Which Decade Do You Miss Most?
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vintageMo
Senior Member
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- California
I'd say the 60's, when I was a child. The late Sixties had so much great Music... Motown as well as the beginnings of psychedelic, mind-expanding Rock. The Beatles and The Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Joplin, Clapton... yeah, the late Sixties brought the Music Scene I never want to forget. Concert tickets were very reasonably priced, the air was cleaner and it was a very carefree decade. Thanks for asking
Paladin1950
Still love 50's & 60's music!
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- Mohawk Valley, NY
The 1950's I didn't enjoy because I did not have a good childhood at all. But a lot of the television shows, movies, and music, I did like. No other decade had music, movies or TV shows that I loved more than the ones in the 1960's. But the 60's were violent and there was the 3 assassinations. My favorite President, his brother who would have been President also, since he was way ahead of Nixon and any of the Democrats in the polls, and the most famous Civil Rights leader that our country has ever seen. The Viet Nam war was going in both the 60's and 70's. I'll say the 1970's since my bad childhood, and the assassinations were over by then.
The 60s for sure. I was young and spent more than half of the 1960s overseas traveling and living out of my backpack. I worked in the fishing industry in Norway and Iceland, washed dishes in Germany, worked in construction and on a kibbutz in Israel, worked in construction in Australia, and taught English in Japan and Vietnam. This photo was taken in 1964 in Singapore in the front-yard of the Sikh temple. I had just spent several days on the road hitchhiking down the Thai-Malay peninsula from Bangkok. In those days the Sikhs allowed travelers to stay in their temples for free. I stayed there until I caught a ship to Fremantle. (And, no, that is not the Sikh temple behind me in the photo.)
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Murrmurr
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- Sacramento, California
The one where all 3 of my kids were potty trained, liked to travel, and were fun to talk to.
And no, that wasn't last week. It was in the mid 80s.
The 90s was really fun, too. That's the one where my oldest son got real creative and developed a personality unlike anyone I'd ever met, my younger son asked for (and got) the red leather jacket Michael Jackson wore in the video, "Bad", and my daughter started ballet and gym classes and we discovered what a beautiful clutz she was.
And no, that wasn't last week. It was in the mid 80s.
The 90s was really fun, too. That's the one where my oldest son got real creative and developed a personality unlike anyone I'd ever met, my younger son asked for (and got) the red leather jacket Michael Jackson wore in the video, "Bad", and my daughter started ballet and gym classes and we discovered what a beautiful clutz she was.