I was 22 in 1950, it was one of the best decades of my entire life that I will never forget, I joined the US Navy at 1956 and married a year later to a beautiful wife, she sadly passed away last October and I still cherish every moment I spent with her during those happy times, I'm still learning to adapt with modern technology and I hope I make to be one of the oldest individuals on the planet, Thank you!
@americanparser2 жыл бұрын
94 this year, then? I'd say you're well on your way! Thank you for sharing your memories. I'm so sorry for the loss of your wife, but... 65 years married?? Incredible! I'm not quite halfway there, but thank you for the inspiration! I was born in '66, and the world is already so different from even when I was a kid, much less back in the '30s and '40s like you were. God bless you on your continued journey, sir.
@multannadan7338 Жыл бұрын
May you live long...
@karljurgenson606 Жыл бұрын
No offence, but your info seems fake :D 94 years old and lingering around youtube? Most of the people who were born during those days dont even know how to use computer. Let alone searching up youtube video about US in 50s. For me, your text is questionable :D
@jerrytong7679 Жыл бұрын
90s is goat
@raptorfromthe6ix833 Жыл бұрын
I’m so sorry about your wife
@peggybeirise83883 жыл бұрын
What I remember most about the '60's was all the neighborhood kids would play outside until dark with no fears. We only went home to eat dinner and go to sleep😁. Life was so simple but so glorious!
@docmmee94353 жыл бұрын
@Navy Dad dude, today ain’t any better
@TravelerVolkriin3 жыл бұрын
I did in this in my childhood in the late 90s and early 2000s!
@lexielynn033 жыл бұрын
@@TravelerVolkriin Saaaaame!
@colgatetoothpaste48653 жыл бұрын
it was like that until the late 1990s some parts in tijuana mexico kids still play until dark
@superduper93573 жыл бұрын
It was exactly the same here in the UK during my childhood in the 70s and 80s. During the school summer holidays we would be out on our bikes all day or play football, rugby and cricket until the sun went down and here in the summer that's 10pm. We'd go home grab some food and be back at it non stop! We use to play for hours on the old 2nd WW coastal defences. It was a great time!
@LivingTheDream68713 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1949. The 1950s was my childhood. If you weren't there in the 1950s it would take me a lifetime to try and explain just how beautiful and tranquil this decade was. Life was fast-paced and yet extremely laid-back. We will never witness this again......
@DingoXBX2 жыл бұрын
I truly wish we could go back in time 🙏
@rickmcdonald15572 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was born in '46 and agree with you completely~!! I would trade places in a heart beat to go back~!
@mividalocamusic8502 жыл бұрын
You won't lol
@jamessilva79912 жыл бұрын
So true. I was born in 1948 so the 1950s was my childhood as well. I think about the past all the time. I would also go back to that time in a minute. I remember playing tag and hide and seek, playing Cowboys and Indians, going to the movies, going to the beach, my grandfather taking me fishing and so many other memories. Also I remember the girls having their own favorite activities such as jump rope, hopscotch and playing jacks. It was indeed a wonderful time and I probably took it for granted as well. The only negative thing is missing all the people in my life that are gone now. That would be my parents, grandparents, my only sister, aunts , uncles and friends.
@keeleehudson2 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t beautiful and tranquil for everyone, tho.
@heroesinhoodies1210 Жыл бұрын
It’s strange how you can be nostalgic for times you’ve never experienced. It’s a weird, almost indescribable feeling.
@hummingbir6 Жыл бұрын
My Hindu friend, your body is but a figment, a temporal episode. Immortality is in the soul: you have been everywhere and every time-your mind does not remember because you were in a different living form, but the soul never forgets. Memory is soul-written, immortal.
@Marsha_Ann Жыл бұрын
It's just FOMO lol (Fear Of Missing Out). U prob envy the times like me, wanting to being there. Cuz I subconsciously desire wholesome, simple times too. For my generation, that was growing up in the 1990s ☺️
@joeydoherty368 Жыл бұрын
@@Marsha_AnnI don’t fear missing out because I know I likely have an over romanticized version of what life was like back then. That said, I would like to experience different times just so I could know exactly what it was like. Personally, I think most of us would be disappointed because as much as things change, they stay the same.
@user-gq2vn1xj2r Жыл бұрын
It's because you identify with many of the values of this time in history. Many of us were simply born too late and are strangers in a strange world in modern times.
@RadiantSilverlighter10 ай бұрын
@@user-gq2vn1xj2r the values were AWFUL in this time period with the rampant racism and mysoginy.
@trackman1743 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten about the roadside picnic tables. People would pack lunch for a drive and stop at these tables and eat instead of eating out. A different time in a different country.
@mr.djcooncoon81963 жыл бұрын
I was born in 63 in NYC and I remember as a kid those redwood picnic tables still around at rest stops and tree areas outside government office buildings and private schools. Long gone....
@Araconox3 жыл бұрын
We just hardly ate out at all. Family dinners were the norm and everyone ate together. We didn't have much and it didn't bother us, many families had (only)1 car and there was only one tv station in a city of 175,000 , and black and white. If you missed what you wanted to see you waited until it came back on. A time of innocence- at least for many of us children of the time. The music was great.
@lloyddailey54783 жыл бұрын
i remember those times ! also what about the roadside stands where you could buy veggies and fruit and those days parents could correct their kids !
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
Somehow I find roadside rest areas with tables in every state.
@efandmk33823 жыл бұрын
Why? Hadn't they invented Parks yet? I thought those roadside stops were primarily for stretching your legs and toileting. Not for the locals to have picnics. It didn't take much to entertain people back then. LOL.
@TerryJLaRue3 жыл бұрын
I was there. Best thing about the 50's was no social media.
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
And here you are on your phone or computer typing messages on KZbin.
@drjohnsonhungwell51153 жыл бұрын
I was born in 73 but I agree I think the world would be a better place without the internet or social media .
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28233 жыл бұрын
@@drjohnsonhungwell5115 Does make knowledge and school easier, tho...
@drjohnsonhungwell51153 жыл бұрын
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I do like the internet for learning purposes and research , also for shopping and finding hard to find products .
@Vinicius-qr5vv3 жыл бұрын
Dr Johnson Hungwell i’m 23 years old and i tend to agree with you
@cdp2004423 жыл бұрын
My father was in his prime in 1955 ..he always says it was by far the greatest period to be alive and especially in the northern US states. Cars, ships, trains and planes they all were beautiful and well built right here in the good old USA.
@VictorianMaid992 жыл бұрын
Cars back then had character. Cars today are plan and look like electric shavers...
@LightLivingEst802 жыл бұрын
If only we could get ppl to only by American goods now and stop the corporate consumerism .. man oh man how our country would get back to good and happy times for everyone
@LightLivingEst802 жыл бұрын
@@VictorianMaid99 they are ugly .. I only buy used good cars I will not be in debt for a modern car ..I refuse .
@dansterstuff2 жыл бұрын
@@VictorianMaid99 you're wrong, all the 50s, 60s cars look exactly the same especially from the side
@VictorianMaid992 жыл бұрын
@@dansterstuff they look like rocket ships!
@janettablackwell8287 Жыл бұрын
Great time to be alive. So different from today.
@jimkreider99973 жыл бұрын
This was a great time. people actually talked to each other
@joeb53583 жыл бұрын
Bach in the '50s, at the age of 6 my friends and I would set out on a Saturday morning, walk 1.5 miles to small lake to fish and horse around. The only thing my mother would say, "make sure your home for dinner". Imagine letting a 6 yr old go out on his own today! Nowadays you can't let your kids off your property without supervision . What a great time!
@bobbyfrancis89572 жыл бұрын
Joe B - Me too. A couple of times, before 1965, I wasn't 10 yet, I walked all the way from home, by myself, to the Thrifymart store - the free tube tester machine wasn't being used at 3:P.M. in the afternoon, no, I forgot why I walked all the way there for ...
@Beowulf0022 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not that’s how it was for me in 2001. I was 5 years old, I navigated the woods and would catch little critters down by the creek. If my mom had any idea what I was doing down there she’d have been horrified. I ask her about it today and she says well I knew neighbors at every point that you went, and the neighborhood was one way in and one way out. Good times I believe the kids in the early and mid 2000s were the last to value playing outside.
@naotakaswaifu92412 жыл бұрын
@@Beowulf002 I’d give it until around 2011-2012 where kids began to stop playing outside nearly completely. I grew up in a particularly technologically advanced part of the city in the mid-late 2000s through the early 2010s, and up until around 2013-14 was when I stopped playing outside as a kid. It was unfortunate to see an era fade, especially when you’ve faded with it.
@maxens_is_here2 жыл бұрын
Eh, do you think maybe you all think it stopped being a thing in the 60s/early 2000s/2010s because that's when you, in different eras each, grew out of your childhood or out of "playing"? I see kids playing outside all the time and I live in a city, not even in the countryside. My mother lives in the countryside and the kids also play outside there, of course. I also remember kids playing outside in the 2010s, 2000s and 90s. (I wasn't born in the 80s...) That said I know the USA has issues with walkability and I live in France.
@chansermish24062 жыл бұрын
Good times! In the Philippines, before i left the country, my Child hood there in the 90s, we were also able to go out as little kids and only come back to eat etc. good times! Times have change a lot
@50pinkies673 жыл бұрын
My Dad was so proud and handsome sporting his late 50s green Mercury. First new car he ever owned. It was a peaceful calm, kind and respectful era. 'We will never pass this way again.' Born in 1950, I'm blessed to have lived it. 🇺🇸❤️
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the peace of the Korean war, the gang wars in L.A. and New York city, the lynching's in the South.
@patrickaccioly43983 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt The Korean War happened for a short period of time, the gang wars happened a little bit after the 50s, and the lynchings were not as common as you think at all...today the world is way more violent than in the 50s
@gmoney99613 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt Oh yeah…today’s MUCH better. What a jackass 🙄
@johnmorelli37753 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt No one said life in the 50s was perfect only that it was much better than today. Less violence, less marital breakup, less drug addiction, NO on-line porn! fewer single families & yes much less OBESITY
@lilshoota193 жыл бұрын
@@johnmorelli3775 lot more racism
@wgcds7jyg897 Жыл бұрын
No greater decade than the 50s. Living then meant you were on top of the world. Good times.
@mauriciomp5713 жыл бұрын
Golden years. There was a middle class, stability and you can see how much happier they were just by seeing the beauty all around and their relaxed, laid back expressions and attitudes.
@joshuakhaos4451 Жыл бұрын
Thats what I see in all the photos up until about the 90s. Everyone seemed to have a glow of happiness and fulfillment until the modern/digital age began. The last era of photos where people looked decently happy with life was during the 2000s, but even by then, people started having a different vibe in pictures. Now everyone seems dead or like their souls have been obliterated.
@Xxrocknrollgod Жыл бұрын
Men were men and women were women
@21stCenturySpaceOdyssey Жыл бұрын
@@joshuakhaos4451 You aint kidding...soulless photos today, or photos that look overly posed, contrived, or just plain douchie looking for the sake of trying to be entertaining-very artificial.
@ВладимирАнтипов-и1в Жыл бұрын
Счастливые лица, золотые времена... Просто они были молоды! А молодые всегда счастливы! Кстати, а что-то почти не видно счастливых чернокожих лиц.
@justins21482 Жыл бұрын
@@Xxrocknrollgod that you know of. cross dressing and gay has been around long LOOONG before you sir.
@normanwyatt87613 жыл бұрын
I was born in the middle 30's and graduated in 1955......My first full-time job was 1 dollar an hour......My first car was a 1947 Ford convertible (like Biff's car in Back to the Future) and It COST me lots of bucks (300 dollars) Ha......Like in the song (Moments to Remember by the Four Lads).........The drive-in movies were we would go, and somehow never watch the show....... Have a great life everyone........
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
Myself, my girlfriend and another friend drove to the drive in. $2.50 each, we only had 5 dollars. We pulled up to the kiosk, I held out the fiver and said, 2 please. The girl said two? I whispered 'the young lady is blind' as my girl stared straight ahead. AND OFF WE WENT!
@davideogamer80863 жыл бұрын
@@babydriver8134 did you meet anyone that lived in the 1800's back then? I think its cool to have people on here that used to live through the 50's . i was born in the early 90's myself and ive always wondered how the older generation think of this era
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
@@davideogamer8086 My step dad's grandpa was still kicking, he taught me how to play checkers. When I was still in school, I asked my dad one day if people, generally speaking, were really as stupid as it seemed to me. He told me to wait until I say 'Good Morning' to someone, and they cannot come up with a response. My thoughts on this generation? This generation provides Hope, that our Savior Jesus is not too far off.
@50pinkies673 жыл бұрын
@@davideogamer8086 My grandparents were born in the late 1890s. I heard stories of their parents and the American civil war told by the surviving confederates.
@suestephan32553 жыл бұрын
Convertibles were so popular then they became scarce
@diannewallace48293 жыл бұрын
Grew up in the fifties. Drive-in movies. Camping out. Catching fire flies in jars. At 5 and 6 we wandered all over town on our bikes and never worried about anything. 5 cent candy bars and 10 cent pop. Little League baseball and Friday night football. McDonalds opened and everything was 15 cents. Pineapple upside down cake and homemade ice-cream. Buzzing the Ave and petting in the back seat of my 57' Chevy. God, we had no idea we were blessed with the best childhood experiences of any generation of Humans ever..
@dingoboy17253 жыл бұрын
Amen to that
@CTRS7773 жыл бұрын
I wish i couldve experienced the 50's most of all eras. Things have improved for fire flies anyway.
@garyfinger2943 жыл бұрын
Isn't it amazing that we forget the bad things of the old days? I hate to talk about the old days with my sister as it always bring up the bad about the old days. The mind seems to make it so easy to forget bad things.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
Unless you were poor and lived in Chicago or East L.A. and had to avoid the gangs on the way home from school so you wouldn't get beat up. There was and is more than 1 America. I wouldn't go back if you paid me.
@CTRS7773 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt But dont the gangs in East LA and Chicago shoot ppl now vs beat ppl up? They call Chicago Chriaq now. Has East LA gotten better or worse since 1950? The answer wouldnt be a straight Yes or No. arent ppl still poor there? Dont cops still profile and abuse the ppl there?
@darkdialga7772 жыл бұрын
man, what I wouldn't give to spend an afternoon walking the streets of some of these towns and cities. a unique time in America. a time a lot of people look back on as the good old days in this country, not to say the time period was without its flaws, no time period truly is, but in these pictures, it just seems so wonderful.
@suestephan3255 Жыл бұрын
It was wonderful and most of us baby boomers would agree. Yes indeed the kids today have no idea what they missed, maybe it’s better. Parents in 2022-2023 are more interested in their kids 2 & three sports activities and less about manners & discipline and consequences.😕😢
@celadon4728 Жыл бұрын
I bet both of you are white
@celadon4728 Жыл бұрын
@@suestephan3255 .
@Greg-ov9xb Жыл бұрын
It makes me want to time travel just like Michael JFox character did in Back to the Future
@kentpaul473 Жыл бұрын
Wish your parents didn’t ruin it for my parents at such a peaceful time they didn’t get to experience 😔
@Bmcgro3 жыл бұрын
Amazing time, loved the ‘50’s. Notice, very few overweight people, no tattoos or pajamas out on the street.
@sparx1803 жыл бұрын
Bill McGrogan No butt cheeks exposed either. A quieter, friendly America.
@mr.sherrill91373 жыл бұрын
God Bless you all. May we fight to bring back civility, morality, decency, and Freedom back to America.
@northalabama22643 жыл бұрын
@@mr.sherrill9137 And keep everyone who doesn't look like "us" or worship like "us" or think like "us" out! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN FOR "US"! 👌👌👌👌
@chrisneilson72213 жыл бұрын
Yup, no fats with tats and purple hair.
@louiscramp43363 жыл бұрын
Perhaps there were more pretty ones to photograph back then? I remember quite a few were pretty, and very few were obese, unlike today. And the kids back then were outside playing, not sitting with their eyes glued to a phone. I would gladly go back to those years if I could. We just didn't know what we had then.
@yvonnebryant51203 жыл бұрын
Was a teenager and graduated high school in 1955. The greatest time for teens. So many memories & so blessed !!!
@albuquerqueturkey15673 жыл бұрын
I remember in Highschool my teacher showed our class a movie 🎥filmed on Super 8...It was him going to his Senior Prom 1955 picking up his date...It looked really fun...I love the '57 Chevy..
@richardbowers36473 жыл бұрын
Poem titled 'Into the Big World.' Into the big world Came the Class of '55 Richard heading out Carrying the badge of knowledge In his own way. Jack heading East looking Renaldo going for degrees North then West Bob & Tom lost in Kansas City Jim, Tony, Eugene, Robert, staying for hometown. All could only grin at what they laughed before Richard & Firmin broke to the far West. In their own way. And in every City waits the rules of the land And on the best of days in the given hour The demons appear All through the buildings the Rogues await. Into the real world Came the Class of '55' Richard goes his way into the meat-grinder For the 2nd time he's down Richard failed the code. But all through the cities in the many buildings After long years in the darkest hour The demons return, Richard appears The Rogues show up again To force the class, to know its fate Good gawd there's no end. Into the Tawdry World Went the Class of '55 Richard leading the way In another way. The Rogues waiting. Richard led the Class into the meat-grinder Under assault In Publilc The Rogue scores a 2nd hit. The Rogue fails a kill. Into the Real World Richard leading the Class In his own way. Came the Demons Richard led the Class into the meat-grinder Under assault In Public Richard did pass his test.
@delgado83 жыл бұрын
Is your favorite movie back to the future 1 2 and 3
@albuquerqueturkey15673 жыл бұрын
@@delgado8 I love Back to the Future 1 !!!
@suestephan32553 жыл бұрын
And cars, can’t forget those long cars & convertibles
@roccodiciano41893 жыл бұрын
The US was a wonderful country even in the 60s when my family would visit our relatives in Pa. Clean, the people chatty and decent, the food delicious. We used to hit up all the diners from the Ca. border to Pa. You simply cannot imagine how great the US once was.
@Rogue8493 жыл бұрын
It still is
@leshayna3 жыл бұрын
It’s like you guys just ignore all the racism that went on towards black people and other races. It was far from wonderful..
@Rogue8493 жыл бұрын
@@leshayna nothing is perfect. That was terrible for sure. Yet we choose to focus on the good things, which we love
@HENEX10003 жыл бұрын
@@leshayna Always with the racism...nothing was ever good was it.
@HENEX10003 жыл бұрын
@@leshayna What I don't get is if the racism is and was so bad to minorities why do millions upon millions of them want to come to America?
@marclayne9261 Жыл бұрын
When America was Great....
@LondonsFrost5 ай бұрын
Yeah this hurts... I feel like I grew up in a prison. The sky looks so blue and everybody looks free/happy to a degree ive never seen before. My grandparents were blessed 😴
@gello85185 ай бұрын
@@LondonsFrostwake up fren we did we just couldn’t see the bars or the chains.
@OldDogNewTrick3 жыл бұрын
A wonderful look back to an exciting decade to grow up in. I worked hard, had lots of fun and set off down the road of life.
@OldDogNewTrick4 ай бұрын
Should also add that in 1959, when I was 19 years old I owned a red and white 1955 Buick two-door hardtop similar to the one that appears around the 7:31 minute mark of this video.
@RobertGSwan3 жыл бұрын
The 1950's - the Eisenhower era - were the best of times for most people. Great era.
@chrisallen79113 жыл бұрын
It was the most wonderful time in the 20th century. Cost of living was lower than salaries and one parent could provide a wonderful life for the family in most cases. More homes and roads and shopping centers, cars and furniture was built and made for consumers. It was a time when the moral code was high in America and the low crime rates made cities great places to live as well as the suburbs.
@reesedaniel58353 жыл бұрын
And most everything was MADE IN AMERICA and MADE TO LAST.. Great quality and no such thing as "planned obsolesence"....
@karenh28902 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1955. My parents lived paycheck to paycheck. My mom always told me that the 50s were not that easy. Things weren't easier until my mom went to work in the mid 70s. I was out of the house, but my youngest siblings had an easier time.
@nutterinherbutter50802 жыл бұрын
@Orange Fort I think the 1920s are one of the most underrated decades in the U.S at least because most people see how bad the prohibition was and just think the 20s was all about crime, when in reality the 20s we're the last time we had true art and class in people up until about the 60s
@deplorableredneck4.022 жыл бұрын
One parent can provide now if you get rid of all the attachments in life cable tv/satellite, Television, huge houses, brand new car/trucks
@xaedeo65492 жыл бұрын
I think y’all forget about all of the racism homophobia and sexism back then the 50s wasn’t all butterflies and rainbows like y’all make it seem
@thestork2210 Жыл бұрын
Elegant America at its peak in my opinion.
@barrygrant29073 жыл бұрын
Everything about this video reminds me so much about my childhood (born in '52) that it brings tears to my eyes. Kids today have no idea what they missed.
@amuroray91152 жыл бұрын
Well we can’t control when we were born.
@davidburkholder73602 жыл бұрын
Only because they and you forget between bodies. You may step temporarily off the planet but not "life."
@HMSStudios-u9q2 жыл бұрын
I wish I didn't miss it I wish I lived during the 1950s
@davidburkholder73602 жыл бұрын
@@HMSStudios-u9q Where were you then?
@HMSStudios-u9q2 жыл бұрын
@@davidburkholder7360 I wasn't born yet sadly but I here story from my grandpa about the 50s and it brings a smile to face and dress and do my hair like the 50s I just wish I could of lived during that time
@ZacCoxTV3 жыл бұрын
This video was amazing. So was the music. I am 23 and love hearing stories from my grandma and grandpa from those times.
@bigshoots94283 жыл бұрын
Hi Zac love your vids
@mikeym48603 жыл бұрын
Enjoy them stories and listen. My grandpa just passed 2 months ago, and I would give anything to talk to him one more time.
@youxarexmyxsunshine3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the music? I love it.
@wholeNwon3 жыл бұрын
And what is your duty to society in our country?
@TurboRonin833 жыл бұрын
Your Grandpa and Grandma are awesome people. They were lucky to live in those times. You should always respect them!
@doorswhofan3 жыл бұрын
I feel deprived to have missed this era. The furthest back I remember was the early 70s -- and even that seems paradisiacal compared to the grim dystopia of today.
@mauritiusdunfagel94733 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for you too, growing up in the seventies! But when I was a child in the 50’s some things weren’t so good. But America seemed more solid somehow. Less out of control.
@Memow-pk1ng3 жыл бұрын
Guess drugs were around forever .. but seems became the norm w/ the hippie era. As the ones who od in 71: Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison & the flowerchildren were a useless bunch.
@2004cyrus3 жыл бұрын
What is the p word you used?
@reesedaniel58353 жыл бұрын
@@2004cyrus Paradise (ical)....
@2004cyrus3 жыл бұрын
@@reesedaniel5835 as close as we can hope to get down here on this rock we share huh?
@joannasarcamedes8191 Жыл бұрын
the best years of this country.
@kethsharakhlok19763 жыл бұрын
Beautiful era with joyful smiles from people whose family bond was their central focus. Thank you.
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
Color film and developing were expensive, not free with your phone so photos were posed on special occasions.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
You do realize, I hope, that only 1 segment of society was shown? That same trip down nostalgia lane would look different in East Los Angeles and South Central L.A.
@kethsharakhlok19763 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt thank you, Sir. There are still many parts of the US I'm still learning via YT clips. Yet, a friend told me that YT platform has a limitation on what it can share with global viewers about reality.
@westyraviz3 жыл бұрын
Jim Crow era America where blacks and other minorities were marginalized. No rich black athletes, no rich black entertainers, no black corporate executives, no prominent black politicians. The lack of diversity and opportunities would have totally sucked for non-whites.
@westyraviz3 жыл бұрын
@BlackSheep85 True!
@opaulamorgan42653 жыл бұрын
I was there too! The 1950's - a quiet, peaceful time to grow up, good music, birth of rock & roll, no drugs, people could express themselves without using vulgar four letter words, good clean fun! There definitely was a standard of how to dress, best clothes for Sunday Mass, jeans for casual, and dress up for Saturday night. We grew up in the best generation of them all!
@Ace1King12 жыл бұрын
The best thing about the music in the 50s? It was pre-beatles!
@opaulamorgan42652 жыл бұрын
A1King1, yes, pre Beatles, we had the best music and the best of times and it would be nice to go back even for a day!
@opaulamorgan42652 жыл бұрын
@✨Perfect✨ I wish you could have too!!
@NoNo-ng9sl2 жыл бұрын
@✨Perfect✨ Born in the 80s here. Every decade will have their once in a lifetime window. I loved the 90s. To me it was the last great decade because technology hadn't completely taken over the world yet. We were the last ones to remember it that way. Just enjoy the now. In 30 years? A 15 year old won't understand how much the world has changed. I look at the 50s, but it's hard to ignore how much was brushed under the rug (racism, sexism, CIA proxy wars). Had they just gotten over these things, the 60s wouldn't have undone everything.
@thecatatemyhomework2 жыл бұрын
@✨Perfect✨ wow. You are quite the intelligent young person. It gives me a bit of hope. All the best to you ❤️
@thrummer1953 Жыл бұрын
Back in that Era you felt safe. My folks asked where I was going and just said to come home when the street lights came on. We mostly only locked our doors when we went on vacation. The neighbors knew our names and would help keep an eye on us.
@patriotsleepercell4060 Жыл бұрын
Same in Europe!
@gello85185 ай бұрын
lol diversity is our strength!
@BAM-jc7uy4 ай бұрын
same here.....I would leave around 8am on my green n white schwinn bike with wide white sidewalls and bike ride along, sometimes no hands, including turning corners..LOL and be gone until dinner time/dusk. NO bottle water or lunch...if I got thirsty I stopped at the gas station and drank from the black water hose for radiator refills next to the gas pumps at full service stations...when I got home no one really asked where I had gone for the whole day. albuquerque
@davidthebest3443Ай бұрын
@@BAM-jc7uy because your white
@jennifer7330 Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful time to be alive!
@mariekatherine52383 жыл бұрын
Where’s the time machine? I’d gladly go back when to when everyone was still alive!
@artdecotimes29423 жыл бұрын
Careful, that opinion might call all the anti1950 kids who don't know anything but have a goal to ruin your moment of solitary joy.
@Cami-dc9iu3 жыл бұрын
as much as i want that im scared of those serial killers at those time lol
@LaurenMiddleton283 жыл бұрын
If there is an era I would live in its early 1950's.. but with Today's technology. How amazing would that be to just walk around 1950 Los Angeles California before it became a 3rd world dump.
@brucemattson43993 жыл бұрын
I’m ready to go back.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr28233 жыл бұрын
@@Cami-dc9iu Serial killers? You mean, like ONE incident in Holcomb, KS?
@doninmichigan3 жыл бұрын
Born in 1956, I'm forever grateful to grow up in the era that I did, now golden memories and cherished photos of times past.
@김형우-r3s3 жыл бұрын
born 1956 forever !
@peterlyons87932 жыл бұрын
I was also born in 1957. I won't try to romanticize my childhood to satisfy some irrelevant desire. Certainly not to meet some political or social ideal. You need to deal with life in the present.
@VolcanoTimeLapse2 жыл бұрын
'57 here.. blessed.
@doninmichigan2 жыл бұрын
@@peterlyons8793 sounds like you have psychological issues from a miserable childhood, care to elaborate?
@peterlyons87932 жыл бұрын
@@doninmichigan One of 12 in an Irish Catholic family. Five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister was an adopted. No psychological issues with me. I had a happy childhood. My point is people and the media create false perspectives about how wonderful the USA was in the 1950's instead of dealing with current issues. This country hadn't effectively dealt with poverty, inequality and racial discrimination.
@rojoknight3 жыл бұрын
As a teen in the fifties I don't think I ever had more than a dollar in my pocket. Never enough gas to get home but always a load of guys and gals to push me there. Born in 1940 and survived the war years on what little everyone had to share. Got twenty five cents on Saturdays to go to the movies at the ole Garden theater. Ten cents to get in and ten cents for a bag of popcorn and a tonic. Poor as a church mouse but bless with the best. Have everything in the world now. Back than never had my own room today I have homes in three states and bedrooms I have never slept in. One with a five hundred acre backyard. No not rich just blessed with everything I ever wanted or needed. But looking back at the friends and family would give it all up to just spend five more years being me.
@Sam-ik4id3 жыл бұрын
what was it like? sounds like the best time to be a teen in my opinion.
@mssdn89762 жыл бұрын
That’s very profound, it shows you can’t just buy happiness and contentment
@norwegianblue20173 жыл бұрын
My dad was a teen an young man in the 50s. I think it was an amazing time to grow up. The basics of life were so much more affordable and could be had with a single income. My dad said he paid $66/semester to attend UC Berkeley, which he paid as he went by being a part time waiter. The whole UC system was created to make an affordable education for California residents. That was their mission. Now they take the highest bidder and California students are the minority.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
I paid $500 per semester for out out of state tuition at Purdue in 1953, but it included a single room and board in the school dormitory.
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
$66 in 1960 equals $600 today. State colleges and universities were far more subsidized by tax dollars than today, and a far lower % of people went to them. Also there was a draft, so almost all men went into the military and got some version of the GI Bill. By 1990 the next tier of California state universities was $900 a semester. It's the equivalent of about two or three times that today adjusted for inflation. State colleges in New York state had no tuition fees - 100% tax supported.
@jamesbroggan40283 жыл бұрын
But back then the faculty consisted of professors and instructors. Now it is mostly crappy diversity-inclusion-Marxist-lesbian parasites who has nothing to do with education. Most of the tuition are wasted.
@LonglivetheSovietUnion3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbroggan4028 it's funny that you use the word marxist because the fact that it was cheaper and subsidized by taxes was something Marx would've loved but they undid it because they want to keep the population stupid so that for example cheaper college tuition is viewed as not being marxist lol
@DavidLopez-rk6em3 жыл бұрын
@@emjayay Reagan was governor of california in the 60s, he's the reason colleges went up in price. He thought it was communism to offer subsidized schooling
@DinoNardelli3 жыл бұрын
If you grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s, consider yourself lucky, The ones who did, know....
@dylanrichardson1993 жыл бұрын
Anyone born today is better off than in any other time in history.
@Plantdaddygardenman3 жыл бұрын
@@dylanrichardson199 physically sure, but mentally no. I was born in 2002 and even I can see that before social media and phones, people were happier.
@fasdfaerystdfg3 жыл бұрын
@@Plantdaddygardenman The only thing I dislike about our current state of affairs is the smartphones. (Granted, I used to complain about cell phones before smartphones even existed.) And, really, this is a societal issue - not a technology issue. Other than that, we're generally better off than we used to be. The view of decades past is obfuscated and creates false perceptions. I could say I'd like to go back to the mid-2000s, since it was before smartphones and the multitude of things that came about as a result; however, in saying that, I would be omitting all the reasons as to why the 2000s were horrendous. Also, would I even want to live in the 1950s? Probably not - only maybe for the sake of experiencing it as someone young enough and privileged enough.
@bubblepuppie63413 жыл бұрын
@@Plantdaddygardenman Not really better physically, there were very few overweight people then, now slim and fit people are a very small minority, medical treatment is better now as it should be after 60+ years of development.
@mr.pitjoey29103 жыл бұрын
@@dylanrichardson199 WRONG! Sure it's great about medical advancement but they were simpler times. Look back twenty years from now and you will see things in a better light. It really was nice.
@surma853 жыл бұрын
In light of americas current turmoil, this was really refreshing. Thank you for this, sir.
@benjaminnorstadt2551 Жыл бұрын
It's just disgusting to look at🤮🤮🤮US should have lost WWII to Germany or USSR
@nickohira1397 Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminnorstadt2551 wdym
@philipgermani1616 Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1957, and even though my earliest memories were from 1960 on, the Fifties atmosphere continued for most of the 60s.Yes, all the cars really did look like that!
@cathyneal38093 жыл бұрын
What a great time to live, I was born in 1949. Wish we could turn back the clock!
@liamroberts90473 жыл бұрын
Hello Cathy, How are you doing?
@regisbrasil40823 жыл бұрын
Those were the days.
@jamescress3 жыл бұрын
@@regisbrasil4082 We thought they never end!
@regisbrasil40823 жыл бұрын
@@jamescressBy the way, where are you from, James?
@loriodell15073 жыл бұрын
You sound like my father. He was born in 1948. I am 49 and I will admit the world has turn into crap.
@jayydee723 жыл бұрын
Looks like an enjoyable period in time...I envy the people fortunate enough to live during that era..
@enjfriedman3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 50's in Brooklyn and I do feel very fortunate to have lived during that era. Great to hear your comment!
@pnduarte46963 жыл бұрын
Racism is cool....
@youareright49173 жыл бұрын
IF we look at history from the perspective of someone flying above a very long parade stretching from let's say 6,000 BC to 3,000 AD, then it would be possible to "time travel" to any point along that historical parade and join in the fun! According to some theorists, time travel is possible and that's why UFOs were reported in the Bible.
@christianlittle43032 жыл бұрын
@@pnduarte4696 why do you People alwys have to come in the comments with your racism s*** stfu and go somewhere else
@pnduarte46962 жыл бұрын
@@christianlittle4303 cry more.
@AnInsideJob-mynewbook3 жыл бұрын
The 1950s...when people dressed smarter; elderly were treated with respect by the youth; people were generally happier; men and women were slimmer; and the music (especially the love songs) was simple, yet beautiful with no vulgar language or sexually suggestive words.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
You really have no idea about the music.
@reesedaniel58353 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
@allegra03 жыл бұрын
Grant….very true. The much maligned 50s were the most interesting decade in the twentieth century (USA)
@willchristie26503 жыл бұрын
How young are you? Ever hear of rock n Roll? How about Elvis Presley gyrating his hips in a mock sexual intercourse motion, requiring the Ed Sullivan show to focus the camera strictly on his face? I remember around 1958 going to DAIRY QUEEN. There was a back window for "colored" folks, and they would not be served until everyone White was served in front regardless of how long they had waited. I am sick and tired of young people idealizing the 50's. I wish I could send you all back there with Black skins and gay sexual preference and then see how you liked it.
@noble6043 жыл бұрын
Dressed smarter .. haven’t heard that term for awhile lol
@artsyhyd2 жыл бұрын
Such a classy era! The cars and the outfits!
@superclips14102 жыл бұрын
so so classy. the fucking rampant racism and lack of human rights were amazing. A time when u could beat your wife for not cooking the steak to medium rare
@artsyhyd2 жыл бұрын
@@yankee2666 thanks for the info
@fluffy1931 Жыл бұрын
The Jim Crow & Segregation strict race laws was extra classy !
@RadiantSilverlighter11 ай бұрын
And the rampant misogyny!!
@Indiansareallpajeets10 ай бұрын
There were lots of severe racism in that decade. So it is the worst and darkest era!!!
@buckshot64813 жыл бұрын
Pop was 19, mom 17 when they brought me home from the hospital in their green 1950 Oldsmobile rocket 88. Two years later we moved into a new brick ranch home where they lived another 40 yrs until the neighborhood went south.
@chriswells14403 жыл бұрын
Nowadays people getting a new home at 21 yrs old is unheard of.
@dannyyo79483 жыл бұрын
@@chriswells1440 some live with their parents till 40. another unheard of phenomenon
@buckshot64813 жыл бұрын
Pop worked for the builder, he became a contractor himself . That house cost $75 a month which is what the old man made per week.
@nadogrl3 жыл бұрын
@@buckshot6481 - My husband and I brought home our 1 month old preemie son, to a small house we had just purchased in 1969 for $8500. Put down $1000 (borrowed from his widowed mom), and our payments were $85/month. Long ago divorced, but he still lives in that house.
@mr.djcooncoon81963 жыл бұрын
@@dannyyo7948 Some NEVER leave....
@theredcoat41873 жыл бұрын
What’s absolutely crazy to me is how easily I can associate myself with these people. I’m currently in my late 20s; 28 to be exact. Most of the people shown in this video were around that age. Now these people today if they were still alive would be at least 91 years of age. I can’t help but think. One day it’s my fate too. It scares me in a way. But at the same time. I think they lived a much better 20s and 30s than I ever will.
@doninmichigan2 жыл бұрын
Glad you appreciate the times. Indeed, born in 1956, I wouldn't trade my life then for anyone's now for a million dollars. Always grateful to have lived in the era that I did, no matter what these a-hole trolls that infest comment sections like this say. Good that there is You Tube videos of the era for people like you to appreciate and enjoy, just unfortunate that today's SJW's try to spoil it for everyone. Best of luck!
@stephenturner7572 жыл бұрын
Yeah, your generation is boned. At least I got to enjoy the 80s where freedom was still a thing. You guys are headed right into an authoritarian government and the nightmares are going to start. You don't achieve social cohesion with the extreme diversity that's being pushed, but then again, that's their goal. Stay safe!
@patriciawatkins95392 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1957 and was a teen in the 70's yet I always felt a connection to the 50's. I listened to a lot of 50's music, wore 50's pieces with my regular clothes. Then when I got my own apartment I furnished it in 50's. I was lucky because back then thrift stores had a lot of 50's stuff at very cheap prices. Plus there was swamp meets. Later when I married my husband also loved that era so I continued to add to my collection. I was furnishing and decorating in mid century modern before it was a thing. Here I am at 64 and still loving that era which is one of the reasons I had to watch this video.
@theredcoat41872 жыл бұрын
@@patriciawatkins9539 thanks for sharing.
@thereseember28002 жыл бұрын
In the 50’s, people were still dropping like flies overnight from polio or crippled for life. They were absolutely terrified. Also, measles, mumps, debilitating scarlet fever, chicken pox & even diphtheria were a regular occurrence. There were a lot of mail-order scams back then. Teachers, principals & parents regularly beat children. Kids were a lot more polite back then for a reason. Women were basically stuck back then, having no financial means to escape if they had abusive husbands, because males were the main bread-winners. So it’s a mixed bag to say that the 50’s were an innocent time. They certainly never had to contend with mass-shootings at schools or public venues though like nowadays. Back then, people were getting lost all the time because they didn’t have GPS. Even though they had Thomas Guide Maps-they still were getting lost, especially when new freeways, highways & roads were being built then.
@charlesparrish28312 жыл бұрын
Love the cars from back then;beautiful design and built as tough as tanks!!!
@Jantv8111 ай бұрын
Awfully big and long!! And no seatbelt s?
@opinando68 Жыл бұрын
Those were better times than now! I wish I could go back in time!
@destinjones6624 Жыл бұрын
If you were a white man
@vernonbrowne-382611 ай бұрын
I cherish moments, like this.😢😢😢
@aperson6966 ай бұрын
it is not???????? especially in countries outside america still wrecked by ww2
@kikyozoldyck78722 жыл бұрын
i was born in late 2000s and i always loved seeing all of your stories in the 50s and onward because i always wanted to experience what it really was like to live life in the past unlike now, i feel like a lot of things changed and all of us are just glued to our technology and destroying ourselves
@Checkmate7772 жыл бұрын
People get paid to keep your attention. A lot of children don’t get enough nutrients and people in general. No wonder letting kids going outside is considered scary now because it’s basically become a vacant land because everyone is inside watching the, playing games, on social media. The only people who are outside are the ones who have no where to go.
@montanamornings85263 жыл бұрын
Born 1951. So blessed to have lived this generation
@krazykitty72773 жыл бұрын
Me too! Same year. Amen!!
@Cami-dc9iu3 жыл бұрын
i bet your childhood and teenage life must be the best 😄
@katherinegates15593 жыл бұрын
😘 Born 1947...The 50s and 60s were ever so Magical Times ....💞✌️ Thank you for the memories.....🥰
@aginnd53313 жыл бұрын
You are lucky sir..!
@billysmith57213 жыл бұрын
me born in 1952
@dc10driver13 жыл бұрын
Give people a great country, a great economy, plenty of opportunities, the freedom to breathe free and watch them thrive and innovate! A time that seems like another world to me, at least a different country. It was called America.
@Frank003 жыл бұрын
Americans were proud, this is before politicians sold all our jobs overseas and started wealth jealousy to cover up for it
@peterlyons87933 жыл бұрын
I seems like another world because it was. Your description isn't realistic.
@cristyluv12053 жыл бұрын
“Given” is absolutely correct because it surely wasn’t honestly earned
@donaldthomas93893 жыл бұрын
@John Bold Homestead Act land giveaway a few generations before this, low term Levitt Homes just before this, GI Bill and other privileges. All reserved for whites. Not so much earned.
@donaldthomas93893 жыл бұрын
@Dutch Slatin And their whiteness proved to be their eventual savior. If it was based on what ancestors went through, blacks should want for nothing by now wouldn't you agree? If only it wasn't for that skin color thing.
@mssdn89762 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 1950’s, life was much less complicated growing up. I think they were much happier times. Everyone is so slim in these photos, what’s happened to the world? I miss the old times
@melindamcclain8352 жыл бұрын
People were slim back then because most meals were ate at home and they didn't have as much junk processed food like we do today.
@gwnben Жыл бұрын
Also a whole lot more racist 😬
@mssdn8976 Жыл бұрын
@@gwnben all the work done to create harmony is now being undone. Much more division over the last 10 years
@lynskyrd Жыл бұрын
@@mssdn8976 I 100% agree- it's actually more racist, divisive and prejudicial today- it's just masked differently.
@marquesferreira796111 ай бұрын
@@gwnbennot worst the today
@jaminova_19693 жыл бұрын
The first thing I notice is all the bright colors and even their casual clothes are fashionable!
@monicabella78943 жыл бұрын
Torn jeans & tatoos .. prisoners look!
@jaminova_19693 жыл бұрын
@@monicabella7894 The pants on the ground thing was started becuase they take prisoners belts!
@JohnPaul-qs2qf3 жыл бұрын
And no fat arses crammed into stained leggings either. Its so nice to see colourful clothes. Everything these days is either made in silver grey or black because it is the cheapest colour to produce.
@monicabella78943 жыл бұрын
@@JohnPaul-qs2qf 😅 You've forgotten white sneakers, mountain hiking clothes and army boots for females. Black symbolizes something. Nothing against white, it's great for summer.
@fasdfaerystdfg3 жыл бұрын
@@20alphabet Better than it was in the 1990s. Same with crime and drugs.
@goldcherry1032 жыл бұрын
Great pictures. It seemed like an awesome time. People appeared to have been happier, more family-oriented, and healthier. Less stressful too.
@Sidewinder5282 жыл бұрын
I've heard that the 50's were an especially great decade for black people.
@beansmcdonough17822 жыл бұрын
@@Sidewinder528 Nobody cares
@oldjake4233 Жыл бұрын
@@beansmcdonough1782 And nobody cares about old whites crying for the past. You don't like the world today?... head for the exit door.
@countbelalucozade Жыл бұрын
@@beansmcdonough1782 Today not many care about whites crying about being old and wishing they were still living in the fifties. If they don't like life today then they should head for the exit door.
@gaim44 Жыл бұрын
@@beansmcdonough1782 yep racists never care👍
@maeric93 жыл бұрын
Born in 1953 so I remember a lot of this in the later 50's as a kid.
@gordonmcmanus12383 жыл бұрын
I've also 1953 baby and I remember growing up in the late 50s wonderful time
@dennispetrovic84663 жыл бұрын
07 Sep 1953
@antonyholditch8849 Жыл бұрын
The 1950'slook great.
@hudson24413 жыл бұрын
Things to remember about the 50s. America was on top. Europe was rebuilding. No serious international trade competition. Foreign built cars were rare and American manufacturers employed a lot of people. Unions were stronger and jobs with pensions were more common. There was still a residual sense of unity from the war and fear of the Soviets that kept it in place. Social organizations were stronger and more people participated. People were still benefiting from the effects of the New Deal programs and the GI Bill. The Interstate highways didn't start to show up until 1956 and wasn't even completed until the 1980s. Most business was local not so much national or international. Airline travel was not common. There was a good chance you and your spouse grew up in the same neighborhood or town and went to the same school and maybe never left. More Americans were still engaged in agriculture. The population was about half what it is now in 1954.
@countrypaul3 жыл бұрын
hudson2441 - Nice review of the upside of the '50s. I was born at the front end of the baby boom - I was 7 when Ike ran for president (and won) and got beaten up in the schoolyard because I let someone know that my parents voted for Stevenson. (No wonder I fear the current iteration of the Republican party - shades of that McCarthy-era paranoia all over again.)
@isaacsrandomvideos6673 жыл бұрын
Each country was its own, that’s the point… now all countries are the same… just with a little cherry on top trying to relate to when they were actually themselves
@mitonaarea58563 жыл бұрын
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 I think that the west has always looked so similar.
@nicholasschroeder36783 жыл бұрын
@@countrypaul Think the Twilight Zone did the flip side quite well. Funny that he mentioned it here because it first aired in 59...it's really a 60s show.
@gato79083 жыл бұрын
@@countrypaul In case you haven't noticed, it's actually the opposite now
@catalot3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for this glimpse back into my childhood. You don't see these images anywhere it seems. This is so bitter-sweet. I can picture my mother wearing the same kind of long wool coat, as beautiful as a model. We had Ramblers after the 49 Ford. We also lived on our small family dairy farm, and as a farmer's wife, my mother had lots of work to do. So did us kids. Oh, well. Those who were there remember.
@nja32243 жыл бұрын
I was born in 61, a decade in which had its own unique vibe, but also had remnants of the 50s in every day life, especially the fabulous cars and music in addition to its own brand.
@felicitydeikos52502 жыл бұрын
WHAT a beautiful era, no tattoos, no sleazy fashion or mobile phones. Love it compare to what we have today.
@user-yv9cs6bs4u Жыл бұрын
You are right what a beautiful time we had I think will never be the same.
@mnoor6124 Жыл бұрын
Atleast people of colour have rights now...world is a better place for black humans
@johnindigo5477 Жыл бұрын
Racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia...
@Leodoll85 Жыл бұрын
but lots of racism and segregation.
@lolz616 Жыл бұрын
@@Leodoll85 Have you ever seen housing data? Racial segregation is at its peak and worse in todays era because the WEALTH GAP is the greatest on record and the middle class is shrinking. You have low income areas where the majority of minorities live and then 500k plus value homes where all the white and asians live together. Society is more segregated than ever in recorded history, back in the 50s we had a middle-class surging.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
I was a college student in the first half of the Fifties and a naval officer in the second half. Life was good even for a mixed Asian like me.
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
You be OLD, meester! I hatched the last day of '52.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
@@babydriver8134 You are old now. You are on Social Security, aren't you?
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
@@howellwong11 Just funnin ya. You're my senior, so, much respect.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
@@babydriver8134 I was a junior in college when you were born. As I said, life has been good for me. I was born at the right time.
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
@COVID 46 Lucky? no Blessed.
@MagicCarpetRide86693 жыл бұрын
Better days no question about it. We'll never see anything like it ever again...
@sandygoddard74783 жыл бұрын
It's because we were a high trust, cohesive homogeneous society. Not multi cultural like we are now.
@MagicCarpetRide86693 жыл бұрын
@@sandygoddard7478 I agree... we are all American but America means different things to different people now. As Rush Limbaugh said recently, the few things we have in common are no longer enough to bind us together.
@sbfhawk43433 жыл бұрын
@@sandygoddard7478 You mean you were all white right? LOL that is why you grieve this because its your era that has come to an end. Your time has come to an end. Man aint that the truth.
@brushcreek423 жыл бұрын
@@sbfhawk4343 Black supremacy is good, right?
@Sid_Vicious-hu6yn3 жыл бұрын
@@sbfhawk4343 you people gotta make everything about race, damn
@abradfordajb3 жыл бұрын
I was born in '52, so this really IS a stroll down memory lane. Thanks for posting.
@linda.brotherton16893 жыл бұрын
Yes me too Nov.28. I miss my childhood
@jacquelinerobinson7582 жыл бұрын
People had so much more respect for themselves and everyone else. And I loved how the men looked so neat and sophisticated in those suits. Unlike today men suits that they are wearing look like they are 2 sizes too small for them.
@joelcollins74062 жыл бұрын
Hello 👋 . How are you doing? Hope you’re fine. I am Joel Collins and I'm Originally from Italy but I'd live in Atlanta Georgia. Where are you from? You seem like a real country girl.
@pixie77531 Жыл бұрын
erm no they did not did you forget how black people and other people of colour were treated in the 1950s???
@user-vm5ud4xw6n Жыл бұрын
That’s because men today have no clue how to dress. If you tell them to dress up they better be getting married-and even that’s iffy-or he better be dead. They may be wearing a suit but it’s probably 10 years old and fit them in the days when knocking back a keg with his buds wasn’t an issue. Now that he has some snow on the roof it’s become one.
@andrew2393 Жыл бұрын
@@user-vm5ud4xw6n Men don't know how to dress today? Look at modern women today. They go out half naked 😂
@sarahalbers5555 Жыл бұрын
I remember wearing little white gloves and white socks with ruffles when we went out.
@camillesubida50293 жыл бұрын
have watched 50s themed movies or 50s movies in my childhood and since then I always wish to live in that kind of ambiance, kind of living. so class, no internet, fashionable, simpler etc.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
All you needed was money. Ain't nuthin' changed.
@brosefmcman82643 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt my grandfather was happy to work and provide! Maybe you are just lazy 😥
@doninmichigan2 жыл бұрын
Good for you, glad you appreciated those times. Fk all these SJW's cultural Marxists on here who try to demean it.
@doninmichigan2 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt WRONG, most people didn't have a lot of money, and enjoyed the simple things.
@earllutz26633 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1948, & grew up in the 1950's. It certainly seems now (looking back), that it was a simpler time.
@slycad3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 50's. It was a great time to be a kid. No worries about crime and kids grew up in intact families. It's been downhill from there.
@benjaminnorstadt2551 Жыл бұрын
America should have nuked by the Germans
@gabrielashkar9941 Жыл бұрын
@howard slyder I also grew up in the 1950s and you took the words out of my mouth when describing that period. 👍🏻
@benjaminnorstadt2551 Жыл бұрын
@@gabrielashkar9941 inbred yankee boomer
@kiag.8484 Жыл бұрын
@@henryhorner3182 What are you trying to imply?
@jennifer7330 Жыл бұрын
Figure it out..🙄
@martyott671 Жыл бұрын
I never got to experience the 50’s. I don’t know why the American Left would want to destroy this. It looks like perfection.
@didsthecat1503 Жыл бұрын
Reaganism was the beginning of the end. It was only this way because of strong work unions and the richest being taxed 70%
@andrewlove3686 Жыл бұрын
Jews hate Europeans with a passion
@GhostOfArtBell0935 Жыл бұрын
@@didsthecat1503 And the rest of the world being in ruins
@wgcds7jyg897 Жыл бұрын
Liberals hate well-to-do whites
@hg8droid22910 ай бұрын
Leftists have been preparing to take América down since decades. They were already really strong during the Reagan presidency. They even forced Reagan to give amnesty to millions of unlawful migrants in exchange for nothing. Leftist, Democrat Party activism waa already eroding the roots of America back then. Their goal to make it less white was already started.
@Viperstick3 жыл бұрын
Before my time, but I sense a peacefulness that seems to be glaringly absent in our present epoch
@dejavu666wampas93 жыл бұрын
The entire world was tired of war. Peacefulness was awesome to men who fought WW2. At least in the West.
@megenberg83 жыл бұрын
the US was yet brand new in the world to everyone. cleanliness was next to Godliness. mostly all attended church. excellent manners brought appreciation. people cared for one another. i am crying now! life has given some great memories of that period. : )
@dejavu666wampas93 жыл бұрын
@@megenberg8 - I really enjoy your screen name. Lady Tate. I bet you are indeed a true Lady. Way back in high school, a diminutive woman taught Freshman Boy’s English. A tough job for anyone. This woman held the minds of all her boys in her hands. Boys vied to be assigned to her classes, and looked forward to class each day. If you can imagine that. She went by Lady McIntyre, or Lady Mac. We loved her.
@megenberg83 жыл бұрын
@@dejavu666wampas9 youth respect good sense, now as then and always.
@SteveTheFordGuy9853 жыл бұрын
@@20alphabet Yes, that was my life as a young boy, my parents raised myself and my four brothers in the Protestant Church, we went every Sunday, also Wednesday evenings prayer meeting service. Life was so different, in a good way. People have changed, become cold. When you leave God out of your life especially while raising a family. Many young people today do not believe in God, or marriage, so many kid`s in broken homes, unhappy homes.
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
This is back when women knew what femininity was, and enjoyed being feminine. Ahhh, the ladies clothes! Beautiful!
@bottlerocket32183 жыл бұрын
Look at the dilluded sexists still wishing that women weren't equals to men in society, everyone sees right thru you guys.
@joshualaurent30163 жыл бұрын
Women today are so insecure about what makes them truly a woman almost if they hate being a woman, sad times.
@johndodson84643 жыл бұрын
@COVID 46 That's a good definition of a "white knight." Well put. It's a feminist dude who thinks he can get a woman by spouting feminism. Like the guy that joins the cheerleading squad rather than the football team.
@Powertuber10003 жыл бұрын
@@bottlerocket3218 Men and women are complementary, not equal.
@fortysomethingbadgirls21733 жыл бұрын
I noticed only men commented. We don't care what any of you think! 😂
@therinchilnsford7773 жыл бұрын
Seeing this video makes me really miss White America. R.I.P America 1776-1965.
@mizfrenchtwist Жыл бұрын
hello , the 50's , were a time filled with optimism.........what happened 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔..........thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰............
@patrickbrowder68573 жыл бұрын
I was born in '66. This was like looking at every photo we ever had in our house growing up. All the parties, picnics, fishing trips, families starting out-those people are gone, never met most of em, all the memories long forgotten, but I still have the photos. Just can't bring myself to toss em out. I'm afraid when-if I do, they'll be completely forgotten...sad.
@mine2394 Жыл бұрын
Keep the pictures. They are treasures. Also, post them on instagram and engrave some.
@chosenone28563 жыл бұрын
Beautiful days.!! I remember them very well. I was 13 yrs old in 1950. I've lived a long great life. I will forever cherish the moment as well as family. Life is very short. Please take my word when i tell you this. Seems like just yesterday i was living this era. My health is very poor these days. Most of my family has passed and we have a different style of family members who dont hold our traditional values the same as we once did. It hurts but i love them dearly. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
@elizabethh66383 жыл бұрын
You were very blessed to live during those times. I wish I could have. I agree, things are so sad nowadays. But we have to make our own lives as happy as we can and enjoy our blessings. May God bless you.
@Wesker2263 жыл бұрын
My great grandma said the best time to be alive was after WW2 up until the early 90s and I believe her people seemed much more chill back then and life was simple.
@williampat44382 жыл бұрын
Awe that sounds interesting. Hi Shelly how are you doing with your family?
@ericharrison813 Жыл бұрын
Not for black people it wasnt
@AuditorMadness Жыл бұрын
Basically the entirety of cold war?
@Deewood612 Жыл бұрын
@@ericharrison813 When will it ever be. They need to fix themselves and stop being a burden to the rest of mankind.
@wgcds7jyg897 Жыл бұрын
@@ericharrison813Ok, Karen
@jimlaguardia81852 жыл бұрын
I was there. It was Great! Great!
@user-pz1bc9bc6o2 жыл бұрын
3:53~ Clemenza
@peggylee49033 жыл бұрын
Bring all the 50s living back. We need them now.
@saminaneen2 жыл бұрын
@LonerBlack66 Nobody, ever said ANYTHING to you. It is all about your delusional, "conspiracy theories", that you watch 24 hours a day, on yo boy, A.Jones, on "Inforwars", please adjust your tin foil hat, to Mars, for a better signal.
@KGVB7573 жыл бұрын
Please keep doing what your doing. As a millennial it’s so good to see the past and get a sense of history of Americana; from the beginnings of companies I’ve seen collapse to a glimpse at a life I’ve never known but somehow feel nostalgia for.
@danthomas65873 жыл бұрын
I've read a few unflattering comments about millenials here and wanted to ask you if you don't mind...why do you think so many millenials get such a bad rap. Do you think they're lazy? Are they self serving brats as the commenters here are saying? Is the millenial generation spoiled or have they just been dealt a bad hand? Thanks and love from Tucson.
@staceyl6183 жыл бұрын
@@danthomas6587 I'm Gen X, but I've worked with a quite a few millenials and can comment on a few things I"ve seen. Many of them have been sheltered from life to an extreme and the school system has over-sensitized them to social justice issues - it's part of the communist infiltration into our society. Many of them are hypersensitive to the slightest hint of insult and they expect the world to conform to their feelings - because they were taught in school that the world should conform to their feelings. They've received unprecedented quantities of vaccines - thus a greater proportion of them live with anxiety, various degrees of autism, and ADD/ADHD. Sadly, I've worked with many millenials in their 20's who suffer from chronic diseases you typically wouldn't see til middle age - especially autoimmune - another outcome imo from the aggressive level of immunization. It's not their fault, but it's detrimental to the vitality and strength of our country. It's largely from the Communist infiltration. Some of them do escape as strong, solid individuals!
@danthomas65873 жыл бұрын
@@staceyl618 appreciate the insight. It didn't occur to me about the vaccines but it falls right in line with the spike in autism. I don't believe for a second that there's no connection. I myself was reared by nuns and they, as you known were put here by God to make man's life miserable. If America were policed by nuns instead of police there'd be little violence on the streets. Anyhow thanks again for the schooling.
@KGVB7573 жыл бұрын
@@danthomas6587 I think it is something older generations have always said about the younger ones. One thing different is nowadays social cliques or groups aren't as easily delineated as they once were. You used to have "hippies" or "yuppies" etc but since the newer generations are PERCIEVED as more homogeneous, older generations can really only say "millenials". FWIW there really is a large swath of differences between ideology even among my close friends; I know some lazy and entitled and also some who are the hardest working people I've met. Some who could care less about history, others who are infatuated with it. To the latter half of your question: I think both can be true, millenials and gen z have grown up in unquestionably the best moment in human history in so many areas (medicine, science, equality etc) and yet also have some new problems not yet faced prior. IE: housing being prohibitively expensive in many areas, the advent of automation, inflation in prices without inflation in wages, the whole college tuition debate, social media connecting while simultaneously driving us apart. I really could go on but I hope you get the idea.
@Araconox3 жыл бұрын
@@danthomas6587 Same here, but priests for us in our separate high school .. they could be pretty vicious if you got out of line. An age of innocence, and we loved it.
@thebigfist3 жыл бұрын
I only lived through a smidgeon of this period but these photos are the real deal and they bring a tear to the eye as one reflects upon an era that won't ever again be realized.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
No era will ever again be realized.
@Mr.Goodkat3 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt Yes but some of them aren't worth realising the 50's had a strong vibe and aesthetic which gives it a distinct atmosphere plus a booming society in America coming hot off the war, creating opportunities these people miss all that and therefore are saddened it won't be realised again.
@Whoremembersusa29 күн бұрын
Those were the best years in my memories. Everything has changed, but I always think about them. It was wonderful. Thank you
@dannyburch21222 жыл бұрын
When America Was Great.
@timm.28403 жыл бұрын
I was in grade school in the 50's, it was the best time in history to be a kid. After breakfast my friends and I would take off to play, the only thing that do was be home for dinner... Tim M. 3/9/21
@babydriver81343 жыл бұрын
Yep! and gone all day too!
@timm.28403 жыл бұрын
@Marty Marty I can still remember the life lessons that my Grandprents taught me: Open doors for women, don’t make fun of other people, don’t bully others, be honest, respect your elders, stand for the National Anthem, salute the flag ands most importantly BE YOURSELF. Tim M, 3/13 21
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
If 3/9/21 is your birthdate, you would have been in your 30's during the 50's. That's a bit old to be in grade school.
@HansDunkelberg13 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt The 9th of March 2021 is the date he has posted his comment.
@HansDunkelberg13 жыл бұрын
Could it not be much better still, by now? After all, there were few seatbelts, in the '50s, but quite a bit of DDT and other pesticides. Also about adults who have _smoked_ around children I have heard bad reports.
@dimitri19463 жыл бұрын
Great quality photos. Thanks. I drove one of those Buicks that had no roof supports between the front and rear doors. Now that was freedom! Sadly I recall it had those first ever "lap safety belts." I rolled it once when a rear wheel lost traction on a gravel road and the next stop was a lake. It ended up on its side in the middle of the road. I climbed out and rocked the 2 ton car until it slammed back down on four wheels. It started up just fine and kept going with one bumper slightly bent in. Today this roll over would be a "car totaled" event.
@fretworkband32042 жыл бұрын
No question, cars were more durable then. Now they’re built to save the occupants and self destruct in the event of a rollover or hard crash.
@castelnedd Жыл бұрын
Amazing times. Its incredible how much respect people had for themselves and others in those days. Everyone looks so smart. I was born in the sixties so missed that era,
@Jwaugh583 жыл бұрын
I love these pictures! Oh the wonderful memories I have of growing up on our family farm during that time. My parents are gone now, but I still visit the old home place from time to time and reminisce of the special days of my youth.
@12kenneth19433 жыл бұрын
Amazing time, loved the ‘50’s. I was only a kid
@thinman86212 жыл бұрын
Grew up in Iowa in the 50's and 60's. People were mostly clean and polite, and there were jobs. Left the house unlocked and keys in the ignition when going to the grocery store. Lots of kids in the neighborhood. Relatives came over. Made ice cream in the back yard with a hand cranked ice cream freezer. Sundays were kind of boring as many stores were closed (day of rest) but we played ball in the back yard or messed around by the creek that ran nearby. Different time.
@davemitchell73612 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Iowa as well se Iowa. But from 1970 and on loved my family and my relatives were on farm's..good times for a kid for me..but always asked my parents questions about growing up in the 50's and I learned a lot from them. I wish they were still here to ask more questions..I was the youngest of 6 kids
@thinman86212 жыл бұрын
@@davemitchell7361 70's were different I think. Viet Nam, drug use, and social unrest in the late 60's changed the tone even in Iowa. Part of the charm of Iowa in the 50's and first half of the 60's was our innocence. What we didn't know didn't hurt us in that time and place.
@Cwgrlup Жыл бұрын
That’s because they actually dedicated Sunday to God back then. Today America is Godless and that’s why it’s filled with mass shootings, crime and violence.
@peterjohnson617 Жыл бұрын
I could sure go for a bowl of that homemade ice cream.....
@JohnSmith-cf4gn Жыл бұрын
Different world.
@btrue2day Жыл бұрын
People were so classy back then ❤
@dale94843 жыл бұрын
Everyone seemed wholesome, happy, well dressed, stable, prosperous, no grunge, low crime. You could leave your doors and bicycles unlocked and nobody would break in or steal.
@northalabama22643 жыл бұрын
AND WHITE, don't forget WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😜😜😜😜😜
@stuartmcdonald51723 жыл бұрын
@@northalabama2264 Yes. It was a great time for white people. Is it a crime to harken back to better times for them or does every single ethnic group and gender and sexual preference have to be included for it to be okay? Are you basking in your own moral superiority for pointing out everyone was white? Oh, how morally superior you are. Congratulations!!!!!
@tihzho3 жыл бұрын
No that's only in the movies and in small towns. LOL
@tihzho3 жыл бұрын
Did you forget the KKK, the lynching, the Jim Crow laws?
@yamahajapan53513 жыл бұрын
The optimal word is “seemed”. Read some history and you’ll find that unwholesome, unhappy, poorly dressed, poor, grungy, and high crime were all real...
@lamberko3 жыл бұрын
I'm a German, and this vintage film footage shows a time when the USA was really 'nd truly "great". I wish I would have lived in the '50s and '60s. When life had a positive perspective and future. When people were full of hope and happiness, and gentle and friendly.
@coolcat16842 жыл бұрын
And they rebuilt the German economy along with all of Europe …look up Marshall plan America was decent and good then
@cyberguy99942 жыл бұрын
@@coolcat1684 The Marshall plan was a loan and was a fraction the US took from Germany as war loot in terms of patents, not even counting the amounts of German scientists that got the US to the moon.
@richardjohnson29653 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the 50's...& I remember those cars, clothes, drive-ins, etc. it was a great time. Us kids rode our bikes all over, went to the local soda fountain or drug store for ice cream sodas, etc. We had roller skates, hula hoops, black & white tv's, transistor radios, Davy Crocket caps, etc. it was a more innocent time...and started to change in the 60's when I was a teenager. I remember the Ed Sullivan show, Walter Cronkite on the evening news, Saturday morning cartoons. In the 60's I started high school...and suddenly we were hearing about the Cuban Missile crisis, The JFK assassination, possible nuclear attack, & a place called Vietnam. Signed up for the draft at 18 just after high school. Things were changing...but it still was a great time to be a young man. Fond memories.
@PhilosophyForDummies008 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this, I always wished I could've experienced those times but I was born in 2004.
@onefinalfightt Жыл бұрын
Great photos. I love the style of the era and the cars look so cool. The 50s aesthetic has always felt cozy to me, despite not being alive back then.
@n1vca3 жыл бұрын
Amazing quality of images, absolutely fascinating to get a glimpse of an idea what life might have looked like in the US 70 years ago. Thanks so much for sharing.
@davidhunt64633 жыл бұрын
3:14 That lady is simply stunning and what an amazing dress.
@yezki83 жыл бұрын
Truly an age of class and refine
@noble6043 жыл бұрын
The color of her skin and the dress .. just beautiful!
@presleynews43153 жыл бұрын
@@noble604 ikr
@candaceroberts32383 жыл бұрын
I thought so too. That picture just jumped out to me. I love that red.
@Mary320403 жыл бұрын
A friend took me for a ride in his brand new 55 Chevy, I thought my gosh this is the most beautiful , fastest car I have ever seen.
@emjayay3 жыл бұрын
The average intermediate car today is much faster and uses half as much gas while polluting 100X less and designed to not kill you in an accident.
@swingman56353 жыл бұрын
@@emjayay No argument,there. Still,it's a pity that the style,glamour and romance is missing in today's vehicles. I haven't been excited about a car in about 40 years. Yeah, I'm a boomer.
@KLM738XO3 жыл бұрын
@@emjayay today's cars are about as exciting as a refrigerator or a washing machine. Sure, they are much more efficient.
@NoName-t7e3 жыл бұрын
@@emjayay 55 Chevy is one of the most aesthetically pleasing cars of all time though. How many cars built today can we say the same about. Today's cars are largely disposable junk.
@timothykeith13673 жыл бұрын
@@NoName-t7e I would't say junk, but new vehicles are not designed to be easily repaired. If one cared for a '55 Chevy - and kept it from rusting, it could be easily repaired. Most of us never really thought that rust was a preventative maintenance issue, we just bought a newer model vehicle.
@Rileyahsom2 жыл бұрын
The golden age of American culture
@adamburling95512 жыл бұрын
Oh yes 👍
@benjaminnorstadt2551 Жыл бұрын
would have been better if they lost WWII
@Kazmll229 Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminnorstadt2551 You just wouldn't understand
@benjaminnorstadt2551 Жыл бұрын
@@Kazmll229 good guys lost WWII
@dhammawiwekantaraАй бұрын
@@benjaminnorstadt2551 who cares
@kasspriscilla93503 жыл бұрын
Well my mother was a teenager in the 1950s so it was pretty interesting to see how they lived in that time right now she's 85 still living
@PhilosophyForDummies008 ай бұрын
@@janice4117 Thank you for sharing your story. It means a lot to someone like me, although I'll never get to experience those times your stories help me picture it.
@1933220093 жыл бұрын
Today's (June 2021) "cell phone zombies" have no idea what a great society we had in America in the 1950s. I would trade today's society for the old one in a heart beat! The crime rate was much lower than today. People, in general, were friendlier. I loved my college days, and my part time job at the same time. I miss you . . . 1950s.
@josetoro44052 жыл бұрын
no need to insult a new generation that you just don’t understand . every decade is a total new world for newcomers….
@IosaJ2 жыл бұрын
Yet here you are (on some sort of technology) commenting this.
@nl67813 жыл бұрын
Can't help but to smile every time seeing pictures & videos of the 1950's. Simply amazing and wholesome. 😊🙂
@danielthoman73243 жыл бұрын
what in the hell does wholesome mean?
@jaesea3232 жыл бұрын
@@danielthoman7324 if you have to ask....
@judymarlene3414 Жыл бұрын
@@danielthoman7324 Wholesome is everything today isn’t…..letting your kids run and play not worrying about perverts snatching them,leaving your doors unlocked,knowing your neighbors,stability of food prices….trust in government…..no perverted dementia ridden presidents like joey biden,no woke silly trans ideology….probably this all is something you will never understand in this progressive democrat sewer that the USA has become.
@steffanhoffmann89372 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the work you put into this. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@jendesign55373 жыл бұрын
A time when people had pride, people were kind, things were slower, men worked 5 days a week and had Sat & Sun off to spend with their families and visiting their parents & friends.
@farshimelt3 жыл бұрын
Obviously, you weren't there. My mother worked 5 days a week and got payed $36 a week. We lived with her parents in a 1 bedroom apt. and I walked a mile to school in all weather. Fuck the 50's.
@patrickaccioly43983 жыл бұрын
@@farshimelt 36 dollars at that time was a lot, inflation was very low, everything was extremely more cheap than today...you should be glad that you had to walk that much at those times, today kids are anti social, can’t do stuff by themselves and the streets aren’t safe as they were
@sahtemehdiavcstarkd87123 жыл бұрын
@@patrickaccioly4398 and obesity lol walking helps
@queenroyaltyrules553 жыл бұрын
And black people were still segregated! 🙄😒 I swear you idiots always long for a time when being openly racist qualified you as a decent Christian. Oh please..... This country is a racist piece of 💩!
@bflogal183 жыл бұрын
I think about my extremely intelligent mother who was denied a college education because her father refused to educate a girl. I grew up in the 60s and was the first generation of females in my family to attend college. The 50s were very oppressive to some women. If you were a woman of color, life was even more difficult.