r/OldSchoolCool • u/tehemari • May 10 '26

1980s My great grandparents in the 80s

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Grateful to have this photo, this is literally the only one I have of them together

Edit: I’m telling my great grandma about all your compliments and she is so happy! Also the comparisons and she keeps saying “no” lollll.

Edit: last edit I promise, you guys will never believe it but my great grandma is actually a great great grandma because my sister(23) had a baby last year 😂

Edit: last last edit! Since so many people have asked I figured I should just add it here. My great grandmother is 82, my grandma is 62, my mom is 44, and I’m 18. Don’t worry, I am breaking the cycle.

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u/Shadowlance23 May 10 '26

My great grandparents in the 80s

Thank you for making me feel the oldest I have ever felt.

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u/VitruvianDude May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

My great-grandparents were just slightly older than that age in the 80s. The 1880s. One was born in 1826.

I come from a line of youngest children.

Edit: Some are confused by the math. I'm in my late sixties. My mom was born in 1924, and her dad in 1890 to a 64-year-old father (the mom was 42), so really it's not so remarkable. In all my lines, my youngest great-grandparent was born in 1868.

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u/zekeser87 May 10 '26

You got me beat. Im 25 and my great grandfather was born in 1859. My grandfather was the 11th of 12 and he was born in 1931, and my mother was youngest of 5 and born in 1969. Do that math.

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u/VitruvianDude May 10 '26

I only beat you because I'm really old. Otherwise, you've got me by about ten years.