67 Vintage Photos of Life in America during the 1960s

[@dougpreston5097]

Vintage my ass, I was born 1957, you must be 19 years old. You spoiled little shit!

[@bm.3759]

Rude

[@alexjones9038]

who asked doug?

[@wendyryder2708]

Haha! You tell ‘‘em Doug! I was born in 57! It was a GOOD year! Peace and Blessings to you and your family from Australia.

[@alexjones9038]

@@wendyryder2708 he is just sharing photos who cares? he didn't claim taking any of them

[@stevenwgoode]

Take your meds, Doug.

[@Peachy08]

Born in 1959...I loved growing up as a kid in the 60s. I feel bad for kids today not knowing what playing outside all day was like, watching cartoons on Saturday morning, riding in the back of a pick up. The little things in life are what makes up my best memories.

[@louislabouskie8488]

I agree I was born in 1959, and as kid too, 👍👍

[@TishMclain]

Agree also I'm 67 Those were the good Ole days

[@sparrowrum]

Born in 61. Going outside to play all day…. Nothing better.

[@poppykok5]

...and going swimming in the lake during summer, & ice skating during winter, attending parades the whole town would show up for, climbing trees & throwing crabapples at the train tracks, drive-ins to see Clint Eastwood films, walking to UDF for ice cream cones, etc.,etc... 🥰 the "good ole days" in my opinion!

[@Banjo625]

1958 here same thing for me. Great childhood!

[@paullacroix4793]

Born in 1949. Spent my teenage years in the 1960s. Looking back, it feels like I grew up on a different planet altogether.

[@leestamm3187]

Also born in '49. Lots of great things to remember and lots of terrible things, too. Nostalgia is all good and well but it wasn't all that idyllic for everyone. One way it was vastly better is that we had not yet been attacked by the scourge of social media.

[@1linkbelt]

We did!!

[@sue08401]

Born in 1946 and for the most part it was a lot better than today.@ConwayTwitter

[@MainelyLove]

@ConwayTwitter TY I didn't want to ask but I couldn't figure it out for myself. :D

[@vietnamvet4533]

Yep 50 here and the country I grew up in is in my rear view mirror never to return.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

Gosh, I loved living in the sixties, I’d go back in a heart beat if I could!

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

I would go back in a heart beat as well.

[@jenniferdjaslowskj993]

@@atlanticantiquesltd7372 I'm right behind you...before the internet, you could only see stuff like this (if you were lucky) in someone's garage or perhaps in a library or an attic. All of us can go "home again" with the click of a button.

[@joedavidpeacock5300]

Me too Kathy!

[@DJPitBear]

YES BUT THE LINES ARE GOING TO BE LONG 😬😬😬😳😳😳

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

So would I

[@liamsandal6360]

All the Debbie Downers on these threads barking at anyone who remembers the past with a degree of nostalgia. Ugh! Not everything back then was terrible! We did not have an obesity epidemic. People were active and physically fit. People were better communicators. People read books. Our cities were much cleaner. Etc., etc. There was a lot that was positive about American life back then.

[@dethray1000]

no debbie downers--they just had a suckee life--we had a great life then

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

@@dethray1000 Exactly!

[@jonimichalski9193]

Better than worsted Now I think what about you?

[@AFmedic]

I agree 100%

[@jediknight38]

...and food tasted better too. Before they started replacing fat with sugar based chemicals into everything we eat now. 🤢🤮

[@JOLEE462]

I'm a 1962'er ....I miss playing till street lights came on and the amazing life you had with all your friends in the neighborhood outside....no media...just being kids

[@luislaplume8261]

For me and my brother TV was our babysitter.

[@MrMensa141]

Graduated hs in '63. You are so right. Grew up in the Miami, Fl area but did get to some of the east coast places depicted here. '64 World's Fair. NY beaches. Old NE towns. No 24/7 news to destroy our country. So nice then.

[@dianewilson5516]

I was born in 1953, and I have 3 siblings and the last was born in 1958. I remember a lot of these times. I turned 13 in 1966. I still remember a lot of the old stores. My sister and I wish we could step back into the 1960's for a vacation from all this turmoil.

[@kurrie3280]

@@dianewilson5516 You really can't be serious. No turmoil in the 60s? Read a history book of that time.

[@debbiebasche7760]

And the cars!! Masterpieces on wheels..

[@derylsabin1423]

I'm 79. Best time of my life. New generation will never know those happy times.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

It's not their fault😠😠

[@bobhoffmann838]

You can tell by these pictures, how simple things were. I was 10 in 62, and I’ll never forget.

[@pauljones2857]

I was 11 in 62 grown up in San Diego and it was wonderful great times I miss it

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

The surface is simple. Human life is never simple.

[@scottodonnell7121]

@@BlueBeeMCMLXI because we make it ridiculously difficult.

[@debishaw9355]

Me, too!

[@Lovecruzin1]

I was 10 in 62 too!

[@mickeyfinnfinn5449]

What beautiful Photographs of a Country that was going somewhere ! People stood out side Stores & Business's that they are proud of owning & running - Every one dressed impeccably - Beautiful Automobiles - No litter - In a period of time now no longer with us ! - Fortunately these various images - Each scene caught in time by various individuals that now enables us to get a peep at this past ! - A past that sadly now only exists in a few living people's memories - And these amazing snaps ! - Being born in 1961my memories just skirt the edges of some of times Thankyou for sharing theses amazing photographs !

[@HawklordLI]

Going somewhere? Like Viet Nam, race and civil rights riots, assassinations, Jim Crow laws, women as second class citizens, etc. etc?

[@mikimike]

At least illegal back-alley abortions are coming back again. Maybe this channel can feature some photos of that? Just like the ones from back in the day.

[@LynxSouth]

@@mikimike No, not like the ones back in the day. There are lots more kinds of pregnancy-preventing birth control available now, so there should be less call for abortion. There was actually reliable birth control in the 1960s, just not routinely available to single women.

[@urbanurchin5930]

@Mickey Finn Finn...you may want to re-watch...the shot of Chicago - at about the 8:13 mark shows a pretty shabby and grimy street that didn't look all that good.....

[@liamsandal6360]

@@HawklordLI Yes, all of those things happened. And there were many aspects of American life decades ago that I believe were better. For instance, we did not have an obesity epidemic. People were physically active. People were better communicators. People read books. Our cities were much cleaner. Yes, there were bad things. But there were good things as well.

[@MarkAMMarrk]

I was born in 1960 and raised in a small town in PA until 1969. These small town pictures are EXACTLY how I remember it. Thanks.

[@groodman1]

What small town ?

[@MarkAMMarrk]

@@groodman1 Beaver Falls... west of Pittsburgh. And Eastvale, which was even smaller!

[@trackman174]

I was born in 1946 and grew up in the 50’s and early 60’s. Upon the death of President Kennedy things started changing and not for the better. One year after I graduated from high school I was drafted and sent to Vietnam. This event alone changed me forever, but that’s another story. Ever since our country has slowly spiraled downward to our present sad state. Who and what’s to blame is a list too long for here. I consider myself to be very fortunate to have witnessed a more pleasant time in our history. This brought back those memories. Thank you

[@magnuswalker7957]

Likewise on this side of the pond 🇬🇧

[@trimule]

That is EXACTLY what I regularly tell people. You can never point out an exact point when the peak of a civilization was reached and the inevitable downhill slide begins but a symbolic event or date (the assassination of Julius Caesar or Napoleon invading Russia) can be used to generalize. Nov. 22, 1963 will be the date I will always use. Too long to elaborate on here but for instance, I graduated HS in 1964 - my brother from the same HS in 1970. We went out into already different worlds. In 1966 the Texas Tower massacre was the biggest event since Kennedy and was talked about for weeks. Now we have the same or worse on a weekly basis. My wife and I worked for a glorious glamourous business called Pan American World Airways. I was just watching news reports of the airports full of people howling to get onto the cattle car airways. Glad we had the best of it - the worst is yet to come.

[@dethray1000]

yeah i agree the neocons,deep state killed jfk ,we got the vietnam cesspool,watts riots in '65 and never been the same...sucks

[@GordoGambler]

I always say innocence died in the Woodstock mud. And grunge arose.

[@worldweary1913]

Glad you made it home from VN. Thank you for going to serve like the WWII era generation before you. Thank You and Welcome Home.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

I was born in 1963. What I notice here is the prevalence of so many locally-owned, Mom 'n' Pop type stores... before the ubiquity of national franchises that made all American cities start to look the same...

[@jakerazmataz852]

There was a segment on 69 min. or one of those shows a couple decades called, "The Malling of America". That and big box stores were are the downfall of small business.

[@forwheelinallday]

I was born in 1954. I'm so thankful I grew up in this Era.

[@anthony6631]

I was born in 1956. The 1960's were the best years of MY life. Sometimes I don't want to live in these times. It's a big fake and phone world.

[@scottishhellcat]

I'm a 1954 baby, too. It was a good era.

[@scottishhellcat]

I'm enjoying the good looking cars in the pics.

[@cynthia8343]

@@anthony6631 I know, I'm a 58 baby and I so miss those days too. Never used to think about growing old until recently because of how fast time is flying by, so fast it's scary.

[@kathysunshine699]

Born in 1954 also!… loved growing up with all the kids in the neighborhood, roller skating with clunky steel skates, that clamped on our saddle shoes ( don’t lose your skate key!😂)…and riding my pink Shwinn bicycle, on our sidewalks in the neighborhood, first thing in the morning in the summer, until the street lights came on at night!..All the neighborhood mom’s would watch all of us, wherever you landed at lunch time is where you ate, as long as you called your mom first!😊… And another body’s mom could scold you if needed!🫣…We were so lucky and did not even know it!

[@mariagilligan7133]

I miss these times so much. 2022.is sad.

[@lindajohnson7838]

Everything looks so clean. People were happy and proud to be an American. Truth and honor ment something back then.

[@robertlehmann6281]

Well stated. Note none are overweight and not a tattoo in sight. People were happy and took pride in their country A great time to grow up in America which had a common denominator of faith, family, and traditional values.

[@alcamerc9923]

Finally, something I can identify with. Shoot! Man, this was my time. Don’t revisit the past if you want to be happy, they say, but there were plenty of good times then. For one thing, we had freedom of speech, “men were men and girls were girls” and no one questioned that primitive concept. Our boys and girls went to school in the morning and came back still being boys and girls in the afternoon. Our White House was something we revered with pride, our president someone we respected, our laws something we OBEYED, but above all, we loved our country. We had fist fights, not machine gun battles, shoot-byes. Say what you will, but there was happiness back then. We were simple folk. I picture now all the folks from that generation tearing up while watching these photos, like me. God I miss those days. Oh, well! Thank you so much for sharing your collection. Priceless!

[@candaceroberts3238]

I want to double thumbs up your comment.👍🏽👍🏽

[@candaceroberts3238]

So many have mentioned being home by the time the streetlights came on. This is something we all remember and that alone always reminds me of the joy of being a little kid then.

[@joyanders3968]

Definitely the best of times.

[@SoniaPollock-wc2ej]

I agree with your comment watching this video stirred so many beautiful memories that I had tears rolling down my cheeks those were the best times that will never be again so sad

[@michaelaskew6025]

Fabulous photos of a long-gone era that still excites. Thanks.

[@DS-ky9dl]

I was born in the 50's. We rode our bikes for hours , going everywhere. All was good as long as we got home when the streetlights came on! Good times.

[@lauriepolden6594]

What strikes me in every picture and every photo is how clean the streets are, they will never be that clean again. The streets were pristine, no litter no cigarette butts no trash thrown everywhere. Everything was clean people cared.

[@davidallen5776]

It's a damn shame that we let ourselves sink to the deepest of depths at this present time. For the past 50 years, it seems we've been on a downward spiral!

[@rdred8693]

We have David. I hate this timeline.

[@steveluth3139]

Well the middle class paid for the banking mortgage crisis in 2009, after that economy growth was 365% till 2021. Yet nothing of that went back to the middle class that saved the economy. Let that show of greed by the wealthy sink in.

[@labrd41]

Ever since LBJ's "Great Society".

[@MrMensa141]

@@steveluth3139 - The FED keeping interest rates low let hedge funds borrow money at almost zero percent to buy up all the land. With interest rates rising they will now pay! Cheer on higher interest rates!

[@1linkbelt]

@@rdred8693 I am so glad I was born in 1940 and got to live in a better time!!

[@caliden3785]

When cars were beautiful and the streets were clean mostly. I was born in 1970...my brother in 1961...I love it because my parents were young and full of life.

[@jrubybowman]

AND YOU WERE AN ENTITLED WHITE CHILD so it was not so nice for many many MANY others

[@poppykok5]

Thanks for the memory...My boyfriend (a high school teacher & coach) bought a beautiful brand new Porsche 911 for $7,ooo in the early seventies! 🙂

[@scuba_sam6321]

I'm a child of the 60's.. born 63.. 😊 I can remember things when I was 3-4 yrs old.. I used to talk to my late Mom about certain things.. shed say "but you were only 4.. how do you remember that?" 😊 Lost my Mom June 2020.. my Dad Feb06.. my parents were of the old school.. met when my Mom was 16 in 1959.. Daddy was 20 in 59.. They were together till my Mom held his hand at 3:30pm 03Feb2006 and he drew his final breath.. America will NEVER again see the tranquil days we lived in that era.. no cell phones, video games, social media.. LIFE at its finest 😊

[@SMac-bq8sk]

I was born in 1960. I can relate. Also lost both my parents; my dad in 2001 and mom in 2012. Kinda makes you feel like an old orphan. I too can remember things from age 3. It's funny, because it's like snapshots or images of certain things; and usually it's just ordinary things...nothing special. Rather odd to have memories from such a young age, huh? So sorry for your losses. Just glad we can still cherish our memories.

[@jameswood231]

I was born in '63 as well. I lost my Mom Carlene in 2006 and Dad Johnny in 2011. They were married in 1959 Flint, Michigan. Those times were good in many ways.

[@jameswood231]

I also remember 12 cent comic books, 30 cent gasoline, 10 cent candy bars, 50 cent movie tickets, Miracle Twin Drive In, Halo burger, Walli's, A&W and Coney Island restaurants, Hamady Bros. grocery stores, paper grocery sacks (with real cashiers and baggers who would pack your groceries, push them out to your car and load them) 10 cent popcorn vending machines, full service gas station attendants, 15 cent McDonald hamburgers, 15 cent Coke vending machines, the coolest cars on the planet, pretty girls in hot pants and go go boots. And Uncle Walter on the CBS nightly news. Downtown Flint Michigan 1960's Christmas lights. Kresges, Smith Bridgmans, Sears, Penneys. Memories. Mom and Dad. Miss you both.

[@bettypearson5570]

One thing I appreciate is how few cars there were. Most households had one car. If you had 2 you were upper middle class. We were poor so even though we lived in the country we didn't have one until the late 60's. Once a month our grandfather would come pick up my mother to go shopping. Most of what we ate was from our farm so there wasn't a great deal of shopping to do. Our closest neighbors, who happened to have 2 cars still only went to town once a week where she would get her hair done, go shopping and any other chores in a single trip. With one car, most families had to share meaning that on days she need the car she would either drop him off at work so she could do her shopping and such. Or he would have a co-worker pick him up. The rest of the week he would have it. Shopping and banking were normally done during the week because banks were closed on weekends and sores closed on Sundays plus shopping was usually, not always, the wife's job and just like housework was done during the weekday. Now most households in my area have at least 4 cars parked in their driveway.

[@MrSamosisimo]

Yep I remember, I grew up in that country and as a child, I remember we were happy people. Not so much now, our innocence is gone!

[@jrubybowman]

you were an entitled white child - it wasn't so happy for people of color - active lynchings, Jim Crow, back ally abortions KKK shall we go on?

[@kathysenn7664]

more please..🙂 thank you for taking us back in time in pictures.. Stand By Me is such an emotional song.. thanks for playin it.. blessings .

[@BillLaBrie]

America was a better, gentler place when people read newspapers, watched baseball, and drove sedans.

[@jameswood231]

Yep. It wasn't perfect, but it was good.

[@rdred8693]

@@jameswood231So much better than today.

[@bbcala9719]

Grew up in the 60's n 70's. Those were great times. America was so different from today. Our society is so lost. Kids today with grow up with a cellphone in their hands and will be on the intranet constantly. We had each other back then, and great entertainers also,. Thanks for the memories. Great photos 📷

[@JimJones-gd2jy]

We are soo blessed to be born in the 60’s . . Enough said

[@jameswood231]

1963 here.

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

1950 here, I was able to fully experience the entire decade, a really great time.

[@deborahrichardson3731]

1966 here 😊

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

@@deborahrichardson3731 Started driving in 1966. 👍

[@walteradamski5169]

I grew up in the 60's. The 50's and 60's were the greatest eras in America, i believe. Not perfect, but, at least you thought the gov't. was for the citizens, and not out to do them. Gas I saw was 30 cents a gallon. Now they are the highest ever, so it's nice to look back when America was great, and had the coolest cars!

[@beverlynur2718]

I cried and laughed during the presentation. I was so anxious to grow up, not knowing how things were going to turn out! Looking at those cars large and colorful. Thanks for the memories. Beverly Nur

[@DB_Cooper727]

Sure has a calming effect on me. Thanks for putting these videos together!

[@MSchichinitsa]

I was born in 1962. It was such a wonderful time. Things were so much simpler. Family life and hard work and God were everything. People were kinder, less complicated, less stressed and angry, and more gracious. Masculine and feminine roles were clearly defined and people knew what was expected of them. Nobody locked their doors at night and neighbours looked out for each other. We were all very blessed.

[@renzo6490]

Well, yes. masculine and feminine roles WERE clearly defined. And that served certain people well. But many people who didn't fit in so neatly were marginalized, ostracized, bullied and even criminalized.

[@nancywhitaker5096]

@@renzo6490 Yes. We can leave the strict gender roles in the past. It did nothing but marginalize more than half the population and caused a lot of unwanted forced marriages and pregnancies. It was also very financially limiting for women. I can remember when the employment choices for women were, housewife, Nurse, and Secretary. That crap was horrible for independent, intelligent women.

[@landtuna3469]

God was dead then as well.

[@JayJay-lc5qq]

I was a teen then. The music literally brought tears to my eyes and I loved those amazing pictures. How they were restored so beautifully is beyond me. The haunting trumpet music something I wish I knew where to find. I am so grateful for this amazing series!

[@blazingtrailsblogvideos1463]

They are probably not restored. I am quite sure they are 35mm slides. Slide pictures were always the best quality and were full color way back. My family always took slide pictures and I digitized them several years ago. I have two crystal clear color slide pictures of my Dad, uncle and grandfather from June, 1940. Full, natural clear color. Look like modern pictures taken yesterday. Treasures.

[@brianbumgardner8704]

Born in 57, I remember these times vividly. Back when you stayed out in the summer until the street lights came on and you ate lunch at different house every day.

[@hikerx9366]

Not only were the cars incredible, I loved the use of electric lit signage everywhere as well the decorated streets for the Holiday Seasons. Sure there was hard times back in those days too but nowadays we are facing extinction. That about says it all.

[@MarkAMMarrk]

I was thinking too about how great it looked during Christmas in the 60's. 👍

[@analogman9697]

At age 68, I feel like I should be in a museum.

[@hikerx9366]

@@analogman9697 Remember in biblical times guys lived to the age of 200 years and longer. Your a young buck take advantage. 😉

[@michaelairheart6921]

Ah the 60s. When you could pull into a gas station and someone would pump your gas, wash your windshield, check your tire pressure, check your oil, and you still paid less than 50 cents per gallon for gas. When a quarter would get you a coke, a candy bar, and some change back.

[@TishMclain]

Yeah what's this world coming to

[@poppykok5]

I even remember gas wars when you could get a gallon of gas for *$.29!*

[@Izftbl]

The young people of today would never understand that time That time was something else

[@cathywilson6964]

Love the 60’s … I enjoyed this so much…. thank you

[@SamhainBe]

I'm ready to go back...

[@funkibloo3811]

💖👍

[@anthony6631]

Please take me with you! There's no place like home.

[@johnhalek9664]

With you .

[@craigg.2546]

Take me

[@ilanamillion8942]

Thanks for keeping the original music from the Yesterday Today videos. That music adds so much to the pictures of any era.

[@pegs1659]

I was glad to see the photo from Decatur, Al. That was the year my family and I moved there from Mississippi at age 9.

[@kathys1077]

I’d love to go back to those times.

[@marygrant882]

I remember my parent pulling into a gas station, asking the attendant ( who was wearing a white uniform with a white cap) for two dollars worth of ethel.

[@jameswood231]

Yeah, what is a service station attendant? Lol. I miss those days/and the people who helped shape my life.

[@brazillady5119]

Check the oil!

[@samanthab1923]

That sign said 30 cents! I filled my car the other day & it was $75. I asked if they could clean my back window & they didn’t have any window cleaner 🥲

[@dethray1000]

yeah and i worked in a gas station in the 60ties while in high school--no self service--you washed peoples windshield,check oil ,tires if they wanted it--bought my first car 35 bucks!! growing up in socal was the best then other then the air pollution,hated it...

[@billiebobbienorton2556]

My late husband would pull up to Ethel, give her two dollars and she would "polish his white cap" after she pulled his dipstick!

[@reb1050]

Lot's of pictures of city life back in the 60s, but I was raised in a very small town (pop. around 750). To me, that was the best kind of place to grow up in. Everyone, pretty much, knew everyone else. No one locked their doors. Kids behaved because they knew if they didn't, someone would inform their parents and back then, there was no such thing as "time out". That time was spent 'out behind the wood shed". A simpler time, with simple people that actually still believed in God and country.

[@dethray1000]

i grew up in Pasadena,Calif-50ties,60ties--we never locked our doors either!!

[@BerryMcghah]

0:49 0:50 ,

[@1944JerriMellas]

NO graffiti, NO homeless on the streets. We married in 1971 and our first new car was the Ford Torino in yellow. We called it the “Banana Boat”

[@chrism3872]

Oh, we had homeless - they were called “hobos” and they rode the rails…(I was born in 1943)…

[@penneyburgess5431]

I miss people caring about their personal appearance. We used to dress nicely to go to the store, the movies, to dinner. Not fancy, just neat and respectful. Clean streets, not too many signs, and warmth and character in the shops. Your town was your home and you cared about each other, and it showed.

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

These photos bring back such great memories of a wonderful time. A little bit of time travel watching these photos and the music is perfect as it only enhances the experience.

[@pcojedi]

I was born in 1965, thank you for the look into a better world than what we have now

[@worldweary1913]

One year before you but we are of the same era. My mother took me everywhere back then with her till first grade in 1969. I remember how excited she was the morning of the moon walk. Took me out into our little quiet suburb street with not a car in sight and pointed up into the sky with the waning moon still visible from the night before. She bent down to me closely looking into my eyes and pointed to it saying there are people walking on it. I didn't know what the hell she was talking about, but i will never forget it. Clearly etched into my memory in movie clarity. It was a world where male dominance was strong but also gentler, and where femininity was so fabulously celebrated. Be well ✌️

[@pcojedi]

@@worldweary1913 your last sentence rings true, very well said

[@BilliamLegacy]

There's a glaring reality in these pictures that made that wonderful time possible.

[@73beetle19]

😅This country was a lot safer back then and clean. We didn’t have smash and grabs and people walking in store stealing what they wanted and walking out. We had law and order.

[@donferensic7482]

Love the music toward the end of the video. So calm and soothing.

[@roberthurley6860]

Thank you for posting these great photos. Very fun to look at, brings back many memories, especially of the cars my dad and mom had.

[@snydedon9636]

I was a kid but I remember the two trousers suit ads and the I’d walk a mile for a camel ad. Great time to be raised, great memories.

[@joed9491]

How I miss the 60's and 70's! Food was better where it was quality, not quantity, we had more mom and pops and less chain restaurants, bakeries etc. You could go to a hotel like the Ramada or Holiday Inn and they had a lounge area where you could take you your spouse or friend on a date and sit down at a table, listen to live entertainment while having a cocktail and nice conversation because they weren't blasting the music. Downtown's were thriving in the days before K-Mart and Walmart.

[@sue08401]

This reminded me how many small individual businesses there were compared to today.

[@johnfrancis1528]

Lots of memories. A big thank you.

[@pamwilleford2076]

You all are right grew up myself in the 60’s best time ever in America ! Today omg what can I say🌹

[@francklie6568]

Not easier times, but simpler times, life was good then! I'm stuck between two things: I love the technology we have today, but at the same time I prefer the life style of those years.

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

Same here.

[@billiebobbienorton2556]

@@atlanticantiquesltd7372 As long as you were white.....

[@atlanticantiquesltd7372]

@@billiebobbienorton2556 Obviously you were not around in the 1950s & 1960s. BTW, what makes you think that I am white? You are the type of person that everything centers around racism of some sort. You must be a very unhappy person and always the turd in the punch bowl.

[@liamsandal6360]

@@billiebobbienorton2556 No, not as long as you were white. There were plenty of black communities across the United States before Johnson's Great Society with low crime, clean streets, and a stable family life. And there were many black congressmen and business leaders as well. But we now tell ourselves that the worst kind of discrimination was rampant and that blacks were all but starving in the street from coast to coast. This is a lie. I myself had black friends growing up in the Bronx, NYC. Their neighborhoods were clean and safe. Every Sunday, the kids would go to church with their families. The generational ties were very strong. The black kids dressed just as well as their white peers in school, and many dressed much better. In my neighborhood, the poorest people were the Irish. There was actually a Hebrew language course one could take in many NYC public high schools back then. Although most of the students in the Hebrew classes were Jewish, there were blacks as well who decided to take the course. I remember a few who would proudly wear an honors lapel pin after having completed the full four-year course. Teenagers wore lapel pins? Yes, they did. Because that's how kids dressed back then. We wore slacks, button-down shirts, ties, and jackets to school. In the colder weather were wore vests. Our shoes were polished to a mirror shine. In fact, every morning in elementary school, the teacher would walk up and down the rows of students in the classroom to determine that each child was clean and neat and ready for another school day. No one wanted to be called out for slovenliness, scuffed shoes, or dirty ears. We all cared. Most of us were from poor families, but we cared. There were many redeeming features about life in America before President Kennedy was assassinated. But once he was murdered, many people lost faith in the country and in each other. Gradually, the self-pride, the formality, and the proper way people carried themselves all began to disappear. Eventually, the slob culture took over. Just some input from my own life experience.

[@edl6398]

@Liam Sandal You are right. I grew up in the city of Chicago on the south side where it was all integrated. Things were not fair for women or blacks. But blacks, like other Americans had Union jobs in the massive manufacturing base we had in America and could afford homes and wives could afford to not work. It was a middle class life. There was misogyny and racism and it sucked (I’m female) but people were happier than now because people exist within repressed cultures all over the world but still manage to be happy and raise families. So many Americans are just angry all the time now. Angry, rude and violent. It’s a different world. Scary to think that younger people today will look back on their childhood era (now) with nostalgia.

[@katherineleonowski7289]

Thank you so very much for these beautiful photos...a true time capsule...born 1948, best times and memories in the 1960s!!! Women dressed more properly, men respected us more, oh, to go back and enjoy my teenager days again!!!❤

[@bobboggano9201]

Whoa, what happened to America? We are so cynical now. Many things to blame but one that doesn't seem to come up is the explosion of corporations where no one is responsible. Before, most businesses were family owned and operated where your name and reputation were on the line.

[@hoppas77]

I live right by Sunken Gardens and even worked there once upon a time. Very cool to see that photo :)

[@KOOLBadger]

Born in 64.. Love This!

[@brucelocker6633]

Easy to get emotional watching this……it was a kinder/gentler time😔

[@grammysal]

Born in 1948 and miss these years. I’m sad that my children never knew these greatest years to grow up in.

[@debbieblaylock9997]

Love the photos I love that one of 1968 wend gas was 30 cents I was 10 then wow good memories thanks

[@craigmarr7986]

I remember in 1968, they were having a gas war, and gas was 20.9 cents a gal.

[@calbob750]

The 60s. Gas 29.9 cents a gallon. Good paying factory job. $100 a week.

[@terryfowler6090]

Born in 52. We played outside even if the temp was around zero. Sledding in the park. Hide and seek on the corner. Riding our bikes all over the east side Kansas City. And no adults bird dogging us.

[@jackiekrupp355]

My childhood and I went to some of those places , miss that time . Thank you

[@maryannchandonnait8094]

Good memories especially since I was fortunate enough to have visited Lake George and Provinetown as a kid in the early 60's!

[@johnkavy]

Went to Lake George with my mom and dad in the 60s too. Still go there with my grown girls. Miss the old times.

[@georgevangordon9728]

I remember it very well I would time travel back in a heartbeat if that was possible. It’s hard to explain but it was a different country back then and it was good

[@edl6398]

I grew up in Highland Park, IL in the 1960’s. Wonderful neighbors- Jews and Gentiles. Fantastic and safe childhood with no crime. Church on Sunday and Woolworths luncheonette for French fries and ice cream sodas. Marched as a Brownie then a Girl-scout in every 4th of July parade. Fast forward to 2022 and children my age and their families were murdered by a lone gun man on top of a roof. Nothing is the same. Breaks my heart.

[@marilynharper9307]

Born in 1947 and thoroughly enjoyed these photographs. Great time to be a teenager!

[@tjclay814]

Awesome channel

[@fliegeroh]

thanks for the post cards from when America was a great country.

[@jkitto2008]

Born in 61, these photos, bring a tear to my eye. So much better then, so much better. 😢. ( summer road trips, so my mom could go buy salt water taffy. "Mom, I have to go to the bathroom, hold it." ) 😂

[@janetpitts7302]

I'm 63 and we would play outside all day but when street lights came on that was our signal to head home, I miss my youth so much!! Thank you!

[@philippians4890]

Love these videos☺️

[@stephaniemontor1567]

That was really fun to watch! 30 cents per gallon! Small businesses were thriving and that was what made small towns great it was called community.thanks!

[@xrpsmith8021]

I graduated high school in 1968. Our senior year book pictures were so classy and elegant…no tattoos, piercings or sloppy clothes. Young women dressed modestly and young men wore a suit and tie…we were preparing to be adults upon graduation. I wouldn’t want to look at a 2022 high school year book - do they exist today?

[@JOJOMO443]

We didn't know how good we had it.

[@laustinspeiss]

@Yesterday Today Tribute Coincidence… I made a photo montage of our family from 1961 to 1965 (Australian family of five doing the grand tour of 30 states and countless towns & cities… Arrived SFO - CHI - TRO - FLA - NY and away…), and used the same music tracks / similar. They fit perfectly ! Cars: 1962 Buick LeSabre, 1963 Cadillac convertible, 1964 Mustangs, 62 Thunderbird, 63 Chevy station wagon. All new (dad was in advertising, received a new car every few months!) I’m sure we went to or through almost every place in your clip - fantastic!

[@anthony6631]

Beautiful photos of the 60's. To the maker of this video clip who showed just about every place back east and a whole lot of Reno, Vegas etc. You do know that the 60's also existed in Venice California and Santa Monica.

[@dethray1000]

i do--spent many a time there ,50ties,60ties before it became homo beach--our favorite was manhattan beach then newport beach

[@kimdads9261]

It would be nice to see what it looks like today. Pics side by side good video keep them coming nice job Tks

[@airforceretired5094]

I'm a 1958 Model. Those times were the best.

[@coleymoke6709]

A wonderful video. Thanks for posting this.

[@mal1465]

Born in 1958. Remember mom always dressing nice to go out shopping. Would not trade those memories for kids today

[@debishaw9355]

Oh to go back for awhile! Just to hug my mom and dad.

[@jamesshenay3426]

Born in 57.....had a great time growing up. Society is at it's worst. Animals in the wild behave better than most humans. The US is in Big trouble.

[@therooster6104]

Born in 1961 I’d give Everything I own to go back to this America, now it’s unrecognizable. My heart is way past heavy . 🇺🇸🙏🏼🕊️

[@conniecharley9092]

Jacksonville Beach had a board walk in the 60s.. night time lots of enjoyment. Beach was more fun in the 60s. Cant go to the beach at night anymore.not safe.

[@dethray1000]

grew up on socal beaches--always safe,fun--it was the best life in 50ties,60ties==when the vietnam war came ,jfk killed it went to hell

[@terri348]

I remember that it only took one person's income to afford a home, gas, etc. People dressed modestly. Everyone was more polite. And if you were out playing and skinned a knee you could go to any of your neighbors for a band aide. I really miss those days!!!

[@revolvermaster4939]

Back when most people didn’t lock car or house doors

[@jimtalbott2894]

Everything on here is vintage. Hello vintage people. 😃

[@M.Sforza]

Speak for yourself…hahaha

[@georgeveneziano2754]

Wow I needed this took me right back to a better time for sure slower less crazy less everything thank you so much.

[@SophieBird07]

What a fun flash back to what us boomers see as a simpler, idyllic time. And it was in so many ways. But I also remember my Grandmother, born in 1888, thinking the pace back then was just too overwhelming. Ages and stages…and those years had their own sets of angst and chaos as well.

[@kennywalters7952]

I was born in 1953. One thing about back then people talked to each other, they didn't have a cell phone or tablet glued to their faces.

[@nemo227]

I remember those days very well. I was got married in 1966. I was 27 years old. I'd like to do it again.

[@judithgraham7218]

I was born in 1943 so last of the 40’s into the 50’s and early 60’s I need to go back and start over

[@SuperEightball1]

The 60's & 70's ROCKED !

[@xero402]

I remember that as a child I saw the times as very much transitional. So much was new and exciting. The Beatles, the 65Mustang ,and the space program were among the modern wonders springing up all around us. We believed in America and were still feeling validated from surviving WW2. Still, one of the tenets of the 60s was the focus on the future. After all, with these wonders all around us , the days ahead will be magnificent. As much as the sights, I often think about the sounds. A coke machine had is own distinctive mechanical song, never to be heard again.Sonic booms were a thing in those days.Record players changed a stack of 45s and added their own sound to the experience. And there was juke boxes which were so much fun to a kid. I remember the weekly testing of our local air raid siren. The 60s were a time of taking in the world through the sense of smell, at least in my experience.I remember a lot more cooking and baking smells from those times, than in current times.Department stores always smelled like popcorn , roasted nuts , and candy. The auto world had its own olfactory offerings. The gas and oil were different than today. There was the ever present waftings of a boiling over radiator(you'd see this all the time). I think the main thing I miss is the decency of people that was a lot more prevalent than in this day and age.

[@nancywhitaker5096]

I agree. The world had a different sweeter smell back then. The smell of mom-and-pop bakeries is one that I always miss. You just don't find a real bakery anymore.

[@xero402]

@@nancywhitaker5096 wow , I didn’t even think of that.

[@JEFFREYcjones-xg2cy]

Born in 1957...cool pics...love those cars!!!!!!!!