It Happens Every Noon (1966) | School Lunch in the 1960s

[@wallacegarrett3537]

I remember not having enough money, and only having enough to buy cookies and milk. I use to be so hungry. I use to take it and hide in the hallway, and eat. I was so ashamed that I didn't have money to buy food, i'd cry by myself. It hurts sometimes, even to this day, I think about it once in a while, how painful it was. Today I have plenty of money; I own stocks, bonds, investments, doing well. But I always remember where I came from, and how it was. I am a Black Man from Brooklyn, who won't forget the hardships from the past. And I have promised myself, I will never let any hardships define me, or keep me down and make me suffer, ever again-so help me God! (High School/the year was in 1962-1964)

[@elliecarrol2126]

Umm very sad, dad stationed in Fl 1956? in 3rd grade. 1 boy never had lunch, to this day I think about him sometimes. Thank God there's social programs now. Glad to hear you doing well

[@qychan6679]

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[@SimplySage854]

Wallace Garrett thanks for sharing your story

[@illseeyouinmarslo9561]

💕

[@jaymillymills]

God bless you

[@jojones2500]

Those women preparing those sandwiches did it with so much care . Touching . 🌼

[@Riogi]

They certainly did.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

The conditions at that rural school were pretty primitive and those kids looked poor and that in the richest country in the world.

[@rushawnthomas7491]

I notice it As well

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

Notice how in the inner city they had sandwich bag lunch but even in the poor rural classes they had hot lunch on plates.

[@stopcensorship7365]

Yeah they were on camera 📸 😆

[@paumalibrary7069]

You got cool jazz flute riffs with your lunch in the 1960s.

[@johnthompson3664]

I remember when I was a child in the 1960's the cafeteria staff was comprised of mostly farm women , and those women maintained the cleanest kitchen imaginable ,while providing a well balanced and nutritious meal . They had their own recipe for peanut butter whip I still think about it on occasions ,and wonder why you can't buy it in a store.

[@soullessprincess6473]

Now lunch ladies don’t give a fuck about us

[@lilliansteele7165]

Amen sir!

[@cherylcummins5209]

Packed in paper and wax paper! No plastic ! Nice

[@ewilliamson488]

That's how I wrap my sandwiches. I like using wax paper

[@pearliecole9546]

When I went to school starting in the mid 60's school lunches were fantastic, I still reminisce about the rectangle shaped pizza and the cheesy spaghetti.

[@Jollyday905]

Rectangle boxed pizza was the best!!

[@DetroitLives313]

I started school then too, (Fall of 1965), but we had to go home for lunch because they did not have the lunch program in grade schools until 1974 for us.

[@pearliecole9546]

@@DetroitLives313 wow, down south we had it from the time I started to I ended, and the lunches were fantastic, I love cinnamon rolls served with chili to this day because we always had cinnamon rolls on chili day.

[@DetroitLives313]

@Pearlie Cole The high schools had lunch programs since probably the 1940s. Some Jr. High schools in the 50s, 60s. The breakfast program began in 1970, but the lunch program at my grade school/Jr. High did not start until my last year in 1974. Pizza on a bun, salisbury steak and mash potatoes were my favorites. Most of us received " Lunch tickets", so we did not have to pay everyday.

[@heathertea2704]

@@DetroitLives313 FORGOT about the lunch tickets. I'm old. Uhh...older👏😹👏. Ours were BLUE with the days of the week on THEM.

[@vincentbarrera4119]

Been teaching for a while. I have to say, the lunches featured in this doc is miles better than what my student eat at school. Such a shame.

[@rosieschweebie]

I remember getting free lunch growing up in the 1970’s, but I wanted to pay for my lunch so badly! Even as a child I knew that free lunch meant you were poor, and that made me sad. I looked forward to field trips because we’d have to bring our own lunches from home. My mom would pack us wonderful things to eat!!😊

[@colinvanblaricom6573]

Aww, that's so cute. Although out of curiousity if you couldn't afford to pack your lunch everyday than how could your parents afford the field trip?

[@rosieschweebie]

@@colinvanblaricom6573 I came from a single parent home, but my mom was excellent at planning and saving. Field trips didn’t happen often, so when they did we had the money to go, and the yummy lunches too. My mom would help chaperone sometimes, and that may have help with the cost of the trips too.

[@kenkthesensai4145]

Its good to see that in 1966 there were schools that black and white students went to school and lunch in perfect harmony.

[@paul2019.]

This was a few years after mlk and black freedom (idk what it’s called) kind of like mid 2020

[@synskyzoChannn]

exactly ! must be more impressive in the south to see that , bcs u had this in the north before 1966 the north didnt had segregation

[@bigwin2010]

By 1956, 61% of the North wanted schools integrated. Only 15% of the South. If you watch Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, you will note that Malcolm X went to school in an Integrated school. But -- Malcolm didn't have great things to say about the way he was treated.

[@ilovegoodsax]

I started kindergarten in 1965 and this kind of diversity is all I knew during my school years. Then again, in grew up in California and not the inner city or in the South.

[@nookguy4318]

@@bigwin2010 right!!! Connecticut is about the only north state i know that did NOT WANT TO PROGRESS in schools. It said they didnt end it till 1975 legally. Thats slower then alot of southern states. Wow.

[@rochelleturner878]

In 1969 to 1980 the Black Panthers open up a lunch program for the poor kids who cannot afford to buy lunch. A lot of poor families could not buy lunch for their children so a lot of kids went to school hungry especially poor black and under privilege children. Even though they did not start the school program. President Truman started the act of school lunches for a low-cost or free for some in 1946. The Panthers made it free! That was a wonderful program for poor children all over the country.

[@robinbost6445]

I was so fortunate to live in a neighborhood where the Black Panther started a free breakfast and lunch program. The food was Delicious and made with love, no BS. (excuse my choice of words) very nutritional and full hardy plates. That program was excellent. I believe we went only during the holidays and summer breaks, but ps#111 didn't have a cafeteria and didn't serve lunch so the Black Panthers served as their cafeteria everyday...the Panthers were a Wonderful group and I applaud them for their community commitment... KUDOS and my hats off to this awesome group, they were life savers and they are also credited with starting the WIC program, yes the first to do it..'uck what you heard...long live the BLACK PANTHERS 🖤

[@joycerodgers6381]

I remember when I was in school my mother signed us up for the free lunch program! Boy I couldn't wait for lunch time I would be very hungry!

[@wisewiseworld480]

A school lesson within a school lesson. I love these old nostalgic clips. Keep'em coming reelblack, one love.

[@valeriecheersbrown4829]

Damn shame, they will not admit who created school lunch program and made it possible for our kids. The Black Panther began the breakfast programs meals in between 1969 to about 1980 and it was possible for the community children at schools in the morning!

[@ladyof5304]

Right on

[@septiawoman2911]

(Wryly) yet the 'Panthers were perceived as "militant." Look at the archives of history, law enforcement AND the government were always infiltrating, messing with and arresting them. All the 'Panthers wanted was social justice and economic empowerment and fought to attain this.

[@nicolehall56]

I think it depends on what area that you are talking about. I am sure that the Black Panthers created a large urban movement for making sure that the kids got fed but in other areas of the US there were of their groups and organizations. Teachers do not like to see their students go hungry and I am sure that they had a part in it as well. It seems like the more people that see the need the easier it is to help create something.

[@beatit3245]

Shut up Karen

[@nicolehall56]

I don't see anyone named Karen on the thing but if you highlight where she commented that would be great.

[@Michelle-jz8vl]

I’m a 60s kid. Life was 🌻. No processed lunches. Food was prepared and packaged with care. Meticulously. Clean..

[@leannesmith5818]

Those kids looked like they loved those lunches, and they were so good, no fighting and yelling, the times have certainly changed

[@Riogi]

This site has become my new home. I am always thanking you for your posts and making sure to click that thumbs up.

[@qychan6679]

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[@heathertea2704]

Watching THIS takes ME back to THAT time. THE children. The clothes, hairdos, desktops, building. FUN TIMES. Crossing railroad tracks to SCHOOL 38. 😊 Couldn't DO it now. WHOLE FAMILY be on tv FOR child endangerment.

[@laurencezemlick1979]

What an impressive example of how citizens are willing to come together, through their property taxes, to pay for all kids to have a healthy meal every day. It’s a sign of how much we do really care about our fellow man, and especially children.

[@tygersflowerz]

When I was in middle school, they started a bag lunch line, along with the hot lunch line. I will never forget the bologna sandwiches. The bologna was sliced super thin and stacked onto the bread. Kind of like those packages of Carl Buddig meat. So good.

[@smc1774]

Healthy meals are important. Thanks for sharing.👍

[@lilliansteele7165]

My parents had an EXXON Service Station and also sold gasoline and food products. Many years later the late Mrs. Eliza Miller stressed the wonderful of serving lunch to those in need. She became one of my favorite educators and inspired me to become a teacher along with my mom who was one also.

[@ritafournier6263]

While I was in school from 1957 until June of 1970 there were many ways we had a good and nutritious noon day meal. From the start of kindergarten until 1/2 way through 2nd grade we had the choice to bring a brown bag lunch and eat in our school's cold lunchroom, pay $1.25 per week and walk a block to the public school and have a hot lunch at that school, or our favorite, join 24 of our first cousins and walk 2 blocks to 2 of our Aunts tenements and enjoy a delicious homemade hot lunch. We had soup, salad, meat, vegetables, and the most delicious homemade bread. Those two Aunts were loved by each of us. Desert was always something homebaked. If any one of us took ill. Mother Superior knew to send for the oldest cousin to take the sick child to the Aunts while a call was made to the appropriate family to advise who was not well. Our moms knew they would soon receive a call advising who was ill and what the malady could be. If it was deemed serious enough for the Dr. to be called his office was not far from the Aunts and he knew he had the authority to treat the ailment. I am so blessed to have these memories. I have over 75 first cousins, well over 150 second cousins, and I have given up counting the 3rd and 4th generation cousins. I wish today's children could enjoy meals as lovingly prepared as we had. Today it is all mystery food.

[@icecreamcake1457]

Sounds like a loving environment for the children. Where were you raised?

[@jeanmoore4021]

I remember eating lunch back then. It was good sometimes, but the peanut butter cookies, were awesome I haven't tasted anything like that since. The recipe must of gotten buried. My children had the same snack those cookies I'd give them extra money to get me a couple. I even worked in the lunchroom picked up trays cleaning tables I received my lunch free for that job.

[@glendarichardson5337]

I went to A school for handicapped Children in Detroit Michigan during The 60s and early 70s. Because of the program we children were in, all of us got a free lunch. And I admit it was very nutritious.

[@courtneypalmer53]

This video was so good. It brings back so many memories. You can tell everyone always loved the chocolate milk 😉. Rarely did you see anyone drinking out of the red milk cartons lol.

[@kiasky1]

He said, Look at this youngster. He can skip a meal or 2 or 3. LOL, if that was said today, the guy would be accused of fat shaming or bullying. The truth is the truth.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

I think his point was that you shouldn't fat shame, that fat people need regular meals too.

[@nicolehall56]

You did hear what he said afterward? He said that that wasn't true and he needed a healthy meal. You need to listen to the whole thing before you cast judgment.

[@kiasky1]

@@nicolehall56 Shut up. You need to mind your business. I said what I said.

[@nicolehall56]

@@kiasky1 yet one should consider the time period in which it was set...

[@tinytt854]

Black Panthers started the lunch program. Look it up.

[@toddmiller5656]

I once researched the Black Panthers and was amazed at the programs they created. I used to see this group as a pack of black militants who wanted to overthrow the government but after looking them up I have nothing but respect for them. They just wanted people to be taken care of.

[@carlmiller4376]

FACTS

[@valeriecheersbrown4829]

You are exactly right!

[@sweetgoldilocs2]

Alright nah, Karima 🤣🤣🤣

[@marylamb7707]

Todd Miller Think of how far it would have gotten without the militant part.

[@heathertea2704]

In INDIANA you had the option to go HOME FOR lunch. Which WE did MANY times. Unless it was BEEF MANHATTAN, PIZZA, or SLOPPY JOE days. Or YOUR crush 😜 stayed for lunch.

[@RCALivingStereo]

so true Heather we had Sloppy Joe day to ! :)

[@kemetdebgibson2875]

Yessss Ohio had that choice as well, lunches were 35cents and you got hot and cold lunch and chocolate or white milk.

[@mandysimmons2769]

I was a teacher's aide and it bothered me that I could not take a dry item ( like a roll or an apple ) off one kid's plate ( who did not want it from being picky eater or just not a super hungry lil kid ) and give it to the hungrier kid's who cleaned their plate and clearly could use another portion. I was told that was against the law. I would see kids get their free breakfast and not eat a bite of it yet they'd have a chips and a soda from the nearby convenience store. I wish I coulda given parts of those breakfasts to kids that gobbled theirs down. I don't mean fat kids but some of them were taller or ran more on the playground and just seemed to need more food in em! I'd see parents waiting in cars for kids too smoking or eating junk. I don't mind feeding hungry kids with my tax dollars but I just wish they'd eat what was served.

[@switchadoll2743]

..Fruit Cup ,Fish sticks with Ketchup. Sloppy Joes and Spice Cake!!👍👍

[@VOISMAGRSD]

Mmmmm! I sure can go for that!

[@venitakbennett-bonaparte1986]

Lunchroom Butter Cookies!!

[@thedaring5021]

Brother, I am happy you are doing well. Children should never have to go hungry. School staff should have "eyes" on struggling children.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

I was born in 1965,i was a baby then.It's very interesting to see what the US was like at that time.Greetings from Argentina.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was also a grade schooler back in 1966 as well. The school that I went to was right behind my parents' house, and I usually went home for lunch. But the kids who stayed brought their own lunches from home, and they ate in the classroom. (Sometimes I stayed at school for lunch as well.) We didn't eat in the cafeteria then. After lunch at home, I went back to school. We played outside until the bell rang at 12:30. Then we got in line in front of our classrooms, and then the teachers let us in.

[@hope_pill]

Goodness! Felt so happy reading your experience and then sad at the same time BC my jail kinda school in 2012ish had only 15 mint lunch. The moment you almost finish the second bread the bell rings! I really don't have any good memories of my school

[@Ali08]

My mom said the same thing during this time period. They could go home during lunch break, not to mention the hot meals was made at school too, not the crap many of my peers and I (and beyond) had in the 80s and 90s.

[@wishingstar84]

Saw a clip of this on Instagram, glad to find the whole video here!

[@choriajackson8004]

I miss school lunches..And,I been out of school,since 1991...and 46,now..but,I always felt bad for those kids,that couldn't, always, afford it...

[@RCALivingStereo]

wouldn't be a lunch without the ice cream scoop :) the memories :)

[@254brighteyes]

He showed out for talking about that boy can skip a meal or 3🤦🏾‍♀️😂

[@Michelle-jz8vl]

Imagine it being said out loud today on these freakin social media sites. Oh the backlash. Suing for millions..

[@teresathompson402]

He really did i said the same

[@back2the80s]

Kids that actually behave and show respect

[@justinpipes85]

No child should be charged for their lunch. This shit made me more sad than anything else. The Panthers had the right idea.

[@thecolorenhancmentchannel432]

I showed this to my Grandma and she said that’s how it was when she was growing up in school in the 1950’s and 60’s. She went to a private school in Cheektowaga, New York back then.

[@kimjohnson8471]

At 4:00 they are putting those sandwiches together commando style...no gloves!😊

[@thankthelord4536]

Very un-clean practice.

[@indiaannarie6023]

Didn't need it back then, people were trustworthy and clean.

[@nicolehall56]

They understood that the cost of gloves would have taken away from what they were giving to the kids. They also understood good hygiene practices like washing your hands.

[@tastyyummycutehomecooknepa9288]

No worries it's still clean then india

[@midknightfenerir]

@@tastyyummycutehomecooknepa9288 Shut up

[@richarddixon2918]

11:24 was throwing so much shade it blocked the Sun.

[@DetroitLives313]

This was not a hundred years ago. This was America when I was a kid. The richest country on Earth! Humph!

[@toddmiller5656]

It seemed like, in this film, the city schools with ideal facilities were primarily white while the not so ideal schools were primarily black. Oh, well. So much for 'separate but equal'.

[@DetroitLives313]

@Todd Miller That is not how it was everywhere. I was in school in those days. I had just started the year they made this film. My elementary school was completely integrated with about 50% black and 50% white students. It was not forced or even thing because that was how our neighborhood was. Everyone had black and white neighbors where I lived. In fact my school won a prestigious architectural award. It was made out of mostly glass blocks.

[@toddmiller5656]

@@DetroitLives313 I understand. I was just saying that that's how it seemed to me. Thank you for clarifying. Oh, incidentally, this film is literally the same age as I am.

[@DetroitLives313]

@Todd Miller No problem . I think they intentionally tried to make things look a bit more "desperate" than they actually were. Truth is, public schools were still pretty good in the sixties with new buildings going up in most cities during those years. I was in the kindergarten when this was made. Things started going down hill in the late 70s. I don't know if they ever recovered. There were NO school shootings in those days whatsoever.

[@toddmiller5656]

@@DetroitLives313 So,that would make your birth year 1961?

[@araisininthesun5958]

Before GMOs, that caused A.D.D, E.B.D. Before kids started throwing the food in the trash just because they fell like it.

[@garykaplan7728]

I went home for lunch except on days when lunch was pizza, hamburger or sloppy joes.

[@angelaequestrian7465]

I seriously miss those days what we did before eating was standing up behind the benches and waited for everyone and prayed and we said thank you to the lunch ladies we basically ate out side on wooden benches we had to finish our lunch before going to resess if we didn’t eat then we couldn’t go I missed it

[@ebonybruce6473]

Wow all teenage girls were going to grow up to be wives or mothers 😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamcarter1272]

Home school family! Keep your children out of these prisons! Because those days are over! They don't care about your children!

[@garealemcgill6967]

Never seen so many kids get off the bus lol

[@MakeYouTubeGreatAgain1]

It's going back to that. Meaning the lunches are now made, boxed/ packaged outside of the school. Took a bagged lunch, but the school hot ham and cheese sandwiches were tasty.

[@Yochanan_18]

Time stamp 11:40 “look at this youngster, he looks like he could miss a meal or three doesn’t he?”. LOLLLLLL, I didn’t expect the commentator to roast on here Lollllll.

[@coreylindsey2617]

Thanks to the black panthers

[@thankthelord4536]

I remember pump water down south as a child. That water tasted sweet!

[@chloeew4627]

Gotta love all the kids . Times were good when the children were happy .

[@bigbio8816]

What is that catchy flute riff playing at the beginning

[@stopcensorship7365]

We were watching these at school in the 80s 😂

[@7Miss4Bunny7]

“Bread, butter, and milk” 🙅🏾‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@tonimarie9985]

I love wathing this. Thank you❤

[@qychan6679]

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[@timothywilson6866]

Sealtest milk as well as all of Sealtest's dairy products were very popular when I was a youngster. Even though Sealtest was fazed out by Kraft Foods years ago, I still miss Sealtest!

[@MrSilas-xo9np]

School breakfast and lunch was very essential to me.

[@tonycollazorappo]

I miss these days, it seemed like they really cared about us. Unlike today but then again adults and children alike were different back then. A lot of kids today don't get feed at home or school, sadly.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

I think children at that time left school knowing to read and write properly.

[@elliecarrol2126]

No sight words, learn read phonetically. Reading increase vocabulary & teach writing skills; construct sentences etc. Pick up book, tweet forget how spell!

[@septiawoman2911]

Ellie Carroll, I agree with you.

[@RedForeman]

I remember in elementary we could only sit at our classes table during lunch . And we all walking in lines everywhere.. Thinking back on it it's so weird lol I stayed at the front because I was short 💔

[@rossicapone3]

Just like jail make the connection

[@bella-bj6cw]

oh man back then food was so good

[@courtneypalmer53]

Yes! I still remember my favorites like the Tater Tots, and the ham and cheese hoagies.

[@chuckemmorll2821]

Rural kids, bare foot in the 60s, now that's poverty. Those boys would be drafted, But at least they would have new boots.

[@ravingrays248]

I wish the school lunches where tasty in my day it was a miracle that the underfunded county schools I went to didn't do the route of oliver & feed us porridge orange county schools of the 80s & 90s.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

Those children were baby boomers.

[@daleandrews9356]

Yep, like me! Born in '52. I was 10 in '62, about when this was made. Segregation was the law of the land. I'll bet that same school where this was filmed is today 100% black. So are the times. They moved in, we moved out to the suburbs. And even FURTHUR out if they "followed" us to the 'burbs!

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

@@daleandrews9356 Were you born in the Deep South?.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

Aahh!!.To have gone to Vietnam marred the Great Society.A much better country could have raised.

[@back2the80s]

Dale Andrews piss off dale with your racist crap

[@RedForeman]

5:49 yeah... It's ite 😂

[@heathertea2704]

iam CHUUURCH.👏😹👏 And look at ALL THAT WHITE BREAD KIDS ate. Or like my FAMILY called it, "LIGHT BREAD."

[@chadwickwhite6107]

So THIS is what life was like when my Dad was growing up.

[@qychan6679]

you can't teach a hungry child race and color does matter...THE HUMAN RACE AND THE RED COLOR OF OUR BLOOD...

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

I know we usually get lunch for our houses but somehow we brought lunch boxes just to be serve there. sometime parents had to save half of the food for dinner. yes it's a bit hard times.

[@bethphillips5997]

Anybody miss the green jello with cabbage on top???LOL

[@russharold307]

This was me in the '60s!

[@anndeecosita3586]

I don’t think my mom’s school participated in this program in the 60svbecause she talks about this boy who used to beg people for their lunches. She said the cafeteria lunches were delicious home cooking type meals. She grew up in a small Southern town that also didn’t offer bus service. Her dad would send her and her sisters to school in a cab.

[@thewordkeeper]

Mmmm! I remember those days. My favorite was any kind of pasta with meatballs or meat sauce. I remember once a kid said to me *_if it has tomato sauce on it you'll eat it won't you? I said yep!_* To this day my favorite dish is spaghetti with meatballs. 99.9%, if not 100%, of we/us kids didn't know a thing about eating "healthy." Doesn't mean we ate everything, we all had our favorites. But that meat sauce sent me!

[@thewordkeeper]

Let me add this to my previous comment. When I was in Middle School in St Louis Instead of using money to buy our lunches they had these coin tokens called checks or cheques we would have to buy. I remember how there were these tough guys in my class who used take our "checks." They had this system in the back of the class, just like in the movies kinda' like extortion or paying protection not to get beat up. Not by other kids but by them! The head tough would call the weaker or scared kids, yep me, to the back and without any resistance or protest we would hand over our tokens. Seems like they had them stacked up to the ceiling on a school desk. Now this was way before my Bruce Lee phase some years later. That's when I would fight anybody anytime. Plus I got hooked up with some unsavory guys in the inner city, but I digress; that's another story. Back then though, I ran from everybody. If they looked like they were going to hurt me I was in the Wind! I remember once for a spell the leader of those tough guys didn't show up in class. Man for one glorious week I ate like a king! LOL! Now in my 60s from my younger days till now there have been phases of eating this and not eating that, obsessing over ingredients in food to not giving a rip about what I ate. That's life I guess.

[@SunnyDee60]

Why the black kids get cold sandwiches/bagged lunches & everyone else get hot food? Then they had the nerve to say the cake was the carbs! Really?🤔. Wow! See how they do us? Just wrong...😳🤨😏. B.t.w...I love ur channel. I have recently become a ReelBlack junkie. I'm hooked ♥️♥️♥️👍🏾.

[@reelblack]

Thank u Dee 🤜🏿♥️🤛🏿

[@SunnyDee60]

@@reelblack My Pleasure ♥️

[@jaymillymills]

I agree but if you noticed there were poor white kids eating those bag lunches as well

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

@@jaymillymills actually they were eating hot food off plates.

[@summerrose4286]

Did you watch the video? They didn't have kitchen facilities. They had a delicious and nutritious packed lunch, much like what I took almost every day. Why is that bad?

[@yawaisnatural4344]

Future job as wives and mothers???!!!!!! These damn men!!🤦🏽

[@felipev1537]

Igual eran 54 años antes

[@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927]

yes? Most women still would love to be in that position... feminism agenda silencing their voices.

[@muhammad.zeeshanuddin1935]

@Tony Vans What's wrong with marriage.

[@bella-bj6cw]

when school wasnt online classes like now days we had good food like them we followed type A salad potatoes steak vegtables sandwhiches and fruit also brownies and real milk i always eat school lunch cause they give it out everyday the same thing

[@monkeymech3078]

Wow. The look of these kids faces. No hate, just tryna make it. If we was more united n thought like we do now back n the day, we'll probably have flying cars by now...Better now than never. We all struggle the same way. Why alotta of us hate each other so much?

[@Only1Katrazz]

This man said school lunch was no more or less than 30¢.

[@elliecarrol2126]

Cafeteria lunch Hi school mid 60's .35 cent (quarter + dine)

[@gorgeouslady5612]

I liked the honey peanut butter! Biscuits and Eggs!. We were so poor I wore High waters to school!. It was always flooding!. Ya heard me!.

[@InFltSvc]

I hate to se anyone go hungry, but I really hurt to see children and older people go hungry. This should never happen in the 21st century and yet it does.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Those kids are all in their 60's and 70's today.

[@TheJ0k0r50]

2:07 that kid did NOT want to sit next to the one sitting down lol

[@stopcensorship7365]

He fat shamed that guy 😂

[@breathnstop]

no crappy plastic forever containers either. all biodegradable packaging. someone to care, what better way to spend the country's riches, the narrator asks. i would say we can ask the same question today when they want to take food out of children's mouths to pay for war.

[@kcmthedesigner]

"Future jobs as wives and mothers" @ 11:00 ..oh wow smh 😱

[@PoppONayaShelly]

huh? when did it become a bad thing to be a wife or mother? geezus

[@kcmthedesigner]

@@PoppONayaShelly I was referring to them only labeling women as wives and mothers during that time frame. Women can be anything they want and hold any career they choose.

[@bigvalley4987]

Kristan McArthur Dated film. That was the primary job. However that is right we can also and do much more.

[@aliveby7140]

Kristan McArthur Super liberal woman get back to the kitchen and fix your man a meal and make sure your child has done their homework.

[@kcmflygurl]

​@DLH, what a stupid comment. Duh, we know the film is old and so is your backwoods mindset. Go relax yourself.

[@KerryJames-l6z]

I was born 1968 I remember hardships mom being war baby dad served during world war two

[@ingridb6190]

Amazing

[@gorgeouslady5612]

Why don't Some kids bring their Own lunch to School in 2019!. If the Parent can afford a phone!. You can afford lunch meat! Cheese and bread!.

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

Gorgeous Lady AMEN!but they do t want to hear that. as Dave chapelle had said, people like to hear the truth but they dont it want coming from you. well if their lives are hurt they better not call to me.

[@annettebrown9489]

Gorgeous Lady 🤓🎻🎻🎻

[@lashoncoleman4924]

Gorgeous Lady, who the fuck asked you?

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

@@lashoncoleman4924 youre poor

[@ewalker1057]

Teenage girls with future jobs of wife and mother. Sounds funny today.

[@jimmyrodasmolestina979]

Lunches in NYC s PS 54 was always Free !!!

[@vx4982]

Being only child, Always paid for my lunch. Kids hated me. Maybe cuz I was Native American and my parents own a trailer park business.

[@welfaredad]

Black Panthers started this.

[@fatcat1967]

Black panthers started free lunch program.they started tje breakfast program

[@septiawoman7687]

I thought that the 'Panthers implemented the free breakfast program in Oakland?

[@KelleyM462]

@3:45 do schools today have "school nutritionists?"

[@WoRm_WoRm222]

There’s usually health programs or health classes now

[@ArchAngel673]

"Future jobs as wives and mothers" .....Ok, i get it was the sixties, but come on dude!

[@KingyHiatuses]

"future job as wives and mothers" whoaaa

[@gorgeouslady5612]

Documentaries a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record of events.

[@johnnybrown8064]

The cramp they serve our children today is a disgrace. I miss the good ole days.

[@back2the80s]

Slop food today