My character in “That 70’s Show”

  • Since Steven is being so bold as to open up the photo album and pub­lish the con­tents, I can play along. I hap­pened across this school pic­ture from 1975.

    me-in-1976.jpg

    Now, I just have a cou­ple things to say, most of them to Greg, who is a Baby Buster (born in ’65, after the Boom) and so tends to look with dis­taste at any­thing that occurred between 1970 and 1983 (when he grad­u­ated and could set every­thing to rights). So I bet­ter point out three things:

    1. Don’t laugh. Those glasses were all the rage in their day. No, really.
    2. This was obvi­ously a long time before the Far­rah Faw­cett look or any other Big Hair trends. Big Hair was really a prob­lem for me. I have very unam­bi­tious hair — hang­ing like wet spaghetti is all it has ever wanted to do in life.
    3. Shiny face, bad skin. Hey, I was 15. And Pho­to­Shop wouldn’t be around to fix things like that for another 20 years or so.

    But if I want to find a less embar­rass­ing photo, I’d have to go back to ear­lier stuff. I think this was from about 1967:

    me-in-1967.jpg

    It’s an inter­est­ing pic­ture of me, just because I’m not look­ing as silly as I always did (always do). It makes me wish I could have man­aged it more often. I look kind of serene, as if I’m try­ing to remem­ber the names of all the archangels. Then again, I also look like my next sen­tence might be “I see dead people.”

    To Gen-X’ers and Gen-Y’ers, note that it’s a black-and-white pic­ture. That’s right. Color wasn’t invented until they needed it for cig­a­rette ads and Cap’n Crunch boxes.

    All right. So much for Mem­ory Lane.


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    December 7th, 2007 | Grace | 9 Comments |

9 Responses and Counting...

  • DebD 12.07.2007

    You are very brave.

  • s-p

    Ah the angelic child face. Now I have to dig out my altar boy pic­tures too. My mom says its the last time I looked holy. :)

  • Grace

    Deb:
    I don’t know. It’s not that brave when there are still a lot of read­ers who don’t know what you look like now. I have hope that peo­ple will see those pic­tures and say, “Well, I’m sure she’s improved a LOT.”

  • Mimi

    Such cute pho­tos! I love them.

    I’m a child of the big hair era. Which is good, I have nat­u­rally big hair.

  • Grace

    So maybe we get the hair era we can live with? The Age of Aquar­ius placed few demands on us — heck, some didn’t even bother with a comb! I remem­ber my older sis­ter, who already had straight hair, iron­ing her hair on the iron­ing board to get to that Cher-like straight-ness.

  • Cather­ine K.

    I remem­ber want­ing to iron my hair, it is straight but fine which means it just flys around and gets in the way. It still does this, no mat­ter how many times I have ordered it to shape up…

    I do think you are brave to post your pho­tos like this.

  • Word­mama

    Actu­ally, I think you look a LOT like Daddy in that baby photo. Well, okay, Daddy with dim­ples and blond hair.

  • Grace

    Yeah, I know what you mean. There’s that look that seems to show up in our fam­ily from time to time — blue-eyed, tow­head blond, and decep­tively angelic-looking. Dave’s and T-bone’s child­hood pic­tures look almost interchangeable.

    I think my smile in the first pic­ture is a lot like Daddy’s, too. Funny how stuff like that works.

  • Anam Cara

    Gosh, I wish I had some cute pic­tures when I was young. I don’t know of any I like since I was a year old. Some­thing was always wrong — the hair, the smile, the body. I didn’t come into my own and feel good about pho­tos until I was in my 40’s. Alas, that decade only lasts for 10 years and I am once again a frump.

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