If you had to live in another era of time,when would it be and why?

[jewelerman]

For me...Turn of the 20th century France...the Art Nouveau period and its classic designs.

 

[HopeDream]

The future, maybe 200 years from now.

I''m just so curious!

 

[Dancing Fire]

i think it would of been fun growing up in 50''s during the Happy Days era.

 

[cindygenit]

ooh fun question!

The 80s!!! GREAT music and questionable fashion... I would have loved to be able to get away with those clothes and the big hair LOL

 

[kenny]

I would have loved to live during the Roaring 20s.

 

[Gailey]

Definitely between the two wars in the UK, assuming I had absolutely pots of money.

 

[exoticisabella]

Date: 10/21/2009 1:29:15 AM
Author: Dancing Fire
i think it would of been fun growing up in 50''s during the Happy Days era.

I agree! I''m all about the 50''s. or even the roaring 20''s would be awesome (but let''s skip the 30''s!). I love all the music and dance that came out of that time period.

 

[Samantha Red]

Either the 1930''s because I love the Art Noveau stuff or the time of Jane Austen, provided I had pots of money of course and never had to give birth

 

[justginger]

I always wanted to live during the Oregon Trail days. I think playing the computer game in elementary school fried my brain a bit or something...

 

[Clio]

Nope, I''ll stay right here, thanks! I''m a historian, so I''ve read way too much about earlier times to want to live then. I like antibiotics, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing, thank you very much.

 

[AprilBaby]

I love the post civil war period!

 

[Bia]

I'd like to be a young adult in the late 70's & 80's - my parents' time. They just look like they had so much fun!

And the music! ...

 

[janinegirly]

late ''50''s to early ''60''s (pre kennedy assasination). Everything just seemed so innocent, happy and clean cut! not to mention so much advance..space exploration, Elvis, Marilyn, Beatles, TV''s in every home and increase in most people''s quality of life! I''m sure behind the Beaver Cleaver image was a lot of suppressed not so happy stuff, but I still always love imagining the era as portrayed in movies!

 

[janinegirly]

Date: 10/21/2009 1:52:16 AM
Author: cindygenit
ooh fun question!

The 80s!!! GREAT music and questionable fashion... I would have loved to be able to get away with those clothes and the big hair LOL

ha, really?? wasn''t that great, so much bad clothes and cheesy hair bands!!

 

[Ara Ann]

Date: 10/21/2009 12:45:27 PM
Author: janinegirly

Date: 10/21/2009 1:52:16 AM

Author: cindygenit

ooh fun question!


The 80s!!! GREAT music and questionable fashion... I would have loved to be able to get away with those clothes and the big hair LOL

ha, really?? wasn''t that great, so much bad clothes and cheesy hair bands!!

I agree...graduated in ''85...it was nice in some ways, but kind of ''whatever'' too

I don''t think I''d want to LIVE in another era either, but taking a peek would be fun! Maybe even being in a period movie, like the Jane Austen era movies, or a Wild West kind of movie.

 

[soocool]

I grew up in the 70s and I thought that wasa great era, but I wouldn''t mind growing up in the 1950s as I remember the show "Happy Days" and the movie "Back to the Future".

 

[dragonfly411]

anything midieval .... chivalry... .horses.... great dresses.... open countryside..... and knights. yep.

 

[radiantquest]

I wish I could have lived in the 60''s and 70''s. People who did always talk about how great is was. Peace, love all that happy crappy. I would have loved to have been at Woodstock. I don''t think I would have been one of those people that were out of their minds from drugs, but that music is awesome.

 

[mousey]

I reckon there is no better time to be alive than now, especially if you are female. The average American has a better standard of living that a noble living in the 18th, and 19th century- antibiotics, equality for women, hot running water, refrigerators, etc etc. Of course, that doesn''t stop me watching pride and prejudice over and over and wishing i lived in a time and wish i lived in a time where women were ladies and men were gentlemen (idiotic given i pride myself on being a feminist).

 

[jewelerman]

Date: 10/21/2009 12:45:27 PM
Author: janinegirly

Date: 10/21/2009 1:52:16 AM
Author: cindygenit
ooh fun question!

The 80s!!! GREAT music and questionable fashion... I would have loved to be able to get away with those clothes and the big hair LOL

ha, really?? wasn''t that great, so much bad clothes and cheesy hair bands!!

flock of seagalls...nuff said!

 

[Skippy123]

Date: 10/21/2009 1:52:16 AM

Author: cindygenit

ooh fun question!


The 80s!!! GREAT music and questionable fashion... I would have loved to be able to get away with those clothes and the big hair LOL

I think the 80''s would be fun; I graduated in the 90''s but I was a huge fan of Dynasty and Dallas! hehe Plus they had air conditioning during that time.

 

[ksinger]

Date: 10/21/2009 9:11:09 AM
Author: Clio
Nope, I''ll stay right here, thanks! I''m a historian, so I''ve read way too much about earlier times to want to live then. I like antibiotics, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing, thank you very much.

Ah...but the question was "if you HAD to". I prefer right here right now too, BUT...if I HAD too? The Renaissance. So much going on! Either then or to see Rome at its pinnacle, preferably as one of the upper class of course. Any era is better if you are a person of means... And if I could see and visit the Great Library of Alexandria before its destruction...ah, now THAT would be too much...

 

[Scarabnight]

I think somewhere around the Victorian era, although I would miss air conditioning

 

[T L]

The 80's because I was young back then, and I loved 80's music and I still had air conditioning.

I think if I could go back in time to meet someone, it would be Queen Elizabeth I, but then again, I wouldn't want to stay in her time period at all!! Something very scary about living back then, and no one bathed!!

and worst of all, NO AIR CONDITIONING!!

 

[T L]

Date: 10/21/2009 11:30:45 PM
Author: ksinger

Date: 10/21/2009 9:11:09 AM
Author: Clio
Nope, I''ll stay right here, thanks! I''m a historian, so I''ve read way too much about earlier times to want to live then. I like antibiotics, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing, thank you very much.

Ah...but the question was ''if you HAD to''. I prefer right here right now too, BUT...if I HAD too? The Renaissance. So much going on! Either then or to see Rome at its pinnacle, preferably as one of the upper class of course. Any era is better if you are a person of means... And if I could see and visit the Great Library of Alexandria before its destruction...ah, now THAT would be too much...

You don''t need to visit it, it''s called the "internet" today. LOL!

 

[Madam Bijoux]

The 1920''s, because the clothes and jewelry were the best ever. I would have enjoyed the hedonism and the bathtub gin, too.

 

[Erin]

1930s if I were one that still had money despite the Great Depression.

I love the return to frill and feminine clothing, yet still exploring the masculine cut of tailored suits. Golden age of hollywod, Ansel Adams, Picasso, Matisse, Amelia Earhart, swing music, art deco, Joe Dimaggio, Fred Astaire, the Grapes of Wrath, Wizard of Oz...

 

[Novel]

Date: 10/21/2009 9:11:09 AM
Author: Clio
Nope, I''ll stay right here, thanks! I''m a historian, so I''ve read way too much about earlier times to want to live then. I like antibiotics, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing, thank you very much.

Ditto! Exactly. But! I''d love a time machine, because then I could see the roaring twenties, 1969, ancient Greece, etc.

 

[Cehrabehra]

about 400 BC - a wealthy man in greece with access to the great ancient philosophers

 

[jet2ks]

early 1800''s. Exploring the great plains and west before it got settled would be fascinating to me.