What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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It worked, and what a lovely kid you were!

http://www.memorygongs.com/trace_beret.jpg

http://www.mira.nu/pics/thunderdome112101/pages/reginamelian_jpg.htm

http://www.sleeve-notes.com/pics/sn.jpg

Tannenbaum you look fabulous

YES THAT IS AN R2-D2 T-SHIRT

did you always wear your Big Boss dungarees when taking conference calls? looks like your having to make a tough decision.

I am the little blonde girl looking grumpy (I still find it perplexing that I was so blonde when I was little - I have very very dark hair now).

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_b.jpg
I'm on the right.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_c.jpg
1993 High School Photo

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_d.jpg
1998 with my sisters. I'm in the middle.

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Gothdom approacheth! This was taken maybe 6-12 months after that one above. My first black hairdye and my only (bad) attempt at having a fringe. Dig the shoes.

all pictures of me suck.

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Its sort of a running gag how often I've changed my hair and such.

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8466/mememe.html

Baby photo here:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8466/family.html

(Sorry, it's geocities so I can't link directly.)

and i don't remember actually saying this but

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/mustfindrusks.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/666351/babymandee.jpg

Teenage Mandee and sis (gunther heartymeal):

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/666351/gothyoungins.jpg

(Several ILXers will be sick of this photo by now).

http://photos7.flickr.com/6549260_04bd0abf8a_o.jpg

me too trayce! and yes you do look a bit like me with the fringe.

real heads will use their Bladerunner image enhancing software to note that I am wearing an Ice Cube "Lethal Injection" t-shirt in that photo

I don't have any old photos of myself age 20, but imagine Garth from Wayne's World, but with Curtis Stiger's early 90s hairstyle.

Video, not a photo. Me around 36 or 37, in the mid-late 90s (I'm at 0:56:30, and again at 1:30:00). These are outtakes from the documentary Vinyl; the director assembled them into a second film that got a one-time screening at Hot Docs a few years ago, and he posted it up on YouTube today.

Hard for me to watch this. I was still supply-teaching, and had been doing it for so long I was ready to pack it in and look for something else. I was drifting, to put it mildly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmvszi7YKM

I'm probably going to watch that whole thing tonight.

I liked what you had to say clemenza

Thanks. I'm not so universal anymore on the idea that music hits you hardest when you're 11 or 12. I think there's still validity to that for someone my age, because you got your music from the radio. Thing are completely different now.

wow this is neat uncle clemence

awesome <3

an old friend sent me a picture of me and an old cat, circa 2005.

not an old cat, obviously a very young cat. although he'd be old now. but i just mean, this cat was in the past. the good old past.

https://i.imgur.com/L3V2hKB.jpg

How have I never before contributed to this thread? Anyway, here's a photo of me at six months old:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1292852012552_1126116_n.jpg

And me at twelve years old:

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1294362050302_8239543_n.jpg

Ok, that didn't work.

Me at six months old:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1292852012552_1126116_n.jpg

Me at twelve years old:

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1294362050302_8239543_n.jpg

aw!

TYSM, VegemiteGrrrl. ❤️

In the second photo I was still growing out an ill-advised Dorothy Hamill haircut/'do; no one with hair as thick as mine used to be had any business with such a haircut. Two words as to why: "mushroom cloud".

Deee you are such a cutie!

This is me aged ten. At my grandparents place. Look at those plastic sandals. And argh wearing socks as well. Jfc. The pink boiler suit was expensive and I was mad proud wearing it. Lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSGurHYj0Gr/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=cx07njneqblq

Why does the link not show up? Not cool enough? Lol

Me with my child bride, 1979

http://i63.tinypic.com/wkre3t.jpg

Deee you are such a cutie!

Coming from a beauty such as yourself, that's high praise.

Ok, reaction time now that I've had enough time to peruse the entire thread:
1. I'm relieved not every one of you came across as looking Too Cool for School, because there's never been a point in my life when I've looked anywhere near "cool". So thanks a ton to those of you who posted adorable (or adorably awkward) photos of yourself!
2. It's kinda distressing how much my very first IRL crush resembled a perfect a 50%/50% mixture of young Ned and jel. Bus Pass Jel especially.
3. Michaels White and Jones were STONE COLD HOTTT OMG.
4. IDK if tera's still around these parts, but I love that with her I found someone whose childhood I could instantly find a kinship. My Catholic grade school uniforms looked a LOT like the ones shown in the group photo and Val Verde and Bexar counties aren't that far apart from each other; also, I too grew up surrounded by a significant majority of my fellow Chicanx people!
5. VG, your childhood photos were so precious, and the photo with you and your fiancée is seriously Relationship Goals.
6. I wish I could've seen a lot of the photos that now show up as broken image links. Ah well.
7. Onimo, that haircut in the most recent photo you've posted suited you perfectly.

One more photo of me, this time at my National Honor Society induction ceremony toward the end of my sophomore year of high school, i.e. in the first year of eligibility (according to our school charter's rules). I was delirious with happiness at the time and it shows in the photo, because this had been my main goal since the very first day of high school. My parents, on the other hand.... (It's also crazy to note that out of the three people in the photo, I'm the only one who's still alive.)

https://oi21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/886390_10208142377468335_7989403232197110933_o.jpg

(BTW, notice how much my dad resembled a Native American Elvis Presley.)

My sister just sent me this (mid-80s ish) one of her and I:

https://oi1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/jerin_zpsyiiurcfw.jpg

i <3 that gleeful photo of honor society dee

A friend e-mailed this today: high-school basketball team, 1978.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/gdhs.JPG

Pete Maravich was my favourite player; you can take it from there. I wish I could say "bad hair day"--I can't. The school finally dropped the Rebels moniker two or three years ago (not that any of us gave it a second thought in 1978).

carbine clemenza!

Love how without looking at who started this thread the pics in the first post are obviously Tuomas.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjhxI0VXsAIxB4v?format=jpg&name=900x900

me and my brother looking typically 70's council estate 2nd gen Irish Immis in Deighton, Hudds in 1978 with our mum and our red setter Dylan being photographed by my late dad who was a complete cunt who I never mourned tbh!

Then me in 1990 at the age of 16 trying to look rebellious with a cigarette and a can of carling black label, it still me on ilx now but with a more rapidly retreating hairline and stronger booze and much closer to the scrapheap of life (lol).

Me and my dad about to watch Scotland get knocked out of their last ever World Cup in 1998.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50421910267_e9964ac0bf_c.jpg

My father passed away last week at the age of 67. He had been sick for years; we knew this was coming, but I'm still not sure I have completely processed it. Probably won't for a long time. He was a university track and field coach of considerable renown within the world of Canadian university athletics; an athlete he coached competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio (she came in fourth in her race) and he got a shout-out by the announcer on NBC during the introduction of the athletes, something I still cannot quite believe happened. 2020, man.

This is us probably around 1980 or '81. Friends and former athletes of his that I hadn't seen in years (or in some cases may never have met) could not stop remarking, at his funeral, how much I look like him, and that was with a mask covering half of my face. They also could not stop telling me that he was the kindest, most encouraging, and generous-spirited person they had ever known, something that I can confirm on my end as well. I will miss him every day of my life.

https://ik.imagekit.io/kh7l6k3pso/IMG_1166_IXuqOm1BN.jpg

<3

I'm sorry for your loss, crypto.

Thanks. Believe it or not, even something as minor as posting an old photo of us on a message board helps.

I believe it. I'm glad it helps ease the loss a bit. He's further away now, but he'll never be gone from you.

Condolences <3

nice <3

sorry for your loss, crypto.

Condolences--great photo.

Sorry for your loss, Crypto. Great photo.

So sorry crypto, awful news

Not me, but a newspaper ad for the opening night of the local movie theatre where I worked as an usher my last year of high school. March 2, 1979--almost positive I would have been either working or at least there that night.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/cinema.jpg

Summerdog? I have zero recollection of this film.

We were opening with a two-year-old film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280128/

George Costanza's mother is in it.

also, Halloween in march.

https://i.ibb.co/JpyTjJM/PXL-20220123-180821322-2.jpg

hanging out with weasel the one-toothed cat, late 90s. first night after we adopted him, he sat on our pillows and purred so loudly all night long that we hardly slept a wink. have a point if you can id the records

i see ganger

indeed it is!

me being traumatized by the Rock-a-Fire Explosion (please post some of your own, old school kid pix are the best)

https://i.ibb.co/0F2RtdS/278607001-10159040435572981-1999666717804284028-n.jpg

inspecting an f-16, c.1992

https://i.ibb.co/31zhwjj/IMG-4104.jpg

Time for a reprise:

Me with a little neighbor kid in 1972, I was aged ~17.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5084741255_e856c93c64_b.jpg

― Aimless, Friday, October 15, 2010 6:21 PM (eleven years ago)

Me and my brother rocking suits. I'm on the right. I'm thinking we were maybe four (me) and two (him)?

https://i.postimg.cc/hGFj5gHM/2017-10-28-19-29-26.jpg

Did you see the drummer's hair?

https://i.postimg.cc/wxy05F3Y/hair.jpg

My sister finally found the VHS of family photos my dad had (with good intentions but a little shortsightedly) transferred from old slides. Unfortunately, the one photo I really, really wanted to unearth--me before Neil Young's 1978 show at Maple Leaf Gardens--is not on there.

THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE

https://i.ibb.co/9gM2xHP/FB-IMG-1696002943643.jpg