When you were young

[LarryD]

33 years ago this summer a Young man from Iowa went away to find his way in the world he stayed in that world for 20+ years. He retired moved on and has had a pretty good life.

Show us pictures of when you first started going out to discover the world.

BTW I still only have one eyebrow.

[mdcarma]

41 years ago this summer.




"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way." --Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

[lesged]

Villa Mercedes, Bellosquardo, Summer 1951

59 years ago, I was already out of the service studying art on the GI Bill in Florence. I was living in a large villa in Bellosquardo with the lady who took this photo, who happens to be a Nelsonfoto member and my wife Claudia.

It was taken with a 4.5 x6 Certo folder. Film was commercially processed and I still have the negative.

[LarryD]

When we get back to Glenn's picture it will be a glass plate.

 Those are nice folks keep them coming as I am glad I an not the only one who found some old things that at one time may have been forgotten.

[Philip]

I think I may have posted this here once before but it's appropriate again.

This was taken 34 years ago, in 1976, by a friend of mine as I admired another friend's rangefinder camera. I'm not sure what model of camera it is.  A Konica S2, maybe?



I still have that hat (!), but the glasses and the hair long enough for a scrunchy hair-tie are gone.  The beard is grey and short nowadays.  I own my own Konica S2 now.

[Mike Kovacs]

BTW I still only have one eyebrow.

33 years later you probably understand why the Army only has one size of uniform LOL. You look like you're falling out of it LOL.

[radiophoto]

Larry, I was issued those same "style" of glasses in boot camp -- we called them B.C. or birth-control glasses, for fairly obvious reasons (OK, I'll explain the obvious: no woman in her right mind would want to procreate with someone wearing these glasses).

I've got a nice navy-era portrait of myself around here somewheres...I'll post it soon.

EDIT: And heeeeeeeere's Petey!  This is not my official Boot Camp portrait -- I'd been in about a year-and-a-half and went to Olan Mills to have portraits made.  This was one of my favorites, shot in 1983, methinks.  



It's a scan of a wallet-size pic, a little distorted in that I'm not really buck-toothed.    But the hair is real!

[BillyBob]

And heeeeeeeere's Petey!

There's a strong resemblance between the young you and Derek.  Now, not as much it would seem.  But then he'll get older and someone will haul out a photo of you from NOW and they'll say "hey Derek, you look just like your dad did when...."

;-)

[radiophoto]

Thanks, Bill -- I like to think my boys look like me.  Here's one of Derek in his sailor suit, shot by me last year on the day he graduated navy boot camp:


You might have to squint a bit to see the resemblance, however....

[BillyBob]

Thanks, Bill -- I like to think my boys look like me.  Here's one of Derek in his sailor suit, shot by me last year on the day he graduated navy boot camp:

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You might have to squint a bit to see the resemblance, however....

There's one that you posted of Derek and Keane, from which I saw the resemblance.

http://nelsonfoto.com/SMF/index.php/topic,22088.msg195164.html#msg195164

cheers!
Bill

[lesged]

Larry,

You established two qualifiers in this thread: The title itself, “When you were young” and “when you first went out in the world.” I was already 26 in the photo displayed above; I had traveled far from home in the service during WW2; had been in art school for 4 years, was in Italy and found my life mate. That's a long way from just starting out to see the world.  

So, that photo didn’t fit the theme of this thread, at all, but I have one that does, which is shown below. I was 18, plus a month or so, and reached the minimum age to go from reserve to active duty into Army Air Corps air cadet program. It was made in a 25 cent photo booth at the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi just after I finished basic training and got my first pass to leave Biloxi AFB.

By the time you enlisted in the service, Larry, the uniform color changed from khaki to blue and  Army Air Corps became the U.S.Air Force.

This photo is more appropriate: I had never been away from my home more than a weekend until I went into the service, and I was young



Biloxi, Mississippi, summer of 1944

[Ronald Bishop]

   Oct 1953--Ft.Ord Ca.


 Oct 1954 Ft.Campbell Ky.

[lesged]

Ron,

I see your Ft Ord shot also has a palm tree motif background.  Funny, I don't remember seeing palm trees in Mississippi, but that was a long time ago. Then again, palm trees weren't native to California, so I read somewhere.

From recent photos, it looks like you could possibly fit into your old uniform. I'd need more than a shoehorn to get my Michelin Man middle section into mine.

[Ronald Bishop]

The first one was taken at the service club using the two-bit,do it yerself photo machine.
   They were shipping quite a few people across the Pacific at that time, maybe that is where the palm trees fit in?

[NancyB]

This photo is from Christmas Day, either 1967 or 1968, when I was 5 or 6 years old.  I'm the one in the blue dress, and all around me are my cousins.  On my dad's side alone, amongst his three brothers, I have 11 cousins.  Yes, we're a prolific people!  My grandparents, parents and aunts and uncles would all have been upstairs, smoking and drinking, with the windows closed, so us kids would go downstairs to the fireplace room and light a fire and hang out.  I don't know where my sister was when this picture was taken, but my brother is sitting in the chair behind me to my left, with the blue shirt on.  I have such fond memories of holidays and summers spent with all my cousins, and even now when we get together for reunions or even funerals, we all fall right back to our old kidding, teasing ways.  I'm glad I got to experience this kind of family growing up.