Did Baby Boomers Have More Fun Growing Up?
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Some think nostalgia for the 1950s and 1960s is overrated. And most generations feel like they were lucky to have grown up in the era they did. But, I would argue that Baby Boomers may have been the luckiest of them all. So let’s take a look back at why baby boomers were able to have more fun, then any other generation.
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#recollectionroad #nostalgia #babyboomers - Zábava
It’s a very nostalgic picture show of the good times, and a nice one. Enjoying the channel… thanks! 😊
No cell phones, no texting. You actually got together with friends and spoke to each other. People were aware of their surroundings as opposed to looking down at their devices. Different times indeed.
I hate my cell phone today. I don't text or do apps. I still have my landline!
No cell phones and texting is a good thing????????????????????????
@@gustavsorensen9301”No cell phones” is a bit strong (at least for me) but socializing was more genuine and fun when it was face-to-face. I sure wouldn’t give up my technology though
You literally just typed and texted this on a computer ON social media. Settle down. 😳
Cell phones were at their best when minutes/texts/data cost enough it was useful, but you didn't dare live on it. Same with computers and video games. Their sweet spot was entertaining for an hour or two, but you got bored and still went outside.
Born in 1952 here. Those "dangerous" playgrounds gave us scrapes and bruises and it also taught us something very important, common sense. We were all taught right from wrong and I still thank my parents for that.
Would love to have been there. I wasn’t even though about during the post war era, and I don’t think nostalgia from the 50s and 60s is overrated at all, as mentioned in the commentary. In fact, I think it’s way underrated and needs to make a comeback like really soon!
Thank you .I was born in 1962 and yes COMMAN SENSE is what is still needed in todays world .But sadly is now its all gone down the drain because of the woke culture of today.
@@tonycraib5939 I honestly don’t want to be around in the next 20 years to see the results of all this mess. But I will anyways just to irritate the wokeians!
@@angeldesigns1385 Well put mate
I was born in 52 as well. I never remember any serious injuries on playgrounds and true my parents taught me right from wrong as well.
I was born in 1950 and i can say without hesitation those were the best years. Doors were left unlocked, no worries about being shot in your classroom, free speech was protected. Wish i could go back and relive those days. Proud to be a boomer.
Me tooo…..
I was born in 1950 as well and it’s a shame, the kids can’t go and play in the woods. Although, they’re probably aren’t any local woods to be had. No good matinee movies on a hot summer day….. sitting around with one of the many children in your neighborhood doing absolutely nothing. And don’t get me started on the smell of mimiograph paper….bliss…
@@CloudWatcher500 😂😂😂
Born in '54 . Know what you mean. .
We had the Best Times!
We were fit, no overweight kids, go out and play was a refrain in all seasons, climbing trees, fishing, swinging, rollerskating, ice skating, anything and everything til you were called home for dinner. No one sat in front of the idiot box all day, not even Sat mornings, too much to see, too much to do. We were creative in our play. And we didn't have to worry about getting abducted or worse. Society was much safer and laws still mattered.
You’re right. We take it for granted that we all knew how to ice skate, ski, swim, ride bikes, etc. Played basketball year round. Always someone to hang out with. Lots of kids in our neighborhood of 25 houses.
Outdoors was our gym, LOL.
you got that right, Tony!@@tonycollazorappo
@@samanthab1923 and each house had no less than five kids. We played kickball every day, boys and girls each team had at least ten kids. It was a blast 💥
You guys are selfish and ruin the planet
As a baby boomer we definitely had more fun.
Baby boomers grew up in a time, where girls weren't encouraged to play sports..Three black and white tv channels to watch..Listening to music on grainy records..No Internet..Worrying about getting drafted into Vietnam. I think today's generation has alot more fun
We knew how to have fun and to create fun without being told how to!
Baby boomers grew up in a time, where girls weren’t encouraged to play sports..Three black and white tv channels to watch..Listening to music on grainy records..No internet.. Worrying about getting drafted into Vietnam. I think today’s generation is a lot more fun
@OK-jn4wn You "were" busy. Boomers knew how to read and spell too.
@@gustavsorensen9301 Another thing YOU missed, is that BOOMERS, knew EXACTLY what GENDER, we were, YOU either had an innie or an outie, Boy's were REALLY Boy's and Girl's were REALLY Girl's and there was no confusion, or MENTAL ISSUES, about this. Also, young BOOMER kids, KNEW EXACTLY, which PUBLIC BATHROOM, to use.
I am 72 now and you just put my childhood in a video. Thanks.
I am 70 and I definitely agree with you!😄
@@sweetmarie297971 here, exactly , Thanks
I was born in 1968 and 55 now. So much of this I remember! Best times ever! Truly happy to be born at this time. No texting. Playing with my friends, home when street lights came on, play outside all day! So blessed!❤
@@thelittlegreenball6813 But you missed being a Baby Boomer by at least 4 years.
I’m 65 and the 60’s were great! My dad was a teacher my mom a stay at home mom. It was safe and quiet in our neighborhood. All the kids played in the street some played dodgeball, some played baseball, so me played basketball. No fighting or arguing we had a great time. I miss it.
I'm 76 and this was the best time to learn life lessons. Belts at school, falling out of trees, swimming in pond water, making right choices, learn what a friend is, having a dinner at home (if you didnt like it, you go hungry". Music was SOOOOOO great. It was a time we were trusted to make good decisions. What a great time to grow up
Yes to all this!
In those days there was a name for people who were picky about food, hungry.
I Still drink from the garden hose! 😎
I to am 76, I watch my Great Grandchildren today and wonder if they will survive to 30 years of age, 2 of my grand children didn't. Life in the 1950's to 1970's was great. To bad we evolved to what we have today.
I'm a Boomer.
The one thing that I personally know was better when I was a kid... compared to many kids today...was that we knew what imagination was, and how to use it.
I grew up on a farm.
The closest kid was about six miles away.
So, unless I was at school (which was ten miles from our farm), I had no one else to play with except for myself.
I learned early how to play outside and use my imagination.
The other day, my grandkids were complaining about "having nothing to do" after they had their tablets taken away for misbehaving.
I suggested that they go outside and enjoy the nice warm day.
To which, they asked me what they were supposed to do outside.
"Use your imaginations.", I said.
And they looked at me as if I had suddenly sprouted wings.
Actually asked me what "imagination" was!
Now, keep in mind, these kids are between 6-10 years old....the perfect age for using their imagination.
My cousins had a dairy farm. My favorite thing was to visit them. My mom would freak when she saw my tennis shoes when I came home. Well, you couldn’t tell if the patties were hard or soft!
Imagination!!!! A word that has seemed to have been dropped from kids’ vocabulary today! Because Phoenix was so hot we played indoors - lots of cars games, monopoly, etc. I got to watch ma y of the most wonderful old movies (mom worked!) plus reruns of tv shows from when I was younger! I’m guessing kids who live out there now all have home pools - didn’t know anyone who did! That was for rich people!!!😄😄
Should have told them they each had an imagination outside; they just needed to go out and find it. I think they were pulling your leg.
True but depending on where your grandkids live today, going outside could mean getting shot.
@@thurayya8905 unfortunately they were not pulling my leg.
Children grew up learning how to navigate thru life, how to fall and pick themselves up again, not having someone do it for you, not being coddled every step of the way. Those were good days.
We had the BEST music!! There was always a radio playing, it was like your life had a soundtrack
Yes the BEST music ever!
Agreed about the best music!
I slept with my radio on p- all night! I think that’s why I can remember song lyrics better than I can remember yesterday😄😄😳
The day I got my first transistor radio, Jan 1967, was one of the most exhilarating days of my life. I wore it out by summer.
Listened to the "big 8" CKLW
I am a baby boomer and I can vouch for the accuracy of your video. The 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were an awesome time to be alive. 😊❤
I agree!
In other words, the America you grew up in no longer exists.
That is correct.🙁
Yes, Thank God 18 year old Americans aren’t coming home in body bags from Vietnam
@@gustavsorensen9301 And now we have 112,000 deaths from fentanyl in a single year. I guess no one should have a good childhood cause people are dying.
You are not kidding. It’s disappearing quicker than we thought. My so is 27 & even with in his lifetime stuff we used to visit are gone or off limits. Old schools, bridges, even canals & tunnels. Shame
Sad, but true.
I don't even have to watch the video. The answer is unequivocally yes.
The 50's and 60's were much better than we realized at the time. Back then we all thought the things we loved would be around forever. Most are gone now. The world then was filled with optimism. Today it's filled with distrust and resentment. All we have now are the memories.
In the 1960's, kid play was face-to-face interaction and generally PHYSICAL. Playgrounds featured monkey bars and high sliding boards. Even gym class involved climbing ropes of 12 feet or more and vaulting over pommel horses. As an uncoordinated kid, I had my share of sprains, cuts, and blood blisters. Safety standards were admittedly lax. But it forced us to get out of our comfort zone and grow. Even with the injuries, it was better than a childhood spent in the house thinking electronics were toys or friends.
It recently occurred to me, that I haven't seen a leg or arm cast wearing kid in a decade or more.
@@susandean5622yes ma’am I’m an 80’s kid and I wore an arm cast proudly. Not to mention, the holey jeans I had from busting up my knees were first on my list to wear when we went out as a family. It’s amazing what we used to consider a badge of honor back then.
Do you know they can’t call them Monkey Bars or a Jungle Gym anymore
@@samanthab1923 I could be wrong, but I’ve heard that you can’t call a “manhole” a manhole anymore a certain state? as rarely as that term is brought up, I’m surprised that’s even a thing.. but then again, that state may be populated with more manholes than any other state.
It is truly sad that many words get "flagged" because some people can potentially misinterpret them in a way that could make them seem sexist, racist, or otherwise inappropriate. Doesn't leave us with a very large working vocabulary.@@angeldesigns1385
I feel blessed being born in 1951.The perfect age for the next three decades. A kid in the 50's, teen in the 60's and a young adult in the 70's. Wish life had a reset button.
You ARE blessed being born in the US in the ‘fifties’. This video is incomprehensible to Europeans. America is and was, not the ONLY nation in existence at that time…..
Very well said....I feel exactly the same.
@@roberthurley6860 Thank you, Robert.
as a boomer, we had freedom to learn and grow, there were very few helicopter parents. We had fights, disputes and mostly settled those by ourselves we did for ourselves in other words we learned how to be an adult one day at a time, with all the triumphs and failures and we came out stronger people
And when you got in a fight with another boy, after the fist fighting was over, win or lose you became friends with each other.
@@samuelschick8813 earned respect, heck yeah!
it helps to realize you can have fun, rather than model oneself as a perpetual victim and blame every other generation for your perceived disadvantages.
Gen Z's love to blame boomers for these hard times we're in. They just don't get how ignorant they sound when saying that. All they need to know is history and facts about corruption in government. This is just my personal general observation.
Born 1953. I had a blast 💥. Thank you God 🙏🏻
Me too!
I feel the same way! Many thanks!
😊
Same here!
Oh yeah! A lot of fun. But I didn't love falling out of trees and getting the wind knocked out of me. I could have done without that one. 😉
Proud 1959 Born Baby Boomer Here!..No Cells..No Video games..No staying inside to play ALL outside activities with friends & family
Breaker one niner copy that
Same here! I wish I could go back to those days and appreciate being young. Instead of wanting to grow up way too fast!!!!!
What are you PROYD about? Your conception happened, nothing to do with YOU….
Nothings to be “proud” about. It just happened to your, out if your volition. Sorry.
I agree, I grew up in the 60's, spent alot of time riding bikes, climbing trees using my imagination. Some of my happiest memories are from my childhood. We had a large swimming pool and that's how I spent my summers. And yes, I would go back again.
One added thing I so miss, telephone etiquette! IF I was on the phone too long or when dinner was ready, I had to sign off. And phone calls were private! The idea of blaring out our personal news in a public place was more than discourteous, it was rude to the nth degree! Dinner time was a respected time for everyone, at the table and not at the table. We don't seem to respect anything or anyone anymore, I miss that. A little courtesy to everyone goes a long way still. People matter more than machines.
That is exactly right!📞
Contra to the folks who talk on their cellphones while being waited on. Manners are steadily on the decline
@@pjesfI see families with kids in restaurants and they all sit there with their phones - no conversation - just eat and look at a screen! So sad!
@@sandybruce9092 Sad indeed. It’s like screaming, “I have absolutely no interest in the people with whom I am sitting”.
I was born in 54 and every dinner I ate was at the table. And I raised my children to eat at the table every meal. Now that I live alone I’ve relaxed that and I’ll eat in front of the TV because there’s no children around to give a good example too. But as parents we sacrifice a lot of our freedom to try to bring our children up correctly. I rarely took them out to eat I made every meal soups and stews and roast fried pork chops baked potatoes, lots of casseroles like macaroni and cheese scallop potatoes, scallop potatoes with ham, and on the days when I didn’t have enough money for meat I would make a vegetarian soup or stew or even leftover spaghetti sauce on toast. As hard as those days were raising my children alone because my husband walked out on me when I was pregnant with my second child it was still better than what the parents are doing with their children today with or without money
Did Baby Boomers Have More Fun?
As a baby boomer, I can definitely say YES!
Oh heck yeah! LOL.
Born 1956..the only fun thing at school was recess, and Friday lunches(sloppy joe or fish sticks). But we obeyed and respected our teachers. We learned to read, write, and spell in grade 1. We learned cursive in grade 2. We read books and did book reports. We did our own homework, every night. There was only ONE winner trophy. If we misbehaved we got our behind paddled. We became hardworking, responsible adult citizens!
The only really scary part of the sixties was the war, and the nuclear attack drills of Oct-1962 Alarm sounds and we 6 y/o get under our desk. 2nd alarm we move into the hallway and pull our head down between our knees, back against the wall. The all clear signal was such a relief!
Made fire drills seem so insignificant.
Yup, remember every one of those and more.
And girls were cuter!😮
@@marknewton6984 Girls were girls and boys were boys.
So cliche, but true - we were chased outside and left to ourselves til we got hungry, hurt, or the street lights came on. So much creative, unsupervised play. Now I never see kids playing outside. I guess it's all organized sports or video games.
It is all organised now particularly by the state.
When everyone had a role and didnt mind! Respect is the most important thing missing in todays society.
Yes, if you were a black person trying to move into a white neighborhood, you were given plenty of respect😂😂😂😂
I so miss those days with neighbors and friends from school. No computers, cell phones, computer games, etc, so we used or imaginations and gathered with friends to play baseball, football, lawn darts, fishing, hunting, tree houses, etc, etc. As someone who grew up in the 60's and early 70's, Friday and Saturday night cruising with friends, drive in movies an local dairy bars were a great way to spend the evening, and since we lived in the country and small town America, camping out at the lake or someones farm lake, cooking hotdogs and marshmellows over a nighttime camp fire with several friends was a great way to relieve the week long stress on school or farm work.
If you're a baby boomer or part of Gen X, you knew you had lived through the best times, to have grown up. From movies, TV shows, cartoons, commercials, snack foods, malls, sporting events, toys, music, fashions, styles, cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, drive-ins, movie theaters, concerts, music festivals, fast food restaurants, cereals, board games, arcades, and holiday TV specials.
You’re kidding right.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but today their are
More movies
More tv shows
Cartoons
Much more commercials
Much more snack foods
Malls
Much more sporting events
Much more music
Fashions
Styles
Cars
Trucks
Vans
Motorcycles
You are correct about drive-ins
Movie theaters
Concerts
Music festivals
Much more fast food
Restaurants
Cereals
Board games
Probably less arcades
Holiday tv specials
And people wonder why I want to go back in time and relive my life.
We actually knew what freedom felt like.
@krysb7119.. Freedom to get drafted into Vietnam, and freedom to be discriminated against for the color of your skin
@@gustavsorensen9301 YOU are such a super RACIST, "white supremist", I bet that YOU are in the KKK, and are the best Klansman, the KKK, ever had.
@@gustavsorensen9301 Your comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose
Growing up through it times were way better then than now
We learned that everything was not 'safe' and also not someones elses fault.
Exactly, today people blame immigrants, and minorities for all their problems
But we also had parents, neighbors & extended family who watched out for us. I was never left with an adult male who wasn’t my dad. They might not have talked about stuff but they knew there were baddies out there.
We also know/knew what was between our legs.
Im 57 and i do remember the milkman putting glass bottles in the silver box on the porch in the city,also a cart rolling guy would yell down the street "get your vegetables here,knives sharpened!!"good times long gone
I also remember the milkman mom always ask me every morning to go check if the milk had been delivered
In central NJ, we still had a milkman leave gallon glass bottles of milk in the silver insulated box outside our door until around 1982.
My grandpa was a milkman from 1947- 1969
As a 75 year old baby boomer born in 1949 it most certainly was a wonderful time to be a child and teenager. We had fun morning, noon, and night. But we also worked very hard at school with hours of homework but we actually know where Montana is and that it is a western state in the United States. Ha, ha!!! We had some of the most wonderful toys - Barbie dolls, Ken dolls, hula hoops, slinkys, silly putty, roller skating, ice skating, swimming the the back yard pool, climbing trees, skate boarding, going to movies in a theatre and on and on. Colleting lightening bugs and putting them in a glass jar!!! Being outside for hours on end and riding our Schwinn spitfire bikes. Most of us had 2 parents - the father's worked and the mom's stayed home watching the kids. You couldn't ask for a better childhood.
Staying out all day hanging with friends, such wonderful memories!!! Thank you for this sweet look back
Yes, we stayed out all day, and had to come home for supper when the church bells rang. :)
Yes! Couldn't wait til after school, drop off your books/papers and ran outside w/your friends until you were called in...and *still* didn't want to come inside. Flying off the Merry-Go-Round was guaranteed a scratch or two but if the bleeding wasn't too bad, you found the nearest water fountain, splashed some water on it and kept it moving.
Absolutely! As kids, we disappeared until lunchtime, having fun with out friends outside all day. Best childhood ever.
WOW! What a trip back in time! Lots of great memories in this video. I'm 75 and much of it seems like it all happened just last week...
Same. But this video wasn't comprehensive enough for me. One thing, no matter the season or weather, we were outside playing, exploring. A long list of the many things we did would be great. Most importantly, we had consistent face to face communication. Wonderful memories, all seems like yesterday.
Seemed like just last week because you have earnered your points and are old enough to be a 'Time Traveler' - sans the as yet un-invented 'Time Machine' youth believes is the only possible way to do it.
The best time in the world today kids will never know
Drive-in movies!
So sad that today’s young people have no clue what a happy childhood is, & never will! 😢
And no cell phones...
1961, I enjoyed living the baby boomer era! Everything was fun as a kid. I'd go back if I could without a doubt.
So would I ! Wish I could step into a time machine all the way back to 1960 !!
Amen! @@SK-nd7db
Do you remember the smell of a new Christmas catalog? It was nothing special but I remember it well and it added to the excitement.
I still have my 1964 Sears wish book in the basement (born in 1960). It has a few of the toys that I had or played with at friend’s houses and a lot more that I wished I could have had.
'52 here . Every day I'm thankful for the years when I was young and especially the good parents who never showed bad behavior in front of any of their 4 children . Being a teenie bopper for the Beatles and surf era . A teen in the mid sixties and seeing many of my musical heroes for about 5 dollars . Endless bicycle riding and time outside with friends . Yes I'd sure redo 0-20 years old in a heartbeat .
You're not a boomer, you're to young you're a gen x
Today selfish Immature parents create angry spoiled children.
I was also born in 1952. Just turned 12 when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. My great love for music began, and it has never ended!
@@JohnHendley-fx1gw- boomers are from 1946 to 1964. I know, I'm one from '57.
I was born in 47, the 50s and 60s gave us all confidence, because we were safe in our community, no fears of guns or drugs at that time , just pure clean fun !!!
Best music and b/w movies!
Me too, you could walk home after dark, ride your bike alone, and had a bunch of kids your age on your block.
And what’s ironic is anyone could pick up just about any gun they wanted back then including an AR-15 at the local hardware store without a background check or registration, and you still didn’t have to worry about all this nonsense that we have today in the modern world…..I think I’m ready to go back, and I wasn’t even thought about during that time.
Exactly! No fears of guns and many of our family's had them but we weren't killing reach other. We shot our BB guns in our front and back yards. Our father took us to a public park we setup cans and shot our BB guns and the other peeps in the park could have cared less because everyone minded their own business and this was the late 60s or very early 70s.
I agree, and think it's because most people still had at least a little fear of God left in them.
By that I mean a healthy fear, like a climber respects the mountain, or a sailor reveres the sea.
I don't know if I qualify as a boomer because I was born in 1940, but I remember all those good times, - carefree, active, no worries. Went everywhere in the city on my bike, - the matinee on Saturday, the 5 & 10 to spend my hard earned spare job money, and seeing my friends. In our neighborhood I knew everyone, - store keepers, service people, neighbors. When I was little I loved to lie down on the area under the back window of the car when my mom or dad was driving, and sometimes fell asleep there. We played with lawn darts, made creepy crawlies, and did a lot of "dangerous" things. We learned to be careful. At the age of 14, My family moved to a rural area, and I learned to drive on a tractor. There were farm kids who drove tractors on the road doing farm chores like pulling the hay wagon, and they were just youngsters, but everyone accepted that. One of our neighbors had a pickup truck and would come around and offer us rides. My friends and I all ended up in the open bed of the truck, laughing and enjoying the bumpy ride. I wanted to smoke in high school, so my dad gave me a stale lit cigarette and told me to breathe it in. I never wanted to smoke after that smoking lesson. When I got my license at age 16, I drove everywhere in the 1941 Plymouth that had been my granddad's car. My favorite spots were those drive-in movies and restaurants, and a "nightclub" for teenagers where we could be like grownups, ordering food and non-alcoholic drinks, and dancing until they closed for the night. Then we would drive to one of our homes and watch TV together. Modern kids have great technology, but they don't have the freedom we had, and common sense isn't very common, because they are glued to their phones, and live with so many restrictions. I feel sorry for them.
Nope, you’re not a “Boomer”. My parents were born in ‘41 & ‘43, those were considered the “Silent Generation”. With them being born on the cusp they were more of “Boomers”. I was born in ‘63 & it’s considered as the “Boomer Generation” but also being on the cusp we are also called “Generation Jones”. We relate more with Gen X than Boomers. 😎 ✌🏻
I actually don't "identify" with any generation in particular. I'm just me. LOL@@cynsi7604
1940 is still part of the greatest generation as you were coming off the great depression, but still feeling the horrible effects and doing without a lot, then going into WWII with the loss of parents, family, neighbors, friends going to war and having to ration everything and live poor for the war effort. Had to do more with a lot less and do without. Especially, if you lived in Europe and practically lived in bomb shelters - really tough. In the 40s, 50s, 60s we had to know where the nearest bomb shelter or fall out shelter was at all times, no matter where you went, just in case - from right after Pearl Harbor till the mid 70s, especially with the cold war with Russia. We had air raid drills through most of our school days. It was tough times for anyone living through the great depression and WWII, like my parents did. My Dad was in WWII, my Uncle was a POW in Korea for 4 years, I had cousins in Vietnam and my husband was in Vietnam and the Gulf War. Truly the generation that had it the hardest was the greatest generation that lived through the great depression and WWII. So much sacrifice and hardship. My parents, especially my Mom had it really tough and rough as every day was a huge struggle. What she told me made me cry for how hard it all was for her and the other families. Some days they only got one meal. She had one maroon skirt and white blouse that ahe wore every day to school in Jr high and high school. She hand washed it every night and hung it up over the furnace to dry over night. After school, she worked at the silk mill making parachutes for the troops overseas. Almost all kids had to work after school to bring in $ for the family. Everything was rationed and my Grandparents with the kids moved in with other relatives to consolidate resources and $. It was cheaper to heat one house and pay for one stove on to cook a meal and one electric bill, etc. They never had a car, so they sold the gas ration stamps they got or traded them for something needed like flour, soap, canned goods, coal, clothes. Everybody had a vegetable garden and fruit trees in your yard. The barter system was used just as often or more than cash, especially towards the end of the month when everybody ran out of ration stamps and cash. You kept the heat on low in the low 50s and wore your coat and sweater inside. The one thing my Mom really like to do was go ice skating in the park and then they needed the stainless steel blades to make bullits, so a big truck came around and collected everybody's skates and anything made of stainless steel or brass. So much for having fun skating. For Christmas, each kid got an orange, which was a luxury, especially in the Winter in NY. That was it for Christmas. You sewed the holes you got in any clithes, especially socks. My Grandfather was a blacksmith and mason, but still was short on work, especially during the great depression. Thankfully, the WPA started to slowly get most people working full time at an OK pay again. A lot of tough times and doing without.
I'm glad I was a kid in the 80's. We got to enjoy most of the highlights from the boomer era, and also had the early years of computing and video games. Seeing the overlap, I can't stand the current times. Glued to technology in a safety obsessed world is ruining society in many ways.
Our son was born in 1980 and when video games came out we got him a Nintendo (still haven’t saved the Princess). And he had a different game set as they changed - but he was not ever addicted to them! He played sports in grade and high school and a little co-Ed flag football in college (I think it was because it was co-ed!!!). He has a wide and family and still doesn’t use technology except for his job and a few auto racing games online - Christmas of 2022 we boxed up every single one of his games and took it to him! (Lives in Colorado) and he had forgotten what all he had!!! His two children are 4-1/2 and 16 months and they are not allowed to even watch TV or have an electronic anything! Makes me very happy!
I loved my baby boomer era growing up much more than my times now! More freedom and everybody in the neighborhood knew each other! The playground was not for sissy kids back in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up and probably considered illegal in today's world! We knew the milkman, mailman and breadman by name! Always a smile and friendly greeting. Being a paper boy was hard work just to find a job because of the competition! We'd sell candy ice cream and anything to make anything from a quarter to a few dollars! No seat belt era for us. We had them but didn't even think about using them. All of the kids had bike's back then. The bicycle shops made a fortune. The Christmas Sears book was called the "wish book" because most of the time you wished you could afford to have it but couldn't afford it! I was #6 of the 7 Boomer kids in our house born from 46' thru 63' we had a wide range of ages in our house and only 1 bathroom and no air conditioning 😂. Ye ol' GE electric fan in the living room. Drive ins were common from movie theaters to places to eat. Our little town was big on cruising the boro every night during the spring and summer and many by now standards Old muscle cars. Such as my 68' barracuda. It all felt like normal everyday living to us. Looking back on it now we as family and area kids spent a lot of time with each other and I wouldn't trade my memories for anything! Fantastic video thank you ❤.
What a time. I now feel like I'm living on a different planet.
As a GenXer in my 50s we did and had everything the boomers did with maybe the exception of talking with the milk man, I only remember a milk man coming to my parents house in the early 80s once, and while seatbelts became a law, I don’t remember that until the mid 80s, also, while I didn’t get to watch Star Trek as a new show, I was watching it as reruns in the 70s. My final conclusion, Boomers and GenXers had the most fun equally 😉
I'm glad I'm a boomer!
It wasn't that equally! There was still a big difference in the era! My boomer generation did almost the same things as my parents. Except we got the protest started in the late 60's
@@SK-nd7db everything they showed was literally my childhood with the exception of the milk man, maybe it defers from state to state, I don’t know, but I’m proud to have been raised by boomers and proud to be GenX. Peace ✌🏻
I agree. as a gen xer I remember all of these things. I’m still in contact with some of my former neighbors.
I would never change growing up in the 60s. We did not have much but enjoyed everything we had. Outside all the time
We got to play in an old airplane and an old locomotive and an old style western town-climbing on the roof also. The Best of Times. Kid from the 1960’s!!
Thanks so much for this video. It was a great time to be a kid.
Penny candy, riding down a slide on hot metal. Piling kids in the car. The only time I stayed in the house was if I was sick. I was outside all day. The drive in movie was a big part of my teenage years.
Summers lasted FOREVER, we would get up, wolf back Super Sugar Crisp while watching Captain Kangaroo, jump on our bikes, mom would tell us to be back a noon for a PB&J and some Kool-Aid, we would wait till after lunch to go swimming in the creek, come back when the streetlights came on. The only rule was not to get caught playing a fool, like the time we were playing tag at Marty's house and broke a lamp, Marty's mom whooped us and sent us home, then mom after receiving a phone call from Marty's mom, would whoop us again for "Embarrassing her in front of the Neighbors. That mom network kept us out of too much trouble. I was free, I had few concerns and little responsibilities, we would pick up bottles for candy and sodas, always longing to grow up, that's the thing about life, you have to be careful and enjoy today, not wait till it becomes tomorrow's "Good Old Days".
I still enjoy PB&J for lunch at 63, lol 👍🏻
You just described my entire childhood.
@@tonycollazorappo Me too, when my blood sugar levels are good, lol, the price of getting old
My parents were baby boomers, but my childhood was a reflection of what they did in their youth. My small town had playground equipment from the 50s and 60s at our park and elementary school playground up until the 90s. My legs sizzled, going down those shiny steel slides in the 80s.
best music, best cars, best drugs and best friends....what a great life we had! ♥
Yep! We did! 🎉
I especially enjoyed going door to door gathering up friends to come out and play!
I used my bike everyday and played outside till dark back then.
The 'Boomers' all knew and believed for a certainty that . . . "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"
TIMES have changed . . . folks have become very 'delicate'. Not a good sign. Delicate does not last long.1
I was born in 68. Society was still fun and interesting. Even throughout the 70s and 80s . I miss all the childhood fun. You have to have tough skin when playing. Burns from metal is no joke. Huge slides, swinging rings, jungle gyms with rocks underneath, swinging from one rung to another from a very high level. Life was quite fun and seemed long when you were a kid. Talking to strangers didn't bother me. Stayed out past 730 pm outside. Running between houses playing games like red Rover, tag, hide and seek, etc
Coincidentally, I dreamt about my childhood friends from the 1970s last night. We used to gather at one home because it had a basement with a pool table and a stereo. When the weather was good, we were outside hiking through the fields and woods. I’m not saying electronics are bad, as I really enjoy them, but it was a different time when the outdoors and being together meant so much. I’m thankful to have been a kid then.
I’ve heard of people having neighborhood reunions with kids they grew up with. Would love that ❤️
We used to spend a lot of times outdoors - playing street hockey, shooting baskets, riding bikes. But, the time I did like to spend indoors was sat. morning. That was cartoon time.
Get a big bowl of cereal and watch Bugs, Johnny Quest.... loved it!
More fun? Absolutely!! The world wasn’t a Perfect Place but at Least it Made Sense.✌️
64 yr old Boomer. Difficult to absolutely say we had more fun, but times were much more simpler, obviously no internet or digital anything, we were definately more active, we did alot of walking. There werent many overweight people, most people were thin, or at the targeted weight most people chase these days. I remember this kid got a brand new 5 speed bike, with the shifter on the frame. He was the talk of the neighbourhood. Our phone was in the kitchen and when you talked everyone could hear your conversations. Faded jeans were chic. Platform shoes,record players and albums. House partys. Geez, maybe they were more fun.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and you are right. It was FUN!
I remember those days fondly! Born 1960 so as a kid, great days!
Kids now don’t know how to say hello or goodbye or count change,tell time, work, say thank you.
it isn't their fault. Contact their parents, grandparents or caregivers. Basic things like being a responsible adult aren't learned on their own. Role models they need while growing up which many children unfortunately do not have now.
…or tie their shoes, or make a sandwich, or read a book.
@@rustynailmendlesohn8710 Another thing YOU missed, is that BOOMERS, knew EXACTLY what GENDER, we were, YOU either had an innie or an outie, Boy's were REALLY Boy's and Girl's were REALLY Girl's and there was no confusion, or MENTAL ISSUES, about this. Also, young BOOMER kids, KNEW EXACTLY, which PUBLIC BATHROOM, to use.
They respect no one for who they are. Barely respect themselves.
No manners!
We definitely had more fun in the 1950s
I miss when airline travel was a dressy event (even though it was a little before my time) and I miss the social events that restaurants, clubs, and just about everything else was before cell phones took over.
That said, I sure don’t miss the days when information wasn’t available at my literal fingertips - from world news to song lyrics.
Having info at your fingertips is what is wrong with this world. We never ask questions anymore and believe all we read on the internet,whether it 's true or not.
I love me gaming PC,but would gladly wake up tomorrow back in the early 60's,or the 70's.
@@xScooterAZxWhile what you say is true, I don’t miss the narrow scope of information available in encyclopedias or having to wait until the following morning for yesterday’s news from Europe.
@@pjesf Well,..waiting till morning for the news isnt a problem. That's just a bit of modern impatience. lol
I do like the internetr a lot,but I'd be fine without it.
Yes the clubs where amazing and so many of them.
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We didn’t care about the rest of Europe then we concentrated on our own lives and playing.
Putting a different spin on this. My husband and I are both blind baby boomers and military brats. Both of us had parents that gave us all the support we needed, such as braille and cane travel, but they also had expectations of us, too. I loved playing outside, had lots of friends wherever we happened to live, and I LOVED those playgrounds. My favorites, although I liked everything, was the merry-go-round, and I loved bailing out of swings.
The best life lesson for us as boomers was learning common sense and creating our own low-tech solutions, having learned from problem-solver parents.
In a recent discussion, we realized we are so thankful to have grown up in that era, when blind kids learned how to type in grade-school so they could communicate to teachers and others in print. We learned to sign our names in cursive, later on, learned to type out checks on a typewriter. and with great cane travel, ned we could travel anywhere safely by picking up on cues in the environment and using proper cane techniques.
Fast-forward to today, when technology has given us more access to print and images than we've ever had before, yet I don't remember feeling a lack when growing up.
Now, I see many younger blind people looking for an "accessible" this or that, and unable to come up with there own low-tech solutions. Granted, I love and enjoy today's tech, and there are things in life that truly need better access. We joke about someone asking where they can find an "accessible Kleenex." The culture has gotten ridiculous.
In summary, we feel so blessed to have grown up with the old blind tech, such as slate-and-stylus writing, (comparable to writing with a pen), the typewriter, and the print reading innovation of the seventies, the Optacon. Yet we are benefitting from today's braille displays, tablets, screen reader software for the PC, smart phones, GPS, and now the emerging AI image description. We're blessed to have benefitted from the tech of both eras, which enabled us to work, raise kids, and retire.
Ohhhhh I so miss those care free days!!! I had tears watching this one, I miss it so much, I am thankful I grew up in those beautiful wonderful days, thankyou mom and dad :)
Oh to go back……
In a heartbeat! Without a doubt.
In a flash! I agree
Thank you Recollection Road for this video that's right down my alley. You sure hit a lot of nails right on the head with this one. Born in '49 I wouldn't trade the 50s & 60s for any other era. We were indeed the luckiest of them all.
That's cause we (another '49er) had 'Davey Crockett' coon-skin on and knew what a proper hat should look like up in the tree fort armed with perfect Mattel Flintlocks rifles and pistols.
I’m a girl and even I stayed outside all day, climbing trees, walking on railroad tracks, taking the train etc. We had a blast.
So grateful I am a boomer! A wonderful childhood, and young adult life I wouldn't change a thing... some of these days are simply hard to reconcile.
Growing up in the early 1950s had lots of advantages. Our B&W 12 inch TV could get 4 channels that only operated during the day. At 6 PM we got 15 minutes of local news, 15 minutes of national and 3 minutes of weather and about 2 minutes of commercials every 30 minutes. on weekends and holidays I was ordered, not asked to vacate the house after breakfast, return briefly for lunch and appear at 6 PM for dinner. We rode our bikes wherever we wanted, made friends, , shot off fireworks, put pennies on the local train tracks, played football, baseball, basketball. We got into minor trouble, got scrapes, bruises and burns. But here i am at 81 still killing it.
Granted, I'm not a boomer. Mine was gen X, but I will say this much about the boomers. There seemed to be a certain care-free innocence, wholesomeness and purity about growing up during the 50's and 60's that got lost on future generations. They really felt connected to their community in a way that today's millennials and gen Z'ers with their faces buried in their smartphones can't possibly even fathom. People left their doors unlocked and didn't worry about a rash of break-ins. People grew a lot of their food and/or had huge gardens and/or had somebody deliver various foods door-to-door, like bread, cheese, milk, eggs, pastries, produce, etc. Trips to the supermarket weren't necessary when you knew a man who would deliver what you needed once a week. Attending Sunday services was a staple for just about every household back then, and not going was practically unheard of. People were generally a lot more well-mannered and respectful than they are today. Kids today will think nothing of cussing out a teacher, parent or any other authority figure, but us X'ers and boomers would get our backsides tanned bright red by dad if we so much as even rolled our eyes at someone! It was a different time when discipline, morals, structure, and leading a God-centered life ruled the day. A lot of that has gotten thrown out the window now in favor of doing whatever you want whenever you want and throwing caution to the wind. We got off the tried-and-true path and have been paying a huge price for it ever since.
100% so lucky to have been a baby boomer!!
I'm a Gen X and I can relate to a lot of those same experiences that the Baby Boomers had, such as people being able to smoke nearly anywhere, riding in a vehicle that had the long bench seats in the front without wearing seat belts, riding in the back of a pickup truck , playing outside until the street lights came on. I also remember getting those mail order catalogs right before the start of the holiday season. Man those were the good old days.😊 I wish that I could relive that era in time again.
You're not old enough to know these you're just remembering what your parents told you then repeat the story to make it your own
@JohnHendley-fx1gw My generation (Gen X ) consists of people being born between the years 1965 - 1980 which translates the age group being between 44 - 59 years of age. With that being said some of us Gen X ers ( Not All ) did get a chance to experience some of the last remnants of the Baby Boomers Era. The milk delivery man was a little before my time , but I do remember experiencing a lot of things mentioned in this video. I remember a time when there was no internet and me and my friends had to go outside and actually use our imaginations and be creative to entertain ourselves until the street lights came on. I remember riding in my parents car that had the long bench seats in the front and the rear without having to wear seat belts. I remember riding in the back of my grandfather's truck riding all over town. Even though I never smoked, I remember seeing people being able to smoke literally anywhere in public places and buildings. My mother would send me to the store to purchase cigarettes for her without her even being present, which is something that you could never get away with nowadays. I might look young in the picture next to my yt name, but let's just say that black don't crack. Lol
When we truly had freedom, and everyone still remembered the price we paid for it. We may have complained about school, but we got a decent education unlike the kids today. People scoff at older folks ‘struggling’ with technology, but we invented technology. Our generation didn’t play video games about going to space, we actually went. Not sure smoking counted as ‘fun,’ but most people either smoked or lived with smokers. Compared to opioids and fentanyl, lighting up doesn’t seem too bad. Thanks for posting.
Corporate greed and mass media are ruing the world, not just U.S.A.
I’m of ‘61 vintage, so while at the end of the boomer generation, I was blessed to experience life before the insanity of our current nanny state era. Our best days are behind us. I think of visiting Disneyland in ‘68 and marveling at GE’s presentation of a future dominated by electronics and now regret how those things ruined our social fabric.
we had to become creative to play stickball just about anywhere, we had to determine fair and foul lines (imaginary), what's a single, what;s a double and so on, sometimes we just had rock fights (don't aim at the head)--truly a glorious time for me and my friends
We were raised in the wild :) We learned everything we need to know by going out and doing things. We were on our own in our own society all day long. We just had to be home when the street lights came on or when our Dad whistled.
At age 10 I was allowed to take the boat out by myself, a 14ft Fiberglass with a 40 Evinrude. My son however was not legally allowed to use even a trolling motor at age 10. The government's lack of respect for the intellect of the individual in Canada is astounding.
I guarantee you - kids did not collect cans in the 50’s/60’s : it was bottles.
Born January 1951, I agree life was more fun for me. And I lived in an area that managed to avoid the problems at least until after my freshman year of college. Of course it could not last and didn't. Viet Nam, inflation, recession, Watergate, pot, marches, demonstrations and assassinations all made their mark on everyday life. Many, many times I have thought that if we could have just skipped Nov, 22,1963, things would have been better. We will never know.
Born '77
We still had the primitive playgrounds, and we loved it. Bruises and cuts were a badge of honor. Bmx was big too. Skateboarding was blowing up. We still had lawn darts. Came in the outdoor sports kit with badminton, teether ball and a soccer ball. Rode in the back of a truck, and the rear facing seat of my friends mom's station wagon. Four wheelers were big. We would ride to the gas station and gas up at 9 yrs old.
I was born in '77 too. 😊
I agree! I’m a baby boomer and we played hard. It was safe and there weren’t stupid rules!
Yep, this is what life was like before everything turned to shit.
Each time I see an old TV show or movie where the characters dial a rotary phone, it brings that era back so strongly. And I love the classic ringtone of those phones. Ahhh the good ole days!
Yes, my family had a rotary phone until 1991. 😊
The only time mom and dad let us eat dinner while in the living room was once a year when The Wizard of Oz made its once a year showing. When we finally got a color TV, we couldn’t wait till the picture went from black and white to color
Thank you again for the great video ❤❤ good memory's 🧡🩷
I would argue Gen X'ers are the luckiest because we started out in an analog world and have seen it change over to a digital world, and so we know how to operate in both. Something breaks in the digital world (like a cell phone network goes down for 10 hours) and we're not phased. If it's something small that breaks often times we can find an analog solution. Meanwhile the Boomers are clueless about the digital world, and the Millennials & Gen Z are completely paralyzed when their digital world breaks down and throw temper tantrums about it. All the while Gen X is just over here chillin'.
Yes!!! Agreed!! 😊
Thanks again, I always enjoy your videos. It was slower, but absolutely a much safer/ better time for children!!
Besides all the great fun outdoors as a kid in the 50s/60s, when you did have to be in the house, the 60s was the greatest era of TV ever.
I'm 64 y.o. and I found myself still envying that guy in the astronaut suit!!! It may simply be nostalgia but, yes, it seems that this better times to be a kid. I really enjoy your postings.
We had an egg man, a milkman, dry cleaning, service, delivery and pick up, diaper delivery, and a bakery delivery with bread and pastries and then Charles chips later on for snacks that was in the early 60’s
No, it really was awesome compared to today because we had more freedom, our communities were safer. Mailmen wore proper uniforms. Teachers dressed properly to be role models. School libraries didn't have porn in them. The music was great. Everybody knew their gender. Children weren't being trafficked. Nobody played victim. Everybody spoke English. Everybody was proud to be American.
We were taught patriotism at home and in grade school. Too bad patriotism of our wonderful country has been abolished in the schools today.
We had the best of everything! 😎
What a wackadoodle
lol you must be on the trump train and brain washed by fox news
How different today's world is from that of the 1950's/1960's. I've got lovely memories of my childhood, and feel sorry for kids growing up today. As Maurice Chevalier sang in "Gigi", I'm glad I'm not young anymore.
I was born in 1962, and remember all the good times we spent together as a kid. Things were so much more simple and pure back then. You could even still leave your doors unlocked and your windows raised. Then, the 70's rolled around and personally, I think was the best decade ever. Boy, do I ever miss the good old days. And they say, kids have it so rough today in today's world...yeah right! 🤣
Our Playgrounds and some peeps backyards had actual swing sets. We would swing higher and higher then jump out at the highest point. A kid in our hood had a swing set in his backyard and one side of the swing anchored in the ground got loose and everytime the swing swung the back end would lift out of the ground. We swang higher to see how high it would come out or if it would tip over while we swang. But it never did.
You really nailed this one!
Im a 70 yr old boomer...70's and 80's were a gas...early childhood was survival of the fittest as illustrated by this clip.😂
What I remember about those days was everyone was still obsessed with TV. Only 3 networks and a few indi stations, but everyone was watching when Walter Cronkite told us "That's the way it is". I remember our TV went out on 1/20/61 and my grandmother was furious at my father , who repaired TV's. "You can fix everyone else's TV but not your own?" He hooked up one of his recently repaired sets and we watched the Inauguration. I think my grandmother was more worried about not being able to see her 'stories' the next day. As kids we were more interested in being outside and exploring our corner of the world. We'd come home from school and change out of our "School clothes" and explore until the sun went down. In the summer we'd be out there all day. There was always an Aunt or family friend who gave us all a Bologna or P+J sandwich for lunch, and we were off again. We were sort of low maintenance but full of energy in those days, but we made our own fun by having a good imagination. We never had a worry about safety, and were usually polite and unafraid toward strangers. A sort of life I'd like to give to kids today. They need it more now than we did.