The best memories of the 50's for me are of my dad & mom who were still young & alive..If you were to go back to the 50's and tell the people what would become of the country in 2023, they would thunk you were nuts.
No. They were warning you since the 60’s. It’s all this nostalgic reminiscing about the pretence to the situation were in now that got us here when; like I said, they’ve been warning you since the 60’s. You sit thinking about mummy and daddy when they’d probably sign you up if they seen what your generation let happen today.
Yes and old people in the 50s thought that the country was going to hell and young people were out of control. In a lot of ways our society and country are a lot better today
@@fenian123 Really? The US has turned into a 3rd world ,police state , sh*t hole. with a 1st stage dementia ridden ,Chi com puppet as POTUS And 50% of those under 30 feel that the country should be changed into a Communist state.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams............................
Yes, without a memory life is sadly diminished ask anyone suffering memory loss, not only short term, but long term memory loss. So sad to grow old and not be able to remember stuff or folks!
And when you're old, all you have is your memories of when you were young. This way you can repeat your stories over and over to your younger family members, until they tell you that they've heard them about a hundred times already!😄
Mason Williams on the present: “Here it ..was.” Such a great guy: wrote “Classical Gas”, humor for the Smothers Brothers, Glen Campbell, SNL and poetry. My favorite quote of his: “I never realized how mediocre the world was until I got involved with some of its supposedly top people.” That one is even more true today.
This video is making me feel so nostalgic. I’m 73…I just said to my 75 year old husband…”Wouldn’t you just love to go back to these times, even if it was just for a day? We live in the UK, we didn’t have drive-in’s, I wish we had, it looks so much fun. We didn’t even have drive through diners, until McDonalds moved here in October 1974. How I wish we had a time machine, I would jump right into it and travel back in time to experience fifties America.
72 also. It just seemed like a happier friendlier time. If you forgot to lock your doors there was rarely any problems. Cars didn’t have alarms and no security systems. ☹️ I miss the trust in those days
Oh the memories of the drive-in the commercials lol I was born in '73 and miss my grandparents stories. They helped raise me and made a big impact on my life. Grandpa was from Texas served in army ww2 and Korean War. Cement truck driver. Grandma was 1/2 Cherokee from Arkansas only learned 4th grade picked cotton and wore newspapers and rubber bands for shoe's .worked in the factory making ammunition. I miss them so much they always told me I was smart and bought me my first car.
Since I was born in 1951, the 50s ia an important era for me. Thank you, PBS for this excellent presentation. It has really conveyed the essence of that period.
@@kennethmcbride1790 Get over yourself, pal. Not everything is about black people. I should mention, though, that the black family was in MUCH better shape back then. Mull that over for a while.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s. I wouldn't change it. My dad though would go on about how great it was to be a kid in the 50s and teen in the 60s. I still wouldn't change my time line. 😊
@@kennethmcbride1790 You're talking (and probably thinking) just the way some politicians want you to think so they can exploit the crap outta you. You have got to let it go if you really want some peace and a good relationship with others. Do not allow yourself to be defined simply by color. You need to know that most people really do not see color as an issue. This is not the 50s. There were lots of good things and, yes, some bad. But many people fought to make this country kind & decent enough that we all should be able to get past that sorta thing. You're so much more than your color, as am I. God made you in His Image!! Remember that!!
such a sanitized WHITE version of the 1950s. no mention of the apartheid or lynchings or shootings and beatings. not the 1950s i remember being shot by kkk for having a white wife.
I remember taking my young daughter of three months old ,to Manchester England on a train I sat next to an older lady , she thought I was very. Brave taking a young baby to see my In-laws on my own . I remember the sound of the train , the wheels making that musical Sound , and people in the countryside waving at us . This was 1953 , I remember it well.
Remember taking my then 2 year old on a train to Widnes ( had to get off at Runcorn) in the early 90s, older women telling me, how brave I was to be travelling the country alone, just me and my daughter, off to see her nan and dad ( before I moved up there and we got married) strange how the older folk even these days think that some things the younger women do is so daring and brave. It's a train, only travelling from South Worcester to the North West, I didnt think it was brave or unusual... although to be honest I dont think many people go much further than their town centre and feel as if they have survived a major threat to life and limb. I loved getting on the train on a Tuesday and returning on Sunday, even my now 29 year old daughter, remembers those journeys, fondly
My dad was born in 1928 (he had me when he was 46). My mom, who’s 82 now, tells me my dad always drove a Cadillac. He owned his own tile business and did well for himself. At the same time, they didn’t talk much of their upbringing and I wish they would’ve. Everyone is gone now or dealing with illnesses (my mom has Alzheimer’s now, but still has some long-term memory).
I'm with you, as my dad was born in 1914 and was 43 when I was born. But he and mom had done so many things worthy of books...I tried for a lifetime to get them to tell stories, but ended up with peacemeal, as they might talk for a few minutes on any given day and then stop/lose interest/or somehow feel like it was bragging to repeat any tales? they were definitely cut from another cord...but i do note the '50's faced a long recession and was dealing with Polio. And you could even catch it swimming in pools. And Sputnik was a matter of "the commies" vs. our national pride. And Eugene Mccarthy was making a name for himself by calling out any potential followers of said party. He was not a man of very much conscience, even though he did have some common threads of truth in his attacks. I wish someone would've told him he used the wrong word. Communism can never work-as human beings are too selfish/to greedy/to self-indulgent to ever work together in the long run while collecting equal pay. There will always be some who demand more than everyone else...and that's where socialism comes in. And we're now seeing the despots replace that political philosophy. Does this sound familiar" "there can be only one"...such a great line from a "B" movie in the 1980's...but you all know who hose leaders are!
50s - optimism, 60s - sex revolution, 70s - wackness, 80s - no identity, 90s - optimism, dawn of the Internet, 0s - muslism invasion, 10s - dawn of PC culture, 20s - collapse of PC culture 50s optimism is attributed to the end of the War. 90s optimism thanks to cultural maturity from 70s and 80s, technological advance, and thanks to Regean economy. The cancerous PC culture we are experiencing right now, largely due to the worst president ever: Osama, what a disgrace.
And unfortunately, that nostalgic era was 100% evil and racist per the Progressive Left. The 1950s will soon be obliterated with all decades back to 1776 as the DemonRats re-write American history.
@@seanleith5312 If you want to come to some agreement on having more positive solutions for the future and less pitch fork brigades about the past ? Then yes we can do something . But marinating in nostalgia for the past with dystopia for the future ... IS THE CANCER that will kill our future if left un checked. So I'm sorry to say , since it looks like to many are willfully stuck in that rut ... The 50's will be getting CANCELLED !
I agree. I now get 100% of my entertainment from RUclips. Favorite channels and video creators. My wife has about 12 favorite TV shows. I sit next to her but with Bluetooth headphones and either my cell or tablet to view. We’re both happy that way. It’s nice getting real news too. It can be found just not from any network.
Me too, I was not even close to being born, but somehow I feel nostalgic watching all this movies. I don't care how old I would be now, but I would have loved living in the 1950s and 1960s!
@@TravelandAudio I don’t. I would’ve hated to live in a country where black pepper live under state sponsored terror. These people were violent people who suppressed other groups for their own pleasure.
My favorite mode of traveling was the train. My dad worked for Southern Pacific so I was really proud and excited to just go to the train station. It was the end of the first era of romantic rail travel. My coming of age holiday was a 3-week cross country trip with my dad from California to see our relatives in Louisiana. That trip remains pivotal in my life as it set a lifelong course of adventure, happiness and self discovery.
If you were a young person you used to be able to get on a train with no money give your details to the conductor and arrive at your destination. They sent you a bill. Trust, honesty and honor were part of American society.
Boch I'm old enough to have traveled on the old freight trains before amtrak! Those old berths made the traveling easier when one could lay down to sleep! Amtraks beds are too expensive! However train travel is the best way to go!
Here in my small town, we still have a lot of the great 50s and 60s nostalgia things, like the drive in, and lots of ppl young and elder have these cars. I love this town.
Thank you for the great memories. 👍 I have a humorous note to share. Probably at a minimum one quarter of the population at that time was conceived in the back seat of cars at drive-in theatres! Drive-ins were often fondly referred to as the"CORNFIELD BROTHEL" in casual banter by boys when adults and ladies were not present!
I was born in 1950, but didn’t start experiencing the American dream until 1965 when my mom brought me to California and have a lot of great and pleasant memories to dwell upon!
Also interesting that its so common in ur country now. Here it's not that bad. Fully industrialized and all though. Also food and production. Speaking from Western Europe. Wonder what's up with that. I was triggered by it also when visiting the US.
Its funny, because animals used for food were less lean themselves. Modern obesity is probably more a result of food additives like Corn Syrup, MSG, Hydrogenated Oils, etc....and a whole lot of cable TV, social media and gaming. Autism was also far less...but people like Bush and Rumsfeld were beginning to commercialize the wares?of the military industrial complex under the direction of the New World Order. Selling us the stuff that would eventually make us beg for the antidote which now they also sell us. A vicous circle. They sell us the disease and also the cure and then they start over and do it again.
The 50 's were exciting for all sorts of reasons, but these cars like the 57 classics, are just works of art in their own right !! I'm 59, and looking back to this period, it just seems so natural and right for me, although I 'm a 60's child, and too young to know this 50's period, I always seem drawn to it. Modern technology all well and good, but modern life just does not appeal to me. If I could start all over again and actually remain there , I would not hesitate. If time machines existed, (fat chance of that) I would be using it.
@Charles Ross Charles shhhh. (go to ustvgo.tv) It broadcasts the History Channel... along with 80 other cable channels for free!. (don't pass it on) ps- you're welcome.
My dad drove a 1958 Buick Special. No seatbelts, air conditioning, air ride shocks, special additions, and solid to the road. I was never in fear of us being rear ended and the steel chrome bumpers was the main factor of that. Nothing foreign about that car. It was American made steel and American labor built for a family of six to head out into the countryside to visit relatives or that leisure Sunday drive.
Allen, the elites that orchestrated funding both sides of ww2 to stop the threat socialism posed to capitalism are the same gang that destroyed unions (who elites accused of being communists) and chose to ship production oversees to cheaper labor, shifting to the warmongering financialization we suffer with today. Replace u$a's elitism with ecodemocracy, or loose the planet.
All the newer cars are plastic. When you got in a minor accident back in the chrome and metal car days you rarely got hurt as bad as you would in today’s cars
It honestly was a great time to be alive.. Things weren"t instant...but after it was done, no matter from cooking, or building, farming, it was an achievement that gave you pride, and respect. Families werent so far apart. And yes, neighbors were almost like family. Ive lived 8 years where i am now, I have no idea what my neighbors names are. Churning ice cream on Sundays, having Koolaid stands, croquet, the sound of window fans.....so many many sweet memories lol. Im having a hard time thinking what kids today will remeber 20 years from now. hmmmm the latest Samsung Note 8, music filled with vulgar lyrics. Silly me..
@@Mk101T Free market capitalism is what built this country and made it strong. Because of that it has always been the only country where you can start with nothing and acquire just about anything you wish if you're willing to work for it. Right now the radical Democrat leaders pulling the strings on Joe Biden are trying hard to destroy our economy and drive us all to socialism worse than China. They want total control of everything. If we don't start fighting back and fighting hard they're going to accomplish their goal.
@@3Ddude101 Oh plz ... you couldn't compete in freemarket capitalism were it to really exist here in America. Why are those hard working jobs in the US continually being done less and less by so called true Americans ? How bout you stop using the biggest form of welfare in the US , and get off the roads ... you social welfare baby with your flag and gun profile pic. Which you are easily controlled by being made to believe you are being controlled.
I loved seeing the '50s revisited. This was just before my time in the sixties. It was a wonderful time and a horrible time scary with the nuclear threat and promising with the economy and life in general. Thank you this was great.
I remember when I was very young. Our parents would bring me and my sister to the drive-in movies dressed in our pj's. Of course, we'd dose off leaving Mom and Dad free to "neck" as we slept. We were joined by two more brothers since then. It was a wonderful time of everything being bigger than life!
Most dirt poor, yet quite innocent enough to be happy. You don't miss what you don't know about. Living in that quite remote part of the most southern part of Texas, Laredo, County of Webb, 20 or so miles west of Laredo, almost parallel with the Rio Grande, a stones throw away. We most certainly invented our ways of play and fun in that almost arid land full of brush and rock and cacti. Most memorable of games was the rolling of old tires thru beat up paths, and another was riding down hill in an old metal 55 gallon barrel, crushing over rocks and cactus and all kinds of briars, enough to make it challenging, if and when the got inside, rolling along with you. Another game was jumping into the river off of a rope tied to huge tree branch.
The mid-50's were just coming out of the big band era and along came Elvis,Little Richard,Bo Didley,Jerry Lee,Carl Perkins,Chuck Berry and the list goes on and on.🗽👍
I remember going to the Big Boy drive in restaurant and getting a big boy burger, onion rings and a large Vernor's ginger ale for $1.51 + tip. Oh, now I'm hungry, but that Big Boy's is a Thai restaurant now. No longer a drive-in and probably closed for the virus. The new normal...and the beat goes on.
There was a drive inn theatre in Kermit, WV. We went as a child. They only charged adults and mom would pop huge brown paper bags of popcorn and a cooler with kool-aide. Of course we still got to go get hot dogs in the concession stand. I loved it.
@Charles Ross - I was abused in the same way as a child; gone after breakfast, home when the street lights came on. If I got thirsty while outside, my parents made me and all my friends drink from the water hose outside. My friends parents did the same. They say, "It takes a neighborhood to raise a child". Parents in my neighborhood took that seriously. One time, all us kids made a Rocket from left over fire works powder. We almost started the neighborhood on fire and could have killed someone. One parent told the other parent, who told another parent and we all got an a$$ whooping; couldn't go out for a week. Oh, the Irony!
My boyfriend had a 57 buick 2 door hard top, boy did we think we were hot, we got married in 1962 and sold the car in 1993. Boy did II CRY.I Wanted to go buy it back, I still think we lived in the best of times for lots of reasons
Jeez, Louise I miss drive-ins. My parents used to take us kids a couple of times a month and we'd have our PJ's on and usually we fell asleep. Boy, some of those "feature films" were pretty bad. Funny more like it. And of course the "snack" shack, which they reminded you of every chance they got. One time my dad drove the car off with the speaker still hanging in the window.
@@johnallen2771 My dad had a 69 Bonneville convertible. I was born in 64. We'd do the PJs, brought pillows and bankies (blankets). My mom, dad and us 5 kids. My dad would have my brother and middle sister get in the trunk 😂, so he wouldn't have to pay for all 5 of us. I remember watching giant monster movies, like Godzilla and King Kong. I still love those kaiju and am looking forward to the newest movie this November. Sucks, no drive in 😞. We took our kids to the same Drive in too. Sometimes I go by myself. Lots of memories at the drive in.
My mother and uncles were fortunate enough to be part of such a great generation in our country. I have always thought if time travel was an option, the 50's would be my destination. Maybe the last great American time in history.
I was born in 53 but I wish I was born earlier so I could have grown up then.I would love to go back in time to those early days to see what it was like.❤️♥️💖
Wouldn’t it be great to have a time machine and actually go back to those days! And really experience what it was like. I was born in 62 and wold like to revisit this times!
I was born in 1940 and came of age in the 1950s. It was such an exciting and interesting era. Grew up on a farm where we had no electricity or telephone service. The only technology was a battery powered radio. By 1960 there was a massive transformation in the way we lived and worked. I had not yet decided what my future would be. The most obvious path was to remain on the farm and take it over some day. But I had a great interest in radio and electronics that lead me into a career in the mainframe computer business.
While I grew up in the 50's, my experiences were not nearly as much fun as this portrays. They have picked the best and flashiest examples of that era. Many of us only saw that from the outside.
Thanks for that. I was actually wondering myself what the reality of the era was for the men and women who didn't live the "charmed," PR-friendly version of the 50s romance. It's as they say -- the victors write the history books. In this case, the victors are interviewed for the documentaries. I don't want to hear about the guy who came back from the tail-end of the war and got a cushy job. I want to hear the stories of the guys who struggled, because struggle is real and the one constant throughout all generations.
Ppl nowadays have pride but in all the wrong things and for all the wrong reasons. Too prideful to say sorry.. too prideful to be wrong and admit to.. too wrong listen to someone else and their ideas, thoughts and opinions
Same thing back then also So many had Hatred for a Group of People just because of their Skin Color That's insane they never bombed Pearl Harbor or anything like that but was hated to death So sad
Good post. Well, I said I'm sorry just the other day to a cashier because, despite all her efforts, the product I was purchasing wouldn't ring up (like it automatically should), and she very sweetly said, "oh no, it's okay. It's not your fault". I felt sort of bad for making the job harder, plus there was a line seemingly half a mile long behind me. I notice that sorta thing goes a long way. People are so kind when a person shows a little compassion & says sorry once in a while. The response is heart-warming.
Shut it old man you're jealous you didn't have access to the stuff we do. It's not our fault so don't shame us for it. you're acting like more of a child then us
I don’t understand what the current generation has against this time. Why can’t it be this way today but with a futuristic spin on it. What a great time to be alive I envy that generation.
I actually found this really inspired. This is perhaps one of the great centers of this country. The fact that people made their homes in such a rugged area, it reminds me how tough Americans were braving the bitter colds of the North. The automobile was the great equalizer that made the vast spaces somehow manageable. With planes and ships, radio and technology, this area was connected to everything, as far removed as it was from the east and west coasts.
You mean Biden is president and YES we are suffering. The prices of food 🍱 , gas⛽️ and electric ⚡️ are at an all time high. (Just to name a few things) Praying 🙏 for better times.
I remember the drive in theaters very well. The ones we went to in the fifties and right up until the early seventies had long mounds in which the cars would be parked on an incline so the car was tilted up slightly to see the screens better. Our folks had a 1954 Pontiac and would pile all 3 of us kids in our pajamas in the back seat with pillows and a blanket. The speakers were a problem because after the double feature was over, we were all so tired and more often than not our dad would forget that the speaker which was hooked on the window, and drive off ripping the cord off the metal stand. Going to the movies was an exciting night out for us as television was new and many homes in our area didn't even have one. If you did have a tv, it was all black and white and had only one channel.
As an Englishman visiting the USA at 21 year old back in 1969 one of the things I wanted to do was go to a drive in movie,I did and it was great.No drive in movies in the UK. Are there no drive movies in the US anymore ? We drove in in a Cadillac Bonneville painted a gorgeous deep red metallic, I have loved those big American cars ever since.I have retired now and its still my dream to come back to the USA,maybe next year.
blackvulcan100 about 330 drive-in theaters from the 1950’s are still in operation today. You can find a few along Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. Probably one of the more famous drive-ins, the Admiral Twin (featured in the movie The Outsiders), is located just off of Route 66 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Most states have at least one drive-in so no matter what state you visit you should be able to find one. Hope you can make it soon!
blackvulcan100 well it’s hard to say where because I’ve lived all over the US. I spent a good chunk of my life in Tulsa and in Chicago, but I currently live in Largo, FL which borders Clearwater and St. Petersburg in the Tampa Bay Area.
My grandparents had a Cadillac back then and my mom drove a 78 Lincoln town car. Those are what I learned to drive. They were HUGE and I could pile in a ton of my friends. I loved the drive in and we still have one here in Texas. I miss those days.
It was great living in the 1950's! I loved Rock and roll! We didn't have much; mother making $9.00 a week. Dad had died. We made fries and got together on the porch listening to the radio to the dedications. Great memories.
The days when you could live and prosper on a average wage, now its all about cutting taxes at the top. Taxes were higher for the corporations , wages were higher compared to cost, and not only did America survived, she prospered.
You realize that the federal tax rate has decreased since the 1950s, right? The marginal tax rate was 92% for income over $200k. It was about 50% for the average income. Today it is 28%. The cost of living is what makes it more difficult to make a living wage.
tonycavanagh1929 Oops I read your post wrong. I think that the inflation in the 70s ruined everything. And the 80s when manufacturing started to leave.
I remember when you picked-up the receiver and the operator asked, "Number Please.." In the mid-sixties it cost $1.50 more per month to have a push button phone instead of the dial up.
@Charles Ross ..i have my first phone on my desk.got it when i worked my first summer job. it's a pink rotary w/ wires- not a easy connect. my dad wouldn't let us get a phone. so i had to get the house wired & i put it in my bedroom. ..dad said to me" who's paying the bill when i go back to high school?" the bill was only $6.& change. no phone till 17. imagine!
By my time with phones, they did not answer with an operator unless you were calling long distance from a pay phone. But the audio quality was much better than the phones today,---that often get put to shame by the 1969 moon landing transmissions. The kids don't know the difference.
The computer punch cards reminded me of my first time writing something in high school that was sent to our local telecom to be processed by their computer. When I got my card back it had GIGO written on it. When I asked my teacher what it meant he said " Garbage In Garbage Out"
I was a kid in the 50's living in the countryside near Superior. One thing I find missing here is that there is no mention of winter. Winter is nearly half the year and can be very severe, but I have good memories of it. Think of "Fargo" by the Corn Brothers.
All of us 60 yr. olds..70 yr.olds..back then.. we had the world by the tail..never even knew it... sad how it has deteriorated.. hold your head up high.. We lived well!!!👍👍👍😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸
The best part of living in the '50s was that there were no "Cell Phone Zombies" wondering around or driving. I was in college in the 50s and it was great. I even drove a beautiful 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop around the campus. Wish I still had it. We also had a great US President Eisenhower from 1953-1961. "I like Ike"
Ike built up u$a's military complex, an error that would have been avoided had the anti-populist dem party bosses not pushed aside FDR's pick Henry Wallace and his peace platform in favor of a compliant pro-warmongering Truman. Huge and horrific long term choices were made in this era. And blocking Black GIs from the GI bill. Jim Crow. Continued erasure of indigenous tribes. etc etc. Great for naive white folk tho.
@@billduckworth6760 Care to elaborate on that, Bill? Did you actually LIVE that time? To myself who did, it is pretty much as this describes. The anxieties and worries existed then, but not as orders-of-magnitude increased and their damnable numbers as now. We are headed (and almost there) for 'equality of misery.' THIS is what promises, not Heavenly perfection as is sold by the pushers. . : .
@@michaelbacon5404 You were born in 1944? If so you were a 'war baby'. There are a lot fewer of those around than from the 'Baby Boom' of later. I was in mid-45 when Germany was about to surrender; Japan half-a-year later. @Bill Duckworth from before did not say if he was of the era or not. I suspect not. Very many of such commenting thusly are TOLD by others what the score was like as-supposed. What is "knowledge certain and true"? It is what one has WITNESSED. This is admissible as testimony in court, but not repetitions of hearsay or opinions, unless a court-accredited "expert witness." Too much is not taught that otherwise if so would allow one to separate reality from ALL the rest that is for the greater part but presumed, self-serving garbage. It is the teaching institutions' fault, basically. Indeed, the Fifties and early Sixties were a whole OTHER WORLD, one pre- the forced integration of all with all. Now, the beautious glory of it manifests; it's marvelous blessings lived modernly. It took a long time but, finally IT IS HERE almost perfected!!!! Indeedy! Let us all get down on our knees and thank fundamental Federalism, and it's irresistible APPLIED COERCIVE FORCE for it. Ahhh, our enjoyed perfect universal "FREEDOM" is always 'just-just-just about' upon us !! . : .
i was born in 1935. you must be a white racist. such a sanitized WHITE version of the 1950s. no mention of the apartheid or lynchings or shootings and beatings. not the 1950s i remember being shot by kkk for having a white wife.
@@bobbybabylon1385 Why do you call anyone a racist for wanting to go back to their childhood era? Attitudes like yours are so cancerous to society, calling anyone "racist" for anything does more harm than good, but anger cannot see straight. By this point in time the word itself, "racist" has truly lost its meaning, and good riddance to it.
Bobby Babylon here we go boohoo;you lying ;go to bed little child stop being a troll ;before the real troll 👹under your bed gets you ;smh Kkk 😁white wife 😁lol what a imagination 😂
Today it is only a matter of where you live. Every city is different as is every community. Same with people and how they live. I managed to settle a days ride from home after traveling the whole Country for work for 30 years. Some things are gone. Basic trust has been ruined, morals, and acceptance are gone. But if you look hard you will find all the good people you need.
That's a beauiful old art building you mention here in Duluth Minn. I truly hope you can restore it. The story that Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan play in it's history is also inspiring.
Where I live we have a drive-in near a small town. It's always a popular destination for movies. I am so glad I got to experience that as a kid. Once a month my dad would pile all of us into the station wagon and take us to the movies. He would put the back down and lay out a blanket for all of us.
The photo of the man and 2 kids with the salmon reminds me of when there USED TO BE salmon in the river by our house that dad would catch and we had photos like that of them. The government now protected all the seals and sea lions that used to have a bounty on them. Now there are VERY FEW SALMON for anyone to catch for food, and only the RICH can afford the licenses to fish for the few that are left.
Greg Appelgren oh yea.., I just wish I could have convinced my Pa to buy a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner... and just drive it home and store it. Maybe 3 of them.
..THE 50'S AND 60'S ...THE BEST YEARS EVER! ...GLAD I WAS THERE! BIG FAT BURGERS 35 CENTS ..GAS 23 CENTS A GAL. ..DRIVE IN MOVIES 35 CENTS.. MOVIE THEATER 6 PEPSI TOPS AND A DRINK AND POPCORN 20 CENTS! WITH A DOUBLE FEATURE WAS FREE! ...YO-YO'S AND HULA HOOPS WITH REAL SOCK-HOPS! AND ..SO MUCH MORE! ...AMAZING TIMES
The 50's are fascinating. They had no clue how much their optimism partnered with ignorance, and "keeping up with the Jones's" would change the world and not necessarily for the best. The 60's response to the 50's was to tear down the old. Fight the establishment. Change everything NOW, Tune In, Drop Out was too extreme. We are still paying for it today.
There was a drive in theater down the road from my highschool that my mom took us too when I was little. It was closed down by the time I was in highschool. My friends and I gathered discarded furniture from the side of the road, took it to the big "room" under the screen and used it as a flophouse when skipping classes. There's a Menards sitting on the site now (State St., Saginaw Mi)
The cars of thr 50s were actually works of industrial art. They were created during a time of amazing American optimism and innovation. All you have to do is notice how much a well-restored 50s-era American car goes for at a Mecum auto action.
I have a 1951 Ford Custom Coupe, and it's absolutely amazing. Original 239 flathead v8. My 6yo kid and my dad and I go cruising all around in that sucker, and everyone loves it. It's a beautiful machine.
@@user-qt5eh9wb7g Awesome! My brother was quite a bit older than me. When he was 20 he got a 1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner with the glass top. I loved it when we went for a ride with him.
This is before my time but there's a lot of things that were still happening in the 80s. Like drive-ins and the cool old cars hanging out at the A & W. Too bad drive-ins disappeared.
My mom was a car hop at both A&W and Big Boy as teen just before I was born, The carhops were still there when I remember going as a small boy, they wore roller skates. Even when I was old enough to drive, we still were driving hotrods, cruising from Big Boy to Country kitchen, then back, for hours, they're all gone, the pools are gone, the skate rinks, gone, parks ran down mostly, drive-ins held out longer than most but, gone. Most summer camps gone, I haven't seen a boy scout or girl scout in eons, no H.S. fireworks anymore, the local amusement park gone, the Zoo is right in the middle of the seediest part of the hood now. I never see any clubs advertise, like hunting, R.C., C.B., rocket clubs, what in the world could kids do EXCEPT be online playing games? draining life faster than they develop character.... they seem content with it, but, they never knew a life of the kind of activities earlier generations did. It's not their fault, but they're sure gonna pay for it.
In the old drive in you had a box for a speaker you hung on your window (not very good audio). The newer drive ins actually transmit the audio over an FM frequency which you listen to over your stereo ( much better audio quality)!
I miss the Drive Ins. The town where I live is lucky enough to still have one remaining. Drive Ins were hurting in the 80s and 90s, but the final blow came when the movie studios changed from film to digital. most Drive Ins and smaller Theaters had to close down due to the very high cost of switching over to digital projectors.I set up a large movie screen in my backyard for the last 10 years and do my best to keep the spirit of the drive in alive. It's sad that there's a generation out there that has no clue what a Drive In Theater was.
@@1959blantz the ridiculously wealthy movie stars and production companies shoulda foot the bill for the change over to digital for these small town drive ins. after all,the people watching the movies are paying thier salaries.
Reaganomics also screwed us, and the deregulation of government from the 1980s. Reagan undid everything that FDR did that would have given us a safety net for the entire year of 2020 due to the start of the pandemic. If FDRs' New Deal wasn't overturned during the 1980s, we would still have strong unions, production jobs in the US and stimulus checks to go around to jump start the economy that would benefit everyone, including the rich fat cats at the top.
I remember when microwaves first came out, it cost me $600 for a huge, ugly, brown monstrosity that took up almost my whole countertop! But I had to have one- and it worked perfectly for years. I gave it away in 1990 when I got a new smaller fancy one- which only lasted a year. In my succession of many microwaves, one lasted just 6 months- they were only about $100 then.
Antony Andre' / renaissance artist and artisan my mom still has her rounded stainless steal Sunbeam toaster. Its from my grandma--my mom is 75! She said if it breaks it will be the end because no one fixes toasters anymore. So sad.
@@elleh3495 It's a toaster. Not a difficult appliance at the core. I once bought a pink one by SMEG, I think they're Swedes, and it was way overpriced at over 100.00 and it NEVER worked! I'm not the only one too stupid to know how to use a toaster, b/c BB n B got rid of the whole line next time I went over.
Back when the cars were built like tanks, with bumpers...nowdays you have to replace the front or back end if you want to repair a minor collision. Around 15 yrs ago my local drive-in was re-viltalized, showing a double feature everyday, while still using the grounds for the swap meet on Sat-Sun
My grandparents were teens in the 1950’s, they never graduated from college but were still able to buy houses and start multiple businesses.. me on the other hand, I’ve gotten more school than they have and still can’t buy a house.. we share a car so I can stay home and not pay for daycare cause it’s too expensive to work, and you can’t afford to not work so yeah, must’ve been good times tbh
You hit the nail right on the head, Brandy. Everybody's a financial hostage now. they've figured out every way to wring every cent out of everybody and even get the crap out of the buffalo on the nickle.
Speaking of protests, THERE'S a reason! Nothing pisses rich people off like NOT giving them any money. I NEVER, EVER hand over any money to ANYONE with way more than I have: the child rapist-condoning church, for example. It's DISPICABLE we gave them ANY money when they OWN EVERYTHING! Let them sell some of all the insane amount of property they own like everyone else would have to do! Let THEM pay at LEAST 15% taxes! Leave anyone alone making under 40k. No taxes at all. That will help people invest in the country with saving and buying things like houses. How do we do that? Well, A, money management MUST be a requirement. I can't tell you how much idiocy I've seen around money. It's STUPID if you're an individual and even MORE stupid if you're a huge corporation. A pandemic or any other reason; a few months without cash shouldn't destroy you. Look at Warren Buffet. It sucks to have any connection with his workers, b/c he could give a flying fig about them, but he isn't heavily leveraged (too many loans, not enough CASH). Education MUST BE MANDATORY. If you can't read or do any math, we need to find the teachers responsible and get rid of them. Absolutely serious on that. If you want any government money, you MUST BE in school full time for a trade or a useful major. If you stupidly screw up and get pregant, well, you proven fit not to raise your kids. And you are on your own. I'm sick of LAZY people refusing to WORK and getting paid for it. If you want food stamps, we'll pay for fruits and vegetables. I don't see much use or nutrition in breads, meat and dairy today. I think the government should pay for it ONLY if it's grass-fed and organic. THAT will change things immediately. There is WAY too much food addiction. Reason: "food" is rigged to make you EAT. I think a LOT of food is like potato chips: you start out with some and eat the whole damn bag! I understand feeling that surgery is going to solve severe obesity problems but like alcoholism, personal responsibility would be nice. You should HAVE TO get some non-invasive treatment FIRST. Overeaters Anonymous is free and tends to work. Also testing? Let's do more of that for drug abuse and alcoholism. Yeah, they HATE IT when you make them, but they're also like little spoiled kids. They don't UNDERSTAND rules and consequences. The sobriety rate is also solid when their hand is forced. You're talking about people we now wait until they kill someone before making them sober the hell up. Nope. Anyone accused of hurting a person or an animal is incorrigible and must be gassed. We can use a lot of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide and you won't feel or even smell a thing. There's a number of homeless who are just insane and can't live alone. They aren't dangerous, usually. But they barely know the day when you talk to them sometimes. I've seen older people like that. They can't live alone. It's insane. Now, we have tons of younger people who need help. Why not do the obvious and pair them TOGETHER? We have tons of houses that could use people to live in them. Let's do almost a co-op. The city owns half your place. They put up some money and you put up the other half. That keeps people invested in their community. Renters DNGAF. When you sell, you can get capital gains if you lived there as it is now. That will give people a chance to put in more money to our economy. It will keep people out of jail. It's pathetic to see illiterate people barely able to read and write, much less have any sense to do math or anything else. It's unfair to be a small business and get NAILED 15% tax on account of rude, lazy crackheads and entitled garbage, who contribute zero. I've seen it. I've watched 5 (FIVE!!) adults try to rent. NONE are working, ok? Then they cop attitude because of things like app fees that ANYONE has to pay, move-in fees, and credit rating requirements. Shocker that landlords avoid these people like a hooker avoids the clap. They'll get in and like a human roach motel, you wont be able to get them OUT when they quit paying immediately. Nothing like ACTUAL WORK and supporting yourself to straighten your ass out. Anyone around for the 50s will tell you that! I just watched "Precious," backed by Tyler Perry and Oprah, and yeah, that goes on all the time.
The best memories of the 50's for me are of my dad & mom who were still young & alive..If you were to go back to the 50's and tell the people what would become of the country in 2023, they would thunk you were nuts.
No. They were warning you since the 60’s.
It’s all this nostalgic reminiscing about the pretence to the situation were in now that got us here when; like I said, they’ve been warning you since the 60’s.
You sit thinking about mummy and daddy when they’d probably sign you up if they seen what your generation let happen today.
Yes and old people in the 50s thought that the country was going to hell and young people were out of control. In a lot of ways our society and country are a lot better today
@@fenian123 Really? The US has turned into a 3rd world ,police state , sh*t hole. with a 1st stage dementia ridden ,Chi com puppet as POTUS And 50% of those under 30 feel that the country should be changed into a Communist state.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams............................
Thought-provoking
So true. It's great to be a grandparent but, the grandchildren are growing so fast; Sigh! As you say: soon it will only be a memory.
Yes, without a memory life is sadly diminished ask anyone suffering memory loss, not only short term, but long term memory loss. So sad to grow old and not be able to remember stuff or folks!
And when you're old, all you have is your memories of when you were young. This way you can repeat your stories over and over to your younger family members, until they tell you that they've heard them about a hundred times already!😄
Mason Williams on the present: “Here it ..was.”
Such a great guy: wrote “Classical Gas”, humor for the Smothers Brothers, Glen Campbell, SNL and poetry.
My favorite quote of his: “I never realized how mediocre the world was until I got involved with some of its supposedly top people.” That one is even more true today.
This video is making me feel so nostalgic. I’m 73…I just said to my 75 year old husband…”Wouldn’t you just love to go back to these times, even if it was just for a day? We live in the UK, we didn’t have drive-in’s, I wish we had, it looks so much fun. We didn’t even have drive through diners, until McDonalds moved here in October 1974. How I wish we had a time machine, I would jump right into it and travel back in time to experience fifties America.
72 also. It just seemed like a happier friendlier time. If you forgot to lock your doors there was rarely any problems. Cars didn’t have alarms and no security systems. ☹️ I miss the trust in those days
And it would be nice if you was back in time that you were younger also
@@kxp.1496 Yes…that would be an added bonus 👍🏻😊
@@kxp.1496 it sure would!
I remember at about 12-13 we wished we were older. Well here I am wishing I was younger 💔
@@precisionbrown6829 So true 😊
We had no internet and 24 hour a day news , and most people still respected their families and neighbors
Oh the memories of the drive-in the commercials lol I was born in '73 and miss my grandparents stories. They helped raise me and made a big impact on my life. Grandpa was from Texas served in army ww2 and Korean War. Cement truck driver. Grandma was 1/2 Cherokee from Arkansas only learned 4th grade picked cotton and wore newspapers and rubber bands for shoe's .worked in the factory making ammunition. I miss them so much they always told me I was smart and bought me my first car.
Arguably the greatest generation.
I have lived thru the the 50’s to the present and in my opinion the 50’s was definitely the best era of time.
Agree!! Born early 50s, and am happy to have lived during that amazing decade!!
Hi Cindy,,, Ronya Swaim here...... Love your last name.. i married into the Swaim family years ago... good to see there is more of us,, lol
we all live in Alabama
Me too, and yes!
@@RonyaLee-x1qAlabama in the 50s was only good for white peoples
Since I was born in 1951, the 50s ia an important era for me. Thank you, PBS for this excellent presentation. It has really conveyed the essence of that period.
I am 67 1/2. The 50s and 60s were just like that. And I remember all of it. And I miss those times so much.
I grew up in the 50's and I am so glad I did.It was a great time in this Great Country.
not for people who look like me
@@kennethmcbride1790 ....IT'S A BRAIN THING...STOP BEATING THE HORSE! MOVE ON..
@@kennethmcbride1790 Get over yourself, pal. Not everything is about black people.
I should mention, though, that the black family was in MUCH better shape back then. Mull that over for a while.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s. I wouldn't change it. My dad though would go on about how great it was to be a kid in the 50s and teen in the 60s. I still wouldn't change my time line. 😊
@@kennethmcbride1790 You're talking (and probably thinking) just the way some politicians want you to think so they can exploit the crap outta you. You have got to let it go if you really want some peace and a good relationship with others. Do not allow yourself to be defined simply by color. You need to know that most people really do not see color as an issue. This is not the 50s. There were lots of good things and, yes, some bad. But many people fought to make this country kind & decent enough that we all should be able to get past that sorta thing. You're so much more than your color, as am I. God made you in His Image!! Remember that!!
The 50's are not lost. Just many of the morals and values.
such a sanitized WHITE version of the 1950s. no mention of the apartheid or lynchings or shootings and beatings. not the 1950s i remember being shot by kkk for having a white wife.
I remember taking my young daughter of three months old ,to Manchester England on a train
I sat next to an older lady , she thought I was very. Brave taking a young baby to see my
In-laws on my own . I remember the sound of the train , the wheels making that musical
Sound , and people in the countryside waving at us . This was 1953 , I remember it well.
Never been on a train and have always wanted to. It would be nice to take a train through the mountain.
Indeed you were brave
I started school in '53. How's your daughter doing now?
Sounds like a thrilling adventure to me and it's a pleasure to know that nonagenarians too use RUclips.
Remember taking my then 2 year old on a train to Widnes ( had to get off at Runcorn) in the early 90s, older women telling me, how brave I was to be travelling the country alone, just me and my daughter, off to see her nan and dad ( before I moved up there and we got married) strange how the older folk even these days think that some things the younger women do is so daring and brave. It's a train, only travelling from South Worcester to the North West, I didnt think it was brave or unusual... although to be honest I dont think many people go much further than their town centre and feel as if they have survived a major threat to life and limb. I loved getting on the train on a Tuesday and returning on Sunday, even my now 29 year old daughter, remembers those journeys, fondly
My dad was born in 1928 (he had me when he was 46). My mom, who’s 82 now, tells me my dad always drove a Cadillac. He owned his own tile business and did well for himself. At the same time, they didn’t talk much of their upbringing and I wish they would’ve. Everyone is gone now or dealing with illnesses (my mom has Alzheimer’s now, but still has some long-term memory).
I'm with you, as my dad was born in 1914 and was 43 when I was born. But he and mom had done so many things worthy of books...I tried for a lifetime to get them to tell stories, but ended up with peacemeal, as they might talk for a few minutes on any given day and then stop/lose interest/or somehow feel like it was bragging to repeat any tales? they were definitely cut from another cord...but i do note the '50's faced a long recession and was dealing with Polio. And you could even catch it swimming in pools. And Sputnik was a matter of "the commies" vs. our national pride. And Eugene Mccarthy was making a name for himself by calling out any potential followers of said party. He was not a man of very much conscience, even though he did have some common threads of truth in his attacks. I wish someone would've told him he used the wrong word. Communism can never work-as human beings are too selfish/to greedy/to self-indulgent to ever work together in the long run while collecting equal pay. There will always be some who demand more than everyone else...and that's where socialism comes in. And we're now seeing the despots replace that political philosophy. Does this sound familiar" "there can be only one"...such a great line from a "B" movie in the 1980's...but you all know who hose leaders are!
It was a great time growing up during the 50's and 60's, I miss it and the people.
not for people who look like me
@@kennethmcbride1790 sorry to hear that.
@@kennethmcbride1790 that's very true! The 50s weren't good for everyone! I hope we are
moving to a more inclusive society. We need everyone!
Cant believe I'm watching a documentary about my childhood.
Ur age?
50s - optimism, 60s - sex revolution, 70s - wackness, 80s - no identity, 90s - optimism, dawn of the Internet, 0s - muslism invasion, 10s - dawn of PC culture, 20s - collapse of PC culture
50s optimism is attributed to the end of the War. 90s optimism thanks to cultural maturity from 70s and 80s, technological advance, and thanks to Regean economy. The cancerous PC culture we are experiencing right now, largely due to the worst president ever: Osama, what a disgrace.
And unfortunately, that nostalgic era was 100% evil and racist per the Progressive Left.
The 1950s will soon be obliterated with all decades back to 1776 as the DemonRats re-write American history.
@@seanleith5312 the 70s and 80s were nothing short of amazing kid, keep dreaming
@@seanleith5312 If you want to come to some agreement on having more positive solutions for the future and less pitch fork brigades about the past ? Then yes we can do something .
But marinating in nostalgia for the past with dystopia for the future ... IS THE CANCER that will kill our future if left un checked.
So I'm sorry to say , since it looks like to many are willfully stuck in that rut ...
The 50's will be getting CANCELLED !
this is for sure a 2 am type of getting lost in RUclips doc
I agree. I now get 100% of my entertainment from RUclips. Favorite channels and video creators. My wife has about 12 favorite TV shows. I sit next to her but with Bluetooth headphones and either my cell or tablet to view. We’re both happy that way. It’s nice getting real news too. It can be found just not from any network.
It is currently 2:18 as I'm reading through these comments.
RUclips is amazing. Probably the best vehicle to connect people and times.
12 : 53 am time I read comment.
2:13 for me lol
I like the 50's and the 60's,What a nostalgia to watch the old past times
Same
This were great days good time to live in the 50 60
Me too, I was not even close to being born, but somehow I feel nostalgic watching all this movies.
I don't care how old I would be now, but I would have loved living in the 1950s and 1960s!
@@TravelandAudio I don’t. I would’ve hated to live in a country where black pepper live under state sponsored terror. These people were violent people who suppressed other groups for their own pleasure.
@@this-is-not-just-a-pr-fail3263 black pepper
I grew up in the 50👍s
and I love this video. Thanks
My favorite mode of traveling was the train. My dad worked for Southern Pacific so I was really proud and excited to just go to the train station. It was the end of the first era of romantic rail travel. My coming of age holiday was a 3-week cross country trip with my dad from California to see our relatives in Louisiana. That trip remains pivotal in my life as it set a lifelong course of adventure, happiness and self discovery.
in the apartheid of the1950s the only job a black man could do on the railway was be a porter
Bobby Babylon ya that's 50 years ago bro how about now?
Bochanable At 7 yrsI took a train ride across to Eastern Canada with my Mother and sis. I loved it!
If you were a young person you used to be able to get on a train with no money give your details to the conductor and arrive at your destination. They sent you a bill. Trust, honesty and honor were part of American society.
Boch I'm old enough to have traveled on the old freight trains before amtrak! Those old berths made the traveling easier when one could lay down to sleep! Amtraks beds are too expensive! However train travel is the best way to go!
Here in my small town, we still have a lot of the great 50s and 60s nostalgia things, like the drive in, and lots of ppl young and elder have these cars. I love this town.
Where are you?
You’re very fortunate!! I’d love that!!
Where are you? Is it still like this?
Thank you for the great memories. 👍
I have a humorous note to share.
Probably at a minimum one quarter of the population at that time was conceived in the back seat of cars at drive-in theatres!
Drive-ins were often fondly referred to as the"CORNFIELD BROTHEL" in casual banter by boys when adults and ladies were not present!
I was born in 1950, but didn’t start experiencing the American dream until 1965 when my mom brought me to California and have a lot of great and pleasant memories to dwell upon!
If you look you will notice obesity wasn’t so chronic back in those days
Proof the big 7 corporations control people. I like their channel, you created.
Also interesting that its so common in ur country now. Here it's not that bad. Fully industrialized and all though. Also food and production. Speaking from Western Europe. Wonder what's up with that. I was triggered by it also when visiting the US.
@Olivia Purcel Today there is to much salt in the food--
no laws that said you had to buy insurance on the cars
Its funny, because animals used for food were less lean themselves. Modern obesity is probably more a result of food additives like Corn Syrup, MSG, Hydrogenated Oils, etc....and a whole lot of cable TV, social media and gaming. Autism was also far less...but people like Bush and Rumsfeld were beginning to commercialize the wares?of the military industrial complex under the direction of the New World Order. Selling us the stuff that would eventually make us beg for the antidote which now they also sell us. A vicous circle. They sell us the disease and also the cure and then they start over and do it again.
Much more fast food, which is crap
1 am 45. And completely in love with the 1950s. I love the cars the homes the furniture. Things aren't made the way they were back then
The 50 's were exciting for all sorts of reasons, but these cars like the 57 classics, are just works of art in their own right !! I'm 59, and looking back to this period, it just seems so natural and right for me, although I 'm a 60's child, and too young to know this 50's period, I always seem drawn to it. Modern technology all well and good, but modern life just does not appeal to me. If I could start all over again and actually remain there , I would not hesitate. If time machines existed, (fat chance of that) I would be using it.
robert harding I am with you brother!
Me too.....I wish for a back to humans and humanity.
@@johnnyhawkins5061 take me, take me!!
@bad dog Lucky YOU! ;)
@Charles Ross Charles shhhh. (go to ustvgo.tv) It broadcasts the History Channel... along with 80 other cable channels for free!. (don't pass it on) ps- you're welcome.
My dad drove a 1958 Buick Special. No seatbelts, air conditioning, air ride shocks, special additions, and solid to the road. I was never in fear of us being rear ended and the steel chrome bumpers was the main factor of that. Nothing foreign about that car. It was American made steel and American labor built for a family of six to head out into the countryside to visit relatives or that leisure Sunday drive.
Allen, the elites that orchestrated funding both sides of ww2 to stop the threat socialism posed to capitalism are the same gang that destroyed unions (who elites accused of being communists) and chose to ship production oversees to cheaper labor, shifting to the warmongering financialization we suffer with today. Replace u$a's elitism with ecodemocracy, or loose the planet.
That chrome bumper still looks brand new in junk yard today.
All the newer cars are plastic.
When you got in a minor accident back in the chrome and metal car days you rarely got hurt as bad as you would in today’s cars
@@precisionbrown6829 I’m not so sure about that.
Why did it change?
We loved going to the drive in places and getting food, while sitting in your car. I am 78 and am thrilled to grow up in this era.
When I go antique shopping I actually use most of what I buy. I prefer old stuff especially if it "works" which it often does.
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@@johnnygarcia7882 ?!?
when I take my daughter looking into Antique Shops and Stores , she tells me , "Mom , you already have all this old stuff. "..😂😂😂
Electric can opener...?....yup...still working
It honestly was a great time to be alive.. Things weren"t instant...but after it was done, no matter from cooking, or building, farming, it was an achievement that gave you pride, and respect. Families werent so far apart. And yes, neighbors were almost like family. Ive lived 8 years where i am now, I have no idea what my neighbors names are. Churning ice cream on Sundays, having Koolaid stands, croquet, the sound of window fans.....so many many sweet memories lol. Im having a hard time thinking what kids today will remeber 20 years from now. hmmmm the latest Samsung Note 8, music filled with vulgar lyrics. Silly me..
There won't be an America 2o yrs from now if big tech is not dismantled.
Believe dat yo!!
@@kevinbarry4325 So you want socialism ... but a destructive kind ?
Otherwise free market capitalism will yield the same result.
@@Mk101T Free market capitalism is what built this country and made it strong. Because of that it has always been the only country where you can start with nothing and acquire just about anything you wish if you're willing to work for it. Right now the radical Democrat leaders pulling the strings on Joe Biden are trying hard to destroy our economy and drive us all to socialism worse than China. They want total control of everything. If we don't start fighting back and fighting hard they're going to accomplish their goal.
@@3Ddude101 Oh plz ... you couldn't compete in freemarket capitalism were it to really exist here in America.
Why are those hard working jobs in the US continually being done less and less by so called true Americans ?
How bout you stop using the biggest form of welfare in the US , and get off the roads ... you social welfare baby with your flag and gun profile pic.
Which you are easily controlled by being made to believe you are being controlled.
Blessed to have grown up in the fifties. Born in 1949 started first grade in 1955.
So nice to hear people being proud of this great country. Kids today need to watch this
Thats the problem
I loved seeing the '50s revisited. This was just before my time in the sixties. It was a wonderful time and a horrible time scary with the nuclear threat and promising with the economy and life in general. Thank you this was great.
I was born in 1950 and I remember many things about the later 1950s when I was old enough to understand what was going on.
Hello! I was born in October of 1950 in MINNESOTA. I lived there until 1974. Thank you for this wonderful time to look back.
How I wish those days were back. They were truly the good old days!! Nothing like today!
You want to go back state sponsored terrorism against black Americans? Wow!
Go wine somewhere else.
I remember when I was very young. Our parents would bring me and my sister to the drive-in movies dressed in our pj's. Of course, we'd dose off leaving Mom and Dad free to "neck" as we slept. We were joined by two more brothers since then. It was a wonderful time of everything being bigger than life!
Most dirt poor, yet quite innocent enough to be happy. You don't miss what you don't know about. Living in that quite remote part of the most southern part of Texas, Laredo, County of Webb, 20 or so miles west of Laredo, almost parallel with the Rio Grande, a stones throw away. We most certainly invented our ways of play and fun in that almost arid land full of brush and rock and cacti. Most memorable of games was the rolling of old tires thru beat up paths, and another was riding down hill in an old metal 55 gallon barrel, crushing over rocks and cactus and all kinds of briars, enough to make it challenging, if and when the got inside, rolling along with you. Another game was jumping into the river off of a rope tied to huge tree branch.
Tying a rope to a big tree and swinging on it. We just made up games
The mid-50's were just coming out of the big band era and along came Elvis,Little Richard,Bo Didley,Jerry Lee,Carl Perkins,Chuck Berry and the list goes on and on.🗽👍
Don't forget the great Ricky Nelson!
I had forgotten that you turned your headlights on for service at a drive-in restaurant.
McGrottomaster ī
We still have a drive in restaurant!
facebook.com/TheFenceDriveIn
I remember going to the Big Boy drive in restaurant and getting a big boy burger, onion rings and a large Vernor's ginger ale for $1.51 + tip. Oh, now I'm hungry, but that Big Boy's is a Thai restaurant now. No longer a drive-in and probably closed for the virus. The new normal...and the beat goes on.
@@jimburig7064 ...THE SHONYS BIG BOY ..GIRLS HAD ROLLER SKATES!! ....AND A HAT!!
There was a drive inn theatre in Kermit, WV. We went as a child. They only charged adults and mom would pop huge brown paper bags of popcorn and a cooler with kool-aide. Of course we still got to go get hot dogs in the concession stand. I loved it.
Ate breakfast, then outside playing with friends until the street lights came on.
@Charles Ross - I was abused in the same way as a child; gone after breakfast, home when the street lights came on. If I got thirsty while outside, my parents made me and all my friends drink from the water hose outside. My friends parents did the same. They say, "It takes a neighborhood to raise a child". Parents in my neighborhood took that seriously. One time, all us kids made a Rocket from left over fire works powder. We almost started the neighborhood on fire and could have killed someone. One parent told the other parent, who told another parent and we all got an a$$ whooping; couldn't go out for a week. Oh, the Irony!
@Charles Ross vvt
Still that way in small town Iowa in the 70's. :)
We had to be home for dinner, but right back outside after dinner `til the lights came on.
@Charles Ross you can't be serious, right?
My town is lucky to still have a triple screen drive inn... We all love it
My boyfriend had a 57 buick 2 door hard top, boy did we think we were hot, we got married in 1962 and sold the car in 1993. Boy did II CRY.I Wanted to go buy it back, I still think we lived in the best of times for lots of reasons
Jeez, Louise I miss drive-ins. My parents used to take us kids a couple of times a month and we'd have our PJ's on and usually we fell asleep. Boy, some of those "feature films" were pretty bad. Funny more like it. And of course the "snack" shack, which they reminded you of every chance they got. One time my dad drove the car off with the speaker still hanging in the window.
@@johnallen2771 My dad had a 69 Bonneville convertible. I was born in 64. We'd do the PJs, brought pillows and bankies (blankets).
My mom, dad and us 5 kids.
My dad would have my brother and middle sister get in the trunk 😂, so he wouldn't have to pay for all 5 of us.
I remember watching giant monster movies, like Godzilla and King Kong. I still love those kaiju and am looking forward to the newest movie this November. Sucks, no drive in 😞.
We took our kids to the same Drive in too. Sometimes I go by myself.
Lots of memories at the drive in.
@@johnallen2771 that's cool and funny!
if i had a time machine that's the era i would keep going back to over and over and over .
I'd go back to about May, 1955 and bust the machine!! Never to return.
@@autobug2 That's the year Einstein died.... I'd go back another five years with hope I'd get to pick his brain....lol.
It was so good I wouldn't leave.
What if the time machine put you in a black person's body? Would you still want that?
Liberals destroyed everything
My mother and uncles were fortunate enough to be part of such a great generation in our country. I have always thought if time travel was an option, the 50's would be my destination. Maybe the last great American time in history.
I was born in 53 but I wish I was born earlier so I could have grown up then.I would love to go back in time to those early days to see what it was like.❤️♥️💖
Wouldn’t it be great to have a time machine and actually go back to those days! And really experience what it was like. I was born in 62 and wold like to revisit this times!
Most at my church are still highly civilized. They cook and eat dinner at the table and read nonfiction books.
I was born Jan 1951 I remember a great deal of it,Got drive license@ 15 Dad needed help driving trucks😇
I'm now 87 (born 1933) and I can tell you this: It was a bummer.
@@billfarley9167 do tell! What part of the US where you born in? Was it significantly different than this video shows? My dad was born in 45, mom 51.
I was born in 1940 and came of age in the 1950s. It was such an exciting and interesting era. Grew up on a farm where we had no electricity or telephone service. The only technology was a battery powered radio. By 1960 there was a massive transformation in the way we lived and worked. I had not yet decided what my future would be. The most obvious path was to remain on the farm and take it over some day. But I had a great interest in radio and electronics that lead me into a career in the mainframe computer business.
Classic years to be alive and have real fun for what we had
While I grew up in the 50's, my experiences were not nearly as much fun as this portrays. They have picked the best and flashiest examples of that era. Many of us only saw that from the outside.
Charles Ross love this comment!
Thanks for that. I was actually wondering myself what the reality of the era was for the men and women who didn't live the "charmed," PR-friendly version of the 50s romance. It's as they say -- the victors write the history books. In this case, the victors are interviewed for the documentaries. I don't want to hear about the guy who came back from the tail-end of the war and got a cushy job. I want to hear the stories of the guys who struggled, because struggle is real and the one constant throughout all generations.
Ppl nowadays have pride but in all the wrong things and for all the wrong reasons. Too prideful to say sorry.. too prideful to be wrong and admit to.. too wrong listen to someone else and their ideas, thoughts and opinions
Too prideful to admit school shooting and no kids playing outside isn't right. "Just old people complaining." No, it's more than that...
Mike Hunt you described Trump to a tee! P.S. do you know Mike Hawke? Lol
Same thing back then also So many had Hatred for a Group of People just because of their Skin Color That's insane they never bombed Pearl Harbor or anything like that but was hated to death So sad
Good post. Well, I said I'm sorry just the other day to a cashier because, despite all her efforts, the product I was purchasing wouldn't ring up (like it automatically should), and she very sweetly said, "oh no, it's okay. It's not your fault". I felt sort of bad for making the job harder, plus there was a line seemingly half a mile long behind me. I notice that sorta thing goes a long way. People are so kind when a person shows a little compassion & says sorry once in a while. The response is heart-warming.
I love your Daria
GREAT VIDEO SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY LOVED THE 50S
Wow....children playing outside and inventing ways to entertain them selves.
poor fellas....no playstation, no obesity....thank god for progress.
Shut it old man you're jealous you didn't have access to the stuff we do. It's not our fault so don't shame us for it. you're acting like more of a child then us
Baby boomers are assholes
Guy Rutledge IKR!👍
@@aye3781 the only A hole is you
I don’t understand what the current generation has against this time. Why can’t it be this way today but with a futuristic spin on it. What a great time to be alive I envy that generation.
Because look how liberated women have become since then, that’s why. Not to mention the gays. And the blacks? I guess that’s why.
How I wish I had lived during the 50's!! All these free trade agreements killed the middle class such a shame!!
@e You don't know what free trade agreements are?
That was the intent...sad
I actually found this really inspired. This is perhaps one of the great centers of this country. The fact that people made their homes in such a rugged area, it reminds me how tough Americans were braving the bitter colds of the North. The automobile was the great equalizer that made the vast spaces somehow manageable. With planes and ships, radio and technology, this area was connected to everything, as far removed as it was from the east and west coasts.
Still cold as all get out and tough to make it now that Brandon is president. Folks are suffering.
You mean Biden is president and YES we are suffering. The prices of food 🍱 , gas⛽️ and electric ⚡️ are at an all time high. (Just to name a few things)
Praying 🙏 for better times.
@@paulyosef7550 Oh how I long for the days.. when rockets and starburst were all of the rage.✨🚀✨🚀✨
LGB-FJB
I remember the drive in theaters very well. The ones we went to in the fifties and right up until the early seventies had long mounds in which the cars would be parked on an incline so the car was tilted up slightly to see the screens better. Our folks had a 1954 Pontiac and would pile all 3 of us kids in our pajamas in the back seat with pillows and a blanket. The speakers were a problem because after the double feature was over, we were all so tired and more often than not our dad would forget that the speaker which was hooked on the window, and drive off ripping the cord off the metal stand. Going to the movies was an exciting night out for us as television was new and many homes in our area didn't even have one. If you did have a tv, it was all black and white and had only one channel.
We got 4 channels ABC, NBC and 2 CBS from two different cities.
sounds like my tv that just died 2 weeks ago,yes my son got me a new one .i cant work that thing yet
There is still a drive in theatre in Coldwater, Michigan.
As an Englishman visiting the USA at 21 year old back in 1969 one of the things I wanted to do was go to a drive in movie,I did and it was great.No drive in movies in the UK. Are there no drive movies in the US anymore ? We drove in in a Cadillac Bonneville painted a gorgeous deep red metallic, I have loved those big American cars ever since.I have retired now and its still my dream to come back to the USA,maybe next year.
blackvulcan100 about 330 drive-in theaters from the 1950’s are still in operation today. You can find a few along Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. Probably one of the more famous drive-ins, the Admiral Twin (featured in the movie The Outsiders), is located just off of Route 66 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Most states have at least one drive-in so no matter what state you visit you should be able to find one. Hope you can make it soon!
@@TheChoochooboy99 Cheers EL, my son works for Fed Ex so he often visits the US although his post for Fed Ex is in Dubai.Where you from in the US ?
blackvulcan100 well it’s hard to say where because I’ve lived all over the US. I spent a good chunk of my life in Tulsa and in Chicago, but I currently live in Largo, FL which borders Clearwater and St. Petersburg in the Tampa Bay Area.
My grandparents had a Cadillac back then and my mom drove a 78 Lincoln town car. Those are what I learned to drive. They were HUGE and I could pile in a ton of my friends. I loved the drive in and we still have one here in Texas. I miss those days.
It was great living in the 1950's! I loved Rock and roll! We didn't have much; mother making $9.00 a week. Dad had died. We made fries and got together on the porch listening to the radio to the dedications. Great memories.
When the future sucks, nostalgia from the past is more appreciated and longed for.
That's the only thing that got me through this, was great growing up with our family's. 🇨🇦
Was born in 56. Was a good time to grow up.
I concur...
Me too, just had my 1st BD in 2 yrs & now 66 and had the best times on Feb 17th. Cheers baby boomer from Vancouver Island, B.C, 🇨🇦
What a treat that was. Thank you for sharing and great music as well. I appreciate all of your efforts in putting this together.
The days when you could live and prosper on a average wage, now its all about cutting taxes at the top. Taxes were higher for the corporations , wages were higher compared to cost, and not only did America survived, she prospered.
If not for Republicans America would still be great!
@@larryallen4674 its the Libturds who want DIEversity and helping Everyone one else.. but Americans !
You realize that the federal tax rate has decreased since the 1950s, right? The marginal tax rate was 92% for income over $200k. It was about 50% for the average income. Today it is 28%.
The cost of living is what makes it more difficult to make a living wage.
@@lauraz2896 Yup my point
tonycavanagh1929 Oops I read your post wrong. I think that the inflation in the 70s ruined everything. And the 80s when manufacturing started to leave.
It feels like yesterday, this shows how short life is, I can imagine in 2050 searching about life in 2021
I remember when you picked-up the receiver and the operator asked, "Number Please.."
In the mid-sixties it cost $1.50 more per month to have a push button phone instead of the dial up.
i worked in the country and when u picked up the phone people were talking on it. party line.and i
think it was in the 80's.
@Charles Ross ..i have my first phone on my desk.got it when i worked my first summer job. it's a pink rotary w/ wires- not a easy connect. my dad wouldn't let us get a phone. so i had to get the house wired & i put it in my bedroom.
..dad said to me" who's paying the bill when i go back to high school?" the bill was only $6.& change. no phone till 17. imagine!
I'll take a rotary phone stuck on the wall. And a computer on the desk.
By my time with phones, they did not answer with an operator unless you were calling long distance from a pay phone. But the audio quality was much better than the phones today,---that often get put to shame by the 1969 moon landing transmissions. The kids don't know the difference.
I lived for 5 months in the 50's. I've now lived in 8 different decades.
Me too born July 18, 1959
I was born Jan 7, 1959.
13 actually
Good for you
I think the fifties were the best base for prosperity and advancement in this country.
Why are you just parroting what the narrator said? Have you no ideas of your own?
@@bethewalt7385 Why is it such a crime to agree with someone else?
The computer punch cards reminded me of my first time writing something in high school that was sent to our local telecom to be processed by their computer. When I got my card back it had GIGO written on it. When I asked my teacher what it meant he said " Garbage In Garbage Out"
You deserve a LOT more likes for this comment.
Luckily today, I only have to wait a second or two to get those results
@@NERC-o4l Amen to that!!!
It also means our education system today. We were figuring out reality better when we were learning to talk at the age of 2.
We still have atleast 2 drive in theaters in our area. And they are well attended!
Wonderful! Thank you for posting this.
I was a kid in the 50's living in the countryside near Superior. One thing I find missing here is that there is no mention of winter. Winter is nearly half the year and can be very severe, but I have good memories of it. Think of "Fargo" by the Corn Brothers.
This video is amazing its remarkable how make us get to get back time. Simply beutifull
All of us 60 yr. olds..70 yr.olds..back then.. we had the world by the tail..never even knew it... sad how it has deteriorated.. hold your head up high..
We lived well!!!👍👍👍😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸
You could put on a fairly nice dinner party for 6 for about $100 in 1962 but now with wine and an appetizer, try $400.00!!! And cooking from scratch.
There is still a drive in just about 2 miles from me. Only open on weekends. I’m 71, so I’ve been there lots!
Thank You for posting this video! I loved it!
I agreed with sam
The best part of living in the '50s was that there were no "Cell Phone Zombies" wondering around or driving. I was in college in the 50s and it was great. I even drove a beautiful 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop around the campus. Wish I still had it. We also had a great US President Eisenhower from 1953-1961. "I like Ike"
Those are all good things for you. But I really suffered under segregation, so no thank you for me.
@@this-is-not-just-a-pr-fail3263 Sorry to hear that.
Ike built up u$a's military complex, an error that would have been avoided had the anti-populist dem party bosses not pushed aside FDR's pick Henry Wallace and his peace platform in favor of a compliant pro-warmongering Truman. Huge and horrific long term choices were made in this era. And blocking Black GIs from the GI bill. Jim Crow. Continued erasure of indigenous tribes. etc etc. Great for naive white folk tho.
Ike was the last of the sort of OK Republican presidents. Since then they've been phonies and scumbags..
President Eisenhower was one of the best.
I may very young but I envy the 50’s even though I was born 50 years later
sgt Johnson, the 50s were NOT as pleasant as this ' documentary ' depicts.
@@billduckworth6760 Care to elaborate on that, Bill? Did you actually LIVE that time? To myself who did, it is pretty much as this describes. The anxieties and worries existed then, but not as orders-of-magnitude increased and their damnable numbers as now. We are headed (and almost there) for 'equality of misery.' THIS is what promises, not Heavenly perfection as is sold by the pushers.
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There was Segregation and lot of racism but at least folks said please and thank you
@@jamesmiller4184 I was raised in the 50es 1944 and I miss that time enjoyed life much more to bad Bill Duckworth had a hard time
@@michaelbacon5404 You were born in 1944? If so you were a 'war baby'. There are a lot fewer of those around than from the 'Baby Boom' of later. I was in mid-45 when Germany was about to surrender; Japan half-a-year later. @Bill Duckworth from before did not say if he was of the era or not. I suspect not. Very many of such commenting thusly are TOLD by others what the score was like as-supposed.
What is "knowledge certain and true"? It is what one has WITNESSED. This is admissible as testimony in court, but not repetitions of hearsay or opinions, unless a court-accredited "expert witness." Too much is not taught that otherwise if so would allow one to separate reality from ALL the rest that is for the greater part but presumed, self-serving garbage. It is the teaching institutions' fault, basically.
Indeed, the Fifties and early Sixties were a whole OTHER WORLD, one pre- the forced integration of all with all. Now, the beautious glory of it manifests; it's marvelous blessings lived modernly. It took a long time but, finally IT IS HERE almost perfected!!!! Indeedy! Let us all get down on our knees and thank fundamental Federalism, and it's irresistible APPLIED COERCIVE FORCE for it.
Ahhh, our enjoyed perfect universal "FREEDOM" is always 'just-just-just about' upon us !!
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I was born in 1944 in Two Harbors and lived in Duluth. I worked at that Steel Plant in Morgan Park. I have a million stories to tell.
wonderful walkthrough history!
I was born in 1952..... I wish we could go back to this era.
i was born in 1935. you must be a white racist. such a sanitized WHITE version of the 1950s. no mention of the apartheid or lynchings or shootings and beatings. not the 1950s i remember being shot by kkk for having a white wife.
@@bobbybabylon1385 Why do you call anyone a racist for wanting to go back to their childhood era? Attitudes like yours are so cancerous to society, calling anyone "racist" for anything does more harm than good, but anger cannot see straight.
By this point in time the word itself, "racist" has truly lost its meaning, and good riddance to it.
Bobby...you Did Not have a white wife in the 50s if you were black...I was born in the 50s
Bobby Babylon here we go boohoo;you lying ;go to bed little child stop being a troll ;before the real troll 👹under your bed gets you ;smh Kkk 😁white wife 😁lol what a imagination 😂
@@simosc2 Black men married white women in the 50's and earlier. It depended on where you went to get hitched.
Today it is only a matter of where you live. Every city is different as is every community. Same with people and how they live. I managed to settle a days ride from home after traveling the whole Country for work for 30 years. Some things are gone. Basic trust has been ruined, morals, and acceptance are gone. But if you look hard you will find all the good people you need.
That's a beauiful old art building you mention here in Duluth Minn. I truly hope you can restore it. The story that Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan play in it's history is also inspiring.
When the 1st manufacturing jobs were sent over seas after WW2 it spelled the end of America.
just to spell more profit for bosses and shareholders...
And when the imports started coming in from Japan.
Back in the 50's, it was taiwan that made everything. Enter Clinton and Sniper Bush and now its China!
John Booker YUP... !
John Booker's Full spectrum lets keep bringing johns back under trumps economy !
The drive-in made a comeback due to the pandemic in 2019...
Where I live we have a drive-in near a small town. It's always a popular destination for movies. I am so glad I got to experience that as a kid. Once a month my dad would pile all of us into the station wagon and take us to the movies. He would put the back down and lay out a blanket for all of us.
Rural America is great due to the values of its people.
It did? Not anywhere I know. Please share the location.
@@BrittMFH There were even concerts that people attended in their cars without getting off.
The photo of the man and 2 kids with the salmon reminds me of when there USED TO BE salmon in the river by our house that dad would catch and we had photos like that of them. The government now protected all the seals and sea lions that used to have a bounty on them. Now there are VERY FEW SALMON for anyone to catch for food, and only the RICH can afford the licenses to fish for the few that are left.
I was born in Texas in 1951 and Ill never forget my parents picking me up at the Cinema in town and they had bought a Star Chief Pontiac.....
I miss the 50's ... I missed them by 4 years! Born in 64...
Tom Maika Me, born in 65’ but we too grew up in some of the best of times.
Born in 1962. I also think that we grew up in the best of times.
I was born in 1964. Called the N word for the first time in 1969. That was the beginning. My dad told me stories of segregation in the 50's.
@@michaelsimmons3524 so sorry
Greg Appelgren oh yea.., I just wish I could have convinced my Pa to buy a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner... and just drive it home and store it. Maybe 3 of them.
A child of the 50s, so wish i could go back
You must be white?
..THE 50'S AND 60'S ...THE BEST YEARS EVER! ...GLAD I WAS THERE!
BIG FAT BURGERS 35 CENTS ..GAS 23 CENTS A GAL. ..DRIVE IN MOVIES 35 CENTS..
MOVIE THEATER 6 PEPSI TOPS AND A DRINK AND POPCORN 20 CENTS! WITH A DOUBLE
FEATURE WAS FREE! ...YO-YO'S AND HULA HOOPS WITH REAL SOCK-HOPS!
AND ..SO MUCH MORE! ...AMAZING TIMES
@@Erik0207 ...STILL DO TO THIS DAY !
See Nomore racistism to
@@xaedeo6549 ....AND SUMMER SHOWERS TOO...
See Nomore my comment was a joke I-
not for people who look like me
The 50's are fascinating. They had no clue how much their optimism partnered with ignorance, and "keeping up with the Jones's" would change the world and not necessarily for the best. The 60's response to the 50's was to tear down the old. Fight the establishment. Change everything NOW, Tune In, Drop Out was too extreme. We are still paying for it today.
There was a drive in theater down the road from my highschool that my mom took us too when I was little. It was closed down by the time I was in highschool. My friends and I gathered discarded furniture from the side of the road, took it to the big "room" under the screen and used it as a flophouse when skipping classes. There's a Menards sitting on the site now (State St., Saginaw Mi)
The cars of thr 50s were actually works of industrial art. They were created during a time of amazing American optimism and innovation. All you have to do is notice how much a well-restored 50s-era American car goes for at a Mecum auto action.
I have a 1951 Ford Custom Coupe, and it's absolutely amazing. Original 239 flathead v8. My 6yo kid and my dad and I go cruising all around in that sucker, and everyone loves it. It's a beautiful machine.
@@user-qt5eh9wb7g Awesome! My brother was quite a bit older than me. When he was 20 he got a 1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner with the glass top. I loved it when we went for a ride with him.
This is before my time but there's a lot of things that were still happening in the 80s. Like drive-ins and the cool old cars hanging out at the A & W. Too bad drive-ins disappeared.
My mom was a car hop at both A&W and Big Boy as teen just before I was born, The carhops were still there when I remember going as a small boy, they wore roller skates. Even when I was old enough to drive, we still were driving hotrods, cruising from Big Boy to Country kitchen, then back, for hours, they're all gone, the pools are gone, the skate rinks, gone, parks ran down mostly, drive-ins held out longer than most but, gone. Most summer camps gone, I haven't seen a boy scout or girl scout in eons, no H.S. fireworks anymore, the local amusement park gone, the Zoo is right in the middle of the seediest part of the hood now. I never see any clubs advertise, like hunting, R.C., C.B., rocket clubs, what in the world could kids do EXCEPT be online playing games? draining life faster than they develop character.... they seem content with it, but, they never knew a life of the kind of activities earlier generations did. It's not their fault, but they're sure gonna pay for it.
it may be life draining but there's literally nothing else to do
@@christmastree6817 it's true I agree, they make it tough
Im not a car guy, but holy hell that car is beautiful.
They were real works of artists...designs based on oceanic creatures. Genius!
ALL cars in the 50s were beautiful. And you could tell make, model, and year from 2 blocks away!
My man said the same.
Quality of work is a top notch
@@jamielyn5062 your man is not wrong and has good taste in cars and women. You should marry him.
Our fabulous classic car show every Saturday night thru the summer at the sycamore.
This is probably one of my favorite documentary films. It was very well made
I hate to think how many kids were a result of the Drive-In !! lol!! Remember it well fondly!
the passion pit
Harreson Garner we still have two drive inns where i live.Go almost every weekend in the summer..
In the old drive in you had a box for a speaker you hung on your window (not very good audio). The newer drive ins actually transmit the audio over an FM frequency which you listen to over your stereo ( much better audio quality)!
I miss the Drive Ins. The town where I live is lucky enough to still have one remaining. Drive Ins were hurting in the 80s and 90s, but the final blow came when the movie studios changed from film to digital. most Drive Ins and smaller Theaters had to close down due to the very high cost of switching over to digital projectors.I set up a large movie screen in my backyard for the last 10 years and do my best to keep the spirit of the drive in alive. It's sad that there's a generation out there that has no clue what a Drive In Theater was.
@@1959blantz the ridiculously wealthy movie stars and production companies shoulda foot the bill for the change over to digital for these small town drive ins. after all,the people watching the movies are paying thier salaries.
Gone gone gone, never to be back, thanks to wall street and the war machine
Reaganomics also screwed us, and the deregulation of government from the 1980s. Reagan undid everything that FDR did that would have given us a safety net for the entire year of 2020 due to the start of the pandemic. If FDRs' New Deal wasn't overturned during the 1980s, we would still have strong unions, production jobs in the US and stimulus checks to go around to jump start the economy that would benefit everyone, including the rich fat cats at the top.
Items made before the 90s...were made to last...I still use a microwave from the 70s...it is now 2019
I remember when microwaves first came out, it cost me $600 for a huge, ugly, brown monstrosity that took up almost my whole countertop! But I had to have one- and it worked perfectly for years. I gave it away in 1990 when I got a new smaller fancy one- which only lasted a year. In my succession of many microwaves, one lasted just 6 months- they were only about $100 then.
Antony Andre' / renaissance artist and artisan my mom still has her rounded stainless steal Sunbeam toaster. Its from my grandma--my mom is 75! She said if it breaks it will be the end because no one fixes toasters anymore. So sad.
@@mikeylorene I would have had a fit. Your credit card company will get you a refund, btw.
@@elleh3495 It's a toaster. Not a difficult appliance at the core.
I once bought a pink one by SMEG, I think they're Swedes, and it was way overpriced at over 100.00 and it NEVER worked! I'm not the only one too stupid to know how to use a toaster, b/c BB n B got rid of the whole line next time I went over.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 From 1990?
Back when the cars were built like tanks, with bumpers...nowdays you have to replace the front or back end if you want to repair a minor collision.
Around 15 yrs ago my local drive-in was re-viltalized, showing a double feature everyday, while still using the grounds for the swap meet on Sat-Sun
this brings me back to fond memories of dad working on the tv tubes.. oh lordy lordy right up there with the fuel oil furnace memories
My grandparents were teens in the 1950’s, they never graduated from college but were still able to buy houses and start multiple businesses.. me on the other hand, I’ve gotten more school than they have and still can’t buy a house.. we share a car so I can stay home and not pay for daycare cause it’s too expensive to work, and you can’t afford to not work so yeah, must’ve been good times tbh
You hit the nail right on the head, Brandy. Everybody's a financial hostage now. they've figured out every way to wring every cent out of everybody and even get the crap out of the buffalo on the nickle.
Speaking of protests, THERE'S a reason!
Nothing pisses rich people off like NOT giving them any money. I NEVER, EVER hand over any money to ANYONE with way more than I have: the child rapist-condoning church, for example.
It's DISPICABLE we gave them ANY money when they OWN EVERYTHING! Let them sell some of all the insane amount of property they own like everyone else would have to do! Let THEM pay at LEAST 15% taxes!
Leave anyone alone making under 40k. No taxes at all. That will help people invest in the country with saving and buying things like houses.
How do we do that? Well, A, money management MUST be a requirement. I can't tell you how much idiocy I've seen around money. It's STUPID if you're an individual and even MORE stupid if you're a huge corporation.
A pandemic or any other reason; a few months without cash shouldn't destroy you. Look at Warren Buffet. It sucks to have any connection with his workers, b/c he could give a flying fig about them, but he isn't heavily leveraged (too many loans, not enough CASH).
Education MUST BE MANDATORY. If you can't read or do any math, we need to find the teachers responsible and get rid of them. Absolutely serious on that.
If you want any government money, you MUST BE in school full time for a trade or a useful major. If you stupidly screw up and get pregant, well, you proven fit not to raise your kids. And you are on your own.
I'm sick of LAZY people refusing to WORK and getting paid for it. If you want food stamps, we'll pay for fruits and vegetables. I don't see much use or nutrition in breads, meat and dairy today.
I think the government should pay for it ONLY if it's grass-fed and organic. THAT will change things immediately. There is WAY too much food addiction.
Reason: "food" is rigged to make you EAT. I think a LOT of food is like potato chips: you start out with some and eat the whole damn bag!
I understand feeling that surgery is going to solve severe obesity problems but like alcoholism, personal responsibility would be nice. You should HAVE TO get some non-invasive treatment FIRST. Overeaters Anonymous is free and tends to work.
Also testing? Let's do more of that for drug abuse and alcoholism. Yeah, they HATE IT when you make them, but they're also like little spoiled kids. They don't UNDERSTAND rules and consequences.
The sobriety rate is also solid when their hand is forced. You're talking about people we now wait until they kill someone before making them sober the hell up. Nope.
Anyone accused of hurting a person or an animal is incorrigible and must be gassed. We can use a lot of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide and you won't feel or even smell a thing.
There's a number of homeless who are just insane and can't live alone. They aren't dangerous, usually. But they barely know the day when you talk to them sometimes. I've seen older people like that.
They can't live alone. It's insane.
Now, we have tons of younger people who need help. Why not do the obvious and pair them TOGETHER?
We have tons of houses that could use people to live in them. Let's do almost a co-op. The city owns half your place. They put up some money and you put up the other half. That keeps people invested in their community. Renters DNGAF. When you sell, you can get capital gains if you lived there as it is now. That will give people a chance to put in more money to our economy. It will keep people out of jail.
It's pathetic to see illiterate people barely able to read and write, much less have any sense to do math or anything else. It's unfair to be a small business and get NAILED 15% tax on account of rude, lazy crackheads and entitled garbage, who contribute zero.
I've seen it. I've watched 5 (FIVE!!) adults try to rent. NONE are working, ok? Then they cop attitude because of things like app fees that ANYONE has to pay, move-in fees, and credit rating requirements.
Shocker that landlords avoid these people like a hooker avoids the clap. They'll get in and like a human roach motel, you wont be able to get them OUT when they quit paying immediately.
Nothing like ACTUAL WORK and supporting yourself to straighten your ass out.
Anyone around for the 50s will tell you that!
I just watched "Precious," backed by Tyler Perry and Oprah, and yeah, that goes on all the time.
Quite a missive, @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823. I have to agree, mostly.
My grandfather didn’t even finish high school but was still able to own his own house and lots of land with 3 kids. They had it so good back then
I hear ya...
I am a greaser so the 50s is kind of a way of life
Hey, Ponyboy!
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