That bit about the iron lung should be shown to people who refuse to vaccinate their children. I lived during those years and remember how terrified my mother was.
I lived in the same years also. And boy, my mom, was the best mom, but when it came to her three children, she could turn into lioness protecting her cubs.
WOW.. It's like going back in time! I was born in 61, grew-up in the Groovin 60's... "Sock it to me?" - I recall eating dinner promptly 6:00 PM or no dinner, and AT THE DINNER TABLE ONLY... but Pop would have the TV set on so he could hear the news as my brother was in Vietnam. Anytime Cronkite showed footage of battle involving the USMC he'd run into the TV room and we kids would all go following him like a bunch of ducklings to see what the brouhaha was about lol. (My brother, Kurt was KIA in 68) - If the DDT truck was spraying we'd have to shut the doors and windows, a real bitch on those hot steamy Illinois evenings! Only on really rainy days did we ever stay inside, or when you were being punished... (first the ass whoopin then "GO TO YOUR ROOM") - playing OUTSIDE was "Where it's at, man!" Had me a gold & white Schwinn Chopper! Use to put a playing card in the spokes to make that cool sound! Damn I was cool! lol Once a year we were allowed to actually eat dinner & watch TV in the LR, When "The Wizard of Oz" was on, every October for some reason. We'd have Swanson's TV dinners and live like rich folk for a night ;) Now they are all dead, I'm the last one from my entire family... sure do miss em. Thanks for the upload!
Maybe a TV producer could make a show about a family living in the late '60s -- fashions, mores, ideas, etc. -- while everyone else around them is in the modern day. Kind of like that Brady Bunch spoof movie awhile back.
Here's a story my son can't believe. Gasoline was not only cheap-25 cents a gallon, but the gas station gave away stuff- drinking glasses, coffee mugs etc. with a fill-up. In the mid 60's I owned a small Honda motorcycle that took only about a gallon of gas to fill-up. I had a part-time job in a car wash and as an employee, got a nickle a gallon discount. I could fill-up my little Honda for less that 25 cents and often get change back.
Thank you Fred Flix. This is fabulous stuff, the memories are brought back, all of us alive and together. Some of these things, like the "TV Guide", made me want to cry. A week was incomplete if my grandma some how didn't get a TV Guide for the week's viewing pleasure. Thanks again, keep up the wonderful work about that era that was so innocent but gone forever. 1957 here!!!
I had that Sears stereo in the early 1970s. My parents hated it. The joke was on them a few years later when I got a 100W per channel stereo with preamps, tape deck and quad speakers. I almost blew out the windows playing Led Zeppelin.
Excellent again, Fred! Our film during drivers ed was called "Red Asphalt". And, I vividly remember the Seat Belt ad. Must have made an impression when I was a kid. As soon as the commercial started, I could remember the script. Amazing how these little snipets do that.
I remember the script to that PSA, too, thought oddly not the visuals. The best-known teen-driver scare film is "Signal 30", which is here on RUclips. Signal 30 was the radio code phrase some police depts. used back then when an officer discovered a dead driver or passenger(s) at the scene of a car wreck and needed the meat wagon.
Boy's beware went out in the mid-1960s with Duck and Cover (Bert the Turtle) when people realized how gullible they were and kids weren't. Driver's Ed lasted longer.
There was a similar ad many years later designed to discourage people from smoking. It showed some humorous things that went wrong when people smoked, like the knucklehead who set a woman's dress on fire while trying to impress her, and every ad ended with the words "Is there any other reason to stop smoking?
Rock & Bits, they should use this kind of ad to show what could happen to someone that refuses to wear a mask, to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, and it's variants. Wear your mask!
Quite a lively selection of clips. Anti-Gay PSA, iron lung, fatal car crashes, Go-Go dancers, even some reminiscing about the American Dark Age, the 70's. Thanks, FredFlix!
There's a reason for that. Do your own research to confirm, but the automobile industry in general was taking a major economic hit due to the excessive use of hitchhiking and carpooling. PSA's were created to discourage hitchhiking, similar to the racist scare tactics used to illegalize hemp.
FredFlix. Thank you very much Mr. FredFlix. You sure bring back some very precious and beautiful memories. The scene of the Ohio Highway Patrol at the accidents was a film we had to watch 4 times while going through the Police Academy.
Anti vaccine advocates need to watch that iron lung film and be made to understand that this was and is the result of polio. Is this the kind of life they really want for their kids??
They are stupid and ignorant. The best thing you can do for an anti vaxxer is to make some money by printing up deeds for beach land in Nebraska to sell to them.
I was born in 58, it’s fun to see the commercials and programs that I grew up with, there’s so much I had forgotten. It’s also fun to see what t.v. and life was like for my older siblings
@@DDios-ih9de Then He came out of the Closet because Johnny kept switching between Bathrooms because it couldn't decide what it was, We call them Liberals.
I just love old things, I’m a big history nerd, specifically anything before the 80s and after the 10s, usually civil defense films but I’ll take anything I can get like fire safety PSAs and stuff, your videos are like a gift to a girl born in 2002, who’s obsessed with history
Hmmm...iron lungs. My dad was up to his elbows treating these patients and told me he never worried about getting the virus himself. Remember the sugar cubes at school?
Anti-gay PSA This reminds me of my high school speech teacher and a 16 year old student at the school he hooked up with back in 1980. Saw them 10 years after graduating High school. They were sitting in a bar...still together. Amazing he didn't get arrested for dating a teenager back then.
Surprising a May-December romance lasted that long...straight or gay. However, it is immoral for a teacher to date a student no matter their ages.Even in college.
@@whatsit2ya247 did you not read the original post? Nothing happened to the teacher in this relationship back then. If this happened nowadays, teacher would've been arrested for sure. Most people are against this. Not sure what you're going on about. Seems like you just wanted a reason to say the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
@tinwoods I'm not buying it, tin. Today's millennials are insane. I'm serious. One should be able to disagree without shieking as if the world was ending. but God will take care of the milennials ahha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
And a better time for social relationships because back then people had "reserve" out of respect for one's personal privacy and right to self-determination. Gone now!
@Nathan Long The joke is on you Nat. Satan is going to take the malcontents out. God is going to let you suffer your own consequences. Now that is poetic justice if ever I have heard it.
@Nathan Long I am not threatening any one, Nathan. You are putting words in my mouth. God as warned you so that you have a chance to change and be spared. And as for Satan's plans, you can take that up with him. Me? I'm going to cooperate with God thanks to the right to worship or speak as I please. I know you leftiists will eventually get rid of the Bill of rights. There are no rights except what the left says you can say and you are very loyal to your cause. that is why you like to lie so much. Stalin would be proud of you!
@@diligenceintegrity2308 I can’t wait to go to hell and not feel my souls burn because I’m dead wow gee I’m very spooked. It’s people like you are why I’m this close to becoming an atheist.
The only one of those segments I remember was the seat belt commercial. I do remember watching the car accident films shown to us in Driver's Education but they were more graphic than the one that was shown. I remember one film that actually showed some guy's brains falling out of his head when he was picked up to be put into the ambulance. That was as graphic as a rated "R" movie and they were showing that to 16 year olds! That anti-gay film was very disturbing. That was the time when gays were thought to be as bad as rapist. Today they would say "serial killer" for the reason NOT to hitch hike.
That's why the smarter name for it is the "Idiot Box"...or the"Boob Tube"...Some people once called it exactly what it has always been! My mother expressed her embarrassment over the Soviets being able to see how dumbed down Americans were, by seeing what was being shown here on TV...like the Beverly Hillbillies & I Love Lucy etc. !!!🙆!!! ... she was smarter than the average mom 💔
the homosexual segment was clearly shows the ignorance of the time. what they were showing was a pedafile after his prey. gay men like men not kids. the segment of the jitterbug was really wild. the movements of the dancers looked like you had to be in the Olympics. notice all the girls are wearing flat shoes not high heels. doing those moves you could never wear them! the cigarette ads showed people smoking and laughing, back then they promoted it like they were selling candy! little did they know they were killing themselves and paying to get lung cancer and heart disease. things have changed since then!
You did it again Fred , You make the "BEST" looking back series around . I still have the sears record/cassette player , and it still works ! The t.v.'s are so iconic , do you all remember horizontal and vertical hold ? We even had a remote control then , we called him "Dad" ! ! LOL . . . 🤨 . . 😠 . . 😁
@@FredFlix WOW . . How lucky ! . . My dad was a strict military Sargent (no really I'm not kidding) . . . 🇺🇸 . . and that's how he ran the house . . 🏡 I on the other hand was a lowly private ! ! . . 🤷
"I hope he doesn't listen to Rock N Roll -- I hope he doesn't want to ride motorcycles," -- my mom and dad's "friends" referring to me back in the late 1950s. Sheesh!
Dang! TV's were expensive then and many were black and white until later models came out.. You can buy a little bit bigger HD color TV for that price nowadays!
Karen Albers My sister's just turned 12 and we were buying a TV for them, and we literally found a 55" 4k Tv for 498 dollars! Only 40 dollars more expensive then the Tv's back then. Wow.
Karen Albers, yes they were expensive, I only had black and white TV while growing up. In 1978 I purchased my first TV it was a huge old RCA console 25" color TV that I spent $225.00 on, it was only that cheap because it was used and purchased from a friend.
@@jimmywoo3885 Remember those huge ones in the 90s that you could only carry one way with help? We had a Sony and whenever we moved it we had to hold it a certain way or it would roll over.
cant trust anyone for a hitch hike ride today. I remember hitching rides on back of a wagon loaded with livestock in the 70's when farmers traveled to the next pasture to drop off their live stock.
I wouldn't want my kids hitchhiking, but we've gone overboard. People rarely let their kids play outside these days. Actually, child abductions are down. Of those missing, only 1% are due to stranger abductions. Most are taken by someone they know such as a non-custodial parent. Or, they've run away. I think it's a shame that kids aren't out and about riding their bikes and playing with friends.
I've marveled at the fact of not seeing children out on their bikes these days. I don't want to turn pc in the section here just enjoy,but I noticed on morning local news Kevin Spacey was accused of making an unwanted advance to a male on Star Trek set in the 1980's.Spacey being 24 the person was 14 or 16 I believe.Well,it was the 1 accusation is all not a string of people,& his accusation was that Spacey " laid on top of him." It doesn't sound necessarily sinister.Did he make it sexual?Did he persist after the kid said hey no? But the point I want to make is Spacey apologized so I guess its an admission of being at least out of line,& used the opportunity to admit "being gay" & it appears he apologized & made admit to being gay in the context of," I've struggled with homosexuality & such inclinations." I assume the man is or has been married & had a child or 2 at least being a person of means etc.So responses suggested this admission was just to deflect or distract & that it was no different than a straight man trying to explain or excuse inappropriate behavior (or worse) toward a woman by "admitting to" being straight.There's where I see today's pc being different & being harmful.It does appear to me Spacey is trying now to do the right thing & that he is making his admitting to "being gay" in that context of saying "I've struggled with homosexual inclinations" .As in he is a family man,&wants to be known as such & views himself as such, but has struggled with this,& he has never felt it was right.Therefore he has resisted it, & has had a hard time resisting those urges, he felt were inappropriate.Now, modern society would tell you such inclinations are perfectly innocent.And the man needs to be able to decide that for himself,& in that light I do accept it having some bearing on his behaviour.And if nothing more comes out and the incident was only what's been reported it appears he was a long way from doing anything illegal.He needs to be allowed to view those urges as inappropriate and something he wants to resist.Society now would urge him to embrace homosexuality & that his fighting it and guilt led to his out of line behaviour I believe. Anyway it seems to me the man didn't go too far so to be criminal & is trying to do the right thing.An admission & apology is far more than in other instances similar. And the admission to "being gay" I feel in this instance my observation on that is correct.And that wouldn't excuse any behaviour but in my mind it would in fact serve as a sort of explanation.And the admission and apology shows he wants to do the right thing,& I believe also demonstrates he wants to change or the better & not have any part of a homosexual lifestyle.I just see today's society taking that in so many places that will all be more harmful than anything else.I know today we would never see a psa like that first one, but I can personally understand a psa like that. It just today would need to be portrayed as predators in general.And of course that's he that gender wouldn't necessarily play a role.They might be straight or not and still e dangerous.
I used to ride my thumb all the time in California. And it never failed that some guy would grab my crank it was disgusting. What made it worse was if I got picked up by a female i'd never get molested. I was sure glad when I got my own car. Now when I want to ride an airplane, some guy wants to grab my crank again! It's like Deja-Vu. Now I need to get my own airplane.
When everything was made in America. Not cheap Chinese Gulags. We don,t even make ashtrays anymore! Now your likely to be thrown off United by brute force, for asking for a cheap bag of peanuts and the stewardesses are not gorgeous college girls in mini dresses anymore.
For every job outsourced, there was an American board of directors that put it there. Lining their own pockets with profit through cheap labor. It didn't help that consumers chose low prices over jobs.
@@thegoldendog7991 they had to buy the low prices cause they had no job any more. Instead, we should have banned imports to keep jobs here. We can thank our sellout politicians.
RE: Color TV Funny Story: In about 1975 my neighbor gave me their 1965 RCA color TV with remote control. It was a big, HEAVY, wooden floor model that must have cost a fortune in 1965. A really nice looking set. My neighbor said she was getting rid of it because it didn't get channel 7 very well. I thought nothing of that and figured at least I'll be able to watch the other channels. I told my brother about the channel 7 problem......he looks at me like I was an idiot and finally said "nobody around here gets channel 7 good. That's the weakest channel we receive." ooooops. too late to give the TV back.....she already bought a new one.
The comparison of the two RCA color tv ads. The older ad the sets were actually made by RCA. ..in the U.S. The newer ad sets are made overseas by some foreign conglomerate licensed to use the RCA name.
The previous incarnation of radio -- the console (floor model) sets -- are the same. Their owners think they're worth many hundreds, but you can't give most of 'em away. Pianos, also -- really just a burden to most people who are stuck with them.
Cars and gas are the same way. Fogies wax rhapsodic about how cheap everything was "back then", without reckoning both on inflation and improved quality. Cars were built to a strict price-point and were generally meant to last 5-8 years or 90,000 miles, whichever came first, yet were most often traded-in after just 3-4. They were far less safe, fuel-efficient, accessorized, and breakdown-free even than today's cheapest rides. My big, fully-loaded '58 Edsel would sticker-price at $37,800 today -- that's BMW/Volvo territory! Technology advances have brought a quantum leap in auto engineering, albeit not styling. I take my '41 Plymouth to the parade, but my 2008 Prius everywhere else.
That was a sad one with the iron lung. I wonder what they use now if someone would be unfortunate to get Polio? I used to go to church with a family in the late 1980's that had a son that contacted Polio from a medicine they gave children back then. They sued the crap out of someone and got a lot of money from it.Ah yes, the good old days of flying. Now they pack you in like sardines unless you fly like millionaires...
Damn...Electronics were expensive when I was a kid. $160 for that cheesy Sears Stereo? $200-$400 for a lame RCA TV ...? "Man that was real bread" back then ...
Coil Smoke That's because they were made in the USA and it helped keep people making decent wages for living. I'd gladly pay more for things that are made in the USA.
Well do I remember that first drivers ed film by the Ohio State Patrol. It was called “ Double Signal Thirty” That being their code for a double fatality. I graduated high school here in Canada, in 1971.
Adrian Nava Grow up. If you don't like the way other people live their lives then why don't you time travel back to the 50s when everything was just so damn perfect.
alot of mean words being said here. I wouldn't want to go back to the 50s or 60s! yikes! racism, lynchings, sexist statements and acts, homophobia everywhere..um. wait. That's TODAY
Nice, I love this video. I grew up just down the block from a J.M. Fields I knew their toy section very well. I can remember all my matchbox cars, 6 million dollar man action figure, many first edition Star Wars stuff and that Mr. Stretch Guy (forget the name). oh and buying crazy glue there when it first came out. I drove my mom "crazy" gluing everything everywhere A couple of other old department store at the time in CT. were called Two Guys and Caldor the department stores back then had personality and awesome customer service. Just what wally worlds tries to do now and days. A place like Stew Leonard's is a great place today but that's for food mostly. -thanx Fred
I remember when my parents bought our first new color TV, it was a big deal. They financed it for 12 months I think. They traded in our old TV. My grandparents gave us their old black & white TV when they got a new color TV. It went into my parent's bedroom. In 77 I got my own 19" Zenith color TV with built-in rabbit ears for my room. My mom didn't want me to play my Atari on the big TV because she didn't want the screen to be ruined. I had that Zenith until 2004. The on/off button went bad and it was cheaper to buy a new TV than get that one fixed. So I donated it to a TV repair shop. Besides, it weighed about 100 pounds.
The professor-type in that short about the optical illusion played a history professor during the intro segment of the old b/w Sci-Fi movie, "The Mole People." "Down and down..."
Did he just say homosexuality is contagious? A gay co-worker once told me it was okay to sit next to him because I couldn't catch his gay cooties. Of course, it was a joke,
Hitch hiking in 1974, I was 12, man picked me up, told me hh was dangerous, put his hand on the bench seat, slid it over by my thigh, at the next stop I jumped out of the car and ran for 12 miles, never looked back. I member him saying as I bolted "come back, I'll give you a ride home" yeh right!
I'll say one thing,...you had to be athletic or in good shape to Jitterbug in the 50's !...and nothing like good manners all the way around at the dinner table. Good times. Another great video. Many thanks!
I believe it is what you constructed it to be, for your own self, as to a nicer life,...better than the one you had to endure. A wish, as it were, that through that magical box, there was an opportunity, a chance, that maybe a good life could be obtained,...at least through a childs eyes.
stendec 5762 I love watching the old PSA's and commercials and then reading peoples' reminiscing afterwards. Thank you for writing something nice to share, instead of turning the comments section into a political and PC arena. The people like you are the ones that make the comments worth reading. Thank you for sharing your happiness..hopefully it will spread to the malcontents!
You are very welcome. I think to some degree, many of us, wished that we could have that type of life or family we saw on the screen in front of us, or we look back to a time that we thought of as simpler and more enviable than now. Anyways Mr. Fred always has a video that will bring a smile to most, who can remember what was.
stendec 5762 At 5:33 “do you know why brother and sister looked forward to the evening...”? I’m gonna guess that it’s something that was in the garage that’s now in that cake.
are you telling me that all of my life I could have been chatting on the internet instead of waiting to find out about the internet when I was in my late teens early 20's? why didn't my dad know about this? he had a computer. it was a commodore 64 but he was smart enough to find these things out. right now I am scratching my head screaming WHAT? at the computer. my life changes everyday as I learn new things on RUclips, the only school that has ever taught me anything.
The PSA about seat belts, is totally correct. I do not feel comfortable behind the wheel without my seat belt. Its become automatic. In fact, if you don't like wearing seat belts, YOU ARE NOT RIDING IN MY VEHICLE.
I have a '58 Edsel, a brand known for offering every option under the sun. But their seatbelt option was limited to FRONT SEATS ONLY, and these were crappy 60" strips of woven vinyl just bolted to the floor pan -- not welded to anything solid -- so they'd give way in the face of any really dangerous impact. All the rear-seat passengers got were some wimpy child safety locks and a padded front seatback. Before the late '50s, only Nash and a couple of other "minor makes" had even offered belts. Major manufacturers avoided offering them for a long time, even after the mounting and buckle technology had been perfected and they began to appear in cool colors, b/c they felt that drawing attention to belts would imply that you were more likely to have a crash in their cars. Until well into the '70s safety belts were seen by many motorists, too, as a nuisance, and cops usually didn't enforce laws mandating their use for at least a decade AFTER their installation was made mandatory for new cars starting in 1966. I, too, feel naked without a belt, but my parents (born in the late 1920s) never used them until they'd gotten ticketed a couple of times in the '90s for non-use. My mother used to say that she didn't buckle up b/c she wanted the chance to be "thrown clear" in the event of an accident -- to which I replied that she'd certainly be thrown clear -- through the windshield!
The 1900-2000 era is often referred to as the "lost century" by those on the inside track. Technology has been suppressed for the sake of money, credit, and hardline profiteering. Not to mention anything in particular. Look up "FLUXLINER" - Mark McCandlish.
Imagine having color tv advertisements back then, and your tv was black and white, so when they showed the color tv you were like,"Oh, this ad really convinces me."
The stereo from Sears for $159 would be expensive today, and it was $40 off. You can get a decent 200 watt receiver now for around $149. The prices for some things do go down.
I agree with Morgan. They forgot about Bonanza in color.I remember how badly I wanted a television with stereo speakers. I remember listening to The Cosby Show and The Facts Of Life in stereo. I loved it.Remember the Caribbean clothes they wore and danced to that music,also do you remember the episode on The Facts Of Life called "Seven Little Indians"? Where Tootie thought she killed all of the people in the house? I loved the music they played in the funny episode.I had one of those Presto burger makers.I received it from my grandparents when I was about fifteen. I loved it and cooked burgers in it until it broke.
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That bit about the iron lung should be shown to people who refuse to vaccinate their children. I lived during those years and remember how terrified my mother was.
Thank You.
I lived in the same years also. And boy, my mom, was the best mom, but when it came to her three children, she could turn into lioness protecting her cubs.
@miriambucholtz9315 mind your buisness
WOW.. It's like going back in time! I was born in 61, grew-up in the Groovin 60's... "Sock it to me?" - I recall eating dinner promptly 6:00 PM or no dinner, and AT THE DINNER TABLE ONLY... but Pop would have the TV set on so he could hear the news as my brother was in Vietnam. Anytime Cronkite showed footage of battle involving the USMC he'd run into the TV room and we kids would all go following him like a bunch of ducklings to see what the brouhaha was about lol. (My brother, Kurt was KIA in 68) - If the DDT truck was spraying we'd have to shut the doors and windows, a real bitch on those hot steamy Illinois evenings! Only on really rainy days did we ever stay inside, or when you were being punished... (first the ass whoopin then "GO TO YOUR ROOM") - playing OUTSIDE was "Where it's at, man!" Had me a gold & white Schwinn Chopper! Use to put a playing card in the spokes to make that cool sound! Damn I was cool! lol Once a year we were allowed to actually eat dinner & watch TV in the LR, When "The Wizard of Oz" was on, every October for some reason. We'd have Swanson's TV dinners and live like rich folk for a night ;) Now they are all dead, I'm the last one from my entire family... sure do miss em. Thanks for the upload!
Maybe a TV producer could make a show about a family living in the late '60s -- fashions, mores, ideas, etc. -- while everyone else around them is in the modern day. Kind of like that Brady Bunch spoof movie awhile back.
I had a cousin KIA near Khe Sanh in 68.
Here's a story my son can't believe. Gasoline was not only cheap-25 cents a gallon, but the gas station gave away stuff- drinking glasses, coffee mugs etc. with a fill-up. In the mid 60's I owned a small Honda motorcycle that took only about a gallon of gas to fill-up. I had a part-time job in a car wash and as an employee, got a nickle a gallon discount. I could fill-up my little Honda for less that 25 cents and often get change back.
Thank you Fred Flix. This is fabulous stuff, the memories are brought back, all of us alive and together. Some of these things, like the "TV Guide", made me want to cry. A week was incomplete if my grandma some how didn't get a TV Guide for the week's viewing pleasure. Thanks again, keep up the wonderful work about that era that was so innocent but gone forever. 1957 here!!!
About 20 years ago I watch my mom and step-father who where in their early 60's just tear up the dance floor doing the jitterbug.
I had that Sears stereo in the early 1970s. My parents hated it. The joke was on them a few years later when I got a 100W per channel stereo with preamps, tape deck and quad speakers. I almost blew out the windows playing Led Zeppelin.
@Summer Rose And don't forget the Power Amp and Pre-Amp with the tuner(receiver) and record player.
With me it was ACDC. They could hear "someone" blasting it a block away!
Donald? Donald Trump? Is that YOU?! What have you been doing with yourself?
Yeah I went through that phase 😂
I had a Montgomery Ward stereo.
I was born in 53 and the 50's and 60's were the best.
Idk if your still alive but your a year older then my dad he's cool as fuck. But ya your generation really was the best.
@@stevermacsoucher1625 Still alive and kicking
I was 60s 70s I'd rather 50s 60s
Excellent again, Fred! Our film during drivers ed was called "Red Asphalt". And, I vividly remember the Seat Belt ad. Must have made an impression when I was a kid. As soon as the commercial started, I could remember the script. Amazing how these little snipets do that.
I remember the script to that PSA, too, thought oddly not the visuals. The best-known teen-driver scare film is "Signal 30", which is here on RUclips. Signal 30 was the radio code phrase some police depts. used back then when an officer discovered a dead driver or passenger(s) at the scene of a car wreck and needed the meat wagon.
"IT'S 11 O CLOCK..."...DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE"?
csifwtt It’s 10PM...Do you know where your children are?
They need that today. Work retail many kids out late at night.
They need that today. Work retail many kids out late at night.
I told you last night NO!!
Where is Bart? His dinners getting all cold and eaten.
Love your channel. I was born in Dec 65 & I think we had the best time growing up in the 70s 😆
Thanks, Morgan.
The '50s, '60s and '70s were all good times to grow up.
+FredFlix amen!
Morgan Sparhawk seeing this video makes me glad I didn't grow up then
Ded Inside your loss
4:00 My parents still have that stereo with the 8-track recorder. The radio part no longer works, but the record changer and 8-track still works.
I remember those safety-ed films in drivers-ed. Never saw those anti gay ads.
Boy's beware went out in the mid-1960s with Duck and Cover (Bert the Turtle) when people realized how gullible they were and kids weren't. Driver's Ed lasted longer.
We didn’t need the ads. We already knew better.
That "what's your excuse" ad is really good. A clear and straightforward message.
There was a similar ad many years later designed to discourage people from smoking. It showed some humorous things that went wrong when people smoked, like the knucklehead who set a woman's dress on fire while trying to impress her, and every ad ended with the words "Is there any other reason to stop smoking?
killerosito I remember that commercial. SCARY!
killerosito no pun attended?
Rock & Bits, they should use this kind of ad to show what could happen to someone that refuses to wear a mask, to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, and it's variants. Wear your mask!
Very very special program in lively black and white!
That was a Jack Paar spoof. He walked out the NBC zebra...
That was a Jack Paar spoof. He walked out the NBC zebra...
The iron lung clip is a sad film.
Quite a lively selection of clips. Anti-Gay PSA, iron lung, fatal car crashes, Go-Go dancers, even some reminiscing about the American Dark Age, the 70's. Thanks, FredFlix!
You're welcome, Luis.
Luis Reyes , American dark age what you talking about
Born 1956. Really enjoying everything FredFlix posts!! Back to the good times!
Funny how hitch hiking wasn't frowned upon in the 50's, but 20 years later in the 70's there were PSA's telling you not to hitch hike!
+JENDALL714 You ever hear about serial killers, or rapists?
There's a reason for that. Do your own research to confirm, but the automobile industry in general was taking a major economic hit due to the excessive use of hitchhiking and carpooling.
PSA's were created to discourage hitchhiking, similar to the racist scare tactics used to illegalize hemp.
I’m going to take a wild stab and say hitchhiking was/is a terrible idea in any age. Even with horses and buggies.🤔
@@djdairyqueen4095 big business controlling the consumer through the goverment, he who has the most control the most
Ted Bundy happened.
FredFlix. Thank you very much Mr. FredFlix. You sure bring back some very precious and beautiful memories. The scene of the Ohio Highway Patrol at the accidents was a film we had to watch 4 times while going through the Police Academy.
Anti vaccine advocates need to watch that iron lung film and be made to understand that this was and is the result of polio. Is this the kind of life they really want for their kids??
@castletriglav yes you have its called boredom and or lazyness,, caused by the adrenaline in your body wanting release,
They are stupid and ignorant. The best thing you can do for an anti vaxxer is to make some money by printing up deeds for beach land in Nebraska to sell to them.
Iron lung machines are downright ugly I wonder if hospitals still have them?
I was born in 58, it’s fun to see the commercials and programs that I grew up with, there’s so much I had forgotten. It’s also fun to see what t.v. and life was like for my older siblings
“Yes, jimmy was going to play baseball all afternoon. Practice was just so much fun. He found out that he could both pitch AND catch”.
JeevesReturns He grew up to be a serial killer and Republican
Johnny X hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha..
Funny
@@DDios-ih9de
Then He came out of the Closet because Johnny kept switching between Bathrooms because it couldn't decide what it was, We call them Liberals.
Deborah O. *democrat scumbag
Lololol
Fred, you have the best channel on yt!. Thanks for all the wonderful memories
Love the go-go dancing and Remco radio ads.
You have done it again Fred! Thank you for another wonderful trip down memory lane! Please keep em' coming!
I sure will, HC.
I just love old things, I’m a big history nerd, specifically anything before the 80s and after the 10s, usually civil defense films but I’ll take anything I can get like fire safety PSAs and stuff, your videos are like a gift to a girl born in 2002, who’s obsessed with history
Haha you took the words out of my mouth except the girl part. I’m a guy
Fred, you’re keeping me sane during covid. ❤️
Happy to help, NancyDrewe.
Hmmm...iron lungs. My dad was up to his elbows treating these patients and told me he never worried about getting the virus himself. Remember the sugar cubes at school?
My older sister, younger brother and myself all took a sugar cube. This was done at our local high school's cafeteria! Thanks for reminding me.
What's the sugar cube? I was born in 1975
yeah i remember sugar cubes 3 of them i thiink
1:40 For those those who don't recognize them, that's Bill Haley & His Comets. :)
7:42 Wouldn't it be nice if you could save on labor by assembling your own (insert device here), like a smart phone? :)
I want a Remco toy!
Real good video. A good time capsule . Only problem is comments that don't improve anything.
Anti-gay PSA This reminds me of my high school speech teacher and a 16 year old student at the school he hooked up with back in 1980. Saw them 10 years after graduating High school. They were sitting in a bar...still together. Amazing he didn't get arrested for dating a teenager back then.
Surprising a May-December romance lasted that long...straight or gay. However, it is immoral for a teacher to date a student no matter their ages.Even in college.
@Jimmy Woo, didn't you get the 2021 memo? Morals have been outlawed, if you disagree you'll be CANCELED!!
I’m surprised it neither of them got arrested, if it was in the US, homosexuality wasn’t legalized until 2003, and gay marriage in 2015
@@whatsit2ya247 did you not read the original post? Nothing happened to the teacher in this relationship back then. If this happened nowadays, teacher would've been arrested for sure. Most people are against this. Not sure what you're going on about. Seems like you just wanted a reason to say the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
A stereo for only $159.95! I'm buying!
Seems like a different life. when people did not wear their issues on their sleeves.
@tinwoods I'm not buying it, tin. Today's millennials are insane. I'm serious. One should be able to disagree without shieking as if the world was ending. but God will take care of the milennials ahha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
And a better time for social relationships because back then people had "reserve" out of respect for one's personal privacy and right to self-determination. Gone now!
@Nathan Long The joke is on you Nat. Satan is going to take the malcontents out. God is going to let you suffer your own consequences. Now that is poetic justice if ever I have heard it.
@Nathan Long I am not threatening any one, Nathan. You are putting words in my mouth. God as warned you so that you have a chance to change and be spared. And as for Satan's plans, you can take that up with him. Me? I'm going to cooperate with God thanks to the right to worship or speak as I please. I know you leftiists will eventually get rid of the Bill of rights. There are no rights except what the left says you can say and you are very loyal to your cause. that is why you like to lie so much. Stalin would be proud of you!
@@diligenceintegrity2308 I can’t wait to go to hell and not feel my souls burn because I’m dead wow gee I’m very spooked. It’s people like you are why I’m this close to becoming an atheist.
The only one of those segments I remember was the seat belt commercial. I do remember watching the car accident films shown to us in Driver's Education but they were more graphic than the one that was shown. I remember one film that actually showed some guy's brains falling out of his head when he was picked up to be put into the ambulance. That was as graphic as a rated "R" movie and they were showing that to 16 year olds! That anti-gay film was very disturbing. That was the time when gays were thought to be as bad as rapist. Today they would say "serial killer" for the reason NOT to hitch hike.
from the comments it appears many folks don't realize that television has never portrayed reality. ever
frank facts even today. watch the news for 2 seconds and ull say "who told u that shit"
frank facts What about jerry springer? Just kidding
frank facts What about jerry springer? Just kidding
frank facts
Yes it did. Back then problems were always solved in 23 minutes.
That's why the smarter name for it is the "Idiot Box"...or the"Boob Tube"...Some people once called it exactly what it has always been!
My mother expressed her embarrassment over the Soviets being able to see how dumbed down Americans were, by seeing what was being shown here on TV...like the Beverly Hillbillies & I Love Lucy etc. !!!🙆!!!
... she was smarter than the average mom 💔
Trivia note...the "What's Your Excuse" PSA was the first ad aired on the first episode of the Bob Barker PRICE IS RIGHT September 4, 1972
The opening of the first PSA is the beginning of Panic @ the Disco's "Casual Affair"
I'm wrecked
"The Good ol ' Days weren't always good.And tomorrow is not as bad as it seems"
-Billy Joel.
the homosexual segment was clearly shows the ignorance of the time. what they were showing was a pedafile after his prey. gay men like men not kids. the segment of the jitterbug was really wild. the movements of the dancers looked like you had to be in the Olympics. notice all the girls are wearing flat shoes not high heels. doing those moves you could never wear them! the cigarette ads showed people smoking and laughing, back then they promoted it like they were selling candy! little did they know they were killing themselves and paying to get lung cancer and heart disease. things have changed since then!
I remember the drivers Ed videos we had them in my class in 85
You did it again Fred , You make the "BEST" looking back series around . I still have the sears record/cassette player , and it still works ! The t.v.'s are so iconic , do you all remember horizontal and vertical hold ? We even had a remote control then , we called him "Dad" ! ! LOL . . . 🤨 . . 😠 . . 😁
Sharon, I was the remote control in my Dad's house.
@@FredFlix WOW . . How lucky ! . . My dad was a strict military Sargent (no really I'm not kidding) . . . 🇺🇸 . . and that's how he ran the house . . 🏡 I on the other hand was a lowly private ! ! . . 🤷
I was born in December 1 1964 I really enjoy your channel. I love the memory's 💯💙
Ahhh the good ole days sure better than now😁😁😁 Someone invent a time machine so I can get out of here!!
good old days with anti-gay psas eh?
"I hope he doesn't listen to Rock N Roll -- I hope he doesn't want to ride motorcycles," -- my mom and dad's "friends" referring to me back in the late 1950s. Sheesh!
Dang! TV's were expensive then and many were black and white until later models came out.. You can buy a little bit bigger HD color TV for that price nowadays!
Karen Albers My sister's just turned 12 and we were buying a TV for them, and we literally found a 55" 4k Tv for 498 dollars!
Only 40 dollars more expensive then the Tv's back then. Wow.
Karen Albers, yes they were expensive, I only had black and white TV while growing up. In 1978 I purchased my first TV it was a huge old RCA console 25" color TV that I spent $225.00 on, it was only that cheap because it was used and purchased from a friend.
And you can pick the new ones up and move them without help or hernias. New ones have no style though.
@@jimmywoo3885 Remember those huge ones in the 90s that you could only carry one way with help? We had a Sony and whenever we moved it we had to hold it a certain way or it would roll over.
cant trust anyone for a hitch hike ride today. I remember hitching rides on back of a wagon loaded with livestock in the 70's when farmers traveled to the next pasture to drop off their live stock.
David Hendrickson well I saw a gay person and they did indeed look sick
that does not relate to this in the slightest
I wouldn't want my kids hitchhiking, but we've gone overboard. People rarely let their kids play outside these days. Actually, child abductions are down. Of those missing, only 1% are due to stranger abductions. Most are taken by someone they know such as a non-custodial parent. Or, they've run away. I think it's a shame that kids aren't out and about riding their bikes and playing with friends.
I've marveled at the fact of not seeing children out on their bikes these days. I don't want to turn pc in the section here just enjoy,but I noticed on morning local news Kevin Spacey was accused of making an unwanted advance to a male on Star Trek set in the 1980's.Spacey being 24 the person was 14 or 16 I believe.Well,it was the 1 accusation is all not a string of people,& his accusation was that Spacey " laid on top of him." It doesn't sound necessarily sinister.Did he make it sexual?Did he persist after the kid said hey no? But the point I want to make is Spacey apologized so I guess its an admission of being at least out of line,& used the opportunity to admit "being gay" & it appears he apologized & made admit to being gay in the context of," I've struggled with homosexuality & such inclinations." I assume the man is or has been married & had a child or 2 at least being a person of means etc.So responses suggested this admission was just to deflect or distract & that it was no different than a straight man trying to explain or excuse inappropriate behavior (or worse) toward a woman by "admitting to" being straight.There's where I see today's pc being different & being harmful.It does appear to me Spacey is trying now to do the right thing & that he is making his admitting to "being gay" in that context of saying "I've struggled with homosexual inclinations" .As in he is a family man,&wants to be known as such & views himself as such, but has struggled with this,& he has never felt it was right.Therefore he has resisted it, & has had a hard time resisting those urges, he felt were inappropriate.Now, modern society would tell you such inclinations are perfectly innocent.And the man needs to be able to decide that for himself,& in that light I do accept it having some bearing on his behaviour.And if nothing more comes out and the incident was only what's been reported it appears he was a long way from doing anything illegal.He needs to be allowed to view those urges as inappropriate and something he wants to resist.Society now would urge him to embrace homosexuality & that his fighting it and guilt led to his out of line behaviour I believe. Anyway it seems to me the man didn't go too far so to be criminal & is trying to do the right thing.An admission & apology is far more than in other instances similar. And the admission to "being gay" I feel in this instance my observation on that is correct.And that wouldn't excuse any behaviour but in my mind it would in fact serve as a sort of explanation.And the admission and apology shows he wants to do the right thing,& I believe also demonstrates he wants to change or the better & not have any part of a homosexual lifestyle.I just see today's society taking that in so many places that will all be more harmful than anything else.I know today we would never see a psa like that first one, but I can personally understand a psa like that. It just today would need to be portrayed as predators in general.And of course that's he that gender wouldn't necessarily play a role.They might be straight or not and still e dangerous.
Randy Johnson yeah.., thanks for not going all pc on us. Moron.
I saw this anti gay psa on grade a under a’s channel and I had to watch a few just cuz I wanted to hear it fully
Those driver ed films scared the fool out of me! Made me nervous to even ride in a car for days afterward.
It's a shame more kids didn't take them seriously. Maybe if kids today had an updated "Signal 30" or "Mechanized Death" they'd take heed.
@@ChristopherUSSmith or Anatomy of an Accident
I used to ride my thumb all the time in California. And it never failed that some guy would grab my crank it was disgusting. What made it worse was if I got picked up by a female i'd never get molested. I was sure glad when I got my own car. Now when I want to ride an airplane, some guy wants to grab my crank again! It's like Deja-Vu. Now I need to get my own airplane.
When everything was made in America. Not cheap Chinese Gulags. We don,t even make ashtrays anymore! Now your likely to be thrown off United by brute force, for asking for a cheap bag of peanuts and the stewardesses are not gorgeous college girls in mini dresses anymore.
For every job outsourced, there was an American board of directors that put it there. Lining their own pockets with profit through cheap labor. It didn't help that consumers chose low prices over jobs.
Guitar Man there forced to buy cheap as the government keeps taxes high wages low. People pick up the cheaper product
It's a vicious circle
@@thegoldendog7991 they had to buy the low prices cause they had no job any more. Instead, we should have banned imports to keep jobs here. We can thank our sellout politicians.
Thank you! I enjoyed sharing this with my 20 year old . Blood on the Highway was shown in my drivers ed class in
Ohio! Yikes! 🤣❤️
Mine too, in 1977.
That iron lung clip, wow!
Good stuff thanks again, Fred!!
You're welcome, orgenoburt.
RE: Color TV
Funny Story: In about 1975 my neighbor gave me their 1965 RCA color TV with remote control. It was a big, HEAVY, wooden floor model that must have cost a fortune in 1965. A really nice looking set. My neighbor said she was getting rid of it because it didn't get channel 7 very well. I thought nothing of that and figured at least I'll be able to watch the other channels. I told my brother about the channel 7 problem......he looks at me like I was an idiot and finally said "nobody around here gets channel 7 good. That's the weakest channel we receive." ooooops. too late to give the TV back.....she already bought a new one.
How did I miss this one, Fred? I know, I still had a flip phone 2 yrs ago! Great clips
Thanks, Fred, for the look back. As for me, I'm goin' to a go-go.
I don't think that's the little red corvette Prince was singing about.
One never knows when the homosexual is about
to quote catch 22, "Balls!"
Rev VanMev yeah. We "demand" intimate relationships with members of our own sex xD
One never knows when the homosexual is about, but if dancing breaks out, you have a pretty good clue.
jack flash 😂😂😂
judging by what's being said here, the world has not changed much, we're just being careful not to say out loud. Scarey!
The comparison of the two RCA color tv ads. The older ad the sets were actually made by RCA. ..in the U.S. The newer ad sets are made overseas by some foreign conglomerate licensed to use the RCA name.
some cool dance moves of that time
7:15 I remember those on display at Sears and Montgomery Ward, they were expensive as hell. Now people call the junk haulers to remove them.
The previous incarnation of radio -- the console (floor model) sets -- are the same. Their owners think they're worth many hundreds, but you can't give most of 'em away. Pianos, also -- really just a burden to most people who are stuck with them.
@@50zcarsman 15-20 years ago pianos were still expensive as hell, in the 90s I wanted one and now people give them away for free on Facebook.
WOW those console color TVs were starting at $495, adjusting for inflation that would be over $4,000 in 2018.
I know, huh? And that would be maybe a gigantic 20 inch
We had one I remember as a child my father got discounts on electronics..he knew a lot of Italian..
Bussiness men 🙄😒😊😉
TV's were more expensive back then...from the 50s to the 80s or so. And so much heavier. Yet...Great style IMHO.
@Rose Treiger Back then you could buy a new car for about $1300.
Cars and gas are the same way. Fogies wax rhapsodic about how cheap everything was "back then", without reckoning both on inflation and improved quality. Cars were built to a strict price-point and were generally meant to last 5-8 years or 90,000 miles, whichever came first, yet were most often traded-in after just 3-4. They were far less safe, fuel-efficient, accessorized, and breakdown-free even than today's cheapest rides. My big, fully-loaded '58 Edsel would sticker-price at $37,800 today -- that's BMW/Volvo territory! Technology advances have brought a quantum leap in auto engineering, albeit not styling. I take my '41 Plymouth to the parade, but my 2008 Prius everywhere else.
That was a sad one with the iron lung. I wonder what they use now if someone would be unfortunate to get Polio? I used to go to church with a family in the late 1980's that had a son that contacted Polio from a medicine they gave children back then. They sued the crap out of someone and got a lot of money from it.Ah yes, the good old days of flying. Now they pack you in like sardines unless you fly like millionaires...
This stuff is just amazing to me! I look forward to finding a new unbelievable video everyday! Thank you !
Glad you enjoy it them, Nicole.
the iron lung was horrible, would not death be better than this living hell
Especially with only three, sad channels on TV.
Love it a blast from the past!
Damn...Electronics were expensive when I was a kid. $160 for that cheesy Sears Stereo? $200-$400 for a lame RCA TV ...? "Man that was real bread" back then ...
Coil Smoke
That's because they were made in the USA and it helped keep people making decent wages for living. I'd gladly pay more for things that are made in the USA.
How did my family ever get by without a training movie showing us how to have dinner?
Brian Arbenz
Without that we’d all just be flinging pot roast at each other from across the room.
@@JeevesReturns Wow, you too? I thought it was just my family that did that! "Please pass the gravy, Sis..." SPLASH! Fun times...
Well do I remember that first drivers ed film by the Ohio State Patrol. It was called “ Double Signal Thirty” That being their code for a double fatality. I graduated high school here in Canada, in 1971.
Golden rule...still works...
I didn't realize TV was that High .
we need more scare films. kids today are way to open abouy anything!
Adrian Nava Grow up. If you don't like the way other people live their lives then why don't you time travel back to the 50s when everything was just so damn perfect.
I wish I could Brodie.
alot of mean words being said here. I wouldn't want to go back to the 50s or 60s! yikes! racism, lynchings, sexist statements and acts, homophobia everywhere..um. wait. That's TODAY
"we need more scare films. kids today are way to open abouy anything!" Yeah, like shame based religion for starters.
+Adrian Nava Yeah! One about priests.
Nice, I love this video.
I grew up just down the block from a J.M. Fields I knew their toy section very well. I can remember all my matchbox cars, 6 million dollar man action figure, many first edition Star Wars stuff and that Mr. Stretch Guy (forget the name).
oh and buying crazy glue there when it first came out. I drove my mom "crazy" gluing everything everywhere
A couple of other old department store at the time in CT. were called Two Guys and Caldor
the department stores back then had personality and awesome customer service. Just what wally worlds tries to do now and days. A place like Stew Leonard's is a great place today but that's for food mostly.
-thanx Fred
Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic? Or Gumby?
Hi Fred, Mr. Fantastic I think. He was about 10 inches to a foot long and stretched to at least 3x his original size.
Think it was Stretch Armstrong.
yes yes Bill that was the name. Thank you for the great memory. Did you have one?
Unfortunately,no,but I remember the commercials,thought the name was kinda cool.
I remember when my parents bought our first new color TV, it was a big deal. They financed it for 12 months I think. They traded in our old TV. My grandparents gave us their old black & white TV when they got a new color TV. It went into my parent's bedroom. In 77 I got my own 19" Zenith color TV with built-in rabbit ears for my room. My mom didn't want me to play my Atari on the big TV because she didn't want the screen to be ruined. I had that Zenith until 2004. The on/off button went bad and it was cheaper to buy a new TV than get that one fixed. So I donated it to a TV repair shop. Besides, it weighed about 100 pounds.
Ray S My dad bought our first color tv so he could watch Bonanza, I liked Flipper, Wild Kingdom, And Disney better.
The professor-type in that short about the optical illusion played a history professor during the intro segment of the old b/w Sci-Fi movie, "The Mole People." "Down and down..."
Did he just say homosexuality is contagious? A gay co-worker once told me it was okay to sit next to him because I couldn't catch his gay cooties. Of course, it was a joke,
I watch this and say I miss the world as it was , evil is the new norm God help us
Hitch hiking in 1974, I was 12, man picked me up, told me hh was dangerous, put his hand on the bench seat, slid it over by my thigh, at the next stop I jumped out of the car and ran for 12 miles, never looked back. I member him saying as I bolted "come back, I'll give you a ride home" yeh right!
Thanks for the memories.... and triggering the SJWs ;-]
subbed
Ken Durham Oh yes, not being a homophobe means you are an SJW.
@@timleothard7592 I'll bet you are
@Martin Dennis up yours . Oops
I want the Remco radio station
I'll say one thing,...you had to be athletic or in good shape to Jitterbug in the 50's !...and nothing like good manners all the way around at the dinner table. Good times. Another great video. Many thanks!
stendec 5762 how exactly was it good
I believe it is what you constructed it to be, for your own self, as to a nicer life,...better than the one you had to endure. A wish, as it were, that through that magical box, there was an opportunity, a chance, that maybe a good life could be obtained,...at least through a childs eyes.
stendec 5762 I love watching the old PSA's and commercials and then reading peoples' reminiscing afterwards. Thank you for writing something nice to share, instead of turning the comments section into a political and PC arena. The people like you are the ones that make the comments worth reading. Thank you for sharing your happiness..hopefully it will spread to the malcontents!
You are very welcome. I think to some degree, many of us, wished that we could have that type of life or family we saw on the screen in front of us, or we look back to a time that we thought of as simpler and more enviable than now. Anyways Mr. Fred always has a video that will bring a smile to most, who can remember what was.
stendec 5762
At 5:33 “do you know why brother and sister looked forward to the evening...”? I’m gonna guess that it’s something that was in the garage that’s now in that cake.
Jimmy rode more than Ralph's thumb.
In glorious black and white
Wow! JM Fields. They had a pretty decent sporting goods section.
40 years later and our energy problem stiil isn't solved.
are you telling me that all of my life I could have been chatting on the internet instead of waiting to find out about the internet when I was in my late teens early 20's? why didn't my dad know about this? he had a computer. it was a commodore 64 but he was smart enough to find these things out. right now I am scratching my head screaming WHAT? at the computer. my life changes everyday as I learn new things on RUclips, the only school that has ever taught me anything.
starr fisher you should have Googled how to use the Internet.
The PSA about seat belts, is totally correct. I do not feel comfortable behind the wheel without my seat belt. Its become automatic. In fact, if you don't like wearing seat belts, YOU ARE NOT RIDING IN MY VEHICLE.
I have a '58 Edsel, a brand known for offering every option under the sun. But their seatbelt option was limited to FRONT SEATS ONLY, and these were crappy 60" strips of woven vinyl just bolted to the floor pan -- not welded to anything solid -- so they'd give way in the face of any really dangerous impact. All the rear-seat passengers got were some wimpy child safety locks and a padded front seatback. Before the late '50s, only Nash and a couple of other "minor makes" had even offered belts. Major manufacturers avoided offering them for a long time, even after the mounting and buckle technology had been perfected and they began to appear in cool colors, b/c they felt that drawing attention to belts would imply that you were more likely to have a crash in their cars. Until well into the '70s safety belts were seen by many motorists, too, as a nuisance, and cops usually didn't enforce laws mandating their use for at least a decade AFTER their installation was made mandatory for new cars starting in 1966. I, too, feel naked without a belt, but my parents (born in the late 1920s) never used them until they'd gotten ticketed a couple of times in the '90s for non-use. My mother used to say that she didn't buckle up b/c she wanted the chance to be "thrown clear" in the event of an accident -- to which I replied that she'd certainly be thrown clear -- through the windshield!
We got the sex and the rock'n'roll . . . whatta' 'bout the drugs?
16:45
The 1900-2000 era is often referred to as the "lost century" by those on the inside track. Technology has been suppressed for the sake of money, credit, and hardline profiteering. Not to mention anything in particular. Look up "FLUXLINER" - Mark McCandlish.
Imagine having color tv advertisements back then, and your tv was black and white, so when they showed the color tv you were like,"Oh, this ad really convinces me."
Ligana Gonies
It’s like taking a blind person to an art museum. I’ve been 100% colorblind since birth, so they were wasting their time with me.
Oh wow...good one Fred...nice job...trip down memory lane...totally groovy. Connie
Amazing that the table model RCA black and white cost as much in 1950 dollars as a 60 inch Flat Scrern from Best Buy or Wal Mart costs today
Iron lungs (polio in the 1950s) to ventilators (Covid-19 in 2020) -- sadly, some things never change. :-(
The stereo from Sears for $159 would be expensive today, and it was $40 off. You can get a decent 200 watt receiver now for around $149. The prices for some things do go down.
The days when the police department actually cared about the public and were able to do the job.
They still care.
Somebody please show the iron lung PSA to Jenny McCarthy.
1964DB
Yeah, I loved the description of that whole experience. Wipe my mouth? That’s not the end I’d be concerned about.
Sadly, with Ee_Zee payment plans, some people are still paying that darn TV off😄
I agree with Morgan. They forgot about Bonanza in color.I remember how badly I wanted a television with stereo speakers. I remember listening to The Cosby Show and The Facts Of Life in stereo. I loved it.Remember the Caribbean clothes they wore and danced to that music,also do you remember the episode on The Facts Of Life called "Seven Little Indians"? Where Tootie thought she killed all of the people in the house? I loved the music they played in the funny episode.I had one of those Presto burger makers.I received it from my grandparents when I was about fifteen. I loved it and cooked burgers in it until it broke.
Was that Ed Wood warning us about homosexuals?
Augusto's discount helicopter rides -- whoever it is, they do have Ed Wood's mad moviemaking skillz.