Not Necessarily The Best Of FredFlix #8
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Note: To clear up any confusion, at about the 5:40 mark I talk about NBC not being available until 1962. That was true in my town, until we finally got an NBC affiliate in '63 (and our TV set was a black and white model).
With a heavy heart , I say.....
Thank you Fred.....and with a grateful heart , I say thank you God for allowing me to experience those times......!!!
I feel the same way, Rick.
My favorite part of this video was the "Things I can't find on the internet". 💞. Those are the most prized!!!! Thank you dear Man for yet another wonderful look back🙏
You're welcome, Bridget. I'm happy you enjoyed it.
The "woman online" at the clothesline cracked me up. My mom and grandmas had clotheslines, pretty much every household had one. Clothes dried outside on a line had that naturally fresh feeling. There was no air pollution. But if you got a brand new pair of Levi's, they would be so stiff, like my brother used to say, 'you could stand 'em up in a corner.' He used to also say, 'Mamaw's coffee is so strong, you can stand a spoon up in it.' Exaggeration jokes were fun in those days!
@@continentalgin my Mom used to get so mad when birds would leave a little something on her freshly washed sheets as they were hanging on the line 🤣
@@bridgetmccracken1381 Yes! And it was problematic when we had days in a row of rain.
Some good memories there, Fred, thank you. I, too, miss the America I grew up in. I hope and pray it comes back one day 🙏
👍👍👍👍
I'm afraid it won't, Robert, no more so than the 1920s will come back.
The world in the past was just as messed up as today's world, in many ways, even worse. If we were in happy situations personally, we were young and naive and didn't have to deal with great responsibilities and could remain fairly insulated from the challenges of adult life. But even I, as a kid in the 1960s, noticed too many tragedies and sad times in the US and around the world back then.
Thanks Fred
can still remember the smells
of the school cafeteria
What a great look back...now that I'm over 65 I really get this all. Thank you Fred!
You're welcome, Tom.
I'm 69 years old and I really appreciate these trips down memory lane.
We're the same age, Ron.
So do I, I recently turned 68.
Me as well, a thank you from Vancouver.
I'll be 69 in July. We were kids when America was fun to grow up in, but I guess all generations say that. Still, it was quite special for us. The times were very different, in a good way.
@@continentalgin All generations DO say that, but historians point to the '50 to '70s as a unique time combining culture, technology and the family unit. We were lucky!
Great Video. Love Hearing Tuesday Afternoon by the Moody Blues. Fantastic Band.😊
Fred, love your videos/channel! They really trip a lot of memory triggers from my youth. I loved the pic of the old comic stand, do they even exist anymore? I too was an avid comic collector as a kid. Many of them I still have.When I first started buying them they were .12 cents ('68-'69), they quickly went up to .15 cents, .25 cents for a Giant comic. Man, those were the days!☺
Your relating the things you remember fondly that can't be found on the internet: this part was very touching, and I loved it.
Thank you, JS.
Fred, I downloaded this video back on 07/15/21 (the first part, "Things I Can't Find on the Internet," when it was a stand-alone video). Yeah, I've got a few of your videos saved and yes, you couldn't do a "bad" video if you tried. But that one? It's your best.
Fred, stay safe and be well...and as always, thanks for the memories of much, much better times...and people.
Jack, I really appreciate your comment. It's encouraging to know that people are enjoying them. Otherwise, there would be no point. So, many thanks!
@@FredFlix Fred, Jack speaks for MILLIONS of us around the US when he says "thanks for the memories of much, much better times...and people." These videos of yours are the ULTIMATE in memory making !
@@Nunofurdambiznez Nice of you to say Nunetc.!
@@FredFlixI enjoy all of your videos as I’m sure everyone else does. And they are very much appreciated. Never thought I’d be at a point in time where I longed for the good old days and that the good days are no longer. Sad world today.
@@cindytrayer4279 Cindy, at least we have RUclips to give us a place to spark those memories.
I love it when Fred narrates
Wonderful memories!
Great video Fred! I would love to taste a Tru-Ade, was that carbonated? Also, to get your AM fix, do this; find an old radio, that a small bluetooth speaker will fit inside of. You will have to gut the radio first, play your old music, it works!
Thanks again Fred.
The guys in the poster at 1:07 are getting quite an upskirt view. I had the toy at 1:11. And 12 cent comics, of course. Love nostalgia trips with you, Fred..
Glad you do, Robert.
Thanks Fred for sharing all these videos. They bring back so many lost memories.👍😊
They do for me as well, Steve.
What a lot of joy you bring to people Fred
I'd most definitely call this The Best Of the Greats‼️Your content brings a glow to my eyes and ❤️ heart. I appreciate your hard work because it blesses my day no matter what I'm going through. 😢 There's nothing like the memories and testimonies of yesterday long gone but Never forgotten 🙏
Much appreciated, SoUtHMepHis (that was hard to type). Your reaction is exactly why I have this channel.
The ABSOLUTE BEST EVER!! Thanks a million (or should I say BILLION in these inflationary times) for this video - brought back TONS of great memories!
Nice video love letter to a time gone by.
Thanks, tubekxb.
The first segment had me crying a whole lot. Yes, today you can't find the America I was born in on eBay or anywhere else (but here). All the rest put a smile on my face. Thanks Fred.
Fred, Thanks for this compilation. You captured many memories! I remembered those programs immediately! A few I hadn't thought of in years, yet they used to be shows I looked forward to.
I miss people writing letters. I sent letters to a long distance friend I grew up with and even she just texts. People don't interact like they used to. I was thinking about rotary phones, the other day.
Vintage stuff is so cool.
I remember as kids, we were outside and had fun! That was so true about the street lights! Lol
My dad had a Sunoco gas station and used to love talking to his customers, while he was checking their car & he never imagined a self-serve station. He also had 3 bays to work on their cars and the people he hired became friends.
The unthinkable changes were soon too happen.
Everyone knew my dad because of that gas station.
This was fabulous!
Thanks for the memories!
💖🤗
I enjoyed reading your comment, LT.
Yes! And remember pen pals with some other kid who lived far away? Remember 'post card chains'? Send out a bunch of postcards to people you don't know and then see what you get back!
Awesome Fred...
Thanks, Litauen.
That was AWESOME !!! Thank you 🙂
You're welcome, Nancy.
These moments were definitely worth repeating Fred. Great choice of music too.
Great memories of the days when we didn't think about growing old. Many thanks, Fred!
You're welcome, CG.
A fine presentation of TV on Tuesday Nights in the past, even though only a couple of them weren't worth remembering (Love On A Rooftop, The Girl From UNCLE, My Mother The Car).
Thanks for the history lesson, FredFlix. 📺
Sure thing, Luis.
We used to say My Mother the Car was the dumbest show ever, but we watched it anyway!
So, you brought me to tears with the first one. Then you reminded me of the Pepperidge Farm guy with the second one. 👍
Ha!
Indeed he did. "...Cause FredFlix remembahs..."
Boy oh boy, does he ever. Parker Fennelly would be proud.
Sure did love this Fred, thank you! "Things you can't find on the internet" put a lump in my throat, so special. It’s funny the things we remember... I remember one sunny spring day walking home from school in 1969, always stopped at the local GC Murphys to look at the new comic books. They had recently gone from 12 to 15 cents so I was still recovering from that. I heard a ruckus a couple aisles over in the Candy dept, head over and kids are pointing at a big sign. It said "Sorry kids! All candy bars now 15 cents! Reeses Cups 10 cents, Mallo Cups still 5 cents!" I ran home, asked my parents how long did they think these new prices would stick around, my older brother said "for life, you numbskull!" 😂
That's funny, Doug. We may have discussed before, but Marvel Comics were big in my life (still are, the old ones) and that price jump to 15 cents was a huge deal at the time.
@@FredFlix can I ask how long you continued to buy comics? I began around October 1967 and stopped in the early 80’s. Still bought those tpbs for another 10 years though!
@@dougmorris9317 I read and collected (eventually completing the entire Marvel superhero run) from 1963 (FF 17) to 1980. Then I stopped reading but added the new issues. Had three big sell-offs in '88, '98 and '15. Always regretted it, always bought them again. But now the keys are way too pricey.
Fred to the rescue once again! You've got such great timing, you should have been a musician. Thank you, friend. 🎼🎶
Thanks for that, LS. And I love your answer to twold.
@@FredFlix You're welcome, Fred, and thank you much. Your opinion counts.
Fred, great compilation.
As with others, the *Things I can't find on the Internet* is very moving...when a *certain age* is reached the list writes itself - and melancholy pervades.
Unfortunately I have nothing on my list only if I cheat and say *if I knew then just a little of what I know now..* I would appreciate mum more than I did and find out more about her past.... just thinking of her brings tears as she loved me so much and I've failed in all ways possible.
I'm sorry you feel that way about yourself. I don't think your mother would. All anyone has is now, the present. I aim to do one thing every day that will make me feel good about myself when it's done. I focus on that string of accomplishments, small though many may be, when negative thoughts assault. As long as I'm moving in the right direction, I'm a better me day by day. 🤞👍
I echo what LS said, twold. And I'll add this: You learned from your mistakes. That's all that's required. We are here to learn.
💞Thanks for the ride down memory lane, I miss it!💯💜👍🤍!
You and me both, Frank.
In my day we could buy mint condition G1 Transformers off the store shelf and pay for them with 10's instead of 100's.🎉
Thanks...
You always make my day and cheer me up when I need it Thanks Fred!
You're very welcome, Bob.
Your videos are therapeutic😊
Thank you.
My pleasure, Gregory.
6:58 Looks like a Schwinn Stingray with the banana seat!
Fred, I love your videos so much I even read the Comments.
I hope that in the World To Come we get to hear and see and taste and smell all of those good things we miss. To sit at our grandparents' table, to hear the spring of a screen door and even the slam when it's let go.
God love you, man.
I think we'll be able to re-experience ALL of that, TDT, as our consciousness will continue after the body's demise. Yeah...our grandmother's tables, the spring on the screen door...none of it will be lost. Count on that.
I love watching your videos. Thank you.😊
You're welcome, l j.
Fred, this is the absolute best of all time!! Thanks from my 💜
Glad you enjoyed it, Marsha.
What GREAT times!
Memory lane, i wish i could go back. Nice one Fred thnx.
i hav one of those rotary wall phones in that gold color..im building a tiny house and im gonna install it in our mudroom next to the wall that the fridge is on
LOL @ my old teeth
Friday nights always had the best shows...and if you lived in the Cleveland market, (and you were allowed to stay up late) you had "Shock Theater" hosted by the one and only Ghoulardi from 1963 to 1966.
I grew up in Akron in the 70’s and remember Ghoulardi, Hoolihan and Big Chuck, Gene Carrol Show, Polka Varieties. And Mr Jing-a- ling.
私は日本で1960年に生まれました。幼い頃、この動画の中の番組の多くを見た覚えがります。懐かしい思い出が蘇りました。ありがとう。
It’s all gone.
Real TV, real memories, wow wow wow, Thanks
More good memories, Fred; thank you. My mom may not have been the world's greatest cook but she did something with spaghetti that we loved. She always broke the spaghetti in 'fist lengths' and added the sauce before serving so we just got scoops of spaghetti already saucy. But that's not the good part. She would add a bit of water to the leftovers and fry it until it was dry with some crusty bits. What a taste and good memory. My dad made us tops with the handle end of broken wooden bats. They were the type that you whipped to keep them going and you could also steer them around. I saw a picture of one of these on the deck of the Titanic; a child was playing with it. When my dad took us up north to visit his prospector buddy in the bush, his breakfasts of bacon and eggs sure tasted good. Those 8 transistor radios sure sounded better than the 7 transistor ones! Didn't every boy get a chemistry set? They always came with an empty canister for the sodium ferrocyanide and an instruction note to the parent to get it at a pharmacy. One day after coming home from school, I was laying on the floor reading the newspaper. I looked up at my dad sitting in the chair beside me and described how the black and white picture was made up from variously shaded dots which he explained to me the method the newspapers used to do that. About 30 years later, he gave me that very paper. It was the North Bay Nugget with JFK's picture on the front page from November of 1963 and I still have it.
I used to get Artemus Gordon from The Wild, Wild West mixed up with Bones from Star Trek. Also, I was surprised to see Elizabeth Montgomery in that picture from Love On A Rooftop. Thank you again for your work on this video.
I enjoyed your comment, festidious. Coincidentally, I am making spaghetti today, and I also break the pasta up (and serve on a plate with the sauce already on).
I worked at Burger Chef before I went in the Army...I miss it too! Thanks for all the memories Fred!
You're welcome, papamac.
thank you for showing the good memories
You're welcome, MMF.
Stopping for Howard Johnson's Clams on the way to Rock away playland. We played colors and flipped our Baseball cards, didn't put them in plastic as a future investment. Feeling safe in our schools classrooms. The list is endless. Thanks Fred.
You're welcome, Gary.
"Howard Johnson's fried clams" Yea! With the cole slaw! And the burgers!
And don't forget HoJo's peppermint stick ice cream!
And the motels! Reasonable and clean! 🥴
Do you suppose that the adults will say, 60 years hence, "Why in my day..."? I don't know.
I truly miss the simple joys of mid-century childhood.
Dude, you got more clams than fries. Boy, those were the days. For some reason, that shot was amazing to me. Great stuff, Fred. I'll say hi to your Mom.
Thanks, CAM.
Even though you're a few years older than me, I remember 5¢ candy bars and 12¢ comic books. And Wheelos and the original Space Ghost (before it got revamped as an ironic animated talk show on cable TV), and almost everything in this video...
Excuse me Fred... I think I have something in my eye...
Kinda gets me too, Ernest.
Miss those days😀
The one thing about growing up in Brooklyn NY, was we had all three major networks.
CBS (2), NBC (4) and ABC (7). Plus local Networks such as WPIX (11), WNEW (5) and WORTV (9)
Also Public broadcasting WNET (13) Thank you big brother Fred for another wonderful trip down memory lane!
You had it made in TV land, 5arge!
I grew up near Boston and we were extremely fortunate in that we had Channel 4 (WBZ, then NBC), Channel 5 (WHDH, then CBS), and WNAC (then ABC), in addition to Channel 2 (WGBH, originally NET, later PBS). We had independent stations on UHF: Channels 27, 38 and 56. And we could also pull in Rhode Island's stations like Channel 6 (then WTEV, ABC), 10 (WJAR, NBC, then as now) and 12 (WPRO, now WPRI, as always CBS), plus their NET/PBS station Channel 36. So if one of our stations preempted a show we wanted to see, we had an alternate channel to turn to.
Some of the best of the best Fred!!🤟😎
Thank you, tigre.
6:53 SPACE GHOST? Never seen it! Was it good? My favorite was, I say, my favorite was Foghorn Leghorn!
George, Space Ghost was probably the best superhero cartoon made in the '60s that was not based on existing characters.
What’s the name of the song that is played after “What A Wonderful World”? My husband is wracking his brain trying to remember the name.
Classical Gas by Mason Williams.
@@FredFlix Thank you so much, Fred! 👍
@@Classic_Rock_Chick You're welcome, CRC.
SOUTH Carolina forever...and 70-72
You bet!
Thanks Fred 👍
Another great one, Fred!
0:52 - Does the rotary phone still work? That was all my family had in the first house where I lived in Upstate NY.
1:55 - One of the few places where my family ate out was at Howard Johnson's, where we usually got the Friday night special, Fried Tendersweet Clams.
2:15 - I had to watch tv at my grandparents' houses in Mass. to see color tv. We had an automatic dishwasher though, and none of them did. My frugal mom figured the family needed it for sterilization purposes to prevent all her kids from getting illnesses.
2:50 - I spent a week on Edisto Island near Charleston back in March 2006, making side trips to Savannah, GA, & Hilton Head, but I'd love to get back to SC someday to visit Myrtle Beach, which was a spring break destination for other neighborhood families, not ours.
3:33 - I loved when AM radio played oldies back in the 1980s & 1990s. The last local station that played that kind of music (as well as an eclectic mix of other music) changed formats in the last decade. :(
3:40 - Not to mention gas at less than $1/gallon!
5:42 - I understand that WUSN-TV in Charleston carried NBC programs. I loved an article in the June 3, 1972 issue of TV GUIDE which was about the hilarious mishaps there back in the 1950s, including bringing up Charlie Ruggles' 1950s show (which was on NBC) at an inopportune time during a live commercial.
5:50 - My mom went "online" that way too.
Good comment, Jon. The rotary phone is not hooked up. Actually, WUSN carried ABC programs, then changed its name to WCBD, and then, years later, WCBD and WCIV (which carried NBC) switched networks!
They still have to pump your gas for you in Oregon…so there’s one thing you can happily remove from the list 😁
We might not find those intangible things on Internet but... *we can find you* . 💜🤟
Mercedes, that was a lovely thing to say!
Thank you. It was a good video, but the best part were the things you can't get from the internet.....Carla H.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Carla.
Priceless video
Thanks, Eli.
The 70s and 80s weren't so bad either.
I’m Dickens… He’s Fenster
Loved that show. John Astin’s zaniness was hilarious. Camp Runamuck, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies - favorites. Ya done good Fred. And now back to… now. 🤢
Do we HAVE to, Jeff?
@@FredFlix Only if we absolutely, positively, unequivocally HAVE to. Otherwise grab a cold one, light one up and sit back and enjoy.
5:34 Sorry but I gotta throw a flag on the play for that one. The original NBC Peacock (that was only shown at the beginning of every *color* broadcast as a still picture by the way) was created in 1956. At the time NBC was owned by RCA which had a vested interest in selling color TVs. The first NBC show broadcast in color was _Your Hit Parade_ in 1957 and displayed the Peacock logo before every broadcast. The logo in this clip was called the Laramie Peacock and did indeed premier in 1962 on the Western _Laramie._ In contrast to the still photo previously used this was the animated peacock spreading its "feathers" to music that us Baby Boomers remember so well. The narrator of this clip fails to explain why, if the CBS and ABC logos are visible in color he had to watch the NBC logo in B&W. Apart from special appearances (to invoke nostalgia for instance) the Laramie Peacock was officially retired in 1975.
My quote was, "We had two networks...on MY tv." NBC did not have an affiliate in my city until 1962, and on my black and white set the peacock was not in color.
@@FredFlix Makes sense.
6:15 Is that Mel Gibson??
Thx Fredflix; the most poignant trip yet 😢😅💔
Glad you enjoyed it, wheeler.
LAING MIDDLE SCHOOL,GEN MOULTRIE HIGH
TruAde was the best orange drink ever? Not TANG? Or BLEND ( orange-pineapple drink )?
Tang????
@@FredFlix Yeah, the powder drink the NASA astronauts took into space!
@@FredFlix , come on Fred, not THAT kind of Tang. Get your mind out of the gutter 😂.
@@gregggoss2210 Who's mind is in the gutter? I was thinking of the powered drink. What were YOU thinking of?
@@FredFlix,🤣
Hey what was a date with Edna like? She's beautiful!
She was really nice and much smarter than I was comfortable with.
@@FredFlix So what you're saying is, Fred, you didn't even get to 1st base with her LOL!!
@@Nunofurdambiznez Actually, we kissed at the door, so I guess that's first base.
@@FredFlix Wow she must have been really smart! Having a good head on your shoulders is generally a desirable trait in women!
That was beautiful! Todays story involves your youthful version of porn and your dog Smutt. When i was about 11 at my best friends house we found a "magazine" (not playboy....MUCH more.....hardcore!) hidden in the basement. The cover was uumm...oral. And eventually her mom found out we had it and flipped thru assuming it was her husbands ...next she is on the floor ripping pages out crying and she looked at me and said " did you look at this?" And i said yes. And she said " im going to pray for you!" And my dumb ass laughed .....i guess because i was embarrassed.....so dads things were put on porch and he spent two days on someones couch then we found out it belonged to the teen boys up the street who babysat us sometimes! Now here is the tie-in...she called me smuttly for the rest of my life! To this day if i see her at the store im still smuttly!😂😂❤
That's quite a tie in, Chantelle. But you are anything but smuttly!
@@FredFlix Thank you Fred! I earned the nickname for looking at the magazine(even though I wasn't the only one but they were afraid to admit it!) However I unknowingly perpetuated the nick name because I was an avid and advanced reader so by the age of eleven or twelve I was reading some of the same books she was and she thought they were too Racey....hence the eternal nickname Smuttly! LoL!
Best show from the 60s - I Dream of Jeannie! 🧞♀
FWIH they still have attendants pump gas in New Jersey. It's too far for me to go as well.