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Today’s question:
QUESTION: Depending on when you were born, what decade did you enjoy the most? The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s or 2010s?
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I try to enjoy every decade of my life, but I’m going with the 70s. Cool times!
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The 70’s. I survived Vietnam, was married, raising a family and having the time of my life without a care in the world. The Bay Area was a nice place to live, without any heavy traffic. Parking was never a problem, even in San Francisco. I think one reason I enjoyed the 70’s so much is because there wasn’t as much news as there is today, and what little news there was, I never watched it, so I was unaware of the turmoil that was going on back then. When Nixon got us out of Vietnam, I was ecstatic.
There’s nothing like 70s music, that’s for sure. So many diverse styles. But I wouldn’t want to be who I was in the 70s. So for me, I have to go with the 90s, when all my children were born (although I can remember nothing culturally that happened in the 90s being so busy with the kidlings!)
50’s and 60’s No me me me. Agreements were made with a handshake. We had bipartisan politics. and a United (not divided) States of America. And if I may add, no fake-hoax-your fired garbage either.
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Concur.
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The 50’s and 60’s were great for white Americans but probably some of the most trying times for blacks and non-whites. I am glad we have come a long way but we still have work to do.
The one I was in during my late 20s. Even though I had a birthday recently I say I am still 27 plus several extra months.
The ’60s + 70s when we were free.
80’s were great, lots of cool music from the 60’s and 70’s to enjoy and the world just felt a lot more colourful, fun and less serious!
Definitely my 20s and 30s, lol.
50’s – 60’s. Life,cars,and music was great!
The 70s. The cars were ugly and the women were beautiful. And the music, oh my God the music…
Oh no doubt in my mind, the 70’s, especially being a teenager/adult.
Things seemed safer back then. I grew up in Westlake and as an 11-12 year old we could ride our bikes out to Golden Gate Park or Hitch Hike home from High School and as we got into High School it was nothing to take the bus into the city and see people like Carlos Santana sitting out in front of his flat hitting bongos.
My sister was a few years older than me and on Friday nights I’d tag along to the Fillmore Auditorium or Winterland and see those fantastic bands of the day… Janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, etc., etc.
All of those “Day on the Greens” just magical…..
Thankfully, I kept a “Daily Diary” from 1968 – 1980. I can go to any date and see exactly what we were doing (even when Disco came on the scene) and since I attached a ticket stub to the page, I could see what I paid to go to the movies back then. It was about $1.50 – 2.00 for a new release (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno, Jaws or Earthquake.
What a time to be alive in a beautiful suburb just outside of San Francisco which had a song named after it and a book “Little Boxes”
that put a broad smile on my face! I hoped for something better for the kids now, but somehow we’ve yet to see it, maybe, just maybe things are about to change!
I could have written this…would just add, for all the “convenience” of cell phones, cctv and internet…it was better with the anonymity
Nice memories, I identify with a lot what you are writing, although I lived back East, had much of the same feeling, free concerts in Central Park, 5th Dimension and the cast from Hair. Love Country Joe, saw him in San Francisco in the late nineties.
The 80’s….for sure!!
The decade you enjoy most is whatever decade you were in your 20s
The 1990s!! Great economic growth, a time of peace with no major wars, and and for much it an outstanding President, Bill Clinton!!
I agree with all the good times we had. For me, it’s the 2020s and beyond because that is kinda all I got left. Ha Ha
I decade has it’s charm, but some do stand out. For me it was the sixties, I didn’t always knew at the time, but I had the time of my life. As a teen ager I worked in a small town (about 20,000 inhabitant) I had many friends, there was a jazz club and a rock club, and private parties as well, there were always someone to go the movies with or the beach, couldn’t walk down the street without running in to someone I knew. I moved to Copehagen when I was 18, the next few years a lot things happened very fast, went to bording school close to the German border, met friends there and we went to Israel together to work in a kibbutz for 3 months, after 5 month back in Denmark off to Iceland with girl friends from Israel, 4 months there then hitchiking through northern Europe for 6 weeks, after 3 months in Denmark off to the US as an Au pair in Westport, spend 2 years there, same feeling as the small town in Denmark, lots of friends, parties, and dates galore. By then it was the late sixties and lots of things were happening, music was great, free concerts in Central Park (moved to New York in 69) lots of excitement. Most of the seventies I was married, in the eigthies I raised a daugther, who is the apple of my eye and have enriched my life tremendously. However, when I think of the best times of my life it always goes back to the sixties, first of all I grew up in the country, many never left, married someone they went to school with and just moved a few miles away. Seeing where I grew up and then all of sudden be in Westport and New York, I at times had to pinch myself. Politically things were not so good, assassinations, the Vietnam war, had friends over there, agree with Dawg it was a great day when it ended. I have to say my forties was pretty good too, but a little more complicated trying to balance dating or boyfriends as a single mother is not so easy, but I had more confidence in myself in my forties, than in my twenties, in my twenties I felt most comfortable with friends my own age and within a certain group, in my forties I didn’t need that kind of security.
No question the 70’s had the best music. People could keep their doors unlocked. You wouldn’t want to try that now. Much better drivers. Less traffic. Less taxes, less government involvement. By far, less rampant crime. People actually took pride in working for a living. They didn’t need to rely on government giveaways. Those were the days when teenagers could get a job at a fast food restaurant during the summer unlike now when adults who took their jobs now demand $20.00 an hour for flipping a burger. It was a better time…
Almost every decade had great music, of course it depend on your taste. I love jazz so the forties and fifties was great for that, as well as big band. I love rock and roll and folk music, so the sixties and seventies was great for that. The eighties had some of my favorites, U2 and Brucee Springsteen, like Pearl Jam as well. I’m sure there are good music today, I just don’t know where to find it, could be because I keep listening to my old favorites. I work at Macy’s and they music they play there is pathetic, not sure what decade it is from, except for a few sounds pretty bad. They use to play “Dancing Queen, U2, and Van Morrison once in awhile, not anymore. Must have changed DJ’s, or whoever picks their music.
I’m enjoying everyone’s comments, but I would like to commend e.bunners on keeping a daily dairy! That is such a great idea for everyone. I didn’t do a lot of daily writing, but I do have pocket calendars for every year going back to 1962 and I am writing my autobiography, more for my own amusement than anything. It’s very interesting to me anyway. I have had a pretty incredible life and have done just about everything I would want to do, and traveled to many interesting places. I also have photos from birth to now. My parents weren’t rich, but my mother took a lot of photos of me, bless her.
@prairiegirl, I totally agree. I kept a diary from the time I was 14 to I was 25. Years later when I went back and read it I realized what a good time I had in my youth, it also helped me rememebering certain people I knew back then, some I tried to find on the internet, found information about several and reached out to a few and always heard back.
Good for you writing a book, someone once said every person could write at least one book, meaning we all have different lives and all have something to contribute. In reading my diary again, seems when I was young I had a somewhat schizophrenia view when I was young, I would write in my diary how sick I was of the dating scene and especially one unpredictable boyfriend, and then a few lines later writing what a wonderful time I was having. Readiny the diary again is like living that time over again, makes me feel very lucky.
The decade between the years 1975-1985 (Farrah Fawcett, disco, the Fonz, Barney Miller, MTV, Showtime, 8-tracks, viewmasters, waterbeds) and the list goes on. We need a 70’s/80’s fan club in Claycord.
So far, the 2010s have been the best, most enjoyable decade for me. Kids thrived, our nest egg grew, we were in good general health. 2020s are going that way, so far. 70s were not good, 80s were great yet some of my worst life experiences, 90s were blah and aughts were ok.
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