What was the Best Era?

[snakeyes]

1970s

 

[snakeyes]

1980s

 

[snakeyes]

1990s

 

[snakeyes]

vintage hot rod music days past

 

[snakeyes]

Doo Wop era

 

[snakeyes]

instrumental songs of the 50s -1960s

 

[snakeyes]

50s-60s still best for me after that it was a hit miss up 2 today in the can listen to old lps cds or XM radio sorry that's just me next Ill be listening dirt move oh and disco always sucked

 

[70bigblockdodge]

1966 DOB, so now I'm starting to get the brakes hot heading downhill. I was in the Navy in the 80s and not a care in the world. Wish I would have bought more cars. Still own the 2 I bought when I was in San Diego.

 

[Basket case]

'70s were good till the mills startd closing.

 

[wahya]

Didn’t have my reading glasses on when I first saw this. What was the Best Bra? Huh. No, I was talking with a friend of mine since our youth a while back and we were discussing our time. Would we

have liked to have been born at a different time. We both agreed that it was the best of times to have lived, even though there were hiccups along the way. We were both born in the early 50s and weren’t concerned with world events then. The first event I remember that was really huge was the Cuban missle crises. My mother was talking about sending me north out of Florida in case something happened (I didn’t think that would make much of a difference).
The other kids and I were all over the 20-25 square mile area that we lived, on our bikes, small boats and coming home sometimes after dark when we were like 12 years old. My wife and I have camped all the way from Florida to Alaska twice, as well as all 49 states that we could drive to. I’ve been thinking maybe we should slow down. The wife says she would wheel/throw me in the camper and go. So I let her have her way.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Richard Cranium]

I've often thought that my grandparents who lived from 1900 to the mid 1970's saw more progress and innovation in their lifetimes than all of mankind before and after them. From riding on horses to cars, to airplanes to men on the moon, from telegraph to radio to movies to television. And much, much more.

 

[polywideblock]

born in the 60s , grew up in the '70s ,but turned 17( got my license ) in the 80s .that was the time

 

[Dibbons]

Both my God parents and aunt and uncle raised seven children on one income (father's who was considered "head of household") back in the '60's and 70's. They also purchased a home, a couple of vehicles, and found health care affordable (Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance very reasonable). In addition to the reality of being able to afford to support a large family, the cherry on the top was the music and culture of the day, and it's no contest. Never again and no going back now. Too bad for coming generations.

 

[Ron H]

Think I’m just old enough to have caught the era of muscle cars when they were new, getting my license in ’71. The slightly older guys like my brother, caught a few more years and how I envied them driving in the later 60’s in their GTO’s, RR’s, Chevelles, etc. I was a car crazy kid since I was a smaller kid. Life dragged endlessly the few years before I could drive. My brother in his GTO, and all his buddies coming over to the house in their rides with their girlfriends who would pinch my cheek saying "Aren’t you a cutie pie”. Grrr. Then they’d take off for town lighting up their tires…as I watched. Grrr.

Was a thrill seeing the new Rapid Transit System mopars under the street lights in town. I had around 5 or so years cruising with my car buds, when things were still pretty much as they were in town from the ‘50’s yet. In that time had a ’67 GTO and a ’70 Cuda verts. (I’m a vert guy.) The dating, drive-in’s, outdoor theaters and cruising through town congregating in a couple of parking lots to shoot da breeze. And the late night drag races outside of town. Guys from out of town or the big-city 20 miles away would invariably show up in their hot rides looking for a race. We'd do the same.

Depending on how bad-*** their rides were, as some guys in my group had quicker rides than others, one of us would volunteer to take them on involving some decent cash. Lol, one night I took on a ’69 Firebird in my GTO. Ahh, his motor was a bit more than stock clocking my ***. Come to find it was my brother who tricked-up his motor. Another – grrr. My diplomatic bro, “Well ya dumbass, could a told you he’d smoke ya.” Thanks bro, helpful info.

It was a golden time to be alive and YOUNG. Part of that was not a worry that arrives with adulthood when ya yank your head out of your *** to get a handle on living, marriage, mortgages, and kids.

Timing for me was right as I was getting into the responsibilities of life anyway, things changed radically. Drive-in’s closed, outdoor theaters torn down for ‘development’ including the areas we raced becoming subdivisions. And a cruising ban in town, no more than two-times per hour. Lol, with the population explosion, ya couldn’t get through town twice in that amount of time anyway, unless it was after 11PM. Numbers of car buds dwindled as they got hitched. Shocking how times appeared to change fast as they did.
Many priceless memories of those days...ya can't bring back anymore than you can your youth.

 

[66 Sat]

The saddest part in all this, is that it's going to get worse and may never get better.
Too many damn people, too many rules, too much control.
All the good times we remember had far less population and far less technology.
It's ironic this is being discussed on the internet, it has some good points, but overall I think it was the worst thing to happen to the world.

 

[Ron H]

All the good times we remember had far less population and far less technology.

Can’t disagree. Was 14 when my folks bought their first color TV. Massive thing a Curtis Mathis. Was around 30 or so, when we got a home computer and issued one at work…laptop. Ahh, now I’m supposed to TYPE all the field reports myself? Didn’t take any typing classes in HS, never thought I would need to learn typing. We had secretaries doing this when we would send them tapes from our cassette recorders.

Somewhere around that time issued bag-phones. No longer the hunt for some skank, ear-wax coated pay phones to call in da office when it was 10-degrees outside, that is when there WAS a cell signal. More miss than hit back then. Areas where we had to travel back then were sometimes remote. Only way to figure your way around was maps, if you had one for the area you were in, and a compass was handy.

Lived a good part of life w/o all that stuff, now attached to I-phones, used to play outside all day and come home when it got dark, yeah, even drank from garden hoses and picked fruit from raspberry bushes or strawberry plants w/o washing them downing them with filthy fingers.

Funny recalling those days, no recollection missing all da chit we have today…life was fine.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Is it the population or is it the mass media/ the internet merging the roles in our society. Addressing the declining interpersonal aspect of the daily life.

 

[440 4 speed]

Didn’t have my reading glasses on when I first saw this. What was the Best Bra? Huh. No, I was talking with a friend of mine since our youth a while back and we were discussing our time. Would we View attachment 1532641have liked to have been born at a different time. We both agreed that it was the best of times to have lived, even though there were hiccups along the way. We were both born in the early 50s and weren’t concerned with world events then. The first event I remember that was really huge was the Cuban middle crises. My mother was talking about sending me north out of Florida in case something happened (I didn’t think that would make much of a difference).
The other kids and I were all over the 20-25 square mile area that we lived, on our bikes, small boats and coming home sometimes after dark when we were like 12 years old. My wife and I have camped all the way from Florida to Alaska twice, as well as all 49 states that we could drive to. I’ve been thinking maybe we should slow down. The wife says she would wheel/throw me in the camper and go. So I let her have her way.

That travel is impressive.

 

[PlymCrazy]

If I could pick an era I think was the best, I vote the 50’s.

Born in the 70’s, it was easy for me to see the truth in this song by the time of its release in ’79. And from there I watched human relationships continue to be compromised with the influx of different technology. Electronic being the worst IMO.