19 Fascinating stories behind old photos

1. “My grandmother did everything to make my grandfather’s racing career successful, from changing car tires to overseeing every detail. In 1971, my grandfather won NASCAR Rookie of the Year, and it wouldn’t have been possible without all of her efforts. In the photo, she changing tires in 1968”

2. “I found this photograph in the family archive some time ago. My grandfather is on the left. And on the right: Nikolai Karachentsov and Eugene Leonov, two very famous actors in the Soviet Union. A year later, my grandfather met Karachentsov on the beach again, and they talked and had coffee.”

3. “My father got into trouble at home for skipping school in 1984, and being caught by a local newspaper who published this picture of him”

4. “My dad (front) in Vietnam in 1971. Didn’t know this photo existed until I randomly found it on the internet. And he didn’t know either and he cried a lot when he saw it.”

5. “My mom always talked about how she was the editor of Tiger Beat magazine as a teenager in the 1960s. She bragged about interviewing The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. We always thought she was telling fibs. But we found this photo when we were cleaning the house last week.”

6. “My father, on the 20th of July, 49 years ago, waking up after being hit in the head with a hammer and discovering that he had been unconscious the entire time of the man’s moon landing”

7. “My grandfather, mother and uncle, in 1939, relaxing after crossing the border into Nazi territory”

8. “We joked for years that my grandfather had a girlfriend in Japan. I found this on his desk. Japan, 1955”

9. “My grandmother and great-grandmother, late 1920s, China. As she was an only child, they kept her hair short, as if she were a boy, so that she would be respected as the future head of the family. She told me that on the day of this photo, she refused to take the picture until they bribed her with grapes.”

10. “My father in the Bronx, New York, in 1969, speaking against the Vietnam War. He became an anthropologist/archaeologist and had many adventures: he was held hostage in two different digs, he saw a man trampled by buffalo, he went into a leopard’s den to get some ancient pottery and much more. He is my own Indiana Jones”

11. “My grandmother was the first black woman in her town to become prom queen in 1970”

12. “Photo, taken in the 1950s, of my great-aunt and her father. He couldn’t wait until the tree grew up to hang up his hammock.”

13. “In 1973, my parents had a home birth. The friends were celebrating on the porch when a girl with a camera came up and asked what they were celebrating. She was told, and she asked if she could take a picture. Two weeks later, she came back with this photo. The boy in my mother’s arms is me and the cute baby is my big sister.”

14. “My father was a keeper at a zoo in 1992. He was the only one at the time who called the rhinos by name and they came running like dogs. They still liked ear rubs just like dogs.”

15. “My mom doesn’t like sushi. Around the age of 4-5, she was caught red-handed throwing a piece away. That was around 1965/1966 in Japan.”

16. “My great-grandmother and her youngest son, who is now 98 years old. This photo was taken the day he returned from Dunkirk after being away for 6 weeks. My great-grandmother thought she would never see him again, until one day, as she was sitting on the sidewalk, she saw him coming home.”

17. “Me, participating in a talent show on an aircraft carrier, in 1988, while crossing the equator in the Indian Ocean. I sang a song about a girl and won the contest.”

18. “One of my distant cousins ​​was an early US Navy SEAL. He was training to become a diver. This photo was taken in the mid-1960s.”

19. “My father is a photographer, and managed to set the timer so that he could capture the moment he asked my mother for her hand in marriage”