Memorable Pics That Take You Back in Time

I have a lot of those......but I'll just post these. My two youngest a few years back. I took then to work on a cold rainy day just prior to Christmas and let them do some shooting with their BB guns.

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A few weeks ago at the high school wrestling tournament. My son is a freshman now. He wrestles at 145. He won the last bout of the tournament by pinning a junior that nobody, including me, thought he could beat...and that put the team first overall. He and his sister have both grown up quick.

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And I couldn't help but meet him on the floor......He still loves his papa and ain't afraid to show it, just like I was at his age with my daddy. I am truly a blessed man.

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This picture of me and my maternal grandparents was taken in the spring of 1953. My mother had passed away the previous November and this was my first visit after her passing. This is one of my earliest memories, I was 4 years old. My grandfather was the elected sheriff of Wolfe County Kentucky from 1950 to 1954. I am sure the reason this was so memorable for me was my grandfather is letting me look at his service revolver.
 

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This picture of me and my maternal grandparents was taken in the spring of 1953. My mother had passed away the previous November and this was my first visit after her passing. This is one of my earliest memories, I was 4 years old. My grandfather was the elected sheriff of Wolfe County Kentucky from 1950 to 1954. I am sure the reason this was so memorable for me was my grandfather is letting me look at his service revolver.

OMG! It's a Colt
 
A fragile newspaper clipping from 1979 or so. That's a genuine 3xbeaver Jefferson County Sheriff Deputy hat pictured. Still have it..... will never say how it was gotten. But was never afraid to wear it :cool:

That was somewhere in and about the hellion days:eek:

ETA: pics of the sheriffs hat.... wore it extensively although the fit was way too small.:... I'm proud of that hat:cool:
 

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I'm the member of an enormous extended family. We were the first wave of several batches of cousins. We were the war babies...all born before the end of WWII. The B&W photo was snapped around 1945. The second shot is similar; but a much more recent picture of cousins who made the gathering. The entire back row plus the third lady from the left in the modern shot are in the original.

Ed
 

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Love all these old pictures, and stories.

I enjoy our old pictures often, but also pictures from before my time. I was browsing some historic Brooklyn photos of Floyd Bennett Airfield and adjacent 16" coastal artillery, when I spotted this cool photo at an adjacent racetrack I didn't know existed.
It's of a 2-mile wooden oval racetrack constructed on Sheepshead Bay with a grandstand that sat 70,000 spectators, that only existed for a few years. This race on June 1st, 1918 has Louis Chevrolet in the number 3 car at the far left.

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