Pictures from high school

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hedge36@reddit

House burned down while I was in A school, no photos survived.

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hedge36@reddit

Thanks, though honestly my own memories are bad enough - I'm not sure photographic evidence would be a good thing lol

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I had quite a bit because my father had been a newspaper photographer and there was always a darkroom set up at the house, but not sure what happened to them. Since I moved so many times after I moved out. I had one where a friend was holding a bag of weed, printed like sixty copies and used it as a postcard until I ran out and couldn’t find the negative anymore.

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Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit

I would never take pictures of people i didn't even like

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fbombmom_@reddit

I don't have any other than what my dad took. My parents were cheap and wouldn't have bought me a camera if I had asked, and wouldn't have paid for film or developing. I wish I had some good pictures to share with my kids.

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FunnyKozaru@reddit

Kinda glad some of the stuff wasn’t captured on film, but yeah I wish I took more photos in high school, the military, and college.

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CountHonorius@reddit

I'm guessing they must've been strict about taking photos in the military. My uncle served in Vietnam and took some great pics in BW of Saigon, his barracks, USO shows...

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FunnyKozaru@reddit

Not so strict, just a pain in the ass to take a cameras with film everywhere.

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Marino325@reddit

I wish I had more pictures of my room.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Luckily I did take some, showing my assembled model kits, the desk where I wrote my novels, and the LOTR posters on my walls. Good times.

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jetty_junkie@reddit

I wish I had pictures of my first three cars. Who would have ever thought you’d end up feeling nostalgic about things like that?

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BaldGuy813@reddit

Good grief I don't think I have even ONE picture of my childhood bedroom. I would love to see it !

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FyreSign@reddit

I have lots actually. I always had a disposable camera on me back in the day. *my Polaroid was too heavy and chunky

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CountHonorius@reddit

Had a Polaroid Colorpak III that a relative had discarded - I would buy black and white Polaroid film and take landscape shots. They've all faded now.

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formercotsachick@reddit

I have a lot only because I was in a ton of dance classes, so I have a bunch of recital photos and portraits. Other than that there's not much though.

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lollroller@reddit

I still have a couple hundred from high school. Mostly from events (dances, parties, trips, etc…). We really didn’t have cameras around for the day-to-day watching like we do now. And I’m truly grateful for the film shots that we took, and somehow still have.

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CountHonorius@reddit

It's hard to explain to people today, isn't it? The camera was a sacred item that would come out for family gatherings or on trips. Developing wasn't exactly cheap, either, so no idle photos of food.

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defStef@reddit

I have so many - I worked in a 1-hr photo lab so … yeah

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CountHonorius@reddit

The little booths in the parking lot? Loved those places.

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jtrades69@reddit

this is how this showed up on my screen

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73rd-virgin@reddit

What in the H P Lovecraft is that?!?

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CountHonorius@reddit

Dagon's Daughter!

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Obwyn@reddit

I have quite a few, but that's mostly because I was in marching band, my dad was usually volunteering, and he never went anywhere without his camera. I have a some others from just hanging out with friends, but no where near as many, and alot of those I'm not in because I was often the one with a camera taking pics.

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CountHonorius@reddit

That's right - band parents and team parents took a lot of snaps back then.

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Nkengaroo@reddit

Someone I went to high school with has a TON of pictures from back then, and he brings them to every reunion. It's awesome to see them! But personally, I have maybe 3.

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CountHonorius@reddit

That's right, some had slides of events and displayed them in events. I have some Super 8 flm from high school...one of them a 'movie' made with some kids. The protagonists went on to become very famous adults, too.

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mom2ajs5@reddit

I have a few. I wish I had more! I’m so happy I didn’t grow up in the digital age, but I do wish I had more pictures of those days.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Sadly a lot of them got lost during the age of Kodak Disc Cameras - those nightmare machines took poor pics and some people never bothered developing those reels. C110 and C126 were the standard.

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Starkville@reddit

I have a bunch! It helped that my school had a photo lab and my BFF had cameras and film with her, quite often.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Yeah, the Yearbook Club kids toted cameras for 'nun approved' events. Our school didn't have a lab - the archdiocese knew better than allowing us to have access to chemicals, lol.

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beavertoothtiger@reddit

I didn’t actually go to high school but I had a little Kodak camera that I carried with me most of the time. So I have lots of pictures. Sadly, I now mostly pull out the photo albums when another friend dies and we need pictures for their memorial.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Yes, it's a sad duty, but it means so much to friends and relatives. Good on you!

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Historical_Project86@reddit

Nothing from high school, and maybe 30 or 40 photos from university.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Interesting - I have a fistful of university photos, that's all.

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CountHonorius@reddit

I would bring a camera to school against rules (parochial school) and take candid shots of classmates. You were only allowed to bring cameras to sporting events, which I avoided. Parents took a lot of pics of their children in competitive situations.

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Phobos1982@reddit

I have boxes of photos and a few photo albums from back in the day.

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19Bronco93@reddit

I’ll have to do some digging but I remember going through quite a few disposable cameras back then.

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MoiraRose2021@reddit

“Back in our day”…😂
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WingZombie@reddit

I have like 20 photos of me from 5 years old until 25 years old. My wife loves pictures and had tons of pictures and videos from her childhood

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worstpartyever@reddit

I’m the youngest of five. My go-to joke is my baby pictures and high school graduation were on the same roll of film.

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WingZombie@reddit

Ha! Youngest if 3 and that sounds pretty accurate for me. I’ll be using that one.

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Phantomtastic@reddit

I think I have three or four from then but I’m not in any of them. My yearbook photo is from junior high, I never sat for a photo during high school so they just kept using the one they had. No graduation photos, I didn’t go. I’m also a middle child so there are few photos of me growing up. The first child is always exciting so they take a lot of photos. The shine wears off by the time the second shows up. They realize the third is the last so they want to capture all the moments they missed with the first two.

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

🙋‍♀️ I do! Mainly because they weren't expensive for me. My mom worked as a specialist photo finisher and freelance photographer from 82 to 98 in 🇨🇦. We got half price 📷, half price film and free developing. I attended small private schools; where I was the school photographer at. Donations from my mom. I graduated from high school in 94. My mom also kept almost the negatives of the film she proceeded for family. In case anyone wanted re-prints. Those really came in handy; when my relatives house burned to the ground in 99. My mom was able to print many old family photos for them.

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squirtloaf@reddit

I have a bunch of baby pictures, then maybe 40 from 5-25.

After that I started playing in bands, so there are a ton.

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Dogzillas_Mom@reddit

Maybe a handful aside from whatever is in the yearbooks.

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hapster85@reddit

I don't, but I think my wife does. In a box. Somewhere.

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Bassoobaru@reddit

We were poor. Hardly any.

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Gretel_Cosmonaut@reddit

I have "zillions" from the teens and early 20's ...but there were no "preview" or "delete" options, so maybe just a few I wouldn't mind showing other people.

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rbrumble@reddit

Other than yearbooks, I have no pics. Likely the purpose of yearbooks in the first place.

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Bob_12_Pack@reddit

I have a bunch from middle school because I was a shutterbug and in the photography club. I didn't continue with that in high school.

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lidder444@reddit

I have quite a lot . Went to boarding school so we would get bored and take photos

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IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit

I have zero. Yes, zero.

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

I’d have to dig in my closet to go through the numerous photo albums that I have going back at least three generations (both of my parents and both sets of my grandparents are deceased and I am an only child) so I inherited all of their crap. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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migraine24-7@reddit

My family has always been big into documenting things through photos. I would borrow the family camera and eventually had my own, so I have countless photos throughout my childhood. It was one of the few luxeries I spent my babysitting money on. Once things became digital and everyone started taking photos, I lost interest and don't really keep as many as an adult (ironic I know).

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Fun-Position7750@reddit

I may have 2. My mom’s place flooded with everything we had. So I really never got back a lot of my childhood items or memories.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

I used to have an absolute ton of black and white pics from my years on the yearbook staff. At the end of the school year, our advisor would let us keep photos that ended up not being needed, and I must have collected a good hundred or more. Unfortunately, they were all destroyed during a basement flood a few years ago, so all I have now are my actual yearbooks.

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EyeSuspicious777@reddit

My high school and college photography work was also destroyed in a basement flood!

I've got two archival boxes of Polaroids and one roll of slide film left from that time.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

Hurricane Isaiah did my husband and me dirty. At least my yearbooks were in a different part of the house - his was in the basement and developed mold.

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EyeSuspicious777@reddit

Oh yeah, one yearbook survived too. Senior year and I was one of the photo editors, so me and my friends are well.represented.

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Cool-Impression007@reddit

About 3 😢

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ThisIsMyUsername303@reddit

I’m at the young end of X and have maybe 5-10?

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sysaphiswaits@reddit

I have a picture on my phone, that I took of a physical photo of my best friend and I from high school that I took when I was visiting another mutual friend a few years ago.

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Equivalent_Gap_805@reddit

Lost mine when my home flooded.

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railworx@reddit

I have or had a few from class trips & things, that was about it

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jetty_junkie@reddit

Same

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REO_Studwagon@reddit

Lost most of them over the years.

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My1point5cents@reddit

Quite a few from high school. I was in the yearbook club and a school photographer from 7th-10th grade and also had my own camera. I also knew how to develop film in a dark room. But I regret not taking more in college. I had way more fun by in college and had lots of friends, but have very few photos of that era.

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newpthankstho@reddit

I have a decent little collection. We moved around a lot before high school and preserving memories was something i was a little obsessed with. I didn’t have a lot of money, or else i would probably have a lot more! I am kinda grateful i don’t have more, yanno, some shenanigans need not be recorded!

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