Is it normal to be obsessed with the 50's and older decades???

They weren't "the good decades" unless you were born a straight white man. Also, then you'd be living your childhood during WWII.

I always wished I was born in the late seventies so I could have been a teenager in the nineties instead of a little kid. The nineties for me is my nostalgic decade, because I grew up during them, but I've always found the 20s-80s fascinating as well. The 1910's and back are fascinating from a historical perspective, and maybe from a mythical/legendary perspective, but not from a cultural perspective for me. I'm most fascinated by the decades that lead into our modern culture; the fashion, the architecture, the music, the art, etc. These decades have a creepy, uncanny valley vibe, because they're a mix of the historic/dated and the modern/contemporary.

I can't get enough of movies from the 20's-80s. Though I mostly watch TV and listen to music from the nineties and 2000's, I don't like modern films at all. I love how a movie really gets you into the atmosphere and culture of the times in an artistic and moving way. Before I discovered classic films, I didn't think I was a movie person at all. And If I'd grown up today, instead of in the 90s/00s, I know I wouldn't have been a TV or pop music person either, until I'd looked back at what came before, as modern (pop) culture in the 2010s is disgustingly superficial and empty to me, quite like the eighties, but at least the eighties had class like the fourties. We need a cultural revolution IMO. Down with K-pop (whatever happened to Jpop? - a lot of it is actually well-composed and thoughtfully written) and urban music; down with this generation of 12-year-olds made up like they're 30.

I kind of wish the 50 though I would be ostracized the same way I was in this generation for liking horror movies and studying serial killers. Though in the 50 from what I know it was not a goal to get pregnant at 13 like it is now a day. I might like the 60s and 80s. 80s was awesome and had all the great music. Kiss is from the 60s and I just love gene Simmons!

It's normal, it's happened to me but I realize that it's wrong. Why would you go to an era just to listen to the music when you can do that now? If you'd like to meet people that belong to that era, visit a retirement home.

Same here! As of late, I've been obsessed with the 20's and some aspects of the 90's. The curious thing is that I was born in the 90's but I barely remember it so I have almost no feelings of nostalgia.

I wish I was born in the mid to late 40s so I could be a hippie in the 60s and enjoy the last bit of time in the 70s before the cold city scenes and corporations were glorified.