Things From The 1950s American Life You NEVER FORGOT!
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- The ‘50s was a great time to be alive for many reasons. If you lived through the 50s, I’m actually surprised you know how to use the internet-just kidding. And for those who have no idea what happened, then you are in for a treat. I am about to take you back in time to the 1950s, so stick around for the fun.
In this video, we will be looking at the popular things from the 1950s.
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I remember I was outside just about every day with my sisters, brothers and friends. Winter meant skating and sledding, summer meant games, hiking and swimming. I don't envy the housebound kids of today in this increasingly urbanized world.
New York City kids were out playing all day in the 70s too
There are at least forty houses on my block. I never see children. I know only a couple of my neighbors, slightly. I have lived at my address for 19 years.
My grandparents had neighbors who were lifelong friends. When I was a kid in the 1950's, I had no fear of going anywhere.
Interestingly I see small children in many parts of Philadelphia every day. I grew up in a suburb in the 50s. It was dull and boring. Leaving itcwas one of the best things to have happened to me.
Yes, I was a young kid in the 50's and early 60-'s and the times were better and safer.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and I think it was one of the best times to be growing up
50s, 60s and 70s, best times to have been a kid growing up. 👍🏻👍🏻
Yep and I missed it☹️ I always wanted to be a kid in the 50s and a teen in the 60’s🚀✨🚀✨🚀
Absolutely. It was. I’m thankful I got to live through them
@@johnburrows1179 Same here, I was born in 1961.
@@angeldesigns1385 Most people romanticize the past .... like it was perfect. Of course it wasn't.
In the early 50s there were outbreaks of polio. I'm thrilled you missed those!
@@yvonneplant9434 I think that outlook is based on negative views that most likely does not discriminate to any time in regards to the past, present, or future…I’m a designer by profession, and by heart, so naturally my job and desire is to visualize and offer a positive and aesthetically cheering environment, based on my own exclusive ideas and inspiration, because some people lack that capability of creating that environment themselves, which is more than OK. So that’s my way of thinking which obviously works or I wouldn’t be successful in making people happy. So when I say I would have liked to have lived in a different era in life, I have absolutely no room for the negativity within that era, considering EVERY era history had its pros and cons!.. I only see what aligns with my personality, (which once again generally prevails with positive results) and the aesthetically pleasing architecture, structure, style, futuristic inspiration, etc. etc. from the 50s and 60s very much aligns with my present personality that probably isn’t going to change…. Is that the wrong way to look at things considering there were problems back then?… like I said that depends ones negative views?
I’m an 80’s and 90’s kid, and to my very vivid recollection, the 80s were a great time to grow up, but the 90s just so happen to align with my personality, so I liked the 90s a little bit better which were the latter of that particular time period, and had nothing to do with the passed being worse or better.. so I genuinely extend no offense to you, or anyone else who views this particular era as a negative time in history, but I’m not gonna let polio or any other negative entities discard the fact that I would have loved to have seen postwar America arise.🚀✨🚀✨🚀
The dance you showed when you brought up American Bandstand was the Stroll ! That was no a jitterbug!
My thoughts exactly - The Stroll
True enough, but the jitterbug was shown later.
I was a toddler in the 50s. I remember great times from the late 50s.
The number one thing that' made the 1950's era what it was, was in how people were much, much more friendly and neighborly than anything like today. Today's kids would freak over how yesterday's kids were so friendly towards each other. There also used to be a strong community spirit of how, we're all in this together, what few people today would understand. Today most everybody only cares about themselves, where in the old days, things were more like we all take care of each other. There was also trust and innocence back then, where people were taken at their word, where today, everybody is guilty until proven innocent, what's considered the norm.
I love those times of neighbourhood harmony. Now, I don't even know my neighbours well and everyone's minding their own business, it doesn't feel that nice.
Well said.
Don't forget today's TRASH MUSIC polluting the air.
My parents took us 3 kids to the drive-in movies in our station wagon in 1969 and told us to go to sleep when the midnight feature "Night of the Living Dead" came on. I fell asleep and missed it, but my 2 little sisters watched it and I believe they got warped for life as a result. Or so I tell them.
Drive in theaters are rare but you can still find them in some places. In my hometown we used to have one and I loved it! Where we live now we have a 50s diner that we frequent, I love the vibes, music and the food!
I was born in 1947 and have fond memories of the 50s
Thanks for stirring some precious memories: The first television on the block was owned by a couple who invited all the neighborhood kids to their house to watch cartoons; we were so excited! It was also a time of riding (& doing tricks) on our bicycles with no helmet, roller skating with no helmet or elbow & knee pads; when you got thirsty on a hot day, taking turns drinking out of a neighbors garden hose. You & your friends safely walking a mile to school (& without conplaining). It was a time of earning awards by achievement, rather than participation. Everyone knew right from wrong, the Ten Commanments were a staple of culture. It was a time to develop stong character, and learn to like and get along with others. All of that and more in spite of the flaws in humanity.
Check! Check! Check! and Check! and, so-on.
You hit 'em all on the nail-head, Juelyn! Thank
you.
I'd add to the Freedoms List "free-ranging" kids
where Mom says, "Be back before dark!!"
"OK!!"
We usually were.
I agree. I have never wanted to back in time more than I do now!!!!
I remember the 50's even though I was a little girl. I will never forget those times I once knew. 😀
I grew up in the '50's and I would not trade that experience for anything that came after it. I think 1955 to 1965 was the best period that anyone could have grown up in. I would hate to be kid these days. That period had the best music ever and you could even understand the words of the songs. Drive in movies and restaurants made lots of good memories and we spent lots of time outdoors instead of sitting in front of computers and cell phones all day. Probably the best thing about the '50's was that there was no social media t0 spread nonsense. Social media those days was face to face interactions or telephones that had to be shared with the rest of the family.
I wish we had the outdoor theaters again! Went to the outdoor almost every weekend. I was born in 1957 so I don’t remember the 50’s much. Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I knew all the people on our street and some over. Even in the 80’s my husband and I talked with our neighbors. I have lived on my current street for 17 years. There were a couple neighbors we talked with the first years but they moved. We are in our 60’s now. I don’t know any of our current neighbors. I always wave when driving by but no one talks to each other like years past.
Born in 1949, this hit me hard. Great memories!
In the early 80s, I was raised by a grandmother in a environment that was still fairly adapted to 50s 60s Lifestyle, Because clothing, music, Hand me down toys, transportation, and home goods were still very much functional. Lol I don’t think I realized what modern lifestyle actually was until I was around seven or eight years old? What a beautiful site to grow up with!
I remember being invited to my friend who was raised by her grangma. They had a color tv. It was about 1963 or1964. We watched the Wizard of Oz. Wow!!! As a kid, it was amazing!!!
The drive-in movies were great even in the 70s. Loved them!
god i miss the 50's and 60's and my little transistor radio lol.
I was born in 1948. The 1950's were great times - much better times. Take me back !
The TVs were a piece of furniture, referred as a console. Many were combined with a record player and radio. The first one I remember was a Packard Bell and had a convex screen.
Soda fountain coke has way more body to it than the canned stuff of today and was delicious.
The Jitterbug was actually a dance of the forties but carried into the fifties.
Playing outdoors was wonderful, and many had swing sets. We had the ice cream man that would travel around with musical truck. Popsicles were seven cents, and my favorites were cinnamon or banana.
I remember how when tv’s 📺 were turned on, it took about a minute for a picture to appear on the screen.
And there were controls to adjust the horizontal and vertical scrolling that would appear from time to time. Never understood why that happened.
I grew up in the 50's and miss them. 🙂
I remember when my dad brought home the first color TV on a trial basis. It was HUGE with a gigantic round screen. The pictures had a green hue to all the images and the color was approximate and the CRT needed to be degaussed weekly. What a pain that was. We had it for a week or so. My mother said, "Sent that thing back!" At that time the thing cost $400 which was quite a bit at that time. So, we went back to our old B & W set.
We now concluded our broadcast day. Then the star spangled banner. We had 3 channels that went off the air at 12:00 midnight back on at 6 am. Friday and Saturday night on until 1:00 am.
Here in Detroit we had 4 stations, one of which was CKLW out of Windsor, Canada. At the end of their broadcast day (about the same as you mention) they played "God Save the Queen" and showed a clip of Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip standing on the steps of Westminster Abbey.
I was a charter member of the Mickey Mouse club in 1956. I was sent a Mousekateers cap.
Crazy how patient people had to be and how quickly we became inactive. Even in the 90s we were still very active, but 90s kids and 2000s kids are very different. Drive ins are still around and pretty cool. Id rather go there than a sticky theater.
When assembling these time specific presentations, please choose your photos and video clips more carefully. You have several photographs from the 1930s and videos from the 1960s.
Rabbit ear antennas. The drug stores had a tv tube tester in each store. You bring in the suspect tv tube plug in and it would tell you if it was good or bad. They also sold a variety of new TV tubes.
Even 7/11's had vacuum tube testers.
Gee-whiz!
I'd forgotten those! It'd be neat get one for the living room and keep it on, the lights all going, plugging-in a tube occasionally to see the glow?
Of course 'the kid' was ALWAYS assigned the job of adjusting the ears while the 'the parents' just sat giving orders: "no, around, closer, more apart, a little to the left" and so-on.
@@jamesmiller4184 "The kid" was also responsible for going outside and turning the antenna pole once you got an outside antenna. Luckily, my family placed the pole right outside the living room window and there was a pipe wrench on the window sill. We just had to open the window and use the pipe wrench to turn the pole. Not too much trouble because no matter what, we only got 3 channels (if we were lucky).
my dad worked on them back in those days it was a great time to live in as i did. thanks for sharing and please have a great day
Loved it when my folks would take us to the drive in. There are still about 3 drive inns near me.
I live in Iowa. Peak era for drive-ins; I think we had 7 or 8 in Des Moines. Today I think there are 2-3 in the whole state. The "action" at the drive-ins? Legendary thru about the late 70s. After that quite a lot of 3.2 beer and much Cheech & Chong activity. When we rolled out of the lot at 2:30 AM it was every man for himself, and a good number of us were BUSTED by the folks by 3....
Standard TV screens were 21 inch, not 12, and party lines were very much on the way out by the 50s, but the most important feature of the 50s was the car. After WWII, anybody who could moved to the suburbs to have their own house and their own car which is what made drive-ins of all kinds popular..
And Elvis wasn't rockabilly, he was rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll, with a few other people, he invented it and is still known as the King of Rock 'n' Roll Somebody needs to do their homework
Elvis didn't invent rock and roll. He helped popularized it and make it mainstream. The real inventors of rock and roll were Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Fats Dominoe.
Recently I read the following, "it's worth being old now, to have been young then."
The jittrrbug was from the 1940s
Lots of great memories from the '50s. Thanks for the reminder
Who here remember Mousketeer Doreen all grown up as she did a spread in Gallery Magazine in the mid 1970s. She was Hot HOT!!✊🤪
Saturday morning tv!!!!!! Spook shows at movies!!!!! No school shootings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad was an expert at repairing these old dinosaur TV's. He had turkey pans and ammo boxes full of vacuum tubes
My grandfather was a TV repairman out of their home supported four children one income on that job he always said that it would be a throwaway society for TVs that eventually his trade would be obsolete boy was he right before he died God rest his soul. They sure don't make them like they used to. Really Anything
When we played in the street, we always had fellow 'spotters' watching for cars. When a car came, the spotter yelled "Car!" We ran to the sidewalk, and returned after the car passed. Parents were always impressed.
Jeepers!
That's a new one on me, Richard.
You must have lived in the city say
with Irish cops pounding the beat?
The Bronx, maybe?
Our streets did not have much
traffic so, no 'spotters' were
required.
@@jamesmiller4184 Suburb west of Boston in the late 50s. This was a common practice in most neighborhoods.
My parents were still together there was great tv the whole family could watch epic movies Buddy Holly and hope unbound!
I grew up in the '50's. We didn't have a rotary dial phone until about 1960. You would just pick up the receiver and tell the operator the number you want to call and she would put the call through. That is, if someone else wasn't already on the line. Also, the phones were hard-wired. The phone and number stayed with the house.
Happy Thanksgiving from Colorado. May you and your loved ones be safe, well, and warm 🦃🥘🥧🦃
I lived in the United Kindgom but I absolutely remember of how televisions were black and white wonderful memories and the grass was different wonderful memories. ❤️
Old movie theaters in cities were very large. I recall theaters with a main floor and two balconies. Red velvet seats too! You mispronounced Annette's last name.
Thank you for saying that. Everybody knows how to pronounce Annette’s last name. Walt Disney explained it to her. She was important enough that everybody paid attention.
We would get to go to the drive in on Saturday night especially if John Wayne was playing.
Many local tv stations had shows similar to American Bandstand. WOC Davenport Iowa had a show that featured Ed Zack and the dancers were actually in the lot outside of the studio and they had speakers to hear the music as they were dancing.
WOC-TV! I grew up in Burlington. We had two channels. WOC channel 6, and WHBF channel 4. I can’t believe I can still remember that. By the way, I think WOC stood for “World of Chiropractic “.
@@thefish5861I grew up in Mount Carroll Illinois and Channel 4 and channel 6 were the only two stations we could get until channel 8 started in the early 60s. Remember Grandpa Happy on Channel 4 and Captain Ernie on Channel 6? They were both popular celebrities in the quad cities area in the 50s.
@@thefish5861WOC TV has changed its call letters to KWQC. The radio station is still WOC and is where Ronald Reagan got his start in show business as a sports commentator in the 30s
Whoops. 1949. This is my life. Digging out the cobwebs. Thanks. Fun video.
Born in 49 and still remember the 50's and 60's quite well. I grew up in a very small town in SW Arkansas and there is a lot to be said for small town country living. I knew the names and faces of most the people in that town. Now, I have lived in this house for 20+ yrs. and couldn't name over 5 people on the whole road I live on.
Forty-five here and yeah, most all that same except my town was not so small, a little bigger. As for your observation, that's what packing together by constantly applied subtle force got us: small streets full of stranger-disparates. Take good care, Johnny.
@@jamesmiller4184 My "street" is a country road about 12 miles long. My driveway is 1/4 mile long and I can only see my nearest neighbor's house in the winter when the leaves are off the trees. No, I don't know but just a very few people on our road, but ya know what...I like the seclusion. Much less aggravation when having to deal with the general public. Just me, the wife, the horses, the dogs, and the cats...as well as geese on the pond, deer and turkeys frequenting the pastures, and numerous other forms of wildlife on a regular basis (there's 3 geese on the pond and 5 deer on the far side of the pasture right now)
5 channels. 3 networks, One local channel and a PBS channel that was on sporadically.
The United States had 15 years of bliss - 1952 to 1967 - before it was climbing to get to the bliss and after it was downhill until you have today's sheet-hole
This world is not perfect,but we have only this unique world. ..
I recognize the anterior world better at 2000.
With many shops in countries,without internet and more nature /animals/birds...
And the schools were kept unlocked. we said pledge of allegiance, before this insanity.
A great deal was kept as unlocked, including our homes, locking up generally at dusk I guess.
I do believe that we've now learned enough, having and presently going through this whatever it is truly, to make the Third (always 'the charm') Constitution (the present one being the second) into A REAL HUMDINGER. Oh yeah!
I would expand the definition in it's body for what treason is. There would be NO lobbyists. There would be NO corporate protections; any present ones sunsetted. And a bunch of other stuff too such as making voting in all states mandatory by PAPER, and no others. (Checked by dearhearted old ladies no younger than 75, like before.) You get the idea, I'm sure Herb?
I remember most of this, even though I was just 4 years old when the 50s ended
I've watched American Bandstand but I never thought the jitterbug was popular in the 50s. I thought that was just on the 1920s or something. Then again, I wasn't up on all the dance crazes at 4. LOL
We did see some great shows on those tvs,. But they were frustrating too. N ok remotes of course, but that ty wasnt s ok bad as we ok nly had 2 (English) channels to choose from.
But the picture was often going out and distorting too. The images often had "snow," all over, vertical hold or kept scrolling eternally downwards. Sometimes a lot of playing with those "rabbit ears". But when all was well, there were shows we really lived.
Playing outside with all your friends friends and neighbours. was just the best thing ever as a kid.
What a great time that was!
Yeah - jitterbug was more late 40s.
Rotary phone , ha! My aunt had a crank phone.
YIKES! And equipped with a party-line, no?
Well, we had an ice-box. The ice man would
commeth and deposit periodically through
the wass.
Now, the grandparents had the dough for
a refer. Not us 'till later.
Now I've BOTH, the refer and an ice-box, in
case of a power outage. There is more to
my little contribution but, enough for now.
Annette Foonysello?
That's what I heard as well.
Glad I wasn’t the only one hearing things 😂
Ioved the fifties!!
I was a kid in the 50's. Here you only talked about the good things. Not everything was so hunky-dory as you seem to think.
The rule was: "If you can't say something nice, that don't say anything at all."
Nowadays that seems so-so retro but, it worked!
The idea was so that the impulse to complain, could/would not turn into the horror of that we now suffer.
Right here within these comments BEHOLD all of the ingrate grousing that goes on. Ya'all like it???
Well, there's way-way more of it coming, and not just with words.
Here's another: "DO NOT mix business with religion or politics!"
It was not optional, but rather was a hard-and-fast R-U-L-E!!!
Car to guess why???
That also worked very well . . . until forgotten
Annette's last name was pronounced as "foo-nee-chello."
Born in '46
Drive in theaters were NOT created because regular theaters were not large enough. Most theaters could easily hold 500 people or more. Many could hold over 1,000.
Drive in theaters were created both as a novelty, and because your car was more comfortable than theater seats.
Drive in theaters were also much cheaper to build and own than indoor movie houses.
All right-on and, what FUN they were.
Man! The stuff that could transpire of
ALL sorts in those seats. Contortional
but, OK.
And pretty girls too!
OMG! ANNETTE'S LAST NAME THE WAY YOU PRONOUNCED IT!
😅😅😅😅
IT'S PRONOUNCED, FOON-NA-CHELO!
NOT, FOON- KNEE- CELL- LOW!
Funny if they can't use the internet because those kids when they grew up - made the most strides in computer technology. :)
Annette Funicello cello like the mini string base not sello like the knock off Jello
I have lived in my house for over 33 years. I sort of know one person on the block.
Why did the video start with footage from around 1905? Strange.
Susan, there were only fifty years difference, and in certain important daily ways, not all that much had changed.
3:15
Mouseketeer Annette Foo- nee - sell - oh ??
You obviously weren't around in the 1950's.
It was pronounced Foon - a - chello
It’s naïve to dismiss the Fifties as “simpler times.” Human nature was no different from what it is today, and there were important factors in play. Adults were recovering from the horrors they endured in the Depression and the terrible world war; we youngsters were daily aware that our world could end without warning in a nuclear fireball. And by and large, it was thought to be in the poorest taste to express how those anxieties affected you. You were expected to be satisfied by` the great bounty of consumer goods that had suddenly become available. Conformity was rigidly enforced because so many were so desperate for life to go back to something approaching normal after what they’d been through. Yet at the same time great currents were shifting that would explode in the chaotic, joyful liberation movements of the decade to come.`
Annette Funisello?
Born in 19
Really Judith,...the year ' 19 '.
@Dale Herman (Judith is one of 'them' The Eternals. She is presently two thousand and six years old. It is surprising that, after all that time, she has now revealed herself. A most rare moment for us to all treasure. Let's keep it as secret.)
Oh sure, the 50’s were great for me (I was born in 1947), but if you were black it wasn’t so much fun.
Sadly true.
Oh, give that sh*t a f*cking rest.
you mispronounced Annette's name. we called the dance craze the lindy hop. I was born in 1947.
Still have a rotary phone...they say it will work after an earthquake.The best time I had at a drivein was when we saw Jaws!!!Everyone was screaming!!!
The only time I ever saw a drive in theater was in the 1970s and the theater was showing “Change Of Habit” with Elvis and Mary Tyler Moore. About 1971. It was not as fun as I expected it to be. The sound was terrible and the girl I took found someone else who she knew and spent the time with them. 😢in their car.
Sweet dreams god love you
I remember the blatant segregation and racism
So do I. That was the worst part of the 1950s. The rest of it was quite nice. Good neighbors, God and country, memorable holidays with family and great hamburgers and sodas!! Man! And don't forget the doo wop music!
Now kids stay inside and drive there parents BERSERK.....back than children had the freedom....to go out and play , have their own life , make their own friends....while the parents enjoyed PEACE inside.
Sweet time
Inthecoutry
Costlostofmoney
Korea 1950-1953
Hate the robot type reading, inflection and emotion is off or entirely non existent. I like how he can't even pronounce Annette or her last name Funicello. It would be nice to enjoy the trip sans the robot.
15c Hamburgers. Twinkies with banana filling. No politcal correctness. No woke crap. Cars changed style every year. Drive in theatres.
Born in 44
My sister and I would sit outside on step and see could name the car ist as drove by.
We had lots of imagination back then.could play all day
I was only child so had to guess cars myself unless we went on a trip.
Too much information and blather? Gave up at two minutes!
My god how far weve declined
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Oh I'll bet ... it was such a cotton candy sticky-sweet time to be alive.
Let's not forget the Cold War Soviet nuclear hydrogen bomb ICBM threat or the oppressive societal regimentation fostered by the military industrial complex ...not to mention marginal tax rates of 90% to pay for it all. Good times. 🤠
Wonderful more insults!
This guy dosent have a clue!
Those wonderful years. Stylish cars. Shapely beautiful women. Today look-alike vehicles. Fat, ugly women and DIVERSITY.
no racism, McCarthyism, Cold War hysteria, mind-numbing conformity, but still interesting.
Got the message loud-and-clear, Earl.
Unfortunately, when I wake-up in the morning, I'll still be white!
DANG!
@@jamesmiller4184 no, I don't think you do get it. It was not a critique of white people, I was pointing out the flip side of a decade many people mythologize as perfect.
@@MrEab2010
Yes, I believe I do.
It was taken here as-so and I daresay likely by others that same as well. Thus my snippy comment as it inspired, and I put for them as well as myself. Provably, it is forever to remain the case, which is regrettable to be so-condemned, as given W-H-A-T approaches promisingly.
Anything else?
@@jamesmiller4184 your comment is nonsensical.
Irritating and useless background ‘music’ noise. Do better. No thumbs up.
Also, the phony added "scratches" on the picture (that repeat every so often).
Hey! He's trying! Why all the grousing?
Give the dude a break, huh?
Drive-in theaters would be COVID safe and convenient today, that's for sure.
You botched Annette Funecello's last name. Elvis song was ' Love Me Tender ' not " love me ". The dance shown was not the 1940's " jitterbug " it was ' The Stroll '.
Hey Dale! He's a young guy. Let's give him a break. He's doing his best, which is pretty darned good.
Just add-on all the good stuff you liked, and that'll do 'er! 🙂
Thanks!