"Play clothes" brought back memories of the iron-on patches on blue jeans when we wore holes in them. The iron-ons would last a few weeks the come off in the wash machine. Great summer memories.
@@samanthab1923 Why do kids want brand new pants that have holes in the knees? And sell for a hundred dollars a pair or more? 🤔. When I was a kid I wanted new clothes that LOOKED brand new.
@alfredo7843 ... I thought the _exact_ same thing when he talked about "play clothes." Mom had her sewing machine, and she'd "patch" our jeans. In summer, she'd make "cut offs" (short pants) by cutting at the knees the "holes" off, and _viola_ short pants !!
@@glennso47 Crazy right? First of all my parents would never let us leave the house dressed in “rags”! Nevermind the price. Not happening. I got my son hooked on thrift stores early. He has a better wardrobe than most grown men. Cashmere overcoats & blazers. Burberry trenches. Loves wide wale corduroys & Brooks Bros. oxfords.
Born in ‘43…so you can just imagine the wonderful wholesomeness I experienced as a child. Lived on a farm. 5 siblings. Stay at home mom. Dad was always there to keep us in line, even tho he had a regular job “in town”.
Born in 1950, you are so 100% right. The moral majority existed then along with freedom of speech of which both are totally gone today replaced my the PC movement. What tremendous fond memories of I had of that era.
I was born in early 57' and still have a few toys from the late 50s. A teddy bear, a Marx Train set and a View Master 3D Stereo scope. My brother who is older still has his Radio Flyer wagon from Xmas 1958 or 59. And yes definately a better time. Today America is a true sh!thole.
Once a day remember to have a little fun whatever it is? Whether it’s eating an ice cream or drinking a soda or watching your favorite show on MeTV! Not normal cases but in many cases age is a state of mind❤😊
For my Mom she said it was a wonderful time, lots to do outside, you never wanted to be inside specially in nice weather and sitting around you never did. Kids were very active back then! Made there own fun! Thanks for sharing!👍
My mom would lock us out in the yard when we were little! Had to get the housework done. I guess we got the hint because later on we just took off. Any number of places to see & things to do.
Yes, kids still played outside in the 70s clear up to the early 2000s, as If no one beyond the 50s did so! When, my daughter was growing up and, if we were in a area where we weren’t near no one, to make sure she was safe and, she had to play by a field, I went with her for sure and, we would do what activity she chose, in fact, I would keep her out as long as I could and, if she rode her bike, somewhere, I would walk along with her! You definitely had to do this more in the 2000s if you couldn’t look out and see your kids to keep a eye on them anyway. You felt more safer if you were right there with them. And, luckily one place we lived at for quite sometime, there was a park near by!
_... Kids were very active back then! ..._ That's also why there was one "fat kid" at school. The other 99.9% of us were playing, riding our bikes, baseball, kick-the-can, etc. etc. etc. We were much healthier back then, too.
@@josephgaviota it's a good point. My mom was born in 49 and I've looked at her class pictures and there were no fat kids. You could also argue that the food may have been better too back then.
Agree ... dad _enforced_ stay at least six feet away from the TV. Gamma rays or something was going to get us. But don't forget ... Hey Donnie, put it on channel 7 ... *WE* were the remote controls back then.
@@yankee2666 there probably wasn't any mention of the struggle of the disabled back then during the time of racism, sexism, antisemitism, abs ableism. Today offers a much better environment.
@@Dallas_K spoken like a truly privileged idiot. Should you ever necomd disabled in any way remember go not use anything that only exists because of the ada. Do not not use any technology. Just say home all the time for someone else to take care of.
I was born in March of 1946 and remember it all. Where I was from (Louisiana) Saddle Shoes were called "Saddle Oxfords". I liked Davy Crockett like most kids, in 1970 during my 2nd tour in Vietnam I got to meet Fess Parker at a USO canteen in Da Nang. I was surprised how tall he was and how nice he was which I expected from Davey Crockett "The King of the Wild Frontier".
I was born in 1946, and I remember an older neighbor girl's poodle skirt and saddle oxfords. She also wore snug "peddle pushers" when she rode her fat tired girl's 26" bicycle with a coaster brake. I learned to ride on her bike. Our car was a 1941 Studebaker.
Born in ‘52 and remember many of these things. Our TV was a 17” Muntz. I know many say it but it truly was the best decade to grow up in. It was a time of discovery, innovation and happiness.
A few you tube guys have calming voices, and you're right, it _IS_ wonderful. There's a cooking guy, who makes nice home-made recipes, and I LOVE to listen to him, too.
A lot of things in this video were still true in the 70s. After Saturday morning cartoons, the rest of the day was spent playing outside. When we heard the ice cream truck coming, we ran inside to ask Mom and Dad for money.🍦😃 🏈
We hated the ice cream man as children. My friend and I would throw rocks at the truck because he drove past our farms. Our parents wouldn't give us money for anything. He drove past playing little brown jug and he'd have to go out of his way to do so. When I here kids talk about allowance it makes my skin crawl. Quoting my father "me allowing you to live is your allowance". Growing up on a farm as an only child ment there was never playtime. You worked like a a dog all weekend. On school days it was work till the bus came and work the moment you got home and you were lucky to have time for homework when the day was done. In my experience the people that look back at their childhood with nostalgia were the ones spoiled and catered to
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
Born in '54 I remember the Howdy Doody show on TV as well Roy Rogers. I always waited for the Good Humor truck in summer months. Also recall girls wearing saddle shoes with bobby socks. My father gassed up our Oldsmobile with $2 worth of fuel every week - boy, what a change!
In the 70s the hearing that trucks bells made all of us kids get out of the pond and have our change ready for a strawberry shortcake or chocolate eclair. I was born in 1966 and my older siblings were 61,59,57. So I was always being draged all over the place. Parents made the siblings watch the younger ones back then. I watched them and experienced a lot for that time. They smoke drank and drove cars and dated people that they weren't supposed to. All this was a front row seat to see the seventies show. I tapped a good keg at 8 and lit bongs and campfire and fetched beers. Let's just say I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for them. You do an awesome job stirring up the memories! Keep them coming!
Me and my Pa set up our old 1930s Lionel train every year at Christmas time, until he passed at 79 in 2002. Those years at Christmas are some of my most cherished memories. RIP Papa.
I was born in 1960 (hubby in 1952) so many of the stuff from the 50's carried over for me. My teens were the 70's, but it was still much better than today!
The fifties were a great time to grow up especially if you were a teenager as I was the rise of true rock and roll, the most beautiful sand iconic cars,roller skating rinks, playing outdoors till moms called your name and then it was home for the young kids but teenagers were allowed to stay out till 9 pm. The greatest years to grow up in.
I absolutely love your channel! It’s a beautiful thing to be able to take a trip back and see how much better we lived in America. It’s really sad what has happened to our country and world. It sickens me and to see so much bad things I am reminded of how the Bible says it will be like this. Thank you for giving us a good feeling of how it was and what we miss so much ….
Meh. What were blind people doing back then? Meanwhile, I have ice cream in the freezer. My TV is a 55in. My laptop allows me to consume all sorts of information. Minivans are a thing now and seatbelts have saved my family from trips to the hospital. Things are more expensive, but that's why we needed the minimum wage to keep up. Should I keep going?
@@johnclaybaugh9536 I can tell you that people actually interacted with people and had real relationships instead of imaginary online ones. They were more fit. Kids played outside and actually got exercise. There was patriotism just to name a few. Oh, we had ice cream in the freezer then also.
I was born in the 70s, but I was always obsessed with the 50s. Still am. How I wish life today could be like the 50s. It was such a memorable time to live in ❤
In the 1960's, when elementary school let out, we'd walk home, change into our "play" clothes and then, if it was nice outside, we'd go play until dinner. After dinner, we'd go back outside to play and my parents expected me to *be home* when the street lights came on. :D Rules weren't made to be broken. They were made to help everyone learn to be more thoughtful and dependable.
@@appleforever6664 :) No reason why it can't happen again. There is a Majority of decent people in the USA and we've overcome other challenges before. It was certainly a great way to grow up. :D
Grew up in the 2000/2010s I had so much fun stuff like video games and internet, but I think it would be great to give it all up to be able to grow up in the 50s 😢
A great president deserves to have his name spelled right. It is Reagan. Donald Regan was Secretary of Treasury and Chief of Staff under Reagan and quite the subject of contempt by Nancy Reagan.
Having been born in 1950 I remember all of this. Given what we see happening around us in this present time I'm grateful to have lived in the best of times.
You sound a lot like my grandfather (on my moms side) but my father would've described it as hell. My grandfather was from a wealthy family in the suburbs but my father was from a poor family in the country. My father still had to cut wood for heating and cooking. They pumped their own water because no indoor plumbing so it ment using an outhouse and taking baths in a washtub from oldest to youngest. He didn't have a TV until 61. They hunted food and sometimes they depended on that. He hated the 50s and said he went into the army because it was better than home
I was born in the late 50s but I can still relate to most of this. I also had saddle shoes in 3rd grade which I loved though they weren't the standard at that time. I had to go to a foot doctor in order to get a pair I wanted them so badly!
I was leaving a restaurant in El Salvador 1973 when I saw the coolest motorcycle. As I was admiring it the owner another Gringo said “you like my bike?” It was Robert Smith AKA Buffalo Bob of the Howdy Doody show. Honda had given him a pre-release Goldwing 1000 to test. He said he had ridden it through Mexico and was going to ride to Chile. I was a little old for Howdy Doody, but remembered the show.
I recognized just about everything in these videos. Those striped polo shirts, I remember my brother wearing those. I had several of those dresses with the smocked fronts and the banded sleeves. I was also such a skinny little kid (at least until I hit puberty) that I never had a dress with bands that fit snugly around my arms. And the Good Humor truck in the town where I lived had coconut popsicles. My favorite, although just about everyone else thought I had lost it.
After Mom and Dad received the first royalty check from my music career , we went out bought a brand new color TV 📺 ❤️ , 2 Cadillacs and we took three vacations at year 🦅🇺🇸🦅‼️ thank you for the memories 👍👍👍👍👍‼️
I Am from 64 and had play clothes watched Davy Crockett and Daniel boone, and waited for the ice cream truck , so lucky to have been brought up in this era without the distractions of digital gadgets.
Yep, the days when you could stay out all day until after dark, drank straight from the garden hose, rode in the back window of my Dads Buick. And yet I somehow survived
Born in ‘47…and I fondly recall all of this. Dangerous activities made us smarter. We overcame fears, learned about nature, learned to get along with others, learned courage, learned to make good decisions, learned responsibility, etc. By the time we were 18, we were ready for adulthood…we had learned to work, handle money, pay bills, some were ready for marriage. We signed up for the draft, went to college to actually learn something so we could be beneficial to our society….in other words…we had matured. There were always exceptions, of course…but most of us succeeded at life because of our independent childhoods.
I remember back when I was a kid we had black and white TVs and color had not hit the scene. And then after he did I only knew a couple of people that had a color TV. And most of the shows weren't in color yet anyway. LOL I remember watching Gilligan's Island in black and white when it was brand new in the second season it was in color but not at my house. It just said in color on the screen. So it's always fun to go stay with some relative and watch cartoons on Saturday and color it was like a whole new world. 😂
We would break off a couple rolls from the packaged roll, like @2:55, flatten them a bit so they wouldn't roll away and then pounded that with a hammer. Man, it was loud!!
We didn't have "Good Humor" in my neighborhood, but we did have "Red," the driver of his own ice cream truck ... and as a yute, I spent many an afternoon waiting to hear his ice cream music coming down the street. He also sold frozen candy bars, and I used to like to get one of those. I don't know why, but it was something we didn't normally get. The thin chocolate coating would kind of "break away" leaving the hard interior. Sixty years later, I can still remember it.
We made a big raft for the river. It could hold 3 kids. We rode the tides out, and then used a sail made of an old sheet to go back up the river where we tied the raft. It was about a 6 hour round trip. We'd sometimes ride the raft to a nice spot, tie it up, and then cook hot dogs. We had a blast.
@@davidpearson3304 ahh, good old liberal guilt. There has never been and never will be a time when everyone has it great. The sad thing about this video is that these kids were victims of the same kind of junk marketing that still goes on today. Can you say "fidget spinners"?
I used to visit my grandparents during summer vacations & they lived on a farm. Hated it!!! Worked 7 days a week with livestock & gardening. Food was great though.
My dad was the first TV repairman in our neighborhood but just like the cobbler that makes shoes WE Didn't get a TV till 1961. Play clothes still exist in my vocabulary only I think they are called my gardening clothes 😂. Much simpler time.
The best part about the 50’s were everyone lived near each other. I was always surrounded by family. I’m still close with my cousins & their kids. Tough part is the loss of all my older relations.
I did almost the same things during 1970’s when I was little kid. I even remembered going a gas station when there was a tenant working at the station to fill up the car or checking the oil. Even having a Good Humor Man or an Ice Cream truck go around the neighborhood. Another one was going to a drive in restaurant to eat in the car. I grew up in the 70’s and the 80’s. I do remembered a lot of stuff in my lifetime.
This was a time when kids could play outside without worry. You came in when the street lights came on. Gas was cheap, so was groceries, homes and cars. Oh the memories these videos of long ago brings back. Life was simple then. Moms stayed home and dads went to work. Thank you for another trip down memory lane. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy trails to you. God bless.
I remember going into a store and seeing a big pile of coon skin caps on a large table I was so exicted to get one, I remember proudly wearing it home.
At the gasoline filling stations, the pump jockeys gave 5 point service: 1-Filled your tank with gasoline 2-checked the air in all your tires; 3- Checked the water in the radiator; 4- Checked your oil level; and 5- Cleaned/washed all your windows.
And very many will endeavor to convince others not then there, this for their selected wicked-intending purposes (tho likely mostly subconscious AS CONFIGURED), that it was terrible and horrible, THEY THEMSELVES not even having lived during it nor probably even hear. We exist now in a world peopled by liars, prevaricators, hypocrites and basically the functional-driven-insane (AND WORSE!), by what has concerted to create their near-alternate species! ALTERNATE SPECIES . . . nearly!!! With such a filthy swirling garbage pool as we all now endure, I for one at least am N--O--T 'OK' with it. Contrarily we, so I suppose to be, CAN believe facilely that, THEY believe IT as being simply past-marvelous -- a wonder of it's sordid sort!!! And so resulantly, they can actually DEFEND their present living horror, because they are part of it as fully accommodated to it's unending, constant perditions. It never stops! We that have memories of that time of earlier, OBSERVE what character lack and honor deficit has created, and it stinks of a unique vileness unequaled! Of course there is much, much more but, here mercifully I shall leave-off . . .
Man, I identify with most of this. We had a jungle gym like the one at 1:43 mark on our grade school playground. It was on asphalt. A few times a year someone hanging upside down would fall on their head. Back in class- “What happened to Billy”. “He cracked his head open” “ Oh.” Then the ambulance would pull up and we wouldn’t see the kid for a couple of days. They eventually replaced the asphalt with dirt, and years later some kind of rubber base. Our first TV was an Admiral with a pretty small screen. I watched Captain Kangaroo and westerns on it and the 1957 and 8 World Series. Then it was a Sylvania, when that crapped out we went a few weeks without one. Finally, around 1965 we got a color Zenith set, and it was like a whole new world opened up before your eyes. Remember the TV repair man coming over with his carry case of tubes? If he had to take the set back to the shop you wouldn’t see it for a while. I remember getting a Sheriff’s kit that holstered a cap gun on each hip along with a hat and star. Boy, was I styling. When you shot someone, they were supposed to fall down when you said “Bang bang you’re dead”. One kid kept telling me I missed, even at point bank. “Ha Ha! You missed me!”. I finally had to push the little prick down. Of course, I got in trouble. Life lesson learned at 5 years old: not everyone plays fair.
Born in 2001... I'm lucky enough to have experienced play clothes. I lived in the sticks. I adventures out in the woods and in the yard from the morning to sundown. When I was old enough, I was allowed to bike further than a mile from the house. Also, I remember "if you don't go outside, you're doing chores"... outside I went
Fess Parker went to school with my uncle. Such wonderful times and yes for the play clothes. And equally special New clothes for church. Loved my Saddle shoes and skates with the key . Great video as always.
It wasn’t until HS that I read friends talking about people I didn’t know, doing the craziest things. Soap Operas! My mom & Nan would never dream of wasting their time.
Well I remember watching "The Liberace Show" with the piano and chandelier on his piano, "Queen for a Day" and "Divorce Court" when I was about 4. "Divorce Court" was my favorite with all that fake dramatic acting. Divorce in those days was quite rare and created Divorcees who were never invited to parties. Oh, and we can't forget Miss Frances and Ding Dong School!!!
Grew up with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans/ I loved that show. I always played Dale Evans when kids in the area were playing cowboys and Indians. She was my role model. I hated saddle shoes because of the color combination. I only wanted shoes of one color.
Just a quick thing about Cinderella... The one with Julie Andrews was a version done by Rogers and Hammerstein and two more versions of it were done on TV as well. In 1965 there was the version with Leslie Anne Warren in the titular role and then Brandy took the title slot in 1997. NOTE: This is just the Rogers and Hammerstein version. I'm not including the countless other versions that are also available (including the Disney version - even though it was released in 1950).
"Play clothes" brought back memories of the iron-on patches on blue jeans when we wore holes in them. The iron-ons would last a few weeks the come off in the wash machine. Great summer memories.
I remember those in my moms sewing basket
@@samanthab1923 Why do kids want brand new pants that have holes in the knees? And sell for a hundred dollars a pair or more? 🤔. When I was a kid I wanted new clothes that LOOKED brand new.
@alfredo7843 ... I thought the _exact_ same thing when he talked about "play clothes."
Mom had her sewing machine, and she'd "patch" our jeans.
In summer, she'd make "cut offs" (short pants) by cutting at the knees the "holes" off, and _viola_ short pants !!
@@glennso47 Crazy right? First of all my parents would never let us leave the house dressed in “rags”! Nevermind the price. Not happening. I got my son hooked on thrift stores early. He has a better wardrobe than most grown men. Cashmere overcoats & blazers. Burberry trenches. Loves wide wale corduroys & Brooks Bros. oxfords.
Tuff skins pants with reenforced knee's.
Brings a tear to my eyes. People don't know how good life was.
I was born in 1961, and even back then life for kids was very different and nice. I wish I could go back and leave these times.
Born in ‘43…so you can just imagine the wonderful wholesomeness I experienced as a child. Lived on a farm. 5 siblings. Stay at home mom. Dad was always there to keep us in line, even tho he had a regular job “in town”.
So very true
Born in 1950, you are so 100% right. The moral majority existed then along with freedom of speech of which both are totally gone today replaced my the PC movement. What tremendous fond memories of I had of that era.
I was born in early 57' and still have a few toys from the late 50s. A teddy bear, a Marx Train set and a View Master 3D Stereo scope. My brother who is older still has his Radio Flyer wagon from Xmas 1958 or 59. And yes definately a better time. Today America is a true sh!thole.
The older I get the more I appreciate these videos. I wouldn't trade those times for anything
I can remember almost everything here. Sure makes me feel old. A great time to be a kid, though.
Like wise !
Once a day remember to have a little fun whatever it is? Whether it’s eating an ice cream or drinking a soda or watching your favorite show on MeTV! Not normal cases but in many cases age is a state of mind❤😊
🤠💪❤️ I had Roy Rogers costume growing up in the 60 s after my mom threw away my Davy Crockett C😃😃N skin hat ❓❓❓
@@jadeblues357 me too I remember going to the drugstore and buying a real Cherry Coke ❤️🧋🥤 I always ask her to put extra syrup in my soda pop 😃🥤‼️
For my Mom she said it was a wonderful time, lots to do outside, you never wanted to be inside specially in nice weather and sitting around you never did. Kids were very active back then! Made there own fun! Thanks for sharing!👍
My mom would lock us out in the yard when we were little! Had to get the housework done. I guess we got the hint because later on we just took off. Any number of places to see & things to do.
Yes, kids still played outside in the 70s clear up to the early 2000s, as If no one beyond the 50s did so! When, my daughter was growing up and, if we were in a area where we weren’t near no one, to make sure she was safe and, she had to play by a field, I went with her for sure and, we would do what activity she chose, in fact, I would keep her out as long as I could and, if she rode her bike, somewhere, I would walk along with her! You definitely had to do this more in the 2000s if you couldn’t look out and see your kids to keep a eye on them anyway. You felt more safer if you were right there with them. And, luckily one place we lived at for quite sometime, there was a park near by!
"Be home when the streetlights come on!" I can still hear that in my Mom's voice.
_... Kids were very active back then! ..._
That's also why there was one "fat kid" at school. The other 99.9% of us were playing, riding our bikes, baseball, kick-the-can, etc. etc. etc.
We were much healthier back then, too.
@@josephgaviota it's a good point. My mom was born in 49 and I've looked at her class pictures and there were no fat kids.
You could also argue that the food may have been better too back then.
Don't sit too close to the television set, kids!
Agree ... dad _enforced_ stay at least six feet away from the TV.
Gamma rays or something was going to get us.
But don't forget ... Hey Donnie, put it on channel 7 ... *WE* were the remote controls back then.
😂 👍🏻
Mama was afraid I'd train my eyes to only see things up-close, so she kept reminding me to sit away from the tv.
@@echoecho3108 😂 same here. It’ll hurt your eyes. Give ya the headache…
@@phyllisjohnson1019
Guess she was right. I'm 73 now, and have to wear glasses for long distances. 🙄
A time when less was truly more!
Unless you couldn't see it I guess. Then you didn't have much choice but to be dependent on others.
@@yankee2666 there probably wasn't any mention of the struggle of the disabled back then during the time of racism, sexism, antisemitism, abs ableism. Today offers a much better environment.
@@johnclaybaugh9536 Ism, ism, ism. You would never be a survivor.
@@Dallas_K spoken like a truly privileged idiot.
Should you ever necomd disabled in any way remember go not use anything that only exists because of the ada. Do not not use any technology. Just say home all the time for someone else to take care of.
@@Dallas_Kgood ole days is a lie
I was born in March of 1946 and remember it all. Where I was from (Louisiana) Saddle Shoes were called "Saddle Oxfords". I liked Davy Crockett like most kids, in 1970 during my 2nd tour in Vietnam I got to meet Fess Parker at a USO canteen in Da Nang. I was surprised how tall he was and how nice he was which I expected from Davey Crockett "The King of the Wild Frontier".
I was born in 1961 and we wore Saddle Oxford shoes ❤
same year and month as i!
I was born in 1946, and I remember an older neighbor girl's poodle skirt and saddle oxfords. She also wore snug "peddle pushers" when she rode her fat tired girl's 26" bicycle with a coaster brake. I learned to ride on her bike. Our car was a 1941 Studebaker.
I wore saddle oxfords to school every year. I actually miss them now. LOL.
"I love to hear the stories of Vietnam veterans"?
Born in ‘52 and remember many of these things. Our TV was a 17” Muntz. I know many say it but it truly was the best decade to grow up in. It was a time of discovery, innovation and happiness.
Four TV stations if you lived in a city. My dad bought a TV in 1951 to watch the Boston Celtics and Willie Mays.
Bonus, were then able to enjoy all the upcoming decades too
I feel my blood pressure lowering when watch and listen to your calming voice. Thank you!!
A few you tube guys have calming voices, and you're right, it _IS_ wonderful. There's a cooking guy, who makes nice home-made recipes, and I LOVE to listen to him, too.
I was born in 1959. Growing up as a sixties kid I too had designated play clothes.
Nostalgia is powerful. Family game night sounds like a damn good idea instead of the digital distractions.
I used to have single-mom family game night back in the 90s. Nothing like trying to get a middle aged woman interested in Risk and Battleship
My life would be literal garbage without technology. I'm so fortunate to not have been forced to live through that hell.
Family game night sounds awful
He forgot to mention the View Master 3D Stereo scope viewers that were real popular back then. My brother and I still have ours along with the slides.
My first view of the Grand Canyon, and the pyramids were on Viewmasters !!
@Nicky. Yeah. I remember the 3D View Masters in the 1960s.
*Hopalong Cassidy was all the rage!*
An evolution of the steriopticans of the 1890s and 1900s.
I was born in 1948 - remember the 1950's very well. It was a great time period to be a kid.
amen !!! good old days
BabyBoomers RULE!!
A lot of things in this video were still true in the 70s. After Saturday morning cartoons, the rest of the day was spent playing outside. When we heard the ice cream truck coming, we ran inside to ask Mom and Dad for money.🍦😃 🏈
I was doing that stuff in the 80s and 90s.
We hated the ice cream man as children. My friend and I would throw rocks at the truck because he drove past our farms. Our parents wouldn't give us money for anything. He drove past playing little brown jug and he'd have to go out of his way to do so. When I here kids talk about allowance it makes my skin crawl. Quoting my father "me allowing you to live is your allowance". Growing up on a farm as an only child ment there was never playtime. You worked like a a dog all weekend. On school days it was work till the bus came and work the moment you got home and you were lucky to have time for homework when the day was done. In my experience the people that look back at their childhood with nostalgia were the ones spoiled and catered to
That's exactly how it was in the '80s too. 😊
@@bluestorm9651 not
@@hellhound1389 not
One two buckle my shoes....who remembers that one?
Three-Four close the door. :)
Five six pick up sticks.
Seven eight lay them straight.
@@TheOtherBill Nine-Ten, a big fat hen!
Nine ten say it again
As a side note your 50's and 60's recollection videos are my favorite ones bringing back many fond memories of a very long time ago.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
I was born in 1958 and I remember all of this. I love memories past , but I enjoy looking forward to tomorrow .
Born in '54 I remember the Howdy Doody show on TV as well Roy Rogers. I always waited for the Good Humor truck in summer months. Also recall girls wearing saddle shoes with bobby socks. My father gassed up our Oldsmobile with $2 worth of fuel every week - boy, what a change!
In the 70s the hearing that trucks bells made all of us kids get out of the pond and have our change ready for a strawberry shortcake or chocolate eclair. I was born in 1966 and my older siblings were 61,59,57. So I was always being draged all over the place. Parents made the siblings watch the younger ones back then. I watched them and experienced a lot for that time. They smoke drank and drove cars and dated people that they weren't supposed to. All this was a front row seat to see the seventies show. I tapped a good keg at 8 and lit bongs and campfire and fetched beers. Let's just say I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for them. You do an awesome job stirring up the memories! Keep them coming!
I wasn’t born til 1961 but I always think of the 50’s as being innocent and fun! ❤
It was the last of our innocence. The 60s came and Vietnam and the counter culture happened. That was it for innocence in America.
Me to. 61".
What’s so fun about “innocence” and gullibility?
@@joerichardwad1645 It beats being indoctrinated
Me and my Pa set up our old 1930s Lionel train every year at Christmas time, until he passed at 79 in 2002. Those years at Christmas are some of my most cherished memories. RIP Papa.
I was born at the very end of the 50s but still a carryover of memories from my early days.
I was born in 1957,I was raised in the 1960's. Those were the good old days and enjoyed this video.
Yeh me too. Feb. 57. 57 was a great year. Cool cars and great music.
@@matrox I was born in June 1957.
I was born in 1960 (hubby in 1952) so many of the stuff from the 50's carried over for me. My teens were the 70's, but it was still much better than today!
I still watch the Roy Rogers show every Saturday morning. Great memories here. Thanks for putting this together for us.
The fifties were a great time to grow up especially if you were a teenager as I was the rise of true rock and roll, the most beautiful sand iconic cars,roller skating rinks, playing outdoors till moms called your name and then it was home for the young kids but teenagers were allowed to stay out till 9 pm. The greatest years to grow up in.
I absolutely love your channel! It’s a beautiful thing to be able to take a trip back and see how much better we lived in America. It’s really sad what has happened to our country and world. It sickens me and to see so much bad things I am reminded of how the Bible says it will be like this. Thank you for giving us a good feeling of how it was and what we miss so much ….
Being a kid of the 50's/60's this sure brings back great memories. To see the dumpster fire the country has turned into is so disheartening.
Fortunately after COVID, I can no longer smell the burning trash.
Meh. What were blind people doing back then?
Meanwhile, I have ice cream in the freezer.
My TV is a 55in. My laptop allows me to consume all sorts of information.
Minivans are a thing now and seatbelts have saved my family from trips to the hospital.
Things are more expensive, but that's why we needed the minimum wage to keep up.
Should I keep going?
@@johnclaybaugh9536 I can tell you that people actually interacted with people and had real relationships instead of imaginary online ones. They were more fit. Kids played outside and actually got exercise. There was patriotism just to name a few. Oh, we had ice cream in the freezer then also.
@@Dadsezso and yet we have all these things now too.
And we have more knowledge and the ADA. I can go out by myself if I want.
@@Dadsezso, and it was real ice cream. Even the cheap stuff was as good as the overpriced organic stuff of today.
I am always impressed of all the vintage photos there are in these video's
I was born in the 70s, but I was always obsessed with the 50s. Still am. How I wish life today could be like the 50s. It was such a memorable time to live in ❤
In the 1960's, when elementary school let out, we'd walk home, change into our "play" clothes and then, if it was nice outside, we'd go play until dinner. After dinner, we'd go back outside to play and my parents expected me to *be home* when the street lights came on. :D Rules weren't made to be broken. They were made to help everyone learn to be more thoughtful and dependable.
In the 2020s, none what you described happens. 😢
@@appleforever6664 :) No reason why it can't happen again. There is a Majority of decent people in the USA and we've overcome other challenges before. It was certainly a great way to grow up. :D
Grew up in the 2000/2010s I had so much fun stuff like video games and internet, but I think it would be great to give it all up to be able to grow up in the 50s 😢
Thanks for the sweet look back 🙂
Thanks for the memories.
Sad my grandkids can't live how I did....so much happier times.
Your grandkids have much more opportunity now and may be able to reverse what you people did to the planet.
I was born in 1979, so the 80s was my 50s. Even the 1980s felt a lot better than today. We had Regan and a booming economy. Good times!
A great president deserves to have his name spelled right. It is Reagan. Donald Regan was Secretary of Treasury and Chief of Staff under Reagan and quite the subject of contempt by Nancy Reagan.
I was born in 1952. This video brought back so many wonderful memories. Thank you.
Life was so different then. Great time to grow up.
Love your channel! Brought back memories of polishing my saddle shoes to keep them white.
That Sani-white shoe polish nurses used
@@samanthab1923 I can still visualize the PICTURE of a "nurse" on the cardboard box.
@@josephgaviota Right? My grandma on my dads side was a nurse. Also my mom liked to polish our white sneakers with it!
Having been born in 1950 I remember all of this. Given what we see happening around us in this present time I'm grateful to have lived in the best of times.
You sound a lot like my grandfather (on my moms side) but my father would've described it as hell. My grandfather was from a wealthy family in the suburbs but my father was from a poor family in the country. My father still had to cut wood for heating and cooking. They pumped their own water because no indoor plumbing so it ment using an outhouse and taking baths in a washtub from oldest to youngest. He didn't have a TV until 61. They hunted food and sometimes they depended on that. He hated the 50s and said he went into the army because it was better than home
Wonderful memories of a happy time.
There was nothing happy about it.
I was born in the mid-1950s and I remember all of these things. So nostalgic.
I was born in the late 50s but I can still relate to most of this. I also had saddle shoes in 3rd grade which I loved though they weren't the standard at that time. I had to go to a foot doctor in order to get a pair I wanted them so badly!
I was leaving a restaurant in El Salvador 1973 when I saw the coolest motorcycle. As I was admiring it the owner another Gringo said “you like my bike?” It was Robert Smith AKA Buffalo Bob of the Howdy Doody show. Honda had given him a pre-release Goldwing 1000 to test. He said he had ridden it through Mexico and was going to ride to Chile. I was a little old for Howdy Doody, but remembered the show.
I recognized just about everything in these videos. Those striped polo shirts, I remember my brother wearing those. I had several of those dresses with the smocked fronts and the banded sleeves. I was also such a skinny little kid (at least until I hit puberty) that I never had a dress with bands that fit snugly around my arms. And the Good Humor truck in the town where I lived had coconut popsicles. My favorite, although just about everyone else thought I had lost it.
Oh, the memories😀. Thank you for sharing❤️
After Mom and Dad received the first royalty check from my music career , we went out bought a brand new color TV 📺 ❤️ , 2 Cadillacs and we took three vacations at year 🦅🇺🇸🦅‼️ thank you for the memories 👍👍👍👍👍‼️
I Am from 64 and had play clothes watched Davy Crockett and Daniel boone, and waited for the ice cream truck , so lucky to have been brought up in this era without the distractions of digital gadgets.
I miss those days!!
You have a perfect smooth Voice… Thank you for ur hard work God Bless You And Please Keep up the good work 😂😮😅🥳🕊️🥂🤩
I remember some of these things well into the time I had my children in the 1970s....miss them.
Feels like I just time traveled. I love it ! Keep up the amazing work ! I’ve been a subscriber for a while .
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO. BROUGHT BACK GOOD MEMORIES
One thing that stands out in MY memory banks is how everything tasted so much better back then.
Yep, the days when you could stay out all day until after dark, drank straight from the garden hose, rode in the back window of my Dads Buick. And yet I somehow survived
Born in ‘47…and I fondly recall all of this. Dangerous activities made us smarter. We overcame fears, learned about nature, learned to get along with others, learned courage, learned to make good decisions, learned responsibility, etc. By the time we were 18, we were ready for adulthood…we had learned to work, handle money, pay bills, some were ready for marriage. We signed up for the draft, went to college to actually learn something so we could be beneficial to our society….in other words…we had matured. There were always exceptions, of course…but most of us succeeded at life because of our independent childhoods.
Yay !!!
BabyBoomers RULE !!
Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee 🎶
"Greenest state in the land of the free! . . . " :o)
Shot him a bar when he was only three
@@rugosetexture2716 Kill a bear when he was only 3. :)
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree....
I remember back when I was a kid we had black and white TVs and color had not hit the scene. And then after he did I only knew a couple of people that had a color TV. And most of the shows weren't in color yet anyway. LOL I remember watching Gilligan's Island in black and white when it was brand new in the second season it was in color but not at my house. It just said in color on the screen. So it's always fun to go stay with some relative and watch cartoons on Saturday and color it was like a whole new world. 😂
I was born in 1961, I still watch the older movies online in B/W, miss them. Colors don't always make for a good movie or show =(
Thanks for the great video - Things I remember - "play clothes" the ice cream truck" - the milk man too! I grew up in the the 60's and 70's
It was fun to "double-up" those roll-caps for an extra bang, or even quadruple them up and smash them with a pointy rock on the pavement!
We would break off a couple rolls from the packaged roll, like @2:55, flatten them a bit so they wouldn't roll away and then pounded that with a hammer. Man, it was loud!!
@@davidgibbs381 Haha! Beat me to it! I was going to say the same thing. Wonderful memories!
@@garrettswoodworx1873 You could also dip them in gasoline and light the strip... POP POP fizzle... POP POP
M-80s were the bomb
We didn't have "Good Humor" in my neighborhood, but we did have "Red," the driver of his own ice cream truck ... and as a yute, I spent many an afternoon waiting to hear his ice cream music coming down the street. He also sold frozen candy bars, and I used to like to get one of those. I don't know why, but it was something we didn't normally get. The thin chocolate coating would kind of "break away" leaving the hard interior. Sixty years later, I can still remember it.
yutes 🙂 🧑🏭👨💼👨✈️
Kids today will never know the good times we had in those days!!!
We made a big raft for the river. It could hold 3 kids. We rode the tides out, and then used a sail made of an old sheet to go back up the river where we tied the raft. It was about a 6 hour round trip. We'd sometimes ride the raft to a nice spot, tie it up, and then cook hot dogs. We had a blast.
AMEN
When times were simple.😊
That reminds me of one of my all time classic “truths to live by”: The simple life is it’s own reward”!!!!!!
And women were relegated to the kitchen. 🙄
@@GeeEm1313 and let’s not even talk about non white people.
@@davidpearson3304 ahh, good old liberal guilt. There has never been and never will be a time when everyone has it great.
The sad thing about this video is that these kids were victims of the same kind of junk marketing that still goes on today. Can you say "fidget spinners"?
I used to visit my grandparents during summer vacations & they lived on a farm. Hated it!!! Worked 7 days a week with livestock & gardening. Food was great though.
My dad was the first TV repairman in our neighborhood but just like the cobbler that makes shoes WE Didn't get a TV till 1961. Play clothes still exist in my vocabulary only I think they are called my gardening clothes 😂. Much simpler time.
It's great to remember....life was gentle..not hateful like now
@Oats J. Mule Me too. Clothes were made better then because they were made in America 🇺🇸.
@Oats J. Mule Thank you. Best wishes to you too.
The best part about the 50’s were everyone lived near each other. I was always surrounded by family. I’m still close with my cousins & their kids. Tough part is the loss of all my older relations.
I didn't arrive until 62', but could still relate in early 70s.
ah how i wish i was 60 years younger again. it was a great time to be a little kid.
I did almost the same things during 1970’s when I was little kid. I even remembered going a gas station when there was a tenant working at the station to fill up the car or checking the oil. Even having a Good Humor Man or an Ice Cream truck go around the neighborhood. Another one was going to a drive in restaurant to eat in the car. I grew up in the 70’s and the 80’s. I do remembered a lot of stuff in my lifetime.
I loved Good Humor!
Good Humor ice cream tasted so good back then.
This was a time when kids could play outside without worry. You came in when the street lights came on. Gas was cheap, so was groceries, homes and cars. Oh the memories these videos of long ago brings back. Life was simple then. Moms stayed home and dads went to work. Thank you for another trip down memory lane. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy trails to you. God bless.
Born in '57, I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Looking back, if I had a choice I'd pick the 50s to grow up in.👍
Super-enjoyable!! Always appreciate your hard work on these videos!
Kids & teenagers certainly were easily amused back in the 50's.
How I envy them. ☺️
We enjoyed life and the times we had. So much has been lost the last fifty years.
I'm 73. Still waiting for Prince Charming.
Wasn't alive in the 50s but looks like a style of life I wouldn't mind going back to. Looks as though everyone isn't out for themselves.
In 1947 we would stand outside the TV store being amazed. We bought our first set in 1948.
I remember going into a store and seeing a big pile of coon skin caps on a large table I was so exicted to get one, I remember proudly wearing it home.
At the gasoline filling stations, the pump jockeys gave 5 point service: 1-Filled your tank with gasoline 2-checked the air in all your tires; 3- Checked the water in the radiator; 4- Checked your oil level; and 5- Cleaned/washed all your windows.
50s, 60s and 70s, were the best times for kids to grow in. If I only had a time machine.
By the mid or late 70s America was becoming a sh!thole. Nothing like today but you could see it happening.
And very many will endeavor to convince others not then there, this for their selected wicked-intending purposes (tho likely mostly subconscious AS CONFIGURED), that it was terrible and horrible, THEY THEMSELVES not even having lived during it nor probably even hear.
We exist now in a world peopled by liars, prevaricators, hypocrites and basically the functional-driven-insane (AND WORSE!), by what has concerted to create their near-alternate species!
ALTERNATE SPECIES . . . nearly!!!
With such a filthy swirling garbage pool as we all now endure, I for one at least am N--O--T 'OK' with it.
Contrarily we, so I suppose to be, CAN believe facilely that, THEY believe IT as being simply past-marvelous -- a wonder of it's sordid sort!!!
And so resulantly, they can actually DEFEND their present living horror, because they are part of it as fully accommodated to it's unending, constant perditions.
It never stops!
We that have memories of that time of earlier, OBSERVE what character lack and honor deficit has created, and it stinks of a unique vileness unequaled!
Of course there is much, much more but, here mercifully I shall leave-off . . .
4:50 I cannot TELL you how many games of Yahtzee I've played with my grandma as a youngster.
Both of my Grandmothers died while I was young so most of the Yahtzee games were played with my mom.
I wasn't around til the late 60's but we still had a sense of family. Only thing that really changed were some items and the clothes.
Man, I identify with most of this. We had a jungle gym like the one at 1:43 mark on our grade school playground. It was on asphalt. A few times a year someone hanging upside down would fall on their head. Back in class- “What happened to Billy”. “He cracked his head open” “ Oh.” Then the ambulance would pull up and we wouldn’t see the kid for a couple of days. They eventually replaced the asphalt with dirt, and years later some kind of rubber base.
Our first TV was an Admiral with a pretty small screen. I watched Captain Kangaroo and westerns on it and the 1957 and 8 World Series. Then it was a Sylvania, when that crapped out we went a few weeks without one. Finally, around 1965 we got a color Zenith set, and it was like a whole new world opened up before your eyes.
Remember the TV repair man coming over with his carry case of tubes? If he had to take the set back to the shop you wouldn’t see it for a while.
I remember getting a Sheriff’s kit that holstered a cap gun on each hip along with a hat and star. Boy, was I styling. When you shot someone, they were supposed to fall down when you said “Bang bang you’re dead”. One kid kept telling me I missed, even at point bank. “Ha Ha! You missed me!”. I finally had to push the little prick down. Of course, I got in trouble. Life lesson learned at 5 years old: not everyone plays fair.
Born in 2001... I'm lucky enough to have experienced play clothes. I lived in the sticks. I adventures out in the woods and in the yard from the morning to sundown. When I was old enough, I was allowed to bike further than a mile from the house. Also, I remember "if you don't go outside, you're doing chores"... outside I went
Fess Parker went to school with my uncle. Such wonderful times and yes for the play clothes. And equally special New clothes for church. Loved my Saddle shoes and skates with the key . Great video as always.
..first sign of summer. THE Good Humor Man...
Who hear remembers wearing Dirty Bucks shoes? I had several pair in the early and mid 60s but they were also popular in the 50s.
We weren't allowed to watch daytime tv. We had to go out and find something to do....bikes,baseball,bug hunting etc. Lol
Neither were we!! And... we were told that watching "too much tv" would "ruin our eyes." 🤣
It wasn’t until HS that I read friends talking about people I didn’t know, doing the craziest things. Soap Operas! My mom & Nan would never dream of wasting their time.
What about Captain Kangaroo? He was a daytime show.
@@raallen1468 Also sitting too close to the tv. We still have to tell our grandkids to not sit so close to the tv (Our 50 inch screen tv!)😮
Well I remember watching "The Liberace Show" with the piano and chandelier on his piano, "Queen for a Day" and "Divorce Court" when I was about 4. "Divorce Court" was my favorite with all that fake dramatic acting. Divorce in those days was quite rare and created Divorcees who were never invited to parties. Oh, and we can't forget Miss Frances and Ding Dong School!!!
Those cowboy cap guns were still around in the 70's, and so were cars with bench seating. My family had several board and card games, as well.
Some of the cap guns were incredibly realistic looking too.
Love Roy . . . 2022 was my Roy Rogers Year. Watched all his films and fell in love with the sons of the Pioneers …… own all Davy Crockett films!! 4:31
Hopalong Cassidy was My cowboy crush....not Roy and let's not forget
Annie Oakly❤
Thanks for the MEMORIES ❤
Grew up with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans/ I loved that show. I always played Dale Evans when kids in the area were playing cowboys and Indians. She was my role model. I hated saddle shoes because of the color combination. I only wanted shoes of one color.
We had alot of the same rules and habits in the 90s. I remember the ice cream truck. Also had to lear how to tie my shoes. We had cap guns
A carrom board was my best present one Christmas. Thanks for the pictures and memories.
Nowadays you can get stuff that used to be play clothes are now available brand new complete with holes in the knees.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 I literally laughed out loud
Just a quick thing about Cinderella...
The one with Julie Andrews was a version done by Rogers and Hammerstein and two more versions of it were done on TV as well. In 1965 there was the version with Leslie Anne Warren in the titular role and then Brandy took the title slot in 1997.
NOTE: This is just the Rogers and Hammerstein version. I'm not including the countless other versions that are also available (including the Disney version - even though it was released in 1950).
Yeah! I fondly remember the later Leslie Ann Warren version.
"Immmpossible!" LOL!!
@@1mespud "... for a plain Country Bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage..."🎵🎶 I love that movie and that song.😄
@@jenniferhansen3622 Me 2!😄
I absolutely hated the saddle shoes!
So did I. We had to wear them as part of a parochial school uniform. After school it was tennis shoes for sure.
When life was easy.. So many memories watching this! Thank you
There was nothing easy about the past.
Hey, how is this wheelchair gonna get up those steps?
Hey, I'm vision impaired, where tf am I?
Who else grabbed Dad's hammer and smashed whole rolls of caps to see what would happen?
Fun times, thanks.
Guilty.
Used to pop them with my thumbnail. Most of the time they just went pffftt with a cloud of smoke. Burned my thumb nail 🤣.
The Good Humor man came to my school at lunch (early 1960s) I used to love it.