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THE OPTIMISM OF THE 1960'S????????????? I was alive then and it sucked! Sex, drugs, rock and roll, war and political assassination!!!!!

The last really good time in America to be young.

You would not find a flat screen monitor siting on a table like at 7:08 . The picture of Bill Clinton with JFK was the 60s JFK died in 63 . I would go back I do a little homework and redo you video it way off about the 70s. I see you to dam WOKE and don't have an Ideas what the hell you talking about.

Our main shopping mall has become a gathering place for high end stores and fashion boutiques so we no longer go there for our daily needs.

QUITE A FEW OF THESE PICS ARE FROM THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES !

Most of that written down now North American history is only a lot of hype based on only the superficial rising number of communities for 10 years. It is the technical advancements since the late 1800's and the early 1900's when women married to the middle class and higher wage owners first began to get encouragement to work for pay outside the home

Society was definitely normal then!! I was born in 1946. Summers were idyllic. Riding my bike, roller skating all over the neighborhood, playing jacks on our front porch, and I was a good jacks player, going to the park for recreation and crafts! I grew up in Takoma Park, MD. Right around the corner from actress Goldie Hawn. Those were special times, growing up in the 50’s….

bring back hats for men

Good history 😊

This is the second video presentation of yours that I've watched on the same subject matter, the 1950s. I enjoy listening to your voice; it has a pleasant vocal timbre that conveys a relaxed and appreciative feeling, making the viewing a nice experience. I was thrown off a little at the end because there was no conclusion; it all of a sudden had other video options thrown up on the screen while you're still putting a closing comment in; but there was still never an actual ending. The video just stops in a kind of confusing way. I don't know if that is something that's out of your control or not. ~ It would be interesting to have some (more) focuses on what kids did for fun and entertainment in the 1950s; what books were popular and why; and what were the popular TV shows of that decade, and why. One-speed bicycles were the most popular style during that era, as well as the "three-speed English racer" bicycle, that had the little gear shift on the handlebar that gave you three different gears. The Hula Hoop and YoYo were popular, and collecting baseball and football cards were fun to do; and in each package of cards was a flat, rectangular stick of bubble gum. Comic books offered a wide variety of genres, including the western and army/military stories. And "Mad Magazine" was getting its foothold in the magazine marketplace. ~ The Scouting programs were quite successful in the 1950s, which included Brownies and Girl Scouts, and Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. ~ There was also a larger number of people attending church and Sunday school in that decade (which is more of an observation and a personal experience, but I can't speak as to why the popularity of church-going). I do remember having to go to Vacation Bible School for one week of my summer over a couple of summers, and I absolutely hated it! It seemed so childish, and I also had gotten into trouble for chasing a little girl around a table with a pair of blunt scissors simply because I didn't like her! But then during this valuable summer week, between 3rd and 4th grades, we were expected to play "Ring-Around-the-Rosy" out on the lawn! I don't think so! I refused to participate! And the nutrition break treat was a little cup of Kool-Aid and one half of a gram cracker. All reasons to hate Vacation Bible School. And in spite of those miserable experiences, somehow I managed to go through my life with dreams fulfilled. Those one-week sessions in two separate summers ultimately did not set me back. (Now what happened to those scissors, I wonder?)

People were more friendly back then.

People were more friendly back then.

People were more friendly back then.

McCarthy was right!

a great era in our country

I was born in 1948, so the focuses that are covered in this short video do speak to a lot of my experiences growing up in the 1950s, when I was between the ages of two and 12, in Columbus, Ohio. We lived in a new, post-war subdivision house of 1,100 sq.ft., but with a basement (and my folks had to contract out separately to have a garage and paved driveway put in). And everyone else in our neighborhood was in the same socio-economic class, with similar purposes in mind for taking advantage of the post-war prosperity, including have one child a year, until the house was bursting at the seams! But we sure had a lot of friends to play with in our neighborhood! ~ One thing that you mentioned were the library readings, which got me thinking about the bookmobile that used to come into our neighborhood once every few weeks during the summer time. It was a big green van, probably 50 feet long, and you went inside to find all kinds of books on the shelves. In its day, it was quite a unique experience to have a library-on-wheels. Also, concerning reading, I remember my mother subscribing for my sisters and me "The Weekly Reader" for some summer reading experience. I believe it came once a week and had various stories and puzzles and so forth to look at, but I was more interested in playing outside than reading at that time in my life. ~ It is not true that a number of people had backyard fallout shelters. There was probably some concern, some feeling of uneasiness, I'm sure, among the parents in that era regarding the "Cold War" issues that seemed ever-present; however, in reality, I don't think very many families across the nation put in these fallout shelters in their backyards. ~ We had a small shopping center several blocks from our house, and in the drugstore there was the typical soda fountain in the back with the counter and the stools. That is where I tried my first cherry Coke, for 10 cents, and that was exciting. And I used to buy my candy bars there. A decent size Butterfinger or Baby Ruth candy bar was a nickel; the larger size of each one, that would often give me a stomach ache if I ate the whole thing at once, cost 10 cents. And on every Saturday morning, religiously, my dad would walk into my bedroom and put two dimes on the top of my dresser, and that was my allowance for the week to come. Not bad, when you could buy four candy bars with it, or you could buy a cherry Coke at the soda fountain and two candy bars; or you can take the dime and turn them into 10 pennies, then put them into the gumball machine to get 10 pieces of round, sweet gum, and maybe a trinket or two. ~ And on a given summer's evening, my mother would give me a "permission" note and 25 cents, and I would bicycle to that same drugstore, where I would present the note to the clerk , who would in turn take down a package of Lucky Strike Cigarettes, then take my quarter, give me the cigarettes, and I would bicycle back home to give them to my mother. ~ What I had hoped you would have covered were the kinds of games that we used to play with friends and siblings, inside the house and out in the neighborhood. We're talking about "Jumping Jacks," "Monopoly," "Old Maid" card game, the card game called "War,"; and the "Solitaire" card game; and "Kick the Can" at dusk; and "Hide-n-Seek"; and "Cowboys" and "Army Men." And although not a game, on a warm summer evening in the Midwest, you would ask your mom for a clean jar and then go out and catch lightning bugs. ~ And then there were the campouts in the backyards in flimsy tents. And you would scare yourself by watching "The Twilight Zone" TV show on a Friday night, and then go out into the back yard in the dark and snuggle deeply in your sleeping bag...only to get up at 2:00 a.m., and wander around the neighborhood because that felt like total freedom! What your parents didn't know didn't hurt them. ~ And we had our 24-inch or 26-inch one-speed bicycles that we rode all over the place, having all kinds of adventures; and putting playing cards on the spokes that were held in place with clothespins to give that clapping noise, making you feel like you had a very "energized" bicycle; because you could imagine your bicycle to be just about any kind of transportation you wanted! ~It was all about what your imagination could think up! And in that decade, it seemed like our imaginations as children knew no bounds; there would always be unlimited possibilities; and it often depended on what friend had the greatest idea or the best thought about what to do next. That's what made it such an exciting time to live in for me as a child. ~ I just wished that, because you zeroed in so many accurate details of the 1950s decade, as I had experienced them, you had been able to spend more time and develop each one of those examples a little more thoroughly, because this was an interesting video. ~ (But in your narration, I wished you had not used the words "iconic" or "icon." No one who does narration on their various RUclips channels seems to know how to use a thesaurus to find more original, fresher replacement words for those miserable, tired cliches!) ~drs (09/10/24) Rohnert Park, CA

this was my era!

I lived through the hippie Era and my mother called them "beatnicks".

I loved my childhood in the 50s. It was a great time to be a kid...as long as you were white.

White people were so respectful. New York Ghetto minorities Infiltrated the mid Atlantic and once nice neighborhoods became ghettos. FACTS .

Jaws didn't come out in the 50s.

I was a kid the 1950's. It was a great time and wish I could go back. Society was normal back then.

I would of loved experiencing life first hand in that decade.

Nice, well put together documentary. Thank you.

".... social conformity." 😂😂 I'm dead. 😁

Awesome with the SOUND OFF. (It's just too corny)

I live through most of the 50s and it was a simpler time. 😢

The movie Inventing the Abbotts brings you right down to the street level view of life in these times for people in a small town neighborhood and town life with a realistic storyline.

The 50s had to be the best time ever to be alive.. as my parents grew up in that era... And they had the nerve to tell us kids that we were spoiled... We grew up at the time of the oil embargo.. and the freedom and rights Acts.. and the same time the Democratic party started really hijacking free enterprise... So I grew up at the time when everybody was getting their fires extinguished.. and losing all of our rights.. and now women have taken man's position and we have a bunch of irate women that are very mouthy and are just looking for money..😮

Hate to watch something produced by a WOKE writer. My memories of the 50's was NOT all of the Political issues you made up.

look at the quality it's picture perfect

That's what American dream is all about 😉

Unlike other countries America. Was self made

I love cars from the 1950's.😊😊

LOSE the sitar. GEEZ!

You have a picture of people in line to see Jaws in the summer of 1975. I was there.

Background music Sucks

do you notice that people were thinner and better looking back then.

Everyone taking more than 30 minutes to get dressed back then.

ok gonna call you out on a few things here, first most of your pictures are not from the 50's they're from the 60's and some from the 70's. air conditioned malls didnt show up until the 60's en masse, there were a few but they were counted on one hand. the 50's were a growing age and things didnt really start happening til the 60's. i know i grew up back then.

Nobody who was part of that liked the term “hippy”. It has always been used by people who didn’t understand what it was all about. And still is.

Just about 2 weeks ago i came across a hippie still trying to relive a bygone era. Long hair beard smelled like ge had shit himself about 70 years old could tell he never had a job. I had a chance to ask him this if he had ever held a job. He said man i am to much into the peace movement. I told him that by gone era has came and gone. To think he will still playing out a fantasy. Asked if he had any kids had he been married he said he had 11 kids been married 7 times and each of his wives kicked him out. I said do you you have any contact with your kids he said know he was still to busy with the peace movement. I was born in 1965 but i think this mans who thing in life was just be a bum that is all.

This video would look so much better if the photographs were in color. Not having them in color was just stupid.

Not going back

Life was simple. Neighbors and friends enjoyed each others company. Today, people love chaos and always condemn other people to start arguments. Sometimes, I wish it could be that way again.

Yeah I read weird scenes by McGowan. The wasn’t a revolution it was a product of a government think tank and it went exactly like they expected it to.

Best days in this country sad this days are going

where did they go to the bathroom at woodstock ?

yea lets not forget those guitars and drum that took nothing modern to build. and amps need electrisity. and the story goes on. im 72yr have 5 heart bypasses. been in stint room 20 times and multipla bone broken. I got those from being an adventurer. lying by my very beaytiful then and now. 50yr marriage. my heart is barly working but I have live 21 more years. life in the hippie range was diverse so watch what you believe. was a Catholic then and now. conversions to Jesus were there. had fun then disco noooo!!!, Peace Out and Love

You may have over done this. I lived through this. so you must not have done enough of research.