The saddest part for me is realizing how old I've gotten and realizing what a great time we lived in

Growing up in a world before the Internet is a true blessing

Born in 53. I would do anything to go back to the 60's. You could sleep with your doors unlocked, neighbors were there for you whenever you needed them. Music was the best! So sad my parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles are all gone. Brings tears to my eyes that our road ahead is much shorter than the road behind us.

When I was a child in the 60's I would hear my Grandfathers stories when he was young, I would think things will never change that much again, little did I know how fast and far things would change in my own lifetime. But I am forever grateful for growing up in that special time.

Yep, I remember all of this. Disney in the 60’s was great, today it’s evil. Music was fun, not angry. And the cars were great!

I remember my parents getting green stamps when you bought groceries. You filled books full then would go to a green Stamp store and trade them in for household items. Vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffee pots.

I'd grow up in this era again...any day.

Another fad in the sixties was to make chains out of the soda and beer can pull-off tabs. Also, the gum wrappers were fashioned into necklaces and bracelets and other things.

The best years of my life because of the innocence of society. The best music, best t.v. shows, best commercials and best neighborhoods. If you didn't grow up in the 60's, you'll never understand.

In my 70+ years on this planet, the 50’s and 60’s were the best time of my young life. Sorry that kids today will never have the chance to experience that way of life.

"Leave it to Beaver" TV show always seemed to have a good message about life growing up.

I’m getting to the age where all my aunts & uncles are gone, along with grandparents. It’s tough to realize there isn’t a person left alive whose known me my whole life.

Born in 1962 and remember a lot from the late 60's and 70's. What a wonderful time. People socialized more, kids were outside playing after school. Our neighborhood was safe.

I was a true child of the 60's... it was such a safe time! You stayed out till dusk and then you would hear your mom calling for you to come home. Better be home when those street lights came on :) Everybody else's mom was also YOUR mom and you better mind them. You showed respect for your elders and always minded your manners. Kids gathered outside every afternoon after school to play.. and in summer there would be days of fort building and monopoly games that went on and on. What a different time it was..... we were having the time of our lives and didn't even know it :) I feel lucky to now be 64 and feel like I'm 40 and have these wonderful memories.

Forget the cap gun. The real fun started when you realized you could set off an entire roll of caps all at once by hitting it with a hammer or a rock. This filled the need for things that exploded until you were able to get your hands on cherry bombs or M-80s. Ah, memories.

I remember as a kid mom made us dress in our best when going out to almost any function. I remember when glove compartments in cars actually carried those elbow length white damask gloves my mother wore. And I remember Dippity Doo, Aqua Net, Tabu, that ruby red lipstick, Beehives, and Prell. Oh Lord, I miss those days!

Life was so simple back then. I miss those days

I was born in 1951 and I enjoyed life in the 50s 60s and 70s. It went down hill from there and will never be the same. I feel sorry for any child growing up now. Nothing to look forward too because everything is fantasy.

Being born in 58 and my sister in 60 its unbelievable that we had an easy bake oven and that creepy crawler making oven being as young as we were but we were responsible, the thing i miss even in my mid sixties is Saturday morning cartoons. I can still listen and reflect on the music I grew up w/ that nobody can take away from me as those times and tunes were dear.

What I remember most of that era was the smells. Grocery stores smelled different - Hardware stores all had a certain smell. Different types of stores had their own smell and to me it was wonderful. Today everything is just too sterile.

It's almost taken my 65 years of living to realize I was so lucky to be born when I was. It's not even close to the same World today. I'd say the 60's were the best, maybe because of my age then but also for everything in this video.

Loved twilight zone. Now we are living a real life one

They were called the good old days for a reason. I sure miss them.

I think a basic guiding force that was the foundational element to all these great memories was the family. Families were a unit, spent more time together and shared experiences together. And yes, of course there were families that experienced some negative disruption/ hardship etc. But in general families were strong, loving and appreciative of life and the things in life. Whether rich or poor, the family was a solid part of 50s and 60s. Sadly these days there are so many facets of life that pull family closeness away.

I started first grade in 1965. One of the things I remember about grade school, particularly the early years, are the smells. I'm not sure if many people remember, but we were surrounded by many different smells back then. Things like paste, crayons, Playdoh, construction paper all had distinct smells to the that I still remember. I think many of us remember is the smell of a piece of paper that had been recently run through a mimeograph machine. The purple duplicating fluid had a very unique smell. Also, the classroom pencil sharpener, when filled with the wood shavings had a smell similar to what you'd find in a woodworking shop. I'm not sure about classrooms today, but I imagine they are much less fragrant than the ones all those years back.

If I could go back as an adult in the 60’s, I wouldn’t hesitate. We would ride our bikes everywhere, play baseball, go to A&W for root beer. I loved cartoons on Sat am. I remember my mom getting dressed to go out w/my dad on New Year’s Eve. She was tall and thin, and had this gorgeous red dress on and had a high beehive hairdo. She was beautiful and my dad was really handsome. Hamburgers were 20 or 25 cents at McDonald’s, and they actually tasted like hamburgers. I tell my grandkids stories of my childhood and they act horrified! No Netflix, wireless internet, video games, and, especially, NO CELLPHONES!

I was one of those lucky kids who grew up in the golden era , called the 60's. I still believe it was a great decade, the Telly was brilliant. mostly they were American made shows, Man, I wish I could be a kid again, and enjoy that time all over again, even if it was in black & white , here in England.

I was born in 53 and I would never trade my memories,it was awesome back in the day 💪💪

It was an honor to grow up in the 1960's loved it. Kids today have no idea how great things were back then.

One thing I miss from back then is DRIVE IN MOVIE THEATERS.

My life was like the Andy Griffith show, I was raised by my grandparents in a small town during the sixties and my grandfather was chief of police. I miss those days dearly 😞

I just Loved my white leather knee hi boots! Wore them everyday!☺️ Me, my sisters and friends all played "Jacks" so simple yet so much fun. And Jiffy Pop was always a special treat, my sisters and I would gather around the stove and watch it balloon up! Thanks again Recollection Road for these Great memories and I Love reading the comments of the Wonderful People of My Generation. We were Truly Blessed! Take Care Everyone and Enjoy the Sweet Memories!☺️👍💕

This is so fun yet painful in that we can never get this life back.i feel absolutely blessed to have grown up in the 60s.thanks so much for making these videos.

Thank you mom and dad for giving me a great childhood in the 1960s. I miss and love you. RIP

I miss those days too! We got to see all the cool bands. Awesome music! Heaven will be so groovy after us Boomers are together again!!

I was 10 in 1969 but I still remember a lot of these things. Loved creepy crawlers!

I was born in 1958 and like so many others commenting have wonderful memories of my childhood in the 60’s. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Texas we knew practically everyone. We would get on our bikes in the summer and go visit friends, go pick dewberries along the fence on the side of the road, ride to the small country grocery store and get “penny” candy and yes, each piece was only one cent! As long as we were home before dark no one worried about us. No cell phones, no computers and only 3 channels on TV. Life was simple and fun and I feel blessed to have those memories.

I was born in 1946. I have such great memories. Lately with everything that has happened the last few years I am realizing just how great we had it. What a great time to have lived.

Child of the 60's here. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Things weren't perfect but they were better in so many ways. I had a stay at home mom who made me lunch when I came home from school and supper was always homemade too. We weren't wealthy but we were rich with imagination. Technology has ruined everything. Used to have to compete to get on a team, now they don't have enough kids turn out to put a team together.

Howard Johnsons rocked it in the 60s! Thanks for the memories!

I was born in 1945, so technically I grew up in the 50's. The 60's were a time of graduation, starting a career and the Viet Nam Draft ! The 70's brought me the love of my life at 32. I had 40 wonderful years until I became a widower in 2017. Now at 77, I'm trying to go on . It's not easy. Most of my friends are either gone, or in bad health. Looking back, I love all the decades for it's own individual reason. Life really is what you make it.

Born in 1959 I have fond memories of my childhood in the '60's. Kids played outside, doors were never locked in my neighborhood, grandparents lived across the street, aunts and uncles a few doors down, and we walked to church and school which were just 4 blocks away. We weren't rich but my parents always provided my brother and me with cool toys: GI Joe, Tiger Tank, banana seat bikes from Sears, slot race car sets, telescopes and microscopes, and many more. And the music on the radio was great. I vividly remember listening to the Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand while dancing on my grandmother's grand front porch. Good Times. Your videos bring back great memories.

Ahhh, sweet memories! It's so sad that children nowadays will never know the joys and freedom we enjoyed. 😔

I got a serious case of nostalgia, thank you. Sometimes I wish they had a double like button.

i feel so lucky to have grown up in this time🥰

Growing up in the sixties was awesome!

Boy, growing up in the 60s was really great compared to nowadays. Back then, simple things were great, like Jiffy Pop, and going out and playing with the neighborhood kids was just fantastic. You never just see kids play like that anymore. Everything is paid: sports and scheduled play. What happened? I am so glad I got to experience things back then rather than nowadays, even though I am so old now.

I was born in 1956. Everything on this video is SPOT ON! In my youth, I tell my kids (35 & 33) how much fun I had growing up back in my day. Going Trick or Treating with a group of friends by ourselves knowing NOT to touch our treats until Mom "checked them out". Riding our bikes around all day to our many friends houses being told to "be home when the street lights come on". In High School on summer break, not yet having a car, hitch hiking to the beach spending ALL DAY there, and hitch hiking back home, (you would NOT do this now days) we lived in innocent times, sorry to see our society as it is now!

The Andy Griffith show is STILL standard viewing in many households in 2022 !

I’d love to go back to those days in a heartbeat, those were the best days of my life ever playing outside till the night lights came on, best shows on TV without cuss words, vacation trips to Panama City Beach Florida every summer. But most of all eating together at the kitchen table with the whole family those were the most memorable times.

I grew up in the late 60s into the 70s and spent my teen life in the 80s. Life then was amazing, the absolute best time of my life. If there was a time machine I'd go back in a second..🙏

I was born in 1966 and it was a great time to be a kid. Life and society was SO much better during those years. I feel sorry for children who will never experience the wonderful things we experienced.☺️

I was born in 1946, the 60's were a coming of age time for me. Joined the Marine Corps at 18 in Jan.1965. Did two tours in Vietnam, wounded in Oct. 66. and back again in 1971 as a platoon commander. Still I'm glad I was born when I was.

My heart and soul will always be in 1960s. It was literally all my childhood. 1970 I was 15 years old so it was end of the great memories. I remember being off blocks away when I was 10. It was safe for a kid to go anywhere. I loved old people when I was a small boy I talked to a lot of old ladies. The way old people are lonely I'm sure made their day. Boy do I yern for them days my loving parents were alive and now I'm a old man with nothing but memories. But I thank God for what I had because some people go through life and are never loved by anyone.

We were much happier then, than we are now, yet we think we've made so much progress.

Reading so many of your comments below does bring back many memories of things in the 60s it was such a fun time to be trusted to be on your bike to know that you'd be back safe and you had to be in before dark you didn't need to watch having to get up to change the TV stations even though it would be annoying at times it was still fun especially if you had a knob fall off the TV. Even the food's back then or something that we will probably always cherish and those of us from the 60s and like 50s. Thank you all for sharing your comments and for the many memories that you have brought back to me by reading your comments. God bless you all🤗

The 60s was the best decade for kids. I know I was there first hand.

Coffee cans for everything! They were metal, and always saved to store nails, etc. Also, playing marbles, kept in a cloth marble bag to bring to school. My uncle worked at General Motors and used to give me "steelies". After that it was spinning tops and yoyos.

The kids of today will NEVER know all the fun we had back in the 1960's. We did NOT need tech toys to have fun since we had OURSELVES! 😆

I remember sitting in the backyard with my Dad listening to Vin Scully call the Dodger games. It was heaven, especially when we beat the Giants.

I so wish my grandchildren could have had the life of freedom I had in the '60's! Born in '58...it was so innocent and free! Parents didn't have to worry when their kids were outdoors playing...or what nonsense sexual content was inflicted on their innocent children at school. It was like summers were a whole year long!

With all the insanity going on in this country right now I find myself, more and more, doing a little mental time traveling back to my childhood in the sixties and seventies. It actually helps me feel better for a bit. Videos like this really help.

WOW! The TV shows,slot cars,model cars, Stingray bikes,people smoking everywhere,Dad buying a new car every couple years,and...the dangerous toys! Things are drastically different now and I'm glad I was a kid then....

I would not trade that time as a youth even if I could....50 and 60s were the best times to grow up....I am glad I am as old as I am because this world is unrecognizable and a very cold place spiritually.

Wow, this “Part 2”, is just as good as “Part 1” was! I totally miss my childhood in the 60’s, but most importantly, I miss all my favorite relatives who have passed…they made the decade great for me 👍🏼

I remember penny candy. With my quarter, I could fill a paper lunch bag. I also remember wax lips, wax mustache and wax harmonica candy. We had our bikes, arts and crafts at our local parks, and slept under the stars on lounge chairs in our back yards. With no air conditioning in the summer, we ate outdoors all the time. Neighbors were always outside all day long. Our little transistor radios were strapped to our banana seat bicycles, and the highlight of our summer was piling up in the station wagon in our pajamas, and going to the drive in.

I was blessed to grow up in the 60s. I’ve always felt bad my kids didnt have all the freedom to roam and explore I did. We lived outside unless it was winter. Be home for Lunch when the noon firehouse siren went off, and when it went off again at 6 for dinner. All the Moms watched out for and yelled at all the kids. Neighbors were close. We had rules, but we also had so much freedom.

I was a teenager back in the 60s. I was a transistor radio junky. I kept track of my favorite songs, hoping they would be number 1 on the radio hit parade.

The 50's and 60's were my favorite time to be alive. I miss all my family members who have since passed. We always had so much fun when we all got together, both Mom's side of the family and Dad's. Thanks for the sweet memories!!

Miss those days of sting ray bikes finding bottles being home when the street lights came on good times

Those were the days my friends and I never thought they'd end but they are Thank you for visuals of memories that remain in my heart 🙏🌹🙏

Thank you for your gentle delivery to all this nostalgia. I was born in 53, so this all hits home. Some items I remember; Duncan yo yos and even tops that you would wind a thread around and throw on the ground to set them spinning. The top was hollow, so you could put the thread inside when done. Also, playing marbles was big in the school playground, and piggy back "horse fights" was also big for a while too. Girls would inter loch a bunch of rubber bands into a big loop, then two girls would face each other about 6 feet apart and place the rubber band loop around their 4 ankles, and another girl would jump over the rubber band loop with different stages of difficulty to try to not get tangled up in the loop. They called this "Chinese jump rope". Gym shoes like "Red Ball" that had a little round red rubber dot on the back of the rubber heel. Also, "P F Flyers" gym shoes, that had a P F in white letters on a green rectangle field stuck on the back of their rubber heels. Putting baseball cards in your bicycle spokes with mom's clothespins to hold them in place, so your bike would sound like a motorcycle. Squirt gun and water balloon fights too. Running through a lawn sprinkler. Building a big house made of playing cards. 3 decks worth. Always playing at a building site where a new house was going up. In the open foundation basement, climbing the big pile of sand, or gravel. Catching lightning bugs or grasshoppers in an old peanut butter jar, with holes in the metal top for air, with some leaves and twigs inside too. Let alone going to the hardware/toy store too. Just playing games with a bat and a ball, like "running bases", "bounce or fly", "500". Never ending fun then, and cheap too.

What a great childhood we all had growing up in the 1960’s, I would ride my bike till dinner time, it was so normal I remember everything in this video like it was yesterday!!

I am 75 and remember growing up in the 50's and 60's. simple life back then.One thing most people have today that we never dreamed of then is a cell phone.i have never had one and have no desire for one.seems to me people let that thing run their lives.

I was born in 64. I long for those simple days. 😢. If I could go back, I would in a heartbeat. ❤️. Thank for the wonderful memories. Lost my Mom ( my last parent) last year. I think about when I was young all the time. I really miss her. 😢

Thank you so much for posting this! I feel that my wish to go back to my childhood years was granted 😂! I fondly remember every single thing displayed, and I feel great happiness in the experience. ❤

Also, who remembers collecting S&H stamps to redeem at their retail stores?! Me and my siblings had to take turns on who would get to go redeem them for a toy.

Born in 58 so naturally my memories begin in the 60s. I had great parents and a wonderful, trauma free childhood. I never felt unsafe during the decade. What a great time.

Wonderful memories!

I Remember Playing Safe In The Street, Friendly Neighbours, Chimney Sweeps, Mr. Whippy Ice Cream, Coal Being Delivered, Outside Toilet, Steam Trains, Bike Riding, Country Walks, Seaside Days Out, Great Family Christmas’s, School Days 👎. Remembering My Late Parents 😥 🙏🇬🇧

When I was growing up in the 1960's I never really appreciated how great that decade really was. It was only decades later, when society really started to turn sore, that I really appreciated growing up in that era P.S. My older brother said that growing up in the fifties was even better!

OMG, you just recounted my whole childhood. My sister and I would scour the roadsides and bar ditches for pop bottles because back then, people would just toss the empty bottles out their car windows. We could easily make a couple of bucks since the rebate was three cents per bottle. We would divy up the money and get a whole sack of candy. Boy, that brings back memories. Thank you.

I love these videos! I was a seventies kid, but my big brother was a sixties child. I remember lots of this dragging into the early seventies, such as collecting bottles to sell, and we had Rockem Sockem Robots. Another game I remember enjoying was my brother's electric vibrating football game. Seemed like the players mostly just ran in circles, I loved it! The players moved just like in real football! YES! That game nearly killed me. I wanted to play with it while my brother was at school, I was still too young for school, and no one told me not to touch the metal when plugging things into the wall outlet. Well, I learned that day not to plug things up on my own. Luckily, it knocked me back and scared me more than it hurt. I am 54 today, and when I see the metal prongs on a plug, that long ago day still pops up in my mind. LOL Thank you so much for the wonderful Memories.

Good times, good memories, I’m very grateful to have lived during this time 👍👍🥰

What a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1949 . I had roller skates you had to have a key to tighten the skates . I loved jax . I was good at it. I played Jax with my kids. We could even go trick or treating by ourselves at 10 yr old. .

I can remember that gas was 29 cents or less per gallon in the 1960's. My dad could fill up his 1957 Oldsmobile, or his 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon during the 1960's, and get some change back from a $5 dollar bill. A gas station attendant would pump the gas for you, and clean the windshield.

Memories. I was born in June 1958 in Florida ( still live here ) For the life of me I don't remember any duck and cover exercises in school. Everything else was pretty much what I remembered. It's a shame these days that kids are so caught up in social media and taking selfies that they have forgotten how to just have fun.

I remember Easter…beautiful white gloves, shoes and lacy socks. I felt so pretty….

I truly feel so blessed to have grown up in the 60 s . The way we played and thing’s we did made us the generation we became when a stick or a branch can become something that would keep you amused for hours who needs computers

I miss these days, the tv shows, vacations with family, the simplicity of the day.

So grateful I grew up in the analog age … not the digital ! Such a shame it’s gone away . Good times .. great memories ❤

IM 75 , and would love to go back with what I know now..

Born in 1956 so true to the title, I remembered everything in this video. I remember also when skateboards first came along. I had to make one out of a roller skate because to buy one at the store downtown you had to fork over $3.95 and who has that kind of money? I recall the price of gas being about .32 a gallon. 😮 and I could get a bottle of Dr. Pepper for .10 out of a chest type Coke cooler at the gas station.

R.R. I don't know if you have realized or have thought of it yourself but by doing these videos and recognizing past events, you are making history yourself. Great job and "as always" thank you.

I’m 80 years old and I love these videos thank you

For me the best part of that time was high school. It was kinda like a social club where we got to see our friends everyday of the week. We had NO drugs, NO gangs, NO crime, NO bullies, and everyone knew each other and their families. What messed things up after those great days was the fault of the politicians and the intrusive government !!

Man, we had all the bad things back then like those cap guns that made kids want to be mass murderers and we dared to share pop (soda) with our friends or drink water from a garden hose or play cops and robbers too. With the good TV shows, parents who let you have it when you needed it and to the extent you needed it without some government agency forcing their will on raising your kids, we all grew up just fine. Good heavens, bicycling without a helmet or skate boarding with a home made skateboard.....the thought of it these days - yes, I mean today, 2022 even. Pitiful these days what can and can't be done. Love going back to those rather respectful and peaceable times of the 60's....

My neighborhood buddies and I were very politically incorrect as we played Cowboys and Indians and had many gunfights.

We were the luckiest kids to grow up strong and free

Wow! That was a blast from the past! Thanks for letting me re-live my childhood!