Category: Back in My Day

Don’t just scribble some crap on it and chuck it out the car window on the way home! All you need to do is write…

Here’s a picture of my sister Charlotte from about 1960. I was born in April of that year, I guess she didn’t realize what a…

I guess this is the class of 1967, for picture day I got your basic buzz cut (Dad had a flat top! And I don’t…

Not sure where I dug this up from, but I am pretty sure my dad worked here or in a very similar situation, when he…

I found this old “Mad Reader”, it’s a 1970’s reprint of 1950’s content. Their spoof of Archie Comics was, in my opinion, better than the real thing!

The back of an old Betty & Veronica Archie digest greeted me with this horrifying dystopian future.

Apparently if you ate a lot of these frozen pops, you stood a good chance of winning one of these great prizes, including a trip to France for 3! THREE – That means you, mom and dad! SIS CAN’T GO!!

Nixon and Spiro Agnew were up for reelection in 1972, and I guess times were good, because they handily defeated George McGovern. People vote with their wallets, in the end.

I was scanning in a bunch of my aunt Jean’s old photos, that’s her in the road, but who is the guy standing several feet behind her? Is he holding… a scythe?

When I was a young un, and I was being kind of a brat, at some point my mother would comment, “John’s just showing his butt today!”