Northern California - Nostalgia Pictures ... Post em here

While we were at dinner last night, we were talking about how we looked in the past ... changing hair styles, geeky glasses, etc ... so l thought I'd post this thread. Post your old pics here, if you dare, so we all can have a laugh.

ah ha! all my old pictures are locked up in tin can and buried somewhere. You'll never find it. HAHAAHA. I'm almost glad I didn't grow up in the digital age, much harder to hide pictures.

Ooo, man. I gotta break out the scanner for that.

You first, Ron ! :D

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/minivandriveby/doofus.jpg

Arrgh! That shirt! My Mom made them for the whole family. They look like the curtain material at a waffle house. And that signature crooked haircut by Dad. Woo! Good times! Good times indeed. I was riding my Royce Union with a banana seat during this era (about 1978).

Oh, OK, since we're all friends here ...

Me, about 6 years ago and about 25 pounds heavier.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k186/jobob22/stuff/fatjo.jpg

I wasn't riding back then. Obviously. :p

You first, Ron ! :D

Gotta break out the scanner ... plus, most of them are back at dad's place.

Arrgh! That shirt! My Mom made them for the whole family. They look like the curtain material at a waffle house. And that signature crooked haircut by Dad. Woo! Good times! Good times indeed. I was riding my Royce Union with a banana seat during this era (about 1978).

I remember wearing similar shirts too. :o

I remember wearing similar shirts too. :o

Guilty as well... My mom dressed us kids in the 70's Brady Bunch clothes too! But being that it was the 70's everyone else did too! haha!

I don't have access to older photos as my sister has them up in Reno. However it was typical 70's stuff. Horrible multi colored t-shirts, tough skins pants, etc.

This is from 1990. A hard rock 'hair metal' style band that used to rehearse in Belmont. I was 19.

http://www.bosticman.com/bostic/images/vintage/bos11ax.jpg

This is 1992 I think. A thrash metal band that used to rehearse up in Cotati Rohnert Park area. If bangs were good enough for Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica, the style was good enough for me. Or so I thought.

http://www.bosticman.com/bostic/images/vintage/boscx311.jpg

Rock on, Ramon .... rock on!

Check the avatar, yep, That's me.
Here's me in the days before helmets....
http://curtis.corlew.com/hosting/Curtis-2.jpg

Nice picture

Curtis, how'd that bike shift and stuff, w/ the drivetrain on the left side? :p

Me in the middle, living the dream during my senior year of high school, 1974. This was taken at my sister's wedding, and those two were my dates. Yeah - two. :)

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t267/jd6572/guesswho.jpg

Curtis, how'd that bike shift and stuff, w/ the drivetrain on the left side? :p

Well, i only went backward...

Really, my Dad scanned this from a slide he shot. I didn't notice until I'd posted it.

Me in the middle, living the dream during my senior year of high school, 1974. This was taken at my sister's wedding, and those two were my dates. Yeah - two. :)



Now we know why he's called "big boss man"!!!! PIIIIIMP!!! :D

Well I broke out the scanner and dug out the old photos and yearbooks.
Kind of apropos as I listened to Dan Fogelberg tributes on YouTube.

Preschool
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2218/2124018241_1da2de09d1_o.jpg

7th grade before I got my first pair of (Battlestar Galactica framed) glasses.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2124018145_4f576ff1a4_m.jpg

9th grade
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/2124018177_81bec098df_o.jpg

12th grade
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/2124018211_8f4055b3c9_m.jpg

The source of 4 years of teenage angst, unrequited love, and heart break.
We were best friends and she didn't want to ruin the friendship. :cry:
(Put the movies "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" together and you
have the story of my high school experience. :cry:) I wish I had a role model like BigBossMan.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2124018227_b02d5ff1ab_m.jpg

All these baby pics are sooooo cute!!! :D

Unfortunately, mine were lost during a move. A lot of our papers and such were in a large box (wasn't done packing it) and the movers thought it was garbage and got rid of it.

Didn't find this out till a couple of days later when the family was looking for it. :(

The source of 4 years of teenage angst, unrequited love, and heart break.
We were best friends and she didn't want to ruin the friendship. :cry:
(Put the movies "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" together and you
have the story of my high school experience. :cry:) I wish I had a role model like BigBossMan.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2124018227_b02d5ff1ab_m.jpg

You dated Kristi Yamaguchi?

Don't post here much, but I thought I would join in the fun. 1988, my 17th birthday party.
http://www.fototime.com/2CF4CB5B82B4F29/standard.jpg

You dated Kristi Yamaguchi?

Good one, very similar. Nope, not Kristi, and nope, <sob>not dated<sob>... go ahead give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it :).

B.R. She was a beauty for sure. I was in the same situation. My sisters best friend was only a year older than me and man she was a peach I don't think I got over her for at least 10 years and even now I think AARRRRGGGGHH

Henry, if I may ask, where'd you go to school (or where did you grow up)? I ask because I have pics that have sort of the same look and feel about them, and I'm wondering if it's a regional thing?

*Edit: nevermind, BR, I found an ancient thread about where we all grew up. :)

B.R. She was a beauty for sure. I was in the same situation. My sisters best friend was only a year older than me and man she was a peach I don't think I got over her for at least 10 years and even now I think AARRRRGGGGHH

Yeah! I can relate. My sister's friend was a little less than 2 years older. I remember the weekend of my sister's wedding (she was a bridesmaid). I slow danced with her and that's the last time I ever saw her. I played the 12" single of the Smiths "How Soon is Now" at least 100x that weekend. It took me YEARS to get over her. To this day, I think of Cheryl every time I hear that song. Funny. Happily married now thank goodness.

Yeah I am happily married now finally on the second try funny how things turn out. This friend of my sisters has been married about 5 or 6 times from what I hear. I could have been just a number to her. I'm glad where I am now

Those painful high school daze make us who we are. We wouldn't be the same without them. I ended up with a great wife and wonderful children; maybe we all need that to appreciate what we eventually get. Funny I just got an invite to the 20 year reunion recently... anyone go to theirs?

Anyway while I had the scanner out, I scanned some old photos I told my parents I'd do for them.

Here's my parents, my older sister, and me in Hong Kong prior to July 1970 (when they immigrated to the US).
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2409/2127145018_39ddec42b9.jpg

http://members.cruzio.com/%7Eacorn/BobandJohn_1_1.jpg

I finally got a break from end-of-the-year frantic work and dug out a couple of pics from me past. The one above is of me in the driver's seat of my first cycle, in the Iowa yard of my grandparents around 1959. My brother John's along for the ride, obviously having a better time! My Dad has another with me in the stoker position.

The one below is from July 1996, taken around June of '76. The incident leading to the publisher taking the shot is one of my all time best from my touring days, but I'll save it for later. They told me they had long ago used up all the "good" pics from the inaugural Bikecentennial summer, and used this one because of my stereotypical '70s look.

http://members.cruzio.com/%7Eacorn/Bob%20on%20Magazine%20Cover_1_1_1.JPG

Anyway while I had the scanner out, I scanned some old photos I told my parents I'd do for them.

Here's my parents, my older sister, and me in Hong Kong prior to July 1970 (when they immigrated to the US).


Blast, you came to the U.S. a month before I did.

I also been meaning to scan all my parents old photos but too lazy to do so. Maybe this is an incentive.

1st photo is of me in my back yard 1980,
http://monsterinmytummy.home.comcast.net/um/Gary3.jpg
this other photo was taken about 13 years ago, I'm the one in the center
http://monsterinmytummy.home.comcast.net/Pd.jpg

1st photo is of me in my back yard 1980,
http://monsterinmytummy.home.comcast.net/um/Gary3.jpg
this other photo was taken about 13 years ago, I'm the one in the center
http://monsterinmytummy.home.comcast.net/Pd.jpg

What kind of bird are you holding in the first photo?

What kind of cigarette are you smoking in the second? :D

Funny I just got an invite to the 20 year reunion recently... anyone go to theirs?



Henry,

I went to my 20 year grade school reunion in 2005! Does that count? For those of you that are from the City I went to St. Gabriel's in the Sunset Dist. (I started at NDV but went to SG since it was closer to home.)

My high school, Sacred Heart Cathedral, had a 10 yr reunion but they cancelled it due to lack of interest. Doh! I was one of the many that wasn't going to go. I wonder if the 20 yr will generate more interest?

What kind of cigarette are you smoking in the second? :D

That's the brownie he ate after smokin' up and getting the munchies! haha! j/k!!!

What kind of bird are you holding in the first photo?

What kind of cigarette are you smoking in the second? :D
1st photo I'm holding a red tail hawk. I had it for a while then turned it over to the Memphis Zoo.
2nd photo : I'm just chowing down on some BBQ ribs and drinking beer,no special Cigs ;).

Gee: normal brownies or special happy brownies ? :LOL:

Okay, embarrassment circa: 1985

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/2142584512_2b2e705a5e.jpg

Me and my dad after winning the Championships.