re: Pictures from days gone by....

Love how some kids are wearing shoes and others aren't. The US ranked #1 in education back then. Wish I could've experienced that when I was attending public school in Mississippi in the 90s.

I too had the astronauts same lunchbox.

A 100-year-old veteran of the Revolutionary War poses in his uniform, 1861.



In this photo, we see Nicholas Veeder in his Revolutionary War uniform, sitting in front of a local attraction known as the Old Fort or "Veeder's Fort." The stone building housed a collection of artifacts from the war -- including the muskets and "Schenectady Liberty Flag" on display here and was run as a kind of museum by Veeder himself. Known affectionately as "the old soldier," Veeder was a character who led Scotia's annual 4th of July parade in his uniform, and was said to have danced to his favorite old jig, "Soldier's Joy," on his 100th birthday in 1861. He died in 1862.

John Owen, one of the last veterans of the French and Indian War, lived to be 107 and posed for this photograph shortly before his death in 1843.



Because of his extraordinary lifespan, Owen is recognized as one of the earliest-born human beings ever to be captured on film

My dad was a Packard mechanic in the 1930s.