Bizarre Things People Believed... 60 Years Ago

[@barbaraborgia3289]

Growing up in the 1960s, the kitchen table always had a sugar bowl. Wouldn’t be unusual to put lots of sugar on your Cheerios or other unsweetened cereal. We weren’t fat, though. Everyone played outside all day until your mother called you

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

Yes. High fructose corn syrup is the problem, not sugar. HFCS and a sedentary lifestyle is a killer.

[@loopslytle]

It was the same in my neighborhood.

[@freedomwon2004]

Aaaaahhhhhh Cheerios and sugar. There was just one type of Cheerios back then. And outside to play,run, ride your bike. Deliver newspapers, cut grass, and rake leaves.

[@crowznest438]

@Terry Cloth Oh oh! And, I remember my dentist giving out LOLLIPOPS to us for being good. No novacaine in those days, either. Nothing to dull the pain, period. That drill. I remember the high pitched whine of that drill.

[@pianomaly9]

@@crowznest438 Small toy drawer at childhood dentist's in early 60's. I remember the high anxiety and Marathon Man torture. That's ONE thing that's gotten so much better, last visit to dentist this year was almost completely without discomfort.

[@tomreed5375]

Some of the best things about the 60's include: 1. No social media 2. Schools that promoted academics along with personal responsibility 3. A societal respect for allowing children to enjoy childhood

[@tristinhall1275]

How does any of these things affect your life?

[@bluefoxblitz8416]

😂AND GAY MEANT HAPPY!! NO WOKE B.S.❤

[@KMFDM_Kid2000]

1. Yet here you are using it. 2. They still do. You'd know this if you completed it. 3. Children are still allowed to be kids. You manufacture your own outrage.

[@KMFDM_Kid2000]

​@@bluefoxblitz8416 it's 2023. You can come out of the closet now.

[@bluefoxblitz8416]

​@@KMFDM_Kid2000 I loved an ice cream called GAYTIME but the whole name has been appropriated. So has rainbows and lemons and eggplants!! 🤣🤣 even pineapples mean swingers. All these things have been sexualized. So my children have to navigate the hidden meaning because of the agenda of adults. Innocence GONE in the name of "rights" for adults to sexualize symbols. That is what I'm trying to say. Have a merry Christmas or winter solstice

[@lukefitz1492]

If people from 60 years ago were able to see what people today believe, they wouldn't call it bizarre, they would be speechless.

[@siriusstar99]

What ? People from 60 years ago are still living . LOL ,who do you think are commenting about their memories. ? You’re funny .

[@lukefitz1492]

@@siriusstar99 no shit, what I meant was if people who were living 60 years ago were able to be shown what people 60 years from then will become and believe, they wouldn't have words to express the disappointment and disbelief of how people can regress

[@latachia_2981]

Well i was around 60 years ago, & yes things have really changed!

[@susanthompson8962]

I will be 70 next month. The things happening today are disgraceful, evil, terrible; I could go on and on. However, I choose to treat people how I would like to be treated. That was how I was raised. That is what is missing today.

[@susanthompson8962]

I'm not blind to the world! Age has nothing to do with what I said. I am well aware, and have experienced alot of things in my life. I hope you and yours have a good life

[@korbell1089]

I grew up in a town in New Mexico in the 70s and it was common to see all the trucks in school parking lot with rifles in the gun racks, and just about everyone carried pocket knives.

[@LajitasRain]

I graduated High School in east Texas in '78. The student parking lot was full of pickup trucks with gun racks across the back windows full of rifles. Some guys wore hunting knives on their belts during school. I can remember one guy cleaning his finger nails with a 4" knife during history class. It never occurred to anyone it might be dangerous. Kids thought about life differently then.

[@tbury2516]

Here in Wyoming, same thing, all the trucks in the student parking lot had rifles in the back window. I graduated in the early 80's and NOBODY ever thought about using them for anything but hunting.

[@Melancholy1966]

When my husband was in middle school they had a rifle range in the basement of the school, gun safety and marksmanship were taught there. This was in the 1970's in Estacada, Oregon.

[@gextreme2381]

know what else didn't happen? mass school shootings...

[@theeclectic2919]

@@LajitasRain Where in east Texas?

[@zimtage1744]

This isn't half as bizare as things people believe today

[@fob1xxl]

ESPECIALLY THE QANON NUTS !

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

Amen

[@samanthab1923]

Right? Insane stuff

[@patrickmcgrath5411]

PRETTY NORMAL WHEN I WAS GROWING UP 👍

[@Papag53]

Thank you

[@jarekstorm6331]

We had a smoking area in my highschool in the 1980s. It was an outdoor area with concrete benches and ashtrays, the kind with sand in them. 16 was the legal smoking age, so it was considered perfectly normal.

[@MichellesdesignsEtc]

Fast forward and we think that the same drs. Telling us cigarettes are okay have our best interests when speed developing crazy RNA vaxxs $ ohh and if you take it and you get bad side effects you can't sue sorry not sorry 2023 is just as crazy if not more I mean its difficult but you can stop smoking and most of the effects will go away but once you have RNA vaxx in your system you can't just simply stop it! I'd say you'd have to at least get a blood transfusion of all your blood... I don't know how that would work! 😮if at all

[@MomentsInTrading]

We had a smoking section in my high school in the 80s as well. However, they wouldn’t sell soda for health reasons (only juice). Really.

[@lisaboban]

I thought it was only my "progressive" high school that had a smoking area! Funny to see that this was fairly common.

[@Hollysays]

Yep. That’s where I spent my lunches in high school in the late 80’s…in the “smoke hole” with my Dr. pepper, a snickers bar and as many cigarettes as I could smoke before I had to go back to class 🙈

[@jayfrank1913]

In my high school in the early 80's, gum chewing was banned on school grounds, but smoking was allowed in the designated area. You had to walk about 30 feet to the parking lot to buy pot. For a couple of months, there was a piece of graffiti on the side of the gym by the smoking area that said in huge letters, "Mr (name of Vice-Principal) Is Pretty Fucking Vacant!" It took them an awfully long time to finally paint over it. I think the janitorial staff agreed with that sentiment.

[@thenapalmbrothershq5585]

People believe some pretty bizarre things in 2023.

[@foljs5858]

Much worse than the ones in the video too

[@tsb7911]

@@foljs5858 While some people believe bizarre stuff today, some of the examples in this video are quite deadly.

[@angelosantaniello4113]

We were much better off back in the day, we’ve became vaginized

[@brad3042]

They were dumber 60 years ago. I mean, morons bathing in radiation? Inhaling asbestos naively? The "prim and proper" bullshit of a chauvinistic society? Shirking seatbelts? Treating drunk driving like nothing? Yeah, they were pretty fucked up back then.

[@MissMeggypoo]

@@tsb7911 come again? People aren’t dying because dumb beliefs run rampant in society today?

[@woofer13]

I'm 74 and I don't know if these were in every shoe store, but in our town's main shoe store, you could put your feet under a machine that would show X-rays of your feet....and you could keep your feet under the machine for as long as you wanted. That's free radiation....lots of it. Not good. EDIT: I just went to Wikipedia and found: "Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s...." After reading the article, those machines are worse than I thought.

[@deborahphillips500]

My mom told me about her parents once taking her to a shoe store that had one of those machines. Her dad refused to let her stick her feet in it. She remembered that they bought shoes there, but never went back.

[@OofusTwillip]

I used to know Charles Hayter, the Toronto oncologist who wrote the definitive scientific paper about fluoroscopes.

[@tinytattoomike7943]

Holy smokes

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

I'm 59. I remember the salesman using the xray machine for my first pair of shoes

[@dabprod]

I'm 79 and remember those machines. We used to laugh watching the bones move when we wiggled out toes.

[@matrox]

When I graduated in the 70s we never even heard of school shootings. I was a member of the Gun club. We had a whole rack of 22s in the basement of the school where our range was located. No one even thought about breaking in trying to steal them even though were locked up in lockers. In the late 60s early 70s our father used to take us to a local public park to set up cans to shoot with our BB guns. If we did that today the swat team would come in with guns drawn and arrest us all.

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

Part of it, I believe is the breakdown of teaching kids the value of life. Moral decay.

[@kellyjogriffin8811]

And don't forget to mention that those pickups in the student parking lot with guns in the gun racks more often than not were unlocked.

[@netwrench6570]

@@kellyjogriffin8811 Same here, and having a Buck knife on the belt was good for daily tasks. Sharp enough to cut paper for someone who forgot their notebook.

[@gregwasserman2635]

I remember that we weren't allowed to go swimming right after we ate a full meal and had to wait an hour. One of the wives tales, along with staring at a TV screen will ruin your vision or crossing your eyes too much will make them stay that way. I also found it kind of funny that credit card companies were reluctant to give them to women. In many households, it was the wife who took care of the family's finances!

[@sallymiller1359]

Actually, Greg, blue screen from TVs today and computers are very harmful to the eyes. So are L.E. D. lighting, And now they don't tell you!

[@flowerfaeri]

There has been a reported increase in myopia in youth correlated to excessive screen time.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

I’m so glad you mentioned the hour wait before swimming! We had a place on a lake and that drove me insane! And all the mothers adhered to it! Also, I wasn’t able to get a credit card because I was an unmarried woman.

[@gregwasserman2635]

We are talking about TVs from the 60 years ago, so, no, I do not stand corrected. Further, the science is still out on how much blue screen is too much and what sort of long term damage it can do.

[@pianomaly9]

And if you make a goofy, contorted face, the muscles could freeze and it would stay that way for the rest of your life.

[@MrDan708]

Yep, some schools had shooting clubs, yet the students weren't shooting each other or their teachers! It's the values students are taught (or not) that are the real difference.

[@pamelamays4186]

At the community college I went to in 1977, Flight Attendant was a major. The college I went to, San Diego Mesa College, had a partnership with PSA airlines. Once you completed the Flight Attendant program you were practically guaranteed a job with PSA(Pacific Southwest Airlines).

[@L.Spencer]

Mesa! My aunt became a flight attendant for American Airlines about a year or so before 9/11. She was over 50 at the time, probably closer to 60. They were still taught how to dress and wear makeup. She was furloughed after that day, never was called back.

[@glennso47]

Offer you a guaranteed job with TWA or PanAm? 🤭

[@dennythomas8887]

I grew up in LA and flew PSA quite often. In the late 70's, early 80's they would run specials where you could fly from Burbank to Las Vegas for $20 each way at least once or twice a month, 5 flights a day. If I remember right during those specials you could also fly from Burbank to S.F. or Lake Tahoe for $40 each way. Good times and a great Airline.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

lol, my grandma was the HR person that hired all staff for PanAm Airlines in SF. I got to go to the airport a lot and see the stuff not open to the public. We had a special tour when the 747's came about..

[@savannahsmiles1797]

@@dennythomas8887 Didn't they have the midnight special to Vegas where you had to show that you had at least $100 to gamble with?

[@crowznest438]

We were told as children that if the siren sounded because of the threat of a nuke being dropped (during the Cuban missile crisis), that we'd be safe if we crawled up under our desks with our hands over our heads. We believed that ridiculousness. We had nuke drills and the siren would sound and under our desks we would go.

[@Name-ps9fx]

That's actually true, so long as you weren't at or near "Ground Zero." If you were farther out, the primary threat is from windows bursting inside the classrooms, and structural damage from awnings blown down to walls collapsing. If you were under your desks at that time, you'd be alive and generally unharmed...but if you weren't, chances of injuries were much higher.

[@pianomaly9]

Where were you in '62? Yep, under the desk too.

[@arricammarques1955]

@@pianomaly9 The tag line from American Graffiti.

[@scottmcwave9479]

duck and cover

[@bonwatcher]

Yet sadly those have been replaced by school shooter drills and worse, that bomb goes off far too often.

[@alexanderfo3886]

4:50 You're gonna laugh, but this happened to a friend of mine just a year ago. She walked into a bank and after saying she was there to make an investment, the clerk asked her whether she had already discussed the matter with her husband (note: she was not married at that time). To which she answered: "No, but maybe I should, so he can tell me a better bank."

[@RedSiegfried]

A lot of financial institutions are legally obligated to make sure someone has their spouse's permission when doing certain transactions. And they have to have both spouses sign the paperwork. And assuming someone is married and they might need to fill out that paperwork is not a crime, especially if they don't know and they have to bring it up.

[@alexanderfo3886]

@@RedSiegfried The matter was that this question was asked although the clerk knew nothing had changed on her marital status. She had her own bank account on her name there, and the bank was non the wiser about her relationship status, which is none of their business. And while it is not a crime to assume a woman in her mid thirties with any disposable money must have gotten that money from a husband, and that she couldn't possibly take sound financial decisions on her own, it boils down to not take a customer serious due to erroneous and outdated assumptions. With a financial loss for said bank. And I even forgot to mention the icing on the cake, namely that this bank clerk was a woman.

[@jeffreyparent2931]

But, they should never assume. When you assume, it makes an Ass out of U and Me! 😂

[@susanwenger8448]

I still think seat belts should be optional. Why does the government care if I get hurt?

[@TSeeker1]

​@@susanwenger8448Because Auto insurance may have to pay - they can't have that! 😮

[@DavidPsCaddy]

Back 60 years ago my parents didn't bother giving us a house key ... They just left the back door unlocked so we could get in if nobody was home 😲 Now we keep the doors locked whether anyone is home or not 🤨

[@daniellekennedy8118]

It drove me absolutely insane when my in-laws in Topeka, Kansas did not lock their front door no matter the time of day or night or whether anyone was home or not (how will the mailman get in to deliver the mail on the counter?). It never, ever occurred to them that someone might rob or burgle them. Luckily, they passed away before anything terrible happened. I can't imagine living like that -- it would be such a huge leap of faith.

[@joanbelmont5450]

It was different times buddy.

[@glennso47]

I kept my car locked but someone stole it anyway. Just a couple months ago this year.

[@susanthompson8962]

Yep, it's like your home has to be Fort Knox!

[@hewitc]

I remember that. I was your neighbor's son. We used to sneak in your unlocked house all the time and raid the liquor cabinet. I never got to thank your parents!

[@doug6259]

If I could tell my grandparents half the crazy things people believe today, they would accuse me of making it all up and having a wild imagination.

[@TruthSpeaker.]

Just because something sounds crazy doesn't make it false.

[@rustymason3860]

Or at least they would accuse you of exaggerating. Even today, many Boomers say, "Oh, it's just a few nut cases, nothing to worry about."

[@leesashriber5097]

This was interesting. I was born in '68 but do remember some of these things. My grandma had that weight loss belt machine. I loved my Seventeen magazines!

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I used to read 17 magazine but never paid attention to the beauty advice. I was more interested in writing!

[@siriusstar99]

Yeah, like there are more than 2 genders and boys can be girls and girls can be boys. Talk about the regression of society and delusional ignorance.

[@L.Spencer]

More recently, there's Bio Shaker.

[@glennso47]

@@user-vm5ud4xw6n just like some young men read Playboy magazine “for the articles “ 😏🤭

[@mack2192]

Seeing all the old Store videos takes me back to the record departments in stores like Sears woolworths and many others. I worked for the company that ran many of them and spent time in hundreds of stores around the Midwest. Great memories of my youth. How about a show on the Music Record Departments that went from 45s to LP to 8Track to Cassett to CDs with videos added and even computer software before the internet killed it all.

[@carlajenkins1990]

Dear Old Helen's Record Shop.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

ah Woolworth's that had the snack bar that served really good burgers in our area.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I remember back in High School we had a smoking area, During hunting season everyone had a gun to go hunting during after school. There were no mass shootings. It was a different time, everyone thought different.

[@kennethmcdonald2987]

I am fortunately married to a woman who was raised to be a lady .When you encounter a lady you will immediately know the difference .There is nothing wrong or degrading with a woman having manners and conducting herself as a true lady .The same can be said for men raised to be gentlemen .Unfortunately both can be hard to find these days .A pretty face is one thing but a true lady is an absolute treasure .Do not think because my wife is a lady she is some fragile flower dependent on a man .My wife can work alongside and keep up with most men doing hard manual labor .She loves to hunt ,fish and does classic car restoration including engine work .She can go from being dressed in hunting camo to an evening gown for the opera or symphony in minutes .

[@stephendacey8761]

Today, it's difficult to distinguish the difference between men and women. Sad times we have today.

[@starmnsixty1209]

👍👍👍

[@diegoterneus2250]

In my day, it was a requirement for gentlemen and ladies to use correct punctuation.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@diegoterneus2250😆

[@rockyroad7345]

Women were expected to be ladies, but the introduction of Playboy magazine convinced men what they really wanted was a tramp.

[@fixpacifica]

It was advised that you have your tonsils taken out, even if they weren't a problem. Half the kids in my classes in the '60s had them taken out.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

Yeppers...

[@mikefialko2979]

What I think is wrong with our public schools today is their philosophy that everyone is college bound. If you don’t know by eleventh grade what you’re interested in. Go to a community college. If you like it great, you can always go on to a university.For young people who college is not their thing there should be more vocational training and courses.

[@hewitc]

In the late 60's and early 70's there were vocational programs for those not destined for academic life. Auto and AC repair for example.

[@paisleydreamzz]

What are used to have shop classes and a person could get a full-time family supporting jobs straight out of high school.

[@kenbrown2808]

if you can't stand sitting at a desk all day as a student, you won't be able to stand sitting at a desk all day as an adult. and I met a teacher who got in trouble for telling his students that.

[@timp1051]

More guns were at and in schools back then but you didn't hear about school shootings.

[@barb-jm7990]

Kids were also respectful to teachers then.

[@GeeEm1313]

People weren't as mentally ill then.

[@joanbelmont5450]

BINGO!

[@joanbelmont5450]

@niklass1641ot unstable, but mainly due to the lack of values. No respect for life since God was taken out of their lives.

[@christophermyers3758]

WOW, we've come full circle with guns in school... back then, kids shot target practice. Nowadays, kids shoot other kids as targets! 🥺😭

[@jimt503]

Ah yes, guns at school. I grew up in a town that was surrounded by prime pheasant hunting country. There were times when I would go out and hunt with my dad right after school. There was a gun club at school, and just about everywhere you looked those with pickup trucks had gun racks just inside the rear window. There was nothing unusual about that at all. It was normal. What we didn't have was lots of crime, drugs or school shootings. Kids were taught to safely handle, respect and use firearms. The so-called bizarre things mentioned were part of the culture back then. The culture changed over the years and most many cases not for the better.

[@brettbuck7362]

We had a rifle range on-site, right at the back of the parking lot and next to the band room. Interestingly, when you have a school rifle team, it might have struck someone that *this might be a bad place to go on a killing rampage*, a bunch of 15-year-olds with deer rifles might have something to say about it. Not so much in a "gun free zone".

[@jakegarrett8109]

Same, and I'm only 28, we may have had a few fights, but only a broken nose or some red fluids on the floor, but never did anyone think of using a lethal weapon. If you never teach your children the dangers or safe handling of knives, can you blame them for stabbing someone? If you never teach them about responsibility or safety, is it a surprise they are irresponsible?

[@paultierneydontshootme_imj4713]

At my school we had a class taught by the NRA. They would teach us gun safety, maintainance and proper cleaning. When the classes were done for the day they asked you to put your gun in your car. If you didn't have a car you could carry it to your classes. If you didn't have a car you could carry your gun on the school bus. In all the years I attended that school there were no problems. If schools tried that today it would be chaos for sure.

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@paultierneydontshootme_imj4713 Probably not, see they were teaching responsibility, many schools don't teach that, but the ones that have that class care about the child's future and teaching them to be safe and responsible. We had similar (I competed in 4H and FFA trap and skeet in high school, I'm only 28 so it wasn't that long ago)

[@dorothywillis1]

I was teaching 8th grade in 1967 and I remember waving to a couple of my students I saw with their rifles on their shoulders off for the first weekend of deer season.

[@garywagner2466]

Nothing wrong with learning to handle a rifle. Comes in handy when you go off to fight in some foreign field. Also, asbestos was safe when handled properly. Problem was, the industry didn’t bother to tell its workers or customers not to let the fibres mobilize. Not everyone was addicted to sugar. Most families limited how much sweet stuff was available. We could try, but most often I’d be told to have a carrot. Sweets were treats.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Your word "properly" covers a lot of territory. We now know that "proper" handling of asbestos requires that you were full PPE with a respirator. They used to sell asbestos insulation to homeowners to insulate all kinds of things. My mom wrapped our steam radiator pipes with it so I wouldn't burn myself as a young child. No PPE or respirator included.

[@garywagner2466]

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131, asbestos was used without problems for decades. It becomes a problem when the covering becomes old and the fibres are allowed to escape. Yes, when removing asbestos you now need proper PPE. But so do many other materials. The hysteria over asbestos comes from ignorance, poor handling techniques, and the usual media exaggeration.

[@bogusmogus9551]

Well with sugar it all about your teeth not rotting. But there is a hell of alot more obese people now than then

[@garywagner2466]

@@bogusmogus9551 , no, using sugar was about moderation. It was actual sugar, not fructose corn syrup, and we didn’t get much of it. Nobody I knew as a kid went to a gym for exercise. We had bicycles, and sports, and were rarely sedentary. Nobody ate much junk food, or processed crap. Parents cooked and baked. Somewhere along the way we lost that. Replaced activity for the body with activity for the brain, like video games. That’s why too many people are overweight and have health issues. Anti-social media doesn’t help.

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@garywagner2466 no? what? my childhood was a fucking mirage? And what the fuck do you know about growing up in London in the 1970's? Fructose corn syrup, stick it up your arse professor

[@theeclectic2919]

Actually, teaching women to act like ladies isn't such a bad thing. Men should also be taught to be gentlemen.

[@alexanders562]

the un healthy diets and lack of realizing how cute glasses can be were lame, but if someone wanted to some tips for "acting like a lady" or poise, that is nice. And the gentlemen thing is a for sure.

[@pianomaly9]

@@alexanders562 There was a saying "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" that has thankfully been relegated to the landfill of history.

[@shootshellz]

@@pianomaly9 Since when?

[@pianomaly9]

@@shootshellz I'm sorry to hear if that is still being used by some knuckle draggers. I'm not surprised that you would take justified offense........careful not to break 'em going in and out of that phone booth.

[@Beitmeh1]

@@pianomaly9 Glasses makes some gilrls a lot cuter. Glassses can also let a girl detect a pig on sight.

[@johnp139]

Bizarre things people believed in 2022…

[@DragonBlue68]

I graduated high school in 1988. We had an indoor rifle range/armory for the JROTC (Army). By 1989, the 22 caliber rifles were retired and replaced with air rifles. Soon after, the air rifles were replaced with archery. Soon after that, archery was discontinued. I think I was the last S-5/armorer. Fun times...

[@1952jodianne]

Really, archery is a recognized high school varsity sport where I live, as is shooting, in both KY & OH.

[@1952jodianne]

My dad took me deer hunting & taught me how to shoot at age 5.

[@1952jodianne]

That was in the late 1950s & early 60s.

[@HD-J.R.]

Today people actually think social media is social and brings people together. I know! Hard to believe.

[@keithlibner9259]

I always call it anti-social media.

[@gj8683]

@@keithlibner9259 Mine's close to that: Anti-social not-working

[@gilladamson3722]

At my first job in 1972 women weren’t allowed to wear trousers ( pants ) as this was classed as unacceptable clothing for office staff, even the women in the factory ( making table lamps) wore skirts or dresses. Once I wore jeans to work for a week in the packing department, all the men wore them, and the women I worked with told me I should go home and get changed! I lasted a year then left to work in a laboratory where you could wear what you liked since we all wore lab coats anyway.

[@Tomatohater64]

In the 60s, I remember going to professional hockey games with my father. The arena was always filled with the blue haze of many, many people smoking cigarettes while watching the game.

[@ronaldperry]

Just like the US congress

[@catherinebirch2399]

When I was a kid, nearly all the adults I knew smoked including my parents. Nowadays they lecture on the harm that passive smoking causes. How did my generation survive.

[@stephendacey8761]

Also, way more fights than today. Many games have no fights. Back in the 70's fighting was very accepted. Although, not going into the stands (Madison Square Garden) and fighting w/ fans...Mike Milbury's infamous shoe swat.

[@MrDan708]

An early Philadelphia Flyers coach (Vic Staysiuk) smoked cigs behind the bench!

[@TheRhNegative]

Oh how I miss that certain smell: dry ice, cigars & wooden spectator chairs😅😊😢

[@ericschneider8524]

In 1977 high school boys carried Buck brand knives in leather cases on our belts openly to class. We had vocational education where we learned wood working skills and basic mechanics. Girls learned to bake and basic sewing techniques.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

my school required all kids to take the home ec class to learn how to wash, iron, cook, and balance your checkbook.

[@tilliemaekirk9444]

AND none of the guys in "Rifle Club" at my school EVER shot anyone ! They did have a healthy respect for firearms.

[@gj8683]

Fast-forward to 1996. My son was in pre-school day care. One day, the teachers had a meeting with me to express their concern, which was that during lunch time, my son had made a "gun" out of his sandwich.

[@jacksak]

In the 1960's into the 70's I was a commercial construction worker blowing asbestos on high-rise iron and in tunnels. No one told us about the hazards, and now I have a severe lung condition and am on oxygen.

[@footballlvnlady]

When I was in high school the boys wood class built gun cabinets. So many guys hunted. I remember riding in cars, especially station wagon, with a bunch of kids. None had seatbelts. In the 60’s when my sisters were born the car seats went in the front seat and only had a base that slid under the back of the seat. When babies were little they were just carried in the lap. In the 60’s and 70’s almost all my relatives smoked. Male and female. When the warning went on the cigarette packs some of my relatives quit. Today there are few that smoke. The cost of a pack of cigarettes is crazy. My dad always bought by the carton. Had to have his Winstons.

[@annseabolt6645]

I used to smoke cigarettes but switched to vaping. Out of curiosity looked at cigarette case at grocery store last week. Marlboros were $80 a carton. Vaping only costs me about $20-25 a month.

[@U_ever]

How on earth did we as a society wander so far away from all of this "normal" stuff ? ? ?

[@tonymu2976]

Lefties!!

[@glennso47]

We moved from “Normal “ to “Bloomington “ 😁. You’d have to be from central Illinois to get the joke.

[@shootshellz]

Liberal Dumbocrat pinheads.

[@hewitc]

Things have always changed. Your grandmother said the same thing about your generation.

[@edgarpoinsot5502]

By planified EVIL design, not for random.

[@norandmurr1432]

These are nowhere as bizarre as believing people can change their sex.

[@glennso47]

To do that, you have to change your DNA and that’s not possible.

[@carlajenkins1990]

Without major surgery. All they have to do is delude themselves.

[@edwesby5752]

I went to high school in Wash, DC in the 1960's and back then it was required for all male students to participate in junior ROTC. And for our ROTC drill we used real M-1 rifles( but no ammo), the same ones that soldiers used. AND, he had a rifle team that used 22 rifles and a rifle range on the ground floor of the school. In fact all of the DC high schools back then had a rifle team and we had competive rifle matches regularly. Back then handling a rifle was no real big deal.

[@sunshine3914]

No big deal because most mental patients were institutionalized back then.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

People were trained on how to handle a gun properly and carefully. They didn't just hand it to kids and say go shooting. We had archery in high school.

[@laurelcosten1012]

Big difference between the AR-15”s used by so many murderers nowadays and the rifles used in yesteryear.

[@I.am.Sarah.]

A big one is that smoking used to be everywhere. Movie theaters, while flying, shopping, getting a haircut, hell, even the Drs often smoked while seeing you as it was believed that smoking was good for you.

[@Taldaran]

And on some older jets you could still see the sealed ashtrays in the armrests.

[@davidjohnson6553]

In the 60s most cars came with vinyl bench seats. When you made a turn you would tend to slide over and would need to brace yourself. The first time i wore a seatbelt i loved it because it completely solved that problem. I've worn it ever since!

[@samanthab1923]

I do remember drinking while driving was pretty much a thing with people. Coolers in the backseat.

[@sonyafox3271]

Well, my aunt got pulled over because,my uncle was sitting in the backseat, because, the way he had his arm positioned! The cop accused him of drinking a beer and, then, when, the cop didn’t see him have a beer in his hand the cop accused him of hiding it! And, in a car, even in the backseat where would you really hide a open beer can or bottle? The cop wouldn’t let it go! Aka/ we were just all out in a bout doing a Sunday family thing and, we know he didn’t have a cooler sitting in the back neither!

[@awwrelic]

Be thankful you didn't kill anybody. IMO, if the attitudes toward drunk driving were harsher back then, maybe my dad would not have been killed at the hands of a drunk driver.

[@naturalobserver1322]

The 60's were a great time to be alive!

[@latachia_2981]

Yes,it most certainly was....some of the best times of my life was in the 60's! 1

[@hughgard4707]

1956 here...the 60's were GREAT if u were a kid..but the 70's were much better if u were a teenager !

[@hewitc]

The "free love" movement was well received. Same with "ban the bra". People like sex. The 60's got rid of some of the repression and embarrassment

[@RamblinRick_]

Oh yeah, a "great time". I'm 71 YO. Vietnam War. Protests, which led to the Kent State Massacre (May 1970). Chicago Seven. Black Panthers. Bank bombings. Assassinations: JFK, RFK, MLK. Chicago Democratic Convention riots. Watts riots. State-sanctioned segregation. Freedom riders being kidnapped, tortured and killed.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Love the “ pill”. Too bad many today don’t used it

[@tracik1277]

I think there might have been another reason why those vibrating belt things were so popular that nobody ever talked about.

[@starman6280]

Some more "bizarre" things believed sixty years ago: there are only 2 sexes, honesty is the best policy, marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman, sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me, you should be qualified for your job, credit should only be used in an emergency, college was a place for the free and open exchange of ideas and not indoctrination, products were expected to last, a republican and a democrat can be friends, music was special, and last but not least, Truth, Justice and the American Way!

[@rejanedesevigne]

@starman6280 yes you are right on 😊 These are obsolete now days.

[@linnpierce]

Amen.

[@BeeHatGuy]

What a child

[@angeladay1534]

Not bizarre. There are only male and female. Marriage was created for a male and a female. A man and a woman. People chose to abuse their minds and their bodies. Don't pervert the innocent children. Praying for people and families all over the world. People are learning to hate holiness. 💔🤢🤮😥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼📖📖📖🙏🏼⛪️💗

[@robertwoodpa6463]

Yours is the best comment.

[@jonathan45278]

I was surprised that 'getting a sun tan' was not in it. I was a kid in the 70's and 80's and I liked to wear a T-shirt with long pants like jeans. So often, my parents would take off my jeans and T-shirt and tell me to go outside to get a 'healthy tan'. I hated doing it and sometimes got sun burnt. Later when I was in my teens in the 80's, I would be teased for having 'lilly- white' skin. This was done even by people I did not know in the general public. Everybody seemed to have a tan (not a slight tan but a deep brown tan) except me. Who's laughing now!!

[@joanbelmont5450]

Orange man.

[@glennso47]

In the Pacific Northwest region you can get a rain tan.

[@susanthompson8962]

Panda Cowboys That is the worse thing you could have done. I hope you don't lay and get sunburned anymore. You can get the worst skin cancer there is, which is melanoma skin cancer. My grandfather died from it. A lesser form of skin cancer, is basal cell carcinoma. They have to remove it and biopsy it afterwards. Most of the time it comes back benign, meaning, non-malignant. I'm sorry to be so long-winded, but it is something that the medical field doesn't give enough attention today. Use sun block, and don't worry about being "lily white". When they get older those with a tan will look like "alligator skin." 😊

[@pianomaly9]

@@susanthompson8962 Yep, spent my first 43 years in southern Ca., went to a dermatologist up here in Seattle several years ago, he asked me where I grew up. Never "worked on a tan" but like most boys ran around shirtless much of the time in summer. Have had pre-basal cell areas removed from my nose and back. Just a few days ago had some keratoses on face treated with freezing at same clinic.

[@susanthompson8962]

@@pianomaly9 Glad you are following up with a dermatologist. It is so important. Keep the sun block on.

[@OofusTwillip]

My mom was a teacher from 1959-1969. She said that making asbestos ashtrays was a common craft in elementary schools. The teacher would empty a bag of asbestos flakes into a bucket of water, roll up her sleeve, and use her bare hand & arm to stir the mixture into a clay-like paste that the children would form into ashtrays, using their bare hands. Mom said her arm would be red and covered in scratches after mixing the stuff. As for me, I worked for 10 years, in a very poorly-maintainedtheatre that was prone to leaks, flooding, mold, and hadn't had its ventilation system cleaned in 40 years. It has asbestos flooring, ceiling tiles, and insulation. I hope I don't live long enough for Mesothelioma to get me.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

When I was a young kid, our apartment had those old-fashioned manual steam radiators (no thermostat) that could get very hot in the winter. To make sure I wouldn't burn myself accidentally, Mom would cover the exposed pipes with asbestos.

[@cnyphotovideo]

I wish we could go back to those days. Just look at the absolutely crazy things people believe in these days.

[@velshock]

Oh wow, this explains why my friend’s older mom always smiles when she talks . Had no idea it was taught.

[@bobblowhard8823]

It wasn't just single women who were denied credit cards, or were allowed a lower limit. It was also minorities. If you were black or Asian, or Hispanic, or Middle Eastern, or anything other than Caucasian, then you were either denied or had a much lower limit issued to you, just because of your race. And the banks would even tell you that.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

also divorced folks, they were banned

[@nancyholcombe8030]

I was born in 1959 and you're absolutely right, it was a white man's world!

[@rickintexas1584]

I remember those shaker machines as a kid (born in 1963). So many houses has them but I never saw them being used. My daughter had a shooting club as part of ROTC in high school. They had high power air rifles. I thought it was a great idea.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

my mom had this "relax-a-sizer" you have these pink vinyl covered cot like things one for your upper portion, then the actual machine, then one for your legs. The machine had this pad sort of thing ya put your derriere one and then this heavy sandbag in pink. and you turned on the switch and all it did was move your derriere back and forth and it was supposed to promote weight loss...Totally dumb...but a blast to play on when mom wasn't around, lol. Brought to your home by the posture rest company

[@velvetbees]

One thing I remember is that some homes had laundry chutes going into the basement where laundry was done. Kids loved to slide down the chutes. They were dangerous for kids, not laundry.

[@DRAKKENFIRE22]

With exception to some of the practices that were dangerous or sexist, a lot of this stuff isn’t bizarre compared to today’s standards. People today are more immature, stupid, lazy, and always want to do what “feels good” instead of having a structured society that is productive and charitable. Besides, stewardesses actually served meals during that time and flying was a pleasure…today it’s a nightmare. There is nothing wrong with having standards that are productive. Looking at the bizarre and demonic things people believe today, I yearn for the good old days. Children were especially safer 60 years ago than now.

[@nicolethomas6586]

I wish I could give this comment three thumbs up. You took the words right out of my mouth.

[@theeclectic2919]

@R. P. Sexism will never go away. Because, well ....the sexes are different. It's inescapable. Morons try to make everything "equal" when equality doesn't (and can't) exist. The universe isn't set up that way. It actually thrives on inequality.

[@theeclectic2919]

@R. P. Yeah, okay, but it's still not equality. It's just being different. People are going to label those differences and call them good or bad, as they perceive them. And different people will have different perspectives on each difference. You see where this is going? You're never going to get everyone to see a specific difference as a good difference. What is sexism to one person isn't sexism to someone else. Example: I (a man) might see women giving birth as a good difference. Maybe that's because I don't have to do it myself, or maybe it's because I see it as a wonderful part of life -- something to be admired. A woman may see it as being a horrible burden and that it's not fair, and another woman may see it as the greatest thing that ever happened to her. Differences between the sexes just ARE. They exist. They can't be changed. The only thing you can do is ASK people to look at those differences in a positive light. But again, the universe doesn't operate on "equality" in any sense. Individual humans try to operate on "equality," and sometimes they get close (for a while), but in the end they usually fail. Concentrate on the differences and see them as a good thing, and forget about what is or isn't equal or "sexist," and you'll get along with your spouse 99% of the time.

[@theeclectic2919]

@R. P. No, you aren't wrong about everything. You simply aren't grasping the truth that equality doesn't exist. It's not real. No one ever achieves it except in their mind. Putting labels on everything is divisive. Using the label "sexist" or "inequality" all the time doesn't achieve much. I'm not saying you can't do that, but to me, those words are red flags.

[@joanbelmont5450]

💯

[@barbaradavis393]

In the mid-50s my Dad put lap belts in our car; all that was available. It was about that time that one of my classmates was in an accident. He and his older sister were coming home from church, seated as you show at [5:32]. His mother had just come home from the hospital after having a baby. She passed out, hit a power pole and the two kids went through the windshield. They survived but had really bad scars.

[@michelefritchie6198]

I remember we used to have a civil defense pamphlet when I was growing up in the 60s. One item was how to fight a magnesium bomb. You were supposed to put a flipped over table between you and the burning bomb, turn a hose on the flames until they died down, then throw a bucket full of sand over it. Using a long-handled shovel, you were then to scoop up the bomb, put it in the empty bucket, and using the shovel to keep it away from you, carry it outdoors so it could explode safely. Recently I looked that up, and if you put water on a magnesium bomb, that makes it even more likely to explode in your face! Just get the Sam Hill out of there!

[@krisdiperna3929]

"Just get the Sam Hill out of there!" Oh my gosh! My Dad used to say, "What the Sam Hill is going on here?" I haven't thought about that for years! Thank you for the memory.

[@andrewbird57]

My dad was involved in three drunk-driving accidents in the 1960s. In one of them, the other driver was killed. My mother thought my dad was going to be charged with manslaughter. But the DA was one of his drinking buddies. And, the other driver was at fault. He was drunk too and had crossed over the center line into my father's car. My dad had a long convalescent period. He was in the hospital for awhile then he came home was bed-ridden for a time. My dad had had a brutal experience in WWII. He was a sergeant in a regiment that was slaughtered by the Nazis and he spent the last half of the war in German POW camps. He suffered severely from PTSD and was the most alcoholic person I've ever known. He died of an alcoholic's disease at age 56 in 1973.

[@rhonda7070]

I'd like more of these--very interesting and entertaining.

[@rhonda7070]

In my small school, girls were not allowed to wear pants! Then later they could wear them on cold days only.

[@latachia_2981]

We were never allowed to wear pants to school. If it was cold walking to school, we just put them on under our skirts & took them off in the bathroom when we got there, Most of us just wore tights when it was cold.....

[@woofer13]

Same here. Girls couldn't wear pants, and boys couldn't wear shorts during the hot months.

[@frankwafer6919]

I'm a proud and happy BABY BOOMER! Thank You!💖!

[@stephendacey8761]

I am too. But, Millennialls hate "Boomers". They like to say "Boomers" are the reason why their life is so hard and "Boomers" had it too easy.

[@deweygill1973]

That vibrating belt must have really worked. The gals in the photos looked great! Living in Milwaukee, a city of breweries, brewery employees were allowed to drink at work. They also delivered buckets of beer to laborers working on construction sites, foundries etc. A friend of mine watched his grandmother get run over by a drunk Schlitz brewery employee driving home from the job.

[@deweygill1973]

@@randycoppola2069 He was six years old and they were walking together. She pushed him out of the way

[@SavedByFaithInJesus]

1:34 and yet there where NO school shootings.... what changed?? the culture. discipline. Fathers in the home.

[@jeannerogers7085]

Too many wars, made American culture gun crazy.

[@thomasallen3818]

I carried two guns in my pickup truck throughout my high school years. I grew up on a South Texas ranch, and hunted all the time. I had a Remington Wingmaster 12ga. And a Winchester Mod. 94 .30-30. In those days, I never bothered to lock my truck, because no one worried about someone stealing or using someone else’s property. And the guns were always loaded, an unloaded gun is just a club. In 55 years, morals and values have cha need and declined so much that if someone had said even 30 years ago that things would be as they are today, I’d have said they’re nuts. Boy was I wrong. Don’t understand this world, but I’d really like to live in the world I grew up in.

[@fredvaladez3542]

You hit a home run with this video. I hate to admit it but I remember just about everything you showed. Dang, I feel old.

[@sooz9433]

While listing the qualifications for Stewardesses you forgot one very important one.. there was a height requirement.. 5'2"-5'9" I was passed over because I was just shy of 5'1" and I'll never forget how hurt I was but.. oh well🤷🏼‍♀️

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Those requirements were so ridiculous. It's hard to believe that those were the requirements and not very long ago!

[@savannahsmiles1797]

@@jenniferhansen3622 it was so they could easily reach the over head bins on the planes and not need a boost up.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@savannahsmiles1797 Oh, well that puts a little different light on it. I was thinking they were implying someone shorter wasn't attractive enough. So many things at that time seemed to revolve around women's looks. I thought it was some dumb rule implying they weren't attractive if they were short.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

I remember it was commonly believed that you couldn't swim until at least one hour after eating as it would give you cramps ao bad you'd drown. Some even believed that you shouldn't even have a bath until at least one hour had passed.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

my mom was the neighborhood lifeguard and she wouldn't let any of us in the community pool unless we waited.

[@R32R38]

Today of course we don't use vibrating belts for weight loss. Instead we spend $1,000 a month on Ozempic.

[@OcotilloTom]

I'm 77 and wouldn't trade my childhood even with all the "pitfalls" with the poor kids who are growing up in the "Nanny State" today.

[@carolsmith5151]

I totally agree, Tom!

[@lindabull8519]

I am 76 and agree!

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Do you have a better suggestion for married couples who both worked and had children?

[@trinity6180]

@@paulazemeckis7835Learn to live with one income. Be frugal. It was much better when mom was at home. I did both (at different times) with my kids. Much better when I was home with them and serving my community. I provided my grandchildren with care as the economy changed (the woman’s movement) and 2 incomes became the norm.

[@KMFDM_Kid2000]

Yet you had to adhere to strict conformity and were severely sexually suppressed, and locked into ignorance if you tried to express any free thought that went against the status quo. You're a perfect example of rose colored glasses.

[@MichellesdesignsEtc]

There was more sugar back then and yet they were way more skinny than today 🤨

[@blackpinups]

No high fructose corn syrup.

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

​@@blackpinupsExactly. HFCS and transfats are killers.

[@karencusick879]

You mentioned stewardess serving peanuts and ginger ale on flights back in the sixties. Actually, I remember them serving delicious hot full meals with desserts. I think the peanuts and soda didn't come along until the 80s.

[@aronc24]

I really liked this, can we have more?! I’d love an 1800’s one 👀

[@starmnsixty1209]

Maybe you would like s free time travel trip back to the 1800s also.

[@starmnsixty1209]

@@handle-schmandle Hey, long as you voyage into the past- I'm not particular, PC fellow .

[@Vegaswill714]

For me, the number 1 thing people believed back in the day that seems bizarre today, if that getting a suntan (or even a sunburn) was a healthy thing. As children, we ere encouraged to get sun without a shirt during the summertime. Now, we are dealing with melanoma..

[@Pippie807]

Even today when I need work done on my house some companies ask if my husband can be there too when they come out to give an estimate. Well I’m not married and. Tell them I’ll give them a all when I’m married 🤣😂🤣😅

[@mdf3530]

0:32 Who else thought of Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom at Disney World? “Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now. Consistent at least.” 😂

[@floridaprepper751]

Great video sir, thank you.

[@maureendrozda9960]

The Thing About Using A "Pretty" Voice With A Pleasant Pitch Is Not Bad Advice - Just In General, & It Is Certainly Not Offensive To Smile While Speaking If It Is Appropriate... Interestingly - Many MEN Have Proven Themselves To NOT Be Good Credit Risks - Especially As Women Often Used To Keep The Household Accounts & Keep Things Running & Utility Bills Paid! Some Things "From The 60's" Are MISSED Like COURTESY & MANNERS & Treating Other People In A More Respectful Way!

[@Name-ps9fx]

I think we should bring back that "17" issue. And bring back pride in one's appearance, school, country, and knowledge of what makes a good partner and good life.

[@glennso47]

Fidelity not pride

[@pattyamato8758]

Re: the vibrating belts, it wasn't ONLY that people thought they would easily get rid of fat/weight/a big butt. People might have thought that on the surface, but another factor was that when a woman used it, it felt sexually pleasing. This was explored on Mad Men, when a woman was supposed to use the belt and report her experience to the ad men so they could better develop their campaign.

[@cindytrayer4279]

I love that show!

[@colonial6452]

I was in the school rifle club and on the rifle team. No problem with carrying my .22 target rifle to school in a case.

[@fredupstairs8234]

Late 60's Junior High School we had a Shop teacher (I guess there's no more shop) that would practice corporal punishment by whacking you in the butt with a paddle. This paddle looked like a cricket bat with holes drilled through; it was straight from the Spanish Inquisition. We also had a sadistic gym teacher who would whack you if you didn't measure up, not to mention the verbal abuse heaped on the unathletic or heavy kids. This was in a public school and apparently nobody cared.

[@deweygill1973]

LOL! We had a woodshop teacher that had 3 fingers cut off at the knuckles, and he’d pound them in the top of your head if he was mad at you. We affectionately nicknamed him “nubs”

[@matrox]

In HS 73 sophmore year' our welding shop teacher was a tuff talker like on the first day of school laying down the law. Giving us the straight talk about welding getting burned etc. He turned out to be a pretty cool dude as the days went on. Later found out he was a D-Day beach stormer in WW2.

[@latachia_2981]

I remember the paddles with the holes in them! I guess there is also no Home Economics classes anymore either!.....

[@deweygill1973]

@@handle-schmandle Not a bad idea. That school I went to in the early ‘70’s now has to deal with out of control disciplinary problems to the point of teachers getting hurt and fearing for their own safety. They no longer have control of their classroom. As a result, reading comprehension and test scores are at an all time low. So a rap on the skull or the teacher throwing some punk into the locker to get their attention may be what’s needed now, since parents don’t teach respect any more.

[@deweygill1973]

@@handle-schmandle Let’s hear your solution, Scott. The City Of Milwaukee can’t hire or retain teachers in many districts because of fear. And we don’t have half the problem that cities like Chicago have.

[@marlanebraun5635]

i remember using that "magic" vibrating belt. our brand new high school had a rifle range. school supplied the rifles, girls weren't in the rifle club, and it was part of the fall out shelter.

[@luvnalaska44]

This was a really fun video since I was born 60 years ago. 😀

[@TheHeat55]

A common snack I would get getting back from school in the '60s was a large slice of white bread topped with lots of butter and as much sugar as you could get on it.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

wonder bread, it stayed fresh for a month

[@janetclaxton217]

Toasted buttered bread with sugar and cinnamon

[@erict586]

And note even though schools had students bring guns to school and there were more guns around there were no shooting.🤔 The change? Showing how to respect a weapon to today teaching fear.

[@barb-jm7990]

Students also respected teachers then. Disrespectful students with guns is a dangerous combination.

[@sunshine3914]

The biggest change was when mental institutions were shut down.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

cuz back then guns didn't do the shooting like now...

[@glennso47]

In my high school we had classes that taught us how to shoot bow and arrow 🏹

[@GeeEm1313]

I could have used that. I'm the worst archer alive!

[@glennso47]

@@GeeEm1313 Next to me! I could never even hit the target. My arrow would hit the ground before it got to the target. The class was actually during physical education. I was also a terrible bowler. The ball was in the gutter most of the time.

[@pegs1659]

In my high school (1972-1976) there was no smoking areas for the kids, but the teachers lounge was always full of smoke. I got caught smoking at the beginning of my senior year and the vice principal tried to make me have detention hall. He had a pack of Salems in his front pocket lol. I told him no, that I left school at noon and went to my job. He said I could come in the morning at 6:30. I laughed in his face and left the school. I dropped out the next day, which was my 18th birthday, took my GED two weeks later and enrolled in the community college for the winter semester.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I hope, for your health, that as time went on you were able to quit smoking.

[@OofusTwillip]

In 1959-60, my dad worked three 3-month co-op work terms at Johns-Manville, in the office above the shop floor. Those 9 months in the asbestos factory were a very long, inevitable death sentence, and he always suspected they would be. 60 years later, he was diagnosed with Mesothelioma, and, a year later, had an incredibly peaceful, medically assisted death (which is legal here in Canada). The Mesothelioma Compensation Trust Fund paid just enough to cover his burial expenses.

[@brichards989]

At least back then they didn't have the excuse of ignorance with no Internet. What's their excuse for their idiotic beliefs in 2023?

[@glennso47]

The Internet

[@w.reidripley1968]

Wot he sed.

[@paulnorton2885]

Re: seatbelts, the Australian State of Victoria introduced legislation mandating the wearing of seatbelts effective as of 1971. It immediately resulted in a major reduction in road accident fatalities, and was soon emulated by other Australian States.

[@ITcanB]

I remember people tossing huge brown paper grocery bags full of trash out of their car windows on the highways.

[@savannahsmiles1797]

remember the ad council commercial with the native american tearing up

[@WBDE]

I am in my 60's. My high school had a rifle range below the basketball court and I was on the rifle team. There was an entire league in my home town. I used to keep my rifle in my locker. It was no big deal and no one thought anything of it.

[@typograf62]

I had a teacher who firmly believed that seat belts were dangerous. Because if he was in a car crash the car would burn but he would be catapulted to safety trough the front glass. Or at least get killed fast.

[@laural5177]

Back in the early 80s Gimbels department store would not give me one of their credit cards without my husband's signature. I made more money than he did. They lost a customer that day and went out of business a few years later,

[@jenniferhansen3622]

The crazy thing about it is, it really wasn't that long ago. Absolutely mind-boggling to me that you, and other women, were treated that way.

[@ronk9830]

They'd likely still be in business if not for their policy...

[@lynndupree1205]

I went to Walmart today. Haven't been in a while and what a shocking and sickening experience. People at least 75 pounds overweight, so many of them that I was the minority as a healthy weight person. Most women dressed in sloppy untucked T shirt with slogan written on the front. Also wearing tight, form fitting leggings with panty lines and all that cellulite showing. Men were just as bad. Huge bellys hanging over the belt, and hadn't shaved in 3 days. It is disgusting what has happened to our culture. You would never have seen this in 1970. People made an effort to look presentable, and there was not one tenth as many obese people.

[@barb-jm7990]

I was turned down for my first credit card because I was a woman and they didn't think I made enough. I didn't. I was a public school teacher making less than $10,000 a year! (1979)

[@freedomrings1420]

CRY ME A RIVER, Many people weren't even making 10 thousand a year. And they certainly weren't getting the benefits that you were getting.

[@barb-jm7990]

@@freedomrings1420 Did they have to have college degrees to do their jobs? I doubt it. You don't really know what you are talking about. We had to pay for those benefits.

[@freedomrings1420]

@@barb-jm7990 LOL 😂, you didn't pay for those benefits. They came on top of the income. Maybe you can 🐂💩 some people.

[@janajones3829]

@@freedomrings1420 You are such a hateful person. Leave people alone.

[@susanthompson8962]

Barb I was working for Sears full time back then. I applied for a card, and kept getting denied. Finally, I spoke to the store manager, and I told her, " you're not saying much for the company I work for!" The next thing I knew I had a Sears Credit Card! 😂

[@jpbernier4196]

At that time, people thought that smoking was a normal social event. Even publicities have shown doctors endorsing smoking cigarettes.

[@charles-y2z6c]

Shooting clubs were not Bizarre. I was in one, we didn’t just shoot. We were taught to respect the power of a gun, things like never to point it at anyone AND it’s safe use. We did this long before going on the range. WE NEVER HAD SCHOOL SHOOTINGS.

[@DogWalkerBill]

Guns in School: My Dad graduated high school in 1936, during the Great Depression. He advised that nearly every boy at his school walked to school with a rifle or shot and did hunting and trapping both ways. The meat was eaten on the family diner table. The hides were sold for cash. The guns were stored in a closet in the back of the school room.

[@fasx56]

When I was going to High School in the 1960s those of us who hunted left our guns in our car trunks to go hunting after school. Mass shootings and gun violence was very rare and owning a gun was not a big negative.

[@highpockets2376]

60 years ago we also believed you had to die to get sent to hell, turns out all we had to do was live, it will come here.

[@SeaTurtle515]

If a woman wants to be feminine and girly, that’s fine. If a woman acts tomboyish or even more masculine, that should be fine too. As long as people aren’t hurting one another or committing crimes we should be free to live our authentic selves free from persecution. I’m 67 and a woman and I remember very well the pressure put on women to always be made up, it caused a lot of us to not really finding out who we were or how we wanted to express ourselves. Not everything in the good old days was good and not everything was bad, same with today, it’s a mixture of good stuff and not so good stuff.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Finally. This might be the most sensible comment here!

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@handle-schmandle I know! Some people are so upset about this video and I just don't understand why? They can't admit that things were not perfect back then. Things are never perfect and never will be.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@handle-schmandle Oh my goodness! Your profile picture is so cute!

[@HBrooks]

one thing changed my mind about seat belts (around 1996). riding as a passenger in the back seat of a car driven by an intoxicated person. driving erratically, swerving, etc. I put the seat belt on after digging it out from the seat-backs. at the next intersection, the vehicle i was in was involved in a head-on collision at about 25 mph into a semi-truck turning across traffic. i walked away. not the fault of the driver of the car i was in, but it could easily have been. the two in front weren't so lucky, though they lived. from that day on, i've worn seat belts. not always when a rear seat passenger, but usually. always in front, no matter what.