1957 America. Some Call This Time PARADISE. Do You See It That Way?
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2016
- You are watching a clip from a 90 minute documentary feature film that I made on what happened in America after Sputnik was launched by the Russians on October 4, 1957. In order to understand that time, I made several sequences of what people's lives were like. This sequence presents how middle-class suburbanites were living during October 4th 1957 when Sputnik appeared in the skies. Other sequences in the film present how different segments of American society lived during those days. If you search the word Sputnik on my CZcams channel you will find many other clips from my film which is titled "Sputnik Mania". The American middle class was a very real thing back then. Tens of millions of Americans moved to the suburbs and to their own home for the 1st time. Baseball was a big deal on TV. Baby boomers babies were everywhere and on My street in Levittown Long Island had at least one child growing up in every home. It was an amazing time from that point of view. When you view this clip please do not discount that many Americans did live this way and feel these things. And of course, many Americans did not.
To see what Black Americans were experiencing during the fall of 1957 go here:
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#1957 #babyboom - Krátké a kreslené filmy
The most difficult thing to grasp in this world is how things are getting better and worse- at the same time.
Precisely and odd indeed!
Getting more advanced and worse
As technology gets better, people get worse.
it's pretty easy. it's getting better in some ways and worse in other ways.
It's true, we have movies and music at our fingertips, but the quality of such is at an all-time low.
every 10 years it seems like living in a different world.
Each decade has a TOTALLY different vibe. '50s. Wholesome but with a little bit of rebellion. '60s literally EVERYONE tripping on LSD 24/7. '70s I just can't, I just can't, I just can't control my feet. '80s PHIL COLLINS SNARE DRUM SOUND. '90s Grunge. Don't remember the 2000s. 2010s: part 1: DUBSTEP. part 2: social justice warriors. 2020s: CORONAVIRUS. 2030s: flying cars. 2040s: flying cars on Mars.
im' lafonz it’s not idiot
Isn’t that the truth
Robert Thomas underaged comment
It’s a fine comment , Robert Thomas. Each decade not only brings about its own uniqueness , tech advances etc , but also its own travesties as well I’m in my 5th decade and have seen plenty
I was born in 1939 and graduated from high school in 1957. In looking back, growing up in small town America was like a Norman Rockwell painting. It seemed like a magical time. No mass murders, no drugs, no robberies, no shootings, only an occassional fist fight over a girl. The 50's were the greatest decade of all to me but maybe not others. Even political opponents were civil to each other. The teachers were in charge and we knew it. Would really like to relive those years.
Not me. I was also born in 1939 and graduated in 1957. Narrow minded, bigoted, racist, simplistic idiots in control of morality and education. The interstate highway system, a gift to big business (General Motors and others ("See the USA in your Chevrolet") and the death of the railroads and trolley systems. Only the whitest of the white were in charge, not only on a national basis, but in my home town. I ought to know cause I'm whiter than white.
True in some ways and so were the 60s 70s and 80s despite all the racial tension and Cold War paranoia, In other countries such as Britain and most of Europe they were still dealing with the aftermath of WWII as cities were destroyed by bombings and even rationing was still in place, I would argue in some ways the world would've been better off without war as technological advances would've happened quicker
in all parts of the world, ages between 10 and 20 are the best years of our lives... you can hear the same stories from anyone of your age here in turkey too... there were always mass murders, drugs, robberies, and shootings but there was no MEDIA COVERAGE back then... and that is a good thing. media exaggerates and broadcasts only EVIL!
I wasn’t alive then, but I’d certainly trade places with that time compared to the malaise of today. I think it’s easily the worst time since at least the civil war. Freedom is long gone, the economy has been crushed by 60 years debt accumulation, constant ideological subversion. It’s miserable
I’m so jealous. 🙏🏻❤️💔💔💔. I believe I was born in the wrong times.
My dad born in 1934 would always remark that the fifties were his absolute favorite decade.
My grandpa was born in 1935 but in Brazil... but he liked the 50s to
.. My mom born in 34 and Dad in 36.. They both loved the 50s much better..
I was born in 1951 but the 80s is my favorite decade.
of course he did considering he was in his 20's. I was born in the 70's and LOVE the 90's
That’s normal…I was in my 20s in the 70s and that was my favorite decade
I was drafted into the Army Aug. of 1957 and discharged in 1959. Went back to my old job as asst. Purchasing agent but it had been filled. According to the law I had to be given my old job back or a better one. the company promoted me to a production foreman. My pay was 90 dollars a week. Got married and bought a brand new brick house and my payments were 90 dollars a month! I am still in the same house and I retired as a Vice President of Manufacturing of a local firm with a high school education. Those were the days. At 83 yrs of age I am satisfied.
Those were the good ol days when a man could support a family on his income alone. I hope those days return once more.
Urban Braun Good stuff mate. You definitely lived in the golden era
Sounds like you had a very nice, rich life. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I was born in '57, was the oldest of my siblings - 2 brothers and a sister. My mom was a stay at home mom and my dad was a local truck driver. We were by no means rich, more like lower middle class, but on my dad's salary we had a house in the suburbs of Long Island, N.Y., had a 2 week vacation on a lake in Vermont every summer and mom & dad made sure that our birthdays were made special. Christmas time was always awesome, we always had a roof over our heads and food on the table. In the last 2 years, both of my parents have passed. Thank you to mom & dad and the rest of the family for making sure we never went without ! Wish we lived now in similar, simpler times. 😧
@@nik5626 - I wish it was a little slower. I wish people were more civil with each other. I wish little kids couldn't find porn on the internet. I wish materialism wasn't so important to folks, and I wish cell phones had never been invented! LOL. We all have to do time in the time we live. As for me? Wish I had been born around 1940. I'd have been about 15 when Rock n Roll was born, early 20s when The Beatles hit the ground, I would have gone to Vietnam and I'd be ready to call it a day pretty soon, just in time to miss this country's coming civil war! 😎
1957 a friend that I have known for about a year took me to his house and I met his sister. My friend didn't stand a chance after that , I was smitten by this young lady and we're both 12 years old. Her father was the commander at a VFW Post and we used to go with him and dance to Tunes on the jukebox from the 40s and 50s. The World War II vets used to tease me hey kid when are you going to make an honest woman out of her, Hey kid when are you two going to get married. I never got embarrassed I was crazy about this girl even at this young age. Eventually we did get married and she was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. Cancer stole from me my beautiful bride of 47 years and life will not and cannot never be the same . I miss her so. It is so hard being half of what you used to be.
Your a grown man. You should be grateful for 47 years of wonderful. Did you think she was going to live forever? Should you have gone first & left her behind instead?
Your a very fortunate man.
Porkchop's Papi oh shut the fuck up! Fucking cancer took her. A unnatural death. What if the person you spent all your life with dies way before you and your barely 65. I’m sorry man but you’re a dumbass 🤦🏻♂️
I'm so sorry for your loss! She must've been a wonderful person. God bless you! 💕
Sir am sorry for your loss, and am happy for 47 years of happiness. Love from Somalia.
@@porkchopspapi5757 first off you inane inbred jackanapes, it's you're not your. Second . Disrespect this man and his wifes marriage and memory just shows you are lower than whale dung. Want to put a face to your comment I'd be happy to show you mine... Toe to toe... What do you say? Snowflake
In the 1950’s people were nostalgic about how much simpler life was in the 1890’s with no traffic jams, horses instead of cars, getting food from farmers you knew, being able to see all the stars at night, family nearby, neighbors who were lifelong.
Lol, I've always maintained the thought that in 30 years people will look at us now and think about how much better things were. As a gen z, most of us are nostalgic about 2016.
@@natasharules770 I hate to think about America getting any worse than it is currently. Can't possibly imagine a president worse than Biden.
There’s a twilight zone episode about that
@@martinramirezmi5457 Um well the previous president lost his re-election bid, then directed people to do a violent coup on January 6, 2021. Just my opinion, but Biden hasn’t done anything that bad🤷♂️.
@@martinramirezmi5457 Andrew Jackson personally wanted the trail of tears. Andrew Johnson took any meaningful progress the civil war had by allowing white oppression of all kinds besides straight up reinstating slavery. Millard Fillmore passed the fugitive slave act.
By any human standards, three presidents that are far worse than Biden. I stayed away from presidents that existed within current humans life to avoid the whole “my team” phenomenon. If america can survive Ronald “Mush brains” Reaganomics and reality star/living joke since the 80’s Donald “common man with a small loan of a million dollars from daddy” trump than we’ll be fine with old Biden.
The narrator makes this AWESOME!
My grandmother died in November 1957, just 5 days after my 7th birthday. On that day she lay in a hospital bed and took my hand, gave it a squeeze and told me that she loved me. That love has never faded on my part.
I was fortunate to find out at an early age that love is the most important reality. A child must have quality time with his/her parents so that the love bond is strengthened. I have such wonderful memories of camping and exploring with my dad and sitting around a warm fire listening to mum sing and tell stories. A child needs to know that they are loved.
😭😪 My great great grandmother died that year & the same month also. However she was born in Nicaragua 1890, luckily she got to see the U.S. what it was a glimpse of it and of course my mother as a newborn (August 1957) & a few months before her passing.
@@ojsilva1975 My grandmother was born in 1892 and spent her entire working life working in the same textile mill that's now an education centre and museum.
My mom died last year at the age of 98. She had lost her mobility, eyesight and some of her hearing, but she too, during my last, visit took my hand, squeezed it, and said she loved me. People from that generation had a grace and dignity under fire, a sense of self sacrifice that's lacking today. Your comment reminded me of my mom.
@@gunnarthorsen How true.
I was 11 years old. I remember it all. It was a great time to grow up. I remember roller skating all around the neighborhood. My mom always would say, "Don't go too far" ! That meant I had about a 4 block radius ! Dinner with the family EVERY night as soon as my dad got home. We were a family. I wouldn't go back and change ANYTHING ! Thanks Mom and Dad 💙
And stranger danger should have been teached way more back then. I have been following a case that happened in 1957 which is about a 7 year old little girl named Maria Ridulph she was kidnapped and murdered while playing with her friend just outside her house when it was getting dark it had just started to snow and the children were excited to play in the snow, a young man gave the little girl a piggyback ride and then the 7 year old child was taken and the child's body was found 6 months later. The parents were so devastated and whole family. On a interview i watched on a documentary of the case the mother was interviewed on TV and she couldn't barely speak she was just so devastated and begged the kidnapper to please return her little girl, but 6 months later the child's body was found dead in the woods. In 2011 they arrested a man (who was 18 years old at the time) and believed he was this Johnny who gave the little girl piggyback rides and kidnapped her, back lack of evidence released him. Now her case remains unsolved once again.
@Karen Reed I know bad things happened to kids back then. My folks taught me the whole thing about not accepting things from strangers, or to go with a stranger for any reason. I realize most kids didn't have the same upbringing that I did, but if you want to call it "TV program" then go ahead. All I can do is tell you MY experience as a kid growing up in 1957 !
@John Saunders You're welcome "Wally" !
@John Saunders be quiet. There’s nothing wrong with being sentimental and remembering ones childhood with happiness.
@John Saunders I beg to differ on that. Sentimentality of childhood is brought on by joy and happiness.
If anyone remembers the 60's - 70's period they will recall how newspapers were often filled with stories lamenting the nameless, faceless suburbs where nobody knew their neighbors anymore, and everyone was estranged from their extended family. My folks used to lament this also. Basically, we were all told that before the 50's, everyone lived close to their grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc and so you were never far from people who could help you at a moments notice. California was the model for this disconnected way of living. Once the kids left home, wives were left alone in empty homes. But the way this was talked about obsessively seemed proof to me that never in history had mankind ever been "required" to live like this before. Whoever came up with the idea of the "American Dream: life in the suburbs" then probably didn't know anyone whose lives had been torn apart by them. I can even think of a few rock stars who alluded to this in songs. But then so it took an organized, national effort to make the suburbs seem idyllic, and I guess maybe that's why we had all this promotion. It was about marketing a concept that had a lot of potential for profit. You were told you were fortunate as Americans to be yanked from your relatives back home where you grew up, and as proof you lived in brand new homes filled with the latest labor saving devices. And at least if you had participated in the war effort, that was a source of unity for people who felt alienated otherwise. You could still sit around and tell war stories. Anyway, for me visits from relatives when I was a child were usually strained since they often traveled from very far away and knew absolutely nothing about my town. But I still had a mostly happy childhood though and it helped that many of my neighbors were experiencing this same kind of separation anxiety we were all going through.
Of course, by now, scores of millions of Americans have grown up in those suburbs and never really knew any other kind of life.
I'm one of them, of course. The subdivision in Atlanta where I grew up was built in 1964, and most of the community I lived in was built within four years either side of that, a community of tens of thousands of people. The street where I lived was made up almost entirely of young families, all but one from the South, many from Atlanta itself, so we didn't have much of a problem connecting with each other. We were real *neighbors*, sticking together for more than forty years--closer than much of our extended family, as you can imagine. I'm sure this is true elsewhere as well, but the TV never talks about that. The fact that our homes were nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime plainly had a lot to do with it as well. The houses in Levittown in this video are "starter" houses, and people don't have much incentive to stay in starter houses if they can trade up. Subdivisions made of starter houses, at least down here, wind up either going downhill or being razed for something nicer--maybe a development of luxury townhomes.
Anyway: As I said before, nice enough to keep and improve for a lifetime, but *not* nice enough to treat as an *investment*. Quite good enough, but not good enough for people who feel they always need to be "advancing", because the standard for that is, well, bigger. Our homes were just small enough (though they had large yards) and just, well, *homely* enough to *feel like homes*, to feel like places where you can put down roots, and developers don't build homes like that any more. They build starter homes and homes for investors. The houses where I grew up have apparently become "starter homes for the managerial class", whereas once they'd been that class's "forever homes". The widespread prosperity of the postwar era was built partly on a large managerial class, and we don't seem to have that now. We need some way to get back to the distribution of wealth we had between 1960 and 1975, and developers need to build *homes*, not just *housing* or *investments*.
I've met your relatives - no great loss.
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It's like this in many 3rd world countries. I spent time in the Philippines and it's like that there. They live with their families and stay close knit. I was even listening to the Lawrence brothers podcast and they remarked about this. They're a close family too.
And the theme has continued with the media hating everything about middle class suburban American's. The 1960's with it's protests, assassinations and hippie movement was the worst decade of the 20th century.
I'm 42 you can take my ass out of 2022 and drop me right back in those times and the smile on my face would be classic! This world today makes you want to throw up!
I was 17 years old at this time. A rough and ready farm boy heading down the road of life. It was a good trip.
I'm 49 and i remember the 70s and 80s well. You're my fathers age and i was just talking to a friend about how are time is coming to grow old.
1:13, this boy is now in his 70s, time flies
2:48 is that a baby doll in the crib? LOL Baby boomer at its peak
You are 79? Wow!
@@Skiskiski Sure am. This was taken a few days from my 79th Birthday. (scroll down to the notes for an earlier version) flic.kr/p/2gYzVrW
The 1950’s, when there weren’t cameras everywhere and privacy still existed.
Julianne Demse-Manly and nobody was playing Fortnite and making cringy TikTok Videos.
And when blacks couldn't use the same bathrooms as whites
No Google tracking your every move.
@@Alex-ky8bw Someone like you ALWAYS has to bring up racism in every single positive comment about the 50s. It gets so old. How is that even relevant to this comment?
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath because it's true?
What a wonderful time I'd give anything to have a time machine to go back to the 50's
I was born in 1969. So, I grew up in the 1970s when 1950s nostalgia was very popular. And I was swept up by it. I just fell in love with the 1950s decade. By the early 1980s I was in high school and being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional household.
One day during class for reasons I cannot recall, they rolled in the school 16mm movie projector and played for us kids a few of those old, antiquated 1950s short instructional films on how to date, how to be polite, etc. My fellow classmates laughed through them. The wooden acting, the cheap production values, the over-politeness, the innocent slang of the time (golly, gee, swell, etc), the squeaky clean activities (a picnic, a carnival, bike riding, dinner with the family, etc.) I on the other hand wasnt laughing. I found these films to be quite sweet and charming. A sort of time capsule of a more kinder, innocent era.
Don't get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the 1950s weren't so perfect and innocent. No decade is. All decades have their faults. But it seems to me that there were so many things they were doing SO RIGHT in the 1950s that we were doing so horribly wrong in the 1980s as well as today
I’m honestly fine not living in that era
I really can’t think of anything the 50s did right. It was an awful time. Racist, reserved, sexist, forcing people to suppress themeselves, etc. Sure, it had its charms with music and fashion but was really an awful time for anyone who was different and wanted to live their own kind of life.
@@Ty-vj4wg yeah back then abortion was illegal, cops shot black people for no good reason, people couldn’t say they were gay, the air and water were polluted, people were obsessed with acquiring empty status symbols. good thing today is nothing like that. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Ty-vj4wg yea i agree. The world was in shambles but the charm is unique and cool, i can see why people could fall in love with it.
Enjoyed your post. You would like this song by The Judds called "Grandpa".
A husband and wife could pay the mortgage on there house send there kids to school have a car and a dog and a cat all on 1 wage. I really do miss 1957. The music was good as well.
Did they teach the difference between 'there', 'their', and 'they're' back then?
Bigga Winna Crapsa lol
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 It was a wonderful time compared to now. You probably would not have liked it. Too much common courtesy for you.
Born in the 60s. Wish it had been then.
@@D098zxcv - Forced common courtesy - by the church. And remember, don't eat meat on Friday - What would Jesus do?
my parents and grandparents experienced alcoholism & severe mental health issues in their families. Lots of people suffered in silence back then no one could talk about issues.
But that is always the case in any time.
@@b.gailcooper7530 agree absolutely. too many people want to go back to old times and believe the grass will greener for them. it's not that green now and wasn't then either for many people
@@tjmichael8773 it was greener
@@tjmichael8773 they did not live in fear that their rights may be torn apart by a mob that relies solely on feelings. I'd rather be extinguished three fold of atoms than stand and witness what the forefathers have built get set ablaze.
@@savagetv6460 theres an irony to being on this side of the fence and insisting the grass WAS greener over there.
I’m so thankful I grew up in the 1960s before the age of smart phones, computers, and social media. TV was an occasional distraction, but only for 2-3 hours a week. We had neighborhood friends and always played outside. When it was raining, we played board games. We broke bones, got stitches, were stung by the occasional bee, shot hoops in the park and rode our bikes everywhere. We went creek stomping and got lost in the woods. We ate dinners together and went to church as a family. When we misbehaved in school and were disciplined, our parents also punished us (and not our teachers). We learned how to spell and punctuate sentences properly. A high school diploma meant something - a college degree even more. We drank from the garden hose. We fought to get there first when the phone rang because it was always our friends - never telemarketers. We learned to read maps on road trips and were always looking out the window. School was for learning - not indoctrination. Life was lived in person. Our bonds were real and not virtual. Kids have so much more “stuff” today but we seemed to be much more happy with what we had. 😊
70's too
Everything in life is temporary. I was born in 1988 and sometimes I still miss my school kids, estranged brother, deceased mother(miss her every day). It's just weird when it's all gone and things are so different...
That's why I'm conservative. Not the GOP conservative but a conservative nonetheless.
Yeah, and when you’re young you don’t realize that gradually you will lose everyone you love.
@@AntyTiff Then you take on new things to love.
I was born in 1948. My mom didnt work outside the home and she and daddy raised me and my brother, bought a house, and sent me to college all on my dad's salary. Those were the days.
NY city college was free too.
My mom was a stay-home mother. My dad worked 9 hours every day Monday-friday good ole 50s and 60s
@@billbill2214 Born in July 1958 & 4 years prior to that my mother worked on Wall Street as a legal secretary [before stopping for good in mid '58] and my father worked full time days for a pharmaceutical outfit while getting a free Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College @ night after his 2 year stint in the Korean war. The $ my mother made was banked and his $ paid the $30.00 a month rent etc. and by 1961 with 3 kids they waltzed into a mint [built in 1954] $12,000.00 4-5 bedroom house in Bethpage, NY [with dad making over 8k per year @ the time] with roughly 70% down & a very low monthly mortgage + fully paid off a few years prior to selling it in 1967 for 17k & buying a brand new bigger home in Suffolk County for 38k with the 17k rolled over as the down payment leaving a 21k mortgage @ 3% & a puny $130.00 monthly payment. It was easy to buy decent homes at the salary to price ratio back then & most homes were recently built like the Bethpage home. He got a higher paying job during the final years in Bethpage and reached 6 figures during the 70's & on up to retirement in 1998. If people had a game plan & were able to stick to it they had a good chance of getting where they wanted to be back then & with plenty of $$ left over!
Those glory days courtesy of the Democratic Party and the "great compression", when rich people didn't make all the rules for awhile and the Middle Class was enormously expanded.
@@edwardanthony7283 Wow seems like successful parents. Took me awhile to read because i have no glasses.
Last year, my first year of highschool, I found no interest in a single class. I got to second semester, and my first hour was U.S. history. This class was different, I was actually excited to show up everyday. When we got to WW2, Great Depression, and the atomic age, it was a different feeling. I’ve never felt so captivated to learn about America in the 1930’s-60’s. I just feel like I’m time traveling when I learn and watch videos like these. I want to take more classes where I can learn more about this. It’s just so interesting. I want to sit down with somebody from that time period and just ask so many questions.
Im 19 rn. I cant believe my grandparents grew up in the 40s and 50s for some reason
There are quite a few of us left. Try visiting a local retirement community. Most older Americans enjoy sharing memories.
I experienced everything in the 60’s
lauren I was the same way I had us history my junior year and man let me see best class and teacher ever I had in the morning time which everyone feel asleep and I would be the only excited to learn and watch stuff like this, learning about ww2, ww1, just everything in the early age was amazing I’ve only met one ww2 veteran and I’ve always wanted to met a ww2 veteran and sit down and have a conversation with, my grandpa (never met) was in ww2 Pearl Harbor
Too bad that history is complete bullshit. All wars for 500 years have been to expand central banking into every country, lead by our Jesuit controlled military for the Pope. George Washington was a satanic Freemason and died a Catholic, and now is deified as Zeus (found in the Smithsonian) and in the nations capital dome with fallen angels like poseiden and columbia. His phallic symbol, called the Washington Monument, is really a depiction of Nimrod's penis and it stands 6666 inches high and 666 inches wide. Our country has been used by Jesuits for them to take over the world, in this world's last New World (covert) Fascist Order. When we won the American Revolution, supposedly, we decided it would be a good idea to have the exact same colors on our flag of our enemy. Makes perfect sense heh? The public fool system is just that.
Simplicity is the key for a decent life. I remember when I could fill my gas tank up with $7.00 and get my gas and pay after. It was a very unique and special time. There was hardly any stress. I am blessed that I have seen better days.
Sure gas was cheaper than today but that's just inflation - your salary would've been smaller too. If you Google how much $7 in 1957 is worth today, it's around $72, so it was actually similar to today, maybe a bit more expensive
I was born in this time and my parents,who were just ordinary folks actually made a good life for our family.The housing was affordable and jobs plentiful.A working man’s dream,the American Dream.
Unless you were black.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 Depends on where you were and the parents you had.Good hard working people always do better.Black people were actually moving up in those days until President Johnson declared The coming of his “Great Society “which put people on the welfare rolls .However if you do not offer training in the society,you get dependency.Nanny State control.We are still stuck in that system today.Prior to that event Black kids had a two parent home now Many only have one parent or Grandma to raise them now.The more responsibility you take from people for actions on this Earth,the weaker they get.White people have suffered from this too and in larger numbers but not as a greater percentage than the number of Black people have.Goverment sucks.Goverment is the only entity that creates inflation.It causes most of the problems we have today.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 The black community was actually doing very well: your real problem is that, by that stage, the Deep State was already busy dismantling America so it could control it. Divide and Conquer was a very important part of it: many of the bloodline families that ran the slave trade now control the politicians who are telling you that innocent white men were responsible for enslaving your ancestors. Then they asked you for your vote. Unfortunately it worked and continues to work. I'm white - I was born in Ireland in the 1960's: Irish Catholics were not even allowed to VOTE in Northern Ireland back then - regardless of whether they were white or men. Know your enemy - because I can guarantee you your enemy knows you better than you know yourself.
@@alekseicarpenter3359 Ah yes, living in America in the 1950s as a black person must of been horrifying compared to starving in Africa, living in a straw mud hut wondering when the neighbouring tribe is going to come and butcher you with machetes, damn white people!
Favour please, stfu.
@@franksullivan1873 You are just preaching racist stereotypes. I guess it really shows the era you grew up in. The fact that you are saying that black people were "moving up" and that they were better back then because of having two parents at home is just horrible. And saying "Good hard working people always do better"???? No matter how hard black people worked back then, they would be murdered and segregated because of the color of their skin.They were not able to move up and get as good educations because they were only recently allowed to be taught in the same schools as white folk. Clearly you grew up privileged, white, and have no real sympathy for anyone else. How disappointing that racists like you exist. I guess it is good that this older generation is dying off. Its a shame for all the good people, but I am relieved for all of the ones stuck in the past and unable to progress and move on.
For me I remember the year 1954. I was 6. and during that year I remember thinking what a wonderful year it was. Probably because I had a good home with good parents who bought me toys. The fridge was always full of good food. Mom made popcorn and brownies and all the rest. My sister was older and soon went away to college so I was an only child. Didn't even have a tv until a few years later. I'd sit on the bed with my dad and listen to Ed Murrow and the evening news. He'd say how Murrow was a great newsman and if there was no news he'd just say 'well there's no news tonight'. Dad would read me the comics in the paper. Blondie and Dagwood, others popular at the time.
Now the corporate media fabricate the "news".
Yea, everything stopped for the 6'o clock news with Huntley and Brinkley. Now they just make it up, so to coverup news or for propaganda and people aren't interested.
Thank you for sharing. I gotta get up and pave my own path in life for real
Not me. My Mom was a mentally ill alcoholic.......we used to starve..............
@@LoneLee2022 Sad to hear. Hope your life became much better
A time when any honest man who wanted to work hard, could find a job that would support a family.
well.....only if you were white
Very soon there aren't going to be many jobs left, especially if they are workers without skills. In the 1950's, even if you didn't do so well in high school, you could easily find some blue collar work and make enough to support a family by yourself.
Now if you have no skills, good luck finding decent paid work, and good luck trying to raise a family, buy a house, and have a nice car in the driveway that isn't on credit.
At my first job, at a phone based ISP callcentre; they shut the entire 200+ people based operation down, and replaced it with a web portal + 20 people taking calls.
At my current job, there used to be 3 of us and one was classed as management on quite a high wage. Now, only 10 years later, I am the only one needed and due to automation and improved software I am only part time.
Look at all the unmanned kiosks in supermarkets, McDonalds is testing computer kiosks, at the moment this stuff is crude but before long it'll take many more jobs. Automated burger making machines are being tested. Self driving truck convoys. Hell the other week I went to a gas station at 2am and it was 100% automated, had nobody on the premesis at all.
In 50 years the only jobs left will be ones we don't want robots doing. Such as fitting shoes on children, or child care, or doctors. But even so healthcare is being automated, in the near future a doctors visit will involve being scanned by a machine and the doctor will just read the printout. There will be millions unemployed.
So a Basic Income / Citizens Wage is the only thing I can think of to avoid collapse. We are not there yet but in 20 years I think we could be.
@@zarategabe That was a terrible fact at the time. In my view, racial inequality was a real problem overlooked by most.
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@@mikesully110 pretty scary
We came to America in 1957. My Dad had a job waiting for him. My mother found a factory job. They worked hard. We became members of the middle class. Contrast this to the fate we would have had if my family stayed in Russia under communist rule. So grateful to be living in this great country God bless America
Very lucky. How did they manage to escape ? My Grandfather went to GULAG and got out when Stalin died. Tried to escape but never had a change again
My families left Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. They eventually made their way through many middle eastern countries until my Dad was offered a menial job in New York by his brother.
I, too, emigrated from Japan to America, in 1957.
My Dad was an American Navy man and met my Mom while stationed there.
We lived in Tokyo until 1957 but my Dad got homesick so off we went.
I was 3 years-old but I remember it all like it was YESTERDAY.
There was SO MUCH SPACE, land, and food was so different. My 5 Y/O Sis and I fell in love with "Rice Krispies," "Ovaltine," "TANG," "KOOL-AID," and don't get me started on all of those CANDY BARS!!!
Television in America was very different from what we watched in Tokyo...you know which shows I'm talking about...!
When the "Barbie" doll debuted, two years later, of course, us girls just HAD to have them.
Life in America was SO MUCH FUN: my Dad's American family was so kind and good to us; everybody laughed, it seemed, all the time.
We arrived in the U.S. on October 31, 1957 and I'll never forget all the children knocking on the door dressed all kooky and wanting candy. They didn't celebrate Halloween in Japan, of course.
To this day, Halloween is my favourite holiday, even over Christmas.
Glad you and your family made such a great life here, Sarah.
@@shakhmoroff123 It took then 40 Years to reach America. I am from Estonia here last time to escape was 1944 autumn. After that our country got fully controlled by USSR. We got communism much later than 1917 revolution in Russia
@@t2216 My family lived in Asiatic Russia Samarkand Region. I was told that the Bolsheviks came knocking on my Grandparents door in the 1930s. It was then that my Grandmother took her family over the mountains into Afghanistan. They traveled across 5 Islamic countries to finally arrive in Jerusalem in 1939 where they had family. They had to pretend they were Islamic and bribed border guards to make it across country to country.
Paradise is a strong word
This was narrated by the incomparable Peter Thomas, one of television’s most iconic voice talents for 70 years.
I feel like I’m watching forensics files.
are you qualified to bestow such a superlative
N-n-n-nineteen. Nineteen!
@@buddysteele7624 Yes.
I know, I keep waiting for someone to disappear...and the creepy music to kick in!
My Dad grew up in the 50's and all the coolest things he would tell me about his childhood in that decade.
How old are you now?
@@engineeredarmy1152 I'm almost 30. My Dad was born in 1945 and and I was born in 1991.
@@1matsg I was born in 1946. I remember the 1950s well. The cars of the late 50's had those fins and rocket look. Many of the shows on TV were westerns.
@@boblackey1 wow how was your life
@Kathryn Dennis fuck you boomer
Native Americans were also living under Jim Crow. We rode freight elevators and we're not allowed to enter the front door of stores. My parents couldn't vote.
cool
Natives also get everything for free.
@@rocketeer2361 Right ✅️
@@rocketeer2361 Makes sense since everything was taken from them
@@goes5114 Nobody alive today took shit from them.
Any era in history is a good time to be alive, as long as you're not part of an oppressed minority group, have money, are physically and mentally healthy, and have a good relationship with your family.
I know anytime in history has its joys and sadness.But to have a chance just to live is a chance we are given and not chosen.Despite the times that those days were for folks of Color,it was a time for a new beginning and the coming of Civil Rights for all.The people born in those times helped to change the World.Life is important,always cherish it,live to learn and anyone can flourish.
Amen
So true
I think you got the just of it. short and sweet.
Like most people
Seeing the homes, cars, and people in this video, I've come to realize that my family was not as well off as many of these people.But then again, I remember that my two sisters and I were happy, and our parents gave us a nice home and a nice life. It seems that back then, you didn't need as much money to be happy as you do now.
Because its clever propaganda
Remember when families would play board games in the evening instead of watching the "idiot box"?
That’s because people lived with less charges and fees. This isn’t clever propaganda, it’s the way it was. It amazes me that people no more than 20 years old think rright now, is how things always were. They can’t see how dark a time is because they born were in it.
That's all you needed.
I would phrase it as we didn't need as much "stuff" to be happy. I recall when a room had maybe two or three plug-ins, enough for a tv, a lamp, and a clock. Today I need power strips in every room. For a tv, cable box, Xbox, desktop computer, monitor, printer, router, phone charger, plus any other devices. And that's for several rooms if not every room (excluding router)--plus service fees for the phone, cable, internet, and streaming sites. It's crazy the amount of tech devices we "need" today on a daily (every minute!) basis. And are we happier than we were back then? Sure doesn't seem like it.
I remember going to the store and just leaving the house unlocked. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood with hard working people. Riding bikes all across town with my friends. Never wanted to be inside. We kids played outside all day until the street light(we had one on our street) came on. Fun times.
I did that too in 1998.....
D Con And back in the day, especially in Southern California, you had blue-collar neighborhoods that had underground swimming pools in the backyard!
Almost the same in my neighborhood. I was born in 1954. I was the first born of six after my Dad returned from Korea in 1953. Blocks of mostly cookie cutter 2 story Cape Cod houses, some with 1 car garages! Riding our bikes all over the neighborhood until dusk. We had the milk box on the small front stoop for the Milkman. The Fuller Brush man would come around every week. The Good Humor man would drive his truck around in the summer. As soon as we heard the bells we'd run towards his truck! I used to get either a Strawberry Shortcake or Toasted Almond ice cream bar! Great times!
@@jondstewart You mean ''in ground?''
@@Yakanhikoerotikkushiti I was a 16 year old puke chunk. Skateboarding (was lousy at it too), dropout, pot smoking, loitering, loser scumbag.
Played a lot of Tenchu, Resident Evil & Metal Gear and got in a lot of trouble and listened to a lot of shitty nu metal. Had a cute girlfriend & a lot of friends though. Late '90s were not too bad lol
I am a 14 year old, and when I did some research on the 50s, I fell in love. I feel like it was an amazing time to be a teenager because of the amazing economy, and freedom, the new and cool cars, and more. I wish I could have lived in those times.
i like the simplicity but i’d rather be living today
@@splash2849 thats your choice, but I see that the 50s was a much better time. Especially for teenagers.
@@hawke4753 well white teenagers yeah if i wasn’t a poc ig i’d love it
@@splash2849 It was MUCH better for black teenagers as well. The level of drop outs, teen pregnancies and above all violence was a FRACTION of what it is now.
@@poetcomic1 civil rights movement? why would anyone want to be alive during that
Compared to what we had in the Eastern Bloc during this era - yes it was a paradise.
I graduated from 8th grade in 57 and we got our first TV the same year. It was the best time to grow up. I'm 78 years old and I remember everything about those days.
Not saying it was perfect, but 1945 - 1963 were in many ways the glory days of the United States. It's been all downhill since JFK was assassinated.
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Ahem Racisim?
Depends on who you were, where you lived, how much money you made.There was despair and sadness and insecurity. People hid behind their fears and conformed in silence and self torment.I will admit there seemed to be more of a community. Now, there is verylittle, neighbors do not know neighbors, and it seems that they don't wantto. The USA people are desensitized. It's a cold country out there now, 2019.
@@mrbevelaqua8649 Im not brain washed, Racisim Exists
That's because when JFK was murdered it was the end of our Democratic Republic. Everything since then has been one big script.
It was a wonderful time. I am so lucky to have grown up in the era.
As a Black American these comments are amazing.
@@commonsense3921 i’m young as hell and black and confused lmao, were most of the ppl in these comments not aware of the issues or was it just like a universal thing that they didn’t have to think about so they don’t associate it with their childhoods? genuinely wanna know the climate/dynamic
Yeah they were great for us because we're both white people
Me too!!
@@splash2849 they like to not think about it most likely
My mother, her mother and her 8 siblings were starving. They didn't have free school lunches. My grandfather was very abusive and knocked my grandmother's teeth out and beat his children, kicking them with his cowboy boots. My grandmother was not protected by anyone or any laws. No one called CPS to report the abuse or hunger. My grandmother was stuck in that awful marriage until her children grew and she was able to divorce him. This was not their life in the 50s.
I think your case probably was not too uncommon sadly. Under the glitz and glam of the projected "perfect American family" were lots of issues being swept under the rug.
@@Wheelio Definitely, all those men coming home from the war had PTSD too
@@emjay2045 then again, we have a mental health crisis in our youth, so you lose some you win some
☹️Your tale is a sad one for sure.I am glad you survived it.I was just fortunate to have parents that loved each other and loved me.Not everyone’s story is the same.I hope are doing well and have gotten on to a better life situation.
Same shit goes on today, extremely sad
As a kid in the fifties I remember how great it was Mom always home dad worked and we had everything we needed When I got sick I saw my doctor at my house Milk delivered to the front door We played until almost dark and it was safe Time now isn’t very good
This was an golden era, the 1950s and it lasted to end of the 90s.
@@mikaelglansencreutz2482 What do you think happened in the 2000s to create the foreboding atmosphere that almost everyone seems to be able to feel?
@@concars1234 I think it actually started to crumble in the 90s. We saw it come to a head in the 2000s. It feels like to turning point was September 11th, 2001....not because of the attack itself, but our reaction to it. Same thing with the pandemic....our reaction to it was worse than the pandemic itself in my opinion. Just seems like everyone's spirit is broken now. We're jump from one "crisis" to another and we get beaten down a little more every time. This was one of the themes of "1984". They were constantly at war with one country or another and kept society on edge making them controllable through fear.
I think there our powers (people) that want this fear because it makes us controllable. They have it in their head that they are going to mold a new society that is "equitable" to everyone. They're going to do that by dragging the middle class down, not elevating the poor because they've found that you can't elevate the poor. Make everyone equal in the gutter except for a small elite at the top.
@Mister Scaz
Yeah, over the past years I have also noticed that our governments restricts many things that back in the 90s could be done without a problem. And I am beginning to wonder: has Orwell’s 1984 really some predictions of the future?
@@oznelnavnaekal6679 if needing a "vaccine" for international travel is not a red flag for EVERYONE then I think people are really just willfully ignorant of this issue
I was born in '41, graduated high school in '59. I think I lived in the best time period there ever was. I grieve for my grandchildren who have decades of this corrupt world to endure. At age 79, I'm glad I'm close to time to check out. Living in this day and age is like a preview of hell.
We now live in Sodom and Gomorrah and as Jesus said in the days of Noah!
Lucky
You listened to Buddy Holly?
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay please stay in india, we dont want indians in America
You lived through an amazing time. I'm in my 40s now and I'm truly afraid of what the USA will be like when I'm 79.
How time has changed,sad...as 56 year old, wish I was there..
We need this America back. We can't give it up...
1957: conveniences that are "Spiritually Uplifting!"
2019: conveniences that are "Absolutely Soul Crushing!"
Wait till you see 2019’s sequel
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Yea i mean just imagine having to drive to the other side of town just to see how many countries are in the world from a book that's probably from the Interwar period (the area in between the World Wars).
@@MrCreeperYT_Official Libraries were kept very up to date and most cities of any size had many libraries, for me there was the big main branch that was downtown and most of my childhood I lived a few blocks from the local branch. And a popular thing to buy at the time was encyclopedia sets, so a good percentage of homes had their own reference on general facts about history, science, philosophy, etc, with some sets being more specific than others. I was born in 1958 and my sister in 1954 and my folks bought several sets (typically from door to door salesmen I think) and my favorite one to look through was Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia from 1962, it was like our "internet" back then to answer questions or to go down a random rabbit hole on a lazy Sunday morning because TV sucked . . . no cartoons just boring political talk shows dad liked to watch! ;-)
@@JohnLRice the library has been my fav hangout all my life. They even have computers there son.
Back in the 1950’s, most adults in their 20’s on up with only a high school diploma made a decent living, owned homes, fully literate, and used proper grammar. Now we have college graduates below that level!
Jon Stewart Today’s generations are much more intelligent than previous generations due to the rise of more accessible information.
Matt Schnaare If they’re so intelligent, why don’t they use proper grammar or spell, capitalize, and punctuate properly? Half of today’s high school graduates are functional illiterates and even more than that can’t name every state there is on a map of the U.S. I worked in Fort Yukon, Alaska one time and my coworker was from Missouri. We talked to a local elementary school teacher there from Chicago and she thought Missouri was way out west.
Jon Stewart Anecdotal evidence is not valid in terms of argumentation, that’s one of the first things you learn in middle school in the modern education system. Rather the providing anecdotal evidence about my experience with a huge influx of Advanced Placement classes being introduced into high school by the College Board (AP Physics, Psychology, and many others) that are lightyears ahead of predating classes from the 1950s, I will first present the physical differences in what is expected in a high school student. In terms of mathematics, a student from the 1950s may be required to learn basic algebra. As per graphing these algebraic equations, a standard linear equation in the form of y=mx+b is all that would be expected. Mathematics in today’s high schools teach all of the foundation algebra either freshman year or their last year of middle school. From there it branches into more complex topics that build off of algebra such as trigonometry and eventually integral and differential calculus. This was only introduced at extremely high level college courses in the 1950s. I have not found anything that relates the science courses from the 1950s to modern day, however in modern high schools students are required to take at the very least Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. All of these have honors and AP variants available that dive into topics that didn’t even exist in the year 1950, and are at the college level. Students in history take Modern U.S. history (covering reconstruction to 9/11), World History, and Government. There are AP variants for all of these classes and honors for MUSH. One key difference from today’s learning environment and that from the 1950’s is that modern students are required to not only know the history, but to develop historical analysis skills to connect different events in history and argue certain perspectives. This would have never been asked if a student in the 1950’s. Similarly in English, modern students are required heavily annotate texts and develop strong college level thesis statements in order to prove a given essay prompt. Moreover, they are required to develop public speaking skills and overall reading comprehension. In addition to core subjects, many high level electives are offered in high schools as well. PLTW has introduced +IED and +POE that allows high schoolers to be introduced to engineering concepts as early as age 14. Due to this increase in standards of our students, studies have showed that with each decade, the average IQ the student body increases by 3. That means that a modern student would have an adjusted IQ of 118 in the 1950’s.
Matt Schnaare Wow, where did you get all this info? I’m not as smart as I thought I was. All I was saying was it seemed to me American society overall is drifting towards Idiocracy; I didn’t know anything about how math and science have advanced. I barely passed Algebra 2 in high school (not like it’s of any use in real life).
Anyway, in my most perceptive opinion, most of the generation born the past 40 years have been dealt a bad hand compared to the Baby Boomers in terms of upward mobility.
And yet with all this information at their fingertips, the fact remains in general they still appear daft , not to mention socially inept. I guess they are not making use of all they are learning.
I was born in 1960. Loved every minute of my childhood in the Midwest. I still believe that 1950's America was definitely the greatest decade in the greatest country. The 60's come in 2nd place. If not for the Vietnam war and the assassinations the 60's would have been almost as good.
Wow, what a beautiful vision of America. I love my country
Our neighborhood had block parties in the summer where we’d block off both ends of the street. A carnival atmosphere was created. Every family brought food and games out to tables and everyone visited with each other. Another thing, most of the neighborhood was comprised of young families with their first home. Regardless of whose house you were in, the rules were pretty much the same and a Dad in any home would discipline you if you got out of line! And your parents would back them up. You could go out and play all day as long as you were in for dinner and then back before dark.
@Daniel S That’s an odd, racist, comment, Daniel. Do you see everything through a racial lens? Sad life you must live.
@@NoBite2 Daniel's comment has disappeared.
@@annarodriguez9868 That’s odd!
Wow
This sounds like heaven
@@bricklawson9745 This was long before projection TVs or big screen TVs. One family would hang a white sheet over their garage door. They had a movie projector and played kids movies after the sun went down.
I was 7 in 1957 in first grade growing up in Michigan the daughter of a school teacher and pastor of a Baptist church. It was a safe, wonderful time of life! I loved school. I loved to play on our tire swing, skip rope, jump mud puddles, roller skate with clamp on skates, dress my doll (that I still have by the way.), watch Howdy Doody on a black and white TV, make snow angels in the snow, walk the four blocks to school with no worry or fear. And I loved saying the pledge of Allegiance every day at school!
In 1971 we also did Pledge of Allegiance in school I really liked it! live was so much better back then. Never fear of getting shot, kidnapped or drugs and everyone was far more respectful of each other. Together Americas are nasty! they get into road rage,the steel from stores "seen it twice in two hours" in Puyallup WA
My life exactly only I was the son of two teachers. It was great until one day when I was 7 I asked mom and dad why we never went to restaurants. They hemmed and hawed and said well we don't need it. We have food at home. It was years later I realized that we could not go to those places because of our color. I felt really stupid when I learned the truth.
I also did the pledge of allegiance in my segregated school and honestly believed in liberty and justice for all. I had a rude awakening
We said the pledge of allegiance in the 90s we just had seen 9/11 then the Iraq war and we thought about it with critical thought not nostalgia and not being bothered by oppression
I was 9 years old in 57 and as I look back now, it was heaven; a very innocent time compared with today especially. We were allowed to be kids. I'm glad not to be growing up in today's environment.
Yes, but you were a child and remembering childhood is a cocktail of 1 part fear of aging, 1 part fatigue of change, 1 part yearning for better health and lost agility, and 1 part acceptance of impending inevitable death. All good: I was born in 1959 btw. But always remember Corinthians 1: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Nowadays owning a home is nearly impossible. Sad times we live in...
I am 71 and wouldn't want to be 30 now a days.
It's not that bad im 21. Just that alot people dont know how to live within their means. I make 24k a year and I have a 6 month emergency fund 10k in investments. I didn't go to college but I'm doing fine. My monthly burn rate is $700 - $1000 so I save half of my monthly pay checks. Have my own place and live in the suburbs in a good area in a good city. Times are rough but the 60s where worse I wouldn't want to be 20 or 30 in the 60s fearing every moment of my life for nuclear inhalation. Times are good even now. So idk what people complain about saying they cant make ends meet then stop being financially stupid save leave with your means dont get into debt or buy shit you can't afford. My rule us if u can't afford 5 of them I can't afford 1.
@@Sora_Nai what do you do for a living?
@@Sora_Nai That works great when you're 21. It doesn't hold up over time...not without more money.
@@nickc247 that's why me doing this at 21 by the time I'm 25 or 23 I'll be making more money and be financially free gaining money passively.
@@Sora_Nai Making more money will be tougher without that degree or at least a solid trade.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have plans. I guess what I'm saying is, it probably won't turn out that way.
Dresses to school, kids played outside, never a door locked...So laid back and easy. Those WERE the best years growing up. Mom home cooking, skating every weekend. Oh my yes... great years!
What r dresses?
@lemon diesel Open your eyes and look around.Most young people and children are obese. And all they know how to do is play on their phones. When SHTF they will be dead or killed in urban riots.
@lemon diesel I would say the culmination of that has to be this generation, gen z, the absolute worst most careless hateful scummy people on this planet without a doubt, no value of human life, no beliefs, no passion, nothing what so ever, this generation will bring about the end of the word as you know it mark my words
Funny how your generation disses the boomers. Not one single one of you would even be here if not for that generation!!
@Evan Perrine In the south. And tbh, I'd take making food and cleaning the house over having the possibility of death in a 9-5 job.
I do agree about the school clothing though.
My mom (a black american) was in her 20's in the late 50's... living in Birmingham Alabama... her memories of this time period are far from paradise.
I was looking for this comment lol yea nice back then for white Americans 😂. Not minorities
@@thegrinchmob5108depends on where the minorities lived. Also, white families in the South struggled a lot too. Southern states were not just more racist, they were also far poorer than the rest of the country
Any time is like paradise if you are smart enough to make it like one
I was 7 years old in 57, this almost made me cry as i remembered all of it, and how much the quality of our lives has slipped away. Progress sometimes isn't the best thing..
Terry Harding the Native Americans lived a harmonious life one with nature. The white man has deluted this land to 57 genders pedophiles slavery in taxes and concrete jungles. No more afternoon watching lakes and wildlife just arguments republican vs democrats and mass shootings on tv?.
I'm a good bit younger than you, but it almost made me cry too.
@@alvarohernandez2438 They lived in harmony with nature the same way tribal people do: because they cannot exploit it. These same natives were just like you and I, and they often committed brutal atrocities and fought over territory amongst themselves. If they could've done what Europeans did, they would have... they were no more noble than anyone else.
I was born in '63 and I miss the fifties!!! I'm only semi-joking!
It was a great time in the 50s. Unfortunately, we are now seeing the after effects of such industrial development,
I'm currently 44 years old. My house was built in 1957, and I have a truck that was made in 1948. Many things are better today, and many things are worse. It's up to us to make things better. Raise your kids right, and live in a way that makes the world a better place. Don't get into any more debt than you absolutely have to, and live within your means.
Well said
100% agree
well said sir!
Thank ye!
It's all relative. I was born in 1952. My family was prosperous, upper middle class, WASP, and we lived in a wealthy suburb outside a great American city. My father was a successful bipolar whose hobbies were business, golf, and other women. My mother ignored much of his bad behavior but ultimately became a psychiatric social worker. Dad disliked me, and made it clear that while he respected my intelligence, he would never have any interest in my life - and until the day he died, in 2013, he found it difficult to have a conversation with me (I might add I have above average listening skills - I like to learn). I moved far away from them and the suburbs in 1975, and though I have fond memories of aspects of my childhood, I associate the 1950s simpler times with an era where the diagnostic language of family upheavals, hidden hostilities, and buried neuroses simply hadn't yet been formulated.
I would also say that it was inevitable that the relative prosperity of the 1950s would be viewed in the decades to come with rose-colored nostalgia, with great credence being offered to the reality of the Greatest Generation having come out of the Depression and WW II. But it was inevitable that an improvement in developing suburbia's education, that the children of the era began to question their origin, and their true histories, all while business and technology was always set to improve upon the models being offered in the growing information age.
From my perspective, and now with the benefit of 60 years of history, I conclude that in many ways the Greatest Generation wasn't always so great at parenting. And the histories of most of the people I knew around me bear this up.
The 1950s wasn't Paradise. It was merely prosperous. For some.
That said, I still occasionally turn on classic TV to try to bathe briefly in what we knew then. That said, I prefer Bosch and Mad Men and the Sopranos and Severance, to, say, Howdy Doody, My Little Margie, Gary Moore, Ed Sullivan, and Lassie.
One of the more realistic comments on this thread!
Best comment on this video!
One big reason we were all (at least somewhat) happier back then was because we were not bombarded with information the way we are today. It's that old, time-honored idiom "Ignorance Is Bliss* . Now, when something bad is happening, we ALL HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT IT - sometimes that's a good thing, but it certainly can get in the way of "Paradise"
The biggest change between the 1950s and the 2020s has been the disintegration of the family unit, and all the social ills this has wrought.
Amen
I don't know how to measure that . . .
www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
^ that's a thing though
That was by design.
@@Endoterrestrials the conservative resurgence, which brought along with it pro corporate fiscal policy benefiting only America's wealthiest had caused this, a side effect of the general overall wealth gap. I don't get people that argue in favor of trickle down economics (or supply side economics as proponents of it often resolutely "correct" me). Knowledge of economics and all the stats don't reinforce it. Also just look at Hong Kong. Corporate deregulation and policies aimed at aiding the rich screw over the poor big time (seems obvious but apparently not to some).
I don't really know what this would show, or how to prove that some direct link from the loss of the nuclear family model lead to these social ills you speak of. I'm sure there are plenty of gay couples that raise their children just fine. I'm straight guy and I plan on getting married and having a kid some day, but if others don't choose to get married in a heterosexual relationship, I don't really care.
I was a teen in 80's and life was so much simpler back then. I felt like I was living the American dream.
Same with my Grandma! But she was not living the American Dream. Life was hard for her.
I remember the 70's. It was all over by the 80's.
I was a teen in the late '70's/early '80's and I agree with you! And there was always that promise. That we would inherit what Reagan used to call "the shining city on the hill." And we did. And we messed it up so much, I don't think it will EVER come back. And we did it with greed, self centeredness and apathy. Those qualities (or lack thereof) best define the sub "Jones Generation" which is made up of the younger boomers and older genxers. How far we have slid.
You're acting gay
Yes it was simpler!!!!!! I wish Regan was never voted into office
This was PRE CIVIL RIGHTS. Freedom for all? This is what MAGA is all about!!
Civil rights ended up supporting Black families which are now 70% without a father. Yes, there were advances made but I grew up in a small town where Blacks had all the opportunities that anyone else had. I had a grandmother who was clearly racist, but the mores changed without the government mandating it.
I loved growing up in the 50's. Life was not so fast paced and frantic as today. People had respect for one another and crime wasn't rampant.
Ran across this by accident. I was born in 1957. It certainly was a simpler time. Although she's been gone almost 30 years now, my mother was a stay at home mom. Personally I'm glad I had those years with her and not thrown in a daycare center.
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CuzKatieSaysSo there are still plenty of stay at home moms aren't there? My mom is a stay at home mom and all my neighbors moms we're stay at home/ work from home moms
I too was born in 57' , we grew up in a great time in the 60's the end of a era . We saw things change in our lifetime but hate the aches and pains with old age . LOL
I was almost 10 at that time and yes those were good times. Would like to have those days back. That is when the kids went home and not to a day care.
Chris I would do it all over again if I could. At that time my Dad had a1950 Chevrolet kind of grey color
sedan. Mom run it into a fence post. I got a ride in a Greyhound scenicruiser bus
Wow thank you for this video I'm87 and in 1957 I was 23 Carefree working in a hospital as a nurse and on days off would go to a nightclub and probably do the twist rock and roll crime was way down in Los Angeles and South Bay California go to the beaches and when I was younger people didn't even lock their house doors or car doors leave your bicycle outside the store and when you come out the bicycle was still there how times have changed thank you for the video by
It's really sad to think that most people 25 and under will never achieve anything close to the affluence and comfort the people of the 1950s had. Many of us have even a difficult time affording food
You've convinced yourselves of many of your issues, and in turn you put democrats in office who care nothing about the homeland, let alone your particular needs.
People also had a hard time affording things back then too, that's capitalism. And most women were married into affording anything, often times they weren't allowed to have independence and autonomy. Even tho they began to work in daily life after the war, it was still limited in what options they were allowed to take as a job for themselves, they were still restricted by society and men, and forced into roles.
Was born that yr and I'm sure my mom was swell. But as great a times that these were, we can't go back and relive them. Try not to be to nostalgic. It's good for us to make our own memories. Night 🌙 kids.
Born in 1944 and raised in the late 40's and 50's. The world was a different place. Such good memories.
If you mean violent and hostile, then yes.
@@coolguy02536 Ah, but objective analysis proves quite the opposite.
@Donald Smith Thank Ronald Regan n for that
That's how I look at the 90s, but I'm guessing it's all and nostalgia than an objective fact.
I too was born in 1944, we were poor but we didn't know it, I didn't liuve in America but Scotland, I wore second hand clothes, but once again i did not know this. We played outside in rain, snow and it was fun, walked to and from school, nobody had a car! If they did they were rich lol. It was a fantastic time to grow up, lots if friends the music was fab. My dad used to put cardboard inside my shoes haha it didn't help, always had wet feet, but wouldn't change anything about the 50s it was a lovely time to grow up. I feel sorry fir my grandchildren today's world is sad.
I was born in 1946 and remember much of this. Thanks for posting. I still have a 1957 Chushman motor scooter I purchased in 1961. My first car was a 1955 Studebaker Champion. Good times!
We grew up, as kids, working. Nobody got to loaf around. We had a roof over our heads & healthy food on the table. For me t.v. came in the late 50's. Maybe an hour a week. It was silent movies & black & white screen. My dad repaired t.v's, big ole picture tubes, resistors, transformers, glass tubes that plugged in. We were restricted to what we could watch (now we find out it was all bad). We had to hoe a half an acre garden, hand pump, wringer washers, hanging clothes on the clothesline, outdoor toilets, you pumped water to washed dishes, laundry & take baths. Lunch was tomatoes & green peppers eaten in the willow tree. Walked to school (1 block) came home for lunch (freshly canned tomatoes with butter) In school we made butter in the churn, made ice cream. Played neighborhood baseball with sticks & rocks (they made me the pitcher, ouch), neighborhood football. I was a tomboy. Climbed trees, broke my arm when I was to afraid to go back down the ladder so I swung like Tarzan & let go. Well I was 12' drop (around 8 years old) Life was good.
I really appreciate all comments of people who lived in this era. I was only really able to enjoy the late 80s and the 90s as a kid and those were still good times but this seems so much more than even that.
I was born in 1951, I live in Australia mum & dad both worked & life was wonderful, I'm glad I wasn't born in today's world. it was much more safer, never locked the door when we went out
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay Cardi B & Nicki Minaj have to do with it ???????
@Urjjo Bandyopadhyay maybe, but their doing something right ?, They do have the money
@@marypevitt174 I've Built A LEGO 1957 Police Car
@@SuperJacob2006 that's awesome
I give anything to go back for another go around. The fifties were the best years of my life. I miss the youthful friendships and neighbors who we knew for several blocks. I loved growing up in my parents grocery stores, and all of the employees and customers. The town I grew up in was like one big family. I knew all of the business men and women all over town, and most of their families. There were no Walmarts or super stores. People had the option of having their milk delivered to their front door by milkmen who cared about their products. It was wonderful, kids today would be lost, we didn’t need coddling, and if you lost in sports or a game, that was it. You didn’t get a medal or trophy for being a loser, you were told that you needed to work harder next time, and you did. I’d give anything to give my mom, dad, and grandmother a hug again. That’s another thing, families were close and got together often, at least mine did. I had eight aunts and uncles, and sixty-three cousins. The ones still living, are still close. I’ve seen where we’re headed, I’d like to turn back, I don’t like what I see.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories. 😄
I'm much younger than you, born in 93. I CRAVE what you just said for my America. I wish my generation had what you said. Thank you for giving me a small sample of that.
@@SuperWesley16 well, I wish I could give that kind of life to you and any other young person who missed out. My grandkids are always saying they wish things were as simple as when I was a kid. I also know how hard my parents, and my friend’s parents worked and sacrificed to give us the lives we had. People nowadays don’t know many of their neighbors. That’s one way to make life better, get to know your neighbors, and include them in activities. It may sound corny, but that’s what most people did back then, plus kids played outside. Plus families were closer before “life” got in the way. Good luck, and God bless.
@@SuperWesley16 oh you missed so much. When you went to the bank everyone called you by name.
You eagerly waited for the ice cream truck to come down your street.
You ran for joy after school on Halloween just to get dressed. You walked with grocery bag.
Christmas was the most exciting. You truly believed in Santa.
Just like the movie . You begged for your red Ryder.
You were filled with joy at getting roller skates that you tied around your shoes. And kept a key to adjust skate from pulling left or right.
Your mom would dress like she was going to a wedding just to go to grocery store. Your dad wore a suit and tie.
And when you visited grandma you drove down a white gravel single lane road. Dust everywhere.
Wow. The whole world loved god
Because you weren't subject to being lynched by white people.
I was born in 1957 and the older I get and as each year goes by and the more I try to learn about our country and this world the more I get frustrated of believing something I once thought was truly great , really isn't all that, for me the more I learn about the world we live in there's just been way too many lies , way too much corruption for me to ever get that feeling back I once had
America will never be so great as it was back then back then.
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Great for those people depicted in the video...
@@67hoursAndCounting Yes
@Emil Frederiksen. Women couldn’t do anything in the 1950s
Growing up in the 80's, now I understand why there was so much nostalgia for the 50's (Happy Days, Back to the Future, etc.). Of course now we have all this nostalgia for the 80's, because yes the 80's were that great too.
People respected each other, have values and life was so simple in the past.. I wish I grew up back then.
You have to earn respect. It's not just a given.
Jupe367 Have fun with polio
Jupe367
Were black people respected?
J. ROD #LeGoatFan blacks don't respect blacks. Why should anybody else?
The women in these pics look beautiful and the men look like a bunch of boring clowns.
Those videos are important to remind us towards what dystopia we are heading and that, perhaps, we can reverse it. Grew up happily in Greece during the 1970s and 1980s too. Money does not matter, people were happy because they were going somewhere together. Today is a hopeless every man for himself. What have we become...
I'm also half Greek, and I lived on Corfu without dad for three years, best time of my life.
The society is ruined now.
@@ianjohngonzales4066 how is it ruined?
It's not hopeless for me.
@@kbanghart Well people have offered themselves to Internet, TV, living through buying, living through working, polluting the planet, while getting dumber and poorer as time goes by.
I call it the beginning of the end, cause that's when societal decay really gained momentum
I was born in 62. As a kid I caught glimpses of those times at what probably was the tail end of that era. The turbulent 60's definitely changed the entire tone of society.
yeah suddenly the white man wasnt allowed to hold everyone else down
@@acsilver2777 I will say it wasn't all white pickett fences and apple pie for everyone in the great USA, but I was blessed with a great childhood. For that I'm grateful 🙏.
@@stevetrevino5346 yeah, still isn't. But the ones who had those white Pickett fences are still trying their hardest to hold on to it. Not once did they try to help build a white Pickett fence for their neighbors of another color. They packed up from the cities and moved into the suburbs. There is still plenty of work to do.
@@acsilver2777. Very insightful on your part. I live in an area that when that happened it was known as the white flight. It was a real thing .
@@stevetrevino5346 people wonder why black communities are full of struggle and crime but it's simply because they never had the same support from society. They were left to figure out how the world worked the hard way. The older generations really messed up, they ran from the problem instead of trying to fix it. We have all tried to build this country from day one. I just wish we could all come together as a nation. We should be more worried about china than our neighbors.
This video is great. I was born in 1954 and this was like looking into a time machine. We had a horseshoe pit in our backyard and everyone had a little red wagon.
We had a small black and white console TV for the longest time. We use to call refrigerators iceboxes. Every car was built like a Sherman Tank.
Wow! You're 10 years older than me, but I remember those things too. I had a little red wagon. A fancy one with removable wooden sides. My uncle had a horseshoe pit in his back yard. My father was excellent at it and would play when we went for family picnics (remember those?). We had a black and white television as well and I remember when my parents got their first color set. Remember those programs on NBC that began with "in living color?" My grandmother called the refrigerator and "icebox" until her death 21 years ago. My father had cars that were built like Sherman Tanks. His last one built like that was a 1970 Chevrolet, which he kept until 1985!
Me I was born in 1952.
Life was like that on into the 70s as well. The 70s was very like the 50s until cable tv and the VCR got us glued to our tvs 24/7.
Give a kid of today a little red wagon and he'd look at you like, "What am I supposed to do with THAT?"
1957: I had just been graduated at 17 with 2 scholarships and a guaranteed job at Western Union. I was handed PARADISE and, unlike Auntie Mame's famous saying, "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death" I just dug in from that moment until 2001, when I retired. The REAL American Dream is INTERNAL. I'm 80, healthy and as independent as I was in 1957! 😍😍😍😍
My Grandmother is 80 and she doesn’t even know what CZcams is hahaha.
Oh, yes-SCHOLARSHIPS that weren’t loans. I remember hearing about those.
One of the few things we did right before the 1980s was to educate almost everyone for whatever kind of work they wanted and were capable of doing-without forcing families to spend more than they could afford, and/or go deep into debt, to pay for school.
Then came Reaganism.
The era of simplicity, decency and a sense of American pride. FAMILY!
You got to see ELVIS PRESLEY on a black and white TV for the first time and a 57 CHEVY BEL AIR..BRAND NEW. ALL the "50's oldie songs" were brand new to your ears. You saw the infancy of the "jet age." That is GOLDEN. Hope you enjoyed the "HAPPY DAYS."
@@terry9238
Reagan was the best president in my lifetime.
Omg did she really get paid to say "boy that's real emancipation from old fashioned chores?"
This is so interesting and I don’t know why, but it gives that step back and watch this vibe
I was born in the mid 50s & remember how people acted. Back then people knew hard times. Their parents experienced The Great Depression. They told us so many stories. Personal responsibility was about American pride and people didn't have to have status. We knew our neighbors. We felt far safer in our communities.
I agree with everything you said. My own parents were born during the depression and I remember the stories they and my grandparents told SO well. And they were WONDERFUL stories of survival and people helping other people.
Today, there is no such thing as American pride anymore! That started going down the crapper in the late 1990's. Today, its only hateful self centered people hiding behind what they call American pride but in reality is anything but.
@@retroguy9494
I do not know when the spirit died, and I can’t know when it was alive, but I can feel its absence.
@@protatype7487 Well, having been born when I was, I can remember when the pride still existed. Granted, not to the extent it did during, let's say World Way II but it was there! I really think the door opened in the late 1960's with the revolts, campus sit ins, burning of cities, etc. But that was a minority group (not in the racial sense of course but simply in the number of people). It got a little worse in the '70's. But the spirit was revived in the '80s with the Reagan era. I felt so lucky to be in high school and college during this period. But as I said, I noticed the major change and the dramatic shift in the late 1990's. Almost overnight it seemed. Its like one day everyone was friendly, helpful and patriotic and the next they were greedy, apathetic, self centered and, if immigrants, demanded we accommodate THEM instead of them becoming Americans!
"back then people knew hard times?" Hard times are now more than ever before. People are homeless everywhere, drugs run rampant, houses or even basic housing are unaffordable to hardworking people working 60+ hours a week, gas costs the average family $6,000 a year, food is at record high costs, corporations can outbid regular people on a home purchase, a college education costs twice the median national income YEARLY... what do you mean??
@@protatype7487 Ten minutes after Kennedy was shot.
'57, I was in 2nd grade. I either walked or rode my bike to school......parents never accompanied us. I lived in the burbs so during summer vacation I'd yell to my mom "I'm going out to play." Her reply was....."have fun, come home when it gets DARK." You never, ever hear that anymore. BB guns, firecrackers, one speed bikes with coaster brakes, pickup ball games, Kool Aid stands for two cents a cup, scrapped knees/elbows, pocket knives (you actually had them in your pocket even at school), Beemans and Black Jack gum, the ice cream truck with a ten cent Nutty Buddy, nobody seemed to have peanut allergies........I could go on and on. The best of times.
surferdude44444 what do you think went wrong?
I’m 31 and had a small taste of that in the 90s, video games were only a few hours a week, the rest I’d mostly be outside with friends all day. Skateboarding, hiking etc. These days it’s totally different, started around 2000 and just got worse after the smartphones came out.
@@texanboiii562 multiculturalism
Texanboiii.............the sixties, that's what went wrong. JFK, MLK and RFK assassinated, race riots, the war, class warfare all contributed to the decline of the fifties and the age of innocence.
...so if you're that old, why is your name "surferdude44444"...?
The 50s seemed like a decade where you can get so much with what you have , well unless you were black. It was a good time for some, and horrible for others. Such is the dynamism of the American dream
Also the poor there was alot poor white and black people in the 50s who really really struggled and black even more because of Segregation and racial discrimination.
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Yep, and only 2 years later gave birth to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which soon provided electricity, and economic opportunity to millions of impoverished southern folks, both black and white.
I just want to say, a lot of people think everyone was racist in the 50's but it was actually pretty divisive
White christian straight men li ex their best lives. Everybody else was discriminated
@@mydream8329 Also women where happier back then but feminist hate when you say that.
Aristotle was asking the same question 2,500 years ago.
I was born in 1958. Sometimes I wish I could step back in time and just spend a little time in that era.
Crypto Hunt my grandmas ten years older than you! 😁
If you like to read I will recommend a book that will let you travel back in time (in your imagination). It's called "11/22/63" by Stephen King. It is about the JFK assassination in Dallas. I read it last summer (I was born in 1958 in Ft Worth TX). It was weird reading that book. Stephen King states that he visited that area to do research for his book. I don't remember a lot of the places (buildings, streets, businesses, etc that are mentioned in it) but I read bits of it to my mom who is 84. She remembers a lot of the things King talks about in this book. Amazing way to tell a story! The main character goes back in time to try and stop the assassination.You go along for the ride!
Marty McFly already did so
pegleg09able - I need to find that book! I didn't know he wrote it. I was also born in 1958, (Des Moines, IA), and remember that day. We were sent home from kindergarten early 💔
You can...in the Twilight Zone 🗝️
This didn't disappear. They took this away from us.
"they"? Who are "they"
@@hubbletelescope1721 me
Not necessarily. If anything, we’ve been given too much from this ‘they’ you speak of. Our current society is the result of excess. Excess everything
@@hubbletelescope1721 central banks
@@beccuhhh106 except love, caring, and understanding. And some people just don't want to give up their hate. It's disgusting.
The part about the wonders of synthetic fabric and plastic sounds so innocent. Now, we're buried under the weight of it.
The lack of the internet was a blessing. So glad I did not grow up glued to a small screen. We ran free till dark and were allowed to be kids without helicopter parenting.
I was born in 1957. A lot of my favorite TV shows and movies actually came out in 1957. I missed the days when families actually looked and acted like families... and not a zoo.
I so agree👍👏👏👏👏👏🙋♀️
Eric Claey technology has a lot to do with families not being families anymore ie: smart phones 📱
So true👍
Ok boomer
Yes family looked like family rape pedhophila under the bed,disease women beater racist Nuclear war threat probably nicer days
Back when it wasn't a crime to be nice to someone and people had respect for one another.
What you mean bigoted hateful offensive oppressive things like opening a door for someone? YOU SCUMBAG.
@Niven English Lmfao take a good long look at BLM
Niven English Never said it was a good cause, however I can assure you it has done less damage with its “peaceful protests” than BLM ever has
Niven English Bold of you to assume that only MAGA protestors have done irreparable damage to America. “Some bs damage from a protest” an eight year old black girl being killed in the middle of a protest that was created to protect her and her race isnt bs to me. That’s a young girls life taken for no reason except for the fact that BLM thought it a good idea to vandalise a car she was in. She’s not the only one though, countless people have been killed because of the BLM protests, stores have been vandalised, families and businesses ruined and the modern form of neo nazis is being accepted into today’s society. By no means am I a trump supporter however you need to open your eyes if you think only MAGA has done damage. An example of this is Cannon Hinnant, small white boy who got killed by a black man. He was shot square in the head point blank yet he got no media coverage, no protests, no riots, nothing. The news didn’t cover it as political correctness has created such a level of censorship that it ensures news like this horrific black on white crime never makes mainstream news. To me that sounds like systematic racism at its finest.
What do you mean by your people? Are you assuming my race based on my political view? I really hope not as that could be deemed racist whether I’m white or not.
Niven English Stay ignorant :)
absolutely fantastic film.
Sometimes I just get sad because I wasnt around in these times
I remember when color tv came about; when you shared a party line phone😊 when hang clothes on a clothes line and ringer washers!
My mother washing machine put a hole in the floor but what the heck!! But even 10 holes if I could go BACK from the future!!!!
Me too!
Love those grand ol days! Too bad they are gone! Still have memories though
I never said they were " good ole days"... but they were "different days" and I'M glad I experienced them!🤗
They were "good ole days" and im disappointed i didn't experienced them, take care.
It was the best of times being a kid then. I felt safe even sitting on the porch at night-- I knew my boundaries but most of all I knew the people in the neighborhood including the parents-- guess I made it a point to know them. And all kids knew who they could go to for help. Any season I was outside playing after school and it was the ultimate freedom to jump in leaves, build a snowman, play in the rain and sit in a blowup pool in the backyard in the summer. I well remember our next door neighbor giving me his refrigerator box ( my dad dragged it to our backyard,) and how I loved that huge box! A door had been cut out and windows-- it was fantastic to sit inside it with friends. We used our imagination that is until it rained and the huge box collapsed. Didn't matter as we also had the woods in which to play-- we even had a so- called fort. Swinging on grapevines was the ultimate thrill near the fort. Nothing bad ever happened to any of us except maybe a scraped knee. Did our parents come and watch us? Never. They knew we were safe because there was always a tell tale neighbor around. Yes we had a tv but only 4 stations: The tv shut off at midnight. Every Sunday had the blue law in effect: All stores and restaurants were closed. This law gave families time together-- time for church, time for a wonderful dinner and time to take a short car trip. Looking back, times were more simple but I wouldn't have traded this period for anything in the world. I would become a teacher and tell my students how it was when I was little and most sat there in shock. One little boy asked "Was that true?" "Yes it really was!" Another student said " Wow. You didn't have to grow up with crazy people like we do!" That's when I felt so much pity for kids and the latter comment was made in 2004.
It’s ironic so many people these days complaining about the past being bad while at the same time not even trying to make a better future for themselves today.