This past weekend, all three of the "Back to the Future" movies played on one of the national networks. This got me thinking that if time travel was truly possible, what era/date would I like to visit and why? You would be just like Marty McFly in as though you would be observing everything back then with all the knowledge/experience you have now. I am interested to hear other members input as well. Personally, I would like to go back to around 1972. All my grandparents/aunts & uncles and cousins were alive, all of my siblings were born and my grandfather from Palermo didn't have cancer yet. He died when I was 7 and I wish I could spend time with him as an adult. It seems everything changed in my family after his death and I would just like to go back and talk with him. Anybody else willing to share their "Back to the Future" aspirations?

I would like to see my grandfather and his five brothers play basketball in the 19teens. They were a local team in Jersey City. I have a newspaper article that reported how they were a treat to watch. I don't think any of them were over 5'10". Next would be late 20s early 30s to see my father play club football for the Jersey City Anchors. He was 5'8" 205 lbs. fullback. My mom said he was an elusive, powerful running back.

I would love to travel to Italy during the time my grandfather was growing up in the 1930's, Just to see where he came from. He was a very enigmatic individual to me and died way before I was old enough to get get to know and understand him.

Other than that, th late 60's would be awesome to travel too, as well as traveling to prehistoric times!

I too would love to go back in time to meet my grandfathers. Both died before I was born. I would have loved to know what they were like.

Era-wise, the roaring twenties sounds interesting.
No pre-historic times for me. I simply couldn't handle being around all those prehistoric creatures. I need a house, not a cave. Ha ha


TIS

I would loved to have been around in 1964 to see if Beatlemania was as crazy as legend made it out to be..

It was.

DeNiro! It was quite a sensation! Wouldn't it be nice if generations could "transfer" the feelings of an era to others? And you being from the UK, it was probably even more so I imagine?

In my lifetime, and although I was born when Elvis hit the seen, I was only about 8 years old. I never saw any of his early films (the first 4) in the theater. I remember the "excitement" that surrounded him and the "newness" of his music. I wish I had been a teenager during that time to get the "full" affect (or is is effect?)of his "debut" so to speak.

TIS

Great topic Mark!

There are so many different eras and / or dates that I wish I could travel back to. In keeping in the spirit of FUN for this topic and not addressing going back in time to change events that may have happened and / or altering the future ( perhaps that kind of a serious discussion is best left for a newly created topic separate from this one) I would have to go with TIS here and say that I would like to travel back to the ROARING 20's.

I would have loved to have been a part of the whole prohibition era. The Cotton Club, the speakeasy's with the casinos, the dapper clothes / suits / tuxes / hats that were worn in that time is just so appealing to me. I probably would have been a regular who hung around all of those speakeasy's!

Yea, then I could learn the Charleston and hang out with gangsters.

Also, I liked the glamor and fashion in the 40's.(ok, I was born in the late 40's and don't remember a thing) Something very classy about it. I wouldn't mind going back and living a day or so during that era. Don't know why I skip the 30's but for some reason the 20's & 40's sound particularly interesting/nice.

Btw, very familiar picture DC!


TIS

I would do several things. I would go back to Vienna circa 1910. I would find Hitler, who basically spent his time wandering the city doing nothing during that time period (this was before he went into politics), and kill him.

Being a pianist and composer, I would also go back and see Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt etc. As someone who loves their music so much, it's hard to imagine anything more thrilling. We really don't know how they actually played and conducted their compositions, given that they lived before the phonograph was invented.

If I was going back to 1955, the year they travel back to in the first "Back to the Future," I would visit Albert Woolson. Woolson served in a Union regiment from Minnesota during the Civil War. By 1955, he was the only known survivor of the war from either side. As a Civil War buff, one of the things I regret is not having lived when there were still veterans of the war around to talk to.

Go back to the 1970s and become good friends with young Bill Gates.

The Depression, maybe?

Spoiled .

I would certainly like to spend a day in the lives of ancestors.

Historically, I would have liked to have seen the inauguration ,f John Adams in Philly. The world could not fathom a peaceful transferral of power, and the international press attended, expecting to see Washington to defend his office with violence. Instead, George showed up in a horsedrawn carriage, quietly watched,and walked home alone after the ceremony.

I would also love to see a major league baseball game from around 1908-1914. Not only would the game interest me, but the crowd behavior and reactions would be fascinating.

I would also like to present to determinre the nature of the death of baseball player, Ed Delahanty at the turn of the century. The greatest hitter of his era, alot of mystery surrounds his death as he was put off a train due to drunkenness, and days later was found drowned in the Niagra River.