Funny Things You Were Guilty Of…in the 1950s

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  • @scareless48
    @scareless48 9 місяців тому +91

    You forgot crinolines. I remember my parents dressing up to go dinner and dancing. My mother had several beautiful cocktail dresses with full skirts and a lovely silver crinoline that she would wear underneath. I would watch her with awe.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому +8

      I grew up in Phoenix (I’m a 1947 boomer) and those petticoats were miserable there - we didn’t have a/c at that time, just swamp coolers and when we stood up from our desks the petticoats would stick to the back of our legs! The over the elbow gloves were for proms, etc. - I had cotton gloves, wrist length - hated them then, still hate them now!😄.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +1

      @@sandybruce9092 props.

    • @adelechicken6356
      @adelechicken6356 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@sandybruce9092just trying to get the stupid things tucked into our desks was a right royal pain.😊 I'm a 47 boomer too!😊

    • @meatdog
      @meatdog 8 місяців тому +3

      Taffeta dresses and Poodle Skirts were popular. Worn with Bobby socks and Penny loafers or Saddle Oxfords, a short scarf tied around your neck set off that TONI hair perm followed by the Beehive hairdo in the early 60's. You wore your boyfriend's high school ring on a chain around your neck which said you were " going steady".

  • @bridgetmccracken1381
    @bridgetmccracken1381 9 місяців тому +113

    Gloves made the outfits look so classy!!!

    • @SpotTheBorgCat
      @SpotTheBorgCat 9 місяців тому +14

      As well as little hats!

    • @bridgetmccracken1381
      @bridgetmccracken1381 9 місяців тому +3

      @@SpotTheBorgCat 100% agree

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 9 місяців тому +5

      Yes, me and, mom and, most of the girls and, their moms would mostly where our white gloves on Easter Sunday with our new Easter Dress , Hat, Shoes and, purses! You always got the whole nine yards on Easter but, your gloves were put up after they were purchased the first tim and, they always made a appearance come Spring! We had a older couple that had a knitted shop downtown and, they mostly made everyone brought their Shawls from them, and, they made these cute knitted hats that were popular back then, the one where they put one to two flowers on the side, once they made these none of us got a new Spring Jacket or a New Easter Hat for awhile because, that’s how much we little girls liked our shawls and the hats they made us and, then, the purses out of cool whip bowls!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому +1

      The dear ladies made themselves so pretty then.

  • @julenepegher6999
    @julenepegher6999 9 місяців тому +73

    I wasn’t born til 59’ but growing up in the 60’s was pretty close to this. Women were dressed so dignified. I love those gloves!

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +10

      i wore gloves as a kid on holidays like easter

    • @julenepegher6999
      @julenepegher6999 9 місяців тому +9

      Gloves, hat and new dress and shoes on Easter. Mom went all out. 😊

    • @angelagoodwin5758
      @angelagoodwin5758 9 місяців тому +9

      Born in '58. You're right. Especially the early to mid 60s.

    • @jerryfarmer5737
      @jerryfarmer5737 9 місяців тому +3

      Born in 1950 and remember much of this.

    • @sandratuttle
      @sandratuttle 8 місяців тому +2

      We wore short white gloves with our church dresses and Girl Scout uniforms.

  • @scottmcwave9479
    @scottmcwave9479 9 місяців тому +129

    I love the cars and the way people dressed in the 50’s!

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +9

      and the 40s

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +6

      You'd love a trip to Havana today . . .

    • @christopherTYJ
      @christopherTYJ 9 місяців тому +4

      Tailfins rule!!

    • @loishuston7446
      @loishuston7446 9 місяців тому +1

      My brother enjoyed taking us for a ride to show off his 1956 Chevy Convertible.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 8 місяців тому +2

      Women then had very little choice wrt feminine hygiene products. It
      was pretty awful. Nothing like today with dozens of different products.
      It's stuff you are not likely to know a thing about.

  • @zsigzsag
    @zsigzsag 9 місяців тому +103

    Avon used to be sold door to door if I remember right.

    • @DavidSquires-iy4uv
      @DavidSquires-iy4uv 9 місяців тому +9

      I remember when Avon was being sold Door to Door. And, I remember when I was working for Kmart from 1985-1996. There was a employee working in The Auto/Sporting Goods Departments and she used to sell Avon to other employees at Kmart.

    • @zsigzsag
      @zsigzsag 9 місяців тому +9

      @@DavidSquires-iy4uv Even nowadays every place I worked always had an Avon lady who sold to coworkers on the side🙂 they did well.

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 9 місяців тому +8

      I remember the Avon ladies who used to come to our house. Mom always had a little container of the lipstick samples. She let me play with them.

    • @gordon-1
      @gordon-1 9 місяців тому +11

      They advertised on TV: "[Ding, Dong], Avon calling."

    • @teresajeffries3934
      @teresajeffries3934 9 місяців тому

      ​@lisasharf1442 our Avon lady would give me a handful.of those little lipsticks and if put them in my little animal cracker box that I carried around as a purse. Hey, I was 5! 😂

  • @jedidrummerjake
    @jedidrummerjake 9 місяців тому +33

    My dear mom would always go out with white gloves on. Even when grocery shopping. They were always soaking in the sink with Woolite. ❤

  • @wondersteven
    @wondersteven 9 місяців тому +83

    I remember women and girls wearing scarves over their hair when they went out to church or shopping or such during the 50s.

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +6

      my mom still did that into the 80s

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +6

      Especially if Catholic . . .

    • @gordon-1
      @gordon-1 9 місяців тому +5

      Often in curlers, lol.

    • @wondersteven
      @wondersteven 9 місяців тому +1

      @@QED_ Funny, I was just thinking that after I posted. I thought "well maybe that was just a catholic thing." But I think it was bigger than that.

    • @USNBLUE
      @USNBLUE 9 місяців тому +5

      Women covered their heads in church because it’s biblical. 1 Corinthians 11 states it. Sad that churches have allowed the women to uncover their heads in church. It’s disrespectful.

  • @randquadrozzi1280
    @randquadrozzi1280 9 місяців тому +63

    The palomino stick horse was a must for any youngster with a cap gun and holster.

    • @wildwestjanbutcher650
      @wildwestjanbutcher650 8 місяців тому +2

      Us “poor” kids would use mum’s broom and a lot of imagination!

    • @randquadrozzi1280
      @randquadrozzi1280 8 місяців тому +1

      @@wildwestjanbutcher650 I did too until my grandmother bought me the real thing.

  • @diannemose244
    @diannemose244 9 місяців тому +101

    Remember using silly putty to lift comics from newspaper

    • @canuckerjay
      @canuckerjay 9 місяців тому +1

      “Life couldn’t get much better”….for white hetero males

    • @johnchandler1687
      @johnchandler1687 9 місяців тому +1

      Silly Putty was invented long before that. It was to clean the old style wall paper with. It was literally paper so you couldn't use water on it. The putty was pressed to It a section at a time to lift dirt off of it. When wall paper went out of style they were going bankrupt when some marketing genius realized the could dye it different colors, put in those plastic eggs and sell it as a kid's toy. ( They got the plastic eggs cheap because there was always a surplus after Easter and the maker was happy to have a year round market for them.)

    • @DarleneHarris-s6h
      @DarleneHarris-s6h 7 місяців тому

      Yes I do!! Fun times!!!!💕

    • @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602
      @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 6 місяців тому

      I think Play-Doh did the same thing. Besides, it tasted like pie crust dough.

  • @heathermichael3987
    @heathermichael3987 9 місяців тому +44

    Makes me sad , because it makes me miss my dad. 😞😢😭

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      So sorry 'bout that, Heather. Me too! 🥴

  • @extramile150
    @extramile150 9 місяців тому +39

    Born July of 1949...and I loved growing up in the 1950s. God bless you all.

    • @JeffGusman-fs6oo
      @JeffGusman-fs6oo 6 місяців тому

      June 1949 growing up in Hawaii, "Priceless"

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady 9 місяців тому +35

    I was born in 1957. My mom had a pair of cat eye glasses. I remember wearing gloves to church on Easter or special occasion. When I started working in the late 70’s it seemed like everyone was having Tupperware parties. I have a couple pieces from the early 80’s that are brown and rust. Have a whole cabinet full of Tupperware. I never knew about wearing the dog collar on socks. In the 70’s when a girl was going steady with a guy they wore the guys initial ring. I had to wrap yarn around the back of my boyfriends ring to fit.

    • @ronwheeler7788
      @ronwheeler7788 9 місяців тому +2

      Wasn't that fuzzy stuff called angora wrapped around rings back then. I thought maybe my sister did this

    • @footballlvnlady
      @footballlvnlady 9 місяців тому +3

      @@ronwheeler7788 I had taken the yarn from my mom’s skeins of yarn she had for her knitting. She had knitted in prior years but stopped. Every week I changed the yarn with new yarn.

    • @cynthiamurphy3669
      @cynthiamurphy3669 9 місяців тому +2

      I was born in 1954. You can still buy cat eye frames and even find actual vintage ones and have new glasses made. I found some cute frames on Zenni's, though I sure wish I'd been able to keep my grandmother's. I enjoy watching Laci Faye, the Vintage Girl Next Door here on you tube in her "new" 60s built home; she's living the 50s lifestyle and has a houseful of cool things she's collected and been given, lol. I have wonderful memories of those years.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому +2

      I went to college in 1965 with my cat eye glasses! I hated wearing them but couldn’t see well without them - I would walk to class without wearing them, never noticing friends waving to me, etc.😄. Hard to be,I eve they are popular again. My maternal grandma wore them and I can still see her in my mind wearing them.

    • @footballlvnlady
      @footballlvnlady 9 місяців тому +1

      @@sandybruce9092 Funny how things recycle and come back in style again. We had a kitchen set in the 50’s & 60’s that was in excellent condition but we got rid of it when moved to a new house. Ours was yellow but I see them in red too. I’m sure it was made better than the new set. It was all metal and the table top wasn’t formica but flat and easy to clean. The chairs had thick yellow padded seats and backs. There were even large thick rubber chair leg pads to not scratch the floor. Now, that is retro. That set will last another 50 years!

  • @mickeyhead9770
    @mickeyhead9770 9 місяців тому +20

    I remember every time you pulled into a station for gas they washed your windows and checked the level of your motor oil!

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 9 місяців тому +30

    I’ve seen photos from my mum as a teen and young woman even in the 60’s wearing gloves. I still think they make a woman wearing n the right outfit very very elegant. I like them.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому

      I think the last time I wore gloves was about Easter 1962 - I have a picture somewhere with me wearing a beige dress and hat and gloves - I hate beige and have never worn it since😄😄😄

  • @elultimo102
    @elultimo102 9 місяців тому +22

    I remember sending a box top and 50c for some silly toy. Today, that would be equal to $6-$7. The standard of living has dropped like a rock since those wonderful times. You now make a third of what your grandpa made the '50s, but are paying also three times the taxes. He had lifetime job security and a guaranteed retirement pension. He could pay for a house and car, while Granny stayed home with the kids. Your car costs twice as much as his house, and you are lucky to get a 401K.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      Well SOME sector has gotten the benefit of our great loss. This they are still-at and are to be until they have it ALL.
      It is the insane Corporate Entity. It knows only ONE THING: it wants everything. That simple.

  • @jimh.8138
    @jimh.8138 9 місяців тому +63

    Never heard of the dog collar on the ankle thing, but remember all the rest. Those were the days, lol.

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +14

      i didnt either

    • @lisabloomfield6406
      @lisabloomfield6406 9 місяців тому +12

      Nor did I!

    • @johnchandler1687
      @johnchandler1687 9 місяців тому +8

      Me three!

    • @invisiblepinkunicorn7626
      @invisiblepinkunicorn7626 9 місяців тому +4

      I haven’t, either. I was born in the early 60’s…but I never heard about the 50’s generation doing that. I wonder if it was specific to a certain part of the country.

    • @bobbifoth5492
      @bobbifoth5492 9 місяців тому +1

      Don’t remember dog collars on socks
      Mandela effect to me

  • @WilliamCooper-l6f
    @WilliamCooper-l6f 9 місяців тому +39

    I like the narrator's voice. It's not too deep, not too high, but a nice laid-back friendly tone.

  • @johnchandler1687
    @johnchandler1687 9 місяців тому +12

    Penny loafers. The penny was a must. Also, Stanley Home Products parties. I still have a couple of the stamped aluminium coasters they gave out to guests for your drinks. Remember those?😊

    • @Og-Judy
      @Og-Judy 9 місяців тому +2

      Fuller Brush man too😛

    • @gordon-1
      @gordon-1 9 місяців тому

      @@Og-Judy ...and Kirby vacuum salesmen.

    • @johnchandler1687
      @johnchandler1687 9 місяців тому

      @@gordon-1 I still use my Kirby Classic. Have all attachments offered. Even the sander.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому

      I always wanted to wear penny loafers but I have a high foot arch and they just didn’t fit! And yes, the penny was very important,

  • @matrox
    @matrox 9 місяців тому +17

    I agree the 50s was a special decade, its why just 13 years later after the 50s ended peeps were ready to go back so they had a TV show about it "Happy Days". All the actors who played in it were kids and adults from the 50s.

  • @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f
    @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f 9 місяців тому +15

    Thanks for the memories . . .

  • @hollish196
    @hollish196 9 місяців тому +10

    Since I was about 4 years old in the Fifties---not really remembering the bullet bras! But really fun to watch! And I do remember the Howdy Dowdy Show!

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому +3

      I was too young for that bullet bra and I still think the look is so wrong! I chuckle at old movies with women wearing them! Thank heavens I didn’t wear a bra till need the end of the 50s around 1959 or so!!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      Ha! The Peanut Gallery!😂

  • @samsanderson224
    @samsanderson224 8 місяців тому +2

    Love your channel. It brings back so many memories. Most cherished❤

  • @deborahross9974
    @deborahross9974 9 місяців тому +16

    I was a child in the 1950s so I didn't do any of these things you mentioned. I sure don't remember the dog collar around the sock. But I do remember about a part you did talk about and that was about women wearing gloves. Women in the 1950s before going out to shop or otherwise would wear a dress, hosiery, girdle, slip under her dress, high heels, did her hair, put on makeup and a hat besides the gloves and carried a purse with whatever she would need including things her children might need. Today women just wear whatever they have on. In the 1950s you didn't dare go out of the house without the above mentioned garments. I know, I was there. God bless.

    • @Jerry-ok8gj
      @Jerry-ok8gj 9 місяців тому

      I absolutely agree!

    • @TreasureDeal
      @TreasureDeal 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes. Came up back then. I still "dress" better when I run to the store vs schmucking around the house/garden.

    • @jzoberek
      @jzoberek 8 місяців тому

      My mom had a dresser drawer that was full of gloves of various colors and lengths---as a little girl, I loved trying all those gloves on, and I loved wearing my own white gloves to church on Sundays.

  • @caroldragon7545
    @caroldragon7545 9 місяців тому +18

    I remember a whole lot of fifties stuff that you didn't mention. I was born in 1940, so the fifties were my teen years. Here goes: Beginning of the rock era, - Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets, and Elvis of course, My friends and I all watched Mickey Mouse Club, and Bandstand was our dance model. Fashions can be quite regional in nature, so here's a partial list of trends in Philly and south eastern PA that I was totally guilty of: fat triple roll socks, silky lightweight jackets of luminous metallic colors, poodle skirts, crinolines (I wore three of them under my prom dress), and big men's work shirts as jackets. Guys rolled their cigarette packs into their tee shirt sleeves and had duck tail haircuts. We had freedom to do things that modern kids don't have. I loved my teen years.

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому

      but what were you guilty of?

    • @caroldragon7545
      @caroldragon7545 9 місяців тому

      I was guilty of doing ALL of the girl stuff I mentioned, - just a way of saying I did all of them, LOL@@lovly2cu725

    • @jacksak
      @jacksak 9 місяців тому +3

      Wow, and I thought I was the oldest here born in 1944 and now 80 years old, but you beat me !

    • @douglasgreene923
      @douglasgreene923 9 місяців тому +3

      I certainly second that truly born in 1944 myself remember a lot of those things really special times. Very thankful for it.

    • @richardw3470
      @richardw3470 8 місяців тому +3

      Satin (?) shoes dyed to match the prom dress; Xmas present from the boyfriend of matching winter shirts; ID bracelets mostly for the guys; friendship rings which were fancy carved, usually silver, bands (no stones); angora (?) ear muffs that were just a few inches wide to cover from ear to ear and tied under the chin (sometimes gloves or mitts to match); jewelry designed in relation to the coronation in England in '53 and dolls in coronation robes. Crazy colored; life sized toy poodles won at the summer carnivals and raffling off donated, real home baked cakes (no mixes) to raise money for the volunteer emergency squads. Little kids running around the carnivals with no parents in sight. Horror movies at special Fright Nights and walking home alone thru parking lots and alleys at 2 AM. The scariest part was walking under canopied trees swishing and creaking in a wind with moonlight shining out around the edges of huge clouds with a darker sky behind them. Small town life.

  • @robertschwister3872
    @robertschwister3872 9 місяців тому +14

    I am a product of the 1980's. Grade school in the later 70's and coming of age in the 80's were absolutely fantastic, but I have always held a fascination for the 50's. I envied my Mom and Dad for growing up in that time. I miss both of them. 😇

    • @deborahross9974
      @deborahross9974 9 місяців тому +1

      My parents grew up in the 1920s through the 1930s. I was born in 1949. I'm what's called a Babyboomer. Babyboomers were born after World War 2. God bless.

    • @Jantv81
      @Jantv81 9 місяців тому

      My parents were baby boomers ( my mom was born in 1954 and my dad was 1951.) I’m an early 1980s baby and so was my sister. However I enjoy learning about those trends of the 50s and 60s. Now I have a daughter myself and she’s an Alpha (b. 2010-2025).

    • @deborahross9974
      @deborahross9974 9 місяців тому

      @@Jantv81 My Mother was born in 1916 and Father 1917. Me, I was born 1949. Babyboomers were born after WW2 to 1965. God bless.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      Born just before Germany surrendered, so a "War Baby" - a subset I suppose of the Greatest Generation, so-called.
      I do not recall having 'problems' in the Fifties, or they were very minor ones if existing. Nowadays the youngsters do not have it anywhere near that easy.
      Of amateur sex with my school buddies there was plenty.
      (Darned good thing the parents never found out, or it would have been "curtains" sure. Their disinterest in our camping out hi-jinks was breathtaking.🤣Such prepared us nicely for the girls of later, when ready to go. 😛)

  • @roncaruso931
    @roncaruso931 9 місяців тому +46

    I was not born until the mid 1970's, but the 1950's looked like a calm and great era to grow up in.

    • @deborahross9974
      @deborahross9974 9 місяців тому +10

      It was a grand and great time to grow up in. I know because I was a child then. You could go outside to play and roam the neighborhood without worrying about a thing. The only rule was you had to be inside when the street lights came on. God bless

    • @kathleenevans1201
      @kathleenevans1201 9 місяців тому +6

      It was a great time to grow up in!

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 9 місяців тому +3

      It was similar to the 70s is what, I was told, I wasn’t born till 67 and, I just found out last fall when, my brother came in and, he was talking to someone and, said, a brand spanking new home to be built from scratch only cost $1200 so, my dad had everything ready to go when, he got ready to pop the question! He asked the question come Christmas after they had been dating for awhile and, a few weeks later in Jan. they were married in a little private ceremony underneath the Christmas Tree in January, in the picture, I still have it looks as if they were dressed up for a high school prom.

    • @dew66666
      @dew66666 9 місяців тому +2

      It was calm and great as long as you were white and straight 😂

    • @donaldgeorge6656
      @donaldgeorge6656 9 місяців тому +5

      It was the best of times

  • @DavidSquires-iy4uv
    @DavidSquires-iy4uv 9 місяців тому +31

    I was born in 1957 and I grew up in the 1960's.

    • @Capecodham
      @Capecodham 9 місяців тому +2

      so?

    • @linguaphile42
      @linguaphile42 9 місяців тому +14

      @@Capecodham So he is joining the conversation and sharing. Thank you, David!

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому +1

      Fascinating!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому +1

      Well then David, you got the full flavor of those Fiftes
      so much of it being left-over.
      I was born during WW II so I got a strong dose of the
      Depression years and Twenties even!
      We were lucky. 🙂

  • @kevinsmith5288
    @kevinsmith5288 9 місяців тому +13

    Looking at those glasses reminds of the 1951 Hitchcock film, Strangers on a Train. They were worn by two of the main characters, and were an important plot device.

  • @melissabibby7310
    @melissabibby7310 9 місяців тому +6

    Thanks for sharing!👍

  • @annmarie1569
    @annmarie1569 9 місяців тому +10

    I was an 80's and 90's kid. Those were the best years of my life ❤️❤️❤️ but I would have loved to have grown up in the 50's. I loved the way they dressed and I love how simple things were back then.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      They were that -- "simple" as contrasted with the Digital Prison we endure of today.

  • @MaxStax1
    @MaxStax1 9 місяців тому +13

    I never knew the name of them but my Mom wore the "cat eye" glasses for many years when i was growing up. I never heard of the dog collar on a girl's ankle fad. I did receive an ID bracelet from a girl as a sophomore in High School which was awkward as i really didn't like the girl that much, and didn't want to wear it, i actually still have it somewhere around here. ha

  • @scottmcwave9479
    @scottmcwave9479 9 місяців тому +24

    Loved my Davy Crockett outfit!

    • @brainbombify
      @brainbombify 9 місяців тому +4

      I had one also loved it my dad was born in 1956 and passed on the knowledge to me 1982

    • @earthwormscrawl
      @earthwormscrawl 9 місяців тому +4

      Me and my twin cousins were born in 1960. They were totally into Davy Crockett and had the rifle, hat and outfit. But it ran opposite Star Trek in syndication so I never saw it. When my cousins were visiting they wanted to watch Davy Crockett, but there was no way I would miss Star Trek. After forcing them to sit through one episode of Star Trek, they never wore those Crockett outfits again. From that day on it was Star Trek uniforms and phasers.

    • @erin19030
      @erin19030 9 місяців тому +2

      I was Davey Crockett ! I could sing all 27 versus of the song.

    • @carolynnilsen9270
      @carolynnilsen9270 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes I watched that on TV here in the UK

    • @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f
      @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f 8 місяців тому

      Remember the excellent plastic muskets/rifles made by Matel.
      Their cowboy Colt 45 style pistols & holsters were superb replicas.

  • @whereswaldo5740
    @whereswaldo5740 9 місяців тому +22

    I’m guilty.
    Of chewing gum in class.
    And writing on the desk.

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +3

      did u put the gum under the desk?

    • @julenepegher6999
      @julenepegher6999 9 місяців тому +3

      We didn’t dare chew gum, if the nuns caught us look out. 😅

    • @jamessilva7991
      @jamessilva7991 8 місяців тому

      The ruler slap on the hand.@@julenepegher6999

    • @susanjeffay3851
      @susanjeffay3851 8 місяців тому

      @@lovly2cu725 I wasn't allowed gum but picked it off the stools that twisted at the soda fountain and chewed it EWWW

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому +1

      @@julenepegher6999 They were called that 'cause they never got nun, so they got mean instead!

  • @jeffhall6556
    @jeffhall6556 9 місяців тому +4

    Yet another Interesting & appreciated video well done!

  • @mickeyhead9770
    @mickeyhead9770 9 місяців тому +5

    Loved my poodle skirt and pixie haircut! I have so many happy memories from that time.

  • @timroot4207
    @timroot4207 9 місяців тому +8

    Thank you !

  • @slim-oneslim8014
    @slim-oneslim8014 9 місяців тому +12

    Finally have my Recollection Road viewing need taken care of. Was in withdrawal not having watched in over a week! 🙂

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      That's some rough going to endure, Slim.

  • @masoodgha6765
    @masoodgha6765 9 місяців тому +7

    Thank you so much ❤❤👍❤❤👍❤❤👍

  • @marymastromauro8164
    @marymastromauro8164 8 місяців тому +5

    Boy, what i would give to relive the 1950s and 1960s!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      ME TOO, and outa this horrifying modern digital prison.

  • @IronMatixXP
    @IronMatixXP 9 місяців тому +37

    I was born in 1952 , the 50's were the happiest times of my life.

  • @jimholmes2555
    @jimholmes2555 9 місяців тому +18

    Watching Pleasantville is a lot of fun.

    • @Donna-zc9ii
      @Donna-zc9ii 9 місяців тому +7

      I love that movie, I have it on DVD😊

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому +1

      From Pleasantville to La-La-Land.

  • @jakebrakebill
    @jakebrakebill 9 місяців тому +6

    just made me remember tearing off cereal box tops, then putting them in an envelope, in the US mail and waiting for weeks for the toy or gadget. biggest was, those frogmen that you filled with baking soda.

  • @marlanebraun5635
    @marlanebraun5635 9 місяців тому +3

    i so enjoy these videos!! never heard of the dog collar around the ankle.

  • @susancorvalan6765
    @susancorvalan6765 9 місяців тому +43

    The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid! Cowboys and Indians, Cops and Robbers! Hopscotch, jump rope, jacks!

    • @brendahennesseereger8609
      @brendahennesseereger8609 8 місяців тому +3

      Annie Oakley for me.

    • @northwinterfilms5048
      @northwinterfilms5048 8 місяців тому +4

      And marbles especially if you had a beautiful “shooter “

    • @TreasureDeal
      @TreasureDeal 8 місяців тому

      And mumbly peg.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 місяців тому +2

      Spin and Marty, Davy Crockett!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      @@brendahennesseereger8609 "Little Miss Sure-Shot" !!
      The star of the series just knocked the socks right off me. (And now the spats, when viewing her re-runs! 🧐)

  • @hw4527
    @hw4527 9 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for posting 👍👍

  • @Nunofurdambiznez
    @Nunofurdambiznez 9 місяців тому +6

    My mother and her mother never went ANYWHERE without their gloves on! My mother would always say "if we don't look our best, no matter where we're going, what would people think?" She worried about that a LOT LOL! She often said "What if one of your father's clients or your grandfather's clients (both were lawyers) saw me or your grandmother out and about, WITHOUT looking our best, you'd better believe it would be all around town and all around church in 5 minutes flat!" She's still kind of that way today, (no where near like she was, though, in the '50s and '60s) even at the ripe young age of 88 LOL!

  • @mickeyhead9770
    @mickeyhead9770 9 місяців тому +10

    Born in 1953 and still miss my Hula Hoop and cowgirl outfit. I loved the smell of the caps going off when I shot my cap gun! 😊

    • @diannelavoie5385
      @diannelavoie5385 9 місяців тому +2

      Me too. I was definitely a tomboy. Played cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. Loved Tonka trucks too. My mom still managed to get me presentable in a hat and requisite white gloves for church on Sunday.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 Місяць тому

      WOW !! Tomboys !!
      Always wanted one for an adventuresome wife type experience but, no luck.

  • @1mespud
    @1mespud 9 місяців тому +9

    My older brother wore those 1950's beanie type hat/caps in his youth.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому

      Today's "doofus" look is the ball cap worn backwards. A good sign you are dealing with someone who shouldn't be taken seriously.

  • @ynp1978
    @ynp1978 9 місяців тому +18

    The 50s were a bit before my time....but wasn't the Hula Hoop a giant deal in the late 50s?

  • @ronwheeler7788
    @ronwheeler7788 9 місяців тому +14

    Red Ryder BB guns and the 5 and dime store. Our drugstore had a soda fountain in it. Sunday dinner after church with relatives...Got to stop just memories now

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 9 місяців тому

      We did Sunday dinner with the grandparents quite a bit. In the summertime we’d make homemade ice cream.

    • @diannelavoie5385
      @diannelavoie5385 9 місяців тому +1

      I remember Sunday dinner either at home or my grandparents' house. Then maybe a "Sunday Drive" afterwards.

  • @cdfreester
    @cdfreester 9 місяців тому +9

    I've seen several photos of my aunt wearing cat-eye glasses in the 1950's and into the 1960's.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +1

      Suggestion: she can probably clue you into a lot of interesting stuff . . . if she's still living.

    • @cdfreester
      @cdfreester 9 місяців тому +1

      @@QED_ yes she is. Will be 85 this summer.

  • @Chris_at_Home
    @Chris_at_Home 9 місяців тому +3

    I was born in the early 50s and my oldest sister graduated in 59. I had six siblings older than me and each one was born two years apart. I met my wife when we were in 7th grade together in the mid 60s.

  • @jamescanterbury6634
    @jamescanterbury6634 9 місяців тому +6

    Fess Parker confusing Dave’s Crockett and Daniel Boone for a whole generation

  • @HoneyHoney-wc3nw
    @HoneyHoney-wc3nw 9 місяців тому +5

    How about "Maynerd G. Krebs" ..."work"... from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".

  • @randyronny7735
    @randyronny7735 9 місяців тому +5

    Cap guns were absolute frustration. The caps were duds because the spot of gunpowder was not lined up properly or would stop feeding and needed to be aligned.

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 9 місяців тому +7

      That’s when we took them out of the gun and used a hammer to explode the powder. I can still smell it.

  • @darrellsmith3602
    @darrellsmith3602 9 місяців тому +4

    1950’s traditions included local Drive-ins and cruising with car radios turned up loud!
    Neighborhood kids were virtually outside at all times (weather permitting) playing or especially with girls talking in groups!
    Most homes had one telephone usually positioned between the kitchen and living room! The average family had one car that dads would drive to work!
    TV shows were dominated by westerns and variety shows like Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, CId Ceaser and family shows like Father Knows Best, Ozzy & Harriet, Leave It to Beaver, I ❤ Lucy, The Honeymooners, Amos and Andy etc. and Detective Shows!
    All in B&W!
    I would trade today for that time period in a heartbeat!

  • @eddieraffs5909
    @eddieraffs5909 9 місяців тому +20

    The commenter said at the beginning of the video: "The 1950s when life seemed like it couldn't get much better"...It didn't get any better. It went down hill. Signed an 82 year old!

    • @Motherhubbard170
      @Motherhubbard170 8 місяців тому +2

      down all the way to hell, as pastor David Jeremiah says, "never thought we'd see what is happening "

  • @SpotTheBorgCat
    @SpotTheBorgCat 9 місяців тому +10

    I have to say, I love the outfits for women in the 1950's. The World War was over, so was rationing. That led to bigger, fuller skirts and a time of prosperity. A man's paycheck went farther than today due to fewer taxes.

    • @SpotTheBorgCat
      @SpotTheBorgCat 9 місяців тому +2

      @@Diana-yn2ho As well as the same dollar wasn't taxed 6 ways from Sunday, like it is now.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому +1

      The tax rates were high in the 50's. At the upper level the rich paid 70-90% in the Eisenhower years.

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 9 місяців тому +5

    Cat Eye glasses weren't the only holdover from the 50's. Beat poetry is alive & well, but know as poetry slams. Tupperware is still being sold, but mostly online.

  • @tiportangeles2696
    @tiportangeles2696 9 місяців тому +6

    I remember bullet bras! They were very uncomfortable.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +2

      When has that ever stopped Women's fashion . . . (?)

  • @Lanie_5D
    @Lanie_5D 9 місяців тому +26

    Bullet bras STILL look better than the push up hell of today and cat eye glasses look 1000000 times better than the huge blobs people wear today.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +5

      I spend a lot of time disentangling impressions I have of things. The combination of bullet bra + cat eye glasses . . . is one that is especially fascinating. I'm guessing it evokes some archetypal aesthetic or something . . .

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 9 місяців тому

      Just try to imagine Dolly Parton squeezing into a bullet bra...😂

    • @cindytrayer4279
      @cindytrayer4279 9 місяців тому +5

      I had to chuckle at your “huge blobs” description because that is so accurate and the perfect description! Lol

  • @mikegregory7844
    @mikegregory7844 9 місяців тому +7

    My dad would never leave the house without his hat or my mother without her white gloves if they were going to church.

  • @janeflip1
    @janeflip1 8 місяців тому +2

    Hah! 1960s! I just ordered an ant farm for my classroom!

    • @robmatlock7675
      @robmatlock7675 8 місяців тому

      Don't put fire ants in it, unless you are looking for a painful life experience. 😁

  • @juneyshu6197
    @juneyshu6197 9 місяців тому +10

    I said "guy dang," it was a childs curse word. Got in trouble.

    • @Brother_D_therail
      @Brother_D_therail 9 місяців тому +2

      😂 ha! Me too!

    • @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
      @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER 9 місяців тому +1

      I "gol-darned" and "gol-durned" a few things when I was a kid too. Don't remember getting in trouble. But then I knew when, where and whom to not do it around, plus I didn't do it very often. 😂

    • @cherylschantz9893
      @cherylschantz9893 8 місяців тому +1

      It was fudge brownie at our house.

  • @GeorgiannaMartin
    @GeorgiannaMartin 9 місяців тому +26

    My brother and I were playing Cowboys and Indians in the '50s. He tied me to the telephone pole, off the ground mind you, when our father pulled up!

    • @juneyshu6197
      @juneyshu6197 9 місяців тому +4

      Yikes!

    • @lovly2cu725
      @lovly2cu725 9 місяців тому +1

      😆😆😆😆😆

    • @SMac-bq8sk
      @SMac-bq8sk 9 місяців тому +1

      That is too funny!🤣

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому +4

      I wanted a Davy Crockett hat but never got one but did have a cap gun. Most of the time we just bought rolls of caps and hit each cap with a rock on the concrete in our driveway! It was fun!

    • @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
      @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER 9 місяців тому

      ​@@sandybruce9092As a kid, I put several caps in an old guys cigarettes. Several of them, at about 1/4 inch intervals. To try to illustrate to him the dangers of tobacco, lol. I was about 13, and my lectures about lung cancer, didn't seem to be sinking in. 😂

  • @kristensorensen2219
    @kristensorensen2219 9 місяців тому +10

    Happy days of simple pleasures and traditions; when innocence was normal before age 21.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому +2

      "Innocence"? In 50's there were plenty high school seniors who "had to" get married as soon as they graduated. Many couldn't purue their ambitions because they now had a family to raise while still in their teens. It was the other side of how much fun it was to go to drive in movies.

  • @gmaureen
    @gmaureen 8 місяців тому +1

    I still have a few pieces of Tupperware in my kitchen cabinet...but mine are from the 1970's. The old stuff was made really well. Not sure about the current products.

  • @matrox
    @matrox 9 місяців тому +5

    I was a toddler in the late 50s but I had a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and holster and cap gun.

  • @kathleenevans1201
    @kathleenevans1201 9 місяців тому +13

    My parents couldn't afford Tupperware.

    • @juneyshu6197
      @juneyshu6197 9 місяців тому +2

      Mine also.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 9 місяців тому +5

      They saved up the Coolwhip containers?

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 9 місяців тому +3

      They could afford Rubbermaid products which are cheaper and similar.

    • @kathleenevans1201
      @kathleenevans1201 9 місяців тому +1

      @xr6lad We didn't buy cool whip.

    • @kathleenevans1201
      @kathleenevans1201 9 місяців тому +1

      @glennso47 I don't remember my mother using Rubbermaid. But, with 5 of us, there wasn't much in the way of leftovers.

  • @joycemiraglia280
    @joycemiraglia280 8 місяців тому +1

    Hello...My first job in the 1960s was in a ladies and children's department store and it paid $.95¢ an hour and if I could sell one of those Exquisite Form bras you first started showing and describing in the video I could make an extra $.10¢ per each one. So I hustled to make that dime. I got the Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans cap guns and green cowgirl hat and vest with white vinyl fringe for girls at Christmas. I'm 78 by the way ha ha ha Oh yes, I had a Davy Crockett wallet cause I liked Fess Parker. Up and until about 1968-69 I still wore my white and colored gloves when getting dressed up. I also sold Tupperware for about 5 years. The new Tupperware of today I don't think is as good and I still own several pieces. Thank You for sharing these wonderful things from days gone by. Bye from Ohio🌹

  • @AFMMD-q8
    @AFMMD-q8 9 місяців тому +5

    Aww, wholesome women impeccably dressed, no tattoos or overweight, soft spoken and well mannered, gorgeous cars, thriving economy, burgers malts and hotdogs, affordable living at its finest, no social media, no cell phones no Kardashians Cardi B or ugly loud rap music.
    Oh, Lordy I wish I could get back in time to stay there and forget the 21st century.

    • @GFSTaylor
      @GFSTaylor 9 місяців тому

      Women who had to stay married, no matter how abusive their husbands were, because divorce was shameful or unaffordable.
      That's the reality.

    • @AFMMD-q8
      @AFMMD-q8 9 місяців тому +2

      @@GFSTaylor Well yes I agree, but my writing description (through my own experience, yes I’m old) the layback prosperous era and atmosphere, all those other troubles have always existed in all eras.

  • @phxrt3608
    @phxrt3608 9 місяців тому +4

    I really like reading the comments from people of this generation. They write in complete sentences, use periods at the end of sentences, etc. With comments from younger people, it's just one big paragraph of words that run together. You don't know what the end of one thought is, and the beginning of others. I don't like to think about what things will be like 50 years from now!

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 9 місяців тому +31

    I learned how to spell ENCYCLOPEDIA by watching the Mickey Mouse Club. Anyone else?

    • @jacksak
      @jacksak 9 місяців тому +1

      I learned how to milk cows and drive a tractor on our NH dairy farm.

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes! I had forgotten just where but I still spell it the way I learned! I loved the. I key Mouse Club and remember when Band Stand moved from Philly to LA - hurried home from school to watch!!

    • @lurch6404
      @lurch6404 8 місяців тому +1

      I was just singing that in my head a couple days ago! Someone on TV said something about a encyclopedia: 'Oh, the original internet.' 🦗

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 8 місяців тому

      I still have to sing it to,spell it correctly!!! It’s not stuck in my brain for a time😄😄😄

    • @eugenetalley7447
      @eugenetalley7447 8 місяців тому

      Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • @brainbombify
    @brainbombify 9 місяців тому +4

    Kind of interesting, those of us whose parents were born during this decade also experienced a lot of these things. Due to the fact are parents Experience them we experienced them through our parents even though I was born in 1982.

  • @HENSLEYMB
    @HENSLEYMB 9 місяців тому +5

    When I was in high school in the early 70,s, girls would wear their boyfriend’s senior ring if he had one. Sometimes boy and girl would exchange rings.
    I’m sure that there were girls that would wear a dog color on the socks to signify that they were dating some when they really weren’t. By this means boys/young men would not pitch their woes to the girl. Some teenage girls are not interested in dating or getting caught up in teen drama. Can’t say that I blame them.

  • @buckshot6481
    @buckshot6481 9 місяців тому +4

    Yeah my wife and friends still talk about the Tupperware parties 🥳

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision6143 9 місяців тому +1

    Even tho I wasn't even thought of until 1965 it's very interesting of seeing things in the past. Really enjoyed your very interesting video!

  • @tobiojo6469
    @tobiojo6469 9 місяців тому +1

    Awesome video

  • @GeorgiannaMartin
    @GeorgiannaMartin 9 місяців тому +4

    Thankfully, I was too young when the anklet band was popular!

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 9 місяців тому

      I’ve never seen or heard of that ankle band! Maybe it was an Eastern US thing - many styles, etc. never made it out to the wilds of Phoenix way back then😄

  • @neolithicnobody8184
    @neolithicnobody8184 9 місяців тому +12

    We called them Horn Rimmed Glasses instead of Cat Eye Glasses.

    • @linguaphile42
      @linguaphile42 9 місяців тому +4

      Those are two different things actually. Google them 🙂

    • @neolithicnobody8184
      @neolithicnobody8184 9 місяців тому +3

      @@linguaphile42 My Mom still has hers from back then and even she called them HRGs.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому

      @@neolithicnobody8184 Then your mom needs to google them . . .

    • @neolithicnobody8184
      @neolithicnobody8184 9 місяців тому +2

      @@QED_ My Mom is so old and blind, she can't even see the computer. However, I did do a search on it and it turns out that HRGs for women are called CEGs, but they are still HRGs. The term also depends on location, much like FIZZY DRINKS(pop, soda, Coke). Nonetheless, they are still HRGs.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 9 місяців тому +2

      @@neolithicnobody8184 Yes and no, I think. HRG . . . refers to the MATERIAL of the frames (thick plastic). CEG . . . refers to HRG with a certain SHAPE (upsweep at the upper edges). A woman's HRG might be a CEG . . . or it might not be. That's how Wikipedia explains it . . .

  • @adelechicken6356
    @adelechicken6356 8 місяців тому +3

    Poodle skirts and saddle shoes!😊

  • @almostfm
    @almostfm 9 місяців тому +2

    Those "bullet bras" were sometimes known as "Dagmars" (as were the rubber or chrome bumper extensions on cars of the same period, which had the same shape). There was an actress of the time known as "Dagmar" who had the same shape.

  • @nancywysemen7196
    @nancywysemen7196 8 місяців тому +2

    didn't know about the dog collar sock topper......

  • @joeheid2776
    @joeheid2776 9 місяців тому +5

    Most of this was before my time. But cap guns were huge in the 70's but not so much for westerns but for the cop shows that started to appear on tv.

  • @brendarico715
    @brendarico715 9 місяців тому +5

    ❤collecting green stamps and trading them in for prizes

  • @markdanielczyk944
    @markdanielczyk944 9 місяців тому +3

    In 1956 International Harvester introduced their V-8 engines for medium and heavy duty trucks.

  • @VonTeutoburg
    @VonTeutoburg 9 місяців тому +29

    I was born in '63 but many of these trends continued into the 60s. It amazes me how out of touch today's youth are with westerns and our old heroes like Crockett, Boone, the mountain men and gunslingers. I love the Fifties. Everything had a clean, professional, wholesome look. A buddy of mine who grew up in that time always says the Sixties created a significant downturn in our values.

    • @juneyshu6197
      @juneyshu6197 9 місяців тому +7

      Absolutely true.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 9 місяців тому +8

      As a Gen X born in 1966 so before much of this (and I don’t think I’m unusual) we learnt and were interested in previous generations history events music as well as our own generations music history events etc. You ask a millennial or zoomer today about something or mention something fairly historical and it’s a blank look or total disinterest in most about anything before they were born. I’m not surprised they think anything they do is done for the first time.

    • @grace7701
      @grace7701 9 місяців тому

      I was born in 77 but my 2 kids a boy (2000) and a girl (1998), grew up watching all the old westerns and still do. They had the cowboy and cowgirl outfits and the guns, and my son has his coon skin cap that he loved wearing. I still prefer to watch all the old westerns, and older shows.

    • @vicepresidentmikepence889
      @vicepresidentmikepence889 9 місяців тому +2

      Yes, I'm sure kids who grew up, in the fifties, were experts on 1880's culture😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 9 місяців тому +9

      @@vicepresidentmikepence889
      I think you’ll find that people were knowledgeable about the past in ways you can’t imagine. I wasn’t a teen until the late 70’s yet I know plenty about previous decades. In fact I knew about most of these and that was 20 year’s before my time. Maybe because I was brought up before computers and actually had to read.

  • @elviscobb5922
    @elviscobb5922 9 місяців тому +2

    The milkman back then stopped at almost everyone’s house.Maybe not every day but at least once a week. I also remember Diaper Service trucks being around in the 60’s but they only would go to homes where the family was middle class or above. My mom washed all of diapers herself.

    • @barrycunningham3242
      @barrycunningham3242 9 місяців тому +2

      Yes and Hellmans bakery wagon!

    • @elviscobb5922
      @elviscobb5922 9 місяців тому +1

      @@barrycunningham3242 Yes,now that you mentioned it, I remember that as well.

    • @thistlemoon1
      @thistlemoon1 9 місяців тому +1

      We had Mathis Dairy out of Decatur, Georgia. We moved 3 miles and couldn't get it anymore. It was so great.

  • @maureendrozda9960
    @maureendrozda9960 9 місяців тому +6

    I Was Partial To The Look Of Black Evening Dresses With Black See-Thru Lace On The Chest & Shoulders, Gloves & Of Course - PLATINUM Blonde Hair!

    • @Troublemaker1022-r9c
      @Troublemaker1022-r9c 9 місяців тому

      The bullet bra with a really nice tight sweater was kinda nice too.

  • @stratmaster5
    @stratmaster5 9 місяців тому +3

    Shouldn't it say that Davey Crockett wrestled bears with his human hands not his bear hands lol!

  • @brunobandiera2062
    @brunobandiera2062 9 місяців тому +2

    Fond memories of summer days spent down at the woods by the railroad tracks with my chums, marathon games of Livestock Management Technicians vs. Indigenous Warriors..... I had a Hopalong Cassidy outfit, black hat and vest. 😉

  • @Annymous7698
    @Annymous7698 9 місяців тому +12

    Green stamps

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 6 місяців тому +1

      Much more trustworthy than Cryptocurrency. 💱

  • @Sakja
    @Sakja 9 місяців тому +3

    I remember wearing crinolines under my skirt to make it wider. We always wore gloves when we got dressed up. Times have changed.

  • @thomasallen3818
    @thomasallen3818 9 місяців тому +3

    Nothing like going out with a girl for the first time, one you’ve been dying to date, who always wore tight sweaters and blouses with a bullet bra. Only to find out that she stuffed her bra with Kleenex tissues. lol

  • @oreally8605
    @oreally8605 9 місяців тому +21

    Morality, decency, love of God & country, yeah, those things were definitely in the 50's. This is why "Trad" wives are so popular now. Generation Z is craving morality, and normality for alot of them.

    • @ghabcdef
      @ghabcdef 9 місяців тому

      The Mafia ruled the cities with the explicit permission of the FBI, horrific violence was perpetrated against anyone who even remotely opposed the ruling class, McCarthyism ruled. The folks who lived like this were a minority... and their equivalents are living charmed lives even now. It is just that neither you nor I are invited to the party.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому

      Most young women today work. In fact, women now outnumber men as graduates of law school. I think any popularity of "trad" wives is confined to places where women don't have the opportunites to advance themselves.

  • @DosBear
    @DosBear 9 місяців тому +4

    I guess are there are a couple of people from the 50's that may still be alive but not many. Most would be in there 80's now. The one major thing you forgot was the Black Leather jackets and the Brylcream the young men used to comb their hair back like in the movie Lord's of Flatbush as well a Letterman Jackets for the jocks.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc 9 місяців тому +2

      Jeans with rolled up cuffs and cigarettes in a fold in the tee shirt sleeve. Rebel Without a Cause. The 50's were not all "innocence". The Kinsey Report came out in the 1950's and it described an incredible variety of sexual pratices that were much more common than anyone might think.

    • @DosBear
      @DosBear 9 місяців тому +1

      @@hewitc Yes, describes my Father to a tee. ;)

  • @PenelopePeppers
    @PenelopePeppers 9 місяців тому +7

    Ahh....The Good Ol' Days 😁

  • @cherylschantz9893
    @cherylschantz9893 8 місяців тому +2

    Never heard of the dog collar thing.

  • @marvinpineda8693
    @marvinpineda8693 9 місяців тому +1

    Stationary service boxes?? Half-enclosed rail menus at lunch diners?? Frosted glitter on pale cyan with double-emboss aluminum countertops??

  • @MajesticMe429
    @MajesticMe429 7 місяців тому

    I wasn't born till 1960. But my oldest sister was born in 1950.
    I enjoyed the video. 👍❤️