I always love looking at the people.....where are they now.....60 to 80 years old...already gone...really makes you want to go back in time. Things were clean. People cared. Good times
I remember getting to the motel, spending about five minutes in the room before bolting out and to the pool…which, by the way, you could usually find just by the chlorine smell alone. Everyone there were already mostly wrapped up in their jumps, slides races..or breath holding contests, while others, temporarily exhausted, were laying face down on the warm grass or just plain old concrete. We’d throw our stuff down on an empty chair and were instantly in the pool….. scouting kids our own age that we might eventually engage in a friendly awkward flirty splashing fight… …and where plans were made on the spot to meet up again after dinner…to get beautifully waterlogged in the shallow end while the sun was going down. And in the end nothing mattered more than perfecting your backflip…just before mom would call out that Bonanza was on. At this point, the one bathtub or shower filled up with soggy swimsuits while we all jumped on the bed wrapped in hotel towels and hunkered down to watch Hoss and the rest of the guys…tired as heck, slightly sunburned, but in heaven…
What memories of summer vacations in the station wagon! Check in just past the neon vacancy sign, grab the plastic diamond shaped hotel key ring and head to the pool while dad unpacked the car top carrier. We kids would play Marco Polo with other fellow vacationers while the parents would exchange tales of their travels from the poolside lawn chairs before dusk.
@@jamiejay7633I agree. Always tough finding a "vacancy" sign on the weekends up in N.H. at the Weirs beach. My father would just ask us if we wanted to go up North for the weekend, and the answer was always "yes".
Do you know recently we stayed up in CT. during the summer visiting family & we stayed at a hotel whose pool was open at night. We couldn’t wait to go swimming
I'll never forget staying at the Holiday Inn, and couldn't wait to get in the pool. I took a dive off the diving board and fell 60 feet on my back. Haven't dived since that fateful day in 74. 🤕I felt paralyzed for some time later.
I was born in the 90s and whenever i see footage of older generation or hear them talk about (esp. Parents) it seems to be a romantic and peaceful time that cant be experienced anymore cuz it is belonging to the past. (Makes me kinda sad) The only thing that is keeping it alive are people who share their experiences. Thank you so much for the video and telling about your memories. Its a real treasure. I hope you have a great day.
Back in those days most homes had no A/C so the pool or a lake were the only refuge. Now that energy prices are so high nobody can afford to run the A/C so we are right back where we started from.
I miss those long, hot summer days by the pool. My friend's grandparents, who were wealthy, owned a gorgeous indoor pool. Since they were Italian they would cook food on the grill for everyone all summer. The older kids (19-22) had a band and would be jamming in the shed behind the pool.
Great memories. Our town had 2 parks with pools. One had an island to swim to and dive off, the other had a super tall diving platform. I remember always eating Lance crackers and a coke while there. Later we lived in neighborhoods with pools, the last one being super nice. Even as adults when visiting we’d enjoy the pool and order Dominoes pizza to be delivered there!
I remember my family had an above pool in our backyard during in the 60s. Before that it was playing with the sprinklers. Our friends from down the street would come over all the time and we would play. Pretty much during the summer we would be in it everyday. I learned how to swim in that pool. From wearing inflatable donut rings to keep me up, to doing underwater somersaults on my own. What brings to mind for me was the fact that I was very blond and the chloride would change my hair color to a light green. Also how anybody with a pool always had a humorous sign of pool "rules" that must be abided too, especially no peeing in the pool. The best of times! Thanks.
In the 60's my dad was in the Air Force & was stationed at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. There were two olympic sized pools to swim in on the base where we lived. They were so close you could ride your bike or walk to them from where you lived in the housing area. We had the best of both. Swimming in a pool or going to the beach less than two miles away. Those were happy times. Boy do I miss those innocent days!
We had a similar experience at Hickam AFB in Hawaii, as did my husband in Santa Rosa CA (but he wasn't a military kid and the beaches are cold there...LOL)
My dad was stationed there also {1965}. I attended Woodland Park Elementary (6th). Of all the bases we lived on it was by far my favorite. Myrtle Beach was awesome in that time period!
@@eddyclarkson164 Oh my goodness!! We were there 1965-1968. I was in the 3rd to the 6th grade at Woodland Park. It was a great place & time to be a kid. Now the base is gone & Myrtle Beach is so overbuilt. No more Pavilion or amusement park either. That's progress for you. It's so sad, so many good things just don't last. I am thrilled to know that someone was there around the same time. Oh the memories!
Yup, I remember my best friend and I from boy scouts would sneak into this apartment complex and swim all day. It had one of those pools with the really rough bottom. I can remember going home with raw feet often. Also, the motel pools while in vacation were a must. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
There was a large pool and mini golf place near me called, “Cool Crest.” Mom would drop us off, give two dollars and twenty five cents, buck twenty five for the pool and a buck to spend at the snack bar. We would stay for several hours and we would be pretty water logged by the end of the time there, it was great. This was back in the middle to late 60s. The pool had a high dive, finally worked up the nerve to jump off of it.
@@catherinebreitfeller669 Nobody is interested in you Libtard, FAKE COMMENTS, and your GASLIGHTING, "conspiracy theories', from your burned out, Wokeness.
@@catherinebreitfeller669 when I got my first bike, 1962, I rode that thing all over the place, I was taught the rules of the road and that kept me safe. Those were carefree summers and days.
Being five minutes to the hotel that had a swimming pool, while travelling was agonizing . We would be begging our mom to put our swim suits on as soon as Dad pulled off the exit. He'd pull into check-in to get the key and we'd still be begging to dart to the pool as soon as he opened the hotel door. lol We must have drove our parents nuts! You never saw kids unzip suitcases so fast and grab a towel from the bathroom lol You always hoped there would be other kids to play with. The parents would talk to the other parents "where are you headed?" The local swim parks were always fun, too! Good memories!
Yes, me too! Too many to mention but l remember the songs playing through a loud speaker at our local park pool. One that comes to mind is Down Town by Petula Clark. Such wonderful memories.🤗
It was very interesting to study the people and what they wore. No one was wearing a piece of clothing with a brand name across it. Many pools had no safety fence around them. Instead of looking at cellphones, people looked at EACH OTHER and played group games. There were VERY few fatties fatting around.
Pool days, pool days, dear old golden pool days.........we had a pool put in in '58, the first one on our block, and it was the neighborhood draw for years. The smell of chlorine, wet diving masks and swim fins, kids cavorting in the high waves (high for US, back then), diving for plastic coasters in the deep end. Dad would be at the grill, whipping up some mouth-watering greasy burgers and 'dogs. Wait half an hour after you eat to go back in! Don't run on the deck! Once in a while some kid would run and slip on the deck, there would be tears but the comforting arms of mom would be ready. And the cute girl down the street in her bikini....... We paid for it by us kids having to keep the pool chlorinated, vacuumed, and skimming those pesky leaves out year round. Last swim was probably the summer of '92, by which time we were all married and having our spouses over, shortly before Dad passed.
Great times , we have a very similiar situation, but in the early 60's , and me being the only boy , inherited the job of keeping the pool chlorinated , and clean . I'm not complaining because of all the girls and parties we had were well worth the effort I put in . Those were some of the best times I , my family , relatives and neighbors and friends ever had !!! Thanks for the memories !!
In the days before everything became dangerous. I'm glad I lived life in the fast lane. No seat belts, bike helmets or knee pads, drinking water from a garden hose and jumping off the high dive. Good times, "Good Vibrations" good days, good memories.
In my hometown of Allston and Brighton (city of Boston) our community pool is in the same recreation building as our ice skating rink. I wish we had a diving board.
The sales genius who decided to add a pool to motels should have a national holiday in their honor. Throw in the marketing wizard who came up with "free HBO" also.
I think it would be amazing to go to this time. I being born in the 80's see reminders of my past in this video just slightly different. Great memories of jumping off a diving board and being in a community. Today there arent many people in a pool and diving boards are all gone. One thing I want to add that I notice in this video is that there are really no obese people. People ate more healthy back then, food was not contaminated with sugar alcohols, and other chemicals like today. People also were move lively. They were out more, played more, explored more. They were not consumed or held back home or on a device like with what the Start of Nintendo or Internet did. I am skinny as a rail always have. I just hate how industries have contaminated food, technology has made many lazy and corrupted minds with desire instant gratification and dopamine cravings. I can bet 100% many want to go back to this lifestyle. 1980's or before. The 60's look really fun. HEY DOC BROWN? WHERE'S YOUR TIME MACHINE!!??
Yeah, people always say this, but I sure remember obese people back then AND many many more cigarette smokers. More than one woman in my family died early from lung cancer because she sucked on cigarettes instead of eating a meal. Even my family doc would walk in with a cigarette in his hand every time we had to see him as kids. But it was certainly true that fast food wasn't something we did every day, it was a treat when my mom didn't want to cook after she began to work part time and usually on a Friday night. I'm a retiree now. I hate telephones, always have, and make it a point to leave my place without it most of the time. At my age, I can actually pretty much live like both my grandmothers did (neither of whom could drive) by walking to the grocery, post office, doc, dentist or hop a bus to the mall if I choose to. I signed my 15-year-old car over to my grandnephew and don't miss the damn thing at all. Lol. Would be great to see people of all ages get outdoors and take a break from technology.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa My apologies. It is not the intent of making anyone feel bummed out. It is meant to open our eyes on how technology and the food industry has harmed people. It is not anyone's fault. The 60's showed that people were much happier, enjoyed life more. It is something we all need to do more.
My dad worked at NCR (anybody remember cash registers?) in Dayton, Ohio, which actually had for its employees two big concrete pools, food for sale, and a shady park outside that area including a lagoon full of huge carp, boats you could ride, giant checkers and checkerboards and other games and a meandering walkway. Dad made us take swimming lessons there (probably free or nearly free for us). Anyway, all gone now of course, since NCR moved out years ago. You can see the pools for yourself if you google something like "NCR Old River Recreation Park" or something similar. Of course, we didn't go daily but always had at least a small blowup pool in the backyard or somebody's sprinkler to run through. The neighborhoods were loaded with kids of all ages back in the day. I sure don't see kids much these days outdoors playing like we did, which I find sad.
I love all your videos but especially this one! I am an Artist and I paint swimming pools with people diving off a board ot going down a slide. I grew up in the late 60's at a Country Club. I was on the swim team! I also paint oceans and lakes! I have a love for water! Lol! In one scene the women were playing backgammon that reminded me of my Mom and her best friend, they loved backgammon.
We used to go to the outdoor Lincoln Park Pool in West Seattle in the mid 60's. It was and still is to this day an outdoor saltwater pool. There was and I believe still an indoor pool as well. Fun video!!
In the late 60s after we came to Fort Worth, Texas, Dad soon hired on at General Dynamics (known as"GD" at the time, now Lockheed) on the West Side. One of the perks was use of the company rec center, which was and is on Bryant Irvin Road, I think. Before we had our own pool built in the mid 70s, we used the GD Center's pools (until Dad was laid off, and hired on at the FAA). I was often in the children's pool supervised by Mom or my older sister. But I got to spend time in the main pool also. I was in my life jacket for the main pool. When I was 8 1/2, I took swimming lessons from Red Cross volunteers. A friend I went to school with had a built-in pool at home. His parents lent their pool to the Red Cross volunteers. This made the summer of 72 quite special. My sister was often assigned the task of driving me over to my friend's house in West Fort Worth for the lessons, and the radio in the 67 Ford had hits like "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond playing, or "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone, "Saturday In The Park" by Chicago, later "Black And White" by Three Dog Night. I was never an Olympic champion, but I did become a competent swimmer, at least. I don't use the glorified wading pool in our apartment community. Management has to shut it down constantly because residents contaminate the water. I'm sure enough people have peed in the pool as well.
Spent my summers in my apartment building pool in the 90s and had to get a house with a pool as an adult. Just love relaxing in water and now my 4 yr old son is obsessed too!
The high dive board is no longer at swimming pool, because of liability reasons. I love swimming in the pool, lake, or river, deep enough enough for diving. 😅
I searched and searched high and low to find an obese person or a cell phone but could NOT find either, what a great time to be alive especially with all the pools that had diving boards, those are a thing of the past
I grew up in a pool spent my time from 65 to 73 swimming on the swim team AAU. Would walk to the pool about a mile but spend all day swimming. We’d throw out a big blanket get our Jell-O powder dip our fingers in it and lick. The Lifeguards would blast the music and yell at us for running on the pool deck. Sometimes we get a free movie pass from one of the local businesses nearby and get into the matinee movie Theater on Saturdays. The theater was within walking distance of the pool. Great times wish I could go back and relive it.
Whenever we went on vacation, it was a must to stay at a motel with a pool. If we didn't, I was a miserable little cuss. If we did, my parents would not see me until the pool closed at 9:00 pm. Sometimes, even later. If there was a girl there around my age, I would push the limits for sure.
Everyday we'd ride our bikes to the pool, (Pratt, Kansas) gosh what wonderful memories! We would swim so long and hard (play) that I'd hardly have enough energy to ride home! I miss those days...
Here in Australia many of our small rural towns still have public open air pools run by the local council. Open during our summer November - end of March.
I was born in 1960 and lived 2 blocks from the city pool. We had season passes and i was there almost every day in the summer. Swimming lessons every year so morning and afternoon and sometimes in the evenings.
I was too young to go to the pool in the 60s but man I sure remember going to the public pools in my hometown in the 70's, so much fun and memories, and going on camping trips out of state to the lake with my wonderful neighbors, GREAT TIMES I will never forget. My hometown once had 3 public pools, they're all closed now
My Michigan hometown had a public pool with a low dive and high dive with 12 ft deep end. No longer there. Last time I was at Tucker Pool was with my nephews and daughter in 2008. Still had the low diving board. High dive was gone.🙁
The high school down the street, the one I ended up graduating from, used to have open swim nights on Friday's. I spent a lot of time in those pools. I recently read a coming of age book about a teenager growing up in my neighborhood set in the same timeframe as when I was kid, the late 60s, early 70s. In that story, the main character attends that school and gets tossed into those pools but he couldn't swim and had to be fished out by the gym coach. That part of the book really brought home memories for me, but I was a good swimmer and I loved those open swim nights. The school is gone now, but the memories live on.
The best pool my family went to was Pickwick Pool near Disney Studios in Burbank California. Large circler pool with a diving island with low and high boards in the middle. You could rent rafts, inner tubes, and towels. When it was really full they would open up both sides of the pool. Only saw that twice. So much fun.
A pool was located at the elementary school in my neighborhood with a lifeguard, it was 15 cents to get in. On occasion my mother would bike ride with us to the pool but usually we go by ourselves with friends, fun times. 🏊
I was born in 1969 and this is relatable of growing up in the 70s and 80s. Another type of public swimming areas that were created were man made lakes or dams. Usually they were State Park projects from earlier decades. Usually a sand filled beach area was adjacent to the water, also picnic areas with tables and grills.
Growing up in the sixties the neighborhood kids would walk to the public pool with our lunches, we would go for swimming lessons then eat our lunch in the park. After they had two sessions first the boys then the girls session. Oh yea and we had to wear bathing caps.😆 The county pool was much more fun with concessions and music and no bathing caps and you could swim with the boys. Either way they were great times!
Where I lived in Florida in those days, most homes, including ours had a pool. Usually they were enclosed with large screened enclosures to keep the bugs out. It was usually after getting out of the pool and going into the house, freezing from the air conditioning.
Summertime was spent at the neighbor's pool and the lakes in mid Michigan to swim in. TY Mr. and Mrs. Summerfield for opening your family pool to all the neighborhood kids way back in the late 60's, early 70's in Flushing Michigan. Great memory.
During the summer of 1967, I met a female lifeguard, at the local community swimming pool, who changed my life forever. I was five years old at the time He name is Jackie. Jackie taught me unconditional love. Jackie would let me hang around with her during her breaks. Jackie invited me to her house. Her parents were very nice to me. Jackie was an only child and she thought of me as a little brother. I only saw Jackie that summer. Her family moved out of town. I never saw Jackie again. I'll always remember Jackie and what she taught me, unconditional love.
I was born 8/5/68 on road trips in the 70,s this is still what it looked like i loved the pools although it all was about 13 years past but still a great time for me :) the pools were clean and the rooms :)
I learned how to swim in deep water,when someone pushed me in the 8ft. section,we would bring 2 pairs of trunksto have a dry pair for the 1 hr. segments,spent many summers having fun. and cooling off,putting our spare change in our socks for snacks and a soda afterwards it was great being a kid having summers off.
Back in the 1960s and when my mom and dad my brother and older sister and I were living in Erie Pennsylvania, we had a swimming pool in our backyard. And in 1968, we visited grandma vi and grandpa Leo and they had a swimming pool too in San Diego California .
The highlight of going to see my grandparents( in the south) was the community swimming pool! The city closed it because of segregation! I did not understand this at all being a child from a large northern city! What a shame it was, Everyone lost!!!
Desegregation would have brought the crime we see now-they were right to close it rather than have that happen. We had things close too. You can’t have anything safe and nice now unless it’s your own.
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Those were great days 🥳🤠😎 I wish I could find a Time Machine and go back.
What's wrong with 2022, Nazi?
Me too 😊
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Me too
Likewise! The very best years. It saddens me how our world has become 😢
I always love looking at the people.....where are they now.....60 to 80 years old...already gone...really makes you want to go back in time. Things were clean. People cared. Good times
The good old days of the family road trip and stopping at a motel that had a nice swimming pool.
I remember getting to the motel, spending about five minutes in the room before bolting out and to the pool…which, by the way, you could usually find just by the chlorine smell alone.
Everyone there were already mostly wrapped up in their jumps, slides races..or breath holding contests, while others, temporarily exhausted, were laying face down on the warm grass or just plain old concrete.
We’d throw our stuff down on an empty chair and were instantly in the pool….. scouting kids our own age that we might eventually engage in a friendly awkward flirty splashing fight…
…and where plans were made on the spot to meet up again after dinner…to get beautifully waterlogged in the shallow end while the sun was going down. And in the end nothing mattered more than perfecting your backflip…just before mom would call out that Bonanza was on. At this point, the one bathtub or shower filled up with soggy swimsuits while we all jumped on the bed wrapped in hotel towels and hunkered down to watch Hoss and the rest of the guys…tired as heck, slightly sunburned, but in heaven…
What memories of summer vacations in the station wagon! Check in just past the neon vacancy sign, grab the plastic diamond shaped hotel key ring and head to the pool while dad unpacked the car top carrier. We kids would play Marco Polo with other fellow vacationers while the parents would exchange tales of their travels from the poolside lawn chairs before dusk.
Bathing cap and rubber nose plugs😂
That wonderful chlorine smell is actually trichloramine. It is a by-product you get from mixing chlorinated water with pee.
A big part of the fun was trying to find a hotel that had the vacancy sign and a pool!
@@jamiejay7633I agree. Always tough finding a "vacancy" sign on the weekends up in N.H. at the Weirs beach. My father would just ask us if we wanted to go up North for the weekend, and the answer was always "yes".
Those were the best days of my life 😀
Back in the summer of 69!
Yes, staying at motels that had pools. Pools were big back in the 60's. Swimming in a pool at night with the underwater lights on was a treat.
Do you know recently we stayed up in CT. during the summer visiting family & we stayed at a hotel whose pool was open at night. We couldn’t wait to go swimming
I'll never forget staying at the Holiday Inn, and couldn't wait to get in the pool. I took a dive off the diving board and fell 60 feet on my back. Haven't dived since that fateful day in 74. 🤕I felt paralyzed for some time later.
I miss the diving boards. Good luck finding those now. Also the depth was deeper back then. Thank you greedy lawyers and nanny state.
I was born in '59 and got lots-o-pool time. RIGHT ON !
I was born in the 90s and whenever i see footage of older generation or hear them talk about (esp. Parents) it seems to be a romantic and peaceful time that cant be experienced anymore cuz it is belonging to the past. (Makes me kinda sad) The only thing that is keeping it alive are people who share their experiences. Thank you so much for the video and telling about your memories. Its a real treasure. I hope you have a great day.
Thank you
Had a lot of fun in pools in the 80s.
Back in those days most homes had no A/C so the pool or a lake were the only refuge. Now that energy prices are so high nobody can afford to run the A/C so we are right back where we started from.
Yep! Just got my utility bill. Thanks jb. (You know he did that!)
What pool?!
We had AC in 1964.
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Just love this channel! It's fun looking back to when we were younger and revisit those good memories ... 🙂
My favorite channel
Same here. It’s like going back to better days 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
👍👍👍👍 🇺🇸
6:46 IT's Burt Reynolds! From a time when he played Quint on Gunsmoke.
Everything seems so... friendly.
Everything was
It was friendly. So nice then.
Love the red 63 Ford Falcon wagon in the last image.
Enjoyed. Great memories of sunny pool days with friends.
I miss those long, hot summer days by the pool. My friend's grandparents, who were wealthy, owned a gorgeous indoor pool. Since they were Italian they would cook food on the grill for everyone all summer. The older kids (19-22) had a band and would be jamming in the shed behind the pool.
Love the old cars too.
Nice ! Evokes a lot of buried memories for me 😊 thanks 👍🏽
Great memories. Our town had 2 parks with pools. One had an island to swim to and dive off, the other had a super tall diving platform. I remember always eating Lance crackers and a coke while there. Later we lived in neighborhoods with pools, the last one being super nice. Even as adults when visiting we’d enjoy the pool and order Dominoes pizza to be delivered there!
Lol…you’re a lot younger than I am. The closest thing to pizza was something called “Shakey’s” and they certainly didn’t deliver.
I remember my family had an above pool in our backyard during in the 60s. Before that it was playing with the sprinklers. Our friends from down the street would come over all the time and we would play. Pretty much during the summer we would be in it everyday. I learned how to swim in that pool. From wearing inflatable donut rings to keep me up, to doing underwater somersaults on my own. What brings to mind for me was the fact that I was very blond and the chloride would change my hair color to a light green. Also how anybody with a pool always had a humorous sign of pool "rules" that must be abided too, especially no peeing in the pool. The best of times! Thanks.
Did you invite your gay friends over? 😂😂😂😂😂
Sorry, I'm not gay.
We had a sign that said "We don't swim in your toilet, please don't pee in our pool".
Love the channel
In the 60's my dad was in the Air Force & was stationed at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. There were two olympic sized pools to swim in on the base where we lived. They were so close you could ride your bike or walk to them from where you lived in the housing area.
We had the best of both. Swimming in a pool or going to the beach less than two miles away. Those were happy times.
Boy do I miss those innocent days!
We had a similar experience at Hickam AFB in Hawaii, as did my husband in Santa Rosa CA (but he wasn't a military kid and the beaches are cold there...LOL)
My dad was stationed there also {1965}. I attended Woodland Park Elementary (6th). Of all the bases we lived on it was by far my favorite. Myrtle Beach was awesome in that time period!
@@eddyclarkson164 Oh my goodness!!
We were there 1965-1968. I was in the 3rd to the 6th grade at Woodland Park. It was a great place & time to be a kid.
Now the base is gone & Myrtle Beach is so overbuilt. No more Pavilion or amusement park either. That's progress for you. It's so sad, so many good things just don't last.
I am thrilled to know that someone was there around the same time. Oh the memories!
Lake Erie was my swimming pool.
Lol🤣🤣🤣Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Long Lake and Holloway Dam area was mine.
Yup, I remember my best friend and I from boy scouts would sneak into this apartment complex and swim all day. It had one of those pools with the really rough bottom. I can remember going home with raw feet often. Also, the motel pools while in vacation were a must. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
Those heavy vinyl fringed umbrellas you had to crank up and down.
They were EVERYWHERE! Pools, beaches, backyards.
Wow that brings back so many memories but somehow melancholy now
There was a large pool and mini golf place near me called, “Cool Crest.” Mom would drop us off, give two dollars and twenty five cents, buck twenty five for the pool and a buck to spend at the snack bar. We would stay for several hours and we would be pretty water logged by the end of the time there, it was great. This was back in the middle to late 60s. The pool had a high dive, finally worked up the nerve to jump off of it.
Can’t do that anymore. With all the kidnapping & murders
@@catherinebreitfeller669 Nobody is interested in you Libtard, FAKE COMMENTS, and your GASLIGHTING, "conspiracy theories', from your burned out, Wokeness.
@@catherinebreitfeller669 when I got my first bike, 1962, I rode that thing all over the place, I was taught the rules of the road and that kept me safe. Those were carefree summers and days.
@@catherinebreitfeller669 No
more of those today. Just media.
Being five minutes to the hotel that had a swimming pool, while travelling was agonizing . We would be begging our mom to put our swim suits on as soon as Dad pulled off the exit. He'd pull into check-in to get the key and we'd still be begging to dart to the pool as soon as he opened the hotel door. lol We must have drove our parents nuts! You never saw kids unzip suitcases so fast and grab a towel from the bathroom lol You always hoped there would be other kids to play with. The parents would talk to the other parents "where are you headed?" The local swim parks were always fun, too! Good memories!
Spotted one celebrity, that was a surprise!
Right?! I think I spotted Burt Reynolds at around 6:50? Not sure If that’s who you’re referring to though.🚀✨🚀✨🚀
@@angeldesigns1385 I think Willie Mays was the cool cat in white and I saw Burt also or it was his twin.
Yes that is Burt Reynolds 😉
@@pegs1659 Nobody is interested in you Libtard, FAKE COMMENTS, and your GASLIGHTING, "conspiracy theories', from your burned out, Wokeness.
@@pegs1659 i wasn’t exactly sure who that was, but you can tell he was a “somebody” that didn’t look like a typical random photo. 🚀✨🚀✨🚀
Certain songs always trigger old memories of being at the public pool.
Yes, me too! Too many to mention but l remember the songs playing through a loud speaker at our local park pool. One that comes to mind is Down Town by Petula Clark. Such wonderful memories.🤗
🎶 Uh oh, it's magic
when I'm with you. 🎶
Hows about "Big Girls Don't Cry" by the Four Seasons?
The Hollies song Long Cool Woman
I Get Around….Beach Boys.
It was very interesting to study the people and what they wore. No one was wearing a piece of clothing with a brand name across it. Many pools had no safety fence around them. Instead of looking at cellphones, people looked at EACH OTHER and played group games. There were VERY few fatties fatting around.
Not as many fast food places, and the portions were not "super-sized".
What a great topic!! And I love the variety of pictures
Pool days, pool days, dear old golden pool days.........we had a pool put in in '58, the first one on our block, and it was the neighborhood draw for years. The smell of chlorine, wet diving masks and swim fins, kids cavorting in the high waves (high for US, back then), diving for plastic coasters in the deep end. Dad would be at the grill, whipping up some mouth-watering greasy burgers and 'dogs. Wait half an hour after you eat to go back in! Don't run on the deck! Once in a while some kid would run and slip on the deck, there would be tears but the comforting arms of mom would be ready. And the cute girl down the street in her bikini.......
We paid for it by us kids having to keep the pool chlorinated, vacuumed, and skimming those pesky leaves out year round. Last swim was probably the summer of '92, by which time we were all married and having our spouses over, shortly before Dad passed.
Great times , we have a very similiar situation, but in the early 60's , and me being the only boy , inherited the job of keeping the pool chlorinated , and clean . I'm not complaining because of all the girls and parties we had were well worth the effort I put in . Those were some of the best times I , my family , relatives and neighbors and friends ever had !!! Thanks for the memories !!
Thats a great story. Puts you right back into that feeling.....of great days gone by
Love the picture of Burt Reynolds lounging in the pool : )
Thanks RR👍😊
As always, great work! Keep it up.
So many great flashbacks!!
Thanks😉👍
In the days before diving boards were dangerous…
In the days before everything became dangerous. I'm glad I lived life in the fast lane.
No seat belts, bike helmets or knee pads, drinking water from a garden hose and jumping off the high dive. Good times, "Good Vibrations" good days, good memories.
The diving boards are not as high as back then, also.
I see even Burt Reynolds liked swimming at the pool in the 60’s.
yes where was lonnie anderson lol spending bert dollars lol
He looked great!
@@scrappyjunk8793 Waaaay before Lonnie.
@@tearosy lol
He looks a lot better without the moustache.
In my hometown of Allston and Brighton (city of Boston) our community pool is in the same recreation building as our ice skating rink. I wish we had a diving board.
We walked about a mile to get to “ Big Pool”. It was a nickel admission. We went all summer
The sales genius who decided to add a pool to motels should have a national holiday in their honor. Throw in the marketing wizard who came up with "free HBO" also.
Wonderful memories
I remember those days very well. Many many years ago.
I think it would be amazing to go to this time. I being born in the 80's see reminders of my past in this video just slightly different. Great memories of jumping off a diving board and being in a community. Today there arent many people in a pool and diving boards are all gone.
One thing I want to add that I notice in this video is that there are really no obese people. People ate more healthy back then, food was not contaminated with sugar alcohols, and other chemicals like today.
People also were move lively. They were out more, played more, explored more. They were not consumed or held back home or on a device like with what the Start of Nintendo or Internet did.
I am skinny as a rail always have. I just hate how industries have contaminated food, technology has made many lazy and corrupted minds with desire instant gratification and dopamine cravings.
I can bet 100% many want to go back to this lifestyle. 1980's or before. The 60's look really fun. HEY DOC BROWN? WHERE'S YOUR TIME MACHINE!!??
Yeah, people always say this, but I sure remember obese people back then AND many many more cigarette smokers. More than one woman in my family died early from lung cancer because she sucked on cigarettes instead of eating a meal. Even my family doc would walk in with a cigarette in his hand every time we had to see him as kids. But it was certainly true that fast food wasn't something we did every day, it was a treat when my mom didn't want to cook after she began to work part time and usually on a Friday night. I'm a retiree now. I hate telephones, always have, and make it a point to leave my place without it most of the time. At my age, I can actually pretty much live like both my grandmothers did (neither of whom could drive) by walking to the grocery, post office, doc, dentist or hop a bus to the mall if I choose to. I signed my 15-year-old car over to my grandnephew and don't miss the damn thing at all. Lol. Would be great to see people of all ages get outdoors and take a break from technology.
These 2 comments bummed me right out. Wish I had not looked at either one.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa My apologies. It is not the intent of making anyone feel bummed out. It is meant to open our eyes on how technology and the food industry has harmed people. It is not anyone's fault. The 60's showed that people were much happier, enjoyed life more. It is something we all need to do more.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa Lol.
Summer just wouldn't be the same without a dip in a pool. 🏖️
My best memories of swimming in the 60's were at the community pool in Reseda Park, California. Best of times !
WOW DEE DEE, I WENT TO RESEDA PARK. I LIVED IN NORTHRIDGE. GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL. HOORUH
My dad worked at NCR (anybody remember cash registers?) in Dayton, Ohio, which actually had for its employees two big concrete pools, food for sale, and a shady park outside that area including a lagoon full of huge carp, boats you could ride, giant checkers and checkerboards and other games and a meandering walkway. Dad made us take swimming lessons there (probably free or nearly free for us). Anyway, all gone now of course, since NCR moved out years ago. You can see the pools for yourself if you google something like "NCR Old River Recreation Park" or something similar. Of course, we didn't go daily but always had at least a small blowup pool in the backyard or somebody's sprinkler to run through. The neighborhoods were loaded with kids of all ages back in the day. I sure don't see kids much these days outdoors playing like we did, which I find sad.
The smell of summer for me is the lilacs
I was 3. At the most. 😉😁 Still remember pool trips in the 70's though.
Brings back many good memories!
I love all your videos but especially this one! I am an Artist and I paint swimming pools with people diving off a board ot going down a slide. I grew up in the late 60's at a Country Club. I was on the swim team! I also paint oceans and lakes! I have a love for water! Lol! In one scene the women were playing backgammon that reminded me of my Mom and her best friend, they loved backgammon.
We used to go to the outdoor Lincoln Park Pool in West Seattle in the mid 60's. It was and still is to this day an outdoor saltwater pool. There was and I believe still an indoor pool as well. Fun video!!
In the late 60s after we came to Fort Worth, Texas, Dad soon hired on at General Dynamics (known as"GD" at the time, now Lockheed) on the West Side. One of the perks was use of the company rec center, which was and is on Bryant Irvin Road, I think. Before we had our own pool built in the mid 70s, we used the GD Center's pools (until Dad was laid off, and hired on at the FAA). I was often in the children's pool supervised by Mom or my older sister. But I got to spend time in the main pool also. I was in my life jacket for the main pool. When I was 8 1/2, I took swimming lessons from Red Cross volunteers. A friend I went to school with had a built-in pool at home. His parents lent their pool to the Red Cross volunteers. This made the summer of 72 quite special. My sister was often assigned the task of driving me over to my friend's house in West Fort Worth for the lessons, and the radio in the 67 Ford had hits like "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond playing, or "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone, "Saturday In The Park" by Chicago, later "Black And White" by Three Dog Night. I was never an Olympic champion, but I did become a competent swimmer, at least. I don't use the glorified wading pool in our apartment community. Management has to shut it down constantly because residents contaminate the water. I'm sure enough people have peed in the pool as well.
We didn’t have pools but we did have ponds, lakes and creeks with rope swings over the water.
Swimming pools are great, but being in a pond and having the fish swim past your legs brushing against them is an experience hahaha
Pool, or a pond. Pond would be good for you.
I can’t stand to swim in ponds or lakes, because I can’t see through the murkiness to see what else is in the water. 😬
@@EYE_GOTCHA You possibly never have been in Higgins Lake in Michigan. Crystal clear.
Sorry, I don’t disagree, but that’s not the point of this video.
Spent my summers in my apartment building pool in the 90s and had to get a house with a pool as an adult. Just love relaxing in water and now my 4 yr old son is obsessed too!
The high dive board is no longer at swimming pool, because of liability reasons. I love swimming in the pool, lake, or river, deep enough enough for diving. 😅
I searched and searched high and low to find an obese person or a cell phone but could NOT find either, what a great time to be alive especially with all the pools that had diving boards, those are a thing of the past
I grew up in a pool spent my time from 65 to 73 swimming on the swim team AAU. Would walk to the pool about a mile but spend all day swimming. We’d throw out a big blanket get our Jell-O powder dip our fingers in it and lick. The Lifeguards would blast the music and yell at us for running on the pool deck. Sometimes we get a free movie pass from one of the local businesses nearby and get into the matinee movie Theater on Saturdays. The theater was within walking distance of the pool. Great times wish I could go back and relive it.
Whenever we went on vacation, it was a must to stay at a motel with a pool. If we didn't, I was a miserable little cuss. If we did, my parents would not see me until the pool closed at 9:00 pm. Sometimes, even later. If there was a girl there around my age, I would push the limits for sure.
If there was a girl there around my age in a full wetsuit, my parents would have to leave me behind after checking out.
Great memories
Everyday we'd ride our bikes to the pool, (Pratt, Kansas) gosh what wonderful memories! We would swim so long and hard (play) that I'd hardly have enough energy to ride home! I miss those days...
Wow - NO FENCES around some of those pools. Nowadays, some people have fences around the pool itself even if they have a fenced yard.
Many places it's a code requirement.
@@timmmahhhh not only is a fence required,but it must be locked.
willie mays and burt reynolds? awesome compilation, man those memories.... i was 5 when then 60s began,
My Mother remarried in 65. I was in 5th grade and got a sylvan pool and bathouse. We had parties constantly at the pool. It was a dream!
Here in Australia many of our small rural towns still have public open air pools run by the local council. Open during our summer November - end of March.
Very good 1960's summertime at the pool video!!
Summers at springs off the Suwannee River!!!
I was born in 1960 and lived 2 blocks from the city pool. We had season passes and i was there almost every day in the summer. Swimming lessons every year so morning and afternoon and sometimes in the evenings.
Those were the good old days.
Thanks for sharing! My Mom was born in 1954, and she told me her brother and cousins and her spent as much time as they could at the pool.👍
Now we've got all these lounge chairs by hotel pools and you're not allowed to splash! LMAO!
black and white photo near the end is Burt Reynolds
I was too young to go to the pool in the 60s but man I sure remember going to the public pools in my hometown in the 70's, so much fun and memories, and going on camping trips out of state to the lake with my wonderful neighbors, GREAT TIMES I will never forget. My hometown once had 3 public pools, they're all closed now
My Michigan hometown had a public pool with a low dive and high dive with 12 ft deep end. No longer there. Last time I was at Tucker Pool was with my nephews and daughter in 2008. Still had the low diving board. High dive was gone.🙁
The high school down the street, the one I ended up graduating from, used to have open swim nights on Friday's. I spent a lot of time in those pools. I recently read a coming of age book about a teenager growing up in my neighborhood set in the same timeframe as when I was kid, the late 60s, early 70s. In that story, the main character attends that school and gets tossed into those pools but he couldn't swim and had to be fished out by the gym coach. That part of the book really brought home memories for me, but I was a good swimmer and I loved those open swim nights. The school is gone now, but the memories live on.
The best pool my family went to was Pickwick Pool near Disney Studios in Burbank California. Large circler pool with a diving island with low and high boards in the middle. You could rent rafts, inner tubes, and towels. When it was really full they would open up both sides of the pool. Only saw that twice. So much fun.
A pool was located at the elementary school in my neighborhood with a lifeguard, it was 15 cents to get in. On occasion my mother would bike ride with us to the pool but usually we go by ourselves with friends, fun times. 🏊
It was great. As a kid through all of the 60-s (born in 1959.) When pools had diving boards.
I was born in 1969 and this is relatable of growing up in the 70s and 80s. Another type of public swimming areas that were created were man made lakes or dams. Usually they were State Park projects from earlier decades. Usually a sand filled beach area was adjacent to the water, also picnic areas with tables and grills.
Growing up in the sixties the neighborhood kids would walk to the public pool with our lunches, we would go for swimming lessons then eat our lunch in the park. After they had two sessions first the boys then the girls session. Oh yea and we had to wear bathing caps.😆 The county pool was much more fun with concessions and music and no bathing caps and you could swim with the boys. Either way they were great times!
Where I lived in Florida in those days, most homes, including ours had a pool. Usually they were enclosed with large screened enclosures to keep the bugs out. It was usually after getting out of the pool and going into the house, freezing from the air conditioning.
Summertime was spent at the neighbor's pool and the lakes in mid Michigan to swim in. TY Mr. and Mrs. Summerfield for opening your family pool to all the neighborhood kids way back in the late 60's, early 70's in Flushing Michigan. Great memory.
Wow!!! No FATTIES! Back before fast food took over America! Lol
We had a pool growing up in the 60s/70s, those were the days, always lots of family and friends over, lots of pool parties.
During the summer of 1967, I met a female lifeguard, at the local community swimming pool, who changed my life forever.
I was five years old at the time
He name is Jackie.
Jackie taught me unconditional love.
Jackie would let me hang around with her during her breaks.
Jackie invited me to her house.
Her parents were very nice to me.
Jackie was an only child and she thought of me as a little brother.
I only saw Jackie that summer.
Her family moved out of town.
I never saw Jackie again.
I'll always remember Jackie and what she taught me, unconditional love.
Damn dude, for a minute I thought you were going to marry her and have tons of kids..
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Pervert.
@@bobsebring3377
You need to get a life, Chester the Child Molester.
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Jealous?
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How old are you, four?
I was born 8/5/68 on road trips in the 70,s this is still what it looked like i loved the pools although it all was about 13 years past but still a great time for me :) the pools were clean and the rooms :)
Loved this video
"VACATIONS" AND STAYING AT A "TRAVELODGE" WITH A "SWIMMING POOL"... "A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN"🥰
A much more calmer time.........
.....and more civilized.
Our town had several public pools in parks. We LIVED there during the summers, and the pools were packed from opening until closing.
Those generations had paradise on earth and they gave it up with both hands. What a shame.
Very cool!!!
Ned Merrill really liked the neighborhood backyard pools.
I learned how to swim in deep water,when someone pushed me in the 8ft. section,we would bring 2 pairs of trunksto have a dry pair for the 1 hr. segments,spent many summers having fun. and cooling off,putting our spare change in our socks for snacks and a soda afterwards it was great being a kid having summers off.
Man that is a massive pool at 2:29.
I was trying to figure out if it looked huge because of the camera angle. I've never seen a pool that large!
Yes! Came here to see if anyone knows where that was.
@@woodyhaney same reason why I commented I'm hoping somebody knows.
Wow awesome! Notice how huge some of those pools are! Also noticed how none of the people were overweight. My have times changed thanks fast food.
I grew up with an inground pool in our back yard, I still love the smell of chlorine!
Back in the 1960s and when my mom and dad my brother and older sister and I were living in Erie Pennsylvania, we had a swimming pool in our backyard. And in 1968, we visited grandma vi and grandpa Leo and they had a swimming pool too in San Diego California .
The highlight of going to see my grandparents( in the south) was the community swimming pool! The city closed it because of segregation! I did not understand this at all being a child from a large northern city! What a shame it was, Everyone lost!!!
Desegregation would have brought the crime we see now-they were right to close it rather than have that happen. We had things close too. You can’t have anything safe and nice now unless it’s your own.