Memorable Era?

Question

Which era was the most memorable for you and why ? For me, it was the 60's and 70's because of the music.

Answer 1

I need to split the decades. It was roughly 1965-1975. The music--oh, the music!! I remember when the Beatles landed in the U.S. and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was their first U.S. hit. Then they appeared on Ed Sullivan. If the Beatles weren't to your taste, this was also the time Elvis Presley first appeared on TV. He was blocked by the censors from the waist down. The Nashville sound first began to cross-over into the mainstream. Not only did we get the Beatles, but we got the Stones and all the great British groups that started. I first heard Eric Clapton and his astounding guitar riffs. We kept up with Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendricks. Black blues and black music became accepted without being "covered" and sanitized by white musicians. We learned about B.B. King, James Brown, Little Richard, Bo Diddle and so many more great Black southern artists, I went to Woodstock. I first heard Joni Mitchell. "Laugh-in" pushed the boundaries on television.
The summer of love happened and ended with the Manson family killings, Altamonte, and the Vietnam riots of 1968. Americans learned they had the power to end an unpopular war and President Johnson announced he would not run for a 2nd term. Martin Luther King and Bobby King were assassinated. The space race began in interest. There were good times and bad times, but it was one of the most interesting and fulfilling times to be alive.
I guess it would be less than honest to also remember the drug use. Pot became common and Timothy Leary said "get high, turn on, tune out." We discovered orange sunshine and tried to find God through the books of Carlos Castenada. We searched for a higher level of consciousness. Ram Dass told us to "be here now."
Good or bad, they were unique and fascinating times, not seen since.

Answer 2

Each decade from the 50's through today. The music every 10 years. The ages I was during each 10 yrs. I've always grown and stretched. Did lots of things I am not proud of and achieved many wonder accomplishments. The 70's was having my children and the 90's brought the first of the grands. Today's C/W, blues music soothes me and jingles my jangle. Blessed to be married to my hero today, have found a child that was adopted in 1969 two years ago. Have all excepted the youngest child settled in a home, a career and still speaking to me so all is well. Today is the day I rejoice the most!

Answer 3

I can't make a choice...every era I have lived has had it's high points..but the lowest of the high points was 1963-1973...it seemed that I was out of touch with everything that was going on..the music sucked, the style of clothing sucked, and TV was god-awful. At the same time, it was this same era that started me on a true path to being ME. IT was a long journey which I am still involved with....one of those, "When I grow up, I want to be a firetruck" kind of things. Looking back, the mid to end 50's were fun (HS thing), mid 70's to date...very exciting, but I cannot relate to today's music (damn, that sounds old!), so I tune to C/W stations that I can relate to. Classical music is fine at times. Oldies are not my cup of tea, as I have heard those things when they were new, and am sick to death of them now. IF I had to name just one time, pain and all, it is today....for today is all I have, and I love today. I have learned that memories tend to glorify the past, a past that was, in many respects, not so glorious at the time. Funny that the farther we are from something, the more only good memories hang in the air, the bads ones dissolve in space. (Blessings from above, I think). Past loves are always so pure, so wonderful..but they are "past" for a damned good reason..now let me think, why did I leave that person, there must have been a reason. Oh yea, NOW I remember! Folks, cling to today as if it were the last...live it to the fullest, for it may well be the last...of that I am sure. Love and peace to all of my dear, dear people here, Phil

Answer 4

I've lived in a very memorable time, starting with World War II, the "emancipation" of women from housefraus to career women, the sexual revolution, the heavy metal era, the rap era, the end of the Communist bloc, the rise of Mideast militance and to complete the cycle, back to war again.

Therefore, I'll choose the most carefree part, the innocence of the '50s, when I was a teen with nothing to worry about but rock 'n' roll and pimples.

Answer 5

Most have been pretty memorable -
1938 - I was born in March
1942 - I started school
1945 - The War ended
1949 - Changed schools
1955 - I left Grammar school and went to College. I married in 1959.
1960 - My daughter was born
1965 - We left my home City of Bristol and moved to live in the Midlands (which I didn't want to do)
1975 - My Mother died
1982 - My father died
I bought my first computer (An Amstrad with Locoscript and started my Family History)
1990's - My daughter married and 2 grandchildren born.
1995 - I retired from work.
2006 - My daughter and family emigrated to live in the Middle East.
2007 - Husband diagnosed with a heart problem and had two T.I.A's. I became sole car driver.

Answer 6

Aside from being fond of my parents big band generation
music, my most memorable would be the rock and roll years
of my youth, during the last of the 50's, before The Beatles
and the British invasion.
Elvis was a major force in changing the music industry, and
brought rock and roll to the forfront. Like Sinatra, he had a
grip on the majority of young girls everywhere, when he came
on the scene. With swivel hips and an almost permanent
curl to his upper lip, he had us all screaming for wanting him
closer to us. But unfortunately, his stage was his boundary
from us to him. But it didn't keep us from wishful thinking LOL.
There were 'do wop' singing groups, and crooners as well
during the 50's and we'd slow dance with starlight in our eyes.
How romantic dreamy some of our occasions were to dance
to the sound of them. Those were the best days I think.

Answer 7

The 50's and 60's were memorable to me because of the music as a teenager.
'66 got married
'75 adopted a baby girl and became a mom
'85 bought our present house
'94 became a gramma
'99 another grand baby
the rest has been a blur ,I don't know where the time has gone!

Answer 8

Memorable era! It seems every era was memorable for one thing or another, Really hard to choose, I was born in 1932, so
have lived a few, I'll go with 40's 50's---early60's. But every era my life has been full of events.

Answer 9

Each Era is like an individual life time in many ways. The most memorable for me would have to be the 1940's. WWII, air raids, air raid drills, 48 stars on the American flag, ration coupons and ration tokens. Construction of dams for water and flood control, the round house at the train station, raisins drying in the sun, graduation from 8th grade, Japanese concentration camps in the USA, friends with deformities from polio, hobos begging at the door to work in exchange for food, my uncle in the Army, my sister's birth, All the family drinking and drunk, crossword puzzles, picture puzzles on the card table, TV was yet to come to our home but listening to Roosevelt on the crystal set was mandatory, the ice man bringing ice for the old ice box and the cream on the top of glass bottles of milk on the porch on a cold morning, hand cranked ice cream, Saturday night baths, barefoot all summer when you outgrew your shoes and a new pair of shoes to start school in the Fall, tonsils removed in the doctor's office and doctors who made house visits, my aunt's old Model T Ford with the neoprene tires, mumps, chicken pox and measles. Very memorable.

Answer 10

The most memorable era for me was the 90's, due to the constant media attention on things like Aids, presidential mishaps and the introduction of massive amounts of new media and footage brought to you by civilians.