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  • čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
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    When we think back to our younger days, there were some things that just made life better. Some were necessary and others were just nice to have, but all became a part of life during the times. So, let’s take a look back at some things that you absolutely couldn’t live without in the 1960s and 1970s!
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Komentáře • 422

  • @incog99skd11
    @incog99skd11 Před měsícem +71

    Anyone remember the Norelco shaver ads at Christmas with the shaver sledding through the snow?

    • @KarlLaFong-v2q
      @KarlLaFong-v2q Před měsícem +5

      Wasn't Santa Clause sitting on it?

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen Před měsícem +1

      @@KarlLaFong-v2q Yo momma, was sitting, on Santa's face, Babyboy

    • @KarlLaFong-v2q
      @KarlLaFong-v2q Před měsícem +1

      @@saminaneen No, I believe it was your sister! Speaking of faces...... in your face!

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen Před měsícem +2

      @@KarlLaFong-v2q Your comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 Před měsícem +4

      Used to think that ws so cute when I was a kid. Part of Christmas back then. Along with the great Christmas specials on TV. Glad we had a color TV. Always RCA.

  • @wendyh2708
    @wendyh2708 Před měsícem +95

    I watch Recollection Road, and some days, I really wish I could go back. Even if just for a little while. They were the best of days.

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +13

      @@wendyh2708 Take me with you when you go, Miss Wendy! Maybe we can hitchhike back.

    • @ValerieGriner
      @ValerieGriner Před měsícem +12

      Me, too! I grew up in the 60's and 70's...much better times!

    • @TangledNana
      @TangledNana Před měsícem +7

      Yeah, we all do. It would be so nice to have a do-over!😊

    • @The_Whimsical_Stenographer
      @The_Whimsical_Stenographer Před měsícem +7

      Sometimes I get sad watching these videos. I’d give anything to go back if only for a little while. 😔

    • @The_Whimsical_Stenographer
      @The_Whimsical_Stenographer Před měsícem

      @@thetruth7046don’t leave me.

  • @northernlitez1
    @northernlitez1 Před měsícem +80

    We lived on our bikes in the early 70's. Huffys and stingrays with banana seats. We went all over as carefree as could be. Those were great times.

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 Před měsícem +6

      And, then, we flipped it over when, we weren’t ride it, we would crank the peddles with our hands, we pretended we were the ice cream shop! 14:39

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 Před měsícem +3

      We did that in the 80s as well. My friends and I always flipped our bikes over too, and pretended we were making ice cream. 😊

    • @grampsradio
      @grampsradio Před měsícem +2

      I had the Schwinn Stingray with the banana seat, wide slick on the back, 5 speed shifter on the frame and chopper style handlebars! Metal Flake purple, she was the envy of the neighborhood! Thanks Dad! Over a half century later, I still remember that magnificent bike!

    • @jillefeldme9452
      @jillefeldme9452 Před měsícem +3

      Mine was a Huffy, bright yellow.

    • @williammouri1096
      @williammouri1096 Před měsícem +1

      In the mid 70's, I had a black Huffy. Can't tell you how many patches, tubes, and tires I went through. It was fantastic!

  • @northernlitez1
    @northernlitez1 Před měsícem +60

    Oh how i miss those saturday mornings with my bowl of cereal and bugs bunny, scooby and the jetsons

    • @DominikQuesnel
      @DominikQuesnel Před měsícem +3

      As a early gen z (2005) kid i agree wish i could go back it was a simpler time

    • @catholicfaithofmine2664
      @catholicfaithofmine2664 Před měsícem +1

      O those csrtoons are on you tube and u can always buy a box of cereal

    • @marcogarza4457
      @marcogarza4457 Před měsícem +1

      i loved the the show Dungeons and Dragons

    • @michellewall6748
      @michellewall6748 Před měsícem +1

      Me too….

    • @David-sc2ir
      @David-sc2ir Před měsícem +1

      Johnny Quest was my favorite cartoon!

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 Před měsícem +48

    I'm 59 and I remember all of these thanks for the memories.🇺🇲🙋‍♂️🇺🇲

    • @PaulTesta
      @PaulTesta Před měsícem +6

      Ditto here. 59 too. Born in '65.
      I also remember all these things! 😊

    • @domsalexa
      @domsalexa Před měsícem +4

      May 12, 1965 here! Lol

    • @lisalynnmarie2448
      @lisalynnmarie2448 Před měsícem +2

      @@domsalexa Jan 16, 1965 - I loved doing ceramics with my mom, but now I can't even find a place to do them. I was also a huge fan of bell bottoms lol I still have 2 pairs and wear them when the mood hits me😊

    • @PaulTesta
      @PaulTesta Před měsícem +1

      @@domsalexa
      You're 16 days younger than me!

    • @domsalexa
      @domsalexa Před měsícem

      @@PaulTesta Cool! 👌🏼

  • @jimh.8138
    @jimh.8138 Před měsícem +44

    I took a high school class in typewriting and spent several years pounding those manual typewriter keys. What a joy when the electric typewriter came along!

    • @fr2ncm9
      @fr2ncm9 Před měsícem

      Now you are either typing your entry on a computer keyboard or sending it via a smartphone.

    • @laurachristianson1688
      @laurachristianson1688 Před měsícem +1

      Remember having to type out my senior term paper on a little manual typewriter…had to be very specific as to paper margins , footnotes etc. Took me longer to do the finished project than all the work I did with research and notes. Still I got one of the only 2 A’s in what was considered an accelerated class.

    • @loriloristuff
      @loriloristuff Před měsícem

      I took a semester of typing in my sophomore year of high school. I am still the world's worst typist! Now, however, I can correct my mistakes without an eraser or gallon of WiteOut. THANK GOODNESS for the 21st century!

    • @peggyl2849
      @peggyl2849 Před 10 dny

      And when they made the one with the correction ribbon......oh, baby...

    • @WarHawk-
      @WarHawk- Před 4 dny

      Oh yes, the IBM Selectric with the 'ball' type unit.

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady Před měsícem +35

    I remember in high school typing class. We all were typing in unison and then reached the end and the bells rung.

    • @dtplusthepoints3409
      @dtplusthepoints3409 Před měsícem +1

      Yep. Can still hear the teacher calling out: J K L ; . . .F D S A, J K L; . . .F D S A. . .

    • @staceyl.thienel1499
      @staceyl.thienel1499 Před měsícem

      I remember having to focus on margins and page #s.
      Word is awesome!

  • @domsalexa
    @domsalexa Před měsícem +38

    Playing with the View-Master when i was a kid made me love photography & travel later in life. One of my most beloved toys ever!!!

    • @jujubegold
      @jujubegold Před měsícem +1

      Same. It’s the only “toy” I have remaining from my childhood. Still have most of the original packages and slides.

    • @maisies927
      @maisies927 Před měsícem +3

      I loved paper dolls as a kid. I didn't like Barbie.
      I loved it when new albums came out from my favorite singers.

    • @juttadestiny6810
      @juttadestiny6810 Před měsícem +2

      Paper dolls my sisters and mine favourite 1960 s 🇦🇺❤️💚❤️

    • @maisies927
      @maisies927 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@juttadestiny6810The 60s was the same for me as well. I'm 66 years old.

    • @loriloristuff
      @loriloristuff Před měsícem

      They had adult Viewmaster reel sets. No, they weren't porn! They were generally glorified travel adventures.

  • @artiek1177
    @artiek1177 Před měsícem +34

    Yes, the old flash bulb cubes.

    • @pjesf
      @pjesf Před 11 dny

      Yep - I was maybe 10 and had that Kodak Instamatic 100. Cutting edge 😂

  • @jacklittle1624
    @jacklittle1624 Před měsícem +37

    Imagine gen z trying to use a manual typewriter😯 No delete, no spelling/grammar correction, no preview, no emoji’s😂😂😂

    • @christinebutler7630
      @christinebutler7630 Před měsícem +8

      And no abbreviations allowed! Every word had to be typed out in its entirety.

    • @netwrench6570
      @netwrench6570 Před měsícem +3

      Bro, they don't even type, they twitter flick the letters.

    • @candyflair7946
      @candyflair7946 Před měsícem +2

      😅👍

    • @kd6836
      @kd6836 Před měsícem +6

      I’m not sure they have the strength to strike the keys.

    • @r.a.contrerasma8578
      @r.a.contrerasma8578 Před měsícem +3

      No plagiarism

  • @mikeywid4954
    @mikeywid4954 Před měsícem +36

    Thank you Recollection Road for your wonderful videos of yesteryear. I'm 74 yo and they always evoke such wonderful memories of days gone by.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před měsícem +28

    Viewmasters were indeed a part of my life. Still have them with a box of vintage viewmaster slides packed away.😁

    • @domsalexa
      @domsalexa Před měsícem +5

      I wish i have mine still😢 I had the brown one during the early 70s and later on the red one in the late 70s/early 80s

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 Před měsícem

      The only one I kept was The Addams Family. Loved seeing that in color.

  • @bridgetmccracken1381
    @bridgetmccracken1381 Před měsícem +41

    It was such a great time to be young!! Thank you for this sweet look back 😊

  • @jasonrodgers9063
    @jasonrodgers9063 Před měsícem +21

    "Hitch-hiking". Dear Lord, astonishing that ANYONE survived! Remember the classic bumper sticker? A silhouette of a busty girl with her thumb out, and the timeless caption- "Gas, grass, or ass, NOBODY rides for free!"

    • @carlsaganlives4036
      @carlsaganlives4036 Před měsícem

      If you were a dude, 'spare change' and a little smoke are helpful then. Chicks? Heehee...

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 Před 18 dny

      maybe there weren't as many psychos on the roads then...

  • @69Hurst442
    @69Hurst442 Před měsícem +9

    I have over 10k in albums that I started when I was 12. I’m now 60 and the sound is so pure that no other platform comes close. Thanks for touching upon a lost art form. Your channel covers everything. Thank you for this channel. I wish you all the best.

    • @brianquilty687
      @brianquilty687 Před měsícem +1

      Wow !! That is quite the album collection. I started collecting vintage table top radios back in the day. I'm now 70 and have about 50 real cool old time table top radios.

    • @69Hurst442
      @69Hurst442 Před měsícem +1

      @@brianquilty687 I would love to see those radios. They must be collector items. Once again a dying art form. They are a an American art form. Hang on to them. I’m sure the Smithsonian would like to see them.

  • @invisigoth777
    @invisigoth777 Před měsícem +15

    your voice, the background music, and the subject, makes me just want to rip open space and time, and go back to those times

  • @joeheid2776
    @joeheid2776 Před měsícem +15

    One Sat a month we had slide night. My dad preferred slides to photographs. Great memories.

  • @thetruth7046
    @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +25

    The portable transistor radio was a great escape! CKLW out of Detroit had the best of music, then on Friday nights the scary movies played, which let your imagination run wild! Great times!
    The reel mower however, death on two wheels. I would spend hours picking up sticks in the yard before mowing, only to be abruptly stopped by the one stick I missed and have the mower handle smack me in the teeth!

    • @willswords7373
      @willswords7373 Před měsícem +2

      I still have some “ solid gold “ lps from cklw , Detroit

    • @rich7787
      @rich7787 Před měsícem

      CKLW was before my time, but I’m from Detroit as well and have very fond memories of the radio stations I did grow up with

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +1

      @@willswords7373 I was a country kid, so much so that our neighbors were the Ingalls, and the Waltons.😁 CKLW was our lifeline to the “real” world.

    • @markharrington7843
      @markharrington7843 Před měsícem +3

      The push mower was yet another rapid learning educational device.

    • @RJDA.Dakota
      @RJDA.Dakota Před měsícem

      I an not from your are but as I lived in the great Midwest many a night with my portable transistor or shortwave radio I would seek out stations just like this one. CKLW, WLS, KAAY, and a lot of other stations were each individually great stations. Many other stations also like WABC and my hometown KXOK. Different days. Awesome memories, at night I could pick them all up.

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Před měsícem +31

    It's always a good day whenever Recollection Road uploads

    • @allan9603
      @allan9603 Před měsícem +3

      Yes, just wish they participated in these Comments.

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@allan9603Yes, it definitely bothers me that he never answers questions or participates with us.

    • @allan9603
      @allan9603 Před měsícem

      @@jenniferhansen3622 , It should be a requirement once you get a channel on YT.

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Před měsícem

      They're too busy putting together their next video, to reply to thousands of commenters.

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 Před měsícem +1

      @@joequillun7790 Other CZcamsrs do it, and they're busy too.

  • @hollygolightly6243
    @hollygolightly6243 Před měsícem +23

    Who could forget the family station wagon for vacations … in Avocado green here 😂

    • @loriloristuff
      @loriloristuff Před měsícem +1

      Ours was red.

    • @hollygolightly6243
      @hollygolightly6243 Před měsícem +1

      @@loriloristuff I loved the red ones ❤️

    • @coldlakealta4043
      @coldlakealta4043 Před měsícem +2

      yes, and with fake wood trim down the sides and across the back

    • @hollygolightly6243
      @hollygolightly6243 Před měsícem +1

      @@coldlakealta4043 yes a lot of them had the fake wood trim. And some had yacht deck paneling on top 😃

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 Před měsícem +1

      I never got to ride in a station wagon in the 60s or 70s. We had pickup trucks with a cab. Got to ride back there once awhile.

  • @mewregaurdhissyfit7733
    @mewregaurdhissyfit7733 Před měsícem +12

    You know you're old when..............you see a 20 something person in a thrift store pick up a Viewmaster and say "What is this thing".
    As a teen boy in the 70s, I remember velour shirts, bell bottom pants, dingo boots, and feathered hair being all the rage in my high school.
    Also tricked out vans and sports coupes with shiny mag wheels and twice the size rear tires for extra grip when racing out in the boonies.
    And fro's. Lots of kids started perming their hair and many just flat out got fro's. And don't forget, the 70's is when you said everything on a Tshirt. And thats when marketing Tshirts came out.....companies had to gret a cut of the profits on putting stuff on Tshirts as well.
    Guys colognes: Old Spice, Musk, Polo, Hai Karate, and Paco Rabanne for those with cash burning a hole in their pocket.
    And for girls it was clogs, Candies, hot pants with colored tights, and frizzy hairstyles. Lip gloss was EVERYWHERE as well. And you either had to smell like Charlie, Shalimar, Loves Baby Soft, or if you had money.....Channel #5. And DON'T forget that hideous BLUE EYESHADOW you could see from space!!!

  • @dad4ever-c90
    @dad4ever-c90 Před měsícem +48

    Cousin Eddie, in National Lampoon's Vacation, said it best. I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself. Mmm Mmm! As a typical poor college student, that was about as GOURMET as meals got for me.

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +3

      With Tabasco on top it was a 10 out of 10!

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 Před měsícem +8

      When, they finally added sour cream sauce to the Beef Stroganoff towards the late 80s, OMG, it was like about time! Even though, I learned to make my own homemade version of Stroganoff, I still like Hamburger Helper’s version and, I usually add a little extra sour cream in the mix, as well, as adding some chopped onions and, fresh mushrooms! 8:55

    • @northernlitez1
      @northernlitez1 Před měsícem +7

      Love that cousin Eddy

    • @user-hb6vn9ym6e
      @user-hb6vn9ym6e Před měsícem +3

      I love those National Lampoons Vacation movies they amazing ❤

    • @zacharyrome3432
      @zacharyrome3432 Před měsícem

      I still eat it about once per week !

  • @jeremy1350
    @jeremy1350 Před měsícem +14

    Record players !! My grandparents had an old Victrola, a standing furniture box with the radio and 78 rpm record player, and a stand alone 33 rpm record player, that had the stub attachment for 45's. I got my first transistor radio when I was a little kid, with the "Single Ear Bud" line out.
    I had a Red View Master !!
    Yup, I had the Schwinn blue bike with the white banana seat. Pictured in this video. The day my father took off the training wheels and I began my first solo ride, I ran over one of the young girls who lived on my street, it was quite comical, but she was not happy about being run over !!
    My grandparents also had one of those manual lawn mowers, where I learned how to mow the lawn as a young boy. They later got a gas powered 1st generation lawn mower.
    Atari 1979 !!! Space Invaders, The shooting gallery, the race track.
    God Forbid a parent allowed their kids to drink from the hose in the back yard today. That gave us strength and helped us fight off bugs and other illnesses. My mother would send us outside and lock the door, and would not allow us back inside until dinner time.
    In Miami we skated at the Kendall Skating Rink.
    We had 2 Beta Max machines and movies we would trade between families to copy movies back and forth.
    Aw, you didn't mention the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop, How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?? One, Two, Three .... THREE !!!

    • @vmobile890
      @vmobile890 Před měsícem

      Just ate a Tootsie roll now sitting in front of my stereo system with record player 33 and 78’s handed down through the family . I switch from iphone bluetooth music to records all works as new .
      The Atari is in storage getting ready to sell .

    • @amymeyers9682
      @amymeyers9682 Před měsícem

      I finally sold my Betamax in 2014….

  • @lmutch427
    @lmutch427 Před měsícem +8

    God I love this channel ............memories of good times ....sigh.

  • @julenepegher6999
    @julenepegher6999 Před měsícem +10

    Me being a true 70’s girl I could not live without my hip hugger blue jeans and the best music ever! ❤

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Před měsícem +12

    Tootsie Roll Pops were a great treat. They have tootsie roll candy in the center of the pops.

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 Před 18 dny

      Remember the Tootsie Roll Owl? Guess we'll never know how many licks it'd have taken to reach the center...

  • @grumpyoldwizard
    @grumpyoldwizard Před měsícem +14

    How different things look through the lens of time. Thanks for the video!

  • @laurachristianson1688
    @laurachristianson1688 Před měsícem +6

    Fond memory….received my first little transistor radio when I was in my tweens. After forced into bedtime I would pull my covers up and listen to WLS.

    • @user-cn6cw6os3s
      @user-cn6cw6os3s Před měsícem +1

      Got my first one for Christmas 1963. 6 transistors! Rich kids got one with 7!

    • @peggyl2849
      @peggyl2849 Před 10 dny

      Later on there was the 'WLS/WCFL battle' - Bob Sirott vs. Larry Lujack

    • @WarHawk-
      @WarHawk- Před 4 dny +1

      @@peggyl2849 - On the West Coast we had 'Wolfman Jack' and 'Charlie Tuna' spinning the top 40's while you sipped your frosty cold glass mug of A&W root beer at the drive-in.

  • @markharrington7843
    @markharrington7843 Před měsícem +9

    That GE oscillating fan was a great rapid learning educational toy.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před měsícem +15

    Manual lawn mowers were excellent exercise.

    • @christinebutler7630
      @christinebutler7630 Před měsícem +1

      They are still available! I have one,.because I hate.the noise and stink of power mowers. The soft whirring is pleasant and this way I can mow early, while it's still cool outside, and not wake the neighbors.

  • @thelittlegreenball6813
    @thelittlegreenball6813 Před měsícem +3

    Being born in 1968 I remember all of this! Best time to grow up ever! Thanks for taking me back! ❤

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 Před měsícem +7

    Schools back then wouldn't have been the same without reel movie projectors that had to be set up and rewound at the end plus film strips with tape recorded narration! The thing about early home video games was that, although Atari had some great games it was actually ColecoVision Games that offered more of an arcade replication in the beginning! There was a really cute novelty song by the late, great British singer Alma Cogan called "Couldn't Resist her with her Pocket Transistor" in the 60s! Haha!

    • @user-pq9zc3uc7m
      @user-pq9zc3uc7m Před měsícem +1

      I remember a friend had the Mattel "Intellivision". Great graphics for the time.

    • @r.a.contrerasma8578
      @r.a.contrerasma8578 Před měsícem +1

      I never could understand the student who knew how to thread that thing.

    • @jons.6216
      @jons.6216 Před měsícem

      ​@@user-pq9zc3uc7m yes they were! My brother - who lived at home forever and had a ton of disposable income - bought an Intellivision system after maxing out what could be purchased for the Atari 2600!

  • @Tomatohater64
    @Tomatohater64 Před měsícem +7

    Cartoons were awesome. Pink Panther was the best.

  • @High_Caliber
    @High_Caliber Před měsícem +9

    3:00 That was the EXACT moment that that kid learned not to put his fingers into a fan. Childhood was magical in the pre-nerfed days.

    • @MelissaThompson432
      @MelissaThompson432 Před měsícem +1

      I looked. The cord was wrapped around the base.

    • @peggyl2849
      @peggyl2849 Před 10 dny +1

      Yes, that was before they made the grid of bars covering the blades closer together. This fan in the picture kind of reminds me of an old noir detective movie.

  • @classic.cameras
    @classic.cameras Před měsícem +6

    My wifes Grandfather gave me his collection of cameras and lenses he had. Some as old as the 60's. I was blown away and honestly I use the lenses now in 2024. But just the "family" history these lenses has seen is incredible.

  • @richardthunderbay8364
    @richardthunderbay8364 Před měsícem +7

    In grade school in the early 1970s, I was taught how to do fine cursive script using a fountain pen. I haven't used it since.

    • @laurafranich4807
      @laurafranich4807 Před měsícem

      The cursive or the fountain pen?

    • @richardthunderbay8364
      @richardthunderbay8364 Před měsícem +1

      @@laurafranich4807 I haven't touched a fountain pen in 50 years.

    • @pjesf
      @pjesf Před 11 dny

      @@richardthunderbay8364I had the most GORGEOUS penmanship until texting came along

    • @WarHawk-
      @WarHawk- Před 4 dny

      Yes, we were taught cursive and many of us developed the most beautiful script . . . now sadly lost to time. Recently though I've taken up learning Calligraphy using a fountain pen, just for fun. It is so very strange that after all these years, I've found the act of physically writing on paper to be actually relaxing.

  • @deeannsmith7775
    @deeannsmith7775 Před měsícem +4

    Those were the best days ever 👍😎

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta288 Před měsícem +9

    @ 11:00 The model in rhe middle looks like Nick Nolte. 😊

  • @fob1xxl
    @fob1xxl Před měsícem +6

    In 1959, when I graduated from Jr High, my parents gave me a "Shick 3 Speed Electric Shaver." I am Italian, so I hit adolescence early ! 😂😂😂 When I was in my single years I fixed many a "Hamber Helper" meal. It was easy and it was good ! 8 TRACK was a total thrill to have. I had one installed in my 1968 Buick GS400 convertable as a Birthday present.

  • @mikehughes4969
    @mikehughes4969 Před měsícem +6

    I had a blue Schwinn Stingray, with the ape hanger handlebars and a gold flecked banana seat. Some (explicitive deleted) cut the lock and stole it when I was seeing Star Wars. I didn't have a roller rink, but I did have a bowling alley with an arcade and a lunch counter that served, what I considered to be, the best greasy cheeseburger in existence My Dad was a gadget nut, so we had every gizmo you mentioned. I still have his instmatatic camera, and still prefer a typewriter over a computer for writing.

  • @JL-kv2le
    @JL-kv2le Před měsícem +8

    Great Memories...Thanks Recollection Road!

  • @brianquilty687
    @brianquilty687 Před měsícem +4

    Such memories from watching this video. Hamburgers were about 15 cents, pop was a nickel, you could buy a small bag of sunflower seeds for 2 cents. I never had the cool bicycle but some of my friends did. I would trade everything I own now to go back to those sweet simple enjoyable times.

  • @DDE_ADDICT
    @DDE_ADDICT Před měsícem +12

    A great feeling channel.

  • @johnbethea4505
    @johnbethea4505 Před měsícem +5

    I was born in 1946, so i remember all of these, except the magazines.

  • @jasonwomack4064
    @jasonwomack4064 Před měsícem +9

    The amount of different cigarette lighters produced back then is mind boggling. I collect them, and the best I'll ever do is maybe 10% of models ever produced. Same with table top lighters and ash trays, endless variations.

  • @patrick39432
    @patrick39432 Před měsícem +6

    Gotta love the Hamburger Helper coupon, save 7 cents😂

  • @HNT63
    @HNT63 Před měsícem +7

    3:07 baby and a metal fan.What more can you ask for.We did experiment when we were young and thank goodness we were alright

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +2

      Us cousins would stick our fingers in, knuckles first to try to stop the blades. 😂. I can still hear that sound to this day.

    • @SMac-bq8sk
      @SMac-bq8sk Před měsícem +2

      Live and learn.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 Před měsícem +6

      I used to like to talk into the electric fan and it sounded like I was under water.

  • @jerrysharpnack4010
    @jerrysharpnack4010 Před měsícem +7

    Elvis made a huge impact on the 1970s

  • @loriloristuff
    @loriloristuff Před měsícem +3

    Re: Fountain pens- For the 1966-67 school year, our school decided fourth grade and up would use cartridge pens except for math. Cartridge pens were fountain pens, but used a cartridge of ink dropped into the barrel of the pen, instead of filling the pen from an ink bottle. It was going to make our penmanship beautiful!
    Instead, ink was everywhere! It was on shirts and blouses, trousers and skirts, in the wooden desks, leaking from pencil cases. It was especially fun on the playground for boys to somehow "accidentally" stomp ink cartridges.
    The next year, everybody in fourth grade up used Bic ballpoint pens, excepting with certain permission, when a Flair felt tip could be used. 😂

    • @christinebutler7630
      @christinebutler7630 Před měsícem +2

      I'm left handed, and for a southpaw, cartridge pens were a disaster. The nuns cut me no slack at all, and I spent most.of third grade kneeling on gravel at the front of the room.

  • @kimbishop4734
    @kimbishop4734 Před měsícem +1

    OH MY ACHIN' BACK. This takes me so much back to my young adulthood and early parenthood. Those were the days.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před měsícem +7

    I Hitch hiked all the time in the 70s before getting a car.

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 Před 22 dny +3

    This was literally an almanac of what i've seen & what I had growing up in the 70's. ☺️

  • @Ham-Radio-3945
    @Ham-Radio-3945 Před měsícem +7

    Nice Video. Thank You

    • @JSFGuy
      @JSFGuy Před měsícem

      Did you watch all of it when you commented? The time stamp doesn't look like it.

  • @talfacprez
    @talfacprez Před měsícem +2

    Back in the 60s and 70s when we played our vinyl records we didn't really mind the pops and clicks from frequently playing the same records, but today in the digital age when I digitize those same vinyl records to same on my computer I spend more time finding all of the pops and clicks and wore vinyl record sounds than it took to record the vinyl records in the first place.

    • @coldsamon
      @coldsamon Před měsícem

      Digitizing vinyl is blasphemy!

  • @AllDayEloquence
    @AllDayEloquence Před měsícem +3

    With the manual law mowers there was a truck that used to come around in the 70s and sharpen the blades, hedge clippers and other stuff. We had the last of all the “good ole experiences” of the previous decades. One thing that I don’t miss… typing class!

  • @juliepoolie5494
    @juliepoolie5494 Před měsícem +8

    Hamburger Helper helps her hamburger help her, make a great meal. 🎶

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před měsícem +4

    We had a remington typewriter exactly like the one shown!

  • @JSFGuy
    @JSFGuy Před měsícem +12

    It's that time again, let's check it out y'all

  • @juttadestiny6810
    @juttadestiny6810 Před měsícem +3

    I loved my olivetti typewriter circa 1974 at awa ashfield 🇦🇺

  • @tonynelson4078
    @tonynelson4078 Před měsícem +8

    The three male models the one in the middle look like Nick nolte

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan Před měsícem +1

    I had typing classes on manual typewriters in the 80s. Many of my homework assignments for other classes had to be typed. I was so excited when we got an electric one at home.

  • @janewasson4845
    @janewasson4845 Před měsícem +2

    Hamburger Helper came out years earlier than the late 1970s! We ate tons of that stuff in college, because it was cheap and filling. I never could eat it again.

  • @fr2ncm9
    @fr2ncm9 Před měsícem +3

    I remember lying on a cot in the summer of 1973. My parents had sent me and my brother to a sleepaway camp in Long Island. I stayed awake with my transistor radio pressed against my ear, listening to the great Jean Shepherd on WOR radio.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen Před měsícem +1

      @fr2ncm9, You just listened, to FAKE NEWS, and were brainwashed, by it, like YOU are TODAY.

  • @carlavision6143
    @carlavision6143 Před měsícem +4

    Thanks for the memories;

  • @WhistlebritchesOfSilliness
    @WhistlebritchesOfSilliness Před měsícem +3

    My grandparents had a lot of these things and I was always getting into their stuff and playing around with it but I was always careful. They bought me an Atari in my youth years and boy I had a time with Pac-Man but it was fun. I only wish those years could have stuck around a bit longer.

  • @Lisa..4
    @Lisa..4 Před měsícem +2

    I still like hamburger helper. I remember moms would step out on the front porch and yell your name and saying dinner. If you passed a friend on your bicycle. They would tell you, your mom is hollering for you. Good times!

  • @nofeerz
    @nofeerz Před měsícem +6

    grade school used blue black ink fountain pen mine was "modern" used an ink cartridge i didn't need an ink well like others much less mess but had to wait for my writing to dry used through 8th grade. instamatic had 12 exposure so expensive to process so we took group pictures 4 times a year major holidays then after a year we processed send in the mail took 2 weeks to get back

  • @swk38
    @swk38 Před měsícem +7

    rockford files was a big promoter of answering machines

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +1

      @@swk38 Best show ever. I bought my first car, with my Army bonus money, because Rockford had one just like it. 1974 Pontiac Firebird. Bought it for $1,800.00😂 in ‘82.

  • @cwilson6990
    @cwilson6990 Před měsícem +3

    Loved all of these had them remember hanging my transistor radio hanging on my bike Handles AM of course 😊

  • @bushforme
    @bushforme Před měsícem +2

    I've seen everything your showing at the local goodwill..I go there not so much to buy something, but just to get "hands on" on the things we had back then,also fun to watch the younger folks there to try to figure out what some of those things are and were used for..take me back to those times!

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Před měsícem +4

    When I was in kindergarten in 1964, I made an ash tray for my Father.

  • @user-pq9zc3uc7m
    @user-pq9zc3uc7m Před měsícem +2

    This was the perfect video at the right time. "Stingrays", bell bottoms, transistor radios, and Hamburger Helper. Oh, my! Just today, I found one of my Mom's boxes of old stuff. Old pictures, old school crafts, even my school report cards from the early '60s. Never knew she kept all that stuff. Now the job of separating out my things from my older brothers' and sending them theirs.

  • @zzydny
    @zzydny Před měsícem +6

    Wait! Is that Nick Nolte? 11:02 Those other two guys look familiar, too.

  • @RJDA.Dakota
    @RJDA.Dakota Před měsícem +1

    4:25 we had the slideshow when I was little. Looking back, it’s gone full circle. My FireTV give us a slideshow from our phone photos! Nice! 12:23 used to have 8-track players but still weren’t as robust as cassette tapes.

  • @pigoff123
    @pigoff123 Před 20 dny

    I shipped my dad's electric typewriter to the states for him. We still listen to tapes and records at home.😊

  • @willardroad
    @willardroad Před měsícem

    You had me at the Schwinn Stingray bikes. A lot of kids, me included, bought the seats and handlebars to convert any 20" bike into a faux-Stringray. I made my sedate little Raleigh Record into a cool ride that way, back in the mid-60's. Thanks for the memories..

  • @BanterMaestro2-y9z
    @BanterMaestro2-y9z Před měsícem +2

    Hamburger Helper? LOL I'm fixing that for dinner tonight.

  • @jimholmes2555
    @jimholmes2555 Před měsícem +3

    Growing up I remember old black and white cartoons like Deputy Dawg and the Flintstones sponsored by Salem or Winston cigarettes. How inappropriate is that now?
    And no, when I was born dirt hadn't been inverted yet!

  • @user-vr6xm8lm1o
    @user-vr6xm8lm1o Před 4 dny

    In the 1970s, I listened to my transistor radio for the station KRLA, for the early rock and roll songs, but every hour they would also play the recent 70s songs ( most of them were
    junk).
    But it was later, in the 1980s I needed that same radio - because the small TV then could
    get channel 6 in San Diego, over 50 miles away, it got the picture but no sound, my radio
    supplied the sound; it was showing the Jackie Gleason Show from the early and mid 1960s, having the American Scene Magazine; the programs were a half hour long, having the comedy only - and showing Joe the Bartender at the end with Crazy Guggenheim, this used to be on 5 days a week …😊

  • @MillerMeteor74
    @MillerMeteor74 Před měsícem +1

    I never had an electric razor till 1981 or 82. It was a Remington Microscreen. I guess I used it till it started having trouble cutting, and then I forgot about it and went back to conventional razors. Sometime in the mid 70s my grandmother gave me a little AM transistor radio that she had gotten as a bank premium. It's a GE P1758 that still works. I loved our Viewmasters. We actually had some old reels that were from when my mom was a kid in the 40s, I believe. We always drank from the hose out in the yard. We had our own well, and it was pretty deep. So our water tasted good and was nice and cold. I always enjoyed it. My parents had two classic station wagons in a row that they had bought new. Both were Chrysler Town and Countrys. The first was a `72, and the next was a `75. On the family road trips my brother and I always rode in the way back. We would make the arm motion to truckers to pull their air horns.

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Před měsícem +2

    Weekday afternoons were when I watched cartoons. I would get home from school and watch Captain Ernie or Grandpa Happy. They were local kids shows from the Quad Cities.

    • @thefish5861
      @thefish5861 Před měsícem

      I remember Captain Ernie. Burlington Iowa.

  • @hillbillytrucker8347
    @hillbillytrucker8347 Před 25 dny

    It's ironic that the vinyl record and record player has both a comeback. Along with the Polaroid camera I saw all three on sale at Walmart recently and had to laugh. What was once popular and useful years ago the younger generations have rediscovered. I still own a floor model stereo, record player and eight track system and it still plays and works fine. Love the Saturday morning cartoons and the old video games which have come back again. I still enjoy the blow pop lollipop once in a while. Thanks for the videos and memories.

  • @jamesskinner7185
    @jamesskinner7185 Před měsícem

    Couldn’t live without them great station wagons with roll down back window and fold out back seat!!

  • @dragonsigner
    @dragonsigner Před měsícem +3

    I still use a hamburger helper to make 4 cheese lasagna. One of my favorites.

  • @hawlikd
    @hawlikd Před měsícem +2

    My mom made a mean batch of hamburger helper back in the 1970's!

  • @Peace2Umans
    @Peace2Umans Před měsícem +1

    Hamburger Helper, Mac N Cheese, TV dinners, hotdogs and hamburgers…those were the days…pre-microwave or cell phones 😊❤

  • @user-vj2bp7ib4t
    @user-vj2bp7ib4t Před měsícem

    I'm 57 and remember taking typing lessons on manual typewriters. The teacher tortured us with rhythm drills on the keys with our fingers until they almost fell off and you had to hit the keys really hard for the letters to type out. I won't miss manual typewriters nor forget the enduring pain the typing teacher had us go thru. I forgot all about what that class taught and started typing with two fingers with each hand and I got pretty good at it.

  • @pjesf
    @pjesf Před 11 dny

    I remember the days before I had an answering machine - if I was going to step out for a few mins (like to take out the trash), I’d take the phone off the hook so that if anyone called they’d know I was there and call back in a few minutes. I thought I was so clever 😂

  • @dragonsigner
    @dragonsigner Před měsícem +1

    Vinyl records have made a comeback recently in several years
    So have old fashioned typewriters
    I saw a video of a school teaching kids about the typewriter.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Před měsícem +3

    Slides were not a big part of our family, we were a photograph family.

  • @cziegle3794
    @cziegle3794 Před měsícem +2

    Yay top 141 comments. Thanks for making this video. Best to you and your family. Clicked on video 4 hours after it was posted. 10:33p.m., Friday, July 19th, 2024. Watching from maryland

  • @lie-berry
    @lie-berry Před měsícem

    Thanks, Recollection Road, for providing these splendid glimpses of the past, a past that grows more distant with each tick of the ( analogue ) clock.

  • @JohnWilson-wg4gk
    @JohnWilson-wg4gk Před měsícem +1

    I liked the Remington MicroScreen so much, I bought the company...

  • @kennykittrell2549
    @kennykittrell2549 Před měsícem +5

    With the fountain pen- Didn't you have to have an ink well????

    • @thetruth7046
      @thetruth7046 Před měsícem +6

      The “new age” pens had cartridges for refills.

    • @susanservin1949
      @susanservin1949 Před měsícem +2

      There was a cartridge inside.

  • @zoesummer1076
    @zoesummer1076 Před 9 hodinami

    I seem to recall that electric typewriters and gas-powered lawn mowers were readily available and far more commonly used by the 1960s-70s, at least where I lived. Some of these images look more 50s to me. And ball-point pens had already replaced fountain pens. No inkwells on my school desk!

  • @richardjohnson2965
    @richardjohnson2965 Před 3 dny

    I remember when the pocket size transistor radio came out…..I carried mine all over.

  • @carlsaganlives4036
    @carlsaganlives4036 Před měsícem +1

    3:00 - Back when toys were functional appliances, too.

  • @MelissaThompson432
    @MelissaThompson432 Před měsícem

    By the 60s, most people had lawnmowers with motors, and ballpoint pens. My father, who enjoyed shopping in junk stores, had both a rotary lawn mower and a stunning variety of fountain pens.

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 Před měsícem +1

    Thank you.

  • @melissabibby7310
    @melissabibby7310 Před měsícem +3

    Thanks for sharing! My Mom enjoyed this video. He was born in 1954.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen Před měsícem +1

      @melissabibby7310, YOU say YOUR mom is a he, seek a mental health therapist, immediately