August 28, 1968: A Day in the Life of a 13-Year-Old (metal roller skates, hitchhiking, older girls)

[@firefly12345ish]

I am a 61 year old female, and I really enjoyed this! I wish things now were at least as good as they were then. Things were not perfect, but they were at least better.

[@1uboat]

Now that I just turned 70, that song has meaning for me. Those WERE the days!

[@kateskeys]

Now that 70 doesn’t seem so far away your post has meaning

[@cmoore185]

I was born in september 1949 so am five years older. You can't imagine how much I enjoy these. They are really a trip back to a time that not only was different, ask anyone raised in the 50's if life is better now or back then and I think you will have almost 100% who will say it was better then. I remember from the time I was 16 until the day I got inducted into the army that a day didn't go by without thinking of Viet Nam and mostly how to get out of going. The saddest part of life today is the fact that when we did away with the draft, we gave teenagers no way to feel like they were a part of the country. The last two generations have no real reason to believe that they are part of the country and therefore haven't really contributed anything to making the nation a better place. Today, it seems to be all about what can the government provide for me without me doing anything. It is really sad.

[@prettymuchbangtan]

you are totally out of your depth than, young americans are doing more for this country now than that joke that we have as a president is. baby boomers is the generation that screwed us millennial's royally and now you want to call us lazy lol yeah okay buddy.

[@inkey2]

@@prettymuchbangtan ummmmm ok so why are you watching all this?

[@goinxnginx]

We boomers really are to blame. You are correct. I can't wait for you to get blamed for the shit show coming after you. The boomers provided you with all the technology and prosperity that sucked all the work ethic, independence, patriotism, morals, and knowledge out of you socialist/globalist fools. We really are to blame, for sure. @@prettymuchbangtan

[@woodchopper6930]

@@prettymuchbangtan And exactly just what do you think you youngsters are doing for our country? Oh yeah I remember now, 1, being disrespectful to anyone especially people your senior. 2, most of you wait for work to come to you instead of you going and finding work. 3, expect things to be giving to you rather than earning it, or just plain out stealing it. 4, young girls having unwed babies by some jerkoff of a guy promising the whole world to the mother then leaving her to raise them on her own with taxpayers money. That's just a start of things that you youngsters do to make the country as you think better. I think your name pretty much tell enough about you.

[@woodchopper6930]

@@prettymuchbangtan Oh yeah punk I almost forgot!! Yes you are lazy

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

I was 13 too! For my party that was just a few weeks earlier, Mom baked a electric guitar shaped cake to celebrate my entering into the teen years! I got a transistor radio and a new bike. Most birthdays wern't celebrated quite that much...but 13!!! now that's another matter! Thanks Fred for the memories!!

[@evansmith4330]

Another amazing compilation from our fellow South Carolinian. These amaze me with their candor and sweetness. You're more than "just a guy". Thank you.

[@johncampbell3356]

If only we could go back. I truly miss those days

[@davidcarroll1883]

Be glad we got to live those days!

[@onlythewise1]

@@davidcarroll1883 no way only thing missing is tech those was best days

[@afrojack9061]

I can remember sitting with my grandmother in her 1964 Rambler Station wagon,and this song came on,and she would sadly express how true this song was!!! I was four yrs.old and right now listening to Those Were The days....I Am back in that fromt seat watching the sadness over come my Grandmother.......very mixed emotions ......

[@shibolinemress8913]

I was 5 that year, but I remember loving that Mary Hopkin song very much. Thank you @FredFlix once again for the memories! 🙂👍

[@johnward6699]

Growing up on a farm in Elkhorn Wisconsin I was 9 years old. Memories I will never forget,. Time was so much simpler.

[@s.l.blazier3721]

I totally stumbled on these Day in the Life videos, and I absolutely love them! I was a girl a little younger in these days. You've captured it perfectly. A miracle we're still alive after all that mosquito spraying ...

[@FredFlix]

You're right, S.L. Thanks.

[@hughhaefner5486]

We had our 1968 Mercury Colony Park station wagon. Our pogo sticks too. Green Acres was the place to be. We were tired of Dr. Smith and Will Robinson of Lost in Space. Oh the pain, the pain...Smith's catchphrase. I still have the original 45rpm of Hey Jude. And" Those were the days" . Wonderful to step back in time through your well executed videos. Love them!

[@FredFlix]

Thanks again, Hugh. I have my "Vanishing Point experience" coming next week, followed a week later by Day in the Life 1972. Glad you're enjoying them.

[@raymondnavarro9798]

I was 15 in 1964. I had a part time job. I saved 60 dollars. I bought a 49 Merc for $100. I paid the guy the $40 balance in 2 payments. The beginning of power of credit for me.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

No, I liked it better when he said, "Never fear. Smith is here."

[@darrellludlow]

Thank you. Such a wonderful trip down memory lane.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Darrell.

[@louisedwards6681]

@@FredFlix seems a lot like my life except I've never been mooved, I've always lived in Roanoke Rapids North Carolina THANKS for the memory

[@FredFlix]

@@louisedwards6681 You're welcome, Louis.

[@LoveMyCountryAussie]

They were great years to ,,here in Sydney, Australia ,miss them days ,,great stuff again mate Mr Fred, ,, TIME IS SHORT PEOPLE ,take care our USA FRIENDS ,

[@FredFlix]

Thanks again, Keith (am I right on the name? I'm hoping I didn't have another brain fart.)

[@dnsmithnc]

You too brother. We're all in this together.

[@johnnyrodriguez4564]

Mick Sydney Thanks Mick

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Mick, sounds like we are about the same age. I was 13 years old in 1968. I'd go back to 68' and stay.....mate.

[@scottmcman7659]

I expect life in Australia was much the same back in those days.

[@vickinoeske1711]

Great little movie. It brought back so many memories. Thanks.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Vicki.

[@scottmcman7659]

I love these. I think having the narration in print is part of what makes it so good. Everytime I watch one of these, I go back in time as many do. Remember when we couldn't wait to grow up? I'd give almost anything to be a kid again, but not in this day. I'd want to go back to the 60's and 70's. Me and my friends hitched everywhere we went. That or rode our motorcycles. I got caught riding on the road many times. Of course, the police were like everyone else, they knew you and your parents. The worst was when they'd threaten to tell my father. "I don't think you want me to tell Jack what you're doing out here, do you? Get off that bike and walk it home!" So, we'd get off, wait until they were out of sight and jump back on. Hey! It was sometimes a 2 or 3 miles from home and no, the cops weren't that stupid. They did pretend to drive off to see if we'd jump back on. It was a big game of cat and mouse. What else does a cop have to do in a small rural town, but chase kids around? The good thing was, we had cut lots of bike trails thru the woods and could get almost anywhere without touching pavement. Ahh, time is like a runaway freight train now and to me, the world get worse and worse. Too bad you don't have a pic of that girl, LOL! I remember a girl, Sandy. She was my older sisters friend and if anyone could send in a photo to Playboy at the time, it was her. When I got ear infections, I'd ask her to blow cigarette smoke in my ear. Had no idea what that was supposed to do, but it was a thing. I didn't really care, I just wanted to feel Sandy's hot breath in my ear. I need to go take a cold shower now....

[@FredFlix]

Wonderful comment, Scott, thanks.

[@WINGGULLSEAGULL]

I grew up in the 60's I remember 1968 very well I was 10, it was the year my dad bought a new 1968 Chevelle Malibu, he sold his 1957 Chevrolet Belair he owned since new for $250 . 10 years later he bought me a 57 Chevy like the one he had for a $1000 & I later sold it for $1700 I was so excited i made money off it. It was the year Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther king were shot . What I liked the most were the cars & on my way to school I'd look at all the cool cars parked in the driveways of every house. 59 Chevy's, 59 El Caminos, 60 Chevy taxicabs, a 62 Corvette, kids being dropped off to school in a 55 Chevy Nomad. My next door neighbors relatives pulling up in a 57 Chevy Nomad. These cars were everywhere & it was a free car show as soon as you stepped outside the house. It was a better time & I'll always remember it.

[@speedracer1945]

I too was 10 going on 11 and my Dad bought a 68' Buick LaSabre in which at the age of 16 in 1974 he gave me as my first car as he bought another new 1974 Buick . I have a picture of me in front of the car in 68 and a picture of me in 74 this time with long hair and a wild 16 .

[@harrycrab8725]

OM G! Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King’s assassinations and the Vietnam war were the best of times?! Geez! Things must really suck for you now.

[@badgerbait8351]

I owned a 68 SS 396 Chevelle 10 years later in HS. Lost my license right after graduation.

[@iiatargetanalyst3046]

Thanks for your input 🤔

[@BRLaue]

Grew up in the fifties and sixties and my wife who was raised in Europe can’t figure out how I know every make of car on the road and everyone in all the movies we watch. She tests me with Google and I am never wrong.

[@marks6406]

Re living ever moment and smiling through it all..... thank you for taking the time to make these videos they reach that kid that still lives in all of us .....

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Mark.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Don't care what others may say. It WAS a better time!

[@LoveMyCountryAussie]

kyokogodai The good old days mate ,,long gone ,

[@starmoon1590]

kyokogodai - was so simple...such a wonderful time

[@dnsmithnc]

No argument from me.

[@jeffbarton3353]

I wouldnt want to have to dread goin to Nam though. Although i wouldve just enlisted in the Navy like my dad did. I did anyways without a war.

[@psychoman5295]

It would have been if you were back in Mexico.

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

I'm just 40 and I really like these videos. It gives me the opportunity to look at a time long gone. Please keep making these wonderful videos.

[@richardvful1]

Once again really appreciate the blast from the past, I was brought up in Jacksonville Florida, my dad worked in a carpenter shop until he hurt his back, my mom worked nights at the Krystal on Mainstreet they sold the little 2 bedroom block home I think in 72 and moved us into Callahan Florida dad got a great deal on a 20 acre lot of swampland and me and my 2 younger brothers cleared a plce for a house by hand chopping out palmetto's and shrubs and trees, dad bought an old aboned house off an old Dairy and had it hauled onto the property, a 2 bedroom wooden shack, talk about rouphin it WOW!!! me and my 2 younger brothers were in 1 bedroom, with bunk beds and a single bed, Callahan was also a 1 traffic light town, in fact my wife and I now live on that property in a double wide mobile home LOL :D we love it out here though. Thanks again :)

[@freddyferrillo9704]

My eyes always water up when watching FredFlix videos. Every time.

[@darlenereed4975]

Dark Shadows was the cool soap back then.

[@debbiedunn4477]

Oh my gosh yes!! Couldn't wait to get home from school and watch Dark Shadows!!

[@QueenSephy2002]

My mom liked General Hospital

[@stormwulf117]

Your Grandma was Goth before your daughter ever was

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

@@debbiedunn4477 Same here! The bus would drop us off at the end of our long drive and we're run as fast as we could, fling open the front door and turn the tv knob to Dark Shadows just as the theme music was starting!

[@bearball49]

Really enjoyed seeing these flicks that gave a bit of a blast from the past. We were mostly unsupervised and turned out pretty well. Imagine my shock after raising children with no problems with police, I had my 7 year old grandson returned to me in a squad car. I had allowed him to walk to his friend's house in the same subdivision in daylight in the summer. As a precaution, I gave him a spare cell with my number preprogrammed. I had checked mileage first and scoped out if he could stick to sidewalks. Destination was one half mile from home. I was used to my children riding bikes every day two miles to the community pool. At age 9 my son would ride his bike 8 miles to the stables to work the horses and clean stalls while I was working. Different times for sure. The officer told me in 2007 that if he saw my child unsupervised again, I would be turned in to DSS. I do prefer the 60's, 70's and 80's to what we have now. Thanks for the memories.

[@judyholiday1794]

I just found your channel and I love it because I was born in 1966 and live in Charleston,SC..I am enjoying thinking back on day's gone bye..I remember accidently getting onto the old Cooper River Bridge late one night when it was raining ..Let's just say my hands were numb when I got off of it from holding onto the steering wheel so tight..That old bridge scared the living daylights out of me..My dad told stories about what it was like driving on it before the new bridge was built,and how my uncle would lay down in the back sit until it was over..I could not imagine having oncoming traffic while navigating that bridge..Anyway thanks for sharing your memories it has been fun watching them..

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Judy. That bridge was so tall and skinny. My brother made me turn off the radio I drove over because he wanted me to concentrate. Glad you're still in the area.

[@Fran-tl6bx]

I'm a bit younger but still grew up in the late 60s. Love these you tubes.

[@gregggoss2210]

Another great one. Ahh, the old mosquito truck. I'm surprised we didn't grow extra limbs or something. We would ride our bikes behind the truck or run through the smoke cloud. I noticed on the 7 Eleven sign something I had forgotten about long ago. You could test your tv tubes there. My brother taught me how to do this. We would trash pick tv sets, bring them home and try to fix them. We would have dad stop at the local tv repair shop on the way to grocery shopping ( at the A&P )and buy the tube or tubes to fix it and then sell the repaired tv to the repair shop for a few dollars. One man's trash was another's cash.

[@FredFlix]

Wya to go, Gregg!

[@scottrayhons2537]

The mosquito trucks were just for looks back then to make people think the gov't was helping get rid of mosquitoes. City Hall was using the money for raising their paychecks...you just thought everybody was honest back then.

[@MIDNIGHTRIDER1068]

as far back as i can remember and all through my life this music the 60 and 70s decades have stayed with me..my favorite decades for music..great decades best music and styles culture...i was born too early....lol...

[@Clell65619]

Lord, I'd forgotten all about No Pest Strips. Yet another blast from the past. And I had to smile at the sign on the 7-11 that advertised being able to test TV Tubes... So, you were 13 and made moves on a 16 year old? Ballsy move. (with an unsurprising result) Excellent vid, as usual.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Clell. She encouraged me before. I think she had a boyfriend at that point, though.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I was only 5 then, and for some reason was OBSESSED with No Pest Strips. We had one that summer. Also, I'd forgotten about places that tested TV tubes until just now.

[@randallsage6740]

Oh my, the 'skeeter truck, that smell of the fog, how we loved it.

[@starmoon1590]

Randall Sage - wow. I just remembered that smell.

[@addagwenlyn9662]

I remember the sound too. A low weird oscillating hummy thing.

[@900stx7]

They still spray in my neighborhood. Just not with DDT. I still occasionally see kid following the truck on there bikes.

[@flossygallaway6565]

Us kid's loved following the truck with our bikes there must have been 18 of us what a spectacle is was so thick an billowy white you just disappeared .Portsmouth new Hampshire grant ave.

[@billdougan4022]

I was a lot younger, but remember the Puffer kite, running through the mosquito fog, and had the water propelled rockets, along with the Erector set and the Bond suitcase that shot red bullets. Good times.

[@susanclark6987]

Thank you so much Fred! You always leave me with tears in my eyes and just such happy memories! Thank you so much!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Susan.

[@eaglespirit856]

When I saw the mosquito truck, I howled. We ran after it like an ice cream truck.

[@karolinesmail489]

Yes! Loved it that fog!!

[@thewatcher5271]

Remember How You Could Hear It Coming A Couple Of Blocks Away? Some Memories Never Fade.

[@zampieritto]

Southern USA get problem of dengue those times? I know also in subtropical areas the mosquitoes can be dangerous.

[@CarsandCats]

They still had those trucks in Florida back in the 80's! Very loud and I was warned to stay away from them. LOL.

[@eaglespirit856]

@@CarsandCats I chased them down because the government said DDT was safe!!

[@paulmanero6448]

You nailed it! Even the part with Linda... That brought back memories of my first feel up in the summer of 69.

[@kimkorenleblanc8695]

I loved it! It was a great time reminiscing with you...thanks for sharing!

[@keansburgbabe]

Me and hubby were born in 1963 and we were 70's kids but it was just as fun. Sleeping out in the backyard on our deck, drinking out of the garden hose, going in the pool in the summer and chasing the Good Humor truck down Hialeah Ave in Middletown, NJ. I remember the good humor drivers name was Scotty and was like the grandpa of the neighborhood kids. He used to play games with us to win free ice cream but even tho all the kids didn't win he gave us all free ice cream. Your right that was the good old days and whoever says it wasn't is an idiot.

[@tammyisenblatter9138]

Those WERE the DAYS my friend!!! Nice music choice! I LOVE Herb Alpert! Thank you SO MUCH Fred😊🍁🍂🍁

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Tammy.

[@kawika67smurf90]

I'm 64, need I say more? Thank you FredFlix.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Kawika.

[@ricko5885]

Fantastic series you are doing here. Love all the nostalgia and good memories brought on by watching your vids. Keep 'em coming!

[@FredFlix]

Will do, Rick. Thank you.

[@johntapp3311]

I was born on this very date. For me, the following years were almost identical to this one--comparing what I hear and see here, and what I experienced back in the 1970s. My birthday was a kind of last hurrah for the Summer before I had to start school. More than one year found me inside a classroom ON my birthday. It's so hard to believe this was almost fifty years ago.

[@gmoney9961]

Good Lord, that was beautiful! I haven't heard that Herb Alpert song in over 40 years!!! I too, had a "Linda"...but she was a friend of a cousin an entire state away and I only got to see her when my parents went there 2 or 3 times a year. At that age, though...that was plenty! I've been starting to believe that you and I are the same person living in alternate universes, but now you revealed you were a Marvel guy. Alas, I was DC. Great work, Fred...I hope we get to see what that first day at the new school was like!

[@FredFlix]

I can forgive your DC fandom, G Money. We all have our faults. Ha ha.

[@agod5608]

good story. summers were always work for me. I liked going to school. but, I lived in rural south.

[@kevinhall8112]

I was born in 65. I remember these songs when I was little. Reminiscing about being young and the things we did is priceless. Thanks fredflix

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I was 5 years old in '68. I remember several things about that year. My dad went on strike in February of that year the whole factory may have been closed down, I don't remember. My brother graduated high school on June 10 (my 5th birthday, coincidentally). I started kindergarten September3 (the day after Labor Day), and my dad totaled his car on the 8th of September. Thanks so much for these postings.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Gary.

[@31wst83]

Yeah, I was 5 also, I'm only a few weeks older than you. I remember the '68 presidential election. I wanted George Wallace to win because I liked his name (for some reason)?? I probably started kindergarten the same day you did. Can you believe it's almost 50 years ago?! I just feel so old!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Yeah, it is hard to believe, isn't it?

[@Illusions2020]

FredFlix blowing up my brain and heart again. Thanks for putting every one of these together. I been to South Carolina a few times. So old time looking for awhile when i was last in Greenville. My jaw dropped when I saw on a telephone post a Fire Box! In Louisville Ky we had those on almost every corner. And those trucks used to really roll when they were tripped. It WAS A BIG DEAL and there was trouble if anyone played games with them, which is what happened a lot and they eventually took them all out, just like Telephone Booths. Remember when our US Mail boxes were patriot real American colors? and not the puke blue they use now. Ugh

[@FredFlix]

Just saw this. Thanks for your comment, Joseph.

[@Illusions2020]

Your Welcome FredFlix. Thank You my friend for keeping decent memories alive in this terrible age of chaos. Brings some sanity where there no longer is much if any left anymore. You're a Champ!

[@larciabella]

We had bunk beds and Mom hung her laundry out in the warm weather ,we even had a Milkman!

[@joannesowle2547]

Same here, we didn't have bunk beds but my Mom would hang her laundry outside and we definitely had a milkman. I'm glad I can remember this stuff, you too!!

[@whipchick90]

Oh how I miss the old days. So, so much!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Smiled through the entire video!! The memories are fast and incredible! Thanks Fred!

[@melodiefrances3898]

I was 9, and my home life was horrible, but I still feel nostalgia for the simplicity of these days. And love the music!

[@FredFlix]

Sorry about your home life, Melodie. I had some home life issues myself but I took comfort in the things I show in my videos.

[@melodiefrances3898]

@@FredFlix thanks. I'm sorry you had stuff too. But, yes, these things bring comfort. Partly because we were young. But also because there wasn't all this information and sensory overload. You could get to know things before the next razzle dazzle was thrown at you. You weren't always constantly in beta mode. Things worked, and when they broke you would fix them. I feel bad for kids today. They don't seem to get to play outside and use their imagination. They are constantly bombarded with newer and supposedly better and way too much screen time. I had a banana seat string ray bicycle. I LOVED that bike. You could pop wheelies on it and see how long you could go before you had to come down. It was just sheer fun. Thank you for your videos. They bring back so many things I had forgotten about!

[@bradsense7431]

Love Love these videos. August 28,1968 couple months from turning eleven living in suburban Chicago I had just returned home from week away at summer camp where I had one of best times of my life.A few weeks later I too was to start at a new school as our family moved south to Pearl Ms. I can identify with so much in these videos of yours. We were so fortunate to grow up during that time.

[@karolinesmail489]

Better times for sure!!! Iam a 60kid I'd give anything to go back !!!!!

[@joeyrizzio6762]

100%

[@josephstosal9347]

Karoline Small your cherished memories is your visit sharing them is a way to reflect and visit but don't stay in the past a beautiful way to how simple it was back then.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

A sweet of a, “I’m with you.”

[@kenkemzura903]

I too was 13 in 1968. Lived in the West San Fernando Valley at the time. I was into Slot cars and made extra money collecting soda pop bottles. Lots of construction sites at the time so the pickings were good at the time. I was also beginning my hobby as a rail fan at that time, following the local train that ran by my home, and eventually getting rides in the engine or caboose. The aerospace industry was in full swing at The time and test firings of rocket engines at the Santa Susanna test site were common. Short skirts and dresses were the style at my Jr High. That was a double whammy for a guy going through puberty. That was the best part of Jr. High for me but some of the guys were just plain jerks and unfortunately got into a lot of skuffles. Somehow I survived and High School was better as I got involved with sports and girlfriends. In August of in 1968 I also chipped my two front teeth. They were filled in my Senior year in High School and many years later, capped. 1968 was a year of political turmoil from the Vietnam War but also exciting from the colorful fashions and the ongoing space race to the moon. Somehow, we survived and us boomers are ready to retire. It was quite the time but will never be able to go back. Thank you for reading and hope the younger generation learn from our experiences.

[@deborahchapman2130]

Karoline Smail I’m 10 years younger then you and totally agree!!

[@jackr.3945]

Love the video and music..

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Jack.

[@jackr.3945]

FredFlix You are WELCOME! And are you by chance an author ? None of my business...I know .Rude question. Sorry about that..but oh your video's and all my favorite music!

[@thenewcenturyofprogress2932]

Even then, we hung onto stuff we didn't need when we moved! Loved the '68 Those Were the Days song...nostalgia isn't new! haha! Hope you and Linda made up.

[@AMStationEngineer]

5:33 "Ben Franklin Stores", of all the business establishments which have disappeared/vanished/vaporized during my lifetime, I miss the Ben Franklin chain the most. There wasn't a thing that they did not have, and at Christmastime, they were the last stop, before wrapping everything before jamming it under the tree. During Vietnam, our local store maintained "wish lists" for our local members of the armed forces, who were serving abroad. My cousin often spoke of receiving those packages, two, or three times each year. Only local "bricks and mortar" establishments are capable of doing that; we've lost so much!

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I was only one in 1968. But my feelings about school were right on target! We moved around a lot too because my father was a chaplain, so I know all about that too.

[@MaxStax1]

I lived half way across the country from you but our lives at that age seems to be amazingly similar.virtually everything you showed was so familiar,including running behind the mosquito truck in the smoke,ha .In my case we saw them drive by when we were camped out in the vacant lot about 3am,had no idea what they were till later.We lived in a house very similar looking,7 of us 5 kids one bathroom,had to share a bed with an older brother.ah good times.

[@FredFlix]

Nice story, Max.

[@elifoust7664]

max stax America

[@bucksdiaryfan]

If u use the inflation calculator those eggs were MUCH more expensive than today (as is gas)

[@deanteti4485]

I was going into the fourth grade that year.All of those historical events you showed are etched clearly in my mind.Thank you for this great video.

[@Zoetropeification]

So many things in this bring back memories. 3:45 my parents had two GE turntables that are probably the exact same model as in the picture. We had a console type stereo in the family room but they would use the portables around the house. I remember Dad working in his garden with a turntable nearby in the wheelbarrow, extension cord running back to the house. One side of an LP was usually about 20 to 25 minutes in playing time but you could stack I think 3 or 6 LP's at one time on the spindle of these portables. The next album would drop to the turntable after the previous one finished playing. It was often my job to flip the LP's over when needed. I was 6 in 1968 and I can't remember for sure if they had these turntables then or maybe a year or two later.

[@davidbrown8303]

I also was 13 in 1968. Watching things like this make me yearn for them times and both my parents being dead makes the yearning even stronger. When I was that age swimming was my thing and going to to the creek to Catch Polly wogs. LOL I was a year ahead of you when it come to feelings up a girl I was 12 and she asked me to feel her up lol but sadly I didn't hit puberty yet so I got nothing out of it.

[@FredFlix]

If you'll look back at the video, David, you'll see she let me feel her up "two years earlier," so I have YOU beat by a year (as if it makes any difference).

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

David Brown - The kindergarten that I went to in 1960 had a large fish tank full of tadpoles becoming frogs. Mrs. Carreau was a much older, but cool teacher.

[@angelsofstone418]

2 weeks after I was born. My father, and mother's birthday. I didn't miss the boomer generation by much. Such sweet nostalgia for a time long gone by in the south, especially in our present situation. I spend far too much time in this magical past you've created with these videos. It's become my favorite pastime. Many , many thanks sir!

[@FredFlix]

I appreciate that, angelsofstone.

[@richardmoglia5628]

On a serious note... your videos touch me like nothing else. Thank you so much for all your work.

[@FredFlix]

That's gratifying read, Richard.

[@sallysimpson7]

I was born that year. It's so fun to watch what was happening in small town USA.

[@angelasotolongo9243]

Thanks, I love your videos. They bring back a lot of memories.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Angela.

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Memories of mom and dad

[@jrh11254]

So many memories. I too am from Goose Creek, but TX not SC. Several small towns consolidated in ‘47 I think. Baytown, Pelly, and Goose Creek - deferring to “Baytown.” We are roughly the same age (Robert E Lee HS Class of ‘72). Your slides and soundtrack are from my life as well. Thank You!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, jrh.

[@rogerthat5459]

This music brings it all back!

[@ruthresetar5940]

Big Little Books! Geez, Fred I forgot all about them! 7-11. Slurpees were an essential part of my childhood ♥️

[@bonnih6931]

Ruth Resetar slurpees plus those huge dill pickles!

[@ruthresetar5940]

@@bonnih6931 👍😊♥️

[@GROOVYJOJO]

fred u are the king of groovy in my book 🤩🤩🤩🤩✌✌✌✌

[@FredFlix]

Far out, Joanne.

[@joanpashinsky-greve8760]

Thanks for those memories it was a magical time💜

[@awizardalso]

Thanks for the trip back in time. From 1959 to 1965 were the best years of my life. I lived on the edge of civilization in Brookpark, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland. Everything to the north was new housing allotments and led into the city. Everything to the south was farm lands, wide open fields and ancient woods where my friends and I spent most of our time..

[@MrGchiasson]

As kids in early 60's.running behind those DDT trucks in Menriv Park Navy housing...Goose Creek! That was about 56 years ago. I'm still here with no lung problems...astounding!

[@FredFlix]

Apparently that stuff remains in your system without causing ill effects until it reaches a toxic level and you drop dead suddenly. Just something I read. What years did you live in Goose Creek?

[@MrGchiasson]

@@FredFlix from 63 to 74....

[@GaryAa56]

thanks Fred, you really take we viewers back, even if for few moments. Makes me wish we knew each other back then.

[@johnsain]

Wow,...your sis bought Hey Jude, 2 days after it was released!

[@candysantillo3325]

Just loving every one of your videos.You went into high school the year that I graduated.Thank you ,again

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Candy. We're in the same ballpark, era-wise.

[@susanjohnson7679]

Totally made my night. Your music is impeccable

[@GaryAa56]

Thanks Fred, for sharing your sentimental memories. 1968, as bad as it seemed, was a great time to be a kid.

[@DelRBowlby]

I am a year behind you but was raised in the Pacific Northwest. I enjoy watching your videos because I was stationed in Charleston in the mid 70's for three years. (Oh God do I remember that bridge!) I am fairly familiar with Goose Creek, Monks Corner and Charleston. Brings back some good memories. Thank you for doing this.

[@georgesabol459]

The town truck where I grew up had a red dodge pickup with a BIG blower fan pushing it up into the leaves. My sister & I rode our bikes behind, because, well just because. I was 5

[@suziperret468]

Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end! I was a teenager abroad, and I remember singing this in the back of a taxi with my friends...on the way to a disco....So careless and carefree..we really lived it up!

[@jwrides1232]

thanks again fred, i remember me and my friends running through the ,skeeter,, trick fog laughing and gulping in the air. scary and funny, stay safe

[@annagraser5088]

Thanks for the memories!

[@ponygirl2203]

Good and bad times, they were still the best! Thanks fredflix for bringing them all together!👍😄😄

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Mary.

[@nothousebroke]

This is a cool way to recal memories. I was a month old and the 28th os my dads birthday. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@alexanderdupuis]

I love your videos because you and I are exactly the same age. I turned thirteen in 1968. Although you grew up in the Carolinas and I grew up in southern California, we remember many of the same things, same TV shows, certainly the same songs that we heard on the radio. "Those Were the Days" takes me straight back to my thirteenth birthday (Oct. 12, 1968) and "This Guy's In Love You" takes me right back to that spring when I was just finishing the seventh grade and my family was preparing to move to Spokane, WA, where we would live for two years. I really connect with these videos. They're like Old Home Week.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks for your comment, Alexander. Although I am one year and one day older.

[@MrBROTHERFELDER]

Thanks Fredflix. You are truly a historian.

[@FredFlix]

Thank you!

[@MrDongodon]

Hey FredFlix... You brought back some wonderful memories I was Eleven in 1968 and I owned at least 90% of all those toys you showed and Helen was one of my first girl friends lol.... Thanks.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Donald.

[@joyceannbarton2868]

Thank you for posting another awesome video.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Joyceann, and about your other comment: Good for your mom!

[@janetstout8931]

Wonderful, bittersweet memories

[@fayesheets5509]

Just started watching your channel,how cool.Brings back so many memories,I remember running behind the bug spray truck also,and getting an ice cream from the Ice cream truck when it drove through the neighbor hood.

[@michaelirwin1887]

Thank you. I wasn't as fortunate, but I'm glad you had a friend like Linda.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Michael. She gave me a wonderful gift.

[@David-yw2lv]

Great music on this video.Some of the best of that year I was 11,& I have similar memories.

[@tomj528]

I grew up in the 70s and 80's, much of the same memories...far better living than now for sure. One of the reasons we love our antenna TV is that all of those great old show are still played on a daily basis. Who needs cable?

[@davidcarroll1883]

I lived in Charleston west of the Ashley from 1979 to 1982. I remember the skinny old Cooper river bridge so well. This brought back many memories. Goose Creek. Monks Corner. Hanahan. North Charleston, where I worked. Great video!!

[@Lizerator]

These are really fun, thanks!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I was 5 then, but I remember a few things that happened that year. One of them was a mine explosion that happened in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. I've lived in Fairmont, West Virginia all of my 54 years. Farmington is about 8 miles west of Fairmont.

[@randmeller]

8/28/1968 - my 18th birthday... and my main memory is watching Chicago cops in robin's egg blue helmets beating people with nightsticks on TV. Changed my mind about what I was taught in school - "Cops are your friend" - and set me against "government " for many years.

[@larrydaniels6532]

That is what a lot of people remember from that year, I don't think that anyone died from all of the Cops (Pigs) mistreatment on that night. What may surprise you that 3 weeks earlier at the Republican Convention in Miami Beach, at a protest in Liberty City, the predominately black suburb of Miami, three people were killed on that convention's last day.

[@tinyapprentice6947]

Wow those days look so calm and free. I would have loved to have experienced that time.

[@patriciaspadea2266]

I was 13 in '69. It was calm and free...not perfect. But almost. 💝

[@timfitch4474]

Thanks for the memories,

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Tim.

[@brendaproffitt1011]

I love 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝it my friend just awesome..thank you for everything that you do

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, as always, Brenda. Still have more Day in the Life videos coming, plus the usual oldies but goodies TV stuff. Keeps me of the streets!

[@brendaproffitt1011]

FredFlix your welcome my friend and still awesome💝💝💝

[@JohnShinn1960]

Fred Flixx, I haven't watched any of your videos in over a year. What fun to see new ones! I resubcribed. J

[@conniecrawford5231]

I had my brand new 1967 Chevy Chevelle SS with that monster engine- got my first speeding ticket ever! I loved that car with its bucket seats. It was my baby- I paid for it - so no one else drove it although all the guys wanted to! I had to chose among the Chevelle, the second model year Mustang,or the first year model Cougar- all gorgeous powerful V-8s! Never heard of a 4 cylinder car then until my new husband and I spent the summer in Europe and bought a used 4 cylinder Ford to get around. We sold it in Germany before we flew home to our waiting 8 cylinder cars!

[@Rangersly]

I changed school 4 times from kindergarden to 6th grade! Horrible! I was not a popular kid and didn't have a lot of social skills back then, so you can imagine the stress every time to start all over again, each time... Kep them coming Fred! You put out amazing videos!

[@FredFlix]

That must have been tough, Rangersly. I hope there were so positives to come from it.

[@freespeech8996]

I changed schools 13 times (including 2 universities), and it royally screwed me up.

[@johnsears8881]

I remember that week. I started my first year of high school, 10th grade. My dad drove a Rambler Ambassador station wagon. He and I fought constantly over the length of my hair. For years I came and went as I pleased so why now all the attention over my hair!!!

[@olddogcitypound5859]

John Vapes same here,my dad bitched about my hair constantly and the rambler ambassador ended up being my first car✌

[@patriciaspadea2266]

My mom hated my jeans. Lol

[@paulchristman2456]

In summer '68 we went camping in the Adirondacks at Lake Eaton. Two older kids that I met taught me how to catch crayfish. My dad took me fishing and taught me how to swim. And I met a little girl my age who was a "Dark Shadows" fan, too! Thanks for bringing back great memories.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Paul.

[@hankaustin7091]

Dark Shadows was the BEST!!! I have every episode now on DVD, but never enough time to watch them.. So far, I'm up to mid-1969