What year would you go back to?
What year would you go back to?
#0What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 12:55pm
It's a new year, but what year (any time period) would you want to go to?
Just wondering.
#1re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:01pm
I used to think I would LOVE to do something like this. "I was born in the wrong era," etc.
But after talking about that with my dad one time, he said one of the wisest things he's ever said to me:
"You should be glad you're alive NOW. This way you can pick and choose, and enjoy all the best elements of these past eras, as well."
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#2re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:08pm
That's true.
But I would want to go back to the 60's
#3re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:10pm
I'd go for the '20s. I could totally be a flapper.
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 01:10 PM
#4re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:12pmI'd go back to the '50s and bring my best friend, because she really was born decades too late.
#7re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:37pm1895.......would love to be in Europe during the last great period of Royalty
#8re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 1:41pm
11 december 1939
just in time for the GWTW PREMIERE celebration in ATLANTA ... and i'd be one of the first to see SCARLETT in her BARBECUE DRESS 
#9re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:20pmThe one period I'd like to live in would be England late 1800's... but only if I was wealthy.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#10re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:31pm
1950s.
PROS: Rock and Roll was new, The best musicals and plays are on Broadway, Fountain Shops, Teens and Young Adults have freedoms they never had before, etc.
CONS: Racial predjudices run rampid.
#11re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:53pm
I would go back and have a milkshake with my 12-year-old self... the [CostumeMistres] who was filled to the brim with big dreams and had a heart as wide as the sky. I think that my 12-year-old self would have been very disappointed in the way that my 21-year-old self spent her money, chose her boyfriends and dedicated her time. She would tell me to buy fewer lattes and buy more sandwiches for the homeless guy on the corner, and to spend more time in the church nursery and less time in a dark, smoke-filled bar.
So, 1996.
#12re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:59pmAthens, Greece, 400 BCE. I wanna hang out with Plato and shack up with hunky Greek athletes.
#13re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:07pm
Anywhere between 1890-1949
mostly thought, the 20's
more specifically, 1927, when SHOW BOAT, and GOOD NEWS premiered on Broadway
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#14re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:25pmThe 30s and 40s... things were glamorous and sophisticated.
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#15re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:46pmBack to the summer of '69! (Oh, yeah!)
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#16re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 4:12pmThe school year of September of 2003 - June 2004.
Celestial Entropy
Understudy Joined: 8/10/05
#17re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:36pm
Being a female that lives a logicians life and is too opininated on things like science and religion, I doubt I could make it through one day without being imprisoned and/or burnt at the stake during the likes of the 8th to 18th century. Give me the Carl Sagan years from the mid 1960's to his death in 1996. To have been an apprentice of his would have been awesome...
Make note: my limit of going back in time is to 1964... anything before 1964 is what I consider the pre-Diet Pepsi years and therefore are of no value to me. 
Off-subject: love your avatar, Elphaba! Care to join me for some tea... we can use my Royal Doulton hand-painted periwinkle set.
#18re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:39pmWas there regular Pepsi?
#19re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:43pmCould I go back knowing everything that I know now? Then my freshman year of high school. 1991.
#20re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:47pm
If you want. You can stay your age, or pick a new one.
OMG! It's like this question is actually real.
#21re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:00pm
I would just go back to 2000 and make sure those damn ballots in Florida were designed properly.
A bunch of Jewish retirees voting for Pat Buchanan - as if!
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 06:00 PM
#22re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:01pmHere, here. Good idea!
duroc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/05
#23re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:18pm
This is a fun topic... there are a lot of times I'd like to go back to... or at least 'visit.'
1830s-1860 - I'd love to be among the traveling scholars, the 'celebrities' of their day, like Thoreau and Emerson.
mid 1960s-early 70s - muscle cars, LPs, Beatles craze
cerca 300 AD - It'd be great to be a Roman citizen around the height of the Roman Empire... they had running water (aquaduct systems), a bustling economy, even indoor plumbing.
dark/middle ages - might be interesting to have lived back then... though, practically speaking w/ short lifespans, laborious lifestyles, and bloody wars I can imagine it was actually not as fun as it is made out to be in the movies. Though, it might fun to be have lived during the height of the Italian Renaissance, which essentially ended the middle ages.
duroc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/05
#24re: What year would you go back to?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:21pm
oh... left one out
1930s - I am really into swing dance. this was a revolutionary time for swing and jazz. I'd love to have lived back then.
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 06:21 PM
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