If they built a time machine....

**nrgbeat** · February 15th, 2005, 09:19 AM

If scientists built a time machine where you could travel back to any time period for one hour, how far back would you go?

There is one hitch: You cannot relive a personal life event (e.g. wedding, graduation, etc.)

I would like to travel back to NYC circa 1974-75 and visit early discos.

**originalbigm** · February 15th, 2005, 03:06 PM

Back to the early seventies 71-74 when disco was not commercialized and the music was memorable.

**StevenHW** · February 15th, 2005, 06:11 PM

Would this time machine allow me to go forward too?

**SandraDee** · February 16th, 2005, 01:47 PM

Predictable for a gay guy on this site I know, but I'd love to go back to the late 70s & early 80s & live in New York so i could visit The Saint, The Anvil, Paradise Garage, Studio 54 (assuming I got past the velvet rope that is!), The Palladium, Roseland, Infinity, Fire Island & any other cool & fabulous place where they played glamorous & exciting disco for hours on end. :P

**Videoskooter** · February 16th, 2005, 04:25 PM

Back to the period 74-79, the glorydays of disco and when my parents were introducing the Discoclubsounds on their famous bumpercartrack which by many customers was called a "travelling discotheque".

What an atmosphere, what a great era! But too bad I wasn't born earlier (1963) coz when all those superrecords came out, I didn't have enough pocketmoney to buy them and that's why I had/have to look in so many shops to purchase the things I missed.

And then the cars :D The great BMW 635 csi!!! I have one now though :D

**SandraDee** · February 16th, 2005, 04:51 PM

Oo don't start me on 70s cars. The Lancia Beta Monte Carlo is my all-time favourite but the Lamborghini Miura runs it a close 2nd for most beautiful car ever. Sports cars these days just aren't as exciting to look at, even if they are better to drive! :P My new Smart Roadster is lovely to drive I must admit. 8)

**Eclipse** · February 16th, 2005, 09:22 PM

Well, if they go to all the trouble of building the damn thing, why can I only spend an hour?? :o

It would also be much more useful if it not only took me back in time, but took off a bunch of years from my age...

**nrgbeat** · February 16th, 2005, 09:45 PM

I would transport myself back to a kindler gentler time....

When cereal cost 89 cents not $3.89.

When only sailors had tatoos.

When people didn't walk up and down store aisles with a headset and cellphone.

When AIDS (spelled AYDS) was a diet candy.

When the Pledge of Allegiance didn't offend people.

**SandraDee** · February 17th, 2005, 04:28 PM

Originally Written by nrgbeat

When AIDS (spelled AYDS) was a diet candy. people.

My mum used have those AYDS in the early 70s when I was in short trousers (thanks Quinny!) - I used to steel them when she wasn't looking! If she caught me she'd say 'they are not sweets David' but they sure tasted like sweets. No wonder I've never put on alot of weight, although now I'm nearing the dreaded 40 mark the pounds are beginning to increase :( (lbs that is & not £s, unfortunately! :lol: )

**Rab** · February 17th, 2005, 05:15 PM

I'd like to go back to around October of 1979:

No answering machines
NO cell phones!
People drove big-ass cars, not these tin can econo-boxes
No internet-and no need for it
guys wore their pants tighter
More reasonable rents!-You could afford to live in Boston!
we weren't innundated with immigrants
no reality shows
less traffic
no handicapped parking
you could find a reasonable job without having a masters degree.

Most of all, I'd like to go to Strawberries Records & Tapes and get multiple copies of every 12" single they had that I liked.