Today...back then.

[Mr_D.]

There are a few threads about things from back then that we still have today. So here's a twist.


If you were to time travel to back then, what item(s) from today would you like to take back with you?







edited to revamp question.

 

[Elaina]

To be honest, it doesn't matter to me, I wasn't around back then. Some of the things we have today I didn't grow up with and if it went the way of the Dodo tomorrow, I might miss it, but it wouldn't be a big deal.

I had a very weird childhood. My mom used to listen to the old radio, my dad used to dance with me, and I grew up listening to records and "The Shadow", and being outside. It's only been the last few years I didn't spend a lot of time outside when I started working on the net.

 

[Foofoogal]

Refrigerator with water and ice in the door and Tempurpedic mattress.
lol

 

[GearHead]

Well if you didn;t have it you wouldn't miss it so I could probably live without most of what we have today.
The one thing that I would say would be having the current (or future since we're time traveling here) state of medicine. Being able to treat medical problems or have painless dentistry.

Erick

 

[Feraud]

If people then had the opportunity to have what we have now I am sure most would have taken advantage of it.
Which brings us to where we are today.

 

[Viola]

...We have painless dentistry?

To be fair the dentist did apologize when the Novocaine didn't work - but he finished the wisdom teeth removal without finding something that did.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Painless dentistry, Golden Era style -- http://www.fauchard.org/inquiries/museum/07/PP/index.htm

If I could take something back with me, I'd take clumping cat litter. There was a time when "the sandbox" was literal.

 

[Viola]

I'd take Splenda, diet soda and turkey ham. lol

 

[Matt Deckard]

Television, 7/11, iphone, laptops, tennis shoes, toyota, Salad shooter.

 

[Viola]

Que? What is a salad shooter? Why would you shoot a salad, it's meat that has to be shot...?

Also 7-11 holds not a candle to Wawa, I offer jingoistically, although no one asked. lol

 

[Mr_D.]

Que? What is a salad shooter? Why would you shoot a salad, it's meat that has to be shot...?

Also 7-11 holds not a candle to Wawa, I offer jingoistically, although no one asked. lol

http://www.saladshooter.com/

 

[Elaina]

I asked this question of a woman I know who was a kid back then. Her reply? A lifetime of booze so she could live in a haze until she got back.

 

[John in Covina]

That book with all of the race and sports results and some Wall Street tips plus the formula for transparent aluminum.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That book with all of the race and sports results and some Wall Street tips plus the formula for transparent aluminum.

My meds. Although that IS a close second.