I remember my mother coming home from the supermarket in 1969 with 11 or 12 paper shopping bags filled to the brim and some overflowing with groceries. She was going on and on about having to pay 50 dollars for these groceries. Today, it would cost, probably, 400 or more dollars. 😄
@lc16952 жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember back in the mid-1990's I bought extra groceries for a camping trip and it cost me $60.00 and I thought "Wow!". Today I spend that much for so much less!
@Bradyvilleboy2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my dad got paid once a month. By the time pay day came around, we were pretty low on food. Mom would push one cart and pull the other.
@ursulasmith64022 жыл бұрын
But same pay as today.
@gerrynightingale90452 жыл бұрын
*Today?* *More like $550!*
@marcusfieldfield40692 жыл бұрын
More than that unfortunately
@kateespencer7642 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that wishes we could go back to these simple times 😌
@hearttoheart4me2 жыл бұрын
Even though past times had their share of tough even tumultuous problems, it really does seem like a better, simpler time.
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
Every single day. There came a point in my mid-30s when I observed that for all the technology we'd developed to make life simpler, social culture and politics cancelled it out by making life more complicated. And we're worse off because of it. There's no doubt I lived a very idyllic childhood; my father was a successful developer and it allowed us to do things most families couldn't; but the general tenor of the society we tried to build after WWII was a better living standard within the guardrails of simplicity. Now, society can't handle the techno-culture we've built because it seeks no limitations or ground rules -- some with the best of intentions but nevertheless deleterious to human interaction and our very ability to sustain ourselves.
@demianschultz37492 жыл бұрын
Not at all my friend
@texasboy56802 жыл бұрын
You do know 1962 was the cuban missile crisis where everyone was expecting a nuclear bomb to be dropped on their heads and also the year that a riot occurred in University of Mississippi cause an African American applied as a student.
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
@@texasboy5680 Yes. There's a crisis a week; always has been. We're talking about a socio-economic construct that reflected America's commitment to first principles. No time is without crisis; but there was a time when we trusted that dedicated people with character in positions of power would make decisions in defense of our common interests. That no longer exists today and so we go from crisis to crisis without any sense of direction because our elected officials are more interested in campaigning than actually doing something with the responsibility they've been given. The difference between US leadership when I was a kid compared to now is completely dichotomous; we no longer trust government and that began in the 70s after Watergate. We've never recovered; we're circling the drain.
@scottwebster695 Жыл бұрын
"...poor Chipper" Chipper died from the heat in the car.
@collinsje55 ай бұрын
RIP Chipper
@bigballer61054 жыл бұрын
This video is so wholesome you just want to jump into the video and live like that forever.
@RIXRADvidz4 жыл бұрын
if you notice, there were no coloured people. only white people. conformity ruled, you would not survive.
@bigballer61054 жыл бұрын
@@RIXRADvidz Are you judging me based on my Yhoo name, well for your info I am as white as can be if it matters please stop being a racist and live a better life of less bitterness and resentment.
@amierichan14282 жыл бұрын
Only if you want an all white world. And one where women had to be housewives, whether or not they liked it. It's fun to watch these videos, but they were not real life for many, many, many people.
@lemurianchick2 жыл бұрын
@@RIXRADvidz I laughed out loud at you calling Black folks "coloured" (are you from CanaDUH or England, "mate?"). Come over here to Chicago in the USA on Madison and Pulaski with that mess!
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER2 жыл бұрын
@@RIXRADvidz There's always one Woketard in the comment section. Whining about nonsense they made up or misunderstand. Can you please show us all on the doll where the white man has hurt you so much.
@wadebrown70 Жыл бұрын
Poor little Jack wanted one thing (strawberries) and mom say's nope, and little sister Betty fills up her little shopping cart with things she wanted, and mom is like "good job Betty". I'm sure Jack will have some words for little sister Betty off-camera.
@MrCheck30 Жыл бұрын
No, you are missing the part where Jack got 4 cans of soup in the beginning that he picked out.
@daisydukes8252 Жыл бұрын
I think Betty was a pain.
@AmyB196111 ай бұрын
Lol
@jerryoutlaw671710 ай бұрын
Agree.😂😂😂
@That.Lady.withtheYarn10 ай бұрын
Carrots usually cheaper than strawberries. And she didn’t pick anything high in price. The little boy did get to pick his favorite soups.
@michaelbandy66492 жыл бұрын
My father was the manager of a large supermarket in the 1960’s. This brought back some great memories 🤓
@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын
Life is still like this if you're white
@katlincleary1988 Жыл бұрын
@surferbri5346 don't be racist.
@maconsumner9 жыл бұрын
$5.63!!!!!!! That's it with a 5lb veal roast and everything else she got!!!! It would be worth the cost of a time machine just so we could go back and to the grocery store back then.
@newstart499 жыл бұрын
+maconsumner The average wage then was 3 to 4k a year. Most making a dollar an hour. A lot like today for many folks. LOL.
@maconsumner9 жыл бұрын
newstart49 True, but making money like that back then meant mom could stay at home and take care of the home and family. Now if a guy is making 3-4k a month that's not really enough. They call it progress, but I don't know.....I call it sad.
@newstart499 жыл бұрын
maconsumner They shove that "progress" thing down our throats- but what they mean is progress for them not us. Now we have both husband and wife working and that is still not enough. We are near the breaking point.
@maconsumner9 жыл бұрын
newstart49 Yup, I am glad other people see it like I do. We spend too much time away from what is really important to make money to buy crap we really don't need. Our priorities as a society are screwed and what's worse is it isn't going to get better.
@pacochamaco55528 жыл бұрын
+maconsumner Plus, food tasted better back then. I don't know why they put jalapeno flavor on every damned snack food nowadays. Give me a break!
@dalerussellsullivan93734 жыл бұрын
I like how Betty shops, she sees something she wants and into the cart it goes 😂. That's the same way I shop, I totally understand Betty 😊
@gailcurl86634 жыл бұрын
Yes!! And Brother Couldn't get a Carton of Strawberries!!!
@howardwayne39743 жыл бұрын
Betty is usually overdrawn at the bank after her shopping trip too . how about you ??? Hmmmmmm ?
@dalerussellsullivan93733 жыл бұрын
Howard Wayne,,, no, I don't get overdrawn, I use the credit card and my husband pays it at the end of the month ☺😊. I do totally get Betty though, I shop the same way. Life is short, you should have what you want if you can. I'm amused at how Betty just puts what she wants in the cart without a thought, that's so ME😊😆
@richardgray85933 жыл бұрын
@@dalerussellsullivan9373 I see divorce in your future. That's okay for you though, since I'm sure you will get a good lawyer and take yer poor husband for all he is worth.
@dalerussellsullivan93733 жыл бұрын
Richard Gray,,,,,I see that you are a jealous prick in the present! How dare you?! You don't know me or my husband,,we have been together for 30 years and he has NO problem with the way I spend money or how much I spend. Unlike you,,,HE is a successful business owner, and he is NOT worried about money or stingy like you are!! We are very happily married and will stay that way. I feel sorry for your wife if you even have one, which I doubt.....LOSER.
@darkwood7772 жыл бұрын
That was a very nice store with a great selection. We didn't get to see stores like that in our community until the 1970s. In the 1950s we had to go to separate stores when we went shopping. Bakery, butcher shop, dry goods, and the dairy store when we stopped getting milk, eggs, and butter delivered. Vegetables were local either fresh or canned at home, while fruit was fresh berries in the summer and apples and pears in the fall, which we put into the root cellar so they would last through the winter. At Christmas we would see oranges and grapefruit for a very short time, then we would have to wait a whole year. Many people today just don't appreciate what life was like a couple generations ago..
@lightmarker3146 Жыл бұрын
An orange and nuts or a tangerine in your Christmas stocking was a treat in New England. A pomegranate was over the top , my grandparents would give us one each year .
@ellebelle8515 Жыл бұрын
I agree. Where I came from, this sort of grocery store wouldn't be available to most of the population until the 1970s or 80s. We lived on a farm and had to grow vegetables which were canned to last us the winter. We also produced our own eggs and milk. Therefore, our father would basically just buy sacks of flour and sugar and also oats for our morning breakfast. A little bit of money had to stretch a long way.
@andishifley58697 жыл бұрын
Nobody scuffling around in their pajama bottoms and slippers!! My, how times have changed!
@1533ramsay6 жыл бұрын
Right on. lol
@sheriheffner20985 жыл бұрын
And nobody came to the store with a pair of ass tight pants or short shorts, with a telephone in their hands and yakking nonstop and a screaming brat throwing a tantrum because they don't get their way. I was taught to behave in public or get my ass whipped.
@greg76565 жыл бұрын
@@sheriheffner2098 Oh please. Shorts were much shorter in the '70s, and there were plenty of screaming brats throwing tantrums in the toy aisles. But I'm truly sorry your parents used violence to teach you manners. Really, there were much less extreme methods. It's a true shame they, and others of their generation, didn't bother to learn that.
@sheriheffner20985 жыл бұрын
@@greg7656 That's what's wrong with me. Yes my father was a bully. My mother would pinch the shit out of me or dig her fingernails into my arms.
@greg76565 жыл бұрын
@@sheriheffner2098 Oh Sheri! Well, they couldn't destroy your sense of humor, thank goodness!
@Nezmund4 жыл бұрын
I was six when this movie came out. Probably watched it in class. I loved when teachers would show films. We didn't have to do any work.
@bluenosemassmedia29964 жыл бұрын
Nezmund once the lights went off, I was asleep
@lil_jong-un66684 жыл бұрын
Some things just never changes, lol
@DC-vv5ii3 жыл бұрын
It was a wonderful treat to go single file to the film room to watch educational films. In my case they were from the Film Board of Canada.
@sandramari51203 жыл бұрын
I remember in class back around 1970s when we saw a movie call the red ballon
@Nezmund3 жыл бұрын
@@sandramari5120 Watched that movie on the Kukla, Fran and Ollie Sunday show in the sixties.
@katherinekinnaird44083 жыл бұрын
My father was a grocery clerk in the 1960s -2000. I remember this well. He worked for Mayfair Markets in California . A great company to work for. I miss those days. Ground beef was .39 a pound.
@billchambersmarquez19642 жыл бұрын
We had a Mayfair market in azusa California back in the 60s
@jefferythacker87722 жыл бұрын
Our Mayfair was in Oxnard, CA on Saviers Rd.
@tome70162 жыл бұрын
We had a Mayfair in Ontario, CA, too!
@janetdurden78292 жыл бұрын
There was a Mayfair Market in Hanford, California. I remember the big windmill.
@billchambersmarquez19642 жыл бұрын
@@janetdurden7829 big windmill? That sounds like the van de camp restaurant and bakery!
@chrisk81874 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in 1962 and assisted my mother often shopping for groceries. So many staff. No price scanning. Everyone dressed well. Wearing dresses, no blue jeans etc. No plastic shopping bags. AND two packed PAPER bags for only $5 62! I know, everything else was a lot less expensive too. Leaving a dog with a window partly rolled down such that someone could make off with the dog or get into the car isn't done much that way now. Different times, but for me, fond memories.
@droid26452 жыл бұрын
I wasn't born yet. But I agree with you better times.
@ciaraoh91022 жыл бұрын
Skip to today: people wear their pajamas to the grocery store. What's worse, is they wear pajamas that look like they haven't been washed in about two months (and I live near a wealthier area of my city) I just finished watching a local news story from Detroit where a woman was told she had too many items for the self checkout. The customer was so enraged that she followed the store employee into the restroom and kicked open the stall door and yanked the employee out and beat her on the ground. What - the heck - is happening? Progression or regression?
@johnnycalifornia97902 жыл бұрын
No vagrants at the entrance begging for money.
@michelles22992 жыл бұрын
@@ciaraoh9102 it would not be allowed in the UK they would be asked to leave if wearing pyjamas
@marcusfieldfield40692 жыл бұрын
Be happy you were born when you were and were able to see the good times
@lindahandley52674 жыл бұрын
When I got married in 1967, I could get 10 big bags of groceries for $20 and I remember my husband fussing about it. His dad told him that he had no idea what groceries cost! I made my husband go shopping with me the next time and it cost TWICE as much. I shopped for 'bargains' and he hadn't. He had to laugh at his own self! He never complained again!
@sirsaint882 жыл бұрын
I literally got 4 things at the grocery store for 20 dollars the other. lol.
@williewonka66942 жыл бұрын
Hubby was probably making about $250 per month, if that much.
@lindahandley52672 жыл бұрын
@@williewonka6694 You're probably right.
@MisterMikeTexas Жыл бұрын
I can imagine a conversation from 56 years ago: Husband (groaning): $20 for groceries! Where does it all go?! Wife (Irritated at the question - that time of the month, lol): It goes into damn good meals, friend!
@lindahandley5267 Жыл бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas 😂 You're right about good meals! I learned from the best...my dear Mother, her 4 sisters and a dear Uncle who was a chef/butcher. He taught us what cuts of meat to buy and how to season food. My husband didn't have any complaints about his meals! Many times dinner would be a 4 course meal...all whole foods cooked from scratch!😋
@bruno8126 Жыл бұрын
I’m only 36 and this makes me feel a bit of nostalgia that I never experienced haha. My grandfather is a World War II and Korean War veteran, I remember he always talked about those times, saying how cheap, safe, modest and innocent those days were ❤️ he’s 97 today!
@lightmarker3146 Жыл бұрын
God Bless him , he's a treasure .
@nicholasschroeder3678 Жыл бұрын
I think the key term is modest. That's all been lost
@isabelgeddeshines40598 жыл бұрын
look at all those cashiers.. Now there is one cashier and self check out
@kurtkauffman43268 жыл бұрын
+sphinxrising58 You are Right sphinxrising58!,They have!,Just like "Always & Ordinary".
@isabelgeddeshines40598 жыл бұрын
Safeway Issaquah the day I posted it around 2 pm
@CountWannabe8 жыл бұрын
@sphinxrising58 - Where was this? I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the1960's through 2000's And I NEVER heard of ANY store that was open 24/7 until the local 7 Eleven went 24/7 in the late 1970's. Everything closed at 9:00 or 10:00 pm at the latest and NOTHING opened on SUNDAY at ALL until the foreigners started taking over the small "mom and pop" stores in the 1980's. In the large metropolitan cities like New York and Chicago there were places that were open late or 24 hours but even most of them were closed on Sunday and ANYTHING run by Jews was closed from sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday.
@snugbug50676 жыл бұрын
Jim H. I lived near a town with the majority being Jewish and I thought it was kind of nice because when (though closed on their sabbath, sat) their businesses were open when other businesses were closed on sunday.
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
@@CountWannabe the Chinese owned stores open on Christmas Day.
@jvnvch13 жыл бұрын
This is actually a 1957 film, not 1962, but the prices are still amazing, and it's surprising how similar the store is in many ways to stores of today.
@beanalupines51012 жыл бұрын
I noticed the wrong date too. Thanks for the correct one.
@Marcel_Audubon2 жыл бұрын
You can tell by Betty's passé bangs
@timpriddy3492 жыл бұрын
yeah that 55 didnt yet look like a 7 year old car
@genehunsinger39812 жыл бұрын
@@timpriddy349 the HT looked GREAT!
@steve-ph9yg2 жыл бұрын
I noticed the 1957 copyright in the title.
@Gem_Am_I Жыл бұрын
The child sized shopping cart is something they still have today in 2023
@billjames885410 жыл бұрын
Cashier forgot to give Mrs Nelson her S&H Green Stamps
@diane924710 жыл бұрын
Lol!
@JoeKaye-hn5dt7 жыл бұрын
And Mrs Nelson forget to get a pack of Old Golds. She'll be back.
@aTheistSammie6 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to see how many brands (land o'lakes) are still around today.
@jamesslick47903 жыл бұрын
and Heinz, Mrs.Paul's, Betty Crocker (Bisquick), Pillsbury, Post (Grape Nuts), Kellogg (Corn Flakes), Campbell soups, Pall Mall and Camel cigarettes, Nabisco (Graham Crackers) - All are shown, still available today
@aTheistSammie3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesslick4790 yeah, I didn't feel the need to make a list. I'm sure people get the point with one example.
@zekeonstormpeak41862 жыл бұрын
Even the Indian was on the package. No PC here!!
@areguapiri2 жыл бұрын
Land o Lakes Butter
@suestephan3255 Жыл бұрын
And the same picture as 60 years ago
@scotth98573 жыл бұрын
My heart goes out to Chipper.
@jazzyfayy198310 жыл бұрын
Betty got everything she wanted but jack couldn't get the strawberries.
@hrfishlow9 жыл бұрын
jazzyfayy1983 Strawberries out of season were very expensive, carrots and canned peaches not so much
@Chicojava9 жыл бұрын
+Rhoda Miller Betty is a brat... Poor jack
@halcaannen9 жыл бұрын
+jazzyfayy1983 If Betty had been a kid nowadays her mom would have made her go put everything back or had made Betty pay for her things herself.
@tonyawilson47607 жыл бұрын
I work in a large retail store, now some kids just pick items up off the shelf, and start eating it, without paying, and leave the packages on the shelf
@moxie967 жыл бұрын
I'm a customer who hates that! l used to have a ex friend in her late 30's who always did that. One time I refused to buy food away from my given list and money (by my disabled mom) so she decided to eat whatever I denied her and left a trail of empty bags and stuff. She was actually buying magazines instead of the food she scarfed down. She had no idea she was well watched and charged $30 along with her magazine stack!
@alank55604 жыл бұрын
Life was so simple back then.......
@Moralatheist1014 жыл бұрын
And then corporations found out that they can raise prices across the board to benefit their boards and pass the cost onto the consumer. That's why you have to have a two person income to afford a house, car, healthcare, etc. Way more simple before corporations controlled the country.
@walkergillette39185 ай бұрын
but then again most of us were children back then and when your a kid life is simpler
@jess4metoo2 жыл бұрын
Well we know who’s mom’s favorite. Betty gets a whole little cart, while poor Jack is denied strawberries.
@kerplunkety2 жыл бұрын
ITA. But it could also be gender norms--Mrs. Nelson knows Betty has to get used to pushing a shopping cart.☺☺☺
@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time2 жыл бұрын
@@kerplunkety Betty grew up into a real fatty, and couldn't figure out how to operate one of those battery seated carts, and now Betty blames her mother for not having the foresight to see into the future, and teaching her bad eating habits.
@stoptheworldandletmeoff Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@sunshine19601000 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@theresafeeney2756 Жыл бұрын
He did get the soups
@bikebeerrun196010 жыл бұрын
Notice the total expenditure for those two bags ; That's back when the U.S. dollar was worth something.
@JoeKaye-hn5dt7 жыл бұрын
That big chunk of veal - 5 effing pounds - that'd cost $90 today.
@katediy45636 жыл бұрын
bikebeerrun1960 - And pay was about 65¢ an hour.
@shannon27485 жыл бұрын
@@katediy4563 Yes,but things were cheaper.
@KryssLaBryn5 жыл бұрын
@@katediy4563 So one could have earned the money to buy those groceries in about eight hours of work. $80 (eight hours on our minimum wage here) doesn't get you much groceries these days, even if you're careful with what's on sale etc. I shudder to think what it'd be like for people in areas with a lower minimum wage, let alone American waitstaff... D:
@bonniest.pierre20454 жыл бұрын
@GPAGE Only teenagers worked for minimum wage.
@beverlybarnes31223 жыл бұрын
I was 9 years old in 62. I had completely forgotten about the cans of orange juice and other juice. I swear it tasted better then than it does now. Thank you for the wonderful walk down memory lane.
@robfriedrich28222 жыл бұрын
Today, the juice is in Tetrapack bricks. In my childhood, we had the original Tetrapack for long lasting milk
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
I remember having our milk delivered to our house in glass bottles.
@gloriarangott8803 Жыл бұрын
I HATED canned orange juice and grapefruit/orange juice..it always had a horrible metallic taste...I was forced to drink that stuff because fresh fruit wasn't always available, and daily vitamin C was a must, as was whole milk 3x/day...
@isaacz20022 жыл бұрын
Amazing thanks for uploading it all looks so organized and the people are civilized they are dressed and they have dignity. Unlike today where people are dressed in their sleeping PJ and twerking in the store.
@lindathrall51336 жыл бұрын
I loved going to the grocery store and do grocery shopping with my grandma and getting the S&H green stamps and filling up those books and it was lots of fun
@louisedwards40234 жыл бұрын
My mom used a wash cloth wet to stick the S&H STAMPS TO THE BOOK
@YT4Me574 жыл бұрын
I used to do the same with my grandmother and mom at the A&P. We filled up those Plaid Stamp books and then redeemed them for prizes we picked out of a catalog. It was huge fun indeed!
@louisedwards40234 жыл бұрын
@@YT4Me57 my big brother got a giant plastic race car w/ regular wheels and snow ski type runner skids that quickly changed over and I got a big boys tricycle😁 yes happy days indeed!
@louisedwards40234 жыл бұрын
It seems like yesterday , but ... 51ys 😭
@louisedwards40234 жыл бұрын
@@YT4Me57 we had an A&P HEAR IN ROANOKE RAPIDS N C. ..... I DON'T MEAN TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT BUT .... THE OWNERS OF AP WHERE MURDERED BACK IN 1972 - 73. BY THE MOB MY MOMA CRYING ALL DAY LONG😪 look up Shay MURDERED in RRNC
@SaulCarp15 жыл бұрын
As to whether the FEEL is more '50s or '60s, I offer this: I was born in 1956, and most of the durable goods surrounding kids growing up 1956-1966 were straight out of the 1950s. There was a 15-20 year lag then between how taste makers told us we were supposed to style our environment, and how we actually did. Style books about the 60s now concentrate on Peter Max graphics and egg-shaped red chairs. But no kids I knew lived in houses decorated like "the '60s". It was ALL '50s holdover.
@QuizmasterLaw4 жыл бұрын
the goods are 60s but the rest is 50s yeah and you're right about peter max etc. what we think of now as the sixties was basically 68-69, not 1962.
@JoeKaye-hn5dt3 жыл бұрын
I was born in '48. I remember before K Mart, stores (except the few large grocery stores) closed at 5 PM and everything was closed on Sunday. It was like the dark ages.
@howardwayne39743 жыл бұрын
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt I was born in '52 and it was still the '50s where I lived . even though the calendar said ' 66 .
@albertafarmer86382 жыл бұрын
That's really interesting!
@elainelane11192 жыл бұрын
@@QuizmasterLaw 1966-1974 are the REVOLUTIONARY 1960's as we know them.
@jackconnolly26653 жыл бұрын
"Health laws don't allow dogs in food stores." Ahh, the good old days.
@sandyfreyman35012 жыл бұрын
No that made it the bad ole days there in o hi o. Dogs should go everywhere.
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER2 жыл бұрын
@@sandyfreyman3501Dogs, aside from Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, have absolutely no place in stores. Especially grocery stores. And if you knew ANYTHING about food safety you would ALREADY know this.
@virginiaconnor83502 жыл бұрын
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER Should've left their dog at home. He was panting!
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER2 жыл бұрын
@@virginiaconnor8350 I agree. Dogs and other pets do not belong alone in cars, nor in stores or restaurants.
@sandyfreyman35012 жыл бұрын
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER I know this is what they say but I disagree. Dogs do enter groceries. They are cleaner then covid patients and can be seen in backpacks and carriers under carts in these times. I have no issue with dogs in grocery stores or outdoor food venues either. Amen.
@walkergillette39187 жыл бұрын
we had a grocery store in 1958, called King Coles, way ahead of it's time, they would put your groceries in bags then in a big bin, put it on a conveyer belt, it would go on the conveyer belt to outside the store, you would drive up, and a boy would take the bags out of the bin, and put it in your car
@Cricket27312 жыл бұрын
😯😲
@lindahandley52672 жыл бұрын
Cool! The boy baggers would take ours out and put them in the car. Shopping is tiring enough without having to lift the heavy stuff and put in the car.
@michelles22992 жыл бұрын
Sounds like click and collect we only recently got that here in the UK 🇬🇧
@eyesjamesq4 жыл бұрын
This is so funny I grew up in the fifties. When we went shopping it was once-a-month into the big city at Henke & Pilott in Houston, Texas to buy salt, flour, yeast, sugar, coffee beans, everything else we grew or slaughtered at the home which basically was a farm. What a great time to be alive.
@theirmom47232 жыл бұрын
My dad worked for Henke & Pilott in Freeport, Tx...it became Kroger's when I was about 8 years old.
@A.l852 жыл бұрын
How disciplined children were back then. Today, going into the supermarket with children is a clearly impossible task. The children don't stop screaming and raving if you don't give them what they want!
@IngefromGraz2 жыл бұрын
Parents today do not discipline their children that’s why they are brats!
@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын
It's because everyplace children look and listen, they're told to hate their parents, government, police,
@ED80s Жыл бұрын
I like how people dressed with care to go out in public back then and not wearing their pjs to go shopping.
@DoubleDogDare54 Жыл бұрын
Back then kids weren't taken out in public until they had enough manners they wouldn't shame the parents. Teaching kids to behave in public back then was not an "on the job" thing. They learned those manners at home first. If they misbehaved, it was a solid spanking or Dad's belt and being sent to bed without supper. You used the wrong words or mouthed off, you got your mouth washed out with soap. Kids behaved because misbehavior was not only frowned on, it was punished. The result was if DAD told you to knock it off, you better believe you stopped doing whatever you were doing - instantly. I remember back in that era, on Sunday virtually everyone went to church. Smaller kids attended Sunday School instead of regular services as the long sermons would be a bit much for them. But when you aged out of Sunday School at 7 you were expected to attend regular services. And we did. And we sat quietly. I'm not saying it was easy, but we did it and there were no kids running around screaming or causing a disturbance. I remember how my favorite hymn was "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" because that was always the last hymn sung at the end of the service and I knew WE WERE FREE!!!! But until we left the church we all sat quietly and walked out like little ladies and gentlemen.
@markgaines6904 Жыл бұрын
@@DoubleDogDare54 I work in retail and when kids get out of control I ask the parents to please leash their animals and prevent them from destroying our store. the look on their faces is worth the effort.
@melon92814 жыл бұрын
im so shocked at how much it was in total! and the kids are well behaved too! if you were to go to the grocery store today you would hear kids screaming and crying!
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
That's not the kids screaming and crying; it's the parents being told how much the bill is.
@adambrickell64252 жыл бұрын
We would not have kids screaming if they were parents instead of friends
@Dirty_Squirrell2 жыл бұрын
Three - 4 meals worth of meat were in that shop, too!
@9250td2 жыл бұрын
And $100.00 would be added to the total price...
@bonchbonch2 жыл бұрын
They're well-behaved because it's a cheesy instructional film. You really think there weren't screaming kids back then?
@StBarts-hn1qw4 жыл бұрын
Back when people were well mannered with public class and grace. ❤️
@angelwings79302 жыл бұрын
@@Terri.46 🤡
@angelwings79302 жыл бұрын
Yes for sure. And I recall addressing adults as “Mr” or “Mrs” no matter what. People didn’t dress like slobs or trash either.
@homerogarcoa68702 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with you. What a wonderful time that was. I was born in the wrong era.
@georgevanhoose63332 жыл бұрын
@@angelwings7930 What a pity that people don't behave in a way that pleases you anymore.
@angelwings79302 жыл бұрын
@@georgevanhoose6333 Well gee, thank you darling. 💋
@stevebrowning42932 жыл бұрын
I am 65 and I remember these stores. One of my favorite memories is having mom buy me a balsam wood flier or a comic book.
@conigjo627 жыл бұрын
Thanks.. It was a nice trip down memory lane..............
@mississippimud70464 жыл бұрын
Wow so that's how children are supposed to behave in a grocery store
@shondellmcgowan84972 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@Ninjamohawk Жыл бұрын
Yeah sixty years ago 🤣
@kerrybunny Жыл бұрын
My dad said his mother had to put him on a leash back in this era. So no, not all kids were angels. And believe me he was savagely disciplined.
@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын
Well, WHITE CHILDREN anyways
@daisydukes8252 Жыл бұрын
@@Ninjamohawk expected behavior for a child doesn’t change.
@christinedavison7604 Жыл бұрын
I remember when the local chapel was turned into a supermarket in my village in the mid sixties. I managed to get a job there, it was absolutely fantastic working in that lovely supermarket. Such happy carefree memories.
@RJS19744 жыл бұрын
I wish women still wore skirts and dresses like that for daily wear. It looks so much nicer.
@jdenino60224 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer.
@RJS19744 жыл бұрын
J Denino Nope. Gen X.
@greyeaglem4 жыл бұрын
I grew up in that era and what killed me was how they would go out with their hair in rollers. Could never figure that out. Go out in public like that so you can look good at home for your hubby?
@jennywrenn4694 жыл бұрын
I still like to do that if possible or at least dress in a nice shirt w/ my jeans. Can't stand pj shoppers, they look so tacky & lazy.
@kck97424 жыл бұрын
I know. We're such fucking slobs.
@FatalChaz334 жыл бұрын
Five bucks for all of that. That huge veal roast alone would cost three times that today!
@tinai.8482 жыл бұрын
Although I'm not one of these people who thinks everything was better back in the day, I did find comfort in watching this video. I was born in 1957.
@kerplunkety2 жыл бұрын
Tina, I was born in 1962. From the $5.63 total, I'd say we were born in pre-historic times
@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time2 жыл бұрын
First off, I was born in 1958, and let me tell you, it was way better in a very important aspect, kids could roam the streets freely without fear of being abducted. Back then, there were no such thing as "helicopter parents" that nowadays have to constantly watch their kids at play.
@donfellman97122 жыл бұрын
one thing that was better is we didn't have expressions like BITDay
@tinai.8482 жыл бұрын
Um, not sure about the freedom thing. You took your chances with bullies and the neighbor, Mr. Grant, with the beautiful collie would let you help walk him, so I heard. C'mon, Prince likes to walk down the alley. If you tell your parents, he'll kill them. But when found out about another child, you learn this fine gentleman was thought to have been *cured*. Not suggesting I didn't love the freedom myself.
@StaticCling998 жыл бұрын
Not only was Chipper left in the car to fry, he wouldn't have gotten any food that week if little Betty hadn't remembered.
@Wa3ypx8 жыл бұрын
+StaticCling99 Ken-L-Ration in a glass jar?????
@TimelordR7 жыл бұрын
Wa3ypx Dog food was in glass jars? How unusual.
@maryvee617 жыл бұрын
StaticCling99 Yep they would spoon some and add milk.
@JoeKaye-hn5dt7 жыл бұрын
Oh, Hon, a dog'll eat veal roast. No problem.
@christinad44325 жыл бұрын
😂😂💀
@debrawhite60088 жыл бұрын
wish we could buy groceries that cheap nowadays
@CountWannabe8 жыл бұрын
I remember the pricing device that printed the price right on the container. And Cap't Crunch Cereal for 39¢ a 20 ounce box!
@TheKonga887 жыл бұрын
It is actually cheaper now if you do the wages to grocery ratio and percentage, it's actually about 18% cheaper. Just all the other crap that we don't really need is very expensive.. 😄😄😄😄
@Residence0fUtopia5 жыл бұрын
well then you have inflation: her total in this 1962 vid was 5.63 according to the inflation calculator it equaled $47.46 in todays money
@UpDownMichelle5 жыл бұрын
@@Residence0fUtopia that total sounds about right for everything she.. and Betty... bought.
@TheJimbob16032 жыл бұрын
I clearly remember the A&P that we shopped at when I was a lad ...... many decades ago. It was so small compared to the giant grocery stores we have today. And back then, who would've thought the grocery store of the future would have an entire aisle dedicated to bottled water! Imagine that, buying water at a grocery store!
@areguapiri2 жыл бұрын
The most ridiculous thing ever. And tap water today is verified much safer than ever in world history! Yet, bottled water companies and media have brainwashed the world into believing paying for bottled water is better.
@lesliechan314 жыл бұрын
Oh man these were the days. I have such fond memories of going to the store with my mom and grandma.
@JimmyConway608 жыл бұрын
memories of a simpler time
@TimelordR7 жыл бұрын
JimmyConway60 How I miss King Korn Stamps.
@loki62534 жыл бұрын
I'm 50 and remember that too,
@roberthertz66344 жыл бұрын
When can we go BACK
@sabah41234 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍🇦🇺
@charliewerchan72523 жыл бұрын
You can still have a simpler time like then.....turn off the tv, turn off the cable, turn off the internet, and suddenly youd be surprised how simple life today can be....its alot easier to be nostalgic than actually try to live it....but it is possible, if you want it bad enough
@j.d.96482 жыл бұрын
What I love about this video is that NOONE is wearing their pants around their knees and no slippers! Back then, people had standards. Something missing today. The kids were well behaved and got to spend quality time with their mom. Also, NO CELL PHONES!
@Thorium_Th Жыл бұрын
Okay Karen.
@shawnstephens1251 Жыл бұрын
@@Thorium_Th LOL. She's right, you who are named after a toxic material. The place was neat, clean, everybody dressed nice, no junkies or weirdos. Boomer standards. Unlike today which has no standards at all.
@Thorium_Th Жыл бұрын
@@shawnstephens1251 I work with Thorium. Do you hate people just because they work with certain elements? Your boomer mind is showing.
@markgaines6904 Жыл бұрын
@@shawnstephens1251 Correct! In a retail store today so called parents or children having children, let them run wild, destroying expensive furniture, opening food and helping themselves while parents are unaware and if you try and stop the little animals from destroying your merchandise the parent reprimands you. End times we are in today
@meldaghost Жыл бұрын
Back then people went to stores with curlers in their hair..wore Pajamas
@biteskins7 жыл бұрын
They would totally crap their pants if they went to a Costco, lol.
@JoeKaye-hn5dt7 жыл бұрын
At least in those days detergents had phosphates and you could actually wash those shit up undies clean as new. Today, one wet fart and they're in the garbage can, buh, bye.
@sheriheffner20985 жыл бұрын
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt Use All or Shout and some Dawn and that will get it out.
@dco9564 жыл бұрын
they wudnt go
@VideoNOLA4 жыл бұрын
"Mommy, why is everyone so obese?"
@elleh34954 жыл бұрын
Stores like that and Bed Bath, where its all stacked to the ceiling, towering over you, make me so filled with anxiety i cannot shop in those stores. I use to get panic attacks in Sams Club🥺🙈.
@ericdee68024 жыл бұрын
Awesome video of yesteryear. Sad stores aren't like they used to be. I remember my Mother taking me to the local A&P market when I was young, I loved shopping with Mom, the market and methods were just like this, what was really interesting now that I think about it was the cashier who manually typed in the prices on a register with tons of buttons, and the Blue Chip stamps I got to lick when we got home😝
@MisterMikeTexas Жыл бұрын
We had S & H Greenstamps when I was growing up in the 70s.
@kennethpeterson4068 Жыл бұрын
I remember getting home and shucking corn, hulling peas and stringing & snapping beans...before I could play...
@taebby784 жыл бұрын
This seemed really calm back then. Whenever I go to the store, people are always rudely pushing in front of me because they can't wait 2 seconds to get something where I'm standing, children are running around screaming, even the employees are not nice and not even clean for working with food. The same guy who takes out the garbage and organizes the carts is also bagging groceries at the check out.
@310McQueen2 жыл бұрын
I was once a bagger in a grocery store. Late at night, I'd also clean the restrooms.
@mathgasm8484 Жыл бұрын
I am a checker and always nice and polite even if the customers are pricks. Its my work mask and I just do the job the best I can. I always clean the belt as much as possible and keep hand sanitizer on hand.
@jpolar3944 жыл бұрын
Isn't it just wonderful not seeing any cellphone zombies bumping into you at the supermarket. And not almost losing your life by getting hit in the parking lot by someone talking on the phone as they drive through it. People were sure humans back then .
@RunAMuckGirl24 жыл бұрын
But what they didn't show was you were free to smoke in the grocery store. They had ashtrays at the end of every isle.
@BenMeier8144 жыл бұрын
Sure, aside from all the racism, sexism, and homophobia.
@RunAMuckGirl24 жыл бұрын
@@BenMeier814 - You might make note that this was the spring board for the massive social change that the civil rights movement brought. Also, we could smoke in the hospital. Never mind the O2. lol
@bonchbonch2 жыл бұрын
I have to laugh when people romanticize this era based on a cheesy instructional film. The middle of the 20th century was one of the most socially turbulent times in modern America. Alcoholism, poverty, the Vietnam War, racism, violence, McCarthy hearings, air raid drills, and more.
@raydawgms2 жыл бұрын
@@bonchbonch It is indeed romanticized. This cheesy film is scripted. The only organic thing about it is the fresh veg that little ol' betty put in her tiny shopping cart (heckin' cute btw), but when she catches up with mom (in real life), momma's gonna take her back to the ladies room and whoop her @$$ cause momma don't like surprises. 😐
@mal14654 ай бұрын
Boomer here (B. 1958) and I would go to the grocery store w/mom every Wednesday evening after dinner. There were 5 of us and dad gave her $45/wk to go shopping. She was always able to buy steak for Saturday night & a carton of cigarettes for herself. I was either in the toy department or watching the meat convoy belt wrapping the meat, weighing it then stamping the label on it. Fast forward to late 70’s and my best friend work nights at a major grocery store changing prices at nights. He said that when they used the ink stamper on cans, they would remove the old price with hairspray
@beverlywhite7474 жыл бұрын
If that was today, mom would be in pajama pants, a baggy t shirt without a bra and house shoes. Betty would be sitting in the basket, watching an iPhone while eating a bag of cookies she opened and Jack would be running amok
@xoxoemy_3 жыл бұрын
Right
@beachlvr24653 жыл бұрын
Don't forget she'd be an overweight slob, too
@kesmarn3 жыл бұрын
@@Paul-vc8on Because the man she was with refused to use birth control or keep a job, and ran out on her the day Betty was born? Women have been blamed for all problems, starting with Eve.
@jend87593 жыл бұрын
You nailed it!
@charliewerchan72523 жыл бұрын
This is true....people have no respect for others....we have to be inflicted with how much a slob you are at home....
@greg76565 жыл бұрын
"Mr. Engle, the butcher, was glad to cut one for her." That Mr. Engle, what a joker!
@denicesanders45863 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@luisreyes19633 жыл бұрын
Hilarious. 🙄
@roringusanda28372 жыл бұрын
Ppffttk!!🤭 3 years later and you got me!
@tayler74412 жыл бұрын
Then Mr. Smith in the dairy department offered to cut the cheese for her.
@Bradyvilleboy2 жыл бұрын
Lol. Thanks for that.
@leighcarlson872 жыл бұрын
So many employees. I appreciate how in 1957, customer service was important. No self-serve. There were people to man each department.
@chriswallace90087 жыл бұрын
Forget the food, I want that Chevy!
@covergirl6784 жыл бұрын
Oh the good old days when parents made the kids mind and. Not scream and run all over the store .
@pam15744 жыл бұрын
covergirl678 Ain’t that the truth!!!
@summerrose42864 жыл бұрын
oh you wanted this $25.00 velcro food Tainsley? ok......
@markcornish25194 жыл бұрын
We always had the threat of our father's belt, so we were quiet
@loki62534 жыл бұрын
Gosh how that pisses me off. I remember my brother and I getting caught playing on one of the first elevators in our town when I was about 5 in about 1974. Some man got on the elevator with us and said take me to your mom he then told her what we were doing. Well mom said how ashamed she was. Never again. Now kids cry abuse to everything. That is the problem kids do not feel embarrassment any more for anything and fear no one
@2late4me2care4 жыл бұрын
@@loki6253 OMG! The same thing happened to my brother and me but it was in 1964. We were caught playing round with our town's first elevator and a man made us show him our Mom. She scolded us in front of everyone. My brother cried but me, not a chance. I thought it was well worth it scolding. It was our first elevator after all.
@susanneschmidt61592 жыл бұрын
Watching this in 2022....oh the simple times. I need a time machine ..so simple and sweet. ....and affordable food!
@StephanieManley8 жыл бұрын
Poor chipper, he can't go in the store, but he can hang out in a hot car while the family shops.
@tdfisk8 жыл бұрын
+Stephanie Manley Now how could you have missed the obvious. It's not a real hot day and the window was rolled down plenty for circulation. Back then I didn't hear of a single case when a child died being left in the car and they call today progress? The 50s & 60s were the most amazing time, freedom actually existed back then and life was so awesome. Socialists don't want people to know what America was really like. Thomas
@StephanieManley8 жыл бұрын
I live in a very hot climate. I just wouldn't do this no matter what. I live where a couple of children die in cars every year. Animals that die don't make it on the news.
@twilson9768 жыл бұрын
Ohhh dont be so up tight honey. Its OK to leave a dog in the car on an average day. People been doing it for decades. Even saw it on Lassie once, so it must be ok to do..
@tdfisk8 жыл бұрын
***** Back then people didn't have idiotic beliefs like global; warming and they weren't health freaks.I can always tell a leftist when they mention race, especially when the subject has nothing to do with it. Most of the country wasn't racist. I was raised in Denver, one of our nextdoor neighbors was Mexican and the other was black. I never went to a school that wasn't integrated. Most fights were between blacks and Mexican, not whites. I went in the Navy in 1965 and the Navy was integrated. I was the youngest and smallest on my first ship and 3 of my big brothers were from Harlem, they taught me knife fighting. A close black friend, Felix saved my life 3 times. There was never any racial conflicts on either of the ships I served on. During our UN Naval wargames and tour around the Gulf we went to New Orleans, it was my first time in the South. On one occasion I intervene when a young cop was abusive and degrading to an elderly black man. He reached for his gun and my shipmates surrounded him. It's a long story, but it was the beginning of my hatred for the South. People lie about American during the 50s & 60s, avoiding what it was really like. So your "white man" (that being me) isn't offensive, but it's amazingly dumb. You undoubtedly know nothing about the whites who died fighting segregation. All of this rewriting American history is just one of the filthy goals of leftist/communists. Your rhetoric about women and minorities is a half truth and outright lies. Either you are intentionally lying or you didn't live back then or both. For most Americans life was awesome. As for women, the exact opposite is true of feminists rewriting history. One of the most common things men said back then was, "where's your better half". In the home the wife had all the power but didn't abuse it. One of the biggest rules was you never hit a woman. Now it happens all the time and that began when the Women's Liberation Movement began in earnest. Now feminists can't wait to kill women on a massive scale in war by giving women the stupidest rights ever. The real rights of serving in the military is the right to suffer, kill and die. It sure as hell isn't a right for men. My mother gave birth to me in 1948 and she was a single mother for 5 years. She had no trouble finding work, finding men or receiving assistance (she was even engaged to an F-86 Saberjet pilot but he was killed in Korea which shows that even a single mother did not have low social status or your BS leftist term "second class citizen"). Women back then could have professions and many did. Most women loved being a housewife and mother. Women were the heart and soul of the family. What do you people give them, a selfish, superficial existence of anger and loneliness. Feminists have managed to mentally condition girls and women to reject what American women have always deeply loved. It's always been the men who worked to death, not women. Real American Patriots aren't going to remember your fiction, they remember the truth. We were well on our way to improving life for everyone and a great deal was accomplished. When the Chinese communist backed America communists went into full swing during the Vietnam War, everything in America went downhill with the destruction intended to eliminate freedom. Well, missy the days of leftist hate and destruction is about to end and the quality of life with strong families is about to begin. Like the movie said, "We're baaaaaack!" If you are European, hold on we'll be bringing freedom and real equal rights to them. If you're an American you will soon reject all those lies and become a real American or you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. A little piece of advice, when the Second American Revolution comes, for God's sake don't pick up a gun. That's what many Reds will do, most of them anti-gun advocates, it will also be the last thing they do. Thomas
@bigskyrockies60348 жыл бұрын
Jesus, Mary and Joseph...that was some EXCELLENT commentary! Thank you for your service. There are MANY younger folks who feel the way you do. 46 here...Gulf War vet. 8 years with Big Blue.
@bobsebring33772 жыл бұрын
I remember always pushing the cart for my folks. It was a lot of fun. That was a wonderful film to watch, thanks.
@727100bear2 жыл бұрын
always wondered how one chooses canned items over frozen or vice versa - in the film, Mrs Nelson bought 3 cans of string beans and 2 packages of frozen peas - I worked in a grocery store a lot like this one when I was in high school - the stocker stamped the prices of canned items on top of cans and cashiers still tallied everything manually keying in each item amount on the register - we only used paper bags too - no plastic ones and NO scanners!.. made many friends in that job
@incog99skd1110 ай бұрын
I was surprised that there was a guy who weighed , bagged and tagged the fruit like they do meat today.
@ericzerkle848610 жыл бұрын
And not a plastic bottle or container in sight..
@ChristopherSobieniak6 жыл бұрын
You just wish we had them back! Seriously.
@itsweb15846 жыл бұрын
Apart from all the plastic wrapped meat
@shannon27485 жыл бұрын
Yes, too much yucky plastic everywhere.
@drunkastronaut69275 жыл бұрын
@@geocam2 Aggreed.
@coypu20054 жыл бұрын
Eric Zerkle sad isn’t it ☹️
@javierbaron18564 жыл бұрын
Gee golly .... what I wouldn’t give to go back to those times again. I’ll even be happy to give up today’s technology.
@patricialynnmoore4 жыл бұрын
Me too. I would gladly go back to this time in my life.
@basicbodybuilding3 жыл бұрын
Go back with todays technology
@charliewerchan72523 жыл бұрын
Then do it.....turn off the tv, cable and internet and wow, your back to the simple times of the 50s
@charliewerchan72523 жыл бұрын
Then do it....give up internet , cable, buy everything with cash and you will def be in a simpler time....you'll prob have a more peaceful life
@sandramarcantelli49582 жыл бұрын
Not me.it took forever to get through the grocery line because everyone wrote checks . Long lines at banks because there were no ATMs and no direct deposit . The produce at the grocery store was not as fresh and abundant as it is today . Televisions were black and white with limited programming and poor pictures . I loved my childhood and enjoyed every minute of it but as an adult I am happy to have today's technology .
@kellicat6352 Жыл бұрын
I loved people dressed up. Mom's were home. Dad worked hard. My friends Mom's were really wonderful to me and included me their families. I was a only child. Music and the radio was so good. I love music! It does bring me back.
@ontarioguy27388 жыл бұрын
This was actually 1957 not 1962
@Littlewing19775 жыл бұрын
Good catch. I do not think they even teach Roman Numerals anymore.
@jimbo16675 жыл бұрын
@@Littlewing1977 in fairness, I learned Roman Numerals and the only thing I've ever used them for are figuring the year of a movie, lol.
@fromthesidelines4 жыл бұрын
Yes, this was an "updated" version of the original 1946 edition.
@formerx4 жыл бұрын
Good eye (I saw it too)!
@lisam40664 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too. Whoever posted this didn't pay attention to the Roman numerals.
@peugteobike8 жыл бұрын
I wish I could live back in those years.
@elsa5578 жыл бұрын
+Jerome Cabral With today's medical advancements..
@poetcomic18 жыл бұрын
May you be forced to live on Jeno's Pizza Rolls. You would not BELIEVE how many foods you would miss.
@exchequerguy40377 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't. I'd be drafted and sent to Nam
@jeromecabral74647 жыл бұрын
Joe Kaye when I was younger I heard about measles and small pox and polio. that are now eradicated
@JoeKaye-hn5dt6 жыл бұрын
One afternoon I had been playing with the girl across the street. That evening her mother and her came to the door She was in those metal polio braces! I almost shit my pants! Here I was with her that day and now she has polio! Yikes! My mom calmed me down...it was just a get up. They were collecting for the March of Dimes. 5 year olds are so gullible.
@donnacoleman46242 ай бұрын
I remember those days. There were some tough times then, but still so much better than nowadays. Yep, id go back in a heartbeat.
@1952kid15 жыл бұрын
Butcher and fish stores had sawdust on the floors back in those days.
@pollyfoofoo87035 жыл бұрын
cash registers were so cool back then. All the buttons and noises.
@bfish5412 Жыл бұрын
My God, she paid $5.63 in total for all of those. I bet they would cost more than $200 today 😄
@josnaz110 жыл бұрын
Actually, this is from 1957--as the beginning notes.
@nickv10084 жыл бұрын
Date was MCMLVII, 1957
@howardwayne39743 жыл бұрын
I was 5 years old then , and starting kindergarten .
@littlelamb71634 жыл бұрын
I am a younger boomer and my mom definitely did not dress like that to the supermarket. I would see her dressed up for church or holidays. She always wore pants. The entire family went food shopping on Fridays, including dad. He helped mom a lot.
@cherylhart93702 жыл бұрын
I never seen my mother in a pair of pants. I used to ask her how in the world she does housework in a dress
@lindahandley52672 жыл бұрын
I guess I'm an older boomer and it was rare to see my mother in jeans or slacks unless we went fishing/boating. It seemed most women wore 'house' dresses at home...simple cotton dresses, but they looked so nice and neat...not as fancy as June Cleaver, except for church or going out. My maternal grandmother was an awesome seamstress, out of necessity mostly. She and my grandfather had 9 children and she made everything they wore. Her generation was the 1800's and they had to do everything from scratch. She was my heroine! ❤
@areguapiri2 жыл бұрын
@@cherylhart9370 I never "saw"
@VegasVixen2 жыл бұрын
Your mom was progressive for the time . Where my grandma was from , if you wore pants it was a sin. They failed to capture in this video the ashtrays that were at the end of each isle ..
@DoubleDogDare54 Жыл бұрын
I'm an older boomer. My mother would wear pants around the house, but if she went anywhere in public she was always in a dress, nice shoes, her make-up and hair neatly done, like the gal in this video.
@AnthonyReichardt2 жыл бұрын
The film is actually dated 1957. Excellent upload!
@jamesslick47905 жыл бұрын
$5.63? I wish I could get a coffee and a "lunch cake" for that!
@christiansgrandma68126 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the green stamps 😃
@joedebaun45475 жыл бұрын
Or Blue chip stamps.
@harlonlantz40942 жыл бұрын
I loved going to the A&P store.The first thing you smelled was the coffee.Wish I could go back in time.Gone are those days,but never forgotten.
@fbsdeformedvag89254 жыл бұрын
Betty got everything she wanted,lil boy couldn't even get strawberries lol.
@calady118 жыл бұрын
I remember going to the market with my dad or mom in the '50's and early '60's. I always asked for my favorite cereal and ice cream while shopping with them. Now I hate going to the market, too many people, high prices, huge lines at the checkout stand, etc.
@CinematicTechnologies8 жыл бұрын
...and people wearing pajamas and sweats. Nobody "dresses up" anymore to go places.
@Eszra8 жыл бұрын
Ethan Swords I hate that. People are so lazy they can't even put on a nice outfit. Even a freaking track suit would be fine. I plan to start wearing really good clothing to go shopping. And do it enough that people take notice and feel like shit for dressing so poorly.
@exchequerguy40377 жыл бұрын
I always begged for sugar cereal but always got wheat puffs instead.
@snugbug50676 жыл бұрын
Eszra go for it 👍
@MissAllanPoe19885 жыл бұрын
And yet you all now do online shopping. You wonder why times are changing
@ProducersInk Жыл бұрын
Born in 1963, I'm thankful to remember most of this! Some here have mentioned how "wholesome" this all was... It's true, until the film flash forwards to 6pm that same day when the vodka martinis were stirred and poured.
@MisterMikeTexas Жыл бұрын
Not all adults were like Red and Kitty Forman then.
@royst.george7328 Жыл бұрын
Happy 60th to us!!!
@OofusTwillip2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a rural area. We always shopped at Knob Hill Farms, a small supermarket chain. It wasn't glossy, like the big supermarket chains, but the prices were much lower, and there were many ethnic foods, at a time when the big supermarkets didn't carry them. Produce and fresh meats were never pre-packaged there. Corn was sold in its husk (nature's own wrapper). For meats, you went to the meat counter, asked for what you wanted, and a butcher wrapped it for you, cutting it if necessary. Instead of bags, the store used specially made cardboard boxes, that you paid a refundable deposit on. I loved watching how the cashiers packed so much into each box, by packing it neatly. That's how I learned proper bagging/boxing technique. I also loved watching the cashiers' fingers fly up and down the rows of keys on the old electro-mechanical cash registers. Those machines were a lot more interesting than the electronic ones that replaced them.
@cr38618 жыл бұрын
The perfect short for MST3K-they could fit a few alcohol jokes and have Chipper soil the car while they shop!
@bbt53584 жыл бұрын
I know, right! LMAO!!😂😂😂
@luisreyes19634 жыл бұрын
Comedy gold right there! 😆
@Bradyvilleboy2 жыл бұрын
Love those guys.
@SarahJacobs-nb3lw Жыл бұрын
Although I was born in 85, I still remember those sweet times, 😊
@MichelleB2b7 жыл бұрын
"Today it is cheaper to buy three cans instead of one" If the narrator could see the big box stores of today!
@ferociousgumby10 жыл бұрын
God, the memories!
@rickythompson23742 жыл бұрын
The simple days I miss those.
@dplomin19542 жыл бұрын
Those kids are way too polite. I remember when me and my younger sister went shopping with my parents as kids at the same era. We would sneak in cookies and candy in the cart and hope our parents didn’t notice. Sometimes when we distracted them at the checkout, we WON!
@Bradyvilleboy2 жыл бұрын
Your folks knew you did that. They just liked buying you a treat.
@joorcawhisperer97337 жыл бұрын
Who remembers these in class
@JoeKaye-hn5dt7 жыл бұрын
Every Friday from Grades 2 - 6. It was called "Health Class."
@davidbrown83036 жыл бұрын
Jo Orca Whisperer I don't remember this one but remembered them showing them like it. I remember the teacher had to wait for the projector to cool down before moving it or it would break the bulb.
@whorton45 жыл бұрын
I thought it was from that warning film about VD.
@yasminenazarine16292 жыл бұрын
1962 was another time was wish come back again bless my grand nana grand dada 🙏
@joyr66874 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember the Charlie Chip truck that sold tins of potato chips and cookies?
@TralfazConstruction4 жыл бұрын
Indeed I do. My nextdoor neighbor was a faithful customer. I have seen, over the past several decades, a number of these painted steel cans with varying degrees of wear on them being used to store items. Milk deliveries were huge in the late-'50s through 1968 or so. It was pretty convenient as I remember. Leave a note for the milkman and get other dairy products as needed.
@tulanzuya4 жыл бұрын
@@TralfazConstruction -Heck yeah, Charles Chips in the big yellow and brown cans. We got those! They expanded to pretzels and other snack foods later on I think.
@tompatriot124 жыл бұрын
I used to shop with my mother and she relied on me to keep control of the basket and the LIST of groceries. We were six kids and one of us could go with my mother...NOT 3 or more children! Our parents prided themselves on making so many kids inconspicuous. I cherish those times!
@bruceparker80332 жыл бұрын
I was there. Remember mom buying a weeks worth of groceries for three, $20.
@MyteeBumbleBee4 жыл бұрын
When customers had the decency to drive their grocery carts with awareness and courtesy to others; these days, turn around and one can end up with a cart up one’s behind.
@DjLou822 жыл бұрын
now in days you leave the supermarket paying at least $150 or more everytime
@Sheri4518 жыл бұрын
Hey Mom! Don't forget a carton of Camel's and a six pack of beer for Pop.
@joorcawhisperer97337 жыл бұрын
Sheri451 lmao
@carlocollodi81376 жыл бұрын
Sheri451 lol
@jamesslick47905 жыл бұрын
...and you gotta problem with that? Those ARE even TODAY legal store products.... Fuck Off, Hippies!
@dogie10705 жыл бұрын
Yes, you were there, too!
@AlCatSplat5 жыл бұрын
@@jamesslick4790 ok boomer
@Kinseydsp8 жыл бұрын
Spent 10 years getting a Job for the greatest grocery ever A&P. So sad to know they are gone!
@sitarnut8 жыл бұрын
+Kinseydsp Thank corporations and Wal-Mart. Fondly remember shopping at A & P.
@mijumaru978 жыл бұрын
+Kinseydsp They also owned Walbaums and Pathmark here in NY and as stupid as this might sound, I had a lot of memories going to two specific stores when I was younger and I kind of miss them.
@dusterdude2388 жыл бұрын
+mijumaru97 I remember going to Alpha Beta when I was little. they had these round turn tables instead of a conveyor belt. and A lot of odd things like tropical plants "Venus Fly Traps & Pitcher plants" and Honey in a little wooden crate still on the cone.
@Kinseydsp8 жыл бұрын
+bcdhifi I sure do, use to grind Coffee for Customers at the cash check out area! Red Bag Eight O Clock, Black Bag Bokar, and Yellow Bag.
@kurtkauffman43268 жыл бұрын
I do too remember these!
@LeeZeidel-s1h6 күн бұрын
I was born in 1956 so i can remember alot of this 😊
@idessaoutlaw2 жыл бұрын
When men were men and women were women. 💃🕺🥃😎👌
@crt53004 жыл бұрын
And now mom and kids, along with dehydrated Chipper, will head home in their tank on wheels, with no air bags and no seatbelt laws!! And somehow they all survived the shopping ordeal.
@jdenino60224 жыл бұрын
My dad had one of those cars, the backseat was huge!
@jacksong.15324 жыл бұрын
LOL😂😂😂
@DL-pp3rz4 жыл бұрын
Chris Thacker 😂😂
@dannygillingham79043 жыл бұрын
yup, lol, exactly 😁
@francisdec16152 жыл бұрын
There should be no seatbelt laws. By the way, the seatbelts "save" lives mostly in the way that you survive, but if you are in a car crash at a somewhat high velocity, you become an invalid for the rest of your life. I'd prefer death.