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This me in ninth grade in 1980.
And no, I wasn't stoned.
taterguy
(29,582 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)DFW
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While I have deteriorated somewhat since then she has not. If anyone ever touches that picture Dorian Gray had painted of her, there might be trouble.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Happily ever after is a real thing after all!
DFW
(54,448 posts)Although if anyone says "you just got lucky," I'll be the first to admit it.
My first reaction when I first saw her was "yeah, like you'll ever have a chance with a girl like her"
But then, after enough frustration to last me a lifetime, I figured, even girls like her end up with SOMEbody, so why NOT me?
And lo and behold, she wasn't looking for the hottest guy on the block, just the most honest and the most uncomplicated. I lucked out. She lucked out. Ergo, we lucked out. Since that day in West Berlin, almost 40 years have past. I don't play the lottery because I've already won.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Me on the left, a theatre geek at City College of San Francisco -
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Love the pose!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)Let's put on a show!
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Which if you want a pic of me in 1980, that would be it (I was born that year).
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)I'm not a very photogenic person and from the time I was about 14 on I flat out refused to pose for pictures (still holds true today-- my FB profile pic is Grumpy Cat holding a marriage equality sign).
Aristus
(66,478 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)applegrove
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Like the hair style!
applegrove
(118,844 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)who ripped out my heart, beat it to death with an aluminum baseball bat, and then burned the remains to ash with a blowtorch.
I won't hold that against you, though!
applegrove
(118,844 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Too bad it couldn't last.
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...with my political/satirical/punk/rock band, Benedict Arnold & The Traitors (version 2), circa, 1980-81.
Edited for clarity and shit.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'm a middle-aged woman and suddenly I'm having all these strong regrets that I never learned how to play guitar and be in a rock band! Well, they say it's never too late. My son has an electric guitar and I'm determined to pick it up start learning a few basic chords...
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...DO IT!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Sigh!11!!!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)That was a great day of skiing. Snowed the entire time we were on the mountain. Got a pic somewhere of my brother and my buddy Craig up on top with all of us covered in snow. That goofy fumanchu I had was frozen solid.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Love the hat!
Reminds me of when my family went skiing in Montana.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Here I am on the right.
Sam
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Facebook sometimes screws you over - you gotta make sure you get the URL that ends with the file name (in this case - buncha numbers.jpg
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)didn't work either. Oh well. Thanks.
In_The_Wind
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Aristus
(66,478 posts)Rambis
(7,774 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)wow....we were 1.5 years from getting married. I was in my first year in grad school at Dartmouth....23 years old. time flies (and hair decreases!)
us this past summer in the garden....34 years later!
applegrove
(118,844 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)and haven't been without one a day since!
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)Shouldn't have played all that loud electric guitar as a teen...paying for it now! (part genetic as well - on my mom's side)
I am going to be quite a mess!
TBF
(32,111 posts)do you two have any pets now? We have 2 large labs
dawg
(10,624 posts)Just as cute now as you were back then.
yewberry
(6,530 posts)The cat was named Titanic.
Beautiful...
yewberry
(6,530 posts)...Before I got all old and shit!
Aristus
(66,478 posts)I'll bet it was less shitty for you than for others...
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)but they are not in a place where I could upload to DU. Except this one. I'm the jarhead..........
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Big family!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)Seems odd to me now to have been in such a big family, compared to the last 30 years or so. Sometimes young people I talk with literally have shocked looks when I say I have 8 siblings. I have nothing to compare it with, seemed normal to us. There were lots of big families in the neighborhood then..........
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I can't tell what gender the baby-in-yellow is.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)now in her mid forties..........
OxQQme
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and about '78 or '79
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madmom
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No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)madmom
(9,681 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)I saw her in the grocery store recently. She still looks stunning.
I don't remember what color her eyes are, but yours are very attention-grabbing.
madmom
(9,681 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)but stunning comes to mind and I'm sure you're still just as lovely.
madmom
(9,681 posts)had the same fresh face of youth, but 35 years has certainly taken their toll.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)I've seen your recent pictures. You don't age much, do you?
People sometimes say the same about me. I'm thinking I should stop calling myself an eighties guy and start pretending to be a guy who came up in the 90's. Maybe I should buy a Pearl Jam album.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)It's all an illusion:
Here I am just a couple of weeks ago.
dawg
(10,624 posts)I don't feel much different from my younger days. I've got plenty of grey in my hair, but it only shows in the bright sunlight or if someone gets really close.
My eyesight has slipped. I need reading glasses if I want to read an actual book (unless the light is really bright, then I'm fine).
Everything else feels pretty much the same, so I guess I'm pretty lucky.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I like the Fritos and Kaluha in the background.
KG
(28,753 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Hard to say who took the longest getting ready for this fine shot, but I'd guess it was the guy in the back.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)Wool with leather appliques. I thought it was the coolest thing at the time.
And you look wonderful, Meemie...
dawg
(10,624 posts)There's no denying the family resemblance there.
GreydeeThos
(958 posts)The good 'ol days when I had hair and without the extra 70 plus pounds I carry now.
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)it's the boots that make the photo so "over-the-top" hot.
Arcanetrance
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Sognefjord
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nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Sognefjord
(229 posts)She later on had a portrait exhibition (including my portrait) at the Smithsonian.
dawg
(10,624 posts)I try to play guitar myself, but sadly I'm just a self-taught hack who is only capable of making weird noises with my instruments.
I love those weird noises, though. So I guess that's what really matters.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Unlike "Clap", this one seems almost achievable.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Gato Moteado
(9,879 posts)....and my inability to even come close to his greatness makes me want to smash my guitars.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Gato Moteado
(9,879 posts)nt
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Gato Moteado
(9,879 posts)....I was just checking!
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Iggo
(47,578 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)That's me on the right, Fagan, and the guy next to me is one of my best friends, he played Oliver. I was 17 in the Spring of '79.
Behind the Aegis
(54,014 posts)I am the one to the far left. Fagin was actually played by a female (far right).
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)We played 7 nights to almost 1200 people. To this day I still can't believe I had the nerve to stand up there on stage and sing... My solo was almost 6 minutes long!
Video (VHS) was in it's infancy and there's a tape somewhere, but no one seems to know where it is. What I wouldn't give...
My pic is after the curtains closed on the last show, hence the flowers, which were from the then "Love of My Life".
Behind the Aegis
(54,014 posts)You couldn't believe you sang a 6 minute solo? Try singing "Where is Love?" LOL! Granted my voice hadn't yet changed, but geez louise, that was tough! I still wish I had followed my love of acting.
I think it is cool we both have a shared experience like this...not common. Oh, I am also Cherokee. (only 1/8..or 1/16th...we are still doing the research.)
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I too with I had followed through with it. The Drama Coach at my high school set me up with an audition at the local Community College and I chickened out at the last minute.
Here's a cool story... My Wife is now heavily involved in the Community Theater up here where we live now. During the second play she was in this lady came up to her and said "Your last name is *******". Have you ever heard of someone named Chris? It was Maggie, the Drama Coach from my high school. She remembered me nearly 30 years later. When she told Maggie she was my Wife, Maggie screamed "He was my Fagan!" How cool is that.
My Grandpa was born on the reservation in Tahlequah, OK. He was full-blood. My Grandma was white-European, making my Mom 1/2 blood. My Dad is also white-European, making me 1/4, which is what my CDIB says. I'm entitled to use the Tribal Roll Numbers assigned to my Great-Grandparents and recorded in the Dawes Rolls, but never have. I pretty much look white, to my dismay, but have identified as Native American on every single form I've filled out since I can remember.
Have a Wonderful Evening!
Chris
LWolf
(46,179 posts)from my youth, or recent, either. There used to be a pic of me from about 2000, in the old DU photo gallery, but I don't know where it's gone, or where the gallery now resides, if it is anywhere.
Sognefjord
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frogmarch
(12,160 posts)and in 1983
Nowadays
Sognefjord
(229 posts)frogmarch
(12,160 posts)mammoth skull, but I didnt excavate it. I was cleaning it and applying preservatives to it. College students and paying volunteers from Earthwatch excavated it during one of the summer digs, and it was part of my job to clean and preserve the excavated specimens. Most of the bones were exhibited in situ, but some of the smaller, like ribs and disarticulated vertebrae, etc., were removed to excavate beneath them. At first I took the specimens that were removed home to work on them, especially in the wintertime when it was too cold to work on site, and then when the Mammoth Site purchased a house I could use for a lab, I worked on them there. I was the only year-round preservationist at the time.
Although its hard to distinguish, in this picture is a complete adult mammoth skeleton lying on its side, with one of the tusks at the bottom left-hand side of the picture. The small skull and tusk pointing toward me are of a juvenile mammoth.
Gato Moteado
(9,879 posts)where was that?
I've been on dino digs in south Dakota. would love to go on some mammoth digs.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)Hot Springs, South Dakota.
When I worked there, the site was partially enclosed in a little shack. Now the site is fully enclosed within a huge building, and there's also a museum.
http://www.mammothsite.com/
Sognefjord
(229 posts)Sounds like that would be really worth checking out!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)me (on the right), my little brother Glenn (back), his partner Tom, and my two daughters, Abby, and Lori at Cranberry Cottage in upstate New York around 1989
painting my daughter Lori's bedroom when she was a baby (1982)
admiring my work - I used acrylics. I'n sure the apartment mgmt. hated it (LOL) but it was worth the deposit
150 year old quilt made by my great grandmother made
Got in the Paper! me at a pie eating contest for charity in college (1971)
I won - 7 pies in 6 minutes
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Thanks for sharing
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)did another one for my younger daughter
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yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Strictly a #0 haircut now.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Love the flares.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)The forerunner of flares, in London, was back in 1961 was when the guys down at Chelsea College of Art & Design had decided, for whatever reason, to copy the pants worn by French sailors. The flares then went into fashion a few years later only to come and go across the years. The girls similarly decided they should all wear grey skirts and navy blue jumpers / sweaters - I can't explain that. They all had the appearance of being an army - very strange.
These days I'm mainly pegged 1950's baggies and gab shirts.......its only Rock 'n Roll but I like it.