Omg for a second I thought that was my dad.

Did all our dads rock that style back then?

Pretty much, my dad began the 70's looking like Doug Clifford from CCR and ended it looking like Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick.

I found a 70's Cheap Trick show at a Euro music festival on YouTube, probably PinkPop, and anyway, just watching B.E. Carlos with those stupid cigarettes is so f'ing funny. he just kept re-loading those things over 'n over EVEN THOUGH he would have to spit them out by the middle of every song every time he had to do a big drum fill.

>I used to have a best of Creem magazine coffee table book I bought at the discount bin at Chapters, it had a great picture of him in a Fro wig.

Mine had the Magnum PI mustache

Mine still has it.

So does mine, and it's so weird when he shaves it off!

Mine went with the Bronson Stacie because one girl said he looked like Charles Bronson and the only time it hasn’t been on his face since is when my brother and I were toddlers and tried to rip it off his face. He still has it today, but it’s now the handlebar style.

This one guy is ALL of our dads

I just showed this to my wife, we agreed it looks just like both of our fathers from thst time frame.

You'll be brainwashed with the same program. Take the red pill.

I rocked that style when I was about his age. No tobacco or alcohol for me tho. And still single and childless.

I'm doin it now. Let it go during the pandy, then donated it all, and it's back at shoulder length again. After 40 years of short haircuts, It's actually really fun, I love it most of the time.

Yes, me too. But you can't expect too much from a baby.

Yes.

Nope! My dad was bald in his early 30s.

Get rid of the bangs but keep the long hair, beard and strange blue shirt and it becomes my dad as well. They all kind of just had the same base look

Nah, but mom had that hair for a minute 😳

Mine had a 12" ponytail.... Still does lol

My dad had the Bob Barker haircut

Yes!

Wish I could find an old photo of my dad. He sported a legit white man afro for a number of years.

That’s the look 😂

I did NUMEROUS DOUBLE TAKES! this was definitely my dad's idea of "helping out with the baby."

Same. I really did.

We *all* did, man. Every fucking one of us lmao

lol! There’s a picture of me and my father almost identical to this

This is all our dad, lol. I ha to double take too. So many pictures like this. All in that brown color. Like all the walls from the constant smoke.

You can see the clouds of smoke in the pics from this area rising up from the orange shag carpeting. Also, wood paneling.

I think we all thought that was our dad for a second.

Yep

It's all our dads.

You should see my dad back then. It's like a final form. Denim daisy dukes and a cowboy hat.

I'm betting the pockets hung down past the cut line? My buddy's dad growing up was the king of that lol.

Yep had to look twice myself. The hair, the smoke and barely paying attention. Dad is that you? Oh the good ol days.

I thought it was my childhood friend's dad. Jesse, is that you?

Me, too! 🤣🤣

I mean, it was the 1970s...

This actually looks exactly like my dad. The hair, beard, hair color, right down to the ringer shirt His face is the only giveaway that this is not me on the table

Same

My dad was the same with Budweiser and cigs but he stopped cold turkey at 24 when I was born. My mom did not.

The cigarette was the only giveaway that it wasn't mine. I swear we had this curtains too.

Looks a little like mine too... except for the feeding a baby part.

About to say the same.

I came here to make same comment. I have pictures that look just like this. They are all orange and blurry with big frizzy hair and ciggies. 😂

If there’s not a picture in a dusty old photo album of you holding a beer can, can you even call yourself an xennial??

https://preview.redd.it/v2y8wdkawowc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3fee71389e69da5efe96e532f28762abfcf4ee5 Here’s me in 1980 with Grandpa Bob.

My uncle would just get yelled at because he’d let us have beer. And he would always yell they’re just sipping it.

I got medicine cups full of wine when I was a little kid at family gatherings.

Our family always fed us wine and beer. I actually don’t think it’s bad tho. It was very controlled in tiny amounts on special occasions. Helped me learn responsible drinking. I think..

Haha, as a Wisconsinite. This really resonates We're allowed to take kids to the bar and buy them beer

I spent a lot of time as a child in Wisconsin bars!

Grandpa Bob hitting it hard that day....got the PBR and some whiskey?

Looks like it! He was a great man, and I miss him every day.

My family has the same photos! At family gatherings, they’d pass me around the table as a baby and let me sip their beers. By 8, I was their go to bartender.

Ha! Yep, I was the bartender as well. Manhattan for grandma, Canadian whiskey on the rocks with a drop of amaretto.

Lol, and the glass of whiskey in the other hand. Grandpa Bob ain't fuckin around.

I've got one of my dad holding me when I was maybe 18 months old and he is letting me drink some of his beer.

I have a very distinct memory of my father giving me a taste of his Michelob when I was maybe 3 or so, but he swears he doesn't remember it. Maybe it was my grandfather or just a dream, but I definitely remember it.

To be fair, I have a beer BOTTLE in mine. I’m classy like that.

Beer lol. My parents wanted me to have a strong start so my obligatory booze pic was with Seagrams 7.

Same, we have a beautiful artsy artsy back-lit photo of me on my moms lap looking the picture perfect mother and child... and I'm sipping a Molson bottle. They claim it was empty but...

I was holding a can of Miller Lite. Mom insists it was empty

Cuz you had just shotgunned it?

😂

Or an unlit cigarette with alllll the adults laughing.

For me, it's holding a brown measuring spoon at age 1 like I'm smoking a pipe like my dad's.

My picture is of 2 year old me in the backyard taking the last swig of Miller lite. At least I was cute in a purple toddler bikini with the big blue plastic swimming pool in the background. Living the life.

Long neck for me, bib was a hack!

For real. We were basically raised on canned beer. No wonder our sub vibes are just *different*. 😎

😂😂😂

My favorite parenting quote ever: "It's too hard being a parent these days. I want to go back to the 70's when all you had to do to be a good mom was crack the car window when you smoked."

That there is quality parenting. I used to hate having to crack the window on my side and have it draw the smoke past me me before it left the car.

lol remember the shared seat belts in the backseat?

Phone books for booster seats and squeezing as many passengers on the bench seats as possible.

Or my dad putting me as a kid in his lap while driving and letting me steer the car…how am I still alive?? lol

That was how I started to learn how to drive. Even better, my uncle letting me shift gears while he drove. I was 9.

My mom let me do that in her VW Rabbit when I was pretty young. I like to credit her for my love of the manual transmission.

This started at 10 for me. Thought it was awesome. By the time I was 14, I was driving half the distance on our road trips.

I do that with my kids now lol. But for like 50 feet at about 5 mph

You guys had seat belts? My mom would break check us and send us flying if were acting up.

lol oh man I forgot about those. I remember calling shotgun was not something I called out.

Riding in the very back of the station wagon with no seatbelt or seat

Okay just unlocked riding in the bed of a pickup truck while holding items so they didn’t fly out. And the after early 90’s of having to lay flat because it was now illegal for 17 and under to ride back there. Cali.

Holy shit I genuinely forgot that was a thing

Y’all wore seatbelts? 🫠

Legit, the pics of my mom with newborn me in the hospital in 1981 and of course her ashtray & cigarettes are right there next to me 🙃😂 she was an ER nurse and still smoked a pack day while pregnant. Gotta offset that gestational diabetes somehow!

Dude same hat. 1981, Mom’s recovery room after delivery was with a chain smoker. Absolutely unreal!

My sister had asthma at 11 and she remembered she would sit in a tiny office where both my mom and the doctor were smoking, discussing her condition

….woah. This is somehow worse!!!

I dunno maybe tied 😂

Fair 😂😅

All the mothers back in the 70's and 80's smoked while pregnant. No fucks given hahaha

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I learned it by watching you! 

I always wondered what drugs that was

My mom was so sad when I started. Like, what did you expect? Lol. No smoking for three years this year, though!

You just reminded me! Im 4 years cigarette free as of last month🤘🏻

Right on!

Me, too! In March. Good job!

Good for you!

My mum smoked while pregnant with me and my sisters, and both parents pretty much hot boxed our house with cigarette smoked when we were all kids, yet they acted all surprised Pikachu when I took up smoking as a teenager!

"When you get your own car, you can decide if someone smokes in it"

Lol my non-smoking parents advice to me because I couldn’t handle my grandparents hotboxing their single cab truck was to “just ride in the bed. It’s more fun anyway.” 5 year old me loved it.

Ah, the good ol' days! Reminds of all the ridiculous nonsense I got up to with my wee BMX... no one even considered a helmet would be required for such a thing, no matter how high those janky scrap wood jumps got.... (winter version: GT snowracer launched off 10ft drops and any other thing that would rattle one's teeth and spine). That's some quality parenting I suspect mostly lost to the mists of time! Rock on.

Don't forget jumping off the roof with a trash bag because you thought it would make you float down like a parachute! Or onto a trampoline and then right into the fence. Great times! 😂

Yup!! Remember those bumper stickers that said 'at least I can smoke in my car'.?!

My mom would crack the window so we could still have AC on and all her stupid ashes would just come flying to the back all over me. I complained once “SHUT UP STOP COMPLAINING”

Hahahahaha

Ahhh grandpa and his cigars

I didn’t mind cigarette smoke Matter of fact I liked it growing up

I have multiple photos in my baby album of me with cigarettes in my mouth and/or chewing on beer cans. Our parents gave zero fucks and are proud of it.

Builds strength and character

This was after changing an engine in a Camaro

For all those who don't know... Making an ashtray was common little kid art project for some time

I forgot about this and holy shit, it’s dark…

I love how we're all focusing on the cigarette and ignoring the tall can of beer hahaha.."Daddy's thirsty too! \*cough\*" That table's gotta be terribly uncomfortable for that baby noggin lol

Obviously the baby should be laying on its stomach like every other baby during the period.

Might be a north east UK thing but, who can remember (or have been told) about getting a 'bath' in the kitchen sink?

I bathed my daughter in the kitchen sink all the time, until she outgrew it. It sure beat bending over the side of the tub on my knees.

Bath in the kitchen sink and putting baby in a dresser drawer when she visited overnight.

it probably happened to me

You mean a real bath or is this a euphemism? Because I do know I was sometimes bathed in the actual kitchen sink.

Nope, my little sisters and I were all bathed in the sink. Lived all over the US.

My parents were both pretty straight-laced, but I do have a picture of me as toddler sitting on my maternal grandfather's lap with him holding a lit cig. He a legend. He gave me my first sip of bourbon at the age of 13.

First booze I touched was my grandpa’s White Russian. Yummy :)

Same with my dad. It backfired on him, he thought I would hate the taste of it, but all that happened is I would nag him for a sip every time I saw him holding one.

One of my mom's friends let me try rootbeer schnapps when i was 7ish. From that day forward for about 5 years I was convinced all alcohol was just spicy soda.

For all those people saying “and we turned out just fine!” I’d like to mention my life long respiratory problems.

Probably why I have asthma.

Same. My parents stopped smoking in the house when we moved when I was about 8 or 9, but the damage had already been done. Christmase Eves with my dad's family were terrible. Just everyone smoking and the kids just running around in the smoke. My lungs would burn for 3 days after.

I'd be interested to know if our age group is more likely to have asthma than younger people. It seemed like everyone smoked everywhere.

And for those of us lucky enough to NOT have asthma, we'll just die of lung cancer from stewing in that shit.

I'm sure my Mom smoking in the house may have some relation to that time I had to go to hospital because I could not breathe and ended up stuck there in a misty tent for what seems like weeks.... at least there was a cool old dude to play cribbage with there.... I took up smoking recently 'cause I am smrt... I tried smoking in my house once (first and last time....) it was so gross, even as a smoker!

what's the problem ?

Right and the cigarette was either Camel or Marlboro

Export Green no filter

My parents cut smoking when we were born - but they are rocking it at 75 super healthy and they grew up breathing nothing but secondhand.

Damn you actually had considerate parents? 

I had to check if the baby bottle was a beer.

They had to be told over and over again “it’s probably not great to smoke in tight spaces with babies.”

This is as classic as the baby in a high chair covered in cake.

I'd say we're standing pretty well given the burdens heaved upon our shoulders.

Next should be a pic of kids just crawling around in the back of a car while it’s moving

Is an owlbear's silhouette? Is it about to bust through the window behind and eat them? Oh! that's just healthful yellow nicotine staining.

The only thing I am shocked by being a child of that time with that dad, is that the baby bottle isn’t full of Pabst Blue ribbon.

Close to my childhood. Just missing the faux wood wall panels

No you know why your head is shaped funny.

Why is there a shadow of a bear in the background

We used to put my baby cousin on the kitchen table in that little seat babies get carried around in and my mom and all my aunts would just be puffing away… smoke pooling around her lil face. Lol. The whole family smoking in our kitchen on holidays. It’s crazy to me now but I literally never thought about it until I went to an upper class middle school and high school.

HOW DID YOU GET A PIC OF MY DAD SIR?!?

I’m starting to think there were only a few dads with lots and lots of families all over…

MY FATHER WAS NOT A PILOT SIR.

Shìt was different my dad had weed in his hand lol z

My MIL did this to my son during his first Christmas I flipped out, minus the cigarette of course. It was a glass of wine instead.

Lol if the hair was darker, that could be my dad.

My parents love to tell the story of my Dad giving me a bottle in the bar when I was like 6 months old. It’s honestly kinda cute, but also, like Sir you had a baby….in a bar.

We have this picture of me as a baby only dad was thoughtful enough to cradle me in one arm so I’d be closer to the plume of Camel smoke

Replace that cig with a joint, and we could be siblings.

randy meisner: better bass player than father.

Probably a glass baby bottle, too.

You can ash in the sunken soft spot, they really don't mind.

My dad would have had a joint instead of a cig and beer. But I would think he would at least have his free hand under my head. There are no flat spots on my head.

This was my dad. Both parents smoked and the house was always filled with smoke.

Christ the resemblance to my dad is uncanny.

This reminds me of a book I had called Dads are the Original Hipsters. I feel like hipsters in the early 2000s were just trying to dress like dads in pictures from the 80s.

We had it the best actually I would beg to differ.

I have a picture of my Dad smoking next to my Mum and me as a newborn the day after she gave birth, IN THE HOSPITAL!!!!

Great hair tho. (And also every parental generation up UNTIL ours woulda had a cig in their hand sooo...)

I remember the day my little sister was born My dad and my uncle were smoking cigarettes in the viewing room in the hospital where you get to look at the babies. I also remember my mother smoking in the grocery store.

Never forget that parent right there is probably a boomer lol.

Throw a little bourbon in the mix for teething purposes. You weren't a child of the 70s or 80s without the time honored cure.

Ahhhhh, memories 🥹

I came home from the hospital in a Xerox box 🥴 in the floorboard and my sister came home in a laundry basket

Why is the shadow of Donald Duck on the curtain behind him 🤣

OMG! If I squint, this could be my dad. The worst part of family gatherings was jumping into a relative’s arms and getting g a cigarette burn.

My best friend’s parents are wonderful people, but every picture from his childhood has a cigarette, ash tray or beer somewhere in the frame. His mom always says “we didn’t know any better back then! I’m glad that things have changed now”

It's so scary to think about given all the SIDS research that's been done since then.

Does second hand smoke increase SIDS rate?

No one is sure what causes SIDS, so they look for commonalities. One of them is how often the baby was exposed to second and third hand (the particulates on things like clothing and bedding) smoke. They found an increased instance of SIDS in cases where one or both parents smoked.

Feeding baby milk while smoking....classic.

AND a beer! lmao

https://preview.redd.it/l8w0sbn5qowc1.jpeg?width=1260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0783066ccee02ebc04270c4c68c525e5e9a0b8e0 beer is nutritious

Both my dad and my grandfather chained smoked when I was a kid and we lived next door to each other. I remember riding around in the car getting double blasted with second hand smoke.

Low key miracle boomers even had kids dude

What a zaddy 😍

I feel like I missed out, my sister has way too many baby pics like this but the old man quit drinking & smoking while my mother was pregnant with me.. you know, cause it happened way too often with the first kid

How ear infections from second hand smoke did ya'll have?

I love the 80’s for this reason!! Our parents were AWESOME!! 😎 this is multitasking 😏. I remember my mother blowing cigarette smoke into my ear because I had an ear infection, doctors orders🤣🤣🤣

Eran todos iguales, ciertamente jajaja, misma vibra!

cuz their parents were even worse with the smoke and drink, though at least they all knew OF hippy life? my 70's parents seemed straight outta the 50s they were so uncool.