Retro Photo Thread! Post Pics From Your Past!
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Lovely bride... 
You, Sir, just proved my point!
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thank you 
I loved Houndstooth...I had a skirt with that print, but much longer. Ha, I got suspended once for three days for having my skirt too short. We had to kneel and if the skirt didn't touch the floor you were gone. Damn, I still can picture that smug vice-principal! Bitch!
Ahem, wish I could've filled a sweater out like that! 
maybe a CA thing to try to instill good morals at that time...........didn't work 
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No one has ever been successful at that for very long. 
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It would been a sad loss.
By the way:
In_The_Wind ... Rhiannon12866 ... RiffRandell ... Skinner ... pintobean
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Borrowing it to enjoy over and over again.
about 20 years ago:
A little over 30 years ago:
not quite 40 years ago:
20 years ago
as far as looks go...still had all my hair and much less belly. But in my mind, when I think about myself, that is what I picture - so much so that if I pass a mirror I wonder who that old fatass is...
I can still air guitar like a mofo though.
I looked like that 20 years ago too - minus the bloody serial-killer shirt.
Beautiful baby as well....
It explains why the bantering is always so delightful...
I'll have to oblige tomorrow. I have a Brownie pic I think you'll like.
Cool on the Brownie pic! I'll look forward to it!
It's now light brown at best, and going gray. Ah, aging.
1969
Irrationally, I came to hate her. Until she won her first Oscar.
1955
1975 Galveston
1976 Vicksburg, MS
Rockin' the polyester!
I Still got the dimple. lol
Stylin' in '89
By the way, thank you for your welcome yesterday in that other post.
Pretty sure I still make this face:
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Yay, Christmas.
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Done!
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Then and now!
yes INDEED! 
I'm on the left.
These were taken while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine '86 or '87. No, really!
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I'm seventeen in the pic and will be in the Navy in about three weeks.
The second is me(twenty years old) and my buddy, The Flyin Hawaiian totally hung over in Thailand after we left the Gulf.
thank you
Did people tell you that?
This is my younger-self, about 25 yrs ago. Don't have any baby pics, but damn isn't everyone just adorable.
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A portent of things to come...
Things to come...
Me with my tank crew in the Gulf, 1991. I'm on the right.
Me as Eddie in the Vogue Theater's Floorshow of "Rocky Horror", Louisville, Kentucky.
Oh my!
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But I had fun while I did it...
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Me at the beach--haha--at around age 9 or 10.
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The house I grew up in:
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Me at age 22 in my jammies on a huge phone:
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I love that house!
Can you guess where it was--a general area of the country will suffice.
Yep--CT. Love your second pic, btw. Guessing your age from the picture and being 1966, I'd say you were having some fun.
The single greatest year of my life. More sex, drugs, and rock & roll than a guy could ever hope for!
Copy and paste!
In 1962 wearing my Estonian folk costume
1980, in Venice, Italy
2004:
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1983 (at left, with Stephen Colbert):
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My christening in 1971. The lady holding me is DUer Raven.
This is from the late 60's:
(I'm the not blurry one)
And then in the 80's:
With Brother and Grandparents.
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'73
'82
'88
Good looking from the start .
Looking for trouble is more like it though.
Funny you say that though, guess I had one of those faces 'cause through the '80s I used to get that a lot.
Teh hot!
You were a cutie in '59.
They're eagles. The one you can see in these pics is an eagle carrying a woman with a sun in the background. The one on my left arm is an eagle perched on the Grim Reaper's scythe.
What can I say, I was a bit of a hard case in my younger days.
you've mellowed in a very nice way
First grade:
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Senior year in college:
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1973
1976
1989
2010
2012
1966 - Pitching, HS newspaper staff vs. student council
1989 - With a friend near the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.
With Mom in Lompoc, CA, 1993
I enjoyed my visits there. I always liked Arroyo Grande--maybe just because it has such a great name.
Pea Soup Andersen's at Buellton is overrated, but Solvang was always a fun trip.
Mom passed in a hospital in Lompoc, and it was the rare reunion of all of us three brothers together then that caused me to return to CA 13 years ago. The pull of family...
We lost my little brother, Jim, a couple years ago, but his widow still lives in Lompoc. My older brother and I are in the Antelope Valley (North L.A. County high desert), just a couple miles down the road from each other. And we were able to get together with Jim a lot on many visits after I moved back and before we lost him.
Here's one of Jim and me...
And all three of us on a fishing trip...
May they both rest in peace.
I hear you about Andersons, still something everybody should do once just to say they did it. Solvang is a cool spot, one of my branches was there. Used to crack me up when I'd pull into the parking lot and there'd be an Aston Martin, or Jaguar, or Mercedes sitting there covered in dirt 'cause the horse ranch owner just didn't care.
When I first transferred down there I had a place in Oceano with a view of the Pismo Dunes. Ended up buying a place out near Lopez Lake in Arroyo Grande. Really loved it there, but you're kinda land locked. Three hours drive to LA or SF so you either get into the outdoor life or twiddle your thumbs. Probably be more my speed now, but I was in my late twenties then and not quite ready to settle down.
Intelligent, penetrating eyes, and on such a historic occasion.
I'd be afraid to see what you've let yourself go to now. JUST KIDDING! 
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and...whew....get rid of those awkward phases!
me now
?442I wouldn't dare post my old pics of me with very bad long hair in polyester leisure suits.
I love your last (current) pic. That's the best one, for my money! 
Me as a teen
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Mom
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Aunt Margaret & Mom
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Granny & Grandad
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This was part of my past in 1970 at age 18, although I didn't know her at the time:
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We met in 1974, and by 1981 (here in Boston), our pasts and our future had merged forever:
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2005 
1983 
1979 
and 1964-ish 
After a certain age, there aren't many pics of me without an instrument in my mitts.
I had two at one time, both stolen 
Quite rare and wonderful instruments. After that, I bought the cheapest Fender Bass I could find for live work.
The new Epis are OK, but I have grown accustomed to having the low B string. For blues, country, reggae and other roots music, that extra depth adds a lot of emotion to the tunes.
I also have a 7-string for recording, but I only use the same five strings, and rarely go above the 10th fret. Its value is in the intonation - the scale is 35", and that low B is a by-the-gods B.
Such a drag to have them ripped off! I love the Gibson tone, but just never made the plunge to get a real one. The Epi kind of fell in my lap. My fingers are a bit short for more than four strings. I have a Squire PBass 5 string that I picked up to have the low B, but rarely use it because of the neck width. Should really try to find something that I can comfortably play because that low B definitely comes in handy!
Main performing instruments are an American Precision Deluxe and a Modified Mexican Jazz (started life as a fretless, replaced the neck with a Mity Mite fretted neck and a Hipshot bridge).
Here's the seven: 
Sweet bass.
That is an absolutely stunning shot of you Sedona! Drop dead gorgeous if you don't mind me saying so.
I'm on the bottom left. DUer Redwitch is in the high chair.
Me at about 17.
The family shot looks like the Midwest? Very "Ameicana"!
Can see it now, but at first glance it looked like a farm! I grew up in a brand new subdivision too. Our street ended two houses away for a long time, and the original land owner still ran cattle at the time and they were often right on the other side of the barbwire. Heard cows mooing all the time.
My hometown's all paved over too. Progress.
Were you a Gerber Baby? And an earring in '66! Def ahead of your time. Guys weren't allowed to have even Beatle length hair where I went to school in California. Are you sure it wasn't 1976?
for a couple of years.
And where are your pics?
1997 Charlotte Phantoms women's ice hockey team!
Teammates ranged in age from 16 - 48, and encompassed everything from students to accountants to house re-modelers and veterinarians!
Played for several years with those ladies, and love each and every one of them dearly still...
Bobbie and me.
About 25.
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Your Humble Servant, circa January 1972. Taken in my senior year at Illinois Wesleyan University by classmate Sandullah Epsikokan. I had a lethal hangover at the time. Don't do anything to get hangovers, any more.
Oddly, this is still pretty much what I look like, with a few lines on the forehead, now.
1961:
1970 (on left, with brother):
1972:
1978:
And I probably shouldn't do this, but, 1997:
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Back from VietNam about 6 months. (that is a digital photo of a print - the New Yorker Magazine at the bottom of the photo was holding the print flat).
(apologies to Michael Ondaatje)
YES INDEED
KICK MY ASS!!!!!
Me...age 7
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Circa '94, Pearl Harbor....
Daytona beach 500 '98...under the influence in the infield....
From 2010...me and the little lady chilling
Nice pic!
I notice your right hand seems to be balling up into a fist there. Is brother about to get clocked or what?
same with this pic (both taken in Peterborough England):
I do remember I used to take the big pin out of the kilt and stick anyone who picked on me for being American
I'm the one on the left.
between there and here.
Love your ride! Two wheels are way better than four.
Are you sure something went wrong between there and here?...
for a forty year old woman I think I look pretty damn good! 
Thank you!
I don't think women truly start to become beautiful until they get up around 35 or so. The sexiest women I know are all in their 40's, 50's and 60's...
And you're one of them now...
but did they manage to get a pic of that?? Noooo, only Donald Duck.
or it seems like on too many days.
