30 Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- Ever find yourself reminiscing about the good old days and wondering if the younger generation has any clue about the treasures we experienced as Baby Boomers?
If you're a Baby Boomer, get ready for a trip down memory lane, and if you're not, stick around because you're in for a fascinating journey back in time!
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I remember when they played the national anthem at midnight before the TV would sign-off.
Wow, I remember that too, LOL.
I remember seeing them at NFL games.
I remember when our local station would sign off at night, and the the two stations next to it from a more distant city would come in.
Me to
Remember when you got up too early and the test pattern was on? Then the station signed on for the day. ☺️
Does anyone remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer before class started in the morning? I'm 75.
I spent eight years in a Catholic elementary school. Plenty of praying there, plus crossing over to the Cathedral for First Fridays and Ash Wednesday ashes.
Well said, as well corporal punishment in schools, homework, teaching kids to respect police and firemen and teachers. Prayers in school.
And we sang patriotic songs before beginning our lessons.
Yes, I'm 63. I remember that in grammar school.
I had a Catholic School education from 1st to 11th grade, but in the 1960-61 and 1972-73 school years I attended Kindergarten and 12th Grade in a public school district in suburban NY. in the 1960-1961 school year We said the Pledge of Allegiance, then the following prayer:
Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee.
And we beg Thy blessings on us, our parents, our teachers and our country.
If my memory serves me correctly, this all stopped around 1963 when a nationally known atheist, Madeline Murry O'Hare filed suits that led to a Supreme Court decision that banned prayer in public school. Of course, in Catholic School, we prayed several times a day. In 12th grade, we still said the Pledge, but instead of prayer, there was about 10 seconds of silence. There was an opening and closing "benediction" by a Jewish Rabbi and Catholic Priest at our public school commencement exercises in 1973, the year that I graduated, but not when my children graduated in 2000 and 2001.
Fast forward, none of this happens, now and school districts will not host bible study clubs, will fire coaches that take a knee (unless during the National Anthem), etc., but WILL allow Satanist clubs and will send your kids for abortions and gender identity counseling without your permission or knowledge! Much of this came from appointed (as opposed to elected) officials, the PTA (which actually advocated for school-based birth control clinics) and, of course, the major teachers' unions, all of which have committees forcing these ideas.
The phone books also served as a book for kids to sit on so they could reach the table.
In the 90's they made for a decent monitor stand. 😄
Or to steady a chair/table, whatever.
Same thing with the Montgomery Ward and Sears catalogs.
We really collected and used them. I miss them.
And before Google maps, waze alexia , my mom used the phone book because it had the streets of our town in the back to find where my friends lived if I didn't know 😂
How about the Service Station where they actually pumped your gas checked your oil and cleaned your windshield.
Ding Ding !!
Don't forget "checked your tires", checked your fan belt and gave you "Green Stamps"!
Watch out for those defective oil cans!
Yep!
Yeah I remember these guys, Kinda like a pit stop at a race track. The minute men they called them they checked everything and we didn't have to ask.
Kids could play on the swings and no one bothered them.
Kids could ACTUALLY walk to school by themselves, without anybody bothering them! I even remember hitchhiking with my friends in my pre-teen years with nothing bad happening!
now days play grounds are boring plastic low to the ground stuff we had those all steel tall swing sets and monkey bars and a merry go round we used to spin so fast see who could hang on ! and it was concrete under them !!
Merry go rounds, teeter-totters.
Just a note...that wasn't safe. In 1974 I was 9 and my mom sent me with my 3 yr old brother to the public park a block from our house because she just had a baby and wanted to nap. I was taken Into the boys bathroom and sexually assaulted by 3 teenage boys. I told no one until I was in highschool and my.mom was letting my sisters go the the locawasn't. Alone (different park) it seemed life was safer. But it really wasnt.
and parents/adults didn't fight in such places. One didn't see people acting up in public, nor was their foul language in public. People reserved their bad behavior for private places, where their indignities could be hidden from public view.
Also ice cube trays with handles that pulled up to break the ice into cubes.
I still use them, youngsters are amazed.
way better than the plastic kind
@southerngal2245: I hated those. Could never pull darn lever up and had to run water over them, what a mess.😊
And how your skin would stick to the ice cube trays
I remember those with the lever!
I remember when babysitting and watching tv at 10 pm the station would have a public service announcement…
“It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your kids are at?”
It's crazy our parents had to be reminded to check on us...😮
Fox 5 NYC still begins the 10 pm news saying it’s 10 pm do you know where your children are 😁
Hah !! Yup I remember that
yep
@@dianavasto3047 fox 6 out of Wisconsin does to
Saturday morning cartoons, Church on Sunday, afterwards news paper with pages & pages of coloured funny pages.
Absolutely. Then a big Sunday dinner at home or at Grandma's house. Often a "Sunday drive" afterwards.
Yea you’re right it was Saturday cartoons and 8 tracks came before cassettes
Yep, in the 70's it was Saturday morning cartoons. We were sent to church on Sunday mornings and told we would be quizzed on the topics of discussion that day... so we picked up the leaflet at church and left for the dirt lot to play, and quickly skimmed through it to be ready for the quiz later, then tossed it and had fun at the park! 😁
Davey and Goliath is still my favorite!!!
...and the unique smell of the "funny pages"/
You forgot the flash cubes you needed to take pictures!
Magicubes!
Surprised the thumbnail included a Polaroid camera but it wasn't mentioned in the video.
My dad used a light bar to film holidays that were as bright as aircraft landing lights! 😵💫. You opened presents by feel since you were blinded by the lights! 🤪
yes
Before the cubes we had single bulbs you changed after each
Picture and they were very hot after a flash.
Most baby boomers weren't watching Scoobie Doo....thats 1980s junk. We watched Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Top Cat, Heckle and Jeckle, Casper, Pixie and Dixie, Quickdraw McGraw, the Jetson etc. And the most cartoons came on Saturday Mornings, not Sunday.
Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny.....
Scooby Doo started in the late 1960s!
Loved those old ones like heckle and Jeckle, Fractured fairy tales.. Pixie and Dixie.. Boy, it is hard to even find them on RUclips!
Loved those old ones like heckle and Jeckle, Fractured fairy tales.. Pixie and Dixie.. Boy, it is hard to even find them on RUclips!
@@3dboobtuber I forgot about FFT.
Have a working rotary phone on my desk. Absolutely baffles the children.
I don't think the crank phone will work anymore, though.
Yeah, they're probably baffled that you don't carry that flat thing in your hand and constantly have your finger sweeping across the front of it.
You know, I was sort of glad when, a couple of days ago, the grid went down for awhile and nobody's "smart" phone would work.The land lines, few though they still are, worked just fine.I grinned, because we still have land lines.
😂
Mine is a fancy French phone like all the moviestars had. It is so beautiful and still functional. I only have a landline by choice.
Us boomers really did live the most enriching lives. I would not want to be a teenager now.
Why does each generation say the same?????
@@user-gl3mn4gf4l Exactly, friend!!
Perhaps mike could sample the boomer remover. 🤪🤪🤪
WE DID ALOT OF WALKING ,BIKE RIDING ,PLAYING BADMINTON IN THE STREET . NONE OF THAT WOULD CAUSE ' CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME' OR LAZINESS.
Unfortunately THIS generation will be up against and experience the very WORST decline in human civilization and morals EVER. Enormous battle ahead.
Amen!!!!
This and other RUclips nostalgia videos all seem to have one underlying theme: the old days were special. I'm dang near 70 so most all the things in this video I remember fondly. Cartoons that were mostly on Saturday mornings, no 24 hour TV, spending hours creating a mix tape, going to the library to access the encyclopedia, dime stores. Compared to today's instant access and 24 hour availability makes me realize that if you have a good thing all the time, it's no longer special.
Libraries rock! Then and now. Remember sliding the file card drawer out? Smooth beyond description.
@@brianarbenz1329 I do!
I remember door to door sales and insurance premium collectors.
The 50's and 60's were much nicer for us kids than what kids have today. I know it's totally different technology but still....
Wow! Great one to remember!! I can still smell the paper cards using the Dewey decimal system. Once you found the book(s) you 📚 wanted,you'd go to the desk for the librarian to pull the card from the inside cover and stamp the due date on it with the metal/rubber stamper!! Feels like yesterday!!😊@@brianarbenz1329
I remember when could dial a certain number and get the correct time, also party lines.
You could also get the weather forecast by dialing your favorite FM station's special number, for FREE!
The time # was 853-xxxx
My grandmother - (God rest her soul) was a woman of the depression era she washed tinfoil, saved bread bags and tabs, made menstrual products out of old rags (can you imagine?) and in her efforts to save EVERYTHING was the last person in BC to have a phone on a party line! She also collected cans and went to Hawaii on the proceeds. She survived the “Dirty Thirties” in Canada on the prairies and when my grandfather went to war - she drove a milk truck and worked in a munitions factory!
Anyone remember dial-a-joke from the late 70s?
@@elmersmammalove8577oh yea, the Milkman. Anyone else remember the joking around when it was said that they didn’t think you looked like either parent and you could embarrass your Mom by bringing up the idea of the Milkman?
I wouldn't say it was a good old days but man it was way better than today
I definitely agree
It WAS good, IF you were WHITE!
It was the good old days to me.
It was pretty darn good for me. Wayyyy better than today.
I agree!
It used to be sooooo exciting receiving letters and postcards!!! I miss them.
Especially when they were hand written! This texting BS we now have is SO impersonal!
I send letters to my nephew. He just thinks it's the best. He is 4.
@@liciewhiteley7376This guy doing this video is an idiot. Records crackle and pop, that's trashed records, drive ins there's over 300 still open. I think these people live in a cave that make these videos
You can still send postcards and letters
Me too. I still write letters to friends and my mom. Much nicer to do.
Love this! Thank you for creating it.
Two very minor things that I’d correct:
1. Poor TV reception did not produce pixelation prior to digital TV. You got snow, ghosts, horizontal rolling,, wavy lines etc., but not pixelation.
2. Cartoons where I grew up were on SATURDAY mornings Not on Sundays.
But the sabbath day is Saturday. You go to church on Sunday to start your week with prayer.
But the sabbath day is Saturday. You go to church on Sunday to start your week with prayer.
I remarked on the pixelation comment, myself. 😂
Two excellent points. Snow was the enemy of reception. And Saturday morning cartoons kicked Sunday morning cartoons' BUTT!! In fact, Wikipedia has an article for "Saturday Morning Cartoons", not Sunday morning. It talks about how Sunday morning cartoons were much less popular and had inferior programming than Saturday morning cartoons.
@@davidestrich7055 I agree with you but he never mentioned "The Sabbath", only that Sunday mornings were held sacred by many families, which they were. The debate over which day is the biblical Sabbath is a valid one but is completely off topic and not really appropriate here.
Good old days! it will never be the same again.
Sure as death and taxes!
Right it can never be the same again no matter what the politicians want! That goes for both sides of the border!🇨🇦
Ya never know. It might take a million or two years...
Today is not the same!😮
Does anyone remember the paddle? It was an instrument the teachers used to keep us in line. They kept one in their desk drawer or hung one up on the wall for all of us to see. The paddle helped us to keep quiet in school and encouraged us to complete all of our homework before returning to school the next day. And it helped us to have respect for the teachers too.
We are living in the Last Days. Lawlessness prevails. I have good friends who are teachers today. They all say they cannot wait to retire in a couple years. The kids can hit them and spit on them. If the teacher repremands them, they get written-up or fired.
Remember that. Our coach whacked me good. His paddle had a hole in it. I didn't need a second paddling.
The “Board of Education”! 😳😂
@@joesheppard1367Yes, among other paddlings I got, my 7th grade music teacher gave me 3 swats in the hallway because she told me 3 times to stop making noise in class. Needless to say, I kept quiet for the rest of the school year.
Oh yeah. My backside never forgot.
Transistor radios, truck that would come through spraying mosquito poison, ice cream man, Happy rain show. I do miss those days.
What about CB radios. I remember military aircraft "bombing" our neighborhood for fire ants.
Yup I can remember running threw that spray then they discovered it was no good for humans will I made it to 66
I thought my transistor radio was the living end! Took that thing everywhere.
I still drink out of the garden hose! 😎
@@marknewton6984 Me too!
Still remember when I would go on the roof and move the tv antenna around. My dad would yell through the heater vent up to me on the roof, "Stop right there!! No!! Move it back!!!" LOL
Yeah, we lived dangerously back then, didn't we? Oh well, I used to ride my bike and take public buses everywhere up until I was in my late teens. Most young people today don't trust public transportation.
-... the quintessinal experience !
The antennas I put up, had "rotors" for optimum positioning from the comfort of my easy chair. Also, worked great for those that were into TV "DXing"!
We had 3 antennas on a tall mast made from pipe it was like 40 feet tall had TV transmitters from different directions they all had to be set correctly we got like 10 channels and that was something back in the 60s !
Yes I remember that too. It is crazy that people had to do that for the TV. My dad used to help a friend of his who had a TV shop and my dad would sometimes have to repair the TV replacing tubes in back of it.
I remember when I was raising my kids and the VCR was still new and unaffordable for us. About 3 times a year, we would rent a VCR and movies. You could get five movies for five days for $5. It was a thrill for all of us.
Remembering us neighbor hood kids playing games in the yard. Hide and go Seek, Red Rover Red Rover, Freeze Tag. We played a game called Snake In The Gully . You had to have a side walk to play on. We would play till our Moms! and Dads! would call us in. Those were the DAYS!😊🤗🤗❤❤
Things have changed but not for the better 😢
Hide and go get it, whatever that meant.
Ghost in the graveyard mother may I were what we played besides the other games mentioned and we rode bikes and roller skating with metal skates
Wiffle ball
I got a couple to add. Using a map to find your way somewhere. A sliding credit card machine. Recording and watching 8mm home movies. Car radio with the mechanical preset buttons; you pulled out and pushed them back in to set the station. Most people only had single speed bikes. Black and white tv's and they only had 13 channels. You were luck if you could pick up 4 stations. Wringer washing machines and hanging the laundry out to dry. Oil can and spout. And finally, the smell of leaded gasoline.
Oh! I forgot that about leaded gas. I saved a manual credit card thing and a pong game you hooked to the TV that were being thrown out in case a museum wanted them some day.
I remember all that except credit cards and home movies, that was the rich people!
we left early sat morns (early-mid 50s) on our Schwinn bikes with wide, white sidewalls and didn't come home til supper time. Sometimes no dime or quarter...for sure NO lunch backpack or water bottles....when we got thirsty we stopped at the full service gas stations and drank water out of the black hose used to fill the radiators with water, next to the air and gas pumps. I can still remember the smell from the black rubber hoses. No one ever asked us where we had been or worried we were "lost." We rode our bikes and easily turned corners "Look ma NO hands." LOL albuq. nm
Only men could own a credit card. Women weren't allowed until 1970.
Wow! Yes, I remember all of those! I also just added a comment about the local grocery stores where you could walk in the back door.
I remember elevator operators; well into the 1960's there were elevators that were operated by a person who's sole job was to make the elevator go up and down and stop at the proper floors, sometimes engaging in conversations with the passengers. As a kid, I wanted to grow up and be an elevator operator; but, alas, elevators are now fully automatic.
And they wore white gloves!
I would have remembered that I guess, but I grew up in small towns and rural areas, and didn't see elevators much till I was growed!
In the late 60`s,,I was hired as an elevator operator in a 16 story building down town,,I was 16
A Police Officer or Fireman was once the Drean Job of young Boys.
There was one in my town in the big department store. They were keeping him on until he retired.
I remember mom dressing all us kids in our pajamas before we left for the drive in movie ride.
Such a treat!
We wore our pajamas too. Before we left for the drive-in my mom would make Jiffy-Pop popcorn and put it in paper lunch bags to take with us. Jiffy-Pop was the worst popcorn - it always burned on the bottom and left a bunch of seeds, but I always liked watching the tin foil sphere expand - I thought it was so cool.
I remember my Mom having one or two of us hiding, either in the trunk or backseat, before entering the drive-in!
Remember Woolworths? They made the best burgers and shakes😊
Great place, yes, maam.
Five and dime
I bought my first hamster from Woolworths. Also all my Christmas shopping as a kid.
WW and Kress 5&10....remember the palomino mechanical saddled horse outside the WW entrance...the ride was 10 cents.
Yes! Woolworths also made real malts and bacon, lettuce ,and tomato sandwiches! In Minneapolis they also had snow cones. You could go thru two on a hot summer day of hitting the three dime stores and Daytons basement!( Bargains on great stuff....)
Saturday morning with cartoons Sunday morning was all church programs on TV
We had pro wrestling on Sunday mornings where I lived.
On Saturdays there were cartoons and wrestling for me. 😁
right and then American Bandstand
I can remember when you could "only" get a phone from the phone company when you got your phone number, lol.
I still have a black bakelite dial desk phone that says "property of Pacific Bell" on the bottom
I still have one hooked up, works perfectly and I've lost track of how many modern phones it has out lasted.
I worked in the factory that made the telephones.
My friend lives in the house he grew up in and still has active land line and rotary phone. I still remember the phone number from almost 50 years ago. I'm gonna call it just for kicks to see if he'll answer it😁
I tried calling my friend's land line rotary phone. I just got a busy signal and hang up. He probably got it disconnected recently because he said he was being charged ridiculous money to keep it active. It was functional for many years until recently.
Great nostalgia for a 63 years old fart like me! Loved the memories. But, you left out 8-track tapes, portable CB radios in cars, Lava lamps, "leisure suits", metal bumpers on cars, wide whitewall tires, and fins! There were few to none cartoons on Sunday here in Dallas. But Saturdays they were on every major TV network until 12 noon. Also only one frequency band on radios - AM - until about 1965.
I kept thinking they would mention 8tracks but they never did
@@karenwells5957Yes only he tells bs about records that they pop and crackle and only hipsters collect them more less. My records all clean only pop when the needle comes down. An occasional crackle not many because people that value their vinyl take care of them. Drive-ins there's over 300 still open he's crazy. Arcades we're at their peak in the early-mid 80s not 70s I'm 58 I hung out in them with my friends
@@m42037 I have all my original vinyl. Starting in the early 60's. Play them every day.
I remember all of these and the TV repair shop. You don't see them anymore, now you just buy another TV.
When We Were Young and 60s 50s you have to have a lot of respect for your oldest
OMG!!!! I remember literally ALL of these! At the site of the S&H Greenstamps I instantly remember the taste of the glue when we had to lick the back to stick them in the books! Where did the time go??? I still have a real, old, rotary dial phone I use as it reminds me of the times my husband & I would talk for hours when we were kids and the cost of " Long Distance Calls" and paying per minute to talk! Our parents would get furious at the phone bills!!
I also remember S&H's competitor Top Value stamps. These were yellow with an elephant logo.
Miss all these and have seen all these. I was born in 1961, oh to go back in time if I could.
I couldn't live without Google now lol.😂
Encyclopedia Britannica and National Geographic were mainstays in our home before TV became widespread. I credit those two as nurturing my interest in the sciences.
As a baby boomer, I've lived my life in the best times this country had to offer. Those days are gone never to return.
No doubt about it. We were the Rock N Roll generation, I'll never forget the evolution of rock music in the 70s. The music, the bands, and the concerts, that was quite a time and I'm glad I was privileged to live it.
A lot of this is past baby boomers, I’m gen x and I used most of these things. I remember black and white tv with only 3 channels. Record players came in a box like a little suitcase. Polaroid cameras, all of this was my childhood. Fun times 😊
I was lucky. I lived in an area that provided 5 TV stations. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. We also had 1 station that wasn’t associated with a national network. They showed movies, syndicated shows, kid shows, etc. It is still broadcasting today, but is affiliated with the fox network. I haven’t watched it in years.
Ditto.
@@annasbandit 1965-1980
@@annasbandit they are from 1966 - 1980
In the Twin Cities, as late as 1965, there was ONLY one UHF channel. It was 17, an "educational" channel that carried programs originated by the University of Minnesota. It was on for TWELVE hours a day!
Remember red wax lips you could chew and black wax mustaches you could chew around Halloween. Remember turquoise tuttifruity popscopiles that would taint your tongues blue. You can still them in tubes.
Also, candy cigarettes.
Remember Big League Chew that came in a pouch like the chewing tobacco?
And 15¢ got me a half a sack of candy up the street from grandparents after buying grandpa's CIGARETTES!!! 😂😂
used to luv chicklets,licorice pipes,double bubble and bazooka!
Red wax lips to wear, then chew for Halloween.
My mother bought Christmas for the whole family with green stamps. I wish they would bring them back.
My only new bike👍
They also had coupons on cigarettes.
My lead crystal lamp I got from Green stamps never stopped working from the 1960's until the late 2000's. My kids convinced me it wasn't safe anymore. I loved it so much.
Yes, S&,H Green Stamps!
S&H!😮
Had to laugh at the phone operator section. Many, many moons ago my wife moved down from Yankee land to the wilds of New Mexico. We met, 'got married in a fever' after one date (drinking heavily at the Half Way Bar!) and set up shop. Both of us worked for a major oil company. She kept trying to call home using One-Plus dialling and couldn't get through. I asked her what the long distance operator was doing wrong. "Long distance operator?" She had no idea that we were decades behind the rest of the country and still had to have a Southern Belle connect us to the outside world! Forty-some odd years later, we STILL laugh at that one.
And, yes, we only had one date before seeing the judge in Lovington, NM. He took a break from a murder trial to perform the ceremony. We only brought one witness, needed two, so the judge grabbed the sworn witness to the murder to be our second.
Many areas did not have dial service at all. Even the local calls required operators to connect. Lift the handset of your phone and you would hear "Number Please" after which you would tell the operator the number you wanted to call.
AND PERSON TO PERSON CALLS !
@r.f.pennington746 -- Great story!
Wow, and I thought my marriage happend quick. My late husband proposed to me 4 months after we met. We got married quick and had a wonderful marriage for 25 yrs..
@@rebeccaswift7588 I met my husband knew him for two weeks, then stayed married for 25 years. My mom knew my Dad for a month and a half and was married for 55 years.
Does anyone remember the printing ink they used for school paper that had a unique smell
Do you mean the "ditto" machine?😊
All schools used the...bluish purple ink. Smelled like a spelling test 😂
@@jamesmartin7282Or the mimeograph. You could get a good buzz if you got your nose too close.
or eating library paste
That Ditto High, yes we all sniffed ditto sheets back then
Saturday. Mornings were the time for cartoons. Not Sunday.
yup with a bowl of trix cereal in hand it was Saturday's for me as well!!
@@johnsupz9608Cocoa Puffs.
Sunday was wild kingdom and the wonderful world of Disney!
Tom and Jerry came on at 8 am on Sunday mornings.
I was a bellhop at a place called Lujans.And we had a convertible . SO one night we went to the the Drive In,with the speaker hanging on the window.My son who was just 2 ,yells into the speaker,he wanted some food.He wanted a hangabuugler with Ketchit and mangonase.And nobody answered, he was mad.After the third time everyone was dying laughing, he did not think it was funny.Finally we took him into the stand for food.Hes 62 now and it's still funny.
When the president came on with his speech. All 3 channels covered it and the whole night of watching tv was shoot to hell
Then Eric Severeid or Frank Reynolds would spend 10 minutes telling us what the president just said. 😃
@@brianarbenz1329 yea, basically carried that that over but now the 10 minutes has expanded to 30 or more minutes. I think that the news folks just live to hear themselves talk 🤪
Right...we didn't give a crap about politics. Idk why parents these days stress out their kids with all this adult mess.
I do and it was shot to hell.
Except on independent stations. We had 2 independent channels. KPLR AND KDNL. No longer independent, of course.
Does anyone remember 800 number customer service lines for airlines and other businesses which were answered quickly by a real person in your own country who helped you sort out your issues quickly without stress. Miss that. Oh and TV channels without endless reruns.
Hey, the Jetsons.
I loved the sign-off where the pilot in the fighter jet was soaring while the poem High Flight played over it. It still gives me chills to this day. It’s available to watch on RUclips and if you’ve never seen it, it’s truly inspiring.
I loved that too. And one day I found it printed in a book. And touched the face of God. I used to cry.
Planes breaking the Sound Barrier.
We also prayed before we went to lunch. This was in the 70s and a public school.
I remember waiting for my family's television to "warm up" after turning it on. The sound came on after about 20 seconds, then the picture appeared after about a minute. Our table radios required time to warm up, too. Transistor radios came along in the 1950s and were "instant-on" but they were much more expensive than tube/valve radios. All-transistor televisions (except for the picture tube) didn't become common until the 1970s. In the 1960s and 70s, many transistorized items had the words "Solid State" on their panels.
It's weird when you think about it, houses were affordable, but people could barely afford a new TV!
Pliers and coat hangers (and maybe some foil) were a must have for those Black and Whites T.V.s. can anyone remember their uses?
I started putting a clothespin on the foil when I used to move around the TV antenna to keep from getting shocked.
And kids to move them around
Oh yeah.
I’m sure someone already said this, but at least in California, cartoon morning was Saturday. Sunday morning we had to go to church.
So many things from yesterday that are just a distant memory that will never be forgotten. 😊
I will not forget them!😎
This was great! I wish we could go back to the good old days. And I loved those banana seats we had on our bikes!
I was born in 1972 & I remember & experienced most of the things in this feature. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.
People born in 1972 were not “Baby Boomers.” You are of a younger generation, even if you can remember all of the 30 things mentioned here.
The Baby Boom generation was from 1946-1964
@@frederickrapp5396 I never said I was a baby boomer! That's why I said I was born in 1972! I'm Gen X, the best generation that ever was.
The Flintstones started as a week night series
And was the first TV show to see husband and wife share the same bed.
And was supposed to be a adult sitcom ! but it appealed to kids more being animated .
@@graysonwagner1855I always thought “ Pete and Gladys” was the first TV program to show a man and a woman share the same bed. It shocked me when I was a little kid. In the 1960s, the Sunday comic strip, “ Blondie” always ALWAYS showed Blondie and Dagwood in separate beds, I was much more comfortable with that. 😊
The Flinstones were based on the Honeymooners. Fred was Ralph Cramden while Wilma was Alice.
The Flintstones were on the ABC network 8:30 p.m. Friday nights, followed by I'm Dickens - he's Fenster
Favorite Sunday show was..the wonderful world of Disney!!
Soda fountains also made malts. It's rare to find a place that makes malts now.
The one that sat closest to the TV had to change the channel.lol
Portillos does
is there any such place these days to make at least a half descent malt like we had back in the day. i don't think so.
White Castle?
My dad loved malts. If we had tummy aches our mom had us drink a malt or milk with ice.
I should mention that this video is better than time travel for those of us who lived it. All the fun, and l don't have to leave my chair.
Johnny Quest was great.. Bugs Bunny a staple cartoon.. But does anyone remember Heckle and Jeckle? Fractured Fairy Tales?
I loved fractured fairy tales. That was part of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show wasn't it?
Both of those were great.
@@debbieharris5667 And don't forget the Aesop's Fables cartoon with voiced by Charles Ruggles!
I'm glad that my mother didn't make all those weird dishes with Jello. We just had it as a dessert treat.
I liked Jello 123, but I think it came out late 60’s. I hated regular Jello cos it always had a skin on top!
@@doltonmurray1625 Are you sure you're not thinking of pudding with the skin on top? I liked pudding but didn't like Jello even though my mom would put bananas or cherries in it sometimes.
@@mickangio16 Nope.If you don't get the hot and cold mixture right, the jellow will form a slimmy skin on top. my mother was notorious for it! Hence the reason I still do not eat jello to this day!
Oh Lord, how I Hated Jello with mixed Fruit!!
Great memories! And I remember using White Out, a powdery white correction tape, and “liquid paper” liquid to wipe out poorly spelled words, only to carefully type over the whited out areas with the correct spelling.
What about carbon paper to type copies?
A blast from the past!!
Loved every moment watching this!! Memories of childhood and bike rides with friends. Adventures where you were safe and used your imagination!! Enjoyed watching this ❤
I remember DOUBLE-FEATURES at the movie theater. When Friday night movies only cost $1.00
I remember double features "James Bond" and it was 50 cents to get in
Saturday afternoon matinees.
@@sherriflemming3218 Something to do on a rainy day
You forgot the venerable Pinball Machine and the crude early skateboards (plywood plank with wheels from old roller skates). We had a very steep long hill that was a great skateboarding run. It is a wonder we survived.
What about going to the "shooting gallery"?
Yes! My brother and I have scars from many homemade skateboard mishaps. Fond memories of spending summers at the shore roaming the boardwalk, checking the coin slots on the pinball machines for dimes to play pinball. Life was much simpler then. 😊
Metal Roller Skates with a Key.
I remember dialing a specific phone number on my regulation tabletop or desk phone in order to get the Time and Temperature- The temperature is 58 degrees. At the tone, the time will be 1:14 p.m.
Wow memories of the good ole days, thank you 👍. 😊
He's only wrong about six things 😅
I remember those camras, Polaroid.. just had to wait a few minutes to see the picture
You forgot Howdie Doodie and captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans
I loved Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans
And Sally Star
Mr. Ed., My Favorite Martian. Gummmmbyyy/Pokey and the Blockheads.
How about Mr. Roger's Neighborhood with added people, puppets and scenery??
Born in 1952, and I certainly do remembet all this. Lots of fond memories of it now, though some of it seemed quite ordinary back then. Maybe because that was just how things were. Nostalgia often adds a certain "glow" to thongs from our pasts, though not everything.
Right! The bomb. And being terrified of the Russians. Just like now
You forgot the iconic Barbie..and for the boys it was GI Joe.....I can think of so many things...the rusty metal lunch boxes...
did anyone go downtown to buy a 5$ Hoola Hoop from Payless Drugs????
Yes!! I’m 74 and miss the mood of those early years. Love my iPad and iPhone …. But “instant” food, and information. Yes, if your family had a Britannia Encyclopedia was a status marker! TVs were in black and white. I watched the first color tv show… the show was Disney, first into was breathless! The fireworks were in color filling your screen.
I also remember Childcraft books. Remember using card catalogs and the reader’s guide?
Spin and Marty. Annette!
Yep but, the T.V. Dinner or those pouches of Chicken a la king you boiled and poured over a slice of real Bread. Let's be honest, Government Cheese made the Best Broiled Cheese Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Syrup. Buttermilk and Hot Cornbread. Um Hungry Now!
TELEPHONES: Remember a time when long distance calls cost a fortune. Any time the phone would ring and the operator would say "You have a long distance call from (fill in the blanks)...........it was almost always "bad news" like a grand parent dying or a relative gravely sick.
I use to call my girl friend Collect at a phone booth until I got caught by the operator.
Operator can you please do an emergency break through, the line has been busy lol
Those banana seat bicycles were actually called stingrays.
If they were made by Schwinn.
Schwinn was the stingray others had all kinds on names I had one that was hand built from my old bicycle A fried of my fathers had a motorcycle shop he welded up a chopper for me did nice metal flake paint and sent out the forks and sissybar along with the rear fender to be chromed he cut down a set of ape hangers for the handlebars and chromed them too .
But we did refer to that style bike as a Stingray regardless of make even though a genuine Stingray was made by Schwinn- at least where I grew up.
We called them spider bikes and they were designed to wheelie.
@@sammylacks4937 remember the wheelie bar you could get that had skate wheels on it so you did not go all the way over if you lost your balance ??
At age 61, I remember all of these old school items.
Pencil boxes. Lunch boxes. Slinkies.
@@elenalatici9568 Oh yeah!!
Those were the most fun days
I remember CB radios. My mom and dad and I loved to CB. It was a cool way to talk to other people on the CB. Love from Marysville, California
My father was a ham radio operator. My mother always hated the tall outside antenna he had to put up😮
Ya, I heard about ham radio operators and how they came to the rescue of the people who were in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971. I'm sure that your dad was one of them. Love from Marysville, California
My aunt had a CB radio in her car. I would actually use it sometimes.
@@KevinPayton-fq8gdmy Dad opted for a CB radio but I don’t recall the year.
@@KevinPayton-fq8gd My parents and I used ours when we went up to Alsca. Sorry if I misspelled the state. Love from Marysville California
Penny bubble gum, paper routes and public phone booths.
Mom had no TV growing up. Grandma had no autos growing up. I wish they were still here to talk to.
We didn't call them banana seat bikes, but a sting-ray bike. My friends and I all had one. :D
We just called them banana bikes
I am 70 years old and I remember every single one of these things. I am surprised you didn’t spend more time talking about reel-to-reel tape recorders as a blind person, I got my college textbooks mailed to me from Recordings for the Blind. They were a separate organization from the National Library Service for the Blind and they specialized in recording textbooks for students. I also had my massive music collection and saved literature on 7 inch 4-track reels. I miss dialing 1411 to get information and asking the operator to give me a phone number for someone I wanted to call. The service used to be free and then they started charging for every single request which was hard on blind and vision impaired people. I can’t stand yelp and it seems to be more difficult to get a phone number these days than it used to be. I really enjoyed this video. If you ask me, there should still be a sign off on television and I enjoyed the pattern music in the morning. I never got to hear it at night. In the morning, the television would first play the pattern music and on many mornings, they would play the poem High Flight.
Oh. Hell. Had. Them. All😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😅😅😅😅😅😅😊
god bless you.
I still remember well the reel to reel recorders. They were quite pricy for the time, too. I also lived High Flight. What a beautiful poem. Freedom!!!
Remember most businesses and grocery stores closed on Sunday.
74 ...all
Yes, drive-in theaters did make for many unforgettable dates. It also made quite a few unwanted pregnancies. Since my great uncle owned the drug store where the only soda fountain in town existed, I usually made my own milkshakes and other drinks for me and my friends. Since our football coach told us carbonated drinks were bad for us, I made my soda drinks uncarbonated (flat). I developed a taste for them and to this day, an ice cold flat Pepsi is my preferred soda. I just shake the bottle until it stops fizzing. Our T.V. antenna was right outside the window and there was a pipe wrench on the window sill in order to turn it with. The video left out the most interesting part of the dial phone. In many small towns, you would find yourself on a "party line". Often you would pick up the phone to make a call, but another member on the party line would be chatting away. And before the rotary phones, you picked up the receiver and an operator would greet you with "Number please." I still have my dads typewriter from the 40's. In my younger days, the kids of the house was the remote control. The first time I ever heard of a VCR was in the early 70's and a co-worker bought one for $999. I'll quit now. :o)
He's only wrong about six things. .
Finally one that goes far enough back. The last drive-in I sent to was in 1997. Phone books were booster chairs. I remember being allowed to go to school late so I could watch a Gemini launch. And like 99999myk, I also remember the national anthem sign off, and worse, the G*d awful static thereafter if you didn't turn it off fast enough. Also, the frustrating UHF channels that didn't click in like VHF, meaning it was difficult to maintain the connection. There were also console tvs & console stereos, so they would fit in like furniture. There are still a few places in the country where you can get milk delivery. B&W was so common that until the mid to late 70s, tv guide put a little "c" in a screen shape box to indicate a show was in color. Collect calls, through operators who couldn't pronounce my name 😅.
I kinda miss hearing a dialtone.
The only beep was a busy signal.
I saw the Beatles in 1966 at an N.H. racetrack. They wore matching suits and ties 👔 !!!
First time I saw them I laughed and thought they looked like a bunch of girls. With in a year me and all my buds were trying to look like them to impress the real girls.
I heard a story that some band (I don't know who right now) told John Lennon "Someone stole our suits" and Lennon said "I wish someone would steal our suits!"
America's best days are behind her. I was born in 1958 and had an amazing childhood,teen years in the 70's we won't get into details 😂 it wasn't always easy but back then you didn't quit! Oh the memories and that's the sad thing about getting older you remember vividly your younger years.
I agree with you I was born in 1952 and I remember all of it and I miss those days
@@rebeccaweaver2817Born in 1944. Sad when in the 70s when there was a huge demarcation of change in morals in the nation starting.
Nonsense! 1948 birth year here. My happiest days are now, and in the future. Growing up in the 50's and 60's was painful. The food, especially, was awful Remember Wonderbread? And Minute Rice? When I became an adult and could make my own food choices, the first thing I did was buy quality Italian, French breads, and German, and Scandinavian whole grain loaves. I explored the wonderful world of real rice. I learned out there were actually 1000's of different cultivars grown and used across the world, and dozens of cultivars available locally. I learned that you could cook cruciferous vegetables al dente, instead of the way my clueless mother cooked them - until they were mush. And with no microwave food heaters, you had to _wait, _ for hours, for frozen food to thaw so that you could cook it evenly. We did have better watermelons and citrus fruit back then. Today seedless watermeons are the worst. Real tangerines have disappeared. Grapefruits gained color and lost flavor.
@@soilmanted To each his own. Good to see someone happy with the current situation. I liked Wonderbread before they left Chicago. Now it's hard to find a fresh loaf of bread anywhere.
@@soilmanted and I have never had better cooking in my life than my Mom's was🫡
SATURDAY morning cartoons. Sunday morning, we were going to church. Even if you weren't, it was sermons or Sunday morning talk shows.
And if you were lucky, a Charlie Chan movie.
We watched the claymation show “David and Goliath” while getting ready for church. “Davieee” 😂
Church was more important back then. Also divorce was uncommon.
Personals in newspapers, good way of finding new friends.
Back when most houses had just ONE car - for the whole family - today EVERYONE has their own car, or truck.
When a family shared one telephone.
When toys required imagination.
In hardware stores and grocery store - the display of tubes ( for radios and TV) with tube tester.
Bank when getting an ice cream cone at the ice cream pallor was fun.
When a penny would get a handful of candy or gum from a bubblegum machine.
Those rides in front of grocery store - there was a horse, or a helicopter, boat, bat mobile and others.
S&H green stamps
Sears Christmas catalog
back when, all summer long, kids were gone from sun up to sun set. Playing tag, hid and seek, exploring the neighbor hood, knowing EVERYBODY in the entire neighbor hood.
Back when many drove slowly looking for people sitting on porch or working in yard, so the could wave and say "Hello" as they went by.
when during a trip, the kids played in the back of the station wagon.
when a big news story broke, everyone talked about - even with complete strangers.
when toy guns looked real and (with caps) made a bang with real smoke, just like a real gun
when candy cigarette were cool
during the 70s, when some girls painted their pants and jackets and some used rhinestones, and wore mood rings.
during the 70s, those bags of little green army men, in grocery stores.
Back when kids pick the box of cereal that had the coolest toy in it, who cared what kind of cereal.
Back when there were very few choice=s in the grocery store. It made life so much easier shopping.
back when most Americans worked in factories, gas cost 20 cents, a coke, 5 cents and bubblegum machines cost a penny.
Back when EVERYONE read the newspaper.
Back when calls were missed, and often.
Photo album
I could go one for ever on things that are no more. I was born in 63. I am sure older people's list will be longer.
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Next time pal, keep it short. You're not writing a book report.🤨
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@@Frank-pi2gzWell that's because you're a Gen Z and came here to learn something, we know that's a job for your generation that can't do anything mechanical or write cursive lol
How about cloth diapers.
Right. And they didn't end up in landfills.
Don't you mean Saturday morning cartoons.
My foster parents would complain about me not getting up in the morning to go to school, but I'd get up early on the weekends to watch cartoons, lol.
@@tonycollazorappo Sounds familiar. 🤣
Now in the USA is gone to HELL!
Agreed, I am just hoping that God our Heavenly Father takes me "HOME" and off this satanic rock.
@stevenrussell5340 This is what He wants--hatred of this life.
@@MrCJ-qz9dl Shut up satan, you lost at the Cross. Bwahahaha!!!!!!!
@@MrCJ-qz9dl Your not intellegent if you believe this. Tell your evil master that it lost at the Cross.
@@stevenrussell5340 l just don't understand the thrill individuals get on YT by insulting people they don't even know. We are in a sick society. Whatever!!!
Yes, loved those polaroid cameras! Film was ready to peel paper off in a few minutes, you had your picture! We saved the coke bottles, took them back down to the store and got change for them. 5cents a bottle? Gas was maybe 1$ gal. All stores closed on Sundays.
#31-Top 40 AM Radio-Every city had it's Top 40 AM Radio and it's popular DJ's playing "the HITS".
Portable 8-Track players
Thanks for the memories..... simpler times, much better in my opinion!!
I remember when telephone books were the first "booster seat" of its time.
Phone booths,hard to find one now
I remember drive in movies at a dollar a carload. Usually me, mom and dad. We would stop by the A&W rootbeer stand. Get mugs of rootbeet, go to the movies. After the movie was over we would drive back by A&W and just set our mugs on the outside order counter since they were closed. I also remember being the remote control for the TV and antenna adjuster.
Wish it was back im a proud boomer
With the Rotary Phones came Party Lines where for a reduced monthly you shared your Phone Line w/ a few others. That made for some interesting times ! Also, when the first "Cordless" phones were introduced in the early 80's, there were only 10 or 12 frequencies allotted for this new device by the FCC. Manufacturers offered an opportunity to swap your New Cordless phone more than once in hopes of finding a less busy frequency. I remember picking up my Cordless phone and being able to hear several others having conversations. It took a few years to fix this Privacy issue.
I remember the "Cold War" era Air Raid Sirens that would go off a few times a year so the School Kids could practice ducking under their Desks in the early 60's.
My grandma a few times told the story of when the played a prank on a neighbor one night. Put their furniture in their driveway. She happened to listen in on the female neighbor ranting about "if we ever find out who did that" so they never told. Party lines were briefly still in when I was a young kid. Barely remember having to check if no one was there before dialing. Got in trouble by someone for not checking first, just started dialing my mom. Our house didn't have a party line, so I wasn't really used to all that.
@@kennyhogg5820 Ditto, I'd picked up and started dialing w/o listening first to hear if the line was being used. I've had that done to me, where suddenly you would hear the Rotary Dial followed by a long pause and then an "I'm Sorry, how long are you going to be?" People would chime in and claim they had to make an Emergency call and then stay on the phone for hours talking to a girlfriend. Quite a different time for sure !
Ya now we got Putin...
@@m42037 Even More Scary, we've got a Cognitively Braindead Puppet in the White House that the World is Laughing at. Putin wouldn't be making threats of nuclear War if this POS POTUS gave a Rip about his country. Instead he's allowed his entire Family to Profit by selling out U.S. interests and Putin knows that. They may be Communists but they're Not Stupid.
Our neighborhood People's drugstore had a soda fountain that also served lunched. I just took it for granted that it would always be there, now the whole shopping center has been torn down and replaced with a Walmart and other stores.😖
the soda fountains could make the best hamburgers cooked on a grill with french fries
In the '50s, we kids had fun pranking our local drugstore. We would call and ask "do you have Prince Albert in the can?" The druggist would answer "YES". We then would say "isn't it about time you let him out?" I know it's an OLD joke, but it WAS funny back in the day!!
@@TheOzthewiz... Is your refrigerator running?😁
Remember going to the drug store to get TV tubes and fuses for the boxes at home.
I was a long distance telephone operator. It was my first job after high school graduation.
How about the "party-line" telephones, and one ring for our house and two rings for neighbors?
2 shorts and a long for our house.
@@stevedennison2828 Hi Steve, I miss the long lost days of society's simple innosense. Thanks for answering, Linda