30 GROCERY STORE Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- 30 GROCERY STORE Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember
In this video, we take a trip down memory lane as we explore 30 classic grocery store products that only Baby Boomers will remember. From iconic brands to beloved snacks, join us in rediscovering these nostalgic items that shaped a generation. Don't miss out on this dose of nostalgia!
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Nostalgic list! What are some grocery store items or experiences that stand out the most for you? 🛒
Soo... I guess this just applies to those who are baby boomers and not maybe gen x born int he 70s?
Frenchs MUSTARD (a small glass jar)....HOSTESS cupcakes.....THREE COLOR (Rainbow) Popsicles....Frozen PILLSBURY Biscuits.....REAL Orange Juice (in glass gallons) that the same MILKMAN delivered to our house...ETC..ETC....Im gonna cry
Roaming the toy aisle while my mom shopped. When I got a bit older, I liked to browse the record section.
Mrs. Dash was ok, but the seasoning MY family really misses is Vegit. It was a mushroom based seasoning that we used in and on almost EVERYTHING. There are SO many of our family recipes I just can't get to taste right anymore because they no longer make Vegit.
Where can I purchase Tang?
I'm Gen X and i remember the Quik with the metal top using a spoon to get it open.. before plastic took over the world
I still have one I use to keep old silver dollars in.
I’m a Millennial (1985) and remember Quik in the metal can with needing the spoon to open the top. It lasted into the 1990s. Saltines also used to come in a metal tin.
Nestles makes the very best.......Chooock....lat.
I remember this too!! As well as the metal International Coffee tins. They used to have a bunch of flavors. They were big before Starbucks.
Nestle's Quik has been around since the 50s
I remember green stamps!
Oh yea, pasting the stamps in the books, going through the Green Stamp catalog, the Green Stamp store, etc..
Sure do, my folks took my sister and I to Disneyland on them back in the 60’s
Blue chip stamps were a thing as well. What happened to this world, we took a wrong turn somewhere.
Me too it was my job to paste them in the books I miss those days terribly 😢the blue chip store we used to go to was near Hollywood and is now a habitat for humanity shop.
And "Wise Owl" (
Remember toys in cereal boxes?
Great source of joy back then
Dig dirty hands through the cereal to find the toy. Wanted the cereal for the toy.
AND sending in box tops for prizes or toys. I got a big U.S. map for mailing in box tops.
@@shawnkelly695 I eventually got the idea to dump the entire box into a large mixing bowl, then back into the box. The toy was always on the bottom, wasn't it.
Remember when they had records on the back of cereal boxes- you cut the cardboard back off the box and put it on your turntable?
I am a gen x im sure 1 thing boomers and genx have in common we can agree everyone was dressed in clothes not pajamas and slippers at the grocery store
I was at hobby lobby one day and I saw a woman in her housecoat and slippers, I turned and walked away.
@@karengordon6610 This is a new world we live in now for sure
@@sherrielynn5761 I stopped my clock in 1966 and never rewound it.
this is one thing that makes me as mad as hell people need to show some pride and respect.
Pajama bottoms piss me off!!!
I used to think the occasional woman being seen having to run out for pantyhose or something last minute in her curlers and house dress and thought how tacky it was.
I'd love for the 30's and 40's fashions to return for men and women who are so gross with their a** falling out of their way too shorts whose daughters shorts match 🤢🤢😡😡
I remember Log Cabin Syrup in a glass shaped log cabin.
Heat up a TV dinner, set up a TV tray, sit down and watch Gunsmoke.
Those thin metal ones lol Andy Griffin my TV dad 😂
Yeah, that's a memory for me too.
From what I remember gunsmoke was on Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. a little late for a TV dinner back then.
Or the "Million Dollar Movie"
@@thecatatemyhomeworkmaybe he worked swing or graveyard and kept to his habits even on his day off 🤷🏻♂️ why split hairs on someone's fond memory, sheesh
I loved it when grocery stores just sold food and they did their baking onsite. The smell of fresh doughnuts was so welcoming.
Those were the days
Agreed !
They didn't do that when I was a kid. If you wanted donuts you went to the bakery. Doing them onsite really ruined the quality of the products.
Do you make sure to patronize the smaller grocery stores in your town to keep them alive?? I do.
@@debralittle1341 That was my hometown market as well back in the late '60s. The independent bakery was sandwiched between the ShopRite grocery store on one side, and the independent drugstore on the other
Remember when wine wasn’t sold in grocery stores and stores were closed on Sundays?
I'm not sure about wine, but I remember the hard stuff wasn't.
I sure do.
Also, all the stores closed by 7 pm, with many closing before that!
Not every state allows wine to be sold in grocery stores - mine doesnt. Fyi.
It was wonderful having every Sunday off and family get togethers
I remember the deafening cacophony of the cash registers of the early 70's. I miss those days!
And every checkstand had a rack had a rack with cigarettes because SO many people smoked back than.
Boomer here, born 1958. #1 i live in Arizona and my grocery store has a bar (beer & wine only) in it. #2 mom cooked every night except on Sundays. Never had a TV dinner until I move out at 18. #3 Welches grape jelly came in glass drinking glasses. When the jelly was gone, you had a glass with the Flintstones printed on it #4 became a truck driver in 1991 and I remember a truck stop gave out S & H Green stamps. #5 last one I promise. Mom always dressed very nicely, but did not wear an evening gown to go shopping
Bet you bought a box of cereal either for the prize inside or the latest 45 paper record you could cut out from the back of the box (I had The Archies Sugar Sugar paper record for many years).
@@charlesfcopeland9756 I had Sugar Sugar, the Jackson 5's ABC, and the Monkee's theme song.
Born in 1961 and I enjoyed all the GREAT things you mentioned. But I never knew what my foster mom would get with those S&H Green stamps. I helped here put them in the books though, lol.
Compared to today you walk into a grocery store and people dressed like they just rolled out of bed
My mom also collected the green stamps and would have us kids paste them into the books for them. I remember those jelly glasses with the Flintstones!
I was born in 1956. My mother always cooked dinner everyday. On Sundays she would fix the best roast beef in a pressure cooker. Homemade rolls that she baked on Saturday, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn or green beans. She was a good cook. When we got home from church on Sunday night, wed get the leftover roast and eat it on the rolls. So good.
Yes and my Mom always made hash and eggs with the leftovers on Monday for dinner.
And the dinner table would be set, the house spotless, and my Mom would have her hair done up and a nice dress on .... all ready for my Dad when he would get home from work. She would go "big" grocery shopping once a week and send my Dad out for "little" shopping if we needed anything else.
Also born in 1956. My mom worked full time, and only cooked on the weekends. My dad worked a swing shift and didn't get home till around midnight during the week. Mom would cook simply during the week, and dad's meal was left in the fridge for when he got home. (Jan Griffiths).
Women shopped at the same store every week because the stores featured a different piece of matching China they could get according to their purchase. Also stores gave customers s & h stamps according to how much you bought. When you accumulated enough stamps you could visit the s& h stamp store and turn in your stamps for lots of products. Usually kitchen and home items. It was a big deal for the family and everyone went.
Oh, ugh! That hideous blue flower Corelle Living Ware!!
My mom shopped on Wednesdays when it was double green stamp day. We always shopped at Piggly Wigglys 😂
I remember women wearing their hair in curlers, with a scarf or sheer hairnet or "babushka." Smoking was allowed in the store. Aisles were smaller and my Dad had a cigarette in his right hand, while pushing the cart and accidentally set some bread in plastic bread bags on fire! He threw them on the floor and stomped them out. Boy, was he embarrassed. I secretly smiled as it was kind of reassuring to see a grown up really mess up in public.
I remember when laundry detergent gave away glassware in the powdered detergent box. It had always migrated to the bottom lol. Tide, Gain, Ulta...
@@anitapeludat256 Ha! I remember women in rollers, too, with scarves on... Friday and Saturday was "date night" and wives got fixed up.
I worked at a grocery store while in highschool. I saw so many products and ways to package them come and go with the times. Women would buy Dippity Do and hair rollers while getting Vitalis for dads. They would buy TV dinners, pot pies, Nestle Quick and Tang for the kids. Soda came only in returnable glass bottles that kids would bring in radio flyer wagons the empty containers to collect the .5 cents per bottle. We then stacked the bottles in wooden crates for pickup by delivery drivers. Outside every store was a penny bubble gum glass dome. Grocery bags were brown paper only and bag boys would take everything to your car and load them for you. You never had to guess the price of any item since a price marker had been used by the overnight stocking crew to mark everything. Cashiers would then ring the marked price unless missing a sticker and then would have to call over intercom "Price check on...".
I went to Walmart yesterday and they brought back the brown paper bags. 👏👏
I'm told that I was a rotten kid and would peel off the price stickers when riding in the grocery cart so we always needed price checks.
OMG, forgot about Dippity Do! Oh, Brylcream for men - a little dab will do you
@@susandickerson2663 What about "...an Aqua Velvet man?"
Back then it was so beautiful to be alive now it is 2024 and it seems like we are living in a real horror zombie movie.
TV Dinners at .98 ea seem expensive given that we were a family of 7. My parents were amazing; we never felt as though we lacked anything. RIP Dad and Mom - I love you forever ❤
Beautiful…..
Did you find it nostalgic?
$0.98 in 1955 is worth $11.26 in 2024. That's $78.82 for the family (no tip).
my mom was a scratch cook. what she couldn't grow, she purchased locally. she canned, she froze, she dried and we ate well.
My mom worked at a mom and pop grocery store and my dad worked at Kroger Bakery (not the in store typr but the actual huge baking facility...bread and goodies). We always had food. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🙂🙂
I would love to go back in time and shop in a grocery store like we did in the good old days it's was the best times love it ❤❤😊
What would you love to buy again?
@@VintageTVShows hi some of the good old products we don't have now and just enjoy the vibe
TV diners were the meal that dads would feed their kids while their wives were at a Tupperware party lol.
You had that one ever?
@@VintageTVShows Of course that's why I know that dads fed them to their kids when their wives were at Tupperware parties lol. My dad was actually a good cook, but TV diners were tasty, and it was fun to pick out which one we wanted.
@@carriesmith7460 lol....yep!!
Swanson turkey dinner with the cherry crisp dessert
I live in Canada . What I remember about food in the 70s is : Breeze laundry detergent ( power , in different sized boxes ) had either a bath towel , hand towel, or a face cloth in it . Mustard was sold in glass jar that became drinking glasses . Red Rose tea bags came with an ornament in each box .
I kinda think sugar still is the star of cereals. Try to find a low sugar cereal these days. Even the so called natural cereals are loaded with it
Red Rose only quit offering the ornament
Yes! Same in the States. Dolly Parton sold them on the Country show, with Porter. I can still hear her sweet voice say, "Boxes of Breeze."
I remember my mom buy ABC laundry soap.
I just bought some Red Rose tea from Amazon. I like it much better than Lipton. It has a smoother taste.
The original Prell bottle had that distinctive shape, so you instantly knew it was Prell. We loved Quik and Strawberry Quik Now we are awash in plastics from the grocery store, but when my mom was shopping in the 60s and 70s, the packaging was far more natural. Meats and fruit such as strawberries came in cardboard trays or baskets. Bulk fruit in nets had real string nets, not the plastic nets of today. There were cubbies of paper bags under the produce displays, you would grab one and fill it with plums or cherries or whatever. Mom would reuse the paper bags for our school lunch bags. Not to mention big take home bags were all paper. Laundry detergent came in big cardboard boxes - no bottles. My dad used paper bags as mulch in his veg garden. No wonder we are awash in tons of plastic!
And there are simply far too many of the same type of products 🤬🤬
@@Curbsidedreamer008 Yes! My mom had some of those towels!
I remember detergent in boxes!
@@laurakibben4147 yup. Why not just have luxe and bargain brand detergent, shampoo, etc. Like literally, two or three brands. I don't want, nor need, an entire aisle of nothing but shampoo and conditioner.
@@Curbsidedreamer008Ha! Looked it up, so that's where some of the hand-me-downs for college came from. Still have them too, though some are getting worn and faded.
I totally remember when you used it have to dress up to go to the grocery store go to church go to the movies and so on and on and so on. Times have truly changed.
Lol! Yes- our mom used to make us wear our Sunday best if we had to go to the doctor.
I had to wait for my mom to iron my cloths to go to the emergency room for a broken collar bone.
@@krispoli22 That is hilarious!
@@maguffintop2596 I had a motorcycle wreck and my uncle found me and took me home. Crazy
@@krispoli22 I stuck a pitchfork through my foot (don't ask) and had to wait 20 minutes in the car while my mom put on lipstick, fluff her hair and got fixed up (change clothes). She was soooo annoyed because she had to rush. This was 1979...
I remember when people served their life working in a grocery store. They had nice houses , nice vehicles , most had small boats , and fished every weekend. It was odd to have a grocery store worker to be hateful back then. Every one of them I remember took pride in their work. It really does seem that times were much simpler then.
Us too. In BC, Canada. 🇨🇦🙋🏻♀️👍
When I was young in the 70's, I never saw a rude or insolent worker at any shop, restaurant or business. They'd have been let go...
Yeah, but back in the day those cashiers actually knew how to count out change so if their machine wasn't working properly it wasn't a problem.
Love it when the cashier forgets to enter amount tendered and the register doesn’t show the change. They literally freeze because they don’t know what to do.
@@joannemcmillan9201 LMAO! So true
I'm a cashier at Walmart. I've known how to make and count back change for years. I get put on the cash only lane quite often. (Jan Griffiths).
Not just boomers, Gen x at least early ones like me grew up on a lot of this, though some was only in America. Went shopping with my mom all the time. Just because we weren’t adults doesn’t make our memories of all this any less clear. Nesquik was great and canned ham, not spam was also good. Stores were only for groceries and absolutely closed on sundays.
Gen X here and you're right. We thrived on this era. I remember very clearly.
Not only stores, but gas stations were closed on Sundays.
That must be a hasle
@@VintageTVShows You just made sure that you filled up your car gas tank on Saturday.
Sundays were relaxing: church and then families got together to eat
@@homethatilove4595 That's how I remember it.
Watching this is making me very hungry and nostalgic..
Same here!
I was born in 1970. I remember so much of this. I remember Mama (grandma raised me, born in 1915) insisted that we wear nice clothes with matching shoes and pocket books to go shopping. We didn't live close enough to go often so we went to town monthly and it was THE event in my life. She never used a coupon in her life. She felt it was some sort of charity. She was appalled when the "new Piggly Wiggly" in town had things besides groceries. When generics came out I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She was goaded into buying generic tang ONE time. I remember those metal Quick cans, those little tins which held 6 or 8 Anacin but you needed to push just the right spot. I miss those days! I remember a surprising amount of things about shopping in the 1970's. I remember the bicentennial very well, with the year leading up to it having stores stocked with patriotic decorated snacks and patriotic packaging.
The Spirit of 76.
I miss the butcher shops and bakeries in stores too.
Yes they should be there for convenience of buyers
@@VintageTVShows
Especially considering what we pay nowadays.
I miss the good old days… now you go to the store and the entitled employees act like it’s an inconvenience if you bother them, they aren’t all like that but the majority are.
What do you miss the most about those great days?
@@VintageTVShows I miss employees being kind and helpful, the safe foods, nestle chocolate powder and ovalteen, you could go shopping by yourself for mom and the employees would watch over you.
Many do it seems.
Sounds like you hate working people
@@fastcharger3314 in the older days you had to be polite and courteous to the customers or you would be terminated, that’s what customers service is about. Nowadays people are lazy and rude, people should get jobs that are suitable for them…
Here's what I remember from mid-1970s groceries stores. My mom bought EVERYTHING for a full family Thanksgiving dinner for $50.
$50 was worth a lot more then!
It was like that until 2005. Right when George bush sold our country to you know who
That reminds me when I went to the store with my mom and granny. They had brown grocery bags with store brand bread in it at Safeway and my granny had a melt down on the price. Four loaves for $1.00. I often wonder how her reaction would be today at the price of bread. LOL🤣🤣
Today the thugs will sell you $50 groceries in a single plastic bag.... Sad.
$50 in 1975 is equal to about $290 today, inflation is crazy!
Don't forget those coin operated kiddie rides in front of the stores. My favorite part of shopping.
I remember when little toys came in cereal boxes. 😊😊❤
Nostalgic
I miss lunch counters. We had one in our supermarket. And they were in "Dime stores". We had "Kresges", and "Woolworths"and "Grants". These were pre Kmart days. In Detroit suburbs, in the 60's.
Woolworths are still open in Germany.
Good old days…. Right?
I loved the 5 & Dime store.
@@margarettickle9659
Yes, nothing like them anymore. Dollar stores don't count .
Not the same .
Woolworths!
I remember those days well. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid. I remember when Kmart opened, and worked for one for 3 years while attending college. I still have the turquoise smock I wore. Mom and I would take the bus on Saturdays to downtown Dearborn to shop. She didn't drive. (Jan Griffiths).
Being born in the 50's I remember the grocer knew my name & referred to my mother as Mrs ****. The smell of fresh bread as l ran through the store to help my mom and I learned to shop. I don't think technology has improved this experience.
Wow…
Beautiful memories!
What else you remember?
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.
Mrs. Dash?
Remember A & P? Walking into the store you would smell the coffee getting ground at the check out. Amazing smell.
This video is all over the place.
Yeah, I didn’t understand the video being cut into more recent commercials when they weren’t making any sense with the concept of the video
Narrator explains old era with Modern machinery 🤔
Weird! Flip-flopping
It was probably done with AI or that Chat tool thing.
Mentions Jif peanut butter and shows Skippy at 5:51
This is the most random video I think I’ve ever watched! New and old clips, pictures from the wrong eras, unexplained photos, and just all kinds of weirdness LOL
In the winter, I’d still use the Nestle’s to make hot chocolate.
What I'm nostalgic for is when the person at the register ringing up your order actually acknowleged your existence. Now, almost everywhere, you never get so much as a greeting, and the person running the register does not even acknowlege you when you're speaking directly to them. They are definitely hearing and speach enabled, because they spend the whole time that they are ignoring you, chatting and socializing with their co-workers. The customer is forced to be persistent in trying to interrupt to get even the slightest response. Even if these employees have no idea of their own of how to behave and interact with customers, why aren't their employers training them???? I had many cashier jobs as a teen and it would never occur to me to be so rude and dismissive of a customer I was supposed to be serving.
Thanks for sharing!
I was born in the '80s and I'm shocked at how far customer service has fallen just in the last decade or so, and especially since COVID. Almost everyone is really rude now. I'm shocked when I receive good service at a restaurant.
My daughter is a cashier at a grocery store and is amazed at the rudeness of people on both sides! Customers often go to managers to praise her for being helpful and kind.
AMEN! This is unfortunately true of every type of business with customers such as fast food and retail. I complain if someone is rude or dismissive to me. Like you, I worked in those positions and would never have treated customers so shabbily!
I recently told the cashier it was okay to slow down. She was in a hurry, long line and only 2 cashiers. She said management told them zero socializing, no greetings, "Did you find everything alright?" Is the only greeting, just scan and bag. "Have a good day." And if someone is looking for something they couldn't find, therr is no time allowance to actually locate an item.
Having been born in the very early 1950's , I remember a lot of new products . Transistor radios , portable tape recorders bought at Goodyear , Western Auto brand guns , push button phones , portable TV's , The BEATLES :D and on and on . My mother actually started doing survey work door to door in the early 60's . She would drop off all manner of new products in homes . Then come back later and ask people if they liked the product , or what they would change . She loved doing this , and did it through the 90's . This included new " disposable " diapers and razors , new brands of cigarettes , candy , cereal , shampoo's , you name it . If it was used in a home , chances are she tested it :D When I was in Vietnam , like many . Mom and family sent me Tang to put in my " treated " water to make it way better . Cool video !!
My mother always bought Prell, but i hated the smell. I got a job mowing yards so i could buy Herbal Essence. I loved the smell. I wish they would bring back the original scent.
Herbal Essence was Spanish Fly....ohhhh yeahhh.
Gee your hair smells terrific! 😁
@@Overprotected-rt9mc I wish they would bring that back. I used it all the time, both shampoo and conditioner. (Jan Griffiths).
I was born in 1979 and remember Nestle Quick as a kid I would make chocolate milk and sometimes take a spoonful of powder right in my mouth lol
Do you like the taste?
Whenever I did that that made me cough and the chocolate powder would go flying all over the place. But that didn't stop me. I think all kids did that at one time or another.
My husband was born in ‘79 I was born in ‘77. I loved Nestle, but you could never get into that without Mom and Dad knowing..
@@christyparr1563Hi, kiddies 😊
Margarine = Evil, just yellow oil - only butter for me. I remember and never cared for the savory Jello foods.
I remember biting into both margarine AND savory gelatin molds at my elders' places... and either gagging or spitting them out! I mean, isn't margarine just a millimeter away from being plastic?
And the news was always telling you to eat it to lose weight. Evil is correct!
@@jenniferburchill3658 Remember something called "tomato aspic" ? Ooook! It was awful!
@@michaelschabow2911 Salmon mousse was even WORSE. That stuff was basically lutefisk minus the lye!
Aspic was gelatin that was mostly beef flavored. It was used a lot for the molded savory dishes. Aspic and jello are both gelatin, but aspic is not jello. And it was gross.
I remember candy cigarettes
We still have some aluminum drinking glasses that my Grandmother got in laundry soap. I have a little metal cabinet that my mother got with green stamps.
Good old times … right?
Did you ever get the towels in the laundry powder box?
Aluminum cups were the best. Kept the milk ice cold.
My grandparents had aluminum cups in every color. They had hard well water. Between the aluminum and the minerals in the water, all of my silver fillings acted up.
I remember going with my grandmother to the green grocers. They only carried fruit and vegetables! The store was downtown, we walked there and grandma bought 1/2 lb green beans. The owner of the store spoke with Grandma and made recommendations on freshness and when vegetables had been picked! He even knew what farms different vegetables had come from! Grandpa drove Grandma to the butcher usually on Saturday morning, and she would get the meat for the week!
Good old days!
You must have a great bond with your grandparents haven’t you?
That sounds like she had access to good quality food from good quality people. Very nice.
I sell my over production from my garden at the farmers market. I make good money, and all of my veggies are organic. I very rarely bring stuff back home. I love farmers markets. It's a shame that ours is only once a month. (Jan Griffiths).
you are wrong. walmart was never a supermarket. it was a discount store. grocery food is something new that was added not too long ago.
Not a discount store anymore
@@choossuck7653 Now a outsourcing retail giant selling CCCP items.
I was born in the early 80s. I remember Quick in a metal can. Used to get a 25lb bag of flour, and we still have a flour bin in the kitchen. We had a lot of these things on this video.
My local store still sells Ovaltine chocolate mix.
True. They definitely still had the metal can in the 80's.
I miss the the local Delicatessens, Bakeries, Town Diner's, & A&P's of 1950-60's Boston. ✝️🙏🕯️🇺🇲💪
Did it make you feel nostalgic?
Me too. Everything is run by corporate bs now.
Waldbaums and Edwards
We were lucky we had both A&P and a First National. Not lucky now.
I see these on old television shows and wish we had those today. Or the butcher on Andy Griffith show. My mom used to talk about soda shops, and I have seen these in old movies to. They look like a fun place to hang out. Wish I could have experienced these things.
I'm gen x and I remember a lot of these.
Baby boomer I remember my moms boyfriend had a station wagon we would put our pijamas to go to a drive in.
Thanks for sharing
As a kid, I would do that also. My parents had a station wagon. Sometimes aunts, uncles, and cousins would go too, and all of us kids were in our pjs. (Jan Griffiths).
Back in the day, TV dinners came in aluminum. Why on earth are they using plastic now?!! Aluminum is so much more better for the environment! And we should go back to glass packaging like generations before! We did it in my day and we turned out fine.
I guess with many homes getting microwave ovens, using aluminum pans could be problematic. My mom found that out the hard way when we got our microwave in the mid-70's.😫
The microwave oven, no metal objects
This is. Pretty weak reason to justify all the harm plastics do.
I believe soft drinks in glass bottles lasted into the early 1980s. At least in the 2 liter size especially.
We used Hershey’s coco powder and the tin opened the same way.
Fan of it?
@@VintageTVShows I was at the time. I don’t think I had chocolate milk since I was a kid.
@@VintageTVShows I use it in baking recipes. Calls for it specifically.
I was about 8 in 1968. We did a big grocery shop. The whole family always went together. We bought two grocery carts, mounded with food, we were 5 in our house . The total was, 64.00. That was a lot of money and a lot of food. Good days!
Thanks for sharing!
Yes good old days indeed
Yep, I remember the good old days when my family did that. I was an only child, but we bought a lot of food, and did our big shopping every 2 weeks. 64 dollars was really quite a bit for that time. Don't forget--wages were also lower back then. Hardly anyone made even 10 dollars an hour back then. My dad came close at $8.50 an hour, and mom $7.00 an hour. Dad drove a city bus, and Mom was a nurse. (Jan Griffiths).
I grew up in Marinette Wi, right on the Wi, Mi border. When I was small, late 50s, I remember going with my mom to drive across the bridge into Menominee Mi to buy margarine at Niemans grocery store. We couldn't get it in Wi, being the Dairy state, stores sold real butter. I never knew why she didnt like butter, everythings better with butter. I use butter and wouldn't think of ever baking without using real butter .
Didn’t you ask her, why she didn’t like butter?
@@VintageTVShows I was five or six at that time. Kids don't think of those things and it was a long time ago😊 There may have been a price difference too, I really don't know. I just found your channel, and Subscribed.
That’s about the time that the big cholesterol scare began…dairy products became “dangerous.” I agree with this comment. Margarine is nasty!! I’d not cook with it unless forced to. It’s basically plastic. 😮
My grandparents on both sides lived in Wisconsin, so I went there all the time growing up. At one point they were allowed to buy 'oleo' but it was COLORED so as to not compete with butter...red, blue, green - looked like rectangular crayons.
Margarine and shortening (like Crisco and Spry) supposedly make better baked goods than butter. Another possibility of why she gpt it instead of real butter
Miss those prices!
The invention of the TV dinner. Wow 🎉🎉.
They were much better back then
@@Crazychick64SO good 😋
My mother was a horrible cook. Thank goodness for TV dinners with their high fat and salt content.
Don't forget Swanson's "pot pies" ! Chicken, beef or tuna.
@@michaelschabow2911 tuna? I didn't know they were available in tuna that's gross
Omg! I had forgotten that prell had come with a pearl in the bottle to show how rich it was!
Ugh, I can't think of the actual name, but there used to be a shampoo based on beer 😂 just looked it up. It was called Body on Tap and was based on a Budweiser beer lol.
@@lisabishop6266 Body On Tap. That was one of my favorite shampoos it smelled fabulous!
I had to use prell one time to get the Vaseline out of my hair after slicking it back for a 50's dance!
It didn't. The pearl was in the commercials.
I was born in 1950. We lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. My mother went to a very small Mom and Pop store for groceries. The store had hardwood flooring. They sold meat, bread other dry goods. The best thing in the world to me was the Coffee Grinder. You could watch the beans being chopped, made a great noise and smelled like heaven. Does anyone remember Bosco chocolate Syrup? My favourite. I recall Prell Shampoo in a glass container. In the early 50s, children were well behaved in stores, not like now. I would rather shop in a smaller store than an overwhelming monster sized huge boxed store. I still like Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger on the label. On Sunday, everything was closed. Most people went to church. Never had Spam, my mother said it was junk. Same with Soda. We always had real butter, never Oleo. Fresh Seafood was available and wonderful, as were vegetables fresh from the garden.
Good old time…. Isn’t it?
The bad thing about supermarkets today is the bakeries have no lovely aroma, and the meat department also has no aroma. It is a very sterile environment. I love the cleanliness, but I also like to go to an independent bakery and my German butcher to get things from them. The aroma makes a wonderful shopping experience.
Yes! Our local grocery store had a real bakery and a skilled butcher. Mom would request certain cuts or special roasts for holidays and he would prepare the meat exactly as she requested. The butcher lived in our neighborhood and would bring over peaches and apricots from his trees to our mom.
Or the aromas you do smell are chemical and pumped out into the air…like the do at theme parks, etc.
I miss the 70s😢
What missed you tge most about that time?
Australia must be sooo backwards (sarcasm), we still have customer service counters, bakeries, a delicatessen, child friendly trolleys, scales in produce, giveaway fruit for kids… actually quite a few of these.
I'm in the USA & we have all those things as well. I think the video made it sound like the items mentioned were in the past, rather than saying those things came into use back then, & are still in use today. I doubt they even realized how it would come across to the viewer. 🤷♀️
@@darlenehoward2340 That’s hilarious 🤣
I live in the New York City area and we have all of those things.
We had the banana and oranges free fruit. The cardboard box display just said free fruit. I took a banana. They told me at the checkout (rudely, I add) that it was only for kids. Y'all didn't specify that when y'all decided to implement this. I just figured they were soon to go off or something. Maybe write the intent and not just "free fruit" on the display...🤷
We do still have quite a few of these. The video could have been better produced, frankly.
Wasn't Green Stamps talked about a lot on All In The Family?
You got good things for those green stamps.
My father practically furnished our house with them.@@aliceputt3133
Things that have gone from my local grocery stores up here in Montréal but that I want back:
Grape-Nut Flakes
Variety meats
Double-manned cash registers, one person ringing up your groceries and the other one bagging them
Free samples
Pinkie stamps, the Steinberg's grocery store equivalent to Green Stamps; Steinberg's went belly up in 1992, but the Pinky stamps had disappeared well before that
People who bothered to dress stylishly or at least nicely before leaving the house (the ballgowns in this video were downright silly, though; nobody wore ballgown to run errands).
Things that have changed for the better:
Larger grocery stores, though fewer and further apart
Sunday openings
Longer business hours.
Hope you see these things again!
Free cookie anyone! Remember in order to easily open fruit and produce bags they had a little peice of a sponge they kept wet for your fingers, now people lick their fingers 🤨🤢
Ugh! You hit on my pet peeve!!!!! Who are these people who think that the rest of us want their nasty saliva all over things that the rest of us touch???? No, I don't want to be exposed to your bodily fluids!!!! Please do not lick your fingers and transfer your spit to the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The arrogance of that behavior is off the charts!!!!!!
Back back in the day when TV dinners actually had a taste to them that was good.
I used to love Banquet fried chicken.
I forgot about the key to open Spam & other cans, now everything is pulltops.
Thank goodness. I never could open that corn beef can right.
Mrs. Dash didn’t come out until 1983.
I was going to say that same thing.
When my best friend was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I gave her a gift of an assortment of Mrs. Dash products. My dear friend had never heard of or noticed them before, and she was terribly grateful.
Does anyone else remember at the.grocery stores exits how they lined up tons of coin op machines for the kids. The Pez machine was my favorite 😊
Sweet memories… right?
Stores had a small animal ride, coin-operated.
N-E-S-T-L-E-S 🎶 Nestles sells the very best - chocolate 🦌
I think it was, Nestles makes the very best,
I used to love Strawberry Quik
Back in a different time, Quick came in a metal can, The smell of the product when first opened, omg it good stuff.
I GREW UP WIRH SWANSON TURKEY DINNERS IN THE 1950'S HOW I MISS MY SWANSON DINNERS PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!
I miss the day when adults knew how to behave and taught their children how to behave too. There is no way that my sibling or I would ever think it was okay for us as children about run up and down the aisles or scream at the top of our lungs in a public place. Parents now seem fine with their children's horrid behavior as long as their kid isn't bothering them. Parents now seem completely unaware that it's their job to socialize their children and teach their kids how to behave.
Thanks for sharing!
That's so right. If we misbehaved we didn't get to go back to the store for a year. We were watched by a neighbor or the opposite parent.
I know, right? I see this all the time at Walmart where I work. Kids are in charge now, and the parents don't do a darn thing about it. If I acted that way when I was a kid, I would have been punished right there and then. (Jan Griffiths).
In the UK we had Green Shiield stamps, my mother loved them. As kids we got sick of the taste of the gum from spending what seemed like hours sticking them in the books. They really were a con since you need to fill five books to exchange for a bread knife you could buy for almost nothing at most hardware shops. The most " expensive" item in the catalogue was an Austin Mini car. You would have spend aboud about two million pounds in today's money to accumulate enough stamps to get one and you would ned a very large van to take all the books to the nearest Green Shield outlet in ordto be put on a waiting list for the car. All this was stated in microscopic print im the back of the catalogue. I never head of anyone collecting anywhere near enough stamps to get a car. You would have to save for years in order to have enough stamps for things like washing machines or fridges.
e still have the same thing. Now they go by names like "air miles" and "loyalty points". Same idea except for the computer age.
I remember not being able to watch a movie on TV on Sunday! Today, anything goes! Lol!
Good old days… right?
Saturday night at the movies. I had to go to bed when it came on. I cried every week at 9 p.m.
I remember the wonderful smell around the 8 O'clock coffee grinder at the A&P grocery store ! ❤😊
I wish i had Nestle Quick right now! Yum!
I have a container in my pantry as we speak. Still buy it. It was yummy then. It's yummy now.
It's Nesquik now, but just as good. Chocolate and strawberry flavors. Most grocery stores sell it. (Jan Griffiths).
Fizzies❤
GenX here and i remember a good portion of all these things in the video.
Things i miss are actual butchers in the grocery stores, baggers that helped you to your car if needed, brachs mix and match candy displays, Cheer laundry soap,Quisp cereal, cartons of bottled soda, and Eckrich variety pack square lunchmeat that actually fit perfectly on square pieces of bread lol. Oh yeah almost forgot the twin packs of potato chips.
I bought a jug of Cheer detergent at my Walmart (I work there) the other day after work. It was the only one in the store---there wasn't even a shelf sticker for it. It still has that great Cheer scent, and cleans as well as I remember. I'm going to save it though---it's the only one I've seen for quite a while. (Jan Griffiths).
Green stamps 🖕
Now you go into a grocery store, and they have one isle of canned food. And when there is a run, ( like there was on toilet paper at the start of covid) people are stunned when there just IS no food. Store do not keep a warehouse in the back. There IS no backup.
Whereabouts do you live? Because the stores around where I live have more than one aisle of canned food and they have warehouses in the back of the store...
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl on the Oregon Border.
@Irish_Georgia_Girl My store has 15 types of ketchup to chose from. The backroom is full of stock.
They sold laundry and dish soap. Also they never closed on Sunday. I remember when the banks closed at 3:00 pm. So glad they changed that.
I remember when my uncle got severely cut by a glass bottle of Prell while showering. He had to have stitches on his foot. My aunt swore to never use it again. Then it came out in plastic bottle form.
Remember when they put the white pearl in the Prell shampoo?
@sharoncrawford7192 Thats right!! I think I kind of remember that too...I had to have been very young. Do you know what year they stopped putting the pearl in?
@@sharoncrawford7192Lol. There was never an actual pearl in the bottle. They showed a pearl on TV ads for Prell. They dropped it in the bottle to show how thick the shampoo was.
@chrism1102 hmmm....really? I was young so.....
Grocery stores didn't accept debit or credit cards until the early '90's. I remember when Farmer Jack started accepting debit and credit, it was a big deal. You had to give them your phone number in case the charge didn't go through, which is what happened to me, lol. The supermarket called me and I had to reauthorize the charge
Before the debit cards I remember having to show the card called Honest Face.
Those things infuriate me. I could have had a check filled out and been down the road faster sometimes.
Plus, you have to talk dirty to them, ROFL! "Oh, you stuck it in before I was ready, you'll have to pull it back out."
"Ok, now put it back in."
😁😁😁
"Slide it in hard (or slower)"
"You did it too hard, you'll have to take it back out."
@@laurakibben4147that's hilarious! 😂🤣😂
The grocery store I work at (it was under a different name back in the 1990) was the first location in my state to take debit cards.
I remember Farmer Jack's. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid, and there was one a few blocks away from our house. Was formerly a Food Fair. (Jan Griffiths).
When i was a kid in the late 60s and 70s in nyc, we had "Met" and Grand union supermarkets. I remember walking into woolworths and smelling the popcorn and cotton candy. The counter ladies wore light blue uniforms and a blue paper crown. They had a menu and it had counter seating. A cheeseburger and fries was 2.49 and it was GOOD. I loved Bosco and Quik. And white castle. Burgers were 10cents. Cheese burgers were 15 cents. A shake was 75 cents. Carvel was the go to place for ice cream.
Good old times…. Right?
When I was a kid in Dearborn Heights, MI, we had something similar to White Castle called The Giant System. They sold slider burgers for the same prices--10 cents for hamburgers, 15 cents for cheeseburgers, and 10 cents for an order of fries. Drinks were 10 cents for small, 20 cents for large, and shakes for 75 cents also. The burgers had grilled onions, ketchup, and mustard on them, and were so good. Fries too. When I visited NYC in 1979, I went to the same White Castle that appeared in the movie "Saturday Night Fever". Brought back memories of Giant System for me. (Jan Griffiths).
I am a Baby Boomer 64 years old and this takes me back thank you! I remember my father buying laundry soap and getting a free glass or mug in the box. And the Green Stamps my Grandmother had tons of Green Stamps and books. Anyone remember Fizzies and Shake a puddin ? I remember everything in this video and then some that are not. Beautiful memories thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
What is with all the random images and clips that have nothing to do with the script?
That would be the AI used to make it getting confused. AI scripts and editing seems to be flooding UA-cam lately.
Raleigh cigarettes had a coupon on the back of every pack. I remember that we had one large drawer filled with them. I’m pretty sure that was in the 5o’s.
I think they did that up into the mid ‘70’s at least…we had the same storage situation in our house, lol!😂
Wow, I totally forgot about that. My mother smoked Raleigh.
Waiting for the Good Humor man was always a peak on a hot summer day. What fun!
The part about stores only selling food isn't accurate. I can remember a "toy aisle" at my local grocery store even when I was a very young child in the 60's.
Me too. And a magazine rack and a comic book rack too, as well as soap.
Nestles Quick was my go to drink as a kid. 👍🏻
Yep, I always had a big glass of chocolate Quik milk with my breakfast as a kid. (Jan Griffiths).
Remember that as frozen tv dinner sales spiked, more & more women were working outside the home, I know it was a factor.
How is it linked?
@@VintageTVShows …really? After the scarcities of WW2 era….The rise of ez access/pre- made foods /fast or grocery store origin…is rather parallel with the infusion of wives in work force.
Women's lib movement...
Some rejected 'homemaking'... Thankfully, that's now making a comeback
@@homethatilove4595 …most moms that I knew that joined the work force , well That “women’s lib” was not their purpose exactly. I saw moms work to help their family. After the war, so many married, got pregnant (boomers coming…right). Back then pregnant employees were not routinely permitted to remain employed. (Recall, in 1974 women got the right to open a bank account without a MALE co-signer) I think when it became more routine for moms to work, an immediate sharing of household tasks did not occur…(mostly). My mom would never buy a tv dinner, large family..too many etc.. …but Grandma would, once in a great while just to please the grandchildren she was hostessing.
I remember in the 60s grocery stores would cut up the chicken and give the wings away for free , now they want a small fortune for them .🇨🇦
Good old times….. right?
My dad would go to the butcher and get free beef soup bones. I choked at the price of them last week.
Im a solid Gen X here birn in 1971 and i remember all these things.
Apparently the only expiration dates were on Eggs, Milk and Bread.
Gen X and Millennials had some of these things grocery stores started selling greeting cards in the 1970s same with flowers though some families patronize the same local florist for generations for ex my family has gone to the same east Boston Ma florist for 50 years for any occasion you can think of such as prom wedding bouquet congrats for childbirth get well after surgery etc.
Your editing needs improvement. When you compare to today it is often cut off.
The produce department was very dependent upon what products were in season. In Canada, breakfast cereals often had small toys inside. Or you could save box tops to mail in to get prizes. My favourite cereal was rice krispies, particularly with sliced bananas. Frosted Flakes was my favourite sugared cereal. I remember when Quik came out with banana flavour. Margarine only came in white with a little pack of dye you could mix in to make it yellow like butter. We had a milkman who brought us milk and butter.
Appreciate your suggestion!
I remember the milkman. Our house had a milk chute in it. It was 2 small doors---one inside, one outside. The milkman would place the dairy products inside, and close the outer door. We would open the inside door to get the dairy products out. We had Twin Pines Dairy deliveries twice a week. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 We had a milk chute it one city we lived in. It meant the milk wouldn't freeze in winter. When really cold and left outside the milk at the top and neck of the bottle would freeze.
In California, we had Blue Chip stamps instead of Green stamps.
Thanks for sharing
EXCELLENT----VERY GOOD VIDEO...Brings back memories....I appreciate many things...My mom used to give us TV-DINNERS.....I considered DELICIOUS!!!...specially one that included FISH STICKS(or BALLS) ...Its funny now that some extremists are considering that plastics are kind of "satanic"(I dont think so)...are returning to GLASS (with all the inconvenients).....Can you imagine a glass of SHAMPOO breaking in the middle of your BATH
These crazy left woke people are trying to take us back in time.
Love Twinkies!♥️✌️
They taste so much different nowadays. The “cream” filling
is…greasy. It’s a shame. 😞
Hostest went out of business and closed. A new company bought the name and make Twinkies now. But it is not the same
I used to love them as well. When they went away for awhile, I started buying the Little Debbie cloud cakes. They were so good. They don't make them anymore. I refuse to buy Twinkies anymore due to the weird taste...smh
I liked them when they had banana filling. (Jan Griffiths).
I remember all of these. Born in 1960. Families went to the stores together and dressed to go shopping. I remember the cigarette and candy machines. I remember we couldn't sit at the food counters in Maryland.
Toothpaste came in metal tubes. You could buy a 3-pack of plastic “keys”, to attach to the back end and roll it up as used, to get every last morsel!
And how about “squeezy cheese”? Revolting stuff.
Or the aroma beads to put in the special tp holder.
Coloured/scented toilet paper. We always got the lilac because every fixture in the bathroom was purple.
Stubby glass bottles for beer.
And I loathed Kraft tv commercials.
Gave my mother bad, bad, evil, terrible, godawful ideas.