I was young once

[oosik]

Yes - Roy Clarks tells the ultimate tale.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Yes - Roy Clarks tells the ultimate tale.

world class picker!

 

[Boss 302]

He was one of the best

 

[Alien]

A Pic of me (on the right) My older brother next to me and some of my cousins taken about 1953.

 

[k0ua]

@MoKelly Cool photo! Was it retouched or is that the original? It is incredibly crisp, clear and colorful. I am assuming it is retouched, never seen a 50's era photo that nice.

Likely taken with Kodachrome film.

 

[JDZ735M]

Our values changed. I don’t like the new way all that much. It feels weird.

Because it is.

 

[BackRoad]

Interesting how we have 3 or 4, or maybe just a few more photos from across our entire childhood...

And over 10,000 since the cellphone included a camera...

 

[orezok]

My picture was taken about 70 years ago. In 70 years virtually 0% of digital photos will still exist.

 

[Boss 302]

Love all of these pictures, please keep them coming.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

If you don't remember "Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting" you were never young!

 

[GeneV]

My picture was taken about 70 years ago. In 70 years virtually 0% of digital photos will still exist.

It's gonna be information overload. All the pix prior to 1980 my dad took, he developed himself...and all that fit in a few big photo albums and/or tucked away in a cabinet. I got probably 10 times that on my google photo account.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mom in 1940s? RIP

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I’m in there.

 

[Alien]

I remember the tiny slippery sheets of toilet paper they supplied in public toilets and schools. They were in a little chrome box that only let one sheet out at a time. Disgusting stuff it was. Thank heaven for Quilton etc nowadays.

 

[grsthegreat]

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I’m in there.

Seatbelts…..we dont need no stinkin seatbelts.

i remember my family trips in the station wagon. All the kids stuffed into the back to joyfully go bouncing around.

 

[PILOON]

Then back in the '60's when my young son liked to sleep on that shelf over the rear engine of my VW bug!

Also was not comforting knowing you had 20 gals of gas just over your legs and sometimes with a gas fired heater just over that gas tank.

I think the worst accident that I ever saw was when a VW bug slammed into the rear end of a 'tilt and load' on the highway.
You could smell burning flesh for miles B4 and after that wreck.
An odor you can not ever forget.

 

[fishdrivel]

You are only young once but you can be immature forever!

 

[grsthegreat]

my sister had one of those subaru brats with the bed mounted seats......cant figure why they went off the market.... btw...this is not hers

 

[MossRoad]

my sister had one of those subaru brats with the bed mounted seats......cant figure why they went off the market.... btw...this is not hers

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A good friend of mine had one of those in high school. Man, we did have a lot of fun with it.

 

[orezok]

A friend of mine who was a Geologist had a Porsche 911 which of course had no back seat. They put their infant on the rear "shelf" and got into an accident. Unfortunately, the child did not survive.