13 Things from the 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand!
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2023
- There are many things that are completely unique to the 1960s. If you grew up during that time, then you know how different they are from today. Entertainment, culture, and just basic daily routines have changed drastically. So, here are 13 things from the 1960s that kids today would never fully understand.
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Born in 1955. The 60's were the best for freedom. No helicopter parents. In summer we went out to play and had to be home by dinnertime. All the kids knew everyone on the block and further. Even the 70's were fun with most of the same freedoms.
Freedom, unless you got drafted into Vietnam, and bye bye freedom
I know what you mean! You don’t wan to get into trouble when everyone knows who you are!
I was born in 1955 also. Great memories of things that were more simple.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 but you had to be 18 years old.....this video is mostly talking about kids
Yep...like that for me too.
I was born in 1953 and I remember walking to school and my mom made everything homemade and thought a box cake mix was horrid! I think the 50’s and the 60’s were good years to be a kid!
Same here. For some reason the women of the day subscribed to the idea cakes had to be made from scratch to be truly worthy. But, my mother was OK with cake mix and frosting mix. I didn't care as long as it resulted in a cake. :)
Same here
Same here as well- but don't forget the music!!!! Never better!!!
I'm from 1937 and all these things and more. Have enjoyed what time I have had, loved the music from 40s 50s 60s 70s ,it's mostly crap music these days. Cheers to you all!!
@@SarcasticCynic I think you're right, though I enlisted at 17.
It's hard to believe that I made a good decision at that age, but I did. I served for 15 years and think I got out at the right time. I think I was beginning to push my luck after being a sniper that long. It was time to get out and get married if I was ever going to do it.
The kids today will never know or understand the simple pleasures and magic of the 60s. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Probably many boys can remember the pedophile priests. The Church knew all about them, though.
The more you have the less you appreciate.
@@earlr9381 we didn't have a lot and yet growing up we never KNEW we had it hard.
I was born in 1953 #8 of 9 kids. Sure do miss every single moment I had with my parents, siblings and friends. My parents are gone. 3 siblings are gone. 1 sibling in a nursing home. It was great, challenging, educational, fun, exciting, loving but most of all fun and I would do it all over again to see my lost love ones.
Born in 42 here.. 3 brothers, one of them is gone and all 3 of us that remain have of course, "issues". We ain't around very long. As soon as we learn what not to do to prolong life its already way too late to do anything about our pursuit of vices.
We had our MILK Delivered from a local "DAIRY" GOLDEN FARMS?
Walked home for lunch &watched. "BOZO'sCIRCUS"
I was born in '59 and grew up in the 60's and 70's. It was a whole different world. I miss it, sometimes.
I was born in ‘59 also. The 60’s and 70’s were an awesome time to be a kid. Kids today couldn’t survive in the world I grew up in. 😂
59 also. Being a kid in the 60’s and teen in the 70’s all seems like a dream it was so different but the best times of my life.
Me too.
Born in '52. When was the last time you ever heard of a kid building a treehouse, for instance? Much too dangerous and independent for today's precious snowflakes.
Born in '59 here too the 60's and 70's were the best! We are very fortunate!!
Growing up in the 60's seemed like much simpler times. I suppose the interesting part back then is being thoroughly entertained as a child with the fraction of the things we have available today for entertaining children. No computers, not much tv, no internet, no smart phones, etc.. You really felt connected to life back then.
No kidding. We would join our friends for adventures in "the woods." We lived on a hill. When it rained, we would put blades of grass in the gutter, and see whose won the race to the bottom. High tech for us was a bicycle. We would ride into town with friends and drink from water fountains. Money? Never had any. Happiness? Plenty.
Boring feel sorry for them
Born in the 60s we just didn't have internet and video games. We were told to be careful about stranger danger. Now you can't trust anyone.
Because maybe disconnected from current local and worldwide events.
And men were men with very few who wanted to be female or vice versa.
I’m 60 and never made a cake from a box! We grow up in the best years !! Gosh I miss those times!!
I was born in 63 so I although I have some 60s memories , I’m considered more a 70s kid. Many things mentioned here didn’t just go away as soon as 1970 hit. Many still went on deep into the 70s. We carried our books under our arm all throughout the 70s. I graduated high school in 81 and don’t remember any backpacks.
Same! We had a great childhood. Kids back then had much better social skills and matured faster. We also had better survival skills. We we’re definitely not snowflakes! ;)
I was born in 63 and It was the same for me.
Same here
I graduated in 84’ so I was a few years behind you, I remember leaving the house in the early part of the day and not returning till 8-9 pm during the summer. Regarding your mention of backpacks, I didn’t ever use one either after the 2nd or 3rd grade either, it wasn’t ‘cool’ ahah! We’d ask our local mailman to give us those cool leather straps they used for their mail and many of us here in New York would use the strap to tie up a book or two or maybe three. It wasn’t cool either to have too many books if I remember correctly.
I remember having those blue binders which faded with time and we’d either paint on them or use a permanent marker to write things on them like your favorite Rock band or whatever it was you were into at that time.
Fun memories for sure and a much different time for sure.
My freshman year was 19801 and I agree with you
I recently had a cashier at Dunkin' Donuts tell me that she had recently graduated from high school and didn't learn cursive writing in school because it's too hard for the students to learn. We did it in first grade and I have the pictures to prove it. It’s sad and shocking how far America has fallen.
OH NO!!! NOT MY PRECIOUS CURSIVE WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO WRITE IN A VARIATION OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET THAT WAS USELESS FROM THE GETGO???
When one has to write everything with pencil or pen, cursive significantly speeds up writing. So it was far from useless back then. Not to mention people who can't read cursive can't read any of the documents of the past going back to Roman times. They have to wait till someone who knows cursive tells them. How can one know what the Constitution truly says if they can't read it for themselves? They'd just have to believe whatever they were told, because they're functionally illiterate. For young people today, it really is worth taking a couple of weeks to learn cursive so they can at least read it.
Yeah, cursive. I apologize up front for saying that anyone who can't "write" is illiterate. Sorry. I don't mean to be rude, but not being able to read cursive is just not good enough. Schools eliminated penmanship classes, to the great detriment of their students. I was shocked when I realized that my niece, who I mentored in English and grammar in her middle school years was not being taught how to write. It's not the kids' fault. It's the schools.
@@MissyQ12345 It's the dumbing down of America to the lowest common denominator. Now over half of the minority teachers in New York City cannot pass a certification test in the subjects that they are teaching to students. Public school education has become an affirmative action jobs program for incompetent teachers who couldn't work anywhere else.
@@ian9326 Yay ignorance! Everything I can't do is useless anyway!
Lol cursive takes one day to teach, then just tell kids to do all their writing in cursive. Cursive is faster anyway, which is why it was invented.
Kids today will never understand REAL FUN and adventure. Holding and looking at a cellphone screen all day isn't going to be too memorable 40, 50 ,60 years down the road. LOL 😂
I'm sure kids today are having alot more fun playing video games, and watching sports in 4Ktv, than kids in the 60's playing with silly putty, and watching Bonanza in black and white
I agree! 🤣
Kids have video games and phone games and the only time they go on an adventure is on camping trips.
Building forts, making obstacles courses and running on them, riding bikes over an astonishingly large territory, playing down at the creek, sliding on cardboard down grassy slopes, swinging on the rope swing, climbing trees, playing cops and robbers, or cowboys and Indians reminds me that we were only indoors when we had to be, and that didn't leave much time for silly putty. @@vicepresidentmikepence889
get up , go out , come back at dark .
just to name a few more we had: Spirograph, lite bright, scratch off stickers, banana seats and stingray bikes, etch a sketch, superball, rabbit ear TV antennas, giant posters hung in your bedroom, Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, sea monkeys, lava lamps, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, Hot Wheel cars and their long race tracks, Twister, Candy Land.
Boy, does this bring back memories. I was born in ‘53 and all this stuff rings true.
I was born in the mid 40's, and all this is very true and evokes lovely memories. Because of circumstances which weren't bad, I played outside, alone, mostly in the woods, every day weather permitted. There was no "be careful" or " be safe", no adult worried about me, I was home at sunset. I learned judgement, self reliance, the power of imagination, the magic of the natural world, and the peace of being in my own company, on my own. Great memories!
Good Times For Sure 👍
I was born in the early 50's can remember Being expected to play outside all day so that I wouldn't be under my mother's feet. She made me memorize my address in case I got lost and told me to find a police constable to take me home. I can't remember the last time I saw a constable on the beat.
I grew up in the mid 90s.
The circumstances are the Key, bach then crimes and sickness was Higher, more childrens died by sickness than today. Poor peoples the war trauma but If you have luck for a good life, youre Happy. Nowadays similar problems, Just Look the world
D@mn right!
I was born in 1955. I had a wood burning set. I can tell you, once burned, twice shy! I can still remember the smell of cap guns.
Me as well. Born 1963.😂 My Lone Ranger cap gun set with dual pistols with holsters and Lone Ranger mask was so cool. I believe they were made by Marx Toys. All American made of steel/metal and chrome plated.😂😂😂Hi Ho Silver!!! Away!😅
Sometimes, we'd use a rock or a hammer to make the caps pop. They did have a very distinct smell.
Hey, I had a wood burning set, too. I still remember the smell of the burned wood. Thanks for reminding me.
Remember the unique smell of accidentally burned skin?
I had a wood burning set too. It was a gift. I doubt any kid ever thought.. "Gee, I hope I get a wood burning set for Christmas." I never really understood why anybody would find "wood burning" the least bit entertaining. Yeah... the burn was horrible.
I spent the 60’s in elementary school and high school in the 70’s and I felt I got the best of both worlds. So much fun with the kids on the block, 25 cent movies at school on Saturdays. It seemed like such a magical time. Serious times too but it was a good time to grow up.
Yup I was a kid in the 60's so I lived all of this !
I was born in 1961. TV Dinners were a HUGELY big deal!!! What a TREAT!!! I only ever had them if my mom and dad had to do something in the evenings after work. I remember my favorites being the ones that had the little tiny compartment with the baked apples in it. Oh, the JOY!!! 😊 Similarly, the VERY cool Jiffy Pop Popcorn that you cooked on the stovetop, with the foil pouffing out!! But it was expensive, and I was being raised by parents who grew up during the Depression, so we usually popped our own. In fact, I still have the pot we used! And, I still use it for popcorn 😅!
I'll forever be grateful for being born (1955) in a time when being outside was far more important than being inside.
I’m just grateful for being born! Some kids don’t have that these days thanks to planned parenthood.
Now it's "dangerous" to even go outside and breathe air without a mask on.
@@glennso47, You're concerned for potential children that don't get born? What's your opinion on letting an ovulation go unfertilized? Every menstruation is a potential child that was never born; what do you think of them?
Kids in the 60's were deprived of Good Health , Then only 3 shots , Now Kids get Over 70 shots from birth to 6 Years ! Kids Today are So Lucky ! ☠💀😡
I was fortunate to be born in 1960 & living in a farming community. Us kids roamed everywhere
Mom & pop corner stores - Where they sold bread milk and a few canned goods BUT the biggest draw was their penny candy selection and Icecream ! I love those places
queens NY vanilla egg cream or custard in an aluminum bowl. Peel the crust skin off and chow down.
Absolutely! Great memory and great experiences.
We called ours the 'milk store' or Penny candy store. Our classmate Michael's parents owned a tiny one and we were all jealous 😍
We had a little market we could walk to. All the penny candy was displayed behind the cash register area. So Mr. McFarland could keep an eye on us. But, many years later a friend told me Mr.McFarland was a child molester. He always did seem a little weird. And He kept his wife in the their living area behind the store. When mom found that out she would ask if she could visit her sometimes. I remember going with her to see her. Sad little woman sitting on her sofa.
We had a candy store down the street. Just sold candy and soda and comic books. Doubt there's anywhere like it any more.
Brings tears tears..i misa it all. I am 77.
So, 55 years ago, like me, did you not trust anyone over 30
@@MikeGrant-zt7uo YEAH LOL
Iam 86 and wonder what today's kids have learnt, if much at all????
Same here.
Me too. Those were the days. So much less to worry about. So much more fun.
This was really great. I so enjoyed walking down memory lane. Thank you. I was born in 1948, I’m 75 now, and had a wonderful life growing up in the 50s and 60s. I was just talking yesterday with a friend how things were for us. So much freedom. We’d just go outside and play all day long. We’d go all over the place. I could even go to the new large shopping centre by myself when I was 9-10. Life was so different. I had my children in the 70s and in the 70s and 80s their life was so similar to ours. They walked to school just like we did. They’d play outside for hours. Never ever saw a backpack when my kids went to school. It truly was a great life. So, so very different today. Such wonderful memories.
Loved this too. This era was so innocent for children.
You had me at creepy crawlers, hours of fun for my brother and I. Also I lived my entire childhood with skinned knees, if I fell I got myself up and went on. There was no crying only mecurichrome😀
That stuff burned lol
@@Hoybabe1 That is because, you have been a wimp, your whole useless, so-called life.
If mercurochrome didn't make you cry, nothing would.
Thums up to Mr mecurichrome LOL
And bandages.
Born in 1961. This was wonderful. Remember the "Safety Patrol" (students) at crossings around school, as well as the flag patrol--that raised and lowered the US and state flag every morning and afternoon. We even had a student bugler and students stopped when they heard it while walking on the school grounds.
How I miss so much of the past; much has been lost.
I was a Safety Patroller with the silver badge on the white canvas strappy thing, putting it on before walking to school and then out into the road at the crossing and standing sideways so I'd be the first one run over by Mr. Llewellyn who was close to 90, I guess, and wouldn't give up the keys. He never stopped at a stop sign anymore but everyone knew his car and hopefully got out of the way.
I was a crossing guard in the early 80's. Loved wearing the safety belt. I got terminated because I was always late. LOL
I love saying "It's half past 3" to younger people. They have no idea that you're saying it's 3:30. They're not taught that in school anymore. I like messing with them. LMAO
Ditto. I was a member of the Safety Patrol. Had an neon orange thing that I wore to show that I was official and to make you stand out to drivers.
Born 1960 - same.
Ahhhh Those were the days. Love 'em or hate 'em the 60's were instrumental in my youth. What a great time to be alive.
I remember how many kids got 'paddled'' in school as punishment. Even teen-aged boys. Common occurrence. Sadistic.
And the CARS!!! Cars in the '60's were the most beautiful cars ever made -- with a few exceptions. They didn't all look alike. From a block away, you could tell the make and model of the car that just went through the intersection. If I ever win a big lottery, I'll find a 1966 Corvette and a 1969 Mustang Mach I. Of course, a '69 Roadrunner would be needed as well as a '63 Galaxie 500 XL and a '68 Charger. They weren't just cars; they were works of art. I'm not sure I could fit in the 'vette. Might have to give that one to my wife.
@@thewaywardwind548 Or a Firebird, GTO or a Camaro. Muscle cars were so beautiful. I say this as someone who was a teenaged girl at the time who didn't care much about cars. Only rich kids had them. A lot of kids in my wealthy Montgomery County Maryland high school were given Mercedes for their 16th birthdays.
We rode bikes without helmets. Most kids fell, got bruised and cut, got up, and went on with their life having learned a valuable lesson.
Yes indeed..if you never had to pick gravel off your knees before you got first aid, then you never lived..
Our sleds rode you Hard, and had pretty pointed blades.
I’m so grateful for that childhood.
I rode bikes for years and never, ever saw anybody suffer a head injury. The helmet manufactures are making big bucks and giving nothig in return.
I was maybe 6 and I fell off the slide. I was in a box and I had a doll which i drop. I guess I was trying to grab it and I fell from the top. I busted my chin and I blacked out. I woke up and a woman was carrying me home and life went on.
@@Richb144 I have three friends who suffered skull fractures in bicycle crashes in the sixties, and more recently I have seen friends walk away from crashes with cracked helmets, but their brain boxes intact.
I was born in 1964, and I still have my late father's 1960 self winding Bulova watch with a twistoflex wrist band...given as a gift from my late mother to my father. I still wear the watch every now and then, and actually sometimes get compliments from other people who notice it. I miss my mother and father, and growing up in the 70s and part of the 60s was the best. Man, those sure were the days!
Me too, me too!
Born in 66. I am the youngest of 8 kids. In her late 70s, my mom started giving out her jewelry to us. I have a beautiful ring and a watch that needs winding from her graduation in 1950.
Your not the only one.
Can’t wear my fav watch bc it needs a new battery. Been to 3 places trying to have a new battery put in it. They all say they don’t do that anymore. Wish I could just wind it up.
I do colored pencils and one of the big things for sharpening is the 1970s electric sharpener by Panasonic. Those were the best and are better then anything today. People look for these because they are so good. Stuff like that are junk today.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, we respected our elders, policemen and teachers.
You obviously don't remember the 1968 Democrat convention rioters calling cops pigs
@@vicepresidentmikepence889What a miserable person you must be.
because they were respectable!
@@vicepresidentmikepence889Nope,was 8yrs old then.
In the late 1960s to early 1970s there were a lot of racial riots and Vietnam War protests. Societal upheaval. In my school there was no tolerance for any of it. It was forbidden to even mention war or Vietnam. A teacher permitting it could be fired. Truth. A boy once brought in an LP from Woodstock as part of an assignment for English class. He started to play that song that said, " 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for?" The teacher's face was pure shock. She shouted at him to turn it off and said she could be fired. I'll never forget that. 10th grade.
I honestly cannot say that I think things are better today than they were back then.
Born in 1954. The rotary phone, building your own play house out of wood, having to help clean up the house. Life was good. There were no electronic distractions. Merry Christmas
I was born in 1958 I have those memories as well.
I was born in the mid 50s so I grew up in the 60s. I loved growing up then and feel sad for today's young people. My friends and I have so many happy memories of that time, the freedom, the optimism, the music, friendships that we still share till this day. I'd trade in all the technology of today to go back to those simpler, happier days.
I have to say, kids generally seemed to be a lot happier in the 60s. The music, movies and TV shows were more upbeat, and society in general was more positive and congenial. I'm Australian, but I've seen and heard the same sentiments expressed by people my own age in the US.
Me too mid 50's which made us grow up in the 60's which I agree except for walking to school, buses in the first grade early 60's had to be used unless you walked 10 to 15 miles. We crossed over in the early 70,s to teenagers and young adults in the mid 70's. I escaped the Vietnam war but still registered for draft after troops started coming home. Yes good times in most parts.
@@Markus_Andrew dont forgot Vietnam and cold war fears/ paranoia
@@borntoclimb7116 As kids, we were too young and having too much fun to worry about that, especially here in Australia. That all seemed like a million miles away at the time, and there was no internet to remind us of it every day.
@@Markus_Andrew and nowadays we have all the Bad things instant on our Phone
I was 12 in 65’ . My first job was cleaning out horse stalls at a small farm . I received $10.00 week for about twenty hours of work . The farm was about two miles from our five acre farm. So if my dad could not take me to work I would walk .
One day at work my boss said “ your dad thought you would like an easier way to get to work “. He then presented me with my own horse . It was some of the best time of my childhood . Also , l always rode bareback . Never had a desire for a saddle .
Amazing. My husband was about your age and lived on a farm during Jr. and high school. He did chores as well but, never got a horse!
@@DianeLake-sw3ym My childhood was not too bad . But it definitely got better moving from the city ( Tucson ) to the countryside in Oregon . The horse did top it off .
Now people can't get any young help these days to do what kids used give anything to just to be around horses. I too used to muck stalls and brush horses when I was 11 and 12 (this was in the 80s) and loved every minute of it. I dont even remember what I got paid but I didn't care, i got to be around horses and get to ride them. Kids today just don't want to work period. People with barns just can't keep help and many boarding facilities close.
Being 12 in '65 tells me you were born in 1953, as I was. I grew up on a large wheat farm, and my extended family also had a small cattle ranch in northern Idaho. I never had a horse of my own growing up, but spent enough time around the ranch to learn to ride and be quite comfortable around horses.
In 2004, I was living in Burbank, California, and was renting and leasing a horse from a local riding stable. Didn't feel the need to be a wannabe cowboy in Los Angeles, mostly because I grew up around real cowboys and had nothing to prove. So, I started riding bareback, with a pad and a blanket, instead of a saddle.
I ended up buying that horse, and we just celebrated 19 years together a week ago! We left L A behind during Covid, and are now out in the desert near Palm Springs. And, as a matter-of-fact, it is time to run over to the ranch and give Jasper his Saturday morning breakfast!
Hope you're still riding these days - it helps keep you young!
We grew up on ponies, too, riding bareback as well. Dad told us, you have a pony, go ride it so a saddle wasn't a luxury we enjoyed. As a result, even as an adult I always preferred riding bareback, only using a saddle on long trail rides so I had something to strap saddlebags to, and to mount with since horses seemed to keep getting taller as I got older for some reason?
There was one food delivery service back then...milk, in thick glass gallon containers. Another curiosity: sewing patches in jeans, darning socks and cutting the grass with a rotary push mower. Also, don't forget the roller skates with skate keys.
My mother repaired socks the modern way, with iron-on patches.
@@sueblankenship9441 Sometimes those were used on jeans, but we refused to wear socks with them. They were too stiff.
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Okay, perhaps ALL the memories of the '60's aren't wonderful. But I have a rotary push mower in my storage building in the back yard and last used it a few years ago when the gas mower just died for no reason. Just died. The looks I got from people driving by and seeing that push mower were priceless.
I grew up in the 1960s, and I miss the innocence the most. Today, young children are being exposed to adult themes such as nudity, marital problems, and dysfunctional families that I never even thought about when I was their age. You enjoyed playing outdoors with whoever happened to be there, without worrying about arranging play dates or coordinating schedules, and any fear of being kidnapped or abused by someone driving by. We carried a nickle in our pocket in case we needed to call home, using a pay phone. Just a simple life, looking back. Probably why I watch The Andy Griffith Show reruns all the time!
Born in 1955. I remember we'd take our bikes down to the beach in CT. Was about 5 miles. Mom would give us each a quarter. There was a 5-n-dime on the way and we'd stop there and get a quarter's worth of penny candy and it would last all day. We'd explore the rocks and tide pools and do whatever boys found to do. As long as we were home for dinner at 5. Can you imagine ANY of that today?
We rode our bikes from Bridgeport to Monroe with no freewheel sprockets. We took the bus to seaside park, walked to Beardsley park. We'd go to Mickey's, A homemade tuna or egg salad sandwich for a dime, A nickel soda and turned in the bottle for 2 cents worth of penny candy. A great time to grow up. I went to Garfield elementary, then Harding high school before leaving Connecticut for Las Vegas Nevada
@karlwithak. There are some better things that go along wmodern living. Being addicted to a phone and social media is not one of them. Yes, you can get answers to questions immediately but you have to fact check everything for yourself. We got more exercise back then, both parents didn't have to work, money went A LOT further than it does now for decades.. like I said, Some things are better today, but not much
Sarcasm, right? @@karlwithak.
@@karlwithak. that's your reality. I walked around with $1500 pocket money back then. I just bought a new can opener. $18 where did you buy yours, the dollar store?
@@karlwithak. the ultimate $hot house
I'm so glad that you mentioned returning bottles. I can remember scrounging for bottles to return in order to buy candy, or go play pinball. There will never be a time like again. It was fantastic! ✌️
We used to collect bottles too in the UK in the late 70’s and then it was stopped.. however it’s still a thing in Germany, plastic, glass and Alu cans all carry deposits..
You would get 2 cents or 5 cents a bottle, can't remember the exact amount.
But you could buy a comic book for 10 cents or candy for a nickel.
And in 1965 a slice of Pizza was 15 cents, in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC.
15 cents could also get you on the Subway!
Yes, we'd ride out mustang bikes down the side of the local two-lane highway and collect coke bottles that folks threw out of their car windows into the ditch. Find eight bottles, that would cover a candy bar and a coke at the neighborhood sweetshop.
In tge Netherlands you can return your plastic bottles and cans now. Some kids buy their candy collecting those bottles and cans.
I remember making money like that too.
I love watching the “Wonder Years”. It brings me back to my childhood back in the 60’s.
Wow... I remember all of this and more! A great time to be a kid.
I was born in 1954. Grew up riding my bicycle, playing horseshoes, climbing trees, and spending time in the woods on the creekbank. It was all lots of fun!
Same here. And playing Davy Crockett...
And I'm sure if you had any kids, they were raised pretty similar. Gen X is the last generation to be raised with no cell phones in their childhood and played outdoors until the street lights came on.
I am from 2006 and I still remember climbing trees and building bases there in the 2010s but I am from eastern european and I guess it wasn't the case in America anymore
@@elomial724 Sadly, it was not the case. For so long now, we've had to be very vigilant. We have had to assess our surroundings and watch our children with eagle eyes. Evil is always lurking, waiting for any opportunity.
@kristiholder8505 I think the government also played a role in this. Now when your child hurts or God forbid kills himself his parents go to prison, back then everyone felt for the parents...
I'm 64, and the 60's were a great time to grow up in. Remember the gas wars? All the gas stations would give away free dishes and S&H greenstamps! It was a time when you didn't have to worry about crazy people and your mom or dad would tell you to be" in by dark". I really miss the innocence and the love back then.😊
I still have a free wooden yardstick from a 60's gas war!
Green stamps were cool I remember helping my mom put them in the books and going to cash them in , my mom would get me something small for helping. Simple and good times
I bought my firstborn’s cradle with S&H green stamps. Went on to use it for my second born. It wasn’t a piece of junk either. It was made well and it was REAL WOOD.
@@cathykrueger4899 I got my first Wood tennis racket with S&H green stamps. Should have stuck to baseball. Oh, well... at least I tried!
I still have a cooking pot/steamer I got from Blue Chip stamps my Grandmother gave me in the late 70’s.
Politeness, respect for elders, manners, courtesy, and hard work .... things today's kids will never know.
I remember going to McDonalds in 1970 and buying two regular hamburgers, a bag of french fries, an apple pie, and a large rootbeer , all for less than a dollar.
McDonald's French fries were so good back in the 1970's.
We walked to school in the 70s, too. Seems like there was more freedom back then. We also stayed outside until the sun went down playing kickball, hopscotch, riding our bikes, and whatever we wanted to do within reason. There were also no cell phones, and people thought for themselves.
thank God we did...
this generation is messed up..
Yeah, and in fact we walked to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways. It built character!
@iamfighterman9646 is true, and it's sad that kids of today can't experience the same freedom.
@iamfighterman9646 I'm not arguing with you, but I totally agree with you. I think it's a shame that today's kids can't have the same freedoms we had. No, I wouldn't even allow my kids to go to school, but home school from all this porn being pushed on in schools.
@iamfighterman9646 Actually, I was born in 1964. We played in the neighborhood streets kickball and riding our bikes without those awful helmets either. We came home for dinner and went back outside until 8-9 p.m., depending on the time of the year. I guess I see things differently. I kind of miss the old days.
That was a good one. Imagine actually learning the value of work and money. You captured it well. Walking to school, carrying books, all the cowboy shows. 🤠
Since Republicans undermined society, no one values work and money.
I did all that in he late 90's/early 2000's, what's your point
I was born in 89 and walked to school, earned cash, the only difference between my generation and yours is right when we turned 18 the housing market crashed, everyone lost their jobs, houses were swooped up by banks, banks stopped loaning to construction companies.
You don’t think that people learn the value of work and money now?
Imagine ruining the economy so badly for generations after you that they have to work twice as hard as you for less than half the benefits. What a great thing to gloat about. It's easy to act superior when you don't have to suffer the consequences of your actions and can throw it onto other generations and pretend it never happened.
Most of our fun growing up was spent outside. Didn’t matter what you were doing but we could stay outside forever only to come inside to get something to drink and maybe a snack but after that we were out until dinner time. I can also remember the first time I was able to ride my bike without training wheels. The thrill of being able to ride wherever I wanted to was a feeling I will never forget. All I remember was I could not wait until the next day so I could ride my bike.
I'm 47 and the times today are lame,,,,I miss the old days❤😢
SHAWNA: Okay, but are you in Portland?..
Thanks...
My grandpa passed in 1991 which was his age. I was cleaning his house and found a 1961 TV guide which was a year older than myself which I kept as a momento. TV time was basically 5:30-11:00. Programing mostly consisted of westerns, police shows, variety shows, some children's shows and religious programs. There was a section in the guide talking about drinking coffee on set. Including a very young Clint Eastwood from rawhide. Thanks for reminding us of good days gone by.
TV Guide was great fun to read. In the 70s when I was in Jr. High I enjoyed doing the crossword puzzle. Mom had to help sometimes. And reading the articles. And when I was a little younger reading about the new Saturday morning cartoons that were coming in the Fall. Scooby Doo sounds like it will be fun to watch.
And, when the tv programs went off at 11pm, they played the "Star Spangled Banner".
@@crowznest438 I used to watch don kirscners rock concert sat nights, after that we would see a commercial with the weeping Indian on conservation then the star spangled banner, it always made me sad till I saw poltergeist, then it took a new meaning. 🤓🇺🇸👻
@@julienielsen3746 Saturday morning in the 70s was great for me watching cartoons especially Scooby Doo. And the crossword puzzles were fun as well!
Oh, there were good comedies in the early 60s. Dick Van Dyke was outstanding.
I was a baby boomer child,i grew up with the Tonka trucks, slot cars, Schwiwnn bikes with banana seats, Monopoly, and huhu hoops. The kids of today would say what is that. Their toys off today are cell phones, game boxes, I pads, lol❤❤❤❤😢
Born UK 1952, remember metal toys, valve radios/tv's, coal fire, no central heating, cold water washes before school, just one pair of shoes, respecting, elders and teachers, old bicycles, exploring areas in summer, steam train noise during quiet nightimes, seeing starry skies, horse drawn vegetable sales, no fridges so creamy warm milk on breakfast cornflakes, jam sandwiches. Then the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys and transistor radios. Understanding values and scientific information and medical advances.
Everybody watched Candid Camera on Sunday night and talked about it the next day!
Anybody here remember those roller skates that clamped onto your shoes? You had to use that funny shaped T wrench to tighten up the skates.
BB guns, lawn darts, and pocket knives…..my my, how did we ever survive our childhood? It was so much fun growing up in the 50s and 60s.
We called them a "skate key."
skate key
Yes. We would sometimes sit on those skates and ride them down the hill. Talk about bumps and bruises 😂
We skated on the rough sidewalk and after taking the skates off, it was the oddest feeling in our feet.
I was born in 1965. I remember reading books where one character had lost their "skate key," and wondering what in the heck was a skate key?
I was born in 1946 and remember all of this. I served 2 combat tours in Vietnam with the Marine Corps and spent 3 months at Great Lakes Naval hospital because of it. I retired after 20 years and then served 30 years as a Calif. Police Officer. Both were the best decisions of my life. still I would not trade any of that to be a kid today growing up in this "new world".
T .Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Thank you Sir for serving our country.
Thank you for your service in both the military and as a police officer!
Semper Fi I was stationed at Marine Barracks 1 for a short time in the 60's
Thanks for what you did and what you got in return. USAF 1969-1973, the best choice I ever made
Surviving Vietnam and also California. Way to go!! (Lived many yrs in SoCal so feel entitled to comment.) 😄
Seriously, your service is so appreciated by me (someone who remembers and HATED the reception the vets got when they returned). I went to college to learn, not burn the flag or hold sit-ins at the Admin Bldg. We are a unique generation, having lived thru every imaginable sociological time, “good and bad”. I’m very grateful for that.
…there was also Sunday church as a family, and then Sunday dinner after, which was always the best meal of the week…
…and we always ate meals as a family…✝️❤️
Riding my bike, i had a 20" Schwinn, with the banana seat, extended fork, high handlebars. we use to take old playing cars with clothespins an put them in the spokes, at times I even taped smoke bombs on the back. It was like riding a chopper. We got around like people do in cars, I would think nothing about riding 30 miles in a day.
And another thing,
I did have a back pack, it was about 40" long with aluminum bars, and you would strap your sleeping bag and tent and extra clothes to it when you went camping / hiking. Fully loaded it weighed about 100 lbs.
And one last thing,
We has 3 channels ABC, NBC, CBS no MTV and no VCR, no remote control, one TV until i was about 13 then we got our 2nd TV.
You can't forget Ronco, everybody bought something from that guy.
Hanging out with friends without the distraction of electronics.
I loved the 60’s and 70’s.......Can we bring them back.
I wish, I was born in the 70s but I loved this era so much...children went to church too.
At least we can still listen to the music. The golden age of music was about 1967 to about 1980. After that, music pretty much fell apart.
@@anthonyiannozzi6777 I like '50s music, too.
@@happydays1336 music appreciation is subjective. But it is obvious that the quality of musicians dramatically increased especially with classic rock in the late 60's onward. Then it went pop and lost its way in the mid 80s. Today it is like computer music and crappy artificial sounds.
I wished and I was born in 1984
I was born December 1949. My dad was military until 1953 when he started working for an aviation manufacturer and travelled the world. We lived in England, Germany,and many places in the USA.
Those 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were joyous. We were expected to be outside after school and homework was done. Many of us had bicycles built out of parts from other bikes and we all rode every where. We knew to be home when the street lights came on, and expected to do chores in our homes. But playing stickball in the street, or a game of tackle football in an empty lot was pure joy no matter how beat up you got. Scrapes, cuts, bruises and bumps were not unusual as mom had mercurochrome or merthiolate to put on them. Bandaids were a necessary stock in her first aid kit.
I recall in 1969, my parents finally got a color tv and my dad and I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon. We were amazed at the technology it took for NASA auto accomplish that.
Our entertainment came from all our friends that we would meet up with in the streets. Rough and tumble, ride bikes to the local swimming pool which was a couple miles away, and playing and swimming all day, then riding home exhausted but happy. School was different than today as we had to learn to write cursive, learn different arithmetic methods, reading books was very important and book reports were such a drudge to do. It was always a bid deal to get your report card with your grades and the written report to your parents on the back cover where the teacher would tell parents how we were doing and if something needed correction. Teachers were highly respected, we wore proper clothing ( no blue jeans) and shoes. We were taught to respect the teachers, said the pledge of allegiance every morning and had a moment of prayer before starting class.
No one wore t shirts with slogans and writing on them, girls wore skirts and blouses or dresses, boys wore slacks and button up shirts. I earned my allowance by delivering newspapers every day after school, carrying them on my bike regardless of the weather. I would earn 3 cents for every paper I delivered and did that for 4 years, age 12 to 16. I also got a job working in a local store sweeping floors for a dollar a day.
It was easy to make friends, because we all shared the same life styles. We went to school together, played together, sometimes got to stay for dinner at your friends home because his mom called our mom and got permission. Walking to school or riding the bus were the only two ways to get there, and you better get there. If you miss the bus, well you better get to walking because mom or dad weren’t going to come get you. Music was fun, doowop and rock and roll were prevalent and getting our own little transistor radio was a slice of heaven.
Yeah these were really good times to be alive and a child and teenager. We will never see that again.😢
Blessed to still be here @Michael D ❤✌️
My favorite toy was a cardboard box doll house I made with my dad. I drew kitchen appliances & tables with lamps on the paper sides. I made cardboard furniture & upholstered them with fabric scraps. My dad got carpet remnants so I could have wall-to-wall carpeting. This sparked my lifelong love of crafting & decorating. I eventually became a textile artist.
On Christmas day dad could be heard saying he was going to get big boxes for us and no gifts as we played more with the boxes !
@@yourmanufacturingguru001 Our cats too! We used to get furniture sized cardboard boxes & head to the dry creek where we'd slide down the embankment over & over. Good, clean, cheap fun.
My friend and I would spend hours and hours playing with our paper dolls, tracing around them on paper and designing and coloring clothes for them, making up stories. No video games. 🥲 Innocent good times.
@@skai500 I forgot about paper dolls. I had quite a collection & loved playing with them. Making up stories & adventures for them. I also remember tracing them to make more clothes. Sorry we didn't get to play together. Would have been fun. 😀
Refrigerator boxes were the BEST!
I heard that 50s through to 80s was the best decades....I would love to go back to these time periods.
It isn't true that those or any decade was best. It's only perspective based on being a child at the time, unaware of dangers around you. Just look in a history book and you'll see why it was not a time to want to be. ...unless you enjoy being denied service in a store because you're black, or if you enjoy being surrounded by cigarette smoke because people were being told it was healthy and non-addictive, or if you enjoy losing family members to wars they were forced into service for, or if you enjoy dying from diseases that are easily treated today, etc.
EVERY adult generation thinks their childhood decade was the best and safest. I often feel that way about my own childhood decade. But then I remember that things were going on that I didn't know about because I was too young, and I know that I'd never want to live in that decade again.
The thing is, it isn't the specific year or decade that people really want back; it's their childhood unawareness of danger that they want back. No one really wants to go back to living in that time. What they want is the unawareness of danger. They survived that time, so they feel like it must have been safe because they survived it. But if you remember, really remember your childhood, you'll likely remember that you did have worries back then. But you survived those times, whether it was a natural disaster, violent event, being bullied at school, or even just your first crush/breakup. You know now that it turned out ok, so it seems like "back then" was a better time. My college sociology teacher referred to it as "the good ol' days that never were".
so very true, thanks for sharing@@mynameisworld
I think those decades were great. We talked to each other in person and on the phone, so there was much more social interaction. Music was awesome and we had so I much fun as kids and young adults.
I was born in 52. And I still have scars from growing up and I love it
I was born in 1951. 1:16 My mother, born in 1918, smoked from the time she was 17 to her death at age 89. She got pregnant 4 times, four healthy kids. It never slowed down her smoking. Her kids have joked that at least once she was probably smoking when she _became_ pregnant. 2:00 up to age 14, I would ride my bike to school. That included 10-degree winter days. 2:50 I love the photo of Candy cigarettes. "Just Like Dad". Yep. 3:23 The video says "Kids learned early that life was dangerous". I would question that. It's a matter of perspective. What is considered "dangerous" now was not "dangerous" then. My sense of danger is rooted in the kids' world of 1950 -60s. 3:50 Back in the day, backpacks were used by Boy Scouts when they went out hiking. We would carry our books and get this, when I started high school, a guy carried his books in one hand with the arm extended to his waist. That was the cool way. Late in my high school career, during the madras era, the cool way for guys to carry their books was up high with the elbow bent. 4:40 I went to see Bonnie and Clyde at a drive-in theater in 1967. About 10 minutes into the movie, a fog rolled in and even if the movie projector's light could reach the screen, we could not see the screen anyway due to the fog. To this day I have only _heard_ the movie Bonnie and Clyde. It sounded like a good movie. 4:49 I was in the military draft. To avoid combat, I considered enlisting in the Navy but decided to push my luck in the military lottery. My birthday came up at #248. It was estimated that the lottery would go no higher than 150 for that year. I still have my draft card though I was never drafted.
My dad was the same way, lucked out and his number was high. My uncles weren't so lucky but they survived.
I was born in 1962 and I don't know if it was just me.. but we got milk delivered to our door in a little doored box by the side door ... we loved our milk delivery man because when he came in our area ...all us kids would come out with a paper towel and he would give us a huge piece of ice ... good times good times :)
We didn't have the box, so we had to wake up early and get the milk bottle (you forgot to mention bottle, no plastic bag or even carton) in the winter time or else it would freeze and break the glass. Milk came in quart bottles, and cream in pint ones.
@@freetv1395 Yes, that's right. They did sell eggs and bread. I think we are really lucky to have those memories. Because I lived in Toronto, big city in Ontario, Canada we had trucks.... Lol just reminds me of the common joke that if the kid didn't look like his dad it was joked that it was probably the milkman's lol
@@wictimovgovonca320 Oh yes that's right of course the bottles, but the cardboard tab I forgot about lol. It was really sad when they stop making glass milk bottles. There's a store by me that sells organic milk like for $9 a liter. However, I did buy one just for the milk container which was glass and look like the old fashioned ones. I cherish that bottle and the beauty of glass is you can use it and reuse it and reuse it again... Thanks for the memories reminder
@soooo born in January’83. Yes I remember the milkman. Thank you for conjuring that memory. I also recall being given a small bottle of chocolate milk if I was good 😊
I have fond memories of the "Thing Maker" as a 10 year old in 1966. They even had "Glow In The Dark" "Goop".
Absolutely! Creepy Crawlers were wonderful!
Creepy Crawlers
Some of those were 'edible' and they were pretty gross.
Drive-in movies, Chinese fire drill, Schwinn bicycles, Nehi.
Lots of emotions for those seeing and remembering that past in today's times . . .
Nope, just one emotion. Sorrow.
Metal wheeled roller skates with a "skate key" could also go on the list. My first "skate board" was a 2x4 with a divided skate nailed to the bottom and a carpet covering on the top. (born in 1950). I also remember the Star Spangled Banner being played on TV at midnight, or so, as the station signed off the air for the night; followed by a "test pattern".
We did pledge of allegiance in school. Do kids still do that?
In 1960, "skateboards" were (as ya said) a 2x4 with my little sister's right skate nailed underneath......they were prone to causing broken wrists (steel wheels came to a screeching halt hitting the smallest pebble).... (I was lucky)..... skateboarders (that term didn't exist then)were referred to as "sidewalk surfers" ..... short lived for me....preferred surfing.... never broke any limbs, but did lose my 2 front teeth surfing San Clemente (1963) .... Got smacked in m'face with my own board.... (comical story, but won't bore ya)....oh well.... am 78 and have a nice store-bought smile.... arrrr
‘Test Pattern’? Oh, you mean Cheech and Chongs ‘Indian Movie’…”Man, what a boring movie!”🤣
@@57Jimmy What Indian movie?
Born in 1960.. but SAME roller skates, sundial clock over the tv in a huge wooden box....tupperware parties, Same symbol and patriotic song when the channel went off.
I don't remember the last time I saw a kid playing outside, period!
I wish I lived in your neighborhood. You should come to my neighborhood. These kids are incredibly loud dribbling their annoying basketballs
Sure! They were standing outside playing video games on their cell phones!
I remember when kids played with the foot tall GI Joe and barbie dolls. Not to mention, a few had mini motorbikes, others even played with fire crackers, smoke bombs and sparklers. We would also catch lightning bugs (fireflies) in a jar at dusk.
I had a book satchel in 1966, first grade. Born 1960. Awesome times.
I was born in 1951 and remember fondly lots of those days...making book covers for your school textbooks with brown paper sacks from the grocery, milk men, free range children, drinking from the garden hose outside when you were thirsty, taking a sack lunch to school if your school did not have a cafeteria that served hot lunches, and riding bikes all through the town. I also remember the day that President Kennedy was killed. The teachers were shock and weren't sure what to do until the principal just sent us all home early assuming that a mother would be at home in most homes. I remember watching TV those following four days. Before then, TV news was about 15 minutes and not the emphasis of local tv broadcasting. I remember watching Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on TV and then the enormous funeral for President Kennedy that lasted the entire day. I remember watching the daily report from Vietnam on evening news which, of course, was on during the dinner hour. I've often wondered if the HUGE popularity of the Beatles was in part due to the fact that they arrived in the US only six weeks after President Kennedy's assassination.
Don't quite get the Beatles/assassination bit. A lighter moment? Kids were not that bumbed by the Kndy thing; adults were.
Born in '55, I also remember being sent home the day JFK was shot. We had school the following days but my mom kept me home to watch the tv coverage of it. Mom said I will be watching in the making, more important than anything that I would learn in school that day.
In my experience (born 1952), JFK's assassination affected everybody -- when our teacher was called to the classroom door and the news was whispered to her, she immediately went to the classroom TV (it was a big set sitting on a rolling stand, available to use for the PBS educational broadcasting) and tuned it into the news for the whole class to watch. I remember her alarm & reaction, and everything came to a grinding halt. We were sent home early as I recall. It was NOT just an adult thing!
I was born June 20 1960. I still remember that time in my life I went to catholic school ( our lady help of Christian’s) in Chicago till 71 when we moved to Cicero IL & from 5th grade till 8th grade graduation was public school. Graduated J. Sterling Morton East High School in 79. God the time flew since then. Remember when a day seemed to go on forever?
Feels, literally, like yesterday!!! ❤❤❤❤
I was born in the late '50s and that was a wonderful time to grow up and learn life lessons. Sure, there are conveniences now that we couldn't even dream about back then, but personal integrity, a work ethic, and appreciation for what we had were more important values that seem in short supply today.
Oh yes, racism, homophobia, redlining, Jim Crow laws, sexism, discrimination. Great times
And then we have the woke idiots who have us all not laugh at jokes because it may traumatise some one. How sad it has become. I am traumatised being dictated ti.
Dont say it in many countries out of the western hemisphere they have a pretty hard life
@@abarthspider3479 lol nowadays we have more sex and violence in the Mainstream, back then this was a nogo
@@borntoclimb7116
That's a good reason to appreciate what we did have. We knew how poor other countries were but most of us had to thank God, whether we wanted to or not, for all the good things in life. Now, we have students at Harvard and Princeton complaining about how oppressed they are. They really have no idea how lucky they are.
I was born in 1961. My mother smoked cigarettes when she was pregnant with me. I'm sure I'd be a few inches taller if she didn't. I still have an analog, wind-up Timex wrist watch. I wear it every day. Younger kids and teens look at it curiously, not knowing what it is. Speaking of watching movies at a theater: My fifth grade teacher treated the whole class one day to a theater to watch "Fiddler On The Roof" when it was first released. I'll never forget that day. I'm sure teachers don't do that nowadays. My favorite westerns on TV was "The Rifleman" with Chuck Connors; and of course Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. And remember the Cold War drills in class where we kids all ducked under our desks? And toys? we also had the Slinky, gyroscopes, kaleidoscopes, G.I. Joe, pogo sticks, hula hoops, silly string, Etch-A-Sketch, super balls, Crayola crayons with coloring books, Big Wheels, Hot Wheels, and yo-yo's. We also had milk delivered to our house, by an actual milk man. And metal lunch boxes with a thermos inside, and the lunch box had your favorite TV character or super hero on it. And the View Master. And coffee made in a peculator.
Ah…….best time to grow up. Your text really touched me….
And your mother didn't know what sex you were until you were born.
We had real chemistry sets. Not the radioactive one with the geiger counter but with real chemicals that could do cool, but risky, things that are no longer allowed.
Do not forget the kaleidoscope!
@@julienielsen3746
And once you were born you stayed the sex you were!!!😁
Born in 1951, I remember all this; especially walking to school and the thrill of the drive-in!
I love the dramatic title of this video. - "Kids will NEVER UNDERSTAND!!!" I think they can understand this stuff. LOL
Regarding no backpacks. I had a Flintstone canvas backpack in the early 60's.
My aunt was always making some godawful Jello concoction.
I feel blessed being born in 1951. A kid in the 50's, teen in the 60's and a young adult in the 70's. Wish life had a reset button.
I had a backpack 🎒 too. I don’t know where he’s getting from...
Luckily my mom only put fruit in the Jello.
Silly Putty!!! Say no more,!!! The smell of it STILL lingers in my memories!!! Excellent 👌👍 product if our childhood!!!
absolutely nailed it on today's dining out experience.
Back in the day we had real toys that could burn you, impale you, irradiate you and if you had some imagination could remove an appendage and we loved every minute of it.
Lawn darts!
@@michelleferguson9104Awesome!!!😂😂😂
These days kids live in a world where they can go to school and not make it out alive. They don't need deadly toys. They have enough of it in their lives.
@@mynameisworld Republicans want kids to own toy guns so they can practice defending themselves in their own school against madmen with assault rifles.
omg this thread is hilarious!!!!!
poke your eyes out, toys!!
Born in the fifties. Grew up in the 60’s. What a great time it was. Played football in the street from morning til dinner time. My parents didn’t worry about us being abducted. There were no school shootings. We entertained ourselves through our own imagination. I remember making motor bikes out of old lawnmower engines mounted on an old bike frame. All my friends and I had paper routes which we did everyday rain or shine. Politics was not the ugly mess that it is today. I could go on and on, but I’ll finish my saying that I was truly blessed to have been raised in such a time of innocence.
3 on 3 football in my buddies yards. Tackle...😮
I remember the Jello Molds. We had a few copper mold containers in the shape of a fish and a pineapple. You said it was a "whole meal" well I remember it was in addition to meat or fish and a carb like potatoes. It was either a salad so had vegetables in it or a dessert mixed with fruits and other sweet things like tiny marshmellows. Shipping food was not as advanced so we ate vegetables and fruit from tins and jars when fresh was too expensive. Every summer from North Vancouver we would travel to the countryside and even to the Okanagan Valley to get lots of fruit and vegetables then bring them home to preserve. Many of todays wine grape orchards were fruit or vegetable farms. It was an experience the whole family did even done with other families. My parents were middle class but just got by on their wages with my Mom working PT and then when we were older, by the time I was 10 years old she switched to fulltime. By that time my older sisters and I had been taught to cook and clean yet we still had time for our own passions like music and outdoor play with the many neighbourhood kids. TV shows were strictly regulated and other activities encouraged so I never watched morning cartoons and TV was not our Baby-sitter, yet my parents were very sociable often going out, so older neighbourhood kids baby-sat us. The better aspect to the 1960's were strong morals and ethics, far less whining and accusing and actually better politicians.
Glad I was a teenager in the 80s with the best clothes, music, movies, etc! Such awesome memories
Born in 1953 and thanks for the memories, such a beautiful time to grow up.
I grew up in rural Canada during the 1960s. Our proximity to the US, common language and culture made it quite similar to what my American friends experienced. My brothers and I played until dark in the woods with our friends until my dad would call us home for dinner either by whistling or playing the Cavalry Charge on an old bugle he had. Climbing trees, skinning knees…ah, what a wonderful childhood. I feel bad for subsequent generations that will never know how good we really had it.
I was born in 1950 & raised in Victoria, Australia. This video is almost an exact reflection of my life as a kid with the freedoms to walk the mile to school in the 50s & stay outside to play on the road with the neighbourhood kids until the street lights went on! As a teenager in the 60s, I still walked to high school (my younger brother had a bicycle to ride to school because he had a 'paper round' (newspaper delivery) right before school started...! So many memories of an era gone forever! 😢
GO BACK... where is the Time Machine! ❤😊
It was the freedom. Kids just don't have it today. You ate breakfast and then outside to play. Being a farm boy in Canada, there was so much to do. We'd be in the woods, building forts, setting traps for rabbits, going fishing in the creek or swimming in an actual swimming hole. My brother and I had pet turtles, frogs, garter snakes, salamanders, pigeons and all kinds of weird bugs. As long as we didn't get into trouble and were home on time for meals and bedtime, nothing was ever said. The LAST thing that we wanted to do was hang around with our parents. Now, parents won't let their kids out of their sights. I would've hated that.
you must have bin born in Ontario !
@@user-hm1ol9es5l good guess, and correct by the way.
I remember TV dinners. They were never satisfying. They would turn out to be a snack and you would end up eating something else.
Very difficult to cook them right too, parts were cold parts were burned, so glad microwaves came along.
Doctors back in the 60s still told you not to smoke or drink while you were pregnant
I'm one of those 60's and early 70's kids. It was less than perfect, but I wouldn't even think of trading it for now. All of that responsibility and even danger we faced prepared us for life. And the freedom we had! I bet even some of todays kids might like it if not for the absence of cell phones. Also you could be sure who were boys and who were girls.
Yep. No one was ever confused about what gender they were.
So many things in the video are SO very true. I remember riding in the back seat of dad's car, no seatbelt or car seat and mom and dad both smoking in the front. The windows would be closed in the wintertime (except maybe the vent windows) and the interior of the car was filled with smoke like a hookah lounge. Somehow, we managed to grow up and reach old age. I even remember riding on the package shelf under the rear window so I could look out the back. Dangerous, but very fun!
@Vegaswill714
Safety wasn't as fanatical back then. Common sense was more prevalent though.
However, something heavy on the "package shelf" could break your neck on a sudden stop.
Freer times & yes, more fun.
What was the package shelf I don't remember it..but I was born in 76 that could be why they might of toke them out before I was born or I just don't remember.
NO cell phones!
Many children didn’t grow up but died in car accidents due to no seatbelt.
I used to feel car sick when dad would smoke during “Sunday drives.”
I also remember riding in the back of a station wagon and watching the road go by through the hole in the floor.
I am glad we never got into a car accident or I probably wouldn’t be writing this now.
Love this, makes me wish we could go back there
The world today is much different. Kids in the 60's had two parents. Kids were taught discipline. Kids were taught to respect others and especially their elders. Kids in the 60's usually had a stay at home mom who was always there to care for them and not chasing the dollar. Kids in school were taught reading, writing and arithmetic. Kids knew that playing was going outside with the other kids. Kids in the 1960's were not bombarded with sexualized media, but comic books and family TV.
Loved cigarette candy. 🍬 It was so sweet I could only eat one pack.. 😊
Yeah, was the most fun on cold days when your breath fog actually looked like real smoke!
I liked the bubble gum different colored cigars more than the candy cigarettes. They kinda were like chewing chalk. 😂
That's because they were about 99% sugar.
We would play dress ups and put those candy cigarettes in our purses and pretend smoke like our moms 😂
I used to play like I was smoking with cigarette candy. It seemed so cool. A lot of the movies showed adults smoking. My dad smoked cigarettes, but none of his 5 children smoked. I loved candy when I was a child. I would walk to the local convenience store to buy candy everyday. $1.00 would buy a whole bag full. Ice cream fudge bars were 10¢ each. There were so many kids to play with in our neighborhood after school and when homework was completed. I had a wonderful childhood!
Brings back so many memories of my childhood, and I'm smiling my butt off because the kids of today would be in shock and crying for their mama if they want thru what we did back then. Born in 48
mamaaaaaaa , hahahahaaahahahah!
Today's kids would have been fine. We are all a product of our time. I think your pridefulness is misplaced.
Did you go through having to wonder if you were going to be shot at school?
We had a teacher shot in the head in class in 1973. He lived and went back to teaching. This crazy fellow was upset because he got a B on a test, so crazies have been around forever, just not as publicized as they are today.
Today's era absolutely sucks. Everything is infinitely worse than it was back then. Thank you for giving us an extended look at a world with no cell phones, gross tattoos, weird piercings or sexually confused/perverted people. Better days!
Some of this applies to us 90s kids too. I got a BB Gun and was constantly getting scraped up from riding my bike (without a helmet). We didn't have instant access to movies either. And we still played with silly putty and read comic strips from the newspaper. And all the boys in my grade loved Bonanza and played with our cap guns on the school playground and around the neighborhood.
Yup, before UA-cam, Google, iPhones lol
You are correct. My kids were born in the 80's and teenagers in the 90's. It was around the end of the 90's -- in our area -- when threats were starting to emerge; such as the rare abduction of a child. I am so grateful I got my kids raised; out of school and onto their own life before cell phones, home commuters, synthetic drugs and, dare I say, 'gaming' kicked in. You could not pay me to raise a kid today.
@@reesaserik3759 I agree, but I'm puzzled. My kids were born in 86 and 84 we had a desktop computer when they were in High School and that could be a concern. They also had cell phones at some point as teenagers.
@@dod2304 They may have, but not in our house. I remember my mother getting a 'phone for the car". It was almost the size of a shoe. That would have been in the late 80's, maybe early 90's. Both my husband and I are slow to get on any bandwagon. My husband did not get a cell phone until that technology started playing a major role in the workforce. I did not get a cell phone before 2019 and I use it very little. Not a phone talker. We got a computer in 2000 because computers had become very prevalent in both our jobs. I like the computer because I get to watch old shows and movies on You Tube, and it is so easy to shop online. But just do not care for a cell phone. For me I find it to be a waste of money because I do not use it.
We had to get brown paper or cut up a paper bag to make covers for our schoolbooks. It was done to keep the covers clean for future years. We also would have to take our erasers to clean the edges of the books before the end of the year.
i remember this!
I remember that! And doodling all over the paper book covers and the "Pee Chees"...
Bring back the old days and let us live in peace and harmony with clean living.
It'll never happen you're living in a fantasy world
Want segregation to come back? Lynchings? It was great if you weren't a minority. Women couldn't get a job without their husband's permission. Women couldn't get credit.
Overly rosy view of the 60s.
Clean living? There was cigarette smoke everywhere and the cars polluted the air more than today. Also dog poop was not picked up by the owner.
Yes, nostalgia contains illusion.
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I was born in 1957 and I have scares today that i do remember fondly! The draft was stopped on my 18th birthday. Thanks for the great walk down memory lane!
I miss the 70s and 80s. The things we grew up without then that exist now, kids jaws would drop. I haven't met a young 20 to 30 year old that doesn't wonder how we survived without the internet.
One of the most nostalgic videos I have seen in a while. Born in 1951 I remembered all that. Change is inevitable. But that’s not always a good thing. Thanks for the memories.
I would go back to 1959.
@marknewton6984 : I too would go back, but only if I could shed the years. Live in the sixties as I had, without the military induction hanging over my head!
Good point.
If I had the chance to go back and relive those years I would do it in a heartbeat.
I want to relive everything except for my military service from 1966-1970.
SO WOULD I !!!
Me too ! And I would KEEP!! some of my cars¡!😊😊
I think the you now would be suprised by all the things you failed to remember.
@@arthurmchugh5184 oh mate, the cars i had, as an apprentice i bought a 1962 Mk 2 Zephyr convertible for $1495.00 sold it a year later, where i live it is worth around 100 grand now, i also had three other Mk1 and Mk 2 Zephyrs, a 1938 Ford V8, amongst several other vintage cars, bikes ? i had a Mac Vellocette, 400cc Kawasaki 2 stroke triple, and several other bikes worth big bucks these days, i wish i had them now.