If you grew up in the 1950s...you remember this PART 2 - Life in America

[@angel19angel19]

Thanks!

[@graceandglory1948]

I was born in 1948. I have so many wonderful memories. I feel really bad for children today. They have no idea what they are missing.

[@willie6185]

I was born in 1948 also. What month were you born? For me June 22 nd. I was also born at 3:25 am.

[@graceandglory1948]

@@willie6185 January 22nd! It was a Thursday and just before 7:30 pm. It's been ages since I looked at that document. 😊

[@onecoolcat2478]

I'm 52 and SO grateful I was one of the last generations to have an old school childhood. I too feel bad for children these days

[@graceandglory1948]

@@onecoolcat2478 Things started to get bad shortly before you were born. It began with the Vietnam war and kept getting worse, especially if you lived in certain areas. Glad you have good memories.

[@maryloumay8499]

Born in 1949 & couldn’t agree more. My dad owned a Western Auto and I remember those Christmas’s so fondly. Lots of hard work setting up the displays and the disappointment of seeing the bike or toy I wanted sold.

[@lucky5853]

I can honestly say I had a great childhood, at the time I didn't know how lucky and happy I was, Thank God for those happy times, today I look around and all I see is a distorted world, I don't know how much longer I'll be around but I feel sorry for the children, my apologies.

[@toinimoore3463]

Don’t apologize man we had Fun and no computers or cell phones and we had our parents and they listened to us and would explain things to us if we didn’t understand something and we all went to Sunday School And church we had respect for our elders and were polite and had manners and talked correctly! It was Super!

[@joycegreer9391]

Yes, the world has gone rapidly downhill. Crazy evil times now.

[@jefftuttrup2596]

I wish I was born 20years earlier. Just watching how bad things are getting on a daily basis is sad . I appreciate what you said about not realizing how good things really were. So sad for kids these days, no innocence, no childhood. They're exposed to everything by the time they're ten years old.

[@toinimoore3463]

@@jefftuttrup2596 Try earlier than 10 they’re Brats fast in Oregon!

[@nancybrown9025]

I agree Lucca. I was an Air Force child. I had a safe and happy childhood all over the US and Europe. treasured memories

[@patsmith5947]

I was born in 1946 my father came home from the Navy from serving and fighting in WWII in the South Pacific. Yes drive in movies and drive in food was great. Yes I remembered everything, we bought World Book Encyclopedia they had more pictures and appealed to grade school kids. I watched those shows and I had a cap gun and holster and I was a girl. I loved Annette. Yes the Christmas catalogs was the best thing ever.

[@jrnfw4060]

I enjoyed all those things, too -- in an era without the internet, without cell phones, without all the overly complicated, user UNfriendly technology we have, today. Automobiles were simpler to operate, though maybe not as safe. I was taught defensive driving early on, as safety behind the wheel was considered the responsibility of every driver. We got along just fine without all the computerized bells and whistles they put on our vehicles today that make them much more expensive to purchase and repair, and much more confusing with user manuals that are well over an inch thick, convoluted and poorly written with ambiguous illustrations, not to mention today's driving laws which have become so many and expressed so vaguely as to be overwhelming and impossible to memorize. Yes, I was warned not to talk to strangers or get into strange cars -- there was crime back then, too, but not on the wholesale scale of today. And if you broke the law, there were REAL consequences. Today, criminals get away with just about everything. I do long for those simpler times. They weren't perfect. I wasn't fond, as an elementary school kid, of getting painful polio shots and boosters, or of having that ridiculous tine test done to determine whether or not I had TB, yet I know we were very fortunate to have dodged the polio bullet and to have that vaccine so that adults and kids no longer had to live in fear of getting it simply because they chose to enjoy a crowded swimming pool on a hot summer day. Compared to today's society and culture, there are a lot positive things that can be remembered about that era. Some negatives, too. Nothing is one-hundred-percent. I was born in 1950. I'm approaching 72, and it boggles my mind that my childhood was that long ago.

[@annettepora8091]

Annette Funicello was my idol as I am also Annette. Saturday morning was my favorite part of the week. TV was devoted to kids during that time. All the protagonists were cowboys with honor. Roy Roger's and Dale Evan's, Hopalong Cassidy, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, all were heroes helping those in trouble. Too bad it didn't last.

[@patsmith5947]

@@annettepora8091 Yes I watched all the same shows, the good guys always won and they were the heroes. They were great times to grow up in.

[@theresehopkins1581]

I have the same memories... and my dad also served in the Pacific Theater... the encyclopedia, delicious drive in food, s&h green stamps, tube tvs... remember finding the burnt out tube?... life was slower... someone commented "I don't live I the past, I cherish it !"

[@deborahgrysko2427]

How about show «”Annie Oakley” ?

[@cindakellogg1307]

I have tears streaming down my face...how I miss those times. Not always good, but better than today for sure. What I wouldn't give to go back....

[@edwilson4852]

my parents told me 50s 60s are the best years of your life.dont waste them you're never get them back...

[@bobbyd6680]

Not better, just different. It's the one you know. I'm 71 and yes there was a lot to be grateful for. However, today's youth are just experiencing their lives while forming their own memories. Somehow, I think they'll feel the same as you down the road. We'll never know.

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

I doubt it.@@bobbyd6680

[@catkeys6911]

I'm 71 and I remember the 50's & 60's as being quite BORING, relatively speaking. Modern tech affords WAY more things to do, and you just have to be willing to accept the bad things with the good things- because it's neve been a perfect world. It's definitely less boring now, in general, than it was back then, though.

[@55mmartin]

Oh, my goodness, the little girl saluting the flag looks just like I did back then! This part actually made me a little teary. Good job!

[@leecowell8165]

the age of innocence, Marquita. I didn't even know what a Vagina was until I was around 14yo. today we're having kids at that age.

[@JD-gy7kp]

Those were great days. You could ride your bike everywhere, even down alleys. It was a very safe world. Everyone on the block knew you. We always said hi to the seniors sitting on their front porch. My idol was Annette. The Mickey Mouse club and Lassie were my favorite show. I also loved the Lennon sisters. I sure do miss those days when people were kind and cared about each other. 😥

[@marknewton6984]

Spin and Marty!

[@yolamontalvan9502]

Yeah, when you left the door of your house unlocked.

[@alandunlap4106]

When I was 5 or 6, I remember going into my closet and solemnly saying out loud, "I love Annette". It seemed necessary at the time. :-)

[@marknewton6984]

@@alandunlap4106 I still say it!

[@nedludd7622]

My favorite TV shows were Rocky & Bullwinkle, and The Soupy Sales Show. You could learn a lot from them. Just before those there was The Honeymooners.

[@joebrown1382]

Brings back many good memories. I'd do it all over again.

[@Bigskyguy56]

In a heart beat. For me.

[@joemackey1950]

@@Bigskyguy56 Same here

[@dlb4299]

It brings back many good memories too but I would not do it over again for any amount of money.

[@2pugman]

@@dlb4299 I was born in 1941.

[@Jan-100]

Me too

[@pamelamays4186]

As a sixties kid, I loved Weekly Reader day!

[@martiniangoldberg]

I'm a '70s kid, and I also loved the Weekly Reader; I was glad when my parents let me subscribe to it and have it delivered to our home.

[@JOHN----DOE]

The other great day was when the flyer for Tab books came. You could choose two or three books for ten cents (the thick books were 25), and a week later a big brown box would arrive in class with everyone's books. Big excitement and a half-hour reading break would follow. Like protein and broccoli for the brain instead of the absolute junk food on the internet.

[@BrodyJoeandBriars]

Yep, I loved Weekly Reader...and it was exciting to get Summer Weekly Reader in the mailbox each week! I may still have one that was about "Middle Aged You in the 21st Century" and it made some pretty accurate predictions that have happened!

[@martiniangoldberg]

@@BrodyJoeandBriars Wow!

[@rarelyred4300]

@@JOHN----DOE Yeah! I loved ordering books at school too...I always tried to order too many books and my parents would make me choose like 3 or 4 books at a time...and then the day finally arrived at school and we got our new books!!!!! Great times!!!

[@keiththomas3141]

Those days seem so long ago. It was a different world back then. We had a close family and now almost all of them are gone. I'm one of the few ones that's still alive. Time marches on.

[@kennydunlevy9644]

Sad but true those days are gone.

[@daniila.7545]

I am also, and i want to live.

[@shirleysmith8072]

We will see Our Loved Ones Again in Paradise!😇😇😇😇😇💖💞💖

[@scottr3484]

@@shirleysmith8072 I highly doubt it.

[@leecowell8165]

@@shirleysmith8072 I'd like to believe that but unfortunately I believe in "Quantum Entanglement of Soul" rather than a specific Deity. If you notice we've discovered a shitpot full of "exo-planets" and this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. yeah it would be nice if things turned out as you believe.

[@charlesirby9222]

Born in 1950, this was a trip back in time. Thank You

[@lauriescott6275]

I was born in 195o and remember the Christmas wish book from Sears store.and transto radio s i had one.

[@karloshernancay.6295]

Same here👍😁🙏🏼WOW! MEMORY LANE.

[@pameladonnelson2093]

We had such a good active life back then much better than the kids have today. It was such an innocent time.

[@karenryder6317]

My kids look back on the 80s as a time of innocence! In our nostalgia we forget that the times weren't innocent, we were.

[@hewitc]

Except for the constant cold war threat of nuclear annihilation. Duck and cover and fall out shelters. Cuba missile crisis . Conalrad signal on the radio and TV-- was this a test or the real thing? We definitely had more stress than kids today. We were told the world could end any minute.

[@damiensisco6960]

@Pamela Donnelson The life 1950s kids had may have been better than the life kids have today, but is the life kids in the Medieval Era had better than the life kids have today?

[@damiensisco6960]

@Pamela Donnelson Can you please answer my question? I promise we’re not going to get into an argument, if that’s why you ignored my previous reply.

[@Thatsallihavetosayaboutthat]

Medieval era…😂

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

In the Northeast winter the best Christmas gift was a Flexible Flyer sled. We'd spend the entire day sledding down the big hill by our school. Not a grownup in sight back then. We'd only go home for lunch or dinnertime.

[@lawnmowerman2199]

Amen! those were the days!

[@monkeygraborange]

Amen, indeed!

[@scottr3484]

Where I lived they closed off some streets.

[@JOHN----DOE]

And boy was it dangerous. First, sled down the hill dodging trees on your stomach. Then, sitting. Then, standing. A miracle no one got killed. Such fun.

[@jimwilloughby]

I grew up in Massachusetts , on a 160 acre farm. I remember having three different Flexible Flyers. The first one was really old. It was on the tall side, and most of the lettering was worn off, but it was rugged. The runners didn't curve back up to the top of the sled, like the next two. One was low and short, and the other was just a low, but longer. There was a hill behind the house, with a rutted, rocky wagon road that went to the top where a number of hay fields were. We would drag our sleds up to the top and slide down. The road must have been somewhere between a quarter and a half mile long. We had a blast. Every so often, because of all the rocks on that road, a runner would break, and I'd sling the sled onto my back and walk to a gas station almost a mile away and have it brazed.

[@HikerBiker]

I think it was thanks to Davy Crockett and Danial Boone shows that I fell in love with the mountains and the outdoors. The Lone Ranger taught me right from wrong.

[@warringtonfaust1088]

"I don't know his name, but he gave me this" (a silver bullet)

[@jsusna1972]

I cherished the values taught by the Lone Ranger so much that I named my son Clayton after Clayton Moore, the actor who portrayed the Lone Ranger. My son is almost 39 now and has an autographed picture of Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels (Tonto) displayed prominently in his home.

[@marknewton6984]

And Paladin..."Have Gun--Will Travel"!

[@marlanebraun5635]

thank you for all the memories you bring to mind. i remember it all as you show the snapshots. in my school the polio vaccine was in a sugar cube...mine did not contain the vaccine, so the next week the doctor came back to give shots to all of us who lost out on the sugar cube. i know there were hundreds of thousands of children who did not experience the magic of the 50s. i was truly blessed. i am 75 now and oh, how many stories i've told my grandchildren.

[@maryloumay8499]

I got the sugar cube also. But I guess I received the actual vaccine. I remember the TB Clinics/Hospitals also. And ppl today complain about their rights being taken away because they are “requested” to take a COVID-19 vaccine. They really have no clue of how bad a real Global Pandemic can be. But great memories.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I was one of the school kids who took part in the Salk vaccine trials in 1954.

[@toinimoore3463]

Not my Polio vaccine I had the shot and boy I still remember the pain ! But it’s worth it and born in 1953 the right time as my friends thought that way too we had a wonderful time and our toys were neat and we had comics that were 🤩 fun to read when we weren’t outside 😃🥰

[@leecowell8165]

@@toinimoore3463 yeah Dell comics they cost a dime. shoulda stored them away, huh? you could retire on what a prestigious book would be worth nowadays!

[@parsifal40002]

I was born in 1951 and I remember EVERY item in this video! So many great memories!!! Thank you so much!!!!

[@damiensisco6960]

How do you even remember all the stuff from the 50s even though you were only up to 9 years old? Are all of the people in the comment section of this video talking like the 50s was better than today because they’re just trying to convince people that their lives suck and they would be better off living in an earlier time period?

[@sherirobinson6867]

My 85+ Dad still watches Gunsmoke everyday lol

[@mikeywestside8509]

Awesome 👌🏼

[@johnzeszut3170]

I am 70 and "Gunsmoke" is a t.v. life saver!

[@btcbob11392]

Matt Dillon would kill a guy in the opening credits every week. !!!

[@lawnmowerman2199]

Me too!

[@brucemarsico6]

I'm much younger than eighty five and i watch 'my little margie' every chance i get. Love it....

[@johnwood551]

I remember all that ,and I feel sad that kids today don’t go outside to play all day long . Now they sit inside watching a screen all day or playing videos on a screen all day

[@bjbrown6884]

When I was a kid my mom said get outside! If I didn't she would make a job for me!

[@QueenSnowPea]

It's not safe for kids to play outside because of predators. I grew up and we played outside. By the time my daughter was 5 or 6 it was the early 80s and around that time Adam Walsh was kidnapped and murdered and it was all over the news. I was scared to have my daughter play beyond my front door with her friends. When my grandkids were little around 5 years ago they played in the front yard with an adult (usually my daughter or me the grandma) constantly watching them play. As a kid we played up and down the street all day long and came in for dinner. I wouldn't want to be a kid now.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

It’s sad that the child predators/traffickers/ drug salespeople (as opposed to the Fuller brush salesman) have contributed to this way of like for our kids. To say nothing of the nut jobs who don’t think anything of shooting up any kind of local stores.

[@gailshea2294]

We played outside. Of we played games they were board games on front porches, so we talked to each. (This was usually when weather was HOT! 😃

[@hewitc]

@@QueenSnowPea In the book Freakonomics the author show that according to FBI statistics there were more child abductions in the 1950's than in the 2000's. They theorize that the hysteria over this issue is due to the 24 hour news cycle that depending on the national broadcast of local news stories. Back in the 50's if a child was abducted in Texas it was only in the Texas newspapers. s Someone in Illinois didn't feel threatened. Now you hear all of the local stories and it sounds like it's all happening in your 'backyard'. But it isn't. Also, today many of the so-called abductions are due to claims for child custody in divorces.

[@sparechange5815]

I was born in January 1952. This video brought back many many wonderful memories. Thank you.

[@jimbob9453]

Me too

[@bobcarter6869]

Me too I was born in August 1951

[@SevenHunnid]

I get paid to get high & to smoke weed on my KZbin channel , i love itt

[@saminaneen]

@@SevenHunnid Your UTube account will be deleted and banned, for being a professional Burnout and weed Racist

[@Donna-zc9ii]

Me Too, July 26, 1952.

[@bp39047]

While in High School (1966-1968), I worked at hamburger drive in with car hops . Great memories from the experience. I was paid $1/hr. but was happy with the pay providing money for bowling leagues and dates.

[@fasx56]

What is so valuable about videos like this for those of us who grew up in the 50s is that the details of our culture and what we did, saw and how we lived is all preserved on video. With an excellent Narrator to walk us through the pleasant memories of our past that we have forgotten. Thank you Recollection Road Editors for the tireless research done to present the cultural history of the 1950s.

[@jimstoner6884]

They seem to have conveniently forgotten the evil segregation the 50s were famous for.

[@fasx56]

@@jimstoner6884 Jim Stoner, I grew up in State of Washington in the 1950s and there was No segregation in our schools or in Oregon schools or in California schools. Lot of the country did not have segregation, it was an entrenched problem in the South and was gradually corrected by law.America for the past decade has a huge problem of out of control crime in our large cities , homeless people and drug abuse effecting mostly minorities in the inner city. The number of deaths from crime and drug over doses in the last ten years is in the thousands. Times have changed and so have the problems, now we have Covid -19 to deal with.

[@jimstoner6884]

@@fasx56 Are these videos only for the parts of the country that didn't have segregation? The wonderful 50s for those of you were in the right place? And stop listening to right wing propaganda. Violent crime has gone down by half in the last 30 years. I tried to link you to articles and FBI reports that confirm that but it wouldn't post. You can find the truth about that yourself if you want to.

[@sassy0010]

@@fasx56 There was indeed segregation in California in those times, very strict covenants in most neighborhoods. Segregation was not just "gradually corrected by law." Integration was FOUGHT FOR by brave people, some of whom gave their lives for that cause. Every right we enjoy today was fought for, not just granted.

[@asha.of.antares]

Wonderful memories. The pix remind me of my childhood, preserved. I tend to ignore the trollers, winers, and the rest of the agenda-driven who can always be counted upon to decry the childhoods of the rest of us. Thanks for a positive album of memories.

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

I love the way you narrate your videos. Crystal clear voice. Never rushed or overly excited.😊

[@sonhuynh8222]

The voice is AI generated ….. (fake). Still a great channel but a little disappointing

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

Wrong. I'm the narrator and I'm 100% human.@@sonhuynh8222

[@johngallagher2313]

I had the red wagon, the steel roller skates with the skate key, I also remember doctor house calls to our house. Many memories of long ago

[@samanthab1923]

My neighbors had the red metal Radio Flyer. I noticed one at the end of a nearby house selling fire wood. Sure enough it disappeared

[@angeldesigns1385]

I was an 80s kid raised by my grandmother in a 1950s time capsule home with A 1956 crown Victoria in the backyard garage that belonged to my grandfather before he passed away, (we loved playing in that car and it eventually went to my brother) and lots of 1950s toys that we used to play with every day! I Gratefully adopted this era in life as my own and haven’t looked back since. I’m still there, and that’s where I Will continue to live until I am gone. My home, my furniture, my car, and wardrobe keeps me where I want to be.🚀✨🚀✨🚀

[@marygrant882]

Me also.😊

[@saminaneen]

@John Gallagher, Stop bragging, about your RED, (Communist) wagon, Go Putin, Go

[@JOHN----DOE]

Last house call I remember was in 1960 when I had tonsillitis (a big deal back then). Doctors didn't make house calls for every minor ailment but did show up if you had a serious infection (everyone was still paranoid about strep despite penicillin).

[@melissabibby7310]

Another great video, I watch this with my Mom. 1954 Baby, you really did a good job, she also played Jacks, pic up sticks outside. She said all summer and into the fall you lived outside, and hated it when it was time to come in for the evening.👍❤️

[@kathleenjones7981]

I'm a 1954 baby too! Oh how I long for those days!

[@lesliehoncharik1289]

Yes back then it was safe to be outside with your friends until it was almost dark. Nowdays its not safe for kids to play in their own front yards unless mom is out their watching. Very sad..kids are indoors now with video games getting fat. We ran and played and got exercise.

[@karenryder6317]

Does anyone remember Betsy McCall from McCall's magazine?

[@stevemccarty6384]

While we boys wouldn't play jacks. That was for girls. We did, however; play pickup sticks, and we built log cabins. This was pre Lagos. We also played Mumbly Peg using our pocket knives which we all carried, even in the 2nd grade.

[@annek1226]

My brother was obsessed with Davie Crocket ! He had a hat and a set of guns to match and sang that song none stop! He even sang the song on a radio program once as a call in.

[@johnzeszut3170]

Although never caught up in the Davie craze I do remember that the long rifle was made out of some synthetic plastic that broke easily and could not be re-glued! Planned obsolescence even in those days!!!!

[@saminaneen]

@@johnzeszut3170 Those Dave Crocket hat, was a super, white supremacy, Racist hat

[@johnnymartin49]

Davie, Davie Crockett, king of the wild frontier..... 😎

[@saminaneen]

@@johnnymartin49 You must prayer to our Saint Putin, he is your Master, and you will pray, to him, for forgiveness, for being a playa hater and a Russian Racist, you are dismissed.

[@LynxSouth]

​@@johnzeszut3170 I'm not sure it was planned so much as being too optimistic with the limited number of plastics. It was a big deal when they finally figured out how to make hard plastics that weren't brittle.

[@brosefmcman8264]

The absolute greatest decade to be an American!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@bobblowhard8823]

Unless you were a black American in the south. Then life was pretty much Hell.

[@marilynmckenzie2111]

And a Canadian!🇨🇦😊

[@jimstoner6884]

@@bobblowhard8823 That's the part the people commenting here like the most.

[@kimberlyrichardson4462]

Hmmmmmm Maybe not for all Americans.

[@dollywiz]

And a Canadian! The best decade ever! We were very lucky to experience it!

[@tammybrown1327]

Thanks again for the memories! I grew up in the 50s and 60s.

[@willie6185]

Good video. When I was a kid I had a paper route of 81 customers. The part that I remember most was in the cold dark winter months and my mom would show up on my paper route with hot chocolate. She was just checking on us to make sure we were ok and staying warm. My mom was the greatest. I also had a duck tail flat top about the time I became a teenager. I think it cost about 50 cents. Also played a lot of cowboys and Indians. That’s the way it was then.You couldn’t do that today without being called a racist A lot has changed since those days.

[@matrox]

I had a Paper route I think in 69 or 70. I had it for about month because hardly no one came to the door when I went to collect. Then after all of that, the Wash. Post manager of my route tried to cheat me. My mother caught the cheat made him pay me, told him off and pretty much kicked him out of the house. I then quit. I didn't like the job anyway. I remember my father getting up at 5am before going to work to help me deliver the papers. Funny how you think back and appreciate stuff people do that didn't have to do.

[@glennso47]

Paper routes for kids were canceled when a boy was murdered while on his route. The newspaper switched to just adults with cars and you paid for your subscription at the newspaper office instead of paying the paper boys. You now can pay by mail or by direct deposit.

[@Cryo837]

@@matrox Yea, trying to collect was difficult. The downside of the job. But learning to beg for money made me into the politician I am today. 😉

[@saminaneen]

@@matrox You quit, because you were a lazy, no good liberal punk, selling "Fake Newspapers"

[@charles-y2z6c]

@@glennso47 What most likely happened was people decided that the opinions they disagreed with that were in the news section cut out half the subscribers and the paper died.

[@ewmhop]

THANK YOU FOR THE TIME MACHINE TRIP,IN LOUISIANA WE HAD THE BLUE LAWS FOR SUNDAY FOR ALL STORES TO BE CLOSED. GOD BLESS

[@gon2westexas]

My mother redeemed 2 books of stamps for a stag antler handle German hunting knife for my 10th birthday. I used it for Boy Scouts and later as a young adult on wilderness trips. A few years back I left it at a knife shop to be cleaned and sharpened. When I went in to pick it up, they had to ask the owner where it was. He came out and asked for a photo ID. After shaking my hand, he smiled and told me it was in the safe. He said he wasn’t going to leave a $500 knife where anyone could get it. That knife is much more priceless than its monetary value.

[@p52893]

My mom and pop bought me craftsman tools for my 16 Bday 1967. After all these years the ratchet gutty works wore out. Took it to Sears to see if they could rebuild it, they offered a replacement, turned them down. They rebuilt it and it still is in my Tool box.

[@cathleenhunzeker1344]

can you imagine the legal hassle if a mom today gave a 10year old a real knife of any sort ??

[@leftylou6070]

They didn't have photo IDs back then.

[@cathleenhunzeker1344]

@@leftylou6070 1955 driver's license in Nevada did California did in 1960

[@ronw484]

@@cathleenhunzeker1344 I live in the free state of Tennessee and it's perfectly legal for kids to have and carry knives- just not at school like we used to do when I was a kid.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Thanks for the memories. I was born in 1947, so all of this resonated with me. My first bike actually combines two of the things you mentioned. It wasn't a Western Flier, it was from the Sears-Roebuck catalogue. And when Davy Crockett was popular, many of my friends had chenille 'coonskin caps'. My widowed mother couldn't afford one of those, but my grandmother had a fox fur stole that she sacrificed. I ended up with a fox skin cap complete with the fox's head in the front and a real fox tail hanging down the back. I was the envy of every boy in town!

[@stevemccarty6384]

My wife and I visited the Fess Parker winery in Central California about 15 years ago. The fellow who was running the place asked very one if they knew who Davy's sidekicks name was (Buddy Epson), Well everyone came up with Buddy Epson;s name no one came up with his character's name.....I think it was George Russel. Oh, I bought a Davy Crocket coonskin hat and still wear it on cold days.

[@starababa1985]

Ladies were very skilled back then and often made things at home that were far superior to anything in the shops. Of course being personal, these items were highly cherished by their recipients. When my mother made me a dress, I thought of all the hours she spent sewing it whenever it was worn.

[@andreaplummer3841]

I grew up in the 80s. This made me cry a little, sad over what we missed but really sad over what today's kids are missing.

[@kathybost1879]

always looked forward to the Weekly Reader-- and I lived for those catalogs- looking through them over and over....

[@roneagle8038]

Boy, was this a wonderful video. I got my Jonas Salk vaccine on a sugar cube, and yes, the Christmas edition of the Sears catalog was wonderful. I bet some of you know what else the Sears Catalogs were used for out in the country. Thanks RR, for this trip down memory lane!

[@Juliaflo]

Excuse me, but the sugar cube vaccine was Sabin, not Salk. With Salk, it was the needle.

[@starababa1985]

@@Juliaflo Those needles were big. The nurses sterilized them between uses. Disposables were introduced with the arrival of AIDS. Reusable glass bottles and diaper services were phased out for the same reason.

[@chellepitts1990]

Boy..did this take me back…loved it!

[@bweber6256]

Born in '58, spent my young years in the 60's- but your narrative about kid's spending most of their free time outside was still true in the 60's. Something I always notice when looking back at photos of groups or crowds from those many years ago is how the majority of people were physically fit. Seems quite the opposite today,and I can't help thinking that the lack of outdoor activity and the replacement with "screen time" has contributed to that,especially in our children. We all benefit from technology (I'm enjoying the use of it as I type now), but hopefully we can find more time to enjoy the real world around us as well.

[@karenryder6317]

Totally agree. The one thing you notice when looking at these images is how few are obese compared to now. So many kids today are nature deprived and couch potatoes. I wonder how we would fare if there ever was a need for another draft!

[@sandramarcantelli4958]

I was born in 1948. My son was born in 1970. I was a working mom but he had grandma at home. He enjoyed the same outdoor freedom that I'd enjoyed. I never worried about him roaming the neighborhood. He was almost always with other kids. Somehow kids had an inner clock or something and knew when it was time to go home or at least near home so they'd hear mom standing on the porch calling their name to come in.

[@bjbrown6884]

I was born in 1958 and my growing up was great. I grew up in the country so I had the best of everything. I learned to garden and growing food was so much fun. Now I am 63 years and still growing my food. Mom lives next door and we have many fun days looking back and spending time together. These are the best days of my life!

[@michaelrobinson1945]

Yes! We were slim and fit back then. I was born in 1950. There would be a small number of overweight kids in the whole school. Now they seem like the majority.

[@sodality3970]

Mom staying home ( where there was work a plenty ! ) and dad going off to work , this was the way it was meant to be . I am so thankful that I got to experience that , though many years later .

[@nedludd7622]

No it is not. My mother worked as an elementary school teacher.

[@franklinmimi]

I wish moms could work 2 or 3 days a week if they wanted to instead of full time. I feel for my grandkids.

[@floralbouquets]

My mother worked and still had time to do everything stay at home moms did and more....right down to 10 loaves of homemade bread every single week.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

Meant to be? My mom worked outside the home and we kids helped around the house. I was a nurse for 28 years and spent some of my days off working around the house as well. I only had one child so sitting around the house all would have drove me nuts.

[@juanamora9513]

We all lived thru those experiences, good times.

[@rascalbarnett240]

I was born in 1950 and I have many wonderful memories and it was a wonderful time to be alive.

[@johnzeszut3170]

I remember when stores mostly closed on Sunday - it was a good day to decompress.

[@maryellis7622]

To us it was church day, then a big Sunday dinner . Visits from family for coffee and cake.

[@imadickens3337]

And at night!

[@4proplacy]

Remember when Johnny Horton sang "We fired our muskets and really gave 'em..W-E-L-L" and that was pushing the limits of decency?! Whenever I hear "You can't live in the past", I simply reply "I don't live in the past, I cherish it."

[@ronaldkulas5748]

I remember it well. How about, "Big, bad John" by Jimmy Dean. I think I was in 3rd grade.

[@4proplacy]

@@ronaldkulas5748 One thing I remember about the Jimmie Dean show on TV is how he would occasionally pick his nose and then look at it. Yes, I remember "Everyone knew it was the end of the line for Big John.....".

[@ruthannmarie7119]

Ohmygosh we knew every word to that song. And they began a running down the Mississippi to the gulf of Mexico yes

[@TheOtherBill]

I think that was a #1 song in 1959, the next year he did Sink The Bismarck, another huge hit.

[@Juliaflo]

@@TheOtherBill I remember both 'The Battle of New Orleans' and 'Sink The Bismarck' rendered by Johnny Horton. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOL).

[@trudyrank7389]

We played Red Light Green Light, Swing the Statue, Mother May I Red Rover Red Rover and played outside All day long...never wanted to come in !❤️ We also at night enjoyed ringing doorbells and running away.🤪

[@Juliaflo]

Did you also play Simon Says? Or Ringoleevio?

[@suskelleykelley7241]

Trudy me and my siblings all played those games too. They were fun

[@richarda996]

I had forgotten about the door bells,lol. Thank you.

[@Matthew-uy2ym]

Hide and seek

[@starababa1985]

We also played Chinaman Sneak Up, but you wouldn't dare do that now. Old Mother Witch What Time Is It? was a favorite. The "witch" would slowly count up each hour and take one menacing step forward every time we chanted the question. Finally she would yell, "Twelve O'clock Midnight!" and we'd all scream and run like the dickens, while she tried to catch the next witch. Sometimes she would skip over some of the hours to add uncertainty to the suspense. Oh yeah.

[@Bigskyguy56]

THIS is the AMERICA , I am Proud to say , I grew up in. They were GREAT DAYS. Another item that was big , was the announcement of NEW MODEL YEAR CARS. The local dealers would "paper up " the windows and the proudly unveil them on a predetermined date. It was quite the thing to do.

[@marknewton6984]

Were you a Chevy or Ford family?

[@greenhornet5186]

The America we knew and loved is slipping out of our hands.

[@aliveat55]

I'm sure you are not old enough to have lived in the 50's, but I love how you tell the story as though you did live through it, with love and affection! Thank You. I really enjoyed the video.

[@patriotnurse3720]

I was born in 1959. I’m so glad I was born in that time period. I feel so blessed. I could not imagine being a child now or having to raise one now. Great times as a child.

[@kenr4709]

I was born in 1951, and this springs back a lot of memories. How about S and H green stamps you could make purchases of things at the S&H green stamps store that you wanted. Or the Schwinn bicycles were popular also, around Christmas time watching the marionettes perform the Christmas Carol, then right after performing Jesus‘s birth in the manger. Lots of good times going out and playing in the woods or the park killing time until you got hungry or the street lights came on. Watching Roy Rogers and dale Evans Saturday morning, then Fiori, then sky King. Lots of good times… Thank you for the memories!

[@Juliaflo]

I was thinking about Sperry and Hutchinson myself (that's what S&H stands for, thank you).

[@dennisgoans701]

Loved lone ranger and sky king. Had sled and wagon. Ahhhhh. So many good memories

[@miriambucholtz9315]

We girls played kick the can, too, in my neighborhood. I remember the Weekly Reader. The Katy Keene comic books also had a section with letters from readers, who would relate all sorts of things that were going on.

[@ruthiemay423]

I LOVED playing with paperdolls. Every issue of McCall's magazine contained a page of a Betsy McCall paperdoll and clothes.

[@mkeegan3205]

I was born in 1953, and remember in the late 1950s that the day that my mother’s monthly McCalls magazine was an exciting day. I loved playing with the Betsy Mc C all paper dolls. I seem to remember Mom mailing away for a more sturdy set. I think it might have been a birthday gift

[@pamelamays4186]

My grandma sewed most of the clothes Mom and Aunt wore. She even made poodle skirts for them!🐩🐩🐩🐩

[@overworlder]

My grandma was a dressmaker, one of the best in her town and in great demand. She never lost the habit of commenting (under her breath) on a poor cut or dropped hem. My dad even today sometimes does the same as a sort of remembrance of her. The thing she missed most as ready-to-wear took over was the central role of the latest fashion magazines and pattern books as part of daily life. It connected small town life to New York, London and Paris. For my grandad it was the decline of dance halls and ballroom dancing.

[@JOHN----DOE]

The good old days. When homemade clothes were cheaper vs. a specialty item for which the materials cost more than a finished store product like now.

[@nancybarta8167]

I can remember the shock when a market was open on a Sunday!!!!I loved The katy keene paperdolls and would run to the little store a few blocks away every Sat to buy one!I still miss the sears catalog.I had Weekly Readers for my classroom til around 2005.

[@samanthab1923]

Back in the 90’s my dad took us mattress shopping on Easter in PA! Couldn’t believe it!

[@saminaneen]

@@samanthab1923 Your dad, obviously was a RACIST

[@aarondigby9859]

Damn, I got the weekly reader in the mail when I was in fourth grade that was 1968. You filled out a form in school I think and they mailed it to your address.

[@lesliehoncharik1289]

Yes miss the yearly Sears Christmas catalog. Looked forward for weeks until this arrived each Fall. I spent many childhood hours in the early 60s looking at all the wonderful items.

[@bjbrown6884]

My weekly reader came in the classroom. It was always a fun day. The Sears catalog was a special day!

[@trentb8674]

Yes! More 50’s videos!!

[@nolanbowen8800]

This is the second one of these. I'll have to recover before I see another. There were a lot of wonderful things about the old days and many of them can't be replaced.

[@squid667]

I have heard stories about my grandma's sewing. She made most of the family's clothes well into the 1970s. She kept up with all of the latest trends and the clothes she made blended right in with what everyone else was wearing.

[@glennso47]

I spent most of the time at my friends house. They were farmers and I got to help them with chores and stuff. I got to drive tractor when they were baling hay. We spent lots of time in the hayloft playing hide and seek. Or maybe walking around in the pasture and picking dandelions and blowing out the seeds and watching the seeds float in the air. Or also milkweeds and watching the seeds floating in the air. I liked to see maple seeds that looked like little helicopters. I had lots of fun with those. 😁

[@debboyea9567]

This was the best one yet. Made me sad and happy to remember all these things.

[@patmurphy6849]

I grew up in the fifties. These are so many great memories. But I must say, as a girl I loved Roy Rogers, Davy Crocket, Sky King, and Fury. Guess I was a tomboy... But I designed my own clothes and made them on a Singer sewing machine. What a wonderful collection of memories! You nailed it! PS, I taught school in 1969. We still ha Weekly Readers.

[@cynthiajohnston424]

Grew up in the 50's - I too was a tomboy & loved westerns , so much so that a couple decades later I became a professional horse trainer . My mom sewed on her Singer too & I loved that no one else would have the same dresses at school , church or dances . My mom also helped when , as an adult , I designed & sewed my own outfits for horse showing . Great memories ! 💙

[@marknewton6984]

Cheyenne, Have Gun-Will Travel!

[@curleydogwg]

Many of the scenes in this video bring back good memories. That said, the 50's were also a naive time in middle class USA.

[@greggweber9967]

If okay'd neighborhood kids could play in a backyard or the street. Someone's mother calling from the front door or the streetlights turning on was the signal to go home.

[@theresehopkins1581]

Watching your videos are so emotional... the people we miss.... the memories... "thanks for the memories"! Thank you for your videos!!!

[@andreatuckman1084]

Born in’47 I loved the Saturday morning westerns… Wagon Train, The Rifleman, 20Mule Team Borax, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers. I rode my Shwinn bike with a baseball card clipped to the spokes. I played handball against the garage door. Today, there are many who would want me to transform into a boy.

[@maryl5567]

This video made me smile!! I forgot about Archie comics and watching the Lone Ranger and TheMickey Mouse club!! Comic books were a favorite pastime on the weekend. I remember the mass inoculation of polio vaccine.. it was definitely memorable!! I remember the Weekly Readers too!! What great memories..and kool aid was a favorite drink in the summer!! We played red light green light and hopscotch!! Simpler times for sure…It’s so sad those days are gone ..forever🥲 thank you so much for the pleasant memories.. the narrator’s voice is so perfect and relaxing as he tells the story too!

[@edwilson4852]

I read sad sack comics adventure. and sci fi

[@OleGeezerCirca1941]

When the Fuller Brush Man knocked on the door, my little brother would yell, It's the "Full of Brushes Man!!" 😁

[@jaf8771]

That's funny. And even though my mother couldn't afford to buy much.....he'd leave a complimentary brush each and every time.

[@edwesby5752]

I was born in 1943 in what comedian Richard Pryor called "hard times Mississippi". I had no siblings, so I played alone: climbing trees doing "skin-the-cat", and played marbles, played in the dirt road by our house, went blackberry and plum hunting in the summers, looked for pecans in the fall, and played with the chickens that my grandfather raised. In the 1950 after we moved to DC I watched a lot of TV, mainly westerns and then played cowboy roles with other kids. TV had 3 channels and I could tell you what time it was by what was on TV. TV went off by midnight every night. Ohhhhhhhhh!!!! the good ol' days

[@stephenspilker9334]

ah what a nostalgic trip back in time. we preferred s&h green stamps over gold bond lol.

[@aarondigby9859]

S&H green stamps were redeemable at a S&H shopping store, my Mom collected them throughout the year and would buy us toys as extra gifts at Xmas

[@aarondigby9859]

Gay Edgar Hoover would pop up backstage at the three mouseketeers and fondle the little kids, one of the mouseketeers spilled the tea when she got older, said he'd pop up unannounced, they were little naive kids, what a rotten perv.

[@saminaneen]

@@aarondigby9859 The S&H green stamps, were used by drug dealers, to buy drugs

[@leonisilva5571]

Thank for posting it. So many good memories of a happy time.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

We had the Encyclopedia Britannica. I used it for book reports at school. We also had S and H Green Stamps. Thanks for the memories.

[@bearforce187]

I was not around in the 1950's, but the thought of kids playing outdoors and mom being home to be there for them and raise the kids, well seems like we have gone backwards instead of just keeping it the way it was.

[@bobtaylor170]

I think there are a lot of younger people who share your sense of loss. I see the comments by them all over the place. Take a look at the comments sections for Beatles videos. I even see them in videos of pre - rock music. I'm glad that a lot of younger people recognize that Frank Sinatra, as an example, was something special, indeed. And you're so right about the delight of having a stay at home mother. American society has gone disastrously wrong on most things in the last half - century, feminism being the major driver of so many of the changes we who get this channel cringe from.

[@overworlder]

Can’t stop change. The 1950s were wildly different from the 1930s which were wildly different from pre-1914.

[@RichardCockerill]

@@bobtaylor170 this drives me nuts...not everyone raised in the 50's came from a two parent home and to pretend that all of American home life was Leave it to Beaver is not right,by the way i was born 1949...just sayin Cheers

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@overworlder We can, and should, certainly recognize bad changes, and try to change them back. At least in our individual lives. Bad changes should ALWAYS be opposed, and fought ferociously.

[@matrox]

Believe me...America is a sh!thole compared to then. No it wasn't perfect, but a hell of a lot better than today.

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

I was born in 1945. I remember these things and many more. Everything was delivered to your door: milk, eggs, bread, seltzer in heavy glass siphon bottles, pretzles, potato chips, cakes, and more A truck with a hanging scale selling fruit and vegetables would go up the street and all the housewives came out to shop. There was a fish truck too. Men would walk the streets sharpening knives and scissors, the lamp lighter came every evening at dusk to light the gas lamp near my house {that went on in Philadelphia into the 1950's}, horses pulled the milk trucks and street sweeper's carts in Philly, etc. I remember drug stores had soda fountains and there were wooden telephone booths. Telephone numbers had exchanges DAvenport 9-4123. A postage stamp was two or three cents. Trolleys and subway trains had no air-conditioning. You opened the windows and some had ceiling fans. My mother gave my sister and I each a quarter to go to a movie on a Saturday afternoon. A good complete dinner was less than $ 2.00 dollars. You ate at the automat. Our TV had a 7" screen and we got three channels with a rabbit ear antenna.. I could go on and on.

[@bobdillaber1195]

You nailed it!

[@pamelamays4186]

Cubby O'Brien went on to drum for the Carpenters. Though Karen Carpenter was an accomplished drummer in her own right, her record company wanted her to focus on her singing skills.

[@heartsource417]

Oh yah...I remember this stuff. But I also loved it when the Spudnut seller would come to the door selling those delicious donuts that later became 'Crispy Creams'. For girls Paper Dolls were big also. Playing dress up was one of my favorites. . For me, doctor kits were a big thing. LOL. I loved treating my dolls. There was a time when Bride dolls were big for girls and watching Shirley Temple movies was popular. My favorite person in the Mickey Mouse Club was of course, Annette. Thank you for these nostalgic videos. It is fun remembering days so long ago...Ah memories.....

[@starababa1985]

Those gigantic Bride Dolls! We weren't allowed to play with them, they were just used to ornament the bed after it was made up, laid out with its head centered on the pillows. You usually only had one if mom got lucky with the pull tab jar at a carnival.

[@reneebarger5194]

OMG, this was our world. I still have a scar on my arm from polio vaccine. There was a bell hung outside the back door for my mom to ring for us to come home. She could tell where you had been & who you were with by the mud on your sneakers or stain on your shirt, just like Sherlock Holmes.We had a chalkboard in the mud room with our chores for the week posted. Our allowance was determined by how well you did on that chart. Thank you for a good flashback.

[@karenryder6317]

Oh yeah, we had chores because everyone in the family cooperated for the benefit of the home. My grandchildren never heard of "chores" nor "respect your elders".

[@RobertGSwan]

I was born in 1948 - growing up during the 1950's - great times. Take me back !

[@sandybruce9092]

I was born in 1947 so do remember many of these things - I loved my skates!! My saddle shoes were the best for the skates to loc, onto - otherwise I hated wearing them. One,of the biggest differences with these pictures is that we moved to,Phoenix, AZ in Jan. 1955 so my living, housing, etc. we’re really different - it was a small,town then in the middle,of a desert. Downtown was too far away (maybe 5-6 miles) for us to go alone. But the stores did close on Sundays. I still enjoy all the old tv shows now on retro cable channels😄

[@karynroeseler2652]

Yes I played red light green light and red rover. Lot of kids in my neighborhood back then more than what my kids had in the 80s and 90s. Really enjoy this look back

[@karenryder6317]

And "Mother, May I?"

[@marycooney5593]

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[@matrox]

Exactly...the only stores open on Sunday were some Drugstores with reduced hours, that also was pretty much the same all of the 60s too. By the 70s some stores would slowly start to be open on Sunday.

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

in many small town USA locations, Wednesday afternoon most of Main Street would close down at noon[1950s-1960s]

[@kingforaday8725]

In my area you could add convenience stores and auto part stores.

[@starababa1985]

Even gas stations were shut down by blue laws on Sunday, so you made sure your tank was topped up on Saturday if you planned to visit relatives in the country. Mom and Pop stores were allowed to sell Sunday newspapers and milk for babies in the morning, but that was all.

[@carolnelsongerontologist]

Such great memories. I loved my childhood.

[@robertklund4861]

They also had "fizzies"; those quarter sized tabs you'd put in a glass of water to make an instant soft drink. Putting those tabs directly on your tongue would make your mouth sing!

[@matrox]

I remember as a kid when you lost a baby toof, you put it under your pillow and supposedly the toof fairy would take it and replace it with money. I remember getting a nickel or maybe a dime for each toof. And that was big money back them. 1 nickel would buy a Good Humor Twin Popsicle.☝😜

[@karenryder6317]

My great-grandson just got $20 for his first tooth.

[@JohnSmith-cf4gn]

The 50s was the best decade in history as far as I'm concerned. It seems like a hundred years ago, but I still have the memories.

[@jenniechurch5337]

I wish I could have grown up in the 50's or to have been a housewife in those times!

[@jrnfw4060]

@@jenniechurch5337 Well, yes, the 50s had many great qualities. However, if you were a woman back then, you were often denied credit simply because you were a woman, if both you and your husband were working, only HIS income would be counted when determining eligibility for a loan or other credit, you would only be hired for "women's jobs" -- nurses, secretaries, receptionists, waitresses, etc. AND you would be paid much less than men for the exact same work. You would be routinely passed up for promotion in favor of less qualified men -- simply because you were a woman. There was a lot more unfair discrimination in those days, based on gender, race, religious affiliation, where you lived -- a lot of prejudice and broad-brush painting. I am thankful we now have laws on the books that prohibit much of that, but it's just too bad that legislation was required to force fairness. Fairness should be practiced of one's own volition, because it's the right thing to do, the right way to treat people. It shouldn't have required laws to be passed, but it did.

[@jenniechurch5337]

@@jrnfw4060 and still to this day ..men get paid more, for the exact same job! 🙄

[@jrnfw4060]

@@jenniechurch5337 That's because those equal employment opportunity laws don't get properly enforced. Employers determined to unfairly discriminate find ways of skirting around them. Ultimately, fairness has to come from the moral conscience of the individual. A victim of discrimination can sue, of course, and quite often can win. But bias against women in the workplace persists because most women can't afford to bring a lawsuit, and the bosses know it. It's totally unjust, and the laws on the books are often ineffective due to poor enforcement, but at least those protective laws exist. They're still better than nothing at all. Also, gender discrimination -- or any other form of illegal and immoral discrimination -- is hard to prove. The employer almost has to come out and openly admit that that's why they've refused to hire or promote a qualified candidate or employee. Without a confession, discrimination is very difficult to prove, and that needs to change, too. Victims of it shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops to get these laws enforced, especially when it's so obvious they're being discriminated against. And that's why, to this day, women are still paid less than men for the exact same work -- because employers get around these laws and aren't held accountable. Still, there's less discrimination in the workplace than there once was, because some victims have won lawsuits against it -- the EEOC and the courts have done some enforcement -- and the employers are on notice that they can be forced to right the wrong if they refuse to do so of their own volition. And for some, it's enough to deter them from illegally discriminating in the first place Other employers act according to good conscience and good business and truly value good employees and respect and recognize legitimate qualifications. Those precious few base their workplace decisions on what's actually important, and would do so even if the fair chance laws didn't exist. It's just too bad they all don't do that. Imperfect world = imperfect justice.

[@puglovefilms702]

I was born in 2008 and I am a victim of the evil society I’m growing up in. Constant cell phoning in times when we’re supposed to be living, everybody around me disrespecting God, no respect for people, dangerous men everywhere you go making it so we can’t play outside alone.. it makes me miss something that I never had. You’re lucky that you grew up in such a great era - I envy you.

[@hoppas77]

I'm surprised at how many of these things we did in the 70's as kids. We even watched reruns of the Lone Ranger. Please do one of the 70's next :)

[@samanthab1923]

Used to watch the Little Rascals 😊

[@hoppas77]

@@samanthab1923 me too and Shirley Temple 😊

[@samanthab1923]

@@hoppas77 Loved her movies 😊

[@matrox]

Jane Withers movies, the East Side kids, Henry Aldrich, Blondie. All great movie series we watched as reruns in the 60s and 70s.

[@michaeloliver3507]

@@matrox THIS IS A VIDEO OF THE 1950'S LIFESTYLE NOT THE 70'S - MOST OF US DID NOT EVEN OWN A TELEVISION SET SO THE SHOWS YOU MENTION WERE REALLY ONLY VIEWED BY A FEW FAMILIES

[@kathyharris1049]

Thank you so much for bringing back great great memories

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks RR❤

[@PML4USA]

I to was born in the early 50's.What a wonderful time.Voted the best decade of the 1900's.So lucky to have those great memories.

[@janetgies8698]

My mom sewed all my clothes and sewed everyday for herself as well. I started sewing at age 11 and even made bathing suits for myself.

[@lisakayser8950]

How I wish that things would go back to a much simpler time.

[@hewitc]

Duck and Cover. Mutual nuclear destruction. Very simple.

[@starababa1985]

There were so many interesting things to do, it was amazing. My brothers built three speed boats using plans from Popular Science magazines. One had pontoons, another had a hydrofoil. They learned to steam plywood to get the correct shapes. Now we've turned into looky-lous glued to screens.

[@marknewton6984]

No cell phones! Did you want your mom to know where you were all the time?

[@williamhutcheson6511]

Good memories of a great life. Thanks.

[@Araconox]

I was born in 1950, and all of this is very familiar to us.. what is real important is that the family had no money.. in fact for the first 8 years of my life we didn't even have a bathroom, or even running water! So, you couldn't wake up in the morning , have your morning coffee, and enjoy the day. It was survival. We finally had an outhouse (to use) that our father built himself in 1955. If this happened today, our parents might be hauled off to prison! But! Commonplace in the mid-fifties!

[@matrox]

Lots of out houses still around in the 50s and 60s and 70s. My grandmother had an outhouse and most of her neighbors. They were out in the sticks, no plumbing. Just electricity. The burned there own trash and got water from a well. All her kids were able to move away 1 by 1 and make it on there own. In the late 60s she left the house to move in with her son who had moved to another state. She had 5 kids. all but 1 left the state and all did ok.

[@leecowell8165]

Yep been there. I often wonder how females could do "it"! Boys don't much care but girls need their privacy. Outhouse. had to deal with the weather too. I mean IF you gotta go you gotta go! Even if there was a blizzard outside.

[@keithmoriyama5421]

The biggest difference I see from then and now is RESPECT. Without respect the world falls apart.

[@doloreskrisky7710]

Agree with your comment on respect. Education goes hand to hand with respect. Our educational system has failed children in schools while parents have failed kids in social and emotional skills.

[@bryanrendleman2001]

Christian Nation then.

[@Lisa59]

Some of these carried over into the 1960s when I was a child. Nice memories

[@cheriedewald914]

This video was lovely!! Thank you for wonderful memories and a smile on my face! ❤️🇺🇸🙏

[@hightest258]

Transistor radios were definitely popular. Does anyone remember the crystal radio where a battery was not needed but you had to ground them on a metal radiator?

[@marygrant882]

When I was a little girl in 1955, it was my grandmother who sewed my dresses. She used a treddle sewing machine. No electricity required, just push the treddle with feet.

[@glennso47]

My grandma had one of those sewing machines also.

[@glennso47]

My grandma had one of those sewing machines also.

[@Cryo837]

My mom made dresses for the girls and shirts for me. Some of them were pretty good. In fact in Middle school I picked out a light blue base with big polka dots. Everyone was trying to look "hip" in 67 and I wore that shirt all the time. To the point where she accused me of "wearing a stinky shirt"...so she burned it. 😪

[@saminaneen]

@@glennso47 And when your granny died, you sold that sewing machine, for CRACK, you are now dismissed

[@lynnglynn721]

I still have my grandmother's sewing machine and wooden ironing board.

[@suzyjohnson3122]

You have nailed it again. Those were really special times. Thank you again,

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

Thanks again for putting a much needed smile on my face :)

[@maryaldaco7228]

I remember well. Don’t forget the Cisco kid and Pancho, the Cisco Kid didn’t take any crap ! Mickey Mouse club - the grown up man wearing mouse ears grossed me out - creepy. Tonto - was my hero too. A lot of memories tucked away. Thanks for sharing these.

[@shooshoo9366]

Me and my husband were born in 1954 3 days apart in the same hospital and we were talking today how our world was so different than our grandkids and ours was the best one.

[@litaheffley6990]

Great 👍 video thanks man appreciate so much I miss those days

[@mikedowell9874]

Back when this country was actually a nice place to live.

[@hewitc]

I like my country. I think the US is the best place to live. Are you thinking of moving to a better place?

[@paulwolf7562]

The older years weren't better. Only in our imagination. We thought that they were better, because we didn't know any better. I was born in the late 60s and was a child of the 70s. They were wonderful times. Mostly because I didn't know any better. You can't change anything, so you might as well live in the times, you're given.

[@joedoe-sedoe7977]

No lgbt ,woke culture, two incomes, abortions, internet porn, state lottery and casino, terrorism,open border…way fewer divorces,drug overdoses , unwed mothers, STD’s, latchkey kids,mass shootings,…yes, it was a much better time to start a family

[@hewitc]

@@joedoe-sedoe7977 Maybe if the family wasn't black or same sex. There were abortions and STD's Syph etc.) in the 50's. No internet porn. Casinos? Las Vegas and AC. Border was wide open. But definitely no internet porn.

[@richardgibson3160]

Not for ‘negroes’!

[@reb1050]

After watching the video and reading through a few of the comments, it seems that everyone that lived through that era all have the same opinion...being a survivor through that period of time was the best time ever. If you exclude the Viet Nam War, our generation lived through the best of times. A way of life that was so much simpler, enjoyable, and safer than what we see going on today. There have been numerous changes since then, and I have to say, not many have been for the better. I was born in the latter part of 49. My father died when I was 7. But even with that, I have to say that I lived during the best of times and, when it comes down to it, being raised in a very small town, I would not trade my lifetime of memories for anything.

[@donnapowell5291]

I,so,agree,with,u,good,old,time,back,then,compair,to,now,

[@banto1]

Mom had a sewing room and I spent many hours as a boy in stores while she browsed through the thick pattern catalogs. In our area we had Green Stamps and I remember both my Mom and Grandmothers were big collectors with a large basket of filled in books on top of the fridge. Speaking of which, had to be hacked at with an ice pick and defrosted from time to time.