A Candid Look at Teenage Life in 1950s America
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Rare Snapshots of Teenage Life in the 1950s...
Today, we journey back to the iconic era of the 1950s, where poodle skirts, rock 'n' roll, and wholesome teenage mischief ruled the scene.
For this week’s video, we've unearthed a treasure trove of candid snapshots capturing the essence of adolescent life as it was lived some seventy years ago.
Here you’ll see teenagers being teenagers before cell phones, texting, and social media screwed up the way we all interact with one another.
From sock hops to soda shops, these genuine moments frozen in time offer a glimpse into the carefree spirit and camaraderie that defined a generation.
Please enjoy this visual journey into the heart of the 1950s teenage experience!
#1950s #nostalgia #lifeinamerica
It is clear that people were happier without social networks and gadgets. They danced, talked, and loved
Unless you were not white. Or a woman.
Your cat looks just like mine. His name is Tom haha. But I agree. Not only that, but a single job was enough to take care of the entire family and one didn't have to have 2 side hustles as well as a full time job and a part time job to live comfortably and support their family. Women could stay at home and raise the children, divorce was a dirty word (as it should be. Marriage should be forever. Marriage is literally a commitment and promise to each other as well as to God and the world as well), people could completely own a home before they were old and gray, and maybe even have a couple other properties besides. Every decade or so they raise minimum wage and things just get worse. They don't seem to understand it though. The wealthy pocket more and more cash, are barely even taxed, and the credit system is a scam to keep us poor and employed by huge companies for tiny tiny fractions of what they make each year.. not to mention we're taxed 9 ways from Sunday.
things were pretty nice, except for the polio scares every summer and the Russian spys living next door.
"A time before smartphones, Ipads, and the internet screwed everything up " How true.
DEFINITELY
I read that so-called Millenials and Gen Z (17 to 27) suffer from anxiety and depression, one reason being that they spend so much time on smartphones, iPads and the Internet.
@@j.g.8494 Agree 100%
It's obvious that the difference between the views and the likes would be the age differences. I’m 82 years old and I remember and miss the 50's. Simple times that could never be explained to anyone who didn’t live through it.
I'm 41, but I remember my grandparents telling me about their youth when I was younger and how it was simple (compared to even when I was a teen in the 90's), yet it had a mystique to it.
@Thehajohajo I would give ANYTHING if I were living back then during this time period. Your right things seemed more simple back then but what I just realised why I love this time period 1940's-1950's so much is just plain ole common decency. EVERYONE seemed decent back then. It was the society norm. Today everyone has gone insane. And we accept it as "normal" that it's just the times we are living in. I think God made a mistake when he put me to live in the here and now. God if your listening BIG mistake. HUGE. And I would know. Ha ha ha I also love the 1800's.
I suppose there was a lot of racism at latino population at those times.
I never saw any such "racism," and I worked with latinos. I don't know why you would suppose such a theory.@@gustavoperez5480
there was nothing too mysterious about the 50s, every summer there was a polio scare, the government kept people in line by sending out brochures on how to build fallout shelters because the Russians were about to drop atomic bombs on the USA, the schools had drills on how to hide under your desk when the A-Bombs were on the way, at least half your neighbors were Russian spies, Joe Macarthy was on the television with the House Un-American activities Committee. the negroes were starting the Great Northern Migration and starting to get uppity. all and all it was a really paranoid decade.@@northofknowhere130
I 'm 75 ( 76 next month ) - I remember the late 50's and early 60's - great times ! Please take me back !!
Growing up in the austere '50s in a small Scottish mining town,I saw 1950s America in movies and magazines and I longed to be there. Even now in 2023 I still do!
And I long to return to Scotland for their values.
@@juanitahardy8583. No kidding.
Maybe your next incarnation 😅
I'm a child and young adult of the 70's and 80's. Given a time machine, going back to that era is my first choice 👍.
But! My second choice would be the USA or even my Canada in the 1950's. Infact anything beginning say 1947 through the 50's as a life experience.🥰
@@juanitahardy8583 And their thrifty ways.
I was 18 years old in 1954 You really captured my heyday! Video brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks for posting.
I was 17, and ditto to your comment.
my father was raised during the great depression in the state of Colorado he moved to San Francisco California way back when sorry for getting off topic.
Wonderful as always . I was in my teens during the 50s . The best decade of all time. The music , the fashions , the cars with big fins . Record players . Excitement was in the air . I met my wife in 58 . A magic era . Most people today don't know what they missed .... And all without the internet too !!!
Thanks for uploading and best wishes for Christmas 🎄
Hey, @ry491 - What a great time to grow up. Thanks for your comments, and Merry Christmas to you!
Fantastic age!!
The good old days. I’m glad I grew up in the 50s, it was such a great time!
How much racism there was at that decade to latino population?
My experience never saw any particular racism, so why do you keep suggesting that racism to latinos was prevalent? @@gustavoperez5480
If you were white. And don't forget in those days, the couples who "had to get married" because of pregnancy, and illegal abortions, and girls going away to "visit an aunt" if they got pregnant and weren't married.
Really? But there was a cold war and never calm.
The Silver Skylark @ 3:45 is one sharp looking car.
Yep! That's sure one big-ass boat. Look at all that chrome, and those whitewalls. Wonder what it weighed, and its MPG. Maybe single digits.😁
@@brucestaples4510 10 to 12 MPG at best … going downhill with the wind coming from behind. 😂
My Grandad always drove Buicks in the fifties. Loved them and always proud to be seen in one, until my Mom married my Stepdad in the mid-sixties. Great guy and best Stepdad a kid could hope for, but still driving a '56 Roadmaster 2dr Hardtop, Black over Pink, considerably lightened by the rusted rockers and rear quarter panels, and way overdue for new rear shocks (sit in the front seat or get seasick in the back seat). But it got 8mpg!
SPECTACULAR presentation!!!
Thank you for sharing this. I grew up in the 1950' and 1960's.
How much racism there was at 50's to latino population?
Keep it up. It's the pot-stirrers such as you who keep the delusional "racist" lie alive.@@gustavoperez5480
My partner is 82, and he was a teenager in the 50s. I see some of these kids and I know they are the same age as he is. Wow, times flies! Teens in the 50s and 60s were always so well dressed and behaved. I miss those times and wish I could go back into again. I was born in 1961.
Thank you for the memories, thank you for bringing me back to a time of innocence, optimism and freedom (before the war that is). That is truly the way we dressed in an era when and where respect was taught by one's nuclear family and reinforced by boys/girls groups (BSA, GSA, 4H...), the community, the church, the schools/colleges, the community and the media at large. I am very grateful for having lived those decades, married my high-school Sweetheart (until CA took her away), still have my first car (vintage Mustang), ... Happy New Year, Ciao L (Veteran)
Before the days of crappy fast food, social media and game stations. People actually talked to each other, were active and not an overweight person to be seen.
Sorry I🐖can't be🍔🍟🍕🌯 up2standard
5:11
"A white sports coat, and a pink carnation, I'm all dressed up for the dance."
Marty Robbins, 1957.
The kids are all well-dressed and slender back in the 50's.
Well-dressed, clean-cut and clean-shaven!
I became a teenager in 1962 but these photos bring back some great memories. Greetings from Australia.
Excellent as always, if we could only bring back simpler times and all enjoy the time we have. We still have bon fires every other weekend, it keeps us young at heart.😊
It is very easy to capture those simple times today😊
I was born in 53, but I remember malt shops, drive-ins(both kinds)DAs and some girls wore saddle shoes.I remember the BrylCreme and Wildroot commercials. My cousin was born in 39 and had arguments with her father(my uncle) about being able to wear a strapless gown when she 18-19.
I was '55 and my dad('30) was VERY much against us wearing a strapless gown! (not that I could "hold one up anyway!...lol)
Thanks for another priceless video. I was born in 1956 but I can still relate to those times.
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for your kind words!
I was 14 in 1950. It was a beautiful time for teenagers. There were no drugs, and the only thing our parents had to worry about was smoking or sneaking a sip of their booze. I ran around with a group of 5 girls, and our activities included movies on the weekends and our interests in sports in school,
and there was always a field close by where we could play baseball. I was always captain of our teams in school, and the best time was every other week we had pajama parties, us girls took turns hosting it at our homes, each girl always brought food or drink to share. I guess you could call us a clique except anyone was free to join us. To my knowledge there was no sex, we were considered good girls. Unfortunately, you knew the ones who weren't because the guys would spread the news all over school. We had great times swimming, and enjoying the summers. In the fall we would go bowling, and play games inside. We were never bored. We went to church every Sunday and were in church choir. There were very few pregnancies, because this would be shameful for the whole family, but if you did get pregnant, there were homes in cities for unwed girls to help coordinate adoptions. Today, I have 6 great grandchildren and I'm very sad that they can't experience what I did when I was young.
I see these kids, and then I picture the kids of today....so depressing.
Just thinking same.
I was born in the 2nd half of the 50s. By the time the 50s ended I was still riding my tricycle and strumming my micky mouse club gitar. But this is how I remember the 50s.😂
Thank you for posting 👍👍
I turned 4 in 1950 and 13 in 1959. I missed out on this but remember it well.
The 50's and 60's were great times. Men looked like men women acted like women. Clean cut, no tattoos no green or blue hair no nose rings....and to top it off....no weight issues. We ate what was supposedly the wrong stuff but it was the right stuff. Unlike the fast food garbage now, Families ate at home ......home cocked meals and good company no cell phones no computers. So much has been lost.
Yes, indeed. Life was far more fulfilling and happy without the social media, and lack of connectiveness.
Stilus, elegancia, buli, USA fénykora. Amikor ilyen elnök volt mint JFK, nem aggok vettik, vezették azt a nemztet....
Meaning?@@gaborgredely1848
On top of that, one wasn't say to anybody what a man and a women did behind closed doors. That was strictly private.
Yeah and there wasnt rampant corn holers and buttslammers and women didnt have dicks n hairy balls
Thanks, Kevin! You knocked it outta the park once again! Speaking of which, while not in a park, but on the streets of Brooklyn, I recall playing stickball (sometimes even baseball, if there weren't too many cars parked where we might hit them) into the night till we couldn't see the ball anymore. While not a teen yet in the '50s (I went from 1 to 10 years old in the decade), I went to the beach (Coney Island, of course), dug the diners with the personal little juke boxes in every booth, and always, always playing outside...ball, skating, biking, skelly (might be unique to Brooklyn, not sure, big chalk box in the middle of the street with smaller boxes within and by flicking bottle caps through the boxes you become a "Killer" and can blast everyone else's cap out of the game...or something like that, it's been a while😁), flipping baseball cards, clothespinning (gotta be the spring-loaded ones) baseball cards to our bikes so the wheel spokes hit the cards to sound like a motocycle, building scooters or soapbox racers out of scraps of wood, a wooden milk box, and either roller skates or an old carriage for wheels...jeez, good times! And oh yeah, no girls! They still had cooties at that age!😊😂😄😀
Bruce, we're living the same timeline, but for me it was our 109 acre farm upstate during the '50s. No skelly, instead "kick the can" best played at dusk so as to be less visible to whoever was guarding the can. Twelve miles to Ithaca, so it was an even bigger deal when we got to the soda fountains and diners, but everything else was much the same. Beaches on the Finger Lakes or simply cooling off swimming in the ponds and creeks. One difference was the girls had no cooties, instead they were real cuties! And the views of sunsets from the barn hayloft with a neighbor farm girl just couldn't be beat.
On the other hand, my wife grew up in daBronx! Thankfully, despite (or because of) that, she loves our house in the woods of Western New York, and we only go to "the city" (Queens) once or twice a year to see relatives. A great life, but good to look back at our childhoods with fond memories, so different but so similar. Enjoy!
Like I stated before, I would give up everything today to live in the 50&60s as a young adult. Simple, clean, and families were pretty much all together. I absolutely love and adore the 50s. People cared how they looked, acted and had respect not just for one another but also our great country USA. Today, politicians, leaders and corporations sold us out. it is so sad and to think the generations after us will have no idea how good we as a people, society and country had it! Yes, there were hard times and poverty however life was like a snow globe back then!
It was an entirely different era then, and it's sad that today's young crowd have to endure the constantly negativity in which the internet, media and schools keep them awash.
@@leecox1513Atheism destroyed America.
Atheism destroyed America.
Would you give up everything to be the age you are now in the 50s?
@@plicketyplunk YES
Wonderful time.
Ahh. What a journey. I would have travelled back in time without hesitation if I had the choice. Yes. There were obstacles then but a less complicated life, Im sure. Thanks.
Thanks!
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Saint Paul Minnesota definitely is not like that anymore. Sad days in the USA, hopefully moral people will be able to stop the decline.
Thank you for sharing another outstanding video. God bless you 🙏🎄
I totally agree with you in regards to a care free life. Thank you so much for posting these videos. Keep up the great work!
Look at what we have lost! This is so upsetting that the America of our fathers and mothers is gone!
Amen ! Nailed it !
I did not have it so great in the 1950's. I know the video is showing the best, believe me, not everyone was like the teenagers in the video. There's a saying, "Walk a mile in my shoes"...
Everyone looks so healthy
I miss the drive ins, some people like of today never seen them, gone almost.
The fifties were the best of times
Glad i was a teenager back then. Lucky i guess. Certainly the music was the greatest
I miss the country I grew up in.
I graduated from highschool in1951 and remember that the most important thing for a boy to have is a car! Without one girs wouldn't go on a date. The benefit was that keeping a car going taught me a lot about mechanical things but not much about girls.
I was 13 in 1958 so remembering all of this especially because we had just moved to NZ
Teens/youth in the 50s and 80s had the best music, clothing and hairstyles
Women always wore dresses, that was so nice, everybody looked good.
I want a time machine so I can travel back in time
Thanks for the memories. One thing though, I don't know of anyone having a milkshake in the 50's. We had malts not shakes.
I didn't even realize the difference till as a 16 yr old in 1971 started working at Dairy Queen and the Malt machine was a glass container with a powdered substance (malt) added to milkshakes if someone ordered a malt. It did make the milkshake even tastier!😋
The fifties house my most precious memory - that of my big sister Karen. I remember her pretty slim figure beautiful dresses and gowns - the crinolines she wore under them. Curling her hair, hiding her bra straps using pins under sleeveless blouses - dancing to records with friends and boyfriends Always on the phone, sharing sodas - her boyfriend's jalopy. her excitement over a dance or a movie date. She was good to me, letting me wear her crinolines, teaching me to dance - laughing at her kissing her boyfriend. The times were beautiful, innocent and so alive - just like her. Then came the morning in1959, when I woke to my Daddy sitting on my bed. He told me that Karen, her boyfriend, and another couple had been killed the night before in a car accident. That was it. In those days, no one would be so ill bred as to mention your dead. This video made me cry - I pray that there is a heaven like the fifties and sixties - and Karen will be there waiting for me. Sorry - just felt I had to write.
Karen will be waiting for you.x
wow years later that still has to hurt like a bitch I am so sorry four people . Where they drag racing
Probably not in those days there were no seat belts and cars were big chunks of metal.
With all due respect, at present a dad most probably would inform his younger daughter that her older sister was killed in a mass shooting! 😢
@@JERios-wv8lx What does that have to do with he losing her sister to an auto accident? WTF
Lovely video I must say! ❤
As a Child born in the 60s raised in the 70s to early 80s is Holidays both on TV and our culture was special. Bob Hope, and many others are gone.
You would maybe get Blake Shelton instead of Red Skelton.
Really cool commercial stock images♥
RIght, some have mentioned how healthy everybody looked. There were some fat people back then. And ugly people too. But none in these pictures.
@@leilacarter9813And segregation hadnt even ended yet. This is a very White suburban middle class view of the 1950s. My grandparents sure didn't live like this in rural Tennessee lol. I understand nostalgia, but these are just so unrealistic. My favorite comment was someone saying "no marijuana, valium, etc" ...like they think no drugs (especially prescriptions) were being used/misused lol.
It's so refreshing to see humans without tattoos.
Love it. Sorry I missed it.
Eine wunderbare Zeit!
Stil und Eleganz, und heute?
Atheism destroyed America.
Oh for Marty McFly to take me to America in the 50's. Elvis, the clothes, Elvis, The music, Elvis, the cars,oh the cars. And Elvis!
For everyone here who thinks these were the good old days: in future people will look at pictures of today and imagine they were the good old days
That will never occur. There is no future.... anymore.
People in the 40s during the war could have thought the same thing. There will be no future. @@edgarpoinsot5502
AH..... The happy days before social media......
*It is clear that people were happier without social networks and gadgets. They danced, talked, and loved*
Before hippie druggie generation.
And their parents thought televisions and telephones caused problems. That no one needs a clothes dryer or seat belts in their huge gas guzzling cars.
oh my god@@connietreloar2102
I would loved to have taken a spin in that silver 1953 Buick Skylark convertible.
Teens in those days knew how to dress when they took their girlfriends out. The music complements the video. The girls look like ladies and the clean cut boys look like gentlemen. In those days they were expected to behave in a certain manner and everyone was down to earth. Everyone in those days had their share of problems but they knew how to make the best of it. People were happy dispite there was a Cold War threat between the East and the West. That didn’t stop people from having fun and enjoy life.
These 50's pictures of young people, recalls me the characters and vibe of the "Archie" comics!
Back then they didn't have flat screen color tv's or CD's or RUclips, but neither kids were fed with the rude and foul-mouthed "Simpsons" cartoons on their black and white tv's, nor teenagers were fed with dirty pornographic music freely sung by supposed "artists"! 😊
:30>...before cell phones..".'screwed up"..... I LOVE IT. 2:22>Looks like it could have been early 60s
well dressed, clean, nice hair. today we get dirty smelly wrinkled clothed kids in pajamas
And dont forget the Women on the beach with the dong and hairy balls sticking out of the bathing suit
I’m Gen Z and I can totally agree with you. It’s just kids in baggy hoodies, crocs, socks with sandals, t shirts with copyrighted cartoon characters and logos, baggy pajama pants and messy hair. I don’t know why I’ve always loved the Americana look ever since I was a young child and I still love it today. The streamlined sleek cars that had a bright personality, the diner patterned design, and elegant clothing that even the youngsters would wear back then. My dream is to one day live in a 50’s home (make it look like a 50’s house again) and get a sweet Chevy Bel Air with my Abuelo’s name on it. ❤
Ironically this and the following generation invented most of the electronic stuff that "screwed up the way we all interact with one another"
No McDonald's, Burger King, Long John Silvers, KFC, Taco Bell... etc. Nobody's fat... What a coincidence!
No LSD, no phentanil, no abuse of cocaine, no Vicodin, no valium, no abuse of marijuana.
No Xanax, no Prozac, no internet, no 24 hour "news" channels, no violent movies... No public shootings. What a coincidence!@@gustavoperez5480
on the west coast, the only place you could get pizza was at the drive-in movie.
Cigarettes Heavy drinking. Polio. No real treatment for mental illness except to be locked away. Weed. Heroin. Oh, and women could be raped and beaten by their husbands with no laws on the books against it. Society blaming the woman or just ignoring her plight. @@gustavoperez5480
Thank you. 👍🏻😊
Only two obvious genders made life simple, efficient and logical. The 50s was the first real time, where the pressures of survival weren't demanding much of your day's efforts, but left a decent amount of time to enjoy life and pursue friendships and relationships. Instead of chopping firewood, the gas heater, stove, and oven would do the heating in its stead. Instead of feeding and butchering your own livestock or grow your own vegetables, now you spent a tiny amount of time at a store. Because there was very little TV, reading and homework were often utilized, which meant the population was smarter. The 50s was a relative time of peace, growth, unparalleled prosperity and physical health. To me, it was the golden age of America.
Atheism destroyed America.
A more simpler life,the girls were very feminine, no tattoos, nose rings cars were cool
Happy times,I was their age in the early 80's and loved it,it was still relatively innocent,we still had the cool cars for our generation,and alot of us regreted selling what we had,as we had no idea the value of our cars(beasts) would get to,at the time.
This production is a testament to your artistic brilliance, effortlessly connecting the glamour of 1960s Hollywood with the genuine and heartfelt stories of these actors. *DO YOU AGREE WITH ME*
What happened to our kids and teenagers nowadays I would like this more than people nowadays
I think I saw Biff!
Hello Hello is anybody home?!!!???
These were the good old days my father told me about - he has been gone for 8 yrs and i miss him terribly- i will see you on the other side
Even though this is a beautiful sentiment. This is only a depiction of one side of people. I love looking back at the 50’s and 60’s, but I’m also sad to not see my people enjoying themselves here. Great Video overall
It is sad ... wish we could go back and change that!
Back before texting ruined lives...
Seeing these pic I wish I was born about 10 years earlier. Where is the background music from, enjoyed that just as much!
I actually went to CATHOLIC SCHOOL in the early 50s. I actually loved it. (I'm Italian).
What gorgeous music! What is it called please?
If there's one time period I could go back and see the late 40s to late 50s would be it. The generation my grandparents were young. They married in 1957 when my grandpa was 24 (he was married for less than a year once before while in the navy but got a divorce because she was cheating on him while he was overseas) and my grandmother was 18. She was a friend of my grandpa's younger sister. They were married 3 months after they met at a drive in movie theater in Fort Worth, Texas. They had my aunt 2 years later in 1959 and my uncles in 1960 and 1962. They thought they were finished having children until they got a surprise pregnancy 10 years after their last child who would later become my mother. They had her in 1972. She went on to have me at 14. My grandpa used to tell me about all the fun times he had as a teenager in the late 40s and early 50s as well as all of the fun he had while in the navy. He used to tell me he could take 8 or 10 bucks, put some gas in his car, take a girl out for dinner and a movie, go "neck" some place quiet, and he'd always still have a couple bucks left over haha. You'd be lucky to do all that with 70 or 80 bucks today. What a life they must've lived. My grandpa was able to apply skills he'd learned in the service (painting), eventually became a paint contractor, and he provided for his wife and 4 kids without much struggle at all. He even took them on vacations every year, taught my uncles and several grandkids how to paint, and made a good life for all of them. He even helped raise some grandkids over the years, me included since my mom was so young when she had me. I sure would like to have met him back when he was in his prime and had his whole adult life ahead of him. The world is so different now. You can't keep a woman happy these days. They expect you to be over 6 feet tall, in good shape with perfect teeth, a big Ole you know, and they expect you to make $300,000 a year. And in return you get a woman that doesn't cook or clean, has already been with all of your friends and who knows how many strangers, will likely cheat on you while you're out providing for her, likely already has 2 kids at least by another guy or 2, and has a group of friends convincing her she "don't need no man" and he "ain't sh*t." Whatever you do for modern women, whatever you bring to the table, it's never enough. Who wants children with those disasters? Man, I envy those that were young in the 40s and 50s.
The pics don’t seem natural. All posed.
Pretty girls back then!
Oh yeah. Now they're old and wrinkled, or dead. Those 50's teenagers. I was one, and it wasn't so great.
This was right before the mass production of our food. Look how healthy they all look! Today you go outside and see all sorts of deformed creatures wandering around
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Wow!!! No phones & no FATTIES!! 😮
hola saludos desde España,tengo 64 años y no se hablar ingles( uso el traductor)me encanta U.S.A. hasta el punto de que tengo la bandera y locomotoras en escala HO,siempre he creido que esa epoca a sido la mejor,la gente era feliz porque creo que habia trabajo para todos.me pregunto donde estaran esas chicas ahora y si alguna verá este video?
I wonder if this guy does live streams.I know a bunch of ppl would be crackin wise to some of these .
Great time if you happened to be a healthy white man in America. It kinda sucked for everyone else though.
At 6:50, those two people on the top row are kind of creeping me out. (Look up, right between the conductor's hands.) Where's her neck and is that a guy next to her?
Yes creepy... Look also right above the conductors head.. thats creepy too..
@@uzeela Dang, you're right. Looks like someone with a dagger.
Was purple really such a predominant color in the 50s, or are most of these "rare color photos" just colorized black and white pictures? I'm thinking the latter, because even some of the shadows and white shirts have a purplish hue.
Did you notice no one is overweight? I am 77 years old and there were overweight kids. But, they were the exception. Now they are the rule.
I wonder how big the average television was at the time about 26 inches
Sorry, only watched half of the video. Prefer naturel pictures, rather than staged, pictures and or models. Reminded me of old movie studio shots. First time a little disapointed. I am a subscriber and definitely still like this channel.
Times were hard in the 50’s. Korea (1950-1953).
When America was great.
We've really destroyed the food supply, hey?
It's a shame that these things are foreign to the youth of today. As a boomer I can attest that these were the best of times in a teens life. Cell phones should only used to answer necessary calls. I actually miss the corded phones.
"these were the best of times in a teens life" Every person looks back fondly at their teen years, no matter the decade. It's all relative. The 50's didn't didn't corner the market on "best of times".
I wonder if any of those guys 6:08 are still around ?
Wow/.....everyone was slim.
Best time in America, ever. No drugs, and we were raised Christian..
A golden period where America peaked in terms of quality of life and decency and then declined rapidly.
Thanks to hippie druggie boomer generation.
車の色がすばらしい👍
Basically what being shown is the good memories. The negative ones such as the McCarthy hearings and the threat of a nuclear war are absent. But one thing about the 1950's was we had a great economic time. Only one income was necessary to live comfortably,people were able to buy houses. Our nation was at its greatest with Eisenhower as President
Maybe its me but it sure seems like the "teens" in these pics look like they're about ten years older than teens of the same age look today.
I am an old fogey and I would never go back to those days. These photos depict an affluent upper middle class white world and i was never part of it. I'm staying right here thank you very much😊
You can have this clown show.
@@coldsamon Excellent! All the more reality for me😊
I can relate, I was pretty poor growing up, and most the kids poked fun of me. But I still remember the days before school started for me in '60. Mom & Dad did the best they could and we would find free things to do, like watch the small planes take off at the small airport up the road. To this day, I still order off the dollar menu and shop the dollar stores, almost exclusively. What is the most upsetting to me these days is how foul-mouthed a lot of people are these days......everybody throwing the F word around like it's nothing. It doesn't even matter to them that small children are right around them! NEVER heard that in the 50's-60's.