Old Picture Thread

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1996

1994[DOUBLEPOST=1396628362,1396628254][/DOUBLEPOST]Waiting for @Grytpipe-Thynne to upload some cave wall paintings.

 

[GasBandit]

Jeez, only two years difference? That hair grew FAST.

 

[Celt Z]

It's like in 2 years time, you discovered alt-rock, or grunge, as it were.

(Not trying to make fun, but it's like looking at a time capsule of the 80's transition into the 90's.)

 

[Grytpipe-Thynne]

OK Fade, with the help of Fred and Barney I have copied a few primitive images. As I am now, with wife and one of several grandsons. My second marriage July 4 1992. At my grandparents Golden Wedding anniversary July 15 1939.

 

[Tinwhistler]

3rd grade

1992ish

Around 1995ish...

 

[GasBandit]

The Navy turned you into Dermott Fictel!

 

[Cheesy1]

Graduation Day in the band room, 1996:

 

[Emrys]

A fellow band geek. What instrument did you play?

 

[Cheesy1]

Saxophone and French Horn.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Trombone

 

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I half expect to see little @Cheesy1 with a goatee.

 

[Cheesy1]

Nope, still with the pencil stache then.

 

[LittleKagsin]

How many of us were band geeks?? I feel like there's a lot of us on here. Should I get to posting my band pictures?

 

[GasBandit]

I was not in band, though many of my friends were. It was determined that playing a small instrument was probably not for me in the 3rd grade, when in a fit of frustration at not being able to hit certain notes without squeaking, I bit my recorder in half.

What stuck with me most actually was piano lessons. I actually did very well at music theory.

 

[Dei]

I was in Color Guard for marching band, I was in chorus in High School, but I liked to dabble and learn a little bit of every instrument just for fun.

 

[grub]

Trombone in HS. Piano and mandolin sometimes but mostly guitar now.

 

[LittleKagsin]

I was in Color Guard for marching band, I was in chorus in High School, but I liked to dabble and learn a little bit of every instrument just for fun.

I also did Color Guard! As for instruments, I play the piano.

But man, lots of musical/band geek-y people here.

 

[Celt Z]

Color Guard here, too! I did try the flute for a couple of years, but I decided I preferred singing over playing an instrument, so chorus/concert choir was my music choice.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I can play a kazoo....


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Can I still hang out in the bandroom?

 

[Emrys]

I can play a kazoo....


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Can I still hang out in the bandroom?

One of us! One of us!

 

[Tinwhistler]

The Navy turned you into Dermott Fictel!

Actually, it turned me into MacGyver...

 

[jwhouk]

You want "old pictures", huh?

Spoiler

The woman sitting on the right, with her sister in her lap?

That is my great-great grandmother.

 

[Just Me]

I can play a kazoo....


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Can I still hang out in the bandroom?

Join me and together we can rule the galaxy.

Or more like, play our instruments and clear people out of rooms that way...
Also, I was forced to learn accordion in my early teens.

 

[Celt Z]

Also, I was forced to learn accordion in my early teens.

Hey, don't knock it. Look how it turned out for Weird Al.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Spoiler: 1986

 

[Gilgamesh]

Spoiler: 1986

Puttin on the Ritz!

 

[Just Me]

Took me a while to get on this train. No scanner availabale, so I had to get a new battery for my camera and take pictures of pictures.

Prepare to go back to the time of atrocious window dressings and wallpapers, in this case the year 1970!
The place is my maternal grandparents house, I wish we still had those vintage lamps around.


That dashing young fellow is me, the guy feeding me is my dad

The nice young lady is my mum.

I could stand upright, but I probably would have rolled as well...

1977, wallpapers still atrocious. My first day of school, obviously my great-grandmother is way more enthusiastic than I...

 

[Tress]

You look like a perfect copy of your dad (at least your avatar picture does).

 

[sixpackshaker]

Puttin on the Ritz!

Actually I think I sang that song while wearing that...

 

[Emrys]

The year was 1987. I had to march in 100F+ heat. That's the only reason I'm giving for the hair.

 

[GasBandit]

The year was 1987. I had to march in 100F+ heat. That's the only reason I'm giving for the hair.

That hair comes with its own soundtrack by Michael Sembello.

 

[Emrys]

That hair comes with its own soundtrack by Michael Sembello.

<not sure if this is or isn't an insult, so am holding the doomweasels in reserve>

 

[GasBandit]

<not sure if this is or isn't an insult, so am holding the doomweasels in reserve>
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Look, I know you're just a small town girl on a saturday night looking for the fight of your life, but there's no reason to be a maniac.

 

[Emrys]

I was not a maniac, maniac on the floor.

 

[GasBandit]

I was not a maniac, maniac on the floor.

I wasn't exactly an Automatic Man myself, but I can say with Gravity that if we go Backwards In Time, Dangerous Questions might put you on the Road to Lonely.