r/GenX • u/slade797 NEGATIVE PROVOCATEUR • Aug 30 '26
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That’s me on the left and my sister and a dog I do not remember. I would say I was about six or seven years old, which would make this 1974 or 1974. This photograph was taken on the porch of the feed shed of a small store my parents owned in Eastern Kentucky.
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u/reverseghost 1967 Sep 17 '26
Shredding a halfpipe in 1985. Had to give up skating vert after an ugly crash a few years ago. Super stylish with the Ocean Pacific t-shirt!
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u/Beneficial-Panic-193 Sep 01 '26
somewhere off cape hatteras. albatross charter. 1978 most likely. good times
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u/brinehart-cincy Aug 31 '26
Trick or treat in '75? '76? (I can still smell that plastic.)
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u/FriendRaven1 Sep 01 '26
My face just started bleeding from looking at the mask. Darn cheap plastic
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u/polkadot_polarbear Cool Beans 👍 Aug 31 '26
My brother and I in the early 80s. That sofa is something 😂
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u/Accomplished_Roll660 Sep 05 '26
We had that paneling and the floral pattern was the wallpaper in our bathroom.
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u/Big_Accountant_1714 Aug 31 '26
My Mom and I, probably near Half Moon Bay, CA, 1969 or early '70. My favorite picture of us 😍
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u/CooperSTL Aug 31 '26
Me getting James Doohans (Scottys) autograph at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo NM. 79 or 80?? Thats my little sister on my right.
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u/I-used2B-a-Valkyrie It's got raisins in it. You *like* raisins. Aug 31 '26
Me on the right, 1977 in my snoopy shirt.
(My daughter is on the left, 2021.)
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u/Necessary_Memory8826 Aug 31 '26
My dad was a pipe smoker and I was fascinated by his pipes. This was probably taken in 1971 or 1972.
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u/mom2ajs5 Aug 31 '26
My Granny and I. And her cigarette! 1975 ish
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u/Initial-Addendum-167 Aug 31 '26
Me on a medical intake…”have you ever smoked now or in the past?”…
I grew up in the 70s/80s…we all smoked. Restaurants were “smoking” and “nonsmoking” If you chose nonsmoking, you were often seated right next to a smoking table and there was a half divider partition between you. Airplanes..smoking. Family gatherings…smoking.
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u/mom2ajs5 Aug 31 '26
I did! Started when I was 17, quit at 28 when I got pregnant. Never went back. I remember the smoking/nonsmoking areas. We used to fly in the smoking section on planes when I was a kid. So gross!
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u/forestsloth Aug 31 '26
I am “here’s a Polaroid of me and my friends sneaking into a drive-in in the trunk of a car” years old.
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u/Sinister120 Aug 30 '26
The only dog I was ever allowed to keep growing up. Every dog before him was "taken on a picnic" by my dad. Name was Sherman, Chow Chow/German Shepherd mix. Got him in 1988/89 if I remember correctly. When he was a pup he looked like a little tank, hence the name. He was a good boy but had a mean side because dad and a neighborhood kid would abuse him all the time. Was never allowed in the house. I left for the Army in 1993 and once all my training was complete in 1994 I lived in the Barracks a couple states away so he had to stay at "home". While on deployment in Haiti in late summer 1994 dad shot him to death in the back yard because he was being mean to HIS puppy.
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u/abcezas123_ Sep 10 '26
From one Haiti vet to another, at least we don't have to go to the LIC for toothpaste and never drive J.J. Dessalines again, ever. Sorry about your dog, brother.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Use_566 Aug 31 '26
Jesus. Your dad is a fucking asshole. I hope Sherman at least had good memories of you as one kind person when he crossed the rainbow bridge. Sorry for your loss.
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u/Somedaydreamer22 Aug 30 '26
77-78 maybe? Me & my mom. I had curly hair. This look lasted about as long as it took to take the photo.
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u/CaptainDFW 1972 Aug 30 '26
1973, South Florida: That's me sitting at the controls of a Piper Cherokee a coworker let my Dad borrow. (Not in flight, if anybody was wondering.)
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u/Sinister120 Aug 30 '26
This brings back some memories. My grandfather was a pilot and owned a little Cessna. He would take us up from time to time. Once flew with him and dad from Kentucky to West Virginia in that thing.
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u/Kjb72 Aug 30 '26
Me eating something.
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u/Chronic_Disaster Aug 31 '26
Jesus, did EVERYONE have that highchair back in the day??? I know my sister did.
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u/corkboy Aug 30 '26
Me, my dad and my brothers and sister. Cork, Ireland maybe 74. I presume my mum took the photo.
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u/2_Bagel_Dog I Didn't Think It Would Turn Out This Way Aug 30 '26
A grubby kid and a grubby dog. I have no idea what kind of homemade clothes I'm wearing...
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u/Sinister120 Aug 30 '26
I cannot make out the number for what birthday this was and do not remember it being taken. Me and my first ever friend in the very late 70s or very early 80s. Note the table with still burning cig on it, that table was still in the house in the 2010s. Also note the walls with mom's signature "feather duster" paint work.
Interesting "fact" about my little friend. She moved away a few years later and we drifted apart but a decade ago my wife applied for a job and Monica was the manager of the department. They still work together today.
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u/nimbusdimbus Class of 1985 13h ago
Probably around 1978-1980. I’m either in 8th or 9th grade.