When you’re dad was a kid.

[gstours]

Here's a rushed picture that had a nostalgic pull for me as I grew up in the post boom era .  Butt someone may see some romance to the day pictured below.  My gramps did not need fancy stuff to go fishing.  There were always going to be lots of fish and trees 🌲,  rain gear had no manufactured name on the front for free advertising,  the boats had character,  and were for sure a lot of work.   
   Notice that around the houses in the background the still standing timber and very little clearing along the waterfront.   Sorry about the poor picture.  I just wanted to share it with you.

[milne]

Awesome photo, thanks for sharing.
  A by gone era and the topography is SO different to what we see now a days fishing in close.....
Luv these type of photo's.


Col

[festus]

I don't have any vintage fishing pics, but here's some of my folks getting ready for hunting in southern Kentucky.  My maternal great grandfather at far left, my paternal great grandfather is the bald man with glasses.  All others are my great uncles.  My father was probably a young child and inside the house.  Photo circa early 1930s in moonshine making country. This is near the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, now a national park.

[Brewcrafter]

Thanks for sharing, those are really neat photos. - john

[Maxed Out]

My wife's side of the family was 3 generations of jippo logging for local mills. The truck driver put his life at risk driving these early hard rubber tire log trucks. This picture hang in the house my wife grew up in.

[oc1]

Thanks guys.  Love it.
-steve

[mo65]

  Great photos guys. My cousins have most of our old family pics...I just have this one photo of my grandpa...pickin' his banjo.

[Penn Chronology]

Here's a rushed picture that had a nostalgic pull for me as I grew up in the post boom era .  Butt someone may see some romance to the day pictured below.  My gramps did not need fancy stuff to go fishing.  There were always going to be lots of fish and trees 🌲,  rain gear had no manufactured name on the front for free advertising,  the boats had character,  and were for sure a lot of work.   
   Notice that around the houses in the background the still standing timber and very little clearing along the waterfront.   Sorry about the poor picture.  I just wanted to share it with you.

This is a great picture. Where is this location and what decade was it taken?

[milne]

Mo, What a great photo of ya Grandpa.
       Great bit of nostalgia there and family history...
      Thanks for sharing......

Col

[Donnyboat]

Thanks for starting this post Gary, & some great history by all contributors, I think we will see plenty more, keep them coming great stuff, cheers Don.

[wailua boy]

Great pics guys

[wailua boy]

Here's a pic of my paternal grandfather and second is my maternal grandfather.

[Cuttyhunker]

Port Washington NY, probably 36 or 37.  Dad in the middle, Gramps on the right, the same guy in my avatar

[Gfish]

Little 3x5" of my dad in the middle with maternal uncles on either side. Hunting Antalope out of Gillette, WY. Possibly late 40's? The car should place it, but I don't recognize it. Back from WWII, he had alota cuttin-loose, "dam, I survived" fun, before he got married in '53.

[Midway Tommy]

Greg,

Looks like a '51 Mercury 2dr Coupe, to me