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Posted: 8/3/2005 7:23:42 AM EDT

We had a thread about this several months ago, I know. I've been talking to several people that thought we should do another, so here goes.

Grandmother on my mother's side, age 16:

At age 17

My grandfather, her husband, during WWII.

The next two aren't old, but they're cool pics. My father, brother and I use to be hugely into Civil War reenacting, and here are a couple from the 'good ol days'.

My father is 3rd from the left...

Father and little brother

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:31:19 AM EDT

[#1]

My Dad after he helped kick Japan's ass:

And an old relation, the last Union general to die in the war, Thomas Smyth of Delaware

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:34:24 AM EDT

[#2]

This is my dad in the side gun door of his B24 bomber in WWII.

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:34:50 AM EDT

[#3]

Well at least we know where your good looks come from

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:40:11 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Well at least we know where your good looks come from

Yeah, I've heard Rik is a good lookin' guy

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:44:31 AM EDT

[#5]

Maternal Grandfather (left in dive suit seated), WWII.

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:55:10 AM EDT

[#6]

Very cool pics, guys!

topknot...Dive gear's come a long way since then. It's amazing to me to see what they had to wear back then.

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:55:43 AM EDT

[#7]

Grandma was a stone fox at sixteen!

OK...here are a couple of pics of varying ancient history...

My maternal grandmother in her late teens:

Her younger sister, also in her late teens. She became a famous actress in the '30s and made movies and TV appearances for many years. Her stage name was Ann Harding. You can look her up on the Internet Movie Database.

Me, Miz LWilde (blond) and her sister...circa 1972.

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:05:22 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Well at least we know where your good looks come from

Yeah, I've heard Rik is a good lookin' guy

Bay......dont be [ghey]

I think we all know who this was intended for

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:08:28 AM EDT

[#9]

My grandfather at Pearl Harbor during WWII, probably about ready to get back to the USS New York and head for Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Or returning from there. No date on the pic.

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:14:14 AM EDT

[#10]

uncle Ho

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:15:20 AM EDT

[#11]

Great-grandparents at their farm in Montana.

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:16:21 AM EDT

[#12]

Great grandma Cher, circa 1881

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:17:52 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/3/2005 8:19:04 AM EDT

[#14]

Here's the only "old" pics I have right now... I have some more on the external HDD...

ETA: Pick of me with my Dad, and Mom's grandpa.

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:26:40 AM EDT

[#15]

My paternal grandfather, USAAF, 1943. He was a B-17 mechanic.

Paternal grandparents Robert and Harriet Nelson on their wedding day. Married 56 years until my grandfather passed away from prostate cancer last September.

Maternal grandfather, Walter Wojcik, enlisted in the Navy in June 1943

His discharge papers

Me, somewhere in the early years. "GET SOME!"

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:27:13 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
home.earthlink.net/~mcnielsen/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/lodahl2.jpg

Great-grandparents at their farm in Montana.

I think its the glasses, your Grandma reminds me of Carrie Nation.

Great pics!

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:30:31 AM EDT

[#17]

Here is my mother. She died when I was 14.

Here I am about to draw down on someone at the car wash........

Here is me at age 16. I managed to get that Thompson bought for $900.
This was before the ban in 1985 of course. It sat in my grandads name for a few years
since I wasn't old enough. Transferred it to myself later, best $200 I ever spent

Took me the better part of a year to save up the cash. My grandad felt sorry for me and
gave me the $200 to pay the tax.

Notice trigger discipline even at 16 years old......

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:47:24 AM EDT

[#18]

My Father. WWI 79th Inf. Division France 1918

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:53:24 AM EDT

[#19]

Here are pictures of my Grandfather in WWII. In 1940 if you served one year you would not be called up for the draft......
well he did not get out until 1946

ETA the baby you see in one of the top photos is my Father. I lost him May of this year.

Me

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:04:59 AM EDT

[#20]

Great Grandparents MI UP

Grandparents with Pops center bottom

Mom about 70years ago in SD

GM

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:11:28 AM EDT

[#21]

i few leaves from my tree

and thats just a few... and im not kidding

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:16:47 AM EDT

[#22]

Paternal Grandmother at 17 or 18

Paternal Grandfather in WWII (around '42) Pearl Harbor HI.

My Mother at 3

Mom at 8 or 9

Don't have any of Dad yet. Gotta go looking in all the boxes of pics.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:22:19 AM EDT

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My Grandfather. Top turret B-24 15th AAF.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:41:00 AM EDT

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My great-great grandfather Gerhard aka "George".

Born sometime in the first half of the 1800's in Northwestern Germany.

Was exempt from military service due to a hump back. Came to the U.S.A in the 1850's and sent his passport back to Germany twice so his brothers could use it to also come here.

Spent the civil war years in California looking for gold. Naturalized in San Francisco in the 1860's.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:03:19 AM EDT

[#25]

tagged for pic postin'

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:04:46 AM EDT

[#26]

Look out ladies! This is my paternal Grandfather, quite the ladies man in his day! I'm estimating the photo dates around 1910.

This one is ME! Estimated date about 1949.

The well dressed guy in front of the door to his General Store is J.W. Roy, my Great-Great Grandfather, photo dated 1900.

My paternal Great Grandfather and my Great Grandmother, my Grandfather is the kid in the front, photo dated 1896 taken in Indian Territory.

My parents, about 1939.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:25:58 AM EDT

[#27]

Lotta Crabtree

here is a link about her.
www.ncgold.com/History/LottaCrabtree/lotta.html

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada.

Just a few of the family.

Posted: 8/3/2005 10:30:59 AM EDT

[#28]

My Uncle - Soviet Army!

My Great-Great-Grandparents

My Grandfather (Dads Side)

My Grandfather (Mothers Side)

My Wife's Grandfather (Mothers Side)

Medal Awared to my Great-Uncle by Poland for surviving in a Concentration Camp.

Av.

Posted: 8/3/2005 1:05:21 PM EDT

[#29]

My Dad's Old platoon: Taiwanese Army Circa 45-50.
Complete with American steel pots, Uniforms, Web Gear and the ubiquitous M1 Garand.
U.S. Funded, U.S. Trained, U.S. Supplied.

He's the guy in the middle of the back row with the Horn rimmed glasses:

Posted: 8/3/2005 2:56:26 PM EDT

[#30]

I love all these pics! I wish I had some service pics from my uncles. They're getting calls from me tonight. Pardon the quality of these.

Here's my dad:

My mom (right) and my great grandmother:

Me and my dad:

My dad's favorite picture of me:

Posted: 8/3/2005 6:57:30 PM EDT

[#31]

Bellona...pics no worky.

Posted: 8/3/2005 7:02:35 PM EDT

[#32]

tag...for me to dig up pics and scan!

Posted: 8/3/2005 8:55:36 PM EDT

[#33]

Here's one of my Mom, one of my sisters and 2 of my brothers.
I'm in the red shirt on the left. This was from the early 70's when we still lived in Hawaii.
This was at Kapiolani Park at Waikiki Beach. Anyone recognize the background?

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:05:16 PM EDT

[#34]

Awesome thread.

I wish I had some older pics of the 'rents here to scan in and show off.

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:16:07 PM EDT

[#35]

My grandfather WWII

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:19:40 PM EDT

[#36]

tag. I got a good one to post too. Camera foo will be better in early light.......

Posted: 8/3/2005 9:32:15 PM EDT

[#37]

I love old pictures. Keep them coming!

Posted: 8/4/2005 4:06:57 AM EDT

[#38]

Here goes
OK...first one is my dad and my mother's brother (my uncle) Jim on Uncle Jim's wedding day (mid 1950's). Yep, Dad was short (5'8") but Uncle Jim was 6'4".

This one is of my nana (mom's mom)
She had it pretty rough...born circa 1914, this photo was taken during WW1 in her yard in South Philly. Yah...they had grass back then

This last one is of my parents in 1953 on their wedding day. Twice this photo has appeared onstage in productions I was doing when I had to play a character that was married "back in the day of B/W photos." Mom loves that she's been "onstage"

Posted: 8/4/2005 10:15:26 AM EDT

[#39]

Great photos people! Keep them coming!

Posted: 8/4/2005 10:27:35 AM EDT

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SP1Grrl,

No offense, but your grandmother is a smoking hotty!

I've got some great pictures of my grandfather standing next to his Army Air Corps trainer Steerman (Biplane) during WWII. I'll try and scan them in and post them up over the weekend.

Posted: 8/4/2005 10:30:45 AM EDT

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Quoted:
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My Grandfather. Top turret B-24 15th AAF.

Marshalltown, Iowa? If so, that's hella cool! My whole mom's side is from Tama and Montour. They've farmed there since the Civil War.

Posted: 8/4/2005 11:03:04 AM EDT

[#42]

born and raised in Marshalltown and Legrand

Posted: 8/4/2005 11:24:38 AM EDT

[#43]

Not as old as some,...but had to share!
Sarge in high school! About 25 years ago....

Posted: 8/4/2005 12:53:18 PM EDT

[#44]

Cool pics!

This is my dad as (clockwise from left) a dapper young veteran in search of a job, a B17
tailgunner with the 8th USAAF, and as a young pre-war CCC worker.

Posted: 8/4/2005 1:11:48 PM EDT

[#45]

Yours truly (riding the doggie).

And, me a my little brudder Christmas 1968.

Danny

Posted: 8/4/2005 1:15:28 PM EDT

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Quoted:

Loved it when he wore his alter boy outfit!!!!!!!!!!
img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/joyneau/Myhoney.jpg

you are a very, very, very sick woman.

No wondert you are with me.

Posted: 8/4/2005 2:18:08 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/4/2005 2:30:02 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
Here's one of my Mom, one of my sisters and 2 of my brothers.
I'm in the red shirt on the left. This was from the early 70's when we still lived in Hawaii.
This was at Kapiolani Park at Waikiki Beach. Anyone recognize the background?

That looks like the zoo to the left.

Was stationed at Schofield for 3.5 years.