Open Era

Open era or Open Era may refer to:

  • Open Era (tennis), the period since 1968 where professionals can compete in Grand Slams
  • Glasnost era, the increased openness in the Soviet Union from the mid-1980s

Open era or wide-open era, may also refer to:

  • Open range era of the American Old West when cattle were allowed to roam freely in many states
  • Early 20th century in many U.S. communities when gambling, prostitution, and/or other vices were tolerated by local governments. Among these communities were:
    • Galveston, Texas
    • Hot Springs, Arkansas

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or era:

    To open a book brings profit.
    Chinese proverb.

    The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)