If you could go back to any decade from 1900 to 1990s, which would it be and why?

the 90s, i miss it the shows, the clothes, the music- it was alll great

Definately the 60s: Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan, Space Race, the clothes, etc., etc.

A bunch of my favorite TV shows started in the early 90's, but I was too young to know anything.

It would be either the 80s or 90s. I was born in the 80s, but everything about growing up in that decade seemed so interesting. I love the 90s too because that's the decade in which I grew up. :lol:

1960-1969

tha 340 BC's were kool

I've always wanted to go back to the 1920's. Flappers, speakeasies, all that stuff. It always just seemed like a great era to live in. But you know once the Depression hit, I'd like to be transported back to the present.

The 80's:

The metal.
The chicks.
The Facts of Life.
Blair Warner.
Headbangers Ball.
Iron Maiden.
Judas Priest.
Dio-era Black Sabbath.
Pre-"black album" Metallica.
Big hair.
Poodle-headed rocker chicks with tight jeans and loose morals.
Post-prog-era Rush.
AC/DC.
Playing Cinderella's Night Songs album as a subversive act in the church.
Jessica Hahn shows all in Playboy.
Classic Coke.
Hostess Choco-Bliss.
Dee Snider on CNN explaining to members of Congress what SMF of Twisted Sister means.
Ally Sheedy.
Molly Ringwald.
Elizabeth Shue.
Blue Velvet.
Graduation.
Candy-colored electric guitars.

The 70's. It was a great decade to grow up in.

1960's...I've always wanted to experience the sixties first hand.

I grew up in the 1980's for a while, as a little kid. So...I'd like to go to the 1960's and live 'em out, as well as the rest of the decades... Groundbreaking 1960's, campy and doped-up 1970's and the wild and colorful 1980's. The 1990's weren't that bad...Not my favorite decade, though. I miss 1990 - 1992 and wouldn't mind reliving those years.

One thing I would have loved to do, if I had been around then, was to go see 9 to 5 when it hit theaters in December of 1980. It would've been a lot of fun to see it in theaters. :biglove:

The 80s were the greatest ten years of my life, I'd love to go back and stay there.

The mid/late 90s because that's all I remember since I was in 6th grade in 2000...but I <3'd elementary school, the music, shows, etc...

I'd love to visit the early part of the 20th century. A lot of big changes going on. I would have liked to have seen when cars first became popular and I loved the clothes and the architecture back then.

I would have loved to be a part of the 60s because of all the TV shows and the music.

I would have liked to be born in the 70's or 80's. They seem to be soo cool. The decade I grew is pretty boring (mid 90's-00's)

Probably the early 90's. Techno was just starting to grow and even though some of the biggest hits those days seem really cheesy today, I still listen to them. Other than that, I'm loving this decade. I'm loving all the new hits that are being pump out by the big DJs. Apart from the music scene, the early 1900's would be great. To be part of the generation that just learned what the skyscraper is and see new heights being reached every day. Though that's definitely not an issue today. Asian and European skyscraper cities are definitely holding their own these days, so I definitely wouldn't mind just being int he decade that I am in now.

I'd go back into the 70's. Great tv shows, great movies, great music and they had fondu! ;)

i prefer to look to the future and live for today

The mid 80s. I was just married. Everyone I loved was alive and well. I loved those days.

I've always wanted to go back to the 1920's. Flappers, speakeasies, all that stuff. It always just seemed like a great era to live in. But you know once the Depression hit, I'd like to be transported back to the present.


Ditto.

The 1950s!
Normal music, cars and people. Cities had much lower crime rates, unwed mothers (and divorces) almost unheard of. Didn't have to worry about guns in schools. No big drug problems- in or out of schools. etc.

That's my first choice. But also:
1960s
So I could buy the cars I like when they were new (like '69 Cadillacs and '69 Mopar muscle cars).

1970s
Because I am very familiar with that decade (I could have done without disco and the weird hair and clothing style, though).
ABCs Tuesday night lineup (fall '78)- Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Taxi, Starsky & Hutch.
The last decade of (for me) truly desirable cars- more so in the early '70s.

[QUOTE=Fleet]The 1950s!
I know what you mean, that Murphy Brown is one crazy bitch.

That show set a very bad example by glorifying unwed mothers. No way could a show like that aired in the '50s- when morals still existed.

I would definately go back to the 70s! It seemed to be a more carefree time, a time not bent on technology and materialism as much ( of course I stress that because EVERY time has its downsides ). Loved the music, the styles, the attitudes.

watch the Knicks and MJ in their primes
watch all the true sitcoms be created

The sixties for the Beatles (the group from Liverpool) and the Beetles (the cars from Wolfsburg)! :D

1940-1949-the dress and styles, the way men treated woman-tipping their hat and such, and just the morals and family life seemed so much simpler then it is now.

Might I add that I could've met the cast of Three's Company easily if I had gone back to the 70s ;)

1940-1949-the dress and styles, the way men treated woman-tipping their hat and such, and just the morals and family life seemed so much simpler then it is now.
That's for sure!

Just because people may not like a certain genre of music, doesn't make it abnormal or not music. We all have different tastes and personalities that make us who we are and no one should be put down for that. That's why there's so many countless genres of music - to cater to all different kinds of people.

The 70s. Cool...lots of things! Except that might mean reliving the 80s...and the only thing I like about the 80s is the music. Ugh, I hate that decade.

The 1950s!
Normal music, cars and people. Cities had much lower crime rates, unwed mothers (and divorces) almost unheard of. Didn't have to worry about guns in schools. No big drug problems- in or out of schools. etc.



There's one reason I wouldn't want to go thru that decade...or much of the one after it...RACISM. How completely embarrassing that part of history was.


Plus, coming from now, I don't think I could handle living in a time when women did whatever the men in their lives told them to do without argument. Another embarrassment on this country, IMO.

There's one reason I wouldn't want to go thru that decade...or much of the one after it...RACISM. How completely embarrassing that part of history was.


Plus, coming from now, I don't think I could handle living in a time when women did whatever the men in their lives told them to do without argument. Another embarrassment on this country, IMO.
Yes, there was racism then (as there is now). That didn't stop Johnny Mathis or Nat King Cole from selling millions of albums, though.

And, it wasn't really that much of "women did whatever the men told them to do." More than now, yes, which is one reason why the divorce rate was so low then.

The only big disadvantage I can think of during the '50s would be the fact that medicine and health treatment in general was kind of primitive in many cases. I still think the 1950s were the best decade of the 20th century.
I told my mom that there was a "best decades" thread on this board and that I voted for the '50s and she said, "That's for sure!" Almost everyone who had lived through the '50s will agree that life in general was much better then. (And, yes, even for blacks... there weren't thousands of black women left to care for her children after the boyfriend disappears which happens A LOT today.)

The 1980s. That would be my utopia, with the music, TV shows, the VCR, cable television (Nickelodeon), everything.

To paraphrase VH-1, I Love the 80s!!! Oh, yeah, the Cheese Factor and all! Lots of awesome music, grody to the max clothes and hairstyles, and so many classic TV shows and Movies... Hence, my user name!!! :lol:

The 70's... I had alot of fun back then. I would also change some things (If I could) ;)

I enjoyed the clothes, the dancing, the music, the fever, the fun...........

Mid-Late 90's. Those years were a blast for me.