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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Friday, April 30, 2004 - 9:50 pm
Here's my dad, just for you ladies of chat! 
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 10:13 am
my uncles on my mother's side - Michael George and Kenny - Two were killed in separate car accidents, George was only 18 and it was 5 years before i was born, so pictures like this one are especially meaningful to me.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 3:39 pm
Here is my Dad, age 14, on his bike. He bought it with money earned from his newspaper routes in rural Massachusetts.

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 9:15 pm
I love all these old pics. MGA, the picture of your parents is so sweet and they are both very good-looking! SSmile, how nice that you look so much like such a lovely grandparent! And your dad is a very nice looking man; he looks very fit, too! Reiki, the one of your grandmother as a child is beautiful! Storybook quality! Hippy, your dad looks about 14 in that pic! Course the older I get, the younger everyone else looks. He reminds me of James Dean in a way. Melfie, such strong stock! What a great shot, with the boy standing up in the chair. Your great grandfather is a gorgeous hunk of a man and your great grandmother is beautiful and has a strength about her, too. The children are beautiful. Legal, what adorable, rub-on-the-head kind of boys they were. I am sorry you lost two uncles so early in their lives. I can understand how important those pictures are to you. BR, golly, your dad looks like a young Ronald Reagan!! So cute! Here is a pic of my mom. The year: 1945.

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 12:15 pm
BR, your dad looks just adorable, like the all-American boy. And I bet he was. HP, your Mom was an absolute bombshell. Talk about a movie star! Was she a movie star?
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 1:30 pm
Love this thread! Great pics! So very interesting to wonder about. I'll try to remember to bring some in to scan here at work. Thanks for sharing!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 1:46 pm
No, Juju, but she will love that you said that. She told me all the girls wore their hair that way to emulate Veronica Lake. I am her carbon copy--in too many ways to mention. Neither of us looks the slightest like that anymore, though. Age . . . should work in reverse, don't you think?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 6:04 pm
Oh, I dunno, HP. I don't really give a rat's ass.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 10:53 pm
It's not my AGE that bothers me; I've never been shy about revealing my real age. What bugs me is the inevitable effect on my body parts and my mind (memory). I accept that this is what 56 looks like--well except for a couple of small things that could be corrected if I chose to do that with my money. But I do reject that this is how I should feel. (And I also deplore that employers reject me due to my age.)
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 8:57 pm
Here's my mom and dad

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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:34 pm
I just love the photos here. I know the one I posted was so special to me,and seeing everyone's family photos is so touching and wonderful.
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Ducky
Member
08-27-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:52 pm
I really enjoy looking at everyones pictures. I have a whole album that I need to go though and have my mom till me who some of the people are so I can get there name on there pictures. It will be fun to go down memory lane with her. Here is a picture I found of her in 1948

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:14 pm
Lovely pic, Ladytex. What year? Ducky, that picture of your Mom is a classic. I was going to say all she needs is white gloves, but I think she DOES have white gloves on.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 1:04 am
Ladytex, your parents look so sweet, Your mom is positively lovely. Lively eyes and such a slender frame! And your dad looks aristocratic! What year was this taken? Ducky, your mom is a cutie! I take it that was her home. She's all put-together to go somewhere! Do you know where she was headed?
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 12:55 am
My Dad Christmas of '69 on Peanuts.

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 1:30 am
Just one more cute story about my Dad. There are so many of them. He always went by his initials at work and church because he didn't care much for his first name. So his initials were PM Gaston. Whenever someone asked him what the initials stood for he would say" Well, when I was younger it was Precious Moments, but now it stands for Precious Memories." LOL He was just the happiest man I ever knew!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 10:51 am
Awww, Twinkie, that is such a cute picture and wonderful story. Love them. And I can tell your dad's spirit found its way inside you.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 1:10 pm
I have no idea what year, unfortunately. It's the only picture I have of my parents together, he died when I was 14 and my mom died a bit over 2 years ago. I received that picture from one of my sisters for Christmas. I do know that it was taken before 1960.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 2:27 pm
Thanks, HP! And your mom was gorgeous! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 6:33 pm
Ladytex, I might guess 1955-1958 based on the hat with the veil. My mother had those, probably into the 60's.
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Ducky
Member
08-27-2000
| Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 7:36 pm
HP mom says that she was going to church with a friend and that is the friends house. I am putting together a photo album from Big Ducky's side of the family. When his mother passed away he received all the family photos being that he was the only child. This photo is from 1920 it is of Big Ducky's Father and his brother and sisters. Starting from left to right is John, Hannah, Ester, and Harvey the youngest Big Ducky's dad. 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 9:48 am
Thanks for the additional info about your mom's picture, Ducky. And, wow, this latest is an heirloom!! Look at the clothing and the manner they were posed. And their names really fit the era, don't they? Unbelievable treasure!! Your family is so lucky to have this picture--and Ducky is the keeper of the family photos now, huh? Hope you have a blast making the album. (You will be remembered decades and decades from now for doing that.)
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 6:53 am
Good morning, my precious friends. I'm back. This is my first post in over a year. I've been staying with my 87-year-old mom who had some health problems. She's all better now and I will be posting some pix soon. This is my favorite new thread that I've found. I did a little work on four of the photos. Let me know if they look any better to you. Sometimes I think it may just be that my monitor does not give me the correct balance on color, contrast, etc. I guess I'll have to ask Draheid. This is about the 4th time I've tried to post these...keep getting error message that I have to resize. I don't understand, since I saved the photos from here. Anyway, I tried to resize them. Hope it works this time.
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Phatcat
Member
03-08-2004
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 6:59 am
yikes...what am I doing wrong?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:51 am
Phatcat: The board only allows .jpg or .gif format images and they must be under 65K file size. Also, to post an image, you need to use the tag \image{name} to have it appear as an image instead of an attachment. I have converted your .bmp image for you and posting it here:

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