- 1961 – Six Flags opens their first park ever. How awesome is that?!?! I love roller coasters and amusement parks.
- 1774 – Jason Priestly discovers oxygen. I joke. It was his great-great-great grandfather Joseph Priestley.
- 1941 – The Jeep is born! Beep, beep, who's got the keys to my Jeep? Vroooom!
- 1972 – Dubyah gets suspended from the Air National Guard. Sure he just missed a medical exam, but it's fun to point out his flaws.
- 1970 – Jesse Burkes, Jr. weds Stephanie Madison in a beautiful ceremony 70's style. This one's the most important this day in history. :-) Would have been 38 years today. Kinda nutty. MommaShyner got married at 20! DaddyShyner was a great big 25. Weren't they rocking their gear? Bwahaha, just noticed that their cake toppers are white. Funny, I knew I wanted an outside wedding (even though theirs was technically in the church) long before I saw these pictures. I'm such a rebel. No gown, no veil, probably no white.
Happy Anniversary (in spirit), Mom and Dad!
I LOVE looking at other people's old family pics! what a beautiful bride and handsome groom. Oh I see dad's rocking the pink/salmon/red? ruffled tux shirt! Stylin! My parents don't even have a wedding photo. 🙁
pretty cake too, it's so talllll. they probably only had white cake toppers back then. :-$
Thank you. 🙂
I seem to recall it being a salmon color because I remember seeing it in the house one day or another. No photo? Oh noes!
Love that cake. In my tradition of going non-traditional, I'm shooting for baked alaska for ours (in Florida..ha!). I'm sure they only had white ones then. 1970 in Pennsylvania where the rednecks reside? Yeah, only white ones. 🙂
You're from Pennsyltucky too? (or at least your parents?) I live just outside Philly and my dad is from the city but my mom is from up in the coal cracking region (near The Office, Scranton area). I don't think I knew that about you or else I just plum forgot.
Oh, I'm from Pennsyltucky for realz! I was born and raised in the southwest corner. Not quite Ohio and too close too West Virginia. But I'll claim Pittsburgh for life!
I probably haven't mentioned the exact location very often.
Oh and my parents just had a small wedding (I don't *think* it was a shotgun wedding!) like 10 people or something but still, not ONE photo? My mom kept her dress though, it was a 2 piece lacy knee length thing, it was pretty. I bet she looked cute.
Oh wow, the REAL Pennsyltucky! 😉
From the photos (the other ones), I don't think the wedding was huge. I'm guessing there were maybe 30 or so people there but they were mostly family and stuff. I wonder if I could Photoshop some color back into those bad boys.
Awesome though, that your mom kept her dress. I'm all for bucking the trends of traditional stuff. I thought that my mom still had hers but I'm not sure any more. Thanks for bringing that up. I'll have to ask her. Maybe she'll be able to incorporate a piece of it into my toga. 🙂
oh that would be so cool!
I think my mom chucked the dress a few years ago or last year when she moved, it had deteriorated.
I'm all for bucking tradition as well, so rock on with all that!! I do love seeing the old traditional wedding pics though, esp. from the 70s and even 80s (CRINGE CITY!!!)
Lovely Photo-So reminiscent of my parents wedding photos. Was that in BV?
I know that the wedding was in BV over on Henry street so I can only guess that the reception wasn't far away. I'd say it was at our house but the trees don't look exactly right. 🙂
It looked like a beatiful wedding-your mom–soooo pretty.
GORGEOUS pic. 🙂
Aww, I'll say thanks for her. She stops by occasionally but she won't set up a blog to comment, so thanks from both of us.
Thanks! I have to look into seeing if I can get the whole bunch of them restored somehow.
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