Many years age, in a cabin in northern Minnesota, my father and and I played this game. We both agreed that the mid/late 1930's would be the time. World travel was evolving, the world didn't completely hate everybody else and there were still things to discover. Blame it on Raiders of the lost Ark if you want, but that is when I would want to experience.

Same thing, that era has always intrigued me. Music, cars, houses, clothing.

I would like to live during the time that the pyramids are being built or when the Greek empire is is thriving

For me, mid '20's to late '30's, when Broadway Musicals were at their best.

Late 50's to early 70's. The musclecar era and the golden age of drag racing. Plus I could have bought new Pythons for about 125 bucks apiece.

The 30's. As in AD 30 - 36 in the middle east.
It would be fascinating and answer a lot of questions.

In the U.S., probably 1890-1900 or so (the Gilded age). Anywhere else in the world, 1920s continental Europe, maybe up until 1932 or so. Couln't abide or tolerate proto-Nazis getting in power and systmetized anti-Semiticism being planned/starting.

I suppose I'm different, I grew up in the late 50's and to me that was the Golden Age. Hot cars and a wonderful time. 70's muscle cars came next and I was in my realm!

Had a 70 Dodge Challenger that I had a hell of a summer in when I was 18!!

Still look back with fond memories!!

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
I suppose I'm different, I grew up in the late 50's and to me that was the Golden Age. Hot cars and a wonderful time. 70's muscle cars came next and I was in my realm!

Had a 70 Dodge Challenger that I had a hell of a summer in when I was 18!!

Still look back with fond memories!!

Ignoring for the moment Viet Nam and the draft, I'd like to relive about 1964 to 1970 as a young adult with the means to enjoy the cars of that era.

As it was, I was 14 in 1964 and couldn't muster up two nickels to rub together if my life depended on it.

From a purely historical standpoint, 1900 to about 1940 would have been fascinating. Technology really got a jump start in that time frame.

Anything before the time when phones got smart and the people got stupid.

Waxing nostalgic about times gone bye is simple enough. Would love to be a blacksmith in the golden age of steam. Looking at the technology that was developing in the '30s seems more impressive than developments existing today. To think what was designed with patience and a slide rule? Yeah. Settling the western frontier would be fun, except for the rattlesnakes, brutal wilderness, and dysentery.

The most rewarding of all would be:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
The 30's. As in AD 30 - 36 in the middle east.
It would be fascinating and answer a lot of questions.

I would like to be 18 in 1938.

The 1970's, post pill and pre-AIDS. I lived through it once, and it was a magical time.

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Originally posted by Tuckerrnr1:

the mid/late 1930's would be the time.

The time when Hitler was coming into power?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I would like to live during the time that the pyramids are being built or when the Greek empire is is thriving

Same here. Consider: when the great pyramids at Giza were built was more distant in time to Cleopatra than she is to us, and she died not too long after the height of the Greek world. An awe-inspiring few thousand years in human history.

I think it would be amazing to see what life was like during some of the highlights of antiquity in the various high cultures around the Mediterranean. What was Athens like just prior to the Pelopponesian war? Egypt under the rule of any one of a couple dozen different pharaohs? Rome at the end of Vespasian’s life, or under Marcus Aurelius? So hard to pick. There’s nearly three thousand years of history in those areas that I would love to see and experience first-hand, if it were somehow possible.

The year 2121, just to see how things progress from here.

I guess I'm more interested in the future than the past since we know how the past turns out

If this is one of those time travel things, I just want to go back to 1980 and live that again.

1880 to 1900. I want to experience the Old West.

Is this go and come back? Or have health and wealth and just be living in a select time period? Not time travel back but just exist at that time but healthy and wealthy?

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Originally posted by jljones:
If this is one of those time travel things, I just want to go back to 1980 and live that again.

I hate to spoil it for you, but USA won in Hockey, and USSR lost in Afghanastan.


Me? Well, Mr Peabody, I'd set the way-back machine to 1774, 1775 or so... I'd like to really see the how's and why's of the Revolution. I'd really like to hang out with Hamilton, Franklin, Washington, King and their pals in the 1780's, see what was going on with them.

Number Two would be the mid to late 1800's or so. Checking out that "cowboy" thing out west.

1950's and 60's. I'd love to see my grandparents in their prime and I would've loved to have hunted mule deer in Utah during that time period.