Lost in the Fifties
Take a trip in time back to the Fifties and relive the culture, the icons and everyday life that made it a very special time. Also a brief look at the racism and McCarthyism that marked the era. What did you think of the trip down memory lane? Please share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
February 25, 2025 @ 3:44 pm
Life in the 50’s was great except for two trips to Korea.
August 16, 2022 @ 11:00 pm
Boy! Those surely were the days!!!
August 23, 2019 @ 6:34 pm
I do really miss those days when people actually cared for one another, things were so good and just a simple way of life without all the damn politics and everyone trying to ruin what was once so good!! Life was pretty good yet in the 60’s, 70’s and even the 80’s, I just wish I could go back and live back home with my parents!! So much better then 2019 and soon to be 2020. Life now is a real bummer and I don’t think it is going to be any better for future generations, so sad!!
September 25, 2018 @ 9:03 am
Remember well. I had my 6th birthday in children’s hospital in Knoxville, Tn. I had polio and was very sick. It took a while before they found out what was wrong with me. But I wasn’t left crippled like some. I remember the iron lung and a little girl in it. But I remember good times, too.
May 29, 2017 @ 6:08 pm
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November 15, 2016 @ 7:44 pm
Oh, how I miss those good ole’ days. People used to talk to each other and spend time together, without iPhone, pc’s, etc.
November 15, 2016 @ 5:56 pm
Oh, that was just magical. What a fantastic era to grow up in, which helped us to develop into strong and respectful men and women.
Thank you so much for the magical memories. God Bless you.
August 7, 2016 @ 3:55 pm
Wonderful time of life people enjoyed each other worked hard played hard got married early fifties There was “relief” to help people when a job was Lost And needed assistance it did not become a way of life as welfare does today. People were too proud And did not have that slave mentality needing to be Cared for from Birth to the grave. As for education far more intelligent people from being raised by caring hard working people And the teachers were a thousand percent hard workin without Govt. Intervention Those teachers taught how to Think not, what to Think .jobs were held with twelve years of education today those jobs command college degree with a masters And yet they are incompetent. Yes those were the good old days I am grateful that the Youth today don’t have the memories of yesteryear otherwise they would be in constant depression.
April 26, 2016 @ 11:47 am
Oh what wonderful times they were. Sure wish we could bring them back. Everything was so much better then and everybody helped each other out and it didn’t matter who you were or who they were but now you have to be so careful as you might get killed, robbed or who knows what. Thank God for those good years.
April 1, 2016 @ 8:46 am
What a time that was if we could only do it again
February 8, 2016 @ 7:04 pm
The “Oldies” brings back great memories for me. It is the only music I truly love. It takes me back to the good old days. WHAT WONDERFUL MEMORIES. THANK GOD FOR ALL THINGS HE PROVIDES FOR US.
GOD BLESS US ALL.
LOVE–MARY HALL
February 8, 2016 @ 2:43 pm
THANKS for the wonderful memories that was brought back. There will never be anything like this again. The best of times that that we seem to forget, but brings back fond memories real quick when you hear the music of the 50s
September 25, 2015 @ 8:56 pm
I remember Government giving out boxes of Cheese to the needy. Later on it was known as Commodities for the poor and needy. A building was used to keep boxes of Powdered Eggs, Cheese, Peanut Butter, boxes of Dried Creamed Potatoes, Powdered Milk, and canned Vegetables & Meats. This way of feeding the very poor in poverty, from my understanding was not available until the late 60’s. As for back as I remember there were lot of extended families who grew Cotton, Corn, and planted very large Vegetable Gardens. People helped each other. Especially, the people who were very poor and unable to buy the Seeds to plant very much, the more well off families gave the poor vegetables they grew. Men did the hunting for meats. Rabbit boxes were made to trap rabbits, more fishing & hunting were done in the 40’s, 50’s, & 60’s. They made fish baskets, trout lines for fishing in Rivers & Creeks. People were smarter back then more than some people might think. They knew more about living off the land that God put here for us. The seeds to plant for food, the animals God put on earth for meats.
Drugs & Alcohol was not a problem so much as this day & time. Maybe some Shine or Corn Liquor was home made back in the old days. It was a good time, a better time. THE BEST OF TIMES. GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY. I WOULD TAKE THE 50’S & 60’S BACK IF I COULD. GOD BLESS US ALL AND GOD BLESS THE USA. LOVE TO EVERYBODY—-MARY HALL
September 25, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
How in hell did we ever survive without PC and Govt.handouts and they say we’ve come a long way or is it the wrong way?
Great Memories
September 7, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
THOMAS, WHAT A WONDERFUL THOUGHT. MY FINGERS ARE CROSSED. GOD IS LOVE. WE CAN WIN OUT.
November 23, 2014 @ 9:31 pm
Our children, changed the world in the sixties! Their children and,, THIER,children create what we have now !!
Hopefully, what we advocated in the fifties and early sixties, that ,LOVE IS THE ANSWER , will win out !!!
Fingers crossed !
November 23, 2014 @ 7:34 pm
I guess everyone thinks that it was a fun time when they were teenagers, but truly, the fifties were special. I feel sorry for people who didn’t get to experience that time. It was so much fun to me, a simpler time, safer. I have many great memories of the fifties, and really enjoyed this video and song.
November 22, 2014 @ 7:33 pm
To most of us those years were the “best of times and the worst of times” but, they were our times to make us,
US !! We were the spring board for great things that made the world we live in now. Good or bad !
November 22, 2014 @ 10:12 am
I lived through all of those, I wish we could go back in time and relive them again what a wonderful time to have grown up in , beautiful fond memories .
November 22, 2014 @ 8:33 am
This was WONDERFUL!! I remembered every one of them!
August 24, 2014 @ 8:25 pm
Could only remember 90%. Must be getting old. Oh look you can understand the lyrics. Loved it!!!
July 25, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
WOW !!!!!!! How I wish I could” back up time”!! Our kids and their kids have no idea how much fun and living we did in the 50’s!! I am soooo very glad to have had that!! WISH I could go back and do it again!! I am sure I would make the same errors & enjoy them just as much as I did the first time!! GO 50’S!!
July 12, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
Very enjoyable video. Brought back so many memories. Loved the accompanying music. I wish we were still as innocent as we were in those times.
July 7, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
One of the greatest eras ever.Great music,technology and horsepower and we all survived with Political Correctness.I guess we had thicker skin
July 7, 2014 @ 11:12 am
I Grew up in the 5oths, I was just a child then, This brought back Great memories… Thank Your for Sharing this video with Me, I Loved going Back, and remembering What a Great Era I grew up in….
June 30, 2014 @ 10:36 am
This was great, thanks. Some of the photos were actually early to mid-60s, but it is difficult to draw a straight line between the end of decade and the first years of the next.
June 19, 2014 @ 11:12 am
OH.I loved the 50’sI was a teenager,remember it well!!!life was good then.
June 18, 2014 @ 5:35 pm
Thanks for the memories, I LOVED it then and I think of those days often. I hate what has become of us.
May 31, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
I had a wonderful childhood with fabulous parents and sisters; but my adulthood has been even better!!
May 31, 2014 @ 11:31 am
The worst four of the worst thirty years of my life started in the Fifties.
May 24, 2014 @ 9:55 am
What wonderful memories..i really miss thoes days..this was very touching ty for the great memories…and great song…
May 20, 2014 @ 7:58 pm
I finish high school in 1957 and we didn’t have much money but we enjoyed life I too wish i could go back and live thru it again , I have collected a lot of the things from back then but that bring those days back I can remember so many of the things I did back then wish I could relive them what a time it was.
May 20, 2014 @ 1:00 pm
I was a teenager in the 50’s would give anything to go back, It was the best days of my life. We were poor and didn’t have much but was sooo happy with what we had. Kids now days don’t have a clue of what life can really be. Love this Nethugs !!!! Read it everyday, brings back so many Memories.
May 20, 2014 @ 10:07 am
I remember the 50’s well. They were the best days of my life.
May 19, 2014 @ 8:38 am
Great, I could relate to it all!
May 18, 2014 @ 11:48 pm
Thanks so much I grew up in England in the fifties, I had so many memories renewed .Just like it was yesterday Sylvia
May 18, 2014 @ 6:10 pm
I LIKED IT SO MUCH THAT I ACTUALLY GOT UP AND DANCED WITH MY WALKER, WOW.
May 18, 2014 @ 10:04 am
THIS IS GREAT ITS JUST SO MUCH , THAT TODAY, SOME KIDS, JUST DON’T KNOW HOW FAR WE CAME,BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE NO ONE LOOKS UP ANYMORE BECAUSE THEIR HEAD’S ARE ALWAYS LOOKING DOWN TEXTING, OR PLAYING GAMES, IT SEEM LIKE BACK IN THE 50’S WE HAD MORE FUN TOYS AND GAMES, AND LOOKED UP,TO SEE THE REST OF THE WORLD. PEOPLE TODAY WILL WALK INTO A POLE, A POOL OF WATER, KILL YOU DRIVING A CAR,OR WALK RIGHT INTO A MOVING CAR….AND YOU KNOW WHY ?? TRY THIS –ASK SOME KIDS TO TELL YOU WANT TIME IT IS ON a clock with the minute hand–bet 7 out of 10 can’t tell you the time of day
weather its (am) or (pm) try this and see for yourself.
May 16, 2014 @ 12:26 pm
The really good times!!–Esp. music & cars–Just reinforces how bad things are today-government in our faces,taxes,limited freedoms, no real free speech(PC).
May 14, 2014 @ 3:43 pm
I love this. Having graduated high school in 1954, this is just the way I remember it. I feel so fortunate to have grown up in the 1950’s. It was a wonderful time.
May 13, 2014 @ 6:14 am
This video was great and brought back so many good memories.
May 12, 2014 @ 11:51 am
Lucky for me, the fifties brought me life, born on Friday jan. 13/1956
May 11, 2014 @ 6:46 pm
I was a Video Ranger, knew all the cowboys, bought all the comics, still have my Dad’s 78 RPM records, knew all the cars. Born in 1944, I did it all.
May 11, 2014 @ 9:54 am
My first kiss!!
May 11, 2014 @ 9:17 am
That was wonderful! It made me remember a few things I had forgotten. I was so lucky to have been a teenager in the fifties. I sure wish we could bring it all back and that our children could see how it used to be.
May 10, 2014 @ 3:25 am
The 50s were the best of times. Everybody who wanted a job had one and as a result Americans were happy and America flourished. Today, we’ve discovered that no one can be too rich and, as a result, millionaires and billionaires take their money to offshore banks where it does nobody any good and we are mired in debt with no way to pay it off because, even for those who have jobs, prices continue to rise and people are doing well to put a roof over the heads of their families and food on the table for them, also.
May 9, 2014 @ 3:37 pm
Absolutely wonderful. Sure brought back a lot of good memories!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!! “Lost in the Fifties” by Ronnie Milsap is my favorite song of all times!!!!!!
May 5, 2014 @ 11:27 am
Those were the special times I lived in. Thanks for not letting us forget the best of times. Why could not we have kept some of the good old times so that younger generations wouldn`t have to live in the hell (asI call it) of this day in time. We all would be happier, so much stealing, killing, gang rape, destroying Christianity, and not so much other types of sin.
May 5, 2014 @ 11:01 am
Shutes and ladders was originally “snakes and ladders” so the one shown is probably after the ’50s
May 5, 2014 @ 10:55 am
Oh do I remember, That was the best days of my life, to bad I didn’t realize it then. “Thanks for the Memories”
May 4, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
This was a great trip down memory lane…the fiftys were the best times ever,,I married in 1950′ and it was a wonderful time to have a family…every thing felt safe you didn’t lock your doors and you were not scared to let your children play in the yard..people visited each other..sat out on their porches and all ways had time for stop .
By visitors…American was a country that served GOD,,, and we have lost that safe feeling we once had in our
Neighbor hood…oh to have the good old times of the Fiftys back…
May 4, 2014 @ 4:59 pm
Speechless!! “Precious Memories,Oh How They Linger,Oh How They Ever Flood My Soul!!
May 4, 2014 @ 1:10 pm
so many memories.my first love,etc.love the song!
May 3, 2014 @ 8:57 pm
This brought back many happy memories, music was the best to dance to,still love to hear it, very special time of life.
May 3, 2014 @ 3:53 pm
Born in 1947, in Minnesota. Good times, good music and TV.
Sweet memories.
May 3, 2014 @ 3:40 pm
Sure brought back wonderful memories. It’s wonderful that we still can go back in time just by looking at these pictures. Wonderful background music. Thank you!!
May 3, 2014 @ 3:36 pm
I was born 1951 and I don’t remember much of the 50’s but I wish I had of been there. It was such a fun happy time and I so love the music of that era.I still love the music and I guess I always will. The only sad part about it was the racism and I’m sorry to say it still is with us and it hurts to know there are those that will continue to let it live on, but it is getting better .This was a great memory trip also as I do remember a lot of it.
May 3, 2014 @ 2:36 pm
Back in Time,,,a Wonderful Trip !…I had 20 years old again …Thank`s for that.
May 3, 2014 @ 12:58 pm
THIS SONG ALWAYS GIVES ME CHILLS…..I’M FROM WAY BACKK IN 1943…I LOVED LIVING IN THE 50’S 60’S 70’S WONDERFUL TIMES….THANK YOU
May 2, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
Sure put a lump in my throat……spent six years in high school 7 thru 12 from 1954 to 1959, some of the best times ever……..even my daughter (who is in her 50’s) says I was lucky to be a teenager then…..I agree. P>S> Wouldn’t be a tribute without that pic of Elvis….heard Hound Dog first time ever in the West Hills Hi lunch room (1956 we had a DJ in the lunchroom, cool huh?)….the kids were dancing in the aisles……awesome…
May 2, 2014 @ 9:24 pm
Thanks for the memories
May 2, 2014 @ 9:23 pm
My favorite Ronnie Milsap song!
May 2, 2014 @ 8:57 pm
What a great trip down memory lane of the 1950’s. Some I actually had forgotten about and was happy
to remember them again… Thanks… oh by the way, my husband and I got married in 1951…that was
a wonderful memory (we had 60 years together.) Thanks for the memories…