The phrase "a time when folks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period in the past when people behaved in a certain way or experienced something together.
Example: "There was a time when folks gathered in the town square to celebrate the harvest."
Alternatives: "an era when people" or "a period when individuals".
But then again, you'd be going at a time when folks stopped buying records.
"You know, there was a time when folks said we couldn't vote, and others who said we won't, and we've got to prove them wrong".
The New Year is a time when folks put their best foot forward.
The holidays are often a time when folks complain of feeling down or blue.
3AM is a time when folks are taking smoke breaks and finding their legs again, and this blinder from the unparalleled Mark Bell has a chord progression that pulls people right back to the floor.
It is deemed the "worst of the worst" of words, representing a reprehensible time in our country -- a time when folks were dehumanized, enslaved, tortured, and even killed for the color of their skin.
Popular Touch At a time when folk art was the passion of only a few, Edgar William Garbisch (1899-1979) and his wife, Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1908-1979), collextraordinarydinary works.
The concert speaks to a time when folk singers and blues artists mingled more freely, a time when various stylistic streams blended in Chicago before they diverged again in subsequent decades.
Thus, it seemed a natural move for Knappe and Futter to bring the Kansas City museum back to its roots, at a time when folk art is gaining momentum around the world.
But this thread doesn't talk about guilt (we don't have time for guilt, which is often a useless emotion and which wastes time when folks are dying in the street and being beaten right next door to the police).
If we look back at the time when folks traveled in covered wagons, trunks were a popular form of transporting goods.
