Coolest Thing About Growing Up in the 1950s

[@RecollectionRoad]

Can you think of other specific details that you thought made someone "cool" in the fabulous fifties?

[@Bhakti-rider]

In '57, we turned the cuffs up on the inside. Also, no belt, and turning the top of your Levis down about half an inch on the outside.

[@pixel9548]

The coolest thing about growing up in the fifties is that there was so much hope.

[@glennso47]

Including Bob Hope who was still alive then

[@gavinsheridan4680]

Yet Hope Solo and Hope Floats were years away.

[@michellewiseman]

I liked the look of the cars, restaurants back then 😊

[@AllDayEloquence]

I was born 1970 however, 1950s was my favorite era. I love the clothes, I liked dressing in 50s fashion when I could, shoes, I had saddle shoes growing up, and the cars by far are the best of all times!

[@1954shadow]

Born in 1954, remember some of the late 50’s. My dad built a Bantam, tube chassis, GMC blower, A/Altered dragster in the 50’s. I remember riding in a 1959 Pontiac push car to push the car back to the pits.

[@charlesrobert6211]

Kids were mostly thinner compared to today's hefty bunch.

[@funkibloo3811]

🐷

[@pedalpower57]

I can remember in the late fifties and early sixties party lines were still common and my sister and I would listen in on our neighbors phone conversations and sometimes making funny noises also I have many great memories of riding around Seattle in dad's old Hudson especially around the U district (University of Washington - go Huskies) where all the hip chicks could be seen.

[@IvanHICKS-z3u]

Im 92 - I waas there - loved

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I was born in ‘52 so right at the start of all this. I don’t remember seeing too much of this. My oldest sister was full on into it but I’m the last in line.

[@mrkitty1367]

always a great show !

[@eutimiochavez415]

BEST OF TIMES , now just memories ❤❤❤❤

[@garytanger965]

Because of their short hair, formal clothes & black & white pictures at graduation, students looked much older than they were.

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !!!

[@timjohnson2186]

I absolutely love these videos

[@bobdillaber1195]

I graduated from high school in 57, Central High school in South Bend, Indiana! Our basketball team won the state championship that year! 30 wins, no losses! I still have the ticket stubb from that game played 68 years ago! I fell in love that year. The love of my life, even tho we both went our separate ways. She passed 8 years ago i learned. I hope she had a good life.

[@johnjeffreys6440]

like the Hoosiers?

[@bobdillaber1195]

@johnjeffreys6440 Oh yeah!!!

[@MAGronemeyer]

I wasn't born until 1964, but I still have a fascination with the 1950s.

[@scottmcwave9479]

I love the photos of the old cars, clothes and hair styles!

[@Oldschoolrules123]

That's why I like watching old black and white movies. Plus most people weren't carrying a hundred extra pounds or more.

[@saminaneen]

@@Oldschoolrules123 And ONE thing that young people had in the 1950's is they were NEVER confusion, about what gender they were, NONE, at all. Every kid knew that they either had an innie, or an outie, that God gave them when they were born. There was NO mentally, confused young people, and they knew which bathrooms to use, when they were out, in public. This younger generation needs, to get back to normal, again, if they ever want to accomplish ANYTHING, in life.

[@coldsamon]

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[@saminaneen]

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[@saminaneen]

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[@masoodgha6765]

Thanks a lot for this video,,,,❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤

[@gordondahle7844]

My brother Dick had a 1958 Ford Police Interceptor Special with the Thunderbird engine. Dick was as cool as his car. Life was good back then.

[@rhodamiller7338]

I was 14 in 1950, my first year of high school. Often, the guys with duck a*s hair cuts and leather jackets dropped out and went to work.

[@OcotilloTom]

I was born in 1946, I remember most all of this. My brothers drove 54 and 56 Mercury's, my first car was a 55 Studebaker, it cost me $150.00! I drove it all thru high school.

[@Abandoned-t3v]

I grew up in the fifties man I do miss the 50s the cars were real the people were real retail people really cared about each other not like today when you go to Walmart the self-checkouts people actually people actually gave a damn about each other

[@gustavsorensen9301]

Unless you were a black person sitting at a lunch counter

[@DoubleD19788]

I was born in 78' and I've always said I was born in the wrong generation.

[@susan4337]

Remember going to clothing stores and being bombarded with salesladies asking ‘how can I help you?’. Now you have to walk around the store to find a salesperson, they certainly aren’t at the cash register.

[@MillerMeteor74]

My dad graduated in 1957. But he grew up on a farm, and had tons of aunts, uncles and cousins. I never heard of him every participating in any of what was described in this video. I know he drove the farm truck to school on occasion. His parents had a `57 Studebaker President, but I don't know if they got it new, or sometime later.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@darkisland04]

Growing up in the 1950s myself, I suspect that the bad boy, greaser affectation was more of a deliberate media creation than an everyday reality for most of us. As I recall, they were actually considered to be more like low lifes and sleaze bags. I'd say the majority of teens then were much more conformist in their thinking and behavior. The "rebelliousness" attitude so loved by the media today was more of a put-on within a certain teenage sub-culture of the time. It seems to have been heavily influenced by the slightly earlier "beat" or "beatnik" culture. They weren't so much idolized as scorned.

[@funkibloo3811]

Thank you❗️❤️

[@johnbethea4505]

I was born in 1946, but I remember much of the 1950's. Those bullet bras could poke your eyes out, lol. I was considered a greaser The best years of my life, except when my children were born.

[@glennso47]

I was born in 1947. But I didn’t participate much in the cool stuff in the 50s. For me my folks’ cars were just transportation and not much more. And that was fine with me.

[@johnbethea4505]

@glennso47 my father was a WW2 veteran. He loved to drive fast. I used to tell people that he parked his car at 90 mph.

[@nancyblizzard7295]

I was born in ‘46 too, but I remember from my Jr. High years the greasers, crinolines, straight skirts, virgin pins and wearing your cardigan sweaters backwards. I remember girls stuffing those torpedo bras, because who really had boobs shaped like that, especially in Jr. High?😮 Life was so much simpler then and that’s what I miss the most.

[@johnbethea4505]

@nancyblizzard7295 we lived in the hard times, but also the fun times.

[@neildollar]

2:57 Add a Righteous Brothers tune and it’s like Ghost. Except without the pottery. And Demi Moore. And there’s a car. Other than that it’s exactly the same.

[@vincentbugalia3858]

I was age 4 through 13 during the fifties. Personally I remember it as the best decade of my life. Freedom was understood and a part of your attitude, unless perhaps if you were black.

[@footballlvnlady]

Friday nights and Recollection Road! My boyfriend(later husband)had the black leather jacket in high school. Thought the Fonz was cool! This was the mid 70’s. Had a rust colored Nova, big, wide tires. Chrome rims. Three speed on the floor. Dice hanging from the rear view mirror. White tassels around the back window and black fur.

[@fob1xxl]

COOL was James Dean ! I was 11 and idolized him. I even got my mom to buy me a red jacket like his !

[@jeffrypotocek7727]

Putting your pack of cigarettes in your t-shirt sleeve

[@Mama4d8]

Dad was a barber during the 40's, 50's and 60's when I showed up. Through the 90's. I'm sure he saw some trends. Too late to ask though.

[@grumpyoldwizard]

For some reason I didn't think about Legacybox when I needed a tape copied. We had two tapes that had both my Wifes parents on it (now deceased) and our trip to Oregon when my daughter was about Six. We took them to Wallmarts and those so and so's lost them. They didn't seem to really even care, but those were priceless to us. There is no way to get those times back.

[@caroldragon7545]

Dick Clark and American Bandstand, long socks that you rolled up into donut shaped rolls around your ankles. lots of underskirts called "crinolins (I don't know how to spell it). They made your skirt pouff out

[@rhodamiller7338]

Crinoline…when I was in high school (1950 -1954)American Bandstand was only on the radio. Went once to the broadcast theater. For some reason only the girls at the Catholic high schools rolled their socks…….and put on make up as soon as school was over. Lipstick was allowed at public high schools.

[@RetroMMA]

Love nostalgia; Little of this history is accurate, Gen X here.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

3:17 That a Ford Flathead Engine. Fords V8 used from 1932 to 1953. 1954 Ford came out with the 292 Y-Block Engine.😁

[@tomfilipiak3511]

In 1963 bought a 1953 ford Flat head V 8,fr 50 dollars,in Chicago,drove it to Toledo Ohio,the next day,to buy Fire Works for the 4 th of July!The flat head ran hot but we made it up and back!I was 15 years old,born in Chicago,in 1948!

[@UndergroundRaww]

Those sideburns you never notice except in a movie like Grease. It shows the connection with 60's and especially the 70's, were not too far off, so something had to spill over. The clothes sure didn't.

[@glennso47]

So Cool a song by Patty Loveless

[@notmyworld44]

06:28 - JAMES DEAN! ( Boy could that guy make sausages ! )

[@CanuckBeaver]

Very good. Now 82, born 1942, elementary school in the Duck and Cover late 40s, grade 8 when Elvis hit. ironically, the soldiers after WW2, wanted their wives happy. They invented "labor-saving" devices and packaged foods. In the 50s, a girl i dated wanted to marry at 16. But by the 60s, the women were so spoiled they stopped wanting to cook or sew or get married. I have traced marriage back to 150,000 BC in ancient languages. The 1950s killed it by mistake. Boys rebelled against working hard in the 50s, and girls in the 60s. 1963 Feminine Mystique book started anti-marriage Feminism.

[@dukerichards2158]

Ah the 50s. When people walked around saying "Ayyyy" all the time 😸

[@jenniferhansen3622]

😂

[@glennso47]

Ayyy didn’t. Ayyy never heard that before until I saw Happy Days.

[@funkibloo3811]

​@😂glennso47

[@Jack-xo2zp]

As classic as the 1957 Chevrolet is, 1957 is one of the few years, or perhaps the only year, when Ford outsold Chevrolet. At the time, people really weren't so fond of the Chevrolet's tail fins. It is only in years later that the 1955/56/57 Chevrolets have become so loved.

[@hotrodray6802]

Ford outsold Chevy multiple years

[@glennso47]

@@hotrodray6802now Toyota outsells all of them except possibly Honda and Mazda.

[@rhodamiller7338]

The experience of upper income whites. Most guys had to borrow the family car. And few had Cadillacs .

[@UmmYeahOk]

1:51 “being cool was all about having confidence.” …confidence to have a feminine hair do

[@1415reynolds]

I was born in 1954 also so I was 6 when the 50s ended guess I was a 60s guy.

[@louettesommers8594]

I absolutely hated those bras. A lot of us had to fill the tip with tissue paper.

[@tobiojo6469]

My dad was born in the fifties and it was a much peaceful time than what we have now

[@gustavsorensen9301]

World War II, Korea, and Vietnam was a much more peaceful time than now?????

[@bubbabubberson2702]

More peaceful for some. Can't imagine Black and brown folks had it so peaceful in the Jim Crow south though

[@margaretkur8161]

There was a gap between Korea and Vietnam. My father was a Korean vet. My parents married after he returned home. I was born during President Eisenhower's first term.

[@coldsamon]

​@@gustavsorensen9301 WW2 and Vietnam wasn't the 1950s. Credibility gone. Past your bedtime child. Sweet dreams 😘

[@Jsizzle6809]

@@bubbabubberson2702I don’t think they were killing each other everyday and robbing people like today

[@Doug-mc3dd]

01:55 They are British early or mid1960s. Brits were always at least a decade behind America.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

My Uncles first car was a Brand new 57' Chevy.

[@glennso47]

My dad’s first new car was a 1953 Chevrolet 210.

[@glennso47]

Turning up the cuffs on my jeans was necessary and not cool. I wore suspenders and a lot of other kids would pull them and let them go against my back.😢 i gave up suspenders.

[@Hailey-mx4kc]

3:57 they were edgy all right 😂

[@alansmith8837]

Dont post em in uk no one had a car in 50s.

[@rareform6747]

Girls had hair ...Down There

Apparently real men do eat ice cream, but we knew that all along didn't we now.

[@rand49er]

Smoking cigarettes was "cool" back then, too. Most of those who did became addicted and died of cancer at an early age. Not so cool. I was born in '49 and never smoked.

[@jramsay100]

Bullet bras were horrible. They were still around well into the 60's. Many adolescents were made to feel self-conscious while wearing them. Also, if you turned quickly you could poke someone's eye out!

[@coldsamon]

I love love the bullet bra. Bring back the bullet bra!

[@Neil-ht8fv]

Life was a lot simpler back then.The dollar actually had value, people weren't shooting each other, the country wasn't being over ran with illegals. I also believe the food was healthier. I remember the milkman bringing fresh milk weekly, also, the ice man bringing big blocks of ice for our icebox. People pretty much knew their place and stayed in it untill roughly the late 60's. Yes, the 50's was a pretty cool decade. 🙂

[@Zazaandfam]

Is it just me but why does the 1950s generation sound similar too the new generation z think about it? 🧐

[@Jsizzle6809]

Coolest thing about the 50’s was people knowing “diversity is NOT our strength”. It was sooo much safer and more wholesome back then. How far we’ve fallen

[@mtthielsen8342]

I don't know about the 50's, but in the 70's you could get laid by accident.

[@alanstrong55]

Women usually covered the belly button. Cars were so much better than. Sorry, the Strongs were on the poor side of life. A '57 Buick Roadmaster would have been welcome. A nickel Coke was a delight.

[@chrispollard341]

Ethnic kinship