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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 6:58 pm
My sister and I took pictures at Olan Mills for my mom and dad's Christmas present one year. It must have been the year I graduated so probably around 1975. We had a lovely garden background. I was just looking at the pics my mom still has up in her bedroom.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 7:59 pm
I looked for some and the ones I found are all yellow or I am too far back in pic for a good scan. I will do a few next wkend anyway just to see how they scan, I have to wait for DH to help me.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 8:02 pm
HP & Shar, luv your pix, thx for posting! Oh my what a fun thread! Luved the Hirshima pic, and the Senior Loco. I think the commentary is what makes them even better. Some pix looked fine to me, then I'd read the commentary and bust a gut. I collected a bunch of pix of my crazy hairdos over the years and glued them in one place... lemme see if it scans well...
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 8:29 pm
Feel free to run screaming from the room in hysterics... Ladies and Gentlemen of the Clubhouse... I now present to you... my hair disasters from the 70's to the early 90's. Exhibit A-Z: Why I will never have another perm unless at gunpoint, why I hate bangs on me, and why I miss my thick hair, and original colour. Check out the big glasses and bigger hair. The 2nd to last one on the bottom right I'm in a patterned green granny gown. Last one bottom right - I covered the Daytime Emmy Awards one year in that getup.

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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 8:42 pm
Mame...that's great fun. You can look at them and tell what time frame they're from. My favorite is the curly side dooly dops inb the one with the green granny gown. Ah, yes...I remember that well. Thanks for sharing, everyone. What a blast.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:00 pm
Thx Beeky! It was a wild ride down memory lane indeed.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:02 pm
LOL, those are great, MB! You are just the cutest.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:04 pm
Thx Jooj! Especially with that bowling-ball perm, eh? (bottom 2nd from left)
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:26 pm
Oh the days of the perm, I am shocked any of us have hair left Great pics MB
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:35 pm
Niiiiiice, Mame. I'm sportin' quite the 'do in this one. Second from the right. (It's even funnier if you know what my hair looks like now, I think).

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:41 pm
For anyone who can't figure out what is so hysterical about this pic, let me explain. This was 1974. Until I was about 3 years old, I had the brightest orange, yes orange, not red hair ever. That little ugly dress I'm wearing matched the orange color of my hair exactly and had a yellow and green pattern on it. The rug was only a shade or two lighter than my hair and dress. My aunt has that pic in color hanging on the living room wall and everytime I see it I think it looks like I'm on fire!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:45 pm
Yankee, you were gorgous then and you are gorgeous now! War, aw, you were one CUUUUUUUUTE baby!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:49 pm
These little outfits (I can't figure out what happened to my matching shirt, I know I had one cuz there are other pics of it somewhere!) were bright, very short, blue, silk shorts with the matching light blue shirts with the dark blue trim. I think I'm about 5-6 there. I will give some props to mom, this outfit wasn't too bad for me but most the time she kept me dressed in the worst orange, yellow, and green colors imaginable. Luckily I can't find none of those pictures here!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 10:46 pm
Mame, I had the bowling ball head perm too!! hahaha it came out tighter than I wanted, I got called Bozo by my friends LOL I agree you are cute as a button in all of them Yankee, LOL that looks like an early 90s pic, I dont think the hair is big enough for 80s! LOL you still have that sweet smile War, LOL if you look on fire and you are crying in the pic too funny! You look like Dakota in the 2nd pic!!!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 11:02 pm
All these are just so much fun to see! MB, love the montage, and hey, I actually like ALL the styles! You are living proof that all gals love fooling with their hair! Yank, your hair is bigger than you in that pic!! Hahahahha! Very cute--but that's no surprise to me. You are still darling. War, thanks for describing the first one so well. I'd love to see it in color! Very cute. And wow, you did (do?) have great red hair! Am I spotting freckles there?
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 11:20 pm
Another Olan Mills photo--just my immediate family. Must have been taken that same day, as we are all wearing the same thing. (I don't remember sitting for this pose!) Mamie, is this the 'garden background' you meant?

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 11:50 pm
No, HP, not freckles, one giant freckle, lol.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 3:22 am
ah, I get the humor!! well, here goes!! Dont cha just HATE it when some makes faces at you to try to get you to smile?
ah yes the 60s. velvet dresses with Miniskirts and patterned tights and of course, you had to have Bangs!!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:02 am
I love these pictures! I used to sport a few of those hairstyles myself, MameB. Your perm looked much better than mine, because my hair was much thinner than yours. I also had the BIG glasses shown in a few pictures. They covered half my face! Middle dd had the Dorothy Hamill haircut for at least a couple years. It was adorable on her, and she loved it. Oldest dd had her hair styled like Yankee's during her high school years. HP, the family photos are so typical of that time period and are all precious. LOL at the expressions in that last pic, Sunshyne!
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Holly
Member
06-19-2005
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:43 am
Great pics everyone! Mame, I liked your perm!! (Is Yankee the one in the white tank top or the white long sleeves?)
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:51 am
1969 ... my sister and I were 10 months apart but my parents dressed up alike. I was usually in red and my sister in blue. My mother was a homemaker and usually made all our clothes. I love this picture! 
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:55 am
That's a great pic Nic. I love those pony tail thingies with the balls on 'em!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:08 am
Now those last two photos are perfect at capturing the feel of the times! And wow, both moms are so trim! Sunshyne, were you the smiler or the 'grimacer'? Very cute photo! Betting you are the light-haired little beauty making the funny face. Your parents look like the type that never raised their voices. Am I right? Nic, which of those two cuties are you? The era is so clear in the style of the furniture, the drapes . . . and your mom's shoes! I had a sweater dress (like the one your mom is wearing) back then, too! Looks like you are all strawberry blondes. Betting you are the littler one--because her hair is darker, as I think I recall yours is now.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:09 am
Holly, Yankee is second from the RIGHT.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:13 am
Sun, I love that pic!! We had one of those landscape paintings in our living room also! Was that another 70s requirement? All houses were decorated in avacado or burnt orange and had a painting like that! Vaca, I love your mom's shoes! one thing that struck me funny when I was looking at my old pics was all the ppl smoking around kids in the pics. I was watching Apollo 13 and saw one of the guys smoking in the NASA lab! LOL it is crzy the places we smoked in the 70s
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