The best decade

[DeusxMac]

$tevie wrote:
Some were better for some things, others were better for other things.

I'm going with the 1940s because the clothes were great, the movies were fun, jazz was everywhere, and the economy was on the mend. This assumes that I am white in the 1940s.

Perhaps the LATE “1940s”??

”The United States was engaged in [World War II] from between 1941 (after the bombing of Pearl Harbor) through 1945 (after the surrender of the Japanese).”

- 419,400 deaths

- Families were issued ration stamps that were used to buy their allotment of everything from meat, sugar, fat, butter, vegetables and fruit to gas, tires, clothing and fuel oil.

- The [negative] Impact of Economic Reforms on the United States during World War II
- Reduction of New Deal Funding
- Increase in the United States Federal Deficit
- Increase in American Poverty
- Rise of the American Corporation
- Introduction of the United States Personal Income Tax



http://www.worldwar2facts.org/negative-e...war-2.html

[vision63]

$tevie wrote:
Some were better for some things, others were better for other things.

I'm going with the 1940s because the clothes were great, the movies were fun, jazz was everywhere, and the economy was on the mend. This assumes that I am white in the 1940s.

Most Black people's lives (and other minorities) weren't miserable then. My family enjoyed their lives in the 40's. They understood the limitations of segregation and thrived anyway (not everybody of course). The stories my parents and grandparents told were incredible.

They love where they lived in the south, but there just wasn't great opportunity there so they moved north and west. Many of them returned to their home towns in the south when they retired. Growing up, the adults all called it "back home" when they referred to it.

I would love to see a depiction of Black historical success in the south. Not just Black misery. How wiley and clever Black people were. So many young Black people just don't know how amazing their grandparents and great grandparents were and what they accomplished and how they made the most of a difficult situation.

[Acer]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
Some were better for some things, others were better for other things.

I'm going with the 1940s because the clothes were great, the movies were fun, jazz was everywhere, and the economy was on the mend. This assumes that I am white in the 1940s.

Most Black people's lives (and other minorities) weren't miserable then. My family enjoyed their lives in the 40's. They understood the limitations of segregation and thrived anyway (not everybody of course). The stories my parents and grandparents told were incredible.

They love where they lived in the south, but there just wasn't great opportunity there so they moved north and west. Many of them returned to their home towns in the south when they retired. Growing up, the adults all called it "back home" when they referred to it.

I would love to see a depiction of Black historical success in the south. Not just Black misery. How wiley and clever Black people were. So many young Black people just don't know how amazing their grandparents and great grandparents were and what they accomplished and how they made the most of a difficult situation.
Isolated communities, whether naturally by geography or forced upon them by politics, have created some of the most amazing cultural identities. I was pondering this just this weekend while watching a live program of eastern European traditional dance and song. Preserved, perhaps, but no longer growing.

[RgrF]

One of the things military conscription did was bring these diverse, disconnected communities and cultures in contact with one other.

[TheCaber]

Any decade without *45 in it.

[RgrF]

TheCaber wrote:
Any decade without *45 in it.

That would eliminate most of the world.

I think the 1960s brought more change than any decade I've lived through.