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LudwigPastorius

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15. I think the past is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:14 AM

Jul 24

I would like to visit various locations around New York starting from the early 1940s to the late 60s.

I would get to watch the birth of bebop through the early free jazz movement in person.

Of course, I'd also run the risk of contracting a disease without a cure (polio, hepatitis A & B, measles), or of being drafted for WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam too.

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Do you ever wish you were born in a different era? If so, when? [View all] milestogo Jul 23 OP

One with no Trump alive Funtatlaguy Jul 23 #1

+1. Rizen Jul 23 #3

Hopefully by next week. TheCowsCameHome Jul 23 #6

I reeeeealy hate people.... Rizen Jul 23 #2

God, no. Not when I think of how women usually had to dress. highplainsdem Jul 23 #4

not really Skittles Jul 23 #5

No, I think that Nature anciano Jul 23 #7

I was born too soon. Solly Mack Jul 23 #8

What are you expecting? highplainsdem Jul 23 #9

I don't know. Anything is possible. Solly Mack Jul 23 #10

Unless we can stop Trump and the AI bros and tech lords now supporting him, that "anything" is highplainsdem Jul 23 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Ken Dayenu Jul 23 #11

I would have loved to be alive when Benny Goodman rocked Carnegie Hall! Ptah Jul 23 #13

Definitely in Victorian Era. sinkingfeeling Jul 23 #14

I think the past is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. LudwigPastorius Jul 24 #15

I would have loved to have been a teenager in the 1960's Mad_Dem_X Jul 24 #16

It was an exciting time indeed (I was born in 1947).... anciano Jul 24 #17

I lived in Trumbull, CT when The Beatles first came to the US LogDog75 Jul 24 #18

Hahahaaaa, I love it! 😄 electric_blue68 Jul 25 #20

No, I like the era I was born in LogDog75 Jul 24 #19

No, happy where I landed chronologically.... electric_blue68 Jul 25 #21