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. 😔
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
"well dressed" the narrator says; back when people didn't wear pajama pants to the store. I have pajama pants and I wear them at home for bed. I don't know why it irks me so much; but maybe because my mom always said, "make an effort to be presentable when going out". She still does even though she can't really wear eye makeup anymore because she's developed an allergy to the ingredients of most makeup brands. She still goes to the hairdresser every 6 weeks and still does her nails (and toe nails in the summer). She's not vain; she just wants to look "presentable".
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.
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.
I respect the message... however, being born in 1962 to a depression-era set of parents, it could be a total pissing drag at times. "Eat every scrap on your plate". Even though we were stuffed to puking, we'd eat it, or our Dad would hit us. EVERYTHING was about saving $$, denying everything frivolous, meaning fun. My Dad (I do love him) died maybe 4 years after retiring from a hard job. Never really got to enjoy what he worked for. Mom is still alive, sitting on top of $$ I wish she'd spend on herself. I hate what the depression did to 2 generations of Americans.
ProBoard Bear I guess these folk knew real hunger and privation, and it got burned into their brains. I tried to get my Dad to spend $250 on himself for a nice tool he wanted about 1995... he was super-hesitant. And yet they had a net worth of at least $750K. Everything was self-denial, save save save.
Don't forget the ones who lived through the depression and now save every little scrap of plastic or whatever because they might be able to use that again...leaving a hoarded house for their kids to clean out.
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.
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 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.
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
How many women today wouldn't give anything to be able to stay home in a beautiful house that has this kind of kitchen and take care of their family instead of having to face the stress of full time work away from their home!
Thanks for sharing this one! While looking at all the Chevy cars in this cool film, I would've said it was filmed in 1962--possibly early 1963. Sure enough, the copyright at the very end said MCMLXII...1962! Maybe you could update your title from 1950s to 1962 so it's a bit more specific?
This makes me sad with everything going on in our country were losing our freedom people wake up and speak up look at Hong Kong we should be ashamed of ourselves
Read my previous comment. Actually, this is an interesting line of commentary, and thanks for starting it. In the 1920 the decline in morality began, which went hand in hand with all the technological advances and the beginning of the mass, consumerist, media-oriented culture. The decline continued all along until its pace increased sharply in the latter 60s. My point is, we wouldn't have had what happened in the 60s without what had happened in the 20s.
I love these videos and part of me thinks how wonderful it must have been but I’m torn because I always think these movies didn’t show reality for many Americans. This way of life worked for some but a lot of people felt unheard and repressed at this time and that included SAHMs. It’s simply the truth because as the 60’s went on big changes happened- it was a revolution and that was not an accident. I think we can learn things from these videos about priorities.
Wish I would've been born back then. Things seemed great then. People went out as a family, kids were outside playing games or even talking outside with their friends and they were not lazy and things were at reasonable prices.
I found a quote by Albert Einstein that said " I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots"
You can blame the decline in the quality of American living on (3) things: The Media, Technology and above all SOCIAL MEDIA. Not only is the United States on the verge of it's peak and getting in position for permanent decline, the world is as well.
To Tell The Truth : You must hang around some pretty unenlightened people. I have friends who are educated professional people and have the most cheerful, outgoing, and well adjusted kids. Both parents and their friends participate in their families and child rearing, unlike the bad old days when the father was only supposed to be the breadwinner and not show any emotion towards other people. The only physical contact that was approved of was hitting and having sex with the eyes closed. Breast feeding was considered old fashioned, immoral, and primitive after WWII. Male scientists and doctors knew better! Modern baby formula was better than that unscientifically ungovernment uninspected breast milk! DDT and Thalidomide and tonsillectomies were considered safe and an improvement on primitive Nature. Man knew best! Women were doped to sleep during labor and given drugs like candy during pregnancy. Jeffrey Dahmer's mother was fed a steady diet of psych drugs for her "anxiety" while she was pregnant with Jeff. Those dirty Commie back to the earth hippies started using natural childbirth and breastfeeding again. The horrors!
To Tell The Truth : Settle down, bunky. I guess being facetious flies over many peoples' heads. Usually, the most dense don't get it. Let me restate that in way that you might understand: SETTLE DOWN, BUNKY, I GUESS BEING FACETIOUS FLIES OVER MANY PEOPLES' HEADS. USUALLY, THE MOST DENSE DON'T GET IT. BTW, I'm a female and am quite comfortable with rejecting the Roman Catholic faith I was brought up with. Too much hypocrisy, especially with the coverups of the pedophile priests for decades. Also, you admit to playing into the drama of the family court. Hah. I spent at least 10 hours of OT every week in court as part of my job as an urban cop, so don't tell me what's real and what isn't. I see reality every work night. Nobody needs to tell me about the ridiculous drama and lies that fly around after participants uttered the oath of "to tell the truth and nothing but the truth." My family doesn't need to have the courts/others fight for them, thank you. We manage to act like adults. BTW, as far as "getting out," I do for at least 2-3 hours a day (depends upon mandatory OT) with a vigorous walk through urban wild areas. Nature is my religion. My vacations are spent camping. As that kind where my dogs and I pack everything on our backs. I'm moving far away from any city as soon as I retire to get away from self righteous Bible thumpers like you. And I thought Canada didn't have Teapots. Thanks for letting me know otherwise.
To Tell The Truth : I watch vids of vintage films and TV for entertainment. I'm a Boomer and grew up watching these shows and commercials. I love the old 1950s and 1960s TV shows, but also laugh at them because they were so simplistic, preachy, and one sided. Even as a kid, I realized this. Again, lighten up, bunky. You take this fluffery too seriously. Have you ever been in a war? Being an urban cop in a rustbelt city, I guess I go to war every night. If you have reality shoved in your face every night, you'd realize TV and films are very fake, preachy, and silly. And I've learned to laugh at what is not real, but how naive and gullible people take so seriously.
Yeah I wish girls would be girls and men would be men. I was fortunate to find a girly girl and very sweet and beautiful and mature, she's from Germany, and I'm from Pennsylvania, she was an exchange student here in Pennsylvania, and she went back to Germany last year, she won't be back until next year, I love her, and I have to work at it.
At 18.21 the woman is pouring mothballs into the clothes. My grandmother used mothballs to keep moths from eating the fabrics but the smell was awful and I can still remember that pungent smell that made me feel sick.
And yet people survived. Maybe that was your life, but not everyone's. My mother in law had her own charge accounts and property in the 50s. You need to get other points of view besides leftist ones.
Can you imagine these brats today being concerned if their hands are clean to eat ice cream, hell, they won't look away long enough from the I-Phone to eat ice cream, always connected, form of slavery we have bestowed upon ourselves.
All those pristine neighborhoods are gone, they are run down, dead yards and garbage and trash everywhere...The campaign in those days was "Keep America Beautiful"... Lady Bird Johnson
my friend's husband is a stay-at-home Dad. Glad we've come around: the concept is great, but had problems -- like pigeon holing gender roles -- so we fixed that.
(1) What the purpose of this movie? Who was it intended for? High School home economics? (2) That kid is the world's greatest trumpeter and never had a lesson!!!
Nowadays, if you're well-dressed. You will get mugged or robbed in public especially in big cities like New York and LA. Some kids get beaten for their tennis shoes
Yes, I listened to and asked questions to older people a LOT, in the US and Europe. One thing many Americans don't know is that the 1920s were quite a horrible time there! Workers had no rights there, for one thing!
En mi modesta opinión, creo que estos documentales eran más bien una manera de "educar" a las familias en buenas prácticas, rentabilizar los recursos, cuidado de los hijos, siempre teniendo en cuenta que en aquellos tiempos el papel de la mujer se circunscribía, salvo honrosas excepciones, al hogar y cuidado de los hijos, Guste más o menos, desde luego es innegable el valor histórico de estas imágenes. Gracias tvdays!!!!!
Food stamps doled out to 37% of households as of 2010 so grocery prices could be shot up 40%. Grocery stores and the food industry have lobbyists you know.
The problem with our society today is greed. Not just corporate greed either. Every time minimum wage goes up, everything else seems to double or triple. People get mad and wonder why this happens, so they get more raises and everything goes up again. So they get mad again. But what's not getting through to people, is it costs money to make money. When minimum wage goes up, their boss has to increase the wages of all their workers. Otherwise the ones with entry level jobs would be making more than people who have been there for years. How fair would that be? To keep from going bankrupt after paying all their workers, they have no choice but to raise prices in extreme. And the property owners that are raising your rent...well their taxes went up so the cities and government can pay their workers. It's not rocket science. Sometimes problems can be solved by looking to the past. Like maybe not living beyond your means so you can actually save for what's important. Example...someone raising a family on minimum wage, probably shouldn't buy a $1000 phone when they can get a cheap smartphone for $100.
What a creepy, propaganda filled show. This portrayed the early 60’s for a very small group. And what they showed were cardboard people. Do you really believe things were so perfect? I was born in 1956. There were plenty of problems; on the surface and hidden.
People should realize that this was before the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. Literally, even in California there are property deeds from this time period with covenants that prohibit non-Caucasians from purchasing certain property. Just as this happy family was being filmed Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting segregation and at this point in time we still didn't have Miranda warning rights.
Yup. These fucking idiots commenting on this page just love romanticising the past. Funny thing is that plenty of them complain about how self-centered and cynical the world's become these days, and that the 60's were "simpler, more trusting times". I suppose it's easy to look over the fact that minorities were treated like dogs and that blacks weren't allowed to use the same restrooms and buses as Caucasians if you're white yourself. America today is far from equal, but huge strides have been made since the 60's. Blacks aren't structurally ostracised from society and aren't legally forced to sit in the back of the bus anymore.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 .
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
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!
Here in 2023 there are still lessons to be learned from these documentaries from the past 👍
Like adopt, don’t shop!
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.
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.
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
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
As an entrepreneur and business owner, my products are all manufactured in the US, no matter the costs.
My goodness! 5 boys, 1 girl, the grandma, & both parents in the house! And what a talented fellow on the trumpet!
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.
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."
I love the intonation of this piece and the voice of the reader.
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.
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.
This was awesome! Make America Classy Again!
Notice the pride in personal appearance
Exactly
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.
AHHHH, life before cell phones!
Times of Best of the best: Family Values, well Dress, Best build Homes, Well made Furniture. Everything will lasts....Times of Safe Neighborhood 😁
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.
"She spends to save and saves to spend." Brilliant writing, lol!
I just love these little red heads. If I could make some, I would 😄😄😄
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.
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.
"well dressed" the narrator says; back when people didn't wear pajama pants to the store. I have pajama pants and I wear them at home for bed. I don't know why it irks me so much; but maybe because my mom always said, "make an effort to be presentable when going out". She still does even though she can't really wear eye makeup anymore because she's developed an allergy to the ingredients of most makeup brands. She still goes to the hairdresser every 6 weeks and still does her nails (and toe nails in the summer). She's not vain; she just wants to look "presentable".
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.
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
Those were the days, and oh how I miss them
I respect the message... however, being born in 1962 to a depression-era set of parents, it could be a total pissing drag at times. "Eat every scrap on your plate". Even though we were stuffed to puking, we'd eat it, or our Dad would hit us. EVERYTHING was about saving $$, denying everything frivolous, meaning fun. My Dad (I do love him) died maybe 4 years after retiring from a hard job. Never really got to enjoy what he worked for. Mom is still alive, sitting on top of $$ I wish she'd spend on herself. I hate what the depression did to 2 generations of Americans.
+KurtB Born in 63, forced into adoption to Depression-era people myself. Never spend the money...never
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I guess these folk knew real hunger and privation, and it got burned into their brains. I tried to get my Dad to spend $250 on himself for a nice tool he wanted about 1995... he was super-hesitant. And yet they had a net worth of at least $750K. Everything was self-denial, save save save.
Don't forget the ones who lived through the depression and now save every little scrap of plastic or whatever because they might be able to use that again...leaving a hoarded house for their kids to clean out.
Like it or not, the Depression made this country. Tough times made tough people, albeit some didn't adjust well once they had things & $$.
I know the feeling, I used to tell my dad (RIP) that he pinched penny's so hard, the the dead presidents would scream.
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.
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. 🖖
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 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.
Those pink appliances, they really had style !!!
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 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!
they need remake family tv shows like this something drama free
Pretty amazing that they went to the "pound" instead of a pet store!
Because the dog in the store was too expensive...
How many women today wouldn't give anything to be able to stay home in a beautiful house that has this kind of kitchen and take care of their family instead of having to face the stress of full time work away from their home!
Thanks for sharing this one! While looking at all the Chevy cars in this cool film, I would've said it was filmed in 1962--possibly early 1963. Sure enough, the copyright at the very end said MCMLXII...1962!
Maybe you could update your title from 1950s to 1962 so it's a bit more specific?
I LOVE the lady shopping in the fur wrap and half-length gloves! (11.00) U show 'em how it's done, gurl!!
This was when the family was 1-unit. They were on the same page & worked together
This makes me sad with everything going on in our country were losing our freedom people wake up and speak up look at Hong Kong we should be ashamed of ourselves
Back when women were gracious and dignified. Now we have Chewbacca Mom.
better than what you find on Springer.
Gina231329 Chewbacca mom has more fun
Gina231329 Chewbacca mom is so much cooler than you, though.
The Kartrashians contributed a lot to the look some of the girls adopt today.
A lot of those woman were on drugs their lives were not all bliss.
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
Read my previous comment.
Actually, this is an interesting line of commentary, and thanks for starting it.
In the 1920 the decline in morality began, which went hand in hand with all the technological advances and the beginning of the mass, consumerist, media-oriented culture.
The decline continued all along until its pace increased sharply in the latter 60s.
My point is, we wouldn't have had what happened in the 60s without what had happened in the 20s.
I love these videos and part of me thinks how wonderful it must have been but I’m torn because I always think these movies didn’t show reality for many Americans. This way of life worked for some but a lot of people felt unheard and repressed at this time and that included SAHMs. It’s simply the truth because as the 60’s went on big changes happened- it was a revolution and that was not an accident.
I think we can learn things from these videos about priorities.
Wish I would've been born back then. Things seemed great then. People went out as a family, kids were outside playing games or even talking outside with their friends and they were not lazy and things were at reasonable prices.
I found a quote by Albert Einstein that said " I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots"
This is incredibly relaxing to watch
You can blame the decline in the quality of American living on (3) things: The Media, Technology and above all SOCIAL MEDIA. Not only is the United States on the verge of it's peak and getting in position for permanent decline, the world is as well.
+tmm226 So you're giving up commenting on UA-cam (you know, social media) today?
+To Tell The Truth : I know. That awful feminism that enabled me to get a decent job and support myself.
To Tell The Truth : You must hang around some pretty unenlightened people.
I have friends who are educated professional people and have the most cheerful, outgoing, and well adjusted kids. Both parents and their friends participate in their families and child rearing, unlike the bad old days when the father was only supposed to be the breadwinner and not show any emotion towards other people. The only physical contact that was approved of was hitting and having sex with the eyes closed.
Breast feeding was considered old fashioned, immoral, and primitive after WWII. Male scientists and doctors knew better! Modern baby formula was better than that unscientifically ungovernment uninspected breast milk!
DDT and Thalidomide and tonsillectomies were considered safe and an improvement on primitive Nature. Man knew best!
Women were doped to sleep during labor and given drugs like candy during pregnancy. Jeffrey Dahmer's mother was fed a steady diet of psych drugs for her "anxiety" while she was pregnant with Jeff.
Those dirty Commie back to the earth hippies started using natural childbirth and breastfeeding again. The horrors!
To Tell The Truth : Settle down, bunky. I guess being facetious flies over many peoples' heads. Usually, the most dense don't get it.
Let me restate that in way that you might understand:
SETTLE DOWN, BUNKY, I GUESS BEING FACETIOUS FLIES OVER MANY PEOPLES' HEADS. USUALLY, THE MOST DENSE DON'T GET IT.
BTW, I'm a female and am quite comfortable with rejecting the Roman Catholic faith I was brought up with. Too much hypocrisy, especially with the coverups of the pedophile priests for decades. Also, you admit to playing into the drama of the family court. Hah. I spent at least 10 hours of OT every week in court as part of my job as an urban cop, so don't tell me what's real and what isn't. I see reality every work night. Nobody needs to tell me about the ridiculous drama and lies that fly around after participants uttered the oath of "to tell the truth and nothing but the truth." My family doesn't need to have the courts/others fight for them, thank you. We manage to act like adults.
BTW, as far as "getting out," I do for at least 2-3 hours a day (depends upon mandatory OT) with a vigorous walk through urban wild areas. Nature is my religion. My vacations are spent camping. As that kind where my dogs and I pack everything on our backs. I'm moving far away from any city as soon as I retire to get away from self righteous Bible thumpers like you. And I thought Canada didn't have Teapots. Thanks for letting me know otherwise.
To Tell The Truth : I watch vids of vintage films and TV for entertainment. I'm a Boomer and grew up watching these shows and commercials. I love the old 1950s and 1960s TV shows, but also laugh at them because they were so simplistic, preachy, and one sided. Even as a kid, I realized this.
Again, lighten up, bunky. You take this fluffery too seriously. Have you ever been in a war? Being an urban cop in a rustbelt city, I guess I go to war every night. If you have reality shoved in your face every night, you'd realize TV and films are very fake, preachy, and silly. And I've learned to laugh at what is not real, but how naive and gullible people take so seriously.
I think this is a wonderful message, thank you for posting it.
Yeah I wish girls would be girls and men would be men. I was fortunate to find a girly girl and very sweet and beautiful and mature, she's from Germany, and I'm from Pennsylvania, she was an exchange student here in Pennsylvania, and she went back to Germany last year, she won't be back until next year, I love her, and I have to work at it.
Back when America was great!
At 18.21 the woman is pouring mothballs into the clothes. My grandmother used mothballs to keep moths from eating the fabrics but the smell was awful and I can still remember that pungent smell that made me feel sick.
22:40 - State Fair of Texas!!! Big Tex, pre-burn.
If only we could go back to those days !!
Seeing this is very fascinating. I wasn't born until 7 years later.
What is not shown... living on G&H stamps/Blue Chip stamps. "Man of the house" had credit cards his wife could not, til 1984.
And yet people survived. Maybe that was your life, but not everyone's. My mother in law had her own charge accounts and property in the 50s. You need to get other points of view besides leftist ones.
Me looking at videos of the past cuz it’s 2020 and it’s crazy
This was really well written and filmed. Wow.
Where did it all go wrong. More polite and respectable then. When women looked like women. Very elegant.
Can you imagine these brats today being concerned if their hands are clean to eat ice cream, hell, they won't look away long enough from the I-Phone to eat ice cream, always connected, form of slavery we have bestowed upon ourselves.
I really like the background music.
thanks for sharing.
Good old days gone by! My the economy! Do we think it will get better in our future? Better education, jobs, what do think? Food for thought.
Just goes to show you, men and women need each other!
Equality wise, yes......
All those pristine neighborhoods are gone, they are run down, dead yards and garbage and trash everywhere...The campaign in those days was "Keep America Beautiful"... Lady Bird Johnson
my friend's husband is a stay-at-home Dad. Glad we've come around: the concept is great, but had problems -- like pigeon holing gender roles -- so we fixed that.
Dang! Lincoln's death wasn't even a century ago when this was made.
Hey- where's the voice track? I see people talking, but can't hear 'em...just background music.
(1) What the purpose of this movie? Who was it intended for? High School home economics? (2) That kid is the world's greatest trumpeter and never had a lesson!!!
ewWWW my gawd!. at 9:00 there are canned fried grass hoppers on the shelf in-between the tinned eel and cannned rattlesnake. !!!
+majidi And it was real, too! www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1950s-BONAVITA-FRIED-GRASSOPPERS-UNUSED-FULL-CAN-JAPAN-IMPORT-1-2-OZ-/371439669379
Also chocolate-covered ants. I thought you would like that.
Thank God for moms
A Chevy ad disguised as a documentary.
Okay, I'll say it. The guys were *WAY* cuter back then.
Nowadays, if you're well-dressed. You will get mugged or robbed in public especially in big cities like New York and LA. Some kids get beaten for their tennis shoes
My wife was bred to be Woman American. We have no kids yet she goes on with the role. God has other plans for us.
Yes, I listened to and asked questions to older people a LOT, in the US and Europe. One thing many Americans don't know is that the 1920s were quite a horrible time there! Workers had no rights there, for one thing!
En mi modesta opinión, creo que estos documentales eran más bien una manera de "educar" a las familias en buenas prácticas, rentabilizar los recursos, cuidado de los hijos, siempre teniendo en cuenta que en aquellos tiempos el papel de la mujer se circunscribía, salvo honrosas excepciones, al hogar y cuidado de los hijos, Guste más o menos, desde luego es innegable el valor histórico de estas imágenes. Gracias tvdays!!!!!
bag of chips chocolate milk and rocky and bullwinkle on the old tv
I wonder what this would be like if it was 2020 and in the same tone
It would be called a Saturday Night Live skit :-)
I have that exact same cutting board.
I like your slogan.
The whole theme of this video is thrift. What happened to Americans??
+Ellen DL this was before easy credit(cheap money).at that time you could get 5% interest on a passbook savings account.
Food stamps doled out to 37% of households as of 2010 so grocery prices could be shot up 40%. Grocery stores and the food industry have lobbyists you know.
Awesome.
Why You Tube showing more film from the 40s, 50s, and 60s since the Coronavirus.
The problem with our society today is greed. Not just corporate greed either. Every time minimum wage goes up, everything else seems to double or triple. People get mad and wonder why this happens, so they get more raises and everything goes up again. So they get mad again. But what's not getting through to people, is it costs money to make money. When minimum wage goes up, their boss has to increase the wages of all their workers. Otherwise the ones with entry level jobs would be making more than people who have been there for years. How fair would that be? To keep from going bankrupt after paying all their workers, they have no choice but to raise prices in extreme. And the property owners that are raising your rent...well their taxes went up so the cities and government can pay their workers. It's not rocket science. Sometimes problems can be solved by looking to the past. Like maybe not living beyond your means so you can actually save for what's important. Example...someone raising a family on minimum wage, probably shouldn't buy a $1000 phone when they can get a cheap smartphone for $100.
Weasley family 7:30
Great memories..😍😘😍💞🌸💟💟💞👑👑🌸💝💝😍🥀🥀🌻🥀💞🌸
i need a time machine so i can relive 1962 for a week, and never come back to 2020. no covid 19 was ever heard of.
Guess what month it is....
You guessed it reparations month. Now gibs me that.
What a creepy, propaganda filled show. This portrayed the early 60’s for a very small group. And what they showed were cardboard people. Do you really believe things were so perfect? I was born in 1956. There were plenty of problems; on the surface and hidden.
looks like she was putting mothballs in a bag for storage to keep moths out, etc.
People should realize that this was before the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. Literally, even in California there are property deeds from this time period with covenants that prohibit non-Caucasians from purchasing certain property. Just as this happy family was being filmed Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting segregation and at this point in time we still didn't have Miranda warning rights.
Yup. These fucking idiots commenting on this page just love romanticising the past. Funny thing is that plenty of them complain about how self-centered and cynical the world's become these days, and that the 60's were "simpler, more trusting times". I suppose it's easy to look over the fact that minorities were treated like dogs and that blacks weren't allowed to use the same restrooms and buses as Caucasians if you're white yourself. America today is far from equal, but huge strides have been made since the 60's. Blacks aren't structurally ostracised from society and aren't legally forced to sit in the back of the bus anymore.
Watch "Wealthy Middle Class Blacks in Los Angeles, 1960s @ ua-cam.com/video/2BUD70Lpydo/v-deo.html
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
This was awesome! Make America Classy Again!