Cool old pictures of your parents, grand parents, or family

[TexPx 2309]

Siblings. Over by the dental floss bush.

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Damn, some of y’all had some good looking grandmas 👀

 

@Patricio Swayze dq in Bloomington is solid. Exxon has decent tacos. 

Edited December 23, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[abuelo gringo 316]

Great-great grandfather, Idaho State Prison, May 1911

 

Grandmother, far left.  Dad, far right.  c. 1925  with grandmother's sisters in law at Woodlake Resort, Grayson County, TX.

 

 

Grandmother (same as in first picture) with second husband at 1936 Texas Centennial, State Fair, Dallas.

 

Dad, on a three inch fifty (I think), South Pacific 1942-1945

 

Edited December 23, 2022 by abuelo gringo

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Damn, some of y’all had some good looking grandmas
 
[mention=98]Patricio Swayze[/mention] dq in Bloomington is solid. Exxon has decent tacos. 

Well, it’s a Laredo taco, so yeah.

The Mexican joint in Seadrift is surprisingly good. Better than Maudie’s lulz.

[dcbc 14388]

3 hours ago, TexPx said:

Siblings. Over by the dental floss bush.

Raisin' it up
Waxin' it down

Edited December 23, 2022 by dcbc

[TXLNGHRN10 341]

My great grand parents walking with one of my great aunts down Congress Ave early 40s 

 

My great great aunt and uncle in front of their house (Now the Thundercloud at 4 Points)

 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Damn, some of y’all had some good looking grandmas 👀

 

@Patricio Swayze dq in Bloomington is solid. Exxon has decent tacos. 

Seadrift taqueria is damn good, better than most Tex mex in Austin 

Bubba’s, 5 mins down the road is excellent. Get the shrimp boil, great burgers and cfs too. Entire menu will not disappoint. The Sunday fried chicken buffet is undefeated 

Edited December 23, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[PhillyD 1257]

My grandparents in 1938.  Easily my favorite pic of them.  I don't know how to turn it upright.

[83Horn 1638]

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

Raisin' it up
Waxin' it down

In a little white box

That I can sell uptown

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

A couple more from my dad’s side:

my great great grandfather Federico. Born in León, Spain in the mid 1800s and died in the 1930s in Costa Rica. 
 

And from the Brazil side, my great grandfather Alberto repping Minas Gerais…

[TexPx 2309]

My grandparents in 1938.  Easily my favorite pic of them.  I don't know how to turn it upright.

Bonnie & Clyde vibe going on there.

[Al Czervik 1228]

York, Maine by Nubble Lighthouse for Grandparents anniversary, early 70’s. One of their children married outside of a ‘white’ race. 

[Not a cat 5612]

On 12/21/2022 at 9:05 PM, KYHorn said:

 

Great-Great-grandmother who was a full-blooded Cherokee, circa early 1880s:

Granny's got a Glen Close thing going.

[SHOOTER12 8787]

Got to dug up some photos tomorrow,  but without a doubt this is one of Surlys' most bad aß tgreads...imo, or maybe I'm just waxing nostalgic...

[DaysOff 7821]

Paternal granddad 1918.

[KYHorn 16808]

On 12/23/2022 at 2:31 AM, Gatorubet said:

Mom and dad at the Casper, Wyoming rodeo.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Grandad putting dad through some baby calisthenics circa 1945

 

[Jerry Callo 8658]

 

Great Uncle in the Fort Worth area.  Played golf with Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan and probably could have played professionally himself, but went into the Navy during WWII instead.

Edited December 25, 2022 by Jerry Callo

[Gatorubet 30064]

On 12/23/2022 at 2:41 PM, PhillyD said:

My grandparents in 1938.  Easily my favorite pic of them.  I don't know how to turn it upright.

Bonnie Parker fashion sense

edit: did not see other post. but yeah..

Edited December 25, 2022 by Gatorubet

[Chopper 17126]

mom and her son

dad at the office with Roger Miller

 

[DallasHorn26 585]

My grandpa in Korea.

[Brisketexan 104465]

My grandpa in Del Rio, early 1920s, I suspect:




And grandpa and grandma (he was my namesake, and my grandma…has the same name as my wife - kinda cool):



She was kind of a babe, per the lore of the time.

[Brisketexan 104465]

And my old man and mom, on the family ranch near Jimenez, late 1960s:

[DalTxHornFan 3084]

1 hour ago, DallasHorn26 said:

My grandpa in Korea.

I am pretty sure that is the first service picture that I've seen from Korea where the guys didn't look like they were freezing their asses off.  Nice cigar!

[RDCanecutter 26239]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

And my old man and mom, on the family ranch near Jimenez, late 1960s:

Didn't know they had a ranch, but always liked their music.

 

[Chopper 17126]

Grandma and Grandpa front left.

[RDCanecutter 26239]

Time to relax with Dad's side. This photo was one of many that I busted out of a locked box that had been unopened since at least the 70s and most likely the 50s, full of high school memorabilia and stuff from right before he went off to the Army.

L-R my Dad's Mom, three sisters, and sister-in-law. Relaxing at Kowaliga (pronounced Ka-LIE-ja just like the Hank Williams Senior song*) which was a "beach" on Lake Martin just north of Montgomery. I think this was a family get-together with his older brother who was Air Force, sent in a care package to my Dad at wherever he was.

*"I saw Hank Williams on the stage, and in the casket."-- Daddy Canecutter

[Sam Lin 3540]

My grandpa in his office. First one to leave the village and go to school. Graduated with a degree in Chemistry.

 

I <think> this is my great grandma. IF it's my great grandma, the stories my grandpa told about her are incredible. My grandpa was already the most frugal person I've ever known or heard of, and he spoke of this grandma as being impossibly frugal and living on nothing so the kids could have food. To hear someone so frugal speak so strongly about another person being so frugal, I cannot begin to imagine what this great grandma went through.

One example story, he explained how they only got a few rations of rice and food a day, she would prepare them for the kids, and then she would go pick through the corn cobs and husks that were delivered to feed the pigs, to find something for herself to eat.

My dad told me years ago that one of his strongest memories of my great grandpa, her husband, was watching him use a knife to cut layers of callus off the bottoms of his feet, and being amazed how thick the callus was that was being cut off.

 

Grandpa various places. Grandpa and grandma bottom left. He's been gone some years. She is still here but mentally quite degraded. I miss them both so much.

 

There is so much I wish I knew about their lives, and so much hardship that I have no way to remotely put into perspective. I so dearly wish I had someone to explain more of these albums to me now.

[po elvis 2070]

1 hour ago, Sam Lin said:

My grandpa was already the most frugal person I've ever known or heard of...

My granddad had a slightly sloped driveway that went into the garage. When he reached the edge of the driveway, he would turn off his green ford pinto and slowly coast into the garage to save the gas.

[Sam Lin 3540]

My grandpa would drive around with just driving lights on unless it was pitch dark and no streetlights. To save the headlight bulbs.

[66BUFF 2544]

14 hours ago, Chopper said:

Grandma and Grandpa front left.

[Chopper 17126]

17 minutes ago, 66BUFF said:

Didn't realize don jr was on Surly. Okay. Cool. Hook 'em.

[Chopper 17126]

21 hours ago, DallasHorn26 said:

My grandpa in Korea.

Looks like a goddam movie star. Shoulda been. 

[Armybrat 40678]

Great Uncle Frank outside his semi-dugout he built on his North Dakota farm next to the Missouri River in the early 1900s. It now lies under 100’ of Lake Sakakawea water after the feds dammed up the river in the 1950s.

Luckily he retained the mineral rights and he & his wife were childless (she had accidentally shot her little brother to death in 1890, which guilted her into not wanting any kids herself). So their family descendants have had a windfall of several million dollars in oil & gas royalties in recent years. Their former 260 acres is in the middle of the rich  Bakken Oil Play.

They never imagined their hardscrabble farm would eventually yield millions…. from two miles under the ground.

 

 

[PTINS 3442]

Grandparents ~ 1931

Parents, 1951 

Edited December 26, 2022 by PTINS

[Armybrat 40678]

Mom at Flat River Junior College in 1927…

With her parents 1918.

 

 

[Elvis 3356]

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Not an ancestor (unfortunately) but a kinsman: I recently found out that this man and my great-grandmother were first cousins. (My dad's side of the family tends to bury the feats of the womens' families, and my ancestor who was close kin to him died kinda young):

 

I can't golf for shit and am not in line for the book millions, but Harvey Penick is the only Longhorn sports legend I am kin to. 

[ImissWallyPryor 9045]

Related, but not by blood…

Edited December 27, 2022 by ImissWallyPryor

[ImissWallyPryor 9045]

14 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Great Uncle Frank outside his semi-dugout he built on his North Dakota farm next to the Missouri River in the early 1900s. It now lies under 100’ of Lake Sakakawea water after the feds dammed up the river in the 1950s.

Luckily he retained the mineral rights and he & his wife were childless (she had accidentally shot her little brother to death in 1890, which guilted her into not wanting any kids herself). So their family descendants have had a windfall of several million dollars in oil & gas royalties in recent years. Their former 260 acres is in the middle of the rich  Bakken Oil Play.

They never imagined their hardscrabble farm would eventually yield millions…. from two miles under the ground.

 

 

Cottonwood cabin that lasted 40-50 years? I’m officially impressed. 

Edited December 27, 2022 by ImissWallyPryor

[Armybrat 40678]

5 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Cottonwood cabin that lasted 40-50 years? I’m officially impressed. 

That was just the first house he built on the farm - they lived in it until WW1.
The second one was an typical plank wood farmhouse. 

[Hpara759 1777]

4 generations  i'm the little guy...pic taken sometime  62'  I was 3

[Hpara759 1777]

7 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Relative, but not by blood…

Bet he noodled that cat

[TexPx 2309]

They called him “Uncle Babe”

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Great-grandfather Plummer coming out of the pilot boat and headed to the wheelhouse of an oceangoing ship in or around one of the Neches River ports. He was literally the son of a son of a son of a son (however like you want to drag out that lineage) going back to Maine. His people got to Texas around 1838 via the sea and cuckoldry: his great-something grandfather somehow found himself in what is now the Lake Charles area in 1837 after a long voyage from Maine. He wrote a letter back to his brother up there that still exists -- he humblebrags on the Louisiana climate and how kickass the boat he is building is, before he gets to the meat of the matter: "Dear brother of mine, I would be eternally grateful to you if you would travel to my old home and check in on my wife and the new baby. Please mark well if the baby resembles me in any way. If it does -- good, I will send for them to join me here. If it does not, I will start a new life here and she and the baby can be supported by the baby's father."

Welp, the baby did not look like my ancestor, and wasting no time, he married a local Cajun lass and had about eight kids by her. The whole family fled back to Maine in 1862 or thereabouts -- the OG Texan in this line had by then become the keeper of the Sabine River lighthouse, and Confederate partisans believed he was signaling the US Navy, and so wanted to string him up. And it was a particularly bad yellow fever year....He and the family were evacked on orders of Admiral Farragut himself, who dispatched a gunboat from New Orleans to save the Unionists of Sabine Pass. If you ever saw Cold Mountain, those Secesh Home Guards really were that bad, at least in Southeast Texas, from the Thicket down to the coast. 

They stayed up in Maine about 15 years -- long enough for one of his sons to marry the daughter of the same brother he'd asked to Maury Povich that baby, so this cousin-ancestor of mine wound up with a father, brother and husband with the same first, middle and last names. My grandmother is very proud of this inbreeding even now, at almost 100 years of age. She sees it as making us more like the royals. I see it as stamping me with a double dose of Golden Triangle funk I can't shake. 

Around 1880 the entire family migrated right back to Sabine Pass, and then spread themselves down to Bolivar and up into Beaumont and the new town of Port Arthur, most of the men becoming seafarers. The stories my grandmother told me as a kid were so bizarre I thought they had to be fairy tales but I've since seen them verified in old newspaper accounts and other documents.

 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

On 12/25/2022 at 8:37 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Time to relax with Dad's side. This photo was one of many that I busted out of a locked box that had been unopened since at least the 70s and most likely the 50s, full of high school memorabilia and stuff from right before he went off to the Army.

L-R my Dad's Mom, three sisters, and sister-in-law. Relaxing at Kowaliga (pronounced Ka-LIE-ja just like the Hank Williams Senior song*) which was a "beach" on Lake Martin just north of Montgomery. I think this was a family get-together with his older brother who was Air Force, sent in a care package to my Dad at wherever he was.

*"I saw Hank Williams on the stage, and in the casket."-- Daddy Canecutter

3, 1, 2, 4, (?)

[Hpara759 1777]

great grandparents....with 3 children...grandad on the right. circa: 1925ish

 

 

 

[Armybrat 40678]

Went to meet & eat with some of Mrs. Brat’s old Taylor HS (Class of 1963) classmates for lunch in their old school band hall that has been converted into Plowman’s Restaurant (pretty good food). 
The owner has decorated the walls with some old band memorabilia & photos, so when we walked into the entrance waiting area I spotted this pic of my wife in her drum major uniform….

 

[Longhornstampede 3173]

Yours truly with a nice little haul from Lake Amistad

I never knew that Squints was my older brother.... Must ha e been before kissing Wendy Pfeffercorn

My older brothers in my grandmother's kitchen with a couple of Dad's targets

My old dog Smokey, passed away during my junior year at Texas. Great great dog. That lawnmower was an OSHA nightmare. I started it by winding a piece of rope around the top of the engine and pulling. No chute nor foot guards and definitely no Deadman handle to shut it off when you released the handle.

[Longhornstampede 3173]

Grandmother, mom's side of the family

Grandfather, Dad and my older brothers  at  grandparents house

Granduncle and my older siblings

Mom and Dad

Dad somewhere in SE Asia... His 2nd home during the 60s. LOL

Mom. No doubt miserable because she was probably pregnant with me and having to deal with the Texas heat, in my grandparent's backyard. Grandfather drove that old '57 until, literally, the day he died in 1977.

Relaxing somewhere along San Felipe Creek in '59