I was born in 1931 & remember a little of the depression. Tough times for all. Dad lost his job so we moved to the Sierras & panned gold for a living. Came back to SF Bay area in 1937 where I started first grade. Oakies coming to California ruined by the dust bowl. WW2 came & everybody got work.Shipyards hired anyone that could breathe & old so as not to be drafted. Women welders that made 100 bucks a week. Disgraceful my grandmother said. Guess you could say I'm a walking history book. But all in all I've had one Hell of a good time.
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Dino Time...............The Chicks were Hot and Style was everything
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I'd go back to when the Bill of Rights was authored and tell them to clear up the wording of the Second Amendment. 
trapper, This would be the time frame for me as well.
One of my favorite films of all time is (Jeremiah Johnson).
Would love to have had the chance to experience the
Mountain Man way of life with a Hawken rifle and my own
wits and skills to try and survive and eek out a living
in the Rockies back then.
True, it would be a hard life but also very pure and real.
Not knowing what day it was and even not knowing who
the President was. Just day to day adventure and challenges.
Chuck
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I'd like to say the romance of the wild west era but wouldn't like the hardships dealt with back then nor the lawlessness that went on.
I too would like the 1950s as an adult as they were good times as a kid and would like a do over knowing what I know now.
I too would like the 1950s as an adult as they were good times as a kid and would like a do over knowing what I know now.
if i lived in any of those era s i would have a really good gun collection
Horseless Trooper
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I think I would opt for being a cop back in the teens and 20's of the last century and on the southern border of Texas. From the little I have read it sounds like it would have been an interesting time and place to be a lawman. A nice .44 Triple Lock and then making the tough choice between the Model 8 Remington or the Winchester 07.
Comrad
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Hard to choose one era over another but surely a time in American history from colonial to western expansion up to about the turn of the century. When visiting historic sites I can almost feel the history of the people who were there before me and just soak it up. Sometime places seem so familiar I could swear I've been there before. Don't want to get too deep here.
mg357
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I would chose the wild west era and I would probably be a businessman who owns his own gun store and I would have a good selection of guns for my customers to chose from.
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Kool-aid is cheap these days. But my memory still works and none of those things were as evident then as they are now.
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Easily, for me, the Colonial period. But really, the history of this country is so fabulous that almost any era is of great interest until one gets to the post-WW II era. Then it seems the country began a sort of long, slow, death spiral from which I am not certain we will emerge. At minimum, it seems we have completely lost our way. Pray that awful feeling is incorrect.
RobertJ.
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At times, it sounds kinda neat, but then when I think about it, I really appreciate hot showers, indoor plumbing, and not having to worry about smallpox, cholera, or diphtheria.
And modern dental care!
I wouldn't trade right now for any other period of history.
It was an interesting time to grow up,but I remember from 12 on wondering if I would be drafted.
PlaytheAces
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At times, it sounds kinda neat, but then when I think about it, I really appreciate hot showers, indoor plumbing, and not having to worry about smallpox, cholera, or diphtheria.
Y'all forgot air conditioning and them refrigerator things. Add me to the list to stay in the present and read the history books.
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All those era`s would be nice to jump in and out of for just very short periods of time if we could get back to our present day comforts. I was born at the best time in history (1941), in the best part of the country, (wisconsin) by the best parents one could ask for with ancestors that made me proud. I blew it. By that I mean I never done anything to be found in Wikipedia', never amassed a fortune or won one trophy. I will offer no excuses.
My dream would be to be able to take modern recording equipment and hop back in time and interview people. Record some events like civil war battles, custers last stand all from a safe distance with a "Press" sticker in my hat. As far as actualy living in those days and not having modern day comforts, medicines and vehicles I will pass.
First of all I would be long dead and without even warfarin I would be dead for the last 13 years. I wouldnt like never getting over 40 miles away from my birth place in my lifetime like probley 80 % of the people didnt back then. I heard my gr grandpa never made over a dollar a day in his life. Dad told me of doing hard labor for 50 cents a day when he was young. Heard he made $2`s a day on a ranch when I was in the works in 1940. I always was interested in history. Durring the war I was raised in a country general store my mom ran. The type that had "loafer benchs" outside and durring winter chairs around a pot bellied stove for the BS`ers. I remember listening to those old timers talking about their "old days" a lot. I remember one guy talking about chaseing poncho villa with black jack pershing in mexico etc. He told of taking his boots and socks off and how the hide would come right off with em etc. Same guy told of being with a group of friends in the mountains before that for a year before seeing a road. Another told of getting gassed in the great war. My grandmother told storys of wolves chasing them in siberia. I did get to hear first hand storys of people that recalled the 1880`s. Most of it sounded like hard times. There was a appeal to it too.
My dream would be to be able to take modern recording equipment and hop back in time and interview people. Record some events like civil war battles, custers last stand all from a safe distance with a "Press" sticker in my hat. As far as actualy living in those days and not having modern day comforts, medicines and vehicles I will pass.
First of all I would be long dead and without even warfarin I would be dead for the last 13 years. I wouldnt like never getting over 40 miles away from my birth place in my lifetime like probley 80 % of the people didnt back then. I heard my gr grandpa never made over a dollar a day in his life. Dad told me of doing hard labor for 50 cents a day when he was young. Heard he made $2`s a day on a ranch when I was in the works in 1940. I always was interested in history. Durring the war I was raised in a country general store my mom ran. The type that had "loafer benchs" outside and durring winter chairs around a pot bellied stove for the BS`ers. I remember listening to those old timers talking about their "old days" a lot. I remember one guy talking about chaseing poncho villa with black jack pershing in mexico etc. He told of taking his boots and socks off and how the hide would come right off with em etc. Same guy told of being with a group of friends in the mountains before that for a year before seeing a road. Another told of getting gassed in the great war. My grandmother told storys of wolves chasing them in siberia. I did get to hear first hand storys of people that recalled the 1880`s. Most of it sounded like hard times. There was a appeal to it too.
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a different time?
I WAS a teenager in the 1950's and that's good enough for me.
I WAS a teenager in the 1950's and that's good enough for me.
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I'd go back to when the Bill of Rights was authored and tell them to clear up the wording of the Second Amendment.
Also make it a law to anyone running for any level of office--that there will be term limits of two terms period-whether one term is Mayor of a small town, then one as President--no exceptions.
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