Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 4:04amFor me, it would be the life of a medieval peasant. The scenery would be beautiful.
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#2re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 4:28am... yet constant famine and the Black Plague would not.
#2re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 5:14am
I would love to have been born in 1900 and come of age during a time when the world was rapidly changing, for better or for worse. There will never be a century like the 20th Century. If you look at how the world was in 1900 and compare it to 2000, it's quite a big change.
At the time, horse-and-buggy was still the way to travel. There were automobiles, to be sure, but they were still a novelty. Telephones were a luxury. Also, airplanes and other so-called flying machines were just a castle in the sky.
Fashion was another big change. Women continued to wear ankle-length skirts and tight corsets into the 1920s, and hair was always kept long and often piled up on the head. (That was a symbol of womanhood.) Young girls wore their hair down and wore knee-length skirts until they came of age. Likewise, boys almost always wore knee-breeches until they reached adolescence. Then, they were privileged to don "long pants."
As for entertainment, movies were in their infancy, there was no radio, and cylinder phonographs were the only musical device. It makes me wonder how much the world will have changed by 2100.
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#3re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 5:33am
I've always dreamed of living during the Renaissance and being able to wear big dresses all the time and see all of the great art being produced...
but I know I wouldn't survive a day :0)
#4re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 8:01am
Ancient Egypt. I would love to see the building of the pyramids, all the beautiful scenery and jewelry and clothing. I would love to know the answers to the questions we ask about them today. The same with the Mayans or Aztecs. 'm fascinated by ancient cultures.
I would have also liked to have been a teenager during the 1980s.
#5re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:51am
The 70's.
For the concerts.
#6re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:52amParis - 1830's - 1840's.
#7re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:53amThe seventies for the concerts I was too stoned at to remember.
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#8re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:56am
StageManager2, that was wonderfully written.
Most likely the fifties or sixties for me. Women were more modest, and the music was fantastic.
#9re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:04am
I like the time I'm living in right now...
...because I have the ability now to look back, enjoy and appreciate the "good parts" from the eras that came before mine... removing the wars, diseases, struggles, plagues and evil-doings...
But if I had to pick one, I think it would be the Turn of the 20th Century. Right around the late 1890s to the early 1900s. Such an exciting time artistically, politically, socially, etc. I'd love to live in Paris then... and New York.
*sigh*
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:25amThe Roaring Twenties, of course!
#11re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:27amIn the era of the Jetsons, so I can just walk through a conveyor and be all showered, dressed, accessorized, and coiffed, effortlessly.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:32amActually, the nineties weren't half bad. A smart President, a pre-Clear Channel radio, my youth and beauty restored...
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Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:49amMay I recommend Jack Finney's two novels about Time travel "Time and Again" and "From Time to Time"? He travels to the 1880's in one and then to the early 20th century in the other-- both amazing recreations of what life was like then. One book involves searching for a vaudeville performer, so he visits numerous shows around New York and sees a young Al Jolson perform-- it's almost as good as seeing it yourself. Until Time travel is possible, this will have to do!
#14re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:49amHuh?
#15re: Which Period Of Time Other Than Your Own Would You Most Like To Live In
Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:54amThe Fifties, for all the good music and musical theater.
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