12 Popular Things From The 1960s… That We've Abandoned
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I turn 65 in a few days. Those were the best years of my life. Life was simpler then. People were human and for the most part normal. Every girl looked beautiful from behind. They were feminine and did not deface their body’s with tattoos. Imagine, people actually talked to each other back then. Keep your cell phone.
I’m 30 years younger and completely agree with you on the tattoos
nostalgia ain't what it used to be! The 60s had great music, and the wonderful miniskirts! but also the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam war (including the Kent state shootings) and things we do in the blink of an eye now used to take weeks, like getting a passport and traveling
I agree completely… the country (USA) has gone absolutely Batshit Crazy compared to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, sure there was some strange and bad stuff but nowhere near to the extent that it is today, I’m heartbroken, we’ve (USA) lost our way and I believe we’re in a societal death spiral and I don’t know how we’ll get out of it… evil has taken over.
I am 70. Yes, they were simpler times.People smiled and were much happier. We climbed trees and made our own toys.
@@apegues All generations had good and bad. Things really changed in the mid 90s as a whole. The dynamic changed. Obviously different times from decades before but the easy access to internet changed everything. Started the technological boom that has some great benefits but has not been a net positive for mankind.
Avacado green wasn’t the only color for appliances although it was probably the most popular. There was also harvest gold and poppy red.
The green was always a depressing color. Gold was kinda nauseating and the red was just repulsive. Born in 47, I remember it all too well. But I was lucky enough to get a kiss from Nancy Sinatra as a young 19 year old GI in 1966 on a mountain top Army outpost where she sang these boots…. For a bunch of very happy soldiers! And yes, great legs!!!
We had that dark copper brown color (stove, dishwasher, fridge) in the 60's. Then the gold and avocado green in later homes.
We had an apartment with a pink stove perfect for 2 single girls
burnt orange!
Dont forget copper
I'm a 1957, and every time I start watching one of these, I lose a whole day, but I regain a whole lifetime. Thanx for the memories!
Also a '57 baby. I wore fishnet stockings and minis every day in jr high. (My mother said nylons were too expensive and panty hose were just starting to appear in stores.)
Something we used to see were what we called "search lights" which would point the way to an event or auto sale.
Yep.
My mother had Copper tone appliances and matching vinyl flooring in the kitchen & dining room
And to think 20 years before search lights were used for spotting enemy bombers.
I remember Mama replying to my question about what were those "waves in the sky" by saying they were search lights and were used to look for airplanes. This was in the very early 1950s, and the Korean War had just ended.
I was riding in my parents' car, before the freeway system was built, and looking out the window and seeing these marvelous rays of soft bluish light crossing one another as they appeared to sweep the sky from one end to the other (kid's perception).
Daddy said the search lights no longer did that, but were helping direct people to some special event.
I just recall being enthralled by them.
@@jrnfw4060 What a wonderful memory!
We had to physically getup, walk across the living room to change channels, adjust the volume and rabbit ears. How did we survive! lol
My dad had a remote control: Me!
And the TV had that big, clunky, ratcheted channel knob which required a bit of force to turn, and when you switched to another channel it made a loud CHONK which you could hear from next door 😂
@@timsmith2525 😂
Not to mention the shuffle thru the shag carpeting!
We never lost our Drive-In, every spring it opens back up 😊
Same here my Friend! Mayfield road Drive-in, Rt 322 in Chardon Ohio.Cheers!!
@@floydsemlow8253 the actor Jimmy Stewarts home town here 😊
@@bridgetmccracken1381 hey neighbor in Pennsylvania 🔥🤘
@@floydsemlow8253 Hey neighbor 😊
@@bridgetmccracken1381 🫂🫶🤝
Weird. I grew up thru all of this. Feels like it was another lifetime. Thanks for the TRIP!
Those old avocado green appliances were built to last. Last year I sold a vacation home I owned for over 20 years. When I bought it in 2001 it had an old avocado green Frigidaire refrigerator I assume was from the late 60s/early 70s. It was still working fine when I sold the home in 2022. The fridge was over 50 years old and still working fine.
My motto, if it ain't broke why fix or replace it.
The one from my childhood still runs in the basement. I'm 54 and it was all I remember as a kid.
A friend of mine has three from the early '80's that still run fine. The new ones are loaded with circuit boards to do all kinds of stuff nobody needs and they break way more often.
I remember even toilet paper came in designer colors and perfumed flower prints. This is how you knew to hang the roll in the proper overhand fashion so that you could see the print, lol. Even tissues came in various colors, and paper towels had all kinds of designer prints. Now everything I see is white.
When I joined the Army in 1965, our drill Sargent at Fort Jackson told us we were only authorized 2 pieces of toilet paper a day. On rule we ignored, unless he wanted to see at it personally.
@@gulliver3644 My brother-in-law grew up with a limit of three squares. My sister informed him she would not be joining him in that practice once they got married. lol
There is absolutely no way a person can get the job even STARTED, of cleaning that area, with only two or three squares of TP!!!🤯
That is insane!!!
@@willhorting5317 Lol, this went a little off topic, but back when humans were eating a healthy diet (1965) two squares was more than adequate for a "courtesy wipe" just to make sure. All the other mammals on Earth don't even need that. But with so much junk and processed foods in our current diet, yeah, two squares ain't gonna do it.
No wonder Elaine didn’t have a square to spare!
I was born in 1968 and growing up, I was fortunate to have access to many of these items. Hula Hoops, drive-in movies, being taught the Twist by my mom and dad. We had the milkman and soda fountains. Thank you for the memories 😊
A few items occur to me. Shag carpet, Frisbee, wood paneled basement bars in suburban homes, Hot Wheels, corner candy stores, K-Mart, transistor radios. ✌ 😃
it was a great time to grow up...
I was born in 1950 and remember everything you mentioned. Thank you!!
Avocado green, orange and yellow were the color scheme in our 1st house. Yuck!
The girls in our neighborhood used the "Hula-hoop" for it's intended purpose. However us boys used to throw the Hula hoop forward with a backward spin to make it roll back to us, simple times but we had fun with what we had. 🎗️
Church bells early Sunday morning. Even if you didn't attend, they always seemed comforting and was definitely a part of my life I'll always remember fondly.
Still happening in Europe
@@jantschierschky3461 Thanks Jan.
God bless.
Tony
My mother, a quaker, had dressed us kids up in suits and dresses to attend church every Sunday morning sadly, only my oldet sister had continued the tradition.
@@outterlimits1 I realize that we can't live in the past, but I certainly miss a lot of the way life was.
God bless.
Tony
you mention avocado green but let us not forget the equally tasteful harvest gold! ☮
@YTCensors they did then too!😵💫
@YTCensors you used to have to rake it with a special rake after vacuuming just so it looked decent!
My aunt was raised during the 60's and 70's and I feel so grateful she gave me many of her things. My favorite is the amazing clothing she wore. What a time to grow up!!
For someone who was a kid in the 60's and a teen and young adult in the 70's, I couldn't agree more! They were magical...the BEST of times!
A lot of people made their own cloths with a sewing machine and McCall's Sewing Patterns...
@@lilblackduc7312 Junior High Home-Ec class 🙂
@@birdsfan57 Women who practiced "Home Economics" in the 1960s spoiled me, growing up! Each one of them deserves an Honorary Degree for one of the toughest jobs, ever...😇
@@birdsfan57 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
I was born in 1960. I got to experience all of the things in the video. We played with hula hoops, jump ropes, metal roller skates and my brothers played with cap guns and rode their banana bikes. The girls had Barbies and little kiddles ( anyone remember those?). My mom would find those little Barbie shoes everywhere. I had a Chatty Cathy doll that I played with till it broke. We had a litte record player. We would play 45's and the girls would make up dance routines and perform for our parents and neighbors. We would buy beads and make jewelry. We kept ourselves busy creating. I now have a hobby as a metalsmith so still making jewelry! I remember when it was safe to sleep out in your backyard. We would throw a blanket over a clothes line hung between two trees to make a tent and sleep out in our sleeping bags. We had a drive in our town. We would pile in our station wagon. My Dad would make a huge bag of popcorn at home and Koolaid for us. We would be in our pajamas as after the first kids type movie we were told to fall asleep in the back. The second feature was the adult movie. We listened to our parents and would fall asleep. Ha ha that wouldnt happen now. I saw The Sound of Music at the drive in. When I was six my Mom would let me walk with my younger brother and my friends to a milk and dairy store in based in Ohio. It was called Isaly's. They had a soda counter where we could buy ice cream cones. They had a big selection of candy. We especially loved cracker jacks because there was a toy inside. And no one ever bothered us on the road to the dairy store. My brother collected base ball cards. He still has his base ball card collection. Sorry I went on and on. It was a great time to be a kid. The music was awesome.
I absolutely loved your story. I was born in 1953, but also experienced all those things. The 60's was the best decade ever ❤😊
What a wonderful thing to go to the drive in during the Pandemic. There are no more drive-ins here in South Africa 😢 I remember them so well.
@@noeleneroodt783 I live in The Netherlands; your name sounds very Dutch!
I remember Kiddles! My favorite dolls along with Barbies & Trolls! & we use to take a few cards from a deck & take a clothes pin & place it in the spokes of our bicycle tires🎉 Great times!
i was born 10 years later and we all still did all of those things, lol. I think they held on longer than the 60s!
I was born in 65. My mother worked for an Isaly's in Warren Ohio.
Having two parents was pretty popular as well.
Yes. My father wasn't interested in his two kids after the 1960 divorce, I was one of 2 children in a class of 35 without an in-home father.
I was one of those blessed kids who had 2 parents. I turned 71 in Feb. I don’t forget the bad stuff from the sixties..still have a way to go in this country.
There is a drive-in a couple miles south of our house in South Columbus OH, that celebrated its 70th anniversary back in 2021. During the pandemic it not only showed movies but also started showing "virtual" concerts by bands such as Metallica. At the end of this week it will start showing movies again, after the winter break. And I remember a soda fountain that used to be here in South Columbus, at a place called Fountain Drug. It remained open until 1997, and they continued selling fountain drinks right up to the end.
We still have an operating drive-in theater near me in Commerce City, Colorado. It is PACKED every night it's open!
I remember drive-in theaters and ice cream/soda fountains.
@@524kirkd We have a drive -in movie theater here in Vermont that has been around for 75 years. It has three screens. It really flourished during the pandemic and showed movies right up until the snow came. We had the concerts too. Metallica and Bon Jovi.
In the late 1960's and 1970's I used to take my girlfriends to the drive in movies, we never, ever saw a movie.
the drive ins didnt last very long
It wasn't just furniture that had that space-age look, cars often had tails lights, turnsignal lights, hood ornaments and other trimwork have that rocket/jet look.
Our house came with a milk chute where the milk man would place gallon bottles of milk. The milk chute opened from the outside with a corresponding door in the inside where you could take out the milk. My parents would give the milkman a bottle of whiskey as a gift during the holidays.
And the next morning, your milkman was late for all his deliveries. 😆
My folks gave the mailman a bottle of whiskey at Christmas. Giving a whiskey bottle or even a carton of cigarettes was very common and a welcomed gift in the 60's. The bottle came in a box with a bow already on top.
Yep. Every house had a milk box with two doors, one outside and one inside. In Canada the outside door was insulated so winter couldn’t get in. Ours had a little clip to hold the bill, which would then be used to hold the couple of dollars for payment. My Dad was a Five Star rye fan, so that’s what the milk man got at Christmas.
We had a milk box built into the side of our house in the kitchen. It had doors that opened, one on the outside and one on the inside. You would put a list inside every night and the milkman would put your requests in the box early in the morning. The reason I remember this so well is that my mother would often forget her keys to the house, and I would have to crawl through the box to let us in!!!!
What I miss the most are the soda fountains.
I wish they were still around, and I'm sure people would go to them if someone were to bring them back.
Visit the south! We've got plenty of them here, and they get plenty of business.
There's still one running in Chicago, Margie's Candies. 🥤
As a person who was born in India, I enjoyed those and many other things which are shown in this video. I can relate to the people here who are older, because of most of the things that we have experienced as a child. I'm 23 by the way, One of the last generation who was born in the 20th century. So I can relate myself to the people who are born in the 70s and 80s. Proud to be an American and have an English ancestry, by the way.
As a young boy born in 1963, I loved the mini skirt and gogo boot phase 😊
Same year! Enjoy your 60th birthday!!!
@@royst.george7328 Same here, on all counts. :)
I only have one thing to say...ZZTop.."Legs"...The mini skirt phase in the 80's was also amazing...
Rick, i turned sixty this past March 7th, and I've grown to love the miniskirts and the boots since the late Eighties, by way of the video of Nancy Sinatra - who I feared when I was a child, as I feared she would carry out her threat. I love them now, Rick, and I thank you for listening to me.
Around since 55' and REALLY enjoyed Mini Skirts and Go Go Boots! And nothing was the equal of Nancy in both, although Ann Margret would have a toss up too! Still in love with so many...an old guy can still dream :-).
Harvest Gold was another popular color, particularly in the later '60's.
As a side note: 87% of the appliances featured in this video are (probably) still fully functional. The quality of stuff manufactured during that era was fantastic.
Good one and thanks... we had both Harvest Gold *and* Avocado Green, good times.
I still use my Kenmore dryer from '86. My washer is from '93.
Soda bottle caps that had thin cork inside!
My brother collected bottle caps when we were kids, not one of each but EVERY bottle cap he found. Some did have the cork, and his room smelled of stale beer due to his boxful of caps. Good times!
I collected those. For a while you could still smell the Orange Crush or whatever, which had impregnated the cork.
And the vending machines that held the bottles horizontally, with the cap facing you. You could hold a glass under the bottle and remove the cap with a bottle opener to have most of the drink flow out into the bottle, and you could drink the rest by inserting a drinking straw for free.
@@akallio9000 You brought back really good memories!
Mini skirts never really went out of fashion. They come around every so often in one form or other.
I was a child of the 1970s and remember a lot of these things.
There's one drive in theatre about an hour or so away from me.
You didn't mention carhops, who were a staple of places like A&W in the 1950s and 1960s. When I was a child in the 1970s, there was still one A&W with a carhop close to one of the towns in which I lived then. We'd go as a family to it, and sometimes go to the drive in after that.
Mini shorts are big now since few women wear skirts today. In fact skirts might be among the disappearing items noted in this video. Also saddle shoes and socks for women. Oh, and bobby pins to curl your hair--maybe even rollers and most certainly head covering hair dryers.
Remember hot pants?
@@buickinvicta288 vaguely, but, yes, they were definitely a thing. One of my cousins wore them. She could pull them off, too.
Girl where miniskirts today
@@karenryder6317 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
I miss wing windows and roll up windows, on cars. Thanks from St. Paul.
It was refreshing to open those wing windows all-the-way to blast air in my face durring hot days before air-conditioning was available in most all cars
Apparently they are still with us today, but Super Balls were extremely popular in the 60's. The amount of bounce was astonishing.
We used to play neighborhood baseball using a superball. You could really knock it out there.
I loved Super Balls as a kid!!
If they still make/sell them, it must be only in certain regions of the country.
I have been looking for them in local stores for the past couple of years, wanting to get some for my grandkids.
Also the 70s. They were my favorite in 78.
I used to play jacks with a super ball!
Nothing quite like the thrill of hitting a wall with a super ball and having it ricochet into your own balls at warp speed. Changed your outlook on life for the rest of the day.
honestly, the 20 year span from '45 to '65 really does seem to be one of the greatest times to live in in American history, of course nothing is perfect, but it seems like such a nice time, especially if you lived in a small town
It was
Well, you forget the riots, the Vietnam War, the protests, the assassinations. Oh, and let's not forget the racism. Never forget that.
@@christianlibertarian5488 I bet your fun at parties
If you were a middle-class het white person, sure! For other demographics, it wasn't such a halcyon time.
Mind you, what made the Fifties such a great time for so many Americans was that income inequality was at a record low level. The middle class bloomed like never before, thanks to the G. I. Bill and strong unions. If we could go back to that, without all the racism, sexism, and homophobia, that would be great.
@@markjulianoriginalhooli2217Or he is colored
Thanks for sharing another fun trip down memory lane to our cherished past!! 👍👍🙂
We had milk delivery by horse drawn milk wagon until the mid 2000s right here in canada. It eventually got too expensive and closed. I'm glad I got to see that in my life.
I remember a fellow that had brought a pony to our suburban neighborhood and would take pictures of little kids on the pony in cowboy hats for a price.
@@outterlimits1 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
Really?...here in Vancouver we had moved on from the horse drawn milk delivery by the early 90s.
When mini-skirts were popular there were also the very long empire waist dresses, culottes have different lengths, bell bottom jeans, palazzo pants, and among other items. There were also a lot of clothes with very bright colors and bright patterns. I still have some of my clothes from this area that I kept in case I ever was blessed with a daughter.
Oh yes, the long empire waist dresses!
View Masters... a toy which showed stills from popular programs as well as Home Movie projectors... BOTH were rendered obsolete by the advent of video tapes, hand held cameras and the VCR which combined eventually led to the development of Home Theater!
In the Fort Worth, Texas area, we had drive-ins into the 1970s. "Herbie Rides Again" is among the movies I remember watching. Later on, the only remaining drive-ins showed X-Rated movies. As for wild colors, they continued into the 1970s, including avocado. I remember coppertone as very popular also. That 70s Show is a good representation of the most intense of the 1970s color palette.
Our neighbors had all copper color appliances; when my mom redecorated our kitchen, we got them too. That frost free Frigidaire fridge lasted 45 years. Today's? Maybe 10 if you're lucky. Stuff used to be made to laaaaaaassssssst.
the drive-in in dublin was called the dublin dirties lol. gatesville still has theirs. Oh,and the first time i watched the exorcist,was at a drive-in near lake worth.
Harvest Gold, too.
Sadky, you're correct about the drice in movies turning into X rated theaters. We had one in the next town, and in 1975, when we were Seniors in HS, my girlfriends and I would sometimes drive over and park behind the trees but just close enough to the high fencing, to catch a glimpse of what " feature" was playing that night. The giggles and laughter from us were so loud, we would have to try to keep our voices down so we wouldn't be caught. Fun times...
I lived in Ft. Worth in the 60's/70's. We used to go to the Meadow Brook and Twin Drive-ins along with several others. Great fun back then with many happy memories 😀😀😀.
Mr. Chandler our milkman, used to let me stand in the door of his truck on the way out our long driveway. To a kid, that was pure joy.
I was just a kid in the 60’s and I admired the older girls in the go go boots I loved them! But no matter cause I got to wear bell bottoms and platforms in the 70’s. I wouldn’t trade those days for anything ❤
I begged my parents for a pair of white go-go boots and finally got them as a 1O yr old in '67. I was a huge fan of shows like Shindig and Hullabaloo, and wished I was old enough to be a dancer on either show. Sweet memories...
@@birdsfan57 glad you got your wish, I didn’t even bother to ask, my older sisters had them. I was only 8 in 67.
I miss both the cloths and the girls that wore them...
Me too
As a little girl, I was more interested in the Beatle boots. My older cousins had them and also the Beatle dolls. I thought they were ultra cool teenagers, lol!
Chubby Checker has been living off the success from The Twist for darn near seven decades now!
Love to get in a time machine and go back there to live.
I’ll go with you!
@@julenepegher6999 :)
Back in the 60's, going to the drive-in was a Summertime Friday and Saturday night ritual in our family. We would arrive while it was still light enough for us kids to play on the swings and the play area on the grassy areas right below the screen. We would hurry back to the car at dusk, to get ready for the movies (almost always a double feature). I can still clearly remember seeing " Madigan" starring the late Richard Whitmark, as well as the original Disney's animated Cinderella, though not as one of the many double features (Lol). Such fun, sweet memories...the 60's were a magical time to be a kid!
Our family went to the drive-in quite a lot in the summer. They had a playground, too. We had a station wagon and at dusk my younger siblings would be given a snack and changed into pajamas. The first movie was a family movie like a cartoon or Disney. By intermission they'd be asleep and my father would bring back a snack for my parents and me. Sometimes on a weekend they'd play three movies. The late one would be something geared to my parents' interest (spy movies, etc.)
Nice video, thanks for taking us to the past.
The one thing here I really miss is home milk delivery. My family had a wide variety of dairy items delivered throughout the 60s and early 70s, so this was tough to lose in 1973.
I miss the milk man to!Jerry was a part of the family we loved him. He often had breakfast with us. Gone forever
Milk delivery was the best. You can't beat milk in glass bottles as it gets so much colder than milk in plastic jugs. Also less trash in the landfill destroying our environment.
On the bomb shelters. We didn't have a bomb shelters, but how many of you remember the bomb drills where you had to get under your chair with your hands over your head. How was that supposed to protect us from a nuclear bomb?
Yep, we had milk delivery. In the 50's, it was still delivered by horse and wagon. Nobody was driving! The milkman was busy in the back, and running back and forth to the houses. The horse knew the route. A lot of people in the 60's got bread delivered. Also drycleaning and diaper services.
@@anitaharris9095 In our school, we went into the hallway, and sat cross legged with our heads down, and backs against the wall. We had huge sirens on poles throughout the city, which they would test sometimes. One day, I think in the 70's, I noticed they were gone. Perhaps they had been removed years before.
We have milk in glass bottles and delivery in southeast Michigan.🎉
I love drive ins! The big screens, the fresh summer night air, sneaking our own sodas and food in to save money. On rainy days just sit back in the car and relax!
The only bad part was the mosquitoes eating you alive, lol.
And if raining you had to use th windshield wipers!
I had the fancy hula hoop with ball bearings inside so it made a noise when you played with it. I remember a very real debate in my house about whether it would be appropriate for me (a child) to wear my go-go boots to church. The drugstore where my mother worked when I was ten had a lunch counter/soda fountain, so you could have a burger and fries with your Coke (in the South, we use Coke instead of "soda" or "pop" as a generic term for any fizzy drink). Those old avocado appliances (they also came in sunset orange and harvest gold) might've been ugly, but I guarantee they would last FOREVER - whether you really wanted them to or not. 🤣
The "Shoop-Shoop" Hula Hoop.
MY SISTER WALKED TO SCHOOL WEARING FAUX FUR LINED BLACK SNOW BOOTS. SHE WAS SENT HOME WITH NO ONE CALLING BECAUSE THE SCHOOL SAID THEY WERE GO GO BOOTS. THIS WAS IN THE 60S. FROM THEN ON, MY SISTER WALKED TO THE NEXT BLOCK & TOOK THE BUS TO SCHOOL. SHE WAS UNDER 10
The Hula Hoop made a bit of a comeback around 2008. This time it was more of a fitness item. The hoops were heavier so the user could shed weight around their midsection. Back then it was called hopping. I'm pretty sure it's faded back into the background.
No kidding about those appliances lasting forever! I have a friend whose family had an auto-body repair shop. They did a lot of business painting avocado (or gold or copper) appliances white all through the 80's and 90's, with even a couple coming in after 2000 !
Just make sure your hubby and your sons are wearing leisure suits with the same colors!
Drive-in movies are STILL the best experience for watching a movie. New one or re-runs... all night long. Concession stand snack foods, togetherness... more freedom then a theater experience, and more connection then the online reaction experience.
Would love to see a video about the different kinds of linoleum, and vinyl flooring in the 50's, 60's and 70's. I think that would be interesting.
linoleum is popular again. It's all organic made from linseed oil so it's a renewable resouce considered good for the environment. Vinyl is made from petroleum.
I remember vinyl flooring being big because you didn’t need to wax it. My Mom hated waxing and loved her vinyl floor. I still remember a tv commercial for a floor wax that didn’t yellow
Went to many outdoor movies in the mid 70’s. There are a couple that have been restored near me and play current movies. Had a pair of go go boots. Had a metal box by our side door that was for milk delivery.
When I was 5 my dad bought me a pair of white leather Golo go go boots. Very snazzy
Me too
Remember seeing the Great Escape and the Magnificent Seven at the drive-in, fun times.
I still have an avocado green GE wall stove like that one near the end! I love it!
Wow, brought back a lot of memories..
What I thought that was popular in the 60's was those naked Trolls with the google eyes & the wild color hair usually blue. And the furry bare foot stickers you would usually get in those gumball type machines for a nickel, dime or a quarter.
I had the troll with orange hair, lol.
The troll dolls came with hair in many colors.
I still have my Troll collection, & I'm 75 years young ! 😍
I wish I lived in the 50s and 60s looks like such a happy safer time and soda fountains look amazing
Near where my parents owned a cottage, there was a drugstore that had a soda fountain aside the pharmacist's counter. The sodas, floats, and shakes were made by the elderly pharmacist himself. If he was busy filling a prescription, he'd call out, "Be with you in a minute, son." When done he'd wash his hands and ask what could he get for me. I always ordered a chocolate shake, malted of course, even though that was 5 cents extra. He'd always fill up the heavy shake glass and place the still partly full aluminum mixing cup next to it.
In the late '80s the pharmacy was still there but the soda fountain was long gone. The only evidence it was ever there at all were bolt holes in the ancient tile floor where the stools once stood. Today, the operation is completely renovated and even that evidence is gone.
Oh it was...it was...not perfect but 10x better than the current day sh!thole America.
No you don't. Trust me, the clothing was pretty much plastic and everything everywhere smelled of cigarettes.
happy safer time? nope - look up "Cold War" "Cuban Missile Crisis" and "Kent State Shootings"; the worst part is that those times are coming back, as the world is polarising thanks to the old men in power
In th mountain's of Tennessee the 60s weren't so great. We were 20 years behind the times until th interstate highways. And abject poverty. Still it beats the society of Today.
Happy to say Chubby Checker is still with us today. He's 81. Mostly because so many first generation rockers have died since the 2010's like Chuck Berry, Fat Dominos, and worst of all Little Richard in 2020. Seriously, I am happy he's still around.
Well, we got the technology filled future, but I'm not entirely sure how bright it is.
I remember going to the drive-in movies a lot when I was 5 or 6 years old. Funny thing, I don't remember coming home. I'd just wake up in my bed the next day. Strange...
The same thing would happen to the youngest of our tribe. It was too hard to stay awake all the way to the end of the 2nd feature.
You didn't mention avocado's ugly twin: harvest gold.
Many of the things mentioned was still around in the 70s. Even the music was still played on the radio, as my mother was in her early -mid twenties in the 60s and played it often. Many of us 70s children had a similar childhood to the 60s thanks to the Vietnam war. By the time it was over, so was all of these things.
Agree
I was a little kid in the late 50s and 60s! Thank You!💖!
And by the time milk delivery was getting rare, you could no longer get non-homogenized milk with the cream that rose to the top of the bottle.
Where we lived, everyone had white metal milk boxes where the milk man would place the orders. The night before he came, my mother would sit st the table and make out her order, to be left in the box for the milk man. You could order all sorts of dairy products including butter milk and corsage cheese.
Most people had their own cows where I lived Iloved that cream on top.
You could still get milk with the cream on top, if you lived in a rural area, and knew someone who had dairy cattle.
We did that well into the 1970s.
We raised cattle, but they weren't dairy cattle.
But one of our neighbors had dairy cattle, and we got several glass gallon jars of fresh milk from them every week, until the latter 1970s.
Every day after school I would go to our Danish neighbours and their small farm picking up 4 jugs of fresh milk with the waxed cardboard cap keeping all the goodness inside!☺️
@@dudedude9793 I was fortunate and for several years had my own dairy goats so I could have raw milk. They were Toggenburgs, an Oberhasli and a French Alpine. I loved the cream on top. I am still lucky and know someone with dairy goats. They are Nigerian Dwarfs and the raw milk is even sweeter and creamier! The goat milk tastes like sugar has been added. So good!
We know, quite well, that the teenagers didn't go to the drive-in to see the movie!
Some of these trends seem more 1950s to me, mini skirts were definitely a 60s fashion trend as were bell bottom pants but soda fountains and hula hoops I remember as a small child in the 50s gone by the 1960s. I guess it depends on where you lived. My Mom did love her mid 60s avocado appliances!
My 5 year old granddaughter still has it
Speaking of home deliveries, we used to have a "soda man" deliver containers of bottled soda to our house much in the same way that milkmen delivered milk to private homes. We would order the flavors and amounts of soda and when the delivery was made we'd turn in the used bottles and receive our latest shipment. We would do this on a weekly or biweekly basis. My favorite sodas were black cherry, cream and root beer! In fact I still love cream soda!😄
People looked so much slimmer and happier then
Milk has gone full circle. With internet shopping, you can have that grocery store that ran the dairy out of business, deliver your milk.😀
Thanks, Recollection Road for all the great memories you've re-awakened for me!
Avocado appliances and tiki bars are trends best left in the past.
But I wouldn't mind if soda fountains made their way back.
There are still Tiki bars. In fact there's been revivals of them.
I've always considered Avocado Green and Harvest Gold as the colors of the 70's
I was a kid in the sixties and my most cherished Christmas present was a 3-speed Stingray bike in sparkly green. Doing wheelies, flying over plywood jumps, sliding sideways and racing other neighbor kids was a blast!
It's a wonder Evel Knievel didn't get us all killed on bikes😂. We did some stupid s*** for sure!
@@Mick_Ts_Chick Yeah, I was an Evel Knievel fan too, lol, I had broken my bike frame on one of the flexible plywood jumps that, had sent our bikes flying up in the air, that us kids had setup, not to mention, crushednuts too! lol Also, when the movie "On Any Sunday" had come out, we had created our own dirt track in one of the empty lots around our neighborhood. Those were fun days!
@@outterlimits1 Haha. Being a girl, I missed the "crushed nuts" thing fortunately. I did have lots of scrapes and cuts though. We rode our bikes through the woods a lot. It was fun times indeed!
ALL of the female cast members on "Laugh In" wore mini skirts, not just Goldie Hawn.
Remember Judy Carne?
I was going to say not Ruth Buzzi, but there she was in her mini skirt in the video!
@@BarnabasCollinsXIII Never!
Most, not all. The picture at 3:30 shows L to R Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, and Judy Carne.
Yes, but Goldie Hawn wore them exceptionally well.
My parents bought their first new home in 1961 in Santa Clara, CA. It was an all Electric home. All the appliances were pastel pink ! My mom was thrilled.
My first apartment had harvest gold appliances which was almost as bad as avocado green!
ITS A TOSS UP
Mine had Brady Bunch orange countertops and backsplash, with dark brown cabinets. The other choices in that apartment complex were harvest gold and avocado, but I wanted the Brady vibe. 🤓
Love these videos
I grew up in the 1950s& I miss those days.
The dance was called the Watusi. “The Wah-Watusi” is the title of a specific song.
Avocado was just one of the colors that were very popular in that era. Harvest gold and coppertone were equally big, and all three remained so well into the ‘70s. 😎
WE HAD COPPERTONE
We even back in the 1960's had stainless steel kitchen appliances which was somewhat rare for that era.
we had the yellow side by side frig and a dble stove and oven my stepmother had the green stove same exact one and i had white gogo boots i didnt even ask for them mom just brought them home and they fit
@@dmdohse55 your mom was probably worried that your Stepmom would get you boots first.
I would have loved to have experienced more of these trends than I did. I was born in 1964, so most of these trends, fads, and fashions were gone by the time I was old enough to remember anything. I love it whenever I can find an old tiki lounge or restaurant. And soda fountains are something that I missed that I wish were more available these days - seeing in old movies how people gathered at these places looks so friendly and inviting.
You can thank McDonald's for the demise of those establishments.
Hey 1964 was a great year though! 😅
We got our first color TV in the 60's and that's when you saw programs transition from b&w to color. Who can't forget the NBC peacock
WE WERE THE FIRST ONES ON OUR BLOCK TO GET COLOR BC MY DAD WORKED AT A STORE THAT SOLD THEM IN A HUGE WOOD CABINET
I still have my parents avacado green mixer in the original box.
Our house had an aluminum insulated milkbox on our back porch. The MM would drive up the alley enter the yards and drop off the milk. And it never crossed anyones mind to steal peoples stuff. People then were more decent as a whole. Today you have to now lock up your mail box from thieves.
Wish we still had drive in’s in my area.
My best friend and I used to spy on the other cars to catch people making out.
They were fun.
There's one in a city about an hour from me, although it's run on a limited basis.
There was still one near us in PA 1997. Went to see Titanic there. It’s a Target now. Shame
@@samanthab1923 that's truly sad.
@@CyclingM1867 Right? Ugh
I still have avocado green sinks an appliances. I love that color.
green,orange,and yellow were the primary colors through the mid 70s.i was never so happy to see a fad disappear LOL. Well that and disco!
HEY MY HOUSE WAS BUILT IN 1971 AND MY KITCHEN & LAUNDRY ROOM ARE ORANGE INTENTIONALLY. DISCO WAS LATE 70S
George, I'm with ya there. I never liked earth tones. We had a double oven that was sort of a dark reddish rust color. Hated the color, but boy was that double oven handy at Thanksgiving and Christmas!
I turned 65 this week. It was fun going to drive-ins. I thought the avocado green and harvest gold appliances were awful. I remember miniskirts weren't tolerated in my school. The Beatles were great and the Rolling Stones.
The drive-in near my house was still doing a brisk business into the early 80s. The last time I drove by a Target was in it's spot. Lotsa good memories from that drive-in, some not suitable for sharing in this comment section. 😉I remember all the stuff shown in this video and you know what, some things deserved to go away. But as always, it's fun to recall the days of my childhood. It sure was a whole lot simpler being a kid back then.
Don’t forget about Beatle boots. Man I saved and saved to get a prized pair!!
I remember all of this, grew up in these times. How about drive up diners with the waiters on roller skates. Sadly one of the last drive in movie places shut down in Crescent City, CA, a few years ago after a fire. Soda fountains in shopping stores, counter top lunch service. Kinder times, more social and fun. Some of those old appliances from the 60's are still working fine, unlike the new/short lived appliances.
The bird and animal calls in the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland and Disney World were done by A. Purves Pullen, who performed as Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath, in the comedy band Spike Jones & His City Slickers.
Doc Birdbath and I were penpals in the early 1990s. I still have all of his letters.
That's pretty neat! Love Spike Jones.👍
Other 60s relics -- wall-mounted rotary phones (we had one in avocado green, of course), board games, fondu parties, Danish modern furniture, tree-lamps, View-Master, lava lamps, combined TV-stereo-record player consoles, dart boards, troll figurines, gum machines with toys, Ugly (monster) stickers, marbles, pixie sticks, cap pistols, sound effects/novelty LP records, Erector sets, HO electric race cars, WWII-related toys and model kits, Creepy Crawlers/Creeple People/Incredible Edibles, paisley & psychedelic-patterned products, The Slinky, food tins, pre-pop-top beverage/food cans, bell bottoms, aluminum ice trays, headbands, TV/film-themed metal lunchboxes, bubblegum card sets, jigsaw puzzles and card games.
There's a Malcolm in the Middle episode where dad Hal (Bryan Cranston) discovers a fall-out shelter in the backyard, and it's fully furnished with of -time decor. It becomes his personal man cave!
I live in a town that still has a popular soda fountain. Teenagers still go there at lunch, and older people love it, too, because they remember it when they were growing up. They have sodas, milkshakes, hamburgers. It's still decorated in old 60s furniture. It's a part of a pharmacy that moved into the building, but it's very much alive.
As a 60s kid, I love these nostalgia trips! Cheers 👍
Actually drive ins came back during the pandemic as a way of going to movies without having to leave your car. You simply tuned your radio to a station and you had audio. It was a nostalgic throwback that is still somehow working today. My neighborhood actually did one just to breakup the lockdown for a day.
Had over a dozen IL metro-east/St Louis area in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Lost most but the SkyView Drive-In in Belleville, IL has stood the test of time and still going strong all these years layer. The addition of a second smaller screen gave patrons more movie options. Great place to go that also brings back memories of better times.
Where did you get the movies?the drugged out freaks in Hollywood can’t make any good ones.
We still have two in the Rochester N.Y. area
@@williammoseley17 I love Sky View. I worked there as a teen and now in my 40’s I love taking my kids there. It’s literally 5 minutes from my home.
There is still a drive-in here in Queensland at Yatala (with 3 screens). Part of why its survived is that its owned by a mob that also runs some other independent cinemas around town (which helps with convincing studios to give them movies to show) and part of why its survived is that its located in an industrial area (so less risk of complaints from locals and less risk that high land values, redevelopment etc will force the drive-in out)
Going to the drive-in theater was blast when we were kids. In front of the movie screen, there was a playground provided for us kids to play on while it was still light out before the movie started. Also enjoyed the going to the snack bar for eats and drinks during intermission. Sometimes, Dad would back in the station wagon, open the tailgate and we could watch the movie from there. Dad laid out laid out a mattress along with blankets for us to enjoy the movie in comfort. He and mom sat in lawn chairs nearby and we all enjoyed the evening. Thanks for sharing the video, RR!
My parents had often used drive-ins instead of hiring a babysitter
We had a playground at the drive in my parents liked also. That was the best thing for me!
@@Mick_Ts_ChickI remember, my mother saying, "Look behind you before opening the car door, you don't want to injury running kids", as they ran to the playground in front of the screen and running back from the snackbar. lol
Fallout shelters are being uncovered now but often they get converted into other spaces. Depending on the person it could become anything. I’ve seen some converted into a full extra bath, others a workshop, even extra living space. You never know
The one and only shelter on our street is a wine cellar.
I still chuckle about people building those fallout shelters. We didn’t know back then that nuclear fallout wouldn’t just go away in a few weeks at most. I remember in grade school (I was born in 1947) when we had drills for anything nuclear - we had to line up nose to bottom along a wall that had inky very high windows so the,glass wouldn’t kill us😄😄😄. I don’t know if I’d ever want to relive those times - they were both very good and pretty awful just for what we didn’t know!
Our Dad turned ours into a photography darkroom and lab.
Liked the shot of Nancy Sinatra (daughter of "Ole Blue Eyes").
Drive ins are making a comeback we have one in our area and mini skirts are also back, so are wide leg pants.
Palazzo pants 😊
I miss my white vinyl"Go-Go Boots" & mini skirts back in the day! 😉
@ 2:00? The beautiful Barbara Feldon aka 99 from Get Smart?
Who could forget Raquel Welch 😘
I believe I was the last of the baby boom generation. I was born in 1963. Growing up in the Bronx NY, I have vague recollections of milk delivery, I'm pretty sure it stopped in my neighborhood by 1971. The one thing I DON'T miss about the good ole days was the prevalence of Cigarette smoking. It was everywhere. Both of my parents died from smoking related illnesses. I'm glad most people have stayed away from it.