Yep, another picture thread, this time of when you were a little kid. I'll participate, I just gotta find one....

Should be fun.....

Just so happens i'm going thru some stuff.Pretty buff huh

I'll bite.

It's becoming a family tradition that when my family gathers at my sister's house for Christmas, my parents bring slides from when we were kids in the Sixties and Seventies. Last year, I asked for copies of a few of the slides. Here's one of me from 1967. Recognize anything in the background?

http://www.gdwriter.com/gary_nellie_67.jpg

No, it's not Betty, but close. It's Nellie, the '64 Impala that I grew up with and learned to drive in. Here's a picture taken shortly after my parents bought her in December, 1966 when I was six months old. God, I loved that car.

http://www.gdwriter.com/nellie_67.jpg

Even when I was 2, I had an affection for this car. Who would have guessed that someday I would be driving it. I know this picture is from 1968 because that was the year Texas had white-on-black Hemis-Fair plates for the '68 World's Fair in San Antonio.

http://www.gdwriter.com/graphics/me_nellie_68.jpg

And this one of me and my Dad from 1970 (again the license plates provide the date):

http://www.gdwriter.com/graphics/me_dad_nellie.jpg

I was a cute kid. What the hell happened?
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If I had known this is what friends are for, I would have signed up as an enemy! -- Ethel Mertz

http://www.gdwriter.com/images/ethel.jpg

Looks like you've got a pantload there, gd! :histeric:

Check out the bells on my shoes!

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8974/pjr19662jb2.jpg

Awesome idea, Dope.

Looks like you've got a pantload there, gd! :histeric:

Negative rep points for you, Elvis! :rant2:

I'm claiming baggy cloth diapers.
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If I had known this is what friends are for, I would have signed up as an enemy! -- Ethel Mertz

http://www.gdwriter.com/images/ethel.jpg

Here's me at somewhere around six, early '90s. Thats now my Cutlass, I grew up with it.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c40/Cadillac_guy/BenandOlds.jpg

Just found this one the other day of my Dad(short one), grandmother, and uncle. about '54 with their '52 Hudson.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c40/Cadillac_guy/familyphoto.jpg

Awwww look at all the cuties!!!!!!!!! :bouncy: I am so participating in this but not til tomorrow...I have to scan it and I don't feel like it right now.

I had a folder somewhere on my pc with some pics from me as a kid, and I can't find it now. Ill have to go digging tomorrow to find it.

I'll have to scan them in, but I don't have a scanner. Maybe I'll just take a pic of it with my camera phone...

Ok, I got the pics in.... I'm eager to read the follow up comments. Here's me ranging in age from probably 6-9 years old....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/mecannon.jpg
A parent's worst nightmare....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/mebelair1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/mebelair2.jpg
I asked for one for Christmas every year.....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/metruck.jpg
Lego professional, that wasn't a kit, I made that from scratch.....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/beetlejuice.jpg
I was Beetlejuice for halloween when I was 6. I'm gonna be him again this year and Miss DopeStar is going as Lydia.....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/usdeck.jpg
Me and my cousins Anthony and Christine at my grandma's old apartment in the Bronx. I'm on the left.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/mechris.jpg
Me and my brother when he was new, and I guess some giant teddybear...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/meanthonycake.jpg
Me and Anthony plotting to ruin my brother's birthday cake...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/My%20Youth/ushalloween.jpg
All of us on halloween, I forget what we were all supposed to be. My brother was obviously a ninja turtle.

Here's present day me for comparison...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/DopeStar156/DopeStar/ooohsexy006.jpg

This is me and Anthony present day.
http://myspace-967.vo.llnwd.net/00528/76/94/528064967_l.jpg

And this is Christine present day.
http://myspace-812.vo.llnwd.net/01122/21/88/1122568812_l.jpg

A picture of my brother is impossible to get, he's rediculously camera shy.

See I told you guys I'd participate, go ahead now, shock and awe at "how cute I used to be and how I should wear colors...." :bigroll:

Badass from age 6! I wish I had pics of some of my lego creations, they were insane.


I'll find my pics and post them later today

I'll get some scanned as soon as I can...

I think this one may have appeared here before...not sure.

Me as a 2 year old:

http://www.jmhare.com/images/youngme.jpg

hey dope, thats what i loved about legos, the truly skilled kids didnt need kits, just skills. i wish i had a bunch of legos, id try to make a cadillac

pictures of me as a kid do not exist , ive been doing my best to slowly erase my existance before the space people stop by on the next commet , im just a glass of koolaid and a pair of sneekers away from being with my people from the planet zebco

my people from the planet zebco

My final destination!!!

http://www.zebco.com/images/33PLC.jpg

I was young and naive. Can't wait to see F and WW.

Yowzers! Thats a violation of my youth. (and Gumby's ass)


F

I'm laughing to hard to use my supreme moderator powers!!!

:histeric: :rofl:

My final destination!!!

http://www.zebco.com/images/33PLC.jpg

i was hopeing someone would get that joke

hey dope, thats what i loved about legos, the truly skilled kids didnt need kits, just skills. i wish i had a bunch of legos, id try to make a cadillac

Me and my cousin Anthony were the lego pros. We used to build these huge fortresses, battle armed cars, tanks, and all kinds of war machines. We would just pool our legos and make massive things that occupied entire rooms. We were unmatched...

me from ages 6-12

DopeStar what ever happened to the cute kid??

-=sigh=- Sadly the government will not let me post pictures of the cloning tank that spawned me.


-K
"a test tube baby... a womb with a view."

Here's mine:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/MeganCFT/megankid.jpg

DopeStar what ever happened to the cute kid??

I killed and ate him..... Only the DopeStar remains........ :lildevil:

Here's mine:

Soo, cute, and now we see some of the pink influence :D

Hahaha well I am sure I didn't pick out that dress. I used to hate pink when I was younger. I was a little tom boy!

baby picture. I was just going around cleaning stuff out of my computer today and found all these files.

http://c.wouldyouhitthis.com/member_files/2006/08/12/408195/pics/00797240011636372716645.jpg

I was 4, after my first dance recital

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/DstrbdIWSk8r/IMG_0749.jpg

The ladies have always been adorable apparently.......

what a suckup :thepan:

Me and my sister in the early '70s (I'm on the left). Can you tell where I get my gearheadness from (that's dad's '67 Vette - he still has it)?

http://turbojimmy.4t.com/vetteresto/oldpic.jpg

Jim

Here's a few of me at between 3 and 4 years old in Fulton, Maryland where I spent most of childhood. The house I grew up in, right after my parents bought it in 1963, and the way it looked in the early
'90's. That's a 1963 Ford Fairlane 4 door sedan sitting under the carport.

JRau in central Iowa

Here's a few of me at between 3 and 4 years old in Fulton, Maryland where I spent most of childhood. The house I grew up in, right after my parents bought it in 1963, and the way it looked in the early
'90's. That's a 1964 Ford Fairlane 4 door sedan sitting under the carport.

JRau in central Iowa

I was over my 'rents house tonight. Their house (the house I ultimately grew up in, after we moved from the ranch showed in the 'Vette pic) was built in the mid-60s. Anyway, we were talking about remodeling their original 1960's style bathroom. I told them they need to ditch that window in the shower/tub area. WTF is up with that? I noticed it in one of your pics. Was everyone an exhibitionist in the '60s? My 'rents had a guy come buy and recommend taking that window out and putting a skylight in instead. Makes sense to me.

My house was built in 1999. I wonder how much of it will look silly in 40 years?

Jim

back in 89,88 I think
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5628/cad2pq9.jpg

Nice caddy! Looks like about a '80? '81?

I was over my 'rents house tonight. Their house (the house I ultimately grew up in, after we moved from the ranch showed in the 'Vette pic) was built in the mid-60s. Anyway, we were talking about remodeling their original 1960's style bathroom. I told them they need to ditch that window in the shower/tub area. WTF is up with that? I noticed it in one of your pics. Was everyone an exhibitionist in the '60s? My 'rents had a guy come buy and recommend taking that window out and putting a skylight in instead. Makes sense to me.

My house was built in 1999. I wonder how much of it will look silly in 40 years?

Jim

That picture was actually taken at our first home in Adelphi, Maryland, which I was in until I was 2 1/2. Obviously, I don't recall much there... Gotta love the pink tile with baby blue tub theme... I'm sure that will be back in style before too long.

The house in the posted pictures was built in 1962-63, and while it had a window in the bathroom, it wasn't near the tub/shower.

The house I have now was built in 1882, and after 124 years, there's relatively little I'd want to change structurally. Personally, I'd love to re-do it to make it as original as possible, except of course with the modern conveniences of electricity, running water, a/c, gas heat, etc.

JRau in central Iowa