You might be OLD…If You Remember These! PART 4
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Don't I feel like a dick... thought I sent $10, and it was only $1... sorry about that!
You shouldn't feel like a dick dude, $10 measely fucking dollars to support our memories, that's a bargain
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
that's right....... You'd have like...........................................$20 Bucks
LOL
You could buy a soft serve with choc top , WITH PEANUTS and shout all your friends
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
LOL......
You weren't alive in the 80s were you ?
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
Don't worry about it LOL
You either get it or you don't
if i have to explain it , it's not funny anymore
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
I see......
I did some research on you
you have A STEAM ACCOUNT
You play a game called NO MAN'S SKY
and you've played it a few thousand times
You were definitely not born or alive though the 80s
I mean... you know what an Ultrabolt Novacrunch is
but you don't understand the $20 Bucks Joke
LOL
Now i have my answer
You are definitely not Gen X
you are most likely not Gen Y
so you have to be Gen Z
Like the old saying goes, "Don't cry because those days are over, but smile because you've lived through them."
Yup , remember the Milk Man truck too !
At 63 I'm glad that I can.... Recollect.... a great period in my life . If you grew up in this day and age the only thing that you will recollect is having your head looking down at your cellphone 24/7. I never would have hung out in the woods ,snowshoeing, looking for little dump sites to find old bottles with a friend, riding a sled down a hill on a moonlit night, picking little wild strawberries in a field( BOY did it take a long time to find a mouthful), playing with GI Joe's or Hot Wheels, playing with small Tonka construction equipment in a area where I think the cats used( LOL), bringing home my donkey in the back seat of a Cadillac and many other things. How could a " cellphone " ever replace those kinds of memories.
Glad I got to experience the old days. Wouldn't trade it to be young in these dark depressing times.
@@Snake-ms7sj It is kinda depressing. Being retired, I didn't want to think that my grocery bill would be more than double compared to 2 years ago or a pickup truck costing 50 thousand or more. I thought my " Golden " years would be stress free. Right now I am lucky. I kept my living expenses down and don't have things like cable TV or wifi, I don't eat out but I do keep investing in silver with my left over monthly SS . Want to make sure I can still eat in my 70s.
@@freedomrings1420 I hear you about the cost of living, but what I was referring to mostly was the mood of the country. The government and the media has pushed hate to divide the people. Back when I was young and even into the 1980's there was sense of optimism and patriotism. Never did I think when I was in the military in the 1980's that we would have like 90% of our goods made in China or that Americans would hate America and tear down statues of the forefathers. Seemed back in the day we could do almost anything, now we can't even make our own appliances. It's 2023 and still our greatest achievement was the 1969 moon landing.
I am 67 and while my body tells me I am old, my brain is still young. I remember quite a few of the things shown here very well. I also remember the carefree life we had. It was much easier then than life is now.
Thanks, You said it All, @Bluebear65 😌
Right behind you at 60!!
I May be 60, but my mind & my soul tell me that I’m 28!! 🤭
Oh so much more carefree, simple, & laid back!!
So, Let’s All Keep Remembering those Awesome times,…We All Need some carefree & simple now & then,…if Only in our Sweetest Dreams!! ☺️
I know the feeling. I'll be 64 next week and sometimes it just strikes me that I'm as old as I am. It's like "When did this happen?"
Start working out with weights, it's never too late . I'm 63 and I'm in better shape than between 40 and 60.
@@PBryanMcMillin Remember when " old people " use to tell us that life goes by like a blink of an eye .
@@freedomrings1420 Yep, it's amazing how your perception of time changes as you get older. Time slows when you're traveling close to the speed of light, but moves faster at the speed of life.
I would never trade these memories for the world. These were the best of times. When life was as real and as vivid as it gets. I am so thankful to have lived during this time.
Me too. Today sucks.
Those days were the best of the best.
I am jealous of you.
@@thebestcat9601 👍
@@marknewton6984 why?
As a black family often traveling to Alabama from Ohio to visit relatives, we would pack bologna and salami sandwiches along with chips, cookies, and a cooler filled with soft drinks. There was also a big thermos of hot coffee for my parents. We would pass places like Stuckey's and Howard Johnson. We never stopped there, though I really wished we did at least once.
We would stop sometimes at those places. We always got the spiral stick candy. It's sad those days are gone!
Did your parents ever use the Green Book?
That’s a beautiful memory Angela. Thank you for sharing it. You know, as I think about it, I don’t think you missed out on anything... :-)
@@jwb52z9 No. I never heard of the Green Book until the movie came out.
Our family traveled to Florida from Ohio in the mid-1950s -- for the first (and only) time. We stopped at a local restaurant in the deep south for lunch. I don't recall whether my dad made a fairly quick turn into the parking lot of this semi-rural place or not, but there was a black man who had been walking across the parking lot. Simply trying to get from point A to point B. (Not entering or leaving the restaurant.) He jumped when he saw our car -- coming toward him at right angles -- and started to run. Apparently he thought we were going to mess with him and "chase" him through the parking lot just to harass him.. My Mom was absolutely sick at heart that he had that reaction, because of course, that was the last thing that would ever have been on my Dad's mind! There was no way to explain and/or apologize. I recall that being one of the most helpless feelings any of us ever had.
The only silver lining was that when the 1960s came along, with Selma, Dr. King and boycotts and sit-ins, we all surely remembered that incident and it definitely affected the way we all voted. That man unwittingly accomplished more good than he realized.
At my age, all those things look more familiar to me than what's going on in today's world!
Definitely!!!
Could not of said it better myself.
Yep, I can better relate to all those things and surroundings in those photos too, ha ha. The "now" is surreal.
@@earlt.7573 the “now” is a dystopian nightmare. sounds like we’re all in good company here.
Fantastic comment 🙏🥰❤️
I wish my kids could experience childhood as I did! Truly the good ol' days.
Don’t kid yourself. It wasn’t that great.
@@jackb348 shoot mate sorry! Mine were the best time in my life besides having daughters of my own!
You obviously don't remember dentistry, segregation, or polio.
I'm going to give positive feedback to counter the nay-sayers. OK, ok, ok.... there were Big Issues. Blah, blah, blah, but on a local level I wish SOME things were back, like playing outside until the street lights came on, clean TV shows in B&W, reading actual books, and playing actual records with friends. Guess what? I am still friends with some of those same people!!! Some * GASP * of different races than mine!!! Yes, really! OMG!
Those days were "good," because 1.) we were kids, and we viewed the world through kids' eyes, and 2.) mom and dad did a very good job at shielding the truth from us kids, so we could be kids. I never realized what my parents were doing, which is why my kids will never experience our childhood. I'm sure my folks tried to warn me, but I wouldn't have listened, anyway. (So I don't know everything, after all.)
I was born in 1957; remember these things very well. Miss that time and the people in my life then.
My Dad had a full service gas station where you could stay in your car and have your gas pumped for you, get your fluids checked and your windshield washed. He also repaired vehicles. He had the gas station and kept the full service up until 1987 when he passed away suddenly at 50 years old. He was amazing!
Meow(too cool)!
So very sorry about your dad. 😢Thanks for sharing such beautiful memories. ❤
I use to feel bad for old people. They will never know all the things we will have in the future. Now I feel bad for the kids. They will never know all the things we had in the past. My worry is that that's not suppose to be how it works and the future turned out to be more Soylent Green than Jetsons.
What things will be in the future that we would miss out on ? Taking a pill as a meal, not being free to go places, being totally ruled over by an elite class, no vehicles to go places. There's nothing in the future that says... I'm missing out. I used to watch the Jetsons and that was total fantasy just like Star Track.
@@freedomrings1420 The Jetsons could have been possible were it not for LBJ.
The creatures from Jekyll Island took care of the future-theirs.
@Sabrina Belladonna Kids today and people today spend every dime they make on entertainment and eating out. Back in the day people payed their rent or mortgage and tried to put some money away. Today it's.... cable TV, Wi-Fi, internet, expensive cellphones, big TVs, eating out lots of times instead of a special treat, 5 dollar cups of Starsucks coffee. People today waste more money than ever before. I'm 63 and on SS, because I was smart and set myself up at the end of my working career I can buy between 400 to 800 dollars worth of gold or silver a month. I'm definitely not or even close to well off , but I want to make sure that I can eat and run my AC when I get older. I didn't have kids either and I'm sure glad of it.
There are times when I do fear for my very young grandchildren - I’m just hoping that I’ll live long enough to see at least the almost 4 year old graduate from high school. Nit sure about the 5 month old though % I’m,already half way to 76😄😄😄😄🤭🤭
Regarding the plastic slipcovers - there was a funny comparison joke in an old MAD Magazine between city children and suburban kids with the punchline being that it was said the latter had "lots more space to play in" and the image of a kid looking in the room with his mother scolding in the background "Stay out of there! Do you want to ruin the plastic slipcovers on the furniture?! You know the living room is for NOBODY!" Haha!
So true! Ray Ramano once joked that the untouched living room and those bathroom towels with the initials are only reserved for special Italians like the Pope or Chachi. LOL!!
I hated sitting on that plastic. Yuck . And when it was hot and you had to peel your off of it!
@@1mespud lol! I remember his parents living room and that plastic covered couch. 😂
Sounds like my late father's sister (an aunt I rarely visited). She wanted NO ONE to use the living room, as it was NOT for "living", only " admiring". The plastic covered the sofa and chairs, and the ONLY entertaining she would "tolerate" had to be conducted in the lower level/basement family room, which could be accessed from the outside. That way, no one would ruin her " showcase" actual living areas upstairs. Explains why visits to her home were rare. Other relatives also had the plastic slipcovers on their furniture, and they were th WORST to sit on (and get up from), especially in the Summer!
My friend's stepmother not only had those plastic couch covers, which were like human fly-paper, but she also had those theater stanchions, complete with the velvet rope, blocking access into the living room...lol.
The bit about defrosting your icebox made me laugh. We still use a 1930 GE Refrigerator, the type with the motor on the top, and yes it STILL works, and yes we STILL have to defrost that little icebox every so often, but more often in the Summer as it builds up more ice then. Not bad for a 97 year old refrigerator, ha ha.
We used to refer to the refrigerator as "the icebox" as kids in the 60's until our early teens in the 70's..
@@birdsfan57 Yep, we did the same thing. Some folks I knew called every refrigerator a "Kelvinator" just because that was the brand they had at home. Kinda like every wringer washer machine was called a "Maytag" whether it really was or not.
it used to be cool when you were a kid and you'd put the knife behind a piece of ice
and carefully put it and in and in some more and you'd break off a real big piece,
and it was like breaking off a piece of ice from a glacier in Antarctica
A monitor top refrigerator!!! I’ve seen them in pictures and films but has no clue there were still any working! I think they are still very classy!!!!!
@@sandybruce9092 They are a really neat, rather iconic bit of household gear from that late 1920s to 1930s era. Kinda good to know some of that old stuff is still in use and not just sitting in a museum display somewhere.
Oh I'm so glad I have these memories. A much simpler time. Kids today don't know what they missed. Thank you ❣️😊
I'm old.. 68...This one hits EVERYTHING! 😊
Right there with you in a few months!
@Sher W & @Deb Cullars Okay ladies,… enough w/the “old” 😉 😂 I’m right behind you, I just turned 60,… I May be a bit worn,…but Def Not old,…and I remember, too!
🤭🫣🤗
The first one,…my Italian friend’s, Grandparents, (All of them Immigrants),…
w/the plastic furniture covers!! 🤣 We used to Roar with laughter
watching “Everyone Loves Raymond!!”
You're not old, I'm also 68;)
68 here too!!! This hit alot of them. Add "I wish I were an Oscar Weiner"
@@sassenach5964 My bologna has a first name, it's O S C A R....
I remember the MDA telethon. It was the signal that school was going to start on the next day. Also, at that time it was the ONLY day the TV station was on ALL NIGHT.
I hated the telethon. My parents would have it on all day and I always associated it with going back to school.
@@fredupstairs8234 I always loved the first day of school. So I liked it because it was the signal that school was about to begin the next day. That feeling usually wore off within a couple of weeks though. 😂 . I liked some of the performances. But I’d always feel bad for the kids because I knew there was no cure yet.
Jerry Lewis was such a scumbag and The MDA telethon was a scam. So glad it’s no longer around.
@@fredupstairs8234 LOL, I bet all parents were looking forward to it.
@@jackb348 I’m not sure of his personal life. But I wouldn’t be surprised because a lot of celebrities behave differently in person than what their image presents. And I don’t know how all the money was spent. But I do know a few people who received services from MDA that benefited them and their families. But in this post I’m just acknowledging the memories of the Labor Day telethon. When I was young,I had no knowledge of the behind the scenes stuff.
I’m old enough to remember plastic furniture covers in peoples houses. Thank goodness that never was true at my house.
I had an aunt who had that plastic covering on the CAR SEATS. On a hot summer day, we kids with short pants would be stuck to the seats with sweat-remember in the '60s only "rich people" had A/C-and we didn't have it.
My Grandparents were born in the early 20th century and they didn't have plastic covers on furniture
Me too. Never at our house though. And never at my Grandparents.
@@Sue-gq7xv My Uncle and Aunt used to cover there living room furniture with sheets, they lived on the farm though.
In the late 60's I worked part time at a very busy Phillips 66 station. We had it drilled into us that we were not gas jockeys, we were Salesmen. The reason we checked your windshield wipers, your oil level, coolant level and even air in the tires for free was to sell you something. We had contests for selling the most cans of oil and some oil cans had a prize printed on the bottom of the empty container as an incentive. That Company station was the epitome of Marketing. I was so proud when I sold a couple wiper blades. (I was 18 at the time).
As a teen I worked part time at a Standard station along I-55. I loved the job. The worst part though, was credit cards back then. You had to call to get authorization, also you were expected to look through a book to see if that card number had been canceled. There were times you were told to keep the card (you never knew how the customer would react to that) cut it in half and send it to the company. Sometimes you would get a reward from the credit card company. We had a diner attached to the station, and after every shift, I'd go in and have a slice of Boston Cream Pie, and a glass of milk.
I worked at a Richfield (before it became ARCO) in Southern California in the early sixties and I can echo the salesman mantra, it was all about selling TBA (tires, batteries, accessories). I thankfully missed the credit card era, we had the change box out on the gas pump island that we accessed by a belt worn retractable key on a chain.
I worked for Gulf oil in 1979. I was 20 and wiped down cars in their carwash. Best summer ever!
I did a lot of things but I never got to pump ⛽ or drive a log truck
@@PBryanMcMillin: I remember that credit card book and turning the pages to see if the card was good and calling for authorization. We also had green stamps which we pasted to the customer's book with each purchase.
One thing I really miss is that you could see so many stars in the sky back then, especially in the country. I felt kind of sad explaining to my kid that the milky way is real and explaining how it looked in the sky. Too many city lights to see that many stars now.
That hits hard.. ..going back to the wee town where I was born:such a massive spectacle at night ! :)
Is that what it is?..I chalked it up to air pollution...so the night sky isn't as clear anymore...
I still remember growing up and staying home during a sick day trying to rest on my parent's plastic wrapped couch to beat the fever. I hated those plastic wrapped couches so much.
Try a day at the beach and going home to one
Especially in the summer!
There was always that one boy in class who ran the film projector like a pro. I was fascinated by how the film was threaded through the machine, but alas, it was apparently only a job for the boys. 😢
I was that boy. In fact, teachers from other classes would come get me to thread the projector, because I was about the only kid other than the librarian who could thread it. The reason, is because my Grandfather had a manual thread 8mm projector for home movies, so I learned how to thread it there. And I was able to transfer that knowledge to school for that purpose. I actually still have that projector, because my Grandfather gave it to me on my 12th birthday, when he bought a new one. And I've kept it ever since.
I know that I would use the file time to sleep, lol. It was the early, I was 13 in 1974, though I don't remember if they had them in elementary school.
I remember the smell of hot 3n1 oil from the projectors. It always takes me back to our dining room in the 1950s.
@@chuckpoore Thanks for sharing that. I love how your memory is tied together with your grandad.
@@TooLooze I am glad to hear someone else has “smell” memories.
I remember newspapers being delivered in several editions, at least twice a day in my large city, and sometimes more. They were large with multiple sections. It was the only “streaming” news available without being tied to a t.v. set.
Check this out, Keith. Y'know they used to deliver the mail twice a day? Of course that was long before Dejoy. Growth!
@@jeanlucpetard2313
Yeah, I remember that. Mid mornings and late afternoon.
The "old" Bulletin newspaper in Philadelphia.
The Sunday paper weighed at least five pounds!
My 1st job age 12. Delivering the Asbury Park Press every afternoon.
I remember Doctors making house calls and TV repairmen coming to change one of the vacuum tubes, if the drug store testing machine couldn't be trusted.
We also knew all them by their first name! I remember when, you weren’t home and, the milk man put your milk in the metal or tin box when, you weren’t home! I hope they end up doing away with plastic and, go back to using glass more, I know you can get it in some states but, I only see it on a occasion in my area, when, they do, I still would rather have it that way!
I remember once, early 60’s of the doctor coming to the house. My youngest brother at the time was a baby & got Chicken Pox.
It's hard to believe that being a TV repairman was an actual job. TVs has become disposable items and people just buy new ones. I think we all played TV repairman at one time or another, back then. I remember finding the burnt out tube and going to the drugstore and finding a replacement in a freestanding display.
My dad and I built our own tube tester from a Radio Shack kit. One of the components - maybe the box it’s built in - still has the same smell it did 60 odd years ago. Takes me backwards in time whenever I open it. 🥰
MILK DELIVERY
On weddings, you forgot the marriage of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki on the Tonight Show. Over 40 million people watched.
Wow, I had that exact Pioneer receiver back in 1978!
I had the model that replaced it, a couple years after that. They looked very similar.
Me too!
I can't count how many times we'd ride our bikes to the electronics stores and check out all the great higher end stuff. Radios, equalizers (remember those, lol), record players, giant speakers, dual cassette tape decks.
Most of my stereo equipment came from Radio Shack or Sears. Still loved it!
@@mayorb3366 I would ride my Schwinn Sting Ray Fastback 5-speed, to the local Radio Shack and buy an electronics kit, still have a couple of them in working order.
When I was a little kid, my Dad would pack sandwiches, trail mix, and PEPSI for our road trips up to the mountains. We would stop and eat in the back of our Toyota Land Cruiser. Great memories.
Yep I have gotten old. And thankful to still be here as an active senior. I remember all of this!!, except the plastic covered furniture, at grandma's we had fabric upholstery and no one smoked in the house. Good times to be young and and have the freedom to be outside, play hard, and get in
when the street lights came on or Dad gave the whistle to get home for dinner. Such a great time to be alive. The memories are Golden.
I had a boyfriend in HS well into the late 70’s whose mom still had plastic on the living room furniture. Horrible looking stuff too. Guineaotcy we called it.
Ah, Shelly, you're not old, merely well grown! And, being active, have many years ahead, I'm sure!
Your videos put smiles on my face while also bringing tear's to my eye's. Your right, I wouldn't trade those times for the world. Thank you again.
Plural, not possessive.
This world is gone,to bad we let it slip away...
Fully agree.
I feel quite blessed to remember most of that.
I don't remember all these things (I was born in the early 80s), but I remember many of them. I feel so damn lucky to have grown up in the 80s and come of age in the 90s. Best era ever
Lampshades had plastic covers too. Like to see an episode on gifts that you got at filing stations and banks. I remember my parents collecting dishes from filing stations.
I had one of the plastic, inflatable Sinclair dinosaurs, which were sold as a promotional item at the Sinclair gas stations in the mid-60's.
Remember glasses in boxes of laundry detergent?
@@queenbunnyfoofoo6112 Yes!
Wow. You just evoked a memory. Yes, in their TV ads banks would say that if you opened an account you would get a free toaster or something.
@NekoNeko - I am so glad you wrote this! I was having a conversation with my friend about 2 weeks ago about getting dishes at either the gas station or the supermarket (ShopRite). I even found the harvest gold pattern if wild flowers on tan speckled ceramic (with the company name and made in Japan imprint on the back). I thought I was having a false memory about the origins of where my parents got their dishes from, because I was pretty little (or maybe just oblivious) at the times when they would acquire a new piece.
Do you happen to recall which gas stations ran that promo back then?
I'm always amazed when I see pieces of the set appear in local thrift stores. 🤩
Rabbit ears with foil and the "remote" was the youngest kid who had to get up and change the channel or adjust the volume. And there was always my old man, sound asleep on the couch, until you changed the channel. Then he'd pop awake and say "hey I was watching that".
My husband did the same thing. He also said, it was just getting to the good part.
As an only child and therefore only channel changer, I got really good at changing the channel and adjusting the volume with my foot while lying on my back directly in front of the TV.. always much closer to the screen than I was supposed to be so as soon as my dexterous toes had accomplished their task I would immediately be scolded to back away from the TV screen. I never did of course, clearly my toes were needed right there!
and when you had an outdoor antenna and were ordered to go out and turn it to get better reception.
@@pauliepavarowtee9627 That is a good trick!
My toes had a mind of their own. One late Saturday morning when I was seven I was there in my spot, on my back and still in my PJs watching the Electric Company, when a 6.4 earthquake struck!
I was alone in the house and the big toe of my left foot was at that moment exploring the wrought iron curl of one of my mom’s indoor plant stands that sat next to the TV. I froze, mesmerized by a very large crack growing up the wall above the TV. Something crashed, brought me to my senses.. sort of. I knew what was happening, that it was dangerous, that I needed to stand up and get into a doorway. But my big toe was decidedly stuck in that wrought iron curl and all I could think was that no matter what I couldn’t knock my mom’s plant stand over or there’d be hell to pay when she got home!
I held that plant upright in place diligently with my toe not knowing how to get free of my predicament until the earthquake stopped! And then the toe slipped right out.
Still makes me laugh!
Whose dad didn't do that, lol?
The aluminum ice cube trays in the small freezer. What a nightmare. Hilarious.....
Those movie projectors in class never worked right, always breaking, but remember the sound! In the 50’s, I played outside all day, all the neighbors had kids, and the parents all helped each other.
It sounded like someone drowning.
I remember watching a film in class one day, the film broke and got stuck on a single frame of film, which proceed to melt on the projected image on the screen. All from the heat of the projector's bulb.
A film shown in class was a big deal! Once, the teacher ran a film with a burro and a prospector--"Brighty of the Grand Canyon," perhaps? She ducked out and left the film running. In one scene, the prospector's hat floated down the stream, then the burro plucked it out of the water. The class bad boy made the projector run backwards so the burro dunked his master's hat in the drink and watched it float away. The whole class erupted in laughter. The flustered teacher lost control of the class. All we learned that day was that Jerry Martinez was THE funniest kid in the entire school!
The teacher would always pick a favorite boy to man the projector. We made shadow pictures on the wall while the projector was being set up.
I AM old!! But at my age, it’s still better than the alternative most people born when I was born have faced!
What does that mean? Sorry, to ask I really, don't know? Because I'm OLD TOO!! 😭
@@jamescrossland2599 oh you old stool! I’d call you an old fart…. But I already claimed that.
Me too ✌️
@@enigmawyoming5201 I'm n 'Old Toad 🐸 Stool'?
Didn't realize or know it at the time but I was truly blessed. Hearing my friends and some of the nightmare they grew up in made me love my parents (Dad) more. If I could only go back to then and know what I know now.
I just relived my entire childhood! Thanks for posting!!
The world was better in every way back then. They still would pump your gas for you in the early 80s. I remember being thankful my mom didn't have to go out in the cold to do it.
Also we would dedicate songs to our local radio station which we absolutely loved because we got to be on the radio since they would record our calls.
I grew up NJ, have never pumped my own gas.
I remember all of these. The RC Cola bottle at 2:10 was a pleasant surprise. 7:35 It was a thrill to see our teacher roll in the movie projector get it set up and close the curtains which made the classroom a little dark and we would count the numbers off just before the movie started 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
And the kid in class from the AV Squad would assist with it's operation!
RC Cola back in the day would burn the hairs outta ur nose. It was really strong but good! I wish it was still around
Of course I remember RC cola & Moon Pies, after all they both still available in many, many convenience stores/mini-marts, as well as major supermarkets.
I was the projector boy
The good old days. I sure do miss them.
I remember just about everything in this video. I remember going to my grandmothets house with the fitted plastic on the sofa and chairs. And you did stick to the furniture . I also find the videos comforting and sentimental when I watch them remembering my parents in particular
I wish I could see them one more time.
Blow dryers didn't exist when we had to defrost freezer's. We had pans of hot water to melt the ice and ice picks to use when the ice would melt.
These always give me a warning nostalgic feeling while simultaneously making me feel soooo old lol
I loved Charles chips. The 60s and 70s were magical.
Yup, I'm older, and remember all of the things you had on. That couch cover was in my mother's house! 😂🤣😂. As always God bless you and your. Thanks again for everything you do! Thanks for the memories.
Same here-my parents still have the couch cover.
My husband and I still have a Pioneer stereo. Still works great.
I have a Marantz just like the Pioneer
OMG. Starting my senior year in highschool, I worked evenings and weekends as a DJ at a small town radio station. We took requests and dedications all the time. Had to find the record, cue it up, play it, then put it back. Do the news, the weather, take transmitter readings every hour......
I know I'm going to get flagged for this, but I'm going to post it anyway. I worked at a radio station in the early 1980s. Those contests, "Be the 14th caller and win tickets to the rock concert" were rigged. It wasn't "be the 14th caller", it was, "be the 1st caller who sounds like you are a sexually active girl between 17 and 22 and has screaming orgasms"
@@jimklein4066 (Fellow rock DJ starting in 1971) YESSSSS!!! You are revealing the Deep Dark Secrets, but I think it's been long enough that we can speak freely. I mean, c'mon, I was a pimple-growing teen DJ myself, taking calls from girls who would NEVER talk to me in real life... OF COURSE I am going to give them prize merch!
I remember stopping at a Stuckey's along the interstate in the 60's. This was well before Loves or other gas fill up super centers existed.
In the 50's I could buy an actual Sugar Cane stalk to enjoy that costs 10 cents. I also enjoyed "Banana Flips" back then.
These were the real "Golden Years".
@bp39047...Stuckey's pecan praline candy for me.
@@rachelc.5463 YES! When I was a kid, we drove the PA and Ohio Turnpikes a lot, and I would root for us to stop at a Stuckeys so I could begin my progress into adult diabetes with an over-consumption of their pecan praline products. (Kidding, but yes, I really did love all their pecan stuff.)
I still miss Stuckey’s - pecans!!!!!!
@@sandybruce9092 I remember a Stuckey's bill board along the interstate saying "Fill up at Stuckey's and get gas".
Oooh...banana flips! Haven't thought about those in forever but I can still remember the taste
Oh I remember all of this!! Such a blessed time!! Thank God life was rough it made us stronger
Lets not forget Speed Racer on UHF CH52 after school
And Ultra Man afterwards.
Speed Racer was a great show. A lot of anime fans don't realize that we grew up with it in those days. Back then it was known as Japanimation. 8 Man was another show I remember as a kid. That show would drive people insane today, as he got his powers from smoking special energy cigarettes.
Thank God for memories....no one can take those away...not even the government!!
Remember all of it very well. There is so much more you could add to this list. I got a transistor radio in 62 and became hooked on Top 40 stations. I’d lay in bed at night and listen to the current songs and was entertained by great DJ’s. It was my window on the world.
I did, too, around the same time. There was something magical about listening to that radio with all the lights turned out. Also, the absence of sunlight made it possible to pull in stations on that radio that were usually too far away to hear.
My mother claimed until the day she died that as a kid, (I'm 65), I must have went through more 9 volt batteries than anyone else in my small town.
I remember when you needed the UHF converter to get more than the three stations. We lived in a border town so we also got Canadian television on channel 9. Dad was big on TV though and we got the first color set on our street. UHF was part of the deal so the converter went along with fuzzy pictures when Dad installed the rotating antenna on the roof. That old Zenith was still rocking almost 20 years later. Yeah, I may be a bit gray but that's okay. Getting old ain't for sissies ya know. 😏
I live in Sweden and some things are common everywhere. In school we looked at film but also slides with a boring voice on tape with a beep then the teacher schould go to next slide. We also used our bikes to go friends and just playing around. We also had a stationwagon and went on holidays with a tent and small folding table and folding chairs.
In the summer we were in a small lake teached to swim and had sandwiches and a thermos with hot chocolate. When you look int the mirror life where much simpler but we where happy.
I always loved if we were going to see a movie in class but I hated the slide shows.
Sounds like heaven. I visit Sweden often and can only imagine what it would’ve been like to grow up there before the digital age.
Like that song.....those were the days my friend. great video of our lives and time. Thanks for sharing.
In the 80s my parents still had the cooler in the car. Fresca Coca-Cola, pimento cheese and olive loaf. With best maid sandwich spread. Good times indeed. Don’t get me going about Holiday Inn!
Gee, here it is 2023 ... and I still travel with a cooler (or minimum of a 'cold pack') in the car, a snack, a good coat, and a sleeping bag (or 2) in the suburban ... we live out in "the boonies" in the Nevada high desert! Travelling? Be Prepared for almost anything!
I knew people who kept coolers in their cars. Those Playmates for beer
This cooler was older than that it was a Coleman cooler green and white metal full of ice sandwiches and drinks or weighed a ton as a kid I could barely lug it around empty much less full of stuff
@@leonardwatkins2069 I remember those metal ones. They were heavy.
A fair number of radio stations still play music requested by callers. Also, I'm old enough to remember our family sitting around the huge radio in the living room, which had a lighted green dial, listening to "The Shadow".
That was my Dads fav. Lamont Cranston was the Shadow. Born in 1935.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
Funny thing is, the picture on the TV today is digital and higher resolution, but there are still tons of over the air TV channels you can get for free, and rabbit ears still work! (though an antenna on your roof is even better, just like the old days)
My dad worked for the airlines and was over the avionics shop. He knew how to rig up a badass antenna on our house that could pick up stations as far as Roanoke, VA and we lived in central NC. It was awesome!
So funny because we were literally talking about how scary Jaws was at the theater, especially when the head rolled out of the boat! I've never seen so many people jump in unison and squeal at the same time, lol. The picture of the kid with the moon pie illustrates just how much products have shrunk over the years!
Thanks! So many wonderful memories. We didn't go by streetlights coming on (we didn't have any) but Mom would call from the back porch when it was getting dark. I'm glad I grew up back then. I wouldn't give up those experiences for anything.
In the summer we pretty much stayed outside all day long. Being a boy, I didn't even come in to use the bathroom, any old tree or bush would do. And sometimes we'd even go back outside after supper, in the dark, and play flashlight games (there were several games we played with flashlights, like my favorite one we called Search Light.)
same here but my mom had a whistle and 3 short and one long whistle meant it was time to come home
Those days always remind me of Ray Bradbury's story, Dandelion Wine. So great being a kid back then.
Why is it, your videos make me feel so good? Always like a warm hug, with hot chocolate and a soft, fuzzy blanket.
Luckily, my granny never had plastic on the furniture. She believed furniture was to use and enjoy, not to be sealed off and just stared at.
As a kid where I lived, we didn't have a choice about being outside during good weather until the street lights came on. You were locked out of the house for the day, or you were only allowed back in for bathroom breaks or to get water.
Never liked MoonPies. I always went for the handful of loose candy for a nickel at the local convenience store, and a Cherry Cola Icee.
Dairy Queens where I was, were always open. They sold burgers, fries, and fried burritos smothered with chili sauce and cheese (my favorite), as well as all the ice cream treats.
As far as TV is concerned.....I liked the animal shows, Dennis the Menace, Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and Lost in Space. There was no getting around watching the Jerry Lewis Telethon, as when it was on, there wasn't anything else to watch. So, you either found something else to do, or you had to sit through that. I never cared for it, so I'd be in my room playing.
One thing we had as a kid in school, was culture day or State Fair Day. We would have field trips to the local classical music theater house to hear the city orchestra play the theme songs to popular TV shows and movies at the time. Or we got to go to the museums at the State Fair grounds. Something schools stopped doing, when I got into the 6th grade.
I feel sorry for the kids today. I had fun ouside everyday in the 60s. Being outside playing with the other kids in the neighborhood. We walked to and from school together. In the summer and weekends we stayed outside until dark and sometimes after dark. We did everything. Baseball, basketball, riding bikes, skating, football, hanging out chilling in the shade, using the water hose to spray each other in the summer, sharing treats, exploring nature, etc. As a teenager, I had even more fun with a car. 😉 Today - fear has infiltrated the minds of many. So they stay in the house. Kids suffer from it. Over the past 5 decades, people have been eating fear fed by mainstream media. I hope it stops one day. There's nothing to be afraid of, except fear. It will rob you of true freedom and joy. People even sacrifice their rights because they are fearful. It saddens me.
Another aspect is the social development we learned on the sandlot.
We learned how to work things out and figure things out for ourselves. Learned how to be good winners and that losing was okay, we're not going to win them all.
There were no grown-ups hovering over us, intervening and playing referee incessantly.
Kids just don't have that anymore, and it's a damn shame.
@@mayorb3366 Yes! 👊
We were on vacation when Charles and Diana got married. I asked my father if we could get up to watch the wedding and he said no. I think my mother was even more hopeful, then disappointed, than I was. lol He bought us a newspaper later that day so we could look at the photos. I can remember sitting outside the RV with a big, full page diagram of her dress. That dress needed a full page spread.
I still sing Captain Kangaroo songs while doing dishes.
I was in the Army, on field maneuvers, when Chuck and Di got married. We had a UHF radio, to communicate with helicopters, that could tune in TV stations, and that's how we got the whole thing. OMOMD, God bless you, and please remember to say your prayers!
Ah, Charles and Diana. I was training cashiers how to use the new UPC scanners at the time, and one of them told me this iconic joke: "Where did Charles spend his honeymoon? Indiana!"
Yah, I'm old
Do you remember the Captain Kangaroo Christmas records?! We had the "Merry" x4 one.. all scratched up of course, from years of kids playing it, and playing *with* it!
I got into a bidding war on Ebay about 20 years ago trying to get a copy, cost me $55. plus shipping. I saved it for that next Christmas to play for my siblings.. had to borrow a player! When it finished playing I went to put another record on, and thought, Gee, it's a lot shorter than I remembered.. then realized I hadn't played the flip side! I had been playing CDs for so many years, I had forgotten half the process! 🥴
@@trudygreer2491 I liked watching Captain Kangaroo I think his format inspired Mr Rogers
I missed the wedding, think I was taking out the trash when it was on.
I remember when I was 5 my grandmother bought a new couch in 1965 and put the plastic covers on it, she passed away in 2005 and the temporary plastic was still on the couch. The cloth underneath still looked brand new.
That's why they did it.
I have two sofas I bought over 40 years ago and the cloth on the sofas look and feel exactly like it did when I bought them. I don't have to buy new sofas.
Luckily, my parents never put plastic on the furniture (did have that obligatory doily pinned on the top middle of the sofa and chairs in our living room), but they did do the 2nd part of this that you didn't mention: kept the original cellophane on the lampshades. I never even heard of Charles Chips. These are fun videos for those of us who are getting a bit long in the tooth.
Instead of plastic slip covers my mom threw old sheets over furniture. Cellophane left on lamp shades was tacky I don't think people knew to remove cellophane. Cracker Barrel sometimes have Charles Chips in stock.
@@rachelc.5463 It is tacky; but it was done for the same reason as plastic slipcovers: "to keep it clean."
Concerning the plastic slipcovers...
My mother never did that, but instead she knitted or crocheted afghans to go along the back of it to help keep it clean...
Which leads us to something that isn't done as much any more - knitting and crocheting and other home-crafts.
@@TBaker-xu5is HAH! Don't be too sure... I have an ex- (okay, he's 17 years older than I am) and every year I receive a new afghan and a matching one (smaller) for my/our dog to go on the sofa so Angus can get up to....
I think I am up to 12 afghans [and matching Angus afghans] to date... still have most of them in plastic zipper bags that they arrive in... 😁
Uh... that doily would be called an "antimacassar" if they are on upholstered furniture... and doilies if they are on hard surfaces like tables and such....
Guess I am older than you, huh? Antimacassars were made popular in the middle of the 16th century but lasted through the Victorian Era, since the Victorians didn't have plastic at that time... 😀
My [great- and grand- and] mother all had antimacassars, as Plastic would stain with cigarette smoke tar and turn brown... not to mention that it was flammable if someone dropped a ciggie. As long as you kept up with cleaning, the antimacassars could be washed. I think they stayed around much longer in the South than they did through the rest of the US, though.
Thanks for reminding me of this!
RBS
Thanks for the memories! It kind of makes me laugh, seeing the Moon pie and RC Cola as a meal, followed by the Factor advertisement. It's combining the old and the new!
I,love Moon Pies! Very popular still here in the South!
@@sandybruce9092 I love them too! I still occasionally see them around and they actually come in different flavors like banana, flavored and of course chocolate
BEING OUTSIDE WAS A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLORE THE WORLD AROUND YOU I LOVED BEING OUTSIDE AND FOUND MANY WAYS TO ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS
We we're almost always outside back then as kids. I loved it.
Do you remember that the Dilly Bars at Dairy Queen used to have a little red mark on the stick, and if you were lucky enough to have a mark on your stick you would win a free Dilly bar. But I guess a lot of people weren't aware of this and so you would look on the ground for the sticks that people threw away to see if any of them had the mark on it. You'd be surprised how many there were.
OMG I never knew Mr. Green Jeans actually had green jeans! Our TV was black and white then.
I remember Mighty Mouse, Lassie and Star Wars...
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Ill bet cats hated Mighty Mouse but dogs laughed a lot Remember how Mighty Mouse would grab a cat and use him to knock the other kitties down
@@barbaramoran8690 That's why as a cat purrson, I hated Mighty Mouse!
What about speed racer and the thunder birds cartoons. And marine boy.
Yes we got older and watched everything change for the worse.
The Lassie show that I grew up watching was the early one, with the Miller family (Ellen, Jeff, Gramps). The first shows I remember watching were The Lone Ranger and Howdy Doody. A lot of the things you referenced from what you called childhood were happening when I was already in my 30s. Now, that's old.
don't forget Jeff friend that chubby kid
I watched The Lassie show back in 2019 on Cozy TV .
@@edwilson4852 Porky. They called him Porky.
I watched all those TV shows as well; and, don't forget Fury or Sky King.
Love those old,shows😄
Trivia: The Dairy Queen Dilly Bar was invented in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1955. That Dairy Queen in Moorhead (just across the river from Fargo, North Dakota), has been in business since 1949. The Moorhead Dairy Queen still hand-makes and hand-dips Dilly Bars for their customers.
Thanks for the “cool” trivia, 😉 @Jill Whitcomb Love DQ & “Dilly Bars, but I never knew that!! 🍦
Well, I'm old. And I'm SO grateful to have grown up during this era.
5:36 I can't _believe_ you're showing Captain Kangaroo !! I watched that *_*SO*_* often!! It was _definitely_ a regular in my household. Along with, of course, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, and of course the famous "raining ping pong balls" !!
don't forget bunny rabbit and grandfather clock
@@edwilson4852 Of course you're right. I remember bunny rabbit, but had forgotten about grandfather clock.
Do do do do, do do do do, dah duh dah dee dum de dum!
And the captain throws his keys, and the always land on the hook!
The huge Colgate MFP Toothpaste package he wound up and it played their jingle.
We still had the rabbit ear antenna to this day and it still works on our TV!
I was on Bozo's Circus in 1969 at WGN studios. Met Bozo, Mr. Ned, Oliver ol' Oliver and Sandy. So grateful to have that memory.
Hot, humid, and sitting on plastic covered sits. Sweating 😰 from places you never knew was possible. Those were the days.
Such a blast from the past. I received the same Pioneer stereo, at the 45 second mark, as a gift for my high school graduation. Great sounding stereo! Drove my brother nuts because I liked disco. 😂😃
I remember back in the 70s every summer my family (7 kids, 2 dogs, mom, and dad) would pile in the station wagon and drive from southeast Wisconsin to northern Minnesota. We would stop to eat the lunch mom packed. Way too expensive for all of us to eat at any restaurant. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.
They are my most precious memories. Thank You for refreshing them !:-)
I remember those plastic covers. My grandma had them on her couch. My mom had them on her couch and my father had it in his car . I’ll never forget them.
I was born in the early 80s so I remember the late 80s and had my teen years in the 90s. As I'm watching more of these videos I'm surprised at how many things I knew about as they were either being phased out, or like in the case of TV shows, how many of them I saw on rerun or on VHS because my parents liked them. I was growing up in the era of a transition from the previous world to the start of our current world. Seeing more of these videos just reminds me of how drastic that transition truly was as when you're growing up in it, it's not really something you grasp at that age. You just roll with the new stuff while learning the previous way of how to do things at the same time, but yeah, the 80s and more so the 90s where time periods of truly massive change.
On KRLA I won a phone call from Paul mcCartney!I had to make something to show my love and deliver it to them.I made a float basically....big chicken wire heart.Had about 6 friends in my kitchen when he called!
OMG, I remember visiting my grandma’s friend and was fascinated with the plastic cover on the couch, and my mom was very nervous being there with me. I loved riding in the back of my family’s big Ford wagon!
Remember it all! But never watched Dennis the Menace. My parents said that at the end of Lassie, when she put her paw up to say goodbye, I would start to cry. I was about 4 at the time. My twin brothers & I, in our early teens, were really into calling the radio station with our requests in hopes we would possibly be highlighted on the radio. That is, until my Dad got the phone bill with dozens of small charges due to each call to the station being long distance. Oh boy, we never did that again! 😂 Nice video! Thanks! ♥
I remember it all like yesterday.
9:26- The Luke and Laura vs Considine drama played out in the neighborhood of Oak Bay in my hometown of Victoria. We watched the filming in Uplands and I saw Luke running from Considine's goons.✋
My mother didn't put a plastic coveri on her couch but we had a next door neighbor who did. I ate my fair share of moon pies and i totally forget about "Charles Chips" my mother saved the cans to put sugar and rice in, yes i remember everything in this video.
- Greetings from Miami Florida
I collect Charlie Chip cans to this day. they're quite expensive.
@@edwardparkhurst9804 Wow I had no idea they were still in business. 😱👍
I am going to assume your next door neighbor with the plastic slip
covers on the couch was of Italian extraction, hehe.
And yes, I resemble that remark. Our Mom had them on our couch too.
@@Bill23799 No she was a regular black American like me, the entire neighborhood was black with two schools built in, white kids attended our neighborhood schools, it was paradise.
@@edwardparkhurst9804My son just picked one up at a junk shop.
Miss them days gone by. It was safer then and simple. Not like today.
Me and my brother still watch Television, our cable is connected to our 1987 RCA Color TV, plus we have 6 more around the house thats older and still listen to our GE Radio from 1977, with a Clock. Lassie sometimes, currently still watching Dennis the Menace religiously, had the entire season series for over 14 years now , Watched Captain Kangaroo, came on at 8am Weekdays channel 2 CBS Detroit back in the mid late 1970s, watched Capt Kangaroo into my 20s when he went off the air . Been searching for his recorded shows for many years now, cannot find them and don,t know why, Bozo the Clown but only the one with Larry Harmon, didn,t like the other Bozo,s. We still do with both our refrigerators, 56 RCA Whirlpool and a 66 Hotpoint. You just unplug it over night and by late next morning ice is soft enough to remove with your hand. We do it 4 times a year, sometimes an extra time during summer since thats when the ice builds up more the warmer it gets outside. Never ever use a pick, you can damage the inside walls etc, no need, takes us just 20 minutes to remove the soft ice dry the water with some rags and plug it back in. They are extremely dependable refrigerators, at over 55 and 65 years old , and they really keep things ice cold. Went to see Jaws, was not into Star Wars. We never had a Charles Chips in Detroit. Hell No!!! way better world ,class of Americans and Country than the garbage and nonsense we have now .
I'm 63 and getting ready to retire. These videos really hit a bittersweet spot. It is a cliche, but these really were better times.
It's funny about those two memorable weddings: I was just a kid, and couldn't care about either (although Charles and Diana's wedding was even bigger news in the Commonwealth than it was for you Americans on the channel), but that was also the time when I was in my first wedding (I was the ring bearer). I remember that because the adults were so nervous that I'd get it wrong (the walk down the aisle).
I'm not getting old, I just have been young a long time!! Great video once again.
I was the remote control until my dad got his 1st clicker type remote control that turned 3 channels at a time to cycle through the whole selection of channels
LOL, we had 2 channels all together. And until we had a rotor TV antenna, someone had to get on the roof and turn it by hand.
@@freedomrings1420 We were lucky we had 4
WOW!! GREAT VIDEO!! I REMEMEBER ALL OF THESE WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT ,, THANK'S FOR THE GREAT TIMES BACK!!!
I remember seeing Jaws in a theater with my father & brothers. Gave me a good scare.
Also, I often wondered what Charles Chips tasted like. 🤔
I saw JAWS out in Long Island when it first came out. Where the author lived & the story took place in the book. Of course there was a shark scare the next day at the beach
The Charles Chips man always stopped at Grandma's house.Those chips were good!
How about roving salesmen that would come to your house selling something? Or how about the ice cream truck? Or going over someone's house if you wanted to talk to them? Or how about the TV remote that was wired to the TV and made a hideous noise when it changed the channel? Or banana seat bikes? Or paying 50 cents to see two movies and a cartoon on a Saturday afternoon?
Memory is a paradise from which you cannot be expelled.
Yes our neighbor came over to watch soap operas with my mother, sweet memories. ( 1960s/70s )
I can remember paying 15 cents to see the movies, when we lived in Fort Knox Ky in 1964.
As a young adult, I bought my first vacuum cleaner from the Electrolux door to door salesman who came to our apartment and gave a free demo by vacuuming the living room shag carpeting!
It was great to see the Chicago Bozo picture. Bozo, Cookie the Clown, Frazier Thomas, and Cuddly Duddly. We had such great local TV in the Chicago area. Many of the local TV personalities were doing multiple shows. Frazier Thomas was on Garfield Goose, Bozo and one of my favorite shows as a kid, Family Classics. If you grew up in a town that received the Chicago broadcast signal, you grew up with some amazing TV.
I would love to see an episode showcasing the different foods that we grew up with but have disappeared over the years. Jell-o wasn't just a desert when we were kids. Some of those Jell-o salads were interesting at best.
My grandmother subscribed to the Chicago Tribune just so I could get Cuddly Duddly
Bozo always creeped me out.
My town, Mount Carroll Illinois, was just beyond the reach of Chicago tv stations. We had local tv from the Quad Cities of eastern Iowa. We could get Chicago radio stations though.
@@nancydemoss2945 I thought Bozo was great. He, along with Oliver O. Oliver, and Cooky were my favorites.If any of the characters came close to creeping me out, it would have been Wizzo (Marshall Brodien). I enjoyed Brodien when he appeared as himself, but never like the Wizzo character. i still remember his TV Magic Cards commercials.
@@glennso47 Then you must have listened to WLS. I'd listen to Larry Lujack just for "Animal Stories" with him and Little Tommy. Little Tommy worked so hard for that shiny new dime.
Drive in movies: Blazin' Saddles, oh yeah
When I was a senior in HS our English teacher gave us a questionnaire. For favorite movie & book I wrote down Blazing Saddles & A Christmas Carol. He thought that was great 😆
Haha!! I was the human remote control for years before we got a tv that had one. Also remember the gas station attendants that did everything too.
Oh God!!! Our mom had those plastic slip covers on our French Provincial couch.
If you sat on it wearing shorts in the summer your thighs would stick to the couch.
In so many households, where I grew up, that room was the "Good Parlor." No one was allowed inside, not the kids, not even the father! For special company only. The last I saw of it, was a good friend's of mine's wife, who had one. My friend and I had to hang out in the basement, like "That 70's Show. We were totally used to that.
I remember a few homes with the plastic covered furniture. Neither we nor my grandparents did that. We had a rotating roof antenna and a controller on the TV. We were fortunate to live in an area that got 8-10 channels, all the local ones plus others from nearby Pittsburgh. I do remember picnics on the road but my parents usually traveled at night with us sleeping in the back. A coworker in the 1980s was a Moonpie fanatic He and others had to explain them to all the folks visiting the office from up north. He even wrote a book, The Great Moonpie Handbook!
By Ron Dixon. It's still available online.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER I worked with him for 5 years in the late 80s.