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Ras Mikey I tweaks a nosebone. Notice he has a cast on his arm.
Mikey was riding for Z Roller back then.
For FGR - Back in the Day
Here I am posing with my old license photo from when I was 16. I really wanted to use my high school ID card or a yearbook photo, but I couldn't find either of those items.
Looks like I've been tagged for the 10 facts game. I don't normally do these things, but since J Wild is cool, I'll oblige.
1. I've been to France and Greece, but I was too young to remember anything about them.
2. I really want to visit the UK, but that will have to wait until a) the British pound disintegrates to nothing or b) I have a lot more money.
3. As a kid, I loved playing with Legos and Lincoln Logs
4. I never had a pet growing up because my dad didn't like animals. My brother managed to convince him to let him get a dachshund when I was in high school.
5. Speaking of high school, I used to be a band nerd. I was in the drumline and I played the snare.
6. Though it is supposed to be "America's favorite pastime," I am not much of a fan of baseball. Nor do I care much for golf.
7. I used to play ice hockey when I was in elementary school. I remember getting on the ice once and being unable to stay standing; I just kept on falling. Shortly after being yelled at by the coach, I realized that I hadn't taken the blade guards off my skates. *doh*
8. I would really like to make photography more than just a hobby.
9. I'm still not entirely sure what I'm going to do after I graduate college.
10. I think it would be really cool to meet my Flickr friends in real life. You guys all seem awesome!
Another vintage 15 year old photo - showing the whacked out Delonghi Trieste combi machine I had rockin' West Broadway.
Dustin, Phil, Curt, Josh, Joel, Ben, Tyler are seated in the background. Erin, Joey, Erin, and Travis are standing. Mark is on the right sitting.
This was the sophomores (class of 2000) doing some sort of skit that involved singing/dancing at Woodland Altars band camp, summer 1997.
What is now an isolated village on the hill, seems to have been a lot more popular back in the day.
This building used to be the Restaurant Huck one day (you can still recognize the original building, it's the yellow one in the new photo), standing right in the middle of fields and green forests. Then it even was a hotel, the hotel Frönsberger Hof. Seems like there was another building added in front of the original building.
There's an aerial photo of the whole building complex here - it must have been a nice place, still surrounded by a lovely landscape, with a great view and even their own swimming pool. Actually, what used to be the swimming pool is still there, but it was filled up and is now part of the playground (right in front of the playground slide, you can't see it from this angle though).
The aerial photo is dated 1972.
While doing some research, I found there had been at least two other restaurants in the village, which have also both closed down years ago. All there is left now is a boring place with some farms and a few houses.
In a bizarre sort of role-reversal, Joe Montana shoulders the camera while videographer Mike "Mondo" McInerney puts on his best Elvis impersonation ever.
Minolta X-700, 50mm f/1.7 MD, Do not remember the film. Circa 1985
I found a print of this "family classic" in one of my files. Here is my brother, and dad, along with our ride back in the day, our "ghetto blaster" the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, white-wall tires, missing hub-cap, and all!
Despite its scars, I was amazed how sweet the print still looks. I took this shot with a Minolta X-700, and 50mm f/1.7 MD lens, my main kit for years. I look back at the prints, and still marvel at the spot-on metering of the X-700, and the fine Minolta optics. Ah, those were the days.
Here's the Team picture after the City Championship that we unfortunately lost 6-5. Our 2 best pitchers were on old school family vacations, so I had to pitch. This was a great team made up of all my buds in the neighborhood. We practiced every day that we didn't have a game. No coach, No parents, just us and very few kids ever missed practice... we had no uniforms but we could play and we had fun.
Front row (L to R) Tim "the Boomer" Brockman, Rob Balge @ 14, Dean Clay, Bruce Sixty, Jerry Brockman, Gary Milke
Back row (L to R) Dave Dowdle, Richard Donaldson, Dennis "Duck" Donaldson, Jeff Wickland, Coach Don Miller, Dean "the Dream" Jones and Derick Adams
To this day I periodically run into everyone but the coach and the Donaldsons. Guess I better look them up on Facebook...Classic shot, huh?
Built in 1910 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The Norfolk/Southern serves this area now.
Sad to see another part of Vanishing America.
My best friends Daughter, isn't she cute. And fuck you if you even had a perverted though. The only reason she took this pic is because she was bribed with candy. lol
An early selfie from 1992.
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Back in the day, there were not many options for indoor photography lighting..
Sylvania P25 blue dot flashbulbs.
Run Down Building & light pole and Exxon sign are all that remain of this one time service station. From the looks of the condition it has been many years vacant.
Will always be home to Me. And for a few others I know in town! The Griffith State Bank? Too old for Me to remember that. It was a Candy and soda fountain when I was a kid.Shot this same angle (give or take a few degrees) two weeks ago for #frifotos.(green) reshot this week and I think I did better.. minus the clouds..:( Any whooo thanks for looking and all the comments, got Me some great contacts/followers! Back in the Day?
Thank you to Jacob Barlow for allowing me to use his photo of Blockbuster Video. The bottom photo is my own work, I did this for historical documentation. This site is located near the intersection of State and Center Streets in Orem, UT.
man i must be 5 in this picture. i dont have many baby or kid pictures because i never wanted to be in any pictures when i was a child. lol its true! i hated taking pictures and standing still for them.
but now im the one behind the camera and i like being in front of a camera for my 365 or if im modeling for photographer friends.
anyways lets see what's different:
1. i love giraffes tons more now than kittys
2. my hair is much longer
3. and my arms are much longer too!
lol
Project 365: Day 69
FGR: Back in the Day
Chorus: repeat 4X
Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
Verse One:
I remember (back in the days)
When I just a little niggerole
I looked up to my bigger bro
Begged if I could kick it so
when he went out with girls I could go taggin along
Naggin if she had a sis maybe could mack a baby hoodrat
Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985
all the way live, I think I was about ten
One of those happy little niggaz singin the blues
That be always tryin to bag with the shag and karate shoes
Sayin "Yo momma black, his momma this, his momma that"
Then he get mad and wanna scrap
We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike
To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungaloes
Then switch to playin ding dong ditch, when that gets
old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket
You could tell the ballers cuz they bell wearin Gazelles
And if they really had money raised be sportin BK's
and, all the girls had they turkish link
If it broke then they made earrings to it, like they meant to do it
But, sometimes, I still sit and reminesce
Then, think about the years I was raised, back in the days
Chorus
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
Verse Two:
I'm still back in the days, but now the year is '87
'88 that's when my crew and I were in junior high
In 7th grade, I hated school wish it'd blown up
No doubt I couldn't wait to get out (and be a grownup)
But let me finish this reminescin and tellin
Bout when girls was bellin tight courderoys like for the boys
basket weaves, Nike Court Airs, and footsie socks
And eatin pickles, with tootsie pops
And it don't stop, I'm glad cuz when J.J. Fad hit
Supersonic it was kinda like a sport to wear biker shorts
or, to wear jeans and it seemed like the masses
of hoochies, had poison airbrushed on they asses
Dudes, had on Nike suits, and the Pumas with
the fat laces, cuz it was either that or K-Swiss
I miss those days, and so I pout like a grown jerk
Wishin all I had to do now, was finish homework
It's true, you don't realize really what you got til it's gone
and I'm not, gonna sing another sad song, but
Sometimes I do sit and reminesce then
Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
Chorus
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
Verse Three:
Well, it's the niggerole, I figure that now I'm all grown up
Because I'm eighteen years old, and guess you could say I'm holdin
down a steady job and crew steady mobbin
you steady bobbin your head and I'm paid, so I got it made
But, didn't always have clout, used to live in South Central L.A.
That's where I stayed and figured a way out
I gave it all I had so for what it's worth
I went, from rags to riches which is a drag but now I'm first
So Ahmad and The Jones' is on our way up
Yup, we said that we was gonna make it since a kid
and we finally did, but
Sometimes I still sit and reminence then
Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
Chorus
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
(what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
Back in the days
*talking*
I got jacked for mines
You sound like a white dude "Hey I got jacked for mines!"
Aight, aight...