Funny Things You Were Guilty Of…in the 1950s

The 1950s are considered the golden age of America, when life seemed like it couldn't get much better. With that outlook, there were bound to be certain trends that influenced popular culture in ways that help to define the decade. Today some of these things may seem silly, or outdated, but during the 1950s they were just how things were. So, let’s see how many of these things you were guilty of…in the 1950s.
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[@bridgetmccracken1381]

Gloves made the outfits look so classy!!!

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

As well as little hats!

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

@@SpotTheBorgCat 100% agree

[@sonyafox3271]

Yes, me and, mom and, most of the girls and, their moms would mostly where our white gloves on Easter Sunday with our new Easter Dress , Hat, Shoes and, purses! You always got the whole nine yards on Easter but, your gloves were put up after they were purchased the first tim and, they always made a appearance come Spring! We had a older couple that had a knitted shop downtown and, they mostly made everyone brought their Shawls from them, and, they made these cute knitted hats that were popular back then, the one where they put one to two flowers on the side, once they made these none of us got a new Spring Jacket or a New Easter Hat for awhile because, that’s how much we little girls liked our shawls and the hats they made us and, then, the purses out of cool whip bowls!

[@scareless48]

You forgot crinolines. I remember my parents dressing up to go dinner and dancing. My mother had several beautiful cocktail dresses with full skirts and a lovely silver crinoline that she would wear underneath. I would watch her with awe.

[@sandybruce9092]

I grew up in Phoenix (I’m a 1947 boomer) and those petticoats were miserable there - we didn’t have a/c at that time, just swamp coolers and when we stood up from our desks the petticoats would stick to the back of our legs! The over the elbow gloves were for proms, etc. - I had cotton gloves, wrist length - hated them then, still hate them now!😄.

[@QED_]

@@sandybruce9092 props.

[@adelechicken6356]

​@@sandybruce9092just trying to get the stupid things tucked into our desks was a right royal pain.😊 I'm a 47 boomer too!😊

[@meatdog]

Taffeta dresses and Poodle Skirts were popular. Worn with Bobby socks and Penny loafers or Saddle Oxfords, a short scarf tied around your neck set off that TONI hair perm followed by the Beehive hairdo in the early 60's. You wore your boyfriend's high school ring on a chain around your neck which said you were " going steady".

[@scottmcwave9479]

I love the cars and the way people dressed in the 50’s!

[@lovly2cu725]

and the 40s

[@QED_]

You'd love a trip to Havana today . . .

[@christopherTYJ]

Tailfins rule!!

[@loishuston7446]

My brother enjoyed taking us for a ride to show off his 1956 Chevy Convertible.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Women then had very little choice wrt feminine hygiene products. It was pretty awful. Nothing like today with dozens of different products. It's stuff you are not likely to know a thing about.

[@julenepegher6999]

I wasn’t born til 59’ but growing up in the 60’s was pretty close to this. Women were dressed so dignified. I love those gloves!

[@lovly2cu725]

i wore gloves as a kid on holidays like easter

[@julenepegher6999]

Gloves, hat and new dress and shoes on Easter. Mom went all out. 😊

[@angelagoodwin5758]

Born in '58. You're right. Especially the early to mid 60s.

[@jerryfarmer5737]

Born in 1950 and remember much of this.

[@sandratuttle]

We wore short white gloves with our church dresses and Girl Scout uniforms.

[@zsigzsag]

Avon used to be sold door to door if I remember right.

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

I remember when Avon was being sold Door to Door. And, I remember when I was working for Kmart from 1985-1996. There was a employee working in The Auto/Sporting Goods Departments and she used to sell Avon to other employees at Kmart.

[@zsigzsag]

@@DavidSquires-iy4uv Even nowadays every place I worked always had an Avon lady who sold to coworkers on the side🙂 they did well.

[@lisasharf1442]

I remember the Avon ladies who used to come to our house. Mom always had a little container of the lipstick samples. She let me play with them.

[@gordon-1]

They advertised on TV: "[Ding, Dong], Avon calling."

[@teresajeffries3934]

​@lisasharf1442 our Avon lady would give me a handful.of those little lipsticks and if put them in my little animal cracker box that I carried around as a purse. Hey, I was 5! 😂

[@wondersteven]

I remember women and girls wearing scarves over their hair when they went out to church or shopping or such during the 50s.

[@lovly2cu725]

my mom still did that into the 80s

[@QED_]

Especially if Catholic . . .

[@gordon-1]

Often in curlers, lol.

[@wondersteven]

@@QED_ Funny, I was just thinking that after I posted. I thought "well maybe that was just a catholic thing." But I think it was bigger than that.

[@USNBLUE]

Women covered their heads in church because it’s biblical. 1 Corinthians 11 states it. Sad that churches have allowed the women to uncover their heads in church. It’s disrespectful.

[@mickeyhead9770]

I remember every time you pulled into a station for gas they washed your windows and checked the level of your motor oil!

[@marknewton6984]

Need air in those tires?

[@patriciasmith7074]

They pumped the gas too, not self service.

[@jedidrummerjake]

My dear mom would always go out with white gloves on. Even when grocery shopping. They were always soaking in the sink with Woolite. ❤

[@randquadrozzi1280]

The palomino stick horse was a must for any youngster with a cap gun and holster.

[@wildwestjanbutcher650]

Us “poor” kids would use mum’s broom and a lot of imagination!

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@wildwestjanbutcher650 I did too until my grandmother bought me the real thing.

[@diannemose244]

Remember using silly putty to lift comics from newspaper

[@canuckerjay]

“Life couldn’t get much better”….for white hetero males

[@johnchandler1687]

Silly Putty was invented long before that. It was to clean the old style wall paper with. It was literally paper so you couldn't use water on it. The putty was pressed to It a section at a time to lift dirt off of it. When wall paper went out of style they were going bankrupt when some marketing genius realized the could dye it different colors, put in those plastic eggs and sell it as a kid's toy. ( They got the plastic eggs cheap because there was always a surplus after Easter and the maker was happy to have a year round market for them.)

[@user-ic8rz7ol2w]

Yes I do!! Fun times!!!!💕

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

I think Play-Doh did the same thing. Besides, it tasted like pie crust dough.

[@heathermichael3987]

Makes me sad , because it makes me miss my dad. 😞😢😭

[@elultimo102]

I remember sending a box top and 50c for some silly toy. Today, that would be equal to $6-$7. The standard of living has dropped like a rock since those wonderful times. You now make a third of what your grandpa made the '50s, but are paying also three times the taxes. He had lifetime job security and a guaranteed retirement pension. He could pay for a house and car, while Granny stayed home with the kids. Your car costs twice as much as his house, and you are lucky to get a 401K.

[@user-fv5ms4sz8e]

I like the narrator's voice. It's not too deep, not too high, but a nice laid-back friendly tone.

[@extramile150]

Born July of 1949...and I loved growing up in the 1950s. God bless you all.

[@JeffGusman-fs6oo]

June 1949 growing up in Hawaii, "Priceless"

[@12inch_monster]

i miss the wholesomeness of america of old, when morality dictated actions in everyday living

[@lesliebrickey8357]

Yeah, except when they were doing racist things to people of color.

[@GFSTaylor]

Did morality dictate segregation?

[@johnchandler1687]

No. The natural instinct of all animals to congregate with their own kind did that.

[@GFSTaylor]

@@johnchandler1687 Bullshit. It was the natural instinct to keep privilege to as few as possible, and to justify slavery by continuing to keep blacks as something different and less equal to whites. Bigot.

[@m.dewylde5287]

Why don't you move to an Islamic country. They all have the morality police in order to regiment everyone into robots like the Americans of the 50s.

[@footballlvnlady]

I was born in 1957. My mom had a pair of cat eye glasses. I remember wearing gloves to church on Easter or special occasion. When I started working in the late 70’s it seemed like everyone was having Tupperware parties. I have a couple pieces from the early 80’s that are brown and rust. Have a whole cabinet full of Tupperware. I never knew about wearing the dog collar on socks. In the 70’s when a girl was going steady with a guy they wore the guys initial ring. I had to wrap yarn around the back of my boyfriends ring to fit.

[@ronwheeler7788]

Wasn't that fuzzy stuff called angora wrapped around rings back then. I thought maybe my sister did this

[@footballlvnlady]

@@ronwheeler7788 I had taken the yarn from my mom’s skeins of yarn she had for her knitting. She had knitted in prior years but stopped. Every week I changed the yarn with new yarn.

[@cynthiamurphy3669]

I was born in 1954. You can still buy cat eye frames and even find actual vintage ones and have new glasses made. I found some cute frames on Zenni's, though I sure wish I'd been able to keep my grandmother's. I enjoy watching Laci Faye, the Vintage Girl Next Door here on you tube in her "new" 60s built home; she's living the 50s lifestyle and has a houseful of cool things she's collected and been given, lol. I have wonderful memories of those years.

[@sandybruce9092]

I went to college in 1965 with my cat eye glasses! I hated wearing them but couldn’t see well without them - I would walk to class without wearing them, never noticing friends waving to me, etc.😄. Hard to be,I eve they are popular again. My maternal grandma wore them and I can still see her in my mind wearing them.

[@footballlvnlady]

@@sandybruce9092 Funny how things recycle and come back in style again. We had a kitchen set in the 50’s & 60’s that was in excellent condition but we got rid of it when moved to a new house. Ours was yellow but I see them in red too. I’m sure it was made better than the new set. It was all metal and the table top wasn’t formica but flat and easy to clean. The chairs had thick yellow padded seats and backs. There were even large thick rubber chair leg pads to not scratch the floor. Now, that is retro. That set will last another 50 years!

[@matrox]

I agree the 50s was a special decade, its why just 13 years later after the 50s ended peeps were ready to go back so they had a TV show about it "Happy Days". All the actors who played in it were kids and adults from the 50s.

[@roncaruso931]

I was not born until the mid 1970's, but the 1950's looked like a calm and great era to grow up in.

[@deborahross9974]

It was a grand and great time to grow up in. I know because I was a child then. You could go outside to play and roam the neighborhood without worrying about a thing. The only rule was you had to be inside when the street lights came on. God bless

[@kathleenevans1201]

It was a great time to grow up in!

[@sonyafox3271]

It was similar to the 70s is what, I was told, I wasn’t born till 67 and, I just found out last fall when, my brother came in and, he was talking to someone and, said, a brand spanking new home to be built from scratch only cost $1200 so, my dad had everything ready to go when, he got ready to pop the question! He asked the question come Christmas after they had been dating for awhile and, a few weeks later in Jan. they were married in a little private ceremony underneath the Christmas Tree in January, in the picture, I still have it looks as if they were dressed up for a high school prom.

[@dew66666]

It was calm and great as long as you were white and straight 😂

[@donaldgeorge6656]

It was the best of times

[@jimh.8138]

Never heard of the dog collar on the ankle thing, but remember all the rest. Those were the days, lol.

[@lovly2cu725]

i didnt either

[@lisabloomfield6406]

Nor did I!

[@johnchandler1687]

Me three!

[@invisiblepinkunicorn7626]

I haven’t, either. I was born in the early 60’s…but I never heard about the 50’s generation doing that. I wonder if it was specific to a certain part of the country.

[@bobbifoth5492]

Don’t remember dog collars on socks Mandela effect to me

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

I was born in 1957 and I grew up in the 1960's.

[@K1OIK]

so?

[@linguaphile42]

@@K1OIK So he is joining the conversation and sharing. Thank you, David!

[@hewitc]

Fascinating!!

[@xr6lad]

I’ve seen photos from my mum as a teen and young woman even in the 60’s wearing gloves. I still think they make a woman wearing n the right outfit very very elegant. I like them.

[@sandybruce9092]

I think the last time I wore gloves was about Easter 1962 - I have a picture somewhere with me wearing a beige dress and hat and gloves - I hate beige and have never worn it since😄😄😄

[@robertschwister3872]

I am a product of the 1980's. Grade school in the later 70's and coming of age in the 80's were absolutely fantastic, but I have always held a fascination for the 50's. I envied my Mom and Dad for growing up in that time. I miss both of them. 😇

[@deborahross9974]

My parents grew up in the 1920s through the 1930s. I was born in 1949. I'm what's called a Babyboomer. Babyboomers were born after World War 2. God bless.

[@Jantv81]

My parents were baby boomers ( my mom was born in 1954 and my dad was 1951.) I’m an early 1980s baby and so was my sister. However I enjoy learning about those trends of the 50s and 60s. Now I have a daughter myself and she’s an Alpha (b. 2010-2025).

[@deborahross9974]

@@Jantv81 My Mother was born in 1916 and Father 1917. Me, I was born 1949. Babyboomers were born after WW2 to 1965. God bless.

[@jakebrakebill]

just made me remember tearing off cereal box tops, then putting them in an envelope, in the US mail and waiting for weeks for the toy or gadget. biggest was, those frogmen that you filled with baking soda.

[@deborahross9974]

I was a child in the 1950s so I didn't do any of these things you mentioned. I sure don't remember the dog collar around the sock. But I do remember about a part you did talk about and that was about women wearing gloves. Women in the 1950s before going out to shop or otherwise would wear a dress, hosiery, girdle, slip under her dress, high heels, did her hair, put on makeup and a hat besides the gloves and carried a purse with whatever she would need including things her children might need. Today women just wear whatever they have on. In the 1950s you didn't dare go out of the house without the above mentioned garments. I know, I was there. God bless.

[@Jerry-ok8gj]

I absolutely agree!

[@TreasureDeal]

Yes. Came up back then. I still "dress" better when I run to the store vs schmucking around the house/garden.

[@jzoberek]

My mom had a dresser drawer that was full of gloves of various colors and lengths---as a little girl, I loved trying all those gloves on, and I loved wearing my own white gloves to church on Sundays.

[@caroldragon7545]

I remember a whole lot of fifties stuff that you didn't mention. I was born in 1940, so the fifties were my teen years. Here goes: Beginning of the rock era, - Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets, and Elvis of course, My friends and I all watched Mickey Mouse Club, and Bandstand was our dance model. Fashions can be quite regional in nature, so here's a partial list of trends in Philly and south eastern PA that I was totally guilty of: fat triple roll socks, silky lightweight jackets of luminous metallic colors, poodle skirts, crinolines (I wore three of them under my prom dress), and big men's work shirts as jackets. Guys rolled their cigarette packs into their tee shirt sleeves and had duck tail haircuts. We had freedom to do things that modern kids don't have. I loved my teen years.

[@lovly2cu725]

but what were you guilty of?

[@caroldragon7545]

I was guilty of doing ALL of the girl stuff I mentioned, - just a way of saying I did all of them, LOL@@lovly2cu725

[@jacksak]

Wow, and I thought I was the oldest here born in 1944 and now 80 years old, but you beat me !

[@douglasgreene923]

I certainly second that truly born in 1944 myself remember a lot of those things really special times. Very thankful for it.

[@richardw3470]

Satin (?) shoes dyed to match the prom dress; Xmas present from the boyfriend of matching winter shirts; ID bracelets mostly for the guys; friendship rings which were fancy carved, usually silver, bands (no stones); angora (?) ear muffs that were just a few inches wide to cover from ear to ear and tied under the chin (sometimes gloves or mitts to match); jewelry designed in relation to the coronation in England in '53 and dolls in coronation robes. Crazy colored; life sized toy poodles won at the summer carnivals and raffling off donated, real home baked cakes (no mixes) to raise money for the volunteer emergency squads. Little kids running around the carnivals with no parents in sight. Horror movies at special Fright Nights and walking home alone thru parking lots and alleys at 2 AM. The scariest part was walking under canopied trees swishing and creaking in a wind with moonlight shining out around the edges of huge clouds with a darker sky behind them. Small town life.

[@johnchandler1687]

Penny loafers. The penny was a must. Also, Stanley Home Products parties. I still have a couple of the stamped aluminium coasters they gave out to guests for your drinks. Remember those?😊

[@Og-Judy]

Fuller Brush man too😛

[@gordon-1]

@@Og-Judy ...and Kirby vacuum salesmen.

[@johnchandler1687]

@@gordon-1 I still use my Kirby Classic. Have all attachments offered. Even the sander.

[@sandybruce9092]

I always wanted to wear penny loafers but I have a high foot arch and they just didn’t fit! And yes, the penny was very important,

[@jamescanterbury6634]

Fess Parker confusing Dave’s Crockett and Daniel Boone for a whole generation

[@IronMatixXP]

I was born in 1952 , the 50's were the happiest times of my life.

[@diannelavoie5385]

Me as well. In February.

[@johnchandler1687]

Ditto. In March.

[@maryerb6062]

Me, too, and I never heard or saw dog collars on socks!

[@Jerry-ok8gj]

Me in October.

[@marieh52]

May

[@whereswaldo5740]

I’m guilty. Of chewing gum in class. And writing on the desk.

[@lovly2cu725]

did u put the gum under the desk?

[@julenepegher6999]

We didn’t dare chew gum, if the nuns caught us look out. 😅

[@jamessilva7991]

The ruler slap on the hand.@@julenepegher6999

[@susanjeffay3851]

@@lovly2cu725 I wasn't allowed gum but picked it off the stools that twisted at the soda fountain and chewed it EWWW

[@kevinsmith5288]

Looking at those glasses reminds of the 1951 Hitchcock film, Strangers on a Train. They were worn by two of the main characters, and were an important plot device.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

That's my favorite Hitchcock film!!

[@mickeyhead9770]

Loved my poodle skirt and pixie haircut! I have so many happy memories from that time.

[@hollish196]

Since I was about 4 years old in the Fifties---not really remembering the bullet bras! But really fun to watch! And I do remember the Howdy Dowdy Show!

[@sandybruce9092]

I was too young for that bullet bra and I still think the look is so wrong! I chuckle at old movies with women wearing them! Thank heavens I didn’t wear a bra till need the end of the 50s around 1959 or so!!!

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

Thanks for the memories . . .

[@scottmcwave9479]

Loved my Davy Crockett outfit!

[@brainbombify]

I had one also loved it my dad was born in 1956 and passed on the knowledge to me 1982

[@earthwormscrawl]

Me and my twin cousins were born in 1960. They were totally into Davy Crockett and had the rifle, hat and outfit. But it ran opposite Star Trek in syndication so I never saw it. When my cousins were visiting they wanted to watch Davy Crockett, but there was no way I would miss Star Trek. After forcing them to sit through one episode of Star Trek, they never wore those Crockett outfits again. From that day on it was Star Trek uniforms and phasers.

[@erin19030]

I was Davey Crockett ! I could sing all 27 versus of the song.

[@carolynnilsen9270]

Yes I watched that on TV here in the UK

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

Remember the excellent plastic muskets/rifles made by Matel. Their cowboy Colt 45 style pistols & holsters were superb replicas.

[@annmarie1569]

I was an 80's and 90's kid. Those were the best years of my life ❤️❤️❤️ but I would have loved to have grown up in the 50's. I loved the way they dressed and I love how simple things were back then.

[@MaxStax1]

I never knew the name of them but my Mom wore the "cat eye" glasses for many years when i was growing up. I never heard of the dog collar on a girl's ankle fad. I did receive an ID bracelet from a girl as a sophomore in High School which was awkward as i really didn't like the girl that much, and didn't want to wear it, i actually still have it somewhere around here. ha

[@mickeyhead9770]

Born in 1953 and still miss my Hula Hoop and cowgirl outfit. I loved the smell of the caps going off when I shot my cap gun! 😊

[@diannelavoie5385]

Me too. I was definitely a tomboy. Played cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. Loved Tonka trucks too. My mom still managed to get me presentable in a hat and requisite white gloves for church on Sunday.

[@susancorvalan6765]

The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid! Cowboys and Indians, Cops and Robbers! Hopscotch, jump rope, jacks!

[@brendahennesseereger8609]

Annie Oakley for me.

[@northwinterfilms5048]

And marbles especially if you had a beautiful “shooter “

[@TreasureDeal]

And mumbly peg.

[@marknewton6984]

Spin and Marty, Davy Crockett!

[@phxrt3608]

I really like reading the comments from people of this generation. They write in complete sentences, use periods at the end of sentences, etc. With comments from younger people, it's just one big paragraph of words that run together. You don't know what the end of one thought is, and the beginning of others. I don't like to think about what things will be like 50 years from now!

[@brendarico715]

❤collecting green stamps and trading them in for prizes

[@jimholmes2555]

Watching Pleasantville is a lot of fun.

[@Donna-zc9ii]

I love that movie, I have it on DVD😊

[@ronwheeler7788]

Red Ryder BB guns and the 5 and dime store. Our drugstore had a soda fountain in it. Sunday dinner after church with relatives...Got to stop just memories now

[@lisasharf1442]

We did Sunday dinner with the grandparents quite a bit. In the summertime we’d make homemade ice cream.

[@diannelavoie5385]

I remember Sunday dinner either at home or my grandparents' house. Then maybe a "Sunday Drive" afterwards.

[@eddieraffs5909]

The commenter said at the beginning of the video: "The 1950s when life seemed like it couldn't get much better"...It didn't get any better. It went down hill. Signed an 82 year old!

[@Motherhubbard170]

down all the way to hell, as pastor David Jeremiah says, "never thought we'd see what is happening "

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Finally have my Recollection Road viewing need taken care of. Was in withdrawal not having watched in over a week! 🙂

[@samsanderson224]

Love your channel. It brings back so many memories. Most cherished❤

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

My mother and her mother never went ANYWHERE without their gloves on! My mother would always say "if we don't look our best, no matter where we're going, what would people think?" She worried about that a LOT LOL! She often said "What if one of your father's clients or your grandfather's clients (both were lawyers) saw me or your grandmother out and about, WITHOUT looking our best, you'd better believe it would be all around town and all around church in 5 minutes flat!" She's still kind of that way today, (no where near like she was, though, in the '50s and '60s) even at the ripe young age of 88 LOL!

[@ynp1978]

The 50s were a bit before my time....but wasn't the Hula Hoop a giant deal in the late 50s?

[@lovly2cu725]

or early 60s . mine was orange

[@patrickporter6536]

Yep!

[@knottyal2428]

What about yo-yos and pogo sticks?

[@user-je1ly1th2w]

Hula hoops and hoop skirts!

[@cdfreester]

I've seen several photos of my aunt wearing cat-eye glasses in the 1950's and into the 1960's.

[@QED_]

Suggestion: she can probably clue you into a lot of interesting stuff . . . if she's still living.

[@cdfreester]

@@QED_ yes she is. Will be 85 this summer.

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

I have to say, I love the outfits for women in the 1950's. The World War was over, so was rationing. That led to bigger, fuller skirts and a time of prosperity. A man's paycheck went farther than today due to fewer taxes.

[@SpotTheBorgCat]

@@Diana-yn2ho As well as the same dollar wasn't taxed 6 ways from Sunday, like it is now.

[@hewitc]

The tax rates were high in the 50's. At the upper level the rich paid 70-90% in the Eisenhower years.

[@darrellsmith3602]

1950’s traditions included local Drive-ins and cruising with car radios turned up loud! Neighborhood kids were virtually outside at all times (weather permitting) playing or especially with girls talking in groups! Most homes had one telephone usually positioned between the kitchen and living room! The average family had one car that dads would drive to work! TV shows were dominated by westerns and variety shows like Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, CId Ceaser and family shows like Father Knows Best, Ozzy & Harriet, Leave It to Beaver, I ❤ Lucy, The Honeymooners, Amos and Andy etc. and Detective Shows! All in B&W! I would trade today for that time period in a heartbeat!

[@marymastromauro8164]

Boy, what i would give to relive the 1950s and 1960s!

[@Chris_at_Home]

I was born in the early 50s and my oldest sister graduated in 59. I had six siblings older than me and each one was born two years apart. I met my wife when we were in 7th grade together in the mid 60s.

[@kristensorensen2219]

Happy days of simple pleasures and traditions; when innocence was normal before age 21.

[@hewitc]

"Innocence"? In 50's there were plenty high school seniors who "had to" get married as soon as they graduated. Many couldn't purue their ambitions because they now had a family to raise while still in their teens. It was the other side of how much fun it was to go to drive in movies.

[@tiportangeles2696]

I remember bullet bras! They were very uncomfortable.

[@QED_]

When has that ever stopped Women's fashion . . . (?)

[@mikegregory7844]

My dad would never leave the house without his hat or my mother without her white gloves if they were going to church.

[@melissabibby7310]

Thanks for sharing!👍

[@glennso47]

I learned how to spell ENCYCLOPEDIA by watching the Mickey Mouse Club. Anyone else?

[@jacksak]

I learned how to milk cows and drive a tractor on our NH dairy farm.

[@sandybruce9092]

Yes! I had forgotten just where but I still spell it the way I learned! I loved the. I key Mouse Club and remember when Band Stand moved from Philly to LA - hurried home from school to watch!!

[@lurch6404]

I was just singing that in my head a couple days ago! Someone on TV said something about a encyclopedia: 'Oh, the original internet.' 🦗

[@sandybruce9092]

I still have to sing it to,spell it correctly!!! It’s not stuck in my brain for a time😄😄😄

[@eugenetalley7447]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[@timroot4207]

Thank you !

[@1mespud]

My older brother wore those 1950's beanie type hat/caps in his youth.

[@hewitc]

Today's "doofus" look is the ball cap worn backwards. A good sign you are dealing with someone who shouldn't be taken seriously.

[@randyronny7735]

Cap guns were absolute frustration. The caps were duds because the spot of gunpowder was not lined up properly or would stop feeding and needed to be aligned.

[@lisasharf1442]

That’s when we took them out of the gun and used a hammer to explode the powder. I can still smell it.

[@masoodgha6765]

Thank you so much ❤❤👍❤❤👍❤❤👍

[@AFMMarcelD]

Aww, wholesome women impeccably dressed, no tattoos or overweight, soft spoken and well mannered, gorgeous cars, thriving economy, burgers malts and hotdogs, affordable living at its finest, no social media, no cell phones no Kardashians Cardi B or ugly loud rap music. Oh, Lordy I wish I could get back in time to stay there and forget the 21st century.

[@GFSTaylor]

Women who had to stay married, no matter how abusive their husbands were, because divorce was shameful or unaffordable. That's the reality.

[@AFMMarcelD]

@@GFSTaylor Well yes I agree, but my writing description (through my own experience, yes I’m old) the layback prosperous era and atmosphere, all those other troubles have always existed in all eras.

[@matrox]

I was a toddler in the late 50s but I had a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and holster and cap gun.

[@VonTeutoburg]

I was born in '63 but many of these trends continued into the 60s. It amazes me how out of touch today's youth are with westerns and our old heroes like Crockett, Boone, the mountain men and gunslingers. I love the Fifties. Everything had a clean, professional, wholesome look. A buddy of mine who grew up in that time always says the Sixties created a significant downturn in our values.

[@juneyshu6197]

Absolutely true.

[@xr6lad]

As a Gen X born in 1966 so before much of this (and I don’t think I’m unusual) we learnt and were interested in previous generations history events music as well as our own generations music history events etc. You ask a millennial or zoomer today about something or mention something fairly historical and it’s a blank look or total disinterest in most about anything before they were born. I’m not surprised they think anything they do is done for the first time.

[@grace7701]

I was born in 77 but my 2 kids a boy (2000) and a girl (1998), grew up watching all the old westerns and still do. They had the cowboy and cowgirl outfits and the guns, and my son has his coon skin cap that he loved wearing. I still prefer to watch all the old westerns, and older shows.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Yes, I'm sure kids who grew up, in the fifties, were experts on 1880's culture😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@xr6lad]

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 I think you’ll find that people were knowledgeable about the past in ways you can’t imagine. I wasn’t a teen until the late 70’s yet I know plenty about previous decades. In fact I knew about most of these and that was 20 year’s before my time. Maybe because I was brought up before computers and actually had to read.

[@kathleenevans1201]

My parents couldn't afford Tupperware.

[@juneyshu6197]

Mine also.

[@xr6lad]

They saved up the Coolwhip containers?

[@glennso47]

They could afford Rubbermaid products which are cheaper and similar.

[@kathleenevans1201]

@xr6lad We didn't buy cool whip.

[@kathleenevans1201]

@glennso47 I don't remember my mother using Rubbermaid. But, with 5 of us, there wasn't much in the way of leftovers.

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

My brother and I were playing Cowboys and Indians in the '50s. He tied me to the telephone pole, off the ground mind you, when our father pulled up!

[@juneyshu6197]

Yikes!

[@lovly2cu725]

😆😆😆😆😆

[@SMac-bq8sk]

That is too funny!🤣

[@sandybruce9092]

I wanted a Davy Crockett hat but never got one but did have a cap gun. Most of the time we just bought rolls of caps and hit each cap with a rock on the concrete in our driveway! It was fun!

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

​@@sandybruce9092As a kid, I put several caps in an old guys cigarettes. Several of them, at about 1/4 inch intervals. To try to illustrate to him the dangers of tobacco, lol. I was about 13, and my lectures about lung cancer, didn't seem to be sinking in. 😂

[@luisreyes1963]

Cat Eye glasses weren't the only holdover from the 50's. Beat poetry is alive & well, but know as poetry slams. Tupperware is still being sold, but mostly online.

[@HENSLEYMB]

When I was in high school in the early 70,s, girls would wear their boyfriend’s senior ring if he had one. Sometimes boy and girl would exchange rings. I’m sure that there were girls that would wear a dog color on the socks to signify that they were dating some when they really weren’t. By this means boys/young men would not pitch their woes to the girl. Some teenage girls are not interested in dating or getting caught up in teen drama. Can’t say that I blame them.

[@juneyshu6197]

I said "guy dang," it was a childs curse word. Got in trouble.

[@Brother_D_therail]

😂 ha! Me too!

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

I "gol-darned" and "gol-durned" a few things when I was a kid too. Don't remember getting in trouble. But then I knew when, where and whom to not do it around, plus I didn't do it very often. 😂

[@cherylschantz9893]

It was fudge brownie at our house.

[@buckshot6481]

Yeah my wife and friends still talk about the Tupperware parties 🥳

[@HoneyHoney-wc3nw]

How about "Maynerd G. Krebs" ..."work"... from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".

[@Annymous7698]

Green stamps

[@luisreyes1963]

Much more trustworthy than Cryptocurrency. 💱

[@jeffhall6556]

Yet another Interesting & appreciated video well done!

[@PenelopePeppers]

Ahh....The Good Ol' Days 😁

[@hw4527]

Thank you for posting 👍👍

[@marlanebraun5635]

i so enjoy these videos!! never heard of the dog collar around the ankle.

[@brainbombify]

Kind of interesting, those of us whose parents were born during this decade also experienced a lot of these things. Due to the fact are parents Experience them we experienced them through our parents even though I was born in 1982.

[@neolithicnobody8184]

We called them Horn Rimmed Glasses instead of Cat Eye Glasses.

[@linguaphile42]

Those are two different things actually. Google them 🙂

[@neolithicnobody8184]

@@linguaphile42 My Mom still has hers from back then and even she called them HRGs.

[@QED_]

@@neolithicnobody8184 Then your mom needs to google them . . .

[@neolithicnobody8184]

@@QED_ My Mom is so old and blind, she can't even see the computer. However, I did do a search on it and it turns out that HRGs for women are called CEGs, but they are still HRGs. The term also depends on location, much like FIZZY DRINKS(pop, soda, Coke). Nonetheless, they are still HRGs.

[@QED_]

@@neolithicnobody8184 Yes and no, I think. HRG . . . refers to the MATERIAL of the frames (thick plastic). CEG . . . refers to HRG with a certain SHAPE (upsweep at the upper edges). A woman's HRG might be a CEG . . . or it might not be. That's how Wikipedia explains it . . .

[@almostfm]

Those "bullet bras" were sometimes known as "Dagmars" (as were the rubber or chrome bumper extensions on cars of the same period, which had the same shape). There was an actress of the time known as "Dagmar" who had the same shape.

[@Lanie_5D]

Bullet bras STILL look better than the push up hell of today and cat eye glasses look 1000000 times better than the huge blobs people wear today.

[@QED_]

I spend a lot of time disentangling impressions I have of things. The combination of bullet bra + cat eye glasses . . . is one that is especially fascinating. I'm guessing it evokes some archetypal aesthetic or something . . .

[@luisreyes1963]

Just try to imagine Dolly Parton squeezing into a bullet bra...😂

[@cindytrayer4279]

I had to chuckle at your “huge blobs” description because that is so accurate and the perfect description! Lol

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

Thankfully, I was too young when the anklet band was popular!

[@sandybruce9092]

I’ve never seen or heard of that ankle band! Maybe it was an Eastern US thing - many styles, etc. never made it out to the wilds of Phoenix way back then😄

[@joeheid2776]

Most of this was before my time. But cap guns were huge in the 70's but not so much for westerns but for the cop shows that started to appear on tv.

[@joycemiraglia280]

Hello...My first job in the 1960s was in a ladies and children's department store and it paid $.95¢ an hour and if I could sell one of those Exquisite Form bras you first started showing and describing in the video I could make an extra $.10¢ per each one. So I hustled to make that dime. I got the Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans cap guns and green cowgirl hat and vest with white vinyl fringe for girls at Christmas. I'm 78 by the way ha ha ha Oh yes, I had a Davy Crockett wallet cause I liked Fess Parker. Up and until about 1968-69 I still wore my white and colored gloves when getting dressed up. I also sold Tupperware for about 5 years. The new Tupperware of today I don't think is as good and I still own several pieces. Thank You for sharing these wonderful things from days gone by. Bye from Ohio🌹

[@stratmaster5]

Shouldn't it say that Davey Crockett wrestled bears with his human hands not his bear hands lol!

[@oreally8605]

Morality, decency, love of God & country, yeah, those things were definitely in the 50's. This is why "Trad" wives are so popular now. Generation Z is craving morality, and normality for alot of them.

[@ghabcdef]

The Mafia ruled the cities with the explicit permission of the FBI, horrific violence was perpetrated against anyone who even remotely opposed the ruling class, McCarthyism ruled. The folks who lived like this were a minority... and their equivalents are living charmed lives even now. It is just that neither you nor I are invited to the party.

[@hewitc]

Most young women today work. In fact, women now outnumber men as graduates of law school. I think any popularity of "trad" wives is confined to places where women don't have the opportunites to advance themselves.

[@markdanielczyk944]

In 1956 International Harvester introduced their V-8 engines for medium and heavy duty trucks.

[@marvinpineda8693]

Stationary service boxes?? Half-enclosed rail menus at lunch diners?? Frosted glitter on pale cyan with double-emboss aluminum countertops??

[@Sakja]

I remember wearing crinolines under my skirt to make it wider. We always wore gloves when we got dressed up. Times have changed.

[@brunobandiera2062]

Fond memories of summer days spent down at the woods by the railroad tracks with my chums, marathon games of Livestock Management Technicians vs. Indigenous Warriors..... I had a Hopalong Cassidy outfit, black hat and vest. 😉

[@tobiojo6469]

Awesome video

[@sethkaplan]

Pleasantville 😂

[@maureendrozda9960]

I Was Partial To The Look Of Black Evening Dresses With Black See-Thru Lace On The Chest & Shoulders, Gloves & Of Course - PLATINUM Blonde Hair!

[@jonduggan7433]

The bullet bra with a really nice tight sweater was kinda nice too.

[@elviscobb5922]

The milkman back then stopped at almost everyone’s house.Maybe not every day but at least once a week. I also remember Diaper Service trucks being around in the 60’s but they only would go to homes where the family was middle class or above. My mom washed all of diapers herself.

[@barrycunningham3242]

Yes and Hellmans bakery wagon!

[@elviscobb5922]

@@barrycunningham3242 Yes,now that you mentioned it, I remember that as well.

[@thistlemoon1]

We had Mathis Dairy out of Decatur, Georgia. We moved 3 miles and couldn't get it anymore. It was so great.

[@janeflip1]

Hah! 1960s! I just ordered an ant farm for my classroom!

[@robmatlock7675]

Don't put fire ants in it, unless you are looking for a painful life experience. 😁

[@adelechicken6356]

Poodle skirts and saddle shoes!😊

[@kathleenevans1201]

I never wore bullet bras.

[@glennso47]

Neither did I! 😊

[@QED_]

@@glennso47 Missed your chance to be ahead of your time . . .

[@hewitc]

There's still time!

[@kathleenevans1201]

@@hewitc Why would I even want to?

[@DosBear]

I guess are there are a couple of people from the 50's that may still be alive but not many. Most would be in there 80's now. The one major thing you forgot was the Black Leather jackets and the Brylcream the young men used to comb their hair back like in the movie Lord's of Flatbush as well a Letterman Jackets for the jocks.

[@hewitc]

Jeans with rolled up cuffs and cigarettes in a fold in the tee shirt sleeve. Rebel Without a Cause. The 50's were not all "innocence". The Kinsey Report came out in the 1950's and it described an incredible variety of sexual pratices that were much more common than anyone might think.

[@DosBear]

@@hewitc Yes, describes my Father to a tee. ;)

[@OcotilloTom]

I was born in 1946 and remember this time well. Good times.

[@ace6285]

Let us not forget that behind the innocence of the time, we spent all day in school sitting quietly at our own desks, doing our own work, being evaluated for our work rigidly, getting up only to use to the washroom, only with permission and a permission slip from the teacher. There was no back talk to teachers, no violence or disruption, no drugs, no cell phones, students could be and sometimes were expelled. Corporal punishment was available but seldom needed because knowing there were serious repercussions meant that good behaviour was always maintained.

[@DanandDonna1]

I;m a lady. I did have a cowboy outfit when in the 1950's. Cap guns were theeee thing!