49 Years Ago

tlk inspired me to post this old newspaper photo of all us kids with our hill country bucks in 1972. That’s me on the right with the snazzy striped pants and not looking at the camera. I was 8. My two brothers and family friends round out the group. As I recall, that was the first and last time a girl was allowed just because of the...uhhhh...logistical challenges. Great memories....

PTL (for you) it wasn't your Coca Cola pants.

Cool. Which one is you? I guess this one.

That’s my oldest brother. I’m the little guy on the right, Bill.

thanks for sharing, how many still in touch?

Nice picture! I wish I had some old pics of our hunts. One of the floods got my stuff while I was away on business and couldn't get back home.

We are all from the same tiny east TX town so I would say we are always still close even though not always in constant touch. Sadly, funerals for our parents have brought us together more than anything over the past few years. Deer lease families do always have a special bond for sure. Our families had that lease for over 40 years.

Big Bell Levis was the thing back then.

Cool photo.

The hill country leas i started hunting on was 700 acres in change. One year 14 bucks were taken opening weekend

Great picture!!

Folks stayed on leases a looong time back then.

Cool family picture

Yes. Our last year there was 1990. Kids could only go once a year at Thanksgiving. We had another east TX lease with different families for about 25 years until 1999. Kids could go anytime there.

Nice pic

My grandpa said memories are for us old people, welcome to the old peoples club.

Great picture!

Cool pic. Did y’all actually hunt in those clothes? If so, it’s an even cooler pic. You and I are probably the same age and I remember clothes just like you’re wearing, along with Sears Toughskins.

Great memories!

Newspapers need to print lots more of that stuff today.

But, they won't.

Great memories I'm sure sir
I can attest that life for the youth was much simpler back than.

No we had gotten back home when the photo was taken for the local newspaper. For hunting we wore whatever junky clothes we had. My preferred hunting clothing a couple of years later was longhandles, jeans, a “Flipper” sweatshirt, and a light Army surplus jacket.

There you go again. Looks as if the boys were. Feeding the family.

Great pic!!

Thanks for posting it up!

Thats cool thanks for sharing

Very cool, sir.

Nice.

Nice pic!

thanks for sharing the memories.

i love this camo!! great memories