....right now its Ozzie and Harriet, the earlier years. The Hotpoint Kitchen ads showing all the cool built ins the 50s loved are the best part of the show...and how Listerine will get you the perfect date and you can use it to get rid of dandruff too!

--when we need to see people behaving in a civil manner. It's so comforting. The early seasons still have the ads intact--on You Tube.

My brother and some cousins and I were looking at photos from this time just last night. This shelter in place brings out a lot of interesting conversations.

visited. Some of the images really brought back memories. What a treat.

That was a great visual break from today

.....and carbon emissions heavy. Fast food.

Love the colors but the culture conveyed is the problem that's eating the earth and our health.

Apart from being the time that MAGA's long for.

They have a beauty, and yet depressed the hell out of me in terms of what they were actually saying.

The happy innocence of the people in them was a result of never being taught the truth of what their industrial-military culture was doing.

Rant over.

"I remember all this. I'm 75. Lived in NYC, lower East Side. NYC was WONDERFUL in the 60-70s. Now, it's a garbage heap. Live in Arizona now and it's beginning to turn into North Mexico."

I'm not trying to rain on the parade of really interesting photos though, they're a window into the past even though it's not the only window in the house.

Nostalgia can cast a long shadow sometimes.

I love watching old television, but it is alarming! For instance, the objectification of young and attractive women on my beloved What's My Line? is mindblowing. But then I get the satisfaction of feeling like we've actually made some progress, so the net result is good. However, the good old days? Myth for so many.

....you describe and share it! It's appalling!

Was NOT a reality back then. We had A&W. that's it.

And it was President Eisenhower (from the 50's) who warned about the military-industrial complex. there was also that little thing about Cuba, Kennedy's assassination the following year, anti-war protests, then Kent state. Not to mention Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. So don't sit there and lecture about "happy innocence." THAT era was when "innocence" was shattered.

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1950s, and early 1960's... BEFORE all the things you mention happened, and which then made the "60's" what we think of today.

They truly were simpler times in many ways. Isn't it interesting that you don't see a lot of obese people. The women in the bathing suits don't have humongous breasts hanging out or with tons of makeup on.

No, life was not perfect in the 50's and 60's. Wearing dresses and heels on a vacation trip? Ugh.
Conspicuously absent from most of the pictures are the faces of African Americans.

Then many of them like my mom died when she was just 64.

wonderful photos, they take me back.

is white, white, white.

Maybe I musta grown up in a differnt America.

Also, notice how all the early 1960's photos, of cars, buildings, clothes, still looked like the 1950s.

It all changed after the mid 1960's. Well, not the New England towns. They still look a lot the same.

And still fairly white.

Interesting photos, though. Thanks for the look back.

This is a "slice" of Americana. Not the entire pie.

everything changed in the mid 1960s.

A lot of iconic cars and businesses that I remember.

Plus, you could tell them apart.

and the Ames Billiards sign took me immediately to one of my favorite movies, The Hustler, with Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott.

Newman, on being told he could choose any table at Ames on which to play:

"No bar?"

"No bar. No pinball machines. No bowling alleys. Just pool. Nothing else. This is Ames, mister."

I especially like the 'no gambling allowed' sign. This is before Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats comes in (at 8:00 every night, on the button) and he and Paul Newman's Fast Eddie Felson have a marathon game of pool for many thousands of dollars that is, in the end, more about character than skill. If you've never seen The Hustler, do yourself a favor and see it.

Vintage Everday

https://www.vintage-everyday.com/

It may have been the only one sold that year!

Many before I was born. I love the color and simplicity.