I remember all of these and so much more. I wouldn't trade places with a young person for anything, we grew up in much happier times and were allowed to be kids. Thank you for another wonderful look back 😊
@@nativetexanful I was born in 1967. But have always liked the 50s 60s stuff. The cars the music. I never listened to 70s rock. It did not have same sound .
@Dale Gribble but be grateful we got to experience a world without computers/social media, and most moms stayed hm and cooked a real dinner most night's....we got play outside without fear, playing with other kids, ridding our bikes anywhere and running free!!! TV was the best, w/the Fonz and Saturday morning cartoons!!!! 56 yrs and grateful I'm older!!!!
Yes, I'm getting old(er). I remember all that was presented here. We did not eat out very much back then as my mother cooked food at home. On the rare occasion we did eat out, it was a fun time to be out of the house. I still have some of those massive Sears catalogues from the 60s. The ones showing all of the toys that you could buy at Christmas time was spectacular. If you were a kid in the 60s and 70s, you experienced a time in this country that cannot be duplicated.
Oh my gosh! I would love to have any of those old Sears or JC Penny catalogs! I've seen where people sell them on ebay for outrageous prices. Maybe someday I'll treat myself if I win the lottery. LOL
I remember all of these places, activities, TV shows, and yes cursive writing and learning how to use a typewriter (required in High School); a good skill to know. These were good times to be a young person.
I inherited a portable typewriter from my Grandmother that has cursive font. I pull it out every once in a while and send a letter to someone through the US Post Office. I even type the addresses on the envelope with it. I had typewriting class in high school in the late 70's when personal computers were just starting to be a thing. This gave me a head start in college computer programming classes.
I remember all of these, too! Technology is a good thing, but it took away some things. I used to love getting letters in the mail, getting together with friends and talking to them. With the text messages, it became easy to brush people off. Such a shame, really...
I recall, with the older, original Polaroid cameras, one had to apply a fixer to the finished print to preserve it. It came in a roll-on stick that you rubbed over the picture. Otherwise, the photo would fade over time, even when protected inside of an album. That was when the Polaroids first came out, and you could only get black-and-white film for them. The later Polaroids were much improved, and you could have color.
@@kennykittrell2549 July 61. JFK in the White House. Mickey Mantle playing centerfield for the New York Yankees. Marilyn Monroe up on the silver screen. A good time to be born.
Sears could have been as big as Amazon if they put their Wishbook online. They would have been so far ahead of the game with existing warehouses and distribution networks ready to go. All that was lacking was an online portal for customers to place orders. But the management of the company was stuck in their ways and just let Sears die. They were like "internet" what is that?
Same here. There was no local television news on in the Philly area that early in the morning. The local news didn't come on the television until 6 pm for a half-hour then the late news would come on at 11 pm. And there was none of this all-day news coverage for a couple inches of snow like we have now.
I grew up outside of Chicago in the "Superboonies." We always turned in the Ray Raynor Show in the mornings before school, especially on snow days. He always had the scroll on the bottom of the screen and also mentioned the schools that were closed while he talked. If I remember correctly, our Superintendent of Schools was jerk who didn't care about weather conditions. He NEVER closed the schools. When I was in high school, we had freezing rain that left 1/4" of ice on the roads. I rode the bus at that point, usually a 20 minute ride. That day, it took us almost two hours to get to school. We were so late that we had to go through the dean's office to get passes. My parents were pissed off at the situation and didn't hesitate to let the Superintendent know about it.
Graduated in 82. Went to school in Alturas California, madras Oregon, and Livingston Montana. Had 1 snow day, that was in madras, 77. Had 2 inches of snow.
@@sheilaharrison8547 - even though Andy Griffith is on daily on two different networks, I still bought the whole DVD collection just to preserve for posterity.
In my Senior year in high school, which hadn't had a snow related closure in 19 years, had to close when 8 inches of snow fell in just three hours, just as classes were starting; I was already at school, when they decided to close.
On a snow day, as kids, we would go out at 8:00am and come home from shoveling walks/driveways at about 3:00PM - try to get a kid to do that nowadays...
I will 60 in January and I remember things back in the late 60's through the 70's like it was yesterday. Now sometimes I can't remember things said 5 minutes ago. 🤣
The best of times never to be seen again! It was all worth it. Never had a snow day in Minnesota 1959-1970. And the school bus never got stuck! How grand those days were. Memories are forever 😅
I remember one winter when my mom (who worked) was one of the few parents who got their child to school. After an hour, the administration changed its mind, & my mom had to come take me back home. (Southern Ohio, late 1970s.)
Living in the Toronto area, I don’t recall many snow days during my school years in the 70s. I do recall one day however. There was a huge snowfall overnight and I trudged the mile to school (yes, I know, uphill, both ways 😊) and when I got there, the only person there was the custodian. He congratulated me and sent me home.
NO, MEMORIES ARE NOT FOREVER. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I HAD FOR BREAKFAST OR WHETHER I HAD BREAKFAST AT ALL. THE SAME APPLIES FOR ALL OTHER EVENTS IN LIFE, AND MOST OF THE EVENTS I ACTUALLY REMEMBER I WISH I COULD FORGET.
When I was young and I listened to my parents and grandparents reminisce about things they remembered, I would wonder what things I would look back on and reminisce about. Now I know. 😌
They were good ones. The first time I saw a cassette tape was in 1986 and I had no idea what it was but I didn't say anything. lol That was at my husband's friend's house in Ohio. I'm from Kentucky and we were still listening to 8-tracks.
Growing up I remember answering the door, reading a book, talking to people, writing a letter, cars with ashtrays, chopping wood, and the ever so cumbersome task of washing dishes.
My beloved grandmother had an 8-track in her car. I remember being a tiny kid, but thinking we were so cool cruising in her huge red Ford (probably to K-mart!) blasting Johnny Cash! I miss her and those days so much, but the memories are priceless! Thank you Recollection Road for preserving these beautiful times! ❤
As a Black child we didn't get the Sears "Wish Book"; that book was only for white folk. Sears wouldn't deliver to colored neighborhoods. I enjoyed the salty flavor of my tears come Christmas morn.
Yep! Same here, Heather. We might recall that olde saying: "Life BEINGS at eighty!" I've no idea as to who or what (maybe Serutan?) might have exclaimed it but, who knows? Maybe it's true, IF one can only arrive there as mostly upright-and-grand ?!
@@marlenalinne6100 Let's just say that the last of the best times were in the 70s.🙂 although the 80s were still a great time, by the mid to late 80s things went downhill fast!
I recall the first time my parents took me to Shakey's Pizza in the early 1960s; staff dressed like a barbershop quartet, wood shavings all over the floor, and a player piano playing old time music as it accompanied a silent movie comedy; The Keystone Kops, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin... And it was my first taste of root beer with a fresh, hot pizza.
Shakeys was a popular spot for kids Birthday parties. Been to quite a few, including one of my own over the many years Shakey's was around. Good times!
Yep, I remember all of that. Just yesterday I gave my brother a Christmas card. He smugly informed me that people don't do that anymore and that he and his wife would send "Christmas Texts" instead! I just sighed and said "Well, I guess I'm just old fashioned." I fondly remember Christmas cards from family and friends lining the fireplace mantel or attached to the Christmas tree. Sadly I don't get Christmas cards anymore, but that won't stop me from sending them out. Merry Christmas all!
Yes just keep it up I'm old-fashioned I'm 40 years old! Same thing here. The good thing with Christmas card is you can go back and look at it whereas text will be no longer available.
That's all anybody's getting from me this year is Christmas cards cuz it's just too rough out there to be buying presents it's the thought that counts and remember it's jesus's birthday not ours 🤗
I have a lot of old photo albums of people that are no longer here, especially of both my parents, a brother and a sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends. I loved them all.
@@jrnfw4060 Holidays are really rough for me. I get severely depressed,cry when I'm alone & it makes me detest Christmas..Both my parents are long gone,my youngest brother is gone & I have a brother left with zero contact because of the life style he chose that makes me even more sad unfortunately!!
we had all those restaurants except Burger Chef, snow days were fun, i had senior year typing on an electric typewriter in 1976, my mom did S&H green stamps, my grandmother worked at Sears & Roebucks for 40 years, always got the catalog every christmas, we had penmanship books, to this day i still write very well, loved spelling class, and won an award, i still have an 8-track case filled with disco tapes. i was born in 1958, grew up in the 60's & 70's, i'm now 64 and still working, riding a bike, i feel more like 50, but oh yes those were the best times, it will never be that way again, we were blessed.
I remember those Fotomats when I was a kid, now some of them are still standing and used to sell flowers where I live. And I remember long distance phone calls , it was always a quick call because it was expensive. Also the whole family would speak loudly like their talking across the nation 🤔
Sears catalogs were sent to everyone's home. They were as thick as the phone books. In the sixties we had air-raid drills. We had to sit on the floor next to the other kids, in the cloak room. This was during the Cold War. I still have my report cards. ☺
My 5th grade graduation my mom got me a polaroid camera, holy crap the amount of pictures that came out of that thing over the years. Her now what would be my photo albums are all long gone. Hundreds of pictures, the cartridges weren't cheap either especially for that time period. So days, back in my day there had to be actual ice on the ground for school to be called, I can vividly remember walking to school with snow up to almost my knees, NOW it gets called if it hits freezing. WTF!
Me too. Friendly's was my favorite place to eat as a child. But I can count on one hand how many times I ate there as a child. It was only a special treat. My mother left when I was 11or 12. My grandmother came up from Long Island and stayed with us . She took me to the museum on a very terrible snow day in Upstate NY, a neighbor gave us a ride. And we then went to Colony Center Mall and we ate at Friendly's and she bought me a blue Hot Wheels Volkswagen and a pair of black high top sneakers. One of only a few memories I have at that age. Sorry for the long story
Learning cursive...I love cursive and still use it. I was at the DMV and I heard the clerk ask a man in his 20's to sign his name on a form. The young guy looked confused and said "Signature? You mean that scribble writing?"
I tried to tell my kid “This is your personal artistic stamp. You need to practice and use it.” She never did. Her handwriting is atrocious. It’s not even cursive. Ugh!
I still have b&w Polaroids from the '50's. Afraid to take them out of the photo album-they might deteriorate. Was always fascinated at how images appeared before my own eyes.
We had 3 tv channels, snowy,😅 When we got PBS, I was over the moon. We used to pick a Canadian channel too. I’m glad I grew up then. I have so much history that I lived through.
I remember when we had deep snowfalls and super cold winters and walking to school freezing in deep snow and getting to school and being it was closed and walked all the way back it was cold but so much fun and we survived those days miss those day
Ah, the good old days. The Sears Christmas catalog, wow did I spend hours looking through that, making lists. And who else made collect calls using codes to let someone know you arrived without having to accept the charges? Burger Chef was great. I loved that his sidekick shared my first name! I could tell stories about each of the things you mentioned, but I won’t take up any more space. Thank you for the memories.
Yes! We did that all the time. It was prearranged. You were told to make a collect call, but then your mom or however wouldn't accept it....but then they knew you were at the station...or whatever.... ready to be picked up.
@@willgaukler8979 Yes,I remember that it was all pretty fresh Loved their Burger's.. You could put all the toppings you wanted.. Several of my friends in High School worked at Burger Chef .I don't recall many of them around at the time
Yup. I'm definitely old. In the mid 70's I had a type writing class. After a semester and a half I was doing 70 wpm with no errors. Pretty good in my opinion!
In high school I tried to take typing class. It was 80% girls. There was no room for me and they made me leave. I'm 70 and to this day can't type. Now I write short stories. It's all my typing finger can take.
Of my 16 years in school, including 4 years of engineering study in college, the typing class I had in high school, was the most valuable in my subsequent engineering career. I remember taking the class because, of the classes still open that I had to choose from, it was the only one with a lot of girls in it.😆😉
Lawrence Mahoney had us do typing speed tests --- I was always at the bottom----- then when the score came out I was blow the bottom--- another words the 4 girls around me were in the satisfier --- I think he passed me just to get me out of the class --I,ll bet he could,t of welded two different kinds of metals togather.-----
Remember theses things well. Grew older ,But not grown up. lol , Gas stations pumped the gas for you and Coke Cola was in wooden crates at the gas station. Here in Texas. Thanks Enjoyed the video.
I thought, for sure, that you'd mention an egg timer. This was used to limit how long each person got to in on the long distance call. I remember the family gathering around the phone to talk to my big brother who was in Vietnam. Those calls were important on both ends of the line. Luckily, he made it back just fine but it was still scary for all involved - except me. I was too young to understand the danger he was in.
The flash cubes were expensive, and there was usually a dud in the package. I also remember the smoke and horrible smell after tge flash cube was used.
@@blueduck9409 And they were so inconvenient, especially when trying to snap continuous shots of The Osmond Brothers entering and exiting their hotels on the way to/from concerts. Four photos and you would have to make a quick switch to another cube, advance the film, then snap. Oh, the inconvenience and suffering we teens gals endured while traversing the US while following our idols in the early-mid 70's...Lol...
Remember all of these, except I don't remember if we actually ate at a Burger Chef, but I remember the commercials. I wore that exact same McDonald's uniform with the paper hat in 1980-81. I took a typing class my junior year of high school; it came in handy when computer keyboards became the new thing. My parents had that exact same Samonite aqua green/blue set of luggage for many years. As far as catalogs and toys, you should do a toy store episode. Many are gone now - Toys R Us, FAO Schwartz, Kay-Bee in shopping malls, etc.
Yes! A fellow 1980’s McDonald’s worker. If you look above you will see I sad the same thing. Yes sir those polyester uniforms you gotta love them today the kids look like slobs and play with her iPhone is behind the counter
@@InFltSvc I was cleaning the grill one night and the grill cleaner splattered up and hit me in the right thigh. It seeped right through those polyester fibers and gave me a scar on my leg that lasted for almost 30 years.
In my home town (population 40,000+), we had two McDonald's, one Wendy's, one Red Barn, one Burger Chef, one Arthur Treachers, and probably 6-7 pizza joints. We didn't have a Burger King or an Arby's. The Burger Chef became a Hardee's for about 3 years until they knocked it down. The Arthur Treachers is still there, and is the last one standing in the entire country (State Road, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).
I lived in NJ until I was 10 then we moved to Florida. I remember so vividly "slip sliding" to school up North 😂. In '79 we got snow and as I walked to the bus stop waved to a friend on the bus then ran back home. My mom said what's going on? I yelled "Snow day!" as I ran off to my room, I was 15. An hour later my best friend rang the doorbell 😂😂❤☮
I was born in Brooklyn NY in 1961 and brought down to Florida by my foster parents by 1967. I did go back and forth for a while till my late teens though.
@@samanthab1923, 🤣. Ours was small enough. School was around the block. The plows would come, we'd put on our galoshes and skate to school. One time I remember stepping from the road onto the school yard and sinking up to our chests in the snow mound 😂
I remember all of this and even before all of this! I learned to type on an Underwood upright (look it up!) as a freshman in highschool in 1964! I was so excited when in my senior year we got to use electric typewriters! We didn't even have a television until the early 1960's. And then it was only black and white! Anyone ever hear of telephone service called a "party line"? (again, Google it) That's what we had! Many families shared one telephone line. Each family had a different ring tone. You had to wait in line to use it sometimes! Amazing things have happened in my seven, plus decades on this old planet! Be sure to appreciate all the wonderful conveniences and blessings you have!! There are people in the world today who still do not have electricity or clean, running water/indoor plumbing. Be grateful!!!
My dad had a worn out1949 Buick woodie station wagon with straight 8 engine. In the early 60's, it started giving troubles so he put it in the paper asking $100 for it. 2 guys came along, test drove it, and offered to trade an electric typewriter straight across for it. My dad always wanted an electric typewriter so it was a deal. That thing was noisy and weighed about 80 pounds. As we carried it up the driveway, my dad said ''Hurry up before they change their minds.'' I had just heard one of the guys getting in the station wagon saying ''Lets get out of here before he changes his mind''.
I remember absolutely everything in this video - except for the snow days - I spent most of my life in Phoenix, AZ!!!!! But I do know thst my husband (way way upstate NY when he was young) said he has to still walk down to his elementary school every day no matter how much snow there was! I would have loved that!!!! Being 75 has wonderful memories😄😄😄😄
Based on this, I'm not old. I'm ANCIENT. When I was in grade school, we didn't get snow days. We just stood out by the road until the bus got there and hoped for the best. The roads weren't cleared and if the bus got stuck, the bigger fifth and six grade boys helped dig it out and push it. Sometimes a farmer would come by with a tractor to help. None of the restaurants shown existed and there were no fast food restaurants like the ones shown. If you wanted to grab a hamburger, you ordered it from a carhop and she brought it to you. I worked three summers as a carhop and I loved it. I took typing in high school on a manual typewriter. Christmas presents came from the local dime or department stores. The car radio had only am and fm and there was no tape player. All of the television shows shown were years in the future. We got our photos developed at the drug store.
I don't think most car radios had FM in the 1960's. Manual typewriters required finger strength and more precicion. You had a piece of chalky white paper to correct mistakes, even on the carbons.
@@hewitc The guy I was dating in high school had a '54 Ford Sunliner and daddy's '57 Mercury both had an AM/FM radio but almost all stations were aired on the AM frequency. The FM frequency was available but stations rarely used it. I'm not familiar enough with how electronics work, so I don't know why stations used AM more than FM.
That's how it was back in the 60's in mid Michigan. There was lots of snow on the road and sometimes the bus did get stuck. Bus driver and kids would shovel a path to get moving again. Everybody to the back to get more traction and often a farmer would come out with his tractor and pull the us out. Often might have a foot of snow in the morning and send us home early because more blowing snow came. Getting home was when we usually got stuck. Smaller and fewer county trucks back then so clearing country dirt roads took a while. We listened to the radio hoping our school was on the closed list. Oh, if you had a dairy farm on your road it got priority. Thanks for the video.
I'm from the time when cars only had am radios. Never had a snow day, never had a snowy school day. Those TV shows were in the distant future, as were those places shown for dining out. My Christmas presents also came, generally, from the local dime or department stores. However, my earliest memories of dime stores, in 1949 or 1950, was with signs that read "5 - 10 - 25 Cents". My parents still referred to them as dime stores. We did receive all the Sears catalog, and occasionally would receive a present from there. By the early '60s, I signed up for the military to avoid the draft.
I remember all of this. At the time I don't think any of us ever realized how much we would use our keyboard skills in the future LOL! Thank God I took typing, having that skill have been a lifesaver in life.
I remember how we magically started acting right about September; we knew Santa was starting to pay attention, and those wish books came in the mail. Being in the Midwest we had Sears, JC Penny's, and K's Merchandise. I sure do miss those old days
Awesome video which brings fond memories of the late 70s and early 80s. I remember waking up early after it snowed and listening to local radio for school closings. If your district was called, you could go back to bed and sleep in. I got a Polaroid One Step for Christmas in 80 or 81. Great memories…
I remember Foto-Mart in Southern California and one thing one had to remember was to be punctual when picking up you photos. If you left them there for too many days in the summer, the heat could ruin the prints and negatives. This happened to me when the pictures were important but I couldn't get them for a week. The prints would stick together and tare and the negatives would run and/or discolor. Good times... (Yes they were air conditioned, but if you remember they frequently had those envelopes stored in the sun. Mine anyway)
Me too. Pretty standard procedure for gals who went to high school in the 70's, especially early-mid 70's. Certainly came in handy for taking notes in high school and college, and getting a job. Knowing how to operate a dictaphone (kids are saying "What the heck is that?!") was also beneficial.
I'm old. I had the Creepy Crawler set and the Scientist set that came with a little bottle of radium paste. Along with about 75% of the toys they show. We even had that model of TV they show with the Christmas tree. Their 8-track collection looks like mine. With a few exceptions, same bands. M*A*S*H is still my favorite show of all time. Yes, I'm old. But todays young people will never be as cool as their grandparents. We drove all the best cars and had the greatest music. I still have my 1969 Cutlass 442. Bought brand new by my father and given to me 8 years later on my 17th birthday.
@@jrnfw4060 Because the "Real" world is becoming entirely too much for them to handle. The alarming rates of depression, anxiety and suicides among teens and young adults is a testament to the grim realities that they, and society as a whole, must attempt to navigate each day.
True for some but not for all. I guarantee your parents said the same rhetoric about TV's hahaha. There's alot of good smart kid's in Gen Z who've integrated technology within their lives without being consumed by it, but a sad fact is alot have. Moreover, as someone younger I have the benefit of being able to appreciate and consume older culture using technology at the same time enjoying new culture without being old and cynical about it. The silient generation talked alot of shit about Rock and Roll need you forget, calling it hedonistic; lowest common denominator garbage, like the older generations call my culture now. it's extremely hyptocrical to bebrate younger generations for being immoral when most of you grew up under Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.
Yup, I'm old, I remember everything except a couple of the restaurants that were mentioned......the color of our wall phone was "harvest gold" the same color as my parents fridge and stove ☺
@@Hunnie_B around 1985, I tried to get a harvest gold stove to match it, but that color was no longer available. I settled on light almond, cause white sounded so boring. I always hated avocado green!
I still smell my mother's old tan leather hard sided Samsonite luggage set...and see it too. It's up in the attic. It's a 3 piece set from the 40's, with a large suitcase, a smaller one, and an overnight case.
Had to walk down the road (not enough houses) and stand just inside the woods, and wait for the bus, in snow storms. like you said memories. now ( same district) an inch, on the road school is called off.
When we first moved out here, PA river town, you would hear sirens or horn blasts at weird times. Came to find out the NJ town across the river had at least 6 different firehouses.
We have a loud horn that sounds on the first Tuesday morning of the month. They test it every first Tuesday. I guess it’s to announce an emergency. I often wonder what would happen if there was by chance an emergency on the first Tuesday of the month. 😮
We used to listen to the radio to hear school closings because the television news came on too late. Loved Burger Chef growing up. Collected green stamps for years, but I couldn’t tell you one thing that we bought with them. My first car had an eight track player in it. Been to Fotomats many times.
Being 20 in the 70s was much more fun than being 70 in the 20s.
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I remember all of these and so much more. I wouldn't trade places with a young person for anything, we grew up in much happier times and were allowed to be kids. Thank you for another wonderful look back 😊
I know what you mean. I was born in 1964 so I remember the 70s vividly. Those were definitely better times.
You are right. I couldn’t agree more.
56 yrs and totally agree!!! Grateful I got to experience this!!
@@nativetexanful I was born in 1967. But have always liked the 50s 60s stuff. The cars the music. I never listened to 70s rock. It did not have same sound .
@Dale Gribble but be grateful we got to experience a world without computers/social media, and most moms stayed hm and cooked a real dinner most night's....we got play outside without fear, playing with other kids, ridding our bikes anywhere and running free!!! TV was the best, w/the Fonz and Saturday morning cartoons!!!! 56 yrs and grateful I'm older!!!!
I remember ALL of these things. I'm fortunate enough to still be alive and kicking, and remembering the cool days of my youth.
Absolutely!
For sure 👍🏽
I lived in Atlanta for 30 years and went north to the Blue Ridge mountains a lot! Born in Sept 1959.
You don't have to be "old" to have seen suitcases with handles. They are really stretching for new material
Yep...I'm old, remember all of these!
Yes, I'm getting old(er). I remember all that was presented here. We did not eat out very much back then as my mother cooked food at home. On the rare occasion we did eat out, it was a fun time to be out of the house. I still have some of those massive Sears catalogues from the 60s. The ones showing all of the toys that you could buy at Christmas time was spectacular. If you were a kid in the 60s and 70s, you experienced a time in this country that cannot be duplicated.
... I remember the treat of eating " Out " ...our Mom used to advise us " never order what you can get at home " ...
No joke we ate out about once a year.
Correct, old(er)
Bill Knapps was our spot
Oh my gosh! I would love to have any of those old Sears or JC Penny catalogs! I've seen where people sell them on ebay for outrageous prices. Maybe someday I'll treat myself if I win the lottery. LOL
The good old days!
A simpler time. 😊
I remember all of these places, activities, TV shows, and yes cursive writing and learning how to use a typewriter (required in High School); a good skill to know. These were good times to be a young person.
I was the only boy in my typing class, my mom said I needed to learn since I was going to college. Best advice ever!
I inherited a portable typewriter from my Grandmother that has cursive font. I pull it out every once in a while and send a letter to someone through the US Post Office. I even type the addresses on the envelope with it.
I had typewriting class in high school in the late 70's when personal computers were just starting to be a thing. This gave me a head start in college computer programming classes.
I remember all of these, too! Technology is a good thing, but it took away some things. I used to love getting letters in the mail, getting together with friends and talking to them. With the text messages, it became easy to brush people off. Such a shame, really...
@@davidmaxey3401 ...Mom would never steer you wrong ...
I recall, with the older, original Polaroid cameras, one had to apply a fixer to the finished print to preserve it. It came in a roll-on stick that you rubbed over the picture. Otherwise, the photo would fade over time, even when protected inside of an album. That was when the Polaroids first came out, and you could only get black-and-white film for them. The later Polaroids were much improved, and you could have color.
I am old enough to remember all of these. Thanks for the memories!
Born in 1961..I'll take the '60's and '70's ANY DAY!!!!!!!
Born in’61 also and 100% agree with you
1960, you got that right.
The 60’s were more than a chronological decade. They were a state of mind. As such, they still exist if you allow your mind to be in such a state.
I was born in July of 61
@@kennykittrell2549 July 61. JFK in the White House. Mickey Mantle playing centerfield for the New York Yankees. Marilyn Monroe up on the silver screen. A good time to be born.
Those were the best years of my life, thank you so much for helping me relive them God bless you.
Ah yes, we panted our way through the Sear's Wishbook! Thanks for these great memories!
Sears could have been as big as Amazon if they put their Wishbook online. They would have been so far ahead of the game with existing warehouses and distribution networks ready to go. All that was lacking was an online portal for customers to place orders. But the management of the company was stuck in their ways and just let Sears die. They were like "internet" what is that?
As a kid, a friend and I would make out our letters to Santa. She and I would include the Sears catalog numbers and prices for what we wanted!
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@@Novusod Perhaps. Nothing on the internet can match the old gift books, though.
@@Novusod you're exactly right!
Our local radio stations announced school closings. And we still watch Andy Griffith and Mash.
Same here. There was no local television news on in the Philly area that early in the morning. The local news didn't come on the television until 6 pm for a half-hour then the late news would come on at 11 pm. And there was none of this all-day news coverage for a couple inches of snow like we have now.
I grew up outside of Chicago in the "Superboonies." We always turned in the Ray Raynor Show in the mornings before school, especially on snow days. He always had the scroll on the bottom of the screen and also mentioned the schools that were closed while he talked.
If I remember correctly, our Superintendent of Schools was jerk who didn't care about weather conditions. He NEVER closed the schools. When I was in high school, we had freezing rain that left 1/4" of ice on the roads. I rode the bus at that point, usually a 20 minute ride. That day, it took us almost two hours to get to school. We were so late that we had to go through the dean's office to get passes. My parents were pissed off at the situation and didn't hesitate to let the Superintendent know about it.
I remember my mom would turn the radio on at 0600 to find out if we had a snow day. We had to be up by 0700 regardless. My mom was a meany 😆.
Graduated in 82. Went to school in Alturas California, madras Oregon, and Livingston Montana. Had 1 snow day, that was in madras, 77. Had 2 inches of snow.
@@sheilaharrison8547 - even though Andy Griffith is on daily on two different networks, I still bought the whole DVD collection just to preserve for posterity.
I could spend hours commenting on the memories this video brings back . I would just like to tell you Thank You !
I know right, me too. I was born in 1961, wow, lol.
@@tonycollazorappo I was in 63
... 1949 here ...
Yeah 1956 baby boomers! Lol 😂
@@bettyschneider5268 ... 1949 was a good year for me ...the 50's & 60's the best years to be young ...
Snow days were awesome. Sledding, hopping cars, making igloos, and snowball fights.
...mom and dad both be at work and breaking into the liquor cabinet.
I'm sure kids still do that...
Parents are just more paranoid.
Seems like all school districts would be closed EXCEPT mine lol
In my Senior year in high school, which hadn't had a snow related closure in 19 years, had to close when 8 inches of snow fell in just three hours, just as classes were starting; I was already at school, when they decided to close.
On a snow day, as kids, we would go out at 8:00am and come home from shoveling walks/driveways at about 3:00PM - try to get a kid to do that nowadays...
OK I GUESS I’M OLD!! 🤣🤣🤣
I LOVED THIS STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE!!🥰
I will 60 in January and I remember things back in the late 60's through the 70's like it was yesterday. Now sometimes I can't remember things said 5 minutes ago. 🤣
✨️Age only Pertains to Wine and Cheese.✨️ *But to agree with you... I'M OLD TOO. 🧓
Growing old doesn't happen to all of us. Only the lucky ones of us.
Very true!!
Seniors are survivors.
My Dad (85) says "growing old sucks, but it's better than the alternative".... True...
It isnt for the weak of heart.
@@dolandlydia Those with weak hearts rarely grow old.
The best of times never to be seen again! It was all worth it. Never had a snow day in Minnesota 1959-1970. And the school bus never got stuck! How grand those days were. Memories are forever 😅
I remember one winter when my mom (who worked) was one of the few parents who got their child to school. After an hour, the administration changed its mind, & my mom had to come take me back home. (Southern Ohio, late 1970s.)
Living in the Toronto area, I don’t recall many snow days during my school years in the 70s. I do recall one day however. There was a huge snowfall overnight and I trudged the mile to school (yes, I know, uphill, both ways 😊) and when I got there, the only person there was the custodian. He congratulated me and sent me home.
Yep I live in Buffalo New York. You had to get at least 18” of snow before they closed school. Very rarely had snow days.
NO, MEMORIES ARE NOT FOREVER. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I HAD FOR BREAKFAST OR WHETHER I HAD BREAKFAST AT ALL. THE SAME APPLIES FOR ALL OTHER EVENTS IN LIFE, AND MOST OF THE EVENTS I ACTUALLY REMEMBER I WISH I COULD FORGET.
I was born and raised in Minnesota, too - born in 1942. Never had a snow day all my school years, through 1960. Those were the days!
I wish I could go back 50 plus years
me, too...but I'd want to take my laptop and UA-cam with me!
When I was young and I listened to my parents and grandparents reminisce about things they remembered, I would wonder what things I would look back on and reminisce about. Now I know. 😌
I was the same way. I thought, What are they talking about?
I was a teenager in the 70s, this brings back memories of a better time!
Me too, they were the best times!!
@@julenepegher6999 they sure were
😎👍 Exactly.
I am so in love with this channel!!! Thank you for all your hard work ❣️😊
Some great bands in the collection of 8-tracks!
Glad someone else noticed that!
They were good ones. The first time I saw a cassette tape was in 1986 and I had no idea what it was but I didn't say anything. lol That was at my husband's friend's house in Ohio. I'm from Kentucky and we were still listening to 8-tracks.
Absolutely! I actually paused the video so I could read the bands. Kinda wishing there was some Dead there though.
Growing up I remember answering the door, reading a book, talking to people, writing a letter, cars with ashtrays, chopping wood, and the ever so cumbersome task of washing dishes.
Lol, my car still has an ashtray and lighter,.
I still wash the dishes. I am 46 in 2022 and have never had a dishwasher in my entire life anyplace.
@@AKayfabe me too. I'd never use it.
Washing dishes was the worst thing. But I grew up on a dairy farm and yes... had to work before and after school and all summer.
@@AKayfabe I'm 62 and usually cook everything in one frying pan which I eat out of and I let my dog .... pre clean.... LOL 😂
My beloved grandmother had an 8-track in her car. I remember being a tiny kid, but thinking we were so cool cruising in her huge red Ford (probably to K-mart!) blasting Johnny Cash! I miss her and those days so much, but the memories are priceless! Thank you Recollection Road for preserving these beautiful times! ❤
Man I am old😳Thanks for the memories.Wouldn't trade them for anything🌟
Looking at the Sears Christmas catalog was a ritual for me and my sister when we were little.
Kids today don’t know what they missed!!
I think it was called "The Wish Book."
Yeah, I remember that thing. I want it all the toys in it. But was dirt poor had to settle for some Hot Wheels from Kmart
We made paper dolls out of the old catalog and played for hours.
As a Black child we didn't get the Sears "Wish Book"; that book was only for white folk.
Sears wouldn't deliver to colored neighborhoods. I enjoyed the salty flavor of my tears come Christmas morn.
I love these videos. Such great memories.
I feel lucky to have grown up in the special time...I'll take older as the trade-off any day.
60s and 70s, were the best times for kids to grow up in.
@@tonycollazorappo Nope. 40s and 50s were the best.
Yep! Same here, Heather.
We might recall that olde saying: "Life BEINGS at eighty!"
I've no idea as to who or what (maybe Serutan?) might have exclaimed it but, who knows? Maybe it's true, IF one can only arrive there as mostly upright-and-grand ?!
@@marlenalinne6100 Let's just say that the last of the best times were in the 70s.🙂 although the 80s were still a great time, by the mid to late 80s things went downhill fast!
The 90s sucked, and this 21st century sucks even more.
Yes, I remember it all. Ah, the good 'ole days! Bring them back!
Thank you! Im 56 ,and this brought back sooo many great memories.
Oh well, I’m old😮but I wouldn’t trade a memory from those days to be young now.
This was my era. Everything in this video was familiar to me. Was an excellent time to be a kid and teenager. Thanks for the reminding me of them.
I just love strolling down memory lane with the host and all the commenters! At my age (75), I remember all these things and more!
I recall the first time my parents took me to Shakey's Pizza in the early 1960s; staff dressed like a barbershop quartet, wood shavings all over the floor, and a player piano playing old time music as it accompanied a silent movie comedy; The Keystone Kops, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin...
And it was my first taste of root beer with a fresh, hot pizza.
Shakey's was the best pizza! Loved that place.
cheap family entertainment and the wait staff seemed to enjoy themselves
First time I had pizza was at Shakey's!!!!!
Shakeys was a popular spot for kids Birthday parties.
Been to quite a few, including one of my own over the many years Shakey's was around.
Good times!
I remember that. I was just a kid. Had good times there .
I'm old, but I feel like a kid when I recall the excitement for snow days. ☃️
Growing up on a dairy farm meant that you got to do chores ALL day. And then miss out on pizza day or hamburger day at school. LOL 😂
✨️Me Too.✨️
Anyone remember Candid Camera? It was fun to watch people's expressions and just a way to enjoy laughing at ourselves really.
I remember LOL 😂
Alan Funt...
yeah...you can watch some episodes right here on UA-cam.
@@kelseymathias3881 I enjoy old b+w movies made before my time... the clothes, the cars , the class of the women.
@@billybrown7953 me, too! Thank goodness they are still available on TV and online....something good about these days.
Yep, I remember all of that. Just yesterday I gave my brother a Christmas card. He smugly informed me that people don't do that anymore and that he and his wife would send "Christmas Texts" instead! I just sighed and said "Well, I guess I'm just old fashioned." I fondly remember Christmas cards from family and friends lining the fireplace mantel or attached to the Christmas tree. Sadly I don't get Christmas cards anymore, but that won't stop me from sending them out. Merry Christmas all!
I'm in the same boat as you are on that subject Jim. Keep sending out the cards, its just a nice thing to do.
I think Christmas cards are great. A Christmas text sounds very drab and boring
Me too - Merry Christmas! :)
Yes just keep it up I'm old-fashioned I'm 40 years old! Same thing here. The good thing with Christmas card is you can go back and look at it whereas text will be no longer available.
That's all anybody's getting from me this year is Christmas cards cuz it's just too rough out there to be buying presents it's the thought that counts and remember it's jesus's birthday not ours 🤗
Thank you for your videos of yesterdays, always love the trip down memory lane.
I have a lot of old photo albums of people that are no longer here, especially of both my parents, a brother and a sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends. I loved them all.
Still alive in your memory.... 😊
I get up right away in the morning otherwise I over think about all those I love who have passed .
@@powerwagon3731 Especially during the holidays, when all of our memories are particularly poignant.
Photographs are a key to unlock a memory.
@@jrnfw4060 Holidays are really rough for me. I get severely depressed,cry when I'm alone & it makes me detest Christmas..Both my parents are long gone,my youngest brother is gone & I have a brother left with zero contact because of the life style he chose that makes me even more sad unfortunately!!
I love your channel. Thank you so much for bringing those memories back🌸🦋
"...and as always thank you so much for watching."
we had all those restaurants except Burger Chef, snow days were fun, i had senior year typing on an electric typewriter in 1976, my mom did S&H green stamps, my grandmother worked at Sears & Roebucks for 40 years, always got the catalog every christmas, we had penmanship books, to this day i still write very well, loved spelling class, and won an award, i still have an 8-track case filled with disco tapes. i was born in 1958, grew up in the 60's & 70's, i'm now 64 and still working, riding a bike, i feel more like 50, but oh yes those were the best times, it will never be that way again, we were blessed.
Yeah, the rub for, “snow daze,” was that you still had to make up the day(s), lol.
I remember those Fotomats when I was a kid, now some of them are still standing and used to sell flowers where I live. And I remember long distance phone calls , it was always a quick call because it was expensive. Also the whole family would speak loudly like their talking across the nation 🤔
There is an old Fotomat hut in a super market pkg. lot in Marlboro NJ
Yeah, they did sell flowers at them after a while didn't, they. I remember that.
I remember using Fotomat during the '80's. I could get color prints in a day. B&W film processing & prints took a few days more.
Love the "talking loud" comment. So true!
And whoever answered the phone would say "quiet everyone, it's so and so calling LONG DISTANCE!!!"
Sears catalogs were sent to everyone's home. They were as thick as the phone books. In the sixties we had air-raid drills. We had to sit on the floor next to the other kids, in the cloak room. This was during the Cold War.
I still have my report cards. ☺
My 5th grade graduation my mom got me a polaroid camera, holy crap the amount of pictures that came out of that thing over the years. Her now what would be my photo albums are all long gone. Hundreds of pictures, the cartridges weren't cheap either especially for that time period. So days, back in my day there had to be actual ice on the ground for school to be called, I can vividly remember walking to school with snow up to almost my knees, NOW it gets called if it hits freezing. WTF!
A lot of school districts are afraid of getting sued if there is any ice at all and there is a bus accident.
... soon enough even the digital pictures not gone tho ... just cannot remember the damn password ... and those matching lick em photo corners ...
You sound like my mom. They were sent to school & the snow was higher than the garbage cans. People were yelling at them go home school is closed! ❄️
I guess I’m old since I remember all of these things. I just turned 60 last week. So glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Those were the days.
I wouldn't want to be young these days!
@@kelseymathias3881
It was the best but I guess you had to have been there to know how things really was.
Happy belated birthday !!!
I remember all of this. My body may be old, but thankfully my heart is young. Thank you for all your hard work!
I was born in 1960,so much of this video brings me back to my childhood and teenage years. Thank you
Me too. Friendly's was my favorite place to eat as a child. But I can count on one hand how many times I ate there as a child. It was only a special treat. My mother left when I was 11or 12. My grandmother came up from Long Island and stayed with us . She took me to the museum on a very terrible snow day in Upstate NY, a neighbor gave us a ride. And we then went to Colony Center Mall and we ate at Friendly's and she bought me a blue Hot Wheels Volkswagen and a pair of black high top sneakers. One of only a few memories I have at that age. Sorry for the long story
Learning cursive...I love cursive and still use it. I was at the DMV and I heard the clerk ask a man in his 20's to sign his name on a form. The young guy looked confused and said "Signature? You mean that scribble writing?"
☺️ so True
I tried to tell my kid “This is your personal artistic stamp. You need to practice and use it.” She never did. Her handwriting is atrocious. It’s not even cursive. Ugh!
I hate computers.
I still have b&w Polaroids from the '50's. Afraid to take them out of the photo album-they might deteriorate. Was always fascinated at how images appeared before my own eyes.
Did you have to coat them for the images to appear?
We had 3 tv channels, snowy,😅 When we got PBS, I was over the moon. We used to pick a Canadian channel too. I’m glad I grew up then. I have so much history that I lived through.
LOL 😂, we had 2 ... maybe... if we were lucky.
3 TV channels. PBS didn't count!
Born in 1952, what a magical time to grow up. I will always appreciate this. And of course, I remember every single one 💕
I remember when we had deep snowfalls and super cold winters and walking to school freezing in deep snow and getting to school and being it was closed and walked all the way back it was cold but so much fun and we survived those days miss those day
I remember everything in this video!! Thank you very much!!
"Old" is a state of mind.
Ok I’m old.😮 I’m glad I remember these things. I cherish these memories. 😊
Wow ! Mott the Hopple. On 8 track. I have the cassette, and still listen in the garage. Thanks for St. Paul Minnesota.
I still have "Mott" by Mott The Hoople on 8-track. Haven't played in decades- but I bet it still plays!
Ah, the good old days. The Sears Christmas catalog, wow did I spend hours looking through that, making lists. And who else made collect calls using codes to let someone know you arrived without having to accept the charges? Burger Chef was great. I loved that his sidekick shared my first name! I could tell stories about each of the things you mentioned, but I won’t take up any more space. Thank you for the memories.
Yes! We did that all the time. It was prearranged. You were told to make a collect call, but then your mom or however wouldn't accept it....but then they knew you were at the station...or whatever.... ready to be picked up.
... didn't Burger Chef set out all the toppings for your burger Buffet Style ... can't remember ... must be getting old ...
@@willgaukler8979 I was too young to remember
I had forgotten about the collect calls trick! My dad would come up with anything that saved money….
@@willgaukler8979 Yes,I remember that it was all pretty fresh Loved their Burger's.. You could put all the toppings you wanted.. Several of my friends in High School worked at Burger Chef .I don't recall many of them around at the time
Hate getting older but I can happily say I remember all of these things and wouldn't trade my period I grew up in for anything.
Same here I wouldn’t trade a day of those days to be young now!
Dam right I'm old.of course i remember/ lived all this.
Same here, born 1961. Old and proud, LOL.
@@tonycollazorappo Born in 1944. You're just a whippersnapper. 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Yup. I'm definitely old. In the mid 70's I had a type writing class. After a semester and a half I was doing 70 wpm with no errors. Pretty good in my opinion!
I did shorthand and typing class in 1980. I loved it !!
In high school I tried to take typing class. It was 80% girls. There was no room for me and they made me leave. I'm 70 and to this day can't type. Now I write short stories. It's all my typing finger can take.
@@kimmer6 Sorry about that. They shouldn't have done that to you. It's never too late though. You can still learn typing if you want to. 🤗
Of my 16 years in school, including 4 years of engineering study in college, the typing class I had in high school, was the most valuable in my subsequent engineering career. I remember taking the class because, of the classes still open that I had to choose from, it was the only one with a lot of girls in it.😆😉
I took 2 years of typing for that reason.
Lawrence Mahoney had us do typing speed tests --- I was always at the bottom----- then when the score came out I was blow the bottom--- another words the 4 girls around me were in the satisfier --- I think he passed me just to get me out of the class --I,ll bet he could,t of welded two different kinds of metals togather.-----
A good way to meet girls. I was a lousy typist!
Remember theses things well. Grew older ,But not grown up. lol , Gas stations pumped the gas for you and Coke Cola was in wooden crates at the gas station. Here in Texas. Thanks Enjoyed the video.
I thought, for sure, that you'd mention an egg timer. This was used to limit how long each person got to in on the long distance call. I remember the family gathering around the phone to talk to my big brother who was in Vietnam. Those calls were important on both ends of the line. Luckily, he made it back just fine but it was still scary for all involved - except me. I was too young to understand the danger he was in.
Glad he made it home.
Yes!
I'm glad he made it back too.
Maybe I'll invent an Egg Timer App for that.
I still use it
1964 here thank you for this nostalgic channel brings back so many Memorys
I remember photo mat & burger chef. How about the flash cubes for the 110 cameras. I look forward to these . Thanks for sharing the memories.
The flash cubes were expensive, and there was usually a dud in the package. I also remember the smoke and horrible smell after tge flash cube was used.
@@blueduck9409 And they were so inconvenient, especially when trying to snap continuous shots of The Osmond Brothers entering and exiting their hotels on the way to/from concerts. Four photos and you would have to make a quick switch to another cube, advance the film, then snap. Oh, the inconvenience and suffering we teens gals endured while traversing the US while following our idols in the early-mid 70's...Lol...
The music back then was awesome
The good ole days
Remember all of these, except I don't remember if we actually ate at a Burger Chef, but I remember the commercials. I wore that exact same McDonald's uniform with the paper hat in 1980-81. I took a typing class my junior year of high school; it came in handy when computer keyboards became the new thing. My parents had that exact same Samonite aqua green/blue set of luggage for many years. As far as catalogs and toys, you should do a toy store episode. Many are gone now - Toys R Us, FAO Schwartz, Kay-Bee in shopping malls, etc.
Yes! A fellow 1980’s McDonald’s worker. If you look above you will see I sad the same thing. Yes sir those polyester uniforms you gotta love them today the kids look like slobs and play with her iPhone is behind the counter
@@InFltSvc I was cleaning the grill one night and the grill cleaner splattered up and hit me in the right thigh. It seeped right through those polyester fibers and gave me a scar on my leg that lasted for almost 30 years.
@@cdfreester AND I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN SUE TO FILE A LAWSUIT???!!!!! NO BODY EVEN DID THAT BACK THEN!!!!!
In my home town (population 40,000+), we had two McDonald's, one Wendy's, one Red Barn, one Burger Chef, one Arthur Treachers, and probably 6-7 pizza joints. We didn't have a Burger King or an Arby's. The Burger Chef became a Hardee's for about 3 years until they knocked it down. The Arthur Treachers is still there, and is the last one standing in the entire country (State Road, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).
@@juliemarchese-temple7749 Because it truly never entered our minds to even do that, seriously
What a bittersweet video. Life was better then….
Typing the most useful subject in HS. Thanks Miss Halsey.
I lived in NJ until I was 10 then we moved to Florida. I remember so vividly "slip sliding" to school up North 😂. In '79 we got snow and as I walked to the bus stop waved to a friend on the bus then ran back home. My mom said what's going on? I yelled "Snow day!" as I ran off to my room, I was 15. An hour later my best friend rang the doorbell 😂😂❤☮
We lived in such a small town in NJ that my brothers would call the cops to see if we had school! They would tell him 😂
I was born in Brooklyn NY in 1961 and brought down to Florida by my foster parents by 1967. I did go back and forth for a while till my late teens though.
@@samanthab1923, 🤣. Ours was small enough. School was around the block. The plows would come, we'd put on our galoshes and skate to school. One time I remember stepping from the road onto the school yard and sinking up to our chests in the snow mound 😂
@@tonycollazorappo, 61? Me too 😂
Upstate NY, moved to Florida in 88 and what a nice day it was today.
I remember all of these things. I'm totally old too.
Oh yes, I remember these well, especially snow days & tv shows. The ol days
I remember all of this and even before all of this! I learned to type on an Underwood upright (look it up!) as a freshman in highschool in 1964! I was so excited when in my senior year we got to use electric typewriters! We didn't even have a television until the early 1960's. And then it was only black and white! Anyone ever hear of telephone service called a "party line"? (again, Google it) That's what we had! Many families shared one telephone line. Each family had a different ring tone. You had to wait in line to use it sometimes!
Amazing things have happened in my seven, plus decades on this old planet! Be sure to appreciate all the wonderful conveniences and blessings you have!! There are people in the world today who still do not have electricity or clean, running water/indoor plumbing. Be grateful!!!
well said!
My dad had a worn out1949 Buick woodie station wagon with straight 8 engine. In the early 60's, it started giving troubles so he put it in the paper asking $100 for it. 2 guys came along, test drove it, and offered to trade an electric typewriter straight across for it. My dad always wanted an electric typewriter so it was a deal. That thing was noisy and weighed about 80 pounds. As we carried it up the driveway, my dad said ''Hurry up before they change their minds.'' I had just heard one of the guys getting in the station wagon saying ''Lets get out of here before he changes his mind''.
Born in 1970 I do remember a lot of these. Love the nostalgic memories
... you will soon enough have your own ... I remember when's ...
I remember absolutely everything in this video - except for the snow days - I spent most of my life in Phoenix, AZ!!!!! But I do know thst my husband (way way upstate NY when he was young) said he has to still walk down to his elementary school every day no matter how much snow there was! I would have loved that!!!! Being 75 has wonderful memories😄😄😄😄
Based on this, I'm not old. I'm ANCIENT. When I was in grade school, we didn't get snow days. We just stood out by the road until the bus got there and hoped for the best. The roads weren't cleared and if the bus got stuck, the bigger fifth and six grade boys helped dig it out and push it. Sometimes a farmer would come by with a tractor to help. None of the restaurants shown existed and there were no fast food restaurants like the ones shown. If you wanted to grab a hamburger, you ordered it from a carhop and she brought it to you. I worked three summers as a carhop and I loved it. I took typing in high school on a manual typewriter. Christmas presents came from the local dime or department stores. The car radio had only am and fm and there was no tape player. All of the television shows shown were years in the future. We got our photos developed at the drug store.
I don't think most car radios had FM in the 1960's. Manual typewriters required finger strength and more precicion. You had a piece of chalky white paper to correct mistakes, even on the carbons.
@@hewitc The guy I was dating in high school had a '54 Ford Sunliner and daddy's '57 Mercury both had an AM/FM radio but almost all stations were aired on the AM frequency. The FM frequency was available but stations rarely used it. I'm not familiar enough with how electronics work, so I don't know why stations used AM more than FM.
That's how it was back in the 60's in mid Michigan. There was lots of snow on the road and sometimes the bus did get stuck. Bus driver and kids would shovel a path to get moving again. Everybody to the back to get more traction and often a farmer would come out with his tractor and pull the us out. Often might have a foot of snow in the morning and send us home early because more blowing snow came. Getting home was when we usually got stuck. Smaller and fewer county trucks back then so clearing country dirt roads took a while. We listened to the radio hoping our school was on the closed list. Oh, if you had a dairy farm on your road it got priority. Thanks for the video.
I'm from the time when cars only had am radios. Never had a snow day, never had a snowy school day. Those TV shows were in the distant future, as were those places shown for dining out. My Christmas presents also came, generally, from the local dime or department stores. However, my earliest memories of dime stores, in 1949 or 1950, was with signs that read "5 - 10 - 25 Cents". My parents still referred to them as dime stores. We did receive all the Sears catalog, and occasionally would receive a present from there. By the early '60s, I signed up for the military to avoid the draft.
@@memyname1771 Just like today we still say Dollar Store when they actually up to 5.00 now. 🤣
I remember all of this. At the time I don't think any of us ever realized how much we would use our keyboard skills in the future LOL! Thank God I took typing, having
that skill have been a lifesaver in life.
But why the semi-colon on the right pinkie???
One of the most useful classes I ever took! Use the skill every day. Even, like, . . . right now. :)
I remember how we magically started acting right about September; we knew Santa was starting to pay attention, and those wish books came in the mail.
Being in the Midwest we had Sears, JC Penny's, and K's Merchandise. I sure do miss those old days
Awesome video which brings fond memories of the late 70s and early 80s. I remember waking up early after it snowed and listening to local radio for school closings. If your district was called, you could go back to bed and sleep in. I got a Polaroid One Step for Christmas in 80 or 81. Great memories…
You are a youngster...LOL 😂.
@@billybrown7953 Yep...we had the same, but throughout the 60's-mid 70's. KYW 1060 AM in Philadelphia.
I remember Foto-Mart in Southern California and one thing one had to remember was to be punctual when picking up you photos. If you left them there for too many days in the summer, the heat could ruin the prints and negatives. This happened to me when the pictures were important but I couldn't get them for a week. The prints would stick together and tare and the negatives would run and/or discolor. Good times... (Yes they were air conditioned, but if you remember they frequently had those envelopes stored in the sun. Mine anyway)
Thank you, please keep them coming. 😊
The 60’s on our street in Chicago homes had Christmas lights on every house. 🏠 yep
I certainly remember pretty much all of these things.
I took typing and stenography in high school. The shorthand came in handy when I made notes to myself and no one else could read them.
Me too. Pretty standard procedure for gals who went to high school in the 70's, especially early-mid 70's. Certainly came in handy for taking notes in high school and college, and getting a job. Knowing how to operate a dictaphone (kids are saying "What the heck is that?!") was also beneficial.
Lord I wish I could go back to these better times!
You ain't whistling Dixie!
Don't we ALL?!
Amen 🙏🏾!
I enjoyed and missed those years
I'm old. I had the Creepy Crawler set and the Scientist set that came with a little bottle of radium paste. Along with about 75% of the toys they show. We even had that model of TV they show with the Christmas tree. Their 8-track collection looks like mine. With a few exceptions, same bands. M*A*S*H is still my favorite show of all time.
Yes, I'm old. But todays young people will never be as cool as their grandparents. We drove all the best cars and had the greatest music. I still have my 1969 Cutlass 442. Bought brand new by my father and given to me 8 years later on my 17th birthday.
So sad that kids today will never know these things.
Heck ,you can't even get the cellphone out of their hands with a jackhammer.
@@billybrown7953 They live in virtual worlds, not the real one. Escapism at its extreme.
... these so called monedrn kids have a different approach to life ... they too will grow to read these back in the day reviews too ...
@@jrnfw4060 Because the "Real" world is becoming entirely too much for them to handle. The alarming rates of depression, anxiety and suicides among teens and young adults is a testament to the grim realities that they, and society as a whole, must attempt to navigate each day.
True for some but not for all. I guarantee your parents said the same rhetoric about TV's hahaha. There's alot of good smart kid's in Gen Z who've integrated technology within their lives without being consumed by it, but a sad fact is alot have. Moreover, as someone younger I have the benefit of being able to appreciate and consume older culture using technology at the same time enjoying new culture without being old and cynical about it. The silient generation talked alot of shit about Rock and Roll need you forget, calling it hedonistic; lowest common denominator garbage, like the older generations call my culture now. it's extremely hyptocrical to bebrate younger generations for being immoral when most of you grew up under Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.
I was born in 75 and remembered 3/4 of this stuff,I would go back in a second
I agree Chris! I was born five years later and I remember most of this stuff too. We are lucky to have these memories!
Yup, I'm old, I remember everything except a couple of the restaurants that were mentioned......the color of our wall phone was "harvest gold" the same color as my parents fridge and stove ☺
I have a harvest gold refrigerator. Really! A 1970 Westinghouse that I bought in 1977. No, not all original- I replaced several parts.
@@BakedRBeans How cool is that! I loved that fridge and stove, mom and dad had them forever, such wonderful memories.
@@Hunnie_B around 1985, I tried to get a harvest gold stove to match it, but that color was no longer available. I settled on light almond, cause white sounded so boring. I always hated avocado green!
@@BakedRBeans Light almond was spot on, and I agree, not a fan of avocado green ☺
Watching this video makes me cry….!!! I would give anything to go back in time…!!!
Life was good then… I don’t feel the same about society today..!!
Yes, I remember. " But most of all, I remember Mama."
YES, WITH PEGGY WOOD.
I can still smell my grandma's old and red Samsonite luggage set.
I still smell my mother's old tan leather hard sided Samsonite luggage set...and see it too. It's up in the attic. It's a 3 piece set from the 40's, with a large suitcase, a smaller one, and an overnight case.
In my area we had a loud horn that would sound for no school on snow days. Some of them are still around. Ahhhh sweet memories ☺️
Had to walk down the road (not enough houses) and stand just inside the woods, and wait for the bus, in snow storms. like you said memories. now ( same district) an inch, on the road school is called off.
When we first moved out here, PA river town, you would hear sirens or horn blasts at weird times. Came to find out the NJ town across the river had at least 6 different firehouses.
We have a loud horn that sounds on the first Tuesday morning of the month. They test it every first Tuesday. I guess it’s to announce an emergency. I often wonder what would happen if there was by chance an emergency on the first Tuesday of the month. 😮
I’m 55 and proud of it
We used to listen to the radio to hear school closings because the television news came on too late.
Loved Burger Chef growing up.
Collected green stamps for years, but I couldn’t tell you one thing that we bought with them.
My first car had an eight track player in it.
Been to Fotomats many times.
Ah, Burger Chef...That rings a bell...Thanks for the upload!
My mother used to send 40 to 50 Christmas cards every year but finally gave it up: stamps are too expensive.
My mom would hang them up on the door frames. If she sent you one and not her. You wouldn't get one next year lol