Comments on: Was life better in the 70s?

By: T-Rex

T-Rex — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:40:18 +0000

The first ten years of my life – I was born in 1960 – I had no idea that we were living paycheck to paycheck. Dad put his suit and tie on every morning and took the bus into NYC, and mom stayed home with my sister and me and managed the household. I remember the clothes line, too. My parents enjoyed their friends and were good to us kids. The 1970’s were much the same. Dad started his own business and in the decades that followed prospered. Put one foot in front of the other. Nuclear family is one of the economic engines that made this a great and powerful country.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:28:54 +0000

But disco, leisure suits, and the grand finale, Jimmy Carter and his 18% interest rates!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:15:12 +0000

Steph,
You mentioned King Crimson. One of their better songs was 21st Century Schizoid Man.
And here we are.

By: Rick Gutleber

Rick Gutleber — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:35:04 +0000

I was 5 in 1970, and have very fond memories of the 70s, but I had a great family and home, so I think anyone in my situation, in any decade, would look on it with fondness.

But I think a lot of the things said about the 70s are true. A lot of things were objectively better back then. The things that are better now tend to be material things, and while those are important and make a significant difference in your life, the things that are worse now tend to be people things. I’m still very happy, but I have a family of my own that are doing well, and my wife and I just celebrated 30 years of giddy happiness.

However, I still would rate the 20s as a pretty awful time, even though it hasn’t affected me personally as much as it has a lot of other people.

By: Glt

Glt — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:19:58 +0000

The 70’s for me started off with Vietnam, but by the end of the decade both my sons had been born. Life is about trade offs.

By: Sgt. Joe Friday

Sgt. Joe Friday — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:04:19 +0000

Slightly off topic, but back in the 70s, music from the 50s and early 60s was considered “oldies.” Nowdays the oldies stations play music from the 70s and 80s. That would be like a 70s oldies station playing music from the 1920s.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:58:15 +0000

Amen to all that you said in this piece, sister. I long for the days when things were ‘normal’, this Twilight Zone we now reside in, is too much to bare; and even crazier to believe!

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:36:35 +0000

The things that are better today are the advances in medicine. However I think the 70s were better for other things because people interacted face to face more often and young people such as myself created great memories by doing things together with friends without texting each other all day. As for “Watergate” that was hardly the worst scandal in the history of the presidencies – not as bad as the weaponizing of the IRS for example or the polticizing we have now of the FBI and CIA, and half the country loved Watergate!

By: Queen of the Jungle

Queen of the Jungle — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:10:02 +0000

Yes, life was much better in the 1970s as I was 40 years younger!

By: neo

neo — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:03:42 +0000

Cicero:

I never said I was offering a comprehensive and all-inclusive list. Plenty of things are not in this post.