Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
great pictures
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I remember those things. Usually washed the elephant on Saturdays.
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Fun assortment. I like the diving style of the kid tripping into the water. I had that move down at his age too.
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Much simpler times for sure. “The good old days.” 🙂
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When you don’t want to talk about the elephant in the room, the least you can do is keep him clean.
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Thank you lucky shots…lol
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That second photograph really scares me–not only sax and violins, but also an accordion *and* a concertina in the band! J.
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While I think it’s cool my daughter is growing up in the digital area, there are some childhood hallmarks I wish we could have shared. Saturday morning cartoons, for example. Bugs Bunny and such, actual animated cartoons. Oh, and back when cereal boxes had a toy surprise inside. You didn’t need ten pounds of padding and helmets for a simple bikeride. Letting your kids bicker over who rode shotgun up front wasn’t some matter of endangering their lives with airbags. They could play in the front yard without some well meaning person reporting you as neglecting your children and leaving them unsupervised for pedophiles to snatch up.
And darn them rules against indoor elephants as pets so you gotta wash them outdoors even to this day.
I guess Snapchat is her version but I still have great nostalgia for 8 a.m. Smurfs on Saturday mornings and riding my back to the local shop where I could get 20 pieces of candy for 20 cents.
I did ride my T-rex to the store, though, so I am pretty old 😉
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
Bluebird is tripping down memory lane again – using black & white photos 👍😃
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Is that a meerkat in one of the photos lower down?
Remember when we had visible waists?!
Yvonne
Sent from Samsung tablet.
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Three cheers to those “Good Ole Days”!
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Here’s another one. Saturday morning at the local movie theater: cartoons, shorts, and two shoot-em-ups for a nickel.
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That lucky elephant – a back scratch with a push broom!
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Looks like fun to me! 😀 Especially the turtle riding, cat hugging, and meerkat bathing! 😉 😛
HUGS and thank you for the laughs! 🙂
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love this
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Reblogged this on powerfulwomenreaders.
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Thanks Rae. ♥️
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My pleasure!
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[…] I want to do the last one, with thanks to Chris via How people had fun in the pre-digital era […]
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Thank you for the link. 🙂
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