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Post by Dana on May 1, 2017 17:48:16 GMT
I miss the late 70's and 80's. Things were simple back then.
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Post by Jillian on May 1, 2017 17:48:41 GMT
The 90's
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Post by politicidal on May 1, 2017 18:19:39 GMT
Was it though? Constant threat of nuclear war and political strife?
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 1, 2017 18:56:42 GMT
I miss the late 70's and 80's. Things were simple back then. I agree.
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 1, 2017 19:03:35 GMT
I wouldn't mind revisiting the 80s, but I don't really miss the past.
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Post by Catman on May 1, 2017 19:28:16 GMT
Catman misses the days when men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on May 1, 2017 20:43:33 GMT
Late 70s to about 1990. Early 80s the most.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 21:51:17 GMT
The 90's, I wish I could have been adult then instead of now. The 2000's for childhood.
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Post by Dana on May 1, 2017 21:54:48 GMT
Yes, there is always strife, but I am glad I was a kid then and didn't have to worry about nuclear bombs, or the crap that was happening in the world, especially the Middle East.
This is what I remember of the late 70's/80;s
I remember wholesome meals like potato and beef casseroles, or goulash on Saturdays. Homemade cakes, cookies, and deserts. Waking up on Saturday morning to the Smurfs, He-man, Loony Tunes, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company, Sesame Street of course, and Howdy Doody. I remember going swimming during the summer months, and sometimes we would visit our Drive-In Theater. We would enjoy our candy's like pop rocks, candy dots, candy cigarettes that we would light and pretend we were smoking! lol. Then we would eat them after.
We didn't have social media parent us, but it was a good book, some crayons and paper, along with the surrogate parents that were our trustworthy neighbors. We would sit and watch the telly, and on it was All in the Family, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Sanford and Son, Happy Days, Good Times, Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Fantasy Island, the Love Boat, Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacy, 3's Company, Gimme a Break, Facts of Life, Different Strokes, One Day at a time, Too Close for Comfort, Facts of life, etc. We would also be expected to go outside and play after our home work was done to get fresh air and exercise.
Exercise was important, very important. We didn't complain back then about riding our bikes to the corner store for Mom, and we loved to play volleyball and basketball for weekend games. I remember our little Atari, the Apple computers in our classroom how huge and bulky they were, and only seeing a black screen with a little yellow cursor that used to blink. Nothing else.
We enjoyed family outings to the country in an old Turquoise Impala. Fresh, clean air. We would get our butts spanked if we messed up in school, or at home. Teachers spanked our butts as well if we sassed or caused problems, and they weren't given flack about it.
We used to have "show and tell" which was always fun, and our school lunches were hearty. We would handle bullies the way they should be handled, and you knew you had handled that Bully right by it either avoiding you completely, or the if they became your "best" friend after. These Bullies were best handled after school. lol
It wasn't the "Offended States of America" like it is now.
It was fun, It was memorable. Those were the days.
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Post by Dana on May 1, 2017 22:21:02 GMT
The 90's, I wish I could have been adult then instead of now. The 2000's for childhood. YES, I enjoyed the 90's as well. I enjoyed watching Rosanne, the Simpsons, and many other shows. There were arcades we used to frequent, and Local Weekend Carnivals. Acid jeans were barely coming out of the previous era, as was huge hairdos. Movies like Jurassic Park, Braveheart, Pretty Woman. There were so many huge hits in the 90's. I particularly liked the early 90's. I remember using the "Prodigy" software, which at the time was like what is now "Wikipedia".
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Post by brokenbow on May 2, 2017 21:12:48 GMT
The 90's for two reasons: I was born in 1990, and I love, love, love The X-Files!!!
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Post by mszanadu on May 2, 2017 22:06:42 GMT
I miss the late 70's and 80's. Things were simple back then. For me mostly would have been the 1980's . IMPO - The music / music videos , movies , TV Shows , the clothes / shoes , hairstyles , cars , food products etc. almost everything seemed to be fun and on a " modern styled artistic level " at that time too . Some of the 1970's & 1990's had a few good things like the 80's had as well . Of course like every decade it had it's certain downfalls but it seemed we all managed to get through it just the same here . Thanks so much Dana for your subject post .
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Post by mecano04 on May 2, 2017 22:13:46 GMT
What I would call the "Pre-suspicion" era.
That would be the years before September 2001.
As someone who was born in 1986, I do remember how the world "worked" and how people lived and behaved before the events. As a Canadian, even if it had a lesser impact on my country than in the USA, I can say that day and the following years brought major changes in people's mind and perception as well as in the news and travel security protocols.
Even if it doesn't refrain me from living, I find it annoying how much attention is given to terrorism in the media and how those media and the governments try to capitalize on the fear.
I can't say for sure because I don't see in the future but no matter how it all ends, it seems that on the fatidic day of September 11 2001 we lost, and later buried, one thing: Trust.
The trust that person next to you is just another normal and sane human being, who just happens to live his life like you and is not hell bent on annihilating you and your country.
The way things are now and how they are headed it seems we'll never get this back.
But I would love to be able to go again to the Empire State building, make the metal detector go on again, have the security guy ask me to raise my arms, pass the metal detector, hear it beep on the chest pocket of my windbreaker, hear "camera?", then open the pocket and take it out myself and being told "Aight, Next!" just like it happened in April 2000.
No fuss, nobody going into Defcon 2, just trust and simplicity.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 22:14:01 GMT
The 80s and 90s.
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Post by maxwellperfect on May 2, 2017 22:49:01 GMT
The Enlightenment.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 23:03:13 GMT
Yes, there is always strife, but I am glad I was a kid then and didn't have to worry about nuclear bombs, or the crap that was happening in the world, especially the Middle East. This is what I remember of the late 70's/80;s I remember wholesome meals like potato and beef casseroles, or goulash on Saturdays. Homemade cakes, cookies, and deserts. Waking up on Saturday morning to the Smurfs, He-man, Loony Tunes, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company, Sesame Street of course, and Howdy Doody. I remember going swimming during the summer months, and sometimes we would visit our Drive-In Theater. We would enjoy our candy's like pop rocks, candy dots, candy cigarettes that we would light and pretend we were smoking! lol. Then we would eat them after. We didn't have social media parent us, but it was a good book, some crayons and paper, along with the surrogate parents that were our trustworthy neighbors. We would sit and watch the telly, and on it was All in the Family, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Sanford and Son, Happy Days, Good Times, Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Fantasy Island, the Love Boat, Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacy, 3's Company, Gimme a Break, Facts of Life, Different Strokes, One Day at a time, Too Close for Comfort, Facts of life, etc. We would also be expected to go outside and play after our home work was done to get fresh air and exercise. Exercise was important, very important. We didn't complain back then about riding our bikes to the corner store for Mom, and we loved to play volleyball and basketball for weekend games. I remember our little Atari, the Apple computers in our classroom how huge and bulky they were, and only seeing a black screen with a little yellow cursor that used to blink. Nothing else. We enjoyed family outings to the country in an old Turquoise Impala. Fresh, clean air. We would get our butts spanked if we messed up in school, or at home. Teachers spanked our butts as well if we sassed or caused problems, and they weren't given flack about it. We used to have "show and tell" which was always fun, and our school lunches were hearty. We would handle bullies the way they should be handled, and you knew you had handled that Bully right by it either avoiding you completely, or the if they became your "best" friend after. These Bullies were best handled after school. lol It wasn't the "Offended States of America" like it is now. It was fun, It was memorable. Those were the days. Some sweet thoughts, Dana, with which I (for the most part) agree. Thanks for sharing them.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 23:04:09 GMT
Catman misses the days when men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. "Oh, you knew who you were then--girls were girls and men were...small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!"
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Post by deeznutz on May 3, 2017 11:12:05 GMT
Any era before the 2000s
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 3, 2017 11:31:47 GMT
All of them, though different eras for different things.
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Post by rsc on May 3, 2017 14:25:39 GMT
The 70s.
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