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CBGBs 1976 w/ The Ramones, Televison, Lester Bangs ect. I'd live in a cheap flop house, eat at greasy spoons, and drink Ballantine Ale on the sidewalk at 3 pm.
I seriously doubt that Guiteau shot him, since Guiteau only fired two bullets (one of which went inside Garfield, and the other one hit Garfield in the shoulder area before flying beyond Garfield).
I'm extremely sorry about what happened to your great-uncle. How about we both go back in time to July 2, 1881 together, and you will focus on seeing what happened to your great-uncle while I simultaneously save Garfield's life?
I seriously doubt it too but I am really really curious about what happened and why. Guess I'll never know but I'd be willing to go back with you and find out! lol The death certificate also says he was buried in the Asylum cemetery but it was apparently closed right after the Civil War so that's a mystery as well. He went to DC from Kansas but evidently nobody bothered to ship his body back home.
If I could go back and be assured I could come home with home unchanged, which isn't the case generally, I'd go back and check up on my two great grandmothers. One was said to have had an English second husband after the first was killed. That would be my grandfather. He was very tall and my grandmother was almost six foot and the rest of the family really really short, including her Irish husband. She was only four ten. And all the census lists them as seperate fathers, but the info I find only shows the first. I still believe my grandmother and mother.
The other thing is dad's mother's dad was an Irish office worker in a small town in the south. Then he left one morning and never came home. Others searched for him but his wife was composed and calm, as if nothing was wrong. She had to have known why he left and where he left and been okay with it, but no trace of him was located and she never said.
I'd have to be assured that someone had done a quick lookie loo and was still here just as they were first....
Might find something by digging on the second Mr. Smith (yes, both were named Smith) but the other mystery was taken to the grave.
I want to do the dna testing and see if any cousins who don't seem to have a place on the family tree show up. Second best thing to time travel.
I've been working on all my family genealogy for the past 27 years and have found all sorts of stories in the process. Some of them really make you wonder! I have to say though I probably know more about my ancestors, and their families, than I do about my family today. I have way too many cousins to keep up with!
I would love to go back and know my gr gr grandmother on my granddad's side. Widowed young, five or six kids to care for, her brother in law stepped in and took over the family business her husband had going...because women weren't 'allowed'...and took two of her sons back to TN to live with their dad's family and be educated. One became a lawyer and judge and ended up assassinated like his dad was.
I would bring evidence from the future back to 1962, and try to convince everyone what was going to happen. I would show them what HUD and section 8 can do to neighborhoods, what the NEA and Department of Education can do for public schools, and all about busing and affirmative action. I would show them crime statistics and demographic trends from the future, how many illegals we have now, the gay pride parades and gay marriages. The XXX porno shops and typical TV entertainment standards for 2013. I would show them a typical medical bill from 2013 and have them gaze that over for a while. I would warn them about LBJ, the great society, the Vietnam War. I would tell them about credit default swaps and every shell game Wall Street has planned for the next 50 years.
If I could show them the future and convince them how it was going to play out, it would be interesting to see what they might do differently.
I wouldn't mind going back to the early sixties to see each of my parents as young adults, from a safe distance of course.
I'd want to go back to late 1950's and early-mid 60's NYC, check out the beat scene, watch live doo-wop groups sing in harmony on the street corners and small venues, see Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Sinatra in concert, check out the World Fair, the Vegas strip and Rat Pack, dip into the late 60's and check out the hippy scene at Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and drive Route 66 cross country from Chicago to California.
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I'd love to go back to Victorian then Edwardian Period then right on into the roaring twenties. The cultural change was astounding then and to witness it! Cool stuff.
Never really gave it much thought but after reading the posts, I would love to go back to the 50', 60's
and 70's for many of the same reasons as Coolhand. Would love to see some of the places of my
childhood and take that opportunity to see some sites and performers.
One of my favorite films is Midnight in Paris. I like it because it is a fantasy where the main character
goes back to Paris during the 1920's where many famous American artists and writers were working
and socializing together. Would love to meet them and talk about their work & buying a few pieces
would be a perk.
Then what? You shoot Guiteau before he can shoot President Garfield...and...
Garfield goes on to make the future far better that it would have been?
And what happens after you gun down Guiteau and the police come to arrest you? Do you tell them that you are a time traveler and know that had you not acted, Guiteau would have assassinated the president? You prove that you aren't just a normal murderer....how?
A living Garfield means the US has another bright, well-meaning but ineffectual president.
Not much is changed, other than South Street Seaport in New York City lacks a statue of Chester Arthur, and the US doesn't have its first birther controversy. The early-mid Gilded Age US was mostly quasi-parliamentary anyways, with the Speaker having more power than the President.
Kind of like to take the train ride with the guy in the old Twilight Zone episode " A Stop at Willoughby". He's a stressed out New York exec. Gets on the commuter train back to the burbs, falls asleep and wakes up at the 1880's train station at Willoughby, a peaceful little Victorian community.
Kind of like to take the train ride with the guy in the old Twilight Zone episode " A Stop at Willoughby". He's a stressed out New York exec. Gets on the commuter train back to the burbs, falls asleep and wakes up at the 1880's train station at Willoughby, a peaceful little Victorian community.
Classic episode. But a final journey. It was a morturary. To him it was peace. Be careful what you wish for.
Ancient Egypt. During the time of pharaohs but I must have a way back. Lol
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