GEN Z KID Reacts To 13 things In The 1960S kids Today WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND

[@Saintly2]

Back then, if a kid walked by with a real rifle, you’d just think they were going hunting for rabbits or something… no thought in anyone’s mind that they were a threat.

[@timbt3344]

All I can say is I’m SO glad I grew up then👍🏻

[@apk257]

That suitcase/record player is a portable record player. It's like that so it can be brought to different places. The first guy in the school crossing was a crossing guard.

[@melissadavis4981]

The last part is SO true. Even in the year 2006 when I got my first job working fast food, we had to wear button down shirts, pants, aprons, hats, etc. and we were expected to be fast, polite, etc and I got paid $6/hr ... now it's like there's no customer service anywhere I go unless they're working for tips. 💙

[@beachside1]

Nowadays the schools close with any sign of wind or heavy rain. In 1978 we were all in school and we were let about about 1 hour early due to being in a blizzard (snow). The snow was over 1 and 1/2 feet high. It was nasty but normal for us. We walked about a mile to get home. Btw in the 1970s my dad wound up in the hospital and my mom brought us to see him. Next to his bed was an ashtray they gave him and he was smoking. Back in the 70s and 80s no matter where you went they just had a smoking and non smoking section.

[@melissadavis4981]

WHO'S JOHN WAYNE!?!?!?! ok, now you've done it. 😂😂😂

[@cinmarksx]

lol the suitcase is called a record player

[@2009kygal]

Jello with fruit, topped with whipped cream was good.

[@donnawhite5062]

Still is, my friend! 🤣

[@2009kygal]

I loved the drive-in movies! I miss them. We have 2 left fairly close by. The others closed.

[@Fiona2254]

I remember a lot of drive in nights. We were little and simply fell asleep on the car, or the back seat. I know it was date night for the parents, they knew we’d fall asleep 😂

[@Tracywhited2]

I can see the back of the screen of the drive in by me. 😂😂😂. Still so fun.

[@stevecash9761]

Raining... you had an umbrella

[@michellelocke5408]

Cash also taught budgeting. Taught kids how to save as well

[@barbarae-b507]

@@michellelocke5408 My parents sat down with all of us and went over money. When you were 5, we got an allowance starting at: 5 cents. It was unbelievable how much we could get for the small amount. Filled a whole small bag. I remember going on the Toronto Subway for 5 cents when it first opened. It gradually went up to 10 cents for children and 25 for adults. I lived near the Davisville station and regularly walked to church. Which is on Eglinton just east of the longest street in the World. Yonge Street.

[@popeye807]

65 year old Aussie here, we survived because we were tough. Not like the wimps we have today. Plus if we got injured it was our fault, we didn't blame anyone else.

[@lindadeters8685]

In 1965, my neighbor, Stevie and I walked by ourselves to Kindergarten. It was 1 mile away. Mom walked with us the first 2 or 3 times. The next time, Mom followed us to make sure we knew how to get there. So, as 5 yr olds, we walked 2 miles/ day back and forth to Kindergarten. We did the same for grade school. About 4 th grade, we started riding our bikes to school in good weather. Our high school was 2 miles away. I mostly took the bus in the morning, since class started @ 8am. I’d walk home in the afternoon. 💙💙

[@seraphariel1364]

Vinyl record is played on a suitcase..!? That made me burst out laughing. That’s no suitcase🤣😂🤣

[@alisonflaxman1566]

Never heard of anyone putting fish or meat in Jello. It wasn't used as a meal. Fruit was the only thing we put in Jello.

[@kennethv5250]

when i was six my best friend got a bb gun, my mother made sure that i got one too her reason was " if ronnie shoots kenneth i want kenneth to be able to shoot him back" this was back in the 70's. i miss those days so much it hurts.

[@2009kygal]

We had color pictures in the 60s. We had color TV by the late 60s.

[@jamesbobo]

color TV's came out in the late 50's, but there were very few of them and they were expensive. Most shows were still in B&W so even a color TV would mean most of your shows were still in B&W

[@PlasmaMongoose]

In the late 60s to mid 70s, most of the pictures mum took of me were black and white cos colour film was expensive, but by the mid 70s, colour film became cheaper, and the default that was sold.

[@JeanW-d5i]

Jay, when I had babies in the 70s (yes, I’m very old) every ward in the hospital, even the maternity ward, had a smoking room. I didn’t smoke but there were always lots of people in there.💚

[@TheJudiBambiPurrsParadox]

I was born in 1963...yes I'm 61...and I shot my brother's BB gun all the time...we could buy the pellets for them, too. We had what was called book bags...much like reusable grocery bags are today...when we had projects to walk to school, or a lot of books or gym clothes if you didn't have gym lockers. Silly Putty, EZ Bake Oven, Creepy Crawlers, Slinky...Clackers too. Moon shoes ...LOL...Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!

[@allenruss2976]

We had color film in the 60s. How else are you going to hit a target without a scope or shoot a squirrel. I was ten running around the woods with my dad's shotgun. It was nothing to see kids walking down the street with either a bb gun or a real 22 rifle. No no no. TV dinners were not good. They were edible but not good.

[@jvsVideoSamples]

💙luv the throwback💙Thanks🪭 1) my older cousins would hang out on the porch and sing all the Motown hits. It was my job to spin the records on a record player like in the video. There was a special disc for 45s (single song). Ooo Baby Baby was my fav. 2) Drive-in movies were fun cuz we got to play on the playground with all the other kids before the movie. Snack shop was fun too. 3) my mom would send me & my brother on our bikes to go get something she needed for dinner. We were about 6 & 8. So much more freedom back then.

[@TheJudiBambiPurrsParadox]

People used their memories far more when I was growing up in the start of the 70's. Now, everything is at our fingertips from all over the world.

[@catseye1009]

Yes! I still remember my telephone number from 1965!

[@patriciacanadiansenior8130]

Yes, jello salads were huge, & I hated most of them, but eat them we must before leaving the table! Being an only kid, I walked alone everywhere....to school, to the store, everywhere from age 4-5 & on. Then we got school buses for the higher grades, but we had to walk to the bus stops to get them. Nothing was very close to home either, so it all took time.

[@2009kygal]

Some Jello salads were quite good. The ones with cottage cheese were nasty! I like cottage cheese, but not in Jello.

[@patriciacanadiansenior8130]

@@2009kygal That was horrible stuff!

[@barbarae-b507]

I can still remember when my grandparents got themselves a new TV. We inherited the old black and white one and my dad was in the media business. Did finally get a new TV that was brought up to camp so that we could watch the moon landing. I still remember what I was wearing that evening. In everything but high school I was fortunate to live across the street or down the street from school. High school, I walked 8 blocks. Never got a drive to school until we lived much farther away. That was when my dad was leaving at the same time. Never took the bus as we were one stop away from the stop for the school.

[@Jewels0007]

I was running the neighborhood at 3 years old and I rememeber it well it was fun.

[@Teresia12]

I was born 1956. So this was me. Both my brothers and my husband went to Vietnam on their Sr Trip. My husband was 8 yrs older than me. I didn't meet him until he was 30. My brothers were 7 and 6 yrs older than me. The all made it home. Thank goodness.That jello crap was crap. 😂 I spent a lot of time at the table. My brother who could eat anything would eventually sneak in and eat it fir me while Mom n Dad were watching TV. He kept getting fatter and I stayed skinny as a pole. Mama worried to death about both of us. I would go back in a heartbeat.

[@carundle-ds1op]

* The school crossing guard is wearing a police-looking uniform. * The portable record player has a handle, so it can be carried. * My mom smoked through 3 pregnancies, only quitting when I was 12. * The only time I ever rode a school bus was when we went on a class trip. We walked to school in the rain and snow and cold. Since girls like me weren't allowed to wear pants in school, I would wear pants under my dress when it was cold and take the pants off once I got to school. When I started high school in the fall of 1969, girls could finally wear pants and we rebelled by wearing hot pants. * Ah, yes, the full-sized 5-cent candy bar! * It's not just that kids today (did I actually say that?) won't make change, it's that many can't. If the cashier rings up $1.25 and I give them $5.25, they can't figure out why. * I never saw a real gun during my childhood, so my mind would never go there. Cap guns, yes. * Our playgrounds were deadly and would never pass muster today. * I used to love going to the movies. I haven't been in a movie theater since 2019. * It was very scary for the boys/young men then because going to Vietnam was a very real possibility. * My mom worked, then came home and cooked dinner. We ate at the dining room table. We never ate in front of the TV. * Jello salads/meals are disgusting. Period. * Yup, sat at the table for hours after dinner ended in a battle over lima beans. FYI, I was born in 1955. Growing up in the 60s was the best.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Yeah, lady! What you said! I was born in 1954..we were There, man...

[@dawnsmith3278]

We used to make bows and arrows with sticks and binder twine.

[@jessicagreer4828]

I've been binging your videos. Have loved every one so far. I love your ability to appreciate the other generations and if you don't know it understand something you find out before just making jokes.

[@veronicamorgan9029]

The suitcase is a portable record player.

[@1bc003]

I was born in 1960 and my Mother never made a TV dinner in her life. She made us real food.

[@2009kygal]

Boomer here. I lived in the country. We rode a school bus.

[@Cobbido]

was racial tensions higher or lower than they are now where you were?

[@pbell44]

The only jello salad I would’ve eaten would have fruit in it. Only fruit

[@davidmcleod1098]

In the 60's, I had a James Bond 007 briefcase 💼 where you would press the handle, and it shot a mini rocket out the bottom. All kinds of crazy spy gadgets. lol

[@deannacrownover3]

I'm early GenX, so I was five when the 70's came around. Of course our rifles had scopes! They still do, lol. Baby, that's a record player.

[@gailrohleder6748]

From the time I was 5 until I was in sixth-grade I walked to school.

[@danielepps8729]

Happy my mom never put anything crazy into our Jello

[@mamaloh8165]

they went to the moon 69... so yeah, they did have color photos lol.

[@veronicamorgan9029]

We were tough back then😅 We got to ride on the tailgate, or in the bed of a pickup truck, drink out of a hose, played with fireworks, run around for hours and our parents never worried about stranger danger. Those were good times.

[@Saintly2]

You’re sounding a tad defensive about reading a clock… 😆

[@melissadavis4981]

Where I live in Florida we still love to go to the movies ❤

[@pbell44]

In 2014 a 12 yr old boy named Tamir Rice was killed by police after being seen with a toy gun. The cops said they mistook it for a real gun

[@CazzyB1]

In Scotland, we had leather satchels to carry our books - you can still get something similar now with two straps and buckles to close the flap, with an adjustable shoulder strap or you got them with a briefcase type handle on the top (the boys tended to use that style while the girls usually had the shoulder-strap style). The biggest change nowadays I think is how school kids relate to each other now - when we were coming home from school we'd be shouting and laughing and playing the whole way home. These days, the kids coming home from school pass my house like church mice and the reason is that they are all engrossed in their phones instead of interacting with each other. I find that a sad change but there are many other amazing changes since the 60's. 😁

[@toodlescae]

😮Thank goodness I was never subjected to those awful jello salads. 🤢 That thing you thought was a suitcase was a small record player. That's what you played vinyl records on.😂 The guy in the uniform was a crossing guard. Every school had at least 1. They stopped traffic so kids could safely cross the road in front of the school.

[@Lynn-kh5rs]

Yeah, the Jell-O thing existed. Thankfully my Mom didn't care for the "savory" Jell-O recipes but did like to make Jell-O molds with canned fruit in the Jell-O. The fruit ones were not bad at all. BTW, in the colder states, unless you purchased canned or frozen fruit the fresh fruit you ate you got in the correct growing season. The "suitcase" was a portable record player. This way you could take your vinyl albums or 45's (single records) along with your record player to a friend's house. The "policeman" was a crossing-guard and they all wore uniforms. They were at intersections near schools.

[@faithinjesus7817]

My 27 year old son is collecting records and purchased a record player. I had a Prince record from my high school days and I gave my records to him.

[@2009kygal]

Kids today would never understand Beatlemania. Swifties are the closest thing to it in today's era.

[@ShirleyHeckman]

OMG Creepy Crawlers! My favorite was the edible goo. Loved surprising Mom with a rubber looking edible spider hanging half out of my mouth!

[@williamcabell142]

Life was great for a kid in the 50’s/60’s! 72, and I wouldn’t trade it ever!

[@melissadavis4981]

Omg I forgot that you could do that with silly putty! I should show my 6 year old, she'll love that

[@karenmandeville7116]

i grew up in the 60s (born in 56) and, yup, that's about what it was.

[@mildredpierce4506]

even though the first color television goes back to 1928, color television in America became common around 1962 or 63 “The first working color TV system was developed by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1928. Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission on July 3, 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with filters of a different primary color, and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. Baird also made the world's first color broadcast on February 4, 1938, sending a mechanically scanned 120-line image from Baird's Crystal Palace studios to a projection screen at London's Dominion Theatre.” “The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) occurred on January 1, 1954, but during the following ten years most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be in black-and-white.”

[@pamelalandon2423]

I lived on a farm. Mom made us homemade lunch meat by grinding up leftover pot roast, the adding mayo, and homemade pickle relish. Our jello only had fruit or plain. With whipped cream topping. We rode the bus to school. Our elementary school was 8 miles away, and our high school was 14 miles away.

[@js3599]

Color photos goes back the 1800s... The first color photo ever taken was in 1861... Magazines had color photos by the 1890s, but were rarely used because publishing them were expensive, and not very reliable in quality when mass produced... It became more popular in the early 1900s, but started taking off in the 1930s, and becoming common place by the 1960s-1970s... So that WAS an actual color photo... NOT colorized...

[@kerriniemi9525]

Love the kitchen colours and layout, but i thinkthe bedroom seemed more comfortable for you😊 Portable record player Cash is 👑 BB guns were made for kids, so they were smaller... I worked at a drive in theatre, as 1 of my jobs through my highschool years, it was fun, and met lots of people there War, huh, yeah what is it good for?🎶 Tv dinner night was great! Then I didn't need to cook Hi Jay's momma❤ I hate jello, and jello salads too... Don't go down the rabbit hole of other foods from that time, if just seeing that makes you want to 🤢 Don't be shocked, something's were definitely better, but the world keeps spinning, and we only have this life here to live🌏🌎🌍 💙 Thanks again ✌️🏵️💞

[@socalpaul487]

The Thingmaker at the beginning was basically a hot plate and you had a bunch of metal molds that you poured liquid Goop into. The heat would set the plastic Goop into flexible toys. I'm pretty sure the fumes were toxic. Toy guns at that time, the more realistic, the better. No one really served most of those Jello dishes. Just fruit in Jello.

[@derekgibson2589]

In the UK School satchels, leather shoulder bags, were in use long before the 60s in fact during the 60s satchels were falling out of use in favour of other bags like duffle bags and rucksacks.

[@melissadavis4981]

The smoking thing started changing in the late 90s... so I was born in 1990 and you could smoke anywhere and everywhere except maybe inside schools and hospitals... then slowly they started having smoking and nonsmoking sections or smoking areas, etc.

[@jerryschwier8998]

i was born in 1966 and the teachers' lounge was always full of smoke

[@melissadavis4981]

@@jerryschwier8998 lol I don't even doubt that

[@catseye1009]

If it rained, we carried an umbrella, so our books did not get wet.

[@mildredpierce4506]

“The first practical and commercially successful color "film" was the Lumière Autochrome, a glass plate product introduced in 1907.

[@michellelocke5408]

No one has to sign up with selective service. That hasn't been around since the 80s, I think. But some politicians are trying to bring back the draft.

[@jennyoconnell7217]

I grew up in England in the sixties - no jellied salads (thank god) or drive-in movie theatres, but walked to school from age 5 (and used satchels to carry books), some had BB guns and cap guns, westerns on TV were all the rage.

[@deanakeefer1798]

Some businesses are refusing to accept Apple Pay.

[@user-TonyUK]

I can remember being treated by the family Doctor way back in the early 1960 and yes he smoked all through the visit.

[@v8ko]

As a youngster 3rd, 4th , 5th grade we lived in Long Beach Ca. The walk was a bit over 30 minutes each way. I went back in my early 20’s and I wouldn’t drive through that neighborhood without locking my car doors. As for the BB guns we learned about guns and gun safety at an early age, yes, gun safety, recognizing the dangers and because we harvested animals we understood the importance of life.

[@SPOCK_TALK]

In the 1970s, a McDonald Hamburger was .25 cents and a Cheeseburger was .35 cents. A Hot dog or Taco at Pup 'n' Taco was only .20 cents. .40 cents for a Milkshake

[@neilt6480]

Yep. I was in the States in 1980 and can still remember "Krystals for a Quarter"

[@jamessmith7959]

We took the bus too but we waited in mass at a bus stop

[@vincecramer7950]

I find it funny that the 60s and the 70s sounds so much alike I was born in 1987 and I just remember most of these things that they're talking about great time I had a BB gun but I also had a wrist rocket which is like a really kick butt slingshot

[@marieduval6234]

The jello thing is totally true.

[@shelleyl4117]

It is a record player not a suitcase. I remember my mom smoking when she was pregnant with my little sister in 1970. 1970's myself and my 2 older siblings walked to and from school about a mile or so away. We were latch key kids in the 1970's I was 10 my big sis was 12 and my big brother was 13 my little sis was 4 and we had to watch her. Plus do homework and a list of chores was left for us to do and we'd better have them done before mom and dad came home from work. We would have to learn to cook too. By the time I was 10 I knew how to load and unload the dishwasher, do laundry and strip the beds and put new sheets on them. My brother did the lawn mowing and my sister and I had to pick up dog poop and toys in the yard. I never had a back pack from when I started kindergarten and all through high school. In middle school grades 6th to 8th we had lockers so we could keep books in there (unless we had homework and had to lug them home. It didn't matter if it was raining or snowing we still walked to school. It was our normal. We went to the drive in as a family when we were young. They usually showed the kids movie first then we'd settle down with our sleeping bags in back of the station wagon and sleep while mom and dad watched their movie. When we got our licenses at age 16 there were still drive in's and we could get a car load price and cram a bunch of people in to watch. My uncle went into the Navy so he didn't get drafted. We sometimes got TV dinners but not often. Mom would make lime jello with pineapple. I hate lime and pineapple but we had to eat what was served. GAG. My brother had a cap gun in the 1970's.

[@apk257]

I never heard of the jello thing. Ewww, what an idea. And I grew up in the 60's.

[@akires1550]

Back in those days even the doctors were smoking in their office as the dangers were still hidden to us

[@ashrak12]

Check out foods made during the Depression.

[@melissadavis4981]

I have so many questions about your setup... why do you have a towel hanging from your refrigerator door handle? What is that bar/handle across the top of your microwave? Why does your microwave look like an oven? Why does your door look so small or is it just the angle of the camera? Then lastly, where does that door go? Most kitchens here in the states have doorways, not actual doors in the kitchen unless it goes to the garage?? Ok... what's a boiler?

[@Cuckoorex]

I think I can answer a few of those Qs: he just has kitchen towels on his lower oven and refrigerator door; are kitchen towels not a thing anymore? The "microwave" is indeed an oven, and the bar across the top is just the handle to open the door. I think the double ovens are usually for more upscale homes; my sister had a pretty expensive home and she had that setup. It lets you cook two dished simultaneously at different times and times... so you could be cooking Thanksgiving turkey in the lower oven and use the top oven to make side dishes like casseroles or roast veggies or bake a pie, etc. I think the door looks small because of the angle. As for where it goes... his seems to just lead to another room, but even in the US, a kitchen door might lead to a basement or garage, or it might be a pantry. I could be wrong about that last one, though. If he's in the UK, maybe that's a more common thing. - American Gen-Xer

[@catseye1009]

Color film wasn’t the norm in the 60s. It did exist, but it wasn’t until the mid-late 60s that people started using color film. Most of my school photos were black and white. Most of television was still in Black and White. I remember our neighbors got a color television circa 1968 and everyone would go over to their house if a favorite entertainer came on the Ed Sullivan or some other variety program.

[@dawgosa8505]

I was born in 1967 and the Jello thing was actually real. We had to eat that

[@allenprice8666]

Started my first busness at 7 , landscaping. Second business it 2 fixing bikes for locals. Kids gen z barely know how to ride bikes

[@2009kygal]

TV dinners weren't very good then. They taste better now. Tucker Carlson's wealth comes from Swanson. I don’t care for him, and I don’t buy Swanson as a result. He got fired from Fox which I won't watch.

[@lillieprekler]

I walked to school and everywhere else I wanted to go with no fear.

[@karlkuttup]

my first misses in 1984 still smoked and drank when pregnanet our first 3 kids she did them ,at 18yrs old i used to go with my uncle shooting handguns in uk were shooting range for handguns till 1996

[@slimbombur7922]

Westerns was big in America but also western Europe where american shows and movies was common. I got a cowboy suit with double pistols for my 5th birthday and it is my favority birthday gift ever.

[@CaraK-bw6bs]

I think it is super that you are doing these! That you even realize that it was different, etc. Now let's take it even FURTHER JayFlex! Find what it was like to be a kid in the late 1800's! NowTHAT is some serious STUFF. BUT? We must all consider and realize? That without the hardships and perseverance of those people back then? Along with their innovations, we would NEVER be where we are today.

[@andybricks576]

Back in the 70's early 80's you could still smoke in a hospital as a patient, doctors nurses also smoked as well, it goes to show how Evil Cigarette Companies are & Alcohol distributors are no better.

[@JohnAnderson-rl3im]

dude I'm 60 and think jello molds for diner are gross AF

[@faithinjesus7817]

Never heard of Jello dinners.

[@barbarae-b507]

@@faithinjesus7817 Jello , even with stuff in it was considered a salad. Jello plain , was dessert. Especially if whipped cream was on the top.

[@andybricks576]

Dude, Thomas Sutton created the ​first colour photograph in 1861 so the coloured pic from the 1960's wasn't a big thing.

[@josephworthfiftiesguy]

when i was 10 in 1967,i rode my bike 20 miles from my house, nothing happened to me it was very safe

[@dawnsmith3278]

The only thing I like in my jello is fruit.

[@helenlayton1455]

Mom made a great shrimp mold

[@p00kaah]

I grew up in the 60s in the UK and quite a few things here were not the same in the UK. Yep, walked to school (about a mile) when I was 6+ and loved potty putty (not silly putty in the UK). No crossing guards but we had lollipop ladies. UK not involved in Vietnam so that wasn't a thing. Air rifles were around though and mono record players (didn't need to say vinyl then). Still have the scars on my knees and under my chin from various childhood accidents but loved the freedom we had. My parents thought 'TV' dinners were almost immoral and we were only allowed to watch TV while we ate on special occasions. I don't remember any 'jelly' meals except revolting things like brawn.. eugh! I prefer analog clocks - I just feel you get a better sense of the hours and day passing than with digital - more attractive too. As for cash... I still think Cash is King and use it whenever I can - I like there to be no record of what I bought or where (except of course when I buy online).

[@vincecramer7950]

Yeah I don't know if anybody else watching the video or not but it was a video where they're asking college kids different questions they're asking about analog clocks and no clue how to read😱

[@blessedgmp8964]

My first job at KFC I made $.65 an hour in mid 60’s

[@timothypanngam2249]

Haha they had color photography in the 1930’s

[@Phx_Phreak]

Bro, instead of chasing Mom out of the room you should have had her sit in for the reaction. I doubt she's old enough to have grown up in the 60's but she could've bridged the knowledge gap and given another perspective.

[@SuitYourself]

They said smoking will stunt your growth. I'm 6'4"... Good thing my mum smoked or I could have been 7'.

[@williamcabell142]

It’s a record player!

[@stevecash9761]

Wrong. Malls were around in the 50s, but adding theater screens in malls were more in the 70s

[@stevecash9761]

A draft today would run into a lot of overweight kids. Today's society would have a harder time dealing with a national emergency that requires a draft than previous generations world have.

[@lillieprekler]

The sixty’s was a great time to grow up

[@michellelocke5408]

Color was available