what is your favorite era?

Question

whats your favorite era after 1950 and why?
i for one LOVE the 60's. the music, movies, revolution, EVERYTHING.
let me know which era YOU love

Answer 1

The 90's for me. it was my 20's and when I was growing as an adult. The world had become a safer place for a while and it was good then until around 99.

Answer 2

Personally, the sixties were good, for some of the movies, and the best music that came out of the USA was coming from Motown records. There seemed to be enthusiasm for things that are missing now. In those days, Lady Bird Johnson was the leader of the "Beautify America" campaign. We used to go camping on vacation every summer, so the campaign against littering sparked an interest in me that developed into a ecological interest by the late 60s. In 1972, I started a petition in my home town to ban leaf burning. I went house to house, getting neighbors to sign the petition, arguing the point with some, listening to the "my how you've grown" with grace, and by 1974 the measure was passed by the city council.

I recognize the comment of "texas jew..." about the troubles during the sixties. We had four great men murdered between 1963 and 1968.

We had a prolonged war that seemed to be unwinnable. Like the Hydra, defeated by Hercules only because he had Perseus to cauterize the wounds when Hercules would cut off one of the seven heads, preventing a new head from growing in its place, it never seemed to end.
We had good soldiers doing a Herculean labor, but there was no Perseus to back them up.

Our civil rights and student conflicts in the period seemed to be a kind of "national meltdown", but it was more a reflection of the American Character that members of the population saw a wrong, and chose a dynamic means to rectify it. The reaction was predictable, a dynamic means was chosen to oppose it. On the left side of the aisle, nonviolent protest led the march, on the right, they were met by the club, the firehose, and eventually the rifle.

Some people like the 60s because of the "sexual revolution" which is a little ambiguous, "free love" advocates had been around since the nineteenth century, the movement for contraception was led by Margaret Sanger, more to save women's lives than to encourage people to sleep around.
Unfortunately it ended up with a lot of fatherless children, strains of sexually transmitted diseases that have learned how to "beat" antibiotics, and AIDS.

Personally, I don't know of any decade that I would love because of public events, I suppose the sixties would be in the lead, since I was a kid, both my parents were still living, I hated my haircut, but I loved my family.

I'd have to agree that some terrible things happened in the 60s, but it's only human nature to block out the horrible and embrace the pleasurable. I imagine that the veterans of 1812-1814 couldn't tell their sons what they had seen on the battlefield and romanticized the stories. Then in 1846, those young men flocked to the recruitment office to enlist in a militia company to fight the Mexicans.

Remember McHale's Navy? I suspect my Dad's objection to that show was right. The Pacific war was a lot more killing and a lot less partying.

Answer 3

People who are nastalgic for the '60's are only remembering the good times. Well, I lived the '60's. I'm an old '60's radical, and I can tell you, if you think the country is divided today, you haven't seen anything yet. Back then, people were literally fighting in the streets. Politicians were shot and killed, not just once, but several times. Blacks and whites fought like cats and dogs. Even the radicals were divided into black and white groups. Take my word for it kid, we're living in the best times now. Technology is more advanced (we've got like a drive-in theater right in our livingrooms now, and a film vault in our cabinets--VHS tapes, or DVDs, plus big screen TV's) the country is still divided, but nobody is getting killed over it. Yes, we have a war in Iraq (and other places), but they're all volunteers. Nobody is being forced into the military anymore as they were back in my day. The average Joe never had it any better than he does now.

Answer 4

I'll say I like everything B.C. Maybe 1800 years B.C in Egypt all to 100 B.C.
The time before Crist will do cause I Liveeee Polytheism.

Answer 5

Nixon era!

Answer 6

I have a few that I like: Georgian era (during the reign of English King George IV), Victorian era, WWII, etc.

Answer 7

I love the 80s! I love 80s retro music, and movies!

Answer 8

Me,the fifties, birth of rock 'n' roll, 56& 57 Chevys and Fords. I was 15 in 1956!

Answer 9

I like the 70's that era had great music great moves.

Answer 10

I loved the 50's, but none since then.

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