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Here's me, in 1984 reading the manual to my new printer. Note the 70s decor and the 70s RCA TV.
 
These pictures are great. It's funny how a lot of our parents have us in the same poses. I have to get some of the pictures my mom has and make some copies for myself. This is one my wife asked for from my mom. It is of my brother, the oldest of my three sisters ( the younger two were born a few years later) and myself(with the blue bow tie)when we lived in Philadelphia. This was taken seeing Santa at John Wanamakers in downtown Philadelphia. They had a toy department that had a monorail train you could ride in that circled the whole toy department. They were the store featured as "Prince and Company" in the movie Manequin which stared Kim Catrell. We would go downtown every year to see the Christmas displays. Threre was Gimbels that had a walk through Christmas village, Strawbridges which put up an ice skating rink in the store and Lit brothers which had another walk through village.
 
oh ok...

I didn't think it ever snowed in Australia....
I have a good friend who lives in Sydney, he visited me here for the first time in January 2004. When he left Sydney it was 90+ degrees and humid, and when I picked him up at O'Hare it was 5 below zero out!
I mean seriously, whats a 100 degree difference in temperatures?
John never did put a coat on while he was here, and he LOVED taking Jack for walks and even shoveled snow off the driveway!
Only time I have ever seen someone enjoy doing that!
I am pretty sure he was glad to get back to the heat in Sydney!
 
Hubba Hubba Jon!!

I'll bet you were lots of fun to be around in high school!! That mischevious glint in your eye still lingers today! :-D

Fast forward to 1972....my sister Yvonne on the left, me (looking like a vamp) in the middle, and my best friend Glo (who now lives near London) on the right. There is some serious pattern clashing going on in this photo! LOL
 
OMG Jon, look at those pictures you are just adorable!!!!

Now here is me as a cub scout around 1970 (left me, center my Mom, right my friend Jimmy). My mother and Mrs. Garvy were our den mothers. Mrs. Garvy had a '67 Frigidaire washer in their basement where we held our den meetings. Occasionally the washer was running and I got to listen to the cycle which was so very exciting. Once I graduated to "webelos" and we had den Fathers, I was no longer interested (imagine that) so I quit.
 
Call me a cheek pincher but....

Robert! You are the cutest thing!!! I'll bet all the moms wanted to give you a big hug and take you home!!
 
cheeck pincher

ACK! I rmember getting all those cheek pinches and kisses from the ladies at church and from relatives. YUCK!!!! GIRL GERMS!!! ICKY!
 
BUT

I am kinda scratchin' my head over why you weren't into the whole den father thing?

{{ducks and runs}}
 
I am kinda scratchin' my head over why you weren't into the whole den father thing?

Thanks you guys, that was one bazillion years ago. Silly Jeff, I was 8, washers were much more important back then, come to think of it they still are now :)
 
if Den Fathers were Den Daddies...

ROFLAMO!!!!
Veg YOU are BAD!!

Its all in good fun Robert!
(Now people around me are wondering what I am laughing at!)
 
A two-fer

This is me, 1965. The left pic was on my baptism day, March 21 1965, 10 days short of my first birthday.
Both were taken in the living room of our house in Monroe Center IL.
 
with my grandma

with Grandma Parker, 1965 also. This was the only Grandparent I knew growing up. She passed away in 1986, and I still miss her.
(Grandma Parker had a 1950 Westinghouse all electric kitchen, an Electrolux XXX, a Hoover 28, and a 1060 Convertible... I loved her house!)
 
Christmas1966 at Grandma's house!

With my sister Cathy, who was not quite a year old. Even back then my parents knew what to buy me for Christmas!
The little vacuum is long gone, but I do still have the Tonka truck!
 
Thanks Venus!

Love the photo in front of the Lincoln Rd. Mall! You were as cute back then as you are now!

I sure would like to be transported back to those days, even if just for a little while. Oh the places I would go to and the relatives I would want to see----------
 
Another picture, a few years before the one above (the tree behind me is the one I'm climbing in the previous picture). I caught the snapping turtle in the creek behind the houses across the creek - I caught several: just leaned over the bank and grabbed them by the tail. They could definitely take your finger off if you weren't careful. I actually kept one for awhile and it liked to be petted on the head.
 

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