If you could visit any era in time when would it be?

[David LaPell]

This should be pretty thought provoking. If you could visit any time in history, when would it be? As much as I would like to see the Old West, I think I would rather see the Depression Era midwest. While stockbrokers were taking swan dives out of skyscrapers, farmers were doing what they could to feed their families. You had the early days of law enforcement being set on the modern road with decent firearms like the .38 Super, the .38-44 and then the .357 Magnum. Americans pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and dusted themselves off and got back together. I remember my grandfather telling me how when he was 15 years old in 1930 he was jumping freight trains heading west looking for work and how when his father was out there with him later on for food he shot jackrabbits while leaned over the hood of his dad's Model A Ford at night with a .22 pump rifle. I personally would not mind meeting people like that when they were at their best.

 

[autocar56]

I Think the 50s would pretty cool

 

[Rockman]

A time of my choosing!

Can I take my physician and pharmacist with me?

 

[Foodfuzz]

I think I would probably choose 1870's to ? era in the West.

 

[M29since14]

I have always been a amateur WWII-historian (VERY amateur), so naturally that would be my first choice. It was an incredibly interesting time, but certainly one that I think everyone would agree that we hope we never see anything like again.

The Depression era would have been interesting too, and of course who wouldn't want to be able to learn more about the American Revolution? I would pay a tidy sum to shake George Washington's hand. And then there is the Civil War ("War for States' Rights," whatever you want to call it)...

 

[jlrhiner]

I too would have liked to have seen the old west. But my first choice would be to hear Jesus teach. (Which is surprising to me, as I'm not particularly religious.

I would have liked to see Machu Pichu being built.

I would like to have seen the Cahokia Indians, and gone to China 3,000 years ago.

I would have liked to tell Madison and Jefferson et al, "No, no! Write it out CLEARLY! Expand on your thoughts! In the future there will be idiots that will mis-interpret what you wrote!!!"

 

[Tupperware]

100 years to the FUTURE would be interesting. We pretty much know what happened in the past....

 

[VonFatman]

Pre-1492 in N.America. I'd love to see this place prior to expansion from Europe.

Bob

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Dave; I was born in 1931 so I lived thru the Depression & WW2 & Korea. Believe me the 1950's were the best. Good guns, good cars, fast women & I was single. In other words I had a ball. Hunted out of state for deer & elk for a 78 buck license. Gas was 25 cents a gallon & stamps were 3 cents. I was making 101 bucks a week before taxes. Bought a brand new Ford pickup, V-8 & overdrive for $1988 out the door & got $596 for my '46. Hell, I was in hog heaven.Payments were $54,20 a month. Winchester 49's were 45 bucks used. Colt SA's were $75 . I bought a Win. Model 92 Carbine for 25 bucks, took it home & cleaned it up, cold blued it & took it back a month later & got 40 for it.You ask the best years & I gave you my answer. I've lived going on 82 years & don't regret a thing. But I do worry about the America we once had.

 

[feralmerril]

I am 10 years younger than dick and my experiance`s and views are close to his. If I could have my dream it would be a time machine where I could back and forth in history with modern recording equipment and interview key figures, tape them and the areas.

 

[nawilson]

I would have liked to tell Madison and Jefferson et al, "No, no! Write it out CLEARLY! Expand on your thoughts! In the future there will be idiots that will mis-interpret what you wrote!!!"

I have often thought the same thing! Too bad we can't work this.

 

[mc5aw]

I'd like go back a month or so, when Powerball hit $300 Million +. With the winning numbers of course.

 

[model70hunter]

My Dad grew up in the depression, his favorite saying about the era was most grown men did n't have 2 nickles to rub together. The 50's were his 30 to 40 age. I think he really enjoyed it, it was my preteen years. Life was different in the 50's. If one wanted to just life and enjoy life the 50's would be great. This time I'd keep my 55' Bel Aire 2 door hard top.....

Ancient Egypt pulls me some, but one might have been on pyramid building detail..... Rome when gladiators were at their peak and corruption was maximized out, OH Wait, that may be where we are at this very moment.

 

[Doc Mark]

Sweet Bride and I would probably go back to the French and Indian War, or the Revolutionary War, since those are eras we reenact. We have some of the skills necessary to live in such times, but am quite aware of how perilous time they were. Still, those eras call to us, and maybe, just maybe we could talk our forefathers into making their thoughts a tad more plain: Like SPELL IT OUT, EXACTLY!! Take care, and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc

 

[kmyers]

To witness what Hannibal did to the Romans for 15 or 16 years. The greatest superpower of its day to be forced on the defensive and adopt Fabian tactics after the defeats he inflicted on them.

 

[tops]

I was born poor in 1941 and there was nothing good about no air cond., no central heat or indoor plumbing. I do think that the workmanship in guns was better before the 60s. One good thing about when I grew up was there were not as many foolish laws to obey and I miss that. We could order guns in the mail, shoot hawks that were getting the chickens, build outbuildings without getting permits. You could do pretty much what you wanted to do on your own land. All in all they were good old days. Larry

 

[chud333]

I would like to go ahead to 2016 and see if America as we knew it still exists.
Or maybe back around 1849 to visit the gold rush era.

Chuck

 

[shouldazagged]

I was born in 1937, and have some memories of WWII and lots of Korea--I was only a couple of years too young to go to that one. The '50's were great in some ways, not in others. Polio was a terror before the Salk vaccine, and there were the McCarthy years.

Might sound strange, but I'd like to return to June 6, 1944, and hit Omaha Beach in the first wave with my dad, a 33-year-old, shortsighted war correspondent. I'd like to see London during the Battle of Britain. I'd enjoy shooting the breeze with Will Rogers and W.C. Fields.

I could go on and on: watching Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain command his troops on Little Round Top. Seeing the battle of Lookout Mountain--I lived in Chattanooga for a while as a kid. Listening in as Grant and Lee talked before signing the surrender at Appomattox.

Watching the Doolittle raiders take of that ridiculously short flight deck on the way to bomb Tokyo.

I may be up half the night thinking about this one.

 

[A10]

Moving forward, maybe visit the year 2525, and see if Man is still alive....

Moving back, maybe visit Culloden and take a few hundred machine guns, and a couple hundred thousand rounds of ammunition.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Europe in 1944/1945.