That made me think of skiing in the 1970s! There was 'Glacier' brand ski cream (used for face protrction) which had an unmistakeable fragrance. Never seen it since those days
It is so nice to reminisce with people who know what I'm talking about! Growing up in the 50s, 60s and 70s was such a different world than today. It was digitally absent but humanly present. People related to each other one on one not through codes, numbers and digits. For me, this was a much better childhood and adulthood, too. Even if you were a latch key kid, someone in your neighborhood was always available to look after you or talk to you in person! I appreciate this Recollection Road because it represents all we lost. I would like to say and gained but to be honest, I don't see society in a better place and I feel sorry for kids today who missed out on America in its heyday. I am grateful to all of you commenting who get this and share your wonderful memories. It means more than you know even if it is digital! It is based on a lost reality we all shared. Thank you. :)
It's gotten even worse since the Pandemic. It's like half of America has gone crazy. Shooting people who walk up your driveway or ring your doorbell. Going crazy on airplanes.
I was a kid in the 60’s and agree with you. They were better times. I was one of three children. We had “one” tv in the living room, and there was never any fighting over who watched what. I watched cartoons on Saturday morning. Sunday night was Ice cream night and we watched tv together. That’s when ice cream really was a half gallon and not pumped full of air. Ice cream today isn’t even a half gallon. When I was a kid, my dad always dipped the ice cream. Family of five and there was still ice cream left. When we were little we couldn’t leave the yard but still played outside all day and yes we drank from the hose. We had to be called in for lunch and sometimes dinner too. We’d hurry and eat so we could go outside to finish playing until dark. I truly believe that you were Blessed if you were a kid in the 50’s and 60’s. Remember penny candy 🍭? There was nothing like it. So sorry kids today can not experience childhood as we did. We were not well off in the least, but we never wanted for anything or had to go without. I thank God I was born when I was.
@@kholbrook203 Me, too, friend, and I, also was one of three kids. My Dad actually was foreman of a small dairy and brought real ice cream home with him and it tasted like home made. Like you said, no air, just goodness. Yes, we were called home for dinner within earshot or whistles. My Dad taught me how to whistle through grass, it was so much fun. We had rules and there were consequences if you broke them, not bad ones but you learned how to be a good, responsible person. Thank you for sharing,
I was a kid of the 80s, born in 1981. Although I somewhat grew up with technology, it was still the very early days of it so I still lived in an analog world. While the 80s was analog, the 90s started to bring everything digital. I was excited about the technology at the time but in hindsight things went wrong. At this point I would love to go back to the 80s technology before everything went insane.
I loved my childhood. We had so much fun with our friends. Very active and always outside. Riding our bikes, swimming, playing tennis, roller skating. Never had time to get in trouble. Born in 56.
My 5 siblings and I were all 11 or younger when my Dad died. My single Mom raised us all on a nurse's salary with no government aid. And we had no idea until we were adults how poor we had been. Nobody whined or wallowed in self-pity back then.
My dad also passed when, I was young but,my mom continued to work once she had got through a bad bout of depression but, I’m sure your mom like my mom was able to drawl a nice healthy check from Social Security it isn’t known as a free government benefit, it was simply known as Survivor Benefits from the Social Security Administration monthly where it’s simply the money your dad had been paying into from his job! We at least got that but, my dad had worked a good job so, nothing beyond that!
And I bet the 11 year old often minded the younger children while Mom worked or took a break, and the others were out riding bikes or playing in the street.. Today that same Mom would be thrown in jail and the kids taken away.. It was a different, better and safer time back then.
Growing up in Hell’s Kitchen we had one sink and bath tub in the kitchen of a railroad apartment. Always had food on the table and a bed to sleep in, I thought we were rich.
Wow! I haven't had perked coffee in about 35 years. My one aunt was the only relative who would do it but she psssed in 2001. Tasted really yummy, too.
Percolation is the WORST way to make coffee. My mother made it that, used Sanka and put cream and sugar in it. GROSS. I do pour over drip coffee, ground fresh every day, much better.
@@lilsheba1 You miss the point of this channel completely. We are here to go down memory lane and remember when the world was a much happier place for us. My Mom passed away many many years ago and I can still remember her coffee and how it tasted. If you wish to be negative please have the courtesy to stay off MY comments, thank you
My mom made coffee using the cheesecloth method boiling the water and dipping the cheesecloth full of grounds. I remember begging her to give me some She did but I didn't know it was mostly milk with a small amount of coffee. I loved it 😊
I was born in 1957, and grew up in the 1960's, and I lived in Detroit, Michigan. My Mother did Grocery Shopping at A&P, and Great Scott !Supermarket. I grew up on A&P and Great Scott!.And, I remember when my Mother would Wash Clothes in a Maytag Square Wringer Washing Machine. I remember the 1960's and those were the Good Old Days. 8:14
@@lovly2cu725 They sure did but, if you put them through correctly, it didn't happen too often. I was born in the 50s and we had a wringer washer. It was in the basement and we had to fill it up with a water hose and drain it into a sump pump. Behind it stood a rack of two galvanized steel tanks that you'd fill with water so you could get two rinses in. The wringer could swivel so you could wring the clothes into the first tank, hand rinse, swing the wringer then wring into the next tank, hand rinse then wring into a laundry basket then take outside and hang on the line. We didn't get one of those new fangled automatic washing machines until the 70s.
3:06 The old "Electric Blankets" were really good, really warm, and lasted for a decade. The new ones are "warming blankets," don't get very warm, and don't last more than a couple years. I called the manufacturer and asked why: Because some people don't have feelings and can't tell if they're getting over-heated, and of course ahem, "off shore" manufacturing.
I remember the stamps and books obtained from visits to the supermarket. You could redeem these for items you could select from a catalog. The more filled books you redeemed, the better the prize.
I bought a kenmore washer for myself and my new husband in 1977. I left it at my Mom’s when we moved, and it was still there in 2012 when my mom passed away. That’s a very long time for an appliance. My last washer lasted about 8 years.
My mother had a Kenmore dryer for well over 20 years - they were workhorses. so much so that in 2022 when we bought our new home in Kentucky, low and behold the dryer was the exact Kenmore Model my mother had! Nearly two years since & we still have it !
I took the bus into Indpls for 60 cent s with my neighbor from a small town west of it. We bought a 45 rpm record and a sub sandwich at Woolworth s on a Saturday alone at age 11. Our parents never worried about us. We felt safe as we window shopped and that’s all we did. We were adventurers who felt no fear at all.1958.
Back in the 70's my mom and Dad worked very hard my mom was really industrious she sold Shaklee and Avon. And they rewarded me for good grades with $10.00 a week, with some chores around the house, yet I felt like Daddy Warbucks.😅
That must have been nice to get 10 buck a week, we had chores and no allowance. Taking out the trash and when we were old enough we cut the grass. On top of that we started working at the age of 11, delivering papers for the Detroit News.
Brillo and SOS soap pads were also used to clean and brighten the white side wall tires that seemed to be on many of our cars of the 1960s. As well as striped gum, there also was "Stripe" tooth paste that was extruded from its tube in alternating white and red stripes! JJS
@@JSFGuy Oh, WE got here, another, wannabe Billy Badass, another Internet tough-guy, who thinks, he is an Almighty, "keyboard Warrior", who plays too much "Call Of Duty", while eating pop-tarts, unemployed as, he lives in his momma's basement
I remember the Beechnut gum. We loved it when we were kids, and we used to fold up the wrappers and make them into chains. My chain was several feet long. I grew up in Phoenix. We didn't have A&P Stores so we didn't have Eight O'Clock coffee. My parents drank MGB coffee. Maxwell House was another popular brand. We also had Laura Scudders Potato Chips and Clover Club Potato Chips. Both were good, but I preferred Laura Scudders. Their tagline was, "Laura Scudder's Potato Chips are the Nosiest Chips in the World."
I had forgotten all about making chains from gum wrappers! We used to covet gum wrappers and it would take while to make a long chain. My Dad used to always split a stick of gum with us so there went the wrapper!
I absolutely DO remember the smell of Eight o'clock coffee! Both my grandmothers, as well as my mother, would do their grocery shopping every Saturday morning and that's the 1st thing I was allowed to do when I would go with them.. go grind the Eight o'clock coffee! LOL what a great memory!
I loved going to our local A&P back in the 70s through early 80's. That smell of 8 o'clock coffee being ground right there at the registers was a delight.
When the Western Electric Model 500 was in use, it was supplied by the phone company, the Bell System, there was only one phone system. When you arranged for service they came around and hooked you up and supplied you with a phone. If you had them install more than one jack, you could get a phone for each at a nominal charge, but the phone and all related equipment was not yours, it belonged to the phone company. It wasn't until the era of princess phones and push button phones that people actually purchased telephones.
Dad acquired a push button phone, and spliced into the existing phone wiring to connect it. You couldn't call out, but you could answer or listen in. When the phone or wiring needed repair, dad had to go around and disconnect all the extra wiring so the phone co wouldn't know.
Some of my best memories as a small child was going to the little A&P in our small town with my grandfather. I remember the coffee aroma and all the goodies and even though I didn't drink coffee, it smelled good to me and still smells like home. We got a larger A&P as I grew up in our town to fit the growing Baby Boom population but that tiny store was always my favorite.
I grew up in a small town and we had a small A&P store too. I went with my dad and I enjoyed the smell of the coffee. But the taste is different 🤮 to this day I don’t like coffee.
When I first moved out to Hunterdon Co. in NJ there were still two obvious old A&P red brick bldgs. around. One was in Lambertville & the other Frenchtown.
Born in 1959. I love these videos that bring back such wonderful memories of simpler days of childhood. I especially love these videos when they talk about something that I had forgotten about. When that happens, it is extra special to me to be reminded of something that I had forgotten. That's what happened in this video. Sure, I remembered everything...except...the fruit stripe gum!!!! What a fun thing to have forgotten about that, only to have the memory of it brought back to me by this video. It was fun to see the gum and its package again! As a kid I chewed alot of it. But, I had forgotten about it.
I was born in 1952, and feel the same way. I love to see something in these videos that I had totally forgotten about, and be brought back to that time. I would love to return, even just for a day.
Bring back the times where we knew where our food came from and when we could take apart our products to see what they were doing. Today we don't even know how many sensors are in our phones.
What I miss the most was when everyone knew their neighbors on the block. Both sides of the street and even across the back lane. I'm a little different I guess because my family moved 25 minutes from town when I was 10 years old and when I bought my house in 2016 in a nice neighborhood I waited a few days thinking the "welcome wagon" was going to come along. It didn't and I was a little disappointed. When I bought my first house at 20 years old in a old neighborhood (the main part of my house was built in 1890 and the kitchen addition was built in the very early 40s and the front addition was early 50s) everyone came around within a week and after only a year or 2 I knew everyone within a 3 block radius and made a lot of friends of the 15 years I lived there. Anyway, after a week of nobody showing up I decided that I'd introduce myself to everyone lol. I live on the "main drag" of our subdivision so the blocks are a bit longer but I know everyone on both sides of the street from the corner all the way down to the park. Which works out to be a total of 14 houses and know each and every one of them. A few of them are a little different as they really keep to themselves and don't talk to anyone. For the last 7 years when new people move into our "block" there are 10 of us that get together and do the whole Welcome Wagon" thing which includes a couple bottles of wine, homemade baking, I ALWAYS make either a lasagna or manicotti and guess what? The new additions to the neighborhood are always stunned and almost cry sometimes because the last place they lived nobody knew anyone! Who can you live like that?!?! During the winter months we all help each other with snowblowing the driveways. Especially the people that work nights until 7 or 8 am and the plow goes by at 6am and us daytime shift guys have to be at work by 8-9am we'll do the ends of the nightshift guys so they can at least get in the driveway and the bank doesn't turn to stone and you have to use a spade to break it up. Everyone looks out for one another and once summer comes omg it's a non-stop BBQ and bonfire on the weekend as we all take turns hosting. The area I live in was built between 1999-2006 and we have 3 originals left and they have all told me that the "welcome wagon" stopped around 2010 because people were coming and going and people for some reason became cold and they are so happy that somebody finally came around to break the ice. I'm just thankful that at the old age of 38 when I bought my house back in 2016 I wasn't one of those shy people and made it a point to introduce myself because if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many amazing people. As for the people in my old hood, I have about 16-20 of them come over for a BBQ every summer as the majority of us keep in touch still, which can't be a little hard because I refuse to have any kind of social media BUT I've had the same cellphone number since 1997 and same landline since 2000 from my first house and was able to take my number with me when I moved in 2016. Anyway lol long story short is that it's nice to have community where you live and in this day and age I really think that having neighbors that keep an eye out on you and your house is something money cannot buy!.
That’s exactly how it was when I was growing up. The neighbors knew everybody on the block on both sides. And you did look out for one another. My husband and I have been living in our home for over 30 years. We’re good friends with our neighbors on the one side. My husband has talked with the new neighbors on the other side of us. Otherwise, everyone else stays to themselves. Such a huge difference with people. And the other thing is that dads worked and moms stayed at home and took care of the children and the house. You could live off of one salary………..
I shopped for an elderly woman, originally from Scotland. I bought HUGE containers of Tang from a local warehouse store: she liked it in her tea; both sweet and orange flavor.
I was born in 61, and I still think the 50s and 60s and maybe until the mid 70s was a great time for kids to grow up in. The music and movies were MUCH better. One could play outside till sundown unsupervised. 👍🏻
@@tonycollazorappo Music and movies, oh how true. I am a 56'er and surviving all our skinned knees and elbows helped toughen us up for life today and we had great fun at the same time 😀
I remember the sucrets in the tins and mom's hoover vacuum and the notary phones on the wall. Since I was born in '65 that's all I remember. Thanks for the memories!
I can remember having an Etch a Sketch myself. It was wonderful to keep myself entertained for quite a while. I remember going to my Parents friends and relatives homes and taking this with me As I could entertain myself with this. As there were no other kids to play with when we visited most of the time.
By the time my youngest brother & sister came along my dad would just take change from his car, remember toll money? Put a handful in a plastic baggie.
One day when I was little I lost a tooth. I put it on the windowsill instead of under my pillow to see if the tooth fairy was real. Then, I went and got my Dad and told him about my experiment. I pulled the blinds back and showed Dad where I put the tooth as an experiment. And...yes, Virginia, the tooth fairy did find it and left me some money.
I can still remember when they advertised the Creepy Crawler games on T.V. I remember this big black and white Tape Recorder my cousin had in 1967 where he recorded a lot of songs on those big reel tapes. We had Etch-n-Sketch in elementary school.
I remember every single one of them. And just between you and me, I still use the electric blanket in winter. And I wish I could find the licorice flavored gum Beeman made back then!!!
Just an FYI -Avon Topaz is & was a ladies scent, not men's. My older sister sold Avon since I was young, then I took orders for her when I worked at two different hospitals.
That’s all my mother trusted was that Electrolux vacuum cleaner. And it was indeed a very robust product, each one seemed to last at least 8 or so years!
Our phone was on the kitchen wall. My mom managed to stretch the cord all the way over to the kitchen sink so she could talk and do dishes. I remember Light Bright being a fav of mine. I laughed at the price of the A & P coffee: 2 lbs. for $1.71. That's about $10 today. It's still a bargain for that coffee. We always had a pot perking on the stove.
Tang was absolutely horrible. Those phones were indestructible . I know every generation says this . But things really were so much simpler then and you got what you paid for . Good quality and good customer service
We were always trying to get Mom to buy Tang. I loved that stuff!! I had a wonderful childhood. It seemed to go by so slowly at the time. Now I feel it went by too quickly. We knew everyone in the neighborhood and if a parent saw you doing something wrong, your mom would know about it when you got home. Even if adults weren't friends, everyone's number was in the telephone directory. Dad worked all day but was always available to swing us around or give us a ride on his shoulders. On the weekends, he would drive us "on the highway" to Dairy Queen, Stewart's or a deli for pastrami or corned beef on rye. In the summer, Dad dropped us off at the park on his way to work and would pick us up on his way home. Mom would prepare lunch for us. She must have been happy to have that alone time. The park had all kinds of activities directed by rangers. My favorite activity when I was very young was playing on the huge copper turtle in the sand pit. Looking back, I wonder if we went there daily or just a few days a week. So many memories...
I always enjoy "Recollection Road". By the 60's I was a "tween" and then a teen graduating in '69 from high school. I hope you will find new content to continue. Legacybox is a perfect sponsor.
I still have an electric blanket! Nothing like a prewarmed bed in a cold winter. Loved Boys Life magazine. Also still have Brillo pads because they are great for my Revere Ware cookware I still have from the early 70s. I totally miss the sound of my mother's coffee percolator ♥ Played Life with my grandsons - everyone wanted more kids, imagine that!
I remember Fuller Brush, Tupperware, World Book Encyclopedia, Swanson TV Dinners, Old Spice, Jean Nate, Prell Shampoo, Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo, Dippity Doo, Crazy Foam, Dial Soap, Astring-O-Sol Mouthwash, and an Admiral color tv.
Went through the " infinite wintwr" of '76 - "77 as a teenager in a cold trailer with an electric blanket. If it was really cold, you never turned it off. The neon indicator light on the thermostat made a good night light. Beaches used to just reek of Coppertone in the '70s.....really atrong coconut odor. Those spring loaded pole lamps that went from ceiling to floor...
I had an Etch a Sketch. You can still get Brillo pads I’ve seen them at Dollar Tree! I never played “Life.” It was always either “Monopoly” or “Scrabble.” It was many years after her death that I found out my aunt was a champion Scrabble player. She would enter Scrabble Tournaments (which I didn’t know existed) and win . I thought that was pretty cool because when my aunt and my mom came from Puerto Rico I don’t think they spoke all that much English.
As a kid you just cannot imagine the world around you being different. Many hears later when things are different it is so much fun to look bacj with warm menories. ☮️
My parents bought their first new home in Santa Clara, CA. It was 1961, and I was a sophomore in high school. Our home cost $24,500. We had to wait for it to be finished being built. It was an all electric home. Today, it's valued at $2.7 million! I used to always drink tang. Used Sucrets, and loved Fruit Stripe Gum ! My parents had a PINK PRINCESS phone for their bedroom. Our other phones were a yellow wall phone in the kitchen and a white rotary in the entry. Great memories.
I still drink eight o'clock coffee... I am so glad that when A&P went out of business that 8 o'clock went on the market for all stores to carry. I try many brands of coffee and keep going back to 8 o'clock both original and columbine. Just so good to smell and taste first thing in the morning. Great memories o A&P.
@@gustavsorensen9301 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
Awesome video! In '72 my parents bougt a house built in '56. It had a small kitchen with a stowable, pull out electric stove and an overhead oven at one end and at the other a small breakfast nook seperated by a folding phone station on one side and a fold up ironing station on the other. In 1980 I helped my dad tear it all out and haul it away. At 18 years old I thought to myself that this kitchen was huge after living with it being small for eight years. They sold in 2000 and even then many perspective buyers commented on how big the kitchen was even though it was just a kitchen that only had kitchen things in it instead of all those other things. 50s and 60s homes were interesting but not very practical.
Although I did chew Fruit Stripe gum in the 60's, my favorite was Bazooka bubble gum. I would save up the comics to send away for special items. One in particular was a heart shaped perfume necklace. I wish I still had it today!
What I miss the most was when everyone knew their neighbors on the block. Both sides of the street and even across the back lane. I'm a little different I guess because my family moved 25 minutes from town when I was 10 years old and when I bought my house in 2016 in a nice neighborhood I waited a few days thinking the "welcome wagon" was going to come along. It didn't and I was a little disappointed. When I bought my first house at 20 years old in a old neighborhood (the main part of my house was built in 1890 and the kitchen addition was built in the very early 40s and the front addition was early 50s) everyone came around within a week and after only a year or 2 I knew everyone within a 3 block radius and made a lot of friends of the 15 years I lived there. Anyway, after a week of nobody showing up I decided that I'd introduce myself to everyone lol. I live on the "main drag" of our subdivision so the blocks are a bit longer but I know everyone on both sides of the street from the corner all the way down to the park. Which works out to be a total of 14 houses and know each and every one of them. A few of them are a little different as they really keep to themselves and don't talk to anyone. For the last 7 years when new people move into our "block" there are 10 of us that get together and do the whole Welcome Wagon" thing which includes a couple bottles of wine, homemade baking, I ALWAYS make either a lasagna or manicotti and guess what? The new additions to the neighborhood are always stunned and almost cry sometimes because the last place they lived nobody knew anyone! Who can you live like that?!?! During the winter months we all help each other with snowblowing the driveways. Especially the people that work nights until 7 or 8 am and the plow goes by at 6am and us daytime shift guys have to be at work by 8-9am we'll do the ends of the nightshift guys so they can at least get in the driveway and the bank doesn't turn to stone and you have to use a spade to break it up. Everyone looks out for one another and once summer comes omg it's a non-stop BBQ and bonfire on the weekend as we all take turns hosting. The area I live in was built between 1999-2006 and we have 3 originals left and they have all told me that the "welcome wagon" stopped around 2010 because people were coming and going and people for some reason became cold and they are so happy that somebody finally came around to break the ice. I'm just thankful that at the old age of 38 when I bought my house back in 2016 I wasn't one of those shy people and made it a point to introduce myself because if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many amazing people. As for the people in my old hood, I have about 16-20 of them come over for a BBQ every summer as the majority of us keep in touch still, which can't be a little hard because I refuse to have any kind of social media BUT I've had the same cellphone number since 1997 and same landline since 2000 from my first house and was able to take my number with me when I moved in 2016. Anyway lol long story short is that it's nice to have community where you live and in this day and age I really think that having neighbors that keep an eye out on you and your house is something money cannot buy!
Avon was popular for decades, Boy’s Life magazine was my first magazine I had a subscription to before video game magazines, Tang actually reformulated their drink mix decades later to taste better, it actually tasted close to Country Time or Hi C! Also Fruit Stripe gum flavor lasted too short, that people stopped buying them! We used to have carousel slide projectors from the 1960s, that was our household item that we viewed photos on a big screen!
My mom actually always had SOS Scouring Pads under the sink along with Copper Glo Cleanser for the bottoms of her Revereware! I had to stop the video and go look up the Coppertone ad because I remember there being a motion billboard of the little girl with the dog tugging at her bathing suit bottom in the next town over from where I grew up near a popular car wash!
Love be able to use those rotory phones again. Ours was black. I still remember the original phone number. I think stating prices from way back when would be interesting.
Nope, they still sell sucrets in the store and, were never taken off the market! They were around in the 70s and, they still put out commercials in the 80s, my mom always kept them in the house along with the throat spray because, I always got bad sore throats from time to time.
Had an etch a sketch in the 60’s and my daughter in the 80’s. Never liked Tang. I remember going to the grocery store in the 60’s and my mom putting a coffee bag on a grinder. Pressed a button and it ground for her. One year while in high school I bought everyone Avon for Christmas. I was only part time at McDonald’s then. We had a bright yellow wall phone in our kitchen above the desk. Our basement was finished in red and black. We had a red rotary phone on the bar.
I don’t use it, but have that black rotary phone you show that I did have in my second apartment. The phone is useless but keep it to remember the good old days. At home we had a cream colored rotary.
I remember playing Life back in the 1970s as a kid with my brother and mom- - we played the game so a much we wore out the spinner! I also remember the smell of Coppertone Oil and Tanning Butter, I'd love to get my hands on some today but I know they don't make it anymore. Life was much simpler with our rotary phones, Sucrets (they tasted horrible) and Fruit Stripe Gum. Great time to grow up.
I watched American bandstand every Afternoon after school. I practiced singing into my hair brush for a Mike. I loved Motown 45 records and coke or Pepsi with pop corn I popped with butter on top.
I was born in 1965. My late grandparents shopped (they referred to it as "traded" because they were in the Southern U.S) at the local A&P. Saw a ton of "8 o'clock" coffee brewed in their kitchen. Thanks for the memory!
All of these were in my home. A funny story about coffee - in the mid-70s, my husband was transferred to Brazil. We spent 5 months living in the Sao Paulo Hilton until our apartment was ready. Every morning, I had breakfast in the hotel dining room. There were a lot of groups of tourists who stayed there. I use to LMBO when American women would ask for hot water, then pull a jar of instant coffee from their purses. Who takes coffee to Brazil?????
Brillo and SOS had some great "Blue Pad" "Pink Pad" commercials. I guess SOS won the battle but there wasn't much difference between them. The shape and the color of the soap was all I ever noticed.
My son who's 8 years old came to me a couple of months ago asking for an etch-a-sketch. I remember having one as a kid. They always seem to make a comeback every generation. It's perfect and we'll be getting one soon to add to our collection of offline, no electricity required games for the home.
The Hoover Constellation was a much bigger hit in every home than the dial-a-matic. Another mega hit not mentioned are the Maytag washer and dryer twin.
I was raised up in Iowa city Iowa in the early sixtys my mom shopped at the A&P grocery store, even at age six I loved the smell of fresh ground coffee! The meat department was my favorite place while mom was shopping I would watch the butcher cutting up the meat, the back where they were working was all glassed in across the meat counter. After we were done shopping mom would get us kids a bag of the Brach's assorted candies the ones in the display there were like fifteen different candies all individually wrapped the toffees were my favorite!! Thanks for the memories of a great simple childhood!!
How about products from strange sources? We had a stereo from Readers Digest. An episode on Heathkit and Radio Shack back in the days when people could build practically anything from electronics kits...
I miss the Coppertone smell, it was such a part of summer back then.
That smelled amazing😊
That made me think of skiing in the 1970s! There was 'Glacier' brand ski cream (used for face protrction) which had an unmistakeable fragrance. Never seen it since those days
I loved Sea 'n Ski.
It is so nice to reminisce with people who know what I'm talking about! Growing up in the 50s, 60s and 70s was such a different world than today. It was digitally absent but humanly present. People related to each other one on one not through codes, numbers and digits. For me, this was a much better childhood and adulthood, too. Even if you were a latch key kid, someone in your neighborhood was always available to look after you or talk to you in person! I appreciate this Recollection Road because it represents all we lost. I would like to say and gained but to be honest, I don't see society in a better place and I feel sorry for kids today who missed out on America in its heyday. I am grateful to all of you commenting who get this and share your wonderful memories. It means more than you know even if it is digital! It is based on a lost reality we all shared. Thank you. :)
It's gotten even worse since the Pandemic. It's like half of America has gone crazy. Shooting people who walk up your driveway or ring your doorbell. Going crazy on airplanes.
I was a kid in the 60’s and agree with you. They were better times. I was one of three children. We had “one” tv in the living room, and there was never any fighting over who watched what. I watched cartoons on Saturday morning. Sunday night was Ice cream night and we watched tv together. That’s when ice cream really was a half gallon and not pumped full of air. Ice cream today isn’t even a half gallon. When I was a kid, my dad always dipped the ice cream. Family of five and there was still ice cream left. When we were little we couldn’t leave the yard but still played outside all day and yes we drank from the hose. We had to be called in for lunch and sometimes dinner too. We’d hurry and eat so we could go outside to finish playing until dark. I truly believe that you were Blessed if you were a kid in the 50’s and 60’s. Remember penny candy 🍭? There was nothing like it. So sorry kids today can not experience childhood as we did. We were not well off in the least, but we never wanted for anything or had to go without. I thank God I was born when I was.
@@kholbrook203 Me, too, friend, and I, also was one of three kids. My Dad actually was foreman of a small dairy and brought real ice cream home with him and it tasted like home made. Like you said, no air, just goodness. Yes, we were called home for dinner within earshot or whistles. My Dad taught me how to whistle through grass, it was so much fun. We had rules and there were consequences if you broke them, not bad ones but you learned how to be a good, responsible person. Thank you for sharing,
I was a kid of the 80s, born in 1981. Although I somewhat grew up with technology, it was still the very early days of it so I still lived in an analog world. While the 80s was analog, the 90s started to bring everything digital. I was excited about the technology at the time but in hindsight things went wrong. At this point I would love to go back to the 80s technology before everything went insane.
@@Epic_C You are very insightful, friend
Sucrets in the iconic tin....wonderful memories.
Band-aids also came in a metal tin.
They sure did 👍
So did aspirins.
Every example hit home with me. Born in 1961 and we sure had a lot of fun
Same, born in 1961. I did have fun besides the fact that I was a foster. But I was okay with it.
I was 1960 - same memories & joys of being a kid during the 60's & 70's!❤
1963 for me. What a great time to grow up.
I was also born in 1961. The Game of Life brought back wonderful memories of my family members trying to see who was going to be the millionaires.
I loved my childhood. We had so much fun with our friends. Very active and always outside. Riding our bikes, swimming, playing tennis, roller skating. Never had time to get in trouble. Born in 56.
My 5 siblings and I were all 11 or younger when my Dad died. My single Mom raised us all on a nurse's salary with no government aid. And we had no idea until we were adults how poor we had been. Nobody whined or wallowed in self-pity back then.
You are right. We did the best we could to survive our current situations at the time. 👍🏻
That's how it was. We didn't expect someone _else_ to solve our problems.
We adapted, and carried on.
My dad also passed when, I was young but,my mom continued to work once she had got through a bad bout of depression but, I’m sure your mom like my mom was able to drawl a nice healthy check from Social Security it isn’t known as a free government benefit, it was simply known as Survivor Benefits from the Social Security Administration monthly where it’s simply the money your dad had been paying into from his job! We at least got that but, my dad had worked a good job so, nothing beyond that!
And I bet the 11 year old often minded the younger children while Mom worked or took a break, and the others were out riding bikes or playing in the street.. Today that same Mom would be thrown in jail and the kids taken away.. It was a different, better and safer time back then.
Growing up in Hell’s Kitchen we had one sink and bath tub in the kitchen of a railroad apartment. Always had food on the table and a bed to sleep in, I thought we were rich.
My Mom had the coffee perking on the stove timed to perfection!!! God I miss those days 💞
Wow! I haven't had perked coffee in about 35 years. My one aunt was the only relative who would do it but she psssed in 2001. Tasted really yummy, too.
Percolation is the WORST way to make coffee. My mother made it that, used Sanka and put cream and sugar in it. GROSS. I do pour over drip coffee, ground fresh every day, much better.
@@lilsheba1 You miss the point of this channel completely. We are here to go down memory lane and remember when the world was a much happier place for us.
My Mom passed away many many years ago and I can still remember her coffee and how it tasted. If you wish to be negative please have the courtesy to stay off MY comments, thank you
My mom made coffee using the cheesecloth method boiling the water and dipping the cheesecloth full of grounds. I remember begging her to give me some She did but I didn't know it was mostly milk with a small amount of coffee. I loved it 😊
I miss the old times. I grew up in the 1960's, in Oregon. I would love to go back, even for a hour.
I was born in 1957, and grew up in the 1960's, and I lived in Detroit, Michigan. My Mother did Grocery Shopping at A&P, and Great Scott !Supermarket. I grew up on A&P and Great Scott!.And, I remember when my Mother would Wash Clothes in a Maytag Square Wringer Washing Machine.
I remember the 1960's and those were the Good Old Days. 8:14
Wringer washers broke buttons
@lovly2cu725 and that's where the phrase 'don't get your tit in a wringer' came from.😂
@@lovly2cu725 They sure did but, if you put them through correctly, it didn't happen too often. I was born in the 50s and we had a wringer washer. It was in the basement and we had to fill it up with a water hose and drain it into a sump pump. Behind it stood a rack of two galvanized steel tanks that you'd fill with water so you could get two rinses in. The wringer could swivel so you could wring the clothes into the first tank, hand rinse, swing the wringer then wring into the next tank, hand rinse then wring into a laundry basket then take outside and hang on the line.
We didn't get one of those new fangled automatic washing machines until the 70s.
I was born in 1961. I also lived in Detroit, Michigan. I remember Great Scott very well!
Every Friday a& p pay day sucrets we kept the tins to use
"CHUNKY! WHAT A CHUNK OF CHOCOLATE!"
Those were great!
"Open wide for Chunky!'
Advertised by Arnold Stang! Still one of the few candies I loved as a kid. Even with the raisins, which tasted good in them.
@@davidh9844 I think I saw his face in this episode - every time I see him, I think of Chunky Chocolate - and "MAD, MAD, WORLD"
They were sooooo good!
3:06 The old "Electric Blankets" were really good, really warm, and lasted for a decade.
The new ones are "warming blankets," don't get very warm, and don't last more than a couple years.
I called the manufacturer and asked why: Because some people don't have feelings and can't tell if they're getting over-heated, and of course ahem, "off shore" manufacturing.
I remember the stamps and books obtained from visits to the supermarket. You could redeem these for items you could select from a catalog. The more filled books you redeemed, the better the prize.
Definitely the Green Stamps store!
Yes. S&H green stamps. That was fun.
The silverware I still use was bought with S&H GreenStamps.
You should do a video on the longevity of appliances from the 50's - 80's vs. those of today.
Exactly. Twenty years vs twenty months.
I bought a kenmore washer for myself and my new husband in 1977. I left it at my Mom’s when we moved, and it was still there in 2012 when my mom passed away. That’s a very long time for an appliance. My last washer lasted about 8 years.
My mother had a Kenmore dryer for well over 20 years - they were workhorses. so much so that in 2022 when we bought our new home in Kentucky, low and behold the dryer was the exact Kenmore Model my mother had! Nearly two years since & we still have it !
That's for sure.
A washing machine could last up to 20 yrs. Today they make them not to last long so you keep buying and they make money. Greed has ruined our lives.
IMHO the 60s was the best decade of TV there has ever been.
No argument there. ☺️
Transistor radios. Prell shampoo. Right Guard deodorant. Swinger Polaroid cameras. Taking the bus into town alone at 10 years old to see a movie.
Yep. BTW I hadn't thought of Prell shampoo in years.
I took the bus into Indpls for 60 cent s with my neighbor from a small town west of it. We bought a 45 rpm record and a sub sandwich at Woolworth s on a Saturday alone at age 11. Our parents never worried about us. We felt safe as we window shopped and that’s all we did. We were adventurers who felt no fear at all.1958.
Dippity do styling gel!
@@flowerfaeri brylcream - a little dab will do ya!
@@starmnsixty1209 I recall the smell of this stuff, it was nausiating!
Back in the 70's my mom and Dad worked very hard my mom was really industrious she sold Shaklee and Avon. And they rewarded me for good grades with $10.00 a week, with some chores around the house, yet I felt like Daddy Warbucks.😅
Woah! I do the same with my son!
That must have been nice to get 10 buck a week, we had chores and no allowance. Taking out the trash and when we were old enough we cut the grass. On top of that we started working at the age of 11, delivering papers for the Detroit News.
That was A LOT of money back then!
You WERE Daddy Warbucks with that much cash every week in the 70's!
I remember my mom buying Avon and Shaklee. I was raised on Shaklee vitamins. Lol
Brillo and SOS soap pads were also used to clean and brighten the white side wall tires that seemed to be on many of our cars of the 1960s.
As well as striped gum, there also was "Stripe" tooth paste that was extruded from its tube in alternating white and red stripes! JJS
I remember that toothpaste also😊
I was born in 77, but almost all of these were just as popular in the 80s and bring back many memories for me.
I was born in '77 also. 😊
I love and appreciate your channel so much🫶🤗😍❤️💖❤️🩷
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@@JSFGuy Oh, WE got here, another, wannabe Billy Badass, another Internet tough-guy, who thinks, he is an Almighty, "keyboard Warrior", who plays too much "Call Of Duty", while eating pop-tarts, unemployed as, he lives in his momma's basement
I remember the Beechnut gum. We loved it when we were kids, and we used to fold up the wrappers and make them into chains. My chain was several feet long. I grew up in Phoenix. We didn't have A&P Stores so we didn't have Eight O'Clock coffee. My parents drank MGB coffee. Maxwell House was another popular brand. We also had Laura Scudders Potato Chips and Clover Club Potato Chips. Both were good, but I preferred Laura Scudders. Their tagline was, "Laura Scudder's Potato Chips are the Nosiest Chips in the World."
I had forgotten all about making chains from gum wrappers! We used to covet gum wrappers and it would take while to make a long chain. My Dad used to always split a stick of gum with us so there went the wrapper!
I absolutely DO remember the smell of Eight o'clock coffee! Both my grandmothers, as well as my mother, would do their grocery shopping every Saturday morning and that's the 1st thing I was allowed to do when I would go with them.. go grind the Eight o'clock coffee! LOL what a great memory!
I remember "Chock full o'nuts is a heavenly coffee. Better coffee millionaires money can buy"
@@soundsource3200Chock full of bolts!!
I loved going to our local A&P back in the 70s through early 80's. That smell of 8 o'clock coffee being ground right there at the registers was a delight.
All the A & P’s were already shutdown before the 80’s ever arrived!
When the Western Electric Model 500 was in use, it was supplied by the phone company, the Bell System, there was only one phone system. When you arranged for service they came around and hooked you up and supplied you with a phone. If you had them install more than one jack, you could get a phone for each at a nominal charge, but the phone and all related equipment was not yours, it belonged to the phone company. It wasn't until the era of princess phones and push button phones that people actually purchased telephones.
The customer paid rent every month to the local phone company for each phone you had.
Dad acquired a push button phone, and spliced into the existing phone wiring to connect it. You couldn't call out, but you could answer or listen in. When the phone or wiring needed repair, dad had to go around and disconnect all the extra wiring so the phone co wouldn't know.
Some of my best memories as a small child was going to the little A&P in our small town with my grandfather. I remember the coffee aroma and all the goodies and even though I didn't drink coffee, it smelled good to me and still smells like home. We got a larger A&P as I grew up in our town to fit the growing Baby Boom population but that tiny store was always my favorite.
Brings back memories of my own we had a A&P store here in Indiana. You're right the coffee smell always stands the smell of time.😊
The coffee smell was the best!! Such a nice memory ❤️
I grew up in a small town and we had a small A&P store too. I went with my dad and I enjoyed the smell of the coffee. But the taste is different 🤮 to this day I don’t like coffee.
When I first moved out to Hunterdon Co. in NJ there were still two obvious old A&P red brick bldgs. around. One was in Lambertville & the other Frenchtown.
@@glennso47 I was from Bergen County but I know Lambertville, too, great little towns and memories
The mention of Avon reminded me of the Fuller Brush man -- a dying breed by the mid-'60s -- selling toiletries out of a suitcase, door-to-door.
Yes, and we had a neighbor who sold Watkins .
@@Donna-zc9iiI recall Watkins beng sold into fairly recent decades. Unsure sure if it still exists.
I always love going back in time.
I was a brownie in 2nd grade. Loved it too. We made crafts. I loved vacation Bible school too. More crafts.
i have a brownie penlight flashlight, mint condition, from 1962.
Born in 1959.
I love these videos that bring back such wonderful memories of simpler days of childhood.
I especially love these videos when they talk about something that I had forgotten about.
When that happens, it is extra special to me to be reminded of something that I had forgotten.
That's what happened in this video.
Sure, I remembered everything...except...the fruit stripe gum!!!!
What a fun thing to have forgotten about that, only to have the memory of it brought back to me by this video.
It was fun to see the gum and its package again!
As a kid I chewed alot of it.
But, I had forgotten about it.
I was born in 1952, and feel the same way. I love to see something in these videos that I had totally forgotten about, and be brought back to that time. I would love to return, even just for a day.
@@wildmountainthyme4123 I'm with you!
It would be fun to go back...if only for a little while.
In the 70’s I was fortunate to be an Avon lady. I loved it.
Hi 🤗
Bring back the times where we knew where our food came from and when we could take apart our products to see what they were doing. Today we don't even know how many sensors are in our phones.
What I miss the most was when everyone knew their neighbors on the block. Both sides of the street and even across the back lane. I'm a little different I guess because my family moved 25 minutes from town when I was 10 years old and when I bought my house in 2016 in a nice neighborhood I waited a few days thinking the "welcome wagon" was going to come along. It didn't and I was a little disappointed. When I bought my first house at 20 years old in a old neighborhood (the main part of my house was built in 1890 and the kitchen addition was built in the very early 40s and the front addition was early 50s) everyone came around within a week and after only a year or 2 I knew everyone within a 3 block radius and made a lot of friends of the 15 years I lived there. Anyway, after a week of nobody showing up I decided that I'd introduce myself to everyone lol. I live on the "main drag" of our subdivision so the blocks are a bit longer but I know everyone on both sides of the street from the corner all the way down to the park. Which works out to be a total of 14 houses and know each and every one of them. A few of them are a little different as they really keep to themselves and don't talk to anyone. For the last 7 years when new people move into our "block" there are 10 of us that get together and do the whole Welcome Wagon" thing which includes a couple bottles of wine, homemade baking, I ALWAYS make either a lasagna or manicotti and guess what? The new additions to the neighborhood are always stunned and almost cry sometimes because the last place they lived nobody knew anyone! Who can you live like that?!?! During the winter months we all help each other with snowblowing the driveways. Especially the people that work nights until 7 or 8 am and the plow goes by at 6am and us daytime shift guys have to be at work by 8-9am we'll do the ends of the nightshift guys so they can at least get in the driveway and the bank doesn't turn to stone and you have to use a spade to break it up. Everyone looks out for one another and once summer comes omg it's a non-stop BBQ and bonfire on the weekend as we all take turns hosting. The area I live in was built between 1999-2006 and we have 3 originals left and they have all told me that the "welcome wagon" stopped around 2010 because people were coming and going and people for some reason became cold and they are so happy that somebody finally came around to break the ice. I'm just thankful that at the old age of 38 when I bought my house back in 2016 I wasn't one of those shy people and made it a point to introduce myself because if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many amazing people. As for the people in my old hood, I have about 16-20 of them come over for a BBQ every summer as the majority of us keep in touch still, which can't be a little hard because I refuse to have any kind of social media BUT I've had the same cellphone number since 1997 and same landline since 2000 from my first house and was able to take my number with me when I moved in 2016. Anyway lol long story short is that it's nice to have community where you live and in this day and age I really think that having neighbors that keep an eye out on you and your house is something money cannot buy!.
That’s exactly how it was when I was growing up. The neighbors knew everybody on the block on both sides. And you did look out for one another. My husband and I have been living in our home for over 30 years. We’re good friends with our neighbors on the one side. My husband has talked with the new neighbors on the other side of us. Otherwise, everyone else stays to themselves. Such a huge difference with people. And the other thing is that dads worked and moms stayed at home and took care of the children and the house. You could live off of one salary………..
Yup the left ruins everything they touch.
I shopped for an elderly woman, originally from Scotland.
I bought HUGE containers of Tang from a local warehouse store: she liked it in her tea; both sweet and orange flavor.
Thanks for another nice trip back to a better time and place. Which will never come again, sadly, but so glad to have lived through such great times.
Nailed it again being the 60's was my time to grow up. I rather liked Tang and still take it along when back country hiking 😀
I was born in 61, and I still think the 50s and 60s and maybe until the mid 70s was a great time for kids to grow up in. The music and movies were MUCH better. One could play outside till sundown unsupervised. 👍🏻
@@tonycollazorappo Music and movies, oh how true. I am a 56'er and surviving all our skinned knees and elbows helped toughen us up for life today and we had great fun at the same time 😀
I remember the sucrets in the tins and mom's hoover vacuum and the notary phones on the wall. Since I was born in '65 that's all I remember. Thanks for the memories!
Wonderful many thanks for the memories!!!!!
Good’ole Eight o’clock coffee ☕️ is still around!
6:04 - FRUIT STRIPE - The Five-Second Flavor Gum
I had to put the whole pack in my mouth to keep the taste going, LOL. I really liked that gum, 50 years later, this year, they discontinued it. =(
😅😅 but the lime was so good!
@Salish_redbone, The fruit stripe gum, nowadays, represent, the "Rainbow Mafia"
I can remember having an Etch a Sketch myself. It was wonderful to keep myself entertained for quite a while.
I remember going to my Parents friends and relatives homes and taking this with me As I could entertain myself with this. As there were no other kids to play with when we visited most of the time.
This brought back so many childhood memories. ❤
Wow! I had forgotten about Fruit Stripe gum. Good stuff!
For about 2 1/2 minutes
Teaberry also.
@@sarahalbers5555I sure do miss Clark's Teaberry Gum.
Another classic! Thx Recollection Road! 👍
The tooth fairy would leave me a quarter in a Sucrets container or a Marlboro box 😂
By the time my youngest brother & sister came along my dad would just take change from his car, remember toll money? Put a handful in a plastic baggie.
@@samanthab1923 🤣
One day when I was little I lost a tooth. I put it on the windowsill instead of under my pillow to see if the tooth fairy was real. Then, I went and got my Dad and told him about my experiment. I pulled the blinds back and showed Dad where I put the tooth as an experiment. And...yes, Virginia, the tooth fairy did find it and left me some money.
Those tins were in every home in America. We kept toothpicks in one in the kitchen and in our camping gear with strike anywhere matches.
@@WalkiTalki They were definitely useful, I used to even keep quarters in one for the laundromat back in the early 80s. 😀
I can still remember when they advertised the Creepy Crawler games on T.V. I remember this big black and white Tape Recorder my cousin had in 1967 where he recorded a lot of songs on those big reel tapes. We had Etch-n-Sketch in elementary school.
I remember every single one of them. And just between you and me, I still use the electric blanket in winter. And I wish I could find the licorice flavored gum Beeman made back then!!!
Beeman! Yes!
Black jack Gum? They still sell it at Joann’s fabric and craft stores. Near the register. I often pick up a pack for my 91 year old dad.
@@juliepoolie5494 THEY will not sell "Black Jack Gum", today, because it is RAAAAAAACIST
I could never get an Etch A Sketch to render my artistic visions, but 6 year old me had fun trying...
I used to "line it" until I could see the internal workings, shake it, and do it again!
@@SSN515 Me too!
Same here!
Same here, but better luck with "Lite Brite!"
Just an FYI -Avon Topaz is & was a ladies scent, not men's. My older sister sold Avon since I was young, then I took orders for her when I worked at two different hospitals.
Came here looking for this specific comment 🙂
This guy's videos are always poorly researched.
I think the narrator said Topaz was something men gave their wives.
Mercurochrome & Bufferin; couldn't live without them. (And where's my vanilla, banana, or cinnamon Koogle peanut butter from the 70s at?)
Campho-Phenique was a big one in my house. Jergens hand lotion by the kitchen sink too.
My mother used Iodine instead of Mercurochrome . I’ll never forget the way it burned when applied to the a cut.
@@charlesgremillion7603So did the Mecurichrome😂
You just gave me a Vicks Vaporub nightmare....lol!
@@samanthab1923 I'd love to know what marketing genius came up with Campho - Phenique? Sounds like a Parisian brothel.
Our home had steam radiators that never seemed to do the job. I remember how cozy my electric blanket was.
PLUS it was more efficient! Keep the heat at 62º at night, and instead of heating the entire house, you heat the small area of a bed.
I remember the hissing sound of the steam. As a little kid, I would melt crayons on the radiator. Lol.
@@soundsource3200 I did the crayon melting thing too...in my third grade classroom. Had to stand in the corner for that one.
We had an Electralux vacuum cleaner at our house.
Electrolux.
@@barbarat5729 That's right! Thanks!
Very fancy. We had Hoovers & in 70 had the vac system installed at the new house.
That’s all my mother trusted was that Electrolux vacuum cleaner. And it was indeed a very robust product, each one seemed to last at least 8 or so years!
Those were a lot more expensive compared to Hoovers.
Our phone was on the kitchen wall. My mom managed to stretch the cord all the way over to the kitchen sink so she could talk and do dishes. I remember Light Bright being a fav of mine. I laughed at the price of the A & P coffee: 2 lbs. for $1.71. That's about $10 today. It's still a bargain for that coffee. We always had a pot perking on the stove.
I was born in '68, grew up in the 70s. My mom always had a can of Aqua Net hairspray in the bathroom.
Tang was absolutely horrible. Those phones were indestructible . I know every generation says this . But things really were so much simpler then and you got what you paid for . Good quality and good customer service
Those phones weighed a ton, LOL!! I still miss it all.
We were always trying to get Mom to buy Tang. I loved that stuff!! I had a wonderful childhood. It seemed to go by so slowly at the time. Now I feel it went by too quickly. We knew everyone in the neighborhood and if a parent saw you doing something wrong, your mom would know about it when you got home. Even if adults weren't friends, everyone's number was in the telephone directory. Dad worked all day but was always available to swing us around or give us a ride on his shoulders. On the weekends, he would drive us "on the highway" to Dairy Queen, Stewart's or a deli for pastrami or corned beef on rye. In the summer, Dad dropped us off at the park on his way to work and would pick us up on his way home. Mom would prepare lunch for us. She must have been happy to have that alone time. The park had all kinds of activities directed by rangers. My favorite activity when I was very young was playing on the huge copper turtle in the sand pit. Looking back, I wonder if we went there daily or just a few days a week. So many memories...
I always enjoy "Recollection Road". By the 60's I was a "tween" and then a teen graduating in '69 from high school. I hope you will find new content to continue. Legacybox is a perfect sponsor.
I still have an electric blanket! Nothing like a prewarmed bed in a cold winter. Loved Boys Life magazine. Also still have Brillo pads because they are great for my Revere Ware cookware I still have from the early 70s. I totally miss the sound of my mother's coffee percolator ♥ Played Life with my grandsons - everyone wanted more kids, imagine that!
I remember Fuller Brush, Tupperware,
World Book Encyclopedia,
Swanson TV Dinners, Old Spice, Jean Nate, Prell Shampoo, Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo, Dippity Doo, Crazy Foam, Dial Soap, Astring-O-Sol Mouthwash, and an Admiral color tv.
And my dad smoked Tareyton cigarettes. We also played with Slinky's and Chutes and Ladders board games.
Miss those wonderful times.
Dippity doo!Wow I forgot about that!
Went through the " infinite wintwr" of '76 - "77 as a teenager in a cold trailer with an electric blanket. If it was really cold, you never turned it off. The neon indicator light on the thermostat made a good night light.
Beaches used to just reek of Coppertone in the '70s.....really atrong coconut odor.
Those spring loaded pole lamps that went from ceiling to floor...
I had an Etch a Sketch. You can still get Brillo pads I’ve seen them at Dollar Tree! I never played “Life.” It was always either “Monopoly” or “Scrabble.” It was many years after her death that I found out my aunt was a champion Scrabble player. She would enter Scrabble Tournaments (which I didn’t know existed) and win . I thought that was pretty cool because when my aunt and my mom came from Puerto Rico I don’t think they spoke all that much English.
We were into Chinese checkers and scrabble andparcheesy
As a kid you just cannot imagine the world around you being different. Many hears later when things are different it is so much fun to look bacj with warm menories. ☮️
I can remember my dad going to the A&P and getting his bag of 8 o'Clock Coffee. I was fascinated by the grinder he used in-store to grind the coffee.
My parents bought their first new home in Santa Clara, CA. It was 1961, and I was a sophomore in high school. Our home cost $24,500. We had to wait for it to be finished being built. It was an all electric home. Today, it's valued at $2.7 million! I used to always drink tang. Used Sucrets, and loved Fruit Stripe Gum ! My parents had a PINK PRINCESS phone for their bedroom. Our other phones were a yellow wall phone in the kitchen and a white rotary in the entry. Great memories.
Mom also had a pink Princess phone in the master bedroom, I had a beige rotary in my room and we had a green wall phone in the kitchen.
I still drink eight o'clock coffee... I am so glad that when A&P went out of business that 8 o'clock went on the market for all stores to carry. I try many brands of coffee and keep going back to 8 o'clock both original and columbine. Just so good to smell and taste first thing in the morning. Great memories o A&P.
I miss the 60's simpler times
The Vietnam war, and thousands of Americans coming home in body bags were simpler times??
@@gustavsorensen9301 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
@@gustavsorensen9301 To say nothing of the political assassinations, race riots and everybody smoking.
Awesome video! In '72 my parents bougt a house built in '56. It had a small kitchen with a stowable, pull out electric stove and an overhead oven at one end and at the other a small breakfast nook seperated by a folding phone station on one side and a fold up ironing station on the other. In 1980 I helped my dad tear it all out and haul it away. At 18 years old I thought to myself that this kitchen was huge after living with it being small for eight years. They sold in 2000 and even then many perspective buyers commented on how big the kitchen was even though it was just a kitchen that only had kitchen things in it instead of all those other things. 50s and 60s homes were interesting but not very practical.
Unless you always lived in rented flats. A 50 or 60s would have been a dream come true. Never ever owned a home. 😢
Although I did chew Fruit Stripe gum in the 60's, my favorite was Bazooka bubble gum. I would save up the comics to send away for special items. One in particular was a heart shaped perfume necklace. I wish I still had it today!
I was born in 1962 and had EVERY one of these items. That black rotary phone weighed a ton! I think Fruit Stripe gum recently went away.
I was born in 1961, and yeah, those phones were dangerous, LOL.
@@tonycollazorappo Did you ever get all fancy and use a pencil to dial with 😆
@@lauraann7816 Sure did.
The old metal dial was nicer, because you could fit your fingers in the holes.
What I miss the most was when everyone knew their neighbors on the block. Both sides of the street and even across the back lane. I'm a little different I guess because my family moved 25 minutes from town when I was 10 years old and when I bought my house in 2016 in a nice neighborhood I waited a few days thinking the "welcome wagon" was going to come along. It didn't and I was a little disappointed. When I bought my first house at 20 years old in a old neighborhood (the main part of my house was built in 1890 and the kitchen addition was built in the very early 40s and the front addition was early 50s) everyone came around within a week and after only a year or 2 I knew everyone within a 3 block radius and made a lot of friends of the 15 years I lived there. Anyway, after a week of nobody showing up I decided that I'd introduce myself to everyone lol. I live on the "main drag" of our subdivision so the blocks are a bit longer but I know everyone on both sides of the street from the corner all the way down to the park. Which works out to be a total of 14 houses and know each and every one of them. A few of them are a little different as they really keep to themselves and don't talk to anyone. For the last 7 years when new people move into our "block" there are 10 of us that get together and do the whole Welcome Wagon" thing which includes a couple bottles of wine, homemade baking, I ALWAYS make either a lasagna or manicotti and guess what? The new additions to the neighborhood are always stunned and almost cry sometimes because the last place they lived nobody knew anyone! Who can you live like that?!?! During the winter months we all help each other with snowblowing the driveways. Especially the people that work nights until 7 or 8 am and the plow goes by at 6am and us daytime shift guys have to be at work by 8-9am we'll do the ends of the nightshift guys so they can at least get in the driveway and the bank doesn't turn to stone and you have to use a spade to break it up. Everyone looks out for one another and once summer comes omg it's a non-stop BBQ and bonfire on the weekend as we all take turns hosting. The area I live in was built between 1999-2006 and we have 3 originals left and they have all told me that the "welcome wagon" stopped around 2010 because people were coming and going and people for some reason became cold and they are so happy that somebody finally came around to break the ice. I'm just thankful that at the old age of 38 when I bought my house back in 2016 I wasn't one of those shy people and made it a point to introduce myself because if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many amazing people. As for the people in my old hood, I have about 16-20 of them come over for a BBQ every summer as the majority of us keep in touch still, which can't be a little hard because I refuse to have any kind of social media BUT I've had the same cellphone number since 1997 and same landline since 2000 from my first house and was able to take my number with me when I moved in 2016. Anyway lol long story short is that it's nice to have community where you live and in this day and age I really think that having neighbors that keep an eye out on you and your house is something money cannot buy!
It was a great time to be a kid. So happy I grew up in that era❤❤❤
Actually, Tang tasted great
Still does.
If you ever made the mistake of drinking it right after brushing your teeth, yikes, not so great. Lol.
Lots is sugar in Tang❤
I loved Tang and I’d drink it now!!!
It gave me hives.
Avon was popular for decades, Boy’s Life magazine was my first magazine I had a subscription to before video game magazines, Tang actually reformulated their drink mix decades later to taste better, it actually tasted close to Country Time or Hi C! Also Fruit Stripe gum flavor lasted too short, that people stopped buying them! We used to have carousel slide projectors from the 1960s, that was our household item that we viewed photos on a big screen!
My mom actually always had SOS Scouring Pads under the sink along with Copper Glo Cleanser for the bottoms of her Revereware! I had to stop the video and go look up the Coppertone ad because I remember there being a motion billboard of the little girl with the dog tugging at her bathing suit bottom in the next town over from where I grew up near a popular car wash!
I still use Revereware!!
Love be able to use those rotory phones again. Ours was black. I still remember the original phone number. I think stating prices from way back when would be interesting.
I read an article that the Marines used Avon's skin so soft as a insect repellent.
I was told to use it when sitting on my patio in Phoenix to prevent insect bites. It works.
I still use Avon SSS for bug repellent because I am allergic to all bug sprays.
They also had Antibiotic Sucrets which were taken off the market in the late sixties
😂 probably why we're immune to antibiotics now.
Nope, they still sell sucrets in the store and, were never taken off the market! They were around in the 70s and, they still put out commercials in the 80s, my mom always kept them in the house along with the throat spray because, I always got bad sore throats from time to time.
Thank you! This brings back warm memories. 💟☮️
I was little in the 60s. Hard to believe now that I loved Tang. 😝
Another product mom absolutely refused to buy.
Me, too. Tang and Space Food Sticks was one of my favorite snacks.
It is WAY better today. And comes in many flavors. Mango Tang is pretty good.
Had an etch a sketch in the 60’s and my daughter in the 80’s. Never liked Tang. I remember going to the grocery store in the 60’s and my mom putting a coffee bag on a grinder. Pressed a button and it ground for her. One year while in high school I bought everyone Avon for Christmas. I was only part time at McDonald’s then. We had a bright yellow wall phone in our kitchen above the desk. Our basement was finished in red and black. We had a red rotary phone on the bar.
I can remember everything shown.
I don’t use it, but have that black rotary phone you show that I did have in my second apartment. The phone is useless but keep it to remember the good old days. At home we had a cream colored rotary.
I remember playing Life back in the 1970s as a kid with my brother and mom- - we played the game so a much we wore out the spinner! I also remember the smell of Coppertone Oil and Tanning Butter, I'd love to get my hands on some today but I know they don't make it anymore. Life was much simpler with our rotary phones, Sucrets (they tasted horrible) and Fruit Stripe Gum. Great time to grow up.
I watched American bandstand every Afternoon after school. I practiced singing into my hair brush for a Mike. I loved Motown 45 records and coke or Pepsi with pop corn I popped with butter on top.
I was born in 1965. My late grandparents shopped (they referred to it as "traded" because they were in the Southern U.S) at the local A&P. Saw a ton of "8 o'clock" coffee brewed in their kitchen. Thanks for the memory!
All of these were in my home. A funny story about coffee - in the mid-70s, my husband was transferred to Brazil. We spent 5 months living in the Sao Paulo Hilton until our apartment was ready. Every morning, I had breakfast in the hotel dining room. There were a lot of groups of tourists who stayed there. I use to LMBO when American women would ask for hot water, then pull a jar of instant coffee from their purses. Who takes coffee to Brazil?????
Skin So Soft was a great insect repellent.
Still is!
Brillo and SOS had some great "Blue Pad" "Pink Pad" commercials. I guess SOS won the battle but there wasn't much difference between them. The shape and the color of the soap was all I ever noticed.
All I remember is that they would rust in the white porcelain sink.
Great memories and great products along with electric percolators
My son who's 8 years old came to me a couple of months ago asking for an etch-a-sketch. I remember having one as a kid. They always seem to make a comeback every generation. It's perfect and we'll be getting one soon to add to our collection of offline, no electricity required games for the home.
The Hoover Constellation was a much bigger hit in every home than the dial-a-matic. Another mega hit not mentioned are the Maytag washer and dryer twin.
Oh my! That shirt you showed that had MercuroChrome brought back the memory of dad’s tiny bottle of it complete with glass applicator.
You forgot Blackjack and Beaman's gum. I loved both.
Wow, that refrigerator in the opening scene, I remember one of my foster parents having one of those, lol.
Thank you !
I was raised up in Iowa city Iowa in the early sixtys my mom shopped at the A&P grocery store, even at age six I loved the smell of fresh ground coffee! The meat department was my favorite place while mom was shopping I would watch the butcher cutting up the meat, the back where they were working was all glassed in across the meat counter. After we were done shopping mom would get us kids a bag of the Brach's assorted candies the ones in the display there were like fifteen different candies all individually wrapped the toffees were my favorite!! Thanks for the memories of a great simple childhood!!
I remember hoover vacuums, lights on the front, weighed at least 500 lbs and the ability to suck up pets and small children 😂
Love the whole mod scene of the 60s.
How about products from strange sources? We had a stereo from Readers Digest. An episode on Heathkit and Radio Shack back in the days when people could build practically anything from electronics kits...
My mom had Tupperware parties and Sarah Coventry parties and my grandma always read her Bible every day.
Thank you.
Eight O’clock Coffee was popular but I’ll bet that there were more cans of Maxwell House coffee being bought.
Hills Brothers
Etch a sketch was a great toy
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How about the tv antenna rotator box? Some made a clunking sound as it moved. Got better reception.