Noun
past times remembered with nostalgia
Source: WordNetI wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. Jimi Hendrix
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity. Flora Thompson
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days. George W. Bush
The good old days are now. Tom Clancy
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. Edsger W. Dijkstra