The 1950's II

One of my sisters found a facebook page of photographs from the town where we grew up in the 1950s and early '60s. See the attached image and also The 1950's.

This again encourages me to imagine living through the '50s and '60s in the Time Patrol timeline but not necessarily as a Patrol agent. Presumably civilians from time traveling eras are free to settle down in the past as long as the Patrol knows when they are and that they are not up to no good? (Something that Jack Finney would have liked to do.) Robert Heinlein made a good start to writing about Lazarus Long revisiting the period of his childhood, then - - - - ed it up big time.

Manse Everard lives through a large part of the twentieth century that is known to us. He stayed abreast of his readers' present and did not reveal any easily contradicted details about the immediate future. The Time Patrol series does contradict history in two ways:

it incorporates Sherlock Holmes as a historical figure, not a fictional character;

knowledge of earlier periods may have advanced since Anderson wrote the series.

That second point is part of sf. It also applies to knowledge of Mars etc.