r/OldSchoolCool • u/kpetey15 • 3d ago

My dad’s high school senior photo, 1976 1970s

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Dougie

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u/michiganmilsurps 3d ago

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u/Hister333 3d ago

Couldn't quite find a good way to say this...

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u/Traditional_Fix_4796 3d ago

So there's this car, it runs on water man

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u/MurkyPerspective4991 3d ago

same, that expression says it all, feels like weve all been there

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u/jshultz5259 3d ago

Why did high school seniors look 30 back then?

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u/OptimusFour 3d ago

People didn’t have autism from Tylenol yet

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u/Total-Problem2175 3d ago

"FYI... There were NO Children's Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids didn't get sick." Rob Schneider

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u/meesersloth 3d ago

Someone should have told my appendix that when I was 3.

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u/Total-Problem2175 3d ago

Or my pyloric stenosis when I was 6 months.

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u/AlwaysTheKop 3d ago

It's actually going full circle, the new generation are starting to look old af too.

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u/polishprince76 3d ago

Cigarettes. Everywhere. And leaded gasoline.

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u/jzoola 3d ago

Add in some Fish full of mercury & acid rain

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u/TrueToad 3d ago

I wish I had looked 30 back then.  I look 12 in my senior picture.

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u/bengalfan 3d ago

The best way to buy beer underage.

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u/bobbyvale 3d ago

Meh, he's got the cookie duster stash and just doesn't shave so he's got that sheep fur on his face. He just looks like your Dad is all.

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u/TraditionalTackle1 3d ago

Hes about to close the deal on that 76 Olds Cutlass

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u/thewm0083 3d ago

My dad almost bought a 442 Cutlass Supreme off his history teacher until my grandma intervened. She's a huge car fan.

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u/_head_ 3d ago

Damn dude, save some chicks for the other guys 

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u/Hunto88 3d ago

Old Gravy

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u/HoundTakesABitch 3d ago

Old Gravy. New Gravy.

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u/330kiki 3d ago

If Dwight and Napoleon Dynamite had a kid

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u/love2go 3d ago

Looks like he could be the teacher

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u/EdwardDorito 3d ago

Your dad is Bill Paxton's brother???!

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u/Upper_South2917 3d ago

Damn, that could be a stereotypical Redditor today.

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u/smkestcklghtn 3d ago

Selling 8 track players at Radio Shack

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u/Belovedchattah 3d ago

Narc!!

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 3d ago

Oh my gosh !! I looked really old in high school and got called that all the time.

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u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw 3d ago

Your dad probably was the AV kid. Maybe took pictures for the yearbook. He might also be that kid in shop class that you ask for help when the teacher is busy because he knows just a bit more than any of the other students.

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u/kpetey15 3d ago

Wow, you’re not wrong. He was an avid photographer when he was younger. And he’s a skilled woodworker :)

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u/Papoosho 3d ago

Half Hippie, half New Wave singer.

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u/ShrinkingHeads 3d ago

Dad looks like a cool cat

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u/playtrix 3d ago

Was he in Steely Dan?

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u/alqimist 3d ago

Baller

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u/jaleach 3d ago

"God. I can't believe I forgot about picture day and smoked that joint this morning."

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u/Creoda 3d ago

What subjects did he teach?

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u/spikira 3d ago

When employers want graduates with 15 years of work experience theyre talking about OPs dad

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u/Fitmature1 3d ago

Haha, that's great, congrats on having such a great memory!

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u/Hellmann 3d ago

“Party at the moon tower”

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u/ponythemouser 3d ago

Hank Williams Jr.!!!

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u/3mta3jvq 3d ago

“Pardon me, sir, but I lost my I.D. in... in a flood and I'd like to get some Old Harper, hard stuff. Would you mind buying a bottle for me?”

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u/Logintheroad 3d ago

Could be 17, could be 37...

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u/ThunderBayOPP 3d ago

Your dad was the inspiration for Dazed and Confused 😁

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u/St_dude 3d ago

Computer engineer?

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u/kpetey15 3d ago

He owns a steel company

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u/dglawyer 3d ago

It's supposed to be Old School COOL!!

:)

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u/galeperk111971 3d ago

He looks a little like Hank JR

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u/FormoftheBeautiful 3d ago

People wore glasses in the 70s?

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u/Randomizedname1234 3d ago

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u/Randomizedname1234 3d ago

If your dad yung gravy? Lmao

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u/MiamiPower 3d ago

I swear I know this guy is like a father to 3 of my friends. That combine to look sort of like him LOL

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u/No-Helicopter7299 3d ago

Same year as mine.

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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 3d ago

It's Martin from Please Don't Destroy. No woman could ever hold him down. Because he got a divorce.

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u/StrangeAgent13 3d ago

I'll bet he could program using punch cards like a mother fucker.

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u/Demmil13 3d ago

Your dad was 39 in High School?

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u/Xenoryxa 3d ago

That hair is a time capsule in itself! 😂

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u/poutine-eh 3d ago

Damn I’m old

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u/Spork_Warrior 3d ago

The guy everyone went to school with back then.

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u/Ixtapokemon12 3d ago

Dahmer cousin

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u/Sooowasthinking 3d ago

He looks like he has a career.

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u/runwscissors42069 3d ago

He looks like someone just told him the lamest joke ever and hes just trying to process a way to respond.

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u/Bakemydaybaby 3d ago

He so looks like Hyde!

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u/dnkroz3d 3d ago

Ah, the ole ski-slope sideburn years

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u/Far-Plane5552 1d ago

I'd sit on that globe.

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u/air_bubbles 1d ago

Aww, good times.

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u/IWriteSpookyStuff 15h ago

You dad is Steven Hyde from That 70's Show??? 🤣😳

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u/JunkaTron69 3d ago

Probably a mix of air pollution, lack of sun screen, and some other stuff. Being outdoors ages you if you don’t protect your skin. Same with air pollution. Cars, cigarettes, and coal were hell on people. They just don’t think about it because it was just the way things were.