My character in “That 70’s Show”
December 7th, 2007 ~ Potpourri for 100, AlexSince Steven is being so bold as to open up the photo album and publish the contents, I can play along. I happened across this school picture from 1975.
Now, I just have a couple things to say, most of them to Greg, who is a Baby Buster (born in ‘65, after the Boom) and so tends to look with distaste at anything that occurred between 1970 and 1983 (when he graduated and could set everything to rights). So I better point out three things:
- Don’t laugh. Those glasses were all the rage in their day. No, really.
- This was obviously a long time before the Farrah Fawcett look or any other Big Hair trends. Big Hair was really a problem for me. I have very unambitious hair — hanging like wet spaghetti is all it has ever wanted to do in life.
- Shiny face, bad skin. Hey, I was 15. And PhotoShop wouldn’t be around to fix things like that for another 20 years or so.
But if I want to find a less embarrassing photo, I’d have to go back to earlier stuff. I think this was from about 1967:
It’s an interesting picture of me, just because I’m not looking as silly as I always did (always do). It makes me wish I could have managed it more often. I look kind of serene, as if I’m trying to remember the names of all the archangels. Then again, I also look like my next sentence might be “I see dead people.”
To Gen-X’ers and Gen-Y’ers, note that it’s a black-and-white picture. That’s right. Color wasn’t invented until they needed it for cigarette ads and Cap’n Crunch boxes.
All right. So much for Memory Lane.
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December 7th, 2007 at 5:23 am
You are very brave.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Ah the angelic child face. Now I have to dig out my altar boy pictures too. My mom says its the last time I looked holy. :)
December 7th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Deb:
I don’t know. It’s not that brave when there are still a lot of readers who don’t know what you look like now. I have hope that people will see those pictures and say, “Well, I’m sure she’s improved a LOT.”
December 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Such cute photos! I love them.
I’m a child of the big hair era. Which is good, I have naturally big hair.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
So maybe we get the hair era we can live with? The Age of Aquarius placed few demands on us — heck, some didn’t even bother with a comb! I remember my older sister, who already had straight hair, ironing her hair on the ironing board to get to that Cher-like straight-ness.
December 7th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I remember wanting to iron my hair, it is straight but fine which means it just flys around and gets in the way. It still does this, no matter how many times I have ordered it to shape up. . .
I do think you are brave to post your photos like this.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Actually, I think you look a LOT like Daddy in that baby photo. Well, okay, Daddy with dimples and blond hair.
December 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Yeah, I know what you mean. There’s that look that seems to show up in our family from time to time — blue-eyed, towhead blond, and deceptively angelic-looking. Dave’s and T-bone’s childhood pictures look almost interchangeable.
I think my smile in the first picture is a lot like Daddy’s, too. Funny how stuff like that works.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:57 am
Gosh, I wish I had some cute pictures when I was young. I don’t know of any I like since I was a year old. Something was always wrong - the hair, the smile, the body. I didn’t come into my own and feel good about photos until I was in my 40’s. Alas, that decade only lasts for 10 years and I am once again a frump.