Yes, climbing crumbly sandstone 50ft sea cliffs. Getting around on a raft made of pallets and old fuel drums in the local swamp. Catchings snakes, frogs and big water dragon lizards. Playing with plastic army men, and disappearing on my BMX bike all day. Blowing up fireworks. We had it pretty good and survived.
Nowadays kids can just google how to make a bomb, and then have the chemicals delivered to their door. Not so back when I was young. We had to be creative.
Loved my childhood. Up in the morning, a quick bowl of Kaboom 🤡, and out the door until dinner. The only time you’d catch us inside was when we were having Electric Football tournaments. Even in the winter, it was building igloos against the huge oak trees, and having massive snowball fights. My son will never get to experience the freedoms of my childhood, but I sure enjoy telling him about it (not so sure he enjoys the listening though).
Indeed, that one for the AIDS drug where it shows a couple of men in a romantic kiss is enough to gag me, I hate that! Do what you will in your home but don't advertise it on TV!
I remember my mother mentioning once the pharmaceutical ads started that we will never see the end of them. More diagnoses mean more drugs and more money. Hopefully RFK can do something about it.
Also a '55 model, admitted there were some bad things, but also we had a lot of things more right back then, than they do today. Believe me, the thought of a board across my butt changed my mind on a lot of good ideas I had back then, and if you got hurt playing, just suck it up and keep going.
As a Medicare card carrying Boomer I also recall flying model airplanes at the local park (banned in the '80s), not having to get past the "safety seal" on practically every product, riding my bike without a helmet, walking right to the gate at the airport, and all of us kids walking to school alone - even to kindergarten!
and the cops would be more likely to call your parents to come get you at the jail than lock you up. Also, the 18 year old drinking and smoking age was appropriate and should be reinstituted. Europe and Mexico drinks at 16 years for beer and 18 respectively. Our society has become over-regulated in the extreme. Now you get locked up for the stupidest thing and once in the criminal justice system your life is basically over. The process is the punishment. We need to go back to Church, God and freedom
I still burn my personal papers with any information in a burning barrel, they can't make it illegal to burn paper or wood even though they try to make you believe they can.
It was the golden age of the middle class made possible by the New Deal reforms of the Roosevelt Democrats. It was a wonderful time but since Reagan and trickle down economics the middle class disappeared. Happy Days are gone.
Well...probably not everyone made it out alive but, even though people should be more mindful and responsible, and they should be made aware of the good, the bad and the ugly, we shouldn't have the government regulating every nook and cranny of our lives. People should be allowed to make their own decisions and people should not live their life in fear. I was given the candy cigarettes....my mom even gave me a puff of her real cigarette when I was about 5. I almost choked to death but that might have been a good thing as I never became a smoker.
@@Piper7cub Yeah, the government doesn't regulate every nook and cranny of our lives and if not for some of those regulations corporations would still be dumping trash, people would still let their 3 year olds ride untethered in the front seat, and every restaurant would be a smoke-filled death trap. Allowing people to make their own decisions with no regard for the people around them or the environment is the reason why we have these regulations in the first place. As the saying goes, when you know better you should do better.
Today it is rare that I don't put my .45 in my holster before getting in my car for a trip even up town, back in the 60's I don't recall even seeing a hand gun except on the cops belt.
I miss it too. Kids back then had so much freedom. No one provided "entertainment" for me or my brothers and sisters. We made our own. Feels like everything is so restricted now.
We need to bring back corporal punishment. Considering how students are taking over the classrooms and kids are taking over homes these days. It's terrible.
and some of them actually broke a bone, lost an eye or even their life. No such thing as Megan's Law so the neighborhood creep actually penetrated a poor kid. 60s were a fun time.
As unregulated as things were, kids then grew up with more manners, respect, accountability, responsibility, and personality than kids of today. Movies like 'The Sandlot', 'Stand By Me, ' and even ' IT' say it all. We kids played together, helped each other, and stuck together.
Ah yes - when you watched movies such as Lord of the Flies and The Bad Seed didn't you get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside thinking about how kids behave? You're mentioning movies. They're just movies. They're not reality.
In the sixties, my dad would drive around the neighborhood and gather up my brother's Little League team and the whole team would ride to the field in the bed of the pick-up truck.
ya, We all ate peanut butter, even at school, parties and scout meetings. Us Girl Scouts sold peanut butter cookies, which was never a problem in the 60's. At least, it would have been so rare that nobody we knew ever heard of it.
Those were the days! Playing outside all day long and riding our bikes all over the city. Just had to be home in time for dinner. I’d love to go back. 5cent cokes and ice cream. Sweet times!
WOW!! do you have a channel? I surely would love to hear your wisdom my dear! CHEERS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS to a fellow boomer who misses the freedom of the olden days!
When we camped in the 60's . After packing up the tents , we would spend considerable time in "policing the camp" , picking up every scrap of paper , and doing our best to erase any evidence that we had been there . Throwing trash in the river would get you a belt whipping , I promise you .
Did we grow up in the same family? After all the camping garb was packed in the car; ...pick up every bit of trash, make sure little to no trace of our being there left behind!
I don't know what rivers and lakes they were showing but I didn't see that. However, I do remember Lady Bird getting everyone to stop throwing trash out of the car window. The highways were littered with trash and the campaign to clean up worked.
My mom would give me a note to take to the corner store, and it usually included cigarettes. There were also cigarette vending machines in places like bars and restaurants Where my dad worked had a cigarette vending machine in the employee lunchroom
@@jamesszalla4274 I remember in the 70s, our bus stop was near a police station. When it was cold or rainy we went inside where I bought my first packs of cigarettes from a vending machine there. They were 50 or 75 cents!
@@tgunn2034 My parents had me & my brother run in and buy cigarettes while they sat in the car outside of whatever gas station or store they drove to. Then we had to breathe in smoke in the car without a window open, if it was cold outside or raining. I didn’t like it then and still don’t like that as young kids we had to breathe this smoke.
@@shemp5858 I always believed that the best year to be born was 1939. You would have been too young for WW2 or Korea, and already done your draft hitch before Vietnam. You would have spent your teens in "Happy Days" with Fonzie. (People from that era described it as "great" and paradise, compared to the times since then.
Not so strange. Back then, kids were exposed to common bacteria and built up immunity. Today, everything is super sanitized. It's been proven farm kids are more healthy because they still get exposed to certain bacteria.
They actually spent hours playing outside, and involved in active activities. Most are connect to a computer, a console, or cellphone these days, instead of being physically active, and out and about with their friends.
That isn't true, seems like it, but in reality many children had health problems. Just the diseases alone had many children out of school frequently. Polio, measles, German measles, chicken pox, mumps, and more, everyone knew someone crippled from something. Classmates who died when you were in grade or high school. Hindsight has a habit of being through rose colored glasses.
More people = more regulation = more money to businesses and the government. A lot of these changes seem to be more about the money than actually protecting people. The percentage of people who were seriously hurt on a playground, riding in a car without a seatbelt, etc., was very low. The government banned an herb that was used in over the counter products. One, being allergy teas. When I would get a chronic cough after being sick, it was the only thing that would take my cough away - I tried every other pharmaceutical out there and nothing else worked. I read that less than 10 people were unalived by the product - it was also used for weight loss which was one of the main things this herb was used for and I'm guessing the people may have taken more than the recommended dose, but because of that, the government completely banned the herb. I'm guessing they banned it because it was an inexpensive treatment for a couple of things at least, and someone was losing money because of it.
@@jasonrodgers9063 Me too. Sad to see all that change. Kids nowadays have no manners, play video games all day, no interest, no socializing only on phone, etc. I miss good old days.
I grew up in the 60s.. Had a spoonful of malt every morning plus a boiled egg and toast. Had a teaspoon of cod liver oil when I was sick. Both parents smoked in the house and car. I was smacked when I did something wrong. I grew up to respect my parents and others.
We had a cod liver oil glass bottle in our GE frige with the small shoe box freezer AND right before leaving to walk to school, rain, sleek, snow or SW sunshine....we were give a teaspoon or tablespoon of the stuff.....Yuck LOL.
@BAM-jc7uy I also had to eat everything on my plate whether or not I liked it. Sometimes sat at the table for hours before Mum relented so I could wash and clean the kitchen.
@@roberte5057 when I was 8, I once sat for lunch for 3 hours with a grill cheese sandwich in front of me that I wouldn't eat..I think I was milk lactose intol because I never did like milk, cheese. etc until I hit 50. We too went all over in the car with camel, winston, pall mall smoke thick in the car and in winters windows rolled up...and i'm still breathing...yeah all the lunch dishes were waiting for me too to wash them after....nice meeting u. sayonara. LOL
“ALL” didn’t survive. And very bad things happened to some unfortunate kids. I know some of these ppl. Things happened that have affected them all their lives. The parents were mostly unavailable and never supervised kids-even at very young ages. I also lived this myself. It wasn’t safe, and it seems ridiculous to me now how little parents cared about our safety.
My MIL couldn’t get through a movie without running outside for a cigarette! She only died in an accident at age 80 and never had heart problems or breathing difficulties. I think somehow all the scotch she drank must have had a weird protective effect! LOL
The sixties were a GREAT TIME.. I was born in 1945, When I was 19, I took my bicycle to go from nottingham to stratford on avon, got bored so went to the south coast, youth hostelling, went from newhaven to dieppe, off to paris.... Everyone friendly, no problems.. .Came back a month later after earning some money selling the new york times,, Slept in railway station.. no problems.. a pub 40 miles from home gave me a lunch as no money left. I am so happy I was born when I was !!!
Dad had an old Ford sedan with no trunk lid, we put an old mattress in the back and we kids rode back there, we could shout and sing all we wanted and not bother our folks. It was fun till the rain came, then we had to get inside.
Government regulations do not make life better. They just restrict freedom and liberties. I wish my grandkids could grow up like I did. They would be stronger and more self sufficient for it.
@@CollinsWoundManagement I agree. We were free all day long to play outside, ride bikes, invent things, climb trees, walk to the store and so on. No one provided our entertainment. We grew up learning to think for ourselves and had no fear. It was a great time. Sadly lost.
I was in the trades until I retires and we all drank from the hose ,,,,, and I still do today. - If you carried a bottle of water, not too many years ago, you would have gotten laughed off the jobsite.
There were 2 different kinds of candy cigarettes. One was a chalky kind of hard candy that had a red tip. The other was bubble gum with powder on it wrapped in paper. When you blew through it, the powder would come out like smoke
@elultimo102 bubble gum cigar was a mouthful at first.. then it would shrink as the sweetner all dissolved. I remember them. Pastel green ones and pink ones in the huge Easter basket.
I must admit, smelling burning leaves in the Fall as a child was a smell that reminded me of happier days without a care in the world. You know a couple of minths later it would be Christmas
The 1960's were fun. I remember when my cousin fell from a slide and broke both arms. He couldn't do anything without help, eat, bath, go to the bathroom, etc. They also use to have coils with covers in the refrigerator where you kept the food. The coil covers were usually covered with frost so my cousin decided to lick the frost off the coil cover and ended up with his tongue stuck to the refrigerator. I also remember my mother walking me to kindergarten on the first day to show me where the school was but after that I was on my own for the next 13 years. Back then we walked to school but there was no cafateria so you walked to school, walked home for lunch, walked back to school and then walked home after school. The school was only a mile away and only one major highway to cross but the cars did not stop for pedestrians so you did have to look both ways before crossing all the streets.
Yeah, you hardly ever got any medical treatment for run of the mill accidents or diseases like measles or mumps. You'd just go to bed & mom would bring your meals to you if it was contagious. You'd have to be half dead before they'd take you to a Dr.
You lucky duck you could go home for lunch👍...I will always forever remember the smell of someone's boil egg or whatever in our closed classroom...which was also our lunch room. When we just happened to be out of Rainbow Bread for our lunch box sandwich, granny made a large square peanut butter "sandwich" with the large squares of cracker, and back then there were no sandwich baggies or saran wrap...waxed cut bread wrappers were re-cyled....I ate crumbs for lunch with a piece of fruit or whatever. I had to carry a green, thermos under the lid, lunch box that looked like a Santa Fe RR workers black lunch box. Later my sibs had square mint green lunch boxes plain or superman? LOL 😊
I’m a 71yo Veteran and a retired Corporate Pilot. I Remember Smoking 🚬 Cigarettes on Airplanes. When It All Changed it was Difficult For Everyone To Change With It. To be Fair I Truly Miss Those Days!! Political Correctness Truly Sucks. It was a lot easier to just be yourself. Now everyone is so picky about everything and anything. From my perspective the 1960’s were the best 10 years of my life.😊
@@marksamuelsen2750 I'm 7 years your Jr but yeah, all of that. Instantaneous communication destroyed normal. People these days have to listen to others opinions before forming their own. It's safer that way to hear or read the feelings of everyone else, then just agree with the majority. You can't be retaliated against if you agree. Forming a non conforming thought all by yourself is dangerous these days.
@@randywl8925 Im 66 yrs old. Old school all the way. And Im not changing that. I am who the LORD made. I dont fit in, people dont like me, and I dont give a damn. I wont FAKE who I am!
I was born in the 70s and remember going to the corner store when I was 10 buying cigarettes "For My Mom"😂. Back then the store sold 6 packs of soft drinks in glass bottles. You could return the empty bottles for 10 cents each and cigarettes were a 1.00 per pack. So all you needed was (2) 6 packs of empty bottles for a pack of cigarettes.
I was born in 47 and it was 2cents per bottle and 25cents a pack and Saturday matinee movie was 35cents or 18 returned bottles. McDonald's started with a burger, fries, and a soda 35cents. I played with Mercury quite often and I'm 77 now.
My dad used to send me to the store down the street with a quarter to get him a pack of Kents. I think pop bottles were 2 cents where I lived too. One time my older brother got one of his cigs from the ashtray and puffed it. Dad made him smoke a whole cig...really smoke it. I do not think he ever touched one again.
Growing up we burnt our trash in upstate n.y. Normal . At 55 yrs young i still burn my paper in the fireplace here in commifornia. Inhave no trash service by choice.
You mean that discipling in schools is not allowed? No wonder the conditions in the classrooms is the way it is. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is never outdated and has proved so for many years.
At 17 I was lined up outside the principals office for some wicked thing I had done. When told to bend over, I said the what was proposed was assault and that I would defend myself. Since I was taller and fitter than he was, the punishment never happened, much to my chagrin. The principal was an idiot and was later sacked.
I grew up in the 50-60's and remember all these things! I think a few brain cells have gone away in kids of today! They don't have the same common sense that we did back then! We had to think through a lot of things for ourselves in those days! Kids today don't have a clue! IMO!😊❤
Riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck wile standing and holding on to his ladder racks. Riding a snow sled being pulled by a car. Going for a ride on the outside of the car.
When we rode home to albuquerque from visiting Gr-grandma Nonny in Peralta, and it was raining...and we were in the back of the 40's pick-up we were covered with layers of old quilts or horse blankets??
Part of the fun when we played lawn darts was to purposely stand as close to the ring as possible while the other player(s) threw the darts. You had a split second to decide to stand there when the dart hit three inches from your shoe, or to jump out of the way to avoid possibly being hit.
I grew up in the 60's and am still alive at 68 today. All those things couldn't have been that bad for you if I made it. It was a way of thinning the herd, keeping undesirable genes out of the gene pool. This video didn't scratch the surface of the crazy things we did. It toughened you up, preparing you for life. "What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh I know !! My step daughter said our parents just about abused & neglected us as kids! Her dad & I just laugh. Told her NO ! The mom & dad Long with step dad never hesitated on the spank either ! They lived. Now the daughter,'s kiddos.. lol..another story there!!
All that dangerous air and toys ,,,, but I got old enough to pass the physicals when I got drafted and end up in Tuy Hoa for the ;68 TET offensive. = Somebody is FOS here. And tomorrow is my 78th birthday ,,,,I'm going out and get knee walking drunl and smoke a big cigar. The wokies are sure missing the point.
LOL! I was born in 62 and i miss not having marry-go-rounds for the kids these days, drive in theaters were the best, and yeah, i must have smoked a ton of candy sigs. 😂🤣
I remember bubble gum machines. If you were lucky you would win a prize that would be encased in a plastic. One of the prizes was this thing called "Smokey Joe" It was a small plastic skull with a cigarette included. You were supposed to light it up and it would supposedly produce tiny smoke rings. I never won one of those things but I kept trying. By today's standards this would be wrong on so many levels. (Promoting cigarettes and pyromania) Crazy, funny, wonderful times !!
Obviously the banning of CFCs, smoking in planes, wearing seatbelts etc. are good developments, but I mourn some of the other things which have been taken away and make life really boring for today's kids. Those were times when we went off to play without adults around, dared ourselves on adventurous playground equipment, learned lessons by making mistakes, and realized that bad behaviour has consequences - so much freedom then that we enjoyed, and we grew up learning to take responsibility for ourselves.
I once fell while playing on the merry go round in the school yard when school was not in session, tore all the skin off both knees before I had enough sense to let go.
Incidents of problems resulting from unsupervised trick or treat were all but non-existent. The few there were mostly faked. Equally trouble free was so-called free for all swimming. Kids learned to look out for themselves, a trait not common today.
I remember going trick or treating as a little kid. Little kids back then in the 60s could go out at night unsupervised by adults and could feel safe. There were never any incidents about kids being attacked or poisoned with candy. Back then everyone looked after one another. Kids were safe out on the streets at night.
@@CFFiedler I was born in the 40s and also remember no plastic in the 50s except for a few kids that had plastic lunch box. I remember the thrill of getting a new small plastic wallet for my weekly bus ticket! Late 50s I had a plastic drink bottle. We are 'drowning' in plastic nowadays! (Australia)
I'm much younger, but love items from the 40s, 50's and 60's ... food containers were still glass, but a lot of plastics were created for/during WWII , so in the after war years, plastic because used for lots of this .. kids toys, dolls, jewelry, decor, containers, melamine dinnerware and serving pieces, curtains, doilies, fake flowers, tupperware, christmas ornaments, buttons, purses, they make have had out plastic wrap for food. but yeah, it may just be that your family didn't have much plastic
That's true, plastic wasn't a thing till after the 80s. Remember glass soda bottles and paper grocery bags? Ketchup and mayo and things like that were in glass jars. Most things were packaged in glass, metal or paper. Remember metal lunch boxes? Glass baby bottles etc? Glass aspirin bottles etc. People forget that everything wasn't wrapped in plastic like today. Microwaves were not a thing back then either. Everything was cooked on the stove or in the oven. TV dinners used to be in foil packages to slide in the oven.
Halloween in the 60s was awesome. My brother, cousins and friends and I had fabulous times running loose in our small town trick or treating. Would I have let my daughter do the same thing in the 90s? Are you out of your mind? Everything had changed by then!
there were houses and neighborhood who gave either handfulls of penny candy or real 5 and 10 cents candy bars Or just one piece of penny candy...we knew our houses and we trekked to the more affluent neighborhoods with our masks and pillowcases and homemade costumes...just be home by 9:30-10.
Three years in a row had 4 real Acme thick paper shopping bags filled from top to bottom with the best candy. Parents were dipping into it for weeks after. Made 6 trips home to dump it then went out again. 4th 5th and 6th grade had to be back at 12 midnight. Real candy bars 6 inches long.
I don't know if anyone else remembers something like a three floored metal tower that had to be put together with nuts and bolts. It even came with a pull up ladder. I can't remember if the ladder was metal or rope. My neighbor down the street had one of these kids towers set up in his backyard. As a kid of 8 to 10 years old, I remember this tower being pretty tall. Anyway, the neighborhood boys were on the top level of this tower. Being "little sister" and to "prove my prowess" as a Tomboy, I wanted to get up there too. But, the boys pulled the ladder up, so I couldn't use it. I thought "well, I'll just scale up the outside of the tower" climbing up the metal bars that zig zaged across the tower. As I reached the outside top tier, hanging on by my outstretched arms, they began to tickle me under the arms. Well, I was quite high off the ground and started screaming for help. A neighbor across the street (one of the neighborhood fathers) saw and heard me, but he did nothing to help me. But, in his defense he probably didn't know if my screaming was real or just playing. Anyway, the boys tickled me so much that I couldn't hold on and I fell all the way to the ground. Somewhere on the way down I either hit something or the impact from hitting the ground, caused me to cut the top of my tongue pretty good. I went home crying and had a sore tongue while the rest of my family (including my older brother who had tickled me and made me fall) all went outside and had a picnic dinner in our backyard as I lay in bed with a sliced tongue. I think it was called a Tangle Tower... anyone else remember something like this tower for kids back in the late 60's, early 70's? I tell you what, you had to be tough as a kid back then to take the punches as they came! And yes as I was born in '59, I don't ever recall ever having to use any seatbelts while driving around with your parents. In fact my two brothers and I would use the no seatbelt freedom of the back seat to shove each other against the car doors as we went around the curves. And not only did we drink out of unfiltered tap water faucets, we would always drink from the garden hose just lying in the yard as we were too busy playing to go inside to get a drink! Growing up in the 60's and 70's was great!!!
When I was in junior high school (early 1970's) a misbehaving kid was given the choice of a "lick" from wood shop teacher "Mr. Z's" paddle, or a principal's phone call to their parents! I NEVER heard of ANY kid choosing the phone call!
69 here. Standing up in the backseat ( no seatbelts ) while my mom drove. All the kids in our neighborhood out playing all day until our Mothers started calling for their kids to come home for dinner. 😊
I was a full adult when I had my first airline flight. It was at the tail end of smoking being allowed on planes. They had "smoking" & "non-smoking" sections. In a sealed fuselage, it was exactly the same as swimming pools having "peeing" and "non-peeing" sections! !!!
my uncle was raceing the car and the car jump up in the air going down hill ,and me and my little brother with no seat belt on lol we thought that was so much fun , never even though we was in danger
I grew up in the 1960’s and played outside all summer long! Kids then had ample exercise and now kids stay home and play games inside. This contributes to childhood obesity and maybe are terrified going out and playing with strangers. Lack of exercise contributes to obesity as well. Yes, many things that were unregulated then were banned but all in all, it was a healthier time. We had home cooked meals and fast food packed with empty calories is widely accepted today. Every generation has its problems and I appreciate not being exposed to cigarette smoking in public places and leaded gasoline but health dangers in today’s society are prevalent.
Here in South Dakota the play never stopped in the Winter months, we just wore parka's and mittons. I used to love ice skating, our town had 2 rinks one on the east side and one on the west. They had warming shacks and benches where you could sit down and put on your ice skates. I got a pair of rubber guards so I could walk to the rink in my skates but I learned very quickly that walking in ice skates even with rubbers on them made your ankles hurt like hell in a block or two.
I’m in Australia and one of our favourite things to do was go to the rubbish dump. On a Saturday afternoon we’d go on our Bikes and scrounge through the rubbish. We’d come home with all sorts of ‘treasures’. Mind you, Mum wasn’t too happy with some of our finds 😆
Science was behind what was common practice and danger lurked in many places but it did create kids that learned their limits or suffered the consequences and then accepted our limits. We delt with our own problems, learned who we could trust and who we couldn't, explored various versions of who we could be without adult interface. We truly learned to be independent and self sufficient if only for a while. This is sadly missing in today's world. We were actually living in a kid world (usually from breakfast until the streetlights came on) that gave us first hand practice for things we would later deal with as adults. Better to make mistakes and learn at 8 than to make them in an adult world at 18.
This was so sad, I forgot how much fun life USED to be. Oh ya, and corporal punishment works by the way, look at how bad, in general, kids are today compared to then. We respected adults, not much of that anymore.
There were TV ads for cigarettes that recommended donating "gift cartons" to veterans' hospitals. I also saw ads with Santa recommending cartons of cigarettes (brightly wrapped, of course!) as Christmas gifts.
I was born in 1955 , and my parents would send me to candy store with a note and money to buy their cigarettes. Went to store 12 years old buy 22 rifle with my dad . Church gave kids with perfect attendance a pocket knife, I carried it to school in my pocket. Never bothered anyone with the rifle or knife. We were taught respect and honesty. We played outside all day , kids were healthy, didnt have fast food , no computer games , no tv all day , no cell phones , neighborhood was tight -knit all parents looked out for everyones kids , if you was doing something wrong your friends parent would correct you . America needs Bible study back in schools and prayer.
To All the Kids that Survived the 1940's, 50's, 60's, and 70's! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking_ As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We could leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we actually learned to solve the problem. We didn't have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all and no 2999 channels on cable, no video tape movies, DVD, etc., no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms or social media. . .WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If you are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
I have never had a problem with tap water either. At work they always use bottled water. I think they consider it more convenient than a cup around the computers. It's disgusting, especially because we have a hot & cold filtered water machine. With bottled water the environmental consequence is very real. Half the time the workers take a few sips and throw it out. A waste of money and a waste period.
Here in Louisville KY we are blessed to have the BEST quality tap water in the USA (consistently wins taste test competitions). They even began a marketing campaign for it- "Louisville Pure Tap"!
Not only did we have candy cigarettes, but in the early 1950s my sister had a toy iron that plugged in and got hot. I managed to burn a miniature sole-plate pattern into the linoleum on our bedroom floor.
I had a real mini sewing machine and wound up sewing my great aunt's antique lace tablecloth together. My mom got so upset about me doing that but my great aunt told her to "leave me alone, that was why they invented seam rippers" I was the first girl after about 15 boys in the family so my mother said I was super spoiled and could get away with anything.
I been drinking since I was 18. How come my 78th birthday is tomorrow and I'm still here and going to bar and get knee walking drunk, and smoke a big cigar. - Tee Totalers make me sick but Whiskey makes me smile.
I loved those candy cig's It never made me want to smoke. They were just part of make believe. No harm no foul! We had imagination in those days. Today's kids have video games. No thought required.
The 60S 70S and 80S where the best time of our life's way much more FUN AND LOVE ALONG WITH THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 🙏 SO MUCH BETTER BACK THEN THAT'S WHEN LIFE WAS LIFE 😊😊
I remember those little ashtrays in the arm rest of the plane seat....There was that commercial when they threw garbage in the lake. "Where does it go? Away." 🤣.... Our principal had the strap! We used to put a hair on our hand so it would draw blood when he strapped the hand. 🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in the 60. Played outside all day. Went swimming without supervision. All this was true. The best years of my life.
Yes, climbing crumbly sandstone 50ft sea cliffs. Getting around on a raft made of pallets and old fuel drums in the local swamp. Catchings snakes, frogs and big water dragon lizards. Playing with plastic army men, and disappearing on my BMX bike all day. Blowing up fireworks. We had it pretty good and survived.
Nowadays kids can just google how to make a bomb, and then have the chemicals delivered to their door. Not so back when I was young. We had to be creative.
Try it sport.
See if you don't get a visitor you weren't expecting. @@joanfrellburg4901
@@erlindatorres2848 I remember those days. Being a child in the 60's, 70's and early 80's was a good 😊 time.
Loved my childhood. Up in the morning, a quick bowl of Kaboom 🤡, and out the door until dinner. The only time you’d catch us inside was when we were having Electric Football tournaments. Even in the winter, it was building igloos against the huge oak trees, and having massive snowball fights. My son will never get to experience the freedoms of my childhood, but I sure enjoy telling him about it (not so sure he enjoys the listening though).
I'd like to see them ban ads for prescription medications on TV!
I'm with you on this one. This should be between you and your doctor.
@@ferociousgumby They're NOT going to get rid of that , too much $$ to b made off drugs.
Indeed, that one for the AIDS drug where it shows a couple of men in a romantic kiss is enough to gag me, I hate that! Do what you will in your home but don't advertise it on TV!
I remember my mother mentioning once the pharmaceutical ads started that we will never see the end of them. More diagnoses mean more drugs and more money. Hopefully RFK can do something about it.
Just move outside the USA
Born in 1955.wonderful time.children had manners and behaved.
Or you got that wooden butt wsrmer...lol
All the children I know have manners and are well behaved
Also a '55 model, admitted there were some bad things, but also we had a lot of things more right back then, than they do today. Believe me, the thought of a board across my butt changed my mind on a lot of good ideas I had back then, and if you got hurt playing, just suck it up and keep going.
I think we enjoyed the best times the world has ever seen at least so far. 1954, 70 now.
Yep I remember. Children were to be seen and not heard at gatherings. We were all fine with it.
As a Medicare card carrying Boomer I also recall flying model airplanes at the local park (banned in the '80s), not having to get past the "safety seal" on practically every product, riding my bike without a helmet, walking right to the gate at the airport, and all of us kids walking to school alone - even to kindergarten!
We were so free we didn't even think about it. We felt restricted when we had to come for supper frequently after dark.
I walked to school starting in kindergarten it was a long walk too
I still have a scar on my foot from the marry go round that was on the school play ground
In Holland I still do all these things
@@Neshek023 How old are you if you are walking to kindergarten by yourself?
We weren't all on antidepressents, and had respect for our parents.
Respect to all elders.
Yep, while the elders molested kids and everybody knew it and allowed it. Kids and women were treated like property.
and the cops would be more likely to call your parents to come get you at the jail than lock you up. Also, the 18 year old drinking and smoking age was appropriate and should be reinstituted. Europe and Mexico drinks at 16 years for beer and 18 respectively. Our society has become over-regulated in the extreme. Now you get locked up for the stupidest thing and once in the criminal justice system your life is basically over. The process is the punishment. We need to go back to Church, God and freedom
@@Raelven only the woman were on antidepressants in the 60s
@@Raelven yeah cause anyone with mental health issues were bought into an asylum and abandoned
Pretty hard for someone to steal your identity when there was no internet and you burned all of your mail and personal papers in your burn barrel.
We had an incinerator in the backyard.
I still burn my personal papers with any information in a burning barrel, they can't make it illegal to burn paper or wood even though they try to make you believe they can.
We all still burn our trash. That's how rural folk do.
@@woods840we do too.
We still burn most of our old bills and personal stuff!
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Best times and music. We all made it out alive 😂😂. Thanks for the memories
It was the golden age of the middle class made possible by the New Deal reforms of the Roosevelt Democrats. It was a wonderful time but since Reagan and trickle down economics the middle class disappeared. Happy Days are gone.
Well...probably not everyone made it out alive but, even though people should be more mindful and responsible, and they should be made aware of the good, the bad and the ugly, we shouldn't have the government regulating every nook and cranny of our lives. People should be allowed to make their own decisions and people should not live their life in fear. I was given the candy cigarettes....my mom even gave me a puff of her real cigarette when I was about 5. I almost choked to death but that might have been a good thing as I never became a smoker.
@@Piper7cub Yeah, the government doesn't regulate every nook and cranny of our lives and if not for some of those regulations corporations would still be dumping trash, people would still let their 3 year olds ride untethered in the front seat, and every restaurant would be a smoke-filled death trap. Allowing people to make their own decisions with no regard for the people around them or the environment is the reason why we have these regulations in the first place. As the saying goes, when you know better you should do better.
I was born in 1952 and survived all of this. Kids are too pampered nowadays.
And sissified
Back when life was carefree and awesome i miss it
Today it is rare that I don't put my .45 in my holster before getting in my car for a trip even up town, back in the 60's I don't recall even seeing a hand gun except on the cops belt.
I miss it too. Kids back then had so much freedom. No one provided "entertainment" for me or my brothers and sisters. We made our own. Feels like everything is so restricted now.
Life in the 60s was a million times better than now. Kids were made of steel unlike now when they are so delicate even words hurt them.
EXACTLY!! We were tough as nails!
The 50's were even better than the 60's.
We need to bring back corporal punishment. Considering how students are taking over the classrooms and kids are taking over homes these days. It's terrible.
and some of them actually broke a bone, lost an eye or even their life. No such thing as Megan's Law so the neighborhood creep actually penetrated a poor kid. 60s were a fun time.
Before Lettuce Gaucomole Bacon Tomato Q and the rest of the gender alphabet existed.
As unregulated as things were, kids then grew up with more manners, respect, accountability, responsibility, and personality than kids of today.
Movies like 'The Sandlot', 'Stand By Me,
' and even ' IT' say it all.
We kids played together, helped each other, and stuck together.
No they didn't. That's not an age thing. Don't make that about age?
Ah yes - when you watched movies such as Lord of the Flies and The Bad Seed
didn't you get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside thinking about how kids behave?
You're mentioning movies.
They're just movies. They're not reality.
I would much rather see beer ads on TV during a family show, than 3 erectile dysfunction ads.
Oh man, isn't that the truth! I'm so sick of those ads.
This is good man thanks for the laugh. I need it
😆
Feminine Product commercials piss me off! I certainly don't want to hear about "flow" issues.
ANYONE GO FOR RIDES TO THE STORE WITH GRANDPA FOR A COKE IN THE BED OF THE PICKUP? WE HAD A BLAST!!!
@@garywaddle5421 my grandpa welded several chairs on his pickup bed for the kids.Good times
A NuGrape and a pack of cheese crackers ... 4 crackers stacked ... NOT the flat six pack these days !!!
In the sixties, my dad would drive around the neighborhood and gather up my brother's Little League team and the whole team would ride to the field in the bed of the pick-up truck.
It seems people are not nearly as happy today and so many are allergic to everything back in the 60s kids played outside and got dirty.
@Trust3 Except now there are many bacteria in the dirt, unlike befpr.
@Trust3 it's because of the Environment today, we didn't have all the Pollution as we do today, I was an 80's kid and those times weren't too bad. 🙂
@@Trust3 I believe because of food additives and vaccines. But my opinion.
ya, We all ate peanut butter, even at school, parties and scout meetings. Us Girl Scouts sold peanut butter cookies, which was never a problem in the 60's. At least, it would have been so rare that nobody we knew ever heard of it.
The candy store itself was pretty unreal then!
For pennies.
Halloween was a pillowcase full !
Kids today will never know the joy of trick or treating without their parents.
All my teeth were filled with mercury fillings! And yes, those candy cigarettes were cool
They had some that were paper wrapped bubble gum sticks, and bubble gum cigars as well.
@JerryEricsson yes. I remember those
You can still buy candy cigarettes online.
Fillings with mercury are still used in the US.
@@debbieedwards4884 I found some in a store during a road trip a few years ago. I bought some to show my son.
Those were the days! Playing outside all day long and riding our bikes all over the city. Just had to be home in time for dinner. I’d love to go back. 5cent cokes and ice cream. Sweet times!
I was born in 1953 and grew up in a time much better than today's kids, I'd love to see some of it again I had a blast
@@janetteelliott5401 I was born in 53 things were very simple then
It was overall way more safe back then. I have so many wonderful memories of my carefree childhood. It's just scary now. So sad.
@@kathrynbarr9084 we never knew what we had. Country was sane. Cartoons on TV. Much more than we have now.
I will take those days over anytime now.
I AGREE 100%
You will get those "good old days" back thanks to people voted that criminal back into the office of president.😊😊
@@songlyonDeal with it. 😂
Im 87 I grew up just fine!
I am 88 and agree 100%.
WOW!! do you have a channel? I surely would love to hear your wisdom my dear! CHEERS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS to a fellow boomer who misses the freedom of the olden days!
i would go back to those days in a hart beat , it was such a better life !!!
I think you meant heartbeat but YES I agree.
When we camped in the 60's . After packing up the tents , we would spend considerable time in "policing the camp" , picking up every scrap of paper , and doing our best to erase any evidence that we had been there . Throwing trash in the river would get you a belt whipping , I promise you .
Always leave it cleaner then you found it,works on the job to.
As they say "Take only memories, leave only footprints".
Did we grow up in the same family? After all the camping garb was packed in the car; ...pick up every bit of trash, make sure little to no trace of our being there left behind!
Same! My Dad LOVED nature in its pristine aspect. We got those values from him. And, my Boy Scout Troop taught that too.
I don't know what rivers and lakes they were showing but I didn't see that. However, I do remember Lady Bird getting everyone to stop throwing trash out of the car window. The highways were littered with trash and the campaign to clean up worked.
How many here had burning barrels in their yards?
Still do
Big bonfires on firecracker night in Australia.
We still do. Non burnable stuff goes to the dump. Paper and cardboard gets burned.
@@dnssigns We have a worm bed for paper , cardboard & food .
Still do and if it is too windy to burn there is always the wood stove.
My mother used to give money with a note to my 7 yr old brother to take to the store, to buy a pack of cigarettes for her .
My mom would give me a note to take to the corner store, and it usually included cigarettes. There were also cigarette vending machines in places like bars and restaurants Where my dad worked had a cigarette vending machine in the employee lunchroom
@@jamesszalla4274 I remember in the 70s, our bus stop was near a police station. When it was cold or rainy we went inside where I bought my first packs of cigarettes from a vending machine there. They were 50 or 75 cents!
@@jamesszalla4274 I believe hospitals also had cigarette vending machines.
Imagine putting 40 quarters in a cigarette machine today to get 1 pack of cigarettes.
@@tgunn2034 My parents had me & my brother run in and buy cigarettes while they sat in the car outside of whatever gas station or store they drove to. Then we had to breathe in smoke in the car without a window open, if it was cold outside or raining. I didn’t like it then and still don’t like that as young kids we had to breathe this smoke.
I miss the freedoms of that time to explore your world unencumbered.
Regardless l will take the 60S decade over these days ANYTIME. 😢😢
The '50s were even better---No drugs, no war, or "social unrest."
YES!!! ME, TOO!!!!!!!
@@elultimo102 The Korean War was in the 50s
@@shemp5858 I always believed that the best year to be born was 1939. You would have been too young for WW2 or Korea, and already done your draft hitch before Vietnam. You would have spent your teens in "Happy Days" with Fonzie. (People from that era described it as "great" and paradise, compared to the times since then.
@@williemoreno3010 for sure !😁
Strange, but kids who grew up then were more heathy than kids today.😮
Not so strange. Back then, kids were exposed to common bacteria and built up immunity. Today, everything is super sanitized. It's been proven farm kids are more healthy because they still get exposed to certain bacteria.
They actually spent hours playing outside, and involved in active activities. Most are connect to a computer, a console, or cellphone these days, instead of being physically active, and out and about with their friends.
That isn't true, seems like it, but in reality many children had health problems. Just the diseases alone had many children out of school frequently. Polio, measles, German measles, chicken pox, mumps, and more, everyone knew someone crippled from something. Classmates who died when you were in grade or high school. Hindsight has a habit of being through rose colored glasses.
They played outside and weren't "glued to screens". 🤔
Didn't put poison and dyes in our food.
People have become so weak over the decades.
@@Areutherehello it's probably all of those extra injections
More people = more regulation = more money to businesses and the government. A lot of these changes seem to be more about the money than actually protecting people. The percentage of people who were seriously hurt on a playground, riding in a car without a seatbelt, etc., was very low. The government banned an herb that was used in over the counter products. One, being allergy teas. When I would get a chronic cough after being sick, it was the only thing that would take my cough away - I tried every other pharmaceutical out there and nothing else worked. I read that less than 10 people were unalived by the product - it was also used for weight loss which was one of the main things this herb was used for and I'm guessing the people may have taken more than the recommended dose, but because of that, the government completely banned the herb. I'm guessing they banned it because it was an inexpensive treatment for a couple of things at least, and someone was losing money because of it.
and whiney and lame. I want my freedoms back!!!
Next they'll completely ban testosterone
I was born in 1959 and remember all this and more. They were the good days.
@@barrywainwright3391 i was born in 1958. Ditto on your post.
This video made me homesick for my youth in the 1950's / 1960's! Thanks for posting!
Me too
the kids today are slaves to SM and their phones.
they have no clue of the meaning of ''freedom''.
@@jasonrodgers9063 Me too. Sad to see all that change. Kids nowadays have no manners, play video games all day, no interest, no socializing only on phone, etc. I miss good old days.
I grew up in the 60s.. Had a spoonful of malt every morning plus a boiled egg and toast. Had a teaspoon of cod liver oil when I was sick. Both parents smoked in the house and car. I was smacked when I did something wrong. I grew up to respect my parents and others.
We had a cod liver oil glass bottle in our GE frige with the small shoe box freezer AND right before leaving to walk to school, rain, sleek, snow or SW sunshine....we were give a teaspoon or tablespoon of the stuff.....Yuck LOL.
@BAM-jc7uy I also had to eat everything on my plate whether or not I liked it. Sometimes sat at the table for hours before Mum relented so I could wash and clean the kitchen.
@@roberte5057 when I was 8, I once sat for lunch for 3 hours with a grill cheese sandwich in front of me that I wouldn't eat..I think I was milk lactose intol because I never did like milk, cheese. etc until I hit 50. We too went all over in the car with camel, winston, pall mall smoke thick in the car and in winters windows rolled up...and i'm still breathing...yeah all the lunch dishes were waiting for me too to wash them after....nice meeting u. sayonara. LOL
Never mind smoking on a plaine the nurses used to hand out ashtray and lighters to patients who were not allowed out of their beds in hospital.
@@annbow4064 those were the beautiful times the life in 60' I wish forever ♡
@@annbow4064 I was thinking the same thing.
Nurses and doctors smoked in the nurses station😂
Funny how all survived anyway though, isn't it. 🤔
Apparently not, hence the regulations :)
Didn’t children get polio from swimming in Public pools
“ALL” didn’t survive. And very bad things happened to some unfortunate kids. I know some of these ppl. Things happened that have affected them all their lives. The parents were mostly unavailable and never supervised kids-even at very young ages. I also lived this myself. It wasn’t safe, and it seems ridiculous to me now how little parents cared about our safety.
My MIL couldn’t get through a movie without running outside for a cigarette! She only died in an accident at age 80 and never had heart problems or breathing difficulties. I think somehow all the scotch she drank must have had a weird protective effect! LOL
@@ariedlinThat was in the 50’s before the polio vaccine came out! I remember my parents being so afraid. We got the vaccine in school.
The sixties were a GREAT TIME.. I was born in 1945, When I was 19, I took my bicycle to go from nottingham to stratford on avon, got bored so went to the south coast, youth hostelling, went from newhaven to dieppe, off to paris.... Everyone friendly, no problems.. .Came back a month later after earning some money selling the new york times,, Slept in railway station.. no problems.. a pub 40 miles from home gave me a lunch as no money left. I am so happy I was born when I was !!!
gee, I survived it all.
Same.
@@Laura-v9p7q So did I.
Im so very happy and luncky to be born in 1960..best era and 70s growning up a teenager...i so wish we can go back in that time
Me, my brothers, friends and cousins spent many hours and rode many miles in the back of a pickup truck and loved every minute of it
Dad had an old Ford sedan with no trunk lid, we put an old mattress in the back and we kids rode back there, we could shout and sing all we wanted and not bother our folks. It was fun till the rain came, then we had to get inside.
Government regulations do not make life better. They just restrict freedom and liberties. I wish my grandkids could grow up like I did. They would be stronger and more self sufficient for it.
Self sufficient. My Grandsons 9 and cant even make a simple decision.
I thank the Lord we did not have video games when I was a kid.
@@CollinsWoundManagement I agree. We were free all day long to play outside, ride bikes, invent things, climb trees, walk to the store and so on. No one provided our entertainment. We grew up learning to think for ourselves and had no fear. It was a great time. Sadly lost.
we'd be able to afford rent too..food wasn't plastic either.
I’m glad we don’t have to put up with filth bags blowing smoke in our faces these days!
Drinking from the hose.
I was in the trades until I retires and we all drank from the hose ,,,,, and I still do today. - If you carried a bottle of water, not too many years ago, you would have gotten laughed off the jobsite.
There were 2 different kinds of candy cigarettes. One was a chalky kind of hard candy that had a red tip. The other was bubble gum with powder on it wrapped in paper. When you blew through it, the powder would come out like smoke
@@bindig1 yes! I remember blowing "smoke" through the paper. And, remember those delicious pink bubble gum cigars??
@@rds1717oh yeah!
If I ever got trick or treaters, I would hand out candy cigarettes. They are still out there. Specialty candy shops and ghetto type gas stations.
I seem to remember chocolate candy cigarettes and bubblegum cigars.
@elultimo102 bubble gum cigar was a mouthful at first.. then it would shrink as the sweetner all dissolved. I remember them. Pastel green ones and pink ones in the huge Easter basket.
Doom, gloom and fear the entire video.
Yes we can imagine thos things. We were healthier and happier back then.
I must admit, smelling burning leaves in the Fall as a child was a smell that reminded me of happier days without a care in the world. You know a couple of minths later it would be Christmas
The 1960's were fun. I remember when my cousin fell from a slide and broke both arms. He couldn't do anything without help, eat, bath, go to the bathroom, etc. They also use to have coils with covers in the refrigerator where you kept the food. The coil covers were usually covered with frost so my cousin decided to lick the frost off the coil cover and ended up with his tongue stuck to the refrigerator.
I also remember my mother walking me to kindergarten on the first day to show me where the school was but after that I was on my own for the next 13 years. Back then we walked to school but there was no cafateria so you walked to school, walked home for lunch, walked back to school and then walked home after school. The school was only a mile away and only one major highway to cross but the cars did not stop for pedestrians so you did have to look both ways before crossing all the streets.
Yeah, you hardly ever got any medical treatment for run of the mill accidents or diseases like measles or mumps. You'd just go to bed & mom would bring your meals to you if it was contagious. You'd have to be half dead before they'd take you to a Dr.
You lucky duck you could go home for lunch👍...I will always forever remember the smell of someone's boil egg or whatever in our closed classroom...which was also our lunch room. When we just happened to be out of Rainbow Bread for our lunch box sandwich, granny made a large square peanut butter "sandwich" with the large squares of cracker, and back then there were no sandwich baggies or saran wrap...waxed cut bread wrappers were re-cyled....I ate crumbs for lunch with a piece of fruit or whatever. I had to carry a green, thermos under the lid, lunch box that looked like a Santa Fe RR workers black lunch box. Later my sibs had square mint green lunch boxes plain or superman? LOL 😊
They were indeed better days
I will admit,playing with the mercury! It was like magic!!
I’m a 71yo Veteran and a retired Corporate Pilot. I Remember Smoking 🚬 Cigarettes on Airplanes. When It All Changed it was Difficult For Everyone To Change With It. To be Fair I Truly Miss Those Days!! Political Correctness Truly Sucks. It was a lot easier to just be yourself. Now everyone is so picky about everything and anything. From my perspective the 1960’s were the best 10 years of my life.😊
@@marksamuelsen2750 I'm 7 years your Jr but yeah, all of that. Instantaneous communication destroyed normal.
People these days have to listen to others opinions before forming their own. It's safer that way to hear or read the feelings of everyone else, then just agree with the majority. You can't be retaliated against if you agree. Forming a non conforming thought all by yourself is dangerous these days.
Indeed, man I don't know how I could have put up with the 24 hour flight from Oakland to Vietnam without my smokes and my paperback novel.
ur quite mad you know
You got that right
@@randywl8925
Im 66 yrs old.
Old school all the way.
And Im not changing that.
I am who the LORD made.
I dont fit in, people dont like me, and I dont give a damn.
I wont FAKE who I am!
I was born in the 70s and remember going to the corner store when I was 10 buying cigarettes "For My Mom"😂.
Back then the store sold 6 packs of soft drinks in glass bottles. You could return the empty bottles for 10 cents each and cigarettes were a 1.00 per pack. So all you needed was (2) 6 packs of empty bottles for a pack of cigarettes.
@@MrDan11422 sure they were fer ur mom sure😅hee hee jk.
I was born in 47 and it was 2cents per bottle and 25cents a pack and Saturday matinee movie was 35cents or 18 returned bottles. McDonald's started with a burger, fries, and a soda 35cents. I played with Mercury quite often and I'm 77 now.
My dad used to send me to the store down the street with a quarter to get him a pack of Kents. I think pop bottles were 2 cents where I lived too. One time my older brother got one of his cigs from the ashtray and puffed it. Dad made him smoke a whole cig...really smoke it. I do not think he ever touched one again.
Born in 79 They were still selling those candy cigarettes 🚬
@@tiacook405 I got some for xmas n the 60's.
Out here in nowhere, I still use the burn barrel for paper and wood products.
So have you realized yet you should NOT be doing that????
@@user-gu7kk5zk2b So give me a list of all the other freedoms you would have him give up .
What is wrong with burning paper and wood products?I use fireplace every winter.
Growing up we burnt our trash in upstate n.y. Normal . At 55 yrs young i still burn my paper in the fireplace here in commifornia. Inhave no trash service by choice.
I remember the aerosol cans blowing up. That is how we knew them were in there.
You mean that discipling in schools is not allowed? No wonder the conditions in the classrooms is the way it is. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is never outdated and has proved so for many years.
I was caned and slippered numerous times at school, and I got the belt at home when I deserved it. I was a little shit. 😊
At 17 I was lined up outside the principals office for some wicked thing I had done. When told to bend over, I said the what was proposed was assault and that I would defend myself. Since I was taller and fitter than he was, the punishment never happened, much to my chagrin. The principal was an idiot and was later sacked.
I had "the nuns" slamming me across the head
I grew up in the 50-60's and remember all these things! I think a few brain cells have gone away in kids of today! They don't have the same common sense that we did back then! We had to think through a lot of things for ourselves in those days! Kids today don't have a clue! IMO!😊❤
I ate a lot of candy as a kid and had quite a few amalgam (mercury/silver) fillings. I'm 72 now and still kickin' !
Riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck wile standing and holding on to his ladder racks.
Riding a snow sled being pulled by a car.
Going for a ride on the outside of the car.
Yes! We would set up lounge chairs in the back of the truck, get the dogs on board and ride through town!
We used to tell our dad to drive down all the hills with bumps because it was so fun to fly around in back of the truck, lol. Memories...
same here in NM.
Hitchhiking for a snowmobile ride across the frozen lake (about a mile) when I didn't feel like any more ice skating. LOL.
When we rode home to albuquerque from visiting Gr-grandma Nonny in Peralta, and it was raining...and we were in the back of the 40's pick-up we were covered with layers of old quilts or horse blankets??
Rural places still burn trash in barrels. There’s no garbage service out there. Food scraps go to coyotes in the woods.
Same here!
We didnt stand in the way of Jarts, just like we didn't stand in the way of cars
We used to toss lawn darts over the roof at my grandmother's house at each other. You really missed out on all the possible impalement thrills.
Part of the fun when we played lawn darts was to purposely stand as close to the ring as possible while the other player(s) threw the darts. You had a split second to decide to stand there when the dart hit three inches from your shoe, or to jump out of the way to avoid possibly being hit.
@torydz 😬
What a shit world we live in today.
I grew up in the 60's and am still alive at 68 today. All those things couldn't have been that bad for you if I made it. It was a way of thinning the herd, keeping undesirable genes out of the gene pool. This video didn't scratch the surface of the crazy things we did. It toughened you up, preparing you for life. "What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Amen!
Oh I know !! My step daughter said our parents just about abused & neglected us as kids! Her dad & I just laugh. Told her NO ! The mom & dad Long with step dad never hesitated on the spank either ! They lived. Now the daughter,'s kiddos.. lol..another story there!!
All that dangerous air and toys ,,,, but I got old enough to pass the physicals when I got drafted and end up in Tuy Hoa for the ;68 TET offensive. = Somebody is FOS here. And tomorrow is my 78th birthday ,,,,I'm going out and get knee walking drunl and smoke a big cigar. The wokies are sure missing the point.
I was born in 1961 and I’m still having an f- ing blast. Cheers from Montreal
I was born in 1960 in montreal! I live in Regina Sask now.....brutal!
1959...still swinging for the fence
Snap , it's same here in Morecambe England .
When I was a kid we rode in the back window 😮. 🍄🐕🐢 Heatseeker and Fuzzy ☠️💀☠️
I remember riding in that back window on long car rides watching the moon and loving every minute of it
I used to 'smoke' candy cigs ... And used a PEZ dispenser to 'light' them 😄😄
LOL! I was born in 62 and i miss not having marry-go-rounds for the kids these days, drive in theaters were the best, and yeah, i must have smoked a ton of candy sigs. 😂🤣
I remember bubble gum machines. If you were lucky you would win a prize that would be encased in a plastic. One of the prizes was this thing called "Smokey Joe" It was a small plastic skull with a cigarette included. You were supposed to light it up and it would supposedly produce tiny smoke rings. I never won one of those things but I kept trying. By today's standards this would be wrong on so many levels. (Promoting cigarettes and pyromania) Crazy, funny, wonderful times !!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Obviously the banning of CFCs, smoking in planes, wearing seatbelts etc. are good developments, but I mourn some of the other things which have been taken away and make life really boring for today's kids. Those were times when we went off to play without adults around, dared ourselves on adventurous playground equipment, learned lessons by making mistakes, and realized that bad behaviour has consequences - so much freedom then that we enjoyed, and we grew up learning to take responsibility for ourselves.
So far as smoking on an airplane, only 3 passengers were non smokers AND they knew what to expect...
And schools could serve cookies & snacks.
I once fell while playing on the merry go round in the school yard when school was not in session, tore all the skin off both knees before I had enough sense to let go.
@@JerryEricsson Exactly…and you learned a lesson which has served you ever since, and no more fear.
Incidents of problems resulting from unsupervised trick or treat were all but non-existent. The few there were mostly faked. Equally trouble free was so-called free for all swimming. Kids learned to look out for themselves, a trait not common today.
I remember going trick or treating as a little kid. Little kids back then in the 60s could go out at night unsupervised by adults and could feel safe. There were never any incidents about kids being attacked or poisoned with candy. Back then everyone looked after one another. Kids were safe out on the streets at night.
yep i use to pretend i was smoking was them cigarette candy lol 😂 we had more fun then the kids now a days :P
@viviangallard4208 candy cigarettes were tasty too!!
I caught the tail end of the candy cigarettes, but did enjoy them
I was born in 1955 and there wasn't Any Plastic Anything in my childhood!!!😂
@@kathymiller5781 I'm a year older and respectfully think you're misremembering
I was born in 1950 and there was plastic everywhere and everything.
@@CFFiedler I was born in the 40s and also remember no plastic in the 50s except for a few kids that had plastic lunch box. I remember the thrill of getting a new small plastic wallet for my weekly bus ticket! Late 50s I had a plastic drink bottle. We are 'drowning' in plastic nowadays! (Australia)
I'm much younger, but love items from the 40s, 50's and 60's ... food containers were still glass, but a lot of plastics were created for/during WWII , so in the after war years, plastic because used for lots of this .. kids toys, dolls, jewelry, decor, containers, melamine dinnerware and serving pieces, curtains, doilies, fake flowers, tupperware, christmas ornaments, buttons, purses, they make have had out plastic wrap for food. but yeah, it may just be that your family didn't have much plastic
That's true, plastic wasn't a thing till after the 80s. Remember glass soda bottles and paper grocery bags? Ketchup and mayo and things like that were in glass jars. Most things were packaged in glass, metal or paper. Remember metal lunch boxes? Glass baby bottles etc? Glass aspirin bottles etc. People forget that everything wasn't wrapped in plastic like today. Microwaves were not a thing back then either. Everything was cooked on the stove or in the oven. TV dinners used to be in foil packages to slide in the oven.
yeahhh, life sure was alot more fun back then
Halloween in the 60s was awesome. My brother, cousins and friends and I had fabulous times running loose in our small town trick or treating. Would I have let my daughter do the same thing in the 90s? Are you out of your mind? Everything had changed by then!
there were houses and neighborhood who gave either handfulls of penny candy or real 5 and 10 cents candy bars Or just one piece of penny candy...we knew our houses and we trekked to the more affluent neighborhoods with our masks and pillowcases and homemade costumes...just be home by 9:30-10.
Three years in a row had 4 real Acme thick paper shopping bags filled from top to bottom with the best candy. Parents were dipping into it for weeks after. Made 6 trips home to dump it then went out again. 4th 5th and 6th grade had to be back at 12 midnight. Real candy bars 6 inches long.
6pm till 10pm in my neighborhood. We would come back home midway to see if my mom had to borrow some of our candy so she wouldn't run out.
@@torydz lol
I don't know if anyone else remembers something like a three floored metal tower that had to be put together with nuts and bolts.
It even came with a pull up ladder.
I can't remember if the ladder was metal or rope.
My neighbor down the street had one of these kids towers set up in his backyard.
As a kid of 8 to 10 years old, I remember this tower being pretty tall.
Anyway, the neighborhood boys were on the top level of this tower.
Being "little sister" and to "prove my prowess" as a Tomboy, I wanted to get up there too.
But, the boys pulled the ladder up, so I couldn't use it.
I thought "well, I'll just scale up the outside of the tower" climbing up the metal bars that zig zaged across the tower.
As I reached the outside top tier, hanging on by my outstretched arms, they began to tickle me under the arms.
Well, I was quite high off the ground and started screaming for help.
A neighbor across the street (one of the neighborhood fathers) saw and heard me, but he did nothing to help me.
But, in his defense he probably didn't know if my screaming was real or just playing.
Anyway, the boys tickled me so much that I couldn't hold on and I fell all the way to the ground.
Somewhere on the way down I either hit something or the impact from hitting the ground, caused me to cut the top of my tongue pretty good.
I went home crying and had a sore tongue while the rest of my family (including my older brother who had tickled me and made me fall) all went outside and had a picnic dinner in our backyard as I lay in bed with a sliced tongue.
I think it was called a Tangle Tower... anyone else remember something like this tower for kids back in the late 60's, early 70's?
I tell you what, you had to be tough as a kid back then to take the punches as they came!
And yes as I was born in '59, I don't ever recall ever having to use any seatbelts while driving around with your parents.
In fact my two brothers and I would use the no seatbelt freedom of the back seat to shove each other against the car doors as we went around the curves.
And not only did we drink out of unfiltered tap water faucets, we would always drink from the garden hose just lying in the yard as we were too busy playing to go inside to get a drink!
Growing up in the 60's and 70's was great!!!
When I was in junior high school (early 1970's) a misbehaving kid was given the choice of a "lick" from wood shop teacher "Mr. Z's" paddle, or a principal's phone call to their parents! I NEVER heard of ANY kid choosing the phone call!
69 here. Standing up in the backseat ( no seatbelts ) while my mom drove. All the kids in our neighborhood out playing all day until our Mothers started calling for their kids to come home for dinner. 😊
I was a full adult when I had my first airline flight. It was at the tail end of smoking being allowed on planes. They had "smoking" & "non-smoking" sections. In a sealed fuselage, it was exactly the same as swimming pools having "peeing" and "non-peeing" sections! !!!
Hey how about when your parents said here hold my cigarette while I button your brothers cost.
Unsupervised trick or treat? Hell, everything was Unsupervised.
my uncle was raceing the car and the car jump up in the air going down hill ,and me and my little brother with no seat belt on lol we thought that was so much fun , never even though we was in danger
I grew up in the 1960’s and played outside all summer long! Kids then had ample exercise and now kids stay home and play games inside. This contributes to childhood obesity and maybe are terrified going out and playing with strangers. Lack of exercise contributes to obesity as well. Yes, many things that were unregulated then were banned but all in all, it was a healthier time. We had home cooked meals and fast food packed with empty calories is widely accepted today. Every generation has its problems and I appreciate not being exposed to cigarette smoking in public places and leaded gasoline but health dangers in today’s society are prevalent.
America has more fat kids & adults than ANYWHERE n the world. Gee I wonder Y? LOL
Here in South Dakota the play never stopped in the Winter months, we just wore parka's and mittons. I used to love ice skating, our town had 2 rinks one on the east side and one on the west. They had warming shacks and benches where you could sit down and put on your ice skates. I got a pair of rubber guards so I could walk to the rink in my skates but I learned very quickly that walking in ice skates even with rubbers on them made your ankles hurt like hell in a block or two.
@ Yes, all year around. Sledding in winter, playing in rain and sunshine. I was always outside when I was a kid.
We used to buy mercury at the drugstore to play with. It is just amazing stuff.
My brother and I broke a lot of thermometers! My parents kept having to buy them.
I remember even in the 80s if I had a note from grandma I could buy her cigarettes from the corner store
yep, lol
I’m in Australia and one of our favourite things to do was go to the rubbish dump. On a Saturday afternoon we’d go on our Bikes and scrounge through the rubbish. We’d come home with all sorts of ‘treasures’. Mind you, Mum wasn’t too happy with some of our finds 😆
Science was behind what was common practice and danger lurked in many places but it did create kids that learned their limits or suffered the consequences and then accepted our limits. We delt with our own problems, learned who we could trust and who we couldn't, explored various versions of who we could be without adult interface. We truly learned to be independent and self sufficient if only for a while. This is sadly missing in today's world. We were actually living in a kid world (usually from breakfast until the streetlights came on) that gave us first hand practice for things we would later deal with as adults. Better to make mistakes and learn at 8 than to make them in an adult world at 18.
🤠 Here in rural Texas we STILL burn trash in Burn Barrels....And I was surprised to see this on your list 😳
I live in southern mo. Lots of people here also burn their trash.
@@laurabentzinger200 🤨 Yep, when you got no choice it's common sense 🗑️+🔥=👍
(A growing rarity in today's America) 🫤.
Same story on the countryside here in Sweden, but we try to avoid to throw plastic and stuff like that in the fire...
Here in East Texas, it's weird to not burn your trash.
Don't trip, it's just an elitist, Karen video. They don't know any better 😂
I came up without seatbelts. We didn't need them! We had my mother, who took no prisoners!
Same in the 80’s. 😂. I’m surprised I survived that one arm swing always flying across my chest.
This was so sad, I forgot how much fun life USED to be. Oh ya, and corporal punishment works by the way, look at how bad, in general, kids are today compared to then. We respected adults, not much of that anymore.
Imagine in 1992 picking a non-smoking seat on an overseas flight ... Only to find out the row behind me was the smoking section.
There were TV ads for cigarettes that recommended donating "gift cartons" to veterans' hospitals. I also saw ads with Santa recommending cartons of cigarettes (brightly wrapped, of course!) as Christmas gifts.
Now we've got advertisements for drugs. Which is worse.
I was born in 1955 , and my parents would send me to candy store with a note and money to buy their cigarettes.
Went to store 12 years old buy 22 rifle with my dad .
Church gave kids with perfect attendance a pocket knife, I
carried it to school in my pocket. Never bothered anyone with the rifle or knife.
We were taught respect and honesty.
We played outside all day , kids were healthy, didnt have fast food , no computer games , no tv all day , no cell phones , neighborhood was tight -knit all parents looked out for everyones kids , if you was doing something wrong your friends parent would correct you .
America needs Bible study back in schools and prayer.
gun racks in most of the pickup trucks in the school parking lot, because hunting after school couldn't wait to grab your gun from home!
To All the Kids that Survived the
1940's, 50's, 60's, and 70's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking_
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We could leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we actually learned to solve the problem.
We didn't have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all and no 2999 channels on cable, no video tape movies, DVD, etc., no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms or social media. . .WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If you are one of them
CONGRATULATIONS!
Wow you just described my childhood and what a great one it was
I still drink tap water. I've never had a problem.
me too
My tap water is from a well on my property so of course I drink it.
I have never had a problem with tap water either. At work they always use bottled water. I think they consider it more convenient than a cup around the computers. It's disgusting, especially because we have a hot & cold filtered water machine. With bottled water the environmental consequence is very real. Half the time the workers take a few sips and throw it out. A waste of money and a waste period.
Here in Louisville KY we are blessed to have the BEST quality tap water in the USA (consistently wins taste test competitions). They even began a marketing campaign for it- "Louisville Pure Tap"!
65 and will still drink from a garden hose
I was always disappointed if one of my candy cigs didn’t have the red end.
I could stay in 1968 forever.
I got married in 1969. God how I do miss my wife, she was taken from me by cancer in 2020.
For me it would be 1967....the 'summer of love' Cruising and hanging out at the beach.
Not only did we have candy cigarettes, but in the early 1950s my sister had a toy iron that plugged in and got hot. I managed to burn a miniature sole-plate pattern into the linoleum on our bedroom floor.
I had a real mini sewing machine and wound up sewing my great aunt's antique lace tablecloth together. My mom got so upset about me doing that but my great aunt told her to "leave me alone, that was why they invented seam rippers" I was the first girl after about 15 boys in the family so my mother said I was super spoiled and could get away with anything.
I remember getting a wood-burning kit one Christmas, found out quickly that your fingers will smoke if you're not careful!
I remember when you could smoke in your hospital room. The hospital provided ashtrays.
As a kid I remember the Flinstones doing Winston cigarette commercials. Also, our local convenient stores sell candy cigarettes today.
Yeah they banned cigarette ads but what about alcohol?! That can kill you too in excess! 😢😮😮
@karma56ism amen you are exactly right
I been drinking since I was 18. How come my 78th birthday is tomorrow and I'm still here and going to bar and get knee walking drunk, and smoke a big cigar. - Tee Totalers make me sick but Whiskey makes me smile.
Now kids just vape or smoke real cigarettes.
people hide the fact that they still smoke ciggerts
Back in the 60’s and 70’s candy cigarettes were awesome!! Lots of folks even gave them out at Halloween
i was the youngest of 7 and i remember riding through Kentucky with my Dad and no-one had on a seatbelt
I loved those candy cig's It never made me want to smoke. They were just part of make believe. No harm no foul! We had imagination in those days. Today's kids have video games. No thought required.
The 60S 70S and 80S where the best time of our life's way much more FUN AND LOVE ALONG WITH THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 🙏 SO MUCH BETTER BACK THEN THAT'S WHEN LIFE WAS LIFE 😊😊
I remember those little ashtrays in the arm rest of the plane seat....There was that commercial when they threw garbage in the lake. "Where does it go? Away." 🤣.... Our principal had the strap! We used to put a hair on our hand so it would draw blood when he strapped the hand. 🤣🤣🤣
getting threatened by the princible never scared me..i got my ass beat at home long befor a swatting at school ever happened..
This did nothing but depress me and remind me that the Pussification of our country is almost complete.