Cherryfizz, I fixed your photo up a bit and hope it's still one of your favorites. :-)

You do nice work, Alisande! :)

Thanks, Murraysmom! I'm hardly an expert, but I like to try. I have a great fondness for old photographs. (Not that I think you're old, Cherryfizz!) ;-)

Thank you so much Alisande! I love old pictures too, the ones you have being some of my favourites.

My dad so thoroughly chronicled my childhood in photographs that I could fill up a couple of threads the size of the KT's "New Song Title Game." Here's one of my favorites. I'm still at it. :-)

Me all bushy headed at The Great Wall! I am younger than I am NOW :o)

I had to go dig out the old photo albums.

Me going to prom.

This one is my beautiful mom shortly after they got married.

Hey Alisande can you do some magic on my baby picture and remove the spots? I'm not good at doing anything like that. Appreciate it if you have the time. Thanks

Here you go, Raven. It's the least I can do after you've given me so much computer advice over the years. :-)

Lots of spots! It's beyond my skill level to make it perfect, but I got most of them--and all of them on your cute little face.

Big improvement, brighter too. Nice work!!

Thank you so much! I'm saving it to have a print made. I appreciate your help.

Me, again, I am the youngest.

This is me circa 1952, servicing my Dad's '28 Model A Ford. My sister snapped the photo with a Brownie Box camera. She said it was my good side.

Here is an earlier picture, about Aug. 1937. I was much younger then.

Jemdandy that's funny. Love that rocking chair.

I too think Marilyn's dad looks like Johnny Carson especially around the eyes. Marilyn you were always a beauty!

This is a very fun thread!

I am loving all the pictures of you "youngsters." The one thing I notice that has impressed me is the way babies, and olders, were dressed. No fictional characters such as Minions, Sponge Bob, Batman etc. like we see now. Pretty dresses or neat shirts were typical. I don't understand why a beautiful baby or child needs to be down played by the gaudy clothing they are dressed in these days.

I don't mind the character clothes, especially on t-shirts, but I really dislike seeing little girls wearing black or (almost worse) metallic sparkles.

Glenda, are you sure that isn't Parke Jr's baby picture?! He looked so much like you when you were both young.

Miss Q looks a lot like I did as a baby too. My mom mentioned it at Christmas time one day when she was sitting at the table and Q was in her high chair and she glaced back at her. I had already noticed it. What I find amazing about that is Q's "genetic make up" has a lot more ethnicity to it than mine, yet she favors me a lot.

A lot of people have said my dad looked like Johnny Carson. Maybe a little in that picture, but not at all in real life. He was a handsome man, I think. Always had women running after him.....much to the consternation of my mother. I remember when he died, someone said to my mother, "Oh, Mr. Stout. He played the piano at the lodge." My mother said, "No, he didn't play piano." (which he didn't). The old lady said to my mother, "Well! Maybe he had some secrets he kept from you." My mother said, "I'm not saying he didn't have secrets, but playing the piano damned sure wasn't one of them!" LOL I don't blame my mother for being mad about that. She should have decked the old lady.

Marilyn, I can see why some say that your Dad looked like Johnny Carson. When I first saw that picture before you posted it here I thought that he looked like Earnest Hemingway. That's a compliment. I think that Hemingway was a distinguished looking man.

I'm glad this thread is still active. Loving these pictures!

Ghoghunter, your baby is adorable--and looks a little like my firstborn. Before my baby years, there were my smoking years . . .

Alisande, Susan, most people are most attractive at certain points in their lives. You were beautiful at every age, and still are. Lucky you!

What a nice thing to say, Suzieque--thank you. I scanned the photo at the top of this thread from an old slide last week, and when I saw it my first thought was that I looked pretty--and too bad I wasn't aware of it at the time. I could have used more confidence in my appearance back then. We don't always see ourselves as others see us--and that can go to extremes either way!

This is a picture made the day I came home from the hospital, after our daughter was born. Picture was made at my mother's house. I was 34. That is Jody, holding Erin. The other picture is of Jody when he was a kid, made not very long before I met him. He was really a cute little boy!

What a beautiful dog, Nicole! I will always miss my German Shepherds. Oh--and you were cute too! LOL

Nuts to the dog. I love the TV.

I'm not one who normally goes for posting personal info but if you can actually ID me from childhood pics then by all means, more power to you.

This is me at 4 or 5 years old.

Yes, the curls are real. This was during the perm phase everyone went through (early-mid 80s) and apparently my poor mom was frequently questioned on where she took me to get the curls.

Here is another pic of my showing off the first two teeth I lost, along with my glorious natural curls.

Of course by the time I was a teen(90s), curly hair was no longer en vogue and I spent a few years fighting my natural coif in a vain attempt to conform to the current style.

Glad I was never too caught up with current styles. ;)

By my own (biased) account, my own natural hair has so far been in/out of style at least 3 different times in my lifetime. And I'm a young buck!!!!

I truly feel sorry for anyone attempting to stay current. :(

Texas, is you hair still the same curliness as it was then? It's the perfect curl!

arkansas- my hair is still just as curly but the curls aren't the same shape anymore. They are less Shirley Temple ringlets, more S shaped and frizzes a lot easier.

Takes a lot of work to maintain it, some days I wish it was straight!

Now I've got 4 girls and 3 of them have got my curls so I'm having to help them learn to manage curly hair. :)

My hair was curly when I was young. Whenever I went into the neighborhood barber shop, the barbers would draw straws to see who would work me over. Now, it is mostly gone!

Funny how hair can change over time. My hair was straight, but with good body till I started into puberty. It was almost overnight that it became curly much like Texas_Gem's beautiful locks. By age 12 it was downright frizzy. With my first pregnancy at age 19 all the frizz changed back to straight within a few months. It was the same with my sister. We always joked that we could never have a pregnancy and keep it a secret. Our hair would tell! Gradually over 30 years or so my hair has become a little curly with some frizz and deep waves.

Boy, this was great fun to go through. Thank you all for posting and I'm sorry I'm unable to do the same right now.

Cool hat, Jake!

I hope you are all still as adorable as you are in these photos!

The baby years . . . with my two daughters, before their brother was born.

Look what I found! Y'all remember this thread? I apparently bookmarked it. I was looking at my houzz and found my bookmarks. It was a great fun thread. We should continue it.

Hope I can find the picture taken of me as a baby in 1923 with my parents. They are standing beside their car-a black Buick?? with side curtains. If I can find it I will post it.

This is fun! This was me probably around two years old. Yes, my curls are terribly real.

ETA: Found another one. Not sure why my hair looks red, it was really blonde.

Everyone was so cute as a kid, and so attractive as young(er than now) adults too. Nice thread.

Here I am at about age 2 (1945?).

The photos with cars made me think of this. DH said he wanted to own at least one Cadillac in his life and this is it. Me sitting on the fender of our brand new 1989 coupe de Ville near Miami . I am 47.

Thanks for bringing this thread back up, Raven, I don't remember it at all, but it is a fun thread!

Rusty

Here's my baby nudie!

Rusty, do I need more coffee, or is that a cow?

LOL aok27502! It's not a ''cow'. it's a calf! Although some 'city folks' would call it a 'baby cow'.

The world I grew up in was very VERY different than the world kids grow up in today.

I grew up on a farm, and the farm animals were my 'pets'. And yes, I also named them all.

Rusty