1957 America. Some Call This Time PARADISE. Do You See It That Way?
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2024
- You are watching a clip from a 90 minute documentary feature film that I made on what happened in America after Sputnik was launched by the Russians on October 4, 1957. In order to understand that time, I made several sequences of what people's lives were like. This sequence presents how middle-class suburbanites were living during October 4th 1957 when Sputnik appeared in the skies. Other sequences in the film present how different segments of American society lived during those days. If you search the word Sputnik on my UA-cam channel you will find many other clips from my film which is titled "Sputnik Mania". The American middle class was a very real thing back then. Tens of millions of Americans moved to the suburbs and to their own home for the 1st time. Baseball was a big deal on TV. Baby boomers babies were everywhere and on my street in Levittown, Long Island had at least one child growing up in every home. It was an amazing time from that point of view. When you view this clip please do not discount that many Americans did live this way and feel these things. And of course, many Americans did not.
To see what Black Americans were experiencing during the fall of 1957 go here:
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#1957 #babyboom
every 10 years it seems like living in a different world.
Each decade has a TOTALLY different vibe. '50s. Wholesome but with a little bit of rebellion. '60s literally EVERYONE tripping on LSD 24/7. '70s I just can't, I just can't, I just can't control my feet. '80s PHIL COLLINS SNARE DRUM SOUND. '90s Grunge. Don't remember the 2000s. 2010s: part 1: DUBSTEP. part 2: social justice warriors. 2020s: CORONAVIRUS. 2030s: flying cars. 2040s: flying cars on Mars.
im' lafonz it’s not idiot
Isn’t that the truth
Robert Thomas underaged comment
It’s a fine comment , Robert Thomas. Each decade not only brings about its own uniqueness , tech advances etc , but also its own travesties as well I’m in my 5th decade and have seen plenty
My grandmother died in November 1957, just 5 days after my 7th birthday. On that day she lay in a hospital bed and took my hand, gave it a squeeze and told me that she loved me. That love has never faded on my part.
I was fortunate to find out at an early age that love is the most important reality. A child must have quality time with his/her parents so that the love bond is strengthened. I have such wonderful memories of camping and exploring with my dad and sitting around a warm fire listening to mum sing and tell stories. A child needs to know that they are loved.
😭😪 My great great grandmother died that year & the same month also. However she was born in Nicaragua 1890, luckily she got to see the U.S. what it was a glimpse of it and of course my mother as a newborn (August 1957) & a few months before her passing.
@@ojsilva1975 My grandmother was born in 1892 and spent her entire working life working in the same textile mill that's now an education centre and museum.
My mom died last year at the age of 98. She had lost her mobility, eyesight and some of her hearing, but she too, during my last, visit took my hand, squeezed it, and said she loved me. People from that generation had a grace and dignity under fire, a sense of self sacrifice that's lacking today. Your comment reminded me of my mom.
@@gunnarthorsen How true.
I was drafted into the Army Aug. of 1957 and discharged in 1959. Went back to my old job as asst. Purchasing agent but it had been filled. According to the law I had to be given my old job back or a better one. the company promoted me to a production foreman. My pay was 90 dollars a week. Got married and bought a brand new brick house and my payments were 90 dollars a month! I am still in the same house and I retired as a Vice President of Manufacturing of a local firm with a high school education. Those were the days. At 83 yrs of age I am satisfied.
Those were the good ol days when a man could support a family on his income alone. I hope those days return once more.
Urban Braun Good stuff mate. You definitely lived in the golden era
Sounds like you had a very nice, rich life. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I was born in '57, was the oldest of my siblings - 2 brothers and a sister. My mom was a stay at home mom and my dad was a local truck driver. We were by no means rich, more like lower middle class, but on my dad's salary we had a house in the suburbs of Long Island, N.Y., had a 2 week vacation on a lake in Vermont every summer and mom & dad made sure that our birthdays were made special. Christmas time was always awesome, we always had a roof over our heads and food on the table. In the last 2 years, both of my parents have passed. Thank you to mom & dad and the rest of the family for making sure we never went without ! Wish we lived now in similar, simpler times. 😧
@@nik5626 - I wish it was a little slower. I wish people were more civil with each other. I wish little kids couldn't find porn on the internet. I wish materialism wasn't so important to folks, and I wish cell phones had never been invented! LOL. We all have to do time in the time we live. As for me? Wish I had been born around 1940. I'd have been about 15 when Rock n Roll was born, early 20s when The Beatles hit the ground, I would have gone to Vietnam and I'd be ready to call it a day pretty soon, just in time to miss this country's coming civil war! 😎
I was born in 1939 and graduated from high school in 1957. In looking back, growing up in small town America was like a Norman Rockwell painting. It seemed like a magical time. No mass murders, no drugs, no robberies, no shootings, only an occassional fist fight over a girl. The 50's were the greatest decade of all to me but maybe not others. Even political opponents were civil to each other. The teachers were in charge and we knew it. Would really like to relive those years.
Not me. I was also born in 1939 and graduated in 1957. Narrow minded, bigoted, racist, simplistic idiots in control of morality and education. The interstate highway system, a gift to big business (General Motors and others ("See the USA in your Chevrolet") and the death of the railroads and trolley systems. Only the whitest of the white were in charge, not only on a national basis, but in my home town. I ought to know cause I'm whiter than white.
True in some ways and so were the 60s 70s and 80s despite all the racial tension and Cold War paranoia, In other countries such as Britain and most of Europe they were still dealing with the aftermath of WWII as cities were destroyed by bombings and even rationing was still in place, I would argue in some ways the world would've been better off without war as technological advances would've happened quicker
in all parts of the world, ages between 10 and 20 are the best years of our lives... you can hear the same stories from anyone of your age here in turkey too... there were always mass murders, drugs, robberies, and shootings but there was no MEDIA COVERAGE back then... and that is a good thing. media exaggerates and broadcasts only EVIL!
I wasn’t alive then, but I’d certainly trade places with that time compared to the malaise of today. I think it’s easily the worst time since at least the civil war. Freedom is long gone, the economy has been crushed by 60 years debt accumulation, constant ideological subversion. It’s miserable
I’m so jealous. 🙏🏻❤️💔💔💔. I believe I was born in the wrong times.
The most difficult thing to grasp in this world is how things are getting better and worse- at the same time.
Precisely and odd indeed!
Getting more advanced and worse
As technology gets better, people get worse.
it's pretty easy. it's getting better in some ways and worse in other ways.
It's true, we have movies and music at our fingertips, but the quality of such is at an all-time low.
I was 11 years old. I remember it all. It was a great time to grow up. I remember roller skating all around the neighborhood. My mom always would say, "Don't go too far" ! That meant I had about a 4 block radius ! Dinner with the family EVERY night as soon as my dad got home. We were a family. I wouldn't go back and change ANYTHING ! Thanks Mom and Dad 💙
And stranger danger should have been teached way more back then. I have been following a case that happened in 1957 which is about a 7 year old little girl named Maria Ridulph she was kidnapped and murdered while playing with her friend just outside her house when it was getting dark it had just started to snow and the children were excited to play in the snow, a young man gave the little girl a piggyback ride and then the 7 year old child was taken and the child's body was found 6 months later. The parents were so devastated and whole family. On a interview i watched on a documentary of the case the mother was interviewed on TV and she couldn't barely speak she was just so devastated and begged the kidnapper to please return her little girl, but 6 months later the child's body was found dead in the woods. In 2011 they arrested a man (who was 18 years old at the time) and believed he was this Johnny who gave the little girl piggyback rides and kidnapped her, back lack of evidence released him. Now her case remains unsolved once again.
@Karen Reed I know bad things happened to kids back then. My folks taught me the whole thing about not accepting things from strangers, or to go with a stranger for any reason. I realize most kids didn't have the same upbringing that I did, but if you want to call it "TV program" then go ahead. All I can do is tell you MY experience as a kid growing up in 1957 !
@John Saunders You're welcome "Wally" !
@John Saunders be quiet. There’s nothing wrong with being sentimental and remembering ones childhood with happiness.
@John Saunders I beg to differ on that. Sentimentality of childhood is brought on by joy and happiness.
1957 a friend that I have known for about a year took me to his house and I met his sister. My friend didn't stand a chance after that , I was smitten by this young lady and we're both 12 years old. Her father was the commander at a VFW Post and we used to go with him and dance to Tunes on the jukebox from the 40s and 50s. The World War II vets used to tease me hey kid when are you going to make an honest woman out of her, Hey kid when are you two going to get married. I never got embarrassed I was crazy about this girl even at this young age. Eventually we did get married and she was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. Cancer stole from me my beautiful bride of 47 years and life will not and cannot never be the same . I miss her so. It is so hard being half of what you used to be.
Your a grown man. You should be grateful for 47 years of wonderful. Did you think she was going to live forever? Should you have gone first & left her behind instead?
Your a very fortunate man.
Porkchop's Papi oh shut the fuck up! Fucking cancer took her. A unnatural death. What if the person you spent all your life with dies way before you and your barely 65. I’m sorry man but you’re a dumbass 🤦🏻♂️
I'm so sorry for your loss! She must've been a wonderful person. God bless you! 💕
Sir am sorry for your loss, and am happy for 47 years of happiness. Love from Somalia.
@@porkchopspapi5757 first off you inane inbred jackanapes, it's you're not your. Second . Disrespect this man and his wifes marriage and memory just shows you are lower than whale dung. Want to put a face to your comment I'd be happy to show you mine... Toe to toe... What do you say? Snowflake
My dad born in 1934 would always remark that the fifties were his absolute favorite decade.
My grandpa was born in 1935 but in Brazil... but he liked the 50s to
.. My mom born in 34 and Dad in 36.. They both loved the 50s much better..
I was born in 1951 but the 80s is my favorite decade.
of course he did considering he was in his 20's. I was born in the 70's and LOVE the 90's
That’s normal…I was in my 20s in the 70s and that was my favorite decade
I was 17 years old at this time. A rough and ready farm boy heading down the road of life. It was a good trip.
I'm 49 and i remember the 70s and 80s well. You're my fathers age and i was just talking to a friend about how are time is coming to grow old.
1:13, this boy is now in his 70s, time flies
2:48 is that a baby doll in the crib? LOL Baby boomer at its peak
You are 79? Wow!
@@Skiskiski Sure am. This was taken a few days from my 79th Birthday. (scroll down to the notes for an earlier version) flic.kr/p/2gYzVrW
A husband and wife could pay the mortgage on there house send there kids to school have a car and a dog and a cat all on 1 wage. I really do miss 1957. The music was good as well.
Did they teach the difference between 'there', 'their', and 'they're' back then?
Bigga Winna Crapsa lol
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 It was a wonderful time compared to now. You probably would not have liked it. Too much common courtesy for you.
Born in the 60s. Wish it had been then.
@@D098zxcv - Forced common courtesy - by the church. And remember, don't eat meat on Friday - What would Jesus do?
Last year, my first year of highschool, I found no interest in a single class. I got to second semester, and my first hour was U.S. history. This class was different, I was actually excited to show up everyday. When we got to WW2, Great Depression, and the atomic age, it was a different feeling. I’ve never felt so captivated to learn about America in the 1930’s-60’s. I just feel like I’m time traveling when I learn and watch videos like these. I want to take more classes where I can learn more about this. It’s just so interesting. I want to sit down with somebody from that time period and just ask so many questions.
Im 19 rn. I cant believe my grandparents grew up in the 40s and 50s for some reason
There are quite a few of us left. Try visiting a local retirement community. Most older Americans enjoy sharing memories.
I experienced everything in the 60’s
lauren I was the same way I had us history my junior year and man let me see best class and teacher ever I had in the morning time which everyone feel asleep and I would be the only excited to learn and watch stuff like this, learning about ww2, ww1, just everything in the early age was amazing I’ve only met one ww2 veteran and I’ve always wanted to met a ww2 veteran and sit down and have a conversation with, my grandpa (never met) was in ww2 Pearl Harbor
Too bad that history is complete bullshit. All wars for 500 years have been to expand central banking into every country, lead by our Jesuit controlled military for the Pope. George Washington was a satanic Freemason and died a Catholic, and now is deified as Zeus (found in the Smithsonian) and in the nations capital dome with fallen angels like poseiden and columbia. His phallic symbol, called the Washington Monument, is really a depiction of Nimrod's penis and it stands 6666 inches high and 666 inches wide. Our country has been used by Jesuits for them to take over the world, in this world's last New World (covert) Fascist Order. When we won the American Revolution, supposedly, we decided it would be a good idea to have the exact same colors on our flag of our enemy. Makes perfect sense heh? The public fool system is just that.
In the 1950’s people were nostalgic about how much simpler life was in the 1890’s with no traffic jams, horses instead of cars, getting food from farmers you knew, being able to see all the stars at night, family nearby, neighbors who were lifelong.
Lol, I've always maintained the thought that in 30 years people will look at us now and think about how much better things were. As a gen z, most of us are nostalgic about 2016.
@@natasharules770 I hate to think about America getting any worse than it is currently. Can't possibly imagine a president worse than Biden.
There’s a twilight zone episode about that
@@martinmi5 Um well the previous president lost his re-election bid, then directed people to do a violent coup on January 6, 2021. Just my opinion, but Biden hasn’t done anything that bad🤷♂️.
@@martinmi5 Andrew Jackson personally wanted the trail of tears. Andrew Johnson took any meaningful progress the civil war had by allowing white oppression of all kinds besides straight up reinstating slavery. Millard Fillmore passed the fugitive slave act.
By any human standards, three presidents that are far worse than Biden. I stayed away from presidents that existed within current humans life to avoid the whole “my team” phenomenon. If america can survive Ronald “Mush brains” Reaganomics and reality star/living joke since the 80’s Donald “common man with a small loan of a million dollars from daddy” trump than we’ll be fine with old Biden.
I was born in 1948. My mom didnt work outside the home and she and daddy raised me and my brother, bought a house, and sent me to college all on my dad's salary. Those were the days.
NY city college was free too.
My mom was a stay-home mother. My dad worked 9 hours every day Monday-friday good ole 50s and 60s
@@billbill2214 Born in July 1958 & 4 years prior to that my mother worked on Wall Street as a legal secretary [before stopping for good in mid '58] and my father worked full time days for a pharmaceutical outfit while getting a free Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College @ night after his 2 year stint in the Korean war. The $ my mother made was banked and his $ paid the $30.00 a month rent etc. and by 1961 with 3 kids they waltzed into a mint [built in 1954] $12,000.00 4-5 bedroom house in Bethpage, NY [with dad making over 8k per year @ the time] with roughly 70% down & a very low monthly mortgage + fully paid off a few years prior to selling it in 1967 for 17k & buying a brand new bigger home in Suffolk County for 38k with the 17k rolled over as the down payment leaving a 21k mortgage @ 3% & a puny $130.00 monthly payment. It was easy to buy decent homes at the salary to price ratio back then & most homes were recently built like the Bethpage home. He got a higher paying job during the final years in Bethpage and reached 6 figures during the 70's & on up to retirement in 1998. If people had a game plan & were able to stick to it they had a good chance of getting where they wanted to be back then & with plenty of $$ left over!
Those glory days courtesy of the Democratic Party and the "great compression", when rich people didn't make all the rules for awhile and the Middle Class was enormously expanded.
@@edwardanthony7283 Wow seems like successful parents. Took me awhile to read because i have no glasses.
The 1950’s, when there weren’t cameras everywhere and privacy still existed.
Julianne Demse-Manly and nobody was playing Fortnite and making cringy TikTok Videos.
And when blacks couldn't use the same bathrooms as whites
No Google tracking your every move.
@@Alex-ky8bw Someone like you ALWAYS has to bring up racism in every single positive comment about the 50s. It gets so old. How is that even relevant to this comment?
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath because it's true?
Not saying it was perfect, but 1945 - 1963 were in many ways the glory days of the United States. It's been all downhill since JFK was assassinated.
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Ahem Racisim?
Depends on who you were, where you lived, how much money you made.There was despair and sadness and insecurity. People hid behind their fears and conformed in silence and self torment.I will admit there seemed to be more of a community. Now, there is verylittle, neighbors do not know neighbors, and it seems that they don't wantto. The USA people are desensitized. It's a cold country out there now, 2019.
@@mrbevelaqua8649 Im not brain washed, Racisim Exists
That's because when JFK was murdered it was the end of our Democratic Republic. Everything since then has been one big script.
If anyone remembers the 60's - 70's period they will recall how newspapers were often filled with stories lamenting the nameless, faceless suburbs where nobody knew their neighbors anymore, and everyone was estranged from their extended family. My folks used to lament this also. Basically, we were all told that before the 50's, everyone lived close to their grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc and so you were never far from people who could help you at a moments notice. California was the model for this disconnected way of living. Once the kids left home, wives were left alone in empty homes. But the way this was talked about obsessively seemed proof to me that never in history had mankind ever been "required" to live like this before. Whoever came up with the idea of the "American Dream: life in the suburbs" then probably didn't know anyone whose lives had been torn apart by them. I can even think of a few rock stars who alluded to this in songs. But then so it took an organized, national effort to make the suburbs seem idyllic, and I guess maybe that's why we had all this promotion. It was about marketing a concept that had a lot of potential for profit. You were told you were fortunate as Americans to be yanked from your relatives back home where you grew up, and as proof you lived in brand new homes filled with the latest labor saving devices. And at least if you had participated in the war effort, that was a source of unity for people who felt alienated otherwise. You could still sit around and tell war stories. Anyway, for me visits from relatives when I was a child were usually strained since they often traveled from very far away and knew absolutely nothing about my town. But I still had a mostly happy childhood though and it helped that many of my neighbors were experiencing this same kind of separation anxiety we were all going through.
Of course, by now, scores of millions of Americans have grown up in those suburbs and never really knew any other kind of life.
I'm one of them, of course. The subdivision in Atlanta where I grew up was built in 1964, and most of the community I lived in was built within four years either side of that, a community of tens of thousands of people. The street where I lived was made up almost entirely of young families, all but one from the South, many from Atlanta itself, so we didn't have much of a problem connecting with each other. We were real *neighbors*, sticking together for more than forty years--closer than much of our extended family, as you can imagine. I'm sure this is true elsewhere as well, but the TV never talks about that. The fact that our homes were nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime plainly had a lot to do with it as well. The houses in Levittown in this video are "starter" houses, and people don't have much incentive to stay in starter houses if they can trade up. Subdivisions made of starter houses, at least down here, wind up either going downhill or being razed for something nicer--maybe a development of luxury townhomes.
Anyway: As I said before, nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime, but *not* nice enough to treat as an *investment*. Quite good enough, but not good enough for people who feel they always need to be "advancing", because the standard for that is, well, bigger. Our homes were just small enough (though they had large yards) and just, well, *homely* enough to *feel like homes*, to feel like places where you can put down roots, and developers don't build homes like that any more. They build starter homes and homes for investors. The houses where I grew up have apparently become "starter homes for the managerial class", whereas once they'd been that class's "forever homes". The widespread prosperity of the postwar era was built partly on a large managerial class, and we don't seem to have that now. We need some way to get back to the distribution of wealth we had between 1960 and 1975, and developers need to build *homes*, not just *housing* or *investments*.
I've met your relatives - no great loss.
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It's like this in many 3rd world countries. I spent time in the Philippines and it's like that there. They live with their families and stay close knit. I was even listening to the Lawrence brothers podcast and they remarked about this. They're a close family too.
And the theme has continued with the media hating everything about middle class suburban American's. The 1960's with it's protests, assassinations and hippie movement was the worst decade of the 20th century.
I was born in '41, graduated high school in '59. I think I lived in the best time period there ever was. I grieve for my grandchildren who have decades of this corrupt world to endure. At age 79, I'm glad I'm close to time to check out. Living in this day and age is like a preview of hell.
We now live in Sodom and Gomorrah and as Jesus said in the days of Noah!
Lucky
You listened to Buddy Holly?
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay please stay in india, we dont want indians in America
You lived through an amazing time. I'm in my 40s now and I'm truly afraid of what the USA will be like when I'm 79.
This was narrated by the incomparable Peter Thomas, one of television’s most iconic voice talents for 70 years.
I feel like I’m watching forensics files.
are you qualified to bestow such a superlative
N-n-n-nineteen. Nineteen!
@@buddysteele7624 Yes.
I know, I keep waiting for someone to disappear...and the creepy music to kick in!
The biggest change between the 1950s and the 2020s has been the disintegration of the family unit, and all the social ills this has wrought.
Amen
I don't know how to measure that . . .
www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
^ that's a thing though
That was by design.
@@Endoterrestrials the conservative resurgence, which brought along with it pro corporate fiscal policy benefiting only America's wealthiest had caused this, a side effect of the general overall wealth gap. I don't get people that argue in favor of trickle down economics (or supply side economics as proponents of it often resolutely "correct" me). Knowledge of economics and all the stats don't reinforce it. Also just look at Hong Kong. Corporate deregulation and policies aimed at aiding the rich screw over the poor big time (seems obvious but apparently not to some).
I don't really know what this would show, or how to prove that some direct link from the loss of the nuclear family model lead to these social ills you speak of. I'm sure there are plenty of gay couples that raise their children just fine. I'm straight guy and I plan on getting married and having a kid some day, but if others don't choose to get married in a heterosexual relationship, I don't really care.
I'm 42 you can take my ass out of 2022 and drop me right back in those times and the smile on my face would be classic! This world today makes you want to throw up!
Me too,people were more human then!
My Dad grew up in the 50's and all the coolest things he would tell me about his childhood in that decade.
How old are you now?
@@engineeredarmy1152 I'm almost 30. My Dad was born in 1945 and and I was born in 1991.
@@1matsg I was born in 1946. I remember the 1950s well. The cars of the late 50's had those fins and rocket look. Many of the shows on TV were westerns.
@@boblackey1 wow how was your life
@Kathryn Dennis fuck you boomer
I was 7 years old in 57, this almost made me cry as i remembered all of it, and how much the quality of our lives has slipped away. Progress sometimes isn't the best thing..
Terry Harding the Native Americans lived a harmonious life one with nature. The white man has deluted this land to 57 genders pedophiles slavery in taxes and concrete jungles. No more afternoon watching lakes and wildlife just arguments republican vs democrats and mass shootings on tv?.
I'm a good bit younger than you, but it almost made me cry too.
@@alvarohernandez2438 They lived in harmony with nature the same way tribal people do: because they cannot exploit it. These same natives were just like you and I, and they often committed brutal atrocities and fought over territory amongst themselves. If they could've done what Europeans did, they would have... they were no more noble than anyone else.
I was born in '63 and I miss the fifties!!! I'm only semi-joking!
It was a great time in the 50s. Unfortunately, we are now seeing the after effects of such industrial development,
A time when any honest man who wanted to work hard, could find a job that would support a family.
well.....only if you were white
Very soon there aren't going to be many jobs left, especially if they are workers without skills. In the 1950's, even if you didn't do so well in high school, you could easily find some blue collar work and make enough to support a family by yourself.
Now if you have no skills, good luck finding decent paid work, and good luck trying to raise a family, buy a house, and have a nice car in the driveway that isn't on credit.
At my first job, at a phone based ISP callcentre; they shut the entire 200+ people based operation down, and replaced it with a web portal + 20 people taking calls.
At my current job, there used to be 3 of us and one was classed as management on quite a high wage. Now, only 10 years later, I am the only one needed and due to automation and improved software I am only part time.
Look at all the unmanned kiosks in supermarkets, McDonalds is testing computer kiosks, at the moment this stuff is crude but before long it'll take many more jobs. Automated burger making machines are being tested. Self driving truck convoys. Hell the other week I went to a gas station at 2am and it was 100% automated, had nobody on the premesis at all.
In 50 years the only jobs left will be ones we don't want robots doing. Such as fitting shoes on children, or child care, or doctors. But even so healthcare is being automated, in the near future a doctors visit will involve being scanned by a machine and the doctor will just read the printout. There will be millions unemployed.
So a Basic Income / Citizens Wage is the only thing I can think of to avoid collapse. We are not there yet but in 20 years I think we could be.
@@zarategabe That was a terrible fact at the time. In my view, racial inequality was a real problem overlooked by most.
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@@mikesully110 pretty scary
The narrator makes this AWESOME!
If your wondering the narrator name is Peter Thomas he’s the narrator of the original Forensic Files
Seeing the homes, cars, and people in this video, I've come to realize that my family was not as well off as many of these people.But then again, I remember that my two sisters and I were happy, and our parents gave us a nice home and a nice life. It seems that back then, you didn't need as much money to be happy as you do now.
Remember when families would play board games in the evening instead of watching the "idiot box"?
That’s because people lived with less charges and fees. This isn’t clever propaganda, it’s the way it was. It amazes me that people no more than 20 years old think rright now, is how things always were. They can’t see how dark a time is because they born were in it.
That's all you needed.
I would phrase it as we didn't need as much "stuff" to be happy. I recall when a room had maybe two or three plug-ins, enough for a tv, a lamp, and a clock. Today I need power strips in every room. For a tv, cable box, Xbox, desktop computer, monitor, printer, router, phone charger, plus any other devices. And that's for several rooms if not every room (excluding router)--plus service fees for the phone, cable, internet, and streaming sites. It's crazy the amount of tech devices we "need" today on a daily (every minute!) basis. And are we happier than we were back then? Sure doesn't seem like it.
@Penderyn Yep...its easy to sell the "perfect" past
my parents and grandparents experienced alcoholism & severe mental health issues in their families. Lots of people suffered in silence back then no one could talk about issues.
But that is always the case in any time.
@@b.gailcooper7530 agree absolutely. too many people want to go back to old times and believe the grass will greener for them. it's not that green now and wasn't then either for many people
@@tjmichael8773 it was greener
@@tjmichael8773 they did not live in fear that their rights may be torn apart by a mob that relies solely on feelings. I'd rather be extinguished three fold of atoms than stand and witness what the forefathers have built get set ablaze.
@@savagetv6460 theres an irony to being on this side of the fence and insisting the grass WAS greener over there.
For me I remember the year 1954. I was 6. and during that year I remember thinking what a wonderful year it was. Probably because I had a good home with good parents who bought me toys. The fridge was always full of good food. Mom made popcorn and brownies and all the rest. My sister was older and soon went away to college so I was an only child. Didn't even have a tv until a few years later. I'd sit on the bed with my dad and listen to Ed Murrow and the evening news. He'd say how Murrow was a great newsman and if there was no news he'd just say 'well there's no news tonight'. Dad would read me the comics in the paper. Blondie and Dagwood, others popular at the time.
Now the corporate media fabricate the "news".
Yea, everything stopped for the 6'o clock news with Huntley and Brinkley. Now they just make it up, so to coverup news or for propaganda and people aren't interested.
Thank you for sharing. I gotta get up and pave my own path in life for real
Not me. My Mom was a mentally ill alcoholic.......we used to starve..............
@@LoneLee2022 Sad to hear. Hope your life became much better
Wow, what a beautiful vision of America. I love my country
As a kid in the fifties I remember how great it was Mom always home dad worked and we had everything we needed When I got sick I saw my doctor at my house Milk delivered to the front door We played until almost dark and it was safe Time now isn’t very good
This was an golden era, the 1950s and it lasted to end of the 90s.
@@mikaelglansencreutz2482 What do you think happened in the 2000s to create the foreboding atmosphere that almost everyone seems to be able to feel?
@@concars1234 I think it actually started to crumble in the 90s. We saw it come to a head in the 2000s. It feels like to turning point was September 11th, 2001....not because of the attack itself, but our reaction to it. Same thing with the pandemic....our reaction to it was worse than the pandemic itself in my opinion. Just seems like everyone's spirit is broken now. We're jump from one "crisis" to another and we get beaten down a little more every time. This was one of the themes of "1984". They were constantly at war with one country or another and kept society on edge making them controllable through fear.
I think there our powers (people) that want this fear because it makes us controllable. They have it in their head that they are going to mold a new society that is "equitable" to everyone. They're going to do that by dragging the middle class down, not elevating the poor because they've found that you can't elevate the poor. Make everyone equal in the gutter except for a small elite at the top.
@Mister Scaz
Yeah, over the past years I have also noticed that our governments restricts many things that back in the 90s could be done without a problem. And I am beginning to wonder: has Orwell’s 1984 really some predictions of the future?
@@oznelnavnaekal6679 if needing a "vaccine" for international travel is not a red flag for EVERYONE then I think people are really just willfully ignorant of this issue
I graduated from 8th grade in 57 and we got our first TV the same year. It was the best time to grow up. I'm 78 years old and I remember everything about those days.
Ran across this by accident. I was born in 1957. It certainly was a simpler time. Although she's been gone almost 30 years now, my mother was a stay at home mom. Personally I'm glad I had those years with her and not thrown in a daycare center.
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CuzKatieSaysSo there are still plenty of stay at home moms aren't there? My mom is a stay at home mom and all my neighbors moms we're stay at home/ work from home moms
I too was born in 57' , we grew up in a great time in the 60's the end of a era . We saw things change in our lifetime but hate the aches and pains with old age . LOL
I was almost 10 at that time and yes those were good times. Would like to have those days back. That is when the kids went home and not to a day care.
Chris I would do it all over again if I could. At that time my Dad had a1950 Chevrolet kind of grey color
sedan. Mom run it into a fence post. I got a ride in a Greyhound scenicruiser bus
What a wonderful time I'd give anything to have a time machine to go back to the 50's
I remember going to the store and just leaving the house unlocked. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood with hard working people. Riding bikes all across town with my friends. Never wanted to be inside. We kids played outside all day until the street light(we had one on our street) came on. Fun times.
I did that too in 1998.....
D Con And back in the day, especially in Southern California, you had blue-collar neighborhoods that had underground swimming pools in the backyard!
Almost the same in my neighborhood. I was born in 1954. I was the first born of six after my Dad returned from Korea in 1953. Blocks of mostly cookie cutter 2 story Cape Cod houses, some with 1 car garages! Riding our bikes all over the neighborhood until dusk. We had the milk box on the small front stoop for the Milkman. The Fuller Brush man would come around every week. The Good Humor man would drive his truck around in the summer. As soon as we heard the bells we'd run towards his truck! I used to get either a Strawberry Shortcake or Toasted Almond ice cream bar! Great times!
@@jondstewart You mean ''in ground?''
@@Yakanhikoerotikkushiti I was a 16 year old puke chunk. Skateboarding (was lousy at it too), dropout, pot smoking, loitering, loser scumbag.
Played a lot of Tenchu, Resident Evil & Metal Gear and got in a lot of trouble and listened to a lot of shitty nu metal. Had a cute girlfriend & a lot of friends though. Late '90s were not too bad lol
I was 7 in 1957 in first grade growing up in Michigan the daughter of a school teacher and pastor of a Baptist church. It was a safe, wonderful time of life! I loved school. I loved to play on our tire swing, skip rope, jump mud puddles, roller skate with clamp on skates, dress my doll (that I still have by the way.), watch Howdy Doody on a black and white TV, make snow angels in the snow, walk the four blocks to school with no worry or fear. And I loved saying the pledge of Allegiance every day at school!
In 1971 we also did Pledge of Allegiance in school I really liked it! live was so much better back then. Never fear of getting shot, kidnapped or drugs and everyone was far more respectful of each other. Together Americas are nasty! they get into road rage,the steel from stores "seen it twice in two hours" in Puyallup WA
My life exactly only I was the son of two teachers. It was great until one day when I was 7 I asked mom and dad why we never went to restaurants. They hemmed and hawed and said well we don't need it. We have food at home. It was years later I realized that we could not go to those places because of our color. I felt really stupid when I learned the truth.
I also did the pledge of allegiance in my segregated school and honestly believed in liberty and justice for all. I had a rude awakening
We said the pledge of allegiance in the 90s we just had seen 9/11 then the Iraq war and we thought about it with critical thought not nostalgia and not being bothered by oppression
People respected each other, have values and life was so simple in the past.. I wish I grew up back then.
You have to earn respect. It's not just a given.
Jupe367 Have fun with polio
Jupe367
Were black people respected?
J. ROD #LeGoatFan blacks don't respect blacks. Why should anybody else?
The women in these pics look beautiful and the men look like a bunch of boring clowns.
I was born in this time and my parents,who were just ordinary folks actually made a good life for our family.The housing was affordable and jobs plentiful.A working man’s dream,the American Dream.
Unless you were black.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 Depends on where you were and the parents you had.Good hard working people always do better.Black people were actually moving up in those days until President Johnson declared The coming of his “Great Society “which put people on the welfare rolls .However if you do not offer training in the society,you get dependency.Nanny State control.We are still stuck in that system today.Prior to that event Black kids had a two parent home now Many only have one parent or Grandma to raise them now.The more responsibility you take from people for actions on this Earth,the weaker they get.White people have suffered from this too and in larger numbers but not as a greater percentage than the number of Black people have.Goverment sucks.Goverment is the only entity that creates inflation.It causes most of the problems we have today.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 The black community was actually doing very well: your real problem is that, by that stage, the Deep State was already busy dismantling America so it could control it. Divide and Conquer was a very important part of it: many of the bloodline families that ran the slave trade now control the politicians who are telling you that innocent white men were responsible for enslaving your ancestors. Then they asked you for your vote. Unfortunately it worked and continues to work. I'm white - I was born in Ireland in the 1960's: Irish Catholics were not even allowed to VOTE in Northern Ireland back then - regardless of whether they were white or men. Know your enemy - because I can guarantee you your enemy knows you better than you know yourself.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 Ah yes, living in America in the 1950s as a black person must of been horrifying compared to starving in Africa, living in a straw mud hut wondering when the neighbouring tribe is going to come and butcher you with machetes, damn white people!
Favour please, stfu.
@@franksullivan1873 You are just preaching racist stereotypes. I guess it really shows the era you grew up in. The fact that you are saying that black people were "moving up" and that they were better back then because of having two parents at home is just horrible. And saying "Good hard working people always do better"???? No matter how hard black people worked back then, they would be murdered and segregated because of the color of their skin.They were not able to move up and get as good educations because they were only recently allowed to be taught in the same schools as white folk. Clearly you grew up privileged, white, and have no real sympathy for anyone else. How disappointing that racists like you exist. I guess it is good that this older generation is dying off. Its a shame for all the good people, but I am relieved for all of the ones stuck in the past and unable to progress and move on.
I was 10. Watching this on my cell. No doubt modern society has real benefits. But the 50s felt better. Much less crime. Better schools. Patriotism and respect for our flag and anthem were never sneered at or looked down on. We were proud and grateful to be Americans. And as kids we had a lot of fun
What Average Johnson said. Also, "much less crime"? Are you serious? The murder and violent crime rates were FAR higher in the 1950s compared with today. In fact, violent crime is at historic lows.
A lot more lynchings
I'm 23. I still had a lot of fun as a kid.
Patriotism hasn’t faded, the media has.
I am 71 and wouldn't want to be 30 now a days.
It's not that bad im 21. Just that alot people dont know how to live within their means. I make 24k a year and I have a 6 month emergency fund 10k in investments. I didn't go to college but I'm doing fine. My monthly burn rate is $700 - $1000 so I save half of my monthly pay checks. Have my own place and live in the suburbs in a good area in a good city. Times are rough but the 60s where worse I wouldn't want to be 20 or 30 in the 60s fearing every moment of my life for nuclear inhalation. Times are good even now. So idk what people complain about saying they cant make ends meet then stop being financially stupid save leave with your means dont get into debt or buy shit you can't afford. My rule us if u can't afford 5 of them I can't afford 1.
@@Sora_Nai what do you do for a living?
@@Sora_Nai That works great when you're 21. It doesn't hold up over time...not without more money.
@@nickc247 that's why me doing this at 21 by the time I'm 25 or 23 I'll be making more money and be financially free gaining money passively.
@@Sora_Nai Making more money will be tougher without that degree or at least a solid trade.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have plans. I guess what I'm saying is, it probably won't turn out that way.
I was born in 1946 and remember much of this. Thanks for posting. I still have a 1957 Chushman motor scooter I purchased in 1961. My first car was a 1955 Studebaker Champion. Good times!
I was born in 1969. So, I grew up in the 1970s when 1950s nostalgia was very popular. And I was swept up by it. I just fell in love with the 1950s decade. By the early 1980s I was in high school and being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional household.
One day during class for reasons I cannot recall, they rolled in the school 16mm movie projector and played for us kids a few of those old, antiquated 1950s short instructional films on how to date, how to be polite, etc. My fellow classmates laughed through them. The wooden acting, the cheap production values, the over-politeness, the innocent slang of the time (golly, gee, swell, etc), the squeaky clean activities (a picnic, a carnival, bike riding, dinner with the family, etc.) I on the other hand wasnt laughing. I found these films to be quite sweet and charming. A sort of time capsule of a more kinder, innocent era.
Don't get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the 1950s weren't so perfect and innocent. No decade is. All decades have their faults. But it seems to me that there were so many things they were doing SO RIGHT in the 1950s that we were doing so horribly wrong in the 1980s as well as today
I’m honestly fine not living in that era
I really can’t think of anything the 50s did right. It was an awful time. Racist, reserved, sexist, forcing people to suppress themeselves, etc. Sure, it had its charms with music and fashion but was really an awful time for anyone who was different and wanted to live their own kind of life.
@@Ty-vj4wg yeah back then abortion was illegal, cops shot black people for no good reason, people couldn’t say they were gay, the air and water were polluted, people were obsessed with acquiring empty status symbols. good thing today is nothing like that. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Ty-vj4wg yea i agree. The world was in shambles but the charm is unique and cool, i can see why people could fall in love with it.
Enjoyed your post. You would like this song by The Judds called "Grandpa".
Our neighborhood had block parties in the summer where we’d block off both ends of the street. A carnival atmosphere was created. Every family brought food and games out to tables and everyone visited with each other. Another thing, most of the neighborhood was comprised of young families with their first home. Regardless of whose house you were in, the rules were pretty much the same and a Dad in any home would discipline you if you got out of line! And your parents would back them up. You could go out and play all day as long as you were in for dinner and then back before dark.
@Daniel S That’s an odd, racist, comment, Daniel. Do you see everything through a racial lens? Sad life you must live.
@@NoBite2 Daniel's comment has disappeared.
@@annarodriguez9868 That’s odd!
Wow
This sounds like heaven
@@bricklawson9745 This was long before projection TVs or big screen TVs. One family would hang a white sheet over their garage door. They had a movie projector and played kids movies after the sun went down.
1957: conveniences that are "Spiritually Uplifting!"
2019: conveniences that are "Absolutely Soul Crushing!"
Wait till you see 2019’s sequel
Gay
Yea i mean just imagine having to drive to the other side of town just to see how many countries are in the world from a book that's probably from the Interwar period (the area in between the World Wars).
@@MrCreeperYT_Official Libraries were kept very up to date and most cities of any size had many libraries, for me there was the big main branch that was downtown and most of my childhood I lived a few blocks from the local branch. And a popular thing to buy at the time was encyclopedia sets, so a good percentage of homes had their own reference on general facts about history, science, philosophy, etc, with some sets being more specific than others. I was born in 1958 and my sister in 1954 and my folks bought several sets (typically from door to door salesmen I think) and my favorite one to look through was Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia from 1962, it was like our "internet" back then to answer questions or to go down a random rabbit hole on a lazy Sunday morning because TV sucked . . . no cartoons just boring political talk shows dad liked to watch! ;-)
@@JohnLRice the library has been my fav hangout all my life. They even have computers there son.
Dresses to school, kids played outside, never a door locked...So laid back and easy. Those WERE the best years growing up. Mom home cooking, skating every weekend. Oh my yes... great years!
What r dresses?
@lemon diesel Open your eyes and look around.Most young people and children are obese. And all they know how to do is play on their phones. When SHTF they will be dead or killed in urban riots.
@lemon diesel I would say the culmination of that has to be this generation, gen z, the absolute worst most careless hateful scummy people on this planet without a doubt, no value of human life, no beliefs, no passion, nothing what so ever, this generation will bring about the end of the word as you know it mark my words
Funny how your generation disses the boomers. Not one single one of you would even be here if not for that generation!!
@Evan Perrine In the south. And tbh, I'd take making food and cleaning the house over having the possibility of death in a 9-5 job.
I do agree about the school clothing though.
Simplicity is the key for a decent life. I remember when I could fill my gas tank up with $7.00 and get my gas and pay after. It was a very unique and special time. There was hardly any stress. I am blessed that I have seen better days.
Sure gas was cheaper than today but that's just inflation - your salary would've been smaller too. If you Google how much $7 in 1957 is worth today, it's around $72, so it was actually similar to today, maybe a bit more expensive
Back in the 1950’s, most adults in their 20’s on up with only a high school diploma made a decent living, owned homes, fully literate, and used proper grammar. Now we have college graduates below that level!
Jon Stewart Today’s generations are much more intelligent than previous generations due to the rise of more accessible information.
Matt Schnaare If they’re so intelligent, why don’t they use proper grammar or spell, capitalize, and punctuate properly? Half of today’s high school graduates are functional illiterates and even more than that can’t name every state there is on a map of the U.S. I worked in Fort Yukon, Alaska one time and my coworker was from Missouri. We talked to a local elementary school teacher there from Chicago and she thought Missouri was way out west.
Jon Stewart Anecdotal evidence is not valid in terms of argumentation, that’s one of the first things you learn in middle school in the modern education system. Rather the providing anecdotal evidence about my experience with a huge influx of Advanced Placement classes being introduced into high school by the College Board (AP Physics, Psychology, and many others) that are lightyears ahead of predating classes from the 1950s, I will first present the physical differences in what is expected in a high school student. In terms of mathematics, a student from the 1950s may be required to learn basic algebra. As per graphing these algebraic equations, a standard linear equation in the form of y=mx+b is all that would be expected. Mathematics in today’s high schools teach all of the foundation algebra either freshman year or their last year of middle school. From there it branches into more complex topics that build off of algebra such as trigonometry and eventually integral and differential calculus. This was only introduced at extremely high level college courses in the 1950s. I have not found anything that relates the science courses from the 1950s to modern day, however in modern high schools students are required to take at the very least Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. All of these have honors and AP variants available that dive into topics that didn’t even exist in the year 1950, and are at the college level. Students in history take Modern U.S. history (covering reconstruction to 9/11), World History, and Government. There are AP variants for all of these classes and honors for MUSH. One key difference from today’s learning environment and that from the 1950’s is that modern students are required to not only know the history, but to develop historical analysis skills to connect different events in history and argue certain perspectives. This would have never been asked if a student in the 1950’s. Similarly in English, modern students are required heavily annotate texts and develop strong college level thesis statements in order to prove a given essay prompt. Moreover, they are required to develop public speaking skills and overall reading comprehension. In addition to core subjects, many high level electives are offered in high schools as well. PLTW has introduced +IED and +POE that allows high schoolers to be introduced to engineering concepts as early as age 14. Due to this increase in standards of our students, studies have showed that with each decade, the average IQ the student body increases by 3. That means that a modern student would have an adjusted IQ of 118 in the 1950’s.
Matt Schnaare Wow, where did you get all this info? I’m not as smart as I thought I was. All I was saying was it seemed to me American society overall is drifting towards Idiocracy; I didn’t know anything about how math and science have advanced. I barely passed Algebra 2 in high school (not like it’s of any use in real life).
Anyway, in my most perceptive opinion, most of the generation born the past 40 years have been dealt a bad hand compared to the Baby Boomers in terms of upward mobility.
And yet with all this information at their fingertips, the fact remains in general they still appear daft , not to mention socially inept. I guess they are not making use of all they are learning.
I was born in 1951, I live in Australia mum & dad both worked & life was wonderful, I'm glad I wasn't born in today's world. it was much more safer, never locked the door when we went out
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay Cardi B & Nicki Minaj have to do with it ???????
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay maybe, but their doing something right ?, They do have the money
@@marypevitt174 I've Built A LEGO 1957 Police Car
@@SuperJacob2006 that's awesome
Wow thank you for this video I'm87 and in 1957 I was 23 Carefree working in a hospital as a nurse and on days off would go to a nightclub and probably do the twist rock and roll crime was way down in Los Angeles and South Bay California go to the beaches and when I was younger people didn't even lock their house doors or car doors leave your bicycle outside the store and when you come out the bicycle was still there how times have changed thank you for the video by
We came to America in 1957. My Dad had a job waiting for him. My mother found a factory job. They worked hard. We became members of the middle class. Contrast this to the fate we would have had if my family stayed in Russia under communist rule. So grateful to be living in this great country God bless America
Very lucky. How did they manage to escape ? My Grandfather went to GULAG and got out when Stalin died. Tried to escape but never had a change again
My families left Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. They eventually made their way through many middle eastern countries until my Dad was offered a menial job in New York by his brother.
I, too, emigrated from Japan to America, in 1957.
My Dad was an American Navy man and met my Mom while stationed there.
We lived in Tokyo until 1957 but my Dad got homesick so off we went.
I was 3 years-old but I remember it all like it was YESTERDAY.
There was SO MUCH SPACE, land, and food was so different. My 5 Y/O Sis and I fell in love with "Rice Krispies," "Ovaltine," "TANG," "KOOL-AID," and don't get me started on all of those CANDY BARS!!!
Television in America was very different from what we watched in Tokyo...you know which shows I'm talking about...!
When the "Barbie" doll debuted, two years later, of course, us girls just HAD to have them.
Life in America was SO MUCH FUN: my Dad's American family was so kind and good to us; everybody laughed, it seemed, all the time.
We arrived in the U.S. on October 31, 1957 and I'll never forget all the children knocking on the door dressed all kooky and wanting candy. They didn't celebrate Halloween in Japan, of course.
To this day, Halloween is my favourite holiday, even over Christmas.
Glad you and your family made such a great life here, Sarah.
@@shakhmoroff123 It took then 40 Years to reach America. I am from Estonia here last time to escape was 1944 autumn. After that our country got fully controlled by USSR. We got communism much later than 1917 revolution in Russia
@@t2216 My family lived in Asiatic Russia Samarkand Region. I was told that the Bolsheviks came knocking on my Grandparents door in the 1930s. It was then that my Grandmother took her family over the mountains into Afghanistan. They traveled across 5 Islamic countries to finally arrive in Jerusalem in 1939 where they had family. They had to pretend they were Islamic and bribed border guards to make it across country to country.
This didn't disappear. They took this away from us.
"they"? Who are "they"
@@hubbletelescope1721 me
Not necessarily. If anything, we’ve been given too much from this ‘they’ you speak of. Our current society is the result of excess. Excess everything
@@hubbletelescope1721 central banks
@@beccuhhh106 except love, caring, and understanding. And some people just don't want to give up their hate. It's disgusting.
I was a teen in 80's and life was so much simpler back then. I felt like I was living the American dream.
Same with my Grandma! But she was not living the American Dream. Life was hard for her.
I remember the 70's. It was all over by the 80's.
I was a teen in the late '70's/early '80's and I agree with you! And there was always that promise. That we would inherit what Reagan used to call "the shining city on the hill." And we did. And we messed it up so much, I don't think it will EVER come back. And we did it with greed, self centeredness and apathy. Those qualities (or lack thereof) best define the sub "Jones Generation" which is made up of the younger boomers and older genxers. How far we have slid.
You're acting gay
Yes it was simpler!!!!!! I wish Regan was never voted into office
I'm currently 44 years old. My house was built in 1957, and I have a truck that was made in 1948. Many things are better today, and many things are worse. It's up to us to make things better. Raise your kids right, and live in a way that makes the world a better place. Don't get into any more debt than you absolutely have to, and live within your means.
Well said
100% agree
well said sir!
Thank ye!
I am a 14 year old, and when I did some research on the 50s, I fell in love. I feel like it was an amazing time to be a teenager because of the amazing economy, and freedom, the new and cool cars, and more. I wish I could have lived in those times.
i like the simplicity but i’d rather be living today
@@splash2849 thats your choice, but I see that the 50s was a much better time. Especially for teenagers.
@@hawke4753 well white teenagers yeah if i wasn’t a poc ig i’d love it
@@splash2849 It was MUCH better for black teenagers as well. The level of drop outs, teen pregnancies and above all violence was a FRACTION of what it is now.
@@poetcomic1 civil rights movement? why would anyone want to be alive during that
Born in 1944 and raised in the late 40's and 50's. The world was a different place. Such good memories.
If you mean violent and hostile, then yes.
@@coolguy02536 Ah, but objective analysis proves quite the opposite.
@Donald Smith Thank Ronald Regan n for that
That's how I look at the 90s, but I'm guessing it's all and nostalgia than an objective fact.
I too was born in 1944, we were poor but we didn't know it, I didn't liuve in America but Scotland, I wore second hand clothes, but once again i did not know this. We played outside in rain, snow and it was fun, walked to and from school, nobody had a car! If they did they were rich lol. It was a fantastic time to grow up, lots if friends the music was fab. My dad used to put cardboard inside my shoes haha it didn't help, always had wet feet, but wouldn't change anything about the 50s it was a lovely time to grow up. I feel sorry fir my grandchildren today's world is sad.
The 50s weren't perfect, but there is a reason why so many people view that decade as a golden age.
It was the best time in America
Because the rest of the world was so screwed by WW2 that America ruled the production and distribution of all the fancy modern things that people wanted, TV's, fridges, freezers etc. Britain's depression lasted until at least the mid-sixties. In 1970 my parents had a nasty black and white TV, (2 channels!), no phone, no freezer, no car. All my friends' parents, nearly all our neighbours, were the same. We weren't poor but we ate a lot of porridge and a lot of potatoes. Things didn't improve until the seventies. Even in the late fifties you almost couldn't get glass for a broken window or copper piping. A lot of our brand new cars were 1940's designs, unchanged, and you weren't allowed to sell them for five years to stop profiteering.
@Rob Blacks As the Founding Fathers intended.
Because it was the best time for the average Joe to get on their feet and stay on their feet.
Only if you were white though.
The average home mortgage before WWII was ten years. We're financial slaves now to concrete, 2x4s and sheet rock, paying 25% to 50% of our income to a 30 year mortgage. What happened to the American dream?
Ryan Johnson: I didn’t realize that a mortgage was ten years then-(and on a one-breadwinner income). My Aunt saved $7,000 for 5-years as a downpayment for an $11,000 duplex. She sold it for nearly $600,000 when she was 90.
Perhaps when females began working full-time (supplying
2 incomes for married couples), the mortgages began to skyrocket?
Actually, alot of people did not even have a mortgage......the word inflation was brought into our vocabulary, and it has taken 50 plus years for some people to realize that inflation means AMORTIZED debt , and this debt decreases the value of the instrument we use to conduct day to day transactions .
WE now live in a world populated by greedy toads , called experts (with degrees ) that absolve their responsibilities by imposing taxes on not only our children, but also our children's, children's, children .
And demonize us if we COMPLAIN.......
My opinion, the corporations and the greedy stole the American dream from common working people. :(
@@chrisbronson5341 True.
Good boy,Ryan!
I loved growing up in the 50's. Life was not so fast paced and frantic as today. People had respect for one another and crime wasn't rampant.
Those videos are important to remind us towards what dystopia we are heading and that, perhaps, we can reverse it. Grew up happily in Greece during the 1970s and 1980s too. Money does not matter, people were happy because they were going somewhere together. Today is a hopeless every man for himself. What have we become...
I'm also half Greek, and I lived on Corfu without dad for three years, best time of my life.
The society is ruined now.
@@ianjohngonzales4066 how is it ruined?
It's not hopeless for me.
@@kbanghart Well people have offered themselves to Internet, TV, living through buying, living through working, polluting the planet, while getting dumber and poorer as time goes by.
Back when it wasn't a crime to be nice to someone and people had respect for one another.
What you mean bigoted hateful offensive oppressive things like opening a door for someone? YOU SCUMBAG.
@Niven English Lmfao take a good long look at BLM
Niven English Never said it was a good cause, however I can assure you it has done less damage with its “peaceful protests” than BLM ever has
Niven English Bold of you to assume that only MAGA protestors have done irreparable damage to America. “Some bs damage from a protest” an eight year old black girl being killed in the middle of a protest that was created to protect her and her race isnt bs to me. That’s a young girls life taken for no reason except for the fact that BLM thought it a good idea to vandalise a car she was in. She’s not the only one though, countless people have been killed because of the BLM protests, stores have been vandalised, families and businesses ruined and the modern form of neo nazis is being accepted into today’s society. By no means am I a trump supporter however you need to open your eyes if you think only MAGA has done damage. An example of this is Cannon Hinnant, small white boy who got killed by a black man. He was shot square in the head point blank yet he got no media coverage, no protests, no riots, nothing. The news didn’t cover it as political correctness has created such a level of censorship that it ensures news like this horrific black on white crime never makes mainstream news. To me that sounds like systematic racism at its finest.
What do you mean by your people? Are you assuming my race based on my political view? I really hope not as that could be deemed racist whether I’m white or not.
Niven English Stay ignorant :)
I was born in 1957. A lot of my favorite TV shows and movies actually came out in 1957. I missed the days when families actually looked and acted like families... and not a zoo.
I so agree👍👏👏👏👏👏🙋♀️
Eric Claey technology has a lot to do with families not being families anymore ie: smart phones 📱
So true👍
Ok boomer
Yes family looked like family rape pedhophila under the bed,disease women beater racist Nuclear war threat probably nicer days
Any era in history is a good time to be alive, as long as you're not part of an oppressed minority group, have money, are physically and mentally healthy, and have a good relationship with your family.
I know anytime in history has its joys and sadness.But to have a chance just to live is a chance we are given and not chosen.Despite the times that those days were for folks of Color,it was a time for a new beginning and the coming of Civil Rights for all.The people born in those times helped to change the World.Life is important,always cherish it,live to learn and anyone can flourish.
Amen
So true
I think you got the just of it. short and sweet.
Like most people
...and you could raise a family of four, including home ownership, on ONE income. And people didn't suck. Boy those days are gone forever ain't they.
Robert Maybeth “people didn’t suck” yet wwll happened not too long prior to this video...
When the Lord Jesus returns it will be new heavens and a new earth. Repent and believe!
@@Tiny578 Yes! Jesus Christ will solve all of your problems, so don't worry about living your life to its full extent. Just keep working that nine to five for all of the good years of your life.
@@heyomayo1663 My are atheists always so bitter?
That is why we need to MAGA
This video is great. I was born in 1954 and this was like looking into a time machine. We had a horseshoe pit in our backyard and everyone had a little red wagon.
We had a small black and white console TV for the longest time. We use to call refrigerators iceboxes. Every car was built like a Sherman Tank.
Wow! You're 10 years older than me, but I remember those things too. I had a little red wagon. A fancy one with removable wooden sides. My uncle had a horseshoe pit in his back yard. My father was excellent at it and would play when we went for family picnics (remember those?). We had a black and white television as well and I remember when my parents got their first color set. Remember those programs on NBC that began with "in living color?" My grandmother called the refrigerator and "icebox" until her death 21 years ago. My father had cars that were built like Sherman Tanks. His last one built like that was a 1970 Chevrolet, which he kept until 1985!
Me I was born in 1952.
Life was like that on into the 70s as well. The 70s was very like the 50s until cable tv and the VCR got us glued to our tvs 24/7.
Give a kid of today a little red wagon and he'd look at you like, "What am I supposed to do with THAT?"
I’ll catch a lot of slack for this but let me say, this was a time when family was first. It pains me that now, for a family for four to make ends meet, both parents have to work and the kids are raised by daycares or often whomever is available.
no flack from me, you are spot on
It doesn't take two incomes for a family of four to live now you just have to have your priorities straight you don't have to have the latest of everything vacation every year two brand new cars in the driveway
@@debbieframpton3857 very true.
Over the last 50 years we've seen more and more breaking up of the family unit, more self interest and narcissistic behaviour. Society seems to be heading to hell in a handcart.
I have to correct you on something dude. TODAY it's "family first." The attitude of the younger boomers and older genxers are "as long as me and mine have OURS who gives a shit about anyone else." Back the, people CARED about OTHER people. Neighbors knew their neighbors and helped them in times of need. Communities came together and helped one another.
See, I'm in a very unusual situation. I live in my family home which my parents built during the time period of this segment. And I live in a very small town. When I was a boy, we knew EVERY family in the neighborhood. They were good people who had respect for each other. Now, I have the distinction of being the 7th longest living person in the development (the other 6 were here since the '50's and are very old now). The new younger people don't even want to know you. You try to be friendly and they act like you have 3 heads. They start making noise at 6 AM (which is against the law), even on Sundays. And since some of them party until midnight, it gives one very little time for sleep. America was built on people helping people and neighbor helping neighbor. That doesn't exist anymore.
It was a wonderful time. I am so lucky to have grown up in the era.
As a Black American these comments are amazing.
@@commonsense3921 i’m young as hell and black and confused lmao, were most of the ppl in these comments not aware of the issues or was it just like a universal thing that they didn’t have to think about so they don’t associate it with their childhoods? genuinely wanna know the climate/dynamic
Yeah they were great for us because we're both white people
Me too!!
@@splash2849 they like to not think about it most likely
I would love to have raised my son in the 50's. Social media has ruined children.
dirty government and consumerism ruined the country way before social media was around.
Im 24 and want to have children but we'll have to just do the best we can
So you're admitting that your son is a failure, good one. Also, what's wrong with social media? Oh yeah, it's totally bad for opening children's minds about the world and not keeping them in a brainwashed cave their whole adolescent lives. I'm Christian and white, but the 50's were far from the era I'd like to live in, what a terrible, plastic time. It's so fake.
Biget Niget SM ruined kids, I'll rather see teens aged 15 go out and have a good time with couples together than to see porn
JAS 83, only YOU can "ruin" your children. Who, exactly, paid for their cell phone, their computer?
You feed them, You pay for their housing. Go now, take away the laptop and the cell phone.
Hand them a library card and tell them to go read some books.
YOU are the only one responsible for how your children turn out.
The 1950s were optimistic about the future. But 2019 is deeply pessimistic, and deeply nostalgic. The golden age is sadly not in the future, but apparently 62 years in the past.
THIS 1950's OPTIMISM YOU speak of was borne on the belief that the future could be made good with effort and diligence. That's not the case today. Humans are technologising themselves into obsolescence, and they're too stupid to realize it.
Damm that was deep.
50's were only optimistic for white people. Everyone else was being shat on.
Yeah, people today are just so depressed and hopeless. I’ve heard kids my age at school (high school, keep in mind) just casually talk about ways that they’ve tried to kill themselves. I get that life can be hard sometimes, but it’s really not that bad. They don’t realize how easy they have it.
@Julio Moreta no, they really didn't. They built it off the backs of black people.
I was 7 years old then and lived in a small country town in Virginia. I could write a book of how things were back then but I'll just say, it was like heaven.
Heaven unless you were black. I grew up in Virginia in those days, too, and I'll never forget the "colored only" drinking fountains.
But I didn't know it until it was all destroyed by PC and "progressive" ideology.
@@lawsonj39 I live in Virginia and yes I remember those days very well. Even at the doctors office one side was for white and other side for colored.
bob jones shut the fuck up boomer
{} Ok boomer
Paradise is a strong word
I was born in 1958. Sometimes I wish I could step back in time and just spend a little time in that era.
Crypto Hunt my grandmas ten years older than you! 😁
If you like to read I will recommend a book that will let you travel back in time (in your imagination). It's called "11/22/63" by Stephen King. It is about the JFK assassination in Dallas. I read it last summer (I was born in 1958 in Ft Worth TX). It was weird reading that book. Stephen King states that he visited that area to do research for his book. I don't remember a lot of the places (buildings, streets, businesses, etc that are mentioned in it) but I read bits of it to my mom who is 84. She remembers a lot of the things King talks about in this book. Amazing way to tell a story! The main character goes back in time to try and stop the assassination.You go along for the ride!
Marty McFly already did so
pegleg09able - I need to find that book! I didn't know he wrote it. I was also born in 1958, (Des Moines, IA), and remember that day. We were sent home from kindergarten early 💔
You can...in the Twilight Zone 🗝️
I was born in the mid 50s & remember how people acted. Back then people knew hard times. Their parents experienced The Great Depression. They told us so many stories. Personal responsibility was about American pride and people didn't have to have status. We knew our neighbors. We felt far safer in our communities.
I agree with everything you said. My own parents were born during the depression and I remember the stories they and my grandparents told SO well. And they were WONDERFUL stories of survival and people helping other people.
Today, there is no such thing as American pride anymore! That started going down the crapper in the late 1990's. Today, its only hateful self centered people hiding behind what they call American pride but in reality is anything but.
@@retroguy9494
I do not know when the spirit died, and I can’t know when it was alive, but I can feel its absence.
@@protatype7487 Well, having been born when I was, I can remember when the pride still existed. Granted, not to the extent it did during, let's say World Way II but it was there! I really think the door opened in the late 1960's with the revolts, campus sit ins, burning of cities, etc. But that was a minority group (not in the racial sense of course but simply in the number of people). It got a little worse in the '70's. But the spirit was revived in the '80s with the Reagan era. I felt so lucky to be in high school and college during this period. But as I said, I noticed the major change and the dramatic shift in the late 1990's. Almost overnight it seemed. Its like one day everyone was friendly, helpful and patriotic and the next they were greedy, apathetic, self centered and, if immigrants, demanded we accommodate THEM instead of them becoming Americans!
"back then people knew hard times?" Hard times are now more than ever before. People are homeless everywhere, drugs run rampant, houses or even basic housing are unaffordable to hardworking people working 60+ hours a week, gas costs the average family $6,000 a year, food is at record high costs, corporations can outbid regular people on a home purchase, a college education costs twice the median national income YEARLY... what do you mean??
@@protatype7487 Ten minutes after Kennedy was shot.
Sad when you think that many of those little boys would be in Vietnam 10 years later. Thanks for nothing LBJ.
Yes when you've got a lot of ordinance left over from a couple of wars you need to drop it somewhere.
It was Eisenhower that got us involved in Viet Nam in the late 50s.
@@boristheamerican2938 true, but it escalated under LBJ.
It really escalated under Kennedy, not LBJ.
@@zarategabe Thanks. It just seems like it got worse during the mid to late 60s.
Compared to what we had in the Eastern Bloc during this era - yes it was a paradise.
I was born in ‘57. Love this reminder of my childhood and just how much the world has changed in 60 years, which seems so short a time. People often pine for the simpler times back then. They weren’t, of course, the problems were just different and often hidden. Certainly not exposed the way they are today. Not sure which is better, or worse. I can say with absolute certainty that having parents who lived through at least one world war and a depression was a much different experience than today. Values were different, much more important, and my parents didn’t have time for the BS that occupies everyone so much today. Luckily a bit of that stuck with me.
The earliest day that I can quantifiably remember was June 23, 1957 when in Queens New York with sunshine streaming into the kitchen... my mother picked me up swinging me around saying, "Oh my baby, he's 3". I did have a happy childhood. WWII was a profound part of growing up partly because of what we saw on TV as I grew up and partly because my father was born in Europe and spent time in a POW camp. Now in May 2022 I simply can't believe how we have arrived at this point. Hoping for the best....
You are so right, our Country is on a wrong road and I am 78 and grew up in the 50s, I graduated from eighth grade June 3rd 1957. Very few mothers worked out of the home, we came home for lunch from school then walked back to school. We all had chores to do and we had dinner as a family every night at 6:00 pm and their were 5 of us kids and as I look back I think of all the good times we had together. Today our Country is on a somewhat different track, and it's not good. My grandkids and great grandkids won't grow up the way I did and its a very sad thought to see it.
I'm from Astoria
@@marijooneill8015 maybe elect ppl who live in reality and recognize the problems science reveals.
Instead half of america wants their made up gender to be validated while the other half menstruate about "CRT"
What was it like in previous decades with getting an underdog in the political race at any level?
Born in Jan. 1950 Victoria BC Canada . 7 yrs old with brothers and sisters , a wonderful time and great memories .
silverfox how was cannabis viewed or loved if at all during that time?
flying kites and playing with those old balsa wood airplanes with the red propellar! ha ha ha
I was born Jan. 1950...there was nothing till Elvis
Hippy(Bboomer) pot is no worse than processed sugar nor shall I say that word....alcohol. It's how it's used and abused that matters. I am with you that during those times things were different from a mental perspective...but there were just as many raging alcoholics as there are now. To blame some bad actions on a plant is absurd. It's how things are used....guns for example. Guns don't kill people. Not a gun toting person and yes flooding a market with more will increase the violence rate in some situations. Yes flooding a school with pot may lead to more dropouts. Well same goes for putting more liquor stores in neighborhoods. At the end of the day it comes down to choices and balance.
I’m so thankful I grew up in the 1960s before the age of smart phones, computers, and social media. TV was an occasional distraction, but only for 2-3 hours a week. We had neighborhood friends and always played outside. When it was raining, we played board games. We broke bones, got stitches, were stung by the occasional bee, shot hoops in the park and rode our bikes everywhere. We went creek stomping and got lost in the woods. We ate dinners together and went to church as a family. When we misbehaved in school and were disciplined, our parents also punished us (and not our teachers). We learned how to spell and punctuate sentences properly. A high school diploma meant something - a college degree even more. We drank from the garden hose. We fought to get there first when the phone rang because it was always our friends - never telemarketers. We learned to read maps on road trips and were always looking out the window. School was for learning - not indoctrination. Life was lived in person. Our bonds were real and not virtual. Kids have so much more “stuff” today but we seemed to be much more happy with what we had. 😊
70's too
'57, I was in 2nd grade. I either walked or rode my bike to school......parents never accompanied us. I lived in the burbs so during summer vacation I'd yell to my mom "I'm going out to play." Her reply was....."have fun, come home when it gets DARK." You never, ever hear that anymore. BB guns, firecrackers, one speed bikes with coaster brakes, pickup ball games, Kool Aid stands for two cents a cup, scrapped knees/elbows, pocket knives (you actually had them in your pocket even at school), Beemans and Black Jack gum, the ice cream truck with a ten cent Nutty Buddy, nobody seemed to have peanut allergies........I could go on and on. The best of times.
surferdude44444 what do you think went wrong?
I’m 31 and had a small taste of that in the 90s, video games were only a few hours a week, the rest I’d mostly be outside with friends all day. Skateboarding, hiking etc. These days it’s totally different, started around 2000 and just got worse after the smartphones came out.
@@texanboiii562 multiculturalism
Texanboiii.............the sixties, that's what went wrong. JFK, MLK and RFK assassinated, race riots, the war, class warfare all contributed to the decline of the fifties and the age of innocence.
...so if you're that old, why is your name "surferdude44444"...?
I remember when color tv came about; when you shared a party line phone😊 when hang clothes on a clothes line and ringer washers!
My mother washing machine put a hole in the floor but what the heck!! But even 10 holes if I could go BACK from the future!!!!
Me too!
Love those grand ol days! Too bad they are gone! Still have memories though
I was born in 1958 and grew up in Levittown NY. My parents were thrilled to be able to move out of a small apartment in NYC and buy a house.
philhersh bet that was nice. Still have easy access to the city too.
Same here. Levittown was our "Camelot"
This was PRE CIVIL RIGHTS. Freedom for all? This is what MAGA is all about!!
Civil rights ended up supporting Black families which are now 70% without a father. Yes, there were advances made but I grew up in a small town where Blacks had all the opportunities that anyone else had. I had a grandmother who was clearly racist, but the mores changed without the government mandating it.
I give anything to go back for another go around. The fifties were the best years of my life. I miss the youthful friendships and neighbors who we knew for several blocks. I loved growing up in my parents grocery stores, and all of the employees and customers. The town I grew up in was like one big family. I knew all of the business men and women all over town, and most of their families. There were no Walmarts or super stores. People had the option of having their milk delivered to their front door by milkmen who cared about their products. It was wonderful, kids today would be lost, we didn’t need coddling, and if you lost in sports or a game, that was it. You didn’t get a medal or trophy for being a loser, you were told that you needed to work harder next time, and you did. I’d give anything to give my mom, dad, and grandmother a hug again. That’s another thing, families were close and got together often, at least mine did. I had eight aunts and uncles, and sixty-three cousins. The ones still living, are still close. I’ve seen where we’re headed, I’d like to turn back, I don’t like what I see.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories. 😄
I'm much younger than you, born in 93. I CRAVE what you just said for my America. I wish my generation had what you said. Thank you for giving me a small sample of that.
@@SuperWesley16 well, I wish I could give that kind of life to you and any other young person who missed out. My grandkids are always saying they wish things were as simple as when I was a kid. I also know how hard my parents, and my friend’s parents worked and sacrificed to give us the lives we had. People nowadays don’t know many of their neighbors. That’s one way to make life better, get to know your neighbors, and include them in activities. It may sound corny, but that’s what most people did back then, plus kids played outside. Plus families were closer before “life” got in the way. Good luck, and God bless.
@@SuperWesley16 oh you missed so much. When you went to the bank everyone called you by name.
You eagerly waited for the ice cream truck to come down your street.
You ran for joy after school on Halloween just to get dressed. You walked with grocery bag.
Christmas was the most exciting. You truly believed in Santa.
Just like the movie . You begged for your red Ryder.
You were filled with joy at getting roller skates that you tied around your shoes. And kept a key to adjust skate from pulling left or right.
Your mom would dress like she was going to a wedding just to go to grocery store. Your dad wore a suit and tie.
And when you visited grandma you drove down a white gravel single lane road. Dust everywhere.
Wow. The whole world loved god
Because you weren't subject to being lynched by white people.
I just remembered, as a kid playing army I used a French carbine my dad brought back from WWII. Dad had removed the firing pin which made it inoperable. I ran all over the streets with that gun and no one said a word about it. Try that today!
Tamir Rice.....(Still, I Can't Look At His Picture).
Heck, there's more than 100,000,000 more firearms in the country than there was in '57, what harm could that bring?
@@nextworld9176 What???
Dad gave me a Remington Rolling Block rifle back in '57 or so. I played Cowboys and Indians with that for a few years. Nobody ever said a word.
Allan J that’s bad ass
Yeah, a time when you didnt need a degree for a good paying job. A time when colleges were affordable if you wanted a degree. When America made it's own products. Made in China was not excepted. We need that now. We stood for something then.
you do not need a college degree for a good paying job nowadays. I can give you many examples to support my claim.
So then Vote Trump. He's trying to make america great again
Your option is made in china or automated in the USA. Neither benefits the average American worker. Too late.
@@NathanRyanAllen So true now...its sad.
mikel carrow....My mother couldn't afford college for me. Yes we stood for something then but my mom worked right along with my Dad when he was alive so they could afford our first home.
I was 9 years old in 57 and as I look back now, it was heaven; a very innocent time compared with today especially. We were allowed to be kids. I'm glad not to be growing up in today's environment.
Yes, but you were a child and remembering childhood is a cocktail of 1 part fear of aging, 1 part fatigue of change, 1 part yearning for better health and lost agility, and 1 part acceptance of impending inevitable death. All good: I was born in 1959 btw. But always remember Corinthians 1: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The best time period ever. I was raised during this time. We were poor but didn’t know it. We had love, peace, joy, and contentment. We could go to bed at night with the windows open with no fear. People had morals and knew right from wrong. Good times.
Oh there were still home invasions & even home murders during this time. There's a house in our neighborhood that's supposedly haunted because of a murder that took place in it during the 50s.
Yeah mom and I would walk downtown with the dog on the leash and not even lock the house.
I agree with you ...but...what changed it all ?....Ho did we end up with this mess in 2022 ?....What year do you think it all went down hill ?...Thanks
@@rv6205 When different people started invading the good neighborhoods like a cancer. And it continues to spread.
@@tommy7fun what do you mean by different people?
How many remember the Test patterns and when tv stations went OFF for the night they showed the Flag and played the American Anthem.
And there were only 2 or 3 channels. 😀
STEPHEN MARTINI nowadays it's "racist" and "xenophobic" to even mention/reference the American flag 😆... what a joke
And when the station switched off its signal, in summer (temperature inversions I guess) a station from hundreds of miles away would sometimes come on. Once I recall Channel 4 from Detroit went off the air and in its place we got channel 4 from Denver, CO.
I still would have taken a knee back then ;)
TV became crap in the late 2000s. I used to always look forward to the weekend for good Cartoons or new movies
My late older brother wrote a book entitled "Tales From the Treehouse" which depicted our family adventures starting around the mid 50's to early 60's. The publisher loved the book because it illustrated a black family in post WWII New York. My mom and dad and my two older brothers. Me and my little sister came later in 1959 and 1963 respectively. He recalled events like playing on the block, with neighbors, etc. My father was a New York bus driver and my mom was attending college at NY University, then Graduate School at Fordham. Both were veterans of the US Navy. Dad served on a submarine and mom a pharmacists mate. The book also depicted our migration from NY to California and how my brother described the journey from the eyes of a 14 year old. My father lost his license, and my mom didn't have one, so my uncle and his son drove our 1953 Chrysler with all of us packed in it, across country on Route 66. My brother recalled seeing so many stars in the sky as we ventured further west driving through Arizona. We settled in Compton, California. In 1962 and my mom was a counselor and dad a teacher at a private school. Both brothers attended junior high. I was a toddler and a few years later my sister came along. I can go on and on, and I'm sorry for rambling. But I couldn't put his book down because I learned so much about those simpler times and this video reminded me of them. Tales from the Treehouse: www.amazon.com/Tales-Tree-House-Gene-Thomas/dp/1462018645
Wow. Thanks for sharing that. Sounds like you had a great family.
What a great family!
bro gettin bread for a copy and paste i see u my boy i see you
It was a pleasure to read your comment
I really wanna read the book now, thanks for sharing this!
50s was the best decade absolutely
Televisions had 3 channels, people talked to each other, kids rode bikes and played outdoors in all kinds of weather, we played board games, jacks, hop scotch, talked on rotary phones, we left our doors unlocked when we left, went to the store with $20.00 and walked out of the store with a shopping cart full of groceries in brown paper bags, and filled the tank of your vehicles with the change, kids worked for a allowance, we went out to a drive in movie and watched three movies with your parents and friends in good weather or a walk in theater in bad weather, went to the library and read books,did our homework at the house especially math that we had to figure it out before calculators, we walked everywhere man I wish I could go back there again and be a kid instead of being a old fart reminiscing about the good old days?
I'm right there with you Bryan Miller - take me back!
3 channels and one local. In Chicago, it was ch 11..the education channel. Boring for us...
I know life changing so much it sucks kids don't play no more we need to go back to the old ways
Lol. I used to go to the local store with a quarter, got a bottle of coke, a pack of cupcakes, and a package of gum. If I brought the bottle back, I got all three for 23 cents. Everything was in real glass bottles. Milk still had the cream on top. Now they skim off the cream, and give you the watered down version. You got free matches, and free maps at the gas station, and someone pumped it for you, and checked your oil. Coffee was a dime, gas was a quarter, and cigarettes were 32 cents a pack. Wish I could go back to the fifthtees, and sixties. No drive by shootings, no home invasions, no terrorists, no Aids, no flesh eating disease, and real singers. No need for auto tune.
Yeah, we left your doors unlocked until we heard about Ed Gein www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.html
The Clutter Murders
www.crimearchives.net/1959_clutter/html/images.html
and similar events.
WE were never as safe as we thought we were. We were only blissfully ignorant.
So the original American Dream was to be part of the middle class?
apple-sauce is that a problem?
The original American Dream was to become rich, not middle class. Besides, there is no American middle class anymore. If you have to work to live, you are working class. Whether you work to pay rent or a mortgage is irrelevant.
@@ixlnxs How could that be irrelevant?
The original American dream as the Founding Fathers intended was for a country of Europeans founded on European values. It never was supposed to be the divided, racial tension-filled, melting pot, grab bag that it is today.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath "Never supposed to be the melting pot". That term has literally been in use since 1780. I'm going to let you off easy this time because I feel sorry for people like you.
Imagine growing up during those times and listening to the stories your grandparents would tell you. At the time, your grandparents childhood would be filled with horse carriages, no indoor plumbing, and no electricity. I bet their stories were amazing to listen to.
Yeah. Except ofc if you lived in the US in the 1950s as an Afro American, the stories would have been a bit different.
@@oznelnavnaekal6679 your talking long ago. If america is as racist today as it was. Explain how that happened
@Donovan Bryan
What I am saying is that back in those days racial segregation was still widespread (especially in the south). In those days it wasn’t uncommon for white Americans to say the word “negro” when referring to Afro American and use the word “nigger” to literally insult them.
I am not saying that racism in the US has vanished, but it’s completely different compared to the 50’s. As someone who is fascinated by history, I should know that.
@@oznelnavnaekal6679 " back in those days"
That's the statement you should pay attention to.
Was in the past.
Just like Slavery. Let it go
In the past gengis Kahn used to kill his own people. Should Chinese all start remembering and talk about it?
@Donovan Bryan
I am a historian and compare the human mindset of modern times to that of present. And when you said “let it go” does that mean that people who have lost a family member in for instance an ISIS attack, like the one in Brussels, that they have to “let the past go”? I don’t think it will be easy. And when you say let the past go, does that mean that we don’t have to learn about the type of warfare that was used in WWII and that we can just kill in the same ways as before?
Try to understand that my statements are just facts and historical studies fgs.
Native Americans were also living under Jim Crow. We rode freight elevators and we're not allowed to enter the front door of stores. My parents couldn't vote.
cool
Natives also get everything for free.
@@rocketeer2361 Right ✅️
@@rocketeer2361 Makes sense since everything was taken from them
@@goes5114 Nobody alive today took shit from them.
This era was paradise for some, and hell for many.
hell for most people outside north america and western europe
@CrazyDinosaur Umm…. I’m pretty sure it felt like hell for “some people” in North America CrazyDinosaur………🧐
@@commonsense3921 i know, i said "most people outside" not only people outside
and at risk of this being received wrong, i will say that i would rather have been an african american in the US, than native peasant/worker in China, the USSR, any african country/colony etc in the same period
@@crazydinosaur8945 The orignal commernter stated "this era was paradise for some, and hell for many" and your response referenced ONLY the people OUTSIDE of the US because you didn't mention the people inside of the United States AT ALL, So I reference SOME of the people inside the USA because this video and his comment is about the United States. Also I don't understand your point, Being an African American in the United States in the 50's and 60's was a terrible reality the fact that you feel the need to compare it to some of the worst conditions on earth to minimize the suffering is disgusting, The point is it wasn't a paradise for African Americans can we agree on that???
@@commonsense3921 "earth to minimize the suffering is disgusting" it was the best way I could phrase it and i did say "and at risk of this being received wrong"
i said "hell for most people outside north america and western europe" i didnt say "ONLY hell for most people outside north america and western europe" i didnt cancle "This era was paradise for some, and hell for many." i add to it by pointing out that most people outside these places had it like hell.
"African Americans can we agree on that" at what point did i say it wasent
i only said that at least they want in china undergoing the worst famine in history, thats not a high bar, so yes we can agree that it was not a paradise for African Americans.
i still don't understand why you are so angry at my first comment BTW
Woolworth's - Cheeseburger, fries, a Coke, and change back from your dollar.
I loved the grilled cheese, fries and coke, which was such a treat.
YES. THOSE WERE THE DAYS ✨💟
Yes, where else could you pick up a cheeseburger and a parakeet?
If your skin was the right color so you could be served at all.
@@TBrewer64 They had Fatburger. Lovie Yancie, a black woman, took all colors.
I was born in 1957 in a small hospital in Harlem. My parents moved to the projects in East Harlem (which had just been built a year earlier). I grew up there with lots of friends, we went to the same schools, ran the same streets and played lots of sports . It was a freer time in Harlem.
Are you really trying to boost '50s Harlem, brother? Even more, the 'jects? Really? Here's one for you: great that you enjoyed living there, but didn't you/don't you wonder why you didn't live someplace better than there? Because you couldn't. That's why you were living in the projects. Not some urban Mayberry RFD. What all other New Yorkers considered a slum.
@@caribman10 why u gotta spread negativity on a post where people are recounting their beloved memories? I hope all is well in your life and bless up brother. We are all the same just born and experiencing life from different perspectives. When we come to this realization and become a peaceful people that live in harmony with nature and each other nothing will become impossible. Love and blessings @caribman10
Edward had some good memories of Harlem,friends & family. That's all any of us had at this time! Thank you Edward's sharing. Mine were a world away from Edward. I grew up homesteading in Alaska. We lived like early pioneers..no plumbing, electricity, roads, phones, TV,etc. Just us ,wild animals, & a few s altered neighbors. Closest hospital was 250 miles away.
@@caribman10 WTF are these commenters talking about?? Good times...freer times!! This what MAGA was about...pre Civil Rights!! Unbelievable!!
@@caribman10 isn't it ironic that now, you wouldn't be able to afford to live in Harlem and all of those families who still own their Harlem homes are sitting on multimillion dollar mints. Not bad for a slum
We need this America back. We can't give it up...
too late
Living in abject poverty, I don't have these warm memories. My spouse, although her family was not well to do, remembers this as the best years, living much like the middle class of that era.
Yup the view from the other side of the track is way different.
There will alway be poor people, Jesus himself said so. But at least in the 50s there WAS a middle class.
@@matthew8153 Well there are enough countries that do not accept poverty and try to do something about it. Perhaps in the USA you call it socialism, but others consider it solidarity.
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And none of those countries have been successful in getting of poverty. No country ever has.
@@matthew8153 of course countries were successfull in fighting poverty, so that at least everyone has a place to live and an income. Btw Jesus didn't want us to accept poverty but to care for other people. And not letting them live tents on the streets.
"Things aren’t like they used to be and probably never were." ~Roy Rodgers
@@jrvasquez Roy Rodgers was an actor! Nuf said.
112yrs So...what kind of occupation must one hold to be considered wise?
Who the hell is/was Roy Rodgers????
Never fall for “good old days” hogwash. A wise elder I knew once said, “The only good thing about the ‘good ol’ days’ is that they ain’t here no more.”
The quote is actually from Will Rodgers not Roy Rodgers.
I was born in 1957 into a family of five children. Growing up was relatively easy with a nice home, safe neighborhoods and quality schools. In many ways, I wish we could go back to it.
Git you sum Anusol for that butt-ache@cubomania3
@@nextworld9176 What color is the sky in your world?
NextWorld You started the Racist shit bigot, so shut up.
Very turth, but the replacement came and ruin everything.😔
@@nextworld9176 my Mexican neighbors were pretty happy too!
I was born in 1960. Loved every minute of my childhood in the Midwest. I still believe that 1950's America was definitely the greatest decade in the greatest country. The 60's come in 2nd place. If not for the Vietnam war and the assassinations the 60's would have been almost as good.