Somewhere Back in Time Place you'd Visit?

[Dru Edwards]

Is there a moment in the past you wish you could have witnessed? Perhaps the building of the pyramids, D-Day, witnessing the birth of a T-Rex, watching Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, or being in the stadium when the Shot Heard 'Round the World was hit?

Are you more interested in known, well documented events or historical mysteries?

[tinnitus]

Can I take breath mints and penicillin?

[Dirk Hofman]

I'd like to take my modern surfboards and wetsuits and drive up and down the California coast riding empty waves. Anytime after the creation of Highway 1 and before the release of Gidget.

[HodgdonExtreme]

Originally Posted by Dirk Hofman

I'd like to take my modern surfboards and wetsuits and drive up and down the California coast riding empty waves. Anytime after the creation of Highway 1 and before the release of Gidget.

A time machine sure would be neat.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall to witness the "a-ha moments" when human beings first had the idea to write stuff down. Historians believe that's only happened a couple times, independently throughout our history! Some stuff just seems so obvious, in hindsight. Hell, most stuff does.

[H165]

I'd like to arrive three days early (with permission) at Woodstock....with a fiberglass tent, private portable potty, enough food, and a good Autozoom 1218 Super with many cases of film

[RP]

I was at Woodstock but would like to revisit and pay more attention. Seems like a blur punctuated by sleep...

[fitness1]

I'd just take any day in the late 60's that my maternal Gramps, my Dad and Brother and I were all together.

[AmericanEagle]

I’d like to be in Southampton England on April 9, 1912. That was the day before the Titanic set sail. I’d want to warn everyone about the sinking, and to avoid at all costs.

[Kerbie]

Hmm... I can think of several. I would liked to have been at Kill Devil Hills on December 17, 1903, when Orville Wright completed the first powered flight. He flew for 12 seconds and covered about 120 feet. They made three more flights before calling it a day. Nice day at the beach!

[Tannin]

Vienna, 1791, with a pocket full of antibiotics for a young chap named W.A. Mozart.

[M19]

Canoeing with Sig Olson in the Quetico-Superior, or anywhere on the "shield" for that matter.

[1neeto]

I’d like to go back and witness when aliens first visited and built the pyramids. [emoji23]

[archerscreek]

I’d see Hendrix at his Fillmore East shows and Stevie Ray Vaughn at the El Mocambo and of course see him at the last show he ever played in East Troy, Wisconsin, and then I would make sure he and the others never got on the helicopter to Chicago.

I’d see Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys when he had Earl Scruggs and Lester Flat and later shows when Kenny Baker was on fiddle.

I’d catch a play at Ford’s Theatre and stop John Wilkes Booth.

And there are a few times I’d pick a different deer stand, too.

[Gitfiddlemann]

A very thought provoking thread Dru!
So many choices. Sticking to music:
In my lifetime, I would love to have been at the Fillmore West in 1968 to watch Cream and Clapton tear through Crossroads, the live version that everyone recalls and inspired so many.
I would then skip a few years ahead (19070?) to sit in on the Band Of Gypsies concert with Jimi Hendrix. I believe that was the only time they ever recorded together.
But for a real fantasy trip way back, I would program Germany in the 18th century and attend a live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach , playing his famous Toccata and Fugue in Dm behind the pipe organ at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.
I bet that would be a very memorable experience.

[Brucebubs]

I was hit by a car in Feb 1979 and it has damaged me for the rest of my life.
I'd like to go back and avoid it.