1950s America - Vintage USA Road Trip in COLOR
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2023
- Hop in the TIME MACHINE for a road trip back in time. Check out this superb collection of vintage COLOR photos of car travel in 1950s America.
It's time once more to pack up the old station wagon and hit the road...
Let's take another road trip beyond memory lane to destinations throughout the United States. Once again, we are off the interstate and cruising through America's highways, byways, motorways, and backroads. National Parks, tourist courts, roadside attractions, and the wide open road await in this journey through America's past.
So whether you're looking for a nostalgic vacation from reality or just want to learn more about America's classic years, this is the video for you! Watch and learn as we travel the 50s in style!
#50s #lifeinamerica #nostalgia 
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I was born in 1940. The 50s were a golden age. Yes, not everything was perfect in our USA, but all we knew, as teenagers, was to live and love our living. Car trips with no Interstate traffic jams, roadside motels, bicycle journeys with our friends, baseball on the dirt diamonds, the infancy of television with the variety shows and the comedians. Sleigh riding in the winter, ice cream shops, stickball in the playground - staying out doors all day until dinner time. Being taught, by our parents, to be polite, law-abiding and respectful. Actually learning things in school. Summer jobs, and striving always to be better in some way. Sitting in the back-back of the station wagon, facing the rear and identifying all the different license plates. Maybe we were naive, perhaps blind to some injustices in society. But it was a joy to grow up then - I wouldn't trade the experience for all the cell phones and iPads in the world!
Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll🎶🎶🎶and Route 66❤🔥🙏
I was born in 1977 but I have always thought it would have been cool to be born in the early 40s; to have your teenage years be in the 50s is something I’m jealous of and something I wish I could have experienced. I bet it was an amazing time to be alive.
@@mcuthor7831 It was a unique time in America simply because the post WWII economic/baby boom produced a series of “golden” conditions that you can’t reproduce easily.
1. Was the launch of the consumer society without having to face the disastrous environmental results yet.
2. kids were more secure with a stay at home mom and carefree physical activities which were designed to have “fun”. All the exercise produced a healthier mind.
3. Wealth. Wealth and then more wealth with little to no international competition. What’s not to like.
4. A groundswell of youth culture , sassiness… kids everywhere… music everywhere like a tornado of energy mixed in with new consumer ideas and products launched every week.
** BUT ! This all depended on who you were born to… the state you lived in… how big a town/city you lived in…. the colour of your skin … and of course how “bright” you were.
BTW … my son was born in 1977 😉👍
Not if you were black or a person of color, as some folks like to refer to themselves today.
So the good old days were good for some, but for others it was a living hell, and look around even today, for a lot of people things haven’t gotten any better.
In fact, you may say things have gotten worse.
Racial injustice, Emmett Till, Montgomery … we hadn’t a clue. Knowledge was hard to come by unless you went to school. Most of the newspapers were owned by Republican moguls who sold advertising. But we digress.
How about this video? During that era, I had some beautiful cars like these because my dad had an auto body shop. The best was a 61 Red Chev Convertible that I painted a killer metallic red color. He had every color of the rainbow working there and it seemed like everything was fine. I handed out the checks, though. Maybe that’s why they like the boss’s son.
A time when people looked forward to the future. 😔
Now we wish to go back in time!!
Sad but true 😢
Looked forward with optimism. Now, realists dread the future.
Страшное будущее и прекрасное прошлое.
What ? They didn’t care, they had 5.0l+ motors in every car, they wore leather on everything, they smoked cigarettes where they wanted to, I mean they had wood! on cars? that’s not looking forward to the future, that’s shitting in future, unless we wouldn’t be where we are now
Colors are gorgeous. Sigh, it looks so great. Everything looks so clean, everyone looks so well dressed, obesity looks practically nonexistent.
I remember the late 1950's and obesity WAS almost non existent then. If you ever get a chance in a public library, high school library, or college library, flip through some old year books from the 1950s and 1960s, and even the 1970s. Look at the group photos. The kids all look trim and svelte by today's standards. I think some thing or things, changed in the American diet since then, but I'm not sure what it was, or they were..
THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
Thank you!
One thing about these photos. Everyone seems happier and relaxed.
Who here remembers when you could go shopping and leave your car windows down and not worry about somebody stealing your stuff? Or leave your car windows down all night while parked on the street and come out and find your car the way you left it?
I noticed that. Back then, anyone caught stealing a car was in for some pretty rough times. Not so today.
I do. There are those who don't believe me when I say that during tge 59s, and even up to the early 60s, many did not see the need to lock their house doors, and kept their street parked cars unlocked as well, with the windows down to boot. I remember this being the case, quite well. Glass jars of milk were delivered at people's front doors, with no one thinking someone would steal it.
When people cared, had respect for themselves and places....miss it
Thank you for these videos and the glimpse to a normal world populated with normal people
I tell you the truth. America's best times are behind us forever!
Agreed 👍💯
Brighten the corner you're in, ya know ✌
Oh Beautiful America, how we miss you so!!
I know people say “ good ol days “ but honestly all those people and families lived such a good life . Family incomes , technology , computers, cell phones all have actually ruined many aspects of life . Kids and grown ups walked down the road ,kids stayed a friends houses to communicate. Brown- bagging lunches were the norm for all ….neighborhood lawn parties, kids rode bikes or walk to school ( not driven EVERYWHERE)!
A double- bill at the local movies ……Quite honestly the normal lives of families and children of these modern days are the worst for all of us . Expensive, Crime , Unemployment, Social media is the doom of us . I’m 66 I just about lived in the “ Good ol days “ Even the late 60’s were better times
then 2023 !!!!
much better then 2023 !!!!
With there with ya' Kerry and you are absolutely right!
Amen, Brother...totally lived the same time frame...when I watch these vids I see how BLESSED we were to live in those days! Wouldn't trade it for any other time!
Hey KuneKune Great to hear from you !! Most days I still daydream of growing up . Plus I
( 2 brothers, 1 sister) we were blessed with parents who loved our music 🎶 …. Rock n Roll of the 70’s ….. Yaaahoooo 🤪🤪👍🏻
Hey Following The Agees 👍🏻👍🏻
Little can be said of our “ advancements” in life . My Mom wrote poetry … one called “ Life Can Be So Simple “….. It was actually turned into a song recorded by “ Lighthouse” A Canadian rock band . My family as a whole have seen many of the classic rock bands , when music was really happening .!!! All this added to my exceptionally great life growing up . If I could grow up again ….. I probably would .
Oh yeah ….. ps. We all saw the Beatles in 1964 .!!!🤪🤪🤪😜😜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm close to your age at 64 and I was an Air Force brat growing up in Portsmouth NH. I remember the 60s vividly. Mom had a Rambler wagon and later, a 65 Chevy Impala 4dr. We rode our Schwinns (made in the USA) all over the neighborhood. Movies were 75 cents. Cartoons on Saturday morning. It was punishment to have to stay in the house. Wex would go to Hampton Beach or rides out in the country in the fall to see the leaves. Small businesses for most things with maybe a Woolworths. We got our first McDonald's in '66, 15c hamburgers no dining room. Those were the days. Then the late '60s came as a window into the future and it didn't look too good. I would never have wanted to live in any other time.
No homeless camps, no litter, no sweat’s just classier!
Those were the days
Everything looked so clean and neat.
I have to say this video makes me very happy and at the same time very sad. Being a baby boomer i remember traveling in the late '50s and early 60s back and forth from Michigan to Arizona. All 5 of us in the family station wagon. Camping along the way. Many really good memories of those trips came flooding to me watching this. I actually saw some places that we went to while we were traveling.
Now for the sad part I will never be able to enjoy a road trip like that with my family ever again. They are all gone now my parents my older and younger brother. I am the only one left.
Thank you for posting this video I really enjoyed it.
Love anything 50s. Thanks for this!
This was back when people looked and acted decent. They carried themselves like they took pride in themselves and their families.
Born in 1943,I remember the 50's.Going to school,playing marbles everyday,and being outside a good part of the day.Going to the movies for 10 cents on saturday mornings.When we went out to the country to visit friends,we would spend the day playing hide and seek,tag,and swimming in the lakes,keeping an eye out for the leaches..we sometimes helped to cut and remove the tall reeds to make way for small boats to dock and pathways to get the boats out to the main body of the lake.Running barefoot most of the time and heading for the salt shaker to help get the leach(es) off our skin before they pierced our skin to get blood for food.Even rowing a boat was an adventure.Sometimes we were lucky and were able to tag along in a boat with a gas powered motor.Making floating rafts with small logs tied together to make a floor to stand on.We would take the raft to deeper water and dive off it.We always looked out for one another.Once a week our parents would us a large maple revel covered in chocolate dip and sprinkled with nuts.The kids were always thinking up games to play and using their imagination.Telling ghost stories around the campfires in the evenings was scary too.
@waynewarren665 - What a great comment. Thanks for sharing these beautiful memories with us!
I love the 50's and 60's it was such a beautiful time to live! How did we ever let this country go down the toilet!
Халява - это синоним шагреневой кожи ... С теми же последствиями ...
Some of my favorite memories are when my parents would take us on vacations across the country. My uncle was an electrical engineer who helped design the electronics for Walt Disney and Disneyland. We were invited out to Anaheim for the employee families only opening of Disneyland in 1955. My uncle introduced my parents to Walt Disney, which was something they never forgot. We traveled to all the lower 48 states. Those were definitely the best of times. When I saw the photo of the 4 boys in the back of the station wagon, and it said they would all be in their 70’s now, well that would be me too.
I’m pretty sure Disneyland opened in 1955, no?
Wonderful and beautiful memories from fifties. I am now 73year "young" 😀
Fantastic! Well put together. Amazing to see kids out exploring, having fun, with parents and grandparents that have all passed on.....they've had their time.
Great comment - the perfect sentiment!
My heart aches for these beautiful times.
Thank you so very much....I am 71 ..... so beautiful....yes, I lived it... video made me almost cry.... thank you
Thanks, Jay - I agree, this set of pictures with the music brings smiles and tears at the same time.
The worst thing is how crowded everything has become..I live in Florida and it's being destroyed by all the people moving here...
They're all trying to escape the bad politics of the northeast states! As long as they leave their voting habits up there you should be fine in the long run !
Agreed, visited my sister in Florida two years ago.... extremely crowded. She was in St Augustine area, I had been house-sitting about 10 years back in St Petersburg area and didn't remember it being that crowded in 2011....
@@dankelly5150 Really! So you think it’s about politics, and so do you think Ron DeSantis politics helps your state?
Climate change scientist say that Miami will be underwater by 2050 if we continue to burn, fossil fuels, pump and dump, CO2 into the atmosphere, at the same rate, we’re doing today.
So what the hell is Ron DeSantis doing about it? The answer is nothing.
So Ron DeSantis is a joke and his policies are criminal. He thinks he’s going to be president.
Well, I got news Ron DeSantis, his reign of terror ends at the end of his term as governor, because his campaign is doing nothing, except hemorrhaging money, and he’s wasting a lot of peoples money on a campaign that is in the toilet, along with all the other spineless twits vying to be the nominee of a party that has lost their collective minds fawning over, a racist, sexist, homophobia, xenophobia, lying, hypocrite, that none of them can defeat.
So with Donald Trump, the nominee for the Republican party going into 2024 facing a mountain of legal troubles, any one of which could cause him to be imprisoned for the rest of his natural life, I would say good luck with that, however, I would be lying, and I have no wish to join that club. Cheers 🥂
@@theodorehaskins3756 Yeah DeSantis is helping. Better him than that drug addict you democrats wanted. The reason all those people are leaving those northeast states is because of the high taxes. But don't worry democrat. They'll just move to a red state like Florida and vote for democrats there. I was in Florida last winter. I spoke with a woman from Connecticut who had moved down to Florida for that very reason: to get away from high taxes. I asked her if she was still going to vote for democrats and she said yes. Democrats are never happy until they've destroyed every last place with their insane policies.
Same thing with the mask restrictions. My local Florida buddy told me that all the commie democrats had gone down to Florida to get away from the restrictions and then they tried to implement the restrictions in Florida! THAT'S a Democrat for you.
@@dankelly5150the problem is that they WON'T leave their voting habits behind them. They'll vote for democrats wherever they go. And that means higher taxes, open borders, and all the other insane policies that they support. 😢
Was a good time in my life, I remember all them road trips we did it was great. I'm glad to be one of many baby boomers
Oh good times. Loved growing up as a baby boomer. I could watch this for hours.
I wish it was like this today!
Мечтать не вредно ... А почему тебе не нравится целовать ботинки негров ?
Great memories. We struggled financially and often times we went to bed hungry but, i don't ever recall blaming anyone for our predicament . The good memories still outweigh the bad.
And I guarantee not one of those cars were locked. NOBODY ever locked their car doors, no matter where you were. You also didn't see tattoo's, nose rings, purple hair or fat people. Man, I miss those days!
You are right
What a Grand entrance with those Door's 🚪🚪 opening to us to see the History of life back then thank you for oiling the Door's,,Growing up in the 60s and 70s I remember a lot of these motels the dinosaur 🦕, and some of the other ones up north..We saw a lot of 1955 Ford Fairlanes blue and white which we had and sold a couple years ago my son Max was looking for a 1958 Dodge custom Royal which we have now and we drive only old cars 🚗 ..Thank You 🎉🇺🇸😁 For this great video...
Hey Ronald! Thanks again for watching and commenting. When we were kids, we were always on the lookout for any of those roadside novelties to get out and climb around on, if possible. I guess that was the strategy - and it definitely worked with my family!
Thank You for your Response and you are so right those were the days that we had fun my son I let him do as much as possible that's fun.. Peace ✌️..
How can you not give these History Lounge videos a like?
Thanks, @royboy9361!
A great time to grow up, no one dreamed it would all go to the crapper.
Life was so much simpler back then compared to today. I’d go back in time if I could.
I just now subscribed to your channel. Although I've seen several of your videos over the last year or so I just now decided to subscribe. Why? Because you bring me back to a time when America was good, growing up with my family, enjoying road trips and summer fun was what made this a Great country and a memorable childhood. I am privileged to have grown up when America was clean, when men were men and girls were girls without any exceptions, when life was good and people had respect for themselves, their appearance and their neighbors. I'm 70 now, but I have the memories of a good life and a good country and you show us that life back then was such a great, great experience. Thanks!
Amen, I wish I was alive back then, but you can see how wonderfully people were then. And how clean the places were!!! Most of all love the CARS, how beautiful they were.
Thanks for your comments and kind words. You basically described exactly what I was going for with this video. Although I wasn't around in the '50s - it sure sounds like a great time to have grown up. Thanks for watching and for subscribing.
My mom told me in the early 60s the way everyone acted was different, its really sad how this all changed for the worst.
She's right.
@@matrox Absolutely! People were generally more polite, and there were words that you just didn't use , and things you just didn't do.
@@jsat5609 Few people cursed in regular language like today. I was a kid in the early 60s' and if one of us kids said a bad word....all the other kids would go aauuhhhhh...Im telling or something to that affect. By the late 60s it was like night and day. Almost veryone was cursing. But today its ridiculous.
Your mother wasn't lying.
@@matrox Even among adults in public, swearing was not commonly done. Today, people swear with every utterance.
I want to go back in time and stay there!.....
In the early 80s I road tripped in a 56 Ford F-100 with a 1955 Star fire Travel Trailer ...Not because I was Cool.
But because it was what I had.
I had a 65 Chevy Truck and a 59 Boles Areo in 1977...I did Road Trips all over the West in my 55 VW
Look there no trash all over the ground no homeless people on the sidewalks. Cars look nicer people are dressed better. How did better technology lead to this hell we live in today.
Money of course.
'Laziness, 'Everything-Right-Now', and Entitlement'. That's what the 'Internet, Smart Phones, and 'Technology'....Ushered into Society. Ruined Us. And we're too Stupid to know it.
Way too many awesome shots to pick. But equally stunning to the panoramic views were the cars. Also the wonderful life that the people enjoyed, looking healthy and happy. Jees guys where did it all go wrong. I wanna go back! Another great video!
I agree with everything you said! And thanks for your kind words!
What blows me away is all the open space, even in the cities.
There were 160 million people in the country then . A lot of them still lived in small towns. 346 million now.
What a wonderful journey to the past. And, yep I am in my 70's. 😊
Far better times then nowadays: not to compare. Even folk and cars looked way more elegant!
1950s USA's greatest Decade Ever !
Very elegant ( slim) People and great cars !
Amazing no trash and no graffiti everywhere 🎉
You can watch this era in living color in some of the great Hitchcock movies like Vertigo, Rear Window and to Catch A Thief.
America and Americans were beautiful.
We pulled a Shasta trailer with a '56 Ford Victoria all across the country in the late '50's, then got a '59 Chrysler Saratoga and continued our annual vacations in the '60's. We visited 42 states during that time frame, and some of the best memories of my childhood. People were polite to each other, you'd leave your car in the parking lot and wouldn't think of locking the doors with the windows down, eat lunch by the side of the road, and nobody was obese or sloppily dressed. Man, I miss those days, and love these video's reminding us of our past.
And now we wished we could bring the past back it's like a story book now.sad what we become 😢
Beautiful places I've been. Beautiful places I like to go to. But these places are never the same twice. So it's great to have pictures snapshot of history in time. Nice that you labeled where they were and when the location weather known and your label it something like somewhere in Florida. Unknown location are some of the best labels! You just pull over because it's a beautiful location. The attitude and appearance of people so much different than overall today. Oh I can be good today. Nature in this country still available and leaps and bounds. Always make sure you get a couple of pictures with the car. Years and decades down the road somebody look back and say yeah I remember the little Toyotas. The car hobby evolves over time. Let's revive the car trips and exploring the nation. We would find that we have a lot more common overall then our differences. Well presented fantastic content.
Hey, CAROLDISCOVER2525! Thanks again for watching and for your great comments - well said! Going on trips in my past, it always just seemed logical to take photos with the car in them. But - what you pointed out makes it all the more important. When you look back years later - (or when other folks see those photos WAY into the future) - it's always nice to have a car in there as a sort-of place marker for the date. Plus, the further in time you get away from those old cars - the cooler they seem to look!
Another "home run" of a video! Thank you for your work in putting it all together.
When I looking at good old days, I feel very sad. 😢
We as a people have lost our way
You a MANDALORION ?
Born in 1950- I experienced the best in those years. Great memories.
Thank you for making these wonderful images available. It's a real trip back in time. Congratulations, greetings from Brazil.
Thanks for watching! Felicidades para você e sua família no brasil!
@@TheHistoryLounge ❤
Beautiful times miss those days,glad I lived in that time s thank you ?
This makes me wish I could experience the USA in the '50s, only a few problems, I was born in 2000 second I don't think it's the '50s anymore over there. Love the video.
No, not the 50's anymore. It has become the rainbow empire. It is all fractured and divided now. All of these places visited in the video are now full of 'people' denying their humanity and trying to be something they were never meant to be. 50's through the 80's was a pretty nice time. Wiped away now by too many people projecting their inner anger.
There are still plenty of amazing road trips to be had here in the still great U.S.A.. Enjoy every day that you get.
I agree - great comments!
Thanks so much for bringing me back to a time where I remember more vivid colors as depicted in the photographs. People loved to get out and see these beautiful places. No AC, no problem. You just did it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those candy coloured cars are works of art
… it’s funny to see they are generally a fair bit bigger than the caravans being towed! Would have loved to have lived in the U.S during that era, it looks wonderful! ❤
It was a great time to be a kid or a kid at heart.!`m a49er.
58 years young.
Youngest of four boys so the vintage internal combustions graced on the exterior with elegance and style is still in my blood.
As a family, we road tripped, camped throughout every year. Tents first, then pulled a 24' ALJO trailer behind many different tow vehicles.
Currently pulling a 2009 all electric "vintage styled" Shasta Airflyte 12 behind my 1957 Ford four door Country Sedan station wagon. Both are show quality vehicles.
I own four other classy chassis (and drive each regularly):
1953 Chevrolet Bel Air (chopped 4 inches and custom engine/chassis).
1963 Willys truck (all original Tornado 6 cylinder with an added overdrive to the three speed manual transmission). It has FOUR sticks protruding from the transmission tunnel! Great anti-theft device being no modern day kid would know how to shift it or change the gearing! :P
1969 AMC Big Bad Green AMX (who and what?) 401 and an overdrive transmission changed out.
1978 Ford F-150 short wide box with a 2.5 lift kit and a 460/C6/9inch drivetrain with 36" tires.
All daily drivers and I'm living this up until it cant be done.
Thanks for the video. Reminds me of the when America WAS America.
Thanks for keeping those cars on the road and sharing them with the rest of us. I'm always grateful that people like you keep these cars around and running, and it's a treat to see them out driving on the road, just as they were created to do!
best decade in the history of US
The kkk agree with that.
@@johnathandaviddunster38 Completely ignorant statement.
@@peterjohnson1734 .
REALLY high quality images!! I miss the old days.
Wonderful! Actually 50s and early 60s, mind you, given some of the cars in the photos, but this in no way detracts. What an era!
Thanks, @portaltwo. You got me on the '60s photos. There were definitely a few in there. But, these pics were mainly my favorites, and I couldn't resist slipping a couple in if they were "close enough!" Thanks for watching and commenting!
The 50s did not end until the mid 60s. After that, things changed at a rapid pace.
I was born in 1943. The cars built after WWII were much better than than those built before and during the first year the war. The men that survived the war came home and wanted to travel. My mothers family lived in Texas and my Dads family lived in Lynchburg Va. We would travel back and forth, first in a brand new 1948 Chevrolet and then in a 1950 Ford. Later went West on Rt 66 in a new 1954 Oldsmobile 88. People were friendly. Everyone was on an adventure. Great unforgettable experience. Before interstate highways. My dad was in the Air Force during the war and got to come home a couple of times.
Those road trips sound amazing. Send me the photos!!! 😄
Eight wonderful minutes.
🥲God Bless America!❤️
Not called America the beautiful for nothing, and I am English. Just want to be able to visit one more time.
That was so Aswome, that Kind of Videos give ne a Special feeling,
now i am a Bit Sad of the Time now.
Iam 36
Greetings from North Germany
Things were more simple and harder back then. Today, it is easy, yet complex.
Beautiful nostalgic video of a great time in American history - reminds me of the traditional town of Chillingbourne.
Beautiful cars back then.
This is so much more interesting to watch them the 💩that’s on tv today, wow how far we’ve come😱🤷🏻♂️
Exactly. I rarely ever turn my TV on anymore.
Color photos remind you that yes, the world was in color then too, and all these people and places were real; they lived and existed, and cars really did look like that.
I'd return in a second, if I could. I'm 74 and lived through all of this- and more. You would not believe the difference from then and now. We are now living in a nightmare, compared to then.
I see. You’re prescription meddies that you are addicted to replaced all the drugs you did in 1974.
Growing up in the 70's, I can tell the difference from then until know. I can't imagine how idyllic the 50's were!
@@erc1971erc1971 We had our problems back then (50's, 60's & 70's), but you could leave your car unlocked and it would still be there in the morning. You could leave the windows open on your house during the night (as we always did, for only a few knew what air conditioning was, all the way up through the 1960's), and never worried about somebody "breaking in". You went to school and learned the "3 R's", plus history, science, social studies, etc., and NEVER heard a word about SEX (or 'gender')! If you even mentioned sex (and at that time it was between a boy and a girl), you faced detention or expulsion. Gasoline was 27¢ a gallon for over 20 years! That was "Regular" (as opposed to "Ethyl"), but you could find "gas wars", where I've bought it for 19¢ a gallon. People concentrated on "life", not the myriad facets of everything in and around life, like they do now. There was no "welfare", so if you wanted to eat, you went to work. Now, the government pays people to do nothing and provides Medicare, Medicaid, SSI... etc., etc., so they do nothing and know nothing, except how to cause mass destruction, loot, burn, murder and destroy our once great country.
You don't have to go back but just a few years to see how much we've lost- or should I say 'thrown away'. The situations of public affairs, just 30 short years ago was as different as night and day to the world of today.
72 next month and I agree with you 100%.
Your video was so great. It made me smile and also brought tears to my eyes.
Thanks for your comments and kind words - watching this video has the same effect on me!
I miss that America…
No litter anywhere, and all the cars are clean. Weird, but great.
I'm in my 70's and remember these times. Thanks for the trip, onward!
To me these times are not gone. Being and old car and trailer collector it's nice to drive my rig up and down the highway to car shows and sometimes just to go camping. To give people a look what it was like back then"Today!" Liked the slide show it reminded me of when my parents took us out west every year.
Hey Paul - Whenever I see someone driving one of these classic cars on the road I want to wave them down and thank them for keeping this part of our past alive, and in public for people to see. Thank you!
Hi from uk ...not a suv in sight and colour on cars ... now only colour seems to be silver white grey or black ...superb photos brill vid👍
You are so right. I miss these cars and their unique styling and of course the vivid colors.
Any color you want, black, white and grey . . That goes for clothes too. Extremely boring 😒
Awesomely Wonderful thanks!
So beautiful.... so much space with very few people and stunning terrain and roadways. I really wish I could go there back in time to experience it.
Che meraviglia! Hanno detto che gli anni '50 sono stati il decennio più bello dello scorso secolo e non fatico a pensarlo...mi viene la nostalgia anche se non ero ancora nato
Vedo un America sviluppata mentre qui in Italia eravamo ancora una nazione agricola
Un saluto a tutti dall'Italia
Seemed such a peaceful and happy time inAmerica - greetings from Ireland!
Greetings from the USA, @ciarankelly4338 - Thanks for watching!
Now, if you could go back to then, you could go to the Grand Canyon or Disneyland and quite happily just wander around the parking lot
Thank you for posting. 👍👍
What an iconic time.. I like to remind my mom often that she grew up in one of the coolest era's.
…great production work, Kevin…it’s wonderful to allow these vintage cars, fashions, hairdos and destinations speak for themselves…
…being a late “Boomer Babe” (1954), I can clearly recall seeing so many of these locations from our ritual of Summer family road trips…
…this decade was definitely one of unbridled income growth for ALL Americans, fresh out of the Second World War and Korea…everyone took Dinah Shore’s exhortations to “See the USA” to heart; and nearly every one of the burgeoning middle class did just that…
…the roadside motel, with coffee shop/restaurant was a fixture; and in our current era of look-alike imports dressed in white, silver or black; the overall takeaway is just how varied in style and color all the cars were…
…I’ve subscribed, good sir, and look forward to your future offerings!!…😮👀‼️🆙👍🏽🆒
Hi, @gclarkbloomfield8848 - Thanks for watching, subscribing, and especially for sharing your memories! I wasn't around until the '70s, but our family road trips were some of my favorite times as a kid. I wish we would've taken more pictures like these!
Men were men. Women were women. Beautiful
Today some folks have too much time on their hands to think "what if" rather than back then's "what is."
Such beautiful times, great wonderful cars. Nothing to compare to today's life and cars. Too bad!!!!!!
These pictures are showing the nice part of the US.👍👏
In 1950's and 60's Amerıca looked lıke Amerıca.Now days Amerıca (People-Cars-Buıldıngs) looks lıke ''Far East Countrıes'' Greetıngs from Turkıye
Wow so so beautiful beautiful America from a Brit ❤
I was a kid in the 60's and many of the sights from San Francisco were the same when I was growing up. My hubby & I spent the 1st 12 years of retirement (till 2022) traveling the western US - been to many of the places & now that we're stopped the major RV traveling, we're still planning on shorter trips now east of the Mississippi. The memories even in today's world are the best.
Che mondo meraviglioso
A time when you could afford to drive your car on a cross country road trip 😊
The cars got 16 MPG. gas was $0.25, and you made $2.50 at your factory job. Now, gas is $3.60, the car gets 40 mpg, and you make $ 25 at your factory job. And, Chicago to LA at 70 MPH is a lot better than 2 lane roads, average 45 MPH without AC. And, remember, that dashboard was flocked steel , no airbags and noone wore the lap belt. Cars were killers.
@@kkarllwt Somebody always has to chime in and try to ruin people's memories with selective negativity while ignoring numerous other factors. Just let others enjoy the nice pictures and go find modern day bizarro world somewhere else on RUclips.
@@kkarllwt wrong you negative nelly
@@markgothard7158 which part(s) are factually incorrect?
@@duncanhine898 Current gas is 5.00 and was 7.00. Most people don’t work in factories they work in offices. Cars don’t average 40 miles to the gallon, maybe 25. My point of my original comment was to point out what a lame negative way of thinking. When I got my license in 1984 gas was .65 per gallon and minimum wage was 3.35. I saved my paper route money and bought my first car a 1980 Toyota celica. That was a much better time than now to be alive and many young people are biased and think now is the best time ever in history. It’s an arrogant way of thinking. I believe the 1950s was better than when I was a child even though the 70s and 80s were awesome.
America used to be beautiful than it is now
Outstanding! Colors fabulous.
Kodak colors, fabulous back in the day!!
It's amazing how well these Kodachrome images hold up. It really provides a clear look of what everyday life looked like back then.
Loved this video! Thank you.
Yes the good old days...
Ah yes, the good old days with blacks segregated from whites in many southern US states. Not everything was better then.