Flashback to 1956 - A Timeline of Life in America

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  • @druegillis1744
    @druegillis1744 3 года назад +109

    I turned 7 in 1956. This was a GREAT time to be a kid. Nothing to worry about. Went out to play and came home when my mom rang the bell or the street lights came on. We made airplanes out of outboard motor boxes from Captain Stans, put the box on a wagon and took turns pulling each other around the block. Also towed each other on roller skates with a bike, but those 90 degree turns on the sidewalk corners often resulted in skinned up knees. Funny- no one ever ended up in the hospital. We were both lucky and fortunate to grow up in those times. Silver Spring, Maryland.

    • @donspringstead1649
      @donspringstead1649 2 года назад +3

      Sounds like you had a good life

    • @druegillis1744
      @druegillis1744 2 года назад +4

      It was some of the best of times for me.

    • @shirleyupvall9360
      @shirleyupvall9360 2 года назад +3

      Me too

    • @donspringstead1649
      @donspringstead1649 2 года назад +6

      @@shirleyupvall9360 id give a week's pay to go back to then for one day!!! No worries...it was great

    • @franknew9001
      @franknew9001 Год назад +1

      @ Drue Gillis-- I turned two in 1956, and I also grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. When you mentioned Captain Stans, I knew it had to be his Boat Center on Georgia Avenue. We lived off of Fenton Street on Easley Street, near Bullis prep school.

  • @skinnerhound2660
    @skinnerhound2660 3 года назад +68

    My Father finished his four years in the Navy March 1956. He would have been 90yo this month. RIP Dad.

  • @dianekennedy7086
    @dianekennedy7086 3 года назад +39

    I was born at the tail end of 1955. I look at this video and remember how much simpler life was in the 1950'sand 60's. I miss those simpler times.

  • @anthonychihuahua
    @anthonychihuahua 3 года назад +82

    *Cheers!* To all those born in 1956 🥂
    May you live as long as you wish
    and love as long as you live 💗

    • @lynettepalecek3141
      @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +7

      Thank you!!

    • @gwenfluker3436
      @gwenfluker3436 3 года назад +5

      Thank you!

    • @monicahoward3964
      @monicahoward3964 3 года назад +10

      I was born in this year. My childhood memories of this time during the 60s are Archie comics, the justice league, love stories comics. Wow the summers were dreamy and unforgettable. Walt Disney, you have to born in this period to know how wonderful being a child was.

    • @deborahpellerito6117
      @deborahpellerito6117 3 года назад +3

      Thankyou❤

    • @WilliamKSmith-lq1zn
      @WilliamKSmith-lq1zn Год назад +1

      Thanks Tony!, same to you! August 6th here!

  • @usmc-veteran73-77
    @usmc-veteran73-77 2 года назад +4

    My Dad owned a 1956 Chevy Belle Aire. It had a small V-8, 256 Cubic Inch. Beautiful car, he loved that car. Miss ya Dad....and Mom too.

  • @marilynwillett804
    @marilynwillett804 2 года назад +5

    I was a little girl going upstairs to bed, in those days when your dad said hit the hay you did not argue, but as I heard some young man singing YOU AIN'T NOTHING BUT A HOUND DOG I turned to see a man with a guitar on tv. Like nobody we had ever seen before.

  • @daveg.6820
    @daveg.6820 3 года назад +155

    I know that year very well. I graduated from High School. My Dad said "Well you're not gonna just hang around here. it's college or the service". I was burnt out on academics, so I joined the US Army - the smartest thing I ever did. I grew up there and went to college some years later . . . My Army training landed me a job working on one of those IBM RAMAC computers and a 47 year career in IT.
    Cheers.

    • @elifoust7664
      @elifoust7664 3 года назад +19

      Thanks for Serving,US ARMY 1974-77 MP CORP

    • @Tiffany-vj1tv
      @Tiffany-vj1tv 3 года назад +12

      What a great story thank you for your service 🙏🙏

    • @Tiffany-vj1tv
      @Tiffany-vj1tv 3 года назад +10

      @Eli Foust thank you 😊

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 2 года назад +6

      My sister graduated in 1956 when I was 6 going on 7. and I finally got a bedroom and closet for my own. In 1958 we built a new house with 3 bedrooms , but when my sister got married and had kids, they bunked with me when everyone was home for Xmas or the summer.,

    • @monicamurray5012
      @monicamurray5012 2 года назад +5

      Thanks for your service

  • @brosefmcman8264
    @brosefmcman8264 3 года назад +28

    Absolutely amazing time to be alive!

  • @judierenfrow8073
    @judierenfrow8073 3 года назад +24

    I graduated from high school that year. Things were good. Although my dad became very ill in my senior year, I loved those times. My Economics teacher (we call him Professor) made a big impact on our class. He would read a passage out of the Bible at the beginning of the class and we took five minutes to discuss what we thought it said. Unheard of today. My dad mad a full recovery in 57. We celebrated our 65th graduation this June. I have seen so many changes since 56, some good some bad. Praying for our great Country. 🙏🇺🇸

    • @Patricia-om3vo
      @Patricia-om3vo Год назад

      II

    • @benjaminlalruata
      @benjaminlalruata Год назад

      You are truly blessed to have grown up in that era. Im only in my 30s, but I can surely say that these were the best of times.

    • @stephaniecoggins733
      @stephaniecoggins733 Год назад

      We need to bring it back to our school's and the pledge of allegiance 🇺🇸

  • @navret1707
    @navret1707 3 года назад +12

    I was 10 years old. I miss those glory days of America. How much further can we slide?

    • @cheryljune1603
      @cheryljune1603 3 года назад

      I was 6

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад +1

      Because now we have to acknowledge blacks and homosexuals and *gasp* actually treat them like regular people? Still struggling to get equal pay for women thanks to the chauvinistic ways of Boomer-time?

    • @lynettepalecek3141
      @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +2

      @@stupidd6513 They were being treated like real people during President Trump's first term in Office. The employment rate for blacks and Hispanics was the highest under President Trump and the unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics was the lowest under President Trump during his first term in Office than any other President in this Country. Now the Biden Administration are showing how racist they and the rest of the Luceferian Globalists really are. The largest group of people that the Biden Administration is targeting is the born again Christians.

    • @orvilleh.larson7581
      @orvilleh.larson7581 3 года назад +2

      There was no radical feminism and political correctness ruining the culture. . . .

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад +1

      @@orvilleh.larson7581 'Radical Feminism'? What does that mean? Are you sad that you have to treat people OTHER than white males with equal respect? Bummer.

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom 3 года назад +36

    I remember when the Ed Sullivan show was called "Toast of the Town", (1948-54) it became the Ed Sullivan show in 1955. It was hardly infamous, it was a great show for all the family. I remember watching it on Sunday evening knowing that "tomorrow" would be school a day! ugh!

  • @monicamurray5012
    @monicamurray5012 3 года назад +12

    I miss it too. I was six years old and my sister and mom and dad were all together. I'll never forget those times. I wish I could go back for just one more day.

  • @millerforester6237
    @millerforester6237 3 года назад +23

    The 50s were my adolescent years. The first record I purchased myself was "Sh-boom", by the Crew Cuts. I took my first job at age 14 (1955). The two years before that I enjoyed glorious summers in the back yard, reading books from the bookmobile, and eating pimento cheese sandwiches with iced tea. No A/C in the house, or in dad's '53 Chrysler. Now at age 14, you've seen and experienced so much crap as to be nearly worthless. To me, the 50s were the best time to be here, ever.

    • @daphnemiller6767
      @daphnemiller6767 2 года назад +1

      I can still hear that song in my head. Loved it! You and I are the same age.

  • @grampy2014
    @grampy2014 Год назад +11

    Those were the years when you had good people influencing your life. And heroes with morals.

  • @lblough9881
    @lblough9881 3 года назад +133

    I was 3 in 1956. Life was decent and good. None of the craziness was here then. Everyone still had respect for themselves and others. Plain. Simple. Ordinary was still ok.

    • @billquinnett
      @billquinnett 2 года назад

      You are so very sexy

    • @debbyfronke3227
      @debbyfronke3227 2 года назад +6

      You said it ..not perfect, but people didn’t live though celebs like kardashians, and can’t beat 60s music!!

    • @debbyfronke3227
      @debbyfronke3227 2 года назад

      @@billquinnett how would you know that??

    • @billquinnett
      @billquinnett 2 года назад

      @@debbyfronke3227 I know I have espn lol…I know you are very sexy

    • @debbyfronke3227
      @debbyfronke3227 2 года назад +1

      @@billquinnett And know what I know about you? You can’t spell..ESPN-expanded sports programming network, when you use this line try... “ESP!”extra sensory perception!

  • @philipf4168
    @philipf4168 3 года назад +80

    I was born in August of that year. Always think of my youth and how much fun and easy life was as I grew through the 60's and 70's. Our country has definitely changed for the worse since then. Wish I had a time machine to go back.

    • @jaenboston2683
      @jaenboston2683 2 года назад +10

      I also was born in 56. I often reminisce of the great times growing up in the 60s and 70s. The music and experiences are truly memorable.

    • @Dadsezso
      @Dadsezso 2 года назад +5

      If I had to choose one thing that was the greatest about the 60's, it was TV. Never been as good since that decade.

    • @michaelgaynor6866
      @michaelgaynor6866 2 года назад +3

      Born January 11th 1956 ......good time to Rock and Roll!

    • @hkks1963
      @hkks1963 2 года назад

      Please can u tell me on which date u born in August

    • @hkks1963
      @hkks1963 2 года назад

      Ok

  • @vernonbrowne6127
    @vernonbrowne6127 2 года назад +7

    My parents were married February 18th,1956, my brother was born November 20th,1956. May they rest in peace.

  • @lynettepalecek3141
    @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +12

    I have a refrigerator magnet for 1956 and I have a calendar for 1956. It's amazing how much the price differences and income have changed. The average income was $4,454. The minimum wage was $1 an hour. A new car cost $2,050. A new house was $11,725. A loaf of bread was .18. A gallon of gas was .22. A gallon of milk was .97. The calendar shows the different shows that were on along with different events that happened. There are even large pictures that are legitimate for that year. It's so cool!

    • @michaelmerck7576
      @michaelmerck7576 2 года назад +2

      Damn I can finally afford a new house and car if I could take my 2021 pay to 1956

    • @carlkaufman2429
      @carlkaufman2429 2 года назад +1

      And a 1956 dollar was equivalent to $9.73 today. Not so cheap when you do the math.

  • @REMBRANTTUBE
    @REMBRANTTUBE 3 года назад +16

    LIFE SEEMED SO MUCH BETTER THAN IT IS TODAY!!

    • @marvinmartion1178
      @marvinmartion1178 3 года назад +2

      For white upper-class males!

    • @REMBRANTTUBE
      @REMBRANTTUBE 3 года назад

      @@marvinmartion1178 you may be correct Marvin!! I wasn’t alive then… enlighten me please.

    • @carlkaufman2429
      @carlkaufman2429 2 года назад +1

      It wasn't.

    • @REMBRANTTUBE
      @REMBRANTTUBE 2 года назад

      @@carlkaufman2429 why not Carl?

    • @carlkaufman2429
      @carlkaufman2429 2 года назад +1

      @@REMBRANTTUBEI guess because people are people and that hasn't changed. Racism was even more prevalent and completely in the open. A lot of people struggled to get by. Political corruption was alive and well. Police were as unreliable as today. Despite the prices you always see, a dollar then was $9-$10 today so things were not cheaper. Some things were better and some things were worse. It was different but fundamentally the same. People shouldn't fantasize about the time.

  • @Dave-hc6pp
    @Dave-hc6pp 3 года назад +283

    I was born in 1956 and turn 65 in a month or so. I think back to growing up in the 50’s and 60’s and I can’t help but wonder what’s happened to our country. I miss what we’ve lost. What we’ve gained doesn’t seem like it’s worth the cost.

    • @Codebreaker51
      @Codebreaker51 3 года назад +21

      I must agree with you on that!!

    • @alexw853
      @alexw853 3 года назад

      What do you mean, Dave?

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад +11

      Back when women couldn't get their own credit cards?

    • @debbiem9218
      @debbiem9218 3 года назад +18

      I was born in 1958 and I remember mom stayed home to look after the family. We didn't have a family allowance like they do today. I think my parents were happy back in those days. My dad had a steady income from the railroad. We were latchkey kids and people knew my twin sister, younger sister and I stayed alone and watched out for us. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dave, may you have many happy years ahead of you!

    • @thunderousapplause
      @thunderousapplause 3 года назад +20

      nope. dont fantasize about the past. it wasnt great. racism, sexism, misogyny, physical abuse by husbands and parents was acceptable. clothes were uncomfortable and everything had to be ironed. women werent supposed to have ambition. No tv remotes or microwaves. Idealizing the past just bc it’s past is silly.

  • @miriambucholtz9315
    @miriambucholtz9315 3 года назад +118

    That increased standard of living must have gone right over our heads; we didn't have a color TV until 1966. Luckily, as a 10-year-old child, I didn't even notice.

    • @bdh3949
      @bdh3949 3 года назад +8

      Same here. But I also recall a couple of neighbors back then having a lot of trouble with the colors. I remember watching a color variety show and everybody in the show was green and yellow. lol

    • @kalevala29
      @kalevala29 3 года назад +11

      when I was a kid we had two TV's, both black and white. one had the sound the other had the picture. I'm not kidding. this was around 1972. we didn't have a lot of money obviously. I don't remember when we got a color set.

    • @lenisbennett3062
      @lenisbennett3062 3 года назад +8

      In 1966 I had a wife 2 kids and a 19in black and white. Got my first color TV in 1973.

    • @WhiteDragon689
      @WhiteDragon689 3 года назад +5

      You beat us. We did not have a color TV until 70s. We tricked out father into going to the supermarket and took him to the TV store, then told him we were not to go home until he bought it!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +3

      You must have been rich. No color for us till 70!

  • @wmalden
    @wmalden 3 года назад +168

    The year I was born. The maternity nurses called me “Elvis” because I had a lot of hair and sideburns. This year, Medicare!

    • @ElmerCat
      @ElmerCat 3 года назад +14

      Me too - It's nice to finally get those "over 65" discounts!

    • @Nezmund
      @Nezmund 3 года назад +7

      Me too. When I was three, my mom entered my photo in a baby Elvis look-a-like contest. I didn't win, but my mom framed the photo entry and always kept it in a prominent place.

    • @dandylionriver
      @dandylionriver 3 года назад +6

      Lol. Hi “Elvis”. 😁

    • @8avexp
      @8avexp 3 года назад +6

      I was born that year, too!

    • @kpaulsen01
      @kpaulsen01 3 года назад +5

      I can't remember that year of course but 1956 was a very busy year for moms.

  • @Skycop51
    @Skycop51 2 года назад +6

    Proud Southern born in 1951 Vietnam veteran.

  • @Kevin-yh9yt
    @Kevin-yh9yt 3 года назад +10

    No mention of American Bandstand? That show is a distinct memory of mine from 1956, Thanks for your videos.

  • @doncarlton4858
    @doncarlton4858 3 года назад +24

    The year I was born! A great time to be alive!

  • @janeezzell90
    @janeezzell90 3 года назад +154

    I miss the simplicity of those days.

    • @larryhall7998
      @larryhall7998 3 года назад +2

      You mean IGNORANCE

    • @rodneyfoster9719
      @rodneyfoster9719 3 года назад +14

      @@larryhall7998 No, he means simplicity.

    • @charlesfoutch1132
      @charlesfoutch1132 3 года назад +1

      our only worry was thermonuclear warfare.

    • @mustang7603
      @mustang7603 3 года назад +9

      @@larryhall7998 no the only ignorant people nowadays are all these woke soulless sheep commie pieces of 💩💯. This was the greatest generation homie.

    • @yeoldeseawitch
      @yeoldeseawitch 3 года назад +2

      @@mustang7603 better than being a complicit government-following idiot

  • @lynettepalecek3141
    @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +21

    I was born on Christmas Eve in 1956. My mother told me that I was born close to midnight. When I was a young girl, I used to get birthday cards that said "The stork didn't bring you, Santa Claus did!" I remember getting a lot of combined birthday and Christmas gifts.

  • @jimmyjames6267
    @jimmyjames6267 3 года назад +17

    I was born in 1962 long beach ca I'm an abstract painter amateur and Jackson Pollock is my inspiration, Thank You

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад

      My grandparents bought a summer home out in Springs the year before his crash. We would pass by his house on the way to theirs. Years later you'd still see his wife out in the yard.

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 года назад

      Sheila we're to assume you're speaking of Jackson
      Pollock's car accident, &
      Not your grandfather's..

  • @bestpossibleworld2091
    @bestpossibleworld2091 3 года назад +146

    1956 was a landmark year. It is the year we started our move from Portland, Oregon to California. Ike was President and we were still experiencing the post-war boom. And, of course, with the Baby Boom, there were zillions of kids everywhere to play with. No one had a cell phone and people were just beginning to have one TV in their homes. Believe it or not, life was a lot like a Norman Rockwell painting.

    • @scottr3484
      @scottr3484 3 года назад +2

      Why would anyone move to Kalifornia or New Jersey.? They are like a loaf of bread the two ends no one wants but must take them because the come with the package.

    • @charlesfoutch1132
      @charlesfoutch1132 3 года назад +4

      for white people.

    • @bestpossibleworld2091
      @bestpossibleworld2091 3 года назад +15

      @@charlesfoutch1132 My nextdoor playmate was a black kid from an intact family whose dad had been a sargeant in the military in Korea. My school buddy was black from a good family. I am not sure what their dad did but they always drove a brand new Cadillac and I was embarrassed at our humble home compared to theirs. Our school was fully integrated.

    • @bestpossibleworld2091
      @bestpossibleworld2091 3 года назад

      @@scottr3484 All I would add is the two ends of the loaf are also moldy.

    • @charlesfoutch1132
      @charlesfoutch1132 3 года назад +2

      @@bestpossibleworld2091 that's great but in many places there was strick segregation where blacks couldn't enter places. In my hometown in 60s blacks had to sit in balcony of movie theater.

  • @dalehall2067
    @dalehall2067 3 года назад +36

    I remember 1955. I was 15 years old and And at a Graham Crusade meeting
    It was another warm day in Oklahoma and I gave my life to Jesus Christ that day. But Billy Graham, Ruth Graham and Cliff Borrows
    Never forget that night

  • @michaelserby7697
    @michaelserby7697 3 года назад +79

    Today's America is Not the America 🇺🇸 that I grew up with 🖤 so Sad

  • @luacreskid
    @luacreskid 3 года назад +24

    I was 15 and was drinking in the pleasures of the world. Thank you Suzanne.

  • @MikeBrown-ex9nh
    @MikeBrown-ex9nh 3 года назад +13

    First grade. Three schools in three towns in two states as my parents struggled to find work. In 57 we moved to Colorado where they eventually found good jobs and a good life.

  • @kathleenstofko82
    @kathleenstofko82 3 года назад +8

    I was born this year so hard to believe how the goods times pass so fast !

  • @ameliafroehlich2577
    @ameliafroehlich2577 3 года назад +38

    My birth year! Thank you for loading it!!

  • @laurafranich4807
    @laurafranich4807 3 года назад +22

    1956 was the greatest year in history. It's the year I was born.

    • @Codebreaker51
      @Codebreaker51 3 года назад +4

      Uhhh, No, I must refer to 1941, the year I was born! It was so momentous, they actually started a World War, because of it. So there you have it....................., The rest of the story!!

    • @jamesmcinnis208
      @jamesmcinnis208 3 года назад

      @@Codebreaker51 "actually"

    • @darlalong1957
      @darlalong1957 3 года назад

      😂!

    • @joedirte716
      @joedirte716 3 года назад

      Hopefully you never voted democRAT

    • @laurafranich4807
      @laurafranich4807 3 года назад +1

      @@joedirte716 I was too young to vote back then lol. I remember the democrat party if John Kennedy. It isn't anything like that anymore. It has changed so much for the worse. Can you even imagine President Kennedy supporting the nonsense they have going on now?

  • @Cryo837
    @Cryo837 3 года назад +129

    The 50's were like a protective bubble around our society.
    Never so much harmony and positivity. And purchasing power just kept going up and up.
    Government working on behalf of the people. Opposite of today....sadly.

    • @saulnavarro4730
      @saulnavarro4730 3 года назад +18

      Have you asked a black person what life was like in the 50's?

    • @beansmcdonough1782
      @beansmcdonough1782 3 года назад +9

      @@saulnavarro4730 stfu

    • @johnstone7697
      @johnstone7697 3 года назад +12

      @@beansmcdonough1782 Why should he? Is it bursting your little bubble to think that not everyone in America was having such a wonderful time back then? I'll add another couple...we were all scared to death of Russia dropping nukes on us. And my parents thought Elvis Presley was the spawn of Satan, and rock music came straight out of hell. The Catholic Church told you what movies you could see. And God forbid any woman who questioned her husband's authority. Yup....great times.

    • @newjerseybt
      @newjerseybt 3 года назад +10

      @@saulnavarro4730 Much better than the 1860s.

    • @cheaplaughkennedy2318
      @cheaplaughkennedy2318 3 года назад +7

      @@saulnavarro4730 well that’s true but you could also dissect that into many different races ,economic conditions and living standards . My mother was white and grew up very poor in the hills of Pennsylvania back then . You need to expand your vision of people and not just the black race right .

  • @dalestoner2928
    @dalestoner2928 3 года назад +4

    Born Feb 1956. Great things happen that year.

  • @tomklock568
    @tomklock568 Год назад +1

    Two years before my brith. My parents had been married for around a year. Thanks for the look back!

  • @stephenpowstinger733
    @stephenpowstinger733 2 года назад +8

    1956 I turned ten and the family moved to South Florida. Unfortunately, things did not go so well for my dad in his new job but we had a fairly decent standard of living. Loved the new rock n roll.

  • @darrylh1971
    @darrylh1971 3 года назад +29

    1956 was also the year the first Sam Goody record store opened in New York City.

    • @brucemarsico6
      @brucemarsico6 2 года назад

      Incredible! 1956 was also the seventh year of the 50s decade....incredible!

  • @elwin38
    @elwin38 3 года назад +25

    The year another one of my older sisters was born(Aug 21). Most of my older sisters were born in the 50's.

  • @stevedeleon8775
    @stevedeleon8775 3 года назад +12

    Wow..I didn't exist until 1959!..my parents married in 1958..my dad was still in Alaska in 1956 US ARMY SGT. In FAIRBANKS

  • @charleshamilton9274
    @charleshamilton9274 3 года назад +28

    My 65th birthday was last month and I was looking forward to this upload with anticipation. Thanks!

  • @continentalgin
    @continentalgin 3 года назад +47

    As a young toddler, I, and my sister, were taken by our parents to see The Ten Commandments on the big screen. Coming and going, all of the adults there seemed to regard it as a sort of church service, in which miracles appeared. Leaving the theater, people were just left stunned by what seemed to them to be 'real' miracles filmed for the screen, such was the effectiveness of the special effects at that time. They also thought that the director, Cecil B. DeMille was some kind of holy figure.

    • @henryfung6789
      @henryfung6789 3 года назад +7

      Yvonne De Carlo was the star in that movie. She was smoking beautiful.

    • @pintobeans2973
      @pintobeans2973 3 года назад +3

      I was six years old and I was also introduced to the Ten Commandments the same as you.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +1

      Henry Fung Lilly Munster

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +3

      Pinto Beans Always remember Edward G. Robinson with his tough guy gangster voice, Hey Moses! 😆

    • @continentalgin
      @continentalgin 3 года назад +3

      @@samanthab1923 Yes! Sounded like he was in the Bronx. The same thing happened with the movie, The Last Temptation of Christ --- the actors sounded just like New Yorkers! Very distracting.

  • @cdfreester
    @cdfreester 3 года назад +40

    My dad graduated high school in 1956 and he was the first person in his family to go to college.

    • @jasonsaylor749
      @jasonsaylor749 3 года назад

      ,

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +1

      Both my parents were in college too. Met at my moms schools mixer. All girls!

    • @conniecrawford5231
      @conniecrawford5231 3 года назад +3

      Many young people in the 50s and 60s were the first I their families to go to college, including me! It was what intelligent he grads were expected to do !

  • @catherinebreitfeller669
    @catherinebreitfeller669 3 года назад +18

    The year my dad retired from army & we came back to America from Austria

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 года назад

      Was your father a 20 year man ?

  • @dannylee1987
    @dannylee1987 3 года назад +124

    Back when America 🇺🇸 was a great place to live !

    • @danielmorris7648
      @danielmorris7648 3 года назад +7

      Yep then y'all took all the hard work of your forefathers that built the country and just stamped it all out with constant depletion of the safeguards that allowed us to become to great.

    • @saulnavarro4730
      @saulnavarro4730 3 года назад +13

      You mean when people like were lynched and shunned from society? Funny how it's only white people

    • @beansmcdonough1782
      @beansmcdonough1782 3 года назад +11

      @@saulnavarro4730 Stop crying

    • @Dave-hc6pp
      @Dave-hc6pp 3 года назад +17

      @@saulnavarro4730 I was born in 1956 and raised in the south. Not only have I never lynched anyone, I’ve never been to a lynching and I’ve never heard of one happening. I’m obviously aware that they’ve happened and how wrong they were. They just weren’t something the white folks I knew ever did.

    • @saulnavarro4730
      @saulnavarro4730 3 года назад +12

      @@Dave-hc6pp I won't hold you responsible for stuff out of your control, good on you, but only white people are smiling in those 50's nostalgia posts I'm just saying it wasn't peak Americana.

  • @KatysDream
    @KatysDream 3 года назад +21

    Thank you for posting this fascinating year of history. Much of these things I didn't know about. I was born in Sept. 1956 so I'm interested in knowing all the high lights of my birth year. I most likely will re visit this segment again. I've enjoyed learning what happened the year I was born. May God, Bless...

  • @proverbsthirty-one6531
    @proverbsthirty-one6531 3 года назад +39

    My favorite movie with Charlton Heston. Ten commandments. Favorite saying: so shall it be written, so shall it be done.

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад

      What does Exodus 21 say?

    • @marvinmartion1178
      @marvinmartion1178 3 года назад

      Yeah and slaves had all kinds of gold to make a golden calf?

    • @hubertwalters4300
      @hubertwalters4300 2 года назад

      @@marvinmartion1178 They took that from the Egyptians, in the Bible they made a golden calf,so they had the gold,the calf was probably made of wood and overlaid with gold.

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 2 года назад

      proverbs thirty-one - No, my favorite quote in that movie
      is from Nefretiri : " it's a piece of stone with the head
      of a bird". I am very much a bird person.

    • @patriciageary2803
      @patriciageary2803 Год назад

      Heck I thought Cecil b De Mille wrote the bible.

  • @marknesselhaus4376
    @marknesselhaus4376 3 года назад +51

    All in all a good year for me to be born into.

  • @patsysmothermon7861
    @patsysmothermon7861 2 года назад +3

    I was 10 that year and we went to Dallas to see the movie " The Ten Commandments " there. It was breathtaking !! We did not get a TV for a few years after that ; but did visit my Aunts family some evening to watch TV with them. 😊

  • @ericlindenmuth7517
    @ericlindenmuth7517 3 года назад +14

    That meeting at Sun Records must have been crazy! Its strange to think Jerry lee is still alive and Elvis has been gone for 44 years!!

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 Год назад

      Jerry Lee Lewis has died earlier this year.

  • @casssmith2610
    @casssmith2610 3 года назад +7

    The year that I was born as well!!! Some of these I knew from my mother but many I didn’t so this was very fun! Thank you!

  • @bandini22221
    @bandini22221 3 года назад +9

    Wish I could go back

  • @xvsj-s2x
    @xvsj-s2x 3 года назад +21

    An Amazing nugget of History , Thank you for sharing ❤️

  • @brendas.1374
    @brendas.1374 3 года назад +6

    My first set of wheels was a 1956 Ford F100. Bought it in 1982 on my 16th birthday, paid $1,350 for it.

  • @georgeevans2662
    @georgeevans2662 3 года назад +5

    I graduated from HS in 1956. Wow! Time flies.I will be 83 on 8/03/2021. I can safely say that Never liked rock, jazz, etc. My love for big band music is eternal. Peace!

    • @tomgattone5238
      @tomgattone5238 Год назад

      I also graduated in 1956,the 50's were great,what now has happened to our country

  • @dc10fomin65
    @dc10fomin65 2 года назад +16

    I remember back in the 60's my mom giving me 2 bucks I would go into a store and get a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, bag of oranges, 2 packs of smokes, couple of 6 packs of beer and still have change, now with all the cameras everywhere, people with their I phones all over the place filming, can't even get a paper to read for nothing, the 60's were definitely much better!

    • @carlkaufman2429
      @carlkaufman2429 2 года назад

      A dollar in 1956 was worth $9.73 today. Dont be fooled by raw numbers. Things were NOT super cheap.

    • @jameswalker68
      @jameswalker68 2 года назад +1

      @@carlkaufman2429 Would you be able to buy all the things mentioned above today though for $9.73?

    • @carlkaufman2429
      @carlkaufman2429 2 года назад

      @@jameswalker68 Yes, do the math. My mom paid 26 cents for a quart of milk. That's about $10 a gallon today. That's nuts. Serious pick any example and multiply by the inflation since that year, 9.73 for 1956. Things were not cheap.

  • @frankiebelfast1204
    @frankiebelfast1204 3 года назад +8

    I was an eleven year-old when I had a life-changing epiphany. I heard Little Richard for the first time. I told myself I wouldn’t rest until I could sing like that. I was too young to know that there was only one Little Richard.

    • @vivianclaiborne7653
      @vivianclaiborne7653 2 года назад +1

      Hi Frankie,
      I Knew ''Little Richard''...you know he died last year. I first saw him, I was kid, and
      he was going to a '' Seven Day Adventist''..Theology College. He was a ''Preacher''
      before he became ''Little Richard''...I became a ''Night Club''.. singer, and Richard and I was on the same show. He saw me, but didn't have any idea, who I was, until I met him again, while dating one of his friends, who once attended the same church. Whenever Richard would come to L.A., for ''Shows''...he'd call my
      boy friend, and we'd head to the hotel, where he was staying. Wonderful Times.

    • @daphnemiller6767
      @daphnemiller6767 2 года назад

      @@vivianclaiborne7653 Wow! Thanks for commenting. I'll bet you've had an interesting life.

    • @CharlesCoderre-yv1cu
      @CharlesCoderre-yv1cu 2 года назад

      thank god there was only one-all he did was shreik

  • @lanacampbell-moore4549
    @lanacampbell-moore4549 3 года назад +8

    Thanks for sharing my parents grew up in the 50s & 60s😊

  • @richardwingert2827
    @richardwingert2827 2 года назад +5

    This was the year I was born. I just turned 65. What I find interesting is that no matter how I try to explain the world about me and what had happened in my lifetime I would never imagine that our species extinction would become a possibility. Way go guys we had a terrific ride. It's over,folks!

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 2 года назад

      Guess you don't remember "duck and cover" and all the home fallout shelters.

    • @clarencegreen3071
      @clarencegreen3071 Год назад

      @@wholeNwon Polio as well.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon Год назад

      @@clarencegreen3071 Yup.

  • @georgecollins9388
    @georgecollins9388 3 года назад +5

    Hey in 1956 when I was 8 years old, I snuck into the back seat of my 3 sisters' Studebaker and arrived at a movie theater where Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley's first movie) was playing in black and white. My sisters were angry and wanted to shoot me but agreed to let me go in and see the movie..I just loved it totally.

  • @charlesmartel5907
    @charlesmartel5907 3 года назад +12

    October 8, 1956 : New York Yankees Starting Pitcher Don Larsen pitched a no- hit perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers ! 27 up 27 down ! It was the only perfect no-hit game in World Series History ! ⚾️ ( and also the year I was born ) 🙂 👍

  • @DennisJohnsonDrummer
    @DennisJohnsonDrummer 3 года назад +41

    I miss those days (even though I was a child of the 60's).

    • @Jimvenice2008
      @Jimvenice2008 3 года назад +5

      I miss it and I was born in 75

    • @totallysmooth1203
      @totallysmooth1203 3 года назад +1

      The 60's was a good time to be a kid. I have lots of fond memories. Although at the same time Lyndon Johnson and America's Democrat enemies had declared war on American civilization.

    • @SnoopyDoofie
      @SnoopyDoofie 3 года назад +1

      Things are simpler today. Instead of "white" lines and "colored" lines, there is just one line.

    • @totallysmooth1203
      @totallysmooth1203 3 года назад

      @@SnoopyDoofie With not a damn soul standing in it i want to know.

  • @RichardinNC1
    @RichardinNC1 2 года назад +2

    My parents started out in a little town in WV. My older sister was born in 1956. It was 3 1/2 years later for me. To me it seemed that most folks didn't have color TVs until the mid to late 60s. At least in the small towns we lived in.

    • @markgrove2030
      @markgrove2030 Год назад

      I'm a 52er folks but wanted to mention the TV angle a bit. We actually got our first TV in 1956. A chassis almost the size of a kitchen stove and a 12"(?) B&W screen. We were NOT to watch during supper but in a very few instances. I love all these RR videos; please keep em coming. Do one about the huge Polio scare; the "Covid" of the 50s. Quite a story....

  • @kellycoleman715
    @kellycoleman715 Год назад +2

    The year I was born. Great year!

  • @matrox
    @matrox 3 года назад +10

    I missed 56' by a few months. But all is not lost because 57' was just as good!

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 года назад +1

      Yes ...good years until the '60's & beatniks.

    • @robmcgowan4034
      @robmcgowan4034 3 года назад +1

      I missed it by 5 month (born May '57) but interestingly "started" my life 9 months earlier; the same month Jackson Pollock's tragically ended. Another interesting thing is that the 4 years I was in high school (1971-'75) makes our class (nationwide) to actually have had 9th grade pre-Watergate and 12th 'post'. Unfortunately, the great post World War II economy (1946-'72) ended in '73, forever. Stagnant wages w/rampant inflation, CEO pay, income disparity that's only gotten worse in the nearly 50 years since, gas price worries has been the lasting legacy of the '70s. A decade that otherwise has not a trace left other than the awesome music, TV shows and memories of it we still have.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 года назад

      The highest number of births was in 1957 for the baby boomer years.

    • @hubertwalters4300
      @hubertwalters4300 2 года назад +1

      I remember the 1957 Chevrolets,a friend of our family bought one brand new, I remember riding in it,bought one myself in 1967,keapt it 4yrs then sold it.

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 года назад

      @@hubertwalters4300 My uncle was a Korean war vet, his first car was a 57 Chevy he bought brand new.

  • @wargame2play
    @wargame2play 3 года назад +14

    I made my appearance in September, one day late for my Mother’s birthday !

  • @musicman8270
    @musicman8270 3 года назад +5

    I too was born in 1956. So was Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the body snatchers, and Earth vs the flying saucers. No wonder I'm a sci-fi fan.

    • @johnthonig8832
      @johnthonig8832 2 года назад

      1955 here
      Watch Season 53, Episode 50 of 60 Minutes.
      UFOs are discussed, or UAPs, as they are called now.
      😄✌️👍

  • @dawnbenchley7237
    @dawnbenchley7237 3 года назад +14

    I was born in 1956.

  • @stuartpickles6907
    @stuartpickles6907 3 года назад +9

    My grandma graduated high school from Baxter Springs ks in 1956!

    • @caseyl3789
      @caseyl3789 3 года назад

      My mother graduated from HS in 1956 as well. Great time to be alive. She told me that the time was allot simpler.

  • @ObsessedCollector
    @ObsessedCollector 3 года назад +10

    1956 saw Topps buy out Bowman and was the final year of the larger cards. 1957 began the modern size trading card!

    • @cheaplaughkennedy2318
      @cheaplaughkennedy2318 3 года назад +1

      Wasn’t there a large Topps set in 65 . I believe with a Namath rookie .

    • @ObsessedCollector
      @ObsessedCollector 3 года назад +2

      @@cheaplaughkennedy2318 yes 1965 football, 1969, 1970 basketball and I think 1964 hockey

    • @cheaplaughkennedy2318
      @cheaplaughkennedy2318 3 года назад +1

      @@ObsessedCollector didn’t know , interesting, thanks 👍

  • @susancannon1905
    @susancannon1905 2 года назад +1

    I was born in March of ‘56…Never knew all these things happened that year… thank for sharing!

  • @opathe2nd973
    @opathe2nd973 Год назад

    Born is 56! I graduated from high school in 56 and it was the greatest or we would say AceQualityPlus!!!! That was music, sports and drive-ins. Good times

  • @a.a.p3254
    @a.a.p3254 3 года назад +12

    It didn’t take America to go downhill fast.

    • @CharlesCoderre-yv1cu
      @CharlesCoderre-yv1cu 2 года назад

      the downfall began with Kennedy and sharply sped up with LBJ

  • @amazon9733
    @amazon9733 2 года назад +29

    Alot of us have fond memories from that time. I remember being safe and my family was a loving one.
    But unfortunately for our friends of color it was not as pleasant. I remember as a child (in grade school) with others protecting a younger Africa-American girl from boys who where tormenting her. Not all of us have fond memories of the so called “quiet“ time in our history. God Bless.🙏

    • @ibosquez5238
      @ibosquez5238 2 года назад +3

      Thank you, bless you for sticking up for her. You must have had extremely good parents.

    • @gigiis526
      @gigiis526 2 года назад

      You were a kind person and good samaritan to help the young black girl. Today you can help blacks by relearning the way you refer to them,. You are offensive and you dont even realize it . Ill teach you to unlearn insulting "labels" that people say because they dont know any better.
      1) All mankind is one color or another! Black people hate it when people say "colored" . I hate it too. I am white and they are black. So what?! We all come from one man Adam . WE are one race under YHWH . We are brown ,white ,black etc. We are all colored so why say just blacks are colored? Do we say the mexicans are colored? Why not? They are a brown color. Do we say white people are colored? Why not? Whites are a white color! Do we say the people from India with very dark brown skin are colored? Why not?! They are almost black in some instances. You see what Im saying? Black people are BL:ACK! People that are black want to be called black because that is what they are; BLACK. They dont want you to call them colored or 2) that they are african american. Where in the heck did the USA get this label that all blacks are african americans? Black people are not only from Africa but from the Caribbean as well which has more blacks than Africa! Some blacks ancestors may have been from africa but that doesnt mean they shgould be referred to as african american now does it? My ancestors are from England,France, and Ireland. Should people refer to me referencing my ancestory or my color which is white depending on how much sun I get( humor). There are also many blacks in european countries. Black people are black. If you must refer to their color; they are black. Ask someone who is black about this. They will tell you what I am . Blessings

    • @gigiis526
      @gigiis526 2 года назад

      Also, enough of the virtue signaling! "Not all of us have fond memories of the so called “quiet“ time in our history."
      Must race be brought into every single conversation had? Healthy successful blacks do not focus on the past but they are looking forward and creating a good life for themselves and their families. Leave your virtue signaling platitudes where they belong; BURIED.Today is not yesterday and things today are certainly not they were 70 yrs ago . Blacks have the same opportunities to succeed now as any other race. It is because of the American dream and why people flock to this country! If you are willing to stay out of trouble and work your tail off; you will succeed. Its that simple. Those that cant let go of things in the past are unhealthy and have mental issues.They have bought into the social justice victim mentality that is so destructive to our society! The uneducated are easily swayed to get on the pity wagon and the left is doing a great job of dividing our country. Are you uneducated ? You have certainly played into the narrative! STOP FLAMING THE FIRES OF OVER A HALF CENTURY AGO! There was no need for your comment to be so negative. Maybe that is who you are. Read the bible the living word.
      Faith come by hearing the word of God. Romans 10:17. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105
      Repent and trust in Christ . Romans 10:9-10, Acts 17:30, Luke 13:3
      Unless you repent you will perish. Acts 17:30, Luke 13:3


      www.livingwaters.co...
      Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

    • @gigiis526
      @gigiis526 2 года назад

      @@ibosquez5238 Im not even sure I believe him/her. It looks like a ploy to turn the focus on race to me.

  • @konstantyk.3320
    @konstantyk.3320 2 года назад +2

    Glaringly missing is hysteria over the death of James Dean -- LIFE magazine did an article called "Delirium Over Dead Star" LOOK mag also did an extensive report w/beautiful cover pic of JD in Giant his last movie...All through 1956 and 1957 movie mags etc. covered the staggering loss of Rebel James Dean whose brilliant talent set the mode for actors for decades to come....A LEGEND beyond compare to this day.

    • @daphnemiller6767
      @daphnemiller6767 2 года назад +1

      Don't even know how many times I've watched Rebel Without Cause!

  • @stevebuckley3971
    @stevebuckley3971 4 месяца назад +1

    I was 4 years old loved it

  • @tomthumb5445
    @tomthumb5445 3 года назад +11

    The year I was born, just a few days ago was my bday. I consider myself very lucky.

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 года назад

      Lucky that P.T. Barnum was no longer around. Might of
      Hired you for his "Greatest Show on Earth ".

    • @tomthumb5445
      @tomthumb5445 3 года назад +1

      @@dcasper8514 You mean Uncle P.T. ! But he did!

  • @gwwayner
    @gwwayner 3 года назад +19

    Ah the 1950's; everyone smoked cigarettes, boys swam naked at the YMCA, you didn't need a helmet or insurance to drive a motorcycle, TV shows were free, kids were running all around the neighborhood, dogs shit on the sidewalk, cars had style, you got the strap in school, and it was still a man's world. How I miss it.

    • @gwwayner
      @gwwayner 3 года назад +4

      @David Watson You didn't have to pick up shit after your dog. It's all about the freedoms we used to have.

    • @ibosquez5238
      @ibosquez5238 2 года назад

      Dude, it's still a man's world, you built it!

    • @tomgattone5238
      @tomgattone5238 Год назад

      take me back

  • @eutimiochavez415
    @eutimiochavez415 Год назад +1

    Those were great time miss them ,now just memories ❤

  • @conniecrawford5231
    @conniecrawford5231 3 года назад +8

    It was my first year of “ junior high school”- I remember so much of these history events!The name “ middle school” came later and meant different grade levels Junior high was grades 7th, 8th and 9 th grades then. We all watched Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show and there were dozens of now classic
    Western series on TV.

    • @theresaakins2317
      @theresaakins2317 2 года назад

      My town's junior high was only 7th and 8th grade.

  • @bostongirlsandy
    @bostongirlsandy 3 года назад +22

    I liked this year because it had Elvis in it.

  • @michaelwascom62
    @michaelwascom62 3 года назад +8

    My folks bought their first house in Spring 1956: 3 BR, 2 baths, den and LR, spacious kitchen. They paid slightly less than $14K! Those were the days!

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +1

      How long did they live in it? I feel like all my relatives stayed put.

    • @michaelwascom62
      @michaelwascom62 3 года назад +1

      We lived in the house till 1970. I finished highschool in 1971.

  • @AnnaPaul56
    @AnnaPaul56 2 года назад +2

    I was born in 1956. This was very interesting. Thank you.

  • @buck546
    @buck546 Год назад +2

    I was born in 1954 and grew up out in the country. Life was hard for my family because jobs were hard to find but life was good. No phone, no TV, just playing outdoors in the fields and woods. I am sad that my Grandchildren will not experience the innocence of life that I did being a child. Back then the biggest challenge you had as a child was your home work. I never know what a problem was until I reached eighteen.

  • @robsemail
    @robsemail 3 года назад +6

    Various types of disposable diaper had been invented by 1956. Unless I’m mistaken, the only remarkable event in the history of that product from that year would have been the announcement by Proctor & Gamble that a new type of disposable diaper was in development. P&G of course introduced Pampers a few years later, but I don’t think the product was very successful until it was redesigned in the early 1970s. Until then, cloth diapers were better at avoiding leaks which could soil carpets and furniture.

    • @daphnemiller6767
      @daphnemiller6767 2 года назад

      My babies were born in 1961 and 1967. I never used a disposable diaper. Not sure I even knew they existed. The big thing for me was the diaper service we used in 1967.

  • @DavidSmith-mx7ll
    @DavidSmith-mx7ll 3 года назад +14

    Interesting stuff I missed as I was born in Jan '59

  • @user-vm5ud4xw6n
    @user-vm5ud4xw6n Год назад

    These are always too short. I love watching them though. I was 4 years old when all this was going on!

  • @kennappier3608
    @kennappier3608 2 года назад +1

    I was 9 in 56, I lived in Los Angeles. Halloween was fun. Stayed out til 11:00 p.m.

  • @darrylknight2675
    @darrylknight2675 3 года назад +3

    I was born in May 1956 but who remembers the first 10 years of their life. Sixties was good to be a kid and seventies were great to be a teenager and in my early twenties. Thankfully I missed Vietnam by a few years. The last 20 years suck though.

  • @dondressel452
    @dondressel452 3 года назад +13

    The year I was born

  • @chipblack5000
    @chipblack5000 3 года назад +2

    Thank You For Sharing 🇺🇸

  • @cynthiataylor8271
    @cynthiataylor8271 3 года назад +2

    Born in 1955 I do remember some of the show

  • @joelfrombethlehem
    @joelfrombethlehem 3 года назад +7

    I was born 10 days after that Fischer win in "The Game Of The Century." I never learned to play chess all that well, but Bobby Fischer turned into an odd case. Elvis was much more interesting to me and more fun. Also noted, television broadcasting was used to promote pop music and rock and roll, eventually paving the way for MTV twenty-five years later in 1981.

    • @lynettepalecek3141
      @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +1

      @Joel J. Reisteter. When my brother was 13 years old in 1971, he was beating college students at chess.

  • @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736
    @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736 3 года назад +19

    President Eisenhower should be commended for bringing the interstate highway to America.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 3 года назад +5

      He'd be devastated to see the condition it's in these days.

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад +1

      He did it mainly for military purposes, not for the general public. But still it was cool

    • @druegillis1744
      @druegillis1744 3 года назад +3

      You may not know this but Ike got the idea of the Interstate Highway System from Hitler. Hitler built the Autobahns with slave labor with the idea of being able to move men and war material over the reinforced roadways. They were designed so that an airplane could use them as a runway, with their gradual, banked curves and cloverleafs. Some of those roadbeds are 12' thick. Ike knew we were heading for a cold war with the Soviets, after we gave away part of Germany to them. He figured in a national emergency, the interstates could be used the same way as Hitler used the Autobahns. True story.

    • @Nebulasecura
      @Nebulasecura 3 года назад +2

      @@druegillis1744 didn’t former President John Quincy Adams also want a connection of roads across the country more than a century prior? Cause if so he was a man far too advanced for his time

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад

      @@druegillis1744 Shhh! Facts and stuff

  • @WilliamKearns5393
    @WilliamKearns5393 Месяц назад +1

    R.I.P Carrie Fisher, 1956-2016.
    R.I.H Zarrie Qisher, 1956-2016.

  • @jefffriedberg
    @jefffriedberg 3 года назад +15

    Eisenhower knew that Ancient Roman Military power rested on the strength and length of its roadway system. This was the ONLY reason it was built.

    • @ApartmentKing66
      @ApartmentKing66 3 года назад +9

      That and the German autobahn system.

    • @jefffriedberg
      @jefffriedberg 3 года назад +3

      @@ApartmentKing66 Yeah, that too.

    • @Codebreaker51
      @Codebreaker51 3 года назад +4

      As much as I don't care to mention it, Hitler really started the concept of the roadway concept, when he initiated the Autobahn for mass movement of troops and material!!!

    • @jefffriedberg
      @jefffriedberg 3 года назад +2

      @@Codebreaker51 It was the ancient Romans. They built roads to link the entire empire for moving troops.

    • @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736
      @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736 3 года назад +3

      @@Codebreaker51 the only difference is he used Jewish labor and, if around, Jewish tombstones, to make those roadways.

  • @joeyank2451
    @joeyank2451 3 года назад +54

    When America Was America

    • @UmmYeahOk
      @UmmYeahOk 3 года назад +1

      Compare the tax rate then with now. People want to Make America Great Again, but forget just how it was done.

    • @stupidd6513
      @stupidd6513 3 года назад

      So we can revert back to tax rates of those times? Perhaps if we never messed with them to begin with, we'd be in a much better place now. But boomers got greedy.

    • @UmmYeahOk
      @UmmYeahOk 3 года назад

      @@stupidd6513 in regards to greedy boomers, my favorite thing to do is have them reminisce about how wonderful Drive In movie theaters were. At some point they will ALWAYS bring up how great it was sneaking several people in the trunk. Doesn’t matter who you talk to, as they all seem to share this same memory. They will be consumed with this warm fuzzy nostalgia until I immediately ask them after sharing that memory why all the theaters closed. 😏

    • @lynettepalecek3141
      @lynettepalecek3141 3 года назад +10

      @@UmmYeahOk President Trump was doing an excellent job as President during his first term in Office, even though the Luceferian Globalists were fighting him and lying about him.

    • @UmmYeahOk
      @UmmYeahOk 3 года назад +2

      @@lynettepalecek3141 that’s right boomer. Those mean ol dirty liberals somehow prevented him from doing any good for the country. Who’s paying for that wall BTW? Your children and your children’s children. Only those in the top tax bracket pay 37% of their income. That’s hardly what they would have paid in 1956. The lower part of that tax bracket would have paid 78%! Those making over $200k a year, which would be over $1.9 million today, would have paid 91%! He, Bezos, Zukerberg, they would have all paid way more for that wall. You know how they got away with not having to pay as much back then? Raises, bonuses, reinvesting into the company (which increases the job market), donations, all of these things that Made America Great. Did Mr Trump help keep factories open in this country? Did he help increase jobs by giving corporations incentives to keep and create jobs here? China Tariffs? That actually did more harm than good. Besides, China isn’t the only country stealing jobs. While plants in the US were closing, new automotive plants were being built in Mexico. At least Biden wants to pay people to rebuild infrastructure. That’s something. Beats a stupid wall that clearly does nothing.
      And these tax dodgers, when you make that kind of money, you can find ways to avoid taxes like accepting stock instead of a higher salary. You can create charity funds that benefit family members. Lots of things the 1% does now that they didn’t really do in the 50s. People who make billions of dollars a year, being taxed the same as $518k, and only 5% more than people making $163k