If you grew up in the 1960s...you remember this - PART 2
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The saddest part for me is realizing how old I've gotten and realizing what a great time we lived in
It often takes hindsight for us to appreciate.
I was born in 52 and just started realizing how great my childhood was a few years ago. What wonderful memories we have.
@@deere3321 yeah..& to think we didn't know it then
@@deere3321 I was born in 1948 and also have a lot of memories. The good old days
Yes, I know the feeling.
Jim
Growing up in a world before the Internet is a true blessing
Yes it is.
1 of the last Hojo"s to go was where i grew up...Lake Placid N.Y...Just fun day"s..Unlike today...
Agreed! We had so much fun, with ordinary items and we used our imagination!
It's a mixed blessing. My wife can plan a vacation without guide books, travel brochures, or the telephone.
I can check daily specials at a restaurant, before leaving the house.
I can check a weather app to see if I should mow in the morning, afternoon, or evening. I can also see if the weather is going to be a problem, if I'm flying.
I loved the 60’s! Slept with windows open at night, walked to school unafraid, played with mud pies and built bridges with popsicle sticks. Had our chores, got allowances, and at Christmas time we did family things and was always thankful for what we got. We had each other and that was enough for us as a family of 7. Mom was the best cook in the world! New clothes were a luxury item and I was tickled to get them, but I also wore hand me downs and they were new to me, so I was thankful for them also. We carried our shoes to the local shoe repair shop to have new soles or stitching repairs done to them. We didn’t go out and buy new shoes just because our were worn out. Making friends and keeping friends was so easy. God was at the center of our family so we were a close knit. So many awesome memories! Over 60 years later…this world and families are nothing like we had back in the 60’s. I miss those days but am so thankful I lived during that time. ♥️
Born in 53. I would do anything to go back to the 60's. You could sleep with your doors unlocked, neighbors were there for you whenever you needed them. Music was the best! So sad my parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles are all gone. Brings tears to my eyes that our road ahead is much shorter than the road behind us.
People today cannot bring themselves to comprehend a time where many folks did not lock their house or car doors. Most neighborhoods were safe, and you didn't have the widespread crime, and off the roof craziness that has become so normal today. I remember when McDonalds was a family restaurant, and not a place that has to have security guards to keep the order. Everything about life now, is tainted with corruption, decadence and anti-socialistic behaviour. I miss America when it was America.
I was born 1953. I had a happy childhood wish I could go back. My mother is still living she's 93
I liked it then and now. And my mom would have a fit if we left our doors unlocked back then.
March of 53 myself, we had a great time didn't we.
I always lived in small towns, where you weren't afraid to leave your doors unlocked.
I'm sure in the big cities it was much different, but probably even safer there than compared to now.
I miss how clean the woods were. You could fish in the little rivers and not worry about poisoning your family. The music was great, and racism was nothing like it is today. Look it up. Don't let them lie to you anymore.
Another fad in the sixties was to make chains out of the soda and beer can pull-off tabs. Also, the gum wrappers were fashioned into necklaces and bracelets and other things.
I remember girls sitting on the playground and making necklaces out of clover flowers. We called them posies but I think we were wrong.
@@TheRealBrook1968that's what we did back then!
@@bjbrown I also recall something about a little poem we would say, "Mama had a baby and his head popped his head" I forget if we pulled a knot in the stem but the clover flower head would fly off
I did that
I remember those gum wrapper ones. There was another thing girls would get corsages made of Lifesavers or Charms.
I remember my parents getting green stamps when you bought groceries. You filled books full then would go to a green Stamp store and trade them in for household items. Vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffee pots.
My Mom was addicted to Green Stamps. LOL
We were a Top Value stamp family.
My grandmother, mom and I would sit at the table and lick the green stamps and put them in the books until our lips stuck together. Lol...It was the greatest of bonding times. ❤️
I still have my alarm clock that mom bought me in high school with S&H Green stamps. It will works. I'm 60.
I remember that too.
In my 70+ years on this planet, the 50’s and 60’s were the best time of my young life. Sorry that kids today will never have the chance to experience that way of life.
You are so correct. It was the best time of my life, too! Born in 1949 and very glad I was. Got to grow up with Rock 'n' Roll, Stereo, Thunderbirds, Disney movies and Marilyn Monroe!!!!
Same here, Drue.
@@usmale49Old times were good times!
@@druegillis1744 Yes, they were!!
Absolutely BEST time to grow up. We lived an innocent life
When I was a child in the 60's I would hear my Grandfathers stories when he was young, I would think things will never change that much again, little did I know how fast and far things would change in my own lifetime.
But I am forever grateful for growing up in that special time.
"Leave it to Beaver" TV show always seemed to have a good message about life growing up.
Gee Wally?
@@drewmiller3462 "Cool it Eddie. Quit givin' Beaver the business". "Okay Gertrude, I'll lay off the little squirt and . . . Good afternoon, Mrs. Cleaver! I was just telling Wally how fortunate he is to have a kid brother like young Theodore." "WERE you, Eddie?" "Oh, yes, ma'am. In fact, Lumpy - uh, Clarence Rutherford and I were discussing how we older fellows need to set a good example for the little ones". "That's nice to know, Eddie". They don't make sitcoms like "Leave It To Beaver" anymore.
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@@nuwavedaveperfect. 😂
Everyone claims "Leave it to Beaver" was a false representation of real life, but that's how I, my sisters, and all of our friends grew up.
The best years of my life because of the innocence of society. The best music, best t.v. shows, best commercials and best neighborhoods. If you didn't grow up in the 60's, you'll never understand.
Totally agree! Born 1948
You had to be there! I was born 1948 .God Bless
I'm trying to create this life for my kids .. it would be so so cool if I could find a house builder who would partner with me to build neighborhoods from different decades. It's something I'm looking into.
Born in 60 everyone well most had big families S.Cal,best cartoons growing up
I did grow up in the 1960’s but I was like 5 years old in the mid 1960’s. I did my growing up in the 1970’s. Which were fun too.
Born in 1962 and remember a lot from the late 60's and 70's. What a wonderful time. People socialized more, kids were outside playing after school. Our neighborhood was safe.
The neighborhood I grew up in was full of kids out and about between getting home from school and dinner. Now when I visit my mother who still lives in that neighborhood, I never see children playing together outside. I know there must be plenty around because their parents still take them around on Halloween.
my twin sister and I were also born in 1962.....the 60s was a great decade to grow up in as youngsters...the 70s were a bit different but still, I enjoyed the 70s as well...
1964 here. And I was never inside! But the Street Monsters did come out if I wasn't home by the time the street lights came on.
@Fred Wills umm, Chicago has changed big time! I could walk to school alone. 1964 when I was born. When my son went to school, I walked him. Because kiddnapping is all around. People outside my window being shot? That wasn't happening in the 70's.. The world has lost is mind!😔
@Fred Wills I have no toleration for violence. I love the Northeast! I live in Boston for abit.
Thank you for your service..
I am going travel the Great Lakes this summer!
I’m getting to the age where all my aunts & uncles are gone, along with grandparents. It’s tough to realize there isn’t a person left alive whose known me my whole life.
Sure there is, God has known you before you were born, and has loved you and cared for you every step of your way. Ponder that sometimes, you have always been loved and cared for.
@@charliewerchan7252 I DO NOT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MAN OR WOMAN MENT..
I just have one cousin left who is older than me. Everyone else who was around when I was born are no longer living.
@@charliewerchan7252 Please stop. This person may not share your beliefs and despite what You believe it is not your duty to force your god on another thinking individual with freedom of what to "buy into". You are missing the point that she misses the people she can feel, touch, talk to, the people she had those good times with In The FLESH. Not some invisible entity. Do you understand this??? Geez.
@@mefirst4266 Sure I do, how can you judge me and say I don't.
I was born in 1945, so technically I grew up in the 50's. The 60's were a time of graduation, starting a career and the Viet Nam Draft ! The 70's brought me the love of my life at 32. I had 40 wonderful years until I became a widower in 2017. Now at 77, I'm trying to go on . It's not easy. Most of my friends are either gone, or in bad health. Looking back, I love all the decades for it's own individual reason. Life really is what you make it.
I agree that life is what you make it but I have to admit that the last 3 years have really taken the and out of my sails in terms of being around friends and colleagues who appear to have lost all capacity for reason and rationality. Still, I now have found out how much I love gardening and watching the birds, creating an environment that they want to spend time in and so forth. I'm much more of a hermit in the current environment than I ever was up until fairly recently.
@@betsyj59 I think it took the wind out of most of our sails. It changed us. People have become more angry and explosive. What was done to us is unforgivable. The government had no right to try and force poisons into our body, force us to wear masks that offered no protection and confine us to our homes! I'm glad that you were able to find some happiness.
@@betsyj59 The end of 2019 and 2020 was certainly a turning point for the worst !
Born in 1951,I have fond memories of growing up in Tucson, Az
Most of my friends who drove pick up trucks had gun racks just behind the seat and would go target practicing after school…rifles were left in your car and no one EVER thought of shooting up the school.
Ya know, I’m reading all these comments and everyone is a true version of a great time we grew up in. One thing I haven’t seen until this one is that the Vietnam war drug us away from that. Thank you for your service in ways you can’t imagine. I hope you lived a happy life without too much trauma from the time you spent in the service. I was in the 101st Airborne Division 501st Airmobile infantry during 74 & 75, so I was lucky to have not had to go and witness the horror of taking life. Although my unit was on standby and on the tarmac to lift off for Saigon at the time the NVA was about to regain control., however, the orders were canceled. So even though I served in the military, I felt that my contribution is nothing to boast about. Again, thank you for your sacrifice and dedication to protect our country. I salute you.
Yep, I remember all of this. Disney in the 60’s was great, today it’s evil. Music was fun, not angry. And the cars were great!
Cars have improved quite a bit, I wouldn't want to drive those same cars today, even if they were new
Okay, calling Disney "evil" today is more than a little nuts. Let's not get carried away.
@@keyweststeve3509 nope, it’s an understatement. Disney, Marvel, ABC, all a complete reversal of what they were 50-60 years ago.
@@keyweststeve3509 they're groomers
Evil?? Seriously, get a grip. They’re now inclusive of ALL Americans. Don’t forget Walt Disney himself wasn’t exactly a fan of Blacks and Jews.
And yeah, we know which insurrectionist politician you’re a fan of.
I started first grade in 1965. One of the things I remember about grade school, particularly the early years, are the smells. I'm not sure if many people remember, but we were surrounded by many different smells back then. Things like paste, crayons, Playdoh, construction paper all had distinct smells to the that I still remember. I think many of us remember is the smell of a piece of paper that had been recently run through a mimeograph machine. The purple duplicating fluid had a very unique smell. Also, the classroom pencil sharpener, when filled with the wood shavings had a smell similar to what you'd find in a woodworking shop. I'm not sure about classrooms today, but I imagine they are much less fragrant than the ones all those years back.
It wasn’t till I had my own son that entering his school brought all those old school smells back to me. Paste!
Yes, I distinctly remember those smells, especially those purple ink papers, everyone would put them to their noses after they were passed out. Also the smell of homemade food from the cafeteria.
@@julenepegher6999 I went to a very small grade school, and we didn't have a cafeteria. Our lunches were eaten out of our lunchboxes or a lunch bag. However, once a week, the Methodist Church, across the street, made lunch for the students. We would go over and the lunch was usually a burger, sloppy joe, or spaghetti along with a bag of chips, a drink and some kind of desert. We loved that day. It was a small school but actor Nick Offerman's father, Ric, was my 8th grade homeroom teacher.He was amazing and loved by his students. When we were taking a test, and the room was very quiet, he had a habit of sneezing. They were an explosive type of sneeze and everyone would jump. We called them his atomic sneeze. I believe he is currently the village president of the neighboring town.
@@PBryanMcMillin that’s a great story. We are about the same age. I started first grade in 66 a Catholic school for eight years. The nuns were strict but I would do it all over again. Those were great days. I walked home for lunch the first three years then my mom got a job and we had to eat in the cafeteria. All homemade food, the meal you had in the Methodist Church sounds like the food we had. Most of it was very good. Then after lunch we would go to the candy counter with a nickel or a dime and come back with a little paper bag filled with penny candy. Sorry for the long comment but I could reminisce for hours☺️
@@julenepegher6999 Please don't apologize. I think that's why we all come to this channel, to reminisce by watching the videos and chat in the comments. I really enjoy reading other people's memories from those days.
I remember as a kid mom made us dress in our best when going out to almost any function. I remember when glove compartments in cars actually carried
those elbow length white damask gloves my mother wore. And I remember Dippity Doo, Aqua Net, Tabu, that ruby red lipstick, Beehives, and Prell. Oh Lord, I miss those days!
Ah yes, Prell.😀
Gloves in the glove compartment I also used dippity-do Ambush what's my favorite perfume. Loved those mini skirts
Jean nate Nivea cream coppertone all smells thst take me back
Who doesn't miss being younger, LOL. Every time I drop a bottle of shampoo I think how glad I am that it's not glass anymore. And Prell is gone because it was detergent that stripped your hair shaft and dried it out.
My brother and I had toy hand grenades that popped w/caps.
Being born in 58 and my sister in 60 its unbelievable that we had an easy bake oven and that creepy crawler making oven being as young as we were but we were responsible, the thing i miss even in my mid sixties is Saturday morning cartoons. I can still listen and reflect on the music I grew up w/ that nobody can take away from me as those times and tunes were dear.
Incredible Edibles anyone?
Yeah...Saturday morning cartoons..on our 17' B&W TV set...rabbit ears.
YES! The creepy crawlers! Baking rubber toys and things
Also born in '58 and my sister had the incredible edibles and Saturday mornings........we were up early to catch our favorite cartoons!!! I will retire in 2 years while teaching high school now. I play the music from the past everyday for may students..........they LOVE it!
I never had an easy bake oven as a kid. I was shopping for a friend of mine. Stumbled over an easy bake oven. I bought one and put it in my office at work. We used it ALL the time. I was in my 50's.
I was a true child of the 60's... it was such a safe time! You stayed out till dusk and then you would hear your mom calling for you to come home. Better be home when
those street lights came on :) Everybody else's mom was also YOUR mom and you better mind them. You showed respect for your elders and always minded your
manners. Kids gathered outside every afternoon after school to play.. and in summer there would be days of fort building and monopoly games that went on and on.
What a different time it was..... we were having the time of our lives and didn't even know it :) I feel lucky to now be 64 and feel like I'm 40 and have these wonderful
memories.
Unless you were drafted in 1968, it was a "safe" time!
I remember those afternoons after school. Coming home, getting snack, changing out of school clothes into play clothes and going out to ride bikes, build forts, explore the open land that used to exist in the town I grew up in. I'm 63 and I wouldn't trade the youth I experienced for being younger now for anything.
It's almost taken my 65 years of living to realize I was so lucky to be born when I was. It's not even close to the same World today. I'd say the 60's were the best, maybe because of my age then but also for everything in this video.
1955 to 1965 was "peak" for being a little kid. Middle class purchasing power at all time high.
@@Cryo837 Yes even in the early 70's, I was the only one working and had the wife, kid, house, 2 cars, boat. Today with the wife and husband both working your lucky to have a house only.
@@beadyeye2312 Exactly, Sprouse Reitz and all the other 5&dime stores. No ordering on line, telephone's at home not in your pocket. I guess that's why I like these videos so much, it's what's in my head/memories that I can't get out on the screen
@@beadyeye2312 Oh, you missed fighting "Bankers Wars", you scared little libtard
@@saminaneen You are a pretty hateful person. That in itself is unamerican. Remember that you reap what you sow.
I'd grow up in this era again...any day.
in my mind I never really left it. To this day (2023) I luv listening to DOO-Woop
Forget the cap gun. The real fun started when you realized you could set off an entire roll of caps all at once by hitting it with a hammer or a rock. This filled the need for things that exploded until you were able to get your hands on cherry bombs or M-80s. Ah, memories.
I still remember the smell of the cap guns.
I remember this, the M80>barrel bomb. Cherry bomb> this is how I lost some of my hearing. Now I wear hearing aids.
And the aqua net hairspray flamethrower.
@@rickjensen2833 yeah - we used 6-12 bug spray. Same result.
Yes sir
If I could go back as an adult in the 60’s, I wouldn’t hesitate. We would ride our bikes everywhere, play baseball, go to A&W for root beer. I loved cartoons on Sat am. I remember my mom getting dressed to go out w/my dad on New Year’s Eve. She was tall and thin, and had this gorgeous red dress on and had a high beehive hairdo. She was beautiful and my dad was really handsome. Hamburgers were 20 or 25 cents at McDonald’s, and they actually tasted like hamburgers. I tell my grandkids stories of my childhood and they act horrified! No Netflix, wireless internet, video games, and, especially, NO CELLPHONES!
Children have no imagination today. Their noses are in their phones. I had a black and white TV until 10 yrs ago. Kids were mortified. It didn’t make a difference to me I listened to music or the radio.
My parents were the same. Mom was a total knockout, still is today at age 90 with the same figure she had in high school. Absolutely astounding.
@@marcellocolona4980 That's great ! Your mom has been blessed.
It was an honor to grow up in the 1960's loved it. Kids today have no idea how great things were back then.
Agree
The best times growing up.
Today's kids probably feel as nostalgic about their childhoods as we do. Prior generations think that their time was great. For most children, childhood is magical.
@@JM-zk9ou I understand what you're saying but ...how? Kids born after 1995 even at age 3 to 12 have their heads buried into dark screen electronics. They missed out on the great outside, nature, playing with neighborhood kids building forts, fishing, riding bikes all day to really far out places, playing war...space walkers, pogo sticks, finding and eating wild apples, plums, black berries and strawberries..just being active everyday.
@@JM-zk9ou what kids do you know that bottle hunt or metal detect? I was doing that at age 8. Now it's a game on a screen, falls short of reality.
What I remember most of that era was the smells. Grocery stores smelled different - Hardware stores all had a certain smell. Different types of stores had their own smell and to me it was wonderful. Today everything is just too sterile.
Someone else mentioned that in these comments. I too remember the wide variety of smells. Also the wide variety of insects everywhere...sometimes I'll suddenly notice now how few colorful insects one sees now, especially big numbers of so many kinds of butterflies and beetles. I haven't seen a stick insect in years and years.
Yep me to Sue.
Candy stores (an overwhelming level if sugar in the air), barber shops (that aftershave tonic smell), the heavy chlorine smell at the community pool). Smell memories really can yank your mind back to an old but vivid memory.
I have great emotional recall regarding the smells of my childhood. We had a factory in the area that produced the popular soft drink known as "Squirt." Everyday a train load of grapefruits would come in and after the fruit was peeled, they would treat the peels by cooking them to make fertilizers and the air was full of this fragrance that was not unlike a burning citrus sort of bitter smell that wasn't entirely unpleasant.
I loved the smell of our local lumber yard.
I think a basic guiding force that was the foundational element to all these great memories was the family. Families were a unit, spent more time together and shared experiences together. And yes, of course there were families that experienced some negative disruption/ hardship etc. But in general families were strong, loving and appreciative of life and the things in life. Whether rich or poor, the family was a solid part of 50s and 60s. Sadly these days there are so many facets of life that pull family closeness away.
We actually had a family dinner EVERY night
This is so fun yet painful in that we can never get this life back.i feel absolutely blessed to have grown up in the 60s.thanks so much for making these videos.
I hear you, I feel exactly the same 💯 %
We were indeed so lucky to have been kids then. This channel is precious.
Me too...the 60's were a magical time to be a kid. We were certainly blessed...
Born in 1959 I have fond memories of my childhood in the '60's. Kids played outside, doors were never locked in my neighborhood, grandparents lived across the street, aunts and uncles a few doors down, and we walked to church and school which were just 4 blocks away. We weren't rich but my parents always provided my brother and me with cool toys: GI Joe, Tiger Tank, banana seat bikes from Sears, slot race car sets, telescopes and microscopes, and many more. And the music on the radio was great. I vividly remember listening to the Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand while dancing on my grandmother's grand front porch. Good Times. Your videos bring back great memories.
I too was born in 1959 and remember everything you’re talking about. I’m 63 getting ready to turn 64 in May and it literally seems just a blink away from those times. After the 70s when I turned into the 80s and 90s and now it was completely different I raised my children in a different time and they didn’t have anything that I did. Nor did they care to have it.And this generation in 2022 it’s just another flop
Damn born in 59 too had same childhood best time growing up
59 also,GodBless
@@bwiseok you sure?born 5459,I will be 63 may4
@@michaelcrowley1172 Lol yeah I may have messed up on my age. Did I mention you lose memory as you age? Lol
They were called the good old days for a reason. I sure miss them.
My life was like the Andy Griffith show, I was raised by my grandparents in a small town during the sixties and my grandfather was chief of police. I miss those days dearly 😞
I'm watching that now 😅
I was born in 1958 and like so many others commenting have wonderful memories of my childhood in the 60’s. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Texas we knew practically everyone. We would get on our bikes in the summer and go visit friends, go pick dewberries along the fence on the side of the road, ride to the small country grocery store and get “penny” candy and yes, each piece was only one cent! As long as we were home before dark no one worried about us. No cell phones, no computers and only 3 channels on TV. Life was simple and fun and I feel blessed to have those memories.
As do I....
We did everything you mentioned and everything in this video we were children of the 70s sorry but the kids of today have no idea. Parents are to busy putting them infront of the TV, computer, and Ipads.
*I was in Marines at 17, 1964!!! I Hated Smoking!!!! I Hated Smokers!!!!*
Life was simpler , and somewhat fun , except for those sent to NAM where my uncle was kia mid-3/1968 10 days B-4 my 11tjh bday. Like it was yesterday !
How I wish children today were from the 60s
I was born in 1946. I have such great memories. Lately with everything that has happened the last few years I am realizing just how great we had it. What a great time to have lived.
The plusses of the sixties outdo the minuses. But oeople don't realize that.
same, Feb 1946 👍I'm so old I can remember life before television!
Same here.
@@BG-bx4ey Social lifespeedia. I hate it! But, crap, I'm kinda doing it NOW! ARGHHHH.
@@BG-bx4ey Really? All I have to do is go outside me apartment building and see all the druggies sitting on the idewalk. Go about half a block t o the park and you see bunches of homeless people,laying on the benches with their shopping carts next to them.
I live in Phoenix,AZ.,and I do not watch the news . Life here isnt too safe or better,with guns going off every night as well.
Oh,I notice you're on social media,..right here on youtube.
I was one of those lucky kids who grew up in the golden era , called the 60's. I still believe it was a great decade, the Telly was brilliant. mostly they were American made shows, Man, I wish I could be a kid again, and enjoy that time all over again, even if it was in black & white , here in England.
But there were some great shows imported to the US from England. I loved "The Saint" and I wanted to BE Emma Peel from "The Avengers."
@@sittinginthebasement Absolutely loved the saint, and the Avengers, and a few more, but stuff like Batman, Wagon train, Rawhide, Sugarfoot, Bonanza, The Rifleman etc, were great shows.
I was born in 53 and I would never trade my memories,it was awesome back in the day 💪💪
I was born in 1951 and I enjoyed life in the 50s 60s and 70s. It went down hill from there and will never be the same. I feel sorry for any child growing up now. Nothing to look forward too because everything is fantasy.
Nothing to look forward to because the corporate takeover of everything is nearly complete.
Exactly
They don't need your sympathy. Some of them will be here when a much higher frequency comes in, on Earth, and life will improve to the degree that it will beat out Anything you could have ever experienced in your youth.
@@laurenchristianna2092 you are stupid. This world isn't going to last very much longer. Read the Bible and try to understand why things are going down so fast. There's a change coming alright but it's not going to be good for those that don't know Jesus. Wake up before it's too late.
@@laurenchristianna2092 You are really living in a fantasy world this planet is doomed I doubt it will be safe anywhere with in 25 yrs
Thank you mom and dad for giving me a great childhood in the 1960s. I miss and love you. RIP
I agree with everything you said my friend.
Wow, that's Nice.
I said the same always had the cool toys and life and family was fun always laughed I miss my mom and dad too .. one day we will be back in the 60s and 70s again together
My folks are in their 80s, I make it an important part of everyday to tell them I love them.
@@williamhaynes4800 smart … my life changed when my mom was gone .. she was funny as shit ..they don’t make them like her anymore
I just Loved my white leather knee hi boots! Wore them everyday!☺️ Me, my sisters and friends all played "Jacks" so simple yet so much fun. And Jiffy Pop was always a special treat, my sisters and I would gather around the stove and watch it balloon up! Thanks again Recollection Road for these Great memories and I Love reading the comments of the Wonderful People of My Generation. We were Truly Blessed!
Take Care Everyone and Enjoy the Sweet Memories!☺️👍💕
Yeah but Jacks was amped-up for arm and eye coordination, move up in stages, as ball thrown over-arm, jacks consecutively in amount picked-up, ball grabbed. And various other maneuvers.
Actually the ball was thrown under and over arm
I like reading all the comments too! 😊
Child of the 60's here. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Things weren't perfect but they were better in so many ways. I had a stay at home mom who made me lunch when I came home from school and supper was always homemade too. We weren't wealthy but we were rich with imagination. Technology has ruined everything. Used to have to compete to get on a team, now they don't have enough kids turn out to put a team together.
I was born in 1946, the 60's were a coming of age time for me. Joined the Marine Corps at 18 in Jan.1965. Did two tours in Vietnam, wounded in Oct. 66. and back again in 1971 as a platoon commander. Still I'm glad I was born when I was.
Thank you for your service Tom
Well thank you very much for your service SIR, GOD BLESS YOU. I highly respect our Veteran's. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
God bless you, Tom! You are one of America’s heroes!
Thank you for your service Sir. Sadly many or I should say most of you young men weren’t welcomed home the proper way. I couldn’t imagine being drafted and going through what you did and then being shunned as you returned home. Thank you again
Rather than just offer the usual "Thank you for your service", I'd rather say that those of us born more towards the end of the baby boom are (or should be) grateful to have been too young to go to Vietnam. I've read and learned a lot about it, and I'm just plain glad to have been young enough to miss it.
With all the insanity going on in this country right now I find myself, more and more, doing a little mental time traveling back to my childhood in the sixties and seventies. It actually helps me feel better for a bit. Videos like this really help.
I miss those days too! We got to see all the cool bands. Awesome music! Heaven will be so groovy after us Boomers are together again!!
I was born in 1956. Everything on this video is SPOT ON! In my youth, I tell my kids (35 & 33) how much fun I had growing up back in my day. Going Trick or Treating with a group of friends by ourselves knowing NOT to touch our treats until Mom "checked them out". Riding our bikes around all day to our many friends houses being told to "be home when the street lights come on". In High School on summer break, not yet having a car, hitch hiking to the beach spending ALL DAY there, and hitch hiking back home, (you would NOT do this now days) we lived in innocent times, sorry to see our society as it is now!
The memories of riding bikes around with other kids in the neighborhood and being told to come home when the lights come on is almost a universal memory for people who grew up at that time in this country. When friends my age and I get to talking about the societal poison of smart phones and social media, etc., we always end up talking about riding our bikes around as kids - no parental oversight, that feeling of adventure and freedom. (And kids who grew up in families that couldn't afford bikes, still were out with the other kids, climbing trees, creating forts whether just a clearing under a tree or more sophisticated, etc.)
Me too born in 1956
Life was so simple back then. I miss those days
Absolutely
Loved twilight zone.
Now we are living a real life one
I agree...Also, I believe that Rod Serling was a true visionary...the series' episode "The Midnight Sun" is, sadly, becoming a reality for the entire human race, due to climate change. The world is currently experiencing that episode "first hand", this month of July, 2022. Really disturbing!
Yep. No going back.
It's going to be a short story.
No kidding!
@@birdsfan57 😮
I was 10 in 1969 but I still remember a lot of these things. Loved creepy crawlers!
I was born in 1966 and it was a great time to be a kid. Life and society was SO much better during those years. I feel sorry for children who will never experience the wonderful things we experienced.☺️
Coffee cans for everything! They were metal, and always saved to store nails, etc. Also, playing marbles, kept in a cloth marble bag to bring to school. My uncle worked at General Motors and used to give me "steelies". After that it was spinning tops and yoyos.
I was telling my granddaughter just last night how much I miss metal coffee cans. She's 12 I don't think that she has ever seen one.
Where I grew up, in the detroit suburbs, you were royalty if you had a purple Crwon Royal bag for your marbles.
my mom use to put bacon grease in a coffee pan and fry all foods in it daily.
I remember penny candy. With my quarter, I could fill a paper lunch bag.
I also remember wax lips, wax mustache and wax harmonica candy.
We had our bikes, arts and crafts at our local parks, and slept under the stars on lounge chairs in our back yards.
With no air conditioning in the summer, we ate outdoors all the time. Neighbors were always outside all day long.
Our little transistor radios were strapped to our banana seat bicycles, and the highlight of our summer was piling up in the station wagon in our pajamas, and going to the drive in.
Very few overweight kids or adults! Lot's of activity!
you hit on all of them.. I remember sleeping on the floor downstairs in the summer with the whole house fan pulling air in the "cracked windows" on the first floor.. we had a penny candy store in the neighborhood.. don't forget dots! (on the paper roll).
I got a serious case of nostalgia, thank you. Sometimes I wish they had a double like button.
Ahhh, sweet memories! It's so sad that children nowadays will never know the joys and freedom we enjoyed. 😔
My heart and soul will always be in 1960s. It was literally all my childhood. 1970 I was 15 years old so it was end of the great memories. I remember being off blocks away when I was 10. It was safe for a kid to go anywhere. I loved old people when I was a small boy I talked to a lot of old ladies. The way old people are lonely I'm sure made their day. Boy do I yern for them days my loving parents were alive and now I'm a old man with nothing but memories. But I thank God for what I had because some people go through life and are never loved by anyone.
@@beadyeye2312 Yep 57 was a good year to be born.
We had old ladies living behind us in this like mansion. I would knock on their door and they always gave me cookies or candy. I was the biggest mooch too.
Don’t feel sad. You had loving giving parents that gave you a safe place to grow up in. We all take that for granted these days. My twenty something son often bemoans the fact of being born in the 90’s.
I respect everyone’s life experiences differ but I find it hard to believe that your peak memories of youth ended so young. My peak was at 20 in 2014. Each era was special in its own way. The innocence era in the early 2000s for me and then the late to early 2010s the era of testing the waters making silly mistakes and just submersed in the moment.
I refuse to live in this decade as much as I possibly can. I wasn’t even close to being thought about in the 60s, but that’s where I choose to live according to how much of the era is still available to me. Period correct 60s home, I was lucky enough to pick up a 65 coupe Deville in very good shape at a good price, and 60s programming. when I actually do watch television, or gander the Internet.🚀✨🚀✨🚀
I’d love to go back to those days in a heartbeat, those were the best days of my life ever playing outside till the night lights came on, best shows on TV without cuss words, vacation trips to Panama City Beach Florida every summer. But most of all eating together at the kitchen table with the whole family those were the most memorable times.
The society of the 1950's created the 1960's
@@BG-bx4ey this is true
We played outside till dark. Today you wouldn't even go to a playground in daytime without some parent riding shotgun.
Absolutely. I go back frequently to visit my mom who still lives in the house I grew up in and I never see kids playing outside. I remember kids being all over the place in that same neighborhood in the 60s and early 70s, riding bikes around until dinnertime, playing in vacant lots, etc. That feeling of freedom and a kids' world without parents monitoring it. One big memory is some of us neighborhood kids lying on our backs in a thick carpet of sour grass in the vacant lot across from my house... just lying there, contemplatively watching the clouds move across the sky while we chewed on the ends of sour grass or swinging on the tire swing that hung from a branch of a huge tree that grew in the middle of that lot.
I carried on those traditions with my kids of all of us having dinner together every night. Everyone connected and talked about their day and they got a nutritious meal of whole foods! My oldest son said that every night at our house was like a Sunday dinner! What a compliment!
Reading so many of your comments below does bring back many memories of things in the 60s it was such a fun time to be trusted to be on your bike to know that you'd be back safe and you had to be in before dark you didn't need to watch having to get up to change the TV stations even though it would be annoying at times it was still fun especially if you had a knob fall off the TV. Even the food's back then or something that we will probably always cherish and those of us from the 60s and like 50s. Thank you all for sharing your comments and for the many memories that you have brought back to me by reading your comments. God bless you all🤗
How about tinfoil on the rabbit ears?..lol
I grew up in the late 60s into the 70s and spent my teen life in the 80s. Life then was amazing, the absolute best time of my life. If there was a time machine I'd go back in a second..🙏
The 80' don't even compare to the 60's and 70's
i feel so lucky to have grown up in this time🥰
I was a teenager in the 1960s and i remember that. My sister and i would play in the creek outside down hill from our house .
When I was growing up in the 1960's I never really appreciated how great that decade really was. It was only decades later, when society really started to turn sore, that I really appreciated growing up in that era P.S. My older brother said that growing up in the fifties was even better!
There's a lot more truth in that than most people understand
And our decade was better than rhe one that preceded us. But I respect the ww 2 people.
It's odd that they would make a TV show about the 50s, which was "Happy Days" and a show about the 70s called "That 70s Show" which was really lame, but I don't ever remember one about the 60s. I guess there a mini series produced in the late 90s called "The 60s," but I don't remember it.
I was blessed to grow up in the 60s. I’ve always felt bad my kids didnt have all the freedom to roam and explore I did. We lived outside unless it was winter. Be home for Lunch when the noon firehouse siren went off, and when it went off again at 6 for dinner. All the Moms watched out for and yelled at all the kids. Neighbors were close. We had rules, but we also had so much freedom.
Howard Johnsons rocked it in the 60s! Thanks for the memories!
The 50's and 60's were my favorite time to be alive. I miss all my family members who have since passed. We always had so much fun when we all got together, both Mom's side of the family and Dad's. Thanks for the sweet memories!!
We had annual family reunions at Camp Dearborn
What a great childhood we all had growing up in the 1960’s, I would ride my bike till dinner time, it was so normal I remember everything in this video like it was yesterday!!
Exactly! I was born in 1961. Our town was divided into two parts by a minor Hwy. The rules were that we couldn't go south of that road and to be home by dinner time. Our parents had no idea where we were half the time but that was part of the magic of the Era. We roamed freely without fear of being snatched or molested. Everybody knew everybody else in our small Oklahoma town. You could have went to any adult if you were in trouble. It wasn't like today when parents fear letting their kids out of their sight. Our parents were glad to see the back of us and have the house to themselves for awhile. We didn't know how special that time was that we were growing up in. Now I look back and realize just how much we took for granted.
@@ml1049 Yeah U're correct from a man like me @ 65 yrs young , w / the exception of seeing friends bros , and neighbors sons , 65-69 , sent 2 SouthEast Asia --- NAM ! Lost my uncle in NAMs Central Highlands mid-3/1968 , tail e of TET , 10 days B-4 my 11 Bday . Remember it vividly like yesterday .
Every era reminiscent taking good w bad , and 60 s wasn't no different , but it was a time to reminiscent , clothes , music , social/ civil turbulence , and cute girls !
I was born in the mid 60's, and I so miss politeness, and good manners everywhere you go. It all seems to be basically the attitude of "I matter, and you don't" anymore. People are so stunned these days when I am polite, and let them go ahead of me. Well, that's just the way I was brought up, folks--and, I think what will happen now when the older generation, like us, will be gone someday.
@@mikemallano2484 A lot of this attitude today has its roots back in the 60s . Born in 1957 myself , I too witnessed those tumultuous, turbulent 60s , where political/social radicalism availed , though , being young , and taught to be respectfully , The war in NAM ( lost my uncle there mid 3/68 10 days b-4 my 11th bday) the music, hairstyles , clothing , and Monterey /67 , and Woodstock /69 , MLK, RFK , assassinations , anti - war demonstrations , is: a violent outurn of the anti-war protest outside Chicago's Democratic Convention , and , a few yes later, the Kent State Ohio anti - war demonstration where Ohio National Guardsman killed four students) . Let's not forget JFK's assassination 11/63 I was 6 then. Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961, and Chezchoslovakian Revolt (late /7/68.So, yeah 60's was crazy , but some great memories too.
@@johnceglick8714 Seems as though people really were different then, Maybe that's why there is so much fondness for that decade!!!.
Thank you for your gentle delivery to all this nostalgia. I was born in 53, so this all hits home. Some items I remember;
Duncan yo yos and even tops that you would wind a thread around and throw on the ground to set them spinning. The top was hollow, so you could put the thread inside when done. Also, playing marbles was big in the school playground, and piggy back "horse fights" was also big for a while too. Girls would inter loch a bunch of rubber bands into a big loop, then two girls would face each other about 6 feet apart and place the rubber band loop around their 4 ankles, and another girl would jump over the rubber band loop with different stages of difficulty to try to not get tangled up in the loop. They called this "Chinese jump rope". Gym shoes like "Red Ball" that had a little round red rubber dot on the back of the rubber heel. Also, "P F Flyers" gym shoes, that had a P F in white letters on a green rectangle field stuck on the back of their rubber heels. Putting baseball cards in your bicycle spokes with mom's clothespins to hold them in place, so your bike would sound like a motorcycle. Squirt gun and water balloon fights too. Running through a lawn sprinkler. Building a big house made of playing cards. 3 decks worth. Always playing at a building site where a new house was going up. In the open foundation basement, climbing the big pile of sand, or gravel. Catching lightning bugs or grasshoppers in an old peanut butter jar, with holes in the metal top for air, with some leaves and twigs inside too. Let alone going to the hardware/toy store too. Just playing games with a bat and a ball, like "running bases", "bounce or fly", "500". Never ending fun then, and cheap too.
Boy, growing up in the 60s was really great compared to nowadays. Back then, simple things were great, like Jiffy Pop, and going out and playing with the neighborhood kids was just fantastic. You never just see kids play like that anymore. Everything is paid: sports and scheduled play. What happened? I am so glad I got to experience things back then rather than nowadays, even though I am so old now.
OMG, you just recounted my whole childhood. My sister and I would scour the roadsides and bar ditches for pop bottles because back then, people would just toss the empty bottles out their car windows. We could easily make a couple of bucks since the rebate was three cents per bottle. We would divy up the money and get a whole sack of candy. Boy, that brings back memories. Thank you.
My friend and I did the same thing, great memories
Candy in little brown paper sacks. A quarter would get you enough to make you sick....
Right? We'd cash in those bottles, then buy candy, comics and some of those cheap toys. Good times.
absolutely the little country store in my town would do that
My father took my bottles to the store in the car trunk, i had $15.00 once and thought i was rich!
The 60s was the best decade for kids. I know I was there first hand.
Indeed!
Me too! Best time to grow up. Life was simpler and so much more fun.
WOW! The TV shows,slot cars,model cars, Stingray bikes,people smoking everywhere,Dad buying a new car every couple years,and...the dangerous toys! Things are drastically different now and I'm glad I was a kid then....
The kids of today will NEVER know all the fun we had back in the 1960's. We did NOT need tech toys to have fun since we had OURSELVES! 😆
Wow, this “Part 2”, is just as good as “Part 1” was!
I totally miss my childhood in the 60’s, but most importantly, I miss all my favorite relatives who have passed…they made the decade great for me 👍🏼
I thoroughly agree also. I too humbly miss all those who have passed on who have made and help shaped who I am now.
Yep...lots of people dead.
😢
I agree, lots of fond memories and folks to miss. But they just went home, we'll see them again soon enough.
Now we are all old in our 60s . Time goes fast as we are as old as our or are grandparents .
I so wish my grandchildren could have had the life of freedom I had in the '60's! Born in '58...it was so innocent and free! Parents didn't have to worry when their kids were outdoors playing...or what nonsense sexual content was inflicted on their innocent children at school. It was like summers were a whole year long!
Walt Disney would turn in his grave now that 'Disney' is run by a bunch of Dykes. Take your kids to a Disney movie now at your peril.
Amen Jana l agree.
We were much happier then, than we are now, yet we think we've made so much progress.
I remember sitting in the backyard with my Dad listening to Vin Scully call the Dodger games. It was heaven, especially when we beat the Giants.
I remember my dad and uncle loading up me and my cousins in Burbank to take the trip to Dodger Stadium, priceless memories. How I miss those days.
@@polarbear353 Me too!!!
The Andy Griffith show is STILL standard viewing in many households in 2022 !
And Green Acres.
My husband and I watch all the old shows cause the new ones are awful
My grandkids ages 11, 7 and 6 love Andy Griffith, Gunsmoke and Bonanza. My favs as a kid along with Rifleman.
& Star Trek & Batman.
It is for us too. Possibly the greatest TV show ever created (although I really love the Twilight Zone to this day too - probably more now than when I was a kid).
Growing up in the sixties was awesome!
Better than it is today
Sure was! 1957 baby here!
What a special time I was born in 1958 60s and 70 s fantastic living
Those were the days my friends and I never thought they'd end but they are
Thank you for visuals of memories that remain in my heart 🙏🌹🙏
I was a teenager back in the 60s. I was a transistor radio junky. I kept track of my favorite songs, hoping they would be number 1 on the radio hit parade.
Born in 58 so naturally my memories begin in the 60s. I had great parents and a wonderful, trauma free childhood. I never felt unsafe during the decade. What a great time.
Me too, what a great time to grow up!😊👍
Good times . . .
Greetings Wes...Same for me, Great parents, born in '58 wonderful carefree childhood always felt safe. What a true Blessing to feel safe! 😊👍
R.R. I don't know if you have realized or have thought of it yourself but by doing these videos and recognizing past events, you are making history yourself. Great job and "as always" thank you.
i remember all of that,so glad that you made a terrific video,keep doing what youre doing,i would get off the school bus&run to my house,at home i would turn the t.v.on,bat-man&robin would be just coming on,not missing a scene
saturdays me &little sister stayed
Thank you so much for posting this! I feel that my wish to go back to my childhood years was granted 😂! I fondly remember every single thing displayed, and I feel great happiness in the experience. ❤
I would not trade that time as a youth even if I could....50 and 60s were the best times to grow up....I am glad I am as old as I am because this world is unrecognizable and a very cold place spiritually.
One thing I miss from back then is DRIVE IN MOVIE THEATERS.
Miss those days of sting ray bikes finding bottles being home when the street lights came on good times
I Remember Playing Safe In The Street, Friendly Neighbours, Chimney Sweeps, Mr. Whippy Ice Cream, Coal Being Delivered, Outside Toilet, Steam Trains, Bike Riding, Country Walks, Seaside Days Out, Great Family Christmas’s, School Days 👎. Remembering My Late Parents 😥 🙏🇬🇧
I was born in 64. I long for those simple days. 😢. If I could go back, I would in a heartbeat. ❤️. Thank for the wonderful memories. Lost my Mom ( my last parent) last year. I think about when I was young all the time. I really miss her. 😢
Are'u German🤔
Also, who remembers collecting S&H stamps to redeem at their retail stores?! Me and my siblings had to take turns on who would get to go redeem them for a toy.
And the comics in Bazooka bubble gum had consumer offers on them as small as the were. I would rake lawns to make money to buy those things. That was the Amazon of the day for me!
I truly feel so blessed to have grown up in the 60 s . The way we played and thing’s we did made us the generation we became when a stick or a branch can become something that would keep you amused for hours who needs computers
As a Cub Scout and Boy Scout, I definitely had a subscription to Boys' Life. And Howard Johnson's was a big part of my life a well. Each year for my birthday, I'd invite friends over to my home for my birthday party, which consisted of lunch and cake. Then we'd all go over to the local bowling lanes for an afternoon of bowling. Then, to top it off, my family and I would go to Howard Johnson's for dinner, where the staff would sing Happy Birthday to me. What a day--it always made me feel special and very loved!
Love these videos. I remember the 1960s as a time when kids could be kids. No cell phones, no internet, no Google searches. I had a library card; spent endless summer days (when it was a life-enriching privilege to be bored) riding my banana-seat bike, playing outside with neighborhood kids until well past 8p and the fireflies came out; enjoyed Jiffy Pop popcorn, which my dad would make for us, and Hostess chocolate cupcakes. Bookending summer vacations was that other yearly ritual: returning to school in the fall, with fresh notebooks and new shoes. It was truly great . . .
What a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1949 . I had roller skates you had to have a key to tighten the skates .
I loved jax . I was good at it. I played Jax with my kids. We could even go trick or treating by ourselves at 10 yr old. .
Me too Born in 55 had roller skates pogo stick transistor radio No carjacking no home invasion feel bad for kids today being brainwashed to hate them selves and their country dont forget drive in movies 🍿
@@jimmyolsen5897 I had a pogo stick lol. I loved the drive in movies.
My wife born 3-11-49 does she ever have the stories to tell growing up in Sandiago cal!!
When we get older our smell loses quit a bit.....
1949 here. True Those Were the Days ended about the start of the 90s.
I can remember that gas was 29 cents or less per gallon in the 1960's. My dad could fill up his 1957 Oldsmobile, or his 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon during the 1960's, and get some change back from a $5 dollar bill. A gas station attendant would pump the gas for you, and clean the windshield.
And they would check your oil too. The good old days for sure.
Gas prices was non issue until the fake gas crises in the early 70s. So true, my father could fill up his 55' Olds Rocket 88 for under $5 and get get his oil checked and windshield washed.
My dad knew the sinclair station owner and took his 57 olds there for repairs I had one of those inflatable dinosaurs
yeah .. and 20 cents of THAT was for the TAXES
@ Nicky Naime-- I remember the fake oil embargo that started in October of 1973. We had very long lines at the gas stations here in Maryland for about four months. At that time, if your tag ended in a even number, you could only buy gas on even numbered days, and the same for tags that ended in a odd number. Once the price doubled to about 59 cents per gallon around late February of 1974, there was plenty of gas available.
My father would have liked your father's 1955 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. My father always had a Oldsmobile until he passed away in 1984.
I love these videos! I was a seventies kid, but my big brother was a sixties child. I remember lots of this dragging into the early seventies, such as collecting bottles to sell, and we had Rockem Sockem Robots. Another game I remember enjoying was my brother's electric vibrating football game. Seemed like the players mostly just ran in circles, I loved it! The players moved just like in real football! YES! That game nearly killed me. I wanted to play with it while my brother was at school, I was still too young for school, and no one told me not to touch the metal when plugging things into the wall outlet. Well, I learned that day not to plug things up on my own. Luckily, it knocked me back and scared me more than it hurt. I am 54 today, and when I see the metal prongs on a plug, that long ago day still pops up in my mind. LOL Thank you so much for the wonderful Memories.
I mentioned that one in another post above. That game was lame. I'm surprised more kids didn't electrocute themselves with that one.
Wow, what great memories! Born in the 60's I remember all of those things, and miss them greatly. The milk man, and Holmes bakery wagon coming to the house, picking out goodies, also the pogo sticks, roller skates, unicycles, and Clacker balls, at which I was very good at, and never had a pair explode on me! Lol
I am 75 and remember growing up in the 50's and 60's. simple life back then.One thing most people have today that we never dreamed of then is a cell phone.i have never had one and have no desire for one.seems to me people let that thing run their lives.
I’m 73 and have what they call a smart phone and unlimited internet and that is what I watch these videos on. Some times I have to force myself to put it down. There is a lot of valuable information on the internet. A lot of the junk information as well.
Dick Tracey had a 2 way wrist radio. Remember that?
@@willie6185 I have high speed internet and have had a computer for years.my wife passed away in 2003.she got a computer in the 90's.we had dial up slow internet back then.i had cable tv since the 70's.it got so high i cut it off 2 years ago and have youtubetv since then.my cable had gone to 130 bucks a month.i get all the channels i watched on cable for 69 bucks a month.my internet and house phone cost 81 bucks a month.
@@oldman3440 Hey old man. Sorry to hear about your wife. I have been on the internet since 2006. I to had dial up. and hated it. The only reason that I got internet was because of my sisters. They live on the other side of the country. I got my apple I phone thru Walmart which is Straight talk and I have unlimited everything. For 54 dollars a month. What I do is buy a refurbished I phone so they are a lot cheaper. Can’t afford a new one. Now that I am retired, I live in my van because there is no affordable housing here where I live. I choose to live in my van so that I would have money. If I got a place to live, It would cost about three quarters of my retirement check. So anyway have a good one.
@@buickinvicta288 “Dick Tracy calling Go Go Gomez” 😂
Born in 1956 so true to the title, I remembered everything in this video. I remember also when skateboards first came along. I had to make one out of a roller skate because to buy one at the store downtown you had to fork over $3.95 and who has that kind of money? I recall the price of gas being about .32 a gallon. 😮 and I could get a bottle of Dr. Pepper for .10 out of a chest type Coke cooler at the gas station.
I know exactly what you're talking about my friend.
And McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents. Ice cream cones 12 or 15 cents, 45's were 69 cents and albums were $2.99/3.99. And we had "penny candy"...
Same here bud
@birdfan57. I remember a McDonald's hamburger, small Coke,and small fries, came to 97 cents, after tax.
@@edengel9376 and people made $2 hr
So grateful I grew up in the analog age … not the digital ! Such a shame it’s gone away . Good times .. great memories ❤
Wonderful memories!
Absolutely love this. It brings back so many wonderful memories. The days of innocence I long for
Bomb shelters and fear of nuclear annihilation. The KKK and lynchings. Assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK. The Vietnam war. Women treated as less than equal. I grew up then too. Take off your rose-colored glasses.
@@Argonaut121 I was a child in the 60’s and those were the days of innocence for me. I long for that
@@Argonaut121 You sound like the racist in the room. We also have a guy in the White House that will put us in war. Racist like you and him are destroying America by the day. These were the good old days.
@@megrcar3306 Fair enough. I just get a bit weary of people thinking that the 60's were some sort of lost golden age. I think anytime when you're a child things seem innocent.
@@Argonaut121 I’m sure you have some nostalgic memories you may long for from the days of your innocence and 50 years from now you’ll get similar negative reactions from future generations that would just not understand because they weren’t alive when you were a child. 🤷🏻♀️
I went to Vietnam in 1969 and came home in 1975 and the world was totally changed for me and my brothers in arms.
You have my respect.
60 TO 75 DOES NOT MAKE ANY SINCE ...... MOST PEOPLE ONLY DID 1 TOUR....
@@mefirst4266 Better re-read what was actually said. :)
That is when the Communist left gained traction in the Democrat Party. Americas real enemy wasn't Vietcong it was college students.
Memories. I was born in June 1958 in Florida ( still live here ) For the life of me I don't remember any duck and cover exercises in school. Everything else was pretty much what I remembered. It's a shame these days that kids are so caught up in social media and taking selfies that they have forgotten how to just have fun.
Maybe they considered my town (New York City) to be a bigger target than where you lived, because I had to do shelter drills in NY elementary school. My school had two different alarms: one for fire and a different one for shelter. When the shelter alarm rang, we kids would leave the classroom and huddle up against an unbroken wall in the corridor. My apartment building didn't have a fallout shelter, but the apartment building across the street did.
@FixingOurFamilyCourts Gosh I miss being a kid back when. Things were far from perfect but what kids have to go through today with the shootings and all it seems idealistic.
Good times, good memories, I’m very grateful to have lived during this time 👍👍🥰
Yes I do see what we miss? No cell phones, no computers, no lap tops; just good wholesome family fun...Thanks for the memories.
I can't believe you mentioned the fried clams at Howard Johnsons! That was my usual order when we were lucky enough to go out to eat. Another big thing was buying Coke in those thick little bottles that stayed cold for a long time and you would always get them from a refrigerator box or the Coke machines with one narrow window that would only let one bottle out at a time (no matter how much you tried to jiggle 2 of them out). Also if you bought a case of Cokes they came in a heavy-duty wooden crate.
My Dad drove a Coke truck, and quite a few places he delivered to were NOT at ground level. So, he had to load 5 or 6 of those wooden cases on a dolly and lug them up either 1 or 2 flights of stairs. He had some nicely defined biceps, and incredibly strong legs.
I'm in Ocala, FL & saw plastic wrapped cases of coke in glass bottles (I believe Hecho en Mexico) at Earth Fare last week for $45.00 It was probably 12 to 15 bottles
@@russs7574 those beverage delivery guys were alway built like tanks!
@@jillconnelly8206 just imagine if you happen to stumble across a couple of cases in the back of some old warehouse of glass 8 oz bottles in the wooden crates. The way collectors are today I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be considered highly collectible and worth some money.
I remember we always took the empties back to the grocery store when we bought groceries.
Wow! That was a blast from the past! Thanks for letting me re-live my childhood!
Growing up in the 60’s, the music was the best. We had rock and roll, the British Invasion, Motown! What a great time to be young! I remember those days by listening to the 60’s music today!