20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand!

[@Peggysmusic]

I'm 71 years old, and this was a very fun blast from the past! Thanks for sharing!

[@babblemaker]

I, too, am 71 years old and enjoyed this trip to simpler wonderful times.

[@briancooper4959]

Last year, in a small town, I happened into an old-fashioned small grocery store that did not have a bar code scanner. My ten-year-old grandson stood wide-eyed watching the elderly clerk hand-input the prices on an old-fashioned '60's cash register with lightning fingers. "She's not even looking at what she's doing!"

[@awomanwithaplan]

Yeah, and they always worked!

[@cykkm]

Did they slide your credit card slip? _That_ would have been quite a show for the kid! But most credit cards no longer even have embossments-probably it's no longer a thing. :)

[@briancooper4959]

@@cykkm I might have paid cash. Anyway, you're right. Both my credit card, and my ATM card no longer have those raised numbers.

[@anonymousjohnson976]

My fingers were like lighting on a typewriter and a 10-key calculator without looking.

[@vincewilson1]

@@anonymousjohnson976 My childhood.

[@kenpullig1652]

I mostly remember TV wasn't the center of our lives. Saturday mornings were great for us kids, but other than some family shows we watched together (Wild Kingdom or The Wonderful World of Disney), entertainment was outside. Little things meant a lot, like getting a dime in a letter from my grandparents so I could walk to the corner store and get a candy bar.

[@marbleman52]

@kenpullig1652....Your first sentence is so true. I was a kid in the 50's ( born 1952), and during the Summer, unless the weather was bad, I was outside. I was not allowed indoors except for eating or bathroom, or unless I was sick. The same for school days; after school play outside until supper, then homework, then baths and bed; very little time for T.V. I remember that I preferred to be outside playing with the neighborhood kids and riding my bicycle all over the place. My bicycle was my freedom..!! I was raised in a small farm town and I would ride my bike to the main part of town where the stores were and spend my little bit of allowance at the 5-10 cents store. I could be gone for hours and Mom didn't worry about me. My friends lived all over the town and I was always riding to their house. We only had maybe three T.V. stations that our outdoor roof antennae could pull in and during the week, bedtime was 9 p.m. After doing homework each night, there was very little time for T.V. Whatever Mom & Dad were watching was what I watched...lol..!! The weekends were when I got to watch a little more T.V., some in the mornings and some at night.

[@dannmarceau]

Yes, I was born in 1960; my aunt Dot would send the cards with a few coins.

[@lancerevell5979]

I'd get ip early, before the rest of the family, to watch eatly morning cartoons. Then have breakfast, and go outside for all day. Got my bicycle, then I really ranged out! 😊

[@briancooper4959]

The Disney program was first called, "The Wonderful World of Color" - which only really worked if your parents had a color TV.

[@edwardbaker1331]

I remember how many games we could play with just a simple rubber ball. We even played touch football with it at school during lunch hour.

[@j.r.p.5850]

I remember walking to the little local grocery store about ten blocks from home. With just a note from Mom, I could walk to the store and buy Mom a few packs of Winstons by showing the cashier the note . . .it was late 60's - early 70's, and I wasn't even 10 yet.

[@KenJackson_US]

Did they extend credit on your word? Mom sent me to a small grocery store nearby a few times to get something and tell the clerk to put it on her account, which she paid later.

[@SenileOtaku]

Mid-to-late 70's a neighbor was visiting, they gave me 50 cents and had me pick up a pack of cigarettes at the local general store. Back before the nanny-state started sending out snitches to catch stores off-guard, and before they taxed and taxed and taxed cigarettes to $15 a pack. Certainly cigarettes are bad and people should never get caught into starting the habit, but it's become outright hostility.

[@martybee6701]

Early 1970s our junior school corner sweet shop in UK would sell individual cigarettes , so you could buy one or three or four if you said they were for your dad. Yeh right. I'm pretty sure the store owner knew they weren't. They'd be in big trouble today if they did that.

[@angelaharmon6267]

I got cigarettes from a cigarette machine to smoke at about 9 years old

[@martybee6701]

@@angelaharmon6267 I hear that's a big problem in Japan, where they have cigarette machines on the street selling chocolate/ orange/ strawberry flavoured cigarettes.

[@3DPDK]

... and to be honest, the kids of the 60's. 70's and 80's (and before that) were far healthier because they were outside in the sunshine and fresh air playing on their pogo sticks, bicycles, and roller skates, playing back yard football or kick-the-can. "Playing" in those days was good exercise and we didn't even know that's what it was ... not to mention we learned how to behave in a group ... "social skills". We learned the difference between what was acceptable and what would get you a black eye.

[@wendy-ld5ck]

It was also much safer back then. The only worry was the boogie man and as long as you were at home by the time the streetlights went out, it was all good.

[@3DPDK]

@@wendy-ld5ck There was certainly "stranger danger" when I was a kid and we were taught to be aware of people trying to entice you into their cars or somewhere out of the way. My parents trusted that I understood and didn't hover over me when ever I was out and about. But I think the fear of strangers has become so intense over the past few decades that it is more of a deterrent for good, protective people to be around children for fear of being seen as a danger, themselves. I once walked onto a little league field to talk with my 12 year old nephew and several of his friends that knew me. I was immediately surrounded by a few fearful parents because they didn't know who I was. My nephew and his friends had to vouch for me, and even then some of the more fearful adults stayed within arm's length. I'm not saying the danger isn't present, I'm saying that over-protecting and fearful over-reaction on the part of adults is making the problem worse.

[@FrankHeuvelman]

Move your kid's game computer to the backyard during summer.

[@extraterrestrial7424]

Yes, that was way before there were 5 cars per 4 people. Nowadays, playing isn't even possible anymore spatially. You just don't have where to play.

[@3DPDK]

@@extraterrestrial7424 I wasn't allowed to play in the streets either. If you live in the city then your choices are extremely limited, but anywhere else ... just stay out of the streets!

[@jackboot3946]

Remember photographic slides, slide projectors and slideshow presentations?

[@cykkm]

How come anyone wouldn't? I first saw a digital projector in early 2010s. Like, yesterday, comparing to the '60s.

[@vincewilson1]

I used to help the teachers in school get those set up. I hated when someone failed to rewind the reel when they were done.

[@darryllspalding9680]

like the selfies of nowadays?

[@cherylwebb8340]

Still have mine! And my grandma's 😊

[@David-gh6vp]

Still have a projector. It was thought of as the professional way to view photographs. It was as much a part of photography in the '70's as it was the '60's.

[@divindave6117]

I remember my mother got me a Po Go stick with S&H Green Stamps. Let me tell ya, I wore that Po Go stick out !!! Good Times!

[@Ubique2927]

In the UK they were called Greenshield Stamps.

[@charlesbrentner4611]

A kid I knew had one. I tried it couldn't quite get the hang of it

[@jonstone9741]

@@charlesbrentner4611 At first, it's hard to pogo. You lose your balance. But if you keep trying, you get the hang of it. It's the same with riding a bicycle or any other skill. It's hard at first, but you have to keep trying. Practice practice practice. I wish I could learn to play electric guitar, but I get so frustrated.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

1970s

[@outlawofga]

Yes lord, the old S & H Green Stamps. Man what great times we had.

[@saltyolbroad2962]

Maybe those public service announcements during cartoons were, in fact, the key to civility!

[@Ramdileo_sys]

I have to said two thing here.. and I will love that you people share them in your social media thingy.. if is not much to ask🥺..... 1- Smoking may give you cancer okay🙁...... but fat acceptance WILL GIVE YOU hypertension and/or diabetes at very short age😠... is a damn biological fact😡...... and I don't see the laws and anti fat acceptance commercials campaigns anywhere 😤.. ....-+-+......... 2- Ribbon typewriter rolls were a mess to change.. sure🙄....... but you need to change them once a year.. some people even less than that🤷‍♀.. and one year after or even more.. they still work perfectly☺...... damn!!.. you can buy now some new old stock ones.. and almost 40 years after they still work fine🤷‍♀...... and they do not cost even today😡.. the insane amount of money that HP or Epson charge you for 3 drops of ink inside a plastic cube🤬..... plastic cube that today works.. and next week is already clogged 😩...-+-+

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

And knowing is half the battle

[@josorr]

You are probably right. Some Schoolhouse Rock would be a good idea. Grammar Rock is desperately needed these days. Remember Conjunction Junction?

[@paulawild230]

@@josorr school house rock rocks. I still find some of the old ones and put them on for my students occasionally .

[@mikeburrill779]

Yeah not littering and starting fires. You are right. Basic stuff

[@lancerevell5979]

There were also certain giveaways, I remember Mom got water glasses in boxes of laundry detergent. Also other products had cups, bowls and such. And sometimes gas stations would give toy oil company trucks of their brand for a fill-up and a wash, great for the kiddoes! 😊

[@musicloverme-hj2sr]

I remember water glasses from gas stations.

[@readdeeply9278]

Yes the PR was stellar! Do you remember Sinclair gas stations? The green dinosaur that was soap but was supposed to get fuzzy after it got wet ... what were they thinking lol There was also a gas station that had animal and nature books, you'd collect pictures and paste them into the corresponding spaces to try to complete the books.

[@yolieswitzer9466]

Oh yes!🤗and towels in laundry detergent to collect for a set.

[@judierickson7166]

I still have 2 steak knives that i got at the gas Station.

[@christiansaint716]

Talking about giveaways; I'm sure you remember Fire King dishes w/a 24k gold rim which came free inside boxes of detergent! Those were the days!!!!!!

[@davidharris1340]

I am 81 years old. Just recently, I had to explain to my 55 years old son the meaning of 'CC', on his emails to me. Then I had to explain what carbon paper was, and how it was used.

[@marticiawall1569]

Ha, ha, I did not connect the two meanings. I surely know what a carbon copy is but nobody told me that is what that cc stood for, had they done so I would have more easily understood that email option

[@wakeup6910]

Did your kid live under a rock

[@harpintn]

It is sad that your son was so poorly educated.

[@MorningInAmerica_Nov_5_2024]

​@@marticiawall1569Did anyone tell you about BCC?

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

I use CC and BCC ('Blind CC') on emails every day, and although I grew up in the 70's and used carbon paper as a youngster, I always thought it just meant 'copied to this person as well'. I never connected it with 'carbon copy'. Thanks for the info.

[@welcometogreenaquasglen1846]

They should bring back drive-in theatres. It would have been fun during the pandemic.

[@MissyQ12345]

Tennessee still has drive-in theaters. Where I live, they are building a new one. Can't wait! We used to make our food and pack our sodas in a little cooler, and the privacy and comfort of your own car was great. New driven in theaters don't have those clunky old speakers, but play on a designated radio station. Much better sound.

[@bonnieweidman1002]

Yes we have a drive in near us and during the pandemic they played movies, and held church services. It was great.

[@DawnDavidson]

They did! I saw several movies that way in 2020-21. It was great!

[@sharonyoung8251]

There is a drive in movie theater (3 screens) In Ennis Texas

[@emilyfeagin2673]

PA still has a few.

[@CBBC435]

It's more than losing childhood memories. It's like losing pieces of ourselves.

[@leecowell8165]

Well stated. A slower time.

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

Not alive at the time, but looks more like loosing our humanity.

[@notmyworld44]

Oh, it truly is. I wanta go back so badly! 😢

[@anonymousjohnson976]

It's called growing older. From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

@@anonymousjohnson976 Technically that's inaccurate. We continue to grow physiologically until the end of our teens, before it starts going down hill. The rate of return to zero depend on your fitness at that time, as well as your lifestyle. Then you have the spiritual dimension, those with an open mind continue to grow until their last breath.

[@CarlGorn]

I still use folding maps. Because those things don't go down when you have no bars.

[@boomerguy9935]

I like them because I am a visual learner and I need the "mental aerial compass".

[@duudsuufd]

With maps you know where you are. With GPS you only know what direction to follow.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

And seeing as they're printed on paper, you can always pen or pencil in something new or changed. Back in the day when I still drove a car, I'd keep at least half a dozen maps (folding and book style) in my glove compartment.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

The only time my GPS "goes down"... Is when I go into a tunnel! Phones are worthless outside of cell service areas, but the GPS still works fine! I used my GPS on a flight to Hawaii. I just punched in the destination, and it pointed the way there. No roads, just a lot of water. Distance to destination and altitude/speed. Funny to see the GPS telling me how high and how fast I was going. (Triple/quint digits!)

[@boomerguy9935]

@@ivanivonovich9863 I live in a rural area with lots of two-lane country roads. The one nearest me has a permanent sign placed by by DOT which says, GPS is not reliable on this road. I've seen several 18-wheelers stranded on this road because the drivers ignored the sign. So, the GPS didn't just "go down", it led the drivers astray which is far worse.

[@olgasoto9221]

I went down memory lane...thank you for putting this program together... I had forgotten how simple life was back then

[@mariadaido6715]

Me too I like simple life , all that technology is confusing , just try to make a phone call press this press that and its suppose to be easier? And they call this progress ! Oh when you go to the doctor he barely look at you too busy on his computer.

[@stj971]

Paper maps still easier to read and more accurate than google.

[@kirnpu]

Thomas Brother maps ruled in Southern CA

[@awomanwithaplan]

That's for sure!!! I still keep maps in my car, as well as in the house so I can plan my routes ahead of time. Plus...I actually know where I am when I'm on the road! I think it's (almost) criminal that children aren't taught how to read paper maps in school anymore (not to mention Civics!).

[@Soundofwindonsand]

Fuc#$_+_$, maps don't decide to not work anymore while your just trying to get tru Tulsa Oklahoma ...

[@joswearingen3507]

I will always use my iPhone for navigation. We travel 6-7,000 miles a year using it.

[@invisableobserver]

People today are dumbed down & have no sense of direction because of cell phones

[@greenie2390]

My dad could go from coast to coast with his memory of how the interstate went from north to south or east to west. On Sundays, we would always stop at A&W and get a quart of rootbeer to go as a special treat. I remember so many of these, sad but bittersweet.

[@anonymousjohnson976]

Yes, I miss the A&W Root Beer stands.

[@frankmartin8471]

Our A&W had carhops on roller skates. They were dynamite!

[@Deb-s1t]

Get the momma basket root beer and go to drivein. Popcorn made at home. 😅😅

[@michaelsmith2733]

Sad, what are you talking about? I'd give a million bucks to go back to those days.

[@greenie2390]

@@michaelsmith2733 Sad because we can't go back. Rollerskates and rootbeer, now we have lost loved ones, and times with family we probably truly didn't really cherish. Most children want to grow up fast, till you realize what you missed (esp. if you had a good childhood).

[@ernanidimassa4968]

Got my first transistor radio with Grandma's S&H Green stamps back in the 60's... still have it!

[@marbleman52]

@ernanidimassa4968...Wow....You still have it...amazing..!! I sure wish I still had my little transistor radio from my kid days in the late 50's. It was about the size of a pack of cigarettes and I had it strapped to the handlebars of my bicycle. Riding around with the pop tunes playing was great..!!

[@lancerevell5979]

My parents got me a kit to build my own transistor radio. Had to solder the components. Worked great! I eventually joined the Navy, as an electronic tech working on shipboard radios! 😊

[@johnlennon8653]

Had a red Sony in the mid 70s that I could pick up Texas radio stations on certain nights. I'm in Canada. Same thing with my CB radio,picked up 'skip' from all over the US.

[@marticiawall1569]

You lucky dog! I recall my first transistor radio. My grandma brought them back to us kids from Japan where my uncle was stationed in the Navy. It had a fancy leather cover with a strap, late 1960's.

[@marticiawall1569]

@@invisableobserver what???

[@saltyolbroad2962]

I have great respect for those women who typed 75-100 wpm on a manual typewriter!

[@MissyQ12345]

I learned to type on an electric typewriter. I could use a manual, but once flunked out on a typing test for a job where they had an old manual. Just to hard to press those keys that fast!

[@saltyolbroad2962]

@@MissyQ12345 I KNOW! And not make them jam!

[@DawnDavidson]

@@MissyQ12345I learned to type on a manual. I STILL press the keys too hard! 😂 The letters wear off on my keys, and then they get worn spots.

[@C.M.30337]

I learned on a manuel typewriter.

[@saltyolbroad2962]

@c.m.169 I did too but I only typed like 20 wpm! 🤭

[@ZEEKUPP]

I really miss the soda fountains. The party lines are gone but if you truly think your phones are private, you are mistaken.

[@swamprat69er]

My next door neighbour still is on a party line. Me, I gave up the land line about 15 years ago.

[@susanpark8588]

We could still get 5¢ and 10¢ LemonBlennd and Cokes at the local drugstore in the late 60s.

[@christiansaint716]

Even fairly recently (I think 30 years ago) when we moved north of the Twin Cities, there was a small drugstore that had a soda fountain where you could get shakes, etc....

[@dianebrady6784]

Pittsboro NC has an old fashion soda shop.

[@kirkjohnson6638]

Yeah, these days, every line is a party line with the uninvited NSA joining in!

[@vestalarson2611]

I grew up in the Bay Area of California. Born in 1960. We used to drive into the Redwood Forest, every weekend. And a lot of the hot weekdays; trying for that cool breeze. And the Library. Oh how I miss that. The feel of the book, the smell of the pages, the chance of finding someone's long ago pressed flower between the pages. The other people in there, everyone using their library voices, looking for a good book. Soda fountains were places to be, together with one's friends. There is no thing like this now. We are all separate. Oh! The Green Stamps ! The thrill of finally having saved enough of them, having licked or damp sponged them into the books ( there was glue on the back of each stamp that was activated by moisture), and taking them to the redemption center in exchange for the wonderful new thing you'd saved for. * Does anyone remember the Mimeograph machine ? It's for making multiple copies. What a mess, worse than carbon paper as it was wet with black ink. This was a fun video. I thank you. Would that I might go back ... Hmm. With Love ❤

[@susanpark8588]

The Mimeograph that I remember was blue ink and if you got it "hot off the press" you sniffed it!

[@mberg1956]

@@susanpark8588 YES! I remember everyone in class sniffing the handouts. LOL

[@julienovander3435]

‘60 was a good year…! 😊❤❤

[@bluebonbon22]

Libraries are still open and still have books. Go visit one.

[@pattibaker9136]

Plus it smelled good and the paper was always slightly damp with purple writing!

[@Christine-Ga76]

I remember watching TV and every night at 10pm an announcement came on - It's 10 PM, Do you know where your children are?

[@leecowell8165]

Yep... then after that the channel shut down and put up a test pic that stayed on all night. no program until 6 or 7 next morning. Imagine.

[@margaretpare8206]

That was later like 70's or early 80's

[@bodybuilderslave7125]

@@leecowell8165 my stations went off the air, as in turning off the transmitter and then you got "snow" on the screen and static for sound.

[@jasonbrownjourno]

@@bodybuilderslave7125 pkhssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@C.M.30337]

​@@margaretpare8206 - early 70s

[@radiorob]

A comment about the pull tabs on soft drink cans; before the pull tabs, everyone had a can opening tool. It was a lever tool that cut a triangle opening in the top of the can. Even the coke machines of the day had a device that punched a triangle shaped hole in the top of the can mounted on the front of the machine. No tabs to dispose of. The first pull tabs did away with the requirement of the can opening tool, but as you pointed out, caused another problem of pull tab pollution.

[@radiorob]

Haha,yes, it's been years since I heard that term. Good one.

[@barneygilewitz6722]

Jimmy Buffet stepped on a pop top, cut his heel, had to cruise his way on back home...

[@winnerscreed6767]

now they just throw all there trash wherever...real progress, Not!

[@janethicks8269]

There were also glass bottles with metal bottle caps. Many can openers were two-sided. One side had a punch for cans, the other side had a loop to lever off bottle caps. I remember collecting bottle caps along trout streams while my parents fished.

[@GabrielSBarbaraS]

Remembering how we used to remove the pull tabs and just tossing it into the pop, then drinking it. Somehow we never swallowed the pull tabs.

[@C.Brown5150]

I remember going for a Sunday afternoon drive. And we would stop at a place called Stuckies.. ( spelling may not be correct) But they were restaurant's off the Highway's or Interstate.. Kinda like a Truck stop, they sold everything.. But they had the best ice cream and shakes on the planet. Being a kid growing up in late 60's and 70's was a great time to be a kid.👍

[@barneygilewitz6722]

I heard the relative of Stuckeys who is a survivor, may reboot the chain..Great pecans in a can.

[@C.Brown5150]

@@barneygilewitz6722 That would be great.. It really was a nice place , I went there a lot as a kid , great memories.👍

[@danstephens9500]

Stuckey's Pecan Log.

[@marbleman52]

@C.Brown5150....Yes, Stuckey's on the highways. There were so many and all over the place, that trips were planned with stopping at Stuckey's for gas and eating. And of course, one had to buy something at the gift store..lol..!!

[@paulaneary7877]

Yeah, we used to go on Sunday drives too. Good family time.

[@cheriem432]

Those drive-in theatres were awesome!

[@donnarichardson7214]

In decline they started showing risque movies. There was one joke about watching the "moon" rising over the trees.

[@kennyhiggins7806]

@@donnarichardson7214 I never noticed those movies! The drive-in near me started opening only on weekends while showing 3 movies in a row. Also allowing entire carloads for $10. There were times that me and my family didn’t get home until way into the A.M. Great times having a drive-in to grow up with!

[@MajesticMe429]

I remember getting a Pogo Stick for Christmas when I was a child.

[@sillyme8302]

I miss soda fountains the most you could get a burger and a float or milkshake that was so much better compared to today's fast food which is not really at all comparable.

[@ronboff3461]

i see your still alive from eating here in America!

[@sillyme8302]

@@ronboff3461 Well yeah but i admit that's surprising lol because the list of food recalls is growing, and the government is trying to kill us all with poison in our products.

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

I miss the soda fountains too! Kreske's and Woolworth's always had one. They usually offered Beef Manhattans...YUM😋 For those that don't know, a Beef Manhattan was a sandwich with regular bread, open faced on a oval plate, topped with shredded beef, with a pile of mashed potatoes and beef gravy poured over the top. I bet I've eaten several hundred between 1958ish to 197(6)ish or whenever restaurants all started to change their menu's. plus, no more soda fountains😪I forgot to add that regular family style restaurants and truck stop cafe's and cafeteria's all had that great meal, plus other delicious meals too ...that you cannot find anywhere now! Except!!....I tried a Huddle House they just built recently.....Fantastic!!

[@sillyme8302]

@@bonniemoerdyk9809 That sounds heavenly we were truly lucky to live in such good times. we don't have a Huddle House nearby, but I've heard the food is really good.

[@robertpunu7624]

we still have Baskins Robbins ice cream shops where you can get floats or milkshakes today, right?

[@burtbacarach5034]

You forgot duck and cover drills.Those were real fun....

[@royschultz1377]

along with instructional posters in schools with such gems as "Whenever you cough and whenever you sneeze, cover your mouth with a handkerchief please."

[@TheWestlandgirl]

Speaking of handkerchiefs we didn't have boxed tissues, we had clothes that had to be washed and ironed.

[@judierickson7166]

I lived in fear the teacher would shout Duck!

[@GlenShannon]

I remember those air raid drills in elementary school '72-'76 or so. Always wondered what good being in the hallways with your hands covering your neck would actually do in the even of a nuclear bomb. they always said it was to protect from falling glass, but really- that would be the least of our problems!

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

@@GlenShannon yes Tucson Arizona in the 60-70, Same, how to hide under your desk.

[@gkiltz0]

Not one set of encyclopedias in all those library shots

[@markvwood2007]

My teachers did not allow encyclopedias to back up your research.

[@markgalgano8649]

​@@markvwood2007i had the world book set & was very helpful with homework. my mum bought it from a door to door saleslady.

[@barneygilewitz6722]

The card catalogue was shown, but not mentioned, on the search for a book using the Dewey Decimal system.

[@gkiltz0]

@@markvwood2007 WHY?? Any particular reason? One of those "No reason for it we were just told to change our policy" type deals? or just POed at being stood up?

[@markvwood2007]

@@gkiltz0 It was considered to be lazy research.

[@leecowell8165]

Sunday drives in our parents 49 Hudson Hornet. Yep those were the days. sometimes Dad would drive over a 100 miles then turn for home. We loved it. Used o get apple cider during the autumn. First cup was a dime but the ones afterwards were free. My brother slept on the back shelf under the rear window of that upside down tub on the way home. Unreal.

[@notmyworld44]

Oh my! We go back a long way, don't we. I too remember napping under the rear window of Dad's cars.

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

We had the station wagon with the wood sides. Sunday drive 🤗🤗👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🚐

[@martybee6701]

In UK the whole notion of a Sunday drive is all but dead and gone. We are one of the most traffic congested islands in the world now, no fun in it anymore, too many idiots on the road ...mainly young 'available males' the same males' who have souped up their car engines to make as much loud revving and popping noises as possible. It's supposed to be a girl getter (???)

[@Beth_Alice_Kaplan]

With film strips, by 3rd grade, teachers picked one of us to advance the film. Such an honor! 😁

[@JadenKaye]

I remember.

[@edelweisssmith5345]

Yes! It was exciting!

[@notmyworld44]

16:10 - Those "record player" (phonograph) speeds were 33-1/3, 45, and 78 rpm. Don't forget that "1/3". I was a radio presenter back then, and around the station we often referred to vinyl discs containing spoken messages as "electrical transcriptions". Oh how I do miss my long-ago radio days in Houston Texas! So many times I get the urge to get in touch with one of those people I worked with at the radio stations back then. So I get on the internet, type in their name, and usually all I come up with is an obituary. 😢

[@wizengy]

My first record player had 78, 45, 33 1/3 and 16. 16 was used for spoken records not music.

[@notmyworld44]

@@wizengy Thank you. Those spoken "records" were the ones we called "electrical transcriptions". They were mostly commentaries. The one I remember now was Melvin Munn's patriotic program, the name of which escapes me at the moment.

[@martybee6701]

My record player had all those speeds - as kids we found it hilarious messing about with them to make any pop singer sound like Donald Duck or or a murmuring monster from the depths - 16 rpm

[@mikeywid4954]

Born in '49 the 60s was my "growing up" decade and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

[@marbleman52]

@mikeywid4954...Born 1952...right behind ya....totally agree..!!

[@notmyworld44]

1944, and I heartily agree with you!

[@19jarhead66]

I miss a lot of those things from the 1950’s,, mainly the morals of that era.

[@pd4165]

Yeah, it was a dead cert to get away with sexually abusing any child under your authority. Women and minoities had to know 'their place' and complete strangers could give you a beating, because adults were always right. And let's not forget the rampant corruption and abuse of power by anyone with standing. Go to the same club as a judge? Not guilty! Yeah, the morals of that era had to be seen to be believed.

[@jeffreese1828]

Yeah . (*sigh*) Segregation , lynchings , barefoot and pregnant women , the Cold War , lax DUI laws and Auto safety features .... The good ol days ! Lol , I know what you're saying (hopefully not nostalgic for THOSE things !) , but really never been a "perfect" time and usually only seems so in hindsight . There are now , as then , some fantastic things and people , and some , uh , not so great . As I get older , it seems part of this is explained by simply .... we were younger and felt more alive , more connected socially, etc. , and "those times" were the water in which we swam . And , that as we age and things change ever faster , we feel less and less a part , less relevant , and less comfortable in our own skins . We can't do much about that , it seems , so we (naturally , I think) harken back to a time we didn't feel like that - the good ol days , remembering the good and forgetting the bad ! But ,young to middle age folks , now , will one day view NOW as " the good ol days" , as we view this vid's Era , thus . ( I say , "we" , but I was born in '67 , though there is not one thing in the vid that I did not experience , to some degree , firsthand . The Party Line was a "blast" , huh ? And it is sooo strange to hear the once ubiquitous Encyclopedia , described by , not only how used , but WHAT they even were ! Lol) 👍🍻

[@notmyworld44]

Yes indeed! Back then "have sex" meant the state of being either male or female. Also the word "gay" meant exuberantly happy. I still staunchly REFUSE to use that word in the modern sense!

[@anonymousjohnson976]

Yes, mostly the respect for authority and family.

[@AllanMogensen]

@@anonymousjohnson976 or you got beaten up ;) not respect - fear

[@jeffcarlson3269]

you failed to mention that thru MOST of the 60's the only way to actually open up a can of soda or beer was by using a metal.. can opener... they came with a sharp pointed end on one end and a flattened edge on the other end... and were about 4" to 5"" long. (most beer and soda companies would give these openers out for free as demos.. usually containing their product name etched in the metal).. for opening up beer and soda bottles.... as did most soda dispensers of the day... pull tabs did Not become mainstream until.. the end of the 60's.. and even then it was not until.. the mid to late 1970's that most small bottling companies soda and beer canning.. companies switched to the pull tabs... working for Vess Soda Co.. for three years from 1976-1979.... most of our canned goods STILL needed a can opener to punch 2 holes in the tops of the soda cans....those years.. the hole needed to be punched on one side.. AND that was the air hole to let air into the can that.. displaced the soda coming out of the end our mouth was on... otherwise.. we would have to literally "suck" the fluid out... this is why the pull tab tops.. and the pop tops of today.. have slightly bigger openings than those that those small openers left.. nowadays.. the air enters into the can from the top above our lips.. when we drink from cans...

[@JymDyer]

You are correct, sir. I worked by a swimming pool in the late 1970s and when the pop cans started showing up with pull tabs, a lot of bare feet got cut on them (so we started only selling open cans). I think the big corporations like Coca-Cola had them first, and were the first with the pop-tops that remained attached.

[@patriciathorn264]

Why did we call them church keys?

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@@patriciathorn264 I have heard them referred to as that... once in a great while... but I do not get the reference.. I always called it a bottle or can opener..... I DO know that I delivered pop for a local beverage company here in the mid 70's... and back in those days.. ALL the bottled pop was in glass bottles.. at least for the company I worked for was that way... ... and you NEEDED that opener.. to open their pop... none of their products had a screw off top as of yet..... except for "Mason's " root beer... . AND we only carried One can item that came with a pull tab... and that was "Nestea"..

[@johnlennon8653]

Sunday drives with the family, drive in restaurants with window trays,A/M radio and 8 track tapesin cars. Sitting under a tree to read the Sunday morning funny pages featuring Hi and Loise,Pogo and Blondie. Good times growing up!

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

the funny pages! my favorite was Blondy and Dagwood , A and W rootbeer drive ins, transistor🤗 radio, shaking it to make the battery work. 1965-70

[@graebeard6882]

Gotta love the color tv 's and wide screens. Back in the 60s a 27inch black and white was just a dream

[@charlesbrentner4611]

I joined a chat on my grandma's party line once in the early 1970's. I was born at the end of 1970 so I was a little guy at the time. I spoke and this older lady asked "who is this?" and I replied "It's me!" lol. After that grandma bought me a toy telephone so I'd leave her's alone.

[@charlesbrentner4611]

Many of the things in this video were still around in the 1970's as well.

[@Deb-s1t]

The nosy neighbor who would listen to your calls.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

She did not correct your grammar, to "it is I"?

[@SWExplore]

Listening in on calls just might give you an earful of someone's steamy conversation with their lover. Kinda' hot but really nosy and inappropriate. 😃

[@stephenlacher587]

Change is NOT always improvement.

[@martybee6701]

There's an old saying in Yorkshire, UK 'If it's not brok (en) dunt fix it.'

[@lonespokesperson7254]

Especially when some people don't know how to use social media. In my estimation, it is there to communicate, not to show how cool one is

[@anonymousjohnson976]

Yes, but try to tell that to the people today who want to change every aspect of our lives, the way we think, the way we shop, the way we look, the way we talk, the way we vote, the way we exist, etc. etc. etc. I hear now that they do not want cash to be used everywhere in the world, but use the digital currency only. If no currency, then it would mean more money in their pockets for fees and other nonsensical charges to be added to your credit card or checking account. It is all about the money.

[@lonespokesperson7254]

@@anonymousjohnson976 agreed. Too bad today's youth will never be able to grasp how wonderful it was to receive a love letter and not to know who was at the other end and take in the surprise when you got a phone call from a loved one or someone you hadn't heard from in ages. The digital age _is_ progress, but we also have lost a lot in the process. And, yes, it _is_ all about money.

[@martybee6701]

There's murmurs on the street nowadays in UK about possible all out abolition of cash. More and more companies and outlets now prefer card payments and incentivise the customer to switch. The Government hasn't said anything official about it. YET. But it seems things are going that way.

[@jamesrizza2640]

I remember the milkman, we had an icebox next to our door and he would leave icecream and milk, it was awesome. I also remember S&H green stamps and I used to go to my friends house on a pogp stick. Man this brings back memories I had forgotten. Thanks for the memories.

[@judyturner3850]

My hubby worked as a MILKMAN. GOD, I'm OLD..LOL

[@danmartin6490]

Having grown up in the 50's and 60's I remember all of these. I helped my mom with green stamps (using a damp sponge for the full sheets). I had a set of World Book encyclopedias. I remember when my Dad got our first private line . He was a truck driver and needed to rely on his dispatcher to call him, but there were two old ladies who lived across the street from each other who kept the line tied up almost all day. I remember the tv stations signing off ( there were only 3). There were a number more things I remember from my childhood that were not listed, maybe you can make a part 2.

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

Remember the peacock colors for CBS? I wish I still had my parents black and white console T.V When a family of 5 could get cheeseburgers' ,fries and chocolate milkshakes for 5.00 1955 Denver, Colorado

[@mberg1956]

@@foxiedogitchypaws7141 I think the peacock was NBC and the eye was CBS. No idea what the logo was for ABC.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@mberg1956 Yes. NBC adopted the peacock logo when they became the first tv network to broadcast in color.

[@martybee6701]

In UK Co-op stamps were more popular - same idea but blue in colour.

[@rick5793]

I remember Sunday drives and drive-ins. I STILL use regular maps or atlas's I despise using google anything, 9 out of 10 times it's wrong anyway PLUS you don't have to be concerned about no reception.

[@stj971]

👍 just said same

[@barneygilewitz6722]

Somehow we lost " the good old days" when the last heavy, clunky metal speakers went away, a long with the drive ins ( at a high count of 5,000 in 1958)) and the property now was used for retail stores or apartment complexes.

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

Good luck trying to navigating unknown territory without a GPS these days. The skills involved in putting up signs have gone down the toilet, if not completely forgotten. By the time you see the sign, you need to make a handbrake turn in order to make the off ramp exit. Even with 20/20 vision.

[@tjmpls4905]

It's hard to get a good overview of where you are as GPS maps focus on such a tiny area. If you pull back by shrinking the map, identifying detail, like town names and road numbers, rapidly disappear.

[@mitzilinn]

Yay maps

[@missrayelyn3045]

One of my favorite memories is dancing in my grams livingroom with my aunt. She would turn on Americam Bandstand and teach me to dance.

[@awomanwithaplan]

I knew a woman who had grown up in Philadelphia and was a go-go dancer on American Bandstand. : )

[@missrayelyn3045]

@@awomanwithaplan I bet she had some fun stories

[@awomanwithaplan]

@@missrayelyn3045 yes!

[@marilynmckenzie2111]

I remember learning to dance watching American Bandstand and a favourite couple . Her name was Sandy, his ?.🤔 most of my girlfriends learned to dance this way also. My first LP was a K-Tel record with a variety of current 50’s songs. My first 45 record was “ The Duke of Earl” Great memories!🥰

[@christiansaint716]

Ah yes, American Bandstand and Dick Clark!

[@JJP316]

Huh? In that video the guy is using a POWER WASHER not a hose. Professionals will still use power washers to clean your sidewalk and driveway. People use--and still use--a regular HOSE to wash down their driveways. People in the 60s did not have POWER WASHERS. They can be very dangerous if you don't know how to use them.

[@Victoria.Foxworthy]

In the 60s people couldn't afford a luxury like a power washer 😔

[@CarlGorn]

Typical content farm slop. Don't bother with getting the details right, just churn out a video.

[@JymDyer]

This is more a place thing, not a time thing. It's all about more population in drought areas.

[@rpx8699]

@@JymDyer Agreed. If you had a surface water source in a temperate area, you didn't worry about as much as say Southern California.

[@DavidM-bi3os]

@@JymDyer You are right. Some people who live in those areas don't realize there is a world out there that is different.

[@jhonwask]

My mother still has the rocking chair that my parents had purchased with S&H Green Stamps. When I was a kid, that was my favourite chair. In this day and age, I still play records that use one of the common 4 speeds there were: 16, 33, 45, and 78 RPM.

[@dummyfatso5537]

Attaching a playing card to your bike with a clothes pin to make the spokes sound like an engine...lol

[@Bettyalford-h9l]

Im a grandma of 14 and the thing that makes me sad is knowing my grandchildren will never know the freedom of being a child like we had in the 60s, nobody cared where we went or who we were with because our parents had no fears like parents do today. My grandchildren can't even play in thier own front yard and when i was a kid i played miles from home. So sad.

[@jamestreible4545]

I remember waking up in the early morning hours and sneaking out into the living room to turn on the TV to see the test patterns. They always seem so mysterious and intriguing for some reason. For me as a kid back then, those wee hours of the night, or early morning, seemed like a whole other world far removed from the daytime life we had. I think the test patterns seemed to feed my imagination about that "other world", LOL.

[@marybethjordan8520]

Interesting

[@cavecookie1]

I remember all of these! We didn't have pressure washers back then, but we used the hose nozzles for driveways and sidewalks. Here's one for bonus points...Anyone know what a slide rule is?

[@marbleman52]

@cavecookie1....I was a kid in the 50's. In school, we didn't learn the slide rule, but Dad had one and knew how to use it; he was an engineer. I do remember when I was in about the 5th grade, that he showed me how to find the square root of a number easily. It was like a standard division form but used the numbers a little differently. that's all I can remember.

[@cavecookie1]

I graduated from high school in '76, and although calculators were available, they were not allowed. With a slide rule, you have to know how to set the problem up and understand mathematical process. With the calculator, all you had to do was plug in numbers, so the idea was that the slide rule required an understanding of the problem, and the sequence needed to solve it. You could always tell the math nerds by the slide rule we carried; like a badge...or a target for the cool kids! @@marbleman52

[@lancerevell5979]

My Dad had a slide rule, and taught me to use it. But I've forgotten it over decades of never using it.

[@cavecookie1]

I think I could still do a few basics, but the problem is, I have forgotten so much of the math I learned 50 years ago. Most of the functions I can't even remember what they are!@@lancerevell5979

[@brianacdts]

My dad's friend was an engineer and I asked him to teach me how to use one I bought. He looked at me like I was crazy and said "Why? Just use a calculator." I told him that my my math and science teachers wouldn't let us use calculators, but didn't mention slide rules. I liked being the first to finish tests that semester.

[@ellenw391]

This guy seemed to stray from the 60's a lot!!! GPS was not around then, or until a couple decades ago. For Mapquest to exist to "jot down directions" there has to be home PCs & the internet, which wasn't until the 90's. I could go on, but I'll let you find the others lolol

[@leecowell8165]

Actually the 70's if you were a guru especially during the 8 bit world that preceded 16 bit. Most people didn['t know about "home" computers until IBM released the PS1 based upon the 8086 Intel CPU. this was a 16 bit chip with an 8 bit external bus. this was in 1981 out Boca Raton, FL they had a huge plant there. Prior to that everything was 8 bit. These are all CISC based chips which remains pretty much true today (even though RISC is a lot faster).

[@marticiawall1569]

we had DSL in the 90's, using the phone line to get on the computer. we got a busy signal or a ping if someone was calling in and we had to get off of the internet to answer.

[@wizengy]

@@leecowell8165 Let's not forget about the Apple II which was wildly popular and cloned (peaches and pears) in lates 70's. The TRS 80 from Radio Shack also was well known. Actually IBM was late to the game but it had the IBM name that businesses loved. Microsoft was late to the game of browsers but that is another story.

[@karenholt9744]

Yeah, and what's up with all of the photos from different eras- especially the 80s???? Surely there's enough 60's photos to project the real deal to those who may not know the obvious difference...

[@andyburk4825]

Had to carefully plan the layout of your term paper because it must be typed and footnotes were mandatory, at the bottom of each page - strike thrus and white out not allowed, one mistake and you had to re-type that page.

[@elainelott9644]

Yes !!! So hard to do a paper back then !!!

[@truthwarrior7246]

Regarding index 7:50. I promise you not one car had a GPS system in the 1960's. That is factually Inaccurate.

[@oldarkie3880]

I still have a Garmin GPS. It works better than my phone.

[@jimbo44cc13]

Correct, as there were only a very few satellites, and none for that

[@richlaue]

Well no but they did have a hardware device that you could program ahead. This box would count the miles and show you the next turn. Needless to say, it was a flop

[@greenie2390]

Yep, and now GPS sucks in the newest cars. Very hard to get a car with a dash GPS, it now has to be connected to a phone, so you better not lose or forget your phone. We are actually going to get a regular Garmin. Sometimes progress isn't progress.

[@TheWestlandgirl]

Garmin's will still get you on some sketchy dangerous roads. You need multiple devices to check still to this day.

[@cyclenut]

In the 70s we lived in Macon CO NC (rural mountains) and had a party line. Each had a ring (long short long and so on) Gas stations state road maps, some had maps of other states. I would get them, unfold them, close my eyes and drop my finger and see what the closest town was. Then called long distance directory and get the address of the newspaper and mail a letter to place an ad in personals looking for pen pals. sometimes teachers would make pen pals an assignment, both elementary and high school. I wonder how kids find pen pals today or do the still do that? Soft drink cans use to be steel and needed a can opener to punch hole to drink out of. S&H green stamps - some gas stations gave them, too. The old grocery store cash registers. Some cashiers had fantastic memories and could remember every price in the store. Back them there were fewer items in grocery stores back then. Those women would be very popular. Now anyone can run a register and that amazing women are no longer important.

[@cuginkcain5430]

Thank you for your service.

[@susanpark8588]

The problem is unless the register tells them, most "modern" day cashiers can't make change!

[@christiansaint716]

@@susanpark8588 Many kids aren't even taught math anymore! We're lucky now if they get any kind of education!

[@drgruber57]

The pictures at 7:51. What?! "Special gadgets call GPS". Uh... no. Global Positioning Satellite in the 1960s? Who do you think you're fooling?

[@tjmpls4905]

Yeah, really. Those were several decades away. Was this thrown in as a joke?

[@wendy-ld5ck]

Well, they sold people on the moon landing didn't they?

[@brucerobb2120]

And the video isn't showing encyclopedias, just nonfiction books. What's the matter? Couldn't go down to the library and find them? Britannica and World Book? Or more specialized ones?

[@wittwittwer1043]

The TV program, "Laugh In" repeatedly used the phrase, "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls."

[@karenholt9744]

AND the photo is from the 80s... geez

[@readdeeply9278]

Carbon paper was maddening. There was no way to make a correction on the copy lol For the top copy we had everything from liquid eraser, which you'd dab, wait to dry before typing over, not wait long enough and have to start again, to tape that you could put behind the key that would make the mistake white again, and horrible ineffective erasers that ate the paper and made a grey murk on the page. Computers are a writer's best friend lol

[@paulaparks-gq7mi]

Before 'white out' the ink had to be removed with a flat blade razor. That was before my time but 😬

[@paulcantrell01451]

My mom was a secretary, and she had to produce Mimeo stencils every week - basically a film that the typewriter would cut when the key hit it... You then put the film on the printer and it produced high quality prints. The problem was that there was no way to correct a mistake, so you had to type the entire page perfectly. Which she could do. I was/am a fast typist, but I make enough mistakes I could never have pulled that off!

[@readdeeply9278]

@@paulcantrell01451 Yes! We'd use this giant mimeograph machine back in the day, for organizational pamphlets and flyers. Ask your mom how carefully lol they tore really easily lol

[@mrdovie47]

AAA had "Trip-ticks", your whole route was laid out on flip pages put together just for you. I used to send them out to AAA offices all over Michigan.

[@susanpark8588]

I tried to get a trip-tik from AAA a few years ago when I was going to an unfamiliar city. All they did was print out a really grainy map that I couldn't read the street names on. Bummer.

[@marticiawall1569]

My mother belonged to Triple A and would always get a current trip ticket for me when I would go out of state. I loved getting those because I get lost easily.

[@Myrtana1]

Oh, I'm old, because I remember all these things. I was born in Germany in 1960 and some of these things were still present in the seventies. We never had a milk delivery service in Germany (but bread rolls from the baker). In England, you can still have your milk delivered to your door in the morning. I'm not one to condemn today's advances - on the contrary, I'm very interested in everything and have followed every innovation to keep up to date. But there were so many nice things that only exist in my memory, although they certainly contributed to the person I am today and I can definitely say that I still appreciate little things that many from later generations don't even notice and often they were things that you didn't even need money for. The good advice in the children's programs was infinitely valuable, for example). I love thinking back to those times. PS: I still have all my records and a player for them :) PPS: We never had soda fountains and usually no pogo sticks. Instead we used selfmade wooden stilts, the ones that are also used by clowns to make them look excessively tall.

[@RightReverandJimmy]

Old enough to have cut my bare feet on discarded pop tops at the beach, know that there were also 16 2/3 RPM records and collected Blue Chip Stamps as well as the S&H ones.

[@glittermama]

Omg. Party line. As a kid I loved listening at my grandmas house. Great entertainment.

[@mitzilinn]

Definitely listened on grandpas farm in s indiana

[@SANDRASmit-sm3yt]

We are a group of 1974 matriculants(grade 12 I think)on whatsup.I sent them on a trip down memory lane with this❤

[@WeedMIC]

You missed a&w drive up restaurants where the girls served you on roller skates.

[@lorenschwiderski]

A&W is a smooth rootbeer. The bottom of the glass base chunk of ice, many time fell out as you were drinking 😋

[@TheJoyfulEye]

I LOVED LOVED LOVED their root beer floats! Royal Castle was so good, too.

[@hawkfeather6802]

They had restaurants? I thought it was just a brand of soda.

[@WeedMIC]

@@hawkfeather6802 root beer 1919 - restaurants 1922

[@TheWestlandgirl]

​@@hawkfeather6802They still have A&W Drivethrus. One is about 10 miles from me in Michigan. No roller skating waitressess tho.

[@steveburn2711]

How did you miss saying "and that's what CC on your email means today - carbon copy"!

[@beakt]

I know. I am watching this with my little girl and I explained to her about this. I was born in the 1970s, but do remember carbon paper. I even explained how you would put "cc:" at the bottom of a letter as a courtesy to tell the recipient who got a carbon copy, and that a "bcc" meant you made a carbon copy and send it without noting that on the letter itself.

[@orthicon9]

Ah, you beat me to it.

[@christiansaint716]

@@beakt Speaking of cc and bcc and all of that, there was also mimeograph and stencils. I remember typing on stencils. It was a pain to correct a typo.

[@jgunther3398]

@@christiansaint716 ah -- then you remember purple tests that smelled heavenly...

[@mlt6322]

​@@jgunther3398Yes that was the best thing in school as a kid. The teacher would go down the hall to a utility room and print off a stack of mimiographed pages and bring them back to the classroom, still hot and have us pass them around the class. Everyone had a chance to hold them up and smelled them before passing the pile to the next desk.

[@johng4093]

Too bad so many of the video clips did not match the audio descriptions.

[@nancycurtis488]

Smokey the Bear has been around since 1947…..ta-da!

[@jeepstergal12]

His name is Smokey Bear. Not Smokey the Bear. Ta-da.

[@belinda1443]

Hotfoot Teddy

[@JymDyer]

Smokey Bear is still around, too.

[@daveshane108]

Oh No! I never realized this. Public Service Announcements in cartoons were the 1960's version of "Going Woke." HAHAHA

[@JymDyer]

@@daveshane108- PSAs were mostly made by conservative groups with the consistent underlying message that the people watching, not corporations, had to change behavior. Nothing to do with the "woke" chimera.

[@BlazingLaser]

I visited Coeur D'Alene, ID, last year. Beautiful town! In their beautiful new public library I saw an old oak card catalog. I hadn't seen one in a long time! I wondered what it was for. I pulled out a drawer and it was full of seed packets! 8^)

[@Diogenes1360]

Here on the West Coast & Southern California, we primarily collected & used "Blue Chip" Stamps. Our family got many wonderful items from saving up & using full booklets.

[@magalipiendel411]

I don't know why you show photos that have nothing to do with your topics. E.g. mountains of street rubbish instead of a pull tab on the ground, books instead of encyclopedias, stamps for letters instead of shop stamps. You're confusing the young generations who are discovering this.

[@bobwilliamson9562]

Speaking of pull tabs, they have been replaced by hypodermic needles

[@cheriem432]

Hear hear!

[@chrisrowan7965]

Don’t be such a Karen. Use your imagination if you have one

[@keithmoriyama5421]

Spinning tops! I remember in grade school where every kid had a spinning top that you would wind up with a string and do tricks.

[@aandino1239]

Forever grateful to have grown up in an age of innocence yet my heart mourns seeing difference between then and now.

[@cheriem432]

You are not alone.

[@weldermommy]

My dad was an avid stamp collector his entire life. He had a huge collection he lovingly showed us my whole life but I know I’d never seen most of it. When he passed away in 2013, his stamp collection went to my brother who had also taken up the hobby. When he was looking at his new collection from dear old daddy, he found a full book of S&H Green Stamps!❤

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

💙💙❤🤗🦊 Green stamps and Gold bond stamps

[@brucerobb2120]

*TV STATIONS signing off at night.

[@gracejohnston5612]

And then the test pattern.

[@semperfine4442]

In Alabama up until the mid-70's the AM radio stations played "Dixie" when they signed off at night. It's true.

[@singatune]

Well with the late night shows now, I sign off before they have a Chance to start their garbage.

[@Ease54]

Many times I woke up to a test pattern after trying to sit through the late night double feature...

[@TheJoyfulEye]

What about roller skates that you fasten to your regular shoes with a skate key? Do they still have those?

[@Michael9-23-15]

I'm pretty sure that they are available.

[@judyturner3850]

YEP, I sure rode my keyed up roller skates.. Not on a skating rink either ..On the BROKEN sidewalks or smooth, hilly streets when traffic let up!! Wonderful times!

[@julieinthenorthwest4594]

How about not watching your feet and stopping suddenly from a small rock/pebble stuck under a wheel?

[@paulcantrell01451]

Also, the first skateboards were just wooden planks with a couple skates attached to the front and rear...

[@michaelsessums]

I remember AN2 or Anaconda 2 as a prefix in my area. Oh, those party lines! Sometimes you had to wait for another conversation to end before you can make your call. If it was an emergency call, you could ask the other person on the party line to end their call so you could make your emergency call.

[@bodybuilderslave7125]

my family was on a party line until my father joined the ambulance service and then we were on a private line. so no more listening in on my classmate neighbor for homework answeres,

[@tedtimmis8135]

I still say, “Smokey the Bear”. Some genius Karen changed it to “Smokey Bear”.

[@leecowell8165]

Ksrens do that...

[@johng4093]

Then there was the song "Smokey the Bar" sung by Hank Thompson (1968).

[@havenxbmc]

It's always been "Smokey Bear". We only use "the" because of the songs where "the" was added to keep rhythm and the Golden Books that resulted using the "wrong" name.

[@susanpark8588]

We used to sing --//Smokey the Bear//, //stamps out fires//, Don't play with matches, always take care, don't leave a camp fire with any red flare, always be careful, alert, and aware, says //Smokey the Bear// to the tune of Three Blind Mice. And then there's the old joke--"What's Smokey's middle name?" "The"

[@TheWestlandgirl]

Always Smokey The Bear. Grew up with Dad in the Forest Service. Signage was everywhere around let alone on TV.

[@TheSourKraut]

As someone from the dark ages, I can confidently say that, if you looked at pretty much ANY 1960s encyclopedia, you would NOT have been able to read about the moon landing. Probably because of the slow publishing process, with all those pesky typewriter ribbons.... right?

[@edwardgabriel5281]

Does anyone remember encyclopedia salesmen, Fuller Brush, Metropolitan Life Insurance guys collecting piddling amounts each week. How about WW1 amputee veterans hobbling around on crutches or a dolly platform singing through a megaphone for money. I remember my dad buying me a nickle hotdog with saurkraut. The movies were a dime. I remember coming home from Japan and getting real angry because hamburgers went up to 25 cents. Sorry, the word encyclopedia struck a nerve. I am 95. Oh, I remember praying out loud, in unison, each day at the beginning of school.

[@charlesk46563]

Not true they came out with an annual year book for most sets of encyclopedia

[@notmyworld44]

My set of "World Books" was dated 1953, and my dad really had to sacrifice to buy those for me. I read them then, virtually cover to cover to cover to cover...etc. So I oughta be a lot smarter than I am.

[@frankmartin8471]

@@edwardgabriel5281 We had a Watkins salesman stop by once in a while. He sold some good spices and puddings.

[@geraldbreetzke8800]

I’m 75…glad I made it this long. However, when I watch links like this man do I feel OLD. I can relate to all of these clips. If you had a friend whose phone number ended with an 8, 9 or 0 and your finger slipped (rotary dial) the first word that came to mind was “S**T” and then started over again. I’m going to send this link to my daughters so they can have a good laugh and show them to my grandkids so they can wonder, gee did grandpa walk with dinosaurs too?

[@scottdahl1938]

Always will have wrong numbers. In those days I would have somebody read the number they dialed back to confirm. Then I would get cheeky and advise the person on the phone that they got their finger in the wrong hole having noted the failure. The precursor to operator error you might say. An Auntie who retired moved out of an apartment that she rented for 29 years. She never remembered her personal phone number as she never called herself. But people who did like me have that number imprinted in their mind for the rest of their life. I always got the number that I could dial to make the phone ring back. Never knew who was on our party line living in the sticks of Wisconsin. I could have found out by using that number but never did. In Chicago they had three digit numbers you could do that with pay phones. It could get a person who used that phone kind of peevish for say the phone in a local bar where people were selling themselves, drugs or running numbers. A tape recorder could record the sound the money made when deposited and local or long distance calls were free. A land line phone bill was around $20. That's around the same for cell phones now and you can call anywhere in the country without paying extra long distance. If I needed to call somebody who's place was across the street or field it might be long distance. But each phone on their own could call the capital 20 some miles away as it were local. We couldn't call either school we attended for 12 years without calling long distance.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I still have a manual typewriter and carbon paper. I re-ink the typewriter ribbon myself. I don’t use the carbon paper, but my old Remington works fine. Yup, the good old days of plagiarizing from the Encyclopedia Brittanica in the third grade! No adding machines for us. We had to learn mental arithmetic in school. Pop tops sliced open many a bare foot. My film projector at school was possessed. Film strips were fun! We made our own from boxes, strips of paper, and a flashlight. We should go back to letter writing. It was much more thoughtful than texting or email. We used to mess with the record player speed at school to prank the teacher. I used to go with grandma to Grammatis’s Soda Fountain. Our driveway was gravel and crushed shells, so cleaning it with a hose made no sense! Pogo sticks were fun! I was good at it, also walking on stilts.

[@pauobunyon9791]

Wasnt around for the 60s born 75 but I remember well the importance of typing. In school they had typing class to get your wpm up to employable levels ❤

[@pauobunyon9791]

Wasnt around for the 60s born 75 but I remember well the importance of typing. In school they had typing class to get your wpm up to employable levels ❤

[@cuginkcain5430]

Thank you for your service.

[@heikemotzek5954]

When I saw that clip, I could instantly remember what it all smelled like!

[@rickalexander2801]

Born in '57. Mental arithmetic? I had a high school math teacher who used to say "a pencil is a crutch for a crippled mind".

[@kennethterrell7409]

As a child in 1968, my family was driving across I-41, when we got off to get gasoline. At this exit, there were two gas stations which were apparently engaged in a price war. Both stations were selling gas for $0.33/gallon. By far, the lowest I can remember gas costing. Of course I vividly remember 1974, when gas first hit $1.00/gallon, because by then I was driving my own car.

[@awomanwithaplan]

When I started driving (legally) it was 1976, and gas was only 50 cents a gallon (greater Boston area). Remember lines "at the pump" going all the way out into the road?

[@MissyQ12345]

In 1971, there was a gas price war in California. I remember when it was 29 cents a gallon.

[@RebeccaJarisch]

I remember 28 cents a gallon!

[@KevSm-li8yy]

​@@RebeccaJarischI remember 19c a gallon in Arkansas, during "gas wars" in 1968 😊

[@bigdaddyyummyum]

7:50 GPS was released to the general public on September 16, 1983... it wasnt common until the late 90s

[@michaelcollins3313]

Another PSA was not picking up Blasting Caps. "See them and report them" was the rule.

[@rickalexander2801]

Willie Mays did a PSA about blasting caps.

[@martybee6701]

If you're talking about what I think you are in UK we called them detonators. Small thimbles of crimped metal containing a fingertip full of explosives used on building sites. Colour coded dependent on strength. Kids went out of their way to find them and set them off in the school playground invariably resulting in an army of teachers charging outside to see what was going on.

[@KevSm-li8yy]

I remember those PSAs, as well as anti-smoking PSAs like Johnny Smoke, Learn to swim at the YMCA PSAs, Radio Free Europe PSAs, and Great Society PSAs. 😊

[@martybee6701]

​@@KevSm-li8yy in UK we had those PSAs ... Wearing seatbelts - clunk click every trip was presented by...ahem...Jimmy Savile. Teach your kids to swim presented by another dubious character - Rolf Harris.

[@martybee6701]

I met a 6 year old kid in my local pub, his mom had let him sit by the open fire in there. Transfixed, he said hed never seen an open fire before in his life...

[@ralphacosta4726]

I really loved our family's Sunday drives. Also, penny candy stores. The milkman would also deliver orange juice. Taking the car to get gas would include having the attendant clean you windshield, check your tire pressure, and oil level. Traveling, attendants would also help fold you map back up, plus we got triple Green stamps and a entry into a weekly drawing for a Cadillac. I used the end-of-broadcasting image to pull a trick on my older brother and his girlfriend. They had fallen asleep on our living room floor watching tv but had set an electric clock alarm to wake them before his girlfriend had to be home. I came home, saw them there, went into my bedroom, changed into pajamas, came back out and moved the clock hands forward after turning the alarm off, then set the tv to an empty channel, which was showing the empty signal. I then put on a sleepy face, woke them, and said "What are you guys still doing here?" They literally jumped a foot into the air lying down! "Oh, my god!, Oh, my god! My father's going to kill me!" They ran out to my brother's car and roared off. About 20 minutes later my brother was back, not looking happy. The 50's really were a good time in many ways, but i wouldn't want to go back. I love today's life, and all the lives we've had in between then and now. Yeah, prices were a lot lower then, but so were wages. Medicine was much more iffy, and doctors knew a lot tess, with fewer tools at their disposal. We worried about polio season, and tuberculosis. No air conditioning, so driving across the Southwest was torture, though the the stops for gas, with ice-cold oranges or watermelons, were great. Discrimination against women, blacks, mexicans, and Indians was rampant; lynching still took place, with little, if any, investigation. Being found to be gay could literally be a death sentence. Paper maps were a pain; if you worked a job that involved a lot of finding of individual houses, you purchased a large book that had detailed maps; the trick was finding the right page after your route ran off the page you were on. I love Google Maps! Lots more thoughts, but this is already TLDR;

[@savannahtraderful]

Thats an hilarious prank on your brother and GF.

[@markrobinson891]

Oh yeah, party lines. I remember politely asking others to hang up so we could make our call. I don’t remember anyone worrying about privacy as it seemed no one in our small town had anything to hide anyway. At some point we spoke to a live operator to connect.

[@gkiltz0]

With pull tabs many people dropped the tab in the can, and END UP SWALLOWING THEM which immediately led to a trip to the ER to have it surgically removed.

[@thegreencat9947]

I believe that was an urban legend. 😎

[@mark-xx1lt]

@@thegreencat9947You're right. The big issue was trash &/or sharp harmful objects on the ground.

[@thegreencat9947]

@@mark-xx1lt "Blew out my flip flop Stepped on a pop top Cut my heel Had to go on back home. Margaritaville..Jimmy Buffet.

[@mark-xx1lt]

@@thegreencat9947 LOL I've been to a few Buffet Concerts & cut my foot on a pop top just not at the same time.

[@thegreencat9947]

@@mark-xx1lt I love Jimmy Buffet....and The Coral Reefer Band. A white sport coat...and a pink crustacean..

[@notmyworld44]

Such a bitter-sweet video. Thank you!

[@carlabunn1134]

I remember when we moved to Austin Texas in 1970 and there were 4 television stations !!! That was incredible. ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. I do not remember them having political leanings at that time but we were outside playing anyway. TV channels signed off at midnight and the flag would be on the screen as the national anthem played.

[@semperfine4442]

Considering that Lady Bird Johnson owned at least one of those Austin stations, I believe that there were political leanings.

[@carlabunn1134]

@@semperfine4442 I imagine you are correct.

[@inkmetal1]

Our 2 party line prefex was HE for hemlock. When we moved to the country it switched to a 4 party line. I don't use gps, I use paper maps. I still have enclipedias.

[@jerisharpe906]

Paper maps may have been easier to use, but my sister-in --law & her 2 children were tiding with me in the early 80 's, we were in Canada & stopped st a gas station. & purchased a mapto get to Niagara Falls. After a few minutes we realized that the map was printed BACKWARDS. Got home & a friend wouldn't believe us until we pulled out the map & showed him.😅

[@sheiladineen9483]

In 1965, my father won an RCA large color TV. It was fabulous!

[@cheriem432]

How?

[@sheiladineen9483]

@cheriem432 Thank you for asking. He bought a ticket when he purchased a new car, and won the contest.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

I learned touch typing on a typewriter in 1979, it transferred well to computer keyboards!

[@Ease54]

I had the option of typing classes in high school, which I passed on because...why would I ever need to type?

[@lorenschwiderski]

The Hula Hoop was more of a fad, but oh those skateboards never totally died-out, and seem now more popular than ever. Yea, the wheels sure changed, from steel to "clay wheels", to what rubber of some sort? The Frisbee was a cool idea and can be seen to air in these times. I still see kids having a good time with the old stuff, though I wish more would come together to hand-out, play football, and other activities, rather than being held captive of the cell phone. Family picnics and time with friends is priceless. Going out for a drive, was such a joy --- well it still is, though the traffic can be a tad bit tight at times 🤨 Recall a time that any car you bought, new or used, was something to share with all the friends and family, while giving them a ride? Remember a time when entertainment was things which you thought to do, be it body surfing, hanging with classmates, riding the bike every day, neighbors visiting each other, free TV stations with actually stuff to watch, and so much more --- all free to do. We took photos of each other and not selfies to post. In other words, when we were on the beach, or at the park, we focused on what was there, and in some cases snapped some shots to preserve the day -- to share.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

LORD! guess? "I'm old?" I know every thing in this video very well. Waiting for your mail was such a cool surprise every day completed with a daily news paper. our home phon number was one off the Blue! or Green? stamp store in Bell Flower Ca. We had lots of fun with wrong numbers.

[@2510katjo]

Things I never see anymore are pay phones and phone books. With cell phones there isn't much need for phone books or landlines. Some of these things i wish we still had today. It was fun seeing these things again.

[@GaryAa56]

I remember those days

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

I remember pulling off the pull tab and then dropping it in the can before drinking. It was one way to reduce litter, but when you think about it, it probably wasn't safest thing to do. I miss those days.

[@APG-fu6gk]

The A&P had Plaid Stamps 😊

[@robinbrown3347]

In the early 1960's I had a rural paper route with over 60 customers. I was still in elementary school. In the winter when I had to walk it was past 9pm when I got home. I learned a lot from my customers, one even made moonshine.

[@DixieLane304]

That was my first job! Loved it!

[@TheodoreBunch]

Cool Days Hope Next Life Time Is As Fun!

[@datbirdie]

I'm a product of the sixties. This video brought back a lot of memories for me.

[@lindabriggs5118]

It wasnt just rural areas that had party-lines. I grew up in Inglewood, CA, in the 1950's and 1960's. It's considered, even back then, part of the Los Angeles area. We had a party-line and many times I could hear the click of another person picking up their phone. Also, I still remember my old first phone number that started with RIchmond-2207. As for maps, my dad would go to AAA and request a Trip-tik where a person how worked for AAA would map out for you, your entire planned trip. It listed places to eat, or sleep. As well as points of interest nearby, such as National Parks, lakes, camping areas, etc. I would pour over these things all the time. It also help with my Geography. Reading a paper map was fun.

We never made a trip without a AAA trip ticket. It was a waste of paper, the way it was put into a flipbook, but it was a very👏 accurate and dependable way of getting where you’re going.

[@martybee6701]

Is a party line like video conferencing without the video ? In UK crossed lines were a common occurrence from public phone booths...you ended up being involved in someone else's conversation whether they liked it or not.

[@lindabriggs5118]

@martybee6701 A "party-line" was about 4 other phone numbers, shared the same phone line. So when the phone rang, you had to listen as the ringing was a bit like Morris Code. One number would have maybe one long and one short ring, another would have two long rings, then another might have two short and one long. All 4 numbers sharing the line would ring at the same time and you were supposed to not answer if it wasn't your ring code. But sometimes another person would accidentally or on purpose pick up their phone handle and listen in on your conversation. Or maybe you needed to make a call and when you picked up the phone, someone else was talking. It could be a bit of a problem at times. But eventually, the sharing of phone lines were phased out. Supposedly having a shared phone line cost less than a private number back then.

[@martybee6701]

Wow ! Sounds very complicated. Maybe they should reintroduce it give GenZers something to actually THINK about.

[@lindabriggs5118]

@martybee6701 good idea! 😆 I'm from the "old guard" or in other terms, a "Baby Boomer", where people didn't need to be on the phone all the time. Call me old fashioned. My grand-daughters text me and they know I hate texting, when a simple phone is faster. But, they still insist on their texting. Oh, well. Times change.