The Gen X Perspective of 4th of July | Nostalgic Impact of 4th of July |
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Step back in time and immerse yourself in the 4th of July celebrations from a Gen X perspective in this heartfelt video. Take a trip down memory lane with homemade ice cream, watermelon seed spitting contests, and traditional cookout favorites. Relive the joy of playing with sparklers, fireworks, and indulging in patriotic treats. Join the speaker in experiencing the excitement of watching fireworks with family amidst the mosquito-filled fields.🎇🍔🧨 #genx #memories #nostalgia #4thofjuly #genxkids #fireworks #picnic #magical #independenceday
When we were kids back then, we had a song for everything. Even watermelon. Remember that?
“Watermelon, watermelon,
how it drips, how it drips,
Up and down your elbow, up and down your elbow,
Spit out the pits, spit out the pits….
😊.. Yeaaaaa, freakin “A”….
And yes, 4th of July really was big for us. 🎉
I just loved this video! I was born on the 4th of July in 1968 and I will be sharing this video on my birthday this year.
You captured it perfectly!
Almost 76 here and it was exactly the same for us kids back then. 👏👏👏🎇
Lucky to still have all my fingers. Miss the REAL fireworks and sparklers. We threw some awesome 4th's out at the family ranch.
At the VFW.
Because everyone were a veteran of a war.
HOLY SHIT WHO REMEMBERS DRIVE IN THEATRES??? Best things about em? GO!?!!
Yes! My Grandparents took me to one that was close to their house. 😊 Now we have one not too far away, that is popular, in our rural area. 2 screens, a double feature. But maybe isn't showing what we want to see. But that's our problem, it's still magical!!!
Drive in Theaters.... HUMMM The best thing about them that I can remember was.... A girl named Cassie.
They actually CLOSED DOWN our ONE drive-in several years ago...the tears and shouting insults mostly came from us Xers, surprisingly. We don't really care about much - but, shut down the drive-in?!? Pandemonium!! 😱💀🤬😱💀
Yeah, we weren't happy, and kids around here now have no idea what drive-ins were/are. 😵💫
Such a disappointment, even at my current age...
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To be honest, it sounds just like everything I remember as well. In Fact. Here in Alabama we still do pretty much every bit of it the exact same way. The City of Oxford has a place called Oxford Lake. Go Figure. Haha. But, people come from all around with their chairs and blankets and some even just park their cars and trucks and sit on the trunk or tailgate. Fireworks usually last about an hour and it's always been a tradition for as long as I've lived in Alabama (1986). Great times. Thanks for the video. Keep up the good work.
back when ice cream was actually a treat - in the way treats used to be - rare - not simply to give yourself permission to ... the definition of treat has definitely changed in meaning over the decades
Well done!
I also miss the fireflies 😢
Watching her sparks so many memories that we haven't thought of in decades. Sparkler wars and burns.
I forgot about shooting machine gun quantities of watermelon seeds and thinking I had made a discovery.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Such clear memories!
great video, thank you for sharing all your sweet memories.
So very true. I miss those days. 😢
Another great memory sparked by Slim Sherri..❤❤
Yes, most of this! But me and my older brothers set everything off glorious fireworks ourselves, for the family. We lived rural, so this was possible.
Yes. This is beautiful.
I always have at least one 24-pack box of Bomb Pops in my freezer at all times. Not Firecrackers but Bomb Pops.
I was born a week before the 4th and my parents called me their Little Firecracker
We have those cookouts for our sons!! I can’t replicate all my childhood for them but we try to make sure they’re making GOOD MEMORIES WITH MOM AND DAD! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
You got it so right. Our favorites were the whistling Pete’s and just about everyone in the neighborhood had them.
Those were the best days. Unfortunately now the world around us has turned crazy. But when we close our eyes we can still see it. And the moments we from it we'll have forever. I feel blessed to be able to remember. Thank you for the memories ❤
I loved yellow watermelons too. Those were mostly seedless. But hell yeah on the seed spitting contest. Sparklers burnt the eff out of me. Anyone remember the"snakes" that you lit and they slithered on the ground? I remember those.
Oh the nostalgia, how i miss those days 😢😢. It was a great year if someone brought some fruit for the home made ice cream instead of just vanilla 😂😂😂😂
Station wagon!!!!!!@!!! yes. As young child I called it the brady bunch car. like 10 people fit in there. !!!
The back of the station wagon rolling down the road with like 8 of us piled up. Rolling across the plains and uncle inevitably hit a skunk Ugh
That’ll wake you up Lol 😂
Awe
Memories 😎
10 people and 7 slept like babies due to the carbon monoxide comin in through that back window and the poorly tuned old v8 lol memories
@@dennyhleucka7786 this is such wrong information
I wish my siblings were sleeping. Thos really is wrong information
@@dennyhleucka7786wow childhood that bad for you? Sorry dude!❤
Try sitting on a hot ass middle panel of an old ass dodge van! Was embarrassed being seen in that van in school!😂
❤🤍💙 Lots of great memories! GenX'rs rock!!!!
My family's ice cream maker had an electric mixer. I never ate any because they would always only make strawberry ice cream.
The only fireworks we bought were sparklers, which were fun to run around with and try to move it fast enough to write your name in the air.
We wouldn't have to go anywhere to watch the fireworks, we just sat on grandmama's front porch where we had a wide open view down the hill of the fireworks displays of at least 1/2 a dozen different towns.
Great visuals on that 4th a July. Hey did you ever go to a metro park on memorial day, or some holiday or birthday, with a cooler full of beverages, bag of charcoal, aluminum foil, ground beef in a Tupperware two dozen hot dogs, 4 bags of buns, paper plates, baseball mitts, long metal burger flipper tongs, bug spray, a couple of blankets to hang out on, a transistor radio, some bags of ice and the noise from the crowd from the ballgame in the background...(?)
she cracks me the fuck up! she is hilarious with the way she tells it... .....I remember all of that.... lmfao!!
then there was the sparklers that you burnt the shit out of your fingers with or while you were twirling around you burnt your neighbor . rotflmfao
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I recommend cherry seed spitting lol
Lightening bugs for us in the south.
Not sure if it posted before but my brother and I would have seed wars. Our mouths would be seed machine guns. Spitting seeds as much as we could as fast as we could at each other.
Oh and did you know if you held a butterfly firecracker you could use its flame as a torch. You could burn holes I almost anything
Perfect!
My brothers ruined lighting firecrackers for me because I was the youngest and at least two of them had damn near blown one finger off. They wanted to see how long they could hold onto it before they threw it, and it exploded. I did however have a great time with those little snakes that would come out of a little pellet win you set a match to it.😊
How about the bicentennial. We had that.
I remember that
LOVE❤YOU🎉🎉🎉
Is that a guitar on your arm or you just happy to see me???
Bottle rockets and Roman candles
Could be soooo great without the trash talk! She's too pretty for that stuff.
Five year olds tossing m80s 😂😂
I miss simple. I miss when americans could have a sense of morality and it was okay
I miss when we actually protected kids.
I mean really protected them from perverts and things like that
Today's kids I feel sorry for them.
We did not celebrate the 4th of July ever not even new 🎇 year 🕛🎊 day either my father was in world war two and had PTSD
Sometimes, you talk more like a baby boomer.
Yes I remember I’m a Gen X kid and my mom had one of those you had to crank the shit out of it with ice and rocksalt pain in the ass. Then let that shit freeze forever in the freezer. Good though😂