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CTyankee

(68,315 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:04 PM Apr 8

Blast from the past: photo of me and my daughter in Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1968

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15B4S0mUE1HbnYigSbj9fpJUe3KsuevQt/view?usp=sharing
Summer of 1968: MLK and Bobby Kennedy assassinated, riots in DC, Chicago, Baltimore. The computer mouse was invented. The Beatles White Album appeared.

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Blast from the past: photo of me and my daughter in Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1968 (Original Post) CTyankee Apr 8 OP

Coupla cutie-pies! AZJonnie Apr 8 #1

Lovely photo! biophile Apr 8 #2

Adorable 🥰 Clouds Passing Apr 8 #3

❤️ underpants Apr 8 #4

Great picture! Beautiful mother and daughter. MIButterfly Apr 8 #5

When we were young malaise Apr 8 #6

Thank you. That was quite a year... CTyankee Apr 8 #7

Love the photo! Solly Mack Apr 8 #8

That is a very lovely photograph. I love those glasses. LoisB Apr 8 #9

Thanks. The glasses were so "in" then. And the dress was a minidress, another hallmark fashion of the late '60s. CTyankee Apr 8 #10

Damn....where was i in 68. Oh yeah, 11. Lochloosa Apr 8 #11

I know. I'm old... CTyankee Apr 8 #12

We are about the same age... oldsoldierfadingfast Apr 8 #22

Lol. I think you took that wrong. I wish i had been 22. Lochloosa Apr 8 #26

Beautiful! some_of_us_are_sane Apr 8 #13

Beautiful! I think my MiL had those exact glasses! ms liberty Apr 8 #14

That's a beautiful photo - TBF Apr 8 #15

Thanks for sharing this, CTyankee. littlemissmartypants Apr 8 #16

Wow! You both look like movie stars! senseandsensibility Apr 8 #17

Two very special people. Thank you for sharing that lovely photo niyad Apr 8 #18

And I was drafted. Mblaze Apr 8 #19

Man... Tom Dyer Apr 8 #20

Precious photo! gademocrat7 Apr 8 #21

i LOVE that photo! orleans Apr 8 #23

We were outside on a deck on the back of our house. I forget exactly what we were doing...I'll ask her! CTyankee Apr 9 #29

Beautiful, just beautiful! CaptainTruth Apr 8 #24

Beautiful! MLAA Apr 8 #25

Beautiful yankee87 Apr 8 #27

Wow! Beautiful picture of mother and daughter! Hey Joe Apr 8 #28

AZJonnie

(3,834 posts)

1. Coupla cutie-pies!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:09 PM

Apr 8

biophile

(1,481 posts)

2. Lovely photo!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:09 PM

Apr 8

I was 12 that year! My mom and dad divorced that year. I remember the assassinations (never cared much about the Beatles, though)

Clouds Passing

(8,089 posts)

3. Adorable 🥰

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:11 PM

Apr 8

underpants

(196,859 posts)

4. ❤️

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:12 PM

Apr 8

MIButterfly

(2,927 posts)

5. Great picture! Beautiful mother and daughter.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:27 PM

Apr 8

I was 14 in the summer of 1968, about to turn 15 in October. That was quite the year.

Thank you for sharing this picture with us!

malaise

(296,986 posts)

6. When we were young

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:29 PM

Apr 8

Sweet😀

CTyankee

(68,315 posts)

7. Thank you. That was quite a year...

Reply to malaise (Reply #6)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:38 PM

Apr 8

Solly Mack

(97,087 posts)

8. Love the photo!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:42 PM

Apr 8

LoisB

(13,172 posts)

9. That is a very lovely photograph. I love those glasses.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:02 PM

Apr 8

CTyankee

(68,315 posts)

10. Thanks. The glasses were so "in" then. And the dress was a minidress, another hallmark fashion of the late '60s.

Reply to LoisB (Reply #9)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:07 PM

Apr 8

Lochloosa

(16,771 posts)

11. Damn....where was i in 68. Oh yeah, 11.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:15 PM

Apr 8

CTyankee

(68,315 posts)

12. I know. I'm old...

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #11)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:18 PM

Apr 8

oldsoldierfadingfast

(307 posts)

22. We are about the same age...

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #12)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:45 PM

Apr 8

neither of us is old! We are just got trapped in old ladies bodies and can't find the exit door!

1968-I was 28, 2yrs. married and living in Manhattan.

Lochloosa

(16,771 posts)

26. Lol. I think you took that wrong. I wish i had been 22.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #12)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:58 PM

Apr 8

Then I could have chased after you. I

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,373 posts)

13. Beautiful!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:29 PM

Apr 8

Both you and your daughter. (How could so much time have gone past, right?)

ms liberty

(11,297 posts)

14. Beautiful! I think my MiL had those exact glasses!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:32 PM

Apr 8

There are photos of her in that time period that your photograph reminds me of.

TBF

(36,903 posts)

15. That's a beautiful photo -

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:53 PM

Apr 8

I would've been turning 2 that summer

My mom would've been 24, and my dad 22. My dad is still doing well up in Wisconsin.

littlemissmartypants

(34,070 posts)

16. Thanks for sharing this, CTyankee.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:04 PM

Apr 8

What I wouldn't give to go back in time and be with my mother again. ❤️

senseandsensibility

(25,224 posts)

17. Wow! You both look like movie stars!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:05 PM

Apr 8

Thanks for sharing. I might be around your daughter's age and kind of looked like that in 1968.

niyad

(133,232 posts)

18. Two very special people. Thank you for sharing that lovely photo

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:15 PM

Apr 8

with us.

I turned 18 that tumultuous year. So many painful memories.

Mblaze

(1,091 posts)

19. And I was drafted.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:21 PM

Apr 8

That is a wonderful picture. Thanks for sharing it.

Tom Dyer

(383 posts)

20. Man...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:39 PM

Apr 8

The White Album…

gademocrat7

(11,987 posts)

21. Precious photo!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:42 PM

Apr 8

Thank you for sharing it.

orleans

(37,056 posts)

23. i LOVE that photo!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:50 PM

Apr 8

i love your expression, and your daughter's expression, and the nature background.

so where are you? (backyard, picnic table, park?)
what are you and your daughter doing?