ring Future Helicopter Parents | Two Gen-Xers on a scary carnival ride, 1971. Giant Swing! Toddlers on a Scary Carnival Ride at a Texas County Fair When I first saw this 35mm slide image for sale I knew I had to buy it. Featuring two Gen-Xers on a scary carnival ride...
In 1976, my entire 3rd-grade class went on a field trip to a YMCA swimming pool in Colorado Springs. I was so excited! It was going to be the best field trip ever. I didn’t have a swimming suit so the night before the big day my older sister Becky altered her bright...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the late 1980s, artist Kathy Shorr took a job as a limousine driver so she could photograph her passengers. Her photography was recently featured in an article The Guardian: The photos are a document of their time: people were smoking, smartphones didn’t exist, no...
I had a coat just like this when I was in the third grade. I convinced myself it was cut from bear fur. I wore it to school on cold winter mornings all the way down London Lane, Pikes Peak Mountain in the distance. By afternoon, the sun was warm against my back, and...
Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go... in a Gremlin! Vintage Gremlin Today's special photo features kids all dolled up for Christmas 1973, standing in front of a 1970s-era Gremlin. The basket on the hood has holiday bows stuck on it and...