This or That Events (post 1900)

Ok ....I made one too...variety is the spice of life

Choose this or that between events from the last 113 years that someone would like to go back and observe live and in person. ..but no one can see you (like in a Christmas Carol)


Roswell back when the alien ship supposedly landed

Or

On board the Titanic when it hit the iceberg

Titanic ALL THE WAY ! I've always been a big titanic enthusiast (and yes, I love the movie... there I said it !)

The concert with the Beatles on the Apple roof in '69
or
Woodstock '69

That's a tough one...both would be cool. My heart says Beatles, but the pure iconic value of being at Woodstock is just too much to pass up.

Woodstock


ok...here's a sports one...

To be in the stands when Babe Ruth did the infamous home run call

or


to be in the stands at Lou Gehrig's famous farewell speech

Lou Gehrig, definately...

Kennedy's assassination (from the grassy knoll)

or

Reagan's attempted assassination

ishmael!  It's like you are reading my mind.  I was getting ready to make the exact same pick and problem.

Kennedy

The moon landing

or

in the studio for Les Paul and Mary Ford's "How High the Moon" recording

The moon landing...so i can see if it was done in a studio somewhere or actually on the moon...lol

Hitler's bunker on that last day

Or

At Pearl Harbor 12.7.41

Hitler's bunker, so I know exactly what happened

Several hours ago when I read messiahen77's mind

or

Yesterday when I had an awesome lunch with my family

Hahahaha....messiahen77's mind..I bet that is interesting...



ok..classic disappearances

To be with Amelia Earhart and see what happened to her
or
To be with Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle to see what happened to them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19


And in case you thought it was solved...
"In 1991, the wreckage of five Avengers was discovered off the coast of Florida, but engine serial numbers revealed they were not Flight 19."

I would love to know what happened to Amelia

As for G/F's question. I would go with the lunch...so at least there would be food.

At Nasa when the Space Shuttle Challenger Exploded.

or

At Nasa when Apollo 13 made it back home

Apollo 13 ( I've always wanted to meet Tom Hanks)

The first showing of Jaws

or

The first reading of War of the Worlds

ishmael81 wrote:

Apollo 13 ( I've always wanted to meet Tom Hanks)

 

bought4life wrote:

ishmael81 wrote:

Apollo 13 ( I've always wanted to meet Tom Hanks)

 

 What?

You can take a guy out of the trailer park....but you can't take the trailer park out of the guy.

ishmael81 wrote:

bought4life wrote:

ishmael81 wrote:

Apollo 13 ( I've always wanted to meet Tom Hanks)

 

 What?

 Because silly, you would be in the control room probably and STILL never meet him

Then the uneasiness sets in...as people wonder was he really joking, or was he being serious...

ok..I choose the first reading of War Of The Worlds...that would have been incredible to see all the panic caused...


Out on the boat with Natalie Wood to see how she got pushed ..er..I mean fell...over the side of the boat

or

in Marilyn Monroe's bedroom the night she died..was it an assassination, suicide, or stupidity?
Actually, being in MM's bedroom ANY night would have been cool 

@b4l, I was joking and you should know, given your experience with my humor.

@ staybrite, I've never lived in a park but some of my family does... they occasionally meet the stereotypes unfortunately...

ishmael81 wrote:

@b4l, I was joking and you should know, given your experience with my humor.

@ staybrite, I've never lived in a park but some of my family does... they occasionally meet the stereotypes unfortunately...

 Of course you know that I know you were joking...
if I thought you were serious I would have kept quite so as not to bring embarrassment to you

ishmael81 wrote:

@b4l, I was joking and you should know, given your experience with my humor.

@ staybrite, I've never lived in a park but some of my family does... they occasionally meet the stereotypes unfortunately...

I have lived in several trailer parks growing up. And meet most of the stereotypes myself.

lol...

Back to the topic, I would choose Marylin, just to see how she died.

Martin Luther King's famous I HAve a Dream Speech
or
Jackie Robinson's first game

Martin Luther King's speech for sure

Witness the birth of Microsoft
or
the birth of Apple

Apple Snapple... I'd want to see the creating and unveiling of MS's first toy.

Mount Saint Helen's eruption
or
The great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

(from a safe distance of course)

Mount St. Helen's

Black Tuesday (Stock market crash of 1929) and it's subsequent fallout
or
First Academy Awards (also in 1929)

First Academy Awards!!!

March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game, Philadelphia Warriors defeated the New York Knicks with a score of 169-147

OR

December 28, 1958, NFL Championship, Giants and Colts, widely known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played."