You Might Be Old... if You Remember These Things!
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2024
- You Might Be Old... if You Remember These Things!
Take a nostalgic journey through 20 iconic items and cultural phenomena from the 1950s to the 1980s in the USA that will make you smile if you remember them. This video is a delightful trip down memory lane, showcasing everything from classic toys and TV shows to fashion trends and technological innovations of the era. Whether it's the click-clack of a rotary phone, the vibrant patterns of disco fashion, or the thrill of Saturday morning cartoons, each item vividly captures the essence of these decades. Perfect for those who lived through these times or anyone curious about the past, this video is a heartwarming reminder of how far we've come and the timeless nature of certain experiences. Join us in this nostalgic exploration and see how many of these items you remember! 
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What is YOUR favorite memory from your childhood?
i was born in 1954 and remember all this stuff!my favorite thing to do back then was go roller skating. me &my sis had our own skates with like ten sets of pom-poms on them, our own cases, etc. the works. then it hit my mom that boys went there , too! well we didn’t get to go so much any more, guess she thought we needed a chaperone!?!
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I was born in 1961, and the best of my childhood was spending the summers on our houseboat and sloop sailboat at the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle on the Detroit River. We would take a yearly two-week port tour of Lake St Clair or Lake Erie to the ports on the islands and learning of the history there.
I would have loved to do that.
My memory is going to the little corner store with a dime to buy penny candies.
I was born in 1937 and although we were poor we had so much love and respect for everyone. I would love to go back to that time.
I was born in 1949, I miss the good old days, before electronics!😊
Your beautiful 🙏
Old days is a lot better then life today
Yes! Kids would actually play outside, & use their imagination, making the whole day till bedtime fun, & never would have thought of staying in the house , verses being outdoors. They interacted with friends, not off in their room on a electronic device of today’s pass time. If in our rooms, it was playing our record players, & talking on our landline phones, connected to the wall or on a phone stand, curly cord, sometimes having to wait to use the phone, till some one else on the “ party line” got off the phone. Lol. I’m 67, & cherish the memories I have from my past, cause it sure beats the times we live in now! ( I’m my opinion). I’ve enjoyed looking back! Thank you!
Agree with everything you said, going outside wasn't a choice your parents said get out, dinners at 6pm.
@@johnderfler5183 Yes Sir!! 👍😁. Very true!
I definitely remember a form of this, but quality video games were coming in and PBS TV/incredible afternoon cartoons had established themselves well by the time I came along. The thing was--the video game that I had then(a Nintendo) had a huge block of a plug that ran the light bill up way more quickly than they do today. Since my dad understandably made it clear that this game playing would be pretty rare, I formed a healthy duality between playing with siblings and 1st cousins and watching PBS/cartoons! This TV at the time was booming(Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Captain Kangaroo, Duck Tales, Silverhawks, Thundercats, Tailspin, Square One, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?)! I enjoyed both nearly as well!
hell, I ran across where you had to crank the phone to get the operator to make the connection like in Green Acres. I found this in Australia and yeah it was a party line so you had to count the number of rings to know if it is for you or somebody else. Always outside as it was too hot indoors.
I’m 60 in June we had to use our imagination to keep our boredom down and we watched 3 channels of tv thank goodness we had a color tv the first one in our block
I was born in 59. I remember all of these. Those were the days, no worries, fun times.
I was born 58 and I agree with you totally. Wish we could go back and know then what we know now.🌹
Still kicking, don't how much longer I will stay alive, taking one day at a tme. Enjoying life quietly. !lucky to be alive. Thank you
God.
I was born in 1956. I use to love going to A&W Rootbeer Stand. They brought your food out to your car. They had the best footlongs with chili sauce. We would get a big frosty mug of rootbeer and french fries.
(1953) You make me want to throw a hot dog on the George Foreman and open a can of chili. Although my favorite root beer was Frostie. A&W was good, too.
Now A&W has that nasty HFCS in it which is not good for kids and adults that drink gallons of the stuff. All pop, really. Bring back the '60s
I guess I'm old, I remember all of those. Now I need a nap.
Me To!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Life was so easy..I was born in 1950...what a great time to live!
I’m jealous as I was born in 71’ but always wanted to experience the 60s. 🎉
Really? Women could not get a credit card, and Segregation, and abortion were illegal (oh wait the same Ahats did it again) It was great if you were a white male. That being said I remember my life as a child with nostalgia but it sure wasn't great for everyone.
'52 here ! And yeah , it was great ! My mom worked , but she had a job she loved . Same with my dad . Spent summers at grandparents working with uncles on the ranch , Christmas not much stuff , but aunts , uncles cousins and grandparents together for one time all together! All are gone now , except me and 1 brother . I'm 71 and I'll health . But I have lived a life of blessings so few enjoyed , because I had love from so many .
The Best Time!
@@theresabrennan8805 As a woman that is part Mohawk Indian, I would take the 50's over what we have now! Sure, it wasn't perfect. What generation is perfect? But, comparatively speaking, the 50's was far better than what we have now!
Sin has existed for 6,000 years. That won't stop, until Jesus destroys this world and creates a "New Heaven" on the "New Earth" (for those of us that have put our faith in Him).
Whether you believe it or not.
When I was a kid my mom and dad would take me and a friend of mine to the drive in. And we loved it. My generation was of the late '60 and though the 1970's. And yes, I remember playing out side in the summer until the back porch light came on. Oh, the memories, thank you for sharing.
A great time. Much of what this video discussed lasted into the 70s. I wish I could go back myself . Sigh.
The ‘50’s were the best. I could go on the subway to Harlem. As a tiny blue eyed blonde, I could walk down 14th St until I got to the next subway station. People would say hello to me or nod. No child was harmed back then. I would get back on the train to meet my dad at Rockefeller Center where he worked. Today people are afraid to go out their doors. So sad)
I remember all of these things. I was born in the late 40s. There was a swing set at the drive in, I stayed there till the movie starts , I was in highschool, when the Beatles became popular, we could go out and and play All day and parents didn't worry. Poor kids today, will never know
Right! Just better be home @ 6 for supper.
We had everything, even real girl friends!
I was born in 1950 I saw the Beatles movie Help when it came out
I remember the swing sets! But I always got annoyed when they got over the screen 😁
Yes, I remember the swings at the drive in movies.
I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn, NY. What a great time for a kid to grow up in. I would go back if I could = )
I was born in 58 in Brooklyn NY. I agree with you totally. Wish we could go back and know then what we know now 🌹
Born in 1955, love my memories!!❤❤❤❤❤
A great time to grow up wouldn’t take a million dollars for those times.
It is hard to describe exactly how wonderful the 50’s were.
I am 85 years old and I can remember every happy and fun moment.
I was born in the 40s in Brooklyn, NY. So sure I remember all of these things. However what I miss most is the community feeling, love of neighbor, kindness and care for all, family closeness. I feel so lucky to have lived during the 50s and 60s especially. Today we love phones more than people. I feel sad for today's young. I wish we could all go back to a simpler way of life.
Wish Life Like That Eas Here Today! The 60s And 70s Eas The best Time! Wish I Could Go Back!
Me too. But it was not the best time for everyone (the Vidtnam war, racism, women always getting paid less than men, lack of womens righs, no training/educational support for disabled people. Etc. ☮️
My kids want the 90s back.
Better days- without a doubt
Born in 1960... my 64th is just a couple of weeks away. I remember all of this stuff. I remember when the Slurpee was invented. I remember Cracker Jack having metal toys. Skates with wooden wheels that clip to your shoes and tighten with a key. Candy apples warm right off the cookie sheet on Halloween. Truly the Good Old Days.
Yuck so much sugar but likely before seed oils…..proof no obese kids not like today,screaming and unable to bend over (very lazy,television didn’t help)now it’s the cell phone problem
I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key.
@@bjornsmom123 Maybe you already know, but Melanie died last January 23, 2024. She was 76.
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far!@@bjornsmom123
Yes I remember the days when kids and parents used to be out doing stuff and having fun but now its cell phone and computer games ..I would love to go back and never come to this century again 50 and 60 please let me go now ....
Or just get rid of the cellphone and games please ...I do not use em I still use old phone ...
Thanks for the memories. As someone who grew up in the 50's and 60's I remember and experienced most everything. To me, those were much simpler and enjoyable times.
Born in 1947. I remember, had and loved all of these. ❤️👵🏼
Yes! Freedom and so much fun!
Me too May of '47! I remember manyxof these topics! Wo7ld love to see m kids, grandkids have the same introduction to adulthood?!
I was born in 1950 to and we had The best of The best!!!!!!! Everything was a GOOD memory for me!!!!!!
Remember in It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, when they went trick or treating n they all got tasty treats but Charlie Brown said " all I got was a rock!!" Pet Rocks always remind me of that!!
I am now three quarters of a century old and it took this video for me to realize I’m old. Thanks, I think. Sincerely, Lana
I was born in Williamsburg Brooklyn in 1953. I'm 70 years young. I have memories from the time I was four years old. What a wonderful time it was until the mid 70s. Then things started going to pot. I dearly miss those years.
I also was born in '53. I'm glad I grew up when I did, everything really was better. I feel sorry for the kids today.
Virginity.
Long gone from American society but fondly remembered.
Hey, I remember that!
We still had Milk man deliveries to our house as a kid until the mid 60s. Milk was 1/2 Gal glass bottles left on the back porch in an insulated box. These were back in the days when we never even thought about peeps steeling your stuff.
Yep, we had that, until we moved to my current property in 1964. 😊
Had milk delivered in Kailua, Hawai'i till 1969.
We had a Bonds Bread man deliver bread. Dry cleaners picked up your dry cleaning at the door and delivered when it was cleaned, milkman, newspaper delivered.
I was delivering milk in glass bottles in1980 in Australia.
I miss drive in movies
Born 1956 can remember so much. My father caught alot of memories from his home movies camera and thr projector and big white screen that folded up.
We had the best times😎!
I remember 95% of everything in this video, man I’m old!😱🤯😩🙄🤗! Px
"By the 1950s plastic containers replaced glass bottles." No, plastic milk bottles didn't coe along until far later. Waxed cardboard was common in the '50s and '60s, followed by plastic coated cardboard. Also, there were drive-through milk stores. My mom went to one through much of the '50s, milk in glass, a 6 pack of returnable quarts in a metal rack like the one carried by the milk man at 9:33. The one she went to was replaced by a brewery in the late '50s. There were a few scattered drive-through dairies even into the '90s, though I haven't seen one for a long time. Milk deliveries were becoming rare when I was a kid in the '50s, but it was still seen in my neighborhood into the '60s, a few of our neighbors got it. I'm 73.
I was born in 43'. I am old no big deal. Most people died at 79'. I put lived my family's generation. My son his sons are still alive. I have five grandchildren one great grandchild.
I still have 100s of cassette tapes. Might dig out Tusk and listen to it.
I had 8 track tapes too.
Born Atascadero, Ca. 1954 great time to be alive, sixties, seventies.
I worked at a drive in theatre in the 70s. I also sold hamburgers for 19 cents. Large candy bar for 5 cents when I was young.
I graduated High school in 1961. That was good time to grow up.
I Was Born In 1960 Remember All those Things. Bell Bottoms Anf Clog Shoes In High School!😊
I had to wear a dress to school everyday because pants were not allowed until Sept 1969. I even had a poodle skirt in first grade
Born in 1954 I'm 70 in may and remember all these things
Yes, I grew up late 50's - well until ever. I miss the real world.
I was born in 1955. So I remembered all these things ❤😂🎉😅
I was born in 1955 loved my childhood everything seemed so much easier back then
8.Track tapes were a continous play!!! So you pushed in the player box and it started playing- day and night until you took it out of the player to stop it. Alot of offices used 8tracks, dentists, doctors, stores, restaurants, they Are a great idea and nothing since can compare to them!! We need them back asap, they are that great!!
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I remember home milk delivery in our built-in milk box as a kid and I was born in 1955. It didn't fade in the '50s.
Raising our kids in the nineties, we still had milk delivery, and in the cardboard cartons, too, yet a plastic milk box instead of the wood one we had when I was growing up.
I was born in 1946. Things were most definitely easier then than now.
Sock hops were monthly events at high school.😮
Whoever scripted this show had not looked at the current frozen dinners.
The “Peace Sign” is the footprint of the American chicken.
3:00 I was in fifth grade (1958-1959) when the Hula Hoop craze hit. Every kid brought a Hula Hoop to school for recess. At recess the school yard was filled with hundreds of children hula hooping. It turns out it was actually good exercise which helps to explain why there were so few fat kids (that and the fact that we went outside to play games that involved physical exertion). That same year, the Duncan Yo-Yo Man made his appearance and yo-yos became a fad, with school children trying to impress each other with the tricks they could do. Even now, sixty-five years later, I can still do most of the yo-yo tricks (walk the dog, around the world, baby's cradle, etc.) I learned from watching the famous Duncan Yo-Yo Man on TV.
8:00 He glossed over the Swanson TV Dinner story. Swanson, a supplier of turkeys, ended up with thousands of unsold turkeys at the end of the holiday season. Rather than throw them away they developed the TV Dinner. It saved the company millions o dollars and provided housewives a quick easy to prepare dinner when they could not or did not want to cook a full meal. Along with TV dinners was the TV fold up TV tray a cheap easy to set up table that was stored in some corner, brought out, unfolded in a few seconds and placed in front of a chair facing the TV. Your family ate its TV dinner while watching TV, thus the name. While handy, it led to the decline of families sitting around the dinner table engaging in conversation, it, and the TV were the 50s equivalent of the cell phone, i.e., isolating people with mind numbing entertainment leading to a decline in social interaction and all the consequences that go along with that decline.
8:45 In addition to milk, you could get other dairy products, like cottage cheese, buttermilk, and sour cream, just to name a few. The really old milk bottles used to have an enlarged region at the top where cream used to rise and float. You could either shake the bottle and mix the cream with the milk or use a special spoon to remove the cream for other uses. Thus, you got both milk and cream in one bottle. I don't know about the rest of the country but here in the Maimi area we also had the Charle's Chips Man who delivered huge tins filled with potato chips. Our family never bought Charle's Chips but some of my friends' families did.
12:00 The flared pants sailors wore had a very practical use. The flared bottoms made them easier to remove in an an emergency like falling overboard. There is supposedly a way to inflate tem with air and use them as flotation devices although I question that and think it is more of an urban myth than truth. Regardless, the flared bottoms did make removal much easier.
Born in 52. Loved looking back.
@ terryfowler6090 I still have my original yellow hula hoop from when I was nine years old. Filthy and on a hook in the garage, but I still have it.😊
Born in 1950. I have a find memory of the horse drawn milk wagon coming down our street every morning. We would run to meet him at 6 am and the milkman let us pet the horse. Sometimes we could go to the stables and see all the milk wagon Percheron horses. The milk was fresh from the cows and still had the thick cream on top!
I miss drive in theatres! I was born in 1953. I am the oldest of 10 children, it was the only way my parents could afford to take us to the movies.
I saw Mission Impossible in PA in the mid-90s at one. Oh wait, that was a long time ago, dang. Actually there are some drive in theaters still/newly operating as well as plenty of "outdoor movie" options nowadays. Look it up, relive the fun who knows what you might have nearby.
@@netwrench6570 I live in Oklahoma, tornadoes wiped out all the driveline!
Drive in’s. I hate auto correct!
There haven't been any drive-ins in my general area since the 1990s at least. The local one closed by the late 70s. I've heard there are only around 200 nationwide.
I loved going to the drive in, for time with the family.
Drive in theaters even smelled different, I remember that from my early years. I had a red felt poodle skirt, it had a skunk on it. I loved it, thought it was funny.
We would actually accept candy apples and pop corn balls from total strangers - went into strangers homes to warm up and have cocoa. Sounds bizarre now
I still remember getting a pink hula hoop in the 60s i loved it.
Ok, so I'm old. I remember saddle oxfords. Seemed they never wore out. My black and white ones finally did. Daddy took me to get new shoes. My delight soon faded...Daddy chose navy blue and white for me.😢 Couples skates at the roller rink were the best. Drive In movies were a weekly date.❤😊
There are so many different things we did as kids and the good times have outweighed the bad I could list a hundred memories.
Life WAS simpler back then. Everybody drove sticks. Everybody including Grandma. Drive ins. There's still one here in Lake Worth. Swanson TV dinners. We ate a lot of those. Good Humor man. We couldn't wait for them to come around during the hot summer months. Bond bread and milk delivery we had them both. The milk back then was Homogenized you had to shake it because the cream settled on top of one quart glass bottles. Milk is still sold in the states by quarts, gallons rather than metric. Rollar skates. We had steel wheeled street skates with little clips in the front that clipped onto the fronts of our soles. they were always unclipping which often resulted in a fall.
I remember everything in this video, I was a teenager in the 1960s.
I have mix tapes that I recorded in the early 1970s and they still work.
In the 1970s I managed what we called fun parlours, they were actually pool halls with a jukebox and pinball machines, pre video games.
I went to my first roller derby in 1966 when I was 15 years old.
Our local drive-in had a walk-in section for people without cars, one of my brothers was the main operator for this one.
also in the 1970s I was a conductor on the trams in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
I live in South Australia where I was born in 1951.
Cheers, great video.
I remember wearing pjs to the drive-in. Most little kids did.
Does anyone remember the Helms Bakery truck with all those great donuts?
Rye bread with that yummy, chewy crust...
I remember all that stuff.
I was born in 1951 what great memories this brought back
We still have a drive in at our town. All comes through the radio now.
The last Drive-In I went to in the late 1970s used a particular frequency on AM radio. A lot better sound than the old Drive-In speakers! 😊
ahah, there's nothing like the taste of a hot dog from from a drive in. and how many remember hiding 1 or 2 people in the trunk???
I REMEMBER 8 TRACK CASTETTE. GREEN STAMPS. MY GRANDMOTHER 👵. WAS A SWITCH BOARD OPPERATER.
I was a switch board operator in 1972!!!
One of the things that killed drive-in theaters was daylight savings time.
I had a "Thing Maker" back in the 60s. Basically an open electric burner that would bake molds filled with a weird fluid called Goop, and make rubbery toys...and also inflict painful burns to children at an alarming rate. Great fun! The best of all was the HO Scale slot cars...I still miss playing with those. LOL!
Playing outside with friends grew up in the 60s and 70s
Bell bottoms were navy attire due to functional need, if you had to go into the water they could be pulled off more easily thus aiding in saving your life.
We sailors were also trained to tie the cuffs and inflate them as make-shift life floats. The white sailor hat could be used for floatation too. This was early 1980s, my second hitch. Uniforms have changed now, the old bell-bottomed dungarees are no longer issued.
I was born in December in 1943 my dad was on the Battleship Texas at that time really miss my dad ❤
Building snow men in winter, sledding. In summer ,fishing, catching grasshoppers, riding bycycles everywhere. Building model rockets as teenagers.
I'm a 1957 model myself. My last Drive-In movie experience was in Panama City in the late 1970s, while stationed at Tyndall AFB. It closed just before I left the USAF in early 1980.
My town still has a drive in theatre.
Fort Walton Beach had one showing regular movies until 1984 then they started showing porn movies. I saw Last Starfighter there.
There was a little bit of misinformation on the home milk delivery. I got out of the military service in late 1963 and went to work for a small local dairy. I worked For that same company for 18 years, which took me into the latter part of 1980. It was just a couple of years later that that dairy went out of business, but I know that there were some others that were still going after that.
I used to eat tv dinners while listening to the radio. 😊 Am I in trouble for that? 😮
You know you're not, lol.
No way! A way of life...😮
A radio dinner?
I loved lava lamps & leg warmers. I didn't do so well with video games. I have an illness that affects my hand eye coordination. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
I remember drive in theaters! Us kids in PJs in the back seat then going with boyfriend as teenager! Things seemed easier. Kids could go out and play all day without the worries.of today. More.carefree.
I have a few items from the past in my home. A 1934 Grundig Majestic AM FM Shortwave receiver I restored (Vacuum Tubes) a 1953 Philco AM Long Wave Tube type Table Radio. a 1970 Gem Marine 23 channel Tube type CB base Station( Still works with a Siltronics Slider to expand frequency range) Several 23 and early 40 channel Mobile CB Radios (All the 40 channel units have the now banned PLL-02A frequency chip) A 1970s Rockola Juke box (Works), several old Pinball Machines and 2 original PAC MAN Arcade machines (All painstakingly restored and working)
One major error here is about plastic containers. 2 liter soft drinks were in glass through late 1970s anyway, as well as single serving bottles. Guess I'm Old, though, I recall 90% of this.😊🎉
When I was a kid in the 50's we were pretty poor. We were so poor we couldn't pay attention. So I spent my days running up and down the streets, playing sand lot baseball and football, playing hide and seek and Run Johnny Run.
And then the 60's came around.
I remember drive in movies, remember the speaker box in the window that wouldn't work right and driving all over to find one that you could hear. The good ole days for sure.... yes I'm old.
It was simpler, for my 7th birthday I received a single shot .22 rifle, no one was upset by a 7 year old walking down the street with a rifle and a couple of cartridges in his pocket. In summer, me, my rifle and my dog would go off after breakfast and come home before dark, often with a rabbit or 2. I nearly always had lunch from BBQ rabbit. 20 years ago I was driving with my kids and pulled over, I got out taking my 2 kids back under a bridge and found my old BBQ plate and fire still there! I had my rifle for years before I got a push bike, once I had the bike my forays went far and wide, from about 20 miles my summer wandering went out to over 100 miles out in a day. I learned to always have a hook and line with me and my lunch menu expanded. I learned to put the guts from rabbits and road kill in streams to feed fish and crayfish. By the time I was 10, I could shoot a duck on the wing with a .22 and my menu and take home increased. Underwear for young boys was optional in my “social circle”, shoes were for “formal” occasions. Rain was a mere inconvenience in summer, for a kid getting rained on wasn’t an imperative to go home, dry and get changed. The height of accessory was a transistor radio! Music was a language for social exchange.
Those were the days my friend.I remember them very well.❤️.
I remember all of these things. But, I already knew I was old. LOL
Love the bell bottoms
I remember as a little kid there was these mini jukeboxs set on the side of the dinner tables and you'd put a quarter in the slot and play songs there while your family ate. Totally forgot about those things until now. Oh.and the cigarette smoke that filled the diner. Wow. My pop would smoke and eat at the same time. Used to bug the hell out of me
Age is just a number. Keep your mindset YOUNG!
Bell bottomed trousers in the Navy were essential for shipboard life. The pants could be removed without taking off the deck boots and turned into a flotation device if the sailor went overboard. We did not remove our shoes because of the possibility of ending up on a coral island. Coral and wet feet equal bloody mess...
Born in 56. Yes, life was a 1,000 times better back then. Most people were decent!
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I am 80. I was born in 1943. So I know I am old.
I may be old, but at least I'm wise!!! More than I can say for most of the young people nowadays!!!! Take that to the bank Hank😂😂😂
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DEFINITELY KILL DRIVE-IN THEATERS WAS THE VALUE OF THE LAND IN AREAS THAT THE POPULATION WAS EXPANDING AND THEY HA OWNERS ENDED UP TURNING THEM INTO HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS OR INTO SHOPPING HORROR CENTER S
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Born in 1961, September 29th. Born in Detroit, Michigan, raised in Dearborn Michigan, Dad was a design Engineer in the Ford Motor Company, and moved on to a job as a design engineer for McCord Gasket Company in Wyandotte, Michigan. I was not a popular kid; I was the one who got razzed on by the cowards in junior and High School. Needless to say, I got extremely good at revenge tactics to the bullies. Been protective at THEIR expense to this day. Mess with me now, and you know what WILL hit the fan,
I liked Pet Pillows!! They were pillows for kids shaped like a Pet - a dog, a frog, goat, a cow, a cat, a duck, they were hugable and u could sleep with it in bed!! Kids loved them, named them and took them to bed and went to sleep!! They cost just under $20. An afford christmas present for alot of people!! ❤❤❤❤
Dont forget the hip hugger pants in the 1960s.
I only wore capris.
I wore them.
I remember hip huggers. I have a picture of me wearing them and posing on my high school’s stone bleachers. In order to wear pants to school we had a day called Pants Day. Hey it was the 60’s.
I was 10 in '60 when the twist was the hot dance 👍
My favourite memory were the 10cent icecreams and sweets out of the wall. Patat and kroketten for 25cent out of the wall. Smith-chips without salt, later apart in a small package in the bag, also 25cent.
All the century-old games we played outside in the streets with a lot of kids from school.
Yes, all the delivery-men in the streets, most with horses. When my mom was not at home (shopping which took hours because supermarkets did not exist yet), the baker and the milkman came through the back/kitchendoor, looked in the small drawer where was the notebook with the list of needed products and the money, and they put all on that table. There was Arie, carrying all heavy loads on his shoulders; he was tall and strong. There was 'Kuus' who cleared the streets with a wooden broom, in winter the ice/skating area.
I often remember all these things and feelthe great loss.
But...worse....my children are old too!
I was born in 1958. Some of this is before my time. I remember the ice cream man, the milk man, and the Helm's man coming by. We also ate Swanson TV Dinner's. Swanson's had the best TV Dinner's. I wish they were still made.
Gosh I’m old I remember all of these best times growing up
We had a local swimming pool that had a slide, a high dive, and could hold 3000 people on a Hot~Humid day.
Born 1937 in New Zealand and remember all the things mentioned and some. I still have vinyl records from 1950s and 60s....