r/OldSchoolCool • u/condour1975 • Jul 24 '26
1950s Grandma on her honeymoon, Lake George, 1950
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u/GreasyLardBurger Jul 24 '26
That dame's got some great getaway sticks
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u/1401238754 Jul 24 '26
Looks like it was took yesterday
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u/Sigvoncarmen Jul 24 '26
Timeless
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u/beadhives Jul 25 '26
I just got back from Lake George last week and I can confirm it is indeed exactly the same.
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u/Ok_Series_4580 Jul 24 '26
We used to camp at Lake George when I was a kid every single year! The fishing was great!
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u/ArmadilloSpecial4643 Jul 24 '26
She looks a lot like my grandmother when she was young!
When I think about "a grandma when she was young", I picture the 1940s through maybe the early 1960s.
I hate seeing a picture of a young bride in 1986 with the caption "My grandma on her wedding day"; It always makes me feel 2.5 gazillion years old!
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u/Brilliant_Boss_9680 Jul 24 '26
I’ve been up there a couple of times, it’s nice up there. I know the back way, it’s like a country ride most of the way .
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u/someone_like_me Jul 24 '26
Have you also been to Lake George?
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u/bakersmt Jul 25 '26
Not who you asked but I'm from that area and I know the building behind her. As of a few years ago, it was still standing.
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u/toddhold Jul 25 '26
Can I get a pin on the map?
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u/bakersmt Jul 25 '26
I'm 40 and grew up there before GPS, and don't live there now. Sadly I know HOW to get there but not anything to do with a map. I can tell you it's on the western side of the lake going up Lake Gore Drive. I don't exactly know the township but near Bolton. If you hit the Sagamore, you've gone too far.
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u/someone_like_me Jul 26 '26
That would be a "whoosh". Read the post title, the comment above, and my reply.
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u/Icy-Video-8710 Jul 24 '26
Lake George is a special place.
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u/Kidspud Jul 24 '26
Less special each time a property is bought by some westchester republican and turned into a shitty log cabin/mcmansion hybrid
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u/vicariouslydrew Jul 25 '26
Dude. Lake George upstate NY let’s goooooo! I went on plenty of “vacations” there while growing up because it was cheap and close. My parents never let me feel like we were poor. And our yearly trip to lake George to stay in a hotel and play mini golf was a big deal.
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u/Vistalite_Black Jul 25 '26
Lake George is magical. Spent time there when I was 14-15, and returned for a week’s vacation at 60 years old — and it was absolutely unchanged in every aspect.
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u/TheJenniStarr Jul 25 '26
My god, it’s beautiful… yes, your grandma too, but I specifically mean a Lake George that wasn’t shitstained by Dilligaf stores every block.
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u/Outrageous_Pop1913 Jul 25 '26
Every old man was once young and full of dreams, every grandma was once a young chicky… Live your life, it goes fast.
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u/JustTheBeerLight Jul 25 '26
Bet your mom/dad was born exactly 9 months after this photo was raken, right?
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u/MtnMaiden Jul 25 '26
ELI5: the appeal of laying in the sun with clothes on, during vacation.
I can do that in the back yard.
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u/someone_like_me Jul 24 '26
She looks a bit tuckered out. Had she gone for a long ride that morning?
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u/No_Hour_4865 Jul 24 '26
Oh my, all freshly deflowered. 1950 was a great year.
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u/Swineservant Jul 25 '26
Where's the mushroom cloud? Pre-war Fallout vibes. The place could use some Mirelurks. Very nice!
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u/mideon2000 Jul 24 '26
It's 1950. Grammy needs to put more clothes on and cover up. She is basically nekkid in this pic.
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u/_Rue_the_Day_ Jul 24 '26
That was a huge honeymoon destination back then. She looks like a movie star. I hope her marriage has been a happy one.