If I could go back in time, I would drop everything in my current life and go back to the 1950’s

THANK GOD I WAS BORN IN 1945 ! I was just at the right age when I fell in love with cars . It was 1955, and I was 10 ! My best friend and I would go to every car dealer in town and collect every brochure they had. I have all those brochures even today. From 1955 through 1995. Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac Chevrolet, Ford, Mercury,Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Chrysler,Imperial,Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Mustang, Cougar, Falcon,Pinto,Skylark,Cutlass, Corvette, Firebird,Cameron, GTO, Grand Prix, Riviera,Thunderbird. Continental, Towne Car, Eldorado, Seville. Some of the older ones are quite valuable.

The cars + the times = a great time to be alive! I feel blessed to have been a part of it.

Born in ‘54, love the cars from the 50’s.

I was six years old in 1960 when I took my first flight on a plane. Pan Am from Chicago to London. It was so good. Everything about it was magical. We only flew Pan Am. The last flight I took with them was in 1970 on Christmas Day. The food was spectacular! The plane was lovely and the attendants were so nice. There were so few of us on the plane that we could choose what seats we wanted. Everyone had a row to themselves! Dinner was a Christmas Classic, with roast goose, chestnut dressing, and all the trimmings. Breakfast brought us bagels with cream cheese and lox. I will never forget the marvelous times I had on Pan Am flights. I will be flying to the states in less than a month ... it is never the same as the old days. Cheers to Pan Am, the airline that lived in the days of class and distinction. It will never be the same, but we do have our fond memories!

I am so glad I grew up in the 1950s! We were so free then.

You gotta love the cars of the 1950s (especially the Tri 5 Chevies as well as the 56 Ford F100).

Back in those days, you knew what a Cadillac was when you saw one floating down the street!

The best cars ever made were made in the 1950s. It was the best of times too.

I was born in 1951 and consider the years up until late 1963 as the best years of my life. I guess that many people from all generations could say the same for the times that they lived through. As a pre- teen child, I had few responsibilities and the world seemed new and interesting every day. I am doing my best to resurrect that feeling today. Enjoy life !

Loved how magazine illustrators played fast and loose with the dimensions of the actual car

National Geographic magazine had wonderful car advertisements during that time.

i'm watching this video and have a huge smiling grin on my face seeing the old cars and times of the 50's. my brother and i used to have so much fun being able to identify all the cars and anticipate the new models that would come out in the fall. my whole family of parents, aunts and uncles were all gm people and there were chevies, pontiacs, buicks, oldsmobiles and cadillacs, top of the line. my dad was the modest low end chevy guy and always bought used. my first car was a 54 chevy that cost me $50 bucks in 1966 and my brother had a 53 chevy.

“Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.” But sadly they did. It was a good ride while it lasted ❤

My first car was a 88 Oldsmobile convertible. I will never stop loving that car.

I was born in December 1941...and love the annual presentation of th next yearscars

I can say much more for the past than I can ever say for the present!

Those were great times , now just memories , I miss them ❤❤

Although I talk about the "good old days" like everyone else, I have to admit that my current car is the best car I've ever had. I remember having to turn the ignition key and having to muscle the windows open.

Born in '51....loved my childhood....😊 Texas Nana Psalm 91

THANK GOD I WAS BORN IN 1952'❣️

From WC, I remember picking a girl for a date at her door and usually meeting her Mom and/or Dad and getting a few instructions for the evening! She would be in a pretty dress and you would have on a shirt and a nice pair of pants, socks, and decent shoes, not tennis shoes! I think her Dad would check out your car from afar to make sure it would get you from here to there and back! Plus a certain time to get her back home, usually before midnight! My 53 Chevy 2 door seemed acceptable to the parents!

Great video. Planning on showing it to mom (born in '41 and still with us).

Seeing the Tee-Pee roadside attraction once more is a nice touch.

A great compilation, well done!

I think the 50s were the best time to grew up, after that everything went bad

I lived through every year of the 1950's & loved that decade! However, I've always felt that the '50's , as we remember them, did not start until 1953, with the inauguration of Pres. Eisenhower & the end of the Korean War! But, that decade's atmosphere also did not end until Pres. Kennedy's assassination in 1963! After that, the United States began to lose its separate national identity, in favor of global incorporation!! The 1950's was the last decade that America was a "World unto itself"! Too bad!

Cars in the 50's were great. 55, 56, 57, 58 Chevrolet very nice. Chevrolet, dodge trucks too.😊

Man, the two pictures you put at the end, those with the four friends beside their hot rod, and them again in the same position, 50 years later or so, made me think my beloved '58 Belvie hard top will survive me too.

Brother and I learned to drive on mom's 55 Oldsmobile Delta 88, dad always had a new company car every two years and it was Chevrolets. Brother started learning to drive on country roads to grandma's farm and when I was 11 I got to drive on the way too. I loved that 55 Olds, interior was huge and comfortable and the Chevys, well I will always be a Chevy freak. Our mom learned to drive on her parent's Model A Ford so I guess they figured 11 yrs. old was a good time to start.

A great decade for the artwork f cars. That's why I still have my first car, a 1959 Ford wagon.

Enjoyed!!! 👍👍

Everything was made better!

It was June, 1961. My parents loaded up our family, with the five children, ranging in ages from 16 down 1-year (I was the middle kid at age 12), into our 1956 Dodge Coronet 4-door sedan (with an original sticker price of about $2250.00). We left our well-loved home in Columbus, Ohio for a new life in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California (and this move was due to a new job my dad had accepted in the space industry). My dad took the now-famous Historic Route 66, as in those days interstate 40 had not been built yet. Now four or five days into our adventurous trip, we arrived in Needles, California, at midday (at the Colorado River, just over the Arizona border), and it was 120° outside.The only air conditioning we had for all seven of us our 1956 car was this odd metal tube, perhaps 24" long and with a diameter of about 8", that was mounted to the front passenger window, anchored there like you would anchor a fast-food drive-in tray; and after you put crushed ice and water into a small opening in the top of the tube, then supposedly--or hopefully--as you drove along and pulled a little rope-type cord that manually activated some "drum thing" in its inner workings, that was "designed" to spin around inside this metal tube and "force" cool air into the car's passenger compartment, well...this wonderfully welcomed cold air that was suppose to come rushing inside our car...it didn't work! And it never worked! But what we did do in Needles was to buy bags of crushed ice and share the delightful ice chips around while we traveled. My father could have easily afforded us to stay in a motel in Needles that night, instead of "subjecting" the whole family to such miserable conditions. But years later, I got thinking about why he decided to continue driving across the Mojave Desert in such intense heat, and during the hottest part of the day. He was stationed in the southern Arizona desert during World War II, and from the stories he told me over the years, he simply loved the desert, with all of its offerings. So here he was, in the land that he loved(!), introducing all of us to his sense of Eden; but damn-it, it was 120 degrees outside! However, I will say one thing here that I certainly consider a positive note out of that experience, and that is, it helped to develop a bit of "character" in us five young children. Experiencing a little bit of discomfort for an afternoon into the early evening hours of a unique day, was really a rare opportunity to test one's fortitude, one's ability to cope with some fairly intense discomfort. But in the end, what we all came to realize was, for our family, we all won.

Automobiles had personality’s today people don’t

American Graffiti is one of my favourite movies, although I never experienced that culture, being Dutch. And all those different colours, even Ford wasn't black any more. Nowadays, it's mostly black, white or something in between. I noticed several girls in shorts. This was long before Mary Quant "invented" the hot pants.

Thank you!!!❤

You really captured the essence of the time. If I only had a time machine...

Great video thanks alot so many cars i wish i owned

"Unsafe At Any Speed"...but not bad lookin', and you could tell them apart...and could they haul ass!!🚘🚗

The years of optimism, lots of growth for the USA

at 5:14 that's the salt lake valley looking northeast, the long gone Millcreek Drive-in at 3300S and 3500E , A smiths grocery is now there.

Have you done a Vintage Trailer Video yet?

Back when America had it’s own distinct culture and was proud of it. Now we’re told we can’t have a national culture and identity.

25 MPG at 25 cents a gallon. A dollar for a 100 miles, those we're the days.

If anybody designs new cars like these..bet they would sell like hotcakes

Great video and memories. Carol from California

Yep but they sure try to convince us today's better ! I call BS on that !

Beautiful more beautiful than new cars ugly made from blastic

The image at 6:53 looks to be Central City Colorado, looking up North from the bottom of Main Street. It looks a bit different today.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but when I research about the 1950s and 1960s it seems like if you were willing to work there was always a job for you somewhere, and if you were willing to work hard the sky was the limit. Out of high school you could be a manager or salesman at a Sears and be able to buy a house and car and live moderately. Or you put yourself through college and get a really good job so you can get a really nice house with a swimming pool and a really nice car and live well. Today people that make over 100k a year can barely afford a home and are in debt for the rest of their life.

What a thrill to live back then! Especially for the black folks

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Though I love cars, actually have gasoline surging through my veins ever since I was able to crawl, give me cars from the 1960s, please! The 1960s were the era for beautiful, timeless styling. The 1961-69 Lincoln. The 1963 Corvette. The 1963-65 Riviera, The 1963 Chrysler Ghia Turbine, The 1965 Pontiacs. The 1965 Mustang, The 1968 Continental Mark III, The 1968 Eldorado. Need I say more? Gloria Swanson said it best in "Sunset Boulevard" in 1953: "These new cars are made of nothing but spit and chromium." 1950s era cars were bloated, fat, overly chrome-ladened and mostly underpowered. The only '50s cars worth mentioning are the 1953 Studebakers, the 1953 Corvette, the 1956-57 Continental Mark II, the 1956 Lincolns, and the 1957 Chrysler Corporation cars. Take me back to the 1960s again when cars were truly works of art.

Pretty girls back then!

The drive in restaurant was the beginning of casual wear. You didn't need to wear a pretty dress and high heels to eat or watch a movie in your own car!

6:03 - the car 🚗 freed peopl from train schedules.

Great video! I'm intrigued by your accent, you pronounce automobile "Otto" mobile. Where are you from?

I’m in this video. 😂

THE BEAR IS ON THEIR HOOD, AND THEY'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE LOOKING AT IT! OMG. NOT SMART.

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Narrator, please, please, please STOP using the word "iconic!" Simply stated, just stop using it! I'm sick of hearing it on all the video presentations across KZfaq!