If you lived in 1900,

Gaer

Gaer

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For fun, If you were 20 years old in the year 1900, where would you be and what would be doing?
I was thinking about it and I would either be in Skagway, Alaska as a song and dance girl or in Vienna as one of the Glasgow Girls. ( if I could) I'd be smack in the middle of the Art Noveau movement! Ha!

Think about it for a minute! Where would you be?
 

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1900 ... maybe like my grandmother, who was about 14 yrs. old at that time .... getting ready to take the trip of a lifetime to a strange land, America, to Ellis Island
.. married two years later, and starting a family on a large farm in the country.
I love that history, because it turned out like an amazing storybook tale.
 
I see myself dressed up in period attire, sipping tea on the veranda or open porch of a fancy Victorian mansion among a class of women that reflected my lifestyle, possibly a class of socialites.

Life would be comfortable, my husband a dentist or doctor, and the highlight of any trek would be in a horse drawn carriage. I can hear the horses hooves clopping right now, there's cheer in the air, life in unrushed, and there's a sense that time stands still.

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Gaer said:
RoseMarie and Aunt Marg: BOTH OF YOU SHOULD WRITE!!!! WHY ARE YOU NOT WRITING? WOW!
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Awww... thank you, Gaer.

You're a sweetheart!

I've always thought of myself as a poor story-teller and writer, as I have always struggled with reading... a handicap I was born with, but your thread allowed me to go back in time and invasion myself actually living the moment.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Awww... thank you, Gaer.

You're a sweetheart!

I've always thought of myself as a poor story-teller and writer, as I have always struggled with reading... a handicap I was born with, but your thread allowed me to go back in time and invasion myself actually living the moment.
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Yes! Good! You have a way with words! You should WRITE! AND STOP SMOKING! hahaha!
 
What a great thread @Gaer !

I'd love to be in Saratoga Springs, NY, strolling the board avenues with a parasol on the arm of a handsome gentleman, sitting in the parks enjoying the beauty of the maples and laughing at the antics of ducks. Summer evening concerts, lectures (I believe Mark Twain made a stop here to give one of his talks) or maybe taking a trip to Lake George to have homemade ice cream and lemonade while reposing on the veranda of one of the gracious, grand hotels.

The only snag is, I can't imagine wearing a corset!
 
My Great Grandparents came over from Norway and Ireland during that timeframe and settled in the Dakotas. I would probably be working on somebody's farm and trying to figure out how to escape and make my life better. Maybe I could go shovel coal on a steamship.

But on a cool day in January like this, I would be out chopping firewood.
 
I was born a Glasgow girl 45 years after the end of the original movement.... and a toddler in the revival in the 60's ...but I don't have an arty bone in my body in the same way as the Glasgow girls did.. so my granny was born in 1900 into poverty in the glasgow slums ..120 years ago in Aug 1900... I would have been a pioneer in the making of Radio...Documentaries to teach people about the importance of cleanliness and the prevention of infant mortality...
 
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Pecos said:
My Great Grandparents came over from Norway and Ireland during that timeframe and settled in the Dakotas. I would probably be working on somebody's farm and trying to figure out how to escape and make my life better. Maybe I could go shovel coal on a steamship.

But on a cool day in January like this, I would be out chopping firewood.
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Norway and Ireland? The Dakotas? You have the same heritage as me, Pecos!
 
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I would be helping out on the farm. It would be hard work but from family stories I've heard and photos I have they were a close and happy family. They never traveled far form home but they had picnics, swimming, fishing and good conversation sitting around a fire in the evening until it was time for bed. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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Ditto for me.
 
I'd probably doing what my grandfather was doing. He worked for the town 's highway dept. He drove the steam roller. When I was a little kid, the town still had a real STEAM roller. My grandfather always had a little something going on the side. He and a buddy had a little company selling manhole covers. Now, you think there wouldn't be much of a call for manhole covers in a sleepy Mass, town. But my grandfather drove the steamroller. One or two swipes with that heavy machine, and presto- broken manhole cover. He told me that you broke the covers right in front of a lawyer's ,or a doctor's home. So all night long, you heard "Ka- clang , Ka clang". The town would promptly replace a cover, when angry professionals called.
 
Since I am already here, and then going BACK to 1900, I would build a large storage shed safe from the less than honest folk, and stuff it with everything that fetches big money on Antiques Road Show. :cool:

...we have never seen one of these in this condition. At auction, it would fetch, hmmmm ... $200,000. ...and that is just one of thousands in storage!

Tony
 

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