You might be OLD…If You Remember These! PART 6
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I grew up during these times, and very much loved it. I especially loved the strong Sense of Community that is now long gone. We could get on our bicycles and travel miles away, and face no danger. We just had to be home when the street lights came on.
That's how my neighborhood friends and I played in the 80s.😊
That was the life, we used to wait till after lunch, then go to the swimming hole, so mom wouldn't make us stay home for getting wet.
@@jenniferhansen3622 Same here. We also had some woods behind our neighborhood. We would go into the woods and play all day.
So very true, I sit and think about those days sometimes with both great joy and sadness, sadness for today's kids.
I'm 74 and I miss community!!
One thing you forgot about at the gas stations of the 50s, 60s, and early 70s was the fact that the driver just sat it the car while a station attendent put the gas in your car. He also cleaned your windshield. checked your tires and sometimes checked your oil level & other things.
@roberto: those were the times when there was actually customer service.
He did, but it was in another video of his that I remember watching. 😀😀
I was expecting to see that as well
Amen!
And sometimes the attendant would give the kids in the car a sucker wrapped in cellophane. Often, that sucker tasted a bit like gasoline.
I'm 73 and I do so look forward to your videos so I can spend just a few minutes remembering the simpler and more enjoyable times we lived in. Thank you Recollection Road for all the hard work you put in to bringing us such wonderful memories.
I'm 73 too. But I'm not enthused by all of the nostalgia fanatics who seem to enjoy these channels.
I’m pushing 76 in a bit over 3 months and I really enjoy these videos.
@@yvonneplant9434I feel very sorry for you!
My exact sediments.
@@handle-schmandle LOL Talking about being hopelessly stuck, are you? You’ve got 332 comments on these videos. Sounds like your childhood wasn’t up to par and maybe you’re a little jealous, eh Sparkles? 🤣
What's sad is that in 20 to 40 years from now, they'll be no one left to remember these carefree days. Those that we'll leave behind will never experience a life without fear. I feel so blessed at 62 to remember these memories, I hold them close to my heart...❤
I'm a decade older than you and I agree wholly. There will be no one to remember 'the good old days'. The kids now grow up with electronic every thing.
I agree! I'm 60 and am thankful for these memories!
Me, too...I'm 67, and I grew up during these beautiful, innocent times. We had NO fear of riding our bikes until dark.
Luden’s Wild Cherry Cough Drops were awesome!😃
The only kind I buy!
YESSS
So were Smith Brothers.
Remember Ludens?
I loved those and Pine Brothers chewy Honey ones.
At 71, I remember and was around for almost all of these items and habits of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. It was truly a different life and world back then, no comparison to how life is today. I feel fortunate to have grown up in those times, and miss some aspects of life and the friends and family members important to me growing up. Thank you for this video.
Yep...like night and day. Its a shythole now.
Very different from our parents , WW2 and the depression...
@@johnziegelbauer4999
Exactly. Depression era people everywhere, WW1, WW2, Korea, everywhere. Much respect and honor daily.
The 60s hippies ruined this country.
"Someday these freaks will be running this country and their grandkids will be voting.".... Me 1966
I remember a lot of this and now, I actually do miss, what one would consider, now, simpler times...our communities were safer and more neighborly and loving. I just love this channel!!
5:00 wow. My dad would go in the store to get the paper in the evening. I’d wait in the car. Praying that he would pick me up a box Ludens, two minutes later… prayers were answered.(70’s)
Much simpler. I remember playing hide and go seek with the neighborhood kids after dark. Never worried about being abducted.
@@leighsaldivar4439 I couldn't agree more!
I love ❤️ this channel too! I agree with your comment!
Not really. Violent crime in the 1970’s was AWFUL!
I remember when I was a kid every Sunday, all the stores, fast foods restaurants, malls, shopping centers etc were closed, that all families can spend time with each other. I would love for it to make a come back because I missed it.
Where I grew up it was illegal for most stores to be open on Sundays.
I remember that. NOTHING was open on sundays
I remember when there were not shopping centers..
@@ericheiseyHighZ77
And it faded away when I was 10 years old the beginning of the early 90s came, and on Sundays, either department stores, malls, and food places opened and closed between 6pm - 10pm. Fast food places like Taco Bell closed at 1am and Jack in the Box and Whataburger open 24-7 in the late 80s early 90s, and others followed to do the same. Sad to say...
Also, so people could attend church, like we did.
I personally liked those round thermostats better. They were simpler to use and worked just as good as more modern digital ones. There was no need to change batteries.
We live in a very old house and still have them!
🤔 REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE TOLD NEVER TO TOUCH THEM⁉️ 😂
@@shartman2150 me too
I like those old round thermostats too, I found them to be more accurate than the next gen.
The apt I live in still use them.
Those were the best of times in my lifetime. These videos bring back many fond memories.
Same here.
Me too. It all slipped away so fast. 😢
@@kat35lulu88 life is a big circle. And hopefully you won't get a flat tire on the way back!
I don't mean you personally I mean Society!
I always take a breath before clicking- because I'll feel old and lost in a strange world.
Don't feel old, feel privileged that you grew up in the best of times!
🙏
Ditto...but I appreciate being able to go down memory lane and Savor those times
I am so grateful that WE have these wonderful memories! Kids now days have no idea how great our lives were...there are times I wish WE could go back for a visit...would probably want to stay tho.
Your comment reminds me of "walking distance" from Rod Serling's the twilight zone episode where Gig Young sees his kid self after going back in time.
@@GamingTranceSeeror the episode where the great Buster Keaton uses a Time Machine to go back to “the good old days” when everything was quieter and better.
I also remember Brylcreme..." a little dab'll do ya!". So glad I was born 1953...its been a wonderful journey!
As a little kid, I grabbed a tube of my dad's Brylcreme thinking it was toothpaste. Brylcreme doesn't taste good.
@@00kt86
Remember Ipana toothpaste?
There was also Vitalis and Burma Shave with their famous highway signs.
Vitalis with V7!!
I am black and I used Brylcreme when I rolled my hair in curlers. Hair turned out beautifully.
“My bologna has a 1st name. It’s O S C A R. My bologna has a 2nd name. It’s M A Y E R. Extra credit given is you remember the tune for these lyrics. And the Weinermobile! I am so lucky to be a boomer, to have lived in the post-war time.
I've seen the weinermobiles several times, one time they were stopped at a small mall & I was given a weiner whistle, was told it's usually two college students driving around not really going anywhere in particular... 🤗
OM recently changed the name from Wienermoble to Frankmobile to celebrate their 100% beef franks.
@@BubbafromSapperton Haha! Good memory! When I saw it, it arrived at a small grocery store, Iowa Pork Shop in Long Beach Ca. 1956 or so. A very small man (midget?) came out and talked to us and also gave whistles and we all sang the song. Boy! What a treat!
My bologna has a last name, not 2nd name. I still sing it when I'm feeling stupid.
I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why I'll saaaay....cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A 😁
I love these videos. I'm 62, so I remember all these wonderful things. I still get Leudens cough drops, just like grade school. 😃
I'm 62 as well, and remember how great everything was as a kid. I so miss going to school back then and just playing outside with my friends on my bicycle.
I wish I could find them. I remember the taste.
@@littleshorty2 Walmart has them 😃
I just bought some wild cherry ludens at my CVS pharmacy.
Does anyone remember running home from school at 3:00 to catch the last half of Dark Shadows?
Not OLD, just smarter and more experienced with life!
Nice way of looking at it!
Just glad I had a great 50's childhood!
I remember sooo many of these! Great times. I miss them so much.
Life has become so toxic, sad to see a simpler way of life pass away.
Today is toxic with vegans and anti-smokers. Why?
@@marknewton6984Today consists of more than vegans and anti smokers.
I've noticed "anti-smokers" don't have a problem smoking dope; guess it's just tobacco that's harmful.
@@mh53j You may be right! Why are so many women fat today?
@@marknewton6984Because women look like women in the real world. Those puppets or models you see are all MEN! That makes men believe women are fat, a huge deception.
@@mh53j Great comment! I grew up with a father who smoked in the car and used the little vent window, too. I'm 67 with no apparent "second-hand smoke" damage!
I'm 77 and my "driving simulator" was a tractor on the farm, I was about 12. Later at 15 we added a dump truck. Surprised there was no mention of Smith Brothers cough drops.
I forgot about Smith brother's.
Yes, I think most kids in rural areas started on tractors even as young as 7 or 8.
@@mark-xx1lt yep. My dad started teaching me to drive the tractors and other vehicles around our farm, at age 8.
By the time I took Driver's Ed in school (@ age 14), the only things that I still needed to learn, were a few traffic laws.
Driver's Ed was an actual class at our high school, and was taught by our History/Government/and Social Studies teacher. Instead of going through a private driving school.
That was one of the handful of high school classes, that I actually received a constant "A+" in.
@@willhorting5317 Yes, very similar experience. Your story about the A+ was too funny. Many of us can relate to that.
@@mark-xx1lt 😁
I remember those old round thermostats. And Ludens were the best!
Over here in Europe some people still have these and use them for their heating.
👍
The magic was a mercury switch inside, on a bi-metal coil. As the temperature changed, the coil would expand and contract, tilting the mercury vial.
The switches were made by a company called Micro Switch.
Honeywell was buying so many of them they bought Micro Switch, and turned it into its own division.
I miss playing with mercury when I was a kid, but it could explain a lot. LOL!
I still have a rectangular White Roger's thermostat in my home that works the same way. Never fails.
Like so many others, these past decades were awesome yet at the time we had no idea how we'd miss and cherish these times. We were lucky to have lived them. I feel sorry for young people now..... they missed the best.
You nailed it again. Plus, professional-sounding narrator.
3:50 I remember the hostages being released. I was in high school and had my drivers license for just under two months. My friend next door gave me some Iranian coins a few months later, when his dad returned. His dad was one of the helicopter pilots who was involved in the rescue. Seems like just yesterday, and yet hundreds of years ago.
They weren't rescued. They were released because the Iranians knew Reagan was no pussy like Carter so it's no coincidence that they released the hostages the day Reagan was inaugurated. There was a rescue attempt nicknamed Operation Eagle Claw which ended in disaster.
Happened while Reagan was being sworn in. Carter was worst president ever!
I know exactly where I was when I heard the news on the car radio... driving from Phoenix to SF with a college buddy. I thought then and still think, Carter & Reagan played "good cop, bad cop" on an epic scale - and won!!
And I remember the disillusionment when we later learned about Reagan's back door dealings with Iran NOT to release them until after Carter left office. Good times. 😒
The Iranian hostage thing was 1979-81. That newspaper says Jan 26?, 1981.... Right after Reagan took office.
Elvis died in 1974.
My husband often liked to say "blue light special, aisle 11", often when we were in in at Walmart. His voice was deep enough that many people would look around after they heard that.
I thought blue light specials were in K Mart?
I would turn on the blue light and quickly walk away.
@@Donna-zc9ii He was playing a prank.
K-Mart......truly missed blue light specials.
We could spend hours in the little cafe area waiting for one blue light after another.
I remember everything in this video. We lived through the good times and bad. Life was so much more innocent. I am glad that I lived during those years. It was a wonderful experience. Thank you for sharing these memories. I sometimes wish that there was a time machine that would allow me to return to those days. I would never return back to this time.
We both like the "Kick the can" episode of "The Twilight Zone" don't we?
I was born in 56, but wish I'd been born 10 yrs earlier.
The good old days. Life was so much easier.
Every generation looks back on their younger days with rose colored glasses. I’m 64, and every time I see comments like yours, I want to vomit.
That's absolutely true 👍💯
And better.
Couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that now you’re old, right?
You knew every neighbor and nobody was in a hurry!!
Sears and most Dept stores had their own Candy stores within the stores where the attendant took your order, bagged the candy and you paid them. Most candy was bagged by a scoop and sold by the pound.☝😁
I miss Ernie Womacks five and dime and DJ record shop!!!
Yes, Woolworth had a great candy counter.
I even bought fabric for sewing at Penney’s!
Anyone remember the chocolate candies “non pareils”? A scoop of those and you were one lucky kid!
Was just saying this about Sears and getting popcorn there and sometimes would get cashews instead.
Look how far we've fallen. We are a shell of the civility we once had.
As a child of the 50's we know how much we have declined. Still, at least we had the Best!
look.... I already know im old... before I even watch this episode... and it kinda makes me feel young again to hear people talk aobut these things and stuff... thanks.
These videos invoke nostalgia don't they.
I miss those days sooooo much.
Yup, remembered all these as well!!! I may be old but I would not trade a single minute, I feel sorry for the youth of today,
Me too! 50's kid from Florida!
Me too I’m 71 and so look forward to these. Thank you so much!!
Dippity-do is still one of the best hair gels I've ever used. I have frizzy curly hair and I'm a cosmetologist😅...great water-based gel. Not full of alcohol as i recall
I thought I was the only one who missed this! When I was little, I'd use my pink foam curlers and always used Dippity--Do before rolling my hair up. The curls always came out so pretty! I still look for it once in a while lol
@@lisalynnmarie2448 they still have the foam rollers at Dollar Tree, but I'm at this very moment wearing the foam cylinders that you roll and twist. Easy to wear and sleep in!Amazon!
I too loved Dippity Do!! I miss it!
I loved using Dippity-do in the mid-60s. Amazon sells it and I plan on getting some but I don't know if it's the same formula.
The simulators! How many times did I hear “Car 9, you just hit the little old lady crossing the street” or “Car 9, you just backed over the kid on a bike”!?! Forget trying to shift. I never learned that one.
It will never be like that again...what a time to be a kid..I miss it too
At least I had a great 50's childhood to remember!
Does anyone remember Charles Chips? Used to love the sight of that truck coming!
I have a Charlie chips can! I remember going to grandma's house and they had them in a cardboard paper like can an medal ring lid!
They used to deliver to my dad's workplace, what a treat when he would bring that big can home!
Yep! My grandparents always had the can on their fridge.
@@kellmac such great memories, I haven't thought of for years. 😊
I sure do. Once a month we got potato chips and chocolate chip cookies in those big cans.
One of the top five things I miss about the good ol' days is there being a clerk at the checkout.
Now half the time you hit a store earlier than 10am, you have to self checkout at a computer.
Can't stand the self checkout. You're not only shopping at their store but paying them to let you work a few minutes for free.🤬
I spent plenty of years as a cashier and I hate self checkout too. I'm old now and scanning and bagging my own groceries now hurts me and then I have to go home and take a nap lol.
Yep!
Ya, go in and joke around with the employees /friends back at the meat counter, then go up and get a smile from a cute girl at the register. Not now.
Agreed. Sometimes the self scanner works, but often it doesn’t. Or the genius computer brings up the wrong item or price. You have to double check everything. If the device has a scale, it keeps telling you to put your item in the costly bag or take it out. If your item doesn’t fit on the sensor, the device has a meltdown and a real person has to come and soothe it. Then try paying! Do this. Don’t do that. Insert card. Leave card in. TAKE CARD OUT! TAKE CARD OUT! Then it has the nerve to say “thank you for shopping at Screw The Customer! Have a nice day!” Every one of those evil things replaced several real people and saves the company thousands, but did your prices come down? Nope.
Why should I do the clerks job? They can check me out
Such a simple time. I wish i could go back. My grandma used Dippity-Do all the time. Loved the blue light special! Ludens cough drops were awesome. Do you remember Sucrets? Apergum? Good times as always!! 😊 Thank you for another great upload.😊
Sucrets always seemed so magical to me in that little metal box. I finally stole one, and if I recall correctly, my mouth went numb.
Aspergum was great for a sore throat.
@@pegs1659Yes, I remember getting Aspergum from my mom when I had a sore throat.
@@pegs1659 Aspergum came in an orange box.
Beeman’s gum, too, was very good!
Back when I was in high school I used to often come downstairs into the kitchen and dry the dishes that my Mom was washing by hand. A lot of people don’t understand that nowadays but I still have great memories of talking with my Mom while we were doing the dishes.
You spend about 1/3 of your day working and 1/3 sleeping and that other 1/3 with your family. That last 1/3 is the absolute best and if you miss out on it’s an absolute shame..
I tried to spend 1/3 sleeping 😅
@@lindaangus2307
Yeah but it also made you a stronger better person and that’s a good thing.
Red Rover Red Rover, send Billy right over…anybody remember that neighborhood game?
Yes, I was a child in the 80s and we played that game.
Actually I never heard of Red Rover and I'm 60 asked the girlfriend she 63 she never heard of it either
I definitely remember. I'm 60.
Yes, I was just talking to my husband about all the street games we played in the summer. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 70’s and my parents & most of my neighbors owned their 4 family brownstone apartment buildings. The neighbors watched out for all the kids and was permitted to correct you when you misbehaved when your parents were at work. We also played “Red Light, Green Light” , “Freeze”, “Hot potatoe”, hide & go seek, hop scotch, double Dutch jump rope ect Was allowed to stay out until the light went on ! I grew up in the 70’s and graduated from high school in Long Island, NY in 1980. I miss those simpler days!
@@vetgirl71 I remember all those games!!
Another great/nostalgic video taking me back to my childhood in the 70s....I remember most of the items covered...the home I grew up in still uses the same kind of thermostat featured...and to this day, I still mostly do the dishes by hand 😉
6:33 we need those days back... when the vast majority of Americans barely locked their doors..
Yep, I remember when a lot of stores were closed on Sundays ..
I remember during the great inflation in the 1970's, you could find canned goods with different prices. Prices were rising so fast that older stock on the shelves had lower pricing. It made the customer check all the prices on an item and select the cheapest one if you knew the secret.
Then they came out with those white stickers for the price tags and they would layer them as they mark them down for a sale, and then back up, etc.
@@AuntieSal75 My Jewel/Osco still has one!
That was called Carternomics.
This really sadden me. I miss my parents and the old life I once had. Still, I want to thank you for sharing these memories. They are very special and dear to me.
Oh and full service gas. That was awesome. The attendant would clean your windshield.
The tiny rural town that I called my hometown...(I attended school there; my grandparents lived there; and my mom worked at the bank there... however, we actually lived on a farm about 10 miles away)...to this day, still has a full-service gas station.
The man who owns it, was three years ahead of me in school.
@@willhorting5317 oh wow. That’s pretty cool. I’m from the Midwest. I think they might still do that there
@@leighsaldivar4439 north-central Kansas here.😎
That little town has held steady at about 250 (give or take) people, since the 1950s.
When I graduated, my class had 23 students.
That year, the entire high school (Freshman through Senior), only had a total of 60 students!!!
@@willhorting5317 oh wow. That is small. I’m from central Illinois. I live in the south now though. Born and raised up there.
You know, they change everything good. Remember full service gas stations? They used to give you gas, change your oil and wash your windows. Now they just look up your dress, say, "pay before you pump" and, "America - Please!"
Sears' popcorn was the best. I remember that smell to this day, as soon as the doors swung open, mmmmm. No other popcorn smelled or tasted that good. Movie theater popcorn was second. Who remembers Fizzies? Little tablets you dropped down in water & they fizzed & carbonated your water. I believe they had monster themes.
Fizzies 👍
They had different flavors. We drank alot of kool-aid and ice tea in the Summer.
It was a simpler time- but each time still carried life’s complexities and challenges. Time is funny that way 😊❤
Yeah, crap still took place but we didn’t care because we were kids
Just about sums it all up best !
Being a certain demographic helped. ;-)
Absolutely. Seeing some of these nostalgic items and stores though… can’t help missing them. In our family’s yellow woody station wagon with yellow interior.
thanks reminding me of age
*I remember Dippity Do hair gel! My Mom had this gloriously curly hair she would set in curlers with that gel. One day while she was busy cooking, I decided to give our Scotty dog a "makeover" (I was three) and used Dippity Do gel in his fur. That poor doggie held still the entire time until Mom came in to see why I was being so quiet lol. Needless to say Scotty and I both needed a bath after his salon treatment. Good times!*
😂😂😂
I would cry every time my mom brought out that support do jar, because it meant I had to sleep in those horrible disgusting hard pink plastic rollers I hated so much....
Lol!!
Here in Kansas City during the 60s, we had a daily local “homemaker’s show”. One day, a gal was promoting Dippity Do - at the end of the segment, the host, Betty Hayes, said “You should try Dippity Do Da” - the gal replied “No Da, Just Do”!
Yup, I'm old!!! I remember each & everything on your list. I am glad that I grew up when I did, a simpler, safer time!!! Thanks for sharing another fun video!!! 👍👍🙂
Remember almost all of these things--plus I also realize that in this moment, I'll never be this young again.
When I was a kid, there were times my mother had to drag me along to her beauty parlor appointment. To try keeping me from running amok, the beautician would give me a jar of Dippity Do and ask me to count how many bubbles were inside the goop.
I remember we had to pile in the car to give my Grandma a ride to the beauty parlor. Grandma would give all us kids a dime when we dropped her off and that was enough money for a couple hands full of candy or a comic book back in the day.
🤣
My mom always had a tub on hand!
Lol...smart beautician!
I loved checking out my mom's beautician (Olivia) ...she always caught me and would say "what are you looking at". I was 8 years old, great memories.
A lot of those things lasted until the mid 80's. Change came after that. Thanks for sharing.
The car technology carried into the 90s too. I even remember when restaurants still had smoking and non-smoking sections. Even back then, I didn't see the point. It was like peeing in the deep end of the pool, and expecting to not be affected in the shallow end. Those restaurants stunk so bad.
Some of this carried into the early 90's in my youth !
I'm 80yrs.old & didn't know Ludon's was gone 😊I remember Smith brothers cough drops.They were the best.
I loved Smith Brother's cough drops.
My first paycheck job was when I was 16.
I bagged groceries (one choice, paper) and sorted the soda bottles people returned for deposit into wooden crates (like the barber shops used for booster chairs) in the back.
The ladies at the checkout pretty much had all the prices in the store memorized.
The cigarettes were not locked up, just at one of the front end caps. The checkout ladies knew everyone's kids, so we could grab a carton right out of the rack and pay for it. If you were old enough to ride a bike, you could buy a carton of cigarettes, as that was one of our weekly chores we did for our parents.
None of the products in the store had any kind of safety seal on them.
The bathroom in back was just a step above an outhouse, and just a few feet from where the produce manager prepped food to go on display (I don't miss that part).
The specials of the week were hand painted on butcher paper and taped to the front windows.
The front entry and exit doors had rubber mats in front of them. But be careful not to go too fast, sometimes the door would open slowly.
I feel like I grew up on a different planet.
You did. Today's society really sucks despite all the health warnings. We used to drink out of the garden hose!
@@marknewton6984And we loved it, and survived.
Life was so much simpler then. Boy, do i miss those days!!! We could ride our bikes all over town; just needed to be home before the street lights came on. On hot summer nights we could leave the front door wide open all night long with just a screen door to keep the bugs out. Sundays were the best!!!
Life was the best back in those times
Life was so much simpler, i miss it
Porno ruined it
Porno as freedom of expression bs
@@jimsmithnyny8905What?
It's not that it was simpler it was that there were so many more things that were not about money back then. Now a days if it's not about money it's barely even worth talking about. IMO that's where we have gone wrong.
@@jamescrossland2599 what? Ever
So very true, I was born in 1961. Growing up as a kid was GREAT then.
I remember it all. I’d love to go back to the 60s and 70s. Simpler times back then. We played all day outdoors and came home for dinner. Rode out bikes all around.
Every time I watch one of these videos I realize how lucky I really am to have been raised and lived during those wonderful times.
Yes, I remember everything in this video. I guess I am old, but you know what? I would love to go back to those times because it was simpler, and yes, at times dangerous especially as kids. But we had fun and we don't cry as adults when we accidentally cut ourselves or fall. Kids and some adults are so thinned skinned that a joke will hurt their feelings.
So true
Amen, Guy!
People are very fragile these days.
I remember getting a blow dryer in the 70's and had no clue how to style my hair with it. Also my mom, aunt and grandmother used to give each other perms at home and that smell is still burned in my nostrils.
Yes, the home perms and all the little foam curlers!
My favorite era... THANk YOU !!!
Snack Pack was delicious when it was in the cans. Now it tastes like the plastic it comes in.
Yes i remember trick or treat, Easter egg hunts, Christmas party's at school and Valentine's day partys at school!
Not only were all the stores closed on Sunday but in most small towns they also closed on Wednesday afternoon to prepare for church night.
The sidewalks rolled up at five .
The grocery store I worked for as a bag boy would close on Sundays! And sometimes they took the bag boys and cashier to theme parks on some of those Sundays. Wow.
Come to Australia. Outside the major cities many small towns they still do. Open Saturday but most places except large chains closed Sunday. Get a flat tire and see how well you’ll do after midday Saturday getting it fixed anywhere rural. Virtually nil. And often even in the city virtually not on Sunday.
@@xr6lad that must really suck.
@@xr6lad Territory Time
I REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS I WAS BORN IN 56 I MISS THOSE DAYS GOOD MEMORIES LOVE ALL THESE THINGS
Just yesterday, I was driving past the former location of K-Mart & recalled the Blue Light Special.
Do you remember those ham and cheese subs that K mart had in a small cooler when you walked in the door. OMG they were always fresh and so darn good. And cheap😂
@@Donna-zc9ii Actually, no. I don't recall that. Hmm.
Almost bring me to tears when thinking of how things are now compared to then and how much better we had it...
I'm old. I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon! 😂😂
I pumped it at 18.9 cents a gallon for tips.
@@robmatlock7675 I remember 18.4¢/gal near Hiawatha Blvd in Syracuse NY during a "gas war" early 1960s. I also remember Mom pulling our '52 Merc up to the pump at a crossroads country store in the mid'50s that still had the sign for "5gal/$1", then whispering to me to "get away from the car!" while handing me a dime for the Coke machine, then looking back to watch as the store lady pumped our gas with a lit cigarette dangling from her mouth.
Ah, the good ole days.
And, no power steering or power brakes or seat belts or AC. And, if the car wouldn't start because the battery was dead, you just parked on a hill and popped the clutch and off you went.
And the annual salary was like $20k!
i remember 24 . 9 during gas wars of 75 . the hudson gas station sold bulk " used " engine oil out of a fuel pump for 10 cents a gallon . we drove junk and we really needed that milk jug full of engine oil . it wasnt uncommon for someone to ask you for a pushstart at a stoplight . bumper mating was only a slight concern because most of us drove junk anyway . we all just wanted to be on our way before the cops got involved and lost their shit over a roach ( or even a seed ) of dirtweed in our ashtray .
You’re right, I wouldn’t change the memories for anything 😊
Remember every single thing mentioned, so YES, i'm OLD and proud of the fact I made it THIS far in life (63 next month)! LOL!
Happy early-birthday!! I'm going to be 60, in July, and I honestly can't believe how fast the yrs flew by...lol!
The station wagon backseat ashtrays were used for used gum and candy wrapper bins from us kids.
I'm 65 and remember in detail each and every item covered here. What a great channel for cherished memories.
I remember ALL those things. Golden days for this Golden Girl!!
That was as good as it would ever be and just didn't realize it at the time.
I loved these days. America was a much safer place.
I remember all of these. 77 years old in August.
Mom 1954 Born she says great time to grow up. Thanks for sharing. 👍❤️
Hunts snack pack chocolate pudding 😋🍮 in the tin can was the BEST! They taste like crap now! 😢
I’m so old that I remember when Sears was known as Sears & Roebuck…damn, where’s my glasses?
Lol, I do too.
I have the 1st large catalog that Sears & Roebuck printed! 😊
@@chelebear1823 That's gotta be fun to look at the prices and clothes styles and... Is it old enough to have wringer washers? 😂😂
I guess I'm grateful to be considered 'old', then. I thank God I grew up when I did.
Same 👍
Life was so much fun. Playing outside all day until sundown. Hide and seek, simon says, dodge ball, red light green light. Penny candy stores. No worries of jobs, rent, bills.
@@karenholladay-ne9go add to that, Mother May I kickball, Red rover,release, jump rope. Not to mention our imaginary games. Great times!!
@@julenepegher6999 For sure! 😀
Prell shampoo with a pearl in the bottle, Quisp and Quake cereal, Funny face drink mixes, Ultra Brite toothpaste by Farrah Fawcett and Joe Namath wearing a pair of Leggs pantyhose!
Some communities had "blue law" which disallowed the purchase of many items on Sunday.
When I moved to Shreveport in 1980, we couldn't sell Cigarettes, alcohol, lighters, sunglasses or playing cards, and you couldn't go to the movies or grocery stores.
Many businesses were closed on a Sunday here in PA..it was a time to spend with your family
Paramus NJ held out for a long time.
OMG! Friday nights at 8 pm was Brady Bunch followed by the Partridge Family. I was five and couldn't wait. I also remember hearing the stock boys at the grocery store stamping very quickly the cans before putting them on the shelf and being amazed by that. K Mart also had popcorn, frozen coke, and these little subs with baloney, ham, mustard and onions already made. It's amazing what stays in your head from childhood. 😊
I love these videos!! A blast from the past. The snack packs in metal cans were the best!
I forgot about the canned pudding but the picture took me right back.
@@MelywoodMedia I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using which public bathroom.
@@saminaneen I miss the 70's when all us kids in class were treated the same no matter what our skin coloring was and everyone got along. We all played together and didn't think about race because media wasn't shoving racial division down our throats 24/7
@@MelywoodMedia The violent, extremist, leftist Democraps would just call you all the the Communist agenda buzzwords, today, like homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, racist, and every phobic word, that comes, to their pea sized brain.
@@saminaneen Transgender people still existed then. You just were not aware that someone in the bathroom was transgender. So yes, it was easier then.
Yep I'm old. Lived though the best times in history.
Thank you for another trip down memory lane. Young people now have no idea how precious those simpler times were, when people knew their neighbours and stores were closed on Sundays. Wish we could go back to those times.
Loved Dippety Doo!Before Kmart closed a few years ago .mine still had blue light specials!
Yes, yes, and yesseree to all this stuff. I still call any hair product "Dippity-doo" no matter what it is. My family has never had a dishwasher machine, we still "woorsh" the dishes in an enamel basin in a 1920s era farm sink.
My MIL was born in Maryland and grew up in Illinois. She still says worst. Lol
Every one of these is a precious memory. (Except for the whole Patty Heast part) Thanks for another great video! ❤
I remember that photo of her with what I thought was a machine gun…it was crazy!
Did anyone ever figure out just what the heck the "Symbionese Liberation Army" was?
@@JeffDeWitt I forgot about that! I just remember my Mother telling me she was brainwashed 😂
@@lizzieb6311 It got me curious so I looked it up, they were just a small (and nasty) group of loony left nutjobs.
Stockholm syndrome
When I was a kid, our family Dr. would be smoking while he was using his stethoscope to listen to my breathing and heartbeat.
Did you get to check his breathing and heartbeat?
@@beadyeye2312 Oh wow…. I bet she/he had lots of stories if they ever felt like sharing them. My Mom grew up in a German community outside of San Antonio, and remembered lots of people with a strong German accent, numbers for tattoos. I always found that to be odd; doesn’t sound like that would be the case, but after thinking about it, it doesn’t sound so odd after all. Regular people aren’t politicians as much as they are just innocent people who get caught up in other people’s politics. Come to think of it, sounds like my life now living in the USA.
Yup - I had a doc check me with a cigar in his mouth! Thank God he didn't light it!
When I was six I got hit by a car. The doctor in the ER was smoking a cigarette while checking me out.😮😮😮
I keep commenting on everyone's post but I had to comment again because that.... is freaking hysterical
Some of these videos bring me tears. 😢
Can we go back to the days when everything closed on Sundays ❤
Unfortunately that's the busiest day of the week for the grocery store I shop at.
You have my vote, bring back the blue laws and shut off the internet on Sundays.
Let’s hear it for Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby that aren’t open on Sundays! It’s not a religious thing for me, just a day without all the other crap!!!!
@@mikemasiello9625 As far as I'm concerned the internet can be turned off every day.
AMEN!
I still have that thermostat. No need to replace something that still works.
I loved Space Food Sticks. And between Sears and Morrow's Nut House, it seemed like the entire Northridge Mall in L.A. smelled of popcorn and hot peanuts. Plus the long licorice whips. I want to go back.
Nowadays, the entire state of California is ONE BIG NUT HOUSE, and Sears (the store whose motto used to be "where America shops for value) is fast fading into the ether.
The space food sticks were my favorite.
Loved the orange space food sticks! My dad would buy the four for a dollar ham sandwiches at Kmart with an Icee for us.
Holy cow, TID BITS!! I haven’t seen those since the 80’s! No joke!
My sister and I always used Dippity Do to set our hair. That stuff dried hard as a rock. Sometimes you would have to cut the rollers out of your hair because you couldn't pull them out.
And the smell!
@@tearosy Yes!
It had a powerful hold. My mom used it to set her pincurls.
@@floralbouquets My Grandma used to set her pincurls with something that came in a jar. I think Nestle made it. It was a very sticky clear liquid.
@@margeshilling7983 yes. I remember that. We had that also but I can't remember what it was. Also in the 70's we used on those little sideburns type things they called "glicks" to make them lay flat against your cheek.
From the mid-1960's on, my younger sister and I washed and dried the dishes every night after supper. I washed, she dried; when she got a bit older, we traded off the tasks.
It was a wonderful time for two growing-up siblings to commiserate with one another. We actually enjoyed the task.
It was our delegated chore, and we didn't dare complain!
In later years our folks got an automatic dishwasher, but I had left home by then.
I grew up in a large family and since my mother did all the cooking, us kids took turns washing the dishes, we didn't dry them, they just went into a drain rack at the end of the sink. After dinner, my mother would say, "Who's turn is it to do the dishes?" One of us would say, "It was my turn last night", and another would say, "Don't look at me, it's not my turn!", until one of us would say, "How come, I aways get stuck doing them on a night that we have alot of dishes?!" Sometimes, that one would get lucky and another would say, "Ok, I'll help you, I'll rinse, you wash, we will be done in no time" 😄
Luden's Cherry Drops really were super good. Better than most candy!
Oh how I miss those days. A much simpler happy time.