Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: That one person that helped, the person that was his only job was to move the boxes for him.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: I forgot it was a step box.
[00:00:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Because your feet. Oh, my.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Because what they would do is that person would get off the stool and walk to the side. That person with the boxes would look at you, and then we'd be like.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Okay, number one, number one, go ahead.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: And then you come in, and then you would walk up, and they would tell you to wait, and they'd put the box in front of the chair.
Then you stepped on top of the bed, and then they would explain to you the boxes for your knees to stay completely at 45 degrees. So you're like, I'm telling you, if the man that used to take our picture back in the days is watching this right now, he's probably sitting there going, he right.
He right. I'm telling you, that's what. That's where it went.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Oh, you got that memorized too much, bro. That's scary, bro.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: I can't. I can't get rid of them.
You can't get rid of them.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: 20 in the city.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Aloha.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: I should have took pictures, bro. Gosh, I might. I might have my grandma do it.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Oh, take pictures away.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: So it's Twitty in the city, by the way. I'm Twitty. Thc. Hit the like and just subscribe. We appreciate y'. All.
I got to get into this, bro, because I saw some photos of me on my grandma's wall. And I know you had the same place and probably same background growing up.
If I do this, what does this mean?
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness.
One, that means I went to Sears.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Bro.
My grandma has six years in a.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: Row of them things with that semi cloud background.
And you got that pad that every other baby was laying on before they gave it to you.
And you had to be like, that nigga was like, put your. Oh, I hated that.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: I saw it, bro.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: Oh, my God, dawg.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: I saw it.
I was so.
I'm so mad at myself that I did not send you a pic, bro.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: It go back in the day, though, man. Go back. Cause, like, when I had lost my grandfather, my grandfather had a bunch of pictures.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: All of us kids growing up. Me, my sisters, like, all of us. And I was looking at some of my pictures, like, what the hell, bro?
What?
[00:02:28] Speaker B: It has come a long way.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: Oh, 100%.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Because, bro, I even had. So I had that gray one, then right beside that one, I had the fake.
I had the fake stairs railing one.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Where it looks like you're in the window.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just the arm with the. With the things.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Yep, that was one of them.
Then we had the. I had the Easter one where I'm in a bright ass, orange, not even orange, yellow Easter suit. And we've got the Easter egg surrounding me. And then I'm sitting and I'm doing this one.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: It's so funny on.
It's so funny. It's so funny how you do the feet because they used to have. See, now when you took your school pictures.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Oh, don't even get me on that one. They used to have different got there.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah, they had different size boxes for your feet when you sat down. Yo, they had different size. It was like. And they had that one. There was that one. They had that one guy. And that was his whole job was to determine which box he was gonna put underneath your feet.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Bro, I ain't even got to that yet, but yes, that's. You saw how I did the feet too, bruh.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Cause the feet was painted on the ground.
Like, when you sat down, it was like, put your foot here, your foot here. Put your hand on this and your hand on the other leg and sit straight up.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Yep, sit straight up. And then they always did that. And then just turn a little bit for me. Just turn a little bit.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Oh, I hated that. I hated that. Because then your head would be like. You'd end up being like.
Your head turned. Like. Then you're like, this is good.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Now smile. Smile for me.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: Did you ever leave it going? That couldn't.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: I would have. Yeah.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: There's no way I would. Then when you look at it, you sitting there like a puppet.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: I never left one of those confident, never.
Then my mom would get mad at me, be like, why you look so tense?
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, what are you talking about?
He couldn't even find the right box.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: They got me. Feet over here. Yeah. Arms here.
Chest turned. But turn your head this way.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Then also tilt like, I. I can't be comfortable, dawg. I saw those photos and I ask my grandma why you still got him up? You know, she was, oh, that's my baby. I like seeing. I'm like, why you like looking at that? But I gotta myself.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: We was in the gym, coming in in a line. Oh, they had the backdrop pulled down. The backdrop was pulled down so much. The actual stool was on top of the backdrop.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: They brought the backdrop all the way down to your feet and then put the stool in the box on top of you like you was sitting on it.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: That piece of paper, you had to turn it in and it would tell them all your different options.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Yep. And mom had to mark one, and then, like, everybody in line, they would sit there, they would. They look over.
Some people wouldn't even look at the box. They'd be like, how much your mom writes a check for? Yeah, it was always a check that was in it. It was like, how much your mom write the check for? Now I just want to see what package she got.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: It's like, why you. Why you want to know what the package is? Don't worry about the package we got.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: That was. That's how your friends figured out how much Picture time was how you figured out who had money.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: Who had money. Picture time. Lunchtime.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Yup.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: If they brought their own lunch.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Yup.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: And it's like, if your lunch look like. Like, Like.
Like field trip lunch every day, then it's like, okay, yeah, you got money.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Yup.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Outfits.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Oh, outfits was. Oh. Even on picture day, if you. If your outfit didn't look like anything you wore at school and even when you was dressing up for school, you looked good. You had money, dog. I can't. My grandma has every photo. And I just. I couldn't stop staring, bro. It just.
It gave me a little bit of PTSD of those days. Cause like you said, you're in line, everybody checking out your packages, and you just looking at this most. It was the most sad, depressing assembly line of just like. You want to talk about looking like a machine just rolling in.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Yep, bro.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: Oh, so you said Sears. I. I refer back. We went to JCPenney's to do that. I feel like they all had the same.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Well, I mean, we had. It was JCPenney and Sears was almost the same.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: And in fact, I think JC Pennies and Sears were, like, competing with each other on photo probably. Like, because when you went to the mall, like, if you was going to the mall to get pictures done, you felt spectacular anyway. Especially senior year. Senior year, you was going to get your senior pictures done.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: I hated going to them all to do that, bro.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: If I showed you my senior picture, you.
I'mma tell you right now. I'mma tell you right now. Oh, what? Sean, you gonna put it up? You gonna put it up? Okay, you can put it up.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: It's bad.
It's bad. I'll get it for him. I'll get it for you.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: I get it for you.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: It's bad. If you see it, the first thing you g. You're gonna add the first thing that's gonna come to you when you look at my picture, because you have never known me without. Without. Without hair. You've never known me with hair.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: So when you first see. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Just wait, let me get to it.
I had a thing about bangs.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Thc. No, bruh.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: You know, like with the jail.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: No, say they look no like.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: Like.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Oh, my.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: Had to. Had to. Had the tuxedo on.
Picked my colors, burgundy and black. It was dope.
But, yeah, my. My. To this day, my. My kids don't let it go. They seen that and they was like, oh, hell no, dad. They want that to be hanging up and on the wall in the house.
They want that on the wall.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: Ain't it crazy, though?
[00:08:08] Speaker A: They want it back on the wall.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: When you take that photo, you're thinking to yourself, like, it was the flyest.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: Picture I ever did.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: So good, yo. Yeah, I did so, so good.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: I came. I was handing this out, this. How proud I was of my bangs. And I don't care. I had bangs.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: I had.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: I had long hair in the back. I had this long hair, but it was kind of like, you know, down like this. Anyway.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: Anyway, I was so proud of it when I was giving people my senior picture. Because you give people your senior picture, I was doing the pose with my face. You know what I'm saying? As I was handing you the picture, I was like, you.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Like they was gonna forget my picture.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: This just. No, Just so you know, this really is me.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: Wow.
You was that confident. Oh, my God.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: Oh, man. I went.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Watch.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: I'm. You gonna see it.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: You gonna see it.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: You gonna see it.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: You gonna see it. In fact, you can see some of my old school pictures at my desk.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Oh, that is true.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a lot of.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: I never paid attention to them, but I'm. I'mma check them out now.
Oh, my gosh. But, yeah, bro, I went and saw that.
That whole era adjusts, and they never. I don't know when they changed it. I feel like it was years of just the same. The same format.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Like, it just. It was. There was no change.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: It was my whole. From elementary all the way to high school, except for. Except for my senior year. My senior year was the only different thing that we did for. Cause we had to do our own senior pictures.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: And then you grad. You graduated high school.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: 93.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: 93. I'm one years old, and I remember all the way through high school, for me. So 2000.
So that's already 20 plus years. It was just like. Nobody thought you should change this? No, because I guarantee you, the photo I see of you and the photo I see of me, same damn backdrop, I bet. Same. Only thing they might have changed was a damn pad you had.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: You know why? You know why that stuff lasts for so long? Because there's too many people out there that don't want to let go. And. And I'm gonna. And I'm gonna explain to you. I'm gonna explain to you this.
[00:09:58] Speaker B: You gotta let that go.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: No, bruh, there's some. There's so many people that just don't want to let go. Okay. I. I actually watched my man find an adapter to hook his VCR up to hdmi.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: You gotta let it go.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: He had to hook it, like. And that's like, dude, you. That's just gotta go. And he's like, no, I'm not giving him my vcr. This. This. Forehead wi. Fi. Shut up.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Forehead wi. Yeah.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I was like, let it go. You gotta let it go. And that's the reason why. That's the reason why those pictures lasted for so long. That's the reason why those procedures lasted for so long. Because there was a. Because. Name one young person that was taking our picture.
Name somebody that was young, and I'm talking, like, in their 20s.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: Yeah. N. It was all never.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: It never was. It was always the older. That's why it stayed so long in the schools. It stayed for 20 years because it was the same dude. Sometimes it was kind of creepy, wasn't it?
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Because, like.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: Yeah, because you would come back, it'd be. You'd be unlike. Okay, man, I remember you taking my picture back in the third grade.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: And now I'm in the sixth grade or I'm in the seventh grade. I done switched schools.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Yep. And you still.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: And you still here. Like, you still taking my picture. And what's even creepier is when they remember who you are when they come back and they look and they like, hey, Sean, back for this again? Like, hold up, man. Hold up. You're not even one of my teachers. You just the people that come in.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: To take you, like, twice. Yeah.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: In fact, that's one for my student body card and one for the yearbook. That's it.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: What the heck? That is kind of creepy.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: It was like, name a young one. Name any. Going through all their photography, all them sessions that you sat down. When was it a young person?
[00:11:36] Speaker B: I can't even recall if I Had a female. No, that's the other part I recall being an old dude.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Because he would start out with his jacket and I was a teaser.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: And he was only nice to the girls.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: And by the time he got to me, it would come off. So then he had his suspenders on and he was also suspended.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: That's what was even weirder. My dude had suspenders, bro.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: It might have been the same motherfucker, though. Might have been the same bro.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: He left my school from the West Coast. Went to your school.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Think about it. You graduated high school in 93. I wasn't taking those pictures until 01.
Cause I was born in 92, so I wasn't taking that picture.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: He was still taking pictures. He was old. Cause he was older when he was taking my pictures.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: The dude I recall was. I mean, he would have to be super, super old if he.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah, he would have to be super old.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: He might have had a cousin and they both had a business or brothers. And one taking pictures and one went.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: To the west coast in the.
I mean, he couldn't have been out.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: It could have been done.
[00:12:28] Speaker A: I mean, he was still old when.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: He was taking my picture. Suspenders and. Yeah. Was always mean to the guys. Always. Just sit up, turn, stand. Stay right there.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Smile.
You don't need a box to lift that reaches your feet.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: You don't need a box, dog. I forgot about the box, bro. The box. The box was so stupid to me.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: The box was. The box was a step for everybody else that couldn't get up on that seat. That's really what the box was. Because nobody else used the box. I mean, they had their feet sitting there.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: But I forgot that fee was to.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Make sure that box was just to make sure your legs stayed at a 45 and your hands could stay. Right knee. What is it? Right hand, right knee, left hand, left knee.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot it was. It was like a step box.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it had a handle on it. Because that one person that helped the person that was his only job was to move the boxes for.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: I forgot it was a step box.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Because your feet. Oh, my.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Because what they would do is that person would get off the stool and walk to the side. That person with the boxes would look at you, and then we'd be like.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Okay, number one, go ahead.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: And then you come in, and then you would walk up and they would tell you to wait, and they'd put the box in front of the chair.
Then you stepped on top of the bed. And then they would explain to you the Boxes for your knees to stay completely at 45 degrees. So you're like, I'm telling you, if the man that used to take our picture back in the days is watching this right now, he's probably sitting there going, you right.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: You right.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: I'm telling you. That's what. That's where it went.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Oh, you got that memorized too much, bro. That's scary, bruh.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: I can't. I can't get rid of them.
You can't get rid of them?
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: Number one, number two. Number three.
Number three was. You was short. Like, if you had to use number three, you was short. That box was big, bro.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Said number two. Two.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Give me that.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Number two.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Number two.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Number one. They did, though.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Or if you was a tall kid. If you was a tall kid, they just be like, you know what? No box.
No box. I don't need a box.
Yeah, no box. He don't need one. He good. Oh, how you in third grade and you, six foot seven.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Number one.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: Number two.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: But yeah, man, that stuff was weird. That stuff was weird.
It was weird. Like, it was. We was taking pictures. We didn't even know where that picture went, bro. Like, we didn't even get a negative. You never noticed that? We never got a negative. We just stood there. Cheese click. And then walked. Oh, that was it. We seen it later on. Later on, this package came of whatever the check amount was, because that was always in between. I remember sometimes they'd be like, would you. Would your mom pick? And they'd be like, ah, she already sealed it.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: It's in there already, right?
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Trying to act like you don't know.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: It was displayed on the back on the paper. Oh.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Mom told me before I left what she was getting because she knew what to expect when I came home. That's why she told me what she was getting.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: And then it came in that plastic or it had. It had that. Whatever that material. Like you said, though.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Like, you said, it depended because the. The kids that had money, they actually got, like, that special package.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: That little thing. Oh, yeah. When ours came, ours came looking like it was.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: It was that frame, and you just see their head, and it's like, okay. Yeah.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They spent bread.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: They spread me over there. I got that little envelope. I can't even see none of my pictures. Got to open the whole thing to see it.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: I'm telling you, Picture day and book day was the days you find out who had money, who got book day. Book day was. Was it was the day.
The book day was. A book day was like.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: That was the.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Like, I. I couldn't wait for book day. Even though I didn't like books, I was like, I. I didn't care.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: You had to have your bread, right?
[00:15:56] Speaker A: The bookmobile came.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: You were sitting there. You told yourself, man, I'm getting me five rulers, one eraser, a pickle. And because that was funny, all our book places, they always sold pickles. We always had pickles.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: That was old.
I don't think so.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: No, those were all mama booklet. All were. They were all ladies. They were like librarians. They were. They were maybe in their 30s.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: I think I might have had one guy.
But for the most part, they were female. In you.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: That's also just so weird. It was an old freaking dude taking pictures.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: Bro.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: I can't get over the box. Box one, duh.
[00:16:32] Speaker A: Box two, box three.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: That is crazy.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: It still feels like. I still feel like sometimes when I go into the DMV to go take my picture, I'm still looking for that box, like. Cause just the way they put you in that little booth, when they're like, just look over here, and they stand there and look at you with that thing. I look. I always look down. I'm like, you got a box.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: I'm not gonna lie. Taking pictures, dude, anytime.
Because me and my wife went on a cruise on holiday. Anything on the holiday cruise, I get scarred because they say, sit down. And when they do this. I couldn't stand this movement.
It just.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: When they grab your chin and they kept.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Because they would keep doing it, they'd be like, a little bit more and a little bit more. Then they come and grab you. I'm like, get off me, dawg. I don't know you.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: Do you hate? I used to hate when they would move me to a certain point, and they'd move me, and I mean, my head is just to the side, like. Okay.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: It makes no sense.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Then they come over, and they move the light one way, and then they're like, oh, you know what? Go back to where you was then. What was you? What was all this?
[00:17:31] Speaker B: No, you know what? I hate it. They do that, and then they move the light, and there's a freaking glare.
[00:17:35] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: And then they try to ask you to keep your eyes open.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Did you not see that angle? You just put this damn light, bro.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: Like, come on, and he can't. Cause he old as shit.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Yeah. He just supposed to know angles.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: He's so old, he got to hire a box Guy, Dog, the box guy was.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Cuz the box guy was the same guy. He get the box, got the paper, and then he would pull down the backdrop. Cuz every backdrop was different. The backdrops had numbers that.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: That dude. Oh my God. And then if you went to Sears of JCPenney, it was on remote. Remember to do the whole. The thing. It was on an extension cord.
It had a little.
It looked like a. It looked like a. They had it and come down. Maybe you want to try something else and your mom will be like, no, no, no, no, no. Do something else. Do something different.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: Those backdrops. I. Oh, oh, by the way, get. If you, you probably already in there. If you are getting.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: If anybody here knows about the backdrops, they actually know how it smells. They know the smell of that.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Every drop there, there was always three things you could expect.
The backdrop, the box, and then the knees, the knee pad, the knee pads, the knee pad. Yep, those were the three things. And depending on which package you got, you used all three. Almost.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you right now. The last time I seen the box in a photo was when I was in boot camp. When we take Marine Corps pictures where we got the blues on with the hat.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: What people don't know is that that's just something thrown over us. We. We're in our.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: You are.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: We just got it like, we was just in the sand pit like before we walked into this place. And when we walked in, they was like, are you taking your pictures? And a dude had a box and it was in there because they had to have you stand at a certain place and have you at a certain height. And then they put this. It was a. It was a blues jacket that had the sleeves missing because your arms were always straight down. So if you look at a Marine Corps yearbook and you look at the pictures, you don't really see. And if you do see the arms, the back is open, it's just flipped around them. And they just stand and they put the hat on you and you just stand there like this.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: No.
Yeah.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And then they take it off of you and then you stealing your back out in the dirt.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: You know what? I bet that old man started right at the school. At the school and realized he could probably do this for the public.
I bet that that's how it had to be.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: And it was always the same background.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Because there's no way. There's no way the schools got it first before the military. Military had it first. Let me ask you probably expanded out.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Ask you this because you remember when it went out to the school so it wasn't like in the gym the classes would go meet and be like you know Mr. Henderson always Mr. Henderson's class going in right now and it was like. So we had to wait. Oh after that class and we go.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Next after that over that intercom.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: Do you think that photographer, do you think that equipment was part of a company or do you think that was everything that he put in his own car?
You know I never seen him leave because I like like nowadays. Like nowadays you're gonna see somebody that takes professional pictures. They got a vehicle, they got a car, they got something there.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Back then though, I mean like for me I was in the 80s so like there wasn't really too many cars that was holding a lot of photography gear. Especially since the photography gear back then was big as hell.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: But even for me how many still have that whole backdrop?
[00:20:49] Speaker A: How many backdrops could you stick in a Ford Escort? That's what I'm in. A 1985 Ford Escort.
Not happening.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: I feel like because I was a T. I feel like when I would see them pack up they really was only packing up their like camera like I think. I think the only thing they would have he owned. I just never was his camera and maybe his camera stand.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: If they did they had to have those. Those what are they, 40 Connor line vans.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they would have had to have that or the Expeditions. The Ford Expeditions.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: That wasn't even around in my time.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: That was around during my time. I'm talk we had no SUVs when I grew up. It would have been an expedition. There was nobody getting the leaking a Navigator that's too expensive not to take photos.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: He might know you taking pictures for the whole day. You can't now they 7:57 cuz yeah that guy was every freaking wear bro. Gosh.
Get in the comments please. You know what if you got a photo cuz you going you going to see both of ours. I'm going to get my grandma to message me and I'm going to put it in the comments.
If you got a photo of one of those please put in the comments because I don't even care about what you look like. I'm going to look at the damn backdrop and that head tip I will bring.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: I will bring my 8th grade picture because I have one of them and it's the worst picture I ever took in my life. In my life was that picture. You're Going to see the background in the back. You're going to notice when you see the picture, you're going to be like, I know that background.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: You.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: You go.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: You.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: The minute you see the picture, you're going to be able to remember the smell of that backdrop, I guarantee.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Oh, gosh.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: And then I'm going to bring in my. My senior picture and I'm going to.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Show you the senior picture, bro.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: It's coming.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Oh, man, the bangs.
The fact you. You imitated the picture when you handed it out.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
It was like this.
It was lines. My hair was lines.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: I love you, bro. I don't know if I. I don't know if I could do a show with you with bangs that, bruh.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: I might just. I might.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: You go find.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: I might just go find a wig that gives me bangs just so I can wear it for the show.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: You would have the worst co host because I would. I wouldn't be able to say anything.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: And I'll do like this.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: I would be.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: That's what was funny was my stuff was so hard because I used to use that Aquanet.
Aquanet. The white can, bruh.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Stop, bro.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: This. It was bulletproof. You could have shot me in the forehead and been mad. You just shot me in the forehead and been mad. You would have been like. That didn't go through. Nope.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: That's so bad.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: Yeah, you'll see. You'll see.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: My gosh, I'm twitty.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: You guys will see too.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: That's thc. Get in the comments if you remember. High school photo backdrop. If. Please, I'm begging y', all, we gonna share ours if you got a photo too. I just wanna see the backdrops. That's all I care about.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah. And if you do wanna send us a photograph of your high school. Whatever. Something like that.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah. You got something that wasn't your standard Sears. JC Penney. Send that too. But I really just want to see the middle school, high school.
And if you was step one, two or three. Gosh, man, that.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Oh, and speaking of pictures, if you could afford it, I knew some people that went to Olin Mills.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Ooh, yeah.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: Olin Mills.
If you had that Olin Mills picture hanging in your living room when you walked in the house, that was like, status.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: Well, also status. There were the kids that didn't go get photos, and they were in either two categories, couldn't afford it, or they were going somewhere else to get a photo. Yeah. Because the school photo was. That's. That was the. You know how you could Tell their thing.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: I could tell my friends houses that, that, that where they couldn't do, you know, they couldn't afford a lot of pictures because they never had one picture frame in that house that matched.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Not one picture frame matched. Not one.
Every picture frame was different.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: My mom was very big on that, so was mine big on matching. And it had to match what room.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: What room it was going in.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: Yeah, you gonna put it in this room That's a different color that's gotta.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Go on this side and it's gotta be this frame.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: And I had friends that just had, they had picture frames that was all.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Wood, silver, and it was dope.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: I did, I didn't care because like that, that was my, that was just how they did they stuff. And I was like, that's, that's, that's how they did, man. I was in like nine of those different picture frame things.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: But yeah, that's crazy. Okay, comments. Get them in below. Hit the like, hit the subscribe box. 1, 2 or 3. Send us your backdrops. We gotta know please also if anybody was a school photographer.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Oh, that's who I really want to hear from.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Questions, I got questions. I got.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: Oh, I just want to know what car you left in.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: I might, he might. They might have to be a guest on the show. If you please, please. If he was a photographer for schools. I got, I got questions.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: Oh yeah, we got you in the 200. Wait, please hit us.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: Oh gosh.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: If you out here in Idaho and you like, I'm a photographer and this is what I did. Please hit us up.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: I will have you on the show civically need. School photographer. Yes, school photographer. Because that's, there's a difference.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: And you probably a certain age, probably all different now. Probably got all good looking girls and good looking dudes. They got all, they got both of them now. We, we, we were stuck with that old. We were stuck with that old dude.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: I'm twitty S thc we out.
