Was I really this cool once? Old Pic
Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:24 pm
Yeah, this was back in 87 or 88 at Brown Field in San Diego.
Ok, lets see your old "I was soooo cool" pics!
Ok, lets see your old "I was soooo cool" pics!
Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:38 pm
This is gonna be fun
Here I am as a young lad with my Lego blimp
Next up is playing in my first band (I'm on the left and I have naturally curly hair)
And to make up for that here's one playing in my last band after I stripped my guitar and repainted it with Testors Olive Drab spray paint.
Here I am as a young lad with my Lego blimp
Next up is playing in my first band (I'm on the left and I have naturally curly hair)
And to make up for that here's one playing in my last band after I stripped my guitar and repainted it with Testors Olive Drab spray paint.
Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:55 pm
Yeah! You should have worn the Coors shirt when playing with the band!
Here is another one I found of my insane coolness back in the 80's
I wonder what that yellow tape was for?
Here is another one I found of my insane coolness back in the 80's
I wonder what that yellow tape was for?
Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:16 pm
Fun thread, Jesse!
Here is one Ellen shot of me at the Anderson, S.C. 250 Outdoor Nationals in '87, being lapped by Ricky Johnson.
It's kind of a cool photo now, but at the time it was a sobering fact that I was a really slow old man compared to RJ, Jeff Ward, and the like. (And the fast guys would lap me four times in a 30-minute-plus-2-lap moto.
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Scott
Here is one Ellen shot of me at the Anderson, S.C. 250 Outdoor Nationals in '87, being lapped by Ricky Johnson.
It's kind of a cool photo now, but at the time it was a sobering fact that I was a really slow old man compared to RJ, Jeff Ward, and the like. (And the fast guys would lap me four times in a 30-minute-plus-2-lap moto.
)
Scott
Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:18 pm
Scott,
Just being able to ride with them and watch them ride must have been a treat. You think you were slow, you should have seen me in the trails here in Michigan...I think I have "tree radar!"
Regards,
Mark
Just being able to ride with them and watch them ride must have been a treat. You think you were slow, you should have seen me in the trails here in Michigan...I think I have "tree radar!"
Regards,
Mark
Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:06 pm
Man I am getting old, Vice President Bush 198? and the biggest Fish I ever caught at only 13 years old 41lbs 44" long Striper 40 minutes to pull in on a jetty....
Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:17 pm
Me and my play airplane!!!
Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:24 pm
Dang it was hot, humid and the cloud deck wouldn't lift for another hour..
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:38 pm
1987 huh???? Well here's Dec. 1985 
CO 017 RTC-NTC San Diego, CA and I paid for that freaking hair cut
18 months later and I'm Joe Cool!
P-3C update III VP-40 NAS Misawa, Japan
CO 017 RTC-NTC San Diego, CA and I paid for that freaking hair cut
18 months later and I'm Joe Cool!
P-3C update III VP-40 NAS Misawa, Japan
Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:12 pm
I don't have any photos of myself earlier than the mid 90s as my folks still have them and I have gotten around to asking they send them to me...
Right after a P-51 ride to Panama City, Florida in formation with the Collings B-17 and B-24:
Me to the right, with "Boeing Bee" at Renton, 2003:
With my 1944 Willys Jeep a week after I bought it, 1999:
Gettysburg, 1998 (taken at Devil's Den):
Active duty, Fort Lewis, New Year's Day, 1999 (and seriously hung over):
I have a series of prints somewhere of me breaching a door with a SF unit and going in with an MP-5 into the "kill house" going full auto. I gotta dig those up, they're my "ultimate bada$$" photos...
Right after a P-51 ride to Panama City, Florida in formation with the Collings B-17 and B-24:
Me to the right, with "Boeing Bee" at Renton, 2003:
With my 1944 Willys Jeep a week after I bought it, 1999:
Gettysburg, 1998 (taken at Devil's Den):
Active duty, Fort Lewis, New Year's Day, 1999 (and seriously hung over):
I have a series of prints somewhere of me breaching a door with a SF unit and going in with an MP-5 into the "kill house" going full auto. I gotta dig those up, they're my "ultimate bada$$" photos...
Just as cool the second time, 40 years later...
Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:30 pm
Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:49 pm
I can play at this one. I was cool once too
RAF Coltishall 1985. 41 Squadron reuinion, in the B of B Flight Spitfire II in 41 Squadron markings
And lucky enough to be the only non 41 Squadron Spitfire driver in the group photo
Sadly many of these guys are no longer with us
RAF Coltishall 1985. 41 Squadron reuinion, in the B of B Flight Spitfire II in 41 Squadron markings
And lucky enough to be the only non 41 Squadron Spitfire driver in the group photo
Sadly many of these guys are no longer with us
Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:21 am
OK, I'll play along --
1994 - Me in Dr. Bill Andersons P-40E (N940AK)
Me in the CAF HE-111 at Geneseo (1995)
Me before my first B-24 ride - Nashua, NH (1997)
Self portrait, first solo cross country, Cessna 152 (1998) - *Love the glasses*
Flying right seat in a Falcon 50 to Lincoln, NE (1999)
Flying from Milwaukee to NH in an 8KCAB Decathlon (2002)
1994 - Me in Dr. Bill Andersons P-40E (N940AK)
Me in the CAF HE-111 at Geneseo (1995)
Me before my first B-24 ride - Nashua, NH (1997)
Self portrait, first solo cross country, Cessna 152 (1998) - *Love the glasses*
Flying right seat in a Falcon 50 to Lincoln, NE (1999)
Flying from Milwaukee to NH in an 8KCAB Decathlon (2002)
Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:36 am
mtpopejoy wrote:Scott,
Just being able to ride with them and watch them ride must have been a treat. You think you were slow, you should have seen me in the trails here in Michigan...I think I have "tree radar!"
Regards,
Mark
Nope. Getting lapped stinks on ice no matter who does it to you. I learned a lot about picking lines and other techniques watching them go by at warp 9. I've always been pretty competitive, and racing in my first National was a sobering revelation to me. The only real fun was sitting in line waiting for the check at the payback window. For three-digit numbers like me, finishing close to the top twenty was a near-victory.
Looking back, I did take out Mike Fisher at Millville in the first turn of a 500 moto one time--that was kind of fun since he was sort of a teammate of mine!
Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:09 am
Here's one I've posted before. Selfridge AFB, 2 July, 1977..my dad took me and a couple of freinds to the airshow. This was the first time I'd ever seen a real B-17. The CAF was there with TR (sans turrets, and in that awful puke green paint job) AM927, and Fifi. My buddies and I were huge "Ba Ba Blacksheep" fans, and we were totally stoked to see a real Corsair, and some "real" Zeroes (when we learned they were actually modified Texans, it was kind of like finding out Santa wasn't real.)
I'm the one on the right, trying to look cool..my buddy Garry is the one in the groovy plaid polyester slacks. Incidentally, I still have that CAF souvenier book (albeit considerably more beat up.)
Here's one from a couple of years later out in front of the NMUSAF. I'm the one in the middle with "that '70s hair." My buddy Garry is on right, with a horrifically politically incorrect Confederate flag hat, and his brother Larry is on the left.
Cheers!
Steve
I'm the one on the right, trying to look cool..my buddy Garry is the one in the groovy plaid polyester slacks. Incidentally, I still have that CAF souvenier book (albeit considerably more beat up.)
Here's one from a couple of years later out in front of the NMUSAF. I'm the one in the middle with "that '70s hair." My buddy Garry is on right, with a horrifically politically incorrect Confederate flag hat, and his brother Larry is on the left.
Cheers!
Steve