Was Christmas BETTER In The 1960's? Why Boomers Say YES!

[@rapunzelz5520]

It was better because people were better and the world was saner.

[@glennso47]

It didn’t appear too sane if you were in a war zone away from home and the people who were there waiting and hoping you would come home alive and in one piece.

[@MyButterfly60]

We were asleep to what was really going on and some still are! Buckle up for sure because truth coming!

[@rebeccachambers419]

Glenso47. We’re talking about generalities again. So your comment is irrelevant.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

Amen. So true. ♥️

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

Times were simpler. Things were just better. People were better.

[@Janis342]

People were nicer, more caring, happier,and loved spending time with family.

[@sherwood5427]

Life was slower. No internet and distractions to make you pass time and forget what you missed. People didn't have everything they want every day. Candy was really candy and not cheaply thrown together ingredients you can't pronounce. People took time to greet each other, visit friends and family, go to parks and have picnics. It seemed there was enough time to do everything you needed to in a day and still have time and energy to actually cook and eat meals around the table. Families watched tv together in the evening and there were only a few channels with less choices which made each show seem like a real treat. You had to wait until next week to find the conclusion of a two part show. Mother's stayed at home cooked real meals that tasted like real food and didn't make you feel lousy after eating. People laughed and joked without having to worry about someone being offended. This might sound boring to some, but I've experienced both, and I'd take that back over what we have now any day. It made life seem simple yet simply satisfying. Yes, there were problems, but they are now forgotten.

[@rebeccachambers419]

Exactly!!!

[@Cindybin46]

And people were smoking and drinking, right on TV. Ugh.

[@YouTubeCensorsLikeNorthKorea]

@@Cindybin46 Say it isn't so! :(

[@yvonneplant9434]

Yes, life was slower. I'm not particularly nostalgic for it.

[@yvonneplant9434]

These videos tend to only refer to positive things which is okay. They're just videos. They're not documentaries.

[@lightgiver7311]

The 50's as well. Children were not spoiled rotten like they are now and were grateful for the one main gift from Santa and the stuffed stocking. I'm a Boomer from Canada, we always got the one thing, like a doll, a sleigh, the China Tea set, a train, and books & coloring books. Our stocking had one apple, one orange, ribbon candy, a new box of crayons or pencil crayons, a new toothbrush, a small game. We always got a new outfit, pajamas, slippers, socks and underwear. My father put away his change in a jar, kept in the bottom of their bedroom closet to make sure his four children had what he never had, a good Christmas.

[@cherylschantz9893]

Every house in our neighborhood had a wreath and lights. Not computer generated programs. We knew our neighbors well. Our schools had actual Christmas programs and parties. We were poor, but Mom worked hard to make it special. She loved Christmas! I miss her. 😢

[@emanuelsanders2030]

There's NO comparison between Christmases of yesteryear and the Christmases of today! Life in general was simple and fun. It beheld a sense of love and sincerity that seems to be a lost art in today's world. One of the main reasons the magic and spirit of the season were so special is because they were viewed through the eyes of a child! I MISS those days so much!

[@toomuchstuff4828]

We are no longer children and can't regain the innocence with which we once viewed the world. Youth is lost on the young!! When we are little, innocence is our superpower. Yet it is human nature to want what we can't have--to want to be grown up when we are still little. So we rush to our "enlightenment". . .

[@laurellane1721]

One thing I do thinks makes a big difference is that we didn't start doing anything Christmasy until after Thanksgiving. Stores did not start putting out holiday stuff in October. People didn't have their trees up in November so that they are sick of them and throw them out the day after Christmas.

[@Scott2024-vtTrump]

Merry CHRISTmas

[@cherylbootsveld1620]

No cell phones and I pads ……people behaved in public. As a child I was expected to write a thank you letter.

[@laurellane1721]

I'm amazed at how many people don't seem to know what a thank-you letter is. You would expect at least newlyweds would know to write them but many don't.

[@YouTubeCensorsLikeNorthKorea]

A "Thank You" letter to whom? 🤔

[@glennso47]

Have you ever been on a navy ship that was being tossed around by high winds and waves and trying to eat a holiday meal. And then watching the turkey on the serving line tumble down and across the floor? You haven’t lived until you have! It’s a real treat! It happened to me Christmas Day in 1968. So been there. Done that. In the ocean not far from Vietnam and the nearest land was about a mile straight down.

[@lucianprescott8357]

You definitely make a significant observation. For those that were away in the military, Christmas was different. Mine was being in the USMC on Christmas and standing walking guard duty wearing a poncho in the pouring rain. Scenes like that are forever etched into my memory.

[@glennso47]

@@lucianprescott8357Makes you appreciate entertainers like Bob Hope who left their comfortable homes and came to war zones to bring laughter to the troops. 😊 I remember watching one of his shows at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam one year back in the day.

[@toomuchstuff4828]

@@glennso47 Bob Hope RULED the 1960's. He was omnipresent and his focus on the troops brought the loss and the sacrifice of the soldiers home into our American living rooms with every Bob Hope USO special televised. He took us to those bases and we saw the soldier's faces as they momentarily were lifted out of their dangerous realities for jokes and standards, pretty girls, and old "ski nose", who made it all happen out of his love for country and his fellow man.

[@fredlawson9394]

Love old school Xmas..🌲💚💙🤍♥️

[@SharonPadget]

I agree. In hindsight everything looks better.

[@ChuckLong-d8n]

Very lovely video! Thank you it was so very heartwarming. My parents are gone and family's grown apart but my spouse and i had a wonderful peaceful relaxing Christmas at home. Everything you mentioned was true and beautiful and treasured. Too bad it cannot still be that way but your sweet video can take people back down memory lane to enjoy our childhood. Truly a gift.

[@giclat1098]

Many parents were grateful to have survived the wartime years and the prewar years of the Depression and now started they had dreamed of a lifetime for their lives! As a Boomer child everyone from radio and tv, stores, newspapers, adults, etc did everything they could to keep us believing in Santa for as long as possible! Even classic religious tv shows - Amal and the Night Visitor - an opera on the Nativity was required watching! We believed! Many of us still believe in our Boomer hearts!

[@lawnmowerman2199]

This just made me feel so good going back and remembering......got a like and a new sub!!

[@nilsalmgren4492]

Most Americans went to church back then. People did not expect the latest technology. Pretty much every family had young children excited to see what Santa left for them. Yes things were very different back then. Everyone knew that a family was made of a man and a woman who had children. Of course back then everyone knew that there is no difference between sex and gender, so everyone agreed upon what a woman is.

[@Cindybin46]

Dean Martin with a cigarette in his hand, I remember those days. Why did so many adults think they had to smoke to be cool? It's sad.

[@johnwalker6121]

Least we forget the fun of decorating windows with 'Glass Wax" stencils. Pouring out the can of Glass Wax into several containers and adding food coloring to enhance the window display. After Christmas you just wiped it off with a rag to clean the window.

[@wildflowers5555]

Great Video! Thanks!

[@scot60]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. They were the best

[@fall4ever]

Everyone thinks that things were better when they were younger. It's the excitement about the newness of things as children that seems to drive this belief. My Christmases in the 60s were magical in my mind just as the early 2000s are now to my young adult sons. We have made wonderful progress in the area of technology that makes things wonderful about our current time. Heart disease, type-2 diabetes, cancer and other ailments killed people bc there were no treatments back then. How many people reading this would still be alive if they were older adults back then? As far as music and television, you had a small handful of Christmas shows to watch if you remembered they were on. Now we have endless means to watch nearly every holiday show from the 1800s to now. People had a small collection of Xmas albums bc the holiday was only celebrated a handful of days. My collection of vintage Christmas songs is over 1,000 thanks to modern technology. As far as "tight-knit" neighborhoods, my parents were forced to move in 1969 bc of the constant vandalism and dysfunction in our white, suburban neighborhood. If I could go back to a Christmas from my childhood when all of my relatives were alive and healthy, I would visit in a heartbeat. My Christmas days are too much work now that I'm entertaining both sides of my family. Since this is the reality of now, I look for the magic in my life at Christmastime. Merry Christmas!!

[@melvynstevenson6487]

Your looking at it all from a child's view. But it was not so rosy for the adults I can tell you. Very hard and stressful. My mum hated Christmas for that very reason.

[@dm-31024]

And here’s the thing 0:44 here ⬆️ there is a cross on the top of the public Christmas tree in the city… 🏙️ ❤️ 🌲 ✨ 0:44

[@chains6558]

Everything seemed better 40 plus years ago. The world is so messed up now.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

Everything was a hundred times better in the 60s than today.

[@thenanlife1141]

Absolutely

[@vermeerrecpt9290]

Yes

[@llchapman1234]

Christmas always "seems" better when you were a kid. But it's still magical if you stop, breath, and allow yourself to re-experience the joy and awe of the season.

[@glennso47]

Christmas seems better when you are a kid and you don’t have to fork over the money to buy those gifts.

[@laurellane1721]

@@glennso47 I always used my allowance to buy gifts for my mother and aunts and uncles.

[@Angela-g1q4q]

Im genx i remember the catolers i remember sledding. Folks getting along. Lasted yo mid january.

[@cherylschantz9893]

My Aunt made the best fruitcake. I wish I had her recipe.

[@yvonneplant9434]

I was stuck in my parents' house back then. 😮. Thank God I actually made my great escape from tyranny sooner than I had expected. Only Catholics and some Episcopalians cared about Advent calendars back then. 😅

[@cherrylove3656]

Absolutely it was better people cared more had morals just look around you nowadays people don't care society wants to take God out of everything christmas decorations are few to none the feelings not the same department stores have vanished what feelings can you get from shopping at Walmart with all the rude people let's face it those good old days are gone

[@RevLeigh55]

How “moral” was segregation back in the “good old days” ????

[@rebeccachambers419]

Again. We’re talking generalities. Christmas was wonderful back then.

[@toomuchstuff4828]

@@Zeb500 Why do you beg to ignore reality? Our society needs to do better, back then AND now.

[@YouTubeCensorsLikeNorthKorea]

@@RevLeigh55 More moral than what's going on right now in the M.E.

[@mrs.anonymous6291]

Dear Sherwood in the comments: Ditto on everything you say!! Yes! I agree the best memories were the 60's. We were so luck to have had all of this. I still do, dubbed the "Christmas Queen" by my family, I kept many of these traditions alive, now I am waiting for my gran-babies God willing some day....Everyone have a Blessed 2025, oh yeah did you hear Trump Won!!!!

[@zyxw2000]

It was better in that it gets more commercial every year.

[@marktwaine9344]

and starts earlier, to the benefit of the corporations...

[@karenhammel3800]

Was alot better

[@Laine2539]

Funny. We still do some of the same stuff, it’s just not as sweet.

[@RevLeigh55]

Because you are an adult.

[@AllanHunter-c2l]

Things were so much simpler, now people are using artificial trees, Where real tres are sold they are so expensive. I recall when I hauled 2 loads of trees out to Rapid City, S.D.

[@darylcatherineholt7852]

It was better.

[@rayskitten78]

It's called growing up

[@LynneFowler-h1g]

😒🙄

[@pattidaly3567]

I don't remember much of this. And I was born in 1955. In an Italian family. This story was for white wasp people. 😂

[@Angela-g1q4q]

Italians our white lol

[@pattidaly3567]

No Italians are not considered white

[@carole2403xqv1]

​@pattidaly3567 I agree. My mother was Italian American. My father was Polish. We weren't considered "white".

[@LynneFowler-h1g]

R.U.D.E. M.U.C.H.???

[@marywest2896]

I was born in 1960...and no they weren't better.....

[@carole2403xqv1]

Sorry but I was born in 1950 and those Christmases were definitely better.

[@rebeccabledsoe4550]

Christmas now is too commercialized

[@ceciliapoventud2187]

Not for everyone! Is been always poverty

[@RevLeigh55]

This Boomer doesn’t believe this. 🙄 It was “better” simply because we were kids. Children today will also feel nostalgic one day for Christmas in 2024.

[@YouTubeCensorsLikeNorthKorea]

Boomer doom and gloom. We have the modern world thanks to boomers - and it's a disaster!😑