Were the 1950’s - 1970’s the Best Decades?

[Weatherman2020]

Just compare to what you get today.

Music.
Think of all the groups you still hear today.

Sports.
Think of all the players in those decades.

Personal welfare.
Common for lower class families to own homes. With one income.

Health.
Look at any picture of crowds in the 50’s - 70’s.
Few fat people.

Politics.
Left and Right disagreed. But both wanted America and its citizens to succeed.

Technology.
We went from everyone having phones to computers, internet, satellites, etc.

Work careers.
Very common to work in one company your entire career and get a pension.

Entertainment.
Think of all the shows and movies from those decades still around today.

 

[1srelluc]

Yes it was, other than the fact that "the silent generation" who was mostly in charge of industry at the time, was trying their level best to poison us all with pollution.....But us boomers are the ones that took care of that.

Youngins of today have no fuckin' clue how it was pollution-wise back then. Massive fish kills, acid rain, rivers on fire, poisoned wells, birth defects, "unexplained" cancers no end, etc..

I guess that's why I scoff at their hair on fire predictions about the hoax of climate change. Environmental pollution was real and something you could see (and often smell) every-single-day.

 

[BS Filter]

The movies and music was way better. People were more patriotic, all people regardless of party. Democrats were way more like real Americans.

 

[Crepitus]

Were the 1950’s - 1970’s the Best Decades?​

Fuck no!

The 80's all the way baby!

 

[MarathonMike]

Can't comment on the 50s, but 60s and 70s were pretty Great! To be fair, they were tumultuous times if you happened to be Black.

 

[Moonglow]

Just compare to what you get today.

Music.
Think of all the groups you still hear today.

Sports.
Think of all the players in those decades.

Personal welfare.
Common for lower class families to own homes. With one income.

Health.
Look at any picture of crowds in the 50’s - 70’s.
Few fat people.

Politics.
Left and Right disagreed. But both wanted America and its citizens to succeed.

Technology.
We went from everyone having phones to computers, internet, satellites, etc.

Work careers.
Very common to work in one company your entire career and get a pension.

Entertainment.
Think of all the shows and movies from those decades still around today.

The LSD was better back then.

 

[Moonglow]

They'd kick yer ass if you drove a foreign made car, one Asian was killed.

 

[Burgermeister]

No school shootings back then. Before ADD/ADDHD/Anxiety/Depression meds

 

[Moonglow]

No school shootings back then. Before ADD/ADDHD/Anxiety/Depression meds

Yes, there was a school shooting back then...In Texass.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

this is highly subjective
in the 1950s and 1960s people were breeding like rabbits
the 60s had cool cars a great pop music
the birth control pill gave us the sexual revolution in the 1970s
the 70s had disco music and crazy cloths and SNL
the 80s had some cool music and MTV
the 80s had the aids epidemic
the 90s had some great rock songs
around 2000 things started going down hill
nowadays young men are afraid of women

 

[Invisibleflash]

I'm thinking yes, op.

 

[toobfreak]

Were the 1950’s - 1970’s the Best Decades?​

That was the heyday of America.

• 1950s: Post WWII Happy Days.
• 1960s: Free love and mind expansion. We dared think we could give Peace a chance.
• 1970s: Still only 2 billion people in the world, free of war, free to self-actualize, technology boom looking to the future and American's dollar and standard of living for the Middle Class were at their absolute highest.

By the late '70s, everything started stalling out and then we went into the dull doldrums of the 1980s and it has been downhill ever since.

 

[toobfreak]

The movies and music was way better. People were more patriotic, all people regardless of party. Democrats were way more like real Americans.

You are right. The 1970s was the absolute height of the block buster feature motion picture.

 

[BS Filter]

You are right. The 1970s was the absolute height of the block buster feature motion picture.

Even the 40s had many great movies. I pay $3.25 a month for an app on ROKU that has thousands of movies that have been digitized. Every category there is. It's called "Classic Reel". Best deal in the universe.

 

[Blaster]

The movies and music was way better. People were more patriotic, all people regardless of party. Democrats were way more like real Americans.

I was born in 1990 and I'm jealous of the folks that enjoyed the 50's and 70's. I love the music from that era.

 

[Flash]

Being a Boomer it was absolutely great being a child in the 1950s, a teenager/young adult in the 1960s (except for that Vietnam thingy) and starting a family and career in the 1970s.

I wouldn't trade that life timeline for any other in the history of the world.

 

[boevans]

If you were white, those were really good decades.

 

[BS Filter]

I was born in 1990 and I'm jealous of the folks that enjoyed the 50's and 70's. I love the music from that era.

I saw the Beatles in 1966. My ticket cost $5.50.

 

[Flash]

If you were white, those were really good decades.

The Negroes in the US were a lot better off than the spear chuckers in Africa were at that time.

 

[FranklinRoosevelt_FTW]

Just compare to what you get today.

Music.
Think of all the groups you still hear today.

Sports.
Think of all the players in those decades.

Personal welfare.
Common for lower class families to own homes. With one income.

Health.
Look at any picture of crowds in the 50’s - 70’s.
Few fat people.

Politics.
Left and Right disagreed. But both wanted America and its citizens to succeed.

Technology.
We went from everyone having phones to computers, internet, satellites, etc.

Work careers.
Very common to work in one company your entire career and get a pension.

Entertainment.
Think of all the shows and movies from those decades still around today.

YES




AND THE 1940s

Who couldn’t forget Mickey Mantle, the greatest middle class we’ve ever had in the country the post World War II economic. Low crime rates. No mass school shootings.


Again NO MASS SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

GOD BLESS OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS FOR GIVING US A GREAT HISTORY