If You Grew Up In The 1950s…You Remember This!

[@RecollectionRoad]

What are some memories from your own childhood that I might have missed?

[@garyrich9384]

Betty Crocker points program

[@staymadIoser]

um you reposted this.. this is an old video

[@pamlaenger6870]

My favorite toy was jacks! Monopoly was king of the board games!

[@pamlaenger6870]

@@staymadIoser Oldie but goodie!

[@chickenwings6172]

A lot of this stuff was still around i the 80's and 90's like phone books tinsel is around even today. I had roller skates in the 80's There was a milk man until about 1995

[@steveharvey7712]

When America was a whole different wonderful place to live.

[@lindakeller3259]

Amen!

[@BrjanBuckmaster]

As long as you were white.

[@BrjanBuckmaster]

As long as you were white.

[@normanwyatt8761]

@@BrjanBuckmaster Well you made up for it 'cause you all moved into my city and destroyed it with crime, smash and grab, guns, drugs etc.

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

We were unified. Even with formal segregation, "restricted clientele", and other such things, we were all Americans. There was no hyphenation. People were better-mannered. Food was food, no chemicals.

[@JamesBenadom]

Would not trade those times for anything.

[@kenchristie9214]

Those who aren't white supremacist snowflakes.

[@billiebickers....]

"The best of times."

[@eilenekellogg-ki2br]

Their gone forever. Simpler times

[@kenchristie9214]

@@eilenekellogg-ki2br Their what is gone forever, or are you another illiterate who doesn't understand basic grade three grammar?

[@cessaly100]

Yep! We were blessed! I liked The Rifleman, Man from U.N.C.L.E. And Wyatt Earp!

[@ericskeptic8245]

We grew up in the 50’s and your replay is exactly like it was. Slower living, unlocked doors, not rich but not poor satisfied and content with life, relative peace in the world, deposits on drink bottles 1 to 3 cents, building things out of orange crates, 5 pair of jeans to last the school year , and so much more. What kids are missing these days!!!

[@Maisie1969]

As kids back then, I think we were more restful of others. We were more trustworthy. We could spend our weekends rollerskating one weekend and the next weekend at the theater. It was an all-day thing.

[@lindawynell]

Truth!

[@BrjanBuckmaster]

And no black families in your neighborhood, due to redlining.

[@ronoconnor8971]

@@ericskeptic8245 school shirts with buttons, teatherball, pledge of allegiance,

[@winifredherman4214]

Jeans in school? No way!

[@stephenspilker9334]

born in the fifties and grew up in the 60's and remember all this stuff lol. ah for the good old days.

[@glennso47]

I was born in 1947 and grew up in the 50s and early 60s.

[@glennso47]

I grew up in a small rural town and we didn’t have soda fountains. Or many of the things that were in larger cities.

[@glennso47]

My mom and dad never went to church.

[@glennso47]

The A&P stores offered Plaid Stamps when we shopped.

[@saminaneen]

@@glennso47 Because they went to the Satanic church, and NEVER told YOU about, that is why, YOU are left out, in the cold, TODAY

[@brendadrury4414]

The way of living was so simple. I have so many fine memories growing up in the 50"s.

[@lolacorinne5384]

Oh me too. Sigh….

[@cajunlady4893]

I remember those days. I miss them. 50's and early 60's was my favorite decades

[@linhager12]

Mine too

[@charles-y2z6c]

Whatever decade you grew up in was the best one

[@saminaneen]

@cajunlady4893, YES, REAL women, with REAL boobs, and REAL ass's, not like the FAKE cat women, of today

[@notmyworld44]

Truly beautiful in the innocence of childhood.

[@janicejackson2016]

The last of the good days that's no good days whatever come again ever

[@erin19030]

Thanks for the memories. I am 81 now, living with my 50 year old son and have just lost the love of my life , my dear wife of 60 years. In spite of serving my country in Nam ,, my life was a good one so far.

[@pam1574]

🕊️🕯️🕊️

[@montanacrone8984]

Thank you for your service

[@borninMaine]

I'm 74 I remember it all

[@JGLy22086]

I’m 86. Those were great days and the music, some left over from the 40s, was wonderful! I’m glad I grew up then!

[@ProgramPat]

I am70

[@gladegoodrich2297]

Greatest decade in history! Would go back in an instant!

[@deborahhafer5346]

Sooo much fun growing up in the 50s. Great memories👍🌛

[@0045551]

I remember the 50's. When gas was twenty five cents per gallon, soft drinks were ten cents and a candy bar was a nickel. They were the good ole days.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

How much did people make per hour back then?

[@0045551]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I think the average hourly salary was between $2.50 to $3.00. If you were making $125 to $150 per week were considered to be middle class. If you were making more than $150 per week you were considered to be upper middle class. You could also buy a nice house for about $4000. Compare that with today's prices.

[@0045551]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I think most people were making between $2.50 and $3.50 per hour. That was considered middle class. If you were making $4.00 per hour or more you were considered to be upper middle. The good news is that you could buy a new home for about $4000, You could afford a family of four on $125/$150 a week. Like I said they were the good ole days.

[@Capecodham]

@@jenniferhansen3622 75 cents

[@normanwyatt8761]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I'll be 90 next year so the 50's were the times in my life when I started working in a small supermarket at age 16 and made 65 CENTS an hour. In 1954 after graduating high school I went full time In the same store and as paid $1 an hour for 42 hours. In 1956 I got married and rented a 4 room apartment for $ 35 a month. In 1965 my rent for a 6 room apartment was $ 65 a month. You got a lot more for your money than you do today. Seafood was so cheap that you could eat it 2 or 3 times a week. CHOW !

[@hobo1452]

People have always reminisced about the good old days and complained about how things have changed. That's normal. What's going on in this country today is sadly not normal.

[@joywest8411]

It's Tragic. 😢 Guard the Children!

[@marktuminello5919]

The biden administration, Is a nightmare. January twentieth, Can't come soon enough.

[@janicejackson2016]

No its insane​@@joywest8411

[@touchofgrey5372]

I remember and I miss those days! I also remember the streets being a lot safer too!

[@SandyGreggs-pu1xk]

Oh how I long for those days. The thing I miss the most, is RESPECT that was shown to one another, especially the elder. RESPECT and HONOR FOR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY . GOD BLESS, BE SAFE.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

I mission everyone dressed so nicely when going out.

[@notmyworld44]

Born in 1944, I found these recollections very bitter-sweet. I miss the precious innocence, modesty, gentility, and kindness of this decade in America. Blessings to all from northwestern Arkansas.

[@poksnee]

I was also born in 1944.

[@cmarcmc]

Born 1942. Thanks for the memories 🇺🇸🎄

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

@notmyworld44 May God bless you always- greetiings from NJ!

[@sharonclack5914]

I was also born in 1944 thouse were the days, and yes I sure miss them, nothing like now ❤❤❤🫖, thanks for the memories

[@notmyworld44]

​@@poksnee 😊👍

[@marthadavis5703]

Born in 1950. Slowing down a bit in 2024. All hail the Good Old Days!

[@BrjanBuckmaster]

You have a selective memory.

[@normanwyatt8761]

I was born in 1935 and married in 1955. In 1961 we had 4 children. Now we have 2 at ages 69 and 61. The middle 2 girls died when they were in their 50's. I'm still hanging on at 89 years of age.

[@wiesveerhuis9554]

G​@@BrjanBuckmaster

[@marktuminello5919]

I still remember toy commercials, Born in nineteen fifty, For instance, Slinky commercials, The wire toy.

[@ScottFoster482002]

Beaver Cleaver and I grew up together. Born two months apart in 1948. Life was simpler then.

[@robertd9850]

in 1999, we bought a 60's ranch house and renovated it. We would sometimes watch reruns of Leave it to Beaver just like they did when the house was built.

[@zombiehunter0000]

Barbara Billingsle was my mom

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@robertd9850 Wow! And the Beav's still with us.

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

I watch Leave it to Beaver on SLING TV !

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

​@@zombiehunter0000How 😎 ❤

[@MrBBaron]

An old boomer here. I remember all those things mentioned in this video. Playing outside was imperative and we loved it. We played all sports throughout the year. Yes, there was bullying and we had to deal with it and we did. Today I live in a nice middle-class neighborhood in the US. In my current location for 26 years, I have never seen a young kid or teenager even mow the yard. We did that with those manual push mowers with rotating blades as soon as we were old enough to use those manual mowers. Ranking leaves or pine straw, clearing off snow from driveways, washing cars, plus doing our share of the house chores were required as part of our contribution to the family. I am so glad I was part of the era. The greatest music ever to be heard was in the '60s and '70s It was great and much better to grow up then than the kids do today.

[@momuv6980]

Born in 1956. I remember watching Mr. Ed, Wide World of Disney among others. Most Sunday nights, we popped corn and made peanut butter fudge to eat while watching TV together as a family. At Grandma's it was Lawrence Welk & Gunsmoke. Such amazing memories!! I miss those days!❤

[@ravendixon1099]

Also Alfred Hitchcock & the Twilight Zone.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

I remember getting our first color TV and watching "Disney's Wide World of Color."

[@matrox]

Yes...I do indeed remember clearly the Weekly Reader in elementary school.

[@caroldragon7545]

I was born in 1940 and remember absolutely every single thing you showed. I loved petting the milkman's horse. The grocery store in our neighborhood in Philadelphia had an electric eye setup in two posts that would open the doors. My nana would leave me at the eight o clock coffee grinding machine while she shopped because I loved the smell of the fresh ground coffee. My dad was a self employed engineer. I remember in 1952 when he brought home a used Admiral black & white TV and gave it to me. It weighed a ton, - was all tubes, and had a seven inch screen. With the knobs on the back you cold control the picture brightness, contrast, size, shape, and position on the screen. My favorite toys were tinker toys, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, and my American Bricks set. My mom made matching outfits for her and for me. Life was wonderful for me back then. Today's kids just don't have the freedom we did. Our bikes were our horses as we rode around shooting cap guns at each other, and we played outside and didn't have to be home until dinnertime.

[@rickremco6275]

Much the same here in England. If only I had appreciated those free and innocent times more. The previous generation had to cope with the great depression and war - we had everything.

[@robertsmith1860]

Regarding boys shooting cap pistols at each other, we discussed WWII battle procedures with our ex- military Dads… which resulted in grabbing our baseball bats to use as a Bazooka, with your pal behind you loading it up & patting you on the shoulder when ready!

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

Our milkman had a gas powered rig made by a company that, I think, specialized in delivery vehicles. Something called a Divco. We also had the bakery truck from Helms Bakeries, the Good Humor man, and one other thing that I have never seen mentioned in any nostalgia videos: a produce truck. General Motors, for about a year or two, made a special version of their panel vans that had open sides to display fruits and vegetables. They had a particular time they'd be on this or that street.

[@jeffreydelallo7311]

Those were the days my friend we thought never end

[@3dawgs147]

I wish things were like this Now!! Kids have no imagination at all.I grew up in the 1960s on Saturday’s had my Cereal watched a few Cartoons and out on my Bike looking for my Friends & Looking for adventure’s 👍👍now Kids could care less about having a bike But it’s a different World we live in.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Same, born in 1961.

[@LARomeo-jy9uw]

I still see two or three kids in my area bike riding but of course it's not as much .

[@51Lorie]

Same! I was born in 1959

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

'Kids have no imagination at all." Take the screens away and introduce them to reading, and to old radio shows. If you have SiriusXM radio, introduce them to Radio Classics.

[@lisaayers1975]

Thanks ✌ 👍 I remember all of these..Wish I could go back in time again..I miss those days.

[@davidjones5547]

I still have and use my Fuller Brush hairbrush that my parents purchased for me in 1958

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

Wow!!😮

[@ellymaschinowrinn8609]

That is SO COOL!

[@KarlBeeThree]

Same here.

[@joiedevivre7376]

cool - those things last forever!

[@nancywood5202]

Same here...my brush is 2 years older than yours... great condition!

[@sherw7635]

A lot of these things made it to the 60's as well. We had 3 channels on our tv.

[@robertd9850]

So did we but one was in the bigger town south of us and the other two in the bigger town east of us. Depending on what we wanted to watch, we changed the dial and if the station was in the other town, opened the den window, grabbed the antenna pole outside and turned it 90 degrees.

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

We could only get 2 channels and had a very difficult time deciding which channel to watch!!!!

[@normanwyatt8761]

I beat you all 'cause I was born in 1935 and grew up mostly with just a radio until 1947 when my brother bought a T.V. and we watched one channel (4 in Boston, Massachusetts ) Only 4 hours of programming each nite except monday when they blacked out for maintain- ence.

[@rty1955]

Odd there were 4 networks prior to 1955

[@mj9949]

@@JohnPotts-kq7kk😂 flip a coin

[@tonycollazorappo]

I use watch the Lawrence Welk show with my foster parents on a small b/w tv. ❤

[@wendypeacock-frail]

Oh Lord my brothers and I would leave the living room when Lawrence Welk came on. My dad loved that show.

[@jimsmith9301]

A wonerful wonerful!! GBY.

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

What was the reason for this punishment?

[@carmennooner2027]

Our first phone didn't have a dial. We would pick up the handset and an operator would answer. We would tell her the number we wanted and she would connect us. And yes, we had a party line. I had forgotten that, at least one of the two TV stations we had would sign off with the national anthem! I also remember the milk man, soda fountains, being able to spend an entire afternoon in the movie theater for only $.25. That also bought us candy! Fun memories. :)

[@matrox]

My grandmother lived in the Va. mountains, they had a party line into the 1980s.

[@rioseventytwo1121]

I remember, in the summers, we could go to the movie theater for 6 RC bottle caps. And that included a drink or an ice cream cone. Life was so good back then.

[@JudithPrince-b5u]

Born in the early 40s lived through all of this, wore clothes my mother sewed, what great days we had. Thank you.

[@dontown-lb5ke]

I was born in 1950. I remember these things including the horse-drawn milk wagon.

[@mikeywid4954]

Thank you Recollection Road for all the memories you stir. Born in '49 the 50s were a great time to be alive and I'll cherish the memories always. Btw our milk wasn't delivered in horse drawn carriages, they were the old fashioned milk trucks.

[@lovly2cu725]

There is a comment above it was by horse in their area.

[@marilynaicardi1860]

Born in 1942. This brought back so many memories! And yes, we spent hours and hours outside every day! It was a wonderful time to grow up! I’m so glad I was there to experience those times! Thank you for this trip down memory lane!

[@sweettaterpie7009]

Yup! The only thing we had to worry about is if your mother could scrounge up enough money to buy a cream puff when the Helms Bakery truck drove by chiming his bells. Heaven on earth!

[@genxskeptic5816]

So many of these things bled into the early 70s when I was a kid. 💖

[@sonyafox3271]

Blend! Yes, I grew up in the 70s and, some of the things started phasing out in the early, mid and late 70s! The one thing that, I hated was when, certain things in cans started phasing out! When, my mom had to go to the store and, was no longer constantly going with her as, I was getting older, I would have her buy up all this Hershey Syrup in a can! In the late 90s and early 2000s, I seen it in a local grocery store in Indiana and, I was thrilled and was buying it up again! I still till this day do not care for Hershey’s Syrup in those plastic bottles! 17:07

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Sure did! I experienced most of these things. Even had saddle shoes.

[@jmrodas9]

I am from Guatemala, but I remember many of the things you mention here. Life was slower than, and we enjoyed it more. NOw everything, is rush , rush, rush, and we seldom have time to think of what is around us.

[@d.s.4627]

I remember it all. What a good time going back!

[@Szmisik]

Don't forget Erector Sets. This was one of my favorite toys. I loved building things with it. It was almost indestructible with all metal parts, electric motor, gears and axils.

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

My brother 's fave was Erector Set!

[@TXH1138]

I still have mine.

[@louisedykes4794]

@@Szmisik is that the same as a mechano set or is that the French name we called it

[@Capecodham]

@@GeorgiannaMartin fave?

[@choxxxieful]

Mine too !!!

[@rogertemple7193]

Thanks for the awesome magnificent amazing Memories.🇺🇲📺📻🇺🇲

[@tomf429]

Snow plows were not as numerous in those days. When it snowed, the streets would be covered for days. We knew all the streets with hills, and would go down them on sleds all day and well into the evening. When we came in, with bright red cheeks, there would be hot chocolate waiting. Good memories.

[@MilitaryVideoWorks3742]

Thank you for this great video. Grew up in the 50's (pre-teen) and 60's (teen) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Yooper). Earned money doing chores like shoveling coal from the coal bin into the coal hopper. During the Winter it was my job to shovel out the driveway, porches and sidewalks. Lots of time doing that. Had a morning and evening paper route when I was 12-16. An important part of our lives was walking to school and attending church every Sunday. We knew the Milk and Mail man. At night in the Summer we sat out on the front porch on hot nights greeting all the neighbors as they walked by. Everyone knew everyone else. It sure was a different time than today. I miss many of the things we did back then.

[@LJB103]

I never liked Lincoln Logs, but I loved American Bricks! I still ( I'm in my 70's) pull them out of the closet and build a house now and then to relax.

[@jamesmiller4184]

All right! Way-to-go!

[@louisedykes4794]

When I was 5 for my birthday gift I got a big tube of plastic mini bricks. My sister and I played so much with those. I learnt real fast the reason for how masonry was laid.

[@LJB103]

@@louisedykes4794 This sounds like American Bricks. Did your set contain doors and casement style windows that would open and close (and if the set was big enough, a working garage door) plus green paper roofs?

[@louisedykes4794]

@@LJB103 yup but no garage door. We used to call them mini bricks and I’m from Canada. I even remember the birthday card an elephant and the head wiggled on a small spring. I forgot about the windows but I remember the green shingle roofing

[@scottmckay9535]

Wish I still had my Lincoln logs and the plastic building bricks. I also had a Davey Crocket (fake) coon skin cap. And Mickey Mouse ears.

[@caroltombari9112]

I was born in 1946! This really brings back memories! Thank you for sharing! Happy times.

[@jeanneganrude8549]

Just the mention of mimeograph ink sends an olfactory memory straight to my brain and I can almost smell it once again. 😂

[@tomf429]

They would pass out the ditto's and everyone would hold them up to their nose to smell the ink.

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

@@tomf429 And, some wiseacre would moan, "ohhhh, wow, mannnnnn..." LOL

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

I loved that smell!

[@stephenrichardhamilton6112]

I Still decorate. Our Christmas tree the same as i didáctica when i Was a child. I was born in london in 1947. I Wish the world was the same as then people were much kinder and respected one another. 😢

[@cynthiaamitrano8915]

I remember it all. It was the best time to grow up. I was born in 1950.

[@normanwyatt8761]

You missed a lot Cynthia 'cause I was born in 1935, so I was 15 at the start and 25 at the end .

[@nancywood5202]

I was born in 1948

[@jamesmiller4184]

". . . that long for the simple peace of that golden decade." Amen to that Brother !! Like another world that time was. And MANY THANKS to yourself et alia for operating this channel. It serves to bring much joy to all who watch in appreciation.

[@jeanneganrude8549]

OK … et alia seems like a fun way to say et al. 😂

[@pattymerrill2838]

I was born in the 1950s and grew up in the 1960s and 70s and I remember almost all of these.

[@pammorris8097]

WOW! I love this video! I remember everything in it with the exception of peanut butter sandwiches with marshmallow cream. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Tears came to my eyes when I saw “the weekly reader” ! I had forgotten them! When I 😊was a little girl I asked for a pony for every birthday and Christmas present. When I was 8 years old, we moved to the country. I love that wonderful place. I remember standing in the yard , waiting for my daddy to come home, he was running late. He came diving up the driveway with a pony in back of his pickup truck… no trailer, the pony was in the back of the truck! Such a happy day! I miss the old days! Thank you for this trip back in time! ❤ 😂 😊

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I placed 250 books of green stamps , I was slowly getting there and they shut down so I gave them to my Mom. She got me with the left over books a very nice Rod and Reel. I still have it and she is gone now, but I have that memory.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Oh I wanted the Cessna 152

[@woodstocker696]

@kirkmorrison6131 That's a nice memory to have. Ah yes, S&H Green Stamps. I remember them well. Worst part was when Mom got a few "sheets" of them grocery shopping and, of course, it was our job to lick them and stick them in the book. Yech! I did find another use for them though. One year, (we were young kids, first car, little money), car registration stickers were green; pretty close, if not identical, to the Green Stamps. So I cut - out a square, slapped it on the windshield of my ol' jalopy, and away we went! Never had a problem. Ha! Btw, pertaining to the rod and reel, just curious if they happen to be made by Horrocks - Ibbotson. Not sure, but I thought their products were available in the S&H catalog. Could have been Sears. Anyway, H-I was located in my home - town, Utica, NY., same as Annette Funicello's. A guy I worked with knew her; wish I did. Definitely had a huge crush on her. Sometimes, life's a beach! Ha!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@woodstocker696 The rod was a Shakespeare fiberglass and the reel was a Mitchell 300. It is a great one at the time. She knew it was a good one as my Dad owned one. Since I moved from Virginia to South Carolina I use it on local rivers and lakes

[@woodstocker696]

@@kirkmorrison6131 Thanks for the reply. Yes, the Mitchell 300 is a classic. My Dad had one too, which I got to use a few times. Smooth as silk. I inherited it upon his passing. Haven't fished in years. We sure had some good times on the lake though. Happy Holidays, and Happy Fishing!

[@barbaradzitko1826]

Those were the days, my friend.

[@GrannyToast]

Born in '51...loved those pedal cars! But the 60s were the BEST for me - with the rock music, the psychedelics, hippies, the expansion of our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries. It was a super creative experience, which changed the world.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I was born in the 70s and my mom & dad were born in the 30s. When I was a kid, I always thought it would be fun to go back in time and be a teenager with my mom in the 50s. I always thought we'd be best friends. ❤❤

[@ronalddevine9587]

I really remember the milkman. If you weren't too much of a pest, you might get a half pint chocolate milk, or a chunk of ice! To this day, I really miss SEARS. Those catalogs were something else!

[@slim-oneslim8014]

I loved Sears!

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

Sears generally had good to great quality for an honest price. Then, the Harvard MBA types took over and that signaled the end.

[@ronalddevine9587]

@@The-Friendly-Grizzly Sadly, not just Sears, American industry in general. I collect and operate Lionel trains. With these current owners, production in USA stopped, EVERYTHING was sent to China and prices went UP, but quality went DOWN.

[@OcotilloTom]

Born in 1946 and like Steve below I remember all these things. I really wanted a transistor radio and finally got one...not one of the more expensive ones with the built in speaker but one with a wired earphone. Still, it worked great for years. I took it with me to Vietnam for my first tour in 1965. By my 2nd tour in 1971, I could afford the one with the speaker. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired

[@matrox]

You re-upped for the 2nd tour?

[@lindasimpson6768]

Transistor radio was best thing I ever received ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@indrekkpringi]

The 1950's in América and Canada ( I grew up up in Canada but it was a carbon copy of what was going on in the U.S.) was a culture of hedonistic amnesia... (Look up the word hedonist in the dictionary). Everything was done to make people forget going through the most horrible world war in human history. I was lucky enough to watch the "You are There: black and white TV documentary series about WW2 from the American perspective. Much much later I began finding out the true facts about the war and why it was fought and the origins if the war and its consequences. The result was I discovered that everything you brainwashed lummoxes have been told about that unspeakable war was a total lie and in many cases the complete opposite of the Truth... Of course none of you dumbed down morons would know this because you have been brainwashed and programmed to believe in your mass media propaganda lies. But I was different... I was more intelligent than other kids... I did see the show called "Howdy Doody" once on TV at a friend's house once and I silently marveled that any child would ever ant to watch this stupid pointless crap that treated children as if they were brainless drooling idiots in their idolizing a wooden puppet that had the brains and speech of a 2-year old... I was so disgusted that he would watch that junk I never saw him again. Unfortunately the propagandists of America were right on the money... American were that stupid and mindless in the 1950's. Now the American and Canadian masses are 10 times more stupid and brainwashed than they were in the 50's. If you were a kid back then; your intelligence and IQ has probably by now; dropped 50%, due to the mass media garbage you have watched for 70 years and the lies you have swallowed and now believe in religiously and the meaningless culture of Hedonism your civilization glorifies, worships and practices. Very few of you will be able to read my entire comment because you are already brainwashed and dumbed down to not read anything longer than 3 short sentences,

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

Gads...! My first radio was a Sylvania portable that had two massive 1.5V batteries and a 57.5V battery. Yes, it had four tubes and a silicon rectifier. Ran on either batteries or house current.

[@GeorgiannaMartin]

Thank you for your service ❤

[@cyclenut]

I am a 60s 70s kid. The world was slower moving back then. Somethings were gone, but a lot carried on into the 60s and some to the 70s.

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

Remember Weekly Reader very well! I attended a one room rural school and had the same fantastic teacher for grades 1 through 8 ! We would go to our small rural town on Saturday night, my allowance earned by helping milk cows by hand, a big 25 cents!! Got into movie for a dime, bag of popcorn a nickel & small bottle Coca cola a nickel. That left a nickel to buy penny candy, some 2 or 3 pieces for penny at the dime store after the movie! Most all of the stores remained open until at least 11 p.m. sometimes later in the summer time & yes, there were still customers! Great time to be a kid! We were poor but I didn't know it..Thanks for the memories of growing up in the early 50s!!!!

[@delibakerytravel]

One's again you are pointing out that I am OLD!!😢 But as always, this video was Fabulous like always..Thank from San Diego.🌴

[@jacksak]

You finally got me. I grew up on a dairy farm in the 1940's-1950's.

[@Maisie1969]

In Idaho, that's how we bought our milk. The farmer had milk in milk glass milk jugs in his refrigerator. We would bring back our used jug, put our money in a cardboard box, and take a new milk. People were honest, trustworthy back then.

[@jacksak]

@@Maisie1969 It might have been like living on a different planet back then compared to now.

[@gregorycoates9643]

I was born in 1949. It was wonderful growing up in the 1950’s.

[@anniesmith2]

Iam always grateful to have lived as a child in the fifties. It was the change of times after the war when time stood still. It was a time of big changes and new things. Brings back lots of memories. Thank you.

[@thewavewitch3238]

I was born 1966. Believe it or not, a lot of these things (except the milk man) I grew up with till the 80’s. I miss drive in movies. They were the best!!!

[@ericgregory9478]

My mom grew up in NYC during the fabulous 50s. Clean, safe, dressed beautifully. A 4 bedroom for a family of four and grandma never had to work outside of her beautiful apartment. Wallpaper, impeccable beds and couches. What a good life they had. The building was family owned so there were other siblings and family that had other apartments. The pictures they took were so formal, elegant and poised. I love family albums so much 💞💞💞

[@melissabibby7310]

Thank you my Mom loved this video brought many memories, heartwarming.👍❤️

[@cf-kw5qo]

Was born in 1960 but the 50 ‘s were the decade of perfect American decade .

[@davidboese5159]

Born in 1945, still love the cars! Raced to get the Blueberry little pie, at the grocery store! Cash in pop bottles…to buy button candy.

[@normanwyatt8761]

We had a bakery that made those little pies. It was called PURITAN Bakery and the day-old pies were 3 for 25 cents.

[@talfacprez]

I remember doing quite a few of those growing up in the 1960s too.

[@ThomasPrior-wv6zn]

I WAS BORN IN 1953 IN LONDONS EAST END HACKNEY THIS IS AMERICA BUT I STILL LOVE THE 50IES

[@TarmoAlholinna]

I had saddle shoes!!! More than 1 pair!! My mom was a stay at home mom.. my dad went out to work. We were a normal family. I had those roller skates and I used them all over the neighborhood!! The Fuller Brush man came to our house! My mother had a Singer sewing machine.. I and my brothers would pour over the Christmas catalogs. And the local Hecht company had a beautiful window at Christmas! I remember going to get our polio vaccines. ❤Those were good days!! Yes, we got the Weekly Reader in elementary school!! I grew up in Takoma Park MD, a suburb of Washington DC. Goldie Hawn grew up right around the corner from me! We played together as little girls!!! 🧒

[@dltree1234]

I remember my reel to reel tape recorder I got for Christmas one year, born in 1951

[@thebrodabode73]

This was great. Oh, how I wish today was more like the 50s. I miss Green-stamps and so many other things shown here. Thanks for the memories.

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

I miss freedom. I miss cops dressed like cops and not militarized troops. I miss please, thank you, yessir, no ma'am. I miss trust.

[@jedidrummerjake]

So glad most of these things carried over into the 60's! ❤

[@Maisie1969]

That's a 60s thing as well. I was born in 1958. So I grew up in the 60s.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was going to say the same thing. I was born in 1961 and did those things too. 😊

[@AngelaGoodwin-fh6fw]

Same here! What a sweet time to grow up in.

[@TXRBL]

59 here, but in upper East Tennessee. It was like growing up in the late 40s. It was a great time to be alive.

[@Maisie1969]

I grew up in Idaho. I still call Idaho heaven. Not Boisie, it was too big. Weiser, for me, was the best town. Meridian was great for watching the speed races. In Weiser, we floated down the irrigation canels. We slept outside all night. No adults, and we were always safe. We would walk to the swimming pool at an early age alone. The lifeguards were the best. It was safe for all ages, thanks to the lifeguards. We could go to the carnival when it came to town alone. We were just kids, safe, and having fun. Kids weren't vandals. No graffiti on buildings...

[@thomasbruner854]

The toys were absolutely the best in the 50s!

[@joywest8411]

And our Cartoons! A Good n' Plenty Quality... time that was.😌

[@RangerJohnreid]

I was very small in the last few years of Howdy Doody. There was Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Fury, Kukla Fran and Ollie, I could go on and on. So many innovations. Into the 1960s it was obvious that America was the leader in the creation of what decades later we’d call technology, or tech. In the 1990s onward, this country has been dying. Sad.

[@delibakerytravel]

Those Christmas Windows In The Downtown Lazarus In Columbus Oh. Is Something I Will Never Forget.❤ And Mr. Tree.

[@51Lorie]

In our small town, almost everyone decorated their homes with lights. All us kids would pile into the family car and Dad would drive us around town to look at all the beautiful lights, it was magical to me!

[@tomklock568]

I was born toward the end of the 50s, but some of these continued on into the 60s! Thanks for the memories.

[@cf-kw5qo]

I enjoyed a lot of this in 60’s

[@jerrystaley1563]

I never had saddle shoes but my older sister never "shined" hers, she covered her scuffs with a white overcoat applicator. I LOVED my Lincoln Logs!

[@tonycollazorappo]

50s & 60s were similar I see. I enjoyed the 60s and 70s. I was I would have enjoyed the 50s as well. I would go back to these times if I could. I was born in 1961. 👍🏻

[@carrollcaldwell4570]

Born in 1951. Exactly how you described my childhood! Clean and wholesome. Simple and descent!

[@IBM29]

I've reached an age where I can now empathize with Solomon Roth from Soylent Green...

[@DavidFrehlini-y1y]

Born in late October 1944. Dyker Heights Brooklyn. Home Sweet Home. Yes. I remember all of this. And let's never forget our great 50'S TV Shows. Bachelor Father, Dragnet, Police Station, The life and times of Wyatt Earp, The Red Skelton show, The Loretta Young show, The Gail storm show, The Betty Hutton show, Perry Mason, The many loves of Dobbie Gillis, The Eve Arden show, The Honeymooners, Tugboat Annie, Dick Powells Zane Gray Theater, The Dick Powell show, Wagon Train, Laramie, 77Th Bengal Lancers, Ivanhoe (British) Buccaneers (British) Mr. District Attorney, Emergency Ward 10 (British) No Hiding place (British) The Red Buttons Show, Sky King, The flying Doctor (British) The untouchables, Waterfront, One Mans Family, Track down, The real McCoys, The twilight zone, Groucho and you bet your life, Alfred Hitchcock presents, One step beyond, The World beyond and many many more. Thank you and ggod morning from Palermo Sicily.

[@keithhumpherys8343]

I was born in January 1944. Remember those things too.

[@marktuminello5919]

Born in brooklyn, Nineteen fifty, Never had a bit of concern, Riding subways, Or walking at night

[@Arizona-Sonoran-Desert-Guy]

I was born in 1957. I remember all of this stuff except for the horse-drawn milk cart; our milk guy had a motorized van. I never knew why it was called a sock hop.

[@bigmike4962]

I was born in '56 but remember pretty much all of this from the early 60s.

[@CMI-TV]

The 50s were the golden era in the usa

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

It was a time when one income supported a family; we could do anything we set our minds to do; it was a time of "America, yes!", not one of American apologizing to the rest of the world for the sin of existing.

[@granddad-mv5ef]

My maternal grandparents were progressive; both had college degrees and I was the first grandchild. Even though we and they lived in a tiny hamlet outside a small (kind of backward) town, I never lacked for anything needed. We had no horse-drawn milk delivery wagon; no milk delivery at all! We had a desk phone with a crank on the side, connected to a very small phone company. BUT, because natural gas wells were on the property, our coal furnace had been converted to gas. After my Dad took a better job two counties away, I always loved going back to visit my grandparents and the friends we had there.

[@johnbethea4505]

Poodle skirts and Bobbie socks were real cool.

[@deborahhafer5346]

9:09 I was born in 1952. Mighty good memories. Wish times were still so innocent. Music was fab.

[@larrygolden554]

Born 1941. This video is so accurate, they didn't miss anything about those wonderful days

[@mr.bob4630]

I was born in 1952, so I was very young in the 50s, and can't say which memories I have were not already from the early 60s. I lived in the Bronx from 1955 through 1961, for a time near the Concourse, which was very beautiful and swanky then. I remember the old-fashioned buses in New York and riding in the subway car all the way in front so I could look out the front window for the whole ride (there was a lot to look at, whether above or below ground). I also remember bagel stores where bagels were boiled and baked and sold fresh from the oven. They were plain bagels, with no extra flavoring, but they were delicious. My mom had Mary Janes candies and Candy Kisses as snacks, mostly for when we had company. I preferred Lik-M-Aid and the sour-sweet candy powder that came in straws. I loved chocolate malted milks, and occasionally indulged. In those days they gave you the metal mixing can with the left-over malted so you could pour yourself a second portion without paying extra. I spent my allowance money on candy, and on pistachios from vending machines, on potato chips and on comic books, particularly the different kinds of Superman comics. Later, I became a big fan of Mad Magazine. I watched a lot of TV, really too much, and always dreamed of having a color TV, a dream that didn't come true until the 1980s. I also loved Disney's Wonderful World of Color on TV, even though I could not watch it in color, and I wanted to go to Disneyland, but it was out of the question. At school we were able to order cheap Scholastic books every week, and I did enjoy the Weekly Reader and Junior Scholastic magazine. I also enjoyed watching College Bowl on TV, as well as Walter Cronkite's series, "The Twentieth Century".

[@stj971]

Both my parents were from the Bronx.

[@rf159a]

I still remember being the TV antenna!!

[@jimh.8138]

I remember the milkman…because my dad was one. And I remember the carhops…because my wife was one. 😊

[@woodwaker1]

So you were one of the true experiences where you looked like the milkman

[@jenniferhansen3622]

​@@woodwaker1Cute!! 😂

[@Dadsezso]

I'm a kid from the 50s/60s. You mentioned party lines. Oh my gosh that was hot topic around my parents. There were multiple families on the shared line that had teen kids, including me. It was almost impossible to pick up the phone to use it without a couple of teens being on there talking all mushy and then getting angry because someone is listening in. My dad used to gripe that he was just going to have it uninstalled because he could never use it. 😆😆😆

[@Miraak1868]

Here's my memory: My Dad bought the first RCA TV, here in SE PA, in 1946. It was in a grand wooden cabinet and had a 10 inch screen. He had the installer, Gearhart's, install a huge magnifier filled with mineral oil in front of the screen. It was held up by metal brackets attached to the case. What a memory !

[@matrox]

I lived in the city and the doctor made house calls to visit me several times in the early 60s.

[@galiagoze]

I was born in the late 1950s, and I remember a lot of these things growing up in the 60s. I remember painting my black and white saddle shoes that covered up scuff marks and made my shoes look bright and clean! Every girl went to school in a nice clean dress, and boys had to wear a button down shirt. I miss those days when people had respect!

[@matrox]

My brother still has his Radio Flyer wagon from the 50s.

[@garynaple9925]

I still have my Flexible Flyer from the 50s

[@maryellis8902]

Thanks for bringing me back to that golden time of long ago.

[@WhitneyAbrina]

Wow not everyone's family was so lucky to partake in all the nice things in life. Cool to see what was available for those who were able to.

[@staymadIoser]

you sound miserable

[@jeanneganrude8549]

My childhood. Innocently sweet …

[@carrrie_lynnn]

Most didn't. All these "memories" are actually just a lot of American dream propaganda.

[@saminaneen]

@WhitneyAbrina,,YOU must bow down and kneel, and pray to YOUR god & savior, Putin, and stop, being a Russian Racist Hater, also pray to yo boy Floyd, (George), for he is the patron saint of fentanyl.

[@notmyworld44]

We three lived on my dad's salary of $40/week. It wasn't bad. Everyday items cost pennies then.

[@paulschaller3644]

I also was born in the early ‘50s in a small upper Midwest city! Remember all of the great times family and people. Along comes the ‘60s lying LBJ and Vietnam. Now at 73yo I’m the last surviving VN Vet in my high school class of 69! 🙏