I was born in 1940. The 50s were a golden age. Yes, not everything was perfect in our USA, but all we knew, as teenagers, was to live and love our living. Car trips with no Interstate traffic jams, roadside motels, bicycle journeys with our friends, baseball on the dirt diamonds, the infancy of television with the variety shows and the comedians. Sleigh riding in the winter, ice cream shops, stickball in the playground - staying out doors all day until dinner time. Being taught, by our parents, to be polite, law-abiding and respectful. Actually learning things in school. Summer jobs, and striving always to be better in some way. Sitting in the back-back of the station wagon, facing the rear and identifying all the different license plates. Maybe we were naive, perhaps blind to some injustices in society. But it was a joy to grow up then - I wouldn't trade the experience for all the cell phones and iPads in the world!
I was born in 1977 but I have always thought it would have been cool to be born in the early 40s; to have your teenage years be in the 50s is something I’m jealous of and something I wish I could have experienced. I bet it was an amazing time to be alive.
@@mcuthor7831 It was a unique time in America simply because the post WWII economic/baby boom produced a series of “golden” conditions that you can’t reproduce easily. 1. Was the launch of the consumer society without having to face the disastrous environmental results yet. 2. kids were more secure with a stay at home mom and carefree physical activities which were designed to have “fun”. All the exercise produced a healthier mind. 3. Wealth. Wealth and then more wealth with little to no international competition. What’s not to like. 4. A groundswell of youth culture , sassiness… kids everywhere… music everywhere like a tornado of energy mixed in with new consumer ideas and products launched every week. ** BUT ! This all depended on who you were born to… the state you lived in… how big a town/city you lived in…. the colour of your skin … and of course how “bright” you were. BTW … my son was born in 1977 😉👍
Not if you were black or a person of color, as some folks like to refer to themselves today. So the good old days were good for some, but for others it was a living hell, and look around even today, for a lot of people things haven’t gotten any better. In fact, you may say things have gotten worse.
Racial injustice, Emmett Till, Montgomery … we hadn’t a clue. Knowledge was hard to come by unless you went to school. Most of the newspapers were owned by Republican moguls who sold advertising. But we digress. How about this video? During that era, I had some beautiful cars like these because my dad had an auto body shop. The best was a 61 Red Chev Convertible that I painted a killer metallic red color. He had every color of the rainbow working there and it seemed like everything was fine. I handed out the checks, though. Maybe that’s why they like the boss’s son.
I have to say this video makes me very happy and at the same time very sad. Being a baby boomer i remember traveling in the late '50s and early 60s back and forth from Michigan to Arizona. All 5 of us in the family station wagon. Camping along the way. Many really good memories of those trips came flooding to me watching this. I actually saw some places that we went to while we were traveling. Now for the sad part I will never be able to enjoy a road trip like that with my family ever again. They are all gone now my parents my older and younger brother. I am the only one left. Thank you for posting this video I really enjoyed it.
Born in 1943,I remember the 50's.Going to school,playing marbles everyday,and being outside a good part of the day.Going to the movies for 10 cents on saturday mornings.When we went out to the country to visit friends,we would spend the day playing hide and seek,tag,and swimming in the lakes,keeping an eye out for the leaches..we sometimes helped to cut and remove the tall reeds to make way for small boats to dock and pathways to get the boats out to the main body of the lake.Running barefoot most of the time and heading for the salt shaker to help get the leach(es) off our skin before they pierced our skin to get blood for food.Even rowing a boat was an adventure.Sometimes we were lucky and were able to tag along in a boat with a gas powered motor.Making floating rafts with small logs tied together to make a floor to stand on.We would take the raft to deeper water and dive off it.We always looked out for one another.Once a week our parents would us a large maple revel covered in chocolate dip and sprinkled with nuts.The kids were always thinking up games to play and using their imagination.Telling ghost stories around the campfires in the evenings was scary too.
Some of my favorite memories are when my parents would take us on vacations across the country. My uncle was an electrical engineer who helped design the electronics for Walt Disney and Disneyland. We were invited out to Anaheim for the employee families only opening of Disneyland in 1955. My uncle introduced my parents to Walt Disney, which was something they never forgot. We traveled to all the lower 48 states. Those were definitely the best of times. When I saw the photo of the 4 boys in the back of the station wagon, and it said they would all be in their 70’s now, well that would be me too.
Great memories. We struggled financially and often times we went to bed hungry but, i don't ever recall blaming anyone for our predicament . The good memories still outweigh the bad.
We made the best with what we had and waited out the bad time. Family and friends pitched in and pulled together. My parents didn’t bitch or blame, they went to work. Sometimes two jobs. There were no free government handouts only ration stamps. So, all these people with their negative attitudes and opinions wouldn’t be here without other people’s sacrifice. It won’t hurt my feelings if you want to wallow in filth. It was clean when we left it for you.
I just now subscribed to your channel. Although I've seen several of your videos over the last year or so I just now decided to subscribe. Why? Because you bring me back to a time when America was good, growing up with my family, enjoying road trips and summer fun was what made this a Great country and a memorable childhood. I am privileged to have grown up when America was clean, when men were men and girls were girls without any exceptions, when life was good and people had respect for themselves, their appearance and their neighbors. I'm 70 now, but I have the memories of a good life and a good country and you show us that life back then was such a great, great experience. Thanks!
Amen, I wish I was alive back then, but you can see how wonderfully people were then. And how clean the places were!!! Most of all love the CARS, how beautiful they were.
Thanks for your comments and kind words. You basically described exactly what I was going for with this video. Although I wasn't around in the '50s - it sure sounds like a great time to have grown up. Thanks for watching and for subscribing.
Fantastic! Well put together. Amazing to see kids out exploring, having fun, with parents and grandparents that have all passed on.....they've had their time.
We pulled a Shasta trailer with a '56 Ford Victoria all across the country in the late '50's, then got a '59 Chrysler Saratoga and continued our annual vacations in the '60's. We visited 42 states during that time frame, and some of the best memories of my childhood. People were polite to each other, you'd leave your car in the parking lot and wouldn't think of locking the doors with the windows down, eat lunch by the side of the road, and nobody was obese or sloppily dressed. Man, I miss those days, and love these video's reminding us of our past.
Way too many awesome shots to pick. But equally stunning to the panoramic views were the cars. Also the wonderful life that the people enjoyed, looking healthy and happy. Jees guys where did it all go wrong. I wanna go back! Another great video!
What a Grand entrance with those Door's 🚪🚪 opening to us to see the History of life back then thank you for oiling the Door's,,Growing up in the 60s and 70s I remember a lot of these motels the dinosaur 🦕, and some of the other ones up north..We saw a lot of 1955 Ford Fairlanes blue and white which we had and sold a couple years ago my son Max was looking for a 1958 Dodge custom Royal which we have now and we drive only old cars 🚗 ..Thank You 🎉🇺🇸😁 For this great video...
Hey Ronald! Thanks again for watching and commenting. When we were kids, we were always on the lookout for any of those roadside novelties to get out and climb around on, if possible. I guess that was the strategy - and it definitely worked with my family!
This makes me wish I could experience the USA in the '50s, only a few problems, I was born in 2000 second I don't think it's the '50s anymore over there. Love the video.
No, not the 50's anymore. It has become the rainbow empire. It is all fractured and divided now. All of these places visited in the video are now full of 'people' denying their humanity and trying to be something they were never meant to be. 50's through the 80's was a pretty nice time. Wiped away now by too many people projecting their inner anger.
Beautiful places I've been. Beautiful places I like to go to. But these places are never the same twice. So it's great to have pictures snapshot of history in time. Nice that you labeled where they were and when the location weather known and your label it something like somewhere in Florida. Unknown location are some of the best labels! You just pull over because it's a beautiful location. The attitude and appearance of people so much different than overall today. Oh I can be good today. Nature in this country still available and leaps and bounds. Always make sure you get a couple of pictures with the car. Years and decades down the road somebody look back and say yeah I remember the little Toyotas. The car hobby evolves over time. Let's revive the car trips and exploring the nation. We would find that we have a lot more common overall then our differences. Well presented fantastic content.
Hey, CAROLDISCOVER2525! Thanks again for watching and for your great comments - well said! Going on trips in my past, it always just seemed logical to take photos with the car in them. But - what you pointed out makes it all the more important. When you look back years later - (or when other folks see those photos WAY into the future) - it's always nice to have a car in there as a sort-of place marker for the date. Plus, the further in time you get away from those old cars - the cooler they seem to look!
Those candy coloured cars are works of art … it’s funny to see they are generally a fair bit bigger than the caravans being towed! Would have loved to have lived in the U.S during that era, it looks wonderful! ❤
Thanks so much for bringing me back to a time where I remember more vivid colors as depicted in the photographs. People loved to get out and see these beautiful places. No AC, no problem. You just did it.
I'm 73 years old now wondering where the time went. We had so much fun in and around cars back in the 1950's. A "Road Trips" seeing the U.S. was the only way to go traveling back then. I miss those days - and thank you for such great historic videos showing how life was back then.
58 years young. Youngest of four boys so the vintage internal combustions graced on the exterior with elegance and style is still in my blood. As a family, we road tripped, camped throughout every year. Tents first, then pulled a 24' ALJO trailer behind many different tow vehicles. Currently pulling a 2009 all electric "vintage styled" Shasta Airflyte 12 behind my 1957 Ford four door Country Sedan station wagon. Both are show quality vehicles. I own four other classy chassis (and drive each regularly): 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air (chopped 4 inches and custom engine/chassis). 1963 Willys truck (all original Tornado 6 cylinder with an added overdrive to the three speed manual transmission). It has FOUR sticks protruding from the transmission tunnel! Great anti-theft device being no modern day kid would know how to shift it or change the gearing! :P 1969 AMC Big Bad Green AMX (who and what?) 401 and an overdrive transmission changed out. 1978 Ford F-150 short wide box with a 2.5 lift kit and a 460/C6/9inch drivetrain with 36" tires. All daily drivers and I'm living this up until it cant be done. Thanks for the video. Reminds me of the when America WAS America.
Thanks for keeping those cars on the road and sharing them with the rest of us. I'm always grateful that people like you keep these cars around and running, and it's a treat to see them out driving on the road, just as they were created to do!
I remember the late 1950's and obesity WAS almost non existent then. If you ever get a chance in a public library, high school library, or college library, flip through some old year books from the 1950s and 1960s, and even the 1970s. Look at the group photos. The kids all look trim and svelte by today's standards. I think some thing or things, changed in the American diet since then, but I'm not sure what it was, or they were..
What ? They didn’t care, they had 5.0l+ motors in every car, they wore leather on everything, they smoked cigarettes where they wanted to, I mean they had wood! on cars? that’s not looking forward to the future, that’s shitting in future, unless we wouldn’t be where we are now
Magical time I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s and visited lots of the places shown. Wonderful memories wish it was the same way today. Very good presentation.
Thanks, @portaltwo. You got me on the '60s photos. There were definitely a few in there. But, these pics were mainly my favorites, and I couldn't resist slipping a couple in if they were "close enough!" Thanks for watching and commenting!
…great production work, Kevin…it’s wonderful to allow these vintage cars, fashions, hairdos and destinations speak for themselves… …being a late “Boomer Babe” (1954), I can clearly recall seeing so many of these locations from our ritual of Summer family road trips… …this decade was definitely one of unbridled income growth for ALL Americans, fresh out of the Second World War and Korea…everyone took Dinah Shore’s exhortations to “See the USA” to heart; and nearly every one of the burgeoning middle class did just that… …the roadside motel, with coffee shop/restaurant was a fixture; and in our current era of look-alike imports dressed in white, silver or black; the overall takeaway is just how varied in style and color all the cars were… …I’ve subscribed, good sir, and look forward to your future offerings!!…😮👀‼️🆙👍🏽🆒
Hi, @gclarkbloomfield8848 - Thanks for watching, subscribing, and especially for sharing your memories! I wasn't around until the '70s, but our family road trips were some of my favorite times as a kid. I wish we would've taken more pictures like these!
Che meraviglia! Hanno detto che gli anni '50 sono stati il decennio più bello dello scorso secolo e non fatico a pensarlo...mi viene la nostalgia anche se non ero ancora nato Vedo un America sviluppata mentre qui in Italia eravamo ancora una nazione agricola Un saluto a tutti dall'Italia
To me these times are not gone. Being and old car and trailer collector it's nice to drive my rig up and down the highway to car shows and sometimes just to go camping. To give people a look what it was like back then"Today!" Liked the slide show it reminded me of when my parents took us out west every year.
Hey Paul - Whenever I see someone driving one of these classic cars on the road I want to wave them down and thank them for keeping this part of our past alive, and in public for people to see. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and commenting - I agree that the music fits really well with this set of photos. ALSO = I appreciate your good attitude! YES - Let's bring back the fun to life in America!!!
What a thrill this was! Thank you for all that you do for us to make us feel "warm and fuzzy". I grew up in Kansas, we did plenty of traveling but always north and to the west. We never went east and i don't know why! HA Thank God for memories...right?
Who here remembers when you could go shopping and leave your car windows down and not worry about somebody stealing your stuff? Or leave your car windows down all night while parked on the street and come out and find your car the way you left it?
I do. There are those who don't believe me when I say that during tge 59s, and even up to the early 60s, many did not see the need to lock their house doors, and kept their street parked cars unlocked as well, with the windows down to boot. I remember this being the case, quite well. Glass jars of milk were delivered at people's front doors, with no one thinking someone would steal it.
Excellent, unfortunately we cannot go back to when people cared for each other. God Bless, please see US thru our present difficult times. Please anyone post who plays this music, super. 🇺🇸🌹❤️👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was a kid in the 60's and many of the sights from San Francisco were the same when I was growing up. My hubby & I spent the 1st 12 years of retirement (till 2022) traveling the western US - been to many of the places & now that we're stopped the major RV traveling, we're still planning on shorter trips now east of the Mississippi. The memories even in today's world are the best.
Have vacationed in Florida multiple times, but never heard of Weeki Wachee in Florida and its daily mermaid shows until seeing the picture in this video. That led me to a UA-cam video on Weeki Wachee and Cypress Gardens from a 1964 travel series and other related Weeki Wachee videos. Great to see it’s still in business and would like to experience visiting this piece of history on our next trip to Florida!
Missed it the first time! 1:35 We had a 1953 Ford Victoria that looked almost exactly like this one! Cream body black top. 53 was the last year Ford made the legendary flathead V-8. Ours was a great car. One time when I went to get a haircut with my father, he showed me (briefly!) a hundred miles an hour on the speedometer on a long straight stretch of deserted road on the way home. I didn't tell my mother until I was in my sixties, and my father had passed away some years before. My mother was well into her eighties, but still hit the ceiling when I told her about this little adventure. One of the more common colors for 53 Fords was Seafoam Green.
I have pictures of my mother from that era looking very much like the women in these photos. I recall a lot of guys flirting with her when I was a kid. Today, my 42 year old daughter is an exact mini-me of grandma, in both looks and personality. Nice post. Thx.
My Grandfather had a old truck and a little Trailer like this one. He and grandma would take my father and brother on trips. Boy I wish I could have. Thanks.
I was born in 1940. The 50s were a golden age. Yes, not everything was perfect in our USA, but all we knew, as teenagers, was to live and love our living. Car trips with no Interstate traffic jams, roadside motels, bicycle journeys with our friends, baseball on the dirt diamonds, the infancy of television with the variety shows and the comedians. Sleigh riding in the winter, ice cream shops, stickball in the playground - staying out doors all day until dinner time. Being taught, by our parents, to be polite, law-abiding and respectful. Actually learning things in school. Summer jobs, and striving always to be better in some way. Sitting in the back-back of the station wagon, facing the rear and identifying all the different license plates. Maybe we were naive, perhaps blind to some injustices in society. But it was a joy to grow up then - I wouldn't trade the experience for all the cell phones and iPads in the world!
Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll🎶🎶🎶and Route 66❤🔥🙏
I was born in 1977 but I have always thought it would have been cool to be born in the early 40s; to have your teenage years be in the 50s is something I’m jealous of and something I wish I could have experienced. I bet it was an amazing time to be alive.
@@mcuthor7831 It was a unique time in America simply because the post WWII economic/baby boom produced a series of “golden” conditions that you can’t reproduce easily.
1. Was the launch of the consumer society without having to face the disastrous environmental results yet.
2. kids were more secure with a stay at home mom and carefree physical activities which were designed to have “fun”. All the exercise produced a healthier mind.
3. Wealth. Wealth and then more wealth with little to no international competition. What’s not to like.
4. A groundswell of youth culture , sassiness… kids everywhere… music everywhere like a tornado of energy mixed in with new consumer ideas and products launched every week.
** BUT ! This all depended on who you were born to… the state you lived in… how big a town/city you lived in…. the colour of your skin … and of course how “bright” you were.
BTW … my son was born in 1977 😉👍
Not if you were black or a person of color, as some folks like to refer to themselves today.
So the good old days were good for some, but for others it was a living hell, and look around even today, for a lot of people things haven’t gotten any better.
In fact, you may say things have gotten worse.
Racial injustice, Emmett Till, Montgomery … we hadn’t a clue. Knowledge was hard to come by unless you went to school. Most of the newspapers were owned by Republican moguls who sold advertising. But we digress.
How about this video? During that era, I had some beautiful cars like these because my dad had an auto body shop. The best was a 61 Red Chev Convertible that I painted a killer metallic red color. He had every color of the rainbow working there and it seemed like everything was fine. I handed out the checks, though. Maybe that’s why they like the boss’s son.
One thing about these photos. Everyone seems happier and relaxed.
I have to say this video makes me very happy and at the same time very sad. Being a baby boomer i remember traveling in the late '50s and early 60s back and forth from Michigan to Arizona. All 5 of us in the family station wagon. Camping along the way. Many really good memories of those trips came flooding to me watching this. I actually saw some places that we went to while we were traveling.
Now for the sad part I will never be able to enjoy a road trip like that with my family ever again. They are all gone now my parents my older and younger brother. I am the only one left.
Thank you for posting this video I really enjoyed it.
THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
Thank you!
Oh Beautiful America, how we miss you so!!
When people cared, had respect for themselves and places....miss it
I love the 50's and 60's it was such a beautiful time to live! How did we ever let this country go down the toilet!
Халява - это синоним шагреневой кожи ... С теми же последствиями ...
Thank you for these videos and the glimpse to a normal world populated with normal people
Born in 1943,I remember the 50's.Going to school,playing marbles everyday,and being outside a good part of the day.Going to the movies for 10 cents on saturday mornings.When we went out to the country to visit friends,we would spend the day playing hide and seek,tag,and swimming in the lakes,keeping an eye out for the leaches..we sometimes helped to cut and remove the tall reeds to make way for small boats to dock and pathways to get the boats out to the main body of the lake.Running barefoot most of the time and heading for the salt shaker to help get the leach(es) off our skin before they pierced our skin to get blood for food.Even rowing a boat was an adventure.Sometimes we were lucky and were able to tag along in a boat with a gas powered motor.Making floating rafts with small logs tied together to make a floor to stand on.We would take the raft to deeper water and dive off it.We always looked out for one another.Once a week our parents would us a large maple revel covered in chocolate dip and sprinkled with nuts.The kids were always thinking up games to play and using their imagination.Telling ghost stories around the campfires in the evenings was scary too.
@waynewarren665 - What a great comment. Thanks for sharing these beautiful memories with us!
Some of my favorite memories are when my parents would take us on vacations across the country. My uncle was an electrical engineer who helped design the electronics for Walt Disney and Disneyland. We were invited out to Anaheim for the employee families only opening of Disneyland in 1955. My uncle introduced my parents to Walt Disney, which was something they never forgot. We traveled to all the lower 48 states. Those were definitely the best of times. When I saw the photo of the 4 boys in the back of the station wagon, and it said they would all be in their 70’s now, well that would be me too.
I’m pretty sure Disneyland opened in 1955, no?
Life was so much simpler back then compared to today. I’d go back in time if I could.
Thank you so very much....I am 71 ..... so beautiful....yes, I lived it... video made me almost cry.... thank you
Thanks, Jay - I agree, this set of pictures with the music brings smiles and tears at the same time.
Those were the days
Everything looked so clean and neat.
Wonderful and beautiful memories from fifties. I am now 73year "young" 😀
My heart aches for these beautiful times.
Was a good time in my life, I remember all them road trips we did it was great. I'm glad to be one of many baby boomers
Great memories. We struggled financially and often times we went to bed hungry but, i don't ever recall blaming anyone for our predicament . The good memories still outweigh the bad.
We made the best with what we had and waited out the bad time. Family and friends pitched in and pulled together. My parents didn’t bitch or blame, they went to work. Sometimes two jobs. There were no free government handouts only ration stamps.
So, all these people with their negative attitudes and opinions wouldn’t be here without other people’s sacrifice. It won’t hurt my feelings if you want to wallow in filth. It was clean when we left it for you.
I want to go back in time and stay there!.....
I wish it was like this today!
Мечтать не вредно ... А почему тебе не нравится целовать ботинки негров ?
Oh good times. Loved growing up as a baby boomer. I could watch this for hours.
I just now subscribed to your channel. Although I've seen several of your videos over the last year or so I just now decided to subscribe. Why? Because you bring me back to a time when America was good, growing up with my family, enjoying road trips and summer fun was what made this a Great country and a memorable childhood. I am privileged to have grown up when America was clean, when men were men and girls were girls without any exceptions, when life was good and people had respect for themselves, their appearance and their neighbors. I'm 70 now, but I have the memories of a good life and a good country and you show us that life back then was such a great, great experience. Thanks!
Amen, I wish I was alive back then, but you can see how wonderfully people were then. And how clean the places were!!! Most of all love the CARS, how beautiful they were.
Thanks for your comments and kind words. You basically described exactly what I was going for with this video. Although I wasn't around in the '50s - it sure sounds like a great time to have grown up. Thanks for watching and for subscribing.
Far better times then nowadays: not to compare. Even folk and cars looked way more elegant!
Fantastic! Well put together. Amazing to see kids out exploring, having fun, with parents and grandparents that have all passed on.....they've had their time.
Great comment - the perfect sentiment!
What blows me away is all the open space, even in the cities.
There were 160 million people in the country then . A lot of them still lived in small towns. 346 million now.
We pulled a Shasta trailer with a '56 Ford Victoria all across the country in the late '50's, then got a '59 Chrysler Saratoga and continued our annual vacations in the '60's. We visited 42 states during that time frame, and some of the best memories of my childhood. People were polite to each other, you'd leave your car in the parking lot and wouldn't think of locking the doors with the windows down, eat lunch by the side of the road, and nobody was obese or sloppily dressed. Man, I miss those days, and love these video's reminding us of our past.
Born in 1950- I experienced the best in those years. Great memories.
Way too many awesome shots to pick. But equally stunning to the panoramic views were the cars. Also the wonderful life that the people enjoyed, looking healthy and happy. Jees guys where did it all go wrong. I wanna go back! Another great video!
I agree with everything you said! And thanks for your kind words!
A great time to grow up, no one dreamed it would all go to the crapper.
Love anything 50s. Thanks for this!
How can you not give these History Lounge videos a like?
Thanks, @royboy9361!
What a wonderful journey to the past. And, yep I am in my 70's. 😊
Very elegant ( slim) People and great cars !
What a Grand entrance with those Door's 🚪🚪 opening to us to see the History of life back then thank you for oiling the Door's,,Growing up in the 60s and 70s I remember a lot of these motels the dinosaur 🦕, and some of the other ones up north..We saw a lot of 1955 Ford Fairlanes blue and white which we had and sold a couple years ago my son Max was looking for a 1958 Dodge custom Royal which we have now and we drive only old cars 🚗 ..Thank You 🎉🇺🇸😁 For this great video...
Hey Ronald! Thanks again for watching and commenting. When we were kids, we were always on the lookout for any of those roadside novelties to get out and climb around on, if possible. I guess that was the strategy - and it definitely worked with my family!
Thank You for your Response and you are so right those were the days that we had fun my son I let him do as much as possible that's fun.. Peace ✌️..
Beautiful times miss those days,glad I lived in that time s thank you ?
This makes me wish I could experience the USA in the '50s, only a few problems, I was born in 2000 second I don't think it's the '50s anymore over there. Love the video.
No, not the 50's anymore. It has become the rainbow empire. It is all fractured and divided now. All of these places visited in the video are now full of 'people' denying their humanity and trying to be something they were never meant to be. 50's through the 80's was a pretty nice time. Wiped away now by too many people projecting their inner anger.
Beautiful places I've been. Beautiful places I like to go to. But these places are never the same twice. So it's great to have pictures snapshot of history in time. Nice that you labeled where they were and when the location weather known and your label it something like somewhere in Florida. Unknown location are some of the best labels! You just pull over because it's a beautiful location. The attitude and appearance of people so much different than overall today. Oh I can be good today. Nature in this country still available and leaps and bounds. Always make sure you get a couple of pictures with the car. Years and decades down the road somebody look back and say yeah I remember the little Toyotas. The car hobby evolves over time. Let's revive the car trips and exploring the nation. We would find that we have a lot more common overall then our differences. Well presented fantastic content.
Hey, CAROLDISCOVER2525! Thanks again for watching and for your great comments - well said! Going on trips in my past, it always just seemed logical to take photos with the car in them. But - what you pointed out makes it all the more important. When you look back years later - (or when other folks see those photos WAY into the future) - it's always nice to have a car in there as a sort-of place marker for the date. Plus, the further in time you get away from those old cars - the cooler they seem to look!
When I looking at good old days, I feel very sad. 😢
Those candy coloured cars are works of art
… it’s funny to see they are generally a fair bit bigger than the caravans being towed! Would have loved to have lived in the U.S during that era, it looks wonderful! ❤
It was a great time to be a kid or a kid at heart.!`m a49er.
Thanks so much for bringing me back to a time where I remember more vivid colors as depicted in the photographs. People loved to get out and see these beautiful places. No AC, no problem. You just did it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I tell you the truth. America's best times are behind us forever!
Agreed 👍💯
Brighten the corner you're in, ya know ✌
There are still plenty of amazing road trips to be had here in the still great U.S.A.. Enjoy every day that you get.
I agree - great comments!
That was so Aswome, that Kind of Videos give ne a Special feeling,
now i am a Bit Sad of the Time now.
Iam 36
Greetings from North Germany
I'm 73 years old now wondering where the time went. We had so much fun in and around cars back in the 1950's. A "Road Trips" seeing the U.S. was the only way to go traveling back then. I miss those days - and thank you for such great historic videos showing how life was back then.
58 years young.
Youngest of four boys so the vintage internal combustions graced on the exterior with elegance and style is still in my blood.
As a family, we road tripped, camped throughout every year. Tents first, then pulled a 24' ALJO trailer behind many different tow vehicles.
Currently pulling a 2009 all electric "vintage styled" Shasta Airflyte 12 behind my 1957 Ford four door Country Sedan station wagon. Both are show quality vehicles.
I own four other classy chassis (and drive each regularly):
1953 Chevrolet Bel Air (chopped 4 inches and custom engine/chassis).
1963 Willys truck (all original Tornado 6 cylinder with an added overdrive to the three speed manual transmission). It has FOUR sticks protruding from the transmission tunnel! Great anti-theft device being no modern day kid would know how to shift it or change the gearing! :P
1969 AMC Big Bad Green AMX (who and what?) 401 and an overdrive transmission changed out.
1978 Ford F-150 short wide box with a 2.5 lift kit and a 460/C6/9inch drivetrain with 36" tires.
All daily drivers and I'm living this up until it cant be done.
Thanks for the video. Reminds me of the when America WAS America.
Thanks for keeping those cars on the road and sharing them with the rest of us. I'm always grateful that people like you keep these cars around and running, and it's a treat to see them out driving on the road, just as they were created to do!
Beautiful cars back then.
Colors are gorgeous. Sigh, it looks so great. Everything looks so clean, everyone looks so well dressed, obesity looks practically nonexistent.
I remember the late 1950's and obesity WAS almost non existent then. If you ever get a chance in a public library, high school library, or college library, flip through some old year books from the 1950s and 1960s, and even the 1970s. Look at the group photos. The kids all look trim and svelte by today's standards. I think some thing or things, changed in the American diet since then, but I'm not sure what it was, or they were..
A time when people looked forward to the future. 😔
Now we wish to go back in time!!
Sad but true 😢
Looked forward with optimism. Now, realists dread the future.
Страшное будущее и прекрасное прошлое.
What ? They didn’t care, they had 5.0l+ motors in every car, they wore leather on everything, they smoked cigarettes where they wanted to, I mean they had wood! on cars? that’s not looking forward to the future, that’s shitting in future, unless we wouldn’t be where we are now
Eight wonderful minutes.
1950s USA's greatest Decade Ever !
Magical time I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s and visited lots of the places shown. Wonderful memories wish it was the same way today. Very good presentation.
Thank you for making these wonderful images available. It's a real trip back in time. Congratulations, greetings from Brazil.
Thanks for watching! Felicidades para você e sua família no brasil!
@@TheHistoryLounge ❤
REALLY high quality images!! I miss the old days.
Another "home run" of a video! Thank you for your work in putting it all together.
Seemed such a peaceful and happy time inAmerica - greetings from Ireland!
Greetings from the USA, @ciarankelly4338 - Thanks for watching!
Wonderful! Actually 50s and early 60s, mind you, given some of the cars in the photos, but this in no way detracts. What an era!
Thanks, @portaltwo. You got me on the '60s photos. There were definitely a few in there. But, these pics were mainly my favorites, and I couldn't resist slipping a couple in if they were "close enough!" Thanks for watching and commenting!
The 50s did not end until the mid 60s. After that, things changed at a rapid pace.
Beautiful nostalgic video of a great time in American history - reminds me of the traditional town of Chillingbourne.
Such beautiful times, great wonderful cars. Nothing to compare to today's life and cars. Too bad!!!!!!
…great production work, Kevin…it’s wonderful to allow these vintage cars, fashions, hairdos and destinations speak for themselves…
…being a late “Boomer Babe” (1954), I can clearly recall seeing so many of these locations from our ritual of Summer family road trips…
…this decade was definitely one of unbridled income growth for ALL Americans, fresh out of the Second World War and Korea…everyone took Dinah Shore’s exhortations to “See the USA” to heart; and nearly every one of the burgeoning middle class did just that…
…the roadside motel, with coffee shop/restaurant was a fixture; and in our current era of look-alike imports dressed in white, silver or black; the overall takeaway is just how varied in style and color all the cars were…
…I’ve subscribed, good sir, and look forward to your future offerings!!…😮👀‼️🆙👍🏽🆒
Hi, @gclarkbloomfield8848 - Thanks for watching, subscribing, and especially for sharing your memories! I wasn't around until the '70s, but our family road trips were some of my favorite times as a kid. I wish we would've taken more pictures like these!
Hi from uk ...not a suv in sight and colour on cars ... now only colour seems to be silver white grey or black ...superb photos brill vid👍
You are so right. I miss these cars and their unique styling and of course the vivid colors.
Any color you want, black, white and grey . . That goes for clothes too. Extremely boring 😒
You can watch this era in living color in some of the great Hitchcock movies like Vertigo, Rear Window and to Catch A Thief.
Your video was so great. It made me smile and also brought tears to my eyes.
Thanks for your comments and kind words - watching this video has the same effect on me!
So beautiful.... so much space with very few people and stunning terrain and roadways. I really wish I could go there back in time to experience it.
Che meraviglia! Hanno detto che gli anni '50 sono stati il decennio più bello dello scorso secolo e non fatico a pensarlo...mi viene la nostalgia anche se non ero ancora nato
Vedo un America sviluppata mentre qui in Italia eravamo ancora una nazione agricola
Un saluto a tutti dall'Italia
These pictures are showing the nice part of the US.👍👏
I'm in my 70's and remember these times. Thanks for the trip, onward!
To me these times are not gone. Being and old car and trailer collector it's nice to drive my rig up and down the highway to car shows and sometimes just to go camping. To give people a look what it was like back then"Today!" Liked the slide show it reminded me of when my parents took us out west every year.
Hey Paul - Whenever I see someone driving one of these classic cars on the road I want to wave them down and thank them for keeping this part of our past alive, and in public for people to see. Thank you!
What an iconic time.. I like to remind my mom often that she grew up in one of the coolest era's.
America and Americans were beautiful.
Awesomely Wonderful thanks!
WOW! What a trip down memory lane. Born in 1943, those photos brought back SO MANY memories. Thanks
Hey Rex - Bringing back good memories is exactly what I hope some of these videos can do. Thanks for sharing your comments - I'm glad you liked it!
Pictures are great for bringing back old memories
Amazing no trash and no graffiti everywhere 🎉
Outstanding! Colors fabulous.
Kodak colors, fabulous back in the day!!
It's amazing how well these Kodachrome images hold up. It really provides a clear look of what everyday life looked like back then.
In the early 80s I road tripped in a 56 Ford F-100 with a 1955 Star fire Travel Trailer ...Not because I was Cool.
But because it was what I had.
I had a 65 Chevy Truck and a 59 Boles Areo in 1977...I did Road Trips all over the West in my 55 VW
Thank you for posting. 👍👍
These videos bring back so many memories times really were better back then
Loved this video! Thank you.
Been to many of those places and had some of those cars. We could use some of those simpler easy going times. It took me back. Thanks.
The music had goosebumps on my arms watching this.
I hope the late 2020's go back to fun.
Thanks for watching and commenting - I agree that the music fits really well with this set of photos. ALSO = I appreciate your good attitude! YES - Let's bring back the fun to life in America!!!
If you think of going back to war is fun........
And now we wished we could bring the past back it's like a story book now.sad what we become 😢
What a thrill this was! Thank you for all that you do for us to make us feel "warm and fuzzy". I grew up in Kansas, we did plenty of traveling but always north and to the west. We never went east and i don't know why! HA Thank God for memories...right?
Who here remembers when you could go shopping and leave your car windows down and not worry about somebody stealing your stuff? Or leave your car windows down all night while parked on the street and come out and find your car the way you left it?
I noticed that. Back then, anyone caught stealing a car was in for some pretty rough times. Not so today.
I do. There are those who don't believe me when I say that during tge 59s, and even up to the early 60s, many did not see the need to lock their house doors, and kept their street parked cars unlocked as well, with the windows down to boot. I remember this being the case, quite well. Glass jars of milk were delivered at people's front doors, with no one thinking someone would steal it.
Well done and entertaining to the end.
Thank you!
Such a great video. I loved the cars and vehicles in colors of a wide variety.
Thank you for commenting. I’m glad you liked it!
@@TheHistoryLounge Your Welcome. I subscribed, keep up with the great content.
Yeah, I remeber that horrible pink and white color on the cars that was so popular back then. Lol. Edit: I subscribed too. 👍🏻
@@srvntlilly Ha, hah! I've never seen a pink car in real life, but I thought it looked pretty cool! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
@@TheHistoryLounge You're welcome! 😊
Better places & time. Thankyou.
Excellent, unfortunately we cannot go back to when people cared for each other. God Bless, please see US thru our present difficult times. Please anyone post who plays this music, super. 🇺🇸🌹❤️👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
The song is Maca by Adrian Berenguer, you're welcome!
Was. A wonderful time miss it
I was a kid in the 60's and many of the sights from San Francisco were the same when I was growing up. My hubby & I spent the 1st 12 years of retirement (till 2022) traveling the western US - been to many of the places & now that we're stopped the major RV traveling, we're still planning on shorter trips now east of the Mississippi. The memories even in today's world are the best.
Hermosas imágenes. Un mundo que hubiese querido conocer....gracias por compartirlas....
Yo también. ¡Gracias por ver y comentar!
Have vacationed in Florida multiple times, but never heard of Weeki Wachee in Florida and its daily mermaid shows until seeing the picture in this video. That led me to a UA-cam video on Weeki Wachee and Cypress Gardens from a 1964 travel series and other related Weeki Wachee videos. Great to see it’s still in business and would like to experience visiting this piece of history on our next trip to Florida!
Missed it the first time! 1:35 We had a 1953 Ford Victoria that looked almost exactly like this one! Cream body black top. 53 was the last year Ford made the legendary flathead V-8. Ours was a great car. One time when I went to get a haircut with my father, he showed me (briefly!) a hundred miles an hour on the speedometer on a long straight stretch of deserted road on the way home. I didn't tell my mother until I was in my sixties, and my father had passed away some years before. My mother was well into her eighties, but still hit the ceiling when I told her about this little adventure. One of the more common colors for 53 Fords was Seafoam Green.
Hilarious! You wait 50 years to tell your mom the secret, and she still flips out! Great story - thanks for watching and contributing!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I can watch this over and over again
The music is Superbly matched
It's calming
It's beautiful
Thank you for these videos
Wow so so beautiful beautiful America from a Brit ❤
best decade in the history of US
The kkk agree with that.
@@johnathandaviddunster38 Completely ignorant statement.
@@peterjohnson1734 .
I have pictures of my mother from that era looking very much like the women in these photos. I recall a lot of guys flirting with her when I was a kid. Today, my 42 year old daughter is an exact mini-me of grandma, in both looks and personality. Nice post. Thx.
Love this!
No litter anywhere, and all the cars are clean. Weird, but great.
My Grandfather had a old truck and a little Trailer like this one. He and grandma would take my father and brother on trips. Boy I wish I could have. Thanks.
I loved this....in color! So nice to step back in time, and the sound track made it even better!
Thank you for taking the time to share your kind words, Wayne. I’m really glad you liked the video!
🥲God Bless America!❤️
Not called America the beautiful for nothing, and I am English. Just want to be able to visit one more time.