A few weeks ago, I linked to this hilarious ad for Canadian whisky...
Shortly afterward, my mom sent me this photo of my parents in college in Virginia. They had been dating for a year. It's basically the same photo! (Did everyone sit like that in 1972?) It's so funny to see your parents when they were young, before a bunch of rowdy kids came along. My dad had a thick English accent and my mom was from Alabama.P.S. My Parents Were Awesome and Dads Are the Original Hipsters.
HA! I want to be your parents. ;) They're awesome.
ReplyDeleteThey look cute, I wish I had a picture of my parents from when they were young.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, what a great photo and they both look super cool. xo
ReplyDeleteThis makes me want to get my parents' old photos out! :)
ReplyDeletedid your parents go to william and mary?? that's my alma matter! xo.
ReplyDeleteMy parents also sat like that in the 70s. I have photographic evidence!
ReplyDeleteYES, jamie!!!! they loved it. i really wanted to go too, but it was too expensive to go out of state (so i went to the University of Michigan).
ReplyDeletewhy were people so much cooler looking back in the day?
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely couple
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see the William and Mary love on here : )
ReplyDeleteLOL!
ReplyDeleteI have a picture of my mum sat on some chaps knee like that....not actually my father...or maybe it is! HA! AND it was taken in 1972...in a club called the Carousel......cool eh?
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Maybe we should start a flikr group!
Haha, this is great! Definitely matches the advertisement.
ReplyDeleteHaha that's so funny! Adorable picture though and I love the ad. That must be such a pair with a southern accent and an English one.
ReplyDeleteI, too, am a Tribe alumna! Tribe Pride! Love this photo, and love that I know I have several of my folks in the same pose circa the same time. Cute.
ReplyDeleteYour mom looks so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour mom was hot...and Dad needed a shave ;)
ReplyDeletethey're smokin'!
ReplyDeleteyour MOM is so pretty! :)
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Absolutely LOVE this!! I love the pic of your parents. I want to be friends with those cool people! And huge thanks for the links to the site My Parents Were Awesome. I do dream boards for each of my kids (corny, I know) and I've been looking for pics of happy, in love, married couples to represent my biggest dream for them. The house and home pics are easy, but you'd be surprised how hard the other is to come by. Thanks!
ReplyDeletethat's awesome! ha, they should be in the next edition of this advertising ;)
ReplyDeletethat's so awesome! and your parents were such rad looking students.
ReplyDeletedid your parents go to william & mary?? so did i!
ReplyDeleteI love vintage photos so I love this! That ad is hilarious! Your mom was beautiful, too!
ReplyDeletehaha that's such an awesome coincidence! My parents didn't drink or party in college, they were the geeks they met in a study group lol
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I go to William and Mary too!! Love the pic, your parents seem awesome!!
ReplyDeletewow your mom was gorgeous!! great genes. i wish i was young in the 70s... that was the time!!!
ReplyDeletethe ad is hilarious! you have such a beautiful family :)
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Love this picture, I had to comment because William & Mary is my alma mater too! Tribe Pride!:)
ReplyDeletesuch a cute photo :)
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Your parents are so cute! I too love seeing parent photos pre-kid, full-glam!
ReplyDeleteyour parents are hot!
ReplyDeleteThat's absolutely adorable.
ReplyDeleteHow funny! I wish I looked so good in the 70's!
ReplyDeleteYour Mom is quite a dish. I see the beard attraction is an inherited trait. :)
ReplyDeleteYour parents were hotties!
ReplyDeleteThey are fabulous!!!!!!!! Love it.
ReplyDeletehilarious! this is amazing
ReplyDeleteyou're parents are awesome and such hotties!!!
ReplyDeleteMy dad went to William and Mary too!
ReplyDeleteI believe the answer to your question is YES! Every couple sat like that in 1972. I have a picture of my parents to prove it! :)
ReplyDeleteit really is so weird to see the "cool" and young side of your parents (i think it will be funny for my little boy to see pictures of his dad with a mohawk later, too)!
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yes, apparently everyone did sit like that bc I'm fairly certain I have seen multiple photos of my parents like this!
ReplyDeletethis photo is awesome. I always wonder, now that I'm a parent, what my parents were like when I was so little. It makes me wonder how Lucia will feel or what she will think when she is my age and sees photos of Doug and me now and from the last ten years since we've been together! :)
Funny. And what a cute picture of your parents. Your dad is so handsome (looks like you) and your mom is so beautiful.
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I have a very similar picture of my parents in this position! it's so sweet. Do you ever sit on Alex's lap? I am 6'0 tall so I always feel like an oaf plopping down on my man's lap.
ReplyDeleteUm, your parents were smokin' hot. :) I have this one photo of my parents where they're kickin' it all suavecito and wearing the kind of thick-rimmed black glasses that've become so popular again.
ReplyDeleteYour mom was beautiful...and you very much look like her! :)
ReplyDeleteFab pic! :)
so funny! my parents in the same pose back in the day.
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My dad was really was a hipster before I was born. He rocked a handle bar mustache and bell bottom jeans!
ReplyDeleteWow that photo of your mom is beautiful! And I'm pretty sure my dad had the same haircut and facial hair as yours! Funny.
ReplyDeletejen, i know!! totally!!
ReplyDeleteashley, haha, i don't really sit in alex's lap....maybe we should bring this back! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome! We came across a picture of my parents at my mom's prom the other day while cleaning out the basement- hilarious! I love the ad, too.
ReplyDeletewhat a great picture! i found some of my parents on vacation in Acapulco in the 60's so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI know I have a photo of my parents in this same shot, also, but sitting on their brown plaid 70s sofa! Must have been the "it" pose for young couples!
ReplyDeleteSo much Tribe pride on here! I'm at W&M for grad school right now!
ReplyDeleteI have pictures of my parents sitting like this too.. how weird!!
ReplyDeleteWhy only 1972? Me and my husband sit like this :) Why no
ReplyDeleteYour mom could pull off the middle part -- no small feat!
ReplyDeletei love looking at old photos of my parents. they always look like they were just two crazy kids having a good time! it's fun to see my dad with a huge head of curly hair and enormous glasses, and my mom as a gorgeous raven-haired fun-loving maiden. i think if i'd known them back then we would have been great friends :)
ReplyDeleteThere's a picture of my parents from when they met in uni... My dad was shaggy and unshaven, and mum had on the shortest shorts ever made. And she was sitting on his leg just like that! Tut tut! Hehehe! I like to tease her about showing my grandparents and getting them into trouble.
ReplyDeleteYour mom is beautiful! And that's awesome she's from Alabama - me, too :)
ReplyDeleteSuch a great ad campaign.
ReplyDeleteTotally have my parents in a pic from 1985 like that too! LOL!
ReplyDeleteThey're so cute! I love looking at old pics of my parents. Yours look a little like my parents... and my dad's from England too, my mum's from New York.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just the beard... but I kinda think Alex looks like your dad! Too cute!!! :)
ReplyDeleteYou really have the cutest parents and the prettiest mom. Love that they went to W&M; I cover the college for a local publication!
ReplyDeleteAhhh! Joanna, I heart your blog and seeing that your parents went to W&M just made my day! It's my alma mater as of this past spring! I miss it so much already. At Northwestern now..but the Tribe will always be near and dear to my heart. Have a great day!! xoxo.
ReplyDeleteWell, apparently that was THE way to sit with your fella back in the day because I, too, have a pic of my parents just like that...complete with cocktails to boot! They were quite the hipsters! Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteYes, they must have. My Dad has told me a story about how my mom's ex-boyfriend stopped by soon after my Mom and Dad started dating and she was sitting on his lap when the doorbell rang.
ReplyDeleteOMG. I had forgotten. I'm from that time period and we DID sit like that. In cars, before bucket seats, we also "pushed over"and sat close to our boyfriends.
ReplyDeleteYour parents are adorable!
simply hilarious. my roommate stole this sign from a bar last year. it currently hangs in our kitchen!
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This is awesome! Your parents look so cool.
ReplyDeleteIt's really remarkable to see how much you look like both of your parents! Whenever you post pictures of them you can really, really see each shining through you! So cool (plus, I can also see them in Toby, which is totally amazing! Ahhh! Families are so cool!)
ReplyDeleteSo cute...love the photo! And...where in Alabama is your Mom from? I'm from Alabama and live here now...and irronically I visited William and Mary my senior year, unfortunately it was too expensive for me too!
ReplyDeleteDid you know that your parents are some of my favorite blog parents? Because they are, even without actually knowing them.
ReplyDeleteSo funny! Love the picture. I took some classes at William and Mary! Love the shirt.
ReplyDeleteI love your parents' pic SO MUCH!
ReplyDeleteThey are so cute! I love that they went to William and Mary! My alma mater as well. Tribe Pride!!
ReplyDeleteyour mom is so fabulous. Absolutely gorgeous. I saw some of her photos after she gave birth. also very pretty!!!
ReplyDeleteI read your blog every day and got so excited when I saw William & Mary on your dad's tee. I just graduated a couple years ago and loved every minute of it!
ReplyDeleteit's really funny.. :)
ReplyDeleteyour parents look so stylish !
ReplyDeleteAhem, your Dad looks just like Alex. *runs* x
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing photo! x
ReplyDeleteyou look so much like both of them. :) your mother is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYes they did!! I have a photo of my parents when they were dating and my mom is on my dads lap same pose - with a drink in his hand - cant remember what is was - either whiskey or a traditional indian drink made from pot! (legal)
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable! I'll post it (with permission from my parents first ofcourse) on my blog as well for you to see Jo!
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Gahh! Your parents went to William and Mary?? That's where I grew up! Too funny. Have you ever been to the Cheese Shop??
ReplyDeletethat's such a sweet picture! -JB.
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love this! especially since i went to w&m. i wonder where they were ... i feel like i have a similar picture from 1999...
ReplyDeleteyour parents are so cute! and look at that mini skirt your mom is wearing!
ReplyDeleteamynicole, that is the sweetest! :) thank you! i'm going to tell them, haha. Emily, my mom lived in both Huntsville and Montgomery. we actually lived in Huntsville for a year, too, when i was 3 years old! :) and so awesome that so many of you are connected to W&M!!!!! it's the most beautiful school. after my parents got married, they lived in a house with the address number 101 1/2, because it was so teeny! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm in class at William and Mary reading this blog (bad I know, but its the last day of class)!!! So happy to see the Tribe love!
ReplyDeleteYour mom is so freaking beautiful and your dad oozes cool! This photo is great and you're so right I think all of our parents posed like this one!! Great post it brings back memories of my childhood! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI know it's meant to be funny, but I find the ad to be sexist! I was wondering if anyone else felt that way. I promise I'm not a lame person who doesn't get it, it just doesn't sit well with me.
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm from Montgomery orginally but live in Birmingham now. Small world!
ReplyDeletep.s. I love your holiday cards!
Aimee, yes! I scrolled through every single comment, too, waiting for someone to raise an eyebrow at that ad. From the first moment I saw this a few years back, that ad has angered and disappointed me. Thanks for piping up; I'm with you 100%.
ReplyDeleteJoanna, the photo of your parents though--without the belittling copy--is sweet and adorable.
This is so fun!! This has inspired me to dig up some old photos of my parents - lets just talk about my Dad's bush of a mustache he sported on his wedding day...
ReplyDeleteYeah William and Mary!!! They are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteMy father is actually going to be in the Hipster dads book! I'm so excited to see that!
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely photo of your parents.....very cute and so much in love. It's nice to have these photos to see the start of somebodys story together
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My dad is from Manchester and swept my momma off her Long Island feet in sunny California :)
ReplyDeleteI think girls sitting on their boys laps was a "thing" in the 70's. I distinctly remember seeing a photo of my mother's cousin sitting on her (soon to be) husband's lap from this era. And, I recall when I was little that my mother used to sit on my dad's lap casually, usually in the evening when we were relaxing after dinner. Aren't there scenes like this in moves from this era, too (60's, 70s)? I think it highlighted the petiteness of the woman, a la Twiggy.
ReplyDeleteI just saw this picture of your parents and got really excited. I'm a senior at W&M now. Seeing our name where I little expect it brings a little cheer to exam season.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Tribe Pride! Another W&M alumna reader here who loves your blog.
ReplyDeletetoo funny, i have a photo of my parents from the 70's in this same pose, plastic cups in hand... it just must of been the go!! bring it back x
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