Is there a time period or era that appeals to you?

[RadishRose]

For myself I'd like to visit the American "Golden Age" around the turn of the last century. Of course with money. It seems like such an elegant era.

Where would you like to visit and why?

 

[Becky1951]

The 1800's.

 

[Gaer]

What an interesting question! What era appeals or Where would I like to visit?
What appeals is:
Ancient Egypt!
1200's France
1300's Wales
1930's 1940's America because i'm drawn to the kitchen decor and the lady's suits and hats of the 40's!
early 1900's Vienna, the Art Nouveau movement
1896 Skagway, Alaska the Klondike. the gold rush.

 

[Aunt Bea]

For me it would be life on a small family farm in the Depression years leading up to WWII.


“Grandpa take me back to yesterday...”

 

[hollydolly]

I'm not sure TBH..I love Victorian England... albeit that it was mostly poverty and disease stricken.....but I think if I could visit somewhere it would be to see how my Irish G grandparents made their way to Scotland during the Great Irish potato famine of 1845

 

[Sassycakes]

If I had to pick a time period I would pick the 70's. In the '50s my older brother was drafted during the Korean war. In the '60s right before I got married my husband was drafted during the Viet Nam war so I'll choose the 70's.
When I gave birth to my 2 children.

 

[horseless carriage]

It's easy to see the past, and a particular time in that past, through rose tinted spectacles, but having said that, I do so love the fashions that only the privileged few could afford during the inter-war years.

 

[Tish]

18th century, as backwards as it is, I love it.
The simplicity and elegance and the manners, and fashion.

 

[RadishRose]

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It's easy to see the past, and a particular time in that past, through rose tinted spectacles, but having said that, I do so love the fashions that only the privileged few could afford during the inter-war years.

I never would have guessed.

 

[Pink Biz]

For myself I'd like to visit the American "Golden Age" around the turn of the last century. Of course with money. It seems like such an elegant era.

I must agree with you!

 

[horseless carriage]

I never would have guessed.

We are definitely not a one trick pony.
But I do love your complimentary quip.

 

[Alligatorob]

I have always wanted to see ancient Rome, in the time of Augustus.

I suspect however that I would find life much less comfortable than I am use to!

 

[Nathan]

Is there a time period or era that appeals to you?

Nothing from the past, I'd like to visit the 25th century, if civilization still exists it would mean they successfully overcame the many converging conditions leading to apocalypse.

 

[senior chef]

ANY era ? Wow. So many choices to make. That said, however, I'd visit ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, 2,600 B.C., so I could watch how they built the Great Pyramid.

2nd choice ? During the building of Macchu Pichu, so I could see how the Inca cut those stones with such precision.

3rd choice Athens, 447-438 B.C., during the building of the Parthenon.

Seems to have a common thread. Ancient building methods.

Photo of ancient Inca stone work. So precise that you can not fit a razor blade between the stones.

 

[officerripley]

The 1980s; I wish I had been younger then.

 

[Pinky]

70's .. best job experiences, and met my hubby then. Life was good - it still is.

 

[feywon]

i couldn't pick just one because i am interested in, as a dear friend once said, EVERYTHING! History, science biology and neurobiology, psychology, art and artists. So of course there are events i'd love to be able to take extended peeks at the reality of like the Algonquin Roundtable or the gatherings of American ExPat artists in France post WWI or certain crucial moments in history--when those in power considering choices that would impact us all, i'd want to know their thought processes at the time. (Not what just they put in memoirs or biographers put in books about them.) i like certain decors, designs, fashions but if you have the courage--wear/use/drive whatever serves your purposes and is comfortable gives you joy no matter what era it comes from.

But i wouldn't want to live any other time but right now, here/now is where i make the choices i need to make for me.

i have to smile when people romanticize the past, because people mistakenly think positive thinking is just seeing the world thru rose colored glasses, painting silver linings around every cloud but anyone who indulges nostalgia for past eras (a little for our own life and times is unavoidably human) is usually ignoring (denying?) the realities of daily life for most people in those times. The movie Midnight in Paris addresses this very well, when a time-slip allows a modern screen writer to visit the gatherings of ExPat artists i spoke of in first paragraph.

Why i wouldn't want to visit future and come back is a whole other discussion.

 

[CAKCy]

I would like to visit a time in the future when the problems of humanity would be a thing of the past. No wars, no disease, no poverty and famine, no crime, no illiteracy, no economic classes, no racism, no hatred between the people, no Pepsi Cola (I'm a loyal fan of Coke though I can't have it any more) and lots of other "no"s....

 

[oldiebutgoody]

For myself I'd like to visit the American "Golden Age" around the turn of the last century. Of course with money. It seems like such an elegant era.

Where would you like to visit and why?

EXCELLENT topic.

The Gilded Age roughly encompassed the years 1870-1900. This would be my ideal time period to visit (assuming I was fully immunized to illnesses that existed and did not or could not transmit illnesses to that period). I would love to watch baseball and cricket played in NYC and Brooklyn, eat at the many oyster bars that existed at the time, ride trolleys & the newly created EL, take a ferry across the many rivers in the City, and watch the many parades that took place in the era. I would take a camera with me everywhere.

OK, gotta confess that there is one vice I would succumb to on a (hopefully) very limited basis - and that is attend one or two rat baiting contests that were so popular in Manhattan in those days:


Kit Burns’ Rat Pit at 273 Water Street – Secrets of Manhattan (wordpress.com)

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I've always been fascinated by Ancient Egypt, and Rome. The Egyptians were rather bazar in that they lived in a world filled with thousands of gods, and magic spells, but also were great observers of nature, and science. They calculated the circumference of the earth, before most knew it was round. And I don't think Rome would be that much different than life in a city today. But I'd love to see them.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Regency England... I look good in Empire-waisted dresses. (Can I smuggle a modern toothbrush in with me??)

 

[oldiebutgoody]

Another period I would love to witness is the meetings of the Committees of Correspondence, esp in Boston just before they declared their intentions before the Boston Tea Party:

Samuel Adams started them and he wrote, “The complete accomplishment of it in so short a time and by such simple means was perhaps a singular example in the history of mankind. Thirteen clocks were made to strike together: a perfection of mechanism, which no artist had ever before effected.”

 

[Lewkat]

The Roaring 20s. My mom was a teenager in those days and she had a terrific time.

 

[IFortuna]

The future.

 

[oldpop]

Pre-European North America. The indigenous people back then lived like human beings. Much more in tune with nature than we do now.