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What Year Would You Return to for a Vacation (or forever if you choose)
Self | July 9, 2012 | Madison10

Posted on 07/09/2012 7:04:08 AM PDT by madison10

This health care/tax and the upcoming election is depressing me and I'm longing for another time and place: I'm thinking 1997--I do not want to be a child again, nor do I want to relive other, rather awful, portions of life. Being 38 years old was good, I had a good job, my husband still had 20 years to work, we only had two dogs, there was still hope. See what I mean?

Where would you like to go and why? Doesn't have to be personal history, could be history in general.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hindsight; nostalgia; time
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1 posted on 07/09/2012 7:04:18 AM PDT by madison10
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I am retired so I do not get vacations.


2 posted on 07/09/2012 7:06:18 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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Also retired, no vacations—no money and a recluse dog.

This is imaginary anyway, about time travel. It was posted in chat after all.


3 posted on 07/09/2012 7:09:42 AM PDT by madison10
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1957. Just got my first car, 1951 Ford, in high school, belonged to a large car club, no worries. Life was good, clean and safe.


4 posted on 07/09/2012 7:10:56 AM PDT by RC2 (Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
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1972. For me, it was a wondrous time.
5 posted on 07/09/2012 7:12:26 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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I get plenty of chat with myself and the dogs. If I could really live in any time I chose I think 100 to l50 years ago would be good.
6 posted on 07/09/2012 7:14:10 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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1897, so I could read the newspaper/journal reports on the discovery of the electron.

1905, when Einstein published Annus Mirabilis papers, and the General Relativity papers.

Or, 1932, when the neutron was discovered, an event that had momentous effects.

Hmm, then there is June 12, 1954, when a simple “no” said to Lisa Carla Ponteveccio would have changed everything.


7 posted on 07/09/2012 7:17:02 AM PDT by DBrow
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The day before I met my ex-wife


8 posted on 07/09/2012 7:24:02 AM PDT by Mr. K (OBAMA MUST BE STOPPED ROMNEY/GINGRICH)
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1976!!!

Great Patriotic Year

Bicentennial Festivities

History Oozed all around

(Crappy economically... but I was 12:>)

Back then I thought 1992 (1492) would be even greater with remembrance and festivities but it never reached the pride of 1976 - ‘we’ were ‘learned’ that we should be ashamed of the past.


9 posted on 07/09/2012 7:25:44 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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1976!!! Great Patriotic Year Bicentennial Festivities History Oozed all around (Crappy economically... but I was 12:>) Back then I thought 1992 (1492) would be even greater with remembrance and festivities but it never reached the pride of 1976 - ‘we’ were ‘learned’ that we should be ashamed of the past.

And "Frampton Comes Alive" came out.

10 posted on 07/09/2012 7:27:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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1957..................


11 posted on 07/09/2012 7:30:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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I want to go back 2 days and avoid the food poisoning that kicked me to the curb this weekend.


12 posted on 07/09/2012 7:30:08 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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George Clooney?..IZZAT YOU????......................


13 posted on 07/09/2012 7:31:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png


14 posted on 07/09/2012 7:33:34 AM PDT by DBrow
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1962. I want to see the United States at the height of its civilization.


15 posted on 07/09/2012 7:33:51 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Freeper Island.... Does anyone remember that ???


16 posted on 07/09/2012 7:34:15 AM PDT by Invictus (Get used to living in the USSA (ununited socialist states of america))
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1980, for a number of important reasons...


17 posted on 07/09/2012 7:35:10 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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2029 BC. I’d see if I could kick it with Abraham.


18 posted on 07/09/2012 7:41:30 AM PDT by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman.....)
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I would like to pack up everything I know now, and move back to the 50s.


19 posted on 07/09/2012 7:54:10 AM PDT by pallis
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1964. Beatles had just broke big in America. Lot’s of great British Invasion music coming from England.

Great television, young so no bills to pay, Lakewood, Ohio (suburb of Cleveland), sandbox in back, summers of breakfast to dinner — having the run of the city, open screen doors in our home day and night, sandlot baseball, M80s and Ladyfingers, plastic army pen, summer camp, fishing, lightning bugs. Mom and Dad happy with 5 kids. Lot’s of friends on our street due to large catholic families. No drugs apparent anywhere.


20 posted on 07/09/2012 7:59:29 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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