My cool auntie, circa 1989. I seriously thought she was Sarah Connor from Terminator when I was a kid.
Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will: “If things had been different you would have been my wife, and this would have been yours anyway.” (1984)
My mom would always talk about how she was an editor for Tiger Beat magazine when she was a teenager in the 1960’s. She would brag about spending time with the Stones and the Beatles. We always thought she was telling tall tales. Uncovered this pic cleaning out her house last week.
My grandparents stayed at the Virgin Island Hotel on their honeymoon. My grandma didn’t understand why my grandpa was telling her to pose her hands and legs in this specific manner. (1953)
1996: Keanu Reeves visits his grandmother (on his father’s side) in Hawaii. Keannu is the son of a Chinese-Hawaiian father and an English mother.
Once a Beatle: When Ringo was ill with tonsillitis, he substituted on drums for 8 concerts & lived a superstar’s life for 10 days. But Ringo has returned… Now Jimmie Nicol sits alone in the Melbourne airport, waiting for the plane that will take him back to obscurity.
Two young ladies of Vicenza, Italy, photographed in colour 105 years ago, whilst the Great War raged. Taken by Fernand Cuville on Monday 10th June 1918. They are not colourised.
My stud grandfather circa WWII. He watched Pearl Harbor happen in Hawaii, joined up and fought on a gunboat at Iwo Jima that was hit by enemy fire. He surfed with legends in Honolulu. He was a barber for 60 years.
My Pops finally beating Super Mario Bros. on Christmas night, 1988. The Nintendo was a present for “me and my sister”.
My grandpa worked as a park ranger in Yellowstone, where he took this photo of The Three Stooges when they visited. 1969.
Appalachian family on a porch near Sloan Mountain, “Leddie and Children” (photographer: Shelby Lee Adams), 1991
My grandparents are celebrating their 75th anniversary today. She is 92, he is 95, and they are both looking on track to hit an 80th!
My granddaddy at 14 years old. Shined shoes for nickels and dimes just to save up enough money to buy that suit for his school pictures
My great great grandfather on the far left, and his marine buddies drinking at Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Around 1947 or so.
My dad right before Vietnam. 1972. A first cousin found me on Ancestry recently and sent me this. It’s the first pic I’ve ever seen of my dad.
John Brown, 1847. “His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine … I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.” -Frederick Douglass
19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and he then went onto win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent.
In 1973 Salvador Dalí created a portrait of Alice Cooper’s brain using chocolate éclairs, ants and diamonds. Dali considered Cooper to be one of the greatest artist.
Marilyn Monroe posing in front of her new black 1954 Cadillac Series 62 convertible, given to her by Jack Benny for appearing on his television show
Tom Morello sitting on my grandmas lap in her favorite rocking chair, 1979. Her two favorite rockers!