A Thanksgiving Treat!

Raymond Richard

Raymond Richard

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This is for all you guys that thought I had my baldness problem since birth. The picture was taken in "72" before I got married. Hadn't seen it for years and went to throw something in the trash this morning and there it was. I started growing all that hair in June of 1970 when I got out of the army. I used to know how to do it.
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Get a haircut....hippie! :D

You look like what Lee Harvey Oswald might have looked like in 1970...heeee

The dude in the background looks like Tom Cruise
 
Raymond Richard said:
I used to know how to do it.
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Actually, you sorta remind me of one of the guitar players for Big Brother or maybe more Duane Allman....yeah, that's it....:)

You still know how to do it, Ray! Tell me sox and sandals isn't a style statement of its own.... :D

Can we post a couple old fotos on yer thread? I don't have one when my hair was longest, but I can give everyone a good laff..
 
Mike, No Problem. I bet you have a photo or two before you started growing. I bet I was 175 in that one. I guess you could say that was 50 pounds ago for me. The picture was taken at a high school where I worked a year or two after I got back from Nam. My main job was fixing the stuff the kids broke. Found out later the kids had nicknamed me Kilo. I have no idea who the fellow is behind me other than him being a student.
 
I had pretty long hair at one point, down to the small of my back. I cut it all off as a condition of hiring at Abbott Labs. That was ok: I have pension and healthcare today because of it. I slowly let my hair grow back out and kept it a bit more orderly. Here is my "coif", blow-dried and all, on my wedding day.

I was all of 163 pounds on that day. Today I am exactly twice that. After lifting weights for years, I should weigh in at about 225. If I had known I'd get quite this fat, I'd have had "Shamu", or "Fuji" tattooed on my side so I could shove a propellor up my butt, a camera in my belly button, and make some money at football games! :D

Anyway, now for a laff:
Mike and Nanc on July 6, 1974. I shaved my beard for mom-inlaw-to-be for that day. I told her to never ask again. That was the last day I shaved my face and I've had a full beard since, albeit short much of the time. Whaddya think of that Madras plaid tux, eh??? :D
 
Mike, Didn't I see you on Dance Fever back in the 70's? Hey, if you still had the coat if would work fine in the shop if you could still get into it.... :D
 
Raymond Richard said:
..if you could still get into it.... :D
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LOL That's funny!

That jacket would be about 10" small in the chest and 20" small in the waist! I keep waiting for Madras to come back, though! There're still a couple of those mid-70's ribknit t-shirts in the rag bag, though, I think.

I thought the hair was sorta purdy, compared to the butt ugly mug......:eek:

I want IG to post a pic from when he had hair.
 
I believe that is the ugliest coat I have ever seen. My eyes are still watering....the chick's kinda hot though..
 
I learned that weddings are for mothers-inlaw and little girl's fantasies: I had ZERO iput into the tux or the whole wedding for that matter. :D I think the line was "but they match the bridesmaid dresses and they're so coooool."

Holey bell bottoms and a flannel shirt were more my speed....

I must say, though, it has been a 31 year Blessing to me to have showed up that day. :)
 
Holy Smokes Fitz-O.........That is one beautiful woman, but "Geeze".......... You look sorta like "John Holmes" in the face. (By the way, that is probably the only way you resemble "Johnny-W*d".......:D
 
Well get a load of that knock-out Nanc!

No wonder you were a chemist... you'd have to be good with drugs and their affects to be able to rope that fine young lady! :D

;)

Ray... looks like you ran 180 degrees from the military issue buzz :)

Cool pics guys!!! I love seeing stuff like this!

When I was 16, I saw a picture of my 88 year old grandfather... taken when he was 19. It was kind'a surreal to see him as a young man so close to my age.... when he had always been "an old man" in my life. Ever since then, I absolutely love seeing stuff like what this thread's about.

Keep 'em coming! :)
 
Jeez Ray you look like someone sitting on the Dead's steps in the Haight! :D

You gotta dig weddings; and not only Fitz would go along with something like that regardless his later happiness.

I looked something like Mike when I married my kids' mother too. But maybe she didn't appreciate me growing my beard back...she eventually booked. ;) She's not with us anymore, but if she saw her son today she'd freak (and still love him). He has dreads down to his keester and the most scraggly beard I've ever seen. (I'm all corporate looking myself - except for the facial hair. And the belly.)

Thanks for the time travel Ray!
 
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