Living in a different time ...

[the ringo kid]

I use to do the mountain man thing..

It's fun reliving the times at ronyvoos and such, but them dammed cricks is cold in the winter time.

Keith (Hawkswill) used to do that too.

 

[lrb1200]

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.

Just hope "Tuco" doesn't walk in.

 

[twobit601]

Be nice just to stay in this time, but get a 20 year old body. Think of all the people you know that are only alive because of the medication they take daily or the surgeries they have had. Other than that, I'd pick the old west.

 

[walkin jack]

I have been attracted to different time periods in history at different points in my life. Cowboy in the old west, Sailor on the 7 seas in the days of the tall sailing ships, etc. But as I age and gain perspective and learn to get past the romance of periods in history and find out some of the more harsh realities I have settled on the time that I think would be the best.

For me, as far as I can determine, The last 10 years of the 19th century and the first 30 years of the 20th century, say, 1890 or so up to the stock market crash and beginning of the depression say about 1929 or so.

The country would have been mostly settled by then as far as Native Americans and bad outlaws even in the far west. And it was about the most prosperous period in American history. True, it was before air conditioning and knowledge of medical issues was limited but AT LEAST there were no cell phones or computers.

The economy was strong then and we still had most of our innocence. And the American people were not so splintered in there perceptions as to what out problems were and what needed to be done about them.

 

[walkin jack]

Be nice just to stay in this time, but get a 20 year old body. Think of all the people you know that are only alive because of the medication they take daily or the surgeries they have had. Other than that, I'd pick the old west.

Oh Yeah, I do know some of those folks. Miss Pam and I are two of 'em

 

[cass]

I live in the area of "Lonesome Dove", Loving/Goodnight cattle drives West, and Comanche Indian wars. I find evidence of those days all the time, I'd just like to have witnessed some of it .

 

[BAM-BAM]

As a History/Poly Sci. major in college........ time travel/visit; yes....... stuck there........

well........ just think how good a hot shower feels after a weekend camping trip.


There is a reason the "Tale of two Cities" begins "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.".......LOL

In any of the three eras you mention...... give me some good soft body armor........ and fire power(smokeless powder please) at least one generation better than the locals!!.

 

[wbraswell]

I have always believed that I am where I should be. I am a late 20th/early 21st century guy. I was a teenager during the rock n roll, muscle car, mini-skirt sixties. The good old days.
I never worried about nuclear war after they quit showing those damn CD commercials. The old west? Indians, sod huts, smallpox, and Indians, no thanks, I'd head east. I like modern dentistry, and medicine, and cars, air conditioning, and regular baths. So you guys want to go weeks without bathing, huh?
The more I study history, and I love it, the more I realize what the word "progress" means.

 

[S&WIowegan]

As a guy born in 1942(a youngster compared to Dick Rumbaugh), I remember bits of the 1940s and a lot of the 50s and 60s. People who romanticize those years are doing it with rose colored selective glasses. Can you say Korean War(50,000 dead service people) with major anti-war anger. The draft was always hanging over our heads. Then the wonderful 60s turned into the Vietnam nightmare. I served then but didn't get sent over(Uncle Sam saw my science training and sent me to a place called Ft. Detrick). Lots of close friends went over though and fought and survived. None think it was fun and several still suffer seriously in a number of ways. Agent Orange(Ft. Detrick), PTSD, new knees surgery after jumping out of too high Hueys, etc.

One of my grandfathers served in the Spanish-American War, he was made a sergeant and watched his guys die in Louisiana during training. The war was over before they shipped. Great grandfather served throughout the entire Civil War...do you have any idea how many died of filth and disease. Oh and fight by lining up and walking straight into the other side's gun...brilliant if you were the guy on the horse watching. Great, great, great grandfather served in the Revolutionary War and came out a captain. Did you know Congress never got around to paying these guys? They finally gave them land grants in the Ohio/Northwest territory. The catch was you had to figure out how to get there, find it and fight whites and Indians to keep it.

I love history and read it a lot. Remember movies and TV ignore the bad ugly stuff. When people get shot they just fall down quietly and don't make a sound, right?

Be careful what you wish for...it may well mean you have a current problem you're tired of dealing with but that doesn't mean it was better in the past.

 

[Old TexMex]

Living in another time....
Just 'cause it's Johnnys birthday:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXTCmWeNYo

 

[moe smith]

My first instinct would be to go back to a time before texting. Then I thought, actually, before cell phones in general would be even better. Then, I remembered the annoying beeps of pagers, so it would have to be some time before that.

So, that being the case, I'd say maybe the late 1400s-ish. Yup, give me a ship and a star to steer her by. Not really a big fan of breadfruit, walking planks or "you call this a storm" bravado but I think I would have enjoyed taking a cruising vacation to the new world without having to electronically put out fires in the old one. It would also be interesting to see what condos were going for in West Palm back then.

 

[99savage308]

What S&WIowegan said.

 

[therevjay]

I WAS a teenager in the 1950's and that's good enough for me.

Me too. I t was great!

 

[mc5aw]

Sorry time travelers ... only the three listed time periods to consider.

Those of you who choose to return to the 1950s, send my regards to the Beav. I'm staying on the Way Back Machine for several more stops into the past.

 

[RobertJ.]

And modern dental care!

I wouldn't trade right now for any other period of history.

Something that didn't occur to me when I wrote this, was that if I had been in the Old West, when I was young I drank like a fish and had a really big mouth. I doubt I would have lived past my early 20's! Heck, I'm surprised as it is!

 

[feralmerril]

So yer billy the kid, Huh? Well, ya dont look so tuff ta me! Game over.

 

[Old TexMex]

I used to look around and notice I had somehow managed to relocate, (sometimes hundreds of miles) and it was a totally different day of the week....
Remember that thread about tequila?