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You can't actually go back in time, but a travel and tourism service gives you the experience! Actors and period locations and sets make it seem as if you had travelled to say 1950.
Not merely re-enactment or historical interpreters. Not merely an "interactive" exhibit for an hour or so. A full-blown
re-creation of the world and people, and you go there and live in that world. Well designed and constructed, no anachronisms. Even ideas and attitudes as if you'd stepped into that 1950 street. For your vacation, you go to 1950. How long will you be staying with us?
Naturally this would be expensive. And probably limited to a few times to pick from. But tourism is often like that, and seems to find customers.
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// Actors and period locations and sets make it seem as if you had travelled to say 1950. // |
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You've never been to New Zealand, have you ? |
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"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now commencing our approach to Auckland... please put your watch back sixty years ... " |
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There's also Gibraltar - 1976, always. |
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I spent one summer employed at the main gate of a ren fair - They just dialed the date back three hundred years and omitted the pestilence and pox. |
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Visited any historic fort lately? Greenfield Village? |
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There is a Philip K Dick novel, now wait for last year, where people build mini environments on mars out of scavenged antiques and robots/hired actors. |
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[Ian] is right about Barnes; I once lived there for a month. But
there's more; it's not only mentally displaced in time but also in
space. As you can see from the map in the link, it is an inner
suburb of London, but many of the cars parked there sported
"countryside alliance" stickers, the post took an extra two or three
days to arrive there (as if it were a remote Scottish island) and,
strangest of all, the morning rush hour saw crowds of commuters
streaming southward to the main-line railway station. Why is this
strange? Because you can get to central London much faster by
walking north to the nearest bus stop - but the Barnesians were
inhibited from doing this, because it would mean admitting to
themselves that *they live in London*. |
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Barnes has a nature reserve called: "Leg O Mutton". |
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London, I don't know if I miss you or not. |
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