I was born in 1961. I really miss the simplicity of life then. We really appreciated the little we had. My Dad worked 2 jobs and my Mom stayed home and took care of me and my 3 brothers. There were problems then, but life overall was happy, content, and minimalist. We had a wall mounted kitchen phone with a party line. You had to speak into the receiver and nicely tell the other people talking that shared your line that you needed to make a phone call. My Mom made a lot of our clothes. My cousins would send over clothes they had outgrown and we would get really excited seeing them. Every fall, school started in September, we got one pair of new shoes. Brown leather loafers, usually Buster Brown brand. I used to put my next to the bed and lean over at look at them everynight before school started. We were poor, but we were blessed. My parents and one brother are gone. How I wish I could go back 50 years and share dinner with everyone again. 😔
Gotta give them props. Even 50 years ago this video made a point of it to advocate adopting a puppy from a shelter instead of buying from a store. Love it.
This reminds me of my mom and dad . She was a stay-at-home mom with three kids and my dad provided well for us . We weren't rich , but we always had enough . I'm so glad she was at home after school every day .
Same with me. Stay at home Mom three kids my Dad went to work as an engineer. Only got paid once a month. That last week my Mom made breakfast suppers, spaghetti, creamed eggs on toast to make the food budget stretch.
What a different world it was compared to today. A time when you could raise a family with one income, no cell phones or video games, no school shootings, Anerican made with quality, etc.. It wasn't a perfect time but the simplicities compared to today had so much more value to it. We've taken so much for granted and so many things are lost and can't even be imagined, let alone appreciated by today's generations. I loved the cars and how everyone cared about looking decent. This was a fun video to watch.
Just 4 yrs later, an ex-marine, after killing his wife and mother, would take his weapons to the top of the University of Texas’ clock tower and shoot 43 students, visitors and staff, killing 13. Don’t kid yourself, our country’s unique economics, ideas and fostered hate brought a lot of violence. We just didn’t have ready access to what was going on across the nation.
I grew up in the home that I inherited from my parents. Yes it is a 1960s ranch house. No regrets because I had two parents and my grandmother lived with us plus my granddad was next door. I loved them dearly and they raised me to be thrifty. What a blessing.
@@nathanjustus6659 that isn't the whole story though. Back then a little frugality could let you raise a family on a paycheck and still put money away for a vacation, or a car, or any other number of things. Nowadays you can be even more frugal than that, but a single average income still isn't enough to afford even a small house (and forget about a family, let alone any of the other things I mentioned). Average pay was just higher compared to the cost of living back then. That started to change in the 80s when people like Reagan and Thatcher managed to convince multiple generations of western society that if they only let private industry hoover up more and more and more of the wealth, it would totally, definitely, absolutely trickle back down. It's been four decades and counting, and we're still living with the consequences of that myth.
Yep..Remember, the dollar was worth about 12 times what it is today.. In 65' my neighbor bought a brand new Mustang convertible for about $2,400.00. A one-paycheck family was the normal thing.
But the ad said "plus transportation." Flying was MUCH more expensive, relatively speaking, in the 60's. A flight to the Bahamas was probably $250 a head, which was like a month's salary. Most trips today are a steal in today's dollars, with airfare included.
Back when folks were genuine and appliances were made with the same care and precision as an aircraft. I wish I had the pleasure of growing up in those times
Now it's all glue pressed sawdust that brakes after three disassemblies. Good thing i inherit our family table and bench/chairs. All solid pine with only two screws underneath the table. Rest is held together by these wooden thingies - s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7c/94/21/7c9421e2c04d689ce28468da90f78420.jpg This furniture set lasted throughout my childhood. With scratchmarks and other abuses.
Enclave Soldier i recently bought a bed and nightstand made of solid pine. well majority made of pine lol. its nice and looks nicer, but man pine is a softwood and dents SO EASILY
What a lovely video. I'm 23 and I've always been interested in this kind of stuff. It's kind of sad that back then everyone dressed so nicely (suits and ties, hats, gloves, etc) and now people will just put on a ratty tee shirt.
At 21:45 is my elementary school, Conant Elementary, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I was really suprised to see my old playground and kindergarten classroom on the screen. Had to go back to verify.
This is such a nice video on the important role of women! A mother who works at home is a working woman, and that is a great job ! The pay may not be top tier , but the benefits are out of this world. God bless every mother , and woman that takes care of their family , either at home , or at another workplace! Thanks
Back when every CEO, Congressman and Senator weren’t multimillionaires. When you produce goods, the wealth is spread more evenly. When you outsource production, the profits go to shareholders. After that your economy collapses and then the cycle restarts.
It was certainly a big change from the gilded era and decades of increasing financial inequality that led up to the Great Depression and WW2. The world depicted is the Bretton-Woods agreement era, where income was much better distributed through deliberate policy. It lasted up to about the Nixon era. It existed as a response to the threat of communism. The USA in particular was determined not to give their people any reason to be tempted to embrace it through experiencing anything like 'the grapes of wrath' again. This clip reflects that time. It was the year of Kennedy, the Berlin Wall, Project Mercury, ICBMs, the Domino Theory, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Crisis, and Duck and Cover. There was good reason to create an environment in which people felt free, secure, happy and optimistic, in spite of the existential threats. Potential risks (like the growing power and competition of the USSR) were turned into something positive, like "By the end of this decade, we will put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth". Sadly, since the 80s, we're gradually evolved back again to most wealth being held by a minority, while the majority can't afford to cover a $400 emergency. It is now much more characterised by a pessimistic view in which everything is a threat over which people have little control. Power is derived mostly from exploiting all sorts of fears and risks. That works best when there is a genuine core of truth in whatever nightmare is in vogue.
if I could get the young people to learn ONE thing from my 65 years experience, it would be to save all you can for retirement...old age comes so quickly...I learned it too late, even tho my parents warned me this day would come
You are so right! I told this to my two children early. My daughter is 20 and my son 29. They both understand that they have to save early for later on in life. I wish that they were taught this in school. My parents never taught me this and it's too late for me but I'll be damned if it's too late for my kids.
@Sheri451 Take it from someone who was there - I was 10 years old in 1962, and in the 1950's and early 60's, the typical American suburb was as close to heaven on earth as you can get. Back then, me and all my friends had a stay-at-home mom, and a dad who came home to dinner every day. I don't remember a single kid whose parents were divorced. In the summer, we left our houses in the morning, and roamed the neighborhood all day long, without our parents having anything to worry about.
amateurphilosopher, lucky you😀❤️....we weren’t so lucky. It just wasn’t as common as it is today. My grandma was widowed, then divorced and was a single mom to my mom and uncle. My mom couldn’t raise me. I was a state ward. It wasn’t all heaven in the 60’s.
@@invisiblepinkunicorn7626 Me too. :-( From poverty-stricken broken home--troubled single parent household-very shame-based and very very stressful times. Ended up in bad foster home for a while. Praise the Lord Jesus saved me as a teen in 1972--not sure I would have survived otherwise (now in my 60s). ✝💚
Great documentary. I remember the Corvair at 10:00. My Dad bought one the first year they came out. It was in the shop at least three times in 12 months. It was a lemon. He traded it in for another Chevy after owning it for only 13 months. He stayed a “Chevy man” though and, at age 92 today, owns a Chevy. Love the hats, gloves, and firs. We really did dress up a lot in the 50s and 60s.
When I was very small I'd talk a great deal with elders who grew-up in the 1800's. Not city folk either; so a great many of them were even a century behind city life; the 'big' city, not town. Man the history I learned was so exciting; history long before movies. Life then was a world away from today. Washing, laundry, shopping, 'refrigeration' and cooking, school, travel, communication. And many people made thier own clothes. When the sewing machine came out, it was every bit as revolutionary as the automobile. OH and dating; intense romance was escaping to the summer shade of that old oak tree, to share some fresh baked corn bread, some closeness and a few looks and snickers. This whole idea is so bizarre to contemporary life. I guess I'm just kinda glad that those days mean as much to me as the 10 minute relationship of today. Kinda troublesome though; STD's, pregnancy, and an old flame that will tattoo your head with a steel bar. Were things worse, were they better, were they neither one - just different. Life, no matter what, may change, but it will forever cut both ways. Literally everything was very different. And the reason that things weren't so bad was frankly living WAS easier, living held to an altogether different meaning, practice, and experience. Plus, that's all anyone knew. If someone could be magically transported from our current living styles, and spend maybe just a single day in the world of your-own elders, even just, say, six or so generations behind you, when you did get back here, you'd probably be spending the next 365 days wrapped in bandages suffering from terminal culture-shock. I think people generally have trouble with change because it introduces a certain vulnerability, I think that a great deal of it is simply that. Well, maybe not simply.
The year I was born. I remember my mother wearing white gloves, and I remember those cars. But was it really as simple as this film suggests? I guess it's fun to romanticize the past like this. Some day, they will do the same about our age.
+ddoyle11 The facts speak for them self. The average household income in the 1950s was $5000 per year and the average house cost $5000. So this meant that aggressive personal finance could enable even factory workers to own a home. Women had a choice of either staying at home with the child or fo out and work if they decided to do so. Credit cards were only considered short term credit such as one month and saving was considered normal practise. People were married in their 20 with children. By the 1960s this was the norm but there was one big problem looming that would increase taxes and that was welfare. Up to 50% of the taxes you pay today is for welfare. That is the reason why the higher tax rate has gone from 25% to 39%. Even the very poor pay taxes.
+bighands69 Plus, the biggest thing, we went to the doctor and he came to US and we paid cash and, even though it wasn't cheap, everyone could afford it because the health insurance scam hadn't removed the consumer relationship between doctor and patient yet. Now we have 10 times the gadgets, 10 times the divorce rate and 1/10 the peace, 1/10 the community, and 1/10 the sense of purpose. Even with fear of the 'Rooskies,' we still knew we were living in an amazing time and were blessed. You're absolutely right: the facts speak for themselves.
+ddoyle11 I think the film _idealized_ that time more than _romantized_ it. As I remember; we knew what was portrayed on television wasn't exactly happening in real life, but like in the Ozzie & Harriet Show, it was an ideal to strive for and work towards, there certainly wasn't anything wrong in that.
Wow your mom wore white gloves? I guess that may have been regional. I was born in 61in southern CA and my mom never did any such thing. Things were this simple. Almost every mom in my neighborhood was a stay at home mom, we played outside, walked without fear to the Stop & Go... spent weekends at the beach... parked for free. Life is what you make it I guess, but with double the people on the planet its more difficult to achieve.
3:00 .... That's how I remember my mom's face when my brothers and I was asking for something that was not in the budget. You know what people... I still grow up happy and I love to remember them good old times on the playground. No money but lots of friends ,adventure and lots of fantasy....
Life hasn't changed at all. It's just a dream of some idealic past that never existed. I'm 71 and I grew up during this time interval and things may be different today but no better.
+Gina231329 it's called not being old and bitter. This person clearly isn't old and bitter. They have better things to do than complain about "this generation".
With the Korean War just over, Russia and the US having Nuclear bombs pointed at each other. Poverty much more severe than it is today. It was marvelous:(They didn't have the Social programs they have today. It wasn't worse, just no better.
+Milk Prince Didn't say he was old and bitter. And while 'the good ol' days weren't always good', (war, poverty, racism, I get it) kids were more respectful of adults, men were men, and overall people were more disciplined, polite, and gracious. Now people are so fake and weak and overly sensitive and quick to be offended and to make issues out of non issues. I wish I were alive during the times when people were tougher and more genuine.
A well done video of the days I grew up.....I rememeber living in this era....My Grandmother and Mother were always dressed, in the late 50's and the country manufactured everything. Quality and made to last and everyone was working>>>>>Those days are gone forever..
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 This was not fantasy. It was real life. We were well dressed in the 60s. My dad was a school teacher and the sole bread winner with 5 children. My mom was a housewife. We were well dressed every day. See my 1960s family movie @ ua-cam.com/video/CJkJaoRdotY/v-deo.html
Notice how she didn't belittle her husband when he was being cheap trying to find the free parking and running the gas to empty. She smiles as if to say I still love him despite his faults....
What she bought also depended on how much her husband made at his job. that's why she budgeted so well. Had to think about what she bought and not just throw it in the shopping cart.
I recall watching Jam Handy Organization films in the classroom back in the 60's. Even then this film was a kind of a gilding the lily and making the life in America appear a bit more perfect than it was. Compared to what we have doing down now in the USA I would say the times depicted in this film were like heaven.
Sure what's to explain? If you were a black woman the opportunities were minimal and in many places it was heavily segregated, if you were a white woman then better to have no ambition outside to be a homemaker and with luck find a husband that won't beat you or cheat on you because no one is going to help you. Tbh most of my aunts that grew up like this and had this kind of live hated it they were alone and worked as beast then raped because who cares for sexual education right? In the outside looks good but I prefer the freedom to support myself and take my own desktops also in the 50 and big part of th 60 women weren't allowed to have bank accounts independent from their husbands
True, as I watched my divorced mother struggle in the early 70s. As for blacks, much of that was due to racism that was more rampant then. But today, the people have chosen another class of person to dub as not fully human and also personal property. That too is an arbitrary judgment that results in the murdering of over 3,000 preborn children every single day here. It is striking to me that the offspring of the same political cult that once declared blacks not fully human now say the same about the preborn.
+Pastor Matthew You have a serious point there - and were wise in your delivery - it's not neatly put into a "classification" called "Political Party" -
I hear you. I just wish I could have lived as a teen in the 50s or first half of the 60s --even with the problems those societies had. What we have today is a nightmare. By the way, I'd recommend the full length (except for the last part) version of The Parent Trap (1961), that you can see here at UA-cam. I know you'd really enjoy it.
It's funny. I was a little girl in the 60's but all I seemed to remember most of my life were the good times. Now that I'm old, some of the not-so-good things are coming back to me. Ours was not an Ozzy and Harriet household.
One thing I did like about this film is that it did show the importance of the female role during that time. I could have done without seeing the woman in the fur and gloves who was shopping for fabric because she sure as hell wasn't going to go home and make clothes for the kids. My parents (with 5 kids) were not rich but we ALWAYS had everything we needed - applause should go there 👏🏻 because I don't know how they were able to do it. I'm sure I'm not the only one with parents of that ilk Edit: And my mother never wore heels to the grocery store
It's funny how these films taught people how to save money. Saving money was a sales pitch for everything. Now it's spend spend spend. No money? No problem? Finance it for 18% interest!
1930s more like, since the knock on effects of the Depression were only felt hard in that decade. That said, frugal culture spawned from the Depression may still be alive and well at the time since the generations that were born around the height the Depression are now in the workforce and raising families.
It wasn't perfect then, but on the postive side, people wanted to be a good citizen. A good citizen paid their taxes, kept their yards clean and neat, gave to charities, and helped their fellow man. These days people are nothing but selfish, whining brats, who cry when they have to pay taxes, yet at the same time expect perfect roads and schools.
although, I love classics cars too, the cars of today can go many more miles 100,000 on those old cars was a death sentence, now 200,000 isn't the end.
His name was Jamison, hence the "Jam" part. It was right down the street from the Fisher Bldg where GM's headquarters are. Odd for Jam Handy to not include Detroit area scenes which I do not see here.
1962- Nice symphonic weave-in of the "See the USA in your Chevrolet" jingle there near the end- (for those of you not old enough to recognize the music!)
I do believe this short film ,(a jewel of a film), does reflect the spirit of life back then . Today , evil is good and good is evil . Just think if the family unit was still that strong today and children were taught morles and values that are clearly being conveyed in this film .
The youngest red head boy is Bobby Brady from the Brady Bunch. They died his hair black for the show but the later episodes as a teen he had his natural color.
I was there also, I was 8 in 1962....the cars and the homes were exactly as this video portrays.....Our neighborhoods were safe and our Country was very proud and solid with growth....constant prosperity. Women dressed with great style and everyone dressed very neatly, clothes were made to fit properly. The American Manufacturing Era was Everywhere....Everything was made in this country and with absolute Quality. Families went to Church and ate meals together, always. The true American Days.
Redhead genes often skip a generation or show up later. My dad was blond and mom is a redhead--her brunette parents had 7 kids, all gingers except for the middle boy, who got his parents' dark brown hair. I was blond as a child but my hair turned red as I got older, the only one of my siblings. The rest were blonds except for--the middle boy, who has dark brown hair.
lohphat both my mom and dad had dark hair, I was a red head! My grandpas brother was a red head, when people asked my mom where I got my red hair she always said the milk man!!
+mindsaglowin : And nobody neutered their pets. Puppies and kittens all over. Getting run over by cars. When they were taken to the shelter, they were killed en masse in decompression chambers. The good old days.
gumshoesoul, we agree that the boomers are awful (I’m gen-x), but I really have to question your premise that their parents were wonderful people. What do you think turned the boomers into a bunch of divorced, substance abusing narcissists? Most boomers I personally know had very abusive parents. The WWII generation had ptsd from the Great Depression and the war I guess. The family depicted in this video did not really exist, except for a very few people. It’s a national myth.
Zoroku Zoroark he said he wants things to be made in america,and not 3rd world countries. for that you need educated population, that can make and operate machines, that will do the work instead of chinese and indian children.
Yeah. Now a woman is shamed for taking care of her family. That's a daycares responsibility🤤🤡💩. No wonder the drug n crime rates went up. The majority have been raised by TV's, movies, music, public education system, and daycares.. And the house is a pig sty when someone isnt always taking care and maintaining... It's sad.. 🙄
@@MaryJane-qq9mm - Someone? Or forcing all females to this one narrow role. Not any males, ever. Not giving any choice. Assigned to this one, unappreciated role to all females. It was not a better system. Mothers and parents should get better social (governmental) support for being the molders of future generations. It's a critical role for both mothers and fathers. As long as it takes two incomes to just barely get by, the children will get shortchanged. Eliminate the obscene wealth gap that currently exists and we could have a better family life where children are tended to adequately by both parents as well as grandparents and "the village" as well.
@@MaryJane-qq9mm I've been a stay-home mom, a working mom, and a single working mom. No one "shamed" me at any time. Maybe the people you surround yourself with are just dicks. And FYI, both of my children are gainfully employed, productive citizens with no criminal records or drug use--despite the fact that I mostly raised them alone.
Just love these kind of old narrated jewels . Back when homes were family and church oriented . When the middle class truley ruled . The mindset was so simple and life was grand . God was with this country then . The true definition of a woman to be desired but rare today ! Proverbs 31
But then we invaded a bunch of other countries for no good reasons other than to tell them how to run their country and commercialize their resources, and God decided at that point, he wasn't with us anymore.
@@kiwitrainguy They're showing how cute and sweet everything is. They all perfectly love each other. Now they are going to buy their daughter a puppy because she wants one. When Elvis in the 50's started shaking his hips all this phony baloney started breaking down.
My mom has shoulder length hair and bangs; she's never been able to grow her hair out very long. I have long hair and prefer it that way; it's about waist length and I'm trying to get it to grow as long as it used to be but it's hard with 'fine' type hair as I go thru a lot of detangler just to keep it manageable; that and I had to take prednisone for a couple weeks and lost hair by the handful. I've yet to get it back but I'll keep trying.
I.m sorry to tell you but I am a Baby Boomer and I brought my kids up in the late 70s and into the 80s. This is my parent's post-war household you are showing!
How unusual that wives and mothers would be recognized in 1962. My mother did indeed control the family finances and managed to find room for a lot of extras such as a travel trailer for weekend trips She worked full time and kept everything going even when her mother and mother-in-law had to move in with us at the same time! I guess that's just what you did then. This whole video is such a trip down memory lane...How I wish things were the same today. I didn't realize how much my mother(and father) did for us. We did have it good, and probably the last generation who had a better lifestyle than their parents. The world was open to us...what did we really do to improve it? Thank's Mom and Dad---sorry kids. That's why we end up in nursing homes now.
We used to watch these films in grade school! We would go to the librairy and they put reels on a projector. The libairy was the only air conditioned place jn the building.
The quality of life was much better back then.. People did productive things.. There was no internet and no smart phones to look down at all the time or Facebook to be on all the time.. No big technology to take peoples' jobs.. You learned something and you worked hard back in those days, and it paid off.. The world in the recent years has become very superficial.. I mean look at the garbage music coming out these days.. No talents in anything, anyone can sing with auto tune... And the music, all they sing about is sex, and the top 40 music consists of music that belongs on the street in a ghetto.. I think even the 90s was a better age than today.. I wish I was around in the 50s.. I didn't come until the late 70s, and I even though the 80s was a very good decade..
+vintageceilingfans Oh internet, computers and smartphones are horrible and people waste time on it, that's why you are watching a video from the internet in one of those devices...
+vintageceilingfans . Indeed, America at her best BEFORE the late 1960's The beginning of late 1960's when sex revolution. hippie cultures, homosexual revolution, radical feminist movement started, that how the decay of America started. Up to mid 1960's God was still greatly honored in our beloved USA. Men were men, Women were women. One-income household was more enough to build a middle class family back then. You earned what you got, back then. You put a good quality of workmanship to your job. The cars that were produced by the big three were the good ones, not like the junks that we see today. The movies were wholesome. God was not allowed to be mocked in the movie. Yes, the 1980's were better than today. But even the 1980's or even the 1970's, America was already in serious decay. As a naturalized US citizen, I love America with all my heart, but Americans are so eager to pave their own destruction. Americans are not willing to repeat what was working in the past, but they are so eager to follow any directions that will accelerate their decay such as: abortion, gay marriage, depending on government assistance, having out of wedlock babies, teaching the youngsters immorality by distributing condoms in the grade schools, mocking Christianity, glorifying liberal political correctness etc etc etc. America will NOT survive much longer, if its citizenry are so very eager to follow the roads of destruction. Any prosperity that America is still having now is a residual of the prosperity that was created by the previous generations, i.e.the generations of America before the late 1960's.
I understand your point. But these devices as a whole have indeed made us incredibly stupid. Ever read the comments on facebook? I canceled my account 10 months ago. Do people REALLY need to check their email now? Why can't people remember phone numbers anymore? Why don't people know how to get anywhere anymore? How about sitting at a dinner table at a restaurant? People don't even talk to each other anymore. It's pathetic the way people behave these days. That was the mans point above yours and I agree even more than he does with himself.
Actually mechanization was taking people's jobs even then - where do you think the savings from mass production came from? But because people WERE literate, could read, write, and understand, they could get new jobs. At this point, most college graduates are only semi-literate.
Because it was the hippies who said "Destroy the dominant culture!" "Bring it all down!" and they have. Who do you think is in power in government now? If you were 20 in 1975 (hippie time) you are 62 now - and in power in government. The sixties were the cancer that destroyed a great civilization.
+bdh70 my family had a 1955 plymouth, Savoy, 4 door in 1962....manual 3 speed transmission, no rugs, no radio, no air conditioning, no seat belts. We would take 1000 mile road trips to visit my grandmother in the mid west (in july). It was like being in an oven for 2 days.
+inkey2 : Remember the hot vinyl care seats? OMG. AC in a car was the windows that would roll down. Sucked if you were caught in a traffic jam in summer.
+Agent Fungus OHHH yeah, hot sticky vinyl seats. At least there were the tiny "butterfly side windows" you could open to get some air circulation.....but even those were gone by like 1972. Air conditioning was not even standard in cars till the mid/late 1970s. I think AMC was the first car company to have AC as standard equipment
inkey2 : Oh, the "wing windows." Cars started to rattle about 6 months after they were new. Hey, I was a teen during the 70s muscle car era. Cruised a lot. But those gas guzzling monsters rusted out within a couple of years. Sucked gas and leaked oil. My first car was a '73 Gremlin. That's how I met my husband. He sold it to me. The damn thing broke down every week and we got together to take it apart, replace parts, and put it back together. Such bonding. Cars were so simple back then. They broke down frequently, but you could always fix them yourself &/or with friends.
My Father (born 1954) and I (1984) both learned how to cook & continue to do so on my Grandmother's (born 1921) built in GE Electric Range. Built to last was no joke, & it was her pride & joy.
I remember the days (up until the mid-60s) when most high schools had gun clubs - people thought nothing of seeing a kid carrying a rifle down a school hallway.
And everyone drove a pickup with a rifle in the gun rack in the rear window. No one thought anything of it because no one who mattered then was a snowflake.
amateurphilosopher : I grew up in Pennsylvania and even in the 1980s , we went to 6th grade camp and had to shoot a rifle & bow n arrow 😂 No way we could do that today with liability 😂
I enjoy these. Simply seeing how the THINGS in the videos looked when new is fascinating. The crowds of well-behaved children, lack of traffic, newly built infastructure. hard to believe it was real.
The good old 60's. 'duck and cover', nuclear arms race, race riots, cars that would kill you in a minor collision, a river on fire, few antibiotics, iron lungs etc etc. I grew up in those days and I am happy where I am.
You know,back then everything was still mostly still new and developing and their problems where real problems. These days willful ignorance and stupidty reigns and our problems are made up by the power hungry,bored,stupid,and the ignorant. Information wise,we live in such great times to learn from the past and present and hope one of the generations after the boomers takes the world back on the right path again.
I see the first comment right below mine about shopping for food during the 60’s. I was born in 1951 into a 5 person home-(including me)! I remember going with her to grocery shop. She could fill her shopping cart with enough food to feed 5 people and it would only cost her $25.00. And that $25.00 gave us 3 real meals per day, with some sort of salad for the dinner and supper meals and also a dessert of some kind! Today $25’.00 won’t get you much at all!
Florida Gal I was born in 1951 also. My folks owned a small house, we had a new car every 3 years, my mother stayed home, we only went out to eat about once a month, attended church every week. And we always had plenty of nice clothes, Christmas with loads of gifts, and a two week vacation every year, traveling by car all over the Western United States. All this and I think my father made about $15,000 a year! I had a wonderful childhood with tons of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents’ farms to visit. I had it all. Such memories!
~ $25.00 in 1951 is worth : What was $25 in 1951 worth in today's money? Adjusted for inflation, $25.00 in 1951 is equal to $256.97 in 2020. Annual inflation over this period was 3.43%. You can definitely put some good meals on the table with that including a salad🥗 and a 🍨🎂dessert. 😋 Today ✅
Junior's little trip to the ER wouldn't be the food budget for the whole year. Even with insurance now, I just pray. The slogan should be: "one job should be enough." Many single people are working two jobs just to keep a roof over the head, and in some areas can't do even that. And what is our government doing? improving things for the one percenters. And an edit: this was produced by chevy, the unmistakable theme starts at 22:52. Even corporations had a conscience back then.
Jaynie Nowell-Snoke don’t be ignorant Jaynie....we just shocked they showed black people because there wasn’t enough representation of blacks on tv back in the 50s and 60s. Or even more further back. And you know that, so stop being a bitch...bitch😑
@jaynie nowell-stoke and @dolly joseph. I hate to have to say it, but I think the both of you could benefit from watching an educational film from 1953 called “Mind Your Manners.” Please don’t think that I mean to reprove you, because, even though I am an old man, and thought that I had good manners, I can see that, in fact, I sometimes show bad manners myself. So I hope you enjoy it! Godspeed!
Darius Daguerre I don’t have “bad manners” Darius. Just stating this ignorant White woman straight. So take my name off your comment. Thanks and have a good day
lol...I've owned my 1960s speed queen wringer/washer machine for about 5 months now and I will tell you, I love it. Its made in America 55 years ago and works perfectly!
I thought it was funny when they showed the metal sink. That design has been around forever. Pretty much every house built in the 90's has a kitchen faucet exactly like the ones they show here.
Stainless steel sinks are very practical. As long as you don't drop something real heavy in them, they can look brand new forever. Porcelain sinks suck.
Thank you someone who actually gets it, these are just commercial, everyone else seems to think it was perfecgt back then, like teenagers were respectful and didn't act cool or something, they rebellious and I know there were greasers, and they rolled there cigarettes up in their sleeve, and had ducks ass hairstyles, and you wouldn't believe the slang the teens used back then, and cool cars and hot rods, and rock'n'roll, not to long after the lste 50's/early 60's era hippies came around.
I love how they oh-so-subtly worked in the Chevrolet theme toward the end, among the patriotic themes. I'm not knocking it, that's how it's done. "See the USA, in your Chevrolet." I bet that flew right over the heads of most viewers back in the day, or now. However, subconsciously it registers. Brilliant marketing.
As someone who was born in 2004, l can confirm this really was an amazing genaration and l really wished to live in these years but in the same time l can't live without internet.
Don't worry, I was born in 1979 and I can't live without the internet either 😂 I don't use social media other than UA-cam and that's a great way to have a taste of a simpler life.
I was born in 1966, my mother 1943, she tells me about growing up in the 50s when I ask and she says for the most part it was decent. Her immediate family though made it difficult because my grandfather, her father, ruled the household with an iron fist. That was her words. The music, the movies was good she said and she wrote in to fan clubs for actors, etc. She got an autographed photo back from Tab Hunter, I saw it. She told me once she was out on the beach on a blanket and 2 photogs came.
@Dave Shaffer Needless to say that I wasn't surprised when I clicked on your profile that it said: This channel has no content. What is it with people criticizing that which they would never dare to attempt? Why do you have to says this sucks? First of all it doesn't--it's fascinating to go back in time--but it's also rude af. I wonder what is the matter with people that they think like this.
I was born in 1961. I really miss the simplicity of life then. We really appreciated the little we had. My Dad worked 2 jobs and my Mom stayed home and took care of me and my 3 brothers. There were problems then, but life overall was happy, content, and minimalist. We had a wall mounted kitchen phone with a party line. You had to speak into the receiver and nicely tell the other people talking that shared your line that you needed to make a phone call. My Mom made a lot of our clothes. My cousins would send over clothes they had outgrown and we would get really excited seeing them. Every fall, school started in September, we got one pair of new shoes. Brown leather loafers, usually Buster Brown brand. I used to put my next to the bed and lean over at look at them everynight before school started. We were poor, but we were blessed. My parents and one brother are gone. How I wish I could go back 50 years and share dinner with everyone again. 😔
Beautiful . 1964 here with similar circumstances.
❤
The good old days
I could watch things like this all day. Helps with my anxiety for.some reason
teresa duffy That’s because they only show the “happy” bits of life, but mostly the voice over is very soothing. I like it too, for the same reason. 😊
teresa duffy it’s soothing n relaxing .. lol I do same thing
Because simplicity is better
You would had really enjoyed living it.no pills needed
acgillespie that deep. Don’t his comment fly over y’all heads .
Gotta give them props. Even 50 years ago this video made a point of it to advocate adopting a puppy from a shelter instead of buying from a store. Love it.
Even then pure breed dogs were expensive. The pound was way cheaper.
It's so much worse now people are getting all the designer dogs ( cats too ) and keep breeding going which is horrible for animals
I'm glad they added getting an animal from the animal shelter instead of pet store, It's a better option in most cases.
Great comment. Thank you for pointing that out.
How you doing
Always adopt. Don't shop.
Do you get the woman from a shelter too?
I too noticed and appreciated that choice!
This reminds me of my mom and dad . She was a stay-at-home mom with three kids and my dad provided well for us . We weren't rich , but we always had enough . I'm so glad she was at home after school every day .
And we were contented and happy.
Same with me. Stay at home Mom three kids my Dad went to work as an engineer. Only got paid once a month. That last week my Mom made breakfast suppers, spaghetti, creamed eggs on toast to make the food budget stretch.
Sad how it’s almost impossible nowadays
What a different world it was compared to today. A time when you could raise a family with one income, no cell phones or video games, no school shootings, Anerican made with quality, etc.. It wasn't a perfect time but the simplicities compared to today had so much more value to it. We've taken so much for granted and so many things are lost and can't even be imagined, let alone appreciated by today's generations. I loved the cars and how everyone cared about looking decent. This was a fun video to watch.
Just 4 yrs later, an ex-marine, after killing his wife and mother, would take his weapons to the top of the University of Texas’ clock tower and shoot 43 students, visitors and staff, killing 13. Don’t kid yourself, our country’s unique economics, ideas and fostered hate brought a lot of violence. We just didn’t have ready access to what was going on across the nation.
I grew up in the home that I inherited from my parents. Yes it is a 1960s ranch house. No regrets because I had two parents and my grandmother lived with us plus my granddad was next door. I loved them dearly and they raised me to be thrifty. What a blessing.
People in the time were also very, very frugal which is how they did it.
@@nathanjustus6659 that isn't the whole story though. Back then a little frugality could let you raise a family on a paycheck and still put money away for a vacation, or a car, or any other number of things. Nowadays you can be even more frugal than that, but a single average income still isn't enough to afford even a small house (and forget about a family, let alone any of the other things I mentioned). Average pay was just higher compared to the cost of living back then. That started to change in the 80s when people like Reagan and Thatcher managed to convince multiple generations of western society that if they only let private industry hoover up more and more and more of the wealth, it would totally, definitely, absolutely trickle back down. It's been four decades and counting, and we're still living with the consequences of that myth.
This should be mandatory viewing for anyone unfamiliar with this era prior to watching the TV show Mad Men. This was wonderful, thank you for sharing!
The one Black lady looked a LOT like my mom in those days; she was very beautiful and dressed like Jackie Kennedy.
I’m sure she was absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful American woman
Wes McGee yep!!!! Women looked SO lovely then!!!
Kele Beck she certainly WAS!!! 😊
La Rosa 🌹😊
I wish I too could go to the Bahamas for a week for just $71.50!
Yep..Remember, the dollar was worth about 12 times what it is today..
In 65' my neighbor bought a brand new Mustang convertible for about $2,400.00.
A one-paycheck family was the normal thing.
But the ad said "plus transportation." Flying was MUCH more expensive, relatively speaking, in the 60's. A flight to the Bahamas was probably $250 a head, which was like a month's salary. Most trips today are a steal in today's dollars, with airfare included.
BaronessVonFancy and a lot safer, less cruises and simpler then I am sure
I wish I could live at home for a week for just $71.50.
@@mindsaglowin I don't know where you're from, but I wish a flight to the Bahamas was $250 a head from my area!
Back when folks were genuine and appliances were made with the same care and precision as an aircraft. I wish I had the pleasure of growing up in those times
Everyone was so well- groomed.
Neat hair and clothing.
And no tattoos!
I agree I was born in the late 70s I loved to live in those years
Trust me people real people did not look that fancy and fixed up. This was like Pleasantville and not realistic.
Everyone's well-groomed when they know they're about to be filmed.
l was around then. lt was kinda nice. There was more formality. But it wasn't all sickening sweetness nor was it so perfect. Believe me.
back when furniture was made of solid wood
and not made in china
On a strange note, I've had an Ikea particle board tv stand things been good for 20 years. But without a TV on it for the last 5…
Now it's all glue pressed sawdust that brakes after three disassemblies.
Good thing i inherit our family table and bench/chairs. All solid pine with only two screws underneath the table. Rest is held together by these wooden thingies - s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7c/94/21/7c9421e2c04d689ce28468da90f78420.jpg
This furniture set lasted throughout my childhood. With scratchmarks and other abuses.
Enclave Soldier i recently bought a bed and nightstand made of solid pine. well majority made of pine lol. its nice and looks nicer, but man pine is a softwood and dents SO EASILY
randomrazr It dents? :o
Is it coated/covered with those "fake" wooden trims or. hmm
What a lovely video. I'm 23 and I've always been interested in this kind of stuff. It's kind of sad that back then everyone dressed so nicely (suits and ties, hats, gloves, etc) and now people will just put on a ratty tee shirt.
Make a good example to others and dress nicely in public. It could start a domino effect.
Here in 2023 there are still lessons to be learned from these documentaries from the past 👍
Like adopt, don’t shop!
At 21:45 is my elementary school, Conant Elementary, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I was really suprised to see my old playground and kindergarten classroom on the screen. Had to go back to verify.
Are you sure it isn't you and your mom in this film?
Wow that’s really cool
That's great!
I also rode that slide with my pants down in 3rd grade because girls dared me.
This is such a nice video on the important role of women! A mother who works at home is a working woman, and that is a great job ! The pay may not be top tier , but the benefits are out of this world. God bless every mother , and woman that takes care of their family , either at home , or at another workplace! Thanks
I love this video. This reminds me of when I was a child in the 60s before our Walmart nation.
UtopianSeeker : I loved Main Street America ❤️
👍me too
Back when every CEO, Congressman and Senator weren’t multimillionaires. When you produce goods, the wealth is spread more evenly. When you outsource production, the profits go to shareholders. After that your economy collapses and then the cycle restarts.
Brett Vogel : Amen to that 🙏🏼🇺🇸
It was certainly a big change from the gilded era and decades of increasing financial inequality that led up to the Great Depression and WW2. The world depicted is the Bretton-Woods agreement era, where income was much better distributed through deliberate policy. It lasted up to about the Nixon era.
It existed as a response to the threat of communism. The USA in particular was determined not to give their people any reason to be tempted to embrace it through experiencing anything like 'the grapes of wrath' again. This clip reflects that time. It was the year of Kennedy, the Berlin Wall, Project Mercury, ICBMs, the Domino Theory, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Crisis, and Duck and Cover. There was good reason to create an environment in which people felt free, secure, happy and optimistic, in spite of the existential threats. Potential risks (like the growing power and competition of the USSR) were turned into something positive, like "By the end of this decade, we will put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth".
Sadly, since the 80s, we're gradually evolved back again to most wealth being held by a minority, while the majority can't afford to cover a $400 emergency. It is now much more characterised by a pessimistic view in which everything is a threat over which people have little control. Power is derived mostly from exploiting all sorts of fears and risks. That works best when there is a genuine core of truth in whatever nightmare is in vogue.
I honestly wish it would just go ahead and collapse completely so we can begin afresh.
women folk
My mom always tells me I should've been a kid in the 60's like her because I enjoy sewing and I hate working.
if I could get the young people to learn ONE thing from my 65 years experience, it would be to save all you can for retirement...old age comes so quickly...I learned it too late, even tho my parents warned me this day would come
True. I might even add DON'T RETIRE! I should've taken a long vacation, and stuck around six to ten more years...or more.
I know what be you be mean. I was foolish with my time.
We hear you..! Thank you.
Is that presumptuous? What if the person doesn't live to retirement age?
You are so right! I told this to my two children early. My daughter is 20 and my son 29. They both understand that they have to save early for later on in life. I wish that they were taught this in school. My parents never taught me this and it's too late for me but I'll be damned if it's too late for my kids.
@Sheri451 Take it from someone who was there - I was 10 years old in 1962, and in the 1950's and early 60's, the typical American suburb was as close to heaven on earth as you can get. Back then, me and all my friends had a stay-at-home mom, and a dad who came home to dinner every day. I don't remember a single kid whose parents were divorced. In the summer, we left our houses in the morning, and roamed the neighborhood all day long, without our parents having anything to worry about.
amateurphilosopher, lucky you😀❤️....we weren’t so lucky. It just wasn’t as common as it is today. My grandma was widowed, then divorced and was a single mom to my mom and uncle. My mom couldn’t raise me. I was a state ward. It wasn’t all heaven in the 60’s.
@@invisiblepinkunicorn7626 Me too. :-( From poverty-stricken broken home--troubled single parent household-very shame-based and very very stressful times. Ended up in bad foster home for a while.
Praise the Lord Jesus saved me as a teen in 1972--not sure I would have survived otherwise (now in my 60s).
✝💚
Great documentary. I remember the Corvair at 10:00. My Dad bought one the first year they came out. It was in the shop at least three times in 12 months. It was a lemon. He traded it in for another Chevy after owning it for only 13 months. He stayed a “Chevy man” though and, at age 92 today, owns a Chevy. Love the hats, gloves, and firs. We really did dress up a lot in the 50s and 60s.
The days before corporate America sent nearly all manufacturing to China...
exactly as chevrolet is doing
And completly ruined our government.
Kathleen Shaw is right. I lived through that asshat and his politics. The beginning of the end.
Kathleen Shaw, Carter is an antisemitic peanut brain, and so are you. Go crawl back in your hole.
Made in the USA. What a laugh today
I grew up in that world and I’m grateful for it.
nancysrios
Me to, wouldn’t trade it for nothing
When I was very small I'd talk a great deal with elders who grew-up in the 1800's.
Not city folk either; so a great many of them were even a century behind city life; the 'big' city, not town. Man the history I learned was so exciting; history long before movies.
Life then was a world away from today. Washing, laundry, shopping, 'refrigeration' and cooking, school, travel, communication. And many people made thier own clothes. When the sewing machine came out, it was every bit as revolutionary as the automobile.
OH and dating; intense romance was escaping to the summer shade of that old oak tree, to share some fresh baked corn bread, some closeness and a few looks and snickers. This whole idea is so bizarre to contemporary life. I guess I'm just kinda glad that those days mean as much to me as the 10 minute relationship of today. Kinda troublesome though; STD's, pregnancy, and an old flame that will tattoo your head with a steel bar.
Were things worse, were they better, were they neither one - just different. Life, no matter what, may change, but it will forever cut both ways.
Literally everything was very different. And the reason that things weren't so bad was frankly living WAS easier, living held to an altogether different meaning, practice, and experience. Plus, that's all anyone knew.
If someone could be magically transported from our current living styles, and spend maybe just a single day in the world of your-own elders, even just, say, six or so generations behind you, when you did get back here, you'd probably be spending the next 365 days wrapped in bandages suffering from terminal culture-shock.
I think people generally have trouble with change because it introduces a certain vulnerability, I think that a great deal of it is simply that. Well, maybe not simply.
The year I was born. I remember my mother wearing white gloves, and I remember those cars. But was it really as simple as this film suggests? I guess it's fun to romanticize the past like this. Some day, they will do the same about our age.
+ddoyle11
The facts speak for them self.
The average household income in the 1950s was $5000 per year and the average house cost $5000.
So this meant that aggressive personal finance could enable even factory workers to own a home.
Women had a choice of either staying at home with the child or fo out and work if they decided to do so.
Credit cards were only considered short term credit such as one month and saving was considered normal practise.
People were married in their 20 with children.
By the 1960s this was the norm but there was one big problem looming that would increase taxes and that was welfare.
Up to 50% of the taxes you pay today is for welfare. That is the reason why the higher tax rate has gone from 25% to 39%.
Even the very poor pay taxes.
+bighands69 Plus, the biggest thing, we went to the doctor and he came to US and we paid cash and, even though it wasn't cheap, everyone could afford it because the health insurance scam hadn't removed the consumer relationship between doctor and patient yet. Now we have 10 times the gadgets, 10 times the divorce rate and 1/10 the peace, 1/10 the community, and 1/10 the sense of purpose. Even with fear of the 'Rooskies,' we still knew we were living in an amazing time and were blessed. You're absolutely right: the facts speak for themselves.
+C. A. G. how true. Too much credit card debt.
+ddoyle11 I think the film _idealized_ that time more than _romantized_ it. As I remember; we knew what was portrayed on television wasn't exactly happening in real life, but like in the Ozzie & Harriet Show, it was an ideal to strive for and work towards, there certainly wasn't anything wrong in that.
Wow your mom wore white gloves? I guess that may have been regional. I was born in 61in southern CA and my mom never did any such thing. Things were this simple. Almost every mom in my neighborhood was a stay at home mom, we played outside, walked without fear to the Stop & Go... spent weekends at the beach... parked for free. Life is what you make it I guess, but with double the people on the planet its more difficult to achieve.
My goodness! 5 boys, 1 girl, the grandma, & both parents in the house! And what a talented fellow on the trumpet!
I like to watch the 50's and the 60's what nostalgia
3:00 .... That's how I remember my mom's face when my brothers and I was asking for something that was not in the budget. You know what people... I still grow up happy and I love to remember them good old times on the playground. No money but lots of friends ,adventure and lots of fantasy....
I would love to go back to those days! I'm a Boomer...born in 1960. Happier times.
Life hasn't changed at all. It's just a dream of some idealic past that never existed. I'm 71 and I grew up during this time interval and things may be different today but no better.
Nah nice try but lots of people grew up in this time and they'll tell you it was definitely better.
+Gina231329 it's called not being old and bitter. This person clearly isn't old and bitter. They have better things to do than complain about "this generation".
With the Korean War just over, Russia and the US having Nuclear bombs pointed at each other. Poverty much more severe than it is today. It was marvelous:(They didn't have the Social programs they have today. It wasn't worse, just no better.
+Milk Prince Didn't say he was old and bitter. And while 'the good ol' days weren't always good', (war, poverty, racism, I get it) kids were more respectful of adults, men were men, and overall people were more disciplined, polite, and gracious. Now people are so fake and weak and overly sensitive and quick to be offended and to make issues out of non issues. I wish I were alive during the times when people were tougher and more genuine.
It's an illusion, my good man:)))
A well done video of the days I grew up.....I rememeber living in this era....My Grandmother and Mother were always dressed, in the late 50's and the country manufactured everything. Quality and made to last and everyone was working>>>>>Those days are gone forever..
No one's in jeans! Everyone is dressed so nice💝
Yes. It looks more like 1942 than '62. It's fantasy of course. Perfect families and nothing out of place. The Truman Show.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 This was not fantasy. It was real life. We were well dressed in the 60s. My dad was a school teacher and the sole bread winner with 5 children. My mom was a housewife. We were well dressed every day. See my 1960s family movie @ ua-cam.com/video/CJkJaoRdotY/v-deo.html
Notice how she didn't belittle her husband when he was being cheap trying to find the free parking and running the gas to empty. She smiles as if to say I still love him despite his faults....
Must have been the influence of mother's little helper. The cheap bastard sure deserves belittling.
Lol 🤣
I noticed her forced fake smile
I love the intonation of this piece and the voice of the reader.
What she bought also depended on how much her husband made at his job. that's why she budgeted so well. Had to think about what she bought and not just throw it in the shopping cart.
Yes there was no " buy now pay later."
As an entrepreneur and business owner, my products are all manufactured in the US, no matter the costs.
I recall watching Jam Handy Organization films in the classroom back in the 60's. Even then this film was a kind of a gilding the lily and making the life in America appear a bit more perfect than it was. Compared to what we have doing down now in the USA I would say the times depicted in this film were like heaven.
if you were a white, white male or a woman without ambition
Would you please explain that comment?
Sure what's to explain? If you were a black woman the opportunities were minimal and in many places it was heavily segregated, if you were a white woman then better to have no ambition outside to be a homemaker and with luck find a husband that won't beat you or cheat on you because no one is going to help you. Tbh most of my aunts that grew up like this and had this kind of live hated it they were alone and worked as beast then raped because who cares for sexual education right? In the outside looks good but I prefer the freedom to support myself and take my own desktops also in the 50 and big part of th 60 women weren't allowed to have bank accounts independent from their husbands
True, as I watched my divorced mother struggle in the early 70s. As for blacks, much of that was due to racism that was more rampant then. But today, the people have chosen another class of person to dub as not fully human and also personal property. That too is an arbitrary judgment that results in the murdering of over 3,000 preborn children every single day here. It is striking to me that the offspring of the same political cult that once declared blacks not fully human now say the same about the preborn.
+Pastor Matthew
You have a serious point there - and were wise in your delivery - it's not neatly put into a "classification" called "Political Party" -
I hear you.
I just wish I could have lived as a teen in the 50s or first half of the 60s --even with the problems those societies had.
What we have today is a nightmare.
By the way, I'd recommend the full length (except for the last part) version of The Parent Trap (1961), that you can see here at UA-cam. I know you'd really enjoy it.
It's funny. I was a little girl in the 60's but all I seemed to remember most of my life were the good times. Now that I'm old, some of the not-so-good things are coming back to me. Ours was not an Ozzy and Harriet household.
One thing I did like about this film is that it did show the importance of the female role during that time. I could have done without seeing the woman in the fur and gloves who was shopping for fabric because she sure as hell wasn't going to go home and make clothes for the kids. My parents (with 5 kids) were not rich but we ALWAYS had everything we needed - applause should go there 👏🏻 because I don't know how they were able to do it. I'm sure I'm not the only one with parents of that ilk
Edit: And my mother never wore heels to the grocery store
It's funny how these films taught people how to save money. Saving money was a sales pitch for everything. Now it's spend spend spend. No money? No problem? Finance it for 18% interest!
Wasn't it more on the 1920s than the 1950s...? I'm curious to know why? :/
1930s more like, since the knock on effects of the Depression were only felt hard in that decade. That said, frugal culture spawned from the Depression may still be alive and well at the time since the generations that were born around the height the Depression are now in the workforce and raising families.
Vinesauce Obscurities Oh yeah! In the 1920s it was more like every spending imaginary to make themselves look rich but really cause a lot.
Zoroku Zoroark There's a reason a good chunk of that decade was known as the Roaring Twenties after all.
Vinesauce Obscurities I suppose you right.
It wasn't perfect then, but on the postive side, people wanted to be a good citizen. A good citizen paid their taxes, kept their yards clean and neat, gave to charities, and helped their fellow man. These days people are nothing but selfish, whining brats, who cry when they have to pay taxes, yet at the same time expect perfect roads and schools.
And want government HANDOUTS instead of working
They don't make cars like that anymore and yes I know they were gas guzzlers. They were really beautiful.
And lasted for years if not decades .. Now they're almost disposable .. Cheaply made but expensive to repair with endless government regulations.
Absolutely.
Everyone was driving a Chevy!
although, I love classics cars too, the cars of today can go many more miles 100,000 on those old cars was a death sentence, now 200,000 isn't the end.
Tina Elevation Safer too and they didn't even have seat belts!
This movie was produced by 1904 and 1924 Olympic swimmer Jam Handy, who became a giant in advertising business from the 1930s-60s.
+Mark Spencer Always keep your perseveres in a convenient location!...Jam Handy.
His name was Jamison, hence the "Jam" part. It was right down the street from the Fisher Bldg where GM's headquarters are. Odd for Jam Handy to not include Detroit area scenes which I do not see here.
Here’s the video truth. Made by an advertiser.
1962- Nice symphonic weave-in of the "See the USA in your Chevrolet" jingle there near the end- (for those of you not old enough to recognize the music!)
Do you think maybe Chevrolet produced or sponsored this film?
I noticed that too. The last scene showed Chevrolet was the sponsor for this Jam Handy production. Jam Handy films were great
AHHHH, life before cell phones!
I'm 73 and I remember this all. Gee, such wonderful times. I miss them.
You mean to tell me these dumb propaganda videos actually depict what life was like back then?
l am 18, are you single?
Thanks for sharing these great classic videos
I like how this video gave power, value, and appreciation to women. This is how I live as a single mother of 3 boys lol.
Single momma here of one. We got this , sister! Stay strong.
@@hm6134 Thank you! And you as well!
I do believe this short film ,(a jewel of a film), does reflect the spirit of life back then . Today , evil is good and good is evil . Just think if the family unit was still that strong today and children were taught morles and values that are clearly being conveyed in this film .
The youngest red head boy is Bobby Brady from the Brady Bunch. They died his hair black for the show but the later episodes as a teen he had his natural color.
I was there also, I was 8 in 1962....the cars and the homes were exactly as this video portrays.....Our neighborhoods were safe and our Country was very proud and solid with growth....constant prosperity. Women dressed with great style and everyone dressed very neatly, clothes were made to fit properly. The American Manufacturing Era was Everywhere....Everything was made in this country and with absolute Quality. Families went to Church and ate meals together, always. The true American Days.
so fun to watch Loved this
+To Tell The Truth - yes, it's sad how times have changed.
To Tell The Truth - the ones who can change things for the better are the people. Vote out the wrong politicians and vote in the right ones.
Hmm. Daughter not ginger. I suspect the mailman.
+lohphat Not necessarily. I had two siblings and we were a blonde, brunette and redhead. lol
Or it could've been the milkman (so take your pick!)...🤔
Redhead genes often skip a generation or show up later. My dad was blond and mom is a redhead--her brunette parents had 7 kids, all gingers except for the middle boy, who got his parents' dark brown hair.
I was blond as a child but my hair turned red as I got older, the only one of my siblings. The rest were blonds except for--the middle boy, who has dark brown hair.
lohphat both my mom and dad had dark hair, I was a red head! My grandpas brother was a red head, when people asked my mom where I got my red hair she always said the milk man!!
Recessive gene.
YAY!! They decided to adopt a puppy from the animal shelter instead of buying one from a pet store and supporting puppy mills!!!!! :)
They called them "dog pounds" back then.
+mindsaglowin : And nobody neutered their pets. Puppies and kittens all over. Getting run over by cars. When they were taken to the shelter, they were killed en masse in decompression chambers. The good old days.
Jenna Winsor I think getting a dog from the pound versus the pet store was driven by cost not by discouraging puppies mills.
These aren’t “boomers”. These parents would have been born around 1930.
Joel Tunnah yes their children were the boomers. I’m one.
Joel Tunnah boomers parents
@Joel Tunnah: Okay, boomer! (I couldn't resist! 🤣)
Only boomers would call a household a “boomer household” where they were the *children*. As usual, it’s always about them.
gumshoesoul, we agree that the boomers are awful (I’m gen-x), but I really have to question your premise that their parents were wonderful people. What do you think turned the boomers into a bunch of divorced, substance abusing narcissists? Most boomers I personally know had very abusive parents. The WWII generation had ptsd from the Great Depression and the war I guess. The family depicted in this video did not really exist, except for a very few people. It’s a national myth.
I wish we could buy things made in America again
We have to start increase the resources in order to make a boom to our supplies.
No, you need to invest into Education, because uneducated workers will never cover the needs of a 1st world country
TheAllegiantTraitor Why 1st world if you can do it with the 2nd and 3rd...
Zoroku Zoroark
he said he wants things to be made in america,and not 3rd world countries.
for that you need educated population, that can make and operate machines, that will do the work instead of chinese and indian children.
TheAllegiantTraitor I meant other countries who aren't like China or India but to give them more education than us.
back when being a stay at home meant something
Honestly? I think it still does. People respect people's choices today more than we're led to believe. :)
I believe it still means something, its just in most cases two incomes are needed.
Yeah. Now a woman is shamed for taking care of her family. That's a daycares responsibility🤤🤡💩. No wonder the drug n crime rates went up. The majority have been raised by TV's, movies, music, public education system, and daycares.. And the house is a pig sty when someone isnt always taking care and maintaining... It's sad.. 🙄
@@MaryJane-qq9mm - Someone? Or forcing all females to this one narrow role. Not any males, ever. Not giving any choice. Assigned to this one, unappreciated role to all females. It was not a better system.
Mothers and parents should get better social (governmental) support for being the molders of future generations. It's a critical role for both mothers and fathers. As long as it takes two incomes to just barely get by, the children will get shortchanged. Eliminate the obscene wealth gap that currently exists and we could have a better family life where children are tended to adequately by both parents as well as grandparents and "the village" as well.
@@MaryJane-qq9mm I've been a stay-home mom, a working mom, and a single working mom. No one "shamed" me at any time. Maybe the people you surround yourself with are just dicks. And FYI, both of my children are gainfully employed, productive citizens with no criminal records or drug use--despite the fact that I mostly raised them alone.
Ah America. I miss that beautiful country.
"She spends to save and saves to spend." Brilliant writing, lol!
Just love these kind of old narrated jewels . Back when homes were family and church oriented . When the middle class truley ruled . The mindset was so simple and life was grand . God was with this country then . The true definition of a woman to be desired but rare today ! Proverbs 31
But then we invaded a bunch of other countries for no good reasons other than to tell them how to run their country and commercialize their resources, and God decided at that point, he wasn't with us anymore.
For those who did not live during the 1960's: humans had not yet developed the ability to vocalize. We had no larynx.
Zoltan Korda 😂😂😂😂😂
No personality needed. We didn't know many of us were preparing for emotional explosions.
2:24 What the hell are they saying?
@@kiwitrainguy They're showing how cute and sweet everything is. They all perfectly love each other. Now they are going to buy their daughter a puppy because she wants one. When Elvis in the 50's started shaking his hips all this phony baloney started breaking down.
😜😅😀😀😀😀😝😝😂
Pillbox hats galore. Jackie is in the White House.
l remember my mom wearing one. And she wore gloves. And had cigarette holders.
My mother and aunts had that hair style. I call it helmet hair. I reminds me of wearing a helmet. Hard and round. My hair likes to hang long and free.
Yep, we would laugh at my Ma and call her helmet head.😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
My mom has shoulder length hair and bangs; she's never been able to grow her hair out very long. I have long hair and prefer it that way; it's about waist length and I'm trying to get it to grow as long as it used to be but it's hard with 'fine' type hair as I go thru a lot of detangler just to keep it manageable; that and I had to take prednisone for a couple weeks and lost hair by the handful. I've yet to get it back but I'll keep trying.
I.m sorry to tell you but I am a Baby Boomer and I brought my kids up in the late 70s and into the 80s. This is my parent's post-war household you are showing!
Times of Best of the best: Family Values, well Dress, Best build Homes, Well made Furniture. Everything will lasts....Times of Safe Neighborhood 😁
How unusual that wives and mothers would be recognized in 1962. My mother did indeed control the family finances and managed to find room for a lot of extras such as a travel trailer for weekend trips She worked full time and kept everything going even when her mother and mother-in-law had to move in with us at the same time! I guess that's just what you did then. This whole video is such a trip down memory lane...How I wish things were the same today. I didn't realize how much my mother(and father) did for us. We did have it good, and probably the last generation who had a better lifestyle than their parents. The world was open to us...what did we really do to improve it? Thank's Mom and Dad---sorry kids. That's why we end up in nursing homes now.
We used to watch these films in grade school! We would go to the librairy and they put reels on a projector. The libairy was the only air conditioned place jn the building.
I just love these little red heads. If I could make some, I would 😄😄😄
I would LOVE to have that Pyrex pot at 14:50. I have my mother's Pyrex percolator and it makes the BEST coffee
The quality of life was much better back then.. People did productive things.. There was no internet and no smart phones to look down at all the time or Facebook to be on all the time.. No big technology to take peoples' jobs.. You learned something and you worked hard back in those days, and it paid off.. The world in the recent years has become very superficial.. I mean look at the garbage music coming out these days.. No talents in anything, anyone can sing with auto tune... And the music, all they sing about is sex, and the top 40 music consists of music that belongs on the street in a ghetto.. I think even the 90s was a better age than today.. I wish I was around in the 50s.. I didn't come until the late 70s, and I even though the 80s was a very good decade..
+vintageceilingfans Oh internet, computers and smartphones are horrible and people waste time on it, that's why you are watching a video from the internet in one of those devices...
+vintageceilingfans . Indeed, America at her best BEFORE the late 1960's
The beginning of late 1960's when sex revolution. hippie cultures, homosexual revolution, radical feminist movement started, that how the decay of America started.
Up to mid 1960's God was still greatly honored in our beloved USA.
Men were men, Women were women.
One-income household was more enough to build a middle class family back then.
You earned what you got, back then.
You put a good quality of workmanship to your job.
The cars that were produced by the big three were the good ones, not like the junks that we see today.
The movies were wholesome. God was not allowed to be mocked in the movie.
Yes, the 1980's were better than today.
But even the 1980's or even the 1970's, America was already in serious decay.
As a naturalized US citizen, I love America with all my heart, but Americans are so eager to pave their own destruction.
Americans are not willing to repeat what was working in the past, but they are so eager to follow any directions that will accelerate their decay such as: abortion, gay marriage, depending on government assistance, having out of wedlock babies, teaching the youngsters immorality by distributing condoms in the grade schools, mocking Christianity, glorifying liberal political correctness etc etc etc.
America will NOT survive much longer, if its citizenry are so very eager to follow the roads of destruction.
Any prosperity that America is still having now is a residual of the prosperity that was created by the previous generations, i.e.the generations of America before the late 1960's.
I understand your point. But these devices as a whole have indeed made us incredibly stupid. Ever read the comments on facebook? I canceled my account 10 months ago. Do people REALLY need to check their email now? Why can't people remember phone numbers anymore? Why don't people know how to get anywhere anymore? How about sitting at a dinner table at a restaurant? People don't even talk to each other anymore. It's pathetic the way people behave these days. That was the mans point above yours and I agree even more than he does with himself.
Actually mechanization was taking people's jobs even then - where do you think the savings from mass production came from? But because people WERE literate, could read, write, and understand, they could get new jobs. At this point, most college graduates are only semi-literate.
Because it was the hippies who said "Destroy the dominant culture!" "Bring it all down!" and they have. Who do you think is in power in government now? If you were 20 in 1975 (hippie time) you are 62 now - and in power in government.
The sixties were the cancer that destroyed a great civilization.
Everybody in 1962 had a brand-new Chevy, too!
+bdh70 my family had a 1955 plymouth, Savoy, 4 door in 1962....manual 3 speed transmission, no rugs, no radio, no air conditioning, no seat belts.
We would take 1000 mile road trips to visit my grandmother in the mid west (in july). It was like being in an oven for 2 days.
+inkey2 : Remember the hot vinyl care seats? OMG. AC in a car was the windows that would roll down. Sucked if you were caught in a traffic jam in summer.
+Agent Fungus OHHH yeah, hot sticky vinyl seats. At least there were the tiny "butterfly side windows" you could open to get some air circulation.....but even those were gone by like 1972. Air conditioning was not even standard in cars till the mid/late 1970s. I think AMC was the first car company to have AC as standard equipment
inkey2 : Oh, the "wing windows." Cars started to rattle about 6 months after they were new. Hey, I was a teen during the 70s muscle car era. Cruised a lot. But those gas guzzling monsters rusted out within a couple of years. Sucked gas and leaked oil. My first car was a '73 Gremlin. That's how I met my husband. He sold it to me. The damn thing broke down every week and we got together to take it apart, replace parts, and put it back together. Such bonding. Cars were so simple back then. They broke down frequently, but you could always fix them yourself &/or with friends.
@@inkey2- The '68 AMC Ambassador was the first American car to offer standard A/C, even before Cadillac, Imperial or Lincoln.
My Father (born 1954) and I (1984) both learned how to cook & continue to do so on my Grandmother's (born 1921) built in GE Electric Range. Built to last was no joke, & it was her pride & joy.
I was born in 1954. Trivia question: When was the last time you bought anything...anything..that wasn't made in China?
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I remember the days (up until the mid-60s) when most high schools had gun clubs - people thought nothing of seeing a kid carrying a rifle down a school hallway.
amateurphilosopher my school had a gun club when I graduated in 1969
And everyone drove a pickup with a rifle in the gun rack in the rear window. No one thought anything of it because no one who mattered then was a snowflake.
1990 my high school had a gun club. No big deal then. Kids had gun racks in their trucks, most kids went hunting after school.
And no school shootings till the 90s hmm
amateurphilosopher : I grew up in Pennsylvania and even in the 1980s , we went to 6th grade camp and had to shoot a rifle & bow n arrow 😂 No way we could do that today with liability 😂
Notice the pride in personal appearance
Exactly
This is my mother thanks for the memories
I enjoy these. Simply seeing how the THINGS in the videos looked when new is fascinating. The crowds of well-behaved children, lack of traffic, newly built infastructure. hard to believe it was real.
majidi those well behaved children were extras in a film.
The good old 60's. 'duck and cover', nuclear arms race, race riots, cars that would kill you in a minor collision, a river on fire, few antibiotics, iron lungs etc etc. I grew up in those days and I am happy where I am.
I agree with you. Hindsight is 20/20. I am shocked at the lack of critical thinking and insight in these comments.
Don't forget the lack of latchkey kids attached to their electronics.
You know,back then everything was still mostly still new and developing and their problems where real problems.
These days willful ignorance and stupidty reigns and our problems are made up by the power hungry,bored,stupid,and the ignorant.
Information wise,we live in such great times to learn from the past and present and hope one of the generations after the boomers takes the world back on the right path again.
1962 was the year that we almost ended the world....
60's when you could kill a minority and get away with it, opps you still can in 2020
Today was a great day to focus on this video!
I see the first comment right below mine about shopping for food during the 60’s. I was born in 1951 into a 5 person home-(including me)! I remember going with her to grocery shop. She could fill her shopping cart with enough food to feed 5 people and it would only cost her $25.00. And that $25.00 gave us 3 real meals per day, with some sort of salad for the dinner and supper meals and also a dessert of some kind! Today $25’.00 won’t get you much at all!
Florida Gal I was born in 1951 also. My folks owned a small house, we had a new car every 3 years, my mother stayed home, we only went out to eat about once a month, attended church every week. And we always had plenty of nice clothes, Christmas with loads of gifts, and a two week vacation every year, traveling by car all over the Western United States. All this and I think my father made about $15,000 a year! I had a wonderful childhood with tons of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents’ farms to visit. I had it all. Such memories!
Florida Gal $23.00 value in 2019 compared to 1951 is $251 dollars.
~ $25.00 in 1951 is worth :
What was $25 in 1951 worth in today's money? Adjusted for inflation, $25.00 in 1951 is equal to $256.97 in 2020. Annual inflation over this period was 3.43%.
You can definitely put some good meals on the table with that including a salad🥗 and a 🍨🎂dessert. 😋 Today ✅
For time machine travel, as well as visiting other times, the 60s is a decade I would revisit.
@Ollie Haze I love futuristic scenarios too.
I hope it's kind to us. 🖖
19:24 I have club dishes esp like thAt Dutch oven we had the same refrigerator this kitchen is just like my house growing up
Those were the days, and oh how I miss them
Junior's little trip to the ER wouldn't be the food budget for the whole year. Even with insurance now, I just pray. The slogan should be: "one job should be enough." Many single people are working two jobs just to keep a roof over the head, and in some areas can't do even that. And what is our government doing? improving things for the one percenters. And an edit: this was produced by chevy, the unmistakable theme starts at 22:52. Even corporations had a conscience back then.
People didn’t run to the er for every little cut or sneeze. EMTALA brought that about everyone interpreted that as an invitation
WOW! They included a black mother and daughter.
J Gordy yes. Love it
Yeah, they actually had black people back then. Imagine that! 🙄
Jaynie Nowell-Snoke don’t be ignorant Jaynie....we just shocked they showed black people because there wasn’t enough representation of blacks on tv back in the 50s and 60s. Or even more further back. And you know that, so stop being a bitch...bitch😑
@jaynie nowell-stoke and @dolly joseph. I hate to have to say it, but I think the both of you could benefit from watching an educational film from 1953 called “Mind Your Manners.” Please don’t think that I mean to reprove you, because, even though I am an old man, and thought that I had good manners, I can see that, in fact, I sometimes show bad manners myself. So I hope you enjoy it! Godspeed!
Darius Daguerre I don’t have “bad manners” Darius. Just stating this ignorant White woman straight. So take my name off your comment. Thanks and have a good day
I just bought a speed queen washer. I will be living like this in a small way every time I do laundry. Arrives on wednesday.
lol...I've owned my 1960s speed queen wringer/washer machine for about 5 months now and I will tell you, I love it. Its made in America 55 years ago and works perfectly!
I had speed queen washer n dryer from 1969 it just died this yr years not bad
15:47 - I remember those vacuum cleaners shaped like a ball.
Cool, I have a set of speed queen!
@chief tp it had been repaired many times over the yrs could not find parts esp the three drive belts it was time
That pure pack eel looked really good😖
Don't forget the Chocolate-Covered Ants, The Canned Octopus, Diamondback Rattlesnakes and Fried Grasshoppers.
I thought it was funny when they showed the metal sink. That design has been around forever. Pretty much every house built in the 90's has a kitchen faucet exactly like the ones they show here.
Stainless steel sinks are very practical. As long as you don't drop something real heavy in them, they can look brand new forever. Porcelain sinks suck.
Yeah, at the low price point; its the same exact faucet and vegetable sprayer! I guess the design is timeless.
Thank you someone who actually gets it, these are just commercial, everyone else seems to think it was perfecgt back then, like teenagers were respectful and didn't act cool or something, they rebellious and I know there were greasers, and they rolled there cigarettes up in their sleeve, and had ducks ass hairstyles, and you wouldn't believe the slang the teens used back then, and cool cars and hot rods, and rock'n'roll, not to long after the lste 50's/early 60's era hippies came around.
I love how they oh-so-subtly worked in the Chevrolet theme toward the end, among the patriotic themes. I'm not knocking it, that's how it's done. "See the USA, in your Chevrolet." I bet that flew right over the heads of most viewers back in the day, or now. However, subconsciously it registers. Brilliant marketing.
Dinah shore sang it best and yes we were achevy family
As someone who was born in 2004, l can confirm this really was an amazing genaration and l really wished to live in these years
but in the same time l can't live without internet.
Don't worry, I was born in 1979 and I can't live without the internet either 😂
I don't use social media other than UA-cam and that's a great way to have a taste of a simpler life.
@@aussiejubesI was born in '69 and youtube is also the only social media that I use. 😊
The "family paycheck."
These videos are amazing, it’s shows that at that era, women were so good in budgeting and dressed elegantly
That used to be USA...glad I was born in those days... Wonderful memories
I was born in 1966, my mother 1943, she tells me about growing up in the 50s when I ask and she says for the most part it was decent. Her immediate family though made it difficult because my grandfather, her father, ruled the household with an iron fist. That was her words. The music, the movies was good she said and she wrote in to fan clubs for actors, etc. She got an autographed photo back from Tab Hunter, I saw it. She told me once she was out on the beach on a blanket and 2 photogs came.
UA-cam comments, lol.
I know. They're all over the place, but mostly funny.
@Dave Shaffer Needless to say that I wasn't surprised when I clicked on your profile that it said: This channel has no content. What is it with people criticizing that which they would never dare to attempt? Why do you have to says this sucks? First of all it doesn't--it's fascinating to go back in time--but it's also rude af. I wonder what is the matter with people that they think like this.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ *Back when home appliances were made to last a lifetime and not become obsolete within a few years*
The narrator sounds like Mike Wallace. I will never forget his Fluffo commercials.
Where did it all go wrong. More polite and respectable then. When women looked like women. Very elegant.
Pretty amazing that they went to the "pound" instead of a pet store!
Because the dog in the store was too expensive...
We watched films like this at school when I was kid.
So true I did too it was the late sixties and early 70s