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I got to digging in some old pictures myself

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and thought I might post a couple. I don't mean to bore but this was a different era.
As I have posted before, I grew up living in a basememt house and we had an outhouse. This picture is from 1945 when I was about 6. My brother Gary was about 4 and it seems a bit unhappy and then there was Skip. I have told you about skip.
I have a nylon sock cap because I had ringworm. Back then they shaved your head and applied ointment of some sort and you had to wear that dang thing for weeks. I can remember my dad shaving my head! Hurt like hell.
They also took me to Ann Arbor and used to X-ray maching on my head to kill the crap. In later years they found it caused thyroid cancer in many that had it done. Mine has been checked and although it is mis-shapened, it is ok. You can see the basememnt house on the right and the outhouse out back.
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10242/Skip2.jpg" alt="" />
The second is of my Brother Skip and my first dog, born before I was, Penny. Penny would go everywhere with us until my dad saw me setting in the back seat, sharing my ice cream cone with her. My dad had a very weak stomach. Which reminds me of my other dog with a tapeworm in later years.
Yes Dad had a weak stomach
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10242/skip.jpg" alt="" />
So much pain has happened since those happy days...
 
I noticed the old bike in the picture...you don't see them very often anymore. I wonder if this photo was taken with one of those old roll film box cameras.
In regards to old outhouses, they were always the site of a joke or two...put a dead snake in one, or you would stand outside and tell your sister that you could see her through a knot hole. Many a outhouse had newspaper stuffed in a knot hole.
Thanks for posting the pictures, I really enjoyed them along with the peek into your days as a young boy. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas) <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
That is all I can remember having.
My mother gave me a bunch of these old pictures a couple years ago and I scanned them all.
It sure brings back some memories. I have not looked at them since. This is a pictue of my Dad and us boys a week before he died, at the age of 40. Skip, on the right also died at the age of 40, as you know
 
I keep thinking it used either 120 or 127 roll film. Most of our old pictures were black and white, I really don't remember any color pictures. I use to get in big trouble because I would always make a funny face just as the picture was snapped.
For some reason, I hated the photo taking sessions...always had to wash my face and comb my hair, and we always had to be facing the sun when the photo was taken. If it was Easter, add a bow tie to the photo session.
My Grandmother was always the one that took the pictures at Easter time, just after the Easter egg hunt. While they were hiding the easter eggs, I would sneak into the pantry and watch them from a window. Naturally, I found the most eggs and would always have a big smile on my face when the photos were taken.
I noticed that your Mother was not in the photo, did she take this picture? Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas) <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
Funny how all of the 'things' that we own or have mean very lttle when were have these photos to treasure.
Thank you
M
 
Hi Royal,
I love the old pictures, I also have some that my mum has given me.
 
they are especially meaningful to those of us old enough to remember those days....
I remember when I could scratch my back like that tall boy is doing <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Now they would have to take me to the hospital to put things back in order.
Is that little girl you??
 
yes thats me, and I must tell you that seeing your old pictures today made me bring out more of my old ones, and it was fun looking at them with my kids. I come from a family of five kids. I am the baby. Gavin the tall boy scratching his back in the previous photo is the eldest he is 50 then there is Linda the tall skinny girl , she used to terrorise me when I was young and lead me around the garden by my ponytail and make me pick up litter,she is 48 then there is Brian the middle child who was quiet and a litle saint he is 46 then Debbie with the long black hair who was a ball of fire and still is. Debbie is 44 now and then little old meek and mild me. We are all very close although we all live far from each other. Oh yes and the lovely lady in the picture is my mum of course.
What a blast to bring out these photos again.
thanks Royal
 
Nice family. Is that you on the left? Scrawny little blonde kid <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
yup my mum had her hands full but I never ever remember my mum getting mad at us, she was one of us and shared in our fun of growing up. She is 70 years old now and still has her hands full I think, but it keeps her young <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
I am by the way the little blonde girl on the left.
 
the hardest and most painful things I've ever had to do! Thanks for sharing a bit of your youth! Ya'll were cute little things! Shave your head because of ringworm?? How awful! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
were the good old days alright! Warm, summer nights, lightening bugs, hide and go seek! And ponytails! I never had a hair cut until I was 13 years old. Had a ponytail most of the time! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
plumbing until I was in the sixth grade. Outhouses were scarey, especially if you had to use them at night! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> I wish you would find some of your old photos and share with us!!
 
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