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Slaughtermeyer
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PA, USA
Jan 1970
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quote:
Originally posted by boann
the best time for women is now.
who wants to go back to
beating your laundry against a rock or living before antibiotics ...
when childbirth could kill you... or when a woman was just property or
cooking in a wood stove during the middle of summer.
ahhh no thanks..
rather be here right now with all the modern things
that make life more easy for a woman.
be able to own my own property ..
work at any job i can handle and decide for myself when and if i want to have children. |
Having been to the Philippines, I can say from personal experience that you don't need to go back, you just need to go there or to many other 3rd-world countries for all or most of those conditions to be present. Lots of people there can't even afford wood-burning stoves, they cook in open fires in their shacks. What I found most interesting is that people can live in those conditions and still be very happy.
Whenever I go there, I get the feeling that I'm going back in time to something like depression-era America. Even the popular music has a very 50's sound to it.
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shawnmmcc
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Mid-1970's. Modern medicine, the beginning of equal rights for woman and minorities in the US, no serious STD's that anybody knew about, tolerable economy and only at the beginning of the deterioration of the middle class (how many people today are middle class on one income?).
Of course you have disco, tacky clothes, and a buch of mediocre politicians. You do however have mini-skirts and bikinis. People talking about Christianity are still talking about the things we should do, instead of the things we need to ban. Not a bad period, if you can skip the beginning and end of the decade and land in the middle.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:37
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for the US, the 1940's.
I'd love to be able to time travel to New York City in the 1940's. Say, 1946. New York really at its height as a city, a dominant place of global power, art, commerce. Bebop jazz. Subway system, railroads, at their height. Before crime and drugs really impacted urban living.
For the world, Id go with the 1890's. Fin de siecle Vienna, Paris and the post-impressionists. Id love to see Jewish life in Vienna, Berlin, Vilna, Warsaw, Cracow. Attend the first Zionist Congress in Switzerland. And the US in the 1890's would be something too - New York in the ragtime era. Early Broadway. Brooklyn as rustic suburb.
Or maybe the 1860's (but not in the US, or not till past 1865). Rationality and 19thc liberalism at their height. London at the peak of its dominance. 2nd empire Paris.
Chicago, a raw quasi-frontier town.
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:37
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I'd like to be in Alexandria during Heron's time (roughly 10 a.d. - 75 a.d., or in Chang-An during the T'ang Dynasty in the 720s or 730s.
Last edited by molly bloom on 08-06-2005 at 19:04
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:37
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boann, you can travel back to the decade of your chouice, why not go as a man? It opens up alot of decades that you feel cut off from because of your sex.
Diss, the 530s? Why? Why not the 615 out of Boston? 
"What I found most interesting is that people can live in those conditions and still be very happy."
That's it SM, happy by nature.
"I'd like to spend a short holiday, maybe a temporal exchange program type thing, in the 1920's. The music was good, the alcohol was gin, the people could dress and the dancing was fun."
Starchild, that's it!  ...and may I add an excellent choice.
JT the flapper. 
shawn, the '70s were nothing special, believe me. However, I didn't own a mustang soo...
lord of the mark, 1890s, very popular decade. '46 in the US? Hard to find a job, yes?
molly, what do you imagine the world was like back then?
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Dr Strangelove
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I saw a strange headline on Fox news last week. It said "Opponent of Women's Suffrage Seeks Top Position in Kansas" - I think it was about some election. Does anyone know anything about this?
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Dr Strangelove
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quote:
Originally posted by Lancer
"I used to have some old history textbooks from the 1890s inherited from my grandmother. Sweet Lord the garbage they used to teach kids! They're full of all that "white man's burden" trash, not to mention the obscenely glowing praise of the new "seperate but equal" doctrine. I loved the labeling of G. W. Carver and B. T. Washington as "credits to their race". They took the extra precaution of putting the word "exceptional" in front just in case someone mistook them for the wrong kind of person. It's also interesting to see Slavs and Latins referred to as races. Oh yeah, these people were innocent alright."
Sure, one could pick out the obscure fact to shoot down an exceptional decade if one were so inlined DrS. Sure, nothing was perfect, still isn't. |
I believe that in the 1890s lynching of blacks was at it's apogee. In many places the Irish still weren't accepted as being fully white, but the Italians, Poles, and Russians weren't accepted as being fully human. There really was a "wrong side of the tracks" in most towns, and every effort was made to remind folks living there of their status.
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08-06-2005 12:09
I think i would have had a blast(or been eaten by wolves or something). No rules from an officious gov telling what i can and cannot do.
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