- This was taken I'd say about 1950.
Oh wow, yeah. Oh, that's great.
- (FBE) So recently, you provided us with
some throwback pictures of yourself when you were younger.
- Oh yes.
- (FBE) Are you ready to see some of your old family photos
in a way you've never seen before?
- Okay. What have you guys done?
- (FBE) All right, here comes the first one.
- Oh. Okay, we're in Montevideo,
because that's where I grew up.
That's my mother and my father.
God, was he fat. And I'm the one back there
and that's my older sister and I'm the only one who's alive.
- (FBE) All right, so here's the same pic
but as you'll see, we have now altered it.
- What did you do? It's colorized.
It's more alive. You see we're wearing
matching dresses. My mother did that
for the longest time. She used to sow them herself.
Now that I look, actually probably were
the same color. My mother and my father
were rarely affectionate, so that's shocking to see them.
They look so happy. I'm probably, what?
Twelve years old there? Do you know how many
years ago that was? My mother here is younger
than I am now.
- Oh yeah, this one I remember.
I was in my aunt's store. She had a retail store
selling goods from the Philippines.
I was just standing there and looking like, whatever
and my panties showing, too. Oh, you made it color.
I like the other-- oh, and I'm wearing boots.
It looks modern now, huh. I still like the older one better
because it brings back memories, but then, this one
looks like my granddaughter. Nice to remember,
but you can't go back anymore.
- Middle school is not the best time in your life.
It's just-- your hands and feet
are too big, 'cause you haven't grown into them yet.
See, that's interesting. You get shadows
and you get very interesting things in black and white
that you lose in color. There's a look to that,
but that's pretty good. Are my eyes green?
Yeah, sort of, okay.
- The woman is my mom. Next to it is me
and the other guy in it, his name is Frankie.
He became a priest. This was taken, I'd say
about 1950. Oh wow.
Yeah, that's great. Colored, right.
The dog, he came with the house.
We rented this house from a family.
This one's name was Tuffy and he was the sweetest
most wonderful dog. We rented this house
for three years and every year,
Tuffy would be part of it.
- Oh. This is in Bariloche.
The cowboys would be at the top and they would
cook this meat for us and you ate it with the hide.
They would just sli-- it was delicious,
'cause all the juice stayed in. See the boy sitting there?
My sister had a little bit of a relationship with him
and I was jealous and that's me with
the scarf on my head. The lady holding the cup
is my mother. I remember Bariloche
as the most beautiful place in the world,
but I don't know. The lakes were gorgeous.
I'm afraid to go back because it might not be
as gorgeous.
- Oh, Benji. Poor Benji.
Yes, this is me and my sister. Oh God, I loved this dress.
This was a dress that had been a gift
and it was yellow. No, we made it blue.
Okay, well that's wrong, but it's--
you know, it's so funny, because the picture's in
black and white and yet I remember that dress
and I remember the mini blouse that my sister
was wearing.
- This woman, that's my first cousin.
Her name was Anne Thomas. Anne was a major Broadway
actress. She was in 44 Broadway shows.
She was in 10 movies.
- (man) Well, if it ain't Miss Duffy.
- (woman) Hello, Finnegan. - (man) Just a minute.
Is this man following you? - (woman) If he was,
you think I'd be walking this fast?
- And over 4,000 radio programs and she was very well known
in her day. Okay, the hair is wrong
on Anne. She had very bright red hair
and I guess I look the same. I had very blonde hair.
- It's my son's baptism and the one on the right
is his godfather and godmother and that's me and my husband
that passed away. See, I was thin.
Hm, I think I like this better. My husband was 22 years older.
This one was in the '60s already when my son was born.
- Oh gosh. I remember this dress, too.
The hat, isn't that just snazzy?
I think it was a vertical black and white stripe
and then the pockets were different colors,
which I thought was very cool and the collar,
so one was orange and one was blue.
No, well that's not right. We wore a lot of hats
back then. Hats were what men
and women both wore, but they were serious colors.
They were not fun colors. It's odd to see it in color
because-- you know what it does?
It makes you start questioning your memory.
Now that I look at the light fixture,
I'm pretty sure this was my grandpa's house
because look at that light fixture.
That's really old and he had built that house
in 1910.
- Oh, that's me, yeah. It was taken about 1947.
I was about six. Probably had either just
been in the first grade or was about to start school.
I had buster brown hair like this with the flared
out like that. My mother took me to
a local barber and then she went off with my grandmother
and my grandfather stayed with me
while I had my hair cut. Well when I came out
of the barber, that's what I looked like
and the buster brown was gone and my mother
nearly had a fit. Oh yeah, that's cute.
Yeah, that's good. I was just a little kid
and I was about to start school, which I liked
after the first day. The first day, I cried,
'cause my father wasn't there, but then by the second day,
I adjusted and I liked it. Younger generations have
a thousand photographs in their cell phone.
They don't make-- I have every photograph
I've ever taken, we go and make prints of.
- Oh dear. That is me and that's
my young son who was very chubby.
It's very strange, 'cause it's such a long time ago
I think the blouse was those colors.
My husband was having serious troubles.
He was in the hospital. He passed away when
I was 27, but the babies were wonderful.
- Oh yes, isn't that cute? I remember this dress, too.
This is so funny. In this corner behind Lindsay,
my sister, we had the first television in the neighborhood
and we used to have all the neighbors
would come over and watch TV,
'cause it was the only one around.
How old am I here? Maybe six, seven, eight?
I don't know. I love the pictures where
my grant aunt put the dates on things.
That's what's so nice about today is everything's dated.
It's so funny, everything looks so fuzzy.
It's like when you watch old television shows
and you go, "Oh, it's so blurry."
- Oh, my first communion. I was a good girl.
I still have this in my frame. I framed it.
Even now, my classmate that I went to first communion
were all alive for-- I only know, not all,
four of us, we always meet each other
once a month and they're here in California.
You think about what you did before,
how we like boys. Now, no more.
I think I like this better. I look cuter here.
I wish they had it back then, the colored ones.
I think I look like my father. It emphasized my features.
- This was the '60s. This is '64 and it's my mom
and dad and our first corgi, Gussy and me.
Long, straight hair. This was when straight hair
started coming into being. Yeah, now, see this one's
prettier in color because you've got
all the greenery of it. We were dressed up
and we looked nice. Like, "Oh, let's take a picture."
- Okay, this is interesting. Yeah, this is my mother's
family. In fact, this little guy,
I was talking to him just a couple of days ago
and he's now basically three years younger than me.
This was taken about 1958 and this was in front
of our house in Westchester County
near New York City. Okay, that looks pretty good.
This was after my dad died. My dad died in 1957.
It was a little difficult for me because my father
died when I was 15 years old. My father died of a heart attack
and he didn't die on the spot, but he had a couple
heart attacks and from the time he got sick,
he died within a month, so it was very difficult
as a 15 year old.
- That's my son, my older son. You know how old he is now?
He's 56 and that's his-- we had a nanny.
We call her Yaya. Nice, it gave them life,
but I still-- maybe I would prefer
the first one better. We got divorced
from his father and it was sad
because they took him away from me,
'cause they're rich and I wasn't that rich,
but he's back here now with me and he's grown
and he loves me. It brings back memories
if you think about it.
- Oh don't tell me I sent you this one.
I was so in love with this boy, the second one from the right.
Oh wow, the colors of the bathing suits are--
mine is close to accurate. I don't think my sister
wore that color, but he looks--
oh my God, he's there. He looks like he used to.
I thought he was the most handsome boy in the world.
- (FBE) How old do you think you were here?
- About 16. He was 20-something.
It's a real scandal. I used to love to go there.
I used to love the beach. I used to love swimming.
It feels like I'm there again. I can't believe that I was
ever that young.
- My memory of most of this stuff is in color
even though the picture isn't, my memory is,
'cause that's how you see it. Looking back is really good
for some things, but it's also very dangerous
because if you're always looking back,
you're kind of missing what's happening at the moment
and you're not thinking about what might be.
- It's emotional. It really is emotional
because we feel-- I really like the feeling.
It's such a good- some of them are such
good memories. Takes me back in time.
- Hi guys, JC here, producer at FBE.
If you like this series, make sure to check out
our past episodes. All the links are gonna be
down below in the description. Check them out.
Bye, guys.
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