re: Best decade to grow up in ?

I nominate the 1970s…do I hear a second? (deafening roar)…

Well I “grew up” mid 50s-end 60s. 50s were blah. 60s were one-half 50s, one half Vietnam. In short, 60s sucked. But…then came 70s.

I returned from Vietnam end 1968… was single, in out of college in 70s between jobs. I thought I had gone to heaven. Greatest music ever, the Band, Greatdul Dead, Hendrix’s, Bohemian rhapsody, etc… pre aids and other std, post birth control.. pre fast food flab.

True, the idiot-Carter era was tough economically, gas crisis, 55 mph speed limit, and the way we dressed was laughable… but far better music, movies, art movements, sports, football, Coach Bryant, Steelers vs Raiders (when football was football) than 80s or 90s. .

Cars were still American with muscle, motorcycles were Harleys and Limys, interstates were uncrowded, CB radios, SEC had unique culture - screw those Yankees, baseball was king, no damn cell phones, Monday night football, Saturday night live…

Yep…1970s was it.,