NAMELESS FACES in a group shot

For this weeks Sepia Saturday I'm showing a post I did several years ago that will probably be new to all of you.

You know those lovely pyramid style group photos where everyone just looks like a peanut head? Imagine being a parent and paying for this. Granted the original is 8 x 10, but still, if the kids didn't get individual school photos and only got this group shot it's just sad. But all is not lost thanks to modern cheap technology. 

I like the way the kids are all playing at being adults. Each girl wears a corsage and each boy a tie. These kids were mercifully clueless about what was going to happen. Wonder what their lives were like? What they became? Anyone want to guess which grade? I'm thinking perhaps graduation from 7th.

The sitters.

Insurance salesmen, hairdressers, soldiers, doctors, members of  the Elks, husbands, fathers, wives, mothers, politicians, car salesmen, scientists, entrepreneurs, teachers, nurses? What was the future for the 7th grade graduating class of 1961? Looking at these little munchkins it would be hard to imagine them taking on the world and today being in their 60s.

I'll admit, to me, the first shot below reminds me of Tom Delay's mugging mug shot. Let's hope this young fellow took a wiser path. And the last two fellows? Well they just about sum it up, don't they?

HEY KIDS, what time is it?

Boomers barely into their boom years.

Welcome to the Peanut Gallery of a Boomer's youth. And who didn't want a dead raccoon to put on your head? I did not have a coonskin cap. My friend did. But I had Mouseketeer ears bought at Disneyland two weeks after it opened. Neither of us have the hats now. Our youth probably buried in a dump somewhere or for sale on eBay by someone else.

These little fellows are from a box of photos from the George Kallman estate. I have no idea who they are.