Is it normal to wish it was 1930s, 1940s, 1950s?

I don't go around admitting this to people in person, and I'm sure not many people will agree with me on this, but I'm still curious on others' thoughts on the matter. I wish it was the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. It was all those old fashioned years before the birth of rock in the late 1950s started the gradual changes that continued throughout all the decades after that (including late 1960s revolution, etc., the birth of the internet in the past 20 years I know is another factor that changed everything).
I wish it was like the 1930s but without the depression being as bad as it was. I wish it was like the 1940s but without the WW2 drafting (it should've been like Vietnam where you had the right to choose whether or not to join the military and fight)(and I definitely wish that all the horrors in Germany did not happen, I'm not a freakin Natzi). But I'm talking about being in America during the 1940s, not Germany. And the years between 1945-1955, leave them exactly as they were.

Anyway, what are all your thoughts on wishing it was the 1930s through early 1950s? There were so many things that I think were alot better back then, such as the way people, familys, values and stuff like that, etc., safer neighborhoods, more trust among people in general, I definitely preferred the clothes then. Yes, I'm the same person who posted "is it normal to prefer floor length dresses over short shorts?" That there is just another reason for this posting. And I really love the music and films back then. There's just something great about films and music from that era. I have a collection of dvds films from that time, and I watch TCM.

I am not expecting many normal votes on this, but I am kind of curious.

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  • Ratmanholla

    I really don't think African Americans share your passion for these older times. Neither do working women, or survivors of what was once a terminal illness. You sound too young to remember Polio or soup lines, or even the days of black and white TV. But it's your dream and you are welcome to it.

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    • Or the mentally ill.

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  • Ellasmokesweeed

    OMG, so silly. You do know those times were just like they are today. There was major hate, racism was worse. Those old people claim it was better but in reality it wasn't because things were limited back then for the not "rich". If you lived then, you'd wish you hadn't.

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    • I never said things were perfect back then, and I did mention that I wish I could go back to that era minus the depression and WW2. This is an idealic conversation I am throwing out there. The world was not problem free at all, I'm aware of that. However, things were not like they are today at all, so you can't say things back then were just like today. Yes, there was hate, but it's no better today. Alot of America was still safer, you were not always hearing about all these psychotics, molesters, and children disappearing off street corners in the 40s and 50s. Alot more people did leave doors unlocked without thinking twice about it then, and that is not an opinion. And overall, people had more trust towards each other then, you could say what you feel or compliment someone without the other person always immediately assuming you had a double meaning, or a hidden agenda attatched to it. Yes I agree that racism was bad, I'm aware of the Jim Crow Law days, but is it any better today really? Look at the shit in more recent times like Michael Brown and many other similar events. People still hate, they're just more sneaky about it.

      I'm not racist at all myself. I guess I'm wishing for a world like the 30s and 40s minus the depression, WW2, and the racism. But in almost every other way besides those 3 things, I wish the world was more like it was then without all the crazy shit of the world today. Keep the films, music, clothes, values, respect, and trust of those days the same. It's all that which had made it better.

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      • suckonthis9

        You keep reiterating a perception that it was "safer" then.

        I would strongly disagree with that, and I do believe that the data would back me up on that.
        On a per capita basis, I do believe that it was far more dangerous 'then'.

        Society was often violent. There were often violent crimes.
        Modern medicines were only coming into widespread usage, so many, many people died of various diseases, conditions and injuries.
        Transportation was often a risky venture, at best. Many people were decapitated from going through windshields in automobile collisions, before safety glass and seat belts were innovated, ships sank, and aircraft frequently crashed, for instance.
        Weather forecasting was at its infancy; so many people died in weather-related events, because they had little-to-no warning of what was coming.
        Urban fires were common and widespread.
        Buildings often collapsed, in earthquake-prone areas.
        Reliable information was sometimes hard to come by, so many people often did life-threatening things, based on misinformation or disinformation or a lack of information.
        A greater percentage of the population had to live a 'hard life', as compared to today. Work-related injuries and deaths often occurred frequently. Easy living though, has its detrimental aspects, as well.

        'Those were the days', were not the idealized halcyon days you might think they were.

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        • I was looking through some crime stats, yes the violent crime rate has gone down quite a bit since the 1990s. It really peaked throughout the 80s and into the early 90s, alot of it due to the crack epidemic, but also crime went up after the mid 60s due to more people with rebelous natures. The crime rate rose dramatically between the 50s and the 70s, and even more in the 80s. Crime was very low through the 40s and 50s and that's where alot of the memories of the safer streets and leaving doors unlocked has come from. But the crime rate was much higher around 1930 and early 30s, that was the height of the depression. It's interesting how with the two peaks in crime rates, one was from an unusually high unemployment rate, and the other was partially because of crack. Crack was proven to make people more angry and violent. After the early-mid 90s, more popular drug choices switched from crack, cocaine over to opiates, benzos, and weed, and they all relax people.

          But other than the height of the depression, crime was normally lower during older times than it was later on when people got more rebelous in the late 60s onwards, it was that and the extra spike in crime during the crack years. In the earlier times, people still were more civilized in their ways and they did have better values. I'm not saying they all did, but more so than today. Why else did crime stats drop again so much by the late 1930s once unemployment was no longer at an extreme record high?

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          • suckonthis9

            You need to go back to the 1920s.
            It wasn't called the 'Roaring Twenties' for no reason.
            The major reason, is that Coca~Cola started adding refined cocaine to its product, and addicted an entire generation, including many children.
            There were also many other products on the open market that falsely promised to be so-called 'elixers of life'. Most of these were, in fact, dangerous and addictive drugs, or other dangerous substances, or they did nothing at all.

            What happened, is there was a knee-jerk reaction, when it was found out that these substances were actually very harmful.
            Particular religious groups formed, that called for total 'prohibition' of such things, and they lumped alcohol into this, mostly because of a few incidences of irresponsible alcoholics, one of which personally affected one of the leaders, of this group of dictators.

            The result was that it caused the stock-market to crash, caused millions of people to lose their homes, jobs and livlihoods, caused widespread poverty, and an opportunity for organized crime to flourish. Then war, because that was the only way out.

            It didn't work then, it doesn't work now, and they still have not learned their lesson!!!

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            • The Mafia did own alot of the speakeasies during prohibition. That was the other reason besides the depression that crime was higher those years. Then prohibition was reappealed in 1933, crime rate went way down by the late 1930s. Prohibition definitely was a mistake.

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  • S12207

    I've always wanted to go back to those days. There seamed to be more heart. People weren't lazy, entitled little shits and knew value. Yes, there was a depression and war and so on, but it was a different age and I would go back if I had the chance!

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    • Yes! Someone who thinks just like me. You are totally right. People did have more of a heart and they were less entitled. People cared more about others and were not always only about themselves. People in general helped each other more without expecting something in return. And you could help someone else without them thinking that you have a hidden agenda. When someone's motives were genuine, the other person/people really believed that they were.

      And crime for the most part really was lower with the exception being the few years after the bottom fell out of the stock market combined with at the same time the big mistake of prohibition which brought out the Mafia controlled speakeasies. And even that was mainly in the big northern cities, mainly New York. Kansas City had a few also. But what about the rest of America? And once the unemployment was no longer 25%+ and prohibition ended, crime rate went way down again and didn't start shooting up again until the 1970s. I've seen the statistics. In many places, I'm sorry but it's true that more people in more places kept doors unlocked and allowed their kids to play outside without the fear of some psycho or molester that could be lurking around. Other crimes such as identity theft is also a much bigger thing today than back then. Banks are much stricter about who they give loans to today. Again, it all goes back to the same word which in every way has really lessened over the years; trust.

      I know not everyone agrees with this, but I definitely think clothes were better then. Men rarely wore a shirt that didn't have a collar and women rarely wore slacks or jeans. And their dresses were rarely higher than the knees, they were usually floorlength or halfway between their ankles and knees. Yes, it was more formal then, clothes and attitudes

      Another thing that was better back then was food. Food didn't have all the additives and fillers that so much food today has, it was all in its more natural state. And in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, people had refrigerators or ice boxes to keep it fresh, so it was no longer like it was back in the 19th century and earlier where keeping food fresh was an issue. It was the best of both worlds, food was fresh and natural in the 30s-50s. People also took more pride in food preparation and cooking back then too, at home and in restaurants. America wasn't flooded with crappy, nasty tasting fast food places with punkass employees who don't give two shits about their customers, who serve this nasty filler and toxin filled food that's also been sitting under heat lamps for 4 hours, and that they probably spit in too. And the way the big corporate heads of restaurant companys have deliberately switched to using cheaper lower quality ingredients just to put a few more dollars in their own pockets. Just look at how much the quality at Burger King and Pizza hut has gone down hill in the past 25 years. And from what I remember, people said that same thing 25 years ago, so imagine how much better restaurants were 50 or 60 years ago. Airline travel was also once a much better service, from the food they served to the way the flight attendants treated you. And airport personell too, they weren't all patting everybody down, making you take off your shoes, belts, etc., and assuming everybody was a terrorist back then. Airport and airplane staff trusted and respected travelers, until a bunch of idiots decided to start hijacking planes, sneaking explosives, and then flying planes into skyscrapers.
      So much shit people have done, it's changed the world to a whole different place now from back in the old days.

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  • I'd say so. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean that you're abnormal.

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  • Dustyair

    HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Llamabob1357

    I feel the same way! Some people are just drawn towards different things. Totally normal.

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  • Ellasmokesweeed

    Just because they display something in vintage films doesn't mean that is how the world was. It was FUCKED UP back then.

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  • rayb12

    You sound not black

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    • BlackCatsAreAwesome

      It's ok to be not black.

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      • It's OK to be black too. None of this 'yearning for the old days' thing has anything to do with race.

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    • I'm not, but I believe that all races should be equal. I've got a good friend who's black and had a black girlfriend I loved about 10 years ago, the only reason we went our separate ways was because her family moved and she wanted to stay near them, but I couldn't leave myself because of my job at the time.

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  • suckonthis9

    "It was all those old fashioned years before the birth of rock in the late 1950s..."

    Is incorrect.
    The first attributed rock song was recorded in March 1951.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkoKayUeSnI

    The roots of rock music (predominantly blues music), goes back to the 1800s.
    The first recordings of this genre of music, was recorded in the early 20th century.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fq16_EB9sQ

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    • suckonthis9

      Rock music had flourished in the mid-1950s.
      By the late 1950s, and into the early 1960s, rock music had largely fizzled out in America, due mostly to the Payola Scandals (corruption), and a concerted effort by a corrupt government to supress this form of music and culture. [Wow, does this sound familiar, or what?]
      Blues music survived in America, only in African communities, and by a few very brave European (U.S.-European) youths who frequented these African clubs, through these years.
      Only a few notable sporadic recordings were made through these years, in this rock music genre.

      However, blues and rock music was preserved, in England (mostly in London, Liverpool and Manchester), as well as in other European cultural centres, by some groups of youths there.
      It was re-introduced to a new generation of youths in the United States and Canada, through the 'British Invasion', beginning in 1964.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjz9IJllLpU

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Invasion

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