Your favourite decade.

Planxty

Planxty

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Do you have a favourite decade. Mine is the 60`s, went from a child to a teenager to a man. Musically, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Captain Beefheart, Can.

Started having girlfriends, all that teenage angst. Fashion.flares, tye dye tee shirts, denim, ben sherman, wrangler. twiggy carnaby street, mini skirts, hair the stage show, swinging 60`s.

Events, man on the moon, first heart transplant, cold war, cuban crisis, kennedys assasination, vietnam, hippies, psychedelic music, pirate radio.

Films, barbarella, cleopatra, dr stangelove, easy rider,fistfull of dollars. goldfinger, help, its a mad mad world, jason and the argonauts, kes, lawrence of arabia, magnificent 7, north to alaska, one million years bc, pink panther. rosemarys baby, swiss family robinson, true grit, wonderfull life, zulu.

Books, a clockwork orange, dune, do androids dream od electric sheep, the left hand of darkness, a space odyessy, the return of the king.

All of the above played a part in my existance, and helped shape me.
 

That's hard to say. I've had good things and difficult thing every decade. But the 90's were my peak career years. I learned how competent and strong I could be. It was good to know that about myself.
 
The 50s for sure. The birth of rock & roll, great country music, my pre-teen and high school years. No other decade comes close.
 

Time in memorial . . .

Each decade has had its up and downs; some more up and some much more down than others. It's so hard to pick just one. I'm just gonna go with The Year Dot . . . when everything began.
 
Looking back through my life, there is also the ups and downs through every decade, as others have said. Since there was a lot less stress to life (or at least it seems like it) when I was a teenager than as an adult, I am going to say the 50s was my favorite of all the years.
I think the music then was what I still relate to the best, and the world was just easier and a lot less cares back then. It was trips to the drive-in for a burger, family outings on the weekend to the Motor Movie, or a trip way out in the wilderness to a mountain lake, and a weekend spent fishing and eating fried chicken and potato salad, and sleeping in a bag under the stars.
I spent the summers out riding my horse all day, and there were play days and trail rides with the saddle club on occasional weekends.

We never locked our house doors, and usually, the keys were left in the car. One time, we went to the amusement park, and got back to the car to find the radio playing, but nothing was taken or bothered.
Guns were for the menfolk to go deer hunting with, not because anyone ever thought we might have to protect ourself with one.
Yes, life was good back then, and no one said it better than Charley Pride. "Burgers and Fries, and Cherry Pies, in the World We Used to Know " .

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50s for me too. The gatherings after school at the Imperial for cherry cokes, good music and lots of gossip and laughter. The hot rod and flat head Fords with dual mufflers running back and forth down main st. Seeing who could leave the longest stripes on the street from burning rubber.

The clean, sanitized smell of the school house your first day back from summer vacation and the excitement of seeing your secrect girlfriend who was in that "upper" class and wouldn't give you the time of day. The elementary school recesses when the Yoyos and marbles would flourish and mumble- de- peg with our Hopalong Cassidy jack knives. Yes, we even carried pen knives to school. The worst that might happen is to carve your name on your desk. (But don't get caught or off to the principals office with you.) As you can see, I love to reminisce about the old days. I write many stories on my Ipad notes to pass on to my kids.
 
The Seventies, easily. The early sixties I was in a miserable high school I would rather forget.
The later sixties went by too fast. I was more mature in the seventies, had better friends
and a direction in my life and much much more. I really miss that decade, and I have purchased books on it.
I did not care for the seventies at the time. If I could go back in time I would do things differently.
I know that politics were bad and fashions worse. TV movies and musicwere great.
 
1716-1726, the post-Spanish Succession Period when piracy was in its "Golden Age" - THAT was a WONDERFUL decade ...
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Very difficult to say which I find better..
The 50's were great as well as the 60's..
The 70's were not bad and the 80's were very good to me as well..
The 90's were so so and the 2000's were also on the good side...

GUESS I HAD QUITE A GOOD LIFE !!!!!!!

Worked rather hard most of my life and I retired at the age of 56 (in 1997).....
Haven't worked a day since then and I am enjoying every moment of life.........
 
WOW, this is a good one. I toked my way through the 60's. Great music, many friends and a great stare of euphoria. The 70's I worked, seemed like 24/7 kids needed everything, 80's and 90 I got around, seemed like a lot of moves and changes. Then came 2000, I found my person, found myself and began again. Although I'm alone I've been able to do things I had always dreamed of and I'd have to say the best times of my life.
 
That is a tough one in that what might have been a great decade for most could have been a bad one for us individually or vice versa. Other than that I really cannot say.
 
Well, I'm another 50s person! Bill Haley & the Comets takes me back! But also Hank Williams. Lots and lots of good memories, from a world that was safe to stroll around in!
 
Enjoyed the 60's music, thank heavens I had older siblings who were into music. The 70's are a bit of blur but I'm told I had a really good time:). I'm quite liking this decade to be honest. Kids are grown up, not struggling to make ends meet like I did during the 80's and 90's, work is finished so have time to do the things I want to, lots of good things to look forward to.
 

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