The other day while awaiting the latest unpleasant procedure at the dentist’s office, I came across Reminisce magazine, “The Magazine That Brings Back the Good Times.” Those “Good Times” are defined as the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. (Here’s the link, if you’d like to stroll down mothball lane yourself.)

People are entitled to their memories and to be nostalgic for what they’ve lost. Although I know that comic books are printed better now than when I was a kid, I miss that smell of decaying pulp. It was part of the experience. So I do understand. But, while I admit to being biased against the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s — partly, I’m sure, because I wasn’t there — I have to wonder how “Good Times” has been defined. Given that the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s encompassed global aftereffects from World War I; the Great Depression; the dustbowl migration; lynching; famine; polio; World War II; the extermination of millions of non-combatants; and the development and use of the atomic bomb (to name just the hits), I’m thinking that these are “Good Times” if you survived.

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