Whats your favorite time in history?

artemis moon

Hero Member
Jun 1, 2007
873
149
Near Bangor, Maine
Detector(s) used
Minelab Safari
ProPointer
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
M

miser

Guest
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

If it weren't for slavery, I would have voted for the Antebellum Period in America.

As a second option, I'd probably vote to serve with Francis Drake. Privateer sounds so much more palatable than "piracy"...
 

wildrider

Bronze Member
Feb 25, 2007
1,895
8
Kentucky
Detector(s) used
Nautilus DMC IIb/White's 6000 Di Pro
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Probably the Civil War period as a news correspondent.
I think I'd also like to see some of those guys in their snake oil wagons

If there was a time machine, I'd put it on cruise control slow so I could watch things develop outside the window.

Burt
 

Monty

Gold Member
Jan 26, 2005
10,746
166
Sand Springs, OK
Detector(s) used
ACE 250, Garrett
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

I would have loved to go hunting in Africa with Teddy Roosevelt. But if I had lived then I probably would have succumbed to one of my stupid childhood accidents at a very early age. I can think of at least 3 that would have been fatal with the medicine of that era. Monty
 

Old Dog

Gold Member
May 22, 2007
5,860
397
Western Colorado
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Knowing that I am a complete furniture nut....
To be in 1770s boston would have been a wonderful time to visit and talk to Duncan Phyfe would bea great adventure.

As it is the only way I can speak with the man is to disassemble a piece of his work and study how he put it together.

Yes, I know.... I'm a nut.

OD
 

OP
OP
artemis moon

artemis moon

Hero Member
Jun 1, 2007
873
149
Near Bangor, Maine
Detector(s) used
Minelab Safari
ProPointer
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

I think I would have liked to live in Rome during the classical period-but only if I was a rich citizen!
 

oldplacesnofinds

Sr. Member
May 8, 2007
410
2
Bucks County , PA
Detector(s) used
Whites Quantum II Whites Spectrum
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Early 1800's would have been a great time to be born. Life was tough but simple. Everything is too complicated anymore.
 

teverly

Hero Member
Mar 4, 2007
921
16
central ohio
Detector(s) used
MINELAB E TRAC x 2 xp deus
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Would like to go back to the time of the mountain man and be one...to much hassel and hurry hurry these days.....
 

OP
OP
artemis moon

artemis moon

Hero Member
Jun 1, 2007
873
149
Near Bangor, Maine
Detector(s) used
Minelab Safari
ProPointer
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Isn't it strange that all of this technology that has been created to make our lives easier has ended up with so many people feeling as if they are caught in a rat race? I don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice to live a simpler, less complicated existence. I wonder how to do that while still managing a phone, a computer, a car and, of course, a job.
 

Rowdy

Full Member
Jun 11, 2006
135
3
Virginia
Detector(s) used
Whites M-6
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

artemis moon said:
Here's a question that for me goes hand in hand with relic hunting: If you could get in a time machine and go back to any time period and any place in history, where and when would you go and why?

Roman empire, midnight orgy! ;)
 

Monk

Sr. Member
Sep 10, 2004
270
19
Where ever my coffee cup lands
Detector(s) used
Fisher 1280X
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

I don't care to go back! This to me is the best time to live. We got the best of everything. During the Civil War they didn't even know what a germ was and many folks died. We don't have to keep a horse and all that goes with it, but just hop in the car and take the M/D to go find history. To live in a home with everything one would want. To kick back in the Lazy Boy with a drink in one hand and the remote in the other. To get on the computer and go visit many places and friends. To be happy where ever one might be, to have peace of mind. I guess I'm a happy man.
 

Old Dog

Gold Member
May 22, 2007
5,860
397
Western Colorado
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Speak for your self!
I have horses and trucks
I like both.
Personally I like the horses better, as now days they are easier to fix.

LOL
Just my opinion
OD
 

Spitfire Reddie

Bronze Member
Jul 29, 2006
1,547
69
NC
Detector(s) used
Teknetics T2
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

No doubt for me its the roaring 20's ahhhh to be there now......very interesting
 

JOe L

Hero Member
Aug 24, 2007
864
275
Colonie, NY , That's around Albany
Detector(s) used
Minelab X-Terra Pro.
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

WOW, I was going to post an answer here BUT, after reading all the above responses, I want to be in the time period of all of them...

I guess if i did answer it wound be, mid to later 1800, at some Northeast Seaport...
 

-Jones-

Hero Member
Aug 11, 2005
519
20
NW Arkansas
Detector(s) used
Minelab GO-FIND 60 and Excalibur II
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

teverly said:
Would like to go back to the time of the mountain man and be one...to much hassel and hurry hurry these days.....

Hey teverly,

when you go take me with ya ;)

bet we could trap a bunch of beaver ;D
 

rmptr

Silver Member
Dec 25, 2007
3,274
25
Tierra del Fuego
Detector(s) used
Tesoro.Fisher.Garrett
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

Now.

All the benefit of past.

Challenge of the present.

Opportunity of the future.

R M P T R
 

Gator-Flea

Bronze Member
Oct 14, 2007
2,030
13
Where the grass is blue
Detector(s) used
Bounty Hunter
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

jeff of pa said:
woodstock era
Hay Jeff this is one of my Grandsons at Christmas "THE WOODSTOCK ERA LOOK IS BACK"

DS
 

Attachments

  • Picture 049.jpg
    Picture 049.jpg
    37.6 KB · Views: 754

rmptr

Silver Member
Dec 25, 2007
3,274
25
Tierra del Fuego
Detector(s) used
Tesoro.Fisher.Garrett
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

BLACKFOOT said:
Tombstone Era with Wyatt Earp, I am pretty fast with a sixgun!!

Hey Blackfoot,
did you ever do that cowboy shoot thingy?

I had a friend get into it. he said lotsa fun!

He's pretty quick with a sixgun, too!
rmptr
 

Monty

Gold Member
Jan 26, 2005
10,746
166
Sand Springs, OK
Detector(s) used
ACE 250, Garrett
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Re: What's your favorite time in history?

The ideal thing would be to be able to travel in time to any era strictly as an observer and come back at will. If you were there in true life you might make drastic changes in the future. Or not! ??? I was always fascinated by the TV show Quantum Leap. Monty
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Latest Discussions

Top