This is The High School Yearbook Photo Thread.

Thanks. You put me in good company.

How about this for eye candy???????

Any opinions boys and gurls - that is the one and only Poster Boy for the NRA - cjwhatshisface

thats ted nugget
He used to be pretty cool..

you mean cj was trying to pass himself off as Ted Nugent. See what I know.

Did I say that right? CJ said that was "his" highschool pic. Oh dear now he will come over and troll me.

If can find it, I'll post a HS yearbook pic of me in my big hair days.

I wasn't trying to pass myself off as Nuge... he's pretty hard to copy. I was just funnin.

I (re-) found recently my father's "Abitur" photo, from March 1938. (More than half of his class didn't survive WWII)

great old photo...
which one is your father?

Last row, second on the left.

Oh I love the hair.

I had as much hair at his age (perhaps even a bit more!), both when I was 18

... and when I was 22 (my father in 1942, in Russia).

graduating from middle-school - april 1948 .
we were a mixed lot - ranging in age from 17 to 21 - some had served in the army in the dying days of WW II - but decided to continue their education .
since there was still strict rationung ( to end just two months later ) most of us were wearing jackets or suits borrowed from older brothers or our fathers .

while we may have looked pretty sombre , we were a happy lot .
i'm in the middle row - second from right

"real life" started shortly there after : anyone wanting to enter a trade or profession (which we all did) needed to serve a minimum of 2 1/2 as an apprentice (being paid a "stipend" - about 1/10 th of what a tradesman or professional earned . )

march 1993 - 45 year anniversary reunion .
15 of the old gang - and their better halves - showed up for it .
we spend a whole week together at a " resort " (a youth-hostel owned by the hamburg school board and located on one of the east-frisian islands) .
we all had become "burgers" - well-fed and still a happy lot .
while we had met some of my friends over the years when visiting our families in germany , this was the first re-union we attented .

(yours truly is the one with the most colourful windbreaker )

A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL !

fast forward to 2003 - the group is a little smaller , but still sticking together -
they usually have an annual get-together .
this was a gathering for an evening and afternoon - to share a meal and lift a glass !
we missed this year's 55 year anniversary - but hope to still see the old friends again sometime .

no group picture this time .
i am second from right with my two best school buddies .



it seems that our better halves have as much fun as the "boys" - probably telling each other that the "boys" are still a crazy lot .
mrs h is on the left .

nice -- thanx for posting 'em, hbg...

RP :
going through the photo albums , selecting pictures and "trying" to remember what happened , is really quite a bit of fun .
during these cold evenings we often dig up our photo albums and say : "remember ? wasn't that interesting ? " .
there was a TV ad recently (can't remember what is was for) that was shot inside a cable-car going up sugarloaf mountain in rio .
my wife said : "don't tell me were crazy enough to ride up there ? i didn't realize how high we would be off the ground before i got in - never again ! " .
looking back is usually quite enjoyable - even when it was high off the ground .
thanks for your commments , RP .
hbg