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:
“If you can’t smile, don’t open a store.”
—Chinese proverb.
“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)