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 door at our house on Harrison Street in […]
Prom and Paneling (Daily Photo)
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 photos. Without copy, the posts have […]
The Braided Ribbon Barrette {Daily 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 were so popular. I remember girls bringing metal barrettes […]
Daily Photo: Bridesmaids Smoking (1989)
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 one was taking selfies. “Nobody was interested in giving you a […]
Girl in a 1970s Winter Coat Covered in Silly String (Daily Photo)
SILLY GIRL A girl in a 1970s winter coat is covered in Silly String for some silly reason. THE DAILY PHOTOI 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 […]
Daily Photo: Gremlin Car, Gen-Xers, Christmas 1973
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 the wheelbarrow on the top of the car […]
Daily Photo: Thanksgiving Play
Do you remember when every school in American had a Thanksgiving play? We had them in Kermit, Texas, where I lived in the 4th and 5th grades. This picture is from the Kermit Memories Facebook page. Isn’t it grand? It was taken around 1974 when a friend a little older than me was in 4th […]