You might be OLD…If You Remember These! PART 5
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I totally got rid of my old school alarm clock like the one in the video I now use my Echo pop also I get the weather from my echo😀 those were the days.
When playing football rule of thumb is yell CARRRR!!! You had to be in by sunset on school days😀
Our children will be saying the same thing!
Soda machinesw didn't have one flavor, they had one company's *_line_* of sodas. The top several would be Coke or Pepsi, but the other 8 or 10 would be the rest of their soda line, like 7-Up. Sprite, Mt Dew, Orange Crush, etc.
@@Whoozerdaddy
I remember a coke machine for employees of the coke warehouse could by bottle drinks for 5¢. They were 10¢ everywhere else. Deposit on the bottle was 5¢ and they were washed and reused.
Let me tell you something. With the world in the shape its in today. I'm glad I am old with these wonderful memories.
Me too!
I treasure my 70s childhood and 80s teen memories. They are glorious!
THE BEST AMERICA HAD TOO OFFER, BORN 1963-[ ABORN & WHITE.
So true!
Me too! I'm 61yrs old now and I wouldn't want to be young in this modern day and age. I wouldn't trade being a young boy in the 60s and a teen in the 70s for a million bucks.
Remember when young people respected their parents, elders and didn't swear.
Ya because you got the back hand we knew the meaning of the word no
Who remembers flipping through the holiday wish books from Sears and J.C. Penny?
My brothers and I found it easier to just cross out what we didn't want.
Don't forget Monkey Wards.
I remember .
Very Special times!
My parents used to tell us to put an "X" next to what we wanted. They ended up telling my younger brother to just put an X on the cover and another X on the back of the catalog.
Montgomery, or “Monkey” Wards catalogue. Going through these catalogues before Christmas was so much fun.
Remember S&H Green Stamps? My mother would sometimes let me stick those stamps in her pamphlet book, and as a kid I felt like a grownup doing it!
Thays how I got my China set. Fun times")
In case you never knew - Sperry & Hutchinson.
Fond memories. My mom was determined to fill those books and bring joy to me and my siblings with the merchandise she got us. 😢
My mom got me my first 10 speed bicycle with 33 1/3 books of S&H green stamps. We had a gas station back that would give you points and depending how many points we got we would get a set of dishes or a set of silverware. Good days that we'll never forget. 😊
@@lottiewright6836I remember. I got china too!
It is my belief, as an old guy, that the most missed item is Communication.
I agree.
I think we should talk about that 👍
Humm that takes me back 😂
You are so right.😢
Isn't that ironic? Especially with so many ways to communicate in this day and age, that we as humans STILL have problems communicating with each other. Shame...but, you brought up an excellent point.
I remember the when the Sears wish book catalog would come out and would spend hours making a Christmas wish list.
I totally forgot about that.. yes! 😄
And Montgomery Wards cstalog
Those were the best!
The JCPenney catalogue had the best ladies' lingerie section. [ahem] At least that's what I heard!!
@@billtisch3698 lol
Does anyone remember colored tissue (Kleenex brand)? I distinctly remember boxes of MULTI-COLORED tissue in the same box! I would make little “flower bouquets” out of these and spritz them w/ cheap perfume to give to my fav elementary school teachers! 😂
Yes, thanks for that memory. Paper towels also had some with prints.
That’s adorable!!
Yes! And toilet paper too. Mom always bought pink to match the bathroom tiles
I read that colored toilet paper and tissues were found to cause infections “down there “ , and as a result, they were not allowed to be used.
Yes! We made flowers with those and green twistie ties. 💯❤
I'm too young to be this old. I remember EVERYTHING!
🤣🤣🤣
I say the same thing on an almost daily basis
I want my Maypo.😊
That's the thing. I haven't aged at all. And yet I have sisters who became grandmothers, nephews and nieces who got big and had kids.
What's up with that??
@@keithbrown7685 I, too, am a "youngster" at 71. People think I'm fifty. I love channels that take us back to "the days when". I miss those days, and...at times...feel out of place - as if I were dropped on the wrong planet or something. But, hey everyone...enjoy these channels. I do. TY.🤗
Ahh, yes! The days when people would keep their grocery carts pulled to the side of the aisle so others could get around!
You mean the days where 30 to 50 dollars would get you two heaping shopping carts full of groceries, and cheaper if you used grocery coupons, now it won’t get you barely half a cart, barely just enough to still be able to go through the self checkout.. 😐
@@Lovejazz01 Yep!
@@Lovejazz01My wife and i were carrying in groceries the other day and it just hit me! Look at the bright side i said to her. In a few more months, we'll only have to carry in one bag of groceries on our budget.
@@Lovejazz01 oh never a truer word said.
@@Lovejazz01 You can put $20 worth of groceries in your pocket.
I am so thankful I grew up then and not now. I truly believe we had a much better life then than now. And no, I'm not looking at the past through rose colored glasses. We had problems then too. But we never faced the absolute insanity our young people face today.
Smartphones and social media are to blame.
Amen! Much simpler times..if we could only go back before all this “woke” crap & them trying to force God Almighty out, & their sick agenda down our throats🤢🤮
They say that you're only as old as you feel. Tomorrow I turn seven again!
I remember when canned spam had a special tool or a key stuck to the side of the can and you would use this to open the can by twisting it around the top of can to open it
j martin. They were on coffee and baby formula cans, too.
Corned beef still has it.
That's funny because I still have half a case of canned Spam downstaits in an antique pie safe, bought during the supply sortages a couple of years ago. Spam is still on grocery store shelves as I type this.
Corned beef is still packaged with the key on the bottom of the can to this day. You could assuage your nostalgia anytime you wish.
I hated those things! I always managed to break it off!
@@sandraolson1022 Weren't they called 'church keys'?
I remember the cloth calendars. Often, they were a Christmas gift. They were recyclable too. So the 1966 calendar became the 1967 dishtowel, and sometimes lasted for several more years.
Most of them were made of linen which gets stronger as you wash it.
I still have several of these cloth calendars and still use them from time to time.
Most every thing was recycled back then and they lasted 10 times longer .I remember it all still use and have most of them and telephone too still use today ...But now they use plastic crap for every thing including the car ....
They are still available
As a kid, my parents had a dictionary... and a complete set of encyclopedias.
And I read/studied all of them from first page to last page.
My father still has a full set of Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedias, as well as the dictionaries that came with it. They sit proudly on the bookcase in the living room. Remember those Encyclopedia Brittanicas, too? Wow...those were the days...🙂
Same. You definitely needed them to look things up for school.
@@sheubahi ours were the Britannica set.
@@diannelavoie5385 yes.
I used to read them because the verticals were short you did not have to dedicate to reading a book for a few days
I'm 75 years old. I remember almost all of this 😢. The one thing that I remember my mom criticizing was women in public with rollers in their hair. "Ladies don't go out looking like that,"
She was right! I never understood women rolling their hair to look like a princess later, when earlier in the day, everyone saw you looking like a pumpkin.😂
My mom never went out in rollers either. At least, I don't remember her doing so.
I remember a commercial saying curlers in your hair shame on you
Haha...my mum ALWAYS seemed to have rollers in her hair (we lived in the country, with only 9 houses, so not many people to see her 😅)
I still remember the smell of her setting lotion.
No mention of Dipity Do.😉
Back in those days we would buy 45 single records. There was an A and B side. A side usually was the top 40 hit. Also the center hole was larger than a 33 1/3 album so we had to have a plastic insert that fit the whole by friction. You could then put it on the stereo to play it. I still have a bunch of those 45's from the 70's....
Still have a few with the little plastic discs that snap in the middle.
My first 45 was Signs. By the 5 man electrical band . 😁
I loved that you could speed up or slow down the singles and albums. It was sometimes hilarious.
I still have my 45's too Grace. (and my albums) From late 60's thru 70's. We used to get them from local record shop or bargain dept store. They were very cheap and ones that had been in a juke box were even cheaper. You can identify the juke box records by the small hole drilled in the label next to the big hole. I also have several plastic 45 adapters left. 🙂
I just learned something
What's wrong with being old? I'm almost 70 and i'm proud that i've survived this long! The worse the world gets, the older you can become should earn you a medal for persevering!
I am so glad we didn’t have camera phones and social media back in the 70’s
I used my 110 cheap phone till the early 2000s .
Just friends, kegs, and hanging out in the mountain's.
I have one of the last flip phones
My father used to call that triangular window a 'wing'.
Yep thats a wing window, says so in the parts manuals from the day
wing window is definitely the correct wording in Oklahoma for sure👍
That's what we called them in Alaska, too.
Yup. "Wing windows"
My family used to call it that too. I wish they would bring wing windows back, it was nice to have fresh air without getting rain in the car.
When the weather was too crappy for us to go out and play, I would entertain myself by going through the encyclopedia and looking at the pictures and reading what they were about. Amazing the knowledge you could pick up that way.
I remember growing up with the party line telephone. You had a distinctive ring that told you it was a call for your household. My Mother and sister loved it and would listen in to catch up on all the gossip. You forgot 8 tracks came before cassette tapes. I miss those days.
Me too...
3 short 2 long.
You always heard the best gossip on 1 short 4 long 🙂
Lightning hit the pole outside one night and a fireball shot out of the mouthpiece clean across the room!!
@@mikeh8416 but not for long. 🙂
For a world that is supposedly more progressive it seems we’ve traded good for bad and have regressed. What a shame! I am one of the fortunate ones that remember these good times, I am thankful for that. I love your channel thank you for all the work you do!
Progressed in technology, but digressed socially for sure.
@@jgringo5516 Absolutely! From my view, we used to be nicer people, in America, back when I was a kid. 60s and 70s. Maybe I just did it with GM to know all the murders were taking place but we also didn’t have 24 seven news back then. I guess I should look up, the nations rate of homicide and whatever all the bad things now vs then.
Not everything new, is 'progress'
Good news is, satan is in his last throes ...it's the time of Revelation. Golden age is incoming! Yes, we've been in a war...God vs satan...but you know who wins. ..it's God. ❤
@mariantreber8055 good grief 🙄
Kept a Band-Aid tin in my tool box for Decades, It was filled with X-Acto blades. I found great irony in that.
I still have one of those tin Band-Aid boxes and keep - what else? - bandaids in it.
@@ilanamillion8942 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
I kept the old metal Band -ad boxes when i realize they were going to cardboard . I keep Band-aid in them!
@@ilanamillion8942 Me too!
Still have a metal band-aid tin and a plastic one from back in the 80’s. I refill them with band-aids.
I started working for the phone company as a zero "0" operator. We got timed on every call. There were numerous places customers couldn't dial direct. My grandmother & her twin sister both worked as operators. My immediate family has a history of about 150+ years with the phone company.
"Patch me through"
@@pfridell8424 I have never been without medical insurance from Southern Bell/BellSouth/ATT when I was 18. That was when I got my own medical. I got laid off with 37 years of service. I still have my grandma's charm bracelet going back to when she was hired in 1930 something. I have my dad's lapel pin with 8 diamonds for the 42 years he did. What a mess they made of the company by Judge Green. All the best to you and your family ☎️📞❤️🇺🇸
I love this :) you are so lucky. As a kid in the 90’s I used to dial 0 all the time when on family vacations to ask the time for fun :P
I worked for Bell Telephone for four years after high school. Made a pretty good paycheck at the time!
Are you saying your family has a history with telephones for the past 150 years? Before they were invented? 🤔
I would love to see "Phone booths" brought back. Something where you can sit, have a small tray table, and plug in your cell phone, while enjoying privacy for your conversation. With glass \ see through doors of course. These would be great at bus terminals and airports.
Riding bicycles as kids we had to stop every time we saw a phone booth. Always had to check the coin return for change.
That wouldn't work today, because of squatters. There would have to be a fee charged for a set time. Unless that's what you were thinking.... 🤔 Not a bad idea actually. A small fee for electric charging and on the spot WiFi.
@@lilmike2710, I'm talking about back in the day when people knew as a fact men could not get pregnant.
@@samuelschick8813 indeed
@@punkinhoot Since when is a "booth" considered a shop? And nobody said 💩 about $7 coffee being involved. Phone "booths" was the topic.. try and keep up.
🤣"It's called"🤣
I remember seeing ladies in the grocery store wearing curlers and a kerchief. Late 60s early 70s.
I remember women in curlers in public. My mom never did it but it was quite common to see.
I never had any money to buy cassette tapes, I'd get a cheap pack of blank tapes and use my tape recorder / radio to record my favorite songs when they came up on the radio station. It took awhile to fill up an entire tape with a variety of good songs, but it worked. Amazing how you can just download any music you want nowadays, or find it here on CZcams.
blank tapes were taxated in denmark, so the where a bit more pricy than in other countries...... photo copy machines were taxated too...
My husband used to make a lot of tapes. He did an impressive job of stopping the album lifting the arm of the record playing to add tracks, seamlessly
the problem with that you didn't know when the radio station was going to play the song you wanted to record on your tape recorder you had to wait around for them to play it
I thought I was the only one that did that😅😅
…when you go back to listen to the song you recorded and realize your bad sibling recorded over it! 😡 lol
I am 57. Seeing all this brings intense and immeasurable sadness to me. Tightness in my chest and just feeling odd. I remember all of these. I should be happy I remember. LOL
Yea, me too; those days will never come back😢
Cheer up sweetie! With memories like these, we're the lucky ones.
@@pfridell8424 I think, I never really lost any years. I'm holding them all in my head, from the time I could remember anything, around age 2 or 3, up to now. The years went somewhere, yet you own them all if you remember them.
I remember the bottled soda vending machine have crates beside the machine. These crates were for putting the empty bottles in. The bottling companies cleaned and re-used the bottle. More efficient than recycling. Plastic bottles ended that.
I also remember bottle deposits. As kids we would make money by collecting bottles and returning to the grocery store.
Returning your empty pop bottles to the store in red wagon to get some change back.
Remember only a nickel
Next to the phone was the phone number holder. It was a rectangle with A through Z printed on top. You would slide the indicator to the letter needed and press the latch. The index would open to that numbered page where you had written the names and phone numbers.
A Rolodex.
And swing open with a bang. I wish i still had our brown one with my mother and father's writing inside
Y’all were fancy. We had to write our numbers down in the back of the phone book🙂
@@carolalexander1429 Rolodex was the round wheal not the box
@@atex6175, yes, you are right. Thanks for reminding me. As a child I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how the brown one works.
You're DAMN RIGHT --- I wouldn't trade those memories for anything !!!!
I was born in January, 1964. I remember a lot of these things being a part of everyday life. I'd love to go back to the seventies as an adult and live there forever. The only thing better would be to find a train that would let me off at Willoughby.
Was that from Twilight Zone?
@@DaisyMaeMoses yes
Yes. Also, its a Cleveland, OH suburb on the shore of "beautiful" Lake Erie. @@DaisyMaeMoses
Vent windows were great to open up when it was raining, so the inside of your car didn’t get wet , plus the gutter railing above your windows helped keep rain out if you’re window was down when it was raining ☔️
Best part about the old soft drink machines was the glass bottles, which you could collect and trade in for cash, which then went towards our candy supply.
Down on the farm, we even had a small building reserved for it. Honestly.. we called it the 'bottle house'. :-)
I spent many summer days back in the 60's scouring the side of the roads for returnable bottles. Getting an ice-cold coke out of the old water-filled coca-cola cooler and drinking it at the store to save the deposit is one of many fond childhood memories.
I think soda tasted better bottled in glass instead of plastic
As a kid in the 60s those returnable bottles were scavenged for the purpose of buying pimple balls for sick ball 1/2 ball or a game we played against a curb we called erris (my spelling on that is suspect)
I'd save up my bottle money to buy stuff from the Radio Shack catalog. I was determined. There was stuff I wanted so bad, yet I was resigned to waiting for the bottles to build up.
We had all the Little House books while growing up and had nice memories of my Mom reading them to us. I was crushed to learn later that she sold the entire set in a lawn sale. I wish I still had them.
They can still be purchased as a set at various bookstores. I read mine all the time as a senior citizen!
@@donnagum6172I still read mine!
I remember reading "The Red Fern Grows". But my favorite childhood book was "Where the Wild Things Are".
They don't mention it here, but one main reason that air-vent windows were phased out is that they allowed thieves quick/ready access to the car's interior; the triangular hinged glass panels were simply too easy to pry open and allow the thief to reach inside and unlock the door.
Now they just break the glass.
Yes I remember those windows "fondly". In 1973 I bought a BB gun pistol that looked like a Colt Peacemaker. Well I discovered that I could point it in the air, cock it then point at the ground the BB would fall out. So standing by the car with younger brother one day with BB gun in hand I told him I could shoot the wing window and nothing would happen.
I raised the gun and lowered (and saw the BB fall out) as said above then pointed it at the wing and pulled the trigger. The wing shattered and I stood there thinking " That was not suppose to happen." So inside the house I go gun in hand and find mom standing at the kitchen sink, " Mom, I just shot the window wing out of the car." and told mom what happened.
Mom grabs her purse, we get in the car and off we go to get a new window. LOL
@@samuelschick8813 Wow -- you had "one parent in a thousand", Dude --- especially for those wild-and-unrestrained-by-laws "spare the rod and spoil the child" times! So many children back then would have given anything to have a super-calm-and-forgiving mom like yours --- most youngsters would have gotten a you-know-what-whuppin' from their parent for doing something like that! The jury is still out on whether physical punishment is reasonable or even effective; I know that I personally am totally against it, since not only does it leave the door open to child abuse (i.e., where said thrashings are either undeserved, too severe, or even just a way for the parent to blow off steam merely because he himself is upset at the SITUATION, not due to the child's actually having misbehaved or otherwise knowingly performed other than how was wanted), but it also gives an adult human a tragic opportunity to show his evil sadistic side and satisfy his violent urges. Plus of course, it often does not even have the desired effect --- i.e., the child either is inherently naughty and thus goes right on being bratty, or he is simply unable to perform better due to his own immaturity and limited physical/mental capabilities --- and creates an unhealthy environment of fear and hatred by the child towards his parents. The child learns to not tell and/or lie about misdeeds just to avoid beatings, and is afraid to try new/risky things for fear that he will accidentally mess up and receive a flogging. I know first-hand the perils and unfairnesses of this situation --- growing up, I was an absolute angel who tried so hard to "be good" and "obey", but, due to both my own inherent infirmities and my having excessively high expectations foisted upon me, I received untold hundreds of horrific punishments from my old man (he treated me so badly that I now refuse to respect him by referring to him as my "father"), and they deeply scarred me, both physically and mentally. And as I say, I never deserved ANY of them --- not only was I trying my best and so I should have been respected for that and therefore not punished for minor innocent slip-ups (and I should have been given credit for how good I'd usually been on those super-rare occasions when I did accidentally/unavoidably do something more serious; again, I never knowingly or intentionally did anything wrong if I could reasonably help it. Heck, even the legal system performs this going-easy-on-a-rare-offender practice --- "Well, Young Man, you have been exceptionally good up to now, so we will suspend your sentence for this present fairly-minor infraction, and just put you on a probation-period to see if you can behave yourself better from now on." So why shouldn't parents do the same thing if their conscientious child has literally gone months or even years without messing up?), but often I had not even been given proper instructions in the first place, and so usually I'd had absolutely no idea that I'd been doing anything amiss. anyway. Plus my old man kept changing the rules without telling me, forgetting what he'd previous instructed me to do, and (this is just a suspicion of mine, but it sometimes strongly appeared to be the case, since I did not recall having done/neglected whatever he was accusing me of) even performing some of the bad things himself and then falsely accusing me of doing them, just so that he could have an excuse to beat me. Well, okay --- my case was indeed a really extreme example in that my old man was actually a bad person who enjoyed hurting me. But my point is that it's just too risky to allow a parent --- or anyone else in authority --- to physically hit a child, and thus it should be outlawed everywhere. Like I say, not only can it cause a child to be excessively scared and begin to actually hate his parents, but it can cause dishonesty and violence to occur within the family --- the child may often not tell his parent if something is broken, missing, etc. (and this lack of mishap-revealing may cause further damage, injuries, financial loss, others to be falsely accused/punished, etc.), plus he may even feel compelled to seek out other people --- perhaps ones who do not treat him so harshly or critically --- for comfort and companionship, and this can lead to his developing abrasive/destructive attitudes, joining a gang, getting onto drugs, contracting STDs and/or getting pregnant, committing crimes or otherwise running afoul of the law, etc. Yes, sadly, parents are often largely responsible themselves for their children's "going to the bad" in their teenage years, in that they did not give them the love/attention/guidance that they so-desperately needed when they were younger, and so this made them easier targets for unscrupulous people who were looking to prey on them. And of course, sometimes it even goes to the extreme, in that a child may actually murder one or both of his parents in anger at how he'd been treated in past years, he may conspire with others to cause the parent grief or hardship, and/or he may refuse to care for his parent when he gets to an advanced age.
@@Quacks0l, On the contrary, mom did spank and I did get my share of spankings. She would make us go outside and pick our own switch or use her bare hands. Dad on the other hand loved to use the belt buckle part of the belt.
Dad often spanked brother and I for things he knew we did not do but his stepdaughters did. so his 3rd wife would not get mad at us.
I never got a spanking from mom I did not deserve and did not get some I did deserve. Cannot say the same for dad.
@@samuelschick8813 That's terrible! Tender-minded (and bodied!) children should not be used as whipping-boys --- not only is it wrong, but they have always been told to listen to their parents and have them be their guides on right and wrong! If parents punish their children wrongfully, how much is that gonna mess up their morals?? And using a buckle is dangerous; it could cause serious injury! I feel so sorry for you, Man.
I miss hearing a busy signal on the phone; also miss "if you're the 10th caller....you can win...." I want those days back again!!!
I heard a busy signal just a couple of days ago! I have a friend with a real land line from Bell, and she has no add-ons: no message system, no call display, no call waiting. Get a friend like that and you too can still hear a busy signal! 🇨🇦💕
Remember the contest to repeat the Big Mac ingredients within a set time such as 30 seconds?
I miss the satisfaction of slamming the receiver down to deafen telemarketers. They learned pretty quick to stop calling me. 😈
@Kurt M we had a party line for a few years when I was a little kid & I remember listening in to 2 old biddies 1 time talking about some local TV show getting the details wrong so I chimed in with the correct details. Took them by surprise, they were asking who said that? For years after everyone got single lines I used to pause & listen after picking up the receiver to make sure the line was free before dialing.🤣
It brings back so many memories! Those were what we old people call “ The Good Old Days”! Please do more of these programs! Really enjoy them! Thanks!
It's ironic how the narrator talked about the tin containers at the 6:55 mark saying that the tin was phased out and replaced by cardboard because it was recyclable, if you think about it, that's when all the cardboard containers ended up in the trash for the landfills and the tins were reused over and over for handy uses. That's when we recycled things.
And it got worse. Tin and cardboard was replaced by plastic, which is hardly recyclable. And the narrator seems to suggest as if tin is not recyclable.
This makes me emotional watching this. Crazy how much times have changed.
Now we know how our grandparents felt.
@@fr2ncm9 and it didn’t take very long.
and not for the better...
I am grateful for passing some of the "imaginative " play over to my grandson we used to do as kids,he prefers those kind of adventures over anything!❤
The country I'm born in doesn't exist anymore.
I'm 46 and I still remember my childhood phone number like I used it yesterday.
I remember both the land line number we had in greenland, and the one we had and still have here in denmark. the latter have changed one digit,. my father still have the land line, because calling land line to land line across the atlantic is cheaper thand calling between two cell phones or between a cell phone and a land line.
Ditto...and I'm 20 years older.
I am 66 and I remember my phone number from sixty years ago. PR:22990. You had to dial in two Central Office characters then the number. The PR stood for Prospect. So I am guessing that was our exchange.
Passwords have been a handy use for these ever-remembered numbers, especially the ones with 2 letters. Add the area code and a hyphen and you've got your password remembered.
i still have my childhood phone number...my parents lived at the same address (though completely remodeled the house in 2000) for 55 years. they passed away last year and i am now living in the house. had the phone number ported to a comcast house phone and might port it to my cellphone.
One of the most obvious, and yet rarely mentioned, is the vanishing of dandruff. Growing up dandruff was every where. Shampoos like 'Head and Shoulders' and 'Selsun Blue' and who could forget 'Tegrin', were advertised everywhere. They showed up most often on day time soaps, and during the TV premier of a movie.
Head & Shoulders was a staple of evening "adult level" shows. I don't think you could go a day without seeing one of their commercials.
Never thought of this but man that’s so true!!
They still advertise Head and Shoulders a lot now! 🤷♂️ In UK though don’t know about anywhere else.
Tegrin smelled bad.
So true , and we had cream rinse instead of conditioner..
Thanks for reminding me about the small details that made growing up in the 70's great. Such a wonderful time to be a kid.
Well we dont look at ourselves as old. But growing up in the 60s, and 70s and becoming an adult in the 80s was wonderful.
well. I don't miss the cold war. I moved to the very front line in 1984.....
Yes it was. am so happy i was in those wonderfull days...such happy times..
Agreed , it was fortunate to grow up during the 60s and a teen in the 70s freedom and fun from heavy rock to disco to country music was still good till the 90s .
@@speedracer1945 Also, drive-in movie theaters were still a thing.
After watching this video, it feels like the world is sooooo empty now!!! We need to bring all these things back…
It's tempting to want that, but you can never truly go back. Thank goodness for memories though.
Yah😢.
I would never want to go back to a time without texting. I’m an old grandmother and my children and grandchildren and old friends are now so easy to stay in touch with. I think we have a special appreciation for such things when we lived without them long ago.
Sad isn't it? ❤
@@cathykrueger4899 We could have texted easily at home with home telegraphs but the idea of communicating with text seemed uncool. 😏
Born in 1953. I remember all of this. It was great time to grow up. Wonderful memories.😊👍👍
A lot of what you showed are things that middle aged people grew up with. In high school, “tape recorders” were reel to reel, not cassettes. My family got a cassette recorder/player the year I graduated from high school. The books you showed were read by my children, but I read them as an adult. I’m still in my 60s. According to some of these examples, my CHILDREN are “old”.
Happy memories of my childhood. I miss my parents so much.
I feel the same as you do! 😢
@@earleneslay7977 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
@@saminaneen I understand.
Hi there
I too mom,dad
They are always with you dear.❤❤
I remember fancy crystal sugar bowls that held those oh-so-beautiful sugar cubes.
Sugar cubes, wow, haven't seen any in a while.😊
Yes! My mother used to keep our sugar bowl on top of the refrigerator in a weak attempt to keep us kids out of it.
@Joanna McPeak still sell them at my local grocery store.
What wonderful memories! In my childhood household when my brother and I were very little, my mother would make us a special drink for breakfast. She called it "ice cream milk". It was basically a glass of cold or warm milk with sugar, vanilla flavoring, and occasionally cinnamon. We played "camping" in our dining room by covering my mom's card table with a sheet or blanket for a tent. Simple pleasures are the best!
My older cousin kept his "stash" in a Cherry Sucrets tin. I'm pretty sure a lot of other people used them for that "creative purpose" as well LOL
Someday archeologists will discover those tins and theorize that people put their weed in there 😂
I used them for my rolled ones
I miss the good old days, soda tasted better when it was in glass bottles
in the BSA we had metal canteen The water tasted like metal
That’s sounds aweful
I remember all of these and this made me smile. In so many ways sometimes I wish we could go back.
Well it’s not entirely possible, but it can be done to an extent I’m 35 and spent quite a few years to achieve a period correct home that contains nothing past 1965 with the exception of my Wi-Fi. I get some things like phones and technology have to be an exception, but I honestly have no desire to live in modern society if I can prevent it and couldn’t be more content.
@@angeldesigns1385 What device did you use to type your comments?. You must also have a Gmail address.
@moniquebaldea9299,, I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.
Don't you think, that we are going too fast? I believe we all should slow down for a minute, and just take a few steps back to enjoy our lives again. We really thought our life during the pandemic, let's rethink the whole way of living of ours again.
@@harddriven1344 did you not read my comment?
Oh, my gosh! I love watching these videos. It makes me appreciate how good we had it then even in light of the current conveniences. I feel so lucky to have been a kid back in those days.
I was born in 1994, but still have experiences with the things mentioned in this video. The books, memorizing telephone numbers, playing outside, cassettes for audiobooks, physical dictionaries, colored toilet paper. Most of the changes came after the internet age, post 2000.
Remember green stamps and the green stamp books? I also remember watermelons being kept in big tubs of ice water. When you were in the grocery stores, some of the aisles would be freezing cold. I also remember the tin lunch boxes that had favorite tv shows on them. I had a Hardy Boys one, and a Donnie and Marie one, and a Bionic Woman one. Speaking of tv, television shows had longer seasons. Now, some shows have 5-8 episodes and that’s considered a full season.
"If I had to explain it; you wouldn't understand." When we pass the building where the Green Stamps Redemption center used to be, I always point it out to my kids. (Part of my job as a parent is to embarrass my children).
Don't forget about S&H stamps and stamp books, lol.
Used green stamps to get baby items in the 60’s
these
And the "test screen" would come on when the station stopped broadcasting late at night...
I have wished many times that my grandson could grow up, knowing the kind of freedoms we had as a child in the 60s and 70s
I’m going to be 54 this year- this totally blows my mind! 😳Time goes so fast. We’re all only here for such a short time, which didn’t really hit me until I was in my 50’s. I always felt like I had so much time to do things I wanted to do, and then, just like that, I’m in my 50’s, and there’s way more years behind, than ahead. It’s so depressing. I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to die in about 25-30 years, or less, but, that’s the reality now. 😮
I am very fortunate to still have someone around from my childhood- my 94 year old great aunt lives with me, and she’s sharp as a tack!
I understand what you’re saying. I am 60 years old. However, as long as we have excepted Jesus Christ, as our savior, we will be in heaven, live forever! I pray that I will meet you there, my friend! God bless you!🙏❤️
I remember filo-faxes, telex machines, word perfect and wordstar, and black Imperial, manual typewriters, IBM Golfballs, fax machines, rotary index cards which every secretary would have on her desk, dolly boards, mangles, horse drawn milkcarts and the last days of hand cranked cars in the early 60s. God i feel ancient, but they were great times, no stress, no pressure and we actually talked to our neighbours.
How about the little Golden Books!
My grandmother used to have the cloth calendars every year. She would sew a different color bead and sequin on the dates of our birthdays. Then put a legend at the bottom with our name and the corresponding bead/sequin.
Still have the calendars
I remember ALL this stuff...I am officially old.
Me too😂
I love this! Makes me so nostalgic for days gone by.
Okay, I'm old and glad of it. I don't have to go through what young people do today. I don't have to join a gang to feel safe. I have great memories. I don't remember having to have a gun in my young days. I remember people being more real.
You could also get scented toilet paper with the color you wanted , but Mr. Whipple says please don't squeeze the Charmin .
I remember the long days of summer when a bunch of neighborhood kids would lay on the grass, watching the stars appear and telling stories about them. That was way before adult tech took over to do our imagining for us. Children were allowed to imagine wonderful things of their own. Then, there was no limit to the imaginary worlds we could enter without adult interference.
Perfectly stated!
We would do the same but we were always looking for flying saucers and telling scary stories.
And you would lay on the grass, look up and explain cloud formations as animals, people, the imagination was limitless. We would do that as relaxation therapy.
Imagination could be especially potent and life-saving if you were poor, which we were. My sibs and I would make up stories and plays, with dolls and cardboard boxes. Unmade beds became ranges of hills where worlds resided. Anything was possible when the dreaming was left to you.
@@lindaangus2307 Or laying on the grass and watching the pretty girls go by. :-)
I loved Beverly Cleary books; they were laugh-out-loud funny. I totally forgot about colored toilet paper. We had a set of those pink foam rollers. My mom always got a weekly wash and set at the beauty salon, but she'd pop 1 or 2 rollers in her hair where the curl was starting to fall out.
83 and I slept in brush rollers as a teenager in the 50s I am glad I am 83 !! and miss how simple most things were to do back in the past !!
This made me tear up a bit.
Especially the cassettes tape portion.
I really remember that clearly and loving it ❤
I was a 70’s kid and an 80’s teen.
Life was SO great then!!
Today, not so much 😞
Now, it’s a big old dumpster fire 🔥 😖
I’d go back to the simpler times of the 70’s and 80’s in a hot second if I could 💫
You can still play cassettes. I do on my Sony boom box (with cassette, CD player and AM/FM. )and my Sony walkman.😊I still have a cassette player I bought new in 93 but I use the boom box instead.
Oh,for a Time Machine! 😞
And remember 8-Track tapes? Those were the bomb! I never could figure out what happened to my 8-track collection.
So am I, @Freedomisntfree101
I miss those days. Today’s world has gone mad. Freedom isn’t free indeed.
I saw David & David in that collection and started crying. 😭 That was my Senior year!
Now that song is in my head! 🎶Ms Christina drives a 944...
The little wing window was also the window used for flicking the cigarette ash in cold weather.
Oh yah,for sure!!!
It's called a quarter light
they also sopped making them to build cars with a few less parts and operations
That’s how my Dad used it.
The funny part of white toilet paper is that is it is dyed as well.
I admit that I am old and I remember alot of these things and they brought me a lot of joy. I have to say that I am so glad to have grown up in the 60's and 70's . Best times of my life. I still have some of those sponge rollers now lol. We had those cloth calendars, and I remember yelling CAR whenever we were playing in the streets 🤣and we played in the streets until dusk. Curly was my favorite Stooge and I still have some cassettes too and I have the Pink Floyd Album too.
Loved every minute of growing up in this Era! It would be nice to go back in time for a little bit & experience this again. Thank you for sharing this video.
Revisit and stay there in your favourite year!
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. A few of these things still exist, but very few. And though much of it is gone now, I will never forget and still live my life as I did then. I use a dictionary. I memorize phone numbers. Listen to music on vinyl and some old cassettes. Altoids still come in a tin box. And I still like to ride my bike around the neighborhood, even at my age. But you're only young once, and God it was good to be a kid in the 50s, 60s and 70s, when my folks were still with me and I was just s kid!! 😢
If I could go back 65 years when I was a kid, I'd go in a second.
I would too, start with my childhood in the 60’s.
@Beady Eye Not really. The 50's were a much gentler time and I would be happy to start over again. Get to see all those I loved and have passed over. Not a question to me at all. I'd go back at the drop of a hat.
@@beadyeye2312 an interesting question, but no doubt about it, I would not want to know nothing beyond that moment. I was born 59, the 60’s and 70’s were the best times I ever had. Sure there were heartaches but I wouldn’t trade any of them and I would do it all over the same way. Because that is what made me who I am. Memories keep me going. Cheers.
@@beadyeye2312 They were great times. Family gathering every Sunday. No political hysteria. No locked doors. The young folks of today will never enjoy what we did as children.
@@beadyeye2312 You are exactly right. Given today's political climate, young folks will never be able to experience what we did as children.
I was born in '47, so I grew up with all this stuff and remember it well. Now, we have thousands of more things that are thousands of ways better than the stuff we had back then. The down thing now is we have thousands of social problems that are tens of thousands of times worse than what we had back then. So, which would I rather have? My personal experience (you young people have none of that yet) tells me that while things were crude and archaic 'back then', the stress of people simply getting along was considerable less. And THAT's why I call the past better. Sadly, I think it's something you young folks will never experience.
Well said.
While "Karens" always existed, they weren't publicized the way they are now - and I believe this has resulted in far more Karens now.
I think this and future generations may face more difficult times soon. An EMP, God forbid, or some other major natural catastrophe could remove our technology just long enough to make things archaic and it might be very hard for a while, but I believe God would be more obvious without all our devices. It would make us more connected to Him, each other and the awesome creation all around.
It also could make us more animalistic too, unfortunately, leading to more misguided and hurtful behavior. My prayer is that we would not forget God and the Bible. He and His book have a lot of wisdom still to offer.
Another thing I miss is simply referring to a cantankerous woman as simply a BITCH, as opposed to trampling the name Karen to DEATH.
I was born in 1951. I remember all of these things.
Im 63 and remember this stuff, but I like things the way they are now too. I try to keep my eyes open and appreciate the good.
Last year, I found a linen calendar from 1979 -- my birth year -- and now it's a treasured part of my bedroom decor!
That's wonderful!
My mom Always wanted one in the kitchen. I'd find them in the catalogs &, if it were an option, we'd decide what message to be included. If we couldn't find them, we went through the old ones to find one with "correct dates" & clip a paper with the current year over the old one. (Sometimes the calendar had to be switched mid-year, like in a leap year.) Now I use them as sort of dust covers for the mixer & such.
Thats cool!!
My late mother collected tea towels which I inherited. I am currently using a 1979 calendar tea towel. That was the year I graduated from college. Memories!
On May 25th, 1979, I was booked on flights from Albany Airport in upstate New York to Chicago O'Hare then on to Los Angeles to spend my vacation with my parents. I worked out of Schenectady for GE and travelled all over the world as a Field Engineer. That morning outside the Schenectady Holiday Inn, I had a terrible feeling of despair, hopelessness, and utter depression hit me while waiting for the cab to the airport. A bolt out of the blue for no reason at all. I had the cabbie take me to our office where a manager talked me into delaying my vacation until after an assignment in Venezuela. I went to Manhattan, got my passport stamped at the Venezuelan Consulate, got a hotel and booked my flights from JFK to Miami to Caracas to Maracaibo for the next day. It was a stressful week and I took a nap. Hours later that night, I called my parents to tell them of my changed plans. They were crying, unable to talk. They thought that I had been killed on American 191 which crashed shortly after takeoff and killed all 271 on the plane and 2 guys at work on the ground. I never called the airlines to cancel my reservations. Somebody in the standby line got my seat when I didn't show up. It was Memorial Day weekend and all flights were full. Had I gone home on May 25th like I desperately wanted to do, I would have died at age 26.
Many very weird things happened to me in 1979. It was the strangest year of my life. I'm 70 now. It was not a good time for me to be to be in the Middle East after they took over the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, toward the end of the year. You could tell trouble was brewing all Summer long there. What a weird year for me! I still have the plane ticket book for the flights but the red carbon paper print is no longer visible.
I only saw those at friend's houses. My mother never had one because you can't write on it.
Yes I remember all of these and yes I would love to go back if only for a day as I miss the simply times!!!
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Regarding the Blondie album, “Parallel Lines” in 1979 I knew someone who was working with Debbie Harry in NYC. I told her how much I loved her and Blonde. At the time I was a kid working at Robbins Pharmacy in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. A couple days later she came into the store with an autographed picture dedicated to me from Debbie Harry, the special studio not for sale album of “Parallel Lines” and a beautiful heart of glass. From the hit song on the album. I still have them. I love my youth. You can keep this 21st century. People were human back then.
Wow, that's awesome!
Lucky guy. Debbie was bang'in back in the day!
People were “human” back then? Despite the racism, sexism and homophobia? Despite the fact that preteen boy could be prosecuted for being molested due to laws against “sodomy”? This is the most ridiculous, out of touch, privileged nonsense I’ve ever read.
How many remember the garbage disposal was the outside dogs and the chickens running around.
@@judiecrawford2588 OMG Yes our family In KS still does 😄
My mother used to give the fabric calendars to her friends for Christmas. And at the end of the calendar year, that calendar became a dishcloth.
Born in 1961, and I fondly remember all presented. However, it's 2023 now, and I've kept up with current trends and technology. It doesn't bother me at all, I'll keep growing, learning and progressing until the day I die, and not lament a past that I could never go back to. One more thing, many say that today is worse than yesterday, totally forgetting the fact that IT WAS OUR GENERATION THAT CREATED TODAY.
Not only did women wear their curlers out shopping. I remember them out at the local supermarket in their dressing gowns, fluffy slippers, curlers and with the obligatory cigarette hanging from the corner of their mouths. Who can forget the blue and purple rinses that were popular among older women. Special times indeed.
Not around my area where a woman wouldn't be seen in public with curlers. Definitely not fuzzy slippers or "house coats" either. But that does sound like where Jeff Foxworthy grew up.
My mom would get blue rinses and set her hair in pin curls, but everything was combed out and styled in public. For a while in the 50s, she still did old-fashioned finger waves. My hair was put up in rag curls on Saturday night. If she was in a hurry, she'd heat a curling iron over the stove burner. Ouch!
Some still do that.
Remember when they would wrap their head full of curlers with a sheer chiffon scarf?
I remember my mother buying white toilet paper with little pink rose buds printed on it. By that time you had better put the paper in the roller with the paper coming over the top instead of from underneath otherwise, the paper hanging down wouldn’t have rosebuds on the front.
Most of these things really didn't seem that long ago.....until I looked in the mirror.
AMEN 😂
Here is my heartfelt advice. Only look in the mirror long enough to straighten your hair, then, get the **** away from it. It's better not to know.
Yes I remember it all but I wish you had gone back in time a bit more. I still have my sponge rollers and they still sell them. We also played skipping in the street. The teen boys were always gathered around a car on the side of the street with the hood up attempting to fix things. The streets were alive with children and the parents were on their porches or lawns in lawn chairs watching the kids play. Those were the days!❤
The thread you used to have to pull to open the Band Aid wrapper was always fun when you had blood on your fingers.
I forgot that, wow...
I grew up before TV when after supper we gathered around the radio to listen to some kind of story.
That would be interesting to be born before television. I remember when I was a child. I wanted my brother to come outdoors to play, but he was too busy watching cartoons on TV on a Saturday morning and there was nice weather. !!
@@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 Well, it was not too long when we finally got a TV, but I'm guessing me and my sisters only had a radio for about 12 years. I lived on a dairy farm with lots to do outside even for a young kid.
Anyone old enough to remember Dippity Doo with those curlers? 😄 You would dip your comb in the green or pink gel, then roll the comb through a section of hair before wrapping it around the curler. Wow, I feel like a dinosaur! 🦕
I remember a lot of the old days. We used day planner notebooks to write down the upcoming appointments and events. In the 1960s, the blue phone book was used to keep all your phone numbers in. The telephone company gave us one when we would have a new phone put in our home. I also remember photo albums and scrapbooks. It was wonderful growing up back then.
Thanks for the memories. ❤😊
Also slide projectors with those little Kodak picture frames you pop in the slots.
Do you remember the pictures they took of us in school. Then in a few weeks would come the day that the photo packages came in. Each of us kids had a collection of different sized pics of us. We had to buy them if we wanted to keep them.
There'd be 5x7 or 8x10, down to wallet sized photos, all of the same picture of us.
Each video brings a tear or two to me personally. Born in 1963...
Me..1964 yep
73
1962😊
1945
Why does this make me happy, yet so deeply sad? ❤
We miss our childhood and the people we grew up with.
@@finance485 absolutely!!!
I enjoy the memories that Recollection Road brings to mind. However, I have no desire to go back to those times. I wonder about the memories that we have yet to create, and the experiences we will have. One day, our future generations will look back on this point in time with the same nostalgia we have for our early years. It’s all part of the journey of our lives.
The best of days, im 62 and would love to be back then! Oh time and temp, loved it well loved everything about those times!! Thank you!
Spot on remembering my phone number as a kid. That was when they used letters too. The first two for me was "Fr" for "Franklin". What simpler and easier days they were so many years ago. Thank you again Recollection!
Florida 3 8471 was my gramma's phone number in the late 1950's. It was a party line and Mrs Bakee used to listen in on us. You could hear her breathing too loud.
@@kimmer6Lol! I remember a party lines. I used to listen in on calls. That's funny 😃
I remember that too, and I still remember the phone numbers by their letters. I’m from Philadelphia and you could tell which area of the city the phone numbers were assigned. I lived in W Philly and two exchanges I recall were EV for Evergreen and BA for Baring, my in-laws lived in Delaware county and their exchange was HI for Hilltop, parents’ OS for Osborne
I still remember my number from when I was in kindergarten in 1950. We had a party line. 😊
Being over a half s century old, I remember all of these things. None of our children will come to know these things. I find young folks at convenient stores, at times, have a difficult time counting change when paying for an item. Makes me wonder if technology is a such a good or a bad thing🤷♂️
Yes, & if you give the cashier some change when you pay so they can give me a dollar bill back so I don't have a ton of change weighing down my wallet, the young cashiers try to hand it back since they don't know what to do with it
What ARE they teaching in schools now? Makes one wonder, seeing how much these kids are at a loss for. Tech is good, but you still need practicality and common sense.
@@lindasmith7875 Yes!!
I noticed that recently.
The dictionary has disappeared and our collective ability to spell correctly has disappeared with it.
A lot of them can't use punctuation either!
I remember calling “time” when resetting clocks after an outage.
I also gave some dudes at the mall that number if I didn’t want to be bothered when they asked for mine lol 😂
Yes I may be old but those were wonderful times then. I always picking out clothes and other items from Sears and JC Penny catalogs. We were always planning outside! Those well beautiful and fun times!!!💖💕
I'm old enough to remember the Pointer Sisters...hell, I'm old enough to remember when there were four sisters...😢
I can still remember about 12 numbers from my childhood- sometimes I'll actually call them to see if a familiar voice answers, but they never do....
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You use to be able to find old friends by using 411 and if they had a landline. I just found a friend I haven't talked to in over 30 years because his father still has a landline.
True story: I was standing in line at the local big box pet store which used your phone number to record purchases to your account. The lady in line in front of me told the cashier her phone number, which just happened to be my earliest childhood phone number and the one we had for decades. I wanted to speak up, but it wouldn’t have been meaningful to her, so I just cherished the experience of recognizing it.
My brother still has the same phone number as my youth (same house too).
So do i , around 10 or 15 or so
i remember the numbers when i was a kid and then also when analog phones came in as well, i reckon i remember all the numbers that i dialed commonly in my life
I still know my old number. GLenview 6-2710.
I’m 70., so I lived through the 60’s. As all of my generation, YOU know what We’ve seen in our Lifetime. EPIC. It will Never come Again