Things 1950s Kids Haven’t Thought About In Years
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When it comes to television I do remember one thing, us kids would park ourselves right in front of that TV on a Saturday morning and it wasn't long before mom would say "HEY BACKUP FROM THAT TV, YOU'RE WAY TOO CLOSE".
There were 5 of us so one person always wound up on the floor right in front of the set. He was the channel changer
Some things never change. I have a 7 year old granddaughter who loves to almost stand on top of the tv and we have to tell her to back off from the tv.
@@glennso47 You need to take that mentally damaged granddaughter, to a mental hospital, for treatment.
YEAH! You'll get square eyes!!
I used to say that to my son in the 1980's, that it would make him so he was sterile-couldn't father babies, lol!
The cloakroom was usually at the back of the schoolroom, not the front. The teacher's desk and the blackboard were at the front.
Thats how I remember it back in El Paso, Tx.
In Boston public Schools the cloakroom was at the front
As a kid in the fifties and early sixties, I watched Disney’s Wonderful World of Color every week, just to see the brilliant colors. As you stated, most TV shows at that time were broadcast in black and white. We only had 2 television stations until 1963, when we started receiving ABC programming. And who can forget the stations signing off at 11:30, or midnight with the Star Spangled Banner.
I'm too young to have been born in the 1950s but I definitely have a nostalgia towards those decades and vintage aesthetics such as the fashion, cars, music, etc.
Same here. I was born in the 1980's but there is just something about the 1950's that I can't not love.
I well remember almost every image and experience a child could have during those halcyon years following WWII, when we as a society were "on top of the world." I remember piston-engine airliners, new cars with no post dividing the windshields, rabbit-ear antennas with aluminum foil for added TV reception, cap pistols and Roy Rogers metal lunch boxes, my first transistor radio, Flexible Flyer sleds. I'm 74 now and can almost reach out to touch everything I ever saw, and every emotion I experienced. Thank you for the memories.
Does not matter, you three guys!
Even tho sadly still young(!), that does not mean that you cannot carry admiration and affection for those times nor for we Authentics, for that matter. Not at all.
Heck, you can do lots of 'catch-up' just but watching RR here for instance, and then maybe acquiring some neat things from that time, thus beginning say a little collection of three-dimensional nostalgia.
If you like retro-tech, then you might consider laying in-stock one of those small Bakelite RCA "Golden Voice" 45 record players. They come up all the time on eBay, and they sure are swell. Many other things such as porcelain cats that were big back then. (Mom had a black panther.) Also all over was BLONDE furniture. It was really the 'in thing' especially in Portland.
There is a very pretty lady on Y-T who has a channel on which she shows how she lives ALL FIFTIES EVERYTHING and the son and hubby are totally into it.
(They don't seem like Stepford types but one never knows. Anyway, she herself is really nice and sort of Stepford-like in a way but absolutely not 'a nut.' Her house is gorgeous and everything in it well, is you-know-what! Her fashions, cloths, manner, way of speaking -- the whole nine yards of it.)
So do not despair. There is plenty of Fifties neatness to go around for all.
ALERT: for any that might like the "Atomic Fifties" generally Google "Skip Bombwell" (a holdover from "Live 365") for a link to one really swell 24/7/365 program of music from that genre. (Duck and Cover! Conelrad Network & etc.)
Well anyway, I'm sure you've gotten some ideas here. That's good.
O&O
Me too. I was born in in 2010 but I love the '50s.
I remember my father taking our shoes to the cobbler to have new heels etc replaced when needed. It was not a "throw away" society as we have now, besides new shoes were expensive for big families.
I was doing this in the early 70s.
Today a shoe repair shop charges so much for the simplest repairs it's wiser to wait for a good sale and buy something new.
@@patrickryan1515 It does seem that way. Guessing it is pretty much a lost profession.
@@AuntieSal75 I heard that too about banning incandescent light bulbs. All except for bulbs that go in ovens.
And there were repair shops for malfunctioning small appliances so you wouldn't have to always buy a new one.
Born in 1958 and most of these things ran into the early-mid sixties it was a wonderful childhood indeed, so much freedom and almost no worries
The 1950s didn't end until around 62'. By 1969 it was like night and day even from 1965.
Unless you were black or had polio.
@@williardbillmore5713 A much better time for the middle class black people back then as long as you didn't live in the deep south.... Today the black race is worse than its been as a community in general since pre -reconstruction. My mother and father can attest to that, and me born in the late 50s can even attest.
One thing about T.V. 's back then. You turned them on and waited between 30 seconds to a minute, for the vacuum tubes to warm up enough for the picture to come on.
60s kid here. I remember much of this.
Someone gave my Dad a color TV that didn't work. Told him, if you can fix it, you can have it.
He was able to fix it. The first thing I saw on it was the Pink Panther cartoon. I was thrilled that he was actually pink!
I absolutely adore vintage pink panther cartoons.
We got our color tv in 67.' I remember the local news station was in black and white and when they transitioned to color all of the anchors had red jackets. Dad bought the tv for the first Superbowl. I couldn't wait for the first Saturday to watch all the cartoons in color.
@elmambogato1997 it was a good time to grow up.
Of course, my poor mom was horrified because I preferred playing ball with the boys instead of playing dolls, but she finally accepted that she had a tomboy for a daughter. 😂
My parents were given an RCA 'portable' color TV as a wedding gift. We were the only family on our block with color TV.
Me too dizzy.
Great time in our history especially for kids
Wonderful 50's boyhood! Glad I had it. Not like today.
The 50's was the BEST time of US history IMO.
You were naive and you had no idea what was going on. That is what you remember.
It was not a great time for everyone.
We were rarely allowed to watch a TV show on a weeknight. Definitely had to have homework done. I loved watching the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night.
That and Mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom 🤣
Sky King, Spanky and Our Gang, Daniel Boone, Red Skeleton Show….days of innocence and possibilities
Same with us. Dad was the only one allowed to touch the tv and it was Sunday only. Disney, Lawrence Welk and Wild Kingdom.
Don’t forget Wild Kingdom!
Now sadly, I don’t want to see or hear anything Disney! The books/movies like Snow White, Bambi, etc. used to be so nice.
I’m a 70’s child but this still resonates with me. Life from the 50’s wasn’t as different from the 70’s as life now.
Exactly, I to am a kid of the 70s and, was born in 67 and, yes a lot of the 50s and, 60s carried over into the 70s!
My mom was born in 1950, and she just watched this with me. She LOVED it!!!
I was born in 51 and I remember on most Mondays all the back yards were hung with drying clothes.
Yes, because Monday was wash day. My mom always hung out too, and in the winter she would string lines in the basement to hang clothes. No drier, just a washer.
@@Donna-zc9iiMy mom had just a washer and she dried clothes outside or hung them in the basement. She also took in washings for other people to help earn money.
I was born in 1957 and I had two older brothers, but I definitely remember my grandfather bringing us kids to his house to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade since my family only had black and white, and the ice cream man, and my Father always wore a hat to work. But we also had a milkman and a silver box on our front porch for the milk, and on hot summer days, the milkman would give us kids a big chunk of ice!! We also had a salt box on our street for salt for the snowy winter months.
Born in 1956 and yes! I remember salt boxes too! I completely forgot about them until you mentioned it.
My Mom enjoyed this she was born in 1954. Thanks for sharing.👍
My Mom was born in the same year...1954. I remember looking at my grandparents old photos back in the 80's. I saw alot of what was in this video. I should show my Mom this video. Thank you for the idea.
Born in 1954, too.
Same here.
We would use clothes pins and cards on the spokes of our bicycles to make them sound like motorcyles.
Yes, all the kids in our neighborhood done the same thing!
Ballons as well.
Born 1958- 65 years old and all of these things are reminiscent to me. 😊
I hated those desserts ,usually served at Church events or schools. They came from parents who lived through the Great Depression and food rationing of WWll , they made treats out of what was available. I’m so glad my Mom was front he Midwest and had a whole different way of making desserts . I remember all these things. Thanks for the memories. I’m so glad I grew in that era where kids ran free outside and everyone loved being an American.
Had seven good (healthy) years (late 50s - mid 60s) of running free in the country. Rode horseback on the local airport runway (so many fewer flights then); fished in rivers, creeks and ponds; ice skated on an outdoor natural rink.
Also worked summers on the farm and sailed dingys on the river. After age 13 or so we would no longer hear our moms calling from front porches for children to come home (TV: "It's 10PM; do you know where your children are?"). Every Sunday dinner was either roast beef or ham, except for the turkeys served on Thanksgiving and Christmas (The kids prepared the stuffing the night before while mother indulged herself in an old movie being shown on TV.). We had new hit tunes on the AM radio on a weekly basis -- and what variety, something for all generations. I do believe AM radio and the limited three TV channels kept us more connected as a nation (and more than any time in American [or any other] history). Halloween was so much fun with some neighbors serving apple cider and donuts. And the loot we got from trick or treating -- did this pave the way for so much diabetes in America? We never had a lot of money, and we did have our problems, but somehow we merrily rolled along. I believe that was because we were more connected as a people. Today's lackluster culture can be so isolating. It's no wonder there are such things as virtue signaling and cancel culture -- all pleas for attention and (ironically) some form of inclusion. BTW, although limited in what she found time to prepare, my mom was an excellent cook. I've eaten in several parts of the world, and nothing has ever compared to the tastes that remained in your mouth and on your mind -- well after you finished one of her meals. Moms were such an integral part of the best years in America.
Agreed! Those desserts were gross.
I actually got to eat rations in the 70s from where one of my daddy’s buddies brought them in a auction at the American Legion where this money was one of their fund raising efforts. It was seed rations that some one had leftover from their time in the service! A few hrs later the guy who brought them and, opened them up in the bar room and, they weren’t that bad. But, I tempted yrs later to make some of those congealed aspic salads, just to see if, I could make them, because, I like to cook and, bake. Well, I just wanted to try them out cause, even in the 70s, I never ate to many or seen them much. My grandma certainly didn’t make them. Now, I know way, note to self if it says aspic in the cook book and, if it’s a a cold congealed ham loaf--- aka/ it’s not worth the time nor money, one bite of them will want to make you throw up all over the place, that’s one thing, I can’t figure out, why would you put something so, horrible and, definitely not very appetizing. I made 2 of them and, after that both went out in the trash.
I lived in NJ and we had 3 independent stations and one or two uhf stations beside the 3 network stations.
Man, when he said a banana with mayonnaise all over it, I literally said out loud "ooooooh ick!" 🤢Sounds positively nauseating. I hate mayo anyway though!
A lot of this also applies to the 60s.
True!
Just as in the Fifties per se, there were likewise such delights from the Forties.
Also applies to the 40's. I was there. Born in 1936.
Born in 1960 - I remember all of these. No one was allowed to wear sneakers to school, so we all knew how to use our shoe-shine kits every Sunday night in preparation for the upcoming week.
Yes, especially re: color TV.
@@earthwormscrawl We weren't allowed to wear jeans until junior high (69').
Another great video! I'm a kid of the 70s not 50s - but some of the topics covered are fond memories from my childhood...Particularly my parents taking my sisters and I to our local Dairy Queen on warm/humid evenings for dessert - after enjoying bbq'd hamburgers for supper that my dad cooked on the backyard charcoal grill because the weather was too warm to use the kitchen stove (we didn't have AC back then). To this day - some 50+ years later - those memories of sitting down and talking/joking with my family on the picnic bench outside the DQ, enjoying a chocolate-dipped/soft-serve ice-cream cone, and thinking about the long/warm summer ahead - are some of the best memories of my childhood summers (along with family camping trips, day-long bike rides with friends, and the false hope that the first day back at school would never arrive 😉).
We frequently went to Dairy Queen on Sunday evenings after my brother and I had our baths and were in our pajamas. We would always "drive around" afterwards, which was my dad's favorite pastime his entire life. I remember one unfortunate trip where I got a Lime Slush instead of ice cream and puked in the car all over my beautiful embroidered black velvet house shoes that had been a Christmas present from my grandmother. My mom saved those tall plastic Parfait glasses from DQ and made layered jello desserts in them.
I'm from 1987... but I say to my friends and siblings that I "need dairy queen to feel like I'm having a 1970s summer"
Good times!
My family didn't get air conditioning or a color TV till me and my brother moved out in 1980, they said they saved so much on the food bill, they could finally afford those luxuries
I'm a child of the 60s, but I remember all those things including the scar on my shoulder.
I also remember my brother and I taking a couple of returnable bottles to the corner store so we could buy a snack or two.
Thank you for taking me back to my youth.
some times I wish we could all go back to those times.
“We could all?” Speak for yourself
@@fayelis You sound, like one of those dumbed down sheeple pukes, who got the "clot shot", and 5 boosters
@@fayelis ,Everything, you say, is a left-wing extremist Libtard,"conspiracy theory", Next time, you watch yo boy, Alex Jones, make sure, you adjust yo tin foil hat.
Ready go here !
I'm back!
Even a black & white TV was special in the 1950s. My dad saved the owner's manual from his family's first TV set. We found it, and the manual for his father's De Soto, when we cleaned out our parents' garage.
And ONE tv only!
And that single TV required regular maintenance. A tube was always going out, so a weekend chore would often be going to the local store with a bag full of a dozen or more tubes that we removed from the TV. Then used stores tube tester ourselves on each tube, setting the dials as directed for the make and number of each tube tested, and observed the testers' good/bad meter.
Usually we'd find the bad tube, ask the clerk for a replacement, go home and reinstall them all tubes, and enjoy the TV (until another tube failed, usually within a few months).
But if we were unsuccessful, we had to bring the TV to a repair shop, and were without it for days or weeks!
@@dennisquinn8558 My best friend lost his first job as a TV repair man.He is now a computer analyst. I guess times change, but I still have a Tiki bar!
At one time in the 60's we had 2 DeSotos. One was a station wagon that sort of resembled a VW square back and the other was a big sedan with padded dash and power steering. My mother loved the sedan and my father used the station wagon to deliver papers.
@@bethsojourner6798 1961 DeSoto Adventurer was a great looking car. Wish I had one today. We did have a'59 Chevy Impala, white with red interior. Cool, man!
Born in 1951, something I noticed in this video that seems to be gone - The Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone and their families that I grew up with believed in America - we were proud of this country and believed we could do anything. I really miss those days.
And "under God" wasn't added to the Pledge until June 1954, and yet the United States had previously been victorious in two world wars without an appeal to a deity.
@@johnwohara: Since when have such appeals been limited to the favor of war victories?
@@SMac-bq8sk Wow. Reading comprehension FAIL. I never said there was any such "limit" of things for which people will beg for favors from their god.
@@SMac-bq8sk German soldiers in WWI and WWII wore belt buckles printed with “Gott mit uns” ('God is with us'), and yet they lost both wars. And we lost in Vietnam with the "under God" phrase. So perhaps it's best not to make appeals to imaginary sky daddies in time of war.
@@johnwohara: If, as you claim, it's merely "imaginary," then why does it bother you?
Thank you I was born in 1950 73 years old this year
Perfect, thanks for this. Born 1943 so I remember all of this. Nice reminder, and nice break from all the screaming and yelling on most videos.
I always enjoy seeing all the old cars that I knew from childhood and especially the high quality Schwinn bicycles that I owned as a child and were made in America. THANK YOU AGAIN R.R. for another wonderful walk down memory lane!
I was born end of the 50’s. I remember babysitting and the TV station going off the air. I don’t remember the X-ray machines in shoe stores. What is funny is that I made an Ambrosia salad this past Easter. We just call it fruit salad. Hadn’t made it in awhile. I just use fruit cocktail and add heavy whipped cream along with miniature marshmallows. Add sliced banana right before serving. My grandkids loved it. We got our first color TV in 1969. We played outside all the time in summer and on weekends. It was rare to be in the house during the day.
It’s worth mentioning that those original color TVs were pretty expensive. I think they cost as much as a car did then.
I do know in the 70s a lot of the house were built from scratch before young couples we’re getting them built right before they got married. Something I just learned last summer that the reason for this was back then, brand new houses to be built only cost $1200! If you go to Harrison, OH (Southwest, about 45 minutes or less from Cincinnati, OH. Depending on Which way you go) if you go to that area, especially there is a subdivision known as the Meadows it’s like stepping back in time because, that’s the style of these houses! But, you can tell they are starting to show their age.
@@sonyafox3271 We didn't get a color TV until about 1970. I think my fav show to watch then was Hawaii 5 O. Loved the music, and the opening with the waves.
I love watching these videos. Born in 1953 I remember so much of this. And it’s so nice to see it again. I remember me and my sister going to the local neighborhood theater for 35 cents apiece. Boy such good memories
Remember 50 cent pieces? I felt rich!
I'm also a 1953 baby- it was the best time to grow up- it seems like a thousand years ago ...or last month😊
@@deborahs2593 Yes it can feel like Now if you ignore society today.
I will always remember Ambrosia Salad it was a staple for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts
I literally said, out loud, “I haven’t thought about that in years!” when you got to the saddle oxfords. I was born in the ‘60s and went to Catholic schools all my life, and this video made me remember that white polish that came in a bottle with a sponge tip applicator. I’d rub that all over the white on my shoes to keep them bright - and to get through the school year with one pair, lol. Thanks for the memories! 🙂
I was born in 1956 but went to Lutheran school in the 1960's. Our uniform was Penny loafers, knee socks, pleated plaid skirts with the big pin on the side, Peter pan collar white shirts and dark colored cardigans. No jewelry (except a simple cross necklace) no nail polish, no make up. I finally went to a public school in my freshman year of high school and was shocked that kids wore jeans, tennies, and talked back to teachers! Lol. We would have spanked or severely punished at my parochial school for talking back. It was like another world for me!
@@edie9330 I always liked the uniforms; I had them K-12. There was no competition for attention or to show off the latest styles. The most we’d do was roll up the skirts at the waist to make them look shorter. But in high school the nuns would have random checks where we’d have to kneel down and they’d measure our skirts with a ruler. If someone had a skirt that was hemmed too short they’d rip out the hem right there, lol!
I remember going to the Braves games in the early ’60’s. Most men wore hats (not baseball caps!), but so did the ladies. I remember when my dad started leaving home to the office without one. “If JFK doesn’t need to wear a hat, neither do I.” He always had a variety of colors and styles for different occasions. Mom would always buy a new hat for the Spring season
I still wear hats to the office.
I was born after this era, but I remember when getting the chocolate dipped Dairy Queen cone, you had a short window when the chocolate was a little soft before it hardened up. So fun to see how much you could eat before that happened and before you got an "ice cream headache"😅
Didn't get to a Dairy Queen very often so when we did I would not rush to gobble it down. Tried to make it last as long as possible.
In the 1950s, they didn't have vaccines for many of the diseases we now have vaccines to prevent.
There were outbreaks of polio that resulted in pools and theatres being closed to prevent the disease from spreading.
My mother missed 3 months of high school when she caught measles, and had to stay in a completely dark room when it spread to her eyes, and almost blinded her. She had to repeat that grade, because she'd missed so much school.
One of my dad's boyhood friends caught mumps, and it spread to his testes and rendered him sterile. When he grew up, he had to adopt children.
Another of Dad's schoolmates went peraently deaf from an ear infection.
We had a Buster Brown shoe store in my home town. I had short, thin feet so while everyone else was wearing the neat saddle shoes, I had brown clodhoppers.
There was a Buster Brown shoe factory in Sullivan , Illinois .
My Dad used to tell me to keep my shoes shined and not be late for work. I still follow that advice.
In the military you had to keep your shoes shined or you would get in trouble with your division officer.
@@glennso47 I used what I learned about shining boots in the Air Force to teach my granddaughter, who just joined the Army to spit shine her boots to a mirror finish. I gave her the boot brush my grandfather bought at an Army Bx in 1942.
Brings back so many memories 😊
Thank you for this. I'm 70
Most of that stuff, we did in the '60s as well - that's when I remember it all taking place.
I was born in 1961. But a lot of this carried over into the late 60's & early 70's.
Missed: the vacuum tube tester's for TV tubes in grocery stores.
I am from the first round of Gen X but I remember these things. SmlPx shot: Dime size indent? My mother's scar was more like a quarter, and it never really tanned so she could be brown a shoe leather and that scar would glow. Loved Ambrosia it was always on the table during the summer time. I also remember an autograph book my father had, maybe it was a way to collect greetings before middle school had year books.
Me too! I am early Gen X and I remember some of this too like the t.v. going off at night, most families having black and white t.v.s and rabbit ears and corporal punishment in schools.
I was born in 1953. I was so excited when my best friend Janice got a color TV in her family!! Everything had a green tinge to it, but we didn't care because it was in color! Those were the good old days!!
My father held put til 1966 til they "got the color right!"
It's amazing how much crossover there is between various aspects of style and items from about a 30-year span. If you look at the Christmas movie classic, "A Christmas Story," the look of the styles, houses, decorations, toys, and other elements have much in common from the early '40s to the very early '70s - which offers a nostalgic draw from multiple generations.
A great film!
I have often said the same thing. Our world didn't change so fast back then.
It was the BEST time to grow up in. I miss it. Todays world is like living in the most horrible episode of the twilight zone.
Yep. It's even beyond Rod Serling's wildest imagination.
Sad but true!
@@johnwohara: Agreed. Perhaps beyond Serling's imagination, but not Orwell's.
We didn't have a color tv until 1976.
Yes, a lot of families couldn't afford color televisions even though they were available to buy.
Same. Here
They sold basic black and white televisions beside color models for some time as it was about twice as much to buy a deluxe color model with remote control over a basic black and white one.
Snow Forts and Snowball fights in the Northern States. All during the 50s and early 60s.
I was born in 1951 in Northern Ohio and can remember when Lake Erie froze solid and you could cross into Canada on the ice. Long before needing a Passport, only your DL.
Our cloak 4:40 room was inside our second grade classroom and I had placed an unhatched praying mantis cocoon inside my coat pocket when I found it that morning while waiting at the bus stop. As you can imagine as it warmed up inside the room all the praying mantis started hatching and flying over to the windows. Let’s just say that my teacher didn’t have to ask what I had brought for “show and tell” that day!
So cool!! I wish I had been there to see that!😄
@@jenniferhansen3622 I still remember all the kids lined up along the windows as our teacher gave us an impromptu science lesson. She knew who had brought it to class and I’m guessing she was just glad it wasn’t my usual craw daddy or better yet garden snake. Growing up in the countryside without being monitored at every step was pretty awesome.
I was born in 1946 and remember most all of these things. And I remember that small pox shot like yesterday. I cried and cried. It hurt and my mom was cringing at my crying. I started kindergarten when I was 4. As for ice cream Velvet Freeze was close to where I grew up. Wonderful treat on a hot summer evening. I would love to go back for a day or two when things were so much better.
I was born in 1959 so I didn't really grow up in the 50's, I wish I had though. But growing up in the 60's was very similar like the 50's I wish we could go back in time. I love all the TV shows they had like, Leave it to Beaver, The Donna Reed show etc... Todays world and TV shows are terrible. If there was a time machine I would go back to 1955.
My four-year-old old grandson loves the old Popeye cartoons. He's always pretending he's Popeye!
So this is like me, 1987, wishing I grew up in the 80s like my older sisters. People of the future will be like "it's the same thing!"
But would you go back to 1955 in a DeLorean??? 😂
@@Mick_Ts_ChickSure 😉
@@Mick_Ts_ChickI’d leave the Delorian in the 50s and come back to the present day. They are junk cars.
Thanks for the great video and memories! We had a black & white TV early on, when I was a kid in the ‘50s & ‘60s (born early ‘50s). Then we got a color one at some point during that time. I had a pair of saddle shoes back then too. Loved them! I, and my 4 siblings had the Small Pox vaccine. I no longer have the scar on my arm from it. I had more shots when I went into the U.S. Army than when I did as a kid. Once we got home from school, dad told us to go outside and not come home ‘til supper. Mom was not with us at that time. I did all of the outdoor activities mentioned in this video, even climbing trees (mostly pine). School - I got paddled once, I think. The boys mostly got that treatment. We had all the good food, when our mom was there. Then, from ‘63-‘68, we had mostly hamburgers and hot dogs that dad made. My dad wore a Frank Sinatra fedora all his life.
Thank you. The first time I mentioned a cloak room to my kids they had NO idea what that was. That will date you for sure!
I was born in 1956. In the early 60's I remember that someone in our neighborhood actually owned an Ice Cream Truck. After about a year he never had to drive around the neighborhood. After school we all went to his house.
I for one don't miss the weird "gourmet" dishes of the 50's.
Wished i had a nearby Dairy Queen, though. 🍦
I'm an early 1960's kid and I remember about every one of these.
I paid $7,200 for my first house, as a newly wed, in 1968. However, it was a Ralph L. Shermeyer track house with 2x2” (maaaybe 2x3”)stud walls that had a merely 1” “blanket” insulation. In winter as soon as the furnace blower would shut off you could instantly feel the temperature drop in the house!! This was in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Fun & cherished memories!!! 👍👍🙂
I was born in '67 and remember many of things being around in the 70s. I received the small pox vax though my younger sister may not have gotten it. The food, however, was quite different. I have never heard of banana candles. And we had to be dragged inside at night.
I was born in 1952 and have never heard of banana candles either.
The evil clown world we are currently living in, makes these distant memories, quite sad and heartbreaking. Humanity is in grave trouble.
Agree 100 percent and I'm glad that I'm 63.
Sorry you feel that way. I think there has been good and bad in every era. I have grandchildren now, and their parents and we grandparents try to make their childhood a time they'll remember fondly.
@@karenh2890 LOL 😂, karen living in a bubble. We are on the way to being a Third World Country and you think that's normal?
@@karenh2890 That's great Karen! We all are trying to make life as good for the young in our families, as we can and at the same time prepare them for the lawless realities we are seeing and experiencing. Frankly, I think you are "whistling through the graveyard". What has happened in our society on every front, in such a short time is SHOCKING! Quite seriously, if you are not shocked and dismayed, then you are not awake! You may not even have a pulse.
So true! We've given control over to the crooks and liars while the earth burns. Now in my 70s, it's as though we're living in a parallel universe compared to the way things were.
Born in 1963- can still faintly see my smallpox scar. Had cloakrooms in elementary school, can still remember the smell of my baloney and cheese sandwich in my lunchbox! Got a color tv in 1976 and remember watching the Saturday night shows of Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore.
Born in 58, but the 60s were similar in a small town. At 65, I'm back in the house I grew up in. And the small town.
I remember seeing The FBI Top 10 Most Wanted being shown on TV in the wee hours of the morning just prior to signing off. As a kid I was fascinated by that.
I remember all the items mentioned ! I was a big TV nut and remember color TV early on in 1951 in a department store. I was told later that that version was pulled because non-color tvs could not receive the signal. In 1954 a new system was tried and was the one that stayed. What a marvel it was then....
Some points need a bit of correction: the smallpox vaccination that leaves the "divot" in our arms was around long before the 1950s. My parents (born in the early1920s) both had the vaccination as children and had the divot on their upper arm. Vaccinations against the Polio virus began in 1955. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of.
The national anthem to TV test pattern was still used even as late as the early 90s. I still remember in college at that time watching the one receivable channel I could get in my dorm room and it going off the air at 1am. The only difference was that the pattern was a wallpaper split screen of wide vertical colored stripes. And incidentally, even though I saw the late night anthem transitioning to the pattern many times, I never once woke up in time to see the morning transition from stripes to broadcasting 😂😂.
I'd rather see the sign off & test pattern than those lousy infomercials.
I remember in the mid-to-late 80's when t.v. stations were transitioning from test patterns to simply replaying the shows from the previous evening in the overnight hours (did overnights for about year or so back then).
Campers, home built boats, the whole diy surge, labor saving devices, the proliferation of plastics.
This was great!!! I was born in '68, but appreciate this. Some of these rolled into the 60's. I loved my saddle shoes 😊
Thank you my friend 😀
@leesashriber5097, "NBC", always stood for, "Nothing But Communism", nowadays, it stands for Communist FAKE NEWS
Excellent, oh-still-young-one! 👍
You acknowledge goodness and quality, when observed/experienced!
Of this, many are not capable.
PROVED -- among our precious golden youth, there IS hope-still.
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Born in '68 also. Great time to grow up!
6:23 Born 1954 this was spot on.. I especially remember those fortunate to have color TVs marveled at Bonanza in color for the first time.. Banana 🍌 drizzled in mayo don’t remember that ? Lol.. Definitely a great time to grow up sorry for these kids today
Spent the early '60s in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state. I recall the mosquito fogger trucks driving around on hot summer nights. Still remember the smell of the diesel fuel and DDT that made up the fog. I think this was a lot more common in the '50s.
We chased them in the early 60's.
From a small Minnesota town…we had those mosquito fogger trucks, too.
We were the first family on the block to get a color tv . The first thing that everyone wanted to see was the NBC peacock
One rather major thing you left out. Yes, homes were indeed under 10K which sounds like diddly today, BUT, that was a big debt for a family when many Dads like mine might make around $50 a week.
lol,
my parents used to scoff at the jonses with their 30 thousand dollar homes .
My parents struggled to pay a small mortgage too.
Love This Channel. Grew up in the 60s
Since Bonanza did not start until the fall of 1959 and was one of the first color broadcast shows, it was not a impetus to buy a color TV in the 1950s. In fact many homes still had a very small B&W set and most did not have more than one TV until the 1960s.
We got our first color TV in 1963, it went in the living room and the old black & white was relegated to the rec room.
@@bethsojourner6798 the real push for Tvs came with the Space Race and Disney and Bonanza in Color on Sundays.
I remember almost all of this. great times to be a youngster. the pledge of allegiance, the board of education. grew up with black and white tv. no cartoons except saturday for a couple of hours. We kid were outside playing as long as we could every day. Night time was the adults watching news. Also the helms bakery coming down the neighborhoods with fresh baked good. Good Humor man with treats..we did not get these every day either.
Love this channel.
I was born in 1958. Man o man did this bring back fond memories!!!!
It do indeed!
Real metal doors on the cars that made a thump when closed
Wow! I loved Dairy Queen Mister Misties. We kids played all throughout the neighborhood for hours never worried about stranger danger or any of that. We didn’t realize it at the time, but it was a safe, great time to live. Thanks for the memories!
Another superb, packed with good memories video. It’s interesting the radiation concern at shoe stores. Bike riding “all over town” was an art form in the 50’s and early 60’s for kids and young teens that I engaged in daily.
I was born in 1952. What I wouldn't give to turn the clock back. It was such a wonderful time to be a child.
I was born in 1946, attended Catholic school through 8th grade. 50 students to a classroom, one nun. One boy in each room would have his desk next to the teacher so she could reach over a swat him as needed. Today he would be diagnosed “hyperactive “. Two parents, one car, one bathroom to a family. Nobody had much extra money but it felt like we were all in the same boat. I got a paper route at 12 or 13 paying $15 per month. That doesn’t sound like a lot but Dairy Queen malts, child movie tickets, and a pack of cigarettes from a vending machine at the bowling alley we’re all 30 cents. Those were the days?!
So many memories from so long ago. Summer and the ice cream man. I haven't heard "cloakroom" in so many years! I hear "cloakroom" and I'm back in kindergarten.
The $7,000 house comment made me laugh. I've found records showing that my current house was around $7500 in 1948, but today the appraisal district thinks it is worth over $400,000. It's just shocking!!
@@freedomrings1420 For sure!! Lots higher! Almost as much as the original cost of the house! Actually, would be higher without my homestead exemption.
My parents bought our house in Encino, CA. for 18K. Today it's appraised for 1.2MM.
My parents bought their first house for 9,000 dollars in 1953 and sold it for 18,000 in 1963. The second house cost around 22,000.
60s here, too. I remember getting a big color TV in the mid-60s, all those games, jump rope, hop scotch, being outside a lot. The salads and loaves were going out of style, except for the ambrosia salad which is delicious in any decade. We did sleds, adjustable skates, Dairy Queen, candy bars for a nickle, and lots of fine things. Bikes with the tall handle bars and banana seats were big then.
don't now about "banana candle", i remember all the rest. when i want to go "home", i think about the 50s...my childhood.
Some of these things also apply to the 60s and the 70s kids 😊 I remember my dad always kept his shoes in Tip-Top shape, polishing them and keeping them looking good. He worked in an office and had to look nice all the time.
My dad was an Ironworker out of NYC. His dress clothes were impeccable. He had a shoe shine kit & kept his shoes in trees. I think I still have a pair of his Gucci loafers 😊
This video isn't about the 60's and 70's 😊
@@clintcountryman4849but my dad was a child of the 40's and a teenager of the 50's.
@@samanthab1923That's great. My dad had a shoe horn he always keep in when he wasn't wearing his dress shoes. And he wore rubbers over his shoes on rainy days with a black raincoat and umbrella.
@@clintcountryman4849 You sound, like one of those dumbed down sheeple pukes, who got the "clot shot", and 5 boosters
I remember having to polish my shoes every Sunday before going to church. I don't miss that.
Not a 50's kid but a 70's kid. Had an aunt who would scold my brother and I for sitting too close to the color tv. "You'll go blind. You have to sit 6 feet away!" Bro and I would move and wait for her to leave the room and move right back up front!" And neither of us went blind. This was in Wyoming and at the time only 1 channel was available for a couple hours a day.
Yes! ... we always sat on the floor too close to the screen. Mom always scolded us. I was in west central Indiana, and only one channel was local, CBS. It wasn't until I was in Jr. high that we got 2, NBC, and in high school we got ABC. I was born in 1955. 😄
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Ahh, CBS, the "Communist Broadcasting Station"
I remember the “cloak room” in school. Calling it the “cloak room” must be a hold over from Old Englangland.
Thumbs up for ambrosia salad! There are a few old Jell-O recipes that are very good, and do not involve exotic plant and animal specimens suspended in technicolor goo.
We didn't have a color TV until I was 30 in the 1980s ( sometimes I would have VERY STRONG, colorful dreams though). 😮
I was born mid 1960s. I didn’t know about the foot X-ray thing. That’s interesting.
I well remember the X-ray shoe fitter buster brown shoes. Buster with his dog Tige
We saw those machines in shoe stores for a short time. I was born in ‘46 and at 8 and 9 years old, wanted to try the machine but my dad, a veteran of WWII and Korea, wouldn’t let us use the X-ray machines! He must have known something we kids did not!
1:05 I remember in the early or mid '60s when my "rich" aunt had a color TV (we only had B/W); we kids would LOVE it to go to her house and see cartoons ... a MAJOR treat.
Every year when the Wizard of Oz came on TV, my dad would _explain_ to us how when Dorothy stepped out of her house, it was "in color." I don't know if we completely "got" it.
A friend I worked with was born in 54'. He never got the polio shot and ended up with polio, spent his whole life on crutches. He died 3 years ago. He left work feeling sick. And died a few days later.
Didn't have a TV until about 1971. Back in the 50's could listen to a bunch a favorite shows like: SUSPENSE, ESCAPE, Jack Benny Program, Gunsmoke, Our Miss Brooks, Dragnet, and The Screen Directors Playhouse. I miss listening to radio drama and comedy.
Dad and I would go down to the barber shop for our crew cuts. The barber would haul out a board and put it across the arms of the chair. Then he’d set me up on it. Don’t forget the butch wax!
Kids were outside for hrs playing hopscotch,potsy, bike riding,rollerskating..Going to local candy store for comics ,candy & ice cream was an event...
Keep doing these! For the 40s & 50s! Love it
I wasn't born until 1992 but I enjoy history so I love videos like this. Children grew up differently from their parents in this decade. The TV became popular in the decade. A dollar meant more stuff to buy than now. I am glad to not worry about smallpox. May more diseases end in the world in the future. Back when there were rotary phones, only movies seen at the theater, larger cars and images in black and white.