Pure Nostalgia - A Visual Flashback to 1950s America (in Color)

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  • @millerforester6237
    @millerforester6237 Год назад +59

    This is me. I graduated HS in 1959. I didn't realize it for a while, but the 50s were the best times of my life.

    • @richardolson6678
      @richardolson6678 Год назад +2

      Graduation in 1960s

    • @MattGuzman-ng2yx
      @MattGuzman-ng2yx Год назад +3

      That's Awesome! In 1984, I was 15 and cam across some High School yearbooks, and I was a freshman.. and our 1959 Anvil that year was my favorite! My math teacher graduated that year, and he'd tell us how much East Chicago had changed in those short 25 yrs! You have lived and experienced some Amazing times in your life.. music, cars, just... EVERYTHING!!! And I know you wouldn't trade those times for ANYTHING IN THE WORLD!!! ❤😂🎉

    • @lennyanders1639
      @lennyanders1639 11 месяцев назад +1

      Things are getting so bad so fast that decades from now people will look back at the early 2020s as the good old days

    • @normanwyatt8761
      @normanwyatt8761 10 месяцев назад

      I was a grad in 1953 the year Princess Elizabeth became QUEEN of ENGLAND.......I would gladly go back to the 50's and 60's without hesitation.......

    • @ccmer1956doc
      @ccmer1956doc 10 месяцев назад

      Yes they were fun times. 59 it was USAF for me and enjoyed that also

  • @miriambucholtz9315
    @miriambucholtz9315 Год назад +9

    My only problem is that the video didn't last long enough. Thanks for the view of a time I still remember vividly. At least I was able to graduate high school before everything turned psychedelic. Don't ever get me started on that bit.
    I miss the clothes and the hair styles of the 50s, well, most of them, anyway.

  • @alanolson6913
    @alanolson6913 Год назад +22

    I grew up in Southern California back then, but born just as that decade began. I do recall certain television shows and seeing how people dressed and what they drove. One of my mom’s sisters had married a man who had a bit of money and they would stop by our place and show us their ‘56 Thunderbird. One of our neighbors and her siblings had hula hoops (I never could get it right). We would hear the Everly Brothers or Patsy Cline on the car radio. No smog, no rioting, neighbors visited over the back fence, the dairy delivered milk, butter and cream to our porch, my Dad was a pressman at our newspaper, one of my aunts was a telephone operator, we would watch Kukla, Fran and Ollie, drank from the hose, wore our skate keys around our necks on a string, stayed out till the streetlights came on and it all melted away far too quickly….

    • @TheHistoryLounge
      @TheHistoryLounge  Год назад +3

      I love this description of life back then. Thanks for taking the time to share it. It really sounds wonderful.

    • @SnoMoJoe1
      @SnoMoJoe1 Год назад

      Did you ever hear of the Watts riots? Does Martin Luther King ring a bell? If you were anything but white in the fiftys, life was pretty rough. Very racist .

    • @alanolson6913
      @alanolson6913 Год назад +2

      @@SnoMoJoe1 No, I missed all of that living in Leave It To Beaver-ville.

  • @marshaharris4268
    @marshaharris4268 Год назад +14

    If I could only go back in time. Born in 1950. World was so much better.

    • @barryhill1044
      @barryhill1044 Год назад +1

      Yep, Something was missing

    • @jeanalexander4101
      @jeanalexander4101 10 месяцев назад

      I agree world much better. No social media kids actually played outside together. . Miss those days

  • @barrygrant2907
    @barrygrant2907 Год назад +6

    Born in '52 to a world of diners, soda fountains, and the best music ever.

  • @jimkreider9997
    @jimkreider9997 8 месяцев назад +6

    LOVED the 50s. People, cars, music, schools, etc. etc.

  • @jeanalexander4101
    @jeanalexander4101 11 месяцев назад +7

    I was born in 1948. The 50's and 60's were the best times. I can't believe how quick the years flew by. I'm almost 76 now and i still listen to 50's music.

  • @desthomas8970
    @desthomas8970 Год назад +50

    When cars were cars and people weren't confused.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад +2

      Those WERE the days!!

    • @phonseng-hs6tp
      @phonseng-hs6tp Год назад

      And white women actually have class and lady like unylike today they want to be with a black guys because of fetish

    • @krisdunwoody7037
      @krisdunwoody7037 Год назад

      Years and years ago, Guys wearing Women's Clothes were simply "Cross Dressing", and with "Male Equipment Downstairs", their "Pronouns were "HE", "HIM", "HIMSELF", and "Weirdo"!

    • @calvinballew5411
      @calvinballew5411 Год назад

      When men were men and women weren't!

    • @bobareeniobobareenio2935
      @bobareeniobobareenio2935 Год назад +4

      Yes , great, racism was the norm. Segregation was the norm. Exclusive clubs were the norm. Red lining and all the rest . ALL of that has brought us to the unbalanced unfair conditions that prevail today. Yea, let’s go backwards. Sheesh! Idiots

  • @garyfaught3769
    @garyfaught3769 Год назад +7

    Can't truly define the 50s without a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Annette sitting in it was the cherry on top. Beautiful car, beautiful girl.

  • @dlkline27
    @dlkline27 Год назад +5

    Graduated high school in 1957. These photos really stimulate the memory.

  • @jefferypitts343
    @jefferypitts343 10 месяцев назад +18

    Put me in a time machine, im ready to go back now.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 9 месяцев назад

      Only for parts of it. There was still legal racial segregation in the south.

    • @jimihendrix4376
      @jimihendrix4376 7 месяцев назад

      Amen to that, I'm sick of this culture shock conglomeration of insanity!

  • @henryquenin6580
    @henryquenin6580 Год назад +9

    I was a little kid back in the 1950s. My parents had a 1955 Chevy Belair station wagon. I remember going downtown and seeing all the men wearing suits, dress shoes, and hats. The ladies wore beautiful dresses and high heels. People really seemed to care about their appearance, unlike today.

    • @JimofTheLionKings
      @JimofTheLionKings Год назад +4

      @henryquenin6580 Ya, now all you see are 300 lbs whoppers poured into some
      Lycra stretch pants covered head to toe with tattoos and a mouthful of foul language topped off with a spectacular level of ignorance. Beautiful, just beautiful.

  • @jsat5609
    @jsat5609 Год назад +9

    I turned 8 in 1959, so I can honestly say, I remember the 1950s. I also remember an incident that happened in front of our house in a rural area, early one Sunday morning. A guy in one of those '56, Cadillac Coupe Devilles, had wound up in the ditch in front of our house. My dad cranked up the tractor, pulled him out, and refused his offer of payment. The guy said he was in a hurry and had to go. It turned out he had a rather sizeable load of moonshine in that rather sizeable trunk that he had to deliver. This model of Cadillac was loved by moonshiners just for that reason: it had an enormous trunk, and would hold a huge load of illicit liquor. The bootlegers used them for years, and hated to part with them.

  • @calvinballew5411
    @calvinballew5411 Год назад +10

    I was born in 57. I have always said that if i could have been a teenager in any decade i would have picked the 50s. The 30s had depression, the 40s we were at war, we all know the turmoil of the 60s. I wasca teen in the 70s and it was ok. Since then the world has gone crazy. Id take the 50s any day.

    • @rayjohnson9304
      @rayjohnson9304 Год назад +3

      I was born in 57 and I agree 50's would be the best decade

  • @leonardkudrecki8370
    @leonardkudrecki8370 Год назад +6

    I grew up in the 50's and it all brought back great memories. Thanks for that.

  • @oldwobble916
    @oldwobble916 Год назад +3

    Born in 1950, but not in the USA, I haven't any actual memory of what is shown in these photographs, except some of the music from records my older brothers came up with.
    Later in life I became aware of this era by old movies, my favourite being American Graffiti, and an interest in classic cars and motorcycles. And of course, the girls and women where so much more pleasing to look at.
    Even so, I feel some kind of loss and nostalgic, watching the video's of The History Lounge.
    Thank you so much for these "blasts from the past", for which I had no idea I would miss them.

  • @fasx56
    @fasx56 Год назад +5

    Excellent short video that captures much of a Decade the changed America and left such a rich Heritage of Music that is still being played today. .A rapidly growing economy combined with lot of what this country was like before and after WW 2. A rising standard of living that would leave so much Nostalgia in the hearts of those that lived then. Thank you Mr. Editor and Producer.

  • @patriot388
    @patriot388 Год назад +19

    If I had a time machine I would go back to the 1950's and never return!

    • @OleBlue1987
      @OleBlue1987 10 месяцев назад +1

      I’d join you honestly, I’m 14 and love vintage stuff, not to mention modern society is crap compared to how amazing it was in the 50s

    • @voxpopuli4136
      @voxpopuli4136 10 месяцев назад

      based on old people's memories and pictures....

  • @marybeck7594
    @marybeck7594 Год назад +7

    Super clear pics, excellent, wouldn't that time be nice now, always cherish every moment, and have no regrets.

    • @TheHistoryLounge
      @TheHistoryLounge  Год назад +3

      That is the best advice that anyone can give. It runs through my mind all the time when I'm sorting through these old photos and wondering about all of these lives, most of which have now passed. Thanks for watching and for your excellent comments!

  • @Dan-oj4iq
    @Dan-oj4iq Год назад +8

    My teenage years were the 1950's. And for me my most painful memories were that, for the life of me, I couldn't dance. I almost felt like an outcast. Everything else was beautiful about the 50's.

    • @fredzag2452
      @fredzag2452 10 месяцев назад

      You should of asked around. I did, but it was a tiny bit of help.

  • @codyhilton1750
    @codyhilton1750 Год назад +5

    Thanks for the great pictures of when I was a Teenager and a Marine.

  • @peebeedee6757
    @peebeedee6757 Год назад +5

    Born in 41, saw Elvis arrive in 56 and everything since. We were the first 'teenagers' and it was ........ great!

  • @alexgg7499
    @alexgg7499 Год назад +14

    Sometimes I wanna time travel and live there today society is lost

  • @dianemartin8000
    @dianemartin8000 4 месяца назад +3

    I was born in 1944 so I remember all of this! But it was Elvis that flipped me out for years!!! My parents thought I was crazy!! But I knew my mother really liked Frank Sinatra ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @1949LA-ARCH
    @1949LA-ARCH Год назад +27

    Men were real men, girls were real girls ❤ I was born in 1949, loved this time of my life 😊

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад +1

      Me, too. I feel sorry for kids born now...

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад +5

      @@jpineapple9495
      If you have to ask this question, you're definitely one of these confused individuals.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад

      @@jpineapple9495
      How do you know when someone on You Tube is being "sarcastic" or merely stupid?? Help a "boomer" out...

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 Год назад

      A naive and simple time. You could say America grew up.....then again not so much.

    • @markdecke2929
      @markdecke2929 Год назад +1

      And if you happen to not conform to your ideal your life was shit

  • @PlangaBum
    @PlangaBum Год назад +6

    Nice to see the good old days

  • @caloyski95
    @caloyski95 Год назад +10

    I love the 50's

  • @SacCarScene
    @SacCarScene 9 месяцев назад +9

    Everyone had nice clothes, nice hair, and cool cars.

  • @sgoossen856
    @sgoossen856 Год назад +5

    Thank you for sharing your website and videos. They sure bring back memories.😎👍

  • @simonapeters4372
    @simonapeters4372 Год назад +18

    I love the cars back then none of them even looked like the other car they all were different nowadays they all look like a bar of soap

  • @johnnybeer3770
    @johnnybeer3770 Год назад +4

    All the memories came flooding back -----WOW .

  • @MemoryLN
    @MemoryLN 7 месяцев назад +5

    *Put me in a time machine, im ready to go back now*

  • @roysumadi6584
    @roysumadi6584 10 месяцев назад +10

    In my perception and opinions as an ordinary Indonesian guy ; far away from the US, the 50s - 60s was The Golden Ages ; the Summit of American cultures

  • @garyhenderson7332
    @garyhenderson7332 Год назад +9

    I was born in 1945, love the look back in time , when we had a country that was respected. Not perfect but a lot better then it is now.

  • @MsGrowltiger
    @MsGrowltiger 11 месяцев назад +8

    It was a magical time

    • @georgschmidt5281
      @georgschmidt5281 11 месяцев назад

      Yes it was a fine time to be a teen.

    • @norwegianzound
      @norwegianzound 11 месяцев назад

      If you were white. For everyone else, not so much....

  • @MrJodyh54
    @MrJodyh54 7 месяцев назад +2

    We had 'Jolly's' soda fountain in my hometown with a record stand. Those were the days!

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад

      And comics were 10 cents!😮. The Twang

  • @GMCTIM
    @GMCTIM 10 месяцев назад +7

    Wasn't born until 1970 ! Way my dad talked, sure wish I'd lived in those days !

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад

      I did, and they we're great!😄

  • @HesAPooka
    @HesAPooka 3 месяца назад +1

    For once RUclips recommendations did their job and actually got it right.
    Love this channel. Thanks for all the work you do in putting these videos together, they're wonderful.

  • @normanwyatt8761
    @normanwyatt8761 10 месяцев назад +5

    I owned and drove hot rods and custom cars in the 50's and 60's......I'd love to go back.....

  • @normanrussell5526
    @normanrussell5526 Год назад +6

    What I wish today is that we all had great dress style as our forebears of the 1930s to the 1960s. Folks had such great dress codes in the past. Just look at the wonderful cloths they went about in their daily lives.

  • @wesleytillman9774
    @wesleytillman9774 Год назад +11

    The 50s were great times and cars looked great in those days, but by the time you hit 100k they were ready for the junkyard in most cases. Today you can easily get 200k out of a car if taken care of. And you can get an amazing large screen color TV today for less than a small black and white TV then, along with our other amazing electronic products. What made the 50s work so well was mostly a 90% plus white society educated in basic American values.

    • @elainelane1119
      @elainelane1119 Год назад

      Peyton Place much??

    • @wesleytillman9774
      @wesleytillman9774 Год назад

      You had gossip but not gang murder and the total decay of major cities.@@elainelane1119

  • @LukeLovesRose
    @LukeLovesRose Год назад +12

    California at this time was a paradise on earth. Now look what San Francisco has become

    • @rayfinkle9369
      @rayfinkle9369 Год назад +1

      They keep voting for one party rule. "Anyone but Republican". That's what Detroit has been saying for 50 years straight. It used to be the best city in the US. They'd rather watch their cities deteriorate than try something different. Like the Joker said, you get what you fkn deserve.

  • @martinhoflich6150
    @martinhoflich6150 Год назад +4

    l'm born 59 and l Love your chanel . Cheers from germany ✌️🇩🇪❤️🇺🇸

  • @moviesgalore9947
    @moviesgalore9947 Год назад +8

    Compare those high school kids in 1957 to the kids in today's high schools.

    • @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys
      @RickaramaTrama-lc1ys Год назад +2

      It's too upsetting~!!

    • @richardwarren7492
      @richardwarren7492 Год назад

      @@jpineapple9495 Do you enjoy being/acting like a 6 year old?

    • @rgray3173
      @rgray3173 Год назад +1

      They lived across the tracks where they caused no trouble. @@jpineapple9495

  • @fredwexler1362
    @fredwexler1362 Год назад +5

    Judy Tyler was "Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring" on the Howdy Doody show. She died in a car wreck in July 1957.

    • @alanolson6913
      @alanolson6913 Год назад

      Yes, indeed. Do you remember her saying “ Kawa-goopa Tinka-tonka”? Howdy Doody was a favorite for my brother and I then.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад

      That's messed up. Maybe if we had seatbelts then she'd still be alive.

    • @alanolson6913
      @alanolson6913 Год назад

      @@tiffsaver Seatbelts were available back then but were an expensive option. Plus it was a lap belt, 3 point seatbelts weren’t invented yet.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад

      @@alanolson6913
      Let me tell you something about human nature. People never take action until they're FORCED TO. Lap belts used to be optional, and NOBODY even bothered to wear them. It was only until 1968 when wearing seat belts became compulsory and actually enforceable by law did they begin to conform.

    • @alanolson6913
      @alanolson6913 Год назад

      @@tiffsaver I’ve been educated. Never, rather a broad brush to paint with.

  • @classicmoviesvault
    @classicmoviesvault 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love the drive in photos. When I watch old movies from the 1950's you can see all the vintage stuff

  • @JRCinKY
    @JRCinKY 10 месяцев назад +10

    Well, that was the City Folks. I lived in the Sticks of rural Kentucky and seldom got to town and when I did, I had no money for a soda fountain and such. Just get some groceries and head back home to work on the tobacco farm. I had an AM radio to listen to and heard those singers but nice clothes and nice cars were not even thought of. Our world was a couple square miles but we were HAPPIER than the kids of today worrying about their Social Media.

  • @timedriverable
    @timedriverable Год назад +5

    Born in 46 ...those were the times.

  • @stevebarb2925
    @stevebarb2925 Год назад +4

    Thanks, brought back some good memories. Graduated high school 1960

  • @ronstewart9792
    @ronstewart9792 Год назад +4

    Awesome video. I was a teenager in the 50's. Got my drivers lic. and first car in 1956. Great times.

  • @siddrajput1029
    @siddrajput1029 Год назад +3

    Really enjoyed the pictures. Thanks.

  • @Noitisnt-ns7mo
    @Noitisnt-ns7mo Год назад +8

    Back in the day when a clock didn't require a computer programmer to work.

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 Год назад

      They still don’t. Choose the right clock.

  • @thomasportelli5995
    @thomasportelli5995 Год назад +7

    Clothing style was all class by both MALE and FEMALE

  • @ladyhawk1083
    @ladyhawk1083 11 месяцев назад +13

    Men and women was not fat bald tattooed pierced or disgusting I cared about their appearance and they knew how to dance and sing and they also had manners and morals and they could have a rifle hanging up in the back of their truck and never even think about taking it into the school and Harmon anybody it was only to shoot animals for food

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 Год назад +6

    I was born in 1946😊

  • @vietnamvet6474
    @vietnamvet6474 Год назад +3

    I was born in September 1949 .up. until I went overseas in 1971 this was the best years of my life.

  • @jakecameron3496
    @jakecameron3496 Год назад +9

    How beautiful and sexy women were back then. No wonder 50's were such awesome decade. When you're surrounded with such women everything is beautiful and easy.

  • @163pete
    @163pete 11 месяцев назад +2

    I went into a memory trans just watching this, thanks for the trip back to my old days ❤

    • @TheHistoryLounge
      @TheHistoryLounge  11 месяцев назад

      I'm glad to hear it - that's kind of what I was going for with this one. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

  • @davidoverholt251
    @davidoverholt251 10 месяцев назад +4

    OMG, Annette in a 57 TBird! My big brother was just so in love with Annette, and we had a black and white 12 inch Philco TV back in the 50's as I remember!

  • @hermanhufnagel4242
    @hermanhufnagel4242 4 месяца назад +2

    Wish I lived through the the 50thies. The cars girls and music was awsome in that erra. Pluse people had values morals and respect. A time we will never see again. What ashame.

  • @alfredocorreia9385
    @alfredocorreia9385 3 дня назад

    SOU PORTUGUÊS E MINHA INFÂNCIA FOI AQUI NO BRASIL NO RIO DE JANEIRO NA DÉCADA DE 50!!!
    MESMO AINDA CRIANÇA, LEMBRO BASTANTE DAQUELA DÉCADA MARAVILHOSA!!!
    ÉPOCA QUE MARILYN MONROE ERA A DEUSA ABSOLUTA DE HOLLYWOOD, ELVIS O ÍDOLO ABSOLUTO DA MÚSICA JOVEM, NAT KING COLE ULTRAPASSAVA FRANK SINATRA NO GOSTO POPULAR DE CANTORES E RAY CONNIFF EM 1956 FORMAVA SUA ORQUESTRA DE SUCESSO MUNDIAL!
    BONS TEMPOS MESMO!!!

  • @leighlofgren
    @leighlofgren Год назад +3

    I was born in the 50s in Sydney and these times, 60's, 70's were the best and far better then than now I'm sorry to say. The cars were and still are the best - I have a '57MGA that everyone wants, but she's staying with me.

  • @gladysbarbour1472
    @gladysbarbour1472 3 месяца назад +2

    The best of times in my life.....the 50s'. Ah, wonderful teen, hotrod years...... jitter bug and saddle shoes and sock hops.

  • @WilberWiley
    @WilberWiley Год назад +7

    I cant believe how beautiful Liz Taylor was WOW!

  • @waynepearson2367
    @waynepearson2367 Год назад +4

    Awesome,those were great times!

  • @djmossssomjd8496
    @djmossssomjd8496 Год назад +1

    I'm 70...I wish I were 80. That way I would have grown up here in the UK listening to and experiencing this great time. Instead I had to wait until 1968 before I could go out and buy all these great tunes. I now have around 40,000 of them and still love the great music of the 50's.

    • @David.L291
      @David.L291 Год назад

      Hahaha 40,000 tracks Lol

  • @boris8787
    @boris8787 Год назад +2

    Thanks - another excellent video!! Travel Through Time - reminds me of the traditional town of Chillingbourne.

  • @dr.migilitoloveless2385
    @dr.migilitoloveless2385 Год назад +4

    Fantastic video 🎯👍👍

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 Год назад +3

    My brother had a '57 Chevy Bel Air hardtop exactly like the one in the collage. To top it off, we had a '58 Glastron in the same colors with matching fins.

  • @56BIGM
    @56BIGM Год назад +3

    enjoyed it --thanks

  • @KennethLeary-q1p
    @KennethLeary-q1p 10 месяцев назад +6

    I was born in 1953 so I remember most of this.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 9 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂😂No you don't. Come on. You were 7 in 1960.

  • @unclecreepy4324
    @unclecreepy4324 11 месяцев назад +5

    I was born in 1951 so I do remember some of these things from the late 50s

    • @trackrunner11
      @trackrunner11 11 месяцев назад

      I remember the cars and the records my parents played. I graduated in yhe 80's with Miami Vice, Gloria Estefan, Van Halen.

    • @unclecreepy4324
      @unclecreepy4324 11 месяцев назад

      I loved the 80s@@trackrunner11

  • @jameseubanks1817
    @jameseubanks1817 Год назад +3

    One of my favorite movies was American Graffiti, one night in some town California, she loves motorcycles and a Vespa is almost a motorcycle.😊

  • @StvMcQueen1
    @StvMcQueen1 11 месяцев назад +5

    Ah, no internet, just typewriters and local libraries. Poodle skirts, pony tails, white bucks, Brylcreem, sock hops, Elvis, Ricky and Fats. Ah, the good ol' days!

    • @user-ys2wp4cr9g
      @user-ys2wp4cr9g 10 месяцев назад +2

      As you watch this video on your modern device 😂

  • @lizzapaolia959
    @lizzapaolia959 8 месяцев назад +2

    Outstanding video. Your RUclips channel is fantastic 🙏

  • @reallybadgamer
    @reallybadgamer Год назад +3

    One of my brothers who was born in 1960 absolutely LOVES Buddy Holly. Goes to local events, has every album, song and knows all the lyrics. What an untimely, tragic death.

    • @brucestaples4510
      @brucestaples4510 Год назад +1

      Good for him! The good stuff never dies. The British Invasion was loaded with covers of American R&R by the Beatles, Stones, & DC5. They loved our early music and shot it right back at us. Good times. Beatles admired Brian Wilson and vice versa. Stones covered Holly's "Not Fade Away". Early Beatles albums covered our 60's groups (check out who wrote and/or sang what...cool stuff if you're into it). Yeah...musically..50's and 60's...glad I was alive to witness it! 🎼🎵🎶🎙🎤📻🎷🎸🎹🎺🥁

    • @reallybadgamer
      @reallybadgamer Год назад

      @@brucestaples4510 That is very cool. Isn't it awesome to see the younger generations listening to (via RUclips) and enjoying the classic rock of the 50/60's-80's? I so often hear them say "dang they just don't make music like they used to"... so true imho

    • @brucestaples4510
      @brucestaples4510 Год назад

      @@reallybadgamer Yep - awesome it is. But like I said before, the good stuff never dies. Hell, I like Big Band, and that was from before I was born. It's all a matter of taste, but the good stuff always floats to the top.

  • @Go4Corvette
    @Go4Corvette Год назад +2

    Excellent history of the 1950s

  • @richb419
    @richb419 Год назад +1

    Hi all, I was there and I loved the time, the '57 Chevy, girls with pointed bras, juke boxes and great music! I often wish I was there again.

  • @shtydodge
    @shtydodge Год назад +10

    Not a blue or purple headed, 10 lbs of metal tacked to the face, freak to be seen anywhere....*sigh*😔
    20 years before my time but, it's safe to say that i would of loved to have been around in this era,

    • @barrygrant2907
      @barrygrant2907 Год назад +6

      @@jpineapple9495 And you know nothing of which you speak.

  • @alcamerc9923
    @alcamerc9923 Год назад +4

    1958. I know exactly where I was. I remember what I did for work. I know where I lived and the places I visited daily. I remember the shops in my neighborhood, the lady jaywalking at an intersection, and even the wise-ass kid that ran over my spit-shinned shoe with his bicycle, and Joe at the coffee shop as he raised his hand to greet me every morning. Life is not bad today, but there’s something magical about the times of yesteryear that cannot be compare to anything of today. You almost need the solid foundation of those years to make safely through today. Life was that good. Dare anyone to differ. Hahahahahaha!

  • @Eyes-of-Horus
    @Eyes-of-Horus Год назад +5

    The "Unofficial Hair Styles" at 6:00 were called "Pompadours."

    • @craigwilson4439
      @craigwilson4439 Год назад +1

      Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the only one photo shopped in the bunch. I reckon that's an 80's shot worked in there. It's exactly what myself and friends looked like, early to mid 80's. Something just ain't right about that shot. Hope I'm wrong. Great stuff, cheers from Australia.

  • @donmoore8116
    @donmoore8116 10 месяцев назад +5

    I too graduated 1959, neat video

  • @LouLope
    @LouLope 10 месяцев назад +9

    Reminds me how much our country devolved.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 9 месяцев назад +1

      Plenty of adults back then thought rock 'n roll was the devil's music. 😂

    • @jimihendrix4376
      @jimihendrix4376 7 месяцев назад +1

      Wonder what they think of today's music? As for the country it's a cess·pool full of dark fertilizer. @@yvonneplant9434

  • @user-xn7zd3zt9u
    @user-xn7zd3zt9u 10 месяцев назад +3

    Те годы о которых Вы вспоминаете были и будут лучшими для Всех. Особо, когда Вам за 60 ...

  • @MichaelKrick-tu8jk
    @MichaelKrick-tu8jk 11 месяцев назад +13

    I grew up in the 50's, if I could spend eternity in the 50's I would be a happy camper. The music, the cars, the love everyone had for the country. All gone, sad to say.

    • @louislamonte334
      @louislamonte334 11 месяцев назад +3

      I would go back in a heartbeat, too!

  • @georgekontos3100
    @georgekontos3100 Год назад +3

    Loved the video!
    Subbed!

  • @ShannonThyng
    @ShannonThyng 6 месяцев назад +2

    I was in my 20tis and could hardly wait for the look of the new models every year ,I owned a used 53 and then a 56 Studebaker ,then a new 58 Chevrolet and almost every year after I traded a different used Car

  • @tabitha4135
    @tabitha4135 Год назад +2

    The 50s seems to be American to me rock and roll etc America at its best I love it 😻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

  • @DareToBeDeviant
    @DareToBeDeviant Год назад +2

    This is the playlist that rocks just about every car meet I've attended in the past 14 years and it's glorious. Some carhop diners still exist and are plentiful where I'm at, but are only seasonal. No, not Sonic. I'd never go there. I speak of independently owned ones, including the last Bonnie Doon drive-in a few miles from me. It's the -1950s- (EDIT: 1940s) era type but unfortunately those 2023 prices keep me from going. Great car shows when they happen there. :)
    There was a second and even third location but both closed over the last 20-something years. :(

  • @rgray3173
    @rgray3173 Год назад +4

    That reminds me. I think I'll watch American Graffiti tonight.

    • @BlackWolf207
      @BlackWolf207 Год назад

      I've been meaning to go out and buy the blu ray and this vid also reminded me haha

    • @aris95
      @aris95 Год назад

      "What happened to flathead?"

  • @heatherhopfinger3942
    @heatherhopfinger3942 10 месяцев назад +7

    that is when women knew how to dress classy for church going to the movies dances and concerts even the grocery store no skimpy outfits but just class and style truth

  • @markgoostree6334
    @markgoostree6334 Год назад +5

    At 6:14.... Betty Page ... went to East High in Nashville. She really was a beautiful woman!

  • @ivanleterror9158
    @ivanleterror9158 11 месяцев назад +3

    I remember when Annett's father owned the Union 76 station at Burbank & Kester in Van Nuys.

    • @StvMcQueen1
      @StvMcQueen1 11 месяцев назад

      I remember Annette when she was a Mouseketeer and her boobies were just budding! Darlene too! Adolescent fantasies!

  • @Tarman-Br
    @Tarman-Br Год назад +9

    Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield... 😍😍😍 🥰🥰🥰

  • @LuisRomero-ed4um
    @LuisRomero-ed4um 5 месяцев назад +2

    La vida en esa época era mucho más llevadera, la humanidad era más amable, no había tanta hipocresía, y del ambiente ni hablar, no había ese mal vocabulario, y la enseñanza era más estricta, habían algunas materias como es la urbanidad que hoy día no se enseñan, la comida era con menos químicos y por supuesto de mucho más alimento, no existían las drogas y la juventud era mucha mi sana y los muchachos ciento por ciento mejores estudiantes y sin tantos adornos ordinarios, era más bella esa época, cuántos humanos en el mundo quisiéramos volver a esos bellos tiempos, gracias.

  • @JoshTaylor-sx4yb
    @JoshTaylor-sx4yb 9 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for sharing your video

  • @larrysouthern5098
    @larrysouthern5098 Год назад +5

    Born in 55 I don't remember much of the 60s...
    But I remember the "Camalot Era" of President Kennedy..
    Everything was wild ...new cars..New tech..space race...
    Great time to be a kid....( Saturday morning cartoons was a religion..and this was in black and white)

    • @billburgess9100
      @billburgess9100 Год назад +2

      I was born in 43
      I remember the first TVs and, of course the black and white. Congressional sessions for a period were televised and I remember President Eisenhower during a televised session losing he cool, slamming his fist on his table and saying in a firm manner " I - don't - give -a damn.". He could be tough and was respected. These days if a President say a firm "no", the opposing party swears he's losing it. But that's the hateful politics we have today.
      The one most important televised event I remember when Nixon appointed Ford to take his place, congress had a televised hearing where they questioned Ford to approve his appointment and the asked him, as President, if he would Pardon Nixon? and he said "Why, the American people wouldn't stand for it" He knew a pardon was wrong as can be.
      It's amazing how times change and we lose our values

    • @brucestaples4510
      @brucestaples4510 Год назад

      @@billburgess9100 You hang in there, Bill. Born in '49 I only remember "I don't give a damn" from "Gone with the Wind", not Ike. I think we'll correct course...we usually do...in time.

  • @peteroliver170
    @peteroliver170 8 месяцев назад +6

    The cars were fabulous - the girls were glamorous - the music was great - what happened?? Pete in U.K.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад +1

      A 50's boyhood in Florida was paradise: baseball, barefoot, beach. Rockabilly and TV. Then the 70's happened...

    • @Roger-gm9tl
      @Roger-gm9tl 7 месяцев назад

      Some people call it progress ? I say going on the wrong direction, not to much body filler, plastic in those days, usually what you saw is what you got, a little hairy in the 60s, Uncle Sam wants you boy, but every generation goes through thier phase, I'd go back in a heart beat, yea, I'm that old !

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад

      Women were better looking back then.

  • @kathysimpson3249
    @kathysimpson3249 Год назад

    Thank you. This was great. I love that the music goes with the era. Thanks for the work you do gathering and uploading these

  • @cliffnelson1174
    @cliffnelson1174 Год назад +11

    Wow! Do you guys know that these pictures were taken during
    The 1950s???? When men were men and women were women and America was just fine with that.

    • @ivanleterror9158
      @ivanleterror9158 Год назад +3

      At a time when they could teach up to 35 students in a class due to an instilled attitude of learning and parents took a real interest in their kids and education.