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- A General Electric dramatization about household labor saving appliances. Family moves to house in new town. Contrasts old house that husband buys with new house that wife wants. Wife gets sick, husband has old house modernized while she recovers, including labor saving appliances.
The irony is the old house is probably now the most expensive on the street, while the modern one has been torn down and replaced with something equally flimsy
it is so pretty. i love the old house.
Redwood doesn't rot like modern pine wood houses.
Exactly my thoughts! The father def knew where to put his money! 😉
Very true. Modern houses are "disposable" by nature. Real estate in a classic sense ALWAYS has more merit where style is concerned. I believe the family made the better choice in moving into the classic home and simply updating to modern conveniences.
Survivor bias. Average quality of old houses was actually worse. The terrible ones mostly didn't survive.
Ive been a housewife for the past 22 years of my marriage to a wonderful man. We have 4 beautiful children. Our home was built in 1925, we didn’t change any rooms just updated the kitchen and bathrooms and minor paint and stuff. I love the older homes. Even my decor is similar to theirs. So much character and charm these older homes have. We basically are almost like this family. Love this video.
That is so sweet
Ohh how sickening sweet 🤗🤗🤗🙄🤮🤮
Ive been a housewife for 33 years of my marriage to amazing man. We got beautiful son .i wouldn't change anything about my amazing and beautiful lifestyle in amazing Wales UK ❤
If your home and family is like this one, you are truly blessed, and most would surely be envious of such a wonderful life.
Everybody used to say that I'd make a great housewife someday because I'm great in the kitchen and the bedroom, but sadly I'm still all alone 😢 hay 😮 isn't that george segal playing the dad in this film 😀
When one wage could support an entire family
When America was great.
It still can if you live in a small town.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 You mean before Ronald Reagan and the Republicans wrecked the American dream? That's who destroyed that old system whereby wages supported a family.
My MIL built her house in 1936. She had beautiful built in bookshelves and built in China cabinets. The floors were of course real wood and she had them covered with rugs! We love these older homes because to build with the same quality today would be very expensive. Love the old arts and crafts!
@ivegotthis I've never seen a human body with built in bookshelves and china cabinets but when I read your comment the way you wrote it, your mother in law had it all.
Honestly, the outside of the home they bought is stunning. The one across the street resembles a mobile home a bit.
Midcentury modern in houses or decor has clean lines, inside and out. The idea was to make living there bright and easy so a woman wasn't a housewife, married to the place, but a homemaker, using her creativity and energy on things like design, landscaping, and activities outside the property, such as volunteer work or a job. It is unfair to compare two such different styles of exteriors, or interiors. Both houses were beautiful in their own way.
@@653j521 That's so true. My Mom use to markout "housewife" on school forms and replace it with "homemaker" ... stating she wasn't married to a house. I love and miss you Mom.
Today on House Hunters. He’s a middle manager at the new Widget plant. Shes a stay at home mom. The and their two children are moving to a new location.
He wants the stability and nostalgia similar to his grandparents house, with the same appliances. And troubles.
She likes the new modern electrical time savers. Can they agree on a home before she dies of overwork, or he dies of a toaster in the bath?
LOL! 😂
Good one! Lol
I was thinking that I would have been smacked him.
😂😂 niiiice!! That was too funny!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The mother says at the beginning that she is going to have a baby, but months go by (as they show on the calendar) and she never gains a single ounce! And never mentions it again.
She miscarried due to the stress of cleaning the new house.
Hysterical pregnancy! She’s been going to a psychoanalyst every week for the last 15 years.
With proper diet and certain genes, I’ve heard many women don’t show until the 4th or 5th month. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if women of the time wore stays or a corset of some kind until they couldn’t.
@@mariekatherine5238 well she is going through menopause and doesn't know it. It is normal to start skipping periods and thus think one is pregnant.
@@raje22 That sounds painful. Wouldn't the baby come out looking as if it had been run over by a steam roller?
The mortgage went up from $83.33 to $89.16...but they'll manage!
so did my UI... _I'M RICH!_
Lord...
That is outrageous! Prices these days! 😱
That's less than one thousand dollars monthly today (2022).. in my area (Puget Sound) that house would list at at least 1 mil. today..
Sounds great, but we all have to keep in mind that it was as hard, if not harder, to make the money needed to pay those bills.
So this is the 28min electrical commercial back in 50s...
“strong fingers like your father” 👀😂
I was going to say.
"Well maybe I can help in that department..."
I almost did a spit take when she said that, and I wasn’t even drinking anything. 😂
@guru, people didn't have dirty minds back then. Hands would have sounded better than fingers though. LOL.
Yeah, Im a lesbian too.
How do you know!?
my mother was a housewife but she also handled all the finances. If my dad had bought a house without her, it would have meant divorce!
Add to the fact that in some states, what he did isn't even legal!
It was legal then.
When I was seven years old in 1967 my dad took a job in a new town about 200 miles away. He bought a house while my mother packed. He did the same thing - called her and told her she'd love it. We got there there two days later and he was right - it was awesome and she was thrilled.
@3506Dodge Well this video when woman were basically property and any woman who had a job had to have her husbands approval and the job was always cooking.
My husband did the same to me five years ago. Unfortunately the whole experience has been.....similar to this movie. Right down to staring longingly out at the house of my actual dreams from the shitty shack windows of this dilapidated 1970's hell hole we have to call our home. Love my husband so much. He really did mean well, but there are many ways to lose trust in your partner and pulling a Mr.Forrest is one of them.
The mom is in the kitchen without her pearls. June Cleaver wouldn't be caught dead like that.
OH... she has them, you just can't see them.
@@zelphx I gave both a pearl necklace in the bedroom where they first got some and store them..
Yesss
@@zelphx... She washes off that necklace every morning!
I find these videos relaxing
She doesn’t like the nine room house??? It’s beautiful... wow if all I had to do was clean.. sigh 😔 They threw away the good life with both hands. Stupid stupid boomers.
@@scrambledmegdresqlol569 and then prevented us from having it. The average price for one of these large homes in 1960 was 32,000. That's $274,000 today. Most of these homes sell for upward of $500,000 while Boomers use younger generations to be their retirement cash cows through massive rises in real estate prices. Boomers literally priced future generations out of a home, the average home costed twice the annual salary in 1970, and is over four times today, for the same home now 50 years older. They increased the need for college degrees from 27% to 69% even for jobs which do not actually require one in reality-meaning a massive increase in student loan debt, tuition rose from requiring 950 hours at the minimum wage to pay for a year of college in 1970 to 2150 in 2015. The workweek rose as well, the average Boomer worked 1,950 hours in 1975 while the average Millennial today works 2,250 or 300 hours (that is over 7 40 hour work weeks) more. They stagnanted salaries, and then refused to retire-leaving whole job markets totally flooded and unavailable to highly qualified younger people. Millennials are the most educated generation in history, yet significantly underemployed or still in entry level positions, unable to advance while higher positions are held by Boomers refusing to leave. I wonder how many Boomers know what it feels like to compete with 300 other applicants for an entry-level job requiring years of experience, multiple degrees and half the salary needed to raise a family. No generation could have done more to screw over everyone but themselves.
Might sound like a lot of whining but when you put it together, you realize that it cost millions of Americans the ability to be homeowners, save for retirement or even have successful careers.
I feel like even in the fifties everyone was already smokin' weed.
I do to
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Whenever I'm thinking about updating my home I always consult my Doctor first.
The days when an assistant HR manager earned enough for a family of 5 and a part time housekeeper in a giant period home...
Yep, before the 1965 immigration act allowed a flood of people to come in and compete for jobs, and before the union jobs were outsourced to cheap labor.
It was Never As Good As these films try and depict. It's an ideal to hope for and shoot for it was never a reality. Just socio-economic propaganda
Hehehe...
I just watched a video about a family grocery shopping in 1962...two bags of groceries- including a 5.5 pound roast- for $5.63!
@@yosemite735 Oh, stop. Population explosion and automation.
@@tolfan4438 Correct-a-mundo.
I wish this was a TV series. I love this!!
I think that's George Segal from the TV show just shoot me
Charming old-time movie. It's kind of cute how the electric company made these films to pitch their products. It probably helped sell appliances. Thanks for posting. :-)
Might as well be the sequel to the 1942 comedy movie, George Washington Slept Here. 😆
They remind me of Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress.
When she looks at the first house the contractor told her that the washing machine is also the dryer. I didn't know that combo existed back then. And I like the blue appliances in the new kitchen; I wish I had that instead of the hideous stainless steel I have.
Yes, they did exist. My cousins had one back in the 50s.
Bendex the people who made airplanes for the war then appliances. Everything old is new again .
I'm rebuilding my home now and the funny thing is, I'd just about kill for some of those original light fixtures these days 😂😂😂😂. What's old is in again.
thinking the same thing..
Yep! Our house was built in 1926 and most of the original light fixtures have been replaced. The modern fixtures look out-of-place to me.
They are wonderful, but without inset ceiling lighting they are soooo dark in rooms.
If my father had bought a house without my mother, I wouldn't have had a father for very long.
It looks like it has a deep basement…
9 room house for her to clean, my mother raised 8 kids and cleaned a 10 room house by herself. You know they were a well to do family.
"In the long-run everybody dies"
Well she put it rather Blunt. hahaha
I feel into the CZcams black hole.
Same. All the time. I love it lol
Welcome, we have snacks
same with Dad's strong fingers...
“I don’t wanna become a sour beaten worn out kitchen drudge! ...because you won’t love a drudge and the children won’t.”
This is such a perfect example of a hard core sales presentation. I can’t stop thinking about the writer and how he must have been laughing so loud when he wrote that! Talk about the hook!
You don't think women felt that way?
Omg the day my man tried to get fresh after I did slave labor housework all day, by myself, pregnant, in some old house he bought without asking me...would be the day he wish he don’t wake up.
So True he is so crayzy 😱
How long before she finds out her daughter is "not like" the other girls.
I looked her up on wiki, and yes, she is openly gay.
Sheila James was "Zelda Gilroy" on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in the '60s. That was a TV series. In the show, her character was in hot pursuit of Dobie Gillis. He only had eyes for Thalia Menninger, and other flashy girls. In the '70s, there was a reunion show. Dobie had finally settled for, and settled down with Zelda.
😂
Ha! I came here to say that too
@@jankirschke7425 You really had to look that up? Stevie Wonder could've seen that coming up 7th avenue.
The little boy is Michael Winkleman..He played Little Luke on The Real Mccoys..The contractor is Peter Hansen..He played Lee Baldwin on General Hospital for many years..
Ken Sigman Oh! I couldn’t place them, especially Little Luke! He sounded the same, but he was even cuter in this one. I used to love The Real McCoys and have watched it in reruns over the years.
Great eye! I watch GH with my mom my entire life, how neat!
I am so happy you mentioned The Real McCoy's for the longest time! I just couldn't bring it up! Happens a lot these days! Lol! But truly, I just couldn't think of it! It really is great to hear of the other actors as well! Thank you so much!
I thought that was him!
@@QueenBee-gx4rp "Pepino, Pepino, you love to take siesta alla time...Pepino, Pepino, you're happy but you haven't got a dime."
I much prefer the large older house to the tacky one. However, I can totally understand the wife wanting the modern conveniences.
"I believe in the American dream, but for housewives too!"
Get his ass girl
I love that 1950's music at the beginning of this video - it was a very good time to be a child and I love how the adult (W W 2 generation) ran everything and they did a wonderful job too. We were lucky to have them as parents. Things were calm and wonderful. My parents bought a house with a wooded acre in 1948 - it was built in 1912 the year the Titanic went down. I think it cost $8,000. Can you imagine that? Daddy hand built himself a garage when I was a one year old baby and he hand sawed all of the wood in that garage.
Things were calm and wonderful? Only to kids who didn't know what the adults were suffering.
Yeah it was calm and wonderful because mental health was stigmatized.
@@SpaceCadet45s and people knew when to keep private things private
@@653j521 The adults?!
My "mother" was a monster...not just to my father...she beat the f*ck out of me..locked me in my closet...I almost died when she forgot me one day...
But MOST people WERE lovely...
so the abused kids could sometimes escape to good homes for awhile.
Not in my house. My mother was a creative emotional woman married to a locked down man who worked nights on the RR huge hours to pay of medical bills after my older brother survived polio in 1952. She didn’t drive my dad would have never permitted here to touch his pride and joy so she was.isolated once we left the city where she could walk everywhere . OTOH we had grass and fields to play instead a concrete jungle. Pretty sure she was bipolar but functional GP put her on Valium and sleeping pills. My dad basically ignored us.. not the good old days.
Beautiful old house.
Once it was fixed up....
It's very beautiful...
Needs some TLC that's all...
It was fixed up
@@yodservant Before Is So Horrible 😝😝😝
I love that table and chairs in the kitchen. We had one when I was growing up, but it was pink and gray. In fact, my parents had a bed like theirs, only in black. I wish I had the furniture now that we had back then.
This is great - it is so funny though how so many folks love the older construction still (like myself)...have a home over 119 yrs old and still rock solid for the most part...the modern stuff is nice, but you can have the best of both worlds in an older place with the character in my personal opinion. The mid-century mods are rockin also...so I can't really slam this either way...
My house will be 100 next year so I def agree with you. Every owner has made it better, including us. I’d like to personally shake the hand of the owners who knocked the walls out.
I am slightly late in reply..
My house is Art Deco 1926...I adore her
I think they forgot that she was pregnant in the beginning of the skit😂
My husband bought a house without me knowing. And when we were first married, rented one in a town 30 miles away! Still married 37 years later! 🥰
That kitchen turned out gorgeous and cheery!
I loved when the hubby picked her up and carried his wife up to bed . He really wants her to be happy , and does a great job with the children redoing the house . Now that's a family !
My father did that to my mother too in the 1960s.
At least they won't need a big bed for that miniature baby she's apparently having.
GullWing Storm hahaha!! I know!! After 5 months and she’s not showing?? Lol
Back when this was produced, things such as a women's pregnancy weren't discussed in polite society. Which is why we aren't seeing a baby bump.
Dont forget, it wasn't all that long ago women weren't allowed to vote! Bare shoulders, midriffs & knees are a fairly recent thing in acceptable women's fashion.
It was us boomer chicks & our Mom's who started the ball rolling. Its up to you kiddos to bust through that glass ceiling!
Or she had a miscarriage from that big old house... I feel like that's kinda hinted at.
You know it had to be hard enough getting pregnant sleeping in separate twin beds...
The daughter says she will be lonesome and not know what to do with herself in the new town, and the mother counters with maybe she can help her out in that department. So I guess she was referring to the girl having to babysit all the time.
The second house is 10X better !!! It’s stunning, I would love to live there !
She's absolutely right. In 1920 there would have been an extended family, or perhaps a "hired girl," to help with cooking, cleaning, washing, mowing, fixing, etc. For a family with two children and one on the way, it is ridiculously huge. She wanted mod cons, especially ac, an efficient layout and reliable wiring. In 1920, the woman wouldn't have been left alone all day trying to keep this great beast alive.
I agree!! Except for the laundry room appliances...
Just be sure it's not called "Green Acres". 🐄
13:07
*Husband:* "What kind of a heel do you think I am?"
*Viewers:* "The kind that thinks it's ok to buy a house without his wife having the slightest say!"
When I was 8 y/o, we moved from one of the post WWII cape cod style homes, to a brand new, modern subdivision in 1954. I loved the old house, but the new one sure had more room, but we still only one had one bathroom! The whole area was young families with lots of kids. It was lots of fun and new adventures.
Bad timing. About 1960 was when 3 BR's 1 1/2 baths an attached garage and a family room with fireplace became standard new house. Prices dropped too. Shoulda stayed in the cape cod (or was that a bungalow?) a few more years. Pricewise it was an equal trade.
@@mikezylstra7514 How do you know? You are assuming a lot.
@@653j521 I was there.
My mother would have yelled in Spanish, and Italian to make sure that my father understood what she meant if he bought a house without approval. Oh those happy days of family when my poor dad did something stupid lol I used to make a lot of cash to help him get out of trouble lol. RIP daddy
Caroline was "Zelda" on" The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis". She was also on "Trouble With Father".
Zelda is my daughters name
Sequin Jackson I knew I recognized her!
I recognized the dad.....can’t remember where
I felt like such an old fart recognizing Zelda.
Sequin Jackson I thought for sure that was her. Only one “Zelda”!
I think Carolyn became my future gym teacher 25 years later. Miss Mann.
The house he bought is beautiful and massive compared to that small ranch. I love that oven and her formica table. Needs a dishwasher and a washer/dryer, and air conditioning in every room and rewiring. Where is she hiding the baby? it isn't in her belly!
Previous owners of our house put in central heat and air in 1956. The kitchen was remodeled with built in appliances, including a garbage disposal and dishwasher in the 1960s. It all still worked when we bought the house. They must have tried to hire that old bat Mrs. Swenson. I think that baby is going to be delivered by FedEx ground.
I love the second house. Much nice than the first one! The family is just so unappreciative.
That's not fair, it's not a lack of appreciation. Come on now
It's a beautiful home for sure. But, I agree with the wife. Nine rooms is a lot to handle if you have only one person running the household.
2:21 "You don't have to give me the commercial; I'm not a baby." LOL - The sass is strong in this one!
The model home reminds me of the one in Bachelor in Paradise staring Bob Hope and Lana Turner. There is this great scene where the neighbor comes over to use the garbage disposal.
Sure, I'd probably want the conveniences of the modern house, but I like the look of the older place.
Yes older place is better
@@thirabx6954 Older needs a second mortgage to make it livable.
The destruction of the original Penn Station introduced Landmark Status. I believe modern architecture is crap: can’t think of another noun.
Best guilt trip for a kitchen remodel ever!
The old house had character. The new look is schlock.
The old house has good bones...it just needed some better muscle and sinew, arteries and veins.
I love the old house. I would say thank you. I love a vintage home!
Wow, Dad got rid of the nice light fixtures in the living room and now has hidden florescent tubes! From a home to a cheesy mid century hotel lobby! Thanks Dad!
Aww, the house he bought...so gorgeous!!!
I wonder if the old house is the same one GE bragged about being electrically advanced by GE in a 1915 film? (The big push for electric living predates the 50s by decades.) Just the number of light fixtures in the living room was a good bit in the era those fixtures were made. Interesting that the newer house is older now than the old one was then!
The older house is far more beautiful. A little paint? Stunning!
ConstantCompanion eww no it's not
@@girlscanbedrummers5449😊 use your imagination.
That house was pretty old fashioned compared to the modern houses with washers, dryer, and air conditioning they had back then.
What kind of husband gets advice from a medical doctor regarding whether his wife really needs conveniences to do housework, when she has repeatedly told him that, and he can see she works 80 -100 hours a week.
He was right to call a doctor. She didn't need aspirin, just a healthy dose of brand name Valium and meth. Problem solved!
Mother's Little Helper
The old house looks like one of the ones in the neighborhood that Marty McFly went back to in the first "Back to the Future".
Others have commented that three of these performers appeared in various TV series after they were in this advertising film - but I'm more impressed that the credits in the beginning list not only "Edit Angold" as Mrs. Swenson, but also "True Boardman" as the Director.
I recognized the daughter as Zelda in the tv series Dobie Gillis. I believe she also was in a Petticoat Junction episode.
@@debpabetz9730 Sheila James had already been a regular on at least one TV series when this movie was made, or possibly was still doing so. After her most famous role as Zelda, she starred in another comedy series set on a Pacific island during WWII as a WAVE. After a few more guest roles she left show business to get a college degree and eventually became a politician.
@@debpabetz9730 Thank yoj! That was driving me nits! She looked and sojnded so familiar bit I couldn't place her!
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Use your spell checker please!
The Springdale plant has been closed down and production moved overseas years ago.
I LOVE the second house. The first looked cheap
Believe it or not my husband bought me a house without me knowing. I found out about it a week before moving in and the day he closed. Lets just say he did good ❤
Oh heck no!
I want that midcentury modern ranch
Beautiful home! And a blue and yellow kitchen to boot!!! Love it! If only I had a Husband and Children like that also. ❤❤❤
That baby def got miscarried from all the heavy housework.
Without getting into the whole "he bought a house without his wife's knowledge" thing (he shouldn't have, but anyway) - the house he bought is WAY nicer than the other one! That big ole brick "mansion" across the street from the little cruddy stick house is FAR superior! But, this does go to show the attitudes behind thinking vinyl flooring was better than hardwood or tile, plastic better than natural materials, flashy and shiny better than dignified age and quality. I think these corporate-instilled attitudes of "new is always better" and "Grandma's stuff is SOOO out of date and ugly" are part of what started and continues to prop up the consumer, throw-away culture.
Hardwood (also probably called a parquet) was a more luxury item. Where I live, some old commie blocks have also hardwood floors. I do live in a commie block, but I do have linoleum (in fact probably vnyl).
Never seen vinyl direct attache to floor. Kitchen, bath, corridors had usually simply cement. Prewar buildings had sometimes (probably more luxurios ones) something called mozaic, sometimes in form of small tiles. Thaz mozaic, even if it was simple cement, or tiles is very rezistent...
I like the house the dad picked better than that tacky ranch disaster.
Tacky ranch disaster is now known as Mid Century Modern and carries a high price tag to go with the new name.
I kept saying, “But I like the house he bought!!”
That pink kitchen was horrible
@@countessratzass5408 that just proves money can't buy taste.
So he shows her a 60-amp electrical service! I love it!
It was common for people to not have air conditioning in the 1950’s. We lived in Indy & didn’t have it until I got married & moved into my own apartment in 1973. People today are very spoiled & do not understand how blessed they are & especially to live in this Country where we have so much.
Jane Elson
Oh it was terrible in the south without AC. Listen up kiddies! Schools weren’t air conditioned. Attic fans, ceiling fans, fans in windows and high ceilings were the best you could do at home.
Funny thing, my 150 yr old has still has 60 amp service..lol
@@SolidRock-gn9zr Not in these new houses. They were all about selling the latest things. In older houses, yes.
Today a house that size would need a 30 position breaker panel minimum.
... In the long run, Everybody dies. People live in the short run!...... Brought to you by Visa card 💳!
Life without credit cards back then, those were the days. You paid for stuff or put it in layaway. My grandparents got an Esso gas card and that’s the first credit card I can remember.
😆😆😆
@@countessratzass5408 It was called a charge PLATE and it was metal.
The dad was right! She kept her girlish figure!
Have to look for the silver lining I guess
I enjoy the realism of this production. It's not all upbeat and drippy.
Early to bed, early to rise makes a house spacious, and gracious in size!
Husband: "Oh Mrs. Svenson. Well didn't I tell you? I hired her on the phone... what kind of a heel do you think I am?"
Uh, the same kind of heel that doesn't bother consulting the wife before you buy a home.
gee whiz. you ain't sore are ya?
Ken Bob Right!
Ken Bob right?! It’s obvious divorce was still taboo back then. She’s literally the most unhappy woman in the world.
@Jake Tappert - You mean most people back then looked older than their real age...I guess that was because they worked harder physically, and the medical attention and the pharmaceutical products weren''t as good and effective as they are these days...it all determined a shorter life expectancy.
@Jake Tappert
I was born preemie in '76, and my elder sis in '69, but she ended up stillborn. I dunno how preemie she was, but I was 2 months early and 4.5 pounds.
Interesting us girls preemie, our bro, 3 days late in '67.
Big old houses are neat. But definitely. Never ending work
Honestly, the old house just needed a few repairs, updated breakers and fuse box for the appliances, and new insulation, and everything else it's more of a judgment call.
That new kitchen is so pleasing to the eye. I have an all white very modern kitchen but that 50s style kitchen is endearing.
He actually took the child's pocket money!!!
To develop a child's sense of responsibility and effort, to make him proud of being part of a family project. You know. When the word Family actually meant something. Family as in the foundation of society. The concept we killed.
He was obviously a toe-rag though. He proved it early on in the film, when he bought a house without asking his wife if she liked it.
@@kalitheamare Well if you killed it, you are to blame. The rest of us didn't.
Keep in mind, this was the best he could find, with no rentals left, and if he didn't snap it up they would be living in another town or in a tent, while he commuted a long way to work in their only car. That isn't being a pig and not caring what his wife thought. He thought he did well getting anything at all. I felt for this guy, mortgaged to the eye teeth with a new job he probably found stressful, afraid if he lost it the whole family would suffer, and then contemplating what amounted to a second mortgage. Of course he resisted spending more money. And of course he talked it over with an older man, not for medical reasons, it turned out if you listen carefully, but for wisdom. Was owing more the only real choice? No spoiler here. :)
First he picks out the house...then he decides on how to redecorate while she's away. Does this unpregnant, pregnant woman have no say in this marriage?
in the 50’s when wife’s misbehave or just have a voice of their own they think she’s not well and put her in a mental hospital to get cure .
Failed to notice the sketch the wife made?
Not till she stops lyin about being pregnant!!!
The issue is that they were overreaching. Nice old houses are owned by higher income earners for several reasons. It wasn’t hard to see that the HR under manager won’t be able to afford a mansion. All the cleaning lady needed was a better salary than at the new plant. All the house needed was extra money. Now the man can go down with worry and fatigue because of the double mortgage.
Yeah, right. We moved all the time and my mother didn't give me long-winded explanations. My father would come home from work, start taking the pictures down from the walls, and we knew it was time to start packing our stuff.
I loved that big, old house. The modern one was, as the song says, all made out of ticky-tacky and looked like all the others of that type. We lived in quite a few old places. My father, who had been a carpenter when he was young, would tear things apart and rebuild them. Usually, he ended up doing that because the place needed fixing up. And we were renters. He had me helping him by the time I was around 8 years old. Not to mention that that teenage girl looked big, strong, and healthy enough to have taken on a big chunk of the housework and taken some of the burden off her mother.
Oh, well, what do you expect from a 50s film, and one that was a commercial for electric power at that?
LOL same here!! only we knew when Dad would start to pack his antiques instead of pictures
My 48 year old son let me know LAST YEAR, that he still has a problem with the moves we made! We moved to survive, and of COURSE he would have disagreed with leaving his friends. NEVER did I as a single Mother ask his opinion. When he vented his resentment on a visit last year, I actually apologized! Then I told him I NEVER want to hear a word about THAT EVER AGAIN! I know who the liar is!
@@SOULRELIEF22 I once told my father that I wished I could have lived in the same place and grown up with friends. He just laughed at me and told me that I would have gone mad from boredom if I had. I never resented the moving, but it had stopped being such a big adventure by the time I was on my own and involved with the physical aspect of it. Nevertheless, I've always been a nomad and am looking to move for the 39th time as soon as I can find a place I can afford.
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I love you so MUCH! I think we moved around 10 times in Kelly's youth. But I never even THOUGHT about it! He didn't have to feed us, or clothe us, or pay the rent! GOD gave us favor, and new territory for soul winning. If we weren't SUPPOSED to move we OBVIOUSLY would have stayed put! LIFE is a WONDERFUL ADVENTURE!
Moving was not up for discussion it was an announcement. It did upset me the first time, moving away from my hometown and relatives at 7 yrs old. It crapped up my education but I have an all electric kitchen and Xanax now so whooooo cares!
This House wife made a lot of sense , she was ahead of her time !.
How so? She seemed to fit her time.
@@653j521 : She politely assertive with her husband and does not want around for her husband to make sure fuses are next to the fuse box . Although her husband thinks a big house is great she let's hin know that it's a lot of house to clean . She is no shrinking violet ! She gets what she wants and doesn't have to yell to get it .
"Pack your bags lady, you're moving today." Ah Milt, he's such a swell fellow.
“In the long run everybody dies.” Damn, I felt that.
And forget that afterlife baloney.
These give me the best laughs ever. Lifts my depression :)
Better if it went through the Rifftrax wringer. 😆
Can barely afford the house, so increases mortgage. Yup, that'll work.
What could go wrong?
@@ConstantCompanion - Losing his job, for instance...!
@@jenniferkelly6931 or illness or..
Its not that I'm against nice things. Its just..going in over your head like that is dangerous.
The daughter in this film was played by the actress who played on the Dobie Gillis show. I think her character's name was Zelda.
I love the old house. The washer not so much.
agreed
Before everyone starts bashing the ranch, consider that ranch houses in the beginning did have more character, detail, and better build quality. It was only by the time the ranch died it's painful, agonizing death in the 70s-80s that the houses had become so watered-down and shoddy that the builders must have realized they had cut one corner too many.
Ranch houses are simpler to build, and the money saved in construction can be put towards better finishes. The roofs of ranch houses are also easier and cheaper to maintain and replace because of the simple rooflines.
Also consider that it was in the 70s when crap materials like OSB and polybutene/ CPVC plumbing became popular, so before the builders ran to that, real plywood and copper plumbing was the gold standard.
Furthermore, appliances in the 50s were made to last (with a price tag to match the durability, lol). There are also many HVAC units and water heaters from that vintage that are still working away today.
Thanks for a reality check!
I love the addition of the desk and shelves in the kitchen, but Mrs F didn't even notice them!
They weren't powered by electricity.
@@BELCAN57 Oh, lord. I got caught up in the remodel and forgot the whole purpose of the video lol.
@@marianrohrbach1986 Tee hee. Her attention was drawn to her family of Swensons. I like the way they created the working triangle, so well known post war.
Puts a new meaning in “Father Knows Best.”
Sweet video........i too love older homes..we have one..its small compared to the Swensons but we like it. And it has airconditioning...🏠🏡🏫
I'm 56. Really enjoyed this. Husband's don't understand what around the house we enjoy. Especially now with a pandemic
I'm on my husband's phone. LOL
🤣🤣🤣 same exterior as our house! 3bdrm 2 bath 2300sq ft w 2 car attached garage built in 1955. All electric "Medallion Home". And it still has the original medallion by the front door!
This is my favourite movie. Drama and comedy with a happy ending.
That was 28 minutes of my life I’ll never have back, thanks for posting!
Leave to a man picking something like that!!! It would have been cheaper to buy a more modern home in the long run!!! But glad he’s finally seeing the light!
The older, second home is beautiful! I hate that cheap 60s look of the first home
Well built 50s.
I love how that kid talks!
We hadn’t even heard of dishwashers until the 1980 s in Britain. Lol
German ads had them into the '70's, but probably where not common in U.K.
Oh, I think I've seen a clip with a German '60's made one.
Whenever redoing your kitchen, always get your advice from a doctor who makes house calls.