A View of American Life During the 1950s [in Color]
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Join me as we take a photographic journey around the United States as it looked in the 1950s!
In this video, we'll be seeing the towns, cities, people, and those beautiful cars - all as they looked like at the time.
These photos show true pictures of daily life in the fifties. Most were not professionally taken - they are just snapshots taken at the time.
Most of these shots would have looked completely ordinary 70 years ago - but they look extraordinary as we look back at them today.
Thanks to the magic of Kodachrome and Ektachrome color film, we're looking at original color photos of the era as it looked back then - (with the exception of about four colorized images.)
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#50s #lifeinamerica #nostalgia
50s the best time. Beautiful cars, great music people were different. Life was much better . I wish I could go back.
yeah, you right about the white people being different they would lynch any black man just for looking at a white woman let alone talk to one. if a black man had some money and wanted to buy one of those beautiful cars white boys would resent it call the black man an uppity you know what. no thanks life is much better now than back in the 1950s.you right about one thing white people were different back then in fact they were a lot worse.
So many great memories growing up in the ‘50s. The streets were clean even in the poor parts of town. Children could play outside without fear of being shot in those areas. Stay at home moms wore dresses and white gloves to church and even to the grocery store. Men wore pleated pants, white shirts, ties and a fedora to work, even in many factories. Grandparents spoiled their grandkids, they didn’t raise them. Even though we had drills where we had to hide under our desk in case of a Russian attack it was balanced by a dose of religious education that gave us hope that God would protect us. We pledged allegiance and treated the flag with respect. We had one car and one tv with 3 channels yet we weren’t bored or felt deprived. Dad usually came home with a smile on his face while mom relived her trying day of cooking, cleaning and disciplining us kids. But it all seemed so normal. The universe was in its sweet spot. We were a loving family, doing what came naturally. I wish I could bring it back for our kids and grandkids, if just for a day.
Thank you for this.. Really great insight.
Yes i understand and to those who dont get im sorry to some snd to others well enjoy your slice of heaven cause mines long gone so much i miss ....
Beautiful, clean, well maintained, and not a single slob.
For Ffs - dude!! How clean were the emission standards for all those gigantic gas guzzling cars. Hint - dipstick ! Zero f's given! Future air quality & health of people breathing in pollution. Pls enlighten us plebes.
@@fluffy1931 . In the future, your generation will also be mocked when they judge your outdated technology. But go on, continue mocking your ancestors.
@@fluffy1931 , just like the manufacturing of EV batteries, third world child labor.
I love seeing all the locally owned stores!!!! Before corporate big boxes.
I'd go BACK in a heart beat. America WAS great then.
Maybe for your skin color but not mine.
When I was a kid in the 50's/60's I used to spend a lot of time daydreaming and thinking about a futuristic America and how great the future would be. Magazines used to portray a space age America. Wow, were they ever off the mark. Sure wish I could go back to that time. We had it great.
I totally agree with that.
I'm not that old but for someone that was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s technology advanced too quickly to the point that you can't even keep up with it. I couldn't help seeing TVs going from ginormous pieces of furniture in the eightie to these paper thin televisions of today.
Born in 55 and I still want My flying car. We were supposed to have them by the Year2000!!
@@dennisriblett4622 😆😆😆 Right. Even my grandfather in the 50's used to answer me when I told him I would be happy when I could drive, "oh you won't drive like this, you'll have flying cars". Where did we go wrong?
@@dennisriblett4622
Flying cars? Too many people can't safely operate traditional cars today. Flying cars would be an absolute disaster.
That music was absolutely incredible choice 👍
A time when you could name every brand of car just seeing it drive by. It was fun to see the Nash Rambler in some pictures. I am 86 the fifty’s were my years.
Yeah, what's the likelihood of TWO of them in the same shot at 7:35 !
Up until the shitty 1970's
Oh, those cars. And those neon signs! Not one foreign car to be seen, not even a Bug. Things in America were just prettier then. Whatta time to be alive!
Correction: ONE Bug (split window!) at around 6:30 😏
I see these old photographs and I see Great Britain too; High streets full with shoppers, town centeres before the they were destroyed by blinkered council planners; our schools, once places of teaching independent thought, now given over to children being brainwashed. Where people were actualy friends with their neighbours and helped them out in times of need. I`m sixty nine and am thankfull I`m not starting out in life. Sometimes I could just weep.
Exactly
You and me both. I’m 71. I am so thankful I grew up back then and not now. We are circling the drain.
What a time machine this video is. No big box stores, just small downtown pharmacies, 5 and dimes just vibrant down town areas.
People neatly dressed, streets clean, vehicles in good shape. Like life should be. What changed?
modern day globalist wokery.
The 60's and 70's. Corruption, pollution, greed, Women's Lib, crime, the breakdown of the nuclear family, class, morality, privacy, minding one's own business, and much, more more...
@@mectron63It wasnt Woke Nation that sent our manufacturing jobs overseas, and flooded our markets with cheap junk from China or Mexico. It was corporate greed, and labor unions getting too fat and entitled.
Democrats
@@JeffKopis amen jeff
Thanks for posting this. It was a great time to be growing up. It is a time we will never see again. As a nation we have fallen so far.
I lived in these times in my past life. Oh how I miss it.
If only we could turn back time…
I came for the CARS and wasn't disappointed. Thanks!
Excellent - I’m glad to hear it! Can you imagine when all of the roads were filled with these beautiful automobiles?
Thank you for the wonderful and high quality pictures making time traveling a pure joy! I love ALL of your clips!
No bro this makes me cry😢 I’m only 11 and I have loved old cars all my life I would be so happy if I could see cars like this on the road again because allot of them are rotting away in some barn I would be so happy if I could own cars like this. 2:04
Hi Raptor, I was 11 in 1958. I lived in Charlotte then. I know this neighborhood. How about the '59 Caddy fins.
@@samwiggins5349 wow that’s cool how was it back then? I just wana know
We have fallen a long long way since then...
well being a black man today is an improvement. back in the 1950s a black man like me would'nt be able to play baseball with a white guy. i would have to sit at the back of the bus and if it was full get up and give you white boys my seat. i could'nt use the same hotel as you white boys and i could'nt go in the same cinema as you white boys only cinema i could go in had to say REX on it . i could also get LYNCHED at the drop of a hat for just looking at a white woman let alone talk to her. I think 2000s a vast improvement on 1950s.
Verdaderamente los coches norteamericanos de los años `50 eran fabulosos. Y las chicas glamurosas y encantadoras. Creo que la sociedad de aquellos años ha sido la mejor de los EEUU.
No, con la gente de color sin derechos civiles.
Love the old cars in these like the 1953 Chevy 150 sedan @ 2:42
Great pictures.
I'm glad you liked them - thanks for watching!
You always choose such great music!! Awesome channel and video!!
Thank you very much!
Look what we have become today! So sad!
Another "home run" of a video! A great way to spend a few minutes...thank you.
Thanks so much for your kind words - I really appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
another home run ? back in the 1950s a black guy could hit a 100 home runs he still was not allowed to play in the MLB. only whites could play in the MLB
When America was great!
Do you realise you're looking at a SELECTION of images?
What is your point Einstein? Let me guess, America is evil?
The fact is, There wasnt a better place to live in the 1950`s, than America! @@limosalimosa
Where is Detroit, Michigan? Back then it was the car capital of our nation.
Great point - you're correct. I do have Detroit photos, more of which will be shown in future videos. Thanks for watching.
Detroit, at that time, the model city for the WORLD.
My home state made the cut!
“Pure Michigan.”
Won't be seeing much more Pure Michigan. Heir Gretchen has cut the funds to projects that benefit northern and western Michigan.
@@Yellow.Dog.
Politics?
Go find something to weld.
At 3:40, that's actually a Packard! Or a 'PackardBaker' if you prefer...
You are absolutely right! My mistake! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to make the correction.
Look at the cars !!!!
Back when people had pride in there appearances.
Family!!!
I didn't see a single Packard among all the cars shown in this video. They were still producing cars until 1958. Not surprising. They were more admired than popular after WWll.
Their heyday was the late 20's, before the Depression.
That’s a Packard at 3:38, albeit a “Packardbaker.”
👍Good.
Thank you! Cheers!
2:50 Love the photos, I'm on the east coast. PHILADELPHIA.. New York New J.. any chance of doing a spread for us east of the Mississippi. 😊
Всі фото в кольорі . причому відмінної якості!
04:02 shows one of the many tools used to change society from that to this.
Only if you can go back in time a fly on the wall
cool I always look for the newest car so kinda know the yr the post card pic was taken what the most popular cars where
Sure seems like better time. Is it scary that I can identify most of the makes of cars where today I barely can.
Wow, neat and clean, no spray paint all over everything, no litter, no drug addicts lying in the street! Democrats and public employee unions sure ruined it all!
I'm a Canadian stop blaming Democrats Republicans trickle-down Theory never trickle-down so don't blame Democrats Republicans are just as responsible for the mess of your country educate yourself before you speak
You didn't mention all the cigarette butts littering the streets and side walks. Nor did you mention all the nicotine addicts exhaling their toxic fumes in your face you're while dinning out, standing in line, riding the train, etc. You didn't even mention the paranoia of the McCarthy era nor the racial terror against Blacks.
Civil rights? What's that? Rosa Parks and Little Rock Central High? Remember the Korean War? How about Duck and Cover? Children were taught to hide under a desk or against a wall and cover their neck and face for safety during a nuclear attack. One nice thing about the 1950's is that everyday Americans didn't have worry about Ak 15 assault rifles.
@@antoniahamilton3201"racial terror against blacks" xD what a nice joke. Just because they couldnt use places for white people it suddenly harmed them so much? XD and half of those things u mentioned werent bad. And definitely not as bad as u think
Emmet till case was so good😊. A good example of what happens if blacks dont know their place xD
Always scan these US 50's videos for UK cars ,sales of which helped the economy recover after WW 2 , only saw what looks like a Jag XK120 ? at 7:30 .🇬🇧🇺🇸
Before forced intergration. Eisonhower should of stayed at building highways instead of social engineering.
Actually a Packard although based on a Studebaker. Very sad end to a great car company.😊
You can see now that all the BS about American cars being inferior was just a lie to bring in globalism car markets by the elites
How many Canal Streets are there, C'mon...y'already got two.... You can DO this!
How many Main Streets do ya think there are in America? First Avenues, Washington, Lincoln, Madison, and Jefferson Streets? How many Deer Parks, Deer Creeks, Bear Creeks? There are many more streets than there are names for them.
A time when men were men, women were women and kids were kids. People, regardless of political party got along......Long before the misinformation and horror of t-rump.
I beg to differ, you mean the horror of dementia joe, correct!?
actually, there have been many crap presidents on both sides the last 30 years , I'd Place Joe, just as bad as Trump, but Trump ranks low in my opinion due to his weakening of the presidential office itself. George Bush Jr was equally as bad who went from 9/11 hero to 2003 Iraq War Zero, marks due to his most controversial decision: the 2003 invasion of Iraq , politics aside many other issues/problems are ruining things, the world over. @@viking670
Big cars replaced by big SUVs 😂
How many of today’s SUVs will be collector cars 50 or 60 years from now?
Why don’t you North Carolina and South Carolina all you show mostly is north and west states
BS. I saw Dallas, New Orleans, Florida, lots of other places.
why only the west coast?
Watch it again. I saw Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, and others.
The photo of Ludington, Michigan 1954is kinda strange. That town must have been way ahead of its time. There is a 57 Dodge and a 57 Oldsmobile in the picture.
ONLY CARS
They all were very rich and drove in classic cars.
They werent "classics" in the 50's, bud, they were just CARS. Things become "classic" only with the passage of time.
1950 America is 2023 China. We must accept reality. Don't let jealousy lead to war!
😅
1933 great depression era America is 2023 China.
You must be a product of the modern education system. What an utterly stupid thing to say. We were free then. Now, we are China
@@steveperry3538 . Sure. Free to be racist in 1950s.
I don't believe the USA was run by communists in the 1950s. Stuff back then was also built better and lasted longer than the cheaply made stuff from China today. The cost of executives making millions while they pay for cheap labor in China.
Only Trump can fix our country!
Do you realise you're looking at a SELECTION of images?
Keep your ignorance to yourself.
TRUMP ❤️
Every word out of his mouth is a lie. And you sheep believe it because you want to believe it. He tells you what you want to hear.
nice perfect white world😐
Well its america you go to china its. Chinese people this is a relic for some dont make this a raceist thing im not
СКАЖИТЕ А МНОГО ЛЮДЕЙ С ЭТОГО ВИДЕО ЖИВЫ В 2023 ГОДУ ДАЙТЕ ИХ ТЕЛЕФОН И АДРЕС
In hindsight we realize it was America at its zenith, in all its imperfect glory. Those times will never come again.
I'm 69 years old , and I can remember when we didn't have ( and didn't NEED ) " lifestyles " . We just LIVED !!!
Well said....sadly
Today's young people have no idea what America was like, especially in the 50's and early 60"s. Sure, we had problems, but it was clean, people had respect for each other and the police, people were proud to be an Ametican.
Very well said.....I try to not bombard today's young....with the fond memories of my past...growing up in the 1960s in comparison to growing up today in today's modern America....
It was not perfect back then....there were the same challenges faced that mankind will always face I suppose...
But there are some things becoming extinct that we had that are not as excepted or enthusiastically demonstrated nowadays.
Things like Character.....Having pride in what you do....even if you collect trash for the city....
Common Courestesy.....even to strangers.....holding a door open....using a turn signal....
Respect for the Flag....our Constitution...Our Country....and always at the forefront: Our Shared American Experience....always great full and how fortunate we are to grow up living in freedom
Respect for each other and be taught the difference between what is fair and what is equal
To be proud to go anywhere in the world...from friendly to foe.....and you were looked upon in revere....and proud to acknowledge...."I'm American".....
Giving of ours selves to protect the vulnerable and our coveted way of life.....Selfless Service....giving back
Traditional Values....Raising a family....learning how to..and taking on the responsibility of being a good parent....teaching your children properly and being involved....
Perception....Slow down for a few minutes.....Turn your cellular phone off....set down...take a breath...and take an honest un tampered look at the World around us.......growing up...when I did...we didn't have as many devices to fuss around with and the instant ability to interact...
Don't get me wrong.....there were micro wave towers....inter continental wire cable service around the continent....Television was in it's Zenith....three networks....The U.S. Continental Interstate Highway was nearing completion....We had Jet Service...Boing 707s were the Cadillacs of the sky and you didn't board the Airliner dressed in a house coat and shower shoes.
There was plenty of bad..
The Iron Curtain.....Vietnam Nam....Global Nuclear Destruction.....The Civil Rights Movement...Woman's Liberation.....The change from customer to consumer and the death of small business and the allure of the impersonal mega stores.
The difference is what qualities that we are taught....which ones are relevant and which ones we display on a daily basis.....
BRING ME TO THAT ERA PLEASE.............i will give you my net-book.....my i-pad.....my full led screen.....my electric tesla.....my facebook account..........😁 life was so simple and love was so REAL.😮💨
so much better without all that crap that precocious billionaires have ruined society with
makes me nostalgic for a time i never experienced!
Beautiful clean looking cities, no tents, no needles and human feces on the sidewalks, imagine that!
The best times for USA: colorful, beautiful cars and elegant people!
What have we done to this once beautiful, great country ? Thanks again for sharing your videos.
God bless 🙏
I am 76 years in age. Seeing these photos really brings tears to my eyes.
And they call what we live in now, progress 😕. We've lost all the good and inherited all the bad.
It's amazing the contrast in how people had pride in how they looked compared to today. Men wore suits and ties and the ladies wore dresses. Nowadays people don't even comb their hair before leaving the house.
@@stoveboltlvr3798 I know, what happened.
Thanks! Memories for an old man.
❤
Zowie. What terrific collection. I grew up in the 1950s, so many of these photos hit me very close to home. Just a fantastic array of artfully composed, well selected photographs! Nice work!
When all of America was normal.
ah yes, normal back in 1950s america meant you could lynch any black man for just looking at a white woman let alone talk to her. ah yes, us black boys could'nt play major league baseball with white boys either. ah yes the 1950s only whites could sit at the front of the bus while all blacks had to sit at the back even if the seats at the front were empty.i think 2000s are more normal than the 1950s.
@@trinihammer You think incorrectly and you must be from the South. I was raised in the city and we played ball with everyone. In fact there was more black racism against whites than the other way around in some NYC burgs.
Not so much if one was black.
Repressed*
@@heru-deshet359what???
Heartbreaking. A time of peace, unity and prosperity that’s now gone forever.
Amen ...to that !
In th 50s? Uh, no it wasn't.
Hard to believe. We were that country! What happened to us! Liberal politics!😢
More like right wing nut jobs and trumpism.
J u d e happened
Nixon would be called a liberal by Republicans today.
The cars were fabulous and the girls were glamorous - what happened??
The 70s.
@@JeffKopis more like social media happened, now people think having lips that look like big blisters, tattoos, piercings etc is cool? Obesity is ok...... Please take me back to the 70s any day it was better then
drugs
Back when Detroit was still a cultural and economic paradise....
Now every city is falling from grace
Detroit was already slipping into a dumpster fire during the 1950's! Urban renewal aka' tear down poor neighborhoods to make way for more freeways! The mistake of having a auto industry & nothing else. The Eisenhower late 1950's US economy slipped into a deep recession that shuttered many auto & auto related industry in Detroit.
I would love to be able to take a weeks vacation and go back in time to this time.
Me too. Don’t get down yet. Things might just be getting ready to turn around
I would do it permanent
@@domenicv7962 me too buddy
well i hope you are white because if you are black and go back to that time get prepared to get LYNCHED for just daring to buy a nice car or house.
Me too, and I'd buy gold, silver, and Coca-Cola stock! 🤑
AWESOME STUFF!!!! Keep up the great work!
can i please go back there, today is full on clown world sodom and gemorah
Two things strike me. The cars were beautiful and there were very few obese people!
I just love all of these photos they are just awesome. Brings back so many memories of when I was a kid.😊 thank you so much❤
From the end of WW2 to about the early to mid 60's the U.S was at it's best because we basically had an homogenesis society. In other words most of society was on the same page. Then about the mid to late 60's onward society started to fracture and it is still fracturing more today. We have pretty much went into the toilet. we tend to only blame politicians but Americans are also to blame. We don't teach our children respect for each other, their teachers, police officers and others like we used to. Americans are not raising their children in church like they used to. We are allowing same sex marriages. We have replaced basic christianity with political ideology. As long as Americans continue to move in this type of direction our politicans will follow.
O império americano está acabando porque seu egoísmo não quiz levar paz e prosperidade para outros países. Vocês se vêem com o centro do mundo e nada mais importa. O mundo existe apenas para satisfazer suas necessidades materiais insaciáveis.
@@dorianesteves6120 yeah yeah....whatever. We have heard this sort of tripe BS for over two hundred years. there were many who did not think America would last 50 years after breaking away from Great Britain...But here we are still going damn strong.
@@laserbeam002O império romano durou séculos mas um dia acabou.
Thanks for few relaxing moments and memories,I finished School in the 50s before going into the Military,what a wonderful time as is today,no filth no slime Ladies were all beautiful,Men well dressed. Please take Me back to the 50s.
Until the shitty 1970's
Yeah, no freaks, no weirdos, no girls with tattoos, crew cuts, or anything pierced besides their ears.
Where are all the crazy people. FJB
Beautiful and clean and sense peace. 👍
give me a time machine please
Why did this country need To be destroyed to fix the problems that existed? Now we all have to live with the mess!
Whichg country? Nice example of how you can tell ANY story when you select the images. You can paint a decent picture of North Korea too when you leave out the depravity, the cruelty, the suffering. Don't be fooled by propaganda.
Lincoln in his infinite wisdom knowing what would eventually happen tried to save America by sending them all to Libya after the war .
No problems are being fixed, but the destruction continues
@@limosalimosayeah i know. I can paint a pretty picture of modern california if I cut out lgbt freaks, feminist propaganda, drug addicts, trash on the Streets, hobos and tents on sidewalks everywhere, multiculturalism and its criminals, censorship and cummunist rulers of the state. Yeah i could paint a pretty good picture of california with that propaganda
fantastic photos and great accompanying music....thanks
excellent I would have preferred these times. when they made quality automobiles. People attitudes I'm sure were better than these are my favorite videos to watch.
LOL! They did NOT make quality automobiles. They were unsafe piles of crap that lasted 60k mile if you were lucky. Todays cars are FAR BETTER in every way (except styling). They are much safer, get better fuel economy, have 3x the power, a will go 200k miles IF you do basic maintenance.
@@coolruehle you would have to slide in with your ignorant comment if you believe that cars are better now then you're even more ignorant than your comment there's always someone that has to slide and criticize someone's comment with an ignorant comment have a nice day
well, i am going to slide in with an ignorant comment, you say peoples attitudes back then were better ? are you talking about the attitude of white people that were against black people eating in the same restaurants as them, were against black people playing major league baseball with them, were aginst black people drinking from the same water fountain as them, the same good quality that said it was right for white people to lynch a black man for just looking at a white woman let alone talking to one. those are the people attitudes of the 1950s that you say were better than today. you need to have a reality check.
@@coolruehle get a life what would you know about quality everybody knows cars were put together better cars lasted longer the only one that doesn't is you don't you have anything better to do than bother people😂 cars now have more safety built into them, but they are junk overpriced cheap looking no style no class a lot like you leave me alone and go find a life🤣
I’m glad you liked the video - thanks for watching!
Welcome to the sub human race 2024,a different race of folks back then.
The decade I grew up in. Thanks for the memories.
WHEN PEOPLE WERE PEOPLE....
The way we were back in the day? Was a far BETTER WAY than we are today‼️🤔
Make America Like the 1950’s again❤️🇺🇸😘
Despite a few problems, this was the most perfect / wonderful time in American history
Cold War & Korean War & Jim Crow & segregation strict race laws along with poll tax & voter suppression and the late 1950's recession enters the chat! Joe McCarthy & 'blacklists' ffs.
Well done. It made me feel like I was there. Appreciate the beautiful music also.
Thank you for your kind words!!!
So easy to recognize the manufacturer of each automobile.
And ALL AMERICAN.
Don’t mind me. I’m just passing through looking for places and people I used to know.
Everything looks pretty much the same, just like the USA, EXCEPT for one thing: the CARS in the 2020's are much uglier-looking.
. . . . and 1950's cars didn't cost $40,000.00 we Googled it, the average price in the 1950's was under $2,000 :)
The only thing I don’t like about the 1950s cars was they were super Long!! Reminds me of a boat.
Notice back then all the small business we need to go back to that instead of the big corp
I'm in my mid-seventies but can appreciate that these were the best of times. From Alberta
Canada to Los Altos California. Faith, respect, prosperity, decency, honesty, genuine 3 R's education, a safe San Francisco and a new car model tooled up every year utilizing slide rules. We've collectively lost so much.
Мечта, а сейчас клоака
One of my favorite memories from the '50s is that Studebaker, and sure enough, y'all had it!
The golden era of elegance
Where O' Where have we gone so terribly wrong?
J u d e
🙏
sold out all jobs to cheap labor
At 6:18 it's NOT Chinatown in New Orleans. See the orange California license plates?
Those are probably Texas plates of the time. Not far from New Orleans.