Brit Reacting to Life In The US In The 1960's - 12 Things Gone Forever

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[protonneutron]

I got one of those bicycles in sparkle blue. Matching seat! I had a transistor radio I tied to the handle bars so I could listen to top 40 as I rode around the neighborhood.

[juliayoung]

I'm from the 60's and now in my 60's🤣 times have definitely changed a lot

[elijah]

the Neil Armstrong quote is actually a bit of a Mandella effect. he never said "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" he actually said "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" which makes much more sense anyways.

[anglend]

You can still get vinyl records. They really have a different smoother sound than today's digital music. (As long as you don't scratch them.)

[SWLinPHX]

Diet sodas and drinks started becoming popular in the 1960s, gained traction in the 1970s and was an entrenched part of society by the 1980s.

[Swampzoid]

We always had Mercurocrome on hand for those minor cuts and scrapes. It burned horribly when applied. I was born in 1962. I remember people especially young women and girls would put iodine and baby oil all other their bodies and lay for maybe hours under very hot mercury light bulbs to get a tan

[Chatta-Ortega]

I was born in 61. My overriding memory of the 60s is the music, Vietnam and NASA.

[letyrxy]

My dad was born in the 60s he’s 57 now my dad probably knows about this things that existed at his time he was born in 1965

[futuregenerationz]

I vaguely remember 'Patio'. I much more remember 'Tab'. But by then everyone was starting to say 'no cyclamates'. Milk and some assorted baked goods(if mom had some money) would arrive in the morning. The milkman would arrive at your front door strapping a tray around him carrying a variety of things. If you had some sort of medical issue, the doctor would visit your house.

People were outside more, raking leaves in the fall, playing horseshoes or having barbeques, or both in the summer. Snowball fights and sledding in snow, and everyone knew and were generally friendly to each other. You could go out in the morning until lunch and then leave until dinner, wherever you wanted pretty much. We were adventurous. Newlyweds would storm down the street honking their horn. Everyone was happy to be living the American dream with their own house and car(s). By the 70s, people were more about 'who had more'.

[thomasmacdiarmid]

The TV you paused on was not just a TV. It had a built-in record player. You could see the turntable and controls to the right of the TV screen. It would have played vinyl albums and maybe singles as well.

[robertschwartz]

I was 8 in 1960, so I remember the 60s pretty well. I remember our 27inch Zenith TV. It was Black and White with a remote that clicked loudly, (hence the clicker). I think it had some sort of tuning fork device inside. When Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV we were in an appliance store. While my parents looked at refrigerators I saw it happen in the TV section!

[quinn-tessential]

In retrospect, the 1960s were the Dark Ages regarding health issues. Smoking was everywhere with no restriction, including in restaurants and on airplanes. If you got cancer (likely from smoking), that was an almost automatic death sentence. Numerous sketchy products were on the market, like that wound treatment with mercury and a number of artificial sweeteners that were later banned. Cars had only lap belts -- no shoulder belts, head rests or airbags -- so in a collision you were guaranteed significant head/neck trauma. It's a wonder we survived!

[toastnjam]

07:58 We had one of those huge console's TVs. Dad realized he made a mistake in buying one when it had to go to the TV repair shop. Besides being huge and unwieldy it was very heavy. Those old tube TVs always had problems. Anyone remember when stores had TV tube testers?

[sslerlin]

I feel old now... I remember all these things

[TheOnlyOneStanding]

The Beatles is one of the big things that everyone loves with the moon landing

[Vltron]

Bojangles just stopped serving red cherry patio soda in their restaurants. I stopped eating there.

[desertrose]

I had a bike with a banana seat in the 80s. Also my parents bought a big console TV in like 1981 and kept it until 2000. That thing was heavy and literally a piece of furniture. it's not exclusive to the 60s (though my parents were boomers, so they were teens during this time).

[sa]

8:30 Having grown up in the 70s I remember seeing women go around in curlers all the time.

[williambranch]

I was there as a kid. Your childhood never comes back!

[SWLinPHX]

Patio diet cola (before my time) reminds me of that "Mad Men" episode where they pitched the ad campaign based on Bye Bye Birdie with the Ann-Margret look alike.