It is a miracle I survived the 60s. Riding in the back of a pickup truck while dad was driving around the farm and standing on the back bar of a tractor while it was in motion. Opening up a white storage box that was stored with category #1 agricultural pesticides marked DANGER. skull and crossbones on the bags and containers. Stuff that was banned years back. Climbing onto butane tanks and up eucalyptus trees with wood beams that supported heavy farm implements. I'm 66 now but back then us kids really ignored any potential dangers.
I was a kid in the early 1970's. I did most of those things in this video. Ate tons of sugar, no seat belt in cars. My father smoked cigars in the house and the car. The windows rolled up in the car. My friends and I went exploring in the woods. We ate all kinds of junk foods. I'm 58 now and in perfect health. Todays kids are being bought up like babies. Not tough at all.
Did all of them, although my mom limited sugar. We rolled tiny balls of mercury around on the bathroom floor when a thermometer broke. The balls would attach together. Walked to school and home. It's not that parents didn't care. We just knew what to do and were expected to act intelligently. We late boomers were a happy bunch. Now mothers get arrested for having an 11 year old child who walks to town. The real crime is in the sherriff's lack of common sense and the fact that streets aren't safe enough for kids to be out and about. I've had enough of Karens. Kind of funny that back then kids were generally well behaved. No school shootings and families were happy.
My dad took me to a grocery store to grab a couple things and left me in the car. I was about 5-6 years old. The parking lot was on a big hill. For some reason I pulled down the gear shift and the car rolled backwards. It hit a curb and stopped. I ran into the store crying “Daddy the car went down the hill!” Fortunately no other cars in the lot that time. We had a family friend who had a station wagon. It was winter and the roads were snowy/icy. Our group of families decided to go for pizza. The owner of the station wagon told us kids to climb in and he would do cheerios in the snow. We are going down a road and he hits the brakes. The car did a complete 180. Us kids were screaming and he was laughing! When he hit the brakes kids went flying into each other. Had a friend whose dad had a beagle for hunting. They had a cage along the back of their garage for the dog to do his business in. There was a pet door the dog would go into the garage to eat/drink and sleep in his house. My friend and I would play in the cage. I remember running back and forth along the length of the cage and hopping over poop. 😊
There was no police officers patrolling school hallways when I was a child! Also, I was told that if I was spanked at school, I would receive another spanking when I arrived home. Did I mention that I was never spanked at school?
We would play with firecrackers, make bows and arrows, zip guns and slingshots like they were nothing. And half our toys involved electricity without supervision, like Creepy Crawlers. Ahhhhhh... the memories.
None of the homes being built were fenced so we played in these construction sites as kids. Exploring the basements and taking the round metal electrical slugs to use in gumball machines. We would ask the builders for any scrap wood so we could build forts. Survival of the fittest! Nothing bubble wrapped about us as kids. No helmets, or knee pads when biking either. My brothers would build models then blow them up with blackcat firecrackers or cherry bombs. Those carefree days were simply the best!
In the 60s and 70s, my friend and I were secret Agents, and we'd sneak into vacant buildings, and even had a club house in a old apartment bldg, we had running water and electricity, it was great, until the new owner took over, 😅life was great
I was in the 60's, and we, with alot of other kids concocked some pritty dangerous stunts, but from all my life, no really got hurt bad, and we were FREE in those days.
Videomaker never saw Jarts, they dont have sharp points, they were dull and rounded. Still, there is always the danger that you could have poked somebody’s eye out or injured a person if you misused them……like we did. We threw them from the street, over the house, and into the backyard, trying to get a bullseye. We came away unscathed.
Being 75 years old and being raised in the San Fernando Valley were I went to school and worked until I was 39 years old. Personally I wouldn’t trade the Life I had. All of this fear monger stuff is simply a load of crap , I will say before the cell phone life was much better. When I was a kid I would make my bed as soon as I got up, go see what my Mom was doing and if she needed any Help, I was the oldest of 6 kids and I learned how to cook when I was 7 years old and make meals for my siblings. We raised chickens for the eggs and I would go get them to make breakfast. I always had a garden were I grew tomatoes 🍅, corn 🌽, potatoes 🥔, strawberries and onions 🧅, spinach and chard with some lettuce. We had an avocado tree and a lemon tree in the yard. In hindsight I was very fortunate to have been raised when I was. Before the TV you had to go to the movie theater, before the phone you had to ride your bike to visit your friends where their Mother would offer you a cup of milk and some cookies. Neighbors watched out for each other and would help each other when the need arose.
With the growing hype nowadays about plastic particles getting into everything, including, supposedly, people's bodies, no doubt, 50 or 60 years from now, someone will recollect about the old days when food was placed in plastic containers and when plastic objects were all around us.
Great times to be a kid. I now own a 63’ Mercury Comet that didn’t come with seat belts. I remember in chemistry class in high school in the 70’s sticking our fingers in a beaker of Mercury , and the teacher pouring some chemical into a beaker of water and it blew up and shattered the beaker everywhere. It’s funny the things that stick in your mind. Thanks for the great memories. I am still alive and surviving. We grew up tough in those days. 👍
Wow! How did I make it out alive from those dangerous times? 72 years later and I'm still here. I wouldn't trade my childhood with any kid today. Kids were allowed to be kids when I was growing up. We didn't have or need helicopter parents hovering over us to protect us all of the time. In fact our parents didn't even know where we were or what we were doing half of the time and we were outside until it got dark. Yes, we had our share of bumps, bruises, scrapes, cuts and even a broken bone every now and then, but that was just part of growing up. The river was like a magnet in the summer and we all swam in it. We were all excellent swimmers and I never knew any kid that drowned. We all got the measles, mumps and chicken pox. I remember a few kids at school with braces from getting polio before the vaccine came out, but that was about the extent of sickness among most of us. Today I see lots of kids with asthma and lots of obese kids. I don't recall that being a problem when I was growing up. Usually when you see a kid today they're staring at their smartphone. Does anyone really believe that those smartphones are making kids smarter? Thank goodness smartphones didn't exist when I was a kid.
I wish we were back in the day. We were happier then and did not worry about anything, so we live longer now. But are he as Happy as we were back then. NO. I loved playing yard darts with my grandfather. I never heard of anyone getting hurt by them. All media smoke. I played with almost all of these toys, and I loved them. This world now is just a bunch of boo Hoos, and you can all kiss my backside. Toys now teach our kids how to kill to the point they think it is ok to walk into school and start shooting. Never had this back in my day. THINK PEOPLE. We have become a bunch of woosies This video is so stupid, you oblivious are only looking at the dark side and you can find that in any generation. DUH,
I’ve never seen a parent give their babies pop. That was a no no even then. We did have lawn Jarts that came with a lecture before every use. We weren’t allowed to stay in the car either, never! We were not allowed to touch the thermometers either. It was only used when we were sick because our mom knew about the mercury. There must’ve been some pretty horrible parents back then. lol we had freedoms big time, but we were also being parented by parents who cared about us. We jumped off the back porch, but only if there was at least a foot of snow outside. My parents knew about the dangers drinking out of a hose. We had to knock on somebody’s door and ask for a glass of water because we weren’t allowed to drink from the hose. I’ve seen kids do it but my mom always said it’s never worth the risk. We were also warned about sewers after the rain, etc. I think this should be the bad parents of the 60s although we were hanging out the car windows and my spot was to lay in the back rearview window on the ledge. I also got the middle spot in the front seat. I used to sit on the armrest. My mom didn’t let us out in the sun all day either we would wear T-shirts and have to play shade games at the peak times. She was very careful about sunburns. We were on our bikes all day going here and there.
To think that most boomers would get out in direct summer sun and bake like clams seems horrific. Sun block - are you kidding me - it was oil-based lotions to make you burn faster, uh, I mean tan. So many fair-skinned kids like myself were trying to get tan. Dermatologists will tell people that their skin cancer was likely from a burn many decades ago. I remember seeing these beautiful girls with deep, dark tans and thinking that was sexy - but now when I see deep tans, I'm thinking of skin damage.
We were brought up tough. You fell get up your limbs are still attached your good. Today my kids cry over feeling not just physical hurt it’s like everyone today needs a therapist. 😂😂😂 suck it up buttercups
The Sun was not as hot.....we had an actual ozone layer back then and oh yeah, there was no sunscreen back then....there wasnt even good hair conditioner back then.
This doesn't mean we were ignored! You have nerve! At least back then we had real sugar, today is fake sugar. And jarts, and the thing maker we weren't stupid & had parents who had brains. Wow this video is horrible! So many facts didn't come out back then! I'm done with your channel. At least we didn't grow up as over grown babies!
What risky things were you up to in the 1960s?
Climbing trees, riding bikes without helmets, lol.
I'm 75 yo and the 60s was my growing up decade and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Life was a lot simpler then.
Yeah🎉 class of ‘67😄👌
@@katiemoyer8679 Me too! 😎
I am glad I grew up in the 50s and 60s
It is a miracle I survived the 60s. Riding in the back of a pickup truck while dad was driving around the farm and standing on the back bar of a tractor while it was in motion. Opening up a white storage box that was stored with category #1 agricultural pesticides marked DANGER. skull and crossbones on the bags and containers. Stuff that was banned years back. Climbing onto butane tanks and up eucalyptus trees with wood beams that supported heavy farm implements. I'm 66 now but back then us kids really ignored any potential dangers.
It's called: WE WEREN'T A BUNCH OF SISSIES BACK THEN.
I have done all of those things and many more. If you think our lives are healthier and safer now, you're just fooling yourself...
I was a kid in the early 1970's. I did most of those things in this video. Ate tons of sugar, no seat belt in cars. My father smoked cigars in the house and the car. The windows rolled up in the car. My friends and I went exploring in the woods. We ate all kinds of junk foods. I'm 58 now and in perfect health. Todays kids are being bought up like babies. Not tough at all.
totally agree
Did all of them, although my mom limited sugar.
We rolled tiny balls of mercury around on the bathroom floor when a thermometer broke. The balls would attach together.
Walked to school and home. It's not that parents didn't care. We just knew what to do and were expected to act intelligently.
We late boomers were a happy bunch.
Now mothers get arrested for having an 11 year old child who walks to town. The real crime is in the sherriff's lack of common sense and the fact that streets aren't safe enough for kids to be out and about. I've had enough of Karens.
Kind of funny that back then kids were generally well behaved. No school shootings and families were happy.
I had a Gilbert chemistry set; I broke most of the containers but managed to mix up some pretty cool stuff - probably deadly as all hell. 🤣🤣🤣
I remember those days!! Thank you 😊
My dad took me to a grocery store to grab a couple things and left me in the car. I was about 5-6 years old. The parking lot was on a big hill. For some reason I pulled down the gear shift and the car rolled backwards. It hit a curb and stopped. I ran into the store crying “Daddy the car went down the hill!” Fortunately no other cars in the lot that time.
We had a family friend who had a station wagon. It was winter and the roads were snowy/icy. Our group of families decided to go for pizza. The owner of the station wagon told us kids to climb in and he would do cheerios in the snow. We are going down a road and he hits the brakes. The car did a complete 180. Us kids were screaming and he was laughing! When he hit the brakes kids went flying into each other.
Had a friend whose dad had a beagle for hunting. They had a cage along the back of their garage for the dog to do his business in. There was a pet door the dog would go into the garage to eat/drink and sleep in his house. My friend and I would play in the cage. I remember running back and forth along the length of the cage and hopping over poop. 😊
There was no police officers patrolling school hallways when I was a child! Also, I was told that if I was spanked at school, I would receive another spanking when I arrived home.
Did I mention that I was never spanked at school?
We would play with firecrackers, make bows and arrows, zip guns and slingshots like they were nothing. And half our toys involved electricity without supervision, like Creepy Crawlers. Ahhhhhh... the memories.
We were free back in the 60’s & 70’s. Kids today are prisoners, little neurotic bundles of nerves ripe for the control of big brother.
I have always loved the Fratzog! Cheers:)
@@brian70Cuda 👍 I own a 64, thus the screen name.
@@fratzogmopars Very nice! I hope you take her out for a spin on nice days still!:)
So true 😂
None of the homes being built were fenced so we played in these construction sites as kids. Exploring the basements and taking the round metal electrical slugs to use in gumball machines. We would ask the builders for any scrap wood so we could build forts. Survival of the fittest! Nothing bubble wrapped about us as kids. No helmets, or knee pads when biking either. My brothers would build models then blow them up with blackcat firecrackers or cherry bombs. Those carefree days were simply the best!
We grew up tough in those days! 😂
Your mother's arm was your seat belt
I miss the 60's back then we learned things the hard way such driving, toys, men fist fight then we shook hands forgot about it
In the 60s and 70s, my friend and I were secret Agents, and we'd sneak into vacant buildings, and even had a club house in a old apartment bldg, we had running water and electricity, it was great, until the new owner took over, 😅life was great
I was in the 60's, and we, with alot of other kids concocked some pritty dangerous stunts, but from all my life, no really got hurt bad, and we were FREE in those days.
NUNS WERE TERRIFYING,
Videomaker never saw Jarts, they dont have sharp points, they were dull and rounded. Still, there is always the danger that you could have poked somebody’s eye out or injured a person if you misused them……like we did. We threw them from the street, over the house, and into the backyard, trying to get a bullseye. We came away unscathed.
Being 75 years old and being raised in the San Fernando Valley were I went to school and worked until I was 39 years old. Personally I wouldn’t trade the Life I had. All of this fear monger stuff is simply a load of crap , I will say before the cell phone life was much better. When I was a kid I would make my bed as soon as I got up, go see what my Mom was doing and if she needed any Help, I was the oldest of 6 kids and I learned how to cook when I was 7 years old and make meals for my siblings. We raised chickens for the eggs and I would go get them to make breakfast. I always had a garden were I grew tomatoes 🍅, corn 🌽, potatoes 🥔, strawberries and onions 🧅, spinach and chard with some lettuce. We had an avocado tree and a lemon tree in the yard. In hindsight I was very fortunate to have been raised when I was. Before the TV you had to go to the movie theater, before the phone you had to ride your bike to visit your friends where their Mother would offer you a cup of milk and some cookies. Neighbors watched out for each other and would help each other when the need arose.
Sugar Pops are Tops! Hay, Wild Bill, wait for me!
Thankx for the recollections.
About sugar and sweets, nothing back then was poisoned like it is today. Today, there is alot, and I mean ALOT of poisons in our foods.
With the growing hype nowadays about plastic particles getting into everything, including, supposedly, people's bodies, no doubt, 50 or 60 years from now, someone will recollect about the old days when food was placed in plastic containers and when plastic objects were all around us.
I am nearly 72 and I still look back on Catholic school with horror. Institutionalized child abuse is not cute or a charming memory.
It’s almost like we did in the 1970’s as kids we got a way with stuff as well
In the old days, safety was taken as seriously as it is today. Cars were designed for style and convenience, not safety
Great times to be a kid. I now own a 63’ Mercury Comet that didn’t come with seat belts.
I remember in chemistry class in high school in the 70’s sticking our fingers in a beaker of Mercury , and the teacher pouring some chemical into a beaker of water and it blew up and shattered the beaker everywhere. It’s funny the things that stick in your mind.
Thanks for the great memories. I am still alive and surviving. We grew up tough in those days. 👍
Wow! How did I make it out alive from those dangerous times? 72 years later and I'm still here. I wouldn't trade my childhood with any kid today. Kids were allowed to be kids when I was growing up. We didn't have or need helicopter parents hovering over us to protect us all of the time. In fact our parents didn't even know where we were or what we were doing half of the time and we were outside until it got dark. Yes, we had our share of bumps, bruises, scrapes, cuts and even a broken bone every now and then, but that was just part of growing up. The river was like a magnet in the summer and we all swam in it. We were all excellent swimmers and I never knew any kid that drowned. We all got the measles, mumps and chicken pox. I remember a few kids at school with braces from getting polio before the vaccine came out, but that was about the extent of sickness among most of us. Today I see lots of kids with asthma and lots of obese kids. I don't recall that being a problem when I was growing up. Usually when you see a kid today they're staring at their smartphone. Does anyone really believe that those smartphones are making kids smarter? Thank goodness smartphones didn't exist when I was a kid.
"Cars back then weren't designed with kid's safety in mind."
Cars back then weren't designed with anyone's safety in mind!🤣
I wish we were back in the day. We were happier then and did not worry about anything, so we live longer now. But are he as Happy as we were back then. NO. I loved playing yard darts with my grandfather. I never heard of anyone getting hurt by them. All media smoke. I played with almost all of these toys, and I loved them. This world now is just a bunch of boo Hoos, and you can all kiss my backside. Toys now teach our kids how to kill to the point they think it is ok to walk into school and start shooting. Never had this back in my day. THINK PEOPLE. We have become a bunch of woosies This video is so stupid, you oblivious are only looking at the dark side and you can find that in any generation. DUH,
grew up in the 80s and 90s. My dad could not go more than 20 minutes without a smoke.
Glad I was born in 1962. It was a great time to grow up!
Remember when you smoke in grocery store McDonald's
McDonald's had those cheesy aluminum ash trays.
1:30 Although we have guidelines now, I can tell you from experience that this is still very applicable today for some, maybe even many.
I’ve never seen a parent give their babies pop. That was a no no even then. We did have lawn Jarts that came with a lecture before every use. We weren’t allowed to stay in the car either, never! We were not allowed to touch the thermometers either. It was only used when we were sick because our mom knew about the mercury. There must’ve been some pretty horrible parents back then. lol we had freedoms big time, but we were also being parented by parents who cared about us. We jumped off the back porch, but only if there was at least a foot of snow outside. My parents knew about the dangers drinking out of a hose. We had to knock on somebody’s door and ask for a glass of water because we weren’t allowed to drink from the hose. I’ve seen kids do it but my mom always said it’s never worth the risk. We were also warned about sewers after the rain, etc. I think this should be the bad parents of the 60s although we were hanging out the car windows and my spot was to lay in the back rearview window on the ledge. I also got the middle spot in the front seat. I used to sit on the armrest. My mom didn’t let us out in the sun all day either we would wear T-shirts and have to play shade games at the peak times. She was very careful about sunburns. We were on our bikes all day going here and there.
7-Up was actually advertised as being good for babies. Imagine that!!! Good way to rot the kid's baby teeth.
4:48 Mercury *salts* are toxic. Elemental mercury (thermometers), on the other hand, is poorly absorbed and unlikely to be toxic.
SAFETY KILLS!
We survived and now kids need the government to protect them
2:35 ... "You'll shoot your eye out, kid" 😅
I remember touching mercury but I didn't do it very often ( thank goodness ). Are wood burning sets dangerous?
Not sure pudding snack packs were a thing yet in the '60s, were they?
Coming from India being a millenial, we used to do this well into late 90s almost till 2000 as teenagers 😄
The only thing we were afraid of were the nuns at school or our parents !
I climbed up trees to the top at age 4......
LOL @ 2:30 I'm sorry, at first I didn't know what that was. 😜
The silver fillings you have in your teeth are mixed with liquid mercury. I saved all our old oral thermometers. They are more accurate.
do you know how to tell an oral from an anal thermometer ?
by the taste . :)>
To think that most boomers would get out in direct summer sun and bake like clams seems horrific. Sun block - are you kidding me - it was oil-based lotions to make you burn faster, uh, I mean tan. So many fair-skinned kids like myself were trying to get tan. Dermatologists will tell people that their skin cancer was likely from a burn many decades ago. I remember seeing these beautiful girls with deep, dark tans and thinking that was sexy - but now when I see deep tans, I'm thinking of skin damage.
We were brought up tough. You fell get up your limbs are still attached your good. Today my kids cry over feeling not just physical hurt it’s like everyone today needs a therapist. 😂😂😂 suck it up buttercups
I was s young kid in the 70s
Cigarette smoke and perfume in a closed car. 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
The Sun was not as hot.....we had an actual ozone layer back then and oh yeah, there was no sunscreen back then....there wasnt even good hair conditioner back then.
This doesn't mean we were ignored! You have nerve! At least back then we had real sugar, today is fake sugar. And jarts, and the thing maker we weren't stupid & had parents who had brains. Wow this video is horrible! So many facts didn't come out back then! I'm done with your channel. At least we didn't grow up as over grown babies!
Sheesh. With a rant like this it's good you're done with this channel. See ya.
Omg!! Who/ what is this video? Its way full of bull...!
???
You must not have grown up in the 60’s and 70’s. 😄
this video is full of facts.