If You Grew Up In The 1950s…You Remember This!
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The 1950s seem like a lifetime ago, and they are. But the memories that were made during that decade have endured, not only for the ones who lived it, but also for the ones that long for the simple peace of that golden decade. So, let’s revisit the fifties by jogging our memory, so if you grew up in the 1950s…you may remember this!
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What are some memories from your own childhood that I might have missed?
Betty Crocker points program
um you reposted this.. this is an old video
My favorite toy was jacks! Monopoly was king of the board games!
@@staymadIoser
Oldie but goodie!
A lot of this stuff was still around i the 80's and 90's like phone books
tinsel is around even today.
I had roller skates in the 80's
There was a milk man until about 1995
When America was a whole different wonderful place to live.
Amen!
As long as you were white.
As long as you were white.
@@BrjanBuckmaster Well you made up for it 'cause you all moved into my city and destroyed it with crime, smash and grab, guns, drugs etc.
We were unified. Even with formal segregation, "restricted clientele", and other such things, we were all Americans. There was no hyphenation. People were better-mannered. Food was food, no chemicals.
born in the fifties and grew up in the 60's and remember all this stuff lol. ah for the good old days.
I was born in 1947 and grew up in the 50s and early 60s.
I grew up in a small rural town and we didn’t have soda fountains. Or many of the things that were in larger cities.
My mom and dad never went to church.
The A&P stores offered Plaid Stamps when we shopped.
@@glennso47 Because they went to the Satanic church, and NEVER told YOU about, that is why, YOU are left out, in the cold, TODAY
I remember the 50's. When gas was twenty five cents per gallon, soft drinks were ten cents and a candy bar was a nickel. They were the good ole days.
How much did people make per hour back then?
@@jenniferhansen3622 I think the average hourly salary was between $2.50 to $3.00. If you were making $125 to $150 per week were considered to be middle class. If you were making more than $150 per week you were considered to be upper middle class. You could also buy a nice house for about $4000. Compare that with today's prices.
@@jenniferhansen3622 I think most people were making between $2.50 and $3.50 per hour. That was considered middle class. If you were making $4.00 per hour or more you were considered to be upper middle. The good news is that you could buy a new home for about $4000, You could afford a family of four on $125/$150 a week. Like I said they were the good ole days.
@@jenniferhansen3622 75 cents
@@jenniferhansen3622 I'll be 90 next year so the 50's were the times in my life when I started working in a small supermarket at age 16 and made 65 CENTS an hour. In 1954 after graduating high school I went full time In the same store and as paid $1 an hour for 42
hours. In 1956 I got married and rented a 4 room apartment for $ 35 a month. In 1965 my rent for a 6 room apartment was $ 65 a month. You got a lot more for your money than you do today. Seafood was so cheap that you could eat it 2 or 3 times a week. CHOW !
We grew up in the 50’s and your replay is exactly like it was. Slower living, unlocked doors, not rich but not poor satisfied and content with life, relative peace in the world, deposits on drink bottles 1 to 3 cents, building things out of orange crates, 5 pair of jeans to last the school year , and so much more. What kids are missing these days!!!
As kids back then, I think we were more restful of others. We were more trustworthy. We could spend our weekends rollerskating one weekend and the next weekend at the theater. It was an all-day thing.
Truth!
And no black families in your neighborhood, due to redlining.
@@ericskeptic8245 school shirts with buttons, teatherball, pledge of allegiance,
Jeans in school? No way!
Who remembers Buster Brown Shoes 3:22
...and who remembers the Buster Brown Club TV show on Saturday mornings?
Even the jingle!
I wore them brown. Wore second hand everything but not shoes.
Yes, Buster Brown, PF Flyers & Keds.
Here's Buster Brown he lives in a shoe and his dog Tige he lives in there too.
Greatest decade in history!
Would go back in an instant!
The way of living was so simple. I have so many fine memories growing up in the 50"s.
Oh me too. Sigh….
Sooo much fun growing up in the 50s. Great memories👍🌛
Would not trade those times for anything.
Those who aren't white supremacist snowflakes.
"The best of times."
Their gone forever. Simpler times
@@eilenekellogg-ki2br Their what is gone forever, or are you another illiterate who doesn't understand basic grade three grammar?
I remember those days.
I miss them.
50's and early 60's was my favorite decades
Mine too
Whatever decade you grew up in was the best one
@cajunlady4893, YES, REAL women, with REAL boobs, and REAL ass's, not like the FAKE cat women, of today
Truly beautiful in the innocence of childhood.
The last of the good days that's no good days whatever come again ever
I was born in 1940 and remember absolutely every single thing you showed. I loved petting the milkman's horse. The grocery store in our neighborhood in Philadelphia had an electric eye setup in two posts that would open the doors. My nana would leave me at the eight o clock coffee grinding machine while she shopped because I loved the smell of the fresh ground coffee. My dad was a self employed engineer. I remember in 1952 when he brought home a used Admiral black & white TV and gave it to me. It weighed a ton, - was all tubes, and had a seven inch screen. With the knobs on the back you cold control the picture brightness, contrast, size, shape, and position on the screen. My favorite toys were tinker toys, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, and my American Bricks set. My mom made matching outfits for her and for me. Life was wonderful for me back then. Today's kids just don't have the freedom we did. Our bikes were our horses as we rode around shooting cap guns at each other, and we played outside and didn't have to be home until dinnertime.
Much the same here in England. If only I had appreciated those free and innocent times more. The previous generation had to cope with the great depression and war - we had everything.
Regarding boys shooting cap pistols at each other, we discussed WWII battle procedures with our ex- military Dads… which resulted in grabbing our baseball bats to use as a Bazooka, with your pal behind you loading it up & patting you on the shoulder when ready!
Our milkman had a gas powered rig made by a company that, I think, specialized in delivery vehicles. Something called a Divco. We also had the bakery truck from Helms Bakeries, the Good Humor man, and one other thing that I have never seen mentioned in any nostalgia videos: a produce truck. General Motors, for about a year or two, made a special version of their panel vans that had open sides to display fruits and vegetables. They had a particular time they'd be on this or that street.
I'm 74 I remember it all
I’m 86. Those were great days and the music, some left over from the 40s, was wonderful! I’m glad I grew up then!
Born in 1944, I found these recollections very bitter-sweet. I miss the precious innocence, modesty, gentility, and kindness of this decade in America. Blessings to all from northwestern Arkansas.
I was also born in 1944.
Born 1942. Thanks for the memories 🇺🇸🎄
@notmyworld44 May God bless you always- greetiings from NJ!
I was also born in 1944 thouse were the days, and yes I sure miss them, nothing like now ❤❤❤🫖, thanks for the memories
@@poksnee 😊👍
Born in 1950. Slowing down a bit in 2024. All hail the Good Old Days!
You have a selective memory.
I was born in 1935 and married in 1955. In 1961 we had 4 children. Now we have 2 at ages 69 and 61. The middle 2 girls died when they were in their 50's. I'm still hanging on at 89 years of age.
Beaver Cleaver and I grew up together. Born two months apart in 1948. Life was simpler then.
in 1999, we bought a 60's ranch house and renovated it. We would sometimes watch reruns of Leave it to Beaver just like they did when the house was built.
Barbara Billingsle was my mom
@@robertd9850 Wow! And the Beav's still with us.
I watch Leave it to Beaver on SLING TV !
@@zombiehunter0000How 😎 ❤
So many of these things bled into the early 70s when I was a kid. 💖
Blend! Yes, I grew up in the 70s and, some of the things started phasing out in the early, mid and late 70s! The one thing that, I hated was when, certain things in cans started phasing out! When, my mom had to go to the store and, was no longer constantly going with her as, I was getting older, I would have her buy up all this Hershey Syrup in a can! In the late 90s and early 2000s, I seen it in a local grocery store in Indiana and, I was thrilled and was buying it up again! I still till this day do not care for Hershey’s Syrup in those plastic bottles! 17:07
Sure did! I experienced most of these things. Even had saddle shoes.
There's a small kid in my neighborhood who rides around with cards in his bike's spokes. So cool. 63 now and I still love " fluffernutter" sandwiches. I love this channel very much but sometimes brings a tear to my eye of how wonderful life was back then. Thank you much for the great memories!!!!!!
I have Fluff and peanut butter in my cupboard right now. I'm 65 and still love a Fluffernutter.
@@wendypeacock-frail Awesome!!!!
I can’t imagine life without WiFi 🤷🏻♀️
I'm past 77 and have never had a fluffernutter sandwich, gotta get some fluff & try one for the first time. Have had many banana sandwichs & took butter sugar sandwiches in my lunch to a one room rural school.
@@JohnPotts-kq7kk Enjoy!!!!!!
I still have and use my Fuller Brush hairbrush that my parents purchased for me in 1958
Wow!!😮
That is SO COOL!
Same here.
I remember and I miss those days! I also remember the streets being a lot safer too!
I use watch the Lawrence Welk show with my foster parents on a small b/w tv. ❤
Oh Lord my brothers and I would leave the living room when Lawrence Welk came on. My dad loved that show.
A wonerful wonerful!! GBY.
What was the reason for this punishment?
Just the mention of mimeograph ink sends an olfactory memory straight to my brain and I can almost smell it once again. 😂
They would pass out the ditto's and everyone would hold them up to their nose to smell the ink.
@@tomf429 And, some wiseacre would moan, "ohhhh, wow, mannnnnn..." LOL
A lot of these things made it to the 60's as well. We had 3 channels on our tv.
So did we but one was in the bigger town south of us and the other two in the bigger town east of us. Depending on what we wanted to watch, we changed the dial and if the station was in the other town, opened the den window, grabbed the antenna pole outside and turned it 90 degrees.
@robertd9850 I remember thise big antenna poles!😊
We could only get 2 channels and had a very difficult time deciding which channel to watch!!!!
I beat you all 'cause I was born in 1935 and grew up mostly with just a radio until 1947 when my brother bought a T.V. and we watched one channel (4 in Boston, Massachusetts ) Only 4 hours of programming each nite except monday when they blacked out for maintain-
ence.
Odd there were 4 networks prior to 1955
Thank you for this great video. Grew up in the 50's (pre-teen) and 60's (teen) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Yooper). Earned money doing chores like shoveling coal from the coal bin into the coal hopper. During the Winter it was my job to shovel out the driveway, porches and sidewalks. Lots of time doing that. Had a morning and evening paper route when I was 12-16. An important part of our lives was walking to school and attending church every Sunday. We knew the Milk and Mail man. At night in the Summer we sat out on the front porch on hot nights greeting all the neighbors as they walked by. Everyone knew everyone else. It sure was a different time than today. I miss many of the things we did back then.
Thank you Recollection Road for all the memories you stir. Born in '49 the 50s were a great time to be alive and I'll cherish the memories always. Btw our milk wasn't delivered in horse drawn carriages, they were the old fashioned milk trucks.
There is a comment above it was by horse in their area.
Thanks ✌ 👍 I remember all of these..Wish I could go back in time again..I miss those days.
Born in the early 40s lived through all of this, wore clothes my mother sewed, what great days we had. Thank you.
I was born in 1950. I remember these things including the horse-drawn milk wagon.
Don't forget Erector Sets. This was one of my favorite toys. I loved building things with it. It was almost indestructible with all metal parts, electric motor, gears and axils.
My brother 's fave was Erector Set!
I still have mine.
@@Szmisik is that the same as a mechano set or is that the French name we called it
@@GeorgiannaMartin fave?
Mine too !!!
I wish things were like this Now!! Kids have no imagination at all.I grew up in the 1960s on Saturday’s had my Cereal watched a few Cartoons and out on my Bike looking for my Friends & Looking for adventure’s 👍👍now Kids could care less about having a bike But it’s a different World we live in.
Same, born in 1961.
I still see two or three kids in my area bike riding but of course it's not as much .
Same! I was born in 1959
'Kids have no imagination at all." Take the screens away and introduce them to reading, and to old radio shows. If you have SiriusXM radio, introduce them to Radio Classics.
Born in 1945, still love the cars! Raced to get the Blueberry little pie, at the grocery store! Cash in pop bottles…to buy button candy.
We had a bakery that made those little pies. It was called PURITAN Bakery and the day-old pies were 3 for 25 cents.
I never liked Lincoln Logs, but I loved American Bricks! I still ( I'm in my 70's) pull them out of the closet and build a house now and then to relax.
All right! Way-to-go!
When I was 5 for my birthday gift I got a big tube of plastic mini bricks. My sister and I played so much with those. I learnt real fast the reason for how masonry was laid.
@@louisedykes4794 This sounds like American Bricks. Did your set contain doors and casement style windows that would open and close (and if the set was big enough, a working garage door) plus green paper roofs?
@@LJB103 yup but no garage door. We used to call them mini bricks and I’m from Canada. I even remember the birthday card an elephant and the head wiggled on a small spring. I forgot about the windows but I remember the green shingle roofing
Wish I still had my Lincoln logs and the plastic building bricks. I also had a Davey Crocket (fake) coon skin cap. And Mickey Mouse ears.
Our first phone didn't have a dial. We would pick up the handset and an operator would answer. We would tell her the number we wanted and she would connect us. And yes, we had a party line. I had forgotten that, at least one of the two TV stations we had would sign off with the national anthem! I also remember the milk man, soda fountains, being able to spend an entire afternoon in the movie theater for only $.25. That also bought us candy! Fun memories. :)
My grandmother lived in the Va. mountains, they had a party line into the 1980s.
Yes...I do indeed remember clearly the Weekly Reader in elementary school.
I remember it all. It was the best time to grow up. I was born in 1950.
You missed a lot Cynthia 'cause I was born in 1935, so I was 15 at the start and 25 at the end .
". . . that long for the simple peace of that golden decade."
Amen to that Brother !! Like another world that time was.
And MANY THANKS to yourself et alia for operating this channel. It serves to bring much joy to all who watch in appreciation.
OK … et alia seems like a fun way to say et al. 😂
That's a 60s thing as well. I was born in 1958. So I grew up in the 60s.
I was going to say the same thing. I was born in 1961 and did those things too. 😊
Same here! What a sweet time to grow up in.
59 here, but in upper East Tennessee. It was like growing up in the late 40s. It was a great time to be alive.
I grew up in Idaho. I still call Idaho heaven. Not Boisie, it was too big. Weiser, for me, was the best town. Meridian was great for watching the speed races. In Weiser, we floated down the irrigation canels. We slept outside all night. No adults, and we were always safe. We would walk to the swimming pool at an early age alone. The lifeguards were the best. It was safe for all ages, thanks to the lifeguards. We could go to the carnival when it came to town alone. We were just kids, safe, and having fun. Kids weren't vandals. No graffiti on buildings...
I lived in the city and the doctor made house calls to visit me several times in the early 60s.
Thanks for the awesome magnificent amazing Memories.🇺🇲📺📻🇺🇲
Those were the days, my friend.
Born in 1946 and like Steve below I remember all these things. I really wanted a transistor radio and finally got one...not one of the more expensive ones with the built in speaker but one with a wired earphone. Still, it worked great for years. I took it with me to Vietnam for my first tour in 1965. By my 2nd tour in 1971, I could afford the one with the speaker.
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
You re-upped for the 2nd tour?
Transistor radio was best thing I ever received ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The 1950's in América and Canada ( I grew up up in Canada but it was a carbon copy of what was going on in the U.S.)
was a culture of hedonistic amnesia... (Look up the word hedonist in the dictionary). Everything was done to make people forget going through the most horrible world war in human history. I was lucky enough to watch the "You are There: black and white TV documentary series about WW2 from the American perspective. Much much later I began finding out the true facts about the war and why it was fought and the origins if the war and its consequences. The result was I discovered that everything you brainwashed lummoxes have been told about that unspeakable war was a total lie and in many cases the complete opposite of the Truth... Of course none of you dumbed down morons would know this because you have been brainwashed and programmed to believe in your mass media propaganda lies.
But I was different... I was more intelligent than other kids... I did see the show called "Howdy Doody" once on TV at a friend's house once and I silently marveled that any child would ever ant to watch this stupid pointless crap that treated children as if they were brainless drooling idiots in their idolizing a wooden puppet that had the brains and speech of a 2-year old...
I was so disgusted that he would watch that junk I never saw him again.
Unfortunately the propagandists of America were right on the money... American were that stupid and mindless in the 1950's.
Now the American and Canadian masses are 10 times more stupid and brainwashed than they were in the 50's.
If you were a kid back then; your intelligence and IQ has probably by now; dropped 50%, due to the mass media garbage you have watched for 70 years and the lies you have swallowed and now believe in religiously and the meaningless culture of Hedonism your civilization glorifies, worships and practices.
Very few of you will be able to read my entire comment because you are already brainwashed and dumbed down to not read anything longer than 3 short sentences,
Gads...! My first radio was a Sylvania portable that had two massive 1.5V batteries and a 57.5V battery. Yes, it had four tubes and a silicon rectifier. Ran on either batteries or house current.
The toys were absolutely the best in the 50s!
I WAS BORN IN 1953 IN LONDONS EAST END HACKNEY THIS IS AMERICA BUT I STILL LOVE THE 50IES
You finally got me. I grew up on a dairy farm in the 1940's-1950's.
In Idaho, that's how we bought our milk. The farmer had milk in milk glass milk jugs in his refrigerator. We would bring back our used jug, put our money in a cardboard box, and take a new milk. People were honest, trustworthy back then.
@@maisies927 It might have been like living on a different planet back then compared to now.
I remember it all. What a good time going back!
I really remember the milkman. If you weren't too much of a pest, you might get a half pint chocolate milk, or a chunk of ice! To this day, I really miss SEARS. Those catalogs were something else!
I loved Sears!
Sears generally had good to great quality for an honest price. Then, the Harvard MBA types took over and that signaled the end.
@@The-Friendly-Grizzly
Sadly, not just Sears, American industry in general. I collect and operate Lionel trains. With these current owners, production in USA stopped, EVERYTHING was sent to China and prices went UP, but quality went DOWN.
I placed 250 books of green stamps , I was slowly getting there and they shut down so I gave them to my Mom. She got me with the left over books a very nice Rod and Reel. I still have it and she is gone now, but I have that memory.
Oh I wanted the Cessna 152
I was born in the 1950s and grew up in the 1960s and 70s and I remember almost all of these.
One's again you are pointing out that I am OLD!!😢 But as always, this video was Fabulous like always..Thank from San Diego.🌴
Those were the days my friend we thought never end
I'm a kid from the 50s/60s. You mentioned party lines. Oh my gosh that was hot topic around my parents. There were multiple families on the shared line that had teen kids, including me. It was almost impossible to pick up the phone to use it without a couple of teens being on there talking all mushy and then getting angry because someone is listening in. My dad used to gripe that he was just going to have it uninstalled because he could never use it. 😆😆😆
My maternal grandparents were progressive; both had college degrees and I was the first grandchild. Even though we and they lived in a tiny hamlet outside a small (kind of backward) town, I never lacked for anything needed. We had no horse-drawn milk delivery wagon; no milk delivery at all! We had a desk phone with a crank on the side, connected to a very small phone company. BUT, because natural gas wells were on the property, our coal furnace had been converted to gas. After my Dad took a better job two counties away, I always loved going back to visit my grandparents and the friends we had there.
I remember the weekly reader when I was a kid in the nineties
Yes, I remember it in the 80s as well.
The 50s were the golden era in the usa
It was a time when one income supported a family; we could do anything we set our minds to do; it was a time of "America, yes!", not one of American apologizing to the rest of the world for the sin of existing.
we had mr softee for our ice cream truck, world book encyclopedia, and betsy mccall for paper dolls. i still have my mom's singer.
I remember in the early 60s when the World Book Encyclopedia salesman dropped in and my parents (🥰) saw how I was drawn to the beautiful full color pages of the world’s greatest paintings, the animal and bird kingdoms and even the human body.
Of course my parents went into debt to give me this important resource in all of my studies. For once, I didn’t have to rely on a library for my facts.
Mom and Dad, you will always be in my heart, so loving and giving throughout my childhood and beyond.
I had the World Book Encyclopedia.
Thank you my Mom loved this video brought many memories, heartwarming.👍❤️
Marilyn Monroe was known for her bleached blonde hair. Her natural color was light brown, but she didn't wear her hair that way. No auburn in sight.
@candyvigil550, Marily's boobs, and legs, were the BEST, in the world, not like the ugly, green hair, cat women, Libtards, of today
Anyone played the old fashioned game of marbles, with cat eye marbles? Also building scooters from wooden grape boxes with a 2X4 and using roller skates for wheels, riding downhill on city sidewalks?
Yes and our bulls eye shooters. Steelies weren’t allowed and any marbles out in the classroom were confiscated, but divided up among all of the boys before summer vacation.
I remember my 'Buster Browns'!!
I had my share of BBs.
My kids were born in 73 and 74. We had a shoe store in our town that still sold Buster Browns so their 1st shoes were Buster Browns
My brother still has his Radio Flyer wagon from the 50s.
I still have my Flexible Flyer from the 50s
This was great. Oh, how I wish today was more like the 50s. I miss Green-stamps and so many other things shown here. Thanks for the memories.
I miss freedom. I miss cops dressed like cops and not militarized troops. I miss please, thank you, yessir, no ma'am. I miss trust.
Poodle skirts and Bobbie socks were real cool.
I am a 60s 70s kid. The world was slower moving back then. Somethings were gone, but a lot carried on into the 60s and some to the 70s.
I was born in the 70s and my mom & dad were born in the 30s. When I was a kid, I always thought it would be fun to go back in time and be a teenager with my mom in the 50s. I always thought we'd be best friends. ❤❤
I was born 1966. Believe it or not, a lot of these things (except the milk man) I grew up with till the 80’s. I miss drive in movies. They were the best!!!
Those Christmas Windows In The Downtown Lazarus In Columbus Oh. Is Something I Will Never Forget.❤ And Mr. Tree.
In our small town, almost everyone decorated their homes with lights. All us kids would pile into the family car and Dad would drive us around town to look at all the beautiful lights, it was magical to me!
I was born toward the end of the 50s, but some of these continued on into the 60s! Thanks for the memories.
I've reached an age where I can now empathize with Solomon Roth from Soylent Green...
I was born in 1957. I remember all of this stuff except for the horse-drawn milk cart; our milk guy had a motorized van. I never knew why it was called a sock hop.
Wow not everyone's family was so lucky to partake in all the nice things in life. Cool to see what was available for those who were able to.
you sound miserable
My childhood. Innocently sweet …
Most didn't. All these "memories" are actually just a lot of American dream propaganda.
@WhitneyAbrina,,YOU must bow down and kneel, and pray to YOUR god & savior, Putin, and stop, being a Russian Racist Hater, also pray to yo boy Floyd, (George), for he is the patron saint of fentanyl.
We three lived on my dad's salary of $40/week. It wasn't bad. Everyday items cost pennies then.
The best! My ,mom made us 3 girls our clothes. Marilyn. Jean abs Arline. Lived on Collingwood St. A wonderful neighborhood! Miss everyone
Was born in 1960 but the 50 ‘s were the decade of perfect American decade .
50s & 60s were similar I see. I enjoyed the 60s and 70s. I was I would have enjoyed the 50s as well. I would go back to these times if I could. I was born in 1961. 👍🏻
So glad most of these things carried over into the 60's! ❤
I remember the milkman…because my dad was one. And I remember the carhops…because my wife was one. 😊
So you were one of the true experiences where you looked like the milkman
@@woodwaker1Cute!! 😂
Putting your 1952 Micky Mantle base ball card in the spokes of your bicycle. That sound was priceless.
a 1952 Topps Mantle card sold for over 12million in 2022
And NOW- so is the card!
some of those things we did in 1970's as well
Oh how I long for those days. The thing I miss the most, is RESPECT that was shown to one another, especially the elder. RESPECT and HONOR FOR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY . GOD BLESS, BE SAFE.
Thanks to this channel now I know why they call it sock hop now... thanks..thats cool to learn
I never had saddle shoes but my older sister never "shined" hers, she covered her scuffs with a white overcoat applicator.
I LOVED my Lincoln Logs!
Born in 1956. I remember watching Mr. Ed, Wide World of Disney among others. Most Sunday nights, we popped corn and made peanut butter fudge to eat while watching TV together as a family. At Grandma's it was Lawrence Welk & Gunsmoke. Such amazing memories!! I miss those days!❤
Sorry Recollection Road, Marilyn Monroe (5:36) didn't have auburn waves; they were, in this famous photo and throughout her star years, platinum.
A blonde bombshell.
I remember doing quite a few of those growing up in the 1960s too.
I was born 1954. I remember all the things I just watched. Brings back some wonderful memories ❤❤❤❤❤❤
the air smelled sweet
You didn't grow up in Los Angeles.
I enjoyed a lot of this in 60’s
Where I grew up, we had a kid on a 3 wheeled cooler that he pedaled selling frozen treats. He was not too busy because there were 3 neighborhood stores within 6 blocks. These stores were basically part of the owner's house, and it carried the basics. They did carry more types of candy and products like ice cream bars, sandwiches, popsicles and frozen candy bars than stores today.
Videos like this contribute to why I sometimes thought, before the internet, that living in a rural place in the US was like living in the past compared to a city.
I still remember being the TV antenna!!
I was born in 1946! This really brings back memories! Thank you for sharing! Happy times.
I remember the late 50's I miss them times
Some objects were also common during my childhood in the 80s, in Italy. For example the mimeograph or the Singer sewing machine (the very last years in which they were used, but I remember them clearly). We too, more than 30 years later, spent a lot of time outdoors, inventing games and exercising our imagination, because we still had the precious chance of being bored.
I was born in 1952, so I was very young in the 50s, and can't say which memories I have were not already from the early 60s.
I lived in the Bronx from 1955 through 1961, for a time near the Concourse, which was very beautiful and swanky then. I remember the old-fashioned buses in New York and riding in the subway car all the way in front so I could look out the front window for the whole ride (there was a lot to look at, whether above or below ground). I also remember bagel stores where bagels were boiled and baked and sold fresh from the oven. They were plain bagels, with no extra flavoring, but they were delicious.
My mom had Mary Janes candies and Candy Kisses as snacks, mostly for when we had company. I preferred Lik-M-Aid and the sour-sweet candy powder that came in straws. I loved chocolate malted milks, and occasionally indulged. In those days they gave you the metal mixing can with the left-over malted so you could pour yourself a second portion without paying extra.
I spent my allowance money on candy, and on pistachios from vending machines, on potato chips and on comic books, particularly the different kinds of Superman comics. Later, I became a big fan of Mad Magazine.
I watched a lot of TV, really too much, and always dreamed of having a color TV, a dream that didn't come true until the 1980s. I also loved Disney's Wonderful World of Color on TV, even though I could not watch it in color, and I wanted to go to Disneyland, but it was out of the question.
At school we were able to order cheap Scholastic books every week, and I did enjoy the Weekly Reader and Junior Scholastic magazine. I also enjoyed watching College Bowl on TV, as well as Walter Cronkite's series, "The Twentieth Century".
I remember the fun of plastic model kits. After I retired thought it might be fun to try them again, until I saw the prices. I purchased my first 3D printer to make things, now 10 printers later, I make a lot!
I was a supervisor of manufacturing at Revelle in 1983, who made model kits.
Grew up in Manhattan. Off the point, Street ball, kites, ring-a-larro.
Nope, no Western Flyer bike for me. While stationed at Castle AFB in 1958, my Dad took me to downtown Merced, CA and bought me a beautiful blue Schwinn bicycle!
Carhops I miss. I also miss playing safely in the streets. Oh, inspiration points were a must along with the Sunday drive and picniks.
I also was born in the early ‘50s in a small upper Midwest city! Remember all of the great times family and people. Along comes the ‘60s lying LBJ and Vietnam. Now at 73yo I’m the last surviving VN Vet in my high school class of 69! 🙏
don't know gold stamps, katy comics and never had a fluffer nutter, but i experienced or had the rest. still have a few of mom's green stamp books. we had the rag man come down our brick street with his big horse pulling his wagon. can't remember how many times mom had to tighten my skates with pliers cause i lost the key! those were golden years and bring tears of joy and comfort.
I grew up in the '80s. Luv checking out this stuff! Thanks!👍🤗✌️
Most of these things I heard from my beloved mother. 👍🤗✌️