You Might be Old…If You Remember This! - Part 10

[@jeannejett2299]

My Dad won a 1959 Cadillac El Dorado from Regal Gas Station. I remember him coming home with the big news like it was yesterday. Our family was pictured in the newspaper with the station owner handing Dad the Cadillac keys. I was 7 years old.

[@karenh2890]

Wow! That must have been so exciting!

[@samanthab1923]

I wasn’t born till 1959 so parents waited twenty years till they got their Cadillac. No more station wagons after that.

[@brian70Cuda]

That is really cool!! I still hear those adds on old radio shows, great to hear that people actually did win!!

[@petestaint8312]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting. 👍

[@raulduke6105]

Wow!

[@GenXfrom75]

Not old ... Just well lived ❤🎉

[@ilanamillion8942]

I am Canadian and wore one of the Vietnam POW/missing soldiers bracelet. Mine was in honour of Richard Garcia who was eventually identified years later in Vietnam. He was from Texas. I looked him up and still think of him

[@Maxumized]

What part of Texas?

[@JB-yb4wn]

Then you are an idiot. A stupid American war fought for no reason whatsoever. At least you weren't like the dumbasses who volunteered to fight in Vietnam. These morons had the gall to ask the Canadian government for a memorial. They were told that Canada did not participate in this war, nobody was drafted to go there, as far as we are concerned, you are mercenaries.

[@teasea3152]

Dang, I just found out that I might be old. I remember almost everything in the video. I'm 71 and every year seems a little shorter than the last.

[@starmnsixty1209]

Younger by a few, but so true.

[@topper1958]

I was born in 1958 and would not trade one day of my misspent youth for all the IPhones in China. Rode in the back of pickup trucks, did things with my 20in Stingray bike that defied all of Newton’s Laws. Girls were pretty, trim and tattoo free. The Dark Shadows movies were film in the next town at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, NY. Just a mile from Sleepy Hollow. Peter Frampton and Edgar Winter lived up the street from me. The Edgar Winter Band would give free concerts from the stage that rose above the ranch house. Peter Frampton would invite kids over to play guitar. He also loved the ice tea at Gambino’s Deli in Croton. His dad was a wonderful gentleman. I miss the 20th century.

[@lovly2cu725]

peter frampton from england peter frampton?

[@topper1958]

@@lovly2cu725 yes. Peter Frampton from England. At his height he purchased an estate on Glendale Road. His dad was very British and proper. He really was a gentleman.

[@topper1958]

I should also mention I went to Ossining High School with Martha Quinn. First VJ on MTV. We sang in chorus, did the OPTS plays, Children’s Theatre. We were big Beatles fans and would often wear the same Beatles shirt to school. Gosh, we had the best times. The parties, the best times of my life.

[@fob1xxl]

All my youth ! In 1959, I was 14 ! In the 60s, they were my teenage years. What a great time it was. I miss not getting a REAL ENGLISH SPEAKING PERSON on the phone when you needed assistance with something. Today, all I ever get are the Phillipines, or India, neither of which I can ever understand ! Watched SNL , even had a "Mr. BILL" T-SHIRT! Still miss all those days. I guess that what happens when you grow old.......

[@R32R38]

People who speak Spanish have it easy. Almost without exception, the workers who staff the Spanish speaking customer service lines ("Espanol numero dos") are native Spanish speakers.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Even back then, when you reached a real operator, she could put you on hold if the place was busy, just like today. But she would just say "Hold the line, please." She didn't say "Your call is very important to us..." That line just raises my blood pressure.

[@JaniceBlackmon]

This is so true what you saying when you call someone and you definitely don't know what they saying it's so refreshing to get somebody to speak English even if they put you on hold at least they speak English.

[@freshh_toast]

I bet when you speak another language it’s crystal clear 😂😂😂😂 Always the stupid monolinguals talking completely out of their asses.

[@gregtheredneck1715]

Yeah, riding in the bed of pickup trucks was an awesome experience. If the pickup was outfitted with a camper shell, it didn't matter what the weather happened to be. Once, I traveled from Atlanta to Asheville, North Carolina, in the bed of my uncle's GMC pickup on a family vacation over the Labor Day weekend. My Dad and uncle were in the cab while my mom, aunt sister, and myself stretched out on cushions in the back protected from the elements by the shell.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I'm from North Carolina and my best friend and I rode in the camper shell to the beach one summer.

[@Rick_King]

And today, your dad would probably have been arrested.

[@cindyvigil9133]

How I wish that we were all back in those days very very peaceful and happy times

[@LearnAboutFlow]

Mr. Bill was one of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV. Every episode was hilarious.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Back then, SNL was just great all the way around. Gilda Radner was a delight. So sad what happened to her.

[@davidmaxey3401]

Oh nooooo! 😂

[@davidmaxey3401]

So sorry about Gilda Radner.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Mr Bill was dumb.

[@chimom7112]

I totally forgot about Mr bill until this post.

[@questfortruth665]

Those days didn't just SEEM like simpler times, they WERE simpler times!

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

The Vietnam War, and thousands of Americans coming home in body bags, were simpler times?????????

[@Vector_Ze]

@@frankrizzo4460 I am usually without response when some stranger blesses me. It seems to have some basis in religion, I guess. But, if that's the case, why are THEY blessing me? Aren't they every bit as mortal as I am? I don't even know what they mean by that, honestly. Oh, and I'll be 70 in a couple weeks. Bless me? Are you imparting your religious beliefs on me. Or, what exactly does it mean?

[@lambornpeter3922]

​. You must be a blast at parties. I feel sorry for fookin ejits like you.

[@evpilot]

I remember the telephone repairman putting on spikes, and climbing the telephone pole to do the repair.

[@jmorgan5252]

I remember running home after school to watch Dark Shadows it was aired live and there were many cool bloopers. I also recall seeing other kids in the back of pickups, we used to say " Those lucky Ducks" But then when we were in the back of our families pickups we were the lucky Ducks

[@susanservin1949]

I ran home to watch Dark Shadows at a friend's house because my dad thought it was too creepy for kids to watch. Think of the stuff kids watch now!!!

[@samanthab1923]

There are YT vids of DS bloopers 😂

[@samanthab1923]

@@PeanutButter-pt7ew To tell the truth the only time I remember either of my parents saying anything about what we watched was my dad coming in from work & I was watching A Summer Place. I was 12 in 7th grade. I heard him say to my mom, “should she be watching that”?

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 and remember all of these great times. Kids will sadly never enjoy what most of us enjoyed, I don't mind being old now since I've got great memories to cherish and look back on. :)

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Trust me, There aren't too many kids today missing out on listening to a Pat Boone record, or girls not being allowed to play sports, or having 3 TV channels

[@readytogo6569]

I Thank God every day I grew back then. Todays world has much more stress and waaaayyy too many noses-Nellies (aka Karen’s)

[@necroslair]

Could you imagine kids playing with cap guns or riding in the back of a pickup truck today? Every Karen within a mile would be up in arms…

[@elmerreed6048]

@@vicepresidentmikepence889. Wow, don’t know who you are but coming from that time, life was better. You might need to talk someone to get your out your anger and angst.

[@xScooterAZx]

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 That's because they dont KNOW what they are missing: Life.

[@LouJuan]

In '76, I had the same bike seen jumping the kids under the ramp. I won it at Six Flags in a soda bottle ring toss. Best day of my youth!

[@charlesgall7829]

Thank you! That last segment hit home. My best friend's dad sponsored a baseball team and would have the whole team in the back of his 56 Ford pickup(his HVAC work truck) after a game . The deal was if we all stayed seated he would take us for pizza. It taught us responsibility and appreciating FREEDOM.That was in the 60s. Soon after ,the lawyers and insurance companies got involved and started to slowly ,and hopefully without any of us noticing, strip away our freedom. Once it's lost , it's gone forever. I really feel sorry for the kids today , they don't even know what freedom is. No wonder the country is in the condition it's in now. Makes me feel terrible.

[@dxradioman6351]

How about a A&W Root Beer FLOAT!

[@philovance1940]

It was the rare ultimate treat/ reward for myself whenever I earned a little money working at some job mowing lawns, cleaning out garages, working in the bean fields or baling hay.

[@julenepegher6999]

Yes, Dark Shadows after school, striking caps on the curb, and I loved my cut-outs! These childhood memories can’t be matched! ❤👏

[@incog99skd11]

I'd get home from school and Mom would be watching General Hospital which was on just before Dark Shadows. So, I'd get a snack and sit down and wait for my show. Well, I got addicted to General Hospital too!! Still, I was there for Dark Shadows and I have the entire series on DVD now.

[@julenepegher6999]

@@incog99skd11 my favorite soap from my youth was Guiding Light I remember my mom watching it when they were 15 minute episodes. I watched it my whole life till it went off the air. I would tape it when I worked. P.S. I like your pic of the cat it looks like my cat. 😽

[@sharonrudy470]

Oh my heart! Yes Dark Shadows. It was exactly like the video said. I definitely ran home from school every day to watch Dark Shadows. It was the best. This made me want to find the reruns, if possible, to sit down and watch again.

[@jimm6339]

My grandmother called her soap her ‘story’

[@julenepegher6999]

@@jimm6339 yes. We used to say that too. I have to watch my stories. I knew that before I ever called them soaps.☺️

[@pslm23]

We used to drink Tang HOT in the wintertime after playing outside in the snow. It was SO good 😊. My mom made the BEST tuna casserole with Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. I forget all about having to cut the paper doll clothes out and trying to hang it on the doll without falling off. What great memories and I'm so glad I grew up when and where I did. I'll always be thankful for my life. Thank you mom for trying your best to give us a happy childhood ❤

[@frankrizzo4460]

I remember my Mom would make Tang and pour it into the ice trays cover it with plastic wrap and put toothpicks on top of each one. We had Tang popsicles in summer afternoons. Great memories growing up back then I'm glad I had them.

[@waynemillard7426]

You need to add, driving up and down the main street of town listening to Wolfman Jack on Saturday nights. Priceless!!!

[@Dadsezso]

Great memories. As a kid from the 50s/60s we seemed to be a lot more resilient than kids now. The only thing that prevented us from playing outside was rain. Even in snow, we played outside until nearly frostbit. One thing though, don't get injured. First, everyone would vanish like roaches when the light gets turned on. No one wanted to get blamed for contributing to your demise. Second, if you have to go home because of the injury, that's a guaranteed a$$ whippin because you obviously were doing something you shouldn't have been. So, unless a bone was sticking out of the skin or blood gushing, you just walked it off sucking air through your teeth then saying aahhhhhhh.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Agreed! Kids today don't even go outside anymore to enjoy the vitamin D and get fresh air.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

The broken bone/ gushing blood warning must be in our DNA. I told my som the very same thing. Except I added that he wasn’t to come and hide behind me if there was a problem with his friends. He had to solve it himself. Also if I was lying down for a nap he wasn’t to bother me unless he house was on fire.

[@samanthab1923]

I’m the oldest of five. I walked into our shared kids bathroom once & found my 13 yr old brother butterflying a skating wound on our 10 yr olds leg! Don’t tell Mom was all they said & then went back out to ice skate!

[@smokeynedith3555]

That last sentence got me laughing so hard. That was funny. Great times we had, huh?

[@Vector_Ze]

I would be more likely to be outside playing in the rain than I would be on a sunny day. It boggles my mind that rain would keep a kid indoors.

[@toddbehrends1373]

I am always amazed at how you hit the mark at looking at our pasts. From the long gone stores to how we lived in the 60's and 70's. I grew up in those decades and my friends and I did do a lot of what you show on this channel. You must do a ton of research for each episode, so hats off to you for taking the time to do what you do for the bringing our pasts to life each time we watch, even though it may only be 10 minutes. Each episode is always the right length of time.

[@sonyafox3271]

Past, one, aka/ your only living one life, not multiple lives, therefore, you only have one past not several!

[@thomasschwarting5108]

​@@sonyafox3271True, EACH person has a past, so then, pasts!!

[@markw208]

Good job stirring our memories. One of the great things about A&W was the super cold root beer 🍺 in the frosty mug and the frozen disc of root beer on the bottom that would eventually float to the top. How about person-to-person calls? You could call and use a code name to let family know you made it home OK. EVERY boy had cap guns & you’re right, the sound, the smell and smoke 💨 was a thrill. Tang was a big deal, we drank Tang just like the astronauts. Casseroles seemed kind of fun, all those things together were a different flavor experience. Much less hostility back then.

[@samuraibushido7077]

Was the tv show CHIPS was popular with you???

[@daleroberts8772]

I always liked their hamburgers also! The mama, papa, and the baby burger! I always got the teen burger fries and a root beer! We would cruise around in our cars and park at our local a&w great times

[@markw208]

@@daleroberts8772 , I agree. Their burgers were good

[@dhart8451]

@@daleroberts8772 Do you know how A&W made Baby Burgers ?? They put a Papa Burger on top of a Mama Burger

[@donl1846]

We use to ride our bikes to A&W just for the root beer in that frosty mug !! What a treat it was.

[@debbiemullen2574]

I loved riding in the back of pickup trucks. So cool! When we got a country squire station wagon and sat by the back window, down, of course, we were in heaven. The 70"s were the best!

[@kathybriscoe1474]

I was born in 1944 so my growing up years were in the 1950’s which was a great time to be young. I remember the 1960’s after graduation and getting married in 1966. Life was good and the minor inconveniences like the gas shortage were short lived. I remember everything presented in this video with fond memories. They say you can’t go home again which is sad because our world has changed so drastically since those days with crime and wars etc.

[@debjh8983]

I think there were significant things happening in the 60s to like the Vietnam war. There were problems at home too with people protesting and many other things not sure where you were.

[@karenh2890]

I'd agree there is more crime now in the United States. And most of us didn't grow up worrying that we would be shot at school, at a concert, at a club, at the movies, in a grocery store... But war is nothing new. Millions of people died in war in the 20th century alone.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

We weren't being over run by illegal aliens and biden!

[@sonyafox3271]

Well, my brother was born in 66 and, I in 67 and, yeah, I have moved away from home and, course we really never moved that far away because, we moved to a nearby Indiana town about 45 mins away after my dad had passed but, even through the yrs when, I was living a bit farther away, course relatives and family friends still live their, not a lot of family lives there. And, every so often we go visit the old neighborhood and, course as we get older we make less visits to the neighborhood. When, my brother came in for a visit last year we did so, my niece could see it. But, if you go to my old neighborhood, it’s like stepping back in time! Are house was built new before my parents got married and, it still stands, even though it’s not painted white on the outside no more. Are old neighborhood still looks the same and,even all the houses are much older, which all that area and the neighborhood we lived in, is still called The Meadows and, it actually looks as as if time stopped for a minute and, things had been left frozen still!

[@raulduke6105]

Forget Vietnam?

[@footballlvnlady]

I was working at McDonald’s when that jingle came out. We got tee shirts with the jingle on it. I can still say it 49 years later! Wow, I am old! 😁

[@samuraibushido7077]

I remember seeing that Jingle on tv ;this video really jogged my memory-thank you.

[@samanthab1923]

People in front of the White House have been asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or National Anthem. Having failed. Are then asked what’s in a Big Mac & they get it right every time

[@johntracy72]

There's a joke about that Big Mac jingle.

[@shirleywalker5593]

The Good Ole Days for sure All these kids in pictures look happy, they are smiling and having fun.

[@janetwentz3259]

I remember all of this well. I was a switchboard and directory assistant operator for 13 years.

[@joeheid2776]

Cap guns were huge in our neighborhood. I remember for my 1st communion getting a Lone Ranger set. Came with 2 guns witn holster a white cowboy hat and a mask. What a blast I had with it!!!

[@barbaraleszczynski2214]

Yep…I had an ANNIE OAKLEY set! I loved the smell of the caps popping!

[@smokeynedith3555]

I was born in 1955 and I don't ever recall the mailman coming twice in a day. Must have been before my time. But I was 15 when I found out about Dark Shadows in 1970. I only caught the last year of it but I was so into it I knew EVERYTHING about it and knew all the actors. I saved the comics that came out in the daily newspaper in a scrapbook. Sunday paper had the comics in color. The paperback novels came out and I would scramble to the bookstore and purchase the ones I hadn't read yet. I had every one that was put out. I had a sizable library. I was more into it than most Trekkers are with Star Trek, lol. What fun days.

[@jolie2861]

I was born in 57 and remember Dark Shadows well..our mail always "rang twice" 😅...we called him "step n fetch it"

[@sharennyberg7795]

After I got my first drivers license is when the first oil embargo happened. I remember people saying they would stop driving because gas was $1.00 per gallon (oh man gas was sooooo expensive lol) I was one of the people absolutely hooked on Dark Shadows. Barnabas was so handsome with his fangs lol. Another fantastic video, Thanks

[@johnmadow5331]

I remember OPEC that created oil Embago after Yum Kpupor Way in October in 1973.

[@karenh2890]

A dollar a gallon was a lot of money, considering what we were paid in the early 70s.

[@johntracy72]

I wish gas was a dollar a gallon...

[@johnmadow5331]

I remember in 1979 during Iriaian revolution, the gas went from 65 cents/gallon to 95 cents and almost hit a dollar I saw a commercial of Datsun that start with "Future Shock, the gas is $1.00 a gallon" in America. I just graduated and used brand new Buick Regal 350 Cubic Inches Engine and was told to get Japanese or Foriegn car. The value of US car lost value when gas was sold by half gallon in 1980 when Jimmy Carter loose election in 1980 to Reagan.

[@johnmadow5331]

@@karenh2890 I made $1.90 an hour as a school liberian assistance that a Gouffer position.

[@nbenefiel]

We couldn’t get home in time to watch Dark Shadows so we all stopped at Carolyn’s house.Her mom always had popcorn for us.

[@rogertemple7193]

I'm 59 years old and yeah remember everything here in this video really well and yeah Dark Shadows was my favorite Gothic Horror Soap Opera thanks for the memories.💞🇺🇲📺📻📺📻🇺🇲💞

[@Rick_King]

You said one thing that rang very true. Kids back then weren't afraid to get hurt! My wife and I just watched the entire Dark Shadows series on DVD. To this day, it is a marvelous piece of TV history.

[@SerenitynPeace]

Cars had style for sure. Today they all look the same, even trucks! I miss all the very different cars & trucks! Especially my mom...

[@jamesrader3329]

Always loved riding in the back of my dad's truck.

[@thomasallen3818]

There’s no might be to it, I am old! I wouldn’t trade my life for anything! The memories I possess are priceless. I just wish my kids and grandkids could have had the same kind of carefree life, not that theirs was not good, but the 1980’s on were just not the same. Innocents had been lost and the pace of society was getting faster every day. Kids lost their imaginations, and had to be entertained instead of entertaining themselves.

[@Scott-pe6te]

Such wonderful nostalgia. A&W, caps, clackers, Dairy Queen, Big Mac jingle, Big Wheel ... I love this series and this is the best episode yet. You have described much of my childhood growing up in the 60s and 70s. Case in point ... as young children, my brother and I would race home from school to watch Dark Shadows each day. We were terrified by the vampires Barnabas, Angelique, etc. Some nights my brother would wake up crying from nightmares from that show and my mother would come into our bedroom and say, "you kids are NEVER watching Dark Shadows again!". The next day we were right back in front of the TV watching it :) .

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I actually had the Dark Shadows board game. Wish I had held on to it!

[@jennifersnipes4177]

We still have a dairy queen in my town.. still blowing &going&it's always busy. Awesome food 🙂

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

@@jennifersnipes4177 We still have one also. 😀

[@ScottRandolph-dd7dr]

🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. Ah sweet memories. I prefer to be Old... Without it , you would not have these memories 😊

[@frankrizzo4460]

I remember the gas shortages back then, my Dad would switch the plates on the cars because it was only on certain days they could get gas, at the time they didn't really check the car registration only the license plate numbers. 😅

[@smugandsmarmy]

Every episode on this channel is so heartwarming and pure delight! ♥️♥️♥️

[@PaulC001]

who remembers writing to soldiers either during a war or around christmas time? i was assigned as a camp mailman in korea (1990-91) and used to hand out letters from civilians to guys who didn't get mail regularly. sometimes we'd get so many i'd hand 2-3 to someone so all the letters would get an answer. i personally wrote back to at least a hundred of those letters. i'd try to make each one of them a personal memory for whomever wrote one and would include a picture or some kind of souvenir. none of my replies were typed, i'd hand write each one.

[@rossramsdell7584]

today's kids will have "good old days" too, just there own

[@RichardinNC1]

I was not allowed to ride in the back of a pickup. Although we rode in the back of a station wagon all the time. Finally as an adult I did a few times. We didn’t have A&W but a trip to Dairy Queen was always a treat. For me, it was Batman, The Monkees, & Star Trek in the 60s and into the 70s in syndication. More great memories….

[@jackiepenner-lourdes3374]

I miss my Dad and his old 1961 red truck. We would pile up in the back and go to the beach for the day with friends.

[@sherishaw5144]

So many wonderful memories💕😊💕😊Thank~you!!! I remember them ALL🥰 From somewhere in the U.S.A.❤

[@smflatt]

No, we weren't afraid of getting hurt back then and a lot of kids would usually find a way to do it!😉

[@tbob8212]

Yes! Mom would always remind you to have clean underwear on in case she had to take you to the hospital 😂 She didn't want to be embarrassed if you had dirty underwear on 😮😂

[@Lisa..4]

Big wheels were the best. I loved my paper dolls. That’s when SNL was funny.

[@marviveedee7198]

Love this videos ,but damn its somewhat depressing .Yearning for a time long gone .

[@galaxieman1964]

Sooo glad I grew up in the 70s. Wow, I rode in the back of pickups and am here to tell about it. The bicycle jumps with a stingray were the best. How many had the high sissy bar??

[@voiceofraisin241]

Hey #21 girl. I bet you had no idea you would a big smile on this old guys face so many years later. Thank you for that.

[@jeremy1350]

In the Late 70's my family lived in Miami. My brother fancied himself "Evil Knievel." We had a cement (shuffle board) stretch in the back yard. From one end to the other was about 50 feet. There was a dining room table in the back yard with wheels on the legs. One day my brother got on his bike, ON TOP of the table as he pushed the table to move, he'd jump on his bike and ride the table down the path. One day he went over the handle bars, over the table top and smacked his head clean on the pavement below. He had an EGG shaped lump on his forehead for weeks after that. He never tried that stunt again.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

I screwed up my Knievel stunt once and landed on my taint on the bar in front of the seat. Ended my jumping career! 😂😅

[@sonyafox3271]

If you lived in my neighborhood you wouldn’t of needed the such in your backyard, we lived by a lot fields and, my uncle actually had a motorcycle shop in Indiana and, when, we would go up to my grandpa’s and, grandma’s house on the weekend sometimes my dad would take us with him to pay my uncle a visit and, he would let dad bring home a motorcycle from time to time for awhile. The real fun was when, he let dad bring home a 3 wheeler and dad took us on the big hill and dad would pop a wheely on our way down the hill, such fun times!

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I don't think anything ever caused us to do such stupid stuff on our bikes as Evel Knievel! We did ours on a big empty field that was part dirt so we didn't get hurt very much thank goodness. 😂

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

​@@slim-oneslim8014Yeah even we girls weren't immune to getting hurt there if we rode a boy's bike, lol. I can't imagine how much worse it felt for boys to hurt their "junk" that way. 😬😱

[@slim-oneslim8014]

@@Mick_Ts_Chick 😉👍

[@loismccluresmith7944]

I loved paper dolls and created a huge wardrobe for mine

[@julenepegher6999]

Me too. They were great.

[@3DJapan]

Oh boy I remember my older sister and I quoting Mr. Bill's iconic "oh no!" all the time.

[@peggybegin8241]

I was an information operator, we drove our '62 Chevy to the A&W. Still don't know how I parked that long car. So many great memories. Thanks from a "seasoned" senior❤

[@paulbegley1464]

I remember going to Napa California and eating at A&W. Loved it.

[@MrMegaFredZeppelin]

My mind always goes back to these days when The United States of America was great and most things were made here and not China😁I miss those days growing up😫ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

[@loriloristuff]

Girls wore POW bracelets, too!!! It wasn't a boy or girl thing. The equivalent of the charm bracelet was the ID bracelet. It was a gift, usually for Christmas or a birthday. The boy's name was engraved on it. Some had just the first name. Some had the last name as well. They were chunky, with heavy links, very masculine. Older boys sometimes gave their ID bracelets to their girlfriends as a token of "going steady." Today, younger boys wouldn't be allowed to wear one due to the chances of a kidnapper or other unsavory character knowing the boy's name and conniving him.

[@theophilos0910]

I would add 8-track tapes which were first releas’d into the American market in the summer of 1965, the concept of [ugh !] ‘Instant Coffee’ which appear’d in stores beginning in 1963-the same year as Lava Lamps & the first ‘audio cassette tapes’ ; my first memory of a TV ‘commercial’ [tele-advert] was in 1962-featuring the rockem-sockem robots ('Knock his Block Off !!!'), and Alan Ludden hosting 'Password' whose commercial sponsors included 'Culligan Water' ('Hey, Culligan Mae-yen !') and 'Comet Kitchen Cleanser & Sink Whitener’ featuring the white overalls-sporting originally 1930s child-actress then-middle-ag’d Jane Withers as ‘Josephine the Plumber’ (now that was a gender-bender if there ever was one !) In 1965 we got the fat Kool-Aid plastic handl’d punch bowl shap’d carafe with the ‘smiley face’ emboss’d like a water-mark on its face (we got it via mailing in an absurd number of ‘used Kool-Aide package tops’ to get it-does anyone still remember ‘grape’ & ‘cherry’ Kool-Aid’ in the 1960s summers with the music of Herb Alpert blaring trumpet-like in the background ? Now those are the kind of product combos that bring me back !); then there was that stocking’d foot game called ‘Twister’ in 1966/1967 that put the older folk’s backs out; Quaker Oats came out the same year with ‘Instant Quaker Oats’ for the first time - tho’ it took 3-4 years for them to add ‘flavour choices’ ; the year c. 1966/67 gave us the handiest white-correction goop ‘Wite-Out’ for your new electric typewriters (sure beat the old pencil-eraser method’) which had to be re-formulated s few years later (can you say ‘lawsuits’ ?) so young children wouldn’t get sick trying to drink the stuff-they should have put a teenie-tiny skull & crossbones on that teenie-tiny bottle ! And I seem to remember that cheap-but-sweet men’s cologne ‘Hai Karate’ after 1967-I wonder if you can still get it? Also didn’t that cereal Product-19 hit the shelves of the grocery stores around the same time ? Makes you really wonder what ‘test product number 11 or 12’ tasted like ? LoL All these items I remember all too well-so I might as well face it folks-I AM old !! LoL

[@leftyk072]

Omg! My mother ate product 19 cereal! It was still around in the early 80s!

[@matrox]

1:15 Thats a 64' Ford Galaxie. Our neighbors father had a black convertible like this.

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

I learned quickly to NOT sit on the wheel hub in the back of my Dad's pick-up lol. But oh what fun we had with the wind thru our hair and the sense of freedom!!!!

[@mikeywid4954]

Thank you Recollection Road for all the nostalgia and the hard work you put into these videos. We may not have had today's automotive technology back in the 50s and early 60s but we had some of the best looking cars ever built.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

I had a huge toy gun collection, from BARs to flintlocks to James Bond tech rifles..looking back , the Dad was obviously into it.. P.s. remember Derringers with Greenie Stick-Um caps?

[@jeannejett2299]

Yes! They were so cool

[@marlanebraun5635]

its wonderful to be old and have you take me back to my youth. i was busy with having and bringing up children in the 70s. the memories of some things are blurred during that "productive" time. thank you so much for remembering us boomers!!!

[@yardsausage]

i remember the 70's to present, as i wasnt born until 1968...

[@roncaruso931]

Can you imagine if a bunch of 8 and 9 and 10 years olds rode in the back of a pickup truck today? The driver would be arrested and sent to prison.

[@pslm23]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@slim-oneslim8014]

...after being tackled, tazed and beaten up by a bunch of roided up losers!

[@roncaruso931]

@@slim-oneslim8014 what?????

[@patriciaclark54]

My step father had a truck and if we went to the mountains we all piled in the back of the truck, and off we went nothing was ever said

[@philovance1940]

We worked for farmers in the summer time. 8am 5-6 of us would pile into the back of a pickup truck with our bag lunches and thermos of ice water head out to fields and work all day for $1.50 an hour. The sweetest sound was ‘quittin ’ time’! We’d come home tired and filthy. My parents did not tolerate loafing around the house.

[@loslaynes]

My mother is a farm girl and talked like people did in her community, even with a university degree in business education. One day in we went to buy some burgers and she said she want a Big Mac. She then proceeded to tell the server person to not put on any of 'that thems there special glarp.' I remember that I couldn't stop laughing at her 'special' order

[@janetpitts7302]

I'm 63 and remember and love everything in video, dark shadows was the best!!! I wore a POW bracelet and remember gas lines, thank you for memories!!

[@anndinoto]

I'm 75, so I remember most of the things shown in the video. I don't remember mail deliveries twice a day, but especially during the holidays they delivered 7 days a week. In the 60s here in New England, we had the forerunner of McDonald's. You could get a hamburger, fries, and drink for way under a dollar.

[@petepeter1857]

OH NOOOOOOO, I remember all of these!! 😄😄

[@scottguitar8168]

I graduated high school in the 70's, I remember the 60's and every decade after the 70's but none of them compared to the 70's for me. I am not sure why I found the 70's so special, especially music wise.

[@juliepoolie5494]

I remember when McDonald’s had a marketing program that if you could repeat the jingle to the cashier you would get a free burger.

[@pattymerrill2838]

I had that John McKamey POW/MIA bracelet and wore it in high school. I had the information on the bracelet memorized and I remember when he came home. I still have the bracelet.

[@c.e.anderson558]

I grew up in a very small town and we didn't have any of the stores or eateries we saw on TV We live about 80 miles from Houston and that was a long journey. Houston was surrounded by Loop 610. 610 was out in the country. But we were isolated down on the coast. Came back here to raise my kids. They are raising theirs. The 2023 madness hasn't touched us

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks for the List and Video (and the memories) 😀

[@richardbrewer8301]

When we moved to Florida, my mom and younger brother came down on the bus, but my dad, my older brother, and me came down in my dad's 61 Thunderbird. This was 1965, and my older brother left for boot camp, and then Vietnam and Orlando International Airport was McCoy Airforce base back then, and we used to watch the B-52's flying in and out .

[@lovly2cu725]

my 1st supervisor at at&t was originally a cord board operator

[@andyvonyeast332]

Tang was great! I used to eat it with a spoon when Mom had her back turned. I remember riding in the bed of a truck too!! Kids today don’t know what they missed.

[@nancybarta8167]

Yes every club I was in after school would have Dark Shadows on!!!I was trained on a trunk switch board in college.Worked at The Whittier daily News. Actually guys loved to have an ID bracelet from their girlfriend in the 60s.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I remember in the early 70s we had the leather bracelet with our name and some kind of design of our choice. I think I have mine stashed somewhere still, lol.

[@frankwafer6919]

I remember most of these wonderful things, thank you!💖💯🤍👍!

[@StarFleet_Tech1701]

6:55 - kids and parents weren’t too afraid to let kids be kids back then. Now they are weak.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

We didn't go to A&W much but there was one near the lake we sometimes went to and getting a Teen Burger was awesome. I watched Dark Shadows every day. We even had the Dark Shadows Home Game, but I couldn't tell you what it was about now. I remember Mr. Bill but before there was Mr. Bill there was Froggy on the Ghoul show. People from the Midwest might remember him. The Ghoul was forever torturing Froggy.

[@samuraibushido7077]

The only time I can remember A&W is when I had to go to Niagara Falls Canada and I had a burger there-I should had them nuke it more :)!!

[@vanessadobbins2963]

Yes, yes I'm old 😂 I do remember the pop guns and got a kick out of mr. Bill 😂😂😂😂😂😂 so many fond memories from watching those videos. Thanks for sharing and God bless🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏and I had to add, I made my own paper dolls with clothing that I designed, colored and cut out. Good times!!!!!!

[@airbornegrunt6898]

I remember so much of this as a kid from the 60s and 70s!! Also my mom was a telephone operator up till the late 70s when the job terminated. It was general telephone which is long gone. God rest my mom's soul!!!

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

I've always loved cars with fins, still do. Wish they would come back in style again. We moved to Dallas in 1968, and went to the A&W stand near Downtown Dallas a few times. I loved those frozen glass mugs of rootbeer. SOOOO GOOOD!!!!! I liked playing with caps, but didn't care for the guns. I liked trying to pop them between stones. Loved Dark Shadows when I was little. Still can't believe my grandma would let me watch that show by myself!!! I loved Tang when I was younger too. I tasted better than real orange juice to me. They still produce it nowadays, but it's mostly sugar and not as orangey as it used to be. Tastes too much like artificial chemicals. I don't remember mail being delivered twice a day. I do remember when they started delivering 7 days a week though. That was short lived. It was really nice though, getting mail every day. I didn't start driving until 1980, but I do remember "odd and even" days for getting gas. Being in Texas, it really didn't matter, nobody every ran out of gas here........as the Texas oil fields were still pumping before they got all shut down and destroyed. I had some clackers for a while. Don't know what happened to them. I think I got them going so fast they shattered. LOL I did have a Slinky I destroyed as soon as I got it. The things kids did then. I loved the original SNL.........especially Gilda Radner, she was my FAVORITE! And I do remember Mr. Bill too. I remember casserole recipes being all over the place and cookbooks were infused with hundreds and hundreds of recipes for casseroles, but the only time I remember eating casserole is at Thanksgiving and Christmas at my grannys house. She made rice casserole and cornbread casserole. Both of which are excellent. I do remember cars without seatbelts, and sliding all over the back seat when the driver was making a turn. LOL SO much to remember from back then.

[@markw208]

I had a couple of Slinkies too. Same thing, mesmerized for about an hour & then somehow it got tangled up in itself. Never got it untangled 😡

[@normlor]

YES, WE ARE VINTAGE REMEMBERING ALL THESE "WONDERFUL" THINGS WE DID. ONE THING STRIKES ME, ALTHOUGH IT'S A LOT EASIER TO HIT A FEW KEYS AND HEAR ANYTHING FROM BACH TO ADEL, CHOOSING OUR FAVORITE BAND'S NEW ALBUM AT A RECORD STORE WAS MAGICAL...AND IT SOUNDED BETTER!!!

[@billdozer3674]

We had a yellow canary that would start singing when the theme from dark shadows started playing and my mom would yell it's time and I would come down stairs and we would watch it together..... those were the BEST of times

[@barrydysert2974]

i think that this has been Your most impactful episode on me ever! i was born in '62 so i don't remember A&W's introduction of my all time favorite the bacon cheeseburger. Other than that, everything else is firmly in my personal Recollection Road! There was nothing better than loading up the back of Dad's pickup truck with a bunch of cushions and blankets, soda pop and snacks. And of course too many kids! The drive-in theater was only $5 per car load in 1973! Dad would park sideways so everyone got a great view!

[@kathleennorton7913]

What a great dad!

[@UN33kWabb1T]

Back in the 70"s I dated a guy who drove a pickup truck. He had a dog that would stand on the cab of the truck as he drove from town to town. He was careful of course and made sure no harm came to the dog but for him and his dog, this was the best trick ever. Everyone admired the guy and his special dog that preferred riding on top of the cab of his pickup truck.

[@beckybanta126]

I lived in Michigan until 6yo. Lots & lots of snow. My Dad would tie our sleds way back behind his car, then connect neighborhood kids' sleds behind ours. Cannot remember the exact number, but was told between 5-10. Of course he drove very slowly, but I felt like we were flying. We took turns sitting in the front sled. I liked back best. All parents lined up along the sidewalks (yes, we had sidewalks!) to cheer us on & check for safety. I remember some saying they would only trust my Dad. Remember also that some parents ran along with us. Lots of laughs & cheers! Ah, good times!😊

[@SteveAubrey1762]

I grew up in the late 60s & early 70s in San Francisco. We were a long haired family! SF was awesome as a kid. Janis Joplin, CCR, the Grateful Dead, groovy times. I remember clackers! I did the Eval Kaneval thing, landed on my head and ended up in the hospital. Back out doing it again before the stitches were out! Riding in the station wagons, back of pick up trucks with our hair flying, psychedelic VW vans..all of us packed in like sardines...and loving it! They drafted my pldest brother in 1970..I think it was..and sent him to Vietnam. I remember the POW bracelets but we never wore them. Some kids did. My brothers friends took me to the peace marches to end the war. I was really into that because my brother was good to me. He ysed to put me on the tank of his motorcycle and he and his friends would ride out into the countryside. I wannted him to come back. I participated in the very first Earth Day...however I dont remember it being called that. We were all calling it ecology day back then. Earth day sounds better. All the teenaged girls in our group taught us younger kids how to make tie dye tshirts for ecology day.

[@MayFlower21974]

Yep. Ypu missed the rifle racks and rifles in those child toting trucks. Good memories. TY

[@Sakja]

I remember rushing home from school to watch "Dark Shadows."

[@Istandby666]

Those were the good old days.

[@mlouism2minotti748]

All this stuff brings back alot of great memories. Love this channel.

[@wesmcgee1648]

I remember Dark Shadows after school. My mom would laugh at it when props would fall and actors flubbed lines.

[@marktatum2592]

In 1967, my Dad bought a brand new long bed Ford F100 pickup and put a new camper shell on it. He later built a large bed and storage boxes to fit inside, and installed a Radio Shack intercom between the cab and the camper Every year around Christmas time (1968-1970) we would travel from Waterford, CA to Neosho, MO during his yearly vacation to stay with my Grandparents and celebrate Christmas with them and all of the rest of the family that could meet at their house. (The Homeplace) It was a three day trip one way (2000 miles) and we would stop in late afternoon at a State Park or campground and Mom would cook supper and breakfast in the morning on the Coleman stove and we would sleep in the camper. My brother and I rode in that camper to and from Missouri for several Christmas visits and saw a lot of the USA from the back of a Ford pickup! And yeah, everytime we stopped for gas, to eat or for any reason...we definitely were ready to bust out of that camper to run off some of that energy of being young boys!

[@lucken13]

Growing up with a farming family in the 60s/70s, we rode in back of pickups all the time! 😛😛

[@matrox]

They didnt have A&W drive ins in my hood, or anywhere in my area.

[@bigp3006]

My dad's first brand new car was a 57 Chevy Bel Aire red and white, he kept that until about 2006. We used to ride all over in that beauty.

[@xScooterAZx]

I am wonderfully old! I was born in 1954 and grew up in the 60's! What a awesome time it was then. :} I had two of those western cap guns. *Oh and it wasnt Mr.HandS. It was Mr.Hand. Not plural. XD Riding in the back of trucks was tons of fun and there was no law against it either.

[@heavenkey7754]

I remember riding in the back of my father's truck in the early 80s, and he bought us capguns🎉