What did you use to look like? Old photos.

lol i saw him on a bus once but he looked too grumpy to say "hi" to

So the weirdest thing happened to me today. I belong to a bunch of Facebook groups for Army brats and for people who were stationed overseas. Today, in one of those groups ("I Lived in Darmstadt, Germany") a German photographer posted a link to a book he just published called American Darmstadt, a coffee-table book with a history of Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne and other installations around Darmstadt from their immediate postwar period to their closings in the early 2000s. You can view the entire book online at http://issuu.com/christoph-rau/docs/american-darmstadt, so I'm flipping through it, and there, on page 196 of the book (p. 198 of the electronic document), is me, coming off a school bus in 1977. For a minute I wasn't sure it WAS me, until I sent the link to my parents and they said, "Yeah, that's you." Later, looking through my own pictures, I found two of me wearing the same jacket I'm wearing in the photo. It's easily identifiable by a zipper on the sleeve and its LOL 1977 wide, point collar.

What are the odds, out of all the tens of thousands of service members and their families that ever lived there, that 7-year-old me would show up on a page in this dude's book and that I would be in a position to see it?

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1536568_10152775980592137_1130508417_n.jpg?oh=cac9ce050f7e927002c99077cb937393&oe=559F02AF

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https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/v/t1.0-9/1005026_10152762808192137_1862838615_n.jpg?oh=40d73a28651005daa3539448d6639d49&oe=55978720

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1512580_10152762808532137_748710829_n.jpg?oh=e7cafa624d7ce36449138bc9cceeed36&oe=55D85B36

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1488079_10152762815857137_905334599_n.jpg?oh=b63a00eda25eb852a1668804925a1a49&oe=55D5B8E0

lol the last one

xxpost Phil that's awesome & v cool

Yeah Phil, can you post the picture here? (I'm a Germany-living Air Force brat, 1964-6)

First pic is a screencap of the page from the book website, second is the picture I found where I'm wearing that same jacket.

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11150618_10205617033801871_3809139671349659160_n.jpg?oh=cd14a7f0b4575b993f80d67f84463edb&oe=55DD1621

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11100346_10205617261727569_3718455552046993171_n.jpg?oh=1b6518918f9c29fb88a5ac51784bbfa5&oe=55DB2150

I don't know what circumstances led to a photographer snapping my picture getting off a bus in 1977, or where the photo would have been where this person got hold of it, but when I was browsing that book website and got to that page I was like

https://moreno91.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mrsparkle.png

aw young scott so cute, and amazing trio

phil d that is mindblowing awesome

Phil Disrespectfultodirt

BTW if you're wondering that is a "Space: 1999" lunchbox. On the side facing my leg you can just make out Barbara Bain's face.

https://travelingwithteddy.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/space-1999-lunchbox-h.jpg?w=300

This was about six months before I had ever heard of "Star Wars," so that was the coolest space-related thing I could find.

crazy story! i would lose it if that happened to me.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/wdyutll.jpg

Me in 10th grade, on the x-country team

tick

Interesting running gear.

dope

I'm in the yellow shirt and the brown flares, my brother is on the right with a cricket bat and an excellent jumper.

http://i65.tinypic.com/dde04l.jpg

The lad in the grey school uniform claims these were taken the day Elvis died. I have no memory of the photos but I was only six when Elvis died and I think I'm at least eight in these photos.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2z5txu9.jpg

Awesome

so great!

Guessing I was about two here:
http://i.imgur.com/QZjbJYI.jpg

http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa356/fugexlac/babydandrums_zpsv6sgnp4x.jpg

This was me immediately before the drugs took hold
http://i.imgur.com/niYO66u.jpg

ok I have no idea why that is so big

Aw you guys were so cute.

Yeah, what happened???

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfkSODTW4AAjv2V.jpg

so many rules

Love this thread.

I thought I had posted this here years ago but I guess I must've posted it to another thread years ago, or possibly not at all:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5310/5807353760_0416b59ae1_o.jpg

I wouldn't have thought of this as an old photo but I just realized it was taken a goddamn decade ago. Me, a hat, a wig, and a party:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/45/140114436_fd7c89d9ea_o.jpg

OMG baby Mookie <3

mookie <3

Judging by my brother (out of shot) I must be either 4 or 5 here. Where did it all go wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/IOXfNRN.jpg

1998. frosted tips all day baby
http://i67.tinypic.com/2lsi9vr.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/ohlfdf.jpg

Unusual sort of glam gothy look going on here, this must be around 1984? Even more unusual that (l-to-r) me, my sister and my brother appear to be getting on with one another. I wonder what happened to that Throbbing Gristle t-shirt?

http://i.imgur.com/80DnaUU.jpg

Ah ok. The penny drops.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/IMG_1315.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/asx8yc54xj4xb06/SQUAD.png

School photo from grade...7? 8?

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/50136227776__6E0E9028-3EAB-41D3-ADA8-DFC8D1312032_zpsccl1pzk6.jpg?t=1479583779

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/50136227776__6E0E9028-3EAB-41D3-ADA8-DFC8D1312032_zpsccl1pzk6.jpg?t=1479583779

This set of photos had been missing for many years, but my college friend unearthed and developed the negatives of some shots she took of my old band in 1996.

I'm far left, with the wristbands.

http://i.imgur.com/NoI2eQW.jpg

Cutie Fever! Also, nice Archers poster.

is the dude with the watch halfway up his arm the drummer

L to R: bass, vocals/guitar, guitar, drums

you were the cute one; you should have been in front imo

http://i.imgur.com/GhalFO9.jpg

johnny 'dreamboat' fever :)

would love to get my hands on one of those sweaters the old lunch family are wearing a bit upthread

high school grad nite

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/noname-5.jpg