Time of our lives

[Louis the fly]

I consider myself to be very lucky being born at the time I was. There was full employment when it came to work , we had all our great MN fleets covering the world , tourist traffic had not taken off yet , we saw the world as it was. Aids and ebola were unheard of. A carefree life , no gas , electricity or food bills to worry about , the only downside was sometimes shipboard work interrupted the fun.
The icing on the cake for me was being a young , single man in the 60's . Flower power , music , fashion , to be in the right place at the right time , what could be better ?
When it comes to my time of reincarnation I have decided to come back in the 20's and 30's. Rag time music , art deco , flapper girls. I have just got to arrange to be born to rich parents as this was also the time of the great recession.

[Doc Vernon]

Will go with your #1 post les a wonderful era the 50's and 60's/

Cheers

[John Pruden]

cherry boy in every port except Singapore kept it in my kecks? jp

[happy daze john in oz]

After WW2 the world went through a wonderful transition, so many new things came to being. Music trends changed like never before, food eventually came of rationing, the people became happy again. Unemployment was almost unheard of, British shipping was at it's hight and man was happy with his lot.

From mid 50's to mid 70's was for me, and no doubt many others, the best years of our lives.

Good value for money was always there unlike today, and we were happy with a pint and a smoke.

Holidays was two weeks at Butlins until overseas holidays began to take hold, travel by sea was the only way to go before the advent of the jumbo.
And no doubt given the chance we would all go back to it.

[Louis the fly]

Yes John you are right. Not much fun in todays world , constant wars , terrorism threats , austerity , house prices and rents higher than people can afford. It was bad enough before but now we have Trump in the mix. It is still wonderful for the young just being young but they face far more problems than we ever did.
This is why I chose the 20s & 30s , a Bertie Wooster life for me.

[cappy]

##austerity was what we had in the 40s and fifties ....as for rents we regularly hid from the rent man as kids ......we had an egg cut in two as a treat on a sunday ....we waited for the miners in our street to come out the pub to get a bucket of coal for sixpence ....we had a three bar electric fire in the prefab .....i wore my grandas jacket ..him a 6 foot six sheltie me a under 5 foot boy and skinny as a rake it was cut down.....i got a second hand bike it was the one our window cleaner used to carry his ladders i got sea coal of the beach to keep us warm ......holes in my shoes .....a paper round at 13 start seven finish 8 20 run 4 miles to school .......happy days my **** ......but all my mates in the same boat ...summer holidays in a tent with mates on shields cliff bottoms ...my kids cars at 17 there own houses at 27 ..on mortgages ....tiny but a start ......holidays abroad ......in the pub and dining out ......i never dined out apart from shields curry house til i was probably 22 years of age......methinks you look through rose coloured spectacles louis or must be twenty years younger than me....just as it was for me louis ...cappy

[cappy]

we had national service we wwere fighting in korea.. malaya ...aden borneo ...oh dont forget the cuba crisis the atom bomb threat the unions holding the country to ransom ....but there was cappy not giving a toss by then what happened.. living the dream at sea woldwide ..but it was all happening and i would certainly have the life of my kids and grand kids today ...rather than my times of childhood and youth ......cappy

[Louis the fly]

Well we will have to agree to differ on this subject. We are now living in 2017 , with progress comes higher expectations , higher education , higher standards of living , higher life span.
The past is the past.

[j.sabourn]

Agree with your original post Louis, the only thing is as regards your views on the advancement of technology and working conditions and people's well being,all ok with most.However to attain this you have to have the whole world living in the same century with the same beliefs. This is not going to happen in a hurry. Today there is countries living in every state of evolution that the world has been through, you have the Middle East going through the same rigours that they were having 3000 years ago and maybe long before that if records had been kept. The day that the world all stands at the same level of advancement and prosperity that is when you will have world peace, Cheers JWS

[Louis the fly]

Once again I agree with a post. We have seen wars over oil , as the worlds population continues to grow and technology becomes more advanced we will see wars over natural resources.
Water and grazing land , global warming is happening now.