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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBlast from the past: photo of me and my daughter in Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1968
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15B4S0mUE1HbnYigSbj9fpJUe3KsuevQt/view?usp=sharingSummer of 1968: MLK and Bobby Kennedy assassinated, riots in DC, Chicago, Baltimore. The computer mouse was invented. The Beatles White Album appeared.
AZJonnie
(3,738 posts)biophile
(1,436 posts)I was 12 that year! My mom and dad divorced that year. I remember the assassinations (never cared much about the Beatles, though)
Clouds Passing
(8,007 posts)underpants
(196,661 posts)MIButterfly
(2,829 posts)I was 14 in the summer of 1968, about to turn 15 in October. That was quite the year.
Thank you for sharing this picture with us!
malaise
(296,497 posts)Sweet😀
CTyankee
(68,260 posts)Solly Mack
(96,982 posts)LoisB
(13,118 posts)CTyankee
(68,260 posts)Lochloosa
(16,751 posts)CTyankee
(68,260 posts)oldsoldierfadingfast
(288 posts)neither of us is old! We are just got trapped in old ladies bodies and can't find the exit door!
1968-I was 28, 2yrs. married and living in Manhattan.
Lochloosa
(16,751 posts)Then I could have chased after you.
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some_of_us_are_sane
(3,268 posts)ms liberty
(11,263 posts)There are photos of her in that time period that your photograph reminds me of.
TBF
(36,804 posts)I would've been turning 2 that summer
My mom would've been 24, and my dad 22. My dad is still doing well up in Wisconsin.
littlemissmartypants
(33,857 posts)What I wouldn't give to go back in time and be with my mother again. ❤️
senseandsensibility
(25,052 posts)niyad
(132,712 posts)with us.
I turned 18 that tumultuous year. So many painful memories.
Mblaze
(1,072 posts)That is a wonderful picture. Thanks for sharing it.
Tom Dyer
(373 posts)The White Album
gademocrat7
(11,960 posts)Thank you for sharing it.
orleans
(36,983 posts)i love your expression, and your daughter's expression, and the nature background.
so where are you? (backyard, picnic table, park?)
what are you and your daughter doing?
CTyankee
(68,260 posts)CaptainTruth
(8,217 posts)MLAA
(19,758 posts)yankee87
(2,830 posts)Treasure that 4 ever.
BTW, Mount Saint Micheal Academy grad here.