Era living

I know what you meant, but that's not what I meant.

 

The Go-Go's don't give good BJ's.
Their Lips Are Sealed.

 

*snort*

Also, the Runaways were teenagers, FYI. Cherie Currie was 15 when she joined.


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Ancient Greece would be pretty awesome... I like Athenian society the best, but being a woman, I'd probably be better off in Sparta.

 

I could have answered that instantly off the top of my head. The exact date or even just year for that matter would have required an internet search or something similar.

 

Well, I was 4 at the time, so I was ahead of the curve.

TFPDOM @ 4

 

If it were a choice I would greatly prefer the Quantum Leap observer type of thing. How it was supposed to be before Dr. Beckett volunteered himself and was "lost to time".

This is of course assuming that someone else is footing the massive power bill; in the novels they say the annual power requirements for the project site exceeds what the entire state of New Mexico uses in the same period. Sounds reasonable to me and makes sense considering Adm. Calavicci has to throw on his dress uniform every so often and attempt to justify the budget they have to the higher ups.

I would be delighted just being able to watch Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, etc, etc. No real interest in seeing the Beatles or other groups from that range play, but I would consider it just for the historical value.

 

I thought more about this last night.
I would like to spend a day in the court of Catherine the Great.

 

I don't romanticize about the past. I'm pretty sure most people's lives were boring at best, and harsh for most of the rest. We see history through the lens of the more successful and more productive, but these people were the out-liers of their times. A person of my social stratum is probably best served in our present time.

 

People these days have the luxury of distraction. ( Hooray for that). Maybe I should have said drudgery instead of boring. As far as the wonderful romantic history. The "small folk" were barely mentioned. Their lives were anything but romantic. I would probably have been a "small person". (Thanks George RR Martin). I bet you anything the memoirs were of people who were not... So if I could choose who I would be and when I'm still not sure I'd rather be in the past.

My father's family were plantation owners, pre-civil war, but I don't fantasize about being there/then either.

 

I get what cavyman is saying. At the same time, my sense of curiosity would forbid me from not exploring the past....any of it, in any context.

If time travel were possible, I'd be a time junkie.

 

I'm just not romantic, I guess.

 

I don't think of it as romance as much as curiosity.

 

There is no question for me that there is a certain amount of rose coloured glass between us the past. Even acknowledging that, I'd have it agree that it's all about the curiosity.

I want to see how bad/good it was.

 

Hippie San Francisco in the 60s, Woodstock, free love, and all that.

Then to be in a rock n' roll band in the 70s...

However, if I could go forward in time a thousand years to see if we evolve into a techno utopia or had to go through WW3 for the last remaining coal and oil, that would be interesting to see.

 

If it were possible I would take my camera gear and visit some sites like San Fransisco the day before the earthquake in 1906, Spirit Lake the the day before and morning of the 1980 eruption, and similar places.

 

That sounds real similar to the plotline of a Jeff Daniels film called Disaster In Time. (for some reason IMdB has it listed differently)

Timescape (1992) - IMDb

Pretty good film, iirc.

 

I would like to visit NYC in the 1940s to soak up the jazz scene...and play. I might impress some by sounding a little different.