You Might Be Old...If You Remember This! - Part 9
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- It’s funny how small, seemingly unimportant, details from the past stir your emotions and your memories. From simple tasks to forgotten products, these details fill our lives from a very young age. But as time ticks on, we forget about some of the small things. So it’s always fun to look back and find more that remind us of those simple times. So, you might just be old, if you remember this.
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"Please allow my son to buy me 1 pack of Marlboro 100's."
Back then it was a dollar and change...
@@Martys-4x4 Commiefornia in the 80's! Southern Cal is TRASH now.
@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO My mother would give me a dollar so I could pick up four packs of cigarettes for her while she waited in the car...gasoline was 25 cents a gallon, and a gas attendant filled your tank. You never did.
@@judythompson8227 Different latitudes, different attitudes. I am Definitely not olde to remember 25 cent smokes
@@judythompson8227 ~
"AND AFTER THE WORLD WAR ENDED
MEN WERE GLAD TO BE BACK HOME"
that was true from long years, before, as the soldier veterans who survived their tolls & drudgery (or others as enemy troops), were still gung-ho for many years for being glad to fetch fuel & rub windows, instead..
a few of my older kin were still auto checking fluids and pressure systems for free in the seventies - those veterans of ww2 had to become hearty men or die, with each a purpose to refuse the latter choice; it brewed up a hard skull of principles and some intolerance, plus an open chasm that became the generation gap..
some say that without the mindset of the veterans, no matter how inconvenient at home, we may not have lasted against the axis forces long enough & japanese would have sent troops to the western front to finish up the final conflicts (because no atomic bomb technology woud have reached hands of the allies, at all).. it is the strangest outcome to consider, but, instead of nuclear blasts winning the campaigns, it was more likely those very stalwart warriors who 'took it to the enemy' and a few 'gotta be there for my brothers' that really gave the axis forces their biggest obstacles, in the end..
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from our schools, but,
for the greatest virtue
that we may become -
those abilities are how
we define ourselves &
they came with us, for
our purpose & destiny"
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I do remember all of this and I don't care if I'm old it just means that I had amazing memories. I would never give those days up for anything great times back then. I miss them now more than ever before.
I'll say one thing; life was a lot simpler. Today, it's hard to speak to a human on the phone. Instead you talk to an automated voice recording and choose between 1-9 what you want.
Please tell us you don't also want to rub two sticks together to make a fire for dinner. You must still be using an Andy Griffith style two-piece phone, unless you've gone back to smoke signals from those good ole days.
@@floridaredneck okay I won't tell you....
I Love this comment
I'm right with you Frank.💔
Born near the very end of the "boomer" generation, I grew up in the 70's and turned 18 in 1981. I watch these videos and it actually makes me feel sorry for kids today. Through no fault of their own, they missed out on a much simpler and fun time.
When kids could kids. And not "little adults". The thing l miss most about growing up in the late 50s and 60s. Baseball. A lot of kids today think it's a video game.
To me, the worst part is that there are no choices. Tech is a deluge and an addiction, and the people who caused this decline became richer than most countries.
This was a time when every kid had a piano or a guitar, rather than a video game console. Garage bands were great back then, and everyone tried writing lyrics.
@@l.w.paradis2108perhaps that's why today's music isn't what it was, and that's coming from kids. They play our music and they love it! Brings a tear to my eye, really.
@@chiaralistica I know, breaks my heart. Truly unfair.
Same here!!! Life was so good and innocent AND fun!!!!! The newer generations WILL NEVER have experienced the Innocents we had!!!
I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything compared to today. Born in 1948, loved the 50s and 60s. Just doesn’t get any better!
Beatlemania around the time of monster mania: models, magazines, Munsters & Adams Family, Bewitched, Jeannie, Beach Boys, MoTown, cool cars etc. Truly magical time to be a boy.
@@Vaejovis357Beatles.. beach boys.. good times 👍
I was born in 1955, and I'm 68 now. Remember going to the corner store for newspaper and cigarettes for my mom. Has Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs as a kid. Fond memories of a time gone by. Played outside from dawn to dusk too.😂😂 I remember it all! As always God bless you and your and thanks for everything you do!
I remember the smell of our Lincoln Logs, the new Lincoln Logs don't smell like the ones we used to have as kids. Sweet memories...
@Tsch6373 indeed they are!
@@Tsch6373 Yeh...and had a sticky glue feel to them.
Pine resin
We had the corner candy store with 1 cent candies!
My beloved grandmother made Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls herself. ❤
My great aunt made me a sock monkey.
My aunt and mom made sock monkeys.
@@rockyroad7345 my gimma made those too 💞... also, she made me 3 adoption dolls during the cabbage patch phase in the 80s. Hers were better, as they were anatomically correct. I had one boy, Philip, and two girls, Mindy and Christy 🤣
@@rockyroad7345 I was thinking about those "sock monkeys" when I started scrolling down on the comments. I was surprised to see anyone else mention them. ^5
@@rockyroad7345 You Might be Old and Sane and Normal…If You Remember This, When teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.
In 1971, I was hired at Burger Chef for my first real job. My starting wage was $1.05 an hour. After 6 months my loyalty and leadership to the brand got me promoted to Assistant Manager…for $1.25 an hour. Yes, they took out taxes and FICA so my take home part time pay was so small I couldn’t even afford the gas to get me to work, but hey I had a job!! LOL!
Yes, 1971 sucked when it it came to gas. But you stuck with it, so kudos to you! And you could have always done like I did and screw the manager. Ass Man would have made $2.00 per hour back then . Plus "benefits".
In 71' my first job was a paper boy. Kept it for almost a month.😁
@@matrox I had my route for three years, bought my first car with the money I saved!
Employee meals?
I worked at Burger Chef too. I loved working there as a teen.
My wife and I grew up in the 70's and early 80's. Those were the best of times, good times man.
I wouldn't trade my late 60s-70s childhood for anything kids have today.
Neither would I! I am GLAD, that I grew up in the '50s! The times could NOT have been better!!
BS
Memories, I would not trade one day of those good old days to be young again.🤩
I would not want to be a youngster in this day and age. Its a massive sh!thole now compared to the 50s 60s and 70s era.
Old schmold! They were good times - we walked around looking at the life all around us instead of staring at our cell phones all day. 👍
Hey watch it! I'm looking at this on my phone. 🙂
@@keithbrown7685 👍😂🤣
We walked around LISTENING to our favorite tunes all day on our "transistors"! FUN TIMES!
I enjoyed these kinds of toys as a little kid, Tinker Toys were my favorite. I was born in 1961, best times time be a kid. Along with the 50s and the 70s. I would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
1950's were the best time to be a kid
1960's were the best time to be a kid
1970's were the best time to be a kid
1980's were the best time to be a kid
1990's were the best time to be a kid
2000's were the best time to be a kid
2010's were the best time to be a kid
2020's are the best time to be a kid
2030's will be the best time to be a kid
IT'S ALWAYS THE BEST TIME TO BE A KID!!
I was born July 15th 0f 61. When is your birthday?
@@kennykittrell2549 That's my sister's b-day. 7/15/1958. Wow.
1962 here!❤
I remember when the alphabet community was non existent and America was Great!
There was a Burger Chef in the small town I grew up in. Loved it. Their burgers were SO much better than MickeyD's. Miss them.
Agreed, we had one in the small town I lived in north central Louisiana in the late 1960's and 70's (across the street from Northwestern State University), loved the quality of their food and that they fixed my hamburgers the way I wanted it.
I grew up in Dover, Delaware.
At one time, Burger Chef was bigger than Micky D's.
Burger Chef!! They had flame broiled before Burger King came around, at one time Burger Chef was bigger than McDonalds and...the owner of Burger Chef invented the modern milkshake machine. Burger Chef started in Indiana.
I still have two Star Wars posters that Burger Chef gave away and a Yo-Yo from a Fun Meal!
Last Burger Chef in operation was in Tennessee, it finally shut down several years ago. Fella that owned it took Hardee's to court to keep from becoming a Hardee's....Federal Court honored his contract but said he could never sell it or pass it on as a BC, so when he retired several years ago he gave all the food& drinks away and shut her down.
Sad story about Burger Chef, outside Indianapolis a group of teenagers that worked at a BC were kidnapped and murdered. One can still find the news stories here on UA-cam.
So were the fries.
I was a "50's" kid, but I remember after I was grown and working, my girlfriend and I would pick out a couple of movies to rent and rent a VCR to watch them on Friday nights. You had to get there early so you could get a "new release" before they were all rented. It was always a chore to have to drive all the way back to the rental place to return them on time, so you wouldn't get charged for an extra day! Remember, "Be Kind, Rewind." LOL!
I still use my VCR to watch movies and shows I taped off tv. I actually like seeing the commercials because it reminds me of where I lived at the time. I also have a backup VCR in case this one stops working!
I was an assistant manager of a 7-11 in the mid 1980s for several months right at the time everyone was opening video rental stores. 7-11 got into the video rental business while I worked there.
It was a big nightmare to sign customers up, and often the signup thing would error and you’d have to start the 15 minute process all over.
The result was that the store had about 150 movies, and was renting maybe 2 a day. So I started taking the movies home and watching them for free.
I eventually got caught and was fired for it. The only time I have ever been fired.
We used to go as two, so one could check the movies for the latest, and the other to stand by the counter to wait for a return, then to find someone else hanging at the counter waiting for the same movie. I'm not one to say, "Boy that was fun", because it wasn't. It was frustrating to go through the whole thing from talking about it, to leaving home, facing traffic, lines of people, movies out of stock, etc. Those weren't the "good ole days". They sucked, and I'm glad we don't do that anymore. Those good ole days never existed. They are times we laugh about now because we're so glad we don't do it anymore and I'd never choose to go back and do it again.
@@rockyroad7345me too. Unfortunately most of my big collection of tapes got ruined a couple years. But i can still find movies on vhs at thrift stores.
@@rockyroad7345 I still have my VCR too. I have 4, one for each TV. The old commercials do bring back fond memories! 😇
5:30 As a kid, I remember saying to my mom, "Paul Lynde is funny!"
She said "oh, he's funny all right ..."
Of course that went _completely_ over my 10-year-old head.
yep .. so many of his one-liners referred to gays .. at that time no one knew he was gay
I love watching the old Paul Lynde episodes! He was hilarious! I read somewhere that other celebrities said he was drunk or had been drinking nearly every episode.
Paul Lynde was GAY which was not funny!
I knew. I didn't know what it was called but I knew he had that twinkle in his eyes. Never phased me in the least. I remember people being shocked at this sort of thing. My grandmother would say "that and 50 cents will get you a ride on the subway" as a way of saying something didn't really matter.
“Yew dihrty bird”!
I remember everything you covered. Always bought Legg’s hose. Life was good back then.
Those Leggs were cool
Life STILL is GOOD
I worked at Burger Chef in 1974 and was a asst. manager. Those were the days and the food was very good. The Big Chef burger and the fish sandwich were 2 of my favorites. Sorry to see Burger Chef was bought out and then closed forever as happens with many places.
I loved the fish sandwich too only I always said " No tarter sauce."
I also said no to tartar sauce. Ketchup only!!
Burger Chef n Jeff!
I worked at the Burger Chef in Speedway, IN, in the mid-60s when I was a young teenager. My mom would take me and pick me up in our Rambler station wagon. When she picked me up she would bring our dog, Rusty (a Beagle mix), who would follow me around the ca, on the inside, hoping for a treat, while I approached on the outside. 😎
I worked at Burger Chef in the early ‘70s. I remember taking the chain grills off the broiler and putting them in a bucket of lye out by the dumpster to clean them!
me too1
OMG, I did that too. It was the worse job imaginable for a teen to have. The next thing worse was scrubbing and skinning the potatoes then chopping them in the manual french fry maker. People just didn’t fully appreciate how hard kids worked for such a small wage.
Me too! Those goofy aprons with the happy faces on them. We did the original emojis! 🤣 My worst day there, some old coot that probably shouldn't have still been driving gunned it over the wide divider and smooshed my Pinto. Oh well, it probably would have caught fire anyway! 😛
I never worked at Burger Chef but in the early 70's my Dad was Stationed at NAS Corpus Christi. On Saturday nights, my Brother and I would take the car and go off Base to the Burger Chef that was in the Flour Bluff area. Man, I loved those Fillet of Fish Sandwiches, LOL!
Mom was mgr of burger chef, we ate for free! she still LOVES fish sandwich's!! Mc D's version.. close as you can get, I guess...
I remember old game shows like “Beat The Clock”, “Match Game”, and Richard Dawson’s “Family Feud”. “The Gong Show” was a huge favourite, and I thought they brought that one back for a couple of years recently.
They also brought back Press Your Luck in 2019 and only lasted up till the pandemic, it was a good show too as they kept the original concept of the game sound effects, lighting and modernized it too.
Yeh...I remember Beat the Clock from the late 50s early 60s when I was a preschooler. Bud Collier was the host. Then it came on again in the 70s with a different host.
"Treasure Island", where they had to race to dig up clues leading to big treasures.
"Let's make a deal", where my mother and her boyfriend dressed like Raggedy Ann and Andy won a pool table when sitting in the audience.
"Concentration", where my grandmother was always so surprised that I could figure out, at age seven, the correct answers to the puzzles better than she did.
"Tuesday Weld", just because I wanted to say her sweet name again.
@@matrox I remember Beat the Clock game in the late 1960s. They used an organist for backing music. The organist was famous to some. Jazz organist Dick Hyman played on that show. And it was one of the first things I got to see in colour.
@@RJDA.Dakota Looks like it started in 49'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Clock
I remember all of this as well. I wish i was still back in this era. My life was much happier and better back then.
Me too Ted,me too.take care try to enjoy what's left....I guess
Yes I remember seeing these things but I don’t feel old their beautiful memories I’m so glad I got to experience that time 🥰♥️
I remember renting VCRs back in my late teens. In those days, there was a video rental store on every corner. Convenience stores often set part of the store apart for rentals. The VCRs were "play only" and were in a ruggedized plastic case with a handle, you could carry them like a suitcase.
oh man I remember they were monster sizes!
My RCA first VCR recycled 15 years ago . Continue to have working VCR’s and use them . Cancelled satellite dish 15 years ago because I receive many old programs on over air TV that cable does not offer .
Later, the rental places like blockbuster implemented the "please be kind and rewind" stickers. I think they charged you a fee if you didn't rewind before returning.
"Be kind rewind" Great way to state your age without stating your age@@nohandle4u2see
@@nohandle4u2see Yeah, they usually charged $0.50 for rewind.
My grandmother kept my dad's Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs and Erector Set from when he was a kid, so I could play with them when I was a kid. I remember building elaborate contraptions from the Erector set for my pet rat. I made a box that she would sit in that zipped across the room, hanging from the ceiling using string and pullies. It was fantastic!
Hey Recollection Road😃As a child my mom made arrangements with the local Liquor Store to allow me to get cigarettes for her😆I got candy and soda out of the deal😁Now I feel old🤣ROCK ON!!!!!!!
I GOT NOTHING FOR DOING IT 4 MY DAD. I FEEL CHEATED
@@lovly2cu725 Damn it😫ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
Hahaha! I remember my brother being sent on my moms bike with a basket on the front to pick up a six pack of beer 🍺 for my Dad…the good ole days 😂😂😂
My mother would write a note to the local mom and pop store telling them it was OK to sell me a carton of cigarettes. Either Chesterfield or Kent.
Yes, they sent you to the store with notes, I especially done this a lot for my mom in particular after dad passed and, especially during those months and long after but, when, I started smoking from time to time, mom had to get creative so, she could get me what, I wanted!
I LOVED Burger Chef when I was a kid! & I remember peddling my bicycles 10 or 15 miles from home on some kind of adventure with my friends & NONE of our parents has a clue (or cared) what we were doing as long as we were home for supper. That was before "Teenagers" made our streets so unsafe.
It was a different world then so sad this world this gentleman is talking about is long gone😢
Born in '53, I remember the smell of Lincoln Logs. They were my brother's and he had Tinker Toys too. I enjoyed playing with them.
We had a Burger Chef a mile from grandma's house. I loved ordering a plain burger then going to the works bar and dressing it up my way. It was a great concept, and it's a shame that it is gone.
Fuddrucker’s copied the concept and was quite successful well into the 2000s. I think they’re gone now too.
I started out on "White Castles" in the '50s. We bought them by the "sack", there were 20 in a sack for $2.00! Frequently, White Castle would send coupons in the mail (snail), where if you bought 5, you would get 5 FREE!
It's NOT gone Roy Rogers and other chains still have it
Yes, my mother used to send me on cigarette runs, and also, the most embarrassing was when she would send me to the grocery store to buy feminine hygiene products (Read: Tampons). I had several Lincoln Log Sets when I was a kid. It's funny what simple pleasures we partook in, and not had worried about the time, or a news feed, or a comment !! Writing letters was an important part of my childhood between my grandmothers and I. I also had a Pen Pal in Malaysia for about ten years. Oh My God The Gong Show !! Little things we have forgotten, until you bring them up here.
Substitute Pads instead of Tampons.
We were grocery shopping and my brother grabs a huge box of pads and asks, "hey mom, do we need napkins?" My mom was mortified and my sister and I were laughing.
Then she got down the aisle and picked up a box. Brother's like "oh, now we need napkins." The whole goddanmed store could hear lmao...
@@chiaralisticalol. Too funny.
She bought you those Lincoln Logs to make up for the emergency runs lol. You learned early that bad jobs can have good payoffs.😁
@@chiaralistica When I was in 5th grade, the school had an old girls room, a new girls room and a women's room. The school went to 6th grade. On a dare from a girl in our class, another boy and I entered the old girls room when nobody was in it. On the wall, next to the metal paper towel dispenser, was a miniature metal paper towel dispenser for pads. It was empty, but I figured what it was for. I thought it odd that the were completely free of charge, like TP and towels. It was likely outdated even at that time in 1970. I think free pads were moved to the nurse's office. The school was built in 1953 and the school flag still had 48 stars. Even today, there is still a wooden phone booth built into a wall in the hall. The 50 star flag came out in 1960, but they weren't going spend money on a new school flag. That school is the voting center for my district now. A lot of things have changed, but that old wooden phone booth still gets me. I think it might just be a quiet place to use a cell phone now though.
I really miss Burger Chef. The Big Chef was a great burger. As kids we'd walk the few blocks, have lunch with money earned from chores, yard work or even shoveling snow for neighbors.
You hit on so many things, in this clip.. Truly a strong memory.. Life was simple..
Not Old. Just filled with more life experiences. And I embrace each and every one of them. Even the bad ones.
I remember Lincoln logs and tinker toys !
Can't forget Hollywood Squares and Match Game. Long live Family Fued. I think first remember Family Fued when I was in pre-school.
people these days are less inclined
to do things that need a hands on mental-mechanical ability. the imagination in now funneled through a keyboard instead of primitive toys.
Richard Dawson kissed all the female contestants, While Steve Harvey just gets befuddled.
I remember other "Burger Chef" characters, too. One was a vampire called, "Count Fangburger," and another was a King Kong like ape called "Burgorilla." I think there were others, but I don't remember how many.
I also remember getting cigars for my dad at the corner drugstore without needing a note from him when I was about eight. But if I wanted to buy cement for a model kit, I needed mom or dad to be with me at the same store. Go figure . . . .
Yep, I stand guilty. I am old, but have awesome memories of most all these things. I shared them with my children. They enjoyed most of them too. Including old TV shows. Like Andy Griffith, Beaver, Lucy and many more. Was nice reliving them with my family. I am blessed.... Jeff
I'm guilty too, yes, I'm a Boomer and proud of it, sure we did stupid stuff but we're survivors! 😂
A comment of your chosen nature isn't complete without adding the names of the "Skipper" and "Gilligan". Samantha, Jeannie, Mr. Ed and Oliver Douglas... the list goes on and on and on like the Duracell Battery bunny that the Energized Bunny funnily outdid.
@@bobprescott I have it on every night while I sleep. Calms me. And Barney was the show for me...
I remember all of this! And yes Burger Chef and Jeff was the BEST place to eat hands down. (sigh) Gawd things made sense back then.
Avon was very often sold in offices or businesses like factories. Employees could make some extra money and people did not have to bring them into their home.
Many types of other sales people; from Jehovah witness to vacuum cleaner.
People still sell Avon at work.
Yes, they did go door to door, even Avon, because, my grandma had one of those Avon ladies that went from door to door! I mean, if you go back in look in the 70s when, we still had the milk man and, the egg man, they would go from door to door! It was the same for different organizations when, they would sell things for fundraisers! I miss those candy bars we would get and sell when, I was in the Junior Americans Veterans Organizations And, those can nuts!
I miss those Avon books in the office!
I thought our AVON lady was a real celebrity. She always gave me those tiny lipsticks!
I remember all these things. I graduated high school in 1981. These are such fun walks down memory lane.
Avon is still in business and has sales of over $10 billion worldwide. Avon's "sales ladies" opened the door for many similar companies in the future. My grandmother was a mid-level executive who worked her way up the organization with only a high school education.
The "Avon Lady" will NOT be calling. She has passed on. R.I.P.
❤ gracious greetings from coastal Mississippi. As a child of the 70's, l remember all of these. My granny and papa had a Curtis Mathis colour TV. I still have my Raggedys. Thanks for the wonderful memories....
Thank you Recollection Road for another nostalgic video. The memories you continue to stir always warms my heart.
I've always loved Joyce DeWitt.
"Nothing beats a great pair of L'eggs." 🖤
Me to
I really miss my Gilbert Erector set and chemistry set. And Lionel trains and wooden WW1 airplane models. And skate boards made of wooden boxes and a 2x4.
I still remember the taste of the stamp glue...😆
And the smell of a ditto sheet!
You'd think at least they could have flavored them.
Both the Postage and "S&H Green Stamps"...
@@keithbrown7685 oh, I licked a "flavoured" stamp once or twice...
Lots of stamps & coupons in the Sunday paper back then.
I may be old but I could still remember the great memories and events living through this incredible decade 💘 that will never leave me .
I remember when cigarettes cost .28 cents in a machine , And there were 2 pennies taped to each pack for change ! We did not need a note from our parents to purchase cigarettes in the 60's . My brother and I used to turn in 8 packs of empty Pepsi bottles to buy cigarettes for our selves and we were only 7 and 9 years old .
My stepdad loved RC cola, and we would load up the back of his silver truck with 8pk bottles to go to the drive-thru to trade them in for fresh new 8pks. Julie & I would sit in the back with the bottles & hand them off as the new ones were loaded into the back. For helping out we each got a bottle of pop & a Reese's from the drive-thru owner. I love my 80s childhood. ☺️
Yep...no note needed for Cigars either.
We had a pizza place with cigarette machine, this was 1975 I was 16, me and my friends would pitch in I think cigarettes were like 50 cents, and share the pack. 😁
Did you smoke them at 7 and 9? That's pretty wild if you did!
Recycling the POP bottles was a GREAT idea, instead of the cans we have now that recyclers don't want.
Kenner's Girder and Panel building sets! Loved them when I was a kid! I ended up being a builder of houses and movie sets! I guess it rubbed off on me!
YES! And its companion toy set, the Kenner Bridge & Turnpike set.
@@daveogarf
I'm old enough to remember a building set called American Skyline. Much neater than the Kenner stuff.
I had a set as a kid that I had forgotten about until your post. Thanks.
I had a set as a kid that I had forgotten about until your post. Thanks.
I had a set as a kid that I had forgotten about until your post. Thanks.
My Great-Nephew who is 4 found my Lincoln Logs and now plays with them building things for his Hot Wheel cars. He also uses my Matchbox transporter too.
1950's kid here... Along with Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs there was another popular toy that filled the gap between the wooden toys and model railroading or cars/flying models, and that was Erector Sets. Erector sets came with metal strips of different length along with wheels and other shapes. You used screws and nuts to hold everything together. My 8th birthday I was given an Erector Set.... a windmill. Over 225 pieces plus an electric motor to animate it. Took a month to build. Childhood memories. Made me the tinkerer I am today.
I had an erector set too. I used to build all kinds of things.
It was a cool toy that kept me busy for hours.
Golly. I remember all this stuff. I am in my mid-seventies, but everything in my past seems so recent.
I do remember my mother sending me to the store for ciggs when I was a child.Still have my Raggedy Annie from the 50s.The times are scary now.........wish i could go back to the simple times of the 50s.
The 1950s followed the 1930s & 1940s. It's entirely possible the 2030s will be a much better time, esp. if the extremists who have hijacked so much of our world are fought and defeated, just as the Nazis were in the 1940s and the European communists were from the 1950s to 1980s.
I wish we could take the children back too. This world is no place for children, or us.
Any parent who sent thier kids to get cigarettes, should NEVER have been parents
@@BAKER22-l4u, Remember??? Doctors pushed cigarettes. They were only made evil to prepare for covid, as nicotine blocks covid.
Yes, I'm old. Burger Chef was my favorite!
Loved the fixings bar at Burger Chef. Put what and how much you wanted on your own burger.
Two things I was reminded of while watching this- the neighbor lady used to send me to the corner store to buy a pack of Marlboro cigs. for her (mid 60's I was about 5 years old ) , they were quarter a pack, no note was needed. Also around this time there were two McDonalds in the Lehigh Valley, where I grew up, the sign outside stated "one million sold". I think that today the signs say over one billion sold.
I love seeing the old menus!
Thank you for tge walk down memory road. I truly enjoyed the walk.
When I was in Jr. High, there was a Burger Chef near my house. I still recall the burger - price 19 cents! Or we could splurge: burger plus fries plus coke - price was 29 cents! Love me those days...
Never went to Burger Chef. I think it was mostly in the mid-west.
I remember a slightly lower price...15 cents. The radio jingle started out, "For fifteen cents-a nickle and a dime..."
I worked at BC in Alabama.
I was in the Air Force in 1970,there was a Burger Chef next to the Mcdonalds, a carload of us would go to lunch, I always went to the B.C.
I'd rather be considered old and able to remember all of these things, than be much more younger, and never having enjoyed my childhood, or my youthful adolescence, and young adult life.
You can't blame these kids with their helicopter parents and code red drills. Such a sad existence...
@@chiaralistica: I don't. I'm just saying that the era I grew up in, was by far, the best, regarding family cohesion, family meals, TV shows, movies, commercials, sporting events, toys, music, and life in general.
I remember 1985 like it was yesterday...........but I cannot remember yesterday for the life of me.
I loved watching Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, Lets Make A Deal........but Hollywood Squares was my favorite. I miss it.
Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs are still made. True, not as popular as they were when we were young.
Another reason so many kids are so stupid nowadays. They never grew up with stuff that sparked their imaginations and fantasies.
I remember playing with the Tinker Toys and the Lincoln Logs. I also remember playing with the Erector Sets and American Bricks.
Great 👍 memories thanks for bringing them back
Those were great times, to bad they are gone this generation will never know what a great time that was.
Born in 1953 i love all these memories thank you i think i will go buy a slinky and show my grandkids how it goes down the steps lol 😊
When I was a new teenager in 1955, my dad would hand me a dollar bill and two rolls of pennies , say go to the store, get me a carton of cigarettes ( dollar per carton), and two new rolls of pennies for his coin collection. Gas was 18 to 25 cents per gallon, bread 10 cents per loaf, canned food 12 for a dollar, twinkled 10 cents and most meat under 1.oo per pound. Kept 6 kids and 2 adults fed. When I became married, we would buy 6 bags groceries for 25$ enough for 2 was for me, my wife and daughter, lasting 2 weeks. Now most meat 15 to 25 per pound. How times have changed.
I love these walks down memory lane. Good times for sure!
I wouldnt trade growing up in the 60s 70s for any other time ✝️💜
I used to do cigarette runs to a nearby machine for my parents, they were $0.25 a pack. Also did beer runs for my dad when I turned 16.
Burger chef was the best! Also remember the tv show match game, gene rayburn host brett somers, charles nelson reilly, and richard dawson. Fun show
I remember Tupperware as well. 😊 Recollection Road, is very much needed in this soulless, heartless America we live in today for kids. 14 years old going on 63 most of them. Sorry to say it- sad but true. Keep up the valuable memories folks.
I loved Tinkertoys as a kid in the 70s, but I haven't even thought about them in 45 years or so.
Loved Tinker toys also, It gave me the enjoyment of building things for years. Just remodeled my Third house!
I must be old because I can remember every bit of everything you showed. I am 63 and yes everything that you put on the screen today and I have seen and done before. Thank you so much.
I played with Lincoln Logs at the home of a babysitter I went to during the day. This was early 60’s. In high school in the 70’s a classmate sold Avon. I remember looking through the Avon books in home economics.
i remember all these things. we still have Tupperware products at my parents house.
I remember the little puzzles that were on matchbooks and in magazines advertising computer programming correspondence schools. My mom and I enjoyed doing those. She worked for many years as an Avon lady, and we had an aluminum Christmas tree with a color wheel.
Everything changed when Sunday shopping was allowed,Sunday went from family day with all stores closed to greedy business ruining society,people stopped going to church. I'm glad I got to experience the 60s as a child where I could leave my bike at the neighbours house and go get it a week later knowing it would be there..!
I must be as old as dirt (71) because I remember all of these things. You showed a 6 cent stamp, but I remember them being 5 cents! Nowdays postage prices go up so often that they don't even print the cost, stamps just say "forever." I couldn't tell you how many times my dad sent me to the corner store to get his cigars! My mom would send me too, to get bread, cereal etc. I loved Burger Chef burgers and would pester my mom to stop when we were in the neighborhood where the Burger Chef store was. I had Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs, but you didn't show my favorite. It was the Erector Sets that came with 100's of metal pieces, screws and nuts. It even came with a screwdriver. You could build all kind of things. Even my dad played with it! I had already moved from home when VCR's came out. I never rented one, but I remember paying $389.00 for the first one I bought. It was big and heavy and the remote had a long wire that plugged into the VCR! In the early 80's I was a vending machine repairman. I worked on lots of cigarette machines and they were everywhere. They even had cigarette machines in the hospital break rooms! Back then the price of a pack of cigarettes was 60 cents.
Compared to me, you are a "YOUNG whipper snapper". I am 80. I am OLDER than dirt! LOL
Jealous of you all born in the good old days. Born late 90s, nostalgic for times I wasn’t alive
The Match Game with Gene Rayburn was a favorite after school show from 11+. I didn't get the adult humor then and when re-watching them as an adult it was a full on 1970's party.
Same with "Hollywood Squares".... I actually saw the "Newlywed Game" "in the butt" episode....
Remember Farrah Fawcett? Her first tv appearance was as a contestant on Match Game in 1974.
@@keithbrown7685 Farrah was on an episode of the Partridge Family around 1970.
@@morganm9040 Really? Oh I didn't know that. I imagine whatever role she was playing, she was cute as a button. And, may she be resting in peace.
I am 62 years old °and I remember all of these!
I worked at Burger Chef as a senior in HS. Great place to work. This was in 1978 so the pay was $2.75 an hour. It was located at Lamar University so was always busy. The burgers were the best, flame grilled, and made to order. Beautiful local girls were the hostesses, and we men were the cooks. It was a great place to work, eat, and learn about team building.
Minimum wage went up fast during the 70s. When I started at McDonald's in 75, minimum wage was $1.65. I think it went up three times in the year I worked there. Every time I was do for a raise, minimum wage would go up. After working there a year I was only making $0.10 over new hires.
I was a young kid when we had a burger chef in our home town!! Me and a buddy would go there with 50 cents each and eat like kings, they had the outside seats and tables and we would hang out there and have our cheeseburgs and fries and shakes and still have change left over!!
I am not only OLD, but "ancient"! I got my first VCR (Betamax) in '81 and treked down to "Mad Audio" (in Minneapolis) every Saturday. Betamax was the FIRST format, had almost exclusively "skin flicks" which were kept in the "back room"! Going back further about 20yrs (was 16), I was able to buy cigarettes WITHOUT a note from my parents. I was tall for my age and cigarettes were not looked upon as the EVIL thing as they are now. That color TV with the "round" 90* CRT pretty much disappeared by 1970, being replaced by the "square" 120* CRT TVs!
My fondest memory that you showed was the DRAW ME heads, I drew the deer and the turtle, at separate times, and sent them in when I was in the 4th grade. I was so happy when I got a letter back saying I made a 99 on the test. They actually wanted me to take the course, sent a guy to my house and everything, but what they didn't say in the magazines was that if you didnt get a 100% that you had to pay $500. My parents either didnt want to pay it or didnt have it. Whenever I see one now I still draw them and send them in. I actually called there one time and the guy that answered the phone was the one that came to my house (he remembered me and a few things I asked to prove he did he answered correctly.
As for things you missed, how about clackers, Sat. morning cartoons, Shoneys, Pizza Hut all you can eat bar? We had a console tv that had a tv in the middle, a record player on one side of the tv and a radio on the other.
My favorite McDonald's commercial.
A tired hungry man walks in and to the counter. See the employee at register. He reaches in his pocket and he only has a crumpled-up dollar bill. So He hands it to the lady behind the counter and the lady hands him a hamburger, French fries and as he is about to walk away hands him a drink. He's about to walk away again. She then hands him his change from the dollar. Made his day.
I remember Burger Chef at one time had their basic plain burger for 13 to 15 cents. Mom would call Dad at work for "Hamburger Night", and Dad would stop on the way home from work, and for a little over a Buck, could by a sack full of Hamburgers for Supper. Mom would put the Mayo, Mustard, Ketchup, tomato slices, lettuce and pickles on the table, as well as a big bag of potato chips and a big pitcher of Sweet Tea. You could dress your own Burger at the table and have chips and tea for Supper. It was a great Treat for us kids and an easy dinner for Mom.
The little tune on TV : Burger Chef, for a nickel and a dime!
Those of us that are lucky enough to have these memories are blessed. Snow to ski on or learning to ice skating on a frozen pond. Dog sled ragging was big in Washington. Camping with my family and slid shows to watch of family trips. Homemade things from grandma including clothing. Toy trains that were epic. Who would want to go back to those days. The future is bleak and holds nothing worth remembering. No snow this Christmas once again. I miss being little and concider myself very lucky to have lived in the good old days!!!❤❤❤
I remember my mom hosting and attending Tupperware parties in the 70s
My Dad was a manager at Burger chef back then, it was awesome the toys and burgers and soda that I got, what fun!
Yes, I am old. 1963, and this all rings true, except Burger Chef.
I'm old and proud of it, like my grandpa before me. The older I get, the prouder I am to live that long. The 1970's were the best childhood years for me!!!! I loves every minute, maybe not all the fashons, and some people were a little strange, but I had a great time!! Even had the chance to see Elvis, but didn't go, what am idiot I was too miss out on that. But, the outdoors was GREAT!!!! NASCAR was OUTSATANDING!!!! My life was great!!!!
Tinker toys and Lincoln logs are still available on that big online shopping site. I just put a set of LL’s in my cart, maybe I’ll get them for old times sake.
Yep, I remember it all. You forgot opening soda pop cans with a can opener before pull tabs!
I had Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs (the original wooden ones, later they changed to plastic). Another one we played a lot was Pick Up Stix, such simple toys that yielded hours of fun. Best part of all back then, most of our play time was outside and physical with very few overweight kids.
Barrel of monkees,jump ropes,slinky,bouncy balls,banana seat bikes
We had a motor we could hook up with rubber bands to our Tinker Toys that originally my dad had in the 30s. It was really cool!
My uncle was on the Gong Show several times as a contestant
love the content and delivery of your channel, perfect voice......
yep i bought my parents ciggarettes with such notes as late as the early 90s. My stepmom who was the main person send me to buy them would always give me a dollar or 2 to get me a drink and some candy back when 2 dollars got you 2 candy bars and a 20 oz drink
Love all these memories! All the raggedy Ann dolls had. I love you in a heart on their chest.
Sometimes those Legg's eggs were used as the prize eggs in Easter egg hunts. The grown ups would stuff them with candy and money. Such fun.
My mom did that!
Also had Erector Sets, metal parts with which you could build all kind projects.