so what era of our nations history so you consider to be "the good ol days"??!!?

Question

i'm sure each of you has youre own opinion and era in our nations history that reflects to you when times were ideal for you and for all our citizens!!!

so tell me when it was for you, and why!!!

Answer 1

The good ol days are the same for everyone, when we are young, full of life and before we've been beat down by reality.

Answer 2

I think 'the good ole days" has nothing to do with national history. It is a personal matter referring to your earlier years. As I told my children as they were growing up, times were different back then. Things were better, people were kinder to each other, etc.,etc. So do I here my children telling my grandchildren the very same thing. I think we all have a perception of the past as better than what it really was. Most people try to remember the good things in growing up. just my belief.

Answer 3

I don't have my sources with me but if you look I am confident you will be able to confirm that empirical evidence shows Americans were happiest in the 1950's.
The 1950's were the good ol days. We topped out then and have gone downhill since then unfortunately. Greater technology has not translated into greater happiness. Also, while cumulative wealth has increased the disparity among the super rich and everybody has significantly increased.
Your answer: 1950's.

Answer 4

I was born in 1977. I don't remember any good 'ol days. Less strict law enforcement for trivial stuff (like teen-aged partying) in the 90s. Liked the 90s more than the 80s.

Answer 5

The golden age of the U.S. is most likely to be identified as being from the mid fifties to the mid seventies. Economically speaking, the sixties was a period of very high success.

The fifties was very conservative, and experienced two or three recessions, and there was rampant racism. The fifties began with the Korean war, and ended with our entanglement in Vietnam. Still, the fifties was a very happy time for most in the U.S., there was a great degree of innocence, crime rates were very low, Rock-n-roll was born, television was introduced to the masses, cruising became the nations fad, and people felt very safe, and secure in the U.S., unless of course if you were black.

Economically, the sixties was more successful than the fifties, economic growth was strong and stable, factory jobs for the men, mom stayed at home taking care of the house and the kids. The sixties also began the civil rights movement, and the fight against racism, which opened our culture up and began the civil rights movement towards dealing with the oppression of blacks that had existed for centuries. The sixties also began the golden age of Rock-n-roll, artistically as a nation we bloomed. Unfortunately, the sixties was marred by the Vietnam war and the rise in drug usage. The generation gap developed, and the U.S. became a very divided nation ideologically, which continues to this day. You might say the U.S. entered a period of clumsy growth.

The seventies started well, musically and artistically we were in our groove, jobs were solid, the economy was doing well, the Vietnam war was winding down. The people seemed to be in power. Then things seemed to grow dark, the expansion of welfare lead to inner city ghettos, and large increases in violence and crime in our cities, drug usage continued to climb. Then along came OPEC and the energy crisis, leading to the seventies ending with high crime rates, a struggling economy, stagflation, and the beginning of the rise of the unemployed, or the unemployable, as they were labeled under Reagan.

The roaring twenties was also a very good time in the U.S., a time of considerable excess, but the twenties was marred by widespread crime as alcohol prohibition created a war in the streets, expanding gang land violence. The economy of the twenties was primarily built on debt, wages were kept low, and consumption was supplemented by debt, corruption in business was wide spread, all leading the the stock market bust, collapse of the stock market and the economy leading to the great depression.

The gay nineties were also considered to be a good period in the U.S., but there were two of three depressions in the nineties, and considerable amounts of civil unrest. Pick up a copy of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair if you would like a good understanding of the era.

My vote goes to the nineties, longest period of economic expansion in our nations history, a time of peace, artistic renewal, wage and job growth, development of the internet, a computer in every home, and the beginning of the information age. Crime rates dropped dramatically, wages began to increase again for the first time in twenty plus years, more millionaires were created than in any time in our nations history, and companies began springing up everywhere. Music pulled out of a slump in innovation, cinema began using advancing computer graphics to create some exceptionally well made movies, hope was renewed again after the troubling times of the eighties. The problems of the nineties were mainly from the bitter divisions that had grown between the political parties, there were still large numbers of people classified as unemployable, and the decade ended with the stock market bubble and inevitable burst. Compared to the problems of earlier golden ages, the troubles of the nineties were fairly trivial.

Answer 6

I don't have a perception of good ol days. It's all the same.

Answer 7

the good old days, before social security and major hikes in income taxes
the days when you could leave your front door open or unlocked and still feel safe
the days when you could walk down the street and not have to worry about the color of your clothing or getting shot by a drive by

Answer 8

1776

Answer 9

Post WWII.