Posted on 02/05/2024 3:40:25 PM PST by DallasBiff
Of all post-war decades, the 1970s has undoubtedly had the worst press, but the truth is that most ordinary families in 1970s Britain were better off than ever, writes historian Dominic Sandbrook.
The 1950s are symbolised by the television and the washing machine, which transformed the lives of so many families.
We misremember the 1960s as the decade of the Mini, which was actually invented in 1959, the mini-skirt, which surprisingly few women actually wore, and the Pill, which most women never took. We remember the 1980s as the decade of gigantic hair, shoulder-pads, the Filofax and the home computer.
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I loved them. High school, college, fell in love, married, first baby. Special to me.
But the 80s really rocked.
Yup. That’s how we rolled and we liked it that way.
“ Getting drafted and killed kinda sucked.”
Communist mantra.
Sadly, what the nostalgia people I’m referring to are nostalgic for is the idiocy that wS Carter’s policies.
The "jump the shark" moment with The Brady Bunch for me was when Mike's boss sent him to Hawaii on a business trip to "check on a building he designed" or whatnot and invited him to take the entire family on company expense, including the maid, Alice! They ended up being on the island for several weeks (to check on a building) which took up much of the fourth season.
I mean, c'mon. Even as a young child, I knew that it simply wasn't feasible for a man, working as a mere architect, to take his entire family and a maid on a multi-week business trip to paradise and then be allowed to put it all on his expense report. Besides, did the man (Mike) even work one hour out there? It seemed the whole time he was wrapped up in beach fun and the usual Brady Bunch hijinks.
Anyhow, since I was a kid during most of the 1970s, I was not directly affected by Jimmy Carter, stagflation, gas lines, the Watergate farce, and leisure suits in fern bars, etc. I did suffer through disco, however, as I was becoming a teenager.
It was a fun time to grow up. We weren't tethered by smartphones, hovered over by helicopter parents, or subjected in school to sexual perversions like transgenderism or homosexuality. We rode our bicycles all over town (sans helmets) and got into plenty of mischief without hardly ever getting caught.
Because Ronald Reagan hadn’t been elected yet.
I grew up in a blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. None of that would have happened to you there. I had classmates who got ROTC scholarships, got accepted at all of the service academies or, if college wasn’t what they wanted, enlisted. Some of them made a career of it. We honored the young men, living and dead, who came back from Vietnam. The area was labor union Democrat but, outside of that, patriotic and pretty conservative.
So, getting drafted and getting killed is OK unless you’re a communist? Yeah, I can absolutely believe that’s your position. Par for your course.
Best decade of my life...the music and the women.
I think if I could be that young again I’d have fun in almost any decade!
Well the 2020 is making the 70’s look not so bad afterall.
In most respects, we Americans were freer in the 1970s than we are today. The Federal Leviathan was a tiny fraction of its current size, scope, power, and cost. We were not (yet) overrun with lawyers, and “political correctness” was the subject of “Soviet Russia” jokes ... not daily obnoxiousness here in America. We weren’t having “diversity” shove down our throats, and we know how to laugh. The people throwing poo at the 1970s are jealous.
“ . I did suffer through disco, however, as I was becoming a teenager.”
Life is funny. I completely hated disco at the time of its popularity and even drove around with a “disco sucks” sticker on the back bumper for a year plus. You might not have liked it but you still heard plenty of it.
Fast forward 40 years and I got to the point of liking it because it puts me back into a better time when girls and mudding occupied most of my off time.
And so-called "generations" don't all think alike.
The blessed Tube Top and Halter Top.
This “Historian” is a prime example of “pop history”. It the same theory behind clickbait. They purpose absurd nonsensical theories simply to generate media attention.
I enjoyed the 70$
Except for that Jimmy Carter and gas ⛽⛽⛽ shortage thing
I enjoyed the 70s
Okay, autocorrect...
NHL hockey was in a number of respects better.
“1970s...the worst press”
Who even thinks this crap up? People have WAY too much time on their hands.
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