Every single day. There came a point in my mid-30s when I observed that for all the technology we'd developed to make life simpler, social culture and politics cancelled it out by making life more complicated. And we're worse off because of it. There's no doubt I lived a very idyllic childhood; my father was a successful developer and it allowed us to do things most families couldn't; but the general tenor of the society we tried to build after WWII was a better living standard within the guardrails of simplicity. Now, society can't handle the techno-culture we've built because it seeks no limitations or ground rules -- some with the best of intentions but nevertheless deleterious to human interaction and our very ability to sustain ourselves.
You do know 1962 was the cuban missile crisis where everyone was expecting a nuclear bomb to be dropped on their heads and also the year that a riot occurred in University of Mississippi cause an African American applied as a student.
@@texasboy5680 Yes. There's a crisis a week; always has been. We're talking about a socio-economic construct that reflected America's commitment to first principles. No time is without crisis; but there was a time when we trusted that dedicated people with character in positions of power would make decisions in defense of our common interests. That no longer exists today and so we go from crisis to crisis without any sense of direction because our elected officials are more interested in campaigning than actually doing something with the responsibility they've been given. The difference between US leadership when I was a kid compared to now is completely dichotomous; we no longer trust government and that began in the 70s after Watergate. We've never recovered; we're circling the drain.
Poor little Jack wanted one thing (strawberries) and mom say's nope, and little sister Betty fills up her little shopping cart with things she wanted, and mom is like "good job Betty". I'm sure Jack will have some words for little sister Betty off-camera.
I remember my mother coming home from the supermarket in 1969 with 11 or 12 paper shopping bags filled to the brim and some overflowing with groceries. She was going on and on about having to pay 50 dollars for these groceries. Today, it would cost, probably, 400 or more dollars. 😄
Yes, I remember back in the mid-1990's I bought extra groceries for a camping trip and it cost me $60.00 and I thought "Wow!". Today I spend that much for so much less!
Amazing thanks for uploading it all looks so organized and the people are civilized they are dressed and they have dignity. Unlike today where people are dressed in their sleeping PJ and twerking in the store.
I loved going to the grocery store and do grocery shopping with my grandma and getting the S&H green stamps and filling up those books and it was lots of fun
I used to do the same with my grandmother and mom at the A&P. We filled up those Plaid Stamp books and then redeemed them for prizes we picked out of a catalog. It was huge fun indeed!
@@YT4Me57 my big brother got a giant plastic race car w/ regular wheels and snow ski type runner skids that quickly changed over and I got a big boys tricycle😁 yes happy days indeed!
@@YT4Me57 we had an A&P HEAR IN ROANOKE RAPIDS N C. ..... I DON'T MEAN TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT BUT .... THE OWNERS OF AP WHERE MURDERED BACK IN 1972 - 73. BY THE MOB MY MOMA CRYING ALL DAY LONG😪 look up Shay MURDERED in RRNC
@@RIXRADvidz Are you judging me based on my Yhoo name, well for your info I am as white as can be if it matters please stop being a racist and live a better life of less bitterness and resentment.
Only if you want an all white world. And one where women had to be housewives, whether or not they liked it. It's fun to watch these videos, but they were not real life for many, many, many people.
@@RIXRADvidz I laughed out loud at you calling Black folks "coloured" (are you from CanaDUH or England, "mate?"). Come over here to Chicago in the USA on Madison and Pulaski with that mess!
@@RIXRADvidz There's always one Woketard in the comment section. Whining about nonsense they made up or misunderstand. Can you please show us all on the doll where the white man has hurt you so much.
That was a very nice store with a great selection. We didn't get to see stores like that in our community until the 1970s. In the 1950s we had to go to separate stores when we went shopping. Bakery, butcher shop, dry goods, and the dairy store when we stopped getting milk, eggs, and butter delivered. Vegetables were local either fresh or canned at home, while fruit was fresh berries in the summer and apples and pears in the fall, which we put into the root cellar so they would last through the winter. At Christmas we would see oranges and grapefruit for a very short time, then we would have to wait a whole year. Many people today just don't appreciate what life was like a couple generations ago..
An orange and nuts or a tangerine in your Christmas stocking was a treat in New England. A pomegranate was over the top , my grandparents would give us one each year .
I agree. Where I came from, this sort of grocery store wouldn't be available to most of the population until the 1970s or 80s. We lived on a farm and had to grow vegetables which were canned to last us the winter. We also produced our own eggs and milk. Therefore, our father would basically just buy sacks of flour and sugar and also oats for our morning breakfast. A little bit of money had to stretch a long way.
I’m only 36 and this makes me feel a bit of nostalgia that I never experienced haha. My grandfather is a World War II and Korean War veteran, I remember he always talked about those times, saying how cheap, safe, modest and innocent those days were ❤️ he’s 97 today!
$5.63!!!!!!! That's it with a 5lb veal roast and everything else she got!!!! It would be worth the cost of a time machine just so we could go back and to the grocery store back then.
newstart49 True, but making money like that back then meant mom could stay at home and take care of the home and family. Now if a guy is making 3-4k a month that's not really enough. They call it progress, but I don't know.....I call it sad.
maconsumner They shove that "progress" thing down our throats- but what they mean is progress for them not us. Now we have both husband and wife working and that is still not enough. We are near the breaking point.
newstart49 Yup, I am glad other people see it like I do. We spend too much time away from what is really important to make money to buy crap we really don't need. Our priorities as a society are screwed and what's worse is it isn't going to get better.
Howard Wayne,,, no, I don't get overdrawn, I use the credit card and my husband pays it at the end of the month ☺😊. I do totally get Betty though, I shop the same way. Life is short, you should have what you want if you can. I'm amused at how Betty just puts what she wants in the cart without a thought, that's so ME😊😆
@@dalerussellsullivan9373 I see divorce in your future. That's okay for you though, since I'm sure you will get a good lawyer and take yer poor husband for all he is worth.
Richard Gray,,,,,I see that you are a jealous prick in the present! How dare you?! You don't know me or my husband,,we have been together for 30 years and he has NO problem with the way I spend money or how much I spend. Unlike you,,,HE is a successful business owner, and he is NOT worried about money or stingy like you are!! We are very happily married and will stay that way. I feel sorry for your wife if you even have one, which I doubt.....LOSER.
My father was a grocery clerk in the 1960s -2000. I remember this well. He worked for Mayfair Markets in California . A great company to work for. I miss those days. Ground beef was .39 a pound.
And nobody came to the store with a pair of ass tight pants or short shorts, with a telephone in their hands and yakking nonstop and a screaming brat throwing a tantrum because they don't get their way. I was taught to behave in public or get my ass whipped.
@@sheriheffner2098 Oh please. Shorts were much shorter in the '70s, and there were plenty of screaming brats throwing tantrums in the toy aisles. But I'm truly sorry your parents used violence to teach you manners. Really, there were much less extreme methods. It's a true shame they, and others of their generation, didn't bother to learn that.
Some of it was very good, some of it wasn't...depended from day to day....I would never give up the past and what it was, our past makes us what we are today, but I would never want to relive it....once was enough
And then corporations found out that they can raise prices across the board to benefit their boards and pass the cost onto the consumer. That's why you have to have a two person income to afford a house, car, healthcare, etc. Way more simple before corporations controlled the country.
I was in a Sam's Club at 7pm tonight. There was a young child, maybe 2 or 3. She was so loud! Screaming just for the fun of it. A couple times she made me jump and we were not right next to each other. The family was encouraging the screaming, or acted like they didn't hear it. Life is so different now.
It was a GREAT fun time to be alive. I remember these stores................personalized service with a smile and everything so much bigger than today and cost very little...Stuff like Quaker Oats had a gigundo sized container making today's "large" Quaker Oats look tiny. Take me back!
When I got married in 1967, I could get 10 big bags of groceries for $20 and I remember my husband fussing about it. His dad told him that he had no idea what groceries cost! I made my husband go shopping with me the next time and it cost TWICE as much. I shopped for 'bargains' and he hadn't. He had to laugh at his own self! He never complained again!
I can imagine a conversation from 56 years ago: Husband (groaning): $20 for groceries! Where does it all go?! Wife (Irritated at the question - that time of the month, lol): It goes into damn good meals, friend!
@@MisterMikeTexas 😂 You're right about good meals! I learned from the best...my dear Mother, her 4 sisters and a dear Uncle who was a chef/butcher. He taught us what cuts of meat to buy and how to season food. My husband didn't have any complaints about his meals! Many times dinner would be a 4 course meal...all whole foods cooked from scratch!😋
@@kerplunkety Betty grew up into a real fatty, and couldn't figure out how to operate one of those battery seated carts, and now Betty blames her mother for not having the foresight to see into the future, and teaching her bad eating habits.
I remember when the local chapel was turned into a supermarket in my village in the mid sixties. I managed to get a job there, it was absolutely fantastic working in that lovely supermarket. Such happy carefree memories.
I was 15 in 1962 and assisted my mother often shopping for groceries. So many staff. No price scanning. Everyone dressed well. Wearing dresses, no blue jeans etc. No plastic shopping bags. AND two packed PAPER bags for only $5 62! I know, everything else was a lot less expensive too. Leaving a dog with a window partly rolled down such that someone could make off with the dog or get into the car isn't done much that way now. Different times, but for me, fond memories.
Skip to today: people wear their pajamas to the grocery store. What's worse, is they wear pajamas that look like they haven't been washed in about two months (and I live near a wealthier area of my city) I just finished watching a local news story from Detroit where a woman was told she had too many items for the self checkout. The customer was so enraged that she followed the store employee into the restroom and kicked open the stall door and yanked the employee out and beat her on the ground. What - the heck - is happening? Progression or regression?
@sphinxrising58 - Where was this? I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the1960's through 2000's And I NEVER heard of ANY store that was open 24/7 until the local 7 Eleven went 24/7 in the late 1970's. Everything closed at 9:00 or 10:00 pm at the latest and NOTHING opened on SUNDAY at ALL until the foreigners started taking over the small "mom and pop" stores in the 1980's. In the large metropolitan cities like New York and Chicago there were places that were open late or 24 hours but even most of them were closed on Sunday and ANYTHING run by Jews was closed from sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday.
Jim H. I lived near a town with the majority being Jewish and I thought it was kind of nice because when (though closed on their sabbath, sat) their businesses were open when other businesses were closed on sunday.
@@sandyfreyman3501Dogs, aside from Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, have absolutely no place in stores. Especially grocery stores. And if you knew ANYTHING about food safety you would ALREADY know this.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter I know this is what they say but I disagree. Dogs do enter groceries. They are cleaner then covid patients and can be seen in backpacks and carriers under carts in these times. I have no issue with dogs in grocery stores or outdoor food venues either. Amen.
Judging from all the cars present in the film, I'd say this was closer to the mid to late 1950's. At any rate, I would be closer to Betty's age (born in 1954), but I remember how big the displays were at that age, and how cold the freezer was as I dug out the cans of O.J. for my Mom. My father owned and operated an IGA store in Southern New Hampshire until I was 5 years old. I'm glad they showed the final bill of sale for those groceries...$5.63 won't even pay for a coffee and a coffee roll nowadays! My wife shelled out $140.00 for one week's worth of food last week...without meat- for just the 2 of us (retired, no kids)!
and Heinz, Mrs.Paul's, Betty Crocker (Bisquick), Pillsbury, Post (Grape Nuts), Kellogg (Corn Flakes), Campbell soups, Pall Mall and Camel cigarettes, Nabisco (Graham Crackers) - All are shown, still available today
How disciplined children were back then. Today, going into the supermarket with children is a clearly impossible task. The children don't stop screaming and raving if you don't give them what they want!
Back then kids weren't taken out in public until they had enough manners they wouldn't shame the parents. Teaching kids to behave in public back then was not an "on the job" thing. They learned those manners at home first. If they misbehaved, it was a solid spanking or Dad's belt and being sent to bed without supper. You used the wrong words or mouthed off, you got your mouth washed out with soap. Kids behaved because misbehavior was not only frowned on, it was punished. The result was if DAD told you to knock it off, you better believe you stopped doing whatever you were doing - instantly. I remember back in that era, on Sunday virtually everyone went to church. Smaller kids attended Sunday School instead of regular services as the long sermons would be a bit much for them. But when you aged out of Sunday School at 7 you were expected to attend regular services. And we did. And we sat quietly. I'm not saying it was easy, but we did it and there were no kids running around screaming or causing a disturbance. I remember how my favorite hymn was "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" because that was always the last hymn sung at the end of the service and I knew WE WERE FREE!!!! But until we left the church we all sat quietly and walked out like little ladies and gentlemen.
@@DoubleDogDare54 I work in retail and when kids get out of control I ask the parents to please leash their animals and prevent them from destroying our store. the look on their faces is worth the effort.
we had a grocery store in 1958, called King Coles, way ahead of it's time, they would put your groceries in bags then in a big bin, put it on a conveyer belt, it would go on the conveyer belt to outside the store, you would drive up, and a boy would take the bags out of the bin, and put it in your car
Cool! The boy baggers would take ours out and put them in the car. Shopping is tiring enough without having to lift the heavy stuff and put in the car.
This is so funny I grew up in the fifties. When we went shopping it was once-a-month into the big city at Henke & Pilott in Houston, Texas to buy salt, flour, yeast, sugar, coffee beans, everything else we grew or slaughtered at the home which basically was a farm. What a great time to be alive.
I clearly remember the A&P that we shopped at when I was a lad ...... many decades ago. It was so small compared to the giant grocery stores we have today. And back then, who would've thought the grocery store of the future would have an entire aisle dedicated to bottled water! Imagine that, buying water at a grocery store!
The most ridiculous thing ever. And tap water today is verified much safer than ever in world history! Yet, bottled water companies and media have brainwashed the world into believing paying for bottled water is better.
I miss going to the small meat-shop with my grandmother in the late 60's, and then to the milk-store, where we bought milk and cheese! Then we went back to her apartment-building and played cards and watched the news. I wasn't allowed to talk while she watched the news! We went to sleep straight after the 9 o'clock news, I slept in her living-room and I loved going for sleep-overs to her!
I was 9 years old in 62. I had completely forgotten about the cans of orange juice and other juice. I swear it tasted better then than it does now. Thank you for the wonderful walk down memory lane.
I HATED canned orange juice and grapefruit/orange juice..it always had a horrible metallic taste...I was forced to drink that stuff because fresh fruit wasn't always available, and daily vitamin C was a must, as was whole milk 3x/day...
I work in a large retail store, now some kids just pick items up off the shelf, and start eating it, without paying, and leave the packages on the shelf
I'm a customer who hates that! l used to have a ex friend in her late 30's who always did that. One time I refused to buy food away from my given list and money (by my disabled mom) so she decided to eat whatever I denied her and left a trail of empty bags and stuff. She was actually buying magazines instead of the food she scarfed down. She had no idea she was well watched and charged $30 along with her magazine stack!
I grew up in a rural area. We always shopped at Knob Hill Farms, a small supermarket chain. It wasn't glossy, like the big supermarket chains, but the prices were much lower, and there were many ethnic foods, at a time when the big supermarkets didn't carry them. Produce and fresh meats were never pre-packaged there. Corn was sold in its husk (nature's own wrapper). For meats, you went to the meat counter, asked for what you wanted, and a butcher wrapped it for you, cutting it if necessary. Instead of bags, the store used specially made cardboard boxes, that you paid a refundable deposit on. I loved watching how the cashiers packed so much into each box, by packing it neatly. That's how I learned proper bagging/boxing technique. I also loved watching the cashiers' fingers fly up and down the rows of keys on the old electro-mechanical cash registers. Those machines were a lot more interesting than the electronic ones that replaced them.
Born in 1963, I'm thankful to remember most of this! Some here have mentioned how "wholesome" this all was... It's true, until the film flash forwards to 6pm that same day when the vodka martinis were stirred and poured.
always wondered how one chooses canned items over frozen or vice versa - in the film, Mrs Nelson bought 3 cans of string beans and 2 packages of frozen peas - I worked in a grocery store a lot like this one when I was in high school - the stocker stamped the prices of canned items on top of cans and cashiers still tallied everything manually keying in each item amount on the register - we only used paper bags too - no plastic ones and NO scanners!.. made many friends in that job
This is actually a 1957 film, not 1962, but the prices are still amazing, and it's surprising how similar the store is in many ways to stores of today.
@@katediy4563 So one could have earned the money to buy those groceries in about eight hours of work. $80 (eight hours on our minimum wage here) doesn't get you much groceries these days, even if you're careful with what's on sale etc. I shudder to think what it'd be like for people in areas with a lower minimum wage, let alone American waitstaff... D:
What I love about this video is that NOONE is wearing their pants around their knees and no slippers! Back then, people had standards. Something missing today. The kids were well behaved and got to spend quality time with their mom. Also, NO CELL PHONES!
@@Thorium_Th LOL. She's right, you who are named after a toxic material. The place was neat, clean, everybody dressed nice, no junkies or weirdos. Boomer standards. Unlike today which has no standards at all.
@@shawnstephens1251 Correct! In a retail store today so called parents or children having children, let them run wild, destroying expensive furniture, opening food and helping themselves while parents are unaware and if you try and stop the little animals from destroying your merchandise the parent reprimands you. End times we are in today
Those kids are way too polite. I remember when me and my younger sister went shopping with my parents as kids at the same era. We would sneak in cookies and candy in the cart and hope our parents didn’t notice. Sometimes when we distracted them at the checkout, we WON!
Boomer here (B. 1958) and I would go to the grocery store w/mom every Wednesday evening after dinner. There were 5 of us and dad gave her $45/wk to go shopping. She was always able to buy steak for Saturday night & a carton of cigarettes for herself. I was either in the toy department or watching the meat convoy belt wrapping the meat, weighing it then stamping the label on it. Fast forward to late 70’s and my best friend work nights at a major grocery store changing prices at nights. He said that when they used the ink stamper on cans, they would remove the old price with hairspray
im so shocked at how much it was in total! and the kids are well behaved too! if you were to go to the grocery store today you would hear kids screaming and crying!
I loved people dressed up. Mom's were home. Dad worked hard. My friends Mom's were really wonderful to me and included me their families. I was a only child. Music and the radio was so good. I love music! It does bring me back.
A&P with Mom, about that year, too! I learned how to pack the bags myself and remember being proud when I could carry a ten pound bag. A&P had Plaid Stamps, and the redeeming store wasn't too far. That was fun stuff, now I just grumble at the price, the quality, and the fact that you can't get that anymore!
I grew up in that era and what killed me was how they would go out with their hair in rollers. Could never figure that out. Go out in public like that so you can look good at home for your hubby?
You can still have a simpler time like then.....turn off the tv, turn off the cable, turn off the internet, and suddenly youd be surprised how simple life today can be....its alot easier to be nostalgic than actually try to live it....but it is possible, if you want it bad enough
Amazing how smart Betty is and so well behaved. She probably could spell and has great manners. Some of today's kids are too busy on those gadgets and don't have good social skills. Also some so spoiled. 😢😢😢
It is actually cheaper now if you do the wages to grocery ratio and percentage, it's actually about 18% cheaper. Just all the other crap that we don't really need is very expensive.. 😄😄😄😄
As to whether the FEEL is more '50s or '60s, I offer this: I was born in 1956, and most of the durable goods surrounding kids growing up 1956-1966 were straight out of the 1950s. There was a 15-20 year lag then between how taste makers told us we were supposed to style our environment, and how we actually did. Style books about the 60s now concentrate on Peter Max graphics and egg-shaped red chairs. But no kids I knew lived in houses decorated like "the '60s". It was ALL '50s holdover.
I was born in '48. I remember before K Mart, stores (except the few large grocery stores) closed at 5 PM and everything was closed on Sunday. It was like the dark ages.
what a great video this is! can look at it for hours. I myself was born in 1982, but somehow I have always been interested in earlier times. The people all look so neat and tidy. Not a cell phone in sight, not to mention how cheap it was back then. If only I had a time machine. I also love the movie pleasantville. And then the breakfast part.😊
This seemed really calm back then. Whenever I go to the store, people are always rudely pushing in front of me because they can't wait 2 seconds to get something where I'm standing, children are running around screaming, even the employees are not nice and not even clean for working with food. The same guy who takes out the garbage and organizes the carts is also bagging groceries at the check out.
I am a checker and always nice and polite even if the customers are pricks. Its my work mask and I just do the job the best I can. I always clean the belt as much as possible and keep hand sanitizer on hand.
First off, I was born in 1958, and let me tell you, it was way better in a very important aspect, kids could roam the streets freely without fear of being abducted. Back then, there were no such thing as "helicopter parents" that nowadays have to constantly watch their kids at play.
Um, not sure about the freedom thing. You took your chances with bullies and the neighbor, Mr. Grant, with the beautiful collie would let you help walk him, so I heard. C'mon, Prince likes to walk down the alley. If you tell your parents, he'll kill them. But when found out about another child, you learn this fine gentleman was thought to have been *cured*. Not suggesting I didn't love the freedom myself.
At least in those days detergents had phosphates and you could actually wash those shit up undies clean as new. Today, one wet fart and they're in the garbage can, buh, bye.
Stores like that and Bed Bath, where its all stacked to the ceiling, towering over you, make me so filled with anxiety i cannot shop in those stores. I use to get panic attacks in Sams Club🥺🙈.
Awesome video of yesteryear. Sad stores aren't like they used to be. I remember my Mother taking me to the local A&P market when I was young, I loved shopping with Mom, the market and methods were just like this, what was really interesting now that I think about it was the cashier who manually typed in the prices on a register with tons of buttons, and the Blue Chip stamps I got to lick when we got home😝
Oh my gosh! I remember when prices were stamped on the top of the tin cans.😁😂👏🏼. What a wonderful memory. And of course, girls and women wore dresses. Shorts/slacks for females didn’t come out until the late 1960s, as far as I can remember.
Not me.it took forever to get through the grocery line because everyone wrote checks . Long lines at banks because there were no ATMs and no direct deposit . The produce at the grocery store was not as fresh and abundant as it is today . Televisions were black and white with limited programming and poor pictures . I loved my childhood and enjoyed every minute of it but as an adult I am happy to have today's technology .
Isn't it just wonderful not seeing any cellphone zombies bumping into you at the supermarket. And not almost losing your life by getting hit in the parking lot by someone talking on the phone as they drive through it. People were sure humans back then .
@@BenMeier814 - You might make note that this was the spring board for the massive social change that the civil rights movement brought. Also, we could smoke in the hospital. Never mind the O2. lol
I have to laugh when people romanticize this era based on a cheesy instructional film. The middle of the 20th century was one of the most socially turbulent times in modern America. Alcoholism, poverty, the Vietnam War, racism, violence, McCarthy hearings, air raid drills, and more.
@@bonchbonch It is indeed romanticized. This cheesy film is scripted. The only organic thing about it is the fresh veg that little ol' betty put in her tiny shopping cart (heckin' cute btw), but when she catches up with mom (in real life), momma's gonna take her back to the ladies room and whoop her @$$ cause momma don't like surprises. 😐
It's now August, 2022, & our grocery stores aren't stocked nearly as pletiful. Let's hope that our stores will be well stocked like the store shown in 1962.
Am I the only one that wishes we could go back to these simple times 😌
Even though past times had their share of tough even tumultuous problems, it really does seem like a better, simpler time.
Every single day. There came a point in my mid-30s when I observed that for all the technology we'd developed to make life simpler, social culture and politics cancelled it out by making life more complicated. And we're worse off because of it.
There's no doubt I lived a very idyllic childhood; my father was a successful developer and it allowed us to do things most families couldn't; but the general tenor of the society we tried to build after WWII was a better living standard within the guardrails of simplicity. Now, society can't handle the techno-culture we've built because it seeks no limitations or ground rules -- some with the best of intentions but nevertheless deleterious to human interaction and our very ability to sustain ourselves.
Not at all my friend
You do know 1962 was the cuban missile crisis where everyone was expecting a nuclear bomb to be dropped on their heads and also the year that a riot occurred in University of Mississippi cause an African American applied as a student.
@@texasboy5680 Yes. There's a crisis a week; always has been. We're talking about a socio-economic construct that reflected America's commitment to first principles.
No time is without crisis; but there was a time when we trusted that dedicated people with character in positions of power would make decisions in defense of our common interests. That no longer exists today and so we go from crisis to crisis without any sense of direction because our elected officials are more interested in campaigning than actually doing something with the responsibility they've been given.
The difference between US leadership when I was a kid compared to now is completely dichotomous; we no longer trust government and that began in the 70s after Watergate. We've never recovered; we're circling the drain.
"...poor Chipper"
Chipper died from the heat in the car.
RIP Chipper
What I miss is being that age and being part of a family.
...and there would actually be a mom AND a dad! Such a novelty.
That’s deep ❤
Yes, those were fun days.
Poor little Jack wanted one thing (strawberries) and mom say's nope, and little sister Betty fills up her little shopping cart with things she wanted, and mom is like "good job Betty". I'm sure Jack will have some words for little sister Betty off-camera.
No, you are missing the part where Jack got 4 cans of soup in the beginning that he picked out.
I think Betty was a pain.
Lol
Agree.😂😂😂
Carrots usually cheaper than strawberries. And she didn’t pick anything high in price. The little boy did get to pick his favorite soups.
I remember my mother coming home from the supermarket in 1969 with 11 or 12 paper shopping bags filled to the brim and some overflowing with groceries. She was going on and on about having to pay 50 dollars for these groceries. Today, it would cost, probably, 400 or more dollars. 😄
Yes, I remember back in the mid-1990's I bought extra groceries for a camping trip and it cost me $60.00 and I thought "Wow!". Today I spend that much for so much less!
Yeah, my dad got paid once a month. By the time pay day came around, we were pretty low on food. Mom would push one cart and pull the other.
But same pay as today.
*Today?* *More like $550!*
More than that unfortunately
Cashier forgot to give Mrs Nelson her S&H Green Stamps
Lol!
And Mrs Nelson forget to get a pack of Old Golds. She'll be back.
Amazing thanks for uploading it all looks so organized and the people are civilized they are dressed and they have dignity. Unlike today where people are dressed in their sleeping PJ and twerking in the store.
My father was the manager of a large supermarket in the 1960’s. This brought back some great memories 🤓
Life is still like this if you're white
@surferbri5346 don't be racist.
I loved going to the grocery store and do grocery shopping with my grandma and getting the S&H green stamps and filling up those books and it was lots of fun
My mom used a wash cloth wet to stick the S&H STAMPS TO THE BOOK
I used to do the same with my grandmother and mom at the A&P. We filled up those Plaid Stamp books and then redeemed them for prizes we picked out of a catalog. It was huge fun indeed!
@@YT4Me57 my big brother got a giant plastic race car w/ regular wheels and snow ski type runner skids that quickly changed over and I got a big boys tricycle😁 yes happy days indeed!
It seems like yesterday , but ... 51ys 😭
@@YT4Me57 we had an A&P HEAR IN ROANOKE RAPIDS N C. ..... I DON'T MEAN TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT BUT .... THE OWNERS OF AP WHERE MURDERED BACK IN 1972 - 73. BY THE MOB MY MOMA CRYING ALL DAY LONG😪 look up Shay MURDERED in RRNC
This video is so wholesome you just want to jump into the video and live like that forever.
if you notice, there were no coloured people. only white people. conformity ruled, you would not survive.
@@RIXRADvidz Are you judging me based on my Yhoo name, well for your info I am as white as can be if it matters please stop being a racist and live a better life of less bitterness and resentment.
Only if you want an all white world. And one where women had to be housewives, whether or not they liked it. It's fun to watch these videos, but they were not real life for many, many, many people.
@@RIXRADvidz I laughed out loud at you calling Black folks "coloured" (are you from CanaDUH or England, "mate?"). Come over here to Chicago in the USA on Madison and Pulaski with that mess!
@@RIXRADvidz There's always one Woketard in the comment section. Whining about nonsense they made up or misunderstand.
Can you please show us all on the doll where the white man has hurt you so much.
That was a very nice store with a great selection. We didn't get to see stores like that in our community until the 1970s. In the 1950s we had to go to separate stores when we went shopping. Bakery, butcher shop, dry goods, and the dairy store when we stopped getting milk, eggs, and butter delivered. Vegetables were local either fresh or canned at home, while fruit was fresh berries in the summer and apples and pears in the fall, which we put into the root cellar so they would last through the winter. At Christmas we would see oranges and grapefruit for a very short time, then we would have to wait a whole year. Many people today just don't appreciate what life was like a couple generations ago..
An orange and nuts or a tangerine in your Christmas stocking was a treat in New England. A pomegranate was over the top , my grandparents would give us one each year .
I agree. Where I came from, this sort of grocery store wouldn't be available to most of the population until the 1970s or 80s. We lived on a farm and had to grow vegetables which were canned to last us the winter. We also produced our own eggs and milk. Therefore, our father would basically just buy sacks of flour and sugar and also oats for our morning breakfast. A little bit of money had to stretch a long way.
I’m only 36 and this makes me feel a bit of nostalgia that I never experienced haha.
My grandfather is a World War II and Korean War veteran, I remember he always talked about those times, saying how cheap, safe, modest and innocent those days were ❤️ he’s 97 today!
God Bless him , he's a treasure .
I think the key term is modest. That's all been lost
$5.63!!!!!!! That's it with a 5lb veal roast and everything else she got!!!! It would be worth the cost of a time machine just so we could go back and to the grocery store back then.
+maconsumner
The average wage then was 3 to 4k a year. Most making a dollar an hour.
A lot like today for many folks. LOL.
newstart49 True, but making money like that back then meant mom could stay at home and take care of the home and family. Now if a guy is making 3-4k a month that's not really enough. They call it progress, but I don't know.....I call it sad.
maconsumner
They shove that "progress" thing down our throats- but what they mean is progress for them not us.
Now we have both husband and wife working and that is still not enough. We are near the breaking point.
newstart49 Yup, I am glad other people see it like I do. We spend too much time away from what is really important to make money to buy crap we really don't need. Our priorities as a society are screwed and what's worse is it isn't going to get better.
+maconsumner Plus, food tasted better back then. I don't know why they put jalapeno flavor on every damned snack food nowadays. Give me a break!
I like how Betty shops, she sees something she wants and into the cart it goes 😂. That's the same way I shop, I totally understand Betty 😊
Yes!! And Brother Couldn't get a Carton of Strawberries!!!
Betty is usually overdrawn at the bank after her shopping trip too . how about you ??? Hmmmmmm ?
Howard Wayne,,, no, I don't get overdrawn, I use the credit card and my husband pays it at the end of the month ☺😊. I do totally get Betty though, I shop the same way. Life is short, you should have what you want if you can. I'm amused at how Betty just puts what she wants in the cart without a thought, that's so ME😊😆
@@dalerussellsullivan9373 I see divorce in your future. That's okay for you though, since I'm sure you will get a good lawyer and take yer poor husband for all he is worth.
Richard Gray,,,,,I see that you are a jealous prick in the present! How dare you?! You don't know me or my husband,,we have been together for 30 years and he has NO problem with the way I spend money or how much I spend. Unlike you,,,HE is a successful business owner, and he is NOT worried about money or stingy like you are!! We are very happily married and will stay that way. I feel sorry for your wife if you even have one, which I doubt.....LOSER.
My heart goes out to Chipper.
My father was a grocery clerk in the 1960s -2000. I remember this well. He worked for Mayfair Markets in California . A great company to work for. I miss those days. Ground beef was .39 a pound.
We had a Mayfair market in azusa California back in the 60s
Our Mayfair was in Oxnard, CA on Saviers Rd.
We had a Mayfair in Ontario, CA, too!
There was a Mayfair Market in Hanford, California. I remember the big windmill.
@@janetdurden7829 big windmill? That sounds like the van de camp restaurant and bakery!
Nobody scuffling around in their pajama bottoms and slippers!! My, how times have changed!
Right on. lol
And nobody came to the store with a pair of ass tight pants or short shorts, with a telephone in their hands and yakking nonstop and a screaming brat throwing a tantrum because they don't get their way. I was taught to behave in public or get my ass whipped.
@@sheriheffner2098 Oh please. Shorts were much shorter in the '70s, and there were plenty of screaming brats throwing tantrums in the toy aisles. But I'm truly sorry your parents used violence to teach you manners. Really, there were much less extreme methods. It's a true shame they, and others of their generation, didn't bother to learn that.
@@greg7656 That's what's wrong with me. Yes my father was a bully. My mother would pinch the shit out of me or dig her fingernails into my arms.
@@sheriheffner2098 Oh Sheri! Well, they couldn't destroy your sense of humor, thank goodness!
What a great time to b a kid back then....
Some of it was very good, some of it wasn't...depended from day to day....I would never give up the past and what it was, our past makes us what we are today, but I would never want to relive it....once was enough
The child sized shopping cart is something they still have today in 2023
I am 65 and I remember these stores. One of my favorite memories is having mom buy me a balsam wood flier or a comic book.
Life was so simple back then.......
And then corporations found out that they can raise prices across the board to benefit their boards and pass the cost onto the consumer. That's why you have to have a two person income to afford a house, car, healthcare, etc. Way more simple before corporations controlled the country.
but then again most of us were children back then and when your a kid life is simpler
Say what you will, it's a view of a simpler and in many ways a better time.
I was in a Sam's Club at 7pm tonight. There was a young child, maybe 2 or 3. She was so loud! Screaming just for the fun of it. A couple times she made me jump and we were not right next to each other. The family was encouraging the screaming, or acted like they didn't hear it. Life is so different now.
It was a GREAT fun time to be alive. I remember these stores................personalized service with a smile and everything so much bigger than today and cost very little...Stuff like Quaker Oats had a gigundo sized container making today's "large" Quaker Oats look tiny. Take me back!
Agreed!
When I got married in 1967, I could get 10 big bags of groceries for $20 and I remember my husband fussing about it. His dad told him that he had no idea what groceries cost! I made my husband go shopping with me the next time and it cost TWICE as much. I shopped for 'bargains' and he hadn't. He had to laugh at his own self! He never complained again!
I literally got 4 things at the grocery store for 20 dollars the other. lol.
Hubby was probably making about $250 per month, if that much.
@@williewonka6694 You're probably right.
I can imagine a conversation from 56 years ago:
Husband (groaning): $20 for groceries! Where does it all go?!
Wife (Irritated at the question - that time of the month, lol): It goes into damn good meals, friend!
@@MisterMikeTexas 😂 You're right about good meals! I learned from the best...my dear Mother, her 4 sisters and a dear Uncle who was a chef/butcher. He taught us what cuts of meat to buy and how to season food. My husband didn't have any complaints about his meals! Many times dinner would be a 4 course meal...all whole foods cooked from scratch!😋
I was six when this movie came out. Probably watched it in class. I loved when teachers would show films. We didn't have to do any work.
Nezmund once the lights went off, I was asleep
Some things just never changes, lol
It was a wonderful treat to go single file to the film room to watch educational films. In my case they were from the Film Board of Canada.
I remember in class back around 1970s when we saw a movie call the red ballon
@@sandramari5120 Watched that movie on the Kukla, Fran and Ollie Sunday show in the sixties.
Well we know who’s mom’s favorite. Betty gets a whole little cart, while poor Jack is denied strawberries.
ITA. But it could also be gender norms--Mrs. Nelson knows Betty has to get used to pushing a shopping cart.☺☺☺
@@kerplunkety Betty grew up into a real fatty, and couldn't figure out how to operate one of those battery seated carts, and now Betty blames her mother for not having the foresight to see into the future, and teaching her bad eating habits.
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
He did get the soups
I remember when the local chapel was turned into a supermarket in my village in the mid sixties. I managed to get a job there, it was absolutely fantastic working in that lovely supermarket. Such happy carefree memories.
I was 15 in 1962 and assisted my mother often shopping for groceries.
So many staff. No price scanning. Everyone dressed well. Wearing dresses, no blue jeans etc. No plastic shopping bags. AND two packed PAPER bags for only $5 62! I know, everything else was a lot less expensive too.
Leaving a dog with a window partly rolled down such that someone could make off with the dog or get into the car isn't done much that way now.
Different times, but for me, fond memories.
I wasn't born yet. But I agree with you better times.
Skip to today: people wear their pajamas to the grocery store. What's worse, is they wear pajamas that look like they haven't been washed in about two months (and I live near a wealthier area of my city) I just finished watching a local news story from Detroit where a woman was told she had too many items for the self checkout. The customer was so enraged that she followed the store employee into the restroom and kicked open the stall door and yanked the employee out and beat her on the ground. What - the heck - is happening? Progression or regression?
No vagrants at the entrance begging for money.
@@ciaraoh9102 it would not be allowed in the UK they would be asked to leave if wearing pyjamas
Be happy you were born when you were and were able to see the good times
look at all those cashiers.. Now there is one cashier and self check out
+sphinxrising58 You are Right sphinxrising58!,They have!,Just like "Always & Ordinary".
Safeway Issaquah the day I posted it around 2 pm
@sphinxrising58 - Where was this? I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the1960's through 2000's And I NEVER heard of ANY store that was open 24/7 until the local 7 Eleven went 24/7 in the late 1970's. Everything closed at 9:00 or 10:00 pm at the latest and NOTHING opened on SUNDAY at ALL until the foreigners started taking over the small "mom and pop" stores in the 1980's. In the large metropolitan cities like New York and Chicago there were places that were open late or 24 hours but even most of them were closed on Sunday and ANYTHING run by Jews was closed from sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday.
Jim H. I lived near a town with the majority being Jewish and I thought it was kind of nice because when (though closed on their sabbath, sat) their businesses were open when other businesses were closed on sunday.
@@CountWannabe the Chinese owned stores open on Christmas Day.
"Health laws don't allow dogs in food stores."
Ahh, the good old days.
No that made it the bad ole days there in o hi o. Dogs should go everywhere.
@@sandyfreyman3501Dogs, aside from Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, have absolutely no place in stores. Especially grocery stores. And if you knew ANYTHING about food safety you would ALREADY know this.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Should've left their dog at home. He was panting!
@@virginiaconnor8350 I agree. Dogs and other pets do not belong alone in cars, nor in stores or restaurants.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter I know this is what they say but I disagree. Dogs do enter groceries. They are cleaner then covid patients and can be seen in backpacks and carriers under carts in these times. I have no issue with dogs in grocery stores or outdoor food venues either. Amen.
Judging from all the cars present in the film, I'd say this was closer to the mid to late 1950's. At any rate, I would be closer to Betty's age (born in 1954), but I remember how big the displays were at that age, and how cold the freezer was as I dug out the cans of O.J. for my Mom. My father owned and operated an IGA store in Southern New Hampshire until I was 5 years old. I'm glad they showed the final bill of sale for those groceries...$5.63 won't even pay for a coffee and a coffee roll nowadays!
My wife shelled out $140.00 for one week's worth of food last week...without meat- for just the 2 of us (retired, no kids)!
The copyright shows 1957, so you're correct.
It's amazing to see how many brands (land o'lakes) are still around today.
and Heinz, Mrs.Paul's, Betty Crocker (Bisquick), Pillsbury, Post (Grape Nuts), Kellogg (Corn Flakes), Campbell soups, Pall Mall and Camel cigarettes, Nabisco (Graham Crackers) - All are shown, still available today
@@jamesslick4790 yeah, I didn't feel the need to make a list. I'm sure people get the point with one example.
Even the Indian was on the package. No PC here!!
Land o Lakes Butter
And the same picture as 60 years ago
Hope Chipper is still alive when they get back.
How disciplined children were back then. Today, going into the supermarket with children is a clearly impossible task. The children don't stop screaming and raving if you don't give them what they want!
Parents today do not discipline their children that’s why they are brats!
It's because everyplace children look and listen, they're told to hate their parents, government, police,
I like how people dressed with care to go out in public back then and not wearing their pjs to go shopping.
Back then kids weren't taken out in public until they had enough manners they wouldn't shame the parents. Teaching kids to behave in public back then was not an "on the job" thing. They learned those manners at home first. If they misbehaved, it was a solid spanking or Dad's belt and being sent to bed without supper. You used the wrong words or mouthed off, you got your mouth washed out with soap. Kids behaved because misbehavior was not only frowned on, it was punished. The result was if DAD told you to knock it off, you better believe you stopped doing whatever you were doing - instantly.
I remember back in that era, on Sunday virtually everyone went to church. Smaller kids attended Sunday School instead of regular services as the long sermons would be a bit much for them. But when you aged out of Sunday School at 7 you were expected to attend regular services. And we did. And we sat quietly. I'm not saying it was easy, but we did it and there were no kids running around screaming or causing a disturbance. I remember how my favorite hymn was "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" because that was always the last hymn sung at the end of the service and I knew WE WERE FREE!!!! But until we left the church we all sat quietly and walked out like little ladies and gentlemen.
@@DoubleDogDare54 I work in retail and when kids get out of control I ask the parents to please leash their animals and prevent them from destroying our store. the look on their faces is worth the effort.
So many employees. I appreciate how in 1957, customer service was important. No self-serve. There were people to man each department.
we had a grocery store in 1958, called King Coles, way ahead of it's time, they would put your groceries in bags then in a big bin, put it on a conveyer belt, it would go on the conveyer belt to outside the store, you would drive up, and a boy would take the bags out of the bin, and put it in your car
😯😲
Cool! The boy baggers would take ours out and put them in the car. Shopping is tiring enough without having to lift the heavy stuff and put in the car.
Sounds like click and collect we only recently got that here in the UK 🇬🇧
This is so funny I grew up in the fifties. When we went shopping it was once-a-month into the big city at Henke & Pilott in Houston, Texas to buy salt, flour, yeast, sugar, coffee beans, everything else we grew or slaughtered at the home which basically was a farm. What a great time to be alive.
My dad worked for Henke & Pilott in Freeport, Tx...it became Kroger's when I was about 8 years old.
My God, she paid $5.63 in total for all of those. I bet they would cost more than $200 today 😄
I clearly remember the A&P that we shopped at when I was a lad ...... many decades ago. It was so small compared to the giant grocery stores we have today. And back then, who would've thought the grocery store of the future would have an entire aisle dedicated to bottled water! Imagine that, buying water at a grocery store!
The most ridiculous thing ever. And tap water today is verified much safer than ever in world history! Yet, bottled water companies and media have brainwashed the world into believing paying for bottled water is better.
Thanks.. It was a nice trip down memory lane..............
Five bucks for all of that. That huge veal roast alone would cost three times that today!
I miss going to the small meat-shop with my grandmother in the late 60's, and then to the milk-store, where we bought milk and cheese! Then we went back to her apartment-building and played cards and watched the news. I wasn't allowed to talk while she watched the news! We went to sleep straight after the 9 o'clock news, I slept in her living-room and I loved going for sleep-overs to her!
Just like a time machine for me. This is how it was in the 1950s.
Yes it was...my food market did not have miniature shopping carts for children to use
I was 9 years old in 62. I had completely forgotten about the cans of orange juice and other juice. I swear it tasted better then than it does now. Thank you for the wonderful walk down memory lane.
Today, the juice is in Tetrapack bricks. In my childhood, we had the original Tetrapack for long lasting milk
I remember having our milk delivered to our house in glass bottles.
I HATED canned orange juice and grapefruit/orange juice..it always had a horrible metallic taste...I was forced to drink that stuff because fresh fruit wasn't always available, and daily vitamin C was a must, as was whole milk 3x/day...
Betty got everything she wanted but jack couldn't get the strawberries.
jazzyfayy1983 Strawberries out of season were very expensive, carrots and canned peaches not so much
+Rhoda Miller Betty is a brat... Poor jack
+jazzyfayy1983 If Betty had been a kid nowadays her mom would have made her go put everything back or had made Betty pay for her things herself.
I work in a large retail store, now some kids just pick items up off the shelf, and start eating it, without paying, and leave the packages on the shelf
I'm a customer who hates that! l used to have a ex friend in her late 30's who always did that. One time I refused to buy food away from my given list and money (by my disabled mom) so she decided to eat whatever I denied her and left a trail of empty bags and stuff. She was actually buying magazines instead of the food she scarfed down. She had no idea she was well watched and charged $30 along with her magazine stack!
I grew up in a rural area. We always shopped at Knob Hill Farms, a small supermarket chain. It wasn't glossy, like the big supermarket chains, but the prices were much lower, and there were many ethnic foods, at a time when the big supermarkets didn't carry them.
Produce and fresh meats were never pre-packaged there. Corn was sold in its husk (nature's own wrapper). For meats, you went to the meat counter, asked for what you wanted, and a butcher wrapped it for you, cutting it if necessary.
Instead of bags, the store used specially made cardboard boxes, that you paid a refundable deposit on. I loved watching how the cashiers packed so much into each box, by packing it neatly. That's how I learned proper bagging/boxing technique.
I also loved watching the cashiers' fingers fly up and down the rows of keys on the old electro-mechanical cash registers. Those machines were a lot more interesting than the electronic ones that replaced them.
Born in 1963, I'm thankful to remember most of this! Some here have mentioned how "wholesome" this all was... It's true, until the film flash forwards to 6pm that same day when the vodka martinis were stirred and poured.
Not all adults were like Red and Kitty Forman then.
Happy 60th to us!!!
Forget the food, I want that Chevy!
Wow so that's how children are supposed to behave in a grocery store
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Yeah sixty years ago 🤣
My dad said his mother had to put him on a leash back in this era. So no, not all kids were angels. And believe me he was savagely disciplined.
Well, WHITE CHILDREN anyways
@@Ninjamohawk expected behavior for a child doesn’t change.
I remember always pushing the cart for my folks. It was a lot of fun. That was a wonderful film to watch, thanks.
always wondered how one chooses canned items over frozen or vice versa - in the film, Mrs Nelson bought 3 cans of string beans and 2 packages of frozen peas - I worked in a grocery store a lot like this one when I was in high school - the stocker stamped the prices of canned items on top of cans and cashiers still tallied everything manually keying in each item amount on the register - we only used paper bags too - no plastic ones and NO scanners!.. made many friends in that job
I was surprised that there was a guy who weighed , bagged and tagged the fruit like they do meat today.
This is actually a 1957 film, not 1962, but the prices are still amazing, and it's surprising how similar the store is in many ways to stores of today.
I noticed the wrong date too. Thanks for the correct one.
You can tell by Betty's passé bangs
yeah that 55 didnt yet look like a 7 year old car
@@timpriddy349 the HT looked GREAT!
I noticed the 1957 copyright in the title.
Notice the total expenditure for those two bags ; That's back when the U.S. dollar was worth something.
That big chunk of veal - 5 effing pounds - that'd cost $90 today.
bikebeerrun1960 - And pay was about 65¢ an hour.
@@katediy4563 Yes,but things were cheaper.
@@katediy4563 So one could have earned the money to buy those groceries in about eight hours of work.
$80 (eight hours on our minimum wage here) doesn't get you much groceries these days, even if you're careful with what's on sale etc.
I shudder to think what it'd be like for people in areas with a lower minimum wage, let alone American waitstaff... D:
@GPAGE Only teenagers worked for minimum wage.
What I love about this video is that NOONE is wearing their pants around their knees and no slippers! Back then, people had standards. Something missing today. The kids were well behaved and got to spend quality time with their mom. Also, NO CELL PHONES!
Okay Karen.
@@Thorium_Th LOL. She's right, you who are named after a toxic material. The place was neat, clean, everybody dressed nice, no junkies or weirdos. Boomer standards. Unlike today which has no standards at all.
@@shawnstephens1251 I work with Thorium. Do you hate people just because they work with certain elements? Your boomer mind is showing.
@@shawnstephens1251 Correct! In a retail store today so called parents or children having children, let them run wild, destroying expensive furniture, opening food and helping themselves while parents are unaware and if you try and stop the little animals from destroying your merchandise the parent reprimands you. End times we are in today
Back then people went to stores with curlers in their hair..wore Pajamas
Those kids are way too polite. I remember when me and my younger sister went shopping with my parents as kids at the same era. We would sneak in cookies and candy in the cart and hope our parents didn’t notice. Sometimes when we distracted them at the checkout, we WON!
Your folks knew you did that. They just liked buying you a treat.
Betty got everything she wanted,lil boy couldn't even get strawberries lol.
$5.63? I wish I could get a coffee and a "lunch cake" for that!
Boomer here (B. 1958) and I would go to the grocery store w/mom every Wednesday evening after dinner. There were 5 of us and dad gave her $45/wk to go shopping. She was always able to buy steak for Saturday night & a carton of cigarettes for herself. I was either in the toy department or watching the meat convoy belt wrapping the meat, weighing it then stamping the label on it. Fast forward to late 70’s and my best friend work nights at a major grocery store changing prices at nights. He said that when they used the ink stamper on cans, they would remove the old price with hairspray
What a wonderful little video that was so much fun and very enjoyable to watch. Thank you so very much for sharing these treasures with us
im so shocked at how much it was in total! and the kids are well behaved too! if you were to go to the grocery store today you would hear kids screaming and crying!
That's not the kids screaming and crying; it's the parents being told how much the bill is.
We would not have kids screaming if they were parents instead of friends
Three - 4 meals worth of meat were in that shop, too!
And $100.00 would be added to the total price...
They're well-behaved because it's a cheesy instructional film. You really think there weren't screaming kids back then?
cash registers were so cool back then. All the buttons and noises.
I loved people dressed up. Mom's were home. Dad worked hard. My friends Mom's were really wonderful to me and included me their families. I was a only child. Music and the radio was so good. I love music! It does bring me back.
now in days you leave the supermarket paying at least $150 or more everytime
Oh man these were the days. I have such fond memories of going to the store with my mom and grandma.
Don't forget the green stamps 😃
Or Blue chip stamps.
Thanks for posting this video and bringing back some great memories
A&P with Mom, about that year, too! I learned how to pack the bags myself and remember being proud when I could carry a ten pound bag. A&P had Plaid Stamps, and the redeeming store wasn't too far. That was fun stuff, now I just grumble at the price, the quality, and the fact that you can't get that anymore!
I wish women still wore skirts and dresses like that for daily wear. It looks so much nicer.
Ok boomer.
J Denino Nope. Gen X.
I grew up in that era and what killed me was how they would go out with their hair in rollers. Could never figure that out. Go out in public like that so you can look good at home for your hubby?
I still like to do that if possible or at least dress in a nice shirt w/ my jeans. Can't stand pj shoppers, they look so tacky & lazy.
I know. We're such fucking slobs.
memories of a simpler time
JimmyConway60 How I miss King Korn Stamps.
I'm 50 and remember that too,
When can we go BACK
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You can still have a simpler time like then.....turn off the tv, turn off the cable, turn off the internet, and suddenly youd be surprised how simple life today can be....its alot easier to be nostalgic than actually try to live it....but it is possible, if you want it bad enough
I remember getting home and shucking corn, hulling peas and stringing & snapping beans...before I could play...
Amazing how smart Betty is and so well behaved. She probably could spell and has great manners. Some of today's kids are too busy on those gadgets and don't have good social skills. Also some so spoiled. 😢😢😢
wish we could buy groceries that cheap nowadays
I remember the pricing device that printed the price right on the container. And Cap't Crunch Cereal for 39¢ a 20 ounce box!
It is actually cheaper now if you do the wages to grocery ratio and percentage, it's actually about 18% cheaper.
Just all the other crap that we don't really need is very expensive.. 😄😄😄😄
well then you have inflation: her total in this 1962 vid was 5.63 according to the inflation calculator it equaled $47.46 in todays money
@@Residence0fUtopia that total sounds about right for everything she.. and Betty... bought.
As to whether the FEEL is more '50s or '60s, I offer this: I was born in 1956, and most of the durable goods surrounding kids growing up 1956-1966 were straight out of the 1950s. There was a 15-20 year lag then between how taste makers told us we were supposed to style our environment, and how we actually did. Style books about the 60s now concentrate on Peter Max graphics and egg-shaped red chairs. But no kids I knew lived in houses decorated like "the '60s". It was ALL '50s holdover.
the goods are 60s but the rest is 50s yeah and you're right about peter max etc. what we think of now as the sixties was basically 68-69, not 1962.
I was born in '48. I remember before K Mart, stores (except the few large grocery stores) closed at 5 PM and everything was closed on Sunday. It was like the dark ages.
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt I was born in '52 and it was still the '50s where I lived . even though the calendar said ' 66 .
That's really interesting!
@@QuizmasterLaw 1966-1974 are the REVOLUTIONARY 1960's as we know them.
what a great video this is! can look at it for hours. I myself was born in 1982, but somehow I have always been interested in earlier times. The people all look so neat and tidy. Not a cell phone in sight, not to mention how cheap it was back then. If only I had a time machine. I also love the movie pleasantville. And then the breakfast part.😊
Although I was born in 85, I still remember those sweet times, 😊
Butcher and fish stores had sawdust on the floors back in those days.
This seemed really calm back then. Whenever I go to the store, people are always rudely pushing in front of me because they can't wait 2 seconds to get something where I'm standing, children are running around screaming, even the employees are not nice and not even clean for working with food. The same guy who takes out the garbage and organizes the carts is also bagging groceries at the check out.
I was once a bagger in a grocery store. Late at night, I'd also clean the restrooms.
I am a checker and always nice and polite even if the customers are pricks. Its my work mask and I just do the job the best I can. I always clean the belt as much as possible and keep hand sanitizer on hand.
Although I'm not one of these people who thinks everything was better back in the day, I did find comfort in watching this video. I was born in 1957.
Tina, I was born in 1962. From the $5.63 total, I'd say we were born in pre-historic times
First off, I was born in 1958, and let me tell you, it was way better in a very important aspect, kids could roam the streets freely without fear of being abducted. Back then, there were no such thing as "helicopter parents" that nowadays have to constantly watch their kids at play.
one thing that was better is we didn't have expressions like BITDay
Um, not sure about the freedom thing. You took your chances with bullies and the neighbor, Mr. Grant, with the beautiful collie would let you help walk him, so I heard. C'mon, Prince likes to walk down the alley. If you tell your parents, he'll kill them. But when found out about another child, you learn this fine gentleman was thought to have been *cured*. Not suggesting I didn't love the freedom myself.
The film is actually dated 1957. Excellent upload!
"Mr. Engle, the butcher, was glad to cut one for her." That Mr. Engle, what a joker!
Hahahaha
Hilarious. 🙄
Ppffttk!!🤭
3 years later and you got me!
Then Mr. Smith in the dairy department offered to cut the cheese for her.
Lol. Thanks for that.
God, the memories!
I love hearing the sounds. Reminds me of shopping with my grandpa when I was small.
Poor Chipper, good thing Betty remembered his food!
They would totally crap their pants if they went to a Costco, lol.
At least in those days detergents had phosphates and you could actually wash those shit up undies clean as new. Today, one wet fart and they're in the garbage can, buh, bye.
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt Use All or Shout and some Dawn and that will get it out.
they wudnt go
"Mommy, why is everyone so obese?"
Stores like that and Bed Bath, where its all stacked to the ceiling, towering over you, make me so filled with anxiety i cannot shop in those stores. I use to get panic attacks in Sams Club🥺🙈.
Awesome video of yesteryear. Sad stores aren't like they used to be. I remember my Mother taking me to the local A&P market when I was young, I loved shopping with Mom, the market and methods were just like this, what was really interesting now that I think about it was the cashier who manually typed in the prices on a register with tons of buttons, and the Blue Chip stamps I got to lick when we got home😝
We had S & H Greenstamps when I was growing up in the 70s.
WOW I still can't get over the total amount for all that she bought!😳
I loved going to the A&P store.The first thing you smelled was the coffee.Wish I could go back in time.Gone are those days,but never forgotten.
Not only was Chipper left in the car to fry, he wouldn't have gotten any food that week if little Betty hadn't remembered.
+StaticCling99 Ken-L-Ration in a glass jar?????
Wa3ypx Dog food was in glass jars? How unusual.
StaticCling99 Yep they would spoon some and add milk.
Oh, Hon, a dog'll eat veal roast. No problem.
😂😂💀
"Today it is cheaper to buy three cans instead of one" If the narrator could see the big box stores of today!
Oh my gosh! I remember when prices were stamped on the top of the tin cans.😁😂👏🏼. What a wonderful memory. And of course, girls and women wore dresses. Shorts/slacks for females didn’t come out until the late 1960s, as far as I can remember.
Be careful! What is gosh? It is a devil.
Markets were very wonderful, and clean in the United States, and England/United Kingdom I absolutely miss them. 😊❤️
Actually, this is from 1957--as the beginning notes.
Date was MCMLVII, 1957
I was 5 years old then , and starting kindergarten .
The perfect short for MST3K-they could fit a few alcohol jokes and have Chipper soil the car while they shop!
I know, right! LMAO!!😂😂😂
Comedy gold right there! 😆
Love those guys.
i love these fun videos.. a lifetime goes by 2 fast!
Betty got her carrots but brother couldn’t get the strawberries and he did all the work . Life is SO UNFAIR 🤣
Gee golly .... what I wouldn’t give to go back to those times again. I’ll even be happy to give up today’s technology.
Me too. I would gladly go back to this time in my life.
Go back with todays technology
Then do it.....turn off the tv, cable and internet and wow, your back to the simple times of the 50s
Then do it....give up internet , cable, buy everything with cash and you will def be in a simpler time....you'll prob have a more peaceful life
Not me.it took forever to get through the grocery line because everyone wrote checks . Long lines at banks because there were no ATMs and no direct deposit . The produce at the grocery store was not as fresh and abundant as it is today . Televisions were black and white with limited programming and poor pictures . I loved my childhood and enjoyed every minute of it but as an adult I am happy to have today's technology .
Isn't it just wonderful not seeing any cellphone zombies bumping into you at the supermarket. And not almost losing your life by getting hit in the parking lot by someone talking on the phone as they drive through it. People were sure humans back then .
But what they didn't show was you were free to smoke in the grocery store. They had ashtrays at the end of every isle.
Sure, aside from all the racism, sexism, and homophobia.
@@BenMeier814 - You might make note that this was the spring board for the massive social change that the civil rights movement brought. Also, we could smoke in the hospital. Never mind the O2. lol
I have to laugh when people romanticize this era based on a cheesy instructional film. The middle of the 20th century was one of the most socially turbulent times in modern America. Alcoholism, poverty, the Vietnam War, racism, violence, McCarthy hearings, air raid drills, and more.
@@bonchbonch It is indeed romanticized. This cheesy film is scripted. The only organic thing about it is the fresh veg that little ol' betty put in her tiny shopping cart (heckin' cute btw), but when she catches up with mom (in real life), momma's gonna take her back to the ladies room and whoop her @$$ cause momma don't like surprises. 😐
It's now August, 2022, & our grocery stores aren't stocked nearly as pletiful. Let's hope that our stores will be well stocked like the store shown in 1962.
No I would love to go back in time. So simply. It important not to wish life away. We have to be grateful too. Shopping was such an adventure