Back in high school and early college, I had a "disc" camera, which was a big step up from the "110" I had in junior high. My mom came across a bunch of my and my sister's disc negatives and had them transfered to a CD. They are grainy, but fun, and I'm sharing five with this post:
Note the vintage pink plastic "Swatch" (or cheap replica) on my wrist and my 80's perm in this picture taken at youth conference the summer I turned 17.
My sister is 6'1" and my friend Michelle 5'11" ish. To this day, I don't know why I was slouching in this picture taken at the same youth conference before the big dance (at which we were somewhat the "hot" items). I should have been trying to be taller! BTW, I still have the dress in a keepsake bin, but would be lucky to get it over my head these days!
Fast forward to the summer I turned 18 and we find I am once again not standing at full height beside my tall friends when stopping for a picture on the Timpanogas trail. Those stylin' shorts didn't make it to the keepsake bin. Neither did the bug-eye sunglasses.
Apparently I always wanted to look shorter than I was and crouched again in this picture taken with "the locals" at the Polynesian Cultural Center the same summer. The handsome guys invited us to a party that night, but we, being shy and sheltered, went back to the condo with our mom. Rach tells me I was 40 when I was 20. Now that I am 40, I'd like to be twenty again and have a little fun this time!
Most of my favorite first-year-college-pictures weren't in the batch my mom had put on CD, but this one was. It was taken after a date that wasn't as magical as I had hoped it would be. I missed my friends back home (I went off to college ALL BY MYSELF) and found comfort in the teddy bear I got for Christmas. Funny how at that age you are so grown up in some ways, yet still need some comforts of the childhood from which you are emerging.
Well, there you have it, five grainy pictures from more than two decades ago. Soon after these were taken, my sister stepped up to a 35 mm camera that we named "Mr. Fuji." Mr. Fuji took comparatively marvelous pictures... So crisp and clear with true colors. In the near future I plan to buy a scanner and put all my old pictures on e-file for preservation. I suspect I'll post a few more when I do.
Loved the look back at your "youth." Who was the other girl in that second picture?
ReplyDeleteMy mother and I were talking a few days ago about how fun it would be to try 20 again---if we could keep what we know now. Neither of us would care to relive it with just the smarts we had then.
Fun memories. I don't think you were slouching so much. ;-)
The other girl was, Rima, a good jr. high and high school friend.
ReplyDeleteI agree on going back, knowing what we know now. Youth really is wasted on the young! :)