Dinner & Drinks - 1960s Style!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- There was a time in America when regular people would dress up in the finest attire simply to go out to dinner at their favorite restaurant. The evening would begin with drinks in the cocktail lounge, followed by dinner in the dining room, and would often include live music and dancing.
Back in the 1960s, America was prospering. People took pride in their appearance and enjoyed going out on the town not in sweatpants and pajamas, but in their finest clothes. Men wore suits and ties, and women wore dresses and heels.
People knew how to socialize and enjoyed mingling with others. Conversation was an art form, and people actually listened to what one another had to say.
Please enjoy this video of Americans out on the town in the 1960s.
#1960s, #restaurantstyle, #nostalgia
0:00 Introduction
1:11 Purple Tree Lounge, Manger Hotel, Rochester, NY
1:35 The Castaways Motel Dining Room, Miami Beach
2:11 Fairmont Hotel & Tower, San Francisco
3:35 The Castaways Tahitian Bar, Miami Beach
4:11 Stardust Lounge, Rockford, IL
4:47 Purple Tree Lounge, Manger Motor Inn, Indianapolis
6:11 Paul Masson Champagne Cellars, Saratoga, CA
6:23 Big Sur Lodge, Dining Patio, CA
6:35 Castaways Motel Restaurant, Miami Beach
6:59 Hackney's Seafood Restaurant, Atlantic City
7:11 Red Slipper Cocktail Lounge, Springfield, MO 
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Absolutely no comparison to today....classy and elegant. Today social society is pathetic.
There are still plenty of classy and elegant restaurants, but we also have so many restaurants now that those are the small minority.
We have restaurants now that serve farm fresh and local foods. In the 1960s it was all pre packed and frozen. People actually were happy to eat those foods. Crazy!
only in america! lol.... every other country still has brains and hearts and their social lives are amazing .... every night everyone goes out... i mean every night and u dont get drunk, u enjoy eachother... u laugh and eat great food...even if its just with a couple other people... its a blast.... people arent competitive and manipulative ..they are just pure and caring but u have to be sophisticated..they dont just include a dirty loud american lol
@@iseegoodandbad6758 Yeah, there's one like that in my area. Farm to table. You'll go in the hole if you eat there. Better take your credit card.
Yes tatoos and ripped jeans
I like how EVERYONE dressed for the occasion. 🌟👍❤️
Yeah, no jackasses wearing baseball caps backwards. Or any other kind(inside I mean) for that matter.
@@rufust.firefly4890 Agreed👍
Where are all the obese people?
Yeah, now all you see is women in spandex, and some who should not be in Spandex. pajamas, sweat shirts. Not just what they are wearing, back then you did not see all the tattoos people have these days. I certainly don't mind seeing a tattoo here and there, but when women have tattoo sleeves , it is a little much.
@@CD318 it was pre-super size days, and a regular coke was 12 oz, a large 16 oz...not a liter like today. Coffee was about 6oz with maybe a little cream and sugar....not a 20 oz Frappuccino. And most all portions were much smaller.
This was the American generation that as youngsters grew up during the Great Depression, went straight into a horrific World War and Korean "police action" that was none of their doing to finally have some peace of mind and stability in their lives.
Good for them. Dressing up, attending a real pleasant club. About time they enjoyed life. Same-same for their trips to Las Vegas. Cocktail dresses, fine suits and first class entertainment. Continued building a great nation which we all inherited.
RIP. Now let's hope we current Americans don't waste all your efforts.
Truth..!
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, but my folks never went out to lounges or dining places like you showed here, so I really enjoyed seeing what other folks were up to in the 60's.
Great pics!!! 👍👍
Two things stand out in my memory of restaurants and cocktail lounges in the land of long ago. The first was how people really did make a point of dressing up. Smart cocktail dresses or similar for the ladies, and suits for the men. The other thing I remember, that was not mentioned in your vid but was ubiquitous back then, was the thick cloud of cigarette smoke that was everywhere. Back then most people smoked. And they smoked like chimneys. Sometimes the smoke was so thick it was hard to see the other end of the bar.
The smoke is something I definitely don't miss...
And can you imagine the smell.
And unfortunately most of those that smoked back then are now fertilizing daffodils
I smoked 2 and 3 packs a day, not fertilizing anything yet, but I do miss going out like that. After 45 years of smoking I quit cold turkey!!!!!!
I don't miss the smoke
The 60s had such great music from all genres.
Seems like it would have been a wonderful time to grow up - thanks for your comments!
all of the narrators comments highlighted the civility of the 60's but the 50's and 40's were much more civil - we lost that as the 60's progressed and look where we are now, disappointing that we are where we are as a nation, most exemplified when in an airport seeing the way people dress, disgusting
It started with the Johnson administration, look at things now.Unrecoverable.
The hippies and Boomers ruined everything.
@@philhamilton8731 I'm a boomer, I didn't do that, I did not ruin everything.
I always used to dress well to travel. Now, because so much needs to be removed in the TSA line ... I dress comfortable and always wear a comfy slip on show with socks. No way am I wearing a cute sandal ... then I'd have to walk through the line barefoot where everyone else is walking barefoot. Yuk.
The 60’s were the “last hurrah” for civil society. Today, those of us who still have a sartorial sense and refuse to “join the mob”, we maintain standards in small groups of likeminded friends. Very sad, indeed.
Look-a here Ma , table cloths!
I remember going to a restaurant back then was special occasion and we dressed for the moment. Now going out to eat has become routine and uneventful, like filling up the car.
Great point - that's exactly what I found so neat about these photos - the way people presented themselves.
@@TheHistoryLounge Airline travel has become the same way. Back in the 50s and 60s people dressed up to go to the airport. Now planes are crowded, flying busses.
@@kelseymathias3881 Totally! I have a bunch of photos collected of airports and airplane cabins back in the 50s' and '60s, and everyone looks so well-dressed and elegant. Flying was a fancy event back in the day.
@@TheHistoryLounge Yeah, for good or bad, flying was too expensive for many people until c. 1980s. After deregulation, it did become more affordable...but the level of service declined. I bet you could do a whole video on airports and airline travel in the 50s and 60s, culminating with the 1970s 747. What an amazing plane...with a circular staircase!
@@kelseymathias3881 I've been thinking about putting together that video - maybe I will!
In the 40s-80s there weren't many
casual eating' restaurants available. When eating out you dressed up and went to a first-class restaurant for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Special occasions. In Chicago there was Mr Kelly's, Chaz Paree, Top of the Rock, Don the Beachcomber, Fritzels, Blackhawk. You wouldn't be seated looking like you ran all the way there. The father of a grade school classmate was the bartender at the Camilla Room of the Drake Hotel. If a celebrity arrived in town, they would either be found at the Pump Room or at the Drake. He met hundreds of celebrities coming through Chicago or playing in the room, such as Jimmy Durante.
Hi Michael - Great comments, thanks for sharing all of those places. My cousin worked at the Drake in the 80s, but I was too young to afford any of the restaurants!
Wonderful images. Folks sure were more dressy then! But so much hard liquor! And smoking everywhere! I am 76 and remember much of this. Also, don't see any obese folks in these pictures. Long before 46 oz 'big gulps' with free refills. Soft drinks have ruined the world.
As a child growing up in Phoenix Az, I was fascinated by the Green Gables restaurant on the corner of Thomas and 24th St. they had a fully armored clad knight on a beautiful horse stationed at the entrance of the parking lot! It was such a thrill to drive by and wave at him!
I grew up in Sacramento and going to Nut Tree was always a huge occasion. We often stopped there on the way to or from San Francisco since it was close to the half way point. Nut Tree was amazing with airplanes and trains and of course, really high end food.
Ive also been to the Top of the Mark and the Franciscan. Both exist today and neither has changed that much. Pretty sure the Top of the Mark still has an unwritten a dress code.
@@sqearly8708 I know and it makes me sad
Musso and Franks in L.A. has been there for over a hundred years! Some of the waiters look like they've also been there for a hundred years!! The "NEW" section is only sixty years old!
I wasn't familiar with Musso & Franks until I read this comment, but I just Googled some photos and it looks awesome! Uniforms and all!
@@TheHistoryLounge I spent a New Year's Eve there a few years ago! It was just like the pictures you showed in your video! Long tables lined up with rows of seats right next to each other! It was great!
Puttin in the Ritz Yiddish Style as my aunt Golda would say.
Nothing like those places in Augusta, Georgia where I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I only saw places like these in the movies.
I've been to the space needle restaurant in Seattle (hubby & I celebrated our 25th anniversary there!), Top of the Mark in SF & san Diego, Nut Tree along I-80, Alioto's at fisherman's wharf SF, many of the lodges in several national parks of our country - this was all during our travels in the RV. But now we have in our small part of Kentucky some piano lounges & others that have the same feel. 7:43
Thank you - Just like today - polite and sophisticated no different than 2023
LOL - what a sheet show after 1965
Haha 😆- so true!
The Buccaneer Hotel St. Croix, extremely casual and basically outdoors. 1958 and it's still there. Also The Virgin Isle hotel in St. Thomas, which was formal and no longer exists.
So fun , a true look back..
McCarthy's on Wayzata Boulevard in Minneapolis was THE place to go. The place we went more often was the Buckhorn in Long Lake, MN.
Thoroughly enjoying your videos!
My mom and dad were big on going to what they called ethnic restaurants such as Chinese, Mexican and Greek etc. I think it was somewhat novel thing in the 1960s.
In the mid sixties I remember a Restaurant NYC called the Top of the Sixes, on the 41st floor of 666 Fifth Avenue.
The food was ok, but it was a wonderful atmosphere.
Specially the view of Manhattan, and if you were in great company better!
I have great memories of dining in that restaurant, and the spectacular view - thanks for posting!
The more I watch your videos ,,, 📸 the more I realize, ,,,,I was born to wrong time
I love the style of decorations. Very interesting
Omg, Hackney's in Atlantic City.
I ate at one of the restaurants in the early 70s. The Kapok Tree, in Clearwater, Florida
I miss The Castaways on Miami Beach. The bartender with the drinks on his head was Stanley the Great. They had drink glasses with his image on them. Good memories.
Memorable was the Charter House Hotel in Anaheim, California. Best rib room for a fabulous roast beef.
Most families, even those with money, never went out to eat in the 1960s. You were more likely to have household help than take your family to restaurants. And if you did, you prepared for the night out ahead of time. Clothes, hairdressers, babysitters etc. This video shows mostly nightclubs and dance hall/vacation type places. Many signs outside restaurants emphasised Fine Dining. A sign you don't see often now. The whole concept has changed.
Mom and dad took my brother and I to Hollywood at least once a month to a movie on Hollywood Blvd and then dinner at a classy place called Nickodells by the Paramont studio and saw several stars one time we sat next to Lucy Ball and she said to mom boy do you have a handsome little blonde fellow, made my night
Howard Johnson's in the fifties, where our family of five dined for $5.00 total bill.
just found your place...i was 14 in 1960...i'm enjoyin .. thanks...mike
Hey @mikeorclem - Thanks for saying 'hello'! That would have been a great time to grow up. I have more videos from the 60s coming up - please stay tuned!
@@TheHistoryLounge i will.
It's all great except the smoke would have killed me.
Wait staff were paid a living wage. My uncle Toni was a waiter at Stouffers and he had a private box at the Opera.
Great video thank you I live in Los Angeles California. We have a restaurant and lounge from the 1960s it's called the Dresden.. it's still open to this day during the week and weekend. Very classy restaurant very sixties lounge and bar 🍺 what the old chandeliers rounded lights hanging down with a Great band playing every Friday night and Saturday night. It's on Vermont avenue in Los Feliz.. please look it up and get it into your videos. Thank you.
Hey Ronald - The Dresden! Great idea. I remember this place from the the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn movie, "Swingers" from the 1990s - one of my favorites. I'd love to make it there myself someday. Maybe a video with all the swanky hangouts from past and present LA would be cool?
Yes 👍 Thanks the Movie 🎥 was Great and still the Dresden... It's a 3 Block's down where I live,, Great Food, 🍷🍻 Drink's Laughing Talks Music 🎼🎶🎶.I am 61yr.s old and I still love the 60s-70s..And Drive only 70s cars... Peace ✌️...
Also we went to the Derby bar 🍻🍷 on Los Feliz boulevard and hillhurst Street.But now it's a Chase 🏦🏧 Bank. You can still see the Great old wooden round ceiling and the windows the movie there was Speed.. with Keanu Reeves,, and Sandra Bullock. the 50s round roof outside it was an old 50s restaurant hop they would roller-skate to your car with your food.. it's still there but a new restaurant.
And it may just begin with a billboard you saw on the Highway.
The Balcony in Fort Worth, Texas.....sigh.
Bookbinder in Philly was my favorite
I like eating at the Hog Trough
I wonder how many if any of these places still exist and if so what they look like now
Where's Chasen's, The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the The Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, people flocked to the old Flamingo Hotel in the 60s for dinner, drinks and shows???
Lots of processed foods then in America. Now we have farmers markets . I feel sorry for anyone growing up in 1960s new york 😢! At least butter isn't demonized now!!!
Pizza Hut! The old ones.
Lum’s restaurant in Kankakee, IL. Circa 1970.
This was back when people knew how to act and 10 or 15 people didn't get shot up each night.
Totally true (unfortunately)!
We have diversity these days
@@adammiller2246 Diversity in what? How many people and who gets shot or robbed tonight?
@@adammiller2246 How is that an improvement?
yep their is something missing in these photos
Green goddess and all when a steak was a steak.
I am not an American, and I was a youngster still at school in the 60s, but I do not think these photos are real or reflect a true image of 1960s dinner and drinks. To my mind these are publicity/advertising photos for the various establishments. Everything is so orderly, neat and clean, and really, and who would have taken these very professional wide-angle colour photos? There is no one smoking, and there would have been a multitude of smokers. The vid would have been far more interesting if real photos had been used (if they exist).
I tended bar at the Tacky room.
Back when smoking and drinking was FUN!!
theyve messed up everything in america.. firstly the food industry... but mostly our conciousness
7:23 Pinnacle Peak - where they cut your necktie off (for being overdressed?) I remember my father and grandfather both visited there!
Are any of these places still exist,especially the ones in Spring Valley NY & Miami??
Much more class.
"I saw a man who danced with his wife in Chicago, USA"
~Frankie
It was me and my girlfriend, don't tell my wife!
@@dc10fomin65 That's okay, I was dancing with YOUR Wife.
@@StinkFingerr That's OK, you can have her!
Pretty pictures and relaxing video to watch.
I wonder what kind of people were those guests. Not the average American, I think.
If you pay enough today, you will get a similar experience and quality food, as mentioned in the narrative.
This is a very rosy presentation of the 1960s.
I was one of them and I can say we were pretty average or even slightly below. Lets put it this way - my zip code qualified for free government cheese.
Wow isn't it interesting how people back then just did what they did not realizing they were living in the best times for respect towards others that was if you were white as there was terrible civil unrest in many parts of the Country at the time . But also noticed how slim people looked then also before all the super size advertising started . I was a kid on the 60s and my parents my brother and I drove across the Country on a new 1965 Oldsmobile vista cruiser station wagon and it was an awesome experience I will never forget . The eateries we stopped at were beautiful and clean . A truly wonderful time but for the white population as the black population didn't have it so good .
Was that a dog I saw or my date?
You spelled "Granite" wrong. I've played on that stage. All but one or two of the Catskill resorts are gone now.
Hi Greg - I appreciate you taking the time to post the correction. I questioned that spelling myself when I originally found the photo, so dug down a little further to verify. In the 60s, this resort was called 'The Granit Hotel & Country Club,' strangely spelled without an 'e.' [Here's a link to the Library of Congress website with a photo of the Granit's billboard: www.loc.gov/item/2017710817/ ] Since then the resort had been run under the name, 'The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa,' which was shut down in 2018. I couldn't find any information on the strange spelling - and it doesn't help that the resort address is on Granite Road (spelled with an 'e.') That ballroom looks like it would have been an amazing room to perform in - especially if it still had that '60s styling.
@@TheHistoryLounge Hmmm, perhaps I was thinking Granite Road. In any case, nice collection. I was there when it was the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa. Sad to see them all gone now. That's a piece of America that will never come back.
Anyone remember The Hot Shoppes in Wash. DC?🫵😁
And Baltimore.
Wow!!! No phones & no FATTIES.....back before fast food took over America! 🤣
things were more modern back then
I'm not in the right year reported me please I got lost😢😢
No way the narrator was even alive in the 60s
weve all grown to hate eachother in this country.... the distrust is incredible... in europe most everyone is nice and trustworthy and not reactive and instinctual.
I imagine most of these photos were staged in an effort to sell a "lifestyle"... just like advertising has always done.
I agree, most of these seem from post cards, catalogs and magazines.
What about the cigarette smoke in every restaurant, government buildings, public transport, and even hospitals and airlines when the arrogance of smokers never even asked if you minded, or if they did it was already lit.
Did you see the one black person at 4.03? Me neither
Google WHAT HAPPENED IN 1971.....
Women wore shower caps?
Waitresses should be half naked
Dalmatians are allowed
Apart from that is totally and utterly white? It could be South Africa in the 1960s.
In the 60s & 70s, heck even the 80s & 90s, we didn't go out for an "experience". We didn't go to a lounge or club for an "experience". If we went somewhere for a meal, we went out to eat. If it was on Friday or Saturday, we got dressed nicer because it'd be a much better restaurant, i.e. steakhouse and such. If we went to a bar, it was for a drink and/or to meet friends for a drink. If we went to a club/lounge, it was to dance, listen to music, and have a drink or something. We didn't go out for "experiences"!! Why does today's generation have to make literally everything an "experience"?? "My shopping experience" "our dining experience" "a disney experience" "my movie-going experience" Dang!! I guess you millennials say stuff like "my pooping experience" "our sexual experience" "my video watching experience" Hearing the word "experience" these days, is just as bad as hearing "partner"!! Both words sound like vomit when spoken/used by people these days.
Had to be nice not to have to see a sports jersey being worn in every restaurant.
That’s when people had some class?
When society was civilized. Today's adults are animals.
Nobody dresses up and everybody looks tacky, crude, unkempt and low class today! Very sad and a tragic commentary on today's society. Some of these pictures are certainly from the late 1950's.
Beautiful white American people with nice clothes than today!
Don't think it looked that great ! Rather tacky actually .
You weren't there at the time that decor was "in". You can't judge it today.
Classy places like that years ago are also these days more expensive
It was a beautiful and cultured civilization. A nation where faith, respect and prosperity flourished.
But today they lost everything.
What happened to them? How they accepted to be deceived in this silly and sinister way.
They abandoned God, their ideals and their love for truth and freedom.
They were the best.
well said!