Best decade:20thCentury

1907 to 1917 would be my guess for freedom of innovation, to create and explore which really gratify, lots of trains and interurbans, rural indipendence, few cars yet, no insurance industry, what went on in your home was nobody's bussiness who didn't live there. although i can think of a few problems too.

now of the decades i know and saw and lived through, the 60s, from about 1958 to 1968.

the end of mccarthyism and the launch of sputnik to man on the moon nixxon and nam. the 70s of course goes without saying. what we sacraficed our reputations for in the 60s becoming alomost established, till the raygon komhani conspiracy screwed it all up. but the 60s railroads still ran passinger trains, any city worth the name had lots of pcc trolleys, grayhound ran almost every hour and stopped everyplace that had a post office and somewhere to pull off the road. and we were all young, free and horney, except for the draft hanging over our heads.

you didn't have to have house numbers, mail was still sorted enroute, zip codes were brand new. fm and sterio were counter culture. building codes weren't tyrannicly enforced in rural areas. you didn't have to have a car but if you did you could do everything that needed doing on it yourself. the first volkswagon bugs to hit the u.s. were less then half the price of the cheepest chevy. everything hadn't yet been renamed after some damd politician.

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THE 80s RULE!!!!!!

 

The 1980s?.........."ah yes I remember it well!".Possibly the least interesting decade of my life but o.k. I had a cool 1980s.

 

Thanks for those 'random' memories of the 1960s-1970s.
I was too young to really analyse the world of the 1970s.I remember the long hair & laid back lifestyle more than anything else.

A big thankyou to everyone who voted in this poll!.
Please vote if you haven't yet done so;

Currently the '1960s' are way out ahead!!!!...

I don't think any other decade will catch up now!.


(I'm shocked that hardly anyone voted for the '1950s'.That was the decade that I voted for.I thought that it was the chronological-personification of the 'American Dream'?).

 

sixties early seventies caught between two decades but yeah man gotta go with the sixties ........woodstock ......everton winning fa cup ......small faces ....jobs galore .......proper summers ........stones.......vws....proper winters ......elvis.......coal fires ............ahhhhhhhh the sixties .

 

Cheers Mate!.
Your memories of the 1960s - 1970s are similar to mine.I voted the '1950s' out of pure objectivity & disassociated hindsight.
I agree that the sixties have the edge on the seventies,especially to us Brits!.

 

I was going to say the 70's but then I remembered Nixon; so I chose the 90's, because I was born then.

the 50's were VERY conservative and really boring; I MEAN THE WORE T-SHIRTS THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANYHING ON THEM@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


hmmmm....... I think I smell bacon.

 

60" s early 70"s remember the summers early seventies "lolly ice sticks pickin at the tar mac - birmos - long hair - fallin asleep in class - bootin a football - granmas flat and toasting bread on open fire - uncle albert (god bless ) givin me a cap of captain morgans rum (but dont tell yer mam ) led zep - happy days .

 

I don't think I've really lived long enough to decide. I've heard about every decade what everyone else has heard, but is "hearing" the same as living it? There are just so many things about the 60's that make me say "Man... I wish I could have been there." so if I was to choose, I think that's the decade I would pick.

 

The 80s definately. I was young and free; learning and growing and playing. My best memories are of the 80s. It was my decade, for good or bad.

 

LOL! That's because James Dean was still alive.Che Guevara was just a Doctor & The Beatles had only just mastered 'skiffle'.

 

i kind of dig the 70's

 

That's cool!.Also interesting because taking your age on your avatar details;you were born after the 1970s.

There was a premature '1970s' re-launch a few of years back viz:The 'Charlie's Angels' re-make & the 'Starsky & Hutch' re-make etc. also the retro fashion revival of dungarees & bell-bottom denims.

I notice the 'Afro' hairstyle is re-appearing after many years absence.

The seventies has been subject to considerable media-quasi-revival in Britain due to the 'Punk -Rock' generation entering middle-age & believing that it achieved so much with that acerbic cacophony in 1977-1979.
There was a poll conducted by Public Library Librarians in Britain recently .They were asked to name the most important song of their generation.
The number one choice was: 'God Save The Queen' -By The Sex Pistols.

-Yes,I did say 'Public Library' Librarians!!!!.

Despite the film:'Saturday Night Fever' becoming a cult classic;there are no plans in the media-world for an en-mass revival of Disco-music.

 

I wish i could have been around in the 60's

 

Yeah, me too. I vote for 60's or 70's.

 

i voted for the seventies. basically all the zeppelin albums came out during the seventies. also it was the last years before the worst decade, in my opinion, came upon us.

 

1920s!
the birth of jazz and blues, and the foundation that the music world would take is built - dont forget the first radio shows start here, and thats a major change for everyone.

 

man, was it hard for me to choose! each of these decades had so many groovy aspects to them, but i chose the '20s as well because everything developed from there - even the hip movements of the '60s and '70s had that '20s influence, the head scarves, the sexual freedom and experimentation, the Twiggy look, jazz, blues, the use of electronic media, etc.

the '20s influenced the Beats and Hippies alike - everyone was reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's work and trying to break free of traditional constraints just like in the '20s

i feel much of the '60s was about embracing the spirit of the roaring twenties, taking it to the next level of evolution

 

hell Im just glad the earth made it threw that century in one piece...ok ok in somewhat one piece...

any guesses on if we'll survive this new millenium> hell this new century?

in fact I think this last hundred years has been the most destructive in world history, atomic bomb world wars, industrial revolution, over population.....man, can we vote for the previous century????

 

hehehe, yeah, too bad this isn't a poll for our favourite century.... i may have to go waaaaay back for that one!