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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 21:39:44 GMT -5
If you could live in any past era which would you pick & why?
For me I felt like I was born 20 yrs too late. I would have liked to have grown up in 1946-1966 America. I also think the Roaring 20's would have been interesting.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 21:54:21 GMT -5
I wished I was born in 1929 instead of 1959 because of the many changes that occurred to us and I would love to see the changes from the 30's to the 40's and seeing great actors and actresses on the Silver Screen because theatres back then were glorious and seeing automobiles, airplanes, and everything else and a chance to see Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and dozen others would be a dream comes true.
And of course buy of a copy of Action Comics #1 for a dime and buy a dozen or so copies and keep them clean, dry, and wrinkled free ... 12 x 3.2 Million equals just under $40,000,000 bucks!
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Post by Cei-U! on May 22, 2017 7:38:26 GMT -5
My fascination with the 1940s, especially the war years, dates back to early childhood. I love the movies, the music, the fashions, the cars, the magazines, everything about the era. That's why getting the assignment to write the history of comic books in the 1940s was so perfect. Practically speaking, someone with my disabilities wouldn't do well in that time but I never let reality get in the way of a good romantic notion.
Cei-U!
I summon the time machine!
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Post by dbutler69 on May 22, 2017 7:54:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty happy with when I grew up because there were a lot of great comics, movies, TV shows, and music that I got to grow up with. However, I do have this idyllic mental picture of the 50's (how accurate it is I don't know) that makes me think that would have been a good era to grow up in.
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Post by tingramretro on May 22, 2017 8:27:46 GMT -5
I thoroughly enjoyed living through the 70s and 80s. I just wish I could go back there and live through them again on a loop. A lot of the world really stopped making sense to me somewhere in the 1990s...
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Post by badwolf on May 22, 2017 8:36:26 GMT -5
As Woody Allen showed us in Midnight in Paris, past eras always look rosier no matter when you are from. I'm pretty happy with the time in which I've lived, because of the technology and art, but I might back it up a bit and call it quits before the madness of this new century.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 9:02:38 GMT -5
I would love to go back and relive the 70s and early 80s. The toys along with discovering comics and related merchandise are such a happy part of that era for me.
Another era I would like to have lived in would be the 20s/30s--and be a movie star. It seems like a very fun and glamorous time (although there were problems of all sorts). I think I watch too much Turner Classic channel, haha!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 22, 2017 10:18:48 GMT -5
While I love history and learning about it.. I'm pretty happy with the 80s that I grew up in. If I was picking, I'd probably go to the future to a time when they can download me into an indestructible android body  |
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Post by Crimebuster on May 22, 2017 12:46:40 GMT -5
I would pick the future as well. Unless something unexpected happens to me - or the world - I expect to see people land on Mars in my lifetime. But I would love to have been born a little later, so I could actually go there myself.
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Post by brutalis on May 22, 2017 13:51:56 GMT -5
I thoroughly enjoyed living through the 70s and 80s. I just wish I could go back there and live through them again on a loop. A lot of the world really stopped making sense to me somewhere in the 1990s... Same for me. Growing up in the 70's and 80's there was so much happening and never a dull moment to be had with the added bonus of all the newest electronics. If i really had to choose a time, take me back to the simpler days of the western expansion. While not overly fond of the idea of fighting the original american Indians the idea of owning you own piece of land and working it and a life/community built around your family and friends is promising. Downside of no comic books but hey, your life is hard and healthy and less complications to avoid and survive |
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Post by The Captain on May 22, 2017 16:30:37 GMT -5
This may sound odd, but my only wish is that I'd been born five years earlier. That would have brought me into this world in 1968, which would have put my formative years squarely in the midst of the punk/post-punk/New Wave explosion in the late '70s and early '80s. Having an opportunity to discover bands like The Clash, Joy Division, The Cure, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Oingo Boingo, etc., as they were just coming onto the scene would have been incredible for me.
Instead, I came to know music in the era of MTV, where image mattered more than music, with artists like Bon Jovi, Madonna, and Whitney Houston being played non-stop, and while I like some of the music of that time, such as Prince and Duran Duran, most of it was bland pop schlock, with artists like Lionel Richie, Hall and Oates, and Air Supply being mega-popular.
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 22, 2017 17:57:39 GMT -5
The future would be great, or barring that the age of exploration
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Post by lobsterjohnson on May 22, 2017 19:45:00 GMT -5
I don't think I would want to live there permanently, but I am fascinated by Feudal Japan and I would love to see what it was like in that era.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 23, 2017 5:36:21 GMT -5
Visits to other eras would be brilliant, but I am truly attached to indoor plumbing, dental hygiene and the internet. I'm afraid I'd make a lousy Viking anyway.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 23, 2017 10:48:59 GMT -5
This may sound odd, but my only wish is that I'd been born five years earlier. That would have brought me into this world in 1968, which would have put my formative years squarely in the midst of the punk/post-punk/New Wave explosion in the late '70s and early '80s. Having an opportunity to discover bands like The Clash, Joy Division, The Cure, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Oingo Boingo, etc., as they were just coming onto the scene would have been incredible for me. Instead, I came to know music in the era of MTV, where image mattered more than music, with artists like Bon Jovi, Madonna, and Whitney Houston being played non-stop, and while I like some of the music of that time, such as Prince and Duran Duran, most of it was bland pop schlock, with artists like Lionel Richie, Hall and Oates, and Air Supply being mega-popular. Now, see, I did live through that and early MTV had a lot of that. We got cable in 1982 and MTV was included (a rarity of the time) and was finishing up its first year. Lot of UK videos, as a large percentage of American bands weren't making them yet. Plenty of the Clash, Echo, Oingo and the rest. I was listening to American New Wave, like the Cars and Blondie, to escape from mainstream music, and MTV opened up all kinds of stuff from the UK, from the New Romantics, to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, to other Metal bands, the last of Punk and Post-Punk, the Ska Revival, etc, etc. They had so few sponsors that you had about 20-25 minutes of music, each half hour. I was exposed to all of those bands you list on MTV. They also introduced me to the Young Ones, which added a few more (via the musical acts appearing). Up through about 1984, there was some really, really good stuff. By 85, the mainstream came firing back. Still, plenty of good music, if you sifted through their playlist. If not for MTV, I probably would have never encountered my favorite band, Concrete Blonde, when I saw the video for "Joey." I picked up the album, Bloodletting, which is one of the best albums I ever heard. |
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