[C19fan]

Yes, one can perhaps describe the Gilded Age as decadent, but they produced beautiful things unlike our own decadent age that embraces ugliness.

[abb]

Agree. It was only the most productive and creative age in the history of mankind. More people were lifted from poverty than any other time in our history. All because of the “Robber Barons” that created the jobs.

[unread]

"Yes, one can perhaps describe the Gilded Age as decadent, but they produced beautiful things unlike our own decadent age that embraces ugliness."

Well, that's true isn't it.? Ugly cars and ugly people, both mentally and physically, are everywhere.

A trip to Walmart is like going to the zoo...

[Romulus]

Almost no one knows what that word means. Especially journalists.

[dfwgator]

We toured Boldt Castle, in the Thousand Islands area, a few years ago...



Construction abrupty stopped in 1904. George Boldt, the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria, commissioned it for his wife, but when she died, he stopped it. It was restored in 1977.

[Albion Wilde]

Yes, one can perhaps describe the Gilded Age as decadent, but they produced beautiful things unlike our own decadent age that embraces ugliness.

Like the furnishings, colors and stylings of the renovation. Very Soviet. Do.Not.Like.