What decade would you most like to have lived in?

[Goathead]

I think I would have liked to live during the Victorian era, say 1880-1890. Travel back then really meant something, going from port to port by tramp steamer. Also, 1930s would be cool too, I would have like to have flown on the old Pan-Am clippers or sea-planes around the So. Pacific. Back then there were places on the planet that were still a mystery. Not today where any schlub with a credit card can be in Djakarta from Nashville in fifteen hours.

[Fenris]

1. The 1910s

An exciting decade.

[tridim]

2. I'd like to visit some other decades

but I wouldn't want to live there.

[CBHagman]

3. I'm glad I live when I do, but still...

...I would like to have been in New York on V-E Day or V-J Day, or in London on V-E Day. I'd have liked to have known what it was like to have FDR as a president.

Then again, that was no easy time, given the heartache and sacrifice required. But as Bill Clinton said, the veterans of World War II saved the world, and I'd have liked to have known some of them in their youth.

On edit: I'd also like to talk to my grandmother about her experiences in the theater and silent films, circa World War I.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. The 1920's.

Preferably in Paris (although Berlin from 1925-1930 would've been interesting, too).

[flamingyouth]

18. The '20s for me too

In Hollywood. :)

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Just don't go to any of Fatty Arbuckle's parties.

:)

[Book Lover]

22. Forgive this tangent

but Roscoe Arbuckle was completely innocent of the charge. The false accusation ruined his career and brought him to a premature end.

http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Yes, I know...

Virginia what's her name had appendicitis and was a vindictive, nasty bitch, apparently. 'Twas a joke.

[Book Lover]

24. I figured you did

And I know it's silly to get indignant over this, but Arbuckle's story has always upset me. Time to relax myself...

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Yeah...terrible shame what happened to him.

And an even greater shame that he died just as he was rehabilitating his reputation and making a comeback :(

[Huckebein the Raven]

5. 1960s Italy

[CBHagman]

10. Is this about Fellini?

Or do you have another reason?

[Huckebein the Raven]

15. I liked the film: "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

but I think that was set in the '50s

Also, I would like to visit Feudal Japan

[napi21]

6. Hell NO! I'd like time to go back only about 15 years.

There's a lot of good points about the Victorian era, and I love the decor in the homes, but for me...I want my automatic washer, dishwasher, electric toaster, self defrosting refrigerator, air conditioned house and car, and MY COMPUTER! I was reasonably happy...before ShrubCo, and I think I can be happy again AFTER HE'S GONE!

[Orangepeel]

7. I wouldn't want to live in the past.

As bad as things are, there are many more opportunities for women now then ever. And then, of course, there are the hygiene issues.

[Goathead]

12. You know, one could argue...

that we as a race have put ourselves in greater danger from pandemic diseases because of our cleanliness. That we are creating super-viruses because the existing viruses have to keep modifying themselves to stay one step in front of our treatments.

[solinvictus]

8. About the year 910

On a Viking longship headed either to Russia or the British Isles.

[mark414]

9. 1950's or 75-85 New York

jazz and hip hop

[Book Lover]

11. Either 10,000 years ago or right now

For me, it's got to be either today, or before the patriarchy took over.

[Robeson]

13. I'd like to live in the future. I'd like to see what happens.

[Wapsie B]

14. Either the early 1980's

before I was married, or about 30 years into the future. No way in hell would I want to live before air conditioning and modern appliances. Being a suspicious sort that I am back in the horse and buggy days I'd get a strange feeling that someone's not telling me something regarding news. At least now we have the foreign press at our fingertips.

[Nicole]

16. 1960

I was alive then but only 1 year old when the 60's began.

I would have liked to have been old enough to really know what was going on.

[coloradodem2005]

17. The early 1970's.

[GainesT1958]

20. If I had to pick a past decade before I was around...

It would likely be the mid-to-late 1930s, working for a New Deal agency (like the W.P.A.), fighting the Depression, and for social justice!:D

The down-side of that--the three worst things about living in that time--would have been 1)witnessing of wide-spread Repub-caused poverty, 2)seeing (in this neck of the woods) segregation, and 3) watching, from afar, the rise of Hitler. All three things of which my parents used to recall pretty vividly about the period. :-(

The Progressive Era would have been good, too; an earlier Roosevelt with a similar mindset--though, again, not as much in this region, with the racist electoral backlash to it.

B-)

[Dervill Crow]

21. I think the 1920s.

I love the Victorian era, but in the 1920s women were able to do so many more things. There were more modern conveniences, also, and they weren't in danger of setting their long skirts on fire while cooking if they were servants or being forced to marry some icky old man if they were a little higher in the social order.

[sweetladybug]

26. I think I would choose the "The Roaring 20's"

During that time period, I love the clothes they wore, and the headbands, and the long beaded necklaces and the hairstyles and the music and their dances they did back then were great.

[Orangepeel]

27. If one picks the 20s does one have to live throught the 30s afterward?

cuz that would suck.

[all.of.me]

28. the 60s, which i did!

[UrbScotty]

29. The 1950s

A simple time.

[MrScorpio]

30. 1950's in Paris, 1960's In Rio, 1970's, Amsterdam, 1980's Toronto,

1990's Prague, 2000's An Alternate Plane of Existence In the Time/Space Continuum

[Goathead]

34. Good picks Scorp.

You got that down to a science. I'll join you in that alternate plane.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

31. The US or Australia from the 1950s to 1980s

Although I would like to live through the 1990s again

[jmowreader]

32. 1946 to 1956

This was the age of scientific discovery, and two things really brought it about: the GI Bill of Rights (which sent millions of young men to college) and Nazi chemical and aerospace research captured as war reparations.

Besides, "Rabbit of Seville" was released theatrically in 1950.

[bigwillq]

33. The 1960's

The decade that changed America. I probably would've ODed though!:smoke: