An above ground pool is the backdrop for this priceless picture of Laura and Nana, Early 1980s Laura, Her Nana and the Fab Above Ground Pool Laura L. sent me this photo of her with her Nana standing in front of an above ground pool. She wrote, "Me, with my Nana and my...
Meet the greatest concret dinosaur that ever was! This is Generation X's Purple Dinosaur, Dino Flintstone, a Snarkasaurus. Yes, before the big purple Millennial dinosaur Barney there was Dino of Fred Flintstone fame. Concrete Dinosaur Photo from 1976 I purchased this...
Southern Baptist Girls’ Auxiliary Organization The Southern Baptist Church (SBC) Girls’ Auxiliary Organization began in 1913 or 1914. It was designed for school-aged girls and originally called the Sunbeam Societies or Sunbeams. In the 1970s, the organization was...
Class of 1983 A little brother with many sisters graduates high school and gets a cool car. The photo was taken in 1983. I bet he had fun driving that car in the pastures of the family farm. If you know the make and model of this car let us know in the comments...
1980s Scrapbook Today’s Daily Photo is a page from my 1980s scrapbook. It features church ribbons from the 80s and field day ribbons from the 1970s. The church ribbons belonged to my mother. She let me have them when I put the scrapbook together all those many years...
More Dangerous Baby Equipment From the 1970s Today’s Daily Photo is a Gen-Xer who survived a crazy-looking playpen in 1973. You may be interested in this post I wrote a few years ago that features 1970s baby equipment. Some of these items could not survive the U.S....
The Best-Selling Poster of All Time This 1976 poster of Farrah Fawcett is the best-selling poster of all time. A whopping 12 million copies have been sold since it debuted all those Charlie’s-Angels moons ago. My brother Billy had it taped to the back of his bedroom...
Thank You Thank you to the faithful email subscribers of the Gen-X Daily Photo. I appreciate you sticking with me as I know the feature has been highly irregular. The challenge of gaining traction has been the lack of time needed to write sufficient text to go with...
The following images were taken during a 1978 Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by a United Methodist Church about 14 miles south of Chattanooga. Despite the happy occasion, a quiet stillness emanates from these black and white images. There are 14 faces in this first photo...
I cherish the stillness of this photo, taken in the 1980s on a school field trip outside of Boston. Aside from the innocence so beautifully captured here, the best thing about this image is the braided ribbon barrettes! Surely you remember these from the 1980s. They...
There were plenty of things I hated about gym class in school, but giant parachute games weren't among them. I loved playing them and always looked forward to it. I was thrilled when a reader (Joanna) sent me this terrific picture of kids outside of Boston playing...
A post about the 1970s coats Generation X girls wore in the, well, 1970s. 1970s coats were the best! It's cold here in the city It always seems that way And I've been thinking about you almost every day... From John Denver's, I'm Sorry, 1975 These pictures remind me...