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Does every generation think that the decade they grew up in, say from 8 to 18, was the best? I ask this question intentionally excluding any personal trauma and just focusing on the 10 year period itself.
I was 8 years old in 1969 and I feel that I have nothing but good memories, by the time I reached 18 it was 1979 and what I now reflect on as being a near as perfect decade to grow up in, was coming to an end. But when I dig deeper I find that it’s not actually not true that I have nothing but good memories.
In 1969 I was watching the Apollo 11 moon landing and watching George Best in black and white TV. I was also and playing all day with my friends in parks, cycling, hiding from adults. Girls weren’t a thing and school was a fun mix of paper mache class, drawing and playing games in the playground. Weekends spent throwing stones in the river for hours, climbing pylons and using jumpers for goalposts in the park after an afternoon in the lido.
By the mid 1970s school had become a bind with academic pressures and girls had become that thing. The music of the era was incredible and relentless. I had a very small transistor radio which I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg. By the end of the 1970s it was work and tax and bills and pressure. It was never the same again.
The 1980s were fun in a different way, but the 70s were extraordinary. Is it that the 1970s was unique and special period, or just that I was 8 to 18 in it? What must it be like for GenZ I wonder.
Thoughts?
@diver saidJust for the sake of considering the timeline -- and I promise I will never trot out the "senior" card against you 😉 -- I was born in late 1959.
Does every generation think that the decade they grew up in, say from 8 to 18, was the best? I ask this question intentionally excluding any personal trauma and just focusing on the 10 year period itself.
I was 8 years old in 1969 and I feel that I have nothing but good memories, by the time I reached 18 it was 1979 and what I now reflect on as being a near as perfect deca ...[text shortened]... cial period, or just that I was 8 to 18 in it? What must it be like for GenZ I wonder.
Thoughts?
Not advanced enough in my development to scan all the humans up and down the timeline for the sake of comparison, and I'm not sure I'd want to. (Such a delicate flower, me.)
I like the way you posed that question. It's considerate to wonder what GenZ might think about our world as it is now, and whether they would have fond memories of that span of their lives.
Writing as someone of about the same age but from across the pond, and in the context of the decades before and after considered many years later, I would agree that the 1970s was a special decade, independent of our youth at the time.
Hoping we might have some kind of 70's revival.
Edit: But let's also remember that this is a global forum, and that decade might not have been so comfortable or inspiring to others elsewhere.
@diver saidI also see the 70s through rose coloured spex I was 15 in 1070 and followed all the british blues and prog rock bands I even went to see the pistols & clash,I met my wife in a blues club in 72, married her 5 years later had both our kids before 1980 ,I relly feel that the 70s belonged to me.
Does every generation think that the decade they grew up in, say from 8 to 18, was the best? I ask this question intentionally excluding any personal trauma and just focusing on the 10 year period itself.
I was 8 years old in 1969 and I feel that I have nothing but good memories, by the time I reached 18 it was 1979 and what I now reflect on as being a near as perfect deca ...[text shortened]... cial period, or just that I was 8 to 18 in it? What must it be like for GenZ I wonder.
Thoughts?
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@Chuck-2 saidNice history there Chuck2.
I also see the 70s through rose coloured spex I was 15 in 1070 and followed all the british blues and prog rock bands I even went to see the pistols & clash,I met my wife in a blues club in 72, married her 5 years later had both our kids before 1980 ,I relly feel that the &0s belonged to me.
70s music is the best 😄
@rookie54 said@rookie54,
in 1972 i was 18 almost 19
my selective service number was 6
the us army was measuring me up for a brand new pair of jungle boots and a recycled body bag
one frontal lobotomy to go, please
That would have been the Viet Nam war of course, many Americans dodged the draft and came to Canada. I became friends with many of them too. They didn't feel like they should be even fighting in that war from what I have heard. Some became Canadian Citizens and started businesses here. It was big boost to our economy which only had around 20 million people at that time.
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@diver saidAgreed. Having grown up in the 60's and early 70's I find myself looking back on that time a bit too fondly, when in reality it was no different than any other era. For me however it did produce one thought provoking question:
Does every generation think that the decade they grew up in, say from 8 to 18, was the best? I ask this question intentionally excluding any personal trauma and just focusing on the 10 year period itself.
I was 8 years old in 1969 and I feel that I have nothing but good memories, by the time I reached 18 it was 1979 and what I now reflect on as being a near as perfect deca ...[text shortened]... cial period, or just that I was 8 to 18 in it? What must it be like for GenZ I wonder.
Thoughts?
I always wondered how many guys bought this album just because they like trumpet music. 😏
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@mchill saidWasn’t that theme tune to some TV program of the time?
Agreed. Having grown up in the 60's and early 70's I find myself looking back on that time a bit too fondly, when in reality it was no different than any other era. For me however it did produce one thought provoking question:
I always wondered how many guys bought this album just because they like trumpet music. 😏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRGOm071sE0&list=PLD6028A393D90681A
@rookie54 saidSorry to learn that. What a horrible situation for any teenager to find themselves in!
in 1972 i was 18 almost 19
my selective service number was 6
the us army was measuring me up for a brand new pair of jungle boots and a recycled body bag
one frontal lobotomy to go, please
Now that I think of it, when I was 18 (1978) the Russians invaded Afghanistan while I was attending college near a major Air Force base in Tampa, FL -- therefore I thought there was a good chance I might get taken out by nukes (which kind of put a damper on making any long-term plans).
On the other hand, the music was still great and there was an album-oriented rock station in Sarasota that we could receive clearly in Tampa.