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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 8:46 pm
LOL HP, see how distorted it gets my face stretchs LOL braid pic I am at wk, I went to HS and workd with that guy. dont remember why the cake or whats on it, maybe Bdays, not sure. I was prolly around 16/17 yr old. In the blue dress I am in my early 20s
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 8:47 pm
I love all the pics posted!!! I agree Naja's parents look 50s stars. I have some of my parents and they have that same look LOL I still havent found all the really goofy 70s pics..will do that next wkend
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 8:51 pm
the first big hair pic is my real haircolor. That pic was taken before I did any color to it. The blue dress pic my hair had been weaved with color. then about a year or 2 later I went bleached blonde and styled it like Marilyn LOL
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 8:52 pm
Me and my cousin the day I cut my hair. A few days before some older bully-boys had come along and tied my braids to a chainlink fence so I was stuck there in tears til some man came along and freed me, so I ran home and INSISTED my mom get my hair cut. Which I regret to this day.
After I cut my hair... Here I'm with my first grade teacher Mrs. Berger. I just realized that's a great pic of my eyebrows before I plucked the heck out of them in high-school and ruined them. That's it for my pictures. I'm going to sit back and enjoy everyone else's now. 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 8:52 pm
Half, your mom was rocking a dress right after having you!! I was still in a moo moo after I had Dylan LOL
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:11 pm
HP, you got it right...
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:16 pm
that is horrible Mame!!! your hair was beautiful! Did your mom go kick those boys asses!?? I would have! or sent a kid to do it LOL I love your short hair pic!!!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:23 pm
My cousin and I are both Onlies, so he got stuck in the big brother role more times than he'd like to remember. I was the family misfit, and he was the golden child. Meanwhile I had a honking crush on him. LOL. And nope, I didn't know those older boys so we couldn't go after them.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:45 pm
<<Does everyone have pictures of their mother/grandmother dressed in their Easter finery (with a corsage) standing in front of a flowering bush?>> I was thinking today while looking through this folder, that we had most of our family (kids only) Christmas cards taken in front of the tacky lighted picture of Jesus we had in our living room. I remember seeing pictures of my sister's First Communion and recall my mother saying, "Go stand under Jesus." Wacky!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:52 pm
Half, the blue knitted blanket in one of your pictures reminds me of another thing that is in nearly all of our growing-up pictures...my Grandmother's knitted pillows and afghans. She could knit faster than scat and I think there were new pillows weekly or something!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:01 pm
Now that reminds me... the little vest I'm wearing in the pic with my first grade teacher, was handmade, (knitted or crocheted) by a friend of mom's for me. I remember it was dark green and white and had flat pearl buttons. Does everyone else clearly remember clothes from their childhood? Cuz I am always surprised when I do.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:40 pm
Very clearly, Mame. Like others, at least when I was young mom handmade almost all of our clothes. There were several jumper dresses she made us, blue and uh...purple I think courdary and they had cut out animals on the chest (a whale, a dog, etc.) On man and the overalls. She especially liked to dress me in those, with long sleeve button up shirts and pigtails out the side of my head. Also the bright colored and patterned pants matched with the bright colored and patterend shirts that clashed so bad. Oh oh, I'll have to look for this pic later, I'm pretty sure I have it somewhere here. Actually I may burn it, lol. A much older cousin got married and decided that me, my sister and our cousin (we'd have been about 4 1/2, 4, and 2) would all three be flower girls. I've never seen a pic of the rest of the wedding party but us three girls were dressed in matching blue, 1970's Holly Hobbit dresses, including the little aprons and bonnets (mom made all three of the dresses.) I also remember the red and blue bandanas. Mom used to fold them over once, triangle shape, and then tie them around us for shirts!
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 11:35 pm
Here is my 1st grade class photo:
My teacher is wearing a rainbow embroidered denim jumper and matching rainbow heart necklace. There is a Darth Vader t-shirt in the front row, and two girls wearing the same dress - how embarrassing! Plaid pants were popular, but I might have been the only girl wearing them that day. You can’t see them - I am 2nd from left in the back row - but I know since I wore my Shaun Cassidy tee shirt that day, I had to have been wearing my matching blue plaid pants.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 4:21 am
wow I love old school pics. It is fun to see all that 'stylish' clothing. In reply to a post about three pages ago Your parents look like the type that never raised their voices. Am I right? okay, now how should I reply? hmmmmmmm Well a resounding NOPE! will do it LOL My mom could hollar when she wanted to but mostly was the giving heck thru gritted teeth type. My dad? easygoing laughy chatty and every once in a while WHAMMO, a huge explosion. But all in all, I was lucky with my parents who stayed together until old age. I knew so many kids who had seriously messed up homelives. *********** In the pic 'Daddy and Me' I noticed that the dad had my Grandpa's Hornrimmed tortoiseshell brown glasses! very familiar
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 8:16 am
I love the class picture!!!! I wonder what all those kids look like now! lol
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 8:55 am
War, I sure hope you find the Holly Hobbie triplets pic! And yeah, my mom was a seamstress and she made most of my clothes too. Unfortunately, bless her heart, she had zero fashion sense, so as dorky as the clothes were then, mine were uglier. LOL. I've been flashing back fondly to those old, sturdy, wool-lined rubber boots with the side buckle that we wore over our shoes in the snow on the way to grade-school in the early sixties. Mine were brown. But I don't remember what they were called or I'd Google a pic of them.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 8:58 am
Melfie, luv your class pic, all those patterned clothes, it's a hoot. I think at one point I had the same pixie haircut as you too.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:27 am
Galoshes, MB. Melfie, that class picture is just hilarious. I have never seen one from that era. And those poor two little girls wearing the same dress!!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:41 am
Love the class picture Melfie! 
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:42 am
I bet you anything their mom's got them at Sears or Wards!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:44 am
My Grandmother called it Monkey Wards. 
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:49 am
LOL we made many Wards trips in our childhood
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:50 am
These pictures are great. I'd forgotten about the plaid pants. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:54 am
Jooj, the boots I'm remembering were above the ankle and just below shin high and had a thick wooly lining. We call galoshes those thin black unlined rubber things (usually) men put on the bottom of their shoes that fit around the rim of the shoe, to protect them from the rain.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 10:01 am
Are you thinking of Uggs?? All the girls here on campus wear them. They look all warm and cozy!

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