What time period would you like to visit?

[IrishEyes]

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It can be a Hollywood style time period if you would like. When and where would you like to go? Would you like to meet a specific person? The old west, 1920s Chicago, the revolutionary war, ancient Egypt, Renaissance Italy, Victorian England, etc.

I would go back to the early 1900s when Theodore Roosevelt was president I think that would be an interesting time. I would like to meet my great grandparents.

[cleveramerican]

1. Concord Ma. April 19,1775

right down the street

[ZombieHorde]

2. Far future.

I'm curious how long humanity will last, and how we'll change.

[petronius]

3. Tough question! I think I'd go with the Roman Empire during the reign

of Hadrian or thereafter. Assuming that I have money and the freedom to travel around, of course. Or perhaps the Silk Road and Constantinople between the 11th and 13th Centuries...

[Kaleva]

4. Pacific Time

[First Speaker]

5. NYC between the wars...

...a great city in a legendary era. Babe Ruth--George Gershwin--Broadway's Golden Age--Eugene O'Neill--Barrymore's Hamlet--Louis Armstrong with Fletcher Henderson--Lou Gehrig--pulp magazines--Duke Ellington--the Roaring Twenties, and the Depression after(assuming I'd have the $$$ to tough it out...LOL)--the Golden Age of movies--Damon Runyon's New York--the Algonquin Round Table--it just has everything...

[IrishEyes]

9. Sounds good.

I love reading about that time period.

[UTUSN]

6. Ancient Greece

[duncang]

7. Now

There would be a few maybe's though. !960's to see Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc. That would be a preferred time. At the earliest it would be the around the time of the revolution. If I were to go back I'd want some place I could go and stay for more then a day or 2.

Anything back too far and the chances of making it out alive would be slim. Just getting ticked off, looking different, doing something stupid or saying something stupid could be a death sentence. Also not being able to communicate could get you killed as a outsider. Even though you did mention hollywood style since the old west wasn't even close to what is in the movies or tv to me it wouldn't be the same. Same thing and worse as you go back further. Seeing people bought, sold, abused or killed would be too much for me to stand by. If I were physically there I'd have to respond somehow. Seeing it on a screen or being ghost like where I could not interact would be the only way I could handle it. I don't think I would care to see some of the "historical figures". I'd rather walk the streets and see the average person going about their lives like a ghost. I love history, but really would like to see and document the average person.

[NightWatcher]

8. The Summer of 1993 (year of HS graduation)

Lollapalooza, fun times, good music, and not a care

[IrishEyes]

10. Yes, good times.

Clinton was president. I was young. Feels like yesterday.

[Mr.Bill]

11. The Jazz clubs of New York in the 40s and 50s.

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charlie Christian, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, etc.

[True Dough]

12. The time period, not the making of the movie

^^^ Actually, that would be a thrill, but nah. I'd prefer to go back to April 14, 1865 and prevent John Wilkes Booth from pulling the trigger on Honest Abe. Lincoln didn't deserve that fate.

How about you, IrishEyes? You started the tread without revealing your preference.

[Initech]

13. I've always been fascinated with the Prohibition Era.

[fNord]

14. Twain/ Ash/king Author's court style...

I've been working on a fantasy/historical fiction novel about this very idea.

First, not here, TONIGHT's Debate is going to be a (deleated) for America just because it's happening. ......

not to spoil the story,

I'd have been there to jump in front of the bullet that killed Bobby....

that's it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. Either 1997 or 1982, two years in which I made HUGE mistakes...

That had I not, my life would be drastically different for the better.

82 because I made a stupid mistake which kept me out of the Army Warrant Officer program which I was entering to fly helicopters.

97 because I turned down what was in hindsight a dream job in motor racing.

I've thought in the past about what earlier decade or century, but an old friend had a great line when asked a similar question;

"I'll stay right here, with modern medical science, thank you very much. I prefer to live in an era where a compound fracture doesn't often lead to amputation or where debilitating diseases or infections aren't a death sentence "

A good point in my view!

[RebelOne]

16. 100 years into the future. n/t

[Ron Obvious]

17. Definitely the past

Not the future. I'm having trouble coping with the rapid pace of change now and have noticed a stubborn resistance to change and Luddite tendencies in myself the past few years. I'd probably be completely freaked out by 20 years in the future, let alone 100 years if the current pace of change is anything to go by. We'll no doubt be be living in Idiocracy by then and I just can't imagine feeling nostalgic over moronic TV reality shows or the shite that's on the radio now.

I've always had a fascination with ancient Rome around the start of the time of the Caesars. That or the enlightenment or the high renaissance.

That's all provided I could return to the present for modern day dentistry and medicine of course.

[femmocrat]

18. The 1940s.

I would like to go to a canteen and jitterbug with the GIs to that great music. I would eliminate all the sorrow and horror of the war, though. I just want to experience the "good times."

[WinkyDink]

19. Sentimentality aside, I would like to be there when the original Gobekli Tepe was built:

And all the rest, too.

http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/top50stones.htm

[rumdude]

20. The ancient Roman Republic

or Ancient Greece

[lastlib]

21. French Revolution

I'm fascinated by it.

Or the Russian Revolution.

[Generic Brad]

22. 25 years in the future

Then I would return and spend the remainder of my days cashing in on the future.

[Separation]

23. The age of sail!

I absolutely love the old sailing ships. Galleons, Man-o-Wars, and any sailing types of the 16th & 17th century.

[DFW]

24. 26th century--acompanied by a translator for the updated version of the languages I now speak

I would like to know how people (if there are any left) will look upon us in the context of an ancient era.

[Orrex]

25. 16 minutes ago

I would totally tell Bob from Accounting what he can do with that last bearclaw.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. I've always wanted to go to the cave days, where there were few people and lots of nature.

Our little band, up at night with a fire, the sounds of wind and animals outside, painting on the walls and telling stories.

[JonLP24]

27. 1700s

A lot of interesting events around the world, notably involving the British. Either Scotland, US, or the Ottoman Empire.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Mr._Hempher,_The_British_Spy_to_the_Middle_East

On edit: post inspired by TV series Outlander.

[NobodyHere]

28. Definitely the future

Maybe I'd pick up a sports almanac or something

I definitely wouldn't visit any time before the invention of deodorant and indoor plumbing.