When would it be? For myself, I am glad that I was born when I was. I was old and young enough to enjoy the sixties (a hippy) the seventies (a punk) the eighties (a new romantic) etc. and watch the progress of technology, music, art,etc. My kids were born at a time when it was safe for them to play out with their friends, and I am still young enough to work and enjoy life.What about you?
2007-10-05 12:32:35 · 35 answers · asked by Yoda 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I am so thankful to have been a teenager in the fifties and early sixties. We saw Elvis' rise to super stardom, all the great singers that came out of Motown and Philadelphia, Ricky Nelson,The Beatles ,The Beach Boys , The Mamas and Papas and the list is endless , The music was everything and we still enjoy it even now. I'd like to share this link with everyone. When I come across these oldies ,it's like finding buried treasure.
2007-10-05 16:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by Donna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I was happy to be born just after the war, be able to play round the small lake, across the road, with never a thought that, as children we would be kidnapped by some pervert. Enjoyed coming into my teen in the early 60"s loved Elvis, The Beatles, and all the "oldies". Hitchhiked around Europe without any fear of being hurt. Had some amazing adventures while doing it too. We, of all generations, have seen the greatest progress, in almost every area of science, discoveries, landing the first man on the moon. Been through all the fashion fads. Managed to have my daughters grown up without getting into drugs. Seen some amazing inventions happen much quicker than any other generation. And we were the Trail Blazers!
2007-10-05 13:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like this time because of the advances in modern science, technology, and medicine, but I would like to take a little bit from each era. The clothing and seemly innocence in the 1940s, manners and stay-at-home moms from the 1950s, and the cost of living from the 1960s. I am young enough to enjoy life as retiree and still have a young son (in his 30s). So its all good.
2007-10-05 13:03:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pioneer days! Wagons and animals and if you didn't work you didn't eat. Families had to pull together. More children meant more farm hands. Grandparents often cared for the younger children while the parents supervised the farm or worked in a business. Levi's ruled. Women dressed in long dresses and petticoats and store bought goods were a precious commodity. Hard times but most everybody shared. Having a barn dance was a big deal. Church was a place not only of worship but a time to gather with friends and have a day of semi-rest.
2007-10-05 12:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I could have sworn I answered this question, before going to
the hospital earlier in the week. Maybe it's similar.
Well anyway, my favorite period of time would have been
the later 1800's. I would have liked to have been a woman of
wealth who could afford to travel west and settle in a thriving
and active community where history was being made. I can
see myself having a little store, maybe for womens' wear and
other goods, and wearing the nice long dresses of that time,
and being treated like a lady and admired by other ladies of
the town. Maybe even having a secretive past, before coming
out west. The stuff romance novels are written about. LOL.
2007-10-05 18:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Shan ,I was born in 1946 and grew up through the 50s and 60s and enjoyed every minute of it good times as well as the bad times so dont think I'd like to have been born at any other time.my parents got it right!
have a star.
2007-10-06 01:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Although I am attracted by the late 19th early 20th century, like most people, I imagine myself with an education and a middle or upper class life. I don't fancy being a farm hand or a skivvy. But both my grandmothers had poor education and were 'in service' so statistically, that would be my most likely fate. I thank our forebears for the welfare state, the NHS and (more or less) equal pay.
2007-10-06 02:27:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Chan.I've always fancied the Georgian period as a sort of Mr Darcy only I don't have the looks, but his fortune would come in handy. I wouldn't have wanted to have been of peasant stock then which is more or less what I came from in the early thirties of last century. Now that does make me sound ancient doesn't it? I am happy that I was born when I was as I am still here.
2007-10-05 21:42:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every time slot has good and bad aspects to it so I think one time is as good as any other. I was born in 1934 so I have lived through most of a century which was the first to ever be recorded in sound, still pictures and moving pictures which is good. It also had the first man in space and on the moon, enormous advances in the medical and surgical fields, amazing inventions in science and communications and if you are British our finest hour.
It has it's drawbacks but it is very good
2007-10-05 22:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always loved the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. It would have been fantastic to have studied in Europe and been part of this artistic movement.
But I would have died in childbirth with my oldest son if it hadn't been for modern technology. Neither of my sons would have been born and I would never have lived to see the Earth photographed from the Moon...which still affects me every time I see it.
Of course there is more, but that says enough for me.
2007-10-05 14:42:44 · answer #10 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋