Last year we featured old-time holiday pics for On the Road around Christmas and New Years. I’d like to do that again – but we need you guys to send in the pics!
Last year, for instance, we got to see Albatrossity on Christmas morning when he was about 5 years old – totally adorable! But don’t take my word for it, you can see for yourself.
And this adorable girl was probably all of us, but I would have to dig out last year’s post in order to find the nym. This is AliceBlue!
We can share your nym with the photo, or you can remain anonymous if you prefer. If I get enough pics, I can reward you (or punish you?) by digging out the photo of me in high school standing in front of the tree wearing my purple crushed velvet pantsuit and wearing more makeup than I have collectively worn in my entire life since that day.
So please send in your pics – you can use the On the Road submission form or just send me the pics as email attachments.
Open thread.
Winston
So here is a photo of my daughter and grand daughter circa 2006.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1330584904054516&set=a.293238147789202&comment_id=1330917177354622¬if_id=1639686431345908¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif
Maybe.
TaMara (HFG)
When we were going through the photos for my mom’s memorial service in November, I came across this gem. That’s me and my cousin – I believe I’m around 3 and he’s the one in the Santa suit. LOL
And sorry, only front pagers can add photos to posts. You’ll have to submit yours to Watergirl. ?
WaterGirl
@Winston: “Sorry, this content is not available now”.
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): So adorable!
TaMara (HFG)
@WaterGirl: We are pretty much still that close, too.
Winston
@WaterGirl: Yeah. Kinda the reason I visit this site so sporadically. Who wants to see my children?
WaterGirl
@Winston: You could send me the pic as an email attachment?
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): That’s great. We are not that great at staying in touch with our cousins.
Except for one in Australia!
Baud
I was never little.
Winston
@WaterGirl: Or I could just post it on facebook. No hassle..
JPL
@Winston: I want to see. Send it in.
Winston
@JPL: There’s a whole other world outside balloon juice. Their tech staff is underpaid and incompetent. If watergirl can’t extract the photo I sent of my daughter and grand daughter( at her request) then if I were Cole I would fire her. Not that it would save any money.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Thirty-five at birth. Been running for President ever since.
WaterGirl
@Winston: WaterGirl doesn’t have a facebook account so she can’t see anything at the link except the error message and the offer to create a facebook account.
edit: I’m hoping that you’re just cranky because you are having a bad day, because I can’t think of any other reason you would write something that hostile.
HeleninEire
@WaterGirl: I have a Facebook page and I am getting the same message.
karen marie
I sent some photos to the on the road link. Nice!
opiejeanne
My dad took this, I think I look like I’m nearly 3, so 1952? The family were professional photographers, starting in the late 1830s, but Dad and his brother chose other careers.
https://flic.kr/p/hvKxr
This is my grandmother and her oldest sister, Maude. The house was in Downers Grove, Il, but I’m pretty sure it was torn down a couple of years ago. Guessing that Grandpa took this about 1916, before she had her first baby:
https://flic.kr/p/vww8i
And this is a photo of a postcard featuring her first baby, my uncle Walter. Circa 1918: https://flic.kr/p/edguX
HeleninEire
I’ll definitely send a pic and you can use my nym. I have some OK pics on my phone but Dad has, I shit you not, at least 10 of those huge thick photo albums in his apt. I’ll go through them and pick out a fun one.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: That’s a great photo!
Winston
@WaterGirl: Balloon Juice is more concerned about my privacy than Facebook? Good to know. But if I cared, I would not post to facebook. Now I have to figure out how to send you a photo that is already in the public domain? For why?
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: I have a Facebook page and I’m getting the ‘not available’ message too. I tried playing with the link and can’t get it to work.
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: Don’t pick out just one! Several would be great.
Baud
@opiejeanne:
Very cool.
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: I don’t use Facebook but I’m wondering if maybe that photo or the whole page may be set to private?
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: Those are great!
japa21
I have some of my two boys from the late 70’s and we have some of Mrs. Japa (will need her permission on them). Cameras weren’t around when I was young, so probably don’t have any of me.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: Only one photo showed up, but I have the descriptions for all three. The photo I have is you in your princess outfit. If you can submit the other two, I can combine them.
opiejeanne
@Winston: What is your teeny-tiny problem? WaterGirl is one of the kindest Front Pagers here. Your link doesn’t work, possibly because your Facebook page is protected or there’s a character issue with link, missing or added. There’s definitely a character issue at work here, if not with the link. I suggest you re-evaluate your remarks.
WaterGirl
@japa21 Ha!
I was sure there were cameras back in the 1800s. :-)
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: That’s my guess, set to private or limited in who can see them.
Facebook is weird. One of my photos is suddenly unavailable to me now, and I have no idea what it was but it got a big laugh when it was posted a couple of years ago.
Baud
All this tension really makes it feel like a true family Christmas.
??⛄
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: 1830s. I have a family photo from 1855. Thank goodness Grandma put a tiny piece of paper with their names and dates inside the little velvet case. I believe it’s an ambrotype, and it’s not the oldest photo I have.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Seriously! I mean, who doesn’t get yelled at for no reason on Christmas, except for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. :-)
That’s what family is for.
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: Wow,
JapanJapa must be older than we thought! :-)edit: damn autocorrect.
Winston
@opiejeanne: No problem. I don’t have to be here.
WaterGirl
@Winston: Are you still in lockup? Or lock down?
WaterGirl
There are some great photos coming in using the form. Thanks so much!
NotMax
Admit to doing a double take. At casual glance it looks like a sex toy resting on the phonograph.
:)
Winston
@WaterGirl: Just looking forward to another year. Cranky.
Alison Rose
@Winston: First off, wtf? Second, if it’s that difficult for you to figure out how to send someone a photo, maybe you shouldn’t be complaining about other people’s tech issues? There’s no reason to be so rude over something so small.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Where does one keep their sex toys, if not on the old-fashioned record player?
gene108
@opiejeanne:
Thank you for sharing so many old family photos. Fascinating how different and yet similar to how things are today.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
On the Dicktrola?
:)
WaterGirl
@gene108: I know! These old photos are so interesting. In the ones with little girls, I keep thinking that I have photos just like them of me or my sisters.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: hahaha
Winston
@Alison Rose: Sorry I even started reading this thread. I didn’t realize I was so backwards, thinking that a publicly posted photo was unavailable to the unpaid, incompetent staff here
Oh, I’m not on facebook. Sucks to be you.
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: Japan? (I don’t get the joke)
This is in a “Union case”
https://flic.kr/p/bwgt5
A later photo, probably right about 1860.
https://flic.kr/p/nPPst
opiejeanne
@Winston: Oh, just go soak your head.
When you feel better, come back and notice that none of us WITH Facebook accounts can see your photo. You’ve got your Facebook pages set to limited views or something.
Origuy
I have no photos of me as a young child; we had a house fire when I was eight. My sister may have some from after that, but I wasn’t particularly cute.
Alison Rose
@Winston: The problem sure seems to be on YOUR end. When I & others here have tried clicking your link, it says “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now” which means it’s either not set to public or has been removed. I don’t know what is making you act this way, but you need to take a step back an stop unloading whatever you’re dealing with on everyone else.
raven
I was fixin to bust his lip if Santa messed with my sis!
raven
@Winston: You need to back the fuck off.
Ohio Mom
I’m old enough to be a grandmother so of course I squee at all little children. I always enjoy old photographs because I get a tickle out of the clothing and decor fashions. This little project promises to be a fun time.
But really, that adorable girl on Santa’s lap was definitely not “probably all of us,” some of us come from other traditions.
Steeplejack (phone)
@opiejeanne:
Japan = japa21.
mrmoshpotato
@Winston: Stop bothering that mongoose.
Winston
@opiejeanne: yet everyone on DU or DKos could. And how do you have access to my account to know my settings?
Omnes Omnibus
Fine. The cranky people made me send in a photo of a family Christmas tree. So there.
@Winston:
Dude, why not just go for a “Bah humbug!” or “Decrease the surplus population” comment?
raven
Winston is a fucking troll, ignore him.
Steeplejack (phone)
@raven:
He’s not a troll; he has made “normal” comments before. But he sure seems to be having a bad day.
raven
@Steeplejack (phone): hmm,
Omnes Omnibus
I finished my Christmas shopping today. I watched the Alistair Sim Christmas Carol last night. Went to the gym today. Bought penne Bolognese from a gourmet store to heat up for dinner. Got a tarte aux baies for dessert and a brioche aux cerises for breakfast from a French bakery. Today was a good day. I just need snow.
karen marie
@WaterGirl: which one?
karen marie
@WaterGirl: Interesting. I will send the other two when I get home from letting the vet abuse my kitten. Thanks!
OzarkHillbilly
I don’t have any pre 28 yr old pics and that was long after I stopped paying any attention to xmas.
eta: who the fuck is Winston and why do we care?
opiejeanne
@Steeplejack (phone): Aha! thanks.
Did you see my answer to your question about the floor in Raven’s photo? I’m just guessing but that looks like red oak, but unfinished.
opiejeanne
@Winston: Your link is to your photo on Facebook, right? I click on the link and I get the message that your photo is not available.
Winston
I apologize. I thought my daughters making Christmas gifts photo would be in keeping with this thread. Guess I’m not tech savvy enough for this crowd. Turns out the photo was limited to friends. Sorry,
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Se my post about our rental in the last post?
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: Autocorrect changed “Japa” to Japan!
japa21
@raven: From the look on Santa’s face, he was pretty worried.
debbie
I submitted a photo. I and my two brothers aren’t looking particularly happy to see Santa.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I have never heard that phrase before.
Is bothering a mongoose anything like beating a dead horse?
WaterGirl
@debbie: I read about your bangs – the happened to us too – but no photo came through. Can you try again?
WaterGirl
@raven: I remember that photo! I remember your do not fuck with my sister stance, but until I saw the photo again this time i hadn’t noticed the look on Santa’s face.
It appears that Santa had received your message, loud and clear.
AliceBlue
I’m the little girl with Santa at the top of the post!
Omnes Omnibus
@AliceBlue: Cute pic.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Nope, gonna go look now.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Re-sent.
Miki
The Danielson Kids, circa 1959. I’m the one on the lower left with her eyes rolled back in her head. Please notice, if you will, that my brother has his own doll. 1959. My mom was way ahead of her peers.
Xmas for us always included new PJs.
debbie
@raven:
Santa does look a bit concerned!
raven
@WaterGirl: DOH!
WaterGirl
@debbie: All good on take 2.
And yes, we most definitely had those bangs!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: A signed lease!!!!! Here’s hoping he’s not one of the starving artists I always fell in with. ;-)
debbie
@Miki:
Your link led to a photo of a young woman at graduation with four dogs.
That’s some Christmas!!!
WaterGirl
Keep sending those pics!
And thanks to all who have shared or sent pics so far.
AliceBlue
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks. That was Christmas of 1957. For some reason, I wanted Santa to bring me a stuffed tiger instead of a doll.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: We did the full monty, credit and background check and it all came through great. He did his undergrad here and we have mutual friends but we didn’t know him. He owns a house in LA (Highland Park) so I can have Ruckus and Bill keep an eye on him!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Miki:
Your link takes me to a woman with four poodles.
Miki
@Miki: Jeebus – this frickin blog can’t forget links. Let’s try this again
Steeplejack (phone)
@opiejeanne:
I saw your response, and raven later said it was red oak. I was wondering more if it might be some engineered product, since I thought he had said previously that there had been some damage in the rental.
Miki
@Steeplejack (phone): I know. Tried to fix. WTF can’t BJ forget prior links?
AliceBlue
@Miki: What a great picture–love the TV and the Christmas cards attached to the drapes.
debbie
@Miki:
LOL, cute shot.
raven
@Steeplejack (phone): Some damage ended up being powder post beetles in the joists and sill so we did a total rebuild. The boss lady insisted on wood floors except for the bathroom that will be really nice LVT.
WaterGirl
@debbie: All good!
WaterGirl
@AliceBlue: Updated up top!
WaterGirl
@Miki: We always got new PJs, too!
I fixed the link above to show the right photo.
WaterGirl
@AliceBlue: I was never into dolls. But stuffed animals? Oh yeah!
WaterGirl
@raven: My floors are a mix of white oak and red oak. So beautiful.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Miki:
Perfect! Cute kids.
Steeplejack (phone)
@raven:
Cool.
Miki
@WaterGirl: Ty.
NotMax
Li’l NotMax was too cute to show up on film.
Non-sanguinary variant of vampirism.
;)
karen marie
@WaterGirl: I see what I did wrong — now I know! I’ve re-sent the other two. Thanks!
karen marie
@WaterGirl:
This is def “pic or it didn’t happen” territory. I hope you find time to dig it out!
WaterGirl
If we get enough holiday pics I will dig out my old photo albums.
Brant
@Winston: You need to stop working as a gig-work jerk, and go full/time professional. Your talents are wasted, here. Shoo.