What do you consider the 'old days'? (general, 1950s, years) - History -U.S. and World, studying past, wars, presidents, language, economy - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

kevxu · 10-17-2012, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by donniedarko

For me, it would be anything before I was born. So 1989 or earlier. I think the 90's was the beginning of how things are now in a lot of ways too, a lot of the current trendlines started or became noticeable in 1990 or shortly afterwards. A world with the Soviet Union and before computers and Internet were widely used seems downright old-fashioned from a 2010s perspective too.

It (used) to take more than trendiness and gadgety to the mark shift in historical eras.

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As in truly old fashioned though? Maybe up to the early 1960s with some traces as late as about 1974, is what I'd consider truly classical. For example the films and TV from the 1960s still seem pseudo-Victorian.

What the h*ll is "pseudo-Victorian" intended to mean? "False Victorian?"....hmmm, the Victorian era covered a reign of more than sixty years, and embraced numerous changes in the arts and sciences in that span. So,what part of the first half of Twentieth Century culture is "pseudo Victorian"?

I would say the "old days" -- old in the sense of mouldy, cheap, insubstantial, decaying and pervasively grotty - began in the early 1980's, and were thoroughly entrenched by the next decade."

2cold · 10-17-2012, 02:40 PM

To me the "old days" ended with WWI. Things began changing at a much faster pace with the end of the war.
Born in '51

JD59 · 10-17-2012, 04:49 PM

Remember gasoline in the old days was a dollar a gallon. Not anymore.

Derp-D-Derp · 10-17-2012, 05:16 PM

I was born in 1958; to me, I measure the old days by TV programs I grew up watching, the movies BEFORE being remade, and all my fav music (give or take) can be found in the bargain bin at cd and tape/record stores~~when they start costing $2 or less, the end is near :-)

mco65 · 10-18-2012, 05:47 AM

To me the Old Days would be the time before modern conveniences have made our lives comfortable. Things like water closets and running water, electricity in the home, air conditioning, automobiles, etc. I can only imagine what it was like for my great grandfathers and grandmothers who were living around the turn of the 20th century... the things we take for granted today would have been unheard of for them.

I think about how hard of a life they had every time I get frustrated at work... i am sitting at a desk, typing on a keyboard and talking on the phone and complaining about how hard my life/job is.. what a laugh they would have gotten out of that one..

Robhu · 10-18-2012, 06:22 AM

To me the old days are the 50's and 60's. When a man in a truck brought milk in glass bottles and sit them on the door step. Black and white TV with 3 channels and actualy decent programs instead of the crap on TV today. Cars mostly stick shift, and gas 29.9 cents a gallon, Coke was 10 cents with 2 cents deposit on the glass bottle it came in. Bicycles had balloon tires and cars had bias ply tires. And in my case a little outdoor out house for many years. When children were taught respect and responsibility and neighbors knew and helped each other. Kids playing outside instead of glued to some electronic thing. I could go on and on. But life was simple and sometimes hard but there was a better future to look foward to and families visited instead of communicating on facebook. Today is much different and much more convenient with all the things we have to do things for us. But I liked it better then. I was born in 1947. And I do agree with the poster who said things changed when JFK was killed. And imo, we will never get back to looking foward to the future as much as we did back then. Imo, we have gained a lot since then. But we have lost even more as a society that we will never get back.