Pics That Prove Your Parents Were Cooler Than You

[Rick-o]

I stumbled across this video of pics of cool parents and thought it was interesting.

Were your parents cooler back in the day than you are now? I was the youngest of seven, and my folks just looked tired. They probably were cooler than me as I sit right now, but I haven't seen any pics yet to prove it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOr1fIIHQFk

[jdc]

Yes.

EDIT: I made the same assumption as hal, and assumed you meant when "younger"

My mom was a big surfer and way into the So Calif surf scene in her teens, and she was only 19 when I was born -- but we still went the beach all the time. My dad was in 'Nam (no combat) and when he came back he started a drag racing team with some of his buddies. So surfing during the week and racing on weekends. Racing turned in boats for awhile, then motorcycles -- and 3 years later when my brother came along, it didnt really slow down. The racing went away, and the boards went into the garage, but still tons of outdoor.

I was single until 35, so I guess I did some of the outdoor stuff before that, but nothing like them. I rode as a pro/expert mountain biker in the late 80s/early 90s, and did spend a couple of winters working at Heavenly in Tahoe -- but thats about it. Plenty of hiking and biking, but no fast cars or big waves. =)

The last 15 years have been far more sedentary... kinda sad.

[hal]

Well... I assume the question is actually not 'were you parents cooler than me when they were my age (mid 50s)' and is instead, 'were your young parents cooler than you were when you were young?'

The first one is about the same - my parents in their mid 50s were much like I am, but my younger parents were dorks. Mom use to talk about her 'rebellious' streak when she was a kid. She'd let her socks fall around her ankles!!! Can you imagine the horror??? Socks just hanging down around her ankles! Drove her mother batty (which is why she'd do it)

[space-time]

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks!

[Acer]

I have a picture of my dad next to his foxhole holding the 5-ft outer shell of a German bomb, either a leaflet bomb or maybe a cluster bomb casing, somewhere in Italy.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

My takeaway from that video is it was much easier to be cool during the '70s and early '80s than it is today.

[Ombligo]

My dad was in the Army from 1928-32 - stationed in the canal zone and then near Lake Placid, NY - he helped build the bobsled run for the 1932 Olympics (and did a test run down it - said "never again"). He went on to a be a sitdown striker at Chevrolet in 1937.

Amongst a bunch of other things, Mom was professional ball-player in the 40's.

So yeah, they were cooler than me.

[hal]

Ombligo wrote: Amongst a bunch of other things, Mom was professional ball-player in the 40's.

The women's league during the war?? That's incredibly cool.

[hal]

The only thing I can think of that might describe my Dad as cool back in his younger days was that he was the staff supervisor of a HS newspaper in a school where he taught in his 20s. One of the kids wrote an editorial about how prayer should not be mandatory during class in this (public) school.

Dad was told to make sure that a statement was printed that refuted the original editorial and dad refused. He was fired - about a year later the Supreme Court ruled to ban prayer in school.

That was pretty cool, but it took quite a while to find a 'cool' dad story...

[Numo]

I don't know if my parents were cool or not, but they sure were harder-working and more productive than me. I respect them for that.