This was the decade when my parents were in high school, and I think I would have felt very much at home during their time of coming of age. Thank you, Recollection Road for this nostalgic presentation!
I went to high school in the 40s and early 50s and I’m still alive my great grand kids think it’s a bit crazy that I’m still alive for some reason also this brings back some memories
They ought to be thankful you're alive. I would love listening to stories! I took my time with my grandma for granted until it was to late an live with the regret everyday..
Big change from the 50s to the 60s. I entered high school in 1959, sporting a 'flat-top with fenders' and all I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle. In '63 when I graduated, I had hair over my ears and collar and was riding a surf board.
I don't remember long hair creeping in until around 65'. The Beatles started the long hair fashion in 64. The beatle cut was over the forehead and slightly covering the ears, hair just begun getting longer and longer after that with each passing year into the late 60s and beyond.
Your right about Elvis when Love me Tender came out in 1956 I went to see it I was eleven you couldn't her the movie for all the girls screaming. The Beatles hit the U.S.A. in 1964.
I always felt like I should have been born in the early 40's so I could have gone to high school in the 50's. I was born in 1966 but I have always loved the music and culture of the 50's as well as the old classic TV shows and movies. I noticed from some of these videos that girls were so pretty back then. They probably still are but they just don't fix themselves up like they used to.
There's plenty of funding today, an ungodly amount. Teacher's unions and the politicization of the curriculum are responsible for the sub-mediocrity of modern American education.
@@silllykitten329 i don't know how accurate that is but if it is. 1) you are talking about rurals schools at a pace and time were HS WAS equivalent to a college and ty he uh got but with an 8th grade education . 2) it was before a time when the educational subject matter was dummied down to allow more students to graduate which would create an artificial inflation of completion rates.
The Beatles were a 1960's phenomeon, not 1950's! Other than that, nice video. I was in high school from 1955 to 1959, so I should know. Elvis. Fats Domino. Chuck Berry. Jerry Lee Lewis. Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The Platters. So many others.
At the shot of the graduation ceremony at the end, the parents in the bleachers were wearing hats!!!! Remember hats? Aside from the occasional baseball hat, hats are gone forever.
The saddest thing to me with this video is knowing that in 2021 most of these "kids" are now long dead, dying or so old they don't know which way is up. Time is precious and waits for no one.
I’m a nursing student and work with the age group in this photo, and I think about it all the time while in nursing homes. The patients are unrecognizable, most don’t have their own personality and just seem to react.. it’s really weird to see pictures of them young on their walls and look in their bed and see someone so frail. It’s really sad but eye opening too. Enjoy life
@@pablopedro8598 you do good work. I hope you manage to keep your spirit and treat all your patients with dignity. I hate that bad things can happen to old folk at the hands of their "carers". My mother couldn't handle that line of work for various reasons staff & their attitude being a-top that list. Anyways ✌🙏
I was born in 1958 and went to school in the 1960's and early 1970's. The 1950's music had the biggest impact on me. Though I love 1950's, 1960's and 1970's music, the 50's songs are my favourite. I've always wished that I'd been born earlier, in the 40's or early 50's. Not so much anymore because I might already have passed lol. Nonetheless I still love the era.
This is the generation of my parents.........Two observations to the photographs: Look at the Hope they have......Look at the confidence present (from their sense of accomplishments due to hard work)...........BOTH are absent from the entitled youth of today.
I still have my mom's 1953, 54 and 55 high school yearbooks. Sometimes, I just get away from the fam, go to my mancave, look at them and shed some tears seeing how happy everyone was and how they all dressed nice and respectful. No 400 pounders wearing clothes 4 sizes too small with pink or green hair with tats and piercings all over them. A great time for America.
@@Limba777 Which was also when america was at its strongest point. A white Christian nation. So it seems the US trying to be tolerant and ‘diverse’ has made it so bad
back when they had driving restaurants and they bring your food to your car and cars had plenty of room now you can barely fit in the cars back when they had sit-down restaurants practically on every corner and endless coffee or an ice cream float
Why is it that teenage kids of the 1950s 60s and even 70's look older than the kids that are coming out of high school now. At least to me it sure seems like it. I am a 1960s preteen.
Because clothing has changed. The clothing the teens wore then Is mostly what elderly people wear now and so we instantly put two and two together. Cuz we see so many old people wearing those clothes from the 50s, teens from the 50s look older to us
The 80s, like the 50s, were iconic. They had style, music and fun. Endless summer. You were lucky to be in that era. I was in the 70s - very forgettable and not much to write home about.
I entered HS in fall of 1970. By then this whole vibe was dying fast. When I was a senior in 1972 the whole hippie/slob thing had completely taken over. And women's lib was starting to rear its ugly head....telling women that they are actually men. A girl in a dress in 1972...nope. Not one. She would get shamed and called names by the early cancel culture. I noticed disrespect for teachers creeping in around 1967 in Js HS. Values and morals were 100% under attack. In hindsight, it was all planned.
Oh please, get over yourself. I was a girl who graduated in 1973 from a public high school in the Mid-Atlantic. Yes, I still wore dresses to school and jeans in the winter. I did not want to be a man, but I did like the same rights and opportunities as the white guys. We did have to respect our teachers whether they were good or not. Old values and morals were given a second look and yes, canceled if irrelevant or just plain wrong.
@MOPARGuy Let's break this down. I said "white guy" and you thought I pulled the race card. What race would that be? I stated "white guy opportunities". What I am remembering is sitting in a sociology class in 1970, my sophomore year of high school, and the teacher stated all persons were not male, not under 5' 9", and not white or Protestant to sit down. We were informed that most doors would be closed to us. Deal with it. I never forgot it. So when I hear someone belittle the progress of minorities, women, and the LGBQT+ I am back in that class in Hbg. PA. For what it's worth, I am as lily white "Wonder Bread" as they come.
@@judithcoloma613I wonder why that is 🤔, It couldn’t possibly be because the majority of work force was white man, The majority of people who fought for the country was white men and the country was founded by white men.
Imagine before texting people actually talked to each other and could socialize without half of them staring down into their cell phone. Wonder if Wally Clever is still around?
I went to high school in the 70s. We did not have the style and fun of the 50s with it's car culture, kids hanging out with each other and cool dress and music. We also did not have the style, kids hanging out in the malls, cool dress and music of the kids in the 80s. We were stuck in between with a blah look and style. alot of kids where I was at did not go to prom or dances, our dress was not very stylish and our music until the advent of punk was blah - except for Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin were Gods. And their music was everything. But, we missed the iconic era of the 50s/60s and the 80s.
Note: The Beatles didn't form until 1960 an were unheard of in the US until after they signed their first recording contract in 1962. Sorry, the Beatles had zero influence in teen culture in 1950's America.
Highschool was a very hard time for me. I was about 10in shorter than the girls about 40 pounds overweight with crooked yellow teeth and a bad problem with gas even the ugliest girl in school wouldn't give me the time of day so predictably I played with myself a lot and over time went blind.
Some probably mindlessly echoed the prejudiced things their parents said, but I'm willing to bet that many more were open minded and would never bully a kid of another race.
According to historians best time to live and work in the USA was from 1946 till 1964 (before the Vietnam war) where a dad with one job buy a modest house, one car and still have the means to feed and support his 2 kids and wife. A time when most things were made in the USA 🇺🇸 and one dollar went a long way. A beautiful time, sadly lost forever. 🥲 PS: I say the 70’s and 80’s were pretty awesome too in every respect, without the distractions of social media and many other shenanigans that detracts people from reading a good book or enjoy a simple stroll.
Kids looked so clean and nice.
This was the decade when my parents were in high school, and I think I would have felt very much at home during their time of coming of age. Thank you, Recollection Road for this nostalgic presentation!
I went to high school in the 40s and early 50s and I’m still alive my great grand kids think it’s a bit crazy that I’m still alive for some reason also this brings back some memories
Wow. You are older than even me. (And I am OLD!!!)
Respect from Tijuana Mexico 👍
They ought to be thankful you're alive. I would love listening to stories! I took my time with my grandma for granted until it was to late an live with the regret everyday..
Yoo this just made me laugh😭😭😭but god bless you
I’d love to hear stories from my great grandparents. They’ll think twice after you’re gone. Much strength to ya!👊🏻
Big change from the 50s to the 60s. I entered high school in 1959, sporting a 'flat-top with fenders' and all I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle. In '63 when I graduated, I had hair over my ears and collar and was riding a surf board.
Was high school back then as fun as it seems !?
@@03prod2 Not for me.
@@joeserianz6205 really why ?
@@03prod2 I enjoyed high school...the school didn't enjoy me quite as much
I don't remember long hair creeping in until around 65'. The Beatles started the long hair fashion in 64. The beatle cut was over the forehead and slightly covering the ears, hair just begun getting longer and longer after that with each passing year into the late 60s and beyond.
All dressed so nicely..love their hair
Only guys were dressed nice
Elvis certainly impacted the music of the 1950's in the U.S., but the Beatles did not. They did not arrive until the 1960's.
Your right about Elvis when Love me Tender came out in 1956 I went to see it I was eleven you couldn't her the movie for all the girls screaming. The Beatles hit the U.S.A. in 1964.
@@lenisbennett3062 I hate the Marxist-backed civilization destroying, psy-op Beatles so much, I can't even finish this comment.
@@clairematthews5797 And don't get me started on Crosby, Stills, & Nash and Jefferson Airplane.
Black people did where do you think rock and roll came from?
I have my mom's yearbooks from her time in high school in the late 50's!
I asked both my parents about growing up and what was school like and boy did I get a laugh but learned a lot about that era and about them.
The 2020s are all tumult, zero fun.
Why did you “get a laugh?”
I remember all of this. I graduated in 1959!
I always felt like I should have been born in the early 40's so I could have gone to high school in the 50's. I was born in 1966 but I have always loved the music and culture of the 50's as well as the old classic TV shows and movies. I noticed from some of these videos that girls were so pretty back then. They probably still are but they just don't fix themselves up like they used to.
@sharon shoop - I graduated in 1960. I love the memories this site brings back.
I grew up in the 60's/70's, my older siblings were 50's kids. We would play outside all day and night.
I doubt you were allowed to play out all night. I was a kid in the sixties, and the rule was: in the house before the streetlights came on.
Great place for all like minded, nostalgia seeking souls! Thnx for taking the time to make us forget the world around us for a little while.
Back when schools were fully funded and we gave a crap about the education of children.
There's plenty of funding today, an ungodly amount. Teacher's unions and the politicization of the curriculum are responsible for the sub-mediocrity of modern American education.
and no blacks!!
60% graduation rate… lol
@@silllykitten329 i don't know how accurate that is but if it is.
1) you are talking about rurals schools at a pace and time were HS WAS equivalent to a college and ty he uh got but with an 8th grade education .
2) it was before a time when the educational subject matter was dummied down to allow more students to graduate which would create an artificial inflation of completion rates.
Look at the streets and sidewalks ... no litter!
The Beatles were a 1960's phenomeon, not 1950's! Other than that, nice video. I was in high school from 1955 to 1959, so I should know. Elvis. Fats Domino. Chuck Berry. Jerry Lee Lewis. Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The Platters. So many others.
So sad how we have fallen as a country since then.
Nah we're wayyyyyyy better now if america way just liberals we'd might be worldy
Time changes everything.
@@anonymous_idontreplylmaous72 what?
@jbl: How?
@jbl: Or, perhaps society has just gotten better at ignoring all its problems.
At the shot of the graduation ceremony at the end, the parents in the bleachers were wearing hats!!!! Remember hats? Aside from the occasional baseball hat, hats are gone forever.
When JFK was inaugurated, he didn't wear the customary hat. This kicked off the hatless trend.
Thats right homeboy keep it real no sensational news no taking sides just pure journalism.
I can only assume a non-American, possibly British person wrote this. The Beatles became popular in America in 1964, not the 1950s.
I was thinking the same 😂
The Ed Sullivan show introduced the Beatles to America.
I’m still alive and I do remember good times
The only other impression I've got about high school in the 50's was from the 1978 musical Grease.
The saddest thing to me with this video is knowing that in 2021 most of these "kids" are now long dead, dying or so old they don't know which way is up. Time is precious and waits for no one.
I’m a nursing student and work with the age group in this photo, and I think about it all the time while in nursing homes. The patients are unrecognizable, most don’t have their own personality and just seem to react.. it’s really weird to see pictures of them young on their walls and look in their bed and see someone so frail. It’s really sad but eye opening too. Enjoy life
Oh I don't know..1950 they are in their 70’s..many are still alive,,,
@@pablopedro8598 you do good work. I hope you manage to keep your spirit and treat all your patients with dignity. I hate that bad things can happen to old folk at the hands of their "carers". My mother couldn't handle that line of work for various reasons staff & their attitude being a-top that list. Anyways ✌🙏
@@ohmeowzer1 If you were a Senior in HS in 1950 you would be 18 years old. That means that you are 89 in 2021.
Yep, my mother went to high school in the 1950s and now she's an old 85.
Bring back these days
And none of them had iPhones back then and they were perfectly happy without them.
Movies Galore - Seriously!
all i can say those were the best days i was 13 when 1950 came in ten yrs of the 50's were the best
My dad graduated in '49, my mom in '53.
I remember those days, graduated in 1960.
Damn, we still use spiral notebooks.
I was born in 1958 and went to school in the 1960's and early 1970's. The 1950's music had the biggest impact on me. Though I love 1950's, 1960's and 1970's music, the 50's songs are my favourite. I've always wished that I'd been born earlier, in the 40's or early 50's. Not so much anymore because I might already have passed lol. Nonetheless I still love the era.
Thank you for the video
This is the generation of my parents.........Two observations to the photographs: Look at the Hope they have......Look at the confidence present (from their sense of accomplishments due to hard work)...........BOTH are absent from the entitled youth of today.
I went to high school in the 80's and I had to write my papers on the typewriter and we watched films in class on the same kind of movie projector.
i guess backpacks did not exist yet because i don't see any in those pictures
Backpacks were only used by people who in serious hiking.
I still have my mom's 1953, 54 and 55 high school yearbooks. Sometimes, I just get away from the fam, go to my mancave, look at them and shed some tears seeing how happy everyone was and how they all dressed nice and respectful. No 400 pounders wearing clothes 4 sizes too small with pink or green hair with tats and piercings all over them. A great time for America.
Has anyone noticed that the teens in those days seemed happier?
No
Perhaps they weren’t confused about their “gender.”
Yes, definitely. Teen suicides were rare unlike today.
Look at the black folk during this time, they were happier werent they
I wish I was living then is sad the way people carry themselves today.
Bro what happened to women they used to all be so beautiful!!?!?
Excellent video ty
Oh my goodness!! The girl at mark :58 looks just like my mom! She was born in 1927 so that couldn't be her.
Yo' mamma graduated in 1945.
@@matrox yes, I know. I said it couldn't be her.
Shots of our girls: no tattoos, no infected piercings, no $800 Nikes, no crotch-grabbing. I love it.
@Esther P very few live that long anymore
Because it hadn't been invented yet
@@berserk1437 MY GOD YOU ARE SMART!!!! I only wish I was that GO _________ ___ yersef!!!!
Just pure old fashioned racism 🤗
@@Limba777 Which was also when america was at its strongest point. A white Christian nation. So it seems the US trying to be tolerant and ‘diverse’ has made it so bad
All the guys are clean cut and look handsome.. That hair cut makes all men look good.
Why couldn’t girls dress in those dresses like that at my highschool nowadays 😍😔
They're very feminine. I miss pantyhose, too, though those weren't invented until the 1960s (I believe).
back when they had driving restaurants and they bring your food to your car and cars had plenty of room now you can barely fit in the cars back when they had sit-down restaurants practically on every corner and endless coffee or an ice cream float
I grew up in the fifties. Best time to be a teen. I’m 81 and I’m not dead yet, and hope to live another 20.
@@liznardi8810 God bless you !!
I can’t help but wonder where, when and why in the hell did everything go so wrong today.
Politicians
Hollywood
Tolerance
Why is it that teenage kids of the 1950s 60s and even 70's look older than the kids that are coming out of high school now. At least to me it sure seems like it. I am a 1960s preteen.
Because clothing has changed. The clothing the teens wore then Is mostly what elderly people wear now and so we instantly put two and two together. Cuz we see so many old people wearing those clothes from the 50s, teens from the 50s look older to us
they weren't as genetically modified as kids today.
My grandmother whose 92 was born in 33, graduated in 51. Wanted to see how high school life was for her!
The music sounds just like the Stray Cats from the 80s!
Thats because the Stray Cats were making music that sounded like it was from the 50s!😎
@@matrox Uhh...yeah. as a musician having played music from the 50's AND the Stray Cats, I realized that from the git-go.
No no if you want to hear REAL rockabilly music look up “Charlie feathers, or Johnny burnette 🔥
I never said the Stray Cats were REAL rockabilly. I only said the music sounds like them. Big difference
I was in high school in the early 80s and they still had typing class. And it was fun too
The 80s, like the 50s, were iconic. They had style, music and fun. Endless summer. You were lucky to be in that era. I was in the 70s - very forgettable and not much to write home about.
I’m going into my senior year of high school right now
Thanks RR😊
I entered HS in fall of 1970. By then this whole vibe was dying fast. When I was a senior in 1972 the whole hippie/slob thing had completely taken over. And women's lib was starting to rear its ugly head....telling women that they are actually men. A girl in a dress in 1972...nope. Not one. She would get shamed and called names by the early cancel culture. I noticed disrespect for teachers creeping in around 1967 in Js HS. Values and morals were 100% under attack. In hindsight, it was all planned.
Oh please, get over yourself. I was a girl who graduated in 1973 from a public high school in the Mid-Atlantic. Yes, I still wore dresses to school and jeans in the winter. I did not want to be a man, but I did like the same rights and opportunities as the white guys. We did have to respect our teachers whether they were good or not. Old values and morals were given a second look and yes, canceled if irrelevant or just plain wrong.
@@judithcoloma613 He's right. No need to be rude. I've always said if you are confident in your beliefs, you'd feel no need to cop an attitude.
@MOPARGuy What race card?
@MOPARGuy Let's break this down. I said "white guy" and you thought I pulled the race card. What race would that be? I stated "white guy opportunities". What I am remembering is sitting in a sociology class in 1970, my sophomore year of high school, and the teacher stated all persons were not male, not under 5' 9", and not white or Protestant to sit down. We were informed that most doors would be closed to us. Deal with it. I never forgot it. So when I hear someone belittle the progress of minorities, women, and the LGBQT+ I am back in that class in Hbg. PA.
For what it's worth, I am as lily white "Wonder Bread" as they come.
@@judithcoloma613I wonder why that is 🤔, It couldn’t possibly be because the majority of work force was white man, The majority of people who fought for the country was white men and the country was founded by white men.
I had a classmate who looked like Ian Anderson circa senior year in 1974. Guys had long hair. He still has long hair and beard.
Some of those kids wound up. The Nam
imagine i actually time slipped by accident im in the 50s wearing my jordans a yankees hat blue riped jeans and a ralph lauren shirtt lmao
They'd think you were homless.
Imagine before texting people actually talked to each other and could socialize without half of them staring down into their cell phone. Wonder if Wally Clever is still around?
We still had a life in the 1980s and early 1990s without no phones here in the uk
Eye candy alert at 5:27!!!
I went to high school in the 70s. We did not have the style and fun of the 50s with it's car culture, kids hanging out with each other and cool dress and music. We also did not have the style, kids hanging out in the malls, cool dress and music of the kids in the 80s. We were stuck in between with a blah look and style. alot of kids where I was at did not go to prom or dances, our dress was not very stylish and our music until the advent of punk was blah - except for Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin were Gods. And their music was everything.
But, we missed the iconic era of the 50s/60s and the 80s.
I just want to go back in time and experience one day as a high schooler in the 1950’s… is that too much to ask?!
Beatles came out in 62'.
All these chicks were on their best behavior at school, they even had a dress code. But come Friday night? OMG! They knew how to have some fun!
They were well-dressed back then and fashionable like East Asians today.
High school looked depressing in the 50s lol
1:05 is 60s
Funky 💃🕺
They kids look like they are in their 30’s 😂
Normal, everyone look like effeminate soyboys now…
@@LuftwaffengelNot normal, in what world are teens supposed to look 30
The Beatles weren't known here yet in the 50's.
Does anyone else get creeped out by old videos and pictures or is it just me? For example 3:57 that shit looks terrifying
It must be you. sorry. But, I find the old stuff cool and interesting
You watched a lot of horror movies or creepypasta maybe
Ummmmm the Beatles first album didn’t debut until 1963
Based on your pfp you look british . It was the 50s you don’t know what you’re saying
sorry.....the Beatles were at least 5 years away from 'stardom'(even as late as 1959)...but, hey, you got 'the king' right! ELVIS.
from the 90 no is sooo. Mean
Not much difference from the 1940s High skoolers.🙄
The Beatles did not show up until th '60's.
Oh, poor kids, they r so thin! Obviously they have no money for food.
Note: The Beatles didn't form until 1960 an were unheard of in the US until after they signed their first recording contract in 1962. Sorry, the Beatles had zero influence in teen culture in 1950's America.
The last healthy era. In the 1960s, everything will begin to degenerate…The long descent into hell…
Yeah okay back when segregation was still alive
Carpe diem.
Highschool was a very hard time for me. I was about 10in shorter than the girls about 40 pounds overweight with crooked yellow teeth and a bad problem with gas even the ugliest girl in school wouldn't give me the time of day so predictably I played with myself a lot and over time went blind.
yeah, you're the guy we tied behind my '49 Merc and dragged a while....
You handle the keyboard quite well for a blind man. 👍
@@jrussellcase I am really good with my hands 😆
Virgin diaries by lenis
@@jrussellcase have you never heard of Braille
Is tgere such thing as brain donor? Ayn eand helev.
Nifty, Swell Picture a female on the 50's sitting on Elvis Presleys, Chubby Checkers, or Perry Como's face. Back then bikini waxes didn't exist.
No drag queens?
vMicrosoft Teams
With no narrative these are getting Boring.
Were most of these kids racist?
Some probably mindlessly echoed the prejudiced things their parents said, but I'm willing to bet that many more were open minded and would never bully a kid of another race.
Some teacher somewhere probably told you they are didn't they.
This was nowhere NEAR the 1950s. I quit watching, thumbs down, etc.
Fabulous music
According to historians best time to live and work in the USA was from 1946 till 1964 (before the Vietnam war) where a dad with one job buy a modest house, one car and still have the means to feed and support his 2 kids and wife.
A time when most things were made in the USA 🇺🇸 and one dollar went a long way.
A beautiful time, sadly lost forever. 🥲
PS: I say the 70’s and 80’s were pretty awesome too in every respect, without the distractions of social media and many other shenanigans that detracts people from reading a good book or enjoy a simple stroll.