MAIN STREET America... Take me back!
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am a 15 year old and people expect me to like drill music or rap music, but i really like vintage 1950s and 60s music and footage, I find some sort of comfort and peace in it and I just wanna say to those who went through those times are lucky
I would give anything to go back to that time. If even for one day.
So would I
You and me both my friend.
@@StarFleet_Tech1701 Yea, and isn't it funny that the same political party that wanted those things (segregation) to remain the forever, are now brainwashing the black youth into reimplementing segregation themselves today.🤦 (Btw, that would be the Democrats)
Me too, even though it's before my time. ^^
@@StarFleet_Tech1701 Of course many Black people probably wouldn't be too interested in going back to then, but just because it was worse in that way doesn't mean it wasn't better in other ways. I'm old enough to remember a world before social media, and boy I miss that.
It was the Pinnacle of American civilization and it was all closed on Sunday so families could worship, eat and enjoy a relaxing day together. That was America at it's best.
The Sun even cast slanted shadows differently on a Sunday. I use to look out my apartment window on a Sunday around maybe 3 pm near the end of a sleepy Sunday. I always observed how the Sun somehow slanted a matching long, *quiet* shadow across the old buildings across the street. It all felt so magical on a Sunday somehow.
There's a reason Millennials and Gen Z hate Boomers, and it's not because they "ruined things" (most of them had zero control over world events). It's simply jealousy because their world was much, much better. There is NOTHING "new" now that I wouldn't trade for the 50s, except for some advances in medicine.
I was a child in the 60s and recall all these wonderful stores and the sights and sounds of going downtown for fun and shopping. Sadly most of it is all gone now.
Thanks to American companies that sent their manufacturing to China/
Actually Most of them moved to plazas then malls with plenty of parking Now on line shopping
If we could ever pick a time In history.I would choose these times!
Great times!
Main St in El Centro Cali used to be nice few times I go back it is worse. So sad to see. I worked at bridal registry shop in my early 20s. It was family owned it was nice. I miss the old Main St. Reminiscing my young days here in TX.
I'd love to go back to these days... but they are long gone....... ( sigh)
I lived the last 3 years of high school in Richfield Springs NY and it's a very small town. I ended leaving and never going back for over 23 years. Most of the family dairy farms were shut down and the different little stores were gone and a McDonald's was there along with a big grocery store. It wasn't the same and it was really sad. Im 63 and life will never be the same.
Do you know what you'd see? Mothers crying because their son was killed in WWII. You'd see "Whites Only" signs and lynchings. The truth is homicide rates right now aren't significantly higher than back in the 1950s. And they're wildly lower than the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, which is pretty incredible when you consider the explosion in population.
Yes please take me back to those days it seemed so much easier
In some ways yes, in other ways no. I remember the dark ages of dentistry! And today, I would not leave home without carrying my phone with me. We always tend to view the past with rose colored glasses. But don't get me wrong; there are things I do miss from the past that are irreplaceable today.
@@jeanhansel5805 The last time my wife and I went out to dinner a middle aged couple sat at a table across from us. The first thing they did after seated was to pull out their cell phones and stare into them until the food arrived. That is so sad.
I have this great saying which may apply here:
"Remember the future,
Imagine the past."
@@Daniel-ow2io That is really sad!!
@@Daniel-ow2io It's also an addiction. And like all addictions, difficult to break.
It is amazing how just seeing the pictures of the shoe stores can evoke the scent that was in the store.
What I remember are the flouroscopes. Totally illegal now, you stuck your feet into the slots and looked through the eyepieces and saw your skeletal feet. It was fun to wiggle your toes and see your toebones wiggle. Your dad or mom and the salesman looked through the other two eyepieces.
Just about everything you needed was in your home town back then, ....a food market, barber, hair salon, Woolworth, Church, bank, movie theatre, sometimes a number of drug stores, your doctor, your dentist, lawyer, a gas/service station or two, clothing stores, hardware store, small hospital, veterinarian , grade school, junior high school, high school, local restaurant or diner and even a small motel. The best thing about it was even though prices may have been a little higher all the cash kept cycling through the town over and over again. The cash for the most part stayed in the town. Say you worked pumping gas at the local Chevron station. You got paid, then spent the money "in the town" going to the diner, movies, market. etc. Once the money started being all sucked up by the malls and big discount chains hometown America was on life support. Empty stores, vacant streets, people moving away, suddenly their is crime, home prices tumbling down, abandoned homes upside down on the mortgage................."and when Rome finally fell, wolves roamed the streets, a great empire crumbled to dust."
All true 👍 not much has change for the better unfortunately 😕 good luck.
@@Go4Corvette yes, it is the saddest thing I think i have ever seen. When I went back to the small beautiful little town I grew up in, it's now just burnt down or empty houses, discarded empty store fronts, crime, horrible school, no real businesses except convenience stores and those have bars on all the windows and doors. But oh boy, the town mayor had a great idea to bring the city back to life a few years ago. Not make it a safer place to live. Not clean up the streets and invest money into the schools...oh no, he had a better plan......he built 3 "erotic dance clubs"! GREAT! He brought more people in alright but the only thing those people were gonna invest in was the bars and the no-tell Motels. Ugh!!!!! Will they never learn?!🤦
I was born in the 60's in a big town small city like around 8 to 9,000 people and in my opinion the LAST of the great decades was the 80's.
Change started to pick up speed but the small town atmosphere was still there but it was fading fast.
by the 90's it was all over. we seem to be on the downward side of a roller coaster that keeps picking up speed with no signs of rebounding up again.
Man I miss those days!!!
@@einstein3509 In my opinion......those days will never come back till our lazy useless politicians (of both parties) create a new constitutional amendment that states: "THAT ALL MANUFACTURING OF GOODS VITAL TO THE FINANCIAL, MEDICAL AND MILITARY WELL BEING OF THE NATION "MUST BE MANUFACTURED ON THE MAINLAND USA using United States Citizens as labor. The USA is sinking fast and becoming too reliant on potential enemies of this nation.
Sucked up by Wall street. Those fascimile-people cruising down broad avenues in their limos didn't get the money to do so from nowhere. They got it from plundering 10,000 main streets.
My hometown of about 4,000 had a square surrounding the County Courthouse. When I was growing up, all of the buildings were filled with stores and there were always people out and about. Decades after I moved away from my hometown, when I would go home to visit I saw a drastic decline in people and open businesses. It really makes me sad to see that. I am so grateful to have grown up in the 70's in that environment. I could ride my bike all over town and nobody locked their doors. I will cherish my childhood memories for the rest of my life.
Me too..
I would give anything to be able to go back to those days!!! Thank you for these videos ❤
I would give anything to go back to those days, and I wasn’t even thought about yet.
Geez, I thought I was the only one missing those great days.....wish I could send us all back there
I was born in 1950 and some of my greatest memories are of the “main street” days. I truly miss those days, they were the best!
I too was born in 1950. Totally agree with you. :)
Lucky you 💖💖😍
@@Cathy_fifties oh how I long for the day, when rockets and starburst were all of the rage 🚀✨🚀✨🚀
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@@Cathy_fifties I really was.☺️🥰
You never worried about your safety!!!! Those days of peace are gone.
The good old days in America, gone but not forgotten because great videos like this ❤️. Keep that nostalgia alive please and thank you 🔥
These good old days were only good for a select few. While the main streets still exist in smaller towns in the South, so do much of the grudges and racial views. So yeah, what constitutes the good old days depends on if you're poor and going in one of these stores (Uh oh Harold, it's a shoplifter) or another race (uh oh, this person is hitting on my wife or about to hold up the store).
You can find good old America alive and well. Just make sure you're the right color and everyone knows you before you come in.
@@ko7577 Do you live in the south?
Miss all of it ! I grew up in the 50's.
I was born in 1953 so this brings back so many good memories. No cell phones! People talked to each other. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. Thanks
DITTO. RODE OUT BIKES IN THE STREET
People talk to each other on cell phones, and NOW we can talk with people all over the world. Born in 1956, Oh yes, I remember all these things, Just, people need to stay close like then, Hello from Greece. Have a nice day.
Notice how you're no a cellphone right now talking about this.
Put it down. Disconnect your service. And enjoy the good old days.
@@bethlehemeisenhour5807 talking through a screen is not the same as being in the same place and sharing the same environment.
We took it for granted.
I was born in 1949, so that was the world I grew up in. Sadly, that's not the world I live in now.
Same here - I was born in 1955
@@deb_ellen9733 Me too. 1948.
I'm 100% with you Mike... I was born the same year and feel the same way!
Born in '49....missing those days.
Wow! Bless your heart! Sometime ago! I am proud of you! Keep going strong! I love watching old movies. Seeing old pictures, viewing old videos. Life seems so much more at Peace then. I almost wish that I was born in your Era. Take Care & May God Bless You❣️
I was born just as this was becoming a memory. 1972. Thankfully the 70's & 80's have their own unique, happy memories.
They really do. 1980 boasted the highest homicide rate in American history.
Growing up in the 60s in Ohio, I used to love going downtown and shop for a new pair of shoes. Back in those days, they were of good quality . Also the theaters were elegente
What I remember about the movie theaters are the curtains opening to reveal the screen! And said curtains going all the way around the walls 360 degrees!
@@paul16451 I saw " Babes in Toyland" when I was 6 years old, at our little town's movie theater, which boasted those curtains. To be a child growing up in the 60's in a small town, with a main street that boasted everything that one could want in a three block area, was magical! Would return in a second, whenever that time machine is perfected...
I know these videos are created for us to become nostalgic. But they truly break my heart knowing the kind of life we had back then is gone forever. Our grandbabies will never know the excitement we felt when Mom decided we would have lunch at the drug store counter, or having the show salesman measure your feet and fit those brand new saddle shoes on you. I always preferred the dark brown and cream colored ones. Now there are so many storefronts vacant in my little home town. We, as a society, have truly lost the heart and soul of our little home towns when we lost our main street.
I remember every two weeks, when I was about 10 years old, I walked to the bank to cash a $210 check for my mother. The money would pay for groceries, school supplies, and anything else our family of eight needed until Dad was paid again in two weeks. Memories 😊
What year was this?
I remember in the early 1970' when a loaf of bread was 15 cents, a box of ceral 69 cents and a pack of cigarettes 55 cents, and actual penny candy.
@@Snake-ms7sj yes! I remember that too. I remember my dad taking me and my brother to get McDonald's one time (the early 70's) we got enough for 2 adults and 2 children. When the lady told my dad the total, he about flipped because it was a tiny bit over $5.00 . I remember him saying. "What's this world coming to when a family of 4 can't eat fast food for under $5.00?" Sounds like nothing now where it costs just one person over $10 to eat there.
This is truly one of my most favorite channels on UA-cam. Thank you so much for all the work you do, and all the memories you bring back to me. These were truly the best of times, never to be seen again
I was born in 1949 in Vineland, New Jersey (30 miles outside of Philadelphia). If I could, I really would like to go back in time to yesteryear... when life was simpler, people had respect for themselves, respect toward their family and also respect towards other people. Their was an unwritten trust that was a common thread that ran through people, sort of like a continuous flawless stich that a Taylor would make as he/she altered a suit or dress. We would "Cruise the Avenue" at night, for hours, listening to WIBG Radio 99 out of Philly and once (or twice) during that night we'd stop at the A&W Drive-In for a Root Beer. They truly were Happy Days!
I just drank a can of Diet A&W Root Beer. I like this brand because it fairly tastes like root beer, and also has a lot of fizz, which is nice especially in the summer. I think it's made by Pepsi Cola, the soda I prefer because it too has a lot of fizz.
I until recently I worked at the nursing home in Vineland. It still has a large downtown. knocked my socks off (old term) the first time I drove there.
We had a wonderful downtown in my home town. It rivaled the downtown of a major city. In a town of 30,000 people. 4 dept stores 3 movie theaters and countless other stores. Today it is a shell of its former self. And the malls have been torn down outside of town.
born in '46. Grandparents lived in a small Oregon town where we visited every summer. The Coke and ice cream from the soda fountain tasted so much better than now. I can remember the taste to this day.
Hey, I have a 1946 Chevy pickup. Still going strong. You lived in an awesome time.
Let’s not forget cruising on Friday nights after the football games in the fall or hanging out at the diner on summer nights 😌
Each one of those stores were filled with unique aromas that I can still remember when I see a picture of the place.
I miss it all....those were the days ❤
Love your channel... take me back...... forever!
Back when our society took pride in acting sane. Now the news media, Hollywood and music propagates insanity.
The best things I watch on TV are old B+W movies and old TV shows .
Knock it off.. people were saying the same thing in the era of Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
You’re just old, grumpy and mad at the world for how your life turned out.
Oh yeah
The age of civility & friendlier times are dearly missed.
Indeed. So sad.
Heartwarming - if I had a time machine, ah!👍!
If only today we had this life style! Thank you this is so lovely to watch!❤
I'm nearly 77 years old a well remember those days and I owned a few of those cars shown too. I have been very blessed to have lived then.
El Mirage, Arizona
👍from Sun city west, AZ
ah for the good old days. i sure was lucky to grow up in the 50's and 60's.i love this channel.
Watching videos like this makes me wish I had a time machine.
We also took our television tubes to the local drug store to test them. You could test them yourself and they stocked new ones in the cabinet below the tester.
I remember going to Radio Shack with my dad when he needed to use the tube testers to fix the TV. In the early 2000's I said to the young girl behind the counter at the local Radio Shack that the place wasn't the same since they got rid of the tube testers. When she looked confused, I tried to explain what a tube tester was, but that just made things worse.
I remember
Just wanted to say that your channel is delightful, from content to production values to your soothing voice. Thank you!!
I was raised in the 60's and 70's but oh I would LOVE to be in the 1950's I LOVE that era. It was so much better than today. I love all the TV shows they had back then. Life was so much simpler. I am sure they had problems but nothing like today. Thank you for sharing I enjoyed this video and the pictures.
I live in a major city, however when my grandmother went downtown she referred to it as " going to the square". thanks for the memories
My mom’s city had that too, Getty Square. They’ve tried cleaning it up but it’s still sketchy
We called it " Going downstreet".
I remember my parents dropping us kids off at the downtown movie theater once in a while on a Saturday with 50 cents each to pay for the movie(25 cents) and the huge amount of 25 cents to splurge on candy and popcorn! There is no way any responsible parent would do that now. 😱. We also used to stop by the local drugstore after church on Sunday for my Dad to pick up a Sunday newspaper from a large city to see the national news. Most stores were closed on Sunday because of the "blue laws". My Mom would check out the Hallmark greeting cards and my brothers and I would look at the model airplanes and cars. My sisters would look at dress patterns to make clothes and "sniff" the new perfumes and look at the cosmetics counters. Yes, we were a "traditional family" and didn't feel guilty or embarrassed being one. Our world seemed secure, safe and the future looked bright and appealing. I wonder how many kids nowadays have the same feelings that we had?
I get ya! I had that same childhood.
John there is no way kids today have the same feeling. Its extremely sad. Would love to have these days back.
They are so absorbed in their phones that they don't care.
My Dad always stopped and got a gallon of Ice cream after church.
Few to none
I sure appreciate the video’s you put out. This particular one really hit home. The simple times. Those were the days.✨
It was the best of times and days. We had the movie theater, Woolworths and so many other shops. Parents would drop you off on Saturday to go to the movies. Never had to worry.
You just thought you didn't have to worry. The homicide rate in the 1940s was nearly level with what it is now. The homicide rate in the 70s and 80s was DOUBLE what it is now. What you didn't have was the internet and two political parties bombarding you with sensationalism and cautionary "The world is burning down" stories. So you might not have worried, but if you think today is dangerous... you should have. Because it was almost the same back then. You just didn't know it.
I miss those days. Life was simpler & people were friendly & you knew the merchants by name. If only we could go back!!! 🙂
I was absolutely surprised at 4:28 when the As Advertised in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin was in the shot. I lived in that town and delivered that paper in the 1960's for pocket money, it is still in print today.
Thanks for pointing out Walla Walla! I didn't notice it until I saw your comment!
How many of you that were born before 1970, remember towns and times like this? I loved EVERYTHING about it. The small towns, two lane "highways" like route 66 instead of freeways. Each small town along the "highway" had Motels that you could stop and spend the night. Small "mom and pop" shops that were closed on Sundays. Small movie theaters that were safe and fun. Little cafes with excellent food.
As a child I use to think, "I can't wait till I can take my own children to these places one day."Unfortunately, by the time i had my children, most of these places
were gone or so drastically different that it almost seemed you were living on a different planet. Oh how I long for those simpler times. ☺️
They were absolutely the best times I was born in 59, we had a candy store across the street from our elementary Catholic school we would go to every day. Down the street we had a little deli/ grocer you could walk to for things in a pinch. Me and my friends would walk a little farther to the G. C. Murphy to buy Christmas gifts or just to browse. Those were just a sample.
@@julenepegher6999 exactly! I loved that life. I absolutely hate all this impersonal online stuff. I would take that back in a heartbeat!
I could watch hours of these memories - the photo of the marching band really takes me back. As a child of the ‘70s I feel fortunate that I at least experienced the tail-end of this era.
At the hobby shop I remember getting slot cars and pine wood derby cars. Greatest of times,
Sure miss those days, long gone except for the memories.
Very enjoyable--- I remember this well.
If you ever find yourself in Southern California between the months of April-September stop by cruisin Grand in Escondido. It still has it's original main street aesthetic with it's store fronts and classic cars driving on the streets.
As much as I've always wanted to check out California...I wouldn't never step foot in that democrat ran dump. Sorry to be so honest. What you mentioned sounds like a nice dream.
There's a Catholic University along that road that I attend, so I've been to Crusin' Grand many times now. It's a blast.
@FREEDOMRINGS Don't apologize for honesty, I agree with you. However there are still areas of California that haven't succumbed to the garage heap yet... Stay out of the big cities and a visit to California will be enjoyable.
@Ponies and Paint Yes it is fun to attend, it was my son's first official outing when he was 2 weeks old.
@@freedomrings1420 ORANGE COUNTY IS RED AND SOME PARTS UP NORTH.
Thank you SO MUCH for this little taste of the simple, innocent, and non-violent "good old days". I needed this time- travel treat!!
Did you just call the 1940s non-violent? Because it sounds like you did. Are you aware of WWII? Between 50 and 56 million died in the second World War. National homicide rates were actually level with what they are now. "Whites only signs" were everywhere and lynchings (otherwise known as murder today) were accepted.
I would never want to go back to this time.
I don't have a memory of a small town main street as I grew up in the City suburbs and it was so depressing because I can remember since the age of 4 always wanted to live in the Country after visiting my Grandparents who did indeed live in a small town with an awesome main street. 😧
@@foresthiker6707 Are you speaking of Eastern Canada? Are you Canadian by any chance? 🇨🇦
Take me back in time! I miss those days!
Growing up in Australia, it was High Street rather than Main Street. Still, many of these recollections do apply. For me, I liked visiting the local bookstore, or the local newsagent (which sold newspapers, magazines, and other assorted “as seen on TV” items).
Same in the UK. It was the High Street. I was born in the 1950s and I would do anything to go back to my childhood.
I also have memories of High Street in a village in England. There was a grocery store, a newsagent, and a post office that also sold sweets and things. I remember going on long walks through the surrounding countryside with my grandmother. This was in the 1970s.
@@snowysnowyriverI understand "Main Street" kind of self explanatory. Why was it called "High Street" in your country?
@@bweber6256 Historically, the High Street or the High Road was always the main route between two towns, or even villages. Coaching Inns and taverns for travellers were always on the High Road/High Street. Other businesses grouped around them over time and so it became the main place of business. When the railways took over from coaches, the High Streets remained. .
Unfortunately the benefits of computers and the internet have not out weighted the things we have lost over the years 😢. I remember when sitting in barber shops or dinners that people would talk to you and be very friendly but nowadays they just look at their phones and ignore you. You pay more for everything but get less service and less people who do the job right. The people who have come to this country over the last few decades are not like the ones who came before them. They are only interested in how much money 💰 they can take from you and the kids are lost to video games. Real men and women are few. Very sad 😔 times.
My local city a couple days before Halloween, on the main street, would host a window painting contest for kids. Stores would donate a window or two and kids could use water-based paint and paint a Halloween themed picture. There was a prize for the best one.
The local Plaza also did this too. I did this one.
I lived in a big city, but the little borough I lived in had many of these same traits. Local pharmacy, diner, bar, ma and pop grocery store. Loved those times.
Where I grew up, there really wasn't a main street. We had everything mentioned in the video, but it was spread out all over town, and I rode my bike to all of them. The movie theater where I saw Star Wars and Smokey and the Bandit. The 7-11 where I had my first job. The comic book shop and even the bar where I had my first (legal) beer. They're all gone now. This channel always makes me nostalgic and a little sad, but truly feel bad for all the young people today, my 11 year old niece springs immediately to mind, who never had what we did. They just don't know what they missed out on.
I love history so this channel is just perfect. I was born in the 60’s. It seemed a simpler time.
I agree 100%
My childhood Main Street also had a movie theater, furniture store, men’s clothing store, and the classic Western Auto. You had a picture on there that looked much like my old barber shop. Main Street was the place for cruising on Friday and Saturday nights.
Oh yeah, I remember Western Auto. My dad bought me a BB gun there. Smelled horribly like tires, but it had lots of cool stuff.
I remember Western Auto.
I'd love to live it again. Born in 45 me & mom would take the bus "uptown". Woolworth, Kreskes 5 & dime were my favorites. We shopped at A&P for our groceries. Good days good times.
Thank you for this look back. In early 60s our junior high had no cafeteria, not even a lunch room . We had to walk downtown about a half mile to get some lunch. I remember walking in bitter cold, snow,but it was fun. When I would tell my kids about this they considered it "child abuse"!Hardly! It toughened us up for the real world. A shame what has become of this country.I fear for my two grandkids.
When we were in Grammar School everyone went home to have lunch because everybody's mother was there to make it. No mothers worked outside the home.
@@btcbob11392 Us too!
Well there's good news. The time you grew up in was horrifically more dangerous than the world is today with less police protection or ways to prevent crime. It sounds like you hit high school right around the time the homicide rate in the country skyrocketed. 70s and 80s homicide rates were twice what they are now. It was a bloodbath in the country. You just didn't know it because television is less revealing than the internet.
The real world today isn't as tough.
Those were the good old days 👍😋
On Saturday morning I'd take my $2 allowance & pedal down to the hobby shop & spend an hour deciding what model car to bring home & make. Great time.
I couldn't wait to get to the hobby store.
Sad to think we can never have these days again, wonderful memories.
I lived in south St. Louis in the sixties. We would go shopping on Cherokee street. My favorite was Woolworths. We would sit at the lunch bar. We would only order sodie or hot chocolate, that's all we could afford. Great memories that mean a lot. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing.
I will always remember the workers hanging Christmas decorations across main street
This station is always nice to watch. It is bitter sweet remembering the way things were compared to now. Just a sign of getting older.
These were good days.People did not suffer the .oiliness and isolation of today and consequently there was not an epidemic of mental illness and drug addiction. Life was far less impersonal a d far healthier.
Thank you for the memories.
I wish you would do a video about cruising Main Street that was huge when I was younger that’s how we met people. Cruising, hung out, showing off your car a little bit maybe got in a little bit of trouble but nothing serious. It was a great time.
Yes, when i attended high school in the early 70's, we use to scoop the loop in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, to meet other teens. What great times!!!
Who had cars in high school in the 60's? We had one family car, not to be used for cruising. We walked everywhere. Didn't get a car til I had a full time job in my 20's.
I remember this. I remember walking down to what passed for Main Street in the town where we lived when I was in kindergarten & first grade and going to various small stores with my mother for various things. The place that sold newspapers had a certain smell to it that I remember to this day.
Every Sunday I was given money to go after church and get the Sunday Daily News with the "Funnies" first. Then a short walk to a very small main street where there was a bakery to pick up a dozen hot rolls fresh from the oven, and an onion roll for my mother. They no longer make those rolls today, only a pasty, tasteless facsimile of those sweet rolls, where butter would just ooze when put on one of those hot rolls. The smell from those sweet rolls was *intoxicating.*
Born in 1947. In those days downtown Miami had a Kress, McCrory's, a Walgreens, shoe stores, three movie theaters. I remember the Christmas decorations with huge bells hanging from them and poinsettias in every lamppost. A huge Christmas tree would be set up at the park and groups of school kids would come & sing Christmas carols. Since downtown Miami is built by the bay, I remember going to buy fresh fish when the boats arrived at Pier 5 in the afternoon. Today downtown Miami is ugly, it smells, is crowded with high building & homeless people and one cannot even see the bay. Oh if I could turn back time, only for a minute or so to re-live those days.
In the late '90s I was taught to measure feet while working for Payless ShoeSource. Some people knew to ask us to measure their child's feet. Now I wonder if staff anywhere are taught this service. That's what is missed - attention to the customer
New Balance stores still do it if you ask.
Sadly, even when shopping at a higher-end store, you still have to ask and then hope they actually know what they are doing.
@@DM-xj6se Yes. When I began work in customer service I wanted to learn new things and I asked to learn from more knowledgeable people because I wanted to do the best job possible. I still do.
Longmont Colorado has a street named Main Street that still does have summertime activities along the street during summer that brings out the community 🌞
My Mom lives in Longmont, I love going to Main Street when I visit during the Summer - always a great experience!
@@MikeBMW For 7 years I lived up there from Denver. It's become quite crowded since then. Aunt Alice's Kitchen restaurant comes to mind as a great business along Main Street. Enjoy your visits with your mom!
Malls killed Down Town. Malls, the feature of my childhood, are suffering from Karma's kick in the rear end as I type this now. Today, Americans prefer Amazon and other places where you make your order on your desktop or phone as they work 60 to 80 hours a week to keep the roof over their heads.
When I was growing up in the sixties the main street was a busy areas we had the stores you talked about and we had movie house s now boarded up closed or gone deserted streets and crime
Big movie houses. Double features with cartoons.
I wasn't even born then and I miss it.
You could get everything in the shopping district near our house. I drove by that same area a few years ago and it is all gone. It lives in my memories now. Things were just better back then. RIP old neighborhood, it was fun while it lasted.
Love the old photos brings back great memories.
Must remember the downtown movie theater's. 😛
Living in a small town during the 60's also had the advantage of knowing everyone in town. You didn't go in one store without seeing your friends, their parents or teachers.
My father liked "Walgreens". Going to the barbershop was a treat for me, i sat on the booster seat and the barber had a jar full of lollipops he gave to the kids after the haircut 💈 I loved listening to adult conversations when we had family get togethers.
Wow, booster seats! I'd nearly forgotten about those...thanks for the reminder!👍
@@SMac-bq8sk You're welcome. 😊
@@SMac-bq8sk I remember when the barber would shaved the back of my neck with the straight razor, gave you tingles up and down your back.
@@btcbob11392: I don't recall ever getting the straight razor treatment; but, I vividly remember the barber honing his straight razor with that leather strap that hung from the back of the barber chair!
It's lovely _just listening_ to these programs: walking the dog as this played, I was transported back onto main street Skaneateles, "walking into" each place described, as-if nothing had changed since the '60s. **Thank You RR** 😌💜
Lovely downtown, close to the lake...
Regards from a former Tompkins County resident who always loved the Finger Lakes downtowns.
@@douglas_drew Blessings & Joy! 😌💜
That part where he mentions people always seemed eager to serve you everywhere you went... those were great times. It's not like that anymore
1950,60,70,AND 80’S WERE THE BEST . EVERYTHING CHANGED BY 1990.
1990, WAS WHEN a LOT, CHANGED 😢
From music, to women not wearing dresses/skirts
I married in 1989...
At the right time
I'm glad I wasnr single in this era
50s, 60s and very early 70s'. By the late 70s the US was on the road to becoming the massive sh!thole we see today.
I'm not a fan of the 21st century!
5:11 I like how no one is worried about getting mowed down by some crazy fool in an suv.
I was born in 1957 and I grew up in the 1960's. I was born and raised in Detroit,Michigan. I remember the main street stores. I still remember Crowley's,Federal's,Hudson's,J.C.PENNEY,Montgomery Wards,Sears,Department Stores. And the Kresge's,Neisner's,Woolworth's,Newberry's,5&10 cent stores,also Cunningham,Perry,Arbor,Drugstores. Even Detroit had 6 major supermarket chain stores in the inner city supermarkets. They were:
1. A&P
2. Chatham Complete Food Centers
3. Farmer Jack Supermarkets
4. Great Scott!Supermarkets
5. Kroger
6. Wrigley's Supermarkets
Just about the major local Department Stores and Supermarket Chain Stores either were bought out by National Department Stores and National Supermarkets Chain Stores. Or the local supermarket chain stores has closed permanently.
Those were the good old days and I miss them very much.
This is all that I could remember from back in the day.
I grew up in Yonkers New York. We didn't have a main street per se, but we had areas that functioned as one. Getty Square, and South Broadway. "The Square" as my mother called it had all of the main 5-10 chains such as W.T. Grants, H.L. Greens, F.W. Woolworths, McCrory's. Also, local haberdashery shops, boutiques, Fanny Farmers Chocolates, florists, toy stores, etc. Every Christmas season, the city erected a Christmas tree in the Square, and my mother would take us to the local 5-10 to visit Santa and eat a meal at the lunch counter located in each of the 5-10's. South Broadway from the city limits to the Square was replete with local mom & pop businesses, movie theatres, supermarkets, pet shops, and just about any type of business you can imagine. The light poles along South Broadway would be festooned with lights & Christmas decorations during the holiday season. This is also the route our parades would take from the city limits to the Square. In March, the double yellow lines on the road were temporarily painted green in preparation for the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. The further back in time I voyage, the more fragmented are those memories. But still, these memories of a long-vanquished time provide me considerable comfort as I observe the violent chaos and paralyzing dysfunction the is world today.
Great great great video , I’m not that old but I truly miss those times thank you
I'm old enough to well remember J Street, my hometown's Main St. Sometimes the stores would stay open into the evening with their moonlight madness sales. That was so much fun. When I was 18, a giant mall opened up on the Northside of town and the wonderful world of J Street was suddenly no more. :(
“Moonlight madness sales”! I haven’t heard phrase and I don’t know how long? Now I am truly sad.!🚀✨🚀✨🚀
@@angeldesigns1385 Our big furniture company had Midnight Madness for years. They started in the heddy late 1970s where boomers all were buying.
Nice photos. Thanks.
Outstanding customer service is one of the many things I miss that has gone totally away. Nowadays, "self serve" has replaced that era.
This channel is gold. I was born in the early 80’s but many of the characteristics shown in this video were still applicable in my early childhood. I, like everyone else here, would give anything to return to those simpler times. We’re they perfect? No! Were they the best times in our lives? Yes!
Sears and Montgomery Wards both started as mail order catalogs out of Chicago. They did not have brick and mortar stores until the 20th century. In Jackson Michigan where I grew up our Sears was only a pickup point for mail orders and a drop off point for returns until the early 1960s, at least.
My dad worked at fullers drug store on main Street in Tucker Georgia. He was a soda jerk and a pharmacist assistant. I was born in 1963. I miss those days so much.
Ah, if only we COULD go back to simpler (and safer) times…….
@@foresthiker6707 give examples of where
Why not? Let's look at Europe, especially Amsterdam. Main St in a large city setting. Streets are for people, not just cars.
@@rexlint2520 ok, no problem. Milburn Kentucky and Bardwell Kentucky . About 40 miles from Paducah KY. I grew up spending almost every summer there. My Dad was born in Milburn KY.
Another place is Piggot Arkansas. My mom was born there.
@@foresthiker6707 I believe you're right, and I think a lot of us city folk are longing for a more rural, communal lifestyle.
@@kellymarsh3956 thanks I appreciate it.
Oh my, you’re really using all the tricks in the book to make us feel nostalgic - the pictures (of course), the narration appealing to past sensations, even the subtle music. 😢 Good job - you make even those want to go back in space and time who never experienced Main Street USA first hand (like me)! 🇺🇸
I'd almost swear that scene at 0:50 was the "downtown" in my hometown of Ludington. It's amazing how common that scene is.
We all thought that bigger was better... well malls are dying everywhere and I wish that there will be a resurgence of main streets.
To much crime now, it will never be the same.
Malls have been dying for 30+ years because of the crime invasion that is destroying America. WTSHTF the cleanup is not gonna be pretty, but necessary and inevitable. 😢