Born in 1946 I got to experience the 50’s as a kid. It was a time that we will never see again sadly. The values, manners, and respect I was taught is still with me to this day. As a society we have deteriorated to the point of no return and it will be our undoing.
You are so right. Very little civility anymore. And Integrity, forget it. We just had a President who told Lies wholesale for 4 years and almost half the population wanted him re-elected. Graciousness, Truthfulness, Honesty, Integrity, and associated virtues that citizens were once proud to be known for. Are sadly characteristics of previous generations.
I too was born in 1946 and was raised in an orphanage where I learned about manners,values and respectability. I passed these on to my sons who then passed them on to their children. All in all the 50’s were pretty good years.
I may know what you mean. I was born in early 1950s. If I had seen a bunch of strangers coming and a truck with a big red blow up thing for a birthday party I think I would had hid somewhere. That lets me know..nah being a kid later would not have been the same. Quite little green christmas tree and you could be darn lucky if you got a new doll and some oranges and nuts and cookies. I know we were poor but no way would I have expected some new Nikes nobody could afford.
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
Silly putty was pretty cool. It came in an egg shaped plastic container and yes indeed, you could copy print with it. And my Dad fought and was wounded in Korea in 1952. He recovered in Japan and then came home. I was born a year later.
My mom worked for US Shoe and when, she injured her hands a few times by the machine she used to do her job, they gave my mom a special type of putty once her bandages could come of to help her hand to heal. I later had hand surgeries for something completely different and, sure enough when, my bandages came off, they gave me purple putty to work with to help my hands heal.
Your dad is a true hero. Mu grandfather was a dough boy on the front lines of France during World War I, and my other grandfather fought in the South Pacific in World War II. I salute your dad and those who never made it back to their families. 😎
So many of these things became institutions. Peanuts, Silly Putty, and the like. How many of us have read a Peanuts comic, watched A Charlie Brown Christmas, or played with Silly Putty. 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
@@ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat Me too. Growing up I felt a lot like Charlie Brown. But I have so many wonderful memories of a world much simpler and kinder than today. Maybe because the world looks different through the eyes of a child.
Born in 48 and yes, learned to have and show respect to my elders, the value of truth and honesty, and how to act with manners. Wright and wrong were taught and respected and good and evil were well defined. I was raised to believe in fairness and this caused me problems as I grew up to learn that all people are not fair and many would take advantage of you if they could. I used to be somewhat unsettled about my increasing age and what follows as one reached that age where your body starts shutting down. I no longer dread this upcoming event as I am not too excited about living thru what evil is coming. I would be first in line at the travel machine to go back to the 50's!!
These Recollection series Are just wonderful, takes you back to a simpler time in America where life was happy, and the people were Nice to one another. Kudos To this channel for bringing back a bit of nostalgia from years ago.❤❤❤❤
Somehow you miissed all of the hate when some black kids tried to go to school. Or Emmett Till being brutally murdered. Or the chance that Rosa Parks took by not moving in that bus to make way for white people. My dad was called "boy" by a white janitor for no reason at all except that he could. My dad was a college grad but still seen as boy by a dumba$$ white guy. Yeah, sure, it was all paradise in the 1950s.
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
I loved playing with Silly Putty and the smell of the putty when I was a kid. Beverly Cleary mentioned on your video, was one of my favorite children's authors. I read just about all of her books when I was about 9 or 10 years old. The school librarian always helped me find the books. I also read all of Enid Blyton (another children's author) when I was a little girl. I still to this day, remember the children's librarian's name, Mrs. Carlisle to who I will always be grateful to for encouraging me to read and my love for the written word back in the 1960's in Canada.
Love this channel. I only visited America once in the summer of 1994. Stayed in NYC for a few nights and toured the East Coast. I was 17 years old. It was the best time of my life.
I was born in 1950. I deeply miss the last decade most Americans worshiped God. I hated the 60's when the anti-moral startup shed its roots. I have more fond memories of the 50's than any other time in my life.
Most kids were scared silly by the threat of the A-Bomb. it didn't help that we had those "duck and cover" practicies in school. Jet planes were being used in war for the first time in Korea. Before that, we weren't that concerned because there was no way for the Russian's to deliver the bombs to the USA.
@@ilovegoodsax We drove the Pacific Coast Hwy and thought we would go off the cliff any second. We took advantage of the areas the state set aside for stress relief - that’s how dangerous and believe me I was stressed out! Got some great pictures tho. I know James Dean didn’t plunge off the cliff, I guess this video made me want to stop and say “hello”!
@@ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat No, he did not plunge off a cliff lol. The land is very flat where he crashed. I know how scary going up and down scenic Hwy.1 is, but know you got some great pictures!😁💯
@@glennso47 No, I was speaking about the highway that runs right up California’s coast. It’s absolutely beautiful, and a real nail biter! In some stretches it’s only one lane -crazy people in big trucks drive with half their wheels on the edge of the cliffs! One side is mountains and the other is the mighty Pacific.
Love these timeline videos. Great backtrack into history. Being born in 1960, I'm obviously fascinated by those for the 60's and later, but the 50 ones are awesome as well.
If you think about it, our parents were in their mid to late 20’s to early 30’s. It was a great time for them also. Life was good. Things were opening up. Now things are shutting down.
An era of civility, respect and security... now long gone. nee 7-23-46 ... I remember everything about the 50s and content to forget much of what has transpired since. I feel sorry for those of you who missed the 50s and 60s.. down hill afterward, what a crime that the USA has become what it is. You will never know the real AMERICA.
The first entry was literally about the largest robbery in U.S. history. Where was the civility, respect and security there? I swear people have the most ridiculous ideas about history, as though there wasn’t a ton of crime and underhanded dealing around every corner.
I wish it was 1950! I’m not liking what’s going on in our country today. I feel we’ve lost our values. Of course it would mean I wouldn’t be alive yet. lol THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT VIDEO!
I tried to explain Silly Putty and pressing it to the comics to copy the image to a teenager a few months back and I may as well have been speaking in an ancient long lost tongue. And it wasn't just the act of copying the image but the fact that we thought it was fun that baffled the kid.
Teenagers with cellphones and no imagination has no concept of reality. That is one of the reasons we as Americans are, excused my French, are totally screwed. 😎
What was really fun was you could stretch and distort the image once you had it on the putty. Lots and lots of fun doing that and you could be creative at the same time.
I was born in 1960 and know I'm no spring chicken and now getting old. If you were born in 1950 and/or before and remember the 1950s -- props to you for now being old asf.😝 RIP to my brother Harold born in August 1950 and passed February 2020. Prostate cancer got him.
I was born in 1946. I remember the place where we lived in 1950, and old farmhouse in NJ that was in the middle of nowhere. Now the place is completely built up.
ilovegoodsax - Thanks, I was born in 1950 and turned 71 a few weeks ago, but you are the first person honest enough to tell me I am "old asf"! I don't mind at all 'cause I still hike several miles several times a week, still see hair on my head without using a second mirror, and more importantly can still take care of my wife (57 but older than me - EDIT: AND MUCH, MUCH PRETTIER THAN ME!!!) and youngest son (just turned 29, disabled with a TBI but we spend every evening together while he plays video games). As I have always told my wife, "Getting old is better than the alternative!" So may you be blessed with getting "old asf", and my condolences on loosing your big brother.
This was the year before my mom graduated high school . As a kid during the Great Depression she spent 6 years in California migrant labor camp with her family and had an older brother go off to war in the 40s
November 1, 1950... two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate Harry Truman in a wild gun battle outside Truman's temporary residence. (The White House was being renovated at the time).
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
I remember my grandpa telling me stories about the Korean War when I was just a little kid in the 60’s! Many years later in the 80’s, I joined the Army, and was stationed at Camp Pelham in Munsan Korea...funny how that worked out 🤔🤷🏼♂️
It's absolutely crazy how many horrible things happened on January 17th of any year... kinda sucks for those of us born _on_ January 17th. The $1million bank robbery, the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal, Prohibition, a whole lot of murders and wars, Final Fantasy: All the Bravest... it's unbelievable.
C RJ Could be Worse. June 19th is The Illegitimate "Holiday" 'Juneteenth' ! Made Official by The Illegitimate and Non Compos Mentis "President", Biden !
R.I.P Tony Richardson, December 5th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P Bruce Baldwin, May 17th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P Carol Bell, October 26th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017.
Major Professional Sports Championships during 1950: - MLB World Series (Oct. 4-9) New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 0. - NBA Championship Series (April 8-23) Minneapolis Lakers 4, Syracuse Nationals 2. - NFL Championship Game (Dec. 24) Cleveland Browns 30, Los Angeles Rams 28. - NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 11-23) Detroit Red Wings 4, New York Rangers 3.
First REVOLVING CHARGE card (the one you can pay over time) started before that decade was over, originally known as BANKAMERICARD (name creator Bank of America uses in one of their cards nowadays), but later changed to VISA.
Like Paul said here, you've got the movies crossed, as Snow White (1939) was Hollywood's FIRST FEATURE LENGTH (over 1 hour) ANIMATED MOVIE and that was 11 YEARS BEFORE.
He left out an event! An airplane crash over the west coast of Michigan, loss of all aboard ,Sunday evening. New York to Seattle, with a stop in Minneapolis!
The video points out that the average house was $2000 in 1950(the year I was born). By 1958 our first home was #11,000. ( In Canada). By 1972 prices hadn't gone up very much but with the inflation of the 1970's from 1973- 1977 that same home was selling for $75,000 with a high mortgage rate. And women needed to join the workforce or the family couldn't afford to pay for a home .
Right! How freaking sad is that? 😢just wrong this world has a long way to go... I hope it gets kinder, sadly I don't think it will be in the time I have left...🙏
Dont mean to turn this into an arguement, but there was plenty of racial hatred towards Jackie after he came to the Dodgers. ALL games were played up north Chicago, Cincinnati, Philly, New York, Boston, etc. What Jackie endured was shameful and all the while Old Glory, not the Stars and Bars was flying proudly in Center field. Just saying
@@garyfaught3769 You'll get no argument here. It was shameful; the thought that one person isn't fit to drink from the same water fountain or eat at the same diner.
My youngest brother has his Modern home decked out in Retro looking appliances & furniture from the 50's & 60's this includes a movie theater style room with a real 1950's popcorn machine..Coca Cola bottle 5 cent dispenser and a Retro candy counter with a Big 60 inch screen monitor..
I do enjoy watching these recollections... but just to fact check; the average home price in 1950 was $7300.00... not $1900.00 To put this in context, the average new car price was $2200.00. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for the interesting content.
$1,950 for a house does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
$1,950 for an house does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
$1,950 does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
Wish we could go back to those days where people had morals, respect, and pride. People know right from wrong but they don’t really care anymore. They don’t want what’s right anymore unless it benefits them. People were more Godfearing back then. Today’s ideas of Christianity are as counterfeit as they look and people aren’t going to change their ways. I blame a lot of it on the older generations who let things get like they are instead of comming against them. I believe it’s too far gone to return. God will not change his ways for the world’s ways.
35000 a year when a house cost 1500 is pretty good deal though. thats over 22 homes a year. so today at around 300,000 for a home its about 6 million a year.
Born in 1946 I got to experience the 50’s as a kid. It was a time that we will never see again sadly. The values, manners, and respect I was taught is still with me to this day. As a society we have deteriorated to the point of no return and it will be our undoing.
lucky. now everything is going down the trash nowdays
You are so right. Very little civility anymore.
And Integrity, forget it.
We just had a President who told Lies wholesale for 4 years and almost half the population wanted him re-elected.
Graciousness, Truthfulness, Honesty, Integrity, and associated virtues that citizens were once proud to be known for. Are sadly characteristics of previous generations.
You speak the truth.
I was backing up Trackman's comment, &
In no way was agreeing to the following political trash
I too was born in 1946 and was raised in an orphanage where I learned about manners,values and respectability. I passed these on to my sons who then passed them on to their children. All in all the 50’s were pretty good years.
I was born in 1945 so I was 5 years old 1950s was a great decade to be a kid I'm so glad I wasn't born any later than I was.
1944 for me..great times
I may know what you mean. I was born in early 1950s. If I had seen a bunch of strangers coming and a truck with a big red blow up thing for a birthday party I think I would had hid somewhere. That lets me know..nah being a kid later would not have been the same. Quite little green christmas tree and you could be darn lucky if you got a new doll and some oranges and nuts and cookies. I know we were poor but no way would I have expected some new Nikes nobody could afford.
My Mom was born 1945,she said "she ended the war
Such wonderful memories. Beverly Cleary, Peanuts gang, silly putty and Cinderella. Innocence and wonder.
It was an idyllic time to grow up.
Sorry but they were already starting to take the innocence away from this world. By indoctrinating the children with sin, like magic through Disney.
Wish we coud go back to that decade..................
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
Silly putty was pretty cool. It came in an egg shaped plastic container and yes indeed, you could copy print with it. And my Dad fought and was wounded in Korea in 1952. He recovered in Japan and then came home. I was born a year later.
My mom worked for US Shoe and when, she injured her hands a few times by the machine she used to do her job, they gave my mom a special type of putty once her bandages could come of to help her hand to heal. I later had hand surgeries for something completely different and, sure enough when, my bandages came off, they gave me purple putty to work with to help my hands heal.
It had a unique smell to it too.
Your dad is a true hero. Mu grandfather was a dough boy on the front lines of France during World War I, and my other grandfather fought in the South Pacific in World War II. I salute your dad and those who never made it back to their families. 😎
I was born August 19 1950 grew up in the 50s great time to be a kid
I missed the 1950s by four years; born in August of 63' What a great time to be alive I heard!😎
I was born August 01, 1950
@@davesblasting7457OMG U ARE LIKE.. MADONNA AGE
My older brother was born Jan 31, 1950. He passed away last year..RIP big bro(1950-2020)
My older brother too
1/12/50 - 2/5/2020
I’m sure he’s smiling down watching this video with you! Sorry for your loss xo
I also have a brother born in 1950 (August) who passed away in 2020 (February).
What the hell guys,.. 70 isn't old, what did they do to themselves?
May his memory be a blessing.
I cherish my elders. No book-page can compare with living history.
So many of these things became institutions. Peanuts, Silly Putty, and the like. How many of us have read a Peanuts comic, watched A Charlie Brown Christmas, or played with Silly Putty. 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
How many here wish Lucy would let Charlie Brown kick the 🏈 just one time?!
@Hans Kohler Guilty as charged! I even chewed some once, just to see what the consistency was.🤪
A Charlie Brown Christmas didn't come out till December 9, 1965
@@ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat Me too. Growing up I felt a lot like Charlie Brown. But I have so many wonderful memories of a world much simpler and kinder than today. Maybe because the world looks different through the eyes of a child.
@@hearttoheart4me Yes, that's true but the characters were cemented into the culture. Without Charlie Brown, no Charlie Brown Christmas.
Born in 48 and yes, learned to have and show respect to my elders, the value of truth and honesty, and how to act with manners. Wright and wrong were taught and respected and good and evil were well defined. I was raised to believe in fairness and this caused me problems as I grew up to learn that all people are not fair and many would take advantage of you if they could. I used to be somewhat unsettled about my increasing age and what follows as one reached that age where your body starts shutting down. I no longer dread this upcoming event as I am not too excited about living thru what evil is coming. I would be first in line at the travel machine to go back to the 50's!!
Save me a seat!
Over 70 years ago, this was America. 🇺🇸
These Recollection series
Are just wonderful, takes you back to a simpler time
in America where life was happy, and the people were
Nice to one another. Kudos
To this channel for bringing back a bit of nostalgia from years ago.❤❤❤❤
Somehow you miissed all of the hate when some black kids tried to go to school. Or Emmett Till being brutally murdered. Or the chance that Rosa Parks took by not moving in that bus to make way for white people.
My dad was called "boy" by a white janitor for no reason at all except that he could. My dad was a college grad but still seen as boy by a dumba$$ white guy.
Yeah, sure, it was all paradise in the 1950s.
First year in high school and we got our first TV set.
I guess you can compare the TV then to the internet now, sort of.
Class of '54?
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
Born June 7, 1950. Great time to be a kid.
WWII had just ended in 1945...1950 GI's came back home to start new jobs..start families..purchase new homes..
And BOOM! Lots of babies and prosperity for most.
Actually, I think you can trace the "baby boomer" period beginning, back to the end of WW2 1945-46.
And start a new war in Korea.
I loved playing with Silly Putty and the smell of the putty when I was a kid.
Beverly Cleary mentioned on your video, was one of my favorite children's authors. I read just about all of her books when I was about 9 or 10 years old. The school librarian always helped me find the books. I also read all of Enid Blyton (another children's author) when I was a little girl. I still to this day, remember the children's librarian's name, Mrs. Carlisle to who I will always be grateful to for encouraging me to read and my love for the written word back in the 1960's in Canada.
Very nice (and no annoying ad break).
I look forward to watching the rest!!
Love this channel. I only visited America once in the summer of 1994. Stayed in NYC for a few nights and toured the East Coast. I was 17 years old. It was the best time of my life.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Good video it's cool to know some history.
I was born in 1950. I deeply miss the last decade most Americans worshiped God. I hated the 60's when the anti-moral startup shed its roots. I have more fond memories of the 50's than any other time in my life.
Sum tec, you are right but sometimes it just feels like simpler times. I was born in 51 and I wouldn't mind going back to my youth.
Most kids were scared silly by the threat of the A-Bomb. it didn't help that we had those "duck and cover" practicies in school. Jet planes were being used in war for the first time in Korea. Before that, we weren't that concerned because there was no way for the Russian's to deliver the bombs to the USA.
The opening photo of the family loading their car is a few years later than 1950. The car is a 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible.
Yep. Cars started to take on a newer, sleeker, shape with
Duo colors.
@viscount. If that is so, can't fool everybody.
Thank you!
James Dean's hometown, Fairmount Indiana, has a very interesting museum of his life.
I pass by the place where Dean crashed and died any time I travel to the central coast here in CA. There's a monument to him there as well.
@@ilovegoodsax
We drove the Pacific Coast Hwy and thought we would go off the cliff any second.
We took advantage of the areas the state set aside for stress relief - that’s how dangerous and believe me I was stressed out! Got some great pictures tho.
I know James Dean didn’t plunge off the cliff, I guess this video made me want to stop and say “hello”!
@@ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat Was that where Tiger Woods recently crashed his Hyundai Genesis?
@@ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat No, he did not plunge off a cliff lol. The land is very flat where he crashed. I know how scary going up and down scenic Hwy.1 is, but know you got some great pictures!😁💯
@@glennso47
No, I was speaking about the highway that runs right up California’s coast.
It’s absolutely beautiful, and a real nail biter! In some stretches it’s only one lane -crazy people in big trucks drive with half their wheels on the edge of the cliffs!
One side is mountains and the other is the mighty Pacific.
Love these timeline videos. Great backtrack into history. Being born in 1960, I'm obviously fascinated by those for the 60's and later, but the 50 ones are awesome as well.
If you think about it, our parents were in their mid to late 20’s to early 30’s.
It was a great time for them also. Life was good. Things were opening up. Now things are shutting down.
An era of civility, respect and security... now long gone. nee 7-23-46 ... I remember everything about the 50s and content to forget much of what has transpired since. I feel sorry for those of you who missed the 50s and 60s.. down hill afterward, what a crime that the USA has become what it is. You will never know the real AMERICA.
The first entry was literally about the largest robbery in U.S. history. Where was the civility, respect and security there? I swear people have the most ridiculous ideas about history, as though there wasn’t a ton of crime and underhanded dealing around every corner.
I was born in January 1953, so I only recollect the late 50s.
God bless USA.
Amen!!
@@lawnmowerman2199
Don’t worry, I’m not gonna say “a-woman”
AMEN
It needs the help considering what a Sxxx hole it has become.
@@jeffhildreth9244 ….blame the looney left - full of fellow travellers.
@@allegra0 oh so this a nazi channel in disguise?
Seen "The Brink's Job" w/ a lot of old-school Boston scenes.
The Brinks Job - thanks for the tip. Those are some wild characters and what a job it was!
THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO
Another beautifully and well done video!
I was nine and did not have new anything on our 65 acre farm. We had great family memories of cows, and pigs, and home made ice cream and such.
This is by far my favorite channel!!!! Keep up the wonderful work.
I wish it was 1950! I’m not liking what’s going on in our country today.
I feel we’ve lost our values.
Of course it would mean I wouldn’t be alive yet. lol
THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT VIDEO!
If you had lived through the fifties, you wouldn't wish for it to be 1950.
@@joelstein4657 Thank you. About the past, I always say, It’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
@@joelstein4657 Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.
Ur right thos were great years miss them
@@amyfisher6380 why ?
Love your channel, please keep publishing about the 1950s!!
This was the best one yet. Great work!
Come on up to Grant County, Indiana and enjoy the James Dean Festival every year. Huge car show!
Absolute greatest time to be an American!
I tried to explain Silly Putty and pressing it to the comics to copy the image to a teenager a few months back and I may as well have been speaking in an ancient long lost tongue. And it wasn't just the act of copying the image but the fact that we thought it was fun that baffled the kid.
Teenagers with cellphones and no imagination has no concept of reality. That is one of the reasons we as Americans are, excused my French, are totally screwed. 😎
What was really fun was you could stretch and distort the image once you had it on the putty. Lots and lots of fun doing that and you could be creative at the same time.
All of these programs are quite good. Thanks.
I Love your Videos... Keep up the Great Work!!!
I was born in 1960 and know I'm no spring chicken and now getting old. If you were born in 1950 and/or before and remember the 1950s -- props to you for now being old asf.😝 RIP to my brother Harold born in August 1950 and passed February 2020. Prostate cancer got him.
I was born in 1953 so my diapers are dirtier than yours!!! ;-)
@@Cryo837 🤣🤣🤣💯
I was born in 1946. I remember the place where we lived in 1950, and old farmhouse in NJ that was in the middle of nowhere. Now the place is completely built up.
Miriam Bucholtz I grew up in NJ as well. All built up. Was such nice country when we were young.
ilovegoodsax - Thanks, I was born in 1950 and turned 71 a few weeks ago, but you are the first person honest enough to tell me I am "old asf"! I don't mind at all 'cause I still hike several miles several times a week, still see hair on my head without using a second mirror, and more importantly can still take care of my wife (57 but older than me - EDIT: AND MUCH, MUCH PRETTIER THAN ME!!!) and youngest son (just turned 29, disabled with a TBI but we spend every evening together while he plays video games). As I have always told my wife, "Getting old is better than the alternative!"
So may you be blessed with getting "old asf", and my condolences on loosing your big brother.
My grandfather was part of the Brinks job. His name was James Faherty!!
Thanks for the video,
This was the year before my mom graduated high school .
As a kid during the Great Depression she spent 6 years in California migrant labor camp with her family and had an older brother go off to war in the 40s
God bless all those unfortunate people.
November 1, 1950... two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate Harry Truman in a wild gun battle outside Truman's temporary residence. (The White House was being renovated at the time).
Yeah, I remember that.
I think the temporary residence was,is, known as
The Blair House.
It's nice to hear a Recollection Road video with music that isn't sad and gloomy.
There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. … Loved it.
Dad talked about that blizzard.snowed in several days till a farmer with a tractor scoop dug us out.born September that year.
Thank you
I remember my grandpa telling me stories about the Korean War when I was just a little kid in the 60’s! Many years later in the 80’s, I joined the Army, and was stationed at Camp Pelham in Munsan Korea...funny how that worked out 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Thank you for your service!
Excellent video
A great era! 🇺🇸
Love ❤️ this video mate from Oz 🇦🇺
It's absolutely crazy how many horrible things happened on January 17th of any year... kinda sucks for those of us born _on_ January 17th.
The $1million bank robbery, the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal, Prohibition, a whole lot of murders and wars, Final Fantasy: All the Bravest... it's unbelievable.
C RJ
Could be Worse.
June 19th is The Illegitimate "Holiday"
'Juneteenth' !
Made Official by The Illegitimate and
Non Compos Mentis "President", Biden !
I was a little late to the party, I was born 1959.
Same, September 😊
@@samanthab1923 Me too, September 24th. 😊
Clinton Nebraska 21st! 🎂
Please do earlier years like the 40s!
I was 9 years old going on 10 that year. Remember some of the highlights featured here as they occurred.
Top song of that year.
"Good Night Irene", by the Weavers. Just saying!!
R.I.P Tony Richardson, December 5th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Bruce Baldwin, May 17th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Carol Bell, October 26th, 1950 - October 14th, 2017.
The 1950 Canoe River Train Collision.
Celerleno 1950 - Michael Charkson's Demise.
R.I.H Michael Charkson, February 17th, 1909 ~ December 16th, 1950.
I was born in 1977, but don't mind watching other generations that were ahead of My time
I'm glad it showed the World Cup of that year. It was held in Brazil. In two more years it will be 75 years ago. The TV began to be popular in 1950.
Not a word about television. A glaring omission.
1950 was the beginning of a new decade. 1st car is a 1954 Chevy
I have just now discovered and subscribed to your channel.The only problem I have is that the segments aren’t long enough.
@Austin Scott who are you and what do you want?
@Austin Scott I ask again,why?
I'm sure that there was a lot more going on in 1950
The scene at the beginning where a family is loading the trunk of their car is wrong. The car is a 1954 Chevrolet. Not a 1950 model.
@@glennso47 ouch!! still like this guy's vids though 👍
"Sunset Boulevard " was the new film, I still watch it.
Wow I had a diner's club card 40 years ago
I had one too funny huh
Lest we not forget Whataburger opened their first restaurant down here in TEXAS!
Amen to that!
Major Professional Sports Championships during 1950:
- MLB World Series (Oct. 4-9) New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 0.
- NBA Championship Series (April 8-23) Minneapolis Lakers 4, Syracuse Nationals 2.
- NFL Championship Game (Dec. 24) Cleveland Browns 30, Los Angeles Rams 28.
- NHL Stanley Cup Finals (April 11-23) Detroit Red Wings 4, New York Rangers 3.
Diner's Club wasn't a true credit card, it was the first "Sign and Travel" card. All charges had to be paid at the end of the month in full.
First REVOLVING CHARGE card (the one you can pay over time) started before that decade was over, originally known as BANKAMERICARD (name creator Bank of America uses in one of their cards nowadays), but later changed to VISA.
YAYYYYY!!! I was watching UFO videos but they can wait LOL
The new footage from the military?
Perhaps you can do a video about Roses 5-10-25 Stores which were(are) a small store chain in Southeastern US.
I love Beverly Cleary books!
Critics thought the film Cinderella would be a flop because "no adult would go to see a cartoon that's one hour and sixteen minutes long."
I thought he was talking a play? Oh well it’s good to know!
The Critics said that about Snow White, not Cinderella.
Like Paul said here, you've got the movies crossed, as Snow White (1939) was Hollywood's FIRST FEATURE LENGTH (over 1 hour) ANIMATED MOVIE and that was 11 YEARS BEFORE.
Reminds me of Steve Wozniak sold his apple shares in the 80s for like 5 dollars cuz he was convinced Apple inc. would flop
He left out an event! An airplane crash over the west coast of Michigan, loss of all aboard ,Sunday evening. New York to Seattle, with a stop in Minneapolis!
Life was simple and good. Today?👎 I wouldn’t bring a child into today’s environment and ludicrous going on. A kid can’t even be a kid at school.
Yeah, it’s awful.
I'm 31, and this is precisely why I've elected to forgo child bearing.
Jim Crow was still a fact in 1950. But you know .... don't think about the bad stuff.
Charles m Schulz was my great grand fathers brother
@Recollection Road Any chance you'll do flashback videos for the 1840s, 1930s, and 1920s once you're done moving forward?
I was born on Nov.26, 1950.
Chevys were great in 50.
The video points out that the average house was $2000 in 1950(the year I was born). By 1958 our first home was #11,000. ( In Canada). By 1972 prices hadn't gone up very much but with the inflation of the 1970's from 1973- 1977 that same home was selling for $75,000 with a high mortgage rate. And women needed to join the workforce or the family couldn't afford to pay for a home .
See- in reviewing my post- that the average price in 1950 was $7500, which makes more sense.
Multiply everything by 10 to get the equivalent price today.
That's a '54 Chevy Bel Air convertible at 0:12
Jackie Robinson made more than any other Dodger... and he wasn't legally allowed to drink from the same water fountain as his teammates.
Right! How freaking sad is that? 😢just wrong this world has a long way to go... I hope it gets kinder, sadly I don't think it will be in the time I have left...🙏
Not in most of the South but he could in the rest of the country.
Dont mean to turn this into an arguement, but there was plenty of racial hatred towards Jackie after he came to the Dodgers. ALL games were played up north Chicago, Cincinnati, Philly, New York, Boston, etc. What Jackie endured was shameful and all the while Old Glory, not the Stars and Bars was flying proudly in Center field. Just saying
@@garyfaught3769 You'll get no argument here. It was shameful; the thought that one person isn't fit to drink from the same water fountain or eat at the same diner.
Me too
I always wanted a retro-futuristic world with 50s aesthetics but modern technology. Like the series Fallout but without the nuclear apocalypse.
My youngest brother has his Modern home decked out in Retro looking appliances & furniture from the 50's & 60's this includes a movie theater style room with a real 1950's popcorn machine..Coca Cola bottle 5 cent dispenser and a Retro candy counter with a Big 60 inch screen monitor..
@@stevedeleon8775
Well, when are you going to get him to invite us all over?! 👍
@@stevedeleon8775 That sounds amazing!!
@@stevedeleon8775 that's awesome
I do enjoy watching these recollections... but just to fact check; the average home price in 1950 was $7300.00... not $1900.00 To put this in context, the average new car price was $2200.00. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for the interesting content.
I think you missed my birthday in June.
my grandma was 8.
Yes we all know it’s a 54 Chevy… so, let it go. Don’t let it take away from the reason we’re watching.
I was born in 1951. Great flashback.
everything i found says the average home cost $7,354 not $1950 which i think maybe he got the price numbers mixed up with year the video is about
$1,950 for a house does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
This is the year my mother was born
$1,950 for an house does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
Car at beginning of video was a 1954 chevy.
The first photo shows a 1954 Chevrolet. Please keep your photos in step with the year you are portraying.
The average house in 1950 was $1,950. Which means the average house price in 2021 should be $2.021.
$1,950 does not sound correct. I'd venture to guess the average house was closer to $10,000. I know average new homes built on southwest side of Chicago in 1956-57 was in the $16,000-$19,000 range.
Wish we could go back to those days where people had morals, respect, and pride. People know right from wrong but they don’t really care anymore. They don’t want what’s right anymore unless it benefits them. People were more Godfearing back then. Today’s ideas of Christianity are as counterfeit as they look and people aren’t going to change their ways. I blame a lot of it on the older generations who let things get like they are instead of comming against them. I believe it’s too far gone to return. God will not change his ways for the world’s ways.
Tony...you covered it completely. Just never give up hope, & keep the faith in God.
I see an error in this video at the 14 second mark. That is a 1954 Chevrolet.
Jackie Robinson's $35,000 for an entire season is about half of what Mike Trout earns each time he comes to bat.
35000 a year when a house cost 1500 is pretty good deal though. thats over 22 homes a year. so today at around 300,000 for a home its about 6 million a year.
Opening scene shows a 1954 Chevy. Otherwise a nice nostalgia video. (I'm of 1951 vintage)
Me too! January 19.
Could you Possibly go back to 1946 ?
JaneLee - in Suburban Philadelphia
6/19/22
You forgot the most important event of that year:I was born on June 21st.
Well, then HAPPY (early) BIRTHDAY!
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