15 Charming Family Photos That Come With Amazing Stories

We really love looking through those old pictures of our parents precisely because we’ve never been there. It’s amazing to be able to peek into history through these rarely snapped pictures. Green Lemon loves the story behind every single picture here and we know our readers will, too.

1. Photographer dad timed the camera perfectly for this proposal in 1979.

2. Dad got busted for skipping school because a local paper printed a picture of him in 1984.

3. Mom love to talk about being an editor for Tiger Beat and spending a lot of time with the Stones and the Beatles the during 1960s. Everyone thought she was joking until they found this picture in her house.

4. Dad woke up 49 years ago after he went unconscious from hit with a croquet mallet and missed the whole moon landing.

5. Family joked about grandad having a gf in Japan. Uncovered this in his desk: Japan, 1955.

6. Grandma and her mother took a picture in 1920s after she was bribed with grapes. As the only child, grandma kept her hair short like a boy to gain respect.

7. Dad, 1969 in the Bronx, NY, pictured speaking against the Vietnam War. He was an anthropologist and archaeologist, has been taken hostage twice, saw a man trampled by water buffalo, crawled into a leopard den for ancient pottery and many more.

8. Grandma nominated as her city’s first Homecoming Queen in 1970.

9. A photo of great aunt and her dad in the 1950s as he couldn’t wait for tree to grow to hang his hammock.

10. Had a home birth in 1973 and friends celebrated on the porch when a girl with a camera came up and asked what was going on. She asked if she could take 2 pictures and came back next week with this picture.

11. Dad as a zookeeper in 1992, the only one who could call the rhinos by name. He said they enjoy a scratch behind the ear like dogs.

12. Mom doesn’t like sushi and caught throwing them away when she was about 5. Picture from about 1966 in Japan.

13. Great-grandmother with her youngest son, now 98. This taken when he came back after missing in Dunkirk for 6 weeks.

14. Man from 1988 USS Midway on a talent show while crossing the equator of the Indian Ocean. Won the contest with singing a song about a girl with the clap.

15. Grandma from 1968 did everything from changing the tires to overseeing all the details of grandad’s racing car. He was a NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National Series Rookie of the Year winner under the sponsorship.