The way we were - photographs.

[dpnice]

As much as I appreciate the two threads where our young and handsome members post their most current photographs I realise that at 58yrs old my photographs provide a different impression.

Just to show that I also was once young, not muscular but desirable enough to get what I wanted when out cruising, here are a few of me in my 20s and early 30s.

Of course at that age digital cameras were a thing of the future so I had to scan these from old photo albums.

Please feel free to add your own youthful images if you so desire.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I think we had this thread already but anyway here's me at 22.

 

[gsdx]

This is me a lot of years and a lot of hair ago. This is my dog, Sammie. (Not to be confused with Sam, who came along a decade after Sammie died in 1984.)

 

[geloge]

Great thread. And hoodedrat you still rock.

 

[Telstra]

Great pics dp.


These have all been posted here before, years ago, but they are the only pics that I have on the 'puter.

Behold! Me; half a life-time ago.

you were a punk with that hair do ?
A good punk.

 

[belamy]

David, that only proves you've always looked gay and British, British and gay

 

[Corny]

hey hoodie .. somehow I would have expected you to have been somewhat like that

 

[dpnice]

Thank you all for joining in.

191 views whilst the 'facepics' thread has approximately 190,000; we have a long way to go.

The reason I posted my pictures is that I spent the day cleaning out boxes of old photo albums in the store room and as I had never tried to use my scanner it seemed as good an opportunity as any.

I might add that the blazer, trousers and tie in the first photograph are still wearable items in my wardrobe.

 

[just_mills]

Neat thread!

Hoody, I gotta say the photos themselves don't surprise me, but it just doesn't look like you! Most dramatic change, bruv! LOL
I can see everyone else in their earlier years..

Not slating you, by the way mate!

 

[Gussss]

Here's me 20 years ago, half my life ago:

The last one is from Mardi Gras in Mobile Alabama

 

[just_mills]

How about this one?

Now that one, yes, actually!

I really like this pic, dp. Possibly because I've never dressed that smartly in my life, and yet I expect that is you being relatively 'casual'.

I agree, lol

 

[dpnice]

How about this one?

Now I wonder if I had been born 8 years later would I have looked something like this as well. I missed out completely on the 'punk' look.

It really is an amazing photograph.

 

[Kyanimal]

THANKS! for sharing, David!!

My gallery is me from 18 to, roughly, now. Just select View by Name ... it'll sort itself out.

Sorry for the crappy quality of the scans. I was running short on time!

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz

 

[ozguy]

Not sure how old I was in this pic ... about 26, I think (over half a lifetime ago! )

 

[Fat Tom]

Me in my early 20's...

Best version of you. Easily.

 

[belamy]

Not sure how old I was in this pic ... about 26, I think (over half a lifetime ago! )

Looks like something out of Bijou or even Derek Jarman

 

[belamy]

 

[dpnice]

How about this one?

Further thoughts on this photograph.

It is so exceptional that it really shouldn't be allowed to slip into oblivion.

You should donate it to some museum or photo collection so that it is preserved for future generations to see.

 

[Darkflower]

This thread is genius.

I tried searching for the other threads on the same topic people have been mentioning, but didn't have any luck. If someone finds them, can they PM me links or post the links here?

 

[dpnice]

...........I tried searching for the other threads on the same topic people have been mentioning, but didn't have any luck..............................

I know there have been threads on the same subject but how on earth one uses the search feature to find them is beyond my intelligence.

It would be good to find them as they could then all be merged into one.