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What was America's greatest year; America's apogee.
Posted on 08/18/2015 8:08:48 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: grumpygresh
I’d view the high point as likely being some time in the early-to-mid-1950s. Before the culture started its gradual decline, with intermittant respites and upticks.
Been a lot of low points and a few high points (the Reagan era) reached ever since. But starting with Clinton and reaching its grim conclusion with Obama, it seems like the longtime interlocking historical threads holding everything together have become completely severed. America just no longer seems like America to me anymore. More like an evil opposite of everything it once was and once stood for. Wallowing in one-party corruption and cultural depravity. Fag-marriage was the final straw. I no longer sense any personal connection to the country nor the people in it. I’ve become emotionally divorced from it in just about every conceivable way.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:42:20 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: grumpygresh
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:43:31 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
To: grumpygresh
1957 the best chevy maybe the best car ever came out. Rock and rock was really getting good. and we weren’t fighting a war anywhere.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:43:39 PM PDT
by
Ace the Biker
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: Buttons12
Great chart. I well remember the mini and hot pants worn with white patent leather boots that zipped up the front or those white Green sandals that laced up to the knees. What a hoot!!!
Now many young girls probably don’t even have a skirt in their closet.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:47:34 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: grumpygresh
Irreversible decline?
Bull.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:47:39 PM PDT
by
datura
To: edpc
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:49:48 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Drinking buddies and BFFs: Satan, nobama and the AntiChrist.)
To: Norm Lenhart
Thanks for the delightful video.
The 80s were good years for me——hectic but terrific.
.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:53:07 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: upchuck
I wasn’t born yet, but after studying different times in US history, I think that period was a pivotal one.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:54:44 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: Grams A
1962 the last year before all the BS started!
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:57:16 PM PDT
by
Empireoftheatom48
(God help the Republic but will he?)
To: grumpygresh
1859, before Fedzilla came of age.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:58:43 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
To: upchuck
“1962 bump. Good times.”
The year I was manufactured.
To: grumpygresh
1788.
Constitution ratified.
We then spent the next 227 years, and counting, trying to pick it apart
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:02:19 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
To: grumpygresh
1901
First cities with electricity. USA had just gained a world empire. No income taxes, real money, rapidly growing economy
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08/18/2015 9:05:57 PM PDT
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PGR88
To: Empireoftheatom48
1962 the last year before all the BS started!”
Great time of our lives. Living was sure a lot easier then.
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08/18/2015 9:08:25 PM PDT
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Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: grumpygresh
I would’ve loved to live in Southern California in the late 50’s to early 60’s as a young man.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:18:29 PM PDT
by
38special
(For real, y'all.)
To: grumpygresh
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:24:27 PM PDT
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dangus
To: RckyRaCoCo
absolutely...magical year....best of times.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:31:08 PM PDT
by
basalt
(r)
To: stylin19a
“whatever year (s) Disco made a comeback or whatever year Big Hair was in vogue”
the question was the BEST years in US history not the WORST!!!!
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08/18/2015 9:37:43 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: grumpygresh
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:40:10 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: grumpygresh
1929
- Occidental College beat Pomona 12-7. The Tigers' only losses were to Arizona and USC
- USC beat UCLA 76-0 and went on to win the 1930 Rose Bowl Game
- Hollywood Revue of 1929, the greatest musical movie of all time, came out
- Nat Shilkret, Paul Whiteman, Leo Reisman, Waring's Pennsylvanians and Rudy Vallee's Yale Boys dominated the airwaves and the record stores
- Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run
- Calvin Coolidge was still in the White House for the first two months of the year
- Fashion-conscious girls looked really, really cute in their 1929 hairdos
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