11.20.09 - 11:00AM
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Urlesque Staff

My Parents Were Awesome - Believe It Or Not, 'Mom and Dad' Were Cool

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With Mom Jeans now a permanent staple of the lexicon, parents are often given a bad name these days, at least when it comes to fashion and grooming. Often, though, we forget that moms and dads everywhere were supercool, well-dressed, and even ATTRACTIVE (believe it!). Just because Mom now only rocks Talbots blazers and Dad doesn't see what's "so bad" about his orthopedic sneakers doesn't mean that they didn't look darn good back in the day.

That's where My Parents Were Awesome comes in. Started by Urlesque's own blogger Eliot Glazer, the site celebrates and honors our parents (and grandparents) by posting pictures submitted by readers of their preceding bloodlines in candids and portraits that display romance, sadness, humor, sentimentality, and loads of FIERCENESS.

Not only do the pictures pay tribute to the people who made us who we are today, but the site also waxes nostalgic for an era during which every photo wasn't meticulously taken with the possibility of being a glamorous Facebook profile pic (in which we MUST ALWAYS look our best). Instead, these were candid, beautiful moments that truly stand the test of time, making My Parents Were Awesome an online destination where you might find yourself scrolling through for an hour or two.

link:// My Parents Were Awesome

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11.27.09

By bosco

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Whaddya mean "Were awsome" ?! Lots of we parent are STILL awesome!

11.27.09

By ab417

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I wish we invented some kind of a time machine (like the ones on the Jetsons) to transport us back to that era. I wasn't even alive back then, and my grandparents were younger. Back then, there was no crappy music or expensive... anything. There was just classic rock and all albums! The best.

12.22.09

By MJ

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Yes...I remember my Dad use to say .."things are not how they were in my tiime" and it used to annoy us young kids...ahhhaaa...I see myself saying the same thing now...I was a seventies parent, the days of Disco, the Beatles and Rock & Roll...and those were the days those were! for sure!

11.27.09

By Arnie D

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Odd isn't it, today we have the most awesome technology, that was unimaginable when I was growing up in the 40's,and 50's. Yet there presently is a yearning for those times. I am not poo-pooing modern communications, TV, Internet, with almost weekly improvements in that area. It seems though that a family created by a (father and motherevery not test-tubes babies, surragates, same-sex parents adopting, bashing of religion, lack of respect for traditional values, idolization of Hollywood celebrities just for being outrageous, instant gratification, buying "things" on credit, and potraying those who think as I do, as old fashioned. Throw in modern terrorism, fanatics, destroying and revising history, this and a whole slew of things too numerous to list here, has given many of the younger generation a sense of gloom and unhappiness. I guess shooting up, snorting and mind-bending drugs is an escape for many. very sad indeed!

11.27.09

By Lori

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It would be great if there was before and after pictures, just to show how "Cool" we still look. lol

11.27.09

By jamocca@aol.com

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I love old photographs, this site is awesome!

11.27.09

By Brenda

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At least back then men looked like men and women looked like women...

11.27.09

By kd

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Yes those were the days, none of this walmart chinese crap. People still made stuff in the USA and a dinner out was something really special. The kids of today well I feel sorry for them. When I was kid back in the 60's and a teen in the seventies it was a magical time. The last best generation is the 1980's. Now America is in the worse cultural decline. GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

11.27.09

By smilesforwho

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I'm only 23 and wish I could go back and live anytime before or during the 50s. It's funny to think of my parents as "cool", even though I'm now a mom. But it's amazing to me to see my grandparents when they were "cool".

11.28.09

By oldseabeejim

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I was born in the depression of the 30s. I am a great grandfather and I feel the same inside as I did when I when I was 15 in 1953. The times then were great. I had it made and didn't know it. The kids now think they have it easy. They don't know what easy is. Most of them don't know what outdoors means. The only time I ever came in the house was to eat and sleep. I wonder if any kid nowadays know what it's like to just walk down the street and have a friend come out on the front porch with his comic book collection and swap comics with them or play with all the kids in the neighborhood at the same time in group games?

11.28.09

By Richard Johnson

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I like the one that said ,you could tell if they were men or women the way they dressed. And Blue jeans were to go plow in. Or fishing. We beleved in dressing up to go to Sunday go to meeting clothes.
Yes its humble for a women to wear a dress. But Queenly.And long hair is beauty for a man to see in a woman. Yes I'm an old timer that has plenty of spunk left. 71 years young. Raised on a truck farm and share cropper. Most don't have the slightest idia what that is.

11.28.09

By dono

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Am watching TV while reading this and there were just 2 commercials back to back for drugs to combat depression. Tells us something about the world of today. People are so worried about how they feel that they cannot experience the same kind of joy there was back then when small things meant so much.

11.28.09

By gglaw3

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this rocks.

11.28.09

By jmf

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If you kids like what you have now remember when you are our age............you get what you wish for.

I am old school, an old fool and still cool.

11.28.09

By joan

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I was raised in the 40s and 50s and life was wonderful and safe for children. I look at my grandchildren and wonder how could times change so much,today people do not value life or other people much less children.When I have my grands with me I do not let them out of my site.

11.28.09

By kelmcnut

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This makes me love life!

11.28.09

By Pat

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I was raised 50's and 60's children in the 70's what fun those years were. Remember the flats, virgin pins, peterpan collars, drive-ins, guys with flat-tops and fenders. Wonderful memories.

11.28.09

By wlparadise

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I am putting my family tree together on the ancestry.com site... I have come up with pictures and names of lots of relatives. It is great fun and interesting

11.28.09

By Todd

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Drugs were part of that "distant" past as were gay people.
We have made the "feel" of things bland and uninteresting.
We did this out of boredom and losing sight of what matters.
We can regain the excitement en masse, it's up to us. As for gay people, thank god many have come out of the closet that those g'parents and parents of ours were in.

11.28.09

By Alonzo

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Lol. Good ole days? Depends on who you ask. Give me a break. The 30s, 40s and 50s were not the good ole days. Lynchings, jim crow laws, injustice etc....Yeah. Some may have been able to allow their kids to walk without assistance but that depends on who you were. Some had to get off the sidewalk at the passing of whites and some had to ride the back of a bus. Every moment in time has it's good and bad. There are still many things better about today especially for women in workplace. Hell. Blacks didn't gain freedom in America til the 60s contrary to popular belief. The issues today stem from the issues of yesterday. They manifest and until you fix the foundation, things will continue to get worse in certain areas. Give me a break on this good ole day bull.