You are right. We did the best we could to survive our current situations at the time. 👍🏻

That's how it was. We didn't expect someone _else_ to solve our problems. We adapted, and carried on.

My dad also passed when, I was young but,my mom continued to work once she had got through a bad bout of depression but, I’m sure your mom like my mom was able to drawl a nice healthy check from Social Security it isn’t known as a free government benefit, it was simply known as Survivor Benefits from the Social Security Administration monthly where it’s simply the money your dad had been paying into from his job! We at least got that but, my dad had worked a good job so, nothing beyond that!

And I bet the 11 year old often minded the younger children while Mom worked or took a break, and the others were out riding bikes or playing in the street.. Today that same Mom would be thrown in jail and the kids taken away.. It was a different, better and safer time back then.

Growing up in Hell’s Kitchen we had one sink and bath tub in the kitchen of a railroad apartment. Always had food on the table and a bed to sleep in, I thought we were rich.

Yep. BTW I hadn't thought of Prell shampoo in years.

I took the bus into Indpls for 60 cent s with my neighbor from a small town west of it. We bought a 45 rpm record and a sub sandwich at Woolworth s on a Saturday alone at age 11. Our parents never worried about us. We felt safe as we window shopped and that’s all we did. We were adventurers who felt no fear at all.1958.

Dippity do styling gel!

@@flowerfaeri brylcream - a little dab will do ya!

It's gotten even worse since the Pandemic. It's like half of America has gone crazy. Shooting people who walk up your driveway or ring your doorbell. Going crazy on airplanes.

I was a kid in the 60’s and agree with you. They were better times. I was one of three children. We had “one” tv in the living room, and there was never any fighting over who watched what. I watched cartoons on Saturday morning. Sunday night was Ice cream night and we watched tv together. That’s when ice cream really was a half gallon and not pumped full of air. Ice cream today isn’t even a half gallon. When I was a kid, my dad always dipped the ice cream. Family of five and there was still ice cream left. When we were little we couldn’t leave the yard but still played outside all day and yes we drank from the hose. We had to be called in for lunch and sometimes dinner too. We’d hurry and eat so we could go outside to finish playing until dark. I truly believe that you were Blessed if you were a kid in the 50’s and 60’s. Remember penny candy 🍭? There was nothing like it. So sorry kids today can not experience childhood as we did. We were not well off in the least, but we never wanted for anything or had to go without. I thank God I was born when I was.

@@kholbrook203 Me, too, friend, and I, also was one of three kids. My Dad actually was foreman of a small dairy and brought real ice cream home with him and it tasted like home made. Like you said, no air, just goodness. Yes, we were called home for dinner within earshot or whistles. My Dad taught me how to whistle through grass, it was so much fun. We had rules and there were consequences if you broke them, not bad ones but you learned how to be a good, responsible person. Thank you for sharing,

I was a kid of the 80s, born in 1981. Although I somewhat grew up with technology, it was still the very early days of it so I still lived in an analog world. While the 80s was analog, the 90s started to bring everything digital. I was excited about the technology at the time but in hindsight things went wrong. At this point I would love to go back to the 80s technology before everything went insane.

@@Epic_C You are very insightful, friend

That smelled amazing😊

That made me think of skiing in the 1970s! There was 'Glacier' brand ski cream (used for face protrction) which had an unmistakeable fragrance. Never seen it since those days

I loved Sea 'n Ski.

They sure did 👍

Those were great!

"Open wide for Chunky!'

Advertised by Arnold Stang! Still one of the few candies I loved as a kid. Even with the raisins, which tasted good in them.

@@davidh9844 I think I saw his face in this episode - every time I see him, I think of Chunky Chocolate - and "MAD, MAD, WORLD"

They were sooooo good!

Same, born in 1961. I did have fun besides the fact that I was a foster. But I was okay with it.

I was 1960 - same memories & joys of being a kid during the 60's & 70's!❤

1963 for me. What a great time to grow up.

I was also born in 1961. The Game of Life brought back wonderful memories of my family members trying to see who was going to be the millionaires.

I loved my childhood. We had so much fun with our friends. Very active and always outside. Riding our bikes, swimming, playing tennis, roller skating. Never had time to get in trouble. Born in 56.

Definitely the Green Stamps store!

Yes. S&H green stamps. That was fun.

Wow! I haven't had perked coffee in about 35 years. My one aunt was the only relative who would do it but she psssed in 2001. Tasted really yummy, too.

Percolation is the WORST way to make coffee. My mother made it that, used Sanka and put cream and sugar in it. GROSS. I do pour over drip coffee, ground fresh every day, much better.

@@lilsheba1 You miss the point of this channel completely. We are here to go down memory lane and remember when the world was a much happier place for us. My Mom passed away many many years ago and I can still remember her coffee and how it tasted. If you wish to be negative please have the courtesy to stay off MY comments, thank you

My mom made coffee using the cheesecloth method boiling the water and dipping the cheesecloth full of grounds. I remember begging her to give me some She did but I didn't know it was mostly milk with a small amount of coffee. I loved it 😊

Wringer washers broke buttons

​@lovly2cu725 and that's where the phrase 'don't get your tit in a wringer' came from.😂

@@lovly2cu725 They sure did but, if you put them through correctly, it didn't happen too often. I was born in the 50s and we had a wringer washer. It was in the basement and we had to fill it up with a water hose and drain it into a sump pump. Behind it stood a rack of two galvanized steel tanks that you'd fill with water so you could get two rinses in. The wringer could swivel so you could wring the clothes into the first tank, hand rinse, swing the wringer then wring into the next tank, hand rinse then wring into a laundry basket then take outside and hang on the line. We didn't get one of those new fangled automatic washing machines until the 70s.

I was born in 1961. I also lived in Detroit, Michigan. I remember Great Scott very well!

Every Friday a& p pay day sucrets we kept the tins to use

Woah! I do the same with my son!

That must have been nice to get 10 buck a week, we had chores and no allowance. Taking out the trash and when we were old enough we cut the grass. On top of that we started working at the age of 11, delivering papers for the Detroit News.

That was A LOT of money back then!

You WERE Daddy Warbucks with that much cash every week in the 70's!

I remember my mom buying Avon and Shaklee. I was raised on Shaklee vitamins. Lol

What I miss the most was when everyone knew their neighbors on the block. Both sides of the street and even across the back lane. I'm a little different I guess because my family moved 25 minutes from town when I was 10 years old and when I bought my house in 2016 in a nice neighborhood I waited a few days thinking the "welcome wagon" was going to come along. It didn't and I was a little disappointed. When I bought my first house at 20 years old in a old neighborhood (the main part of my house was built in 1890 and the kitchen addition was built in the very early 40s and the front addition was early 50s) everyone came around within a week and after only a year or 2 I knew everyone within a 3 block radius and made a lot of friends of the 15 years I lived there. Anyway, after a week of nobody showing up I decided that I'd introduce myself to everyone lol. I live on the "main drag" of our subdivision so the blocks are a bit longer but I know everyone on both sides of the street from the corner all the way down to the park. Which works out to be a total of 14 houses and know each and every one of them. A few of them are a little different as they really keep to themselves and don't talk to anyone. For the last 7 years when new people move into our "block" there are 10 of us that get together and do the whole Welcome Wagon" thing which includes a couple bottles of wine, homemade baking, I ALWAYS make either a lasagna or manicotti and guess what? The new additions to the neighborhood are always stunned and almost cry sometimes because the last place they lived nobody knew anyone! Who can you live like that?!?! During the winter months we all help each other with snowblowing the driveways. Especially the people that work nights until 7 or 8 am and the plow goes by at 6am and us daytime shift guys have to be at work by 8-9am we'll do the ends of the nightshift guys so they can at least get in the driveway and the bank doesn't turn to stone and you have to use a spade to break it up. Everyone looks out for one another and once summer comes omg it's a non-stop BBQ and bonfire on the weekend as we all take turns hosting. The area I live in was built between 1999-2006 and we have 3 originals left and they have all told me that the "welcome wagon" stopped around 2010 because people were coming and going and people for some reason became cold and they are so happy that somebody finally came around to break the ice. I'm just thankful that at the old age of 38 when I bought my house back in 2016 I wasn't one of those shy people and made it a point to introduce myself because if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many amazing people. As for the people in my old hood, I have about 16-20 of them come over for a BBQ every summer as the majority of us keep in touch still, which can't be a little hard because I refuse to have any kind of social media BUT I've had the same cellphone number since 1997 and same landline since 2000 from my first house and was able to take my number with me when I moved in 2016. Anyway lol long story short is that it's nice to have community where you live and in this day and age I really think that having neighbors that keep an eye out on you and your house is something money cannot buy!.

That’s exactly how it was when I was growing up. The neighbors knew everybody on the block on both sides. And you did look out for one another. My husband and I have been living in our home for over 30 years. We’re good friends with our neighbors on the one side. My husband has talked with the new neighbors on the other side of us. Otherwise, everyone else stays to themselves. Such a huge difference with people. And the other thing is that dads worked and moms stayed at home and took care of the children and the house. You could live off of one salary………..

Yup the left ruins everything they touch.

Still does.

If you ever made the mistake of drinking it right after brushing your teeth, yikes, not so great. Lol.

Lots is sugar in Tang❤

I loved Tang and I’d drink it now!!!

It gave me hives.

Yes, and we had a neighbor who sold Watkins .

​@@Donna-zc9iiI recall Watkins beng sold into fairly recent decades. Unsure sure if it still exists.

The customer paid rent every month to the local phone company for each phone you had.

Dad acquired a push button phone, and spliced into the existing phone wiring to connect it. You couldn't call out, but you could answer or listen in. When the phone or wiring needed repair, dad had to go around and disconnect all the extra wiring so the phone co wouldn't know.

Exactly. Twenty years vs twenty months.

I bought a kenmore washer for myself and my new husband in 1977. I left it at my Mom’s when we moved, and it was still there in 2012 when my mom passed away. That’s a very long time for an appliance. My last washer lasted about 8 years.

My mother had a Kenmore dryer for well over 20 years - they were workhorses. so much so that in 2022 when we bought our new home in Kentucky, low and behold the dryer was the exact Kenmore Model my mother had! Nearly two years since & we still have it !

That's for sure.

A washing machine could last up to 20 yrs. Today they make them not to last long so you keep buying and they make money. Greed has ruined our lives.

I remember that toothpaste also😊

Brings back memories of my own we had a A&P store here in Indiana. You're right the coffee smell always stands the smell of time.😊

The coffee smell was the best!! Such a nice memory ❤️

I grew up in a small town and we had a small A&P store too. I went with my dad and I enjoyed the smell of the coffee. But the taste is different 🤮 to this day I don’t like coffee.

When I first moved out to Hunterdon Co. in NJ there were still two obvious old A&P red brick bldgs. around. One was in Lambertville & the other Frenchtown.

@@glennso47 I was from Bergen County but I know Lambertville, too, great little towns and memories

I was born in '77 also. 😊

By the time my youngest brother & sister came along my dad would just take change from his car, remember toll money? Put a handful in a plastic baggie.

@@samanthab1923 🤣

One day when I was little I lost a tooth. I put it on the windowsill instead of under my pillow to see if the tooth fairy was real. Then, I went and got my Dad and told him about my experiment. I pulled the blinds back and showed Dad where I put the tooth as an experiment. And...yes, Virginia, the tooth fairy did find it and left me some money.

Those tins were in every home in America. We kept toothpicks in one in the kitchen and in our camping gear with strike anywhere matches.

@@WalkiTalki They were definitely useful, I used to even keep quarters in one for the laundromat back in the early 80s. 😀

I used to "line it" until I could see the internal workings, shake it, and do it again!

@@SSN515 Me too!

Same here!

Melrose 5, Five Three Hundred... Gimbles department store?

Ours was TA3-

@@incog99skd11 By any chance, did you live in the Chicago suburbs? Like Park Ridge or Des Plaines?

@@61rampy65 Yes, Park Ridge and the prefix stood for Talcott.

Ethot AZZ crack copy paste

@@JSFGuy Oh, WE got here, another, wannabe Billy Badass, another Internet tough-guy, who thinks, he is an Almighty, "keyboard Warrior", who plays too much "Call Of Duty", while eating pop-tarts, unemployed as, he lives in his momma's basement

I remember "Chock full o'nuts is a heavenly coffee. Better coffee millionaires money can buy"

@@soundsource3200Chock full of bolts!!

Those phones weighed a ton, LOL!! I still miss it all.

Electrolux.

@@barbarat5729 That's right! Thanks!

Very fancy. We had Hoovers & in 70 had the vac system installed at the new house.

That’s all my mother trusted was that Electrolux vacuum cleaner. And it was indeed a very robust product, each one seemed to last at least 8 or so years!

Those were a lot more expensive compared to Hoovers.

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I was born in 61, and I still think the 50s and 60s and maybe until the mid 70s was a great time for kids to grow up in. The music and movies were MUCH better. One could play outside till sundown unsupervised. 👍🏻

@@tonycollazorappo Music and movies, oh how true. I am a 56'er and surviving all our skinned knees and elbows helped toughen us up for life today and we had great fun at the same time 😀

All the A & P’s were already shutdown before the 80’s ever arrived!

Came here looking for this specific comment 🙂

This guy's videos are always poorly researched.

I think the narrator said Topaz was something men gave their wives.

I had to put the whole pack in my mouth to keep the taste going, LOL. I really liked that gum, 50 years later, this year, they discontinued it. =(

😅😅 but the lime was so good!

@Salish_redbone, The fruit stripe gum, nowadays, represent, the "Rainbow Mafia"

PLUS it was more efficient! Keep the heat at 62º at night, and instead of heating the entire house, you heat the small area of a bed.

I remember the hissing sound of the steam. As a little kid, I would melt crayons on the radiator. Lol.

@@soundsource3200 I did the crayon melting thing too...in my third grade classroom. Had to stand in the corner for that one.

I was told to use it when sitting on my patio in Phoenix to prevent insect bites. It works.

I still use Avon SSS for bug repellent because I am allergic to all bug sprays.

Campho-Phenique was a big one in my house. Jergens hand lotion by the kitchen sink too.

My mother used Iodine instead of Mercurochrome . I’ll never forget the way it burned when applied to the a cut.

​@@charlesgremillion7603So did the Mecurichrome😂

You just gave me a Vicks Vaporub nightmare....lol!

@@samanthab1923 I'd love to know what marketing genius came up with Campho - Phenique? Sounds like a Parisian brothel.

Mom also had a pink Princess phone in the master bedroom, I had a beige rotary in my room and we had a green wall phone in the kitchen.

I was born in 1952, and feel the same way. I love to see something in these videos that I had totally forgotten about, and be brought back to that time. I would love to return, even just for a day.

@@wildmountainthyme4123 I'm with you! It would be fun to go back...if only for a little while.

For about 2 1/2 minutes

Teaberry also.

The Vietnam war, and thousands of Americans coming home in body bags were simpler times??

@@gustavsorensen9301 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.

Still is!

I was born in 1961, and yeah, those phones were dangerous, LOL.

@@tonycollazorappo Did you ever get all fancy and use a pencil to dial with 😆

@@lauraann7816 Sure did.

The old metal dial was nicer, because you could fit your fingers in the holes.

We were into Chinese checkers and scrabble andparcheesy

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And my dad smoked Tareyton cigarettes. We also played with Slinky's and Chutes and Ladders board games. Miss those wonderful times.

Dippity doo!Wow I forgot about that!

I still use Revereware!!

Unless you always lived in rented flats. A 50 or 60s would have been a dream come true. Never ever owned a home. 😢

😂 probably why we're immune to antibiotics now.

Nope, they still sell sucrets in the store and, were never taken off the market! They were around in the 70s and, they still put out commercials in the 80s, my mom always kept them in the house along with the throat spray because, I always got bad sore throats from time to time.

Another product mom absolutely refused to buy.

Me, too. Tang and Space Food Sticks was one of my favorite snacks.

It is WAY better today. And comes in many flavors. Mango Tang is pretty good.

All I remember is that they would rust in the white porcelain sink.

Beeman! Yes!

Black jack Gum? They still sell it at Joann’s fabric and craft stores. Near the register. I often pick up a pack for my 91 year old dad.

@@juliepoolie5494 THEY will not sell "Black Jack Gum", today, because it is RAAAAAAACIST

Mary Tyler Moore was the elf!

Hills Brothers

I remember them all

Always wanted Mr Bubble but she said no, would use dish soap. Forgot about no disposable blades. My dad shaved everyday. Used Noxema.

I always wanted a doll with glasses like Mrs. Beasley Buffy had on the Family Affair show. Wonder why that was her name.

I think they took macurachome off the market later. I heard it had mercury in it. We used it all the time.

Mercurochrome - that stang!!

You're probably remembering Hostess Fruit Pies. They were wrapped in wax paper back then. My Mother and Grandma would buy them for me. They are still available, but sadly they now come in a cardboard box. Thank you for sharing your memories 😊

@@coldsamon Oh very cool. Here in Montreal, we have a "Knock off" shelf of American goodies, renamed and retooled for Canada. I'll have to take a closer look at it next time I shop. I've never noticed them on the shelf before. Thanks so much for the name. Hostess Fruit Pies !! YUMMMM !!