Olan Mills Flashback Session

I got a $20 that says he drives a Camaro.

Those glasses came free with a purchase of Brut cologne.


Thoughtful Lance. Mirthful Lance. Two sides of a delightful coin.

Drake won Bitchin'est Senior Mullet by a landslide.

That dude wore a tie for nothing.

The Purvis family made several stops along the Oregon Trail to document their six-month journey. This photo was taken just two weeks before the dysentery took Momma to Jesus.

It's called a leisure suit, ladies and germs, and if you didn't have one in the early 70s, you were a big fat loser. His was teal. He wore it with a silk floral shirt and a long necklace with a football player pendant that we all got at that year's team banquet. He was THE MAN.

No Comment.

Olan Mills backdrop #4: Bucolic Meadow with Split Rail Fence. Is that an animal carcass behind her?

A pose like this will get you kicked right out of the Convention.

Oh, this is super. What better way to capture the charm and innocence of a child than to plunk him down amid the coarse trappings of a life lived in pursuit of wealth -- oversized bills, an adding machine and the Wall Street Journal -- and make him sit inside a briefcase? (They probably just fold up the little demon right in there to carry him home.) The finishing touch is the globe, which completes the portrait of the young Antichrist in Chess King vest and Red Goose loafers, plotting his takeover of the world (insert maniacal laugh). That is, as soon as someone changes his poopy diaper.

Bobbi isn't the first waitress to fall for her manager, but she and Dale both got fired from Shoney's.

Rejected Toby Keith album cover.

Just a typical afternoon down on the plantation. In a business suit. Leaning against a fence, waiting for the boys to come home from war.

Dawn and her recently exhumed sister, Gorgotha, pose with Scraps.

This photo isn't discolored. The 70's really were that Orange.

I'm serious. Then seriously bi-polar.

Olan Mills Backdrop #11: The Library, one of their most popular themes, as seen in this photo of the young Unabomber and his wife.

The Library might be more believable if the shelves weren't sloping downhill. Did she get knocked up in the library too?

Olan Mills is all about versatility. The simple addition of a column turns this generic plantation into Tara , where, apparently, someone opened a Hair Cuttery.

You'd think Pearle Vision would throw in another two pairs for free.

Kenneth and his prom date.

Why?

Someone spent money on this.

It's so cute when couples have matching hairdos.

What the ????

Nothing says 1973 quite like denim and helmet hair.

I'd hide my face, too, little girl.

B-52's, the early years.

Have a good weekend!

MichChick