I'd love to be able to get into a "time machine" and travel back to different points in time without ever physically moving to a different location (same spot, different time). It would be cool to see open fields where my house now stands 200 years ago, or a forest, or whatever was here then. It would be fun to see the earliest settlers of the city with the dirt roads and horse and buggies. It would also be cool to travel all the way back to the prehistoric era and just watch the landscape evolve around me as I moved forward again to present day.
I would love that too Chris! I love looking at old photograph's that were taken in my City from years and years ago and then comparing them to the way things look now. It's amazing to see just how much has changed over the years. Everytime I see old buildings and houses, I always think of how they looked in their day and wonder what the original owners would say if they could see them now.
There's an old park & pool that I go to here in Yonkers that was built in 1926 and is still kept up with beautiful grounds and a lovely lake as well, (although they could fare to get a new pool) They have old pictures in the lobby of how the place looked in 1928. Although still very crowded today because of the beauty of the grounds, waterfall & lake, the pool isn't nearly as crowded as it was it in's day. Couldn't get over the long long line just to get into it, must have been something in it's heyday! The funny thing is that the whole place looks EXACTLY as it does today.
I think it's great when they keep these old historic places instead of just tearing them down to build more shopping malls or whatever. As long as they preserve them okay, I think they show such an important part of history. :-)