If you grew up in the 1960s...you remember this - PART 1

[@cindysmalley1287]

My most prominent memory is the feeling of independence as a kid! We would hop on our bikes and explore all day, come home and eat dinner, rush back out, then have to be home when the street lights came on! It was a great time to be a kid! Ignorance is bliss and w/out the dangers of the world on our radars, we were mighty blissful!

[@garthtimmins2852]

My friends and I went all over town on our bikes, and only came home at dinner time. I still have fond memories of my first bike. We all had BB guns too. Many of today's parents would be horrified at the amount of freedom that we had. In spite of that, we not only survived, but most of us turned out all right.

[@eddiea.2909]

Same...we would play manhunt throughout the neighborhood and threw rocks at cars...we would run if the person got out and chased us!

[@eddiea.2909]

@@Neil-ht8fv I had good parents...The kid I hung out with was a little devil though...We did it a couple of times and I was kind of caught up in being friends with this kid - He was cool n popular. I feel guilty now but nothing major happened so only good memories. The most fun was manhunt though and being out roaming free in The whole neighborhood. There would be a group of us guys/girls from my school..We were all together catholic school from 1st to eight grade..I grew up in 80s graduated in 91..Just a fun free time being young not afraid and enjoying outside adventures.

[@eddiea.2909]

Oh and yes on Halloween we used to go bombing and I along with my friends threw eggs at a car n the guy chased us and threw an egg and hit me in the eye...Lucky I wasn't shot as you said...I live in NYC Staten Island and this happened in 87?...I was not a fan of bombing but I did a couple of times..

[@susannahkreher7270]

Truth

[@davidk8457]

I was born in 1957 ... our neighborhood was full of kids everywhere. We played from 7 in the morning to dinner time when my mom would yell a kinda tarzan call to get us! I remember how long summer felt and we were allowed to stay up longer at night. I remember going to the drive in movie in our pajama's and dad would drop the tail gate and we would eat popcorn mom would make. I remember going to the beach all day long and mom wold pack our sammy's and for a treat she would give us each a dime and we could get any treat we wanted at the stand. I remember the day President Kennedy was shot and seeing my dad cry for the first time. I remember having my Nana and aunt Tiss and aunt MImi and uncle Geno over for every birthday and every holiday. I remember how simple my life was. I remember how much my parents did sacrifice for us. I remember it all and I thank you !

[@brianreber8842]

Thanks for sharing. This sounds very special.

[@kp0121]

I remember a little black kid getting lynched by the KKK. Only in Amerikkka

[@davidk8457]

@@kp0121 I remember a little black kid that became a multi multi millionaire ... only in America buddy

[@kp0121]

@David K yea they had house negroes back in the day too

[@wilsonle61]

Yup, we used to raise free-range kids. Taught judgement and self-sufficeincy early!

[@Agwings1960]

The nice thing about growing up in the 60's, was growing up in our own little world, instead of the whole world at one time.

[@puffpinki]

jealous

[@toshiojohnston3732]

So true kids today see too much we never got to see until age approriate.

[@alecfoster5542]

Beautifully put.

[@mwalker3547]

Nailed it.

[@happilyeverafterenterprise2239]

YYYES!

[@roguewarr4662]

As I sit here and watch this video ,I truly miss growing up in the 60s .I honesty don't think today's world is better.

[@jodyjackson5475]

It’s way worse.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

but you couldn't identify with your affirming gender, or be safe from triggering words, and lawn darts were everywhere, falling out of the sky, ready to maim everyone!

[@kimharbaugh]

My cousins and I spent a lot of time looking for empty soda bottles in our little town, then turning them In at the grocery store to get change, and then spending it at the candy store. Those were good times!

[@bigdambluesband6295]

I think we all did that. Lived in a small town and would walk half mile down the road to a station and you had to get six bottles. One cent deposit each and you got to the station and got a coke for 5 cents and a penny for the deposit and walked home, saving the bottle of course when it was empty.

[@howardkerr8174]

I remember that from the 50s, more than the 60s.

[@UndergroundPrimate]

We used to go door to door asking for them.

[@cmonkey63]

I'd do that in our small town, remember how rich I felt the first time I held a dollar worth of pennies and nickels in my hand.

[@ncd3165]

rock n roll plank and 6 oz coke 10 cents...

[@emmah6045]

Early 60's in suburbs, summer days, moms sitting on the front porch chatting with one another while the kids caught lightening bugs and put them in jars, or played hide and go seek. The whole neighborhood outside enjoying the cooler evenings. The ice cream truck came by playing music and all the kids begging their parents for some money to get their favorite treat.

[@KC73]

Best thing about the 60s was we got air conditioning. My high school was full of drugs. There were civil rights battles, Viet Nam, segregation, women had fewer rights. Many things are better today.

[@josorr]

My favorite was the Rainbow Bomb Pop... I guess because it was the biggest!

[@michaelbrabant5326]

Caught lightening bugs in Sumter south Carolina

[@deeasztalos2520]

I grew up in the 60s. I miss those days SO much. Sometimes I cry when I think back.

[@josephasner171]

Dee Aszlalos I feel the same way.

[@josephasner171]

Dee Asztalos: I also grew up n the 1960s. I also miss those days so much. except the Viet Nam war(the only thing about the 60s I Don't miss).

[@mikeromero8162]

Yes I know what you mean.

[@rckkeller9437]

We were blessed to have grown up during that time. I miss the innocence of that era and I always will.

[@ceciliaandrews5494]

Born "57 baby boomer and this really hits so many great memories, even for a lower middle class black child. Pops did have a station wagon in which we took summer trips to visit family (either Detroit or Birmingham). We as kids walked to school and took public bus everywhere safely (nobody got shot, robbed or snatched). We moved into a home in '69 and every household on the block had children of various ages. Have kept in touch with so many neighbors and had great conversations about the almost idyllic childhood atmosphere we grew up in. In summer we rode our huffy and banana bikes to the corner lot and played softball games with kids from other blocks, and in the summer months could sit on the neighbor's "hang-out" porch (when the street lights came on had to be on the block) goofing off and laughing with each other all night. Parents did indeed talk with each other (and have their own get togethers at times) and know exactly where we were. It was definitely a simpler time.😊

[@wallacegeller2111]

I'm with you. It was a better time. Alot less people and my golly, how did we get along without cell phones, microwave ovens and only 1 to 3 TV stations. I was born 1947 but we made it through. I hope you are having a great life. I'm retired and my wife and I live at Sun City, Arizona. I have 9 grandchildren. God Bless.

[@ericcampbell6261]

All hail "57."

[@patriciamcneel1737]

It's funny you mentioned summer trips to visit relatives. We were a family of 8 and I never remember a real vacation like ppl do now days. Our family vacations were always to visit relatives. It was great... thanks for memories, thanks for the love!

[@philipputt]

Thank you, born 1953. I had great parents also. My Dad was a Marine in WWII, (several island D-Days), yet my brother and I never heard him talk about it. My Mom had been a music teacher, but I think back then, if you were married, you couldn't teach (Leftover from the '30's, to give men a job). But my Mother taught piano to every kid in the neighborhood, (it seemed), and I got corralled into it my my Dad. The girls Loved my Mom, my buddies gave me grieve and a hard time. I wonder how many wish they could play today? (I can't). Years later, I was doing some remodeling on a very nice home, and the husband started playing the piano in another room. I had to bite my finger very hard to keep from laughing , because he was playing " Putt-Putt-goes-the-motor-boat!!!!! THE VER FIRST LESSON IN MY MOTHER"S teaching books!!!!! And he was 78 years-old!! Now I say, Great for Him!!!! Thanks goodness my Mom was still alive, and I was able to tell her about it, and tell her I wish I had done better.

[@johnfroelich8554]

I was born in 57 also. Those sixties are long, long gone...

[@aprilholton1150]

Oh the memories!!! I was talking with my brother last week about us playing outside ALL day~ Our neighborhood had so many children of different ages and we played many different games outside. Baseball, inny-inny over, tag, bicycling, skateboarding to name a few. We walked A LOT and pretty far sometimes, usually going home for lunch. If we missed lunch we would get fruit off someone's tree (everyone had fruit trees), or go to someone's garden. Everyone was friendly and didn't mind us doing that. I just realized something: I don't remember anyone being overweight back then, maybe chubby but not like you see today. So sad those times are over...............I miss them.

[@moealbert7339]

I grew up in 50s and 60s and reason being that most people are chubby is because for one is lack of activity with kids being on cell phones and those video games and mothers cooked for their children and families would sit together at the table.Nowadays they go to fast food high calorie food places to eat.I do not hardly remember going out to eat only a few times.We did the same things you talked about and more,hide and seek,kick the can,wrestle,run races,football basketball,getting into mischief because we were no angels.I do feel sorry for my grand kids for not having this kind of upbringing,for there is nothing for them in this modern day culture.It was not all peaches and creme but it was great being a boy back in the day.I wish these kids could make memories like this in order to have something to cling on to later in life.

[@thommysides4616]

It's because many of our foods today are made from GMO's! Our food is fake and has been genetical modified!!!

[@josephasner171]

April Holton: I miss them too. so sad those times are gone.

[@cheekycupcake5524]

April, I miss them too. We had so some much fun then, I makes me so sad that our children have never enjoyed those kinds of days

[@shylahmariebrandt2090]

Inny inni??

[@wallacegeller2111]

I was born in 1947 and I remember the 50s and 60s very well. I graduated from high school at Northside High School in 1966 Fort Wayne, Indiana. I then went into the Marines for four years and I went to Vietnam. Coming home from Vietnam was one of the happiest days of my life. I came home March 1969. My Dad cried and my Mom cried and would not let go of me for about 5 minutes. In

[@rzorbcksfan5747]

Semper Fi brother, and welcome home. I served as a Marine at the end of Viet Nam.

[@pattyfarghaly1821]

Thank you Sir for service. I'm glad you made it home. My step brother did to at a mental cost . ⭐️⭐️

[@cynthiaweston767]

Thank you for your service, glad you made it home,a few of my classmates didn't, we were born in 47 as well.

[@brianreber8842]

Thanks for sharing and for your service. I am glad you came home alive.

[@cindyreeves5048]

Thank you for your service!

[@billyg1640]

60s was a great time to be a kid 70s was a great time to be a teenager 80s was a great time to be a young adult 90s was a great time to be a parent 2000 was a great time to start growing old... it's been a Wonderful Life😎

[@wilsonle61]

Amen, I was on that same Timeline!

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

If you were not a minority :v

[@TayDays1128]

@@iamaloafofbread8926 my minority family members who grew up around that time would disagree

[@1980dandeb]

Except now our children and grand children are inheriting our debt and seeming contempt for one another. I think we were poor keepers of the gate. Not seein the Wonderful.

[@tababobebe7639]

The great times seem to have ended 23 years ago.

[@marymcnulty367]

It was a wonderful exciting time, probably never to be repeated! Glad I grew up in this time.

[@jackiereamy4871]

You have my Grandma's name, LoL

[@susancerroni6671]

Me too!!

[@hollygolightly7475]

The greatest!!

[@josephasner171]

Mary Mcnulty: Me too.

[@retmachinist]

never be repeated for real only in the minds of us . when my grandson comes , in a few months , he will be saying the same thing in 2085 !!! Good day mam

[@1mespud]

Back in those days during summer vacation from school, I'd be out all-day long adventuring and bicycling with the gang, and I only came home just to get a quick drink from the water hose from around back and without even thinking of going inside because I went directly right back to the fun only to return home later right before the streetlights came on.

[@azia5051]

And now you don’t see that now days cause of “ phone and video games”.

[@1mespud]

@@azia5051 True. But then again, we're all products of our environment and era.

[@josephgaviota]

Ah, yes, drinking from the hose. I should be drain bamagged from how many gallons of that I drank. Instead, in my mid '60s, I'm still programming web pages. I guess that "drinking from the hose" didn't cause as much damage as they like to say. (?)

[@azia5051]

@1mespud you are right.

[@whatsname2649]

U must have lived nextdoor to me. Only 'gang' back then meant a bunch of 12 yr. old kids playing softball, as opposed to cartel affiliats.

[@armadillotoe]

I was born in 1952, so I was transitioning out of childhood when some of these were popular. Does anyone remember when kids could have chemistry sets? I was so excited to get one.

[@2011Ecstatic]

Yes, my brother, a year younger than I, got one for a birthday or Xmas gift. He & my other bros were only supposed to use it under strict adult supervision, but I seem to recall they got carried away with an exploding experiment in the basement once!

[@voiceofreason7856]

My older brother had a chemistry set and he was ALWAYS making 'stink bombs' that smelled like sulphur ! I think it's one of the reasons my Mum made him finally get rid of it ! LOL

[@slactweak]

Yep, I had one. Those things were way more dangerous than I remember them being but MAN, they were FUN.

[@mrtunapie6653]

Yes, I had a chemistry set as well and fast forward, I am now a retired chemistry tech... LOL

[@joycegreer9391]

1953 here.

[@midnightrider7648]

Let's not fail to mention the great soundtrack to the 60's. We'll never hear the compilation of music from bands like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who... the lineup goes on.

[@sectionalsofa]

Yes!... And even the top 40 pop bands on AM radio were great: The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons, The Loving Spoonful and of course all of Motown and R&B. Hail Aretha and the Temptations.

[@2ksbill724]

I remember the big green, blue and red bulbs that were always hot on the Christmas tree and the tinsel that was saved year after year. The metal pedal cars and tractors were super cool to have, but the pedals hard to push

[@retmachinist]

right ...don't forget when 1 bulb went out all went out .... took time to fine the bad bulb

[@sl8605]

How could I forget the tinsel...smh

[@tobascoheat6582]

Yeah, and most people had REAL Christmas trees, not artificial ones. The smell of the tree would get on the ornaments. I can remember helping my dad get the box of ornaments out of the attic and how it smelled when we opened it to decorate the tree! Nice memory.

[@tobascoheat6582]

@@retmachinist No, the deal of one bulb going out and causing the whole string to go out wasn't until later. The big red, green, blue and white bulbs on the two strands of wiring (one black and one white) were easy to deal with, because I can remember through the Christmas season, when I noticed that a bulb was out, I would dig the small box of replacement bulbs out of the box of ornaments and replace it. No sweat!

[@vstu7643]

Oh yes those lights that dried out the real trees. The tinsel was shredded aluminum foil which our family put on the tree one strand at a time 🤦🏼‍♀️. Yes, it was taken off thr same way (that became my responsibility by default - mom would say the end of January and once February “if this tree isn’t out of here by the time I get home from work, it will be the last time we ever have a tree” I fell for that all the time.

[@tomf429]

I remember laying in the back of a station wagon on a long road trip. My parents would put the back window down a couple of inches to let the smoke out.

[@scott1395]

I remember lying on the rear deck between the back of the back seat and the back glass and staring at the sky as we took Sunday country drives, mostly dirt roads!!! I used to ride standing up next to my dad and my head wouldn't touch the headliner! If he had to stop suddenly he would hold his arm out to block me! Learned to drive when I was 8 yrs old! By 10 I was driving by myself and dad in passenger seat coaching me as we went Long! He used to say things like: if you're going in the ditch don't snatch the steering wheel, be graceful with it. You won't loose control that way!!! And many other things!!!

[@pitman6992]

It's hilarious to me how none of us ever knew that we walked around smelling like an ashtray for years!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@sl8605]

I rememer almost crying my eyes burned so bad.

[@cindyp5703]

@@sl8605 and wedding receptions were the WORST for cig smoke!! Yuck!

[@kathyohara6658]

😂😂😅

[@elviscobb5922]

I was born in 1959. Every evening after the late,late movie the TV station would sign off by playing the National Anthem. Then this big red dot would flash on the screen. Every night on the news would be an update from the war in Vietnam. I also remember the milkman coming one morning during the week. My brothers and sisters would hope my mother had a little extra money to purchase us a box of ice cream treats. Our favorite was ice cream sandwiches.

[@monkeywkeys3916]

Very cool. TV was concluded for the day by the national anthem 🇺🇸 and fresh milk in the morning.

[@frankbloom9533]

Building push carts to run on sidewalks out of wood and wagon wheels.

[@lauradaly8020]

I drank Tang as a child, and I also ate Space Food Sticks. My parents and I went to drive-in movies in a station wagon.

[@lauradaly8020]

I watched Ed Sullivan's Show when The Beatles made their debut. I liked George Harrison until he died in 2001. I had a Barbie doll, and a Troll doll, as well. I do remember watching all of the Space Program news coverage, and I remember when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I played Twister, but I was never very good at it.

[@davidgiancoli2106]

I was also born in 1959. I remember the Troll dolls (my mother had one), and we called them Kyoupie dolls.

[@davecollins6350]

Born in 61.... Still can't believe our country has came to this!

[@dalhousieDream]

*has come to...and you are right about this country now.

[@jeffsmith14]

I can. It’s better now

[@sunshineimperials1600]

@@jeffsmith14In what way?

[@maureendrozda9960]

Meeee 2!

[@rickjensen2833]

Your old, I'm only 60. Campbell,san Jose.

[@notenoughprepping]

I am blessed with being born in 1955, growing up in the 60s was the best. I had the banana bike and clipped poker cards to the bike to make that awesome sound. I was outside sun up to sun down. My parents had a 62 Buick that was like a tank. We had only 1 black and white tv and were happy. Charlie brown was a must during the holidays.

[@operadog2000]

We had one B/W TV, and my father often repaired it by going to a local electronics store, Quement Electronics, to test the tv tubes. He had a schematic of the electronics so he was able to narrow down the problem to a couple of tubes. Most of the products in those days could be repaired, and very seldom was anything of value tossed into the trash. Those were the days when there were "repair" shops, shoe cobblers, and most women wore and made their own dresses. Great memories!

[@Alkebulani_Shujaa]

I hear you. I wasn't born till 1970 but it seems we enjoyed much of the same. I had a Banana bike called the Huffy Clean Machine. My family had a 1972 Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon. Much outdoor time and working in the yard with my Dad. Definitely a different time. We took the good with the bad.

[@operadog2000]

@@beadyeye2312 Wow, you have reminded me of memories that I had forgotten. I was born in 1960, and I too remember adjusting the TV antenna on the roof, the rabbit ears on the back of the TV, and yes, the scrap yard with cars in which my dad would hunt for car parts. My sister and I would go into all of the cars and look for lost change behind the seat cushions and be happy if we left with fifty cents in change-we thought that we were rich. I pulled weeds and picked up dog poop in the back yard for 25 cents an hour, and I was very happy to earn the money. Those were indeed good times in which most kids were instilled with values and respect for everyone, and especially the adults. All the best to you!!!

[@mr.bnatural3700]

I remember all the kids riding around on shiny bikes with sparkling spokes. They looked like beautiful Angels floating around and zipping by; What a wondrous sight to see. It seemed like a miracle that anyone could balance on just two wheels; but we all knew they were clever.

[@Kelle0284]

What exactly was a banana bike? Was it yellow?

[@michellejoy6752]

The 60’s truly were “The Wonder Years”.

[@tomsampson8084]

No, they really weren't. It is only those of us who were children back then that think that. The sixties were possibly the last time the Country was as divided as it is today. One can only hope some semblance of civility will make a comeback in order for the Country to survive.

[@mikegalvin9801]

Born in 54 my twin worked out we were same age as Winnie and Kevin on the Wonder Years as well as Sally on Mad Men. As for the "division" thing, we kids were only vaguely aware of politics, one sign of a healthier world. I do remember President Kennedy being killed. We were let out early from school. Mom was crying even though she was a Republican because we were all Americans first and foremost.

[@ntvypr4820]

@@tomsampson8084 The 60's was where America learned it could not trust it's govt. implicitly anymore as most had done in times past (think of WWII and that era's one mind flip from NO involvement in WW prior, to, but after Pearl Harbor, we gotta get ALL the bastards) because it came out they were lying about almost everything. Especially the Vietnam war. Most of the troops destined for there were trained at ft. Polk, Louisiana and I lived 7 miles from there growing up in the 60's. I saw those guys in town and I felt badly for them. Especially later when they were mistreated coming home but mostly how it was just murdering most of them. And the govt. was lying about it all.

[@ntvypr4820]

The 70's weren't bad to me. My teens were in the latter part, 80's my 20's.

[@mikegalvin9801]

@@ntvypr4820 The Dazed and Confused era of our younger siblings. I sometimes think you were at the last century's sweetest sweet spot in terms of birth dates.

[@jimwelsh997]

I want to go back to those days in the 60s and 70s and stay there the music was a hell of a lot better and it was so simple

[@cindyp5703]

Great music....the best music ever came out of the 1960's.

[@rzorbcksfan5747]

The music was really great. I listened to WHBQ A M station out of Memphis. It was not unusual to hear rock song followed by a folk tune. Then you might hear a Mowtown followed by a Country tune. It was all great music, and we loved it. A lot of those muscians are still making great musicm but we are losing more and more of them every year.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

@@rzorbcksfan5747 This was a normal format for radio stations throughout the nation. One would hear a Beatles sing, followed by a country ditty, then a jazz number, then Petula Clark, then Motown and then a song popular in Europe. One received a good cross current of different musical genres.

[@rjk8008]

I wish I could go back, so lucky to have grown up during this time.

[@janetpitts7302]

I was born in 60' and when we were growing up we went outside in morning riding our bikes all day just going around neighborhood finding kids to play with and back home when streetlights came on, no worries no cares just having fun, we made our own fun sadly this isn't done today! I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything!! Thank you!

[@dustysdad801]

I remember A&W drive in restaurants with car hop trays on the windows . Also transistor radios. Great times. And don't forget Cox small gas planes and cars.

[@cheriehawthorne9246]

I lived for the A&W drive-in and lunch with Dad at the Officers' Club. Shirley Temples for me. Wonderful memories 💖

[@matrox]

We had Hot Shoppes and Might Mo Drive ins with car hops.

[@Setebos]

To this day I cannot drink A&W unless it's served in a big frosted mug.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

I got my first transistor radio as a birthday present in 1962 when I turned 7. That was love for me. My parents loved me enough to get me a transistor radio. Wow.

[@lauramichael4958]

Yeah the A&W drive in was great. We moved to Michigan from TN. to pick fruit and my Dad would take us there to eat afterwards. Those hamburgers were so good and the mug root beer's were too.

[@Jollyprez]

Cap guns with the red paper that you tore off as it was used-up. Or, you could drop a rock on one sitting on the sidewalk to get it to pop....

[@cjon4256]

I loved the smell of those caps when they went off.

[@tomf429]

They also had rockets with a small piston at the tip to load caps into. You threw them up in the air and when they hit the sidewalk they went bang.

[@brianfergus839]

@@tomf429 we called them grenades

[@marycook1644]

@@cjon4256 I was just thinking about how l also loved that smell !! When we played Dale Evans and Roy Rodgers, we definitely used those caps for the guns in our holsters !! 🐎

[@Dallas_K]

I would cut them out and use a toothpick to stuff them into cigarettes. I was a devil!

[@kathleenmenendezburgess8439]

This was a wonderful walk down memory lane. I can’t stop smiling. Thanks for taking me back to a happy innocent joyful time. Glad I had those experiences.

[@brianreber8842]

Memory lane is special to me, too. I just turned 60 in December, and wish I could go back....I am close to tearing up just remembering the happier times as a child, then the stress of current reality sets in. I do no want to live like this anymore. It seems we have to struggle to find a little good or happiness anymore, but the bad and negative in life just jumps out at you. The 1960's were much simpler, happier. Technology has become the downfall of humankind.

[@markharris5107]

Our most common way to listen to music was 45rpm small records we called "45's" that had an A side (good song) and a "B" side (usually a crummy song). You would stack them up on a special tube that fit over the thin post used for lp's (33rpm) and they would fall down one at a time and play on top of the other one.

[@birdsfan57]

Yep! Those old record players...they played 45's, 78' s, 33's, and albums (but in Mono, not Stereo...albums were sold in both versions...my Monkees albums were all Mono).

[@bluemouse5039]

I never took care of my records , I would stack them on top of each other with no covers then they would get so scratched I had to put a penny on the needle to stop them from skipping , by then the sound quality had diminished to the point where you could barely hear the music thru the hissing and static

[@thirzapeevey2395]

There were quite a few B side hits. Some of them weren't hits, but they weren't bad. I still sing the B side of David Soul's "Don't Give Up on Us."

[@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time]

That's right, and if you left a 45 out in the sun too long and played it afterwards, you could watch the needle arm go up and down as the record played.

[@jaf8771]

I collect vintage phonographs. My favorite would be one I just purchased on Ebay for $400.00 that was restored. It's a 45 rpm RCA player made in 1956...which only plays 45's. Next favorite would be a Crobra-Matic suitcase style....made in the late 50s....very heavy player. The sound quality of this thing is amazing. Plus, I have 1000- 45's and about 500- record albums. Sad part is....I doubt either of my nephews would be interested in inheriting the players or records.

[@GreatDataVideos]

I remember my parents saying, "See the Beatles" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was looking for bugs and said, "I don't see any beetles." I also remember that I watched As the World Turns with my mother. I remember when it was interrupted to say that President Kennedy was shot. My mother cried, and later when my father came home, he was crying. I had never seen him cry before. The sixties were a mixture of good and bad, but still better than today.

[@tomf429]

Going back a bit further. Ed Sullivan, Sunday night, 1956. Watching Elvis Presley for the first time perform Hound Dog. My grandfather said, “in a couple of years, people will be saying Elvis who?” Boy, was he wrong.

[@kevinbuja4373]

You mention the Beetles. I remember my parents said they were going to watch, “The Birds” and I thought they were going to watch, “The Byrds”.

[@allenwatkins4972]

There was sure no crying in our house. Somewhat the opposite.

[@philipputt]

I was in 2nd grade and all the mothers came to pick us up in the middle of the day, they never did it before, we either walked or took the bus. A very long weekend as I remember. At lease it seem I a weekend, seeing Oswell shot on live TV, different times.

[@tomf429]

@@philipputt Oswald. I was in 7th grade.

[@marknesselhaus4376]

I was born in late 56 so the 60's were my years. You all nailed this video spot on for me :-D

[@whatsname2649]

A fellow '56er. I used to ride the tailgate of our 1964 olds dynamic 88 station wagon. Try that now. The 21st century sucks, in spite of internet & all other advances. Gimme 1965 again. I can dream.

[@marknesselhaus4376]

@@whatsname2649 You got that right but the one thing I do not miss is getting into a hot car at the beach and your sunburned bare legs are on the hot vinyl seat covers..... That I'll pass on ;-)

[@Cryo837]

born in 53 and yea this really nailed the 60's. Golden age of America was end of Korean War to late 60's when all the turmoil started. I feel blessed to have grown up in such a great time. I feel very sorry for kids today.

[@whatsname2649]

@@Cryo837 I'm w that 100%. Great time. Economy booming, ppl more respectful, if u were lucky enuf to have been from middle class family u had the world by the tail. Much less restrictions!!!! Less government interference. I'll take those memories to the grave.

[@patmosrevelation5250]

Me too. I was born in 1957. This was a wonderful time to grow up. Riding my bike everywhere, coming home at dark after playing all day with my friends. My grandma even left her car keys in the ignition when she went to the store. No, the 60s weren’t perfect but a lot safer than now.

[@thomastaylor6699]

One of the best things about growing up in the 60's was the trust you had towards everyone. As a kid, I trusted total strangers to help me out, and they did! You don't find that kind of trust nowadays.

[@scottr3484]

My neighbor told me Jesus in coming and 50 years later he has not arrived. I guess he is stuck in traffic,

[@1977WasPeak]

​@@scottr3484he will but no one knows when, probably when we least expect it

[@su-rv2uq]

Oh so many of these are blasts from the past. Jiffy Pop, Banquet TV dinners, Clue and Operation, magic rocks, three channels on the tv which went off at night, drinking from the hose, playing in the sprinkler, the back part of the station wagon being our place to play or lie down, Saturday morning cartoons, Quisp and Quake, biking all over the place, girls having to wear dresses to school and alot of the rest of the time, busy signals on the phone, troll dolls, hula hoops!

[@AnnaD25]

Battery operated record player that fit on shoulder, and walked the neighborhood playing my favorite song>>> Daydream Believer by the Monkees...💕

[@brookeshaffer4377]

That's funny you mentioned Daydream Believer.I saw a documentary on the Monkees recently and can't get that song out of my head😁

[@AnnaD25]

@@brookeshaffer4377 My favorite song back then, and I had a major crush on Davy Jones🙂

[@karensteck3800]

I was a kid in the sixties, was a great time to grow up.

[@srbaruchi]

Best thing about being a kid in the '60s: (With exceptions) our parents and grandparents were still alive!

[@cameltube-vk7el]

ha ha, roger that !!!

[@Music-tk5oq]

These days, great grandparents & even great great grandparents can still be living.

[@toshiojohnston3732]

So true all of my people are gone except for 1 brother out of 2 plus friends parents,neighbors,teachers celebrities etc all are gone.hang are to your memories that all we have in the end and at some point give up the reality but never the dream or memories.

[@cameltube-vk7el]

@@toshiojohnston3732 brother I hear ya, lost 2 younger brothers over the past year & the youngest of us 4, my sister is still alive. We started calling each other now once a week-[ish] to make sure the other is still breathing oxygen lol. We both have a down line[children] while the 2 brothers that passed were single never married & no children. IDK if that made a diff but, yeah I turn 63 this year & realizing I thought I would be dead by 40 but dam man I could be here another 20 . . . . . . . maybe he he. AlwaysForward~Godspeed

[@paranormalskeptic3893]

This is so true, lost my Mom in 2021, so these videos are somewhat bittersweet. I love seeing the things of my childhood, but it makes me think if my mom. When I was a kid, Christmas was such an amazing time, not just because of the gifts, but because all the relatives being together, as a kid, you’d think they be there forever.

[@jeaniedenton-smith1041]

I am so grateful I was a child in the 60s..Life was so much more simple then overall.

[@thejoker2000]

Until you were drafted as a male

[@robertboyes2505]

@@thejoker2000, my late uncle, who was drafted in the Army in 1968, as a combat medic in the Vietnam war, told me that he was answering the call of our country. I was told this by many other Vietnam veterans too and from those whom I served with in the Navy from 1980 to 1984. Most of them where either a door gunner in a helicopter squadron aboard aircraft carriers or a hospital corpsman in a Marine unit.

[@scottr3484]

Everything is relative. I was born in 1961 and today is far better than back then

[@ksmith2852]

​@@thejoker2000 Regardless of hindsight and woke culture men who went to war were heroes. They were fighting for the United States.

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

Unless you were a minority

[@lisahumphries3898]

We had a station wagon with the seats in the way-back that faced backward. They also could be folded down flat.

[@garyc39]

My family had a 1968 chevy Impala station wagon that did the same thing.

[@TheLochs]

Yup, had that too. I also drove a Buick station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side. We called it the grocery getter. lol

[@SirManfly]

Where I lived, you could go outside and play all day as mentioned here WITHOUT being abducted !!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

Our Desoto, we called him Longjohn, was SO large , in the back seat he had two large extra cushions !!!

[@Gamble661]

We had a station wagon with that seat too, my sister and I would sit in the back and make faces at the drivers behind us but not in a mean way, just being stupid.

[@Londwar]

The station wagon. Such an awesome vehicle.

[@xaenon]

I had a 1970 Country Squire 10-passenger wagon as my first chariot. It wasn't as cool as a Camaro or a Chevelle, but what it lacked in 'speed demon' it made up for in the fact that it was a PARTYMOBILE. F__K THE SKULL of minivans. Gimme a station wagon any day of the week.

[@5thdimension625]

We had a 1972 Mercury Colony which was avocado green with wood paneling on the sides. I remember my sister getting her head stuck when we closed the electric powered windows while her head was out the window. Lol. We all survived as we fought over the very back seats which faced each other

[@painkillerjones6232]

73 Caprice Estate, with the 454-4 barrel, dual exhaust, FM stereo... Learned how to drive in it!!

[@naddeer1821]

Not really . I just remember getting carsick in that seat that faced out the rear window.

[@painkillerjones6232]

@@naddeer1821 That was a COOL seat!!!!

[@GreatScot0425]

We were outside playing with other kids. I rode my bicycle everywhere: no fears of being 'kidnapped'. It was fun, yet we also knew how to help our parents with chores. Absolute fun times, not connected to a personal device 24/7. We knew how to interact with others.

[@cathyburns750]

Thanks for the memories! There were so many more cool things about the 60's, Dial phones, all the fun old games and toys, hula hoop, pogo sticks, stilts, etc. More please!! 😃

[@dod2304]

You know what was the best? Because we were invariably outside a lot more than we were inside. And, playing meant physical activity and imagination. Both essential for growing childrens minds and bodies. Kids now get parked in front of videos or video games. They start playing video games by the age of 2!! Ridiculous, in my pov.

[@richardgrayson7541]

How are you doing

[@travellady1716]

Roller skating, playing jacks, kickball, hopscotch, etc.

[@kerirobicheaux1804]

You could play "Ding, Dong Ditch!" and not get shot! We were respectful and never did it at night.

[@poky1958]

The best part of the '60's is that I was a kid.

[@thefrogman2246]

and now you are a goat, wonderful

[@jons.6216]

As a kid and not making it to TV shows when they first ran, watching the first sets of reruns on TV in the daytime like The Flintstones, Lost in Space, Outer Limits and such!

[@Cryo837]

Danger Will Robinson!!!l

[@josephgaviota]

@@Cryo837 WARNING, WARNING, GO BACK WILL ROBINSON -Robot

[@MrHominid2U]

That's how I got to see Star Trek, Monday through Friday at 4pm after school and before dinner. Can't remember what channel it was on.

[@andersdottir1111]

The Jetsons was my favourite also Astro Boy ,Patty Duke ,Partridge Family , Looney Tunes. If you were a kid in the 60s you were lucky.

[@MrHominid2U]

@@andersdottir1111 I watched Astroboy every morning before school. We had a black & white TV and I was shocked when I got VCR copies of Astroboy years later and found the cartoon was black and white.

[@drexlerjohn3822]

As someone born in the year 2000, I often wish I was young during the 60s. I know we have many amazing things in this generation , but I'd trade it all to exist during those times.

[@ksmith2852]

You are very wise.

[@andreamiller6200]

I grew up in the 1960s and would love to join hands with you, born in 2000, to work towards bringing the best things of those days back. That is my sweetest memory of those times, when people chose to join hands and work for the greater good instead of eviscerating each other. Those days existed for most of my lifetime to date. I offer this thought with love and respect.

[@honestlyyours1069]

The best thing about the 1960's was that people did not think about, and talk about, major world problems such as climate change, pandemics, etc. and there were no lockdowns. People really trusted each other then and they dressed up even to go to sporting events. What a great, idyllic decade! I was so fortunate to grow up during that era. 😃

[@vickiladu6755]

Me too!

[@birdsfan57]

@@vickiladu6755 Me too...

[@jerryleroy9187]

You mean not talking about fake dangers? Yeah those were the days.

[@slactweak]

"...people did not think about, and talk about, major world problems..." Uhhh...Cuban Missile Crisis, anyone...? Vietnam war, anyone...? Apartheid, anyone...?

[@swissskier03]

Remember getting your polio vaccine, along with every kid, and guess what it got rid of polio, that and pool chlorine.

[@BlackheartCharlie]

I remember playing with the original Jarts. We stood at opposite ends of our back yard and lobbed them at each other. How we avoided serious injury is nothing short of a miracle!

[@cindyp5703]

Yep. Jarts. Yard Darts really, big heavily weighted objects with a point on the far end. Throwing them across the yard at each other, or worse yet, up into the air....yikes!!!

[@terryharrison4118]

Still have mine

[@scotth4483]

It wasn't a miracle, even at 10, we had more common sense than "so called" adults today.

[@rudeawakening3833]

I was born in 1960 . The Etch-A-Scetch was a must have toy , along with a Slinky , and my Stingray bicycle ! Wonderful memories , mostly . Of course when my two oldest brothers joined the US Army , and got sent to Vietnam ; watching my poor mother crying in front of the television as Walter Cronkite told of US casualties was my first dose of reality.

[@wayne6066]

Those were the days my friends we thought they'd never end

[@jamessawyer8889]

I can remember so much stuff back in the sixties it's unreal, we had everything walking distance from my house on the south side of Chicago, White Castle, A&P, Ford City shopping center, at Xmas we flew to California, tv was pretty cool with what we watched, cars were cool, it was a different world back then, thank God we can have memories that last a lifetime, we'll never see another time like that,

[@greghawkins1025]

Do ya remember Montgomery Ward stores, Green stamps, & the huge Sears & Roebuck catalog?

[@MS-st1zb]

They can take everything we own down to dignity and self worth but they will never take memories.

[@jimoconnor6382]

Mmmmm.....I would say Beverly or Midway. Everyone had family on the police force, Bozo, blizzards, Svengoolie,trying to figure out how to call.....HUDSON 32700 🤣However the Parade is back on the 13th.....for election year of course.

[@jimoconnor6382]

@@greghawkins1025 Going downtown during Christmas time, yes!!! OH WALKING THRU THE SEARS CANDY AND POPCORN SPOT....OH YEEEAH

[@nelsonphilip4520]

@@greghawkins1025 The Sears Christmas Wish Book!

[@pipilongue]

So great to remember the 60's....enjoying just being a kid. My best treasured memories...thanks! 🤗🏃‍♀️

[@tikitavi7120]

I remember watching Wild Kingdom and Wonderful World Of Color on Sunday nights. It was the golden age of cartoons, the best in history. We would go on bike rides across town and would have those cheese and crackers, or Hostess fruit pies for lunch. Or if you were rich and had a buck, you could buy a double burger, fries and a coke. My older brother says the fifties were great, but I think the 60's were about the most magical time to be a kid in America.

[@JohnReall]

Saturday morning cartoons then Sci Fi Theatre around 1pm.

[@jodibrown7455]

And after Disney I would watch Little Joe on the Ponderosa ❤️

[@tonycollazorappo]

OMG, Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins!

[@dalebasham4862]

My grandparents would take my brother and I to their friend's house who had a color TV to watch Wild Kingdom and The Wonderful World of Disney in color I also remember when we got our first color tv and you had to have your TV repairman our guy's name was Ron

[@generalyellor8188]

The best in YOUR history, maybe mine too just because that's when I was young. But, arguably, the best era of animated cartoons was the 40's and 50's, and maybe even here in the modern era when a lot more risks are taken and a lot more adult-themed shows are on (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Ren & Stimpy, etc.)

[@user-bb3sg5yk5r]

Being born in 1963, we never had to lock our doors, we didn't have to worry about being kidnapped, food tasted way better and was healthier. I remember the whistle of the Helmsman and the drawers he would pull out full of donuts! And walking miles to school was safe no matter what age you were!

[@laustinspeiss]

Sounds like many countries today

[@david-o6g1h]

Helms bakery, yes!

[@julieshepherd5989]

This was fun!, I loved Mr. Patotoe Head, and later, slinky and Operation game. And watching the TV show " Lost in Space., those were the good ole days, thanks for sharing your video. 🐕🐱😎🌹😊⛸⛸

[@cjon4256]

More games - Feely Meely and Eight Ball.

[@TheTomBevis]

Don't forget "Rock'em Sock'em Robots".

[@marycook1644]

Did you hear we are so woke now that they don’t call him Mr. Potato Head anymore ?

[@brendabowers2320]

Hopscotch and Jax’s, hide and go seek, were everyday games to play outside during the summers. Drive in movies in the station wagon with piles of pillows and blankets, a special treat for our family. Having picnics. I sure miss those carefree days.

[@Paul-vc2ld]

Hello how are you doing....Hope you are having a perfect time over there.❤💖❣💞..

[@elizabethszwed7851]

I grew up on the 60's and had a easy bake oven. Oh so sweet memories. I wish these times for my grandchildren. The world has changed and not for the better.

[@MiaAva872]

" It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid , instead of trying to be very intelligent."

[@HaroldDylan-]

The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies.

[@KaylaAlexis.]

I also keep seeing lot's of people testifying about how they make money investing in Stock, Forex and Crypto Trade(Bitcoin) and I wonder why I keep loosing. Can anyone help me out or at least advice me on what to do.

[@JenniferLynd]

Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others. As an investor, you should've known that by now that nothing beats experience and that's final. Personally I had to reach out to a stock expert for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to $35k, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again.

[@AnastasiaIvan-hs3vg]

Trading under the guidance of an expert is the best strategy for beginners.

[@NoahWilliam824]

​@@AnastasiaIvan-hs3vgPlease who is the expert guiding you? I have lost so much as a beginner investing into stock without a proper guidance of an expert.

[@DineseBeckert]

I was born, 1960 and my childhood memories are filled with the hippy era! Blacklight posters, flower stickers, bell-bottom pants, and platform shoes!

[@joyceobeys6818]

Loved those days! N I got patches n sewed onto our jean jackets n later we got a stud n gem machine to add bling to the clothes. We added material to the bell bottoms to make them bigger! LOL and we wore head bands, halter tops n hip huggers n rainbow belts n later elephant pants. And I remember I loved the Dr Scholl shoes for some reason.

[@joyceobeys6818]

@Delana Taylor Online That’s because behind the scenes Hollywood n the singers were partying with drugs n were gay. Look up , I think it’s called club 54 in NY. It was pretty disgusting. Even the music was for gays. It was still inside the closet though. Like Donna Summers n many others music was for the gay. They weren’t allowed to come right out with it yet. When we were young they even outlawed the deck of cards song off the radio. All cussing was taken out of everything on tv n radio. It was not allowed. Them were the good days! Kids miss out these days. They have everything n no imagination. I loved those days in childhood!

[@DineseBeckert]

@@joyceobeys6818 I enjoyed the Keds, they let my skates slip on easier, my sister, born 11 months prior to me wore the Dr. Scholl shoes. I have a pair of jeans today (salvation army) that my daughter (r.i.p.) cut the bottoms (straight legs) and made me a wicked pair of flared bell bottoms, crocheted! We really had, IMHO, the best childhood! Add to that? We had no distractions from the outdoors, no cells phones to hold us back from the world around us and our generation truly emersed themselves in that world!

[@bigdambluesband6295]

Was born in 1950s so that was my teenage years. Doing my math homework while listening to the Beatles and all those other English bands while tapping out rhythm with the pencil eraser on my algebra book pages.

[@bigdambluesband6295]

@Delana Taylor Online But none of those foxes would give guys like me the time of day. It was a long time before the word incel was coined. Never took a gun to school and shot everybody in sight, nobody was doing that those days except for that guy up in the University of Texas tower that started the whole thing I guess.

[@melissabibby7310]

Wow, my Mom watched this video, she was born in 1954, she said you nailed it, what a great time to be a kid, during summer vacation you lived outside, hated to come in, played games outside, kickball, pickle, jump rope and ect. Thank for sharing! 👍

[@notenoughprepping]

Yep when the street lights come on we went in.

[@itsme-rt7nz]

I was born in '54 too! Kickball was the thing, as was jumping rope and roller skating and bike riding. I am so glad our parents knew how important it was to gradually give us some independence and freedom as we matured.

[@marycook1644]

1954 !! Represent !! November here ! Great T.V. Shows, roller skating, Troll dolls, Barbies, cheep candy, swimming at the high school pool ( for a WHOLE quarter!) GOOOD TIMES. 🛼 Blessings from California. Are we old now ?? 🏓

[@beholdheiscomingonthecloud5526]

@@marycook1644 November 54 here as well. We are old now, however, we had the best of times.

[@marycook1644]

@@beholdheiscomingonthecloud5526 🦚 Don’t tell anyone we’re old !!! We did live in a good era !! Take care ! I am enjoying a Mexican meal at El Torito with my ninty one year old mom . Her birthday is November 26 and mine is November 27 ! When is yours ? 🕊

[@christyassid8871]

We always had kites! I tied one of mine, to the back of my bicycle seat. It flew really well, then it disintegrated. Since kites were made of thin wood and thin paper, so it didn't take much to ruin one. Also, Nestle's Quik was a big deal. Chocolate powder for the milk was the rage, but then the strawberry flavoring came out, and we had to have it! Tang was a fun treat, but we *had* to have Quik.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

Yep. Kite flying was big when I was a kid as well some saturdays in March there would be close to 10 families at the local park. Flying them. Lots of fun. I just can’t believe how when we were kids. Simple things kept us happy for hours. Yo-up s. Tops. Balls and strings. No computers. Etc. Even bicycles. Never changed much from the time when our parents were kids until our childhood. But now everything is different.

[@starmnsixty1209]

@@jeffcarlson3269 And not always for the better, I'm afraid.

[@bigedslobotomy]

I remember being so excited to fly a kite in the spring, only to have it swoop up and then straight back down into the ground! Well, that didn’t last very long, did it?

[@slactweak]

I actually took 3rd place in a kite flying contest when I was 10 or 11. Great times, those.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

We had balsa wood gliders. You can still find them in hobby stores. Yo-yos and hula hoops were also fads.

[@madonnahagedorn5649]

Seeing that picture of Tang, I can still remember how it smelled and tasted. My mom would not buy Tang, but my best friends mom did so that's where I tried it. I too had an easy bake oven. This nostalgia is bringing back fond memories. I loved the Salisbury steak tv dinner. OMG all this really warms my heart.

[@dhart8451]

Salisbury steak and french fries !!

[@jchapman8248]

And it was easy to make friends with other kids!

[@rogerzimet]

I was 7 yrs old and watched along with my parents the landing on the moon on a black and white 20 inches Nivico tv set and went outside to look at the moon at that moment just to try to see the austronauts. What a great memory.

[@johnceglick8714]

I was 12 when the USA had a man on the moon late 7/20/1969, was down WildWood NJ , and trying to pick up babes.

[@boeingpilot7002]

I was fourteen years old, and July 20th, 1969 fell on a Sunday. Our one TV had gone out the day before, so we listened to the moon landing on the radio. Bummer!

[@johnceglick8714]

@@boeingpilot7002 We too heard on the radio , and read the Philadelphia Inquirer of the moon landing .Also, the Manson Murders was pooping up too.

[@questfortruth665]

One thing that really grabs me when I think about it is the fact that there were HALF as many people in this country in 1960 as there are today! We had empty lots to play in, streets to play ball on, and no fences! It was a totally different world than the world of today.

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 inflated our population and destroyed our national character.

[@tokenjoy]

@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 What the Left intended and the trend is accelerating with their open border policies.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 Y'all realize there was a time nobody wanted your a** in America, either, right? If you were black, Jewish, Irish or Italian, you were on the sh*t list. Not to mention Asian a bit later on...

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Y'all notice all your aforementioned groups insist on leaching off the group that created a comfortable country and society from nothing? They apparently get a free pass from not being wanted here either.

[@pmccoy8924]

​@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 and what did they do? They assimilated and contributed. They loved this country, all had a sponsor and a reason to be here. Not leach and try to enact failed policies that they fled.

[@fob1xxl]

The Station Wagon was so much cooler than the mini van ! By 1963, I was graduating High School, but I sure remember these things . Bandstand I started watching in the late 50's when I was in Junior High. Great memories ! Thanks.

[@sergioleone3583]

Yup! And the station wagon is also much cooler than an SUV as well!!!

[@wesmcgee1648]

Yep. Mom had a 63 Nash Rambler station wagon.

[@williamscoggin1509]

I remember when I was 7 or 8 years old us having a rambler station wagon. First car we had ever owned that had air conditioning mounted on the console of the front floorboard. Sometimes I would ride in the back and Mom would have the windows down the airflow through and I got the idea of tying a string onto a playing card let it flop down the road behind us on the way home. Seems kind of dumb now but I was having so much fun. LOL

[@markcantemail8018]

@@sergioleone3583 Yes I remember that we had 4 models over the years . After my first full time job i bought a 1974 c 20 Chevy Van for the Family Car . A Sin Bin with 2inch long Shag carpeting , a Table that went down to be a Bed , a chemical Toilet and an Ice Box . 6 kids had gotten to large for the Wagon . 60s were Fun .

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Not very crash worthy, unfortunately, tho...

[@blondeblythe]

I was born in 1957, so this really brings back great memories! We did a lot of traveling then--the road trips of the '60s were so exciting and fun! Well done video, and compliments to the narrator for his velvety-smooth, soothing voice; I could listen to him all day! awesome job!

[@JERios-wv8lx]

Blonde Bmythe, his "velvety-smooth soothing voice" could be a computer generated voice, not a real human voice like in the old days....Remember, times have changed, ha, ha, ha.

[@donp.8172]

I can remember having a small transistor radio at 6 or 7years old With a single ear phone listening to KHJ Los Angeles or KEZY 1190 around 1968 - 69

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

CKLW out of Windsor, Ontario and WJR out of Detroit are the ones that I listened to on my old transistor here in Ohio. CK for music and JR for Tigers baseball.

[@flipit3471]

Remember Wolf Man Jack, and Doctor Demento?

[@beachbum1523]

I can't remember how many TV dinners I scarfed. Fried chicken and roast beef were my favs.

[@itsme-rt7nz]

How about Salisbury Steak? 😄

[@robertkerr9527]

Yup, Swansons.

[@MilePost106]

1960's ruled! Such a simple and easy life.

[@Freddles279]

How about silver foil Christmas trees? They came with each "Branch" in it's own tube that you stuck into the "trunk" of the tree. Then, to light it, there was a light that sat on the floor with 4 different colored panels that rotated and changed the color.

[@rzorbcksfan5747]

We had one of those. My mother put blue Christmas balls on the tree, and nothing else. I watched the premier episode of Charley Brown's Christmas with that tree just a few feet away from me. Charley was quite upset with the modern Christmas....lol... It was a great time to be a kid.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

We had one of those. You would decorate it with colored ball ornaments, preferably a single color, since the silver was blingy enough. It was basically a Reynold's Aluminum Wrap tree.

[@JF-ym8gm]

I thought ours was so beautiful!

[@pfadiva]

We had one back in the day and I still wish I had one

[@nancydemoss2945]

We had one. We'd turn out the lights and sit and watch the color wheel turn making the tree so pretty. Our color wheel developed a funny sound. I can still hear it!😂

[@okie9795]

Everything mentioned here I experienced with my large (11 kids ) family. One of my favorite memories was going to the drive-in. Dad made a huge bag of popcorn (buttered of course). Mom made a huge jug of Kool-aid. Maybe a few quartered cut P&J sandwiches wrapped in wax paper. The most favorite part was which one of us got to hid in the trunk so they could save on admission cost. Little ones were free. Then (all of us in our pj’s) fought over who got to watch the movie from on top of the car. Man o man….we thought this was living the life.🥰☮️

[@marycook1644]

My mom always wrapped our sandwiches 🥪 for school in waxed paper ! Blessings from California. 🎠 🏰 🎢

[@genxx2724]

@@marycook1644 Remember the wax paper sandwich bags?

[@stormy8092]

My dad would hide no one. I thought that was dumb but he would not do it. Dad never lied and never taught us to lie. Not under any circumstances.

[@dalhousieDream]

You WERE living the life!

[@philmccrevis4493]

Born in 1959. We got paddled at school in the 60's and my parents backed the teachers. We played outside all day in the summer and rode bikes for miles. We made sure to check-in from time-to-time but for sure be home by dinner. All was good.

[@tammylewis8556]

Family station wagon had a playpen for the littlest kids in the back for long trips. In our yard we had apple trees, our neighbors had plum trees , strawberries and grapes. We stayed outdoors, ate fruit when we got hungry and occasionally walked in groups to a country store for candy and FANTA

[@richardgrayson7541]

How are you doing

[@WELIVEWEDIEOMY]

Swanson TV dinners were fabulous! I wish they still made TV dinners in aluminum trays for those of us who like to heat them the traditional way in an electric or gas oven.

[@marygrant882]

My cousin and I ate TV dinners when mom wasn't home to cook. I coudnt wait to eat my brownie, so I ate it first. Then when my cousin finished his dinner, he would taunt me, waving the brownie, saying he still had dessert!

[@Kelle0284]

@@marygrant882 Maybe you should have just laughed at him and said, "Well are you going to eat your dessert, or are you just going to sit there playing with it?" Then give him a good eye-roll.

[@generalyellor8188]

You can still heat modern TV dinners in conventional ovens. I guess it's been a while for you.

[@WELIVEWEDIEOMY]

@@generalyellor8188 I said dinners in aluminum trays! Every frozen dinner you buy nowadays has a plastic tray which doesn't hold the heat like metal does!

[@suzk1804]

@@generalyellor8188 No, modern tv dinners are in plastic or cardboard and taste like cardboard, the old Swansons were in metal pans.

[@cheeptrick5464]

In 1960 I was 7 years old and remember my dad would give me 32 cents to walk to the corner store and buy him a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. I don't know what is more amazing, that the cashier would sell cigs to a 7 year old boy or that they cost only 32 cents.

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

If your dad was anything like mine, he probably always swore that he'd quit when they hit 35cents, then it was 40cents, then 45cents. He never did quit.

[@marycook1644]

The price of a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes in California is nine bucks !! ☠️

[@ceciliaandrews5494]

Yep, Granny would send me with a note to purchase her carton of Kent cigarettes at the local gas station. Still remember that they cost $8, and I could buy snacks ("cola" jolly ranchers were my favorite) with the change. Btw, I was about 10 yrs old at the time. It truly was different era.😁😁

[@hollygolightly7475]

I’d get sent with a note from my mother to buy her pall malls , penny candy with leftover change, malt balls individual wrapped and licorice

[@slactweak]

My aunt sent me to the store to buy her Kool Unfiltered, (I was 9). I didn't even need a note because the local grocer knew me and my family.

[@MrElapid]

Duncan YoYo's. Creepy crawlers. Jacks. Western Flyer sleds. So much! What a great time to grow up. Almost forgot...A cloth drawstring bag full of marbles. Thanks for the vid!

[@roseann3779]

I remember what a treat it was when we could afford to buy TV dinners or pot pies for our family of 7. My Dad took photos of the TV screen during the first moon landing. My grandma gave me a campaign button that I wore to school that said “Mamie start packing, the Kennedys are coming”. All gas stations were full service and gave green stamps and often bonus gifts with a fill up. Most of the stores we shopped at were small family owned. We watched B&W TV and there was local programming from Cleveland (l remember The Polka Parade and a talent show) on Sunday afternoons. Saturday Sports on TV included Bowling for Dollars. Friday nights we went to the roller rink. We saved our money to go to the record store to buy 45’s. Woolworth’s was a favorite store when we went to the shopping center.

[@queenbee3647]

You didnt watch late night horror movie every friday, The Big Chuck and Hoolihan Show? It was on until just recently!

[@robertfrederick4714]

I remember loving TV dinners But was still hungry when finished Even as a kid

[@lisetterose7737]

This video brought back such wonderful childhood memories. I was born in 1958. Our games and toys were mostly from garage sales, and some of my favorites were the metal play kitchen refrigerator with plastic food, paper dolls, easy bake oven, incredible edibles. Some are still around; barbies, operation, lite brite, mousetrap. But my very favorite play time was playing with Johnny and Jane West dolls. They had ranch clothes with accessories which were made of flexible plastic. The dolls were made of hard plastic, but were flexible and could ride horses. OMG, it was kid heaven......Now, I wish I would have kept my collection to give to my grandkids.....It would be priceless!!!

[@marycook1644]

🛼 My mom was and still is a garage sale nut ! She is ninty one. We had enough shoe skates for the entire neighborhood and a pogo stick all from garage sales !! And her whole house is full of garage sale antiques ! Blessings from California. 🌹

[@cindyp5703]

I had the "Fun Flowers" set and my girlfriend had the "Creepy Crawlers" one. Plasti-goop. haha

[@marycook1644]

@@cindyp5703 the creepy crawlers set sure kept us and the neighborhood kids busy for hours. It belonged to them. 🪲🐛🪱🐞

[@gregggoss2210]

TV dinners were my Saturday night go to when mom and dad would go out to the mall and my brother and I would stay home. Saturday mornings and afternoons my dad my brother and myself would go fishing or hiking. My dad taught me so much about the outdoors. Both parents are gone and my brother is in a nursing home. As I am typing this I am sitting at a lake in the middle of the woods. Missing my childhood quite a lot.

[@glennso47]

Ate TV dinners while listening to the radio. 😬

[@UN33kWabb1T]

I was born in 1958 a middle child. An older brother and younger sister. Both my parents and my siblings are gone now. My mom fed us paregoric daily so we would sleep! Then wondered why we had a propensity to become addicts. By the grace of God, I didn't fall victim to that as I grew older, but I still remember how paregoric tasted mixed with warm sugar water. No better taste that I can remember.

[@gregggoss2210]

@@UN33kWabb1T , I remember that stuff. It did taste pretty good from what I can remember.

[@flipit3471]

Remember Miltowns? Everyone took them! Sedatives. No one thought a thing of it. Even mentioned them in movies while they smoked.

[@btpuppy2]

Thank God for your calm voice and videos. They really help when I’m sick

[@larryspivey5146]

I WAS BORN 1958 FEB.17TH.THIS IS 2022 I REMEMBER THE MOTOWN SOUNDS I STILL LISTEN TO TODAY.I WOULDN'T HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@hiseyes]

The TV shows, playing outside till the street lights came on, drinking from the garden hose and running through the sprinklers, camping trips and sleeping in the back of the station wagon, skateboards, hula hoops, playing with barbies every waking moment, keeping trolls in my desk and bringing them out to play with at recess, Saturday morning cartoons, reading comic books, eating pizza, spaghetti from a can, oh so many memories that were good from my childhood

[@juanagallo7497]

What a wonderful portrait you painted-- I remember it all as you described-- thanks. B. 1961

[@hiseyes]

@@juanagallo7497 thank you too!

[@phillipanderson2607]

It was the same for me. I remember the first day of summer when schools ended for summer break. It was like being out for year to me before going back to school. Riding bikes and making paper air planes and staying out side the hole day and not being tired when I'd go home at night. Those were the days. We would go to red barn a hamburger place to eat every Friday night in my dad's 66 belvedere station wagon. I still have one toy left my brother didn't tear up. 1970 Tonka moon Kratorcrawler the type they used on the moon.

[@hiseyes]

@@phillipanderson2607 ahh those indestructible Tonka trucks! I didn't know they made a moon crawler too!

[@birdsfan57]

Barbie and her friends Skipper, Midge, Ken, Stacy...had them all. Troll dolls...big ones, gigantic ones, little teeney ones, keychain ones...had 'em all. Chatty Cathy, Easy Bake Ovens, Twister and Dream Date games, "Skip-It"...riding our bikes and playing hide and seek until well past 10 pm on Summer nights and walking everywhere day and night, not being paranoid or afraid of being raped or kidnapped. Penny candy, 25 cent chocolate sodas at the variety store counter, 12 cent ice cream cones, 15 cent McDonald's hamburgers, weekly milk deliveries to our front door...Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, and The Hollywood Palace weekly music and variety shows... Woolworths, Sears, Kresges, Grants, Two Guys and E.J. Korvette "department stores"...the automat vending machines at Horn and Hardarts...witnessing the debut of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the advent of the space program and the moon landing, the assasinations of three of the most notable humans to ever grace this world, Laugh-In, Twiggy, mini-skirts and go-go boots, Woodstock and "free love", the horrors of the Vietnam war...Everyone and everything that we experienced back in those magical days, shaped us, influenced us, inspired us, left an impression on us that today we can look back on with fondness, nostalgia, and ultimately, a profound sadness, knowing that the world, society, and humanity, CAN NEVER, WILL NEVER be the same, for better or for worse...

[@TorMax9]

Gas was cheap. The roads were open. And great music on the car AM radio: Doors, Janet Joplin, CCR, Beatles, Stones... People were friendly and helpful... Doors were not locked... An innocence and wonder and optimism...

[@ArleneGlass-ql2hd]

The windows could stay open whether you were home or not. No air conditioning, big fan in dining room window. Halloween was the best! So different now, wouldn’t be near as fun. We knew all the neighbors, most Moms stayed home to be there for us.

[@dawnransom385]

I remember playing cowboys and Indians. Making our own thrown together go-carts rolling downhill was fun! Getting a Miss Beasley doll and also one that rode a bike by battery was cool. Having Grandparents come visit once a year kept it really mysterious. What fun times we had walking back and forth in rain, snow or sunshine, to school! We would collect our friends as we walked along the route. What good times!!!

[@jeffnaslund]

Being born in early November, 1959, the 1960s is my childhood. All of these conjure so many dormant memories. Love it

[@kenlompart9905]

I was born in 64 so I was more of an early to mid 70s kid. Pretty much everything you mentioned was still popular in the 70s. We played outside all day and I had a 3 speed banana seat bike like the boy in the picture, we drove to Florida in our station wagon in 76 during the bicentennial with us kids laying in the back with our feet hanging out the back window, my sister had an easy bake oven and she even called me Kenner after the toy manufacturer, my oldest sister was into The Beatles even after they broke up, we had troll dolls and we roller skated on our metal skates that we attached to our shoes with a skate key. Your video brought back a lot of great memories, some I hadn't though about in years, thanks for reminding me how great we had it.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

My kid sister was born in 64. That’s the last year of the boomers by the way. Yes whenever we get together she tells me how great the 70’s were. I was working full time by 1971. So to me the 70’s were about responsibility and striking out on my own.

[@kenlompart9905]

@Delana Taylor Online I forgot about the gronk dolls but I remember them now, I didn't have any but I remember seeing them at friends houses. I had a Nova myself, I bought it in 84 used, it was a 78 or 79 V8 hatchback and I had a lot of fun in it. When I was really little around 6 to 8 years old I would be off playing in someones backyard or just out of sight somewhere so my mom would ring an old school bell we had when it was dinner time to get me to come home.

[@kenlompart9905]

@@jeffcarlson3269 Your sister is right, the 70s was a great time to be a kid, my life was very similar to Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years, but in the 70s instead of the 60s.

[@lorrainelewandowski8737]

I remember playing outside all day till the street lights came on then it was time for supper bath and bed those really where the good old days when kids actually could go outside everyone new everyone and if you got in trouble your family new before you got home one of the neighbors would call your parents oh boy i miss those days when life was acually slow and less stressfull

[@lorrainelewandowski8737]

I remember playing outside all day riding our bikes hanging out with friends and just being kids falling alseep on the porch on a hot summer day was my favorite at my grandmas house then going to my grandmas corner store to help dust shelves for her i really liked the old days when their was actually respect for our psrents and grandparents todays day and age is not the same .

[@marycook1644]

@@lorrainelewandowski8737 Your grandma owed a little store !? What a wonderful childhood you had !! I am so jealous. My LOVELY grandma had a really small grocery store by her house. I loved it. And free candy ! Although with a quarter we could get quite a bit. Blessings from California. 🎠 🏰 🎢

[@paranormalskeptic3893]

This is just delightful. I was born in 1962, so I have just great memories of the 1960’s and 1970s. Grew up in such a loving household, so I love thinking of my childhood. This is such a great video.

[@williamwilson6499]

Best things about being a kid in the 60s? No social media…no cellphones…no internet…no game consoles…

[@bigdambluesband6295]

We had one black and white TV in the living room and could only pick up one station on the antenna out in the sticks where we lived so no fighting over what to watch. Grew up on NBC, all we could get. If the phone rang you knew where it was, right there on the little table by the couch where it was connected to the phone wire. Played our games out in the backyard with a (usually) half flat football.

[@EWOODJ]

Ha

[@becca5100]

Agreed! Agreed! Agreed!....

[@inhumanmusic1411]

You mean you had to go outside and play with other kids?

[@becca5100]

@@inhumanmusic1411-- all day. All evening. NEVER bored!!!

[@robivy9987]

I remember one of my buddies had a wham-o slip n slide. About a half a dozen kids lined up in his good sized yard on a hot summer day and we had a blast. Batman on tv and the Monkees were a big deal as well.

[@genxx2724]

Didn’t it hurt, falling on the ground to slide on that thing?

[@robivy9987]

@@genxx2724 Imagine a big yard of very deep plush grass with a steady stream of water flowing over the surface of the 20 foot long slide. Might sound a little crude but that was life in the early 60's. My grandkids have no imagination when it comes to having fun,just a game system mentality.

[@genxx2724]

@@robivy9987 Nope. Sounds like a really nice lawn, but I still wouldn’t have done it. The slip’n’ slide wasn’t inflated or water-filled at all, was it? I never did go on one, I think I only saw one once. But I remember all those Wham-O commercials.

[@robivy9987]

@@genxx2724 The water hose screwed into the end on the side and water sprayed through small holes up and down the side of the slide. If you watch baseball and see how they slide headfirst that was the technique we used.

[@genxx2724]

@@robivy9987 OMG. I never would have done that. We’re you bruised later?

[@robertabrams8562]

I was born in 1960, and remember everything mentioned in this video! I truly missed those carefree childhood memories when I used to play with my grandkids when they were younger! Excellent stroll back down memory lane RR 👍🏼👍🏼👏🏼

[@paulakempe3670]

I'm a 1960 baby, too! I wanted to be an astronaut so very much.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Me too, I was born in 1961, I remember a great deal of it. Like it was yesterday, wow. I miss those days because in today's world it's very different then it was back all those years ago. If I had a time machine, I'd do it all over again.

[@susanolson3611]

Yeah, this brought back a lot of memories. Back when my world made sense to me. 🖖

[@melindajudy8742]

I remember a lot of the things mentioned. I had an Easy Bake oven, GI Joes. I also had a Mystery Date game and a Secret Sam kick, My best friend in grade school and .I each got a pair of GoGo boots for Christmas. We'd walk home from school wearing them and singing,"These Boots Are Made For Walking "

[@dmdohse55]

i had white gogo boots and i wanted a easybake oven never got one i had a etch a sketchand that trace a disk thing i did have mystery date and me and my cousin had those black poodle radioshack radiosi had that creepy crawler oven in the flowers it was dumb had bottles of neon goop

[@dmdohse55]

and that twirl wheel and that rope w/the balland those little puzzles plastic and silly putty and barrel of monkees and tip itand operation and golden books

[@spidyr2k]

Favorite childhood toys were a stuffed Tony the Tiger doll(my Hobbes), a Mattel Thingmaker(with Plastigoop), a chemistry set(stuff happened), a red and white tricycle(who needs brakes), a Crosman 760 pellet rifle(so much begging to get it), a bump-n-go train locomotive(thing was huge), and best of all the 2nd hand bike my dad bought and fully restored for my 8th Christmas(years of adventures).

[@cdfreester]

I remember the Mattel Creepy Crawly Thing maker. My oldest cousin had one. Had a hot plate that was a small thermo-nuclear device!😆

[@matrox]

Yeh...I had a Crossman 760 Powermaster. Those guns packed a good wallop. Especially coming from a Daisy lever action.

[@marycook1644]

@@cdfreester Our neighbors had the Creepy Crawly Machine, do you remember when they came out with edible goo to make ones you could eat ?? 🐍🪲🐛🪳🪱🦟 Fun times ! Blessings from California. I was born in 1954. 🙊

[@robertpolnicky7702]

The everything maker with it's platigoop taught us a lot about vertical integration and the ownership of the means of production still necessary todaym

[@hollygolightly7475]

Spin art

[@rcdoodles6214]

Born in 1955 the 60s were my childhood years. You did a great job recollecting many memories of a carefree time growing up. I had a huge crush on Captain Kirk, loved watching Gilligan's Island, Batman, The Munsters and Captain Kangaroo. I had a Barbie doll with red hair and a troll with bright orange hair. Sweet memories. Thank you!

[@kellieturner7322]

Oh man did I have a wicked super crush on capt kirk, too.

[@leroyd.griffin6857]

55 is a great year....

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@@kellieturner7322 as not very tall in stature.. but he always made up for it with his personality.. and his "method" acting.. even the way he used to say "Denny Crane",.. was phenomenal.... I just don't know how he could wear those tight clothes on Star Trek.. without any of his waste ever popping out.. I kept wondering if we'd ever get a navel shot........lol...

[@josephasner171]

RC Doodles: My troll had Purple hair. My brother called it a wish nik.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@@kellieturner7322 ha ! from a guy's perspective I liked Capt. Kirk as well.. but I wished his yellow top was about 1/2 size bigger and about 1/2 -1 inch Longer... I was always a little put off by how tight his top shirt fit him...of course I felt the same way about George Reeve's Superman outfit... I think sometimes It seemed a little too tight on him... but I thought Robin's outfit was spot on... and Batman's was borderline.... perhaps if the 3 ....Shatner Reeves and West.... would have slimmed about 10 lbs. it would have been different for me... but that's ....as I said speaking from my Guy's point of view.... I did not mind Gilligan being so skinny... cuz at least his red shirt never tried to rise up over his belly button

[@Utoober729]

Us kids left the house in the morning by ourselves even at 5 yrs old. Came back for lunch and out again. We had so much fun. Played with a hula hoop, a stick horse, street baseball and slinky just to name a few.

[@stacybrown5555]

When you went to the gas station, they'd fill your tank, clean your windows and check your oil. Trading stamps, it really was like that Brady Bunch episode! The store was awesome! You called all the parents Mr. and Mrs...without exception. The innocence. That's gone with the wind. 😪

[@shellykalchuk554]

I still call my friends parents Mr. and Mrs. 😄lol Thats who they are!

[@IgnoretheButter]

Even though I was born in 2001, I lived in the sticks... I had 2 neighbors and then it was all woods... my parents had me outside the whole entire day or it was chores...it wasn't till 2010 when I got a nintendo DS... and then progressively got into gaming. Yet my parents controlled screen usage and had me outside the majority of my life. I thank God for caring and watchful parents

[@martinpennock9430]

Yes I did and I remember. Great time to be a kid. Thanks again for the great video and all the memories. Thanks also for all you do.

[@mrled8555]

Thanks for bringing back so many memories. I was born in '56 and didn't realize how many of these things I had forgotten,like roller skating for so long that when you took the skates off it felt like you were still skating. But mostly my mother learning to drive our stick shift station wagon in a shopping store parking lot. Me and two of my brothers sitting in the "back,back" rolling around like bowling balls! (she finally did learn to drive it😄)

[@sagbrady8414]

Born in 56 too..it was a great time to grow up...it just seems like another world away

[@marycook1644]

We loved having the seats folded down and we sat on little blankets. And when my mom had to jam the brakes on we called it our 🎢 . We never had a stick shift, that is hilarious. We had alot of different station wagons over the years. 🤖🚀

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@Mr Led... Ill bet watching your mother learn to drive a stick shift was a real hoot..!.. my mom did't learn how to drive until after my dad died and she got stuck with the car having to fend for herself.. my sister taught her.. mom was 67 years old at the time on an automatic.. she drove for about 15 years...

[@roryschweinfurter4111]

Then you must remember Roller Derby Skateboards with steel wheels that would send you face first into the street if anything got in the wheels way

[@sagbrady8414]

@@roryschweinfurter4111 wasn't into skateboarding but do know a few that got broken arms from falling

[@michaelgillespie502]

I am 70 years old and I still have my trolls and my troll horse , plus all of the clothes I made for them!!

[@EricLehner]

Thank you for this fond recollection. So accurate!

[@billjamison2877]

Being born in the early 50's, growing up in the 60's was the best time ever! Roadrunners, SS Chevy's, 4-4-2's, GTO's, Hemi 'Cudas and best of all, the Mini Skirts! The best of times!

[@melpotter2912]

I'm female born in 53....the cars were so much cooler & sexier! I MISS THAT! 😎

[@billjamison2877]

@@melpotter2912 You are absolutely correct! I MISS THAT TOO!

[@jamesroberts2115]

I worked in a service station after school and during the summer in the late 60's. Cleaning windshields for mini skirted drivers and passengers was always enlightening amongst other sensations for a 16 year old.

[@thejoker2000]

B: 1955. Drove'em all out of a used car lot in 1972 73. Yup. Had'em all. And never caught me yet! Historic Cars that will never be forgotten!