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Oh God, I'm blind!Oh no ! Polo & I are serious.
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Oh God, I'm blind!
Better yet, go to the other end of the former D&RGW 3-foot railroad to Chama, NM. Walk down the embankment with the parking lot and the state highway behind you. You'll truly feel like you've stepped into the mid 1950s or earlier.Ride the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. For that Golden Age feel, take a ride in an open cockpit biplane, over farm land!
I just started rereading Joyce's "Ulysses." It's June 16, 1904, and you're walking down Eccles Street in Dublin on a beautiful morning on the way to the butcher shop. Any great novel takes you to another time and place, and you see and feel it through a person who was there. That's time travel. Last week I was with Turgenov in Russia in the 1860's. Amazing.
Sounds like the house I grew up in! No insulation. We just had the woodstove for heat, so the bedrooms were COLD in winter! I still can't sleep in a warm bedroom. Often the old houses had a screened porch for sleeping in the summer.also since they didnt have air conditioning back in the Old days , they used to build houses with extra high ceilings so the warm air would rise and help keep the temperature a little cooler, I use to live in an old wooden two story house built back in the 1870's- 1880's and the temperature was extra hot upstairs during the summer, so we had to sleep downstairs during the summer to try and keep cool
and the walls had no insulation , so it was very cold and drafty during the winter, I remember going to the dining room on a cold day and you could see condensation when you breath or talk because it was almost like being outside.
some of the doors still had the old skeleton keys, so living in an old house is kinda like experiencing some of the past or old days.
This is one of the reasons reading is my favorite hobby - a book can take you anywhere (and, IMHO, better than movies, video games, TV shows, etc.).
Dickens and Steinbeck are my two favorite choices for this type of "time travel." Perfect evocations of time and place.
I like to go up to the park with an antique portable phonograph and enjoy the music. My local park usually isn't too crowded, and features some beautiful gardens. It's also far enough from any major roads that you don't hear loud traffic noise; only the peaceful sights and sounds of nature.
Here's a video I took there once:
Central Park in NYC was designed in the 1850s and, over the last 30 years, has been restored to look very much like it did when it opened. Since I am very familiar with old drawings, painting and pictures form the park over the years it's been open, I can get a very time-travel feel sometimes as I'm walking through it and see a landscape that is all-but unchanged from 150+ years ago. Sometimes, if there aren't many people in it - hence, no modern clothing or sounds - the effect is even stronger.