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Post by librarylady on Aug 25, 2016 12:10:00 GMT
I would LOVE to have ANYTHING. Any picture. As I said before, my childhood home burned down when I was a teen. I have nothing. I am in the same boat. Our home burned when I was 19. The only photos we have are the ones that other family members had of us. |
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 25, 2016 13:12:34 GMT
Wow....((hugs)) to both of you !!! Not just photos, but of course---ANY and EVERY sentimental item you and your family cherished!  P.S.....I hope no people or pets died in those fires  |
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Post by peano on Aug 25, 2016 14:27:26 GMT
I wish I had some photos of myself playing tennis. My mother took photos when my brother and I were small but by the time I was an adolescent, she had checked out emotionally. I would love to have some photos of me playing in tournaments when I first started playing around age 12 and on the HS tennis team.
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Post by stefdesign on Aug 25, 2016 15:29:26 GMT
When I had open heart surgery at 8 YO in 1965, the hospital put a big color photo of me in their glossy full size magazine that month. My parents did not save a copy. Not one! I would have bought a stack if it were my kid. If that hospital still exists, it's possible that they have an archive of these old magazines. You might contact them and see if you can get your hands on a copy to scan. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 25, 2016 15:34:51 GMT
Now as a family we have a pretty good assortment of pictures.. I can't complain. BUT we lost all our home movies in a fire about 27 years ago. And I only remember watching them maybe once. It kills me that they are gone but if that is all I am sad about I am doing good. I would just love to sit down and see how I was as a baby/little girl.
I do wish I had a memory.. I really have no memories until about the 5th grade and that in itself is pretty spotty. I always wonder if I went to a therapist that somehow I could remember things. I don't have really any horrible things that I am aware of so why can't I remember things??
I wanted to add my mom had most of our family pictures and they were not in the fire because my parents divorced.. so she had the pictures and we assume my dad had all the films (we really don't know what happened to them, they disappeared, so we assumed they were in the basement of my dad's house that caught fire) My mom has gone through all her stuff and never found them. Then again, my dad can be somewhat of an ass and he could have just thrown them out without saying anything.
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Post by stefdesign on Aug 25, 2016 16:17:33 GMT
My parents weren't much on photography, and I was the youngest child to boot- by the time I came along they weren't all that interested in taking pictures. I have two pictures of myself as a baby- one is a studio photo, and another I'm being held by my Mom and it's grainy and small. I wish I had a photo of my childhood room! I lived in that room from age 5 pretty much until I married at age 27 (I moved out after college, but it was still "my room"! I did take a photo of it in the '80s when my parents had turned it into a guest room, but I would have loved to have seen how I decorated it during my growing up years! Sometimes you never know where photos might come from. Like someone above posted, I never had any photos of me as a Brownie or Girl Scout. I would have loved to have seen a picture of me in my cute little Brownie uniform! A few years ago, while working as a committee member for one of my high school reunions, a classmate that I had grown up with since grade school scanned and sent me some Brownie & Girl Scout photos! What a treat to see these after all those years! Then, last year, while scrolling through online historical photos from my home town newspaper, I came across a photo of me and my troopmates in our town's Scout Day Parade, sitting on a truck float, "ready for camp"! I can only see a little part of me, but there I am! That was so unexpected, and now I have another photo to add to my scout collection!  |
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Post by 505scrapper on Aug 25, 2016 19:28:29 GMT
I have quite a few pictures of my childhood. Always wish there were more though. However, my biggest regret regarding photos are from a trip we took when I was 16. I live in New Mexico and on this trip we went to Florida and the East Coast via Motorhome. We were gone for 5 weeks and it was the best vacation ever. When we came back, I remember we had a bag full of film that needed to be developed (this was in 1986). My mom took a few rolls to the store to be developed and the plan was to take a few rolls at a time here and there so the cost wouldn't be so high. However, somewhere along the way that bag disappeared and not many of the rolls were developed. This included a trip to Disney World and Epcot (not long after it first opened). What I wouldn't do to be able to find that film and/or have had those pictures developed. So many memories of that trip and almost no photos at all.
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 28, 2016 12:37:15 GMT
stefdesign .......WOW!!!! Those photos are such a treasure !!!!  I was THRILLED when a friend since Kindergarden posted our class photos from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade on Facebook that were taken every year by the same company that took our individual school portraits.....I also loved that our teachers were in the photos---such memories! I wonder if schools still do that? 505scrapper ----awww, that's so sad!!!
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Post by melanell on Aug 28, 2016 12:52:23 GMT
I wish there were more photos of the people in my grandparents' lives when they were older. On both sides, there are photos of my grandparents when they were younger, along with friends & neighbors. But by the time I was born, there were no photos of the people I knew as my grandparents' current friends & neighbors. even if the friends and neighbors were the same as they had been 40 years ago, there were no photos of them as I remembered them, kwim?
Also, more photos of my grandparents' homes---inside and out. (Although I have VHS tapes that were made from old super 8 reels, and I am going to have them put on DVDs. Once that is done, I may be able to get a few stills that show more parts of their homes than the current photos I have show.)
More photos of places that existed when I was young but no longer do.
Those are the 2 main categories---places that are gone and photos relating to my years with my grandparents and great-grandparents. For instance, I can recall being enthralled with my great-grandmother's apartment when I was young, but I have not one single photo of it, and if any others exist, I am not aware of them.
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Post by scrappintoee on Oct 14, 2016 11:58:34 GMT
anyone else? |
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