new record player is never used as my hands shake from Essential Tremor now so I am scared to drop the stylus and make scratches even worse than they ever were from repetitive playing Getting old us not so much fun but whilst the memories linger, life is not so bad

[@TinCupChalice40]

@@brigidsingleton1596 I was just thinking today how getting old really does stink. I get jealous just watching people walking normally. It really puts money in perspective. Money is my last priority now.

[@patriciakesler317]

Still have the mine

[@shiralleehaggart72]

Still have mine.

[@cleach5501]

I was a young teen in the 60s. This brought good memories back to me. My transistor radio was stolen out my locker…..never got it back. 🇨🇦

[@Nicksonian]

My parents only got us one transistor radio, and my brother being three years old meant that he had it most of the time. When my daughter was in high school, her iPod was stolen from her locker. IPods will be on Recollection Road before you know it.

[@saminaneen]

@@Nicksonian I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@rooky55]

I listened to the world series in 1962, sitting on a swing, when I was 10 years old with my new transistor. Just a memory that stayed in my head all these years.

[@brucesmith9144]

Now you stream from the web.

[@rooky55]

@@brucesmith9144 Right but there was no charge for radio or TV back then.

[@freedomrings1420]

You felt like a king with a little transistor radio. They usually used a 9 volt battery, I believe.

[@rooky55]

@@freedomrings1420 Yup, mine was 9 volt and would fit in a shirt pocket. I felt very lucky to have it.

[@TinCupChalice40]

The transistor radio kept me company, many lonely nights as a kid

[@Nicksonian]

I literally used every item featured here. My first camera was an Instamatic. It set me on a course of becoming a photojournalist. I have piles of old Nikon equipment, but I wish I still had that first Instamatic. And being a photographer, I have boxes of slides in the basement…with no projector. My dad used an electric razor so naturally, I started using one in high school. But after about five years and tired of going through razor after razor and lousy results, I tried using a blade, and have never gone back to an electric over 40 years. While I didn’t have an authentic Sting Ray bike, I had a bike the same frame size. I spray painted it gold and put a banana seat and chopper handle bars on it. I road that bike so much and so hard, the front fork eventually broke off. About that time the ten-speed craze started and I’d outgrown the Stingray.

[@kimbrey65]

I remember watching my grandparents' slides from their vacations to Florida.

[@jillcampbell8019]

My grandparents living in California. 👍🏼

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

My grandmother liked her casinos and cruises but my great uncle and aunt (after selling great grandpa Albert (my middle name's Alberta) has travelled the world over; Rome, Greece, most of America. Not once have I or my cousins (or Dad that I know of) ever been invited. Grandma left all her money to one son. Nope, I never did anything to anyone but nothing that wasn't orthodontia and once when I bought a car was left to me. And I grew up with Grams raising me. Real class act fam

[@NASCARFAN93100]

60s Nostalgia is absolutely fascinating

[@cathyheston3029]

Especially when you lived through it 😊

[@Nicksonian]

@@cathyheston3029took the exact words right out of my, um, keyboard

[@ironmartysharpe8293]

Definitely the 60s and 70s were the best decades in my life How lovely it would be if there was such a thing as a time machine

[@saminaneen]

@@Nicksonian I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@brianbumgardner8704]

​@@ironmartysharpe8293If those times had just carried on.... We need times like this now more than ever.

[@carlavision6143]

I was born in '65 and only remember vinyl but, had radio later on in the 70's. Really enjoyed your video!

[@MeadowFarmer]

Wallpaper was a big thing back then. Watches had to wound by hand, alarm clocks and even some wall clocks had to be wound by hand too. They made a lot of noise. There weren't any digital clocks back then. Coffee percolators and large pedestal ash trays were common. Lots of people had cloth slip covers over their furniture, and some people had clear vinyl covers. In rural areas most people had burn barrels for their trash. Just about everyone had aluminum ice cube trays. Kool Ade and Wyler's drink mixes were common and most kids made their own freeze pops with plastic molds.

[@johnmontgomery3471]

I used to think people who complained about taking out the trash were wimps. My family lived in rural towns and burning the trash was a chore shared on a rotating basis.

[@lisadobbie7109]

You are correct on every point!! Ahh, the memories.

[@kolsen6330]

Remember Fizzies? The tablets on foil backed sheet?

[@danielulz1640]

​@@kolsen6330YES, for making your own soda pop!

[@MeadowFarmer]

@@kolsen6330 I don't think we ever had that. I was born in 62 and Fizzies were banned in 1968 because they had cyclamate, so it's a little too early in my life to remember.

[@jedidrummerjake]

Thank you for another wonderful episode! ❤

[@lizzapaolia959]

Your videos are outstanding. We can't thank you enough for sharing these historical time's. God bless 🙏

[@williamjones7163]

The picture of the child holding a fan that has minimal blade protection made my skin crawl for a second.

[@Mbase-apollo]

I grew up in Boston during the 60s and there was about a hundred kids that lived on my street, every family had at least 5 or 6 , same with the next street and so on the baby boom was on.

[@summerrose4286]

Same. My best friend lived across the street; they had 8. Best friend from school lived a street over; they had 4. Brother's best friend lived up our street; they had 6.....we all played together all day in the summers especially.

[@cheriestelzer9969]

These make me miss my parents and growing up. I never take for granted how good I had it

[@Dave-hc6pp]

In 1964 my mother was in nursing school after my dad was killed in a car wreck. One of her classmates came to visit and brought me a 45 rpm Beatles record. I think it was, “I want to hold your hand”. Around that same time, my grandfather gave me one of the early transistor radios. Every night when I was supposed to be sleeping I would have tha radio on really low so no one would hear it and I would listen to my favorite station until I fell asleep.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

My mom had a larger transistor radio about the size of a smaller shoe box. Sometimes I'd sneak it upstairs to bed. Plug in the tinny sounding earpiece and scan the world for radio stations. Winter was best for picking up far away stations.

[@loishuston7446]

Loved growing up in the 60's. Your collection brought back many good memories.

[@loviatar9]

Ahhh, view masters ❤ Finally, depth!

[@frankwafer6919]

thank you for all the wonderful memories of yesterday!

[@janetwentz3259]

My very first job was at Rite Aid back in the 70’s. We developed film and when the pictures were delivered we had to check them in. We would look at people’s pictures 😮. My Gosh the things we saw. It was terrible of us but a lot of fun.

[@nomadman1196]

Did you work with Robin Williams?

[@summerrose4286]

My husband and I (boyfriend at the time) worked at Revco during college. Our boss looked at people's pictures all the time.

[@Go4Corvette]

Wow, that baby with the electric fan sure looks dangerous. I used all of these items at one time, and some of them I still have today. Thanks for the video.

[@howieduin915]

They only needed to put their fingers into the fan once or twice to figure it out. I'm guessing that nobody ever lost a finger in that type of fan. Scary, hurts a little. But no biggie.

[@doll624]

@@howieduin915 Looking at that picture of the baby with the fan caused me to have a twinge of remembered fear. Yes, people did get hurt with these fans, all the time.

[@WildStar2002]

The oscillating fan (set to not oscillate) was also great fun to talk through and alter your voice - or sometimes even throw M&Ms into - which would get then ejected at high speed to everyone's amusement but mother's! 🤣

[@cindytrayer4279]

I totally forgot about talking into it!!!😂😂😂😂

[@skottyo]

That baby pictured holding the fan made me cringe a bit. Little fingers and a fast moving metal fan didn't mix well.

[@WildStar2002]

@@skottyo Same! 😲Only, perhaps that was a baby Clark Kent? 🤔

[@jrnfw4060]

Your mother probably had the same reaction as mine when we kids would use the living room sofa for a trampoline and jump up and down on the cushions. Or the bed. That was such a lot of fun.

[@jec1ny]

I just realized that I am really old. I can remember every single thing on this list.

[@stick9648]

So you're still an idiot.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Another great episode! Things long forgotten like Viewmaster, electric razors made of metal, cameras with a flash cube. I remember it was a thrill to get home movies back from development. First regular 8 then to super 8. Set up the screen and have fun. Very good memories.

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

Great stuff as always!!!

[@NotYoung3592]

you describe everything so perfectly

[@Ltulrich]

RR, please consider doing a nostalgia video about the prevalence/use of firearms by families and especially teens in the 40s and 50s.

[@dougthompson5449]

My brother back in 1963 took his rifle on the school bus, walked into school with it and put it in his locker. When it was time for shop class he carried his rifle down the halls into shop class where he etched his name into the stock. When school was over he carried his gun back onto the school bus for the ride home. The only comments that he got from the teachers was "nice gun".

[@saminaneen]

@@dougthompson5449 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

The slide projector was a staple of my history and geography classes in 9th and 10th grade. My teacher would take weeks out of class to show slides of his travels all over the world. Out of the 2 years I had him as a teacher....we never saw the same slide twice. In addition to everything I learned in those 2 years, I developed a love for travel and historic architecture.

[@trish5556]

My history teache5r's slide show of his trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone fueled my life-long desire to visit those places. Thankfully I did go a few years ago and it was all that and more!

[@Retired_Gentleman]

An excellent video. Born in 1959, I remember all these items. In the past 15 or so years I've collected a few Instamatic and Polaroid cameras and slide projectors. Great nostalgic fun. Many are in original boxes or packaging. You didn't mention 8mm movies, though.

[@beckybanta126]

So fun to see so many items that were a part of my childhood days. Thank you. There are 4 items, however, that I remember using in the mid to late 1950s: View Master, Lighters (as you mentioned) a large variety of shapes & sizes, Vinyl Records, & Fountain Pens. I watched my Grandad use his often, plus others as well. Some were so important that they were never lent nor borrowed. Perhaps refilling of these could have been introduced 1960s. I remember having my bottle of ink to refill always close by.😊

[@NorkelFjols]

I was born in the early 80's and I also remember those View Master things, so they were still around in the late 80's at least.

[@jasonwomack4064]

They're still made. Just saw them in a cracker barrel gift shop.

[@dougbrowning82]

Sawyer's Inc. introduced the View-Master in 1939. The early viewers were heavy Bakelite, and the reels were mostly family oriented, travel pictures in 3D shot on Kodachrome. In 1962, Sawyer's was bought out by GAF, and the content began to transition to more child friendly material, such as toy tie-ins and cartoons. The technology has remained constant, so that any View-Master reel ever released will work in any View-Master viewer or projector, with the exception of some GAF era reels that were designed to work in the viewers only.

[@timetoretire]

Had all of it. Moms royal typewriter. Mentor headlands beach and manry pool with the transistor radio. I have all my vinyl. Crowley makes retro record players. Im a '64 but older siblings ...please can we go back. I love to play with my grankids the way I did. Love your channel...

[@dogsareprecious4842]

I realllly love and appreciate your videos !!! Brings back sooo many childhood memories!

[@nancycurtis488]

Two things I can think of…every homemaker wanted and needed a Sunbeam Mixmaster mixer to make cakes and cookies and having an automatic Sunbeam pop-up toaster was an important piece of kitchen equipment.

[@pameladonnelson2093]

I remember these things from the 60’s❤

[@MsMary-mg3ho]

We didn't have a slide projector, but we had an 8mm movie projector. I remember that we would close the curtains during the day so we could see the screen, and it felt like we were shutting out the world. Sometimes my mom would pop popcorn, and we'd have Kool-Aid and popcorn, so it felt like we were at the movies, but the "stars" were our family on vacation or at birthday parties. 🙂 I also LOVED my View Master! I remember I had one of the Wisconsin Dells and thought the pictures were so pretty.

[@truthtriumphant4015]

I purchased a few View. Master's a few years back to have as "entertainment" when the grid goes down.

[@papashark2345]

i love the voice that takin me to all those beautiful yerars Thank You !!!

[@annabrown7302]

TODAY 2023 PEOPLE'S LOVE HAS GROWN COLD THATS WHY I LOVE MY CATS AND ALL ANIMALS GREAT AND SMALL ❤❤❤

[@61rampy65]

The fountain pen and its successor, the cartridge pen, were endless sources of ink stains all over my hand and the paper. Being left-handed, I would slide my left hand over the freshly written ink. When the Bic pen (only $0.19!) came out, it was a life changer!!

[@paulne1514]

I remember, they shot it through a piece of plywood, then wrote with it, still sticking out of the plywood.

[@RichardinNC1]

We pretty much had all of the above, although no color slides, just prints from an Instamatic. My grandparents had a manual mower. I had a small radio I listened to base ball games all the time. My mother had a large vinyl record collection and got me started on a music hobby but I got 8-tracks in the 70s for my car. I used a 1930s manual typewriter for college term papers in the early 80s. Just a few years later, my sister used a Commodore 64 computer for papers in Grade School! Yes she was much younger than me.

[@sleepingwithcats5121]

I had the View-Master and loved it I was born in '64 so my decade was mostly the 70's although I still remember the 60s

[@brendalee1265]

I grew up in the 60s and I loved it. I hate the times we live in and the things that are offered to us. Please take me back to the life where humanity had morals. This video makes me want to cry because I miss those days so much.

[@sunilkumar-iq2oq]

I know why you feel like that but today is important than yesterday, with all the advancement we have now the world should be more entertaining than before

[@saminaneen]

@@sunilkumar-iq2oq remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@markjulianoriginalhooli2217]

Take me with you ✌️

[@cathyheston3029]

I'll bet you never thought you'd say this 😊

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

I did too and despite having most of today's high tech offerings, I still get great pleasure listening to my transistor radio and the short wave stations that have changed little over time. I wish I still had a lot of the things, shown in the video.

[@greatprovider8198]

I want to go back in time.

[@Mbartel500]

How about the two kinds of manual can openers? One punched a triangular shaped hole in the can lid. it was known as a “churchkey” the other kind was a rotary opener that cut the entire lid off.

[@scottmcwave9479]

Still use both of them! Doesn’t everybody?

[@jane-cn6nd]

​@@scottmcwave9479Yes because electric can openers are basically crap.

[@lovly2cu725]

it is still known as a church key 😁

[@lovly2cu725]

@@scottmcwave9479 i do but the opener i have doesnt cut the can , it un seals it so no sharp metal

[@maryyoung4046]

I still have and use a rotary can opener.

[@chnalvr]

Our family had every one of the items you mentioned in this video. However, we had a home movie projector for Super 8 film, rather than a slide projector. Many adults smoked cigarettes and were welcome to do so wherever they liked. I remember the metallic clink of the top closing and thinking adults were so cool. Thank goodness I never got hooked on cigarettes. I know many lives that were ruined by smoking cigarettes.

[@ensabahnur7657]

I enjoy a lot of these videos! Born in 1970 I truly appreciate all the memories!😎💯👊

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

I'm confused.. if you were born in 1970 - how is it possible you have memories from the 1960s?

[@ensabahnur7657]

@@Nunofurdambiznez Huh? What happened in the 60s continued on in the 70 & 80s also! So AGAIN I enjoy a lot of these videos because they cover so much in so many ways!

[@saminaneen]

@@ensabahnur7657 I remember, in the 1960's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Same here!

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

@@Nunofurdambiznezwhen we were born, there was a war called the Vietnam war going on. There was a lot going on in the US as well months after a few assassinations and major historical events. Usually when there’s a war, the big changes in society doesn’t typically happen until after the was us over. After the war ended things began to change. In many ways, the 70s was an extension of the sixties with its own charm and then the 80s came along ushering a completely different culture. Those were the days. Ones that we cherish indeed! Great times to be a part of.

[@jeanne-marie8196]

I remember “buying” discs for my View Master in souvenir shops, whilst on vacation. My grandparents would also let us get a striped stick candy, too. One of my favorite candies was also given out by my grandmother on car trips; Lifesavers! Not the fruit ones, too many flavors on the dislike list by one of us. She had chocolate mint! Yum! We weren’t allowed candy or soda at home, so these were real treats to be able to have!

[@stick9648]

When soda/pop was a treat .

[@jeanne-marie8196]

@@stick9648 Only at birthday parties! Same for ice cream

[@davidsquires154]

I,was born in 1957,and I grew up in the 1960's. I just about remember everything from the 1960's from this video. Since I was born in Detroit,Michigan and I still remember when it 25cents and 5centsforatransfer.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Most vinyl records had two sides of music. You turned the record upside down to listen to the music on the opposite side. Even today, we still say "the flip side" to mean the other side of an issue or a concept. That's where "the flip side" metaphor came from.

[@sallymiller1359]

Only thing I didn't have was the dreaded push mower, my Dad had a riding lawnmower which was great! My uncle had the push mower, kept him in shape. Everything else is a wonderful memory and I probably have some of these things hidden in the attic. I know everyone always says this but for me, those were much better days.

[@trish5556]

We had a push mower until I was about 13. Man was I happy to get a gas powered mower!

[@trevinbeattie4888]

My grandparents had a push mower, and I preferred using that over my dad’s gas mower because the fumes from the gas engine were nauseating.

[@sallymiller1359]

@@trevinbeattie4888 I can understand that

[@julieinthenorthwest4594]

How about the push edger? That was a pain to use.

[@sallymiller1359]

Sounds awful, didn't know they had such a thing but it makes sense. Now I use a battery charged edger, piece of cake! lol @@julieinthenorthwest4594

[@kirnpu]

Fabulous trip down memory lane! I loved my transistor radio. The Viewmaster was fun too. I hated taking pictures and having to wait forever to get the shots back. When we finally got to same-day developing I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I can't even imagine how many miles I put on my Stingray as a kid - seems like I practically lived on it.

[@madmike2624]

Your background music is so perfect for this video!!

[@Tsch6373]

The 'manual' lawn mower was called a 'reel'. An older family member had one back in the day and when I was 12, I pushed it around her yard, resulting in some blisters on my hands. Good memories...

[@tonycollazorappo]

I had a transistor radio at the age of about 4, in 1965. I enjoyed the music and still like the music of that era as well as music and movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s and early 70s. After the early 70s, movies are, or were hit or miss.

[@cherylb6755]

I have an Underwood & Underwood stereoscope from the late 1800s. It was a precursor to the View Master. I still enjoy looking at stereoscopes.

[@Ropecharud]

I had a Kodak Instamatic. Those were the days!

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Still have mine!

[@trish5556]

That was my first camera someone bought new for me-13th birthday. Before that I had hand-me-down box cameras that I had to tape the edges to so light would not come in. I wish I still had it for old times' sake.

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks for the List and Video 😀 (and the memories)

[@tinamcknight7384]

I was born 1960. Child of the 60's and teenager of the 70's. What a great time. Learned how to type on a manual typewriter, the keys jamming was such a pain.

[@patgervasio7044]

I think electric typewriters were already becoming popular by the mid sixties.

[@maryyoung4046]

Same here. I got a manual typewriter for my 13th birthday. Yes I remember when the keys would jam or stick together and having to pull them apart before I could resume typing. I loved typing on it though. Made up stories and later on songs.

[@519CZRacer]

Still have my Viewmaster collection. Great memories and still entertaining.

[@lisadobbie7109]

How about the Wammo Super Ball? It seemed like it would go a mile high when a kid bounced it off the concrete.

[@kirnpu]

Loved the Super Balls but they sure didn't stick around for long. They'd bounce right out of sight.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

I remember a lot of super balls landing on the school roof. Just a one story brick building but there was no way to get on top without a ladder. Then you had to work up the nerve to politely ask a janitor for help.

[@kirnpu]

@@LuvBorderCollies There was nothing more frustrating than watching your ball take that last hop on to a roof...

[@kentd4762]

These are great. Thank you. Remembering the leather carry case for transistor radios and the little piece of flint in the cigarette lighters that created the spark when the ignitor wheel was turned...

[@stevenj2380]

And in the early 60s (elementary school) were not using old-style fountain pens at all. Instead of cheap ball points, they pushed us to try the ink cartridge refillable Schaefer pens. That lasted a couple of years or so it seems, then we just went to BIC.

[@lovly2cu725]

i remember when bic came out

[@williamwilson6499]

@@lovly2cu725Then you were born in the 40s.

[@ladyd8339]

And you used your pen to write in cursive! Now people can hardly write their name like that!

[@gregwasserman2635]

Many of these were still common in the 70s. My grandmother had a huge library of Viewmaster reels. It was still fun to get lost in viewing them. I also remember some people using lawn rollers.

[@larryhall7998]

The first major purchase I made with my own money (paper route) was a Schwinn stingray. Had it until a few years ago. The only thing original was the shadow.

[@thedreadtyger]

😂

[@aerial9719]

I remember the Norelco (spelling) electric shaver commercial they would run around Christmas time..

[@5610winston]

3:00 Gotta love that blade shield. It's a wonder that any kids had fingers left to work those typewriters.

[@kenneth9874]

Poking through it in the front wasn't dangerous

[@trish5556]

@@whatsup5791 My sister almost lost an arm on one until my mom pulled the plug. She insisted she didn't touch it, the machine had reached out and grabbed her arm!

[@pettylove86]

I had an Instamatic 124 camera in my teen years and I loved taking photos of everyone and everything! They were great little cameras.

[@typograf62]

You are right - a manual lawn mower did produce a certain feeling of a job well done. I had forgotten that. A fountain pen is (to me) the perfect way to write. I can concentrate on writing, not on Windows updatring etc. Also works in a train or on a bus as a good lightweight instrument.

[@UnStrungHero]

I loved my view master!!

[@dizzysdoings]

Grew up with almost all of these. I still have my parents' records, don't know if they're worth anything or not.

[@BakedRBeans]

The value of a typical record collection is....very low! Collectors are extremely picky about condition. If you have a "mint condition" record (never played-original shrinkwrap) they will look at it. If the record has even the smallest defect , they will just say"no"

[@dizzysdoings]

@@BakedRBeans not sure how old they are. They're classical music. I just haven't gotten around to doing anything with them.

[@lovly2cu725]

i have the dave clark 5 one shown in the video

[@BakedRBeans]

@@lovly2cu725 I used to have that one! Two items to the right of that one is "Off The Beatle Track" Never head of that one. Must be a compilation.

[@BakedRBeans]

@@dizzysdoings If they are classical, you might have some valuable ones in there because classical fans generally take very good care of their records, and some classical fans will value one record highly if it is a certain record label, or year of manufacture.

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !

[@patbrennan6572]

What I miss most from the 50s is my youth.

[@suzannelawson9215]

Growing up in the 60's and 1970's, I loved my transitor radio. It was a small one and I always played it every day. It was quite small but worked well and had an ear plug that went into one ear only (not a head set). Took it with me to the beach, on the bus (using the ear plug of course) so not to be heard or disturb other passengers. Also had a view master with lots of neat reels to watch. Wish I knew what happened to it. 😶 I had a large collection of 45 RPM records and played them on my parent's hi-fi record player which also had radio with AM radio. I still have those 45's somewhere in storage.

[@Tomatohater64]

Great memories from the 60s and 70s.

[@luvnalaska44]

I was born in 1962 and remember these things. I still think transitor radios are fun. Wonderful video.

[@keithwilson6060]

The 60’s was unique because the highly accelerated technological advances of the post-WWII period were finally filtering their way into consumer goods.

[@dennythomas8887]

This is the first Recollection Road where every single thing in the video was in my house growing up. Usually there are one or two items that I knew of but we didn't have. Thank you! I remember one year for Christmas I got the exact same Kodak Instamatic camera kit you showed here. A couple years later I was given the "brand new!" Kodak 110 Instamatic camera kit. It was the same kind of kit but the camera was long and narrow (pocket sized) and the film cartridge was smaller compared to the other Instamatic I had. Funny how you remember little things like that. Great stuff, thanks for the memories. BTW, did any of you old geezers (like me) cringe when you saw the picture of that girl holding that record that way? Hold it by the edges only with your palms so you don't leave finger prints or scratches on it? 🤣🤣😂😂

[@trish5556]

I cringed when I saw that child holding onto the fan! Back then they were not as safe.

[@lisadobbie7109]

No recollection of the 60's would be complete without including, Beatle mania, with the fab four mop heads!!

[@lovly2cu725]

dave clark 5 album was in the photo at the record store

[@eugeneoman]

I loved my View-Master!☺

[@lisadobbie7109]

Life was simpler in the sixties. More basic. More independent style of life. I miss that.

[@Coolcarting]

Saying that with your 2000's device. You are part of the problem that ended that independent style of life.

[@SMac-bq8sk]

@@Coolcarting: Dang, if only she hadn't started using her "2000's device," we'd all still have a more independent style of life! Shame on her!🙄

[@joedoe-sedoe7977]

How could life be anything but simple when you are just a dumb kid?

[@williamwilson6499]

Rose colored glasses are so ubiquitous. You would hate the 60s if you actually had to live it.

[@SMac-bq8sk]

@@williamwilson6499: Ubiquitous? I did live through the 60s. Some of it I liked, some of it I hated. Could've done without the hippie movement; but overall, the social health of society was much better than it is now.

[@laurachristianson1688]

I am positively ecstatic that vinyl is popular again ( good things never die🙂). Glad I never got rid of my collection, now all I have to do is replace the stupid cd s I had 😢to buy in the interim with the good stuff.

[@scottmcwave9479]

I have hundreds of cd’s I never listen to!

[@The_Timinator]

The ONLY thing I miss about a Vinyl LP is the Album Cover Art, once upon a time, the Cover Art actually made some of the Albums sell. They where also full of info on Recording, Lyrics and Photos, I too have thousands of CD's, I just stream music from Amazon or Spotify now and there's no need for the Books of CD's under your car seat. I had 2 cars that people smashed a window to steal my CD Case. and one of my 60's cars they stole the Stereo because those retrofitted 50-70's cars only had AM Radios and the new Cassette or CD Tuner was so easy to steal.

[@laurachristianson1688]

@@The_Timinator ah but when you stream music it’s not yours forever I like having my hard copy and cool extras thank you.

[@The_Timinator]

@@laurachristianson1688 You DO know there's ways to "make it yours forever". I live out the Desert so sometimes the signal is weak... but MP3's take up LESS memory and Storage than what's on a CD, you can store hundreds of MP3's on a CD that would only hold 10-12 songs from one Band.

[@laurachristianson1688]

@@The_Timinator cds are still too easy to mar and one little bit of damage makes them totally messed up while lps properly cared for last forever I have some that are approaching their half century and I can still play them fine…..

[@nhlams]

Brings back a lot of memories! Miss those simple days.

[@3cardmonty602]

I still own a manual lawnmower. I was using it before I bought a battery powered lawnmower. My lawn is so small that I don’t need a gas powered lawnmower. Although, Good thing I didn’t drop dead pushing the manual lawnmower here. It even got mistakenly delivered to my old address, and the new tenant tried to steal it before she realized it was a manual lawnmower. LOL! She was more than happy to hand it over. I’ve used it when my battery powered lawnmower runs out of juice, so it’s still valuable to me.