It is perhaps no coincidence that these decades saw the greatest ever boom in seaside building in America.
If future generations care as much for football as the campaigners fighting for its soul now, they will surely look back at this strange period; the greatest ever boom when, in some fundamental way, the game mislaid its compass.
After we survived the "hey everyone, remember Masters at Work? Wasn't mid-90s NYC house just the best thing ever!" boom, I thought we were ready to move into the future.
Luckily for the telecommunications industry, its revolution has unfolded against the background of the longest-ever boom in the American stockmarket.
The opening was a grand success & business has been booming ever since.
Neighbourhood watch Krakow's historic Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, has been booming ever since Steven Spielberg shot most of Schindler's List here.
The goal is to supply it with local labour and production," said Débora Giorgi, the industry minister, when the deal was announced.Argentine manufacturers have been booming ever since the 2001 crash.
Britain is the "mercenary kingpin" of global private military industry, which has been booming ever since the "war on terror" began 15 years ago, according to a report seen exclusively by the Guardian.
I know many brothers who have said the recruitment has been booming ever since the announcement [of the caliphate's establishment] was made because this is what all these groups fought for for years and years," he said.
They put Puerto Vallarta on the map of the world, and it has been booming ever since -- so much so that it is close to bursting at the seams.
As if to underline how far leftfield Radiohead have subsequently shifted, it's followed by the instrumental Feral, which in its live incarnation – scattered rhythms overlaid with echoing vocal loops and waves of electronic noise – is arguably the most abstruse and uncommercial piece of music you're ever likely to hear booming around an arena venue.
