Awesome Old Family Photos (19 pics)
"My father and I carrying the 1984 Olympic torch."
"My second cousin was Tom Cruise’s prom date."
"Fish for dinner. 1979."
"A lifelong Marvel nerd, my father at age 15 meeting Stan Lee in 1975."
"My acrobatically-skilled grandfather lifting my mother in 1958."
"Muhammad Ali came to my family’s home for dinner in 1970."
"My grandmother and John Candy, the actor from Home Alone. She was a secretary for the accounting firm that handled his finances. This was in August 1988."
"Here is my mother with Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Kenny Baker for the premiere of Star Wars in 1977. My mother managed a movie theatre in London in the 1970s."
"My dad used to look like Ashton Kutcher in That ’70s Show."
"My mother at 17. This was her senior portrait. The lady loved her hair so much she took a bunch of pictures for her."
"My aunt and my mom being told that my grandma was pregnant (1955)."
"My grandmother holding a snake, 1941. This picture was in her high school newspaper and got her expelled."
"My friend was a production assistant on The Empire Strikes Back. Here he is on the set in 1979. He never smiled for on-set photos because he was afraid if he showed how excited he was, he’d get fired."
"My dad was a pop star in Argentina. Here he is with Ella Fitzgerald. (Circa mid-1960s)."
"My mom snapped this pic of John Travolta at the Indy 500 after my aunt screamed his name to get him to look their way. They didn’t know they got a perfect shot until the film was developed months later. This was taken in ’88 or ’89."
"This is what hanging out in a college dorm room looked like in 1910. (University of Illinois)"
"Lea Thompson and the guy who owned the ’48 Packard while filming Back to the Future, 1985."
"My mom in the 70’s somewhere in Mexico."
"My dad in the early ’80s."
