A 1952 documentary showing small town 50's America from morning to evening. Many kinds of people doing many kinds of work, and then bowling. 1952, B/W.
Current times are a literal golden age compared to the 50's. All in here are used to the convenience of a cell-phone and debit Visa card in their pockets...of getting virtually all you could imagine from anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. It would mean giving up all you are now used to to return to a MUCH more primitive, provincial way of life . You'd lose your minds...ESPECIALLY those under 25.
The racism, the bigotry, the close-mindedness, the constant judgement of others. Thank gosh MAGA will force this on all of us again!!! Weeeeee! Don’t step out of line!!!!
@@immortalobelisk6302 words like toxic masculinity, gender affirming, DEI, social justice, are all part of your vocabulary. We aren't in the same league.
@@immortalobelisk6302says the racist communist leftist who loves to lick big daddy government’s feet. The confusion and lack of what’s really going on by now makes your comment all that much more pathetic
I should play this on the nights I have trouble falling asleep. The sound of this guy's voice and the back ground music makes me so relaxed and makes me wish the world was still this way.
David, Life in the 1950s was VERY hard, VERY DEMANDING In that era, life was healthier, yes Corporations were not yet mandated to poison food, water and health care workers were not yet incentivized to slaughter the very young, Or the old But all that was already planned just as wwiii was...
"Elle scooter" My dad was born in 1912. He spent his earliest years in Puerto Rico and when he was approximately 10 years old his mom brought him to the mainland where he spent his young adulthood and the rest of his life. He says that lived in New York and Arizona and traveled on trains during the depression. He said that times were dangerous when he was a young man in the 1920s and he saw gang fights, people getting stabbed and shot, and young girls getting kidnapped, women being assaulted by their boy friends, and he lived in places where people had to lock their doors and have a big stick near the door ready to use in self defense in case anyone breaks in. He said that vagrancy used to be against the law way back then, and if a cop thought you looked like a vagrant then that cop would strike you with his billy club or punch you in the face and it happened to my dad.
Well we had an atari 2600 in i believe 81. Spent some time playing it. But spent most of our time outside. Specially in winter. Drifts were in place october to early march. We dig tunnels at the fire station
We went outside and played but we also gathered our friends to play games like baseball and football. We used our own brains. We sometimes had dads and older brothers as coaches but often we learned to settled disagreements among ourselves. Yes, we got mad but didn’t usually hold grudges. Not for long anyway.
As a child of age 4, I remember my grandmother getting her milk delivered to the door by her milkman. Those bottles had a paper seal on them. We would have to hurry from the bus to get home to get the milk in the fridge. It was such a delightful life. Her groceries were delivered to her home. She had a vegetable and flower garden in her yard. We would get goodies from the garden and beautiful flowers. I loved staying with my granny. However I missed the whole decade of having a doctor visit the house. If you were sick you went to the hospital and they kept you in there till your stiches or staples were removed. You might stay 1 to 2 weeks. I remembering staying an entire week in the pediatric unit for a broken arm with bone chips that had to be removed. A whole entire week! Nowadays you can go home the same day. It was interesting to be able to pick what you wanted off the menu and they gave you shots every 4 hours for the pain. LOL not in these days anymore! But I decided as a child I wanted to be a nurse from that experience because I had wonderful and loving nurses take care of me. I went on to be an RN
Jenny...There's something I didn't get:the milkman delivered the milk early in the morning to your granny.Unless she was unable to take the bottle in why did you have to hurry back home to get the milk in the fridge? Regardless it sounds a comfy life,if a little hard on women...'managing the house 'according to the comentary In Europe we didn't have it so good.We were deeply transformed by WWIi and would have been in a worse place had your country not come to the rescue.Thank you for that
One thing that is true about the 'good old days' is that people were more involved in community, church & social clubs. They built communities & helped each other out. Nowadays, people isolate. Everyone wants to do their own thing. Love how the video honors those that are working to keep the community running smoothly. Again, it's about working together for a greater purpose.
I especially like the fact that this film recognizes that housewives were important members of, and contributors to, the community. By the time I was a housewife in the 90s and early 2000s, that respect was gone.
I really think most moms staying at home the majority of the time rather than working full time facilitated this community engagement. When you have two people working full time with kids then the house still has to be dealt with there is no energy or time for as many social activities. This has hurt everyone as a whole. We threw the baby out with the bath water in many ways and denigrated the roles women had that really contributed to the functioning of families and society. If mom doesn't want to stay home and dad does, I get it...just speaking in generalizations quite obviously.
I was born in 1957 and grew up watching these types of films in school. Not to rain on everyone’s nostalgia parade but kids used to laugh at these back then because nobody had these “perfect” families and lives. There was a lot of sweeping things under the rug back then that today would be considered a crime or dysfunctional. The “old people” back then would talk about how “much better” life was in their youth in the 1890s and 1900s.
If your generation laughed at this Millwood film, then watching those character education films must have been a challenge - as in trying not to break out into fits of giggles in front of the teacher. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) does a great job of spoofing those films (heckling, scoffing) - at least to my tastes.
Unfortunately- you missed the Cinderella syndrome. Everything we watched - in general - was from “fairytales to my next step is…” oh yeah, what I was programmed to do, and then take a look at what was supposed to work. I always bring up w/people who are divorced like me, “Wouldn’t it have been great, if we raised our kids with someone we were in love with?” It’s so true for many of us!
@@lynnschopler2396 BINGO!!! My husband and I talk about this ALL the time. Everything was checking a box..graduate at “x” age, marry at “y” age, have children at “z” age, etc. The problem with that is you end up regretting you didn’t marry earlier or later when you did meet the right person. That happened with my husband and me. We were high school/early college sweethearts who married the wrong people because they came along at the “right time.” We reconnected 40 years later. What we should have done is married in college but we didn’t because the “rule” was you wait until you graduate and get a job and then marry.
I was born in 42 and knew no one with a TV until I was in the 7th grade. We only had sweets on holidays and I don't remember knowing anyone with a weight problem young or old as fast junk food hadn't come into our town yet. People car pooled as there were no two car families. We entertained ourselves as parents weren't running kids to sports, dance, piano gymnastics etc. we had one pair of shoes and got a new pair when the old ones could no longer be repaired at the shoe shop or you out grew them. Our mothers cut and permed our hair at home. We brown bagged it to school and ate our pb&j sandwich, drank our thermos of milk finished with a piece of fruit at our desks before running out to create fun on a dirt play ground void of any playground equipment. Never heard of designer clothes and everyone wore whatever their parents were able to order for them out of the catalog. We had an icebox until I was 6 and then my parents were able to get a fridge with a freezer compartment large enough to hold an ice cube tray! Etc and etc. and if I was to go back the things I would miss the most: central heating and permapress clothes.
Wow what a time to be alive if I may add your TV was called your imagination when listening to the radio I know this because I love listening to Steelers on the radio Stay cool my friend ☺️😊☺️😊☺️☺️😊
@carolynbrown3379 a friend of mine, I will refer to her as "J" who is now in her late 70s grew up in the 1940 and 1950s and one of her brothers had a severe allergy to wheat and back then it was not as recognized as it is now. Food labels could hide a lot of ingredients. "J's" brother's allergy meant that their mom had to go to special health food stores ( much more a rarity back then) to get wheat-free foods. Once "J's " aunt fixed dinner for the family and though she knew that "J's " brother had a severe wheat allergy she put some wheat in the gravy thinking that such a small amount could not do harm but "J's" brother then had to be rushed to the hospital and his parents were told by doctors that one second more the boy would not have survived. Some things are much easier for people born with food allergies now and the medical world has more knowledge about it.
The 1950s WAS modern. The only significant difference now is computing technology which merely makes what was once expensive, cheap. You could get video calls in the 1960s - but it was a dedicated closed circuit system, and expensive. Take pictures - ditto. Movies - ditto. But in essence not a whole lot.
Same here: born in 1955, husband born in 1952. Those who write this nasty, sarcastic posts have NO IDEA how it was to live back then. If I could, I would gladly go back and live during that time again. There are hundreds of thousands that think just like me, and agree with those times being much better than the trashy society we have now.
@Dela Flowers There is so much information on the internet regarding the current events and how close we are, both to the Rapture and the End Times, that it seems foolish for people not to believe it. We preach about it, pass out tracts, testify and witness to people, but sadly most have no idea about any of it.
I love how this video emphasizes the importance of every person and their role in the world. So often today, it's easy for people to look down on those who work certain jobs and praise others who work certain jobs; even easier to forget that there are people working while you sleep to keep things running smoothly for everyone else. But this video emphasizes that each is equally important. I wish we were all as respectful and grateful as this video encourages us to be. Times were simpler then.
It was a backward era - in terms of health, technology,gender, race ,cultural equality … esp with regard to women’s body rights & opportunities; and civil rights and equality for others who weren’t white .. let alone were not well off middle class males.. i.e. women and LGBTQI gender-wise; or ethnic communities ….Black Americans and CALD groups .. for ‘others ‘ to have a say and be entitled to any education & fair incomes & to be able to access a loan to buy their own house and not need to marry to survive or be able to co exist in society… It may have seemed simpler but it was very restricted & restrictive and one only flourished if you were white educated or aspirational &/ or middle class and accepted a racist patriarchy .
@@annanutherthing4373 It wasn't "backward". Every era has its issues, and people were working to address them. It was fine, it was hopeful, it was a society that was evolving and growing. No matter what you've been taught, the present has just as many problems, and that aggressive negative attitude that focuses only on the negatives creates even more and worse problems. You need an honest, balanced view to know that there was a lot worth keeping that's been destroyed or replaced by cheap imitations.
@@LynxSouth QUITE provincial in the 50's/60's. But no one knew because it had ALWAYS been this way. Prior to the 70's, ONLY white men had full opportunity with no barriers and restrictions.
I was born in 1953 and if I had a choice, I would most certainly go back to live in the mid-1950s. It was certainly a simpler time where stores only opened one night a week on Thursday and they closed early on Saturday and all day Sunday. Plus, you did not have all this technology. Back then we were out all the time either playing sports or riding our bikes Whenever I drive by the ball fields today, I hardly ever see any kids playing pick-up baseball or football. The only time we were inside is when it rained. We were even outside during the winter, sledding, and playing in the snow. Back then, there were individual movie theaters in the center of town. We had 5 movie theaters and each one had its own unique look, unlike the cookie-cutter megaplexes that you find today. I truly miss those days.
This was about 1952 so not only were you not born yet but it would be a good 5-8 years before you’d actually be able to appreciate anything about that time as a young child
aw that’s so cool. I’ve always wished I was a kid back then. nowadays nobody really goes outside. i always wish my friends would ride their bikes around with me, but unfortunately their more prone to technology. the 50s seems like it was a golden age for the youth
Technology has messed us up? how about that fantastic MR or CT scan you now get at the hospital which enables super precise as super rapid diagnosis of a deadly cancerous mass sitting inside of you or inside of a loved one, enabling you to have an operation, and not fu king croak at an early age, let alone see this happen to your child. how about fantastic drugs like Prozac which has Unchained tens of millions of people from both depression and anxiety. diabetes treatments are way ahead ,leading to far longer lives. cell phones, and Google and computers are used by you yourself all the time as astounding and virtually cost-free Communications mechanisms, which we humans inherently adore doing. that's why you were able to post this message, you bonehead. air travel is vastly cheaper and I'm sure you make use of it , but Above All Else, advances in health care take the cake in terms of lifestyle improvements in our civilization. Be sure to say hello to the MRI technician when your neurologist suspects a brain tumor inside your skull. he might have a chance of treating it effectively. There were some treatments for cancer back then, but as a rule it and numerous other diseases were a goddamn death sentence you idiot . good old days my ass, especially if you are female, black, Mexican or Asian and wanted to get a position of leadership in this Society, let alone you had sexual orientations that deviated from the obsession with marriage and heterosexual Behavior
@@alyssa975 what if you you could go back and be a kid BUT you had to be black, so your family couldnt vote, had to be subject to redlining, had to have segregated schooling which is paid through residential property taxes and you all had to live in the ghetto because thats where the government regulated your family to live, still want to go back?
"@ashleytoalson1489" you would be so disappointed. If you are female you would not be allowed to play certain sports in school or have a girls' team like boys do. You would not be able to get a credit card unless your dad or other male relative approves of it. You would not be allowed in, or would find it very hard to get into certain careers or jobs other than kindergarten teacher, stewardess, or nurse. It would be a big price to pay just to pay 5 cents for an ice cream cone.
@@obscurelyvague exactly. and lets add the horrific sexual abuse that was occurring & being hidden. The alcolohism! The marital affairs, etc., etc. It was only this idyllic for very, very few. Sadly. Even the children of hollywood "stars" have their sad tales.
Videos like these are sweet to watch. I try to make a life like that around me: appreciating people for their good work, whatever they do, friendly greetings, etc.
It depended on the family, but growing up in the 1960s, it was a simpler time. We walked and carried groceries home, and there were cabs and buses. Doctors were inexpensive! There was crime etc, but as a rule, most people were more polite. There were neighborhood bars on every corner but I never did see anyone stagger out drunk. Seemed like people in my poorer class neighborhood set limits and behaved well. There were many Mom & Pop stores, so shopping meant walking from shop to shop. Quite delightful way to grow up. Walked to school as well.
Dude - - I remember the 50's - - no air conditioning anywhere except movie theaters - - if it was 90 degrees outside - - there was no relief - - the 50's were anything but cool !!!!
K San, it does depend on where you lived, I suppose. For my father, my in-laws, and even for me, it was like this. The biggest differences were that families were closer knit back then and people were generally more community-minded and more religious. Basically those factors made people more civil to one another and more interdependent. I'm going to agree with Karen and Diana's comments below. My town still had milkmen doing deliveries into the 1970's. Crime was a lot lower - you wouldn't steal from the person at the corner store because that person was your father's dental patient (or whatever) and everyone in the town knew everyone else. The erosion of these things plus the loss of stability from factories closing down made people more cynical and that's really too bad.
I miss those days terribly. I remember the milkman, the mailman, the butcher behind the counter, the grocery story and the drug store. My mom's favorite gas station. I don't remember my mom wearing a pantsuit until my late teens then you couldn't get her out of them. I always loved the Sears, J.C.Penney and Montgomery Ward catalogs. They were my wish books. My mom was obsessed with green stamps, had books of them. My dad worked for the Post Office delivering mail so I never got to see him in the mornings except on his days office. We always had a real Christmas tree, smelled good. Life was wonderfully simple, why didn't we fight harder for it.
Yup. Someone in another comment on another video like this mentioned this way of life "disappearing." Someone else replied, "It didn't disappear, it was taken from us." So true.
Same thing here in Canada. I grew up on a small family farm in the 1960's where we kids pitched in with the daily chores as well as the planting and harvesting...we were self-reliant but also a close-knit community that came through for one another when we needed extra help with just about anything that had to be done. (hay mowing, ploughing, planting, harvesting, butchering, etc) That's how it worked so well.
It was pretty much still the 50s until around 63 or 64, Seems like around 67 or 68 everything just flipped to the turbulent 60s. By the mid 70s things were slowly changing with the fake gas crises, and coming off the gold standard and skyrocketing inflation. By the late 70s and early 80s America was is moral decay. Today America is a true and utter sh!thole.
I was born in 48 so I remember the 50s very well. Parents still had to provide food and shelter for their families. Bills needed to be paid and it’s true things were much less expensive but wages were much much lower. Life was simpler but not necessarily easier and I think that is true for every generation.
I was born in 1952. This vid brought back so many memories of my childhood. We had a milk man, bread man, and paperboy to start the day. We lived in Long Island. In those days L.I. was still small townish. Simpler but great. We always ate dinner together every evening at 6:30. We always (mostly always) told our parents where we were going and who going to be with. We come home mostly when expected and my parents used to check my homework before I went to bed. Such a different world but I'm glad I grew up then.
We don't think much about it now, (even in here in '52 it gets a passing glance.) But writing, editing, putting together, proofreading, typesetting, proofreading again, THEN printing AND distributing a daily PHYSICAL newspaper is actually an amazing achievement.
I was born in 1956. I remember when the milk man would take our empty bottles and leave fresh milk. I remember the bread man and the smell of fresh baked goods. I also remember when it all ended. There was something magical about that era. I was sheltered from most of life's harsh realities until I entered my fourth year of school. That's when my parents made a decision about my education that would shape me and change the course of my entire life. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I will forever be grateful to Mom and Dad for their wise decision. Life is what you make it.
@@MrCrowebobbythat's the thing all these boomers forget, when they bemoan the good old days are no more. They were children. Of course everything is simpler when you're a kid 🤦🏻♀️
•I was born in 1952. •My town had about 2,000 inhabitants . •We walked or rode bikes everywhere. •We ate together as a family every night. • we knew our neighbors • we never talked back to our parents
Cathy Prichard But still no free speech....i understand about it and i agree with it but still if their is a disagreement and the one that is disagree to the parent probably has a valid point of saying to make cuz maybe its true and the parents are wrong, not all the time but what if the child knows something legit and the parents wont listen and therefore cuz of rejection to anothers point of view, the issue of whatever it is will increase to be worse.
This reminds me of my own life, the town in which I was raised was Pecatonica, Illinois; named in honor of the Pecatonica Indians, who once dominated the area. As a boy I discovered many arrowheads and other relics from the Pecatonica Indian tribe. When my family lived there in the 1960's the population was less than two-thousand. We had one department store, which was owned by a rather grumpy man named Mr. Benedict, aptly named "Benedict's Dept. Store". There were two restaurants, "The Pecatonica Diner" and a bar & grill which I was too young to enter. 'Pop' was one of the best bowlers on the bowling league team to which he belonged. We kids spent a great deal of time at the YMCA swimming in their Olympic-sized pool, such fun! Our next-door neighbors were an elderly widow lady named Mrs. Anders and a widower named Rolland Dirkson (odd that they were both widowed) and his adorable daughter, can't recall her name just now, she was such a little beauty that she won many local beauty contests. When she was 16 she won the title of "Miss Winnebago County Fair". My father was a dairy products deliveryman, AKA "The Milkman". His great sales ability was noticed by a medical equipment company executive who offered my father a position as a sales executive in the mid-west, propelling my father into great success; he became the wealthiest man in town, "a big fish in a small pond". My eldest brother, Kurt joined the United States Marine Corps and was killed in The Vietnam War. Before his death in 1969, I spent the happiest days of my life in that wonderful Mayberry-like town, we even had a fishin' hole! Years later, when the trials of life would become a bit too much for me, I'd drive to this cherished haven in an attempt to recapture the happiness and peace which I once knew there; but, as Thomas Wolfe wrote: *"You can never go home again."*
In the 90s folks still got all the news and gossip while getting their mail at the post office. My first wife's grandparents lived there then. Pretty little town near Rockford/ hiwy20. Small world!
Ironically, this is kind of the life I live now. I am a homemaker. My husband works in a Papermill and our daughter goes to high school we’ve been married 21 years and it’s just very ordinary.
Remember penny candy ? Oh and the smell of the small neighborhood store when u entered...candy smell ..heavenly 🙌. Halloween wax candy smelled the best lol
Yes !! There was a store called "The Party Shop" .. rows and rows of penny candy.. and some were like 3 for a penny.. ! We went with a quarter each and came out with a BAG o CANDY !
This feel-good video has really struck a chord among senior citizens. I was born in 1949 and lived in a town exactly like the one shown - albeit in Canada (Dauphin, Manitoba). It was the best possible place (and time) to grow up in - even though I could not have known it at the time.
I am in Winnipeg and had access to small-town village life where my parents grew up in SW Manitoba. I love this film - especially the emphasis on the importance of everyone's jobs and their contribution to the community. Its a lesson people so often forget.
In modern times most of these jobs have either been outsourced or turned into crappy minimum wage part-time jobs. This video talks about the importance of all workers and how they help their community, but this totally goes against the grain of modern America where labor is looked down upon, big corporations treat workers like expendable trash, and nobody cares about helping other people in their community. Ah, progress.
Man has a dream and that's the start! He follows his dream with mind and heart! And when it becomes a reality theres a great big future for you and me! Oh there's a great Big, Beautiful, Tomorrow!
The idea that a shop keeper could make a descent wage had me comparing retail workers today to then. Minimum wage, part time, no benefits, varying hours, no job security.... Some of the jobs such as linemen and firefighters still pay well thanks to unions.
I think I watched a history/prediction video regarding each revolution, and he was saying how it took many generations of people to learn how to farm and that it was a bloodbath; in that regard I hope the same can go for technology before we kill ourselves (figuratively or literally).
I was as born in the late 1950’s. If I could I would certainly go back to the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Some towns in Mexico are reminiscent of the 1950’s and I love it there. I really miss those days gone by.
Similar to early 60's. Around 1964, I was 8 years old, I remember the milkman, Murray, a few times getting me to help him on his route for the last couple of hours of his shift. It was fun for me and he paid me $5. Of course, I gave him back a bit of that to buy either chocolate milk or pink lemonade. LOL
Born in 1937. Life was definitely simpler then. Things are happening now that no one could have ever imagined would happen. The culture is totally corrupt.
so do I...Mr. Dugan the bread man. Put the orange sign in your front window, signifying that you need him to stop. Open your back door before 7:00 a.m., and there inside your milk box was fresh, cold milk waiting for you to bring in...in GLASS bottles! You could also order orange juice, eggs and cheeses. We had a milkman until the late 60's. REAL milk with the cream on top, not this white colored water like today... Miss those days.
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'ed never end. I cherish my memories of the late fifties and sixties. Everyone was a neighbour and friend in our small town.
As someone born in the 2000s, I can't believe I missed a lot of this awesome looking stuff :( Gosh, I'd do anything to live in those times over these times.
@@Thomas-yr9ln you think there wasnt incredible amounts of redlining and racial discrimination in the north? read a book , i know youre american so being uneducated is expected of you, but try it some time
I was born in 1962 and for a very short time, we had a milkman delivering to our home. I can remember when my parents had their first telephone installed. Me and my friends could go anywhere and all the neighborhood moms knew who we were, knew our parents and helped watch over us throughout the day.
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Also 62. Grew up in California on a street with tons of kids. Walked to school K-12, and even went home for lunch every day. Played all day, and was expected to be home for dinner. The one thing that really saddens me is how kids today--at least from what I see--don't hang out together and explore. They're never outside with each other just getting along and making their own entertainment: everything is orchestrated by their parents or their devices. Seems a horrible way to be a kid--if it's even being a kid at all.
I was born in the sixties and in my own way I replicate some of the small town experiences. I go to the same neighborhood grocery store every week where the bakery sees me coming and has a fresh loaf of sourdough bread waiting for me. (I go to Costco every couple of months too). My local hardware store asks me upon arrival what I'm looking for and directs me to it. I know my five neighbors and we help each other mow the grass and shovel snow. Connection is a big part of these old films. Look up from your phone and say hello, hold a door open- that's how community is built
I was born in 1950 and grew up in Ohio in a small town just about like this one. Everything they talk about in the video was true. People attended community events together, like the 4th of July dance and picnic. You saw all your neighbors in church and at school. Everybody knew everybody else. It was a small microcosm of a world. Of course there were a lot of problems, like race relations and the fighting of small wars all over the place just to name a few, but people generally got along with each other. Everything was cheap back then and our father's were making good money in the steel mills and rubber factories. I remember 12 ears of corn for $1. A Pepsi was 10 cents, not $3.29 like I recently paid for one.
@@Crush44"RUINED IT"?!?! Why you young whipper-snapper, I've a good mind to take you over my knee and teach you some respect for your elders! By the way, did you catch the cop littering at 6:06...
I wish I'd experienced this kind of slow simple life. At least I got to experience the last of it, the 90s as a kid. It feels like this was a different world
@@themaskedman221 I agree because there was also the Great Depression which most people around the world including in the US were economic trouble then came the war which killed millions
The part where they are showing all the little stores the little town I grew up in had those. Now everything is Amazon goodbye America. Support small business
This is possibly the most ignorant economic argument ever. People should purchase the best quality products at the lowest prices possible, not just local products no matter the quality or price. What you're essentially saying is that everyone should have a higher cost of living, and that this is the path to prosperity for all Americans. No, it's not. Buy low, not local.
I had a paper route...and clearly remember those days. And those things... Back then..and later..I thought EVERYONE..had a memory like I did..and still do...I later discovered. that everyone doesn't have a photographic memory!.. I treasure it.. For me, it's worth FAR MORE than money ever could be.
Jobs that don't exist: Milkman. Newspaper men and women. Baker. Paper delivery boy. Railroad station workers. Beat cop/cop directing traffic with NO GUN or military paraphernalia. My favorite: exactly what my parents told me--the kids' job is to go to school and learn to be a good citizen. Different universe.
and i remember as a kid, all the mom and pop stores, from paint, hardware, grocer, hobby, to shoes, to clothing, everything and anything, A & P was the biggest grocer we had, no malls, nor super stores ! Can't forget about the doctors that made housecalls.
@Lyndon Tree It wasn't the communists (they were a tool only). The same group that funded the Russian revolution was working behind the scenes spreading socialism, destruction of middle class values, and removing prayer from the schools in the 1960's. It's called the dialectic (please watch an interview with congressional investigator Norman Dodd-The Reese Committee into tax exempt foundations to learn more). Our failure to understand the dialectic, and the failure of the media to report it is why our country (and the world) is experiencing culture cancel. Please learn from this that life can be what we the people choose when directed by God's values, and not what is given us from the top down. Once God is removed, the country falls. Evil reigns. What was good is now called bad, and what was bad is now called good. The Bible teaches these will be the coming days.
Some of the exteriors were shot in Wilmette, Illinois. The church is the same church from Home Alone. The town is pretty much the same as it was then but there have been changes. It’s still has a small downtown area around the train station.
I was very small back then. I remember when you took the car to the gas station, there was a rubber line on the ground at each pump. You would roll over them and the bell in the station would go ding. Letting the attendants know that someone was waiting at a pump. LOL SO many memories.
I was born in 1954 and remember the '50s and '60s well. You could be in middle management or pump gas at a filling station - ONE wage-earner could buy some type of house. Our family doctor charged $5.00 for an office visit - and in emergencies, made house calls. Supermarkets were starting to spring up - but, the products still came to YOU. We had the Milk Man, the Bread & Pastries Man, the Tidy Didy Man (diaper service), the Fuller Brush Man (household cleaners), and The Good Humor Man (Ice cream truck) . . . We also had Air Raid Drills, where everyone would duck into approved shelters if they were shopping in town. If you were at home - you hid in your cellar. We school kids had to "Duck and Cover" either under our desks - or in the hallway, because atomic fallout can't find you there, lol.
Sadly, nowadays children have very little sense of how a successful civil society functions consequently, there is little appreciation for all our blessings.
@@colonelautism9957 the leftists or commies or what ever you want to call them took over much of the education system and big city government. that was their plan and it was very successful, That was this countries downfall
I was born in 1952 and grew up in Forrest City, AR. Population about 10,000 to 12,000 then and now. Born in Memphis, Tn. but raised in FC, AR. I wouldn't change my upbringing in any way. My Momma was an R. N. and my Dad was a policeman! Love those small towns and yes we rode bikes everywhere and I could take a sack lunch and my collie dog and shotgun and go off into the woods and tell Momma I would be back before dark and no one thought a thing about it.
I see people talking to each other and being respectful. No overcrowding or trash everywhere. No pants below the underwear or rap music. Fathers with their children and kids running to school. Mothers staying home? Church on Sunday too? I want to move there. It sure beats any place I have been to lately.
+TheNauseator this wasnt a type of life in america. Its an idealistic view. Theres always going to be problems. And there is nothing wrong with gay families or single parent households...
+TheNauseator 1950's were far from perfect if they would of had today's technology bet would be same as today. just as many sick, twisted, loud mouthed, ignorant, perverted people them as now.
Things were different but not a perfect world like others would believe. The 20s had the mob shooting up the streets during prohibition, I wouldn't quite call that respectful.
As wonderful as our current day advantages are, there is much to be missed from the days of the 1950's. For those of us who can remember such days, we should consider ourselves blessed to have the memories.
I was born in 1951. Lived on a small horse ranch in Alta Loma, California. Walked 4mi to school. Bought eggs at the local chicken ranch. Rode my horse to Market to pick up vegetables and fruits paying with a check my Mom signed. The owner knew my family and trusted us. At the Lumber yard or Savings + Loan our family was known and trusted. My uncle was a HS counselor. My math teacher came to our home for dinner. Our front door was always open just like all our family homes. At night I read books or listened to radio drama. Our B+W TV had 3 stations and we all watched Ed Sullivan or Jack Benny. Our town had only 1 sheriff. Our family had lived here since 1890 as Citrus Farmers.
Yes, the dad could work at the local grocery store and be able to afford to have a place for his wife and kids to live in, a car, and they would be able to take a vacation.
That's because of unions and government regulation making it hard to run a business so companies leave and take jobs with them government is the problem they need to be made way smaller
A Great time for me to come around in 1955.. Grew up In Anaheim California in a orange grove community.. walking to school safely .. and riding my bike around neighborhood .. neighbors ,and family friends over often to visit my parents .. and kids to play with .. loved going to the market w my mom in her huge 57 Buick station wagon .... those days !! A dream now !!!
I grew up in Anaheim near Disneyland in the 1970's, we still had orange groves everywhere. It was a beautiful area and was very safe for kids...Everything started going downhill in Anaheim in the 90's, that's when my family got the hell out. What a shit hole Anaheim has become now...actually most of Orange County sucks now.
I was born in the 60's, we allways had dinner at 5 in the evening, all the family together. Only if my dad had to rork late we ate without him but that was seldom. We moved to our summer cottage the same day the school finished each summer. Then we moved back to town(apatmentbuilding) the day before school started. We never had a car,we went everywhere by bus,train,tram or by bicycle. Our whole family had bicycles. It was a happy childhood in Scandinavia.
I was always fond of the 50's even though I never lived through them. And no not because I watched happy days or like the back to the future films. Stand by me was good however. It's just in today's stressful world it's easy to daydream about a life that didn't revolve around emails and being addicted to your smart phone that carries your stress wherever you go. A man got up every morning, ate breakfast with his family, kissed his wife goodbye for the day while she maintained the home as he went to work. Dinner promptly at 6pm every night. Weekends were consistent with yard work on Saturdays and church on Sundays. You slept with the doors unlocked and you trusted your government. Today we're all in a hurry to go places we don't want to be, doing things we don't want to do. Everybody is in debt and you're paying more a month for your kid's phones than your parents paid for the house you grew up in. Cars were simpler, people obeyed the law and you didn't have news like radical Islamic terrorism or the BLM hate group. If you told someone in the 50's that we would someday have a tv actor and a real estate tycoon as presidents they would choke on their pezz. I guess I'm fond of that time because of my own hectic and connected life. I want to disconnect and the 50's just seemed like the perfect vacation.
you didn't hear news about Islamic terrorism because the US had only recently started to take their oil from the middle eastern countries and would later interfere with their domestic issues and start arming different groups against the Soviets. That bit them in the back later
Agreed, Nazis suck as a hate group towards POC. BLM will always be a wonderful thing. ;) Might not wanna drop race into your fantasy of living in the 50s again, it tells some things about you that you should be ashamed of.
I was born in the 1950’s in a small town in Maine. We had a milkman, bread man, fruit man, fish man, & egg man who all delivered to the house. Dry cleaning was picked up at the house if you put the cleaner’s little sign in the front window. Those were the days……
@@tximeleta35 I do know what you mean and feel so sad for the racial discord in many areas back then. Where I lived I didn't see that, but I was fortunate. There are no excuses for people to treat others badly because of race, religion or because someone is different.
@2025 Sebastian Silva I did live in the 80's and 90's and was young and have great memories. Every decade offers something good , I think. I guess it's the nostalgia of the 1950's that I want to experience. I truly wish time travel really existed.
@@roseb.1537 if you didn't see signs of racism it was most likely because yours was as exclusively white area. If you think about it THAT is probably the most exclusionary form of racism. There were no confrontations because the non white population "knew their place and knew to stay there".
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I am so jealous of the people who lived in that era. Things looked less complicated back then and there were many jobs. Would have been awesome to live in the 1950s.
agreed, however it wasn't the same politically. This was the transition from WW2 - Cold War - to Vietnam war. But yes, much more relaxing for the citizens.
Well it wasn't always so heavenly, but life was slower paced. We seemed to have more routines. You knew what to expect. But factory work was gruelling, and no air conditioning. But the old cook stoves and refrigerators lasted forever! Well made products. That is what I really miss. But the freezer in a 50s fridge was very very small. They expected ladies to go shopping almost every day. Most jobs just brainless grunt work, as I called it. But it paid, and one was glad to work. Now more automation. Less unskilled jobs.
Danny Leo it looks like a nice place to visit but the "easy jobs" would be in a full factory and the Internet wasn't around so that would suck super hard also there were a lot of social problems
The coolest thing about the 50's was there wasn't a regressive tax code that taxed families into poverty. In the 50's a man could graduate high school and get a good paying job that would support his wife and three kids. Now we have so many taxes at the federal and state level it takes both parents holding down full time jobs to make it. Most modern women wish they could live like women did in the 50's but they work because they have no choice
wanna know what really sucks?? my grandpa bought a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house back in the idk 60s and has lived in that same house up until 2 months ago that house was bought for under $170,000 unfortunately because of his passing we can NOT inherit his house you know why?? because the house is now valued at half a million dollars and the property tax is over a thousand a month we cant handle paying that much a year so therefore it has to be sold to a BIG time middle class family who can afford the property tax and the house payments and once that happens that house will no longer ever be stepped foot into again turns out its expensive because its in a nice neighborhood ( with alleyways) and it has a Huge backyard my mom grew up in that house as a child i can see why people say we cant have nice things
yeah no problem i will say grandpa had no problem with buying the house (although he did say that was a big risk he took) as he told me that right after high school he joined the air force so i guess back then his intelligence is what made him able to buy the house since everything was cheaper back then but also the payment on everything so it may not have made that much difference to a homebuyer now like it was back then
Thomas Donohue do you really believe that "most modern women" don't want to have an education, and be paid for the contributions they make to society? When was the last time you stayed at home taking care of preschool kids, cleaning the house, doing dishes by hand and laundry with an old wringer washer and clothesline? All for the sake of marriage to some entitled man who expected his slippers, his pipe, or a cocktail when he got home at 5pm. Many housewives in the 50's had serious mental health problems or addiction due to the boring drudgery of their lives. And no personal freedom, either.
I disagree that most women want to stay as house-wives, and if you think about it in our modern context it makes no sense to do so either. The partner + kids will be at work/school 8 hours a day, why should a woman waste her life at home doing nothing when she has the potential for so much more during that time? Many women of those times had serious psychological problems from boredom, apathy etc. it's not natural or healthy for any person's to stay immobile for long periods of time and be confined in the same space. Just like prison isn't healthy either.
Had an older friend of mine tell me they would take their shotguns to school and leave in the principles office and pick them up at the end of the day to go hunting before dark. Can you even imagine that?
I watch a lot of these videos from the 40s and 50s and it all seems so idealic and simple. I then read the comments and see so many remenisce their childhood. I wonder if people really lived like that or if the videos make them seem so perfect and people's memories only allow them to remember it as good due to the innocence of youth.
I was born in 1951 and lived in various countries and states as a child because my father was a soldier. When he retired in 1968, we moved to a small farm town in northern California where I attended the high school. After graduation, I got married to a local girl and we both attended the nearby university. After college graduation we had 2 children who were raised in that small town as well. It was a great place to live and raise children. Everyone knew everyone and most were involved in school, church or service organizations. As time went by the town grew and became a bedroom community for those commuting to Sacramento or Bay area. Everything became less personal, traffic grew worse as did petty crime which used to be non-existent. I finally left the town I used to love because it was so different than it used to be. I now live in a different state and live in the suburbs which is not really suited to me. I should have moved into another small town.
I'm 14 years old. I truly wish that the small town I live in had the stores it had in the 50s. There were 5 gas stations in 1956 and now, 60 years later, only one stands. Every building in town was used in the 50s. It's sad to see what has left over the past 10 years.
We got our milk delivered until around 1967. My neighborhood was a lot like this. The rec center is still there and so is the original library. We walked around two each others homes and to school. We were never afraid. It was idyllic. I was born in 1953.
As a young child in the early 60s, it was like this growing up in my hometown. We had mild delivered several times a week and the mailman, Mr. Paul, came in through the back down in the morning usually as we were eating breakfast exchanged pleasantries with my mom, patted us on the head and and went and put the milk and any other dairy products my mom ordered in the refrigerator. We also had a vegetable man, Mr. C, who came in a van on Wednesday with all the fresh fruit (seasonal) and vegetables for our needs that my dad didn’t grow in the garden behind our garage. Mr C always saved a few “samples” of the best fruit for me and my brothers. We walked to the drug store, butcher shop, hardware, schools and library. We road the bus to go downtown or further distances. It was much simpler then.
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Never in my 58 years would I have thought a life like THIS would be my biggest fantasy.😞
the post war economy was good, and we did not know we were poor. LOL born in 48.
Same age and me to
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Current times are a literal golden age compared to the 50's. All in here are used to the convenience of a cell-phone and debit Visa card in their pockets...of getting virtually all you could imagine from anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. It would mean giving up all you are now used to to return to a MUCH more primitive, provincial way of life .
You'd lose your minds...ESPECIALLY those under 25.
@@weedermann ah yes. I would miss gmo foods, totalitarian governments, chemtrails, crime, plandemics and oh so much more. Not.
Literally a different world. The language. The attitude. The environment. The jobs.
The internet made the world so much smaller. Whoever thought a small device in your pocket can connect you to anyone when ever you want instantly.
The racism, the bigotry, the close-mindedness, the constant judgement of others. Thank gosh MAGA will force this on all of us again!!! Weeeeee! Don’t step out of line!!!!
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@@immortalobelisk6302 words like toxic masculinity, gender affirming, DEI, social justice, are all part of your vocabulary. We aren't in the same league.
@@immortalobelisk6302says the racist communist leftist who loves to lick big daddy government’s feet. The confusion and lack of what’s really going on by now makes your comment all that much more pathetic
I should play this on the nights I have trouble falling asleep. The sound of this guy's voice and the back ground music makes me so relaxed and makes me wish the world was still this way.
You should listen to solfeggio frequencies they'll do much more than help you sleep.
You should let people do as they please he’s not doing anything to hurt anyone.
@@GamingTranceSeer ??? solfeggio frequencies? What is that?
David,
Life in the 1950s was VERY hard, VERY DEMANDING
In that era, life was healthier, yes
Corporations were not yet mandated
to poison food, water
and
health care workers were not yet incentivized
to slaughter the very young,
Or the old
But all that was already planned
just as wwiii was...
Yeah the voice and the music etc is reassuring and relaxing
Kids didn't need to be rushed around to a laudry list of organized activities and sports. They went outside and played until dark.
no video games to veg out in front of the tv. if you were bored, go outside find something to do.
"Elle scooter" My dad was born in 1912. He spent his earliest years in Puerto Rico and when he was approximately 10 years old his mom brought him to the mainland where he spent his young adulthood and the rest of his life. He says that lived in New York and Arizona and traveled on trains during the depression. He said that times were dangerous when he was a young man in the 1920s and he saw gang fights, people getting stabbed and shot, and young girls getting kidnapped, women being assaulted by their boy friends, and he lived in places where people had to lock their doors and have a big stick near the door ready to use in self defense in case anyone breaks in. He said that vagrancy used to be against the law way back then, and if a cop thought you looked like a vagrant then that cop would strike you with his billy club or punch you in the face and it happened to my dad.
Well we had an atari 2600 in i believe 81. Spent some time playing it. But spent most of our time outside. Specially in winter. Drifts were in place october to early march. We dig tunnels at the fire station
@Conway Twitty flake lol
We went outside and played but we also gathered our friends to play games like baseball and football. We used our own brains. We sometimes had dads and older brothers as coaches but often we learned to settled disagreements among ourselves. Yes, we got mad but didn’t usually hold grudges. Not for long anyway.
As a child of age 4, I remember my grandmother getting her milk delivered to the door by her milkman. Those bottles had a paper seal on them. We would have to hurry from the bus to get home to get the milk in the fridge. It was such a delightful life. Her groceries were delivered to her home. She had a vegetable and flower garden in her yard. We would get goodies from the garden and beautiful flowers. I loved staying with my granny. However I missed the whole decade of having a doctor visit the house. If you were sick you went to the hospital and they kept you in there till your stiches or staples were removed. You might stay 1 to 2 weeks. I remembering staying an entire week in the pediatric unit for a broken arm with bone chips that had to be removed. A whole entire week! Nowadays you can go home the same day. It was interesting to be able to pick what you wanted off the menu and
they gave you shots every 4 hours for the pain. LOL not in these days anymore! But I decided as a child I wanted to be a nurse from that experience because I had wonderful and loving nurses take care of me. I went on to be an RN
We had an ice box, the fridge came later.
Jenny...There's something I didn't get:the milkman delivered the milk early in the morning to your granny.Unless she was unable to take the bottle in why did you have to hurry back home to get the milk in the fridge?
Regardless it sounds a comfy life,if a little hard on women...'managing the house 'according to the comentary
In Europe we didn't have it so good.We were deeply transformed by WWIi and would have been in a worse place had your country not come to the rescue.Thank you for that
Our MM delivered Milk and OJ in glass bottles. He put them in an aluminum insulated box on the back porch.
Love your story thank you
The best milk ever
One thing that is true about the 'good old days' is that people were more involved in community, church & social clubs. They built communities & helped each other out. Nowadays, people isolate. Everyone wants to do their own thing. Love how the video honors those that are working to keep the community running smoothly. Again, it's about working together for a greater purpose.
I especially like the fact that this film recognizes that housewives were important members of, and contributors to, the community. By the time I was a housewife in the 90s and early 2000s, that respect was gone.
I really think most moms staying at home the majority of the time rather than working full time facilitated this community engagement. When you have two people working full time with kids then the house still has to be dealt with there is no energy or time for as many social activities. This has hurt everyone as a whole. We threw the baby out with the bath water in many ways and denigrated the roles women had that really contributed to the functioning of families and society. If mom doesn't want to stay home and dad does, I get it...just speaking in generalizations quite obviously.
I was born in 1957 and grew up watching these types of films in school. Not to rain on everyone’s nostalgia parade but kids used to laugh at these back then because nobody had these “perfect” families and lives. There was a lot of sweeping things under the rug back then that today would be considered a crime or dysfunctional. The “old people” back then would talk about how “much better” life was in their youth in the 1890s and 1900s.
If your generation laughed at this Millwood film, then watching those character education films must have been a challenge - as in trying not to break out into fits of giggles in front of the teacher. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) does a great job of spoofing those films (heckling, scoffing) - at least to my tastes.
For sure. It didn’t reflect the times accurately. It was idealistic.
Your over 60 years old 😳
Unfortunately- you missed the Cinderella syndrome. Everything we watched - in general - was from “fairytales to my next step is…” oh yeah, what I was programmed to do, and then take a look at what was supposed to work. I always bring up w/people who are divorced like me, “Wouldn’t it have been great, if we raised our kids with someone we were in love with?”
It’s so true for many of us!
@@lynnschopler2396 BINGO!!! My husband and I talk about this ALL the time. Everything was checking a box..graduate at “x” age, marry at “y” age, have children at “z” age, etc. The problem with that is you end up regretting you didn’t marry earlier or later when you did meet the right person. That happened with my husband and me. We were high school/early college sweethearts who married the wrong people because they came along at the “right time.” We reconnected 40 years later. What we should have done is married in college but we didn’t because the “rule” was you wait until you graduate and get a job and then marry.
I was born in 42 and knew no one with a TV until I was in the 7th grade. We only had sweets on holidays and I don't remember knowing anyone with a weight problem young or old as fast junk food hadn't come into our town yet. People car pooled as there were no two car families. We entertained ourselves as parents weren't running kids to sports, dance, piano gymnastics etc. we had one pair of shoes and got a new pair when the old ones could no longer be repaired at the shoe shop or you out grew them. Our mothers cut and permed our hair at home. We brown bagged it to school and ate our pb&j sandwich, drank our thermos of milk finished with a piece of fruit at our desks before running out to create fun on a dirt play ground void of any playground equipment. Never heard of designer clothes and everyone wore whatever their parents were able to order for them out of the catalog. We had an icebox until I was 6 and then my parents were able to get a fridge with a freezer compartment large enough to hold an ice cube tray! Etc and etc. and if I was to go back the things I would miss the most: central heating and permapress clothes.
Hello Carolyn, How are you doing?
Thanks for sharing!
Yes..so many obese kids today. It's sad
Wow what a time to be alive if I may add your TV was called your imagination when listening to the radio I know this because I love listening to Steelers on the radio
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@carolynbrown3379 a friend of mine, I will refer to her as "J" who is now in her late 70s grew up in the 1940 and 1950s and one of her brothers had a severe allergy to wheat and back then it was not as recognized as it is now. Food labels could hide a lot of ingredients. "J's" brother's allergy meant that their mom had to go to special health food stores ( much more a rarity back then) to get wheat-free foods. Once "J's " aunt fixed dinner for the family and though she knew that "J's " brother had a severe wheat allergy she put some wheat in the gravy thinking that such a small amount could not do harm but "J's" brother then had to be rushed to the hospital and his parents were told by doctors that one second more the boy would not have survived.
Some things are much easier for people born with food allergies now and the medical world has more knowledge about it.
Hard to believe that this life was 70 years ago. Many ways the 1950s is modern. 70 years from 1950 was 1880.
The 1950s WAS modern. The only significant difference now is computing technology which merely makes what was once expensive, cheap. You could get video calls in the 1960s - but it was a dedicated closed circuit system, and expensive. Take pictures - ditto. Movies - ditto.
But in essence not a whole lot.
Did I say that or did you.
50s wasnt modern, how is slavery modern and oppressing women and gay people modern?
Saggy T there was no slavery in the 1950s dumbass that ended in the 1860s
Wow!! That is some great math. skills , you must have been educated in the U.S.A.
I was born in the 50's, and much of this can be from my childhood even thru the 60's. Ah...those were truly the good ole' days !
Your old as my grandma
Same here: born in 1955, husband born in 1952. Those who write this nasty, sarcastic posts have NO IDEA how it was to live back then. If I could, I would gladly go back and live during that time again. There are hundreds of thousands that think just like me, and agree with those times being much better than the trashy society we have now.
@@jikoai8709 And your point is?
@Dela Flowers Amen to that! It's just getting worse as time goes on, but that's all written in the Bible= End Times.
@Dela Flowers There is so much information on the internet regarding the current events and how close we are, both to the Rapture and the End Times, that it seems foolish for people not to believe it.
We preach about it, pass out tracts, testify and witness to people, but sadly most have no idea about any of it.
I love how this video emphasizes the importance of every person and their role in the world. So often today, it's easy for people to look down on those who work certain jobs and praise others who work certain jobs; even easier to forget that there are people working while you sleep to keep things running smoothly for everyone else. But this video emphasizes that each is equally important. I wish we were all as respectful and grateful as this video encourages us to be. Times were simpler then.
Have a blessed day.
It was a backward era - in terms of health, technology,gender, race ,cultural equality … esp with regard to women’s body rights & opportunities; and civil rights and equality for others who weren’t white .. let alone were not well off middle class males..
i.e. women and LGBTQI gender-wise; or ethnic communities ….Black Americans and CALD groups ..
for ‘others ‘ to have a say and be entitled to any education & fair incomes & to be able to access a loan to buy their own house and not need to marry to survive or be able to co exist in society… It may have seemed simpler but it was very restricted & restrictive and one only flourished if you were white educated or aspirational &/ or middle class and accepted a racist patriarchy .
easy now, that's communism.
man, Reagan and McCarthy, really screwed this country.
@@annanutherthing4373 It wasn't "backward". Every era has its issues, and people were working to address them. It was fine, it was hopeful, it was a society that was evolving and growing. No matter what you've been taught, the present has just as many problems, and that aggressive negative attitude that focuses only on the negatives creates even more and worse problems. You need an honest, balanced view to know that there was a lot worth keeping that's been destroyed or replaced by cheap imitations.
@@LynxSouth QUITE provincial in the 50's/60's. But no one knew because it had ALWAYS been this way. Prior to the 70's, ONLY white men had full opportunity with no barriers and restrictions.
I was born in 1953 and if I had a choice, I would most certainly go back to live in the mid-1950s. It was certainly a simpler time where stores only opened one night a week on Thursday and they closed early on Saturday and all day Sunday. Plus, you did not have all this technology. Back then we were out all the time either playing sports or riding our bikes Whenever I drive by the ball fields today, I hardly ever see any kids playing pick-up baseball or football. The only time we were inside is when it rained. We were even outside during the winter, sledding, and playing in the snow. Back then, there were individual movie theaters in the center of town. We had 5 movie theaters and each one had its own unique look, unlike the cookie-cutter megaplexes that you find today. I truly miss those days.
This was about 1952 so not only were you not born yet but it would be a good 5-8 years before you’d actually be able to appreciate anything about that time as a young child
Bye bye, David...
aw that’s so cool. I’ve always wished I was a kid back then. nowadays nobody really goes outside. i always wish my friends would ride their bikes around with me, but unfortunately their more prone to technology. the 50s seems like it was a golden age for the youth
Technology has messed us up? how about that fantastic MR or CT scan you now get at the hospital which enables super precise as super rapid diagnosis of a deadly cancerous mass sitting inside of you or inside of a loved one, enabling you to have an operation, and not fu king croak at an early age, let alone see this happen to your child.
how about fantastic drugs like Prozac which has Unchained tens of millions of people from both depression and anxiety. diabetes treatments are way ahead ,leading to far longer lives. cell phones, and Google and computers are used by you yourself all the time as astounding and virtually cost-free Communications mechanisms, which we humans inherently adore doing. that's why you were able to post this message, you bonehead.
air travel is vastly cheaper and I'm sure you make use of it , but Above All Else, advances in health care take the cake in terms of lifestyle improvements in our civilization. Be sure to say hello to the MRI technician when your neurologist suspects a brain tumor inside your skull. he might have a chance of treating it effectively. There were some treatments for cancer back then, but as a rule it and numerous other diseases were a goddamn death sentence you idiot . good old days my ass, especially if you are female, black, Mexican or Asian and wanted to get a position of leadership in this Society, let alone you had sexual orientations that deviated from the obsession with marriage and heterosexual Behavior
@@alyssa975 what if you you could go back and be a kid BUT you had to be black, so your family couldnt vote, had to be subject to redlining, had to have segregated schooling which is paid through residential property taxes and you all had to live in the ghetto because thats where the government regulated your family to live, still want to go back?
Im a 17 year old who grew up with technology. But watching these videos makes me want to live in the 50s.seems like a simpler time.
I lived through the whole 50's while giving your mother a decade's worth of sweet, greasy loving 😛💓🤏👌💦👄
"@ashleytoalson1489" you would be so disappointed. If you are female you would not be allowed to play certain sports in school or have a girls' team like boys do. You would not be able to get a credit card unless your dad or other male relative approves of it. You would not be allowed in, or would find it very hard to get into certain careers or jobs other than kindergarten teacher, stewardess, or nurse.
It would be a big price to pay just to pay 5 cents for an ice cream cone.
@@obscurelyvague exactly. and lets add the horrific sexual abuse that was occurring & being hidden. The alcolohism! The marital affairs, etc., etc. It was only this idyllic for very, very few. Sadly. Even the children of hollywood "stars" have their sad tales.
Videos like these are sweet to watch. I try to make a life like that around me: appreciating people for their good work, whatever they do, friendly greetings, etc.
@@obscurelyvague Sounds good to me!!!! Hahahaha Does it suck to be you? You sound full of anger and hate!
I'm so intrigued of the past. I always think about how it was back then living in it. it's like a different planet , seems really chill/cool
It depended on the family, but growing up in the 1960s, it was a simpler time. We walked and carried groceries home, and there were cabs and buses. Doctors were inexpensive! There was crime etc, but as a rule, most people were more polite. There were neighborhood bars on every corner but I never did see anyone stagger out drunk. Seemed like people in my poorer class neighborhood set limits and behaved well. There were many Mom & Pop stores, so shopping meant walking from shop to shop. Quite delightful way to grow up. Walked to school as well.
+K San
How did he say it really was?
+K San I don't know where HE grew up, but where I grew up in the 60's, it was a lot like this.
Dude - - I remember the 50's - - no air conditioning anywhere except movie theaters - - if it was 90 degrees outside - - there was no relief - - the 50's were anything but cool !!!!
K San, it does depend on where you lived, I suppose. For my father, my in-laws, and even for me, it was like this. The biggest differences were that families were closer knit back then and people were generally more community-minded and more religious. Basically those factors made people more civil to one another and more interdependent. I'm going to agree with Karen and Diana's comments below. My town still had milkmen doing deliveries into the 1970's. Crime was a lot lower - you wouldn't steal from the person at the corner store because that person was your father's dental patient (or whatever) and everyone in the town knew everyone else. The erosion of these things plus the loss of stability from factories closing down made people more cynical and that's really too bad.
Oh man
ITS BEEN ONE OF THOSE DAYS
Yes… Its been one of those days
I miss those days terribly. I remember the milkman, the mailman, the butcher behind the counter, the grocery story and the drug store. My mom's favorite gas station. I don't remember my mom wearing a pantsuit until my late teens then you couldn't get her out of them. I always loved the Sears, J.C.Penney and Montgomery Ward catalogs. They were my wish books. My mom was obsessed with green stamps, had books of them. My dad worked for the Post Office delivering mail so I never got to see him in the mornings except on his days office. We always had a real Christmas tree, smelled good. Life was wonderfully simple, why didn't we fight harder for it.
Yup. Someone in another comment on another video like this mentioned this way of life "disappearing." Someone else replied, "It didn't disappear, it was taken from us." So true.
it's dated 1952....but I'll tell ya, I lived it and it was pretty much this same way right thru most of the 60's where I lived.
Same here.
Same thing here in Canada. I grew up on a small family farm in the 1960's where we kids pitched in with the daily chores as well as the planting and harvesting...we were self-reliant but also a close-knit community that came through for one another when we needed extra help with just about anything that had to be done. (hay mowing, ploughing, planting, harvesting, butchering, etc) That's how it worked so well.
@@bonniebluebell5940 Social background matters
@@obscurelyvague sorry, I wasn't raised on Venus like you and your troubling life.
It was pretty much still the 50s until around 63 or 64, Seems like around 67 or 68 everything just flipped to the turbulent 60s. By the mid 70s things were slowly changing with the fake gas crises, and coming off the gold standard and skyrocketing inflation. By the late 70s and early 80s America was is moral decay. Today America is a true and utter sh!thole.
why did every narrator sound exactly the same
Same guy.
they had a specific accent which was trending then i dont remembr the name, search for 50s narrators accent
Exactly!!!! Maybe it's the same guy narrating.
Well, narrarators all sound the same today too, and news anchors
it was a liked accent for narrators at the time, plus the fact that the microphone made them sound similar
I was born in 48 so I remember the 50s very well. Parents still had to provide food and shelter for their families. Bills needed to be paid and it’s true things were much less expensive but wages were much much lower. Life was simpler but not necessarily easier and I think that is true for every generation.
I was born in 1952. This vid brought back so many memories of my childhood. We had a milk man, bread man, and paperboy to start the day. We lived in Long Island. In those days L.I. was still small townish. Simpler but great. We always ate dinner together every evening at 6:30. We always (mostly always) told our parents where we were going and who going to be with. We come home mostly when expected and my parents used to check my homework before I went to bed. Such a different world but I'm glad I grew up then.
Hello Phyllis, how are you doing?
We CAME home mostly when expected....
I was so blessed to live during this time as a child. I miss it so much! 😢💔
Hello Lynne, How are you doing?
I was born in 1952. It's so interesting to see how much the world has changed. I'm not sure for the better.
Dann your old.
So was i . i loved the 50s and early 60s .
Yes, the world has changed and not for the better. I graduated from Purdue in 1955. I've seen it all.
Not really
Phyllis Charpentier I was born in 1953, and I agree with you.
the wonderful 1950s as a child was spectacular. Nice people, manners, dress up, respect and enjoy
yes yes nice manners like denying minorities basic civil rights and services, thats respect in your brain?
No diversity is our truly a strength
100 percent @@Hidalgo-tg1ky
Segregation, racism, no rights for women. Yeah, it was so great.
Yes@@KC73
We don't think much about it now, (even in here in '52 it gets a passing glance.) But writing, editing, putting together, proofreading, typesetting, proofreading again, THEN printing AND distributing a daily PHYSICAL newspaper is actually an amazing achievement.
I was born in 1956. I remember when the milk man would take our empty bottles and leave fresh milk. I remember the bread man and the smell of fresh baked goods. I also remember when it all ended. There was something magical about that era. I was sheltered from most of life's harsh realities until I entered my fourth year of school. That's when my parents made a decision about my education that would shape me and change the course of my entire life. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I will forever be grateful to Mom and Dad for their wise decision. Life is what you make it.
What was the decision?
The only magic was you were young.
After the civil rights act this country is done for. You have ruined for everyone.
@@RowanMcKay how did she ruin it for everyone?
@@MrCrowebobbythat's the thing all these boomers forget, when they bemoan the good old days are no more. They were children. Of course everything is simpler when you're a kid 🤦🏻♀️
People dressed up for just about everything in the 50's. So classy.
mindsaglowin Did you notice the paper boy wearing a tie?
Also very racist
@@TenshinhanIsKing um how
@@TenshinhanIsKing White people are just as racist today. It just mutates into a new form with the times.
Dressing up to go take the garbage out, shoveling the snow, walking the dog 😂
Probably just a guess that they would
Thanks cs188 for bringing me here
same XD
@@danielsmithproductions yeah
Yes, so many happy memories of rushing home from school and turning on the television and staring at the test pattern until the programming day began.
•I was born in 1952.
•My town had about 2,000 inhabitants .
•We walked or rode bikes everywhere.
•We ate together as a family every night.
• we knew our neighbors
• we never talked back to our parents
Deborah Troutman-Immink
Never talked back?, no free speech. 😒😑
It was called respect for your parents and other adult relatives.
Cathy Prichard
But still no free speech....i understand about it and i agree with it but still if their is a disagreement and the one that is disagree to the parent probably has a valid point of saying to make cuz maybe its true and the parents are wrong, not all the time but what if the child knows something legit and the parents wont listen and therefore cuz of rejection to anothers point of view, the issue of whatever it is will increase to be worse.
@@garouuchiha4041 talking back is worse
Deborah Troutman-Immink
We also respected our elders. We were very patriotic.
This reminds me of my own life, the town in which I was raised was Pecatonica, Illinois; named in honor of the Pecatonica Indians, who once dominated the area. As a boy I discovered many arrowheads and other relics from the Pecatonica Indian tribe. When my family lived there in the 1960's the population was less than two-thousand. We had one department store, which was owned by a rather grumpy man named Mr. Benedict, aptly named "Benedict's Dept. Store". There were two restaurants, "The Pecatonica Diner" and a bar & grill which I was too young to enter. 'Pop' was one of the best bowlers on the bowling league team to which he belonged. We kids spent a great deal of time at the YMCA swimming in their Olympic-sized pool, such fun! Our next-door neighbors were an elderly widow lady named Mrs. Anders and a widower named Rolland Dirkson (odd that they were both widowed) and his adorable daughter, can't recall her name just now, she was such a little beauty that she won many local beauty contests. When she was 16 she won the title of "Miss Winnebago County Fair". My father was a dairy products deliveryman, AKA "The Milkman". His great sales ability was noticed by a medical equipment company executive who offered my father a position as a sales executive in the mid-west, propelling my father into great success; he became the wealthiest man in town, "a big fish in a small pond". My eldest brother, Kurt joined the United States Marine Corps and was killed in The Vietnam War. Before his death in 1969, I spent the happiest days of my life in that wonderful Mayberry-like town, we even had a fishin' hole! Years later, when the trials of life would become a bit too much for me, I'd drive to this cherished haven in an attempt to recapture the happiness and peace which I once knew there; but, as Thomas Wolfe wrote: *"You can never go home again."*
I am so sorry that your brother was killed.
In the 90s folks still got all the news and gossip while getting their mail at the post office. My first wife's grandparents lived there then. Pretty little town near Rockford/ hiwy20. Small world!
Was so sad to read your brother was killed in Vietnam. God bless his soul and God bless your whole family.
@@ioodyssey3740 It must have been either Seward or Pecatonica, Illinois.
Of course back then people would say "them redskins". Those were the times!
Ironically, this is kind of the life I live now. I am a homemaker. My husband works in a Papermill and our daughter goes to high school we’ve been married 21 years and it’s just very ordinary.
I love this but at the same time it makes me so sad how things have changed so very much not for the best .
Remember penny candy ?
Oh and the smell of the small neighborhood store when u entered...candy smell ..heavenly 🙌. Halloween wax candy smelled the best lol
What a great smell that was! Kinda like Woolworth's, had it's own great smell.
Yes !! There was a store called "The Party Shop" .. rows and rows of penny candy.. and some were like 3 for a penny.. ! We went with a quarter each and came out with a BAG o CANDY !
This feel-good video has really struck a chord among senior citizens. I was born in 1949 and lived in a town exactly like the one shown - albeit in Canada (Dauphin, Manitoba). It was the best possible place (and time) to grow up in - even though I could not have known it at the time.
I am in Winnipeg and had access to small-town village life where my parents grew up in SW Manitoba. I love this film - especially the emphasis on the importance of everyone's jobs and their contribution to the community. Its a lesson people so often forget.
Chilliwack BC was a lot like this.
Shame you boomers leave nothing but a ruined country for your grandchildren. You should have fought hard against desegregation
I miss the small town life. I miss walking in the woods and watching all the wildlife coming out with the new born baby animals 😊
I loved this. Reminded me of the town I grew up in as a child. Simpler times back then ❤️
I wish I could have been born in 1950 when people cared for each other.thank u for sharing a good life of the 1950s.
In modern times most of these jobs have either been outsourced or turned into crappy minimum wage part-time jobs. This video talks about the importance of all workers and how they help their community, but this totally goes against the grain of modern America where labor is looked down upon, big corporations treat workers like expendable trash, and nobody cares about helping other people in their community. Ah, progress.
Man has a dream and that's the start! He follows his dream with mind and heart! And when it becomes a reality theres a great big future for you and me! Oh there's a great Big, Beautiful, Tomorrow!
The idea that a shop keeper could make a descent wage had me comparing retail workers today to then. Minimum wage, part time, no benefits, varying hours, no job security.... Some of the jobs such as linemen and firefighters still pay well thanks to unions.
I think I watched a history/prediction video regarding each revolution, and he was saying how it took many generations of people to learn how to farm and that it was a bloodbath; in that regard I hope the same can go for technology before we kill ourselves (figuratively or literally).
Your right. And this is also the era before American colonialism
@@maddie9117 ?
I was as born in the late 1950’s. If I could I would certainly go back to the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Some towns in Mexico are reminiscent of the 1950’s and I love it there. I really miss those days gone by.
Similar to early 60's. Around 1964, I was 8 years old, I remember the milkman, Murray, a few times getting me to help him on his route for the last couple of hours of his shift. It was fun for me and he paid me $5. Of course, I gave him back a bit of that to buy either chocolate milk or pink lemonade. LOL
Hello Rose, how are you doing?
Richard should be around 73 these days .
Richard is now in a state of technological shock!! 😂
Trump’s age.
He got hit by a car hes dead
If he made it through Vietnam alive.
@@StoicContrarian We Wuz Anglo Saxons N Shieeet Dawg!!!
If you veer far off the interstates you can still find towns like this. It’s truly worth the trip.
All night long, Richard's doing things...
DOIINNG THIIIINGS
Born in 1937. Life was definitely simpler then. Things are happening now that no one could have ever imagined would happen. The culture is totally corrupt.
sure miss those deliveries of milk and bread. those were the days!
Small town here. Grocery just started delivery, and I am like so pleased! Reminded me of 'the old days'.
so do I...Mr. Dugan the bread man. Put the orange sign in your front window, signifying that you need him to stop. Open your back door before 7:00 a.m., and there inside your milk box was fresh, cold milk waiting for you to bring in...in GLASS bottles! You could also order orange juice, eggs and cheeses.
We had a milkman until the late 60's. REAL milk with the cream on top, not this white colored water like today...
Miss those days.
Try Shipt or Instacart! They'll bring you your milk!
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'ed never end. I cherish my memories of the late fifties and sixties. Everyone was a neighbour and friend in our small town.
My mom was so lucky to have grown up in the 59s. I think that she was a especially wonderful person because of it.
As someone born in the 2000s, I can't believe I missed a lot of this awesome looking stuff :( Gosh, I'd do anything to live in those times over these times.
You know black people couldn't use white water fountains in 1952
@@SaraH-jn5db only in the southern states.
"@BlueThunderstorm" you can join the Amish or the Hutterites.
@@Thomas-yr9ln you think there wasnt incredible amounts of redlining and racial discrimination in the north? read a book , i know youre american so being uneducated is expected of you, but try it some time
I know, awesome right!
I was born in 1962 and for a very short time, we had a milkman delivering to our home. I can remember when my parents had their first telephone installed. Me and my friends could go anywhere and all the neighborhood moms knew who we were, knew our parents and helped watch over us throughout the day.
Hey there! I came across your comment and I just had to reach out and say hi. Your perspective really caught my attention and I would love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in chatting sometime? Looking forward to hearing back from you! 😊
Also 62. Grew up in California on a street with tons of kids. Walked to school K-12, and even went home for lunch every day. Played all day, and was expected to be home for dinner. The one thing that really saddens me is how kids today--at least from what I see--don't hang out together and explore. They're never outside with each other just getting along and making their own entertainment: everything is orchestrated by their parents or their devices. Seems a horrible way to be a kid--if it's even being a kid at all.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 maybe one day things will go back to that. 😊
Wow, that is one nice looking neighborhood. Wish I could have lived in that era.
I grew up in that era, only the elite lived in such neighborhoods.
@@swabby429 where is it?
@@swabby429 So what? Sucked to be you I suppose!
They sure do seem to care alot about. richard.
he'll grow up to be an appliance salesman.
Look at his delivery truck, "Black Hawk Meats"
Not now that he's a dick.
+Neil Tipton Yep too bad he wasn't named Donald.
+beloog99 lol exactly.
A wonderful time to raise a family. I relate to a lot of the comments mentioned below.
I do like how this video shows how everyone who works is an important part of a community. Today we have lost sight of this!
Wonderful film! It encourages children to appreciate the people who work hard to make their communities better places.
Does it? Really?
@@weedermann yea dick
I was born in the sixties and in my own way I replicate some of the small town experiences. I go to the same neighborhood grocery store every week where the bakery sees me coming and has a fresh loaf of sourdough bread waiting for me. (I go to Costco every couple of months too). My local hardware store asks me upon arrival what I'm looking for and directs me to it. I know my five neighbors and we help each other mow the grass and shovel snow. Connection is a big part of these old films. Look up from your phone and say hello, hold a door open- that's how community is built
I was born in 1950 and grew up in Ohio in a small town just about like this one. Everything they talk about in the video was true. People attended community events together, like the 4th of July dance and picnic. You saw all your neighbors in church and at school. Everybody knew everybody else. It was a small microcosm of a world. Of course there were a lot of problems, like race relations and the fighting of small wars all over the place just to name a few, but people generally got along with each other. Everything was cheap back then and our father's were making good money in the steel mills and rubber factories. I remember 12 ears of corn for $1. A Pepsi was 10 cents, not $3.29 like I recently paid for one.
"@johnallen2771" Wow you could write a book. It would be important for history.
Crazy how you were born in 1950 yet my parents born in 1954 don't even use email 😅🤭
And you boomers ruined it
@@Crush44"RUINED IT"?!?!
Why you young whipper-snapper, I've a good mind to take you over my knee and teach you some respect for your elders!
By the way, did you catch the cop littering at 6:06...
I remember it being like this when I was little. Only for a short time until the internet became really popular. I miss it.
I wish I'd experienced this kind of slow simple life. At least I got to experience the last of it, the 90s as a kid. It feels like this was a different world
This is pretty much how it was when I grew up in Park Heights Baltimore in the early 1960s. Lovely
ah yes, the 40s and 50s. Now those were the days. I would love to return. I loved them then and would love them again........
I think that the 30s and 40s are usually considered a more appropriate grouping. Unless you think that World War II was the good old days.
Very odd. Life expectancy was about 20 years shorter.
@@themaskedman221 I agree because there was also the Great Depression which most people around the world including in the US were economic trouble then came the war which killed millions
The part where they are showing all the little stores the little town I grew up in had those. Now everything is Amazon goodbye America. Support small business
This is possibly the most ignorant economic argument ever.
People should purchase the best quality products at the lowest prices possible, not just local products no matter the quality or price. What you're essentially saying is that everyone should have a higher cost of living, and that this is the path to prosperity for all Americans.
No, it's not. Buy low, not local.
What’s wrong with Amazon? They are a platform for independent sellers as well.
Yes vulture capitalism has made it very difficult to run a small business. Everyone works for a "company." Sad.
@@smakkdat They are killing their workers. Underregulated.
Many kinds of people keep the cities reservoirs filled with pee ⭐️
And there is a city dump. so the city will look like a dump.
@@richardgadberry8398Coffee guy: AHH SMELL IT
@@Bradytheawesomeman777
The mayor was chosen by the mayor
@@danielsmithproductions”The city hires men to jizz on sidewalks”
I had a paper route...and clearly remember those days. And those things... Back then..and later..I thought EVERYONE..had a memory like I did..and still do...I later discovered. that everyone doesn't have a photographic memory!.. I treasure it.. For me, it's worth FAR MORE than money ever could be.
Jobs that don't exist: Milkman. Newspaper men and women. Baker. Paper delivery boy. Railroad station workers. Beat cop/cop directing traffic with NO GUN or military paraphernalia. My favorite: exactly what my parents told me--the kids' job is to go to school and learn to be a good citizen. Different universe.
and i remember as a kid, all the mom and pop stores, from paint, hardware, grocer, hobby, to shoes, to clothing, everything and anything, A & P was the biggest grocer we had, no malls, nor super stores ! Can't forget about the doctors that made housecalls.
@Lyndon Tree It wasn't the communists (they were a tool only). The same group that funded the Russian revolution was working behind the scenes spreading socialism, destruction of middle class values, and removing prayer from the schools in the 1960's. It's called the dialectic (please watch an interview with congressional investigator Norman Dodd-The Reese Committee into tax exempt foundations to learn more). Our failure to understand the dialectic, and the failure of the media to report it is why our country (and the world) is experiencing culture cancel. Please learn from this that life can be what we the people choose when directed by God's values, and not what is given us from the top down. Once God is removed, the country falls. Evil reigns. What was good is now called bad, and what was bad is now called good. The Bible teaches these will be the coming days.
Plenty of bakers, even baker's unions.
Go to school and not be taught that your country is horrible and evil in every way, and you should be ashamed of it and work to destroy it.
absolutly right
It's amazing how different things where when we produced our own things
Some of the exteriors were shot in Wilmette, Illinois. The church is the same church from Home Alone.
The town is pretty much the same as it was then but there have been changes. It’s still has a small downtown area around the train station.
I was very small back then. I remember when you took the car to the gas station, there was a rubber line on the ground at each pump. You would roll over them and the bell in the station would go ding. Letting the attendants know that someone was waiting at a pump. LOL SO many memories.
I can still hear that bell!
It seemed like everyone had a place, every place was important, and everyone was content with their own. Harmony.
What an interesting peek into the past. Most enjoyable to watch. The innocence made me smile.
Ohh, what I would do to experience life in the 1950's America. Those times must have been great, simple and easy.
White privilege at its finest, 2045 baby.
I was born in 1954 and remember the '50s and '60s well. You could be in middle management or pump gas at a filling station - ONE wage-earner could buy some type of house. Our family doctor charged $5.00 for an office visit - and in emergencies, made house calls. Supermarkets were starting to spring up - but, the products still came to YOU. We had the Milk Man, the Bread & Pastries Man, the Tidy Didy Man (diaper service), the Fuller Brush Man (household cleaners), and The Good Humor Man (Ice cream truck) . . . We also had Air Raid Drills, where everyone would duck into approved shelters if they were shopping in town. If you were at home - you hid in your cellar. We school kids had to "Duck and Cover" either under our desks - or in the hallway, because atomic fallout can't find you there, lol.
Sadly, nowadays children have very little sense of how a successful civil society functions consequently, there is little appreciation for all our blessings.
more like you screwed it all up now
Jim Dandy, sadly, they are taught just the opposite in schools these days....
@@normalnick9693
Social media screwed things up for
good people are busy calling each other
names instead of bettering their own lives
@@colonelautism9957 the leftists or commies or what ever you want to call them took over much of the education system and big city government. that was their plan and it was very successful, That was this countries downfall
@@brrtool
They worship failure, they love to stew in it eternally,
they think anything that's healthy and successful = fascism.
I was born in 1952 and grew up in Forrest City, AR. Population about 10,000 to 12,000 then and now. Born in Memphis, Tn. but raised in FC, AR. I wouldn't change my upbringing in any way. My Momma was an R. N. and my Dad was a policeman! Love those small towns and yes we rode bikes everywhere and I could take a sack lunch and my collie dog and shotgun and go off into the woods and tell Momma I would be back before dark and no one thought a thing about it.
How are things in Forest city now
🤜🤛 best comment right there.
"@Nightdog1978" there were a lot of cold cases from way back then.
That's why Richard will eat off of streets and sidewalks whenever it is necessary...
In the Itty Bitty Shitty City Hall, people'd "Better Caul Saul" because the mayor was doing lines in his office.
Much better quality of life than we have today
I see people talking to each other and being respectful. No overcrowding or trash everywhere. No pants below the underwear or rap music. Fathers with their children and kids running to school. Mothers staying home? Church on Sunday too? I want to move there. It sure beats any place I have been to lately.
yeah those seem like good times
Would be great except I would miss today's technology, the racism and lack of medicine for of sicknesses and disease.
+TheNauseator this wasnt a type of life in america. Its an idealistic view. Theres always going to be problems. And there is nothing wrong with gay families or single parent households...
+TheNauseator 1950's were far from perfect if they would of had today's technology bet would be same as today. just as many sick, twisted, loud mouthed, ignorant, perverted people them as now.
Things were different but not a perfect world like others would believe. The 20s had the mob shooting up the streets during prohibition, I wouldn't quite call that respectful.
As wonderful as our current day advantages are, there is much to be missed from the days of the 1950's. For those of us who can remember such days, we should consider ourselves blessed to have the memories.
Hello Nancy, how are you doing?
Would have LOVED to love then. Working hard and being a good person still got you somewhere!!
I was born in 1951. Lived on a small horse ranch in Alta Loma, California. Walked 4mi to school. Bought eggs at the local chicken ranch. Rode my horse to Market to pick up vegetables and fruits paying with a check my Mom signed. The owner knew my family and trusted us. At the Lumber yard or Savings + Loan our family was known and trusted. My uncle was a HS counselor. My math teacher came to our home for dinner. Our front door was always open just like all our family homes. At night I read books or listened to radio drama. Our B+W TV had 3 stations and we all watched Ed Sullivan or Jack Benny. Our town had only 1 sheriff. Our family had lived here since 1890 as Citrus Farmers.
its funny how all the jobs payed you well, unlike today
true. today a household needs two incomes to get by.
Yes, the dad could work at the local grocery store and be able to afford to have a place for his wife and kids to live in, a car, and they would be able to take a vacation.
Its the Federal Reserve's problem. Its a non Gov agency that control's the USA money supply.
In a post-WW2 world when America produced 80% of the world's good due to destruction of factories in other countries, it was an economic boom.
That's because of unions and government regulation making it hard to run a business so companies leave and take jobs with them government is the problem they need to be made way smaller
A Great time for me to come around in 1955.. Grew up
In Anaheim California in a orange grove community.. walking to school safely .. and riding my bike around neighborhood .. neighbors ,and family friends over often to visit my parents .. and kids to play with .. loved going to the market w my mom in her huge 57 Buick station wagon .... those days !! A dream now !!!
I grew up in Anaheim near Disneyland in the 1970's, we still had orange groves everywhere. It was a beautiful area and was very safe for kids...Everything started going downhill in Anaheim in the 90's, that's when my family got the hell out. What a shit hole Anaheim has become now...actually most of Orange County sucks now.
I was born in the 60's, we allways had dinner at 5 in the evening, all the family together. Only if my dad had to rork late we ate without him but that was seldom. We moved to our summer cottage the same day the school finished each summer. Then we moved back to town(apatmentbuilding) the day before school started. We never had a car,we went everywhere by bus,train,tram or by bicycle. Our whole family had bicycles. It was a happy childhood in Scandinavia.
The 1950s seems to have been the height of personal and civic responsibility in America.
This isn’t a documentary, it’s a fictional film.
These 1950's videos are my asmr for going to sleep, love hearing them as I go to sleep. :)
I was always fond of the 50's even though I never lived through them. And no not because I watched happy days or like the back to the future films. Stand by me was good however. It's just in today's stressful world it's easy to daydream about a life that didn't revolve around emails and being addicted to your smart phone that carries your stress wherever you go. A man got up every morning, ate breakfast with his family, kissed his wife goodbye for the day while she maintained the home as he went to work. Dinner promptly at 6pm every night. Weekends were consistent with yard work on Saturdays and church on Sundays. You slept with the doors unlocked and you trusted your government. Today we're all in a hurry to go places we don't want to be, doing things we don't want to do. Everybody is in debt and you're paying more a month for your kid's phones than your parents paid for the house you grew up in. Cars were simpler, people obeyed the law and you didn't have news like radical Islamic terrorism or the BLM hate group. If you told someone in the 50's that we would someday have a tv actor and a real estate tycoon as presidents they would choke on their pezz. I guess I'm fond of that time because of my own hectic and connected life. I want to disconnect and the 50's just seemed like the perfect vacation.
you didn't hear news about Islamic terrorism because the US had only recently started to take their oil from the middle eastern countries and would later interfere with their domestic issues and start arming different groups against the Soviets. That bit them in the back later
Agreed, Nazis suck as a hate group towards POC. BLM will always be a wonderful thing. ;)
Might not wanna drop race into your fantasy of living in the 50s again, it tells some things about you that you should be ashamed of.
I was born in the 1950’s in a small town in Maine. We had a milkman, bread man, fruit man, fish man, & egg man who all delivered to the house. Dry cleaning was picked up at the house if you put the cleaner’s little sign in the front window. Those were the days……
my dad was born in 52' its nice to here him talk about the 50s how things were in those days..
I would love to have grown up in a small town like that, during that era.
I would love to live in the 50's.
But being White, right?
@@tximeleta35 I do know what you mean and feel so sad for the racial discord in many areas back then. Where I lived I didn't see that, but I was fortunate. There are no excuses for people to treat others badly because of race, religion or because someone is different.
@2025 Sebastian Silva I did live in the 80's and 90's and was young and have great memories. Every decade offers something good , I think. I guess it's the nostalgia of the 1950's that I want to experience. I truly wish time travel really existed.
@@roseb.1537 if you didn't see signs of racism it was most likely because yours was as exclusively white area. If you think about it THAT is probably the most exclusionary form of racism. There were no confrontations because the non white population "knew their place and knew to stay there".
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Richard is around 78 if he is still alive. This time and town seems so peaceful I wish I could live there.
It was a better world back then .....😊 lots of respect and peace ❤
I am so jealous of the people who lived in that era. Things looked less complicated back then and there were many jobs. Would have been awesome to live in the 1950s.
How I feel all the time. I'm forever in love with a decade I'll never be in!
agreed, however it wasn't the same politically. This was the transition from WW2 - Cold War - to Vietnam war. But yes, much more relaxing for the citizens.
Well it wasn't always so heavenly, but life was slower paced. We seemed to have more routines. You knew what to expect. But factory work was gruelling, and no air conditioning. But the old cook stoves and refrigerators lasted forever! Well made products. That is what I really miss. But the freezer in a 50s fridge was very very small. They expected ladies to go shopping almost every day. Most jobs just brainless grunt work, as I called it. But it paid, and one was glad to work. Now more automation. Less unskilled jobs.
your grandfather IS WRONG
Danny Leo it looks like a nice place to visit but the "easy jobs" would be in a full factory and the Internet wasn't around so that would suck super hard also there were a lot of social problems
The coolest thing about the 50's was there wasn't a regressive tax code that taxed families into poverty. In the 50's a man could graduate high school and get a good paying job that would support his wife and three kids. Now we have so many taxes at the federal and state level it takes both parents holding down full time jobs to make it. Most modern women wish they could live like women did in the 50's but they work because they have no choice
wanna know what really sucks??
my grandpa bought a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house back in the idk 60s and has lived in that same house up until 2 months ago
that house was bought for under $170,000
unfortunately because of his passing
we can NOT inherit his house
you know why??
because the house is now valued at half a million dollars and the property tax is over a thousand a month
we cant handle paying that much a year
so therefore it has to be sold to a BIG time middle class family who can afford the property tax and the house payments and once that happens
that house will no longer ever be stepped foot into again
turns out its expensive because its in a nice neighborhood ( with alleyways) and it has a Huge backyard
my mom grew up in that house as a child
i can see why people say
we cant have nice things
fargeeks damn that's messed up I'm sorry
yeah no problem
i will say grandpa had no problem with buying the house (although he did say that was a big risk he took)
as he told me that right after high school he joined the air force
so i guess back then his intelligence is what made him able to buy the house since everything was cheaper back then but also the payment on everything
so it may not have made that much difference to a homebuyer now like it was back then
Thomas Donohue do you really believe that "most modern women" don't want to have an education, and be paid for the contributions they make to society? When was the last time you stayed at home taking care of preschool kids, cleaning the house, doing dishes by hand and laundry with an old wringer washer and clothesline? All for the sake of marriage to some entitled man who expected his slippers, his pipe, or a cocktail when he got home at 5pm. Many housewives in the 50's had serious mental health problems or addiction due to the boring drudgery of their lives. And no personal freedom, either.
I disagree that most women want to stay as house-wives, and if you think about it in our modern context it makes no sense to do so either. The partner + kids will be at work/school 8 hours a day, why should a woman waste her life at home doing nothing when she has the potential for so much more during that time? Many women of those times had serious psychological problems from boredom, apathy etc. it's not natural or healthy for any person's to stay immobile for long periods of time and be confined in the same space. Just like prison isn't healthy either.
Had an older friend of mine tell me they would take their shotguns to school and leave in the principles office and pick them up at the end of the day to go hunting before dark.
Can you even imagine that?
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I loved the 50s, but I can't let yesterdays take up too much of today.
Man how I wish so much just to spend a day or two. Living this life really understanding what my great grandparents talked about
I watch a lot of these videos from the 40s and 50s and it all seems so idealic and simple. I then read the comments and see so many remenisce their childhood. I wonder if people really lived like that or if the videos make them seem so perfect and people's memories only allow them to remember it as good due to the innocence of youth.
I was born in 1951 and lived in various countries and states as a child because my father was a soldier. When he retired in 1968, we moved to a small farm town in northern California where I attended the high school. After graduation, I got married to a local girl and we both attended the nearby university. After college graduation we had 2 children who were raised in that small town as well. It was a great place to live and raise children. Everyone knew everyone and most were involved in school, church or service organizations. As time went by the town grew and became a bedroom community for those commuting to Sacramento or Bay area. Everything became less personal, traffic grew worse as did petty crime which used to be non-existent. I finally left the town I used to love because it was so different than it used to be. I now live in a different state and live in the suburbs which is not really suited to me. I should have moved into another small town.
I'm 14 years old. I truly wish that the small town I live in had the stores it had in the 50s. There were 5 gas stations in 1956 and now, 60 years later, only one stands. Every building in town was used in the 50s. It's sad to see what has left over the past 10 years.
+J.R.X360 That's because people are moving to big cities now.
Very true
It is that people have to work for a living. Small towns do take a hit, and become bedroom towns. People only there at night to sleep.
What is the name of this town what is the state name
Nostalgia for a time I never knew, and I time I’ll never see.
Our minds play tricks to keep us from being too depressed about our lost youth.
We got our milk delivered until around 1967. My neighborhood was a lot like this. The rec center is still there and so is the original library.
We walked around two each others homes and to school. We were never afraid.
It was idyllic. I was born in 1953.
As a young child in the early 60s, it was like this growing up in my hometown. We had mild delivered several times a week and the mailman, Mr. Paul, came in through the back down in the morning usually as we were eating breakfast exchanged pleasantries with my mom, patted us on the head and and went and put the milk and any other dairy products my mom ordered in the refrigerator. We also had a vegetable man, Mr. C, who came in a van on Wednesday with all the fresh fruit (seasonal) and vegetables for our needs that my dad didn’t grow in the garden behind our garage. Mr C always saved a few “samples” of the best fruit for me and my brothers. We walked to the drug store, butcher shop, hardware, schools and library. We road the bus to go downtown or further distances. It was much simpler then.
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