except for Democrats but as much as I'd like to say not this era, people were even stupider in the past. There's always this romanticized image of different times throughout history but what happens if you need a dentist or some TP to whip your butt? I'd like to think people will be smarter in the future.

There were lots of other inconveniences that affected both men and women, but in general women's clothing was a crippling disaster, no matter how decorative it might have been.

I would never want to miss being a teenager in the 70's in the suburbs - no INDEED

put me exactly where and when it wanted me to be.

I don't want to miss what's coming.

likely to be hell for everyone and everything outside their small circle. They're a threat to the entire world.

I would like to visit various locations around New York starting from the early 1940s to the late 60s.

I would get to watch the birth of bebop through the early free jazz movement in person.

Of course, I'd also run the risk of contracting a disease without a cure (polio, hepatitis A & B, measles), or of being drafted for WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam too.

so I would have been alive when The Beatles first arrived in America. What an exciting time! (I was born in 1966.)

and the 1960s were truly a transformative era in so many areas of American life.

about 50 miles from New York City. I was in junior high school and a number of students on our school bus were absent when The Beatles landed in New York City. It turns out they too the train to New York City so they could meet them at the airport.

I had relatives in Trumbill, but waaay later.

Most of what the think of or past eras comes from sanitized versions we saw in movies, on TV, or read about. Ever notice in the western movies and TV shows from 30s to the 70s people looked like they had just taken a bath, their clothes are clean, the streets are free of horse manure, very rarely you saw anyone head to the outhouse, etc...?

We tend to romanticize past eras but when you study or read about the reality of those eras you appreciate the era you're in.

(and location - NYC)

While occasionally I wish I was a few years younger (bc the years are pasing) say 68 instead of 72...
But then if I didn't have an older sibling; like my sister who's 68 who had(s) me... or even with our parents

I probably wouldn't have been cogent of JFK, maybe even Sen Robert F Kennedy, MLK.

Music being central to me.
Might not have gotten into The Beatles at the USA start, I got to see them via a friend or be introduced to The Who(!) by a cousin, and seeing thrm play Tommy at tbe Filmore East. Maybe even missing their Who's Next Tour (live Pure and Easy) And all so many bands & performers from '64, '65 onward!
Wouldn't have gotten to one gigantic from 10AM till 11PMish concert at the old Shea Stadium to raise $$ for the anti-Vietnam War candidates. John Sebastion, Richie Havens, The Rascels, James Gang, Poco, Paul Simon, a bunch more, then Janis Joplin, Credence Clearwater closing.

(? 2nd wave) Feminists!

This what comes to my mind immediately.