Kids looked so clean and nice.

The saddest thing to me with this video is knowing that in 2021 most of these "kids" are now long dead, dying or so old they don't know which way is up. Time is precious and waits for no one.

This was the decade when my parents were in high school, and I think I would have felt very much at home during their time of coming of age. Thank you, Recollection Road for this nostalgic presentation!

Big change from the 50s to the 60s. I entered high school in 1959, sporting a 'flat-top with fenders' and all I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle. In '63 when I graduated, I had hair over my ears and collar and was riding a surf board.

I went to high school in the 40s and early 50s and I’m still alive my great grand kids think it’s a bit crazy that I’m still alive for some reason also this brings back some memories

I asked both my parents about growing up and what was school like and boy did I get a laugh but learned a lot about that era and about them.

I have my mom's yearbooks from her time in high school in the late 50's!

I grew up in the 60's/70's, my older siblings were 50's kids. We would play outside all day and night.

I remember all of this. I graduated in 1959!

All dressed so nicely..love their hair

Has anyone noticed that the teens in those days seemed happier?

Great place for all like minded, nostalgia seeking souls! Thnx for taking the time to make us forget the world around us for a little while.

Elvis certainly impacted the music of the 1950's in the U.S., but the Beatles did not. They did not arrive until the 1960's.

Look at the streets and sidewalks ... no litter!

Back when schools were fully funded and we gave a crap about the education of children.

The Beatles were a 1960's phenomeon, not 1950's! Other than that, nice video. I was in high school from 1955 to 1959, so I should know. Elvis. Fats Domino. Chuck Berry. Jerry Lee Lewis. Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The Platters. So many others.

So sad how we have fallen as a country since then.

And none of them had iPhones back then and they were perfectly happy without them.

At the shot of the graduation ceremony at the end, the parents in the bleachers were wearing hats!!!! Remember hats? Aside from the occasional baseball hat, hats are gone forever.

I’m still alive and I do remember good times

I can only assume a non-American, possibly British person wrote this. The Beatles became popular in America in 1964, not the 1950s.

My dad graduated in '49, my mom in '53.

Thats right homeboy keep it real no sensational news no taking sides just pure journalism.

Bring back these days

I remember those days, graduated in 1960.

all i can say those were the best days i was 13 when 1950 came in ten yrs of the 50's were the best

Damn, we still use spiral notebooks.

The only other impression I've got about high school in the 50's was from the 1978 musical Grease.

I went to high school in the 80's and I had to write my papers on the typewriter and we watched films in class on the same kind of movie projector.

Thank you for the video

Excellent video ty

I was born in 1958 and went to school in the 1960's and early 1970's. The 1950's music had the biggest impact on me. Though I love 1950's, 1960's and 1970's music, the 50's songs are my favourite. I've always wished that I'd been born earlier, in the 40's or early 50's. Not so much anymore because I might already have passed lol. Nonetheless I still love the era.

i guess backpacks did not exist yet because i don't see any in those pictures

I can’t help but wonder where, when and why in the hell did everything go so wrong today.

Shots of our girls: no tattoos, no infected piercings, no $800 Nikes, no crotch-grabbing. I love it.

I wish I was living then is sad the way people carry themselves today.

This is the generation of my parents.........Two observations to the photographs: Look at the Hope they have......Look at the confidence present (from their sense of accomplishments due to hard work)...........BOTH are absent from the entitled youth of today.

Bro what happened to women they used to all be so beautiful!!?!?

All the guys are clean cut and look handsome.. That hair cut makes all men look good.

Why is it that teenage kids of the 1950s 60s and even 70's look older than the kids that are coming out of high school now. At least to me it sure seems like it. I am a 1960s preteen.

I’m going into my senior year of high school right now

Thanks RR😊

I was in high school in the early 80s and they still had typing class. And it was fun too

My grandmother whose 92 was born in 33, graduated in 51. Wanted to see how high school life was for her!

back when they had driving restaurants and they bring your food to your car and cars had plenty of room now you can barely fit in the cars back when they had sit-down restaurants practically on every corner and endless coffee or an ice cream float

Imagine before texting people actually talked to each other and could socialize without half of them staring down into their cell phone. Wonder if Wally Clever is still around?

Oh my goodness!! The girl at mark :58 looks just like my mom! She was born in 1927 so that couldn't be her.

The music sounds just like the Stray Cats from the 80s!

I had a classmate who looked like Ian Anderson circa senior year in 1974. Guys had long hair. He still has long hair and beard.

Some of those kids wound up. The Nam

Why couldn’t girls dress in those dresses like that at my highschool nowadays 😍😔

I still have my mom's 1953, 54 and 55 high school yearbooks. Sometimes, I just get away from the fam, go to my mancave, look at them and shed some tears seeing how happy everyone was and how they all dressed nice and respectful. No 400 pounders wearing clothes 4 sizes too small with pink or green hair with tats and piercings all over them. A great time for America.

Eye candy alert at 5:27!!!

imagine i actually time slipped by accident im in the 50s wearing my jordans a yankees hat blue riped jeans and a ralph lauren shirtt lmao

Beatles came out in 62'.

I just want to go back in time and experience one day as a high schooler in the 1950’s… is that too much to ask?!

All these chicks were on their best behavior at school, they even had a dress code. But come Friday night? OMG! They knew how to have some fun!

I went to high school in the 70s. We did not have the style and fun of the 50s with it's car culture, kids hanging out with each other and cool dress and music. We also did not have the style, kids hanging out in the malls, cool dress and music of the kids in the 80s. We were stuck in between with a blah look and style. alot of kids where I was at did not go to prom or dances, our dress was not very stylish and our music until the advent of punk was blah - except for Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin were Gods. And their music was everything. But, we missed the iconic era of the 50s/60s and the 80s.

Funky 💃🕺

1:05 is 60s

They were well-dressed back then and fashionable like East Asians today.

The Beatles weren't known here yet in the 50's.

from the 90 no is sooo. Mean

Does anyone else get creeped out by old videos and pictures or is it just me? For example 3:57 that shit looks terrifying

I entered HS in fall of 1970. By then this whole vibe was dying fast. When I was a senior in 1972 the whole hippie/slob thing had completely taken over. And women's lib was starting to rear its ugly head....telling women that they are actually men. A girl in a dress in 1972...nope. Not one. She would get shamed and called names by the early cancel culture. I noticed disrespect for teachers creeping in around 1967 in Js HS. Values and morals were 100% under attack. In hindsight, it was all planned.

The Beatles did not show up until th '60's.

Ummmmm the Beatles first album didn’t debut until 1963

Oh, poor kids, they r so thin! Obviously they have no money for food.

They kids look like they are in their 30’s 😂

sorry.....the Beatles were at least 5 years away from 'stardom'(even as late as 1959)...but, hey, you got 'the king' right! ELVIS.

The last healthy era. In the 1960s, everything will begin to degenerate…The long descent into hell…

Highschool was a very hard time for me. I was about 10in shorter than the girls about 40 pounds overweight with crooked yellow teeth and a bad problem with gas even the ugliest girl in school wouldn't give me the time of day so predictably I played with myself a lot and over time went blind.

Carpe diem.

Not much difference from the 1940s High skoolers.🙄

Note: The Beatles didn't form until 1960 an were unheard of in the US until after they signed their first recording contract in 1962. Sorry, the Beatles had zero influence in teen culture in 1950's America.

Nifty, Swell Picture a female on the 50's sitting on Elvis Presleys, Chubby Checkers, or Perry Como's face. Back then bikini waxes didn't exist.

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Is tgere such thing as brain donor? Ayn eand helev.

No drag queens?

Were most of these kids racist?

Fabulous music

With no narrative these are getting Boring.

This was nowhere NEAR the 1950s. I quit watching, thumbs down, etc.

According to historians best time to live and work in the USA was from 1946 till 1964 (before the Vietnam war) where a dad with one job buy a modest house, one car and still have the means to feed and support his 2 kids and wife. A time when most things were made in the USA 🇺🇸 and one dollar went a long way. A beautiful time, sadly lost forever. 🥲 PS: I say the 70’s and 80’s were pretty awesome too in every respect, without the distractions of social media and many other shenanigans that detracts people from reading a good book or enjoy a simple stroll.