Before They Got Old.....

mate you look good in the bow tie

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Charlie, this is a good idea and I am sure many will respond to it. You look very charming.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Not me, I looked just like Alfred E Newmen when I was a kid. No kidding. I looked like a dead ringer for the guy on the cover of Mad Magazine.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

What a cutie! Love the hair! Just think of the easy maintenance you have now . . . Gosh, where are those old photos of mine?

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Hey Charlie
You have a bigger smile then ever.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Here’s the young YS standing by his overheated Ariel Red Hunter (cost me $6) just over forty years ago on the St Gotthard Pass, Switzerland

... and nearly sixty years ago aboard an unidentified trike on the play area kindly provided by the Luftwaffe:

I’m not mentioning hair!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Way to go, Yorkie…. that’s what I’m talking about!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

YS, how nice to see the Red Hunter and the tricycle with their rugged and cute owner respectively.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Stuart cool photos i wish i had some of my own but losing my hair at 13 put payed to that i hate having my photo taken even now

-- cut it saw it scrap it

heres 1 of me at 24 , all pics before that got lost or burned .
the only ones of me past 12 , are in posesion of police depts. around the country.
as that is when i was ” let go ” by the step father and my mother .
this when i had been e carpenter for 3 years allready and had
built restaurants and recording studio seen in my projects

and this is me today ,
happy lumberjock !

thanks charlie !
good post .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I have just realised a woodworking connection with the Ariel picture above… The luggage was an early project in plywood. Probably cost more than the bike!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

I hope I did this right but I am on the left circa 1950

Yorkshire: Love the bikes…both of them!

But, gentlemen please can we not talk of hair.

After all…

How do you dare
to talk of hair
please don’t stare
when my dome is nearly bare
there’s just a bit here and there
though my scalp gets plenty of air
I really and truely don’t care.

I was only 19.. in Penang . Malaysia. Snake temple

On Victoria Peak over looking HK harbor same year.. 1978

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

David, Larry…..these are great!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Try this again. I am on the left 1950

Soon…

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Charlie, I think this is really a great and fun idea. I hope others will join in. I love seeing old pictures. It is also a little ironic that you started this thread now. As you know I just lost my Dad and when I was down south my brothers and I went thru the old photo albums splitting them between us. These are just a couple pictures (of pictures) that I took to share with my brother’s. I have not seen these pictures myself in over 45 years!

One of my bros and I at a petting zoo .

Myself and “friends.”

Myself and my “Daddy”

My sophmore year at high school. Gosh white lipstick, YIKES!!!

I did not know how to add these so I did it with photobucket. Sorry they are so BIG!!!

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

Allison, what a cutie you were!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “WERE”?????

Man you are in trouble now!!

Now, now, Lew…..

She WAS a cutie who BECAME a beauty. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice Save!

There’s some beautiful LJ’s out there.

Here’s Barb in 1935

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1955, With her boys.

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Dick in 1935

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1955, With his boys.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Dick, you and Barb look like a couple of magazine cover models!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Now Barb is a babe and dick you look quiet the hunk as for alison i think she got her years mixed up she doesn’t look aday over 21 now

Andy

-- cut it saw it scrap it

This is becoming a great archive! Any more trikes out there?

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

My 1972 high school photo and 1983 Peggy and Dan wedding photo

...

... .. arms-length self portraits taken on 6/8/2009 ... couple photoshop experiments too.

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-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Very nice Dan, accept for the Wolfman theme. <(:O}#

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

My mother bought the suite at SEARS

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Here i am ca. 1962.

And this is me on the left at a keg party at 18 with an older woman (26) that my Mom warned was only going to take advantage of me. Well Duhh…Like that wasn’t the whole point??? Moms are funny that way…hehe

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Cute kid, Miles!

It looks like you survived, you looked older than she did.

I think you took advantage of her.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

This is Great Stuff!
Well, you asked for it..
Here’s a very little littlecope at 2. I’m told that my eyes were wide open like that from birth!
I was one of those kids who climbed everything in sight and learned this trick that everybody seemed to enjoy..
Did somebody mention hair? This one was senior year high school at the folk festival. My one and only “Public” performance, playing background harmonica to my friend Ritchie’s rendition of “Melissa” by the Allman Brothers. I thought I was a Rock Star or something LOL!
Here’s me camping in the early “80’s having the first beer of the day at about 5:30 in the morning. I used to do a lot of that. Stopped drinking in 1998.
And here’s today, or rather last week at 50 years old. I was a cute kid, I don’t know what happened along the way…:-)

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Mike, the eyes are still recognizable.

We’re the same age, and I’ve been off the sauce since ‘97. I’m sure you’d agree…..If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

You know it, Charlie! It serves no purpose to kick my butt up and down the street now, but boy oh boy did I ever waste a lot of time and life (and money!) Ah well…like Francis Albert sang, “Regrets, I’ve had a few….” ;-)

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Great looking eyes (OO) Mike!

So does the rest of you.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

What a fun post Charlie. You were a great looking kid. Was that your graduation picture charlie? Got to love them boy scouts!
YorkshireStewart, What interesting pics. Love them.
@Patron. Love those sideburns, good pics!
@degoose, another set of really interesting pics!!! Yes!!!
@loucarb. Love the pic and the old car in the background.
Dick and Barb Cain. Really good pictures. Barb and that bathing suit is a beautiful picture. Charlie is right, you two look like you should be on a mag cover.Where is Barb at in the tricycle pic. Just curious!
Dan. Gotto love that hair and suit. Oh the 70's. These pics really bring back memories for me of those days. (70's)
miles 125. Don’t know if I love the pictures or the story best. LOL!!!
@littlecope. What a cutie!

Again Charlie, I love this thread, I hope others will join in. I think old pictures like these are soooo great! Thanks!!!

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

Allison, yes that is high school graduation. Here is an older one….circa 1961:

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

me when i was young

me now

-- Jim in Cushing Oklahoma

That bus pass photo looks like a police mugshot. LOL!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

To add to the tricycle pictures. Me in 1960 at age 2.
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Me in my long hair days in 1978. It used to be to the middle of my back and blond! What happened?
Well, it’s shorter now but at least I have it all with no gray yet! (sorry Charlie)

I forgot how good looking I use to be before I got old. :-)
30 years does things to a person. (did I just say 30 years?!? Damn!!)

I haven’t seen 145 pounds probably since that picture was taken.
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-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

great post Charlie, the bald head is a solar collector for a sex machine. lol

-- Smitty!!!

great post Charlie, BTW you didn’t lose your hair it just migrated to your chin.

-- I buy tools so i can make more money,so ican buy more tools so I can work more, to make more money, so I can buy more tool, so I can work more

Well folks. this is what I looked like in 1969 (HS Graduation Pic)

And this is me 40 years later at work.

I do so miss my hair…. Just kidding.

Rat

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

This thread keeps getting better, & better.

Gary, Nice trike.
You haven’t changed much over the years.

Rat, Yul Brenner never looked this good.

Jim, you look like you know what you’re doing.

Allison, The picture of Barb was taken from across the street, kitty-corner from the Lincoln high school in old North Hibbing, which isn’t there anymore, because the whole town moved.
There was a vast deposit of iron ore beneath the town. There now is a City Park in this area, because they didn’t mine it completely. They now hold a jubilee celebration each year, & hold a craft show here. They now have street signs, & plaques with pictures of the old buildings. All that remains in Barbs picture is the front steps of the school.
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Here’s a brief history of our town.

The community was established in 1893 by German miner Frank Hibbing, who discovered iron ore nearby. In the 1920’s, the town moved two miles south to its present location after iron ore was discovered under the city’s old location. Building by building, using steel wheels and logs, Hibbing was moved to where it stands today. The move started in 1919, and took many years to complete. More than 180 houses and 20 businesses eventually relocated to their current sites, costing about $16 million.
What remains of historic Old Hibbing is now home to the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine View, a BMX bike facility, and a model airplane field. There is also a large park that is used for summer events such as the Mines and Pines Art Festival (July) and the Shifters Car Show (June). The foundations of many buildings are still in place and signs are posted with information about the buildings that were there before the town moved south.
Hibbing is know for several famous former residents, including music great Robert Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan. Other notables include former Boston Celtics basketball player Kevin McHale, now a vice president with the Minnesota Timberwolves; Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the Charles Manson case who later became an acclaimed author; and baseball player Roger Maris, who held Major League Baseball’s single-season home-run record for 37 years; and entrepreneur Jeno Paulucci.
The mining companies helped Hibbing rebuild itself by building the City Hall and the high school. City Hall was constructed in 1923 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Hibbing High School was constructed from 1920 to 1925 at a cost of $3.9 million.

The old school.

The new school. It would now cost about 50 million to build this nowadays.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Dick and Barb, I can do one thing Yul can’t. BREATHE!!! and I’m thankful for that. I’m really glad to see that you live in a town with a history of business people who believed that maintaining the community was vital. Thanks for the interesting post.

Bruce

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

Well for all you old fat guys with a full head of hair and lots of hair jokes, at least my weight and waist size are the same as they were 30 years ago! :-d

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I used to play monopoly with Vincent Bugliosi, & he never lost. He could talk you to death.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Monkey boy and his sister 1956

Same era, with Skip, my dad. Glad to have grown into those ears.

Rock with it! Ellsworth Residence Hall at University of Kansas, 1974

Really fun post Charlie. Glad to be in the club with you and Cope. I guess I didn’t realize that Franzia (nothing exemplifies class and sophistication like wine in a bag), Sebastiani and Gallo weren’t annuity funds. Could use some of that wasted money now, but it takes what it takes, until it takes hold.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Well guys what do you think of my handsome sons I will post more of me tomorrow LOL Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Douglas, you haven’t changed much since the baby pic, but that 70’s guy doesn’t even look like you. :-)

Alistair, great looking family!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

These are wonderful pictures! Long hair and mustaches! Keep ‘em coming.

-- Don't tell her I'm in the shop!

Pretty sharp looking Douglas.

That’s what I call a proud Papa, Alistair.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Charlie, that shot must have been taken during the 20 minutes in the seventies when I was thin.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

This is me before I got old … think it was taken last year

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Well,......... ummmm. This was a few years back…......
http://static.zooomr.com/images/7711891_610b201fee_m.jpg

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

alistair : these boys might be ;
your best work yet !

congrats to you and the missus .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I haven’t been a LJ for very long, and I didn’t post my picture on my profile because there are not a lot of pictures of me. Generally I am the behind the camera not in front of it. I dug these pics up out of my archives, had to take pics of the pics and crop them out. They came out pretty good.

This is my swimsuit edition photo, I was 2 1/2, it was 1966. I had beautiful auburn hair that all the old ladies wanted to touch.

High School Yearbook as a senior 1982. Still a redhead, when red hair wasn’t the rage.

Me trying out the fancy cigarette extender like Phyllis Diller. My daughter photoshopped me and put a martini in my hand, and wrote something funny on the pic, which I cropped out. Oh the sadness, I have since turned gray and people think I am a blonde, so I act like one. LOL

This has been fun looking at everyone’s pictures . I guess it’s nice to put a face with a name.
Keep the pictures coming….....

Lisa

-- I inherited the woodworking gene and it's gone into overdrive.......

well that is one frozen martini !
good to see you to ,
thanks .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Didn’t even notice that…LOL

Lisa

-- I inherited the woodworking gene and it's gone into overdrive.......

My profile picture is me at about 7. Here’s the full picture.

Here are a few more:

I was about 2 here.
And from about the same time the obligatory tricycle picture (that’s my brother behind me).

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

I’ll jump in with a couple of pictures.

-- Mr. Bill in Mount Juliet, TN

Great new crop since I checked in last.

Lisa and Chelle: Good to see our female members joining in the fun too!

Mr. Bill: I think you’ve gotten better looking with age.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Have to agree that Mr. Bill is looking pretty handsome and distinguished in the current photo. That said, I don’t believe there is anyone that doesn’t vastly improve in appearance once they have been discharged and lose the government issued birth-control glasses.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

My Son told me I should have posted this one of me in 1955.
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-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

so why didn’t we see you in any tarzan movies ? (lol)

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I couldn’t swim fast enough. AAAH-EEEEE-AAAAH

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

fast enough to save barb from the crockodiles !
smart move !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

you guys must have married each other for your looks. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I think I got the better end of the deal though, Charlie.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Sigh… How the years pass.

Here’s my Lady Wife and I on our wedding day in 1990;

I’ve still got that uniform… No way I can fit into it nowadays though!

Myself (on the right) taken last month while participating in another of my hobbies, the SCA:

No trike pix on the computer, they’re all out in a box in the garage somewhere…

-- Derek, Bremerton WA --

A very nice looking Bride & Groom, Derek.

That looks a lot like the renaissance fair at Shakopee, MN.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

This is me at 4 years old .

Me at 20 years old and my two oldest kids

This is me a few days ago at 44

-- John in Belgrave http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

Man, you were a young dad, John!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I was 17 when my oldest was born .

This is my son Jamie 26 and my Daughter Jacquie 25 with me a few weeks ago at my son,s stag .

My daughter Stefany 21

This is my Daughter Jacquie,s little girl and my granddaughter Olivia 2 years old in a few weeks .

-- John in Belgrave http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

Great looking family.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Thanks again Charlie !! I am very blessed with great kids .

-- John in Belgrave http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

A proud Dad, & now a proud Grandpa, John.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever