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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:44 am
Thanks Vacanick....Unfortunately both my parents are dead now. Dad died of Cancer in May of 2001 on Mother's Day and Mom died of a massive stroke on Easter Sunday 2002. They died 11 months apart.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:48 am
Urgrace, your Olin Mills photo looks like your family should have had their own tv show back in those years 
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:59 am
Nyheat, your dad looks a little like Kyle Chandler to me. Everybody has such good looking parents!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:38 pm
Ahhhh Chaplin .. I'm sorry. But you do have lovely pictures to remember them by. 
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Yup that is for sure! I love old photos!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:57 pm
NYheat, does that photo happen to take place at "Shakey's Pizza"?...I am asking because it looks awfully similar to my 10th birthday party pictures at Shakey's.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:58 pm
Family Trip to Jasper...a REAL backdrop I'm the littlest one...and I'm a girl, even though it doesn't look like it..d'oh! Love my older sisters getup..and the catseye glasses.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Family shot..mom taking picture. NOW I look like a girl!! maybe a little too dressy for a round of golf but..what the heck!
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Shakey's birthday parties....oh the memories!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Cinnamongirl, that looks a set-up shot for the "America's Funniest Videos"...Like maybe you all swung at once for the photo and accidentally smacked each other's behinds..LOL
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Holly
Member
06-19-2005
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Beautiful family, Cinnamon. NYHeat, your dad sure was a hottie ;)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:15 pm
Gracie, I Love that Olin Mills type picture ... it reminds me of the Opening Sequence the old Father Knows Best tv show! NYheat your grandma was so lovely. I love the sepia tinges to that pic and Chaplin's handsome sailor-dad photo. It adds a real romantic feel to them. Cinnamon, I also wore those cats-eye glasses like your sis. There's a pic of me with them in my collage up there (archived). Love the natural backdrop in that photo, wow! Jooj, the pic of those tall overboots look to me more like for rain, or like fireman's boots. The overboots that I wore as a kid (in Skootzy's link/pic) had a thick wooly lining for winter.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:15 pm
LOL, it might be creepy if I agree. My parents met in the Peace Corps in Nigeria. I won't tell the sad stories--nice to remember him in the flush of youth. Thanks Mame--tho mostly I remember her as the lady who'd shoo me out of the kitchen so she could read in peace.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:32 pm
Now that you say that Naja...what were my parents thinking setting us all up with golf clubs and spacing us a foot away from one another?? makes ya wonder Oh and, I absolutely agree..Nyheat your dad... and mom, are quite the hotties! You must be beautiful I'll go look thru archives and check you out Mame..
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Thanks to everyone for sharing the great photos! I was cracking up at some of the comments and memories too - like "your dad looks really hot" and "go stand under Jesus", lol.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:21 pm
Cinnamongirl, I am cracking up at your Dad's black socks and shoes in that picture! I have a golf photo of my Dad and his buddies in the 60s and they all have on plaid shorts and black socks/shoes. Imagine if we saw someone dressed like that nowadays! LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:24 pm
Anyone remember wearing shirts in the 70's that snapped in the crotch? I don't mean that they snapped your crotch...the snaps were in your crotch. I don't mean that the snaps were actually IN your crotch. How long are you going to let me go on like this?!
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:28 pm
LOL, Hukd, I remember those shirts.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Me too, I had at least a couple of them. I quite liked them, except when in a rush to run potty and fumbling with the dang snaps. LOL
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 3:29 pm
Ok this has become my new favourite thread. The memories and pics are great! and I'm getting some great laughs in too. YES, thx Skootz for the pic, I TOO had those pull on boots with the buckle. I wasnt sure what you guys were talking about until I saw the pic. Add me to the list...Nyheat's dad was a hottie and see the resemblance with that Actor too. Nyheat, your comment about the genetics made me laugh. My parents are no where as good looking as yours but IF all their goodpoints had been put together, "I coulda been a contender" ..... I think it was Jbean, posted a pic with a little girl with a Pageboy cut. Wow, that was a trendy hairstyle for its time. I think we all had one or at least tried to con our parents into letting us have one. *** As for style, my favourite pants in grade six were vertically striped Green and white denim hiphuggers, with a big Peace Symbol button above the zipper. Hey, anyone remember those laceup front jeans? no zippers? very mid-70s
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 6:57 pm
Hukd, you brought back a memory that my sister and I desperately repress even now!! We went out one day wearing our brand new snap-shirts and no shorts when we were little kids and all the older kids laughed at us!! We ran home crying and put on shorts immediately. LOL! I will never forget that red shirt.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:16 pm
I love reading the posts and looking at all the pics here!!! I love the old pics, ya all have some gorgeous parents!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:11 pm
Are any of you old enough to remember your mom painting your dad's silk tie? Something like these?
 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:29 pm
My father was a long-distance truck driver. I only saw him in a tie once in my whole life (for my brother's First Communion, go figure). If he had a tie like that, all the other truckers would have tried to beat him up. Of course he would have punched them so hard that by the time they landed, their clothes would be out of style.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:25 pm
My Dad wore ties, but he wore a lot of bow ties. If he wore long ties they were fairly conservative. Actually Dad was a very natty dresser and had great colour sense being that he was a graphic designer. Dad almost became an actor and actually went to University and studied acting with Donald Sutherland. My Grandfather was not excited about his choice of career since my Grandfather was a University Professor in Architecture so Dad majored in Linguistics and Communications. Dad ended up doing Publishing and finally did Graphic Design specializing in Communication Design. Both my parents could speak many languages. I was always amazed at how many. Dad spoke 7 pretty fluently and Mom spoke 9. They lived in Europe for 5 years before I was born so that is where they learned a lot of them.
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