Main Street, USA in the 1950s - Life in America
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The 1950s - when a man working at one job could support his family, buy a house, buy a car, and go on vacation.
A lot of that had to do with the GI Bill
@@thisislandearth Adjusting for inflation that comes out to well over $100k a year in today's money.
right, even a street cleaner in New York could afford to buy a house with a garden and having two Cadillacs in the double garage. Nobody lived on rent. But then the elite realized something that started to haunt them day and night. Overpopulation. In 1900 there were 75 million people, in 1950 there were 150 million citizens....Then they invented automation, globalization, robots, computer, software. So there is still an ongoing process to replace workers with machines.
You can thank Gloria Steinem and the feminazis for bringing about that change. They said that women must go into the workforce resulting in two times the taxation going to the government and also it reduced the buying power of the man. Steinem is 85 years old and I personally would happily travel to shit on her upcoming grave. I think that’s absolutely atrocious.
@@MGR1900 Actually women entered the work force in large numbers due to economic necessity. After the post-war boom was over (mid 70's) one salary could not support a family.
IM 79 YRS OLD NOW
I MISS MY AMERICA. NOT THE SAME ANYMORE.
Sad thing, pretty much America is finished. Stay strong in Christ.
75 agrees....
Judith, you are correct. America is no more. America is no longer a sovereign, Constitutional, republic, under God. Those 4 things are gone forever. We have been overthrown by the New World Order Communists, and it is only going to get worse, much worse.
I'm 64. It WAS a wonderful country until it's Democrat enemies destroyed it.
@@totallysmooth1203 I agree. I feel we have fell into the abyss.
This is America that I used to know. When life was simple.
My final econometrics exams in 1959 certainly weren't simple. Simplicity had nothing to do with it. Society was just more honorable then. Straight lines have always been straight lines, whether we are talking mathematics or morality.
Looks racist...
@@yayab6378 1. I THINK he has being facetious. 2. I am CERTAIN that you face severe intellectual limitations.
@@rojoknight the good ole days back when we could still persecute people openly!🤣
@@googlebanmetoomuch2601 Do you think people aren't persecuted openly today, you young dumbass? I'd say many more people are hurting now.
When times are tough, go back to all the rooms in your mind that store these precious memories and get some peace back!
Well said! I like that concept!
Eventually they turn into your real life into a walking nightmare, and the reason is you can't live in the past forever... Yet the more we walk into the future, the more we look back and realize how good we had it.
Everything was cheap, the wages were fantastic and everything didn't have a microscope on it; best part is, I didn't even get to experience it. I got to experience the people who came out of that, who never experienced hardships and try and gaslight me that things aren't that difficult now.
I left my decent memories at home before Nam, always try to remember the good ones with vids like these , thanks is all I can say .
@@tomcomiskey6350 Thank you for your service. I went to a Vetrans museum a few weeks ago and it gave me a new appreciation for those that served. Were you drafted? I can't imagine.
@@WhitneyAbrina I enlisted when I turned 18 & went to Nam a boy and soon became a man, as my older brother done before me! Now that I am older ,I can't imagine what it put my dear Mother through!
Thank you for your thoughts!
Just a Nam Vet,
Tom
The cars were sooo beautiful then . Mist have been an incredibly optimistic time to live in America .
@jamie ericcon Nice to hear from you Jamie ..many more happy motoring miles 👌
Some of those cars were early 60's
Best looking men, best looking women, best TV shows, great musics, great simple parties, no social media, no SWJ, no feminism, no cultural marxism, perfection.
Sadly these days are gone forever. This world is a sad place. :(((
Listen my friend... all is not lost. Won't you join God's people in looking to the future? "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:13
@@godscommandmentsaretruthis2837
Or maybe we need to get off our knees and grab a gun like the ones that founded this country. Huh, what you think?
@@joedoe-sedoe7977 It's too late for that my friend... we are about to go into the last days scenario Bible prophecy predicted. Soon you will have to choose between God's seventh-day Sabbath vs. man-made Sunday as a day of rest. It's the final test that's coming that will divide the sheeps from the goats before Jesus returns.
@@godscommandmentsaretruthis2837 The final test has come and gone and we defeated the evil Trump. All is saved with Biden. Praise Jesus!
@@boristheamerican2938 when trump was in , the economy was great . buttboy biden , is taking it down the drain.
That little girl standing with her mom on the sidewalk probably is the same age as I am now. Those were the good old days when you can play outside & be safe.
Whoever chooses corrupt politicians to rule over them cannot mourn the old days. Politicians are simply troublemakers who behave like overlords. That's what they do! It's the peoples fault, wanting to be ruled by them.
Shes probably dead
@@davidfahey5068 How would you know. What a cruel way to say. You'll be lucky if you live that long.
@David Batin car crash
@@davidfahey5068 When you're 76 & someone asked about you & I hope they don't say "Oh, David Fahey he died in a car crash".
One thing that stands out in my mind is that nobody was fat back in those days. Foods weren't processed back then. Most people rarely ate out but when we did, the food was terrific.
Yes ,just look at the Woodstock footage, not even any chubby kids in 1969..then came video games, super sizes,all you can eat..out went 8oz pop, kid size ice cream cone
Great observation...I wonder if high fructose corn syrup had even been invented yet.
@Jesse James Saw an old episode of Ed Sullivan and all the men in the audience wore ties.
TOILET paper WASN'T invented at that TIME. PEOPLE had to hold it TOGETHER. Leads to thinner PEOPLE.
@@jc4evur661 That was also the case at baseball games. The men were dressed in jackets and ties.
I wish this could be America again.
En Europ .
It's sad seeing america for what it is currently.... I'm fond of america for many reasons and i want it to fix itself and go back to their prosperous roots and improve again
@@bahamutsix5765 JFK has ZERO to do with what I'm talking about.
What are you all talking about? All this disappeared long before the Reagan era.
Never going back my friend... best to look for those new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells. Christ's kingdom will be perfect and will have no end.
I would love to go back to those times again
You and I Jim. I'm 80 and think a LOT about those times now!
Yep, we thought that it would always be like that. Simple, friendly, pleasant.
If only......
I would go back for my friends but not for living with an abusive mother. Could not wait to get out on my own.
Not me, said Jim Crow.
Can i come with ya?
After the Great Depression and the WWII shortages, people were so grateful to get back to prosperity. People worked hard all week, saved for the future, and actually dressed up to go shopping on the weekends. A different world.
@Gary Hassani Wish I'd thought of that! Spot on.
People dressed up to go just about everywhere. Very few stores were even open on Sunday... it was a day spent with family, many after Church.
@Gary Hassani quit playing the blame game. The KKK, a big group back then, was certainly not leftist. Eisenhower would be certainly "leftist" by today's Republican party. There was legal segregation, blacks and whites couldn't legally mingle in public. Hardly a "leftist" ideology
@@joesloadeddiaper3007 DEMOCRATS?
@@joesloadeddiaper3007 Glad you brought up the K's.
Resurrected in the early 20th C. in the deep democrat south ... most likely by Main Street merchants.
There never has been, nor will there ever be a perfect time for everyone but for most the 1950's and early 1960's were as close to it that it will ever get.
The 80s were good days as well . God Bless .
I mean the 60’s weren’t too bad either
Racism was ending and rock bands were pretty good I would say
And that’s coming from someone who wasn’t born in the 60’s
I was born in 1950. These were way better times then what it is today.
Me too.
Ditto. Agree.
John you are so correct
I am from the UK. Small town America has always fascinated me. It is evocative of the Hollywood films I was brought up on in the Fifties, my mother would take me to the cinema three times a week. Each cinema would show three different films per week. This video is delightful to me. I have always been interested in America.
lots of things made in America of quality stuff
Loved going to downtown Fall River, Massachusetts with my mom. Go to the bank (in a big, impressive building with marble and brass everywhere), pay the bills, shop at the "five and dime" stores, department stores, etc.and have lunch at one of the lunch counters.
My mother was born there in Fall River in the 1930s.
dianne lavoie... I'm also a French Canadian from old, industrial Massachusetts and had an entirely similar experience. On "making the rounds" with my mom, the bank, with its marble interior and massively high ceilings and brass teller window bars, was cool even in the midst of summer and had a solemn hush about it. It was like being in a cathedral. We were a poor family and the fruit and vegetable shop man would give us large paper bags filled with free grapes and bananas that were getting too ripe to sell. Sawdust on the wooden floors. A feed and grain store where my dad would buy buckwheat flour for the "galettes" (pancakes) he would cook up on Saturday mornings. Half-a-dozen bakeries within a few blocks' walk. Elevator operators at the department stores, who worked the power lever, brought you floor to floor, and made sure the elevator floor was even with the store floor before they opened the metal accordion grates. Luncheonettes, drug stores with soda fountains, and corner stores literally on every block. Taverns, from whose darkened precincts the musty smell of beer and cigars would ooze and where kids would earn a few dimes shining shoes. Television repair men who came to your house with a tube tester and a leather case of tubes to get your set running again. Milk bottles with "cream tops." Ice cards in the window for the ice man to tong a block into your icebox. We didn't have a car. We could leave our tenement building and get everything we needed within a short walk. Shoes, clothing, toys, appliances (they would deliver), new linoleum for the floors, etc. And people who worked at places for 40 years and knew things and could help you and did, with a smile. THAT was an America worth living in and fighting and dying for.
My seven siblings and I were all raised in Natick. My parents bought an old farm house on two acres of land (about 20 miles west of Boston). There was a large, working, cow pasture behind our back yard and a small pond directly across the street from our house where we'd join the neighborhood children for ice skating in the winter. Now the Massachusetts Turnpike goes through the back of what was the cow pasture and that land has a large housing development (subdivision). The pond across the street has been drained and a street parallel to ours added -- with many more houses.
@@doriswhite1348 Thank you for your story. Sad, this "progress," isn't it?
We did that very same thing in Illinois 🇺🇸🇺🇸. GOD Bless America again for our Grandchildren .
in many ways, this was the best time to live the American life. in my neighborhood, family's didn't have air conditioning. What a gift that was. Every Tuesday, around 10am, all the moms would be in the back yard hanging their laundry on the clothes line. Of course the moms would talk over the fence. My mom, would knew what was going on with families three blocks away, it was amazing. In the evening the homes would heat up, so almost every summer night, the dads' would sit on the front porch drinking a cold beer, as mom sat near by, reading or knitting. Of course a group of kids would run by now and then. As we ran by the "dad" on the porch would always stop us to ask the new kid, Who he was ? Where do you live ? and of course , where does your dad work? The point was, people knew their neighbors. And kids, were outside, have childhood adventures
That sounds amazing! My mom and dad grew up in the 50s in Brooklyn. They said the same things. There was always a block party and everyone in the neighborhood felt like family. Idyllic times I wish we could have kept so we could experience it today.
Alex, that is exactly how I grew up, but in the 60's.
Wow that sounds like suburban paradise! 🌌
except for the air conditioning part, now that's something I can't do without
@@stefonulerie7777 we used to lie in front of a fan. We used to see cars with their windows up and say they were "rich" because they had air conditioning. 😀
I'm loving this. It wasn't a perfect time for everyone, but then, what time is?!
But I remember this time as I was a child then and life seemed magical. Much simpler, very American and the future looked so bright. It was the calm before the social storm that was to come in the 60s, and beyond.
I'm glad I saw that time in history. And this vid is making me choke up. Lots of memories.
... that is i always say " I'm glad I saw that time in history." I'm old but i'm really glad i knew the 50s, it was dark times, primitive but great.
@@catholiccowboy8545 It was a bright and simpler time. Now it's dark and primitive. Notice how the quality and simplicity of everything exponentially degenerates and or becomes more tedious with every technological advancement.....
I loved growing up in the 70’s, but it was a pretty bad decade for adults.
@@daveduffy2823 Yeah. Tough times in lots of ways. I was 24 in 1980 and saw alot of change through the 60s and 70s, in society, my family's life and my personal life. Not good stuff. But then, you have to take the bad with the good and just keep going. And be thankful for all the good we have in our lives because life is short. Happy Thanksgiving.🦃🙏
It's sad what progress does. That's just my opinion.
My fondest memory of the 50's. We lived in the country about 20 miles from town. We'd maybe go once every two weeks. I couldn't wait to go to the lunch counter at Woolworth's to have a burger, order of fries and a chocolate malt.
My town wasn't big enough for a Woolworths, but Turner's pharmacy had a small lunch counter in back and I would save every dime I could so I could sit back there and have a 6 inch pizza, about once a month. Being 10 was awesome!
I remember having milk and pastry delivered. We also had an ice box we had to put ice in. My mom washed on a wash board then upgraded to a wringer washer. It was still much better than now. There is way to much division now and everyone is so divided.
Isn't Woolworths where some black teenagers sat down for a soda and cops were called
Yep
@@stephaniemedina1848 Thanks for pointing that out!! I was part of a sit-in to end that practice. And it did end!
I can’t watch this today- my heart is breaking for our country. We are losing everything.
Amraam5 truth
You are so correct
@@brooksteer5629 I like the way you think
Already lost it. Rip America.
It's gone and we will never get it back!
With every passing clip, I tear up a little, I wish I could get into the infamous time machine and go back, Elvis at his peak, hamburgers on the grill, malts, Coca Cola and delicious warm hot dogs once a week on Sundays, then sprinting to movie theaters to watch the latest flick.
And most important, the feel & sense of patriotism most true Americans felt back then 🇺🇸 we lost it folks. 😢
Your country and mine (the UK), Riccardo, both once great have lost their old confidence.
we gave it away for free, that's what always gets me.
We haven't lost any of that. Even Elvis is occasionally seen. I don't know why it's always Vegas jump suit Elvis rather than the country boy he became famous as.
@@janetannerevans2320 what did we give away?
Wow...Just started high school. Got my first legit job as a mason laborer.
I miss the Christmas decorations across the main street, down town. .
I am 90 years old and was in my twenties in the 50s. We had come off ww2 and everything was beautiful and new after 5 years of rationing and often the loss of loved ones in the war. This was the happiest ten years of my life and would give anything tore
I’ve them
People of your generation had so much class. I was born in the 50s and it was a wonderful time to be a child. It was a different world and I was blessed to have known it.
Congrats to making it to 90!! Are you still with us?
on the verge of tears-thanks so much for the trip back to happier times
Ask a black person if they were "happier times".
@@kiemer4531 hugs Kiemer-my experiences were happy ..I am sincerely sorry if yours werent
@@kiemer4531 I had several black friends I grew up with. Next time we have dinner together I’ll ask them.
@@kiemer4531 Were they killing EACH other, like they are doing in CHICAGO ( by the truck loads) every night, like now??
@@kiemer4531 Doubtful you’ll like hearing this but sometimes the truth hurts but I loved white America in the 50’s.
I wish I could be a time traveler and go back to the 1950's. Life was so much simpler then. The American family was still intact. I miss that.
@Diane Kennedy: Same in Europe.
@@marbuc6375 Some parts of Central and Eastern Europe remind me of 1950s America.
@@garykaplan7728 Of which parts do you think exactly? I'd like to go and see.
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania. I have friends and relatives in those countries. Their values seem in line with 1950s America.
I also grew up in the 50’s I really believe it was the best of times
This was my parent's childhood era. I guess malls killed main street. Everything looked so clean and happy. Must of been some great times in our country.
It was great, Candy. Malls killed main street, and now internet shopping is killing the malls. I wonder what's next?
People had respect and pride. Go on U-tube and watch a 40s and 50s baseball game and look how people dressed. The respected their fellow fans and had pride.
America killed main street. We are a consumerist society. Now we (not me) buy garbage made in Ch*na from an online corporation known as Amazon.
@@dezznutz3743 I was 6 the day the war ended in Europe and started school in September of that year. I graduated H.S. in '57. The US was initially bombarded with toys and many other things made in Japan of which most were laughable. I lived in a small town in NY on the border with PA. We were the definition of small-town '50s USA. Our downtown consisted of about 5 blocks of shops. But we kids always found something to do. I miss that but would never consider moving back.
Interstates that bypassed Main streets had a big part in their demise too.
Cool cars,cool clothes;1950’s, another great era....Love the video,thankyou
Cool music
Those how era meant not be to forgot in generations to come in the history of America 🇺🇸
I want to go back in time. I love ma and pop shops. Life was good bag then! Thank you for this video!
I love your smile
Hi 2barmed
Hi pretty how are you doing today? You look charming and beautiful
I wasn't alive in the 50's but my parents were. Where did we go wrong in the last 50 years? What a splendid time .
Integration and mass immigration and feminism.
Diversity
@@dylanpirie7320 Deficit spending, outspending our means (both in a 'money' sense but also against the natural world that supports us), exporting inflation to the rest of the world, which is coming back to haunt us right about now. Diversity & inclusion is a scapegoat, evil people are scapegoating.
@@dylanpirie7320 racist
Democrats and stolen elections
I live in a small town. It’s still like this. I’m glad some folk still shop local and support the community
same here . in ashland , illinois
Except the jobs are mostly gone. My small town had several industries (lots of nearby family farms, a furnace/boiler manufacturer, a dairy, a local phone switchboard, banks & lots of retail). All gone now.
@@weitzfc1 it’s really like this ? Nowadays ?
@@sonhuynh8222 the small town i live in is perfect.
@@weitzfc1 I looked up Ashland and it shows the population is about 1500 ?
I wasn’t born until 1962, but I look at footage like this, I look at the town’s and cities with their large and small businesses, that helped provide not only jobs for hard working people, but also wanted or needed products. That’s free enterprise at it’s best.
There's no footage. It's a digital video, NOT feet (footage) of film nor tape! I see that you're stuck in the 1960s.
There was a overtone of authority and sternness that few people could comprehend that ruled, also a generation that came out of the Great Depression. There were widowed women from men that fought in wars. The Kennedy assassination was bad and the civil rights movements, also Vietnam and the draft !
@@jsivco3sivco785 yeah this was captured on an iPhone I'm sure
Globalization has ruined it all. I'm afraid we will never see times this good again. Things are going to get even worse.
@@toddlavigne6441 Globalization and forced "cultural diversity"....Back then you could just walk into a business and apply for a job. Now you are forced to tediously apply online and 99.9% of the time your application is never seen due to all the "culturally diverse" applicants flooding the system. In addition, these psychopathic globalistst that own most of the corporations and companies nowadays only want to hire their own kind (narcissists/sociopaths etc) and they must be young and inexperienced. Older people with morals a conscience and experience are shunned by these devils. Our nation has been taken over by Cain's wicked offspring (who call themselves )ews but are imposters...see Rev 2:9 and 3:9). This is happening because most people don't really know the Lord or obey Him. They are either fake religious hypocrites or heathens nowadays.
One thing that always astonished me when looking back on these videos, is how much pride people took in their appearance and possessions. In this era, people put effort into their clothing, their car's appearance inside and out, the main streets were low on litter and high on upkeep, etc. The sloppiness of all these things these days is a symptom of a culture that doesn't take pride in themselves or their communities anymore. The people in these streets survived the depression and two world wars. Imagine how happy they were to have a decade of peace and prosperity (and it shows).
There's an old saying that "Hard times make great people, great people make easy times, easy times make weak people, and weak people make hard times." Then the cycle repeats. This was the era of "hard times making great people who were making easy times." We're now living in the era of easy times making weak people that are now starting to make hard times."
This is so true. I stopped at a store today and saw one man with pants around his butt (i thought that look had gone but unfortunately not) and one mom and young boy; the mom was very overweight, sloppy, had long hot pink hair and even the child was a mess.
We kids were spitshined and my mom always looked stunning. It came very naturally. She wouldn't have dreamed of going out looking like a hot mess. And we were not rich in the least.
I remember when the department stores had millinery departments and I would watch Mom pick something out. Even in smallish towns they were three stories.
@@marilyntaylor9577 yes! People wore hats and gloves to church. I always had a hat and gloves for Easter Sunday.
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@@cm1133
whatever
Nostalgic...melancholy....better days. Peak America.
@Jim Marcum My family was very similar -- the most telling part was us kids thought we were rich and had everything. Looking back we may not have had a ton of things, but we did indeed have everything that mattered and some extra to spare.
People also died from diseases we can easily cure today, there was racial and gender injustice, people were miserable back then, they just kept it behind closed doors. No EPA, pollution issues, unsafe crappy cars (sure they looked cool but only lasted a few years).
We are far better off today.
@@scherzva and yet people were 1000 times happier than today. They were more connected and less envious of material things. Family and church were the foundation of society. Women and men had clear roles, as they are supposed to, ones that complemented each other and their natural biology. There was less violent crime. Kids could wander the streets without being kidnapped or murdered. People died of natural causes. Now their lives are extended artificially whilst millions are aborted before they take a single breath. If that's your idea of progress, aside from decreased racial discrimination, you can have it.
@@scherzva 👈 Somebody who is obviously an upset millennial! 😤
@@asmodeus1274 OK Boomer, no I am not a Millennial, my parents actually work. Try Gen X, sorry if facts trigger you! The 1950s look lame.
I was born the end of WWII. The thing I remember the most about the 1950's is that the population density was so much lower. People had more time for each other, too.
Drug problem was unheard of. Probably existed, but on a much smaller scale.
If someone lost their job they usually went to live with relatives or friends while they looked for another, not in a tent under a bridge.
(I'm not putting today's homeless down; far from it. My heart goes out to them.)
Yes, we are a lot more crowded today.
@Gary Hassani You are one hundred percent right!
@Gary Hassani You realize what the tax rate in the 50's was right? You're an idiot. It's Republican tax cuts and other policies written by corporations that's the issue. Can't raise taxes a percent without the right crying "but the businesses".
@@seanm1281 You're the idiot. Move to China.
@@robertsamson4610 Do accurate historical research. The much higher taxes of the 50s were during a time of a great economy. As soon as those taxes were lowereed by selfish Republicans, we began to have bigger deficits and a drop in infrastructure support.
Sadly this amazing way of life is gone and probably gone forever too. I feel sorry for the young people today that will never experience this amazing time in American history.
This to me looks like the best time to be alive in the US. Prosperity, happiness and safety. Minimal crime and so much to do.. Sadly these days are over never to return.
America’s best days are ahead.
@@garykaplan7728 you are delusional
@@thomasodetinape4180 Life expectancy in the US was around 66 years in 1955. Today in the US, life expectancy is around 78 years. The US has never been more free, healthy and prosperous and will continue to lead the way in the future. People from all over the world are inspired by America as protesters in Cuba and Hong Kong carry American flags. My God continue to bless America.
@@garykaplan7728 funny my comments keep getting nixed.
You tube leads the way in deception and lies.
@@garykaplan7728 If your a brown lgbtq radical or a jewish banker, then yes, if you are a normal white citizen, times are only going to get worse.
The very first picture in this collection, is of downtown Fort Myers, Florida!!
Franklin Arms hotel in the background, along with those majestic Royal Palms lining the street!! 🌴🌞
I was looking for this comment! As soon as the picture popped up I was like wait a second... I know this place.
Grew up in SWFL, worked across the street on First a few years ago sitting here in Naples right now.
On my RUclips rabbit hole of old film and photos I didn’t think I’d recognize anything! Hard to mistake a place you’ve grown up going by and now taking my child to the same place.
Hello how are you
I'd give anything to back to those days
I was born in the 60s.. and saw the tail end of the greatness of a country that is long gone .
It wasn’t just Main Street that made life so good in the 1950s. It was that you didn’t have to lock your front door when leaving the house. I could ride my bike to the park or the library, and leave it without it being stolen. Cars windows could be left rolled down, keys in the ignition, and the car would still be there when you came back. People dressed better and were more civil to one another. I grew up in Burbank, California, and it was that way for many years. It’s sad that it had to change.
No internet, no modern technologies.
But people were kind and nicer.
Children died or were crippled by polio by the thousands.
@@kiemer4531 now they get abducted and sold by the millions, and used for the porn industry. What's your point?
And you would shake hands and look each other in the eyes, not down at your phone.
and much smarter.
@@kiemer4531 No they weren't. Even Roosevelt didn't actually have polio. DDT poisoning. They even laced wallpaper with it to keep away bugs. I grew up during this period and didn't know of a single child with paralysis from polio. The leading cause of paralysis today in children is the polio vaccine (95%). Don't believe me? UNICEF has been tracking this "problem" for years. Lat stats from India: in a single year 5,000 people developed polio. 4,999 within 2 weeks of receiving the polio vaccine. Only 1 person developed "wild type" polio. All the other cases were the vaccine strain antigen. The victors write the history. Life in the 50s, 60s, 70s was much much better.
I wasn't born then,but God I wish we could go back and start the next 70 years again !
Same. I wish I was born in the 1930s so I could have raised a family during this era and not be here to see what this world has become.
@@claire111 you may still be here from the 30s :))
@@paulfolan69 true. My Nanna only passed on in November, 2019. She timed it perfectly.
@@claire111 sorry to hear that but like you said her timing was impeccable.
@@paulfolan69 thank you. Yes I like to think God whisked her off into His arms to save her from the isolation of lockdowns, which would have been so confusing and sad for her.
I was born towards the end of the 1950s , people were kinder to each other . Every city felt like a small town . But small is disappearing fast! How sad.
I don’t know if anybody else finds this channel, very calming and relaxing to think about old times no matter when you were born and back when life was much more simple before technology took over
1960s, instead.
...l'll be going back there some day ...l have a lot of friends there.
Reminds me of Brooks and Dunn song Believe.
If only....
😢😢 ah,yes if only!!💔💔
Hey buddy, l tryed and it's all changed. You won't recognize the place, where the café was theirs a McDonnell's
@@oldmanfromoc7684 ...WELL ....FOLLOW THE LIGHT NEXT TIME ...YOU WERE CHEATED!!
A Woolworth in every town. It was the same in England until about 10 years ago when tbey folded.
Interesting, didn't know that.
Elizabeth Sykes... Here in the States Woolworth had the opportunity to become K-Mart or Wal-Mart, but they failed to see the changing demographics and lifestyles and so never moved to the suburban strip malls. A blind spot, true, but to their credit they continued to serve their poorer, less-mobile urban customers to the very end. They were a beautiful dinosaur which failed to evolve and sadly went extinct.
@@bluecollarlit And in Australia.
You are absolutely right about that
AKA “The Dime Store”. In the Midwestern town I grew up in, I consumed a lot of root beer floats and Banana Splits at Woolworths. Also, bought a lot of model airplane and automobile kits there as well. Oh, and pet turtles too.
Those were the best days of my life! So much love!
I'm a model railroader. This gives me great ideas for my 50/60's HO scale layout. Thanks for sharing!
Love all the old cars from back in da day all that shiny chrome on them, unlike today's plastic cars full of air bags and distracted gadgets.
Back in the 50s cars would revamp their model every 2 or 3 years. Also car commercials sold the car not the fake image it would give you.
There was a crap ton of competition back then making cars faster, more efficient, or more comfortable to drive or beautiful to look at, (chrome still looks best on a vehicle) however they werent as safe.
Yeah, those air bags. Let's see now. They did save my life when someone hit me head on!
Yes yes yes!!! True 😊
Sweets68, very true!
It's charming that so many people drove old cars. I was one of those people.
robert feinberg they were new car then ?
@@eutimiochavez415 I got my license in '62 and drove a '53.
@@robertfeinberg748 I got my license in 1958 and drove a 1941 plymouth convertable coupe
@@july8xx I got my license in 1962 and drove a 1953 Olds. I never realized how hard they were to handle until I tried to drive them again later in life. My favorite car was a Caddy from abt 1985 that I drove as a rental and could never find again. It was wonderful.
I saw something on RUclips once that said in 2020 the average age of most cars on the road today is 16. that would mean there are more old cars on the road these days. since car makers nowadays don't seem to change their styles that often older cars still look somewhat up to date. my car is 18 years old but style wise it doesn't look that old. and for the last 20 years or more there are the same three or four boring colors to choose from.
If I could go back in time to the last century , it would be the years between 1954 - 1964. The clothing, the music, the television, movies, the giants that were still alive back then. Korean War was over and Vietnam had not fully started yet. No hippies. No radical feminists. No racial riots. Communists were the bad guys. We are living in dark days now.
I agree 100%. It was the perfect time to live. It was after the war and before Vietnam, and all the trends, the music, the atomic design, and the anticipation for the future were shining bright. It’s sad we aren’t living in the future the 50s and early 60s anticipated. I’m 15 and I want to be at my true home, not this messed up, stupid world that we live in today.
nah ur actually an idiot. what do you mean no racial riots?
What is really sad is that when we mention the good old days, 50s, some immediately scream RACIST.
We all enjoyed the simple friendly life. There was almost no racism where I grew up. Everybody accepted everybody for their character.
Miss it....
Back then, black kids had dads, look at the broken family structure now ☹
Almost no racism ? Where in the heck did you live ????
when no one thought about racism, because there any everyone helped one another,at least where I was raised in northwestern S.C.
HotRod Ray..what part of the nation did you grow up in? A lot of blacks moved up north at that time, to try to live the American dream that they were denied from having in the south. Not everybody was racist, but the southern states legally allowed it at the time.
@@daveymcc1421 and many of those southern democrats switched parties after the civil rights laws were passed
The 1950s were Dwight Eisenhower's presididency. I remember his televised speeches. Televsion had spread rapidly.
Shows where worth watching and made so family could watch; just add popcorn.
free TV!!!!
Did you know what the tax rate was during Eisenhower's tenure, look it up, explains a lot,
@@johnhulsker9123
Exactly, from the early 1940s to 1964, the Income Tax arrived at 92% (and to 70% through the 70s), thus redistributing wealth among the people in a very clear way.
I remember when I was a kid in the 50s my dad didn't like Eisenhower. he used to say all Eisenhower ever does is play golf all the time.
I knew I would find a western Auto store. My family had one for 37 years.
It reminds me of my childhood wonderful days. I'll take those beautiful memories with me to my grave. Thanks for posting them.
Was born in ‘63 in Brisbane here Australia. Watching these videos I really wish we could go back to when life was much simpler and our lives weren’t full of all crap we seem to “need” today.
The greatest time in human history period.
Probably so...
Yes, but only if you lived in the U.S. Europe was destroyed....
I wasn't alive in the 50's, but I believe those days were the peak of human civilization in many aspects.
The greatest time for white humans
I thought that was the 80s? 😆
The simple, elegant piano accompaniment is splendid! Bravissimo!!
This video kind of made me sad. My father's home town was Ogdensburg NY. A cute quaint town on the US Canadian order. It looked so much like what was shown in the video. In the early 70s someone decided it was time for "Urban Renewal" and all of the beautiful historic buildings were knocked down and replaced with a one story mall. The displaced stores never returned and the mall has stood at least 80% empty since it was built. Other nearby towns are thriving with coffee shops, antique stores and other tourist attractions. A very sad story.
Oh my God, it's America...I remember. USA (RIP)
Main Streets were wonderful.
Yeah, until the big box stores turned them into ghost towns.
And within 2 blocks of Main/Central streets, residential buildings flourished.
when life was simpler, no damn cell phones to distract us from life around us!
……and yet, here you are, on the internet
@@marymckay9426 vell!
@@hudentdw2 vell???
How many lives have been taken because of distracted cell phone users !!!
@@butchyshoe Cell phones have made idiots out of people especially kids.
loved this!!!!!! brought back many good memories--------------------------
Children of today will never experience such a wonderful time, so sad.
Not true my friend... the Bible promises better days for God's people... "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:13
The canada of today is better than the america in the 1950s
@@Luca-nu2zg not as depressing as the U.S. 😂😂😂🤣
@@levelzanimations Are all Canadians like this? Just wondering, havent visited Canada in a while.
@@parallel2795 Nope. I enjoyed myself when I went to Cleveland to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. The restaurants where I ate gave you plenty of food for your buck, unlike the small portions we get in Canada. Met a lot of friendly Americans when I went to the Nascar race in Michigan as well.
Very beautiful,,,how has our society become better?
We now have drag queen story time. I’m sure that someone who was killed or injured in WW2 would be happy to know this.
@@KevinBalch-dt8ot your commentary has got to be the best, it just about sums up everything perfectly ! 😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍
Well segregation and Jim Crow is over now so there’s that. 🙂
@@KevinBalch-dt8ot drag queens were gassed during WWII ... guessing you're okay with that
@@Marcel_Audubon - So much of that period has been shown to be either false (human fat into soap, human skin into lampshades, escapees rescued by wolves, crematoria smoke color that indicated nationality of victims) or physically incredible (using diesel engines to supply carbon monoxide or using hydrogen cyanide gas on a large scale when it has been so problematic in US capitol executions) that I doubt any drag queens were gassed without a lot more proof.
From 72 (age 9) to 82 we lived near Franklin, NC. It was my first small town.
In 2012/13 I rode a bicycle across the US. Small towns are not as common as they use to be. Sad how time changes everything. Some places should stay as they were, but NO.
What an accomplishment, bicycling across the U.S.! I'm sure it was an eye-opening adventure. Have you read "Travels With Charley," one of John Steinbeck's finest, IMHO? It was published in 1986, and I wanted to jump in a truck camper like his, with my dog, and head out. I came close many years later (VW Westfalia camper bus), and enjoyed every second of my journey.
@@evelynleach3838 My favorite part was the south western desert. Being from the green east, it was better then any picture.
There were places were I got off the bike and walked, were I could see things better.
The 4 months in the desert was a very pleasant dream.
It used to be the wildwest!!🇺🇸
It was good to see the 1950s again. People were nicer, people were kinder, things were slower, life was better. We’ll never see those days again. 😢
It is so beautiful it almost looks like a fantasy land! I guess we’ll never get back to Oz!
They showed my hometown Main Street. WOW
James Row But what town is it?
@@marbleman52 Batesville AR
Can’t watch this easily. The contrast between then and the present is almost too much. What wonderful, bright days those were, compared to now.
Sad state we're in now. Thanks for the good memories. 💜
I WAS BORN IN THE FIFTY TOO. INGRETITY, VALUES, MORALS, etc. WAS WHAT LIFE TRULY WAS ABOUT. IT IS SO SAD, HOW LIFE IS TODAY AND THERE SEEMS TO BE SO MUCH LOST. MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW GREAT IT WAS TO LIVE LIFE SO PURE AND INNOCENT THE BEST WAY WE COULD. THERE WAS SO MUCH SAFETY AND WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS OR EXPECT SOME ONE TO TAKE WHAT WAS NOT THEIR OWN. WE HAVE TO GO ON AND THANK GOD FOR THE MEMORIES THAT WAS SO PRECIOUS. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO TO GIVE US HOPE TO LIVE WITH THE JOY AROUND US NOW.
I was not born during that time but I do know how great it was. My parents told me all about it. I wish I could have lived back then
Wonderful and nostalgic trip down memory lane.Thank you!
The world when I was a little boy.
Slower times. The days were longer it seems - longer in a good way. Love the pace and the music of this video.
Life in the USA was so much better back then. It truly was.
I was born in 1950 and remember each community having it’s own unique look and character. These pictures show some of that and they bring back memories.
I am always impressed how people dressed. The women wore simple dresses as their children. The boys would have their shirts tucked in and also wore belts. Whatever happened? Look at those cars!!!!
I’d love to sit at a woolworths diner one more time!
Man, I'm glad I grew up in those times. Folks in those times learned how to make things and use tools. You could learn lots about wood working and blacksmithing by walking down the street to a neighbors dad who know how to do something. We carried those things we learned to today and find it incredible that todays generations can't do any of the things we take for granted as just part of growing up.
The worst part of today is the friendliness of others seems to be lacking, along with respect for others viewpoints. But things and people always are changing - but if you grew up back then, you "I" still miss it ......
Agree, friend.
I rem when we went downtown for serious shopping. Always a treat. Killed by the shopping center, then the mall now the mall is dying too. Killed by the likes of Amazon.
I might add that any movie set in the 50s has those old things. An important thing to remember is that to any era the things new to that age - clothes, cars, whatever - did not seem “old” then. They seemed ordinary and even modern.
I do not think shopping centres/malls were the problem.
In ten twenty years, Amazon will be killed by something else.
Only having lived in the fifties would give you that insight. The Pandemic is creating its long term cultural changes too.
@@calbob750 That pandemic you speak of is made up
@@calbob750 The pandemic isn't changing anything. Leftists are using the pandemic to push social, political and economic change that Americans would otherwise have refused.
There videos make me smile
i wish towns still looked like this
Wonderful! Brings back lots of memories. Thank you.
Those how era meant not be to forgot in generations to come in the history of America 🇺🇸
Lisa you have a wonderful smile
Hello how are you
It is not about the times. It is about the people. That's what changed and it is those changes that hurt, destroyed or otherwise have caused so much chaos in our society. Today, presently we're just a mere fragment of a once thriving, self sustaining society built on trust, faith, loyalty, integrity and honesty. No the 1950's were not perfect and yes, we had issues, but we were all Americans.......
Today we're a 3rd world country that has embraced Socialism and political chaos. We are an embarrassment to the world community. We are weak and lost. Lost on technology that, instead of enhancing our intelligence, has become overwhelming and cruel. News is no longer reporting facts, but instead has become a 24 hour cycle of negativity and relentless assaults on people. Our brains being literally inundated with one negative story after another with no rest periods in between. We go from one bad day to another without processing what just happened.
Back in 1955, life was indeed simpler. We were just a mere 10 years away from the Great War. Our country was only then beginning to embrace technologies thought impossible just a scant few years before. People dressed nicer, decent and behaviors were consistent with the times. Even then, other cultures relocating here came here too enjoy what America had to offer. Today, foreigners come here, not too embrace America, but rather to destroy it.
The year 1955 was a great year, but looming over the horizon were changes that no one could possibly be prepared for.
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The world was a more innocent place, Designed to work at a more relaxed pace!
Ah! Such beautiful memories of a more carefree and simpler life! I felt myself walking leisurely just to enjoy the sunshine and go back in time. If you want to experience an old "main street" U.S.A. try Oatman, AZ. You'll be in the 1910s'. Very unique old town.
Thanks for the great photos of what our country (used) to look like. The photos all have one thing in common that makes them exceptional.
Yeah. Not a non-white face I sight. Not the America I lived in, even in the 1940s & '50s.
Gees. America used to be such a great country.
America was so great, now we are “ woke” and statues come down, books are banned, men are in the ladies room, and a senile fool and a communist have been “ elected” --- I’m glad my days are numbered. I served with pride and grew up with respect, my time and America’s time have passed. Thanks for posting this.
" Catcher in the Rye' along with many others were banned in many places during the 50's.
@@kiemer4531 I'll trade all the negatives of the 50's with the negatives of today, in a heartbeat. Blacks also had a real community back then before the government destroyed their communities by driving the fathers out of the homes with welfare programs.
Agree. (about the part of your days being numbered)
James you are so right man. I agree with you.
Maybe Ill live long enough to do something good for the children yet unborn.
People born in the mid to late 70’s on, don’t have a clue to what it was like to “go to town, or go downtown”. I watched the decline start in the late 60’s when Gibson’s Discount Centers opened in suburban areas, followed closely by Walmart. With those stores came the multi screen sterile theaters leading to the closing of the grand and ornate movie houses across the country. Many old theaters are seeing a revival in their usage by community theater companies. Recently I was glad to hear that my old home town had secured federal funding to rehab the movie theater I went to as a kid and adult. And the downtown area has seen a resurgence thanks to The King Ranch and their Saddle Shop moving into a retro refurbishment of the old Ragland’s Department Store building.
How I feel (and I was born in '77). I miss the local ACE Hardware we had down the street.
Seems like America peaked (relative to the rest of the world) by the late 1960s.
@@bloodluster7086 Sounds right to me.
@jamie ericcon Cherish it.
I was born in 1957 and I remember when cities and towns looked like this. A bus ride to go downtown cost 5 cents. Around the holidays I remember pressing my face against the glass of the department stores to look at the toys. Now I'm in my 60's and I'm into model trains and I build my layouts to reflect this era. It really was a better time. I miss those days.
Wonderful shots that evoke so many memories... I love sleepy small town America as much as I love the big cities, in fact I just love America!
All things considered I would go back to the 1950's in a heartbeat!!
But racism was a problem.
@@gadakim6348 like it’s not now?
I don't know what I said @molliwilson5639, but I think this is a better world because there is probably no black human rights in the 1950s.
@@molliwilson5639 I don't know what I said but I think this is a better world because there is probably no black human rights in the 1950s.
@@gadakim6348 Well, that's what they're telling you and they're very glad you are naive and easily malleable to believe it!
I thoroughly enjoy your content.
Very awesome to watch. I need a time machine and go back.
Back to the future?
This is a wonderful channel and I thank you so much for creating it and sharing. I wish the world could know what a wonderful time in history it was in the 1950s. Thanks for the strolls down memory lane.
Simpler TIMES. Great PEOPLE. No cell PHONES.
Wow, a Woolworth. That takes me back! I also love all those old cars.
I sure do miss those days 🥺
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