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We’re the children asked to wear uniforms as in the UK

In NJ we didn’t call it “duck and cover” - it was an air raid drill. We did go under our desks. Some kids wouldn’t quite fit under, which became a moment of hilarity for all. Being proximal to NYC, within the fifty mile radius, we all knew our chances were slim in what they were already calling ground zero. When pressed, we were told we had about ten minutes depending on wind directionality. My home was in the next township. I was getting chubby and didn’t know if I had enough speed, but I decided I would run for it. I still feel that way.

I was born in 1946 and most of my memories do not reflect life exactly as some remember it as all good and safe times. I did not hate the world as a lot of children today but I did see it faults. I never believed in fairytales such as George Washington chopping down a Cherry tree and saying I can never tell a lie. We were kids and did not understand we and all our friends and family would one day die and be forgotten. We believed totally in a evil that resided inside the Nazis, communists and murderers and such while Christian people were good and were going to save the world and we would all rejoice in heaven. That stuff was all lies but we were kids and wanted to believe.

Awesome ❤

I really enjoyed the look at New Orleans and the classic photos from the past as well as the awesome jazz music thank you until next time.👋🇺🇲

I only remember once going out to the hallway and bending over on our knees with our hands over our head facing the wall. I thought it was for tornadoes. Discipline was strict. You hated it if your name was placed on the blackboard where it would stay as a mark of shame. We learned a lot and I liked all my teachers. I had two grades in the old part of the school with the fixed desks with inkwells and four grades in the new part of the school. At Halloween all the grades would march around the block. In May we would go to a nearby park for a picnic lunch and then walk back to school. Those days are surely missed. I am 74.

I live in Dallas, excellent documentary!

The "duck and cover" drills of the 50s are disparaged today, but they made sense then. An early atomic attack would have used less powerful weapons delivered by manned bombers that fought their way through to the target, if they could, and intercontinental ballistic missiles that had low to medium accuracy by todays standards. It was entirely possible to survive an imprecise hit by taking cover.

HELLO, THERE IS O NLY ONR GOD ..................................FROM JOHN IN N.C. . .

Have family in Dallas. Very interesting!

I'm from Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and I live about a four hour drive from Dallas and I've been there many times over the years as well as Fort Worth thank you for showing these old films of Dallas i really enjoyed it.🤠👋🇺🇲

I lived it .

- a Train Display around the bottom of the Christmas Tree, and Fake Cardboard Fireplaces, also popular.

I remember those duck & cover drills.

Great to see more past to present pictures of Seattle and it is still very beautiful today as it was back then, i have never been to Seattle or Washington state but I have relatives that live in the Seattle and Spokane areas though, i really enjoy watching these videos of Seattle thank you.☕👋🇺🇲

How I wish women & men would go back to dressing neat and clean out in public!!!!

Wow - very cool to see! Great job with this video

Great to see Minneapolis and Minnesota over the years this is really nice to see history in pictures like this of cities and i really enjoy it thank you.☕👋🇺🇲

80 years old and this is so true!

I do miss the home made fluffy rolls and other food cooked in the cafeteria, but school in those days was so strict. We couldn’t speak or move except in recess or PE. And we girls had to wear dresses. They hadn’t invented stretch fabric yet.

Schools were so segregated that I thought everyone in Phoenix was White. As a high school girl I liked English so the counselor suggested I go to secretarial school. When I said I wanted to teach, they said, “what grade?” Even in college, women were not expected to teach at the college level. Females weren’t allowed to wear pants to school until 1972 when I started teaching high school. 😂 But I fooled them. I finally got to teach in community college.

Disabled kids often were not allowed to go to school and when they were they were segregated. We had to fight for disability rights as part of the civil rights movement. In my state, Arizona, Spanish speaking kids were not allowed to speak Spanish and often punished for it. They often fell behind because they didn’t understand the lessons and not encouraged to go to college. Remember, AZ once belonged to Mexico. We had Christian prayer in school, but I wasn’t Christian.

Girls played physically active games as well while in grade school. Sewing and cooking were later on in high school.

More great images of Florida past to present this is really very beautiful seeing the history of this state in pictures Thank You.🌍🌎🌏

I am 79 yo and my wife is 76. We watch a lot of news programs and I have often been heard to say, “Honey, we lived in the best of times.”

Close to video but experimentations going on with free learning without discipline. They failed.

There was also a lot less deadly chemicals in our food back then. I'd gladly go back to that time.

Not true…..girls played on playgrounds and played dodgeball, softball. Cooking etc were home economics in high school.

Although my school days in the 50s were very happy I was raised by my aunt and grandmother. My aunt a single woman was the bread winner who held minimum wage jobs to support us. Not all those years were as golden as portrayed or remembered by many people. Hopefully we can remember that time without the rose colored glasses. Just a few points of authenticity several pictures used in this article depict the 30s and 40s not the 50s.

“Those were the days my friend…I thought they’d never end” ✨

I’m 73 and remember these days fondly.

We lived in a big apartment building & were poor, but we had a television. Our downstairs neighbor's family came up to our apartment every Monday night to watch "I love Lucy". Those same neighbors had a telephone, which we did not have. On rare occasions mom would use their phone for an important call, or in an emergency, mom would receive a call through their phone. From ages 6 -11, I roamed & played in about 3 blocks in all direction ( so about 12 square blocks) I played marbles with my brother and kick the can at night during Summer. I roller skated, jumped rope and climbed trees. I always wore a dress. It was a free time.

African influences??? Ma'am Jazz is Black Classical Music. It IS of african decent not influenced.

I used to go see the Shipstad and Johnson Ice Follies every year with my Family in the late 50's and early 60's... I remember my favorite scene was a clown act, and the clown would throw a bucket of water at the audience, although it was popcorn... I was pretty young at the time, born 2-9-1953. We always got complimentary prime seating because my Uncle Frank Acuna was the exclusive Men's costume designer. I was so proud my Uncle, he made so many beautiful costumes. He later became Liberace's designer and life long taylor. He was considered the Taylor to the stars and the most famous taylor/designer in Hollywood, until the designers from Italy came to Hollywood and made deals to work for Hollywood producers free and stole all his business, and that's how they got famous. His clients included Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney, and literally the biggest stars and producers in Hollywood. I personally later on became a visual artist, photographer & storyteller. I was so inspired by the ice follies in my uncles memories, that I created a photo project in the late 90's and early 2000's called "I want to be a Ballerina" My work was discovered by the 2nd largest calendar company globally called "Portal" and my calendars sold in 40 countries. ( now you know how the Italian designers got famous) I did my share of free work to be a world class photographer.

Regarding 4:50 - Mary Pickford stopped producing movies at the end of 1949 and sold her shares in United Artists in 1956 - so it's inaccurate to say that she remained in the film industry until her death in 1979

72 now and attended Armstrong Elementary School in Gastonia, NC. First grade in 1958. Each classroom had a cloakroom where misbehavior landed us for PADDLINGS. I was fascinated by Tarzan movies and wanted to BE Tarzan. One teacher wrote on a report card that I spent too much time daydreaming and talking about Tarzan. I loved the lunches especially soup and sandwiches. Our lunchroom and library were in the same room. I had big ears and was teased as Dumbo, Bigears, and Little Bobby Bigears. I had to agree and made fun of myself. Classmates liked that I could take a joke and in junior high was voted Wittiest and in high school voted Friendliest. I have four Woolworth’s photos of me with enormous ears acting like Elvis after seeing “Kid Galahad.” Wonderful memories. I have regrets but they’re that I should have “buckled down” as my mother used to say and studied harder. I loved school and my classmates. Saw one yesterday at Venecia Restaurant in Gastonia. Introduced me to his grandson. I said he couldn’t be old enough to be a grandfather. I’m so glad I attended school in the 1950s and 1960s. I still feed traumatized about learning of President Kennedy’s assassination while I was in a 6th grade classroom. Those were days that gave me precious memories.

I went to schools in 1948 and on till I graduated from high school. We had to know our cursive writing where no ABCs or vowels how to dissect the sentence and find the dangling partaisble sentence. The classroom discipline was good because the teacher was in charge not the students people didn’t go to school looking like a bum with their butts hanging out or their girls with their shirts open start class. We start the class every day, but the pleasure of allegiance and the patriotism in the school was outstanding. We also participate in assault vaccine for folio and we had to take to Iowa achievement test in order progress up to the next class in essence, you worked your backside off in class and you had a fairly good amount of homework to do that had to be done for the next day not like today we have the pansy lazy generation, not all of them, but

I am 74, started to Elementary school in 1956. We had to make our own fun. My Dad, and most of my classmates, were in WWII. It was a great time to be a kid.

The classroom in the 1960s was big enough, at least 25 kids, and by 5th grade only me, and one of the boys were becoming artists and making our own drawings …😊.

And I am glad I never grew up with those lousy computers …

NO and NO, in the 1960s, if there was an earthquake ( that didn’t happen at school in CA, even though at home I had 2 enjoyable earthquakes 😊😊) during those drills we would go under our desks, and intertwine our fingers over that bump on the back of our necks to protect it ; that one teacher said that is the main part of our spine and nervous system …

Liked everything except the AI voice pronouncing "plaid" as "played".

This video is spot on except for one thing-their implication that eating red meat is a “health risk”. 🙄 I’d argue that except maybe for smoking, people were probably in much better health then than we are today.

Great history and a lovely narrator voice. Very easy to watch and listen to. 🙂

A wonderful cafeteria food cooked from scratch, great food, we all ate well, no commodity !

A wonderful time to be alive , no chaos , just good times,

So interesting!

Another awesome look at Florida in the 1920's and thank you for showing this great footage of Florida.🇺🇲👋

The only downside to this is a chunk of this was racially segregated.

74 here. Loved school while growing up in 50’s. Life was great then. Mama had supper on table by 5 pm and we all sat down and ate together. In bed by 9 pm and up at 6. Rode school buses every day and girls wore dresses, no slacks. We all knew what we were and we behaved. If you got in trouble in school you were in trouble at home because parents did not put up with unruly kids.