dhermann1
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No, Lizzie. I'm sure that if you had been born in 1913, you'd now be the Fedora Lounge's most popular 95 year old.
jamespowers said:Actually, here before 1980 he was also considered white so as long as you went back before 1980, you would be fine.
LizzieMaine said:Interesting question to ponder. All other things being equal, and my basic nature being what it is, I'd say I'm better equipped to deal with the supposed conformity and naivete of a 1930s-50s world than I am with the relentless, corrosive nihilism of 21st century culture. Some folks may feel just the opposite, and that's fine -- but as far as I'm concerned, shove my birth date back to about 1913, let me live out my life and then shuffle off quietly sometime in the mid-1980s, and I won't feel that I've missed a thing.
jamespowers said:Sounds pretty good to me as well. I want to make it through the 1980s though. When I think about it, that was my grandmother's experience period. She passed away in 2005 at 93. That would be a decent amount of time to live.
LizzieMaine said:I'd have wanted specifically to miss the 1986 World Series. Because if I wasn't already dead, that would've killed me.
reetpleat said:would you live back in time?
Ace Fedora said:Well, my computer science degree wouldn't do me a darn bit of good in 1926...
As much as I'd like to say "yes, without a second thought!" I'd have to pause. Most of my joy of the past comes with the benefit of hindsight. Those who say that "things were better back then" have a "now" to compare it to.
In order to take a trip like this comfortably, I'd need to keep my memories of the present (the future?) and have some assurance that some things won't change. I'd give up advances in medicine if I could at least feel safe in knowing that The Bomb won't fall.
(Did that make sense?)
RIOT said:August 11, 2001
A whole month to convince everyone I know to help foil the plot that lead to the tragedy that is 9-11.
LizzieMaine said:Interesting question to ponder. All other things being equal, and my basic nature being what it is, I'd say I'm better equipped to deal with the supposed conformity and naivete of a 1930s-50s world than I am with the relentless, corrosive nihilism of 21st century culture. Some folks may feel just the opposite, and that's fine -- but as far as I'm concerned, shove my birth date back to about 1913, let me live out my life and then shuffle off quietly sometime in the mid-1980s, and I won't feel that I've missed a thing.
59Lark said:How about 1914, there is a pioneer museum nearby and its set in that year and I go there about twice a year to fix their ancient treadle sewing machines and they agree that even sent back I would probably be able to feed myself because of my trade probably better than today. The memory of the first time, i went to the pioneer village was the one lady thanking me for wearing period clothes to the village and my eldest stating lady those are dads everyday clothes. The suspendsers and pocket watch and fedora and plain clothes and collar shirt. The teens are too far back for me, want to avoid smallpox and such sickness. The simpler time does apeal to me, as the last of that world, the wood stove, and the farm life , you know sitting on the back stoop. The shucking corn and eyeing potatoes and well the computer has nothing on it. But you know you cant go home. 59LARK
Edward said:Medically speaking, I'd probably find it very difficult indeed - the depression I suffered with very badly for some time before it was diagnosed would have gone undiscovered and I would be in a dreadful mess by now.