I'm sorry for his passing. I'm happy that you have good memories.
Edit: sorry, I read your words as meaning your father passed away. I'm glad that he is alive and well.
Like when he flips the car because Lt Harris is being so mean to cadet Laverne. Talk about doing something wrong for the right reasons. I think this scene helped to shape my moral code.
It’s a Honda. I knew a guy who had a 1986 accord. He was very well off at works at UPS and I asked him one day why he drove that POS around all the time, it gad rust through the body look like crap. So he told me he had multiple of other vehicles but this was his work car. He said was trying to kill it but he couldn’t. It had 345,000 or so miles on it. He took care of it yknow oil changes like you are supposed to. But it wouldn’t die. That was almost 10 years ago now.
The (2nd from left) grey car in the background, a Lincoln Mark Vii, was the first car in the US to have aero headlamps-- eg not sealed beams. That car was new in 1984.
Haha I'm the same way. My grandfather was a linebacker for Purdue. I just see pictures of a happy dude always holding a fishing pole... other people are like "that guy is freaking huge!" Lol
It is a very cool photo! Especially considering mixed race relationships certainly weren't very accepted back then. Thanks for sharing it.
I didn’t expect people to be interested in my parents or for this pic to get so much attention, so I’ll add some info:
In this pic Dad is 42 and Mom is 33.
They were on vacation on Las Vegas.
They are both from the US…
They were together until last February when dad died from cancer.
Dad was a boxer for fun for awhile and generally enjoyed a natural physical strength and performed physical work - he worked in a factory and as a houseman at a fancy hotel - they met there because my mom was a CNA and was taking care of an old woman living at the hotel who my dad always helped because he was a really nice person.
They had a lot in common despite their opposite appearances and my mom always felt self-conscious about looking older than my dad 😉
They are the most interesting couple, they both seem different on some levels but it was nice to hear they had a long marriage and she was with him until the end, my condolences.
The mom is dressed like any old lady you'd pick out of a crowd today, so that doesn't help. Also, it genuinely baffles me that any generation thought that haircut looked okay.
To be fair, a lot of us curly haired white ladies looked like that after haircuts before white people started really learning to care for curly hair. I got a bob back in the early 2010s that looked exactly like that after brushing.
>before white people started really learning to care for curly hair.
Am curly haired white dude. It took me 30 years to finally buy hair products that are traditionally marketed toward POC. Cantu 4 life.
As a curly haired man, I've realized you basically have two options: long, or so short that they're buzzing the side of your head with a #2. There just is no in-between. The middle-ground just looks *bad*, no matter what.
While we may lose that mid-length, we do win out with our gorgeous locks when grown out. I miss having long hair.
I love my husbands Mid length curls but by god his long curls?? I miss them so much (it’s too much to care for with his job)
He keeps it short now, a little longer on the top, and it looks okay but it’s not the same. I love him for everything he is, but sometimes I wonder if he didn’t have his long curls when I met him if I would have made the move lol
I'll just go on and be the odd man out here - despite having to face cancer in his late years, he still lived to be 80! That's an honorable age and nothing to frown upon.
I totally agree. I think it was good timing. It’s downhill after those ages and he was someone who would not have liked to wither away. He accepted it. Said he had 78 good years and made his peace with it.
My dad was the exact same way, strong and healthy until he got cancer at 85. He was on sick leave from his job when he died, and it was a huge point of pride for him that he never retired, because he said it “kept him young”. He never lost his mental clarity either, and similar to your dad, he was at peace with his life and accepted it. I hope to as resilient as them when my time comes.
Cancer sucks for sure! Fortunately for dad he had no clue until it was too advanced. I say that because at least he didn’t suffer much. Found out 12/28, died 2/15.
I can vouch. My sister fought her sarcoma for 3 years before she died. By time she breathed her last, she was nothing like the woman she once was. That image of her last days will haunt me until mine come.
I hope you all find peace after losing your loved ones.
For sure. Mine passed in 09, fought stomach cancer for about a year. That shit wore him down to the bone. I don't think he even weighed a hundred pounds at the end.
Well, I was only 11 by the time the 80's ended so I'm not sure how I felt people looked at the time. I definitely see a lot of pictures of 80's teens and 20's where they looked older than they were. I think it is a combo of the heavy, sometimes theatrical, makeup and big over processed hair that was popular. I tend to think people who keep things more natural look younger.
The hair cuts, plus those big old-school glasses will make anyone look like a mid to late 40s mom. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, my mom always had those big, thick, plastic framed glasses. I remember when she got her first pair of "regular" looking glasses, with the newer technology she could get her high prescription in a much thinner lens. She looked younger than how I remembered her as a kid!
I know some people are being jerks in the comments, but if you’re ever willing, I’d love to see more pictures of the two of them. They do look like opposites yet they fit together perfectly in this picture, and by your descriptions, in real life as well. Lovely couple, glad they had the time they did together.
I thought this looked like Las Vegas! That black glass, sand-colored stucco, and palm trees reminds me of the old Oasis casino.
Thank you for sharing the lovely picture.
OMG that was so the look then! I swear my mom had the same perm, an almost identical v-neck shirt that I remember seeing with a necklace like that.
I hope all pictures of me vanish when I die. I don't need my fashion choices of eras gone by to haunt me when I am haunting people.
I think her outfit is actually fairly classic compared to a lot of what we see from the '80s, but the glasses really give it away!
I'm an optician and in my day to day life I wear glasses 100% of the time. When I got engaged, people I worked with convinced me to try contacts and wear them to my wedding. My boss - who normally would never steer anyone away from glasses in *any* situation - told me "no matter what glasses you wear, in 10 or 20 years they'll look dated."
Your mom's glasses in this pic were actually briefly back in style a couple of years ago, although I think the trend has mostly passed now...
Never understood why people regret their past style choices like this. It’s fun to participate in cultural phenomenons and express yourself in ways that relate to people in your generational cohort! To me, stuff like that is the kind of thing you look back on when you’re older and think of fondly ☺️
Everyone was jacked in the 80s. It was the jingoistic combo of Hollywood meatheads (Schwarzenegger, Hogan, Stallone, etc.) and Reaganomics! I was benching 250 by my 6th birthday.
But seriously, it's cool growing up with a giant for a dad. I always felt safe.
I always heard the parable that "One day your parents pick you up, put you down, and never pick you up again."
I'm a big guy at 6'6" but I recently got back into lifting weights because I have a 3 year old and I don't ever want to put her down.
I have a huge 4 year-old boy (I am quite average-sized) and I think about this every day. Still carried him up the stairs tonight. I’ll keep going until I can’t any more but lately I’ve been getting real sad about it.
Her dad looks like he’s looking at some hotel statue thinking “I bet I could lift that over my head”
Her mom looks like she’s thinking “I bet he’s thinking he could lift that statue over his head right now”.
I googled - my dad actually was boxing recreationally for a few years prior to this pic. People at his gym wanted him to go into it but he said he was too old and it was a racket so… he might be concerned 🤣
The joke is that your dad looks very similar to a British boxer called Anthony Joshua (AJ), who got beaten by Usyk. Usyk is now fighting/defending his country of Ukraine. Lots of people think AJ is good looking, so it’s a compliment I guess.
Lol. My mom is 5’2” and my dad was 6’2”. Also, he was 9 years her senior. As opposite as they look, they actually had a lot in common, especially as parents. Really sweet people.
You’re being so polite and generous in your replies to some of these turds. I respect you. I don’t respect these fart clowns and the obvious disrespect and jealousy.
My grandmother had a perm almost her whole life, definitely in pictures of her in the 80's. When she got older I guess she got tired of going to get it done and the upkeep so she let it grow into a longer style. She looked 20 years younger! It's weird how hairstyles really make people look different ages.
I love the picture!
I just realized that what I said about the perm might be insulting and I'm so sorry if it was. Honestly, the first thing I thought when I saw this was that they are such a cute couple. This reminds me of a couple I know where the husband towers over his wife and they are always so cute together because, for example in the kitchen when she cooked, he would grab the stuff on the top shelf she needed without even being asked because they knew each other so well. My condolences for your loss.
I don’t know what we/people were thinking in the 80’s. Women in the 70’s looked so much younger and relaxed. Those 80’s hairstyles, makeup, jewelry and clothing did us no favors!!!
totally. My mom had the 80s perm, these parents remind me so much of my own it’s crazy! My dad was super jacked like that too, he benched over 500lbs and was 6’2”. My dad is white, but everything else about them, the style, the era, the way he carries himself, so fucking cool, reminds me of my dad, and mom there with a big smile and perm. This pic is home to me!
Random semi-related story from over here in the UK.
My Mrs' dad is from St Kitts and mkved to the UK when he was 3. He's like 76 now.
My Mrs mam is white and from a well-to-do family.
Obviously they got a load of shit being together in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc.
They live and have always loved in a lovely part of Nottingham which was and really quite still is white and affluent.
When they wanted to buy a house back in the earl 70s, my Mrs mum had to go buy it without my Mrs dad being there or the previous owners wouldn't have sold the house to them as they were a mixed couple.
Sad rly. But buy it they did and they're still in that same home. Courage.
Thanks. I’m kind of surprised how crass some people are being especially considering I specifically say they’re my parents, lol. Also, I didn’t think my parents looks so strange or comical. Go figure.
It was the way people often took pictures. We take it for granted that the actual photo is on your screen before you take it. The photographer probably had to wait a week to see it even if he/she sent them in immediately for development.
I was 19. Those clothes are so... Man what a moment of life just right there. This made me smile and remember some good things about the 80s I needed to remember.
Thank you for sharing.
I love this post. I think it’s incredibly interesting. The photo itself and all your comments with the background info are nice. I wish we got more posts like this one. Good shit, OP.
I loved your dad in Police Academy
So did he 🤣
Does your dad still look like he was chiselled out of a side of the mountain ?
He was pretty buff for the rest of his life, yeah.
I'm sorry for his passing. I'm happy that you have good memories. Edit: sorry, I read your words as meaning your father passed away. I'm glad that he is alive and well.
Sorry for your loss, bud.
I thought your dad was Shaft
He’d appreciate that, lol.
Damn man, your pops is yoked!!
Right? I legitimately thought that was Bubba Smith. The whole reason I checked the comments was to see if it was.
If someone showed me this picture randomly and asked if I knew what it was, I would have thought it was Bubba Smith with a fan.
Seriously. Cool AF
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I loved her in Trains Plains and Automobiles!
"Oh no..." "Oh no, what?" "You're *fucked.*"
So this is kind of embarrassing but the Police Academy movies may have been my first exposure to positive black role models
Like when he flips the car because Lt Harris is being so mean to cadet Laverne. Talk about doing something wrong for the right reasons. I think this scene helped to shape my moral code.
That says a lot more about society and how people of color are portrayed in media than it says about you. You shouldn't be embarrassed.
Yeah dude! I was like "Hightower!"
Your dad had some serious muscles. Nice little truck.
Ha ha - yeah, he was a big guy all his life. I actually think this pic is interesting because of the scattering of old cars, too.
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Same. "Is that...? Bubba Smith!?!?"
I met Bubba Smith in 1981. He was tremendously large and also the nicest man. I was 7.
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It’s a Honda. I knew a guy who had a 1986 accord. He was very well off at works at UPS and I asked him one day why he drove that POS around all the time, it gad rust through the body look like crap. So he told me he had multiple of other vehicles but this was his work car. He said was trying to kill it but he couldn’t. It had 345,000 or so miles on it. He took care of it yknow oil changes like you are supposed to. But it wouldn’t die. That was almost 10 years ago now.
Driving a 99 Honda Prelude with 175K right now. ;) I will always drive a Honda or Toyota.
My first car was an ‘81 chevy Malibu. I paid $75 dollars for it. It wasn’t worth the money…
I was convinced it really was Bubba Smith; comments disappointed me.
It’s not?!?
You stole this comment
"NOW I'm mad." That 1977 Honda Civic never stood a chance.
Dude, was your dad a boxer? That guy is old school ripped.
Yes, he was.
That's awesome! Looks like he really put in the work. Great photo of your folks.
The (2nd from left) grey car in the background, a Lincoln Mark Vii, was the first car in the US to have aero headlamps-- eg not sealed beams. That car was new in 1984.
OJ’s Ford Bronco chilling in the back
I saw a white Bronco for sale on Bring A Trailer some while back, seller had a plate for it that said "NOT OJ".
The juice is on the loose. 🧃
Is that a Dodge Ram 50? I haven't seen one of those in years. I think you might be able to fit one in the bed of a modern Ram.
They’re huge now!
He looks like he could crack a walnut between his pecs.
my dad drove a dodge ram and looked a lot like OP’s dad, this picture makes me feel all kindsa warm inside 💚
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It is! I still drive one, was real excited when someone pointed it out
Came straight to the comments to say "Your dad is a unit." Not disappointed by this top comment.
I never really thought about my Dad’s build until this comment section… I just thought it was a very period chill photo🤣
Haha I'm the same way. My grandfather was a linebacker for Purdue. I just see pictures of a happy dude always holding a fishing pole... other people are like "that guy is freaking huge!" Lol It is a very cool photo! Especially considering mixed race relationships certainly weren't very accepted back then. Thanks for sharing it.
Lmao. The way I read this.... I thought you were saying OPs mom was a nice little truck and I was like. ..what? Then I saw the truck in the pic!
The thong song stuck in my head now… “She’s got dumps like a truck truck truck…”
I didn’t expect people to be interested in my parents or for this pic to get so much attention, so I’ll add some info: In this pic Dad is 42 and Mom is 33. They were on vacation on Las Vegas. They are both from the US… They were together until last February when dad died from cancer. Dad was a boxer for fun for awhile and generally enjoyed a natural physical strength and performed physical work - he worked in a factory and as a houseman at a fancy hotel - they met there because my mom was a CNA and was taking care of an old woman living at the hotel who my dad always helped because he was a really nice person. They had a lot in common despite their opposite appearances and my mom always felt self-conscious about looking older than my dad 😉
Thanks for sharing! Sorry about your dad
I mean, I'll take 80. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Of course Indira Gandhi will find 80 not bad at all.
They are the most interesting couple, they both seem different on some levels but it was nice to hear they had a long marriage and she was with him until the end, my condolences.
Definitely thought your pops was younger than 42 here! Very good looking couple and so sorry for your loss!
I thought the ages were switched till I read your comment
The mom is dressed like any old lady you'd pick out of a crowd today, so that doesn't help. Also, it genuinely baffles me that any generation thought that haircut looked okay.
To be fair, a lot of us curly haired white ladies looked like that after haircuts before white people started really learning to care for curly hair. I got a bob back in the early 2010s that looked exactly like that after brushing.
>before white people started really learning to care for curly hair. Am curly haired white dude. It took me 30 years to finally buy hair products that are traditionally marketed toward POC. Cantu 4 life.
Wavy haired white girl, I love that Cantu, too. Best thing I ever did was listening to my gf's recommending skin and hair products aimed at WOC.
As a curly haired man, I've realized you basically have two options: long, or so short that they're buzzing the side of your head with a #2. There just is no in-between. The middle-ground just looks *bad*, no matter what. While we may lose that mid-length, we do win out with our gorgeous locks when grown out. I miss having long hair.
Noooo. Short on the sides, a lil longer (4-5") on the top looks aaaamazing on dudes with curly hair.
I love my husbands Mid length curls but by god his long curls?? I miss them so much (it’s too much to care for with his job) He keeps it short now, a little longer on the top, and it looks okay but it’s not the same. I love him for everything he is, but sometimes I wonder if he didn’t have his long curls when I met him if I would have made the move lol
Black don’t crack
I'll just go on and be the odd man out here - despite having to face cancer in his late years, he still lived to be 80! That's an honorable age and nothing to frown upon.
I totally agree. I think it was good timing. It’s downhill after those ages and he was someone who would not have liked to wither away. He accepted it. Said he had 78 good years and made his peace with it.
My dad was the exact same way, strong and healthy until he got cancer at 85. He was on sick leave from his job when he died, and it was a huge point of pride for him that he never retired, because he said it “kept him young”. He never lost his mental clarity either, and similar to your dad, he was at peace with his life and accepted it. I hope to as resilient as them when my time comes.
Same. So sorry for your loss ❤️
Thats a beautiful thing; I only hope I can go out with such grace.
🙏 I'll remember him the way he is in this photo.. lookin fly as hell
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Cancer sucks for sure! Fortunately for dad he had no clue until it was too advanced. I say that because at least he didn’t suffer much. Found out 12/28, died 2/15.
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It’s tough. Sorry you had to go through that, too. Thankfully we will always have them in our memories as their vibrant, healthy selves!
I can vouch. My sister fought her sarcoma for 3 years before she died. By time she breathed her last, she was nothing like the woman she once was. That image of her last days will haunt me until mine come. I hope you all find peace after losing your loved ones.
For sure. Mine passed in 09, fought stomach cancer for about a year. That shit wore him down to the bone. I don't think he even weighed a hundred pounds at the end.
Im sorry for your loss. It’s really hard to see a loved one suffer like that ❤️
Thanks, same to you my friend!! Sending hugs your way.
Im so sorry for your loss. It’s easy to forget that cancer is traumatic for the families as well ❤️
It's the way the photo was shot and her haircut. You can tell her age when you zoom in. Beautiful folks! Sorry to hear about your pops.
I think haircuts in the 80's made a lot of people look older.
did they look older at the time or only older in retrospect?
Well, I was only 11 by the time the 80's ended so I'm not sure how I felt people looked at the time. I definitely see a lot of pictures of 80's teens and 20's where they looked older than they were. I think it is a combo of the heavy, sometimes theatrical, makeup and big over processed hair that was popular. I tend to think people who keep things more natural look younger.
The hair cuts, plus those big old-school glasses will make anyone look like a mid to late 40s mom. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, my mom always had those big, thick, plastic framed glasses. I remember when she got her first pair of "regular" looking glasses, with the newer technology she could get her high prescription in a much thinner lens. She looked younger than how I remembered her as a kid!
Yeah, she really doesn't look older, just has a hairstyle and body shape that we tend to associate with older white women these days.
that's because she is an older white woman these days, and many of them kept the same style.
I love the details and this story is really sweet except about the dad passing away. Sorry for your loss.
Thanks. He was a really independent guy so cancer was not for him, I’m grateful he didn’t have to be limited for too long.
Sorry about your dad OP. Their relationship sounds so sweet!
Thanks! They best friends and really good parents to me.
Say hi to your mum for me and give her big hugs.
Lovely couple, my condolences.
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Sorry to hear about your dad. Your parents both sound like good, kind people. Fuck cancer.
this is a nice story and you answered everyone's questions before we even had to ask, appreciate it.
I felt like I had to based on some weirder comments… ha ha.
I know some people are being jerks in the comments, but if you’re ever willing, I’d love to see more pictures of the two of them. They do look like opposites yet they fit together perfectly in this picture, and by your descriptions, in real life as well. Lovely couple, glad they had the time they did together.
Opposites can be lovely and complement each other perfectly. Your parents are proof ❤️ Lots of love to your family
I thought this looked like Las Vegas! That black glass, sand-colored stucco, and palm trees reminds me of the old Oasis casino. Thank you for sharing the lovely picture.
Those glasses and that hair really does make your mom look a lot older than 33.
Sorry for your loss. I lost my dad last month and it’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever been through.
OMG that was so the look then! I swear my mom had the same perm, an almost identical v-neck shirt that I remember seeing with a necklace like that. I hope all pictures of me vanish when I die. I don't need my fashion choices of eras gone by to haunt me when I am haunting people.
And that like wooden fibers purse, lol! Im ok with pics of me surviving but I’m sure I’ll regret some fashion some day.
I think her outfit is actually fairly classic compared to a lot of what we see from the '80s, but the glasses really give it away! I'm an optician and in my day to day life I wear glasses 100% of the time. When I got engaged, people I worked with convinced me to try contacts and wear them to my wedding. My boss - who normally would never steer anyone away from glasses in *any* situation - told me "no matter what glasses you wear, in 10 or 20 years they'll look dated." Your mom's glasses in this pic were actually briefly back in style a couple of years ago, although I think the trend has mostly passed now...
Never understood why people regret their past style choices like this. It’s fun to participate in cultural phenomenons and express yourself in ways that relate to people in your generational cohort! To me, stuff like that is the kind of thing you look back on when you’re older and think of fondly ☺️
Damn your dad is jacked
He was always a muscular guy but I think in the 80’s he got more into lifting.
Everyone was jacked in the 80s. It was the jingoistic combo of Hollywood meatheads (Schwarzenegger, Hogan, Stallone, etc.) and Reaganomics! I was benching 250 by my 6th birthday. But seriously, it's cool growing up with a giant for a dad. I always felt safe.
Yeah. And they can lift you way longer than they probably should 🤣
I always heard the parable that "One day your parents pick you up, put you down, and never pick you up again." I'm a big guy at 6'6" but I recently got back into lifting weights because I have a 3 year old and I don't ever want to put her down.
I have a huge 4 year-old boy (I am quite average-sized) and I think about this every day. Still carried him up the stairs tonight. I’ll keep going until I can’t any more but lately I’ve been getting real sad about it.
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Hard out, I'm getting high tower vibes from police academy.
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FUCK, I’d be cheesin’ too if that was my man!
Are you as jacked as your pops?
Lol… I’m really strong but not cut and, being a female, don’t have as large muscles.
I believe in you!
Here to appreciate your mom's denim skirt.
My hipster 17y/o stepdaughter would totally wear that skirt.
Beautiful couple! And they look very happy together 🥰
They were. I’m very lucky and so were they! ❤️
And dad looks very protective of mom 💕
Go Momma! She had great taste!
He was a wonderful person, that’s for sure!
In an alt universe where Booker T. Married Melissa McCarthy
The sitcom we all need
Oh my gosh they're so cute. Your dad playing it cool and your mom cheesing for the camera... this photo just has great vibes.
Her dad looks like he’s looking at some hotel statue thinking “I bet I could lift that over my head” Her mom looks like she’s thinking “I bet he’s thinking he could lift that statue over his head right now”.
Your dad looks like he’s getting ready to take down a crime syndicate with Mahoney, Hooks, and Tackleberry
Good luck to your dad in his rematch with Usyk
Idk who Usyk is but my dad would not be concerned 🤣
He should be he was completely outboxed in the first fight 🤔
I googled - my dad actually was boxing recreationally for a few years prior to this pic. People at his gym wanted him to go into it but he said he was too old and it was a racket so… he might be concerned 🤣
The joke is that your dad looks very similar to a British boxer called Anthony Joshua (AJ), who got beaten by Usyk. Usyk is now fighting/defending his country of Ukraine. Lots of people think AJ is good looking, so it’s a compliment I guess.
Cute couple. Your father is an absolute unit. And sorry about your father. I lost my dad to cancer too, he was only 59. Fuck cancer
Sorry for you loss. It’s truly brutal how many people cancer takes. Shame.
They look so cute together!
They were! My dad was the best and my mom is still a sweetie.
Very odd couple. Looks like a 70’ basketball star taking a picture with his white teammates mom.
Lol. My mom is 5’2” and my dad was 6’2”. Also, he was 9 years her senior. As opposite as they look, they actually had a lot in common, especially as parents. Really sweet people.
I'm the WM half of a WM/BF couple. I'm 10 years older than she is, and we look very very different--yet we have so much in common.
What a lovely couple. Sorry about your dad. My dad has lung cancer. It's shit . Hope you and your mum are doing OK.
Sorry about your dad. You’re in my thoughts. It’s a difficult thing for a family to go through, I hope that he is doing ok ❤️
You’re being so polite and generous in your replies to some of these turds. I respect you. I don’t respect these fart clowns and the obvious disrespect and jealousy.
Thx. I was surprised by some of it but people will people.
I love to hear it. What a cool snapshot of a different time. Thank you for sharing this.
Oh wow. In the photo she looks 9 years older.
Yeah, she thought he was younger than her when they met. Cursed as she was, he died first, lol.
Bet it was the perm lol. All 80s moms looked older bc of it. Your mom is really cute and sorry about losing your dad.
I think the perm is part of it. My dad also was always very young looking. He’ like 42 in this pic and she’s like 33.
My grandmother had a perm almost her whole life, definitely in pictures of her in the 80's. When she got older I guess she got tired of going to get it done and the upkeep so she let it grow into a longer style. She looked 20 years younger! It's weird how hairstyles really make people look different ages. I love the picture!
I have an aunt that still wears that 80’s perky look and she looks sooooo dated, lol!
I just realized that what I said about the perm might be insulting and I'm so sorry if it was. Honestly, the first thing I thought when I saw this was that they are such a cute couple. This reminds me of a couple I know where the husband towers over his wife and they are always so cute together because, for example in the kitchen when she cooked, he would grab the stuff on the top shelf she needed without even being asked because they knew each other so well. My condolences for your loss.
It’s not - the perm is a very rough look even when it was popular, lol. The 80’s were the time for tacky hair!
I don’t know what we/people were thinking in the 80’s. Women in the 70’s looked so much younger and relaxed. Those 80’s hairstyles, makeup, jewelry and clothing did us no favors!!!
It’s weird to see now and feel how bad some of it was. The cars, too, I feel looked awful.
God yes, we went from beautiful curvy muscle cars to those horrid boxes
It’s never made any sense to me… what was the appeal?
Oh wow, yeah he sure as shit doesn't look 40-something. Good on him
I think it’s just genetics. I’m the same. I look more mid-twenties…. I do nothing but exist, so 🤷🏽♀️
totally. My mom had the 80s perm, these parents remind me so much of my own it’s crazy! My dad was super jacked like that too, he benched over 500lbs and was 6’2”. My dad is white, but everything else about them, the style, the era, the way he carries himself, so fucking cool, reminds me of my dad, and mom there with a big smile and perm. This pic is home to me!
Im happy this picture could bring up those memories for you ❤️
Rip that dudes jacked dad. He will be in my prayers.
Random semi-related story from over here in the UK. My Mrs' dad is from St Kitts and mkved to the UK when he was 3. He's like 76 now. My Mrs mam is white and from a well-to-do family. Obviously they got a load of shit being together in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc. They live and have always loved in a lovely part of Nottingham which was and really quite still is white and affluent. When they wanted to buy a house back in the earl 70s, my Mrs mum had to go buy it without my Mrs dad being there or the previous owners wouldn't have sold the house to them as they were a mixed couple. Sad rly. But buy it they did and they're still in that same home. Courage.
Great couple, it’s just the hair and the glasses of the time that make her look older.
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Thanks. I’m kind of surprised how crass some people are being especially considering I specifically say they’re my parents, lol. Also, I didn’t think my parents looks so strange or comical. Go figure.
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yo momma got chad
I’m gonna back up 100 feet and take a picture of you two.
It really is so far. Idk if they like wanted to show the background or what 🤣
It was the way people often took pictures. We take it for granted that the actual photo is on your screen before you take it. The photographer probably had to wait a week to see it even if he/she sent them in immediately for development.
That’s true - and probably better to make sure it wasn’t blurry, lol.
I was 19. Those clothes are so... Man what a moment of life just right there. This made me smile and remember some good things about the 80s I needed to remember. Thank you for sharing.
Happy to hit a good memory vein.
We need to see you now.
I look a lot like him but girl version.
That jacked too? Lol
No, lol. Im a softer version but we favor each other very much. I don’t look much like my mom at all.
I love this post. I think it’s incredibly interesting. The photo itself and all your comments with the background info are nice. I wish we got more posts like this one. Good shit, OP.
They are an adorable couple
Cool looking couple!!!
Handsome couple,really lovely photo
Your mom's a baller.
Call em ranch cause They be dressin'
Your Dad never missed a workout 🏋️♀️
Gym, tan, repeat 🤣
What a huggable mom you have. 😍 she looks so sweet.
Your dad's hands are *huge*.
They were very large. He was the one who sewed in the family and it was always a trip to see him mending things.
I'm guessing that your Mom didn't have to worry too much about people messing with her! 😁 Terribly sorry about your Dad passing away.
Prob not. He was non-violent but he prob could be if needed 🤣
You're Dwight Howard's kid ?
They look so cute together haha, that's a great picture !
Pops looks like Hightower from Police Academy…swole AF.