Olde Photos

[aeronca65t]

Got any oldies of yourself? The more embarrassing the better! :laugh:

Here's me and my Dad taken around 1954 in Kilkenny, Ireland.

As you can see, I've already into driving sporty roadsters and wearing a cool helmet.

The house is on O'Loughlin Road and we have friends who currently live in it. It's right across the street from Nowlan Park, home of the Kilkenny Cats.....the finest hurling team on the planet. They also hold some fine Camogie matches there.

 

[NutmegCT]

I've got some a lot older than 1959, but this 1959 picture is the one I'm proudest of.

My dad, my brother (age 8), and me (age 10), taking a look at the first Mercedes-Benz diesel passenger car as it came through Texas (on display at a Studebaker dealership in Fort Worth).

The coast to coast trip was sponsored by Motor Trend magazine (I have the original issue), to demonstrate the practicality of using a small diesel as a long-distance business man's car. The photo appears in the Motor Trend article about the trip.

Motor Trend actually re-created the trip a few years ago, using another old M-B diesel, and a state of the art Blu-Tec diesel.

memories ... memories ...

Tom in CT

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Not car related, but "cute factor" is there - me as Hopalong Cassidy:

 

[Brooklands]

Here are two of me, first at age 5 with my first crew cut...yes, mother dressed me funny while the second is at age 8 on a fishing outing. I am on the left, my dad in the middle, and my future boss on the right. These are more the embarrassing category without any relationship to cars.

 

[TR_Jim]

My first car.

 

[PAUL161]

I was only 6 in 1945 when this was taken in Lakeland Florida staying with my grand parents. Dad came home from the war two months later. I didn't like it there, as I missed the farm. Funny, after all these years, I still miss it! PJ

 

[drooartz]

Not sure exactly when this was, late 1970's probably. Me and my mom on the porch of a house we rented for summer vacation (called Ski Vista) in Warren, Vermont. Mom's playing guitar, and I've got my badminton racquet and a Richard Scary book so I could be just like her.

This is my favorite picture from my childhood. I guess I was always destined to be a musician. Wasn't much older than in this picture when I learned to play for real (at age 8).

 

[rkep01]

Me, Mom and Dad at Palisades Park (gone, but not forgotten) summer of 1946. Check out the length of the ash on Dad's stogie. :laugh:

 

[Sherlock]

A couple, one of my favourite family photos, taken before I was born, although my mom might have been pregnant with me in this photo, you can't tell by the angle...

And here's me, same car and trailer, with a lawn chair growing out of my head...

 

[judow]

The photos are great - keep them coming. Sadly I have no photos of my childhood years. Long story not worth repeating. I can and will enjoy all the postings!

P.S. Mickey, I do have a Hopalong Cassidy watch and it's in the original cardboad (saddle) box. It was memory jogger purchased some time ago. When playing with my friends the game of cowboys and indians, I wasn't quick enough to say Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Dale Evans and always would blurt out Hopalong Cassidy. After a while it was just a given - I'd be Hopalong Cassidy. And yes I take the watch out of the box and wear it when the spirit moves me. I do have a rather extensive collection of windup watches, all of which I wear. No use collecting anything that you don't or can't use. IMHO

 

[Banjo]

Here's mom, dad and me the back of the photo is labeled "December 31 1979 Our "new" car" it was a 77 Renault LeCar. I loved that thing.
It must have been a remarkably warm new years eve!
I was 3 in that pic. Nice pants huh?!
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[sail]

My first wire wheel car:

 

[Roger]

This is me, in March 1943, at the wheel (almost) of my father's Morris 8.

 

[vagt6]

My Dad, 1946 just after he returned from France after WWII. His ribbons: WW II Victory Medal; Navy Good Conduct Medal, and European Theater Campaign Medal.

It was a long war for him, no wonder he looks so happy in this photo:

 

[scoutll]

Here's a few.

First one is Dad, Mom and the first 3 in NYC, 1955 (I'm being held by my mother.

Second one is the three of us with our mom in 1957, Greenford Gardens, Bucks, UK.

Third one is Dad Mom and us in NYC again (new little sister by then too). Dad had just picked up his new special ordered 1958 Chevy Brookwood. Truquois and white - What a car!

 

[martx-5]

This is the earliest known photo of me...the bow tie puts me in the elite class... :laugh:

 

[SilentUnicorn]

Ok here is me. I think the truck was about a 68? and the year about 78?

 

[Brooklands]

I am not nearly done uploading some of the hundreds of photos I scanned from some of the family albums, but some do appear at https://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklands/sets/72157626984761729/
So far I have gotten from around 1913 through 1954...

 

[Gliderman8]

Found this photo of me at my mom's house two weeks ago.
The year was 1962....
I know doc can outdo this pic

 

[DNK]

first you say it was 2 weeks ago...then 1962. Make up your mind
Lake Michigan?