The 1950s in Color - Life in America
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I was 22 in 1950, it was one of the best decades of my entire life that I will never forget, I joined the US Navy at 1956 and married a year later to a beautiful wife, she sadly passed away last October and I still cherish every moment I spent with her during those happy times, I'm still learning to adapt with modern technology and I hope I make to be one of the oldest individuals on the planet, Thank you!
94 this year, then? I'd say you're well on your way! Thank you for sharing your memories. I'm so sorry for the loss of your wife, but... 65 years married?? Incredible! I'm not quite halfway there, but thank you for the inspiration! I was born in '66, and the world is already so different from even when I was a kid, much less back in the '30s and '40s like you were. God bless you on your continued journey, sir.
May you live long...
No offence, but your info seems fake :D 94 years old and lingering around youtube? Most of the people who were born during those days dont even know how to use computer. Let alone searching up youtube video about US in 50s. For me, your text is questionable :D
90s is goat
I’m so sorry about your wife
What I remember most about the '60's was all the neighborhood kids would play outside until dark with no fears. We only went home to eat dinner and go to sleep😁. Life was so simple but so glorious!
@Navy Dad dude, today ain’t any better
I did in this in my childhood in the late 90s and early 2000s!
@@TravelerVolkriin Saaaaame!
it was like that until the late 1990s some parts in tijuana mexico kids still play until dark
It was exactly the same here in the UK during my childhood in the 70s and 80s. During the school summer holidays we would be out on our bikes all day or play football, rugby and cricket until the sun went down and here in the summer that's 10pm. We'd go home grab some food and be back at it non stop! We use to play for hours on the old 2nd WW coastal defences. It was a great time!
It’s strange how you can be nostalgic for times you’ve never experienced. It’s a weird, almost indescribable feeling.
My Hindu friend, your body is but a figment, a temporal episode. Immortality is in the soul: you have been everywhere and every time-your mind does not remember because you were in a different living form, but the soul never forgets. Memory is soul-written, immortal.
It's just FOMO lol (Fear Of Missing Out). U prob envy the times like me, wanting to being there. Cuz I subconsciously desire wholesome, simple times too. For my generation, that was growing up in the 1990s ☺️
@@Marsha_AnnI don’t fear missing out because I know I likely have an over romanticized version of what life was like back then. That said, I would like to experience different times just so I could know exactly what it was like. Personally, I think most of us would be disappointed because as much as things change, they stay the same.
It's because you identify with many of the values of this time in history. Many of us were simply born too late and are strangers in a strange world in modern times.
@@user-gq2vn1xj2r the values were AWFUL in this time period with the rampant racism and mysoginy.
man, what I wouldn't give to spend an afternoon walking the streets of some of these towns and cities. a unique time in America. a time a lot of people look back on as the good old days in this country, not to say the time period was without its flaws, no time period truly is, but in these pictures, it just seems so wonderful.
It was wonderful and most of us baby boomers would agree. Yes indeed the kids today have no idea what they missed, maybe it’s better. Parents in 2022-2023 are more interested in their kids 2 & three sports activities and less about manners & discipline and consequences.😕😢
I bet both of you are white
@@suestephan3255 .
It makes me want to time travel just like Michael JFox character did in Back to the Future
Wish your parents didn’t ruin it for my parents at such a peaceful time they didn’t get to experience 😔
I had forgotten about the roadside picnic tables. People would pack lunch for a drive and stop at these tables and eat instead of eating out. A different time in a different country.
I was born in 63 in NYC and I remember as a kid those redwood picnic tables still around at rest stops and tree areas outside government office buildings and private schools. Long gone....
We just hardly ate out at all. Family dinners were the norm and everyone ate together. We didn't have much and it didn't bother us, many families had (only)1 car and there was only one tv station in a city of 175,000 , and black and white. If you missed what you wanted to see you waited until it came back on. A time of innocence- at least for many of us children of the time. The music was great.
i remember those times ! also what about the roadside stands where you could buy veggies and fruit and those days parents could correct their kids !
Somehow I find roadside rest areas with tables in every state.
Why? Hadn't they invented Parks yet? I thought those roadside stops were primarily for stretching your legs and toileting. Not for the locals to have picnics. It didn't take much to entertain people back then. LOL.
I was born in 1949. The 1950s was my childhood. If you weren't there in the 1950s it would take me a lifetime to try and explain just how beautiful and tranquil this decade was. Life was fast-paced and yet extremely laid-back. We will never witness this again......
I truly wish we could go back in time 🙏
Yes, I was born in '46 and agree with you completely~!! I would trade places in a heart beat to go back~!
You won't lol
So true. I was born in 1948 so the 1950s was my childhood as well. I think about the past all the time. I would also go back to that time in a minute. I remember playing tag and hide and seek, playing Cowboys and Indians, going to the movies, going to the beach, my grandfather taking me fishing and so many other memories. Also I remember the girls having their
own favorite activities such as jump rope, hopscotch and playing jacks. It was indeed a wonderful time and I probably took it for granted as well. The only negative thing is missing all the people in my life that are gone now. That would be my parents, grandparents, my only sister, aunts , uncles and friends.
It wasn’t beautiful and tranquil for everyone, tho.
Great time to be alive. So different from today.
Back in that Era you felt safe. My folks asked where I was going and just said to come home when the street lights came on. We mostly only locked our doors when we went on vacation. The neighbors knew our names and would help keep an eye on us.
Same in Europe!
lol diversity is our strength!
same here.....I would leave around 8am on my green n white schwinn bike with wide white sidewalls and bike ride along, sometimes no hands, including turning corners..LOL and be gone until dinner time/dusk. NO bottle water or lunch...if I got thirsty I stopped at the gas station and drank from the black water hose for radiator refills next to the gas pumps at full service stations...when I got home no one really asked where I had gone for the whole day. albuquerque
Bach in the '50s, at the age of 6 my friends and I would set out on a Saturday morning, walk 1.5 miles to small lake to fish and horse around. The only thing my mother would say, "make sure your home for dinner". Imagine letting a 6 yr old go out on his own today! Nowadays you can't let your kids off your property without supervision . What a great time!
Joe B - Me too. A couple of times, before 1965, I wasn't 10
yet, I walked all the way from home, by myself, to the
Thrifymart store - the free tube tester machine wasn't being
used at 3:P.M. in the afternoon, no, I forgot why I walked all
the way there for ...
Believe it or not that’s how it was for me in 2001. I was 5 years old, I navigated the woods and would catch little critters down by the creek. If my mom had any idea what I was doing down there she’d have been horrified. I ask her about it today and she says well I knew neighbors at every point that you went, and the neighborhood was one way in and one way out. Good times I believe the kids in the early and mid 2000s were the last to value playing outside.
@@Beowulf002 I’d give it until around 2011-2012 where kids began to stop playing outside nearly completely. I grew up in a particularly technologically advanced part of the city in the mid-late 2000s through the early 2010s, and up until around 2013-14 was when I stopped playing outside as a kid. It was unfortunate to see an era fade, especially when you’ve faded with it.
Eh, do you think maybe you all think it stopped being a thing in the 60s/early 2000s/2010s because that's when you, in different eras each, grew out of your childhood or out of "playing"? I see kids playing outside all the time and I live in a city, not even in the countryside. My mother lives in the countryside and the kids also play outside there, of course. I also remember kids playing outside in the 2010s, 2000s and 90s. (I wasn't born in the 80s...)
That said I know the USA has issues with walkability and I live in France.
Good times! In the Philippines, before i left the country, my Child hood there in the 90s, we were also able to go out as little kids and only come back to eat etc. good times! Times have change a lot
I was there. Best thing about the 50's was no social media.
And here you are on your phone or computer typing messages on UA-cam.
I was born in 73 but I agree I think the world would be a better place without the internet or social media .
@@drjohnsonhungwell5115 Does make knowledge and school easier, tho...
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I do like the internet for learning purposes and research , also for shopping and finding hard to find products .
Dr Johnson Hungwell i’m 23 years old and i tend to agree with you
the best years of this country.
No greater decade than the 50s. Living then meant you were on top of the world. Good times.
My father was in his prime in 1955 ..he always says it was by far the greatest period to be alive and especially in the northern US states. Cars, ships, trains and planes they all were beautiful and well built right here in the good old USA.
Cars back then had character. Cars today are plan and look like electric shavers...
If only we could get ppl to only by American goods now and stop the corporate consumerism .. man oh man how our country would get back to good and happy times for everyone
@@VictorianMaid99 they are ugly .. I only buy used good cars I will not be in debt for a modern car ..I refuse .
@@VictorianMaid99 you're wrong, all the 50s, 60s cars look exactly the same especially from the side
@@dansterstuff they look like rocket ships!
Grew up in the fifties. Drive-in movies. Camping out. Catching fire flies in jars. At 5 and 6 we wandered all over town on our bikes and never worried about anything. 5 cent candy bars and 10 cent pop. Little League baseball and Friday night football. McDonalds opened and everything was 15 cents. Pineapple upside down cake and homemade ice-cream. Buzzing the Ave and petting in the back seat of my 57' Chevy. God, we had no idea we were blessed with the best childhood experiences of any generation of Humans ever..
Amen to that
I wish i couldve experienced the 50's most of all eras. Things have improved for fire flies anyway.
Isn't it amazing that we forget the bad things of the old days? I hate to talk about the old days with my sister as it always bring up the bad about the old days. The mind seems to make it so easy to forget bad things.
Unless you were poor and lived in Chicago or East L.A. and had to avoid the gangs on the way home from school so you wouldn't get beat up. There was and is more than 1 America. I wouldn't go back if you paid me.
@@farshimelt But dont the gangs in East LA and Chicago shoot ppl now vs beat ppl up? They call Chicago Chriaq now. Has East LA gotten better or worse since 1950? The answer wouldnt be a straight Yes or No. arent ppl still poor there? Dont cops still profile and abuse the ppl there?
Elegant America at its peak in my opinion.
I was born in the 1950’s, life was much less complicated growing up. I think they were much happier times. Everyone is so slim in these photos, what’s happened to the world? I miss the old times
People were slim back then because most meals were ate at home and they didn't have as much junk processed food like we do today.
Also a whole lot more racist 😬
@@gwnben all the work done to create harmony is now being undone. Much more division over the last 10 years
@@mssdn8976 I 100% agree- it's actually more racist, divisive and prejudicial today- it's just masked differently.
@@gwnbennot worst the today
I was born in the middle 30's and graduated in 1955......My first full-time job was 1 dollar an hour......My first car was a 1947 Ford convertible (like Biff's car in Back to the Future) and It COST me lots of bucks (300 dollars) Ha......Like in the song (Moments to Remember by the Four Lads).........The drive-in movies were we would go, and somehow never watch the show.......
Have a great life everyone........
Myself, my girlfriend and another friend drove to the drive in.
$2.50 each, we only had 5 dollars.
We pulled up to the kiosk, I held out the fiver and said, 2 please.
The girl said two?
I whispered 'the young lady is blind' as my girl stared straight ahead.
AND OFF WE WENT!
@@babydriver8134 did you meet anyone that lived in the 1800's back then? I think its cool to have people on here that used to live through the 50's . i was born in the early 90's myself and ive always wondered how the older generation think of this era
@@davideogamer8086 My step dad's grandpa was still kicking, he taught me how to play checkers.
When I was still in school, I asked my dad one day if people, generally speaking, were really as stupid as it seemed to me.
He told me to wait until I say 'Good Morning' to someone, and they cannot come up with a response.
My thoughts on this generation? This generation provides Hope, that our Savior Jesus is not too far off.
@@davideogamer8086 My grandparents were born in the late 1890s. I heard stories of their parents and the American civil war told by the surviving confederates.
Convertibles were so popular then they became scarce
Golden years. There was a middle class, stability and you can see how much happier they were just by seeing the beauty all around and their relaxed, laid back expressions and attitudes.
Thats what I see in all the photos up until about the 90s. Everyone seemed to have a glow of happiness and fulfillment until the modern/digital age began. The last era of photos where people looked decently happy with life was during the 2000s, but even by then, people started having a different vibe in pictures. Now everyone seems dead or like their souls have been obliterated.
Men were men and women were women
@@joshuakhaos4451 You aint kidding...soulless photos today, or photos that look overly posed, contrived, or just plain douchie looking for the sake of trying to be entertaining-very artificial.
Счастливые лица, золотые времена... Просто они были молоды! А молодые всегда счастливы!
Кстати, а что-то почти не видно счастливых чернокожих лиц.
@@Xxrocknrollgod that you know of. cross dressing and gay has been around long LOOONG before you sir.
What a beautiful time to be alive!
This was a great time. people actually talked to each other
My Dad was so proud and handsome sporting his late 50s green Mercury. First new car he ever owned.
It was a peaceful calm, kind and respectful era. 'We will never pass this way again.' Born in 1950, I'm blessed to have lived it. 🇺🇸❤️
Ah yes, the peace of the Korean war, the gang wars in L.A. and New York city, the lynching's in the South.
@@farshimelt The Korean War happened for a short period of time, the gang wars happened a little bit after the 50s, and the lynchings were not as common as you think at all...today the world is way more violent than in the 50s
@@farshimelt Oh yeah…today’s MUCH better. What a jackass 🙄
@@farshimelt No one said life in the 50s was perfect only that it was much better than today.
Less violence,
less marital breakup,
less drug addiction,
NO on-line porn!
fewer single families &
yes much less OBESITY
@@johnmorelli3775 lot more racism
When America was Great....
Yeah this hurts... I feel like I grew up in a prison. The sky looks so blue and everybody looks free/happy to a degree ive never seen before.
My grandparents were blessed 😴
@@LondonsFrostwake up fren we did we just couldn’t see the bars or the chains.
I was born in 1957, and even though my earliest memories were from 1960 on, the Fifties atmosphere continued for most of the 60s.Yes, all the cars really did look like that!
Was a teenager and graduated high school in 1955. The greatest time for teens. So many memories & so blessed !!!
I remember in Highschool my teacher showed our class a movie 🎥filmed on Super 8...It was him going to his Senior Prom 1955 picking up his date...It looked really fun...I love the '57 Chevy..
Poem titled 'Into the Big World.'
Into the big world
Came the Class of '55
Richard heading out
Carrying the badge of knowledge
In his own way.
Jack heading East looking
Renaldo going for degrees North then West
Bob & Tom lost in Kansas City
Jim, Tony, Eugene, Robert, staying for hometown.
All could only grin at what they laughed before
Richard & Firmin broke to the far West.
In their own way.
And in every City waits the rules of the land
And on the best of days in the given hour
The demons appear
All through the buildings the Rogues await.
Into the real world
Came the Class of '55'
Richard goes his way into the meat-grinder
For the 2nd time he's down
Richard failed the code.
But all through the cities
in the many buildings
After long years in the darkest hour
The demons return, Richard appears
The Rogues show up again
To force the class, to know its fate
Good gawd there's no end.
Into the Tawdry World
Went the Class of '55
Richard leading the way
In another way.
The Rogues waiting.
Richard led the Class into the meat-grinder
Under assault
In Publilc
The Rogue scores a 2nd hit.
The Rogue fails a kill.
Into the Real World
Richard leading the Class
In his own way.
Came the Demons
Richard led the Class into the meat-grinder
Under assault
In Public
Richard did pass his test.
Is your favorite movie back to the future 1 2 and 3
@@delgado8 I love Back to the Future 1 !!!
And cars, can’t forget those long cars & convertibles
Everything about this video reminds me so much about my childhood (born in '52) that it brings tears to my eyes. Kids today have no idea what they missed.
Well we can’t control when we were born.
Only because they and you forget between bodies. You may step temporarily off the planet but not "life."
I wish I didn't miss it I wish I lived during the 1950s
@@hmsstudios6471 Where were you then?
@@davidburkholder7360 I wasn't born yet sadly but I here story from my grandpa about the 50s and it brings a smile to face and dress and do my hair like the 50s I just wish I could of lived during that time
Those were better times than now! I wish I could go back in time!
If you were a white man
I cherish moments, like this.😢😢😢
it is not???????? especially in countries outside america still wrecked by ww2
The 1950'slook great.
The 1950's - the Eisenhower era - were the best of times for most people. Great era.
I feel deprived to have missed this era. The furthest back I remember was the early 70s -- and even that seems paradisiacal compared to the grim dystopia of today.
I feel sorry for you too, growing up in the seventies! But when I was a child in the 50’s some things weren’t so good. But America seemed more solid somehow. Less out of control.
Guess drugs were around forever .. but seems became the norm w/ the hippie era.
As the ones who od in 71:
Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison & the flowerchildren were a useless bunch.
What is the p word you used?
@@2004cyrus Paradise (ical)....
@@reesedaniel5835 as close as we can hope to get down here on this rock we share huh?
Such a classy era! The cars and the outfits!
so so classy. the fucking rampant racism and lack of human rights were amazing. A time when u could beat your wife for not cooking the steak to medium rare
@@yankee2666 thanks for the info
The Jim Crow & Segregation strict race laws was extra classy !
And the rampant misogyny!!
There were lots of severe racism in that decade. So it is the worst and darkest era!!!
Back when America was great & men were men & women were women!
It was a simpler time…😔
Amen to that!!
I come from the OG Americans and can assure you that we had alternative genders long before the 1950s lol
MAGA
The US was a wonderful country even in the 60s when my family would visit our relatives in Pa. Clean, the people chatty and decent, the food delicious. We used to hit up all the diners from the Ca. border to Pa.
You simply cannot imagine how great the US once was.
It still is
It’s like you guys just ignore all the racism that went on towards black people and other races. It was far from wonderful..
@@leshayna nothing is perfect. That was terrible for sure. Yet we choose to focus on the good things, which we love
@@leshayna Always with the racism...nothing was ever good was it.
@@leshayna What I don't get is if the racism is and was so bad to minorities why do millions upon millions of them want to come to America?
What a great time to live, I was born in 1949. Wish we could turn back the clock!
Hello Cathy, How are you doing?
Those were the days.
@@regisbrasil4082 We thought they never end!
@@jamescressBy the way, where are you from, James?
You sound like my father. He was born in 1948. I am 49 and I will admit the world has turn into crap.
I never got to experience the 50’s. I don’t know why the American Left would want to destroy this. It looks like perfection.
Reaganism was the beginning of the end. It was only this way because of strong work unions and the richest being taxed 70%
Jews hate Europeans with a passion
@@didsthecat1503 And the rest of the world being in ruins
Liberals hate well-to-do whites
Leftists have been preparing to take América down since decades. They were already really strong during the Reagan presidency. They even forced Reagan to give amnesty to millions of unlawful migrants in exchange for nothing. Leftist, Democrat Party activism waa already eroding the roots of America back then. Their goal to make it less white was already started.
The golden age of American culture
Oh yes 👍
would have been better if they lost WWII
@@benjaminnorstadt2551 You just wouldn't understand
@@Kazmll229 good guys lost WWII
Born 1951. So blessed to have lived this generation
Me too! Same year. Amen!!
i bet your childhood and teenage life must be the best 😄
😘 Born 1947...The 50s and 60s were ever so Magical Times ....💞✌️ Thank you for the memories.....🥰
You are lucky sir..!
me born in 1952
Where’s the time machine? I’d gladly go back when to when everyone was still alive!
Careful, that opinion might call all the anti1950 kids who don't know anything but have a goal to ruin your moment of solitary joy.
as much as i want that im scared of those serial killers at those time lol
If there is an era I would live in its early 1950's.. but with Today's technology. How amazing would that be to just walk around 1950 Los Angeles California before it became a 3rd world dump.
I’m ready to go back.
@@Cami-dc9iu Serial killers? You mean, like ONE incident in Holcomb, KS?
I was there. It was Great! Great!
3:53~ Clemenza
People were so classy back then ❤
A wonderful look back to an exciting decade to grow up in. I worked hard, had lots of fun and set off down the road of life.
Should also add that in 1959, when I was 19 years old I owned a red and white 1955 Buick two-door hardtop similar to the one that appears around the 7:31 minute mark of this video.
My dad was a teen an young man in the 50s. I think it was an amazing time to grow up. The basics of life were so much more affordable and could be had with a single income. My dad said he paid $66/semester to attend UC Berkeley, which he paid as he went by being a part time waiter. The whole UC system was created to make an affordable education for California residents. That was their mission. Now they take the highest bidder and California students are the minority.
I paid $500 per semester for out out of state tuition at Purdue in 1953, but it included a single room and board in the school dormitory.
$66 in 1960 equals $600 today. State colleges and universities were far more subsidized by tax dollars than today, and a far lower % of people went to them. Also there was a draft, so almost all men went into the military and got some version of the GI Bill. By 1990 the next tier of California state universities was $900 a semester. It's the equivalent of about two or three times that today adjusted for inflation. State colleges in New York state had no tuition fees - 100% tax supported.
But back then the faculty consisted of professors and instructors. Now it is mostly crappy diversity-inclusion-Marxist-lesbian parasites who has nothing to do with education. Most of the tuition are wasted.
@@jamesbroggan4028 it's funny that you use the word marxist because the fact that it was cheaper and subsidized by taxes was something Marx would've loved but they undid it because they want to keep the population stupid so that for example cheaper college tuition is viewed as not being marxist lol
@@emjayay Reagan was governor of california in the 60s, he's the reason colleges went up in price. He thought it was communism to offer subsidized schooling
Classic 50's
People had so much more respect for themselves and everyone else. And I loved how the men looked so neat and sophisticated in those suits. Unlike today men suits that they are wearing look like they are 2 sizes too small for them.
Hello 👋 . How are you doing? Hope you’re fine. I am Joel Collins and I'm Originally from Italy but I'd live in Atlanta Georgia. Where are you from? You seem like a real country girl.
erm no they did not did you forget how black people and other people of colour were treated in the 1950s???
That’s because men today have no clue how to dress. If you tell them to dress up they better be getting married-and even that’s iffy-or he better be dead. They may be wearing a suit but it’s probably 10 years old and fit them in the days when knocking back a keg with his buds wasn’t an issue. Now that he has some snow on the roof it’s become one.
@@user-vm5ud4xw6n Men don't know how to dress today? Look at modern women today. They go out half naked 😂
I remember wearing little white gloves and white socks with ruffles when we went out.
Born in 1956, I'm forever grateful to grow up in the era that I did, now golden memories and cherished photos of times past.
born 1956 forever !
I was also born in 1957. I won't try to romanticize my childhood to satisfy some irrelevant desire. Certainly not to meet some political or social ideal. You need to deal with life in the present.
'57 here.. blessed.
@@peterlyons8793 sounds like you have psychological issues from a miserable childhood, care to elaborate?
@@doninmichigan One of 12 in an Irish Catholic family. Five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister was an adopted. No psychological issues with me. I had a happy childhood. My point is people and the media create false perspectives about how wonderful the USA was in the 1950's instead of dealing with current issues. This country hadn't effectively dealt with poverty, inequality and racial discrimination.
Pop was 19, mom 17 when they brought me home from the hospital in their green 1950 Oldsmobile rocket 88. Two years later we moved into a new brick ranch home where they lived another 40 yrs until the neighborhood went south.
Nowadays people getting a new home at 21 yrs old is unheard of.
@@chriswells1440 some live with their parents till 40. another unheard of phenomenon
Pop worked for the builder, he became a contractor himself . That house cost $75 a month which is what the old man made per week.
@@buckshot6481 - My husband and I brought home our 1 month old preemie son, to a small house we had just purchased in 1969 for $8500. Put down $1000 (borrowed from his widowed mom), and our payments were $85/month. Long ago divorced, but he still lives in that house.
@@dannyyo7948 Some NEVER leave....
Family. That's what life is about. They knew it, we blew it. Let's go back to it.
Naw family doesn’t rlly matter tbh us high schoolers are mostly focused on money😭
@@kden3457 family does matter.
@@IosaJ It does, but not when your family doesn’t give a crap about you, so you just learn to not care about them anymore either
@@kden3457 oh my bad.
Now they're tearing down the nuclear family and teaching kids it's bad....
No wonder society is full of narcissistic little pricks.
America was normal back then America today abnormal
It was the most wonderful time in the 20th century. Cost of living was lower than salaries and one parent could provide a wonderful life for the family in most cases. More homes and roads and shopping centers, cars and furniture was built and made for consumers. It was a time when the moral code was high in America and the low crime rates made cities great places to live as well as the suburbs.
And most everything was MADE IN AMERICA and MADE TO LAST.. Great quality and no such thing as "planned obsolesence"....
I was born in 1955. My parents lived paycheck to paycheck. My mom always told me that the 50s were not that easy. Things weren't easier until my mom went to work in the mid 70s. I was out of the house, but my youngest siblings had an easier time.
@Orange Fort I think the 1920s are one of the most underrated decades in the U.S at least because most people see how bad the prohibition was and just think the 20s was all about crime, when in reality the 20s we're the last time we had true art and class in people up until about the 60s
One parent can provide now if you get rid of all the attachments in life cable tv/satellite, Television, huge houses, brand new car/trucks
I think y’all forget about all of the racism homophobia and sexism back then the 50s wasn’t all butterflies and rainbows like y’all make it seem
If you grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s, consider yourself lucky, The ones who did, know....
Anyone born today is better off than in any other time in history.
@@dylanrichardson199 physically sure, but mentally no. I was born in 2002 and even I can see that before social media and phones, people were happier.
@@Plantdaddygardenman The only thing I dislike about our current state of affairs is the smartphones. (Granted, I used to complain about cell phones before smartphones even existed.) And, really, this is a societal issue - not a technology issue. Other than that, we're generally better off than we used to be. The view of decades past is obfuscated and creates false perceptions. I could say I'd like to go back to the mid-2000s, since it was before smartphones and the multitude of things that came about as a result; however, in saying that, I would be omitting all the reasons as to why the 2000s were horrendous. Also, would I even want to live in the 1950s? Probably not - only maybe for the sake of experiencing it as someone young enough and privileged enough.
@@Plantdaddygardenman Not really better physically, there were very few overweight people then, now slim and fit people are a very small minority, medical treatment is better now as it should be after 60+ years of development.
@@dylanrichardson199 WRONG! Sure it's great about medical advancement but they were simpler times. Look back twenty years from now and you will see things in a better light.
It really was nice.
WHAT a beautiful era, no tattoos, no sleazy fashion or mobile phones. Love it compare to what we have today.
You are right what a beautiful time we had I think will never be the same.
Atleast people of colour have rights now...world is a better place for black humans
Racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia...
but lots of racism and segregation.
@@Leodoll85 Have you ever seen housing data? Racial segregation is at its peak and worse in todays era because the WEALTH GAP is the greatest on record and the middle class is shrinking. You have low income areas where the majority of minorities live and then 500k plus value homes where all the white and asians live together. Society is more segregated than ever in recorded history, back in the 50s we had a middle-class surging.
hello , the 50's , were a time filled with optimism.........what happened 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔..........thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰............
Amazing time, loved the ‘50’s. Notice, very few overweight people, no tattoos or pajamas out on the street.
Bill McGrogan No butt cheeks exposed either. A quieter, friendly America.
God Bless you all. May we fight to bring back civility, morality, decency, and Freedom back to America.
@@mr.sherrill9137 And keep everyone who doesn't look like "us" or worship like "us" or think like "us" out! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN FOR "US"! 👌👌👌👌
Yup, no fats with tats and purple hair.
Perhaps there were more pretty ones to photograph back then? I remember quite a few were pretty, and very few were obese, unlike today. And the kids back then were outside playing, not sitting with their eyes glued to a phone. I would gladly go back to those years if I could. We just didn't know what we had then.
What’s absolutely crazy to me is how easily I can associate myself with these people. I’m currently in my late 20s; 28 to be exact. Most of the people shown in this video were around that age. Now these people today if they were still alive would be at least 91 years of age. I can’t help but think. One day it’s my fate too. It scares me in a way. But at the same time. I think they lived a much better 20s and 30s than I ever will.
Glad you appreciate the times. Indeed, born in 1956, I wouldn't trade my life then for anyone's now for a million dollars. Always grateful to have lived in the era that I did, no matter what these a-hole trolls that infest comment sections like this say. Good that there is You Tube videos of the era for people like you to appreciate and enjoy, just unfortunate that today's SJW's try to spoil it for everyone. Best of luck!
Yeah, your generation is boned. At least I got to enjoy the 80s where freedom was still a thing. You guys are headed right into an authoritarian government and the nightmares are going to start. You don't achieve social cohesion with the extreme diversity that's being pushed, but then again, that's their goal. Stay safe!
I was born in 1957 and was a teen in the 70's yet I always felt a connection to the 50's. I listened to a lot of 50's music, wore 50's pieces with my regular clothes. Then when I got my own apartment I furnished it in 50's. I was lucky because back then thrift stores had a lot of 50's stuff at very cheap prices. Plus there was swamp meets. Later when I married my husband also loved that era so I continued to add to my collection. I was furnishing and decorating in mid century modern before it was a thing. Here I am at 64 and still loving that era which is one of the reasons I had to watch this video.
@@patriciawatkins9539 thanks for sharing.
In the 50’s, people were still dropping like flies overnight from polio or crippled for life. They were absolutely terrified. Also, measles, mumps, debilitating scarlet fever, chicken pox & even diphtheria were a regular occurrence. There were a lot of mail-order scams back then. Teachers, principals & parents regularly beat children. Kids were a lot more polite back then for a reason. Women were basically stuck back then, having no financial means to escape if they had abusive husbands, because males were the main bread-winners. So it’s a mixed bag to say that the 50’s were an innocent time. They certainly never had to contend with mass-shootings at schools or public venues though like nowadays. Back then, people were getting lost all the time because they didn’t have GPS. Even though they had Thomas Guide Maps-they still were getting lost, especially when new freeways, highways & roads were being built then.
For my parents it was the 50's, for me it was the 80's. Both were awesome decades in their own ways.
The 1950s were the best era in US history:
- rapid development - then the highways crossing the USA and most of the single-family housing estates were built
- low unemployment
- cheap fuel
- everyone could afford a house and a car
- there was a demographic boom
- great youth
- beautiful, natural women
- traditional, Christian and patriotic values prevailed
- there was a low crime rate - in the suburbs and in the province no one locked houses and cars
- rock and roll reigned supreme! 😉
The same highways that were built over black towns, you mean. AKA the highway act. Seems like everytime america is "prospering", its always at the expense of black folks SMH.
@@jjmcg9184 Highways were built primarily through deserts and wilderness, which were previously poorly connected. Of course, the 1950s also had their dark sides, such as racial segregation or the "witch hunt", in the name of which people with left-wing views were prosecuted, but despite everything, the USA was prosperous in many respects. Crime statistics were up to 10 times higher then lower than today. Most Americans felt safe, didn't have to carry a gun even if they lived in New York, had a stable job, could afford a car and a house in the suburbs, and felt proud of their country. :)
@@piotrwisniewski6719 look at all of the major interstates, i-95 in particular. Along much of the corridor were formelry black towns. I do my research so i know what im talking about.
@@jjmcg9184 They destroyed many ethnic neighbourhoods to build those - Polish, Irish, Lithuanian not only black
@@GhostOfArtBell0935 you could make that argument but even you & i know black folks bear the brunt of the pain. Im more than certain those other folks got compensated.
I was there too! The 1950's - a quiet, peaceful time to grow up, good music, birth of rock & roll, no drugs, people could express themselves without using vulgar four letter words, good clean fun! There definitely was a standard of how to dress, best clothes for Sunday Mass, jeans for casual, and dress up for Saturday night. We grew up in the best generation of them all!
The best thing about the music in the 50s? It was pre-beatles!
A1King1, yes, pre Beatles, we had the best music and the best of times and it would be nice to go back even for a day!
@✨Perfect✨ I wish you could have too!!
@✨Perfect✨ Born in the 80s here. Every decade will have their once in a lifetime window. I loved the 90s. To me it was the last great decade because technology hadn't completely taken over the world yet. We were the last ones to remember it that way.
Just enjoy the now. In 30 years? A 15 year old won't understand how much the world has changed. I look at the 50s, but it's hard to ignore how much was brushed under the rug (racism, sexism, CIA proxy wars). Had they just gotten over these things, the 60s wouldn't have undone everything.
@✨Perfect✨ wow. You are quite the intelligent young person. It gives me a bit of hope. All the best to you ❤️
The first thing I notice is all the bright colors and even their casual clothes are fashionable!
Torn jeans & tatoos .. prisoners look!
@@monicabella7894 The pants on the ground thing was started becuase they take prisoners belts!
And no fat arses crammed into stained leggings either.
Its so nice to see colourful clothes. Everything these days is either made in silver grey or black because it is the cheapest colour to produce.
@@JohnPaul-qs2qf 😅 You've forgotten white sneakers, mountain hiking clothes and army boots for females. Black symbolizes something. Nothing against white, it's great for summer.
@@20alphabet Better than it was in the 1990s. Same with crime and drugs.
The family unit must come back into being.
Hi Louisa
I hope so also. Hope you’re doing well?
My Dad was born in 1937 and I can tell you that the 1950s was the best time of his life. He passed away in 2019 always remembering them days ❤
Beautiful era with joyful smiles from people whose family bond was their central focus. Thank you.
Color film and developing were expensive, not free with your phone so photos were posed on special occasions.
You do realize, I hope, that only 1 segment of society was shown? That same trip down nostalgia lane would look different in East Los Angeles and South Central L.A.
@@farshimelt thank you, Sir.
There are still many parts of the US I'm still learning via YT clips.
Yet, a friend told me that YT platform has a limitation on what it can share with global viewers about reality.
Jim Crow era America where blacks and other minorities were marginalized. No rich black athletes, no rich black entertainers, no black corporate executives, no prominent black politicians. The lack of diversity and opportunities would have totally sucked for non-whites.
@BlackSheep85 True!
Looks like an enjoyable period in time...I envy the people fortunate enough to live during that era..
I grew up in the 50's in Brooklyn and I do feel very fortunate to have lived during that era. Great to hear your comment!
Racism is cool....
IF we look at history from the perspective of someone flying above a very long parade stretching from let's say 6,000 BC to 3,000 AD, then it would be possible to "time travel" to any point along that historical parade and join in the fun! According to some theorists, time travel is possible and that's why UFOs were reported in the Bible.
@@pnduarte4696 why do you People alwys have to come in the comments with your racism s*** stfu and go somewhere else
@@christianlittle4303 cry more.
I certainly miss the good times, the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's... the photos already show it by themselves...
I love everything about the 50's. The cars, music, fashions and of course the women.
My parents were teens in the 50's and have told me so many stories growing up during that time and I would tell them that I wish I was a teen in that era as well.
Thank you for this great clip.
That is awesome!
Born in 1953 so I remember a lot of this in the later 50's as a kid.
I've also 1953 baby and I remember growing up in the late 50s wonderful time
07 Sep 1953
This video was amazing. So was the music. I am 23 and love hearing stories from my grandma and grandpa from those times.
Hi Zac love your vids
Enjoy them stories and listen. My grandpa just passed 2 months ago, and I would give anything to talk to him one more time.
Does anyone know the music? I love it.
And what is your duty to society in our country?
Your Grandpa and Grandma are awesome people. They were lucky to live in those times. You should always respect them!
This is what they took from you.
A Good, Safe, Simple, Meaningful and Moral Life.
AMEN!
HERE, HERE!!
The Golden Era of the United States of America. No doubt in my mind. And look how natural and Happy the US society looked before in those years. My parents told me how they here in Norway, Europe looked up to USA. And when I see this video I can so easily understand them..In my min, it seems to me people are better off, without the social media and the rest of all the crap that follows with it.
Since late 2010s we are in hell 💔🖤💔🖤
Norway is now a better place to live than the US.
Bring all the 50s living back. We need them now.
@LonerBlack66 Nobody, ever said ANYTHING to you. It is all about your delusional, "conspiracy theories", that you watch 24 hours a day, on yo boy, A.Jones, on "Inforwars", please adjust your tin foil hat, to Mars, for a better signal.
In light of americas current turmoil, this was really refreshing. Thank you for this, sir.
It's just disgusting to look at🤮🤮🤮US should have lost WWII to Germany or USSR
@@benjaminnorstadt2551 wdym
Amazing times. Its incredible how much respect people had for themselves and others in those days. Everyone looks so smart. I was born in the sixties so missed that era,
Thanks for the work you put into this. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Grew up in Iowa in the 50's and 60's. People were mostly clean and polite, and there were jobs. Left the house unlocked and keys in the ignition when going to the grocery store. Lots of kids in the neighborhood. Relatives came over. Made ice cream in the back yard with a hand cranked ice cream freezer. Sundays were kind of boring as many stores were closed (day of rest) but we played ball in the back yard or messed around by the creek that ran nearby. Different time.
I grew up in Iowa as well se Iowa. But from 1970 and on loved my family and my relatives were on farm's..good times for a kid for me..but always asked my parents questions about growing up in the 50's and I learned a lot from them. I wish they were still here to ask more questions..I was the youngest of 6 kids
@@davemitchell7361 70's were different I think. Viet Nam, drug use, and social unrest in the late 60's changed the tone even in Iowa. Part of the charm of Iowa in the 50's and first half of the 60's was our innocence. What we didn't know didn't hurt us in that time and place.
That’s because they actually dedicated Sunday to God back then. Today America is Godless and that’s why it’s filled with mass shootings, crime and violence.
I could sure go for a bowl of that homemade ice cream.....
Different world.
have watched 50s themed movies or 50s movies in my childhood and since then I always wish to live in that kind of ambiance, kind of living. so class, no internet, fashionable, simpler etc.
All you needed was money. Ain't nuthin' changed.
@@farshimelt my grandfather was happy to work and provide! Maybe you are just lazy 😥
Good for you, glad you appreciated those times. Fk all these SJW's cultural Marxists on here who try to demean it.
@@farshimelt WRONG, most people didn't have a lot of money, and enjoyed the simple things.
I really wish I were alive back then. Such a simpler time. The world truly sucks now.
Born in 1953. Great time to be a kid.
I was born in 61, a decade in which had its own unique vibe, but also had remnants of the 50s in every day life, especially the fabulous cars and music in addition to its own brand.
Great pictures. It seemed like an awesome time. People appeared to have been happier, more family-oriented, and healthier. Less stressful too.
I've heard that the 50's were an especially great decade for black people.
@@Sidewinder528 Nobody cares
@@beansmcdonough1782 And nobody cares about old whites crying for the past. You don't like the world today?... head for the exit door.
@@beansmcdonough1782 Today not many care about whites crying about being old and wishing they were still living in the fifties. If they don't like life today then they should head for the exit door.
@@beansmcdonough1782 yep racists never care👍
The 50s back when you can afford to own a house have a car have kids and send those kids to college on one income
I was born in 1950--so saw it from the perspective of a child--but loved it. It was an easy time and as kids we played outside most of the time. Three channels provided a limited choice on TV but it was ok.
3 channels 😄 makes me smile. I grew up in Galway Ireland in the 80s and we always had one channel when the TV worked.
Lovely nostalgic pictures
Before my time, but I sense a peacefulness that seems to be glaringly absent in our present epoch
The entire world was tired of war. Peacefulness was awesome to men who fought WW2. At least in the West.
the US was yet brand new in the world to everyone. cleanliness was next to Godliness. mostly all attended church. excellent manners brought appreciation. people cared for one another. i am crying now! life has given some great memories of that period. : )
@@megenberg8 - I really enjoy your screen name. Lady Tate. I bet you are indeed a true Lady. Way back in high school, a diminutive woman taught Freshman Boy’s English. A tough job for anyone. This woman held the minds of all her boys in her hands. Boys vied to be assigned to her classes, and looked forward to class each day. If you can imagine that.
She went by Lady McIntyre, or Lady Mac. We loved her.
@@dejavu666wampas9 youth respect good sense, now as then and always.
@@20alphabet Yes, that was my life as a young boy, my parents raised myself and my four brothers in the Protestant Church, we went every Sunday, also Wednesday evenings prayer meeting service. Life was so different, in a good way. People have changed, become cold. When you leave God out of your life especially while raising a family. Many young people today do not believe in God, or marriage, so many kid`s in broken homes, unhappy homes.
I grew up in the 50's. It was a great time to be a kid. No worries about crime and kids grew up in intact families. It's been downhill from there.
America should have nuked by the Germans
@howard slyder I also grew up in the 1950s and you took the words out of my mouth when describing that period. 👍🏻
@@gabrielashkar9941 inbred yankee boomer
@@henryhorner3182 What are you trying to imply?
Figure it out..🙄
Grew up in the 80s and 90s.... i feel more and more its slippin away. I can only imagine how people must feel about the 50s and 60s😢
I'd say the 1950's till the early 90's was all a part of a golden era. The 50's and 60's was like a rocket on lift off and into orbit. The 70's was like a pathway through orbit. The 80's the re entry from orbit and the early 90's the culmination of splashdown.
@@DigbyOdel-et3xx 😅
Glad I was there! Very young, but still remember our first tv!❤️🇨🇦
Awe that sound so good. Hi there hope you’re doing well?
Love the cars from back then;beautiful design and built as tough as tanks!!!
Awfully big and long!! And no seatbelt s?
I was born in '66. This was like looking at every photo we ever had in our house growing up. All the parties, picnics, fishing trips, families starting out-those people are gone, never met most of em, all the memories long forgotten, but I still have the photos. Just can't bring myself to toss em out. I'm afraid when-if I do, they'll be completely forgotten...sad.
Keep the pictures. They are treasures. Also, post them on instagram and engrave some.
I was born in 1946 so the ‘50’s were when I grew up. My main chore was polishing the acres of chrome on dad’s ‘55 Pontiac Star Chief.
I was born in 1979 and envy those who were able to come of age in the 1950s.
My great grandma said the best time to be alive was after WW2 up until the early 90s and I believe her people seemed much more chill back then and life was simple.
Awe that sounds interesting. Hi Shelly how are you doing with your family?
Not for black people it wasnt
Basically the entirety of cold war?
@@ericharrison813
When will it ever be. They need to fix themselves and stop being a burden to the rest of mankind.
@@ericharrison813Ok, Karen
People took pride in their appearance when they went out back then. Just look at us now.
compare Jackie Kennedy with Mrs Trump!
@@ikewasgen45 What’s worse is compare trailer park nurse jill Biden with any woman that knows anything about fashion!
People were slim!!!
Great photos. I love the style of the era and the cars look so cool. The 50s aesthetic has always felt cozy to me, despite not being alive back then.
I am 91 - -I was there - Did Air Force - Korean War - Got married in 1956 - Yes it was a great time but we had the normal problems of life - but it was Great - Great Video - Thanks
That is awesome Ivan, I love hearing stories of the 50's if you have any please share them and may god bless you.
When America Was Great.
I was a kid in the 50's...& I remember those cars, clothes, drive-ins, etc. it was a great time. Us kids rode our bikes all over, went to the local soda fountain or drug store for ice cream sodas, etc. We had roller skates, hula hoops, black & white tv's, transistor radios, Davy Crocket caps, etc. it was a more innocent time...and started to change in the 60's when I was a teenager. I remember the Ed Sullivan show, Walter Cronkite on the evening news, Saturday morning cartoons. In the 60's I started high school...and suddenly we were hearing about the Cuban Missile crisis, The JFK assassination, possible nuclear attack, & a place called Vietnam. Signed up for the draft at 18 just after high school. Things were changing...but it still was a great time to be a young man. Fond memories.
Thank you for sharing this, I always wished I could've experienced those times but I was born in 2004.
I bet the air smelled better & the grass & trees were healthier too.
Im 20 years old… and even im getting tired of all the bs in the world today. I wish I couldve experienced the world as it was back then. So simple and thats what made it so good.
Simple and much more tranquil. Less negativity. People believed in things and the future was very hopeful.
I was born in '52, so this really IS a stroll down memory lane. Thanks for posting.
Yes me too Nov.28. I miss my childhood
As a teen in the fifties I don't think I ever had more than a dollar in my pocket. Never enough gas to get home but always a load of guys and gals to push me there. Born in 1940 and survived the war years on what little everyone had to share. Got twenty five cents on Saturdays to go to the movies at the ole Garden theater. Ten cents to get in and ten cents for a bag of popcorn and a tonic. Poor as a church mouse but bless with the best. Have everything in the world now. Back than never had my own room today I have homes in three states and bedrooms I have never slept in. One with a five hundred acre backyard. No not rich just blessed with everything I ever wanted or needed. But looking back at the friends and family would give it all up to just spend five more years being me.
what was it like? sounds like the best time to be a teen in my opinion.
That’s very profound, it shows you can’t just buy happiness and contentment
America we do love ! Hi from 60' guy !
It looks like a dream
Give people a great country, a great economy, plenty of opportunities, the freedom to breathe free and watch them thrive and innovate! A time that seems like another world to me, at least a different country. It was called America.
Americans were proud, this is before politicians sold all our jobs overseas and started wealth jealousy to cover up for it
I seems like another world because it was. Your description isn't realistic.
“Given” is absolutely correct because it surely wasn’t honestly earned
@John Bold Homestead Act land giveaway a few generations before this, low term Levitt Homes just before this, GI Bill and other privileges. All reserved for whites. Not so much earned.
@Dutch Slatin And their whiteness proved to be their eventual savior. If it was based on what ancestors went through, blacks should want for nothing by now wouldn't you agree? If only it wasn't for that skin color thing.