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Archive through April 30, 2004

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Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Got this idea from Twinkie's picture of her Mother (recently deceased, may she rest in peace).

What did you ancestors look like?

Here is a picture of my mother as a young woman. She worked for a professional photographer, so it is a very good picture. They did not have color photos in those days. My mother hand colored this picture. Date would be circa 1943.


JujuMomma

(Deceased young, 1967)

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Lobster
Member

04-13-2001

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is my parents. March 10, 1945.

wedpic

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a neat idea. Here are my parents.

Reiki's Dad

I lost my dad in 1984. He was 55 years old when he died.

Reiki's Mom

Mom is in her 70s and still going strong. She hopes to meet some of you in Mystic in October.

Pcakes2
Member

08-29-2001

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
JuJu, I love hand colored photographs. I bought a kit that lets you hand color black & white photos recently, and it is so much fun! I have a collage of baby pictures (circa 1966) that are hand coloed also.

Thank you all for sharing.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lobster, your Mom looks like Jackie Kennedy.

Reiki, that pic of your Dad is SO geeky, it is priceless! Cool pic of your mom.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is my Mom and I about 54 years ago (circa 1950)

Mom and I 1950ish

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
oopsy, image too big... playing with my scanner

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yikes! its huge... o well... umm, imagine a picture of my parents' wedding, mid-1960's

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Melfie, If you want to email it to me, I'll see if I can resize it for you.

Jackie

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reiki,how old were your parents when that photo was taken? They look like kids.
I'm loving this thread. I have my Dad's high school pic,gonna have to scan it and post it.

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ack! Jmm, I've been playing with resizing it and tried to post it again... I am image posting impaired. I emailed it to you earlier - thanks!

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I LOVE this!!

grandma

This is a picture of my grandparents from the 40's



Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
grandma

My paternal grandmother when she was about to get married at age 21. Circa 1909?

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow!

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
c

My parents' wedding, November 1964

Thanks Jmm!

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 11:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought I had my parent's wedding picture, but my DH can't find it. This is (I think) their engagement photo? I'd say about 1954 or so.
Mom-N-Dad

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 3:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow! I missed this thread altogether. Wonderful, wonderful idea! I love the pic of your mom, Juju. She was simply beautiful! I am sorry you lost her so young.

Lobster, Reiki, Jan, Twiggy, MGA and Juju, don't you just love the style back then?! And all the parents and grandparents were good-looking and in such good shape! It seems like such a gracious and lovely time, even though I know they endured plenty of economic hardships.

Melfie, your parents are so much younger; that's the year before I graduated from high school! So that look is very recognizable to me. Very pretty.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 5:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No scanner so I can't post pics. I have very few photos of my paternal grandparents. I do have their professional wedding photo (1895) and negative for it! And then I have snapshot of them at their 50th anniversary. Both died about five years later.

After Mom died, I found a number of portrait photos of Mom and Dad (separate and together) from their younger years. I have confirmation photo of Mom and then high school graduation photo few years later (both early 1920s). In confirmation picture, she has long curly hair; in high school photo, short bob. After she died, found bag of hair labeled "hair". I think it could be that hair!

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is a picture of my grandparents, the fun thing about this is that I'm now the exact age my grandmother was at the time of the photo and yes, I look a lot like she does here.

G&GMachell2

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HP, I know what you mean about Melfie's parents. Those people are my contemporaries. Well, okay, I was not quite old enough to get married in 1964, but that is just what everybody looked like in high school.

MGA, what a very cool picture.

Colordeagua, we need that 1895 photo on here. Go buddy up with the neighbors who have a scanner.

Twiggs, your grandpa looks so scholarly!

Secret, that must be eerie, looking at a photograph of your grandparents and seeing yourself.

I have photos of my maternal grandmother when she was probably my age now. I don't look a thing like those photos. She was a most unphotogenic woman, which is weird because my mother was very photogenic. Wait! My sister looks grandma's photos. Just thought of that.

Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hippy not sure how old my dad was when he modeled in his swim trunks for us. Not sure who the girl in the picture with him is.

The picture of my mom was used in her engagement announcement so she must be about 18-19. The got married in January 1950. She was beautiful, but of course I think she still is.

I have tons of old family pictures. Comes from being the keeper of the family history.

Here is one of my grandmother when she was a little girl:

Eleanor Mary


Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks to everyone for posting their family photos! I don't know if it's because I spent a lot time as a kid with my maternal grandma and great-aunts but I've always loved to look at old pictures and listen to stories about "back then".

P.S. My dad's birthday is today and one of the gifts I got him was a memory book that has questions about his family & childhood. He even said he'd fill it out! (We had a mini celebration at lunch time. I made Key Lime Pie because I've already had to bake three cakes this month - for my brother, mom, and niece's birthdays. I'm caked- out.)

Lobster
Member

04-13-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wish I had a scanner because I could go nuts posting old pics. The only reason I was able to post the one of my parents wedding was because my cousin scanned it and emailed it to me. LOL

Juju, I can see where you get Jackie Kennedy in the profile, but Mom doesn't look anything like her. Although, my brother and John Jr. were born about a month apart I think, so they were pregnant at the same time. LOL

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
dad
Here's my Dad's High School graduation porttrait. circa 1963. His hair is blazing red.

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love seeing everyone's photos! Hippy, your dad reminds me of someone famous, can't quite place it though...

These are my great-grandparents, my maternal grandpa's parents. He wasn't born yet, I think this might have been 1920 or a little earlier? Both of my great-grandpas on the maternal side were named Jens. Minnesota farm families.

jj