Life was better........was it ?

[Bill Walker]

so Ive been thinking....

People talk about the good old days when life was better, but in all honesty who would happily go back to the 60's or 70's ?

Hardly anyone had a new car in those days, now the roads are full of them, People drove to Cornwall on a motorbike & sidecar ffs :).....and it took 10 hours on A roads !
Food is way better with so much more choice of fresh stuff, a salad in 1968 was lettuce, tomato and cucumber and spring onions, now you can make your own gourmet salad anytime you want.
No internet, so you couldn't find out fuck all except from a 8 year old encyclopaedia.
Now you can get books, movies and tons of music very cheaply or even free.

I had to 'save up' for an LP !

People have so much more now............but does it make them happy ?

 

[another generation]

... a salad in 1968 was lettuce, tomato and cucumber and spring onions, now you can make your own gourmet salad anytime you want.

Ha ha - that's still a salad in our house!

 

[BigJimLittleJim]

Life might not have been better, but I was young, and I'd love to have that again :)

 

[dazdon]

I think it was much simpler back then.

Even though i'm a bit of a 'Little Englander' I wouldn't go back and trade in porn on tap and streaming sport and films for a silly thing like culture and morals.

 

[Bill Walker]

... a salad in 1968 was lettuce, tomato and cucumber and spring onions, now you can make your own gourmet salad anytime you want.

Ha ha - that's still a salad in our house!

peasant haha

 

[crazyg]

... a salad in 1968 was lettuce, tomato and cucumber and spring onions, now you can make your own gourmet salad anytime you want.

Ha ha - that's still a salad in our house!

What's a salad? If I wanted to eat that crap I'd have buck teeth and floppy ears, doc.

 

[urmston]

... a salad in 1968 was lettuce, tomato and cucumber and spring onions, now you can make your own gourmet salad anytime you want.

Ha ha - that's still a salad in our house!

What! No boiled egg chopped in half?

One of the good things about the old days of the 70s was that a young boy could afford to go and watch City at Maine Rd out of his pocket money or paper round money, and with his mates too, not with boring old dad.

 

[TGR]

Life wasn't better but it was much simpler it has to be said.

I remember:
No fridge. We had a larder.
No fitted carpets we had Lino.
No central heating - we just went cold.
No phone we spoke to each other face to face
No shower - a single bathroom for a family of six.
But everyone in the street (Stanton Street in Clayton) looked out for each other.
Happy days but at a price.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

I like the seventies; especially 1974.

Labour in power with a strong Trade Union movement having tea and biscuits at number 10.
Scum in the Second Division.
Flares and big,big collars.
Top of The Pops.
Still being able to have a kickabout with your kid Brother in front of the house without being knocked over by a car.
Finding a Playboy or a Mayfair in a bush.
Being able to get a decent office job or apprenticeship when you left School.

A happy conversion from boyhood to teenager for me.

 

[TangerineSteve17]

I mean, me, you know, I was born at the wrong time, you see. I'm more sort of, Elizabethan. You know, thirteenth century, Shakespeare, the French Revolution, and all that.

I'm just too intelligent, that's my problem.