Post a picture of your parents!

[Blue-Jay]

Mine, circa 1955: Mom was 19, and Dad was 22 (many years before I was born, btw)

[Haole Girl]

1. ok

[swag]

31. Great photo. Beautiful family, KC2.

[billyskank]

51. Hey

Nice to see you back. Even if it's only fleeting. :hi:

[The Straight Story]

2. Mine:

[The Straight Story]

3. Another one from their wedding day

[The Straight Story]

4. A lot of family members in this one, guess which goober is me :)

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. back to the left with the glasses????

Great family photo.

[The Straight Story]

7. naw, i am the dork in the red shirt :)

I don't much look so goofy over 23 years later :)

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. You look about 15....

What a cutie.

[The Straight Story]

15. Here's a video of family too (for my mom who passed away)

http://www.toddhowell.com/mom.html

[zanne]

57. Straight Story...

That was so precious. I have big fat tears on my face.

[devilgrrl]

13. I knew that was you without the beard

:-)

[The Straight Story]

8. PS the guy with the glasses in back is my brother :) (nt)

[seemunkee]

6. OK

[joneschick]

11. gorgeous!

I'm a sucker for the vintage gowns. When were they married? :hi:

[seemunkee]

16. 1951

I think the gown is still around at my brothers house.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. My mother was 19 when she met my father....

He was a year and a bit older. No photos of them from that time. She was visiting his grandfather with a girlfriend who was dating my father's cousin at the time. And sitting on a piano bench when he and his cousin walked into the room. He didn't have a chance after that. My father was a good-looking man, and they hit it off immediately.

They married a few years later, my mother was 22 and my father 23, but had difficulty having children. I was practically a change-of-life baby.

[devilgrrl]

12. Here are my grandparents

:shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. Your grandpa...

still has that twinkle in his eye!

[electricmonk]

14. Cool thread idea

Here's my uncle, Mom and Dad looking very rat packish. Dad's in the grey suit. 1955 or so.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. Dupe, delete.

[swag]

18. Damn, you had the coolest looking parents.

Dag.

[Blue-Jay]

19. It's very odd to see them younger than me.

I found that pic recently, and it makes me smile.

[swag]

20. I'll try these, though dad's is out of character

Mom was 18, I think. Sorry for the flash glare off the painting.


Dad was 28 or so. Holloman AFB, New Mexico, or Madison, WI.

I need to do some different portraits of both of them. Mom's much less shy now, and Dad's not so serious.

[Blue-Jay]

21. Without knowing your folks firsthand, I'd say that you captured them quite well.

I always like your artwork, swag: it's never pretentious.

don't you go changin'! (wink & double-point)

[bettyellen]

63. i see you get you vulcanosity from your moms side....

i'll have to see if i can scan my parents in at work on monday..

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. Mine:

[Blue-Jay]

29. You're a clone!

A large clone, but a clone nevertheless.

(thanks for posting those!)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Haha, yep.

People confuse me for my dad a lot, even though I'm taller and have at least 50 pounds on him.

[crim son]

73. I've stolen these pics for my personal viewing.

I hope you don't mind. :loveya:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

74. Not at all.

:rofl: :D

[redwitch]

80. Wow! Where was that taken?

Nice pictures, gorgeous setting!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

81. Near Ground Zero in NYC.

[otherlander]

23. If I did that they would get reaalllllly pissed off.

[Hand]

24. Here are mine, sometime in the late 1930s.

In Chicago. The lady on the right was a fellow anthropology student at the U. of Chicago.



They actually weren't married at the time; they had recently moved from Berkeley, CA. At that time white/Asian intermarriage was illegal in California. Dad was Jewish (not sure if the Loyal Sons of the Golden State would count him a bona fide white man), Mom was Nisei. They did get married in Chicago and were living there when Pearl Harbor happened--which was how she managed not to get sent to an internment camp.

They were an interesting pair. I miss them. :cry:

[Blue-Jay]

34. I really like that picture!

Everyone in it has so much character.

[Hand]

59. They did have a lot of character!

Mom and Dad were both the children of immigrants--his were Russian Jews, and hers were Japanese. He was the middle son of three brothers and she was the eldest of six children--five girls and one boy. Dad was from Boston originally--his father became a pretty successful tailor--and Mom's father eventually opened a carnation nursery in Hayward, California. They employed a lot of out-of-work Okies during the Depression. Except for Mom, the whole family spent most WWII in the Topaz internment camp in Utah.

They met in Berkeley in the early 1930s; they were both in the anthropology department, which at the time was headed by A.L. Kroeber, the guy who found Ishi, the last of one of California's native tribes. Dad was a grad student--he graduated from Harvard at age 19!--and Mom was an undergrad. They fell in love like a ton of bricks, and he endeared himself to her family by quickly learning Japanese. They both eventually transferred to the U. of Chicago, which was better at linguistics.

The other lady in the picture was a real character in her own right; she was from Wyoming and was a truly funny, earthy woman. Like most of the women in the anthropology department, she had a huge crush on Dad even though he was already spoken for. I finally figured out years later that Mom and Dad lived together without benefit of clergy for many years before getting married in 1941--that made things a lot easier on both me and my brother when we developed our own rather unconventional domestic arrangements!

Well, I could go on for hours about them. They were pretty cool people--and lifelong liberal Democrats, I might add. Dad always described himself as an unreconstructed New Deal Democrat. Needless to say, they loved Adlai Stevenson and always regretted that he never made it to the White House. I'll always be grateful to them for showing me how to be a good honest person. :toast:

[madinmaryland]

25. OMFG!!1!! You just admitted your parents are Bush and Squirrel!!1!!

:wow:

[Blue-Jay]

27. I don't follow you.

I just found that pic and it made me smile, so I scanned it & figured I'd share.

[Gormy Cuss]

84. Your OP has only one picture.

The squirrel and W.
Your caption implies this is a photo of your parent (broken link, maybe?)

[Breeze54]

26. My Mom, just before Alzhiemers was diagnosed...

She was a very intelligent, cheerful, comedian Mom! :rofl:

She was 'posing' in that pic.


I have some great pics of both my parents on cd but it'll take me awhile time to find them.

[Blue-Jay]

28. She looks like a real hoot!

Thanks for posting that.

[Rhythm]

32. Here they are... the unsuspecting innocents that spawned me...

This is my dad, taken about a year before he succumbed to lung cancer
The baby in the pic is my daughter, who's now 18



~*~*~

Me (age 28), my daughter (in front of me, age 6), my mom, step-dad Bobby, and Nana (my maternal grandmother)
Taken on mom and Bobby's wedding day

[Blue-Jay]

33. Thank you for posting that.

I really do love to see old family pictures. They're honest and heart-warming.

[Rhythm]

35. i have some really old ones that i need to scan...

from when i was about 3, and we still lived in Florida (and dad was still in the Air Force)...

Geez... kills me to look at pics of him now.

All of the others looked no different the last time i saw them (this time last year)...
well, mom's got a bit more gray hair, i guess. But my step-dad and grandmother haven changed a day.

[GalleryGod]

36. Sure.

[Blue-Jay]

37. That's a lovely photo.

It actually makes me wish that I could have been there.

[electricmonk]

43. That's a cool photo

Reminds me of some 1960's paparazzi type photos.

[devilgrrl]

44. You're father's James Dean?

????

[huskerlaw]

38. here ya go...

My mom, circa 1950


My sister, me, my dad...July 31, 1978

[Blue-Jay]

39. Adorable.

I don't know why, but I can never get tired of old family pictures. Call it nostalgia, if you will.

[Connonym]

40. About 4 years ago

68 and 64. One of his last photos before he died of cancer.

[Blue-Jay]

42. Saying "Thank you for sharing" is a meaningless cliche to some.

But honestly I really appreciate it. Thank you.

[AshevilleGuy]

41. How do I do it?

"HELP" of course, doesn't help. I have them stored in MY DOCUMENTS.

[Rhythm]

45. you have to upload them to a server... try photobucket...

they have a free service that you can link from...

[AshevilleGuy]

47. They want too much information

No other way to do it?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

48. Try Imageshack.

www.imageshack.us

[johnnie]

46. My mom and dad right before they were married

I get my party attitude from mom:

[BuelahWitch]

49. Mom (with me) and Grandma raised me

Here they are:

[Guava Jelly]

50. Here is one

Here is one of my Mom when she was a young Girl.
The tree is where The sperm-donor used to stand before i covered him with a tree .

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. Let's see...

dad's eyes and mom's facial shape and features, right? It's hard to see under all that facial hair! ;)

Here's one....


Married in 1953. Notice the height difference. 6'4" vs. 5'. She used to have to stand on stairs to kiss him.

[Cannikin]

54. Here's my mom and I, but I dont have any electronic versions of my dads pics.

[Maine-ah]

55. here ya go

My Parents, unsure of year. Though I think they were still in high school or just graduated.

[Maine-ah]

56. oops, duped

self delete

[gbate]

58. Here is the whole family in 1984.

[MissMillie]

60. last Easter

I'm very lucky to still have parents who:

1) are alive
2) are healthy
3) and are still in love after all the years they've been together (57 years of marriage this year, and they met 4 years before that)

[jus_the_facts]

61. My parents wedding...and one of them and my sister...before my time...

...and these two of me and my daddy...

[HEyHEY]

62. Okay, but it could divulge my true identity

[crim son]

64. My parents at my wedding:

1990

[Starbucks Anarchist]

67. Wow, your mom looks just like you!

:D

[crim son]

69. We do look a lot alike

Except she is 5'3" tall. You look like the enlarged version of your father - you have dear looking parents. Where are those photos taken?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

70. "Enlarged version."

:rofl:

Those were taken near Ground Zero when they were visiting me last Christmas.

[crim son]

71. Your parents look nice

and you look drop-dead gorgeous.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

72. ...

:blush: :hi:

[Left Is Write]

65. My parents' wedding photo, 1959...

[devilgrrl]

66. Wait! I found one...

My mom & step-dad from May 2006

[dropkickpa]

68. Don't have any older pictures scanned in

But here's the whole Dropkick clan in 1993 at the eldest brothers wedding (the 'rents are next tot he bride and groom)

[MassLiberal]

75. is that your mom

resting her chin on your brother's back? That is so sweet.

[dropkickpa]

78. Yep!

[MassLiberal]

76. mom and dad in the '60s

My dad looks like he's about to say something fresh to the photographer. He was a funny guy, and a wonderful dad. Wish my mom wasn't so washed out here--I love this photo of her. Also wish they weren't both gone now.

[AlCzervik]

77. i don't have one of my parents so heres basically the whole family

mom and dad have been divorced forever and Mom passed in 85 but this is my stop mom.
my daughter and i are lower right and my sister, bil and my nieces are on the left.

[dolo amber]

79. Jesus, look exactly like your mom much?

I look exactly like my dad...or, in the WVA/KY vernacular:

"It looks like you were just carved right off his left butt cheek!"

:(

Great pic. :)

[Left Is Write]

82. Did you see the wedding pic of my parents?

I should crop it so my dad's face shows better, but there's no guessing which side of the family I look like. :D

[dolo amber]

88. You have much better hair

:D

Your mom's dress is TDF. :thumbsup:

[Left Is Write]

89. LOL! My hair did come from dad, though.

As did the face and the ears. Those ears!

ETA - I love Mom's dress too. She still has it!

[AshevilleGuy]

83. Here are mine in the late 1930s

when they were dating.



My Dad, who was From Middle TN, near Carthage, the home of Al Gore. This was made in Yancey Co., NC, in my mother's front yard.



My Mother in her classroom. This was at the end of the schoolyear; she was into arts & crafts - things the children had made are displayed all over the place. This school was at least 10 miles from a paved road or telephone, many of the children had no running water or electricity, yet they hardly look backwards or deprived.

I don't know how to enlarge the images. I am using PhotoBucket. Their instructions are mostly gibberish to me.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

85. I don't have a picture of my mom...

But here's one that my mom took of My dad with my sister and I when I was a baby.

[woo me with science]

86. I don't post pictures of people on the Internet without their permission. nt

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

87. my mommy & daddy

Just before he was shipped out during Vietnam
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