There were 5 of us so one person always wound up on the floor right in front of the set. He was the channel changer

Some things never change. I have a 7 year old granddaughter who loves to almost stand on top of the tv and we have to tell her to back off from the tv.

@@glennso47 You need to take that mentally damaged granddaughter, to a mental hospital, for treatment.

YEAH! You'll get square eyes!!

I used to say that to my son in the 1980's, that it would make him so he was sterile-couldn't father babies, lol!

And "under God" wasn't added to the Pledge until June 1954, and yet the United States had previously been victorious in two world wars without an appeal to a deity.

@@johnwohara: Since when have such appeals been limited to the favor of war victories?

@@SMac-bq8sk Wow. Reading comprehension FAIL. I never said there was any such "limit" of things for which people will beg for favors from their god.

@@SMac-bq8sk German soldiers in WWI and WWII wore belt buckles printed with “Gott mit uns” ('God is with us'), and yet they lost both wars. And we lost in Vietnam with the "under God" phrase. So perhaps it's best not to make appeals to imaginary sky daddies in time of war.

@@johnwohara: If, as you claim, it's merely "imaginary," then why does it bother you?

Thats how I remember it back in El Paso, Tx.

In Boston public Schools the cloakroom was at the front

I absolutely adore vintage pink panther cartoons.

We got our color tv in 67.' I remember the local news station was in black and white and when they transitioned to color all of the anchors had red jackets. Dad bought the tv for the first Superbowl. I couldn't wait for the first Saturday to watch all the cartoons in color.

@elmambogato1997 it was a good time to grow up. Of course, my poor mom was horrified because I preferred playing ball with the boys instead of playing dolls, but she finally accepted that she had a tomboy for a daughter. 😂

My parents were given an RCA 'portable' color TV as a wedding gift. We were the only family on our block with color TV.

Me too dizzy.

I was doing this in the early 70s.

Today a shoe repair shop charges so much for the simplest repairs it's wiser to wait for a good sale and buy something new.

@@patrickryan1515 It does seem that way. Guessing it is pretty much a lost profession.

@@AuntieSal75 I heard that too about banning incandescent light bulbs. All except for bulbs that go in ovens.

And there were repair shops for malfunctioning small appliances so you wouldn't have to always buy a new one.

The 1950s didn't end until around 62'. By 1969 it was like night and day even from 1965.

Unless you were black or had polio.

​@@williardbillmore5713 A much better time for the middle class black people back then as long as you didn't live in the deep south.... Today the black race is worse than its been as a community in general since pre -reconstruction. My mother and father can attest to that, and me born in the late 50s can even attest.

Yes, because Monday was wash day. My mom always hung out too, and in the winter she would string lines in the basement to hang clothes. No drier, just a washer.

@@Donna-zc9iiMy mom had just a washer and she dried clothes outside or hung them in the basement. She also took in washings for other people to help earn money.

Wonderful 50's boyhood! Glad I had it. Not like today.

The 50's was the BEST time of US history IMO.

You were naive and you had no idea what was going on. That is what you remember. It was not a great time for everyone.

That and Mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom 🤣

Sky King, Spanky and Our Gang, Daniel Boone, Red Skeleton Show….days of innocence and possibilities

Same with us. Dad was the only one allowed to touch the tv and it was Sunday only. Disney, Lawrence Welk and Wild Kingdom.

Don’t forget Wild Kingdom!

Now sadly, I don’t want to see or hear anything Disney! The books/movies like Snow White, Bambi, etc. used to be so nice.

Yes, all the kids in our neighborhood done the same thing!

Ballons as well.

True! Just as in the Fifties per se, there were likewise such delights from the Forties.

Also applies to the 40's. I was there. Born in 1936.

Born in 1960 - I remember all of these. No one was allowed to wear sneakers to school, so we all knew how to use our shoe-shine kits every Sunday night in preparation for the upcoming week.

Yes, especially re: color TV.

@@earthwormscrawl We weren't allowed to wear jeans until junior high (69').

Same here. I was born in the 1980's but there is just something about the 1950's that I can't not love.

I well remember almost every image and experience a child could have during those halcyon years following WWII, when we as a society were "on top of the world." I remember piston-engine airliners, new cars with no post dividing the windshields, rabbit-ear antennas with aluminum foil for added TV reception, cap pistols and Roy Rogers metal lunch boxes, my first transistor radio, Flexible Flyer sleds. I'm 74 now and can almost reach out to touch everything I ever saw, and every emotion I experienced. Thank you for the memories.

Does not matter, you three guys! Even tho sadly still young(!), that does not mean that you cannot carry admiration and affection for those times nor for we Authentics, for that matter. Not at all. Heck, you can do lots of 'catch-up' just but watching RR here for instance, and then maybe acquiring some neat things from that time, thus beginning say a little collection of three-dimensional nostalgia. If you like retro-tech, then you might consider laying in-stock one of those small Bakelite RCA "Golden Voice" 45 record players. They come up all the time on eBay, and they sure are swell. Many other things such as porcelain cats that were big back then. (Mom had a black panther.) Also all over was BLONDE furniture. It was really the 'in thing' especially in Portland. There is a very pretty lady on Y-T who has a channel on which she shows how she lives ALL FIFTIES EVERYTHING and the son and hubby are totally into it. (They don't seem like Stepford types but one never knows. Anyway, she herself is really nice and sort of Stepford-like in a way but absolutely not 'a nut.' Her house is gorgeous and everything in it well, is you-know-what! Her fashions, cloths, manner, way of speaking -- the whole nine yards of it.) So do not despair. There is plenty of Fifties neatness to go around for all. ALERT: for any that might like the "Atomic Fifties" generally Google "Skip Bombwell" (a holdover from "Live 365") for a link to one really swell 24/7/365 program of music from that genre. (Duck and Cover! Conelrad Network & etc.) Well anyway, I'm sure you've gotten some ideas here. That's good. O&O

Me too. I was born in in 2010 but I love the '50s.

Agree 100 percent and I'm glad that I'm 63.

Sorry you feel that way. I think there has been good and bad in every era. I have grandchildren now, and their parents and we grandparents try to make their childhood a time they'll remember fondly.

@@karenh2890 LOL 😂, karen living in a bubble. We are on the way to being a Third World Country and you think that's normal?

@@karenh2890 That's great Karen! We all are trying to make life as good for the young in our families, as we can and at the same time prepare them for the lawless realities we are seeing and experiencing. Frankly, I think you are "whistling through the graveyard". What has happened in our society on every front, in such a short time is SHOCKING! Quite seriously, if you are not shocked and dismayed, then you are not awake! You may not even have a pulse.

So true! We've given control over to the crooks and liars while the earth burns. Now in my 70s, it's as though we're living in a parallel universe compared to the way things were.

My Mom was born in the same year...1954. I remember looking at my grandparents old photos back in the 80's. I saw alot of what was in this video. I should show my Mom this video. Thank you for the idea.

Born in 1954, too.

Same here.

“We could all?” Speak for yourself

@@fayelis You sound, like one of those dumbed down sheeple pukes, who got the "clot shot", and 5 boosters

@@fayelis ,Everything, you say, is a left-wing extremist Libtard,"conspiracy theory", Next time, you watch yo boy, Alex Jones, make sure, you adjust yo tin foil hat.

Ready go here !

I'm back!

Yep. It's even beyond Rod Serling's wildest imagination.

Sad but true!

@@johnwohara: Agreed. Perhaps beyond Serling's imagination, but not Orwell's.

Exactly, I to am a kid of the 70s and, was born in 67 and, yes a lot of the 50s and, 60s carried over into the 70s!

Had seven good (healthy) years (late 50s - mid 60s) of running free in the country. Rode horseback on the local airport runway (so many fewer flights then); fished in rivers, creeks and ponds; ice skated on an outdoor natural rink. Also worked summers on the farm and sailed dingys on the river. After age 13 or so we would no longer hear our moms calling from front porches for children to come home (TV: "It's 10PM; do you know where your children are?"). Every Sunday dinner was either roast beef or ham, except for the turkeys served on Thanksgiving and Christmas (The kids prepared the stuffing the night before while mother indulged herself in an old movie being shown on TV.). We had new hit tunes on the AM radio on a weekly basis -- and what variety, something for all generations. I do believe AM radio and the limited three TV channels kept us more connected as a nation (and more than any time in American [or any other] history). Halloween was so much fun with some neighbors serving apple cider and donuts. And the loot we got from trick or treating -- did this pave the way for so much diabetes in America? We never had a lot of money, and we did have our problems, but somehow we merrily rolled along. I believe that was because we were more connected as a people. Today's lackluster culture can be so isolating. It's no wonder there are such things as virtue signaling and cancel culture -- all pleas for attention and (ironically) some form of inclusion. BTW, although limited in what she found time to prepare, my mom was an excellent cook. I've eaten in several parts of the world, and nothing has ever compared to the tastes that remained in your mouth and on your mind -- well after you finished one of her meals. Moms were such an integral part of the best years in America.

Agreed! Those desserts were gross.

I actually got to eat rations in the 70s from where one of my daddy’s buddies brought them in a auction at the American Legion where this money was one of their fund raising efforts. It was seed rations that some one had leftover from their time in the service! A few hrs later the guy who brought them and, opened them up in the bar room and, they weren’t that bad. But, I tempted yrs later to make some of those congealed aspic salads, just to see if, I could make them, because, I like to cook and, bake. Well, I just wanted to try them out cause, even in the 70s, I never ate to many or seen them much. My grandma certainly didn’t make them. Now, I know way, note to self if it says aspic in the cook book and, if it’s a a cold congealed ham loaf--- aka/ it’s not worth the time nor money, one bite of them will want to make you throw up all over the place, that’s one thing, I can’t figure out, why would you put something so, horrible and, definitely not very appetizing. I made 2 of them and, after that both went out in the trash.

I lived in NJ and we had 3 independent stations and one or two uhf stations beside the 3 network stations.

Man, when he said a banana with mayonnaise all over it, I literally said out loud "ooooooh ick!" 🤢Sounds positively nauseating. I hate mayo anyway though!

Born in 1956 and yes! I remember salt boxes too! I completely forgot about them until you mentioned it.

Yes, a lot of families couldn't afford color televisions even though they were available to buy.

Same. Here

They sold basic black and white televisions beside color models for some time as it was about twice as much to buy a deluxe color model with remote control over a basic black and white one.

We frequently went to Dairy Queen on Sunday evenings after my brother and I had our baths and were in our pajamas. We would always "drive around" afterwards, which was my dad's favorite pastime his entire life. I remember one unfortunate trip where I got a Lime Slush instead of ice cream and puked in the car all over my beautiful embroidered black velvet house shoes that had been a Christmas present from my grandmother. My mom saved those tall plastic Parfait glasses from DQ and made layered jello desserts in them.

I'm from 1987... but I say to my friends and siblings that I "need dairy queen to feel like I'm having a 1970s summer"

Good times!

And ONE tv only!

And that single TV required regular maintenance. A tube was always going out, so a weekend chore would often be going to the local store with a bag full of a dozen or more tubes that we removed from the TV. Then used stores tube tester ourselves on each tube, setting the dials as directed for the make and number of each tube tested, and observed the testers' good/bad meter. Usually we'd find the bad tube, ask the clerk for a replacement, go home and reinstall them all tubes, and enjoy the TV (until another tube failed, usually within a few months). But if we were unsuccessful, we had to bring the TV to a repair shop, and were without it for days or weeks!

@@dennisquinn8558 My best friend lost his first job as a TV repair man.He is now a computer analyst. I guess times change, but I still have a Tiki bar!

At one time in the 60's we had 2 DeSotos. One was a station wagon that sort of resembled a VW square back and the other was a big sedan with padded dash and power steering. My mother loved the sedan and my father used the station wagon to deliver papers.

@@bethsojourner6798 1961 DeSoto Adventurer was a great looking car. Wish I had one today. We did have a'59 Chevy Impala, white with red interior. Cool, man!

I do know in the 70s a lot of the house were built from scratch before young couples we’re getting them built right before they got married. Something I just learned last summer that the reason for this was back then, brand new houses to be built only cost $1200! If you go to Harrison, OH (Southwest, about 45 minutes or less from Cincinnati, OH. Depending on Which way you go) if you go to that area, especially there is a subdivision known as the Meadows it’s like stepping back in time because, that’s the style of these houses! But, you can tell they are starting to show their age.

@@sonyafox3271 We didn't get a color TV until about 1970. I think my fav show to watch then was Hawaii 5 O. Loved the music, and the opening with the waves.

My four-year-old old grandson loves the old Popeye cartoons. He's always pretending he's Popeye!

So this is like me, 1987, wishing I grew up in the 80s like my older sisters. People of the future will be like "it's the same thing!"

But would you go back to 1955 in a DeLorean??? 😂

@@Mick_Ts_ChickSure 😉

@@Mick_Ts_ChickI’d leave the Delorian in the 50s and come back to the present day. They are junk cars.

I still wear hats to the office.

There was a Buster Brown shoe factory in Sullivan , Illinois .

I was born in 1956 but went to Lutheran school in the 1960's. Our uniform was Penny loafers, knee socks, pleated plaid skirts with the big pin on the side, Peter pan collar white shirts and dark colored cardigans. No jewelry (except a simple cross necklace) no nail polish, no make up. I finally went to a public school in my freshman year of high school and was shocked that kids wore jeans, tennies, and talked back to teachers! Lol. We would have spanked or severely punished at my parochial school for talking back. It was like another world for me!

@@edie9330 I always liked the uniforms; I had them K-12. There was no competition for attention or to show off the latest styles. The most we’d do was roll up the skirts at the waist to make them look shorter. But in high school the nuns would have random checks where we’d have to kneel down and they’d measure our skirts with a ruler. If someone had a skirt that was hemmed too short they’d rip out the hem right there, lol!

In the military you had to keep your shoes shined or you would get in trouble with your division officer.

@@glennso47 I used what I learned about shining boots in the Air Force to teach my granddaughter, who just joined the Army to spit shine her boots to a mirror finish. I gave her the boot brush my grandfather bought at an Army Bx in 1942.

Didn't get to a Dairy Queen very often so when we did I would not rush to gobble it down. Tried to make it last as long as possible.

My father held put til 1966 til they "got the color right!"

A great film!

I have often said the same thing. Our world didn't change so fast back then.

Me too! I am early Gen X and I remember some of this too like the t.v. going off at night, most families having black and white t.v.s and rabbit ears and corporal punishment in schools.

Remember 50 cent pieces? I felt rich!

I'm also a 1953 baby- it was the best time to grow up- it seems like a thousand years ago ...or last month😊

@@deborahs2593 Yes it can feel like Now if you ignore society today.

So cool!! I wish I had been there to see that!😄

@@jenniferhansen3622 I still remember all the kids lined up along the windows as our teacher gave us an impromptu science lesson. She knew who had brought it to class and I’m guessing she was just glad it wasn’t my usual craw daddy or better yet garden snake. Growing up in the countryside without being monitored at every step was pretty awesome.

I was born in 1952 and have never heard of banana candles either.

I'd rather see the sign off & test pattern than those lousy infomercials.

I remember in the mid-to-late 80's when t.v. stations were transitioning from test patterns to simply replaying the shows from the previous evening in the overnight hours (did overnights for about year or so back then).

@leesashriber5097, "NBC", always stood for, "Nothing But Communism", nowadays, it stands for Communist FAKE NEWS

Excellent, oh-still-young-one! 👍 You acknowledge goodness and quality, when observed/experienced! Of this, many are not capable. PROVED -- among our precious golden youth, there IS hope-still.

@@jamesmiller4184 Your channel and comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose

Born in '68 also. Great time to grow up!

lol, my parents used to scoff at the jonses with their 30 thousand dollar homes .

My parents struggled to pay a small mortgage too.

My dad was an Ironworker out of NYC. His dress clothes were impeccable. He had a shoe shine kit & kept his shoes in trees. I think I still have a pair of his Gucci loafers 😊

This video isn't about the 60's and 70's 😊

​@@clintcountryman4849but my dad was a child of the 40's and a teenager of the 50's.

​​@@samanthab1923That's great. My dad had a shoe horn he always keep in when he wasn't wearing his dress shoes. And he wore rubbers over his shoes on rainy days with a black raincoat and umbrella.

@@clintcountryman4849 You sound, like one of those dumbed down sheeple pukes, who got the "clot shot", and 5 boosters

We got our first color TV in 1963, it went in the living room and the old black & white was relegated to the rec room.

@@bethsojourner6798 the real push for Tvs came with the Space Race and Disney and Bonanza in Color on Sundays.

We chased them in the early 60's.

From a small Minnesota town…we had those mosquito fogger trucks, too.

It do indeed!

@@freedomrings1420 For sure!! Lots higher! Almost as much as the original cost of the house! Actually, would be higher without my homestead exemption.

My parents bought our house in Encino, CA. for 18K. Today it's appraised for 1.2MM.

My parents bought their first house for 9,000 dollars in 1953 and sold it for 18,000 in 1963. The second house cost around 22,000.

I didn't get the oral (Sabin) polio vaccine. I got the older injectable (Salk) vaccine. I got the smallpox vaccine at age 11, too. I had the scar for many years, but it's gone now.

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 ,Everything, you say, is a left-wing extremist Libtard,"conspiracy theory", Next time, you watch yo boy, Alex Jones, make sure, you adjust yo tin foil hat.

My husband was born in 1951, and he has the scar. I was born in 1955 and don't. My mom and dad were born in 1930, and their parents were very worried about polio. We are lucky that we have vaccinations to prevent our kids and grandkids dying at early ages. I don't know how parents handled losing so many of their young children. I have three grandchildren now, and I can't imagine losing one of them.

I'm surprised you don't have the scar. They were still giving the shots out then. I've got mine and I was born in 57.

Yes! ... we always sat on the floor too close to the screen. Mom always scolded us. I was in west central Indiana, and only one channel was local, CBS. It wasn't until I was in Jr. high that we got 2, NBC, and in high school we got ABC. I was born in 1955. 😄

@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Ahh, CBS, the "Communist Broadcasting Station"

I got my vaccine in the early 60s from the school nurse in our CLASSROOM.

@@theredsofine8375 I think mine was probably 4 in 1970... You can see it for years till probably I was 14 or 16.

@@theredsofine8375 Your channel and comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose

I was born in 59. My mom was so concerned about bad vaccination marks she had the doctor do it high on my hip. So you couldn’t see it. It was hardly noticeable at all.

@@saminaneen 🤭.. What are you talking about? Redsofine has no content or anything no substance in the channel so you are comments are irrelevant to his channel.

Better times than today!

LOL 😂, in dreams.

​@TerryClothYes, real estate went crazy in certain parts of the country.

@TerryCloth Market values still fluctuate. Houses in SoCal are actually more valuable now. Not because of inflation. Inflation means the $ has lost purchasing power. Short supply and willing buyers is the primary reason for the property values being disproportionately high.