In the 2000s, I visited my brother in North Carolina when my 17 year old niece was hosting a party. She had bought a Slip-and-Slide and had a tent with a long table and chairs where kids could make their own balloon animals. Later on in the evening the kids gathered in the living room to listen to one of the guests play the piano. Not only would my niece's friends come up and talk with me on their own initiative but they invited me to make my own balloon animals with them. I was dumbfounded that such a party occurred anywhere in the US but am glad that my niece and nephew could have such experiences. BTW, there was no alcohol.

@@missanne2908 I remember, in the 1950's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

it won’t

I have been at parties from age 14 and we allways had so much fun. Obviously we got a bit drunk too, but it was usually on a delightfull way. Only sometimes one of our friends got wasted and I remember how embarassed we started to feel for that person. I remember every single one of my parties, and when we discussed about them years later, my friends felt the same way, they were highly valued memories of our teen years. When I got to highschool I was soo shocked when I heard from all of my classmates their "weekend party" or "greatest party of my life" stories, which were all the same: "I don't know where I was, I don't know what I did, but I slept all night in my own vomit yeaaaahhh".. Every single time the same story: "Hell yeaaah, I drank soo much I vomited everywhere and I fell asleep". No memories, no difference between these occassions, no dancing, no having fun, just drink quickly untill you are wasted and a burden on other people. Once one of them got so intoxicated that the police and his family searched for him for an entire day, when he finally arrived home on his own feet. Turned out he was sleeping in the middle of a random cornfield. It happemed in those times, when many teenagers disappeared from our region and later found with an empty abdomen in a forest. Just think about how everybody who searched for him that day felt like. The teachers in our school and every student found it soo funny.

@@Bvillo Ain't nobody got time to read your extremely violent, left-wing, Communist garbage, or as you call it, your "Communist Manifesto', now, back to sleep, little LIBTARD wokester Babygirl.

When people cared about their appearance, and aspired to be the best person possible. Now people don't care what they look like or care about what people think.

Letty Guerra Get off it lol. We put far more emphasis on appearances now thanks to social media. It's probably a good thing that we're not as into conformity and can actually do what we please now.

This is just a educational vid and not actual reality. The average male in school wouldn't wear a suit to a party. But they were worn going to a religious service, to a nice restaurant, concert and by men working in offices etc. The only men that wore suits to school were ivy league types and those fairly off.

D N Thanks for sharing! Fashion is so interesting to me (even though I’m kind of a thoughtless dresser)... but I like to learn about culture and how it really was back then!

Casual informal party, quick let me get my suit and gay entertainment lol

Cool Aid sure sounds terrific

Marcus The Fire Breathing Duck oh hell yea

COVID19 has ended parties for now...maybe for GOOD!

Iced Tea & Lemonade were more than likely the favored choices.

Neato!

Are yall good?

Mick Philpott Sounds like you've been to some wild parties, Philpott. I'm gay, and I'm not jealous of YOU. I've never experienced nor seen any of that madness which you seem to have, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll bet your browser history would raise some eyebrows.

Sadly.

el precioso si U mad bro?

I’m kind of sad that the word ‘gay’ has been totally overtaken now.

YEEESSS MOREEEE MEEEENN

That little one was following him everywhere

And that annoying 'friend' cl.t blocked her too when the went into the corner.

@@angelicasmodel what is this "cl.t blocking" of which you write?

@@PutDownTheBunny the female version of c*ck blocking.

Was your party a success? Did you wear suits and play games?

I have no idea why but that line killed me

@@alexdionisos me too - so corny - so priceless!

Steve seemed very excited as well about the Hat making game

​@@mikesternmikeSteve has a weird hat fetish.😮

I get what you’re saying, and overall, I agree. However, humans don’t really change over time. Definitely not in a span of three decades. These videos are not an honest portrayal of how the 50s actually we’re, and I’m sure kids back then laughed at them too, as they weren’t actually like this. People are more or less the same across time, except I’d argue that we have become more civil. Even in the 1950s, In certain parts of the country, people who look like me were being lynched by people who looked like the people in this video. Women had few rights, neither did children. A teen or preteen boy could be charged with a crime if he were molested by an older man and told the authorities. This is because sodomy laws of the time made no distinction between a victim of abuse and an abuser, even for a child (most often, these children got probation, but they were still criminally charged. If you don’t believe me, reference the “homosexuality PSA” video that was made around this time. It was really a video about pedophiles, but in those days, there was little distinction). Values have absolutely changed for the better in terms of what matters, and I stand by that wholeheartedly.

The 50s were NOT as depicted. Mostly -- if you had a brain -- it was like living in a straitjacket and being pressured to say how much you liked it.

One episode of _60 Minutes_ in the 1990s featured a museum in NYC dedicated to instruction films such as these. They showed these films to a group of teenagers thinking that they would laugh at their corniness. Instead the teenagers were pretty wistful about them.

Nah f*** that I leave the joint trashed that's how the host knows they threw a wild party

@@TallyWackaTha2nd children like you shouldn't attend a party without the supervision of a trusted adult.

@@sophiadavenport3959 I get turnt AF

Absolutely, even at a party where we are drinking we would clean up and keep things tidy. Respect to the host.

@@HikikomoriGirlHound you are right. I am sorry, Patricia

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@@anorak78 Sausage fest? So it was gay entertainment all right!

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Next time have everybody wear suits and ties

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I heard somewhere that they had more sun exposure back then, and things like less advanced sunscreen

Its the hairstyles

Yes they sure did. No hormones in milk back then. And Joe: LESS sun exposure. The skies in those days were smoked over everyday except on Sunday (unless you lived in Kansas).

Hired actors and actresses. The film back then, like today, probably cast 20 somethings as teenagers.

@@genek2384 in films yes, but not in yearbooks. I think it’s the hair styles and the suits.

Sounds like ptsd… what happened? XD

@@Brave_Sir_RobinOne Thanksgiving, my aunt was supposed to bring the Turkey. She showed up at 8:00 pm, and most had left.

Those are sconces.

Lol!😂😂

Please. Nowadays it's practically a scandal if a man makes eye with a woman without a written consent contract. The sexual revolution has come full circle.

Bon Bon we used to play twister with Missoula oil in the 80s now that was fun three or four couples there Naked on the floor squirming around with each other it was great talk about a mixer

Pictionary!

Twister came out when I was in junior high. Problem was I wore a bulky body brace and as such was one of the few people my age who never played it.

Yes, and they are concerned that EVERYONE is having a good time.

Peggy Deffley 😂

What a swell idea! Can we write analysis about each others essay with a minimum word count of 2500 words afterwards?

@@hanzfranz7739 You betcha!

Laugh all you want. In school we sang songs like this and we were serious. We had to stand and recite the preamble and pledge allengence to the flag. We did it as natural as breathing. We were taught to honor and respect God and country. I am glad I was in this era.

what was your teacher smoking?

If you didn't follow through with proper party planning, well, that's on you.

I got something out of it in 2022

Me too, they used to show shorts like this on Mystery Science Theater 3000

Heck no. There'd be beer at that party and mother'd be out of the house.

I'm really not sure when in the history of ever a party would not let people sit down for a simple chat for a while.

But what on earth did it mean back then?

@@WendyLopezGazquez Back then gay basically meant festive. Being gay was being in the party mood.

It's kind of like merry.

I’m not so sure. I mean... did you see those balloons?

Life before the internet was so much better.

Patricia tha bibliophile And ironically much less isolated.

this is the 50s why are you talking about the 90s lmaoo

Even growing up in the 80’s I still got and made telephone calls inviting or being invited to parties

I have no idea what they were doing.

Palace Of Wisdom Oh!!!! I just noticed that 😟. Wow

At last party, we sang NWA's .."Be my lady not just another hoe" and, "Slam the child on the hard concrete"...

that song should be dubbed over with something more appropriate

@@GaryRoseCO Break on Through to the Other Side.

Agreed!

@@sarahshouse1890 I remember, in the 1950's, teenage girls, were REAL girls, and teenage boys, were REAL boys and there was no MENTAL illness, or FAKE genders, and all kids, knew, what public bathroom, to use.

More out of the ghetto.

not really

True, its better to enjoy nice chocolate soggy bread and sing songs that slaves use to sing. 😂😂😂

@@Blazz20 I have no idea what you are talking about. Where are you from? Definitely not North America.

Ignorance is bliss lol. Look up jimmy cracked corn, the song they sing in the video, you’ll get what I’m saying. :)

Thats because there wasnt a hat making contest.

Nothing wrong with a White Christian neighborhood. Stultifyingly dull though if this is typical.

No one scorns decency and civility. Except for you, clearly.

@@dewilew2137 You're joking, right? Decency and civility are CONSTANTLY mocked by much of society today. I was the one standing up for it.

​@@steveb9151and by "standing up to it" you decide that everything we did was beneath you and the 50s were so much better. For most, decency brings out decency, civility brings out civility. If everyone you meet is rude, then it's a you problem. Even your comment reeks of a condescending attitude

@@goose7215 You'd better sit down and rest after all those ENORMOUS conclusions you jumped to.

That was an awfully white party!

@@mikezylstra7514 suburban redlining was in full force... :-(

Hope you made a list, and restricted it to college boys and southern belles. 🧐😌. If you did, it should have turned out just swell.

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Yeah right, your 84 and leaving comments on You Tube

oh man

2manynegativewaves I don’t think that’s fair at all, my parents grew up in the 50s and they were not those kind of people at all.

Yes, they werent self centered millennial brats!

​@@4x4pup51 I'm a millennial parent, and it has little to do with how old a parent is. There are many in other age demographs who would also qualify as "self-centered brats".

@some fat loser with no friends or life I'm 34. That makes me a Millennial.

Yeah, a Klan meeting. "Jimmy Crack Corn?"

I couldn't handle all the excitement.

Dumb

Aaaand How!

I was waiting for the girls to break into "Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee".

Tatoos,body piercings and colorful hair is the party standard for today's millennial generation.lol

Ok weirdo