If you grew up in the 1960s...you remember this - PART 1
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Best things about being a kid in the 60s? No social media…no cellphones…no internet…no game consoles…
We had one black and white TV in the living room and could only pick up one station on the antenna out in the sticks where we lived so no fighting over what to watch. Grew up on NBC, all we could get. If the phone rang you knew where it was, right there on the little table by the couch where it was connected to the phone wire. Played our games out in the backyard with a (usually) half flat football.
Ha
Agreed! Agreed! Agreed!....
You mean you had to go outside and play with other kids?
@@inhumanmusic1411-- all day. All evening. NEVER bored!!!
The nice thing about growing up in the 60's, was growing up in our own little world, instead of the whole world at one time.
jealous
So true kids today see too much we never got to see until age approriate.
Beautifully put.
Nailed it.
YYYES!
60s was a great time to be a kid
70s was a great time to be a teenager
80s was a great time to be a young adult
90s was a great time to be a parent
2000 was a great time to start growing old... it's been a Wonderful Life😎
Amen, I was on that same Timeline!
If you were not a minority :v
@@iamaloafofbread8926 my minority family members who grew up around that time would disagree
Except now our children and grand children are inheriting our debt and seeming contempt for one another. I think we were poor keepers of the gate. Not seein the Wonderful.
The great times seem to have ended 23 years ago.
My most prominent memory is the feeling of independence as a kid! We would hop on our bikes and explore all day, come home and eat dinner, rush back out, then have to be home when the street lights came on! It was a great time to be a kid! Ignorance is bliss and w/out the dangers of the world on our radars, we were mighty blissful!
My friends and I went all over town on our bikes, and only came home at dinner time. I still have fond memories of my first bike. We all had BB guns too. Many of today's parents would be horrified at the amount of freedom that we had. In spite of that, we not only survived, but most of us turned out all right.
Same...we would play manhunt throughout the neighborhood and threw rocks at cars...we would run if the person got out and chased us!
@@Neil-ht8fv I had good parents...The kid I hung out with was a little devil though...We did it a couple of times and I was kind of caught up in being friends with this kid - He was cool n popular. I feel guilty now but nothing major happened so only good memories. The most fun was manhunt though and being out roaming free in The whole neighborhood. There would be a group of us guys/girls from my school..We were all together catholic school from 1st to eight grade..I grew up in 80s graduated in 91..Just a fun free time being young not afraid and enjoying outside adventures.
Oh and yes on Halloween we used to go bombing and I along with my friends threw eggs at a car n the guy chased us and threw an egg and hit me in the eye...Lucky I wasn't shot as you said...I live in NYC Staten Island and this happened in 87?...I was not a fan of bombing but I did a couple of times..
Truth
I was born in 1957 ... our neighborhood was full of kids everywhere. We played from 7 in the morning to dinner time when my mom would yell a kinda tarzan call to get us! I remember how long summer felt and we were allowed to stay up longer at night. I remember going to the drive in movie in our pajama's and dad would drop the tail gate and we would eat popcorn mom would make. I remember going to the beach all day long and mom wold pack our sammy's and for a treat she would give us each a dime and we could get any treat we wanted at the stand. I remember the day President Kennedy was shot and seeing my dad cry for the first time. I remember having my Nana and aunt Tiss and aunt MImi and uncle Geno over for every birthday and every holiday. I remember how simple my life was. I remember how much my parents did sacrifice for us. I remember it all and I thank you !
Thanks for sharing. This sounds very special.
I remember a little black kid getting lynched by the KKK. Only in Amerikkka
@@kp0121 I remember a little black kid that became a multi multi millionaire ... only in America buddy
@David K yea they had house negroes back in the day too
Yup, we used to raise free-range kids. Taught judgement and self-sufficeincy early!
Born in 61.... Still can't believe our country has came to this!
*has come to...and you are right about this country now.
I can. It’s better now
@@jeffsmith14In what way?
Meeee 2!
Your old, I'm only 60. Campbell,san Jose.
As I sit here and watch this video ,I truly miss growing up in the 60s .I honesty don't think today's world is better.
It’s way worse.
but you couldn't identify with your affirming gender, or be safe from triggering words, and lawn darts were everywhere, falling out of the sky, ready to maim everyone!
I want my world back! We were free.
Amen!!!!!
Pure freedom
Early 60's in suburbs, summer days, moms sitting on the front porch chatting with one another while the kids caught lightening bugs and put them in jars, or played hide and go seek. The whole neighborhood outside enjoying the cooler evenings. The ice cream truck came by playing music and all the kids begging their parents for some money to get their favorite treat.
Best thing about the 60s was we got air conditioning. My high school was full of drugs. There were civil rights battles, Viet Nam, segregation, women had fewer rights. Many things are better today.
My favorite was the Rainbow Bomb Pop... I guess because it was the biggest!
Caught lightening bugs in Sumter south Carolina
We were blessed to have grown up during that time. I miss the innocence of that era and I always will.
Being born in 1963, we never had to lock our doors, we didn't have to worry about being kidnapped, food tasted way better and was healthier. I remember the whistle of the Helmsman and the drawers he would pull out full of donuts! And walking miles to school was safe no matter what age you were!
Sounds like many countries today
Helms bakery, yes!
Born "57 baby boomer and this really hits so many great memories, even for a lower middle class black child. Pops did have a station wagon in which we took summer trips to visit family (either Detroit or Birmingham). We as kids walked to school and took public bus everywhere safely (nobody got shot, robbed or snatched). We moved into a home in '69 and every household on the block had children of various ages. Have kept in touch with so many neighbors and had great conversations about the almost idyllic childhood atmosphere we grew up in. In summer we rode our huffy and banana bikes to the corner lot and played softball games with kids from other blocks, and in the summer months could sit on the neighbor's "hang-out" porch (when the street lights came on had to be on the block) goofing off and laughing with each other all night. Parents did indeed talk with each other (and have their own get togethers at times) and know exactly where we were. It was definitely a simpler time.😊
I'm with you. It was a better time. Alot less people and my golly, how did we get along without cell phones, microwave ovens and only 1 to 3 TV stations. I was born 1947 but we made it through. I hope you are having a great life. I'm retired and my wife and I live at Sun City, Arizona. I have 9 grandchildren. God Bless.
All hail "57."
It's funny you mentioned summer trips to visit relatives. We were a family of 8 and I never remember a real vacation like ppl do now days. Our family vacations were always to visit relatives. It was great... thanks for memories, thanks for the love!
Thank you, born 1953. I had great parents also. My Dad was a Marine in WWII, (several island D-Days), yet my brother and I never heard him talk about it. My Mom had been a music teacher, but I think back then, if you were married, you couldn't teach (Leftover from the '30's, to give men a job).
But my Mother taught piano to every kid in the neighborhood, (it seemed), and I got corralled into it my my Dad. The girls Loved my Mom, my buddies gave me grieve and a hard time. I wonder how many wish they could play today? (I can't).
Years later, I was doing some remodeling on a very nice home, and the husband started playing the piano in another room. I had to bite my finger very hard to keep from laughing , because he was playing " Putt-Putt-goes-the-motor-boat!!!!! THE VER FIRST LESSON IN MY MOTHER"S teaching books!!!!! And he was 78 years-old!! Now I say, Great for Him!!!! Thanks goodness my Mom was still alive, and I was able to tell her about it, and tell her I wish I had done better.
I was born in 57 also. Those sixties are long, long gone...
I grew up in the 60s. I miss those days SO much. Sometimes I cry when I think back.
Dee Aszlalos I feel the same way.
Dee Asztalos: I also grew up n the 1960s. I also miss those days so much. except the Viet Nam war(the only thing about the 60s I Don't miss).
Yes I know what you mean.
Best thing about being a kid in the '60s: (With exceptions) our parents and grandparents were still alive!
ha ha, roger that !!!
These days, great grandparents & even great great grandparents can still be living.
So true all of my people are gone except for 1 brother out of 2 plus friends parents,neighbors,teachers celebrities etc all are gone.hang are to your memories that all we have in the end and at some point give up the reality but never the dream or memories.
@@toshiojohnston3732 brother I hear ya, lost 2 younger brothers over the past year & the youngest of us 4, my sister is still alive. We started calling each other now once a week-[ish] to make sure the other is still breathing oxygen lol. We both have a down line[children] while the 2 brothers that passed were single never married & no children. IDK if that made a diff but, yeah I turn 63 this year & realizing I thought I would be dead by 40 but dam man I could be here another 20 . . . . . . . maybe he he.
AlwaysForward~Godspeed
This is so true, lost my Mom in 2021, so these videos are somewhat bittersweet. I love seeing the things of my childhood, but it makes me think if my mom. When I was a kid, Christmas was such an amazing time, not just because of the gifts, but because all the relatives being together, as a kid, you’d think they be there forever.
Let's not fail to mention the great soundtrack to the 60's. We'll never hear the compilation of music from bands like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who... the lineup goes on.
Yes!... And even the top 40 pop bands on AM radio were great: The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons, The Loving Spoonful and of course all of Motown and R&B. Hail Aretha and the Temptations.
My cousins and I spent a lot of time looking for empty soda bottles in our little town, then turning them In at the grocery store to get change, and then spending it at the candy store. Those were good times!
I think we all did that. Lived in a small town and would walk half mile down the road to a station and you had to get six bottles. One cent deposit each and you got to the station and got a coke for 5 cents and a penny for the deposit and walked home, saving the bottle of course when it was empty.
I remember that from the 50s, more than the 60s.
We used to go door to door asking for them.
I'd do that in our small town, remember how rich I felt the first time I held a dollar worth of pennies and nickels in my hand.
rock n roll plank and 6 oz coke 10 cents...
Cap guns with the red paper that you tore off as it was used-up. Or, you could drop a rock on one sitting on the sidewalk to get it to pop....
I loved the smell of those caps when they went off.
They also had rockets with a small piston at the tip to load caps into. You threw them up in the air and when they hit the sidewalk they went bang.
@@tomf429 we called them grenades
@@cjon4256 I was just thinking about how l also loved that smell !! When we played Dale Evans and Roy Rodgers, we definitely used those caps for the guns in our holsters !! 🐎
I would cut them out and use a toothpick to stuff them into cigarettes. I was a devil!
One of the best things about growing up in the 60's was the trust you had towards everyone. As a kid, I trusted total strangers to help me out, and they did! You don't find that kind of trust nowadays.
My neighbor told me Jesus in coming and 50 years later he has not arrived. I guess he is stuck in traffic,
@@scottr3484he will but no one knows when, probably when we least expect it
I was born in 60' and when we were growing up we went outside in morning riding our bikes all day just going around neighborhood finding kids to play with and back home when streetlights came on, no worries no cares just having fun, we made our own fun sadly this isn't done today! I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything!! Thank you!
I was born in 1947 and I remember the 50s and 60s very well. I graduated from high school at Northside High School in 1966 Fort Wayne, Indiana. I then went into the Marines for four years and I went to Vietnam. Coming home from Vietnam was one of the happiest days of my life. I came home March 1969. My Dad cried and my Mom cried and would not let go of me for about 5 minutes. In
Semper Fi brother, and welcome home. I served as a Marine at the end of Viet Nam.
Thank you Sir for service. I'm glad you made it home. My step brother did to at a mental cost . ⭐️⭐️
Thank you for your service, glad you made it home,a few of my classmates didn't, we were born in 47 as well.
Thanks for sharing and for your service. I am glad you came home alive.
Thank you for your service!
Oh the memories!!! I was talking with my brother last week about us playing outside ALL day~ Our neighborhood had so many children of different ages and we played many different games outside. Baseball, inny-inny over, tag, bicycling, skateboarding to name a few. We walked A LOT and pretty far sometimes, usually going home for lunch. If we missed lunch we would get fruit off someone's tree (everyone had fruit trees), or go to someone's garden. Everyone was friendly and didn't mind us doing that. I just realized something: I don't remember anyone being overweight back then, maybe chubby but not like you see today. So sad those times are over...............I miss them.
I grew up in 50s and 60s and reason being that most people are chubby is because for one is lack of activity with kids being on cell phones and those video games and mothers cooked for their children and families would sit together at the table.Nowadays they go to fast food high calorie food places to eat.I do not hardly remember going out to eat only a few times.We did the same things you talked about and more,hide and seek,kick the can,wrestle,run races,football basketball,getting into mischief because we were no angels.I do feel sorry for my grand kids for not having this kind of upbringing,for there is nothing for them in this modern day culture.It was not all peaches and creme but it was great being a boy back in the day.I wish these kids could make memories like this in order to have something to cling on to later in life.
It's because many of our foods today are made from GMO's! Our food is fake and has been genetical modified!!!
April Holton: I miss them too. so sad those times are gone.
April, I miss them too. We had so some much fun then, I makes me so sad that our children have never enjoyed those kinds of days
Inny inni??
As someone born in the year 2000, I often wish I was young during the 60s. I know we have many amazing things in this generation , but I'd trade it all to exist during those times.
You are very wise.
I grew up in the 1960s and would love to join hands with you, born in 2000, to work towards bringing the best things of those days back. That is my sweetest memory of those times, when people chose to join hands and work for the greater good instead of eviscerating each other. Those days existed for most of my lifetime to date. I offer this thought with love and respect.
Those were the days my friends we thought they'd never end
It was a wonderful exciting time, probably never to be repeated! Glad I grew up in this time.
You have my Grandma's name, LoL
Me too!!
The greatest!!
Mary Mcnulty: Me too.
never be repeated for real only in the minds of us .
when my grandson comes , in a few months , he will be saying the same thing in 2085 !!!
Good day mam
I want to go back to those days in the 60s and 70s and stay there the music was a hell of a lot better and it was so simple
Great music....the best music ever came out of the 1960's.
The music was really great. I listened to WHBQ A M station out of Memphis. It was not unusual to hear rock song followed by a folk tune. Then you might hear a Mowtown followed by a Country tune. It was all great music, and we loved it. A lot of those muscians are still making great musicm but we are losing more and more of them every year.
@@rzorbcksfan5747 This was a normal format for radio stations throughout the nation. One would hear a Beatles sing, followed by a country ditty, then a jazz number, then Petula Clark, then Motown and then a song popular in Europe. One received a good cross current of different musical genres.
I wish I could go back, so lucky to have grown up during this time.
I was born in 1960 . The Etch-A-Scetch was a must have toy , along with a Slinky , and my Stingray bicycle ! Wonderful memories , mostly .
Of course when my two oldest brothers joined the US Army , and got sent to Vietnam ; watching my poor mother crying in front of the television as Walter Cronkite told of US casualties was my first dose of reality.
The 60’s truly were “The Wonder Years”.
No, they really weren't. It is only those of us who were children back then that think that. The sixties were possibly the last time the Country was as divided as it is today. One can only hope some semblance of civility will make a comeback in order for the Country to survive.
Born in 54 my twin worked out we were same age as Winnie and Kevin on the Wonder Years as well as Sally on Mad Men. As for the "division" thing, we kids were only vaguely aware of politics, one sign of a healthier world. I do remember President Kennedy being killed. We were let out early from school. Mom was crying even though she was a Republican because we were all Americans first and foremost.
@@tomsampson8084 The 60's was where America learned it could not trust it's govt. implicitly anymore as most had done in times past (think of WWII and that era's one mind flip from NO involvement in WW prior, to, but after Pearl Harbor, we gotta get ALL the bastards) because it came out they were lying about almost everything. Especially the Vietnam war. Most of the troops destined for there were trained at ft. Polk, Louisiana and I lived 7 miles from there growing up in the 60's. I saw those guys in town and I felt badly for them. Especially later when they were mistreated coming home but mostly how it was just murdering most of them. And the govt. was lying about it all.
The 70's weren't bad to me. My teens were in the latter part, 80's my 20's.
@@ntvypr4820 The Dazed and Confused era of our younger siblings. I sometimes think you were at the last century's sweetest sweet spot in terms of birth dates.
The best thing about the 1960's was that people did not think about, and talk about, major world problems such as climate change, pandemics, etc. and there were no lockdowns. People really trusted each other then and they dressed up even to go to sporting events. What a great, idyllic decade! I was so fortunate to grow up during that era. 😃
Me too!
@@vickiladu6755 Me too...
You mean not talking about fake dangers? Yeah those were the days.
"...people did not think about, and talk about, major world problems..."
Uhhh...Cuban Missile Crisis, anyone...? Vietnam war, anyone...? Apartheid, anyone...?
Remember getting your polio vaccine, along with every kid, and guess what it got rid of polio, that and pool chlorine.
I grew up on the 60's and had a easy bake oven. Oh so sweet memories. I wish these times for my grandchildren. The world has changed and not for the better.
When you went to the gas station, they'd fill your tank, clean your windows and check your oil.
Trading stamps, it really was like that Brady Bunch episode! The store was awesome!
You called all the parents Mr. and Mrs...without exception.
The innocence. That's gone with the wind. 😪
I still call my friends parents Mr. and Mrs.
😄lol Thats who they are!
I was born in 1952, so I was transitioning out of childhood when some of these were popular.
Does anyone remember when kids could have chemistry sets? I was so excited to get one.
Yes, my brother, a year younger than I, got one for a birthday or Xmas gift. He & my other bros were only supposed to use it under strict adult supervision, but I seem to recall they got carried away with an exploding experiment in the basement once!
My older brother had a chemistry set and he was ALWAYS making 'stink bombs' that smelled like sulphur ! I think it's one of the reasons my Mum made him finally get rid of it ! LOL
Yep, I had one. Those things were way more dangerous than I remember them being but MAN, they were FUN.
Yes, I had a chemistry set as well and fast forward, I am now a retired chemistry tech... LOL
1953 here.
The best part of the '60's is that I was a kid.
and now you are a goat, wonderful
This was a wonderful walk down memory lane. I can’t stop smiling. Thanks for taking me back to a happy innocent joyful time. Glad I had those experiences.
Memory lane is special to me, too. I just turned 60 in December, and wish I could go back....I am close to tearing up just remembering the happier times as a child, then the stress of current reality sets in. I do no want to live like this anymore. It seems we have to struggle to find a little good or happiness anymore, but the bad and negative in life just jumps out at you. The 1960's were much simpler, happier.
Technology has become the downfall of humankind.
I remember a lot of the things mentioned. I had an Easy Bake oven, GI Joes. I also had a Mystery Date game and a Secret Sam kick, My best friend in grade school and .I each got a pair of GoGo boots for Christmas. We'd walk home from school wearing them and singing,"These Boots Are Made For Walking "
i had white gogo boots and i wanted a easybake oven never got one i had a etch a sketchand that trace a disk thing i did have mystery date and me and my cousin had those black poodle radioshack radiosi had that creepy crawler oven in the flowers it was dumb had bottles of neon goop
and that twirl wheel and that rope w/the balland those little puzzles plastic and silly putty and barrel of monkees and tip itand operation and golden books
In 1960 I was 7 years old and remember my dad would give me 32 cents to walk to the corner store and buy him a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. I don't know what is more amazing, that the cashier would sell cigs to a 7 year old boy or that they cost only 32 cents.
If your dad was anything like mine, he probably always swore that he'd quit when they hit 35cents, then it was 40cents, then 45cents. He never did quit.
The price of a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes in California is nine bucks !! ☠️
Yep, Granny would send me with a note to purchase her carton of Kent cigarettes at the local gas station. Still remember that they cost $8, and I could buy snacks ("cola" jolly ranchers were my favorite) with the change. Btw, I was about 10 yrs old at the time. It truly was different era.😁😁
I’d get sent with a note from my mother to buy her pall malls , penny candy with leftover change, malt balls individual wrapped and licorice
My aunt sent me to the store to buy her Kool Unfiltered, (I was 9). I didn't even need a note because the local grocer knew me and my family.
I WAS BORN 1958 FEB.17TH.THIS IS 2022 I REMEMBER THE MOTOWN SOUNDS I STILL LISTEN TO TODAY.I WOULDN'T HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
We were outside playing with other kids. I rode my bicycle everywhere: no fears of being 'kidnapped'. It was fun, yet we also knew how to help our parents with chores. Absolute fun times, not connected to a personal device 24/7. We knew how to interact with others.
My dad used to say when we would take off in the station wagon "hold on to your coloring books we're off like a dirty shirt"🥰
Off like a "herd of turtles in a puddle of wet cement" ;-)
One thing that really grabs me when I think about it is the fact that there were HALF as many people in this country in 1960 as there are today! We had empty lots to play in, streets to play ball on, and no fences! It was a totally different world than the world of today.
Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 inflated our population and destroyed our national character.
@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 What the Left intended and the trend is accelerating with their open border policies.
@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 Y'all realize there was a time nobody wanted your a** in America, either, right? If you were black, Jewish, Irish or Italian, you were on the sh*t list. Not to mention Asian a bit later on...
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Y'all notice all your aforementioned groups insist on leaching off the group that created a comfortable country and society from nothing? They apparently get a free pass from not being wanted here either.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 and what did they do? They assimilated and contributed. They loved this country, all had a sponsor and a reason to be here. Not leach and try to enact failed policies that they fled.
I was born in 1959. Every evening after the late,late movie the TV station would sign off by playing the National Anthem.
Then this big red dot would flash on the screen. Every night on the news would be an update from the war in Vietnam.
I also remember the milkman coming one morning during the week. My brothers and sisters would hope my mother had a little extra money to purchase us a box of ice cream treats. Our favorite was ice cream sandwiches.
Very cool.
TV was concluded for the day by the national anthem 🇺🇸 and fresh milk in the morning.
Building push carts to run on sidewalks out of wood and wagon wheels.
I drank Tang as a child, and I also ate Space Food Sticks. My parents and I went to drive-in movies in a station wagon.
I watched Ed Sullivan's Show when The Beatles made their debut. I liked George Harrison until he died in 2001. I had a Barbie doll, and a Troll doll, as well. I do remember watching all of the Space Program news coverage, and I remember when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I played Twister, but I was never very good at it.
I was also born in 1959. I remember the Troll dolls (my mother had one), and we called them Kyoupie dolls.
Best times were the 60s and 70s when Life was Simple and Happy. Now we are living a Hellish fast paced Life with all kind of Gadgets, Stress, and Worries
Growing up in the '60s.
1. Being out all day during the summer, and having to be home when the street lights came on.
2. In the summer, listening for the jingling bells of the Good Humor ice cream truck.
3. Tang (and Kool-Aid), Space Food Sticks, and a Star Trek lunch box.
4. School clothes, play clothes, and Sunday church clothes. Haircuts on men and boys made a statement. "Establishment" haircuts for the strait-laced types, and hair that touched the ears or the collar for "radical" or "hippie" types. The further into the '60s you went, the longer the hair got.
5. A giant console TV (that took forever to warm up), and it was a big piece of furniture that dominated the room. Later, a small TV on a wheeled cart (complete with rabbit ears, snow on the screen, and the endless problems with vertical and horizontal hold). Being jealous of anyone who had more than one TV, and being jealous of anyone who had a color TV.
6. Riding in the back of a station wagon on long trips, and being small enough to sleep in the "shelf" of the back window of the sedan on long road trips.
7. Buying candy for a penny. If you had a quarter, you were rich and in Candy Heaven.
8. Drinking from the garden hose and never getting sick. Running through the sprinkler in the front/back yard.
9. Watching rocket launches (some were really early morning shots). Watching the moon landing real-time. Wanting to be an astronaut -- especially since Buzz Aldrin and I grew up in the same town and went to the same schools. His picture was prominently displayed in my elementary school.
10. "The Wizard of Oz" played on TV once a year, usually in the Spring. If you missed it (or any other TV program special that was repeated), you had to wait an entire year before you could see it again.
11. Playing with a GI Joe and all the accessories that came with it.
12. Drive-in movies. Watching movies on the big [outdoor] screen. Saw "2001" when it came out in 1968, and watched it at a drive-in theatre. Big single screen movie theaters were still around, and watching films like "Lawrence of Arabia", or "Fantasia" on a big screen was a great experience.
13. Flying anywhere was a treat. Seats had plenty of room. You could get a headset, plug it into the seat's armrest, and listen to the radio traffic in the cockpit. I even remember ashtrays in the seat armrests, when people could still smoke on the plane. The airlines served decent food, and even had real silverware instead of plastic utensils.
14. Dressing up to go to the movies. You'd sit in the dark, and no one could see you; but you still dressed up.
15. Mail delivery twice a day. Receiving a morning newspaper *and* an evening newspaper. The Sunday newspaper weighed a ton, but you couldn't wait to pull out the comics (the "funnies") section.
16. Milk delivery service. Milk trucks. Milkmen. The metal box on the back porch for the milkman to put in the bottles of milk (and if you ordered them, cheese and butter).
17. Church keys to open a can of soda. Using a bottle opener (even ones nailed to a wall) to open a bottle of soda. "Pull tabs" being a new way to open a can of soda. No more church key.
18. Gas stations were still full-service, from filling the tank, to checking the oil, to filling the tires, to cleaning the windshield. Never had to get out of the car.
19. Rotary phones, dial tones, busy signals, the off-hook signal, live phone operators and directory service. Phone books (and they had to be regularly updated). Phone booths. Push-button phones being introduced.
20. You knew all of the neighbors on your block by name. You knew your mailman by name. You knew your milkman by name. You knew the local cop on foot patrol by name. You even knew the guys who picked up the trash (metal trash cans!) by name. Kids always addressed adults as "Sir/Ma'am", or by title "Doctor/Officer/Your Honor/Reverend" (or whatever title applied). Saying "please" and "thank you" and "excuse me" to complete strangers.
What a time to grow up.
Exactly!
Great post
I remember my parents saying, "See the Beatles" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was looking for bugs and said, "I don't see any beetles." I also remember that I watched As the World Turns with my mother. I remember when it was interrupted to say that President Kennedy was shot. My mother cried, and later when my father came home, he was crying. I had never seen him cry before. The sixties were a mixture of good and bad, but still better than today.
Going back a bit further. Ed Sullivan, Sunday night, 1956. Watching Elvis Presley for the first time perform Hound Dog. My grandfather said, “in a couple of years, people will be saying Elvis who?” Boy, was he wrong.
You mention the Beetles. I remember my parents said they were going to watch, “The Birds” and I thought they were going to watch, “The Byrds”.
There was sure no crying in our house. Somewhat the opposite.
I was in 2nd grade and all the mothers came to pick us up in the middle of the day, they never did it before, we either walked or took the bus. A very long weekend as I remember. At lease it seem I a weekend, seeing Oswell shot on live TV, different times.
@@philipputt Oswald. I was in 7th grade.
Back in those days during summer vacation from school, I'd be out all-day long adventuring and bicycling with the gang, and I only came home just to get a quick drink from the water hose from around back and without even thinking of going inside because I went directly right back to the fun only to return home later right before the streetlights came on.
And now you don’t see that now days cause of “ phone and video games”.
@@azia5051 True. But then again, we're all products of our environment and era.
Ah, yes, drinking from the hose. I should be drain bamagged from how many gallons of that I drank. Instead, in my mid '60s, I'm still programming web pages.
I guess that "drinking from the hose" didn't cause as much damage as they like to say. (?)
@1mespud you are right.
U must have lived nextdoor to me. Only 'gang' back then meant a bunch of 12 yr. old kids playing softball, as opposed to cartel affiliats.
Hopscotch and Jax’s, hide and go seek, were everyday games to play outside during the summers. Drive in movies in the station wagon with piles of pillows and blankets, a special treat for our family. Having picnics. I sure miss those carefree days.
Hello how are you doing....Hope you are having a perfect time over there.❤💖❣💞..
Greatest thing about the. 60s is the music. AND it’s still great today. Gotta love those 45s and 33 1/3s. My family had a white Buick station wagon with a 3rd pull up seat that faced backwards. We loved it!! Proud to be a 60s girl.
Our most common way to listen to music was 45rpm small records we called "45's" that had an A side (good song) and a "B" side (usually a crummy song). You would stack them up on a special tube that fit over the thin post used for lp's (33rpm) and they would fall down one at a time and play on top of the other one.
Yep! Those old record players...they played 45's, 78' s, 33's, and albums (but in Mono, not Stereo...albums were sold in both versions...my Monkees albums were all Mono).
I never took care of my records , I would stack them on top of each other with no covers then they would get so scratched I had to put a penny on the needle to stop them from skipping , by then the sound quality had diminished to the point where you could barely hear the music thru the hissing and static
There were quite a few B side hits. Some of them weren't hits, but they weren't bad. I still sing the B side of David Soul's "Don't Give Up on Us."
That's right, and if you left a 45 out in the sun too long and played it afterwards, you could watch the needle arm go up and down as the record played.
I collect vintage phonographs. My favorite would be one I just purchased on Ebay for $400.00 that was restored. It's a 45 rpm RCA player made in 1956...which only plays 45's. Next favorite would be a Crobra-Matic suitcase style....made in the late 50s....very heavy player. The sound quality of this thing is amazing. Plus, I have 1000- 45's and about 500- record albums. Sad part is....I doubt either of my nephews would be interested in inheriting the players or records.
How about silver foil Christmas trees? They came with each "Branch" in it's own tube that you stuck into the "trunk" of the tree. Then, to light it, there was a light that sat on the floor with 4 different colored panels that rotated and changed the color.
We had one of those. My mother put blue Christmas balls on the tree, and nothing else. I watched the premier episode of Charley Brown's Christmas with that tree just a few feet away from me. Charley was quite upset with the modern Christmas....lol... It was a great time to be a kid.
We had one of those. You would decorate it with colored ball ornaments, preferably a single color, since the silver was blingy enough. It was basically a Reynold's Aluminum Wrap tree.
I thought ours was so beautiful!
We had one back in the day and I still wish I had one
We had one. We'd turn out the lights and sit and watch the color wheel turn making the tree so pretty. Our color wheel developed a funny sound. I can still hear it!😂
Born in 1959. We got paddled at school in the 60's and my parents backed the teachers. We played outside all day in the summer and rode bikes for miles. We made sure to check-in from time-to-time but for sure be home by dinner. All was good.
Lots of memories from a much happier, lower stress period of my life...
Spudsie Hot Potato game, Time Bomb, Lesney Matchbox cars (still have from 1960's and still collect at 60!), Mighty Matilda toy Aircraft Carrier, Tiger Joe Tank, Delux Reading Cannon, Erector Sets, Transogram glow in the dark Green Ghost Game ( I still have one-and after 58 years it still glows!), Dad's new 1964 Ford Country Sedan station wagon, Lionel Trains, trip from Sylvania, Ohio to California in 1967, above ground swimming pool at our house, old C-7 & C-9 Christmas lights for the Christmas tree and house, REAL LIVE Christmas tree, 1966 Sears Lighted Christmas Village my Mom got brand new in 1966, which she recently gave me in mint condition in original box! Still works!! 1951 C-7 Christmas lights that Mom & Dad got when they were married- I have them & they still work! Freight/grain train going through our backyard every day & engineers hitting the horns, waiving to us & even throwing candy and even a kickball to us! Staying out playing Hide and Seek Ghost in the Graveyard until after dark, Pulling my Marx Sun N' Sno Racer ride on car behind my bike, putting playing cards in the spokes with a clothes pin to make hot rod sound, window fans in bedroom windows in summer because we had no air conditioning, H.O. Trains and slot cars, walking to the elementary school glass doors to see classroom assignments, who I had for a teacher, room number, etc. in SEPTEMBER, NOT August! Carving pumpkins and decorating for Halloween, Fall Open House in elementary school. Watching July 4th city fireworks from our side lawn, as they were set off in Memorial Field right next door! We were the last house on the street & did not have to fight traffic to go see fireworks! We also had Christmas Vacation and Easter Vacation instead of Winter Break and Spring Break. In elementary school, we could walk home for lunch if we wanted to instead of eating in the cafeteria/ gymnasium with tables that unfolded out of the walls.
I am blessed with being born in 1955, growing up in the 60s was the best. I had the banana bike and clipped poker cards to the bike to make that awesome sound. I was outside sun up to sun down. My parents had a 62 Buick that was like a tank. We had only 1 black and white tv and were happy. Charlie brown was a must during the holidays.
We had one B/W TV, and my father often repaired it by going to a local electronics store, Quement Electronics, to test the tv tubes. He had a schematic of the electronics so he was able to narrow down the problem to a couple of tubes.
Most of the products in those days could be repaired, and very seldom was anything of value tossed into the trash. Those were the days when there were "repair" shops, shoe cobblers, and most women wore and made their own dresses. Great memories!
I hear you. I wasn't born till 1970 but it seems we enjoyed much of the same. I had a Banana bike called the Huffy Clean Machine. My family had a 1972 Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon. Much outdoor time and working in the yard with my Dad. Definitely a different time. We took the good with the bad.
@@beadyeye2312 Wow, you have reminded me of memories that I had forgotten. I was born in 1960, and I too remember adjusting the TV antenna on the roof, the rabbit ears on the back of the TV, and yes, the scrap yard with cars in which my dad would hunt for car parts. My sister and I would go into all of the cars and look for lost change behind the seat cushions and be happy if we left with fifty cents in change-we thought that we were rich. I pulled weeds and picked up dog poop in the back yard for 25 cents an hour, and I was very happy to earn the money. Those were indeed good times in which most kids were instilled with values and respect for everyone, and especially the adults. All the best to you!!!
I remember all the kids riding around on shiny bikes with sparkling spokes. They looked like beautiful Angels floating around and zipping by; What a wondrous sight to see. It seemed like a miracle that anyone could balance on just two wheels; but we all knew they were clever.
What exactly was a banana bike? Was it yellow?
I remember laying in the back of a station wagon on a long road trip. My parents would put the back window down a couple of inches to let the smoke out.
I remember lying on the rear deck between the back of the back seat and the back glass and staring at the sky as we took Sunday country drives, mostly dirt roads!!! I used to ride standing up next to my dad and my head wouldn't touch the headliner! If he had to stop suddenly he would hold his arm out to block me! Learned to drive when I was 8 yrs old! By 10 I was driving by myself and dad in passenger seat coaching me as we went Long! He used to say things like: if you're going in the ditch don't snatch the steering wheel, be graceful with it. You won't loose control that way!!! And many other things!!!
It's hilarious to me how none of us ever knew that we walked around smelling like an ashtray for years!!!🤣🤣🤣
I rememer almost crying my eyes burned so bad.
@@sl8605 and wedding receptions were the WORST for cig smoke!! Yuck!
😂😂😅
I was born in 1957, so this really brings back great memories! We did a lot of traveling then--the road trips of the '60s were so exciting and fun! Well done video, and compliments to the narrator for his velvety-smooth, soothing voice; I could listen to him all day! awesome job!
Blonde Bmythe, his "velvety-smooth soothing voice" could be a computer generated voice, not a real human voice like in the old days....Remember, times have changed, ha, ha, ha.
Seeing that picture of Tang, I can still remember how it smelled and tasted. My mom would not buy Tang, but my best friends mom did so that's where I tried it. I too had an easy bake oven. This nostalgia is bringing back fond memories. I loved the Salisbury steak tv dinner. OMG all this really warms my heart.
Salisbury steak and french fries !!
And it was easy to make friends with other kids!
I remember A&W drive in restaurants with car hop trays on the windows . Also transistor radios. Great times. And don't forget Cox small gas planes and cars.
I lived for the A&W drive-in and lunch with Dad at the Officers' Club. Shirley Temples for me. Wonderful memories 💖
We had Hot Shoppes and Might Mo Drive ins with car hops.
To this day I cannot drink A&W unless it's served in a big frosted mug.
I got my first transistor radio as a birthday present in 1962 when I turned 7. That was love for me. My parents loved me enough to get me a transistor radio. Wow.
Yeah the A&W drive in was great. We moved to Michigan from TN. to pick fruit and my Dad would take us there to eat afterwards. Those hamburgers were so good and the mug root beer's were too.
Gas was cheap. The roads were open. And great music on the car AM radio: Doors, Janet Joplin, CCR, Beatles, Stones... People were friendly and helpful... Doors were not locked... An innocence and wonder and optimism...
This is just delightful. I was born in 1962, so I have just great memories of the 1960’s and 1970s. Grew up in such a loving household, so I love thinking of my childhood. This is such a great video.
It was great back then to be able to play outside without worrying about not safe to do so. I agree it was nice not having cellphones, internet, etc... I really enjoyed playing outside with my friends and felt safe.
Hello how are you doing....Hope you are having a perfect time over there.❤💖❣💞.
I can't remember how many TV dinners I scarfed. Fried chicken and roast beef were my favs.
How about Salisbury Steak? 😄
Yup, Swansons.
Wow, my Mom watched this video, she was born in 1954, she said you nailed it, what a great time to be a kid, during summer vacation you lived outside, hated to come in, played games outside, kickball, pickle, jump rope and ect. Thank for sharing! 👍
Yep when the street lights come on we went in.
I was born in '54 too! Kickball was the thing, as was jumping rope and roller skating and bike riding. I am so glad our parents knew how important it was to gradually give us some independence and freedom as we matured.
1954 !! Represent !! November here ! Great T.V. Shows, roller skating, Troll dolls, Barbies, cheep candy, swimming at the high school pool ( for a WHOLE quarter!) GOOOD TIMES. 🛼 Blessings from California. Are we old now ?? 🏓
@@marycook1644 November 54 here as well. We are old now, however, we had the best of times.
@@beholdheiscomingonthecloud5526 🦚 Don’t tell anyone we’re old !!! We did live in a good era !! Take care ! I am enjoying a Mexican meal at El Torito with my ninty one year old mom . Her birthday is November 26 and mine is November 27 ! When is yours ? 🕊
A boomer here, I was born in 1949, this hit me hard.
Thank you so much for this!
Boomers were born until the 60’s ended.
@@Cwgrlup Ended in 64.
I remember playing cowboys and Indians. Making our own thrown together go-carts rolling downhill was fun! Getting a Miss Beasley doll and also one that rode a bike by battery was cool. Having Grandparents come visit once a year kept it really mysterious. What fun times we had walking back and forth in rain, snow or sunshine, to school! We would collect our friends as we walked along the route. What good times!!!
1960's ruled! Such a simple and easy life.
I remember the big green, blue and red bulbs that were always hot on the Christmas tree and the tinsel that was saved year after year. The metal pedal cars and tractors were super cool to have, but the pedals hard to push
right ...don't forget when 1 bulb went out all went out .... took time to fine the bad bulb
How could I forget the tinsel...smh
Yeah, and most people had REAL Christmas trees, not artificial ones. The smell of the tree would get on the ornaments. I can remember helping my dad get the box of ornaments out of the attic and how it smelled when we opened it to decorate the tree! Nice memory.
@@Ilikeit616 No, the deal of one bulb going out and causing the whole string to go out wasn't until later. The big red, green, blue and white bulbs on the two strands of wiring (one black and one white) were easy to deal with, because I can remember through the Christmas season, when I noticed that a bulb was out, I would dig the small box of replacement bulbs out of the box of ornaments and replace it. No sweat!
Oh yes those lights that dried out the real trees. The tinsel was shredded aluminum foil which our family put on the tree one strand at a time 🤦🏼♀️. Yes, it was taken off thr same way (that became my responsibility by default - mom would say the end of January and once February “if this tree isn’t out of here by the time I get home from work, it will be the last time we ever have a tree” I fell for that all the time.
I was born in 1954 so of course I was raised in the 60's. A lot of things shown on here bring back memories. My parents had a big station wagon for a short while and it had ac. We took a trip from Florida to see my grandparents in Alabama. Me and my siblings fought over who was going to sit in the very back of the wagon and my mom always tried to reach back to hit us but she never could. Lol.
My sister who is four years younger than me and my brother both had bikes with the 'banana' seat and raised handlebars but the bikes weren't Schwinn. My parents couldn't afford that.
I remember watching cartoons in black & white TV and I recall how cool it was when everything went in color.
Me and my sisters never had the Easy Bake oven or anything like that but we did have Barbies.
Thank goodness my mom never made Jello molds. She did however make banana pudding and it was my favorite. We never ate a TV dinner. My mother cooked every night thankfully. Her 'fast food' dinner were hot dogs, fries and buns warmed in the oven. No microwave existed back then. Oh and when she cooked this it was on a Saturday night. We would get to drink store-brand colas then. All of the other meals we had ice tea. For lunches during the summer we had grape Kool-Aid.
I watched the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan show then again at Shea Stadium. On TV of course. It was the beginning of the British invasion and I loved it. I still love them. Every Saturday I watched American Bandstand. Me and my friends learned how to dance watching that show.
So many neat things from that era but one thing that wasn't neat was the Viet Nam war. We didn't understand what was going on but we knew we didn't like our male friends being drafted. Thankfully none of them that I knew were killed.
Born in 56. I had a green haired troll. Loved it. Don't know what happened to it. So just a little while back I saw one on Ebay that looked exactly like the one I had and bought it!
I am so grateful I was a child in the 60s..Life was so much more simple then overall.
Until you were drafted as a male
@@thejoker2000, my late uncle, who was drafted in the Army in 1968, as a combat medic in the Vietnam war, told me that he was answering the call of our country. I was told this by many other Vietnam veterans too and from those whom I served with in the Navy from 1980 to 1984. Most of them where either a door gunner in a helicopter squadron aboard aircraft carriers or a hospital corpsman in a Marine unit.
Everything is relative. I was born in 1961 and today is far better than back then
@@thejoker2000 Regardless of hindsight and woke culture men who went to war were heroes. They were fighting for the United States.
Unless you were a minority
Oh so many of these are blasts from the past. Jiffy Pop, Banquet TV dinners, Clue and Operation, magic rocks, three channels on the tv which went off at night, drinking from the hose, playing in the sprinkler, the back part of the station wagon being our place to play or lie down, Saturday morning cartoons, Quisp and Quake, biking all over the place, girls having to wear dresses to school and alot of the rest of the time, busy signals on the phone, troll dolls, hula hoops!
Born in 51. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. When my grand children were younger, now in their early 20 attending university, I would tell them about my favorite toy. A Bob-A-Loop. Would spend hours trying to master it.
I could never forget the Good Humor man driving through the neighborhood.
I was born, 1960 and my childhood memories are filled with the hippy era! Blacklight posters, flower stickers, bell-bottom pants, and platform shoes!
Loved those days! N I got patches n sewed onto our jean jackets n later we got a stud n gem machine to add bling to the clothes. We added material to the bell bottoms to make them bigger! LOL and we wore head bands, halter tops n hip huggers n rainbow belts n later elephant pants. And I remember I loved the Dr Scholl shoes for some reason.
@Delana Taylor Online That’s because behind the scenes Hollywood n the singers were partying with drugs n were gay. Look up , I think it’s called club 54 in NY. It was pretty disgusting. Even the music was for gays. It was still inside the closet though. Like Donna Summers n many others music was for the gay. They weren’t allowed to come right out with it yet.
When we were young they even outlawed the deck of cards song off the radio.
All cussing was taken out of everything on tv n radio. It was not allowed. Them were the good days! Kids miss out these days. They have everything n no imagination.
I loved those days in childhood!
@@joyceobeys6818 I enjoyed the Keds, they let my skates slip on easier, my sister, born 11 months prior to me wore the Dr. Scholl shoes. I have a pair of jeans today (salvation army) that my daughter (r.i.p.) cut the bottoms (straight legs) and made me a wicked pair of flared bell bottoms, crocheted! We really had, IMHO, the best childhood! Add to that? We had no distractions from the outdoors, no cells phones to hold us back from the world around us and our generation truly emersed themselves in that world!
Was born in 1950s so that was my teenage years. Doing my math homework while listening to the Beatles and all those other English bands while tapping out rhythm with the pencil eraser on my algebra book pages.
@Delana Taylor Online But none of those foxes would give guys like me the time of day. It was a long time before the word incel was coined. Never took a gun to school and shot everybody in sight, nobody was doing that those days except for that guy up in the University of Texas tower that started the whole thing I guess.
I remember what a treat it was when we could afford to buy TV dinners or pot pies for our family of 7. My Dad took photos of the TV screen during the first moon landing. My grandma gave me a campaign button that I wore to school that said “Mamie start packing, the Kennedys are coming”. All gas stations were full service and gave green stamps and often bonus gifts with a fill up. Most of the stores we shopped at were small family owned. We watched B&W TV and there was local programming from Cleveland (l remember The Polka Parade and a talent show) on Sunday afternoons. Saturday Sports on TV included Bowling for Dollars. Friday nights we went to the roller rink. We saved our money to go to the record store to buy 45’s. Woolworth’s was a favorite store when we went to the shopping center.
You didnt watch late night horror movie every friday, The Big Chuck and Hoolihan Show? It was on until just recently!
I remember loving TV dinners
But was still hungry when finished
Even as a kid
I am 70 years old and I still have my trolls and my troll horse , plus all of the clothes I made for them!!
Thank God for your calm voice and videos. They really help when I’m sick
Swanson TV Dinners were expensive (in our household, at least) ... we got them every April when they ran "Wizard of Oz" on TV. Take our baths, put on our jammies, break out the flimsy '60s TV trays, get a TV Dinner, and (perish the thought) watch TV in the Front Room while EATING !!!
We so looked forward to that event.
That is funny you looked forward to seeing it. Because the Flying Monkeys scare me, even now !!! Blessings from California. 😱
@@marycook1644 My brother had nightmares about the flying monkeys.
@@josephgaviota He and I are so alike ! I NEVER watch scary movies. Even kinda suspenseful movies l end up turning them off. 🐓
Everything mentioned here I experienced with my large (11 kids ) family. One of my favorite memories was going to the drive-in. Dad made a huge bag of popcorn (buttered of course). Mom made a huge jug of Kool-aid. Maybe a few quartered cut P&J sandwiches wrapped in wax paper. The most favorite part was which one of us got to hid in the trunk so they could save on admission cost. Little ones were free. Then (all of us in our pj’s) fought over who got to watch the movie from on top of the car. Man o man….we thought this was living the life.🥰☮️
My mom always wrapped our sandwiches 🥪 for school in waxed paper ! Blessings from California. 🎠 🏰 🎢
@@marycook1644 Remember the wax paper sandwich bags?
My dad would hide no one. I thought that was dumb but he would not do it. Dad never lied and never taught us to lie. Not under any circumstances.
You WERE living the life!
I had a Schwinn Lemon Peeler banana bike as a kid. Loved it. Banana seat, chopper handlebars, stick shift. Not many kids in my neighborhood had these bikes for some reason even though everyone loved them, so it made me the cool kid on the block.
During the early 60s, I was a young married and by 1970 I was a mother of three. This time span holds some of my most precious memories.
I remember watching Wild Kingdom and Wonderful World Of Color on Sunday nights. It was the golden age of cartoons, the best in history. We would go on bike rides across town and would have those cheese and crackers, or Hostess fruit pies for lunch. Or if you were rich and had a buck, you could buy a double burger, fries and a coke. My older brother says the fifties were great, but I think the 60's were about the most magical time to be a kid in America.
Saturday morning cartoons then Sci Fi Theatre around 1pm.
And after Disney I would watch Little Joe on the Ponderosa ❤️
OMG, Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins!
My grandparents would take my brother and I to their friend's house who had a color TV to watch Wild Kingdom and The Wonderful World of Disney in color I also remember when we got our first color tv and you had to have your TV repairman our guy's name was Ron
The best in YOUR history, maybe mine too just because that's when I was young. But, arguably, the best era of animated cartoons was the 40's and 50's, and maybe even here in the modern era when a lot more risks are taken and a lot more adult-themed shows are on (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Ren & Stimpy, etc.)
The TV shows, playing outside till the street lights came on, drinking from the garden hose and running through the sprinklers, camping trips and sleeping in the back of the station wagon, skateboards, hula hoops, playing with barbies every waking moment, keeping trolls in my desk and bringing them out to play with at recess, Saturday morning cartoons, reading comic books, eating pizza, spaghetti from a can, oh so many memories that were good from my childhood
What a wonderful portrait you painted-- I remember it all as you described-- thanks. B. 1961
@@juanagallo7497 thank you too!
It was the same for me. I remember the first day of summer when schools ended for summer break. It was like being out for year to me before going back to school. Riding bikes and making paper air planes and staying out side the hole day and not being tired when I'd go home at night. Those were the days. We would go to red barn a hamburger place to eat every Friday night in my dad's 66 belvedere station wagon. I still have one toy left my brother didn't tear up. 1970 Tonka moon Kratorcrawler the type they used on the moon.
@@phillipanderson2607 ahh those indestructible Tonka trucks! I didn't know they made a moon crawler too!
Barbie and her friends Skipper, Midge, Ken, Stacy...had them all. Troll dolls...big ones, gigantic ones, little teeney ones, keychain ones...had 'em all. Chatty Cathy, Easy Bake Ovens, Twister and Dream Date games, "Skip-It"...riding our bikes and playing hide and seek until well past 10 pm on Summer nights and walking everywhere day and night, not being paranoid or afraid of being raped or kidnapped. Penny candy, 25 cent chocolate sodas at the variety store counter, 12 cent ice cream cones, 15 cent McDonald's hamburgers, weekly milk deliveries to our front door...Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, and The Hollywood Palace weekly music and variety shows... Woolworths, Sears, Kresges, Grants, Two Guys and E.J. Korvette "department stores"...the automat vending machines at Horn and Hardarts...witnessing the debut of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the advent of the space program and the moon landing, the assasinations of three of the most notable humans to ever grace this world, Laugh-In, Twiggy, mini-skirts and go-go boots, Woodstock and "free love", the horrors of the Vietnam war...Everyone and everything that we experienced back in those magical days, shaped us, influenced us, inspired us, left an impression on us that today we can look back on with fondness, nostalgia, and ultimately, a profound sadness, knowing that the world, society, and humanity, CAN NEVER, WILL NEVER be the same, for better or for worse...
The big ol' station wagon complete with rear rumble seat. That was a sweet time.
Loved that rumble seat!
I remember doing wheelies on my banana bike , to see how far we could go without wiping out. Erector Sets , and drinking Fizzies. Camping out , and playing all day outside even in rain and snow ! Man , those were best days of my life , and memories that will last forever .
My dad bought a banana seat and put it on my old bike. We could not afford a Schwinn then. But it worked! I was dying to get the gear shift handle on my bike also!
How can anyone forget the green & blue chip stamps grocery stores handed out? neighbors used to pay me in stamps to pick weeds and I would pour over the catalogs making my list of must haves. But most of all I remember truly feeling it meant to be carefree. I also remember art, music, woodworking, home ec, and even auto classes being available in abundance. And drive-in movies!
do you mean S&H Green stamps?
@@johnclark4732 I think that's what they mean. We saved enough to buy a 13" B&W TV.
my bought a nice red trlke w/them stamps sand h stamps and i found them when we moved dont know if i kept them in a book and xmas clubs savings accts
GREEN STAMPS!! My mother got me a pogo stick with green stamps
Shop, woodworking and auto classes were not available to girls, in abundance or otherwise.
Saturday morning cartoons
It was wonderful growing up when I did. (I was born in the 60's) No cameras, little crime, unlocked doors, and neighbors you actually knew.
A couple of things that come to mind about the sixties are: Hoola-hoops, ball games under the street light, red rover, first experience eating pizza or McDonalds, Kmart, and Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Thanks for the memories! There were so many more cool things about the 60's, Dial phones, all the fun old games and toys, hula hoop, pogo sticks, stilts, etc. More please!! 😃
You know what was the best? Because we were invariably outside a lot more than we were inside. And, playing meant physical activity and imagination. Both essential for growing childrens minds and bodies. Kids now get parked in front of videos or video games. They start playing video games by the age of 2!! Ridiculous, in my pov.
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Roller skating, playing jacks, kickball, hopscotch, etc.
You could play "Ding, Dong Ditch!" and not get shot! We were respectful and never did it at night.
I remember playing outside all day till the street lights came on then it was time for supper bath and bed those really where the good old days when kids actually could go outside everyone new everyone and if you got in trouble your family new before you got home one of the neighbors would call your parents oh boy i miss those days when life was acually slow and less stressfull
I remember playing outside all day riding our bikes hanging out with friends and just being kids falling alseep on the porch on a hot summer day was my favorite at my grandmas house then going to my grandmas corner store to help dust shelves for her i really liked the old days when their was actually respect for our psrents and grandparents todays day and age is not the same .
@@lorrainelewandowski8737 Your grandma owed a little store !? What a wonderful childhood you had !! I am so jealous. My LOVELY grandma had a really small grocery store by her house. I loved it. And free candy ! Although with a quarter we could get quite a bit. Blessings from California. 🎠 🏰 🎢
I remember most of this! I am the oldest of 6 and we travelled a lot in the family wagon. My mom did not allow a tv in the house because she wanted us to play WITH other kids all day long but only after we completed our chores. Yes we learned to work AND play and laugh and cry and pray and get over it! We learned how to live and I wouldn’t trade the worst day for anything.
We rode our bikes all over the place. In my neighborhood, we stayed out till about 10 because there were not very many houses or cars and the parents could just stand at the front door and see all of us out there. Loved it.
I remember playing with the original Jarts. We stood at opposite ends of our back yard and lobbed them at each other. How we avoided serious injury is nothing short of a miracle!
Yep. Jarts. Yard Darts really, big heavily weighted objects with a point on the far end. Throwing them across the yard at each other, or worse yet, up into the air....yikes!!!
Still have mine
In 1969, the Ideal Toy Company released the Beautiful Growing-Hair Crissy doll with beautiful hair that grows right down to her toes.
My sister had her & her blonde little sis Velvet 😂
I had her
Duncan YoYo's. Creepy crawlers. Jacks. Western Flyer sleds. So much! What a great time to grow up. Almost forgot...A cloth drawstring bag full of marbles. Thanks for the vid!
Yes! We absolutely went on long road trips - thousands of miles of them - in the bank of the station wagon. It was wonderful.
I grew up in the country during the 60's. From the time I was about 8 years old, I'd be gone from can see to can't see (No street lights out where I lived...just the stars.) I rode a bike. I had my own fishing rod and tackle box. There were creeks and ponds all over. Most people would let a kid fish if he asked politely and didn't make a mess on the property. In the fall, we swapped fishing rods for shotguns and went hunting. When we weren't hunting or fishing, my grandfather and I would take a metal detector and hunt Civil War relics (there had been two major battles around where I lived. As I got older I went to work for a local farmer. No child labor laws then. You worked, you got paid. Twelve hours a day, six days a week. Picking tomato's, peppers, and pumpkins. Going to market. Driving the tractor, and sitting around under the shade trees eating the feast the farm ladies put on for "lunch." Quite a way to grow up.
Battery operated record player that fit on shoulder, and walked the neighborhood playing my favorite song>>> Daydream Believer by the Monkees...💕
That's funny you mentioned Daydream Believer.I saw a documentary on the Monkees recently and can't get that song out of my head😁
@@brookeshaffer4377 My favorite song back then, and I had a major crush on Davy Jones🙂
Yes I grew up in the 60s.I remember all that you shared Thank you it took me back in the day
I remember laying in bed, hot August nights hoping for a breeze to blow in through the open windows, listening to the A.M. radio and wondering what the next day would hold for me and my buddies on our bike ride. Also remember when my parents and I went to visit relatives we never bothered to lock the doors. Imagine that now... what would happen 🥴