I found a picture of me from 1980. Let's have a picture thread

[geardaddy]

This me in ninth grade in 1980.

And no, I wasn't stoned.

[taterguy]

1. Let's not and say we did

[geardaddy]

2. Too late.

[mwdem]

7. !

[DFW]

3. Me and Mrs. me in 1981

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While I have deteriorated somewhat since then she has not. If anyone ever touches that picture Dorian Gray had painted of her, there might be trouble.

[geardaddy]

4. Awesome photo!

[DFW]

5. She DOES make a mean turban, doesn't she? n/t

[geardaddy]

6. Aye!

[dawg]

67. As always, you guys are inspirational.

Happily ever after is a real thing after all!

[DFW]

73. In our case, anyway.

Although if anyone says "you just got lucky," I'll be the first to admit it.

My first reaction when I first saw her was "yeah, like you'll ever have a chance with a girl like her"

But then, after enough frustration to last me a lifetime, I figured, even girls like her end up with SOMEbody, so why NOT me?

And lo and behold, she wasn't looking for the hottest guy on the block, just the most honest and the most uncomplicated. I lucked out. She lucked out. Ergo, we lucked out. Since that day in West Berlin, almost 40 years have past. I don't play the lottery because I've already won.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. 1980

Me on the left, a theatre geek at City College of San Francisco -

[geardaddy]

13. Nice!

Love the pose!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

31. Hey kids!

Let's put on a show!

[tabbycat31]

9. I'm not near home for baby pictures

Which if you want a pic of me in 1980, that would be it (I was born that year).

[geardaddy]

14. Well, how about when you were 15? n/t

[tabbycat31]

30. On my FB there's 2 and 9 if that helps

I'm not a very photogenic person and from the time I was about 14 on I flat out refused to pose for pictures (still holds true today-- my FB profile pic is Grumpy Cat holding a marriage equality sign).

[Aristus]

10. Mine is from 1980, too. Me in 7th Grade:

[geardaddy]

12. Awww, sweet!

[applegrove]

11. Here I am in about 1991.

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[geardaddy]

15. Wonderful!

Like the hair style!

[applegrove]

16. It's all grey and short now. People like it better. But I prefer it long. Easier to take care of.

[dawg]

65. In that photo, you look a lot like the woman ...

who ripped out my heart, beat it to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and then burned the remains to ash with a blowtorch.

I won't hold that against you, though!

[applegrove]

74. Aw. So sorry.

[dawg]

75. Don't be. I lived a dream for many years.

Too bad it couldn't last.

[GReedDiamond]

17. This is me, in the shades, upper left corner...

...with my political/satirical/punk/rock band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors (version 2), circa, 1980-81.



Edited for clarity and shit.

[Arugula Latte]

38. Very cool.

I'm a middle-aged woman and suddenly I'm having all these strong regrets that I never learned how to play guitar and be in a rock band! Well, they say it's never too late. My son has an electric guitar and I'm determined to pick it up start learning a few basic chords...

[GReedDiamond]

40. As Jerry Rubin said, before he became a "yuppie"...

...DO IT!

[bluesbassman]

18. Closest I could get, 1982 at Heavenly Lake Tahoe.

[In_The_Wind]

51. I really love this photo of you.

Sigh!11!!!

[bluesbassman]

57. Thanks ITW...

That was a great day of skiing. Snowed the entire time we were on the mountain. Got a pic somewhere of my brother and my buddy Craig up on top with all of us covered in snow. That goofy fumanchu I had was frozen solid.

[geardaddy]

94. That is an awesome photo.

Love the hat!

Reminds me of when my family went skiing in Montana.

[Samantha]

19. Okay, but don't say anything about the hair

Here I am on the right.

Sam

[fizzgig]

20. 1983

[Wounded Bear]

21. Circa 1973, aboard the USS Forrestal...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=486858711402519&l=b0e13fd990

Apparently, my skilz suck.

[OriginalGeek]

22. Here ya go

Facebook sometimes screws you over - you gotta make sure you get the URL that ends with the file name (in this case - buncha numbers.jpg

[Wounded Bear]

25. Thought I tried that one....

didn't work either. Oh well. Thanks.

[In_The_Wind]

23. This was at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1980.

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[Aristus]

29. Wowee!!

[Rambis]

24. Scary

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. My wife and I on top of Mt Cannon (NH) the summer we met - 1979 - with her dog Heidi

wow....we were 1.5 years from getting married. I was in my first year in grad school at Dartmouth....23 years old. time flies (and hair decreases!)



us this past summer in the garden....34 years later!

[applegrove]

27. Sweet.

[uppityperson]

34. Oh how cuuuttteeee you were

[NRaleighLiberal]

35. Sue asked me to grow a beard on our first date - April 7 of 1979. And I did....

and haven't been without one a day since!

[uppityperson]

36. Both your eyes are the sameas they were.

[NRaleighLiberal]

37. except we are both pretty much blind as bats (and I am getting deaf as a stone!)

Shouldn't have played all that loud electric guitar as a teen...paying for it now! (part genetic as well - on my mom's side)

I am going to be quite a mess!

[TBF]

47. Gorgeous puppy too -

do you two have any pets now? We have 2 large labs

[dawg]

68. You guys look like such a great couple.

Just as cute now as you were back then.

[yewberry]

28. 1987, I think?

The cat was named Titanic.

[Aristus]

33. YOW!

Beautiful...

[yewberry]

41. Thanks, Aristus.

...Before I got all old and shit!

[Aristus]

45. We all got old.

I'll bet it was less shitty for you than for others...

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

32. I know I have a few of when I was younger

but they are not in a place where I could upload to DU. Except this one. I'm the jarhead..........

[Arugula Latte]

39. Wow! Are those your siblings?

Big family!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

42. Yep!

Seems odd to me now to have been in such a big family, compared to the last 30 years or so. Sometimes young people I talk with literally have shocked looks when I say I have 8 siblings. I have nothing to compare it with, seemed normal to us. There were lots of big families in the neighborhood then..........

[Arugula Latte]

43. It's nice you had about half boys and half girls, too.

I can't tell what gender the baby-in-yellow is.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

44. That's baby sister

now in her mid forties..........

[OxQQme]

46. Me in about 1975

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and about '78 or '79

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[madmom]

48. Me.. around 1978 ish, was 25 ish

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[No Vested Interest]

59. A stunner! nt

[madmom]

112. Thank you :)

[dawg]

69. You looked a lot like someone I had a crush on in the early eighties.

I saw her in the grocery store recently. She still looks stunning.

I don't remember what color her eyes are, but yours are very attention-grabbing.

[madmom]

87. Aww, thanks....

[dipsydoodle]

110. Words defeat me

but stunning comes to mind and I'm sure you're still just as lovely.

[madmom]

111. Why thank you. I wish I could say I

had the same fresh face of youth, but 35 years has certainly taken their toll.

[MrScorpio]

49. Me in 1986

[dawg]

72. If that's '86 then we're probably close to the same age.

I've seen your recent pictures. You don't age much, do you?

People sometimes say the same about me. I'm thinking I should stop calling myself an eighties guy and start pretending to be a guy who came up in the 90's. Maybe I should buy a Pearl Jam album.

[MrScorpio]

78. Oh, I age. Damn, I feel old.

It's all an illusion:



Here I am just a couple of weeks ago.

[dawg]

79. You must be aging on the inside.

I don't feel much different from my younger days. I've got plenty of grey in my hair, but it only shows in the bright sunlight or if someone gets really close.

My eyesight has slipped. I need reading glasses if I want to read an actual book (unless the light is really bright, then I'm fine).

Everything else feels pretty much the same, so I guess I'm pretty lucky.

[geardaddy]

88. Looking good!

I like the Fritos and Kaluha in the background.

[KG]

50. back when i was young slim and good lookin'

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. 1989-- Me and my big brothers

Hard to say who took the longest getting ready for this fine shot, but I'd guess it was the guy in the back.

[Aristus]

54. I had a sweater like that of the brother you're sitting next to.

Wool with leather appliques. I thought it was the coolest thing at the time.

And you look wonderful, Meemie...

[dawg]

70. Ah, the 80's.

There's no denying the family resemblance there.

[GreydeeThos]

53. Me with no shirt about 1978 in California

The good 'ol days when I had hair and without the extra 70 plus pounds I carry now.

[smokey nj]

55. I don't have anything from the 80s or 90s on my computer, but here's one of me from 2 weeks ago

[bluesbassman]

58. Great photo! Glad you couldn't find an older one...

[geardaddy]

61. Va-voom!

[dawg]

66. You're really pretty, but ...

it's the boots that make the photo so "over-the-top" hot.

[Arcanetrance]

56. I don't have any from my younger years in the comp but here's a fairly recent and really bad pic

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[geardaddy]

60. Nice axe!

[Arcanetrance]

62. Thank you I love it. I love all pre fender Jackson guitars but the king v was always my big love

[Sognefjord]

63. A Portrait from 2006

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[nomorenomore08]

90. Nice! Did you paint that?

[Sognefjord]

91. I only wish! It was a professional artist from my town

She later on had a portrait exhibition (including my portrait) at the Smithsonian.

[dawg]

71. I bet I would love your music collection.

I try to play guitar myself, but sadly I'm just a self-taught hack who is only capable of making weird noises with my instruments.

I love those weird noises, though. So I guess that's what really matters.

[Arcanetrance]

76. I'm self taught as well but I have dreams of playing classical guitar

[dawg]

77. Not "exactly" classical, but I'd love to be able to play this one day ...

Unlike "Clap", this one seems almost achievable.

[Arcanetrance]

80. This is what I would love to learn this was the person that made me want to pick up a guitar

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[Gato Moteado]

96. here's the guy that made me pick up a guitar.....

....and my inability to even come close to his greatness makes me want to smash my guitars.

[Arcanetrance]

98. It truly is maddening when we can touch the greatness of those that inspire us

[Gato Moteado]

101. or when we can't!

nt

[Arcanetrance]

102. Yeah that's what I meant but typing from my phone I always screw something up lol

[Gato Moteado]

103. i thought that's what ya meant.....

....I was just checking!

[Arcanetrance]

104. Virtual Keyboards will forever be a bane upon me

[Iggo]

81. My people!

[cherokeeprogressive]

64. Okay, I'll play. From 1979... a picture of me as Fagan in Oliver Twist.

That's me on the right, Fagan, and the guy next to me is one of my best friends, he played Oliver. I was 17 in the Spring of '79.

[Behind the Aegis]

105. I was Oliver in 1981 (12 years old)

I am the one to the far left. Fagin was actually played by a female (far right).

[cherokeeprogressive]

106. That is SO cool.

We played 7 nights to almost 1200 people. To this day I still can't believe I had the nerve to stand up there on stage and sing... My solo was almost 6 minutes long!

Video (VHS) was in it's infancy and there's a tape somewhere, but no one seems to know where it is. What I wouldn't give...

My pic is after the curtains closed on the last show, hence the flowers, which were from the then "Love of My Life".

[Behind the Aegis]

107. Small correction, she played the Artful Dodger, not Fagin.

You couldn't believe you sang a 6 minute solo? Try singing "Where is Love?" LOL! Granted my voice hadn't yet changed, but geez louise, that was tough! I still wish I had followed my love of acting.

I think it is cool we both have a shared experience like this...not common. Oh, I am also Cherokee. (only 1/8..or 1/16th...we are still doing the research.)

[cherokeeprogressive]

118. It is cool to have a shared experience.

I too with I had followed through with it. The Drama Coach at my high school set me up with an audition at the local Community College and I chickened out at the last minute.

Here's a cool story... My Wife is now heavily involved in the Community Theater up here where we live now. During the second play she was in this lady came up to her and said "Your last name is *******". Have you ever heard of someone named Chris? It was Maggie, the Drama Coach from my high school. She remembered me nearly 30 years later. When she told Maggie she was my Wife, Maggie screamed "He was my Fagan!" How cool is that.

My Grandpa was born on the reservation in Tahlequah, OK. He was full-blood. My Grandma was white-European, making my Mom 1/2 blood. My Dad is also white-European, making me 1/4, which is what my CDIB says. I'm entitled to use the Tribal Roll Numbers assigned to my Great-Grandparents and recorded in the Dawes Rolls, but never have. I pretty much look white, to my dismay, but have identified as Native American on every single form I've filled out since I can remember.

Have a Wonderful Evening!
Chris

[LWolf]

82. I don't have any digital pics

from my youth, or recent, either. There used to be a pic of me from about 2000, in the old DU photo gallery, but I don't know where it's gone, or where the gallery now resides, if it is anywhere.

[Sognefjord]

83. I had the wrong era. Here I am in 1980. Not Old and Gray!

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[frogmarch]

84. Me in 1981

and in 1983



Nowadays

[Sognefjord]

92. Both pics are great. And I must ask what you are excavating there.

[frogmarch]

95. Thanks. :-) It's a

mammoth skull, but I didn’t excavate it. I was cleaning it and applying preservatives to it. College students and paying volunteers from Earthwatch excavated it during one of the summer digs, and it was part of my job to clean and preserve the excavated specimens. Most of the bones were exhibited in situ, but some of the smaller, like ribs and disarticulated vertebrae, etc., were removed to excavate beneath them. At first I took the specimens that were removed home to work on them, especially in the wintertime when it was too cold to work on site, and then when the Mammoth Site purchased a house I could use for a lab, I worked on them there. I was the only year-round preservationist at the time.

Although it’s hard to distinguish, in this picture is a complete adult mammoth skeleton lying on its side, with one of the tusks at the bottom left-hand side of the picture. The small skull and tusk pointing toward me are of a juvenile mammoth.

[Gato Moteado]

97. that is awesome

where was that?

I've been on dino digs in south Dakota. would love to go on some mammoth digs.

[frogmarch]

99. The Mammoth Site of

Hot Springs, South Dakota.

When I worked there, the site was partially enclosed in a little shack. Now the site is fully enclosed within a huge building, and there's also a museum.

http://www.mammothsite.com/

[Sognefjord]

100. Thanks for the information.

Sounds like that would be really worth checking out!

[Blue_In_AK]

85. This is me in about 1950

[ashling]

86. OK, now you've done it - (sorry) I can't stop . . . . . (longish)

me (on the right), my little brother Glenn (back), his partner Tom, and my two daughters, Abby, and Lori at Cranberry Cottage in upstate New York around 1989


painting my daughter Lori's bedroom when she was a baby (1982)


admiring my work - I used acrylics. I'n sure the apartment mgmt. hated it (LOL) but it was worth the deposit


150 year old quilt made by my great grandmother made


Got in the Paper! me at a pie eating contest for charity in college (1971)
I won - 7 pies in 6 minutes

[geardaddy]

93. Great photos!

Thanks for sharing

[dipsydoodle]

116. I do like that 1982 wall painting.

[ashling]

117. Thank you

did another one for my younger daughter

[yuiyoshida]

108. me at 15 with my baby sister

[geardaddy]

113. Cute!

[dipsydoodle]

109. c. 1974

Strictly a #0 haircut now.

[geardaddy]

114. Great photo!

Love the flares.

[dipsydoodle]

115. De rigueur in those days.

The forerunner of flares, in London, was back in 1961 was when the guys down at Chelsea College of Art & Design had decided, for whatever reason, to copy the pants worn by French sailors. The flares then went into fashion a few years later only to come and go across the years. The girls similarly decided they should all wear grey skirts and navy blue jumpers / sweaters - I can't explain that. They all had the appearance of being an army - very strange.

These days I'm mainly pegged 1950's baggies and gab shirts.......its only Rock 'n Roll but I like it.