📷▶ 70 Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember

[@William-n1b]

Born in 1957. Remember so much of this. It was another world.

[@joekonecny7690]

I grew up in the 50’s & 60’s. It was a great time to be young! We lived outdoors. I hated coming in the house for a few minutes to eat a meal. 🤣

[@JayGideon-7]

Vintage 1956: I feel so lucky to grow up when I did! Those of us that were there know how great it was. The music, the cars and the freedom to just be a kid. I can't go back but as long as my memory sticks around I enjoy remembering how good it was.

[@TamaraMadison-c4n]

Amen I miss the those Days

[@KarenHerzog-vw1xp]

I feel so sorry for children now. I wish they had a childhood like we did.

[@wilmasnowden7637]

Born 1952. I loved life then. So peaceful and fun. Have 4 sisters. Life was so different. Was raised in a very small community. Had 1 church, 1 little grocery store and a 2 room school house with grades 1 through 8. No kindergarten. Oh. The good ole days.

[@jameseverett9037]

Notice how the pictures of people don't have the correct amount of "racial diversity". It wasn't a sin yet.

[@phillipstephens4522]

I loved drive-in theaters. I really miss them.

[@glennso47]

I don’t. The only time I ever went to a drive in theater was to see the movie A change of Habit with Elvis . It was a horrible movie and a bad experience.

[@LoisThiessen]

Telephone books were also excellent booster seats for children. My mother would wrap the previous year's phone book, and sometimes two, depending on the age of the child, and wrap them in kraft paper so the books wouldn't slide when the child wriggled. Great memory!

[@sylviastreet]

The old phone allowed you to slam down the receiver for unwanted calls! All you had to was dial 0 for an operator. The long cord on a phone that was coiled always tangled! You had to pay for long distant calls. There were telephone booths everywhere and they had doors for privacy. Public phones were a dime. You only had so long to talk then the operator said to add a quarter for more time.

[@catskram]

Don't forget about party lines. Our ring was one long and one short

[@valeriemoore2762]

In the 60s, we could win free long distance phone calls at the State Fair. Everyone who wanted to play would stand at a numbered pole with a attached phone receiver. My lucky number was 9 and every year, l won a call back East to one of my mother's family members. We were pretty cheap about stuff like that back then, only calling family long distance, on holidays. My second lucky number was 3, one year, l won two calls in a row. The catch was that the calls were put on a loud speaker for everyone to hear.

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Memories of my entire life… I was born in 1946… Man stepped on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969…the day after my little brother’s funeral… PFC MALCOLM D WHITING, III Doug was KIA in Quang Nam Provence, South Viet Nam… USMC Doug’s name is on The Wall in Washington, D.C. Panel 21 West Line 96 God bless all the men and women who have ever served in any branch of the USA’s military…🙏🏻❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

[@lorrahowell3567]

Me too!

[@BJsEsotericMusings-nq4lr]

1955 for me. Weird to see our childhood onward in a video one might see at a museum! ✌️🌷😊

[@sandradanforth8524]

I was born in 1948😊

[@johnp139]

Stupid, useless war.

[@ursulasmith6402]

That was a hoax.

[@Downecker]

I'm 75 from New Jersey and it was normal to smoke in a doctor's waiting room!😂 I remember at least 2 ash tray stands😂 !

[@KarenHerzog-vw1xp]

You could smoke everywhere back then.

[@Sheboss333]

What about the "BIG Ben" wind up alarm clock with glow in the dark hands? 🤣 THIS was fun, thank you! ✌️

[@Lizablue0608]

🤣🤣 I was just telling my kids how we had these chalk mint tasting candy cigarettes with a red dot on the end and came in a fake cigarette looking package yesterday. I was born in 65. Grew up as a teen in the 80’s. No regrets! XD. 🎉

[@jat6547]

✋ me too. Born 1967

[@markkuntz571]

I still use that exact GE clock radio today. No joke.

[@gordlawton]

Thank you. I enjoyed the memories. 1950 and counting. :)

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

Thank you for sharing this video it brought back good memories for me, born in '62 I remember a lot of what's in this video.

[@suzib.6602]

I still have that clock radio on the thumbnail on my bedside table. Works great!

[@rachelm2041]

LoL! me too 😊

[@mikenixon2401]

I had candy cigarettes quite frequently. If I had an extra nickel I could buy a bubble gum cigar. Yeah, as an adult I then smoked cigars for nearly 40 years. I quit only because it was getting too expensive. We boomers were blessed to live during an amazing era.

[@GlendaMasterson]

Yes we were!

[@MichaelJ-xi2yk]

born sept 55, life was great back then

[@diamond6719]

Better days

[@donaldwyant3483]

I'm a boomer and my parents had a remote control... me! And when the first remote controls came out we called them clickers. And I got my first model gas engine airplane thru S&H green stamps. We Got our first color TV in 64, and on Sunday night all of us would gather around our TV to watch Disney's The Wonderful world of color. And me and siblings were still the remote controllers but we with our color TV we also controlled the tint contrast as well as the rabbit ears.

[@leeyaferguson9019]

I still have the same radio.😊😊still working.

[@PoesRaven73]

Elvis didn’t perform to sell-out crowds worldwide. The only foreign country he ever performed in was Canada. His manager, Col Tom Parker, was actually Dutch. He was afraid that if he left the country, he wouldn’t be allowed back.

[@JDVarney-sm8fe]

You could smoke on planes or in the theaters. Cigarette machines

[@Moritz19081980]

Yeah, and you could smoke in public transportation, in restaurants ... basically anywhere. At least in my country. And cigarette machines were next to candy machines.

[@johnp139]

No crap

[@UpcomingJedi]

You could smoke at mc donalds. Funny how they removed this yet the risk for heart disease remains at the same risk. It didnt go down by half.

[@CatCmdr]

Instead of Google, we had the Encyclopedia Britannica (both the junior & regular sets)! The Country started going downhill after President John F. Kennedy was murdered. That was the start…😢

[@barbarajordan3145]

And, the horror of Vietnam taking our best away however way was. We lost most of that generation's men and women.

[@lilaleeosgood8442]

Amen you said it brother❗

[@garyknight3]

The commentary on 70's gas rationing was accompanied with a picture of the end of gas rationing just after the end of World War II ! Take a look at the old cars and the sign that says ".. no coupon needed " ; coupons were issued during World War II.

[@barbarajordan3145]

Candy cigs and pink bubblegum cigars! I loved drive-ins! Hotdogs, popcorn, and soda! And, sandwiches mom had made. One time, I missed the end of Red Planet until decades later. Same thing with Wizard of Oz! Roller skates, we would dive into a relative's yard of green grass. We put the keys to them on a cord like a necklace. Ahhh! Rotary phones. I loved faxes until the machine jammed! Green stamps and other stamp companies made the difference for middle and low incomes. Color was wonderful and made that marvel called TV better! Stories have really disintegrated since then. Though the westerns were fabulous! Yes, yes, yes on Elvis! This film is right on the level! I remember in the 1970s, during the gas wars, at one time, gas cost between $00.23-00.25 per gallon! Then, Big Oil got greedy. A remarkable time. The advent of portable phones made life so much easier. Love my vinyls! Loved drive-in diners! Root beer floats and hamburgers. Everything was growing and changing. I remember taking Castor oil for anything. I remember one- toilet houses and the outhouse at my grandparents place in a rural area. Today, I love computer on my phone and electronics. Wow! I am blessed to be born in the early 1950s.

[@sylviastreet]

Hippies motto Peace, Love, Dope! I know, I was born 1949 and experienced that motto!

[@BK-qp8zp]

I loved that the polio vaccine was given in a sugar cube! But to get the sugar cube, we first had to take the smallpox vaccine shot. These were done at meeting spots for each town. So if if you didn't wake up with polio and/or smallpox in the US, thank a Boomer (or maybe their parents - the Greatest Generation).

[@richierugs6544]

mix tapes were the best 90 minutes of the music you love the best! i have many, now i need to find something to play them on

[@MarieJackson-sp3be]

A couple of notes: you are concentrating on the time straddling Boomers and Gen X. Boomers last year was 1964. Gen X started in 1965. Those hair dryers still are used for various styles.

[@pjef1956]

That's not "Buffalo Bob" with Howdy Doody ... It's Andy Kaufman !! LOL.

[@durkjenkins578]

Those roller skates with steel wheels were never allowed in a wooden floor roller rink. They were to attach to your street shoes and for young kids and used on concrete or asphalt only. The steel would of destroyed a wooden rink floor.

[@27lynn]

Those metal wheels were also on the first skate boards. I remember hitting a small pebble or crack in the sidewalk sent one flying off. 😂😂

[@tbarney]

urethane wheels

[@jat6547]

You caught that too. Rollerskates

[@jackiemartin8048]

Wonderful times!

[@SusieGuria]

They were! I remember at my moms best friend lived in our neighborhood and on the way to her house there was a Betty bright cleaners and on the wall of that cleaners there was a faygo sign painted on it with oranges purple grapes red cherrys and a purple bottle of faygo soda pop I love that sign and we (my family) use to go visit her a lot back then and at x-mas vacation we’d go to her house for x-mas lunch .and inthe 90s she my mom and went to see Bobby vinton in concert and Arther Duncan and norm Crosby .they were all so good entertainers . And in the 80s we’d go to plays at the Stratford festival . I miss my mom dad and her.

[@susanwahl6322]

I had a huge collection of vinyl records.

[@dehydratedwater9806]

I still do

[@atreb56]

I still have a modest collection of analog vinyl records. No digital version vinyl for me. Save your old recordings. Even re-issues are now autotuned or pitch corrected. Glad I have 200 analog vinyl records to enjoy.😀👍

[@sallymay3643]

In the 70s @12am the 📺 would show the American 🇺🇸 blowing in the wind & play the national anthem. Then ended with a thought for the day, that was usually a 🙏 or an encouraging word.

[@stephenalexander2111]

I was born in 1958, kids of my era had more fun and did more with a lot less, it was a great time to be raised

[@lorenzoquesada9033]

I remember the bubble gum cigarettes you blew into and smoke came out

[@barbaraparker6996]

This was the comment l was looking for. 🙂

[@stevemontano8975]

Hello to all, I was born in 64 and I sure Remember a lot of devises and other things back in the 70’s. WOW!!!!!✌🏻😵‍💫

[@chrisjohnson7290]

I was born in 1978 and I remember growing up with most of this it takes me back to being a little kid thank you so this

[@sableindian]

26:01 That's not Buffalo Bob with Howdy Doody. 😂

[@Elizabeth-tb5wh]

I think it’s Andy Kaufman. I noticed that too 🤔

[@johnp139]

@@Elizabeth-tb5wh Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

[@louiscesare504]

that's not buffalo bob, that's Andy Kaufman....

[@pipzzzzzz]

I thought so too.......eh.

[@johnp139]

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

[@Virus-xm7qc]

Hey you forgot about the MOTOWN SOUND!

[@SusanRandall-y8d]

I was born in 1963 and l remember everything in this video thank you for the fond memories 😊

[@lauradarnall227]

Oh my God I can remember all of these things because I was born in 63....

[@sallymay3643]

Omg! I have that same alarm clock & I'm still using it to this day. It's a GE. for General Electric. I wish i could show a pic of it.

[@lyngruen8607]

Born in '51.... many smiles and chuckles watching this video 😂 I also remember SLINKY TOYS that were a real hit!! Thanks for the memories. 👍 Life was simple and GOD was STILL IMPORTANT in majority of families and churches. Sadly... not so much anymore 😢 WHATEVER HAPPENS... be sure your SPIRITUAL HOUSE IS IN ORDER ☝️💖 Texas Nana Psalm 91

[@dustydesert1674]

This covers a group born as much as 20 years apart jumping back & forth from the early Fifties to the mid-Seventies.

[@bser3973]

I still use my VCR, replace the drive belt and your usually good.

[@davefish9296]

The perfect replacement for my 8-track players is a rubber band from the grocery store on a bundle of BROCCOLI. It works great. I still have 168 8-track tapes !!

[@lanaecall921]

My small town came together to save our drive in theater .still in use today 2024.

[@karenlynnjohnston4889]

I was born in 1954 and have so many memories

[@bryanspindle4455]

Born in 1956. I remember candy cigarettes, wax lips, tiny wax bottles in a paper carton that were filled with flavored syrup. Penny candy, bubble gum cards, candy lipstick. I can still smell and taste these things just writting about them.

[@lruss5050]

I was born in 52! We have experienced so much! We had so much more freedom always outdoors moving!❤🇨🇦

[@SocietyRed-sg8ft]

Drive in movies are still popular. People still use 35mm film. It is still very popular. Millions of people still use clock radios for alarms and are used in hotel rooms. You can still buy candy cigarettes'.

[@conniepeterson504]

I was born in 1960, but I remember every single one

[@sableindian]

Do you remember Howdy Doody? 😮

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

@@sableindian I do!! Born in 1946.

[@elizabethlane7441]

ahh memories. ❤❤ :)

[@sallymay3643]

I do recall we pulled up to a gasstation & my mom angrily yelled, I'm a WOMAN! I can't believe they expect me to pump my own gas⛽️! So that became my brother's job.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

I liked the chocolate flavored candy cigarettes the best.

[@eileenvannurden1343]

1955 here…life was great. We lost our innocence when JFK was assinated

[@Sheboss333]

Right on!

[@ElizabethLaBrack]

Phone booths I miss them

[@pjef1956]

1956. What a rush, right ??? Life was so different for us ... what happened? The 1960s changed the whole world, to begin with. And it just kept going from there ...

[@27lynn]

I think most people still remember where they were when we learned of Kennedys death. I was on the playground at school when it was announced over the speaker, and we had a minute of silence. No one wanted to play after that.

[@ursulasmith6402]

No, he just was taken off the scene.

[@Iggythemovieman]

As children we were the remote control.

1968 Mustang was my 1st car, 200$$ who knew it'd be worth a small fortune when I junked it. I still use that alarm clock today! Stop it you're killing me.

[@carolynwheaton9884]

Had to find a telephone on a corner and pay a quarter to make a phone call.

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

1962.... And I'm still waiting for the flying car, lol. But so far I remember a lot of what is on this video. I grew up in the late 60's and 70's. I remember those days, odd or even witch one were you? Growing up in the 60's and 70's I remember watching the war on TV and hearing my friends talk about it, but the thing that I remember the most was going to the drive in and watching the movies with my friends. Nice memories for me, I am a baby boomer and this is my generation.

[@joeguzman3558]

I'm sure lots of people from the 1970s and before they had a few drive-in speakers in their garage ,more than ones you would take off after the movie and forgot to retrieve the speaker

[@KarenHerzog-vw1xp]

Love this video !

[@Moritz19081980]

I was born in 1980 and we had candy cigs in Germany. We had chocolate and bubble gum versions.

[@dennisdebord4174]

I'm not a Boomer. I was born in 1979 and we had candy cigarettes. I remember them when I was 5 years old.

[@Zipp333]

GenX had them too, but it was at the tail end of them. The little candy valentines day hearts had more flavors and over took the cigarettes.

[@ChrisCarlin-is8wv]

They tasted like sweet chalk

[@Virus-xm7qc]

I wouldn't know, I never tasted unsweetened chalk.

[@brettblankenship3246]

Yea it got us use to holding cigarettes

[@nickgov66]

Used to. 20:02

[@MosaicRose99]

Looks like comedian Andy Kaufman next to the Howdy Doody puppet, not Buffalo Bob...26:16

[@johnp139]

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

[@micheleplante8010]

Born in 1959

[@Cassxowary]

without even watching the vids, we had two types of candy cigs in the 90s too… at least the popeye ones still exist…

[@dianacramer4747]

the candy cig was delicious, like the hippy culture, enjoyed atari played a lot, 3 channels on tv not allowed by kids to touch, miss the drive in movies

[@CindyMoauro]

1954......fun to look back, but I wouldn't want to go back. Life is what you make of it regardless of the era of your birth; enjoy the ride!

[@sallymay3643]

That 🐝 hive hair do was quite bigger then I recall. Good Lord.

[@A.R.77]

Gen X'ers had the candy cigs too. My fav was Marblow in the candy chalk composition. The Gum ones didn't have the same punch for me.

[@claudiamiller7730]

I remember that stick shifter on the Banana bike…ouch!!☮️✌️

[@davidward3991]

We had a touch tone phone without the 2 outer bottom numbers in 1968 because Jonesboro, AR was the average middle size town.

[@JohnSmith-cf4gn]

Born in 52, I had candy cigarettes I'd get in my stocking at Christmas. Santa was good to us back then. People would smoke in restaurants too. I smoked a pack of cigarettes in a restaurant for breakfast in 1974. Nobody cared. Started smoking in 1965 and still do.

[@johnnitis228]

Ah! Candy Cigarettes. Just the beginning of my 25 years of puffing on Marlboros. Picked them up at Steve's Grocery/tiny corner store across from Portola park-SE San Fran.

[@celinavazquez7116]

What memories❤😅!!!

[@johnp139]

Guess what? Cars RARELY need to have oil added and cars have tire pressure monitors.

[@AesopsRetreat]

Thats NOT "Buffalo Bob".... Thats Andy Kaufman doing a comedy bit with the puppet Howdy-Doody.

[@neuroticnation144]

You’re a little off. Born in ‘69. I remember much of this in my childhood.

[@barbaraparker6996]

My kids were born in 73 and 74 and they remember most of these.

[@danielthoman7324]

Daisy Arnaz?

[@eyesopenwide9210]

I remember the party line phone calls. They didn't say anything about that when they showed the operators at the switchboard. I also remember walking bear foot in stores. People would also smoke in the stores.

[@lordeden2732]

Bear foot, or was it barefoot?

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

Ah, I remember the duck and cover.... But I didn't do that for nuclear booms but for earthquakes, I grew up in Southern California so thats what I did in school, that and fire drills.

[@brendarico715]

We used our brains and body. No Regrets❤

[@sandi8596]

Candy cigarettes can be purchased now. I wanted to buy them few months September 2024 ago while buying candy in the Coney Island candy store, everything is too expensive in that candy store. I purchased 1/4 lb of jelly beans for about $11.95, the bulk candy per pound was about $16.95 😅.

[@stevebird9510]

I still buy Candy Cigarettes for my grandkids at the Kandy Kitchen in Galena Illinois. 100 N.Main St. 👍🏻

[@dennisdebord4174]

I remember all this and im not a boomer.

[@sableindian]

Even Howdy Doody?

[@johnp139]

@@sableindianReruns

[@MelissaWooley]

Born in 1969. I used to get these all the time at the corner drugstore. Glad I never smoked real cigarettes.

[@TyroneEpps]

I remember this i was born in 1957

[@BarryHope-bj5um]

I remember bubble gum cigar too.

[@danasimcho310]

Very good, except you combined several generations Baby Boomers were the kids born right after the end of WWII when the US troops came home spanning 1945 to the mid 1950s. You missed mini skirts, Hardee's 15 cent burgers, long ironed hair, bell bottons, phone books & the yellow pages, go go dancers, canvas topped convertables, psychadelic colors, princess push button phones, 8-track tapes, & hand held calculators. Thanks for a trip down memory lane!

That is Andy Kauffman not Buffalo Bill with his puppet. I wish channel like this wouldn't inject other persons pictures as someone else, details matter when talking to a boomer. I'll still watch & subscribe to this channel every bit of it I remember

[@brendarico715]

❤love my bike❤

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

I was born in 1956, and Woodstock took place the month before I was 13 years old. I was at least 5 years away from being able to partake. Older Baby Boomers did things that I didn't do. For instance, beehive hair styles were popular with those born about a decade before I even came along. I always wore my hair pulled back, long flowing and curled. I have a picture of 2 friends, who weht to a prom, with hairstyle that made them look like 60s mothers! It was laughable in 1972. That is why I think we need another descriptor, for those born after 1954.

[@BarryHope-bj5um]

I had a red touch tone phone. Sometimes I got miss calls from The Kremlin

[@guymangotree2185]

I miss the 70's

[@BadAss15-60]

I was born in Nov 18,1964

[@Me-mn4nw]

And???

[@kellykersten8828]

They also had gum cigarettes for the kids, I liked those better.

[@MarshaHanson-w5k]

I remember when caller ID HAD the names and numbers of people who called.

[@BarryHope-bj5um]

Clerks at the Commissaries on military posts still do the baggers work on tips.