It's a new year, but what year (any time period) would you want to go to?
Just wondering.
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."
That's true.
But I would want to go back to the 60's
I'd go for the '20s. I could totally be a flapper.
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I'd go back to the '50s and bring my best friend, because she really was born decades too late.
1895.......would love to be in Europe during the last great period of Royalty
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
The one period I'd like to live in would be England late 1800's... but only if I was wealthy.
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.
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.
Athens, Greece, 400 BCE. I wanna hang out with Plato and shack up with hunky Greek athletes.
Anywhere between 1890-1949
mostly thought, the 20's
more specifically, 1927, when SHOW BOAT, and GOOD NEWS premiered on Broadway
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The 30s and 40s... things were glamorous and sophisticated.
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Back to the summer of '69! (Oh, yeah!)
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The school year of September of 2003 - June 2004.
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.
Was there regular Pepsi?
Could I go back knowing everything that I know now? Then my freshman year of high school. 1991.
If you want. You can stay your age, or pick a new one.
OMG! It's like this question is actually real.
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!
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Here, here. Good idea!
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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.
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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.
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