Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Decade Monikers

I got thinking about the Roaring Twenties, and the Dirty Thirties. The Fighting Forties, the Faithful Fifties, the Swinging Sixties...then what happened. I'd heard these before plus the Space Age Sixties. I imagine these decade monikers came from news or other articles that garnered a fair amount of attention and then because of the rhyme/alliteration they stuck. But each progressive decade becomes vaguer. Were there any such tags attached to the 70s through to 2000? Did anyone ever hear different ones? Why was I thinking of this today? I have no idea, the rain, the sun, the passage of time.