Life as a Teenager in 1940s America (Colorized)
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- Today we delve back in time into the captivating world of teenage life in 1940s America. In this mesmerizing collection of vintage photographs, we bring to life the vibrant experiences, cherished moments, and timeless fashion that defined an era.
Join us on a nostalgic journey as we explore the iconic styles that teens sported during the wartime years, from classic saddle shoes and swing dresses to effortlessly stylish hairstyles. Witness the spirit of resilience and camaraderie as young hearts navigated the challenges of a world at war while still finding joy in simple pleasures.
Get ready to be transported to a time of sock hops, jukeboxes, and first loves. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a fashion aficionado, or simply curious about life in the past, this video will immerse you in the spirit of the 1940s and remind you that the essence of being a teenager knows no bounds, transcending generations.
Don't miss this chance to relive the moments that shaped a generation and celebrate the enduring spirit of teenage life in 1940s America.
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Feels like that should have been my life. Great presentation and pictures.
Absolutely love this. Reminds me of my Grandma and all the fun she had as a teen in the late 30s & 40s. Minus WWII.
Nice collection of photos. Thanks.
A thing to think about…many of those high school boys were soon off to fight in WWII…. my mom graduated high school in 1942…75% of the male graduates in her school were killed in the war….never forget those fine young men
My goodness, how far we have fallen. I would trade everything I have to go back and live in those times. For real.
I wouldn't. As much as I find the simplicity of everything attractive, it would mean giving up way too many advances in medicine.
The fallen began with the hippie druggie generation.
@@RuckFussia Wrong !!! did you see any obese people? They were much healthier than we. Best part....they enjoyed life...life was much fuller. I remember the 50's....and what we have now is a disgrace.
@@gustavoperez5480 I lived it...and you are so darn right !
@@domenicv7962 thanks.
Kids - especially the girls - dressed way better then. Plus, they were so fit and trim as well.
Great pictures. Thanks!
They got class in those days.Simple yet neat and clean.
The girls looked amazing i have old photos of women and girls in my family dressed like that.great video...
I was born in the wrong era. I’ve long had a fascination with this time period in America.
When life was more innocent for all !!!
Even though I wasn’t born yet, I miss it! 😢
You might want to read about the 40's dude. WW2 & holocaust was not innocent.
Thank you for all these pretty pics. Good looking and nice dressed people all around in these days. Look at the clean streets! Very sad camparison with today.
Very sad how low we've gone in self respect and respect for others
Wow, everyone is in such good shape.
We didn't have much junk food available back then. Mom served us Quaker Oatmeal every morning (with whole milk).
I work in a hospice residential home and all these residents, with their pictures from the 40s and 50s, they were all so beautiful or handsome..one lady said her secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink and never go to bed mad with your significant other..❤
So many relaxed and happy people ☺
Their world so so far removed from the craziness and anxiety of today, no wonder they were happy.
@@ozrob8726Guess you weren’t aware of a war going on during this time
@@ozrob8726 I remember that time well as I lived it. I lived in a mid sized town, most people did not lock their doors and there was a relaxed and easy going pace.
My great-grandmother has a colorized photo of herself and my great-grandpa (WWII Air Force pilot)
I really did wonder what life was like for my grandparents when they were my age. Thank you so much for the photos.
If time could only stand still and we could live like we did in the 40, 50s and 60s I noticed how everyone dressed so nice. Back than we had no distractions families were real families that got together and enjoyed each others company.
Families had Sunday dinners and went for a drive. People felt connected now with each generation we’ve lost so much of what made us human. People are like robots staring at their cell phones children are no longer safe at schools oh I could go on and on. I was born on New Years of 67 and for some reason I just thought the world would stay the same I can remember watching my favorite show Little House on the Prairie it felt like time moved slow when it was actually moving fast and now that I’m older I look back and it almost feels like a dream time is the biggest thief. I am grateful I lived in an era where life felt safe the kids today with their electronics will never know the world I grew up in because it’s something you have to experience to understand. I would say the world changed through the tv the type of programs the electronics was our biggest deceiver because it’s replaced everything that is good. Families no longer get together every connection is through social media and that’s a cold way of communicating.
Classrooms full of neat, well-behaved, clean-cut and disciplined young people. While they're all stylish there no extremes. No piercings, tattoos, overly made-up, overweight or trashily dressed people. They seem very well-disciplined and serious. How tragic it so completely different today.
I have a hunch they wouldn't have kept photos of … non-perfect … classrooms.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research and we are at a turning point in society. We have already met a fork in the road and society went a certain way. We are seeing the effects of that choice. If you ask yourself, what was the turning point in our society? You can ask yourself what decade did this start? Eventually, I believe anyone would arrive at the 1960s with the notorious title of “sexual revolution.” During the 1960s one of the most monumental things in human history happened Vatican 2. I don’t want to explain everything it would be too long. During all this time, we even have homosexuals who can legally get married and now we are at a point where we have adults who are not hiding their faces and promoting pedophilia they are trying to normalize sex with children. You can look this up for yourself even the UN wants to drop the age of consent or have no age of consent. Like a prophet Dr. James Dobson predicted all this, he said once homosexuals are allowed to get married. Once those floodgates are open anything goes even pedophilia we have arrived. He said this 20 to 30 years ago.
You can thank the democrats & the left for that; they've been destroying this country since Vietnam War ( the '60's)
@@hotguyinhouston713I think the great slide started in '62 when prayer was removed from the schools. Then another slide in '73 with Roe v Wade, then in '03 with sodomy laws being removed for all 50 states, then in '15 with SCOTUS and their gay marriage ruling, which knocked the floodgates open. And now we are in God's judgment of our nation and the world.
@@mediocreman6323 The worst classroom back then we're the equivalent of the best classroom now tbh
That was brilliant!!
Wow, dozens of photos of beautiful girls and handsome men, and not one tacky tattoo to be seen. What a time to be young.
Yep.
Tattoos are so vile
Tattoos are actually gross....and what is really sad is that the people that get them dont even realize this.....just imagine what these tattoos will look like when they are in their 60s and 70s......omg!!!!
@@keithbrown8814 Yep. I'm knocking on the door of 60. My buddies who have tats ? Yeah, looks pretty sad.
@@ButcherBird-FW190D 58 and no tats for me. If I feel the need to tell a story, I'll write a book before I let somebody color on me. I outgrew that in third grade.
I was born in 1950. I grew up with a lot of the 1940's still noticed in the 50s. The 40s teenagers had class. No piercing of their lips or pierced nose rings or lots of STUPID tattoos. Also, no grossly overweight fat female pigs like we see today at the supermarkets. Even their toddler kids are grossly overweight. I wish I could turn back 75 years ago.
Wow. How very rude of you to call someone a fat pig. You know most of our food here in America is geared to kill us, right? It's horrible, and not many can afford healthy food. However, I won't bother trying to teach you since obviously if you are calling someone a 'fat pig' you must be a child. Very unkind, I hope you gain maturity and understanding.
Magic-ppl still make choices on what they eat and how much they eat. Fat pig may be strong, but pretending everyone is a victim is a huge part of the problem.
You disgust me.
You most definitely would enjoy Jim Crow laws & segregation / race regulations sundown towns the Ku Klux Klan & voter suppression, poll tax no seatbelts and lead in everything from pipes, plates along with asbestos etc.
Jim Crow laws were a feature of the American South. They were around a lot longer than the KKK.Even so, blacks were treated like second class citizens at best. WW2 very much opened the eyes of many whute Americans because it showed where institutionalized racism could lead a nation to treat its racial minorities. Remember that it was progressive thought in the 1930s to value eugenics and racial superiority, and that was carried into the '40s. Credit the teenagers of the 1940s doing the hard work to change society for the better, however imperfectly.
Dignity, class and pride
Everything was clean and neat back then.
I really miss that, too. Things weren't perfect, but at least they were neater.
Clean, neat and a distinct lack of meth heads.
Nowadays, anything goes.
❤
They were more put together…
Great music!
The girls were so beautiful.
Looked clean, not fat, no tattoos, didn't seem like they had a need to show a "whale tail" or camel toe,
had a sense of self respect and class.
It would be great if we could bring back those ideals to clean up the mess we're living in now...
I prefer the world today where girls free the nipples and show other assets.
Great idea to clean up the mess, but you need biblical truth and principles to do that, but most reject it. Which is why we're in devolution, going down on a one wing plane.
Biblical truth and principles... Like the priest pedophile scandal!!! @@Strive1324L
fyi the WW2 & Holocaust and rise of fascism and Nazi Germany were a mess. pls gtfoh
So boys and girls dressed well and were clean and looked proper. They had pride in their appearance. The girls didn’t dress like street walkers and the boys didn’t dress like they were still 9 years old.
What you're viewing is called "Selection bias". The only teens that had their pictures taken, and saved 100 years were the ones that looked "good". There were plenty of nerds, geeks, weirdos, ugly, and non-beautiful people in the 1940s who didn't have their pictures taken and saved. You're comparing the best of the 40s to the average of the 2020s. Not a fair comparison if you understand statistics.
@@TehSuperHero Lol you love leaving idiotic comments everywhere it seems.
@@saphrix4587 and you apparently love reading through them all. Thanks ;)
@@TehSuperHero And you like your own comments. How pathetic lmao
you probably need to be investigated for possession of CP
I wish that was my time instead of now. What a disaster we've become.
I think your videos don’t need the captions. Great, fun videos! Thank you!
Beautiful, Classy Generation of people 🤩
Those were the days 😊 when Ladies Truely were ladies and gents were gentlemen
I remember a few of these photos were in the time life books "this fabulous century" - loved going thru these books while in high school.
That's how the Founding Fathers always intended the USA to be....how come it all went so wrong ?
The last half of the 60s happened. I remember how sad and disappointed I was to see that psychedelic bit start to creep into everything right after I graduated high school. It felt like things started to gradually go sour from there.
@@miriambucholtz9315 Drugs were first introduced as a form of recreation in the early 60's. And now...... 🙄
Men allowed women to start calling shots.
Globalists, who funded both sides of WW1/2, decided that the only thing that could possibly stand in the way of their endgame global government, was traditional western Christian values and an armed populace of independent freedom loving men and women who actually fought for their rights... They have been eroding away our rights since 1913 Federal Reserve Act and beyond.
We lost many of these great young men in WWII, 1942-1945
You make a very important point - thanks for contributing!
I’m absolutely sure that in 1940’s older people were complaining how society had gone downhill, and how much better things were in the late 1800’s!
yeah....keep trying to justify the disgusting times we live in.
Nope. Not even close.
My grandma was class of 1946 in Ohio and is still alive as of 8-28-2023, 96 years old.
That's great to hear. I send her my warmest wishes!
@@TheHistoryLounge Ok :)
The girls looked like girls back then loved the long hair and dresses
4:23 Mcfly!!!!!
No tattoos, no nose rings, no breast implants, no ripped up jeans, very little makeup, no feminists, lots of dresses, no cellphones, and beautiful smiles. Those must have been wonderful years.
Except for the war.....
They were. Until the governments started another war.
@@cjay2 against its own country-people.
For a certain group i guess
If you were a white heterosexual man. That would be about 40% of the population.
wow :) (Yes, there was the war, but the 40s were an amazing time for fashion, music, cars, everything....)
Im 72 and I remember well when our town got its first Hardees drive through hamburger joint. Before then, we had drive in restaurants, but they brought the food out to your car and put a tray in the car window, attached with metal supports. With the new drive-through window, it was different. You got your hamburger faster and you didnt eat it in your car. There was no waitress to bring your food out to you, and no music. It just wasnt the same experience.
When boys were boys and girls were girls. So normal. Can't imagine that today without the weirdos pretending to be something they are not.
7474 What a timely and fitting comment, No Transgendered Debate those days.
Several of the same people in a few of the pictures. Thinking some of these pictures came from a family photo album. Good video.
They were so much more civilised and respectful back then and I say that as a teen
I was born in the wrong era... What happened to our once beautiful country? 💔
We The People have been sold down the damn river by our own Government.
Vatican 2 !!!!!
Satanic financial global elites, illuminati, masons, new world order, industrial-military complex, indeed they all planned, long time ago, the whole degradation of the human race (drugs, sex. rev., rock, atheism, bad dressing, bad attitudes, etc)... and they got it, far beyond their most hellish dreams.
The part with Jim Crow & Ku Klux Klan and segregation, voter suppression and poll tax etc. was not beautiful.
Those were anything but happy times, anywhere in the world...
You were still very lucky when you lived in the US at that time, I guess.
Enjoyed music as I was watching. The selection was much more fitting than the music used for some of your other videos. Well done!!
The drive inn is great, when traveling the back roads in New Mexico we came onto a closed down drive inn, the Marque had the last movie posted WATER WORLD,
Beautiful youth
People are screaming about race but it's about culture, specifically the absence of religion and the deregulation of nutritional standards in our food, mass medication, and lifestyle.
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i am sure it was a hell of lot better than the culture we have today! hope and change aint working no more folks!
Give me a time machine or some magic spells to send me back in time.
The 1940s was a more civilized time, it would have been great to grow up back then.
WW2 & holocaust and Third Reich & concentration camps, Jim Crow laws & segregation etc. pls gtfoh
@@fluffy1931The black community in the 40s and 50s were STRONG family unit based. STRONG religious based. Decent, humble, noble, intelligent. I wish everyone who is complaining would actually make a video.
Some of these seem so very A.I. inspired. Some seem legit enough. Either way, it's been another great video from a time I lived through once yet remember little about. Thank you for the upload and keep up the great work.
Great and proudy America
According to this video, almost everyone in the 1940s dressed well and was thin.
Fast forward to 2023, and I'm not sure what planet we live on anymore, especially since 2021, where everything and almost everyone has gotten so crazy, and bizarre.
As far as some comments regarding nostalgia for that decade, just remember that this was the time of the Second World War (1939- 1945), segregation in the Southern US (until 1965), relocation of Japanese-Americans during the war from 1942-1945 ( by President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 of 1942) and other racist laws by politicians, the start of the Nuclear Age and the Cold War (1945 -1991), etc.
Great Video. Be nice to have the play list that went along with the video 👍🏼✨
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Love your productions! How the heck do you get the high quality of of these old photo's? Love it....thanks
Beautiful video!!!!!!!!
Doesn't it seem like everyone was happier then?
It's pictures. When a picture is taken you smile.
@@loveisthethingno , it was just life without freaks
The 1940s were not much different from the 1950s (when I was born). The big changes came early in the 1960's. Hollywood was rapidly changing the way Americans viewed their culture. Some of those changes were good, but many positive aspects about how life should be lived were lost and need to be re-discovered.
Well said!
Woodstock and the Vietnam war were the fall of this country
Like, say for example, what it means to be a man? Or a woman? We currently have Supreme Court Justices who can't even answer that simple question...
Innocent times.
Did anyone notice how no one is overweight? Too many snack foods came along.
yeah, tasty and quick but unhealthy, most families had mothers at home preparing meals and managing the household.
The government has been letting corporate America poison us since the 70s at least
I love that music!
Wow, the young ladies respected themselves. Unlike, the young girls of today.
The teen birthrate in the 1940s was 54.1 per 100 females aged 15-19 (source Pew Research Center). In 2018 it was 17.4. Apparently the ladies of the 40s respected themselves about 3x less than they do now.
@@TehSuperHero birth control, in whatever form, was not as readily available in the 40s as it is today.....women today (and men too) are way more promiscuous than they were 80 some years ago !!!
Most of them were probably married!...
You had an “era appropriate” soundtrack for this video, which made it even more enjoyable to watch. Most do not go to the trouble of doing that, and for example use 1950s jazz in a 1930s era video, which is irritating. The music is always important! Thanks for this very entertaining & classy video of my favorite era!
I really like the 50's and 60's ones.
@kristybollan3872 - Thank you for your kind words! I always try to select music that is a match for the images. Thank you for noticing!!!
Hey, @jameseubanks1817 - I definitely have some more '50s and '60s videos coming up. Thanks for watching and stay tuned!
Wish I would of went to High school way back in the 1940s I would have fit right on in..
This generation was as tough as nails. Both my G-grandfathers served in WWII and had to experience some terrible things as I’m sure many many others did
Loved video ❤.
Little loud but turned down and all fixed.
Thank you for this
Hi, @missmissy_90 - Thank you for your feedback on the volume. Between the spoken introduction and the music, I'm continually trying to master the volume on these videos. Sometimes, when the volume level seems appropriate on my end, it turns out to be too quiet or too loud when it's played on RUclips. I'll continue to try and perfect this. Your comment helps - thank you!
@@TheHistoryLounge
Oh my goodness, I didn't expect a reply. It's easily fixed when too loud because we can turn down but yes, if too quiet I normally skip right by.
I probably wouldn't have on this video.
I love love love seeing photos from years ago.
You also got yourself a new sub.
Really enjoyed. 😎 👏🏻❤️
@@missmissy_90 Excellent, glad to hear it - Welcome! And again, you've helped me out, as I was kind of thinking the same thing. Better to err on the side of being too loud, rather than be too quiet and have people skip over. (I'll keep working on it!) Thanks for watching, and stay tuned as I have plenty more old photos in store!
I would say that the peak of happiness and wealth peaked in the mid 60's before it was slowly in decline, starting with the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Then the darker times began in the 70's when the Club of Rome, World Economic Forum and many other 'strange' organisations' were formed.
Kennedy assasination (1963), "summer of love" (1967), Rome club (1972), and 9-11 (2011) were the main turning points in today's chaos.
Most people of those days didn't leave home without being put together.
Now people go to the store in pajamas and slippers.😆
Well done thanks!!
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller
Doesn't mean you have to like the liberal BS that has made it worse.
Bueller......bueller.....
How many of these kids gave their lives in Europe or Southeast Asia a few years after these happy times ??
Anyone here like me who also believes they lived another life in the 40s before this one?
Like the killing of 6 million Jews? No we don't do that anymore
@@loveisthething aw come on
@@theblackrifle7824 that happened in the fourties. And there was a lot of poverty. The kids in the pictures are the privileged of that time
@jn2400 - Great comment! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Oh, that room with the girl and the pin ups, must have been that girl’s, brother’s room, she was checking under his mattress, lol.
Either that, or changing his sheets and dusting his room, along with helping her mother with the rest of the housework.
Or maybe she was a full blown, dyed in the wool lesbian.
These put a little twinkle in my eyes. I agree, people wrren't fat, with exceptions, of course. These days, fat is the norm and healthy is the exception. What went wrong, in a huge way. Okay, there were problems, but things were different. No cell phones. People actually talked to each face to face and truly had fun either at "inspiration points", diners, movies (in théâtres or drive ins), home parties, oh and The Hardy Boys and Nancy Deew. Remember them? I do and i'm only 67! Thanks a bunch!
I'm glad to hear this video could put a twinkle in your eyes! I definitely remember the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books - in fact, I still have some of those old hardcovers in my book collection today!
High fructose corn syrup for one, over medicating another.
It would be great if you had a social media page to put these photos up after the video release. 👍🏻
Amazing!!
Unlike today, look how thin the teenagers were.
And no stupid questions like "what is a woman?". The girls were feminine, the men were masculine, no tattoos, pink hair, or pronouns.
No Macdonald's, burger king, taco bell, Popeyes, Arby's, Domino's Pizza Wendy's, Carl's Jr, video games, social networks, etc ....
The Great Depression and rationing during WWII really helped keep people from over eating. To say nothing of the daily PT boys in high school received to prep them for the draft.
I know many girls today who have anorexia, so they’re very thin as well!
Kids back then didn't commit suicide because they weren't the sex they wanted to be.
Everyone was much more attractive back then! There was no obesity back then, everyone was much healthier. Everyone was so thin and beautiful and handsome. Nobody had hideous tattoos, piercings, or dyed hair. They were also very well dressed, all of them. WOW 🤩
You're calling 14-16 year olds attractive, you understand that right Andy?
@@TehSuperHeroYes.
@@TehSuperHero What's the problem with his observation? sounds like some new age nonsense to me, watch out Andy the thought police are onto you!
@@allstarscope Whats the problem with him being attracted to 14-16 year olds? You tell me, friend.
@@TehSuperHero Are you serious? its an observation, its you're own perverted mind that sees anything else in that comment maybe you tell me what the problem is? (Everyone was much more attractive back then! ) let you're victimhood mentality work magic and find something bad about that...
I'd love for this America to come back.
NOT ONE FAT PERSON!!!!! What a disaster we have become. Cannot look after ourselves and way too much fast food
nowadays, even the Pedestrian Crossing signs in the street show a FAT figure (instead of the traditional slim stick figure)!! America is now officially a joke.
When America was a better place without all the kooks and screwballs. We are in the end times now.
No one was fat
Obesity seems to be a modern problem of our own creation. Historic photos from the 1970's & earlier have almost no, zero, zip fat people. And everyone is so well dressed, no pajamas or torn pants.
Thank the FDA
This is what happens when they create lies to make people 'feel better' if you are fat people used to call you out untill you did something about the problem, now they call you a hero and start sucking on Lizzos toes!
It's like the dress codes worked! Boys had to wear dress clothes and a tie. Girls , a dress that came to the knee.
Then:Boys wore dress clothes. Now-Boys wear dresses.
Quit whining about race and enjoy the pictures
Says a whiner.
I agree briivey
@@jaengen build the wall, there are only two genders and the whites ended slavery
Get over it and there nothing you can do about it. We own you.
@@jamesrolfe9400wdym by “we own you”?
Nobody’s butt exposed in swimming suits!! 👏🏻
good job.
I don't see any tatoos on those kids. What happened?
Tattoos were for(some)military personnel, convicts.....or "hoods"
People are crazy today
Awesome 😎. God bless 🙏
Did we get uglier as a society?
Fatter and therefore uglier, yes.
And morally corrupt.
@@youuuuuuuuuuutube Oh sure.. "Fatter", yeah that's what we meant.. 🤥😆
Amazing how they looked all related in big group settings. Generations still living in the towns their ancestors settled I guess.
For the lack of diversity complainers, send your family photos to the creator. Help out or create your own channel.
But wouldn't that destroy the whole argument? Obviously these photos were designed to promote products to targeted consumers. It's just how it was. Can't fix past photograps or the history that they occurred, is all that is left is to pull down monuments and try and destroy your perceived enemy's history? If so, then prepare for a long bumpy ride. All of us.
@jquinones8654 - What a well-considered response and great suggestion! I can tell you those photos would be very welcome and useful in future videos! Thank you for your positive and constructive contribution!
@@jameseubanks1817: There are plenty of achieved photos which were intended to sell stuff to Blacks and Asians from that period
With all the pinks & pastels are sure this isn't the 1980's?
Kidding aside, I appreciate the colorization. It brings everyday life to the photos.
Ha, hah! Yeah - there are a lot of shades of purple, unfortunately. I waiver between the colorized versions and the originals, but in the end I agree with exactly what you said. The color tends to really bring the photos to life and make them seem more lifelike (even though it's very imperfect.) Thanks for watching and for your comments!
waw ....please ...we want photos ( Bars & resturant & cafe) very old days !! thank you !!
Pretty girls back then!
Strange. No tats or piercings. 😮
safer America before the deluded people gave our country away. look at the country now... particularly detroit and south los angeles.. see what i mean??