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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 31, 2017 15:16:21 GMT -5
Big or small, doesn't matter. Sometimes small is probably better. For me, for so many reasons, I would love to be able to say that I had seen Jackie Robinson's first professional game (not counting the Negro Leagues) at Roosevelt Field, Jersey City, NJ, April 18, 1946.  He was with the Dodgers' top farm club, the Montreal Royals, who were playing the Jersey City Giants, and to near-unanimous cheering, he kicked serious baseball ass in front of 52,000 fans (in a stadium that seated about 24-and-change) who watched him ground out in the first, hit a three-run bomb to left in the third, bunt for a hit in the fifth, steal second, go to third on a groundout, fake a steal of home -- forcing a balk -- and then repeat the same feat in the eighth (bunt single, steal, advance on an out, fake a steal, get balked home). Oh, and in the seventh, between the two bunt hits, he ingled to right, stole second again and scored on a triple. Four hits, 7 total bases, 4 runs, four RBI, 3 assists, two putouts, 2 stolen bases Montreal won 14-1. Jackie figured in 7 of them. How do you like that kinda shite, white baseball?! He was a man. Damn right he was. Sorry. Just thinking about that moment gets me jazzed up. Oh, and for good measure... The famous 1908 Merkle's Boner game at the Polo Grounds. Babe Ruth's three-homer game at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, 1935. It should have been his last game. Any performance at the Globe of a Shakespeare play during his lifetime. Or at the Blackfriar's. The Gettysburg Address, or anything LIncoln said in public. Watching Daniel Inouye win the DSC (belatedly upgraded to the Medal of Honor). Read about that the next time you feel like bitching about pain. Seeing the Palisades from the Half Moon as it sailed up the Hudson in 1609. The moment Fitzgerald immortalized at the end of Gatsby.  So many others. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 31, 2017 15:46:54 GMT -5
All of them. I crave omniscience.
Seriously, I would like to have been at Disneyland on Opening Day. I would like to have seen Billie Holiday at her peak. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Louis Armstrong. I would like to have been in the crowd when Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. I would like to visit the Athenian Academy and chat with Sophocles or Plato. I would like to have been at my college graduation, but my friends and I were too cool for that caps-and-gowns crap.
Cei-U!
I'm sure I could think of more but it's a start!
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 31, 2017 16:02:23 GMT -5
All of them. I crave omniscience. Seriously, I would like to have been at Disneyland on Opening Day. I would like to have seen Billie Holiday at her peak. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Louis Armstrong. I would like to have been in the crowd when Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. I would like to visit the Athenian Academy and chat with Sophocles or Plato. I would like to have been at my college graduation, but my friends and I were too cool for that caps-and-gowns crap. Cei-U! I'm sure I could think of more but it's a start! Louis Armstrong is an American treasure. I wish I hadn't gone to my college graduation. The speaker, Senator Harrison Williams, was convicted of bribery a year or so later, I'm sure after exhorting us all to live splendid lives. And instead of a diploma, we got a mimeographed sheet telling us that we could pick up our diploma at the Registrar's office the next week. Really? I wasn't the least bit interested. Whatever you did was better. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 31, 2017 16:27:15 GMT -5
I'd would have liked to have been at:
A NY Yankee game with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the lineup
The Cavern Club when the Beatles played in their leather jackets
The signing of the Declaration Of Independence
Inside one of the Apollo Moon Landing capsules
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 16:48:07 GMT -5
Historically: Signing of the Declaration. End of WWII. Inside Mission Control during the Moon Landing.
Personally: One whole day with my Maternal Grandfather who died when I was 3 yrs old.
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Post by Pharozonk on Mar 31, 2017 17:15:50 GMT -5
The tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 17:48:50 GMT -5
Mine would be the following Events- Wright Brothers First Flight
- See Rita Hayworth's Gilda on the Big Screen
- Signing of the Declaration of Independence
- Opening Day at Disneyland
- See Empire State Building Built - 3/1930 to 4/1931 (Live in New York for year)
- See New York Yankees during 1923 Season where Ruth was named MVP (Live during the Baseball Season)
- Thrilla in Manila - Ali Frazier III, October 1, 1975
- See Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
- Miracle on Ice - USA Hockey in 1980, where USA defeated the Soviet Union - 4 to 3
- Wilt Chamberlain's Game of where he scored 100 points - March 2nd 1962 in Hershey Pennsylvania.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 6, 2017 9:22:18 GMT -5
I'd like to see Jesus heal the lame and sick and see him feeding the 5 thousand with just 1 fish and a few loaves of bread.
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Post by chadwilliam on Apr 6, 2017 10:50:51 GMT -5
1. Anything with dinosaurs. 2. Elvis jamming with The Beatles in 1965. 3. Paul McCartney hanging out with John Lennon on April 24,1976 and almost taking Lorne Michael up on his offer to pay The Beatles $3000 to reunite. Or really, any time the two were together post 1969. 4. Eliot Ness' brief telephone conversation with Al Capone after confiscating an assortment of his trucks and parading them past The Lexington Hotel. 5. I'll also go with Lincoln and The Gettysburg address but would be fine with anything since I'd love to know how he sounded. Apparently, the only consensus we have on the matter is that he was a tenor and not a baritone as most people imagine. 6. Bela Lugosi's make-up/screen test for Frankenstein. 7. Any screening of London After Midnight. 8. The construction of The Colossus of Rhodes - not in real time though. Actually, the construction of any of the Seven Wonders would be great. 9. Anything on another world involving highly intelligent life. 10. Houdini doing whatever. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 14, 2017 14:07:53 GMT -5
Lot of religious events that I don't believe actually happened...just to see if they actually happened.
Dozens....hundreds of concerts. Not least of which would be Miles Davis at The Plugged Nickel and Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark at The Bluebird Cafe.
The 2007 Fiesta Bowl...I really regret missing that.
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Post by Warmonger on Apr 14, 2017 14:14:21 GMT -5
Superbowl III (the only way I'd ever be able to see a Jets SB win)
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
Moon Landing
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 14, 2017 16:33:43 GMT -5
Superbowl III (the only way I'd ever be able to see a Jets SB win) The signing of the Declaration of Independence Moon Landing Saw two of these. Both were memorable. (No, I was not in Independence Hall.) |
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Post by berkley on Apr 14, 2017 19:30:59 GMT -5
In sports, I'd love to have seen Rocket Richard play at the Forum in Montreal.
I'd also be very curious to see the ancient Olympics - particularly the combat sports: boxing, wrestling, and pankration (ancient Greek MMA), just to see what the styles and techniques looked like compared to today.
The Roman gladitorial contests would I think have been too brutal for me to enjoy watching them, though once again I'd be curious to see how they fought.
As for things like political events and so on, I'm not sure there's much ... most of what I think are humankind's greatest achievements tend to be intellectual or creative accomplishments, so there wouldn't be anything to see, as such.
I kind of wish I had been just a bit older for the first moon landing so I'd remember it more clearly.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 15, 2017 12:32:43 GMT -5
I kind of wish I had been just a bit older for the first moon landing so I'd remember it more clearly. You might have done something similar to what I and many others to whom I have spoken since did that night... actually the early morning of July 21. We went outside afterwards and stared at the moon hoping -- even though we all knew better, rationally -- we might be able to see the LEM or the flag or Armstrong and Aldrin (who grew up in the town right next door to mine) as they left their bootprints in the moondust.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 15, 2017 13:34:23 GMT -5
The Apollo Lunar Module landed at 4:18 PM Eastern Standard Time. Armstrong stepped out to the surface at 10:56 PM, Buzz Aldrin 20 minutes later.
I must have been glued to watching the TV that day from the afternoon through early AM.
Another event I would have loved to have witnessed would have been the birth of Hitler. Of course, I'd have a fully loaded revolver. Seriously, no qualms about it
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