47 Wonderful Color Photographs Streets of the U.S in the 1950s

[@terrybane6206]

A wonderful time that we will never see again.....except here. Thanks for some memories.

[@lorrainemudd5022]

Great pics i was born in 1946 I loved it

[@suzannelawson9215]

Absolutely loved watching your video! Wish we could turn back the clock to the to 50's and 60's.

[@Sky_King54]

Born in the early 50’s I love your hard work to put these memories together, keep doing what you are doing, love it.

[@intrepidone2796]

Pictures and comments are absolutely top! Thanks!

[@lenisbennett3062]

I was born in 1945 the 50s was a great time to be a kid I wish I could go back and live it again

[@vickiemayfield3197]

I was born in 1953. I so much appreciate the effort to which you went to put this fabulous video together. I can see my Dad and I walking down the streets of my hometown to pay all the bills, go to the post office and the library. He loved cars and a special treat was when he took me looking at used cars. Such warm, wonderful, fabulous memories. Thanks again for triggering so much fabulousness in my mind’s eye.

[@pamelaryan4576]

Such a wonderful time for this country.

[@1aikane]

Awesome photos! So much here to be admired.

[@RobertHowe-f5z]

It was fun being a kid in the 1950's ; I was born in 1949.

[@emilysantoyo918]

The 1950s is one of my favorite eras of the decade.

[@davidglaum2538]

I remember being happy and content with everything I had little did I know what was in my future and how complex life would become. I know I can’t go back to those days but a small part of me wishes I could.

[@donniehodge2548]

Thanks for the memories I was born in 1950 good to see the pictures of it 👍

[@maxschowengerdt2570]

How wonderful to see so many people and cars with NO PLASTIC ! ! ! !

[@barbaraedgley2634]

Miss those times, sigh ..

[@olgreywolf9688]

This is all .... heart-breaking beautiful ...and sooo nostalgic for me. This WAS my life too, I graduated from high school ... in 1957 .... and worked at Shell, Tan-Kar service stations. Grocery store .. (not a chain) ... and had all these memories ... these scenes are still embedded forever in my memory. That world had it's nightmares too ... but nothing like the insanity gone not recognized in our society today ... If it was insane ... it was condemned, it was punished when appropriate ... etc. etc. I left all this peaceful world and entered military (Navy) service .... then college ... and that world, the world in these photos ... was gone ... forever.

[@thomaspowers5845]

So true. A slower pace yet still vibrant. Not like today's world.

[@stephenmeek520]

Fabulous , I was born 1957 UK but have a strange affinity with all these clips

[@peterselten500]

Great video

[@MemoryLN]

Thanks

[@sojourning7]

I was born in 1952...thanks for the memories, it means alot.

[@RobSwan1948]

I was born in 1948. The 1950's and early 1960's - great times. Please take be back !

[@eutimiochavez415]

Ok you are on your way back to 1950s see u there?❤❤❤❤❤

[@lindaosika7648]

We have the ability to compare. Lived in both worlds.

[@sdcoinshooter]

Take me with you

[@gmclubapparel]

I was born in 1966 but I always gravitate to the post war era - though I know it wasn't always perfect, there is some comfort and serenity with the simplicity from that place in that time.

[@sw227x6]

I look at these photos and wonder just how much progress we have made? The people dressed better and were infinitely more courteous and on the streets face to face. Shopping, talking, visiting and just plain living. If only we could reset. I'm not saying it was perfect by any means, just a simpler time, even tho we thought at the time everything was moving too fast. Lordy if we only knew how lucky we were to have grown up in that time. I'm 78 and thru the looking glass. . . . . .

[@johnzangari3432]

11:47 1963 Chevrolet and early 60s Pontiac. 12:26 all 60s cars.13:10 62 Chevy II, Ford Falcon 1960+ , mid 60s VW bus.14:22 1960 Chevy 61 Oldsmobile. 14:44 60 Chevy and 1959 or newer Studebaker Lark this one could still be 1959.

[@andyhowat4624]

I was born in 47. 50s was the peak of the U S

[@SgtBilko-uk5hh]

Cool music.

[@donkique956]

Man... All these people owned classic cars.

[@nicolasrossi5978]

Thanks, nice collection overall. Several 60's vehicles visible in the background of photo @ 9:44 though and not particularly hard to notice.

[@thomasjamison2050]

I remember when there was a payphone on almost every intersection in Manhattan. I soon learned that if one wanted to use one, it was best to not look at or think about the phone while you approached it. This definitely seemed to me to improve that odds that I could get to it before someone else decided to use it before I could get there.

[@williamclarke4510]

I once told someone "Nuts to the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Rome. We were fortunate to have been born here at the middle of"The American Century".

[@Rick-S-6063]

At 9:51 there are a 1960 or 1961 Ford Falcon and what looks to be a 1961 Mercury. At 12:26, from left to right: 1960 Oldsmobile, 1963 Rambler Classic, 1963 Chevrolet and a 1960 - 1963 Ford Falcon wagon. At 14:28 there are what looks to be a 1962 Oldsmobile 88 and a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air. Thinking about hiring a proofreader? ;)

[@davidd1395]

At 12:31 there’s a 63 Chevy sitting there so that picture is not from the 50s.

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... #76 ✝ {11-19-2023}

[@iamplaymaka]

I’ve lived in the 50s in my past life. There’s no other explanation to why I know & feel so connected to this era.

[@idessaoutlaw]

Better Days.. Long Gone..🥃😎👌

[@G.S.W.SewmesomeMusic]

I was born in 1952 into a large family……..That’s when my troubles began!!!!!!

[@JaniceBlackmon]

This was a different world . So sad this world will never come again we have lost moral value. We might have more things but has lost so much as a society now this culture now is so violent no foundation and no respect and loyalty when a culture loses that they will kill you if you look hard at them life has no value and one thing about this world people respecting each other you didn't have to worry about being shot down in a bowling alley of Supermarket of the movie what happened to the people and what happened to America.

[@specialist-in-tech]

We have lost everything that was affordable. Now Ram pick up trucks go for $105,000 and anyone making less than $100k is barely surviving. Politicians and corporate greed wrecked this country. Endless wars, endless and wreckless spending, and open borders are wiping out the country. There is no going back to anything like the 50s. It’s all be ruined. It’s why I’m depressed and sad like 50 to 60% of Americans. Everyone has isolated. Now people are living in cars or vans or homeless. It’s a pathetic mess we live in today.

[@NF-im1wq]

Life was much more simple and predictable than life is now and hardly anything ever changed we left our doors and windows unlocked all the time even when we went out of town no murders rapes muggins except in New York and LA all the BS you see in the Movies was extreamly rare People never needed to carry guns because they never got attacked there was discrimanation but if you didn't throw it in somebodys face you could live with it much better than now all of this is gone for ever

[@davidhayter8516]

This would have been a really good vid if the pictures matched the visual content. When the narration mentioned drive-in or neon or any other subject the photos matched the topic. Would have make it a great vid.

[@xqqqme]

And such a fundamentally obvious thing to do.

[@davidstahl5707]

Why didn’t you use photos that corresponded to your monologue?

[@clarencetrice4442]

😊😊 I also seen a panel truck 🚚 😊 and a 1957 chevy station wagon nope U dont see them no more either I dont 😮😮 OMG 9 12 2O24

[@2MuchPurple]

I was born in 1950, but for various reasons, would never want to go back to that dreary and boring time. My parents had terrible money problems, and my mother, college educated and having formerly worked for the United Nations, did NOT like being a housewife. The 60s were the best time for me!

[@clarencetrice4442]

😊😊 the blue and white car I noticed rightway a 1953 chevy bel air 2 door hard top and later on there was the 1955 1957 chevy bel air also they dont make cars like that no more its sad 😔 😮 2 say and they had the side windows U could open and vents near the floor board was the same way 😊😊 OMG 9 12 2O24

[@mikedrown2721]

I was born in 1946😊

[@99RiverSt]

A fan of your channel. However, the narration on this one seemed askew from visual content; talk of neon lit fast foods on Hway, while urban churches are being shown, Small price for otherwise priceless visual delights. There's tri-tone 56/57 Ford, B&W with Orange roof...to die for, and a black & red Merc(?)....the head spins. THANKS!!!!!! Former musician now in my 70s with related health problems, but living great memories through these,

[@marcsilag6959]

I sure wish your VoiceOver was in sync with your visual image…

[@fmcg5364]

These times after the war when the US was doing well was partly due to the effects of what World War II did to other countries. We were sitting pretty while England had rationing until 1953, most of the western European countries were able to clean up their war damage by the end of the 1950s. I remember when guys from the military in the 1970s brought back cheap albums from Japan with thin covers wrapped in plastic. The Americans were already copying what Japan was doing in the 1970s

[@Suzanne-f4x]

Diners also meant that you didn't have to wrestle your kids in and out of the car.

[@scathson]

Mass market color film was available as early as 1935 - while I appreciate the b/w to color transition we are getting interpretations - was that pink car really pink - not likely - were a third of the cars on the road purple - heheh - if actual color photos aren't available then an HD process for b/w would be much more useful

[@dflf]

None of the pictures matched the narrative. It's just a bunch of random photos

[@sojourning7]

Oh just chill out and enjoy..❤

[@dflf]

@@sojourning7 try doing a better job

[@marilynhendry2061]

Would like to know who made this great music. Please respond

[@gordonhaire9206]

I would love to see someone compile crowd scenes from every decade of the 20th century to see when obesity became prevalent.

[@lilashelton535]

The only down side to this era would be limited medical knowledge compared to now.

[@bobmorr2892]

You have some 1960s cars on your 1950s streets. Better check your calendar.

[@Kevin-q1m3p]

I love the signage, to bad it's all locked up in someone's hoard collection

[@nicolasrossi5978]

Another 60's vehicle traveling down the middle of the street @ 11:53. Whoops!

[@rg3595]

Nice photos of some wonderful fifties, but photos do not relate to narrator’s dialog.

[@johnjaco5544]

Now,people sleep in their cars,sad to see the decline of society today.

[@amilhollywood3880]

Cuando Estados Unidos era auténtico, con valores, orgullo, familia y las cosas derechas!

[@hildablanco1591]

50 cents gas prices 2 dollar hamburger with soda 100 dollars for suit tie and leather shoes and 800 dollar Rolex and a House was 25.ooo dollars for a four bedroom in LA California

[@nicolasrossi5978]

@ 12:22 almost every car in the photo is a 60's vehicle. Sorta sloppy.

[@lutkedog1]

3;55 LOWELL MI M21 MAIN STREET LOOKING WEST

[@nancypotvin9594]

Nice pics, but your narrative had NOTHING to do with pictures being shown at that moment.

[@RobSwan1948]

The time period of Eisenhower and JFK - great era !

[@neildickson5394]

Badly produced. The photos have literally nothing to do with dialog discriptions. Supposed to be about car culture, yet all is frequently shown are the tops of old buildings, not even the street. Ameturish.

[@chrishamilton1189]

The obsession with cars is very odd in this country. Im mid 40's and just look at cars as getting me where I need to go but alot of people are way overboard with it and their obsession cost them a fortune

[@carlacespede3489]

"When we were happy and we didn't know it" #A_FAVOR 2023 17 DE DICIEMBRE

[@godfreyzilla8608]

It would have been nice if the dialogue coincided with the images but it doesn't at all. If you mention "motor courts and hotels, fast food drive up restaurants and neon lights you should show that not totally unrelated scenes. Very unprofessional.

[@eutimiochavez415]

Cars were king back then now they are junk,people can’t afford. One now ?😂😂😂😂

[@sojourning7]

You're right! My first car at age 18 was a 1960 Pontiac Bonniville...that thing was like a tank. Lotsa good memories with that car.

[@kennethsarnes2087]

What wonderful pic’s but such horrible music 14:10

[@RobertStine-s7b]

Nice pictures; better without the blather and the tunes.

[@gordonhaire9206]

I grew up in the 1950s. It sucked. The conformity, the keeping up with the Joneses, the blatant hypocrisy, the virulent racism, the cold war. Duck & Cover. The sole saving grace was Rock 'n' Roll and R&B Top 40 Radio. The cars were ugly.

[@Fush1234]

And I guess sadly you may also have caught zacharies disease from the 50’s. It was widespread.

[@andyhowat4624]

I'll pray for you.

[@benniecohens226]

I'm glad those racist days are gone, now everybody got guns lmmao

[@rongreen8962]

There was a Bubble. If you were white in the US (and some other countries) after WW2, you pretty much had the best of everything. This bubble has now burst, and reality is starting to bite. This video shows the bubble, and to look upon it with nostalgia feels good, but denies reality. We ought to study history, quit whining, and figure out the next steps.

[@AlfieP-ob5ww]

When America was still great before cockroaches took over😪