> > > The Reader Poll seems to be suggesting that the 1970 and 1980 were the least popular decades. Did somebody have a miserable child hood? Reading backwards (sort of), the poll suggests that the 1950's were the most popular. Or least disliked, if that makes sense. It was the period of the Korean War, the military draft, McCarthyism, the cold war, Jim Crow, the Berlin wall, polio epidemics and poodle skirts. What could be worse than that? Maybe most of the people who responded to the poll weren't born yet.
> > > How"1933 was grand"ard
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> > I choose 1940-1949. I didn't live through them, but history class did teach me about WWII, and that alone is enough to clasify that decade at the worst of this century.
> > Sil"look, I'm posting a message in the Forum!"vercup
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> Even the 40's were not without merit. You would not believe the level of patriotism and personal sacrifice. It was a great time to be an American.
> The second part of the decade was better. We called it the "post war" years. Cars built between 1946 and 1949 were works of art. (Not good cars, but beautiful.) There was a building boom. New houses, and new highways grew like cudzu. Harry Truman was president then. I wish we could find another Harry Truman. In 1948, my family moved to Florida. For a 15-year-old Kentucky hillbilly, that was like going to heaven.
> In 1949, I got a driver's license and then it WAS heaven. You have no idea how good I looked in a blue '41 Lincoln. The girls noticed. Then suddenly it was 1950.
> Howard

And May 14, 1948 was a real good day in that decade.

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