52 Things From the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, & 1980s, Kids Today Will Never Understand

[@RecollectionRoad]

Can you think of any other examples that kids today wouldn't understand?

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

On televisions, the horizontal and vertical hold, plus the color and tint buttons, not to mention moving the rabbit ears around. My dad would get SO mad when we messed around with the color and tint haha Also, the waiting game, waiting for the tubes in the back to warm up and waiting for the little dot to get bigger before the picture would come in. Today's kids would have a fit because nothing back then was instantaneous. Not to mention, I'm sure they'd all be lost without microwaves too 😂 Being a younger kid in the 70s and hitting 15 in 1980 were the best times of my life!!

[@Qingeaton]

Home made go karts of 2 x 4's and plywood, a few bolts and nails, some all thread for axles and old wheels from junked lawn mowers. We rode those down the hills so fast, we were breaking the speed limit. Of course, they had no brakes, you were waiting for the next uphill to slow you

[@gustavsorensen9301]

It wound be interesting to see a video of “52 things from the 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, and 1910s kids, who grew up, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s would never understand”

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

@@gustavsorensen9301 lol, it really would be very interesting!!

[@Lili-xq9sn]

​@@gustavsorensen9301 Yes!!! ❤

[@sherw7635]

Born in 54...lived the reality in this video... Thankfully.

[@terry-f3l]

yes, me too. march 28th

[@kymburriss4260]

I was born in March 1955.... graduated in 1973. Great time to grow up

[@margaretkur8161]

​@@kymburriss4260Same years. Better than today.

[@chetpietras8402]

Age 70, and my God do I miss this time in America!! Thank you for all these great memories!!

[@hbennett5640]

57...Same❤🌲Merry Christmas!

[@chetpietras8402]

@@hbennett5640 Merry Christmas back at ya!! 🎄

[@baseballmomof8]

68 here… same. Good times.

[@cycleguy1943]

Those were magical times back then…today is so full of commercialized feelings…the magic has slowly gone away

[@jeanie9139]

This was great! Man, the changes we’ve seen. Progress? I’m not too sure about that. Thanks for the great memories.

[@glennso47]

I heard that the Gregorian calendar was developed by St Gregory hundreds of years ago and it was developed with no modern technology. Just in his head! And people called them “the dark ages!” I think the time we live in today are the real dark ages.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961, as a kid I would get dressed up in a suit by my parents. I played on my bike outside all day. I miss those days and would go back in a heartbeat. I grew up during the 60s, 70s and by the 80s I was in my 20s. I turned 20 in 1981.

[@julenepegher6999]

Me too child of the 60’s teen in the 70’s. The absolute best times. 😊

[@robmatlock7675]

We are part of Generation Jones (Google it) from 1957 to 1964, we were the 70s teens!

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

🙏❤️🎉​@@beadyeye2312

[@adorabledeplorable5105]

I was born in ‘52 . I lived in Tucson but we moved in ‘63 to Oregon . My folks but a 5 acre farm and we grew our own vegetables and raised our own beef . I had a horse , swam in the Mollala River , rode my bike 5 miles to the nearest “ mom and pop “ store ( with creaky stained wooden floors ) to buy a Coke . Great memories …..I feel bad at how much kids are missing simple pleasures .

[@stephendacey8761]

Although, there were only 3 main stations and 3 UHF channels (if lucky) T.V. was still better than it is today. Besides from all the Western shows there was The Munsters, Leave It To Beaver, I dream Of Jeannie, The Honeymooners, and The Dick van Dyke show among many others.

[@carlavision6143]

Those were the good old days back in the 70's & 80's! I remember recording the top 100 on tapes, and the pops with the pull tabs and hoping it'd have 25¢ under it. We didn't have mushrooms in our kitchen we had Tupperware and wood paneling. Thanks for the memories!

[@glennso47]

Someone told me that the good old days ended when Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden.

[@glennso47]

As a kid I used to be scared to do anything with the tags on my mattress because it said “Do Not Remove. Under Penalty of Law “. I was afraid that if the tags were removed I would be arrested and charged with something. I didn’t know that the tags were not to be removed by anyone but the person who had bought the mattress. I think most newer mattresses now say that. 😮

[@timetowakeup6302]

"We get bored with childhood that we rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. We lose our health to make money and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present, such that we live in neither the present nor the future. We live as if we will never die, and die as if we had never lived.”

[@Oldschoolrules123]

Most people aren't even trying to maintain their health. I'm 65 and lift weights and eat right ... I don't eat what the government recommends. Older age is when your health means the most.

[@glennso47]

@@Oldschoolrules123what ever the government recommends, I try to do the opposite. I’m probably better off that way. Especially when it comes to what I eat.

[@hbennett5640]

​@@Oldschoolrules123I stay away from the health care system as much as possible. Eat well, gentle exercise, and good sleep❤❤❤.

[@Oldschoolrules123]

@@hbennett5640 Exactly,an don't fall for their.... You need this drug ,or you need that drug.

[@evelynmoriarty5154]

@@glennso47 And especially ignore what the advertisements tell you. So much unhealthy food now. We grew up in the 50's & 60's with real food, processed came along later and we're unhealthier for it.

[@stephenspilker9334]

my mom taught me manners in the 60's and by god i still remember a few lol. i would love to relive those days knowing what i know now. damn i miss growing up in the 60's. ty for posting i love this channel.

[@julenepegher6999]

As a child of the 60’s we played with total abandon outside. We wouldn’t see our mom all day long. The things we did……😮

[@hbennett5640]

Same❤

[@hbennett5640]

I'm ready to go back in time when there were no cell phones.

[@Dadsezso]

When we would travel, we would let relatives know before we left that when they get a collect call from us, we had arrived where we were going. They'd refuse the call but know we had arrived at our destination. LOL.

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

: We did that too, I think this was almost universal!❤😂

[@Dadsezso]

@@gloriousjohnson1807 You're right. I'm betting the phone companies knew it too. How could they not?

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

@@Dadsezso : My sentiment exactly. These people do nothing "by chance". It's by "design". They've been planning this 💩 a very long time.

[@Mama4d8]

There was a TV show in 1962 or 3. I think Cinderella. I was chosen to come on stage and received Tinker toys. I sure wish I could find it. Must have been local to Columbus Ohio. Church on Sunday mornings was absolute. Sunday evenings usually. And since dad was a barber he took Wednesdays off so went to prayer meeting. I so much appreciate the memories you invoke.

[@kevinellis8307]

I still have my Tinker Toys as a matter of fact…. Tennessee here, so these were a National Toy…

[@Mama4d8]

@@kevinellis8307 Sorry I meant the Cinderella show lol. I wish I could find the taped episode.

[@joeydepalmer4457]

I can honestly say tv in the 1970s was so much better than what tv has become since the year 2000. We had only 3 stations but they where worth more and had much better programing than what we have now

[@margaretkur8161]

When I was a child, as the eldest I was the one who was allowed to answer the phone (on the kitchen wall). I had to say, "Hello. Who is this, please?" every time. We never had telemarketing calls back then. There were door-to-door salesmen, though.

[@glennso47]

I once had a phone call from a person who said they were going to kill me. To this day I’m scared whenever the phone rings even though now I have a phone with Caller Identification. It’s possible to spoof the number you are calling from though. 😢 I often let my answering machine pick the call up and then if it’s someone I want to talk to I will call them back.

[@randyronny7735]

I was lucky enough to have lots of kids growing up close together. We had about 20 kids that would play together in an area of about 700' x 1,000'. The ages varied by about 5 years and we still played together.

[@footballlvnlady]

I was born in 57. I remember going to stay at my grandparents for a week in summer. They lived in a town of 500 people. I had a friend my age to play with. Remember swinging from the tree swing. Their house was next to a railroad crossing. I would watch the cars and wave at the conductor in the caboose. He would wave back. Fond memories of time gone by.

[@glennso47]

Freight trains don’t have a caboose anymore. They now usually have a small computer device attached to the last car on the train.

[@glennso47]

In some cases plastic cards are the only way to pay for stuff. A lot of stores don’t accept cash.

[@footballlvnlady]

@@glennso47 This was in 1963 in a very small town Wisconsin. The railroad tracks are now walking trails around here.

[@markcain5168]

@@glennso47the light on the back of the train is called an EOT. End of train.

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

Ya, the freedom of being a kid and using the imagination and playing games, like Mother may I and stop and go. It was fun to be a kid and doing some dangerous things, like going down the Emergency hill on your bike or roller skates.

[@brendadrew834]

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. I was born in 1948 and have seen, heard and experienced much of fhis! So much has changed since the 1950s, 60s etc., the 20th century, for better and worst! Sometimes, I really miss the 20th century, but we can't go back. "Time doesn't stand still' and "the older you get, the faster the years go" as my late beloved wise mother always told me, so true!

[@KAT-dg6el]

Born in 58. We had our school clothes and our play clothes. So when we got home from school we had to change our clothes to go outside and play. And we wore them at least two or three times before washing.

[@baseballmomof8]

Yes! 56er here… play clothes, school clothes and church clothes. And you just changed clothes… no complaining or ignoring the rules.

[@johnjettfothergill4231]

1960s kid here. So true and fun to see all the old and long-gone junk and stuff here. Some of your videos show repetitive things, but there's no way around that. Fun, please keep up the good work. Thanks! Oh, and TV dinners were not for TV in my family. They and frozen pot pies were my mom's savior for weekend nights that mom and dad went out with their friends, which was often. We weren't naughty kids by any stretch, but there were not many long-term babysitters!

[@GenXamerica]

We need to get back to looking nice out on public. Taking pride in putting yourself together is a mood booster. People sure could use joy and manners today.

[@heidiwagner1363]

I'm happy to be baby boomer, life was alot PEACEFUL back in the 50's and 60's✌️♥️

[@Aly.knuckles]

Life was peaceful in the 60s?

[@adorabledeplorable5105]

Amen .

[@lovly2cu725]

tell @Ch3rryT3a s/he thinks we dont know how to use computers, when we programmed them

[@lovly2cu725]

@@Aly.knuckles not so much, no starting in 63 and into the 70s and NOW.

[@fyourfeelings3946]

@@Aly.knuckles Right?! Umm The 68 riots come to mind and all the other vietam push back from ironically the lefty hippy groups, and I wasn't even born til the late 70's and I know this. Oh and that freak Bundy was running around. Nothing was safer, nothing was easier. We just have a 24/7 in your face everywhere news cycle that we didn't have back then. Times were tough for a lot of folks then too. ie: Jimmy Carters gas lines. The bottom line is as it was then, the government doesn't care about us. They didn't then and they don't hide it anymore now.

[@CountessKek]

7 kids and our Mom and Dad always hit the road for a month during summer. Dad was a big rockhound and particularly loved the southwest so we were in the desert a LOT lol. Every summer we stopped at every Stuckey's and KOA campground! Also got gas at Sinclair to fill up and get our free Dino the Dinosaur soap! We had a whole closet full of them 😅😅😅 Great video and wonderful memories❤

[@hbennett5640]

Love it❤

[@allison6948]

Born in 1952 i miss these times wonderful life growing up ...wish i could go back ❤

[@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf]

My sister, brother, sister-in-law and I played a marathon game of Boardwalk on Christmas day in 1958. I still remember it as one of the best Christmases ever. It just so happens that today, Christmas season, 2024, I challenged my 16 year old granddaughter to read our analog wall clock. She struggled but finally figured out the time.

[@Abandoned-t3v]

How times have changed back then they actually cared about each other now they could careless

[@johnbethea4505]

I volunteered for service, and I went to Vietnam 1966-67, I really grew up fast.

[@j1st633]

Thanks for your service.

[@johnbethea4505]

@j1st633 just doing my duty, thanks.

[@kymburriss4260]

Thank you for your service. My late husband volunteered, he was a Marine, served in Vietnam 1968-69

[@johnbethea4505]

@kymburriss4260 I am sorry that he is gone. Marines don't expect to live forever..

[@frwayflyer1111111]

68-69 for me

[@BILLDolyniuk]

Those of us born in the late 50.s wow are now in late 60.s it was all worth it ..

[@cspat1]

I remember my mother wearing pretty casual cotton dresses all the time when I was little. In the 70’s before cable hit town we had 3 channels and if the weather was right one of the uhf vhf? Channels. We all talked about specials the next day at work and school.

[@RonaldStaley-y7s]

When I was 10 in 64 I got a job on a poney farm with my friend. That including stacking hey, feeding the ponies and such. The old couple that owned and bred show ponies were so kind and sweet.

[@matrox]

In the late 50s, 60s and 70s some areas had 4 stations, ABC, CBS, NBC and a local station. If you lived in the boonies you were lucky to get 2 or 3 clear signal stations if any at all.

[@glennso47]

I grew up in the boonies so I know about getting a couple tv stations if any at all. 😮

[@MattHandy8577]

I Was Born in 1977 Raised in the 1980’S 1990’s I Was Raised To 1. Respect For Your Country/Flag 2. Swearing Was Rude And unacceptable, 3. Respect For your elders 4. Always Say Please and Thank 0:16 You People have come up to me and said if there were more people like you on this earth, the world would be a better place. It’s truly sad the way some of the younger generation act

[@stevenr2463]

Real cool. Slight differences as I was born and grew up on a small British island. And I never walked to school or back. Always driven in Triumphs, Ford, Peugeot or Jaguar. 1960s and early 70s. Altogether better times.

[@pamelamays4186]

In the 1970's some cereal boxes had phonograph records on the back of them.

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

: On the back of the box!😊❤

[@lovly2cu725]

corn flakes

[@evelynfidler6285]

I remember those

[@irishis3]

We carried a bookbag to elementary school in the 60s. It was like a soft side attache case. As a girl i rocked a psychedelic or floral patterned bookbag

[@julenepegher6999]

@@irishis3 we had the the see through zippered plastic bag, on the way home in the winter we would sit on it and slide down the hill to our house. With our skirts and knee socks on 😊😝.

[@retired815]

I was born in 1951 and glad I experienced these early days.👍

[@mrkitty1367]

Always a great show .

[@Oldschoolrules123]

The only thing that younger generations know is how to hold on to a cellphone 24/7/365. Im glad that im retired because I was getting tired of seeing it at work while I used 2 hands to work. Or trying to talk to someone who can't put down their phone and listen.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Agreed 💯👍🏻

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

At least I'm part of the young generation that knows how to put down the phone.

[@Oldschoolrules123]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Thank you

[@TRIPSTTR]

All they know is fortnite, hotchip and be bisexual! GOBLESS

[@royceweaselman4440]

Your generation invented it, doesn't know how to use the most basic features

[@tanyalarose8907]

I was born in 1963. Christmas of 68' I got a complete cowboy outfit for Christmas. I also got cap guns and a bouncy horse.

[@blackpinups]

And you were one happy 5 year old. 😊

[@glennso47]

@@blackpinupsyou probably wouldn’t get something like that these days.

[@blackpinups]

@@glennso47 Sad but true.

[@hbennett5640]

Loved the bouncy horse❤

[@CherylAnnTompkins]

I was born in 1971, I have lived the best of part of both worlds. I am very greatful for that. I had my son at 18 kids were still riding bikes and skate boardes, and roller blades were still something they did to pass their time. Cel phones were just coming out when they hit their preteens. So most of their childhoods and teen yrs were spent outside playing and spending summers camping without carring if there was cel service!! i am glad we got to enjoy those different eras. 😊

[@chrism9376]

Love the angst he has for the kids today. I’m an 80s kid born in 76. Miss this time

[@mandilynn24]

Born in 75'. I loved my childhood!!!!! ❤❤❤

[@matrox]

Parents go pickup kids today from school because they might get shot or kidnapped. Back in the 70s if I missed my school bus in HS I would hitch hike to school. Today you never see hitch hikers, back then it was common.

[@rachelruffing9835]

Very true!

[@hbennett5640]

So true, or outside all day, all over the countryside exploring.

[@someguy2135]

Although we didn't have caller ID, we did have a way of screening our calls, as long as you had an answering machine.

[@lisanidog8178]

Oooo movies! We went to a theatre called the Colony that’s still around. Later lived around the corner from it. That’s where I saw Camelot and The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins in the early 60’s. Ah movies! Always had to have my box of tiny or large round candy with white sprinkles. Nonpareils.

[@jennifermanns5645]

I grew up in the sixties, and I begged my mom for a Dawn doll ordered from a Cheerios box. She got it for me, and I would go back in that time in a heartbeat. Thank you for the memories.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kevingamble8861]

Imagine having to eat at the dinner table and not being allowed to eat in the living room. Getting junk food or soda pop on weekends and not during the week. Having conversations with our parents that didn't include cursing or else you got the switch.I miss those days and my parents too.

[@hbennett5640]

❤❤❤.

[@julenepegher6999]

Right! And our junk food on Saturday night was either popcorn or peanuts. We never ever had chips or candy. Only candy at Easter and Halloween.

[@matrox]

We played Monopoly, Parchesi, Old Maid, Tonk, Bingo.

[@nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556]

Great games 😁

[@nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556]

Great games 👍

[@bl3313]

Card games, too. Cribbage, Kings on the Corner ...

[@lindauribe6872]

6:11 6:17 We were the first to have a TV on our block and invited neighbors in to watch on certain nights. We also had a 3 party line on our phone, Then the neighbors bought their own TVs. I still have the original board games. We grew up with Disney and after school Disney with Annette and Spin and Marty.

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !!!

[@phillyfred12]

Thanks for putting this together , I watched it twice so far 😂 Born in 48 , you didn’t miss much 👍

[@chrisk7626]

One of my Fondest Memories as a kid is going into that packed arcade with the 80s music blasting and the smell of hot Electronics🎉🎉

[@Jack-xo2zp]

I went to a new dentist's office last week, and the receptionist looked like she had just gotten out of bed. Seven years ago I visited a lawyer in his office, and although the day was a Saturday, I was shocked to see him wearing torn jeans and a T-shirt. Nowadays, if I see some scruffy-looking guy walking down the sidewalk, I don't know if he's a billionaire or a homeless person.

[@footballlvnlady]

I never had a jello salad with vegetables in it. My mom had the copper colored jello molds. She would put mixed fruit in it but that was it. I worked at McDonald’s in the 70’s. My first job. That’s where I learned to count back change. Now, I go to a drive thru and they plop the change into your hand.

[@glennso47]

My mom would mix jello with cottage cheese and fruit cocktail and whipped cream and then we’d have a great dessert especially on a holiday or a get together. 😊Sometimes she would add some shredded coconut. Yummy yum! 😋

[@glennso47]

That’s assuming that there’s even a human being at the window. Remember when toll roads or bridges had agents collecting your coins? Now you simply have a gadget on your windshield that another gadget at the toll booth reads and digital memory that collects your fee. Or if you don’t have the money or the device that tollbooth has a camera that photographs your license plates and then sends you a bill. 😢

[@footballlvnlady]

@ That sounds really good! 👍

[@baseballmomof8]

I worked at McD’s from 72-75. I was there when they switched from fresh ground beef to frozen. I had to watch a “tape” (I cannot recall what the device’s name was) titled “Quality Comes Frozen!”

[@matrox]

16:15 kid looks 3 or 4 but still drinking out of a baby bottle.😁😆

[@karynroeseler2652]

The kid next to him looked younger and didn't have a bottle

[@cadence9055]

That’s what you got out of this? So sorry.

[@ruurdm.fenenga2571]

At the VHS store: Be Kind, Rewind.

[@hbennett5640]

❤❤❤so true

[@domsalexa]

I was so fortunate to be born in 1965 😊

[@simonhough]

old tv sets used to take a while to warm up they came with a tv aerial that you had to move around to get a picture the picture would start flicking up and down and we would hit the top to the box to try and get the picture back they had a strange high pitched whistle sound and when you turn the set off there was a small white dot of light left in the centre of the screen which faded away sets also had a smell to them must of been the valves heating up.

[@404goldie7]

Remember in the '80's you would see cassettes tossed out of cars onto the street and the unspooled tape hanging out waving in the breeze.

[@hbennett5640]

Lol!!

[@MikeLutton]

i miss them days of going to the Video store it was fun to Rent Movies and Tv Shows you Know

[@hbennett5640]

So much fun...loved it back then❤

[@tedbarton2711]

72 yrs old here. I remember seeing John Wayne in a war movie say, "What in the sam hill is going on here?" Because you couldn't say hell in the movies.

[@hbennett5640]

I remember that line in the movie, lol.

[@matrox]

In the early 60s in grade school our mother made us wear hard dress shoes to school. By the late 60s I was wearing Chuck Taylor sneakers to school. The early 60s were like night and day compared to the late 60s. Its like things changed over night.

[@glennso47]

They did. The day JFK was assassinated was that time when things changed forever.

[@basicwm9]

One thing they wont understand is when i was 7 years old and it was summer my mom would tell me to get out of the house or she'd put me to work you stayed out all day building forts,catching crawdads fishing and causing trouble thats how i learned valuable life lessons it was freedom and fantastic. Oh and your most prized possession was your bike. This was in the 60s .

[@glennso47]

As the character on Back To The Future said when he appeared at a Chuck Berry concert “ your kids will love it “ when he did the duck walk dance that ultimately became popular.

[@KurtCochran-w5l]

When I was 14 I could go places by myself. No such critter today.

[@hbennett5640]

I was running around the woods and countryside building teepees and forts out of sticks, climbing trees and eating blueberries from our yard. My parents had no clue where I was, lol. It was a wonderful time❤.

[@janewilson7042]

Wow that's is some great memories of the by gone days! It's always a fun time to relive those days even if it's for a few minutes! Thank you.

[@glennso47]

I was a victim of the draft in 1966. When I got my draft letter, I went to the recruiter and joined the navy. I was sent to Vietnam anyway,but I served on a salvage ship.

[@hbennett5640]

Respect...thank you❤hugs.

[@glennso47]

@@hbennett5640Just congratulate me not for going to Vietnam but for coming back alive and in one piece. Unfortunately a lot of good people didn’t.

[@chrisk7626]

Great memory the helicopter things that came from the trees🎉

[@pamelamays4186]

My older brothers had a Thing Maker and a chemistry set in the 1960's.

[@kevinellis8307]

We got a Thing Maker too!!! It was really cool!!! You had to respect it though, very Hot !!! I remember how jiggly and wiggly they were and the different metal plates!!! Very cool!!!

[@starkiller1782]

I remember the incredible edibles great toy

[@Ned-r4t]

Very best years of my life!

[@incognitoguitars9999]

Tremendous. Ty

[@rickbackous1041]

Biggest thing to me is people not dressing to leave the house. Nothing irritates me more than someone in the store with their jammies and slippers on.

[@karenwolz3906]

I loved silly putty!

[@patrickhepburn7867]

Thank you what happy memories you gifted me. I try to explain these things to my grandchildren.. 😊

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Yes, we had our Sunday's best. Thanks for the video.

[@TX_BADMAN]

Well done, my mother smoked and drank and here I am over sixty with six grandchildren ... Thank you. This is a great video.

[@neildollar]

2:44 I quit working as a teenager in my early 20s. Ha ha. Love the videos!

[@georgeditzel3504]

The kids in the classroom are very neatly dressed but the “ I’d rather be somewhere else” look on their faces are the same today.

[@whatdoyouthinktodd]

It's funny how he says you can pick up a board game for like $2. But the average hourly wage in the United States in 1960 was $2.75 before taxes. I was born in 1962 My dad used to tell us when we asked for something. You know it takes me this many hours of work to pay for that. I never really understood until I had to start working myself. And I use that very same phrase on my children when they wanted something.

[@MrRrainbeau]

Missing: Telephone booths, TV stations going “off the air” @midnight or maybe 1AM.

[@brudug713]

I went to a High School in New Jersey that was one of the last public schools that had a formal dress code. Boys wore; Collared shirts with a tie, slacks not jeans,if you had long hair it must be tied neatly back. Girls wore Dresses or skirts max of 4 inches above the knee. No see thru blouses. Students were expected to be clean and well mannered. There was no smoking on school property (at least for students). We moved to a rural area and I went into culture shock. Torn jeans tee shirts, mini skirts, and a smoking area. Oh My God! 🤣

[@tobiojo6469]

Cool video

[@brianquilty687]

@ :37 seconds, all the kids have their mothers nose .... very cute ! And yes, I walked to school everyday of my school years. I never got a ride from my parents.

[@karynroeseler2652]

We walked a mile as we weren't within the bus route. The moms had a car pool system set up to drive us if it was raining or very cold. One of the moms had a Triump car and there were probably 6 kids sitting on others laps. Those were fun days

[@brianquilty687]

@@karynroeseler2652 The car pool idea sounds fantastic. Can you imagine trying the Triumph with all those kids today ?

[@lisanidog8178]

I used to watch on Sundays The Wonderful World of Disney in the 60’s.

[@lisanidog8178]

Westerns are for girls too! I’m used to watch The Rifleman, Wagon Train. Didn’t see Bonanza until the 70’s. My TV had to be limited since I loved it too much. Even watched a little Dark Shadows until it scared me.

[@glennso47]

Annie Oakley was a western with a girl as the main character.

[@lisanidog8178]

mmmm. Never saw it. It ran from 1954 to 1957. I wasn’t born until 1959 and never saw the show when I was coming up in the 60’s. I would’ve enjoyed it a lot.

[@lindauribe6872]

The TV Guide was our Bible for keeping track of movies and shows. No one did drugs nor drugs were not around my son. born in 1964.

[@redvelvetrose]

Drug use is not new. There were people doing drugs right in front of you. You just didn’t see it. Not to mention how common casual alcoholism was back then.

[@flatroc1]

I think one topic you missed was the importance of the Sears christmas wish book mail order catalogs, before Amazon. lol

[@cyclenut]

The draft. Kids back then played all summer with other kids, playing TAG, hide and seek and touch football, war, cowboys and Indians. Playgrounds with tall slides and some spiraled, tall swings some could see a over roofs of houses Kids back then were tough, capable and understanding of others. In other words, better soldiers. People read a lot back then. Newspapers, magazines and TV guide.people learned many things together. TV 3 networks, PBS and sometimes an independent. When something good was on everybody watched it, together. People were much more friendly and social and had lots of mutual interest. Cars and pickups trucks the people inside could clearly be seen and people dressed up. People often drove slower so they could wave at people sitting on the porch. Cars and pickups had some really nice paint jobs, deep luster and metallic that lead paint gave. The first Hot Wheels had the same deep luster and metallic paint jobs of lead paint. The big Tonka toy trucks and construction vehicles, Ethel farm toys and other big metal cars and trucks. The toys required imagination for developing minds. Many had hobbies, building models of cars and trucks, wooden ships, sometimes in a bottle, flower garden, making clothes for the family there were so many hobbies. Today, kids are forced to be pansies, no more fun playgrounds, very few kids play with many others. With social media, online shopping, smart phones people are less friendly and social. A life of shallow distractions and no exercise or a real life. That is how I see people today.

[@hbennett5640]

Reader's Digest and bench seats in cars. The little triangle windows on the older cars to vent the air were fabulous! Bring all of it back❤.

[@cadence9055]

Riding in that tiny space behind the back seat in my brother’s VW Bug!

[@redvelvetrose]

Oh we fidgeted plenty before fidget toys were a thing. We chewed on pencils, clicked pens, bit our fingernails, doodled on paper… todays fidget toys just focus that nervous energy into less annoying venues.

[@jelsner5077]

I was born in 1961. One year, I was to receive a Creepy Crawlers set for Christmas. My older sisters, who had wrapped the gift, told me so in hushed tones that I was to receive it. And there the beautifully wrapped package lay, taunting me under the tree. The days leading up to Christmas, I remember laying under the tree, next to my gift, taking in the heady smell of pine, marveling at the fantastical sparkle of glass baubles and shimmering tinsel, trying hard not to blister my skin on the red-hot, Christmas tree lightbulbs. I used to run my hands carefully over the gift addressed to me under the tree. Through the wrapping paper I could barely make out the Creepy Crawlers lurid packaging underneath: here, a hairy tarantula, there, a slimy centipede, "is that a snake or a worm?" I could hardly wait to open that package! Then, finally, the long-anticipated moment comes and I am tearing through ribbon and ripping open paper to reveal my beloved Creepy Crawlers set...The squeals and laughter of all my siblings and cousins fade, the chatter of aunts and uncles, parents and grandparents disappear. For an instant I am alone in the living room with my Creepy Crawlers set. If only I could relive that moment of pure, boundless, unadulterated joy, once again.

[@kevinellis8307]

I remember the Creepy Crawlers set and Thing Maker … both of those things were fun !!!

[@lovly2cu725]

did you burn yourself?

[@hbennett5640]

You described the excitement so well❤🌲Merry Christmas vintage buddy!

[@baseballmomof8]

Beautiful memory, thanks.

[@kathleenprice662]

I had one, too, and it was my favorite toy

[@MillerMeteor74]

I was born in 1963, and I met my best friend in the summer of 1971. His parents were much older than mine, and when we were kids his family still had a console radio in the house. I remember it was a Silvertone. They also had a matching table radio, also a Silvertone. Both were still in working order in those days, but were only kept as curiosities. Both ended up getting thrown away at some point. 11:25: backpacks in the 1970?? I never saw such a thing. If a kid had something to carry books in, it was a bookbag, carried just like a briefcase. I never saw kids with backpacks till the mid to late 80s, long after I got out of school. I had silly putty and had a lot of fun with it, and loved Swanson TV Dinners. We lived on the west side of northern NJ, so our TV came from New York City, and we had 7 channels, which included one PBS channel. in the mid to late 70s I had a portable radio and a portable cassette player, so I used to make mix tapes all the time. I remember in some cases I was only able to record a portion of a song, and never knew the name of it or who did it. 20:06 - We had that exact telephone, though ours was like a light tan or yellowish color. I'm not sure any more. It hung on the kitchen wall next to the living room doorway. In the 70s my mom had flip-flops, but they were called thongs. I never heard of flip-flops till sometime in the late 80s.

[@karynroeseler2652]

I lived in St Louis in the 70s. I remember flop flops being called thongs. I got married in 1977 and had to pound into my husband not to call them thongs...took him a long time to get it!!

[@Ken-h5d]

Just had to make a comment in the middle. McDonald's story at 15:30-15:45. A couple of years ago, a friend and I drove an hour to the 'big city' for a Dr. appt. Got in town a little early so stopped by McD's. The order; 2 small coffees, 1 with 1 creamer. Had to repeat it. Got to the window, had to pay with a debit card as cashier could not make change. (IDK why). Got our coffees, they were wrong. Handed them back, explained the error. Got two more coffees, they were wrong. 3rd time was the charm. And these people think they are worth MORE than $15 an hour.

[@katiemoyer8679]

FYI-the purpose of “shaking “ 🤦🏻‍♀️the Polaroid photo was NOT to hurry the developing…waving the newly birthed photo was to use more air flow to Dry the photo,protecting the finish from fingerprints and smears. 💁🏻‍♀️

[@cspat1]

Yes this! We waved it around to dry not to develop.

[@johnbethea4505]

We called it "Game Night."

[@chrisk7626]

I don't know what year that is with the Frosted Flakes with the free bike reflector but I got that as a kid no LOL. I begged my parents to do all that kind of stuff I filled out all those can I have a stamp🎉

[@Sebakeng]

No doubt there were lots of things from the 1950s that kids of the 1980s will never understand.

[@lisanidog8178]

I was born in 1959 and lived a lot of history in the early 60’s though only a toddler.

[@matrox]

I never was really into Howdie Doody because I was too young but did like watching The Mickey Mouse club and Annette Funicello. I was still a pre schooler but had a crush on Annette.

[@glennso47]

It was sad when later Annette died of Multiple Sclerosis.😢

[@francesfarmer736]

B. in 55’ child of the 60s….my mom was over protective so I was never alone, probably bc I was a girl….I remember carrying a red brief case for my books in the late 60s….mom smoked but she said she didn’t while pregnant…..neither parent drank, fortunately……I had Creepy Crawlers, Fright Factory & Fun Flower, never was burned,,,,played on that now banned playground equipment…..I survived! Best rocknroll 🎶ever…Great Decade!