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Tom's recent post of he and his brother with their dad looking at a Mercedes, inspired this thread. If you have any pics of yourself as a youngster (say 10 or younger), you can post them here.

To start it off, here's a picture that was recently sent to me by the older sister of one of my best friends growing up. This is me (the Opie looking 4 year old on the right) and my best friend Jimmy petting a kitten on Jimmy's front porch in Bridgeport WVa.

I heard, via my sister, that Jimmy had recently passed away and so I found his page on the local Funeral home in Bridgeport and left a note. That's how his sister was able to contact me and send me this picture (which I scanned and sent back). Lots of fond memories of me an Jimmy - who I learned only much later in life was Autistic.

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Here's my contribution. I'm on the right and the girl that I would marry about 17 years later is on the left. We discovered the pictures after we were married. They are put out every Christmas. At the time we didn't know each other. image.jpg
 
Rhodyspit75 said:
Here's my contribution. I'm on the right and the girl that I would marry about 17 years later is on the left. We discovered the pictures after we were married. They are put out every Christmas. At the time we didn't know each other.
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Cute! You're both wearing hats with ear flaps!
 
Me (and my dad) in about 1956 or 57.
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Stayed with my grand parents in Lakeland Fla. during WWII while dad was overseas. Dad took this picture in 1945 with an old Brownie box camera the day before we were to leave for home. Yup, I'm the rascal on the right! :highly_amused: PJ
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Posted this one years ago, but here I am at age 4 as my hero at the time:

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Basil said:
No secret where your love of LBCs started!
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Yep. LOVED the TR3s (though never had one). I eventually sort of inherited the 100-4.

Here's another amusing shot of an Austin A-40 (Devon) my dad had before the big Healey. 1954 or 55. Me on the right (sister on the left).
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'62 must have been the year of the Pontiac for us.

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San Marcos River, San Marcos, Tx
 

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Guy, do you remember the Stagecoach Inn in Salado, Texas?

or the Butter-Krust Bakery in West? excellent Czech kolaches!
 
NutmegCT said:
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Guy, do you remember the Stagecoach Inn in Salado, Texas?

or the Butter-Krust Bakery in West? excellent Czech kolaches!
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Or Cascade Caverns....

or the "Devil's Backbone"?

My aunt and uncle lived in Comfort and we spent many vacations there. Cypress Creek (I think that's the name), off of the Guadalupe River, runs in front of the property they owned. Good times!
 
Man, I have to blow the dust off my memory banks!
we stayed at the stagecoach. I remember a pancake breakfast with the flapjacks bigger than the plate.
Dad loved to camp.....we would make a big loop: Glenn Rose dinosaur park, perdernales falls, some neat place down-round new braunfels, Ft. Parker & wind up way over in E. Tx in Jefferson City. Stayed at the old historic excelsior house.

canoed down the Guadalupe as a boy scout........thought it was the wildest River on earth.
 
Coming back to the pics - my first car

 
Indeed! Just looked at the pic to see what you meant - and, yes. I actually remember receiving this for Christmas - likely my second or third earliest memory.

As an aside, in looking at the pic - the rocking chair is a piece of furniture that disappeared somewhere - no one knows where - my mother still has the matching dining room chairs but no one - my mom, my dad when he was alive, my siblings - no one remembers what happened to the chair.
 
Never had a cool pedal car like that. But that little pewter pitcher on the mantle struck a nerve.
My Mom had this one as long as I can remember.
it was made in Holland.image.jpg(don't know why it's sideways)
 
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Indeed - and FWIW the pitcher is still in my mother's apartment.
 
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