Were the 70's better than today?

[squatting dog]

I still prefer the 70's version of social media.

 

[Lavinia]

Were there so many people with 'mental health' problems? Were there so many suicides? Was there such high unemployment? Did people care about how they dressed?
In many ways, life is more comfortable now, with central heating and gadgets which make domestic life easier. However, people don't seem any happier. Perhaps they expect too much from life these days and they can't deal with things when life is hard.

 

[debodun]

Difficult for me to say. Seems every decade has it good and bad points.

 

[FastTrax]

The Gritty City in the 70s

Enjoy:











www.gothamcenter.org

www.pinterest.com/pin/688839705504309663/

www.alamy.com/stock-photo/nyc-70s.html

www.gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-is-the-greatest-1970s-nyc-footage-weve-seen

www.medium.com/@pablo_hm/new-york-city-a-return-to-the-70s-4a49548178dc

www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/20_albums_that_defined_nyc_in_the_70s/s1__29100479#slide_5

www.bygonely.com/polluted-new-york-city-1970s

www.historydaily.org/vintage-color-photos-of-nyc-streets-from-1970s

www.nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-70s-new-york.html

www.moviefiednyc.com/2012/12/28/moviefieds-top-five-new-york-city-movies-from-the-70s/

www.filmforum.org/series/new-york-in-the-70s-series

www.vice.com/en/article/xwbgmj/downtown-manhattan-in-the-1970s-was-new-yorks-golden-era-for-nightlife

www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_New_York_Transit_Authority_in_the_1970s/

www.allthatsinteresting.com/1970s-new-york-photos

www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/looking-back-new-york-in-the-70s/

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/13/20693407/new-york-blackout-1977-power-outage-history

www.quora.com/Was-NYC-more-dangerous-in-the-70s-than-today

www.rarehistoricalphotos.com/new-york-photos-1970s-vergara/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_establishments_in_New_York_City

 

[Lanny]

Were there so many people with 'mental health' problems? Were there so many suicides? Was there such high unemployment? Did people care about how they dressed?
In many ways, life is more comfortable now, with central heating and gadgets which make domestic life easier. However, people don't seem any happier. Perhaps they expect too much from life these days and they can't deal with things when life is hard.

I recently read that a Gallup poll of more than 100,000 Americans in 1960 found that 72 percent reported being "happy and content".
A Gallup poll of 100,000 Americans in 2015 found that 38 percent reported being happy and content.

The fact that there wasn't a single mass shooting in America during the entire decade of the 1950's speaks very loudly. There were approximately 650 mass shootings in America in 2021.

 

[Jan14]

70s good for me. Teenager partying years, carefree. Since then it’s been responsibility, work, 2 marriages, 2 divorces, illness and aging. I should have kept partying maybe ? Lol

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Lots of changes for me in the 70’s…. Middle school and first two years of high school in Southern California … then dad retired and we uprooted and moved to New England…. Felt so much more at home on the East coast.

 

[jujube]

The 70s were a time of great change for me, living in a foreign country, having a child, moving back to the U.S., then moving to another state and buying our first house, and then finally moving to Florida.

We didn't have much money but boy howdy did we have fun!

 

[Silent Rose]

I was born in 1972 so I was just a baby and a child of the 70's. I also lived a different sort of life then most children being that I couldn't hear at all and also could speak or when I spoke it wasn't the most pleasant of sounds. So other then going to a special school for the deaf and being around kids like me there, I was pretty much sheltered otherwise until later.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

I was born in 1972 so I was just a baby and a child of the 70's. I also lived a different sort of life then most children being that I couldn't hear at all and also could speak or when I spoke it wasn't the most pleasant of sounds. So other then going to a special school for the deaf and being around kids like me there, I was pretty much sheltered otherwise until later.

Hi @Silent Rose … if I missed your introduction on another thread, Welcome To the Forum!

 

[Silent Rose]

Hi @Silent Rose … if I missed your introduction on another thread, Welcome To the Forum!

Thank You, I just posted it. I am surprised by the quick responses here.

 

[OysterBay]

Definitely better. 1979... while on a quest for Lemmon 714s I fell madly in love with a blue-eyed blond Georgia peach. One morning I awoke in a drugged out haze on somebody's living room floor, and there she was... straddling me. I could not believe my eyes. Prettiest girl in the world was sitting on me. Now I ask you, does that happen in 2022?? No sirs. No sirs it does not.