The polio thing makes me cry bc I had a friend who had the braces in the 60s. We were friends from 3rd grade. In 1963 I went into 6th grade. I had been awau for the summer and everybody got there but him. I asked about him and my friends Mike's eyes watered up then hugged me and told me our friend had died. I sobbed for a while. We all cried and hugged each other and yelled his name as loud as we could. It was hard.
Yeah, I remember doing those "duck and cover" drills in our grade school in Newton Falls, Ohio, near Lehigh Valley. And the black and yellow triangles that marked the air raid shelters in the basements of all the big brick buildings in town. Our own basement was packed with freshly preserved fruits and vegetables from the large garden my mother grew, and all the canned goods she got from the store. We had an artesian well behind our house in the woods so I would say we were fairly self-sufficient. We had one of the first TV's in our neighborhood and there were many cartoons we'd watch. We got three channels. I also remember the McCarthy hearings which were on a lot. I wondered what it was all about. When I got my driver's license at 16 we'd drive my Mom's car into Pennsylvania and wander all over the rural areas there. Beautiful countryside and wonderful people.
lae21 That's really neat!. I stumbled on this video while researching the 50's, I was born and raised in the Legigh Valley, my Grandparents married and grew up here in the 50's.
I was in grade school/high school 1963-1976. We had the Civil Defense signs in our school and we learned about shelters for a home. We never had tornado or civil defense drills. Only fire drills.
My mother was born in 1952. She's still around, and we occasionally talk on the phone. We got into the subject of COVID deniers and anti-vax people and she lost her shit, saying that if these people could go back in time to the 50s, so many would be dead from polio. I think that they're terrorists. I swear, while parts of society have moved forward, other parts have moved backwards.
Hiding under your desk was not meant to make you impervious from nuclear radiation but to protect you from the blowing debris of a nearby atomic bomb impact ...and the 50's were not the naïve times that we may think of them as now ..Today is a much more naïve period in time And our current era will be remembered for that in the future
for those outside of a certain radius, injuries from things like shattering glass and flash burns from the blast wave could be effectively reduced by duck and cover. between the bright flash of light and the arrival of the shock wave, more than a few seconds might have lapsed - giving enough time to those with good reflexes. the drills were not the waste of time everyone makes them out to be!
those of us at the time were made to believe duck and cover worked no matter how close you were to the blast. After the USSR was shown to have targets effectively blanketing the country, it was obvious how little it would do to protect us.
Eeeek! Put your head between your knees and kiss your sweet ass goodbye! Yes, I remember "duck and cover". Scary time to be a kid. In fact, I'm STILL scared shitless! And my neighbor still has his bomb shelter under his brick ranch house..
I remember in the early sixties, many boomers were convinced they would never live to see adulthood due to nuclear war, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis.
I remember hearing the air raid siren going off and our teachers taking us out to the hall and having us put our coats over our heads. We were terrified! But very relieved when we found out it was only a drill. Glad my coat was impervious to radioactive fallout. I can’t remember what my response to my mom’s regular question, “How was school today?” was.
Yes. I live in Los Angeles and we have a local PBS station here too. They feature some of the national PBS programming but the have some smaller productions with local interests. With cable I can't say that I've seen it recently but most areas between Hollywood, Whittier to the southeast and the coast we can get about 10 major channels plus that local PBS with digital rabbit ears.
@@jennifreakthompson8888 When I first found this, watched it a while expecting it to be a national PBS documentary covering numerous good and bad aspects of the times, on a national scale. Was not interested in a hagiographic memoir local to a far-away region. Asked the poster to revise the description to include "PBS39-Lehigh PA" or something, but he/she/they did not act.
They made us line up in the hallway of our school for duck and cover drills. And then told us it was a firedrill. I asked why we didnt leave the building and was told just be quiet and line up.
I have a government pamphlet \ booklet for building plans for a basement shelter . It doubled as a bar and the cushions used to hide under if attacked.
Don Dressel Well gentlemen, *make them!* They’re easy to make-and if I could I’d show how but instead, stop by Chef Google or Chef UA-cam and you’ll get step by step instructions, LOL! C’mon' you can do it!
In 1960, I was young, single, in good health, had good job, had 1950 Covertible, had 14 girlfriends, and money saved for a rainy day. I was told that I had the world by the tail! Those were good times for me! Not a 1950, it was 1959.-- Impala Sharp and good looking car V-8. 348 ENGINE DUEL 90 STEEL BELTED TIRES. WOW! GOOD OLE TIMES!
The grade school I attended in the early/middle 50's closed. They had a sale of desks, fixtures, chairs, etc. I purchased one of the row desks I was told to duck and cover under. It's in my garage. I hear that the bomb is coming, I'm headed right under that desk. I know I'll be safe how about you?
Hey, I was born in 47, I'm a pioneer of 50s stuff: I'm a Salk vaccine pioneer, I'm a skateboard pioneer, we made our own back then out of skates and a board, I'm a hula hoop pioneer and my father was president of Plastic Process in Lakewood, CA that manufactured them, how's that for a legacy. We had more hula hoops hangin in the garage than there are stars in the sky; I'm a silly putty pioneer, and we even introduced the slinky to the world, my generation did, pioneer of the Drive-in theater, we used to get drunk and see how many kids we could pack into the trunk and not get caught. We always got caught. Wow! That's heavy.
What did the 50’s look like in the rural areas? I know that where I lived there were still folks who didn’t have running water or electric or gas ovens and they chopped wood and brought coal into the house for the wood and coal stoves. Some heated their homes with oil. Schools punished children for using a language other than English.
I’m so sick of being called a communist by people who clearly don’t know what communism is. Every other country in the world has healthcare but us. All I want is the healthcare I’ve paid for since I was 14. I’m 56 and haven’t had access to healthcare in five years. I have major medical problems and just suffer. I often think of moving to other countries and have learned a couple of other languages.
Why should other people foot the bill for your medical problems under the threat of violence? Aside from that, nobody is calling communists what they are because of healthcare. It's the trampling of rights and the demands to silence all dissent, like we are seeing every day now. And all the threats of jailing and death of anyone that supported our president. And the rest of the democrat to do list.
@@tularem That is not how things work. I have PAID into Medicaire since I was 14 years old. That’s more than 40 years! It would be nice to have what I already paid for before I die. As for other policies what are you even talking about? NO ONE has said we want to put ANYONE to death. Many of trumps cronies that committed the crimes have already been pardoned. That cannot be reversed. You have lost zero rights. There is nothing in your entire comment that is true. Stop watching only right wing media, you just might accidentally learn something. I read and watch independent media and triple fact check everything before I put something in writing
@@kellykerr5225 I believe you should get back every penny that was stolen from your paycheck. I also believe you should get that money back in cash, so you can choose the doctors and treatments YOU want, without bureaucrats telling your what treatments you can get, from whom, and when. You should've never been forced to pay into Medicare---it's a scam. When something is mandated by government, it's mandated under the threat of force up to and including the point of death. Meaning, if you don't pay a mandated tax (Medicare, pre-Trump-Obamacare, etc.), so that other people can get dictated healthcare, using other people's money, then men with guns show up to your house to put you in a cage. If you refuse to go with them, because they are caging you over not letting them steal your money, then they will escalate things to the point of killing you. Nobody has a right to someone else's property, including their money. Whether the money is used for healthcare or crack... it's not yours or the government's to take or redistribute. Nobody, not even government has a right to take my money to give to themselves or anyone else. That said, I still pay taxes, because I'd rather not be murdered by my government or locked in a cage for decades over it. But consent under duress doesn't make it moral or right. To note, I don't watch any "winged" media. I do this thing called research. I gather information where there is information to be gathered, regardless of the source. Then I compare information gathered and come to a informed decision based on the totality of information gathered.
@@kellykerr5225 Also, you must either have your head buried REALLY deep in the sand, or you are just being willfully ignorant, if you don't believe conservatives are being censored, silenced, and threatened with death and jail for supporting President Trump.......
@@tularem That’s a good idea. I should get my money back and spend it on crack. Then I won’t care about healthcare lol. I cannot help but wonder where my tax dollars go when I drive on crappy streets and crappy infrastructure. We need another water plant in the county. But my friend who was a county commissioner got off to run for mayor. A city official I like is also going to run for mayor in the same town. There are 24 municipalities in my county and I’m not in their thank goodness because I like them both
He wasn't. All he did was create a mass hysteria around nothing. People, especially actors, actresses and other personalities, were railroaded at these sham public inquisitions, banned from the airwaves and publicly humiliated and shamed when they did nothing but go with some friends who wanted to attend a young socialists meeting when they were teenagers! They found absolutely zero communists who were in government.
I was born in 92. I hate my life. Take me back please. I dont need all this fancy technology and all this crap. I just want to find a place to call home with people who are functional smart and easy to get along with. I hate california and all the years that followed the 90s. I just cant catch a break here for shit.
Cali was stupid. They flooded themselves with Immigrants and made everyone carry the immigrants and not they are brankrupt from grieving so much money away. Who could not see that coming? The leaders sold CA out and the people were dumb enough to elect them.
I wonder how many had shelters or stockpiled food. I was born in 1947. I remember the duck and cover but kids didn’t talk about why. I was aware but not very interested. Maybe I was too young to take it seriously. My mother had me tattooed with my blood type. This was done in Chicago, I never knew of others that got the tattoo, perhaps it was just a Chicago health program. We moved to CA in 1955. I do remember being afraid of polio. The pictures of people in lung machines did scare me.
that polio prart made me hthink to th fsther of my juniorh high friends', who sitll hd poblems moving normally in early 90s. I don't even know if he's stilla alive, i'm having some problemds on getting on touch with people , but 3 out of 3 dughters all had some health problems related to father's old contition. And now, in 2016 there are people (well ... people ... mah) who are against vaccine. I'm so envious they never saw what "non vaccine" could bring at
Lucas Fernandez Hess's was also a Department Store, a very popular one especially here in the LV. But yes you are right, Hess was a gas station, recently bought out by Speedway.
I grew up on Army bases in the late 60s and we had air-raid drills in elementary school until '72, when they switched to fire drills. We too wondered how crouching under a desk would save us ?!
In a word, no. They did not come out until later and then were too expensive for anybody to buy. And they looked horrible---just a lot of orange and green. So, those who could not afford them said, "I'm going to wait until they perfect them." LOL
The race/civil rights issue was a problem that was brewing at the time. Generally, Blacks lived better in the northern than in the southern states where where Jim Crow laws were the norm. The nuclear issue was something that most people got used to, more or less. (Learned to live with it)
I was a child in the fifties, and I often think back on that period. So I had high hopes for this series of videos. I was disappointed. I can't decide when this series was written and edited, but it feels very dated. The social commentary seems remarkably conventional and predictable, not up to PBS standards. I'm still highly interested in a smart, perceptive treatment of the fifties. This series is not what I have been hoping for.
In 1962, I was busy in my job, making major parts for NUCLEAR I.C.B.M. MISSLES! WE WORKED WITH REAL DEDICATED. AMERICANS! OUR JOBS WERE REAL JOBS! THE 1960"s. We're great!
Christopher Kleinbach well that and without the McCarthyism and paranoia, and conformity, and the way women and children were treated and the attitudes to sex, and the polio and the (I think I can stop there)
Well, then just think about the "Build Back Better" plan. There's a jobs plan. Biden knows what is needed right now. The USA has to make a shift from relying on warmaking revenue to relying on supplying the "Needs" of the world. Right now everyone is focused on getting what they "Want" and they aren't focused on what they "Need". Biden is focused on the "Needs" of the country.
The word war has a definition..why say that? He says when guys die its war. No no its not.. guys die in riots for example. We dont call that a war..why?because words matter and they have definitions that's why.. I know your friends died and it sucks but sorry that dont make it a war..no big deal
@@christmastree6817 No. People 'choosing' to live among their own is not forced by the government., it is their choice, and they should be allowed that with impunity. Also, how many non-blacks do you think should live in a black community?' How many non-Muslims in a Muslim community? Non-Latinos in a Latino community? It seems the only communities you want to flood with the riches of 'diversity' are white communities.
@@johnq.random7360 Never actually said anything about flooding white communities but thanks for the assumption. But anyways even then, how would that work without things going wrong
@@christmastree6817 There are white communities all across America, they are called ''suburbs,' and although they are not perfect communities, they are clean, safe, the people are happy and I have great memories of growing up in one. Believe me, they 'work' quite well. You however seem to be suggesting that things have 'gone wrong' in such communities and white people are in need of diversity in order to make it right. I disagree.
@@johnq.random7360 Thats actually nowhere near what I meant, I was talking about something completely different that didn't even relate to white communities
The youth of the Fifties were the first partially woke generation. Black leather jackets and motorcycle boots. Elvis Presley and the melding of "Black Music" into the mainstream. What we were told by our parents about race was questioned for the first time. We were on the right track up until the eighties and the emergence of "Yuppie" culture.ua-cam.com/video/I8HL97DtQQY/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/8xch7yVAXtU/v-deo.html
@@davidleaman6801 All I know is I was born in 65, and my main years as a young adult were the 80s. From 70 to 80 were my growing up years. During my growing up years and young adult years we didn't have issues with racial problems. Don't get me wrong. There were isolated times when one lone white kid who had been brainwashed since birth to hate black people would emerge on the scene, but by enlarge everyone got along well. Both black and white got along great and were friends. No one went around with a chip in their shoulder picking apart everything people said to see if it was a racial thing. Up until recently in the last 10 years we as a society had long since abandoned the mentality if the 40s 50s, and 60s. They've gone out of their way to create issues where none existed. The younger generation has no idea how far we had progressed from the days where there was OBVIOUS real racism. Ask any black person that lived prior to the 70s and most will say they don't t even know what these peoples problems are. If you wanna see true predudism, and or racism you'll need to go back a long time ago, and I mean real racism thT doesn't include the big intentional dramatic skits played out on MSM such as a white cop with his foot on a black man's neck in order to create images for the public to see to anger and divide people in a premeditated manner, or groups paid to act like there's a huge problem with racism..
@Larry Gladfelder Agreed. It’s the natural order. America was a country founded by and set up for Europeans. 1965 Hart Sellers Immigration act changed all that. Multiculturalism is a lie and diversity is a cancer.
The polio thing makes me cry bc I had a friend who had the braces in the 60s. We were friends from 3rd grade. In 1963 I went into 6th grade. I had been awau for the summer and everybody got there but him. I asked about him and my friends Mike's eyes watered up then hugged me and told me our friend had died. I sobbed for a while. We all cried and hugged each other and yelled his name as loud as we could. It was hard.
We were so happy to get the shots.
I've been watching all these 50's documentaries and keep thinking, "Geez, I remember that ... I lived it!".
Yeah, I remember doing those "duck and cover" drills in our grade school in Newton Falls, Ohio, near Lehigh Valley. And the black and yellow triangles that marked the air raid shelters in the basements of all the big brick buildings in town. Our own basement was packed with freshly preserved fruits and vegetables from the large garden my mother grew, and all the canned goods she got from the store. We had an artesian well behind our house in the woods so I would say we were fairly self-sufficient. We had one of the first TV's in our neighborhood and there were many cartoons we'd watch. We got three channels. I also remember the McCarthy hearings which were on a lot. I wondered what it was all about. When I got my driver's license at 16 we'd drive my Mom's car into Pennsylvania and wander all over the rural areas there. Beautiful countryside and wonderful people.
Thank you for sharing your past. It's fascinating to hear the way we once were.
It was a good and prosperous time in america.
This is a nice history of the Lehigh Valley in the '50s. I grew up in W.PA.
lae21 That's really neat!. I stumbled on this video while researching the 50's, I was born and raised in the Legigh Valley, my Grandparents married and grew up here in the 50's.
Lived in Allentown in the early 1960's, first on South Wood St in Mountainville, then on Whitehall St. Wonderful place to grow up.
I was in grade school/high school 1963-1976. We had the Civil Defense signs in our school and we learned about shelters for a home. We never had tornado or civil defense drills. Only fire drills.
I was born in 1946. I remember the 50's with complete clarity.
That's when I was born, too. I was also one of the polio pioneers and lived in CT at the time.
@@miriambucholtz9315 I too was born in 1946
I hid under my desk and I am still here --- They don't make DESKS LIKE THEY USED TO!!!
Ha! :)
It worked, didn’t it. 🤣
I was a polio pioneer in 1953. I still have my card.
My mother was born in 1952. She's still around, and we occasionally talk on the phone. We got into the subject of COVID deniers and anti-vax people and she lost her shit, saying that if these people could go back in time to the 50s, so many would be dead from polio. I think that they're terrorists. I swear, while parts of society have moved forward, other parts have moved backwards.
I remember all this & more !!
Lucky man! Wish I had been there
I love the 50’s
Hiding under your desk was not meant to make you impervious from nuclear radiation but to protect you from the blowing debris of a nearby atomic bomb impact ...and the 50's were not the naïve times that we may think of them as now ..Today is a much more naïve period in time And our current era will be remembered for that in the future
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Excellent doc!!!!!!!
for those outside of a certain radius, injuries from things like shattering glass and flash burns from the blast wave could be effectively reduced by duck and cover. between the bright flash of light and the arrival of the shock wave, more than a few seconds might have lapsed - giving enough time to those with good reflexes. the drills were not the waste of time everyone makes them out to be!
That's a good point...
those of us at the time were made to believe duck and cover worked no matter how close you were to the blast. After the USSR was shown to have targets effectively blanketing the country, it was obvious how little it would do to protect us.
Why is the comments section so incredibly toxic. JEEZ.
@larzuga1 yepp
THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN DOCTORS MADE HOUSE CALLS. NOW YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE OD TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
My Uncle had polio. He was away from the family for about a year. My mom talks about the iron lung.
Wow... I never realized how close I was to getting polio ..(born in 53)
If you’re reading this I love you
I love you more... and thank you for being such a decent human being ❤
Eeeek! Put your head between your knees and kiss your sweet ass goodbye! Yes, I remember "duck and cover". Scary time to be a kid. In fact, I'm STILL scared shitless! And my neighbor still has his bomb shelter under his brick ranch house..
I remember in the early sixties, many boomers were convinced they would never live to see adulthood due to nuclear war, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis.
Not me I knew we could destroy Russia with one strike and Russia knew it.
I remember hearing the air raid siren going off and our teachers taking us out to the hall and having us put our coats over our heads. We were terrified! But very relieved when we found out it was only a drill. Glad my coat was impervious to radioactive fallout. I can’t remember what my response to my mom’s regular question, “How was school today?” was.
"Mom, I found out that my coat is imp.. impervious to nuclear fallout!" perhaps?
Yeah, radioactive shielding coats!! Wow! We could go to Sears Town and buy one of 4 colors!!! Nah! Boy were we NOT prepared!
"Rock Around the Clock" debuted May 10, 1954.
And what a great song it was....instant classic.
@coffeeinthemorning - "Beep Beep" (1959) by The Playmates. A Nash Rambler chases a Cadillac.
And I danced to it the next day at a friend's bday party!! 🤗
God damn that strawberry pie! 🤤🤤🤤
Is a local production, Not by the national PBS. Is local to the Pennsylvania-Lehigh Valley area, an entity called "PBS39"
Yes. I live in Los Angeles and we have a local PBS station here too. They feature some of the national PBS programming but the have some smaller productions with local interests. With cable I can't say that I've seen it recently but most areas between Hollywood, Whittier to the southeast and the coast we can get about 10 major channels plus that local PBS with digital rabbit ears.
@@jennifreakthompson8888 When I first found this, watched it a while expecting it to be a national PBS documentary covering numerous good and bad aspects of the times, on a national scale. Was not interested in a hagiographic memoir local to a far-away region. Asked the poster to revise the description to include "PBS39-Lehigh PA" or something, but he/she/they did not act.
Oh how I wish there were stores like Hess's (6:50) where one can buy so many beautiful dresses.
They made us line up in the hallway of our school for duck and cover drills. And then told us it was a firedrill. I asked why we didnt leave the building and was told just be quiet and line up.
Now democrats do this when you ask questions like "how will you pay for it?" or "how do you plan on taking all the guns?"
😁
it was a tornado drill you idiot no fire drill advises you stay inside
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat yet meat!!
i work with radiation ..... the usa had no idea of what they were dealing with as far as a nuclear disaster . they were completely clueless
our high school built in 1962 still has its fallout shelter
Damn we were using corn syrup in the 50's!!!!
I have a government pamphlet \ booklet for building plans for a basement shelter . It doubled as a bar and the cushions used to hide under if attacked.
It’s amazing how pervasive and acceptable smoking was then, inside public buildings and even hospitals.
Back when America was a free country.
@@OldsVistaCruiser
You were free to poison people.
I wonder how many of our parents died of smoking !!
Better back then .then it is today
I need some strawberry pie
Luke Lawrence make mine strawberry-rhubarb
Don Dressel Well gentlemen, *make them!* They’re easy to make-and if I could I’d show how but instead, stop by Chef Google or Chef UA-cam and you’ll get step by step instructions, LOL! C’mon' you can do it!
How many of us oldies dream about those good old days of the 50s. Now this PBS documentary throws cold water on those sweet dreams
That era sure as hell was better than the commies and nut looting and destroying our cities today
like how, john?
I'd never go back unless I took today's tech with me... I'd be a billionaire!!
The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in1954
(In Peter Griffin voice) I like this because it's history of a place close to me.
It's here as forewarned, without firing a shot. Feel the Bern?
In 1960, I was young, single, in good health, had good job, had 1950 Covertible, had 14 girlfriends, and
money saved for a rainy day.
I was told that I had the world
by the tail!
Those were good times for me!
Not a 1950, it was 1959.-- Impala
Sharp and good looking car
V-8. 348 ENGINE DUEL 90
STEEL BELTED TIRES.
WOW! GOOD OLE TIMES!
The grade school I attended in the early/middle 50's closed. They had a sale of desks, fixtures, chairs, etc. I purchased one of the row desks I was told to duck and cover under. It's in my garage. I hear that the bomb is coming, I'm headed right under that desk. I know I'll be safe how about you?
Hey, I was born in 47, I'm a pioneer of 50s stuff: I'm a Salk vaccine pioneer, I'm a skateboard pioneer, we made our own back then out of skates and a board, I'm a hula hoop pioneer and my father was president of Plastic Process in Lakewood, CA that manufactured them, how's that for a legacy. We had more hula hoops hangin in the garage than there are stars in the sky; I'm a silly putty pioneer, and we even introduced the slinky to the world, my generation did, pioneer of the Drive-in theater, we used to get drunk and see how many kids we could pack into the trunk and not get caught. We always got caught. Wow! That's heavy.
Toby Blake who are you, mini Joel osteen? iam, I am. ...
Lucky to have grown up and have fond memories of your childhood
Wow very cool....
@@ursulasmith6402 ,,shut up
Not a PBS documentary, but locally produced by PBS affiliate WLVT-TV 39 in Allentown. Interesting nonetheless...
They need to make college professors do that.
College professors are college professors.
I grew up in the 50s I learned to duck and cover, I'm older now but still can duck and cover 🐢
What did the 50’s look like in the rural areas? I know that where I lived there were still folks who didn’t have running water or electric or gas ovens and they chopped wood and brought coal into the house for the wood and coal stoves. Some heated their homes with oil. Schools punished children for using a language other than English.
Wow!!! Basements stocked for 2, yes 2 weeks!!! OMG! We had NO CLUE!! 😐
It’s because over two weeks the radiation levels decrease by huge magnitudes.
@@MikeSmith-tu1ln real
I’m so sick of being called a communist by people who clearly don’t know what communism is. Every other country in the world has healthcare but us. All I want is the healthcare I’ve paid for since I was 14. I’m 56 and haven’t had access to healthcare in five years. I have major medical problems and just suffer. I often think of moving to other countries and have learned a couple of other languages.
Why should other people foot the bill for your medical problems under the threat of violence?
Aside from that, nobody is calling communists what they are because of healthcare. It's the trampling of rights and the demands to silence all dissent, like we are seeing every day now. And all the threats of jailing and death of anyone that supported our president. And the rest of the democrat to do list.
@@tularem That is not how things work. I have PAID into Medicaire since I was 14 years old. That’s more than 40 years! It would be nice to have what I already paid for before I die. As for other policies what are you even talking about? NO ONE has said we want to put ANYONE to death. Many of trumps cronies that committed the crimes have already been pardoned. That cannot be reversed. You have lost zero rights. There is nothing in your entire comment that is true. Stop watching only right wing media, you just might accidentally learn something. I read and watch independent media and triple fact check everything before I put something in writing
@@kellykerr5225 I believe you should get back every penny that was stolen from your paycheck. I also believe you should get that money back in cash, so you can choose the doctors and treatments YOU want, without bureaucrats telling your what treatments you can get, from whom, and when. You should've never been forced to pay into Medicare---it's a scam.
When something is mandated by government, it's mandated under the threat of force up to and including the point of death. Meaning, if you don't pay a mandated tax (Medicare, pre-Trump-Obamacare, etc.), so that other people can get dictated healthcare, using other people's money, then men with guns show up to your house to put you in a cage. If you refuse to go with them, because they are caging you over not letting them steal your money, then they will escalate things to the point of killing you. Nobody has a right to someone else's property, including their money. Whether the money is used for healthcare or crack... it's not yours or the government's to take or redistribute. Nobody, not even government has a right to take my money to give to themselves or anyone else. That said, I still pay taxes, because I'd rather not be murdered by my government or locked in a cage for decades over it. But consent under duress doesn't make it moral or right.
To note, I don't watch any "winged" media. I do this thing called research. I gather information where there is information to be gathered, regardless of the source. Then I compare information gathered and come to a informed decision based on the totality of information gathered.
@@kellykerr5225 Also, you must either have your head buried REALLY deep in the sand, or you are just being willfully ignorant, if you don't believe conservatives are being censored, silenced, and threatened with death and jail for supporting President Trump.......
@@tularem That’s a good idea. I should get my money back and spend it on crack. Then I won’t care about healthcare lol. I cannot help but wonder where my tax dollars go when I drive on crappy streets and crappy infrastructure. We need another water plant in the county. But my friend who was a county commissioner got off to run for mayor. A city official I like is also going to run for mayor in the same town. There are 24 municipalities in my county and I’m not in their thank goodness because I like them both
McCarthy was right.
Yes
He wasn't. All he did was create a mass hysteria around nothing. People, especially actors, actresses and other personalities, were railroaded at these sham public inquisitions, banned from the airwaves and publicly humiliated and shamed when they did nothing but go with some friends who wanted to attend a young socialists meeting when they were teenagers! They found absolutely zero communists who were in government.
I'm normally against medications along with shots and vaccinations, but that polio epidemic makes me think twice.
Do research, Salk VAX was hoax. Dig.
GOOD. Think twice. Good for you! Learn! Read! Then learn more!
So was the smallpox vaccine, right?!
I was born in 92. I hate my life. Take me back please. I dont need all this fancy technology and all this crap. I just want to find a place to call home with people who are functional smart and easy to get along with. I hate california and all the years that followed the 90s. I just cant catch a break here for shit.
Click Bait i was born in 2002, i'm with you man
Cali was stupid. They flooded themselves with Immigrants and made everyone carry the immigrants and not they are brankrupt from grieving so much money away. Who could not see that coming? The leaders sold CA out and the people were dumb enough to elect them.
The 90s was the beginning of the end for California.
@@jayace92 the 90's were the END of life as we know it
Lemon Squeeze, the country is run by "Yuppies". That will change. Chin Up. ua-cam.com/video/I8HL97DtQQY/v-deo.html
I wonder how many had shelters or stockpiled food. I was born in 1947. I remember the duck and cover but kids didn’t talk about why. I was aware but not very interested. Maybe I was too young to take it seriously. My mother had me tattooed with my blood type. This was done in Chicago, I never knew of others that got the tattoo, perhaps it was just a Chicago health program. We moved to CA in 1955.
I do remember being afraid of polio. The pictures of people in lung machines did scare me.
that polio prart made me hthink to th fsther of my juniorh high friends', who sitll hd poblems moving normally in early 90s. I don't even know if he's stilla alive, i'm having some problemds on getting on touch with people , but 3 out of 3 dughters all had some health problems related to father's old contition. And now, in 2016 there are people (well ... people ... mah) who are against vaccine. I'm so envious they never saw what "non vaccine" could bring at
Had great neighbors then
Isn't Hess a 70s gas station chain? Also it's just another generic mega store anyway
Lucas Fernandez Hess's was also a Department Store, a very popular one especially here in the LV. But yes you are right, Hess was a gas station, recently bought out by Speedway.
nope , a very fancy department store
Remember the one room school?
no, how old are you?
Not true re the nuke thing as none of my pals in elementary school believed that "Stop Drop & Cover" would protect us
I grew up on Army bases in the late 60s and we had air-raid drills in elementary school until '72, when they switched to fire drills. We too wondered how crouching under a desk would save us ?!
@@k.g.1259 🤣
@@k.g.1259 they had us crouching under the desks because it apparently protected against earthquakes
The comments are toxic. Get psychiatric help some of you!
did anyone ever own a color tv in the 1950s
yes, mostly higher end wealthy people usually was the only to be able to afford them.
In a word, no. They did not come out until later and then were too expensive for anybody to buy. And they looked horrible---just a lot of orange and green. So, those who could not afford them said, "I'm going to wait until they perfect them." LOL
Yeah. We had a 1951 (I think) with a 9" green-tinted screen. Think it was an Emerson. Never worked right.
Bought a Dumont ctc4 color used 1959 was sold new 1954 they made a 15 in in 52 rca only prog.was Bonanza as I recall .
My great aunt had a '58 RCA color TV that she bought new. It did not receive UHF channels. It had a round tube with the top and bottom squared off.
I would be so paranoid living at those times..
+Orlando Obeso Angulo
Why?
Back then wasnt as bad as its made out to be race wise if thats what you mean,,everybody just minded their own business ,,at least in Canada.
in canada..when i was a kid, we had a cross burnt on our lawn...native ..suburbs .. bullied and beat up often at my all-white school .
The race/civil rights issue was a problem that was brewing at the time.
Generally, Blacks lived better in the northern than in the southern states
where where Jim Crow laws were the norm.
The nuclear issue was something that most people got used to, more or less.
(Learned to live with it)
Being naive was the play of the day! 😃
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I have to laugh because I don't think anyone out there remembers hesses department store in Allentown.i remember when route 309 was being built.
I was a child in the fifties, and I often think back on that period. So I had high hopes for this series of videos. I was disappointed. I can't decide when this series was written and edited, but it feels very dated. The social commentary seems remarkably conventional and predictable, not up to PBS standards. I'm still highly interested in a smart, perceptive treatment of the fifties. This series is not what I have been hoping for.
My advice is to buy some cameras and find some people to interview. Edit the footage to your liking and post it here on youtube.
Fyi. We cannot go back in time. Things people and ola es grow change and evolve. ☮️
In 1962, I was busy in my job,
making major parts for
NUCLEAR I.C.B.M. MISSLES!
WE WORKED WITH REAL
DEDICATED. AMERICANS!
OUR JOBS WERE REAL JOBS!
THE 1960"s. We're great!
So tell me what is a “real” job aside from every other job that pays you money lol a job is a job
Nick needs to stop using the scissors to trim his moustache on the bangs
I want things to go back like the 50s without the raceism where everyone would be equal and things would be cheap and everyone would have jobs.🙂
Christopher Kleinbach well that and without the McCarthyism and paranoia, and conformity, and the way women and children were treated and the attitudes to sex, and the polio and the (I think I can stop there)
Well, then just think about the "Build Back Better" plan. There's a jobs plan. Biden knows what is needed right now. The USA has to make a shift from relying on warmaking revenue to relying on supplying the "Needs" of the world. Right now everyone is focused on getting what they "Want" and they aren't focused on what they "Need". Biden is focused on the "Needs" of the country.
If the "stereotype" fits....
McCarthy ended up being right
The word war has a definition..why say that? He says when guys die its war. No no its not.. guys die in riots for example. We dont call that a war..why?because words matter and they have definitions that's why.. I know your friends died and it sucks but sorry that dont make it a war..no big deal
What are you responding to?
@@tularem thevold man in the video
Now they loot and cry about everything
who?
There is nothing wrong with segregation as long as it is not forced. Let people, regardless of race or culture, choose freely.
Wouldn't that still be forced though
@@christmastree6817 No. People 'choosing' to live among their own is not forced by the government., it is their choice, and they should be allowed that with impunity. Also, how many non-blacks do you think should live in a black community?' How many non-Muslims in a Muslim community? Non-Latinos in a Latino community? It seems the only communities you want to flood with the riches of 'diversity' are white communities.
@@johnq.random7360 Never actually said anything about flooding white communities but thanks for the assumption. But anyways even then, how would that work without things going wrong
@@christmastree6817 There are white communities all across America, they are called ''suburbs,' and although they are not perfect communities, they are clean, safe, the people are happy and I have great memories of growing up in one. Believe me, they 'work' quite well. You however seem to be suggesting that things have 'gone wrong' in such communities and white people are in need of diversity in order to make it right. I disagree.
@@johnq.random7360 Thats actually nowhere near what I meant, I was talking about something completely different that didn't even relate to white communities
What !!!! Desegregation didn't happen until the mid 60s. It didn't happen in the 50s
Relax
This comment section doesn’t need more race baiters
@@josh021588 not every state was legally segregated.
The youth of the Fifties were the first partially woke generation. Black leather jackets and motorcycle boots. Elvis Presley and the melding of "Black Music" into the mainstream. What we were told by our parents about race was questioned for the first time. We were on the right track up until the eighties and the emergence of "Yuppie" culture.ua-cam.com/video/I8HL97DtQQY/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/8xch7yVAXtU/v-deo.html
@@davidleaman6801 All I know is I was born in 65, and my main years as a young adult were the 80s. From 70 to 80 were my growing up years. During my growing up years and young adult years we didn't have issues with racial problems. Don't get me wrong. There were isolated times when one lone white kid who had been brainwashed since birth to hate black people would emerge on the scene, but by enlarge everyone got along well. Both black and white got along great and were friends. No one went around with a chip in their shoulder picking apart everything people said to see if it was a racial thing. Up until recently in the last 10 years we as a society had long since abandoned the mentality if the 40s 50s, and 60s. They've gone out of their way to create issues where none existed. The younger generation has no idea how far we had progressed from the days where there was OBVIOUS real racism. Ask any black person that lived prior to the 70s and most will say they don't t even know what these peoples problems are. If you wanna see true predudism, and or racism you'll need to go back a long time ago, and I mean real racism thT doesn't include the big intentional dramatic skits played out on MSM such as a white cop with his foot on a black man's neck in order to create images for the public to see to anger and divide people in a premeditated manner, or groups paid to act like there's a huge problem with racism..
1964 declared Unconstitutional
Love the way American flags always make the USA look as large as Canada....propaganda still rages
What the hell are you on about? Where on the American flag is there any depiction of land size? Or anything about Canada...
Sit down...
what the hell u talking about?
wtf does this mean
TRUST THE GOVERNMENT
EVERYTHING IS FINE
I think AFRICAN Americans would be happier back in Africa like the name implies, they could build their own black utopia.
Hey, everybody look at this jackass
@Larry Gladfelder Agreed. It’s the natural order. America was a country founded by and set up for Europeans. 1965 Hart Sellers Immigration act changed all that. Multiculturalism is a lie and diversity is a cancer.
They have never built a country anywhere in the world.
@@osaji922 ..where's ur picture?
@Yehosor Ollo ..ur people captured u and brought u here. go back
America acts like it didn't nuke Japan twice in 1945
You act like Japan wasn't defending Nazi Germany in 1945... (And like they didn't attack Pearl Harbor.)
America doesn't apologize for what we did.
Japan deserved what they got and more.
For what they did to mankind they should have been nuked 3 times. And we should have listened to MacArthur and Nuked China. And look at us now.
Excellent reminder! It appears we Americans only think about America and not the rest of the world. Best of luck to all of us!
@@PacoOtis Japan had to be nuked,or a few more million American men would've died. You'd prefer that?
Democrats sure did destroy the Lehigh Valley and our whole country.
You lost me at 11:30
Many people can't handle the truth.....