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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 3, 2017 20:18:25 GMT
I've only been around since the 90s, so not a lot of options if I'm picking something I know. 90s seemed nice, but I was only a kid. I definitely don't miss the 00s, which were terrible. I guess I would say the first half of the 10s, which weren't that long ago, but feels it. We're living in an absolute shit storm.
If I could pick anything, 70s. AIDs-free non-stop sex and the greatest decade of movies.
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Post by chalk2 on May 4, 2017 0:45:59 GMT
The 70's. This was the last decade of real innocence for kids. By the end you had videos, computer games and every other babysitter to steal away the use of imagination and outside make believe play. There was no such stupidity as play dates, you left in the morning and sought out your friends or anyone else to play with and came home for dinner in the evening. If it was hot you jumped into the nearest cool body of water either fully clothed or butt naked and you didn't give a shit who saw you. Parents never knew where the hell you were or what you were doing and didn't care as long as you returned by sundown, stayed out of trouble and didn't come home in the back of a cop car. Today people, the same people who enjoyed this, will, in all hypocrisy scream child abuse/neglect.
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Post by Lucy on May 4, 2017 0:53:56 GMT
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Post by shangel on May 4, 2017 1:13:42 GMT
Most definitely the 80's.
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Post by pippinmaniac on May 4, 2017 2:54:51 GMT
I miss a certain time that I did not witness, but heard much about. My parents were little children during the Great Depression/ World War II. Having to ration certain items and doing without some others was no fun, of course. I'm talking about they lived in their small communities. They cared about other people and their families. They knew if they did not work together, they would not survive. Hospitality was highly valued. People had to learn how to fix things rather than replacing them. People had to grow most of their own food, and had to walk most of the time. Everyone knew their neighbors. When my mother tells stories of those days, I feel a bit envious. The economy was better for a while, but we missed out on the closeness and love that my parents enjoyed. It felt like when I started school, it was every man for himself. My mother turns 80 next year, and I know it won't be long before she's gone. I'll try to remember every story she told about growing up in Del Rio, Tennessee during the 40's and 50's.
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Post by Jayman on May 4, 2017 3:00:39 GMT
Probably the 80's. That the period I grew up in and went to high school and all that. I guess we all get nostalgic about the period we grew up in. If only there were cellphones though. Many a night was ruined when not being able to get in touch with people when they weren't home!
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Post by Heisenberg on May 4, 2017 4:21:02 GMT
1972-1985 is my favorite era, for the most part. Things weren't 100% great then, but what time period was?
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Post by Dana on May 4, 2017 17:06:54 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. OF COURSE! TY 4 READING  |
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on May 4, 2017 23:29:13 GMT
I was born in 1955 and was a kid in Philly in the 1960's before we moved to Jersey in 1966. It was the best time. I wish I could be in the 60's in Philly as an adult. There are lots of things I like about nowadays but being a kid in the 1960's in Philly was the greatest. It was simpler to live, and really, no worse because of the lack of IPhones and the 'net.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 14:49:23 GMT
I don`t miss any era.
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Post by telegonus on May 5, 2017 17:55:35 GMT
Early Seventies. A mellow time, even when Watergate kicked in. There was a wistful, Mellow Yellow Sixties vibe, with stridency way down from the latter half of the previous decade. Lots of nostalgia then, too, and you could see it in the movies, whether it was Summer Of '42, American Graffiti, The Sting, even in contemporary films, such as The Last Of Sheila, which seemed to be channeling an earlier time even as it was a "now" picture.
It's the same with almost the exact same period as to years,--the first three to four of the decade--for the early Sixties, what with JFK, lots of fun songs, many if not most not too serious. Loads of fun movies, whether peplum, Disney, fantasy, westerns or comedies. Again, much that just didn't weigh too heavily on one's mind, even with current events like the Bay Of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the "bomb", strained U.S.-Soviet relations. Much of prime TV television was serious, often mature or mature feeling: The Twilight Zone, Naked City, Route 66, The Defenders, The Eleventh Hour, even the western, The Rifleman, the sci-fi Outer Limits. These were not "fluffy" shows.
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Post by bd74 on May 5, 2017 18:17:46 GMT
The 80s for sure. The popular culture, the zeitgeist, the movies, the music, the tv shows, the politics, etc... I miss the simplicity of it all. No internet, no cellphones. We got all our information from tv or or newspapers or magazines. I also remember it was common to order catalogs from companies. You would have to wait weeks for the catalog to arrive in the mail. I also miss the clothing trends and hairstyle trends. And I think the 80s was the last decade to have dance styles with names -- such as "the running man", "the roger rabbit", "the cabbage patch", "the rolex", "the california worm"...   |
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Post by JHA Durant on May 6, 2017 0:36:13 GMT
The year 2000.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on May 6, 2017 3:41:32 GMT
80s and 90s. Everything sucks now.
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Post by thepunisher3455 on May 8, 2017 19:37:54 GMT
It would be the 90s for me.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 6:23:15 GMT
With music I would say the 80s and 90s. Today's 'Pop' music is nowhere near as good as it was back then but I don't miss the homophobia from that era and prefer society the way it is now. 
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Post by theshape25 on May 30, 2017 7:09:29 GMT
I miss 1989-94. That spanned my junior high and high school years and was the best time of my life.
I also miss the early to mid 80s. I loved going home after school and watching Transformers, HeMan, GI Joe, and Voltron then going back to school the next day and talking about the episodes with my friends. I miss the movies of the early to mid 80s as well.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on May 30, 2017 17:50:00 GMT
The 70's. Moved out on my own and could take all the drugs I liked as much as I wanted. And as an added bonus, lotsa sex.
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