71 Wonderful Color Photos Showing Life in the United States during the 1950s

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[@mariakettlehut7399]

Take me back to the fifties it was wonderful growning up then

[@doreenlorenzo2501]

I totally agree!!#!

[@buckshot6481]

As someone who grew up in this era thanks for memories of the greatest time to be alive ever !

[@lindaduncan2954]

Why do I feel like crying? 😢

[@tenbroeck1958]

The amount of melancholy I feel from this specific video is off the charts! I remember old pictures of my mom in 53, married to a soldier and stationed in Germany, then back home two years later in the Midwest. The cars, cloths hair, lack of giant strip malls everywhere, and something missing today, that I can't find the words for: maybe kindness, happiness, relief at having won WWII, etc.-- it's all on the these young parents' faces and body language.

[@claythomas704]

Just wanted to say, your slideshows are visual comfort food. I enjoy them. Very well done!

[@susanurban5920]

Great photos. They bring me back to a better time. Miss those days.

[@tomfranco4866]

First of all I like the background music second of all I want to look at these photos not knowing whether to laugh or cry

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I'd live back then. In a heartbeat.

[@sueannstewart5821]

Take the 50's anytime over the mess we have today!Born in 52

[@RT-fe1mu]

M too 52

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I remember all of this.

[@leonardlloyd1089]

What a shame, people today will never know what it was like to live in a time that was peaceful, clean, and innocent , without so many distractions!!! I so miss when the world was like this!

[@GordoGambler]

Damn Viet Cong destroyed it.

[@sirustar8992]

Very happy you are back!! I love the incredible pictures and music. Sets the theme. Those were the good old days. Great job!

[@buckgirl55]

I enjoy these so much! Thank you!

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

*The 1950's was an interesting Decade. Beautiful Pictures too.*

[@stumac869]

Which would you prefer, to live amongst the people in those old photos or in today's progressive society? Know which looks more appealing to me but that's a personal choice.

[@stephaniepersin4145]

The demographics are becoming less white. The 1950s were considered progressive with new appliances, TVS and cars.

[@pianoplayrpiano99]

The 50's had its problems too. Segregation, Jim Crow and the Cold War. Hardly the good old days, imo

[@michaelmullin3585]

I remember, too, in the 1950's, that people were more respectful of each other in general, particularly about their personal NOISE. They didn't inflict boom box and TV and stereo noise on their neighbors.

[@tenbroeck1958]

I was born in 71, and many of my elders, i.e. parents, Aunts and Uncles, Teachers, were of the 50s generation. They seemed to generally dislike the way society had become more crass than needed. I always admired the WWII and Korean War era people, who were "middle-age" then, as I am now. They seemed like the actual "adults in the room", I could always go to for help.

[@seandelap6268]

Thanks very much for this

[@catfish24]

I love the fifties.

[@stevenmetcalfe3511]

wow...just found this. Yesterda today just vanished a while back!

[@adammiller2246]

This back when America was America!

[@MrKgd1950]

Wonderful photos. Would be very nice to see captions on these.

[@cathy3546]

No one was overweight. How times have changed.

[@sandytinky]

I want THAT America back!

[@rogerhuber3133]

Love these photos and they sure take me back to better times. AHHH.....the '50's when women had waists and not guts! LOL

[@stephaniepersin4145]

Ditto with the men w/o pregnant looking abdomens and they shaved their faces and dressed up.

[@atburke6258]

And I took 4 of them, the 1957 Buick, the 1955 Rambler, the "Baseball in the street", and the green 1950 Plymouth. I loved that Buick. A T Burke

[@billyjoejimbob56]

Had to chuckle looking at "Baseball in the street"... One right of center line drive away from a broken windshield!

[@atburke6258]

@@billyjoejimbob56 Sir, For a better chuckle, look at the license plates and where the steering wheel is. This is California, not England. The steering wheel is on the left but shows to be on the right because when I scanned it for Flickr, I put it in the scanner backwards. Confession did nothing for my soul. A.T. Burke

[@billyjoejimbob56]

@@atburke6258 So, almost every right handed batter had a good chance of buying someone a new windshield. Days of innocence, or were we just as clueless then as kids are today?!

[@atburke6258]

@@billyjoejimbob56 No, there was a lot of street ball playing in safe, middle-class neighborhoods like that. Lo and behold, very few windows in houses and cars were broken. Fenders weren't smashed either. Of course, they weren't made out of tin foil like they are today. Kids were more responsible and were allowed to do things like this because they took the responsibility and didn't hit their parents' cars. That ten-year-old Chrysler belongs to the father of the batter. His older brother, with the red hair standing behind him, coached his younger brothers in sports. He was on his honor to see that his father's car was not harmed and, unlike kids today, was honorable. His younger brothers didn't hate him. They looked up to him and he earned it. So they were willing to cooperate. Had a windshield been broken on that or any other car, all three brothers, including the fourth fellow in line, would have been mowing lawns, trimming hedges, emptying trash, and painting houses until the bill was paid. Their father, although a kind and gentle man, would have seen to it that they knew actions had responsibility and would not have used his sufficient income to make privileged brats out of them. My younger boy was the pitcher (and right-handed, unlike the reversed picture). His mother would have probably let him off the hook and wonder why her mean brother didn't just repair his windshield and keep his mouth shut. She's more like the mothers today. When people are responsible, they can do more things because of trust. Trust between people that is given and honored, I feel, is a wonderful thing. Today, I'm outvoted. Today, you would be entirely right because today's kids should not be in the position those responsible kids were. See what you started with that comment :) A. T. Burke

[@GordoGambler]

@@atburke6258 My friends knew better than to play baseball in the street. LOL. Mostly hockey with a tennis ball here in Alberta. My 4 years older brother and our mutual friend were always in the middle of pickup sports. Touch or flag football was the most popular. After we quit playing in 1974, I don't think I ever saw anything like us since. But then there hasn't been anywhere near the density of kids since. We went on to 5 pin bowling leagues for decades after.

[@calbob750]

A time when every second of your life wasn’t turned into data in the cloud and monetized.

[@terreniskelley7191]

I watch all these videos. I was born WAY after all these. I see all these smiling faces and the "innocent" America. How they so easily ignored all the issues that were happening in the country at the time, unless it was at their doorstep. I do love watching these though, but I do wonder who they were, and where most of these pictures taken. I also wonder how the next 10 to 15 years treated them.

[@pythorpchumsworth672]

They were all corrupted or destroyed

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

All these old photos look so much better the way they were shot: in black and white

[@tenbroeck1958]

I kind of agree, but color makes it seem more real, and less like a fantasy. But their genuine happiness with life in 50s America still seems great. I'm envious of my grandfather's era.

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

@@tenbroeck1958 Color makes it seem mundane, ordinary, completely unremarkable in any way... as if the pics could have been made yesterday.

[@Alaprine]

These are actually colorized B&W photographs? Wow, I had no idea - I was under the impression these were original color pictures, perhaps Kodachrome judging by the level of saturation and contrast. If they really were black and white though, I gotta say, whoever colorized these did an excellent job at imitating the look of actual color photographs of the era. It certainly fooled me!

[@richruksenas5992]

These are not colorized, you can tell. They are actual color photographs.

[@LynneC44]

Although these are all snapshots, so many of them have such artistic feel to them. Just a great bunch of pictures! Well minus the dentist pictures 😂 No dentist pictures please!

[@kolbpilot]

Folks complain new pick up trucks won't fit in a standard garage. Some of these old land yachts probably had the same problem.

[@joeortiz9760]

I was born in the fifties good old times.

[@vincecarnevale4406]

Momma don't take my kodachrome away.

[@spinedctr]

No rampant obesity......

[@jeanneewaseck6635]

Hey, my friend - i always, always love your videos! The pictures! The music! Ehhh, about the pictures - I've noticed some repeats. Would you like some new photos? Do you have an address?

[@jmchinch]

4:22. Snake Plisskin: The Drag Years

[@janicepolley7518]

Growing up then was a post war thing for us, , bread and sugar Sarnies if we were lucky, egg and chips or just a chip buttie, if we were lucky enough to have bread. I remember it so well. And give thanks to our lord that that time is gone

[@mohamedaitkaid2016]

The name of the second song please

[@BombaciHanso]

Biggi Chain - R

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

The Music is in the Description

[@harrybriscoe7948]

is the girl at 3:09 one of the Ross sisters ?

[@endutubecensorship]

7:41 "Ketchup" on the bottle, not "Catsup" Where was this photo taken?

[@Lyle_918]

At 7:50 Left handed batter and those windshields ...what could go wrong? Too, must be far from major city as all the television antenna are extremely elevated.

[@susanshira3783]

"Surrender gracefully the things of youth"? I don't think so, "scooter"!!!😏

[@jediknight38]

I wasn't around back then, but I'm guessing that owning a home, a car and getting married was easier and more affordable then than it us now. A lot easier. And look. They're no tents on the sidewalk.

[@GordoGambler]

Houses were half as big, if that. Weird how mom's didn't always have to work. Making jobs for them just kept snowballing. LOL.

[@MaggieF59]

Seeing this the day before the new federal holiday of Juneteenth points out how very white we remember the 1950's.

[@0159ralph]

When boys were boys and girls were girls..

[@derrickdouglas1394]

today is my bday

[@eccentricsmithy2746]

would be nice if you didnt repeat the same pics multiple times in each video.

[@GordoGambler]

I think it's where they had to remove copywrite ones.

[@janicepolley7518]

Looks nothing like the UK, we were so poor wish we pics of us then

[@terryoligny8477]

Notice, no blacks?

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

And no fatties, tattoos, piercings or green hair.

[@craiga2002]

One black, who was wearing a red dress.

[@hectormata449]

At least two blacks: one beautiful young woman in a red dress and another assisting a dentist. And a couple of Latinos too.

[@flamencoprof]

It could be that black people generally couldn't afford photography, but I doubt that. More likely there is some selectivity. This channel at the top acknowledges a blog at www.yesterdaytoday.net/2019/06/71-wonderful-color-photos-showing-life.html There you will find all these images, You would have to contact the blogger there about sources.

[@lotharroberts5978]

Great photos of a very bygone time. However, didn't see a single minority face in all the pics. if you weren't a white protestant, you were pretty much invisible, or even ostracized. Not that I want to sound like a downer, but it that's pretty much how things were and would be for a long time.

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

*The United States was 90% White up until the 1950s*

[@hepphepps8356]

You also don’t see the cancer inducing asbestos, the leaded petrol making kids less smart for generations and setting up a crime wave, the enormous amount of traffic deaths, the widespread pill-dependency reminiscent of today, the hard conditions for women, the McCarthyism, the atomic threat. The 50’s were a disaster! But, as you can see in the pics, that didn’t mean most of the people couldn’t have a good time, some of the time.

[@jjpp2216]

I guess most everyone in the 1950s was white and middle class. No one rich, no one poor, only one black person, no asians. Interesting. A lot must have changed suddenly because I grew up in the 60s and I assure you that was not the case by then.

[@billyjoejimbob56]

what was photogenic and what people and their neighborhoods really looked like differed, as it does today.

[@buckshot6481]

It wasn't any different until the Jimmy Carter era.

[@maureenjackson2041]

All those who miss the 50s are obviously white and probably well off. No African American would say those days were good.