These Are Gone Forever… 1950s-1990s

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Certain elements from decades past have faded into history, leaving behind only our memories. Many of these things once defined the fabric of everyday life, so it’s pretty hard to believe that they have come and now gone. Today, we will be looking back at 12 things from each past decade from the 1950s through the 1990s… that are now sadly gone forever!
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[@tomwheeler9244]

I'm 66..and I'll take those days to these days anyday..love the channel

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

👍👍 me too

[@MikeyRedNose]

I'm quite younger but count me in as well! I've always had a soft spot for vintage aesthetics anyway 👍

[@patriciaharris2436]

I’m 67 and totally agree🥰

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

Same!❤

[@joeyank2451]

Totally Agree.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

The 1950s-1990s will forever be legendary

[@philiparonson8315]

Yep, I was there, too. Loved the over exposure to radiation, atmospheric a-bomb testing, leaded gasoline, unsafe airliners, no seatbelts in cars, casual racism and sexism, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Good times!

[@donguess4332]

Yes indeed the 50's to the 90s were fantastic times as I recall. Not a perfect utopia but the good far outweighed the bad. Can't say the same for modern times. The social justice warriors like to tell us otherwise but I don't listen to their crybaby nonsense.

[@footballlvnlady]

I miss the old days! There is so much anger and high prices today.

[@22ergie]

And the worst leadership ever that makes Jimmy Carter look like a rock star. LOVE my 1980s...

[@donguess4332]

I love and miss the good old days as well. The good far outweighed the bad. Can't say the same for modern times. The social justice warriors like to tell us our great memories are just made up in our heads but I don't listen to their crybaby nonsense. The greatness that I recall from the good old days was very real indeed

[@22ergie]

@@donguess4332 Well said.

[@julenepegher6999]

I Love ❤ and miss my 70!’s the most!! Nothing can replace my teenage years!

[@joeyank2451]

Me Too ❤

[@staceyl.thienel1499]

I was a teenager in the 80s. Miss "Must See TV" on Thursday with Family Ties and Cosby. (TV WORTH watching with other great shows) I miss 80s in general--

[@joeyank2451]

@@staceyl.thienel1499 The Eighties Was Way Better Than Now,Born In 65 I’ve Seen Them All. Now Is Just A Joke Nothing Makes Sense.

[@cdldriver2348]

1970's: "Don't hitchhike, I don't want you to get in a car with a stranger!" 2010-Present: "Don't hitchhike, I want you to use an app to get into a car with a stranger!"

[@USNBLUE]

Uber 🤣

[@julenepegher6999]

Haha, we were safer hitch hiking. 😅

[@flowerfaeri]

Rideshare

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@thetruth7046]

Everywhere I went in the 70s and early 80s I hitchhiked. Either it was to the mall or from Fort Knox to back home, to go to the local bars. 👍 🍻

[@josephgaviota]

34:35 In defense of paper maps ... they are great for PLANNING your vacation. It's just easy to see the entire nation all at one, and how far place 3 to place 4 to place 5 will be on your trip, because "this far" vs "that far" is easy to see. While driving of course, GPS is a true blessing.

[@displacedyankee7819]

You can't tell where you are when using google maps once you zoom in. Paper maps are still great tools.

[@josephgaviota]

@@displacedyankee7819 Agree 100% with @displacedyankee

[@granddad-mv5ef]

To this day, I study paper charts or maps to learn about an area new to me before going there. The ONE time I went to an unknown to me area relying on my phone, it put me on "road" cut by a bulldozer through a forested area. You can become stuck in muddy clay very quickly, I was fortunate to get out.

[@marsbeegeefan1482]

Couldn't say it better!!

[@patstokes7040]

I'm 75, so grateful I was born when America was united, fun and really free.

[@lds9312]

This was really good. I am a Baby Boomer and this was a part of my life. It was awesome.👍🏽😁❤️ what a great travel down memory lane. Thanks.😊

[@dianesteels6680]

I keep seeing the words baby boomer could someone please tell me what or who baby boomers are? Tia love from the UK ❤

[@lavernedofelmier6496]

It amazes me that any of us survived the 50-60s without government safety intervention. Born in 50 and what a beautiful childhood and the teeny booper years with the free love era 😊. Still kicking and sad to see what this country has become. Thanks for bringing back memories.

[@jennellew.6036]

Air dryed clothes always smelt so good, fresh. I miss seeing clothes on a clothes line.

[@marycatherinewright174]

Love love the cars from the 50’s and 60’s❤️

[@user-cn6cw6os3s]

They looked cool, but spend some time heaving one around with a "three on the tree", manual brakes and steering and see how long the love affair lasts. Heavy, gas guzzlers, didn't last near as long as modern cars. Still, I love them too!

[@donguess4332]

Modern cars are garbage. Too complicated and expensive to maintain. My 64 Impala SS is still going strong after 60 years. No modern car is going to last 60 years. However I will say Modern cars are more practical for everyday driving.

[@smokeynedith3555]

29:45 Believe it or not, I still have the DVD/VHS player combo. I keep it in new condition. My husband bought it for me 20 years ago. I also still have a few VHS tapes I've decided to keep. My 2004 Chev Suburban also has a CD/Cassette player combo as well. I play my cassettes more than I play the CDs.

[@chrisnalina1755]

I still like my cassette tapes, my vcr and my flip phone.

[@invisigoth777]

maybe different parts of America, but this was the first time i heard them called "bunny ears" lmao i always heard "rabbit" ears

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Same!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Same here too! I know . . . that's what girls called them.

[@thetruth7046]

Just want to say Thank You to Recollection Road for bringing back all of these memories for us, in such the glorious way that you do! Appreciate the hard work.

[@caffeineaddict8929]

I remember cursive, wish schools didn’t remove cursive.i still see some old drug stores using soda fountains and counter service.In the old days we got up to turn the channels on tv.I remember old rotary phones we had 5 digit numbers, party lines and spoke to operators.I remember Jack LaLane, Jane Fonda& Richard Simmons on Tv.We used to call Mercurchrome monkey blood.Love this channel🥰

[@thetruth7046]

We used to call it Burnie-burn! 🔥

[@glennso47]

Kids are being taught to write “curses “ rather than cursive. 😮

[@grace7701]

We have an old drug store in town that's been in continuous service since the 30s. They still serve ice cream sodas, ice cream and hot dogs.

[@DominikQuesnel]

As a member of gen z (2005) kids nowadays dont know what its like to write the same word in cursive on a blackboard until you got it right even if it meant you didn't get recess

[@jerrydemas2020]

@@grace7701 Where is this lost treasure?

[@josephgaviota]

11:44 ... buy candy with all the change from your piggy bank ... No, we wandered the alleys, collected bottles and turned them in for the deposit, _THEN_ bought candy.

[@lindawolffkashmir2768]

Or if you happened to find a dime or a quarter, whether on the ground, or in a pay phone or vending machine slot. Candy store was the first destination!

[@josephgaviota]

@@lindawolffkashmir2768 I'd kind of forgot about that, but in grade school and Jr. High, I had a friend who stopped at _every_ phone booth to stick his finger in the change chute, hope against hope for a coin or two. I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone now.

[@historiclift27]

There is a Soda Fountain near Houston TX that still mixes all drinks by hand. It’s called Another Time Soda Fountain in Rosenberg TX it’s about an hour outside of the city. Really good food too.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

That's awesome. Unfortunately it's too far away from me. 😢

[@mwgittinsjr]

Okay, I can't stand it any longer. Mercurochrome was red and didn't sting. It was Merthiolate, the neon pink stuff, that stung. They are not the same. I hated that stuff. My mom only bought the Mercurochrome, but my Aunt bought the Merthiolate... I hated to get hurt over there!

[@JF-ym8gm]

We always had Merthiolate in our home, and it was standard to blow on the scrape as it was being applied.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Now, let's factor-in IODINE! (An element.)

[@user-cn6cw6os3s]

@@jamesmiller4184 That's the stuff that STUNG!

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@user-cn6cw6os3s Yeah! But most effective and MEMORABLE! 🙂

[@pennybechtold3524]

@mwgittinsjr I am glad you said that. I agree with you. I hated Merthiolate.

[@kotysuefawcett6538]

I love this channel! My mother told me about....👍🤗✌️

[@kathleenklein4231]

I am old now and I still have a potpourri bowl. I used to love wine coolers.

[@jamesmiller4184]

But STILL Kathleen you can have your wine coolers, young lady!

[@pamelamays4186]

I remember when project Apollo launches were a huge TV watching event.

[@stanleycostello9610]

I remember the Mercury launches. We all went into the lunch room and watched them.

[@josephgaviota]

16:25 They really _should_ bring back School House Rock ... very educational, very catchy ...

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I bought the complete collection on DVD. 😊

[@RWildekrav66]

@@jenniferhansen3622I am a Bill , I am only a Bill

[@josephgaviota]

23:00 How oh how did Bud Light go from Spuds MacKensey to Dillan Mulveney?

[@lovly2cu725]

well..... its called woke

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I've never heard of Dillan Mulvaney, but Spuds is a celebrity. 😊

[@glennso47]

Thank the advertising industry. 😮

[@glennso47]

@@jenniferhansen3622Mulvaney was recently the advertising for Bud Light Beer. He or she is a transgendered person. The people who usually drink Bud light are boycotting the beer.

[@pamelamays4186]

Also gone forever. The delivery of telephone company White and Yellow pages to your home. An instruction book on how to play simple tunes on your touch tone telephone key pad.

[@ericdonner7199]

I live in michigan an we get both about january.

[@lovly2cu725]

i get a phone book printed by another company, not the phone company. not many have land lines, its mostly business white and yellow pages

[@jenniferhansen3622]

The post office still hands out phone books to people who want them. I see them stacked on a table each year.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@ericdonner7199 Eric, Michigan must be partly in The Twilight Zone !!

[@pamelamays4186]

Both my brothers made hanging ceiling chains with pull top tabs.

[@johnbethea4505]

I miss the 1950's most of all..

[@USNBLUE]

I wasn’t born then but I miss the 50’s just from learning about it. Much better than the late 70’s which was racked with drugs and returning Nam vets which had so many problems. 😢 America turned their back on the Nam Vets. Shameful.

[@johnbethea4505]

@USNBLUE I know what you mean. I am a 100% disabled Vietnam War Veteran 1966-67.

[@josephgaviota]

12:15 I still have the Locomotion 45 downstairs, by Little Eva ... I probably played that thing at least a hundred times. Eventually I bought Locomotion by Grand Funk ... and that's a good 45 too!

[@RJDA.Dakota]

I also have the 45 rpm version of this record. Where I was it was labeled “Dimension” and marketed by Kirshner music.

[@MarisaFrasure]

I had that one, too! (Unfortunately, not anymore.) Little Eva saved her money, and opened a thriving restaurant before passing in the early aughts.

[@susanmurphy4093]

Awesome memories. I'm 74, the best time to live and experience life. We had a 57 Chevy a black and white TV and a 4 digit phone number

[@brazillady5119]

My Grandmother’s phone number was 811J.

[@pamelamays4186]

The Beatles opened up the door for The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and other British rock bands.

[@joer1678]

Elvis opened the door for them all

[@lovly2cu725]

Moody Blues

[@joer1678]

@@lovly2cu725 I saw them in concert

[@RJDA.Dakota]

Beatles snd Stones came out pretty much the same time.

[@TomKas66]

The greatest generation built that for us!🤗

[@video198712]

Even though I did learn cursive, I preferred to and still do print

[@stargirlzx]

Am I the only one who remembers FLAVOR STRAWS ?

[@stanleycostello9610]

I do. Chocolate and strawberry.

[@stargirlzx]

@stanleycostello9610 I thought maybe I was hallucinating lol 👍

[@glennso47]

I remember them. I remember when at school they served milk and one girl brought some flavor straws to class. She was certainly popular that day. 😊

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thank You for the Video (and the memories) 😀

[@kennykittrell2549]

At least back then- They knew the definition of a Woman.

[@glennso47]

A man too.

[@MikeyRedNose]

My thoughts exactly 👍

[@tomwheeler9244]

I'm sure "panty raids" probably still happen..but it's not the females wearing them

[@thetruth7046]

And I loved them all😂

[@Dadsezso]

They still do. They're just trying to force everyone to change it.

[@peachyt6296]

When I was a kid, elementary school aged in the early 90s, one of my still all-time favorite Christmas gifts was the high speed VHS rewinder my parents got me. Lightning speed compared to using the VHS player's rewinder. Absolutely amazing!

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

Soda fountains were wonderful on a hot Summer day !

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

The 5 decade period of prosperity. Afterwards it all went to shit in all aspects of life.

[@inkey2]

The death of JFK and the suspicions around the event was the beginning of the end.

[@NielsCG]

We were happy and didn't knew it

[@stephenr2434]

Ronald Reagan, Reaganomics, Citizens United, Southern Strategy, Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression, etc. Most all of which orchestrated by the Republican party designed to transfer wealth from the working class to the top 1 percent.

[@glennso47]

Some online retailer has a t-shirt that says “I’m old enough to remember when the world had not turned to sh!t.” 😊

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

@@stephenr2434 Nowadays its the democrats doing all that.

[@darrinmckeehan5697]

I was a switchboard operator at our hospital, from 1996-2005. We didn't have the cord plug like the ladies at the beginning of this video, but it was fun (mostly). One of my coworkers as an operator did use that type board/PBX

[@julistrauss870]

You forgot the Chevy Vega. My family had 1 that was orange with blue upholstery. 😪

[@biancagerade4229]

My neighbor down the block no joke has an old gremlin car rust and all but the old man loves it😊

[@rf159a]

That was my first car!! Mine was gold with black upholstery.

[@lovly2cu725]

there was a photo but wasnt mentioned

[@saner6888]

😂Vega..my first car at 16, had to share with my 17 year old sister, she wrecked it and we soon had a Chevelle , now THAT was a car( she wrecked that too so I got a Nova 👍🏼by myself!!!) 🤗

[@josephgaviota]

10:00 as a kid, we were really excited about Fizzies. Sadly, they weren't as good as we hoped, but we bought them multiple times.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Same bad sweetener in "Flav-R-Straws" from the Fifties. (Or, maybe it was saccharin ?)

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I wish streaking was still popular. 😜

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@lovly2cu725]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jasonrodgers9063]

It IS, if you're an attractive young woman! You & me, HELL no!

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

@@jasonrodgers9063 You and ne? Fuck you, don't know me. 🤣

[@jamesmiller4184]

WAIT A MINUTE : which kind dude?

[@invisigoth777]

i am 50, was born in the 70's..6yrs old in 79..my mom and grandma washed clothes like that, and dried them like that. yes, they were poor, by today's standards, but i don't know if it were that, or tradition..my grandma was half choctaw..that made them do everything manually..i remember collecting chicken eggs, and a hand pump faucet going straight into the underground well, and feeding chickens

[@MelvisVelour]

And there was a lovely smell to anything that was hung up to dry. There was also "eau de ligne" - basically scented water which refreshed clothing. That seems to have made a comeback.

[@DianasCraftyCastle]

This was a great video. Being a 60s gal, I loved the coverage.

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

✌️😁

[@kennyhagan5781]

I saw a lot of my favorite acts for the first time on either American Bandstand or The Ed Sullivan Show. I have varied tastes and those two shows had me covered.

[@youngblood2]

I hated those console TVs because the screen was just a few inches off the floor.

[@RJDA.Dakota]

Those TVs were huge pieces of furniture snd some had hi-fi equipment like a turntable and a tuner!

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

Born at the start of this period, I still managed to completely ignore, or mostly ignore, almost all of these. Exceptions would be The Beatles, the Moon landing, and the PC/phone modems/floppy discs/CDs, and VHS. I eagerly embraced all of those, but of course each of them has been upstaged by something newer.

[@SSN515]

Soda fountains were still around in a lot of places in the 1960's.

[@darlenehoover6577]

I still have the old brown and orange couch and chair that was so popular in the 70s. My kids and grandkids wont let me get rid of it. 😁

[@saner6888]

Latchkey kid from the 70’s here, perfect time to ride banana seat bikes, mini bikes, swimming holes and building forts, was all glorious until the weekend when dad noticed a tool missing 😳ruuuuun😅

[@chrisnemec5644]

Re: 7:20: Back in the 1970's, my school was visited by a guy in a wheelchair who spoke out to us about why we should wear our seatbelts and not drink and drive. Back in the 1950's, he was driving down a road when some drunk driver swerved into his lane. He tried to avoid the drunk but struck the guy. He said had he had a seatbelt to wear, he would have had only minor injuries. However, he was seriously hurt and had to spend several weeks in the hospital recovering.

[@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes]

I always thought that the Pontiac was the “poor man’s Cadillac”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jamesmiller4184]

Loved that glowing sleek Indian head on the hood.

[@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes]

@@jamesmiller4184 What model and year did that happen? I have a 79 Trans Am and it’s one of the coolest cars ever, what you’re talking about was before my time. It sounds awesome though. I hope GM brings Pontiac back to life.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Can't say but ours we were driving (the parents) in the early Fifties. It was long, about six inches and cast (I guess) in plastic which deteriorated some eventually, because exposed to the elements. When the car was going, the thing glowed slightly. Very neat indeed! It kind of entranced this seven-year-old, and so I remembered it and commented. Yeah! I do wonder how such a re-do would appear now. Cause-and-effect is interesting. If say you were to encourage GM along that line and be successful, then my early recollection would prove as having been its very starting seed, and further back this episode inspiring myself to write it as I did. "We" shall be expecting PRODUCT soon, L&T !

[@inkey2]

BUNNY EARS: Never heard it called that. Only "Rabbit Ears".

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Yes, rabbit ears.

[@inkey2]

@@jenniferhansen3622 TOTALLY

[@glennso47]

Outdoor antennas for tv. We were too far from the tv station to use rabbit ears.

[@inkey2]

@@jenniferhansen3622 Very late at night I could get oddball stations in surrounding states from here in Massachusetts. They didn't come in great but watchable. I think the old "tube" TVs got better "distant" reception than the newer transistorized ones.

[@rayfridley6649]

Instead of bonny ears or rabbit ears, some people elected to have outside chimney antennas. These had a cable from the antenna that ran into the house and was connected to the TV.

[@GassersGhost]

American Bandstand! I love the beat. It's easy to dance to.

[@rockyroad7345]

I still have loads and loads of VHS tapes and watch all my favorite movies (recorded off tv--remember that?) and vacation movies on my VHS/DVD combo player, bought just before they became extinct. I even have a backup player if mine goes kaput and actually enjoy watching the commercials because it reminds me where I lived at the time.

[@peterz22thomas5]

First time I got drunk was at 14 in 1985. I drank 4 or 5 Bartles and James wine coolers and yacked my guts out.

[@Taldaran]

Cracked me up to see Zima listed, and your comment made me want to reply. Zima used to give me headaches every time I drank them. Tasted good though!

[@nancyholcombe8030]

I was born in 1959, so this was a very wonderful ride through my life! Thanks so much for the memories! I remember the huge tv consoles, the living rooms and family rooms with matching sofas and shag carpet colors, fizzies, soda fountains, and so much more! But my father was an aeronautical engineer, so we traveled mostly by airplane almost all of my life. I miss not being able to meet people at their arrival gates, it was always such a rush when you first saw them! But one of my most vivid memories was in the nineties. I had gone to pick up my best friend's cousin from a late flight to the airport, but her plane had been delayed by three hours because of a huge storm. So now, an eleven pm arrival was arriving at 2:30 am, leaving me in a deserted Atlanta airport! Deserted, that is, except for a lone couple with a toddler girl that they were having such a loving, marvelous time with! They too were waiting for the same plane as it had one more destination to reach and they appeared to be the only passengers. I watched them for a minute, then walked over to them to tell them how cute the child was. They were very polite and thanked me for my kindness as they played with her. It was only then that I realized that this was Kurt Cobain and his wife and daughter! This now VERY famous man was traveling alone to get some private time with his family! That's why they were traveling in the middle of the night! I wished them a pleasant flight and returned to my seat across the room without mentioning his name or his music. I was now protective of them until my own passenger arrived! I nodded to Kurt to look behind him when I saw a camara lens hiding in a curtain, but he looked at it, shrugged, and went back to playing with his beautiful little girl. The pictures were all over the newspapers the next day! But I was glad that a little family had a few hours of peace because a plane was late!

[@thejourney1369]

My son still has his Beanie Babies that my Mom got him. He’s 30 and says he knows that they don’t have any monetary value, but his grandma spent a lot of time and money getting them for him.

[@jamesmiller4184]

And so are most beloved keepsakes.

[@mattm1686]

I miss so many people from this time in my life

[@mrsclaussews]

Just saw a 57 Chevy while I was driving through a neighborhood yesterday. It was fully restored and for sale. Don't know how much but I'm sure it wasn't cheap.

[@morganm9040]

14:25 “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette’’

[@nongthip]

Born in 1963, the first thing on this list for me was cursive writing, which was a very important step in becoming a "grownup" around the 1st/2nd grade. Also we got a set of "World Book" encyclopedias in 1970 which had a huge impact on my knowledge development. Most kids could only access this at their school or public library so it felt like a privilege to have them at home. Bicycles with banana seats and tall chopper-style handlebars were also a big deal, and I remember the bike parking area at school was a place for guys to hang out in the morning before class to see who had the coolest ride. The Schwinn Stingray 5-speed was on every kids wish list. Don't even get me started about "School House Rock", which was hugely instrumental in rudimentary math, grammar, history and government while set to catchy songs which got stuck in our heads and for me still reside today. It was perfectly inserted in the Saturday morning cartoon lineup, so without even knowing it we got some useful education somewhere in between Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo. And finally, slide show evenings were often boring as hell and somehow memorable. Slides, as opposed to printed photos, were seen as a mark of intellectual distinction for people like my Dad who was a PhD scientist/professor, and some of their friends or our neighbors who would invite us over for slide shows of their recent travels. It was a bit like having a home theater with the darkened room and big projection screen, so just keep the popcorn coming and we kids were ok with it.

[@jamesmiller4184]

And NEXT to be learned: paragraphing and indentation!

[@alexcitron5159]

Great memories, as always. My wife, as late as 1992, was working at an answering service that use plug-ins.

[@davidbigbee3556]

When I was younger my dad got box seats at Dodger Stadium to try to get Hank Aron’s 714th home run. He had a telephoto lens on his Nikon camera. Hank didn’t hit it that day but he got 5 action shots shots of a streaker who jumped on the field and ran the bases! Definitely a piece of history!!

[@juliemartin6101]

Remember hanging clothes on the close-line, an incinerator, going-to-the-dump, girls took home ed and the boys took shop, in almost all high school. I took geometry and biology, chemistry and physics,and I was strange. Party lines (could be fun!). I liked pep-club, but didn't like dress codes. I remember the Beatles and Elvis. Do you? Some things I do miss, other things I'm glad are gone.

[@balaam_7087]

I think the pinto and gremlin looked kinda cool 😅

[@lovly2cu725]

i had a grabber blue pinto hatchback

[@jeanbean1390]

Took my driver's license test in a '71 Pinto with 4 on the floor.

[@RJDA.Dakota]

Remember the AMC Pacer?

[@user-db9oo1tl9j]

@@RJDA.Dakota I loved the pacer! No obstructed views with all those windows and the size of them.

[@peachyt6296]

Several years ago, we stopped to stretch our legs at a rest stop in SC and I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted what turned out to be a still-operarional pay phone booth. Hadn't seen one of those in at least a decade or more. My son was only about 3 at the time, I said "Buddy you probably won't ever remember this when you're older, but this is probably the last time you or me will ever see one of these" as we went it to it.

[@jamesmiller4184]

And hopefully, you two made a commemorative call on it . . . into "The Twilight Zone"? Way-to-go, Peachy!

[@evilborg]

Mom mother was a telephone operator in Paterson, NJ in the 50's. She helped put my dad through college.

[@chrispollard341]

General happiness, optimism and hope for the future?

[@glennso47]

Now people who were hoping for the future are now nostalgic for the past. 😮

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@glennso47 Absolutely, and for VERY good reason. If you can, find the Twilight Zone episode titled "Kick the Can" You'll see and, DON"T get left behind !!

[@pamelamays4186]

From the 1960's. Chocks Vitamins. Also, taking empty glass soda bottles to the corner store for a few cents, then spending your small fortune on penny candy or five cent chocolate bars.

[@mikecrabtree8200]

Never heard them called bunny ears. Rabbit ears yes, all my life, everyone calls them rabbit ears. Never bunny

[@lilsheba1]

I do NOT miss the giant console tv. Those were a pain in the ass to move.

[@lie-berry]

My family had the first two floral sofas. In the 90s 😂

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

I have to say, soda fountains here in Texas lasted into the 70's. Especially in rural and medium population towns. Even today, you might still come across one in an older drug store.........even here in Dallas (I think there's one still in downtown). My granny had one of those Chevy's. She traded it in for a 69 Chevy Nova. She felt sick after that. She said she had made a big mistake, and wish she had kept her BelAir. I wish she had kept it as well. I miss my banana bike. They still make them.........I see one every once in a while. I don't know who makes them, but I have seen a couple of them in stores in the past few years. For the 1970's, you forgot about the Van craze and video arcades. And the craze for Gloria Vanderbuilt and Sergio Valente' jeans. And the girls ALWAYS had to wear clogs or Candies.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Good news that! Let's make it a plan to find foundering ones, encourage their restoration, and then patronize them. Also to install pharmacies that ACTUALLY COMPOUNDED remedies right there for you. Most do not know that the pharmacists of that time acted as alternatives to physicians for non-serious conditions. They were trained for this. Big Med had not yet consolidated now early absolute dominance over profiteering and our lives by consolidation and monopoly.)

[@OcotilloTom]

I was born in 1946 and remember all of this. Thanks!

[@jerrydemas2020]

1948 here. And I agree.

[@ericpetersen8155]

Gone 😢

[@jchow5966]

Thank you. This was fascinating and well made. ☮️

[@MillerMeteor74]

More- 1970s and later- I remember those soda can tabs very well. A few years ago I found one on a deserted beach along the Delaware Bay. When NJN, our New Jersey PBS channel signed off every night, they would play a slideshow with an anthem called Positively New Jersey. That's available to be seen on KZbin. I love it. Regarding the ugly American compact cars, you missed the Chevy Vega. I didn't like Disco back in the day, but I do now. Regarding Boom Boxes, my brother got one in the 80s, but it was referred to simply as a box. I loved those wine coolers, especially since I can't stand beer. My father was into industrial computing all my life. I remember when he did a lot of work to prepare systems for Y2K. Re: paper maps and atlases, I love them and still use them. Great video. Thanks.

[@kobeclub3330]

I loved 70-80s

[@carlavision6143]

Thanks for the memories! Born in 1965.

[@Richard-or2km]

I still have that same Bell & Howell slide cube projector @ 22:08 from my parents kicking around somewhere in the basement. They're gone, but it still lives on.

[@Taldaran]

Born in 1961. Thank you so much for this!

[@danskhansen]

We took Fizzies camping when I was a kid! We would make soda when out hiking by dropping one in a folding cup with water from an ice cold stream ...

[@EJHarrop]

I clearly remember using the shoe x-ray at McCallum's in Northampton MA, in the 50's. lol Oh joy.

[@cyclenut]

In the mid 60s Bubblegum music was REALLY popular. The top Bubblegum song was the Archies - sugar, sugar 1969. The drink can pull tabs, not everyone threw on the ground, some made chains made from them and hung them on the rear view mirror. During the 80s MANY parents bought computer programming books for their children and of course a home computer. Almost all teens had no desire to learn computer programming. Gas station state road maps were great for finding places, and then call long distance information and getting the address for the local newspaper and putting an ad looking for pen pals. The US use to be a very socially and friendly country. Talking to strangers was very common. But cell phones and internet shopping among other things people today are MUCH less social and friendly. Until the mid 90s it was common for kids to play outside with many other kids. We learned to make and keep friends and how to talk to others, including law enforcement. The old "dangerous" playgrounds and toys taught us to be careful. Kids today do not get to learn many things we did, and help made us be much more social and have many friends.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@ozrob8726]

It was all over by the year 2000. It's been a downhill slide ever since.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Sure seems like it. All of the various 'Memories" channels do we age-improved ones a service.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

1990's Pagers- My beloved late wife & I had a numeric code to communicate via pager without a call-back. A page of "1" was a random "I love you". A page of "100" meant... um... "GOOD THINGS HAPPENING TONIGHT"! Lord, I miss her so!

[@kevinunger433]

Believe it or not I found a little town out in the desert about 20 years ago that actually has old fashion soda fountain. They taste way different than what we have in the stores

[@dsparks149]

Thanks for taking me back through all my memories and I still use AOL born the 60s

[@Tis_I_SirJames]

I still carry Randy McNally maps in my truck, you never know when things might get squirrely. And yes, I still write in cursive.

[@masoodgha6765]

Thanks for this video,,,,,❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤

[@Noah1997callahan]

Very sad I never got to live through these times. I’m young but I’d rather be older and well off who lived through the good old days !!

[@mwgittinsjr]

Also, I had a small device you could plug the main phone line into that wouldn't let someone picking up the phone interrupt the line. As long as your modem was connected before that device, you didn't have to worry about having your data stream screwed up!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Gees! That's a new one on me! Sounds neat. I say bring back dial-up for the land line equipped. Everything goes blackout -- still works.

[@stephenspilker9334]

i love this channel and yes it sometimes makes me feel old lol. it's funny the 57 chevy storey made it in here but the 57 ford outsold them that year. i remember all this stuff lol.

[@donrepcon7704]

I was born in 52 and remember everything in this video. Awesome job!

[@flowerfaeri]

The era before so-called smartphones when people still communicated! As for flying, I used to love it, but in addition to the excessive security, the extra charges for everything now as well as the cramped seating and aisles has made it almost unbearable.

[@woodwaker1]

Flying used to be glamorous, now its like riding the greyhound

[@flowerfaeri]

@@woodwaker1 The Greyhound was better than the current status of flying.

[@dagny8336]

Telephone booth stuffing - the Tide Pod era eating of days gone by.

[@LJB103]

Another washing "item" that I remember from the 50's were large frames that my grandmother would set up to pin and stretch her sheer curtains to dry out on her back lawn. Being left-handed, I hated writing on a blackboard.

[@davidlittlejohn6636]

The real floppy disks started with the 8 " and then the 5.4 "...The 3.5 was not a floppy disk. The first computer that I bought in 1982 had an 8 MHz processor (12 in turbo mode), two 5.4 " floppy drives and I added a whopping 20MB hard-drive when they came out. Oh, how for we have come...

[@jamesmiller4184]

That's right and they were a lot of fun because so big. You knew you really had something but not in terms of storage capacity.

[@eddiesimms9301]

In 1967, I was in 3rd grade and recall learning cursive handwriting, I ENJOYED it very much. I wouldn't trade my grade school days for what today's youth are being taught, etc....HELL NO!! My FAVORITE car, both my sisters dad and my mother's boyfriend, drove a 1955 & 1956 Pontiac station wagon.....Boy ol' Boy....I truly LOVED that car and STILL do.