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re: Peak of America in your lifetime?
Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:12 pm to texas tortilla
Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:12 pm to texas tortilla
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Peak occurred when jfk was killed. he was going to shutdown the Vietnam War. I remember when I was in high school in late 60s, my family didn't have a lot of money. My dad was about to get a nice raise at work. Because of Vietnam War, we had inflation. Nixon enacted wage and price controls costing dad his raise. LBJ cranked up the printing presses and nothing has been right since.
Fair enough. You've some years on me, since i was born in the late 70s, so I can only speak of the "peak" of my particular timeline in my own anecdotal experience.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the 80s felt pretty cool and patriotic as a kid, but in the 90s, that's the last time I felt like there was hope. I was a kid in middle school and high school, in rural Oklahoma when Ruby Ridge, The Waco disaster and then the Murrah Building bombing happened. Those would have been the most prominent events that we felt that seemed to really chang things, and the OJ Verdict (which I remember well) which came out around the same time as the Malcolm X movie, seemed to escalate racial tensions a bit. But overall, especially in retrospect, it was just a far more stable world and society that we were shown. I see the veil for what it was now, but it felt very real back then.
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Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:29 pm to CrystalPreserves
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From about 1989 til 9/11/01 was America’s peak.
This was also the peak of Tennessee Vols Football and Braves Baseball. Life has not been the same.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:29 pm to Godzilla jr
Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:30 pm to Godzilla jr
1995 to 9/11/2001
Posted on 4/20/26 at 9:32 pm to Godzilla jr
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9/10/2001
Probably that.
Or Reagans last day in Office.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 11:01 pm to SnacknGold06
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I know that we tend to overlook the bad during our formative ages, but I do think we had it better than kids today. 2007 really marked a schism in our society. Once we created smartphones and thus social media, it felt like social trust started to erode.
FTFY
I'm a firm believer in the iPhone being the downfall of the greatest years of America and the world. Once it - and all other smartphones trying to keep up - came onto the scene in 2007 it all started to crumble down. Without it we wouldn't have social media, wouldn't have social recluses that live eternally online, no food delivery to kill nights out with friends and family, no dating apps to kill nightlife and meeting new people, no apps designed to be the most addicting as possible to keep people glued to their devices, on and on and on.
The smartphone has made us so comfortable and coddled that we've found new and ever-worsening ways to create some sort of oppression for ourselves where there is none, simply for entertainment and virtue points. Something to do.
As someone born in 87, I was 20 at the time the first smartphone hit the market so I grew up in the prime years without everyone having this all-consuming device in their pocket and got to enjoy the "real" America at its best as a kid and teenager. I'm also young enough that I've seen what a drastic change it's been since then.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 11:27 pm to terd ferguson
I had every one of those, I also remember Ozzy’s No More Tears album coming out around the same time.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 11:31 pm to Godzilla jr
For me, Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 1:16 am to mule74
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This post was edited on 6/14/26 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 6:41 am to Godzilla jr
Mid 80s to mid 90s, IMO.
Soviets dissolved, racism seemed almost non-existent to me (while in my 20s at the time). No social media and kids still played outside and had actual friends.
Soviets dissolved, racism seemed almost non-existent to me (while in my 20s at the time). No social media and kids still played outside and had actual friends.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:15 am to Godzilla jr
Coastal Orange County California in the mid-to-late 90s.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:27 am to Godzilla jr
December 25, 1985.
Rocky beats Drago.
Rocky beats Drago.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:28 am to wallowinit
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7/2/1977
Oakland Coliseum
LINK
Without even looking at the link I'm going to guess...
Skynyrd - Freebird (live)?
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:28 am to Godzilla jr
80s to early 90s.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:48 am to udtiger
1996-2003 for me.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 1:41 pm to udtiger
High school in the 80s was freaking amazing. My 16 yr old son can't get over the fact that we could leave school at lunch and go to the local store for a coke and chip/whatever and come back before lunch was over.
Then there were times me and my best friend would leave school on lunch break with a couple girls and go to a local hangout spot for a little action. Go back to school and not miss a beat. Probably smelled like sex, though
I tell my kids all the time how much better it was. Worked at local grocery store my junior and senior year and made damn good tips. Enough to get wheels, duals, and a paint job on my Chevelle. Now that car saw a lot of action.
I found a good bit of home movies from the 80's and had them digitized. When my kids saw the one of us driving through town (1987), they couldn't believe it. We used to be able to walk to the store and not worry about the bullshite of today. The best of times.
Then there were times me and my best friend would leave school on lunch break with a couple girls and go to a local hangout spot for a little action. Go back to school and not miss a beat. Probably smelled like sex, though
I tell my kids all the time how much better it was. Worked at local grocery store my junior and senior year and made damn good tips. Enough to get wheels, duals, and a paint job on my Chevelle. Now that car saw a lot of action.
I found a good bit of home movies from the 80's and had them digitized. When my kids saw the one of us driving through town (1987), they couldn't believe it. We used to be able to walk to the store and not worry about the bullshite of today. The best of times.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 4/21/26 at 1:52 pm to Spaceman Spiff
70's and 80's were a riot from kid to young adult. Then I got married
Posted on 4/21/26 at 3:32 pm to BTROleMisser
Live enough
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