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Most of the people who appear in this video are long past. The young people, if still alive, are now very old - the children in their 70's. What lives did they live? Were they happy? Were they successful? Did they achieve what they wanted out of life? I don't know - but just watching these scenes from the past makes me contemplate my own life, and appreciate the time I have left. Thanks for watching - and best wishes for your future years!

0:00 Introduction
0:17 Jones Street, San Francisco, 1954
0:29 Headed to the Beach, 1959
0:40 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 1953
0:53 Palymyra, Wisconsin, 1951
1:05 Ringling Brothers Circus, 1951
1:29 Backyard Scene, 1956
1:53 A Night On the Town, 1952
2:05 Henderson Point, Mississippi, 1952
2:17 A Top-Down Day, 1953
2:41 Blue Earth, Minnesota, 1952
2:52 Wedding Day in 1954
3:17 Palm Springs, California, 1955
3:29 Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C., 1954
3:53 Grove Drugs, Trenton, New Jersey, 1950s
4:05 1954 Pontiac, (location unknown)
4:29 Chinatown, San Francisco, 1957
4:53 1950s Style, (location unknown)
5:05 Forest Park, Illinois, 1956
5:29 Halloween in 1958
6:05 Preparing for a Date in 1957
6:17 Welcome Home Korean War Veterans Army Pier, Seattle, WA, 1953
6:29 1957, (location unknown)
6:41 Times Square, New York City, 1958
6:53 The Budweiser Clydesdales in Beverly, Maine, 1955
7:05 Rapid City, South Dakota, 1950s
7:17 Nevada, 1956
7:29 Appleton, Wisconsin, 1962

Comments

  • Geo Added great memories
  • CLif Added Brings back memories/
  • Burnal Kunze Added We did live in the best of time. Americans in the 1950's dressed nice. Today they dress sloppy and appear dressed worse than street people!
  • aviatorbuss Added Many, very many memories...God's Blessings..Faith Hope Love...Captain Dale
  • Ruudheirman Added love the video..greats..... Ruud from the Netherlands
  • judy Swaney Added I loved it I am the grandaughter of the man who first brought Chevrolet. and Cadillac to Iowa
  • Bonnie Keller Added Memories! So lucky to have grown up at that time.
  • Norm Added Fantastic
    Only one thing puts a blemish on those memories.
    Not one Black person is shown. Even a few Asians are shown. I did see one black woman mixed in with a crowed street.
  • robert lehmann Added Very good video. I graduated from high school in 58 and remember some of these places when I lived near San Francisco. The Cliff House is gone now.
  • M.H.Guthrie Added I absolutely LOVED it! Boy, does that bring back memories!
  • Nance Added Loved the video. I graduated high school in 1952 and those were the good times.
  • John michalski Added Truly great to live and experience all those in your hometown
  • Mel Banned Added Hi Don Gneiding The car looks like a 1950 Olds. Here's a link to lots of pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=1950s+oldsmobile+convertible
  • Don! Gneiding Added Hello Mel! I truly enjoyed the video, but I have a question to ask; can you 'identify' the make, model and year of the car pictured? I am quite sure it is an Oldsmobile; but I have not been able to match it up with any other 'on line' photos...
    "Thank you!"
    Sincerely, Don! Gneiding
  • Stephanie Added I was a baby in those pictures. being born in 1954. My parents are from that time and I loved looking at their pictures. Great memories! Thanks Mel.
  • CharMaine Added So nice to go back in time . . . we were a respected country back then. Today, we look like fools on the world stage. Patriotic & informed leaders then, now, a bunch of fascists running this govt; and tragically turning us into a third-world nation at break-neck speed. If you voted for this, I hope you're happy with that vote.
  • Margaret Added I expected to see Detroit and the Big 3 Automobile manufacturers.
  • Merridy Added Ahhhhh, the memories, thank-you
  • David Added Memories are made of this!
  • BA Added Thanks Mel-nice photos that show the times when our country was clean and peaceful. Now, all you see are killings, stores being ransacked and trash in the streets.
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