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What's your favorite decade from last century?
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leekohler
macrumors G5
The 80's. It was the last time anything truly original happened with regards to all those things. Everything since has been rehash of other decades. The 90's recycled the 60's and 70's. The 2000's rehashed parts of the 80's, still mixed with 70's. Truly boring and uninspired times.
themoonisdown09
macrumors 601
leekohler
macrumors G5
It sure was. Plus, the fact that you could get away with a lot more and just have more fun back then. Now, there are so many rules in place that life has lost a bit of it's flair.
leekohler
macrumors G5
Really? The economy was so horrible. The energy crisis was the thing I remember most about the 70's. They would turn off the lights in our classrooms for several hours a day. Fortunately we had large windows that let in lots of light. Then there were the gas lines, etc. It was a very scary time.
Antares
macrumors 68000
Overall, I'd say the 1980's and the 1920's were the two best decades.
Most of my nostalgia and fond memories come from the 80's. That's when I was a kid. I don't have too many rich memories from the 90's. By then, the sense of wonder was gone. Movies, music and food. Defintely the 80's! Fashion...hell no. I never want to go back to 80's fashion and style. The 70's had nasty fashion too. I think the 1920's had the best fashion for men. Fashion for women...any decade after the miniskirt was introduced. Too many women started wearing pants in the 80's, 90's and on. I'm not a fan of women wearing pants (or skirts that go below the knees).
Most of my nostalgia and fond memories come from the 80's. That's when I was a kid. I don't have too many rich memories from the 90's. By then, the sense of wonder was gone. Movies, music and food. Defintely the 80's! Fashion...hell no. I never want to go back to 80's fashion and style. The 70's had nasty fashion too. I think the 1920's had the best fashion for men. Fashion for women...any decade after the miniskirt was introduced. Too many women started wearing pants in the 80's, 90's and on. I'm not a fan of women wearing pants (or skirts that go below the knees).
steve2112
macrumors 68040
Oh yeah. Give me a zoot suit, fedora, and a Tommy Gun any day. 😀
And I love flapper girls and bobbed hair cuts.
Personally, I'm trying to forget the 80s, and the fact that I was a teenager during that decade. More importantly, I'm trying to destroy all photographic evidence of that fact, but my mother and grandmother have hidden them really well. The early 90s are a bit of a blur for me. I had a bit too much fun those first couple of years in college.
63dot
macrumors 603
Very true. I asked myself why didn't the youth come up with new cutting edge stuff in music, clothes, slang, etc. There were some original things in the '80s, less in the '90s, and beyond that, the biggest lack of originality I have ever seen.
I put in the 1970s because that's when I discovered girls, guitars, my love for small models/science, and I became aware of my individuality. Of course had those things happened to me in a prior decade, I would have put that time period.
I know much more happened in the 1960s than probably any single decade for the west, but I was too young to comprehend just how important that decade was for the United States, and probably many other countries.
Besides the obvious of Kennedy being shot and the Beatles, the 1960s had the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the moon landing, a start of a polar shift in US politics, and an explosion in mass media which may have had an influence on how people perceived the Vietnam war. It was a time when the communist expansion took a hit with China and the US establishing relations and while this didn't end the cold war, it was ultimately the deciding factor which gave the balance of power to the west. And besides the Beatles, who changed pop music forever, there were a ton of other artists and bands that came onto the music scene and created a change unlike anything seen before it, including Elvis or Sinatra.
I've been thinking the same thing -- but always felt that it was just me. It seems that there are so many more regulations in place these days. In past decades everyone was always worried about repression if the "communists" took over but it seems that's happened anyway.
As for my favorite decade so far I'd also go with the 80's and a close second would be the 70's. My third choice is this new decade--lots of interesting technological developments on the way.
Melrose
Suspended
90s. Mainly, because I lived it, old enough to have fun and be my own person.
The 00s were the end of an era, though. The world lost an innocence with WWI. An ideal was lost just a few years later, man was learning to fly, to drive and the jazz age was just about on the horizon.
The 00s were the end of an era, though. The world lost an innocence with WWI. An ideal was lost just a few years later, man was learning to fly, to drive and the jazz age was just about on the horizon.
leekohler
macrumors G5
It sure did. I tell the youngin's in the office what we used to do when we went out and their chins hit the ground.
colourfastt
macrumors 65816
So true; now there are rules requiring helmets to ride a bike (but not a motorcycle interestingly), a skateboard, to ski, etc. It's just a matter of time before a helmet will be required to walk. Personally, I liked the 70s .. I was a kid and can remember many days during the summers when we'd run around the neighbourhood naked ... if a kid did that now he'd be given 10 years in juvvie and required to register as a sex offender.
leekohler
macrumors G5
Or you'd be put in a foster home for fear that your parents were neglecting you.
Yes, a lot of this might make people a little safer, but we've lost a lot of what makes life fun too.
Gregg2
macrumors 604
I think you have lots of company in the poll.
Yep.
The question did not involve economic conditions.
Good one! 😀