Do a video, on "STARTER HOMES, of the 20's, 30's, 40's, these homes were built like rocks, They were 3 bedrooms, simple kitchen and bathroom. Starter homes were YOUR FIRST HOME, till you got that big promotion in life. Most starter homes could last a hundred years. You can still find them today in old neighborhoods. Across America. I love the beautiful simple strong function of these homes.
Not sure of when the narrator was born. If it happened in the 60s and 70s , then I remember. Not just for this one but other videos as well. With the exception of stores that weren't in the area where I lived
I agree especially the "Strawberry" Kool-Aid all that sweet goodness and red dye #2 with a couple of Twinkies after school. That's what you call living high on the hog.😂
The last truly free generation. No one hovering over us, we couldn't be contacted every second of every day. We weren't under surveillance, on sunny days you were outside playing and exploring with friend's. Friends were actual people you knew and not just subscriber's. Best days of my life.
@@reggiedunlop2222 I noticed Paul Newman picture…I recommend reading his memoirs put out by his family…Paul’s words…no one else’s words… Yes I was born in 1954…a stroke of pure luck for a wonderful childhood/teenage experience…like no other…seems a fantasy now.
Anyone who remembers any of these remnants of the past is not old, except to those under 20. I miss the 70s. That decade was the closest thing we had to Mayberry: Unlocked doors, playing hide and go seek under the streetlight, drive-in theaters, Tang, The Flintstones. Sigh, those days.
Born in 57 and I agree with you. Walking three blocks to school, now it is not safe for my sister's granddaughter to cross the street to get to school by herself.
I hear u l miss those days growing up in the 60's and 70's graduated in 76 I don't envy the kids today with these whole life attached to their phones and social media
It's better to be old and look back at a fun and exciting childhood than kids today looking back at their boring ones. Man, did we have some adventures!
@@bigfan2452Gee. What nostalgia. Have you ever stacked paint cans & made a bike ramp ? You sat around glued to your gaming screen. That's not nostalgia.
@@frankrizzo4460 Hi Yes my father was Born there his name was Angelo. I am is Son Peter. If I remember right he was born in 1907. Passed away in 1996 at 89. I think about him every day. I am 64. How do you know him?
@@petersilecchio4417 My father's side was from that area and his parents as well. Don't know your father but prayers heading his way. Have a blessed Christmas you and your family 🙏🎄☕
@@rebeckylee157 funny when I used the phrase Ditto around young people they say what??? Or I mentioned Carol Burnett and they said who???? Just grateful....lol
Yep, those were the good old days. I was born yesterday..........in 1952. I blinked my eyes and now it's 2022 and I'm 70. Each year goes by faster than the previous year.
When I was a child, I used to say that I wish I was older. My mother said that I was just wishing my life away. She was right, I'll be 73 this week and can't believe how fast time has gone. My mom died in 1981 and I look forward to seeing her again in a few years 😉👍
@@johnniehall3692 Well just fast enough to get your driver's license then it can slow down, well maybe fast enough for that first new truck, well maybe that new house, then it can slow down. After you finally achieve it all, your too old to enjoy it. 🤣🤣🤣
I remember the big night when the Wizard of Oz was coming on, all us kids would go to Grandpa and Grandma's house to watch because they had a color TV, it was so exciting to see Dorothy wake up in Oz and it was in color
And if we were fortunate enough to be at the grandparents' house on Sunday evening, there was The Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza in color after dinner.
And then with VHS tapes and DVD's coming after them "The Wizard of OZ" lost it's impact when you could watch it anytime you wanted. It's no big deal anymore even though it was a stunning, timeless achievement, just like so many movies made in 1939, the BEST year in American cinema history.
" they had a color TV" Now about the rest of the story. You show comes on at say 7PM but before you can watch TV: A: 1.) Turn the TV on at least 5 minutes before the show starts to let the tubes heat up. 2.) Turn the channel to one of 3 stations. 3.) Have someone outside turning the aerial antenna. " STOP!" "BACK THE OTHER WAY!! TOO MUCH!" "SLOWLY, SLOWLY, STOP RIGHT THERE!" could be heard all over the neighborhood. 4.) Adjust the vertical and horizontal settings. If TV does not turn on: 1.) Unplug TV and remove the back. 2.) Remove all the tubes. 3.) Hop in car and drive to Woolsworth. 4.) One by one insert each tube in the tester till you find the bad tube. ( test ALL the tubes). Open drawer at bottom of tube tester, find new tube, pay. Hop back in car and drive home. 5.) Insert tubes back into TV. 6.) Replace back of TV and plug TV in. 7.) Turn TV on and repeat steps A1 through 4. 8.) Call neighbors to find out what you missed.
We may be old and it may be that was an end of an era but oh what an era it was! The best music, riding free ( and we survived 😁) played outdoors from sun up to sun down spring, summer, autumn and winter . The kids that are glued to their devices just don't know what they're missing! I surely do! I still have my music.
We didn't need to wear a wristwatch when we played outside, when the street lights started turning on we knew it was time to get our butts home, no kids wanted to hear one of their parents yelling their names and if one of your parents included your middle name when yelling for you to come home you'd bust your butt to get home as fast as your legs could peddle you there! Oh, yeah, I said when one of your parents yelled your name because in my neighborhood most of the kids had both of them living under the same roof. Sometimes we would tease each other by calling out to a friend or friends, "Your mommy's calling you!" And sometimes when you heard one of the dads yelling for their kid you'd say to the kid, "It's your dad. you better get home."
I'm older but sure am glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's . I would hate to know that I was growing up in this era. Gives me night terrors just thinking about it.
I love the "You maybe old" segments. I am old and I grew up in the 70's and 80's. I wish we could go back for just a day. That's when everything seemed so simple. To this day I still have my childhood friend and the girls I went to school with. We are always talking about our times either in the old neighborhood or school. I love and cherish each and everyone of them. I have known these girls over 40 years now. Thank you for letting me relive all of the wonderful things I grew up in.
You're lucky. I'm a bit older than you and my last friend who I could share these memories with passed away a couple years ago. There was one span where I was going to 3 funerals a year.
@@Matt_from_Florida I'm sorry to hear that. I do not like getting for that reason. As soon as my mom passed all kinds if aunts and uncles passed too. Now I get excited when I get a senior discount.
@@bextar6365 I couldn't agree more. People today are very disrespectful and just do not care. My nephews don't even call me "Aunt". They call me by my name and I blame my brother for never correcting them. They are very disrespectful to not only me but my 89 year young dad
@@mariewoodward9713 So disrespectful ~ I would have never done that to my aunts and or uncles, and would not be allowed to by my parents many years ago ! Yes blame your brother for sure.
These videos are a glimpse into a better time. In 2022 it feels like we are entering a dark period of Malaise and I often yearn for the better times of the 70s and 80s and yes even 90s.
@@thenightporter Me too. Sometimes I have my doubts but not often. I don't remember having all the mass insanities years ago we have now, "crisis" after "crisis," one just following the other. What kind of world are today's kids going to inherit once common sense is gone?
Love the whole "You Might Be Old" series. Totally forgot about the Pizza-Hut reading rewards program. I was a reader anyway, so I made a killing on free pizza during grade school. I also remember listening to Casey Kasem's Top 40 on the weekends just waiting to hit the PLAY/REC buttons whenever a favorite song popped up. Good times!
Omg i had cases n cases of tapes that were strictly from the radio. When i ran outta blank tapes n didnt wanna tape over them i took a regular old cassette i didnt want anymore n put electrical tape over the squares on the top n voila..u could record over it..anyone remember that hack?
@@LeeLeeCRN HaHa! Yep, that was the fate of my copy of "Vanilla Ice: TO THE EXTREME". Before you judge, it was a Christmas gift from my Aunt who preferred winging her holiday shopping.
@@johnnygee4206 lmao no judgement here..i had it too🤦 i ended up recording over a lot of the little girl tapes i grew out of like my rainbow bright cassette n "'christmas day in the cabbage patch" 😂
I remember all of these. One thing about Pizza Hut - I remember when you bought a World's finest chocolate bar you would get a coupon for Pizza Hut. In case you forget Worlds Finest would make candy bars for school fundraisers. They are still around today but the candy bars are smaller.
That's an epic commercial unfortunately when Wendy's first came out they were so expensive only the rwel off $ could eat at a Wendy's as opposed to the other chained fast food restaurants in the 80s, 30 years later they're still expensive as hell for half the quality that they want to had. 🤦♂️ Better than Burger King McDonald's though. Only when I'm desperate will I eat at those other two restaurants.
Yes sir! We were very lucky to have grown up in the last best decades of America! I remember EVERY ONE of these. When I was little my Grandmother would often say, enjoy your time because it goes very fast when you grow up! She was so right. Born in 64 and now 58 I just can’t believe that these times were so long ago because it really seems like it was just a decade ago. That kid on the big wheel looked exactly like me especially with that bowl haircut and the color of it.
Olin Mills wasn't the only company that did those portraits. Sears had a portrait studio too, and we can not forget Glamor Shots where females would go to have glamorous photos of themselves taken to share with their spouses or certain friends.
Yeah baby! Remember the 'Glamour Shots' portraits on-display in the store window in the Mall? How many men, husbands and boyfriends talked their girlfriends, wives and local ladies they knew into getting a Glamour Shots photo session done for Christmas or the dudes birthday. All expenses paid of course.
When I went to Glamour Shots, I brought my own wigs, beaded gowns, feather boas, and big ostrich feather fans---all from my stage wardrobe when I sang in cabarets. The results were so good that several photos were included in the slideshow to attract customers. This caused a problem when people asked to wear the gowns or use the boas and fans, and the staff had to say I'd brought my own.
You are correct; we cannot forget Glamour Shots, try as we might. I cannot tell you how many older execs I worked with who had a 5×7 or 8x10 GS portrait of their wife on their desk. The worst were the ones with the wives in the fringe jacket , cowboy hat with her thumb and forefinger on it. 😂
About the candy cigarettes... If you weren't a fan of the candy, you could buy the gum versions of them. It was basically the same thing but it was a cylindrical stick of gum with a paper wrapping emulating the cigarette. Also about the wax candies... I remember that they also made a musical harmonica-type wax candy. I think they were called Wowee and were kind of like a pan flute with short sections at one side and them getting longer as you go down it's width.
@@TBaker-xu5is As I remember it, the bubblegum with the paper band around it was the bubblegum version of a cigar. And thank you for mentioning the wax harmonica! I had forgotten about it, but I remember it now after reading your comment.
Thank you so much for putting this together and airing it. A lot of it resonated with my past, especially the sunday dinners. There was absolutely no shame in telling friends that you were committed to Sunday dinner with Grandma and absolutely NO shame in mentioning you were going to church. Those were signs of good manners and good morals. Great times. I loved the stories my grandparents AND great grandparents used to tell at those gatherings.
We lived out west so we saw our grandmothers on summer vacations and Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our Sundays meant church in the morning followed by a meal at Luby's Cafeteria. I always wanted the fried chicken and the colorful cubes of jello in the fancy serving glass. Indeed, great times (I do envy you the weekly large family gatherings, though!).
Best memories ever. I just can’t see how my grandkids can have terrific memories of when they were young, when most time is spent indoors or watching screens.
You settled it, I am now old. I made mp3 files of my last mix tapes 20 years ago. I can still remember how the candy cigarettes tasted - like pepto-bismal.
They weren't good. The fact that they looked like cigarettes and made people do a double take was literally the only reason we ever bought them. You can still find them here and there. There's a giant candy shop in Nevada, somewhere between Vegas and Tonopah, I forget where exactly, but they have them. Along with every kind of licorice you never wanted.
They're online. There are several great vintage candy and soda shops online. Lots of this "forgotten stuff" is actually still made. Sometimes the same as it used to be, and sometimes not exactly.
@@thenightporter I remember both those tastes in candy cigarettes. They seemed to have been created by the same confectioners that created Necco Wafers.
I'm 66 soon to be 67 and I am starting to feel nostalgic for the 1960s and 1970s and even the last 2 years of the 1950s. I remember getting my 1st camera for Christmas it was a Kodak 126 film camera
@@jasont9522 As a photographer the 126 was better as the negative was about the same as 35mm the 110 was a little over a 16 mm frame. I went from it to a used 120 and later to a 4x5 inch view camera and a 35 mm Nikon. That gift got me into photography.
I have an old Canon AE1 stashed away. 35mm, it used to belong to my mother. My husband sold his Nikon 35mm years ago and bought a nice DSLR. For me, the nice part about digital is being able to image old photographs. I have imaged dozens of my parents' old photos using my phone (20 megapixels is perfect), my goal is to color correct the favorites faded by time.
Clara Peller, the 'where's the beef?' main character, was basically deaf when the commercials were being shot. Someone literally tugged on her dress when it was time for her to say her line.
That's funny, because now that I think about it, she always looked like someone was pulling on her dress to prompt her to say her line. I thought she was just doing that way to make it funnier. 😂
I'm 76 and remember most of these. A lot shown here was after I was already grown. I never had kids so didn't experience many firsthand. Yes, I'm OLD but it beats the alternative.
Between using maps and Mapquest, before the internet was popular, if you were a AAA member, you could go to your local AAA office and have them make you a TripTik which will provide you construction zones location and other areas of interest along your route that other maps did not provide. I remember them grabbing random pages out of drawers, taking a highlighter and highlighting the route and then stamping "construction zones" along the route, also some of the pages flipped out that gave you a better look of the road maps in the area, after they were finished, then they would bind the pages together and off you go.
For me it was pretty much just the 70s. Ages 8 - 18. But man oh man I hit the jackpot with this decade! THE BEST ONE!! You're right. I wouldn't trade my memories for anything! ❤
What I miss most about Book It wasn't the free pizza, but the fact that almost everyone I knew could read easily and fluently. When I listen to even teenagers reading these days, I just shake my head and how hard it is for a lot of them. Being able to read well is so, so important.
@@sherrieburcham6287 To be honest I'm really up in the air about cursive writing. It's too bad so many young people don't know how to do it, but I also really do wonder how important it really was for us to learn. It was good hand eye coordination exercise of course, and having a nice signature is good, but I wonder if it is really necessary anymore other than for reading old documents! Kind of like digital clocks ... yeah, being able to read a regular clock is good but necessary? I just don't know. Then again, we don't need to only restrict ourselves to learning things that are necessary!
@@lilsheba1 Exactly. I don't know if it's because people think it's cool to not write properly, or if society is just filled with a bunch of knuckleheads.
Most big city public schools no longer teach kids to read as we were taught. I remember sounding out each letter and then putting the letters together to form a word. i was a good reader by second grade. A lot of kids today graduate without knowing how to read --- very sad.
As a truck driver back when they would sell special "Trucker" versions of an atlas every year. Yearly updates included long construction jobs etc. Lots of cool bits. Right next to it was the annual or semi annual truck stop location book. Basically told you what was at most exits that you could park a truck at. Both books where basically mandatory for trip planning for Over The Road drivers.
The trucker atlases are still easily available. You can get them online or in just about every truckstop. The Rand McNally atlas, either paper or the much more durable and easy to lay flat, spiral bound with laminated pages version is EASILY available. If you want one. And when the new ones come out, the older version is usually put on sale. There's very little difference, so that's the best deal. I don't know if the big print, laminated version is still made or not. But if it is, it would be online. And older versions might be available online. I have several older laminated whole nation trucker atlases (probably the latest us 2019 or 2020). I use them alongside the GPS. Each has pluses and minuses when you're trying to figure out how to get somewhere.
Also, I have a very old (20 years or so) Chicagoland Low Clearances paper map. That one saved my butt on many occasions. It's covered in tape now. I wouldn't go to Chicago anymore these days. It's not worth it. It never was actually.
It's highly doubtful if many of these "steering wheel holders" would even know how to read a map, much less trip plan. Many just use a car GPS and call it good. Until they end up stuck on a one lane dirt road, or hung up on the railroad tracks.
At 5:33, seeing that big wheel brought back memories. My brother and I used to ride ours all the time. I also remember Pizza Hut back then, pizza made from freshly made dough. They tasted so good and the atmosphere in those Pizza Hut restaurants was cool. The one we went to had a sit-down Pac-Man game to keep us occupied before our Pizza showed up at the table.
I'm so old. I already have my plot at "FOREST LAWN" ! I remember ALL of these things. The Candy cigarettes were my favorite ! I loved the ones that weren't candy, but had a foil colored tip and when you blew into it, powder would come out like real smoke ! It was so cool ! I also bought the wax lips, teeth and mustache! I was 10 !
ha ha... I do remember the ones w/ the fake smoke and those wax lips and teeth. My sister would form them over her top teeth and wear them all day. There were also these wafer thin "ufo"s filled w/ nonparells.
I had a big wheel as a kid. Rode it across streets on my block like a boss, completely oblivious of the traffic not being able to see me below their high dashboard sightlines. We had winter sleds but the hills were all too short in my neighborhood, so we'd end up in street traffic after sliding down too far. It's a miracle I'm still alive but I wouldn't change a thing and I miss those days. Kids today have no clue what an active, carefree fun time it was.
Oh yes! I loved my running board! Especially on school snow days!😋 always a challenge to get down my long hill road before the salt truck or plow would come!
Remember playing king of the castle on huge snow piles? Pushing each down ,tumbling, rolling , smashing into each other ! Kids would be charged for assault for doing that now lol ...man the world changed way to fast for our own good.
I think the thing I miss most, are the Sunday afternoon dinners with the whole family. After my grandmother died, several aunts and uncles moved away from our hometown. When she was living, I had seven sets of aunts and uncles, and multiple cousins living in the same town. It was great being able to grow up that close to cousins who were within a couple of years older or younger than me. We had great family football games. And the food every Sunday was the best, as each family brought something different to the meal. I love these nostalgic videos! Takes me back to a great time and place.
I remember this all. Yes, I am old, and it's a privilege being my age. I love that I grew up in such an amazing time. Kids today don't know what they're missing. I have blessed in so many ways.
I agree. It was great growing up in a time where the biggest dangers were poison ivy and broken bones. We played outside without supervision and respected our elders. The only bad part is that too many of my friends, old and younger are gone.
I love that so many of us aged treasures are here to comment on our lives. We knew the times before computers and streamlined electronics. We left the house at 9 am Saturday morning and did not get back until sundown. Our parents always knew whose house to call or where to look for us if we were late.
It sounds crazy, but, we definitely did use Sunday as a reunion once a week. It was an all afternoon event with all our cousins and uncles and aunts, and we were outdoors nearly the whole time. TV was NOT on, and ...video games of course weren't a thing. It's amazing to think of any of us having the capability of doing this now on any sort of regular basis. The time pressures we have pushed on ourselves, along with the change in priorities, has gotten rid of those sorts of lazy days, that were probably much more healthy for us than we ever want to admit...
These videos always make me smile, laugh, and cry. What wonderful memories, yet bittersweet as we miss those great times! Love your videos. Thank you for making nowadays tolerable, by bringing us warmth remembering the bygone days.
That was my mom's favorite Christmas show. It was great looking through that week's TV Guide to see what and when the specials were going to air. Nowadays, everyone has them on DVD and they're not as special as they used to be.
@@musicman7297 yes I may be , only as old as you feel , 44 going on 88 88 going on I've seen enough though to say things are definitely not the way I remember them and it's definitely bittersweet
This 3 part series has been absolutely amazing, it brought back so many memories. It was absolutely a special time in America then. Born in 75, I truly miss that time, & yes I'm getting older at almost 50. I wish I could go back, but we just can't. Please keep making these videos!! And Merry Christmas!
Same, and I also taped some of my favorite TV themes. It used to piss me off when the announcer would urge viewers to stay tuned during the end theme (longer & more complete than the intro).
Once again you stirred up great memories in all of us. Stirred up great memories with the Rankin- Bass Christmas specials , because of Rudolph I have a massive “ Bumbles” Collection I put out every year. Merry Christmas everyone!
Born in 52 and remember so much of these and other offerings on your channel. It's fun watching these with my grandkids and having to explain so many of the pics. Thank you for rekindling so many great and fond memories. To me, your show is priceless. Thank you!
I grew up in the '90s realized that 1999 alone is almost 24 years ago. It's crazy how time passes you by. I'm almost 36 and I wish I was a kid again even though I didn't have much of a childhood, but it beats being an adult.
Yeah, I saw a kid the other day with a '23' on his high school jacket. I graduated HS in 89 and remember how strange it seemed to see kids wearing jackets with '00'. Now, even that was over 20 years ago.
Yeah, I'm 63, and the time seems to go by faster the older you get. I personally, miss the 60's because it was a time of innocence. A time of learning, and a time of family. A loving family is what I remember the most.
It was almost as if those cassette tapes were made to be fixed with pencils. I spend countless hours doing just that. Then there were the times that the tape would split. Surgery was sometimes needed (a small piece of Scotch Tape) to repair the issue. As far as maps, we always had the Thomas Guide. MapQuest sent me 20 minutes in the wrong direction more times than I can count. Finally, Rankin/Bass rocks! I show my students these classics every year, and they love them!
Recollection Road is my go to channel for the fond memories of yesteryear, an escape from the horrible nowadays reality. People were connected in a much more realistic way than how they are today by paying attention and caring more for one another. Thank you RR in helping me escape the dreadful days of the 2020's even if its for just 10 min.
We had the shadow sillowettes. Watching your videos always brings back memories. There was Avon parties with the high seller getting a pink cadillac, and the welcome wagon showing up with a gift basket when you moved in to your new house. So many things just fade away over time.
When we bought our house ten years ago, the mailman welcomed us and our neighbor brought over a welcome plant in a cute metal plant stand. I still have it in our garden. We had Avon ladies, not parties. I loved the tiny Avon sample lipsticks, my mom scored those for me every year from her friend. The makeup parties were Jafra (great stuff), Mary Kay, and a company I cannot remember that sold aloe vera based cosmetics (1990s, also great stuff).
I'm 56 and don't think I'm old but really just starting a wonderful life being free! Though, I remember most of these items and especially riding around on my big wheel eating fake cigarettes!!! Thank you for sharing the memories and look forward to seeing more.
I'm 61. I remember some of these things. But I also believe the past needs to stay in the past. Cherish the memories, but know today is just as important.
Loved every moment of the 50's and to a diminishing degree the time after '65 till the mid 80's. I remember far back than this video. All the wonderfully dangerous and outragious things which went on. This was Brooklyn NYC Folks... Fireworks. Hot wiring cars. I remember junior gang fights in grade school to make like all the JD movies we used to see. 😂 My parents made sure we had great food and on Sunday, after Mass we DID go relatives so you were made to mingle with cousins you hated and we spent time thinking of what we could do to bother them but not set off the adults As far as candy cigarettes we would bring them into class in the 5th to 7th Grade go up to the girls and ask them if they wasted to take a ride...imitating Marlon Brando. The girls, who were often tougher than some boys, would either coldly say no or try to punch out one of the guys for that kind of thing. Hey, it was the Great America back then.....
I am old. My parents weren't rich. But my brother and I got a BIG WHEEL to share. Thats what they called it in the 70s. It was a blast. So cold outside at Christmas. Mom and dad let us ride it in the house. That was a blast....wish the kids no days had experience like that.
"What's this stuff" "Some cereal. It's s'posed to be good for ya." "You try it?" "I'm not gonna try it. You try it" "I'm not gonna try it....." "Hey! Let's get Mickey" "Yeah" "He won't eat it. He hates everything" .... .... "He likes it! Hey Mickey"
You could at least say older rather than old! Love your videos. They bring back so many fun memories! What’s really cool is some of the old Christmas shows can be found on DVD! Love that idea. I have a copy of my favorite “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Dr. Seuss!!
Yeah, and now Dr. Suess went out the window with "cancel culture", so it's a good thing you have the Grinch movie on tape, cos I don't know if it's "PC" to show it on network television anymore.
We have a teenager. When he was young, we bought ALL the stop motion Rankin-Bass Christmas specials on DVD. We alo have "How the Grinch Stole Christmas (we were chuckling over that a few weeks ago), and the Peanuts holiday specials, all on DVD.
I think some people enjoy putting other people down because of their age. They want to make you feel ancient, out of place, like you do not belong to a world that's made for the young. I just laugh at the time their kids and their grandkids call them "old". They will have to drink from the same fountain we seniors have to now. It's like you are penalized for not having died!!!
I was a little old for a Big Wheel, but kids who were just 4 or 5 years younger used to ride theirs up and down my block all day long. I know kids who had to get new ones because their first one wore out.
Only suckers tried to hit Play and Record right when the song came on. You hit Play and Record when you turned on the stereo/Boom box, then hit Pause. Then when you heard the first bars of the song you wanted, you just pushed the pause button again. This was much faster and you didn't lose the beginning of the song either from being too slow or mistiming it when trying to hit Play and Record at the some time.
I am so glad I grew up when I did. I was born in 79 and I’m 43. I know that might be younger some people, but compared to the young people running around today with all their devices, I am so glad I grew up when I did. My mom was the smoker in our family. And I remember buying the candy cigarettes for either .10 or .15 a box. Wanted to be like her. I found a store that sold them a few years ago just to try them again. They were pretty gross. Drink Kool-Aid by the gallon. And yes, made so many mixed tapes. I don’t remember ever using a pencil for the cassette thing. Just my pinky finger. Ha ha smile.
Im 38 (almost 39) n rememeber almost all the things in a lot of the videos. Of course i do have a freakeshly accurate photographic memory of my past going back to detailed memories of being in my crib. I have been told thata somewhat rare..its normal to me...just dont ask me where i set my phone n keys down 5mins ago lol
Distance memories indeed. Thank you Recollection Road for remembering where I once was. I am now in the lateral half of my life and you have given me a blanket of memories I can wrap myself in and go to sleep. Thank you
I still use my 40 year old green Tupperware measuring cups !! Also, we always looked forward to watching the Rankin Bass movies every Christmas in the 70's. They were the best !! Thanks so much for this !!
It's okay being older but memories are young when they took place and don't age with time. These videos are wonderful and once in a while bring a tear to my eyes in happiness and sadness. But all in all thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing.
@@bextar6365 we had a Curtis Mathis tv. (google that shit, kids) and it was awesome. Back then you wanted a TV set, you would go to a darn furniture store! great company and the set lasted about 10-15 years or more!!
I imagine all generations have felt this way. Personally speaking, the memories of when I was very young are more vivid to me now as I am approaching the big "80". A lot of it has to do with perspective and the aging process itself.
Glad you're continuing these. I recall everything once again, which says I've hung on quite awhile now. The 1960s to 1980s were certainly a special time to grow up.
I am so grateful that I was lucky enough to grow up both in the 70s and 80s. I was born in 73, so my memories of the late 70s are still very vivid, not to mention the wonderful 80s. Throughout my childhood and teenage i had no computer, no cellphones, no internet nor social media, but i never felt bored.
Those Rankin / Bass holiday specials were always anxiously looked forward to every Christmas season! Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was naturally my favorite and introduced me to such iconic characters as Yukon Cornelius and Sam The Snowman. Loved it when Yukon would throw his pick-axe in the air, and when it landed, he'd pick it up, lick the blade and say, "NOTHING!" LOL! And then there was that elf who wanted to be a dentist, which was odd in a funny way. As an interesting side note, Sam The Snowman was my introduction to the amazing musical legacy of Burl Ives, who voiced the character. Also, I can't even begin to tell you how many mixtapes and pre-recorded tapes I lost due to a malfunctioning tape deck! I tried hand-winding the tape back in the shell with a pencil, but the tape would inevitably be torn or mangled in certain spots, which would ruin the recording. I loved using those Memorex blank tapes with the neon colors splattered all over them -- very 80's indeed! I also remember using a lot of tapes from Maxell, Radio Shack and JVC too.
We all lost our treasure-trove of mixed tapes over the years to "Mom going through what she believed was your 'kids stuff' and throwing it out while you were away at college or work".
‘I’m Mr. Heat Miser, I’m Mr. sun; I’m Mr. Heat blister, I’m Mr, 101… I’m so hot-tempered, that whatever I touch; starts to melt in my clutch… I’m too much!!! 🔥
Thanks!
Do a video, on "STARTER HOMES, of the 20's, 30's, 40's, these homes were built like rocks,
They were 3 bedrooms, simple kitchen and bathroom. Starter homes were YOUR FIRST HOME, till you got that big promotion in life. Most starter homes could last a hundred years.
You can still find them today in old neighborhoods. Across America. I love the beautiful simple strong function of these homes.
Can't forget about the green rideable inch worm.
So I'm. Old
Not sure of when the narrator was born. If it happened in the 60s and 70s , then I remember. Not just for this one but other videos as well. With the exception of stores that weren't in the area where I lived
Yeah, I'm old, but I'm darn glad to have the memories of these things and for having grown up in the "golden age" of being a kid.
I agree especially the "Strawberry" Kool-Aid all that sweet goodness and red dye #2 with a couple of Twinkies after school. That's what you call living high on the hog.😂
Totally agree
Born in 63’ and so happy to have all the wonderful memories in my mind.
@@aaronlopez492The Red M&M’s too! 😂
Ain't the truth-so glad we as kids had the freedom to play outside all day w/out our parents hovering over us!!!! 56yrs old...
The last truly free generation. No one hovering over us, we couldn't be contacted every second of every day. We weren't under surveillance, on sunny days you were outside playing and exploring with friend's. Friends were actual people you knew and not just subscriber's. Best days of my life.
Yes! If you ask kids today about "friends" they think you mean their subscribers on face book or some other social media, instead of REAL people!!
It was awesome!
Best days of our lives indeed!
@@reggiedunlop2222 I noticed Paul Newman picture…I recommend reading his memoirs put out by his family…Paul’s words…no one else’s words…
Yes I was born in 1954…a stroke of pure luck for a wonderful childhood/teenage experience…like no other…seems a fantasy now.
yep, i feel like anyone born after about 1985 got screwed.
Born in 54, witnessing how the world is being turned upside down there is no way I envy the youth of today.
Their memories will be that of walking around looking down at their cellphones all day.
@@musicman7297 With hunched shoulders. It's a medical thing now. Look it up.
I agree with you
Also born in 54. We lived in the best of times. The freedoms and real live friends and adventures, many of which would be impossible today.
I remember when I could get a Hershey and a cherry fizz tor a nickel.
Anyone who remembers any of these remnants of the past is not old, except to those under 20. I miss the 70s. That decade was the closest thing we had to Mayberry: Unlocked doors, playing hide and go seek under the streetlight, drive-in theaters, Tang, The Flintstones. Sigh, those days.
Born in 57 and I agree with you. Walking three blocks to school, now it is not safe for my sister's granddaughter to cross the street to get to school by herself.
I hear u l miss those days growing up in the 60's and 70's graduated in 76 I don't envy the kids today with these whole life attached to their phones and social media
I mostly grew up in the 60's and 70's having been born in 57.
It's better to be old and look back at a fun and exciting childhood than kids today looking back at their boring ones. Man, did we have some adventures!
No computers, no cell phones, those were great days and when you were thirsty there was always a waterhole to take care of it.
I was born in 94, I have nostalgia about the late 2000s and the 2010s. It was a fun time because we had xbox360, PS2 and many other things.
Born in 1947 how things have changed
@@bigfan2452Gee. What nostalgia. Have you ever stacked paint cans & made a bike ramp ? You sat around glued to your gaming screen. That's not nostalgia.
We were so lucky to be born back then!
Yes I totally agree with you, I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days.
I totally agree too.
@@petersilecchio4417 Is your family background from Bari, Italy? You last name seems familiar to me.
@@frankrizzo4460
Hi
Yes my father was Born there his name was Angelo. I am is Son Peter. If I remember right he was born in 1907. Passed away in 1996 at 89. I think about him every day. I am 64. How do you know him?
@@petersilecchio4417 My father's side was from that area and his parents as well. Don't know your father but prayers heading his way. Have a blessed Christmas you and your family 🙏🎄☕
I was a kid of the 70's, a teenager of the 80's and a young person of the 90's, so grateful...
Me too! We had the best times.
Same here!
Me too! Best days of my life. GenX rules!
Ditto. Pushing 50. Yips! Where’d the time go?!?
@@rebeckylee157 funny when I used the phrase Ditto around young people they say what??? Or I mentioned Carol Burnett and they said who???? Just grateful....lol
Yep, those were the good old days.
I was born yesterday..........in 1952. I blinked my eyes and now it's 2022 and I'm 70. Each year goes by faster than the previous year.
So true
mom always said wait till you get to be my age, it will really go fast
When I was a child, I used to say that I wish I was older. My mother said that I was just wishing my life away. She was right, I'll be 73 this week and can't believe how fast time has gone. My mom died in 1981 and I look forward to seeing her again in a few years 😉👍
@@johnniehall3692 Well just fast enough to get your driver's license then it can slow down, well maybe fast enough for that first new truck, well maybe that new house, then it can slow down. After you finally achieve it all, your too old to enjoy it. 🤣🤣🤣
Done it all seen it all just can’t remember it all!
It just shows how short life is , those were the absolute Best Times. ✌️
I remember the big night when the Wizard of Oz was coming on, all us kids would go to Grandpa and Grandma's house to watch because they had a color TV, it was so exciting to see Dorothy wake up in Oz and it was in color
And if we were fortunate enough to be at the grandparents' house on Sunday evening, there was The Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza in color after dinner.
And then with VHS tapes and DVD's coming after them "The Wizard of OZ" lost it's impact when you could watch it anytime you wanted. It's no big deal anymore even though it was a stunning, timeless achievement, just like so many movies made in 1939, the BEST year in American cinema history.
I’m 56 now and I still watch it.
" they had a color TV" Now about the rest of the story.
You show comes on at say 7PM but before you can watch TV:
A:
1.) Turn the TV on at least 5 minutes before the show starts to let the tubes heat up.
2.) Turn the channel to one of 3 stations.
3.) Have someone outside turning the aerial antenna. " STOP!" "BACK THE OTHER WAY!! TOO MUCH!" "SLOWLY, SLOWLY, STOP RIGHT THERE!" could be heard all over the neighborhood.
4.) Adjust the vertical and horizontal settings.
If TV does not turn on:
1.) Unplug TV and remove the back.
2.) Remove all the tubes.
3.) Hop in car and drive to Woolsworth.
4.) One by one insert each tube in the tester till you find the bad tube. ( test ALL the tubes). Open drawer at bottom of tube tester, find new tube, pay. Hop back in car and drive home.
5.) Insert tubes back into TV.
6.) Replace back of TV and plug TV in.
7.) Turn TV on and repeat steps A1 through 4.
8.) Call neighbors to find out what you missed.
We may be old and it may be that was an end of an era but oh what an era it was! The best music, riding free ( and we survived 😁) played outdoors from sun up to sun down spring, summer, autumn and winter . The kids that are glued to their devices just don't know what they're missing! I surely do! I still have my music.
I probably gave my son too much freedom but I figured where we live is safe & my brothers & I would kill for a creek & train trestle in our back yard.
The good old days
We somehow survived without bicycle helmets.
We didn't need to wear a wristwatch when we played outside, when the street lights started turning on we knew it was time to get our butts home, no kids wanted to hear one of their parents yelling their names and if one of your parents included your middle name when yelling for you to come home you'd bust your butt to get home as fast as your legs could peddle you there! Oh, yeah, I said when one of your parents yelled your name because in my neighborhood most of the kids had both of them living under the same roof. Sometimes we would tease each other by calling out to a friend or friends, "Your mommy's calling you!" And sometimes when you heard one of the dads yelling for their kid you'd say to the kid, "It's your dad. you better get home."
@@davidcobb2693 We only had 25 houses in our development w/60 kids. Bells were rung on occasion 😂
The old Christmas movies really were the best. I loved those and looked forward to them every year!
i remember all of these and am proud and thankful to be old as some people never see old age.
I agree. Too many of my friends younger or older than me are gone now.
Too true. Getting old beats the alternative.
I totally agree with you!!!
I'm older but sure am glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's . I would hate to know that I was growing up in this era. Gives me night terrors just thinking about it.
I remember all these things! A wonderful time to grow up! It's so sad how everything has become so screwed up!
I love the "You maybe old" segments. I am old and I grew up in the 70's and 80's. I wish we could go back for just a day. That's when everything seemed so simple. To this day I still have my childhood friend and the girls I went to school with. We are always talking about our times either in the old neighborhood or school. I love and cherish each and everyone of them. I have known these girls over 40 years now. Thank you for letting me relive all of the wonderful things I grew up in.
Better people better times (really )
You're lucky. I'm a bit older than you and my last friend who I could share these memories with passed away a couple years ago. There was one span where I was going to 3 funerals a year.
@@Matt_from_Florida I'm sorry to hear that. I do not like getting for that reason. As soon as my mom passed all kinds if aunts and uncles passed too. Now I get excited when I get a senior discount.
@@bextar6365 I couldn't agree more. People today are very disrespectful and just do not care. My nephews don't even call me "Aunt". They call me by my name and I blame my brother for never correcting them. They are very disrespectful to not only me but my 89 year young dad
@@mariewoodward9713
So disrespectful ~ I would have never done that to my aunts and or uncles, and would not be allowed to by my parents many years ago ! Yes blame your brother for sure.
These videos are a glimpse into a better time. In 2022 it feels like we are entering a dark period of Malaise and I often yearn for the better times of the 70s and 80s and yes even 90s.
I'm now somewhat thankful I never had children. The world is not the happy place it once was.
Damn high-tech world we let get outa hand !! Sorry kids
@@thenightporter that’s how I feel too.
@@thenightporter Me too. Sometimes I have my doubts but not often. I don't remember having all the mass insanities years ago we have now, "crisis" after "crisis," one just following the other. What kind of world are today's kids going to inherit once common sense is gone?
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 yeah, I wonder too.
This brings back such joyful memories from my childhood. I miss those days.
Love the whole "You Might Be Old" series. Totally forgot about the Pizza-Hut reading rewards program. I was a reader anyway, so I made a killing on free pizza during grade school. I also remember listening to Casey Kasem's Top 40 on the weekends just waiting to hit the PLAY/REC buttons whenever a favorite song popped up. Good times!
Pizza Hut was still doing Book It! in the 2010s. My son is a great reader, he got a free pizza every month when he was in elementary school.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k your son is awesome
Omg i had cases n cases of tapes that were strictly from the radio. When i ran outta blank tapes n didnt wanna tape over them i took a regular old cassette i didnt want anymore n put electrical tape over the squares on the top n voila..u could record over it..anyone remember that hack?
@@LeeLeeCRN HaHa! Yep, that was the fate of my copy of "Vanilla Ice: TO THE EXTREME". Before you judge, it was a Christmas gift from my Aunt who preferred winging her holiday shopping.
@@johnnygee4206 lmao no judgement here..i had it too🤦 i ended up recording over a lot of the little girl tapes i grew out of like my rainbow bright cassette n "'christmas day in the cabbage patch" 😂
I remember all of these. One thing about Pizza Hut - I remember when you bought a World's finest chocolate bar you would get a coupon for Pizza Hut. In case you forget Worlds Finest would make candy bars for school fundraisers. They are still around today but the candy bars are smaller.
The Candy bars are ALOT SMALLER
I agree😢
"Where's the Beef?" I enjoyed that commercial.
Believe me it's not anywhere to be found anymore. Even Wendy's has gone down hill.
That's an epic commercial unfortunately when Wendy's first came out they were so expensive only the rwel off $ could eat at a Wendy's as opposed to the other chained fast food restaurants in the 80s, 30 years later they're still expensive as hell for half the quality that they want to had. 🤦♂️ Better than Burger King McDonald's though. Only when I'm desperate will I eat at those other two restaurants.
@@davebrown4841 💯💯💯
Clara Peller, from Chicago!
Yes, “Mikey likes it!!”
Yes sir! We were very lucky to have grown up in the last best decades of America! I remember EVERY ONE of these.
When I was little my Grandmother would often say, enjoy your time because it goes very fast when you grow up! She was so right. Born in 64 and now 58 I just can’t believe that these times were so long ago because it really seems like it was just a decade ago. That kid on the big wheel looked exactly like me especially with that bowl haircut and the color of it.
My great aunt said the same thing, I remember where we were when she said it and like it was yesterday. She was the age I am now when she said it.
The last best decades...so true my friend...✌️
I had a big wheel exactly like that. I had to take a second look to make sure that wasn’t me.
@Karl with a K You must be a liberal! Part of if not the largest problem we have
At 63 years old, I still watch all the Christmas shows that I did at 6 years old. Guess it takes me where I wish I could go again.
Recently passed the 3/4 century mark and am always thankful that I was blessed to live during those wonderful times!
You go brother! I'm right behind you. ✌️
Olin Mills wasn't the only company that did those portraits. Sears had a portrait studio too, and we can not forget Glamor Shots where females would go to have glamorous photos of themselves taken to share with their spouses or certain friends.
Regional stores like these studios were available in my hometown. Ours was called Vincent Price Studios.
Yeah baby! Remember the 'Glamour Shots' portraits on-display in the store window in the Mall? How many men, husbands and boyfriends talked their girlfriends, wives and local ladies they knew into getting a Glamour Shots photo session done for Christmas or the dudes birthday. All expenses paid of course.
When I went to Glamour Shots, I brought my own wigs, beaded gowns, feather boas, and big ostrich feather fans---all from my stage wardrobe when I sang in cabarets. The results were so good that several photos were included in the slideshow to attract customers. This caused a problem when people asked to wear the gowns or use the boas and fans, and the staff had to say I'd brought my own.
You are correct; we cannot forget Glamour Shots, try as we might. I cannot tell you how many older execs I worked with who had a 5×7 or 8x10 GS portrait of their wife on their desk. The worst were the ones with the wives in the fringe jacket , cowboy hat with her thumb and forefinger on it. 😂
@@johnpatterson4272 yes, I remember and years of therapy haven't helped me forget.😂
Wax bottles and candy cigarettes. I remember them. Boy, am I.... old. LOL 😂, better than growing up in this day and age.
I rem. them being thrown on sidewalks and melting in the hot summer.
They were terrible messy things leaving spots all over walkways.
I loved wax bottles and wax lips too.
About the candy cigarettes...
If you weren't a fan of the candy, you could buy the gum versions of them. It was basically the same thing but it was a cylindrical stick of gum with a paper wrapping emulating the cigarette.
Also about the wax candies...
I remember that they also made a musical harmonica-type wax candy. I think they were called Wowee and were kind of like a pan flute with short sections at one side and them getting longer as you go down it's width.
@@TBaker-xu5is As I remember it, the bubblegum with the paper band around it was the bubblegum version of a cigar. And thank you for mentioning the wax harmonica! I had forgotten about it, but I remember it now after reading your comment.
@@TBaker-xu5is You're correct. Funny the things they sold us kids to eat. You had the cigars that were gum ,they came in a few different colors.
Thank you so much for putting this together and airing it. A lot of it resonated with my past, especially the sunday dinners. There was absolutely no shame in telling friends that you were committed to Sunday dinner with Grandma and absolutely NO shame in mentioning you were going to church. Those were signs of good manners and good morals. Great times. I loved the stories my grandparents AND great grandparents used to tell at those gatherings.
Basically society lost the wisdom of elders ...and we see the results sadly
We lived out west so we saw our grandmothers on summer vacations and Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our Sundays meant church in the morning followed by a meal at Luby's Cafeteria. I always wanted the fried chicken and the colorful cubes of jello in the fancy serving glass. Indeed, great times (I do envy you the weekly large family gatherings, though!).
Best memories ever. I just can’t see how my grandkids can have terrific memories of when they were young, when most time is spent indoors or watching screens.
Thank you for the walk down memory lane. It was a kinder world. Human Beings knew how to be HUMAN!
That is history now for several years ..
You settled it, I am now old. I made mp3 files of my last mix tapes 20 years ago. I can still remember how the candy cigarettes tasted - like pepto-bismal.
They were awful.
They weren't good. The fact that they looked like cigarettes and made people do a double take was literally the only reason we ever bought them. You can still find them here and there. There's a giant candy shop in Nevada, somewhere between Vegas and Tonopah, I forget where exactly, but they have them. Along with every kind of licorice you never wanted.
They're online. There are several great vintage candy and soda shops online. Lots of this "forgotten stuff" is actually still made. Sometimes the same as it used to be, and sometimes not exactly.
Pepto?! 😂 I think the teenager at your drugstore swapped out your candy cigarettes for something else; mine tasted like wintergreen mints.
@@thenightporter I remember both those tastes in candy cigarettes. They seemed to have been created by the same confectioners that created Necco Wafers.
I'm 66 soon to be 67 and I am starting to feel nostalgic for the 1960s and 1970s and even the last 2 years of the 1950s. I remember getting my 1st camera for Christmas it was a Kodak 126 film camera
Wow! I remember I had one of those as well. I thought my dad was high tech because he had a 110 and used a flash bar instead of a cube.
@@jasont9522 As a photographer the 126 was better as the negative was about the same as 35mm the 110 was a little over a 16 mm frame. I went from it to a used 120 and later to a 4x5 inch view camera and a 35 mm Nikon. That gift got me into photography.
March 10,1956 for me. We are so blessed to have grown up in this time period!
the old phrase " they don't make em like they used too " has never been more pertinent.
I have an old Canon AE1 stashed away. 35mm, it used to belong to my mother. My husband sold his Nikon 35mm years ago and bought a nice DSLR. For me, the nice part about digital is being able to image old photographs. I have imaged dozens of my parents' old photos using my phone (20 megapixels is perfect), my goal is to color correct the favorites faded by time.
Clara Peller, the 'where's the beef?' main character, was basically deaf when the commercials were being shot. Someone literally tugged on her dress when it was time for her to say her line.
That's funny, because now that I think about it, she always looked like someone was pulling on her dress to prompt her to say her line. I thought she was just doing that way to make it funnier. 😂
Remember her with Nedra Volz in Moving Violations from 1985 driving her 1968 Biscayne on the airport runway?
I'm 76 and remember most of these. A lot shown here was after I was already grown. I never had kids so didn't experience many firsthand. Yes, I'm OLD but it beats the alternative.
Between using maps and Mapquest, before the internet was popular, if you were a AAA member, you could go to your local AAA office and have them make you a TripTik which will provide you construction zones location and other areas of interest along your route that other maps did not provide. I remember them grabbing random pages out of drawers, taking a highlighter and highlighting the route and then stamping "construction zones" along the route, also some of the pages flipped out that gave you a better look of the road maps in the area, after they were finished, then they would bind the pages together and off you go.
If I could "groundhog" a decade, I think I'd choose the '70's with the '80's second. Those were the 2 best decades (for me) to live.
Agreed
It was the 60s and 70s for me. Honestly, I hated the 80s because it was so different from the earlier decades.
I concur. It wasn't all good of course but it was FAR from all bad. Good times all around!
For me it was pretty much just the 70s. Ages 8 - 18. But man oh man I hit the jackpot with this decade! THE BEST ONE!! You're right. I wouldn't trade my memories for anything! ❤
I used pencils on cassettes quite often! It was like they were made for it! 📼✏
I would try that and a lot of times the tape got twisted
I always tried using my finger! 😄
BIC pens were the best thing to use to rewind tapes, perfect fit!
@@gcbranger1189 I was just about to say that! 👊🏻
Pencils weren't thick enough and would not wind tight enough
What I miss most about Book It wasn't the free pizza, but the fact that almost everyone I knew could read easily and fluently. When I listen to even teenagers reading these days, I just shake my head and how hard it is for a lot of them. Being able to read well is so, so important.
Not to mention writing in cursive.
@@sherrieburcham6287 To be honest I'm really up in the air about cursive writing. It's too bad so many young people don't know how to do it, but I also really do wonder how important it really was for us to learn. It was good hand eye coordination exercise of course, and having a nice signature is good, but I wonder if it is really necessary anymore other than for reading old documents! Kind of like digital clocks ... yeah, being able to read a regular clock is good but necessary? I just don't know. Then again, we don't need to only restrict ourselves to learning things that are necessary!
@@sherrieburcham6287 Or writing at all...people can't spell or use grammar correctly at ALL anymore.
@@lilsheba1 Exactly. I don't know if it's because people think it's cool to not write properly, or if society is just filled with a bunch of knuckleheads.
Most big city public schools no longer teach kids to read as we were taught. I remember sounding out each letter and then putting the letters together to form a word. i was a good reader by second grade. A lot of kids today graduate without knowing how to read --- very sad.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who misses the good ol days, makes it a little easier to take and don't feel so alone
This sparks great memories of things we enjoyed and family and friends who are not with us anymore.
I love Recollection Road. They take me back in time
So many bitter sweet memories...that's the meaning of nostalgia. I love these videos from my childhood. Please keep them coming.
As a truck driver back when they would sell special "Trucker" versions of an atlas every year. Yearly updates included long construction jobs etc. Lots of cool bits. Right next to it was the annual or semi annual truck stop location book. Basically told you what was at most exits that you could park a truck at. Both books where basically mandatory for trip planning for Over The Road drivers.
did they have " lizzard " reports ? :)>
@@searcymasonry In my area they were called gaters Robert!
The trucker atlases are still easily available. You can get them online or in just about every truckstop.
The Rand McNally atlas, either paper or the much more durable and easy to lay flat, spiral bound with laminated pages version is EASILY available. If you want one. And when the new ones come out, the older version is usually put on sale. There's very little difference, so that's the best deal.
I don't know if the big print, laminated version is still made or not. But if it is, it would be online. And older versions might be available online.
I have several older laminated whole nation trucker atlases (probably the latest us 2019 or 2020). I use them alongside the GPS. Each has pluses and minuses when you're trying to figure out how to get somewhere.
Also, I have a very old (20 years or so) Chicagoland Low Clearances paper map. That one saved my butt on many occasions. It's covered in tape now. I wouldn't go to Chicago anymore these days. It's not worth it. It never was actually.
It's highly doubtful if many of these "steering wheel holders" would even know how to read a map, much less trip plan. Many just use a car GPS and call it good. Until they end up stuck on a one lane dirt road, or hung up on the railroad tracks.
Your videos always bring tears to my eyes, it was such a great time to grow up.
At 5:33, seeing that big wheel brought back memories. My brother and I used to ride ours all the time. I also remember Pizza Hut back then, pizza made from freshly made dough. They tasted so good and the atmosphere in those Pizza Hut restaurants was cool. The one we went to had a sit-down Pac-Man game to keep us occupied before our Pizza showed up at the table.
I'm so old. I already have my plot at "FOREST LAWN" ! I remember ALL of these things. The Candy cigarettes were my favorite ! I loved the ones that weren't candy, but had a foil colored tip and when you blew into it, powder would come out like real smoke ! It was so cool ! I also bought the wax lips, teeth and mustache! I was 10 !
Don't forget to test your Lifeline!
I remember foil wrapped chocolate cigarettes. I never saw the non-candy ones that had powder like pretend smoke!
ha ha... I do remember the ones w/ the fake smoke and those wax lips and teeth. My sister would form them over her top teeth and wear them all day. There were also these wafer thin "ufo"s filled w/ nonparells.
Me too
Have had my plot for some years now.
I had a big wheel as a kid. Rode it across streets on my block like a boss, completely oblivious of the traffic not being able to see me below their high dashboard sightlines. We had winter sleds but the hills were all too short in my neighborhood, so we'd end up in street traffic after sliding down too far. It's a miracle I'm still alive but I wouldn't change a thing and I miss those days. Kids today have no clue what an active, carefree fun time it was.
Oh yes! I loved my running board! Especially on school snow days!😋 always a challenge to get down my long hill road before the salt truck or plow would come!
Remember playing king of the castle on huge snow piles? Pushing each down ,tumbling, rolling , smashing into each other ! Kids would be charged for assault for doing that now lol ...man the world changed way to fast for our own good.
@@dadnelson4008 and not for the better
My children loved their big wheels. I miss a lot of these old things. I miss getting maps in gas stations.
I think the thing I miss most, are the Sunday afternoon dinners with the whole family. After my grandmother died, several aunts and uncles moved away from our hometown. When she was living, I had seven sets of aunts and uncles, and multiple cousins living in the same town. It was great being able to grow up that close to cousins who were within a couple of years older or younger than me. We had great family football games. And the food every Sunday was the best, as each family brought something different to the meal. I love these nostalgic videos! Takes me back to a great time and place.
What is stopping you from having Sunday dinner with the family that you have now?
Grandma made the best fried chicken, us cousins would play for hours. I inherited the 60-year-old skillets she used to make the chicken in.
I remember this all. Yes, I am old, and it's a privilege being my age. I love that I grew up in such an amazing time. Kids today don't know what they're missing. I have blessed in so many ways.
Well said.
I agree. It was great growing up in a time where the biggest dangers were poison ivy and broken bones. We played outside without supervision and respected our elders. The only bad part is that too many of my friends, old and younger are gone.
I love that so many of us aged treasures are here to comment on our lives. We knew the times before computers and streamlined electronics. We left the house at 9 am Saturday morning and did not get back until sundown. Our parents always knew whose house to call or where to look for us if we were late.
Born 1933. Best time was 1960's and 1970's. Best music and most happy times in the world.
Born in '33?
Keep Pluggin' Away There Bill!!!
Im so glad that music doesn’t play in my head when I remember way back when.
Well, color me old. For I remember it all. Thank you for this delightful trip down memory lane.
I rem movie palaces in Chicago when I was a kid....25. cents for kids back then.
Glad to be old enough to remember these. Thank you!
You can never go back. But my memory hasn't failed yet and I remember all of it.
It sounds crazy, but, we definitely did use Sunday as a reunion once a week. It was an all afternoon event with all our cousins and uncles and aunts, and we were outdoors nearly the whole time. TV was NOT on, and ...video games of course weren't a thing. It's amazing to think of any of us having the capability of doing this now on any sort of regular basis. The time pressures we have pushed on ourselves, along with the change in priorities, has gotten rid of those sorts of lazy days, that were probably much more healthy for us than we ever want to admit...
It certainly helped that everything was pretty much shut down on Sundays! I miss that quiet day now!
These videos always make me smile, laugh, and cry. What wonderful memories, yet bittersweet as we miss those great times! Love your videos. Thank you for making nowadays tolerable, by bringing us warmth remembering the bygone days.
Rankin/Bass also produced The Little Drummer Boy, another Christmas special to watch.
Yes and sadly it's not on regular tv anymore. I used to watch it with my Mom as a kid.
I HAVE IT ON TAPE & DVD
That was a tear jerker every year. Even at 62 I'd get a tear from watching it .... and I'm a man.
That was my mom's favorite Christmas show.
It was great looking through that week's TV Guide to see what and when the specials were going to air. Nowadays, everyone has them on DVD and they're not as special as they used to be.
And The Little Drummer Boy Book 2, and Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey.
7:15 And we're also lucky we now have your channel to bring us back. Thank you, sir.
As I approach the day to end it, these make me kinda sad and happy at the same time.
Brett its definitely bittersweet ain't it. I'm 44 and already feel the same way
@@floydsemlow8253 LOL, you're a youngster.
@@musicman7297 yes I may be , only as old as you feel , 44 going on 88 88 going on I've seen enough though to say things are definitely not the way I remember them and it's definitely bittersweet
@Floyd, i remember feelimg that way at age 44. 16 years later, ive learned it doesnt get any better. Imo, its more bitter than sweet.
@@floydsemlow8253 So true.
Born in 1960. It was a great time to grow up then!
This 3 part series has been absolutely amazing, it brought back so many memories. It was absolutely a special time in America then. Born in 75, I truly miss that time, & yes I'm getting older at almost 50. I wish I could go back, but we just can't. Please keep making these videos!! And Merry Christmas!
It was a lot better than it is now.
I was one of those who taped music off the radio. I would get so annoyed when a DJ would talk over the intro or cut off the ending.
Absolutely!
Same, and I also taped some of my favorite TV themes. It used to piss me off when the announcer would urge viewers to stay tuned during the end theme (longer & more complete than the intro).
I was that person, too. I liked to tape interviews with musicians.
Once again you stirred up great memories in all of us. Stirred up great memories with the Rankin- Bass Christmas specials , because of Rudolph I have a massive “ Bumbles” Collection I put out every year. Merry Christmas everyone!
61 and I still watch them. They're on You Tube.
@@JPee-x4youYup! Love Rankin Bass ❤️
We have Bumble Slippers! Drive the dog crazy 😂❤️🐶
Bumbles bounce!
@@jeanbean1390 *Bumbles 😂
Yes, I remember. I'm old and so glad I grew up then. Sunday night meant Ed Sullivan Show. I think Bonanza also was Sunday.
Born in 66, and So Thankful to Jesus I was! Those years to me were the Best Ever! What memories to cherish. Thank You so much!!!!!
Born in 52 and remember so much of these and other offerings on your channel. It's fun watching these with my grandkids and having to explain so many of the pics. Thank you for rekindling so many great and fond memories. To me, your show is priceless. Thank you!
Recollection Road THANK YOU!
Count me amongst the "old" then.. because I certainly do remember all that stuff!
I grew up in the '90s realized that 1999 alone is almost 24 years ago. It's crazy how time passes you by. I'm almost 36 and I wish I was a kid again even though I didn't have much of a childhood, but it beats being an adult.
It only goes more quickly the older you get. Enjoy your young age of 36!
@@jeanhansel5805 thanks
Yeah, I saw a kid the other day with a '23' on his high school jacket. I graduated HS in 89 and remember how strange it seemed to see kids wearing jackets with '00'. Now, even that was over 20 years ago.
@@jasont9522 I always envied the kids who were 1 year older than me, their jackets all had '69'.
Yeah, I'm 63, and the time seems to go by faster the older you get. I personally, miss the 60's because it was a time of innocence. A time of learning, and a time of family. A loving family is what I remember the most.
It was almost as if those cassette tapes were made to be fixed with pencils. I spend countless hours doing just that. Then there were the times that the tape would split. Surgery was sometimes needed (a small piece of Scotch Tape) to repair the issue.
As far as maps, we always had the Thomas Guide. MapQuest sent me 20 minutes in the wrong direction more times than I can count.
Finally, Rankin/Bass rocks! I show my students these classics every year, and they love them!
Yes I remember thanks so much 🙏 a wonderful time ⏲️
Recollection Road is my go to channel for the fond memories of yesteryear, an escape from the horrible nowadays reality. People were connected in a much more realistic way than how they are today by paying attention and caring more for one another. Thank you RR in helping me escape the dreadful days of the 2020's even if its for just 10 min.
We had the shadow sillowettes. Watching your videos always brings back memories. There was Avon parties with the high seller getting a pink cadillac, and the welcome wagon showing up with a gift basket when you moved in to your new house. So many things just fade away over time.
When we bought our house ten years ago, the mailman welcomed us and our neighbor brought over a welcome plant in a cute metal plant stand. I still have it in our garden. We had Avon ladies, not parties. I loved the tiny Avon sample lipsticks, my mom scored those for me every year from her friend. The makeup parties were Jafra (great stuff), Mary Kay, and a company I cannot remember that sold aloe vera based cosmetics (1990s, also great stuff).
I'm 56 and don't think I'm old but really just starting a wonderful life being free! Though, I remember most of these items and especially riding around on my big wheel eating fake cigarettes!!! Thank you for sharing the memories and look forward to seeing more.
I am 56 years youg
Same age. Best times!
I'm 61. I remember some of these things. But I also believe the past needs to stay in the past. Cherish the memories, but know today is just as important.
I was a teacher issuing those Book-It certificates so imagine how old I must be! 👵🏻
You're in good company here!
They still have the BookIt program. The kids still get a free personal pan pizza.😉
I was also a teacher issuing those Book-It Certificates as well! 😀
Loved every moment of the 50's and to a diminishing degree the time after '65 till the mid 80's. I remember far back than this video. All the wonderfully dangerous and outragious things which went on. This was Brooklyn NYC Folks... Fireworks. Hot wiring
cars. I remember junior gang fights in grade school to make like all the JD movies we used to see. 😂 My parents made sure we had great food and on Sunday, after Mass we DID go relatives so you were made to mingle with cousins you hated
and we spent time thinking of what we could do to bother them but not set off the adults
As far as candy cigarettes we would bring them into class in the 5th to 7th Grade go up to the girls and ask them if they wasted to take a ride...imitating Marlon Brando.
The girls, who were often tougher than some boys, would either coldly say no or try to punch out one of the guys for that kind of thing.
Hey, it was the Great America back then.....
Rankin/Bass were always staples to watch in our family.
How refreshing it is to see and hear about my childhood days . it tickles me so ! Thank You RR
I wouldn't give up one of my great memories for the kids today! How blessed we all were to grow up back then and be "old" now! Priceless!❤😊
I am old. My parents weren't rich. But my brother and I got a BIG WHEEL to share. Thats what they called it in the 70s. It was a blast. So cold outside at Christmas. Mom and dad let us ride it in the house. That was a blast....wish the kids no days had experience like that.
"What's this stuff"
"Some cereal. It's s'posed to be good for ya."
"You try it?"
"I'm not gonna try it. You try it"
"I'm not gonna try it....."
"Hey! Let's get Mickey"
"Yeah"
"He won't eat it. He hates everything"
....
....
"He likes it! Hey Mickey"
A genius ad.
Those words came to mind immediately! Lol. 😆
Btw, it's "Mikey". But all the same. 👍
Life cereal I used to like that cereal when I was a kid.
I saw an old guy hitchhiking today! Haven’t seen that in forever 🤷♂️
Groovey
You could at least say older rather than old! Love your videos. They bring back so many fun memories! What’s really cool is some of the old Christmas shows can be found on DVD! Love that idea. I have a copy of my favorite “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Dr. Seuss!!
Yeah, and now Dr. Suess went out the window with "cancel culture", so it's a good thing you have the Grinch movie on tape, cos I don't know if it's "PC" to show it on network television anymore.
You can never be old when you believe in the positive message those old Christmas shows gave us.
@@qmnnvrdyz8965 yes. Cancel Culture has ruined so much that was never intended to be inflammatory.
We have a teenager. When he was young, we bought ALL the stop motion Rankin-Bass Christmas specials on DVD. We alo have "How the Grinch Stole Christmas (we were chuckling over that a few weeks ago), and the Peanuts holiday specials, all on DVD.
I think some people enjoy putting other people down because of their age. They want to make you feel ancient, out of place, like you do not belong to a world that's made for the young. I just laugh at the time their kids and their grandkids call them "old". They will have to drink from the same fountain we seniors have to now. It's like you are penalized for not having died!!!
I was a little old for a Big Wheel, but kids who were just 4 or 5 years younger used to ride theirs up and down my block all day long. I know kids who had to get new ones because their first one wore out.
Only suckers tried to hit Play and Record right when the song came on. You hit Play and Record when you turned on the stereo/Boom box, then hit Pause. Then when you heard the first bars of the song you wanted, you just pushed the pause button again. This was much faster and you didn't lose the beginning of the song either from being too slow or mistiming it when trying to hit Play and Record at the some time.
Those were the days
And the nights weren't bad either 🤔
@Karl with a K Some people have dinosaur-like thinking nowadays .
I am so glad I grew up when I did. I was born in 79 and I’m 43. I know that might be younger some people, but compared to the young people running around today with all their devices, I am so glad I grew up when I did.
My mom was the smoker in our family. And I remember buying the candy cigarettes for either .10 or .15 a box. Wanted to be like her. I found a store that sold them a few years ago just to try them again. They were pretty gross.
Drink Kool-Aid by the gallon. And yes, made so many mixed tapes. I don’t remember ever using a pencil for the cassette thing. Just my pinky finger. Ha ha smile.
I'm 42 born in 80 I'm glad that I grew up around that time also I wouldn't change it
The 1990s would have been a great time to be a kid. They were a great time to be an adult, too. 😉
Im 38 (almost 39) n rememeber almost all the things in a lot of the videos. Of course i do have a freakeshly accurate photographic memory of my past going back to detailed memories of being in my crib. I have been told thata somewhat rare..its normal to me...just dont ask me where i set my phone n keys down 5mins ago lol
I’m 49 y/o now and loved my childhood! Thanks for the memories
Distance memories indeed. Thank you Recollection Road for remembering where I once was. I am now in the lateral half of my life and you have given me a blanket of memories I can wrap myself in and go to sleep. Thank you
I see all these comments about wanting to go back to the 60s 70s 80s. Not me. I actually remember those days, not just the good parts.
I still use my 40 year old green Tupperware measuring cups !! Also, we always looked forward to watching the Rankin Bass movies every Christmas in the 70's. They were the best !! Thanks so much for this !!
Mine are orange! 🤣
@@karenh2890 Wow, nice !! Mine are that really bright green colour, and they still look brand new - they're great !! 🤣🤣
80s Tupperware far superior to anything manufactured today
My mom still has a set of the green ones. They matched our green canisters and green flowers on the countertops.
It's okay being older but memories are young when they took place and don't age with time. These videos are wonderful and once in a while bring a tear to my eyes in happiness and sadness. But all in all thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing.
Same here
@@JPee-x4you it can't be helped I guess.
ditto
Remember when a television set was made of a wooden cabinet and considered a piece of furniture?
And a 12" screen was common.
And TVs were made in America. Like Zenith- RCA _ Emerson, all are history now .
@@bextar6365 we had a Curtis Mathis tv. (google that shit, kids) and it was awesome. Back then you wanted a TV set, you would go to a darn furniture store! great company and the set lasted about 10-15 years or more!!
@@Bigger-Than-Jesus I had a Deforest Sanabria tv...
@@Bigger-Than-Jesus Watch your language ` JESUS !
They were known as console TV's.
Thank you for making these videos. They should be required to watch as part of a History curriculum in school for all kids in America.
We grew up in the best of times IMHO
I imagine all generations have felt this way. Personally speaking, the memories of when I was very young are more vivid to me now as I am approaching the big "80". A lot of it has to do with perspective and the aging process itself.
All In Memories
Glad you're continuing these. I recall everything once again, which says I've hung on quite awhile now. The 1960s to 1980s were certainly a special time to grow up.
Yes, i am old, but i would not change my childhood for anything, i really had fun.
I am so grateful that I was lucky enough to grow up both in the 70s and 80s. I was born in 73, so my memories of the late 70s are still very vivid, not to mention the wonderful 80s. Throughout my childhood and teenage i had no computer, no cellphones, no internet nor social media, but i never felt bored.
Yes, there were things to do outdoors. And most families had more than two kids.
Those Rankin / Bass holiday specials were always anxiously looked forward to every Christmas season! Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was naturally my favorite and introduced me to such iconic characters as Yukon Cornelius and Sam The Snowman. Loved it when Yukon would throw his pick-axe in the air, and when it landed, he'd pick it up, lick the blade and say, "NOTHING!" LOL! And then there was that elf who wanted to be a dentist, which was odd in a funny way. As an interesting side note, Sam The Snowman was my introduction to the amazing musical legacy of Burl Ives, who voiced the character. Also, I can't even begin to tell you how many mixtapes and pre-recorded tapes I lost due to a malfunctioning tape deck! I tried hand-winding the tape back in the shell with a pencil, but the tape would inevitably be torn or mangled in certain spots, which would ruin the recording. I loved using those Memorex blank tapes with the neon colors splattered all over them -- very 80's indeed! I also remember using a lot of tapes from Maxell, Radio Shack and JVC too.
We all lost our treasure-trove of mixed tapes over the years to "Mom going through what she believed was your 'kids stuff' and throwing it out while you were away at college or work".
‘I’m Mr. Heat Miser, I’m Mr. sun; I’m Mr. Heat blister, I’m Mr, 101… I’m so hot-tempered, that whatever I touch; starts to melt in my clutch… I’m too much!!! 🔥