GlennaB suggested this after recent comments to her new avatar which is a photo of her and her husband from the late 70's. So never one to back down from a challenge I post my own bit of visual memory lane with my prom picture from 1987.
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/elmalo68/prom.jpg)
There's nothing more hypnotic than a well-groomed mullet. Eighties style required attention to detail. Notice how the tie and cummerbund match the silvery sheen of my lady's dress! To complete the ensemble: white tux and tails, white shoes and a white limousine.
My prom date was resplendent in her 'fe-mullet' style—which required heavy moisture and hair spray—silver lips and raccoon eyes.
After Denise danced all night with another guy, we went our separate ways. Besides, she wanted to never "ruin our friendship." But with this picture, we'll always have the magic of this moment.
Game on OPR. Game on.
Dave, you really know how to throw down the gauntlet with panache! That's a great photo. What I DO hate about it is that you've barely changed, darn your hide! You still look so young.
But I love this challenge. C'mon guys, bring on the oldies & goodies!
Hugs!
GK
That's a good one Dave, made me smile.
I'm not sure how to change my avatar, besides it took 3 yrs to figure out how to get one up on the forum!
Mary
Mary, don't necessarily change your avatar. I love that photo of you. Just put an older one in your post. I promise I'll change mine to what I really look like once we're through playing! This is just too much fun!
GK
P.S. If you DO want to change the avatar, click on profile in the top menu, and at the mid-left of the next page there's a header called Modify Profile. Click on the second item: "Forum profile information" and upload your new photo by turning on the radio button that says "I will upload my own picture." Browse for the photo on your computer and load 'er up.
Thanks G I'll have to find a half way decent photo from the 70's or 80's. This could be a whole lot of fun for everyone. After all we all love old photos right?
M
I know I do! It's one reason I adore our OPR job!
What got me started was going through our REALLY old photos (i.e. me at 3 in a little sailor suit in Japan right after WWII - I'll have to dig that one out for Candy) to get them scanned and on a disk.
I ended up going through every box of photos I own looking for a specific shot of my son that I wanted to share with someone (it was in the last box, of course!). It was amazing! I laughed and I cried.
GK
I know what you mean I can go through photos for hours and it brings back so any great memories and like you I laugh and sometimes I cry.
I love the idea of just putting the photo into the post like Dave did. This way I can really see the photo. So Glenna, let's have the bigger photo of you and Lon so I can really see it.
M
Wow Dave, that is going to be hard one to top! The beauty of it is that we can all download that picture for some special moment later in time! :funny:
Margie
It can't get worse than it is, Margie.
Hmmm, I belive I see a disco ball hanging in the background. :halo:
Ok, Mary, you asked for it. I realized that this is one of the very few portraits we have together. Neither of us is photogenic, so we hate having our pictures taken. Irritates the heck out of the kids.
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Quote from: Dave on September 21, 2008, 08:18:00 PM
It can't get worse than it is, Margie.
:funny: Dave didnt see what we did when you got your new office Margie or he never would have said that. Thats one good mullet there Dave.
Glenna I love that photo of you and Lon. With those hair styles it has to be the 70's? Is that an Olan Mills stamp in the corner lol?
I'll have to scan something old in from my photo album. I make sure I'm taking the photos these days. ;D
Dave, your portrait is just "priceless" and I doubt anyone can top that one easily. :funny:
Glenna you and Lon look just too cute.
I'm still searching for something good to show off. I don't have many pictures of myself.
Gerlinde
Sheesh, Gerlinde, you look gorgeous in your avatar.
GK
Isn't that the dorthy hamilton hair cut Glenna? I don't know why you guys don't like your pictures taken you are both cute. Love it Glenna.
Thank you Glenna, but that's only because I took that picture myself with my webcam. Other people are just not capable to capture my essence! ::) :halo: >:D
Gerlinde
Quote from: GP on September 21, 2008, 09:01:02 PM
Thank you Glenna, but that's only because I took that picture myself with my webcam. Other people are just not capable to capture my essence! ::) :halo: >:D
Gerlinde
Haha, now thats a good one! :funny:
Send me your webcam, if I can have the same results!!!
Margie
Ha! Get your own Margie! >:D :funny:
Gerlinde
If y'all aren't careful, I'll bring back the mullet.
If you are not careful, we will bring back the tutu. ;)
Gerlinde, you are so selfish! Besides anything I take needs retouching--lots of it!
Margie
Touché, Margie! You go girl. Tutus it is! I believe we have a lovely photo in the Biloxi Beacon courtesy of Mr. Ausimax. Maybe we need to haul it over to this thread!
And don't you think I'm going to "Photoshop" the daylights out of a current photo of moi if I ever get up the gumption to post one?
GK
I love it!
Dave that photo is photo wonderful. You may regret that you ever posted it with this bunch!
Glenna, you and Lon look beautiful, it is a very good portrait.
Margie I would like to see the avatar in full size, you look so cute and I would also like to vote Gerlinde as our new Miss OPR 2008!
:loveit:
Hannie
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>:D I found it.
Tomorrow I will dig out an old photo of me, have a good one in mind and you can photoshop to your hearts content. :wow:
Dave, I bet you were a cute baby!
Hannie
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb18/marijtje2/OPR/davetutu.jpg)
:funny: :funny: :funny:
Wasn't the point of this thread for EVERYONE to post their old pictures? Give you people an inch ...
Dave
I can see this is quickly going to get out of hand, but what a blast it is already. This was a really good way to start my day.
Glenna, I love that photo of you and Lon, I'm trying to decide who's got the best hair.
Margie, I want to see that one of you as a child full size too, it looks adorable. And let's not forget about Dave's baby photo, well, maybe we should. Hannie and Tess you both are little devils.
I can hardly wait to see what's coming next.
Mary
Just to make up for all the evil I have committed on this forum here is a very silly one of me aged 12.
Note the stylish sideburns!
Hannie
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb18/marijtje2/OPR/hannieschortcopy.jpg)
Hannie,
That was definitely worth the wait.
Dave
Hannie, I love that shy smile. Whoda thunk that gorgeous little girl would grow up to be such a photo gallery scoundrel!??
Here's one of my very first glamor shots:
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/glennab-fla/Glenna1948.jpg)
These are so cute. I know its supposed to be embarassing shots, I'll scan mine in later. Here's me at age 3 I think?
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/tassie_devil/me-at-3big.jpg)
Wow, this thread is great. :up:
Hannie, you look so innocent in that picture and I recognize the sewing machine. My Mom had the same one.
Glenna, I love your new avatar, you look so glamorous! Also your little girl picture is really cute.
Tess, I'm still waiting to have something to compare your cute picture to.
In the meantime, here is me at the ripe age of about 4, I think. Notice the stockings in the left picture. OMG I hated those. I can still feel the scratching on my legs and it gives me the creeps! :wow:
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l26/gpecht/GP.jpg)
Ok people, here's me at 16. Old US army shirt, jeans and lots of hair, not permed though, in the caravan in our back yard. No I'm not fixing the scratches and fading lol. I'll have to raid mums collection to get the really bad ones.
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/tassie_devil/me16low.jpg)
Sr. Prom and right out of college.
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I like where this is going. Happy Tuesday to everyone!!!
Dave, your mullet STILL wins the prize. Ain't cha proud?
Kiska,
I've always thought that to get far in this world you must first cultivate a strong mullet.
Dave
I absolutely love all these old photos. What I want to know is where are the rest of our guys? I know that Dave's not the only one with great prom shots, or even earlier treasures. And how 'bout those mullets?
And Dave, you've made clear to me why I'm not a rich, well-known journalist. NO MULLET! Dang, if only I'd known.
Lon had me print the shot of us in '78 and took it to work to show off to his crew. Then he waxed poetic about those days when we were young and cute and energetic (he raced cars and I raced sailboats) and madly in love. Now we're old and (we're told) still cute(??? neither of us can see it, but we're known as "The Lovebirds"), worn out, but at least still madly in love.
Gotta find a prom photo. I just love those. Kiska, yours is a gem. Those eyes!
And more baby photos, please!
I have to say this trip we're taking down memory lane makes me even more aware of how precious our photos are. What a great punctuation to what we do in OPR. Please keep 'em coming!
Hugs!
GK
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I don't know how old I was when this picture was taken. Judging from the newly cut upper incisor, I am guessing that I was about six. My father bought a twin-lens reflex camera, the first camera our family had. One of my sisters decided to try it out on me. I should have seen her ability through this picture. She should have been 14 at the time and hid her artistic talent until she started painting lessons after 50.
Till this day, I am still amused by the trust the mother cat had with me. I had my sister raided my parent's photo albums and scanned it for me. It took some restoration work.
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z298/schen_album/firstdayschool.jpg)
First day of school.
WHAT a hoot. I'm glad you enlarged the avatar pic. When little, it appeared you were being potty trained. >:D
We had dirt floor and open crotch pants. No potty training necessary. :funny:
Shujen, great photos!
I also love the mentioned potty training method (sure beats sitting in a diaper all day). ;D
Hannie
I need to start shoveling dirt into my house for Shane. It's too late for Jack. We've already domesticated him.
Honestly, I can't recall wearing diaper or potty training. I am not sure it is just me or most of the people's memory don't go back that far. From the picture of the first day of school, the house appeared to have elevated floor and one foot crawl space. The buildings in the area were razed and replaced by high rise condos last time I visited.
In order to keep this thread going, I'm posting a shot for Candy. Not sure on what ship I was serving at the time. This is in Japan, fall of 1949.
Shujen, I love your little guy photos! From a delighted child with a blanket of kittens to a very serious schoolboy.
Anyway, here's the littlest swabbie!
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/glennab-fla/LittleSailortopost.jpg)
(A little addendum. I was joking about the ship on which I was serving, but I remember my dad telling me that I had spent enough time on Navy "tubs" to have earned sea pay! No QE2 for us!)
Glenna, that is so cute, I also like the earlier photo your posted.
I know now what my granddaughter Louise will look like when she grows up because she looks very much like the little girl in your photos!
:loveit:
Hannie
Hannie, I spent most of my life thinking I was just plain ugly. Courtesy of my parents. (My dad used to tell me I had a Roman nose – as in roamin' all over my face.) I'm tempted to tell Louise that I'm sending her a huge hug and my most abject sympathy if she ends up resembling me. But as I look at the old photos, I realize I was a cute little kid, contrary to my early imprinting. Any of you who have little ones, be sure they know they're beautiful!
Speaking of beautiful... Mary I love your new avatar. I want to see a larger version! As lovely as you are now, I suspected you were probably a knock-out in your early days. Now I know for sure!
I'm still looking for my prom photo. Have several more boxes to go through. Just looking for the old shots is more fun than I realized it would be. And at least the ones I've scanned for this thread will be ready to go on disk!
I keep thinking about the lady in Biloxi who told me she had her photos in locking plastic boxes up on the highest shelf in her closet. The water from Katrina covered her house to the attic, so all the history she thought was safe... wasn't. That was a story that caused tears! (and my photos are stored in locking plastic boxes in the very top of my closet. No more feeling secure with that!)
GK
Glenna,
From all your pictures posted, you are always pretty. If anybody told you otherwise, they were wrong.
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Glenna here I is in 1976 and in 1947. Don't laugh too hard! Where did that young girl go?
Mary
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Little Ole Me,
C ^-^
Quote from: glennab on September 28, 2008, 12:44:17 PM
In order to keep this thread going, I'm posting a shot for Candy. Not sure on what ship I was serving at the time. This is in Japan, fall of 1949.
Shujen, I love your little guy photos! From a delighted child with a blanket of kittens to a very serious schoolboy.
Anyway, here's the littlest swabbie!
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/glennab-fla/LittleSailortopost.jpg)
(A little addendum. I was joking about the ship on which I was serving, but I remember my dad telling me that I had spent enough time on Navy "tubs" to have earned sea pay! No QE2 for us!)
I love it!!!
These photos are wonderful. It's amazing how no matter how much we age we can still see the child in us all. :halo:
Max wheres yours?
No responsibility will be accepted for damage to Monitors or other electronic equipment.
Here's an old photo of me about 3-4y.
(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5958/meat3pr0.jpg)
And a photo of old me!
(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9876/oldmeqs4.jpg)
Max
Still handsome as ever Max!!
C
Max, that's one precious baby photo! And what a handsome guy you are. Even upside down! There's something about you Aussie guys.
Is that your sweet Emily with you?
Mary & Candy, I love your photos. Pretty ladies! And adorable babies! Wouldn't it be nice if we could plant ourselves in time somewhere between the two?
Hugs
GK
BTW, Shujen, thanks for the sweet comment. We shall be friends for life!
Beautiful photos Max. It must have been an unwritten rule for little boys to have the cowlick hair. :)
Tassie, yours are great too, though I'm not sure you haven't cheated and snuck in one of Bethany - your teen one is much a case of "like Mother, like Daughter".
Max
lol its funny you should say that Max. Here is me beside Bethany at a similar age. I have better photos of her in the album that look just like me.
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/tassie_devil/mebeth.jpg)
This is my brother and me.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm81/kiskaopr/jmacmecrop.jpg)
Didn't they have color digital cameras back then?
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I'm not sure that I understand the language, but I'm sure it was a message of love.
This is great fun looking at everyones beautiful photographs. It's so nice to see the people one is communicating with here on the forums...............Mary
I agree Mary, I love the old (and new) photos, hope there will be even more!
Hannie
I hope we do this for a long time. A great way to get to know each other.
I finally found the prom picture. I went to my senior prom with Troy Donahue!
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/glennab-fla/SeniorProm.jpg)
GK
Glenna,
The look on your face in that picture spells trouble.
Dave
and he looks nervous as all get out.
Dave, actually he was a neighbor and very good friend. He trusted that I wouldn't damage him too badly! I've tended to be an intimidator most of my life. Never figured out exactly why. Just raw talent, I guess!
Cheers!
GK
Here's a photo of my oldest brother and I, when I was about two years old. Yes, I'm the little fat one, with no hair. Regards, David
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/weewood/DannyandDavidAge2.jpg)
David, I can't imagine that you could have been any more adorable. What a wonderful smile. Is this the beloved brother you just lost? He was a doll, too. Impish grin!
Keep 'em coming! I love this.
Hugs,
GK
They are all beautiful photos. Its like a big trip down memory lane. :)
These are all so wonderful to look at, Glenna.......WOW! What a knockout!
Mary
Quote from: glennab on October 01, 2008, 12:01:06 AM
David, I can't imagine that you could have been any more adorable. What a wonderful smile. Is this the beloved brother you just lost? He was a doll, too. Impish grin!
Keep 'em coming! I love this.
Hugs,
GK
Yes, Glenna. This was the brother that I recently lost. Thanks for asking. I surely miss him. :'( Regards, David
Yes indeed I am still here and I have for your viewing pleasure not one but TWO historically significant pictures of me :wow:
The first one:
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This is me in Memphis. I'd just turned two and yes my underwear does look peculiar but I'm getting to that. My dad was raised by his grandmother and his aunts (all 8 of them) in Memphis and I suppose he wanted to take his little family to meet the folks. I have vague memories of our brand new 1952 Buick. I rode the whole 1,000 or so miles from upstate New York either sitting on my mother's lap in the front seat or standing on the drive-train hump in the middle of the back seat while my brother and sister punched, pinched and tormented each other behind me. Waddaya mean, car seat? There weren't any seat belts no less a car seat for a toddler. If you were in an accident you were expected to pitch head-first through the windscreen and end up a bloody mess. It was just the way things were :) Anyhow, I digress.
My mother thought it would be a grand idea to potty train me before the trip to do away with the hassle of carrying around dirty diapers (no disposables in those days) and having to wash them. She thought that she'd made a wonderful success of it until we got to Memphis when I became instantly un-potty trained. I peed my way through all of my new big girl pants and in the picture I am wearing a very much too big pair (tied in a knot in the back to keep them up) of my older cousin. No one could figure out what was wrong and I didn't yet have the vocabulary to explain. Aunt Irene had one of those old fashioned high tank toilets with a chain. I had never seen a toilet like that and it frightened me. I was sure it was going to sweep me along and down the drain. The only expedient thing was to pee my pants to aviod bobbing along in the Memphis sewer system.
And the second epic photo:
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff264/Charlene5_photos/SeniorProm1968.jpg)
It is indeed my senior prom. Fallbrook Union High School May of 1968. (I just went to my 40th reunion and it was amazing.) EVERYONE - well all the girls anyhow - were getting their hair put up and I was determined to do it too. The only problem was that my hair was (and is) baby fine and the hairdresser almost had the vapours trying to get it arranged. She finally gave up and I had it half up and half down. The part that is up had about 50 hair pins and had been sprayed with not hairspray but LACQUER to get it to stay. It could have been used as a backstop for a basketball hoop. It wouldn't have moved in a hurricane. It took me two days to pry all the hairpins out and endless washing with Joy (a dishwashing liquid) to get all the chemicals out. Nonetheless I was quite fashionable for that one night. Don't ask me what possessed me to make a pink dress. Don't you love the gloves? 8) 8)
Cheers,
MJ
MJ, it's about time you came out of hibernation. It was well worth the wait! ;D I was a little afraid that your 1st photo might have some special meaning for us.
MJ, I can't believe you still remember the potty training days! I thought no one can. Now I know it is just me. :mad:
Love the pink. :loveit:
Shujen, the reason MJ remembers so well is that she was not fully trained until the age of 10! I think I will run for cover now.
Margie
Hey guys,
Here are a couple of doozies. One of me at +- 2 (I'm on the left) and at 18 leaving for the senior prom. Both were in Shreveport, La.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z43/Hoodman3/toddler_tux.jpg)
LOL
Pete
Quote from: MJThe part that is up had about 50 hair pins and had been sprayed with not hairspray but LACQUER to get it to stay. It could have been used as a backstop for a basketball hoop. It wouldn't have moved in a hurricane.
:funny: That is so funny MJ. I remember my Mum doing that to my hair at age 11. Your prom photo is very beautiful.
Quote from: Hoodman3One of me at +- 2 (I'm on the left)
Is that left in the photo or left as we look at it? ;D So you're the bare chested one wearing the icecream? Very cute sideburns Pete. >:D
Hi MJ
Where in the world have you been? I've missed your grand sense of humor, so appreciate not only the great photos, but your hilarious description of each. Interesting, your comment about the pink dress and gloves. If you note in my prom photo, I'm wearing pink and similar gloves. I NEVER wore pink, but loved the style of the dress. I don't remember the gloves. Can't even imagine what that was about! I hated dressing up.
And Pete, you look as if you were a real imp in your very young days. You wore the ice cream well! Great shot! You certainly "cleaned up" nicely when you got older. Love the pre-prom photo.
Cheers!
GK
Okay, this is one of my few "glamour puss" photos. I was 21, living in Madagascar, and as you can tell, I really LOVED dressing up. This was for a big company party at the embassy. I had the dress tailor-made by a Malagasy woman who charged me a whopping $7 for material and dress. Living there was so interesting. My cat ate zebu (Madagascar cow, basically) filet every day rather than cat food, because the filet was less expensive!
Next photo will be the "real" me, if a bit younger than I am now. And I found a baby photo that my mother told me was in the photographer's studio window for years, because he loved it so much. Stay tuned. Keep up with me, guys!
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n222/glennab-fla/GlamourPusstoPost.jpg)
GK
Wow, very sultry look there Glenna. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all stay looking so young.
Tess, I'd love to be that young again, but not that stupid! I was a baby. If I could take my wisdom back with me, now that'd be another story.
It amazes me how much I've changed in 40 years. Partly age and weight and partly because I've had surgery on my jaw twice that has distorted my face a bit. But I pretty much like who I am now, and since I'm lucky enough to be married to a guy who thinks I'm gorgeous ("moi? are you blind? I wuv you so much!")
I think I'll be content and just enjoy looking back on the different stages of my interesting life. And I so love seeing all of you in your earlier days. (I hadn't commented on this before, but my goodness you and that precious daughter of yours so resemble each other. Isn't that awesome?)
Hugs
G
Old sailors never die. They just get a little dinghy! GK
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Quote from: schen on October 01, 2008, 05:39:54 PM
MJ, I can't believe you still remember the potty training days! I thought no one can. Now I know it is just me. :mad:
Love the pink. :loveit:
Shujen I have one of my Cracked Science theories of why I remember back that far. When I was a little girl I used to regularly drag out and old gladstone bag full of our family pictures. Until a couple of years ago I thought my Dad was an orphan with no siblings and my mother had no family because that's what I was told. What was under my roof was all the "close" family I had and I wanted to hang onto those memories. I'd go through the pictures and remember where and when they were taken. When I started looking at pictures I was probably 4 or 5 years old so they weren't old memories. They were still fresh in my mind. I think that repeatedly bringing up the memories over the years kept them alive for me. A couple of really vivid memories don't have attached pictures but they were so traumatic that they stayed with me: The time I fell, butt first, into the toilet, and the time it snowed way early in upstate New York and we'd yet to make our annual trek downtown for new snowsuits and boots. I begged to go outside and I was duly togged out in my brother's snow suit from two years before and his old boots, both of which were huge on me. The boots had newspaper stuffed in the toes and I kind of had to shuffle to keep them on. I got out the back door, did a couple of shuffles on the high stoop, slid on the ice and went flying into what seemed to me a gigantic, huge snow drift of epic proportions and disappeared from sight. Both memories have a soundtrack - my brother braying with laughter while I screamed in terror :)
MJ