Jack Havig:
"...no longer dwelt in Senlac, but made his headquarters in New York - a post-office box in the present, a sumptuous apartment in the 1890's, financed by the sale of gold he bought after this was again made legal and carried downtime. He did come back for visits, though." (p.56)
When Manse Everard and Carl Farness confer in Everard's New York apartment, Everard says:
"'...let's go eat. We'll need a change of clothes but it'll be worth the trouble. I know a local saloon, back in the eighteen-nineties, that sets out a magnificent free lunch.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 1980, p. 362.
Living in one place in two or more times. Far out.
Many eating places have closed in Lancaster since 1973. Our King's Arms Hotel has suddenly been seized by bailiffs after a four hundred year history. With time travel, we would still be able to eat in all of those places. We would also be able to meet someone who has died as he sits in the Park without our telling him that we were from his future. The possibilities, even if travel is confined to within a single lifetime, are staggering. But I do not imagine that anyone is really doing this.
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It would be convenient! Tho' you'd have to be careful about not being at the same restaurant multiple simultaneous times...
I think I would prefer restaurants after the germ theory of disease became well accepted and health inspectors became common. Same comment for life in general.
Jim,
The Time Patrollers have a vaccination against all past diseases.
Paul.
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