You know like a feel that feels almost sort of 19th centuryish? I definitely get this vibe from the World War 2 time, not so much from the 70s or something.

I was looking at some old family slides from 1976.  They looked "old time."  The looked as different today as pictures from 1942 would look in 1976!
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Old time feeling in my opinion was anything before 1959. This is only my opinion though. Anything before the hippie age is really really old to me.

I'd say before World War I. After WWI, electricity, cars, telephones, films, and even radio had quite a sociological impact at the time that by 1930 many people got nostalgic for the 1890s (Gay Nineties); the first real nostalgic decade; though the first decade of the 20th century was still "old timey". But it's all relative by generation, and later generations always "push forward history" to make what was old to them make the older generation feel old themselves! These are my perspectives:

-The GI's seem to consider pre-cars/telephones as "old timey".
-The Silent Generation seems to consider pre-radio/talking films as "old time".
-Baby Boomers seem to consider pre-television as "oldies".
-Generation X seems to consider pre-computers/video games/calculators as "old school".
-Generation Y seems to consider pre-Internet/cellphones as "ol skool".
-Generation Z perhaps will consider pre-Facebook/Twitter/Tablets as "ancient!"

Id say the 1950s. Maybe because I was born in the early 60s, so the 50s seem old to me.

Take one of the 2-lane highways across Nevada and stop in one of those desolate towns, I swear it's still almost like the Old West there.

Anything before 1999 seems old timey to me and i was born in 1991

Eh it's all relative, it depends on HOW old time you're talking. 1990 is older than 2000, 1980 is older than 1990, 1970 is older than 1980, and so on.

Take one of the 2-lane highways across Nevada and stop in one of those desolate towns, I swear it's still almost like the Old West there.


Oh i know. I remember going through there one time in northern Nevada. very remote.

Oh i know. I remember going through there one time in northern Nevada. very remote.


It was cool, I stopped in some of those small towns and they still had actual saloons and general stores there.

One time I stopped in this casino/restaurant in one of those towns and ordered a steak dinner, and I swear I half-expected Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke to come walking through the door.  :D


But it's funny, if you look around you can find places that still have an old time feel about them. There's this dive bar in KC which I absolutely love. It's old and kind of beat up, they serve mostly PBR and Schlitz, and it has this old juke box that plays 45's. Whenever I go there I make a point to play "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited, because when I hear it in that bar on that old low-fi jukebox I swear it almost feels like 1968 (even though I was born 2 years later).

I'd say before World War I. After WWI, electricity, cars, telephones, films, and even radio had quite a sociological impact at the time that by 1930 many people got nostalgic for the 1890s (Gay Nineties); the first real nostalgic decade; though the first decade of the 20th century was still "old timey". But it's all relative by generation, and later generations always "push forward history" to make what was old to them make the older generation feel old themselves! These are my perspectives:

-The GI's seem to consider pre-cars/telephones as "old timey".
-The Silent Generation seems to consider pre-radio/talking films as "old time".
-Baby Boomers seem to consider pre-television as "oldies".
-Generation X seems to consider pre-computers/video games/calculators as "old school".
-Generation Y seems to consider pre-Internet/cellphones as "ol skool".
-Generation Z perhaps will consider pre-Facebook/Twitter/Tablets as "ancient!"




Hmm, that seems about right. It's gonna be weird, at least to me, when kids born in the 00's start referring to anything before 2005 as "ancient/old school".

IMO, it depends whether it is urban or rural. Urban? Pre-1930. Rural? Pre-1980.  ;D

Speaking for myself, I mostly get old-time vibes from anything from the 1950s and earlier. Whenever I see or hear anything from after the 1950s, I get retro vibes, but not necessarily old-time vibes.

Speaking for myself, I mostly get old-time vibes from anything from the 1950s and earlier. Whenever I see or hear anything from after the 1950s, I get retro vibes, but not necessarily old-time vibes.


Yeah, the Fifties is the latest time that strikes me as being 'old people' days. Even now, the sixties seems like the era that the current older middle aged people grew up in (which is still true to some extent, after all someone born in 1963 is only 48 now and would have remembered the late 60s somewhat well).

Yeah, the Fifties is the latest time that strikes me as being 'old people' days. Even now, the sixties seems like the era that the current older middle aged people grew up in (which is still true to some extent, after all someone born in 1963 is only 48 now and would have remembered the late 60s somewhat well).


Not to mention the 60s is much more similar to today's culture than the 50s.

Not to mention the 60s is much more similar to today's culture than the 50s.


very true, especially mid 60s onward.

Somewhere in the mid 1960s. Wher eI look at photos of our childhood, I get that "old time" feel.

I would have to say the early to mid 1950's.

If you mean anything that is regarded as "antiquey", I would say up to 1957, which I think was the last year before rock'n'roll.doo-wop became mainstream.

As in "old school", I would say anytime before the internet and cell phones were widely used among the public. So I guess that would mean any thing that happened prior to 1997.

I would actually say even the early 1980s is starting to get that old time feel.  :o I was watching the trailer for Strange Brew, with Rick Moranis, and I hate to say it but it looks like it was filmed every bit of 30 years ago. Same with National Lampoon's Vacation, it's still a very funny movie but it looks very classic now, especially the scene in the hotel where he steals the money. It doesn't look far off from the 70s at all.

When you consider half the people alive on Earth weren't even born yet in 1983, I think it's fair to say it's pretty old time.

With that said, I wouldn't really say the way people behaved back then was truly old fashioned, but then again I wasn't there, I'm only basing it on interviews etc from that time I've seen. I do know that the United States and much of Europe was quite a bit more religious back then.

The mid/late 70's still feel somewhat like 'like my pre-life-time'. I think for the real 'old time' feel I have to go back prior to 1965.

If you mean anything that is regarded as "antiquey", I would say up to 1957, which I think was the last year before rock'n'roll.doo-wop became mainstream.

As in "old school", I would say anytime before the internet and cell phones were widely used among the public. So I guess that would mean any thing that happened prior to 1997.


Anything 50 years or more would be considered antique.

When you consider half the people alive on Earth weren't even born yet in 1983, I think it's fair to say it's pretty old time.


Why do you say that? That was 29 years ago.

The mid/late 70's still feel somewhat like 'like my pre-life-time'. I think for the real 'old time' feel I have to go back prior to 1965.


Back during the doo-wop era.