The 70s!
I think was one of our worst decades. not only for the goods that were manufactured...Ford Pintos and Chevy Vegas come to mind, but I remember the Vietnam war dragging on, Watergate, the Iranian hostages the massacre at the Olympics, I remember Jim McKay coming on and saying:They are all dead...All Gone:but most of all the unease and fear as a kid wondering what would happen next, I remember going to Myrtle Beach in our 71 Delta 88 Olds with 2 big cans of gas in the trunk because the gas shortage was so bad you could actually get stranded away from home, I remember the double digit inflation and my Dad only working 3 days a week because there was no business,I can remember hearing he and Mother talking about how they would make ends meet if the factories shut down, Mother was the Director of Advertising for Broyhill Furniture and Dad was the veneer cutter for Bernhardt, lots of terrible things did happen in the 80s, Aids being the worst tragedy, but economically the 80s were light years ahead of the 70s, but vacuums didn't improve, imo LOL!