A View of American Life During the 1950s [in Color]
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2023
- Join me as we take a photographic journey around the United States as it looked in the 1950s!
In this video, we'll be seeing the towns, cities, people, and those beautiful cars - all as they looked like at the time.
These photos show true pictures of daily life in the fifties. Most were not professionally taken - they are just snapshots taken at the time.
Most of these shots would have looked completely ordinary 70 years ago - but they look extraordinary as we look back at them today.
Thanks to the magic of Kodachrome and Ektachrome color film, we're looking at original color photos of the era as it looked back then - (with the exception of about four colorized images.)
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Original music by Savfk ( / @savfkmusic savfkmusic).
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#50s #lifeinamerica #nostalgia - Розваги
When I was a kid in the 50's/60's I used to spend a lot of time daydreaming and thinking about a futuristic America and how great the future would be. Magazines used to portray a space age America. Wow, were they ever off the mark. Sure wish I could go back to that time. We had it great.
I totally agree with that.
I'm not that old but for someone that was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s technology advanced too quickly to the point that you can't even keep up with it. I couldn't help seeing TVs going from ginormous pieces of furniture in the eightie to these paper thin televisions of today.
Born in 55 and I still want My flying car. We were supposed to have them by the Year2000!!
@@dennisriblett4622 😆😆😆 Right. Even my grandfather in the 50's used to answer me when I told him I would be happy when I could drive, "oh you won't drive like this, you'll have flying cars". Where did we go wrong?
@@dennisriblett4622
Flying cars? Too many people can't safely operate traditional cars today. Flying cars would be an absolute disaster.
I am 76 years in age. Seeing these photos really brings tears to my eyes.
In hindsight we realize it was America at its zenith, in all its imperfect glory. Those times will never come again.
I'm 69 years old , and I can remember when we didn't have ( and didn't NEED ) " lifestyles " . We just LIVED !!!
Well said....sadly
The best times for USA: colorful, beautiful cars and elegant people!
makes me nostalgic for a time i never experienced!
50s the best time. Beautiful cars, great music people were different. Life was much better . I wish I could go back.
yeah, you right about the white people being different they would lynch any black man just for looking at a white woman let alone talk to one. if a black man had some money and wanted to buy one of those beautiful cars white boys would resent it call the black man an uppity you know what. no thanks life is much better now than back in the 1950s.you right about one thing white people were different back then in fact they were a lot worse.
Heartbreaking. A time of peace, unity and prosperity that’s now gone forever.
Amen ...to that !
In th 50s? Uh, no it wasn't.
Thanks! Memories for an old man.
❤
What have we done to this once beautiful, great country ? Thanks again for sharing your videos.
God bless 🙏
I love seeing all the locally owned stores!!!! Before corporate big boxes.
So many great memories growing up in the ‘50s. The streets were clean even in the poor parts of town. Children could play outside without fear of being shot in those areas. Stay at home moms wore dresses and white gloves to church and even to the grocery store. Men wore pleated pants, white shirts, ties and a fedora to work, even in many factories. Grandparents spoiled their grandkids, they didn’t raise them. Even though we had drills where we had to hide under our desk in case of a Russian attack it was balanced by a dose of religious education that gave us hope that God would protect us. We pledged allegiance and treated the flag with respect. We had one car and one tv with 3 channels yet we weren’t bored or felt deprived. Dad usually came home with a smile on his face while mom relived her trying day of cooking, cleaning and disciplining us kids. But it all seemed so normal. The universe was in its sweet spot. We were a loving family, doing what came naturally. I wish I could bring it back for our kids and grandkids, if just for a day.
Thank you for this.. Really great insight.
Thanks for few relaxing moments and memories,I finished School in the 50s before going into the Military,what a wonderful time as is today,no filth no slime Ladies were all beautiful,Men well dressed. Please take Me back to the 50s.
Until the shitty 1970's
Yeah, no freaks, no weirdos, no girls with tattoos, crew cuts, or anything pierced besides their ears.
Beautiful, clean, well maintained, and not a single slob.
For Ffs - dude!! How clean were the emission standards for all those gigantic gas guzzling cars. Hint - dipstick ! Zero f's given! Future air quality & health of people breathing in pollution. Pls enlighten us plebes.
@@fluffy1931 . In the future, your generation will also be mocked when they judge your outdated technology. But go on, continue mocking your ancestors.
@@fluffy1931 , just like the manufacturing of EV batteries, third world child labor.
Today's young people have no idea what America was like, especially in the 50's and early 60"s. Sure, we had problems, but it was clean, people had respect for each other and the police, people were proud to be an Ametican.
Very well said.....I try to not bombard today's young....with the fond memories of my past...growing up in the 1960s in comparison to growing up today in today's modern America....
It was not perfect back then....there were the same challenges faced that mankind will always face I suppose...
But there are some things becoming extinct that we had that are not as excepted or enthusiastically demonstrated nowadays.
Things like Character.....Having pride in what you do....even if you collect trash for the city....
Common Courestesy.....even to strangers.....holding a door open....using a turn signal....
Respect for the Flag....our Constitution...Our Country....and always at the forefront: Our Shared American Experience....always great full and how fortunate we are to grow up living in freedom
Respect for each other and be taught the difference between what is fair and what is equal
To be proud to go anywhere in the world...from friendly to foe.....and you were looked upon in revere....and proud to acknowledge...."I'm American".....
Giving of ours selves to protect the vulnerable and our coveted way of life.....Selfless Service....giving back
Traditional Values....Raising a family....learning how to..and taking on the responsibility of being a good parent....teaching your children properly and being involved....
Perception....Slow down for a few minutes.....Turn your cellular phone off....set down...take a breath...and take an honest un tampered look at the World around us.......growing up...when I did...we didn't have as many devices to fuss around with and the instant ability to interact...
Don't get me wrong.....there were micro wave towers....inter continental wire cable service around the continent....Television was in it's Zenith....three networks....The U.S. Continental Interstate Highway was nearing completion....We had Jet Service...Boing 707s were the Cadillacs of the sky and you didn't board the Airliner dressed in a house coat and shower shoes.
There was plenty of bad..
The Iron Curtain.....Vietnam Nam....Global Nuclear Destruction.....The Civil Rights Movement...Woman's Liberation.....The change from customer to consumer and the death of small business and the allure of the impersonal mega stores.
The difference is what qualities that we are taught....which ones are relevant and which ones we display on a daily basis.....
I see these old photographs and I see Great Britain too; High streets full with shoppers, town centeres before the they were destroyed by blinkered council planners; our schools, once places of teaching independent thought, now given over to children being brainwashed. Where people were actualy friends with their neighbours and helped them out in times of need. I`m sixty nine and am thankfull I`m not starting out in life. Sometimes I could just weep.
Exactly
You and me both. I’m 71. I am so thankful I grew up back then and not now. We are circling the drain.
I would love to be able to take a weeks vacation and go back in time to this time.
Me too. Don’t get down yet. Things might just be getting ready to turn around
I would do it permanent
@@domenicv7962 me too buddy
well i hope you are white because if you are black and go back to that time get prepared to get LYNCHED for just daring to buy a nice car or house.
Me too, and I'd buy gold, silver, and Coca-Cola stock! 🤑
Zowie. What terrific collection. I grew up in the 1950s, so many of these photos hit me very close to home. Just a fantastic array of artfully composed, well selected photographs! Nice work!
The way we were back in the day? Was a far BETTER WAY than we are today‼️🤔
Make America Like the 1950’s again❤️🇺🇸😘
Despite a few problems, this was the most perfect / wonderful time in American history
Cold War & Korean War & Jim Crow & segregation strict race laws along with poll tax & voter suppression and the late 1950's recession enters the chat! Joe McCarthy & 'blacklists' ffs.
I'd go BACK in a heart beat. America WAS great then.
Maybe for your skin color but not mine.
A time when you could name every brand of car just seeing it drive by. It was fun to see the Nash Rambler in some pictures. I am 86 the fifty’s were my years.
Yeah, what's the likelihood of TWO of them in the same shot at 7:35 !
Up until the shitty 1970's
That music was absolutely incredible choice 👍
What a time machine this video is. No big box stores, just small downtown pharmacies, 5 and dimes just vibrant down town areas.
People neatly dressed, streets clean, vehicles in good shape. Like life should be. What changed?
modern day globalist wokery.
The 60's and 70's. Corruption, pollution, greed, Women's Lib, crime, the breakdown of the nuclear family, class, morality, privacy, minding one's own business, and much, more more...
@@mectron63It wasnt Woke Nation that sent our manufacturing jobs overseas, and flooded our markets with cheap junk from China or Mexico. It was corporate greed, and labor unions getting too fat and entitled.
Democrats
@@JeffKopis amen jeff
AWESOME STUFF!!!! Keep up the great work!
The decade I grew up in. Thanks for the memories.
Beautiful clean looking cities, no tents, no needles and human feces on the sidewalks, imagine that!
Beautiful and clean and sense peace. 👍
I just love all of these photos they are just awesome. Brings back so many memories of when I was a kid.😊 thank you so much❤
If only we could turn back time…
fantastic photos and great accompanying music....thanks
Oh, those cars. And those neon signs! Not one foreign car to be seen, not even a Bug. Things in America were just prettier then. Whatta time to be alive!
Correction: ONE Bug (split window!) at around 6:30 😏
Thanks for posting this. It was a great time to be growing up. It is a time we will never see again. As a nation we have fallen so far.
I lived in these times in my past life. Oh how I miss it.
I came for the CARS and wasn't disappointed. Thanks!
Excellent - I’m glad to hear it! Can you imagine when all of the roads were filled with these beautiful automobiles?
Well done. It made me feel like I was there. Appreciate the beautiful music also.
Thank you for your kind words!!!
I'm in my mid-seventies but can appreciate that these were the best of times. From Alberta
Canada to Los Altos California. Faith, respect, prosperity, decency, honesty, genuine 3 R's education, a safe San Francisco and a new car model tooled up every year utilizing slide rules. We've collectively lost so much.
The golden era of elegance
So easy to recognize the manufacturer of each automobile.
And ALL AMERICAN.
Beautiful
Thank you
Thank you for the wonderful and high quality pictures making time traveling a pure joy! I love ALL of your clips!
Beautiful time in the beautiful country...! Thanks...! From Porto Belo, Santa Catarina, Brazil...!
WHEN PEOPLE WERE PEOPLE....
What a great video! Thank you so much for sharing.
You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Verdaderamente los coches norteamericanos de los años `50 eran fabulosos. Y las chicas glamurosas y encantadoras. Creo que la sociedad de aquellos años ha sido la mejor de los EEUU.
No, con la gente de color sin derechos civiles.
We have fallen a long long way since then...
well being a black man today is an improvement. back in the 1950s a black man like me would'nt be able to play baseball with a white guy. i would have to sit at the back of the bus and if it was full get up and give you white boys my seat. i could'nt use the same hotel as you white boys and i could'nt go in the same cinema as you white boys only cinema i could go in had to say REX on it . i could also get LYNCHED at the drop of a hat for just looking at a white woman let alone talk to her. I think 2000s a vast improvement on 1950s.
I love the music almost as much as the pictures- Wish I knew where to find music like this-
Thanks for mentioning the music, I'm glad you liked it! The composer - @SavfkMusic - has a UA-cam channel which has this song - ("Instructions for Living a Life") - as well as many other original tunes as well. He generously makes his music available for people like me to use by offering it under a Creative Commons license. Here's the full link to his channel, if you'd like to check it out: www.youtube.com/@SavfkMusic
No bro this makes me cry😢 I’m only 11 and I have loved old cars all my life I would be so happy if I could see cars like this on the road again because allot of them are rotting away in some barn I would be so happy if I could own cars like this. 2:04
Hi Raptor, I was 11 in 1958. I lived in Charlotte then. I know this neighborhood. How about the '59 Caddy fins.
@@samwiggins5349 wow that’s cool how was it back then? I just wana know
excellent I would have preferred these times. when they made quality automobiles. People attitudes I'm sure were better than these are my favorite videos to watch.
LOL! They did NOT make quality automobiles. They were unsafe piles of crap that lasted 60k mile if you were lucky. Todays cars are FAR BETTER in every way (except styling). They are much safer, get better fuel economy, have 3x the power, a will go 200k miles IF you do basic maintenance.
@@coolruehle you would have to slide in with your ignorant comment if you believe that cars are better now then you're even more ignorant than your comment there's always someone that has to slide and criticize someone's comment with an ignorant comment have a nice day
well, i am going to slide in with an ignorant comment, you say peoples attitudes back then were better ? are you talking about the attitude of white people that were against black people eating in the same restaurants as them, were against black people playing major league baseball with them, were aginst black people drinking from the same water fountain as them, the same good quality that said it was right for white people to lynch a black man for just looking at a white woman let alone talking to one. those are the people attitudes of the 1950s that you say were better than today. you need to have a reality check.
@@coolruehle get a life what would you know about quality everybody knows cars were put together better cars lasted longer the only one that doesn't is you don't you have anything better to do than bother people😂 cars now have more safety built into them, but they are junk overpriced cheap looking no style no class a lot like you leave me alone and go find a life🤣
I’m glad you liked the video - thanks for watching!
One of my favorite memories from the '50s is that Studebaker, and sure enough, y'all had it!
Great pictures.
I'm glad you liked them - thanks for watching!
Love the old cars in these like the 1953 Chevy 150 sedan @ 2:42
Back when Detroit was still a cultural and economic paradise....
Now every city is falling from grace
Detroit was already slipping into a dumpster fire during the 1950's! Urban renewal aka' tear down poor neighborhoods to make way for more freeways! The mistake of having a auto industry & nothing else. The Eisenhower late 1950's US economy slipped into a deep recession that shuttered many auto & auto related industry in Detroit.
BRING ME TO THAT ERA PLEASE.............i will give you my net-book.....my i-pad.....my full led screen.....my electric tesla.....my facebook account..........😁 life was so simple and love was so REAL.😮💨
so much better without all that crap that precocious billionaires have ruined society with
You always choose such great music!! Awesome channel and video!!
Thank you very much!
Australia misses our old Australia aswell.
Happy times.
And they call what we live in now, progress 😕. We've lost all the good and inherited all the bad.
It's amazing the contrast in how people had pride in how they looked compared to today. Men wore suits and ties and the ladies wore dresses. Nowadays people don't even comb their hair before leaving the house.
@@stoveboltlvr3798 I know, what happened.
My first vehicle was a 1950 Buick Roadmaster straight 8 Dynaflow mint green, leather interior, power windows 22,000 miles for $525 in 1955. Drove all through college, got married and we drove it to Florida January 1961 leaving 4 feet of snow. It was a TANK, but gasoline was $.19/ gallon back then. We loved it.
Sounds like a neat car!
When America was great!
Do you realise you're looking at a SELECTION of images?
What is your point Einstein? Let me guess, America is evil?
The fact is, There wasnt a better place to live in the 1950`s, than America! @@limosalimosa
The cars were fabulous and the girls were glamorous - what happened??
The 70s.
@@JeffKopis more like social media happened, now people think having lips that look like big blisters, tattoos, piercings etc is cool? Obesity is ok...... Please take me back to the 70s any day it was better then
drugs
Would love to see some of these shots side by side with then vs now.
I agree - me too!
Don’t mind me. I’m just passing through looking for places and people I used to know.
Look what we have become today! So sad!
Another "home run" of a video! A great way to spend a few minutes...thank you.
Thanks so much for your kind words - I really appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
another home run ? back in the 1950s a black guy could hit a 100 home runs he still was not allowed to play in the MLB. only whites could play in the MLB
Look at the cars !!!!
I like the trollies they seem really cool
My home state made the cut!
“Pure Michigan.”
Won't be seeing much more Pure Michigan. Heir Gretchen has cut the funds to projects that benefit northern and western Michigan.
@@Yellow.Dog.
Politics?
Go find something to weld.
AWESOME VIDEO
Where is Detroit, Michigan? Back then it was the car capital of our nation.
Great point - you're correct. I do have Detroit photos, more of which will be shown in future videos. Thanks for watching.
Detroit, at that time, the model city for the WORLD.
When all of America was normal.
ah yes, normal back in 1950s america meant you could lynch any black man for just looking at a white woman let alone talk to her. ah yes, us black boys could'nt play major league baseball with white boys either. ah yes the 1950s only whites could sit at the front of the bus while all blacks had to sit at the back even if the seats at the front were empty.i think 2000s are more normal than the 1950s.
@@trinihammer You think incorrectly and you must be from the South. I was raised in the city and we played ball with everyone. In fact there was more black racism against whites than the other way around in some NYC burgs.
Not so much if one was black.
Repressed*
@@heru-deshet359what???
At 3:40, that's actually a Packard! Or a 'PackardBaker' if you prefer...
You are absolutely right! My mistake! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to make the correction.
give me a time machine please
Where O' Where have we gone so terribly wrong?
J u d e
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sold out all jobs to cheap labor
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum still has and operates Street Car 832 from New Orleans which is exactly like the car @ 2:52
I used to like to watch yesterday today channel before going to bed, but unfortunately their channel was banned, so now I watch you
Family!!!
👍Good.
Thank you! Cheers!
Per haps you missed it, the parked car @ 3:40 min's in is a rare photo of a 1958 Packard Hawk. Last year of DeSoto and Studebaker. The merger was a last hope of both name plates to survive but they could no longer compete against the BIG THREE.
2:50 Love the photos, I'm on the east coast. PHILADELPHIA.. New York New J.. any chance of doing a spread for us east of the Mississippi. 😊
I didn't see a single Packard among all the cars shown in this video. They were still producing cars until 1958. Not surprising. They were more admired than popular after WWll.
Their heyday was the late 20's, before the Depression.
Всі фото в кольорі . причому відмінної якості!
7:15 Kramer's dad.
Error in the Charlotte, North Carolina 1958 slide...it shows two 1959 cars: a 1959 Cadillac and a 1959 Ford Fairlane.
I thought that I was the only one that knew that
My mistake - thank you for the correction!
cool I always look for the newest car so kinda know the yr the post card pic was taken what the most popular cars where
Talk about a traffic problem even in the 1950's
when in color meant just what it said !
Two things strike me. The cars were beautiful and there were very few obese people!
Definitely a better time for all….the best.
@@mio_petnice made up story by a leftist. And if its true then why a single bad home story should dictate lives of normal healthy relationship people?
At 6:18 it's NOT Chinatown in New Orleans. See the orange California license plates?
MARILYN
MONROE 💜💜💜💜
1950 👍👍👍 USA
MACEDONIA
Notice back then all the small business we need to go back to that instead of the big corp
What a wonderful time back then, wish I can go back and re-live it once again, PEOPLE CARED FOR PEOPLE, GOD BLESS AMERICA. 🌹❤️👍
Only if you can go back in time a fly on the wall
Back when people had pride in there appearances.
04:02 shows one of the many tools used to change society from that to this.
I was born int 1955
Always scan these US 50's videos for UK cars ,sales of which helped the economy recover after WW 2 , only saw what looks like a Jag XK120 ? at 7:30 .🇬🇧🇺🇸
Forgot the world famous Timber Carnival in Albany, Oregon
From the end of WW2 to about the early to mid 60's the U.S was at it's best because we basically had an homogenesis society. In other words most of society was on the same page. Then about the mid to late 60's onward society started to fracture and it is still fracturing more today. We have pretty much went into the toilet. we tend to only blame politicians but Americans are also to blame. We don't teach our children respect for each other, their teachers, police officers and others like we used to. Americans are not raising their children in church like they used to. We are allowing same sex marriages. We have replaced basic christianity with political ideology. As long as Americans continue to move in this type of direction our politicans will follow.
O império americano está acabando porque seu egoísmo não quiz levar paz e prosperidade para outros países. Vocês se vêem com o centro do mundo e nada mais importa. O mundo existe apenas para satisfazer suas necessidades materiais insaciáveis.
@@dorianesteves6120 yeah yeah....whatever. We have heard this sort of tripe BS for over two hundred years. there were many who did not think America would last 50 years after breaking away from Great Britain...But here we are still going damn strong.
@@laserbeam002O império romano durou séculos mas um dia acabou.
Sure seems like better time. Is it scary that I can identify most of the makes of cars where today I barely can.