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Cool old pictures of your parents, grand parents, or family

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That ain’t vernon and gladys

53 minutes ago, Elvis said:

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Your kids and grandkids are definitely going to have some different type of pictures to post.

58 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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Armybrat hit that. 

35 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

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1) Foreclosed on shack while large Irish family was at mine disaster funeral for breadwinner father.  Had a life-long, strongly held belief that Thomas Edison was an albino trying to “pass”;

2) Garnered minor celebrity status later in life as the grandmother to Our Gang’s Alfalfa;

3) Great Aunt Canecutter never found the right man to marry, but threw herself into her work as Commissioner for the American Women’s Softball Association. 

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Actual Ubet 4 generation fam photo.  GGGgrandmother on right was born in 1799 in Vermont. 

3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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Actual Ubet 4 generation fam photo.  GGGgrandmother on right was born in 1799 in Vermont. 

Your ggggrandmother was quite a handsome young man. 

15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

1) Foreclosed on shack while large Irish family was at mine disaster funeral for breadwinner father.  Had a life-long, strongly held belief that Thomas Edison was an albino trying to “pass”;

2) Garnered minor celebrity status later in life as the grandmother to Our Gang’s Alfalfa;

3) Great Aunt Canecutter never found the right man to marry, but threw herself into her work as Commissioner for the American Women’s Softball Association. 

Dead on!

31 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Your ggggrandmother was quite a handsome young man. 

I thought it was Radical Larry. 

3 hours ago, Deej said:

Armybrat hit that. 

Might have before I met your grandma.

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I've been scanning photos from all our albums using a high quality scanner. It's nice because I can quickly share the pictures with family members around the country.

Great grandfather circa 1900 (first 2):

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Great-Great-grandmother who was a full-blooded Cherokee, circa early 1880s:

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Dad with the rest of the freshman class early 60’s.

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FIL. Was a cool dude.

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My parents in high school -

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Me and my parents - 1972
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My dad and my son when they were both 17 -

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Me and pals in middle school. Somewhere around 1983-1985?
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lol my student ID from 1990. I cannot believe that was 32 years ago!
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2 hours ago, deadshank said:

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I assume that his recruitment included a fancy new Studebaker?

6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I assume that his recruitment included a fancy new Studebaker?

He was one of 9 kids from a sharecropper’s family in Memphis, TX.  

I’d wager his recruiting enticements included a sack of chips and a bottle of soda pop. 

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13 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Your kids and grandkids are definitely going to have some different type of pictures to post.

Shut it down.  It's a walk off.

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My paternal great grandfather with his family in front of his Nacogdoches County homestead in 1909.

The baby on his lap is my grandfather.  This was great grandfather's second family as his first wife died in childbirth after 4 kids delivered.

CSB, is that my great grandfather died of infection from a bull goring while working a cattle round-up on horseback when he was in his 80s. 

12 hours ago, justhookit said:

Dad with the rest of the freshman class early 60’s.

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one constant still to this day........Chuck Taylors

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In-laws with autos and some bigTexas hair.

My GGGgrandfather in 1871

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My maternal grandfather in 1917 before shipping off to France.  
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His dad with his mules Joe and Kit

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My GG grandpa fishing on the old Galveston causeway 

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His son, my great grandpa rounding up some cattle.

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On 12/21/2022 at 11:57 PM, Bama Chick said:


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are you still hot

17 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:


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please don’t thread shit. 

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Mom and dad at the Casper, Wyoming rodeo.

3 hours ago, futureman said:

are you still hot

Here messages are messed up,  I sent 6 of them and no response 

I’m having trouble finding my scans. But here are a couple:

my maternal great grandfather in Bloomington, TX where my grandfather was born.  I make it a point whenever we go to visit my folks in Rockport that I pass through Bloomington and mention that to my kids. They ignore me. 
 

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And my paternal grandparents at the monument at the Strait of Magellan. They were moving from São Paulo, BR to the Costa Rica (I thought they moved to the Panama Canal Zone, but I think I am wrong). My grandmother was pregnant with my aunt and had to disembark at Viña Del Mar, Chile where she was born. 
 

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CSB, is that my great grandfather died of infection from a bull goring while working a cattle round-up on horseback when he was in his 80s. 


My paternal grandfather died at his ranch in Honduras when his prize brahma charged the fence and he caught a heart attack.

FANTASTIC thread.  Love seeing these old pics.  I need to dig up some of my grandparents and great grandparents.  There's some classics for sure.  

And, why did every single black and white photograph with a description on the front have the EXACT same handwriting?  All caps, a little shaky with a right side lean. 

My paternal great grandpa “Mac” worked for International Harvester in Houston.  He’s the guy pictured on the horse up above. 
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Apparently he traveled the world a lot selling equipment.  He took this pic in Malabar.  Wholesome.

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Here he is with my grandma.

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My grandma (seated on running board) and some of her friends.  Armybrat probably dated one of them.

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5 minutes ago, Chewy's Hairy Horn said:

Family vacation in the Smokies in the very early 70s.  I’m the blonde kid without the knife.

 

 

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Looks like 3 of the 4 Beatles with those sweet haircuts.

A few more…

I did some light restoration to this photo. Maternal great grandfather with bank president and cashier. I assume Bloomington or Victoria. 
 

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Maternal grandfather after a duck hunt. Likely near Rockport. 
 

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Paternal grandparents (right) in a cantina in Costa Rica (not sure if San José or Puntarenas). 
 

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Grandfather with my dad in Costa Rica

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My Great Uncle, Murray Byrd.  He was a radio operator and gunner on the E-Rat-Icator, a B-17 of the 452nd bomb group that completed over 100 missions and returned.  It was the only B-17 from that group to survive the war. He was accepted at Auburn on a football scholarship but, as he told it, the entire team and coach enlisted the day he arrived. The bomber was scrapped some years after the war. 

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12 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Looks like 3 of the 4 Beatles with those sweet haircuts.

We didn’t go for those store bought haircuts back in the day. 

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